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THE * ✓ COURIER
COVERS THE MOUNTAINS LIKE MOONSHINE
Dovotod to the Agricultural * Commercial and Industrial Interests of White County
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*..£ CLEVELAND COURIER.
PLATFORM
For White County and
Cleveland;
A Cleaner and More Beaut fut
City
All Highways Graded and
Paved
To Make White County the
Meeea for Tourist*
Development of Winter
Sports in Mountain Area
Blue Ridge Parkway
Ids 27 Miles In H. C.
The National Park Service save
a co ntr.act for paving 27 tn Ucc o
the Blue Ridge Parkway that
will extend thi;- great highway
mt” Georgia has he'-n a warded,
leaving on!v 16 miles in N. C.
We are hopcf I of recoiviiu’
some <rood news to he done in
Georgia. Park ha
The Blue R id ire way
been voted A 4 the most seeme
highway in America
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Cl urch of At*
lant 1 were here this weekend- A\
travels a lot by air & observes “Ur
mountain section, yet he hopes
NO engineer ruins thj beauty of
the old Toll Gate area.
Did vou know that Severn'
staunch and libera! ti 11 a 1 )c ; 11 ?up
-
porters of Marvin Griffin in White
Couiiiv have been given a Lt.( ol.
Com mission from Gov. Sanders?
That may give The Atlanta Con¬
stitution political editor some
thing to write about.
The Medicare Bill is now in a
Congress Conference Committee
Here are some of the pet I ment
features; con.pul
AH over 65 will have a
sory hospital plan.
There’s a voluntary msui ance
plan to help meet doctois bills
and other medical expenses,
through payment of $3 monthly
premiums- increase Social
A 7 percent benefits in
Security retirement
Repeated and long articles
hnve recently appeared in a
Gainesville newspaper on the
Tax Revaluation proqram of
White County Muvbe they’ll
have it all fixed soon the way
th“y want it.
Miss Mary Lou Fulton advises
that- we have had 2:34 mchi-8 of
rainfall in July up to Juiy 13 at 4
Cleveland received u $3,000
check Wednesday from the State
for street iuipiovenieut. We’ll
<ret more next year
©
A tremendous business is now
serious ly weighing every angle to
locate 111 Cle eland. TheCouriei
hopes to carry a story very soon
We wish to tli-turall tl ose who maoe
donations to the S John's Baptist
Church bniidiov fund t he amount of
*166.11 was raised.
Si J.ihn’s Colored Baptist Chuich
Clt-velsud. Georgia
Mre. A. B Stivers, w-. Nancy Brock,
Mrs. L, M. Swain. Sr.. an 1 Mrs. J,P.
Thurmond ol Ssulord, Fla., were recent
visitors of Mis. T. V, Car tre!i
'Cure Classes'
Seek to Calm
Jittery Nerves
BAD GASTEIN, Australia (WN
S)_Sports courses that are called
“Cure Classes” will be held here
all summer to help working wo
men and married couples regain |
the calm and composure they have ;
lost in the tenseness of big-city I
life. a
Favorite sports for this purpose
are swimming, walking and rid¬
ing. Six “well-broken-in” hacks are
especially recommended for “heal¬
ing excursions.”
The wolf also shall ] dwell with the
Ian 1>, and the leopard shall lie down with
th« kid; and the calf and young lion and
the falling together;’.and a little Bball
la*d them.—Isa, 111:6
Mrs /’oily Stamey muses what did
women like about men before money was
in vented f
"Dad, can a nice girl work a wonder¬
ful change in a mao?"
*« Yes, and relieve him of a lot of it,* oo”
You folks that Demanded that the Old
Court House be not torn down should
NOW see that a plaque be placed on or
in it to honor Hal Courtenay, a native of
Wnile County, but now resident ol
Calif.
The Editor truly believes that if it had
not been for the great work Hal done,
then you would see the old hand made
brick now tumbling down from this state¬
ly old structure
How can you expect the White t'Cncty
Chamber of Commerce to succeed unless
i be officers give ALL of their Job Print¬
ing and urgently insist that every local
merchant advertise regularly iu The
Something definale and concrete tnus t
be m ide NOW.
Bill Shipp, a good .eporter on] The At.
Unta Constitution, had a most revealing
story July 9 about two men swapping
wives, or maybe tiyior out another Icel
Probably a lot of (wive swapping is
nev.r mentioned to to the press Wcoder
if tneie’s , any KIND of swapping in
Cl.v land? ’
There’s a good possibility that Presi¬
dent and Mrs, JchnsoD wili attend the
dedication of the Senator Richard B.
Rueseli scenic ■„t.H ghwxy
I lesident Johnson has never had a
more devoted friend than Dick Hussrli.
8 i if Dice extends a personal invitation
then you can expect that President and
Mrs, Johnson at the dedicatory .ceremony
II tne right kird of energy is us <1 then
White Couuty can secure a re-l airp.irt,
Metier listen to Don Henderson
I he Editor knows personally some able
people who have v oted for Dick Kueseli
ever since he was elected Governor They
intend to remain bis devoted friend rt
gaidiess of ALL the jioney Carl can
muster. You just don’t change a true
Dick Kussell friend by offering him a
nirkel. Georgia has never nad a more
consecrated or abler Senator than Dick
Russell
Uitk Russell’s devoted cook is Negro
in Winder, Ga
If it hadn’t been for the full effort oj
The Courier vou would not uow have
i’alon or Ames, Would the Rubert
Hojan Highway have been built? i'be
Courier has been the dominating force in
uoviog Waite Couaiy forward
WHAT PRINTER DOES YOUR
JOB PRINTING?
When you give it to printers
away from Cleveland, do they give
you or Cleveland anything or work
for its future progress? You busi¬
nessmen want the people of Cleve¬
land and White County to trade at
home, yet you send your Job Prin¬
ting to job printers in other towns.
How can you ask the people to
trade at home when you don’t
give the Courier your job printing
and advertising?
“God give us men! A time like
•tis demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith, and ready hands,
Men whom the lust of office does
not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office
cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a
will;
Men who have honor; men who
will not lie;
Men who can stand before a dema
gogue
And damn his treacherous flat¬
teries without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live
above the fog
Ini public duty and private think¬
ing;
For while the rabble with their
thumb-worn creeds
Their large profession and
their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Free¬
dom weeps.
Wrong rules the land, and wait¬
ing Justice sleeps.”
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WINTERTIME
bsyatJ-i ACTIVITIES
Local News
Send at the NEWS m that K win
appear in The Courier. W« will ap
predte your
Telephoneor write The Courier
the NEWS.
Watch the business people start
to Advertise more in The Courier
if they want business, then they
ean get more by regular advertis¬
ing in The Courier, Trade with
the merchants that advertise in
The Courier regularly
Well, it now seems that July
won’t be a rainy month.
Have you ever seen as many
fogs in Juiy as we had last week?
Watch August 1 to 4 for tor¬
nadoes.
The Courier predicts that this
winter will be a humdinger—one
to remember— with just lot of
deep snows.
The Courier was pleased to get
those two half page Ads lastjweek
from the Peoples Bank. Thai
Bank has made rapid since it
opened m* 1946. It is onlynatur
al that increase in business fol
lows regulat advertising in The
Courier
Mr. and Mrs W. L- Allison
left Sunday for a day or so visit
with Mr. ana Mrs. Randolph Mc¬
Collum in Biloxi, Miss. They
went especially to see JLynn
Mrs. Stanley Ellis, Lyuda and
Stephen of Decatur spent this
week with parents, Editor and
Mrs. Jas. P. Davidson
The Glover-Satterfield Re¬
union will be held Sunday at
Loudsville Campground. Bring
well filled baskets
The Ga. Mts. Planning aiirt
Development Commission will
hold its next meeting in theWhite
County High School Cafetorium
July 32 at 7:80 p. m. The tour¬
ist business is stupendous in our
mountains and will |grow rapidly
in the future.
Richard Davidson is spending
this week with Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Cooper in Palatka, Fla. He writes
he would like to breath some No.
Ga. mountain air.
Dr. and Mrs, F. D, Allen speut
several days last week with their
daughter in Macon,
Cliff Robinson, 24 , Town Creek*
wrecked his car Tuesday morning
near Mrs. Wiley Hood’s.He was
earried to Hall County Hospital
Mrs. J. F. Ivie, Mike and Pam
of Atlanta spent July 9 with par¬
ents, Editor and Mrs. Jas. P.
Davidson
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Turner and
family of Charlotte and MrsThel
ma Slaton of Baton Rouge, are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Aafon
Westmoreland
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Keene
returned July 4 after several
weeks tour of the West and the
Northwest
Don Henderson has been made
City Engineer of Cleveland.
Walter Reid visited Charlie
Wilkins Jr. iu Marietta last week
PhilipJHodge was hospitalized
Tuesday night with head injuries
and Gordon Nix received |medical
attention for running their auto
into Clois Presley’s auto at his
trailor between ll and midnight
Who buglarized Palmer’s Set*
vice Station Monday night is uow
being diligently “look i ito” by
Sheriff Baker
Cleveland Tuesday received
$ 3,000 for street improvement
from the State
U N. Ambassador Adlia Stev¬
enson died of a heart attack on a
London street Wednesday. De¬
tails of funeral are not obtainable
at the time we go to press.
CLEVELAND, GA*
Mrs- Arrowood P-issa?
Funeral se. vices lor Mrst Taietha
Sbadowick Arrowood, 77, wee held a
Blue Creek Bapllet ’hurce. Interment
wae in the cauicb cemetery,
She died Sunday at her residence
,'hs Stale F.F.A. Convention convened
this week a> lbs elate F, F, A, Camp to
Covington. Representing White County
is Jerry Bentley and Mitchel Barrett- TIB'
two will bear the finals in the Public
Speaking contest, among other business.
Bentley and Barrett are newly elected
officers of the White Couuty Cbap’er,
Bentley President and Barrett Secretary,
Dennis Pardue, Reporter
Mrs. W. L, lid wen returned last week
from a visit with her eon, Dr. W. L
Bowen, Jr„ and family in ban Antonio
Texas and visited relatives in Durant and
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs, James 0. Lunsford t
n
Dearborn Heights, Mich, have been viii'
tng W. 0. Henderson and Mrs W, L
Bowen.
Last weekend Mts. W, L. Bowen visit,
ed friend* in Copperb/ll, Tenn, and at
tended the wedding of Miss Louise Hjd
and Mr, Aruie O. Rhodes.
Michael <;ranford of Atlanta visi'ed hi
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, (Harenc
Cooley la°t wee ',
Miss Janna Kay Meadns of Mobile
Ala. returned home last week after visit¬
ing her cousin, iudy Black.
A Dangerous
Philosophy . . .
In a letter written from a Birm¬
ingham jail, Martin Luther King
wrote: “There are two types of
laws, just and unjust. One has
not only a legal, but moral re¬
sponsibility to disobey unjust
laws. >>
Such a philosophy is dangerous
when carried to its logical con¬
clusions.
Take the instance of a man who
has beenunabl e to accumulate any
sizeable amount of property. Un¬
der this philosophy, what is to pre¬
vent his taking the position that
all property laws are unjust and
then proceed to violate them?
Or take a disturbed college stu¬
dent who might decide it is un¬
just laws that outlaw obscenity
and free love, and proceeds to
violate them.
Or take a person who decides
that laws governing traffic lights
and stop signs to regulate traffic
are unjust, and then proceeds to
ignore them.
Or take a criminal whose mind
becomes so warped that he feels
that laws protecting homes are un¬
just, and then proceeds to violate
them as a moral responsibility.
On and on we could go about
the breakdown of our society and
government if every man were al¬
lowed to decide what laws are
just and what laws are unjust—
what laws are to be obeyed and
what laws disobeyed.
There have been two instances
in American history where laws
have been openly flouted and re¬
belled against.
The first was the rebellion of
the Thirteen Colonies who fought
a way to the finish for freedom
from the British laws they felt
were unjust.
The second was the Civil War
when the South rebelled against
the laws of the Union and fought
a war in futile effort to win free¬
dom for thiose laws they con¬
sidered unjust.
Thus we must assume, in the
light of our own history, that any
effort on the part of any group
to free itself from laws this group
feels are unjust is a rebellion
against established authority.
One of three things can follow:
l)the rebellion, can be put down
with whatever force necessary as
was the Southern rebellion 100
years ago; 2)such a group can
win its independence as was the
case with the Thirteen Colonies
almost 200 years ago; 3)or the
righting of so-called unjust laws
can be made by due process or
law and action of the courts.
But it still remains a dangerous
philosophy for any person or
group to take the position they
have the right to determine which
laws shall be obeyed and which
shall be ignored.
—Dublin Courier-Herald
JULY 16 1965
What's Going On
In Your
White County Schools
By Telford Hulsey, Superintendent
SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR
1965-1966
School begins Friday, August 27.
HOLIDAYS —
September 6, October 22, No¬
vember 26 and 27; December 23
through January 3, March 18;
April 8 and 11; and school ends
May 25, 1966.
90 ENROLLED IN HEADSTART
We are very proud of the way
the parents and students have
helped in the program to make it
a success.
Bath In The House
The little mountain town of
Cleveland, Ga., had two hotels,
one bank, a railroad and a fu¬
ture. The depression closed the
bank, fire burned down the hotels,
and the railroad left town (taking
up the tracks as it went). Cleve¬
land then had only a future.
The 500 townspeople, however,
lived for the most part in the
past. You could hardly blame
them. The present was no place
to live. Cleveland had no side¬
walks, no sewage system, no gar¬
bage collection, no waterworks,
no fire department, no farming,
no industry, no employment, not
even a funeral parlor. By 1944 the
town had accumulated so many
negative characteristics that it was
generally known as “the most
God-forsaken town in Georgia. 91
Today things are different. Back
in 1944 an 85-year-old man named
Henry Wiley, who had been sta¬
tion agent before the railroad
left town, read that the Georgia
Power Co. gave advice and help
to communities that were trying
to improve themselves. He wrote
a letter to the company’s presi¬
dent. He wanted somebody to
come in and offer a few sugges¬
tions. The power company sent a
man in. A bunch of Clevelanders
held a meeting and listened to
what he had to say. Meetings got
to be a habit. Old Mr. Wiley made
a rather touching speech at one
back in 1945. “There’s one thing
I want before I die,” he said,
and that’s to take a bath in my
own house.”
The townspeople of Cleveland
did more than talk. In between
meetings, they worked. Three
years after they had first assem¬
bled to pull themselves together,
Cleveland was a Dogpatch no
longer. It had sidewalks all around
the court house, and some paved
streets. It had a new bank. It
had a junior college and a Ki
wanis Club, and a number of
new buildings, including a movie
house. It had a fire engine and a
funeral parlor. It bought a uni¬
form for its policeman, who stood
7 feet, 4 inches tall and had never
had a uniform before.
In 1948 the town won first
prize in the Georgia Power Co.’s
“Champion Hometown” contest, on
the basis of all-around improve¬
ment in a period of one year. In
time its achievements inclu¬
ded the creation of a planing
a dry klin, and a chicken
factory. In 1950 it establish¬
an airport. Last year its com¬
spirit attracted Talon, Inc.,
set about building a zippier
Last week the town got' its
news. Because of its progres¬
spirit and willing hands, the
Ames Textile Corp., of Lowell,
Mass., had decided to build a
$2,000,000.00 woolen mill in Cleve¬
land.
Wiley wasn’t around to appreci¬
ate the latest development. He
died in 1959, with the satisfaction
of finally getting a bathroom in
his home. — NEWSWEEK, June
15, 1953.
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Dr. King and
Vietnam . . .
We hope that Dr. Martin Luther
King will rethink his decision to
seek to use the civil-rights move
ment to bring about American
withdrawal from Vietnam. For
there is reason to ask whether
this might not be a dangerous
line to follow and one which could
damage the American Negro’s ef¬
fort to win full rights and be
judged wholly on the basis of his
citizenship and not on that of his
color.
As an individual Dr. King has
every right to make his views on
American ___
foreign, policy known. It
is even understandable that he,
like many American negroes, may
see an. element of racial preju¬
dice in the fact that so many of
America’s recent foreign steps
(Vietnam, the Dominican Repub¬
lic, the Congo), have taken place
in nonwhite areas. But we can
see at least three pitfalls in Dr.
King’s efforts to use the civil
rights movement to end the United
States’ armed resistance to Com¬
munist aggression in Southeast
Asia.
There is still much orderly prog¬
ress to be made before the Ameri¬
can negro attains full economic
opportunity in the United States.
This attainment alone would seem
to be a big enough Challenge for
Dr, King and the Civil-rights move¬
ment.
It would be tragic if, in- the
light of the progress which the
American negro has made dur¬
ing the past few years, the action
of Dr. King or of any other negro
leader should arouse doubts on
the American negro's commit
ment behind America’s difficult
but. necessary foreign policy of
resistence to Communist imperi¬
alism.
There are presistent reports,
particularly in the south (the la¬
test stemming from a legislative
commission report to the Alabama
Legislature) that Dr. King is
either Communist-controlled or
Communist - advised. Although
these reports are unproven, it
takes little imagination to see how
Dr. King’s move on Vietnam can
add fuel to these reports.
Dr. King is, of course, right
when he states that America can
best __
help democracy work abroad
by making it work at home. For
this reason we believe that Dr.
King would serve both America
and worldwide democracy best by
devoting his undoubted talents to
the orderly progress of race re
lations in America.
—Editorial in the Christian
Science Monitor.
The Showgirls Bare
Their Busoms Again
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — The
bosoms of Broadway were bared
again today as bawdy North Beach
celebrated the acquittal of its top¬
less dancers and fashion models.
Two separate juries brought in
the innocent verdicts Friday, vindi¬
cating nightclub owners and their
busty showgirls of police charges
of lewd conduct.
“Show time,” bellowed colorful
attorney Melvin Belli as a jury of
eight men and four women found
Off Broadway nightclub owner
Voss Boreta and three of his em¬
ployes innocent. They were nude
model Yvonne d’Angers and bare
bosom waitresses Kay Star and
Euraine Heimberg.
In another municipal court
room downstairs, another jury
brought in a similar verdict of
innocent in the case of the Con¬
dor nightclub, its owners, and top¬
less dancer Carol Dota, whose en¬
dowments include a 44-inch bust
Both juries returned the ver¬
dicts after judges directed them
to find the defendants innocent.
“No police officer can substi¬
tute his personal feelings of right
or wrong,” Judge Leo R. Fried¬
man told the jury.
“The test is not what a couple
of people feel. The test is what
the people of San Francisco feel. n>
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