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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11.2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 9A
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From the Progress files
Turning Back
The Pages
YEARS
From Feb. 8, 1996
The economy: busted or resting?
The consensus is that the econ
omy has slowed, the Federal Reserve
Bank set out in 1994 and into 1995 to
raise interest rates in order to slow
down the economy and minimize in
flation. Remember that inflation is
simply too many dollars chasing after too few goods.
The fear was, and still is, that the Fed might do too good
of a job of slowing the economy and cause the nation to
slip into a recession.
As the economy trended toward sluggishness, the Federal
Reserve Bank lowered interest rates at the end of last
month. The prime lending rate fell the next day to 8.5 per
cent after reaching a high of 9 percent this time a year ago.
Jasper Elementary students produce school calendar
For the third year Mrs. Adam’s class has produced a
school calendar for Jasper Elementary. The calendar in
cludes over 1,200 birthdays of all the students and staff.
For the cover and artwork for each month a school-wide
contest was held. This year’s theme was based on the
Olympics and many excellent drawings were submitted.
[The students] are an active part of all phases of production
including design decisions, printing, assembling and sell
ing. ‘‘It’s a big project,” says Mrs. Adams, “but we try to
run it as a small business with students voting to make all
important decisions.”
Calendar artist winners: Shanda Jones, Laura Adams,
Luke List, Tanner Frye, Randi Lynn Wilson, David Duck
ett, Caleb Carter, William Ray, Lindsay Taylor, Virginia
McIntyre, Autumn French, Amberly Nicole French,
Samantha Pinson, and Cory Greene.
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From Feb. 11, 1971
YEARS
Pulpwood sales exceed $200,000
Pulpwood grown and harvested
in Pickens County helped serve Amer
ica’s press in 34 states during 1970,
officials of Bowaters Southern Paper
Corporation have announced.
This wood also contributed approximately $211,400 to
the county’s economy in payments to landowners for stand
ing timber and to loggers for harvesting and delivering it.
Hiwassee Land Company, Bowaters Southern’s wood
lands subsidiary, purchased the wood. It was shipped to the
mill at Calhoun, TN for manufacturing into newsprint
grades of paper for hundreds of publishers and printers.
D.M. Dyer, president of Hiwassee Land, said the
$211,400 covers only the costs of the wood delivered to the
company. It does not include taxes, salaries, freight and
other company expenditures.
Although Hiwassee owns and manages forest lands, the
vast majority of its wood is purchased in the open market
from private landowners and harvested by independent pro
ducers, Dyer said.
In providing a year-round cash market for pulpwood, the
company creates full-time or part-time employment for
some 9,000 or more persons in the 102 Southeastern coun
ties where it buys wood.
Most of the wood purchased by the company is harvested
by full-time producers, but the greatest number of people
involved are in the part-time, or “casual” category, Dyer
said.
From Feb. 14, 1946
Jeeps conquer Pickens mud for mail
carriers
When it comes to good old Georgia
mud, Pickens County is an unwilling
claimant of the state title. Two rural
mail carriers have solved the mud
problem and up to Saturday had been making their trip on
almost mid-summer schedules. Jeeps turned the trick for
W.J. Hamrick and R.E. Williams.
But Saturday even Williams and Hamrick were doubtful
as to whether the schedule could be maintained. After a
brief respite it started pouring again Friday night. Two
inches of rain was recorded up to 8 o’clock Saturday morn
ing and it was still coming down.
Mr. Hamrick had a premonition of bad winter, so he pur
chased a Jeep in December to serve the patrons on Talking
Rock Route 1. Early in January, Jasper Route 1 got so bad
that Mr. Williams could not get through with his regular
car. So he hired Mr. Hamrick to drive him around in the
Jeep. One trip was enough to convince Williams that Jeep-
ing it was the right way to beat Pickens County mud.
So up to Saturday “neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor
night, nor mud [keeps] these couriers from swift comple
tion of their appointed rounds.” —Atlanta Journal
Pickens County 4-H Club council organizes
The Pickens County 4-H Club council, composed from
all clubs in the county, met Saturday, February 9th, at the
county agent’s office.
There were seventeen 4-H members present, with Jasper
Grammar School leading in attendance.
The council was called to order and all 4-H members re
viewed the emblem and pledge. Afterwards plans were dis
cussed, which included camp, exhibits, projects and 4-H
Club Sunday. The council decided first to get acquainted
with 4-H Club week in March.
Awards for achievement were given as follows:
Kerr Canning - Juanita Holmes
Food Preparation - Louise Dowda
Girls’ Record - Dorothy Dean
Clothing Achievement - Velma Bryant
Garden - Betty Cagle, Dorothy Dean
Dress Revue - Juanita Holmes, Mary Annie Cagle, Velma
Bryant, Bobbie Edge.
After the group enjoyed lunch served at the office, 1946
officers were elected as follows:
President - Sara Holcombe
Girls’ Vice-President - Juanita Holmes
Boys’ Vice-President - Junior McArthur
Secretary and Reporter - Elise Hammontree
Treasurer - Dorothy McArthur
Those present were: Sara Holcombe, Elise Hammontree,
Juanita Holmes, Dorothy McArthur, Willie Mae McArthur,
Ruth Dean, Roxilea Jones, Patsy Lathem, Bobbie Edge,
Lucile Jones, Dorothy Dean, Truman Duckett, Clark
Bryant, Earl Duncan, Johnny Darnell, Junior McArthur and
Loye Hays Medlin.
Congressional Democrats strip
outspoken Marjorie Greene of
committee assignments
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - U.S. Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Thursday walked back many
of the controversial remarks
and social media postings
that have made the freshman
Republican from northwest
Georgia a political lightning
rod.
But Greene’s 10-minute
speech on the House floor
didn’t stop majority Democ
rats from passing a resolution
230-199 to strip her of as
signments to serve on the
House Budget and Education
and Labor committees.
Eleven Republicans joined
the Democrats in supporting
the resolution
Greene, R-Rome, de
scribed herself to her new
colleagues as a wife, mother
and successful business
owner who didn’t get in
volved in politics until the
election of former President
Donald Trump.
She said her belief that
Trump would act to curb
abortion and illegal immigra
tion and get the U.S. out of
foreign wars led her to begin
researching the internet,
where she stumbled upon
QAnon, a far-right group that
traffics in baseless conspir
acy theories.
Greene said she has since
learned that QAnon spreads
lies, that the 9-11 terrorist at
tack on the Pentagon did hap
pen and that the school
shootings in Connecticut and
Florida were real.
In previous remarks and
social media postings, she
has praised QAnon for patri
otism, questioned whether a
jet plane flew into the Penta
gon and stated the school
shootings were staged to cre
ate momentum for gun con
trol legislation.
But on Thursday, Greene
said she made those com
ments before she decided to
run for Congress and blamed
“big media companies” for
using them to mischaracter-
ize her.
“I never once said during
my entire campaign ... any
of the things I’m being ac
cused of saying today,” she
said. “These were words of
the past. These things do not
represent me, my district or
my values.”
But Rep. James McGov
ern, D-Mass., chairman of
the House Rules Committee,
which brought the resolution
to the House floor, said
Greene’s “disgusting rheto
ric” cannot be tolerated if the
House is to maintain a “stan
dard of decency.” He pointed
particularly to Greene’s “lik
ing” of a tweet in 2018 advo
cating the assassination of
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Serving on a committee
is not a right but a privilege,”
McGovern said. “When
someone encourages vio
lence against a member, they
should lose that privilege.”
Greene’s Republican de
fenders said stripping her of
her committee assignments
would mark an unwise prece
dent, the first time one party
has moved to take away the
assignments of a member of
the other party.
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.,
the Rules Committee’s rank
ing Republican, warned De
mocrats could get a taste of
the same medicine the next
time Republicans capture a
majority in the House.
“I find the comments
made by the representative in
question before she was
elected to Congress to be
deeply offensive,” he said.
[But] if we open this Pan
dora’s Box ... it runs the risk
of getting into a tit-for-tat ex
change that could cripple the
operations of this House now
and in the future.”
Cole and other Republi
cans also argued Greene was
being punished without the
benefit of a hearing before
the House Ethics Committee.
“She and every other
member of this body should
be entitled to due process,”
said Rep. Austin Scott, R-
Tifton.
But McGovern said a
hearing into whether what
Greene did merits punish
ment is unnecessary.
“Look at her social media
posts. It’s all there,” he said.
“They go well beyond any
thing we’ve ever seen from a
member in this body.”
McGovern also pointed to
Greene’s fundraising activi
ties since taking office last
month as evidence that she is
not apologizing for what she
has said and posted. Last
month, Greene said she had
raised $1.6 million due to the
media publicity surrounding
her controversial remarks.
Greene trounced Democ
rat Kevin Van Ausdal in
Georgia’s heavily Republican
14th Congressional District
last fall after he had dropped
out of the race. She defeated
neurosurgeon John Cowan
for the GOP nomination in
August by a margin of 57%
to 43%.
Pickens County man
arrested for the sexual
exploitation of children
Counseling
Individual, Couples and Family Therapy
with Adults, Teens and Children
Robin W. Dunn M.S.
Licensed Professional Counselor
On Thursday, February 4,
2021, Pickens County resi
dent, Danny Wright, 57, was
charged with one count of
Sexual Exploitation of Chil
dren (Possession of Child
Sexual Abuse Material) and
three counts of Sexual Ex
ploitation of Children (Distri
bution of Child Sexual Abuse
Material) by the Georgia Bu
reau of Investigation Child
Exploitation and Computer
Crimes (CEACC) Unit. The
GBI CEACC Unit began an
investigation into Wright’s
online activity after receiving
a Cybertip from the National
Center for Missing and Ex
ploited Children (NCMEC)
regarding the possession and
distribution of suspected
child pornography by Wright
via the internet. This investi
gation led to a search warrant
at Wright’s home in Jasper,
Georgia, and the arrest of
Wright on February 4, 2021.
The GBI was assisted in
the execution of the search
warrant by the Pickens
County Sheriff’s Office. Ev
idence from the search war
rant conducted on February
4, 2021, led to additional
criminal charges against
Wright on February 5, 2021.
On February 5, 2021, Wright
was charged with Child Mo
lestation and Invasion of Pri
vacy.
Wright is currently in cus
tody at the Pickens County
Jail.
This investigation is part
of the ongoing effort by the
Internet Crimes Against Chil
dren (ICAC) Task Force,
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housed within the GBI’s
Child Exploitation and Com
puter Crimes Unit, to identify
those involved in the child
pornography trade. The
ICAC Program, created by
the U.S. Department of Jus
tice, was developed in re
sponse to the increasing
number of children and
teenagers using the Internet,
the proliferation of child
pornography, and the height
ened online activity by pred
ators searching for
unsupervised contact with
underage victims.
Anyone with information
about other cases of child ex
ploitation is asked to contact
the Georgia Bureau of Inves
tigation Child Exploitation
and Computer Crimes Unit at
404-270-8870. Tips can also
be submitted by calling 1-
800-597-TIPS(8477), online
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https://gbi.georgia.gov/sub-
mit-tips-online, or by down
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