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Indian Lore Staff
MJlor^hlrf.-. Joel Cordle
Assistant Editor Jim Meredith, Vicki Cooper
Business Manager Pes(erf ” ld
C°Py Ed l‘ or f Paula Warren
Feature Editor Kathryn Clowdis
Fine Arts Editor Angie Wa)ker
Sports Editor John Marks
Art Editor Susan Kellett
Photographers Richard Hudson, Scott Pullen
Correspondence Editor . . .Keitha Cash
Reporters Greg Espy, Chip Edleson, Joey Ward
Guest Editorial
STUDENT FINDS PRINCIPAL HUMAN AFTER ALL
The Board of Education elected Jack Herring as principal at
Chattooga High School in July 1972. Mr. Herring and his family,
moved to Summerville from Seattle, Washington approximately
six years ago. For two and a half years Mr. Herring was employed
at CHS as a teacher. During the 70-71 school term the oppor
tunity for him to become involved in administration came. The
position of assistant principal opened and he was soon appointed
to this office. He has now recently become the new Chattooga
High principal. Mr. Herring stated that he became involved in
education merely by chance. “When I first began teaching I
noticed many things I’d like to change, thus, the only way to do
this without group protest was to move upward in public and
school administration,” explained Mr. Herring.
Mr. Herring is half Cherokee and half German. He was born in
Louisiana and spent most of his teen's there. At the age of sixteen
he dropped out of high school and later joined the Navy.
Afterwards, he obtained his high school diploma by taking the
G.E.D. He attended college at the University of Alaska, Louisiana
State, and he graduated from Berry. He then received his masters
at the University of Georgia. On December 10th of 1967 he
began his work at Chattooga.
When questioned about his views upon many different sub
jects, Mr. Herring proved to be a very versatile person. He stated
that CHS, compared to other schools, has less problems and there
is an overall better student body. Only a very rural school may be
as good. Mr. Herring rated CHS extremely high. “Private schools
are made up of the top 10% of public schools. Thus they are
made up of only one economic level. If the top 10% at CHS was
compared to any of the private school students, they would score
just as high as any of those. Not only does CHS provide the basic
learning facilities, but we also prepare students for the respon
sibilities of life and in doing this they encounter all levels of the
economic system at an early age.”
Many students gripe about lunches and would like to eat in
town. Mr. Herring expressed a few interesting views on this point.
“In a city where all students ride or walk to school this would
work very well, but in a school where 70% of the students are
bused there would be complications on transportation to town. I
personally have no objections to the students eating in town and I
don’t believe the Board of Education wou|d be against it, but the
parents would have to realize the school would not accept any
responsibility after a student left campus. The problem is that the
majority of the school funds come from the state; this enables us
to provide reduced lunch prices and the free lunch program. With
the majority of students eating in town we could not offer this.
When asked to give his definition of education and what he
feels his purpose at Chattooga High is, Mr. Herring stated,
"Because of fast changing scientific and technological advances
our job is not so much to teach facts, excluding the basic
essentials, but is to impart such things as responsibility, critical
thinking, self-discipline and an inquiring approach to life.
Mr. Herring has no other interests besides in education and
agriculture. He has already been involved with industrial business
and he stated that he was interested in no other occupational
fields. He plans on being a cattle rancher after retirement.
Most of the students at CHS do not realize the problems and
pressures put upon the principal. Hopefully this article has given
you a bit of an inside look at our principal and will clear up many
of the questions in the minds of the student body. In future
incidents, view the facts before judging the person or persons in
charge.
“Os Science and logic he chatters
As fine and as fast as he can
Though 1 am no judge of such matters
I’m sure he’s a talented man."
This school is fortunate to have a man such as Jack Herring,
backing it in whatever the circumstances.
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Report
Chattooga Downs G.S.D.
Hard fighting Chattooga
dropped a determined GSD
Tiger team Friday night by the
score of 68-53.
A vastly improved squad
arrived in “Big Red Country”
and fought Chattooga a battle
to the finish.
Mike Morrison, top sharp
shooter for the Indians,
pumped in 22 points to lead
over all point totals for the
event.
Maidens Smother Tigerettes
Chattooga’s girls bashed
GSD’s girls in an avalanche of
points. The score, 63-20,
showed the stronger of the two
teams that played here Friday
night.
The Indianettes exploded in
the second half to overpower
the weaker Tigerettes.
Ringgold Rips
Indian Maidens
Sub-Region contender Ring
gold, broke lose in the second
half to out score Chattooga’s
Indian Maidens 64-46, Satur
day night.
Susan Floyd led “Big Red”
with 17 points for the girls.
The hard fought battle be
tween these teams could be the
battle for the sub-region crown
in the future.
Chattooga’s girls play Satur
day at Dalton against the
strong Catamounts.
Indians Ring Ringgold
Jack Mayo’s Chattooga
Indians defeated a skilled Ring
gold Tiger’s basketball squad
Saturday night, 54-48.
Once again Mike Morrison
led the shooting with 19 points
followed by Gary Perry with
15 and Champ London with
14.
Saturday, Dec. 16, Chat
tooga clashes with the Cata
mounts from Dalton.
Triple-A Dalton should
prove a strong challenger to
Chattooga as Dalton earlier fell
orey to Ringgold.
Tomahawks
Bloody tomahawks are
hurled this week at:
. . . girls losing ballgames
. . . not buying a candle
. . . people not helping on
floats
. . . reform school??? (CHS)
. . . bad tempers
. . . lima beans, corn bread
and burned apples
. . . wisdom teeth
.. . Wednesday morning
workouts
. . . Melinda’s too long
Student Council
To Hold Elections
On return from Christmas
holidays the student council
will hold elections concerning
several amendments to the con
stitution. The election will
hopefully settle the complaints
which have arisen concerning
the method of selecting Home
coming Queen.
When the student council
holds its next meeting, the dif
ferent methods for choosing
Ideal Male
Teacher
All teachers may not be
perfect but most teachers have
some good qualities about
them. With all of these quali
ties combined this may be the
perfect male teacher of CHS:
The looks of Stanley Cook
The wit of Mr Marks
The walk of Coach Mayo
The coolness of Mr Ford
The intelligence of Dr.
Grant
The sternness of-Coach
Windle
The physique of Mr. Her
ring
The voice of Mr Bergwall
The courtesy of Mr. Ellis
The jolliness of- Mr. (Jug)
Hayes
The smile of Mr. Denson
The quietness of Coach
Peppers
The eyes of Mr. Hartline
The tallness of Mr Mosley
Honor Roll
Corrections
Made
The following names were
omitted from the fall quarter
honor roll list that was printed
in last week's paper:
Stanley M. Willingham,
Frances E. Willingham, and
Charles T. Williams.
INDIAN LORE
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GO INDIANS!
BOYS
The Chattooga Indians have started their 1972-73
basketball season with a bang. They have a perfect 3-0
mark and one of the wins was a very fine game against
the Ringgold Tigers. Chattooga opened their season with
a win over the Chattanooga Valley Eagles by a margin of
64-53. Their second victory came Friday night when
they defeated the GSD Tigers and they achieved their
unblemished record by nipping Ringgold, 54-48 Satur
day night.
LaFayette, ranked No. 2 in the state, and Ringgold
are considered to be the top two teams challenging the
Indians for the sub-region crown.
GIRLS
It looks as if it’s going to be another one of those
years for the girl’s team when nothing goes right. The
girls lost their initial contest to Chattanooga Valley and
won their second over GSD. They also lost to the
Ringgold Tigerettes, 68-46. It looks like the girls are so
intent on scoring that they have forgotten how to play
defense and rebound. There is no need for someone to
take a 20 or 25 foot shot when they could pass to
someone under the goal for an easy lay-up. The girls are
going to have to learn mental discipline before they can
even think of having a winning season.
BAD WEEKEND IN ATLANTA
It was another bad weekend in Atlanta sports circles
as all of the professional teams there were beaten. The
Atlanta Flames started it with a loss Saturday night to
the St. Louis Blues, 2-1, in a game in which the Flames
were highly favored. Then Sunday came and three more
defeats followed. The Falcons were beaten by the San
Francisco 49’ers, 20-0 in a battle for the division lead.
Now the 49’ers must lose Saturday to the Minnesota
Vikings and the Falcons must win Sunday against the
Kansas City Chiefs for Atlanta to make the playoffs.
The Hawks followed suit by being bombarded by a
score of 130-115 at the hands of the KC-Omaha Kings
to lose their division lead. The Flames lost again to the
same St. Louis Blues by a 5-4 margin and faded back
into the pack in the NHL.
Maybe this week will be better.
PREDICTIONS
Last week’s average: 3 right, 1 wrong for a .750
percentage. Season’s average: 150 right, 40 wrong and 4
ties for a .789 percentage.
The high school football season is over and there are
no college football games this week. Next week I will
predict the college bowl games.
queen will be voted upon.
Then the method chosen will
be written into the form of an
amendment and voted upon by
the student body. Seemingly
all members of the council are
in favor of changing the
method now in use, however
there is much disagreement as
to which method is better. No
one has any idea whether the
vote will go for football players
sponsoring girls to run or for
the senior class homerooms to
choose the girls to run. Both
methods were explained in last
week’s Indian Lore.
Student Council members
are presently busy asking stu
dent opinions on the matter.
Al) students should tell one of
their class representatives how
he or she feels.
Another amendment to be
voted upon deals with class
officer elections. The student
council recognized the need for
run-off elections in contests of
more than two candidates if a
majority of the vote isn’t won.
The run-off would be between
the top two candidates.
The only other matter to be
voted upon is a new senior
class representative to fill the
seat vacated by Susie Stewart
due to her early graduation.
This seat is open to all seniors
who meet the requirements in
the student council consti
tution, one of which is an 85
overall average.
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BY GREG ESPY
Teachers See
Supplement
Delayed
Teachers recently learned
that the annual supplements
they receive would be post
poned. The SIOO salary ad
dition which is customarily
given before Christmas has
been delayed due to a
temporary lack of funds caused
by the late collection of
property taxes.
Property taxes are usually
collected in October, however
this year they will not be col
lected until the last of January
at the earliest. This late collec
tion of county taxes is a result
of Chattooga County’s tax
digest being rejected by the
’ State of Georgia for re-evalua
tion. The county wasn’t noti
fied of the rejection until
’ November.
Salaries for teachers have
j presented no problems since
the major portion is paid by
the state, but supplements are
paid by county funds. When
I county officials were faced
with the question of paying
teachers’ supplements they de
cided the wisest action would
; be a postponement. The only
other alternative to delaying
the supplements would have
been to borrow the money,
which would have raised the
: county debt already caused by
the late collection of property
]• taxes.
The Summerville News. Thurs.. Dec. 14, 1972
Reviews
“The Panic
In Needle Park”
James Mills, Signet, 1967
By Paula Warren
Some books do two things;
they shock and move you at
the same time. The Panic In
Needle Park is an excellent
example of this.
This book grew out of Life
reporter James Mills’ exper
iences in a junkie’s world. It is
a powerful story of two young
addicts in love.
The New York panic of
1964 is still not forgotten
today. One late Thursday eve
ning in October of that year,
two men dressed as hunters
approached a farmhouse near
Marseilles. One of the men
pretended to be wounded by a
hunting accident. They came
to the door and called out for
help. A young woman
cautiously opened the door
and instantly the man pretend
ing to be wounded charged in
at the woman and the other
man grabbed her hand as she
reached for the warning
buzzer. They were then fol
lowed up to the second floor
by fifteen uniformed police
men who had been hiding in
the woods nearby On the
second floor they found bags
containing two hundred and
twenty pounds of morphine
base and a huge stack of
glassine bags filled with two
hundred and twenty pounds of
heroin. The heroin alone was
enough to supply all of New
York City’s addicts with 4‘A
million shots each at a retail
price of 2W million dollars.
It was the largest heroin
seizure in history. But for the
addicts it meant the longest
and worst panic that any of
them had ever experienced. It
was especially bad for two of
them, a young man and a
young woman named Bobby
Axel and Helen Reeves. This is
the story of how they lived in
panic and what became of
them.
Bobby was a tough New
York street kid who did the
whole down-and-out number
from a petty burglary to heavy
dealing. Bobby was a heroin
addict.
Helen was a nice middle
class kid from the midwest
who came to New York look
ing for freedom and ended up
in the grimiest trap going.
Helen was a heroin addict.
This story is both fiction
and fact in that none of the
characters ever existed exactly
as they were described and in
that none of the characters or
events described are an impo
ssibility in the junkie world.
Everything that happened here
has happened many times
before to people not unlike the
ones described in this book.
Mr. Mills has experienced
what it is like living in a
junkie’s world and portrays his
characters well. He deals with
the panic over a short supply
of heroin, a love triangle be
tween a man, a woman, and a
drug, the shadow of the over
dose, the scheming and the
desperate.
This book will amaze you
by bringing out the fact that
there are so many heroin
addicts in the U.S. today.
While reading this story you
experience many different feel
ings, mostly those of pity for
the addicts.
The Panic In Needle Park
tells it like it really is and will
occasionally sicken you with
the detailed accounts of the
withdrawal pains, overdoses,
and frustration the addicts
themselves go through. It is a
novel well worth reading and
one that you will probably
never forget.
It is now a motion picture
starring Al Pacino of "The
Godfather."
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Records
Youngbloods Die Trying
High on a Ridgetop
The Youngbloods
By Joel Cordle
During their existence the
Youngbloods' success was
limited, to say the least. Their
talents were numerous, their
music was generally appealing,
but stardom never really came
their way.
"High on a Ridgetop” was
the Youngbloods’ last effort
before their break-up. The
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Participants and alternates in the Governor’s
Honor Program are, left to right, Lee Ann Willing
ham, Cyndy Gilbreath, Greg Stewart, Becky White
and Janet Keith. Terri Treadaway is not shown.
Students Participate in
Governor’s Honor Program
Three students were
selected from CHS to partic
ipate as semi-finalists in the
1973 Governor’s Honor Pro
gram. They are Lee Ann Will
ingham-math, Terri Tread
away-drama, and Greg Stewart
science. Three alternates were
also selected; they are Cyndy
Gilbreath-spanish, Janet Keith
social studies, and Becky
White-math. The semi-finalists
will be notified by the State
Department of an interview
date. If one of the semi
finalists was unable to attend
the alternate would replace
him.
These six students were
selected by a special committee
consisting of teachers who
were chairmen of the following
CHS Band and
Chorus Present Concert
The band and chorus will
present their annual Christmas
concert on Thursday, Dec. 14
at the CHS cafetorium.
The chorus will sing "Sleigh
Ride,” “Silver Bells,” “Winter
Wonder Land,” and “Deck the
Halls.” The band will play
Smoke
Signals
Thursday, December
14-Christmas concert in CHS
lunchroom 7:30 p.m. Admis
sion-$1.50 for adults, SI.OO
for students.
Friday, December 15-The
following clubs will meet:
Beta, Jr. FHA, Political
Science, and FBLA.
Monday, December
18-Beta Club talent show “A”
period for all students.
Tuesday. December 19-
CEA Representative Council
meets 2:30.
Wednesday, December
20-Last day of school Christ
mas holidays begin.
songs are light and simple, yet
done with total perfection.
They have relied almost strictly
on other people's material,
ranging from Bob Dylan's “I
Shall Be Released” to the
Beatles' “She Came Through
the Bathroom Window"; from
the fifties comes "Speedo,
Donna” and the classic “Run
ning Bear.”
During the six years that
passed between the Young
bloods’, first hit and their
break-up, they matured into an
exceptional group of
musicians.
“High on a Ridgetop" is a
fitting farewell to such s band.
BS 2653
9-A
eight areas: English, modern
foreign language, math, sci
ence, social studies, visual arts,
drama, and music.
To be nominated a student
must have an IQ of 120, rank
in the upper ten percent of his
class, have an over-all grade
average of B with an average of
A for the area in which he is
nominated and be recom
mended by the teacher of the
area in which he is nominated.
The program was designed
to give tenth and eleventh
graders more educational
opportunities not usually avail
able during the regular school
year. The program is also de
signed to assist students in
recognizing their potential.
“Home for the Holidays,” “Do
You Hear What I Hear?” and
“Christmas Moods.”
The concert will begin at
7:30 p.m. and admission is
$1.50 for adults and SI.OO for
students.
Return to School
Ordered For
Teachers
The following will explain
the standard issued by the
Southern Association-“ The
Commission on Secondary
Schools”-concerning addi
tional study requirements for
high school teachers who only
have a Bachelor’s Degree.
The Association now re
quires that all teachers teaching
in a SACS accredited second
ary school must earn additional
college credit in order to be
able to teach. It stated that
each member of the teaching
staff will be required to earn at
least six semester hours of
college credit every five years
that he is employed. A teacher
is required to do this until he
has earned 30 semester hours
or until he has reached the age
of 60, whichever comes first.
These six semester hours must
be in those areas of work de
signed to increase the com
petency of the teacher in the
area or grade level being
taught.
Principals are required to
maintain a master file on pro
fessional activities of all their
teachers beginning with the
1968-69 school year. This file
should show age, highest
degree held, and dates and
amounts of additional college
credit. The State pommittee
will hold the principal respon
sible for providing this infor
mation when requested.
Mr. Herring announced that
cours< s will be offered at CHS
on Wednesdays at 4:00 starting
January 3rd.