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• Volunteers For ‘Meals
On Wheels’ Thanked
Dear Editor,
The "Meals on Wheels"
program, sponsored by
the Houston County
Council on Aging Inc.
which is an affiliated
member of the United
Way; wishes to express
* appreciation to the
following dedicated
volunteers. Jessie Hardy,
Luther Vance Sr.,
Katherine Taylor, Sara
L. Smith, Johnnie Em
mett, and J, Owens, in the
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What a week this has
been! All year long I have
been trying to finagle an
invitation to the
Capricorn picnic. Well I
was successful and last
Thursday when the gates
opened I was there. It
was everything that I
thought that it would be.
Lots of barbeque, sun
and music. For five hours
I wandered around
Lakeside Park trying to
pick out who was famous.
There were a lot of
Capricorn artists there of
course. The music of Sea
Level, Dixie Dregs,
• Delbert AAcClintock and
others played throughout
the day. I was especially
waiting to hear our own
''Stillwater" perform and
after they had done their
turn I was ready to head
for home.
Stillwater has gotten
better and better. If you
haven't heard them in a
while then I am here to
tell you that their sound is
becoming more and more
polished. Their new
album should be out
♦ September 25 and I hope
that this is the one to
make it big for them.
They will be performing
at a midnight show at the
Peach County Fair on
September 29. Go and
hear them.
For all of you who are
interested, 1 did get to see
Gregg Allman. I didn't
stick around to hear the
reunion of the Allman
Brothers Band but the
rumors of this happening
made the rounds all day.
There is still a large
group of anti-Allman
people and they were not
thrilled at the thought of
Greg reuniting with
anyone. Then there are
the others who see it as a
major miracle of music.
Capricorn knows how
to throw a party and I
look forward to next year.
Another happening this
week was the Warner
Robins Childrens Theater
• production of "The
Hobbift". Two of Perry's
own were in it - Gary
•« Sirmans and Marcel
Clark. They were part of
a cast of around 55 kids
and one adult. The one
adult was Blake Clark
and he was very effective
as the "Merlin" lookalike
Gandaif.
The main role of Bilbo
was brillianfly played by
Gordon Johnston. He is a
natural actor and I look
* forward to seeing him
onstage again. WRCT
should cast him end
Perry area.
The purpose of this all
volunteer program is to
deliver a hot meal, five
days a week to the shut
ins who are unable to
prepare meals for
themselves. Also advise
and aid participants to
obtain other services
available to them in the
area, as needed.
The volunteer drivers
give their time and
The Capricorn Picnic
Michele Hargrove in a
play and stand back.
They are young in years
but very wise in what
acting is all about.
The play itself was very
successful with the
children in the audience.
Only old fogeys like me
complained about the
poor acoustics. Once the
story got into the slaying
of the dragon, even I was
enchanted. The music of
Steve Bryant, the voice of
Cathy Coleman, the
direction of Leon Smifh
and the sets designed and
constructed by a group of
people were definite plus
factors.
I know that a lot of
adults and children from
Perry attended the play.
If you haven't gotten
involved with WRCT yet,
then do so with their next
production. They are a
very active group who
give young people a good
introduction to theater.
I also took my family to
see "The Cat From Outer
Space". It was typical
Walt Disney and we all
enjoyed it. This one is
packed full of stars like
Sandy Duncan, Ken
Berry, Maclean
Stevenson, Roddy Mc-
Dowell and Harry
Morgan. It also had a
very intelligent acting
cat. Take the kids
because they will love it.
There's enough action to
keep the adults interest
too.
"Foul Play" was the
second movie I saw. I was
crazy about it. Goldie
Hawn and Chevy Chase
are two of the most easy
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The Perry Newcomers Club will meet Thurs.,
Sept 7 at 8 p.m. at St. Christopher’s Episcopal
Church. Call 987-0422 for more information.
Sgt. Clinton C. Duncan Chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy will meet Sept. 6,
1978 at 3; 30 p.m. with Mrs. W.E. Barfield Sr. 1306
Swift St.
The Idaka Club will meet on Tues., Sept. 5 at
7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Charlee Malone.
Perry Garden Club will meet Thursday,
September 7at 3:00 at the Eastgate Branch Bank
of Perry.
The Perry Houston County Hospital Auxiliary
(Pink Ladies) will meet on Tuesday Sept. 5 at
7:30 p.m. in the Hospital conference room.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1978
transportation to help
make this program
possible. They are truly
indispensable. Thank
you, for bringing "a bit of
sunshine" into many
persons lives.
Sincerely,
Marguerite Doyle
Chairman
Meals on Wheels
Houston County
Council
On Aging, Inc.
going performers who
have ever been seen on
the screen. It is like you
are really meeting them
and finding out about
their personalities.
The movie is a comedy
drama with thrills and
chills galore. Dudley
Moore is an added
scream as the ever
persecuted "Stanley".
You have to see the movie
to understand but he is
really funny. Rachel
Roberts is also funny as a
karate trained un
derworld leader.
"Foul Play" is rated
PG because of language,
which is a little strong at
times. There is a
"Scrabble" game that
spells out some of the
strongest words. I didn't
feel that that portion
added anything to a
clever motion picture.
Without that scene the
movie would still be the
box office success that it
is.
"Foul Play" will be
playing another week in
Warner Robins and I
recommend it. I have
talked with people who
did not like it but it struck
my sense of humor just
fine. My wife and
brother-in-law liked it
too. So that's three votes.
This weekend I will be
judging a guitar, banjo,
mandolin, fiddle and
Bluegrass Band contest
at the Macon Raceway. If
that kind of thing turns
you on, then come on out.
This plus a gospel sing
and stock car races will
occur this Sunday and
Monday. See you there.
Carter “Poll-Axed”
By Millard Grimes
Two years ago this
month Jimmy Carter,
then the Democratic
nominee for president,
was at the high tide of his
popularity.
Gerald Ford and
Ronald Reagan were still
fighting delegate-to
delegate trench warfare
for the chance to oppose
Carter in the general
election. The polls were
showing that the prize
was hardly worth the
struggle. Carter was as
much as 30 "poll points"
ahead of either Ford or
Reagan.
Ford prevailed over
Reagan by one of the
slimmest margins in
convention history. But
by Election Day Carter
was the one who was
struggling as he edged
Ford by less than 2
percentage points after
losing all of the huge poll
lead he'd enjoyed.
Polls, of course, tend to
magnify enthusiasm and
they also magnify dis
enthusiasm.
Two years after his
high-water mark in the
polls, Carter read big
headlines last week that
an Associated press-NBC
poll shows that 50 percent
of the people don't even
want him to run for
president in 1980.
That sounds especially
ominous for the
President, when linked to
another poll which shows
that he runs a poor
second to Sen. Ted
Kennedy among
Democrats as their
choice for the 1980
nominee.
POLLS HAVE SOME
passing interest but their
distortions need to be
recognized or else they
will begin to have the
same effect on the
political system that the
Nielsen Ratings have on
TV, and political polls are
not nearly as indicative of
the public mood as the
Nielsen ratings are.
However, even if the
poll has some credence,
President Carter can
take comfort in the fact
that 38 percent of those
polled DID want to run
for reelection, and 12
percent were undecided.
Since he only got 51
percent of the vote on
Election Day in
November, 1976, he really
isn't all that worse off in
the recent poll after 19
months in office than he
was the day the voters
had to choose between
him and an incumbent
president. Almost 50
percent opposed him then
also.
As for his popularity
versus Sen. Kennedy,
he's in a lot better
position today than he
was two years before the
1976 Democratic con
vention, when it's
doubtful if 1 percent of
Democrats would have
picked him over Ken
nedy, or wanted him to
run for president.
THAT RECENT POLL
went a little deeper and
revealed that a slight
majority of Democrats
did want Carter to run for
reelection. Among In
dependents, 53 percent
said they'd rather he
wouldn't run, but the
group which really was
against him were
Republicans, of which 66
percent opposed Carter
running again.
A good followup
question to those
Republicans would have
been which Democrat
they favored as the
nominee since they are
against Carter, Ken
nedy? Mondale? Ed
Brown? Faced with a
choice I think a lot of
Republicans would have
second thoughts on which
Democrat they prefer as
the nominee in 1980.
Carter might even
consider it a compliment
that so many
Republicans oppose him
as the candidate since
that could indicate
Republicans consider
him the hardest
Democrat to beat.
IN ANY CASE, Carter
learned in 1976 how fickle
the polls can be when he
went from a 65-31 lead in
August to a narrow
victory the day the votes
were counted.
One other question in
that poll raised doubts
about its reliability. Only
26 percent of those polled
gave Carter a "good" or
"excellent" rating on his
performance. But in
another part of the poll 37
percent of the same
group gave former
President Richard Nixon
a "good" or "excellent"
rating - an 11 percent
advantage over Carter.
Voters have short
memories but there's not
much doubt a large
majority would prefer
Carter to Nixon as
president, which makes
that higher rating for
Nixon look rather
ridiculous
And Sen. Kennedy's
popularity holds up much
better in polls than it
would if he became an
announced seeker of the
presidency.
His brother Robert,
only five years after the
assassination of
President John Kennedy,
and in much more tur
bulent political waters,
was trailing for the 1968
nomination when he died,
and he did not carry some
of Ted's personal
liabilities.
ACCORDING TO ONE
poll Kennedy is even a
clear choice over Carter
among southern
Democrats. But a chief
complaint you hear about
Carter among most
southerners is that he's
too liberal. Quite a few of
them specifically men
tion his National Health
Insurance plan. But
Kennedy has fallen out
with Carter because
Carter's National Health
Insurance Plan doesn't
go far enough. Kennedy,
indeed, may be as liberal
as Sen. George
McGovern, who lost by
such a wide margin to
Nixon in 1972.
Another common
complaint against Carter
is that he doesn't "get
along" with Congress
well enough and doesn't
know how to "win over"
key congressmen.
But that cuts both
ways, isn't there some
responsibility on the
congressmen to "get
along" with the
President? Do
congressmen's opinions
and votes depend on how
many times they are
invited to breakfast with
the President or whether
they feel he has the best
side of an issue?
JIMMY CARTER,
perhaps better than any
politician in U.S. history,
knows how far it is from a
poll to a polling booth. He
beat the polls as well as
the array of other can
didates against him in the
Democratic primaries in
1976. He found out that
there is a difference when
the voter is making an
actual choice on who's
going to hold the reins of
power. But Carter - and
indeed the nation - could
be seriously handicapped
by the kind of negative
attitude which polls are
creating against the first
southerner to become
president in more than
100 years. I even saw one
headline recently which
said: "Is Carter Worst
President Ever?" The
columnist concluded that
he wasn't the worst yet
but that he had a chance
to be.
What's distressing is
that every president in
this century except
Kennedy, whose mar
tyrdom elevated him
above his performance,
has been ridiculed and
labeled "the worst ever."
Sometimes we don't
appreciate the fact that in
200 years only 39 men
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First Baptist Church
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• The Worth A Name
A good name is rather
to be chosen than great
riches, and loving favour
rather than silver and
gold. Proverbs 22:1
In Alexandria, Greece,
in the days of Alexander
the Great, there was a
great judgement hall.
Since Alexander the
PERRY
CHAMBER THF
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By Ann Conner
V- ✓
"Selling Perry”
Last week, our In
dustrial Development
Committee sponsored an
industrial tour to Atlanta
to present to the Georgia
Department of Industry
and Trade and to the
Georgia Power Company
our community's in
dustrial development and
potential.
Those attending this
visit were the following:
Mayor James McKinley,
Commissioner Frank
Rozar, Lewis Meeks Co-
Chairman Industrial
Development Committee,
Andy Borders Chairman
Houston County
Development Authority,
Robert Harris, City
Planner, Wendell
Whipple, Committee
Member, M.H.
Witherington, Committee
Member, Al Baggarly,
City Councilman, Don
Parkinson, Member, Ann
Conner, Executive Vice
president.
We first visited with
Industry and Trade in the
lovely Omni In
ternational Office
complex, and were
greeted by Commissioner
Milt Folds and several of
the Georgia Industrial
Developers. Com
missioner Folds, as
usual, gave our group the
"red carpet" treatment,
and so eloquently greeted
us. In his brief con
versation, he stated that
he was impressed with
our attitude of busy
people who love their
community enough to
help ourselves in con
tinuing to grow, and
being in the state many
years at a grass roots
level he understood that it
had taken many years to
build and expand our
industrial potential. He
also explained to our
group that industrial
prospects usually know
where they want to go
within the state, and that
he was proud of our
state's spread and
balance of industry
location in the state. He
ended by telling us that
the name of the game in
industry is to provide jobs
have held the highest
office in the greatest
democracy the world has
ever known, and all of
them attained that honor
in the face of many
competitors.
The president who may
have travelled the longest
and most difficult road to
the White House is the
one who now occupies it.
Great was the absolute
ruler, they brought
everyone to him. There
was no appeal of his
verdict. One day into the
judgement hall there
came a fair-haired youth,
a lad of eighteen, with the
tunic of Alexander's
army upon him. As he
stood before the king, the
for the people in our
state.
It was our intention to
let these men and women
know that when an in
dustrial prospect came to
Perry that they could
expect us to adequately
show them our area, and
answer any questions
that they might have
regarding our industrial
potential. The Mayor
pointed out that the City
of Perry is a progressive
city for industry with the
city property tax cut,
with sound fiscal
responsibility, with good
planning and zoning with
the consideration of the
Freeport Option
Referendum, and with
the excellent relationship
with the existing in
dustries, the county, the
chamber, and the county
development authority.
He highlighted the areas
of need that a prospective
industry might have,
such as labor supply, gas,
water, sewerage, in
dustrial park, tran
sportation, and com
mercial services, and
explained that the City of
Perry could ac
commodate these needs.
He also briefed them on
our pleasant city with our
religious and civic op
portunities, our housing,
our recreation, and our
health care. He made the
point that "Perry is a
good city made better by
industry."
Commissioner Rozar
representing the county
assured them that the
City of Perry had the
county's complete
cooperation, that the
county had little bonded
indebtedness, that the
milleage rate had
remained stable, and that
he felt that the county
could supply the needs of
any potential industry for
our area. Also, from a
county standpoint, Andy
Borders explained the
operation and intention of
the county development
authority, and that this
authority was interested
in industrial development
on a county wide basis.
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Millard Grimes
And that fact alone
makes him an out
standing American and
an uncommon leader.
More about that road in
a later column.
whole crowd who had
gathered in the
judgement hall
anxiously waited to see
what would happen to
such a young boy.
Alexander asked what
the charge was. The man
answered that the charge
was cowardice in battle.
A great hush fell over the
crowd because they knew
that Alexander was not a
man who pushed his men
but one who led them into
the thick of the battle.
They saw the color of
anger rise in his face at
the charge of cowardice
in one of his soldiers; but
then they noticed that his
face relaxed, for he, too,
had seen how young and
fair the youth was. The
tension went out of the
hall, and Alexander said;
"Son, what is your
name?"
The boy answered:
"My name is Alexan
der."
The anger came back
into the face of Alexander
the Great. The cords
stood out on his neck; he
grabbed the boy by his
tunic and thundered:
"You change your name,
sir, or change your
conduct!"
Some time ago in the
personal section of a
large city newspaper, a
rather familiar notice
appeared which read: "I
will not be responsible for
any debts incurred by
anyone other than
myself. (Signed) John C.
Smith."
The very next day, in
the same section of the
paper, a notice came out
which read: "Don't
worry, John; with a name
like yours, nobody could
get any credit on it
anyway."
But in a country song,
Merle Haggard, in
referring to his childhood
background and the
honest reputation of his
father, sang: "He could
borrow money at the
bank just by signing his
name." Perhaps there is
more truth in more areas
in that verse in Proverbs
than we might have
imagined.
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VOL. 108 NO. 35
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