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What’s an ideal
house setting?
ByL. M. BOYD
What’s your notion of the ideal setting for a house? The
Japanese traditionally believe a perfectly placed house
should face south, overlooking a pond, with a stream on its
east side, a long road on its west side and behind it, hills to
the north.
Our language man has filed the word
“arachibutyrophobia” which he regards as a latter-day
classic. It means “the fear of peanut butter sticking to the
roof of your mouth.”
The first free public school in Portland, Ore., was
established by a pioneer teacher who’s never had a school
building named after him: John Outhouse.
A pronouncement from the American Museum of
Natural History: “Pythons do not eat people as often as
people eat pythons.”
DON’T GIVE UP
Q. “What happened to the man who delivered that
memorable naval saying, ‘Don’t give up the ship’?”
A. James Lawrence was the fellow. In 1813, the British
fired on his ship “Chesapeake.” It sank. So saying, he
sank with it.
Q. “What’s a ‘dump nest’ for pheasants?”
A. Sometimes a whole batch of those pheasant hens put
as many as 20 or 30 eggs in a single nest. Mostly, none of
those eggs hatch.
Q. "What’s an ‘analog watch’?”
A. A watch with hands. The old-timey kind. As opposed
to a digital watch.
Q. “What was the name of the cat in that 1961 movie
‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’?”
A. “Cat.”
INDEPENDENT
Rommie and Marilee Bryan own the Our Town
restaurant in Waco, Texas. Evenings, they sing there,
backed by a piano man and drummer. Rommie has both a
business brain and a musical gift. As for Marilee, she has
everything. Nobody in the big time—on film, stage or
television—delivers country western any better than
these two. They’re trained, tuned, timed, talented and
terrific. But they choose not to flirt with Nashville,
Hollywood or New York, They prefer to own themselves
entirely Kind of refreshing to see musical performers of
national stature purposely pick the reality of a home town
over the fantasy of fame.
A Danish dairyman has come up with an intriguing little
machine that oh-so-delicately stamps the date each day on
every hen’s egg he ships out.
L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086
Copyright 1977 Crown Syndicate, Inc.
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, Nov. 14, the
318th day of 1977. There are 47
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1935, President
Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed
the Philippine Islands a com
monwealth and pledged full
independence by 1946.
On this date:
In 1775, American troops
commanded by Benedict Arnold
invaded Canada’s Quebec Prov
ince.
In 1856, James Buchanan was
elected the 15th president of the
United States.
In 1881, the accused assassin
of President James Garfield,
Charles Guiteau, was put on
trial in Washington. He was
convicted and hanged the fol
lowing year.
In 1942, air ace Eddie Rick
enbacker and seven other
Americans were rescued from a
life raft, 23 days after their
plane went down in the Pacific.
In 1970, a wind storm and gi
ant waves were devastating the
southern coast of East Pakistan
and islands in the Bay of Ben, S.
The death toll was estimated at
300,000.
In 1975, Spain, Morocco and
Mauritania reached an agree
ment on the future of the Span
ish Sahara.
Ten years ago. Shirley
Temple Black was defeated in
California in her bid for the Re
publican nomination for Con
gress.
Q&A
1. The area of Hong Kong is
(a) 110 (b) 29 (c) 56 square
miles.
2. Europe’s longest bridge is
in what country?
"3. Joan of Arc won battles
over the British to crown
which king of France? (a)
Charles VII (b) Louis XI (c)
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Thoughts
“Truly, truly, 1 say to you,
he who believes in me will
also do the works that I do;
and greater works than these
will he do, because I go to the
Father. Whatever you ask in
my name, I will do it, that the
Father may be glorified in the
Son;” - John 14:12, 13.
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—Griffin Daily News Monday, November 14, 1977
Viewpoint
Faimess 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
The living and the dead
Seventy-two people died in a Southern
Airliner crash and officials busily began
trying to determine the cause of the crash
and how to avoid another like it.
A dam burst killing 37 people.
Immediately safety checks of dams all
Lee drops back
The administration of the Thomaston
School System and officials of R.E. Lee
High School in Thomaston apparently feel
the school cannot compete in AAA next
year and the school will be dropping to the
Georgia High School Association’s Class
A.
Through the years, as Griffin High fans
and players will vouch, Lee has produced
some powerhouse football teams. This
year is no exception.
Lee and Newnan will be playing Friday
night for the Region 6-AAA championship.
Enroute to the region playoff, Lee rolled
over some of the region’s powers, in
cluding Griffin.
Now, with Lee dropping to Class A, the
Rebels will be in the same subregion with
Pike County, Taylor County, Manchester,
Mary Persons and Jackson. Some of these
may be powers in the region as it is now
organized, but they are not competition for
Lee.
Lee athletic director Tommy Perdue
said his players deserve to be in playoffs
President’s address
President Carter addressed the public
the other night in an attempt to persuade
people to conserve energy and to persuade
Congress to complete work on his energy
program.
The first of his objectives has proven to
be a practical impossibility in recent
years. People in general don’t seem to be
willing to sacrifice in order to conserve
energy unless they are penalized for not
doing so. That’s where the President’s
Self preservation
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: How can we
reconcile the biblical admonition to
practice unselfishness with the law of
nature, which is self-preservation? Surely
we cannot divorce God from nature. F.
P.
DEAR F. P.: We must be careful about
describing self-preservation as a law of
nature. This is true only to a certain
degree. Many animals and birds are
prepared to die for the sake of one another.
Male birds are brightly plumed so they can
draw the enemy away from the next, thus
risking their own lives to save the female
and the young. Adult animals will fight to
the death to protect their babies.
BiUy
Graham
My Answer
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open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
over the country were ordered.
It is a tragedy in itself that we should
have to learn from one. Perhaps it is time
to make an effort to learn more from the
living and less from the dead.
more than once in every 10 years. With
competition the teams in 3-A west, Lee
could expect to be in the playoff every
year.
Officials at Lee apparently are willing to
make a monetary sacrifice too. The teams
in Region 3-A West do not have the
drawing power of the AAA teams. They
have loyal fans, but do not have the masses
the AAA schools draw.
Lee has put itself and other schools in the
region in a peculiar situation. Other
schools say they won’t play Lee and Lee
says it wants competition more com
parable to its average daily attendance.
Lee will be being unfair to its own
players by competing in Class A. It also
will be unfair to other players in the
classification.
Players at Lee have the ability to play in
AAA and it may be a disappointment for it
to take the field against schools where
there is not as much talent and players
cannot provide the competition Lee
desires.
second objective comes in; his energy
program is designed to reward con
servation and penalize energy waste.
The way to the hearts of congressmen is
through their constituency. This was the
underlying reason for the President’s
address — to appeal to the public to apply
pressure to their congressmen.
The way to do that is to caU or write
yours.
It is only the sin of selfishness in human
Uves that has made us put self
preservation as a first law. That is not the
way with God. Jesus is our example.
“When the time was come that he should
be received up (on the Cross), he stead
fastly set his face to go to Jerusalem”
(Luke 9:51). He went to His death
voluntarily, without making any attempt
to preserve His life.
When Christ comes into our lives He
brings a new spiritual law to bear. It is this
new law of the Spirit that frees us from the
things of self and enables us to put Christ
first in everything. Self-preservation is no
longer a rule for Christians, for now Christ
is the preserver of our lives.
Paul calls it “carnaUy minded” to live
for self and “spirituaUy minded” to live
for Christ. “To be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life
and peace. . .they that are in the flesh
cannot please God. But ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man
does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his” (Romans 8:6, 8 and 9).
The beauty
of old age
Bertha M. Combs
Every retiring person is not necessarily old or
very aged. Many persons have other plans for life as
soon as they get the salary self-sufficient to retire.
So they retire to do something they have always
wanted to do when they were working but did not
have the time. Simply because a person retires from
a regular job many people think him very old.
However, regardless to the age of anyone there is
“Beauty in Old Age.” The old saying, “One should
grow old sweetly” has merit and beauty to those
who will live by the slogan. Everyone grows older
every day that he lives. To grow old sweetly Involves
the total person, the total personality.
There are those young persons who speak
critically about the age of other persons. They do not
realize that the only way to not grow old Is to "die
young.” When a baby is bom, the age is stated in
terms of one hour old, the word “one hour young” is
never used in stating the chronological age of
anyone no matter how young he may be.
Retired persons do not have to be very old to
retire from one job, because the industrious person
will take up another. Retirement is taken by many
persons for different reasons, time served after
starting too young to work in the first place, illness
or disability. The person who is alert prepares
himself to retire. He plans long before retirement
what he can do to help himself and also reach out to
help humanity live a fuller life and a happier life.
Older persons can contribute to the community
much to the betterment of the total society. They
can form clubs and work for the good for all the
people even those who may be disabled and less
fortunate, give free service to the general
community, the school, the Church, and even the
shut-in and to children In special guidance. Members
of the local, State, and National Retired Associations
give volunteer service as teachers, cooks, lunchroom
workers, physical fitness helpers for both children
and aging adults who may be handicapped.
The true adult Christian has genuine unwavering
faith in God and deep prayer commitment, deep
desires to teach the way of the Lord and a
willingness to lead in Church activities and give of
their time freely to demonstrate his love for Christ
Jesus. Paul, a servant of Christ, wrote many letters
to his young followers. Paul wrote letters of
encouragement to those he was about to leave
behind to carry on the work of the Gospel of Christ.
"Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of
double honor, especially they who labor in the world
and doctrine.” First Timothy 5:17. These words
serve as guidance to the young follower of Christ.
“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time
of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good
fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
faith.” Second Timothy 4:6, 7. The blessed assurance
that the believer has in that he has lived the life that
Christ Jesus wants him and done the things that are
pleasing to the Lord is more than wonderful to those
who would believe in God.
The adult Christian seeks to help others
understand and encourages the younger people to do
that which is right in the sight of God. There are
those adults who say about young people, "They will
learn better In the future.” It is true that it takes
time for one to develop into an adult, but there is no
guarantee of a future for anyone.
It is limitless what adults can do to help spread
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The truly redeemed adult
senior Christian will try hard and refrain from
judging his fellowman, to live by the Scriptures, to
forgive with kindness and love. The aging person
who lives up to "The Beauty of Old Age” lives a
fuller life.
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