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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES JR.
.Jest of the Week: The late Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois
was the target of some criticism for what many considered a shifting
position on the nomination of Abe Fortas to he chief justice. When
questioned, Dirksen said he was reminded of the tonguetied young
man who drove through the countryside with his girl for an hour
and then suddenly asked:
“Sally, will you marry me?”
“Yes,” was her reply.
They continued to drive in complete silence. After another
hour, she asked, “Well, why don’t you say something?”
“1 think I’ve said too much already,” he replied.
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THE GEORGIA-FLORID A MADNESS
One of the more controversial plays in college football in
recent years occurred Saturday in the Georgia-Florida game at the
Gator Bowl. I allude, of course, to the famous, or infamous, depend
ing for whom you were rooting, “fifth” down play in the second
quarter that allowed Florida to score a field goal after a fake fourth
down attempt had gone awry with a 12 yard loss.
An official ruled to the satisfaction of no one that (take your
choice) a photographer, a spectator, a stray football or what have
you was in the end zone and such object or person constituted a
hazard to continued play. What baloney! He is supposed to have
tooted his little whistle to stop play—no one heard it in the bedlam
with the officials giving Florida a fifth down with the kick being
made.
Officiating all afternoon long left much to be desired. 1 here
with reproduce the column of Harley Bowers, Sports Editor of The
Macon Telegraph, which appeared in Tuesday’s paper. We agree
with Harley and think the game was one of Georgia’s best efforts.
One other observation Florida is not in the class of Ole Miss and
Tennessee and to compare John Reaves with Archie Manning is
sacrilege.
A STRANGE, STRANGE GAME
BY HARLEY BOWERS
There may have been stranger things in football games than
occurred in the Georgia-Florida battle in Jacksonville last Saturday
but we can’t quite recall anything that would match the zany goings
on in the Gator Bowl. It was just one of those days, beautiful on the
outside with bright sunshine and hectic on the inside with the Bull
dogs suffering from every conceivable misfortune.
Georgia has a better football team than Florida. But how can
you win when the other side has such things as this going for it:
1 A motion penalty called against the Bulldogs that nullified a
touchdown. Game movies don't show the motion, for what that's
worth.
2 A “fifth’' down awarded to Florida because an official claimed
he had tooted his little whistle a second or two before the snap. He
explained that he had detected some photographers too close to the
end zone line to suit him (later a photographer blasted game offi
cials for the treatment they received and claimed the sidelines were
poorly policed all day).
3—-Such additional things as a missed field goal and a muffed
extra point by the usually reliable Jim McCullough of Georgia; the
loss of two interceptions and a fumble while the Gators didn't turn
over the ball a single time to the Bulldogs in this manner, and a
key pass reception by a Florida man, who leaped and came down
clearly out of bounds, only to have an official allow the completion.
The only break Georgia got all day was the low snap from center
on the last-ditch field goal that would have meant victory for the
Gators. I: wouldn’t have been surprising to see the confounded ball
bounce off a blade of grass after the errant kick and drop over the
goal posts.
One of Georgia's Best Efforts
1 he game was one of Georgia's better games this year. The
Bulldogs made sophomore passing sensation John Reaves look like
anything but a record breaker. He had a bad day but later blamed
his passing woes on the “slope of the field" and "the type of ball we
were having to use.” Man. this is just too much.
Georgia players that this reporter talked to in the dressing room
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Guest Editorial
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
STATE NO DUMPING SITE
FOR TOXIC MATERIALS
An absolute, unequivocal “No!” is the answer
which should be given two out-of-state firms seeking
to bury radioactive wastes and other dangerous ma
terials in Georgia soil.
No matter how much assurance the firms give that
the wastes will be safely sealed in deep trenches and
present no threats to water supplies, the risk, however
remote, is not one to which Georgians should be sub
jected.
Houston County is one of the sites mentioned. The
other is in Greene County north of Lake Sinclair.
Thanks to R. S. (Rock) How
ard, executive secretary of the
Georgia Water Quality Board, the
public has been put on notice
that Chem-Nuclear Service of
Columbia, S. C. and Nuclear In
dustrial Service Corp. of Spring
field, N. Y., want to use our
state for burying toxic materials.
Let these two companies look
elsewhere. Let them look to the
arid, desolate, unpopulated sec
tions of the United States for
burial sites for nuclear, pesticide
and herbicide wastes, lead com
pounds, paint residues, detergent
wastes, chromium, toxic berylli
um, phen-oils and arsenic com
ponds.
Georgia has enough problems
already in cleaning up her rivers
and improving the quality of the
air. We most certainly do not
need a cemetery for the most
dangerous waste products in the
United States.
What absolute guarantee can
be given that the toxic materials
will be safely stored in their
sealed containers forever? None.
We are amazed that the com
after the game were unanimous about two things, number one, that
Florida isn’t in the same league with Tennessee and number two that
Reaves shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath with Mississippi’s
Archie Manning.
When the hectic struggle was over neither team was satisfied
and the Gators were even more upset because somebody had broken
into their dressing room at halftime and swiped money, watches
and the like. This was no excuse, thoYigh, for Gov. Claude Kirk to
say what he did. “Only somebody from Georgia would be mean
enough to do something like that,” Kirk was quoted as saying.
Jacksonville writers began to clamor immediately after the
game was over for the Gator Bowl Association to match the two
clubs again in the Gator Bowl, Dec. 27. It is doubtful this will be
considered since such a contest would make the game too sectional
for national television sponsors. But you never know.
The game should have been encouraging to Georgia fans, despite
the tie. For the first time in several weeks the Bulldogs showed
some real progress on offense. Mike Cavan really did look like
the Cavan of old and Donnie Hampton did well. Trav Paine, the ex-
Maconite, gave the team a lot more speed in the backfield and
Julian Smiley provides not only speed but power as well. This new
combinaton could still save the season for Coach Vince Dooley.
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FARM CASH UP
Income from farm marketings
and government payments set a
new all-time record in Georgia
during 1968. According to the
State Crop Reporting Service, the
Georgia cash farm receipts to
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This was sl4 million more than
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j 'Whatsoever Things’
BY DONALD E. WILDMON j
A TRIBUTE TO THE ELDERLY
tOurs is a youth-oriented age. We stress youth
as beauty and strength, two of the things we covet
the most. A tremendous amount of our time and
effort and money is directed toward the “adults
of tomorrow.” And that, in itself, isn’t all wrong.
For we should take stock of our youth, help them
make a better world than it is, give them chances
we never had.
The only trouble is that we have done so too often at the expense
of the older person. Perhaps the most neglected person in our society
is the elderly person. Too often there seems to be no room, no place
for those who are in their golden years.
Beauty Is Inside
In our quest for beauty we have looked only upon the outside.
This has caused us to turn to youth, for it is true that they are
physically prettier than the elderly. But beauty, real beauty, is
to be found on the inside. And here many of our older adults put
Hollywood’s beauties to shame. Perhaps the most beautiful sight in
the world is an elderly mother sitting and thinking about the time
when her children were young. She cared for her children, worked
like a slave for them, gave up many things she wanted in order
that her children could have something. We too often forget the
meals she fixed us, how many nights she lay awake while we were
sick, how many new dresses she would do without so we could have
some new clothes.
Then, too, an elderly gentle
man is perhaps our best illustra
tion of a real man. The maga
zines, you know, say that you
have to be young and muscular
to be a real man. But that is only
superficial. For real manhood
belongs to the man with the
walking cane who has given his
life working for his family,
friends, and community. But now
that he is slowed, now that his
strength is weakened, now that
his hair is gray, we forget about
him and his outstanding deeds.
We Are Indebted
All of us, without exception,
are indebted to the elderly. Few
of us could begin to match the
real beauty and strength that is
theirs. They have worked and
worried, slaved and sacrificed
that our world would be a bet
ter one for us.
Now they are often neglected,
unwanted, forgotten. I guess
more than anything else in the
whole world, an elderly person
just wants to be appreciated in
stead of ignored. It appears that
it is not asking too much for
youth to give up a few hours, a
few wishes, a few dollars to say
to the elderly, “You are still
loved, wanted, and appreciated.
We have not, nor will not, for
CARD OF THANKS
“Thank you” to all my rel
atives, friends, and neighbors for
their prayers, cards, flowers,
phone calls, fruit and trays of
food while I was in Macon Hos
pital and since returning home.
A special thanks to my pastor,
Rev. A. L. Price, and to the per
sonnel of Macon Hospital. May
God bless you all.—B. R. (Tony)
Hay.
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The Creator, in all His wisdom,
saw fit to reserve real beauty and
real strength until our golden
years. What we call beauty and
strength in our younger years is
but a fainting, fading, passing re
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