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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1992
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The Houston Home Journal
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BRIGETTE HAMILTON TERESA HAWK
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December 11,1941
The mistake Adolf I litler made which doomed his dicta
torship came on December 11, 1941. Japan, with which
Germany and Italy were allied, had attacked the United
States naval base at Pearl Harbor four days earlier.
That didn't produce war between the U.S. and Nazi
Germany. Hitler was bogged down in a gigantic land war
with Russia, having attacked the Soviets in June. Cold
logic dictated he stay out of war with America-until that
massive struggle was concluded.
But, Hitler, stung by the fact that President Roosevelt
had been secretly waging war against Germany on the high
seas for a year or more, couldn't resist the temptation to
strike back when news of the severity of the U.S. defeat
was realized.
He impulsively declared war on the United States
December 11. That made absolute certain the end of the
Third Reich, which didn't possess the manpower or re
sources to defeat both Russia and the U.S.
Recent revelations have established that British intelli
gence knew Pearl Harbor would likely be attacked; either
Churchill knew more than he told President Roosevelt or
Roosevelt had been told more than he ever revealed, mis
judging the state of preparedness at Pearl Harbor.
Whatever the truth (and British intelligence records are
still unavailable), Hitler committed the fatal mistake on the
11th. He might have attained a stalemate or even victory in
the east had he avoided war with America. But massive
U.S. aid to Russia and the industrial might of the U.S.
was decisive; Hitler was doomed.
It took three and a half more years to produce Hitler's
suicide and German defeat. It was assured 51 years ago,
December 11, by Hitler himself.
The mandate
President elect Clinton may have a harder time pleasing
liberals, now telling him he has a mandate, than he had
anticipated.
The mandate is dubious. Clinton won only 43 percent of
the popular vote. He got only 54 percent of the vote in his
home state of Arkansas, and in only two other states did he
get 50 percent.
I lis party lost seats in Congress. This is, at best, a mod
est mandate. If Clinton were to interpret his recession
aided victory as a lopsided mandate-as some in the media
now proclaim he might doom any chance for re-election.
In the campaign Clinton presented himself as a moder
ate. As such, he won more votes than President Bush.
Any other approach now would be a betrayal of moderates
who voted for him.
Lowery feels editorial
was inaccurate
Dear Editor:
I read with great disappointment your editorial (Nov. 25)
on the so-called "gag-rule." The premise of your argument
is that the people who believe abortion is morally, unac
ceptable, and therefore support laws that restrict abortion,
are wrong because their beliefs are based solely on "theory
and faith." Because of this premise, your editorial lacks
both substance and logic, not to mention accuracy.
The pro-life position is based on the belief that every
human life has intrinsic, sacred worth: it is founded upon a
long held Western ethic of intrinsic and equal value for ev
ery human life regardless of its stage, condition, or status.
If that is what you mean by theory then a guilty plea is re
quired. As for faith, it may be time you recognize that the
great danger to the health and vitality of our society comes
not from an excess of faith or religion, but from the fact
that so many people now grow up with a total lack of val
ues, standards and sense of purpose in life. For an exam
ple, look to our educational system. Even the Senate
Judiciary Committee in 1984 found that one sequence of
the "value-neutral" point of view "effectively denies that
there may be a religious solution to many of the issues and
problems we face." George Washington, in his Farewell
Address said" "Reason and experience both forbid us to
expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of re
ligious principle." The intention here is not to say that those
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“A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To
My Second Term In The Senate...”
Calhoun elected mayor by slim margin
-10 years ago
Dec. 9, 1982
Barbara C. Calhoun was re-elected
as Perry's mayor by a slim margin
of 56 votes. Calhoun, who had
served in the office since 1980, re
ceived 1,066 votes in the election,
barely defeating her opponent.
James O. McKinley, a former Perry
mayor. Perry voters also re-elected
two incumbent council members,
Thomas Mayo and Ralph Gentry.
Henry Dawkins also won a council
post.
* * *
Perry City Council voted unani
mously to amend the city's ordi
nance that prohibited the sale of
beer, wine, packaged liquor and
liquor by the drink on all election
days. The adoption of the new
ordinance followed the decision of
the Georgia General Assembly to
allow smaller cities and counties to
sell alcohol beverages during local
elections if they so choose.
* * *
A Perry man was shot in the hand
by a Houston County sheriffs
deputy Friday night when he tried
to attack the officer with a knife.
Willie James Haslcm of Old Field
Lane was shot in the hand when he
allegedly tried to attack Perry Police
Officer Jim West and sheriffs
deputy John Pagura with a knife
outside his home. The officers were
at Haslcm's house with a court
order to take him to a psychiatric
hospital.
15 years ago
Dec. 8, 1977
Funeral services for Judge A.M.
(Phil) Anderson a local civic and
church leader, were held Dec. 2.
Besides practicing law in Perry
from 1931-38, Anderson was the
Liberals utilized, exploited the media to hurt Bush
The recent presidential election
represents a fine example of the lib
eral media being exploited (or uti
lized) by political liberals.
The process began four years ago.
President Bush chose Dan Quayle
to be his running mate. It wasn't a
wise choice, not because Quayle is
the buffoon the liberal media
painted him as for four years. He
was vulnerable and Bush should
have known he needed someone on
the ticket harder to smear.
The mauling Quayle took from
talk-show hosts, columnists, the
media in general, for four years.
Remember L
when? I
News items from past issues
state director of the Georgia Penal
System from 1938-39, was a past
commander of American Legion
Post 24, served as Mayor of Perry
from 1934-39 and was the first
president of the Young Democrats
of Houston County.
* * *
Houston County farmers strike
coordinator Steve Langston asked
Perry businesses to close
Wednesday, Dec. 14, in support "of
the American farmer." He said the
county farm strike organization was
to meet that afternoon and then
gather early Friday morning to
leave for Atlanta and a tractor
demonstration there. Around 90
percent of the county's farmers were
represented in the county strike
group.
* * *
Dr. Wayne Hulsey's Perry
residence on Cater Circle was
burglarized Dec. 6 at 7:30 a.m.
according to Corporal Pat Padgett.
According to Perry police statistics,
1,511 persons were arrested during
the year, with 69 burglaries, 39
fires, 300 parking tickets, 165
accidents and three fatalities also
recorded.
25 years ago
Dec. 7, 1967
A burglar broke a front glass and
stole six watches valued at $485
from Overton Jewelry Store on Ball
Street Dec. 6. Assistant Police
Chief Roy Shcllnutt said the bur
glars apparently cracked the win
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was unprecedented. Bush admirably
and courageously kept him on the
ticket in 1992. Though Quayle
campaigned well, it was too late to
repair the damage and his war
service vulnerability defused Bill
Clinton's far more serious wartime
problem.
dow, reached in and scooped up the
six watches and didn't make any at
tempt to enter the store.
* * *
James Culvcrhousc was charged
with assault witli intent to murder
Jackie Hardy at a fight on Davis
Avenue Sunday afternoon according
to B.E. Dennard. Hardy and a third
man, Charlie Bloodworth, were
charged with disorderly conduct as a
result of the incident at
Culvcrhousc's home.
* * *
The Perry High School Panthers,
with an 8-2 record for the season,
were picked by the Atlanta
Constitution as the number six
team in Class A in Georgia. Perry
was rated just one below Cook
County of Adel, one of the two
teams who defeated Perry during the
football season. The other team to
beat Perry, Fitzgerald, did not make
the newspaper’s list.
50 years ago
Dec. 10, 1942
Georgia Legionairres during
November sold $10,203,142 in war
bonds, exceeding the quota for the
month by more than $1 million.
Houston County's quota was over
subscribed under the leadership of
the Robert D. Collins Post with O.
A. King, commander.
* * *
C.C. Chapman was elected sheriff
of Houston in a special election. He
was to be sworn in Dec. 15. A total
of 211 votes were cast in the spe
cial election.
* * *
Guard rails were placed on Macon
Highway within the city limits and
on the highway nine miles north of
Perry. The state highway depart
ment placed these rails as protective
measures upon the insistence of
Mayor S.A. Nunn of Perry.
President Bush, riding high in the
polls, risked confronting the power
ful Israeli lobby to put U.S. inter
ests first in 1991, refusing to rub
ber stamp $lO billion in loan guar
antees for Israel until Israel agreed
to talk peace.
He refused to go beyond goals set
by the U.N. in the war on Iraq,
stopping the slaughter without
marching on Baghdad and capturing
Saddam Hussein.
For this media liberals, many
Jewish with emotional religious
tics to Israel, never forgave him.
They wanted American soldiers to
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Parade brings
Perryans and
good times
together
Bill Powell, Santa Claus and
cute children. What do these people
have in common?
They were all in Perry Saturday
as Perryans participated in, and
watched, the 17th Christmas at the
Crossroads parade.
It was my first Perry parade,
and I enjoyed it. It’s great to see a
community come together and par
ticipate in an event everyone seems
to love.
Since I grew up in Macon, I
never had a small town atmosphere
at a parade. The Macon parade never
seemed homey and kind. The Perry
parade docs.
There’s a lot to be said for
handmade floats, homemade
costumes and everyone in town
getting together. Forget the Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade. The
hometown, homemade parades are
much better.
1 will never forget the parade
since Fire Chief Gary Hamlin asked
me to help judge the handmade
floats. It wasn’t an easy job to do
since there were some well made
floats that had a lot of time pul into
them.
Some of the greatest moments
in judging were walking around and
seeing all the smiling faces, the
beauty queens trying to control
their hair and Fireman Ron Frazier
trying to get everyone in the right
place. And did you sec those
beautiful horses pulling Santa’s
elves? Oh, did anyone clean up the
memories the horses left behind?
But the moments that top them
all arc those when a group won a
trophy for their hard work on their
float. The lady who received the
trophy for Anchor Glass’ eyes got
bigger than silver dollars. She was
ecstatic. It’s great to make someone
feel that good and to sec the look
on their face. Way to go Anchor
Glass, Perry Busdrivcrs and Tabor
Middle School Art Club.
The day was perfect for the pa
rade as the sun shined, and a chilly
breeze blew. Now, if the day after
Thanksgiving sales didn’t get you
in the Christmas spirit, the parade
had to. If not, crawl back under the
rock.
The only thing lacking Satur
day was a band! Come on guys. 1
know we had a cancellation a cou
ple weeks before the parade, but
next year let’s do everything possi
ble to have one. It would be great if
some of the church musicians got
together and formed their own band
lor the parade next year. Anything
but silence.
Despite having no band, the
parade looked great thanks to all
you hard workers and participants.
Perry parents, don’t forget to take
your kids to the parade next year.
They’ll remember it and love you
for it later on. So go ahead and
schedule it. Those football game
memories will disappear, but the
memories with your kids will last.
Thanks Gary Hamlin, chamber
ol commerce and all participants
during the parade and behind the
scenes.
All local musicians be
practicing throughout the year. You
may be called on to utilize your
talents next year. Somehow,
someway let’s have a band.
light their way to Baghdad and cap
ture or execute Hussein, whatever
the cost.
The recession gave Bush’s critics
the ammunition needed to defeat
him, though it's almost certain the
rccession-which is worldwide
would have engulfed any adminis
tration. (Bush admittedly didn't rec
ognize the seriousness of the reces
sion in 1991, believing in his
post-war popularity and his peo
ples estimates recovery was on the
way.)
Fighting a biased media and the
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