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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
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52 Painful
53 Noun suffix
54 She (Fr.)
55 Judge's gown
56 Chinese
philosophy
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58 Prep school in
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2 Christmas
3 Being (Lat.)
4 Tacks
5 Surround
6 Customer
7 Mao
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9 Mesdames
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11 Back talk
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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.
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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
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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
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"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.
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