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The ADVANCE, December 15,2021/Page 9B
McBride Hits 2k Points Loran
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MK McBride was recognized last week for hitting the ca
reer mark of 2k points scored,
Robert Toombs
Christian Academy
would like to recognize
McKaleb (MK) McBride
for scoring 2,000 points
so far in his high school
basketball career.
McBride has started
as a Varsity basketball
player since 8th grade.
He scored his 1,000th
point during the third
game of his sopho
more year. He has re
ceived Player of the Year
three times and is a four
time All Region and All
State player.
McBride has also
helped lead the Crusad
ers to Region Champi
onships in 2019 and
2020. He was also part of
the State Runner-Up
teams in 2020 and 2021.
Coach Adam Calla
way, Head Crusader Bas
ketball Coach said, “MK
has a very special talent
that you don't see often.
He puts in the work ev
ery day and has since he
was little. This is one of
those times when his
hard work paid off dur
ing his career. He has
helped RTCA and my
self win over 100 games
in the past five years. MK
is a senior for me this
year, and we are looking
at all his options as far as
playing at the next level.
He has a 3.8 GPA and
will do big things aca
demically and athleti
cally.”
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the NFL title in 1947. He
played in the old College
All-Star game, owing to the
war years, a record five times
(four as a collegian and once
as a pro). He batted .344 in
a partial season with the AA
Atlanta Crackers in 1947
and could have become the
first two-way professional
athlete, but chose to stick
with football. In addition
to excelling against minor
league players that one sea
son, he competed against big
leaguers in his military years.
I once asked him if he
thought he could have made
it as a major league player, he
grinned and said, “Based on
my experience against them
in the military, yes,” he said.
Why did he not attempt
to do what Bo Jackson and
Deion Sanders later did?
“I never considered that,”
he explained. “I don’t think
that would have been fair to
either team.” Above all else,
Charley Trippi was a team
player.
He could have turned
pro following the Oil Bowl
game in 1945, but out of
loyalty to his coach, Wal
lace Butts, Trippi returned
to campus for his final year
of eligibility. In addition, he
had an entrenched desire to
earn a college degree which
was very important to his
parents who were grateful
for his realizing the Ameri
can dream of achieving an
education.
In high school, he was,
at 160 pounds, considered
undersized, but after weight
gain and a stunning prep sea
son at LaSalle, every school,
including Notre Dame and
Ohio State gave him a dedi
cated rush for his commit
ment. His old school father,
remembering what Harold
Ketron had done for the
family, reminded his son
that he had given Ketron
his word and that he should
keep his word by enrolling in
Athens. The son agreed and
never considered another
collegiate offer.
His pro career, in which
Trippi is the only member
of the NFL Hall of Fame
to have accumulated 1,000
yards as a runner, passer and
receiver, brought about his
election to this prestigious
organization in 1968.
Before that, in 1959,
Trippi was elected to the
College Football Hall of
Fame. He became a gener
ous supporter of the Uni
versity of Georgia chapter
and played in the chapters
annual golf outing and never
missed the annual chapter
dinner.
Anything he was asked
to do to support the chapter
became a given to the man
who became as famous as
the hedges which surround
the playing field of Sanford
Stadium.
Since 1960 when I first
met him, Charley has always
been a generous friend, nev
er letting me pick up a check
when we went out for a
meal. I have interviewed him
countless times with two
poignant comments remain
ing indelible in my memory.
• One, after more
than 20 years of playing
football including ten years
in the NFL, he had this re
sponse to why there were
fewer concussions in his era:
“It’s simple, we led with our
shoulder, not our head.”
• When I invited
him, an athlete who would
have scratched your very
eyes out to achieve victory
on the playing fields, to go
quail hunting, he declined,
saying: “I could never shoot
anything as harmless as a
little bird.”
In his latent years,
whenever I would stop by to
see him, he was either cut
ting his grass with a rusting,
old mower or raking leaves.
He never became sedentary
and was the classic example
of what moderation can do
for one’s longevity. He never
ate excessively and seldom
ordered more than one drink
at dinner. He never jogged or
lifted weights—but his waist
line never bulged.
An incident in his life
that had resounding impli
cations, is, perhaps, the least
known episode in his life.
In a game against San Fran
cisco in 1954, an era when
face guards were in their in
fancy, the 49ers John Henry
Johnson blindsided Trippi
as he was walking back to the
huddle, slamming a forearm
in Trippi’s face that caused
extensive damage and a long
hospitalization.
As he was recuperating,
a certain emissary showed
up in Trippi’s hospital room.
This message was clear. John
Henryjohnson could be tak
en care of—for good. Trippi
said no.
When I asked him
about that, Charley, though
embittered by the cheapest
of cheap shots, said, “Can
you imagine what thatwould
have done to the game foot
ball?” Johnson, knowing
what might have been, later
told an interviewer that he
owed his life to Charley
Trippi.
There are countless vi
gnettes in Trippi’s life and
career that would make for
an interesting book. While
he recognized his enormous
name value, no book has
ever been written. My Trippi
file is filled with notes and
material that reflect that even
with his superstar status, he
had had an undercurrent of
poignant modesty.
His sophomore year,
Georgia won the national
championship and included
a victory over UCLA in the
Rose Bowl—Trippi, gain
ing 113 yards on 24 car
ries, and completing 5 of 10
passes for 83 yards and being
named the most valuable
player. The Bulldogs, how
ever, only scored one touch
down a one-yard plunge by
Frank Sinkwich, who won
the Heisman trophy that
year. Sinkwich was hob
bling about on two sprained
ankles at the Rose Bowl, but
Butts let him score the only
TD of the game.
“I thought that was ap
propriate,” Trippi told me.
‘After all, it was Frank who
led us to the Rose Bowl.”
Trippi was not his old
Heisman self on his mile
stone birthday with a few
close friends on hand, in
cluding Georgia head coach,
Kirby Smart. Trippi can
barely hear, he can no longer
go outside and rake leaves,
but his was able to huff and
putt and blow out the 100
candles on his birthday cake.
Those who know him,
would expect nothing less
from one of the greatest play
ers in college football history.
Some say, the greatest.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Board of Commissioners of the
Housing Authority of the City of Lyons
will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday,
December 21,2021 at 6:30 P.M. at the
Resident Services Building located at
165 E. Wesley Avenue in Lyons, Georgia.
For more information, please
call 912-526-8504.
Wheeler County Annual Report
2021 Report on Projects Funded through Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax
Year
Approved
Original
Estimated
Cost
SPLOST 2011
Courthouse & Jail Expansion;
Recreation Facility Improvement
& acquisition of equipment;
Roads & Revenue vehicle & Eq.;
EMS facility
SPLOST 2017
Courthouse renovation; EMS
equipment; Road Street & Bridge
purposes; recreational facilities
renovation & improvement;
and acquisition of equip for
recreation dept; equipment for
Fire & Rescue services, Sheriffs
Dept, and Sanitation.
Current
Estimated
Cost
2011=2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Total
Amount
2021 Expended
Excess
Project
Behind
2010 $1,792,000 $1,792,000
$994,207 $307,935
$2,592
$3,059
$9,495
$0.00 $1,317,288
$0.00
NO
2016 $2,300,000 $2,300,000 xxxxxxxxx $103,237 $176,233 $350,830 $271,583
$252,598 $1,154,481
$0.00
NO
Project
Under-
Proceeds Schedule funded
NO
NO
The City of Alamo City Council docs hereby announce that the millagc rate for 2021 will be set at a meeting to be held at the Alamo Community Center
in Alamo, Georgia on December 13, 2021 at 5;00 pm and pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. Section 48-5-32 docs hereby publish the following
presentation of the current year's tax digest and levy, along with the history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.
Current 2021 Tax Digest & 5 year History of Levy
PUBLIC NOTICE
CITY OF ALAMO
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Real & Personal
Motor Vehicles
Mobile Homes
Timber - 100%
$28,232,587
$31,041,624
$41,995,200
$41,816,715
$42,164,960
$42,860,965
$42,338,531
Heavy Duty Equipment
Gross Digest
$28,232,587
$31,041,624
$41,995,200
$41,816,715
$42,164,960
$42,860,965
$42,338,531
Less M&O Exemptions
290,741
951,106
974,545
936,684
1,026,633
1,090,579
960,348
Net M&O Digest
$27,941,846
$30,090,518
$41,020,655
$40,880,031
$41,138,327
$41,770,386
$41,378,183
Gross M&O Millage
11,590
11.009
10.301
10.233
10.126
10.337
10.428
Less Rollbacks
3.091
2.509
1.801
1.735
1.628
1.839
1.930
Net M&O Millage
8.499
8.500
8.500
8.498
8.498
8.498
8.498
Net Taxes Levied
$237,478
$255,769
$348,676
$347,399
$349,594
$354,965
$351,632
NET TAXES $ INC(DEC)
$2,412
$18,292
$92,906
$(1,277)
$2,195
$5,371
$(3,333)
NET TAXES % INC1-DEC1
1.03%
7.70%
36.32%
-0.37%
0.63%
1.54%
-0.94%