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Observations
By ELBERT FORESTER
Editor, The Dade County Sentind
Class of ’57-Now, at the onset, I’m frank to say that I
know nothing to amount to anything about classes turned
out by Summerville High School-that is, I just haven’t
been in a position to know about ’em.
On with the story. Friday, or maybe it was Thursday—of
last week—Colonel John England, member of the ’57 class
of Summerville High, called me and said in part, “The class
of Summerville High School, 1957—as many members as we
can round up-will be over there at Wright’s Restaurant
Saturday night at 8 o’clock, and would like for you to meet
with us.” Yeah, that’s about what he said. And I told him I
would try to get by around that time.
Well, brother, about 8 p.m., members of the class of ’57
began boiling in Wright’s Restaurant and when most were
seated, there were nigh on 75 or more. ’Course, I assume
the group was kinda headed up by Colonel John and his
good lady Ruby, but hear me when I say there were swarms
of other charming, beautiful and talented young ladies,
along with handsome, highly calibrated young men. All
dressed up purty-you know what 1 mean.
Man, what are you talkin’ about? Iffen I were in politics,
I’d take that class, tell ’em to fan out over the country and
Spiro or anybody else wouldn’t have a ghost’s of a chance.
Better hush-there have been other Summerville High
School classes-but as I say, they’ll have to go some to beat
the ’57.
Don’t forget, John-I want all members to write me a
little note like-and I’ll double guarantee I’ll say something
good about you individually in The Summerville News, so
that a quarter million readers, more or less, will learn about
you. Was a wonderful evening. Thanks a billion, John for
your thoughtfulness in asking me to come meet with
you . . . And come back again—These class reunions are of
tremendous help in holding a troubled world together.”
♦ ♦ ♦
Thanks A Billion-Mustn’t say million anymore-million
ain’t a drop in the bucket these days. (Drop in the bucket is
just an old saying I put in there to make a point, see.)
At any rate, I am extremely grateful to the countless
thousands throughout the tri-county area who had planned
to write my name in as a candidate in the Aug. 8 primary
election. However, please don’t-there are too many on the
ballot already. Wait until the November election and there
will be more space to write in—l reckon. Cuz. Charlie, put
this on the wind, and pass the word around to all the boys,
and I’ll appreciate it another billion or so.
♦ * *
Yeah-And while I’m thanking, a good portion goes to
you, Mrs. L. C. Johnson, Mrs. Jess F. Sexton, W. C. Mahan
and a whole passel more who send along the good word
. . . And I wouldn’t forget Lt. Colonel Ronnie Spear, by
doggies.
* * *
Jerry Smith Holder-Deciares, “The Sentinel is the best
newspaper in the United States.” Well, honey, of course
you’re right, actually, and we heap much appreciate your
telling the world. But sorry to say, we got nosed out at the
last judging (by a bunch of Yankees) and have to settle for
second place. But we’ll keep plugging. Right, Jep Jenkins?
Right!
* * *
An Exchange-Says: “Show us someone who yearns for
the good old days and we’ll bet you’ve discovered the
person who yells the loudest when the electric power is off
for as much as two minutes.” (Yeah.)
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Good For Him-That is, good for them, us and all. Word
comes through that Paul Peal is now associated with The
Catoosa County News. Congratulations to the whole works
over there. Colonel Paul, you can bet your last dollar, iffen
you have a dollar, will add much to The News, which is
growing by bounds and leaps. (Should have been leaps and
bounds-I just turned the saying around to be different,
see.) Anyhow, good luck and all that to Juanita, Jim, Paul
and all the rest. May your tribes increase.
* * *
Noted-Scientists agree that the earth is at least 4.5
billion years old. However, there are varying theories as to
its origin. Some have suggested that it was created from a
great cloud of dust. Others would have you believe that it
was created from a piece of the sun. Frankly speaking, I
still prefer the one that begins: “In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.”
• * •
’Tis the Law-(They say): In Connecticut, pickles which,
when dropped 12 inches, collapse in their own juice are
illegal. They must remain whole and even bounce.
* * *
Pa Dave-Opines. “Children are unpredictable . . you
never know what the neighbors will learn.” . . . Uncle Ed
contends that the human mind should be like a good
hotel—open the year around . . . Adcox Adds, “Those who
have money have trouble with it and those who have none
have trouble without it.”
♦ ♦ ♦
Lark’s Spur—Judge: “You’ve been hauled in for drink
ing.” Drunk: “Well, les’ get started.”
• * *
Be Seein’ Ye-With this thought: It would be nice if the
poor were to get even half the money that is spent studying
them.
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(See you at the polls Tuesday!)
Comprehensive Child Care Gets Priority Funding
Funding for comprehensive
child care for 3,500 children in
Chattooga and Georgia’s 34
other Appalachian counties has
topped $lO million in Appala
chian and other federal funds,
according to T. M. Jim Parham,
deputy commissioner of the
Georgia Department of Human
Resources.
“We can now offer the chil
dren of North Georgia unique
comprehensive child care, in
cluding day care, outreach,
medical, dental, and nutritional
services while serving as the
national laboratory for demon
strating what a full range of
child care services can accom
plish,” Parham said.
He pointed out that the
project is a coordinated effort
to put together comprehensive
health, social, and education
services for families and chil
dren.
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McDonald Accepts
Challenge of Davis
No new agencies will be
established. Existing local
agencies will expand service
delivery to children and their
families in each county. It will
relate to and coordinate with
programs such as Head Start,
Title I, early childhood devel
opment, and other Title IV-A
child care programs.
The project has been de
signed to implement Georgia’s
plan for comprehensive child
care development with first'
priority to day care services. As
the program expands, the child
care system can include more
services and new entry centers
to care for children who do not
need day care services.
The $ 10-million program
became a reality when the
Department of Human Re
sources was awarded a
sl9-miHion grant by the
Appalachian Regional Com mis-
3he ^utnnwnttllf New
Commissioner Harry Powell (L) and
Warden J. W. Pettyjohn look over
tobacco leaves which are being shade
cured at the Chattooga County Cor
rectional Institution. The warden
brought back 300 plants from Lake
City, Fla., and he and the commis
sioner decided to try their luck at
Congressman John Davis,
said in a Marietta Rotary Club
speech, it was time to take off
the gloves, and then proceded
to deliver what he hoped
would be the knockout blow
to his Cobb County opponent,
Dr. Larry McDonald.
McDonald, however, not
only refused to go down and
out but delivered a steady
stream of hard-hitting facts
about the incumbent’s voting
record, which he called “the
McGovern record of the Geor
gia delegation.” McDonald
charged that “my opponent
has been soundly beaten on the
issues up and down the seventh
district-and he knows it.”
Davis struck out at Mc-
Donald and his membership in
The John Birch Society during
his opening remarks and
leveled the charge that Mc-
Donald “would be run by
Robert Welch,” the leader of
The society and that the
society was a political organiza
tion, although its leaders claim
that it is not.
McDonald countered that
the society’s aims are for free
enterprise, constitutional gov
ernment as conceived by the
nation’s Founding Fathers,
sound government spending,
and against the communist
movement. Displaying a
California Senate fact-finding
subcommittee report of June,
1963, McDonald said it “gave
the society a clean bill of
health.” The report stated the
society was made up of Amer
icans concerned about com
munism and was not a secret or
un-American organization. He
said, “It is silly to use The
THREE CENTERS APPROVED FOR CHATTOOGA COUNTY
sion to establish four child care
demonstration projects. The
grant will be matched on a 25
percent-75 percent basis, with
funds available under Title
IV-A of the Social Security
Act. Local sources are con
tributing up to 20 percent of
the funds necessary for
program equipment and build
ing renovation.
The four new service
delivery projects for day care
and outreach are situated in
child care districts with boun
daries which correspond to the
northern Area Planning and
Development Commissions’
district boundaries The divi
sion of Family and Children
Services will contract with the
commissions to administer and
coordinate the total child care
program for each of the areas.
Each commission will contract
with local groups in each
SUCCESSFUL TOBACCO CROP
John Birch Society as an issue |
. . . there are no bills before
Congress which involve the ।
society, and members are urged J
to be involved in politics as any "
good citizen should be.”
McDonald said that he had
never received any financing
from the John Birch Societj.
Davis remarked that Mc
»Donald’s financing was sub
stantial and that his own
financing was small. To this
McDonald accused Davis of
using SIOO to every $1 of his
by “dumping grants on the dis-
Strickland Returns
From African Trip
A. J. Strickland of Trion
and a group of other Georgia
public school superintendents
and curriculum directors who
spent July on an intensive
study tour of Ghana and
Nigeria returned to Hartsfield
International Airport in
Atlanta Sunday, according to
Jack P. Nix, Georgia superin
tendent of schools.
The journey for the group
was funded at approximately
$60,000 by the U. S. Office of
Education Institute of Inter
national Studies as an innova
tive approach to international
education for professional
school personnel.
The project, which was ad- |
ministered by the Program of
African Studies, Northwestern i
University, was originated by
Nix to promote international
Second Front
growing a tobacco crop. It is believed
that this is the first attempt to grow
tobacco in the county in several years.
“I’ve always wanted to see if I could
grow some tobacco,” Commissioner
Powell said, and it looks as if he has
succeeded rather well.
trict in an effort to buy votes.”
Then McDonald told of the
Davis mailing which was sent
to seventh district residents last
week, using the Congressman’s
“franking” privilege, which
cost “at least $50,000” and
“that c> st was passed along to
the t xxp tyers,” he charged
Davis charge of McDonald’s
nonresidence in Cobb County
brought amusement from Dr.
McDonald who stated he was a
native Georgian, born in
Atlanta, and, since 1966, had
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understanding of the educa
tional and cultural systems of
Georgia and the two African
countries.
Nix said that he is hopeful
this seminar will bring signifi
cant improvements in Georgia
public schools in the teaching
of geography, history and
other social study subjects.
“By involving educators at a
high decision-making level, this
project should have a broad
impact on the degree to which
Africa is discussed informative
ly in Georgia schools.
“This will affect both black
students, who draw part of
their heritage from Africa, and
white students, who have been
denied serious access to this
portion of world civilization,"
Nix said.
county to operate day care
centers and outreach programs.
Last week, Georgia’s newest
and largest Appalachian Com
prehensive Child Care project
was announced for Chattooga
County. The $425,000 demon
stration project will provide
day care for 230 children of
working mothers here.
A nonprofit corporation,
Chattooga County Improve
ment Association, Inc., was
organized to administer the
project, which will provide
three day care centers in the
county. The largest will be
located at Holland and two
smaller centers will be estab
lished in Summerville.
Primary emphasis will be
given to the correction of
physical problems through
medical and dental treatment
for the children. This service
will be provided by the local
Trion Officials
Extend Thanks
To Rep. Floyd
Cite Help
On Streets,
Sewerage
In a statement released this
week, Mayor J.C. Woods ex
pressed the mayor and coun-'
cil’s appreciation to Rep.
James (Sloppy) Floyd for his
help on several projects of
great benefit to the Town of
Trion. The text of the state
ment follows:
“The mayor and council of
the Town of Trion would like
to express their appreciation to
the Hon. James (Sloppy) Floyd
for the help he has secured for
the Town of Trion on many
projects.
‘Sloppy’ has been very co
operative in helping on our
street paving. Several years ago,
we began to receive grant
money from the state, ear
marked for street maintenance.
Due to the formula of distribu
tion, and our small population,
the amount we received each
year was very small. We took
this money and put in on
savings for several years. Then
we let a street contract for
several streets in the town,
with Trion paying the entire
cost out of grant money.
“Then Mr. Floyd advised
that we would be able to se
cure paving for our county,
and for all four municipalities.
We have received two to three
miles each year for several
years. These contracts cleared
through our county com
missioner, Mr. Harry Powell,
who has been very cooperative
in working with the municipali
ties.
“We feel that had not it
been for ‘Sloppy’, we would
not have our streets in the con
dition they are in presently.
We, along with other citizens
of Trion, are deeply indebted
to him for this financial aid.
MORE AID
“In addition to this, he was
very instrumental in helping us
secure $300,000 on our sewer
project through the Ap
palachian Regional Commis
sion.
“Sloppy lias not only
helped our municipalities, but
also our county in many ways.
We feel that he had a part in
helping secure $25,000 from
the state for the Library Fund,
as well as many other projects.
“The Town of Trion has
accepted the recreational pro
gram as of July 1, 1972. This
program has been operated by
the Trion Community Founda
tion, Inc., since 1945.
“We plan to expand our
recreational program, including
a new community center build
ing, and we feel sure we will
health department and local
physicians and dentists.
Mrs. Peggy Morehead has
been named project director
for Chattooga County,
Nancy Edwards, Appala
chian day care project director,
said there is special emphasis
on training as a part of the
total demonstration project.
There will be large preservice
and inservice training project,
including training centers at
North Georgia College, West
Georgia College, and Berry
College. AH vocational and
technical schools, coUeges, and
junior colleges in the 35-coun
ty area will be involved in the
total training program for staff,
parents, and community
groups. The project will
develop and test models for
child cAre positions and will
establish a related career ladder
training program for job certif-
A Uli
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was easily identified by most
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We appreciate your con
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Today’s Mystery Picture is
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have the cooperation of all of
the citizens of the Town of
Trion to make a better pro
gram for our young people,
and a better place in which to
live.”
ication and degrees. The three
above-mentioned colleges will
operate day care and outreach
programs for student training
and observation.
In addition to the four new
child care projects for day care
and outreach services, there arc
five Appalachian day care
programs already in operation
which were funded at $1.5
million last year. The four new
projects and their programs are
described below.
The $2.2-million Coosa
Valley District Child Care
Project will operate 10 day
care centers for 628 children in
Bartow, Chattooga, Catoosa,
Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haral
son, Paulding, Polk, and Walker
counties.
The $ 1.9-million North
Georgia District Child Care
Project plans eight day care
centers to service 475 children
Summerville, Ga. 30747.
The rules to join in our fun
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(cards or letters) guesses can be
accepted. If you have already
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Kindergarten
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins and
Mrs. Judy Ragon will have a
kindergarten at the Trion Pres
byterian Church, beginning
when school starts.
Hours will be 8:30 until
11.30 Tuesday through Friday.
Applications are now being
taken and may be obtained by
calling either 734-2104 or
734-2001 or see Charlotte
Hawkins.
and outreach programs to serve
475 children in Cherokee,
Fannin, Gilmer, Murray,
Pickens, and Whitfield coun
ties.
The 12-county Georgia
Mountains Child Care Project
will develop eight programs.
The $2-million project covers
Banks, Dawson, Forsyth,
Franklin, Habersham, Hall,
Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens,
Towns, Union, and White
counties.
The $2.2-million Lower
Appalachian Region Child Care
Project will serve 700 children
in nine day care centers located
in Barrow, Carroll, Douglas,
Gwinnett, Hears, Jacksoo^aud^
Madison counties.