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Page 2C,The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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1. Wet nurses
6. A light touch
9. *Sometimes used as
colorful decoration, sing.
13. Mechanical fastener
used on denim clothing
14. International Labor
Organization
15. Chopin’s instrument of
choice
16. *” your plate
before dessert.”
17. Polar toy-maker
18. *To plant again after a
harvest
19. *Cause for celebration
21. Facade, adj.
23. Yup, uh-huh
24. It’s jumped through to
impress
25. Banned pesticide
28. Maryland Institute Col
lege of Art
30. The Six Million Dollar
Man, e.g.
35. Cartman of
“South Park”
37. Bride’s cover
39. Madagascar primate
40. Transmitted by kiss
ing?
41. Curtain fabric
43. Comedian Carvey
44. Verdi’s opus, e.g.
46. Pinnacle
47. Inmate’s weapon
48. Unit of poem
50. Military group
52. “ day now”
53. Leave out
55. Huck Finn’s traveling
mate
57. *First celebrant
61. *One who proclaimed
Thanksgiving as a national
holiday
65. Part of a play
66. “Four score and seven
years ”
68. Icy hut
69. Long stories
70. *Pilgrims sometimes
depicted holding a blunder
buss
71. Suicidal location
72. To brag or your
own horn
73. Mine deposit
74. Many affirmatives
DOWN
1. St. Louis attraction
Special to the Ledger
By Cathy Elliott
I do not have an extensive
collection of NASCAR
memorabilia in my office.
There is a poster on the
wall behind me from the
night we first turned on the
lights at Darlington, signed
by David Pearson, Cale
Yarborough and Jeff Gor
don. Over there next to the
printer sits a chunk of old
asphalt from
the repaving
project. And
somewhere
around here I
have a photo
of Tony Stew
art sitting in
my office in
the media cen
ter at the first
Mother’s Day
weekend race,
eating Target-
brand cashews
out of the jar while waiting
to be interviewed by ESPN.
The fourth and final item
has looked over my shoul
der from the top shelf of
the bookcase for a number
of years. But today I need
some more direct help, so
he has moved over to the
desk. I am sitting nose to
nose with the Jim Hunter
bobblehead doll that, just
like the real-life man he
represents, has his eye on
what I am doing, but is
making me do it on my
own.
Hundreds, perhaps even
thousands, of people have
offered their condolences
and their memories of
Hunter on the Internet
since his death on October
29, almost a year to the
day after he was diag
nosed with cancer. The
same words keep popping
up over and over in these
posts, words like humor
and honesty, mentor and
2. Actress Kunis
3. Affirm
4. *Normal feeling after
turkey meal
5. Running water
6. impossible to do on
Thanksgiving
7. “ the President’s
Men”
8. Very successful
9. Right to take another’s
property
10. *Coast where first set
tlers landed
11. Dwarf buffalo
12. *Turkey, e.g.
15. Alkyl obtained from
propane
friend.
Jim’s life and career
will make a great book
someday. His list of ac
complishments, honors
and achievements would
probably stretch all the way
around Richmond, a track
of which he was tremen
dously fond.
By the time I met him
in 1994, he had landed in
the president’s office at
Darlington
Raceway,
his favorite
track, the
place where
he covered his
first NASCAR
event for the
Columbia
Record, and
the place
where he held
his first ‘real’
NASCAR job,
serving as the
director of public relations
in the late 1960s. I was
the editor of Darlington’s
hometown newspaper, a job
for which I was uniquely
unqualified and which
scared me to pieces most
of the time.
Jim was a friend to all
sorts of people — ‘fair’ is
another word that de
scribed him — and al
though I don’t know exact
ly why or how it happened,
he decided to include me
in that group. He liked to
talk about the publishing
business, always willing to
admit with a laugh that no
matter how hard NASCAR
tried, it was never able to
beat the old reporter out of
him. I learned a lot from
listening to his stories. I
was so generally ignorant
of the world of newspapers
back then that basically I
just felt honored he wanted
to talk to me at all.
Sixteen years later, we
20. Plural of #47 Across
22. Mythical giant bird
24. “Shave and a
two bits”
25. Visual presentations
26. Obsolete spelling of
“dropped”
27. Ringworm
29. Plural of cecum
31. Flower , pi.
32. Nebraska’s largest city
33. Angry confrontation
34. *Turkey byproduct
36. *It has to be shucked
38. Make a pro trait of
42. “Enlightened rule” in
Japan
45. Portuguese islands in
were still talking. And I
still felt honored.
When Darlington Race
way had an office to fill,
the writer-turned-PR guy
turned another writer into
a PR person, hiring me
for yet another job I knew
next to nothing about.
Recently I was listening to
an interview Hunter did as
part of the “Speedway Leg
ends” series on Sirius/XM
NASCAR Radio, where
Jim commented that one of
the things he enjoyed most
was taking young people
and helping them find what
they were good at doing,
and then helping them find
a way to do it. I guess I was
one of those people, trot
ting along in the footsteps
of Jim Hunter. Although I
never looked that great in
golf shoes.
Jim’s idea of ‘helping’
often involved giving you
something to do, then sit
ting back and watching you
do it, even when he could
clearly see you were mak
ing a total mess of things.
As you despairingly sur
veyed the ensuing carnage,
he would call you into his
office, look at you over his
glasses — you never wanted
Atlantic Ocean
49. Friend from Paris
51. Adverb of ‘tiny’
54. Idealized image
56. “NCIS” character
Timothy
57. Attention-getting sound
58. U.N. civil aviation
agency
59. Child’s building block
60. Annoying biting fly
61. Describes Ranger who
rode Silver
62. He founded Oldsmobile
in 1897
63. Private theater box
64. Opposite of #74 Across
67. Niger-Congo languages
that to happen, by the way
— and tell you what went
wrong and how to make
sure it didn’t happen again.
Early in the week of
my first race after start
ing my job at Darlington,
I had a mini-meltdown in
the hallway outside Jim’s
office. OK, to be honest, it
was more of a major hissy
fit. Anyway, Jim called me
in there, looked at me over
the glasses, and said, “You
need to understand some
thing. No matter how badly
you screw up, there will
still be a race at Darlington
on Sunday afternoon. Get
over yourself; you are not
the center of the universe
here.”
That laser-beam direct
ness of his was often quite
uncomfortable to experi
ence, but those doses of
honesty always made you
better in the long run. He
was blunt, but he was right.
Jim had a fierce work
ethic. He was always the
first one in the office each
morning, knocking back a
gallon or so of the sludge
he called coffee and chal
lenging all of us to find
some way to make Dar
lington better that day, and
Dave
by Dave Ramsey
Special to the Ledger
(buying used or new?)
Dear Dave,
What things do you
advise buying used versus
buying brand new?
Amy
Dear
Amy,
This is a
great ques
tion. But
I’m afraid
there’s not
one good,
across
the board
answer,
because
it all de
pends on
where you
are in your financial plan.
When it comes to cars,
you should always buy
good, used vehicles, unless
you have a million dollars
in the bank. New automo
biles drop in value like a
rock, so buy smart and let
someone else take the hit
in depreciation. My advice
is to buy used, anyway.
Wealthy people don’t be
come wealthy by investing
in things that go the wrong
way.
If you’re talking about
clothing, and you’re broke
or trying to get out of debt,
there’s absolutely noth
ing wrong with shopping
consignment stores—espe
cially for kids. They wear
things three times, and then
they’ve outgrown them.
Plus, they still look practi
cally brand new. “Experi
enced” clothing is a great
buy for adults, too.
Of course there are other
things, but here’s the deal.
As your money situation
improves, you’ll be able
to buy more new things.
The price of “new” will
become a smaller and
smaller percentage of your
financial world. But when
you’re broke, deep in debt,
or don’t have a big income.
not to even consider going
home until we had done it.
He accomplished so much,
was so successful and well-
respected, that it would be
natural to assume he would
See NASCAR,
page 3C
Says
any money you spend on
anything is a big percent
age. At times like this, a
$50 washer or dryer on
Craigslist can be the best
deal on the planet!
—Dave
(you’re
being
hood
winked!)
Dear
Dave,
The
company
I work for
just told
me I have
to get a
personal
credit card
for business travel. What’s
your advice on how to
respond?
Jason
Dear Jason,
If it were me, I’d sit down
with my boss and let him
know this is deal breaker.
If the company you work
for wants to send you out
on the road to do business
in their name, then they
should man up and pay for
it.
I think corporate America
has really pulled a big joke
on lots of folks. In some
cases, you’ve got these
multi-billion dollar compa
nies borrowing money from
their employees, and then
paying it back—most of the
time. Think about it. What
happens if they decide,
for whatever reason, not
to honor an item on your
expense report? You own
it, dude. You’re stuck with
the bill!
I wouldn’t do this, Jason.
But if you decide to stick
with it, get a debit card
and set it up on a separate
account only for corporate
expenses for which you
can be reimbursed. You’ll
have to prime the pump,
and put a little money in
there to get it started, and
I’d ask the company for an
advance against travel to
help fund that account.
But the truth is they
should just pay the bill
when they send you out on
the road!
—Dave
* For more financial advice
please visit daveramsey.
com.
Provide by Leesburg
United Methodist Church.
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I Flowers & Happy Birthday
Elsie Mank
Compliments of
Leesburg Flower and Gift
Leesburg, Georgia
Phone 759-6917
Flowers may be picked up at Leesburg Flower and Gift
nappy Birthday 10
November 11: Jack Daniel Garrett, Kim Calhoun, Tommy
Bridges, Cecil Musgrove, Jessica Aired, Caleb C. Bowden,
Clark Futch, Nathan Ebbets, Keith Isler, Gary McKinnon,
Bob Wettengel, Rickey A. Gadd, Becky Harp, Casey Young,
Elain M. Barner; November 12: Brendan Cheshire, Howard
Davis, Leonard Askew, Lavon Ross, Rhonda Cravey, Claude
Belcher, Carmin Widner, Sharon K. Pitts, Helen Levertte,
Crystal McCranie, Bettye Jean Adaway, Kristen Kelly, Terry
Lee King; November 13: Elsie Mank, Garrett Watson,
David Brooks, Thelma Melton, Kyle Berry, Wayne Ste
phens, Kerry Ward, Keith Wisner, Janelle Eubanks, Billie
Williams, Annie lowers, Haley Frakes, Ernest L. Martin;
November 14: Kennedy Morton, Lauren Grimes, George
Krohn, Melanie Garrett, Michelle Spence, Scott Nichols,
Justin Flowers, Matthew Tanner, Robert Gardner, Ben
Daniel, Jim Moody, Brenda Davis, David Kelly, Jr., Jonathan
French, Matthew Tanner, Lauren Joiner; November 15:
Lisa Burt, Marjorie Miller, Foxie Harper, Larry McCarthy,
Brandi Shamburger, Brandi Nesbitt, Owen Nesbitt, Kyle
Edmunds, Joe Dan Banker, Mike Smith, Cindy C. Valen
tine, Stuart Anglin, Chelsee Nutt, Lori C. Ritter, Donna
King, Randy Joiner; November 16: Clint Ferguson, Cassie
Brooks, Chelsea Futch, Jodi K. Dover, Kathy Brettel,
Melissa Morris, Joyce Cobalit, Cindy Stone; November 17:
Jill Wilcox, Art Jones, Aubrey McDonald, Shirley Hughes,
“Mack” McDonald, Joe Williams, Taylor Richter, Debra
Richardson, Floyd Perdue, Sue Hatfield, Mike Pitts, Rana
Parsons, Shane Jones, Mike Collins, Donna Raper
Happy Anniversary To
November 11: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Craven; November
12: Mr. and Mrs, Wesley Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Glass,
November 13: Mr. and Mrs. Chad Creech, Mr. and Mrs.
Dillon Long; November 14: Mr. and Mrs. Frankin Young,
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Sellars, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Hudson,
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Widner,
Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Turner;
November 15: Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Melton, Mr. and Mrs.
William C. Harp, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Chambers, Jr.; Novem
ber 16: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hood, November 17: Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Courson, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Geek
On NASCAR: Jim Hunter’s life less ordinary
Cathy Elliott