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The Houston Home Journal
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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., MAR 30, 1978, PAGE
Pink Ladies Say Thanks
To Local Blood Donors
Dear Bobby:
The Bloodmobile from
the Atlanta Regional Red
Cross Blood Center made
its annual Spring visit to
the Agriculture Building
in Perry last Wednesday.
Dr. Gallemore, Blood
chairman, and the Perry-
Houston County Hospital
Auxiliary (Pink Ladies),
the sponsoring group,
would like to express
Rec. Boosters Praise
Sponsors, Volunteers
Dear Bobby;
In terms of par
ticipation and in
volvement by Perry
youth in the recently
completed Basketball
season it was a highly
successful season. The
children, volunteer
coaches, team mothers
were directly involved as
well as the professional
workers, the officials,
support from the City
Council and the
Recreation Advisory
Committee (volunteer).
The Houston Home
Journal along with Perry
High and Perry Jr. High
coaches added their
\
uta fincoiuaging QAio/td
Rev. Don Arioil A
First Boptisf Church &
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Verily I say unto you.
Til heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from
the law, till all be
fulfilled. - Mat. 5:18
The Bible is a very old
book; but its being old is
not a basis for tossing it
aside but for careful
attention to its ability to
endure.
In a college town, a
pastor was approached at
the end of a Sunday
service by one of the girls
in the congregation, a
college student. She
made the suggestion to
the pastor that he rewrite
the Bible. The pastor was
horrified at the idea, but
he kept his composure
and osked why she made
the request. She replied:
“The Bible is so old and I
just don't like old things. I
want something more up
to date." She went on to
say that she had to live in
the modern-day world.
She was constantly being
r
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their appreciation to all
the volunteers who made
this worthwhile visit
possible the nurses,
the physicians, the ladies
at the registration desk
the Beltista Club, the
Idaka Club, McDonald's
Restaurant, the FFA
members, Mr. Bill Hatley
of WPGA, the Houston
Home Journal, the Macon
Telegraph and all the
merchants and others
support to help Perry
kids to enjoy their year.
To all these wonderful
folks we say thanks and
thanks again.
In addition to the above
Perry's Public
Recreation Boosters
utilized sponsors for the
first time in Basketball.
The financial input by
these folks enabled the
program to obtain
several extra practices
through the year. It was
necessary to pay for on
the scene caretakers
when using the public
school gyms. These
sponsors deserving
recognition and our
exposed to new ideas and
new things; the Bible was
just too staid and musty.
The pastor knew that
she had recently become
engaged to be married.
Looking at her finger, he
saw a large diamond
which she was wearing.
He asked her why she did
not discard the diamond.
She answered; "Good
heavens! Why should I?"
“Well," he rejoined, "it
has been under ground
for thousands of years. I
wouldn't wear a thing as
ancient as that on my
modern-day finger."
This gave him an op
STAY AND SEE
GEORGIA
AND PERRY I
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who displayed the
posters.
Special thanks go to all
the blood donors who
gave of themselves for
others. If we had given an
award to the group which
had the largest number of
donors, the Perry High
AFJROTC would have
won with flying colors.
Ethel Edwards
Pink Ladies
grateful appreciation are
A&H Plumbing, James
G. Bryant Ford and The
Sports Center. Co-
Sponsors of one team
were Horace and Mildred
along with Lasseter's
Furniture. A donor to the
program was Western
Auto of Perry. These
folks deserve our
gratitude for their par
ticipation in such wor
thwhile endeavors.
Sincerely,
Richard Smith
Sponsor Committeee
Chairman
Public Recreation
Boosters
portunity to follow
through with a discussion
that the diamond was not
to be discarded because it
was old, but it was a gem
of tremendous worth
because of its ability to
endure. Its age is one
reason for its worth,
along with its rarity. The
Bible is not to be shelved
because it has been used
many centuries. It is to be
respected and heeded
because it has been able
to endure all the on
slaughts of every type of
opponent across the
course ot many centuries.
Porky Sez:
/ change is not growth; \
I all movement is J
\ not forward.”^/
(
JACKIE K. COOPER
Shte/itainment
—:
For all of you Steve
Martin fans out there,
that c-a-r a-z-y guy is
going to have two con
certs in Atlanta next
month. He will be at the
Fox April 8 at 7:30 and
10:30. Both programs
may already be sold out
but the number tor the
box office is 404-881-1977
And if you are looking
even further ahead, there
are plans now for Harry
Chapin (''Taxi'', "Cats In
The Cradle") to be at the
Fox May 12 and 13. I'd
like to get to both of these
programs.
For all of you aspiring
singers and dancers,
auditions tor the Theater
of the Stars summer
musicals will be held on
Saturday April 15 in the
Ballroom of the Atlanta
Woman's Club, 1150
Peachtree Street, NE.
This is in the downtown
area of Atlanta. Auditions
for the singers will be at
10 a.m. and dancers at 5
p.m. If you need any
further information call
404-252-8960.
It seems like
everything that I am
writing about is hap
pening in Atlanta. The
Harlequin Dinner
Theater is opening
"Same Time Next Year"
on March 28. It will star
James Broderick from
the hit series "Family".
He plays the father on
that show. Co-starring
with him will be
Elizabeth Fleming an
actress with whom I am
not familiar. The play has
been running on
Did You Know?
The antenna of a male wasp
has 13 joints.
Broadway tor years and
is supposedly one of the
funniest in the last few
years.
In Warner Robins
this week, the Warner
Robins Childrens Theater
will present two plays.
They are "The In
vention" and "Reunion at
Gallows Hill". The plays
will be presented at the
WRCT's new theater
which is located next to
Freedom Lanes on
Russell Parkway. Take
the kids and go, you will
all love it.
If you went to see "The
Good bye Girl" and liked
it, then I think that you
will enjoy "House Calls"
with Walter Matthau and
Glenda Jackson. It is
almost as tunny and
leaves you with the same
good feeling that "Good
bye Girl" did. The
language is a little
rougher in this one but
they all have that these
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The Fireside
Book Review
From The Perry Bookstore
BY CHARLES HARDY
V /
Snow Blind
Robert Sabbag
Avon, $2.25
The title, Snow Blind,
sounds like an Anarctlc
adventure, but just as
there are different kinds
of ice (the television
crook's word for
diamonds), the word
snow has varying uses.
The subtitle, "A brief
career in the cocaine
trade”, hints at the title's
true meaning. Cocaine is
snow, that white gold
socially snorted by the
affluent and popularized
in current hit songs by
Jackson Browne and Eric
Clapton.
Robert Sabbag's Snow
Blind (recently released
in paperback) touches
upon a number of topics.
The central action In the
book deals with Zachary
Swan 111. Mr. Swan
controlled a successful
packaging business. Most
all of New York's social
circles were open to him.
He loved to gamble, and
made sure he maximized
his winnings one way
or another. Zachary
Swan, the respectable
middle aged
businessman, began
smoking pot and even
tually snorted coke.
He entered the
smuggling racket to
make some money on the
side and to reduce his
high coke expenses.
Sabbag writes, "Only
rarely did Zachary Swan
entertain the notion that,
smuggling cocaine, he
might be some brand of
counferculture hero ...
From the beginning he
saw himself principally
as a businessman —a
rather shrewd one.”
Smuggling coke is not one
of your usual businesses,
like publishing
days. Still it is only rated
"PG" so it is no
"Saturday Night Fever".
Art Carney and
Richard Benjamin are
also in the cast and they
are both good. Neither
have ever been favorites
of mine before, but I liked
them both in this one.
Carney is especially
hilarious. Benjamin is his
usual insipid self but in
this film it works.
It is also one of the best
movies that I have seen
Glenda Jackson in for
quite some time. In this
movie she not only acts
good, she looks good.
Walter Matthau is Walter
Matthau and thats good
news for any movie. His
son is also in the movie as
Glenda Jackson's son.
Just a little trivia for you.
And don't forget that
tonight on "The Waltons"
grandma comes home. If
you feel like a few tears,
that should do it.
newspapers, selling
books or raising hogs. As
much a businessman as
he was, the story of
Zachary Swan's brief
smuggling career reads
like the best of adventure
stories.
Sabbag ranges beyond
the individual tale of
Zachary Swan to detail
the business of
smuggling. He traces the
flow of cocaine from
cocoa leaves picked and
prepared in Columbia by
Andean Indians, fhrough
South American contacts,
to American buyers, to
their "fences”, and
finally to the street where
the white powder is sold
in gram bags. These
specific details of
smuggling inject a sense
of intrigue into the
narrative of Snow Blind.
What might shock some
readers Is the honesty
with which Sabbag deals
with drugs. He exhibits a
street wisdom that
surpasses the wives-tale
mentality surrounding
the drug culture. With
insight he makes the
controversial remark, "It
has been demonstrated
clinically that, since 1914
(when the present drug
laws were passed) the
greatest danger con
nected with the moderate
use of cocaine is legal and
not chemical.” Such
insight may shock some
people, but will be more
informative than star
tling to others.
Adventure, intrigue,
and insight all of fhese
areas are touched upon in
Snow Blind. Mr. Sabbag's
witty writing entertains
as well as spins details.
Snow Blind is a book for a
far wider audience than
just the user of this ex
pensive snow
Perry
Chamber I
Report W I
By Ann Conner \!yW
What's In It For Me
Our “Chamber Week"
which was held the week
of March 13-17, 1978, was
certainly a special time
for the Chamber, and
many are to be thanked
tor the voluntary time
they gave tor all the
events held.
Ending on Friday with
our Program of Work
Meeting many items
were discussed, and it
was apparent that the
Chamber needs, not only
short range business-like
plans, but long range
goals as well. The thing
that was so evident was
that we need to get going
and to get others going
too. The following article
appeared in the Chamber
of Commerce Newsletter
which is published by the
U.S. Chamber.
"A president-elect
wrote, 'Would you give
me a meaningful
definition of a chamber of
commerce. Those I talk
with cannot tell me what
the responsibilities of the
chamber are to its
members or to the
community . . .'
“He indicated that he
was both surprised and
dismayed.
“After trying to con
vince people for thirty
years that my job at the
chamber of commerce
was full-time, I'm not
surprised.
“1 am dismayed.
"There are hundreds of
chambers of commerce
that provide a vehicle for
the banding together of
people to identity and
attack problems of the
community and the
people within it.
"Most of those
problems are economic.
There must be a viable
market place - and that
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The Linton Family
To Speak Here April 5-9
Lintons Named
Missionaries
Os The Week
The Perry
Presbyterian Church will
be starting their second
annual World Missions
Conference Wednesday,
April 5 thru 9.
The David Lintons will
be one of several
missionaries who will be
speaking along with the
main speaker, Rev.
Kennedy Smartt, a
coordinator of our
general assembly's
mission to the world
committee.
Mr. Linton grew up in
Korea and feels that God
would have him return to
Korea in a church -
planting ministry. David
attended the University
of North Carolina at
AsheviMe, N.C. and
Orlando Junior College.
He rerP !, '°H •> n <• c and
means people with jobs.
“It the business people
do not relate the projects
of a chamber of com
merce to their business,
the chamber should take
another look at its aims
and objectives, its pur
poses and understanding
of all the publics within
the community as to its
reason for existence.
“Another letter asked
for 'ways to raise money,
for our dues are too low
and don't provide enough
to do the job.'
“That letter is related
to the product or program
that those in the second
community are not
buying. It could be a case
of pricing the product too
low. Or it could be not
having the product
packaged so those who
are asked to hire the
chamber know what's in
it for them.
“The third letter
suggested that the reason
the chamber in that
community was Inef
fective was a lack of
knowledge of
parliamentary pro
cedure.
“Let's go back to the
basics use the
management functions of
planning, organizing,
directing and controlling
- and do those things at
the chamber that
business had done so well
tor years.
"It'll sell."
It's obvious we need to
look and plan within our
organization to see what
we are and are not doing
to sell.
A committee will be
formed to formulate the
items and ideas that were
discussed at the Program
of Work meeting to be
approved by the Board.
an M.E. from Mississippi
College. He is a graduate
of Reformed Theological
Seminary in Jackson,
Mississippi.
Phyllis Linton was born
in Jackson, Mississippi.
During her teen years she
became interested in
missions and went to
college with missions
generally on her mind.
Phyllis received a B.S.
from Mississippi College
and attended the
University of North
Carolina at Asheville.
The Lintons have 3
children, David
Jonathan, Joel Hugh, and
Rebecca Anne.
The Lintons have been
appointed by the mission
to the World of the PCA to
do church-planting in