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ATLANTA — When a policeman
pulled over a driver for following too
closely behind an ambulance at high
speed, the man said his uncle was in
the ambulance.
“Wouldn’t you follow your kin to
the hospital?” the man asked. The
officer let him go, but escorted him
to the hospital, where they watched
attendants take a 7Q-year-old woman
out of the ambulance.
The Georgia Fraternal Order of
Police News this week singled that
out as the “most creative” excuse
found in a survey of traffic officers.
Another driver, clocked at 80 mph
by Fannin County sheriff s deputies,
said the devil was chasing him.
Another driver, clocked in
LaFayette at 80 mph, told officers he
was just charging a weak battery. A
Columbus woman stopped in a 35
mph zone told the officer she was
doing 55 mph to conserve energy.
A LaGrange man said he had got
ten a shot at the emergency room of a
local hosptial. He said the hospital
staff advised him to “get home very
fast” because the shot would knock
him out.
“As soon as I approached the driv
er’s window, he flipped open his wal
let and spoke to it, saying, ‘Kirk to
Enterprise, Kirk to Enterprise,
beam me out of here, fast!”’ another
officer reported.
B. J. Thomas show
couldn’t be better
by RICHARD OLIVER
Battalion Staff
B.J. Thomas is an optimist.
Since the age of 15, when he joined a Houston rock band and had his
first experience as a singer, his life has had enough downs to defeat
even the strongest of men.
“I was drug addict for many, many years,” he told a packed Bryan
Civic Auditorium in a concert Thursday night. “I’m living proof of what
Jesus can do with a hopeless case.”
Thomas, who said he was not an evangelist or a preacher, said his
best way to testify of his faith in Christ is to sing.
So he sang. Approximately 700 fens watched as Thomas chronicled
his life in song, and the show couldn’t have been better.
Thomas sang his 1970 Grammy Award-winning song, “Raindrops
Keep Failin’ On My Head," to start his IVs hour show, and treated his
audience to a mixture of music, ranging from country-western to
contemporary gospel. No matter what the song, B.J. Thomas is profes
sional and excellent.
Since his conversion to Jesus Christ in 1977, he has won three
straight Grammy Awards in gospel music, and the words of his hits
“Home Where I Belong,” and “Happy Man” were a touching and
revealing look at his life.
Thomas also sang his classics, including “Somebody Done Some
body Wrong Song, ’ “I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry,” and “Mighty
Clouds of Joy.”
“I tried everything to try and fill the empty space I had,” he said.
“But there’s nothing that works except the person of Jesus Christ in
your life. He’s the only answer.”
Thomas said he doesn’t want to be labeled a Christian entertainer,
but an entertainer who is Christian. He said he wants to stay in the
music business because music needs “to be more positive for the young
people today.”
If this is his goal, then 700 fens who gave Thomas two standing
ovations will probably agree he’s on the right track.
7 Years and 1 5,000 Cases
Judge Mike Calliham is
doing a very good
Don’t fix it if it works.
That old saying is especially
true about public officials.
When you find an honest
man that’s willing to work
hard for you — keep him.
On Saturday, vote to keep
it working. Re-elect Judge
Mike Calliham, Justice of the
Peace, Place 1, Precinct 7.
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HOUSTON — Cuban refugee
Jose del Carmen Beneitez took the
long way from his homeland to the
United States, traveling to Spain and
then stowing away for three weeks
on a freighter to America.
above the cargo, so I didn't get
banged up as much as I could have.”
Beneitez, 62, arrived aboard the
freighter Patricia at the Port of Gal
veston April 13. Thursday he still
was recovering in a Houston hospital
from 21 days of being locked in the
hold of the freighter with little food
or water and no sunshine.
“I almost couldn’t handle the fear
that came over me when I heard it
lock and everything got dark,” Be
neitez said. “I was on a platform
Beneitez, a native of Guantanamo,
said his troubles began when Fidel
Castro took over Cuba in 1960 and
the government took over his
father’s coffee plantation.
He said he was a political prisoner
from 1965 through 1968 and was
beaten, starved and tortured. He
started planning his departure from
Cuba when he was released from
"(whid
prison.
Beneitez said he made his way to
Santiago and persuaded Spanish
consulate officials to help him obtain
necessary documentation to fly from
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Cuba. In Spain, he looked to
the United States.
But he had no documents
feared immigration problems.
On March 24, with the helpi
sailors, he stowed away on ill
freighter bound from the
port of Gijon for Galveston.
“I did have a little bread, sausaji
and water to eat and drink, at
until it ran out,” Beneitez said
made it last as long as I could”
turned out to be 14 days)
When the ship docked in Galvet
ton, the hold was opened and Ik
neitez was discovered. The capl
threatened to send him back,
relented and turned him over
U.S. immigration authorities.
Beneitez said the local Cuba
community had agreed to heipbii
with food, clothing and findingajob
He said they had located his sisl
who fled Cuba eight years ago
Miami.
“For myself, I think I a
very happy here,” Beneitez si
“For the four brothers I
and the other Cubans still
that hell, I can only hope theymak
their way out, too.”
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