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, PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1972
Barton Makes It
Hooray for Mayor John Barton and
Councilman H. H. Hack worth for (as
our headline put it so aptly last week)
finally making it. Barton and Hack
worth, who were elected last
December 7, were finally allowed by
tne State Supreme Court to take office
list Tuesday night after two court
battles challenging the City Charter
on majority and plurality elections.
We hope the Council will now pick
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i Griffin Endorses Nunn
(Editor’s note: Former Gov.
Marvin Griffin endorsed the cam
paign of Perry’s Sam Nunn in his bid
for the U.S. Senate seat last week.
Gov. Griffin’s endorsement came at
the state capitol last week. Follows is
a reprint of Gov. Griffin’s remarks
written in his weekly newspaper
column in the Bainbridge Post-
Searchlight, published jointly by he
and his son at Bainbridge.)
"The tailgate has been raised on the
wagon, the mules have been prodded,
and the wagon has moved off with
nearly two-score candidates for the
U.S. Senate seat held by the late
Richard B. Russell.
To be exact, there are 15 Democrats
and three Republicans who state they
are all qualified and wish to go to
Washington to represent us. Well,
some of them are not going to get
there, and that is a good thing.
1 have always refrained from
picking a candidate for state or
national office until I see who is in the
wagon, but peeping through the
cracks of the wagon body, I do not see
but one man whom 1 believe 1 can
vote for and support.
Standing out above all the rest in
this crowd is Sam Nunn of Perry,
Houston County, Georgia.
1 picked Sam Nunn, not because I
know him well, and not because I owe
him anything, but because I believe
he will do the best job for the people
of Georgia if elected.
He is young, and is a member of a
fine middle Georgia family. I knew
his father, the late Colonel Sam Nunn,
a prominent lawyer and business man
of Perry. Young Sam is the worthy
son of a worthy sire, and I believe
what he says.
Above everything else, Sam Nunn is
a man of highest integrity, honor and
courage, and he talks common sense
■ BACOTARD^
5 YEARS AGO - All of the more than
15,000 public school students in the
county will be required to indicate
their choices of the schools they want
io attend next year ... Construction is
underway on the $1 million sewerage
{treatment plant that Perry has
seeded for the last 20 years ... The
Perry Presbyterian Church has paid
off its building debt six years ahead of
schedule.
10 YEARS AGO • Eighty-Eight boys
are participating in Perry’s summer
recreation program, but there’s still
room for more, according to Boot
Hunt, program director ... A total of
8,024 Perry residents are qualified to
vote in the July 10 Bond Issue election
of the City of Perry, it was reported
by Miss Florine Rainey, county tax
up and go forward. It has been dif
ficult for them to move in positive
directions because of the uncertainty
of the situation but they have done a
good job under the circumstances.
We look forward to a good 3Vi years
under Mayor Barton’s leadership and
we hope he will have the full
cooperation of Council in the trying
days and months ahead. Let’s move
forward in unity.
-8.8.
about the problems that confront us
today in our nation.
One of my friends said to me after
Sam Nunn visited Decatur County
several months ago: “I like what Sam
Nunn says, and I like the way he says
it, but do you think he can get well
known enough over Georgia to get
elected?”
My reply was: “Well, I hope so, but
if he can expose his candidacy to
enough people he will gain ground
every day, and if he goes into election
day gaining ground, he will be hard to
beat.”
I also pointed out that we had
already tried most of the crowd
running against him, and they cer
tainly do not measure up to the
standards of what a U.S. Senator
should be.
In my opinion, Sam Nunn is the
prototype of the man most Georgians
want to serve them in this important
office.
My friend then asked me:" Do you
think he will have enough money to
compete with the rich fellows in the
race?” I told him I did not know about
that, as I never considered a big bag
of money necessary to elect the right
man to office, but that his home folks
in Houston County raised him $50,000
in one afternoon, and gave it to him.
That sum is a mere drop in the bucket
to run a Senate race, but home folks in
a rural county do not shell out that
kind of money for any man they do not
hold in high esteem.
I have retired from active politics,
and I did the best I could when I was
engaged in them. I enjoy a certain
"Looseness of freedom” these days,
and I can support whom I please
publicly. I am not castigating the
other candidates in the race. I say I
believe Sam Nunn will do the best job
in the U.S. Senate, and I am sup
porting him.
commissioner ... Perry Federal
Savings and Loan Association
yesterday announced that it will
change its name to Security Federal
Savings and Loan Association.
20 Y’EARS AGO - Larry Murphy has
been awarded a pin and a certificate
for winning the local 1952 essay
contest on “Conservation Farming
for Abundant Living”... The new
Perry Hotel is getting a new coat of
paint and is continuing to add air
conditioning units in some of their
rooms. Travelers have been ex
tremely interested in air conditioned
rooms, owner Yates Greens said ...
The I,oooth baby has been born at the
Gallemore Clinic here, John Mark
Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H.
Jones of Perry.
GEEII I MUST BE LOST...NOBODY KNOWS WHERE I AM.
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The View From Here IB jffm
An astonishing situation in Perry
was brought to my attention this
week. Although I’ve lived here over
six years, my sons were well past the
Little League baseball age when we
moved here and this fact has never
been mentioned to me before.
There are absolutely no bathroom
facilities at the Perry Little League
ball field. A mother told me in detail
some of the bad situations that can
bring on when spectators range from
tiny tots to older people.
How many times have children
ever sat through an entire ball game
(or movie or anything else) without
having to go to the bathroom at least
once? And as the old saying goes,
“when you gotta go, you gotta go.”
Most of the kids are sent out to hide in
the weeds or bushes; some are told to
go around behind the car; a few
resourceful parents bring potties in
their cars.
Once you get parked, a mother told
me, sometimes you can’t get your car
out until the game’s over, so that if an
adult has to go it could be really
tough.
“Even the little town of Centerville
has flush toilets at their ball field,” I
was told.
I was authorized to announce that a
man has offered to install plumbing
facilities free of charge if materials
(plumbing fixtures and materials for
a building) can be obtained by
donations or by cash donations for
their purchase. Just a couple of
simple His and Hers box-like
buildings reminiscent of the old
outhouses would suffice, with a flush
toilet in each.
Come on, folks, This is a ridiculous
situation for a city the size of Perry. I
don’t even have children playing ball,
but I’d gladly give a small cash
donation if someone involved in the
Little League will spearhead a drive
for something that must be seen as a
necessity.
Most people have their own specific
“cold” personality, according to
The Houston Home Journal
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Keeps Perry Citizens Informed
With Mews That Concerns Yov
information obtained by the Common
Cold Research Unit at Harvard
Hospital in Britain.
They injected more than 11,000
healthy volunteers with cold viruses,
and the results are that some people
almost always have head colds,
others get congestion in the chest.
Some ache all over and have
scratchy symptoms in the eyes.
The almost universal complaint? A
runny nose.
I’ll bet that’s how Rudolph the red
nosed reindeer got his red nose. The
poor fellow simply had a cold.
A non-smoker having to work or
live in the presence of smokers is
having his health threatened through
no fault of his own. Just lighting any
kind of cigarette creates carbon
monoxide.
When this gas is inhaled, it cuts
down the oxygen carried to all parts
of the body. The gas forces the oxygen
out of the blood.
Tests involving non-smokers who
were exposed to cigarette smoke, as
well as smokers, showed they do not
have enough oxygen supply to sustain
their normal performances on bicycle
exercise machines, for example. The
heart is not receiving enough oxygen
to function properly.
Smokers are constantly warned
that cigarettes are a hazard to their
health, and they have the option of
keeping on or quitting.
What option do we non-smokers
have? We are forced to breathe their
cigarette smoke without choice. Some
areas are initiating specific smoking
rooms in public buildings, office
complexes, etc for the protection of
the non-smoker.
It will probably be years before the
practice is wide-spread, though. And
in the meantime, perhaps that’s the
cause of the lethargy often noticed in
offices where there’s a blue fog of
smoke all the time.
Oxygen is the breath of life, and too
little of it keeps one from living life to
the fullest.
BOBBY
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OUT ON A
BRANCH 'Y
The board of directors of the Georgia Press
Association, at the invitation of Congressman Bill
Stuckey, visited Cumberland Island Saturday via
helicopter and pickup truck. It was an interesting
and informative trip and worth telling about.
Cumberland is the southernmost of Georgia’s
famous Golden Isles. And perhaps the most
beautiful in its natural state than any of the other
string of islands that string out along Georgia’s
coast from Savannah to near Jacksonville.
Stuckey is working to keep Cumberland like it is
for all to enjoy by having the Congress make it a
national seashore and part of the National Park
Service. There is legislation now before the
Congress that would accomplish this and allocate
the funds for the government to purchase the
island from the largest single landowners,
descendants of the Carnegie family. It will be a
tragic loss if Cumberland is left to developers to
spoil its natural beauty forever. I believe
Stuckey’s bill will pass, though, and the island
will be available for everyone to visit and enjoy.
Our trip began from the parking lot near the
Aquarama at Jekyll, when we boarded several
“little Huey” Army helicopters for the short trip
to Cumberland. The pilots flew low all around the
island and we could get an excellent view as the
seats faced outward and there were no doors on
the sides of the choppers. I kept checking my seat
belt because the water looked awfully deep out of
my side.
A trip from the air around the island reveals
miles and miles of white sandy beaches dotted
with driftwood and scrub palm trees. Oc
casionally there are creeks running from the
ocean into the island that wind and twist like a
snake through the marsh. Along the marshy
outward banks you can see herds of wild horses,
hogs, deer and turkey feeding and sleeping in the
warm sun. The chopper darts down and about 6
wild horses scamper into the thick woods clut
tered with giant pines and oaks.
We landed on an airstrip just inland from the
ocean side of the island and climbed into a pick-up
truck for a ride through some of the roads that cut
through the interior of the mysteriously beautiful
and awesome island. At the end of one of the roads
we stopped at an old estate built by the Carnegie
family about 100 years ago. Members of the
family, 21 of them, were to arrive that night but
the caretakers of the old house allowed us to walk
through. It has remained just as it was those
many years ago with the same furnishings, same
hundreds of volumes in the library and un
cluttered, spacious rooms. It was indeed an age of
splendor when money seemed to be no object
when it came to the comforts of a home and in
dulgence of those who would spend the summers
in the houses on the island.
The house we visited not only has an indoor
swimming pool but a squash court with a balcony
for spectators. It is a magnificent old house and I
only hope that Stuckey’s plans go through
Congress and other Georgians will be allowed to
see this house along with all the other beauty on
Cumberland Island.
Lord knows there are enough tourist places in
Florida like the beaches around Daytona and
Jacksonville that are a maze of motels and neon
lights and polluted waters. We don’t need any of
those places in Georgia. We all need Cumberland
Island. It is a link with the past and the island
remains mostly the way God created it. It ought to
stay that way for the sake of us all now and
generations of the future. Write a letter to our
Congressman Jack Brinkley backing Stuckey’s
efforts and write a letter to Congressman Bill
Stuckey supporting him in what he is trying to do
for all Georgians in preserving Cumberland
Island.
Motels, neon lights and concrete developments
on Cumberland Island would be the worse thing I
can think of for all Georgians.
the SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS
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