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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1972
District Attorney Buice
We regretted to hear the news from
Houston District Attorney Avon Buice
this week that he would not seek his
post in primary elections. Buice told
us he has decided to go back into
private practice.
D. A. Buice has worked very hard in
the few months he has been in office
since being appointed by Gov. Jimmy
Carter, along with Judge Willis Hunt
to create the Houston Judicial Circuit.
He has helped get the court system on
the right path by speeding up the
process of court trials in the County,
Before the new circuit was created by
the General Assembly, Houston
County was running far behind in the
Newspapers Number One
The nation’s newspapers sold $6.2
billion worth of advertising in 1971
compared with $3.5 billion sold by
television, according to figures
released by the American Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Direct mail advertising was in third
place with $2.9 billion and magazines
accounted for $1.4 billion of ad
vertising. Radio was fifth with $1.38
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FROM THE HOME JOURNAL FILES
r. YEARS AGO • Construction
begins on the Industrial Arts and
Home Economics Departments at
Perry High School ... The Central
Georgia Cattlemen’s Association met
at Perry last Thursday, with about
150 cattlemen attending the day-long
session ... Dixie Lime and Stone
Company of Ocala. Fla. which has an
agricultural limestone quarry near
Perry, has been purchased by New
York and Honduras Rosario Mining
Co. with headquarters in New Jer
sey...
10 YEARS AGO- The Perry Civitan
Club was presented a plaque at the
annual convention of the South
Georgia District last weekend for
having the outstanding club bulletin
NOTICE
A garbage collection fee of
$1.50 will be added to each
resident effective June I and
this will be on the July I billing
of utilities. This fee will be in
addition to any charge that you
may have paid in the past.
§
Mayor and Council
City Os Perry, Ga.
due process of law that calls for a
“speedy” trial. Now, because of both
D A. Buice and Judge Hunt, Houston
is much nearer providing offenders
with a “speedy” trial.
D. A. Buice is a very capable and
learned man of the law. We are sure it
was a difficult decision for him to
make to leave the world of
prosecution law. We regret the
Houston Judicial
Circuit will lose his services but we
wish him well in his future endeavors
in private law practice. We have
much respect for District Attorney
Avon Buice.
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billion.
Newspaper circulation increased to
62,231,258 in 1971.
The Home Journal is only a very
small part of these impressive
figures. Nevertheless it takes it’s
place with newspapers everywhere as
the No. 1 advertising medium for
reaching the people who buy products
and services.
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for 1961-62 ... Perryans contributed
$1,062 to Cerebral Palsy of Middle
Georgia during the telethon last
Saturday night and Sunday ... A last
minute rush to register brought the
number of qualified voters in the
county to 8,500 after a big drive for
voter registration last weekend.
20 YEARS AGO • David Gray of Perry
High School won the teen-age driver’s
roadeo in the Sixth Safety District
here. He will compete in the state
meet May 14 in Tifton ... Georgia
Power Company and Wynn’s 5 and 10
Cent Store are getting fix-up jobs.
...H. E. Ogle tree gathered up enough
ice to freeze a churn of ice cream at 9
a.m. Sunday, IS hours after the heavy
hail Saturday afternoon.
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It seems I’m in danger of being
called “The Tombstone Lady”
around here. There was the story of
the black soldier’s grave and near it
the white man buried in just his un
derwear a few weeks ago. A call from
a man with a pulpwood outfit sent me
about twenty miles on paved roads
and another quarter mile through
woods, bushes and briars to uncover
another tombstone story.
Stangely enough, in the meantime I
had unearthed (oops, I’m not sure
that’s the right word!) another
tombstone story on my own, which
I’m working on now, and it will ap
pear in the near future.
Since I seem to be stuck with
tombstones and cemeteries, if anyone
knows about any other cemetery
oddities or stories of special interest
that may have been handed down by
word of mouth and never published,
I’d like to hear from you. There are
many tiny, old burial plots stuck
away from view that tend to be
forgotten through the years, many
with strange epitaphs on them.
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I’ve spent the past week learning
how to be a Grandma. Dennis, Gaile
and baby Bradley are here for a visit,
and it’s absolutely fascinating to
watch a tiny baby struggle on his
stomach until he can flip himself over
on his back, and look so pleased with
himself! His Aunt Lydia is about the
most willing baby-sitter you ever laid
eyes on.
When the three of them go back to
Camp LeJeune, we’re going to miss
them dreadfully until Dennis gets his
discharge from the Marines the first
of September.
We’ll have Wayne at home briefly
when he gets out of the Navy in July,
but since he’ll be getting married to
his Lynn that month it will just seem
like a visit, I suppose.
And Lydia will graduate from
Perry High School at the end of this
“Good Communities”
A former editor of a country
newspaper asks, “What makes ‘good’
communities?” Writing to a friend,
he says, “Now any observer knows
that there are ... towns and counties
I where folks get along, where the
casual visitor can hear that so-and-so
is a useful citizen and not a son-df-a...
where people seem to be helpful to
each other. The carpenter tells any
inquirer how to cut a rafter, the
trapper shares his favoriite bait, the
ones who can write or talk do so on
request. Os course such a community
character is not always unanimous;
month. Hmmm - where did all those
years go since my own babies were
learning to flip over by themselves?
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Television commercials usually
leave me cold or fill me with disgust,
but the Alka-Seltzer folks must have
the best ad writers in the Business.
They’ve got the whole country going
around saying “Try it, you’ll like it, ”
“I can’t believe I ate the whole
thing,” ‘‘Thought I was gonna die,”
and similar versions of them. In
speaking of getting both Democratic
and Republican Conventions in his
state, the Governor of Florida said, “I
can’t believe I got the whole thing!”
Columnists, advertisers on
other media, business and
professional men and women, school
kids - they’re all using those ex
pressions. There’s a country song out
now using ‘‘Try it, you’ll like it,” and
ending, ‘‘Thought I was gonna die.”
They say imitation is the sincerest
form of flattery. Boy, they should feel
flattered!
There are a few other ads I enjoy -
like the “It isn’t nice to fool Mother
Nature” one for a margarine. The
Coke ad featuring the singers on a
hilltop in Italy became so popular that
a version of it has been recorded,
leaving out the product
And remember the fellow who
wallowed all over his bed and ended
up slipping off the edge? That was
good for more laughs than some of the
regular programs. So were the ads
about the shared medicine chest in
the bathroom.
I know it’s hard for the television ad
writers to come up with something
great every time, but after viewing
some of them that assume all of us
are a bunch of idiots, I vow to run
away from their products.
PARTING THOUGHT; There is
only one job in which you can start at
the top - and that’s digging a hole.
there are always those women who
run the errant girl down with their
tongues and men who run her down
with their legs, but if most are
tolerant the community may survive
with the strength that can make it
valuable.”
Yes, it takes more than payrolls
and town boosters to make a good
community. It takes a breadth of
vision in the ranks of its citizens -a
desire to be above petty-talking
meanness. As the former editor
implies, it takes considerable striving
to be a good community.
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When you think about Lake Seminole in deep
southwest Georgia, you automatically think about
bass fishing and Jack Wingate. Jack runs a
fishing camp on Seminole and he’s just about the
most knowledgeable bass fisherman and
Seminole philosopher in that area. We had the
opportunity to spend an afternoon fishing with
Jack on Seminole last Saturday when we met for a
Georgia Press Association board meeting at Lake
Seminole.
Our host and hostess for the most memorable
weekend was Georgia Press pres. Sam Griffin and
his wife, Maryann, who makes the best cucumber
dip I ever tasted.
The Griffin’s really know how to put on a
weekend function. I doubt that I will ever forget
the Saturday night mullet fry that Sam and Jack
put on for the press folks. They had a spread of
fried mullet, fried sweet potatoes, french fries,
hush puppies and cole slaw that was so good it
made me want to cry. And Sam’s shop foreman at
the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight fries a mean
mullet and sweet potatoe.
We didn’t catch any bass but Jack gave us
plenty of reasons why. He told Becky at one point
in our afternoon of fishing that the wind was so
bad that she should not think those big splashes
were fish, that they were just “white caps”.
We reached one point in the lake and Becky
asked Jack, “Are there any fish in this spot?”
“There’s water here, ain’t it?”, Jack said, “And
anywhere there is water there has got to be fish.
Matter of fact there are thousands of them run
ning around in here right now... Just look at ’em”.
Becky had Jack a little scared at one point as
she was casting one of his bass lures into the lake.
Jack told her he had been keeping a close eye on
her casting and that he was now becoming con
cerned because the lure she was now using would
hurt like the devil when it got hung behind his ear.
I asked Jack the size of the biggest bass he had
ever seen landed on Seminole and he told me 16
pounds and 4 ounces. But he quickly pointed out
that one was landed with artificial bait and that
folks using live bait catch bass a lot bigger. He
didn’t stammer when he made that statement,
but, well, 20 pound bass?
I heartily recommend Lake Seminole to any
fishing or camping family. Even if you don’t like
to fish, Seminole is a beautiful spot for swimming
boating and just relaxing. The state park has nice
cabins and the management and park personnel
are friendly and helpful.
And if you are really serious about fishing, to to
Jack Wingate’s place. He’s got about the best
guides and facilities on the lake and you can get
plenty of advice and philosophy from old Jack
himself at absolutely no charge. If you happen to
be around Jack’s on a Sunday, he serves up
chicken and dumplings for Sunday dinner at his
restaurant that will make you leave home.
If all this sounds like a plug for Lake Seminole,
it is. We were really impressed with the place and
the nice folks that live in the area. When you talk
about good, ole Georgia hospitality, the folks in
that area know how to spread it on ... Especially
the Sam Griffins and the Jack Wingates ... Now
where can you get mullet and fried sweet taters in
Perry?
This is one of those weeks that gnaws away at
my ulcers and makes me difficult to get along
with. It’s what we call a “short week”. That’s
when news is hard to get because there isn’t much
happening. One sage in town told me things are
slow this week because of the speech by the
president Monday night He says everyone has got
their minds on the crisis in Vietnam, and it makes
those small occurences in Perry seem unim
portant.
He may be right. At any rate, we’ll be back on
the beam next week. It’s like Jack Wingate on
Lake Seminole says, “If you don’t hurry up and
catch a bass, I’m gonna make you catch one”. I’m
going to make some news happen, if it doesn t
break soon.
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