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IT’S THIS WAYjP|
By Doyle Jones Jr.
Jest of the Week: A guest at a party, asked her opinion of
another guest’s mini-dress, replied, “It shows everything but good
taste.”
Roadside sign in Kentucky: “Pray for a good harvest, but
keep on hoeing.”
Norman Vincent Peale has noted, “America has become so
tense and nervous it has been years since I’ve seen anyone asleep
in church—and that is a sad situation.”
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
One thing that can be said of the “whatjamacallit” that
hovered over Jackson in the early evening hours Wednesday is
that it attracted attention.
It was first noted about 6:45, drifting almost imperceptibly
from west to northeast. It looked all the world like a transparent
beach ball with a light inside it as it was first observed in the
waning sunlight. As dusk deepened, it appeared more red in color
and eventually disappeared from sight as it moved slightly east of
north.
I was coming from home to town to pick up Martha and Gail
Grant, who were working late, a few minutes before seven. I was
driving down First Street when I saw two men stop their car by the
old REA building, get out and gaze intently almost directly
overhead. I turned south on Mulberry with curiosity aroused,
stopped the car and got out to take a look for whatever they might
have seen. It, and you can call it what you will, was overhead,
luminous and shining. I hurried on to the office and called for
Martha and Gail to come out and look.
I paused long enough to call Herman Cawthon, but he was
away. I then called Vincent and Sue with Sue answering and I told
her of the UFO. Taking Gail home, I drove down College Street and
Woodland Way where we observed Vincent and Sue in the front
yard gazing at the UFO with Vincent scanning the sky with his
binoculars. Vincent, an old Air Force sergeant from World War II
days, was quick to label the “visitor” as a weather balloon.
Down in East Jackson folks were out in small groups looking
at the strange object, with one party having brought out a
telescope. We then hurried home where I watched it for a few more
minutes from the front yard.
Charlie Moore called to report the object and say that he and
Etna had been watching it for some time. The phone was scarcely
hung up before Georgie Watkins called to say that she and William
Ball had noticed it while working in the yard.
It was seen over much of the Southeast. WQXI-TV
interrupted a program with a word interpolation at the bottom of
the screen to say the object you see in the sky is a weather balloon.
Perhaps it was and perhaps it wasn’t. “A weather balloon”
is almost a standard answer from weather bureaus and the Air
Force. So much so, that the weather balloon buncombe has
become a grim joke. You’d never make the two Pascagoula,
Mississippi, fishermen believe that what they encountered was a
weather balloon for they claim that a fish-shaped space craft
lighted near where they were fishing, took them aboard the
strange craft for a period 20 minutes where they were examined
and released unharmed but petrified with fear. Scientists talked
with the men and even under hypnosis they related their
experience but were still so terrified that doctors feared to
continue interrogation might precipitate a heart attack.
For some inexplicable reason, UFO sightings have
increased tremendously over the nation the last few weeks,
notably in the Southeast, Southwest, and the Northeast. We
concede one of the worst kept “secrets” of the Air Force is their
experimentation with gyroscopes. We further concede that many
of the recent sightings have undoubtedly been of these strange
devises that probably can be radio controlled. But there are scores
and scores of other sightings more sinister and not as easily
explained.
John Wallace Spencer, a former Air Force officer and
onetime investigator for the National Investigations Committee on
Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) advances the very sensible theory
that alien visitors from outer space may be kidnapping earthlings
and transporting them to another planet in an effort to save a
remnant of the human race from some impending disaster. Mr.
Spencer contends that nothing else logically explains the
disappearance of thousands of people in the Atlantic Oean’s
“Bermuda Triangle.”
Mr. Spencer was in Atlanta last week to promote his book,
“Limbo of the Lost,” a collection of facts about some of the more
spectacular disappearances in the area.
Mr. Spencer said that mysterious disappearances have been
going on for hundred of years in the 440-mile arc around Bermuda
but they were not really documented until after World War 11.
Probably the most famous of the mysterious
disappearances was discovered December 4, 1872 when the
brigantine Mary Celeste was found abandoned. Her crew was
missing with no sign of natural or man-made diaster. No trace has
ever been found.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
‘Whatsoever
jjjMi Things’
By Donald E. Wildmon
IMPORTANT RULES FOR LIVING
(PART THREE)
Think and say cheerful and pleasant things-that is another
important rule for living. What a man thinks determines his
attitude. I have discovered that people enjoy the company of those
who have cheerful, pleasant things to say. And I know, also, that
none of us care to be around those who are continually
complaining.
Life is so much easier and more enjoyable when you think
and say cheerful, pleasant things. Get rid of all your bitterness.
Forgive those who have wronged you. Don’t hold grudges against
others. Quite often Jesus would ask someone, “What do you
think?” He knew that it was vitally important what a man thought.
Still another important rule for living is this-never let a loss
defeat you. You will lose a few battles in life. You can expect that.
But you must never lose the war. Even Jesus lost a few battles. But
He didn’t lose the war.
Perhaps you have lost some battles lately, some real serious
battles. But you mustn’t surrender to the doubt and despair. The
war isn’t over and you still have everything necessary inside you
with which to win the war. Today is anew day. This is another
chance to start over. Never let a loss defeat you.
Here is another important rule for living-meet your
problems with decisions. Don’t think that the choices we desire
will always be open to us. Most of our decisions will be based not on
what we want to do, but on what we can do. So take the best of the
choices available and act on it.
Remember, also, that none of us will always make the right
decision. There will be time when we will decide wrongly and will
have to reverse our decision. But make a decision and act on it.
Even a wrong decision is often better than indecision.
Have a goal toward which you are working-that is another
important rule for living. Know what it is you wish to accomplish
in life and then go after it. Always keep moving that goal higher
and higher as you begin to approach it. Without a goal you only
exist. With a goal you can live.
The other important rule for living which I have found is
this-have a vital, living faith in Jesus Christ. Many questions in
life will baffle you. You will never find answers to some of those
baffling questions. But you can find the Answer in the person of
Christ.
“Faith is not belief with proof,” said Elton Trueblood, “but
trust without reservations.” And it was J. G. Holland who wrote:
“Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from
every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can
do it.” So have a vital, living faith in Christ.
These, then, are some important rules for living: keep life as
simple as possible, learn to like your work, have a good hobby,
love people, think and say cheerful and pleasant things, never let a
loss defeat you, meet your problems with decisions, always have a
goal toward which you are working, and have a vital, living faith in
Christ.
Remember them and (practice them. - FIVE STAR.
MAIL EAF(LY
Lloyds of London reports that 60 ships have disappeared in
the Bermuda Triangle during the past ten years. These ships and
their cargoes were valued at SSOO million and carried a total of
nearly 1,000 crewman.
Mr. Spencer said there is no known natural phenomenon
that could account for these events, so “you have to look beyond
what we know for an answer.”
The answer, he said, is the “UFO’s, flying saucers or
whatever you want to call them” are responsible for the
disappearances. “UFO’s do exist,” he said. “There isn’t any
question of it.”
Mr. Spencer said more UFO’s are spotted in the Bermuda
Triangle than in any other part of the world and added, “It’s the
only part of the world where they have been seen going into and out
of the water.”
Mr. Spencer explains he believes the UFO’s are vehicles
down by extraterrestial beings who are hijacking ships and planes
because they want to “salvage” part of the human race. “They
can see we are about to destroy ourselves,” he said, “and are
taking some of us and our machines to another planet that can
sustain our kind of life.” He concluded with the thought that “man
is an endangered species, too.”
What did we see Wednesday night? A weather balloon? A
UFO? A flying saucer? I don’t know. But we saw something that
we have been told was a balloon.
About a year ago I saw an hour’s documentary about the
Bermuda Triangle. It was intriguing and frightening. Large ships
missing, small boats, planes and aircraft, both military and
private. No storms, hurricanes, tidal waves. No earthquakes, no
nothing that man can explain from his own feeble intellect. People,
thousand of them vanish, no bodies, no bones, seldom little debris
from mysteriously vanished ships and planes. Yet they are gone as
if the earth-or sea-had swallowed them up. No trace, not even a
hair. What happened? Where are these people? Was their
disappearance involved with the supernatural? Did indeed
creatures from another planet take them home with them with a
thoroughness that leaves no trace and mankind baffled? I do not
know. I do know, however, that we can not rule out this bizarre
possibility until such time as our government speaks out with the
truth concerning the UFO’s and the flying saucers that are being
sighted daily the length and breadth of our nation. Perhaps as
many scientists suggest, to tell the truth would be to court panic.
I’m not worried, however. The Americans are a hardy lot.
Anybody who can survive some of our recent presidents and the
rottenness of Watergate should prove more than a match for any
creatures from outer space, even though they might wish to save
us from ourselves.
Guest Editorial
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Impeachment
No man is above the law. That includes the President of the
United States.
The U. S. House of Representatives should move promptly to
begin impeachment proceedings against Richard M. Nixon, the
37th President of the United States.
We do not say such a thing lightly. This is a grave time in
American history. The impeachment of a President is a
frightening concept. It has occurred only once since the nation was
founded. Yet President Nixon, with the near incredible arrogance
of his action in firing Archibald Cox, has left the Congress and the
American people little choice.
Cox, the special prosecutor for the Watergate investigation,
was named to the sensitive position by U. S. Attorney General
Elliott L. Richardson with the apparent approval of President
Nixon. Cox, a distinguished attorney, was approved also by the U.
S. Senate after a careful public hearing aimed at establishing that
Cox would conduct an independent thorough investigation of the
Watergate scandal.
Cox was fired by President Nixon because he persisted in
doing just that, insisting that White House papers bearing directly
on the criminal activities of Watergate were important to the
investigation.
Attorney General Richardson, a man of courage and
integrity, resigned his office rather than fire Cox. Richardson
noted that in appointing the special prosecutor he had promised
that such a prosecutor would be independent and “aware that his
ultimate accountability is to the American people.” That is still
true, and this is also the measure of President Nixon’s
accountability - . Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus
succeeded Richardson ; he was fired by the President when he too
refused to fire Cox.
President Nixon has made the beginnings of impeachment
proceedings a near certainty. It is a measure of what has
happened when a conservative South Georgia Congressman, W. S.
“Bill” Stuckey of Eastmen, can say as he did in the immediate
aftermath: “The country and the House of Representatives will
demand impeachment proceedings in order to get the facts out in
the open.” We agree with that. We think most Americans do.
In addition, President Nixon is now in open defiance of a
direct federal court order to release the White House tapes.
Nixon’s abrupt action has done another thing. It has scuttled
any chance that Congress will act swiftly to approve Congressman
Gerald Ford as the new Vice President. Not now. Not until the
question of impeachment is settled.
The President of the United States is, in Richardson’s
phrase, ultimately accountable to the American people. President
Nixon is no exception. The Watergate investigation will—and
should— go on. President Nixon will not block it by firing one
special prosecutor, nor can he long maintain a position of being
above and beyond the law.
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THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 1973
Jpr .... Herman Talmadge
THERE IS GROWING concern among the American peo
ple over the way their national interests are being protected
abroad by the federal government. More and more, I hear from
citizens who say we ought to act more in our own interests, just
as other nations do for themselves.
I share that view. In the past several years, there have been
developments in world affairs that have vitally affected our
economy, our national integrity, and the social and economic
well-being of our people. These events indicate shortcomings
in efforts to safeguard our own national interests.
Such incidents as the Russian wheat deal, repeated
tion of the dollar, trade relations which almost always seem to’
be in favor of other nations, inflation and the declining status
of the United States as a leader in world economics cause most
Americans to worry about how we got in this sad shape in the
first place, and what we can do about it to improve the situation
in the future.
* * *
I AM NOT an isolationist. No strong nation can afford to
pull a blanket over its head like a child in the belief that what
cannot be seen cannot hurt. We cannot shut the rest of the
world out. Not only is that impossible, it is not desirable.
To deny the existence of other major powers in the world,
and to erect barriers around our own economy would be detri
mental and counter-productive. We must deal with the world
from a position of strength and self-assurance, rather than from
weakness or self-defeat.
But, we may still be hung up on the post-World War II idea
of trying to protect the rest of the world from poverty, military
aggression, and all the evils to ever beset mankind.
For more than a quarter of a century, we have conceived of
the rest of the world as an under-privileged child which needs
our help in order to grow, prosper, and compete with us. This
is certainly no longer the case.
Year after year, the United States continues to pile up bal
ance of payments and trade deficits in our dealings abroad,
which ought to make the problem very clear. We are pouring
more dollars abroad than we can afford, trying to play police
man, banker, and Santa Claus for the whole world, and other
nations are out-trading us at virtually every turn.
I support efforts to carry on healthy commerce with other
countries. But, that certainly does not mean we should only
look after their health, and not ours.
We need to return to the ideal that a strong and prosperous
nation —if it is to remain so —must sometimes drive hard bar
gains and always act in its own best interests.
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