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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
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Needs al Carter Schaal
The Summerville News recently re
ceived a letter to the editor, apparently
written by a Negro citizen, but not signed.
Although we are happy to publish letters
to the editor, and to withhold the names
when requested, we must have all letters
signed. This has been, and will continue to
be, our policy.
However, we are glad to point out that,
this letter requested consideration be given
toward the building of a gymnasium at the
A. C. Carter Consolidated School.
As the letter said, the Negro high
schoolers need this facility. They have to
either practice outdoors or go out of the
county and have to hold all games out of
Ihe county.
The gymnasium would have been
erected earlier had a proposed school bond
issue passed. But when it failed, the gym
project, along with the other projects, went
down the drain. Also, the possibility of a
The Quiet Killer
Although the idea of an inevitable sheet
of death hovering over Chattooga County
sounds like something from a science fic
tion yarn, we are becoming more and more
aware that it is a distinct possibility.
‘Fallout" from nuclear bombs doesn’t
crumble buildings. It doesn't burn them
and the occupants inside.
Instead, it slips in silently and slowly
but surely takes lives, leaving the buildings
and supplies intact.
Chattooga County isn’t likely to be a
Hospital Authority
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a subsidy at the end of the year
to help make up any deficit. The ]
total is nearly $9 less per day
than the actual expense
In the meantime, Chattooga
County Attorney Boney has ren- I
dered a formal legal opinion on I
the obligations of the county to
the hospital.
In the opinion lie notes that
the Hospital Authority is a sep
arate body and that, presently,
the only legal obligation the
county has to the hospital is the
paying off of the bonded indebt
edness incurred in the construc
tion of the hospital
He said he believed the term
“Chattooga County Hospital” is
misleading and that it implies
the facility is county maintained
and operated when this, in fact,
is not true
Boney notes that although the
county has been paying toward
the cost of charity patient care
and also subsidizing the hospital
at the end of the year, he finds
no contract calling for such an
arrangement
He said, however, he believes
a contract should be entered
into between the county and the
hospital to'provide for the care
of the indigent sick He noted
that the persons receiving such
care should meet certayi regula
tions He added that while the
Welfare Department could be
the certifying agent, it wouldn't
necessarily follow that the rules
which authorize a person to re
ceive welfare benefits would al
low him to receive hospitaliza
tion at the county's expense
Mr Boney pointed out that
any governmental agency, in
cluding any municipality, is free
to levy taxes to help finance
charity patients
Chattooga Commissioner Jones
said this week he is still study
ing the opinion and hasn't yet
taken any steps in connection
with it Mr Abrams and .Mr
Surles said at mid-week they
hadn't read the opinion
Schools Open
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meet state regulations that no
state bus can travel more than
28*2 miles one way The state
provides all the funds for trans
portation and is financing the
six new buses which wen pur
chased this year
Mr Spence said he hopes the
bus situation can be smoothed
out within a few days
Hire are the enrollment fig
ure.' as of Wednesday of the
county schools.
kGon 123 Lyerly. 273; Menlo.
315. Pennville, 220; Sunimer-
E.i mi litary i>46 Chattooga
I
ter 378 and Holland. 109.
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Mrs. Morgan
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ued support in the district pro
i gram.
The 1961-62 membership cam
paign is now in progress. Unit
129 is seeking to enlist the wives,
mothers and sisters of veterans
of all wars in Chattooga County
| to join in its program support
ing the Legion, which includes
such important matters as civil
defense, Americanism, national
security, comunity projects, child
welfare and other phases of
civic improvements
Ways and means was the chief
item of concern during the busi
ness session Tlie Unit voted to
sponsor pony rides and also a
chicken dinner in the near fu
ture
Hostesses for the social period
were Mrs Rice Morgan and Mrs.
Bob Gamble
Baptist Assn.
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missionary message at 11 am.
Thursday Each day, lunch will
be spread on the church grounds
by those attending Each Church
is asked to do its share m bring
ing a basket lunch
Election of officers will be on
the second day The nominat
ing committee is composed of
George Doster, the Rev Sidney
Dooley. the Rev Roger McDon
ald and Obee Clark The Rev
Frank Lew is is clerk
T A Wallace, pastor of the
Lyerly Baptist Church, will pre
side
Browning Escapes
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rated m the robbery which took
place at the Padgett residence
in March Robert Lee Bram
lett. 31. Summerville, was also
sentenced to serve 3-8 years and
Frank Caldwell. 38. Summerville,
was placed on five years proba
tion Both men also pled guilty.
Grady Grigsby. 32. 407 N Fifth
Avenue, went to trial and was
found guilty by a jury He is free
under bona alter appealing the
verdict
Carter Has Four
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sponsiblllties of teachers in the
field of science Other subjects
discussed by the various offi
cials included reading, guid
ance. curriculum and library
James Spence, .superintendent
, jot the county school system. dis
cu^ed with the faculty teacher
। retirement and in general w hat
is expected of teachers m the
I system
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Recreation Center gymnasium instead of a
swimming pool was’ discussed with Negro
leaders at tne time the pool was proposed,
city officials have disclosed. They said the
Negro leaders consulted said the colored
community would prefer a pool to a gym.
The Chattooga Board of Education and
School Supt. James Spence have made it
dear that a gymnasium—as well as two
additional classrooms at Carter have top
notch priority among their plans. They in
tend to include the projects in the next
bond issue, which should be forthcoming i
within a few months.
As important as the gymnasium is, it
may well be that the overriding need at the’
school is the classrooms, rather than the
gymnasium. After all, a school’s primary
purpose is basic education.
We want to see the school get a gym
nasium. But we especially want to see it get
the needed classrooms.
target in case of nuclear war, although it is
possible a “near miss” could put a bomb
within our borders. But it would possibly be
in the range of fallout from, say Huntsville,
Oak Ridge or Marietta.
Countians are wise, then, to consider
building fallout shelters. Already, several
ire in the planning stages and at least two
ire under construction.
Let’s as many of us as possible build
hese shelters and then hope w< never
have to use them.
Veterans News
In order to assist Chattooga
County veterans and their de
pendents, the Rome Office of
the U. S. Veterans Administra
tion presents items of interest,
and provides answers to ques
tions which have been asked re
cently by residents of this area .
Q Summerville . . ."I am a j
widow of a World War II vet
eran and have two children, ages |
8 and 11 I receive a VA pension
of $55 per month. If I remarry,
will my children be eligible for ’
any payment?"
A If you remarry, each of the
veteran's two children would re
ceive $25 per month, unless their
income was over SIBOO a year.’
Payments would continue until
they reached 18. or 21, if attend
ing school.
Q A veteran from Aragon
asks .' I ve heard that the cut
off date for World War II vet
erans to apply for a OI home
loan has been extended Is that
correct'’ I was in service from
July 1943 until Recember 1945.
What is my new deadline?"
A You now have 10 years
from the date of your discharge,
plus 1 year for each months of
active service As you had 30
months of active service and
were separated in December
1945. you may apply at any time
until December 1965
Q This question is from Lin
dale My son. a Korea vet
eran. died about 4 years ago. I
have learned that the VA will
pay $250 toward the cost of a
war Veterans funeral Is it too
lute to apply?"
A Applications for burial al
lowance must be made within
two years from date of final in
terment It appears that you are
too lute to obtain tins benefit,
however, you may apply for a
headstone or grave marker
Q From Taylorsville . . .
"Would a peacetime veteran who
had no active service during a
war period be eligible for VA
hospitalization?"
A He may. if he was released
from active service for u dis
ability incurred or aggravated
in line of duty, dr is receiving
compensation for a .service-con
nected disability, or would be
eligible to receive compensation
if he were not receiving retire
ment pay
Veterans and their dependents
who wish further information
about their various benefits
should contact the U S Veterans
Administration Office. 2 East
2nd Avenue in Rome
County Road
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Summerville to the Alabama
line, via Lyerly, and paving of
the Harrison-Alpine Road also
1 continues.
THE SUMMERVILLENEWS, SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA
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Talcs Out of School
By BERNICE McCULLAR
Director of Information — State Department of Education
CALL HER UP RIGHT NOW—
I Call up your PTA president —
there are 1,079 of them in Geor
gia—and tell her that you are
going to be a good member this
year, not miss a meeting, and do
whatever she assigns you to do,
with gladness. She may drop
dead there at the other end of
the nhone, with pure surprise,
but she will die happy. Mrs. Cic
ero Johnson of Atlanta is pres
ident of the state’s 282.682 PTA
, members this year. The PTA
। leaders were the guests of Dr.
Claude Purcell, state superin
tendent of schools, at a morning
1 coffee on August 23. and heard
much information from him and
his aides about the many new
developments in Georgia educa
। tion. “Those are the things we
need to know and tell our folks
[ back home,” said a PTA district
director.
THEY CAN READ 10.000
WORDS A MINUTE—There are
I some school and college students ’
| taking this new rapid reading
course that Senator Talmadge
thinks should be in the Georgia
schools. You should see them
read. Some of them can read 10,-
000 words a minute, talk to you
for a half hour about what they
. have read It is fantastic. You
won't believe it until you see it!
I didn't, either.
1 1
IS YOUR BOARD MEMBER
- COMING? The Georgia Asso
-1 elation of School Board members
■ will hold its fall meeting in Ath
ens on September 28 and 29
. Jack Acree, former Cartersville
' superintendent, is the new exec
■ utive secretary. Wyck Knox of
Thomson is president. We have
198 local school boards. How
1 many women members on
• .YOURS? Why don’t you get on 0
Muscogee grand jury over at
' Columbus has just appointed
■ Mrs. Joseph Spano on theirs.
’ HERE'S THE WAY IT WAS—
I tried to be your eves and ears
, “ 1 the meeting of the State
Board of Education when they
decided for the second time to
j !override the decision of the At
fjanta Board of Education which
,) had refused to let Sandra Mel
। kild. a white student, transfer
' from Northside High School
e । which is being integrated! to
Dykes High, which isn't Sandra
a pretty blonde, was there with
her daddy and mother and little
j sister. Her father, who spoke
I quietly to the Board, said that
‘ she would suffer “psychological
u damage" if made to attend a
1 school where there were N<
tiroes This said members ot
the State Board was exactly
the reasoning that the US Su
, preme Court used in its famous
' decisions The State Board voted
6 to 3 to hold to its decision that
Sandra COULD transfer. In a
day or two, federal judge Frank
0 Hooper under whose order some
Atlanta schools are integrating
this fall ordered the Stat
Board to cease from troubling
, and said the Atlanta Board wa
1 under court order At that meet
, mg of the State Board of Edu
cation the last one befon
K Chairman Jim Peters left for a
10-week trip to Europe -then
* was something I had never see
before pickets, sitting with br
signs that said “Keep our school'
white" Why don't you attem
a State Board meeting some
" time’ They're public. Your
welcome. They are spendin
* YOUR money and attending t
' YOUR business that relates t
YOUR children You shoul
come and see how they do r
Next meeting Sept 13
WHAT ARE YOUR BRIGH
CHILDREN DOING ' Have y<
a poked your head in the school
if house door to see what you
o brightest children arc studying
, these days? Projects for the
especially bright are being de
veloped all over Georgia. Don’t
let your school get left out.
WHAT THE LAW SAYS
ABOUT BIBLE READING IN
GEORGIA SCHOOLS—“The Bi
ble. including the Old and New
Testaments, shall be read in all
the schools receiving State funds,
and not less than one chapter
shall be read at some appropri
ate time during each school day.
Upon the parent or guardian of
any pupil filing with the teacher
in charge of said pupil in the
public schools, a written state
ment requesting that said pupil
be excused from the said Bible
read as required by this section,
such teacher shall permit such
pupil to withdraw while the
reading of the Bible is in prog
ress. Such request in writing
shall be sufficient to cover the
entire school year in which said
request is filed.”
WE HOPE YOU'LL BE LIS
TENING—Our Wednesday morn
ing “coffee cup conversations”
with you start the first Wednes
day morning in September. While
you are drinking your coffee,
about 7 a.m., we will be telling
you what's going on in educa
tion in Georgia. The new show
will be over WLWA-TV, Channel
11, Atlanta, and we are calling it
"Minds in Motion." It will be
produced by my assistant. Don
na Meulenberg. Paul Wills will
help me with the statistics, and
our show will often have as its
star. Dr. Claude Purcell, state
superintendent of schools. If
you have any questions about
school matters that you want
answered, please let us know.
WERE GETTING HISTORY
READY FOR YOU-Mary Grubbs,
our creative educational tele
vision program director, is work
ing us all mighty hard just now
to get some Georgia history
tapes ready for your youngsters
this fall. We have five ready
now: BEFORE THERE WAS
GEORGIA. THE REMARKABLE
MISTER O. ALL THE KING'S
MEN. GEORGIA ONCE HAD A
CURIOUS KING, and DOCTOR.
LAWYER. MERCHANT CHIEF.
OUR BUSINESS EDUCATION
We are getting all sorts of won
derful letters and fine comments
on the nine business centers
which our vocational education
division developed throughout
the state this summer. In eight
weeks, business education grad
uates from our high schools got
an intensive training in the
latest office management and
business education practices, at
no cost at all. This is another
of the many services which our
public schools are rendering you
these days. Miss Fay Pilkenton
was in charge of this new busi
ness education program. She's
very good
MERRY MOMENTS IN
TEACHERS' LIVES Mammas in
a midwest town, weary after
their summer with the small fry.
took a whole page in the local
paper and put this ad on it:
WELCOME TO OUR TEACHERS
You don't know how welcome
you are! The Mothers of Your
Students . . . One teacher got a
note excusing a third grader's
absence. This is how it read:
Dear Miss Parkhurst: Please
excuse Johnny for not being in
school yesterday I took him to
a funeral The poor child has
so few pleasures in life "
YOUR BUS DRIVER AND THE
BUDGET People ask now and
then why North Carolina can
haul more school children for
less money in their school buses
Listen to this answer North
Carolina has student drivers
They pay them TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS A MONTH Georgia's
bus drivers have a guaranteed
minimum salary of ONE HUN
DKED DOLLARS A MONTH for
12 months Local boards can
not pay them less than SI2OO a
year, can pay more. Also. North
looking Back
BY MRS. ROY D. HARRIS
Hollandale, Fla.
I recall living in a two-room
house in a cowpasture and
sharing a well with another
family, my dad’s brother. We
| children had to carry the water.
There was a stream nearby
' and a footlog lay across the t
stream near the Sardis Church g
at the foot of the hill. I wish I t
had a nickel for every bucket or t
pail of water my dad, my oldest j
brother and I carried from that (
stream for household use. r
Times weren’t easy for us and r
11 recall my mother telling us f
that “Everything that’s gold 1
doesn’t glitter and everything <
that glitters is not gold".
One day. mama and we chil- t
dren walked all the way to her s
old home place, the Johnston c
place. We went down in the field ’ t
to the big walnut tree and t
picked a nice bagful of the nuts.
But they got heavy going home j a
and we would stop and put out j
a few so that by the time weaar e
rived at home we had only about i
a peck in all. ‘
One of my dad’s sisters had f
two children, a boy and a girl, t
I about the same ages as me and t
my brother. And my dad’s baby t
sister was a child too. We all j
played in our “playhouses” and c
with dolls which were kept in a c
rag room on one end of the front j
porch. \
On Feb. 9, 1909, on a cold, cold i
day, with ice everywhere, the 5
sun very bright and winds that t
went right through you, we
[ moved to 10 Marsh Street, Trion.
I The house was two-story and I
j had a fireplace upstairs and one I ‘
I down-stairs. Two wagons moved '
I us, and we left the valley early '
in the morning from the farm
house of “Big Uncle” George’s (
place over in the field.
About noon we arrived at I;
Summerville and the old court
house was being torn down. I (
remember seeing lots and lots of (
papers being scattered over the ,
yard of the courthouse and j
mama made the remark, “Go
see if our marriage license is in I
there." But a.man was guarding h
the papers.
We were hungry and cold and : ’
papa got us some cheese and j
crackers to go with the chicken ’ I
mama had cooked before we left, j
M y dad had 75 cents to his ’
| name.
Arriving in Trion, we had no j
coal for a fire but the good folks
I of that town saw to it that we
had a warm house and beds to
I sleep in for the first time in
years.
(Sorry to be late with my let
ter, but have had a siege of the
virus. Thanks for the many nice
letters which have arrived since .
I started this column).
POLICE BEAT
Horace Hughes, Summerville
Routt* 1, has been released on
bond after being arrested by
Summerville officers Saturday I
of driving under the influence, j
Driving under the influence
and speeding charges were made
Saturday against Bobby D. 1
Goodridge of a Summerville ad-1
dress.
Arrested by Summerville offi
; cers, he has made bond and been
J released.
Lake View Land. 211 W. 7th
Avenue. Rome, has posted bond
after being arrested by Summer
| ville Officers David Starkey and
. Charles Gayler on charges ofj
driving under the influence and
i possessing non-tax paid whiskey, j
—
Irene B. Evans. Summerville
. Route 2. was arrested Tuesday
on charges of driving under the
. influence and possessing Ten-,
I nessee taxpaid whiskey. She
posted bond shortly afterwards j
The investigating officers were
• David Starkey and Charles Gay- I
1 ler.
1
About $75 was reported miss
; ing at Motor Parts Co. in Sum
merville Tuesday morning fol-1
; lowing a burglary.
1 Entry was gained through a
• bathroom window. Summerville 1
. Chief of Police Griffin Pledger
1 said.
i The U.S Labor Department's |
> Bureau of Labor- Management
- Reports states that most unions
1 are complying fully with the
> 1959 Landrum - Griffin law ,
Nearly all of the violations !
■ found in 1.500 instances have
1 been corrected voluntarily.
> —
’ Carolina's legislature votes them
outright about six million dol-
' lars each year to buy buses. This
1 does not even go into the regu-1
1 lar operating budget of the |
schools. Let's get the facts
straight.
U*S*AIR FORCE
THE AEROSPACE TEAM
See your local Air Force Recruiter
■ YOUR CONGRESSMAN
nnniiiWi! !y H Ik ^9
MOST WELCOME IS the news
that the sovereign State of Geor
gia has taken significant steps
to implement the provisions of
the Kerr-Mills law which was
passed by Congress last year.
Governor Vandiver’s announce
ment of the activation of a $7
million medical assistance pro
gram for the aged, as well as his
leadership in establishing a
Commission on Aging and his
sponsorship of enabling legisla
tion in the Georgia General As
sembly, demonstrate his sense
or responsibility toward this
growing segment of our popula
tion.
Dr. Fred Simonton of Chick
amauga, who is president of the
Medical Association of Georgia,
expressed hearty accord. In a
letter to the Governor he stated:
“Traditionally, the medical pro
fession has and will continue to
treat and administer to all pa
tients irrespective of their ability
to pay for such care. Our as
sociation, comprised of 3,000
doctors of medicine, pledges co
operation with your medical as
sistance to the aged program. We
wish to assure you that we join
with you in this program to pro
vide medical care for Georgia’s
needy elder citizens.”
* * *
THE FAVORITE TOPIC of
conversation around the Capitol
these days- is “When do you think
we will adjourn?” So many con
flicting reports are heard that
it is reminiscent of all the wild
rumors that used to float daily
through the barracks when I
was in the Army. We members
of Congress who have children
of school age are troubled more
than the others, because the
time is at hand for the school
term to start back home, and
the session keeps dragging on.
} Robbye Lee Hames
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As the school year begins, you know all the Bible Schools
’ have ended.
You had a Bible School in your community this summer,
perhaps two or three. It began with a call for volunteers, and
suddenly everyone became very busy. If you bravely offered your
services as a teacher or helper for the first time, you soon dis
covered that it wasn't quite as simple as you thought. Perhaps
you went that first morning with a sense of dedication in your
heart; and perhaps you came away with a feeling of disillusion
ment. No child goes to Bible School just to learn about God.
They go because they are bored, or because their friends are
going, or because of the free refreshments, or because of the
craft hour when they can make a lot of doo-daddies to take
home the last day. If any of the Kingdom of Heaven seeps into
their little brains, it is nurely incidental.
They interrupt the Bible stories to tell the teacher about
i their new clothes or toys, and they spend the rest of the time
dragging their chairs across the floor and punching each other.
No clay this year, the nursery teacher says, and then she re
marks wryly that it took them a week last year to get all the
clay off the walls and ceiling. They’ve learned since then that no
clay is better. At recess it keeps the teachers busy getting the
line moved past the refreshment table and keeping some of them
from doubling back for seconds. But some of them always do.
Someone usually falls down and someone usually cries and must
! be comforted.
By Friday every adult concerned is exhausted. They are won
dering by now if it is worth it. The children are just getting
wound up good. One of them usually asks if the Bible school
will last another week.
Then there is the program. The workers just get home and
fix dinner and then it’s time to get back to the church. They
have drilled the children all week in their parts, but some of
i them always forget half of what they must say. The younger
■ ones are usually born hams and wave proudly to mommy out in
the audience while some other tot is reeling off his speech of
three or four words. There is a guided tour through the rooms
where the children’s work is proudly displayed. Perhaps a few
of the parents even have a kind word for the teacher. One of
I them told me once that I was the only one who had told her
* that I appreciated what she had done for my children that week.
' But they just don’t realize,” she said kindly, “just how much
work and trouble it is.”
If she is a truly dedicated worker, she has had her moments
: of joy. Like the time when the most fidgety child in class stands
up on the stage, his face shining, and talks as though he actually
understands and means what he is saying, “In His hands are
the deep places of the earth,’ and last year, when I helped, one
little girl who had never come to Sunday School before, came
। the very next Sunday. We were ashamed, because we asked her
to make our church her church, since she did not have one, but
we did not really expect her to.
But one little girl coming to Sunday school for the very first
time, surely that is payment in full for all the hours of Bible
| School work.
¥ ¥ ¥
To the young mother whose child I carried out of the street:
I know you were embarrassed when you took your baby girl from
my arms. I guess you were thinking. 'Goodness, what kind of
mother will that woman think I am. letting this baby wander
into the street?' And you hastily mumbled something to the baby,
■Joanna ’ I thought I had the door fastened; Those boys must
have let you out!' And you hurried away to keep your embarrass
ment to yourself I guess m a little while it really hit you what
a danger your baby had been in. I had to stop to keep from hit
ting her myself, and someone else might not have been so care
ful. or just might not have seen such a short little figure. I
know how scared you must have been then, for I have felt the
same way myself I'm sure that was the first time this happened
to you. I'm sure there's no need for your chastising yourself and
blaming yourself for not being a good mother A baby can be
half a mile away if you ever turn your back I know just what
they can do. We promise ourselves we will be extra carefui
j everytime something like this happens.
But every mother must live with doubt. We always wonder
if we are doing the right things, making the right decisions.
Are we watching our children enough, or too much? When they
are older, we will wonder if we should let them have a car yet.
or will we live to regret it. How will we know which boys we can
trust to date our daughters? How can we ever know just how
much to trust our own children, how much to firmly supervise.
I think about the saying that these children are only lent
to us by God for a little while. With his help and many trials
and mistakes, perhaps we can raise them to be fine men and
women, of whom the world can be proud.
This we sincerely hope and pray.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1961
; It is now certain that we will be
here past Labor Day, but beyond
. that little can be said for sure.
' Foremost among the matters
. that have not yet been acted
upon is the question of continu
ing in force Public Laws 815 and
■ 874 which provide federal as
sistance to those areas whose
schools have been “impacted,”
’ which is to say that the county
: population has been swelled by
the presence of a military in
stallation or defense plant. This
’ condition is present in the Sev
j enth Congressional District due
’ to the presence of the Lockheed
plant at Marietta and results in
the annual receipt of over $700,-
000 to eleven school systems in
! the district.
In all, there are 319 Congres
-11 sional districts which receive fi
nancial assistance from the fed
eral government as impacted
’ areas, and accordingly there are
’ 319 of the total of 437 members
1 of Congress who are vitally con
’ cerned with seeing that this pro
-3 gram is not allowed to expire. I
' therefore feel quite confident
' that this Congress will not ad
' journ without making adequate
1 provisions for the continuation
of this aid.
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YESTERDAY I RECEIVED a
telephone call from the White
f House, and much to my surprise
1 and delight I discovered that
c one of my constituents, Mrs. Jack
- Sprayberry of 206 Oakwood Road,
t Rome. Georgia, was the millionth
1 visitor to the White House this
y year. The Sprayberry family,
I which besides husband Jack in
s eludes Susan, 12, Tommy, 10,
i and Alice, 8, were taken to meet
e the President, were on a national
e television hookup, and their
1 photograph appeared on the
1 front page of a Washington daily
i. newspaper.