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Cote Your Convictions
Next Tuesday, Chattooga County
voters will go to the polls to elect a
group of officials who will help run our
county and state governments for the
next two or four years.
Voting is a privilege and a duty-we
should all take advantage of, especially
in these days of “confused" politics, in
some instances.
Support Family Reunion Day
On Sunday. Aug. 11, families in the
United States and Canada will again cele
brate Family Reunion Day, an observ
ance first held seven years ago following
a proclamation by President Lyndon
Johnson.
Kiwanis International and Freedoms
Foundation at Valley Forge sponsor the
observance with the help of many other
organizations. The observance is being
sponsored locally by the Kiwanis Club of
Chattooga County.
Local Kiwanians strongly encourage
you to join in the celebration. It is not a
day for parades and mass gatherings. It is
a time to call your own family together
around the dinner table or the picnic
table. It is a time to worship as a family.
It is an occasion to telephone family
members in other areas of the country.
('onsider the Qualifications
It takes a majority in two legislative
houses and the signature of the governor
to pass many laws that have virtually no
effect on most Georgians.
A much smaller body of five men,
also elected by their constituents, has
much more effect on the daily lives and
the over-stretched family budget of all
Georgians. That is the Public Service
Committee.
This year’s race is attracting little
attention, but even that is more than it
has had in the past when PSC contests
were even more buried under the head
line-grabbing gubernatorial and sena
torial races.
Veteran Commissioner Bill
Kimbrough is being challenged by a
DeKalb County lawyer who thinks he
can reduce electric bills, or at least he
Our Symbol of Freedom
I he famous I iberty Bell, symbol of
our freedom, will be 222 years old this
month. There were actually four liberty
bells cast, two in England and two in
Philadelphia. The original purpose of
purchasing a liberty bell was to celebrate
the 15th anniversary of William Penn's
granting a charter to the Quaker City.
Isaac Norris, speaker of the Pennsyl
vania Colonial Assembly, ordered the
first liberty bell from Lester and Peck of
London. His instructions to the bell
makers were that the following words,
shaped in large letters round it, should
be put on the bell: “By order of the
Assembly of the Province of Pennsyl
vania, for the State House in the City of
Philadelphia. 1752.”
Below was to be: “Proclaim Liberty
throughout all the Land unto all the
Inhabitants thereof. Lev. XXV: 10."
The bell was delivered in August of
1752. and the local committee was com-
Watch Those Scorchers!
We call attention to a few symptoms
of sunstroke or heat prostration which
occur during severe hot weather.
Sunstroke offers ample warning
including headache, nausea and a dry
skin. Heat prostration cautions us with a
pallor, feeble heart action and subnormal
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We feel that the right to vote for the
candidate of one’s choice should be re
spected, and we would not be so presum
ptuous as to try to tell our readers for
whom to vote.
But we do urge you in the strongest
terms to go out and vote on Aug. 13.
You cannot afford to do otherwise.
It is an opportunity to renew family ties
and to review family history.
Families, historically, have been the
basic unit of society. It is the family
which sets standards for youngsters.
Ideas such as honesty, integrity, self
reliance, and religious faith are first
learned in the family circle.
It follows that strong families are
the keystones of a healthy nation. They
determine the moral level for the
conduct of life for both private and
public action. Strong families hold the
key for reduced crime, lower divorce
rates, control of drug abuse and violence,
and many of our other serious social ills.
Reaffirm your faith in the strength
of the family on this unique holiday.
Make Sunday, Aug. 11, your Family
Reunion Day.
says that is what he thinks. We doubt
that Larry Thompson really believes he
can reduce electric bills. If he does, he
hasn’t been reading the papers. With
costs going up for fuels to fire the boilers
for steam generation, costs going up for
money to finance electric plant construc
tion, costs going up for protecting the
environment and with rampant inflation,
the Public Service Commission will be
hard pressed to even hold the line on
electric rates.
Bill Kimbrough has never given the
power companies what they want, but
he has given them enough to stay in
business.
We hope you will give serious con
sideration to Bill Kimbrough’s candi
dacy.
pletely satisfied, except for one thing.
When it was set up in the ward to try its
tone and carrying quality, “it was
cracked by a stroke of the clapper with
out any other violence.”
Charles Stow and John Pass of Phila
delphia were commissioned to recast the
bell. They believed that the old bell was
too brittle, so they added more copper
to the mixture, with a resulting tone that
did not please the purchasers. Stow and
Pass cast a third bell, which turned out
to be our famous liberty bell, for which
they were paid about $303.
The bell weighed a little over 2,000
pounds, and measured twelve feet in
circumference around the lip. This is the
bell that pealed forth on July 8, 1776.
This is the bell hidden in the straw in a
wagon and removed from Philadelphia
until the British had evacuated the city.
This is our symbol of freedom.
temperature.
Overexertion in hot weather is
dangerous, as is overeating. Excess sugar
and fat should be avoided. Cool water,
not iced, is recommended, as are light
clothes and frequent baths.
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DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!
A man who was too close-fisted to
subscribe to his hometown newspaper
sent his young son to borrow his
neighbor’s copy.
In his haste, the boy ran over an SBO
hive of bees and in 10 minutes looked
like a warty squash. His father ran to his
assistance. Failing to notice the barbed
wire fence, the man ran into that,
cutting a hole in his anatomy, as well as
ruining a S2O pair of trousers.
The family cow took advantage of the
gap in the fence and killed herself eating
green com.
Hearing a racket, the wife ran out,
upset a four-gallon chum of cream into a
basket of chicks, drowning the entire
batch. In her haste, the wife dropped a
S2OO set of false teeth, which the family
dog buried, thinking it was a new type of
bone.
The baby, having been left alone,
crawled through the spilled cream into
the living room, ruining a S4OO carpet.
During the excitement, the oldest
daughter ran away with the hired man, a
stray dog broke up I 1 setting hens, the
calves got out and chewed the tails off
four good shirts on the clothes line, and
the cat had a batch of kittens.
All this just to save 15 cents. And the
sad part about it is, the poor guy never
even got to read the newspaper.
Does this suggest something to you?
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WHAT ARE YOUR PERSONAL GOALS?
What are the distinguishing marks of a
truly successful person?
Whatever .. . (your personal) goal
may be, it manifests itself in your work.
It gives you the self-confidence to push
on when the going gets rough . . .
It tells you that the law of averages
From Our Early Files
10 Y ears Ago
AUGUST 13, 1964
Natural gas service will soon be extended south from the Berry ton
bridge to the Georgia Rug Mill warehouse. Plans are to go into the town of
Lyerly next year ... A Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development
Commission report says Chattooga County is fortunate in its number of
good county roads.
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20 Years Ago
AUGUST 12, 1954
Chattooga County fanners and landowners during the last reporting
period produced 704 standard cords of pulpwood . . . Chattooga Coifnty
residents are receiving $23,253 monthly in Social security insurance
benefits . . . The Summerville and Trion B&PW clubs will host the next state
meeting.
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30 Years Ago
AUGUST 10. 1944
One of the featured attractions of the Army’s Textile Rally scheduled
today at Trion will be the WAC Band from Fort Oglethorpe, considered one
of the Army's best bands . . . For Sale: 70-acre farm. Good four-room house,
large barn, large chicken house, and other outbuildings. Some timber Total
Price: 53,300.
TALK ABOUT A POTENTIAL FOR GOSSIP
Thursday
Comment
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works for you, not aganist you, in the
long run.
Your personal goal need not be
printed on the wall for others to see. If
you have real purpose, what you do
today, what you did yesterday, last
week, and last month will be proof of
your ultimate destination. However, you
must work toward your goal one day at
a time.
If you have any doubts or misgivings,
remember this: if you stick to your
ideals, maintain your high standards, and
work hard, you will have the strength
and desire to keep going when others
falter and fail.
You must aim high, for if the goal is
too easily reached, you will not have
fulfilled its purpose: to provide you with
drive and keep you from becoming
complacent.
If you are without a personal goal,
you’re like a gun without a trigger. You
can take aim, but you’ll never (hit the
target).
You must work to succeed. The
dictionary is the only place where
success comes before work.-Reprinted
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THIS MODERN WORLD: Today, a
woman’s character cannot be judged by
her clothes. Insufficient evidence.
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Why is
it the people who boast they can take it
or leave it alone are always taking it?
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: “How
about giving me 50 cents,” the young
boy asked his dad.
“When 1 was your age, Son, I asked
for pennies.”
“0.K., then. Give me 50 pennies.”
THIRTY
Sensing the News
By ANTHONY HARRIGAN
Executive Vice-President
United States Industrial Council
One of the underplayed news stories of recent
weeks was the story of Sen. Henry M. Jackson’s
“Summit” visit to Communist China and his recom
mendations on his return.
For several years, Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) has main
tained a hard-line posture on defense and foreign policy,
despite his record of liberalism on domestic issues. Now,
it seems, he intends to shed his image as a hard-liner.
This became apparent in a press conference that the
Washington Post said had “the earmarks of a presi
dential campaign production.” The Senators hard-line
opposition to Chinese Communist ambitions was aban
doned in his announcement that he favors full U. S.
diplomatic relations with the Peking regime and with
drawal of the American embassy from Free China on
Taiwan.
The Committee for A Free China has rightly de
scribed Sen. Jackson’s proposal as “Wrong morally,
militarily, strategically, tactically, diplomatically and
practically.”
Sen. Jackson’s statement is shocking and dismaying.
It is nothing less than a proposal that the United States
signal to the world that it downgrades the value of
association with a free people and prefers a harmonious
relationship with a regime ideologically committed to
the destruction of the United Statesand responsible for
the deaths of more than 20 million anti-communist
Chinese on the mainland. Is this to be American moral
leadership in the decade ahead? Is this Sen. Jackson’s
view of the responsibility of American power?
Sen. Jackson’s switch to the apologist role is un
mistakable. When a reporter noted that the senator
sounded like he had discovered a “good communist
superpower,” Sen. Jackson replied: “I’m not passing on
the goodness” of China but “what I’ve suggested is there
are many areas where our interests are parallel.”
What areas? How can the United States, a nation
based on individual liberty, have parallel interests with
one of the most brutal and anti-human regimes of
modern history?
Obviously, the interests of the United States cannot
parallel the interests of Communist China. Everything in
Mao’s China is antithetical to the way of life in which
Americans believe. Free China on Taiwan, however,
represents not only dedication to orderly, democratic
processes but is a continuation of the mainstream of
historic Chinese culture which Mao and his brutal
cohorts have sought to destroy. Indeed at this very time
the Peking regime is attempting to extinguish the last
vestiges of the Chinese people’s dedication to the prin
ciples of their older civilization.
The United States has to deal with Communist
China as a fact of international life. Discussions can be
carried forward without adding to the prestige of the
Mao regime or undercutting the Free Chinese on
Taiwan. If American history means anything, especially
its history of involvement in the Far East since the 19th
century, the United States has a solemn obligation to its
own traditions and interests to foster genuine freedom
in Asia—not to suggest that the lights of freedom in Asia
are of no importance.
Sen. Jackson’s private summit meeting in Peking
suggests that ambition has triumphed over principle and
that the senator is hoping to earn the good will of those
in America who are bent on appeasing Chairman Mao.
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By JOE C. HUMRICHOUS
Pastor, Calvary Baptist Chruch
“WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?”
Sometimes it is hard for us to understand why our
world is in such a mess. We are facing a financial crises, a
political crises, an energy crises, and especially a
spiritual crises. The powers of darkness are moving
forward in full force.
When we look into the Bible, we find however that
these events are quite normal. Hundreds of years ago
these situations were prophesied as being the signs of
the time before Jesus Christ comes again.
The increase of demon activity, homosexuality and
drugs are all explained in 1 Tim. 4:1; II Tim. 3:1-13 and
Rev. 9:21. The mention of the energy crises is given in
Rev. 6:5-8. These events should alert us to the fact that
Christ may soon come again.
The next event on God’s table of events is the
Rapture of the Church. Paul speaks of this event in I
Thessalonians chapter 4. All those who have trusted
Christ as Saviour will be caught up in the clouds with
Christ. Those who have not, will be left to endure the
seven years tribulation.
According to the Bible, some “world leader” will rise
up and appear to be the “Saviour” of the remaining
people. This “world leader” will eventually sit in the
rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and claim to be God. He is
called the Antichrist. This seven year tribulation will be
horrible! Jesus himself warned that it would be greater
than any past or future world judgment (Matt. 24:21).
Most of those who had an opportunity to receive Christ
before the rapture will not receive him afterwards thus
they will be lost forever.
Are you ready? What if the rapture took place
today? Would you go to be with Christ or would you be
left behind? Trust him today.
MR. JOE
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