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The Summeruille News
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Editorials
Reagan’s Revision May
Cut Clean Water Act
The Reagan administration’s proposal
to revise the Clean Water Act’s
regulatory program for wetlands is a
serious violation of the ‘‘very intent’’ of
the Clean Water Act.
“I am troubled that this task force
directive for administrative revision of
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act —
President Reagan’s first stated position
on an environmental issue — so clearly
reflects a lack of concern for the health of
this nation’s environment,”” said Dr. Jay
D. Hair, executive vice president of the
NWF. “The report demonstrates the ad
ministration’s decided preference for
political expediency over the quality of
this nation’s waters.”’
Hair said he had voiced his concerns in
a letter to Vice President George Bush,
who heads the special regulatory task
force that recommended revisions for the
federal wetland regulatory program.
“Millions - of acres of wetlands are: at
stake,” said Hair. ‘‘We hope to be ablé to
sit down with Bush and resolve our dif
ferences before the proposals are im
plemented.”
Hair called the revisions ‘“no more
than a thinly-veiled guise to reduce the
jurisdictional scope of the wetlands pro
gram.”” He took issue with the proposal to
give the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
more authority in deciding how and
where development in wetlands can take
place.
“We can only assume that giving
more power to the Assistant Secretary of
the Army will allow him to overrule im
portant natural resource issues raised by
other federal agencies,”” said Hair.
The Federation also maintained that
the current permit process for develop
ment in wetlands, which allows a variety
of federal agencies to make recommenda
tions so that adverse effects are minimiz
ed, is working — by preventing the
destruction of an estimated 300,000 acres
of wetlands a year. Valuable habitats for
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44 YEARS AGO -
The following are excerpts from the June 16, 1938, issue of The Summer
ville News.
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42,876 ARE PAID PENSION IN JUNE: $378,783 Is Total Distributed To
Georgians Receiving Aid From The State — Old-Age Pensions Increase.
Public assistance checks for $378,783.50 were mailed Tuesday by the state
department of public welfare to 42,876 persons receiving pensions in June.
The amount being paid is an increase of $5,587.50 over the total payments
for May and will reach 1,124 more persons than in May.
Of the amount being paid, $280,654.50 will go for old-age pensions to
30,857 persons, $86,174.50 will be distributed to aid 10,962 dependent
children, and $11,954.50 will go to 1,057 needy blind persons.
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HAIR MOTOR COMPANY TO GIVE DEMONSTRATION — The Hair
Motor company, of this city, is staging a demonstration on the old hotel lot
next to the Presbyterian church on Friday and Saturday of this week, June 17
and 18. A free prize of $lO in cash will be given on Saturday to the person who
guesses the nearest actual miles traveled from 9:30 a.m. till 7:30 p.m. both
days, inclusive.
Free demonstration of 1938 28-85 Ford cars and the economical 60 cars will
be made. Owners have reported twenty-two to twenty-seven miles per gallon
with these wonderful cars.
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GEORGIA GAS TAX IN 1937 NEARLY TWENTY MILLIONS — A
record high of $19,550,000 was paid by Georgia motorists in gasoline taxes
last year, or an increase of 11.8 percent over 1936, when $17,483,000 was paid,
it has been announced by Neil W. Printup, secretary of the Georgia Petroleum
Industries committee. f o )
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TAVERN TO HAVE MUSICAL NUMBERS — The Riegeldale tavern is
happy to announce that it will have musical numbers on Tuesday, Friday and
Sunday nights. You are cordially invited to visit the tavern and enjoy these
nunébers, _wl‘n;eh. wfl:l:)le fresentzdhbetween the hours of 7 and 9.
ome in during this time and listen to the music, or come earlier if you like
and ha\.re di&ner, then stay wi}t:x u: for the music. 4
During the summer months the tavern is specializing in i
; e pecializing in sandwiches, soft
wildlife, wetlands also recharge
underground aquifers, reduce erosion and
filter harmful pollutants from the
nation’s water system. Almost half of the
wetlands in this country have already
been lost to development, according to
the NWF.
Fourteen other environmental groups
signed onto the letter of protest to Vice
President Bush. One of the signers, Dr.
Janet Welsh Brown, executive director of
the Environmental Defense Fund, said
the proposed revisions ‘‘were reached
through a process that circumvented
even the rudimentary benefit-cost
analyses mandated by the Reagan ad
ministration. Consequently, they would
have little effect on the costs to permit
applicants, and they could severely
undermine protection to the
environment.”’
The other groups that signed the let
. ter included: the Sierra Club, the Natural
" Resources Defense Council, Friends of
the Earth, the Conservation Foundation,
the Izaak Walton League of America, the
American Rivers Conservation Council,
the Environmental Policy Center, the
Clean Water Action Project, the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the
American League of Anglers, the Bass
Anglers Sportsman Society, the
American Fisheries Society, and Trout
Unlimited.
Representatives from each group ask
ed for a chance to meet with Vice Presi
dent Bush to discuss the proposed revi
sions.
BUILDING PROBLEM
You can’t build a reputation on what
you intend to do. — Grit
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IT IS?
Advanced middle age is that period in
which a person is too old to live and too
young to die. — Atlanta Journal
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Mountain Echoes
by Jimmy Townsend
Funeral For A Friend
I waited in the churchyard until
everybody else had gone into the church.
I didn’t want anyone to see me if I cried,
so I sat down the last pew. I get emo
tional at funerals, especially if it's so
meone who was good to me when I was a
boy.
Her casket was snow-white with silver
handles, and she was dressed in a
beautiful pink dress, just as she had re
quested. Her hair was neatly brushed and
she seemed to be smiling. I couldn’t take
my eyes off that casket until the preacher
finally said, ‘‘Let us pray.”
The death of her husband about a year
ago made it necessary for her to move in
to a rest home. She didn’t have any close
kin and was nearly 90. Living alone, even
for a woman who helped carve out this
country from the wilderness, would be too
hard.
All of her life, “Miz’’ Maude lived the
life of a rural girl and wife. Cows to milk
in all kinds of weather. Cooking for the
menfolk, tending her garden, churning.
And somehow she always found time to
wash clothes and boil them in an old black
pot. Her house was always as clean as a
pin. Her apron pocket always held some
goody for us children.
I thought about her three brindle cats.
Dialogue . . .
by James Budd
See Georgia First
It's vacation time and many Chat
tooga residents will be traveling around
the state looking for ways to relax and see
some unusual sights.
The Georgia Travel Council of the
state Chamber of Commerce has released
some information on upcoming fairs and
festivals for vacationers.
Here is a listing:
* Macon Mall's Annual Arts and
Crafts Summer Festival July 1-3. Artist
and craftsmen display their works.
* Salute To America Festival July 5 at
Rome’s Heritage Park. Will feature
music, drama and fireworks.
* Annual Salad Day at the State
Farmers Market in Atlanta July 17. This
year's event will feature the world’s
largest free salad.
* Vann House Days in Chatsworth Ju
ly 24-25. Celebrate the anniversary of the
opening of the Vann House as a State
Historic Site.
Now those events are all well and
good, but I've done some looking around
for some more unusual festivals around
the state, many of which are held
throughout the year:
*The MD 20/20 Wine Festival in
Atlanta at Peachtree and Third streets.
Event held nightly. Dress is casual.
* The Chattahoochee River Bash.
Held during the warmer months between
Morgan Falls Dam and the 1-285 bridge
in Cobb County. At times ‘“The Story of
0” is tame by comparison.
* The Human Demolition Derby held
winters at Sky Valley Ski Resort north of
Clayton. Features a 1,200-foot slope with
up to 150 targets on weekends. Derby is
he!d during warmer months at area reser
voirs.
THE WRONKS BELIEVE THE
OPPOSITE ABOUT EVERY THING.
THEY BELIEVE UPIS DOWN
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They followed her when she went to milk
“old Bossie.”” They sat on their tails and
“Miz"’ Maude would occasionally squirt a
stream of milk to each one’s mouth. After
the milking the cats followed her back up
the hill toward the house, with their tails
stuck up in the air.
“Miz’’ Maude and her husband, Gus,
lost their only son in World War 11, a
sadness they never got over. They
brought him home and buried him among
friends and kin who had lived their lives
and traveled on.
My head came up with a start. I must
have dozed off. A young friend walking
behind the casket as it was rolled toward
the door smiled at me understandingly.
We made our way through the tomb
stones to a tent that stood over an open
grave. The workers had trampled the
graves of her son and husband. I looked
at the hole in the ground and was remind
ed that life is only temporary. We know
this from early in life, but somehow keep
it to one side in our minds. There is a
grave waiting for each of us, every hour
and every day of the month. How could
we forget? »
The preacher is talking again, quoting
a Rev. Green from Elberton: “We find
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* The Human Coin Toss. Event is held
at a honky tonk on the Gilmer-Pickens
County line on Hwy. 5. Similar to the
human demolition derby, but skis are op
tional. Gun-toters will be arrested. Action
peaks late on any Saturday night.
* Dawg Days in Athens. The Classic
City is the host for this autumn madness.
Under no circumstances should visitors
wear orange clothing, drive a car with
South Carolina license plates or be seen
within five feet of a tiger paw emblem.
Such action could be hazardous to one's
health. Festival characterized by red-and
black-dressed patrons, frequently seen
barking at passersby. Action should be
especially hot Sept. 6, but plenty of
rowdiness will continue through
December and most likely to the first day
of 1983.
* The Lake Lanier Open Houseboat
Festival near Cumming off Ga. 400.
Formerly called the drink and drown der
by.
* The Cumberland Island Second
Degree Burn Tournament. Take the ferry
over from St. Marys, Ga. to Cumberland
Island National Seashore during the sum
mer months. No motels or restaurants,
just plenty of good camping in the hot
Georgia sun.
* The Georgia Alien Fest held nightly
at the Limelight disco in Atlanta. A cag
ed, eerie creature greets visitors.
Sunglasses needed by more sedate
patrons to fend off the glare from gold
chains.
* The Georgia Pseudo Cowboy Con
test. Events held nightly at numerous
clubs along Atlanta’s northside.
Numerous contestants swapped their
gold chains for cowboy boots.
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Facing South
A Syndicated Column
Voices Of Tradition
In A Changing Region
“WE HAVE TO ORGANIZE AND WORK
EVEN HARDER”
Atlanta, Ga. — During the turbulent 60s, Southern
sheriffs scrambled to the streets, billy clubs raised, to
disperse the long lines of young blacks and their sym
pathizers. Some sheriffs, however, were stopped dead in
their tracks at the sight of Frances B s
Pauley, a matronly white woman, ~ A
walking among the demonstrators. e
Pauley, who is 76 and tends { P el
towards polyester pants suits, has ‘S AT /
earned a reputation as an unrelenting | g‘l
and compassionate social advocate. At - L JRNE
an age when most of her contem- L S
poraries are retired, Pauley serves as ... ;
the president of the Georgia Poverty /*
Rights Organization, lobbying and &
representing the poor at the Georgia state capitol and
before numerous other government boards.
Pauley’s middle class up-bringing has enabled her to
communicate with bureaucrats as well as the impoverish
ed. Raised in an Atlanta suburb, Pauley majored in math
at Agnes Scott College but took every drama and speech
course available. ‘‘lt taught me how to play a role and not
look scared to death even if I was,” she says. After
graduation, Pauley taught drama in the public schools
but soon married and began to raise a family.
Pauley first became involved in poverty rights issues
during the 19205. “‘Back then, the only way poor people
and blacks could get medical attention was to knock on
the back door of a doctor’s house and hope he had time to
see them,”’ she said. Pauley helped organize a medical
clinic where doctors volunteered on a regular basis.
Since then, she has been active in numerous social
movements. During the late '4os, Pauley was a driving
force in the League of Women Voters and in 1951 became
ts state president. During her term, she desegregated the
yrganization, eliminating the ‘‘white member only”
zlause in the League’s rules.
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision in
1954, Pauley began educating herself about the situation
of black people in America. She also cut her ties with all
groups that were not biracial, and did volunteer social
work in the black comunity. Her activism led to an ap
pointment as director of the Georgia Human Relations
Council, a private organization aimed at opening com
munications between civil rights activists and the com
munities they affected. As director, Pauley organized
desegregated political discussion groups throughout the
state of Georgia, whose primary goal, she explains, was
“to break down barriers between blacks and whites.”
In the early days, black churches, synagogues, and
some Episcopal parishes were among the few places
where interracial events could occur. ““In one parish
where Pauley organized a long publicity campaign, only
two whites attended the meeting,”” says Father Austen
Ford, an Episcopal priest who has known Pauley for
many years. Eventually the congregation pushed the
young minister out of the parish because he had allowed
Pauley to use the church.
As Human Relations director, Pauley also campaign
ed for the Civil Rights Act. When it passed in 1964, she
traveled around the South visiting restaurants and hotels
to help prepare the managers for desegregation. She also
encouraged black people to frequent the newly-integrated
facilities.
In 1967, Pauley joined the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare as a civil rights field represen
tative in Mississippi. During the next five years she con
vinced many school boards to integrate, sometimes
threatening to cut off their federal funds if they did not
comply with the law.
In 1976, Pauley helped to found the Georgia Poverty
Rights Organization. Today she visits the Georgia
capitol daily, lobbying state legislators in the interests of
the poor. ““Today’s civil rights movement is much more
complicated,”” she remarks. ‘“The discrimination and
racism is less obvious but the divisions between rich and
poor are even greater.”
A major goal is to persuade the state legislature to
allocate more funds to the Aid to Families with Depen
dent Children program to help make up for the recent
federal cuts in that program. With others, she is lobbying
legislators and plans to testify at the House Appropria
tions Committee Hearings. She also hopes the state will
move to help people unable to pay their gas bills — a
pressing concern in this bitter winter weather. She has
been working with the gas company and other groups to
establish a ‘‘gas bank,” which could be used by poor peo
ple when they are unable to pay their gas bills.
“You can’t stop working because of the Reagan cuts,”’
Frances Pauley warns. “Instead we have to organize and
work even harder.”’ — JILIAN MINCER