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Newspaper Page TextPage 4 The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Georgia, December 7, 1972 Jasper Native's Blue Rocks Trim Handsome Bent Tree Homes BY CARL DARNELL (The author is a retired school teacher and well-known Pickens Countian who serves as historian for Bent Tree mountain resort.) JASPER (PRN) Stumbling blocks? No sir, not those big dark rocks in the Jasper-Bent Tree area. Instead, they’re a great asset to folks fast building resort homes and permanent homes at the luxury mountain resort outside Jasper. Chimneys built of these tough, slate like stones - | “blue rocks” we call them - will stand for 100 years, as a matter of HBK3 UK record. darnell People used to come from all over North Georgia to gather them to build the first four or five feet of their chimneys. They were the firmest foundation and most fire resistant material they could hope to find. Then they’d usually complete the chimney with hand made bricks chinked with good old Georgia clay. City architects and builders began to recognize how durable ■ and pretty- our blue rocks were in the Depression days, as I recall. And they’d send trucks to Jasper, especially to the Hendricks and Oglethorpe Mountain part of Bent Tree, to tote truckloads back to town for foundations, inside fireplaces and to make good looking rock walls and walkways. Now that Bent Tree residents are putting up their resort homes as fast as they can find builders - almost 100 homes so far - I’ve noticed that just about every house has some of our blue rocks worked into its design, inside or outside or both. As the builder of one of Bent Tree’s most expensive homes now going up on Hendricks Mountain told me the other day, “Sometimes you find a streak of marble running through the dark rock or it may be flecked with fools gold or mica and that makes it even handsomer.” He’s facing the entire foundation of this fine new home at Bent Tree with our blue rock. An architect recently told me he liked our slate-like rock because it splits out for rock facing in sheets as big as 5x6 WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ON ALL YOUR BUILDING ■ HllrrtitHfly materialsi CARPENTRY WORK Kitchen Cabinets * add-a-room A Specialty! * carports * PANELING * REPAIRS * painting * REMODELING * PROOFING * BUILDING * NEW HOMES BUILT. CARTER & DIXON CALL COLLECT 496-2138 for FREE ESTIMATE P.O. BOX 272 — FOLKSTON, GEORGIA 31537 I I Election Coverag® I i You Can Depend On | M S Escribe for Most 1 IB SUD SC '’ D LY surewide in«re«^ | ll Comp!®'® up with out Wnsh ® Times and I It Reports in Georg- I ■W Trbee Wht a. well as R|Bf WITH YOUR LOCAL I ■ FromSUBSCRI J ■| Maine to California, depen Dramatic entrance way of native stones for Bent Tree “chalet”. (PRN) Dr. and Mrs. Sam Lerner chose entire fireplace wall of native Bent Tree stones. (PRN) feet, one-half inch thick. Not many minerals besides slate will do that well! Not bragging, but even the field stones they turn up as they build roads, club houses and homes at Bent Tree make good-looking building materials. In this marble, granite, limestone and gem-stone part of the state, regular old field stones turn up in a range of colors from soft gold to rust and deep red, plus the darker blue and blue-black colors. So they make an atractive contrast to the wood-toned siding and panelling and carved wood balconies they’re using on many Bent Tree homes. What’s more, our blue rocks not only look good but they grind up into the sturdiest gravel for road paving you’ve ever seen. Guess that’s why smart officials of this new mountain resort started their own rock quarry not long ago and have kept it busy and the road paving going ever since. 4-H INTERNATIONAL International 4-H programs bridge the gap between nations through exchange visits and other projects designed to bring about better understand ing and help youngsters every where learn new skills and develop positive attitudes that contribute to the development of their own nations. Ex changes for older teenagers, young adults and professional staff make possible educational experiences in the United States and some 82 countries. ■■■ aw" II I I llwH Rm Dr. DuPre® Jordan Jr. SHKSEH^MHBW| I HndM| f >■ I U j One of the most active ideas in American education today, and one which has been discussed frequently in this column, is the growing concept of life-long learning - the conviction that education cannot be simply a formalized planned experience terminated at any given point, but rather is a constant personal commitment to growth and individual development which continues as long as a person lives. The same ideas have been discussed in Britain, even longer than in the United States. Some of the advocates in England want to go a step farther and require regular release of all employees so they may have an opportunity to spend their full time on intensive studies, or any kind of educational experience they might feel justified and profitable. All of this may seem, in the minds of some critics, to get back to some of the structured and formalized instruction which the whole trend has been moving away from, but the basic idea of these proponents is not what is learned or how it is studied, but rather the right of every individual to choose his own path and follow his own taste, at the same time receiving a full salary from whatever business or organization that might be employing him at the time. A recent issue of the Higher Education Supplement of the London Times had a front page editorial by Professor John Hicks, vice principal of Durham Technical College, presenting some of the rationale of those he felt had gone too far. A portion of his article set forth several of the points which have been explored in England. “It has been suggested, seriously I think, that every adult should have the right to a once-for-all State Sabbatical on full salary, and so far as one can judge from the brief and not altogether clear reports that have appeared -- it would seem that five debatable points are being put forward in support of this view: “(1) It is assumed that adult education is, as currently TURKEY BUYING When purchasing a turkey at your supermarket, make cer tain you select one with the U.S. Department of Agricul ture’s inspection shield. This insures you that the bird came from healthy stock and was federally inspected. organized, designed for those with an unsuccessful educational background, and has the repellent image of ‘self-improvement’ through conversational German for mechanical illiterates. “(2) That everyone regrets their past activities and deplores their present situation, and as a consequence must be enabled to ‘escape from the straitjacket of their present lives’. “(3) That present and possible future occupations are so unpleasant for most people - teachers come to hate children, for example, or intolerable noise levels forment factory workers - that means must be made available for ‘release and renewal.’ “(4) That redundancy is probable, and predictable - with sufficient accuracy as to enable a man to plan his ‘free year’ to coincide with it, and to plan the process to taking up a new career within it - and only likely to occur once in a lifetime, and that after some years of post-school experience.’ “(5) ‘The woman whose children are now at school’ has been suggested as a person likely to benefit particularly from such a scheme, in spite of the evident nature of the difficulties raised by this kind of case. Presumably such a woman would either be recently re-engaged in full-time employment, and would therefore presumably have no special need to ‘catch up on her career’ or to be encouraged or enabled to take up a new job, or would have to pursue her studies on less advantageous terms that others, or perhaps would receive a ‘year on full salary’ based upon some arbitrary valuation of her services as a housewife.” Simply from the way he has stated these arguments, you can imagine that Principal Hicks disagrees with some of his associates who are pushing the idea of a State Sabbatical. But the larger concept of life-long-learning is growing all over the world, and its popularity will doubtless increase in the years ahead. (100). READ THE CLASSIFIEDS FARM ACCIDENTS An eight-state survey by the National Safety Council shows that more accidents occurred in farm buildings than at any other location. About 20 per cent of the estimated 134,000 injuries on farms in these eight states were in barns and other buildings and primarily in volved animals and hand tools. soc-gas ■^TOOAI*^ BY JUDY & RAY MURRAY “How soon’s that blonde coming back?” No matter when, uw f ll have her car ready. MURRAY' S GROCERY & SOC - SERVICE Bait - Tackle and Ammunition Phone 462-5003 Lulaton, • Ga. SANGSTER SPEAKER the property tax, but local go vernments still derive most of their revenue from the prop erty tax - as much as 93 percent in some cases. After implementation of the general proprty tax, its ad ministration remained rather constant until the early 1960’s when changes began to occur which have culminated in the events taking place now. It was then that the law permit ted and funds were appropri ated enabling the State Rev enue Department to assist co unties financially and techni cally with countywide programs of property revaluation. The program was later expanded, additional funds appropriated, and a revolving fund establish ed to provide continued assis tance. The Revenue Depart, ment has participated in con tracts totalling approximately $8 million. You have seen where we have been and where we are now. I would make a couple of ob servations on things: (1) I think it is predic table that over the next few months and years, the great debate on taxation will conti nue. The focus of this will be concentrated on making tax payments more equitable. (2) Property taxation in Georgia is going to change, as it has in the past, as a re sult of two processes, vo luntary and involuntary; volun tary as a result of changes in the law and involuntary as a result of court decisions. SERVICE DIRECTORY CHANCEY'S STANDARD STATION WE TAKE BETTER CARE OF YOUR CAR" CAR WASH G LUBRICATION EDWARD CHANCY OWNER NAHUNTA, GEORGIA Announcing a luxury sedan with a Datsun price tag. New Datsun 610. The new Datsun 610 4-Door Sedan packs more room, more power, more luxury than any economy model has a right to pack. But at a Datsun price. And with Datsun's kind of sophisticated design. PERFORMANCE • 1800 cc overhead cam engine • New power-assist front disc brakes • New rugged unibody construction • New fully independent rear suspension LUXURY • Whitewalls and deluxe wheel covers • Fully reclining bucket seats • Tinted glass • Rear window defroster • Full carpeting • Custom vinyl interior The new Datsun 610 series. You've got to try them to believe the difference. Drive a Datsun... then decide. Own a Datsun Original. From Nissan with Pride K# Sales Representative • || DICK PURCELL Telephone 462-5533 ^TOW SERVICE DAY OR NIGHT iTHTjTTFI 427-4229 427-4696 < A WWf POPPELL'S DATSUN SMES UK. 5 MILES WEST OF JESUP ON HIGHWAY 341 (3) I believe that signifi cant progress will continue to be made in the property tax field. A group of ad valorem tax reform measures will up grade the entire process from beginning to end. These minimum require ments do not • I repeat do not mean State control. The to tal property tax assessment process is left, as it should be, completely on the local county level. The establish ment of minimum qualifica tions, of minimum pay scales, and of uniform standards of performance does not mean State control. We have had such minimum qualifications for judges, district attorneys, sheriffs, and other local of ficials for years and no one would seriously argue that they are under State control. There isn’t anything in these laws that allows anyone in Atlanta to hire or fire any lo cal tax official. There isn’t anything in these laws that allows anyone in Atlanta to set or determine any local tax as sessment. Indeed, there are specific provisions of State law which prohibit such State in terference. The best adminis tration is local administration. I believe that. The Governor believes that. And the Gen eral Assembly believes that. The Association of County Commissioners, the Georgia Municipal Association, and the Georgia Association of Assessing Officials would not support and the General As sembly would not pass legis lation requiring or permitting NAHUNTA AUTO SUPPLY Complete Line Os Auto - Truck & Tractor Parts Ais o MACHINE SHOP WITH Over Nite Service Phone 462-5850 or Night 458-4313 NAHUNTA, GA. the State to “take over” local property tax administration. But adequate staff and qual ified assessors alone would not do the job. Other inequities and shortcomings in the system had to be corrected. The confusing and overlap ping functions of city and coun ty assessments had to be ch anged. You simply can no longer justify two officer-one city and one county-both doing the same thing. You simply can no longer explain to a man why his house has two assess, ments, one for city purposes and one for county purposes. This does not mean that the city tax office will of neces sity be abolished. Each city must still compile Its own digest and must still handle all of its other tax functions, but the city people will no long er be wasting their time and effort duplicating the assess, ment functions which has al. ready been done by the county. Having provided for an ade quate professional staff on the county level, it was felt that the cities using the county as. sessment would cause less con fusion and a statute was passed, requiring that starting next year. By the same token, it is confusing to the average Ge orgian to have his State and county taxes assessed at 40 per cent and his city taxes assessed on some other basis. Accordingly, a law was passed requiring all cities that are pre sently assessing at 40 per cent or less to, starting next year, assess at the 40 per centlevel. Cont. 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