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WAYCROSS JOURNAL-HERALD
Claim To Chattanooga?
One of the sillier proposals of
the summer has to do with Geor
gia laying claim to the City of
Chattanooga.
The old matter of parts of Ten
nessee and North Carolina right
fully belonging to Georgia has, in
fact, been laid to rest a long time
ago for all practical purposes.
It is conceded even in Tennessee
and North Carolina that the boun
dary lines may have been drawn
inaccurately long ago but, if this
were the case, the matter is now
academic.
The boundary dispute was re J
vived recently by State Rep. Larry
Thompson of Atlanta who spon
sored a bill creating a commission
to look into the boundary dispute.
The legislator said he has maps,
surveys and other documents to
prove that parts of North Carolina
and Tennessee, including Chatta-
THE HERALD - TRIBUNE, CARTERSVILLE
Admirable ambition
One facet of the much-heralded “Goals
for Georgia” program initiated by Governor
Jimmy Carter received a lot of exposure in
the Seventh District this past weekend when
the Governor, Senator David Gambrell, and
leaders of the Democratic Party of the state
got together in a gab session at Calhoun.
The Governor has stated that his
ambition is to “Give every Georgian the
opportunity to participate in public
decision-making at the State level.”
An admirable ambition, one deserving
support from every Georgian.
The Governor also told the district
Democrats he would not appoint their
representatives to the national Democratic
convention at Miami. He said the party
members should decide whom to appoint,
and how they would be appointed. He put
the duties of political action into the laps of
the area and state party members.
This has been too, too long in coming.
Let us hope it is finally here.
Gone are the days, the governor said,
when a gubernatorial candidate can visit a
few influential persons in a community and
be assured that he will carry the vote of that
community at election time. Instead, he
said, candidates for state offices will have to
visit shopping centers and places where
The Forest Park Free Press
We Need Treatment Areas
To Lick Drug Problems
One of the biggest problems of our
times is the problem of drug use and
abuse.
Returning servicemen, our own boys
who have served in Vietnam, have been
victimized by this latest affliction on
mankind and the large numbers give all
of us much cause for concern.
The drug abuse problem among
returning U. S. servicemen has become
so acute that the Veterans
Administration now plans to open at
least 10 more drug treatment facilities
than were originally planned by the end
of fiscal year 1973.
Georgia Veterans Service Director
Pete Wheeler says that figures by VA
medical officials indicate that of the
estimated 200,000 hard drug users in the
United States, approximately one
fourth of them are veterans and most of
them have served on active dutv since
the beginning of the fighting in Viet
nam.
‘‘The number is increasing,” said
Wheeler, “and consequently the VA has
had to revise upward its plans for
establishing drug treatment centers.
Last year the VA announced plans for
developing a total of 30 such facilities.
Now it plans to open 40 centers and even
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Saf. and Sun., August 7-8,1971
nooga, rightfully belong to Georgia.
Only a few years ago someone
brought up the boundary hassle as
it pertained to the area around
Copperhill and Ducktown, Tenn.
And from time to time parts
of the Georgia-North Carolina bor
der have been put under a cloud
by some “expert" on boundaries.
It is a fact that the state of Geor
gia owns some property in down
town Chattanooga but that appar
ently is not disputed.
Even assuming that Chattanooga
should have been a Georgia city
it would appear to us that the
“Statute of Limitations" nullified
the issue long ago.
Besides, Georgia has enough
problems in and out of the legis
lature to keep the lawmakers busy
without trying to annex parts of
our neighboring states.
people are, and ask them for their vote.
And, we assume he assumes that when a
candidate is exposed to the voter on the
voter’s own ground, the candidate will not
only have to answer questions about his
platform, but will garner more knowledge of
the issues the voter feels important.
This would make for more enlightened
voters, and more enlightened candidates. An
exchange of ideas increases intelligence.
We might venture to say that delaying too
long that exchange has perhaps nutured the
attitude outside the south that the Governor
says is now changing-the fact that the south
is “gaining new recognition” across the
remainder of the country.
The Governor also said what most of the
country folk-and the Governor is one-have
known for years: That the average southern
countryman is just about as well informed as
most city slickers.
Only trouble was in the past they had
little to do with formulating their state and
region policies on the governmental
level-outside of voting their convictions.
They work too hard to be lobbyists, and
were too far out in the sticks for political
limousines to reach without getting mud on
their wheels.
But the governor has said that’s all over
Praise be, and hallelujah.
this number is likely to be increased.”
Since January of this year the VA has
had five drug centers in operation.
These centers are located in VA
hospitals in Washington, D.C.. Battle
Creek, Michigan, Sepulveda.
California, Houston, Texas, and New
York City, New York.
"By the end of fiscal year 1972 plans
were to have 18 drug centers in
operation but because of the tremen
dous increase in drug use by younger
veterans, many additional centers very
likely will have to be opened during the
year,” Wheeler said.
Each facility will be capable of
handling 200 drug patients annually.
When all of the presently-proposed
centers are in operation, the VA will be
able to provide treatment for 8,000
veterans at a time.
Wheeler added that the Atlanta VA
Hospital is scheduled to have one of the
proposed drug treatment centers, a 16-
bed unit, during the fiscal year of 1973.
We are glad to see that this effort is
being made, of course, but so far the
fight against drug abuse has not been
enough and not widespread to really
achieve the need.
viewpoint
Needed: a library
The recent announcement that the
Clayton County Commissioners plan to
keep $127,761 of $180,665 that would have
come to Griffin’s Flint River Regional
Library has prompted speculation that
Clayton County is going to vie with Griffin
for regional headquarters.
In light, too, of news from the State
Library Services to formulate standards to
accredit public libraries, Griffin will have
to improve its facilities to retain regional
headquarters. Clayton County has three
modem branches with 71,000 of the eight
county region’s 239,577 books.
What importance is retaining regional
headquarters to Griffin-Spalding County
citizens? If the headquarters moves from
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Aug. 7,
the 219th day of 1971.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Leo.
American Negro statesman
Ralph Bunche was born Aug. 7,
1904.
On this day in history:
In 1782 the Order of the
Purple Heart was established
by George Washington.
In 1942 Marines launched
America's first offense in
World War II by landing on
Guadalcanal.
In 1962 Mrs. John Kennedy
became the first president’s
wife to give birth in the White
House since the days of Grover
Cleveland. Patrick Bouvier
Kennedy died two days later.
In 1964 Turkish planes
attacked Cyprus for the first
time after sharp fighting broke
out in Greece.
A thought for today: British
humorist Patrick Herbert said,
“We shall not produce equality
by turning everything upside
down.”
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THOUGHTS
"We must work the works
of Him who sent me, while it
is day: night comes, when no
one can work.”—John 9:4.
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Find your place and hold
it: find your work and do it.
And put everything you’ve
got into it.—Edward Bok,
American philanthropist.
A thought for today: British
poet Edmund Spenser said, “11l
can he rule the great, that
cannot reach the small.”
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here:
—The Griffin branch will lose an annual
material allotment now set at $40,672.84.
—lt will lose an opportunity to employ 10
state paid librarians a year with $95,913
from the state.
—Federal funds amounting to $24,278
will be lost for various operating accounts.
—The additional large number of books
coming into the Griffin branch because it
is headquarters will be lost
Adequate library facilities is the only
strike against Griffin, according to Flint
River Regional Director Walter H.
Murphy. The structure which houses the
library was built in 1915.
We need a new library.
Better Voters
Or Just Younger?
By DON OAKLEY
The vote for 18-year-olds was one of those irresistible
ideas whose time came—and how!
In the amazingly brief span of two months and seven
days after it was approved by Congress, the 26th Amend
ment to the U.S. Constitution, extending suffrage to 18-,
19- and 20-year-olds in all state, local and federal elec
tions, was ratified by the necessary two-thirds (38) of
the states.
This is a new record for the adoption of a constitutional
amendment. The previous record was six months and six'
days for the adoption of the 12th Amendment in 1804.
The ratification touched off a renewed flood of specula
tion as to what effects, if any, the infusion of more than
11 million potential voters under the age of 21 will have
on national policies and priorities.
(Actually, 14 million young people under 25 who will be
eligible to vote for the first time in 1972 should be added
to this number, making a grand total of some 25 million.)
Will they vote as a youth bloc, “turning American
around” by sheer electoral weight of numbers? Or will
they vote pretty much as their parents do? Will they be
absorbed over the entire political spectrum?
No one knows. Certainly, at least at first, there will be
a burst of enthusiasm and activism. An 18-year-old girl
in an Ohio town, for example, has announced her candi
dacy for the local school board. There will likely be
youthful candidates for every available office throughout
the country.
It is to be hoped that, in their enthusiasm, young voters
do not repeat the error of so many of their elders, who
scan the ballot with an eye for the candidate with the
“right” national name, who judge office-seekers not by
what they are and what they stand for but whether they
have the “right” ethnic or racial background or belong
to the “right” party.
For young voters, the particular peril may be a built-in
bias toward the candidate of the “right” age (which, to
older voters, may automatically be the “wrong” age).
No one can familiarize himself with all the candidates
and all the issues. No one can really know how a person
will perform until he is actually in office. Thus when
knowledge or certainty are lacking, the temptation is
great to select among candidates on the basis of narrow
categories.
What greater temptation for young voters than to as
sume that a contemporary is their kind of candidate?
Chances are, however, that America’s new voters will
put its older ones to shame with the judgment and con
scientiousness with which they exercise their newly won
right to vote.
Our Space Inventory
Not counting anything tossed overboard by Apollo 15,
there are presently some 2,427 man-made objects in orbit
around the earth—satellites, rocket bodies and parts of
rocket bodies and various other items of debris.
This compares with 1,849 objects in orbit at this time
last year. The difference is mainly accounted for by 12
U.S. and 48 Soviet launchings, with associated items of
debris, between June 29, 1970, and June 27, 1971.
Other nations, however, are beginning to contribute to
the space traffic problem. France, for example, can
claim seven payloads and 34 items of debris for a total
of 41 objects in earth orbit.
Since the October 4, 1957, launching of Sputnik I, 5,308
objects have been put into orbit. A catalogue of these
objects maintained by the joint U.S.-Canadian North
American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Space De
fense Center shows that 2,881 of these have decayed
fallen into the atmosphere and burned up.
The Air Defense Command does not maintain this
space watch and catalogue because it is intrigued by
satellites or so that people can click their tongues and
say, “Imagine that.”
It has a deadly serious purpose. All these thousands
of objects in orbit must be catalogued and watched lest
in the confusion that would otherwise prevail, nothing is
ever launched against us through space unawares.
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"Sometimes I wish we could just get away from all the
talk about Vietnam. You know—take a trip to Saigon!"
ANSWER
“Can you help me?”
I am a junior in high school
and I have not accomplished
anything worthwhile for myself
or others. Can you help me?
T.V.
I like to receive a letter like
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
WASHlNGTON—AssistantSe
cretary of State
Meyer, commenting on the
country’s isolation policy tow
ard Cuba:
“..J can see very little
reason for us to seek to change
our Cuban policy, particularly
as Fidel (Castro) clearly knows
that all he has to do to wipe the
slate dean is say, ‘I will no
longer export revolution.’”
PHNOM PENH - Acting
Prime Minister Sisowath Sink
Matak of Cambodia, en route to
the United States on a peace
seeking mission:
“The only aim of my mission
is to bring peace to our country
in order that we can live as a
free country, with territorial
integrity.”
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yours. “Accomplishing some
thing worthwhile for yourself or
others”, is the farthest thing
from the minds of many of to
day’s youth. Young people like
you are the hope of tomorrow’s
world.
Now, what can you do to
accomplish something worth
while?
First of all, become a disciple
of Jesus Christ. It was He who
said: “Whosoever of you will be
the chjefest, shall be the servant
of slu.” Mark 10:44. Serving
Him will equip you to serve
mankind — not with the desire
for fame or reward, but for
benefit of the race.
A man hurried to the church
door one Sunday noon and asked
the usher: “Is the service
over?” The usher who had
found the true meaning of
Christian service said: “The
worship is over, but the service
is only beginning.”
To be a Christian is not just to
bend the knee in prayer, and to
bow the head in reverent wor
ship: it is to love mankind so
much that one goes out in
Christ’s stead to help and re
deem struggling, suffering
humanity.
There are worlds to conquer
for Christ. You can get in the
thick of it!
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28 Overseas
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31 Muddle
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Cary Rceven, General Manager
BHI Knight, Exeewtive Editor
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Editor