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The Legion and George Washingion . . .
There was of course no American
Legion in George Washington’s time. But
if there had been, he would have been
eligible for membership, having been an
illustrious soldier who fought for his
country.
And we believe if he could be a member
today, he would laud the Americanism
program of the Legion and the Legion
Auxiliary.
The local posts of these organizations
Engineers and Progress . . .
Engineers are playing an increasingly
important part in our lives. They are in
electronics, metals, plastics, physics,
astronomy, chemistry and biology, among
other fields.
The progress of the nation depends in
Great Challenge Remains . . .
Chances are that someone will knock
on vour door or stop your car this Sunday
and give you some literature and a chance
to help buy good health for you and yours.
The occasion will be Heart Sunday.
The money raised in this drive, which
climaxes Heart Month, will be used to
strike a blow at the heart and circulatory
diseases.
There will be no salespitch, no pres
sure—just information which could bene
fit every member of your family, plus a
contributor’s envelope. That’s all.
But when you receive the volunteer or
your car is stopped in a Heart Sunday road
block, remember:
Erer Consider Growing Trees? . . .
Chattooga County is largely an in
dust .rial county. But we have many acres
which could be put to good use growing
trees.
An interesting theme has been given
a new project of the Tennessee Valley Au
thority "Plant Trees Grow Jobs". And
it’s true.
This part of the country has a good
climate for trees ample rainfall, rela
tively warm weather, a long growing sea
son. And trees don't need to be cultivated
or fertilized. All they need is protection.
They have two great enemies. The
worst is fire. But Georgia’s fire protection
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THE XMF.RICAX people have
n right to more information -
official ami factual — on the
Cuban situation ami the reported
military buildup on that Com
munist island.
Since the crisis was first bared
to the public last fall we
have mcii offensive missiles
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and bombers
brought into
the Western
11 emisphere,
threatening
the security of
th <■ C n •
States and all
of Isatin Amer
lea.
Then, it was demanded that
the weapons be taken out. They
apparently were removed, and
there were great shouts of ex
ultation that at last we had
stood on our hind feet and made
the Russian boar back down.
Unfortunately, we have no
way of really knowing if all
offensive weapons have been
taken out of Cuba because Cas
tro i efused to grant on-site in
spections. The United States, in
turn, nixed any idea the K< ds
may have had of a no-invasion
WHAT WE HO know, and
have known since the outset of
the Cuban problem, is that so
ng as Cuba remains a Com
mun tic regime, directed from
M w, it will be a threat, both
m itorily and ideologically, to
rrse nation in this Hemi*
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Herman Talmadge
Reports From
Washington
that in fact it was never halted,
even during the October crisis.
Admittedly, some of the re
ports are conflicting, but none
theless, they point to n need for
a re examination of our policy
toward Castro and his strong
hold. Some intelligence reports
indicate that Cuba is fust becom
ing the second most powerful
military arsenal on this side of
the Atlantic.
President Kennedy and the
State Department concede that
there are almost 20,000 Russians
in Cuba, four heavily armed
combat grouns and an estimate^
100 MIG fighters, in the words
of Secretary of State Dean
Ru-k, there is a “significant So
viet military presence in Cuba
which is of great concern to the
United States.”
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HOW SIGNIFIC KNT and how
great is the concern? There are
things the people have a right
to know. Regardless of the dis
pute ove- whether the Soviet
weaponry in Cuba is "offensive”
or "defensive.” its very presence
there violates the Monroe Doc
trine,
In my opinion, Castro’s Cuba
is today perhaps a greater men
ace than it was in October, and
the situation worsens day by
day. Sooner or later, Castro
must lie toppled from his Red
throne and Cuba's ties with Mos
cow severed.
Not until then <an the people
of this country and Latin Amer
ica rest easy.
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIO NA L EDITORIAL
have just presented recordings and book
lets on Americanism to the local schools
as phases of their continuing American
ism program.
We applaud them for this program.
They could in no better way observe the
birthday month of the father of our
country than by perpetuating the love of
country in our young people.
It is so vital in this day of the com
munist menace on our doorstep.
good part upon the work and creative
minds of engineers.
Thus, we are happy to salute them on
the occasion of “National Engineers
Week”. And we urge young people to con
sider the field as a possible career.
Heart research in recent years has
shown that almost. 60 per cent of con
genital heart defects in children can be
corrected; rheumatic fever can be pre
vented; most cases of high blood pressure
can be controlled; some strokes can be
prevented; arteries can be transplanted
to replace diseased blood vessels.
These results are important, but the
greatest challenge still facing us is that
of hardening of the arteries which leads
to heart attacks, strokes and damage to
kidneys.
Our contribution this Sunday may help
solve this problem too.
program is notable and cooperation with
this organization can produce a good
measure of safety from this enemy.
The next worst enemy is cattle. Forest
grazing is destructive grazing. The cows
trample or eat seedlings which, left alone,
would become marketable trees. Fence
them out and a forest grows naturally be
fore your eves.
Chattooga Count inns who have unused
acres would do well to consider growing
trees. Grow them for your older years or
for your children. Grow pulpwood for use
within a decade or so.
Notes From 20
Years zi go .. .
American Legion post will
not meet regular third Thurs
day On account of the weather
and gas and tires, we will try
and meet at a special call
meeting in March before the
15th If you know any one
that's eligible for a card try
and get it before March 15, as
this is the deadline . . .
The authorities in charge
have set the time for registra
tion for War Rationing Book
No 2 to be during the week of
Feb 21 through Feb. 27 . . .
Two Summerville boys serve
as pages in the legislature.
We left Summerville Monday
morning. Feb. 8, arriving in
Atlanta about 9 o'clock We
were met at the Henry Grady
hotel by Frank Gross Jr.,
whose father is president of
the Senate. Myron Andrews of
Toccoa, Ga: and Lamar
Murdongh of Mcßae, Ga We
were all assigned to one room
at the hotel We came home
tired but happy, having had
the best and most educational
trip of our lives and one that
will long be remembered. Bill
Selman. Bob Baker.
H B Lemaster returned
from the army and will make
his home in Trion.
Mrs J E Kennedy returned
home Sunday and has re
sumed her teaching at Sum
merville High
Miss Pearl Farrar has re
turned from a visit in At
lanta.
Presentments of grand jury
. , Through a communication
from the Board of Education
of our county, we have been
advised of the deplorable con-
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The Summerville News, Thursday, February 21, 1963
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A realization of the needs for
water and wastewater treat
ment equipment led to a higher
percentage of bond issues being
passed in 1962 than ever before.
However, we are a long way
from reaching unanimous public
support regarding the value of
bringing our water and waste
water treatment equipment up
to meeting today's demands and
the demands of the next ten
years. Utility operators can do
the job but must be provided
with the proper facilities.
—The Georgia
A LEGISLETTER
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— By Glenn McCullough
ATLANTA — The “main
show” of the 1963 session of
the General Assembly opens
this week with at least two
days of full-dress debate
scheduled in the House on
Gov. Carl Sanders’ near-bil
lion-dollar budget for the
two-year period 1963-65.
Speaker George T. Smith
kept the House in session on
last Friday (members usually
go home on Thursday) to clear
the legislative decks for the
appropriations battle. The
House Appropriations Com
mittee, which has devoted
three weeks of intensive work*
to the appropriations bill, was*
expected to submit it to the
full House on Monday.
As House committeemen
neared the end of their work,
it appeared that the admin
istration estimates might be
cut by a few million dollars—
surely no more. The Education
and Welfare departments and
miscellaneous agencies were
due for cuts, none large.
While minor floor skir
mishes are expected as indi
vidual members try to restore
favored items or cut deeper
into others, no major assault
is expected on the appropria
tions bill. It probably will pass
in substantially the same form
that it reaches the floor. Be
fore the end of the week the
bill should go on to the Senate.
Members of the Senate Ap
propriations Committee have
sat in as observers during the
House committee sessions, and
are already familiar with de
tails of the bill. They should
complete action on it promptly.
Meanwhile, other major bills
in the Sanders legislative
package are moving through
the General Assembly like a
galleon under full sail.
Work was completed last
week on an administration bill
giving the governor power to
merge state agencies in the in
terest of efficiency and econ
omy. Floor Leader Arthur
Bolton of Spalding county as
sured members that the au
thority could not be used to
throw elected state officials
out of jobs
There was some opposition
to the measure in the Senate,
where it was amended to pro
vide that any specific actions
taken under it must be ap
proved by the Assembly.
The House passed an admin
istration bill authorizing coun
ties to merge certain services
welfare departments, for ex
ample by a vote of 116-43
after considerable debate. It
still needs Senate approval.
There was some suspicion of
the bill by local legislators,
and Rep Tom Murphy of Har
alson got through an amend
ment enabling the counties to
terminate any merged services
within 30 days
Meanwhile, the Senate gave
its approval to a constitutional
dition of the lack of attend
ance of the school children be
tween the ages of 8 years and
14 years in our county . . . the
average daily attendance was
2.599 pupils or only 76 per
cent of the total enrollment
. . It is with pride that we
can boast of the fact that our
county is almost free from
crime, ’ as It was 'necessary for
us to act only upon a small
There are still close to 1,000
communities in the United States
reporting water rationing in
varying degrees, according to the
National Water Institute. Pro
viding for treatment facilities is
a long range proposition. A pro
gram that is started in 1963 may
not be completed for five years.
The least we can do is begin by
supporting our municipal officials
and seeing to it that our water
supply is adequate and our water
ways are pollution-free.
amendment passed earlier by
the House enabling counties to
merge by a majority rather
than two-thirds vote of their
people. The Senate watered it
down slightly by requiring a
majority of at least 51 per
cent.
The bill to create a Depart
ment of Youth in the state
government, part of the gov
ernor’s program, is still in the
House State of the Republic
committee, but may be re
ported out this week. It has
been definitely decided to
make it independent of the
Welfare Department, although
Mrs. Bruce Schaefer, welfare
director, will be on the gov
erning board.
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Two bills affecting the press
were introduced in the Senate
by Senator J. B. Fuqua of Dis
trict 22, owner of a television
station in Augusta, chairman
of the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, and a close
political friend of Gov. San
ders.
One. S. B. 56, would allow of
ficials of the state, any coun
ty. municipality or political
subdivision to “supplement"
legal advertising in newspapers
by placing it on radio or tele
vision broadcasts or both
“when in his or its judgment
public interest would be served
thereby.”
The bill, if it should become
law, would for the first time
in Georgia make electronic
media competitors of the press
for legal advertising.
Senator Fuqua also intro
duced another bill (S. B. 55)
to amend the "truth in adver
tising" act of 1958, as amended
in 1961. This bill duplicates
the present law except for
minor details.
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One of the most interesting
political sidelights that has
developed during the present
session is the fight in the
Senate between Senator Gar
land Byrd of Reynolds—for
mer lieutenant-governor—and
Lt. Gov Peter Zack Geer over
the tuition grant law Both
are regarded as potential can
didates for governor in 1966
After the Education Depart
ment revealed that 83% of the
tuition grants made so far
had gone to the parents of
children already in private
schools. Senator Byrd intro
duced a resolution to kill the
grants.
Lt. Gov. Geer promptly came
to their defense, although
agreeing that present legisla
tion needs amendment. His
proposed bill would place the
responsibility for awarding
grants on local boards of edu
cation. and make them pay
able out of local available
school funds
Gov Sanders is opposed to
repeal of this law.
number of cases of a criminal
nature and practically every
one of them being for only a
minor infraction of our laws
. . . A. W Justice, foreman,
Roland F Bankey, clerk
Mr. and Mrs Albert Canada
are receiving congratulations
over the arrival of a son Satur
day at'TrTW Kbspltal He has
been named Larry Joe.
i John Davis
Reports From '
^4 Congress
GENEVA—As this Is being
written I am spending my first
night here in the Hotel du
Rhone, which gets its name
from the fact that it is on the
the Rhone River.
As some of you already know,
Speaker John McCormack
asked me to attend the United
Nations Conference on Science
and Technology which is cur
rently in progress here. Some
80 nations, including the
Soviet Union, have sent nearly
2,000 delegates to the confer
ence, the main purpose of
which is to exchange ideas
and information.
The trip over was amazingly
fast. We left Idlewild Airport
at New York last night (Feb
ruary 11) at 9:40 o’clock. At
10:45 p.m. the pilot announced
that we were passing over
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Six hours
later, at 3:40 a.m. Eastern
Standard Time, we landed in
London. The local time in
London was 8:40, however, and
Looking Ahead ...
By DR GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
AN APATHETIC AMERICA
The President said in his
“State of the Union” speech
that “complacency of self
congratulations can imperil
our security as much as the
weapons of tryanny.” Appar
ently. there are about us some
signs of let-down since the hot
days of national danger that
America experienced or at
least thought she was experi
encing, during the Cuban
crisis. This is not to suggest
that the U. S.ought to press on
to other crises just to keep life
exciting. But a period of self
satisfied calm that tends
toward withdrawal into isola
tion will only invite Mr.
Khrushchev to see what con
flict he can stir up for us.
It may be a weakness of
:he American character that
f/e like to mind our own busi
ness and let the other fellow
mind his. We our brother's
keep? Never. That the world is
small and no man an island to
himself is just a cliche we
would like to forget. In times
like today, too many of us are
quite content if Washington
can enforce the status quo
just enough to allow us to
forget all about international
problems and get on with
minding our own affairs.
Facing The Realities
National apathy brings out
the worst in American be
havior. Alreadj' we have al
lowed ourselves to fall under
the hypnotic spell of a succes
sion of popular and pleasant
leaders from FDR to JFK. We
must not come to believe that
a popular personality can
make unpleasant realities
pleasant. That is like con
vincing ourselves that we can
buy off foreign difficulties
with foreign- aid. In our re
luctance to face realities we
ought not chafe against the
impossibility of immediate so
lutions, nor should we sweep
under the rug problems that
we cannot solve.
If a beloved leader, skilled
in reading public opinion, sud
denly cries “Wolf” from the
White House parapets, that
does not mean the action
should excite us so much
that we call it leadership.
When some Americans insist
on beating the dead horse of
“McCarthyism” while showing
child-like complacency toward
Communism, we ought to no
tice that they avoid consider
ing the main issues. Right now
we are getting so carried away
about tax cutting with deficits,
that we refuse to see that it
can dangerously cheapen our
money and burden us with
debt. But we must get the
country moving, you know,
even if we cannot pay for it.
No Gloating
Looking backward, some
may consider the Cuban con
frontation an exciting na
tional experience. But Com
munist Cuba remains today
an unpleasant reality that is
there to plague us It is not a
mirage, it will not go away.
Simply because we thought the
episode brought honor and
prestige, we have no reason to
gloat about it on a scale ex
tending far past the deadly
realities. Gen. Thomas D.
White. USAF Ret. writing in
the January 14 issue of News
week, is appalled by what he
calls "a great national orgy of
self-congratulations.”
The blockade was an ex
ample of the kind of courage
necessary in today s world. But
no cheering is in order. The
cards were pretty much
stacked in our favor in that
easy confrontation, and Gen
eral White insists that he for
one expects the government of
these United States never to
the sun was well up in the sky.
Another hour’s flight on a
British jet was all that was
necessary to reach Geneva.
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A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT
of work has gone into the
preparation for this confer
ence, and I was presented with
a great mass of literature on
the subjects to be covered. In
brief, however, the object of
the meeting is to discover how
best to use the advances which
have been made in science and
technology in promoting eco
nomic growth and raising
standards of living, particu
larly in the underdeveloped
areas of the world.
I attended a reception earlier
this evening at which I met a
great many people, only two or
three of whom I had met pre
viously. One person I did know
was Dr. Detlev Bronk, presi
dent of the Rockefeller In
stitute and for many years
act in any other manner but
courageously. Thus: “Instead
of crowing over a twelfth-hour
decision, we should be taking
stock of cur national attitudes
which permitted the immedi
ate situation to arise in the
first place.” He is so right.
Need For Loud Thinking
Our military authorities did
not raise the alarm. Perhaps it
was because they had been
muzzled. Or smothered with
political inhibitions. At any
rate, our military intelligence
surely must have known what
was developing in Cuba, for
Senator Keating was asking
the Pentagon for details and
getting them long before the
October crisis. The newspapers
were also printing many of the
facts. Public opinion, in this
Straight from the
horse's
mouth
By DONNIE ESPY
I never realized there were
so many crossword puzzle fans
in Summerville. After 8 or 10
asked me last week what a 3
lettered word for printers
measure was, I did some re
search on crossword puzzles.
It seems that all ages enjoy
working the “brain teasers”.
Nearly everyone I talked to
said they worked 2 or 3 a
week.
The 3 letter word for printers
measure I referred to was in
“TV Guide” last week, and it
seemed no one knew what it
was.
The word ems (which is 1/6
of an inch) is used universally
in the printing industry. It,
along with “ens”, which is one
half as much as “ems”, is the
basic unit of measure in print
ing.
My wife—who is an avid
crossword fan—usually buys
“TV Guide” each week when
she buys the groceries. As soon
as she gets home she turns to
the crossword puzzle and works
it before anything else is done.
The trouble with too many
people is that the only thought
they have is that they have to
say something.
Tom Malloy of East Point, Ga.
who was at the News last
Thursday and Friday installing
a new printing press had many
words of praise for Summer
ville and Chattooga County.
He said that in his 40 years
of installing machinery in all
parts of the United States he
had never seen a county court
house as beautiful or well kept
as our courthouse. When I told
him the year it was built he
could hardly believe it.
He was also amazed by the
friendliness of the people of
Summerville.
One thing can be said about
communist policies — they are
making the U.S. spend money.
Next Sunday. February 24,
will be "Heart Sunday” in
Georgia. Heart Sunday volun
teers will call on every home in
Chattooga County to distribute
health saving information
about the heart diseases and
to receive Heart Sunday con
tributions to help the Heart
Association speed the fight
against the nations number one
health enemy.
American Legion Post 129 is
sponsoring a dance March 2 at
the Chattooga County Me
morial Home. All proceeds will
go to the Heart Fund. Music
will be by the Georgians.
Your Heart Fund is your best
president of the National
Academy of Sciences. He told
me that he had recently made
a speech at Georgia Tech, and
was most favorably impressed
with Georgia.
One of the delegates was a
Mr. Hoctor of Ireland. I asked
him how long it would take to
tour the British Isles. He said
to do it properly would take
10 days—one day in England,
one day in Scotland, and eight
days in Ireland.
It was something of a sur
prise to me to find that just
about everyone, telephone op
erators included, speaks Eng
lish. and that the automobiles
are driven on the right-hand
side of the street.
It will not be possible for me
to hear everything that hap
pens here at this conference,
since four or five meetings are
scheduled to go on at the same
time. Most all the topics appear
to be interesting, however, and
I hope to learn a great deal.
instance, was away ahead of
official thinking, but it seems
obvious now that we should
have been thinking “louder”
many months earlier.
An American public lulled
into apathy is in dangerous
condition. The leave-it-to-me
approach of modern presi
dents, exemplified by Mr. Ken
nedy’s “rash talk is cheap”
statements about Cuba, adds
greatly to the danger. A we
have-it-made attitude is also
fraught with peril, for it lulls
us to see no danger and rules
out the vigilance required in
this nuclear-loaded world. We
need to develop the ability to
look straight-on toward the
issues we face. Mr. Kennedy
put it quite well when he spoke
of the peril of “complacency.”
way of fighting heart disease!
Do your part and give for every
heart in your family.
Heart disease claims 925,000
lives each year.
Space is a funny thing: To
get there about 40 cents of
every dollar spent has to pay
for things that aren’t going
anywhere at all—ground sup
port equipment like the 4
million dollar gantry for the
United States’ manned moon
missle.
Steelways, official publica
tion of American Iron and Steel
Institute, in reporting on this
as a major new market for
steel has tracked down some of
the fascinating hardware that
the taxpayer’s dollar are buy
ing these days.
. . . Insulated steel tanks that
could keep boiling coffee too
hot to drink for two years but
are actually used to store liquid
hydrogen—major rocket fuel—
at 423 degrees below zero.
... A multi - million dollar
space simulator for testing ve
hicles in an atmosphere about
one-billionth that here on
earth at sea level, yet this is
but a billionth that vacuum
that exists in actual space!
. . . Miniaturized steel ball
bearings for instrumentation
that are so small that it takes
32.400 of them to make a pound
and that pound would cost
more than $162,000 though the
special steel the bearings are
made of costs about $2 a pound.
Little wonder that satellite
launching costs are currently
estimated to run SI,OOO to $2,000
for each pound of payload in
a 300 mile orbit.
Bible Verse
To Study
“When I consider thy
heavens, the work of thy
fingers, the moon and the
stars, which thou hast or
dained, what is man that
thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that
thou visited him?”
1. Can you locate this quo
tation in the Bible?
2. Do you know the author?
ANSWERS TO BIBLE VERSE
1 Psalms 8:3, 4.
2. David, great king of the
Jews, who died about 1016
B C., according to Jo
sephijs, the Jewish his
torian.