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Berry's World —
© 1977 by NEA. Inc
“Sorry, Harry baby, I just don't see 'the Bert
Lance affair making a dynamite TV series’..."
Vests come back
among humorous
Note the men’s vest continues to make a strong
comeback. The men who wear vests tend to be known for a
sense of humor. But it wasn’t always so. When vests were
on the way out around the start of World War 11, the
wearers of same were usually identified as serious
citizens unresponsive to quick wit. Likewise, the sober
businessmen who endured suspenders. And those dear
souls who carried umbrellas. If our Chief Prognostigator
is right, you can expect suspenders and umbrellas to
make combacks, too, like vests, among the more
humorous.
The botanists will tell you any plant that develops from
a flower and has seeds is a fruit. Thus, cucumbers and
squash are fruits, no? Likewise beans and peas.
Did I mention it takes a 250,000-ton supertanker 2 miles
to stop?
PAPERWORK
Q. “What percentage of the paperwork filed in the
typical office is ever seen again by anybody?”
A. than 5 percent, if the statistics of a decade ago
are still valid. No recent studies prove the point. But
somewhat elderly reports also indicate that less than 1
percent of that paperwork is ever seen again 3 days after
it’s filed.
Q. "Isn't the reproduction cycle of the coconut palm
identical to that of the human female?”
A. Not quite. The palm is capable of bearing offspring at
8 years, usually does so at 13, continues until 60 or
thereabouts, then survives to 80 or 90.
Q. “How many people in this country now are being kept
alive on organs donated by relatives and other living
dogooders?”
A. About 20,000. And that doesn’t cover the 40,000
staying alive with organs from cadavers.
NERVOUS?
Why take offense if somebody describes you as “ner
vous”? In the big book at hand, the first definition of
nervous is “sinewy, strong.” The second, “marked by
strength of thought feeling or style.” The third, having to
do with “neurons.” The fourth, having to do with “ner
ves.” True, you get to “jumpy” in the fifth definition. But
if you can go through the first 4 to prove you’re sinewy and
strong in thought, feeling and style, what’s it matter if
you’re also a little jumpy?”
Even though transsexual surgery is fairly new, the
public switch of a person from one sex to the other dates
all the way back to old Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty Queen
Hatshepsut. She officially decreed herself a man so she
could run the whole show as pharaoh.
L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086
Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, Septem
ber 24th, the 267th day of 1977.
There are 98 days left in the
year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1955, President
Dwight Eisenhower suffered a
heart attack while on vacation
in Denver, Colorado.
On this date:
In 1780, in the American Rev
olution, Benedict Arnold es
caped to a British ship after at
tempting to betray the West
Point fortifications on the Hud
son River.
In 1869, there was panic on
Wall Street after an attempt by
financier Jay Gould and James
Fisk to corner the gold market.
The day became known as
Black Friday.
In 1934, Babe Ruth made his
farewell appearance as a regu
lar player with the New York
Yankees.
In 1941, in World War 11, Al
lied governments pledged adhe
rence to the Atlantic Charter.
In 1963, the U.S. Senate rati
fied a treaty with Britain and
the Soviet Union limiting nucle
ar tests.
In 1971, Britain expelled 90
Soviets for espionage activities.
Ten years ago: Rescue craft
were sweeping the rough waters
of Lake Michigan in search of
victims of a sudden squall that
pounded hundreds of fishing
boats and left at least six people
dead.
Five years ago: A privately
owned Sabre jet crashed into an
ice cream parlor in Sacra
mento, California and killed 22
people.
Q&A
1. The capital of Nevada is (a)
Carson City (b) Reno (c) Las
Vegas
2. Which is a longer distance,
one statue mile (5,280 feet),
or one International Nautical
Mile?
3. The Vernal Equinox is the
first day of autumn. True-
False.
ANSWERS
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Thoughts
“For truly my words are
not false; one who is perfect
in knowledge is with you.” —
Job 36:4.
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—Griffin Daily News Saturday, September 24, 1977
The Griffin Daily News' policy is to be fair
to everyone. The editor’s opinions are
confined to this page, and its columns are
More funds needed
A fact-finding team was in Griffin this
week to survey the special education
programs of the Griffin-Spalding County
School System. The team was impressed
with what it saw.
Special education classes include those
for children who are handicapped, those
with learning disabilities, kindergarten
classes those with hearing impairments,
speech impairments and gifted children.
The Griffin-Spalding County School
System was a pioneer in the special
education field and continues to pioneer.
In some instances, converted storage
space and broom closets are being used in
the special education program. This
It’s autumn and time for the leaves to
begin changing color and the temperature
to begin dropping in the mornings.
It also is a time when outdoor activity
begins to slow down for some people. One
of the prime participation seasons is just
beginning for the folk at the Griffin-
Spalding Recreation Department.
According to Henry Sims, program
director, more people are participating in
the department’s football program this
year than ever before. This program not
only includes the players, but the
cheerleaders, volunteer coaches and
volunteers who work with the cheerleader
program.
The department also is getting ready to
kick off a new soccer league. This will
Christ came to all races
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I heard you say
once that Jesus was not a white man but
had olive skin. However, recently I saw a
television show in which Jesus was
represented as having blue eyes. Wouldn’t
this make him one of the white race?-W.
M. A.
DEAR W. M. A.: I do not know what
television show you saw, but at this point,
at least, it was not an accurate portrayal of
Jesus. If you look closely at the
genealogies of Jesus given in Matthew 1
and Luke 3, you will see that they both
trace the ancestry of Jesus directly back to
Abraham, the founder of the Jewish race.
While the Bible does not tell us what Jesus
looked like, there is every reason to
Billy
Graham
Viewpoint
Fairness to all
Cheated
The government has announced that it is
changing the formula used to determine
gasoline mileage ratings for new
automobiles so they will be more realistic.
So far, figures have looked good for the
automakers and have looked good to the
public in advertising, but have been
unrealistic to the automobile buyer. It is
impossible for the buyer to get the EPA
estimates in normal driving.
Maybe the public will not feel cheated on
gasoline mileage. If the formula is
changed to be more realistic.
Action time
My Answer
open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
shouldnotbe. There are notenough teachers
to handle the increasing number of
students in special education programs.
This also should not be. There are not
enough funds for new programs and this
should not be.
The group who visited Griffin will be
making a report to the Governor and the
General Assembly in hopes of getting
more funding for special education
facilities, teachers and programs.
We encourage members of the General
Assembly to listen closely to the proposals
and act favorably for the benefit of
children in the Griffin-Spalding system
and throughout the state.
involve even more people, children and
adults.
Sims says that if the football program
and other programs continue to grow at
the present rate, the department is going
to be out of space. The space available
already is cramped.
Now is the time for the City of Griffin
and Spalding County to begin looking for
additional land and facilities for
recreation. The Griffin-Spalding County
recreation program has served as a model
for others in the past.
Action should be taken not only to keep
the program at the top, but also to provide
adequate facilities for the youth and adults
in the community.
believe that He resembled others of His
race at that time.
The important thing to remember,
however, is that Jesus Christ came to save
men of all races, and that in God’s eyes
there can be no such thing as racial bigotry
or pride. This is a lesson that is hard for
some to learn. Jesus rebuked His disciples
because they wanted to destroy the
Samaritans, who were members of
another race (see Luke 9:51-56).
When Peter first witnessed to people of
another race, he exclaimed, “Os a truth I
perceive that God is no respecter of per
sons” (Acts 10:34). Paul declared, “In this
new life one’s nationality or race or
education or social position is unim
portant; such things mean nothing.
Whether a person has Christ is what
matters, and he is equally available to all”
(Colossians 3:11, Living Bible).
If there is racial prejudice within us it
needs to be confessed before God, and we
need to ask Him for love for those who are
outwardly different from us. After all,
down inside we know that all men need
Christ and His forgiveness, and by faith in
Him they can come to Him and be made
sons of God.
A word or two
for ignorance
BY GERARD C. McLAURIN
News Staff Executive
Modern man is so busy priding himself for his great
strides in technology and his advanced knowledge of the
universe that little thought is ever given to the virtues of
ignorance.
The modem technology we all enjoy is really a subject
at which to marvel. That is, if we can ever find the time to
stop enjoying it long enough to sit and think about it.
The automobile, jet plane, dishwasher, telephone,
television, etc. have all changed our life styles and opened
new horizons for mankind. But what about the old
horizons?
Modem physicians perform miracles daily that man
only dreamed before, never thinking someday his dreams
would be reality. The list of good things is unending with
more being added each day. But what about the old things
we sacrifice for the new?
As man closes in on the secrets of the universe, the
technology he uses is closing in on his old freedoms and
pleasures, like tobacco. For centuries man has enjoyed
the golden leaf, sniffing it, chewing it, burning it, smoking
it, smelling it, tasting it, puffing it and spitting it. Now,
thanks to medical advances, man fears it as a killer, or
should.
Remember when we used to arise in the morning and
step out into the fresh air to take a deep breath? Today, in
some areas, the result of that simple act could be lung
cancer, emphysema or some other lung disorder.
In years gone by, a person drinking from an open
stream was tabled the outdoors type. Today such a person
would be labeled a fool.
We have just begun to learn the food we eat, which is
packaged so prettily and looks so tasty, may be killing us.
There was a time when a “sugar tooth” victim could sit
down and really enjoy a chocolate sundae with nuts and
whipped cream crowned with a cherry. Today the same
person, more knowledgable, must suffer the guilt of
damaging his body with sugar and a number of other
terrible, but tasty items.
People with weight problems used to take refuge in
artificially sweetened foods. Now, even those have been
found unhealthy, at least for rodents.
The list of pleasures man once enjoyed that have since
been banned by the achievements of modem man, is
almost as long as the list of good things they have
provided.
We enjoyed all those unhealthy things because we didn’t
know better. Ignorance made it possible for us to enjoy
them. I wonder how many of the pleasures we enjoy
today, out of ignorance, will be labeled unhealthy
tomorrow?
Advanced technology and continuous questioning,
exploring, experimenting and learning, obviously,
produce great advantages for man, the good advantages
far out-weighing the bad. The best side of human nature is
its thirst for knowledge.
But wouldn’t it be nice to let our hair down, sit back,
feign ignorance, and enjoy a few of the pleasures that our
new knowledge has taken away?
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