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Card To Townsfolk
From Across Miles
Everybody likes to get mail
except (or bills. And, this past
week our town received a card.
Last Saturday, our postman de
livered to The News a card to “the
Townspeople.”
The card showed a little rural
house on the cover with a stream,
hunters and a garden in the back
ground. It said on the front simply,
“Happy Thanksgiving From
Across the Miles.”
Inside, there was a message that
said, “Hi townspeople: I love to
watch Hee-Haw. Please tell Junior
A Worthwhile Project
By Dedicated Workers
Hundreds of folks turned out dur
ing the weekend to the First Great
Chicken House Festival, a worth
while project that was held in For
syth County by the Sawnee Arts
Association.
It was obvious that there was a
tremendous amount of planning
and work put into the festival and
all for a very good cause.
And, when the time comes to
hold the first play in the new Civic
Center, those that worked so hard
can look back to these days with a
certain amount of pride, knowing
Congratulations To
’Dogs And Falcons
How ‘bout them dawgs is an un
derstatement.
There are among us a number of
loyal University of Georgia foot
ball fans if you didn’t know it by
now. Many in the community have
made the trek to games throughout
the south this year to follow the
‘dogs.
We would probably be amiss if
we didn’t take a minute to recog
nize the achievements accom
plished by this year’s team.
Unlike any other nationally
rated team, the Bulldogs are unde
feated and untied and hold down
the number one rating in the coun
try. They are Sugar Bowl bound
and are probably riding higher
than ever.
It’s been a long, long time since
the Bulldogs have brought that
kind of national recognition to the
state of Georgia. It’s a historical
occasion that we can share and re
member, despite c r previous
Selecting The Cabinet
President-elect Ronald Reagan
has already indicated that the new
administration’s cabinet will play
a major decision-making role in
government policy decisions dur
ing the next four years.
As a symbolic gesture, Reagan
has announced he will house the
top-level cabinet members in exec
utive offices within the White
House to show the administration’s
cohesiveness and to reflect the im
portance of cabinet positions.
There is no doubt at the presi
dent-elects’ motive: i good, but
we urge him to show reme cau
tion in selecting appo. tees to fill
cabinet posts.
Reagan has indicated he will
surround himself with a virtual
army of experts. We hope that he
will, and that those experts will
uphold the principles of the na
tion’s government.
We are still haunted, however,
with memories of former Presi
dent Nixon’s elite corps of advisors
Wlffl FORSYTH mitilAfg
IXIXI COUNTY lIXIVVS
ROGER HENDERSON
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Samples I said Hello! I hope your
weather is ok! I hope you all are
ok, too! Your friend, R.J. Blum, 3-
mile Road, N.W., Grand Rapids,
Mi. 49504.”
The printed portion of the card,
on the right hand inside page said,
“Hoping that this greeting and the
happy wishes in it will make the
miles between us disappear for
just a minute! Happy Thanksgiv
ing.”
Well, from us to you, we say,
Happy Thanksgiving Mr. Blum
and thanks for the nice card.
that they did something that will
stand in this community forever.
The Sawnee Arts Association de
serves a lot of credit for the idea of
putting money into this very
worthwhile project.
Several of their members are
working hard on a project that will
be very beneficial to this commu
nity.
We hope that the future will be
good to this organization and that
the community will give them sup
port in this endeavor.
alma maters.
We’re proud of the University of
Georgia Bulldogs and what they
have done this season. Although
it’s not over yet there’s still
Georgia Tech the Bulldogs have
done what no other team in the na
tion has done and our red hats are
off to them.
And, while we’re talking about
football, we’re glad to see some of
our own making it big in the Na
tional Football League.
Right here in Forsyth County is
the home of Falcon Quarterback
Steve Bartkowski, June Jones and
Leeman Bennett.
The Falcons have shown they
are a mature contender for this
year’s division title and have
shown determination and together
ness in the battles they have fought
and win this year.
Congratulations to these two
teams. We’re glad you represent
us in the sports world today.
who served as a political buffer be
tween the president and the Ameri
can people, and who became
obsessed with the power of their
positions and turned their exper
tise into self-serving ventures
with the protection of the president
their utmost responsibility.
There is already some talk that
Reagan may return former Nixon
appointees to high positions in the
government. Let us all remember
the way some of those appointees
prostituted their position under the
pretense of serving the nation in its
best interest.
We urge president-elect Reagan
to patiently examine each poten
tial cabinet-level appointee,
judging not only the appointee,
judging not only the appointee’s
knowledge and expertise, but also
his or her ability to handle author
ity without becoming obsessed
with power.
The Gwinnett Daily News
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EDOIE STOWE
Publisher 4 Editor
CUMMING. GEORGIA
WSB Radio in Atlanta runs periodic
editorial comments by its manager,
Elmo Ellis, a sort of op-ed page of the
airways.
Usually, Ellis does a pretty good job.
But every now and then, he comes
out with a real zinger.
He did the other day, and I am forced
to disagree with him.
Recently, two top FBI officers were
convicted in Washington, D.C., of au
thurizing illegal breakins into the
homes of those the bureau was keeping
under surveillance. Some of the vic
tims were members of the more ex
treme lunitic fringe of American
politics, including the Weathermen.
In case you’ve forgotten, these were
the ones who rioted at the 1968 Demo
cratic convention in Chicago. They
were a rather incoherent anti-every
thing group that no one except them
selves and apparently the FBI took
seriously.
Ellis said, as I remember, that the
FBI men should have been acquitted
because they were engaged in a war
with the Weathermen, who were ded
icated to overthrowing the government
of the United States.
Also, Ellis added, the breakins hap
pened a long time ago.
Does Mr. Ellis know what he is
speaking about?
I can only fervently hope and pray
that he does not.
I have listened to many comments on
the drug raid; I have read the letters to
the editor of The Forsyth County News
and the editorials in the Atlanta pa
pers. I have listened as young people,
teachers and parents evaluated the sit
uation. I’ve heard law officers and
school officials give their opinions. I’ve
heard a community of people with chil
dren, without children, with grown chil
dren and with preschoolers express
their views. With this information in
mind, here is my column.
If harmful drugs were in the posses
sion of one child, found in file cabinets,
trailers, or trash cans, we have a prob
lem.
If a drug raid was held to prove there
was no problem in the school, the pur
pose, results and the actions taken are
our most dangerous problems.
The use, possession, and distribution
of mind altering drugs is definitely an
area of concern and should get our at
tention.
There are many other problems that
Back in the late 19605, I worked with
Johnny Solesbee at The Times in Gai
nesville.
Johnny, as some of you might re
member, worked at The Forsyth
County News in the early 19705. He
later went back to work at The Times,
worked with me again at The Winder
News in Winder and now is managing
editor of The Gwinnett Daily News in
Lawrenceville.
When Johnny and I worked at The
Winder News, we used to sit and talk
about what we would write our columns
about each week. Sometimes I would
give him ideas, sometimes, he would
give me ideas.
Instead of getting an idea from
Johnny this week for a column, I just
took a column of his instead. And here
it is:
Ever since Jimmy Carter went north
to be president of the United States,
there’ve been various attempts by
Northern folk to devise guides tohelp
those in other parts of the country un
derstand our Southern language.
All those attempts at vocabulary
SHE ILA MARTIN
Classified t, Production
Disagreeing With Opinion
Of An Editorial On Radio
There Are Many Problems
That Should Get Concern
He Won’t Mind If I Borried A Column i
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What these FBI men were appar
ently doing was no minor traffic of
fense, but spying on those with political
beliefs different from theirs. The gov
ernment, or at least part of it, deemed
the Weathermen dangerous and, in
some twisted perception of reality, set
the secret police to spy on them.
To condone this is to undermine the
very fabric of our republic. More tri
tely, two wrongs don’t make a right.
On of the cardinal principals of our
system of government is that each man
may believe whatever he wants with
out fear of persecution.
As the 18th century French philos
pher Voltaire said, “I may not agree
with what you say, but I will defend to
the death your right to say it “
I think that clashes with allowing the
FBI to illegally sneak in to the home of
someone they don’t like. If the FBI can
produce enough justification for a
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should also get our concern.
Imagine yourself in the dirtiest serv
ice station restroom you have ever en
tered; that is the condition of the
restrooms in our high school. Our chil
dren cannot develop healthy attitudes
about school in an atmosphere of dirt
and grime.
Forsyth County does not have a com
munity center and many times the high
school gymnasium must be used in
stead of a school cafeteria. However,
its availability is limited and the rules
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guides have been just that —attempts.
If someone isn’t a bom-and-raised
Southerner, he just can’t sit down at
the typewriter and devise a guide to
our vocabulary. i
I can spot a non-Southerner-written
guide with a couple of words. For ex
ample, one guide I’ve seen says “spar”
is a replacement tire for a vehicle in
case one on the ground becomes flat.
Hogwash! Everbody knows “spar” is
a little ole bird that’s dadgum messy.
For the benefit of those non-South
eraers who continue to embarrass us
true Southerners with attempts at defi-
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search warrant, then more power to
them. If not, let them leave the Weath
ermen, or anyone else for that matter,
well enough alone.
To allow the FBI, the guardian of the
law, to break it in the name of enforc
ing it is shear madness. It is sort of like
destroying that Vietnamese village in
order to save it.
Who is to determine which fringe
or not-so-fringe group is a threat to
the government and is thus to be sub
jected to illegal breakins? How is this
to be done? By a clandestine meeting in
some Washington office?
Never happen, you say?
Think back to the Nixon years, to the
Watergate breakin, the hush money,
the gaps on the tapes and the enemies
list. We were perilously close to having
our own President steal our govern
ment right our from under us.
Those FBI men were convicted for
doing things that strike at all I hold
dear.
It was only a small trial, to be sure.
Most of the press coverage came be
cause former President Richard Nixon
testified at it, trying to justify the be
havior of the FBI.
But the implications are far-reach
ing.
Mr Ellis, I do not agree with what
you say. Most assuredly, I do not.
But never, ever would I go along with
turning the secret police loose on you.
for its use are often absurd and unnec
essary. Besides, to use it, you must be
prepared to clean it up.
If we expect to acquire and keep
well-educated and dedicated teachers,
then parents and administration should
give them more support and stress dis
cipline. It is not fair to teachers or chil
dren when a handful of discipline
problems are allowed to constantly in
terrupt classes and no action be taken
to stop them.
The majority cf young people are not
hooked on drugs. The majority are not
undisciplined. The majority are in
school to learn. The majority of teach
ers are dedicated to stimulating young
minds with knowledge.
There are many problems in any
school. There is much said and much
read about the problems in our society
and among our young people. However,
there is not one problem that cannot be
solved by observation, determination,
concern and proper action.
ning our language, here’s my bom-and
raised-Southem guide:
Tar what it takes four of for a car
to roll on. The most recent devel
opment in the line is the radial tar.
Ranch that’s what it takes to get a
flat tar off your car. It’s commonly
known as a lug ranch.
Rat-cheer that’s a specific place
such as, “Put that spare tar rat-cheer
till we find a ranch to get these lugs
off.”
Rat-now a specific time, such as
“You put that spare tar rat-cheer, and
find me a lug ranch and I mean do it
rat-now boy.”
Office a way to express the re
moval of something from something
else, such as, “I’m gonna need some
help getting the lugs office wheel, if you
ever find that lug ranch.”
Fur piece a measure of distance,
such as, “If you’ve left the lug ranch
outta the boot, you gonna have to walk
a fur piece to the station to borry one.”
Boot that’s where you keep your
spare tar. Your lug ranch should be
kept there, also.
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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1980
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Some Notes
About The
Elections
Some final notes on the election:
Even though the entire country now
knows who the next president and vice
president of the United States will it
is interesting to note that the outcome
is still not quite official.
In fact, it will not be official till De
cember when the electors who were
chosen in November will mark their
ballots and mail them to Washington'
When the Congress convenes in Jan
uary, the ballots will be opened before
a joint session of the two houses and the
official results will be announced.
This, in essence, is only a formality.
Yet president-elect Ronald Reagan and
vice-president-elect George Bush
already preparing to take office.
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And some interesting facts about elee;
tions:
• President-elect Reagan will
sworn in at noon on January 20, 198 J,
But did you know that, before the adopt
tion of the 20th amendment in 1933,
presidents were inaugurated on Mart*
4?
• It seems like everyone knows. ths
president earns a taxable salary , oi,
$200,000 a year. But how many of us
aware of what the vice-presideij;
earns? Try $79,000.
• Just for the record, the ex-president
receives a $66,000 a year lifetime pen-,
sion, free mailing privileges, free office
space, up to $90,000 a year for office
help and Secret Service protection for
life.
• There is a general consensus
among political scientists that the size
of voter turnout often relates directly to
election outcome. A low turnout, for ex
ample, tends to favor Republican can
didates. And when economic issues are
at stake in an election, Democratic vot
ers tend to turn out in larger numbers.'
Forsyth County had a 67 percent votetf
turnout in the Nov. 4 general election.
• In every national election there are
several million voters, who, because of
travel or illness, are unable to vote on
election day. These people are afforded
the opportunity to secure absentee bal
lots, but few ever go to the trouble. If s
a shame because absentee voters can
influence the outcome of an election.
Consider election year 1960 when a late
count of absentee ballots in California
swung that state’s electoral votes from
John F. Kennedy to Richard M. Nixon. .
• It is interesting to note the changes
in campaign strategies from this coun
try’s early days to the present. Today
candidates travel thousands of miles
all over the country, making hundreds
of speeches.*But in 1860 Abraham Lin*,
coin won the election for the Republi
can party without leaving Illinois or
making a single speech.
• Ronald Reagan will be the oldest
president ever to hold office come Jan
uary, 1981. Because of this fact, presi
dential succession is somewhat of a
concern.
• And one final question I have’:
Should a person who has been ap l
pointed to fill an elected office be con
sidered an incumbent?
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by WALTER SMITH 1 IL^
My friend Hulen says his grandkids
are a behavior problem, but can go for
long periods without being ill-man
nered. Then they wake up.
Borry the act of getting a loan of
an item or items for a short while. Such
as, “Whew, dadburn the cotton-pickin’
luck! I’ve walked a fur piece, cause we
gottal flat tar and I need to borry a lug
ranch.”
Am that’s either a hard piec6 6f
metal or a thang what gets the wrinkles
outta clothes. Such as, “Hey, Slim. Thjs
feller here wants to borry a tar ainrt;
you-me let him have it?”
Ax the act of posing a question,
such as, “Slim, I ax you a question"
And, Slim replies, “Don’t ax me; nty
head’s hurting so bad I can’t thank. ”'
Are can be used several different
ways. One example is that the Indians
were known to use a bow and are to kill
game for food. In the South, it also is
used to express forthrightly a direction
one should take. Such as, “That Slim
Feller ain’t been right since his woman
throwed the clothes am and hit him in
the noggin’. But, I’m gonna loan you
this here tar am, and when you finisbt
you better come straight as an are rat
back here with it, feller.”