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They IT ere Right!
An aged country man. wise in the ways
of nature, told us last August this would
be a “rough” winter. He could tell by va
rious “signs,” such as thicker hair on ani
mals, etc., he said.
And then, there was a weatherman on
television who told about jet streams and
such and said a bad winter could be ex
pected, based on this scientific data.
To top it off, that dratted groundhog saw
his shadow.
Trade School to Be Nearby
Chattooga Countians were interested
in learning last week that final plans for
an area trade school in Rome have been
made. The county of Floyd has signed a
contract with the state for the project.
Earlier, Rome and Floyd County citizens
agreed to finance half the school’s expenses,
the other half being financed by the state.
Our county is fortunate in being located
adjacent to a facility such as a trade school.
This should be an incentive for our young
people to stav at home while they train and
should prepare them for skilled work in
Smoking and Cancer
The latest study to lend sunport to the
theory that cigarette smoking increases the
risk of lung cancer is one conducted by the
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Re
search.
The Institute made a study of Seventh
Day Adventists, who do not smoke because
of religious convictions. The study was re
vealing. It showed that men who are Sev
enth Day Adventists are ninety times less
likely to get lung cancer than other men.
Not only did the study show that they
were ninety times less likely to get cancer,
but it showed that they had fewer heart at
tacks and a lower incidence of other can
cers, such as cancer of the mouth, larynx
and esophagus.
The real significance of the Sloan-Ket-
Chattooga, Staggering From
Ice, Struck Again Yesterday
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and will never recover sufficient
ly to be good layers.
One large egg distributor,
Grady Allen, said he lost $15,000
and he estimated the total loss to
poultrymen in this county at
about '5200,000.
Owners of timberland also
were hard-hit by the ice storm.
All over the county, fine timber
and pulpwood were broken and
bowed under the weight of the
sleet and frozen rain.
Swine, dairy and beef herds
also suffered some during the big
freeze and some losses were re
ported.
About the only farmers who
had no worries from the storm
were those dealing exclusively in
row crops. They were hopeful the
cold weather would rid the coun
ty of many insects, including the
boll weevil.
Many people had frozen food
to perish when electric power
was off for several days. Some
were able to use commercial
freezers. And, at Cloudland, two
freezer transfer trucks were
brought in and parked for the
convenience of persons wishing
’to use them.
Some industries closed down
part of Wednesday and Thursday
because of the blizzard, causing
lost time to employes and slow
ing plant production.
Business in general was hurt
by the sU>rm. although some
lines, such as lamps and over
shoes. moved out completely.
Most Summerville stores were
closed on Wednesday afternoon
in accordance with their usual
routine, but some remained
closed all or part of Thursday.
Those which did open reported
little business and many were
short-staffed.
The cities of Summerville and
Trion expected to lose little
revenue, if any. because of gas
furnace failure when electricity
went off. (Most furnaces have
electrically operated thermo
stats!. They point out that the
severe cold which followed the
blizzard and continued for sev
eral days caused more gas con
sumption when it was finally re- j
stored.
The Georgia Power Company
and Summerville Telephone
DAVID T. ESPY, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
The Summerville News
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Os Chattooga County
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Company had no estimates on
their losses in overtime pay, lost
revenue and damaged lines. But
it was expected to run high.
Chattooga County schools
closed at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March
1. and haven’t opened since.
Trion Schools, however, were
closed only last Thursday and
j then because of heat loss when
’ the Riegel Textile Corporation,
from which it receives heat,
■ closed down.
Churches in some of the small
;er communities discontinued
■ services over the w’eek-end, but
most of those in the municipali
ties had the major services as
usual. Most circle and other
auxiliary meetings, how ever,
were canceled or postponed.
Summerville at no time was
threatened with a water short
age, although electric pumping
power was off for a time. The
city has a reserve capacity of
1 300,000 gallons—enough to last
. two days with normal use and
longer if conservation measures
were taken.
Fortunately, no major traffic
accidents were reported any
where in the county during the
entire period. However, there
were some reports of persons
suffering injuries from falls on
the slippery ground. Reportedly
hospitalized for falls were Mil
lard Riley, Cloudland, and Bud
Lawson. Menlo.
Electric power was restored to
the entire county by Sunday, J.
T Morgan, Summerville Georgia
Power Company manager, said.
There was no disruption because
of yesterday's sleet. About 8,-
000 homes were without power
at the peak of the disruption and
several outside crews were
brought in to assist local power
company men in repairing lines.
Some 25 men were on duty at
one time.
Downtown Summerville was
without power only a few hours
Wednesday, but some areas of
the city had power failure for
about 24 hours. Trion's down
town area also was without for
about a day. but Dickeyville and
other adjacent areas to Trion
had a loss from Wednesday un
til Friday. In Menlo and Ly
erly, electricity had been gen-1
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
But we were skeptical anyhow. And a
couple of weeks ago when the yellow bell
began to bud, we became not only skeptical
but downright smug. Such foolish people
—and groundhogs, we said.
As we said, that was a couple of weeks
ago.
We now are ready to listen, eagerly, to al
most any weather prognosticator. And,
we’ll take him plenty seriously.
local industry or for establishing their own
firms here.
Many students simply aren’t interested in
college, feeling their bent is more toward
the skilled or semi-skilled trades. Some
feel they can’t finance college and others
simply don’t have the background to get in
college or stay there should they gain ad
mittance.
So, we welcome the trade school to this
area and hope our young people will take
full advantage of it.
tering study is that it refutes the theory of
those who are resisting the repeated con
clusions which are obviously being drawn
from more and more research studies on
cigarette smoking. Many have said that
smoking might be, itself, a symbol of a cer
tain “inner factor,” or a nervousness, or
something of the kind, and that smoking
might by a symptom of this “inner factor*’
rather than the actual cause of the cancer
—which might be accreditable to the “inner
factor.”
The study of Seventh Day Adventists
seems to refute this theory, because the
Seventh Day Adventists do not smoke re
gardless of the so-called “inner factor” and
they do not seem to get the cancer because
of the “inner factor.”
erally restored by Friday or Sat
urday. Holland and Cloudland
were a little later getting serv
ice.
Subligna seemed to be one of
the points of lesser damage, al
though nearby Gore was heavily
sleeted. By Sunday afternoon,
practically all the ice was gone
from Subligna and citizens re
ported little disruption earlier
in the week.
Much of the telephone service
had been restored, with only
Cloudland and the areas east of
Taylor’s Ridge still out. A group
of six extra men and a tree
trimming crew were brought in
to aid the local telephone men
in their task.
Although Cloudland still
wjnsed under the loss of electric
power and telephone service
Sunday, it became a mecca for
sight-seers. The main roads had
been cleared of all sleet, but the
trees and shrubs were still en
crusted with ice and presented
a fairland-like picture as they
shimmered in the bright sun.
MONGREL COIN
Tulsa, Okla.—lt’s a penny, or
maybe a quarter, but in either
case, to Tulsan C. O. Riley it
could spell dollars.
Riley, an active coin collector,
has come up with a coin the
exact color of a penny, slightly
larger than a nickel, and con
taining markings of a quarter.
The new coin was received by a
Tulsa bank in a shipment of new
quarters, and is what dealers
term “a minting error."
A GOOD EXAMPLE
It is not as important for par
i ents to set values and make
choices for a child as it is for
them to guide the child to do
these things, says Miss Audrey
Morgan, family life specialist,
Agricultural Extension Service.
She adds it is a good idea for
parents to remember that one
example is worth a thousand
words.
A little preparation before you
begin ironing may make the
task easier, declares Miss Doris
Oglesby, housing-equipment spe
cialist, Agricultural Extension
Service She recommends placing
the unironed clothes on a chair
near she ironing board. Nearby
on the other side she suggests
placing a table, cart, or rack to
put the clothes on after they are
ironed.
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the candlelight and old lamps
the first night. But not so much
the second night. We walked to
the highway one day just to get
out.”
The sleet storm and a snow
which preceded it hemmed in
Mr. Jones, a Gore resident, on
the occasion of his victory in the
county commissioner’s race. He
went home at noon Tuesday to
vote and didn’t get back to Sum
merville until Friday. The snow
on Tuesday made travel across
Taylor’s Ridge dangerous.
Among those cooking on a
fireplace during the bad weath
er were the D. L. McWhorters,
Summerville banker.
“We were lucky," he said. “We
never had got rid of our oil
lamps like a lot of folks did and
we used them.” The bank which
Mr. McWhorter heads was open
throughout the blizzard and
incleihent weather.
N. B. Carpenter was busy
hauling water during the week
end for his chickens. Mr. Car
penter used a tractor, trailer
and huge drums for this task. A
large timber owner, the Subligna
farmer was concerned about the
losses in this product as a result
of the storm.
Restaurants reported an in
crease in business and grocers
told of selling unusual numbers
of eggs. Residents apparently
found it easier to cook eggs than
other more tedious dishes on
their make-shift cooking facili
ties.
The Rev. J. A. Smith of West
Summerville, 80-year-old retired
minister, said he believed the
ice storm of 1932 put more ice
on the timber. He wasn’t par
ticularly perturbed by the bliz
zard.
“My son came up during the
week-end and he asked what we
ate. I told him we didn’t eat
much. We just cooked two meals
a day and made out fine . . .
Wednesday night we heard a
knock on the door and a couple
from across the highway had
come to check on us. We thought
it very nice of them. But we were
making out fine.”
The Rev. W. E. Hotchkiss fam
ily felt itself lucky. Their wash
ing machine broke down just af
ter the big blizzard started
March 2. Soon, they had a new
one installed. And just after four
loads of clothes for their hand
some-sized family had been run.
the power went off.
Commuters living in Summer
ville and living elsewhere com
muting to Summerville were
stranded A News employe who
lives in Rome spent Wednesday
night in the News office, elect
ing to sleep there by a manually
operated heater rather than in
the cold homes of some of his
co-workers.
At least one man who Ilves in
Summerville and works in Rome
was stranded in the city of seven
hills from Wednesday to Fri
day.
Some people' living on Little
Sand Mountain and working in
Trion had to make like Daniel
Boone. They left their cars at
the bottom of the mountain on
return from work, walked home
to get axes and then chopped
the road clear of fallen timber
। in order to take their cars up.
School students in the Chat
tooga system enjoyed the first
few school-less days but by the
middle of this week they were
beginning to think of all the
extra days they’d have to be in
classes next June.
Richard Lindsey, 10, of Chat
tanooga, pulled out a sled be
longing to his grandfather. M.
M. Allen Jr., during a visit here
this week and he and friends
enjoyed sledding on the icy
banks.
At Holland, four colored peo-1
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pie died and three had to be
moved from their homes by
wagon.
Everywhere, automobiles were
seen parked in driveways or in
garages and the highways were
lightly-traveled. The few stores
which opened had few employes
on hand.
Meetings of all kinds were
called off, and new dates had
not been set this week, as more
snow and sleet put club and
church leaders in a quandry
about the future.
Telephone and electric power
linemen worked around the
clock to restore these services to
citizens. The 8-degree weather
which followed the sleet storm
made their job no easier, but
the men remained in remarkably
good spirits, joking and laugh
ing while at work.
But they slept when they got
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Local School
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tables and space heaters already,
but chairs and other furnishings
will have to be provided, Miss
Wiley said.
The school was consolidated
with the uptown elementary
school three years ago, and
abandoned at that time.
a chance. One citizen in a re
mote area told of being called
to use tractor in pulling an elec
tric power truck out of a sleet
bank. When he arrived, he found
four men sound asleep in the
truck and they didn’t wake dur
ing all the rescue operations.
But for most people, the bliz
zard brought a respite from the
routine, if an uncomfortable one
at times.
One woman, who was for
tunate enough to have heat,
summed it up this way:
“The storm caused a lot of in
convenience to me and to others,
in some ways. But one thing—
I got more rest than I’ve had in
a long time.”
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THE REQUEST OF President i
Eisenhower for another $4.1 bil
lion to spend on foreign aid, is in
the words of Senate Democratic
Whip Mike Mansfield of Montana,
“the same old story—too much
money, too little change in ad
ministration.”
Thoughtful critics of foreign
aid as presently administered
were dismay
| ed to see the
| Chief Execu
■ tive embrace
the discredited
giveaway con
ce p t as “a
I fixed national
policy.” It was
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ed out that there was nothing
in the President’s message to
indicate that the Administration
had given any thought to carry
ing out the Congressional man
date of last year to shift the pro
gram from a grant to a loan basis
and to define its long-range goals.
The increased tempo of criticism
in both Houses of Congress plus
the promise of Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson of a “tho
rough examination of the facts”
would indicate that substantial
cuts are in the offing again this
year.
* * *
THE ASSERTION OF the Pres
ident that foreign aid on a hand
out basis is “important to our
prosperity” is beyond comprehen
sion. It stands in complete con
tradiction to the lament of his
State of the Union Address that
the United States is now running
an annual trade deficit of ap
proximately $4 billion.
It is impossible to understand
how the prosperity of this coun
try is enhanced by spending Amer
ican tax dollars on such projects
as teaching the people of: Burma,
a country with a rice surplus, how
to improve rice processing; Yugo
slavia, a Communist country, ag
ricultural economics and techni- I
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THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1960
ques of government organization
and management; Iceland, a coun
try whose economy is based on
fishing and the home of some of
history’s earliest fishermen, Amer
ican fisheries research techni
ques; Laos, a country where a
sporadic civil war is going on,
how to get along with one another
in a project called “Operation
Brotherhood”; and Germany, per
haps the world’s most industri
ally-advanced nation, automation
and industrial techniques.
* * *
THOSE ARE BUT a few of
hundreds of examples of ludicrous
foreign aid expenditures which
can be taken from the official pub
lications of the International Co
operation Administration. In the
name of mutual security this
country is financing city planning
in Thailand, a cost of living index
in Ceylon, a national radio net
work in Viet Nam, a program of
vital statistics in Lebanon, im
provement of the Civil Service
System in the Philippines and the
taking of censuses in Brazil,
Cuba, the Philippines, the Domi
nican Republic, Uruguay and the
United Arab Republic.
While no person who takes a
realistic view of the world situa
tion would dispute the importance
of the United States assisting
trustworthy allies like Turkey,
South Korea and Nationalist
China in the maintenance of effec
tive armies as deterrents to Com
munist aggression, there is no
logic by which projects like the
above can be related to promoting
the security or economic well
being of the United States. Geor
gia Congressman J. L. Pilcher,
who recently made an around-the
world trip to study our foreign
aid spending, is eminently correct
in his assertion that foreign aid
should immediately be cut in half.
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