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* By Carole Bloodwerth
Somewhere in the attic of
one’s memory there must be a
special place where old camp
songs hide. Unsung and
unrecalled they lie dormant in
their spot until one day
something triggers the spring
and one of the songs comes in
its entirety to conscious
thought.
The other morning I had just
finished making a bed when I
happened to glance out the
window. Something in that
glance unlocked the camp
song box. And out slipped a
little prayer verse that years
ago girl scout campers used to
grace their breakfast. The
H words were:
/
Jackie K. Cooper
Entertainment |
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New ratings came out this
past week and things still
don’t look so hot lor ABC.
things are definitely
improving for NBC. Last year
was their worst in a long time.
The number one show for the
second week of ratings was
NBC’s “Chico and the Man”.
Based on this show of ratings
strength I watched it last
Friday night. I wasn’t im
pressed. It was funny but not
number one funny like
“MASH” or last year’s “Mary
Tyler Moore". It had some
hilarious lines but the whole
show just didn’t How together.
Next week I will probably
switch back to “The Six
Million Dollar Man".
I also was pleased to see
“Police Woman" move into
the top ten if only as number
len. I also watched it for the
lime this past week and 1
can see why it made it. It isn’t
that the plot is good or the
acting is fantastic. It is that
Angie Dickinson is fantastic.
She is the show and as long as
she slays with it.it should be a
hit. There is something about
watching Angie Dickinson
being used as bait for a
deranged rapist that keeps
you glued to the set. She
makes ten-four, over and out
sound inviting which is more
than those “Adam-12" guys
ever did.
The other top ten shows
were: (2) All In The Family,
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If Money Is Your Problem,
Welcome To Our Column!
It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times ... It was the Spring of our
hopes and the Winter of our despair . . .
With these paradoxical words Charles
Dickens described a world of revolution in
A Tale of Two Cities. But isn’t it also an
apt description of the world we consumers
live in today? <
We are the wealthiest people the world
has ever known. Yet we all struggle with
day-to-day financial problems that are real
and urgent - continuing inflation, high
unemployment, rising taxes, mounting
shortages, and economic uncertainty.
As consumers we enjoy a dizzying choice
of products and services. Yet many of the
things we buy are misrepresented, don’t
work, don’t last, have harmful side effects,
and pollute our environment.
Our generation knows more than any
previous one about making money. Yet our
uneducated immigrant grandparents knew
more about managing money.
THE TROUBLE WITH MONEY
For millions of people money has be
come more a source of conflict than a tool
for planned accomplishment. Surveys show
that more people today, at all income
levels, spend more time worrying about
money than any other problem in their
lives. We think this is an unfortunate
situation. And we want to do something
about it.
“God has created a new
day, silver and green and
gold.
Live , that the sunset may
find you, worthy his gifts to
hold”
When, as a pre-teenager I’d
sung those words, they had
been part of a pretty little song
and that’s all. But now looking
at the woods splashed with
sunlight I could see that the
world was in fact silver and
green and gold.
The whole out of doors fairly
sparkled. I was sharply aware
of every tree, every bush.
Sticks, twigs, pine needles,
leaves all shone clear and
bright like polished silver or
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(3) Sanford and Son, (4)
Rhoda and The Waltons tied,
(6) ABC Movie - The Sex
Symbol, (7) The Rockford
Files, (8) Mary Tyler Moore
and Maude tied. It is amazing
to me to keep reading now that
certain shows are in trouble
and are expected to be can
celled soon. How can anyone
judge their merit yet? The
worth of the show is how it
plays each and every week,
not just how it plays in these
lirsl few episodes, 1 still have
my money on “The New
Land" making it. 1 saw it
Saturday night and it was
good again.
You know television is a
wonderful invention. 1 don’t
think we should be drawn to
the set to watch everything
that comes on but overall it is
continuously good en
tertainment. My wife, two
year old son and I went to the
mountains this weekend. We
spent a lot of time walking
through Helen and seeing all
the shops. Then we went
through Toccoa and saw the
Mall concept of downtown.
Then about seven o'clock we
got a motel room lor the night.
Alter we ale supper it was
lime for our son to go to bed,
so that restricted us to the
motel room and the tv set for
enjoyment. Well, we went
through “The New Land”,
"Mary Tyler Moore", "Bob
Newharl", and "The Carol
That’s why we’ll be bringing you this
weekly column called You Can Bank On Itl
It's designed to provide insight and infor
mation about you and your money -- and
countless other subjects that affect you as
a consumer.
In the weeks to come we’ll be writing
about using your credit, registering com
plaints, your benefits under social security,
balancing your checkbook, tips on saving
money, cutting your food costs, when to
find bargains, getting the most out of your
bank, just to mention a few subjects.
NO “TYPICAL” SOLUTIONS
One thing. You Can Bank On It 1 won’t
do is treat you like a statistic. We won’t
give stock solutions to ’’typical” problems.
We believe that every person and every
family is different. We want to help you
make your money do what you want it to
do.
Why should a bank want to help? Every
day, as the need for better money manage
ment grows more serious, people turn to us
for personal financial counseling. Some
times they are reluctant to talk about their
money problems because they’ve never
tried to seek advice from a banker. We try
to be as helpful as we can. And yet we
know that, for everyone who brings us a
problem or question, there are hundreds
more who would like to but won’t.
LET US HEAR FROM YOU
Perhaps through this column we can
answer many of the questions you might
have about managing your money. If you
find our information helpful, we hope
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person. If there are subjects you’d like us
to discuss in future columns, please let us
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So once again, welcome to You Can Bank
On It l We’ll try every week to help make
this the best of times for you! e
new gold.
Interested, 1 moved to other
windows and was surprised to
find that even from the
downstairs windows the colors
were the same. Strange that I
had never noticed this before.
Could it be that 1 had never
looked? Or had it taken a
quirk of memory to make me
really see something that 1
may have looked at dozens of
times before?
All through the morning
chores the tune kept me
company. Yet the further
away from early morning I
got, the further out of my mind
went (he song. I found myself
thinking how bright the day
.. mm.
***** II 1 :
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Burnett Show”. That is three
hours of constant television
viewing. Now, not all of these
programs were great but they
were all enjoyable. So if you
are ever restricted to a motel
room while a two year old
sleeps, don't be discouraged.
Television is better than ever.
Movie-wise, this seems to be
the lime of drought. The
studios are holding back their
big movies for the holiday
season so you won't see a lot of
good releases until around
Thanksgiving. Even Atlanta
doesn’t have a lot to offer with
all its theatres so you can
expect our local area to be
hurting for a while.
Thanksgiving will come
though and bring a deluge of
new film like “Godfather II”,
“Earthquake”, and “Airport
75”. Those are three of the
biggest being released this
year.
One bright spot on the en
tertainment horizon is the
opening this Saturday of “6
Kms, Kiv. Vu.” This is the
first play of the Macon Little
Theater's new season. It is a
comedy and should be up to
the excellent standards of the
other MLT productions. Their
second production will be
another comedy, Noel
Coward's “Blithe Spirit".
These plays are always worth
a ride to Macon so we will see
you there,
-JKC
begins, but how after a while
the silver and green and gold
begin to lose Us lustre. The
sameness, the ordinariness of
a normal day somehow seem
to dull the early glow.
Ask almost anyone, “How
was your day?", and it
nothing important or exciting
has happened, he will reply,
“It was 0.k.“, or “Nothing
extra, just another day.”
How typically human that a
plain day is not enough lor us.
We need more for it to qualify
as special or noteworthy.
That God has created a new
day and given it to us doesn't
seem to impress us very
much. We need some folding
green, some negotiable silver
and gold to make it wor
thwhile. We need some fringe
benefits to make it more
appealing.
A normal day is a treasure
set before each one of us, but
all too often it slips past with
its value and worth
unrecognized.
The details of the day make
U hard for us to see the simple
outline of the day itself.
Maybe that’s why I hadn't
noticed the colors of the
morning before. Could be 1
was too busy making beds.
But thank goodness even
though I'm too busy with
man’s routine to appreciate
God's beautiful day, God's not
100 busy to keep making
mornings of silver and green
and gold.
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Perry Firemen Answer Call
The Perry Fire Dept, answered a call to this
State Street home in the Old Field section Friday.
The house had considerable smoke damage and
HOUSTON HOMK JOURNAL THURS., OCT. 3, 1974,
the cause was an electric iron. Looking over (he
iron are Chief Sirah Lawhorn (bent over), Her
schel Lawhorn and Mike Lawhorn.
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