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Slim chance to meet tall blonds ByL.M. BOYD Wouldn’t be wise for a single girl to set her heart on finding a tall, blonde, handsome man. Odds run 13 to one against her getting a six-footer. They go three to one against her meeting a blond. And as for handsome, don’t know the odds exactly, but they’re about the same as for beautiful. In a churchyard near Boston, Mass., is a tombstone that reads in part: **. . . of pneumonia, supervaining con sumption, complicated by other diseases, the main sympton of which was insanity.” A study of various records shows the average cowboy 100 years ago worked the range only seven years before settling down. And his average age, 24. SURGERY Q. “How many people in this country every year now get surgical operations to change their sexes?” A. Probably about 400. In 1975, at least 300 did so. It’s no longer uncommon surgery. About 40 medical centers nationwide are into the thing now. Q. “How many books had Marilyn Durham written before she wrote the bestseller ‘The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing’?” A. None. RATS! In polite societies of 100 years ago, “trousers” was considered a vulgar word as was “legs.” And in fact, piano “limbs" were clothed. What nonsense! Today, between the TV ads about feminine hygiene and hemorrhoids, you hear the game show wits deliver the explicits of sex and scatalogy, and the lewd winkings of jailhouse lingo, the rape of simple comfort in conversation. Clearly, those' Victorian tidy tongues of yester-year were so dirty minded that they had to bend double back wards.. And clearly, too, these loose-lipped TV talkers with the cravings of whip-and-spur deviates are so dirty minded that they have to bend double forwards. L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 Copyright 1977 L. M. 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LI A|NID MtttTr Mt ta |P *IS|T IT~o~TM~°I A i T l _ P j E j R r7y~Mc? R ! E Apr ' E ' S aTTaT [A L I!TT 'lo o p T lp' e .o n] AisinivJ |bio'n]al rnrro 12 Judges 19 Heavy affliction 22 Place for art exhibit 24 Beginning 26 Mountain pass in India 28 16. Roman 29 Cruel men 31 Summer (Fr) 35 Emotional shock 36 Aviators 37 Tier Today By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, July 7, the 188th day of 1977. There are 177 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1846, the American flag was raised at Monterey, California after sur render of the Mexican garrison, and the U.S. annexation of Cali fornia was proclaimed. On this date: In 1801, the black general, Toussaint I’Ouverture, pro claimed Haiti’s independence from France. In 1865, four people were hanged after being named as accomplices of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. In 1898, the U.S. annexed Hawaii. In 1941, during World War Two, U.S. forces landed in Ice land to forestall any Nazi in vasion. In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. In 1973, 23 people were exe cuted in Iraq on charges they had plotted to overthrow the government. Ten years ago: U.S. Vietnam commander William West moreland urged the Pentagon to provide up to 100,000 more troops for the Vietnam War and said the Allies were winning slowly but surely. Five years ago: Heavy rain in many parts of Japan triggered floods and mudslides that caused a death toll of more than 400. One year ago: The Indonesian government said 9,000 people died in an earthquake in New Guinea. © 54 Q&A Can you match up the American playwright with the play? 1. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Mary C. Chase 3. Clifford Odets 4. William Inge 5. John Van Druten (a) “Harvey” (b) “Picnic” (cl “A Raisin in the Sun (d) "I Am a Camera” (e) "Golden Boy” ANSWERS: (P> S <q> » (®) £ («) z (®) I Thoughts A slack hand causes pover ty. but the hand of the diligent makes rich. — Proverbs 10:4. Subscriptions c v I a' 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, 38.04 for three months, 116.07 for six months, $32.13 for 12 months. These prices include sales tax. Due to expense and un certainty of delivery, mail subscriptions are not recom mended 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. 39 Nicotinic acid 40 Loathe 41 Armenian people 43 Requires 45 Sleeps 47 City m Utah 50 American Indians 51 One s self 53 Os the (Sp ) 54 National monogram —Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 7, 1977 Page 4 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 Griffin grave robbers A letter to the editor on the “We’re Listening” page this week told of a thief or thieves stealing flowers from the grave of a widow’s husband and again from the grave of her sister. What a terrible thing. How low and depraved. Yet how often this happens right here in Griffin. The widow who wrote the letter asked us to withhold her name because she feared the thief would damage the tombstone if her canplaint were known. What then is this but terrorism? How often the silent threat prevents complaints to law en forcement officers, prosecution of Hat tip to tellers This is a tip of the editorial hat or holiday baseball cap if one prefers to the friendly tellers at the three main banks and their branches in Griffin. On the Friday before the Fourth of July and again the day after that grand and glorious holiday, customers besieged them. Yet they performed their duties with courtesy and dispatch. Commercial Bank which is the largest of Fuss at the library Political controversy jumps up in the strangest places. Just now it is whistling about the public library. Supporters have every reason and right to urge adequate financial assistance. City officials likewise are on solid ground when they contend that the county should foot the bills because inside-city-limits residents pay county taxes the same as those of us on the other side of the imaginary line. It makes little difference now, but part In perspective The Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce newsletter “Action” puts something in perspective this month. The United States has only six percent of the world’s population but uses 33 percent of its energy. Our nation’s only hope DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I have heard It said that our country is repeating the same errors which led to the fall of the Roman Empire, and that soon our nation must fall also. Do you think this is true?—L. R. DEAR L. R.: Historians disagree on the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, although there are certainly many similarities with the present day. What concerns me most is that Rome was morally and spiritually bankrupt when it finally fell to the barbarian hordes. I believe the Bible teaches that God even tually judges any nation that refuses to live in accordance with His com mandments, and that is what happened to BiUy Graham Fairness to all My Answer open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are published every Wednesday. Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224. criminals, appearance of witnesses in court Freedom from fear was one of the guaranties sought and pledged to Americans everywhere after World War n. Yet an innocent widow cannot honor her dead husband in the quiet of a cemetery without having to fear the scum of a grave robber. This is not a communist Russia, in besieged Ireland, in fear-drenched Uganda. It is in Griffin. Right here in Griffin. What a shame. the three handled over 30,000 transactions the Friday before the holiday. Think of that, 30,000! The other two reported ex ceptionally heavy business also. Anyone who might doubt the brisk pace of business in Griffin and in Spalding County ought to have seen the flood of holiday and post-holiday customers. So should anyone who thinks courtesy and efficiency are dead. of the problem arose years ago when accrediting officials insisted that the high school have a library and professional staff of its own even though the Hawkes Library was serving it adequately and more than met its needs. One way to solve the present dilemma and others of equal importance would be unified city-county government. Presently taxpayers are rendering a premium unto the Caesar of today for outdated systems of the past. But, it notes, “The United States also produces 32 percent of the world’s goods and services.” That makes things look a little different, now doesn’t it? Rome. “The Kings of the earth have set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed.. .He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.... Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron" (Psalms 2:2, 4,9). We are in grave danger of becoming morally and spiritually bankrupt also. Millions of people deny today that there are moral truths-thst certain things are wrong and other things are right. There is widespread neglect of God’s law in business, government, family life and personal morals. I do not know if God is about to bring judgment upon our nation, but I do know that we have sinned as a nation and need to repent. Our nation has only one hope, and that is widespread turning to God. We need it on every level of our national life, but it begins in the heart of each person as we committ ourselves to Christ. Even a wicked city like Nineveh was spared when the people turned to God and repented (Jonah 3). It can be true of us also. This British lad good Southerner By BILL KNIGHT Executive Editor President Carter’s Friendship Force is not a new idea. Dennis Payne has been operating on the principle since before the U. S. got into World War 11. Payne who is the British consulate general in Atlanta was a Spitfire pilot during the “big one” as Archie Bunker sometimes calls WWH. He was in Griffin last week to tell the Kiwanis Club about how he discovered America. Lean, gray and still at a fighting trim weight, the handsome English government representative kept his audience in stitches with that unmatchable British sense of humor. Until he came to this country, he said he thought Americans were all cowboys, Indians or gangsters, judging from the movies he’d seen. And our history books, he found, were all mixed up, too. He said he was surprised to learn from them the British troops had left America under duress. He thought all the time they had pulled out of the Revolutionary War to go and fight in India. Payne discovered America while it was still officially a neutral country, he mused. He said he and some 60 other RAF pilots came here, were dressed in some ill fitting clothing which were not uniforms, then shipped off to a place called Montgomery, Ala. His pronounciation of that Alabama town comes out something like “Moooooont gomery.” He strings it out with a facsimile of Southern drawl that breaks up any true son of Dixie. While in Alabama, a rough and tumble Army man put the British lads through a two-week crash course that was supposed to be the equivalent of four years at West Point or Annapolis. When it was over, some of the local people around Montgomery fixed up the “neutrals” visitors with some blind dates for a Saturday night dance, Southern style. Now blind dating was something new to the British lads. Payne said the English would not think of dating a girl without proper introductions. This was just another phase of the Americanization of the RAF group. Payne’s date turned out to be a beautiful Southern belle dressed in a white, shoulderless evening dress who presented herself with: “Are you all my English boy for the dance?” After the Montgomery venture, the British pilots were shipped off to a U. S. Army Air Corps base near Americus, Ga. When they arrived, they settled in quickly and were informed they would have the weekend off. “To do what?” they wondered in a tiny place like Americus, Ga. They headed for the base exits and were surprised to find rows and rows of automobiles waiting for them. The good people of Americus had learned of their arrival and got together to show them what Southern hospitality was all about. Each Americus family participating invited one of the RAF boys to be a weekend guest in their homes. One of the first things the Americus people asked the visitors was: “Which church do you wish to attend on Sunday morning?” Now the English lads were not accustomed to regular church attendance. Payne explained that the British people had great cathedrals which they like to show to visitors but seldom attended themselves. But after that first Sunday in Americus, the British boys became regular church-goers. They became frequent visitors for the weekend in Americus homes during their stay in this country. Dating Southern belles developed into lifelong relationships, Payne said. Thirty-five of the 60 RAF lads were married while here. He became engaged to a girl from Tennessee and they were married. Eldred Hill, a Griffin businessman, is a member of the Kiwanis Club and was at the meeting to renew his friendship with Payne. Hill had known Payne’s wife when she was a high school cheerleader. Hill had met her when he played high school football in Tennessee. Payne told the club he still was at a loss to understand why he, with his British accent, had become the father of three sons, all of whom had perfect Southern drawls. The only serious note he injected in his talk was to say that in his position, he was doing all he could to promote trade between America and Britain and that his country thinks the Southeastern part of America is where the expansion will be during the years ahead. He said since his native land has few natural resources, it must import raw materials, manufacture them into goods, and export. “We export or perish,” he said. His years in America, the South, and Georgia in par ticular caused him to come to love this country, he told the club. “You’ve got a grand flag and I’d be proud to fight for it,” he declared. Mentally, we stood and cheered him, though at the time a polite British type applause seemed more in keeping with the occasion. GRIFFIN Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves General Manager MM a aai Ouap * Fn 3S«) ■ FA Draw A M2M X tka taxaM Fa. Eta liurnMl Fna a XM liriHM*, ta tka nlkM "*■> < a M am caaUxaF karaa. Bill Knight Executive Editor FaMoM M,. 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