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BY DOYLE JONES JR.
Jest of the Week: a pretty stewardess on a Washington-Miami
flight had her hands full fending off two drunks who would not let
up. The one seated in the front of the plane was doing his best to
persuade her to come to his apartment. At the rear, the second
drunk was trying for an invite to her apartment.
As the plane headed for the runway, the front-seat pest handed
her a key and a slip of paper on which he had written his address.
' “Here’s the key and my address,’’ he whispered. “See you tonight?”
"Okay,” she whispered back, with a smile as she headed for
the drunk at the rear.
She handed him the key and slip of paper and said, “Don’t be
late."—Ties.
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SAD SAGA OF SOGGY JACKSONVILLE
This little opus might well be entitled “Reflections on A Water-
Logged Weekend in Jacksonville.” In retrospection, one might con
clude that Georgia fans should pray devoutly for rain Saturday in
Auburn. The Hulldogs were so sensational in their aquatic rout of
the hapless Gators that each and every member should be carefully
screened for the 1972 Olympics. We had swimmers in Mexico City
who did not make a bigger splash.
Friday was a prototype of the perfect Fall day—azure sky,
fleecy clouds, golden sunshine, invigoratingly cool, trees bedecked in
their beautiful autumnal hues. Rain seemed days away rather than
mere hours.
But Saturday was the horse of the other color. I awoke early,
dressed and walked over to the motel lobby for a paper. Upon emerg
ing from the room you can imagine my surprise when I noticed the
heavy, overcast skies and the forecast of rain from the Jackson
ville weather station. We—Martha, Jimmy and Mabel Cornell—left
for downtown about 10:45 and before we arrived it had already
begun to drizzle. The rain temporized for about an hour before
beginning in earnest. Department stores were selling umbrellas as
fast as harried clerks could keep them coming from basement stock
piles. Raincoats were much in demand as were galoshes for the
women.
A tornado alert was out for north Florida, including the Jack
sonville area, yet that plus the downpour did not deter over 70,000
fanatics from the kickoff at the Gator Bowl. The Florida fans
were washed away early in the deluge of Georgia touchdowns, most
giving up the ghost after the Bulldogs posted 14 quick points. Long
before the half the stands were half emptied. Jimmy and Mabel ran
up the white flag before the first quarter was over, leaving via bus
for Jacksonville and an hour and a half wait for a cab to the motel.
The weather, not the game, soon became the most important
factor. It did not take a keen student of football to realize that
Georgia had the game locked beyond recall after the second touch
down. But no one bothered to lock up the rain. It fell in torrents
and depending on where a person was from it could have been
termed * gully washer, a frog strangler, ar. larth mover, a freshet
or choose your own name. The rain was the topic as it varied in
intensity during the game.
The efforts of people to keep dry were ridiculous if not sub
lime. Naturally, conventional type raincoats were most observed,
but some improvised creations were amusing albeit questionably
effective. One man in front of us had taken the shower curtain
from his room and draped it around himself while he sat in utter
misery. Sheets of plastic were selling at $2 each and the demand
soon exhausted the supply. Cushions kept one’s bottom dry until
they became water logged and then proceeded to soak through
clothing to the skin. Only the hardy endured—or the foolish as
some would say—but Martha and I stuck it out to the bitter and
wet end.
We had made reservations at the same motel at which the Geor
gia team was stopping and it was a real pleasure to see. meet and
talk to those boys who have brought such honor to Georgia this
season. The behavior of the team is exemplary and is a credit to
Vince Dooley and his staff. We had the good fortune to talk
with Vince in the lobby and also chat with Erk Russell, Dan Magill
and Loran Smith.
It was like old home week. Sonny and Carolyn Robison, Dan
‘Whatsoever Things’
BY DONALD E. WILDMON
tin the year 1931, Aldous Huxley, the famous
skeptic, wrote on the subject: “Wanted, A New
Pleasure.” In the essay, he said: “As far as I can
see the only possible new pleasure would be de
rived from the invention of anew drug which
would provide a harmless substitute for alcohol.
If I were a millionaire, I would endow a band of
research workers to look for the ideal intoxicant.
If we could sniff or swallow something that would
abolish inferiority, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exultation
of aifection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth
living but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly
world-transforming drug were of such a kind that we could wake
up next morning with a clear head and undamaged constitution,
then it seems to me that all our problems would be solved and earth
would be a paradise.”
, Some of the rest of us have
found that which Huxley
searched for, but we didn’t find
it in the magic of a bottle. We
found it in the miracle of a Cross.
We have followed the little Jew
tentmaker’s advice: “Do not get
drunk with wine, which will only
ruin you; instead, be filled with
the Spirit.” Abolish inferiority?
We have ridden ourselves of it
by hearing Him tell us that we
are “the light of the world . . .
the stilt of the earth.” And when
He compares us with terms like
those we cannot feel inferior.
Affection toward our fellows?
We have found that, too. You
see, the Galilean has taught us
to do exactly what Mr. Huxley
wanted—to love one another. He
set the example. He loved us.
“Greater love has no man than
this ...” Then, because of His
love, He faced that Cross.
And something to make life
more than mere existing? Some,
and Patricia Fretwell were at the same motel as were Ab and Tennie
Caldwell from Griffin. We visited with Walter and Mavis Matthews
at the Robert Meyer and know of many other Jacksonians down for
the game whom we did not see. We did glimpse Billy and Elizabeth
Turner from McDonough.
The Georgia-Florida game is the BIG weekend for Jacksonville.
Jacksonville is a most cosmopolitan city comparing most favorably
with Atlanta is stores, shops, restaurants, and the like. It is a bread
and butter day for Jacksonville merchants and they make the most
of it. The weekend is definitely not recommended for those bashful
about opening their wallets. Everything is marked up, including
food, lodging and merchandise, and no one is apologetic about it a
bit. If one is going to eat economically in Jacksonville they’d better
head South wtih a king size jar of peanut butter and a loaf of
bread. I broke a tooth on a $6.25 filet at the city’s most famed
steak house that they should have paid me for attempting to eat.
And did you realize that when Georgia loses, business Saturday
night is cut to the bone. A cab driver who drove us from the afore
mentioned restaurant said “I hope Georgia beats ’em 100 to nothing.”
In amazement, I asked why and he said that a Bulldog win would
mean “SIOO to me.” Continuing he said, when Georgia loses the
supporters leave town in droves, many cancelling out of motels and
hotels and those who stay don’t travel or spend money. He also
added that he hoped Georgia would win because he was a native of
Douglas.
Despite the rain, the broken tooth and the high prices, we en
joyed every minute of it. A man behind us at the game quipped, “I
was going to take a drink after each Georgia touchdown but I only
brought a half pint.” At 51-0 he must have run short before the
half. Rex Edmondson, sports editor of the Jacksonville Times-Union
and Journal, wrote Sunday morning that “Georgia Coach Vince
Dooley said he knew the Bulldogs had to be up to stop Florida. Two
feet higher and they could have called signals on a harp.”
Shortly before the scoreboard ticked off the game’s final
seconds, a thoroughly soaked band of Georgia boosters near us were
chanting “We’re Number One, We’re Number One.” That may well
be, but we were more concerned with reaching the motel and get
ting number one and two dry again.
We left the dark and damp Gator Bowl with one incontrovertible
conclusion: Mike Cavan has to be the best underwater passer in the
nation.
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
who follow the Galilean, can say
with Him: “ . . . for this purpose
I have come ...” And making
life beautiful? There is nothing
more beautiful in all of life than
to see it as His creation. To know
that He is there, behind it all,
full of love for us even when we
don’t deserve it, makes life etern
ally beautiful. He is, indeed, the
Source of all beauty!
A clear head and undamaged
constitution? He gives that, too.
Lets you think clearly and live
with a constitution written by the
Author of Life.
Mr. Huxley kept hunting for
that “magic” drug. On November
22, 1963, thirty-one years after
his wish, Huxley tried anew drug
called LSD which many thought
to be the answer to his wish. His
wife administered the dose to
Huxley, dying of cancer. It was
the last drug Huxley ever experi
mented with. You see, it was a
one-way trip.
Cytioosr Seme*
the name of the flame
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DR. PINCKNEY NAMED
4th DISTRICT TRUSTEE
New officers for 1968-69 have
been elected and installed by the
Fouth District Optometric So
ciety. They are as follows:
President, Drs. Frank S. Gib
son, of Thomaston; Roy B. Arch
er, of West Point; Secretary-
Treasurer, Emory N. Milton, of
Manchester; Trustee, Leßoy Har
ris, of Griffin; and Alternate
Trustee, R. H. Pinckney, of Jack
son.
A unit of the Georgia Optom
etric Association, the society
holds monthly educational meet
ings. It consists of optometrists
in counties comprising this area.
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Monday, November 11th through Friday, November
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WICHITA FALLS, Tex.—Air
man First Class William F. Miller
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William
F .Miller Sr. of Jackson, Ga., has
been graduated from a U. S.
Air Force technical school at
Sheppard AFB, Tex.
He was trained as an aircraft
propeller repairman and has been
assigned to Lajes Field, Azores.
The airman is a graduate of
Jackson High School.
His wife, Peggy, is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J.
Johnson of 19 Oak St., Hampton,
Ga.
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BUYING FISH
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