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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - JAN. 25, 1973
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Established 1908
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PAUL BEEMAN - EDITOR
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Editorial page
Decrying The “Blues”
The Public Affairs Committee of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention has asked the governor and Gene Mi-assembly to
“clarify and strengthen laws protecting Sunday as a day of
rest.” What they are asking boils down to the strict enforce
ment of blue laws which boils down under logteaM scrutiny
to dumb. We not only regard it as dumb but as a Constitut
ional infringement. We have no quarrel with those who wor
ship on Sunday. It is a fine day to pray for most and is rather
well seeped in tradition in this land of ours. But there are
those who worship on Saturday and somewhere out there are
persons who may like Tuesdays the best. And there are those
who worship when they will in the privacy of their homes
and of course those who choose not to worship at all. It is
the right and privilege of each to worship as he chooses so
long as it does not interfere with the rights of others. If a
man chooses to open his place of business on a Sunday or
any other day and another man chooses to trade with him it
in no way interferes with another’s worship. Some of us work
extra jobs and some find Sunday the most available day to
shop. For the churches to attemDt to thuslv control commerce
is unfair. It is as unfair as if the chamber of commerce asked
that churches not be permitted to hold revivals during the week
because Mondays through Fridays are days of business, not
days of worship.
Lake levels
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When The Postman
Chunked Corn To Quail
GEORGIA CONSERVATION- A
weekly conservation column
from the Georgia Conserving
Inc.
By Wayne Hanley
Northerners may laugh at the
rigors of a Georgia winter.
If they do, It Is because they
zip along the coast In heated
automobiles on the way to Flo
rida. The few who drove through
the northern half of Georgia last
week are probably more sympa
thetic.
Those who reserve the defin
ition of “rigor" In winter to a
low temperature must be per
sons who never experienced an
: ice storm. The Ice storm rea
ches perfection only In states
like ours where temperatures
are relatively mild an area
where moisture can fall • - rain
or drizzle and hit the j.ound
at a temperature hovering jus;
below the freezing mark. Th >
result Is an armor of Ice that
sheathes the world. And noth
ing requires more stamina front
man or wildlife than dealing witt
Ice.
In the days when mailmen trl
umphed over winter mud anu
occasional ice storms by using
a two-wheeled horse-drawn su
lky, my family received what
few letters It ever got from one
of these rural couriers.
When ice forced the mailman
to use the horse rather than
car, the state fish and game de
partment always provided him
with small paper bags filled
with cracked corn. It was his
privilege to arc one of these
bags over any hedge row that
he knew sheltered a covey of
quail. I say '‘privilege” be
cause it certainly was not a
duty an illegal infringementup
on the mail service. But it
saved many a covey by tiding
it over the hours that ice rei
gned.
While it is true, in general,
that any bird or mammal liv
ing in an area where ice sto
rms occur has evolved means
of coping with the problem, it
is equally true that ice storms
take quite a toll of the weak.
Ice is much more damaging than
snow. After a snowstorm, weed
heads usually still stand above
the snow. Trees and shrubs re
lease seeds upon the snow. But
a coating of ice seals even tree
seeds until the sun breaks thro
ugh.
There have been many labor
atory studies that subjected
bobwhltes to intense cold and
food deprivation. But what hap
pens to bobwhltes under natural
wild conditions still remains in
the realm of .conjecture. Most
wildlife managers know that
bobwhlte loss occurs but lack
accurate measurement of de
tails.
The classic study of the
bobwhlte, ‘‘The Bobwhlte Qua
il” by Herbert L. Stoddard,
Involved a section of Georgia
wher rigorous winters seldom
occur. In the study area be
tween Thomasvllle and Talla
hassee, cold rain was the most
serious weather factor for bob
whites. So, unfortunately, we
still have no adequate field in
formation on the effects of ice
storms on quail.
PAGE 2
I Fish Story J
\ BY PAUL BEEMAN J
There was always a dog or cat or two around as I was •
growing up and my mother usually fed them. But when she
f move into an apartment about six years ago such animals
were not allowed.
i “Couldn’t you have a bird or fish?” I asked while in Miami
i over Christmas.
“I coild, But I don’t want them,” she said.
“How about a bird. Wouldn’t you like a bird?”
“Eeyucch. I’d rather have fish.”
I* * *
i It was disgust in her eyes when I walked in with a large
carton with a multi-color illustration of kn aquarium on the
outside. In it were the ten gallon tank, air filter and pump,
a thermometer, thermostat and heater and a tank top neon
lamp.
In a polyethylene bag in a Chinese dinner pall were four
goldfish—two black Moors and two ordinary looking ones.
“I said I didn’t want fish,” Mom said of her Christmas
present.
“Not exactly,” I said a I beran assembling the kit.
* * *
We sat relaxed watching the fish eat and dart about dumbly
the way only fish and some politicians do.
“You’re getting to like them, huh?”
“No.”
“Well I do. Think I’ll get some when I get back to Cumming.”
“Take these.”
She called the other night and I askedhow the fish were doing.
They were okay. The ugly little black one with the voracious
nature and hammer-shaped-head is formally named “Beauty.”
Some of the others, but not all, have some kind of names. She
got aquarium gravel and put it in the water after following
rinsing instructions and it muddied up the water for a few days
but was alright now. She didn’t need the heater as the tempera
ture in Florida never gets cold enough to hurt goldfish. The
man in the fish store where she bought the gravel told her she
could leave the thermometer in for looks. He also said she
couldn’t buy any of the prettier, little tropical fish because
the goldfish would eat them, but that was okay as she liked the
goldfish anyway.
Mom said in the morning when she turned on the aquarium
light the fish got excited and she fed them as she drank her
coffee and that the other fish had picked up speed because, if
they didn’t Beauty got all the food.
She said she was also feeding them at night even though
the fish men said once a day was enough.
Why do you feed them twice if he said once?”
“It’s the way they look at me. Pm afraid if I don’t they’ll
follow me into the bedroom.”
BY MIKE EGAN
House Minority Leader
PROPERTY TAXES: PROVIDING RELIEF OR PASSING THE
BUCK
During this session of the General Assembly, the news
stories will probably be'dominated by developments in the
Lester-Jimmy power struggle, and to a lesser degree, by
the George L. -Jimmy power struggle. The concerned voter
will find that he is having a difficult time getting to the sub
stance of the weny issues being considered by the legislat
ure which - should not be related to the ambitions of particu
lar individuals or factions.
Basically, there are six questions of overriding importance
• which face this session of the General Assembly. These are
taxes, efforts to cut the crime rate, use of revenue sharing
money, no-fault insurance and other consumer protection
measures, land use planning, and Constitutional revision. I
Will attenpt to deal with each of these matters in succesive )I
issues of this newslette '
On the issue of taxes, we must first recognize that Georgia
generally has a well-balanced tax sysie. Taxes collected by
state and local governments are not too high in comparison
with taxes collected by other states in the Southeast. How
ever, there are some areas which drastically need attention,
and these are in the, property tax field.
Our general level of property taxes is not too high, but
the burden of these taxes is falling unfairly on two groups.
One is the homeowner, and the other is the small-to-middle
size farmer who would like to preserve his land for farming
purposes but is finding it almost impossible to do so and still
make a living because of the high valuation placed on his
land. This high valuation is most often attributable to the
acquisition of other properties in his neighborhood for specu
lation purposes. We simply must find some way to permit
the middle or low income homeowners to remain In his home
and the farmer to stay on his farm. Measures to do both ’
hopefully will be considered during this session of the General
Assembly. We should increase the homestead exemption from
S2OOO to SSOOO. We should also pass a Constitutional amend
ment permitting true farms (not the vast timber tracts owned
by very wealthy national corporations) to be valued at their
farming worth, provided that the farmer is willing to commit
the land to that use for a certain number of years. However,
the effect of both of these changes would be long delayed by
the necessity for a Constitutional amendment which could not
be voted on until 1974; Something needs to be done now and
that is what the Governor'is. trying to do with his property
tax relief proposal.
As this is written, the first week of (he legislature has ust
ended. At the outset, in order to provide some immediate
property tax relief, the Governor offered a proposal whereby
the legislature could have reduced taxes. Now this in itself
is most unusual. The Georgia legislature has not often had to
deal with proposals to reduce taxes and, when faced with this
prospect, the Georgia House panicked. It did not know how to
do it. Therefore, it decided not to reduce taxes, but to pass
the money on to other politicians, namely the school board
officials, and let them decide if they could figure out how to
reduce taxes.
It is Ironic that the General Assembly, which has considerable
experience in increasing taxes, should be so totally unable to
come up with an acceptable method for reducing them. The
method proposed by the Governor was certainly not perfect, but
the point is that the Georgia Hotise refused to even consider
any alternative method’s and made a hasty and 111-considered
decision that it would simply not reduce taxes, but would pass
that job on to the- school board officials. I wouldn't have thought
it to be suchadifflcultproblem.Sonow, you, the average citizen,
will not be getting any Immediate property tax relief unless
the Senate acts with more deliberation than the House or unless
the school board members pass on to you the additional monies
which House Bill 1 would provide for them. These school
board members would now be faced with the very difficult
decision as to whether to Improve the quality of education for
which they are responsible or to lower taxes. If they decide to
lower taxes, the average taxpayer will get only about one-third
of the benefits and corporate business concerns, which need
it the least, will get the other two-thirds.
JACK ANDERSON’S i
WEEKLY A
SPECIAL .A
Blocking Mao’s Missiles
by Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
WASHINGTON - The
Central Intelligence Agency
has reported that China is on
the verge of becoming a
superpower in intercontinen
tal missiles. The outgoing CIA
Director, Richard Helms, told
the Senate Armed Services
Committee behind closed
doors that he was “shocked”
to find how close China is to
superpower status in the
missile field.
It is true that China has
been building nuclear
missiles. The first missiles
already have been targeted
against Soviet cities. Helms
didn’t mention, however, that
the United States has
developed a defense against
Chinese warheads.
The CIA obtained samples
of the metal that the Chinese
use in their warheads. Our
own nuclear experts then con
structed duplicates of the
Chinese warheads. These
were detonated underground
in Nevada with X-rays from
another nuclear explosion.
Here’s how the experiment
worked. Two underground
explosion chambers were
built, connected by a tube.
The Chinese warhead was
placed in one chamber, and a
nuclear charge was set up in
the other chamber. The
charge was set off, sending X
rays through the tube. The X
rays then detonated the
Arthur Goldburg To Address Georgia Alums
ATHENS, Ga.—Arthur Gold
berg, former United States rep
resentative to the United
Nations, has -been scheduled
to give the keynote address
for the 1973 Alumni Seminar
at the University of Georgia.
The attorney, a former as
sociate justice of the U.S. Su
preme Court, will speak at
1:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Geor
gia Center for Continuing Ed
ucation. His talk will focus on
the theme of the two-day con
ference “Civilization at the
Dawn of the 21st Century.”
Georgia alumni from across the
nation are expected to attend
the annual get-together.
Also scheduled to speak are
university Law School Dean Ra
lph Beaird, law professors Pam
Harbrecht and Dean Rusk and
alumnus Robert E dge of Atlants.
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graph of the getiial OIC talking
with an elderly food stamp
with an elderly food stamp
recipient at his mountain home.
With his area recognized as a
leader in the field of nutrition
education, Anderson proudly
gives credit to his scores of
enthusiastic allies county
nutrition councils, Georgia Co
operative Extension Service
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home economists and nutrition
ists, staff members qf- comm
unity action agencies, rural
electric membership co-opera
tives, high school home econo
mic teachers, home demonstra
tion councils, 4—H and FHA
•Clubs, health departments, ch
urches, Departments of Family
and Children Services, the news
media and othes.
"To be honest,” he con
fesses, “about all I have to do is
to stand around and cheer.”
In explaining the increasingly
urgent need for more nutrition
education, Anderson Is quoted
as saying that malnutrition is
not confined to the low-income
families. Far too many upper
income families are negligent
when it comes to insisting that
♦ho»r children eat properly, he
ados.
Chinese warhead.
The tests were conducted at
various altitudes, which were
simulated in the underground
chambers, upon warheads of
various sizes. The results in
dicate that the U.S. should be
able to throw up an X-ray
screen, which would explode
oncoming Chinese warheads
in outer space.
The X-ray screen, however,
doesn’t work against Soviet
warheads which are made of
harder metals. There are also
reports that the Soviets have
made the same discovery. So
the Soviets, too, may be able to
detonate Chinese warheads in
space.
The Chinese missiles,
therefore, may not be as
ominous as Helms indicated
in his secret testimony.
Agnew Relieved
President Nixon has offered
to share federal revenues with
the cities and states. Yet at
the same time, he intends to
withhold around sl3 billion in
Federal funds for city
programs. This could increase
the growing rot in our great
cities.
Here are some of the im
mediate effects of the execu
tive stranglehold on urban
finances: The Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment has announced a freeze
on all housing subsidy
Harbrecht’s address, entitled
‘‘Zero Economic Growth,” is
set for 3:15 p.m. at the center
and will be followed by a dis
cussion session and, at 5:30
p.m., by a reception for Gold
berg at the Taylor-Grady House
here. Special dinner meetings
for seminar participants are
planned at the center and the
Athens Country Club.
Dean Rusk, Sibley Professor
of Law and former U.S. Secre
tary of State, will speak on
“The Prevalence of People"
Feb. 10 at 9:15 a.m. at the law
building. At 11 a.m. Beaird is
to talk on “The Prospect for
inuivxouai f reeuom.- uiscus
sion sessions will follow each
speech.
Edge, an attorney with Alston,
Miller and Gaines in Atlanta,
is the featured speaker for
A resident of Clarkesville,
Anderson is in charge of the Ga
inesville field office of'USD A’s
Food and Nutrition-Service.
Assisting him is Jim Childs,
Food Program Specialist, and
Mrs. Nettie Street, Secretary.
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programs. Important social
services can expect cutbacks
of nearly one billion dollars.
Other cuts in federal aid to
mental health will mean that
people will be turned out of
out-patient clinics. The
federal government also in
tends to punish cities, which
haven’t completely elimi
nated welfare chiselers by
withholding all welfare
funds.
The cutbacks have been the
work largely of the Office of
Intergovermental Relations,
which Vice President Spiro
Agnew has headed. Urban
officials, therefore, started
bombarding the Vice Presi
dent’s office with their com
plaints. They were told,
however, that he is no longer
in charge. Agnew had quietly
asked the President to
remove the Office of In
tergovernmental Relations
from his jurisdiction.
President Nixon obligingly
dissolved Intergovernmental
Relations and moved the staff
into the new Domestic Coun
cil. Insiders say the move was
politically motivated. Agnew
has his eye on the presiden
tial nomination in 1976 and
can’t afford to alienate local
political leaders. He heaved a
sigh of relief when In
tergovernmental Relations
closed down.
Behind the Scenes
SILENT MINORITY -
While President Nixon was
making points with Chou En
lai in Asia, he was lasing cre
dibility with his Chinese-
American supporters at
home. A prominent Chinese-
American, we have learned,
quietly pressured the White
House to include a Chinese-
American translator in the
President’s entourage to
China last February. But the
the seminar’s closing luncheqn
Saturday. His talk is titled “The
Unfinished Business of the
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White House ignored the ap
peal which was made by
David Wang, now a European
correspondant for Voice of
America. After the trip White
House aide John Holdridge
reportedly explained to Wang:
“Frankly , David, we wanted
to present the majority of the
U.S. in this case and not the
minority."
HARTKE HANDSTAND -
Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., ap
parently has broken a com
mitment with union officials
to back Sen. Ted Kennedy’s
Health Care bill. Two weeks
ago, union officials persuaded
Hartke to co-sponsor Kenne
dy’s bill. Then Hartke huddled
with American Medical
Association lobbyists. No one
knows exactly what was said.
But Hartke emerged from the
meeting and told his staff he
would no longer support Ken
nedy’s bill. Union officials
howled in disbelief. When a
staff member told Hartke that
union members were saying
he had welched on his com
mitment to him, Hartke
angrily fired the hapless aide
on the spot. Fortunately, other
aides intervened and a cooler
Hartke reinstated the staffer.
But union lobbyists are still
boiling over Hartke’s flipflop.
TENNIS MAINTENANCE
Gen. Paul Carleton took
over the command at Scott
Air Force.base in Illinois re
cently and was aghast to find
no warm place to play his
favorite sport, tennis. Coming
from a hitch in California,
Gen. Carleton had developed
an interest in the game. Upon
his arrival in Illinois,
however, the General quickly
remedied the situation. He
converted an old maintenance
hanger into an indoor tennis
court* The estimated cost:
$2,500.
Law.” Edge serves as secre
tary of the University of Geor
gia Foundation.
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