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Stars in her eyes
may be fake
By L. M. BOYD
It’s possible to get contact lenses that make each of your
eyes reflect a brilliant little star. Remember that, young
fellow. If your girlfriend appears to have stars in her eyes,
they may be fake.
A man of medicine contends one of the best ways to
treat hypochrondria in middle-aged women is to tell them
their symptons simply suggest they’re growing older.
There was a time when some nuns took their vows by
wetting their thumbs on their tongues and pressing those
thumbs against swords.
More young women than young men move from one
town to another during any given year.
Average hand is as wide as the third finger on it is long.
LIFE EXPECTANCY
Q. “Is there any way to estimate one’s own life ex
pectancy?”
A. Several ways, none reliable. But maybe the most
accepted goes like this: Add up the number of years your
mother and father lived plus the years lived by your two
grandfathers and two grandmothers, and then divide by
six. That’s it.
Q. “Isn’t the 21-gun salute this country’s longest?”
A. No, the traditional noon Salute to the Union on the
Fourth of July at most Army posts is now a 50-gun salute,
one round for each state.
Q. “What’s bill counter’s thumb?”
A. A malady that bank clerks get from the manual
counting of paper money.
Certain orchids change their fragrance throughout the
day, from heliotrope in the morning to carnation about
noon to violet at night. Odd.
SOFTDRINKS
If those supermarket monguls were just a mite
brighter, they’d get the grocery cart manufacturers to
weld little soft drink bottle holders onto those vehicles. It’s
long been known that the average shopper browses
around the store at greater length—thus buying more than
she’d planned to—if she’s permitted to sip on a cola or
whatever as she goes. But she’s reluctant to carry such a
bottle because she doesn’t have any place to put it down.
Now the scientific vegetable growers say they’re about
to produce a tearless onion and an odorless cabbage. I tell
you they can’t do that without draining from those two
dandy comestibles some of their zest. They ought to keep
their hands off our onions and cabbages.
The Royal chefs in England about 200 years ago were
required to sign their dishes with identifying marks so the
monarch would know who fixed what.
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, May 12,
the 132nd day of 1977. There
are 233 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1949, the So
viets announced that the 328-
day blockade of land routes to
isolated West Berlin had been
lifted.
On this date:
In 1774, the Boston Com
mittee of Correspondence pro
posed that the American Colo
nies suspend trade with Britain.
In 1820, the English woman
who founded modem nursing,
Florence Nightingale, was bom
in Florence, Italy.
In 1932, the body of the kid
naped infant son of Charles and
Mrs. Lindbergh was found in a
wooded area in Hopewell, N.J.
In 1943, the World War II
Battle of North Africa ended
with the German surrender of
Cape Bon in Tunisia.
In 1965, West Germany and
Israel established diplomatic
relations.
In 1971, the New York Metro
politan Museum of Art an
nounced it had paid $5.5 million
for a painting by the Spanish
artist, Velazquez.
Ten years ago: Venezuela an
nounced it had intercepted a
landing force of guerrillas led
by Cuban army officers.
Five years ago: Eighty-three
people perished in the collision
of a British refrigerator ship
and a Liberian tanker off Ar
gentina.
One year ago: Islamic na
tions convened in Istanbul, Tur
key, to discuss the Palestinian
and Cypriot problems.
Barbs
An old-timer recalls when
an oil slick was what you gave
your hair before going out for
the evening.
As a nation we’re not get
ting healthier — it’s just that
we can’t afford the luxury of a
hospital stay.
There’s nothing like a sunny
day spent gardening from
dawn till dusk to make a con
dominium seem mighty at
tractive.
Thoughts
If I ascend to heaven, thou
art there! If I make my bed in
Sheol, thou art there! If I take
the wings of the morning and
dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea, even there thy hand
shall lead me, and thy right
hand shall hold me. — Psalm
139:8,9,10.
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I Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 12, 1977
Viewpoint
Fairness to all
The Griffin Dally News’ policy is to be fair
to everyone. The editor’s opinions are
confined to this page, and its columns are
School bonds
Much will be written and said between
now and November when the people of
Spalding County decide whether or not to
load some more taxes on property owners
in order to issue school bonds for a new
high school.
As one top local educator who asked to
remain anonymous when we questioned
him-her (you guess which), said, “Nobody
is against education, but nobody wants to
pay more taxes either.”
The fact of the matter is, many if not the
majority of those who vote will not have to
pay more taxes directly if the issue
passes because they do not own property
which is subject to them. But indirectly
they will pay more. If they rent homes or
apartments their rent will rise, and the
cost of everything sold will have to go up
proportionately to pay for higher taxes on
business premises. As we have com
mented often in the past, “There is no free
lunch."
So the question to be resolved through
public debate between now and the
General Election in November and to be
decided at the polls then is whether or not
the proposed improvement in the physical
facilities of the local high school are worth
what they will cost the people of Spalding
County for the 20 years following the
issuing of bonds.
There is no doubt that some people —
especially elderly ones on fixed incomes —
can not afford to pay another dollar in
taxes or anything else. Provision should be
made for them, but none has been at this
writing.
On the other hand, we checked the school
office this week and found 1,628 students
enrolled in the three grades presently
housed on the Griffin High campus.
Almost anyone who has visited the
school recently knows that its facilities are
overcrowded and insufficient for the
present, not to mention the future.
The community has been talking about a
bond issue for something like a year. A
group which calls itself Care met last May
False vouchers
The White House has confirmed that 73
members of the President’s transition
staff last December and January received
cash advances for 600 trips to Annapolis,
Md., which they never took. Is a new
Washington “scandal” breaking? Not
really.
The explanation is rather simple. Some
members of the transition team were
strapped for cash. They had to go without
income for as long as six weeks until the
payroll was set up and they could receive
their salary checks. According to a White
House spokesman, travel expenses were
doled out as a substitute for advances on
their pay. The government later was
reimbursed.
So this finagling with falsified travel
vouchers had a legitimate purpose. But it
• My Answer
Christians and pot
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Last Sunday I
talked with a young man about Christ, and
he wanted to know if he could smoke
marijuana and still be a Christian. How
would you answer him?—E. J.
DEAR E. J.: There may be Christians
who use marijuana from time to time, just
as there may be Christians who do other
things that are carry-overs from their
lives before they met Christ. However, it is
wrong for a Christian to do such things for
several reasons.
In the first place, the use of marijuana is
illegal in our country at the present time.
For this reason alone, a Christian should
refrain from using it. “Remind the people
to be subject to rulers and authorities, to
Billy
Graham jgFjflbk
open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
to discuss a new bond issue, then these
volunteers met on June 14 and outlined
school needs. Care urged the School Board
in October to develop a plan for an issue.
This past January the school board ap
proved a state study of the system’s needs.
On February 14 the board called for a bond
issue, and this week the board approved a
definite plan.
Original ideas called for some desirable
but non-essentials, even some frills to
which the public failed to rally.
The Board of Education held four public
meetings which were sparsely attended.
The League of Women Voters held one.
The board reduced the proposal from
$lO-million (round figures) in local money
to the present which will be submitted in
three parts.
The first part calls for a bond issue of
$5,954,700 for a new high school and if it
passses it will include improvements on
the present Griffin High campus which
will become a junior high and at Spalding
Junior High which will remain a junior
high school. '
The second item calls for a million
dollars for a new stadium and would
depend on whether the first item passes. It
looks suspiciously like bait on a hook.
Third item is for $160,000 in bonds for a
cold storage building for food.
At this point it seems to us that a strong
case has been made for the high school
bonds, but no case at all for the stadium.
We already have a good one which can be
improved and a track can be built for
Griffin’s championship team at the new
high school. As for the cold storage deal, it
will take a lot of persuasion to convince us
that we can not get along without one.
This is a vital issue to the community
and we will continue to report it fully.
Readers’ opinions, pro or con, are
welcome. Send them to us at P.O. Box M,
Griffin, 30224. Every one will receive
careful consideration. Please sign your
name and give us your address. Thanks.
is still a poor way to introduce new em
ployes to the ways of working for the U.S.
government.
It will be four years and possibly eight
before another White House transition
occurs, but it is not unlikely that the start
up of new government programs or offices
will create the same problem for new
employes. Is signing false vouchers going
to be the accepted way to solve it?
Congress should see to it that the laws
governing disbursement of salary funds
are flexible enough to avoid any in
ducement for what amounts to fraud. The
first thing a government employe should
learn is that expense vouchers aren’t a
substitute for a petty cash fund or a per
sonal loan.
be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is
good” (Titus 3:1 New International
Version.)
The second reason to refrain from drugs
or alcohol is that they take away our
rational thinking and make us open to
thoughts and behavior that are not Christ
like. What the Bible says about wine can
also be applied to any other drug that
influences our minds: “Do not get drunk
on wine, which leads to debauchery.
Instead, be filled with the Spirit”
(Ephesians 5:18, New International
Version). It is interesting that Paul in this
verse doesn’t call drunkenness
“debauchery,” but says it leads to it.
The real issue here is that Christ calls us
to complete commitment of ourselves to
his will. We should not try to hold on to our
own plans and desires, but yield them up to
Christ. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer yourselves as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to
God—which is your spiritual worship. Do
not conform any longer to the pattern of
this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:1,2,
New International Version).
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"This has been a particularly rough day! I just
heard Bert Lance is discouraging government
agencies from using consultants!"
Call her
Bubbly Bonnie
By BILL KNIGHT *
Executive Editor
Call her Bubbly Bonnie.
She bubbles with boundless energy.
But then, Bonnie Pfrogner always has been that way.
She was when she, her husband, Lee, and their 5
children moved to Griffin Sept. 1,1971. They moved into a
house on West Poplar street that Mr. Pfrogner had come
to Griffin and picked out.
Since then, she’s been busy with enough outside projects
that would make most of us flee in panic.
As a newcomer, she and 4 other women formed a
Newcomer’s Club that still is a going concern today.
“It was one way I could get to know people,” she said.
Then, too, she picked up her bowling ball and headed for
Griffin Lanes to join a women’s league. She and her
family joined the First Presbyterian Church and Bonnie is
active in many programs there. They were members of
the Lutheran Church in Cumberland, Md., (population
30,000) where they lived for 10 years before coming to
Griffin. They lived in a former Presbyterian manse at
Cumberland..
“Some of those Presbyterian Bibles left in the manse
must have gotten to us,” Bonnie quipped.
She’s active in the Art Association and transferred her
Junior Woman’s Club membership here when the family
moved.
She grew up sort of as an only child, since her older
brother had already married when she was a tot.
Bonnie was a “Tom Boy” growing up in Somerset, Pa.,
a town of about 8,000. Her future father-in-law was her
homeroom teacher for 3 years in the town’s high school.
Her future husband graduated a few years ahead of her.
As the neighborhood Tom Boy, she always was ready to
fill in as one of the guys on a baseball, basketball or
whatever team was in season when needed.
She still likes to shoot baskets on a goal in front of the
Pfrogner home here. She and her husband, manager for
Revco for Georgia, still play tennis together on weekends.
She does all this, outside of looking after her 5 children.
They are Rick, 17, Mark, 15, Tom, 12, Bonnie Lynn, 10, and
Eric, 8.
“I do have some quiet time to myself,” she confided.
But we bet not much.
The Junior Woman’s Club named her Griffin’s Young
Woman of the Year last week.
We bet the selection committee was out of breath when
its members finished reading the activities in her
nomination.
We were!
Whew!
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