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EVER THINK OF THIS?
Veteran Local Barber
Talks Little, Listens
Editor's Note: This is the first
in a series of stories in which.
Reporter Bill Brown will intro
duce many Athenians who per
form important services in this
* community but about whom the
average reader probably knows
little.
By Bill Brown
Few people rember their first
haircut. :
Perhaps there may be a faint
recollection of & nick or a pull,
received in the introduction to a
life long rouitne, but usually any
encounter of that sort is the vesult
of the impatience of youth.
So, those of us who make a prac
of getting a neck trim every few
weeks, often do so without much
throught of how many times our
barber has had to look at the back
of our head. Maybe in a year's
time we've sat in the same chair
on 20 or more cocassions.
Multiply that by your age, and
you have quite a large figure to
represent your contact with one of
the more pleasant necessities of
civilization. Then, if you have been
in the habit of going to the same
shop and the same chair for a per
iod of years, the cipher increases
enormously.
But think of the number of
males who are sent daily by their
wives and mothers for that all im
portant phase of good grooming.
The relation to your average woy]d
be astromical. To really enjoy
some mental gymastics, allow for
the years that your barber has
been cutting hair.
Likes People
Take, for instance, Golden
Michael. He has been a barber for
nearly a half-century, and has
served the people of Athens for
over 41 years. Born in Oconee in
1886, he iearned the trade on his
own, and went into business at the
age of 17. Then, in 1909, he came‘
to this city, sticking to the voca
tion of his choice because he likes
people.
Yet, unlike most barbers, Gol
den would rather listen to his
friends talk than to do so himself.
“I just hear what they have to
say”, he remarked, “and join in to
to keep the conversation moving.
You can learn a lot that way, and
maybe hear about somebody you
haven’t seen in a long time.”
But not many folks stay away
from his chair for very long. Many
of the city’s more elderly citizens
have been his steady customers
since their youth. And quite a few
of the younger generation come to
him for that all important first
haircut,too. =
“I ike chidren,” Mr, Michael says,‘
smiling. “They are usually good,
if they are treated right the first
time. If you are patient, and talk
kind of easy to them, they soon.
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get used to the clippers. Just cut
when you can, and they aren’t a
bit afraid.”
Frequently he has to think hard
to answer the questions that small
fry ask him. Once a tot twisted
around in his seat, looked at the
spinning barber pole, and asked,
']"Where does the stick candy go,
| Mr. Golden?”
: Golden thought a minute, “Why
‘| sonny”, he answered, “it goes
' { round, and round ’till Christmas,
'l and ther: I guess old Santa finds
| a stocking to put it in.”
, With a pillow for padding, and
cotton whiskers, Golden could
' easily be mistaken for ?Yxat old
gentleman who travels by reindeer
| express. Neat, and moving with
quick, sure ease, he has the grace
{of “'much younger man. And his
| hair, though grey, is thick and
well brushed,
"“That’s how people used to keep
their hair looking nice”, Golden
| said. “Before they had hair tonics,
people kept their hair in place by
using a good stiff brush cn it every
day.
Times Change
“But times have changed. Years
ago, ladies came in to have their
hair shaped, just like men did.i
Then, the beauty shops began to
open up, and women started‘
wanting waves, and the like.
‘“Even some of the men got to
asking for a neater shave. Along
about then, personal shaving mugs
went out of general use, and some |
: fella put electricity to the clippers.
| That was really a big help.”
| Golden still has one of hig old
chairs, built in 1876. But he
doesn’t use it anymore. It is still
in good shape, but won’t pump up
and down, and the foot rest is a
separate stool. Also, Mr. Michael
has one of the first state certifi~
cates, No. 270, issued in 1914, |
That time represents a lot of
hair cutting hours. Through two
world wars, and the years before
and after, Golden has been giving
shaves, massages, and trims to the
men and boys of the city and Uni
versity, |
“We used to have to straighten
out some awful messes for those
college boys”, he said, “but not
anymore. Since so many of them
had to have their heads peeled
during the war, they don’t go in
for those Indian scalp-lock haz
ings now. And I sure hope they
don’t start it again. It sure hurt
me not to be able to make their
hair look real nice right off. But
who knows what another day will
| bring—times change. :
Gayle Robinson, Michigan
State’s assistant trainer, was a
varsity hurdler as a Spartan un
dergraduate in the 1930’s and still
holds two indoor barrier records.
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Tucson, Arizona—Wives of Arizona War Veterans form sewing circle
to make a flag for display with Liberty Bell replica in Washingion, D. C.
I'ne women forwarded the flag to Secretary of the Treasury John W.
Snyder. Secretary Snyder plans to present to the nation’s Capital ons
of the 53 Liberty Bell duplicates now touring the nation in the Savings
Bonds Drive. Left to right, in the upper photo, are the following mem
bers of the Morgan McDermott Unit #7, American Legion Auxiliary:
Mrs. John Thomas, Mrs. Keith Hubbard, Mrs, A, F. Soberay, Mrs.
Fred Thorp and Mrs. William A, Burns. Lower photo shows presenta
tion of the flag and a scroll to Secretary Snyder in his office at the
Ireasury. Left to right: Congressman Harold A. Patten, Secretary
Snyder, Mrs. Thomas, representing the Tucson Betsy Kosses; Fred
Dragonette, volunteer chairman of the Pima County, Arizona, Savings
Bonds Committee, and United States Senator Ernest W. McFarland.
THE SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
UNDER OLD MOUNTAIN MISERY
| BY HAL BOYLE
| VALLEY FORGE, Pa.—(AP)—
| The American manhood of tomor
| row is proudly here today, camped
| in a vale of the past that may also
| point to bivouacs in the future.
’ You can look as far as your eyes
| can grasp across these reaching
hills and break your heart with
terror and hope for what you see.
What lies in sight? Tents and
tepees holding some 47,000 Amer
ican Boy Scouts and comrades
from 20 foreign countries. They
are mostly kids between the ages
of 12 and 16 who came here for
fun and frolic and pageantry and
to show off their lore of wood and
field and streanr.
And the ‘youngsters have lived
'com'pletely up to the 40-year-old
Scout motto: “Be prepared.” In a
few days they have built up a
camp base so neat and well-po
liced it would win praise {rom
even the most brass-happy army
commander. West Point Cadets
could hardly do better—and even
they wouldn’t have the same quick
enthusiasm that goes beyond dis
cipline,
Irony of History
But it is an odd and sudden
irony of history that has over
taken the Boy Scouts gathered for
their second great national jam
boree at this spot where George
Washington and the country he
founded went through a wintry
agony of doubt before the ragged
Continental army took up the
march toward eventual victory.
For now, 172 years later to the
month from the time Washington’s
soldiers trooped from here into
battle, the nation has taken action
after another long Valley Forge
of the spirit. This time it is to
ward a summer decision in far off
Korea. What was just @ cold war
before has suddenly become a mil
itary heat wave now,
America has had to adopt that
Scout motto: “Be Prepared.” It has
also forcibly started to carry out
international pledges consistent
with its own national safety which
‘are in keeping with the Scout
oath: “To help other people at all
times; to keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake, and mor
ally straight.”
! And that is the substance of the
message Scout leaders expect
President Truman will deliver at
the opening of the week-long jam
boree tonight.
¢ . Busy Scouts
The Scouts have been too busy
exploring the Valley Forge area to
pay much heed to the battle de
! velopments in the Far East. A
jamboree is an exciting thing, and
after all they are boys, not men,
It is the first trip away from home
for many.
But the Korean war has many a
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
scoutmaster worried. They ask
newsmen repeatedly:
“What’s happened? What’'s be
hind it all?”
And to a visitor who has seen
war there is a kind of shadow over
this encampment of youth, youth
so innocent it should never be
bruised but should go on having
fun this way forever.
That shadow is what the future
nray hold, not so much for them
alone but for -all boys everywhere
who must grow into men and per
haps dare what men have so often
been called upon to face.
But tomorrow is another time.
Now is the time of happy jambo
ree. And the Scouts trail each
other skillfully through the for
est, cheerful as bear cubs at play,
and come home at dusk and sing
in comradeship around the new
camp fires of Valley Forge, won
dering if the ghosts of Washing
ton’s old warriors still linger by
Mount Misery.
Scholarships
Georgia Automatic Gas Compa
ny offers recent high'school grad
uates of its territory a chance to
obtain an 18-month scholarship
to Georgia Tech’s Southern Tech
nical Institute through the spon
sorship of the Georgia Automatic
and Georgia Butane Gas Compa
nies it was announced today by
President Hermann Paris.
The scholarship if for the Gas
Fuel Technology Course, first
course of its type in the country.
A successful graduate of the
course is virtually guaranteed a
career in the rapidly expanding
butane-propane induvstry, accord
ing to Mr. Paris.
Details on the Georgia Automa
tic Gas Company scholarship can
be secured from managers of the
Georgia Automatic and Georgia
Butane Gas Companies in Athens,
Atlanta, Auguta, Macon, Rome,
and Sandersville.
LIGHTING PROGRESS
TEANECK, N. J. — Street light
ing is keeping up with the growth
of this city, The Sireet and Traf
fic Satety Lighting Bureau reports.
A five year program ‘s planned to
fit the towns’ lighting to the pat
tern of need and to traffic flow
created by the increased number
of automobiles, the growth of new
'shopping centers and the construc
tion of new homes.
Wool, livestock, hides, salt, bo
‘rrax. tea and musk are exported
from Tibet.
By
donathan Forman, M. D., Vice President
FRIENDS OF THE LAND
Columbus 1, Ohio
DEPLETION OF OUR SOIL
COLUMBUS, Ohio — “On the
North American continent our
land has been plundered like that
of no other part of the earth.”
was the startling statement made
by Dr. Jonathan Forman, vice
president of Friends of the Land
and Columbus, Ohio physician.
“Our European ancestors
brought with them a type of agri
culture totally unfitted to the to%-
ography and the driving rains of
this hemisphere,” he maintains.
“We must bear in mind that the
character of the soil is determined
by the nature of the rock from
which it weathered originally, by
the vegetations that have grown
upon it unmolested through the
centuries, and most of all by its
exploitation by man.”
To make a bad situation worse,
he continued, those early Europe
ans in this country were soon
given a mod board steel ploy. From
then on, with the development of
machinery, more people were re
leased to find work in the cities.
So for years now we lave sold
grain and animals for cash, and
made little or no effort to replace
the precious minerals that were
SIDEWALK
CYNICS SNEER
ATSALUCERMEN
By RICHARD KLEINER
NEA Staff Correspondent
“Calling all Flying Saucers!
| Calling all. Flying. Saucers! OK,
| lads you can come in for a landing
' now the coast is clear.”
| NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.,—NEA)
k-"—ln an experiment to see if the
average American is ready for an
interplanetary invasion, two guys
who looked like they just parked
their saucer down the street paid a
surprise call on Westchester Coun
ty, a New York surburban area.
And what happened? Everybody
laughed. Nobody got scared. No
body called the militia. Even the
{ police thought it was all a big joke.
The two pseudo-spacemen
looked the part. They were all
dolled up in space suits, complete
which the latest electronic gim
micks worn by the boys of Mars,
Venus, Saturn and points north.
They wore heavy boots, padded
space suits, great spherical hel
mets. Strapped in front was a
panel with a complicated-looking
collection of dials and switches.
In back they had a couple of oxy
gen tanks and a radio antenna
sticking up a couple of feet.
Their faces were stained a
bright red. And, being good ac
tors of Larchmont and New Roch
elle with a weird walk, making
ugly faces and gesturing bellig
orrently at passers-by. They
looked like DP’s from the Moon.
But the Weschesterites weren’t
having any panic that day.
The first man who spied them
did a double-take, chuckled and
walked right up to them.
“What are you guys advertis
ling? Oh, I get it—advance men
for Alcoholici Anor:ymous, eh?” -
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The two hot-saucer .pilots
stomped over to a super-market
and stared through the plate-glass
window. The customers turned
around, looked interested for a
few seconds, then turned back to
their heads of leftuce.
The only excitement in Larch
mont, the first town invaded, came
when a dog in a parked car
sighted the strange characters. He
began howling. So did some high
|school girls passing by, but a dif
ferent kind of howl. They were
! laughing. It was a big joke.
’ “If he comes near me,” one of
them said, “I'll scream.”
“They must be mad men from
Maxs,” said another.
* * *
Two radio patrol cars passed by.
The policemen shrugged and drove
on.
I The spacemen moved their base
of operations three miles to New
Rochelle, and began ambling down
a busy main street.
“Those guys get around,” said
{a street corner loiterer. “There
| are more of them over in Larch-
BY J. R. WILLIAMS
lost from the ground with each of
these transactions. The hard
pressed American farmer has been }
compelled to get cash, regardless i
of its effects on society; and so we
have the wheat farmers and their
dust bowls, the corn farmers who
lost their lands to the money lend
ers, and the cotton farmers who
have ruined the lives of their ten- [
ants and all too often their own.
“I: most of the country we are
using our farms as though they
were mines from which riches
could be taken, instead of part of
the biological balance that they
are,” he pointed out. “The result is
that food has become a market
commodity with all the emphasis
placed upon volume and not nu
tritive value. All who have tried
to help the farmer have talked in
terms of bushels and dollars. They
have given him a brilliant array
of crossbreeds, insecticides, weed
poisons, and timely warnings
against apparent surplus. Nothing
was ever thought about the pnu
tritive quality of his crops or how
to restore and maintain the full
fertility of his soil until just re
cently.”
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Somebody asked a policeman,l
directing traffic, to grab the space- |
men when they began walking
down the middle of the street.
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“Aaaah, they're just having!
fun,” said the cop. ‘
Two little boys walked up to
one visitor and asked him, “what
are you?” The Kkids just laughed
when he made an angry grab at |
them. : !
“You know something?” one kid |
said. “They’re funny!” |
* * * }
The experiment was just what!
it sounds like—a press agent stunt.
It was to publicize a new movie,
“Destination Moon,” and a radio
program called “Demension X.”
If it proved anything, it was
that an interplanetary invasion
will be a very funny thing.
There’ll be no hysteria or panic,
just a lot of laughs. Apparently,
the average American’s equilibri
um has improved since the days
of Orson Welles’” Man from Mars
broadcast, when people ran. from
their radios, screaming in the
streets.
“Who’s afraid of the, big bad
flying saucer? Nobody. ’
* * *
¥Calling all flying soucers!
Calling all flying saucers! Drop
down any time, boys. Everything
here is under control.” .
SQUEAKS
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ROTARY WHEEL
by SAM WOODS
The gavel changed hands at the
regular weekly meeting of the Ro
tary club Wednesday with out-go
ing President Alton Hosch turning
over the duties of that office to
Moon Corker, who officially took
office July 1.
President Rosch presented all of
his directors and committees,
thanking them for the cooperation
shown him during his term of of
fice.
During the program members
stood in silent tribute to two de
parted members, Dr. Nelson A.
Arthur and Joe C. Bell. g
President Hosch’s administra
tion marks the thirtieth anniver
sary of the Athens club and with
in the next few weeks a complete
club history will be oif the press.
Attendance during the Hosch ad
ministration stood at 88.03, a very
good record with the large mem
bership of 130.
Sam Nickerson with nineteen
years, and Clarence Chandler with
eighteen years of perfect atten
dance head the parade but there
are several others trailing close
behind.
Near the close of the meeting
Clarence Chandler, secretary and
treasurer under nineteen admin
istrations, presided, celling on
Morton Hodgson who presented
Mr, Hosch with a silver tray on
behalf of the membership. Mr.
Hodgson remarked he thought Mr.
Hosch made the best “swan song”
ever delivered at the club.
When the gavel was turned over
to President Corker. he czlled on
his directors to stand and the in
teresting program came tc a close.
B. R. Bloodworth introduced the
following guests: Buck Bradberry,
freshman coach at Oklahoma A &
M with his father, Lee; Bob Pick
er, sales supervisor of the Georgia
Power Company, with Bob Brad
berry; Harold P. Worth, New
York, and A. E. Thompson, White
hall, with Ed Go2tzman. Roamin’
Rotarians were E. .Jl.° Harrell,
Hawkinsville, and Jesse Hatcher,
Tennille. - / .
99.99 PER CENT SAFETY
WASHINGTON, D. C. ~—-A
spokesman for the Flight Safety
Foundation reported that in the
last five years, the equivalent of
haif the United States population
had traveled by airplane, and that
99.99 per cent had reached their
destinations safely.
Wouldn’t -it be wonderful if a
motorist’s chances of completing
a journey of considerable distance
on unlighted highways were as
great as 99.99 per cent — or even
99.44 per cent, The Street and
Traffic Safety Lighting Bureau
asks.
Sheep and yaks are the princi
pal livestock of Tib*:.
A Card of Thanks
I wish to express my gr?tifude to the eiti
zens of Clarke County for their loyal sup
port in last Wednesdays Democratic Pri
mary.
Chappelle Malthews
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