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"'$ V* v. jjj II U m W ■ jm pi mm j <■**► "* "” » 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.” DAILY^NEWS 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. %■ \ nlfl» M ' 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, Vol. 105 No. 167 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 (Continued on page 2) 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.
