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Use Your Voting Power
Next Wednesday, the eligible voters
of Chattooga County will go to the polls
to select local candidates who will serve
them for the next two to four years and
to express their preference for state and
district candidates.
Every citizen of this county who has
registered to vote will have the
opportunity on September 9 to make his
opinion felt. Our choice of candidates on
this date will shape the course of the
county, the state and the district.
Os particular interest on the local
scene are the races for the Chattooga
County Board of Education. Where our
school children are concerned, it is vital
that those candidates be selected whose
interest in our overall educational
program is of the first importance. We
hope the voters of Chattooga County
will give these races additional thought
He Deserves a Big Vote
Rep. James “Sloppy” Floyd is run
ning unopposed this year to serve Chat
tooga County in the Georgia House of
Representatives.
That he does not have opposition is,
in itself, an indication of the popularity
of the man who has almost become a
legend in his own time.
Mr. Floyd is completing eighteen
years of service to the people of Chat
tooga County and to the state of Geor
gia. During those years, he has become
one of the most respected men in state
government. As chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, Rep. Floyd
has also become one of the most power
ful men in state government.
He has made many contributions to
the welfare and progress of his county
and his state during his nine terms of
office. During the last four years he has
taken a leading role in holding the line
on a tax increase. He has been a great
friend of education.
On the local level, Rep. Floyd has
A Point Well Taken
The president of San Francisco State
College, Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, offers
criticism of television programming that
deserves the most serious thought of
every journalist editorial writer, news
commentator and reporter.
"The other day,” says Dr.
Hayakawa. “I saw, to my great horror,
that Stokely Carmichael was given an
hour interview on one of the networks.
They had to go to Algiers to pick him up
and interview him, when there are
distinguished people like Andrew
Brimmer, the first Negro to serve as a
governor of the Federal Reserve
Board . . . who in any one week are
Labor Day, 1970
Labor Day marks the end of summer
vacations and the beginning at least
psychologically of a new work year. It's
a good time for taking stock of where we
are and where we want to go.
Aside from the war in Indochina,
the American people seem most
concerned about continued inflation, the
threat of recession, and what to do
about it all.
President Nixon has called for
greater productivity as a means of
countering both threats. He’s created a
special commission to make a study of
the need for higher productivity and
Other Editors Say:
The need for setting priorities in
federal spending becomes critical with
each roll call in Congress. This warning
has been repeated so often, it’s in danger
of becoming a political cliche rather than
the standard practice it should be.
It is obvious in setting priorities that
not every spending program is necessary.
Some projects must wait for more
favorable times. Others must be cut
back.
To do this, we must insist on
maximum efforts on the part of the
Administration and Congress to:
•Stay within budget requests or find
other areas of saving when this cannot be
done;
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WINSTON E. ESPY Publisher
DAVID T. ESPY, JR. General Manager
JAMES D. ESPY Managing Editor
WILLIAM T. ESPY Advertising Manager
WOODROW W. ESPY News Editor
when selecting the candidate for whom
they will vote.
The attitude that out of millions of
votes one vote doesn’t count is wrong.
There are many instances on record
whereby city, county and state officials
have been elected to office by a single
vote. Less than one per cent of the votes
has meant the difference between
victory and defeat in national
presidential elections.
If you have an opinion—and we are
sure that you do voice that opinion at
election time. Under our American
system of government, the final power
of political decision rests with the
people. But it is a power that must be
used if it is to be kept.
We strongly urge you to vote in the
September 9 general primary.
been largely responsible for giving
Chattooga County one of the finest
networks of roads in the state. It was
through his efforts alone that Gov.
Lester Maddox made $25,000 from his
emergency funds available for our library
building program. Thanks to our local
legislator, a fine fishing and recreation
area will soon be completed near Marble
Springs.
The Chattooga legislator helped
secure the location of a junior college in
Floyd County.
We may be considered a small
county compared to others in the state,
and we may not have the “glamorous
attractions” of some of our sister
counties, but as long as Sloppy Floyd is
in the General Assembly the people of
this state and of the country will know
where Chattooga County is situated.
Let’s give Sloppy a resounding
complimentary vote. He deserves it.
doing more for the advancement of not
only the Negro cause but the
advancement of all of us in general, than
Stokely Carmichael will ever do in his
lifetime ... In a similar way, I keep
thinking of all the conscientious and
wonderful students who have kept out
of trouble, who go to classes, who study,
who when the uproar is going on-are in
the library researching Elizabethan
literature, or doing chemistry
experiments, or something, and they
don’t get on the networks.”
San Francisco State’s outspoken
president makes a point that is well
taken.
ways to achieve it.
The key. of course, is held by the
people who actually do the work.
Greater productivity means more goods
in the market place; more goods mean
lower prices; lower prices mean more
sales, more jobs and eventually- higher
wages that aren’t inflationary.
But it all must start with a
determination on the part of each of us
to work harder to produce more
efficiently. This Labor Day, 1970, is a
made-to-order moment for every
jobholder to make this kind of
commitment.
(INDUSTRIAL PRESS SERVICE)
•Phase out doubtful and outmoded
programs;
♦Resist making commitments for
future spending until the fiscal situation
has improved.
House actions to July 9, 1970 on all
spending bills have exceeded the
President's budget authority requests for
fiscal 1971 by $7,486,977,000.
On the Senate side, similar actions
through the same date have exceeded the
President’s requests by $4,335,950,000.
It is time someone starting worrying
about the taxpayers who have to come
across with these vast billions. The
spending spree has got to stop if
inflation is ever going to be controllable.
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The United States Congress
has been extremely active this
year, enacting broad legislation
in many areas. The House of
Representatives is now in its
Labor Day recess period. Up to
our recess period, which began
Aug. 14, 1970, the following
measures have been considered
and approved.
In the field of education,,
Congress has approved the Ele
mentary and Secondary Educa
tion Amendments of 1970,
authorizing federal funds for
schools and including two new
programs, one to assist gifted
and talented children, and the
other to assist children with
specific learning disabilities.
Another important bill pro
vides- for the expansion of the
School Lunch Program,
authorizing S3O million in sup
plemental funds during fiscal
year 1970 to improve the
nutrition of needy children in
our schools. Georgia ranks
third among states requesting
additional funds for this pro
gram. Just before the recess, on
Aug. 13, the House of Repre
sentatives voted to override
President Nixon’s veto of the
education appropriation bill.
Congress has also been
active in the area of health
services. Two bills of particular
interest concern the expansion
of community mental health
centers and the modernization
and construction of medical
facilities. The first bill, which
authorizes funds for com-
30 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 5. 1940
. . . Summerville schools will open Monday morning with many new
members of the faculty, and with more students about 803 than space,
according to a statement by school officials.
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20 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 7, 1950
. . . The county school superintendent said in a Rotary Club speech here
this week that of the 113 teachers in Chattooga County schools, only 40
have bachelor's degrees.
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10 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER I, 1960
.. . The Summerville City Council has taken no action on a
recommendation that a series of changes be made in the water rates here to
increase the city’s revenue.
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munity mental health centers,
emphasizes assistance to al
coholics, narcotic addicts, and
children with mental health
problems. The Hospital and
Medical Facilities Construction
and Modernization Amend
ments of 1970, passed over the
President’s veto, provide
needed expansion and clarifica
tion of the Federal health
facilities program.
Environment and pollution
have become issues of great
concern to ail Americans, and
this concern has been especial
ly evident in Congress. The
Water and Environmental
Quality Improvement Acts of
1970 constitute a compre
hensive program to improve
the quality of water along our
shores and in our lakes, rivers,
and streams, and to improve
the quality of our environ
ment. A Commission on Popu
lation Growth and the Amer
ican Future has been estab
lished to deal with a broad
range of problems associated
with the effects of population
growth. Two further acts have
been passed by the House of
Representatives. The Solid
Waste Disposal Act provides
financial assistance for the con
struction of solid waste dis
posal facilities and improves re
lated research programs, while
I the Clean Air Act provides for
a more effective program to
improve the quality of the
nation’s air.
Legislation has also been ap-
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proved in many other im
portant areas. Veterans’ bene
fits have been substantially in
creased by the Veterans’ Edu
cation and Training Assistance
Amendment Act of 1970. The
Postal Reform Bill provides for
an independent agency to re
place the Post Office Depart
ment, making postal service
more efficient. The House of
Representatives has approved
legislation improving the Social
Security system and increasing
benefits, has approved the
Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act Amendment,
and has recently passed a bill
calling for a constitutional
amendment to give women
equal rights. These last three
measures now await action
from the Senate. After the
Labor Day recess. Congress will
resume consideration of legisla
tive reorganization, a national
science policy, and many other
matters of importance.
STACYVILLE (IOWA)
MONITOR A noteworthy
note from the H. R. Gross
newsletter .. .: ‘lf anyone
wants to see what has really
happened to the dollar in the
last 30 years, he has but to
take a look at the following
official government figures,
which show its purchasing
power at five year intervals,
beginning with 1939 as the
base year: 1939 100 cents;
1944 79c; 1949 58c;
1954 52c; 1959 48c;
1964 45c and 1969 37c.’
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BOARD SEATS TO BE DECIDED COUNTYWIDE
From information received this week, there are
apparently some voters in Chattooga County who do
not realize that candidates for seats on the Chattooga
County Board of Education must be elected countywide
this year.
After a suit was filed in federal court earlier this
year by a group of local taxpayers, the court ruled that
persons running for seats on the school board must be
elected by the voters in all of the county’s precincts.
This is an important point to remember. You may
vote for one candidate in ALL THREE of the races for
seats on the Chattooga County Board of Education.
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THE CHOICE IS EVIDENT
From this point of observation, it appears that Carl
Sanders offers Georgians the most constructive platform
for the next four years of any of the other gubernatorial
candidates.
As Georgia’s 74th governor, Carl Sanders revamped
the state’s educational program and provided a Master
Plan for Education that was considered among the best
in the nation. More than $175 million went into the
university system; twenty-two vocational-technical
schools were built and eight new educational TV
stations were constructed.
During Sanders’ first term as governor of Georgia,
he spent more than two billion dollars on education.
The former governor also instituted reform in the
state’s penal system, expanded and developed state and
regional mental hospitals, created the Division of
Children and Youth and inaugurated programs of
rehabilitation rather than punishment for juvenile and
first-time adult offenders.
Carl Sanders spent more for state services than any
other governor in the history of Georgia; yet, his fiscal
responsibility was demonstrated when he left office
with more money in the treasury-$ 140 million-than
any other governor.
Sanders’ platform for the next four years envisions
the same progressive program that was carried out
during his previous administration.
It appears that Carl Sanders is head and shoulders
above the crowd.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
“The best way to make happen what we want to
happen is to identify clearly the end results we want to
achieve and to take one small step after another until we
reach our objective. To master the future, we need to
make sound plans now and carry them out as if they
could not fail.
“Then, when the time comes to review past
accomplishments and set new goals, we will have the
personal satisfaction .that comes from good planning and
attainment of objectives.
“Then we will know that all the time we’ve spent
‘staying busy’ has been used to good advantage, and
we’ve added a good, solid rung on the ladder which
leads to total individual accomplishments and
systematic achievement of long range goals and
objectives.’’-Southeast General News
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“Car sickness: The feeling you get when the
monthly payments are due.’’-Chicago Sun-Times
the Bible and Science
By TOM J. RUBLE
Minister of Pennville Church of Christ
Recently, we had a reader
call us requesting an article be
written about adultery and
fornication; to be more spe-
cific, he said
single girls go
i n g with
married men,
etc. Other arti
cles had been
submitted to
the paper;
thus, the
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request.
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We regret that such sins
occur, but there are many
people living after “the works
of the flesh” Galatians
5:19-21. Single women should
have respect for the marriage
vows of the married. She
would not want her husband
out with single women.
One answer to the problem
is to teach our young people
the sacredness of marriage
before they marry. Loose
morals in the home on the part
of the parents undermine the
foundation of the home and
will destroy it. To survive, our
nation needs more Christian
homes.
Illicit sexual intercourse on
the part of unmarried persons
is classified as fornication.
Adultery is sometimes sug
gested when there is unlawful
sexual relationship between the
married, other than their com
panion.
The New Testament con
demns both adultery and forni-
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cation, buch unfaithfulness to
marriage vows is the only
reason given for divorce and
remarriage. (Matt. 5:32). Many
people, thus, are living in sin,
because they did not have this
Bible cause for divorce and
remarriage. Os course in death,
one is loosed from her com
panion. Romans 7:1-3.
Not many people today in
America would bow down to
silver shrines, etc., but many
have pet sins that become their
idol. Some would quit the
church before they would quit
smoking or drinking. Others
would quit the church before
they would observe Bible
teaching on modest dress. I
Timothy 2:9,10; 1 Peter 3:1-4.
Sedition is one of the sins
mentioned in the works of the
flesh in Gal. 5:20. Sedition
means insurrection or rebel
lion, resisting lawful authority.
Men who substitute for scrip
tural baptism, worship, church
organization, etc., are guilty of
sin. Revelation 22:18,19; Gal.
1:8,9. Heresay and false doc
trine is condemned.
Drunkenness is a sin that is
ever on the increase. Many try
to justify social drinking. Many
alcoholics are in our midst. It’s
not “smart” to drink, as the
liquor industry advertizes. In
nearly every murder case, car
accident or criminal offense,
liquor has a part.
We are taught to exercise
control over the flesh. I Cor.
9:27; Romans 6:6-18.
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