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The Summerville News
The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County
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Editorials
Scouting Week
Feb. 3-9 is Scouting USA's 75th an
niversary.
Former U. 8. President Gerald Ford is
perhaps the most recognizable supporter
of scouting, but there are many more who
think scouting is indeed an important
rt of a young boy's life. While the
g:mflu of scouting are evident to those
who participate in it, the parents and
volunteers who aid in the efforts of the
young Cub Scout or the older Eagle Scout
can always take pride in their ac
complishments.
Boy scouting takes a boy and gives
Better Schools
A consultant for the Rand Corpora
tion rocomlz reported that the South,
which has in educational stan
dards since the Civil War, is now leading
school reform.
Standards are still below the national
n but five southern states have
oved to reform their educational system
on a broad scale — South Carolina, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and Arkan
sas. So, too, has California, outside the
South,
Generally speaking, the reforms in
clude requiring additional credits, fewer
absences, exit exams before high school
graduation and tests for teacher com-
Postal Settlement
The recent workers-management set
tlement in the Postal Service is an exam
ple more unions and businesses in 1985
should follow. The dispute was settled by
an arbitration panel,
It was settled in this way because the
president made it clear he wouldn’t
tolerate a strike, would enforce the law
against strikes by federal workers, firing
strikers if necessary.
Both sides gained. Workers won an in
crease but the service won the right to
hire new postal employees at lower
News Clips
WORTHLESS
Worry can be defined as a circle of in
efficient thought whirlilg around a pivot
of fear. — Wichita (la.) Eagle
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MIND POWER
Great minds have purposes; others
have wishes, — Grit
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22 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the Feb. 14, 1963 edition of The Summer
ville News.
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STAR STUDENTS, TEACHERS TOLD — Randolph T. (Randy) Taylor
has been named STAR student for the Chattooga County School System and
Doris Earl Chester has been named STAR student for the Trion system. Ran
dy has selected for his STAR teacher his mother, Mrs. John D. Taylor, a
teacher of English and literature at Chattooga High. Doris has chosen Mrs.
Jessie Wingfield, also a teacher of Engliah..ns the Trion STAR teacher.
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SENATOR REITERATES HE NEEDS MORE TIME TO STUDY
SALARIES — State Senator Joseph E. (Bo) Loggins made another statement
on the salary schedule matter this week. The senator has previously announc
ed that he would kill bills passed earlier this year by the Georgia House of
Representatives which would have switched the Chattooga County sheriff, tax
collector, tax receiver and clerk of court from a fee to a salary basis. The
legislation has been introduced b‘v Rq: James H. (Sloppy) Floyd.
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LOWRY RETURNS AS SRMA PRESIDENT — Marshall Lowry was re
elected president of the Summerville Retail Merchants Assn. Wednesday.
E. C. Pesterfield was elected vice president and John Bankson was re-elected
secretary-treasurer.
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him a clearer outlook. It makes him feel
good about himself and teaches him to
care about others. Boy scouting en
courages a y man to take an active
partinhhm’umn. We are proud of
our Scouts and the responsible adults
they become. We are proud to support
them and hope you do, too. We encourage
young boys to become involved in
scouting. Scouting may not be the answer
to everything, but it is a very good place
to start.
Thank you, scouting, during your 75th
anniversary.
petency. South Carolina's reform law —
considered a model by most observers —
requires teachers to pass vrdormnce
evaluations; if two successively are failed,
the teacher is dismissed.
The interesting thing about these
“reforms’ is that practically all of them
represent only a return to the policies of
years ago.
In South Carolina, for example,
students had in recent years been allowed
20 absences each year! The new number is
10. Years ago, no one ever dreamed of
allowing a student to graduate unless he
or she passed an examination.
salaries. (The lowest starting pay for a
postal worker had been almost $20,000 —
educational qualifications were minimal)!
Savings from lower starting pay will
offset most of the cost of the pay hike.
Strikes often hurt both sides in labor
management disputes, and the public in
addition. Compulsory arbitration -
especially for teacher unions and other
public service jobs — is a preferable
means of settlement.
AFTER THOUGHT
All marriages are happy — it's the liv
ing together afterward that causes all the
trouble. — Pensacola (Fla.) Gosport
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DEFINITION
Experience: Knowing a lot of things
you shouldn’t do. — Sabula (la.) Gazette
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by James Budd
Chattooga County
Correctional Facility
It appears that construction of a state
correctional facility is &Il on its way to
becoming a reality in Chattooga County.
With the unanimous approval of a mo
tion by Jack Cole of Dalton, the State
Properties Commission Friday bought
191 acres from W. 0. Underwood for a
price of $345,000.
Dave Evans, Commissioner of the
Georgia Department of Offender
Rehabilitation, assured the Chattooga
County delegation at Friday's meeting in
Room 216, that every effort would be
made to be a “good neighbor.”
Evans even offered to set up a citizens
advisory board to advise DOR during the
construction phase of the $21.5 project.
He said streets in Pennville will be widen
ed. Evans gave his word that the prison
would have ‘'‘reasonable’’ setback
distances from adjoining residential pro
rrty. the owners of which are vehement
y against the facility.
All this good cheer from DOR is
something of a change from the previous
months, though. Many residents here feel
the prison issue could have been
presented in a more demogcratic manner.
Bureaucratic secrecy seemed to cloak
the prison, its location, size and intent.
Example: All nmw were informed
that the prison have a 500-inmate
capacity. Not until Gov. Harris made
remarks last month about funding of a
750-inmate capacity bfiuoh in Chattooga
County did the public know the truth
about the capacity.
Only through leaks from top-level
sources did the media find out about the
exact site of the prison and the cost to
purchase the land.
Guest Column
Food For Thought
By EDWIN FEULNER
Though most of us properly ignored
them, members of the 98th Congress'
“Bean Sprouts Caucus” bowed out in
style in the waning days of 1984 by
holding another set of hearings on food
safety.
Characteristically, the hearings — ex
ploring another non-existent health
hazard — were held just a few days before
Christmas, as family menu-planners were
fiu:fng together their holiday grocery
s
To be excluded from those lists, if the
eating-is-harmful-to-your-health-crowd
got its way, would have been those holi
day hams, roasts and turkeys.
The two days of hearings featured the
usual assortment of weepers-and-moaners
recruited by the Natural Resources
Defense Council and other Nader-style
organizations which want to save the
starving world from technological self
destruction.
What they had to say is this. That for
the past 30 years Western livestock and
poultry farmers have been creating a
biological time bomb that could go off at
any time by putting sub-therapeutic an
tibiotics in animal feeds. What could hap
pen.thndoomnynrspo::llu.ilt.h-t:l)
i et o
become immune to the icilli
Mummmmm
d."nn public nemkmw until last Fri
{thanks to :mfiomng of at
torney Bobby Lee ) where the other
potential sites for the prison were. During
the meeting it was revealed that eight
other sites were considered for the prison
in Chattooga County.
The meeting also revealed that the
Underwood mtqut:ind at a
high figure of $281,000 and a figure of
$195,000. The state ended up paying
roughly $1,806 an acre for a total of
$345,000.
The construction of the prison here
seems inevitable. There may be lawsuits,
but officials say the state has the upper
hand. I believe in legal terminology they
call it “imminent domain.”" According to
Evans, the state Supreme Court recently
ruled unanimously that DOR could con
struct a similar facility in Henry County
after residents there took it to court.
The question that remains in the back
of my mind is if a majority of the people
in this county did not want a prison here,
why didn’t they speak up when this issue
was first discussed? In truth there were
few (very few) people who spoke up in op
position of the prison during May of 1982
when the issue first surfaced.
One more question. If you were elected
to represent this county in the legislature
and you received letters endorsing the
prison in Chattooga County from every
elected official (except the school board)
and from dozens and dozens of county
business leaders who all wanted the
prison, wouldn't you try to secure fun
ding for the facility in the Georgia
General Assembly? The way I look at it,
Rep. John Crawford was doing his job.
the drug-resistant germs will migrate to
humans through the food chain and
transfer their resistance to other germs.
The theory does not, medical experts
agree, violate any laws of nature. What
they describe conceivably could happen.
However, I wouldn't be in a hurry to
trade in my Big Mac for a rutabaga
burger quite yet.
Low-dose antibiotics have been used
in animal feed to slow the spread of
bacterial infections for nearly 30 years.
One of the beneficial side-effects of this
widely used agricultural practice — com
mon in Canada, Australia, Japan,
Taiwan, Latin America, and even in the
Cqmmuniltbloctitismndlt.ory.forcx
ample, in Czechoslovakia) — is that it
speeds the growth of the livestock, mak
ing the animals get fatter faster. This side
benefit, which is still not totally
understood, saves U.S. consumers an
estimated $3.5 billion per year in food
costs, according to a study by the
American Council on Science and Health.
That's fine — but the bottom line is
still safety.
The most authoritative and far
reaching study to date on bacterial
resistance to drugs appeared in the Oc
tober 1984 issue of the Journal of Clinical
Microbiology. It was written by Dr. Vic
tor Lorian, director of the Division of
Microbiology and Epidemiology at
see GUEST COLUMN, page Ili-#&
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a Jimmy Townsend
Old Town
During the 1920 s and '3os, Jasper was like hundreds
of small towns across the United States. Churches,
schools and habits of one town seemed to be the same as
others. Will Richards ran a general store in our town until
the Depression got him and the store went into bankrupt
cy. The store had its years of good times, though, and
there was a loafers’ bench in front of the store resting in
the shade of a sycamore tree.
There were a half dozen male clerks and one female.
She wore high top shoes and had straight hair pulled into
a knot at the nape of her neck, where there was always a
::ncilpusbed through. She was neat in appearance and
d a kind voice that would make someone want to buy
three yards of calico. She rolled the cloth off a bolt and
measured it by a yardstick marked on the counter, It us
ed to mystify me how she could rake those scissors
through that cloth without snapping them. She was
known as Miss Effie to most, but she was Aunt Effie to
me. She had been married and her husband died of
pneumonia a few years afterward. But, like most women
in her position, folks called her ‘‘Miss’’ rather than
“Mrs.”
The store was a big one and the building still stands to
prove it. As you entered the door on the left side was a
glass counter that held all of the candy. At the rear of the
store was the pot-bellied stove and even in the summer
time, someone would stand next to it with his hands
behind him like he was warming. On the counter next to
the stove was the hoop cheese, and many a farmer would
buy a nickel's worth and a small box of soda crackers for
lunch. There was always an odor back there, too, where
somebody left their empty sardine can. On the other side
of the store was the salt fish in a keg. The store carried
the usual for that day: Brown's Mule, sparkplug, apple,
double and twisted and other chewing tobaccos. On the
same counter was the plug cutter which could lob off a
nickel or dime's worth. The store was stacked from the
floor to the ceiling at the back, and a partition separated
this side of the store, where the farm implements were
kept. Horse collars, belly-bands, hames, plows, wings and
sweeps. Liniments and tonics were on the shelves of this
side of the store, too. There was always a one or two-horse
wagon on display out front.
The streets weren't paved. The State Highway came
through the middle of town with a narrow lane of asphalt,
leaving both sides dirt to the sidewalks. Cars were so
scarce that hound dogs weren't afraid to sleep in the
street. The town of 600 people didn’t have indoor plumb
ing until 1933, when sewerage came with the WPA.
Richards and Company sold Model-T Fords, too, keep
ing one or two in stock. This remarkable machine had
three pedals about the size of those on a piano. The left
one was the clutch, the middle was reverse and the right
was the brake, when there was any. On one side of the
steering wheel was the spark and on the right side was
the gas. The gas tank was under the seat. There wasn't a
door on the driver's side and the car had to be cranked by
hand from the front of the jalopy. When the bands wore
out on the forward gear, a driver would turn around and
back up a steep hill.
Down on the low part of town was the depot. There
were people who met every train. The engineer, dressed in
striped overalls ands a striped cap and a red handkerchief
around his neck, liked to show his big watch. Evidently
80, because he took it out and looked at it so much. A lot
of interesting things went on down there until the con
ductor shouted “ALL A-BO'RD.”
Then was the days before J. S. Darnell's Drug Store
and Ed Wheeler ran what was called a drug store, but
didn’t have a licensed pharmacist. He only had patent
n;ednmeslndtbeSutemdehimtlkethedmgm
sign down after it had been up there for many years. He
did have a soda fountain, though, and the store had the
delightful smells of one. Ice cream, cherry colas and Coca
Cola smelled and tasted different in those days. The lat
ter was called “dopes’”” by most people.
Occasionally, a medicine show would come through.
We were entertained by minstrels before the man who
called himself a doctor made his pitch with the bottles
that would cure all.
It seems that more and more le are reaching back
for the past these days. This should not be takznnli%htly.
Theuneonscstdmmingoftbeputiamnyjustour
fear of the changes that are taking place so fast and those
known to be coming in the future. Small Town, USA is
good for all of us.