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-FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1987
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Forsyth County News
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Cumming, Georgia 30130
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NORMAN BAGGS HARRIET HOUSTON
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Opinion
Judging the judge
Let’s forget for just a moment
the debate over the qualifications
of Robert Bork to sit on the na
tion’s highest court.
Let’s think instead about the
confirmation process itself.
Haven’t things gotten just a little
bit out of hand?
Here we have a committee
chaired by a former candidate for
president interrogating a potential
Supreme Court justice in a man
ner more befitting a kangaroo
court than serious senatorial delib
erations.
Domed folly
Amazing.
The Atlanta Braves have just
completed another bottom of-the
division finish, which saw them
drawing more flies than fans for
late season games.
The Atlanta Falcons are on
strike, but it wasn’t many years
ago they couldn’t fill the stadium
seats with enough people to look
presentable on television, and
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I want to address this column to certain members of the
male population.
I want to destroy for you guys this amazingly misin
formed fallacy some of you seem to be laboring under,
e.g. women who go about by themselves, in groups or
singularly, are obviously waiting only to bask in the warm
glow of your male attention.
Not so, bud.
Let me describe for you a typical scenario.
Two young women (let’s call them Gwen and Mary for
sake of identity) decide to go out to a local pub to have a
beer and generally enjoy each other’s company. As is
often the case, these two women get deeply involved in
discussing whatever is going on in their respective lives,
which, I admit, more often than not involves some guy. So
here they are, having a wonderful time analyzing and
solving the problems of the cosmos, completely oblivious
to their surroundings and then, suddenly, there he is
The Jerk.
(Now, The Jerk can be a male of any age, profession,
religion, nationality, etc. The only seeming requirement
is that he be of the male persuasion, but it also helps if he
is blessed with an overriding ego and an unflagging in
ability to take a hint.)
“Hey, girls! What’s up? Mind if I sit down?,” he says,
often in a gratingly loud tone of voice, presumably so the
whole bar can now watch him completely ruin the evening
of his victims. This typical entreaty is usually met with
stunned silence and completely blank stares, but is this
man daunted? Of course not. He pulls up a chair.
Settling in, he will usually say something earth-shak-
At the same time the media, is
going crazy asking everybody in
the world what they think of Judge
Bork, despite the fact that few
people know anything at all about
the candidate, nor what it is that is
supposed to be important in the
confirmation process.
Somewhere in all the talk of
liberals and conservatives, poli
tics and power, philosophy and
passion, we’ve lost sight of what
should be an important part of the
political process conducted with
some degree of decorum and dig
nity.
conversation downtown? Why,
building a domed stadium, of
course, with a combination of state
and private monies.
We’d like to think the domed
stadium idea was just a lark, but
apparently not, These people are
serious. The governor is willing to
commit 30 percent of the project’s
cost from taxpayer’s money.
Yessir, that domed stadium for
downtown Atlanta sure needs to be
a high priority for state funding.
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ingly intelligent like “What are you two girls doing out all
by yourselves?,” implying, I suppose, that it is simply
amazing that they could possibly find their way around
without male supervision. (Incidently, if you too find this
possibility difficult to comprehend, then this is a definite
clue that this column is about you.)
Now being two reasonably decent people, these women
do not want to be rude, but they do want this guy to go
away as soon as possible so they go through the typical
thought process of thinking, “If we’re polite, but disinter
ested, maybe he’ll get the message.” Incurable opti
mists, both of them.
Mary, being the politer of the two, says something like,
“Oh, well, we just thought we’d come out and get a beer,
you know, girl’s night out and all of that.”
This sort of statement made to a guy like this usually
provokes a leer and a discussion of how, if he were her
boyfriend/husband/significant other/ he would never let
a pretty/cute/sexy “thing” like her out of his sight.
(Women do not like being referred to as “things,” trust
Members of the Forsyth County Board of
Education will catch a lot of flak over their
decision to build a combination middle and
high school in South Forsyth County.
They don’t deserve it.
There will be those upset with the fact that
the school board acted without holding public
hearings and receiving input from concerned
parents. There will be those upset with the
concept of 6th graders and 12th graders at
tending the same school. There will be those
jealous of the fact that one end of the county
is getting something the other end isn’t
getting.
Let’s deal with the last complaint first.
There are more people in the south end of the
county than in the north end. There is more
anticipated immediate growth. There is a
greater need for additional and improved fa
cilities for school students in South Forsyth.
It is that simple. The day will come when
the same needs will be obvious in the North
Forsyth area. That is not now the case. Rap
idly growing school districts can’t allow
themselves to be governed by a “what you do
for one you must do for the other” philoso
phy. It’s a nice thought, but it doesn’t work.
You have to build the classrooms where the
kids are, and right now that is in South
Forsyth.
That doesn’t mean the school board
shouldn’t concern itself with the needs of the
entire county. It must, and has, as evidenced
by work completed at Sawnee and Midway,
The Forsyth County 4-H Clubs would like
to thank the following supporters, donors,
and friends for their help to the 1987 4-H
Club.
• Forsyth County Bank, Home Federal
Savings and Loan, Forsyth County Home
maker’s Council, and North Georgia Ren
dering Company for sponsoring 51 4-H’ers to
District Project Achievement.
• Hansard Insurance Company for the six
savings bonds to 4-H Members of the Year.
• Sawnee Valley Wildlife Club for sponsor
ing the Shooting Sports Competition.
• Larry Smallwood, Jr. for teaching the
Rifle Gub Mmebers.
• Norman Baggs, Laura McCullough, and
Tom McLaughlin for support from the For
syth County News.
• Chuck Thompson and Rachael Adams
formerly of the Forsyth Forum for their
support.
• Michael Nix for the establishment of the
Walter H. Rucker Scholarship Fund.
• Larry Smallwood, Jr., and Walter
Lindsey
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4-H Club says thanks for support
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Tension at the table begins to mount. Gwen snaps some
thing like, “Obviously that’s why you’re not her boy
friend/husband/significant other, you *x!#@*!”
To this The Jerk chuckles and says, “I like my women
feisty.” This is where things begin to take an ugly turn.
Mary, recognizing that Gwen is on the verge of doing
something illegal with an empty beer bottle, tries to rea
son with this interloper.
“Look,” she says, “I’m sure you’re a nice man, but see,
there are a lot of things we wanted to talk about, and, well,
we kind of wanted to talk about them alone. I’m sure you
can understand that.”
“Oh sure, sure,” he says, sliding his chair closer to the
table. “What was it you wanted to talk about?”
“Arn'rrrrgh!,” screams Gwen, lunging for that beer
bottle. “Check!!,” cries Mary.
To make a long story short, this guy does not get a date,
a phone number, or even a reasonably kind word. He does
escape with his life, but just barely.
How can you avoid being The Jerk? Here are a few key
points to remember:
• Choose your target carefully A woman methodical
ly banging her head on the table could be bored and recep
tive to conversation, or she could be dangerously de
ranged, but she is a much more likely choice than,say, a
group of women hotly debating the genetic versus the
environmental influence on the personality development
of members of tribal civilizations or something like that,
unless you have a Ph.D. in anthropolgy and truly have
something significant to offer to the conversation. In oth
Norman
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and planned for Chestatee and Big Creek.
The concern about placing grades 6-12 un
der one roof may have a little more validity,
but there is no reason to believe any prob
lems created by such a grade structure could
not be solved.
Other school systems have used the 6-12
concept without problems. With proper orga
nization and building design, it is possible to
create a school environment where grades 6-
8 seldom interact with grades 9-12. Construc
tion plans can include architectural barriers
to separate students of widely differing ages.
Administrative plans can include assistant
principals to guide both the middle and high
schools, with a “super principal” overseeing
the entire school operation.
Depending on growth and construction
time, it is possible that the new school being
planned will only serve as a 6-12 combination
for a year or two, with a new middle school
then being opened.
Even if the new middle school is never jus-
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County Project Achievement.
• Julie Sanders, Darris Brock, Darryl
Bagwell, Phil Castleberry, and Joyce Jordan
for support over WHNE Radio.
• Dr. Lanier Orr, Dr. Larry Gilbert, Dr.
Bill Avra, and Dr. John McGruder for help
ing with the annual Rabies Clinic.
• Robert Otwell, Betty Benson, school
board members, principals and teachers for
their continued support of 4-H.
• County commissioners for their support
of 4-H and for use of the courthouse meeting
rooms and county vans.
• Dan Henderson for growing sweet pota
toes for the annual Gainesville Curb Market.
• Lanierland Florist for the flower ar
rangements used each year at the Awards
Banquet.
• Barbara and Michael Cowart for driving
the school buses to camp, DPA, and our
summer activities.
• Rep. Bill Barnett for his support and
assistance at 4-H Day at the Legislature.
er words, this would not be a table to which you would
walk up to and say something witty like, “How ‘bout them
Braves.” Which brings me to my next point.
• Make an interesting opening statement lf you’re
absolutely compelled beyond all rational thought to ap
proach a person or persons who have not as yet expressed
an interest in your company, then by all means at least
have something thought provoking to say. For example,
rather than choosing an incredibly tired line like “What’s
a nice girl (girls) like y0u...,” try something like, “You
know, I was just sitting at the bar mulling over the impact
that growing up under the nuclear umbrella has had on
our generation and thought I would elicit your input on the
subject. This still may not get you an invitation to sit
down, but at least you can rationalize that by saying they
obviously weren’t up to your intellectual level.
• Recognize the warning signs This is probably the
most important point knowing when to cut your losses
and go back to the bar. You can generally assume you
have worn out your welcome when the lady’s libation of
choice is poured directly into your lap, or over your head,
whicheveris more accessible. However, you can prevent
the mining of your favorite outfit by being perceptive
enough to recognize that remarks questioning your lin
ea 8 e > y Qur mental capabilities or your relative merits as
a member of the human race are indicative of genuine
hostility, not mere coyness, and are blatant cues for you
to go away.
I hope you have found this information enlightening. Go
thou and aggravate unsuspecting, uninterested women no
more.
tified - which hardly seems likely the pro
posed school can work, if people in the com
munity will give it a chance.
Which brings us to the complaint about a
lack of public discussion before the decision
was made.
School board members, months ago, had in
good faith announced they would hold public
hearings on the state’s recommendations for
a construction program. At that time, it
seemed such hearings would pose no
problem. .
In fact, the state did not complete its facili
ties study until just a few days ago, present
ing it to the school board for the first time
Monday. In order for funding to be consid
ered by this year’s General Assembly, an ap
plication for the proposed projects had to be
submitted by Oct. 1.
The choices were simple make a deci
sion, or wait a full year.
That was no choice at all. The members of
the board of education are elected officials
chosen to represent the people of the county.
It is their job to make such decisions, and
they did what was required. It would have
been nice to have had the luxury of a timeta
ble which allowed lengthy public discussion
of the options. Such was not the case.
Argue if you will with the decision made by
the board members, but don’t chastize them
for doing their jobs making tough choices
to benefit all of the county’s school students.
• Members of the North Georgia Cattle
men’s Association.
• Jim deSana for teaching the 3-dimensio
nal art class this summer.
• Sawnee Mountain Church of God for use
of the fellowship hall for our art class this
summer.
• Dennis and Sandra Bottoms, Betty Ben
son, and Home Federal Savings and Loan for
the establishment of the 4-H Camp Schol
arship Fund.
• To the 15 members of the 4-H Advisory
Committee for their support, direction and
leadership.
• Jean Mcßrayer, Louise Borman, Mamie
Grizzle, and Lori Goud the extension secre
taries for their help with the 4-H Gub.
• The biggest “THANKS” goes to the
parents for donating their time to drive,
teach classes, make backdrops, chaperone
events, provide refreshments or just be
there to support us.
To all of our 4-H supporters, we say a great
big Thanks!