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The Ochlahatchee Clubhouse swimming pool
opened for the summer last Saturday, and the
sounds of happy swimmers soon filled the air.
According to pool supervisor Bob Morrow, the
water is just perfect, and everyone so far is
having a wonderful time. Lifeguard Carol Howard
announced that swimming lessons for both
beginners and advanced students will begin
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'Not Opposed To Stadium
Improvement ’ Heck Says
Dear Bobby:
I’least' let me respond to the
article in your paper of May 30
concerning Perry High
football stand By the way
your information was
presented, your readers may
have formed the mistaken
view that 1 am opposed to
building these facilities, 1 am
all for providing new seating,
iis well ;is other vilal needs of
many of our schools. 1 have
luvii trying for 42 months to
let the people vote their
desires for school im
provements byway of a bond
referendum.
1 am advised that the taxes
received by the Board of
Kducation for the operat ion of
our schools cannot lie used for
major capital expenditures,
such as for gyms, classrooms,
stadiums, libraries.
When some funds become
available for capital im
provement, it seems to me
that the Board of Education is
compelled to consider what
are the lop priority needs.
After a quarter of a million
dollars have been spent on
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“The Water Feels Good ”
athletic facilities at Perry
High School, even though
other things are still needed, if
just a few dollars are
available, it would seem to me
that a new band rehearsal
room would be needed first. A
band rehearsal room would be
used every school day,
whereas new football seating
would be used just several
times a year.
1 want new sealing for Perry
High School and for the
overall benefit of the entire
athletic program. 1 would like
to also see a number of other
basic needs of the school
system providl'd for our young
people
By delaying a bond
referendum for 3 years, I don’t
see where the taxpayer has
been helped, because the cost
of construction today has
doubled what it would have
been three years ago.
1 would like to see the whole
county work together toward
meeting the needs of our
school children 1 keep hoping
there will appear a ground
swell of support for meeting
immediately. Lifesaving courses are expected to
begin on August 2. Hours of the pool’s operation
are 1 .00 to 6.00 P.M. Sunday through Friday, and
11:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Saturdays.
Members of Perry Club Council clubs who have
not yet purchased the season tickets are urged to
do so through their club presidents. Only Perry
Club Council club members with passes and their
guests are admitted to the pool.
these needs. So far, I have
only heard requests lor
facilities and service with a
demand to decrease taxation.
That’s like saying, “Give me
something for nothing.”
Somehow, someway,
someday, means of financing
necessary improvements
must be found. I hope it will
happen soon.
Thank you for the coverage
you give of school events and
activities and the reporting
you do concerning issues
facing the citizens of Houston
County.
Sincerely,
Glenn E. Heck
Reader Attacks
Banning Os Book
Dear Fellow Citizens,
Like many people 1 have
often thought of writing some
letter of muted protest to some
Thanks
For
Help
Dear Bobby,
1 wish to lake this op
portunity to thank the people
whose names we did not get
who helped my sister, Mrs.
Helen Wilson, her daughter,
Deborah and Johnny Taylor
when the accident happened
May 31, 1974, at North Ave.
and 41 North,
I feel that the people who
criticize our police force and
ambulance service maybe
have not needed them. I know
that Eddie Pindley and Pat
Padgett both went out of their
way to help when they could
have made their report and
left. Also the young man who
brought the towels to the
wreck before the ambulance
arrived.
Again our deepest thanks to
each and everyone who
helped.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Betty Stewart
Mrs. Helen Wilson
Miss Deborah Wilson
Johnny Taylor
paper but have always
hei.'tated for various vague
reasons; however, a recent
event and an accompanying
article in the HHJ prodded me
to again attempt a letter.
The event could be viewed
as a humorous one, namely
the removal by the Board of
Education of a novel from
school reading lists. This
infamous novel is Os Mice and
Men which for the first time in
my life I have heard described
as profane. The humor is in
the idea that some backwoods,
parochial (not Catholic)
Board seeks to further
morality be banning such an
unoffending book, much less
such a major work by a quite
gifted literary agent, Stein
beck.
Citing this author’s awards
can be tedious because they
are so meaningless, with an
award like the Nobel Prize
certainly not bestowing an
immortality that any small
time Board of Education can
shunt aside. (Maybe the Nobel
committee being Swedish
couldn’t read English, and so
they just picked Steinbeck’s
name out of a hat.)
What the Board’s purpose is
is a mystery. Is it to protect
those innocent babes in
school? To read the book,
which obviously few people
have, is to toss out this
assumption (unless there is
another Steinbeck writing a
book of the same name, but I
checked in the library and
there is only one, the one I
read). 1 maintain that far
from being a corrupting work
there is no one to corrupt.
Please reflect upon your own
youth without imposing an
artificial nostalgia and
remember how un-innocent
you were at the earliest of
ages.
In an even more open era
can any child be any more
innocent? No, they cannot for
every child over the age of six
is tremendously more ex
perienced than any parent will
admit of their little angel.
As an aside, let me ask what
are the decent books? The
Bible? Shakespeare? I can
quote passages from the Bible
that would offend the many
pious people currently
outraged at Steinbeck.
Shakespeare, too, has his
more explicit passages, and
people would be shocked at
him, too, if they bothered to
read him.
Armed with a Supreme
Court decision, eagerly
snatched up by the righteous
few, for local censorship (in
contrast to a twenty year
delay in integration ordered
by the same body ac
complished only with clubs,
threats and more court suits)
ignorance seems to be mar
ching with a utopian good of
empty library shelves. 1 say
let the mice and men join
ranks and ban the school
board. Try to excuse me, 1 did
not know that we are already
living in the New Jerusalem.
Sincerely,
Douglas Seay
Church
Program
A Success
Dear Mr. Branch,
I would like to report a very
successful day at our annual
Men’s and Women’s Day
Program at St. James
Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church on Sunday, May 26. It
was one of the best we have
bad in years.
The speaker for the day was
Rev. Maurice Cherry of
Augusta, instructor at Paine
College. He is on leave from
the College working toward a
doctorate degree. The theme
for the day was A NEW DAY:
A NEW WAY, and this is also
the subject he chose.
Everyone enjoyed the address
including many guests from
out of town. Rev. Cherry's
parents and other relatives
and friends.
Rev. W.J, Johnson, pastor of
St. James, and all the
members wish to take this
opportunity to thank everyone
who helped to make the day a
success and for all donations,
large and small.
Thank you,
Lillian Ragin
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May Day At Westfield
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Westfield Schools recently held its annual May Day festivities on the Hor
nets Nest football field, and a featured event included the balloon toss. Under
the watchful eye of Coach Earl Marshall (far right) were many including in
foreground since graduated seniors Karen Aydlett (L) and Jennifer Brown
Westfield High “Lord and Lady of the May” were juniors David Hurley and
| Beth Davis, elected by vote of the student body. Featured in the school's May
Day festivities were: sack races, three-legged races, tugs-of-war, a tricycle
race, egg tosses, and a 100-yard dash, won by Matt Mellette over Jack Ellis.^
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