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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1977)
// FREE V\ ((PAIKINt) j tqqay P I THE DM" Why do your palms wrinkle? By L. M. BOYD Q. “How come only the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet wrinkle when they’re in the water too long?" A. Because there aren’t any fat glans therein. Elsewhere under the skin those fat glans lubricate the tissue so as to repel water instead of soaking it up. Q. “What kind of special wood is needed in the making of pianos?” A. That’s up to the maker. It’s not like a violin, that piano. The tone doesn’t depend on the kind of wood. So the wood is picked for cabinet looks, mostly. Q. “How can the capital city of Albany, N.Y. have high and low tides when it’s 150 miles inland?" A. Because so much of the Hudson River lies below sea level. Albany’s tides on that river run 4M> feet. Were you aware that Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, was a war correspondent in the South Pacific during World War II? Albert Del Masso of Oakland, Calif., says he’s seen some African natives so hungry for protein that they answered drum calls to converge on an 8-ton elephant, cut it up in less than an hour, and eat it entirely in one night. A restaurant cashier of lengthy experience says women, unlike men, never forget to pick up their change after they pay the check. Any Virginian will bell you that the name Roanoke came from an Indian word meaning “shell money.” L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086 Copyright 1977 L. M. 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On this date: In 1777, the Polish aristocrat, Count Casimir Pulaski, was commissioned a major general in the American Revolutionary Army. In 1789, the U. S. Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to the Department of State. In 1914, during World War I, German New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago surren dered to the British. In 1938, British Prime Minis ter Neville Chamberlain flew to Germany to try to mediate a German-Czechoslovak dispute. In 1942, in World War 11, Ger man armies attacked the Soviet city of Stalingrad. Q&A 1. What Latin American capital city was discovered by Christopher Columbus? 2. The tallest California Sycamore tree in the United States, recorded by the American Forestry Associa tion at 116 feet, may be found in fa) Washington State (b) California (c) Michigan 3. Detroit’s first automobile factory was built in 1899 by (a) R.E. Olds (b) Henry Ford (c) Charles Duryea ANSWERS (B) E <q) l E6H ‘PI J °M M3N aqi 0) 38bAoa puooas siq uo ‘ooiH oi-ianj uenf ues I Thoughts “Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house. With him 1 speak mouth to mouth, clear ly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” — Numbers 12:7,8. Subscriptions Delivered by carrier or by mail in the counties of Spalding, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and Bike, and to military personnel and students from Griffin: 62 cents per week, $2.68 per month, 88.04 for three months, $16.07 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. Page 4 —Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 15, 1977 Viewpoint Faimess to all The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair to everyone, Tlie editor’s opinions are confined to this page, and its columns are Generations have been bom and reached adulthood in Griffin since its City Com mission approved parking meters on second and final reading of the ordinance April 8, 1947. (Mrs. Frances Bolton of City Hall kindly looked the date up for us, for which thank you, m’am.) The expressed purpose at the time was “traffic control”, not revenue. Well, many Public drunks Griffin’s city government at least is trying a new approach to an old problem. It is leading the state in municipal treatment of alcoholic drunks now con sidered ill instead of criminals. This will not affect as many people directly as the trial of free parking, but it will affect them more directly. Everyone must keep in mind that it does There are so many investigative trips (i.e., junkets) by congressmen and so many investigative committees by legislators that an editor is apt to wonder when a committee will be set up to in vestigate the investigations. Nevertheless, sometimes they do ac complish something. One which we wish special success on the state level is a My Answer Music is a gift DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I am very musical and like all kinds of music. Now that I am a Christian, I wonder if it is a sin for me to listen to music other than Gospel?-D. G. DEAR D. G.: I believe music is one of God’s gifts to man, and there is certainly nothing in the Bible that forbids enjoying many kinds of music. Some music is religious because of the words attached to it, but I think you would find that much of the world’s greatest music has been written by men who were believers and wrote their music to the glorv of God. Bill > Graham Free at last Correction The other day an editorial incorrectly stated Griffin High School’s enrollment. The correct figure as of last Friday was 1,960 which makes Griffin High the largest three-year high school in Georgia. Shoplifting open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are published every Wednesday. Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224. a ticket, many an anger, many a coin and many a fine have passed through Griffin since then. But times have changed and now more than 30 years later parking in Griffin is free at last. It will continue so through this year on a trial basis. In the meantime lots of people already have tried it. And they like it. not relieve anyone of criminal liability for criminal acts committed while drunk. Example: driving a car while under the influence of alcohol remains a crime. As we understand it, the new plan is an effort to help alcoholics in some way other than requiring them to cut bushes at the cemetery while lodged at City Jail. We hope it succeeds. Georgia Senate grqup looking into shoplifting. This thievery costs everybody who is honest because the price of everything else has to make up the losses. Here in Griffin merchants and sales people tell us that shoplifting has become a serious problem. So it is a local as well as a state and national problem and needs attention. There are two cautions, however. It may be that some types of music should be avoided because they will hinder your spiritual growth. For example, the words to some songs (particularly popular ones) often present ideas that are directly op posed to the Christian faith. Even if you enjoy the music, I don’t think it would be helpful to saturate your mind with the lyrics. In addition, some types of music may bring to your mind wrong associations from your past, and should therefore be avoided. You should remember, too, your witness to others and the associations they may call to mind through certain forms of music. Remember Paul’s advice: “whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things’’ (Philippians 4:8). George and Fred and Evelyn By BILL KNIGHT Executive Editor Griffin Music Man George Watkins is not one to look back —for very long that is. He’s too busy with the present and planning the future. The other day he permitted himself the luxury of a brief glance at the past. NBC in New York City announced it had ended its tours of studios'in its building in that city. They were an institution of many years and George remembered them well. He used to be a tour guide. As a young man in that job, he met many of the nation’s famous people in sports and show business. He took them on tours of the studios when radio was in its heyday. Among them were Yankee baseball great Lou Gehrig, Queen Victoria of Spain, the president of the American League who was in town for the World Series, and many others. Incidentally, William Harridge, the American League boss, was so impressed with George he sent him a near front row seat ticket to the world series game the next day. George went but pulled for the Giants in the National League because one of the players on that National League power was a fellow Oklahoman who lived about 12 miles from the town where George was bom. While he was a tour guide, George met Evelyn McKibben, a Miss Griffin beauty queen who had come to the big city to study. She worked, too, as secretary of a nationwide booking agency for entertainers. She was looking for a show business acquaintance one day at NBC and was told he was “in there with George.” Now Evelyn thought it was another George. But it turned out to be George Watkins, an Oklahoman who, too, had been lured by the big city lights. George had heard about Evelyn McKibben. He heard she was a charming Southern girl who knew how to cook grits. George liked her grits, and from that chance meeting in the studio that day, romance flourished. The two were married in the famous “Little Church Around The Comer” where many famous show business people have said their “I do’s.” Watkins recalled that the late comedian Fred Allen had announced his upcoming wedding to Evelyn during a nationwide broadcast. George was with a singing group appearing on the Allen show. Allen called him to the mike before they sang and asked him about the wedding. George confirmed that he was about to marry a Georgia girl. Allen quipped if he had known earlier he would have brought some rice from a Chinese restaurant where he had been to toss at George and his bride after the ceremony. The show was recorded and George got a copy of it. He pulled the record out the other day and played his con versation with Fred Allen. “That was in 1938. That record will be 40 years old next year,” Watkins said. Clippings and show business memorabilia fill at least 3 scrapbooks of those and other days for the Watkins. When World War II came, he was with an aircraft firm and came to Marietta to work at the Bell plant. He bought a farm near Griffin but realized he was a musician and not a farmer. He came upon a job as choir director for the First Methodist Church in Griffin. This opened the door to George’s lifetime calling. He’s been in church music work since. Once he was music director at St. George’s Episcopal Church here. The Rev. Byron Wilkinson, former First Baptist pastor in Griffin, called him to Richmond, Va., to be church music director. There he stayed until returning to Griffin more than a year ago. George closed his scrapbooks and tucked away the Fred Allen record. They would have to wait for another day. Moments before, he had been fooling around with a violin. “I’m trying to get more people in Griffin interested in the instrument. I can’t play well myself but I would like to encourage others,” he said. He put the violin away then hurried off to a church meeting where he was to sing a hymn — something a little different from “Dipsy-Doodle” with which he had favored the nation while Fred Allen listened. n jgssßmstji t I MfWfAi WW I D 1 " _ u I , DV N£» »c HI Sen US PM On "This should cure the symptoms from the prescription I gave you to cure effects of the FIRST prescription!” GRIFFIN DAILY^NEWS Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves BiH Knight General Manager Executive Editor Iddms an «atl. (Sabsenptioas a rap at Iddros Fom 3579) to 7 0. Draw M. 3*224. Kaatbar at Tba Associated 7ms. Tba Associated 7ms is aaMM asclosiralj to tko rcpoWrcatioa nfiits ol *1 local am caataiaod bania. 7wbHs3ted Dart,, heart Sander, Jaa. 1, Jot* 4. 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