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By Carole Bloodworth
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It’s a funny thing about
■children.
They’re expensive to get
and even more expensive to
keep. They have to be fed,
clothed, housed, doctored,
educated, transported,
financed, and generally
looked after.
They interrupt your
sleeping hours, and they
disrupt your waking hours.
They encroach upon your
rights as an individual. Since
well-being and happiness
. must generally take
precedence over your own.
They take up % of your time
and at least that much of your
energy.
They are often at the top of
your list of worries.
They irritate you. They
aggravate you. They
'Exasperate you. They get on
> your nerves. They make you
f mad.
They disgust you. They
, displease you. They disap
point you.
n While they may not ever
break your heart, they can
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cause it to crack a little. And
they can’t always be counted
on to comfort you in your old
age.
But here's the funny part.
Troublesome, bothersome,
worrisome, costly that they
are, you love them and you
want them.
No matter that the problems
numerically outweigh the
pleasures of having children.
Because nobody keeps score.
You don’t put the joys your
children bring you in one
column and the trouble they
cause in another and match
them in a one to one ratio.
With children it’s not a
profit and loss situation. It’s
not the kind arrangement
where you get more out of it
than you pul in. Unless, of
course, you are the kind of
person who understands and is
content to deal in unin
tangibles.
Which, as it turns out, is
exactly the kind of person
most parents are. The extra
work and worry brought on by
your children are concrete
material things with names
and numbers. But the hap
piness, the satisfaction, the
Scheduled Oct, 5
Country Fair To Offer
Real Treats For All
Real treats will be in store
lor all members of every
family attending the com
munity oriented Country Fair
sponsored by the members of
the St, Christopher
congregation on Oct. 5 from 10
A.M. through 4 P.M. New
booths and activities are being
announced and the best of last
year’s fair is being used so
contentment derived from
having and living with one’s
children can’t be attributed to
specific times and incidents.
It’s an ongoing forever after
kind of thing.
You can’t touch love, you
can’t categorize it, you can’t
account for or explain it; but
when applied to children and
parents, it has the effect of a
soothing ointment which
obliterates all pain and un
pleasant sensations.
It's a funny thing about
children. They completely
disorder and disarrange your
life and you rejoice in it.
that everyone will find many
things of interest to see and
do.
Carroll Coley and Richard
Smith announce that the
Kiddie Fair will include a
tennis serve, basketball shoot
and football pass activity.
Winners will receive trophies
and consolation prizes will be
given. There will also be sack,
foot, and three legged races
for different age groups. The
5-8 age group will have races
at 10:45 A.M. and will receive
ribbons for participation. The
9-12 group will race at 1:45
P.M. and will also receive
ribbons. The teen-age races
will be held at 2:15 P.M. and
trophies will be given to the
winners.
A new event of great in
terest will be a “thumb print
picture” booth operated by
Ruth Purser. These are small
pictures- made from a child’s
own thumbprint.
Heyward Boyette will
present magic shows for
children of all ages inside the
church at 11:30 A.M., 1:30,
Jackie K. Cooper
The first ratings of the new
season have been released and
NBC and CBS split the top ten
shows. Poor ABC didn’t have a
single show placed in the first
ten. The top shows were: (1)
Rhoda - CBS, (2) All In The
Family - CBS, (3) Chico And
The Man - NBC, (4) Born
Innocent (TV Movie) - NBC,
(5) Sanford And Son - NBC, (6)
Medical Center - CBS, (7)
Maude - CBS, (8) The Waltons
- CBS, (9) Little House On The
Prairie - NBC, and (10)
Columbo - NBC. Remember
this is only the first week
ratings and a lot of these
brand new shows will fluc
tuate up and down in the
ratings before they are firmly
established as hits or misses.
Last year the hottest new
show was NBC's “The Girl
With Something Extra”. It
shot right up there on the first
ratings but it fell just as
quickly and you will note is not
with us this year.
Last Saturday night I tuned
in the new show, “The New
Land . Coming opposite “All
In The Family’’, I was
probably way in the minority
when I tuned in ABC at 8:00 on
a Saturday night. But 1 have
long been a big tan of Bonnie
Bedelia's and she is the star of
this new show. She has had a
career of almost complete
anonymity but I discovered
her in movies such as “Lovers
and Other Strangers” and
"They Shoot Horses Don’t
They", Perhaps her biggest
claim to lame is the tact that
in the old "Bonanza” series
when they finally let Little Joe
get married they starred
Bonnie Bedelia as his wife. Ot
course she didn’t survive until
the end of the show but for a
tew brief moments she was a
star Anyway, this new show is
really good. It is kind of a
Swedish Waltons. Same kind
ol close knit family against the
hardships of the land and
poverty. As a kind of counter-
'Treated Like A Stepchild’
CETA Still “Bugging”
County Commissioners
The troublesome subject of
Houston County’s involvement
with CETA - the Com
prehensive Employment and
Training Act of 1973 -a federal
-2:30 and 3:30 P.M. These
shows will follow the ever
popular puppet shows
presented by Joyce Jones on
the hour every hour from 11
A.M. to 3:00 P.M. in the same
place.
The women of the church
have been working diligently
on bazaar items for the fair.
Some items are flower
arrangements, bridge table
covers, permanent tallies, bed
spreads, Christmas or
naments and decorations,
satin pillow cases, crocheted
and knitted items, macrame,
pretty and practical aprons
and stained glass work. Each
item is handmade and will be
great hostess, thank you, and
Christmas gifts,
Lora Arledge is chairman of
the Trash and Trinkets sale.
These items are not new but
who knows what man's trash
will be another’s treasure.
There will also be a booth
containing potted house plants
and homemade pickles and
preserves.
Milo Medlock, food chair-
programming against Archie
Bunker’s tirades it might just
make it. Too, for the teens and
sub-teens there is Kurt
Russell who starred in a lot of
the Disney movies.
Another show that I think
stands a good chance of
making it is “The Sonny
Comedy Review”. I only saw a
portion of it on Sunday night
but it was good. 1 thought he
laid it on pretty good by im
plication about Cher being
gone, especially in that last
song he sang about two people
appearing in concert for the
last time. Sonny isn’t such a
fantastic talent but the people
who are responsible for his
show seem to have the know
how to gel things done. Too, I
think most people still see
Sonny as the underdog and are
rooting for him to make it
bigger than Cher, Time will
tell if there is to be a “Cher
Show”.
That's enough about TV.
Seen any good movies lately?
The biggest money-maker of
all time is heading back to this
area. That is the Marlon
Brando biggie, “The God
father”. It is hard for me to
believe that people will spend
money to see this again when
it is going to be shown on TV in
November. Still I bet there
will be good crowds at the
theatres. Other movies
playing in the area are “The
Harrad Summer” and
"Buster and Billie”. The
latter is the movie I told you
last week was filmed in
Georgia. It was actually
filmed in Statesboro and has a
lot of the local people in the
film. The picture itself is only
a fair movie with a lot of sex,
nudity and violence in it to
help it sell, Jan Michael
Vincent is the star and he is
the big draw as he is a big
favorite of the teen-agers
since he starred in Disney’s
“The World's Greatest
Athlete”. It seems pretty
stupid to have him in R rated
By Joe llietl
program designed to aid in
training of the economically
"disadvantaged" - was
brought up for discussion
Tuesday morning at the
man, says that those tacos and
fresh hot doughnuts will be in
plentiful supply this year and
will be served early and late.
Patsy Meyer announces that
the art show will be better
than ever with many artists
showing.
Nancy Owens, cake sale
chairman, reminds us that the
sale will be held both Friday
night at the East Gate
Shopping Center and on the
fair grounds Saturday until
the cakes give out.
Historical bus (our tickets
will be available from Pam
Boyette tour chairman and
other members of St.
Christopher’s prior to fair
day. The price of the tour will
be SI.OO. There will also be a
printed booklet of the tour
called "Sketches of Perry’s
Past" available to all fair
goers for SI.(H).
Plan to come spend the day
and see all that will be going
on at St. Christopher’s church
grounds on Macon St. Oct. 5
from 10 to 4. A family way to
spend the day.
movies that his biggest fans
can’t easily get in to see.
The only movie I saw this
week was called “Our Time”
and it was diverting. Not
entertaining but diverting. It
was the girl’s side of “Sum
mer of ’42” and not nearly as
well done. Also it look place in
the ’so’s at a girl’s boarding
school. The ’so’s sure are
popular these days. Little did I
know when I was living
through them that they were
going to be THE nostalgia
age of the ’7o’s, One of the
highlights of seeing “Our
Time” was seeing the
previews to “That’s En
tertainment”, Yes, it is
coming to Macon so get ready
to be entertained.
-JKC
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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., SEPT. 26, 1974,
Houston County Commission
meeting in Warner Robins.
The commissioners made
every indication of with
drawing from the Middle
Georgia area “consortium" or
group for the next fiscal year.
The commissioners feel that
Houston County may be
“treated like a stepchild” by
Macon Mayor Ronnie
Thompson, chairman of the
Middle Georgia Area con
sortium.
Bill Lambert, Director of
Houston County Vocational
Education, told the com
missioners that twenty (20)
percent of the area’s total
grant of over a million dollars
was earmarked for “ad
ministrative costs". Lambert
said, I think this is wrong! It is
legal, and they (Thompson
and cohorts) have increased it
to the maximum allowed.”
Lambert said that by com
parison, the Houston County
Commission administrative
costs, as well as those for the
Board of Education, normally
require only five (5) percent of
their budgets.
Lambert, lagged by the
commissioners to keep them
updated on CETA, also said
that Houston's share of the
Middle Georgia area monies
had been reduced. He said
that originally Houston was
slotted to receive twenty-five
(25) percent of the total funds,
but that on July 16 that figure
had been pared to only 19.5
percent. Bibb County’s share
of the money pie was in
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creased by the 5,5 percent,
according to Lambert. %
In a meeting with Lamjjert
and the county commissioners
a few weeks ago at !jhe
Houston Vocational Center,
Wallace Lumpkin of ( ’|he
Georgia Department of Labor,
and Frank Crowtjler
(Thompson’s CETA super
visor) reportedly attempted to
place blame on slow Sumnier
Youth Work payments to sojne
students on the supervisors
within Houston Counjy.
Lambert said some students
worked seven (7) wedks
before being paid, while
others were overpaid.
Lambert said the blame did
not rest with the supervisors
in Houston County.
The County Commission,
under Lambert’s suggestion,
approved a resolution sent to
them by Crowlher calling lor
the setting up of a Summer
Youth Work program next
year, by taking part of
otherwise lagged funds to pay
for the program. Lambert,had
misgivings, however, saying
that instead of the 212 workers
Houston was allocated tins
year, that under the plan the
county would only receive
seventy-five (75) or eighty
(80) slots.
County Commission
Chairman Frank Rozar* was
openly critical of the CETA
administration in Middle
Georgia. The silver-haired
commissioner declared,
“They haven't administered
the program yet! They’ve
treated Houston County like a
stepchild up there in Macon,
and that sometimes isn't 100
good."
Rozar emphasized, “If there
is something crooked in
Denmark, let’s get to the
bottom of it." But Lambert
said, “They haven't violated
the law. They've done
everything legally. But what
is legal isn't necessarily
morally right."