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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, March 22,1977
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Can animal bones
turn into iron?
Did you know that animal bones can turn to iron? Wait,
not exactly, but sort of. A skeleton of a deer, dug up by
miners searching for iron ore in a Virginia bog, proved to
be completely ferrified, not petrified. By long immersion
in the iron-bearing water, the bone cells were replaced by
the metallic particles until the entire skeleton was iron.
Am asked if apes can be trained, like dogs, to herd
sheep. Possibly, quite possibly. The record shows a
female baboon in southwest Africa regularly took about 80
goats out to graze daily, never losing an animal, never
allowing any to stray.
When you sit down, three to six inches is added to the
spread of your body. All right, won’t bring it up again,
excuse it.
RACCOON
Q. “Does a raccoon climb down a perpendicular tree
trunk head first or tail first?’’
A. Tail first, if not panicked.
Q. “I know that the fear of women is called gynephobia,
but what’s the word for fear of men?”
A. Androphobia.
Q. "What does ‘prime’ in ‘prime ribs’ refer to, the cut of
the meat or the grade?”
A. The cut. Prime rib is Just another name for rib roast.
Yale University was known as the Collegiate School
before Elihu Yale donated $2,500 to that institution. And
Harvard was called Cambridge College until John
Harvard bequeathed $3,500 to it. I’m thinking of giving a
similar sum to M.I.T. on the condition its name be
changed to Louie University.
SILENCE
The German airlines Lufthansa put up a $lO million
office building in Cologne. It was sealed in a most modem
manner with special insulation and permanently closed
windows so as to make it virtually soundproof. But the
workers therein didn’t like that. They said the silence was
driving them batty, or words to that effect. So the com
pany rigged the building with a noise-making machine to
broadcast constant traffic sounds. That satisfied those
complainants.
Female twins tend to be considerably closer to each
other than male twins. Why I don’t know. But the sur
veytakers asked 300 pairs of twins if they wanted to live
next door to each other when they married. One in five
male twins said yes, and one in three of the female twins
said yes.
Inhaled anesthetics for some peculiar reason don’t
make horses sick after surgery the way they do people
sometimes. Odd.
Some snake experts claim there’s no proof that a boa
constrictor actually can squeeze a human being to death.
The penalty for selling beer in ancient Babylonia was
death.
Address mail to L.M. Boyd, P.O. Box 681, Weatherford,
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“I’m kinda tired tonight so how about just pickin' out your
favorite of my prayers and doing a replay?”
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, March 22,
the 81st day of 1977. There are
284 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1917, the
United States became the first
nation to recognize a new
provisional government in Rus
sia. The Bolshevik regime
came into power later in the
October Revolution.
On this date:
In 1794, the U.S. Congress
passed a law prohibiting Amer
ican vessels from supplying
slaves to another country.
In 1820, an American naval
hero, Stephen Decatur, was fa
tally wounded in a duel with
Commodore James Barron
near Washington.
In 1945, the Arab League was
founded in Cairo.
In 1964, anti-Moslem rioting
broke out in India.
In 1968, the commander of
American forces in Vietnam,
General William
Westmoreland,
was named Army Chief of
Staff.
In 1970, a strike by postal de
liverymen that began in New
York was spreading to key
cities across the country.
Ten years ago: A high North
Korean press official jumped
into an American car at the
Panmunjon truce village in
Korea and defected under a
hail of Communist bullets.
Five years ago: A bomb
blasted the biggest hotel and
mail railroad station in Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
One year ago: One-thousand
police began riding London’s
subways to guard against politi
cal violence.
Q&A
Can you match up the enter
tainment personality with his
or her place of birth?
1. Yves Montand
2. Juliet Prowse
3. Anthony Quinn
4. Mary Tyler Moore
5. Jacqueline Bisset
(a) Brooklyn, N.Y.
(b) Monsummano, Italy
(c) Bombay, India
(d) Weybridge. England
(e) Chihuahua, Mexico
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Thoughts
I myself am satisfied about
you, my brethren, that you
yourselves are full of good
ness, filled with all
knowledge, and able to in
struct one another. — Romans
15:14
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Smart planning
The U.S. Corps of Engineers is in the
process of gathering information on the
availability of water, present and future,
in the four-county area of Spalding, Henry,
Fayette and Coweta.
The Corps is conducting the study at the
request of Gov. George Busbee, and
findings of the study will be made
available to city and county governments
by July to aid them in planning for future
water needs.
Question
and answer
The Griffin-Spalding County Chapter of
the League of Women Voters asks a
question in its March bulletin, “The
Voter.”
It inquires, “Did you know that of the 50
states, Georgia ranked 50th on percentage
of voting age population actually voting in
the ’76 presidential election?”
No, we did not know that. And yes, we
think it is a mighty sorry record, don’t
you?
Part of a dream
The seemingly unending pangs of a war
officially ended in 1973 were renewed as
the remains of 12 dead U.S. pilots were
returned to the U.S. from Van Diem
Cemetery in Vietnam on Saturday.
However gruesome it may seem and
whether or not all claims of identity are
totally accurate, the work being
accomplished by the presidential
‘Sounds like slaughter’
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Why is the battle
of Jericho remembered as something
glorious? After the walls came tumbling
down, “they utterly destroyed all in the
city, both men and women, young and old,
oxen, sheep and asses, with the edge of the
sword” (Joshua 6:21, Revised Standard
Version). It sounds like unprovoked
slaughter to me.—G.J.M.
DEAR G.J.M.: There has always been a
tendency to glorify war. Some of the most
stirring music and patriotic songs have
been composed on the theme of war. In the
case of Jericho, the old spiritual about the
walls tumblin’ down has helped to give an
almost picturesque setting to that bloody
conflict.
The battle of Jericho needs to be
BiUy
Graham
Fairness to all
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open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
The area being studied faces the
certainty of rapid industrial and
residential growth in the near future and a
careful analysis of water sources is
nothing but smart planning.
We applaud the cooperation of Governor
Busbee in this matter and the work of area
engineers and concerned citizens as well
as the Corps workers.
Our future depends to a considerable
extent on their efforts in this matter.
commission to recover information and
bodies of missing Vietnam POW’s does
provide at least some relief to the
frustrations of the victims’ families and
friends.
U.S. statemen see this as the only way to
normalize relations with Vietnam. It is
part of making the undying American
dream of global peace a reality.
understood in all its horror and bloodshed,
and also as an example of God’s judgment
on man’s rebellion. A study of Joshua,
chapter 6, shows how God’s enemies
barricaded themselves against God’s
people (verse 1). There was no willingness
to negotiate but only a determination to
withstand them at all costs. At that time
God’s promise (verse 2) was to give His
people the city. Each day that the ancient
Israelites walked round the city and the
people still refused to negotiate, God’s
judgment against them seems to have
increased in severity — just as it does
against all who continuously resist His
will. Finally, in verse 17, God pronounces a
judgment on the .whole city.
If more of the people had reacted as did
Rahab, they might have been saved just as
she was with all her family (verse 25).
The teaching with regard to war is found
in James 4:1-2, “From whence come wars
and fightings among you? Come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your
members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill,
and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye
fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye
ask not.”
ALEX
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"Amazing — the impact he has had on us all,
eh?"
Did FDA blow it
on saccharine?
By Don Oakley
Little wonder so many Americans suffering from cancer
don’t believe the Food and Drug Administration when it tells
them the outlawed drug Laetrile is worthless.
Any agency which could seriously propose banning
saccharine because three out of 100 laboratory rats fed
dosages equivalent to 800 12-ounce cans of dietetic drink a day
developed malignant bladder tumors deserves to have its
competency called into question.
Many people are wondering why the FDA chose to move
against saccharine at this time. The Canadian investigation
which prompted its action was by no means the first test
which has implicated the aritficial sweetener, however ,
remotely, as a cancer-causing agent.
(Ironically, the Canadian government, which is similarly
removing saccharine from the market, permits the sale and
use of Laetrile.)
Os course, the Delaney Clause, enacted by Congress in 1958
as an amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,
decrees that any food additive found to cause cancer in •»
humans or animals — no matter how massive the test dosages
or how improbable the ordinary risk to people — must be
placed beyond the pale.
But the FDA could easily have called the Canadian tests in
conclusive. The fact that two out of 100 rats in a control group
that were not fed saccharine developed tumors anyway would
certainly seem to raise some reasonable doubts.
The FDA also seems to have given little thought to the con
sequences to diabetics and others who must have a substitute
for sugar in their diets.
At least one congressman is drawing up legislation to amend >
the Delaney amendment to permit the FDA to exercise
"reasonable judgment" in matters of this kind.
Rep. James G. Martin, D-N.C., who is himself an organic
chemist, points out that in the nearly 20 years since the *
Delaney amendment, the ability of analytical chemistry
todetect minute traces of carcinogenic (cancer-causing) sub
stances has been vastly refined.
"We can detect much lower levels of compounds which in
large doses are carcinogenic. Yet thfey’re safe in normal
amounts,” he says.
Pending a change in the law, however, or a massive dose of ’
public opinion administered to the FDA, saccharine has had it
And we may be pardoned if we entertain a reasonable doubt
that anybody will be the slightest bit better off without it
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53 Swearword
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57 Talking bird
58 Donkey
59 Mexico (abbr.)
60 Downy
surface
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2 Vast period of
time
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wine district
4 Accustom
5 Sultry
6 Lurking
7 Smallest bit
8 Palm fruit
9 Year (Sp.)
11 Rosy
13 Journal
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Fleming
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monogram
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Lupino
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Indian
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19 Seaweed
21 Ships' floors
23 Piers
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visualized
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currency
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