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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS THURSDAY DECEMBER 23,1971
THE NEWS
Established 1908
Tony Maddox, Editor & Publisher
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As we move into Election Year ’72, Democrats are in control
of the 92nd Congress and 29 State Houses.
In the Senate, there are 44 Republicans, 54 Democrats, one
Conservative and one Independent. Nineteen Republican and 14
Democrat Senatorial seats are up for election next year.
One Democrat and two Republican Senators have announced
that they will not run: Republican Senators Jordan (Ida.),'
Cooper (Ky.), and Democrat Senator Anderson (N.M.).
Of the 33 upcoming contests, five Republican and four De
mocrat Senatorial seats were won by 5% or less of the 1966
vote.
There are 180 Republican Congressmen and 255 Democrat
House seats. One Democrat and three Republican seats are
currently vacant. Of the 255 Democrat incumbents, 24 were
elected in 1970 by a margin of 5% or less; of the 180 Republi
cans, 31 were marginal winners.
To control Congress, Republicans must hold what they have
and add six Senate seats (or five with the Vice President br
eaking the tie), and 38 House seats.
Eight Republican and 11 Democrat gubernatorial seats are on
the block in '72. Five of the incumbents are ineligible to
succeed themselves: Republicans Peterson (Del.), Whitcomb
(Ind.), and Moore (W. Va.), and Democrats Scott (N.C.) and
McKeithen (La.).
In State Legislatures, Republicans control 24 Upper Houses
and 28 Lower Houses. Democrats have 26 Upper and 20 Lower.
Republicans control both Houses in 19 States.
Normally, the incumbent has the advantage in an election
campaign usually for the simple reason that he is better
known than his opponent.
The big advantage for all Republican candidates in 1972 is
the fact that they’ll be running on the same ticket as the
Presidential flag-bearer.
FISHING REPORT
NORTH GEORGIA: ALLATOONA: Falling, dingy. Fair for bass
and crappie using medium running lures and large minnows.
BLUE RIDGE: Rising, fair to good fishing but little activity
BURTON: No activity. CHATUGE: Little activity, low, clear.
HARTWELL: Low, clear, fair for bass, little other activity.
LANIER: Rising, muddy on upper end. Fair for black bass,
white bass and crappie. NOTTELY: Low, clear, no activity.
RIVERS: CHATTAHOOCHEE: Normal, fair for bass and crappie,
good for catfish. OCONEE: Fair, little activity.
HUNTING ACCIDENTS COULD BE AVOIDED
Hunting can be one of the most enjoyable sports imaginable.
If proper precautions are taken, it can also be one of the safest.
Each year, however, accidents mar the enjoyment of hunting
for a number of individuals. The sad part about this is that all
of these accidents could have been prevented by the application
of a few rules of common sense.
The Georgia Game and Fish Department receives casualty
reports from all hunting accidents which occur within the state.
All of them seen to follow a pattern. There is the hunter who
mistook another hunter for a deer or other game animal. If
he had simply refused to shoot until he was able to identify
his target, the outcome would have been different. The other
hunter could have helped by wearing blaze orange or some other
bright color.
One of the reports received this year told of a group of
boys, 15 years old and younger, who were playing with shotguns
while hunting. A gun discharged and the shot struck one of the
boys in the head, not killing him, 'but producing a painful
injury. Horseplay should not be engaged in when hunting. Also,
the boys should have been given extensive safety training at
home.
A Georgia hunter was injured when he fell and his gun dis
charged. If the man had kept his safety on until he was ready
to shoot, this accident would not have happened.
There are a number of rules that should be adhered to when
hunting. If all hunters observed these, there is a good possibility
that no hunting accidents would ever occur.
Always keep the safety on until you are ready to shoot.
Always wear blaze orange or some other distinctive color
when hunting deer in an area that is likely to be crowded with
other hunters. Use of such clothing can prevent being mistaken
for game and can assure that you will be seen if you are in
the line of fire and game should pass between yourself and
another hunter.
Always pass your gun under a fence or hand it to your
hunting partner.
Never shoot at a target you cannot positively identify. It
is lietter to let game escape through indecision than to take
a chance of killing another hunter. Never ride with a loaded
gun in your car. Never drink alcoholic (leverages while hunting.
Don’t indulge in horseplay when hunting. Be sure that your
gun Is unloaded tiefore entering a house, tent or hunting camp.
If you should fall, check your eun for damage before firing
it. Check to see that there is no mud in the barrel. This could
cause it to blow-up upon discharge.'
If all hunters would otiey these safety rules, the most dan
gerous purt of a hunting trip’would tie the automobile drive to
the hunting grounds. As long, as some-people ignore the rules,
we will continue to receive hunting accident rejiorts.
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By JOHN REYNOLDS
PAGE 2
WHEN YOUR BOY WANTS A SPORTS RIFLE
By: Brad O’Connor
I have a 10-year-old son, so I knew the question might come
up some day. It did...this year. “Dad, when am I going to be
permitted to have a gun?”
It was nearly 30 years agothatl’dask my own father the same
question. Fortunately, the decision was a relatively easy one
for him. At that time we lived in Tucson, then a town of 30,000-
only one-tenth is present population. Dad taught at the state
university, wrote for an outdoor magazine, and was also an
incurable gun buff. He had no trouble taking two or three hours
off from his jobs several times a month for target practice or
to hunt jackrabbits and coyotes, which were plentiful in the
nearby desert. And from the time I was “knee-high to an antelope
'jack,' ” I was allowed to tag along with him. There were fewer
people around then. And thus there were fewer hunters.
By and large, those who hunted then did so because the hunting
area seldom was more than a few miles from home. The kids
hunted primarily because their fathers did, and hunting was
considered by almost everyone to be a manly sport. There weren’t
so many game laws in those days, either, and the science of
game management was still in its infancy.
But times change. The Tucson I knew as a child has dis
appeared. The residential suburbs, supermarkets, hamburger
stands, bowling alleys, and industrial parks of the new Tucson
sprawl far out into the desert. Houses costing SIOO,OOO and
more cling to the rocky foothills of the Santa Catalina Moun
tains on ground over which I scrambled nearly three decades
ago looking for bighorn sheep. And for this reason, the logistics
of planning a hunt today in the Tucson area-as well as in Seattle
where we live now and many other areas-can be enough to stagger
the mind of the most seasoned military commander. And “sighting
in” a rifle near a metropolitan area also can require lengthy
waits at shooting ranges, especially as hunting season app
roaches. Good outdoor manners (of which safety is part) are
imperative because of the great competition for hunting, fishing,
and recreational space. I bring all this up only by way of indi
cating that the decision as to whether or not to allow your
youngster to have his own rifle these days is not as simple
as it was years ago.
So what did I tell my son John when he asked when he’d be
able to have a gun? I said that I’d sleep on the matter. And I
did...for two nights. Then I told him he could have his rifle.
I knew just the gun. It was a scope-sighted Winchester .22,
none the worse for wear almost 30 years after my dad had given
it to me.
When I have been able to dovetail my time off from my Job
with my son’s days off from school, he has accompanied me on
a few hunting jaunts. As my own father did for me, I’ve taken
John out into the country, taught him the rudiments of shooting
position, breath control, how to squeeze a trigger gently, and
the vital importance of gun safety.
Yet my personal instruction on how to handle a gun properly
is not enough. Before he can buy a hunting license, John and all
youngsters up to age 18 must complete a firearms safety
course. This course is an official function of the State Game
Commission in 41 states and is required by law in 16 of those,
including Washington. It is also mandatory in the other nine
states (where it is taught by volunteer instructors who have been
certified by the National Rifle Association), as well as in six
Canadian provinces-British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Sas
katchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. While there is no res
triction as to age, applicants must be deemed capable of
understanding the instruction and physically able to handle
a firearm properly.
Washington’s course is free, and it, and similar courses in
other states, is patterned after one which was started in 1949 in
New York State by the National Rifle Association. Since then,
more than five million boys and girls have learned the Importance
of firearms safety under the NRA-inspired program. Last year,
more than 17,000 youngsters were trained here in our state of
Washington.
Several weeks ago, John received a quick rundown from the
local state coordinator for firearms safety on what he, John,
should expect when he takes the course before the fall hunting
season. Among other things, he will learn about:
a) The parts of a gun and how to care for them
b) The safe ways to enter a boat or cross a fence with a gun
c) His place in the zones of fire when hunting with others
d) The safest color (blaze orange) to wear in the field
e) The dangers of pointing a rifle at something that he
doesn’t intend to shoot
f) The state game and gun laws
g) Common courtesy in the field, such as not littering and
seeking an owner’s permission to hunt on his land.
If this seems nxe a preuy Dig order to you for a lad John’s
age, you’re quite correct, but the primary aim, after all, is
to make him a safe hunter. The state coordinator always teUs
the fathers of youngsters who have satisfactorily completed
the course, “It’s your responsibility to see that your child
puts into practice what he learns in the course. Safety should
become a habit.”
The choice of a gun should be no great problem. In my
opinion, unless the youngster is in his mid-teens, it’s unwise
to start him out with anything that hurls more of a punch than
a .22 or a .410 shotgun. Whether it’s a bolt or lever action
is largely a matter of personal taste, although I personally
believe a clip-fed bolt action is safer than the so-called
automatics. Complete with telescopic sight, a suitable .22
rifle should cost somewhere between $55 and S9O. My choice
of a .410 shotgun would be either a single-shot or a pump. Cost
of these ranges from about SBO for a good singleshot to well
over S2OO for an outstanding pump type. Quality is usually in
direct proportion to the cost. If you shop wisely, and if your
boy treats his gun with the same loving care that I have glvend
that .22 my dad gave me nearly 30 years ago, he can probably
pass it along to his own son 30 years from now.
TO THE WOODS FOR BOBWHITES
By: Dean Wohlgemuth
I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for the dogs. The two
setters were fighting their way through heavy cover, looking
for birds among thick weeds, brush and small trees, while
Bill and I were taking the easy way, walking the logging trail.
A grouse hunter may have thought we were after his favorite
game, had we been walking ridges and branches from 1,500
feet up, in the north Georgia. We were after quail.
Hunting on timber company land, we weren’t out in the open
on clearcut land, though most of the time it was clearcut areas
that we sought. Instead of hunting out in the middle, however,
we stuck to the edges, hunting out the brushy edges of the woods.
And, quite a bit of the time, we were pretty deep in the woods.
It hadn’t taken more than 15 minutes to hit the first covey.
We could tell his young setter had scent, and scurried after
him ... but the, birds, apparently hunted recently, weren’t
having any of this. They broke before we could get close enough
for a shot.
Moments later, the dogs were on point again and we went
into thick woods this time. We were barely in range when this
covey, too, broke too soon. Both of us took shots, but succeeded
only in trimming trees.
Two coveys later, we finally found birds in the open enough to
get a shot. I hit my bird, but when I turned to see why Bill
hadn’t shot, he was mumbling something about not getting his
safety off in time.
We had found four coveys in less than an hour and a half.
By that time, however, it was getting close to 11 a.m., and
that’s all the birds we could find for the morning. Feeding time
was over for them, so it was time to feed ourselves. We drove
back to ( rooked Creek Fish Camp on Lake Sinclair, which
Bill owns, and devoured a steak prepared by his wife, Joyce.
While we were eating, Bill commented that many a Georgia
hunter Complains about the lack of quail hunting, when actually
there are quite a lot of birds in middle and south Georgia.
I agreed. "Trouble is,” I said, “too many hunters have seen
to many pictures of hunters out in open fields...you know, the
classic setting. They can’t find open fields like that where they
can hunt, other than on a preserve. And when they do, they all
tdo often don’t find many birds.”
It isn’t too hard to find some timber company land in most
parts of Georgia, where you can hunt. Quite a lot of it has some
clearcut land. The walking is rugged, but if you’ll stick to the
edge of the woods, and not be afraid to head into the swamps
and thicker woods on occasion, especially if the dogs show
more than passing interest, you might surprise yourself how
many quail still can be found in our state, just for the taking.
When you hunt like this, however, you'U have to sharpen your
reflexes...you’ll have to shoot fast to get ’em through the trees!
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION
OF INDEPENDENT
INSURANCE AGENTS
This association formed an automobile reparations systems
study committee in July, 1971. Its four months’ investigation
has led us to several conclusions.
First, we acknowledge there are weaknesses and inequities
in the present automobile reparations system. We feel certain
actions can be taken immediately to improve our current
situation. We recommend the following:
1. That the Insurance Commissioner, strongly encourage or,
if possible, mandate the use of interim payments to claimants
by aU companies where liability has been accepted by the
Insurance carrier.
2. That the Insurance Commissioner investigate the automobile
claim practices of all insurance companies operating in Georgia.
We realize most companies perform satisfactorily, but we
urge him to use all the powers of his office to promote prompt
and fair claim settlements for insureds and claimants alike
from all companies.
3. Adoption of legislation proposed by the Georgia Safety Council
in at least four problem areas:
a. Appropriation of state funds for local driver education
programs to Insure such a course is available to every
qualified student in Georgia.
b. Adoption of a periodic license re-examination system.
c. Provision for a license classification system to incorporate
separate examinations for a permit to drive motorcycles,
cars, trucks, buses and tractor-trailers.
d. Adoption of a habitual traffic offender law, with strict
penalties for individuals who continually ignore traffic laws.
Now, regarding our Association’s position on no-fault auto
mobile insurance, we believe the present tort liability system
has inherent weaknesses as it relates to automobile reparations.
Some of these are:
1. A true determination of fault is often difficult because of
circumstances surrounding automobile accidents. The necessity
of determining fault under the present system adds considerably
to the cost of automobile Insurance.
2. Studies Indicate that in relatively small personal injury
claims, recovery is approximately four times actual economic
loss. This represents a high percentage of ail personal injury
claims.
3. The threat of trial is a governing force in ac'cldent com
pensation. ■”
4. Approximately 50% of benefits awarded injured victims are
being absorbed by the legal process.
5. Studies indicate the present tort liability system does not
deter poor driving behavior.
Even recognizing these weaknesses, we feel it would be a
mistake to deny the public the traditional benefits of the tort
system in cases involving a serious injury from automobile
accidents. A modification in the tort system in the relatively
minor accidents does hold promise of better serving the people
of Georgia, but the tort system should be retained in cases
of serious injury *
Our studies of this complex subject, therefore, bring us to
the conclusion that a modified no-fault automobile reparation
system offers the best possibilities of improvin g the present
process. We offer the services of our Association to the Gov
ernor, Insurance Commissioner and the Georgia General
Assembly to help develop new insurance legislation suited to
circumstances in Georgia to be presented for consideration in
1973.
This official statement of the Georgia Association of Inde
pendent Insurance Agents has been adopted by the board of
directors and submitted to the Georgia Department of Insurance
this date.
December 15,1971
Horace F. MuUls, President
MAKES STRONG SHOWING AT NATIONAL AVA
Georgians attending the American Vocational Association
(AVA) national convention in Portland, Oregon last week returned
with three newly-elected officials and a candidate for national
association president, reports Ellen Coody, executive secretary,
Georgia Vocational Association.
Elected AVA National Manpower Association president is
Lenos E. Nichols Sr., state supervisor, special federal training
programs, Georgia Department of Education, Atlanta.
Nichols has served as a teacher and county superintendent
in Habersham County. He was North Georgia Technical and
Vocational School shop supervisor and business manager prior
to his employment by the department.
The national manpower association membership exceeds
1,000, with the division’s largest membership in Georgia, said
Mrs. Coody. ’
During the past two years Nichols has been AVA manpower
training region four director. The region is composed of eight
Southeastern states.
Mrs. Howard M. (Doris) Yarbrough, chairman, department
of home economics and dean of girls at Cherokee High School
in Canton, is the new AVA National Home Economics Teachers
Association president.
A public school teacher for the past 28 years, she holds
numerous awards including that of Georgia’s 1970 Teacher of the
Year which was sponsored by the Georgia Department of Ed
ucation.
She was presented the 1970 Award of Merit from the National
Teachers of the Year Awards Program. In 1956, she was named
Canton City Schools Teacher of the Year by the state chamber
of commerce.
H. I, Jones, a vocational agriculture teacher at Pepperell
High School in Llndale, was elected vice president alternate
for region five for the AVA National Association of Teachers
of Vocational Agriculture. Jones is Georgia Association of
Teachers of Vocational Agriculture executive secretary.
There are seven states in his region.
Jones resides in the Pleasant Hope community near Rome.
Dr. Aleene Cross, head, home economics education depart
ment at the University of Georgia in Athene, is one of two cand
idates tor president of the national association.
She has served as president of the National Association of
Home Economics Teacher Educators.
Two books which she authored have been published by J. B.
Lipplncott.
The AVA 40,000 membership will vote for its new leader
by mail during February.
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NEWS
By Anthony Harrigan
Nineteen seventy-one has been anything but a cheering year
for Americans concerned about their country’s economic health
and the survival of a free society. It was a year in which both
economic principles and fundamentals of foreign policy were
abandoned.
As the year drew to an end, confidence in the U. S. dollar
ebbed rapidly in the world’s money markets. The Secretary of
the Treasury announced, while on a European trip, that the
U, s. government is prepared to devalue the dollar once
the symbol of America’s strength.
It was only a short time ago that the United States was the
arsenal of democracy, the rebuilder of a free Europe, the hope
of captive peoples in the communist world and the strongest
nation of earth. All that has changed in a brief historical period.
The U. S. dollar no longer is in demand because people around
the world no longer have faith in the future of the United States.
They aren’t convinced that our people hav e the staying power
necessary for greatness. They see that the American people
won’t put their fiscal house in order but, instead, are moving
very rapidly towards the type of welfare state that proved
so disastrous for Great Britain after World War 11.
The nations of the world are aware of the deterioration of
America's armed forces at a time when the Soviets are in
creasing their armaments as fast as possible. They take note
of the racial strife in theU.S.7th Army in Europe and the appa
lling relaxation of discipline and turn to permissiveness through
out the Army. They are aware that the U. S. government places
hopes on negotiations with the Soviet Union, despite the fact
that the Soviets arm while they talk.
The decline of the tough, bold American spirit is mirrored
in many ways. And the world gets the picture. Contempt for
the United States was evidenced most strikingly by the glee
at the United Nations when free China was expelled.
Unquestionably, the most dramatic and disturbing change in
foreign policy in 1971 was the Nixon administration’s about-face
on Red China.
After a quarter-century of containing Chinese communism,
the U. S. now is seeking an accommodation with one of the most
dangerous and brutal regimes in modern history. Almost
overnight, American magazines and television channels are
overflowing with articles about the “new” China. It is fash
ionable now to see no evil, hear no evil insofar as Peking is
concerned. It is apparent that the United States is moving towards
appeasement on a colossal scale. America's long role as the
major Pacific power is drawing to an end. Red China is likely
to achieve by political firmness and image-building what Im
perial Japan could not accomplish at Pearl Harbor.
Truly, the American nation is in disarray. At home, our
unwillingness to work as we did in the past is the root of our
economic trouble. Powerful unions represent a state within a
state, a counter-authority to the authority of government. During
our period of greatest economic crisis, our seaports were shut
down. President George Meany of the AFL-CIO allowed the
President of the United States to address the union delegates
but treated him in an insulting manner. On docks and in fac
tories and in many areas of work, unions use what can only be
described as privileged violence against business, government
and workers who do not want to bow to the union bosses. As
Arthur Krock said not long ago: “The picket line is now the
supreme law of the land.”
In the Congress there is a commendable revolt against foreign
aid. But the demogogic elements continue to demand that goodies
be lavished on the least productive sectors of our society.
Favoritism for the idle is politically fashionable and the prin
cipal device of those seeking public office.
The United States has never had such need for authentic
leadership, but there is little to be found. When President
Nixon announced his mission to Peking, which set the stage
for the betrayal of free China, only Sens. John Tower of
Texas and Peter Dominick of Colorado spoke out strongly In
opposition. Many of the congressmen who should have protested
appeasement in Asia and the imposition of the instruments
of an unfree society wage and price controls -- were silent.
Hardly any attention is paid to the massive deficits which have
become a fixture of the Nixon administration. The liberals are
laughing at the changes. Nicholas von Hoffman, the WASHING
TON POSTS’S house radical, happily noted this month that the
Nixon administration’s Family Assistance welfare plan “em
bodies and makes official one of the wildest dreams of the
1950’5.”
Many Americans understand what has happened in 1971.
They resent the turn towards a regimented economy and
abandonment of old friends and good allies overseas. They
oppose a guaranteed annual wage for people who are capable
of working. They know the United must strengthen its armed
forces or lose its freedom. They know the country must have
real leadership. And they are hoping that the nation will find
such leadership in 1972 and that national recovery and renewal
will begin in the New Year.
SAM CALDWELL LAMBASTS - FROM PAGE 1
the Governor appoints these commissioners either directly or
through the appointing Board and the Board appoints and therein
lies the answer to the questions that have been asked as to who
has the authority. They are not confirmed by the Senate
according to this Plan. They will possess more power than any
other elected official in this state other than the Governor.
My other objections, Mr. Chairman, are outlined in the analysis
and I have today transmitted this letter to the Governor in
which I am vetoing some 29 sections of this Plan. I remind
you that House Bill I states that if a constitutional officer,
affected by the proposed reorganization with an agency or
function established by a constitutional statute may object
thereto in writing within ten days of proposal affected.
In going through the Governor’s legislative plan there are
some 29 sections which I feel adversely affect the Georgia De
partment of Labor and I have so vetoed. I wish I had the
authority to veto the entire Plan because I would be doing a great
service to the people of this State. I would not hesitate one
moment. Then I would place my confidence in the members of
the General Assembly to study the savings that have been
proposed and to enact legislation to effect these savings. 1
submit to you that in my opinion, after studying the Plan very
thoroughly, I think it would best be laid to rest and have the
General Assembly consider it in affirmative bills as they do all
other legislation.
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