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Dogs don't fear
sight of fists
When an unwise citizen strikes a puppy with a hand, it's
invariably an open-fingered slap, certainly never a clenched
fist punch. Therefore, dogs made wary by such slaps may tend
to get their defenses up when they're approached by a person
with open hands. Experts have pointed out this fact to letter
carriers, advising them to clench their fists gently when they
encounter strange dogs.
People who don't smoke generally eat breakfast and people
who do smoke generally don't. Numerous exceptions noted. A
disproportionately high number of smokers as a rule, though,
just get by on coffee between wake-up and lunch.
Numerous doctors now say the best medicine to cure fever
blisters is ethyl ether.
Did I tell you that bees run about 500 to the pound?
WHALE MEAT
Q. "What color is whale meat?”
A. Depends on the age of the whale. Young whale, pale
pink. Old whale, liver red.
Why is it that zebras can be trained to do tricks, but not to
work in harness like horses? And how do you explain the fact
that Asian elephants can be taught to do all manner of work
while African elephants can't?
If you added a teaspoonful of vinegar to 1,300 gallons of
water, mixed well, and sniffed, could you smell the difference
A bloodhound could.
Smallest adult vertebrate is a frog, don't forget.
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52 Expire
55 Conjunction
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56 Destruction
59 Broke bread
60 Czar
61 Come to an
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62 Day (Heb)
63 Driver's com
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5 Soundness of
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8 Most savory
9 Clothes tinter
10 First-rate
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16 Mental
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9 Aswan sight
12 Folksinger
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13 Land measure
14 Second
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15 Poverty
17 Graduate of
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18 Maxim
19 Brought about
20 Noxious
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22 Energy saving
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23 Presence
24 French author
27 Christmas
32 Speak
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50 The same
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52 Binary
53 Small island
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57 Eggs
58 Cry of
surprise
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23 Mohammed's
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Dec. 31, the
366th and last day of 1976. This
is New Year’s Eve.
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 bom on this date are
under the sign of Capricorn.
French explorer Jacques Car
tier was bom Dec. 31, 1491.
On this day in history:
In 1879, Thomas Edison gave
the first public demonstration of
the incandescent lamp in Menlo
Park, N.J.
In 1946, President Truman
proclaimed the official end of
World War 11, well over a year
after the surrender of Germany
and Japan.
In 1972, Pittsburgh Pirates
baseball star Roberto Clemente
and 4 other persons were killed
in a crash of a chartered cargo
plane on a mercy mission to
earthquake-devastated Nicara
gua.
PEOPLE...
IN THE NEWS
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Thoughts
With the loyal thou dost
show thyself loyal; with the
blameless man thou dost show
thyself blameless; with the
pure thou does show thyself
pure; and with the crooked
thou does show thyself
perverse. — Psalm 18:25,26.
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Editor
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Fairness to all
The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair to everyone. The editor’s opinions are confined
to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
Starting a 3rd century
A mere heartbeat separates the old year
from the new. Only one tick of the clock is
all the time it takes. The flick of a pen or
hitting a different key on a typewriter is all
that is required to make the arbitary
transition from 1976 to 1977.
There is nothing in the days themselves
that distinguishes the first day of the new
year from the last day of the old. But in our
minds there is indeed something special
about the beginning of a brand-new year:
It is another milestone in humanity’s
comparatively brief journey on this planet
and another upspotted new leaf in the Book
of life bearing our individual names.
New Year’s Day is customarily the day
on which we make resolutions concerning
our future behavior, setting new goals or
renewing our determination to pursue old,
neglected ones. It says much about human
nature that we should select one particular
day of the year for personal stocktaking. A
really well-run life should carry on a
perpetual self-inventory.
So, too, is it human nature to forget those
fresh promises almost as soon as they are
made. The new year quickly becomes just
another year, and the old familiar ruts
become deeper and more comfortable.
Two (2) cheers!
Health, Education and Welfare is an
enormous bureaucracy, second in size only
to the Defense Department. It is spending
$45 billion in this fiscal year.
So when HEW sends a team of
executives out across the country for 45
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
Who’s number one?
The college bowl season hasn't been
very exciting so far.
A couple of games that looked good on
paper turned out to be onesided on the
field.
The ho-hum attitude should change with
the playing of the Sugar Bowl and Rose
Bowl.
Both are advertising themselves as
showdowns for the mythical national
championship.
Pittsburgh is the number one rated
team. The Panthers should retain that
rating if they beat number four rated
‘Should we confess
only to God?’
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: When we have
sinned greatly against another person,
should we go to that person, confess our sin
and ask forgiveness? Or should we confess
our sin only to God? —N.A.
DEAR N.A.: Confession, according to
the Bible, should be as open as was the
deed. Jesus told us: “Therefore, if you are
offering your gift at the altar and there
remember that your brother has
something against you, leave your gift
there in front of the altar. First go and be
reconciled to your brother; then come and
offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24 , New
International Version).
The Bible teaches we cannot be right
with God and wrong with our fellow man.
If you have wronged someone, you need to
confess that to God and ask His forgiveness.
Honesty might perhaps demand that we
stop kidding ourselves and admit that we
have no intention of living up to our
resolutions. But that kind of honesty is not
always the best policy, not when the
resolutions deal with something im
portant.
This nation of ours was founded upon a
number of idealistic resolutions 200 years
ago, by a few men who fought for freedom,
and then laid down a blueprint to enlarge
and preserve it. Their resolutions are our
heritage. If we have failed in keeping some
of them, we have gloriously succeeded in
others.
In a few days, a new administration
takes over the custodianship of that
heritage with a set of resolutions of its own
which it has laid before the people.
Compared to the problems that the nation
as a whole faces, whether or not we keep
our little private resolutions is of no
moment at all.
We make this resolution in this, the
beginning of America’s third century:
Resolved, that we will think and act as
free men and women in 1977 and in all the
years to come, so that the precious torch of
freedom which is in our keeping may be
passed on to succeeding generations.
days to listen to the complaints and
suggestions of the people it serves, we
sound off with two (2) cheers.
We’ll make it three when we hear that
someone in Washington reads the report
and acts on it.
Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.
Georgia probably will claim the national
title if it beats Pittsburgh.
The Rose Bowl features number two
ranked Michigan against number three
ranked Southern Cal.
It’s a safe bet that the Rose Bowl winner
will stake a claim to the national cham
pionship, especially if Georgia knocks off
Pitt, and may do so even if the Panthers
win.
Interest in bowl games is about to pick
up and the arguments over who's number
one could last well into 1977.
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However, you also need to go to the person
and ask their forgiveness — even if you
think they will not forgive you. Also, if you
have harmed someone in some way, you
should make restitution. When Zacchaeus,
a tax collector for the Roman government,
met Christ he immediately vowed to
repay anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-
10).
I do not believe in indiscriminate public
confession of every sin, as the Bible does
not teach this. However, we must do
whatever is necessary to seek
reconciliation with someone we have
wronged, or against whom we feel
bitterness. Ultimately it is God who
forgives us, but He also commands, “If it
be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18).
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"Frankly, I think you’re being overly sentimental
about 1976!"
Don Oakley
Entrust elections
to popular will
By Don Oakley
It happens every presidential election — at least every elec
tion that turns out to be a squeaker, or when there is a strong
independent candidate in the running:
We hear renewed calls to junk the antiquated Electoral
College system, but no sooner has the tumult died than we
forget about it for another four years.
It has happened again this year, and once again the angels
who watch over drunkards, small children and the United
States have pulled us through.
Jimmy Carter received a comfortable plurality of the pop
ular vote — 51 per cent to President Ford's 48 per cent. But a
shift of as few as 4.000 votes in Ohio and Hawaii would have
given the Electoral College majority to Ford, even though
Carter would still have had a majority of popular votes.
There have been a number of defenses of the Electoral
College system.
One is that since a candidate takes all of a state’s electoral
votes even though he may have carried that state by only one
more popular vote than his opponent, it gives the appearance
of a greater mandate for the winner than is actually the case
This is said to confer some sort of psychological benefit by
consoling those who voted for the loser.
It also gives small states a greater voice in the election
process in proportion to their populations since each state has
as many electors as it has senators and representatives
Small-state opposition to abolishing the Electoral College has.
in fact, been the major reason why any number of proposed
constitutional amendments have never gotten anywhere
Three times in our history, however, a president has been
elected with fewer popular votes than his opponent, and the
possibility remains that someday a third-party candidate will
win enough electoral votes to deny a majority to any can
didate. throwing the election into the House of Represen
tatives.
The Electoral College is an 18th-century relic bequeathed us
by the founding fathers, who designed it to insulate the selec
tion of the president from the passions of the “mob." The peo
ple were to vote for electors, who in turn would — theoretical
ly — use their own judgment in choosing the president.
But the college quickly became merely a rubber stamp for
the popular vote by each state, and that is the only reason we
have put up with it for 187 years. Thus the Electoral College
remains in existence — useless, unnecessary and potentially
dangerous
It took until 1912 to abolish the indirect election of U.S.
senators Surely we have reached the point where we may
safely entrust the election of the president and vice president
to the popular will
In the meantime, Jimmy Carter is not officially our 39th
president-elect — not until Dec. 13 when 538 electors (how
many can you name 9 1 meet in their respective state capitals
and tell us he is.
Enough ‘snappy’ erudition
We will be accused of linquistic pettifogging, but something
that annoys us to no end is a growing tendency among
professorial types to use the initials “i.e.” indiscriminately as
an all-purpose conjunction.
The abuse is most noticeable in conversation, where a
liberal sprinkling of “eye-eez" supposedly signifies snappy
erudition. More often than not, however, i.e. is used when the
speaker really means e g.
I.e . of course, is the abbreviation of the Latin words mean
ing “that is," while e g is the abbreviation for “for example. "
But apparently it's possible to get through four years of
college and even earn a postgraduate degree without learning
the distinction
As for viz. (“namely”) and ergo (“therefore"), you don't
hardly encounter them no more
Come to think of it, though, we'd rather hear “eye-ee" than
“you know .’’
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