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Fee System Saul "Root of Trouble 9 . . .
Georgia ‘‘must eliminate the fee sys
tem” if it is to shed its reputation as a
speed trap state, says a Georgia Dept, of
Commerce official.
“Whatever legislation it takes to ac
complish this, the system must be done
away with”, Bill Hardman, manager of
the Tourist Division, writes in the “Geor
gia Municipal Journal”.
Hardman also asserts in the article
that "a very few law enforcement officers
have managed to put such a dark spot on
our image, that nearly every out-of-state
tourist who is arrested in Georgia suspects
that lie has been caught in a speed trap”.
The fee system is “the root of our
trouble”, he says, but he suggests othei
25th Anniversary of March of Dimes . . .
The March of Dimes, marking its 25th
anniversary this January, began as a trib
ute to an American president who proved
that even though a man might not be able
to walk, he could still lead.
Each president, in the 25 years since,
has welcomed the annual March of Dimes
as an opportunity to salute the American
people for a record of accomplishment
which cannot be matched by any other
voluntary health agency in the world.
Neighbor helping neighbor, through
the March of Dimes, has brought about:
. . . for many areas in the country,
new facilities offering highest quality
medical care for persons with polio, birth
defects and arthritis through a growing
network of treatment centers.
. . . lor every child on every continent,
polio protection through vaccines develop
ed solely with March of Dimes funds.
. . . for the protection of human life,
Looking Ahead ..
By DR GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
ECONOMIC SQUEEZE
ON ( ASTRO
President Kennedy should be
commi nded for his strong
stand on November 20 in the
Cuban crisis, when at his news
conference of that date he in
dicated that the next phase of
the conflict would Include in
tensified efforts to get rid of
Fidel Castro Since the inspec
tion for missiles that Khrush
chev promised has not been
arranged at this writing, it
may be supposed that the new
squeeze will be partly mili
tary The President promised
continued survellance of the
island Incidents will probably
come, although Castro will
possibly not create enough
serious ones to invite an in
vasion.
The squeeze is going to be
chiefly economic This is an
approach that Washington
toyed with only half-heartedly
before the blockade Now.
however, economic pressure
can be exerted like we mean
it And we shall have to mean
it or there will be no use under
taking such measures Russian
trouble shooter Aanastas I
Mikoyan spent 23 days in Cuba
last month and he was doing
much more than selling Cuba
on some of Khrushchev's ideas
Undoubtedly he was taking a
close look at iconomic Cuba,
aware that the battle is
now shifting toward Castro's
sagging economy, while likely
coaching Castro on how to
handle most effectively his re
sistance to the U S
Billion Dollar Failure
No one knows what he may
report to Moscow and whether
the Russians faced with prob
lems of their own at home and
all over the world, will support
Cousin Castro with enough to
keep him operating. But my
opinion : they will value this
w< nrn bast highly enough to
keep it intact regardless of
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that it cost Russia as much as
$1 billion to haul those missiles
to Cuba and take them out
again To say the least, the
Soviet attempt to arm Cuba to
the teeth was a tremendously
expensive program After this
venture that didn't pan out. it
is a question whether the Reds
can again be so free with their
spending in order to support
the sagging economy of Cuba.
Actually, most of their aid to
date has been promise Os
economic aid totaling S3OO
million in promises, observers
say that less than $2 million
in capitol goods have been de
livered.
Living On Aid
The Russians, it is said, have
promised a steel mill, a fer
tilizer plant, and an oil re
finery. But these have not
been delivered Whether a
recently rumored thr« > e-yeur
treaty with Russia would be
merely promises or enough to
get Cuba going is the question
asked from the broader ques
tion of whether the Commu
nists can manage the Cuban
economy at all At present;
food production is away down.
Rationing is tight, and food
consumption is off at least 15
per cent Sugar. Cuba's only
cash export crop, brought the
smallest harvest in six years
Agriculture is snarled, indus
trial production very low, and
transportation in shambles
Some experts give a better
picture of the Cuban economy
Ruth Sheldon Knowles, re
porting in The Wall Street
Journal recently following ex
tensive travel about the island,
wrote Although Cuba's econ
omy is staggering along under
a heavy burden of bureaucracy,
inetncienty, shortages of fixrd.
spare parts and raw materials
and a lack of technicians, it
does not appear to be on the
verge of collapse " This writer
goes on to indicate, however,
that what little does come into
Cuba front the Sino-Soviet
bloc countries is “literally
keeping Cuba alive.”
Will It Work
Mikoyan undoubtedly is won-
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remedies, including increased training of
law enforcement officers, changing court
procedure to permit prompt payment of
fines, and a statewide effort to eliminate
discourtesy.
If Chattooga County Rep. James H.
Floyd has his way, Chattooga County
won’t have to wait for state legislation be
fore getting rid of the fee system here. He
has introduced bills this week which would
take all county officers off the fee system
and put them on a salary basis.
Regardless of whether Chattooga of
ficers are guilty of operating “speed traps”,
we believe the county will do well to rid
itself of this outmoded, complex, unfair
method of paying its public officials.
a magnificent fund of basic research,
which promises to shed light on a variety
of diseases.
. . . for thousands of young people
from every state, scholarships in the
health professions.
. . . for thousands afflicted by birth
defects, arthritis and polio, more than one
third of a billion dollars in patient aid.
. . . for anyone who suffers from a
crippling disability, development of im
proved equipment and medical techniques,
originally to aid polio patients, but now
used to relieve many kinds of crippling
handicaps.
The National Foundation — March of
Dimes deserves our support as it enters
its second quarter of a century committed
to a program which promises to surpass
the Agency’s already magnificent achieve
ments.
dering what to recommend to
Khrushchev about the pros
pects for general success of
the Communist revolution in
Cuba. Mrs. Knowles com
ments: “Castro's labor prob
lems, both industrial and agri
cultural. stem from the fact
that he has imposed a totali
tarian state upon a people who
wanted freedom and in a
country where economic con
ditions were not the primary
cause of the revolution. When
Castro took over. Cuba had
the third highest standard of
living in Latin America, almost
as high as Italy's.”
The revolution was not a
peasant revolt, she goes on to
say, but was backed by middle
class intellectuals Then Castro
destroyed the middle class by
removing the private enter
prise system that had created
them “When you realize how
quickly Castro’s brand of Com
munism infected the minds of
men and women ... it be
comes painfully char that the
cause of freedom remains in
deep trouble in the Western
Hemisphere ” She predicts
that the Communist countries
will now make an even greater
effort than before to keep
Castro's economic plant run
ning.
Hiblc I erse
To Study
“The eves of all look to
Thee, and Thou givest them
their food in due season."
1 Who is the author of the
above verse?
2 What sentiment docs it
encourage’’
3 Where may this verse be
found?
ANSWERS TH 8181 E VERSES
1 David the psalmist
2 Gratitude to God for
providing abundantly for the
needs of His creation.
3. Psalm 145.15.
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By Glenn McCullough
ATLANTA — Carl Edward
Sanders of Augusta took the
oath of office as Georgia's
74th governor at noon Tuesday
while thousands of Georgians
from all parts of the state
packed the west lawn of the
Capitol where a platform had
been erected for the ceremony.
The new chief executive, the
first to be nominated by popu
lar vote in nearly half a cen
tury, took the oath of office
from the Honorable Joseph D.
Quillian, associate justice of
the Georgia Supreme Court.
Governor Sanders received
the congratulations and best
wishes of the outgoing gover
nor, S. Ernest Vandiver of
Lavonia. The young and at
tractive wives of both men—
and both named Betty by co
’ incidence—were on the plat
form.
Among the many dignitaries
and political leaders who
shared the spotlight on the
platform were the new Speaker
of the House, Hon. George T.
Smith of Grady County: Sec
retary of State Ben Fortson
and Lieut.-Gov. Peter Zack
Geer of Colquitt who was
administered the oath of of
fice by the Hon. Carlton Mob
ley, associate justice of the
Georgia Supreme Court.
As part of the traditional
inauguration ceremony, Secre
tary Fortson delivered the
Great Seal of Georgia to Gov.
Sanders as a symbol of his
authority to sign executive
orders and legislative acts. As
soon as he had taken oath of
office. Gov. Sanders returned
the Great Seal to Mr. Fortson
for safe-keeping.
Two Baptist ministers had a
prominent part in the cere-
I Herman Talmadge
Reports From
^£3^ Washington
WHAT PROBABLY will be
the most important and highly
debated issue to come before
the Congress this session is a
proposed cut in income taxes
which the Administration hopes
will stimulate the nation’s lag-
ging economy.
There is, of
course, much
to be said in
favor of a tax
reduction. The
federal govern
ment is reach
ing deeply into
the pocket-'
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books of the American people
now as never before. Relief is
long overdue.
However, in the interest of
restoring sound fiscal responsi
bility to the nation—which also
begs for attention we must not
let a sweet-sounding tax cut
make us lose sight of the need
for a substantial reduction in
federal spending, now approach
ing SIOO billion a year.
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MANY FEAR, mid with good
reason, that the present finan
cial situation of the national
government will lead to a criti
cal impairment of this country's
economic stability. Common
sense clearly calls for a reduc
tion in non-essential government
spending, especially in non
defense, a balanceci budget, a
reduction of the staggering na
tional debt, and the rescue of
the declining value of the dollar.
Government finances for the
past and present fiscal years
mony, conducted officially be
fore a joint session of the
House and Senate, although it
was held out of doors. The
Rev. T. E. Boehm of the Hill
Street Baptist Church of Au
gusta, the governor’s home
town, offered the invocation.
The benediction was said by
the Rev. J. Robert Smith, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
of Statesboro, the home of
Mrs. Sanders, the former Betty
Bird Foy, before her marriage.
For the last month large
billboards along Georgia’s
main highways have invited
citizens to attend the inaugu
ration, and thousands of them
took advantage of it. They
massed deep along the side
walks from Peachtree Street to
the Capitol to watch the inau
gural parade which began at
10:00 am. and was led by the
Dixie Redcoat Band from the
University of Georgia.
Atlanta hotels and motels
were crowded, virtually all
having exhausted their reser
vations many days ago.
The public was invited to a
reception held by Gov. and
Mrs. Sanders at the Executive
Mansion on The Prado from 4
to 6 p.m.
Some 15.000 invitation were
sent to prominent Georgians
to attend the Inaugural Ball
at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel
from 9 p.m. to midnight. For
the first time in some years
formal dress was required.
Gov. Sanders was scheduled
to make his State of the State
address to a joint session of
the General Assembly on
Wednesday. House and Senate
had convened Monday to or
ganize for business.
are cause for concern. The last
fiscal year ended June 30 with
a deficit of $6.3 billion. The
current fiscal year, which will
end next June 30, will leave the
government in even worse
financial shape.
This is especially dismaying
when the year started with the
Administration offering a bal
anced budget and predicting a
surplus of $463 million. Here is
what happened: Because spend
ing went up from $92.5 to $93.7
billion, and income fell from
$93 to $85.9 billion, a deficit of
$7.8 billion is expected.
AND WHAT ABOUT the next
fiscal year? The 1961 deficit
probably will zoom to $lO bil
lion, even without the proposed
tax cut.
Many in Congress share my
firm conviction that the national
budget should be balanced, that
spending should be curbed be
fore contemplating a tax cut in
the billions of dollars.
The national debt is now ap
proximately $302 billion, more
than the legal limit, and the gold
reserve is at $15.9. the lowest
since 1939. I strongly believe
that a several-billion-dollar tax
cut at this time, without a cor
responding reduction in spend
ing would bring us dangerously
close to new inflation and the ul
timate destruction of the dollar.
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THE 88TH CONGRESS con
vened at 12 o’clock January 9,
1963. Within two hours one of
the major issues of the session
came up to be voted upon—
the question of whether to have
a 12-or 15-man Rules Com
mittee. All ten members of the
Georgia delegation, myself in
cluded, voted to leave the Com
mittee at the 15-man size it
was during the 87th Congress.
Now that this issue has been
resolved, the remaining major
issues facing Congress in 1963
are tax reform, medicare, for
eign aid, federal aid to edu
cation and the creation of a
Department of Urban Affairs.
As to taxes, the Administra
tion favors an immediate re
duction as a “must” to stimu
late our lagging economy and
advocates tax reform later on
in the session. Opponents of
this view think that tax cuts
will produce a larger deficit
unless spending is reduced at
the same time.
Since an atmosphere of
friendliness seems to be de
veloping between the Admin
istration and the business
world, I think it is highly likely
that a tax reduction will occur
during 1963. A tax reform bill
may be much later in coming.
ON THE MEDICARE issue,
the Democratic Leadership ad
vocates using the Social Se
curity system with uniform
benefits in every state. Op
ponents of this view, and I am
one of them, think that inclu
sion of the medical care pro
gram under the Social Security
setup would overburden the
payroll tax. As the Social Se
curity law now reads, this tax
will continue to increase each
Notes From 20 Years Ago...
JANUARY 17
Jurors drawn for February
court . . . Grand jury: Roy G.
Silk. A. W. Justice, H. N. Ruth
erford. Burr Polk, A. B. Day, J.
M. Hawkins. H. A. Kirkland, J.
E. Pettyjohn, I. H. Perry, W. B.
Morgan. Dewey Hammond.
Mack Arden, B. H. Housch, Joe
P. Grigsby, J. W. Chapman, R.
A. Powell. E. A. Willingham,
Carl Kellett, W. E. Glenn, Earl
Parker, J. E. dowdis. Fay
Green. G. J. Bolling. R. L. Hol
land. Roland Bankey, Hugh At
kins, Marvin Pullen, James
Hammond, W. R. Packer. G. W.
Jordan, Scott Cleckler and R.
S. Bulman.
Petit jurors . . . R. G. Henry,
Johnnie F. Weems, John S.
Cleghorn, Roy Cook, C. D.
Smith, W. G. Neal. J. T. Stubbs,
T. H. Cordle, John Wooten, Leo
Lanier, Roy Mann and Grover
C. Jackson.
Among the officers who re
ported for duty at Camp Rob-
k j Straight from the
horse's
mouth
I wonder if any Chattooga
County farmers have felt like
the man did who wrote the fol
lowing item in the January 6,
1938 issue of The Summerville
News?
WHAT IS COTTON?
“Cotton is the overcoat of a
seed that is planted and grown
in the southern states to keep
the producer broke and the
buyer crazy. The fiber varies
in color and length and the
man who can guess the nearest
length of a fiber is called a cot
ton buyer by the public, a fool
by the farmer and a poor busi
ness man by his creditors. The
price of cotton is fixed in New
York. It goes up when you
have sold and down when you
have purchased. A buver work
ing for a group of mills was
sent to New York to watch the
cotton market and. after sev
eral days deliberation, he wired
his employers to this effect:
‘Some say it will go up. some
think it will go down. I do too.
Whatever you do will be wrong.
Act at once’. Cotton is planted
in the spring, mortgaged in
summer and left in the field in
the winter There are other
definitions but none is better
than this.”
Senator Russell gave the re
porters a perfect answer, in my
opinion, when a reported asked
him. “How much longer are you
Southerners going to fight
against change in the rule on
filibustering?"
“Well.” said the Senator,
“there are only 12 months in
the year."
Advance tickets are being
sold by members of VFW post
MM-end VFW Auxiliary, to the
benefit dance at the Chattooga
Memorial Home Saturday
night. All proceeds will go to
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
year until in the year 1969 it
will have grown to almost 10
per cent of the payroll. I
readily admit, however, that
with the increasing number of
older people and with the ever
Increasing cost of hospital and
medical care, some answer
must be found for this pressing
problem.
The Administration version
of the medical care legislation
may pass the Senate this year,
but I predict that it will not
pass the House.
As to foreign aid, proponents
argue that the new nations
need help from the United
States to avoid falling to com
munism and that military aid
to friendly nations is important
to U. S. security. Opponents of
this program argue that it is
expensive, poorly adminis
trated and is a futile effort to
buy new friends. No doubt the
program will be continued, but
I entertain high hopes that
more efficient administration
can be brought about through
this year’s legislation.
THE TIME-HONORED issue
of federal aid to education will
still be with us in 1963 and its
outcome is as much in doubt as
it has been in past sessions of
Congress Pressure in favor of
this legislation stems from
crowded classrooms and low
teachers salaries. Too, there is
no question but that a sound
and well financed educational
program is vital to national
strength. The opponents of a
general aid to education bill
point to the danger of federal
control, the fact that it is near
ly impossible to reconcile the
different views on religious aid,
and the fact that such legis-
erts, Cal., recently were Lieut.
Lamar H. Mitchell.
To put complete and accurate
information on the point ra
tioning system directly into
the hands of all people in
Chattooga County, and to ac
complish this task before the
new rationing program be
comes effective, an educational
campaign begins this week in
every community in the coun
ty. Daniel L. McWhorter, chair
man of the Chattooga County
War Price and Rationing Board
announced yesterday.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Smith an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Sara Beth, to Hol
land B. Martin, Saturday, Jan.
9.
Howdy, Folks! (a column) by
Rev. B. L. Betts. Old Santa last
week sent Mrs. Jim Hollis,
Webb Copeland, Julian Haw
kins, Mrs. Neighbor Jones. Dan
Brooks and Mrs. Hester Clark
By DONNIE ESPY
the March of Dimes. Music
will be by the popular “Geor
gians.” If you plan to attend
or NOT, buy a ticket and help
out in this worthy cause.
The Elbert County Board of
Commissioners have released a
report that shows that in 1962
the county saved $17,941.00 by
having officials on salaries in
stead of paying them on a fee
basis.
Salaries paid were $47,847.94,
while under the fee system the
amount would have been $65,-
789.85.
The 1960 population of Elbert
county was 17,835, about 2.000
less than Chattooga county.
IN THE NEWS
A 19-year-old Plymouth, Eng
land student gulped 45 raw
eggs in five minutes and forty
seconds to claim a world's rec
ord. He said he had never eat
en a raw egg before and never
would eat another.
SUMMERVILLE SCENES
Late model car with wind
shield frosted over, slowly mov
ing down street to Summerville
Elementary school Monday
morning, man's head out dri
ver’s side, young boys head out
other front window, and three
other heads sticking out right
rear window.
Small boy at local super
market standing by jelly and
jam shelf with jar of grape
jam in hand, licking his finger
and smacking his lips. When
he saw someone approaching he
quickly put the top back on
and put the jar back on the
shelf.
When people borrow money,
they usually mean to pay it
back, but excuses are easier to
dig up than money.
lation might bring integra
tion problems to the South, in
my own view, the most satis
factory mode of furnishing as
sistance to the public schools
from a federal source would be
in accordance with the so-call
ed Bailey bill of the 87th Con
gress. This bill provided that
federal funds would be turned
over to the states to be com
pletely and fully administered
by the state governments.
The remaining major issue is
whether or not to create a
Department of Urban Affairs.
I believe that this proposal will
be defeated as soundly this
year as it W’as last year. I did
not support this legislation and
do not plan to this year for
the reason that such an ar
rangement would establish a
direct link between the cities
and the federal government.
This would completely bypass
state governments and would,
in my opinion, ultimately re
sult in making nothing but a
hollow shell of the entire state
government setup.
DURING THE OPENING
days of the new session of
Congress, we have been happy
to welcome a number of visitors
to our office. Among these were
Sid Williams, publisher of The
Austell Enterprise; Mr. C. W.
Forsyth and Mr. Gary Nolan
who are conhected with the
Celanese Corporation in Rome;
and two native Georgians who
are now serving with the armed
forces, Capt. Raymond H. Gay
lor and Col. Graves Myers.
Both Capt. Gaylor and Col.
Myers are from Summerville
where Col. Myers will be re
turning upon his retirement in
the near future.
to see me. Vegetables, a photo
graph of Abraham Lincoln, two
delicious birds, some ‘sho’ nuff’
peas and two kinds of jelly
were left with us. Don’t you
wish you were a preacher?
Mrs. Joe Daniel and Sue vis
ited relatives at Blanche, Ala.,
Monday.
Good Tidings (a column) by
Thomas D. Lynn. Can Anyone
Live Holy? Part 3. Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ
loved the church and gave ,
Himself for it ... Do all things
without munnurings and dis
putings.
The Russian offensive against
Hitler’s army has already
scored, particularly in the cap
ture of Velikie Luki on the
Moscow front, but before be
coming too enthusiastic about
events in the Don and Cauca
sus regions, let’s review what
has happened since Hitler at
tacked the Soviet in 1941.
From Other
Newspapers
(Laurel Leader-Call)
There is an old saying:
“What you don’t know won’t
hurt you” but it should be re
worded to read: “What you
don’t know will hurt you.”
We are confident that Judge
Lunsford Casey had something
like that in mind when he di
rected the Lauderdale County
sheriff to open his public rec
ords to the public.
The Meridian Star brought
court action against Sheriff
J. L. Morgan setting forth that
he had denied reporters of the
Meridian Star access to the
jail docket. Public records are
public records and newspaper
men and others who have
legitimate reasons should be
allowed to inspect them.
The sheriff has appealed the
case to the State Supreme
Court but in the meanwhile
the order permitting inspec
tion of the records still stands.
We do not know what reasons
the sheriff had for wanting to
keep the record closed. How
ever. he should have realized
the subject is of too great sig
nificance to allow him to set
his own rules on public rec
ords. The Meridian Star is to
be congratulated for filing the
court action. In keeping rec
ords open to the public they
have maintained a public ser
vice.
Too often these days we see
elected officials who want, for
one reason or another, the
public to see only what the
officeholder wants it to see. In
some cases officeholders who
have been returned to office a
number of times take a per
sonal proprietary interest in
the records entrusted to them
and seem to forget they have
a bass: The Public. The news
papers have a job to inform
the public.
Further progress in the
making of cloth out of milk is
reported. Perhaps the richer
fabrics will be made of cream.