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THURSDAY. MARCH 4. 2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 5A
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
I have often heard of the
great teachers and school
building at Pickens County
Training School, later re
named Tri-City School.
There should be an area at
Pickens High School to rec
ognize Tri-City School.
There is memorabilia that
recognizes Pickens County
High School (the school be
fore Tate and PCHS consoli
dated in 1957) I recently
learned the trophies, plaques,
and other memorabilia from
Tri-City were disposed of
during the move at Pickens
High School to the new cam
pus. If the aforementioned
statement is true, a real dis
card for our history and cul
ture occurred. Even with the
probable loss of these arti
facts, hopefully a tribute to
Pickens County Training
School and Tri-City School
will come to fruition.
Regards,
Justin Davis
To the Editor:
Observing the proposed
voting restrictions you’re
considering that are to correct
a problem that doesn’t exist
except in the mind and mouth
of our ex-president, I’m con
cerned about my vote. I still
haven’t seen how my mail in
ballot proof documents are
going to be secured. First I’ll
have to find a copier and pay
for the copy of my drivers li
cense. .then risk it getting lost
or stolen in the mail. I had
been using the ballot boxes
but from what I read you
want to eliminate them. So I
mail my ballot request and if
luck is with me and it makes
it in ,what happens with the
copy of my drivers license?
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Clues Across
I. Now and
5. Israeli city Aviv
8. Indicates near
II. Minneapolis suburb
13. Large Australian flightless bird
14. Fine-grained earth
15. Plant genus that includes
water caltrop
16. Peacock network
17. TV writer Dunham
18. Excessive fluid accumulation
in tissues
20. They
21. Muslim ruler title
22. Position given in respect of
25. Explaining further
30. Measuring instrument
31. Romanian monetary unit
32. Council of ,1545-1563
33. Savory jelly made with meat
stock
38. Journalist Tarbell
41. Most suspenseful
43. Festivity
45. Animal embryos
48. Fertility god
49. Medical patients' choice
(abbr.)
50. Type of sword
55. Competition
56. Bird of the cuckoo family
57. Afflicted in mind or body
59. Engineering organization
60. Beverage receptacle
61. Spiritual leader
62. Doctor of Education
63. Where golfers begin
64. Impudence
Clues Down
1. Vietnamese offensive
2. Fast mammal
3. Oh goodness!
4. The back of one’s neck
5. One who lives in another’s
property
6. Involve deeply
7. Alfalfa
8. Tropical tree resin
9. Sudden fear
10. Jewish religious month
12. Veterans battleground
14. Musical symbol
19. German river
23. Paddle
24. Lizard
25. Shock treatment
26. The common gibbon
27. Brew
28. Usually has a lid
29. Lenses in optical instruments
34. Time zone in Samoa (abbr.)
35. Wrinkled dog: Shar
36. Denotes equal
37. TV network for children
|39. Take the value away from
40. Female graduates
41. Don’t know when yet
42. “ tu”: Spanish song
44. “Seinfeld” character
45. Bleated
46. Entwined
47. Away from wind
48. Soft creamy white cheese
51. Swiss river
52. Prejudice
53. Actor Idris
54. They resist authority (slang)
58. Speak ill of
Does it stay with the request
form? Does the second copy
stay with my voting ballot? If
it does stay then you’ll know
who I voted for and therefore
my ballot is not secret. If it
doesn’t stay with it how can
you prove on an audit that I
sent it.
This whole voting proce
dure is a mess if politicians
don’t believe our local
county can do their jobs and
don’t trust anyone.
You may believe that
these changes are instilling
trust in the vote but now I’m
worried about my increased
risk of my drivers license
copies floating around in the
mail or in the hands of volun
teers at the local voting of
fice. Who do we trust?
Dan Ciomek
To the Editor:
I wanted to thank the
Progress for regularly listing
our government officials con
tact info so we can tell them
thank you and let them know
how we feel about some of
the issues.
Carol Opdenoff
To the Editor:
I miss Tramp already.
1. Tramp is the jobs pres
ident. During his first term he
added seven million Ameri
can jobs. Lowest unemploy
ment rate among Blacks,
hispanics and women. Biden
on the other hand killed tens
of thousands of jobs in his
first few days in office and
it’s reported that number may
jump to 1 million purported
jobs just with the stopping of
the Keystone pipeline.
2. Tramp did not get us
into any new wars and started
bringing our troops home. He
started the process for denu
clearization of the Korean
peninsula. He also took out
many enemies of the U.S.
Biden has already stopped
the removal of some troops
from Germany. Let’s see how
long before he gets us into a
new war.
3. Tramp passed the Tax
Cuts and Jobs Act which
helped to cut taxes for middle
class Americans and boosted
their wages. Biden’s $15
minimum wage plan will de
stroy 1.4 millionjobs accord
ing to the Congressional
Budget Office.
4. Declared a national
emergency on our southern
border and built 400 miles of
border wall to stop the flow
of illegal aliens, drags and
human trafficking. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds of
drags cross our borders each
year. According to the State
Department 17,5000 - 19,000
foreign nationals are traf
ficked into the U.S. every
year and half of those are mi
nors forced into prostitution.
Hundreds of thousands of il
legal aliens cross our borders
each year and illegal aliens
cost American taxpayers
roughly $ 116 billion a year.
Biden revoked the national
emergency at the southern
border and now wants to give
free healthcare to the esti
mated 22 million illegals liv
ing here and would roughly
cost taxpayers $66 billion a
year. He also stopped con
struction on the border wall.
5. Trump removed us
from the horrible Paris Cli
mate Accord. If the accord is
fully implemented it would
possibly reduce temperatures
around the world by 0.05 de
grees by 2100. This agree
ment will show an increase
of electricity cost for a family
of four by 13-20% annually
and American families would
see over $20,000 of lost in
come by 2035. This accord
could also cost up 2.7 million
of jobs by LOST by 2035.
According to a report from
the U.N. America is cutting
so much carbon we don’t
need to be a part of this Ac
cord, but as you can guess
Biden has already signed an
executive order to rejoin the
Parish Climate Accord.
Carl Stancil Jr.
To the Editor:
Regarding the recent
Other Voices column con
cerning Rush Limbaugh, I
must say that I whole-heart
edly disagree with the arti
cle's assessment of the man.
To say that Limbaugh was
a great American is both per
plexing and laughable. His
brand of conservatism and
patriotism never sought any
level of decency. Instead, it
was consistently based upon
derision for any individual,
race, or culture that was not
an embodiment of Lim-
baugh's caustic ideas and
rhetoric.
Of Blacks, he stated,
"Have you ever noticed that
all composite pictures of
wanted criminals resemble
Jesse Jackson?” Of women's
subservience to men and
their individual and repro
ductive rights, he coined the
term “Feminazis” and re
ferred to contraceptive advo
cates such as Georgetown
law student Sandra Fluke as
“sluts.” His assessment of
the poor in his book The Way
Things Ought to Be is, "The
poor in this country are the
biggest piglets at the mother
pig and her nipples."
These are not quotes of ex
ception, but exemplary of
Limbaugh's more than three
decades on radio. His never-
ending diatribe degraded
women, the working poor,
the homeless, Hispanics, and
many others he viewed as in
ferior and unworthy of Amer
ica's fruits. At one point, his
show even featured a daily
segment during which he cel
ebrated the deaths of AIDS
victims. If this is patriotism,
perhaps patriotism needs new
criteria.
Perhaps, as well, a better
assessment of Limbaugh than
"great American" is that he
was a well-paid, venom-
filled talking head whose life
served nothing but to perpet
uate the normalization of big
otry and hatred in America.
Keith Petty
To the Editor:
Gambling is improper and
immoral for governments to
use to raise funds. Fair taxes
is the proper and moral way.
Interstate groups for decades
have been conning Georgia
governments into corrupting,
addicting, and destroying the
children of the state so the
bad groups can collect much
of the state's money while
costing the state billions of
dollars to repair the damage
done by legalizing alcohol,
abortion, gambling, mari
juana, and other evil things.
The interstate groups
bribe people with the prom
ise of money to get them to
overthrow moral laws that
protect the lives of people,
especially the children. The
gambling companies pay a
bribe such as the Hope
Scholarship in Georgia and
pay a winner or two while the
gambling company carries
off most of the gambling
money as we have seen with
the state lottery. If the gov
ernment and the voters loved
the children as they should,
they would be happy to give
all the money to the children
and the Hope Scholarship.
But elected officials' and
voters' love is on lust for
money and addiction and
they are willing to kill the
children and the neighbors
for alcohol, gambling, abor
tion, etc. These evils and
their addicts in government
and among voters are de
stroying the children, making
them criminals, and killing
them as the lottery and other
gambling companies carry
off most of the money. Fair
taxes are the only moral and
proper way for way for gov
ernment to collect money.
Today Georgia kills her chil
dren for companies in other
states and nations that have a
lust for money and vices and
no love at all for the children
of the state. Georgia tax pay
ers now are forced to pay for
damages done in Georgia
by alcohol, gambling, abor
tion and other evils unjustly
imposed on them by bad cit
izens and bad governments
willing to kill anybody for
money and vices.
Billy Joe Parker
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Face-to-face
Be Skeptical
Any time you are doing
person-to-person business.
or with someone
who lives locally.
If an offer sounds too good
to be true, it probably is.
Other tips to avoid scams:
Do not send payments in advance, unless you know you can trust the person or business.
Never wire funds and Remember money orders are like cash, you can’t cancel or stop
payment. The Jasper Police Chief has said that if you are sending a money order out of the
country for a business deal, it’s likely a scam.
Watch out for deals, jobs or offers where you must first pay a fee.
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