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jr—J Observations
By ELBERT FORESTER
Editor, The Dade County Sentinel
Good Fer Her-A very kind and nice letter just received
from Kathryn Stewart Sanders. Kathryn is executive secre
tary, Kiwanis Club, Chattanooga Valley, Inc. She and Jim
had a whole passel of good things to say about The Sentinel
and me. ’Course, I’m grateful-Yeah, mighty grateful.
Meanwhile, along with the letter was an invitation to
attend the 23rd Annual Barbecue of the Kiwanis Club of
Chattanooga Valley, scheduled for Saturday afternoon,
June 10, on the grounds of Chattanooga Valley Elementary
School, beginning at high noon. Various types of entertain
ment, programs and the like are on tap for the entire
afternoon.
And, at 5 p.m., all candidates seeking public office at
national, state and local levels will be given 2 minutes each
to speak to the crowd. At 6 p.m., Governor Jimmy Carter is
to speak. How about that! Kathryn confidentially, 1 suggest
that you get Mouzon Peters, Tri-State Editor out there. Just
tell him there will be a jar of scuppernong jelly awaiting
him, and I’ll guarantee he’ll be there, see.
All in all, just sounds to me like the Kiwanis Club of
Chattanooga Valley plans to put the big pot in the little
one. (That’s just an old saying doubt seriously iffen there’s
a pot around for any purpose- I just put that in there.
Actually, you can’t put a big pot in a little one anyhow I
don’t reckon.) So much for that.
♦ * *
Beat Me- David Moss, Ringgold High School Jr., has set
a new state high school record in the high jump 6 ft., 6%
inches, according to The Catoosa County News. Congratu
lations! But, you know what, David, at first I thought 1 had
you bested by about a foot or so, but 1 checked back to my
high school days and found that I DID jump approximately
8 feet; however, my jump was down not up. As a matter
of fact, was when I jumped out of the barn loft rather than
crawl down the ladder. ’Course, that do make a differ
ence- whether you jump up or whether you jump down,
even though the distance would be virtually the same. (I
can prove that by Cuz. Charlie-I reckon.) Just think, a
fellow who could jump that high, during the huntin’ season
particularly, could just walk about over the fields and haul
off and leap over wire fences instead of having to crawl
under, over or through ’em. Wouldn’t that be somethin’?
♦ * *
Last Word-It is reported that in Sydney, Australia, a
man waited his turn to use an outdoor phone booth. But
the woman inside the booth talked on and on. After
waiting a half an hour or more the man nailed the door
shut. But the woman had the last word. She phoned the fire
department. Fire fighters arrived, removed the nails, and
rescued the woman. She promptly re-entered the booth and
phoned her friend again to finish her conversation.
* * *
Murder Cases Only Quite often preachers furnish the
source for a variety of yarns and jokes. Comes now the
Sheriff and offers this one:
A certain fellow who doubtless had bent his elbow too
many times in succession, went to see the Priest to make his
confession. The fellow was asked a few questions—the last
of which was, “Have you killed anybody?” The answer was
“No,” and he was told to go his way. On the way out he
met another man who was there for the same purpose- to
confess. “Have you killed anybody,” the man who was
about to enter was asked by the one who had just made his
confession. “No, I haven’t,” came the reply. “Well, no need
to go in,” advised the first man-“he’s just hearing murder
cases today.” (Ah shucks.)
♦ ♦ ♦
Too Steep-Down at Summerville, Representative
Sloppy Floyd, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee
of the House, kind of got his back up about some
“emergency money” requested by the University System.
Among the items were an organ at $25,000, $lO ashtrays,
$750 secretarial desks with $l5O chairs and a S6OO sofa.
Well, by doggies, I’d have to say that such items were high
on the hog myself. But, seemingly, Sloppy came out the
loser, but he had the satisfaction of being heard.
* * *
Pa Dave rehashes this one probably not heard by at
least some of the younger generation: In a San Francisco
cemetery a visitor noticed an old Chinese man placing a
bowl of rice on a grave.
“When do you expect your friend to come up and eat
the rice?” he asked. “The same time your friend comes up
to smell your flowers,” the old Chinese man smiled . . . And
kind of on the same line, Uncle Ed tells of the village gossip
who was pumping the local doctor about the recent demise
of their town’s richest man. “You knew him well,” she
cooed. “How much did he leave?” “All of it. Madam, all of
it,” the old doctor replied . Calls to mind the saying-
What good is there being the richest man in the ceme
tery? . . . Adcox Adds: If the grass is greener on the other
side of the fence, you can bet that the water bill is higher.
(Agree, John Price?)
• * •
Tis Said-The police sent out photographs of an escaped
convict, showing him in six different poses.
A constable in a Midwestern State wired
“Have captured five of them and am on trail of sixth.”
* * •
Be Seein’ Ye With this thought: I believe the poorest
man I've ever seen didn’t have anything but money.
* • •
Flag Day-Come next Wednesday will come American
Flag Day let’s act like it.
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Dixie’s Moro Ash, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Aldred’s Cockleburr Ranch,
is shown during the trophy presenta
tion at the Pineland Challenge Tro
phy, Chattahoochee Charity Horse
Show, in June, 1969. The Morgan stal-
Giles, Floyd Represent
Local Area at Meeting
The Chattooga County area
was well represented at this
year’s annual Service Officers’
Training School sponsored by
the Georgia Department of
Veterans Service. The school is
designed to acquaint persons
engaged in service to veterans
with the latest changes in vet
erans law.
Veterans Service Director
Pete Wheeler said, “It is grati
fying to see such a large turn
out of dedicated people who
want to avail themselves of the
knowledge and experience of
experts from the Veterans
Administration and other par
ticipating agencies, in order
that they might better serve
the veteran.
“This school is Georgia’s
primary method of acquainting
service officers across the state
with the frequently changing
veterans affairs program. The
service officers in attendance
this week are now better pre
pared to render assistance to
Georgia’s more than 500,000
veterans.
Taking part in the meeting
were several top Washington
officials, including Oliver
Meadows, staff director of the
U. S. House Committee on
Veterans Affairs; Olney Owen,
chief benefits director of the
Veterans Administration;
Rufus Wilson, associate deputy
administrator for the Veterans
Administration; and Lawrence
R. Pierce Jr., chairman of the
Board of Veterans Appeals.
Representing national vet-
LOCAL STALLION TO COMPETE
erans organizations from Wash
ington were: Cooper T. Holt,
executive director of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars;
Charles E. Mattingly, deputy
director, National Legislative
Commission of the American
Legion; Kenneth R. Hubbs,
national service and legislative
director of the Military Order
of the Purple Heart; and John
J. Keller and Charles L. Huber,
national service director and
national legislative director,
respectively, of the Disabled
American Veterans.
Members of the Georgia
Food Stamp Assistance
Received By 1,763 Here
ATLANTA There were
1,763 low-income Chattooga
County residents on the U. S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Food Stamp program in March,
as compared to 1,643 the
previous month, Russell H.
James, Southeast regional ad
ministrator of USDA’s Food
and Nutrition Service reports.
Taking the state as a whole,
James noted, the number on
the Food Stamp program was
up 5,453, while the food dis
tribution program’s total was
down by 6,244 to give an over
all gain of 1,209. He attributed
most of the increase in the
food stamp program to the
switching of five counties from
NOW HANGS IN STATE CAPITOL
Campaign Button Inspires Bug Design
Although we cannot claim
Mrs. I) F. Nisbet as a native
resident, she has made Chat
tooga County her “second
home" since her daughter, Mrs.
Herman E. Spivey, had her
family have lived here.
Eva Nisbet, who hails from
Louisville, Ky., created a bit of
news recently when she
donated a hand-hooked rug to
the State of Georgia, and
which is now housed on the
fourth floor of the State
Capitol in Atlanta
Celestine Sibley, a featured
writer for The Atlanta Consti
tution, recently devoted an
entire column to Mrs. Nisbet's
rug Said she:
"Somebody told me the
other day there's a new trend
in decorating covering walls
with carpet. While I was still
feeling oppressed by that news,
word came through that Secre
tary of State Ben Fortson is
hanging a rug on the wall of
the State Capitol
“But, of course, it is a very
special rug not going on the
walls of the House or Senate to
soundproof them, no matter
what you think, but going up
in the capitol museum.
Second Front
lion will compete Friday and Satur
day in the first annual Stone Moun
tain All-Morgan Horse Show at Stone
Mountain Park. The rider above is
March Hall of Macon.
House and Senate Defense and
Veterans Affairs committees
also attended the conference.
More than 60 experts in the
various fields of veterans bene
i fits participated as panelists
i ind speakers during the four
day event which was attended
by over 400 persons from
Georgia and several neighbor
ing states.
Chattoogans attending the
service school were state VFW
Commander Ray Giles and
state VI'W Quartermaster-
Adjutant Sloppy Floyd.
donated food to food stamps
in March.
A total of 120 Georgia
counties are now operating
food stamp programs.
During the month, he said,
265,502 people on the food
stamp program were issued
$6.4 million in stamps. Os this
amount, $3.8 million was in
free or bonus stamps. This was
an average of sl4 43 in bonus
stamps f^r each person on the
program.
In the food distribution
program, 129,441 needy
people were given 4.3 million
pounds of USDA-donated
food.
Cockleburr Ranch
Entry to Compete
In Morgan Show
Scheduled
June 9-10
In Atlanta
Dixie’s Moro Ash, a seven
year-old Morgan stallion owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Aldred’s
Cockleburr Ranch, will com
pete in the first annual Stone
Mountain All-Morgan Horse
Show, scheduled June 9-10 at
Stone Mountain Park.
This horse was the 1969
winner of the Pineland
Challenge Trophy offered that
year at the Chattahoochee
Charity Horse Show. This
year’s trophy class will be held
at the Stone Mountain show,
which is sponsored by the
Georgia Morgan Horse Club,
and will include 40 classes in
four sessions, commencing at 6
p.m. Friday, June 9.
Morgan horses from
throughout the Southeast will
compete for trophies, ribbons,
and SIOOO in prize money. The
versatility of the breed will be
shown by the variety of classes
offered, and they will be
shown in English tack, Western
stock saddles, and pleasure
harness classes. There will also
be a full youth division as well
as park saddle and fine harness
classes.
The Morgan horse of today
has behind him 180 years of
in-bred qualities of excellence.
He has a high degree of intelli
gence, and a willingness to
learn and to try new things He
truly enjoys working and
makes an honest effort to do
well. He will give you the best
that he has, for that is the
“Morgan way.”
STAYING POWER
Another of his valuable
qualities is his stamina. Kept in
condition, he will astonish you
with his endurance and un
flagging good spirits. Because
of this staying power, Morgans
have a notable record in the
field of competitive trail riding.
A third Morgan asset is his
agility. Morgans are used ex
clusively on many stock
ranches, where their alertness,
“cow savvy,” and ability to
move handily off either end
have proven their value as
working stock horses. Thefr
popularity as cutting horses is
growing steadily.
The gentle, tractable dis
position of the Morgan horse
makes him an excellent family
pleasure mount. Morgans are
fine horses for children, and a
great many of them are being
used in 4-H Club horse projects
across the country. Morgans
are also noted for longevity,
and many years of pleasure
may be expected for the family
which begins with a young one.
“... It is a hand-hooked
circle reproducing a button
worn during the first pres
idential campaign of them all
the election of President Wash
ington.”
And a special rug it is,
indeed!
The old campaign button,
used by George Washington
about 1790, was dug up a few
years ago in a Kentucky
garden. Mrs Nisbet, who
usually fashions her own
designs, was so impressed with
a picture of this campaign
button, she decided to capture
its design on a rug.
About 12 feet in circum
ference, the rug is red, white,
and blue (what else?) with the
initials “GW" in the center,
and the initials of the 13
original states around it. This
made up the original design.
Eva Nisbet added a blue
border with twelve white stars,
and finished it off with an
eagle.
Around the “GW" are the
words, "Long live the Pres
ident.” Celestine Sibley, in her
column, said, this "shows how
close we still were to England
WHAT IS IT?
Mystery Picture
Is Real Puzzler
Last week’s Mystery Picture
must have been a real puzzler
for our readers. Six entries
were received and only two of
them correct.
For correctly guessing last
week’s object as a sponge, we
are sending a free three-month
subscription to The Summer
ville News to Joe Simmons,
204 Green St ~ Cloudland, and
to Jerry Henderson, P O. Box
511, Milledgeville, Ga. We send
our congratulations to these
new winners.
This week’s picture should
be easier to identify. The
object is one that all of you are
very familiar with, and should
not offer a big challenge.
Look it over carefully, and
when you think you have cor-
and their “Long live the King”
in those days.”
It was a fortunate day for
Georgia when Mrs. Nisbet de
cided to offer this beautiful rug
to the state museum
Secretary of Stale Ben
Fortson was most happy to
accept it and it was mounted
on a board and hung off the
fourth floor balcony in the
capitol.
“It's a beautifully done
piece of work," Fortson said,
“and since Georgia was one of
the 13 original states, it is par
ticularly fitting that we have a
momento of the first Pres
ident's campaign We arc get
ting ready for our bicentennial
celebration in 1976 and this
gift from Mrs Nisbet will be of
special interest to all who come
to the museum.”
Eva Nisbet has been making
hand-hooked rugs for some 25
years now In addition to these
original rugs, she also makes
purses, wall hangings, and does
crewel embroidery and needle
work. In all, she has done
“hundreds of rugs," according
to her daughter.
Sue Spivey is particularly
rectly identified it, send your
entry to: Mystery Picture, Box
310, Summerville, Ga. 30747.
The rules for sending in
your guess are simple. Only
written (cards or letters)
entries can be accepted, and we
ask you to please not phone in
your guesses. A person may
win one time only.
All correct guesses are
placed in a box. Three cards or
letters are drawn from these
entries, and they are declared
the winners for that week. All
entries for this week’s picture
must be in our office by noon
on June 13.
Why not send in your guess
right now Join in the fun. You
might be one of the winners.
proud of a 12-foot by 14-foot
rug her mother made for one
of the bedrooms of her home
on Nixon Street.
Mrs. Nisbet is not satisfied
with just designing and making
her rugs She selects and cuts
the wool yarns and mixes her
own dyes In this way, she gets
the results that only a profes
sional such as she can accept.
Eva Nisbet does original
work for the Shaker Museum
in Pleasant Hill, Ky. Two of
her original rug designs are on
display in other museums.
The rug that now lungs in
the Stale Capitol is tentatively
scheduled to be shown in a
proposed Americana Museum
at Stone Mountain
Mr. and Mrs. Nisbet are now
visiting the Spiveys, the main
purpose of their current visit to
attend Chattooga High
School's graduation exercises,
at which their granddaughter,
Kathy, will be one of this
year's graduates.
We are happy to have the
Nisbets as visitors to our city
and are glad to have Mrs.
Nisbet as a “part-time resi
dent.”