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"Ws decided to rough it this summer, so we
brought the BLACK AND WHITE TV!
What’s distinctive
in this sentence?
ByL. M.BOYD
Our Language man requests you figure out what’s
distinctive about this sentence: “At best, Carl denies ever
feeling guilt; he is just keeping letters my niece ordered
published quite recently; such tactics undermine values
while 'xtinguishing youthful zeal.” All right, you’ve got it:
The words are in alphabetical order.
No end to the number of words that begin and end with
the same 2 letters, but how many words that begin and end
with the same three letters occur to you? Start with un
derground and ionization.
When you send freight by car, it’s called a shipment, but
when you send it by ship, it’s called cargo. Why this odd
difference?
Quick, rearrange “priest” to form five new words!
Nothing to it! Stripe. Sprite, Tripes, Esprite, Ripest.
GOLD AND BOWLING
Q. “Which is the more likely, statistically—the making
of a hole-in-one in golf or the rolling of 12 consecutive
strikes in bowling?”
A. The hole-in-one is far more likely. Odds against it,
about 30,000 to one. Odds against a perfect bowling game,
about 290,000 to one.
Q. “Is there any sizable group of Christians in Egypt?”
A. Surely. The Copts, descendents of the ancient
Egyptians. About 1,500,000 of them. They’ve been
Christians since about A. D. 100.
Q. “What’s the highest active volcano in the world?”
A. Cotopaxi in Ecuador. At 19,600 feet. Pretty little
thing. Almost a perfect show ringed cone.
Q. “Do whales get barnacles?”
A. Some do. Doesn’t hurt them. Except to slow them
down a little. ’
SOLAR ENERGY
An electric kitchen with a large line of cooking ap
pliances was put on display at the World Columbia ]
Exposition at Chicago in 1893. But it took another half
century for the electric kitchen to get more than a toehold.
Room air conditioners went on the market in 1932. But it
wasn’t until after World War II that they became popular.
And the time gap between early TV and its eventual boom
was just about the same as the gap between early CB
radio and its eventual boom, approximately 20 years. Do
you suppose it’ll take 20 years to put solar energy into
most homes hereabouts? Imagine so.
An authority on color contends the most powerful
combination a girl can wear to attract the eyes of men is
red with orange.
Don’t forget, alligators can close their ears tightly just
as camels can close their noses tightly.
L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086
Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Aug. 18,
the 230th day of 1977. There are
135 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1587, Virginia
Dare was bom at Roanoke
Island, N.C. She was the first
child bom in America of Eng
lish parents.
On this date:
In 1708, British forces cap
tured the Mediterranean island
of Sardinia.
In 1870, Western Australia
was granted representative
government.
In 1914, President Woodrow
Wilson proclaimed American
neutrality in World War I.
In 1963, James Meredith be
came the first Black to be
graduated from the University
of Mississippi.
In 1970, the socialist Black
teacher, Angela Davis, was
placed on the FBI list of 10
most-wanted fugitives.
In 1974, representatives of 130
nations met at the World Popu
lation Conference in Bucharest,
Romania.
Ten years ago: Pope Paul VI
issued sweeping orders reorga
nizing the administrative body
of the Catholic Church, the Ro
man Curia.
Five years ago: The U.S.
Senate approved partial con
version of the United States to
the metric system.
One year ago: President Ger
ald Ford won the presidential
nomination on the first ballot at
the Republican National Con
vention in Kansas City.
Q&A
1. Japan's national flag is a
red sun on a white field.
Which nation’s flag depicts a
red sun on a green field?
2. There are more Jews living
in New York City than in
Jerusalem. True-False.
3. There are less calories in
brown sugar than in
granulated white sugar. True-
False.
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Thoughts
For the poor always ye have
with you; but me ye have not
always. (John 12:8).
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•—Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18, 1977
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
This summer has been hot in several
respects. Temperatures have soared
above the norm of usual summers and
local bodies of government, not to be out
done by Mother Nature, have heated up
and let off some steam of their own.
Some folks would say the hot tem
peratures and temperaments are the
result of this past winter when tern-
Extension Service forestry and wildlife
specialists say no group of wildlife in
Georgia is as misunderstood, mistreated
and feared as snakes. They say the
reasons are varied. The Garden of Eden
story accounts for part of it. Some folks
fear snakes because they can’t distinguish
the few poisonous ones from the many that
are harmless. But the most likely reason,
according to the experts, is that “we know
Monthly report
Here is your monthly report on press
agent mail sent to us by various federal
boards, offices, bureaus and commissions
unwanted, unasked, and unused at your
and our taxpayer expense:
Your final destination
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Life seems so
hard sometimes that I really yearn to go to
heaven. Why doesn’t God just take us to
heaven after we become believers?-Y. C.
L.
DEAR Y. C. L.: God’s greatest promise
to Christians is that some day all the trials
and temptations of this life will be over,
and we will go to be with God throughout
all eternity.
“In his great mercy he has given us new
birth into a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
and into an inheritance that can never
perish, spoil, or fade-kept in heaven for
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Fairness to all
Hot stuff
An apology
Anybody can make a mistake. All of us
do. But it takes a pretty big person to
acknowledge one then apologize for it.
That is just what City Manager Roy
Inman did publicly this week after saying
earlier that merchants had not paid up for
offstreet parking.
Upon request he checked further back,
found the bill had been paid and said so
personally at a public meeting. Lesser
men would have announced the correction
through somebody else.
Already held in high esteem, his forth
right action added inches to his stature.
Snakes
Received this period, 82, pieces of mail,
last period 72. Leader this time as always:
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 26 of the
82.
My Answer
open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
peratures were way down and tem
peraments were wanned only at the side
of a roaring fire.
Whatever the case, as they usually do at
this time each year, many people are
longing for cooler temperatures. We
confidently speculate that at least as many
are longing for cooler temperaments.
so little about snakes that our ignorance
gives rise to fear.”
As for us, neither personally nor
editorially do we blaze with desire to get so
closely acquainted with snakes that we can
tell the poisonous from the harmless. In
our judgment, the best thing to do about
them is leave them alone and hope they
will do likewise.
you” (Peter 1:3-4, New • International
Version.) What a wonderful promise!
It is natural that you want to go to
heaven, for you know heaven is your final
destination, and “so shall we ever be with
the Lord” (I Thessalonians 4:17). This was
Paul’s desire too, as he says in Philippians
1:22-23: “I should find it very hard to make
a choice. I am tom in two directions-on
the one hand I long to leave this world and
live with Christ, and that is obviously the
best thing for me” (Phillips Translation).
But Paul also knew that God had a
purpose in keeping him on this earth, and
we should have the same conviction. God
wanted to use Paul in the lives of other
people, to help them grow in Christ. (See
Philippians 1:24-26).
You see, you came to Christ because
other people told you about Him, and you
never would have heard about Christ if
there had been no Christians around to tell
you. Pray that God will help you see the
opportunities He has for you and seek to be
used of Him during your time on earth.
Francina has
youth’s secret
By BILL KNIGHT
Executive Editor
Legend has it that Ponce de Leon came to the new world
and, among other things, looked for the Fountain of
Youth.
There’s a place near St. Augustine, Fla., that attracts
tourists because it’s supposed to be where the Spanish
explorer thought he had found the secret of staying young.
Francina Kennedy of Griffin has never been there.
She doesn’t need to go.
The gray haired lady stays young by being around
young people.
She’s been that way ever since we first met her.
In 1964, she came to Griffin as a professional Girl Scout
leader for the Pine Valley Council. She worked at the job
with the vigor of a person just beginning a new career.
But she wasn’t.
She was just coming from the dean’s staff of Converse
College in South Carolina. In that capacity, she set a fast
pace for the students around her and led many of them
each year on trips to Europe.
One of her stops always was in Austria where she and
her students visited the salt mines.
Mrs. Kennedy donned a leather suit with the rest and
slid down into the mines with her young charges.
It never frightened her to plunge into the deep darkness.
Many of her students would scream in horror as they slid
down.
Mrs. Kennedy recalls one trip into the mines. The girl
holding her shoulder as they slid down was so frightened
she bit into Mrs. Kennedy’s arm.
She retired from professional Girl Scout work in 1969 but
didn’t really retire.
“I’m busier now than ever,” she confided.
Soon after retirement, she was off on a skiing trip to the
North Carolina mountains. She tried her hand at the
winter sport and came home with her broken leg in a cast.
Bom in Sparta, Ga., the youngest of 9 children, Mrs.
Kennedy always has had a spirit of adventure.
As the daughter of a Methodist minister, the Rev.
Ellison Richards Cook, she moved around the state quite a
bit. One move sent the Cook family to Zebulon years ago
where her father was pastor of the church there.
(Her grandfather, the Rev. William Francis Cook, was
pastor of the Griffin First Methodist Church many years
ago.)
Mrs. Kennedy calls West Point, Ga., home because
that’s where she spent her high school days.
She graduated from old GSCW at Milledgeville, taught
school 3 years, then got married. She and her husband,
Willoughby T. Kennedy of Knoxville, lived in Greenville,
S. C., 17 years where they reared a son and daughter. Mr.
Kennedy since has died and both the Kennedy children are
married with families of their own.
Mrs. Kennedy admits she was something of a tom boy
with her husband. She went hunting and fishing with him
and played golf.
She’s never known anything but an active life with
young people so it’s not surprising she helped organize a
Sunday School class for college age students at the
beginning of this summer.
“I was a little hesitant because I didn’t know if my gray
hair would matter to them,” Mrs. Kennedy confided.
It didn’t.
Her students loved her instantly.
“I got good vibes,” she chuckled.
“I believe in young people.” .
“I’ll bet on them.”
And she wasn’t reaching for a dipper of water from the
Fountain of Youth when she said it. She didn’t need it.
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land
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architecture
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fantasy
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