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The Summerville News, Thursday. November 7. 1963
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Salute to Veterans . . .
Twenty years ago, this nation was in
volved in a tremendous world-wide strug
gle to save itself. Most of our able-bodied
men were in uniform. They succeeded in
their task.
Ten years ago, we and other United Na
tions members were in a struggle to hold
communism back from South Korea.
There was success.
Next Monday, “Veterans Day” will be
observed throughout the land in honor
not only of those who served in Korea and
World War 11, but also in honor of those
who have served in all past American wars.
Football Unpredictable . . .
/ The football season is fast coming to a
close and in Chattooga County some fans
• may be surprised at the way things have
I gone for the Trion and Chattooga High
| teams.
* Contrary to some advance opinion,
I Trion has done well, now being in a three
: way tie for top spot in Region 3-B North.
, Chattooga High, on the other hand, has
7 not lived up to the expectations of some
?of her fans. So far as we can tell, however,
• it has been mostly a matter of “rotten
’luck.”
I The Indians have actually had a good
THE QUESTION MOST fre
quently asked me when I am
home in the District, or when I
talk with constituents here in
Washington, is what will happen
to the civil rights legislation in
Congress this year.
Now that a bill has been re
ported by the House Committee
on the Judiciary, and particulary
now that we have watched the
devious way in which the bill
finally came to receive com
mittee approval, we have a little
better idea what to expect when
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the bill comes to the Floor of the
House to be voted upon.
As you will recall, the legisla
tion originally before the Judici
ary Committee was patterned
after the civil rights message
sent over here to Capitol Hill
from the White House. While this
version of the bill was completely
unacceptable to Southerners, and
was of doubtful constitutionality
on many points, it turned out to
be far weaker than the NAACP
and similar organizations want
ed. The upshot of this was that
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
In conjunction with this observance,
“Poppy Day” will be observed Saturday,
giving us an opportunity to honor the war
dead by serving the living—when we buy
a poppy we are helping some disabled vet
eran or some veteran’s family.
Working in our mills, walking our
streets, teaching our Sunday School
classes, running our businesses today are
these men who wore a uniform in war
time.
We honor them—and their brothers
who could not return to take their places
as citizens.
record despite the four-loss, three win, two
tie showing. This is true because all four
losses were extremely close and Chattooga
is still young in the Region 3-AA set-up.
Let’s look at the plus side. The Indians
have provided spectators with some thrill
ing games, they have displayed good ac
tion, they have given some of the toughest
teams a hard battle and they have, we
trust, learned much about sportsmanship
and how to lose gracefully.
We commend both the Trion High Bull
dogs and the Chattooga High Indians and
their coaches for the 1963 records.
the integrationists on the com
mittee heeded the pleas "of the
NAACP, the Congress of Racial
Equality and other organizations
and amended the bill so that it
became far stronger in its terms.
The bill became so harsh, in
fach, that the Southern mem
bers of the committee decided to
join the integrationists and vote
to report it out of committee,
their strategy being that the bill
in its new form could not possi
bly pass the House.
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Coffee Break
By HELEN BUFFINGTON
A pre-Halloween spook greeted Mrs. James Wilson
the day before Halloween last week when she went
out to get a boxed heater from her smokehouse.
Lifting the top off the box. Mrs. Wilson was greeted
by a solemn-faced possum! It didn't move. But Mrs.
Wilson did. She slammed the lid back on in a hurry
and got out of there!
“I get a good feeling." he said, "when I look out
the window’ and it’s cold outside and rainy, but warm
inside. And I see my grandfather’s house and the
leaves falling.”
This spontaneous remark was from an 11-year
old friend of mine. A friend who, I had been convinced,
had had little on his mind besides comic books and
television.
But you never know, do you?
A pretty blonde Chattooga student at Shorter Col
lege certainly has more on her mind than books and
boys. She has already become a goodwill ambassador
for her county.
Brenda Woods talked officials of her social society,
the Polymnian, into coming to Riegeldale Tavern
Saturday for a luncheon honoring new’ pledges.
As a result, some 130 young women from over the
United States traveled across colorful Taylor's Ridge,
through Summerville and on to Trion for the affair.
We hope their visit was pleasant and that in fu
ture years they will remember our county and come
again.
One of the happiest persons in Chattooga these
days is Mrs. Graves Myers Jr., known to adoring pupils
and former pupils as "Miss Beedie”.
And well she might be. Her only child, a distin
guished soldier for the past 23 years, has retired and
with his family has come back to Summerville to live.
Operations at Riegel to Be
Trion P.-T.A. Topic Tuesday
Color slides on the operation
at the Trion Division of Riegel
Textile Corporation will be
shown at the Trion Parent-
Teacher Assn, at 7:30 p.m.Tues
day.
The slides were made recently
by Stuart Marks, of Summer
ville.
The executive board will meet
at 7 p.m. Tuesday and the Band
Boosters will meet immediately
following the PTA regular ses
sion.
The PTA heard Arch Farrar,
Chattooga juvenile referee, at
the October meeting.
“It is not the duty of the com
munity to discipline our chil
dren. But we owe a duty to our
community to have a disciplined
child,” Farrar said.
“Find what interests your in
dividual child and work with
him and his interest. Just re
member that an idle child is one
who has time to get in trouble.”
Mr. Farrar also suggested that
perhaps schools should start
“brainwashing” children—turn
ing them toward learning aca-
committee, Emanuel Celler of
New York, either learned of this
trap or s trongly suspected it
because he cancelled the meeting
during which the matter was to
have been voted upon.
Then began a series of White
House conferences on the bill,
to which certain Democratic and
Republican members of the com
mittee were invited, but of which
not a Southerner was even in
formed. Not until nine o’clock on
the morning of a re-scheduled
committee meeting did Southern
members get a mimeographed
copy of a new bill drawn the
night before, consisting of 55
pages.
* * *
AN INTERESTING AFTER
MATH has been the near revolt
which occurred within Republi
can ranks. Some 40 Republicans
met and severely criticized Mi
nority Leader Halleck for his de
cision to cooperate with the Ad
ministration in watering down
the civil rights bill and getting
it reported out of the committee
without consulting them in ad
vance.
I think oil of the happenings
thus far on the civil rights bill
point very clearly toward the
conclusion that most of the Re
publicans, and a great many
border state Democrats are still
in a state of uncertainty as to
how they stand. There are other
signs that back up this view. For
one, the crowds which turned out
to see President Kennedy in Phil
adelphia this week were unusual
ly small. Philadelphia, as you will
remember, had a race riot a few
weeks ago. For another, Mayor
Daley of Chicago has begun
making speeches that sound as
if he is running for governor of
Mississippi.
All in all, I feel that the fu
ture of civil rights legislation in
the House is very much in doubt,
even in the watered-down form
in which it came out of the Ju
diciary Committee.
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THE FOLLOWING VISITORS
from the Seventh District were
welcomed to the office this week:
Dr. and Mrs. Herman Gray of
Rome and their daughters Sue
and Patti who are now living in
Alexandria, Va.; Glover B. Dur
ham, John P. Hayes,. Henry L.
Kemp and James M. Stanley of
Marietta; Jerry Westbrook of
Trion, and Bill Reid of the Riegel
Textile Corp., New York, form
erly of Trion.
demic work first and letting
them earn a place in other cir
cles such as football.
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Monday, November 11
A single day is all too short a time to
properly honor the members and
former members of our armed forces
for their noble defense of our
country.
Rather, let us dedicate ourselves
anew to day-in-day-out devotion to
the ideals of freedom which they
fought so bravely and steadfastly
to maintain.
Let us do this through expressing
ourselves at the polls, through
instilling in our children an appre
ciation ol American democracy and
by encouraging a staunch stand
against our greatest enemy,
communism.
Let us also take this opportunity
to salute those who today are so
nobly defending our land.
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Raines Says
4 Thank You’
For Assistance
Chattooga High Band Director
Jack Raines this week expressed
his appreciation and that of the
band for the cooperation of the
public in getting new band uni
forms this year.
“During this, the last week of
football and also the end of the
marching season for the band,"
he said, "we would like to thank
each and every person who help
ed to make our uniform cam
paign a success. The uniforms
greatly improved the overall ap
pearance of the band on the
field and in parades.
“As goodwill ambassadors of
Chattooga High School an d
Chattooga County, we are proud
to wear our colors and project
the spirit of the school and com
munity to those with whom we
come in contact.”
Mr. Raines said such occasions
as the marching contests and
the proposed trips to Jackson
ville State College and Georgia
Tech cause the band members
and officials “to feel a deep sense
of gratitude". The band will go
to Jacksonville Nov. 16 for “Band
Day" and to Tech on Thanksgiv
ing Day.
Much progress is being made
toward a solid foundation for
the band program and music ed
ucation in general, both in the
high school and in other schools
of the county, he continued.
Raines pointed out that last
year beginner bands were started
at Summerville Elementary and
Chattooga Junior High and this
year the program has been ex
panded to include students at
Lyerly and Menlo schools.
“The potential for music edu
cation in this system is inex
haustible," he said. “And with
proper training and facilities in
the future this could easily be
come one of the outstanding
music programs in North Geor
gia."
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HINGTOnJ
NOW PENDING before Con
gress is a bill to give top-level
federal officials a sizeable .pay
increase which would run well
into the millions of dollars.
It is proposed that the mem
bers of the Congress have their
salaries increased from the pres-
ent $22,500 to
$35,000 a year;
that Cabinet
members’ pay
he rosed from
$25,000 to $40,-
000; Supreme
Court justices
from $35,000
to $60,000; the
Deputy Secretary of Defense,
the Under Secretary of State,
and the administrators of the
Agency for International Devel
opment, Housing and Home Fi
nance Agency, NASA, and the
Veterans Administration, and
other high echelon officials from
$27,500 to $38,500.
If this hill were passed, it
would call for a total added ex
penditure of $1,250,000 in the
Senate; $5,437,500 in the House
of Representatives; $225,000 in
the Supremo Court; and $150,-
000 in the Cabinet, to name only
a part of those who would be
affected by the pay raise.
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IT HAS BEEN my policy, as
Governor of Georgia and since
coming to the United States
Senate, to try to see that state
and federal employes in the rank
and fde are given salaries com
mensurate with their duties and
responsibilities.
Here in the Senate, my vote
lias been cast with this purpose
in mind, and I will continue to
support measures providing for
a livable wage for our lower
echelon public servants and mili
tary personnel.
However, I can see no justifi
cation whatsoever for increas
ing the salaries of high-ranking
government officials, whether
they be in the Congress, the
courts or the executive branch.
The cost of civilian employ
ment in the executive branch of
government already is a stag
gering thing to contemplate. In
fiscal 1963, it reached an all
i time high of $15.4 billion, or
more than $1 billion a month,
: and this for the fifth consecu
tive year and still growing.
It is interesting in this con
nection to consider comparisons
between state employes and
those on the federal payrolls.
1 Nationwide, the average weekly
salary for fulltime state em
ployes is s9l a week compared
to sll3 a week for federal em
ployes. In Georgia, the average
weekly earnings for state em
ployes is $79, and $lO5 for fed
eral employes.
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THE ARGUMENT is ad
vanced that unless salaries are
higher in top government offices,
we cannot get able and compe
tent persons to fill these offices
and to run for seats in the
House and Senate. This of
course is ridiculous and totally
insupportable, and I believe this
is the opinion of most of the
people of this country.
The proposed pay raise bill is
unreasonable and uncalled for
and I shall oppose it just as I
have opposed all unnecessary
government expenditures since
coming to the Senate.
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