The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, July 22, 1971, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextA K Ml : ATLANTA (PRN) - I would like to mention several items this week that I think you might find interesting. I have been very pleased with the way work has been going on Re-organization and Zero-base Budgeting and Goals for Georgia. We have reached a point on Re-organization that will allow us to put together a tentative organization chart for state government by Wednesday of next week. This chart will be released to the Georgia people at the same time I see it for the first time. I expect that this first chart will bring the three hundred o’ more state agencies down to less than twenty-five groups. The Goals for Georgia television broadcasts have received a tremendous response in mail and phone calls. The program next Tuesday, the 27th of July, will be on social development Tune in at 9:00 p.m. on any educational television channel and call 1-800-282-8653 if you have a question or a comment on this subject. As I mentioned last week, the new budgeting process will allow us to avoid the mistakes that were made last year in estimating our income. These procedures will also help us to make the necessary cuts in a II» ' - O YES, VIRGINIA, JBjJ YOU'VE BEEN HAD JOHN J. SYNON A person may be as sophis ticated as a stagehand but I defy him not to become irri tated at these tucked-tail Vir ginians, specifically those of Richmond in a position of lead ership. My soul, their blood has thin ned; what caricatures they have become. Their interest is La Dolce Vita, their social and economic station, only that and nothing more. To maintain their cushy lolling, they submit to impinge ments on their “lives and their sacred honor” to a degree that would have sickened Virginians of another time. Like jackasses, they demon strate neither pride of ancestry nor thought of posterity. Only talk: They do bray. At this gala or that, powdered and peri wigged, they discreetly tell one another of their magnificence. That they strut is undeniable. A look at them, I do believe, will tell the remainder of The South what has gone wrong. Such as these, here as else where, live in enclaves — that’s “ghetto” spelled backwards. In Richmond, their area is known as The West End and a more plush community doesn’t exist. Their wealth is layers deep; portfolio after portfolio. And while the names they bear are redolent of Southern history, their wealth - in some degree - had its genesis in bone picking. As deep a secret as this town holds is the way one of its largest banks was established. It was, truth to tell, set up by a carpetbagger named Fant. Before coming to Richmond, Fant was known as the most notorious market manipulator in the Yankee nation. He cor nered gold, in 1864, and Abe Lincoln sent his best hatchet man, Beast Butler, into New York to curtail Fant’s opera tion. Butler did just that. He had Fant in and told him, flat out, if he didn’t quit rigging the market he would be shot. And that was the end of that. Following Appomattox, Fant came south to pick the bones of a prostrate State. There his bank stands, today, the epitome of eight per cent and things righteous. And that s Virginia. *** * * What started me blowing this particular whistle is the specta cle these Bluebloods - God save us! — are making of all Vir ginians in not effectively op posing the rulings of the local district court. We have a Federal judge here, a raspy sort of fellow - no West Ender, he - named Merhtge. And he is rubbing such stuff in- IT PAYS TO ADVER TISE It’s crime accident or arson; any wildfire is Illegal. Help Prevent Forest Fires in the South. to the People of GEORGIA way that will result in the least possible reduction in state services. It is too bad that we have to waste our time on some things, but there are so many tall tales that get put in print from one source or another that I just can’t resist saying a word or two about a few of the more ridiculous ones. One of the editors of the Atlanta Constitution who is still pouting over the last election has finally quit playing his little word games and come out against Re-organization. Since nobody, not even the study team, knows yet what the Reorganization plan will be, it might seem a little difficult to be against it. But some folks don’t have too high a regard for facts anyway. I just think it will be important to remember later this year when the other soreheads and special interests really start coming out of the wall that their mouthpiece had his mind made up before anybody proposed anything. Os course I believe you can judge an idea by its enemies sometimes. If that is true, Re-organization and economy in government has just gotten a big boost to the collective faces of Rich monders as would shame a cretin. For instance, Judge Merhige has just ruled that, this fall, the City of Richmond must bus some 20,000 school chil dren. These children - some as young as five years of age - are to be shuttled from school to school like water bugs. And once the shuttling is begun, Judge Merhige has ruled, every two weeks, thereafter, the School Board must submit to him a record of enrollment change. Moreover, if what he has ordered doesn’t prove to be what he gets, “the court will not hesitate to direct assign ment revisions”. **♦ * * All of which has brought near panic to the White parents of this town. In panic, they look to their “leaders”. And what do they get? Nothing. Nothing but submission. Well, maybe a vestige of re sistence. The local newspaper - this Establishment’s voice - has said the ruling must be appeal ed. How about that? How’s that for leadership? Appealed! Where to; to whom? To the Su preme Court? And then what? Well, The Voice of the Es tablishment doesn’t say. It never does. What a spineless, no-guts plan of action. It is to laugh. It is also to be expected. For it was these same gargoyled warts of yesterday’s carpetbaggers, let it never be forgotten, who ganged up on the late Senator Harry F. Byrd and gave him their turncoat ul timatum. They cornered him in his Washington office one day and shook their collective finger in the face of the last great Vir ginian. They told Harry Byrd if he continued to “massively re sist” the rulings of the Federal court, if he dared interpose, implement The Kentucky Reso lutions, they would no longer support him. And the old man, in sorrow, bowed to their fierce, selfish, mercantile pres sures. I know this to be true because the Old Senator told me so. And if there are those of Richmond’s West End who doubt my Fant story - never heard that before, eh? - I refer them, in part, to Butler's Book, the autobiography the Old Beast wrote after his days of de based glory were done. 1 would refer them to the bank but the bank says it never heard of the connection between their Fant and that one. Poor Virginia. Indeed you have been had. Had. and had again. Sani-Flush wipes out germs. . Sani-Flush* Toilet Bowl/h|MB Cleaner wipes out com- Z I mon household germs Z in 15 second^^^^^Z as it cleans. dHwALC' Gambrell Lists Financial Data WASHINGTON (PRN) - United States Senator David Gambrell has made his personal financial condition a matter of public record. In a statement released from his Washington office, the junior senator from Georgia declared his financial worth at a little over $275,000 after declaring total liabilities of some SIOB,OOO. Gambrell said in a statement released along with the financial report that “questions of conflict of interest can be almost completely eliminated by disclosure by public office holders of their financial interest”. Gambrell stated that he intends to be a candidate in next year’s United States senate race and pledged that he will bring the information released on his personal financial condition up-to-date approximately one year from now and every year for as long as he holds public office. He was asked if he intends to call upon other candidates expected to run in that race to reveal their financial holdings. “In recent years,” said the Senator, “there has been an increasing lack of confidence on the part of the public in government and in many government officials. This has resulted in part from disclosures of conflict of interests, and various accusations and rumors. I believe restoration of confidence in government and in government officials is extremely important. I will leave it to those candidates or prospective candidates whether they feel it desirable or not to reveal their financial holdings.” Senator Gambrell said the financial and income statements which took several weeks to prepare, were gathered with the assistance of the certified public accounting firm which has prepared his tax returns for the past ten years. Smokey Says: I ‘-'zSw sea burnepL '-111 '! nil FOREST JUST ISNT ANY /WI .I A \GOOO TO ANYONE /. /R* f L I [ AomL V 1 Tit v - -■ ? — Someone was careless! Vet, 104, Collects $30,000 on SIO,OOO Policy-So Far A veteran who took out SIO,OOO life insurance polio about 50 years ago has ahead collected more than $30,000 o it, the Veterans Administratio said. According to VA, the policy holder was 104 years old las month, and is still collectin monthly checks. The veteran had a short mil: tary career during World War after entering service in Jun 1918 at the age of 51. In Decern ber the same year, he was dis charged with the rank of captail in the Army Medical Corps. In July 1921, he took out a Ordinary Life insurance policy When VA rated him totally an permanently disabled in 1927 a a result of service-connected ir juries, VA, under terms of hi policy, started paying hir $57.50 monthly. He still draw that amount. Then, in October 1927, VAI also began paying the veteran 1 monthly compensation, based on his disability. Compensation rates have been increased through the years, and he now draws $450 a month. VA said the agency will con tinue to pay insurance benefits to the veteran as long as he re mains totally and permanently disabled. Smokey Says: UiJrflx-- ■ J? aMP^ THIS ^DANGEROUS COMBIIWIOnCMW| A + CARELESS NESS =WILDFIRE ' JUa^i Be extra careful with chain saws! Bridges Span Generations Two bridges on Two-Chop Road at the Screven-Bulloch County line span more than just the swirling waters of the Ogeechee River. They span the generation gap .. .several generations in fact. The new bridge in the foreground opened to traffic last Spring, but the older wooden structure, built as a toll bridge for horse-drawn vehicles in 1850 and probably.used by General Shermans army on the march to the sea, continued to provide a crossing for the courageous horseless carriage owner until late last year. The new bridge was built by the State Highway Department of Georgia through a county contract at a cost of $371,154.00. (PRN) OOBOOftS x 1 ATLANTA (PRN) - It was a holiday weekend, July 4th to be exact, one of those weekends you look forward to. But when it comes, it’s hot, and every place you think of to go, you know is going to be very crowded. Usually, on a weekend like this, I’ll take my family on a camping trip to either a mountain trout stream, a lake or perhaps the seashore. This year was different. We decided to stay home, and maybe take short trips from there, coming home at night. As it turned out, the trips were short alright.. .the furtherest from our Stone Mountain home we got was a half mile, to a small pond tucked back among the trees in a comer of land that developers had not yet destroyed. I started to say they hadn’t yet discovered it, jut that’s not exactly true. Phe water in the pond has ilready been lowered two feet, md they tell me it will be irained, filled in, and become a ,he site for a new apartment y :omplex. y It really isn’t much of a "Sond. It’s two, or maybe three n icres. I’ve fished it several ;imes, sometimes with my son, >, ’ind on occasion with a couple if neighbors. We’ve never lg caught much out of it. If we take worms we can get some ’’small bream. If we use lures, Iwe might get a small bass or ie two. v I’ve seen some fair sized s 'bass there, one day I saw three n together that would have gone maybe three pounds apiece. I ingot a hit on a fly rod popper /•by one of them, but missed id him. is The nice thing about the n-pond is that it’s so close to is home you can go there even if m you have only a half hour to re fish. It’s really a wonder I haven’t gone there more often than I do. Maybe I would if the fish had cooperated more. Quite a few people in the reighborhood know of the TRY WANT ADS H^A/VO HE EAYE \ •HE LET ME (lT TO YOU, EHn ( SUT-^^. (KEEP MY JOB.J r—l y / . t \ , £r\ = = /O? I ‘ fAT LiTTce- f ~ BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH GEORGIA GAME AND FISH COMMISSION Old Fishing Hole Doomed To Die pond, and several fish it. Nonetheless, I’m convinced the lake is underfished, especially as far as the bream are concerned. Anyway, on this 4th of July, my son and I set forth early in the morning with a spin casting rod apiece and a can of worms. We didn’t bother with a car-top boat, and we had no desire to cast lures for bass. We just wanted to see what the worms would produce in the way of bream fishing. We had the place entirely to ourselves! We found an opening in the bushes on the dam, and I cast in slightly to the right while Warren took the left side of the opening. In no time he had a nibble, but lost his bait. We both began working the same spot, and soon were catching occasional fish, getting constant nibbles from bait stealers. Most of the ones we caught were really too small to eat. I did finally catch a nice one. Warren found a worm in the can that had two tails. “Daddy, look! I’ve found a real live split-tail worm!” “Well,” I told him, “I’ll bet that’s a lucky worm. I bet you catch the biggest fish of the day on that one.” He tossed it in and the float hadn’t stopped bobbing yet when it went out of sight. Warren hauled back and began reeling. Sure enough, he had a bream that would have gone close to a pound, the best I’d seen in that pond. It was a proud nine year old that took the fish home and insisted he clean him himself. Yes, that pond may not be much, but it’s a mighty handy place close to home for a boy, a can of worms and a heart full of hope and of love for the great outdoors. “Daddy, I sure wish they weren’t going to drain that lake and build apartments there,” Warren said as we were leaving. I knew what he meant. I felt the same way. Lions Elect International President ROBERT J. UPLINGER Robert J. Uplinger of Syracuse, New York, was elected President of Lions International at the Associa tion’s 54th Annual Conven tion in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 22-25. Serving as the 55th President of the world’s largest humanitarian service organization, Uplinger leads some 960,000 members in 25,300 clubs located in 146 countries and geographic areas throughout the world. Lions International is best known for its aid to the blind and sight conservation ac tivities, international activi ties, international relations programs, and its many com munity service projects. “Lionism is Commitment” will be the primary theme during Uplinger’s 1971-1972 Presidential Year. The devel opment of the local Lions Clubs through the individual member’s commitment to all aspects of service will be em phasized. IT’S AMAZING! GRSBN' COLORS 0 ft* . X IB A'BEAVERS TAIL V/AS OORR Rfc&TLY IM VLAONOSfOCK. ! IS THE haebop op thf OLD VJEATHER-BEATEN BARM _ in ChaIfont; ENGLAND. »S Built of IMF V 1 WOOD OF TAE Good SHiP WHICH BROUGHT j) - 111 I I I || -fHE PilGPims TO AMERICA ? 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