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Page 4 Griffin Daily News Friday, February 4,1977 w-"- '■ < frgy--,:g, ;Ms m I > HbMF k Oil fl Jr Ij® y |l|lk i n TkXu ' < n Ssw A w I \_ >■■ J "Hi...l’m the new boss.” Tax rebate for solar heating By L.M. Boyd Why doesn't the Federal Government give a hefty income tax rebate to anybody who wants to install a solar heating system in a home? Eleven states do that. Specifically: California, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Montana, Maryland, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Illinois and Oregon. Dark brown is now said to be the most popular color of paint for the outside of houses nationwide. And a shade of yellow is reported to be the most popular for the inside. Those states wherein the doctors make the most money on the average are Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. A first-class postage stamp in Canada still costs only 8 cents, please note. BALLET Q. "Name the famous football star who became a pro fessional ballet dancer. A. No doubt you refer to Hubert Stowitz of Stanford University. The great Anna Pavlova saw him in a game and promptly invited him to one of her performances in San Francisco. He became her student. Ultimately, he was hailed as the finest leaping Mephistopheles in ballet, a career he followed for 12 years worldwide. Q. "How did the man's custom of tipping the hat originate?" A. That dates back to when knights in armor raised their visors to be recognized. Q. "What goes into redeye gravy?” A. Ham fat and black coffee thickened with flour. Remember, you can get more juice out of that lemon, if you put it into the microwave oven for a minute before squeezing it. Did I say no archer ever has successfully hunted a rhinoce rus with bow and arrow? Wrong! Am now informed one Bob Swinehart in 1966 downed a three-ton rhino in Angola with one arrow. The 1200-grain fiberglass arrow shot from a 90 pound bow penetrated 20 inches through the tough hide into the lungs, it's reported. Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 Copyright 1977 L. M. 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P.J U ■■■ eTv| E■■P [o ea t fsW tTaj pßa all d r o|o [p] sßß e|r a s I el d IPIjIE M DI O~ A __ aIbI uWejBBEa s p _i_ c pe n “Ip sa l m AAJ9 Fat 11 - E - L“ i DU O |N AM| E D| |lT°Ts 9 Style 39 Religious 10 Bedroom shoe sister 11 Hera's son 40 Choice 19 Not of the 41Turnoutward clergy 21 Largest Actress amount Dennis 24 Conditionally 43 Egg (Fr.) 25 Responsibility 44 Emit coherent 26 Missile .... 27 Charged '9 ht particles A5 Words of un- 28 Greek island derstanding (2 29 Ballerina's wds) strong points 47 Llfted 32 City’division 48 Rams ma,es 35 Geographical f’ ave division 52 Light breeze Almanac for today By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 1977. There are 330 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1789, George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, with all 69 presidential electors casting their votes for the general. On this date: In 1861, delegates from six seceding Southern states formed the Confederacy at Montgomery, Ala'. In 1887, the Interstate Com merce Commission was estab lished. In 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill and the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, be gan a conference at Malta. In 1948, the island of Ceylon became a free, self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth. In 1961, terrorist attacks broke out in the Portuguese Af rican territory of Angola. In 1975, the U.S. Justice De partment proposed stronger measures to prohibit the em ployment of illegal aliens. Five years ago: Britain and several other nations formally recognized the new state of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. Q&A Match the state with its cor rect capital city. 1. Rhode Island 2. Ohio 3. Washington 4. Alaska 5. Illinois (a) Olympia (b) Juneau (c) Springfield <d) Providence (e) Columbus ANSWERS: □gqfre g a Z P I Thoughts For thou dost meet him with goodly blessings; thou dost set a crown of fine gold upon his head. He asked life of thee; thou gavest it to him, length of days for ever and ever. — Psalm 21:3.4. Subscriptions ft %TT'' 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: 62 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 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. How to make money Census Bureau figures show that one way to make money is to get a good education. Finance Facts, a newsletter published by consumer finance companies, reports in this month’s issue that in a household headed by a high school graduate, the mean income was 0.9 percent above the national average, in those whose head had completed four or more years of college it Follies The Utility Club’s Follies opened last night and was a great show. It will play tonight and again tomorrow night, and if you haven’t seen it yet we suggest that you do so. It is a lot of fun. A word for Billy The nation is talking about President Carter’s fireside chat, and just about everybody we have talked with rate it as great. But this little piece is about the President’s brother Billy who has hired himself an agent and is getting some poor marks from some sources for capitalizing on his relationship with the President. Here is the way we see it : Billy did not run for the presidency. Fame rubbed off on him, not he on fame. People sought him Sports Editorial Bears are peaking It was mentioned a week ago that a victory sometimes does wonders for a team’s confidence and morale. The Griffin Bears are living proof. Griffin was struggling until it upset highly regarded R.E. Lee. The victory gave Griffin the lift it needed and now the Bears are riding a four-game winning streak. Coach Bobby York and his team will try Billy Graham A second chance DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Do we have a second chance to repent and accept Christ after death? A friend of mine says I Corinthians 15:19 indicates we do have a second chance.—Mrs. C.M. DEAR MRS. M.: I Corinthians 15:19 says, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” Paul is not, however, suggesting that we can hope to have a second chance (after death) to be saved. What he is saying is simply that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, then we have no hope for eternal life. We would only have hope for something better in this life. However, since Christ has conquered death, we do have hope of eternal life. As one modern translation puts it, “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men” (New International was 57.7 percent above the average, and in those whose head finished less than eight years of school, it was 45.1 percent below the national average. People who live in and around Griffin have a superior opportunity to complete two years of college at minimum cost at Gordon Junior College, and we recom mend it. out, flooded him with personal attention, with mail, with demands upon his time. So he sold a lot of gas at his filling station and has signed up with a celebrity agent. What was he supposed to do, go to bed and sleep through it all? Far as we know, we never have seen Billy Carter, but instead of envying him we feel sorry for him. If he can maintain his equilibrium and make a couple of bucks from a situation which clutches him in stead of him clutching it, so what? to make it five in a row tonight when they host the Newnan Cougars. Griffin’s new found confidence could spell trouble for Newnan and other opponents as the basketball season draws to a close. Could be that the Bears are peaking going into tournament competition. And tournaments are where it really counts in basketball. Version). Our hope is not for a better life here only, but for a better life eternally. Nowhere does the Bible suggest that we - will receive a second chance to repent of our sins. In fact, the Bible constantly urges us to accept Christ while there is still time. The rich fool in Jesus’ parable had no second chance: “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee” (Luke 12:20). The writer of Hebrews said, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement” (Hebrews 9:27). The point is that we already know all we need to know in order to be saved. We know that we are sinners and cannot win our way into heaven by our good works. We know, through the Bible, that God sent His Son to die for our sins. And we know that by faith and trust in Him we can be saved. 9k f Ww II JB Wilk © 1977 by NEA. Inc "When did the Disneyland poster get replaced by the Farrah Fawcett-Majors one?” Congress still calls the shots By Ray Cromley WASHINGTON - (NEA) - Back in 1875, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, writing Prof. John W. Draper on refusing to run for the presidency, said: “In a country like ours the president is a mere executor of laws made by others, over which he exercises a doubtful con trol. He must take things as he finds them, and cannot purify Congress or the Public Administration, though the world holds him responsible for both.” This was not always true. George Washington, if the history I’ve read is accurate, had his way in many things when he desired. And so with Thomas Jefferson. These were strong men dealing with a young and divided legislature. But times have changed. The six presidents I have followed most closely, beginning with Harry Truman, himself no weakling, have complained in private most strongly that in domestic affairs, that area which comes closest to most of us, they had but little influence. Os the group, Mr. Truman worked the hardest at effecting change, and at molding the government and its programs to fit the image he had in his mind. Even more so, I think, than Franklin Roosevelt, whom I observed only at a great distance — having been overseas during much of his presidency. John Kennedy probably worked the hardest at putting his men in the bureaucracy, high and low, incidentally bypassing civil service and security check blocks along the way. Even so, he was not successful. His ringing statements and his idealistic challenges obscured his inability to bring the government under his control. Lyndon Johnson’s approach was different. He had been highly successful as the top man in the Senate for many years. He was able to work closely with both Democratic and Republican presidents, putting the nation above party, which entitles him to be remembered most kindly in history books. In this post he was powerful, more powerful by some con siderable degree than most presidents. Yet when Mr. Johnson moved to the White House he, like the men before him, found that the clout, when it mattered, lay with the Congress and the bureaucracy, not with the presi dent. His skill at persuasion, so effective in his Senate years, availed him little. He had lost his base. Gerald Ford came from the Congress carrying with him a load of affection as great as any man leaving that body. He was loved by political friend and foe alike. But President Ford, too found that Congress, hot he, sat in the driver’s seat. Vetoes became his standby. Mr. Ford was not the first president to use the veto heavily. Mr. Roosevelt was in the same league, even with con gressional majorities from his own party. For decades, presidents did have a compelling voice in foreign affairs — Mr. Roosevelt in the events leading up to World War II; Mr. Truman in his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, in his compelling the Russians to withdraw from Iran and in his entry into the Korean War; Mr. Eisenhower in the sending of troops to Lebanon and Messrs Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon in the Vietnam war. And Mr. Nixon again in his openings to China and the USSR. But Congress is moving here. Establishing their own authority, as written in the Constitution, the men on Capitol Hill put a straitjacket on U.S. actions in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam war. inserted strong restrictions in a proposed trade agreement with Moscow and sank Ford- Kissinger proposals on arms for the losing side in Angola. To anticipate what is in store these next few years, then, we need to know more about the men and women who rule the Senate and House of Representatives. Though President Carter will get the publicity, the principal decisions affecting you and me will be made on Capitol Hill. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l | J ||* [S ft Bl W /j* m wM ? ! / V j < * B'Wl / ’ s S ® 1977 trs ** me ,T M Re, U S Pat Off “Fred already has a glow on ... and I dread tomorrow mor ning’s afterglow!” DAIL7T Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves General Manager UAess al mail (Sutecnj'iom Ounje at Address Fane 3579) ta P.O. Drawer M. 30224 Member at n» Asseciatad Press. 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