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CHAMBER V.P. REMEMBERS
Wildlife presentation at Sandy Creek
The treatment of native and exotic wildlife
for various diseases and injuries will be the
topic of Dr Roger Rehmel's discussion at
the Sandy Creek Nature Center Monday at
7 30 pm Rehmel is involved with the
Wildlife Rehabilitation effort of the
University's Veterinary School
Rhemel's speech will be illustrated with
slides of different animals that have been
brought to the Veterinary School for
treatment He will also bring an injured
hawk or owl that is undergoing treatment to
the presentation
Everyone is welcome to attend the
presentation. Sandy Creek Nature Center is
on Old Commerce Road
Corrections
In the Jan. 25 issue of
The Red and Black, the
kindergarten program story
stated that Martha deBeau-
grine said 1 Kindergarten
should be mandatory for all
five-year-olds in the state."
Actually the statement was
made by Charles McDaniel
In a story published on
Cookies and Company in the
Jan 17 issue. The Red and
Black incorrectly reported that
the local owners also owned
shops in Atlanta and Nashville
The stores in Atlanta and
Nashville are individually
owned under the franchise
business “Grandma Loves
Cookies and Company
The Athens store is the
prototype of the franchise and
will change its name to
"Grandma l.oves Cookies and
Company." Stores in other
cities will carry the name and
original recipes of the store in
Athens as well as similar
decor.
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College town to university city
By SKIP III LETT
Assistant feature editor
In describing Athens, you
probably will not find many
who would argue with you
saying “Once a college town,
always a college town .’’ But
Allen Stephenson. Athens
Chamber of Commerce execu
tive vice president, would be
among those quickly asking
you to rephrase your state
ment
Stephenson came to Athens
18 years ago to work with the
chamber and to help steer
efforts to broaden the city's
economic base. He prefaced
his thoughts on Athens' devel
opment with a short history
lesson
"As you know. Athens grew
up arounc the University and
up until about 1950 it really
was nothing more than a
college town." he said. Athens'
economic base was built
around the University, a fact
which remains true today, he
said, but with some modifica
tions.
“Since those early post-
World War II years. Athens
has come from being a college
town to what I would call a
university city,” he said.
With the arrival in 1951 of
Dairypak. a dairy equipment-
supply firm, and the gradual
arrival of other industries.
Athens began to depart from
its status as a simple college
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town with very little revenue
outside what was generated by
the University and local
businesses
"The around 1957, the
industrial growth stabilized
until Ihe chamber of com
merce was reorganized and I
arrived in 1961 with the
specific purpose of broadening
the local economic base
through efforts to attract
additional industry," Stephen
son said.
His work began with the
Athena Industrial Park and
continued with the courting of
what Stephenson calls "blue-
chip" industries, that is. high
technology industries such as
DuPont. Reliance Electric.
From p.l
As for Ihe wedding, men
tioned earlier, this is how
Booth described it:
“I was out jogging and there
was this big procession of
people coming down the road
singing and drinking. There
were these two old ladies in the
front dressed like the bride and
groom in some sort of mock
ceremony. Everybody was
really having a good time and
people were joining in off the
street so I did loo," he said.
Alex said that after the
Russians found out who he was
they gave a toast welcoming
him and he thanked them with
a toast of his own. “I told one
man ‘y'all really know how to
throw a wedding’ and he told
me that this wasn't anything.
He said out in the country they
party all week’ He was right
because one of the guys in our
group went to one later and
stayed four days." Booth said.
He said one thing especially
interesting about Ihe wedding
was that following the cere
mony at the State Department
of Marriage, the bride and
groom, by custom, go to a war
memorial for the Soviet dead
from World War II and place
flowers there before they
continue with the celebration
After a month at the
academy, the Americans tra
veled to the Ukraine where
they spent the next two months
working on collective farms
and touring various Soviet
agricultural establishments.
Booth talked about the Russian
farm people and described
vividly how the Americans'
contact with them enlivened
the weeks spent picking apples
and peaches, raising cattle and
cultivating grapes on the
collectives
“A lot of the farm people
don't care that much about
Remington Arms and so forth.
The success rate has been
high in the chamber's ability to
pull industry into Athens, he
said, proudly pointing out that
around ten or more industries
represented here belong to
FORTUNE magazine's list of
the 500 largest corporations in
the United States
He termed the University "a
tremendous asset" in the city’s
courtship of industry. "It has
provided these industiies with
educational opportunities for
employees, not to mention the
vast array of cultural and
athletic activities which ema
nate from the campus,” he
said.
Stephenson continued to laud
the educational facilities avall-
ble in Athens with high praise
for the Athens Vocational-
Technical School, ranking it as
"one of the best available."
The growth of Athens in
recent years has been exten
sive. but Stephenson said he
can’t envision the city ever
outgrowing the University.
"We're not interested in
becoming another Atlanta,
we're simply interested in
providing Ihe adequate serv
ices and employment opportun
ities for the increasing number
of graduates who return to live
in Athens," he said.
Finally, to illustrate the
continuing cooperation and
interdependence between the
University and city of Athens,
Stephenson pointed to the
University of Georgia Re
search Park as an example
The project, to be located off of
Research Road, will locate
governmental and corporate
research facilities on land
adjacent to University-owned
land to facilitate cooperation
between the outside agencies
and the University’s research
entities.
“It provides Job opportuni
ties for the growing numbers
of returning graduates in
addition to the overall service
it provides for the research
community," Stephenson said.
RUSSIA
politics. I mean they know who
Brezhnev is but what goes on
in the Kremlin and things of
that nature don’t particularly
intrest them,” he said.
“We talked mostly about
things like sports and agricul
ture. and they asked a lot of
questions about automobiles,"
the agricultural economic
graduate said.
Did he ever get the
impression that the things they
saw and the places they toured
were set ups," model situa
tions designed to show only one
side of Soviet agriculture?
‘in a couple of situations I
think they were, but generally
I think they (Russian officials)
gave us a good general view of
everything there was to see,”
he said Russians we talked
to would often seem surprised
when we told them where we
had been They'd tell us that
what we'd seen weren’t the
best facilities and they'd tell us
about other places they
thought were much better and
more advanced."
Booth said the Russian
people seemed almost para
noid of the possibility the
Americans would have a low
impression of Soviet agricul
ture if not shown only the best
of everything. He related a tale
about an old Russian woman,
who didn't want him to take
any pictures of a quaint old
rural home. “She would’ve
preferred me to take a picture
of a modern apartment, which
I personally thought was
hideous, instead of this quaint
old house," he said.
One of the biggest problems
the Americans encountered
was with the mail service,
which Alex described as being
characterized by seemingly
endless hours of filling out
forms and related red tape.
However, maiL^rvice usually
ran smooth once all the
formalities were dispensed
with, so things weren’t as bad
as could have been imagined,
he said.
In the balance, the trip
turned out so well that several
of the Americans, including
Alex, stayed on for an extra
ten days to enjoy the hospital
ity of collective farmers in
Soviet Georgia and Armenia.
Asked about any plans to go
back, Booth said he would like
to go back someday, if not for
his own recreation then per
haps in conjunction with a
business venture.
"I didn’t know a year before
I went that I would be there, so
I guess you never know,” he
said.
Talmadge enters hospital
result of alcoholism
as a
WASHINGTON (UPD-Mil-
lionaire Sen Herman Tal
madge. D-Ga., was flown
across the country on a
government plane Thursday to
a California military hospital
that specializes in treating
alcoholism.
Talmadge. 65, entered the
Bethesda. Md , naval hospital
near Washington Monday for
treatment of alcohol abuse and
exhaustion
His staff blamed the ail
ments on prolonged tension
and pressures, presumably
stemming from Senate and
grand jury investigations of
alleged financial improprieties
on Talmadge’s part
The senator was transferred
early Thursday to the Long
Beach, Cal., Naval Regional
Medical Center's alcohol
treatment of alcohol problems
It is the same hospital that
helped Betty Ford overcome
her addictions to alcohol and
prescription drugs
Will Ball of the senator's
office said Talmadge would be
paying for his treatment at the
Long Beach hospital but it was
unlikely he will be billed tor
his transportation to California
on a military plane.
Bali said Taimadge was
expected to be under treatmept
for several weeks
Associates say Talmadge
had become increasingly with
drawn and was drinking
heavily prior to his hospitali
zation.
The Senate Ethics Commit
tee has accused Talmadge of
five charges of financial
misconduct in connection with
allegations he diverted about
$39,000 worth of campaign
donations and improper Senate
expense claims into a private
bank account
Full-scale disciplinary hear
ings are expected to begin late
next month.
The Justice Department also
has convened a federal grand
jury (o look into financial
irregularities in Talmadge’s
office, and it was learned the
grand jury has subpoenaed
Senate records on Talmadge’
Talmadge, a millionaire in
his 23rd year in the Senate, is
chairman of the Senate Agri
culture Committee.
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