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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-THURSDAY-SFPTFIMBER 7, 1972-1
THE Bounty NEWS
Established 1908
Tony Maddox, Editor I Publisher
Minor Martin, Advertising M|r.
John D. Solesbee, Newt Editor
Published ovary Thurtdey by Tha Forayth County
News Company. Sacond Claaa Pottage paid at: Poat
Office in Cumming, Georgia under Act of Match Bth
in 1897. Subacription ratea in Forayth and adjoining
count tea, $4.12 par year, including State Sale* Tax„
elsewhere, $5.15 par year.
107 DAHLONEGA ST. CUMMING, GEORGIA...
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Editorially Speaking
Working Together
Politicking in Forsyth County is over for a while
now and the county has some new faces in govern
ment.
Perhaps the candidate you were supporting didn’t
make his bid for a seat. Nevertheless, the electorate of
the county has given a majority to the candidates to
take office and these candidates should receive your
support, too.
This county has a long road ahead in the years
upcoming and whether the road is wisely followed
will depend largely on the support lawmakers and
officeholders receive from individual citizens.
Great strides in progress can be made if the county
will work as one and not as varied groups for certain
pleasures.
The new five-man board of commissioners with a
county manager to be named should prove to be a
boon for this county. However, we shouldn’t expect
it to be faultless nor should we expect it to solve all
the problems.
We should expect, though, for these men to work
for us and with us, and they, in turn, should expect
the same from the citizens.
Why Are You So Tired?
Capsuled Comments, Junt, i
The next time people ask you why you are tired, tell
them. Your exhaustion is fully justified and you
can prove it by a few simple statistics:
The U.S. has a population of 200 million. Of these,
72 million are over 65, leaving 128 million people to do
the work. When you subtract the 75 million people
under 21, you get 53 million. There are also 27,471,002
employed by the Federal Government in one capacity or
another, which leaves 25,528,998 to do the work. The
8 million in the Armed Forces leave only 17,528,998 to
do the work and when you subtract from this the 15
million on state and city government payrolls, and the
1,520,000 in hospitals, mental institutions and similar
places, the work force is reduced to 1,520,000. Fine
but there are an estimated 800,500 bums, vagrants and
others with a pathological fear of work. That leaves
208,498 people to carry the national workload, 208,496
of whom are presently behind bars. Which, brother,
leaves you and me. And I don’t know about you, but
I’m getting tired.
V SOUi/ijUjfaf iVjACUHMESM
Special Report from Washington
SHRIVER DECLARES HIS
INDEPENDENCE
By Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
(Copyright, 1972, by Unite*! Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
WASHINGTON —ln the
midst of campaigning hard for
George McGovern, Democra
tic vice presidential candidate
Sargent Shriver is quietly de
claring his independence of the
Kennedys.
Shriver, whose marriage to
Eunice Kennedy 19 years ago
made him a charter member of
the Kennedy circle, has thus
far carefully avoided painting
himself as a bearer of the
Kennedy legacy.
Instead, in his campaign
speeches, Shriver has drawn
on his experiences with Lyn
don Johnson, whom Shriver
repeatedly describes as a great
architect of domestic affairs.
Shriver's campaign tactics
rebut those who claimed a
month ago that McGovern's
choice of Shriver as his run
ning mate was an attempt to
cash in on the Kennedy charis
ma.
Intimates tell us just the
opposite is true—that neither
the Shrivers nor the Kennedys
particularly want the associa
tion.
Members of Ted Kennedy's
staff, we are told, often view
Shriver as an outsider who
parlayed his association with
the family into a shot at the
big time. As proof, they review
his resume of jobs:
First. Shriver managed the
Chicago Merchandise Mart for
old Joe Kennedy. Then he ran
the Peace Corps and the pov
erty program. Finally, he be
came Ambassador to France.
All along the way. some
Kennedy insiders feel. Shriver
traded on the family name.
But Shriver's friends argue
that the association with the
Kennedys has hurt as well as
helped the vice presidential
candidate.
Twice, the Kennedys inter
verned to prevent Shriver
from accepting the vice presi
dency. In 1964, Lyndon John
son dangled the job in front of
Shriver. but the Kennedys
reportedly objected and LBJ
withdrew the offer.
Shriver reacted bv staying
with the Johnson Administra
tion even after Bobby Kenne
dy announced he would run
against LBJ in 1968.
Four years ago, Hubert
Humphrey considered choos
ing Shriver as his running
mate, but once again the Ken
nedys intervened.
Then came George McGov
ern. who may have offered
Shriver his last chance to
declare his independence of the
Kennedys. If Shriver runs a
good race, he will become a
powerful figure in the presi
dential stakes in 1976.
Perhaps this is what Teddy
Kennedy is really worried
about.
PAGE 2
Johnny Solesbee *
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Write On! \
How To Sink A VW!
Only a few days before, I had seen the movie. “What's Up
Doc:"', and when the cars ran off a pier during the hilarious
chase scene, the only one to float was a Volkswagen.
So here we were, two buddies and I. bouncing through the
pasture looking tOT ueer uacxs. The Volkswagen taxing to
the roughs of the pasture like a well-trained saddle horse.
We came to a narrow passageway between a hill and a large
stream. In the middle of the passageway was what looked like
surface mud, maybe where a summer shower's splatterings
hadn't dried.
"Think we can make It across?"
"Yeah, get up some speed. She'll make it."
Reverse. Volkswagen backs up, ready to lurch forward.
First gear. Volkswagen begins to lurch. Here we go. Ride
'em super bug!
Mud hole’s coming up fast. Gas her, John!
Closer we got to the mud, the more I began to wonder If we’d
make It across. Too late to turn back now! Mud hole was upon us.
We entered with a splash. Mud was flung upon the windshield.
Thank goodness for windshields! The front bumper had sunk into
the mud upon entry.
The VW had leveled out in the hole. If the mud had been a mite
thinner, I believe we would’ve floated. But, we were sinking.
Windows roll down. Hang head out. Head in. Windows fly up.
The “mud hole" had only a smidgen of mud, I reckon. After all
it WAS a cow pasture!! Got to have some relief. Gas her, John!
First gear, spin. Second gear, spin. Third gear, spin.
Fourth gear, spin. Reverse, spin. Stuck! Sinking! Stinking!
How do we get out? (Not out of the hole, out of the car).
We're slap-dab in the middle of that huge ole hole. Doors open.
Look around. Doors close. Windows go down to let out the odor.
Windows go up. More’s coming in than's going out.
It’s getting hot with the windows up, the doors closed. Please
don't sink any deeper VW! Crank. Gas her, John-n-n! Tailpipes
underneath the mud. Mud’s a-flying! Stuck!
Got to get out. Sweat’s a-rolling! Door opens. Fingers squeeze
nose. Jump! Splat! Start to run! Spinning! Start to fall! Grab
fence post. Fingers back to nose. Steady. Walk. Got to have
some relief!
Go back to house. Hot, sweating, smelling.
I figured the VW would have sunk by the time I went to pull
it out two days later. It was there, a pitiful sight in the middle
of that hole.
I won’t describe the nasty process of getting it out of the
hole, but I will say it’s been put out to pasture.
What I’m hoping for is one of those hard, splattering, rural
summer rains.
Don't Nail To Utility Poles
Stop! Don’t nail that cam
paign poster, garage sale sign
or PTA announcement to the
nearest utility pole. The nail
could cause serious injury to
a lineman.
Georgia Power Company of
ficials caution that foreign ob
jects embedded in a pole can
prevent a lineman’s climbing
hooks from entering the pole
properly and can result in a
disabling fall.
“Even if striking a nail does
no immediate harm, it can dull
NIXON’S PLAN
President Nixon intends not
only to win the November
election but to keep the repub
lican party in power for the
next 20 years. The President
has adopted a methodical,
four-strategy plan to broaden
the party's base and to make
the GOP the majority party in
America. Here are his four
strategies:
—Southern strategy—To
break the Democratic party’s
hold on the South, Nixon
began playing Southern poli
tics in 1968. He promised a
Supreme Court more sympa
thetic to the South and tried
unsuccessfully 'to appoint a
southerner to the first Su
preme Court vacancy. The
President also slowed down
the rush to integrate the
schools and came out against
busing.
—Catholic strategy The
President has courted Cath
olics assiduously by opposing
abortion and favoring federal
aid to parochial schools. This
is expected to cut into the
traditional Democratic vote in
Catholic parishes.
—Jewish strategy —Nixon
has taken a strong pro-Israel
stand, which is winning Jew
ish votes away from the De
mocratic party.
Labor strategy—The Pres
ident intervened to prevent
the GOP from adopting its
customary anti-labor plat
form. He also arranged to be
at the golf course at the right
time to join AFL-CIO chief
George Meany for a round of
golf. Afterward, the two men
talked privately for more than
an hour. Thereafter, Meany
used his personal influence to
try to stop individual unions
from endorsirfg George Mc-
Govern.
FRIEND OR FOE?
President Nixon would like
to be known as the consumer's
friend. Yet it was the White
House that delivered the final.
“What’s Up
a hook and cause trouble later,”
said M.E. Wade Jr., power
company safety manager.
"As a lineman climbs or
descends a pole, he exerts
great pressure on his climbing
gear. If one of his hooks doesn’t
make firm contact because of
an obstruction or because it
has been dulled, it can slip
and cause the man to fall.”
A pole studded with nails,
staples and tacks presents a
deadly trap to an unsuspecting
lineman, Wade warned.
killing blow to no-fault auto
insurance.
No-fault insurance would do
away with the problem of
deciding who's responsible for
auto accidents. Every driver
would look to his own insur
ance company to pay his med
ical and repair bills. No longer
would we need lawyers to
settle accident case.
This, of course, would mean
that trial lawyers would lose
about a billion dollars a year in
fees. Their loss would be the
consumers' gain ultimately in
the form of lower premiums.
The bill that would have
established a national no-fault
system finally came to the
Senate floor a few weeks ago.
Despite the opposition of the
trial lawyers, it was given a
good chance to pass. But
then the White House went to
work.
The President’s team of
lobbyists included David Gun
ning, who works for White
House fixer Peter Flanigan.
Wallace Johnson, the Presi
dent's lobbyist in the Senate,
also worked against the bill.
The Department of Transpor
tation contributed one of its
congressional "liaison men,”
Jim Rose. Even the Justice
Department sent two powerful
operatives, Donald Santarelli
and Paul Woodard, up to
Capitol Hill to lobby against
no-fault insurance.
At least four Republican
senators, we are told, were
originally in favor of no-fault
but their minds were changed
by the White House team. By
voting time, the administra
tion knew the bill was dead.
John Evans, a staff man for
the President's domestic af
fairs adviser, John Erlichman,
sat in the Senate gallery and
witnessed the execution.
It may have been a triumph
for the White House, but it
was a defeat for the nation's
auto owners.
Back To Integrity
BY JAN HUGHES
For the past five years, we have seen and the acquaintance
of confusion, drugs, crime increase, a decline of morality anti
basically people out of touch with their reality, but people
are pulling out of their mental depression so the “American
future is going to shock the counterculture freaks.”
You could have sketched a three-inch smile right off my face
last Saturday morning when I read that quote in Reg Murphy’s
column. He said the new direction was super-square.
Our new direction can also be termed “straight.”
A fact, the American crime rate is down this year. This is
a good reflection upon all people.
Another fact, one third of the mental patients in American
hospital beds are suffering from mental disorders of schizophr
enic, neurotic and phychotic conditions.
This alone points out that wavy vaaws i*m fill our nospitals.
Somewhere, we must realize the value of a continuous American
heritage.
Herman Kahn says “we’ve abandoned too many traditional
values and we haven’t replaced them with satisfactory new .
values.” How true!
When we stopped attending worship services, the psychia
trists had to create grot® therapy.
By screening patients with similar problems, they could
treat the increased number.
People are tired of being confused and they are tired of
hearing fakes. It is not hard to be honest and straight, but it is
hard to be a fake.
One is not sure of the role he is to play. Fortunately, the people
of America are beginning to say Show me a real person of
character and truth for a model.
For the past five years, we have been down. We are ready
to get up and shock the freaks.
It is time to terminate confusion, crime, people out of
touch back into a country filled with soundness, integrity and
character.
Letters To Editor
Ought
To Discuss
Sabbath
Dear Editor:
The Hebrew word Sabbath
means rest. The Sabbath ought
to be discussed by someone be
ing as our leaders do not.
On the seventh day, God ended
His work which He had made and
He rested on the seventh day.
This was the first Sabbath.
When God gave Moses the Ten
Commandments He gave the one
about the Sabbath. It said, “ Keep
the Sabbath day to sanctify. Six
days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work. In it thou shalt not do
any work, thou nor thy son nor
thy daughter nor thy man ser
vant, nor thy maid servant, nor
thy ox and so 0n..” Deut. 5:12,
13,14.
In these fast days the Sabbath
is looked upon lightly by most
people but the command is just
the same. God never changes.
People trade on Sunday, go to
the stores, go fishing, go to the
races. They do most any kind of
work. These things are breaking
the Holy Sabbath and ought not to
be. God said six days thou shalt
labor and do all thy work. We
must not desecrate God’s Holy
Sabbath.
After the resurrection of
Christ, the disciples kept die
first day of the week as the
Sabbath to commemorate
Christ’s death and suffering.So
do we now.
Christ taught the Command
ments Mark 10:19. He said let
your light shine. We are not
letting our light shine if we
break the Sabbath and engage in
worldly things. Christians ought
not to engage in the sins and
evils and scum of this world.
"That ye be blameless, the sons
of God, without rebuke, in the
midst of a crooked and perver
se nation, among whom ye shine
as lights in the world.”
When Christ left thlswortihe
commanded his disciples to
teach all things he had comm
anded them. Matt. 28:20.
Doth not he see my ways,
and count all my steps? Job
31:4.
A reader
Troop 39
Begins Drive
Boy Scout Troop 39 has be
gun its annual recruit drive.
Any boy between the ages of
11 and 18 who wishes to join
the troop may attend any meet
ing and Join, a spokesman said.
Troop 39 meets at the building
beside the VFW building, three
miles north of Cumming on Hi
ghway 19.
For Information one may call
Mr. Dewitt at 887-2929 or Mr.
Songer at 887-2858.
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Thanks...
I wish to thank all
the people of Forsyth County
who voted for and supported
me in my campaign
for Commissioner Post I.
Sincerely 9
Lamar Sexton