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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, January 12,1977
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L. M. BOYD
The infamous old
Uncle Tom ripoff
Just about everybody has heard of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
author of the classic book of its day, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Few realize, though, that she might not have become so
famous, if she'd been a little brighter in the money depart
ment. Play producers read the fine print to learn that Ms.
Stowe had failed to reserve for herself the theatrical rights. So
they staged numerous dramatic productions worldwide, thus I
enhancing her reputation greatly. But she never got a royalty <
dime from them. i
Between 4 and 8 p.m. in a cocktail lounge, the typical
female customer will visit the powder room four times while
the typical man will make such an excursion but once. Or so
reports a bartender of lengthy experience.
PERFECT BOOKS?
Q. "Have the publishers ever put out a book that was
totally free from errors?"
A. Know of none, other than diaries and journals with
blank pages.
Q. "Left handed U. S. presidents have included Gerald Ford
and Harry Truman. Any others?"
A. James A. Garfield was, too. None other comes to mind.
Q. "Are Navy men still called 'gobs'?"
A. In Chinese, they are. That's where the nickname came i
from.
No dieter should fail to understand that the type of cake
lowest in calories is angel food.
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If you want a pound of the best goose feathers, you have to
start with six live birds, bear in mind. I
Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 |
Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 12,
the 12th day of 1977. There are
353 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1945, German
forces were retreating in dis
order in the World War II Battle
of the Bulge in Belgium.
On this date:
In 1643, Warwick, R.1., was
founded by Samuel Gorton after
his banishment from the
Massachusetts Colony on
grounds of heresy.
In 1737, the first signer of the
American Declaration of In
dpendence, John Hancock, was
bom in Braintree, Mass.
In 1919, the House of Repre
sentatives rejected a proposal
to give women the right to vote.
In 1933, an Arkansas Demo
crat, Hattie Caraway, became
the first elected woman senator.
In 1970, a 31-month-old civil
war in Nigeria ended as the
rebel Biafra leader (General
Odumegwu Ojukwu) fled with
his family.
In 1971, the head of the mili
tant Jewish Defense League,
Rabbi Meir Kahane, was ar
rested in New York.
Ten years ago: The army in
Communist China pledged its
support to Mao tse-Tung during
disorders touched off by the Red
Guard cultural revolution.
Five years ago: Sheik Muji
bur Rahman of Bangladesh
gave up the presidency to head
a parlaimentary government as
Prime Minister.
One year ago: A coalition
cabinet in Thailand collapsed
with the resignation of Prime
Minister Kukrit Pramoj.
Thoughts
Jesus then said to the Jews
who had believed in him, “If
you continue in my word, you
are truly my disciples, and
you will know the truth, and
the truth will make you free.”
- John 8:31,32.
“God offers to every mind
its choice between truth and
repose. Take which you
please, — you can never have
both.” — Ralph Waldo Emer
son, American philosopher.
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Were
Listening
Coffee
To Griffin News: Here is a substitute for
coffee, it’s going up in price so high.
I have drunk many a cup made out of
parched meal, in Hoover days.
Put the meal in a pan and put it in the
oven of the stove. Let it parch until you
almost burn it. Then put it in the coffee pot
and boil it. It will taste just like coffee.
We were raised on the farm and couldn’t
get coffee every time we gave out, and
didn’t have money to buy it every time.
Thought I would pass this along as a
substitute for coffee. (Signed) W.A.
Williams, 217 Park Street, Griffin
RESPONSE: Thank you, sir. This ought
to help. And best regards to you.
An invitation
Dear Mr. Melton: February 3,4, and 5,
the Utility Club and the Music Club will
sponsor The Follies, ’77 — “A Real Golden
Oldie”. Although the show is in celebration
of the 50th Anniversary of the Utility Club,
it is in no way limited in participation to
club members alone. We really want this
production to be a showcase of Griffin
talent —of which there is much evidence
these days! So, this letter is a sincere open
invitation to all to come be a part of a real
off-off Broadway show!
On January 18, Tuesday, at 8:00, you are
invited to a “Meet the Director Party” to
“kick-off” the auditions and rehearsals for
the Follies. We’ve already rounded up
some of our local talent to be featured in
brief sketches and songs that evening.
Then the director will explain rehearsal
procedures, etc.
We’ll be looking for housewives that
would have fun being in a kick line, people
that like to sing or act, persons with
special talents, and persons that are not
even sure they have any talents but just
want to tag along for the fun!
If we could, we would write everyone a
personal invitation, but since there is no
way to do that, please consider this letter a
special appeal to YOU. Come join us! If we
can do it — so can you! (Signed) Nan
Carley and Mary Hurt, Co-chairmen,
Talent Committee
Note
Note to "Graded by a Taxpayer": You
get good marks, but they would be better if
we knew who you are. We ALL pay taxes
one way or another, now don’t we?
Litter
Dear Editor: January is anti-litter
month in the State of Georgia. The
Department of Transportation is asking all
citizens to join in an effort to clean up litter
from our roadsides and to discourage
highway litter in the future.
Each year Georgia taxpayers contribute
Never put off
accepting Christ
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I try to live a
good life and treat others in a loving way.
But there is something I can’t understand.
How can someone lie and cheat almost all
his life, and then go to heaven (just like a
good person), if he repents at the last
minute? This doesn’t seem quite fair.—
Mrs. B.S.
DEAR MRS. S.: Jesus once told a
parable which dealt with this problem. It
is sometimes called “the parable of the
laborers in the vineyard,” and you can find
it in Matthew 20:1-16. In it Jesus tells about
a man who hired laborers to work for a day
in his vineyard, for payment of one silver
coin. Later in the day some other men
came to work, and although they worked
fewer hours, the owner paid them the
same wage. Jesus was telling us that God
wants to give salvation to men, and even
hears the prayer of the person who repents
at the last minute. The repentance of the
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
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
understanding 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 can
didates.
more than |2 million in taxes to cleaning
up litter on our highways, an expenditure
our already over-burdened taxpayers can
ill afford. No one has yet published a
significant treatise on why the traveling
public will litter the roadsides. However in
addition to a heavy expenditure of public
funds of cleaning up the trash there is also
the fact that it spoils the environment and
gives visitors to the state a bad impression
of how we do our housekeeping.
Even though the Georgia Department of
Transportation is now operating with a
maximum level of personnel and can very
well use its maintenance forces for other
jobs, we are utilizing our maintenance
personnel this month to try to clean up
effectively Georgia’s roadside litter and
we are promoting a full fledged campaign
to enlist the help of every Georgian in
making our state highways the cleanest,
most beautiful in the country.
We are asking our civic organizations,
social clubs, youth organizations and other
community groups to do what they can to
promote programs to clean up our
highways and to prevent littering in the
future. We hope that these organizations
will respond actively and let the
department know that they are mounting
such anti-litter programs on their own in
the communities or areas they serve.
Those who throw trash upon our
highways should know that it is an illegal
act punishable by fine and jail sentence or
both. But this alone should not be the
deterring factor to those who unthinkingly
throw debris along the roadway, or who do
it simply because they do not care how our
travelways appear. The deterring factor
should be that all of us take a great deal of
pride in the cleanliness and beauty of our
roadsides, those throughfares along which
millions of us and others from out of state
travel every day.
We trust your newspaper will give this
statewide cleanup and anti-litter
campaign during the month of January
your full fledged support. We hope
individuals and organizations will respond
to the Department of Transportation’s
efforts to make Georgia a cleaner and
better place in which to travel.
Trash on our highways is a dirty shame!
Let’s keep Georgia’s highways clean and
beautiful; after all Georgia belongs to all
of us.
Thank you for your splendid cooperation
in this campaign. Yours truly,(Signed)Bill
Bryant, Director Information and Public
Relations, Department of Transportation,
No. 2, Capitol Square, Atlanta
thief on the cross (Luke 22:39-43) is an
example of this.
There are two things I want you to
remember, however. First, we must never
put off accepting Christ into our lives. We
do not know when death will come to us; it
may come suddenly and we would be
unprepared. Also, our hearts have away of
getting more calloused and insensitive to
spiritual things, and the resolves we make
today about turning to God later may be
forgotten or scorned.
One of the most tragic figures in the New
Testament is the Roman official Felix.
Paul witnessed to him about Christ, but be
said, “When I have a convenient season, I
will call for thee” (Acts 24:25). He never
came to faith.
Second, I wonder if you are trying to
save yourself by your good deeds. It is only
God’s grace that saves us. If you have
never trusted Christ for your salvation, I
urge you to turn your life over to Him.
MY
ANSWER
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Berry’s World
© 1976 by NEA. Inc.
"He’s just a teenager. I think my wife in
advertently put grow lights for her plants in his
room!"
Back when nobody
had use for poodles
By Ernest Lyons
Noted the other day that the poodle is the most popular dog
in America.
What happened to the collie, the airedale, the fox terrier and
if you will pardon me, the hound dog?
Southerners, of whom I happen to be one, are fond of hounds
and bird dogs. They earn their keep. A good hound pays for
itself many times over in rabbits, coons, possums and wild
cats — if you put a value on such creatures.
A bird dog that really knows its business is a jewel beyond
price.lt tells you where the partridges are — pardon me again,
the quail.
Hounds have always been an important part of my life.
There was my old Walker foxhound Mack, who accompanied
me on my first visit to Lake Okeechobee along about 1918.
Mack hated cows.
I was camped in a tepee tent on the ridge, down below the
Hole in the Wall along with Mack when he started chasing this
cow. I heard his baying a long way off and then, as it got
closer, I realized the certainty of disaster. There was not
room for the cow to pass the tent.
I stood aside. The cow hit the tent and carried it off. Old
Mack came back, wagging his tail, asking to have his ears
scratched. I scratched. He had done a good job.
Old Mack was nobody’s fool. He was afraid of alligators.
One time the Old Man and I were camped on a creek bank
when Old Mack pushed himself into the tent. Dad grabbed him
by the loose skin of his neck and threw him outside. He barged
back in.
Dad reached back down to pick up a shotgun loaded with
buckshot and delivered both barrels to a 12-foot alligator just
outside the tent door.
Hounds are most remarkable for their ability to trail and
tree. Old Man Roebuck was a little blind beagle that could tell
you whether a fox squirrel was still up the tree, where the wild
turkeys were, or how to follow a deer across a slough just by
smelling the maiden cane.
Hounds can be both good and bad. I once owned one who
would bay a coon until he had it treed and then would fall
asleep underneath the tree. It was up to you to find which of 1,-
000 trees he was sleeping underneath.
The most unnerving thing about any sort of dog is what, for
better definition, must be called ESP. You are sitting with
your dog in the quiet of a camp at night when suddenly its
hackles rise, it faces an unknown and invisible intruder, and
you see nothing.
My favorite dog, in a lifetime of owning many, was big old
red Pudge, a golden retriever, I used to take her out into the
ocean in a 14-foot boat. When we were just about out of sight of
land, Pudge would come back to me, put a paw on my shoulder
and beckon with the other paw landward.
Pudge did not have much sense about alligators. She thought
they were just another sort of dog. When we would go fishing
in the back country, I had to keep Pudge tied up to keep her
from becoming too friendly with the gators.
One time I remember, out on St. Lucie Canal, Pudge jumped
loose and swam out to greet a friendly alligator. It snapped at
her and she showed the good sense to swim back. I had to
bounce rocks off the head of the gator before it gave up.
Poodles? No, we didn’t have any. Our dogs were tough dogs.
The country has changed.
Ernest Lyons is retired editor of the Stuart, Fla. News.
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Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves, Bill Knight,
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