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There Is No Substitute for Blood
Ihe Chattooga County Chapter of
the American Red Cross has initiated a
local blood program in an effort to
assure residents of this community that
blood will be available at the time it is
needed. And. best of all, under the
.present plan, that precious blood is free.
Ihe real core of the blood program
is the periodic visits of the Bloodmobile
from the Atlanta Red Cross Regional
Center in Atlanta.
That bloodmobile will be at the
Summerville Recreation (enter from
12:30 until 5 30 p.m. today, l ocal Red
Cross officials are shooting for a mini
mum goal of 100 pints, and they need
your assistance to meet that quota.
During the Bloodmobile’s other
visits to Summerville, the quota has not
been met, as it must be over a year's
time if Chattooga County is to continue
to receive the many benefits from the
blood program.
An exception was the visit in Febru
ary to the Trion Recreation Center
where residents of that municipality
responded in force to donate pints ol
blood under the county plan Os a goal
of 150 pints, mostly Trionites responded
with 149 pints of blood.
Almost three-fourths of Red Cross
blood collections arc secured through
Bloodmobile visits.
The actual donation period takes
about seven minutes, although the entire
ll All Hogan in 1961
As South Vietnam’s forces lose their
grip on more of that country, the awful
cost of America's misguided el fort in
Southeast Asia becomes agonizingly
clear.
It all began when President John
Kennedy committed American troops to
the fighting in 1961. Fourteen years
later, we have these results to look back
over:
Fhe tremendous dollar expendi
ture destroyed the value of the dollar
worldwide.
The unpopularity of the war at
home caused division, rioting, draft eva
sion It brought an end to the draft,
Ao "(ure in Sight
Experts expect to eventually find a
cure for cancer and many other dreaded
ailments but a recent report on the
common tormentor, the headache, is
that a preventative isn’t likely to be
found by medical science.
At a recent annual conference of the
American Association lor the Study ot
Headaches. Dr Donald Dalessio, editor
Other Editors Say:
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Unemployment, according to the
experts, has many causes. We think we
know one of them.
It happens when a young boy says
he will agree to work for you and comes
for the interview in faded, ragged
dungarees with the bottoms cut off;
dirty sneakers and no socks; and a semi
obscene sweatshirt with the sleeves cut
donation procedure takes almost 45
minutes Is that so long a period to
donate when one considers the wide
coverage that results from a fulfilled
quota? ;
Most anyone can give blood if they :
are not younger than 18 years of age, ■
nor more than 66 Only those potential ;
donors with histories of jaundice, s
malaria (during the past three years), >
hepatitis, or a malignancy are not :
accepted Others are excluded in certain
cases.
The county plan of coverage is a =
three-way agreement between Red Cross >
chapters, local hospitals, and the :
Regional Blood Center.
All residents of the county and their :
dependents children, spouse, parents, :
parents-in-law, grandparents, and grand- ;
parents-in-law are covered for their :
total blood needs anywhere in the :
United States or Canada. :•
All blood for county hospitals is :
supplied by the Blood Center. In turn,
that county is responsible for a yearly
quota based on 3.75 percent of the total •:
county population (750 pints a year for
('hattooga County).
There is never a charge for the blood
itself. ;
Blood is a precious commodity. And
only you can give it Local Red C ross
officials today are asking this question,
“Won’t you share your good health?”
■ which has escalated the cost of obtaining
armed forces personnel to such an extent
that we cannot now compete with
Russia in weapons procurement.
The U.S. effort diplomatically
alienated Washington from many of its
European and other allies and from
much of the rest of the world as well.
Inflation, directly caused by the
tremendous financial outlays in Viet
nam, has cost every American dearly,
especially the elderly and those Amer
icans on fixed incomes.
But worst of all is the aw ful cost in
injuries, death, and drug addiction of so
many young Americans
of the journal Headache, said other
specialists in the tick! agree there s slim
chance for finding a “cure.”
The primary method in dealing with
headaches will remain, for some time to
come, they agreed, treatment to relieve
the pain. Ami one ol the best treatments
is common aspirin
off. He wants immediate executive
status, a percentage of the take, three
weeks paid vacation a twenty-year
retirement, and a private office.
Then he goes away angry and says,
“The establishment won’t hire me
because of my long hair.”—
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10 Years Ago :•
APRIL 22, 1965 £
$:•: Open house will be held at the new Chattooga High School Sunday, >
$:•: Principal A. L. Clark has announced. •:
^e Chattooga Board of Education, in a called meeting early Saturday, j
x-j voted unanimously to occupy the building “as soon as possible.” Many i
students and faculty members went to work that day and also spent all day
jx; Monday getting ready for the occupancy on Tuesday morning. :
W: Chattooga County will not get an airport this year. ■:
j:;:;: Chattooga Commissioner Harry Powell announced Tuesday that “finan- j
xjx cial difficulties beyond our control” will prevent the county from raising its ■
$27,000. j:
Marianne Clarkson has been nominated for the annual achievement :•
g;:; awards program, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. :•
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Clarkson of Summerville, and is J
a student at Chattooga High School. •:
The Chattooga Hospital’s serious financial situation is expected to come j:
gg in for a full airing at the April meeting of the hospital board at 7:30 p.m. ■:
today. •
Faced with the threat of a levy on its bank account (which would have •:
gx tied up the entire account of $9,000) the hospital paid off a $7,609 •
indebtedness to the federal government.
The payment to Uncle Sam left the hospital with a badly depleted bank :
g:;! account, in addition to a low patient load.
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: :x : 20 Years Ago
g:: APRIL 21. 1955
First and second graders in Chattooga County joined with nine million ;
Kg: other children throughout the nation this week in the greatest march against :
X;:-: a single disease in history. :
xx The majority of the young pupils have already received the first round :
gg of polio vaccine in a series of three shots. In this county, workers and •
gg volunteers at the Health Department ran ahead of their three day schedule as •
xx- the vaccination lines moved rapidly.
gj:; Jimmy Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hill, was the first child in the :
:gg county to receive the Salk Vaccine.
gg The Inspector-Instructor Staff of the 4th Rifle Company. USMCR. :
g:g assisted by local Marine Reserves participated in a demonstration of a Marine •
g:g Rifle team in the attack of a fortified position at the Summerville High •
gg School. Realism was the key note insofar as circumstances permitted,
gg: through the use of colored smoke, blanks and explosives.
gg Possibilities of locating an Air Force Reserve unit in Summerville is :
gg: being explored this week.
Friday night will be a night to remember for 69 starry-eyed misses for ;
g:g some time tomorrow night one of that number of contestants will be given :
gg: the title of Miss Chattooga County of 1955.
Miss Chattooga County of 1955 will be crowned by Miss Jane Lowry,
xx winner of last year’s contest,
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w 30 Years Ago
gg ” APRIL 19. 1945
gg Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Elliott of Summerville received word April 17
gg that their son, Pfc. Walter Martin Elliott Jr., died Monday, April 2, of
jgg wounds received in action on the Western front in Germany.
gg: Pvt. William Donald Berry was killed in action March 16 on Mindaneo
gg Island in the Philippines. Pvt. Berry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Berry of
gg Berry ton.
gg President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed to his eternal reward in the
g:g L itlle White House at Warm Springs, Ga., last Thursday at 3:35 p.m. Eastern
gg War Time. His sudden death was a shock to the Nation and to the World,
gg Georgians were doubly grieved, since the President was looked upon as an
gx adopted son of this state.
W. H. Smith of Lyerly has been presented with a certificate of
gg: appreciation for 25 years of continuous, faithful, loyal and satisfactory
gg service as representative of the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company.
Pfc. Walden T. Vernun. 19. son of Mrs. Nellie Vernun of Lyerly, has :
gg been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action in France. :
Helen Dobbs of Lyerly and Doris Wyatt and Betty Jim Owings of :
gg: Summerville have been named on the dean’s list at West Georgia College.
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UNEMPLOYMENT RELATED TO IMPRISONMENT
The common assumption that rising unemployment
contributes to increases in criminal activity and an
expanding prison population has been substantiated by
a Department of Corrections and Offender Rehabilita
tion research project covering the years 1967 to 1974.
The researchers, George Cox and Timothy Carr,
report that “the relationship (between rising unemploy
ment and an increase in imprisonment) is so pronounced
that the expected lag in increasing criminal activity
following a rise in unemployment does not exist.”
THE INCREASES IN EACH area are nearly simul
taneous, with the rise-in-crime rate actually preceding
the rise in unemployment.
Why does an increase in the number of inmates
show up before a rise in the unemployment rate? you
ask.
Since lower socioeconomic class offenders out
number those in the middle class by 2.5 to 1, the report
speculates that the impact of a worsening economy
registers first in the public offender’s environment, the
researchers report.
By the time the peak of unemployment hits, many
potential offenders have already felt the impact of their
“last-hired, first-fired” status.
RESEARCHERS COX AND CARR plan to incor
porate other factors that affect economic opportunity
in their study, such as the military draft, which may also
have an impact on the correctional system.
The researchers said, “This study should give policy
makers more confidence in the too often unspoken
proposition that factors explaining prison population
are not limited to supposed psychological disturbances
of offenders, but that another dramatic factor is the
economic opportunity.”
The results of a further study will be interesting.
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SEX, AGE BIAS ON WAY OUT?
A city editor’s call for a “copy boy” may soon get
no response unless he says “copy messenger.” And
major league baseball players may have to learn to call
the “bat boy” the “bat keeper.”
These are some of the results stemming from
changes made in the U. S. Labor Department’s Direc
tory of Occupational Titles (DOT) to rid the publication
of age and sex connotations.
Nearly 3,500 job titles had to be revised to achieve
some degree of neutrality and sexlessness among the
35,000 job titles in the book.
THE PROJECT WAS undertaken to minimize any
inequity that might come about through using job titles
with sex or age in recruitment and hiring practices.
Under the plan, airplane stewardesses will become
airplane flight attendants; bondsmen will become bond
ing agents; bridal consultants will become wedding
consultants; and governesses will become child mentors.
Carrying the plan a step farther, the well-known
fisherman will be known simply as a fisher, and the
hat-check girl will become a hat-check attendant. Seam
stresses will be known by the more glamorous name of
custom sewers.
The next time you go to your favorite car dealer’s
place you should not ask to see a new car salesman;
rather you should ask for a new car sales associate. And
the endless jokes about that popular person, the sales
man, will have to be revised. Henceforth, he should be
referred to as a salesperson.
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By JOE C. HUMRICHOUS
‘THE CANCER OF COMPROMISE”
I am sure that each reader is very much aware of
seriousness of physical cancer. The words, “It was
malignant,” are horrifying and dreadful. Our first
concern is this, “Did you get it all?” We in no way
desire to allow particles of the dreadful disease to
remain, we want to get rid of all of it for we know that
it will eventually destroy the body.
So it is with compromise. Giving in. giving up and
selling our are the motto's for our modern day world.
Paul had a word on compromise in II Corinthians 6:17
when he said, “Wherefore, come out from among them
and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the
unclean things ..." The principle here is not contact
but conformity. Romans 12:2—“And be not conformed
to this world but be ye transformed ...” God is
teaching us that Christians are not to be pressed into the
mold of a Godless worldly society. We are to speak up
for Jesus and remain true to God’s Word.
Nobody asks a drowning man for help. He needs
help himself. So it is with our personal lives, our families
and our churches. We have compromised our standards
and convictions to the point where we ourselves are
sinking, thus we can help no one. Church leaders should
be men of God. Sunday School teachers should main
tain high standards for themselves as well as their
students.
It's time we gave our pet sins to God, stopped our
backbiting and started inviting people to Jesus.
Compromise is like cancer. Little by little it will destroy
our freedom.
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