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Opinion
Sunday, September 30, 1984
Keeping kids in school
Georgia House Speaker Tom
Murphy is correct when he
says that many students
mmmmm lose interest in education
by age 15. He is wrong in suggest
ing that they should be allowed to
quit school at 15 rather than the
currently accepted level of 16.
Murphy has suggested that
keeping non-interested students in
the classrooms does nobody any
good, but creates problems for
many. He suggests that such a
lowering of the state’s compulsory
school attendance age would allow
for improved concentration by ed
ucators on students who are inter
ested in educational advancement.
Sure, some 15-year-olds would
rather quit school. So would some
at 14 or 12 or any age.
Sure, forced school attendance
creates problems for numerous
people. And concern with drilling
simple math into Johnny’s head
curtails time and effort available
A wise decision
Gov. Joe Frank Harris’s survi
val of General Assembly battles
and his climb to the governor’s
office are proof of his political
acumen, so it is not surprising that
he understood a gubernatorial sal
ary increase proposed by the State
Commission on Compensation
needed to be rejected outright and
quickly.
Harris did just that last week,
saying he didn’t ask for a pay
raise, didn’t expect one, and cer
tainly wouldn’t work for one.
Handicapped access
Governmental bodies receiving
revenue sharing funds are re
quired to submit to the federal
government by mid-October plans
for making their offices accessible
to the handicapped, and structural
changes necessary to allow hand
icap access must be completed by
this time next year.
It is unfortunate that after many
years of noting the problems fac
ing the handicapped, there remain
public offices which are inaccessi
ble to those in wheelchairs or fac
ing other handicaps.
Handicapped residents have a
federal law mandating changes
with the loss of federal monies as a
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to help Albert master calculus.
Sure, most good students will
remain in school anyway.
However, lowering the manda
tory age to 15 would have definite
drawbacks.
It would be giving up on some
students who desperately need
help in standing up to their prob
lems not an invitation to quit.
Such a law relaxation would
encourage some good students to
quit early, for economic or other
reasons.
Education is becoming more im
portant every day. Children, more
than ever, need to be prepared for
the future, led to productive lives.
There is an alternative to a pro
ductive life. It is called welfare.
We feel that the Georgia educa
tion system should be re-dedicated
with more emphasis on productive
life not just for good students
but also for those who need, and
should get, extra encouragement.
The governor is currently com
pensated at a rate of $74,167 a
year, one of the top salaries in the
nation for a state’s chief executive
position. Accepting the proposed
$6,000 pay increase would have
been politically damaging and
would have been contradictory to
Harris’ fiscally conservative repu
tation.
There is an old country express
ion noting that it doesn’t take long
to look at a hot horseshoe and
Harris didn’t bother to dally long
with this one.
penalty.
In this instance, the need should
be obvious and the threat of penal
ties unnecessary.
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Remembering hogkilling time
“Won't be long a’fore it’s hogkilling
time.”
Many might remember those words from
our parents or grandparents scone might
still hear than. I remember the first time I
heard them and followed it up.
At least once a week after I heard my
grandad say that, I asked him when “hogkil
ling” time would be here. “Won’t be long,”
he'd say.
After “hogkilling" time, I never asked
again. I didn’t want to know.
Hogkilling time as I understand it is that
season of the year after the first frosts when
most people are talking about Thanksgiving
and Christmas, lighting the furnaces or
raking leaves, buying antifreeze and mak
ing pumpkin pies.
It’s almost like it goes with the weather,
and I guess it does. Who could stand killing a
hog in hot weather it’s bad enough when
the weather is cold.
Even though I was young, I remember
enough that it almost turned me against
pork for the rest of my life. Grandad went
about his business like nothing to it. I
gagged for three days. I had just about
forgotten what that real country ham tastes
like until I visted the Dillard House in
Dillard, Georgia recently.
If you’ve never been to the Dillard House
Those interesting billionaires
Ever wonder who the richest people in
America are? A special issue of Forbes
magazine released this year will tell you.
It’s called "The Forbes Four Hundred
1964 Edition,” and it contains a list of this
nation’s 400 richest people
The listing begins with people worth $1
billion or more, and in addition to well
known names like Getty and Rockefeller,
you’ll also find Sam Moore Walton.
“Who is he?," you ask Well, for those of
us who shop the discount stores, he’s one of
those retailers who keeps those bargains
coming.
As told by Forbes, Walton's story is one of
those which hails free enterprise and the
great American drearh.
He opened a five-and-dime 39 years ago in
Newport, Arkansas and lost his lease in
1960.
But, Walton didn’t give up, and started
again in Bentonville.
He had 16 shops by 1962 and opened a
discount store with his brother James.
Today, you’ll find 698 of his Wal-Mart
stores in America, mainly in the Sunbelt.
And, it looks like well have a Wal-Mart
soon in Cumming. Property for a building
site hoe is being considered, and it’s ex
pected the deal will be closed in early
October.
How much is Walton worth? According to
Forbes, more than $2.3 billion.
Other interesting persons on the “Forbes
Four Hundred” list are Forrest Edward
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Slop, Dr. Thomas R. Cadier, Coal Mountain
Egg Farms, Inc., Cumming Martinizing,
Dimming Printing and Office Supply. Inc.,
Dimming Supply Co., Custom Home Center,
Inc., Daniel's Grocery, Duke Electric Com
pany, Esco Grading Contractor and Ford
Gravitt’s Body Shop.
Forsyth Concrete, Inc., Forsyth County
Bank, Forsyth County Fire Extinguisher.
John "Doc” Cunningham, Forsyth County
News, Forsyth Forum, Frank’s Small En
gines, Frames N 1 Things, Gayle’s, Georgia
Gym and Fitness, Gibbs Family Steak
house, Giistrap’s Food Store, Goodson
Drugs, Gravitt and Stanaell, Inc.
Eddie
stowe yy
(and I guess most of us have from one time
to another) then you need to go. That is if
you like good country, and I mean country,
food.
FToblem is is that I've gotten away from
that real country food for such a long time I
forgot just how salty real ham and real
bacon could be. I couldn’t eat it.
First, let me say if you like good country
eating where ham is concerned, don’t go to
any hogkillings.
Those Dillard hams, like many a country
ham, have been hung up for a couple of
months.
I remember after the bogkilling, my
grandad would wrap a “tote sack" around a
shank portion of the ham and hang it up in
what he called the smokehouse.
I never really understood exactly what the
Chuck
Thompson I™
Mars, Sr., Forrest Edward Mars, Jr. and
John Franklyn Mars.
How did they make their money n If you’re
a candy lover you might not have trouble
guessing.
Frank and Ethel Mars, the parents of
Forrest, Sr., sold candy from their kitchen
in 1911 and opened a factory, striking it rich
with Milky Way and Snickers in the 1920'5.
Forrest built a candy empire overseas
and returned to America in 1940, adding
MAM Candies and Unde Ben’s Rice.
In 1964, Forrest took over all operations of
Mars, Inc., which is now the world’s largest
confectioner.
Today, the candy company controlled by
Forrest and his two sons Forrest, Jr. and
John is said to be worth more than $1.5
billion.
One o i toe things which made our next
subject rich can be found at your favorite
restaurants and fast food outlets.
The subject is Henry John Heim, n, and
now that you’ve heard his name, there’s
probably no need to tell you how he makes
his living. Estimates are he’s worth $440
Great Southern Bank, Rickey E. Grogan
Hatchery, Stan Gault, Sharon and Craig
Harper and Missy Schoals, Harris Depart
ment Store, Harry’s, Mark Heard Fuel Co
any, Hearn Financial Service, SJL ffindt
Construction Company, Home Federal Sav
ings and Loan, Hood’s Auto Service, R.A.
Ingram Company Funeral Directors, Reva
B. Jennings, La Boutique De Vee, Lanier
Exterminating Services, Inc., David and
Mary Levenkk, Lipscomb, Johnson, Gault
and Miles and M and W Auto Parts.
The Market, Midway Building Supply,
Inc., Midway Home and Garden, Mitchell’s
Clean-Up Shop, Dr. Shannon Mixe, Morse
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smokehouse was, but I assumed it was
where grandad went to smoke. I snuke out to
the smokehouse to smoke once and it made
me sick. It was more likely that “rabbit”
tobacco I found than it was the hanging
hams.
Anyway, my grandad said no ham was
decent until it had hung up in the smoke
house for awhile. He said it had to drip itself
through the “summer sweat.”
Somehow I forgot about all that hogkilling
stuff and how it smelled when grandmother
fixed biscuits, red-eye gravy, fried country
ham centers and grits. My mouth is water
ing just thinking about it. I even loved that
raw milk we got from the barn and the
butter my grandmother churned.
I remember the ice man would come
around once a week, leave a block of ice for
us to put in the ice box. We didn’t have a
refridgerator, we had an ice box and grand
mother would put the butter on top of it and
the milk next to it. Buttermilk corn bread
with cracklins she made never tasted so
good.
Now that it’s been several years since I’ve
been to a hogkilling, I might could bear just
one more for a good old country meal like
grandma used to make.
On second thought, I don’t believe I could.
I don’t like it that well.
million.
Heinz’ grandfather, at the young age of 16,
learned that housewives were willing to pay
for convenience. So, he began grating and
bottling horseradish for sale in 1869.
Since that time, the Heinz Company has
grown into the well-known maker of ketchup
and sauces we know today.
Since it would be impossible here to high
light all the interesting people in the
“Forbes Four Hundred,” here are some
general facts about all 400 people on the list:
• Their average age is 62.
• The youngest is Abby Rockefeller Simp
son, age 27.
• Helen Clay Frick, 95, is the oldest.
• Seventy-one of the “Forbes Four Hun
dred" made their money primarily from
real estate; 74, from oil and gas; 48, from
financial operations; 95, from manufactur
ing; 21, from agriculture; 59, from media
enterprises; 19, from retailing; 15, from
high technology.
• Sixty-nine are women.
• At least 12 did not finish high school. At
least 40 finished high sohooi only. At least
306 attended college, and 226 graduated.
• They average 3.14 children apiece, com
pared to the national average of 2.33.
• The oldest fortune among the “Forbes
Four Hundred” is owned by the du Ponts,
and was founded in 1802 by Pierre Samuel
du Pont de Nemours and son. The youngest
fortune is owned by Steven Jobs, who
founded Apple Computer, Inc. in 1977.
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to Wear and Ramey’s Shoes, Redd Amoco
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Dr. Robert D. Rockfeld, Sports Stop, Su
per D Variety Store, Thomas T -umber Com
pany, Westbrook and Sons Jewelers,
Western Auto Associates Store, Western
Steer Steak House, Dr. G. Ed Wheeler. Wise
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