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The Houston Home Journal
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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, INC.
BOBBY BRANCH Presidont-Editor-Publisher
G. OGDEN PERSONS Vice President
LEWIS M. MEEKS Secretary-Treasurer
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Perry, Georgia 31069
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COMMENT
Perry isn't Only Town
Faced With Doctor Shortgage
Perry isn’t the only community in Georgia that
is suffering from a shortage of doctors. Statistics
show that Georgia is faced with a critical shortage
of doctors.
The Perry Area Chamber of Commerce and
local doctors are now at work in a joint effort to
locate more doctors here.
Georgia needs 1,700 additional doctors, just to
meet current needs and match national standards
according to a recently completed professional stu
dy of the state’s medical manpower.
The study was made by a specially appointed
Task Force on Physician Manpower for submission
to the State Health Department’s Office of Com
prehensive Health Planning.
The Task Force, reporting after 18 months of
intensive investigation, included in its member
ship the top officials of the state’s two medical
schools and the chancellor of the university system.
Solutions suggested by the study as possible re
medies for Georgia’s chronic doctor shortage in
clude state aid to private medical schools, the or
ganization of a two-year “feeder school” to reduce
the pressure on the state’s two existing medical
schools and the establishment of a third four-year
medical college in Georgia.
The first printed copy of the 40 page study re
port was delivered Thursday to State Health Direc
tor Dr. John H. Venable by Dr. Thomas J. Ander
son, Atlanta physician and chairmna of the state’s
Compresensive Health Planning Council.
Dr. Anderson indicated that the State Health
Department will have “primary responsibility” for
implementation of the study recommendations.
Emerging as one of the 19 recommendations in
the report is that “specific opportunities should be
developed to provide for the education of more
black medical students.”
After receiving the document, Dr. Venable com
mented, “The report contains many important and
provocative ideas. Although everyone in Georgia
concerned with the medical manpower problem
may not completely agree with every suggestion,
or with the priorities, the imaginative and highly
informed thinking should form the basis for signi
ficant corrective action.”
The health official added that additional study
—including preparing a price tag—would begin “at
once” as a first step to practical implementation of
the group's suggestions.
The task force, w.th Atlanta neuro-surgeon Dr.
William W. Moore Jr. as chairman, was formed
following the recommendations of the Comprehen
sive Health Planning Council. The council is a 25
member health advisory group appointed by Gov
Maddox to study long-range health needs in Geor
gia and to establish priorities in meeting them.
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Perryans Should Drive
Safely During Christmas
The Home Journal wants to urge Perryans to
drive with special care during the Christmas and
New Year’s holidays.
Nobody likes the subject of holiday safety. It is
particularly unpopular at Christmas because the
message rarely seems effective without the men
tion of death. Christmas is not supposed to be a
time of sadness, but a time of joy.
This is what safety is all about. Christmas is a
time of birth; it is not meant to be a time of sad
ness, but a lime of joy.
This is what safety is all about. Christmas is a
time of birth, of joy—if there are no tragic acci
dents. It is people—drivers—who are not supposed
to drive after tiey drink too much at a party; it is
drivers who are not supposed to drive so fast that
they cannot control their cars; and it is drivers
again who are not supposed to drive so long on a
holiday trip that they fall asleep at the wheel.
U is an ironic fact that a thousand traffic deaths
can go unnoticed, while just one can shatter a fam
ily’s world. The business of safety is life. The 4,790
, people killed on the nation’s highways last year in
\ December are part of an unrepairable fact. Our holi
v day record this year depends far less on thoughts
of death than on individual drivers, active attempts
* to stay alive—by obeyng the laws, by looking out
for the other guy. In every fatal accident report
li hes the wish that someone had given more thought
to the preservation of life byte actions they took
■Msa driver.
Mr Republicrat
"Hobbies Pursue Me”
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Maxine Thompson wL O
In high school home economics
class I learned to knit, and I spent
every spare waking minute knitting
until I finally got the back and front
of a sweater finished. By that time I
was so sick of the whole thing I refus
ed to make sleeves, so I just sewed it
together at the sides and shoulders
and wore it a couple of times as a
weskit. The last time I dug to the bot
tom of the cedar chest it stared ac
cusingly at me, and I promptly smoth
ered it with a couple of pieces of un
finished embroidery and closed the
lid.
I crocheted one sweater and bootee
set for my first born, one pineapple
doily, and enough lace edging for two
pillow cases, and that ended that,
forever.
The art of decoupage looked so
fascinating and so easy, I decided to
transform an old dresser base with it.
1 found it in a neighbor’s garage and
talked her into selling it to me. She
very apologetically asked five dollars
for it, obviously thinking I was crack
ed to want the thing. The veneer on
the drawer fronts had bucked out and
cracked in the damp so that it could
n’t be just stripped and refimshed with
varnish the usual way.
•Following directions found in one
of the home improvement magazines,
1 cleaned the whole thing and put on a
coat of black paint. With scissors and
razor blade I painstakingly cut out
pictures of flowers from seed cata
logues and glued them in place, cover
ing them with clear varnish. The re
sult wasn’t bad, and 1 got a lot of com
pliments on it; but not enough to en
tice me into that again.
For five years I stayed on a gar
dening spree planted pine trees,
bushes, bulbs, every blooming thing
I could get my hands on. 1 put on a
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raincoat and shower cap and lovingly
transplanted things during autumn
showers, and never lost a plant.
Then I moved to another town and
after that my yard was the scourge of
the neighborhood. When I couldn’t
find the path from the front door to
the car any longer, the grass got cut.
I saved the oak leaves in back and hired
all the small kids in the neighborhood
to rake them up just before spring in
one fell swoop.
Once I start on a new hobby, it
becomes a merciless taskmaster. In
stead of enjoying it leisurely, free to
pick it up or put it down at will, I
go at it as if I were being lashed with
a whip.
Not being artistic enough to tackle
oil painting from scratch. I bought two
sets of paint-by-number pictures. Ev
ry night as soon as the supper dishes
were cleared away I painted madly,
until my eyes could no longer focus
on the little lines and I had to give up
and go to bed. They’re hanging on my
walls now, a monument to my endur
ance.
I believe my sessions at rag rug
making were the worst. After about a
six month struggle with cutting, sew
ing strips, dyeing, braiding and sew
ing, I finished one oval rug about two
feet by four, and a round one about
three feet in diameter. The round one
had to be laid carefully and patted
down gently around the edges. Then
as you walked away it jumped up
around the edges to form a giant braid
ed bowl.
Really, I think it would be more
sensible for me to just give up hobbies
and tackle some good, hard work. It’s
much easier on me in the long run.
But a Japanese friend just mentioned
that Ikebana classes are starting, and
surely ...
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Out on a Branch—
Christmas is Only
A Dream For Many
Branch———.
The store was crowded with holi
day shoppers and the toy department
was jammed with youngsters staring
at and fondling the hundreds of toys
on display.
There was these two boys, about
8 and 9, and their eyes were especial
ly bright. You see kids like these two
all during the Christmas season and
you can read the dreams in their
eyes. They were dressed in faded dun
garees and jackets that ad been pass
ed down it seemed for a long time.
One of the boys had on a pair of
sneakers that let light through to both
feet.
“Look at this ‘Spider’ bike,” one of
the two boys said to the other, “It’s
just like the one I’m getting for
Christmas.”
“Look at this ‘Hot Wheels’,” the
boy with a runny nose said as he drug
his sleeve across his nose,” “I’m get
tin this for Christmas.”
The two ran the gamut of the toy
department and the dreams of the
Christmas that would never be for
them, grew bigger with each minute
they looked.
“Golly bum . . . ow weee, look at
Christmas Is Tha
Season To Give All I
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By Rev. Vernon Luckey \ j
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
The month is October, there is a
knock on the door; the kids outside
are anxiously awaiting a warm greet
ing from the person inside. When the
door is opened they all join in with
their well-rehearsed choral arrange
ment, “Trick or Treat”; young people
of all sizes and shapes holding out
their paper bags hoping for a big jui
cy aple or king-size Hershey bar. Most
times people do drop in something
tasty, but there are those houses where
the kids receive a cold response or an
ugly word or even a trick—rocks roll
ed up neatly in aluminum foil, moth
balls, rotten eggs.
In thinking through this Christ
mas season and what it means to peo
ple, I could not erase from my mind
the children standing outside the
homes with their paper bags in hand.
I thought how like those young people
we are—wdh paper bags in hands go
ing through each day from place to
place, person to person. In our con
tacts with people we receive much—
treats and tricks. Some of them add
joy, others drop in a little sadness;
from others we receive experience and
knowledge; and then, there are always
the ones who add hate, pettiness, vile
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Dateline 1
Washington *T~
BY HEP. JACK BRINKLEY iffjWL'
Third District Congressman
The Coastal Plains Region
al Development Commission
affecting parts of Georgia,
North and South Carolina has
for the first time ever, re
ceived meaningful financial
authorization. Much of the
Third District lies within this
area and the 1969 legislation,
as approved, incorporates the
basic proposals of H.R. 10957
introduced by myself and
others.
A study commissioned by the
Coastal Plains Regional Devel
opment Commission, completed
in July of this year, includes
the following excerpt:
“It is recommended that the
highest priority project in
Georgia be the construction of
a multilane, limited access
facility in the Columbus-
Macon-Augusta corridor. This
would tie in with 1-20 near Au
gusta, 1-16 at Macon, and U.S.
280 (scheduled fbr upgrading
to 1-85 in Alabama) at Colum
bus, filling the gaps in the
this car,” one of the boys said as he
looked down at a miniature car that
will carry two children passengers and
runs by auto battery. The one boy just
stood there and looked as his blonde
hair fell down almost covering his
bright green eyes.
The other boy walked over and
as he looked at the car he took another
long swipe at his runny nose on the
sleeve of his jacket . . , “You gonna’
get that car, too for Christmas?” he
asked.
“Yeah, I want that thing, boy, it’s
something,” he said, never noticing
the $89.95 price tag.
I watched them as they left the
toy department and dissappeared into
the mass of shoppers in the big de
partment store. The dreams of Christ
mas glittered in their eyes but I knew
there would be no Christmas for them
except the one in their dreams.
There will be some little boys who
will wake up Christmas morning and
find the bike, the racing set and minia
ture riding car under their tree
But not this pair . . . Christmas is a
dream that never comes true for them
and many like them.
tempers, prejudice to our rapidly
swelling collection. We are hesitant to
open our bags too widely to srangers;
we are afraid we will be tricked rather
than treated, but as we get to know
them better we either open up more,
or close our bags completely.
The one person we should open
our bags up to is God, but for most
people God is a stranger, one whom
we don’t know too well because we
have not taken the time to become ac
quainted, and so, we don’t open our
bags up to Him, or we open them very
little; consequently we receive very
few of the treats he has for us. Even
if our bags are overflowing with every
thing we have accumulated, but we
have not received the intended gifts of
God mercy, love, patience, peace,
joy, understanding—our lives are real
ly very empty.
This Christmas season, then, is a
time of examination—when we, hope
fully, will become better acquainted
with the Giver of all Good Gifts, when
the Stranger to us becomes a Saviour
for us, enabling us to “open up” to
receive some of those gifts, and in so
doing live a more purposeful life.
high quality intercity connec
tions for three of the largest
cities in the Region. It should
be noted that the shortest route
between these points does not
lie entirely within the Region.”
Also, another matter of
priority in the Coastal Plains
study is a multilane highway
proceeding southerly out of
Columbus, passing between
Albany and Americus to Tifton,
Waycross and Brunswick.
A conclusion of the Com
mission is that such highway
transportation provides a vast
potential for economic growth
in adjacent areas. Thus, the
Columbus to Macon Road should
be routed to a point south of
Macon, on a line through Butler,
Reynolds, the north margin of
Fort Valley, through Houston
County; thence, through Twiggs
and Wilkinson County, kaolin
country, northeasterly to Au
gusta. This route lies entirely
within the Coastal Plains
Region.
When toll roads are sug
gested to be built, the issue
presented is the matter of com
parison of timQf. convenience
and economics. Will the facili
ty be ready for use substantial
ly sooner than similar non-toll
projects on the drawing boards
already? Are area tolls really
equitable or fair? What is the
economic impact differential?
These questions should be
carefully resolved before final
judgments and decisions, for
the risk of diluted effort may
delay the facility finally de
cided upon.
In the past three years our
Third Congressional District
has made remarkable progress
in highway transportation. In
terstate 75 traversing the Dis
trict is a reality. Progress is
slower on 1-16 and 1-65 but the
goal is sure.
New projects have become
definite. Interstate 185 be
tween Columbus and LaGrange
became an integral part of
Interstate System under a 15 "
mile expansion approved 3 >
Congress in 1968 and
this is the last leg to be adde
in Georgia, it could be blende
into the completion effort 1 v
the State Highway Department)
simultaneously with other m "
coraplete portions. In any
event, if the Highway Depart
ment moves steadily ° n 1 15
connector, as of course it v. l •
the tangible, physical signs 0
progress will provide continuing
encouragement although f’ na
completion may be severe
years in coming.