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Observations
By ELBERT -FORESTER
Editor, The Dade County Sentind
v This is the week of the year when those who write for $
S publication, scrape the barrel, (just an old saying). They $
cj clean up all the stuff hanging on the hook and/or in the
§ suspense file. So here goes: K
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g Headline-Portland, Oregon (AP)-“Ecologists Put ft
■S Diapers on Horses.” Then, goes on to say: “Loggers in the ft:
Bull Run Reservoir east of Portland are using horses and
$ putting diapers on them to protect water quality.” (Chatta
nooga Daily.)
ft Now, that IS the last straw-I reckon. I just thought iji
when I read it, how such a plan would work when farmers
S used mules to plow corn. Yeah. Just think! Well, perhaps a ft
ft good mule could be trained to hold up one ear or give you
ft some kind of a sign when he needed a change-and then $
ft proceed to get himself in position to be changed—or maybe g
■ft the throw-away type could be used. ft
ft My first impulse was to build some kind of a restroom- $
located at convenient places at the ends of the rows. Ruled ft
ft that out, however—especially iffen the rows were very long. $
ft The mule, see, might give you some kind of a signal when X
‘way out in the middle of the field, too far from the end of ft
the row for him to “make it.” Then, again, mule diapers
ft would have to all be tailor-made, seems to me-couldn’t be ft
•ft the regular three-cornered outfits. 1 can just see someone
putting up a sign, “Mule Diapers, Cut to Fit-Sanitary, 3 for
ft $1.00,” or something like that. Ah shucks.
•ft Next came a release from one of the Georgia State ft;
ft Departments re: calling for a cooperative federal project ft
having to do with what has caused rabbits to be scarce in
$ middle Georgia and what can be done about it. Well, they ft
ft ought to turn out a very good study of that project for a X
X couple or three millions-so what. ft
!•: All my life, it has been more or less my impression ft
ft and/or understanding that Ma Rabbits produced some six
•ft to eight litters a season-each litter numbering about sixto ;ft
ft nine. Right, Cuz. Charlie and Horace? Right. Oh, well, you !•:
•ft take it from there, Dr. Cureton-1 got a lot more to write.
Finally, in a recent edition of The Atlanta Constitution:
ft “Harry Reasoner, ABC-TV’s top newsman, expressed him- ft
■ft self on the air once not long ago. He had been asked the $
ft question: ‘How do you feel about men wearing pantyhose?’ ft
•ft Reasoner’s answer was in part, ‘1 don’t like the idea.’ He ft
ft; even went so far as to say he thought it was terrible.” ft
ft Ordinarily, I agree with Bro. Harry, but in this case, I’d X
•ft prefer to keep an open mind until I was afforded an ;t;
ft opportunity to see some of the attire modeled by such men I;!
$ as John Price, Mac McCurdy, Jim Caldwell, Paul Peal, Don
ft Espy, Terry Morgan, Riley Parham, Reuben Lyons and ft
ft others, see. By doggies, that would eliminate a lot of things ■>;•
•ft when we men started to dress up. Naw, I dunno-Don’t $
believe I can go along with that idea—guess I’ll just have to ft
agree with Mr. Reasoner. But, mind you, I’m not closing ft
ft the door on the suggest ion-not by jugful, (just another old $
$ saying). S
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ft The Summerville News—Runs a “What Is This” each •:•
•ft week, and The Sentinel runs a “What’s This.” So, for all ft
ft you half-million readers, more or less, “What’s This:” ft
•ft Now anybody identifying this lovable couple, will be ft
ft awarded a “Point.” Now, you all know what a point •!•
ft is-surely. And, just to show you that I’m on the level, will ft
•$ give a point to anyone who correctly names either the ft
:•$ handsome man or the charming young lady. Purty good ;j;
X deal there. Send your guess to P.O. Box 277, Trenton, $
$ Georgia-and that’s all there is to it to win a point. (Fair •:•
$ enough, agree Mouzon?) M
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I;! Pa Dave, Uncle Ed and Col. Adcox-Say Happy New ft
•!; Year to Everybody, Everywhere! Oops! There goes the bell,
ft and I ain’t got started. Just give me time, and I’ll get around ft
S to mentioning the things I really ought to say. But for;!;
ft now .. . Gotta Go, with this thought: ft
ft The New Year like a book lies before me . . . On itss
ft cover two words, “My life,” I see ... I open the covers and ft
ft look between —Each page is empty, no words can be :•!
•ft seen .. . For lam a writer, 1 hold the pen .. . That’s filled •:•
ft these pages to be read by men . . Just what kind of book ;ft
ft will my book be ... My life written there for others to $
•:• see .. . Each day a page written, one by one .. . Will it be ft
ft worthwhile when finished and done? .. . Lord, help me
•ft keep these pages clean and fair ... By living the life I’d
ft have written there. Happy New Year! ft
PS. More about everything around the circuit when I ft
ft get out of this jam .. . Iffen you know what 1 mean by •:•
ft “jam.” ft
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WHAT IS IT?
CHRISTMAS ICICLES
Only 3 Correct Answers
To Last Week’s Picture
Either our readers were very
busy with preparations for the
Christmas holidays or last
week’s Mystery Picture fooled
most of them. We received
only three correct letters iden
tifying last week’s picture.
For correctly identifying
last week’s Mystery Picture as
that of decorative Christmas
icicles, we are sending free
three-month subscriptions to
The Summerville News to:
J. R. Yarbrough, Route 2,
Collinsville, Ala.; Hugh Leath,
Menlo; Dee Anna Eller, 2
Kenwood Drive, Rome. Con
gratulations to these persons
who have been selected to re
ceive free subscriptions.
Today’s pictured object is
one most of you will, no
doubt, easily recognize. It is a
familiar object and should be
easy to identify. Look it over
carefully, and when you think
you have identified it cor
rectly, send a card or letter to:
Mystery Picture, Box 310,
Summerville, Ga. 30747.
We appreciate your con
tinued interest in our weekly
fun game and hope you will
continue to send in your cards
and letters.
The rules for playing the
game are simple. Send a card or
letter (no phone calls, please)
with the identity of the above
pictured object. Cards or
letters identifying this week’s
Mystery Picture must be in our
office by noon on Tuesday,
Jan. 2.
Church Party
Held in Rome
A large group from the
North Summerville Baptist
Church held its annual Christ
mas party Friday, Dec. 15.
The Intermediate Sunday
School class and their guests
enjoyed having dinner at the
Partridge Restaurant in Rome.
The pastor is Don Moreland
and the Sunday School
teacher, Bill Bass.
Why not send in your card
or letter right now. Join the
many readers who play our
Disabled Residents
Qualify for Benefits
About 1.7 million disabled
persons can get Medicare
health insurance under a
change in the social security
law-the first citizens under 65
to become eligible for this pro
tection since the Medicare pro
gram began in 1966.
Starting in July 1973, dis
abled people who have received
social security or railroad re
tirement disability payments
for 24 consecutive months or
more can get help from Medi
care in paying for their hospital
and doctor bills and other
covered services, according to
H. Marvin Boatwright, social
security district manager in
Rome.
Those eligible will include
disabled workers, disabled
widows and disabled depend
ent widowers between 50 and
65, disabled mothers 50 or
older who get social security
benefits because they have
young or disabled children in
their care, and people who get
benefits because they were dis
abled before age 22.
Starting in July, people
under 65 who need kidney
transplants or dialysis for
kidney disease also will be eligi
ble for Medicare if they have
worked long enough in jobs
covered by social security. This
health insurance protection
also will be available to insured
workers’ wives or husbands and
dependent children who need
dialysis treatments or kidney
transplants.
Eligibility begins the third
month after the month dialysis
begins and lasts through the
Philippine Student Visits Here
Jose I. Cardona, a student at
Shorter College, was an inter
esting visitor at Chattooga High
School recently.
During the course of the
day he spoke to students at the
school.
There are 7,000 islands in
the Philippines, he said, and
the people speak 87 dialects.
There are five major lan
guages English, Spanish,
Tagalog, Japanese, and a little
Chinese.
“When the temperature gets
down to 60 degrees, it is really
cold to us,” he said When the
temperature is I 10 to I 1 5 it is
fine. “It is so windy .”
He said his shirt is the offi
cial shirt of the Philippines, a
ha nd-crocheted long-sleeved
shirt. The embroidery is
Spanish influence, the collar
and cuffs, American, and the
slit side Chinese, he pointed
out.
Manilla is living in the 20th
century, he said, but the more
you travel and deeper into the
Second Front
weekly fun game. This might
be the time you are selected
for a free subscription.
12th month after the month
dialysis ends or the patient had
a kidney transplant.
Medicare has previously
been available only to people
65 and over.
“The protection has been
extended to severely disabled
people under 65 because on
the average they require seven
times as much hospital care as
other people and three times
as much service from doctors,”
Boatwright said.
“Many severely disabled
people can’t get private health
insurance for financial or other
reasons,” he said.
People who are getting
monthly social security pay
ments because they are
disabled will be notified if they
are eligible for Medicare. But
widows 50 or older who have
been severely disabled the last
two years but haven’t filed a
claim based on their disability
because they’re getting checks
as mothers caring for young or
disabled children will have to
apply for disabled widow’s
benefits to be eligible for Medi
care.
The hospital insurance is
funded by social security con
tributions from employees,
employers, and self-employed
people. The medical insurance
is funded by individual month
ly premiums and general reve
nues of the federal govern
ment.
Medicare is administered by
the Social Security Adminis
tration of the U. S. Depart
ment of Health, Education,
and Welfare.
jungle, you are transformed
into the 15th century, and in
the deep jungle into the Stone
Age people. The forests are
thick in the jungle There arc
Japanese in the jungle who still
think the war is going on after
20 years.
The jungles as you go
deeper into them become more
mysterious and exciting, he
said, with beautiful orchids and
ferns The people are so weird
looking. The natives walk bare
footed. The men still use spears
and bows and arrows. The
women go topless. “They smile
on you hello and wave on
you,” Jose said, “But they can
kill you. They are good at
spear throwing.” He said they
can take a piece of bamboo
and blow a needle stick in you
that will kill instantly. They
will talk good English, having
been taught by missionaries.
They have been taught the
Bible. They are a God-fearing
people. They dance the tribal
dances.
Goebel Will Return
To Chattooga Area
For Special Talks
Sets Series
Os Services
Next Week
One of the most popular lay
speakers in the entire South
will be in Chattooga County
next week for a series of
inspiring messages.
Wales A. Goebel, a layman
from Birmingham, Ala., will be
in Summerville on Jan. 5,
1973, and will continue his
talks through Jan. 7.
Mr. Goebel will speak at
Chattooga High School on
Friday morning, Jan, 5, and at
Summerville Junior High
School Friday afternoon.
On Friday night, he will
speak to the basketball players
after the game. The public is
also invited to attend this
meeting.
A “rap session” for all the
young people of the com
munity is scheduled by the
well-known speaker at 3 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 6, in the fellow
ship hall of the Summerville
Presbyterian Church.
> SANCTUARY SERVICE
At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday
evening, Mr. Goebel will con
duct a service in the sanctuary
of the Summerville Presby
terian Church. The public has a
cordial invitation to attend this
session.
Mr. Goebel is a former resi
dent of Summerville and a
former member of the Sum
merville City Council. His wife
is the former Jean Duff.
A local church leader said,
“You will be glad you attended
Wales’ talks, as perhaps no lay
man in our time has directed
more young people, as well as
adults, to Jesus Christ.”
TELLS IT STRAIGHT
In his talks in Summerville,
Mr. Goebel “will tell it like it
is.” Young people will find
answers to these questions:
“Who am I; Why am I here?;
Where am I going?; Why revo
lution, war, poverty, hate, and
pollution?”
It is said that no one “gives
it straighter to the parents”
than Wales Goebel.
“Is your home really
happy?” he asks. “Are there
talks of possible divorce? Is
there a lack of respect between
the children and their parents?
One meeting can open your
eyes to a new world, people
report. What have you got to
lose when nearly all is lost any
way? they ask.”
‘COME AND SEE’
Leaders say, “We would in
vite you as Philip did his
friend, Nathanael, when he said
to him, ‘Come and see.’ ”
Mr. Goebel held an inter
denominational crusade five
years ago at the Summerville
Presbyterian Church, and his
friends are looking forward to
his return to the community
for these special services.
Local church leaders extend
EXPLAINS NATIVE CUSTOMS
Jose was born in the jungle.
His grandfather, who is more
than a hundred years old, is
chieftain of his village. Jose
was brought up by a Christian
aunt He has lived in Japan. He
now makes his home with Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Hollis of Lyerly.
Marriageable age for men is
30-35 and girls 20-30.
“We have no divorce law,”
he said. “We are just careful in
selecting the partner in life.
Here, he said, “it is easy to
marry, you snap your finger, if
not right type, you separate or
live in pain without love.”
“Because cf our culture,
Philippinos enjoy their single
blessedness. Have all chance in
life select right one without
regret. Families are close. Old
people stay with us to the last
breath. There are no convales
cent homes We don’t have
women’s lib. We still believe
that woman is the crown of the
man. She must be queen of the
house, always in her castle.
Must be good wife-cook, wash
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Chattoogans Now
More Motorized
(Spacial To Tha Niwi)
NEW YORK Residents of
Chattooga County are getting
more motorized, year by year.
They have been buying new
cars at an increased rate during
the past two years, adding to
the county’s already high auto
population.
As a result of the steady
increase in ownership, the
number of families sporting
two or more cars in their drive
ways has gone up considerably.
By the same token, the number
of families without cars is
smaller than ever.
Because of the buying surge,
the roads and streets in the
local area have taken on a new
look. Instead of the many
vintage cars that were in evi
dence a few years ago, there
are now a large number of
shiny, late models to be seen.
The facts and figures are
contained in a consumer
market report covering all parts
of the country issued by the
Standard Rate and Data Serv
ice, and in data compiled by
a warm invitation to the people
of the community to hear this
outstanding speaker.
clothes, love husband. She goes
to the market for lunch, cooks,
goes to market in the after
noon. Cooks supper. We always
cat fresh fruit. Sometimes fish
are still jumping, they are so
fresh. Always buy fresh fruits
and fresh vegetables."
A woman driver is a rarity
in the Philippines and will stop
traffic. Always men drive.
They will say, "Oh, look at
that girl. She must be actress.”
He said of women drivers,
“They will bow and let you
pass, even run a red light. They
really admire you, if you’re a
woman and can drive.”
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DATING HABITS
A student asked him about
dating. He said the boy puts on
his best Sunday clothes, shines
his shoes, meets the parents
and asks the father for a day.
Just an hour the father says.
You remember that he means
that. Then there is a third
the Automobile Manufacturers
Association.
They show that car owner
ship in Chattooga County, as
of the beginning of this year,
reached the point of 150 cars
ffor every 100 families.
This was a larger ratio than
was found in most parts of the
United States, 141 cars per 100
families. In the South Atlantic
States.it was 146 per 100.
Taken into account in as
sessing the gain was the change
in the number of families a»f
well as in the number of cars in*
use and the number that were
discarded.
The figures show that auto
mobile registrations in the
county rose from 8,350 to
9,840 in the past five years.
The sturdy market for new
cars, locally and elsewhere, is
attributed to rising incomes, to
the growth of population in
suburban areas, where cars are
more necessary than in cities,
and to the many car-hungry
teen-agers.
Nationally, four out of five
families now have cars and 30
percent of them have two or
more.
person, the chaperone. The
chaperone sits between you.
Holding hands, he says, is
taboo. If you kiss a girl, she
may slap you. He said that still
if a boy kisses a girl and
doesn’t marry her, she may
commit suicide. In Japan, he
added, she may commit
hari-kari or jump in a volcano.
“This is your world, that is
our world,” he said. "Let’s be
happy."
He said that young people
in the United States who are
not happy with their govern
ment, don’t know their coun
try. They should go to another
country just for a'wrrk^aad
witness the corruption and red
tape and the lack of freedom.
Once back in the United States
they would say, “1 am happy 1
am an American.”
In closing he said, “May our
friendship not be in this room
only." He invited the students
to visit him at Shorter College.
"Let’s be friends,” the young
man with a happy smile, said.-