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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES JR- •
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JEST OF THE WEEK: Two four-year olds were looking i n awe
and amazement at a pair of bathroom scales. Not knowing exactly
what they were for and with the inquisitiveness of the very young,
one asked, ‘‘What are they?” His companion quickly responded, “I
don’t know', but I think they have something to do with religion.”
“Why do you say that,” the other queried. “Well, my mother uses
them every morning and all I hear her say is, “Oh, Lord.”
• • •
POLLUTION THREATENS JACKSON LAKE
Pollution is striking close at home with the disclosure that unless
it is soon controlled Jackson Lake may become an “aquatic ceme
tery.”
A recent article in The Atlanta Constitution brought forcibly to
the attention of concerned citizens the alarming plight that pollution
has already reached at Jackson Lake, one of Georgia’s most important
water 1 m pou ndme n ts.
South River, or "Soap Creek” as some call it, is the principal
villain, with its more than 45 million gallons of sewage emptied into
the river daily. These and other pollutants heavily spike Jackson
Lake, 50 miles downstream, with the materials that can and will
make of it a dead lake in the foreseeable future unless the pollution
is ceased forthwith.
As Constitution writer Jeff Nesmith pointed out, the lake,
particularly popular w’ith Atlanta fishermen and boating enthusiasts,
is being destroyed by pollution from the city. “Ironically,” Nesmith
explained, “the people who enjoy the lake most are among those
who generate the pollution that may eventually render it useless
for fishing and recreation.”
Two water biologists, Louis B. Carriek and Edward T. Hall Jr.,
who have made a recent study of the lake, report, “Jackson is un
dergoing accelerated eutrophication as the result of nutrient loads
from the South River and Yellow River.”
Pollutants throw the natural biological balance of the water out
of kilter through the formation of algae. When the algae die they
consume vast quantities of oxygen, resulting in fish kills. Each round
of bloom and decay uses more and more oxygen.
The game fish die out first, then the trash fish until the lake
becomes little more than an aquatic cemetery.
The biologists say that without the South River sewage which
comes from south Fulton and DeKalb counties, and the Yellow River
sewage from Covington and Porterdale, the blooms never would
occur. Fulton County’s South River Treatment Plant dumps 18 mil
lion gallons of treated sewage into the lake daily. DeKalb’s Intrench
ment Creek Plant pours in 20 million gallons. All toll, more than 45
million gallons of sewage goes into the river daily.
As the population of Fulton and DeKalb Counties increase, the
annual sewage output of South River will increase i n direct propor
tion. Thus it can be readily seen that unless steps are taken immedi
ately to abate this critical pollution problem, Jackson Lake can be
written off as a dead lake in the near future, unfit for marine and
human habitation.
What can we do? Georgia Power Company is one of the state’s
largest and most important businesses. It is their lake and you
can bet they are interested in its future. We can appeal to them
and their voice will b heard and respected. Jackson Lake lies in
the main within three counties—Butts, Jasper and Newton. Every
citizen and every official in the three counties can set a stentorian
roar of disapproval that will be heard in the governor’s office and
the legislative chambers of our state. Pressure can he brought to
bear on Fulton, DeKalb and Newton Counties to erect new and larger
treatment plants and to seek out alternative means of sewage dis
posal. Every cottage owner on the lake and every fisherman that
has enjoyed the excellent angling the lake affords can deluge his
state representatives, state senators, and congressman for relief.
We can enlist the assistance of our mayors and councils, our county
commissioners, and other important individual citizens to help fight
this grave problem. But if those directly concerned, citizens of Butts,
New'ton, Jasper, and Henry Counties, do not unite in a concerted
battle to save Jackson Lake, it is doomed.
The issue is joined. The battle lines are drawn. If Jackson Lake
. is worth saving, and I KNOW it is. then we must all get busy. Time
Guest Editorial
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
HIGH COST OF HEAVY USE
OF HIGHWAYS BY TRUCKS
A representative of the trucking industry has
placed in our hands a copy of the report to Congress
on “Problems Resulting from Deterioration of Pave
ment on the Interstate Highway System.”
' His purpose is to refute a recent editorial or at
least to quiet this newspaper’s suspicions that heavy
trucks are a prime cause of damage to the superhigh
ways.
Our attention was directly particularly to Pages 12
and 13 of the 88-page report.
Alas, the report does nothing to allay our fears. On
the contrary it reinforces them.
Three and a half years ago
the Federal Highway Administra
tion took a look at the interstate
highways built in the first sev
eral years of the program and
found that S2OO million would be
needed to put an added layer of
pavement, or overlay, on the high
ways to make them last 20 years.
The estimate now is vastly be
yond the S2OO million.
What caused the unexpectedly
high damage?
Federal and state highway of
ficials concede the highways in
need of overlays were underde
signed in the 1950 sand early
1960s because the art of fore
casting wear and tear had not
progressed as far as it has now.
And the report adds:
On The Farm
Production
Front
BY MILLARD F. DANIEL, JR.
Butts County Agent
a lot this year
is “pre-conditioning.”
What is “pre-conditioning,”
anyway? It simply is preparing
the animal to better withstand the
rigors of leaving Its mother, mov
ing through the trade channels
and into the feeding or stocking
stage of its life.
Ideally, “pre-conditioned”
calves have been: (1) castrated
is of the essence.
Let us not bury our heads in the sand as do the ostriches. The
problem is real enough and all the wishful thinking in the world
will not cause it to go away. Let us rather be resolute and determined,
acting responsibly NOW to curb and then stop this menace to
Jackson Lake. There is still time but the hour is late!
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“With regard to measuring and
forecasting the volume of weight
of truck traffic, which is one of
the crucial factors to be consid
ered in highway design, current
procedures . . . relate the struc
tural requirements for a highway
to the number of repeitions of
18,000 pounds of weight on a
single axle which will be applied
to a highway during its life—
the greater the number of repe
titions, the greater the structural
requirements of the highway.”
In short, heavy use of high
ways by heavy trucks kick up the
initial cost of the highways. And
it follows that these self-same
users are leading culprits in dam
aging the highways.
and dehorned while young and
with their mother; (2) vaccinated
at the proper time for blackleg
and malignant edema, leptospi
rosis; rednose, bovine virus diar
rhea, Para 3 and enterotoxemia
vaccine (some of these vaccines
may be optional); (3) treated for
internal and external parasites,
and (4) weaned and started on
grain.
Yet, this seems, like a lot to do
to a calf before you sell him.
“Pre-conditioning” costs will run
from less than $lO per animal in
some cases up to S2O in other
cases.
“Pre - conditioning” concepts
are already in use by some cow
calf men, and some alert feeders
are aware of the benefits of “pre
conditioning.” Total pre-condi
tioning” programs lend themsel
ves best to individual negotiation
between the producer and the
feeder. Some feed lot owners are
already paying sizeable premi
ums for calves that have been
pre-conditioned.
‘Whatsoever Things’
BY DONALD E. WILDMON
COMFORT OR CROSS
The wording on the front of the magazine
W advertising church furniture told more of the
MMb Church than many people are aware of. It read:
“Your Invitation To Worship In Comfort.’’
Is not this the invitation that the Church
has been giving for the past couple of decades?
~mjT “Come, worship in comfort.” For many years now
many of our churches have been telling people
this. We have lifted up the reasons why they should attend our
church. And among the reasons we have listed what any good movie
advertiser would list: our church is air-conditioned, our preacher
is entertaining and amusing, our seats are soft, and our require
ments are few.
Net Result
The net result is that nearly half of those individuals who have
their name on the church roll never enter the church door, and of
those who do give any support it is left up to a small minority to
tote the load. Our rolls have never been so bulging and our buildings
so empty. But at least we have “worshipped in comfort.”
It seems like I remember some
where in the Sacred Book some
words from the Nazarene about
a Cross. It’s been so long since
I have heard it lifted up as a way
of life that I sometimes think
that perhaps cross-bearing has
gone out of style (if. indeed, it
were ever in). In many churches
it is easier to get into membership
than it is the local civic club
and harder to get out of mem
bership than it is to get out of
most jails.
In some churches today it is
a good day if the crowd is large
and the offering high. And the
successful preacher is the one
who serves the largest church
and makes the largest salary. To
keep the thing consistent, the
“going” church of today is the
one which can lay claim to the
“most people with the most
means.”
Sacrifice is out of place today.
Security has taken it’s place. It
seems nearly an insult to ask one
to make a sacrifice of either
time, money, or talent.
That Is 'the Matter
“Your Invitation To Worship
In Comfort.” Ah, that is the
matter with the Church today.
We have toned it down, done
away with as much of the un
pleasant requirements as possible,
divided all we could down to the
lowest common denominator. The
net result is that we find some
thing which smacks of religion,
but denies the power of it.
Don’t dare stick your neck out
to suggest that we get the church
roll into something that appears
a halfway honest condition. You
are seeking trouble, friend. I
mean, after all, just because one
hasn’t been inside in twenty
VOTE FOR
PHILLIP BENSON HAM
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
• A CONCERNED CITIZEN 365 DAYS A YEAR.
• A HARD WORKER FOR HIS COMMUNITY.
• A MAN WHO SEES SOLUTIONS WHERE
OTHERS SEE PROBLEMS.
• A MAN WHO HAS LIVED IN DISTRICT 33 ALL
HIS LIFE.
Vote For
PHILLIP BENSON HAM
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
years, given a copper penny, or
uttered a single prayer for the
church is no reason they shouldn’t
be a member!
The Galilean didn’t call us to
statistical success. He didn’t call
us to build bigger buildings,
fill the roll book, or water down
the invitation. He called us to
offer the Cross, to be faithful, to
issue the plea to those who would
respond and to go on loving those
who didn’t. That’s still our task,
and the hard part hasn’t been
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1970
Progress-Argus
Honor Roll
New and Renewal Subscription..
Of The Past Few Days
Mrs. C. C. Williams, Flovilla
Samuel Barber, Jackson
Lt. Joseph Deptula, Jackson
Clem Thaxton, Jackson
Lamar Fletcher, Jackson
Rita’s Beaute Rama, Jackson
Newton Federal Savings &
Loan Association, Covington
Mrs. J. D. Bankston Sr., Jack
son
William P. Newman, Atlanta
Harold Grant, Jackson
Rev. T. L. Moody, Jackson
Wesley Eugene Cook, Jackson
David H .Sellers, Monticello
Miss Ora Belle Brooks, For
syth
Robert E. Coleman, Jonesboro
Southern Bell Tel. Cos., Jackson
Mrs. Lois Kimbell, Jenkinsburg
E. R. Turner, Jackson
Alton Colwell, Jackson
S. F. Harkness
Ernest M. Smith, Flovilla
removed.
One observation most casual
observers can make about the
Church and its invitation to com
fort: the churches are half empty,
but the courts are full. Maybe
we need to forget the comfort
and extend the Cross.—FlVE
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