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A Job Well Done
For many years the Coosa Valley
Area Planning and Development Com
mission has rendered valuable assistance
to counties of Northwest Georgia.
Many much-needed projects have
been carried to a successful conclusion in
Chattooga and other surrounding
counties which would not have been
possible without the assistance of the
planning commission.
Fortunately, the commission has
been blessed with leadership of the high
est caliber And that leadership has never
been more forceful than during the past
two years that the firm hand of J.C.
Woods of Trion was at the helm.
Menlo Moves Forward
Mayor George Payne has announced
a series of goals which he and members
of the Menlo City Council hope to bring
about within the near future.
It is refreshing to learn that our
sister city is making plans for the future
and has set such high goals for the
community. With determination such as
Democratic(?) Parly Future
In analyzing the nomination of Sen.
George McGovern by the so-called Dem
ocratic Party and his capture of the
party’s machinery this year, one of the
possibilities which cannot be dismissed is
that this takeover by the radical left will
permanently splinter the long-shaky
coalition which has been so precariously
patched up and held together since the
early 1930’5.
Going back to the party’s takeover
by Andrew Jackson more than a
hundred years ago. McGovern supporters
see a parallel, and believe the present
takeover will rejuvenate the party and
make it stronger.
But Jackson represented the coming
majority in his time. And it is
abundantly clear that McGovern’s posi
tion is not that of the future majority
either in the Democratic Party or in the
nation.
It should be remembered that the
Democratic Party has traditionally been,
in essence, an alliance of workers,
Catholics, and Southerners. Certainly
blue-collar workers, Catholics, South-
Obit for Daily News
For more than 50 years, the Daily
News was one of the newspapers on the
scene in the national capital. But. like
the late l imes Herald, it now has ceased
publication. The last issue was that of
July 12.
Ihe national capital now offers
readers and residents only two local
daily papers. The Evening Star is the
afternoon paper, the larger Washington
Post the morning paper.
Perhaps the News’ passing is best for
all concerned, because both the evening
newspapers were reportedly losing
money, and if the capital is to offer
readers an editorial choice, survival of
one is necessary The News was, in any
event, a Scripps Howard paper, and there
is less pain, somehow, in the demise of a
chain newspaper than in the death of an
independent.
The Post, like its counterpart in New
York, the New York l unes, is a liberal
paper, strong financially. Moderates and
Frasier
At the I ion Country Safari in Cali
fornia two years ago wardens were hav
ing trouble finding a inale lion to take
over a pride of young females. The fe
male lions had rejected a number of
young, healthy males.
Almost as a joke, wardens turned to
an old lion from a bankrupt Mexican
circus, then about eighteen years old.
equivalent to about seventy years for
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JAMBS D. KBPT Managing Miter
WILLIAM T. MPT AAvartlatng Manager
WOODROW W. MPT . Nm EAiter
During Mr. Woods’ tenure, many
new programs were added, and tre
mendous progress was made in the Coosa
Valley counties. The people of this area
are indebted to him for his wise steward
ship as chairman of this important area
organization.
Fortunate, too, is the fact that Mr.
Woods’ counsel will still be available as
he will remain on the board of directors
and will continue to head two of the
commission’s divisions.
We would like to offer our congrat
ulations to Mr. Woods for his fine leader
ship and to say to him: It was a job well
done.
this, there is little liklihood of failure.
Menlo has always shown strong com
munity spirit and, under Mayor Payne’s
leadership, should accomplish whatever
goals are set.
We wish them success in their en
deavors.
erners, and certain minority groups have
shown less enthusiasm for McGovern
than for other now-defeated Democratic
candidates.
There is certainly a very good
chance that Richard Nixon will carry
most of the South and will also get a big
percentage of blue-collar and Catholic
votes, and he is popular with some
ethnic minority groups, if not blacks.
If this happens, and Nixon wins, the
old Democratic alliance might finally be
shattered, as some like Sen. Henry Jack
son of Washington have warned.
McGovern’s takeover of the party
certainly is not likely to usher in a new
era of expansion and broader popular
support for the Democratic Party. He is,
primarily, the candidate of one faction
of the party, a faction which out
organized and out-guessed his opponents
in primary campaigns.
But history thus far indicates that
when the Democratic Party moves away
from the center and middle-of-the-road
candidates its coalition is inevitably
shattered.
conservatives often shudder at the power
of both these newspaper giants, which
own additional media outlets and con
tinue to grow
Thus, moderates and conservatives
fervently hope The Star will survive and
prosper, now that its afternoon competi
tion is eliminated. (The Star bought the
name and certain assets of the News.)
The disturbing trend in recent years
in the newspaper field has been the rapid
gobbling up of small independent news
papers by ever-growing chains, and the
failure of second and third dailies in city
after city, which had in earlier times
supported a number of competing news
papers. each with its own editorial voice.
The stage has now been reached
where newspapers in most cities have no
local competition, and, while that has
become unquestionably economic neces
sity. it is nevertheless regrettable in a
democracy.
humans. To their amazement, Frasier,
the old lion, quickly took over the pride.
To their even greater astonishment, he
sired thirty-five cubs in two years, stir
ring up great interest and even fan clubs
Frasier died recently at twenty; and
everyone at the Safari was saddened. The
moral of the story is that one should
never underestimate old lions.
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ABOUT COOKEP!
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THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has
again overstepped its bounds of judicial
review, trespassing into areas intended
for state legislators. This violates one of
our most basic and valuable political
foundations, the balance of power be
tween the legislative, executive, and judi
cial branches of government.
Recently the high court ruled, 5-4,
that capital punishment, as it is applied
in many states, is unconstitutional. In
one ill-advised stroke, five members of
the court overturned literally hundreds
of state laws.
These laws were enacted by the peo
ple’s chosen representatives. They were
based upon clauses and phrases in the
Constitution which have been held valid
and constitutional for 181 years. In all
that time, no Supreme Court has ever
ruled against these laws.
More important, the Court has in
effect dictated the conditions under
which new legislation can be drafted in
the several states. This is a flagrant en
croachment on the sovereignty of state
legislatures.
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THE QUESTION of whether or not
to abolish capital punishment is a fair
one. There are thoughtful and intelligent
arguments on both sides of the issue. But
this is a matter for the people, in the
states, through their elected representa-
From Our Early File s
30 Years Ago
JULY 30. 1942
The tire rationing division of the Office ot Price Administration has
asked local motorists to restrict their speed to a maximum of 40
MPH...Victory Bus (do you remember’) schedule listed for Naomi. Rock
Spring. LaFayette. Trion, and Summerville.
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20 Years Ago
JULY 31. 1952
City Clerk Sam Sitton reported Wednesday that the city’s two reservoirs
are practically dry. thereby creating a critical water shortage here... Seven
Chattoogans have been selected for pre-induction examinations on Aug. 4.
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10 Years Ago
JULY 26. 1962
The long-awaited tax equalization loan which will result in a property
evaluation in Chattooga County was granted this week by the state...A
Summerville landmark the Cleghorn home on North Commerce Street was
destroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
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tives, to decide. Several states, as a mat
ter of fact, have already moved legisla
tively to abolish the death penalty. That
‘is their prerogative. But it is not the
Supreme Court’s.
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THIS MOST RECENT decision is
but the latest in a long series of disap
pointments handed the American people
by the Court.
We are witnessing a process in which
the common good, the interests of the
people, are being discounted by the
highest court in the land.
Instead of seeing that the best inter
ests of society are served, the Justices are
more interested in the technical purity
of the law, even when it is of no use to
that society. They have gotten us into a
mess, crippling our law enforcement
agencies, making the streets safe for our
criminal elements, and serving as the
nation’s school board. Now they see fit
to run our state legislatures from their
bench in Washington.
There are numerous proposals be
fore Congress to elect Supreme Court
Justices and restrict their terms of office,
in lieu of having them appointed for life.
I will fully support any reasonable
legislation to make the Court more re
sponsive to the will of the people and
attentive to the real meaning of the law.
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IN RESPONSE TO OUR READERS
In response to requests from several of our readers,
we are repeating an item from a previous column
concerning drug abuse facts and information.
A statewide free WATS line has been installed by
the Georgia Narcotics Treatment Program. Any Geor
gian may call 1-800-282-0228 for information relating
to drug abuse. This toll-free number is a service of the
program’s new Drug Information Center, directed by
pharmacist Joanne Branson and staffed by drug infor
mation specialists.
The information center is situated at 663 W. Peach
tree St., Atlanta, in a building housing treatment facili
ties of the Georgia Narcotics Treatment Program.
Staff members will answer telephone queries and
also refer persons for treatment and counseling help.
After 5 p.m., the answering service will take messages
for the staff to return.
In addition to building a library of drug informa
tion, educational films and literature, plans call for the
center to establish a computer hookup with the Na
tional Clearing House for Drug Abuse Information at
Rockville, Md., so that all resources of the nation’s main
center will be available to Georgians.
The center also plans to include technical data on
new and old drugs for physicians and other health
professionals.
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WHY DOCTORS DON’T MAKE HOUSE CALLS
An insight into the controversial question of why
doctors don’t make house calls anymore might be
obtained from an article in the current issue of The
Saturday Evening Post.
Dr. C. O. Plyler, a family doctor in Thomasville,
N. C., is typical of the old family doctor; yet, at the
same time, he represents a new breed.
The doctor’s day, as documented in magazine ar
ticle, begins at 8 a.m. in the town hospital, courses
through 13 hours of hospital and office diagnoses and
treatments, only to end where it begins: back at the
hospital at about 9 p.m.
In his own words. Dr. Plyler explains in the Satur
day Evening Post article his reasoning on the subject.
“1 used to handle about a half-dozen house calls a
day,” he says, “but I found that most of them weren’t
necessary. If it’s a serious matter, 1 tell my patients that
I’ll meet them at the emergency room of the hospital.
“I also realized that the time I spent on the road,
getting to and from the patient might have been used to
treat a half-dozen patients back in the office—patients
who needed medical care just as urgently as the one in
the house. So, by making house calls, I was actually
reducing the health care 1 could deliver to the com
munity, instead of expanding it.
“Another factor,” adds Dr. Plyler in the Saturday
Evening Post article, “is the astonishing rise in the
amount of scientific apparatus connected with medi
cine. It’s been estimated that a cardiac encounters, on
the average, some 400 different medical devices during a
month-long stay in the hospital.
“So, if a patient has an emergency, I feel it’s better
for his health to have him brought to where we have the
full equipment to treat him than tor me to rush out all
over the county with no equipment to handle the
emergency,” concludes the doctor.
At least, that is one doctor’s opinion.
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
Some political speeches are somewhat like steer
horns: a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in
between.
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Pastor’s Corner
“Majoring on Majors”
By Jack H. Richardson
Missionary North West Area
Mission Program
Important as it is in the life
of a church, institutional
activity can never take the
place of the primary work of
the church, for so often it fol
lows that such activity be
comes an end in itself, rather
than achieving that which our
Lord commands in these strik
ing words:
“These ought ye to have
done and not to leave the other
undone,” (Matt. 23: 23b)
Recently, I read of a college
initiation in which a freshman
was dressed up as an African
big game hunter. They
equipped him with all the
necessary paraphernalia, gave
him a butterfly net, and put
him to chasing butterflies on
the campus. He was a ridicu
lous light, but I have seen
something else just as incon
gruous. 1 have seen men who
could have done tremendous
things in their lives spend their
days busy with the trivial.
They could have killed lions
Thursday
OMMENT
By Woodrow Espy
but they chased butterflies.
Peter Marshall had a figure for
it: he spoke of men fitted out
for deep-sea diving occupied
with pulling plugs out of bath
tubs!
Churches sometimes be
come so taken up with small
matters that they fail in their
main task. Like the man in the
Bible, while they were busy
here and there, they lose the
charge they were given to keep.
The minute crowds out the
momentous. The lion hunter
ends up chasing butterflies.
The more one observes re
ligious activity, the more he is
convinced that we are minoring
on the major and majoring on
the minor.
A lot of glorified puttering
goes under the name of Chris
tian work. The Pharisees were
experts at such business, and
our Lord blasted them for it.
Some of the things they did
were not trivial but, rather,
worthwhile. The trouble was,
the good had become the
enemy of the best. They tithed
of mint, anise, and cummin
and neglected the weightier
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