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H hy, Senator Loggins? . . •
Why is Sen. Joseph E. Loggins going
to kill the bills which would have switched
Chattooga from the fee to the salary
system?
He said last week he would, but he
hasn’t said exactly why.
In fact. Sen. Loggins has done a mas
terful job of fence-riding. He isn’t exactly
for the salary system and he isn’t exactly
against it. He may okay it next year and
again he may not.’
It would seem that the senator has
had sufficient time to study the matter,
although he would imply he hasn’t. By his
own admission, he and Rep. James H.
Floyd discussed a salary schedule for the
sheriff some two or three years ago. And
he has had weeks to study the matter since
the present bills were first proposed. Is
he merely stalling?
He talks vaguely about the possibility
of a salary system bankrupting a county.
But he names no counties where this has
hapepned and he mentioncds no figures. A
county can be bankrupt under either the
salary or fee system; it depends on how
efficiently the county is run—and how
much is paid the officeholders. We know
this: Most counties don’t bankrupt under
the salary system.
Even if the senator should decide to
let the bills pass next year, it would be
rather late so far as letting candidates and
potential candidates know what to count
on. There will probably be a county pri
mary in early March and the bill might
not get through until mid February. Why
keep the matter confused until the last
minute?
It’s simply hogwash to think that po
litical machines could be built up more
easily under the salary system than under
the fee system, as has been implied. Just
the opposite is true. The fee system actu
ally encourages political machines public
officials can easily hand out favors, and
expect them in return, by dispensing with
fees whenever they wish. They couldn’t do
this under the salary system because it
would be unlawful and were there any
such action it could be detected through
Looking Ahead ...
By DR GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
CONTROLLING THE
UNCONTROLLABLE
Americans have been meet
ing and overcoming problems
for a long time The energy,
persistence, and ingenuity with
which all hands have ap
proached the taming of the
untamable Mississippi River
makes a great story of co
op, ration and enterprise. Os
many federal programs af
fecting internal improvements
during the past century and a
halt certainly one of the most
laudable Pas been that of con
trolling the Mississippi. Be
cause of the scope of it. only
the federal government could
have accomplished it. The
Corps ot U S Engineers has
challenged the Old Man and
has almost won their long
bout
The "Father of Waters" has
been measured at 2.360 me
andering miles Joined by
mighty tributaries, it drains
at least 40 per cent of the
nation's land, affects 31 slates,
and traverses ten states from
Minnesota to the Gulf. A
Canadian goose might travel
by "flyway" only 600 miles to
a feeding ground, but a man
by canoe would float down the
rm I at lea it three linn > that
far to reach the same point
Through a flood-plain some
times 70 miles wide the great
river eats out soil and carries
406 million tons of sediment to
the delta each year
Long Runge Effort
Floods resulting from great
rains over the watershed for
merly caused millions of dol
- ol destruction every few
years But flood control ef
forts. public and private, that
have cost at least $22 billion
over the past 135 years are
now beginning to show some
effect Integrated efforts have
been managed by the Corps of
Engineer since the 1920’s
■jam r* er voir flood gates,
:.pi.<p. levies, and
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even reforestation and soil
conservation upstream have
all had their effect. The big
flood year of 1952 brought
comparatively little damage,
and the river was well con
trolled last year after one of
our wettest winters.
Recently I traveled from
Memphis to Cairo as a guest
of Robert W Herndon on one
of the boats that constantly
surveys the current of the
river This phase of control is
unknown to many But even at
low water stage the current
commits its treachery cutting
back and forthacross the wide
river deb Where it is 10 feet
deep today it may be only 4
feet tomorrow Revetments on
the banks and concrete mat
ting that Often extends 600
feet out into the river bed
help keep the sand In place
and steady the current.
Lots of Barges
The great river is vital to
the economic and industrial
wealth of the nation. Its
waters have already delivered
electric power for light and
motors The volume carries off
sewage and waste from thou
sands of communities On it
float millions of tons of freight
<n away that Mark Twain
never imagined Almost any
kind of cargo is encountered
on the river Steel from Gary,
soybeans from Osceola, cotton
from Memphis, automobiles
from Michigan, and sulphur
and oil from Louisiana Hugo
space missiles 80 feet long
find room on the river on their
trip to the Cape
One sees no old time pad
dle-wheelers or keel boats,
but the traffic is thick with
tugs and barges. Diesel tugs
of 9.1X16 horsepower can push
a cluster of 50 barges upstream
at 5 miles per hour Some
bargest are longer than the
Queen Mary and carry as
much freight as 600 railroad
cars Because barge shipping
is more economical than other
methods, the traffic has
doubled in the past ten years
This is surely one part of the
transportation industry that is
not in trouble.
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the county audit.
Could it be that Sen. Loggins won’t
okay the bill mainly because the salaries
proposed aren’t high enough to suit him
and his political friends?
Rep. Floyd says Loggins wanted to put
the sheriff on a salary system earlier —but
at income ranging from $12,500 to $13,300,
instead of the $8,500 being proposed by
Floyd.
In view of this and the estimated pres
ent income of the sheriff, the reasonable
$8,500 salary proposed probably seems like
“chicken feed” to Sen. Loggins.
But it doesn’t look like chicken feed
to most Chattooga Countians. It seems
entirely adequate. The sheriff of Floyd
County, which has three times as many
people as Chattooga, for instance, has a
salary of $9,600.
Something has been said about pay
commensurate with the hours put on the
job. But the sheriff, for instance, needn’t
put long hours on the job if he has an
adequate number of deputies. The fee
system simply encourages a sheriff to have
as few deputies as possible and this in
turn means he either has to or should
put in a lot of time himself or else deprive
citizens of proper law enforcement.
This newspaper sincerely believes a
salary system would be a progressive step
for the citizens of Chattooga County. We
would have supported it as readily had
Sen. Loggins seen fit to introduce the
measures as, indeed, he had every op
portunity to do.
Stalling and straddling the fence are
not the answer to this matter.
Chattooga was on the verge of a pro
gressive, money-saving step. She was on
the verge of joining the growing ranks of
Georgia counties which are turning from
the outmoded, machine-breeding fee sys
tem to the fairer, less expensive salary
system.
It is our hope that Sen. Loggins will
re consider and decide, during the next
month the Assembly is in session, to give
Chattooga County and her people this
progressive measure.
Industry Expanding
More and more along the
river one sees familiar names
of industry: Esso, American
Cyanamid, Olin - Mathieson,
With straight channels, sta
bilized banks, and less likeli
hood of serious foods, water
front areas become factory lo
cations. When the shipping
channels are held down with
concrete mattresses, new in
vestments are being made be
hind the solid revetments all
along the Mississippi. Even
along the lower river at least
a billion dollars 1*» ve been
spent in recent years in indus
trial developments and that
much more is in sight
The Corps of U. S. Engineers
is doing a heroic and almost
impossible job in putting Old
Man Mississippi in a straight
jacket This tremendous task,
facing always the constant
treachery of the great river,
is one that will never be en
tirely completed, despite the
nillions upon millions of dol
lars that have been spent to
make this monster safe and
keep him under control. The
scientists, engineers, machine
operators, and river workers
who devote their lives to this
continuing task are entitled to
our greatest admiration.
Bible I erse
To Study
*
"All things therefore what
soever ye would that men
should do unto you, even so
do ye also unto them."
1 Who is the author of this
saying?
2 By what name is it known?
3 Os what discourse is it a
part?
4 Where may it be found?
ANSWERS TO BIBLE VERSE
1 Jesus
2 The Golden Rule
3 The Sermon on the Mount
4 Matthew 7:12.
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The Summerville News,“Thursday, February 7, 1963
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IN RAIN OR SNOW-GO SLOW
EASE INTO STOPS, TURNS, STARTS!
AMERICAN nuCMHO ASSOCIATIONS. INC
—Tke Georgia
A LEGISLETTER f®
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By Glenn McCullough
ATLANTA —The House and
Senate Appropriations Com
mittees dug into Gov. Carl E.
Sanders’ near - billion - dollar
budget for the next two years
in public hearings last week
and showed a critical eye for
details. However, capitol ob
servers believe the budget will
be approved without any deep
cuts.
The governor and his staff al
ready had sliced department
requests for fiscal 1963-64 from
$533,613,196 to $464,946,092 and
those for fiscal 1964-65 from
$554,789,158 to $488,979,252 be
fore submitting them to the
legislative body.
This week marked the first
time since 1932 that the Gene
ral Assembly has strongly as
serted its control over state fi
nances. In that year—as House
Speaker George T. Smith re
called the other day — “the
Legislature porkbarreled itself
out of the appropriations busi
ness.” State finances got into
such a mess that the governor
took over the budget and ad
ministered it with a firm hand
until this year.
The Assembly now is acting
under a constitutional amend
ment, proposed by former Gov.
Ernest Vandiver and approved
by a referendum last November,
providing that the Assembly
shall pass a detailed biennial
appropriations bill. It has the
technical help of a newly-es
tablished Budget Bureau, of
which Ernest B. Davis is the
chief.
As a parade of witnesses
passed before Chairman Brack
Blalock (Coweta County) of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee and Chairman Hugh
Gillis (Soperton) of the Sen
ate Appropriations Commit
tee and their colleagues, it
was evident the Assembly is
taking its new responsibilities
seriously. State department
heads were required to defend
their budget requests under
sharp questioning.
As last week ended, budgets
of the Welfare, Education,
Public Health, Commerce, and
Judicial departments as well as
a number of smaller agencies
had been reviewed. Scheduled
for hearing this week are the
proposed expenditures of the
Agriculture. Corrections. Parks.
Forestry departments, the State
Board of Regencies and some
smaller agencies.
Committee members going
home for the week-end were
advised by the chairmen to
“tell the folks you may not see
them for a couple of weeks as
we likely will be working next
20 Years Ago
As compensation for loss of
wages arising from their un
employment. workers in Chat
tooga County were paid $12,-
477 00 in benefits under the
State Unemployment Compen
sation law during 1942. Com
missioner of Labor Ben T.
Hu let has reported.
Medical Replacement Train
ing Center, Camp” Barkley,
Tex. Feb 3 i Special) Grover
Cleveland Jackson Jr, 23.
Lyerly, Ga. Route 2. today
completed training here in the
medical replacement training
center officer candidate school
and received his commission
as a second lieutenant In the
medical administrative corps
The Woman’s Society of
Christian Service of the Lyerly
Methodist Church met Tues
day. Jan. 26. with Mrs. R W
Bagley at her home
George Bishop is visiting
homefolks.
Saturday and Sunday.”
The appropriations bill must
be ready for the full House and
Senate when they re-convene
Monday, Feb. 11. The House will
act first, then pass its version
of the appropriations bill on to
the Senate. Both bodies will re
main in session 33 days to clean
up the Sanders’ legislative pro
gram, on which they already
have made a good start. The
controversial reorganization of
the State Highway Board to in
clude 10 members and a direc
tor was passed before the recent
recess.
So far as reorganization is
concerned, one of the major
points not at issue is whether
the Department of Youth rec
ommended by the Governor
shall be set up as an indepen
dent agency or as a branch of
the Welfare Department.
Testifying before the approp
riations committees, Mrs. Bruce
Shaefer of Toccoa, newly-ap
pointed welfare director, urged
that youth work be correlated
under the present child welfare
section of the department. Oth
erwise, she said, the state might
lose, at least temporarily, some
of the Federal funds it re
ceives for this work.
Gov. Sanders called a meet
ing of juvenile judges Friday
to consider the question further.
One of the major hearings
during the week was devoted
to the Department of Educa
tion, which accounts for more
than half of the budget. During
this hearing it was revealed by
Jack Nix, head of vocational
training, that the state is plan
ning a total of 27 area technical
and vocational high schools, of
which 12 will be open next
September. Also it is planning
to erect educational television
stations at Pembroke and Pine
Mountain in addition to that
already in service at Waycross.
State funds for the latter will
be supplemented by Federal
money.
The House-Senate committee
on constitutional revision held
its first meeting Friday after
noon. House members are Reps.
Jack Etheridge of Fulton coun
ty, George Busbee of Dougherty
county and Bart Shea of Chat
ham county. Their Senate con
freres are Julian Webb of Don
aldson, J. Taylor Phillips of
Macon and John M. Gayner 111
of Brunswick.
Gov. Sanders ha s recom
mended that the constitution of
1945 be rewritten to bring it
into line with modern condi
tions. It is now barnacled with
over 300 amendments, mostly
local in nature.
Notes From
Miss Mildred McWhorter
spent Sunday and was lunch
eon guest with Mr. and Mrs.
Lee A. Martin.
The Chattooga County Gar
den Club held the first meet
ing of the year Friday. Jan. 29.
at 3 30 o’clock in the home of
Mrs G. J. Boling with Mrs.
Paul Weems as joint hostess.
Cadet John Robert Busbin is
visiting homefolks.
Miss Ann Colquitt has re
sumed her work at Trion after
several days illness.
Pfe Harold Cody of Camp.
Ord. Cal. is spending a fur
lough with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs James Millican
Rev Herbert Morgan will
speak in front of the court
house Saturday at 2:30. using
the subject. "Hoarding and
Knocking Organizations." Gold
stars will be added to the
AS I WAS DRIVING to work
the other morning I heard a
radio commentator quoting one
of our Founding Fathers —Jeff-
erson, I think it was—to the
effect that knowledge is power,
and that the people who have
knowledge usually govern those
who have not.
“For this reason,” the an
nouncer continued, still quot
ing the American patriarch, “if
we are to have a government by
the people, the people must be
educated.”
I think almost everyone
would agree with the foregoing,
and also with the fact that it
is imperative not to let Russia
outdistance the United States
in this vital field.
A problem arises only when
we begin to look for a source
of revenue to assure our coun
try an adequate educational
program. In addressing our
selves to this problem, we
should bear in mind that Geor
gia ranks among the lowest in
teachers pay and leads the na
tion in the number of school
dropouts before graduation.
I number myself among those
who would vastly prefer that
the state of Georgia foot the
entire bill for its educational
programs, but I do not believe
that the State government will
find it possible to do without
the revenue it already gets
from the Federal government
(in the form of impacted area
Tales Out of School...
By BERNICE McCULLAR
Director of Information
State Department of Education
SHE DONE GOOD, SHE
SAID—A private business col
lege executive asked me to
plead with you to see that the
expert typists that come out of
your business education classes
know something to type. “How
did you do on your typing
tests?” she says she asks. And
sometimes a girl says to her,
“I done good.” I hope that’s a
rarity. Then I remember Nel
son Shipp, of the State De
partment of Commerce, telling
me of the thousands of re
quests he gets for information
about Georgia which say, "We
are STUDING—not studying,
but studing — Georgia, and
need the IMformation.”
THIS IS WHAT THE MAN
TOLD KENNEDY — An eco
nomic consultant to President
Kennedy says that the average
teacher salary by 1970 will
have to be at least nine thou
sand dollars! That’s an ECO
NOMIC consultant, mind you,
not an educational consultant.
The business people are
waking up to the fact that
fine teachers come high! Also
that the classroom is the
place where you start building
continuing strengths into this
nation. The man who did this
telling was Seymour E. Harris,
professor of political economy
at Harvard.
STATION NAMED FOR
VANDIVER—The Educational
Television station at Pem
broke, which we hope to have
on the air for the school year
1963-64. will be named the
WVAN-TV station in honor of
Gov. Ernest Vandiver. The
State Board of Education
voted on this name, and the
Department of Education got
technical clearance from
Washington just recently. Ed
Crudup is state co-ordinator
of our TV program.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
BABES—Kindergarten teacher
was telling the tots about what
the Wise Men brought the
Baby Jesus. "One brought gold,
and one brought . . . well,
something that smelled sweet.”
Wide-eyed wonderer on the
front row interrupted. "Tal
cum powder!” she shrieked
happily.
IS THERE ONE IN YOUR
board with the names of boys
In the armed services.
Stewart Marks made a busi
ness trip to Chattanooga Tues
day.
Trion Theater. Wednesday
and Thursday. "Iceland." star
ring Sonja Henie, John Payne,
Jack Oakie, Osa Massen.
Anita Divine was in La-
Fayette Saturday.
Tommy Green is ill of
mumps.
Miss Helen Baker spent the
past week-end in Menlo the
guest of relatives
Bernard Murphy Jr. is the
guest of his parents, Mr and
Mrs. N B. Murphy.
It's Use
Visitor ।in ’editorial rooms)
—What do you use that blue
pencil for?
Editor—Well, to make a long
story short, it's to—er—make
a long story short.
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
funds for such counties as
Cobb, Muscogee, Dougherty and
Bibb), not to mention the
money it would take to raise
teachers pay, provide adequate
classrooms, and to provide the
laboratory materials and other
equipment so badly needed in
our school system.
» » *
THIS WEEK THE President
sent a special message to Con
gress on the subject of educa
tion, and I noted a much more
restrained approach to the
question of federal aid for ele
mentary and secondary public
schools.
“Instead of a general aid ap
proach that could at best create
a small wave in a huge ocean,”
the message read, “our efforts
should be selective and stimu
lative, encouraging the States
to redouble their efforts under
a plan that would phase out
Federal aid over a 4-year pe
riod.”
The message goes on to pur
pose that $1.5 billion be spent
during the next four years to
assist States in undertaking
their own improvements cover
ing (1) teachers salaries in
“economically disadvantaged”
areas; (2) constructing class
rooms in areas of critical and
dangerous shortage; and (3)
initiating pilot, experimental,
or demonstration projects to
meet special educational prob
lems, particularly in slums and
TOWN? Every year comes the
announcement of the National
Merit Scholars. Georgia has
many of these diamond
shining minds who achieve
this tremendous honor each
year. Does your community
have one? And if so, what did
you do to honor this National
Merit Scholar? Did you make
as much community fuss over
this brilliant achievement as
you did when the team won
the football championship?
WANT TO BE AN ASTRO
NAUT? Get a well rounded
education, says Col. John
Glenn. That’s the best prep
aration for exploring space.
That may surprise the people
who thought that the best
Straight from the
horse's
mouth
By DONNIE ESPY
This week, February 7
through 13, Scouts all over the
country will be observing Na
tional Boy Scout Week, cele
brating the 53rd anniversary
of scouting in the United
States.
Chattooga County has over
250 active Boy Scouts, boys
who are today learning things
that will someday lead them
on to better jobs, on to better
businessmen, on to better
citizens.
These boys, nearly 3,500,000
strong in the United States,
are influenced more by Scout
ing than any other organiza
tion in the world.
But, what would the Boy
Scout organization be without
the 1,300,000 adults who are
responsible for the success of
this worthy organization?
This week let’s all make it a
point to see and tell the Scout
masters, the Den Mothers, the
Scout Executives, and all who
make the Scouting program
possible, how much we appre
ciate their wonderful work.
Did the Groundhog see his
shadow Saturday?
Some say he did, some say
he didn’t. Regardless, if he did.
or if he didn’t, some old timer
weather observers in the coun
ty say we are in for plenty of
cold weather yet.
One superstitious old timer
said, “I knew we were in for
a long cold winter after seeing
so many ‘signs’ back in the
fall.”
Another warned, "It's them
darn ‘H bombs’ they’ve been
testing that's causing all this
bal weather all over the world.
If they don't stop it, we’re not
never going to have any more
Summers.”
I hear Helsinki. Finland
(about one-fourth the size of
Washington. D. C.) has a beau
tiful jet airport, made almost
entirely by prisoners serving
time for drunk driving. No
body absolutely nobody—can
escape severe sentence if
caught drinking while inebri
ated. Some of the prisoners
who built the airport as part
of their “penal servitude at
hard labor", included bank of
ficials, merchants, and gov
ernment workers. Two ’were’
members of parliament. Al
though they had much "poyti-
Into
depressed rural and urban
areas.
Frankly, I can find nothing
in the President’s message to
indicate that any solution has
been found to the problem of
aid to parochial schools which
blocked passage of federal aid
legislation in the 87th Congress.
* * *
WHILE WE DEBATE and
ponder the question of where
the money is coming from to
improve our schools, let us re
member that Soviet institu
tions of higher education are
graduating three times as
many engineers and four times
as many physicians as the
United States. While trailing
behind this country in aggre
gate annual numbers of higher
education graduates, the Sovi
ets are maintaining an annual
flow of scientific and technical
professional manpower more
than twice as large as our own.
At the same time, they have
virtually eliminated illiteracy,
with a 23-fold increase since
the turn of the century in the
proportion of persons with an
education beyond the seventh
grade.
The problem is a difficult
one, but this nation did not at
tain its greatness by backing
away from difficult problems.
A prompt and lasting solution
must be found to our lagging
educational effort.
preparation was learning how
to tinker with an airplane.
TWENTY DOLLARS HIGH
ER—The average cost of edu
cating a public school student
in the United States went up
from $315 to $335 last year,
says School Management
Magazine.
SURVIVAL KIT FOR PAR
ENTS—A wildly funny book
for those of you who are
rearing your children accord
ing to Doctor Spock is the new
paperback titled WHAT DR.
SPOCK DIDN'T TELL US. It
is by B. M. Atkinson, Jr., and
has drawings by Whitney Dar
row, Jr. It is Dell Paperback
Number 9450, costs 35c.
cal pull”, the premier refused
to get the Finish congressmen
“off the hook” for drunk driv
ing. So they put in six months
with sledge hammers!
Summerville Scenes
Man walking leisurely down
Commerce Street Saturday
afternoon in downpour with
unopened umbrella tucked
under arm, lighting cigar.
Small boy at Summerville
Elementary School after open
ing door and letting children
out saying to driver, “Thank
you, hurry back!”
It is said that a voter who
supports a candidate for a
selfish interest, has no right
to complain when the man
represents other selfish inter
ests.
The “horrible” examples of
federal government waste are
seemingly endless. Here are
some of the latest —one reason
why our taxes are so high—
Ten pile-driving rigs: cost
$6,653 each; sold for $775 each;
net loss, 88.5 cents on the dol
lar.
Fifteen walking tractor
saws: cost $2,129 each; sold for
$197 each; loss, 91 cents on the
dollar.
Heavy lifting double-gypsy
winch: cost $22,000; sold for
$500: loss, 97.3 cents on the
dollar.
Impregnating plant for proc
essing clothes: cost $44,260;
sold for $2,669; loss, 93.8 cents
on the dollar.
Eight switchboard panels:
cost $3,000 each: sold for $74.31
each; loss, 97.5 cents on the
dollar.
Eleven gasoline engines: cost
$2,360 each; sold for $360 each;
loss. 84.6 cents on the dollar.
Two distillation units: cost
$43,000 each; sold for $5,806
each; loss, 87 cents on the dol
lar.
You can get by with almost
anything if you say it with a
smile.
If an unlucky gambler be
gun in the year 1 A D to lose
SI,OOO a day every day, in
cluding Sundays, year after
year, up through 2739, he
wotUd not yet have lost one
billion dollars. Our national
debt exceeds S3OO billion.