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L M. BOYD
Shortest word with
first nine letters
Our Language man is under the impression that the shortest
word using the first nine letters of the alphabet is the hyphen
ated "brightfaced."
It’s highly unlikely that a female dove alone in a cage will
ever lay an egg. Unless you scratch her neck with your finger
nail the way a male dove might caress her with his beak. Then
it’s highly likely that she will lay an egg.
When a honeybee flies in a simply circular dance, that
means the flower nectar is pretty close. If it flies in a more
complicated wagging dance, that means the nectar is fairly far
away in the direction of the wagging. Remember that, if a bee
should fly by when you're looking for the nectar.
MAGNA CARTA
Q. "Which of the English kings signed the Magna Carta?"
A. Trick query. King John put his seal on it at Runnymede
on June 15, 1215. But he couldn't write. At least, that's what
historians surmise. There's no known sample of any writing by
him.
Q. "You said the tomato was the most popular vegetable.
What's the second most popular?"
A. The onion.
Q. "How long does a baby beaver stay with its parents?"
A. Two years.
A loose tiger that lives on wild cattle will kill a beef about
every 12 days.
LANGUAGE MAN
Among those words with alternate vowels and consonants,
can you think of a longer one than "verisimilitude"? Neither
can I. Nor comes to mind any one word that uses more i's than
"indivisibilities." However, as for those strung-out words in
which e is the only vowel, possibly the lengthiest might be
"strengthlessnesses."
Charter members of the New Concord, Ohio, chapter of
the "My Name Is a Poem" Club include Mary Berry, Harry
Berry and Larry Merry.
A healthy penguin eats nothing but fish, which it snatches
out of the water. But if that fish isn't swimming, never mind.
A fish on the ground is of no interest whatsoever to a penguin.
Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford. TX 76086
Copyright 1976 L. M. Boyd
48 Divorced
person
49 Sloppiest
54 Outer (prefix)
58 Suitcase
59 Augment
60 Manner
61 Gallop
62 It is (contr.)
63 Actress
Sheridan
64 Barrister
(abbr)
65 Fast aircraft
(abbr)
66 Stack role
DOWN
1 Electric fish
2 Hoofbeat
sound
3 Italian house
4 Become
apparent
5 Soft mud
6 River in
Europe
7 Peter (Sp.)
8 Wholehearted
9 Coagulate
10 Pillow
material
11 No more than
20 Year (Sp)
ACROSS
1 Behold (Lat)
5 Alley
8 Resound
12 Ancient
kingdom on
Persian Gulf
13 Lyric poem
14 Actor Ladd
15 Mislay
16 Last letter
17 Make muddy
18 Coast Guard
lady
19 Chivalry
21 Gadolinium
symbol
23 Unity
24 Funny
29 Ancient port
of Rome
33 Have debts
34 Played in
water
36 Melt
37 Democrat
(abbr)
39 Warrant
41 Inner self
42 Unburnt and
dried brick
44 Alcohol
46 New Haven
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43 Biblical
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47 Track events
49 Million (prefix)
50 State (Fr)
51 Court case
52 Slides on
snow
53 Experiment
55 Movie
56 Half-scores
57 Small bills
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degree (abbr)
24 Concluding
passage
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27 Former labor
group (abbr)
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 29,
the 364th day of 1976 with two to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are Saturn
and Mars.
The evening stars are Jupiter,
Venus and Mercury.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Capricorn.
Andrew Johnson, 17th presi
dent of the United States, was
born Dec. 29, 1806. This is ac
tress Mary Tyler Moore’s 39th
birthday.
On this day in history:
In 1848, gas lights were in
stalled at the White House for
the first time.
In 1851, the first Young Men’s
Christian Association chapter
opened in Boston.
In 1972, a jumbo jetliner
crashed near Miami, Fla.,
killing 99 persons. There were
77 survivors.
In 1975, 11 were killed and 75
hurt when a bomb exploded at
I,aGuardia Airport in New York
City.
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ever won Best Actress
Academy Awards twice in a
row. They were:
2. The Statue of Liberty was
designed by (a) Gustave
Eiffel (b) Frederic Auguste
Bartholdi (c) Ferdinand de
Lesseps.
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the discoverer of New
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Thoughts
Then the Lord God said, “It
is not good that the man
should be alone; 1 will make
him a helper fit for him.” —
Genesis 1:19.
“The highest happiness on
earth is in marriage. Every
man who is happily married is
a successful man even if he
has failed in everything else."
— William Lyon Phelps,
American educator.
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We’re ‘The voice
Listening j of Griffin ’
Opposed
Dear Mr. Melton: Happy New Year!
I would like to go on record as being
bitterly opposed to Capital Punishment.
No matter what a person has done, put
him in prison and make him serve all the
balance of his life. If he serves a few years
and is turned out, he might as well not be
jailed. Let him serve life and he will have
time to get right with God. (Signed) Abe
Boyt, 1627 Atlanta Road.
Voice
Dear Editor: Telephone operators listen
to many voices in a work day. They hear
voices that are pleasant, gruff, grouchy,
and nondescript. One of those voices
always tells the operator to dial a local
number. The operators dial the numbers
as many times as they are needed and
asked to do so. During the Thanksgiving
season, two of the operators representing
Toll Unit I met that voice. They brought a
basket and money.
That voice has reached to Nathaniel
Lindsey and his singing group, Golden Age
Club, friends, police station, and certainly
to her church, Rising Star Baptist Church.
All have responded in any way possible.
The voice wants to say “Thanks” to all
of you. She has been remembered by so
many. The voice has become a reality.
Thanks for giving of your money, your
gifts, and your time. (Signed) Mrs. Minnie
Perteet, The Voice, and Mrs. Juanita
Morris, Daughter, 427 Circus Street,
Griffin
What price life?
Famed Texas physician and
heart surgery pioneer, Dr. Den
ton Cooley, has been named,
along with a number of other de
fendants, in a s3l million mal
practice suit filed by a former
patient. Yes, you read correctly
s3l million.
According to the wire service
report, Cooley implanted a heart
valve in the plantiff back in 1969,
an operation requiring the pa
tient’s written consent. All went
well until 1975, at which time the
patient claims she began experi
encing symptoms similar to
those she had before the oper
ation.
About this time, she was noti
fied by Cooley he had received
reports of a number of failures in
her particular type of heart
valve and he urged her to return
to Texas so he could replace it
with a improved model.
This she did, by virtue of which
she now has a complaint which,
she and her lawyers claim s3l
A wonderful guide \ answer
to a new way of life A4
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Please explain
what was blotted out in Colossians 2:14,
and what was abolished in Ephesians 2:15.
Do these verses mean that the Ten
Commandments are no longer valid? —
J.C.
DEAR J.C.: The Ten Commandments
are still relevant today and constitute a
valid way of life for every Christian. We
are all called upon to exercise the
discipline of living by those Command
ments, but salvation is no longer depen
dent upon our keeping them.
Colossians 2:14 reads: “Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was
against us, which was contrary to us, and
took it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross." It is “the handwriting" that is
blotted out. It is as though there were a
book in heaven containing the names of
everyone on this earth. Opposite each
Rules
for letters
The Griffin Daily News welcomes letters
to the editor and features them on this
page every Wednesday.
Here are the ground rules:
All must be signed and include the
writer’s address. We may withhold a name
upon request, but only with the un
derstanding that we will provide it to
anyone with a good reason for asking. We
will not withhold a name signed to any
letter critical of any individual.
Letters concerning race, creed or
religion are not acceptable. Nor are letters
for or against political candidates.
Zell’s book
Dear Quimby: Thank you for your most
generous and gracious editorial about my
book. The approval of a journalist of your
stature is the highest of compliments my
work could be paid and I am profoundly
grateful to you for your kind words and for
the friendship which prompted them.
You will be pleased to know that less
than one hundred copies remain from the
first printing. Not only have I paid all the
costs of preparation and publication but
also I will be able to make a substantial
contribution to the Young Harris College
Lecture Series as soon as I settle all the
accounts with various book stores. This, of
course, was my goal In writing the book
and I am most humbly gratified to have
realized it.... At your service, (Signed) Zell
Miller, 418 State Capitol, Atlanta
Santa Ana Register)
million will cure. Although not
claiming that the operations
were bungled or unnecessary,
her suit alleges that she is enti
tled to that amount as recom
pense for the mental distress and
expense she suffered as a result
of having to undergo a second
operation.
Now, we make no pretense of
medical expertise, but it seems
obvious that the lease on life
gained from the operations must
be worth something. Why, not
too many years ago, people with
serious heart ailments seldom
lived long enough to sue any
body, much less the doctor who
struggled to keep the “grim
reaper’’ at bay for a few more
months or years.
In the meantime, medical and
health care costs keep spiraling
upward. With multimillion-dol
lar “malpractice” suits becom
ing commonplace, is it any
wonder?
name, before that person becomes a
Christian, is the word “Guilty.” This in
dicates their failure to live by the Com
mandments. The penalty for that guilt is
spiritual death. Once a person believes
that Christ has paid that penalty for him
by His own death, then God deletes the
word “Guilty” and substitutes the word
“Saved.”
The second reference, Ephesians 2:15,
reads: “Having abolished in his flesh the
enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances; for to make in
himself of twain one new man, so making
peace.” It is “the enmity” that is
abolished. The Commandments start off
as every person’s enemy, condemning
them every time they are broken. Once a
person becomes a Christian he js no longer
condemned by that law. It becomes in
stead a wonderful guide to a new way of
life that Christ makes possible.
Berry’s World
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"You say you want to apply for a iob with the
Carter administration! Hey, man, are you
nuts?"
JP° n Oakley
Curiously selective
nioral sensitivities
By Don Oakley
Jimmy Carter has said that one of his first acts as president
will be to issue a general pardon to the thousands of self-exiled
Vietnam war protestors. Reaction among the exiles
themselves seems to be on the order of, “Don't do us any
favors.”
During his election campaign, it will be recalled, Mr. Carter
made a distinction between amnesty and pardon. The first, he
said, means that what you did was right; the second merely
means we forgive you.
While the dictionary recognizes no such distinction, most
Americans probably agree with this definition of the terms.
Certainly the exiles do.
A number of them have been interviewed lately on network
television news programs, singing the same old refrain as
always: They were right and the United States was wrong.
They will settle for nothing else than complete and uncon
ditional amnesty.
It remains to be seen how many of them stick it out on prin
ciple and how many seize the opportunity to return home.
After all these years, most of the exiles have made new lives
for themselves and many have become citizens of Canada and
Sweden
There is another reason why Mr. Carter’s pardon may not be
the final, healing gesture he intends it to be.
Too many American families still grieve for sons lost in
Vietnam to welcome a flood of returning draft evaders and
deserters telling them how immoral their country was. All
they know is that no American or South Vietnamese soldier
ever invaded North Vietnam, and that whether or not the
United States had any business getting involved in that war,
there would have been no war had it not been for the aggres
sion of North Vietnam
It would be asking too much, of course, to suggest that the
war protestors, once pardoned, might redirect their efforts to
pointing out to the world the continuing barbarism of the vic
tors in Vietnam, as well as Cambodia. Their moral sen
sitivities have always remained curiously unstirred by
anything done by the other side.
the most that can be hoped for is that the exiles have the
good grace to accept their pardon, and the civility not to de
mand that medals be struck in their honor.
A real can of worms
The Internal Revenue Service would be well-advised to
forget its proposal to treat as taxable income the free or
reduced tuitions granted by many colleges and universities to
their employes and their families.
The IRS contends that tuition waivers — which not all
schools make available by any means — are not tax-free
scholarships, as they have traditionally been considered, but
are taxable fringe benefits because eligibility depends upon
employment
As a hearing in Washington the other day made clear, this
could be opening a real can of worms, if not stirring up a
hornet's nest. Both metaphors are appropriate.
If tuition waivers are a taxable fringe benefit, a host of
other benefits enjoyed by millions of workers would certainly
seem to qualify. Fully paid or partially paid hospitalization in
surance negotiated under labor union contracts, or voluntarily
extended by employers, must alone represent billions of
dollars in indirect wages.
In any event, according to college and university ad
ministrators, the people who would be hardest hit by a change
in IRS policy would be low-income employes, who would
either have to forget about a college education for their
children — or turn around and apply for tuition subsidies from
the same government that took them away in the first place.
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