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From December 12, 1996
Off Main Street by Jack Stillman
Success is measured in so many
ways it can hardly be defined. The for
mula differs, but it is all around us.
The catch-all word opportunity seems
to cover it for a lot of people, but it is
a lot more complicated than that. A lot
of successful people I have known lived through the Great
Depression and their accomplishments would surprise
many of us now. You must understand how difficult it was
because there was practically no opportunity.
Arthur Winston McCracken, now 56, has vast holding in
Georgia, South Carolina, including farms and timber stands
in a 100-mile stretch of south Georgia, besides business in
terests in Atlanta and California — a long way from the to
bacco fields where he grew up.
Art had practically no opportunity as a child, and one day
I asked him how he had managed to achieve so much. “It
goes back to when I was very young,” he said. “Where I
grew up there were poor people all around me. We’d see a
man with a nice automobile and they’d say he must be a
crook.” Art worked out his own formula for success. He
decided he would have to work hard, “work smart,” and
live below his income. “One morning while I was catching
the subway — this was in April and I was freezing — I
bought a newspaper. I saw that it was 84 degrees in Atlanta.
I left Chicago for Atlanta two days later.” Everything Art
did was an opportunity to learn something. In Atlanta he
was a helper on a truck for a grocery chain, then a driver.
He bought rental property — on average one a year for
about 15 years. Still, he never spent more than he earned.
“To be successful, I think, you have to be able to provide
for your family for rainy days, to be able to buy the neces
sities and to educate your children.”
“One thing I have learned is that you have to learn from
the people who have done the right thing,” he says. “People
who have never been able to put things together could
never teach me anything.”
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From December 9, 1971
YEARS
Election news
[409 of the 566 registered vot
ers in Jasper] cast their ballots for the
candidates of their choice in the city
election last Saturday. [11 voted ab
sentee] for a total of 420. Lee Newton
was reelected mayor by a margin of 290 votes to 127 for
Howard Ray. Terrell Patterson and Garland Whitfield were
reelected to city council and Paul Robinette was elected to
the council, taking the seat of Fred Stancil Sr., who did not
seek reelection. In the Nelson election, three councilmen
were elected: Paul Hamby, Lawton Murphy and Grady
Ray. Cliff Goss is mayor of Nelson and the other members
of the council are Herb White and Marvin Cagle.
Letter to the Editor
Leo Aikman, talking about the two-story house he was
reared in being so cold: “When I was a boy I visited my
grandmother who lived in a two-story house that was so
cold I would grab my britches in the morning and run out
in the yard and put them on. My wife is proud of her an
cestors that were among the first settlers in America. My
ancestors were here when hers landed. Ben Franklin helped
frame the Constitution at 80; Edison was busy in his labo
ratory at 84; Justice Holmes was writing Supreme Court
decisions at 90; Goethe completed “Faust” at 80; Titian
painted masterpieces at 98; Toscanini still conducted at 85;
scientists have found that the ability to think does not de
cline with advancing age. Living is an art, so go to it. -
Jimmy Townsend
From December 12, 1946
Dr. E.A. Roper elected mayor with
entire new council
Dr. E.A. Roper was elected
mayor of Jasper last Saturday, and the
following gentleman were elected to
the city council: Olen Cagle, J.W.
Dyer, Sigmond Mosley, Paul Robinette and James Jones.
While the members of the new city government will be en
tirely new, they were elected without opposition, the pres
ent mayor, Carter Burgess and members of the council
having refused to run for reelection. The new mayor and
council take office January 1st. They pledge to push the ex
tension of the sewerage system, already partially planned,
extension of the water lines, paving of additional streets,
enforcement of traffic laws, and a general progressive ad
ministration. At the same time J. Sol Jones was elected jus
tice of the peace for Town district, to fill the unexpected
term of D.P. Poole, deceased.
Mrs. W.B. Archer and H.G. Jones to erect new building
Mrs. W.B. Archer and Mr. H.G. Jones have started grad
ing for a new building to be erected on the east side of Tate
highway just south of the intersection of the Mountain road.
The new building will be a one-story concrete-block struc
ture and contain two rooms 20x40 feet each. It will harmo
nize with the north of the Mountain road and rented to
Jasper Motors, Inc., local Ford dealers. One room of the
new building will also be used by Jasper Motors, Inc., to
house farm machinery. The other room will be occupied by
the McWhorter Motor Company, dealers in Reo Trucks and
Willys Jeeps.
Heated
The Lenning Hotel has installed Butane gas heat and the
hotel is now heated throughout.
Winter strawberries
Mrs. J.W. Howell brought us (The Progress) some fresh
strawberries out of her garden Tuesday, which is undoubt
edly the record for north Georgia — strawberries in De
cember.
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Report suggests increasing penalties for
violence against health-care workers
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - A state Senate
study committee asked the
General Assembly Monday
to consider stiffening penal
ties for violent attacks on
Georgia health-care workers.
But new legislation ad
dressing the issue is unlikely
because criminal justice ex
perts believe existing law al
ready covers violence in the
health-care workplace, said
Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, R-Ma-
rietta, the study committee’s
chairman and an orthopedic
surgeon.
“There are already penal
ties in place for aggravated
assault and aggravated bat
tery,” she said. “I can’t prom
ise legislation is going to
happen or would pass if it’s
proposed.”
The Senate formed the
study committee amid a na
tionwide increase in violence
against health-care workers
since the coronavirus pan
demic struck the country
early last year.
A study the U.S. Occupa
tional Safety and Health Ad
ministration released in April
2020 found that health-care
workers account for about
50% of all victims of work
place violence.
The study committee’s
final report that Kirkpatrick
presented Monday encour
aged hospital officials to train
health-care workers and other
hospital staff in how to
deescalate potentially violent
confrontations and how to
defend themselves if it be
comes necessary.
But Dr. Mohak Dave, an
emergency room physician
with Northeast Georgia
Health Systems and a mem
ber of the study committee,
said the report didn’t go far
enough.
While current state law
addresses attacks on health
care workers in emergency
settings, he said there is no
protection on the books for
workers in other areas of hos
pitals.
“This is not just an emer
gency-room problem,” he
said.
“All of our health-care
workers should be pro
tected,” added Kelsey Reed,
a nurse practitioner with
Phoebe Primary Care in Al
bany who is also on the study
committee.
Dave proposed amending
the committee’s report to
suggest the legislature con
sider increasing penalties for
attacks on health-care work
ers, and the panel approved
the change unanimously.
The committee’s final re
port will head to the full Sen
ate in time for the 2022
General Assembly session
that begins next month.
This story is available
through a news partnership
with Capitol Beat News Serv
ice, a project of the Georgia
Press Educational Founda
tion.
Georgia tax collections
increase in November
for fifth straight month
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Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - Georgia tax
revenues rose again last
month, continuing a positive
trend of increases that began
with the start of the current
fiscal year in July.
The state Department of
Revenue brought in $2.29
billion in November, up 17%
over November of last year,
the agency reported Monday,
Individual income tax col
lections rose by 19%, spurred
by a 65.3% increase in indi
vidual tax return payments.
Sales tax receipts also
were on the upswing, with
gross sales tax revenues up
18.6%.
The only decline came in
corporate tax revenues,
which fell last month by a
whopping 171%, primarily
the result of a huge increase
of 141.6% in refunds issued
Create a
durable
gingerbread
house
• Go for form and not flavor.
Few gingerbread houses ever
get eaten, so focus on finding
a dough that will bake up
rock hard as opposed to one
that tastes good.
• Get the right icing texture.
Pastry artist Catherine Bed-
dall says royal icing is the
preferred “glue” to adhere
gingerbread pieces. Beddall
says icing should be thick
like peanut butter and not
runny.
• Mind the dough. Do not roll
out the gingerbread dough
too thin or it may become
brittle after being cooked. Al
ways cut out shapes before
the gingerbread is baked. Let
the baked pieces sit overnight
to cool completely before
using them to build.
• Patience is key. Allow the
icing to dry for at least a cou
ple of hours after adhering
each piece and before mov
ing and handling the house,
says Beddall. Work in stages
so that individual items can
be decorated and allowed to
dry. Then the walls can be put
together, followed by the roof
pieces.
• Kids likely will need help.
Children may not have the
patience or steadiness to han
dle complete gingerbread
construction. They can deco
rate the separate pieces of the
house while the components
are laying flat, which is easier
for kids. Adults can do the
main assembly later on.
• Utilize a template. Free-
handing may not be easy. Cut
out templates using card
board or posterboard for var
ious gingerbread pieces.
by the revenue department.
As has been the case for
many months, gasoline tax
collections rose again, as
more and more drivers hit the
road after being cooped up
during the coronavirus pan
demic. Motor fuels tax rev
enues for November were up
8.4% over November of last
year.
Overall, November
marked the fifth consecutive
month of higher state tax rev
enues after three straight
months of declines. Tax col
lections for the last five
months combined ran 16.7%
above the same period a year
ago.
This story is available
through a news partnership
with Capitol Beat News Serv
ice, a project of the Georgia
Press Educational Founda
tion.
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