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Berry’s World © 1977 by HE A. Inc _ "Do you have any scents that' will discourage dogs from chasing a jogger?" Love and war in age differences By L, M. BOYD Item No. 863A in our Love and War man’s file on matrimonial happiness reads: “If the husband is more than 10 years older than the wife, odds run 4 to 1 against wedded bliss. If the wife is more than 5 years older than the husband, odds run 9 to 1 against a successful marriage. But if the ages of the husband and wife are within 4 years of each other, it makes little difference who’s older.” One the beaches of San Salvadore are 3 widely separated monuments which each purport to mark the precise spot where Christopher Columbus first set foot on the land of the New World. Some medical researchers think they could turn marijuana into a highly effective headache remedy, if the law would only let them try. The electric eel is a distant cousin of the catfish, please note. BERLIN Q. “Who made the World War II decision to stop the Allied forces at the Elbe River in Germany and let Josef Stalin’s Soviet troops take Berlin?” A. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Declassified documents show he unwittingly gave Stalin the go-ahead in a strategy message. Historians now know it wasn’t a political decision from Washington, D. C. as many once believed. Q. “What’s the difference between ‘thoroughbred,’ ‘purebred’ and ‘pureblood’?” A. Thoroughbred horses, purebred dogs and pureblood cows, that’s the way the words are used, according to our Language man. Otherwise, they all mean the same: in each case, bred from parents of the same recognized breed. KICK THE BUCKET More than one curious customer has asked why we came to use “kick the bucket” as a synonym for dying. Numerous suicides once stood on buckets to get the necessary altitude to hang themselves. After adjusting the nooses and tightening the ropes over tree limbs, rafters or whatever, they kicked those buckets out of the way. The master bathroom on the yacht of the late Aristotle Onassis had a one-way mirror for its door so Mr. Onassis from the inside could see everything in the master bedroom. Why he installed such a gimmick was never explained. Any Seasoned Citizen over the age of 65 who has lived in Alaska for at least 25 years is entitled to a state pension of SIOO a month. L. M. Boyd, Box 681 Weatherford, TX 76086 Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd I*l I ■ “■ /"f is & —I I '■’g J JA £T" AT tOj H ® '»^#»**.»c.rm nag US.PM on. <S "We finally owe less than SI,OOO to the great grandchildren of the people we bought the house from!" GRIFFIN Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves Bill Knight General Manager Executive Editor AMrm «H (SatecnptMs ChMp 1 Mtns fss 3579) to P.O. Draw M. 39224 Into to TW AssocuM Prut. The Associated Press b eetittod tactaMtoy to the repvhtoctom ngMs to alt local news cowtaNtod hotoNt Ju MtaM M). S»MW. I*. 1. M, «. Tliihem t OrahMK M Ml Ud SMw Slrwt SnffM. U XU23, k, M” Cental Skml Oat tat* fai at Mk u. SathC* l«Ca* Today By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 1977. There are 102 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On this date in 1938, a hurricane swept over parts of New Jersey, New York and New England, taking nearly 700 lives. On this date: In 480 8.C., the Greeks defeated the Persians in the naval Battle of Salamis in the Aegean Sea. In 1519, the Portuguese na vigator, Ferdinand Magellan, set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Indies, and one of his ships cir cled the world. In 1850, Congress voted to ban slave trading in the District of Columbia. In 1870, national unification of Italy was achieved. In 1881, Chester Arthur took the oath as the 21st president of the United States after the death of President James Gar field. In 1973, the British-French supersonic airliner, Concorde, made its first landing in the U.S. — at the dedication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Inernational Airport. Ten years ago: The British luxury liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, was launched. Five years ago: A Federal judge allowed the Democratic Party to continue a $3 million damage suit in connection with the Watergate bugging, and to name as a defendant President Richard Nixon’s chief fund-rai ser, Maurice Stans. Q&A 1. List the planets of the solar system in order from the Sun. 2. There are (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner. 3. The Canadian province that separates Alaska from the 48 contiguous United States is (a) the Yukon (b) British Columbia (c) Alberta ANSWERS <q) £ (p) z owid ‘aunjdaN ‘snueaQ ‘ujnjes 'J9)idnf ‘ipjeg Thoughts “O death, where is thy vic tory? O death, where is thy sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - I Cor. 15:55, 56, 57. Subscriptions o r </ 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, $8.04 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 Tuesday, September 20, 1977 Viewpoint Fairness to all The Griffin Daily News* policy is to be fair to everyone. The editor’s opinions are confined to this page, and its columns are Ramps at curbs The other day in downtown Griffin a man in a wheelchair lowered it from the curb, crossed a street in compliance with the traffic signal at Hill and Solomon and approached the curb on the far side. How was he to get up it? An onlooker started to help him but he turned his chair backwards, pulled upward with bulging Griffin’s Bear Cubs Last week was a bad one for Griffin’s Bears who hibernated 0-3 against the Newton County varsity in Covington. But it was a good one for the Bear Cubs the day before when they beat the Newton B team 42 to 0. What’s more, it was the Thousands of us There are more than 42,000 of us Spalding Countians. State officials estimate the figure at 42,200 and the population of Georgia above the five million mark with an increase of 82,000 in a year. These are statistice, but they represent people. They are people bom, people to go to school, people to marry, people to die. As our numbers increase they are people to bring opportunities, people to contribute good things to society. And a few are Last of the prophets DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I find John the Baptist fascinating. Were there any prophets after John?-M. I. T. DEAR M. I. T.: John the Baptist was the last of the prophets, as Jesus makes clear in Luke 16:16: “The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached. . .” Actually there had not been any prophets for more than 400 years, after Malachi in the Old Testament. Malachi himself had foretold the coming of a Billy Graham Fire away! In order to inform all voters as fully as possible, the Griffin Daily News will publish a question and answer column about the school bond referendum. Questions will be answered by school authorities and the column will appear on Fridays starting Sept. 30. They should be submitted to Education ’77 which is the group advocating the issue in care of P. O. Box 711, Griffin. Although the advocates of the issue are collecting the questions, we have been assured that school officials will answer them to the best of their ability factually. They are limited by no means to “friend ly” questions. So fire away. My Answer wHI i JWwyjwiMSfr > open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are published every Wednesday. Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224. biceps and managed to get onto the sidewalk, turn around and proceed upon his way. Not every person confined to a wheelchair has the strength to do that and it made the onlooker wonder what it would take for the City of Griffin to provide ramps at downtown curbs. Griffin Bees 19th straight victory. Nobody seems to keep track of Bee team ratings, but we rank the Cubs No. 1 and congratulate them on their long string of triumphs. people whose contributions will be mostly negative. Society has to make provision for them. All in all, there is no standing still; either we grow and move up or we dwindle and slip back. This growth is not necessarily good in itself, it does provide opportunities for good. Generally speaking Spalding and Griffin are meeting the problems of growth well and are fortunate not to have to contend with the far worse problems of decline. prophet like Elijah just before the Messian would come, “before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Malachi 4:5). Jeuss identified John as that prophet (see Matthew 11:13-14). One of the most important things to realize is that Jesus is not just another prophet, as some people have claimed. Even in Jesus’ own day some people saw Him as a prophet; when Jesus asked His disciples who men said He was , they replied, “Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets” (Mat thew 16:14). But He is greater than any of the prophets. He is “the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). That is why Jesus Christ is not only worthy of our admiration, but of our worship and our service. That is why He, and He alone, can take away our sins. As John himself, said, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). The tomahawk falls on Cats BY JAMES STEWART News Executive Football is in the air and now that some of the favorites have been established, it becomes the time for upsets. One of those upsets was two Friday nights ago when the Murray County Indians scalped arch-rival Dalton, 9-0, knocking Dalton off its Number 1 rating in AA. Coach Bill Chappell’s Dalton Catamounts had been impressive the previous week in their meeting with Rossville. Dalton had held Rossville out of the end zone in posting a 21-0 victory. Many Griffin fans will remember the powerhouse teams Rossville produced several years ago. Rossville teams were tough then and they still are. Any team that defeats Rossville deserves every yard it gains. Those same Griffin fans will remember the powerful teams they played in Dalton. There again, Dalton did not yield yardage. If the opponent got anything, they had to take it. But, Murray County. Griffin has never played Murray County and had no reason to play the team in a county of 13,500 people. Dalton played a tough schedule that included Murray County each year. Year after year, Dalton was assured of winning the Murray County game, although there was a couple of close calls through the years. The Indians apparently were up for the Catamounts this year and broke the 26-year jinks Dalton had held over them. Also with the loss went Dalton’s possibilities of a perfect season and the team’s number one rating. Dalton immediately dropped 7th in the AP ratings. Coach Chappell took the blame for the loss, saying that he apparently had not prepared his team well enough for the Murray County encounter. He also stated that his Catamounts did not look like the same team that played Rossville the week before. Many teams have a couple of wins under their belts now and players and coaches get the feeling they are the king of the mountain. It is that time of the year for some team to come along and knock them from their place among the elite. Overconfidence is one of the terms coaches like to use when their team falls to some lowly contender. That’s part of the case. The other part is that the so-called lowly teams may not be as weak as they seem. There are some powerful teams in classes AA, A and B. Not all of the power is in AAA. Chappell took the blame for his team’s loss to Murray County. This also means he is taking the blame for his team being knocked from the No. 1 spot in AA. He failed and his team failed. Too many coaches are quick to blame the mistakes of their players for their own inadequacies. There are times, however, when the mistakes of players make a good coaching job look bad. Here, the blame should be placed on the players. The players can’t do it by themselves and the coaches can’t take the full load. Blame must be shared for most losses. As the season grows older, more and more of the small teams will be gaining valuable experience and will be searching for ego boosters. They love nothing better than upsetting the championship plans of one of the powerhouse teams. Teams have to be prepared and ready for each op ponent. There cannot be any weak spots. If there are, the opponents will find them. 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