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Louise Mixon, Anne Lotz and Rosalee Young (1-r) enjoy visit with each other at speaker’s table.
Billy Graham’s daughter
Mrs. Lotz’ message same
as that of her father
The message was the same and it was
delivered with similar zeal,
thoroughness and spiritual inspiration.
The 2 even look alike, but had not
some 450 women known ahead of time,
they would never have guessed the
speaker was Billy Graham’s daughter.
Even though the famous evangelist’s
name was not mentioned when Anne
Lotz was introduced or during her talk
at Friday’s luncheon of the Fellowship
of Christian Women at the Moose Club,
Graham’s message of “letting Christ
control your lives’’ rang out loud and
clear.
“Take warnings. If you have a bad
trait, write it down. Date it and give it
to the Lord. Let Him change you, make
you into a new person. Ask God to pull
you out, change your life and give you
victory through power of the Holy
Spirit,” she challenged.
The 29-year-old wife of a Raleigh, N.
C. dentist, used as her scripture the 49th
chapter of Genesis, dealing with
Jacob’s dying blessing to his sons and
their traits of character.
She interspersed her talk with verses
from both the old and the new
testaments. She picked the Old
Testament scripture because “Jesus
said we sin because we don’t un
derstand the Old Testament and we
can’t understand the New Testament
unless we understand the old,” she
said.
“If you don’t know the Old
Testament, you’re a half-baked
Christian. The old and the new go hand
in hand,” she said.
The former fashion model (whose
pictures have been in “Seventeen” and
“Good Housekeeping” magazines)
spends most of her time studying the
Bible.
Senate panel revives
probe of CIA drug tests
WASHINGTON (AP) — Spurred by
evidence of previously undisclosed CIA
drug tests on unsuspecting citizens, the
Senate intelligence committee is
Finding a bargain often is the
worst thing that can happen to a
person’s budget.”
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Daily Since 1872
> “I can’t count the hours,” she said.
She sits at her desk, tablet and Bible
in hand, while her 3 small children play
in the same room.
“When the Lord called me, I asked
him to take care of my children and he
gave me the ability to study with them
playing nearby. I can tune out the
happy sounds, but am right there when
I hear they need me... They have an
image of me at my desk studying the
Bible and it has made an impression.
Now instead of playing house, they play
at Bible study. They get out their
tablets and pretend to study just like
me,” she explained.
Mrs. Lotz spends 2 days a week
teaching Bible study lessons in Raleigh.
She leads a 2-hour Bible class attended
by 500 women with 250 on the waiting
list. She also trains church leaders and
oversees the children’s program in her
home church.
Even though her children have had
several bouts of sickness, she has not
missed one day. They always get better
on the day of her scheduled work, she
said.
“I can do it. When the Lord wants me
to do anything, he not only equips me,
but gives me the strength and equip
ment to do it, she explained.
Mrs. Lotz was raised a Presbyterian
but now attends a Baptist Church.
She has 2 Griffin connections.
Her mother’s parents, Dr. and Mrs.
Nelson Bell, were members of a
Presbyterian church near Asheville, N.
C., pastored by the father of Mrs. Bill
Mixon of Spalding County. The late Dr.
Bell was a missionary physician to
China and a leader in the Presbyterian
Church. Mrs. Mixon remembers the
family and their daughter, Ruth
Graham, very well.
quickly reviving its investigation of the
agency’s program.
The committee announced Friday it
will hold a hearing ‘‘at the earliest
possible date” on documents showing
that the ClA’s secret drug tests between
1953 and 1964 were more extensive than
had been known.
“We’re shooting for next week, either
the middle or the end of the week,” a
committee spokesman said.
The decision to resume the in
vestigation came after CIA Director
Adm. Stansfield Turner hand-delivered
a letter reporting the discovery of new
documents as a result of “ex
traordinary and extensive search ef
forts.”
In the letter to committee chairman
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii,
Turner offered to testify before the
panel “on the full details of this un-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, July 16,1977
Mrs. Lotz met her husband, Danny,
through Dr. Loren Young of Griffin. Dr.
Young, a Methodist minister, in
troduced the couple at a Fellowship of
Christian Athletes meeting in Mon
treat. The 2 families have kept in
contact through the years and Mrs.
Lotz stayed overnight in the Young
home for her talk in Griffin. Mr. Lo
tz encourages his wife. He was thrilled
when so many women patients com
plimented her Bible lessons.
The former All American basketball
* player at the University of North
Carolina is “very supportive of my
Bible study. He teaches a 10th grade
Sunday School class and is on the
national board of FCA. He also teaches
a Bible study course to some 200
athletes at the University in Chapel
Hill,” she said.
Mrs. Lotz explained that the Graham
family always had daily devotionals
and each of the 5 children was en
couraged at a very early age to have his
own private devotional time.
“I grew up seeing the reality of Christ
in the lives of my parents and grand
parents. .. What greater heritage can a
person pass on to his children than the
truth?” she asked.
Mrs. Lotz “raids daddy’s library” for
Bible comentaries. She uses 10. The
King James version is her favorite,
even though she reads others, including
“The Living Bible”.
“The thing I want more than
anything in the world is to serve the
Lord... What will be is you decision. .
.What you do determines your position
in heaven. . .When I meet the Lord I
want to be able to give him the fruits of
my labors for him.. .Your destiny for
eternity is conditioned on God’s
promises,” she said.
fortunate event.”
The CIA chief said the material does
not “present a complete picture of the
field of drug experimentation activity,
but does provide more detail than was
previously available to us.”
During hearings on CIA activities in
1975, the agency told the committee
that most documents on the “MK-
Ultra” tests, as they were known, had
been destroyed.
Inouye and other committee mem
bers were reluctant to comment on the
new evidence. But one source said the
chairman’s eagerness to proceed with
the hearing was an indication of his
concern.
At the White House, President Carter
said he believed the new material was
“fairly serious.”
Communities suffer
as wells run dry
By The Associated Press
Communities at opposite ends of the
state experienced critical water
shortages Friday as wells in Cloudland
in northwest Georgia began to go dry
and the town water pump broke in
coastal Thunderbolt.
Both problems were attributed to the
statewide drought.
Civil defense workers were called to
help the 300 residents of Cloudland,
which officials said has practically run
out of water.
“We’ve got a problem,” Chattooga
County Commissioner Wayne “Pete”
Denson said in Summerville Friday.
“The water district, the unincorporated
areas in the county, are running out of
water.”
The well which supplies water to that
area of the county “is about to go dry,”
he said.
Civil defense workers began hauling
water from the Summerville well to the
Cloudland reservoir in fire engines Fri
day. The National Guard donated a
tank truck to help.
“We haven’t run out completely, but
what we have is sometimes muddy,”
Mrs. Robbie Green said. “We have to
haul our laundry down to town to wash
it. My son has a well and I get drinking
water from him. A lot of people around
here are having to boil water before
they can cook or drink it.”
In Thunderbolt, the mail well pump
was damaged extensively by a severe
drop in the water table from which the
town’s well draws its water. The
drought was blamed for the problem.
Water service was restored tem
porarily after a seafood company
allowed the town to tie its water system
into three wells owned by the firm.
But Mayor Hal Lane asked residents
to conserve water until the town could
secure funds to repair the pump.
Thunderbolt residents were without
water for about three hours early
Friday while the lines were being tied
to the private wells.
County officials said residents have
been able to get some water, but ex
tremely low pressure limited the
supply.
A day at the
White House
Editor Quimby Melton will
report in Monday’s Griffin
Daily News on the day he spent
this week at a news briefing at
The White House.
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Friendship force returns
ATLANTA — Members of the first Friendship Force, a
group of unofficial ambassadors initiated by President
Carter, return from their trip to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,
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Rural areas in Floyd County near
Rome also were running out of water.
Officials have been installing an ad
ditional water main in some areas of
North Koreans return
survivor, 3 bodies
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) - North
Korea released to U.S. authorities
today the surviving copilot and the
bodies of three crewmen killed when
their helicopter was shot down over
Communist territory last Thursday.
CWO Glenn S. Schwanke, 28, of
Spring Green, Wis., looked shaken and
tired but walked unaided across the
demarcation line at the truce village of
Panmunjom after the bodies of his
three comrades were received by U.S.
Army Col. Terrence McClain.
The Pentagon has identified the three
dead crewmen as pilot CWO Joseph A.
Miles, 26, of Washington, Ind., Sgt.
Robert C. Haynes, 29, of Anniston, Ala.,
and Sgt. Ron Wells, 22, of El Paso, Tex.
Schwanke and the coffins were taken
in ambulances to the advance camp of
the U.S.-led United Nations Command,
just south of Panmunjom, to be flown
by helicopter to a U.S. Army hospital in
Seoul.
North Korean broadcasts had
reported Schwanke was wounded but he
walked unassisted to waiting U.S. of
ficials after his release today.
President Carter welcomed the
release after being told about it at
Camp David, Md. But his spokesman
also said Carter “deplored the loss of
life and the excessive reaction to an
unarmed and inadvertent intrusion.”
U.S. Rear Adm. Warren C. Ham,
representative of the U.N. Command,
said in a statement it “is encouraging
that the matter was handled by both
sides in a matter consistent with the
armistice agreement.”
The shooting down of the CH47
Chinook helicopter had threatened new
confronations along the demilitarized
zone separating the two Koreas. But
both sides used restraint in handling the
incident.
At a meeting of U.S. and North
Korean negotiators on the Military
Armistice Commission, the Com
munists announced they had decided to
settle the incident “leniently” to avoid
a “complicated situation.”
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA-
Fair and contimied hot through Sunday
with highs 94 to 98. Fair and warm
tonight with lows in the low to mid 70s.
England. Arriving early Saturday morning, over eight
hours late due to aircraft troubles, the group was met by
family and friends. (AP)
the county to supply additional water,
but a spokesman in the commissioner’s
office said it wouldn’t be ready until
today or Sunday.
In five previous incidents involving
U.S. military aircraft, North Korea
often waited weeks to announce
whether there were survivors and the
release of bodies or survivors took from
six days to one year.
Observers have said the Communists
apparently sought to avoid playing into
the hands of opponents of Carter’s plans
to withdraw 33,000 ground troops from
Korea.
The release was scheduled for 7 p.m.
but was delayed by more than 30
minutes after the Communist side
asked Col. McClain to change wording
in the receipt from “military aircraft”
to “helicopter.”
North Korean Col. Choi Wonchul also
asked McClain to confirm the identities
of the three bodies. Several soldiers
from the helicopter crew’s 19th Avia
tion Co., to which the downed helicopter
was assigned, helped McClain with the
identification.
An eight-man U.N. honor guard
carried the coffins one by one and
handed them over to an American
honor guard on the demarcation line.
U.S. flags were draped over the coffins
and they were placed in two waiting
ambulances.
The release followed long negotiatins
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People
...and things
Small boys having rough time
keeping feet on the ground as he crosses
shopping center parking lot barefooted.
Mother with two small children
shopping in local grocery store with one
child in seat on buggy and the other
riding underneath basket.
Man with bundle of fishing poles
sticking out of car window on Taylor
street, apparently headed home from
favorite fishing spot.
