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Page 4 — Griffin Daily News Friday, January 7,1977 /% miw W iMin / 7/7- < r n 1 wares ■hufl L.M.BOYD One is 'girlish/ another 'womanly' In describing females, our Language man contends the difference between "girlish" and "womanly" reads something like this: A girlish woman is delighted with the gift, a womanly one is delighted with the giver. Average American man owns 18 pairs of socks. To show that the words "to," "too" and "two" exist, please complete in writing the following sentence: "There are three (fill in this blank) in the English language." Better give up, says our Language man. It can’t be done in writing. Driving west across this country, you gain one hour and only one hour every time you cross an invisible time zone line, right? Not quite right. Going west by land over the Alaska- Yukon boundary, you pick up two hours. SENATE AGE LIMIT When the LI. S. Constitution was written in 1787, only half the Americans born that year were expected to live long enough to be eligible to run for the office of U. S. senator. Some of the forefathers of that day wanted to set the minimum age for senate eligibility higher than 30, up to 40, or even 50. But the terrible truth of the time was that far too few Americans were expected to live that long. Now, sure enough, nine out of 10 newborn babies live to be at least 30. In those instances where an exceptional horse and an ex ceptional rider become famous, more often than not it's the horse that achieves the greater renown. Many remember the names of Man O' War, Citation and Secretariat, but not the names of their riders. As for that legendary horse with wings in Greek mythology, most recall it’s Pegasus. But how many can identify the rider as Bellerophon? Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd 41 Was introduced 42 Snide remarks 45 Electrifies 49 Ornamental vase 50 Nazi Rudolph 52 Painful 53 Noun suffix 54 She (Fr.) 55 Judge's gown 56 Chinese philosophy 57 Squeezes out 58 Prep school in England DOWN 1 Sounded horn 2 Christmas 3 Being (Lat.) 4 Tacks 5 Surround 6 Customer 7 Mao tung 8 More delicious 9 Mesdames (abbr) 10 Color 11 Back talk ACROSS ‘ 1 Parting ‘ salutation ‘ 5 laughingstock ‘ 9 Mountains (abbr) ! 12 Craving 13 Weather ! bureau (abbr.) ( 14 Actress ! Farrow ( 15 lioness in ! 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JL _l_ J> _S T o £ s G. _L _L -A GEL INRI L P I .!* N| r|a| |C|El n l t| |r| El s|t 35 Female spirit - 36 Fine cotton fabric 38 Rend 39 Desire (si.) 41 Hebrew prophet 42 Pack it in 43 She-bear (Lat) 44 Preposition 45 Small island 46 suit 47 Therefore 48 Actor Connery 51 Horned animal 19 Electrically charged parti cle 21 Wrap up 23 Early part of day 24 Charitable or ganization (abbr) 25 Levant 26 Baseball glove 27 Injure 28 Actor Sharif 29 Woodless region 30 Negates 32 Dollar (si.) Almanac For Today By The Associated Press Today is Friday, January 7, the seventh day of 1977. There are 358 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1953, Presi dent Harry Truman announced in his State of the Union Mes sage that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. On this date: In 1584, the Gregorian Calen dar was adopted by Roman Catholic states of the Holy Ro man Empire. In 1800, the 13th American President, Millard Fillmore, was born in a log cabin in Ca yuga County, N.Y. In 1938, Joseph Kennedy was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Britain. In 1965, Indonesia withdrew from the United Nations. In 1968, the government of Lebanon resigned after an Is raeli commando raid at the Beirut airport. In 1971, it was announced that 4,200 Americans had been killed in combat in Vietnam in 1970. It was the smallest num ber since 1965. Ten years ago: Bloody fight ing was raging between Chi nese Red Guards and workers in Nanking, China. Five years ago: India resist ed U.S. pressure and granted full diplomatic recognition to Communist China. One year ago: The Italian Cabinet led by Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigned after the Socialist Party had withdrawn its parliamentary support. Today’s birthday: Former governor Claude Kirk of Flori da is 51. Thoughts A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts. — Proverbs 20:26,27. "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. Presi dent. Subscription Prices o % I Delivered by carrier or by mail in the counties of Spalding, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and Pike, and to military personnel and students from Griffin: 42 cents per week, $2.68 per month, $8.04 for three months, $16.07 for six months, $32.13 for 12 months. These prices include sales tax. Due to expense and uncertainty of delivery, mail subscriptions are not recommended but will be accepted outside the above area at $17.50 for three months, S3O for six months, and SSO for 12 months. If inside Georgia, sales tax must be added to these prices. All mail subscriptions must be paid at least three months in advance. VIEWPOINT 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. Making decisions Bank President Frank Jolly packed a lot of wisdom in one of his tongue-in-cheek one-liners the other day when he was talking to a civic club. “There’s a lot of difference between making suggestions and making decisions,” he said. As a vice president, he often had made suggestions. When he became president he had to make decisions. We suspect a lot of people who ran for They’re hurting Pity the good people of Tallapoosa, Ga. They’re hurting. The mayor and some top police officials of that town in Haralson County were arrested on charges of a conspiracy to steal gasoline. The case has divided the town. Some defend the accused and others seem to think there might be cause for the charges. The dissension will remain, long after Awww, Mama . . . The weatherman made it official the other day when he announced that last year was the coldest in Atlanta and by extension in Griffin since 1885 which none of us remember anyhow. The National Weather Service said the average temperature in Atlanta in 1976 ★ *THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL* * Punitive overkill Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided this week that Ted Turner, the popular owner of the Atlanta Braves, was guilty of tampering with a free agent and suspended him for one year. Reaction from Georgia was swift. Gov. George Busbee called Turner’s suspension “the ultimate in punitive overkill and nothing short of an outrage.” Richard Kattel, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, said the suspension “could damage the forward thrust Ted has generated with the Atlanta Braves.” The Braves were a rag-tag bunch ball players masquerading in Major League uniforms when Ted Turner purchased the team. God knows what answer ’’Cl) * our needs are DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I seem to have lost faith in prayer. I know that God hears prayer, but I just feel He is not Interested in my case. I find it so hard to pray about my special needs. Can you help me regain my old faith?—H.E. DEAR H. E.: When prayers become too self-centered we become more conscious of self when we pray than of God. The result is to think that God is not interested because there is no sense of His presence. It is a case of “self’ overpowering the presence of God. Start by correcting the picture of how you appear as you come to God in prayer. You do not come as a petitioner, full of requests and needs, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath Fairness to all public office and won in November are about to say a big A-men to what Jolly observed. People out of office who want to get in often find it easy to make suggestions as to how a particular office should be run. Once in, however, they probably find things look differently. We suspect this principle applies all the way from the White House to the courthouse. the courts have decided the matter one way or the other. If Tallapoosa is typical of Georgia towns, then the number of good people far outnumber those who might run afoul of the law. All sometimes suffer because of the suspicion of misdeeds by a few. For the sake of the good people of Tallapoosa, we hope the controversy is resolved post haste. was 59.1 degrees while the usual average is 60.8. And the December average of 39.8 degrees was 3.7 colder than normal. All of which confirms what mothers have kept telling children who keep ignoring them about wrapping up tight “or you’ll catch cold.” He immediately set out to build the Braves into title contenders and hasn’t spared the dollars in his campaign to bring a World Series to Atlanta. Fans, who had stayed away from Atlanta Stadium, became his friends and returned to see the Braves perform. Attendance increased considerably. Turner’s absence could have a definite effect on the Braves. His enthusiasm was catching and he charged up players with his cheerleading tactics. Turner was found guilty of tampering because of a joking remark he made at a cocktail party. We agree with Gov. Busbee that Ted Turner’s one-year suspension was overkill. called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (I Peter 2:9). See yourself as you really are— chosen by God, a royal priest, being made into a holy person. Then put your needs to one side for a while and spend time praising God. Praise Him in word and song, singing snatches of hymns as they come to you, worshipping Him, thanking Him. Paul and Silas had every reason when they were in prison for telling God all about their plight. Instead they prayed and sang praises unto God (Acts 16:25). The result was that God answered their prayer and their praises, and they were released. God moves in response to praise as well as in answer to prayer. He knows what our needs are and does not need us to tell Him all about them. But He does need to see the evidence of our faith as we praise Him. Berry’s World F 3 "That's right! Mr. Carter DOES plan to serve only wine at the White House. If we need a ‘taster’ we'll be in touch!" B> Ray Cromle Ray Cromley Does Carter have the sales ability? WASHINGTON - (NEA) - Don’t expect great spending changes — either up or down — in the first year of the Carter administration. There’s not much a new president can do, however radical or conservative his views may be, to effect important spen ding shifts in less than 12 months. It usually takes presidents at least a year and a half to put their imprint on federal spen ding. There’s much talk already about the first Carter budget. The president-elect’s men reportedly are already gathering the detailed material they need for amendments they expect to make in the income and spending proposals President Ford will send up in early January. There’s no reason to doubt at this juncture that Mr. Carter will propose a considerable number of amendments earlier than most new presidents — and that these could add up to some billions of dollars in proposed shifts for Congress to consider. But the budget we are talking about — the Carter-amended Ford budget — takes effect in October, 1977, and then only if Congress has voted the funds by that time. Though the funds for major new programs presumably could be made available in October, Congress willing, getting high spending plans into action involves a complicated series of steps which takes months. Most major federal programs, in fact, turn out to be amazingly small the first year of opera tion. The mammoth undertakings we look at in amazement to day are, in the main, several years old. Now it is quite possible that Mr. Carter will attempt to beat the game — quite legitimately — in a supplementary budget for this fiscal year, that is, for the 12 months which began in October 1976. If sizable changes are involved, this would re quire a major juggling of accounts with a speed not seen to date. It would involve adjustments in income and outgo so complicated they would paralyze the major departments of government whose spending programs are set for the year. And it would most assuredly involve putting the government far more into the red than even Congress is likely willing to go. That’s not all. The juggling might be done in jig time on paper in the Carter White House. But it would take Congress months to hold hearings, argue and vote on any radical depar tures Mr. Carter might propose, even if they were simple repetitions of measures Congress previously voted and Presi dent Ford vetoed. For when bills are run through the mill again, they’re invariably chewed over. What comes out the se cond go-round rarely mirrors the bill passed the first try. Therefore, if unemployment is to be reduced significantly in 1977 and the economy is to move ahead briskly, it will be because of forces set in motion in 1976, or because in dustrialists become so optimistic at the prospects they see in the years just ahead that they implement expansion plans of a size not seen in recent years. And because consumers, who have been cautious with their money of late, decide that 1977 is the year to draw down their savings accounts and start buying. Mr. Carter's problem, then, is not the budget, or Congress. His task is to create an attitude of confidence through the country, a confidence among the rich, the middle class and the poor that things are going to get better and stay better. The rich and the middle class must be convinced it will pay for them to take the chances they must take to set things roll ing. The poor must be convinced they have a part to play and that the upswing will not pass them by. The question is whether President Carter has that sales ability. < NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN 1 SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox 7 V JIaA v /ll\ l«y « - \ \ I'7 © 1977t>y NEancTM Reg US Pal Ort ' "What’s the plural of ‘faux pas'?’’ GRIFFIN Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves, Bill Knight, General Manager Executive Editor Fall leawd Win Soma UH. Fall NEA, Udrom all mail PaNialwd Dail,. Eicepl Saada,. la* 1. M, 4, Tnn>niii*| 1 (Sahcnptiom Clianfe al Addntt lona 3575) to P.O. Drawer M, Chrutma* at 323 Eart Solomon Street. Gritfie. Ga. 30223, b, E. Solemn* SI, Griffim. 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