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Editorials
Immigration Reform
Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy) is mak
ing one more effort to get Congress to curb
the swelling flood of illegal immigration
from Mexico.
The drop in oil prices, and resulting
economic crisis in Mexico, has added
momentum (and numbers) to the flood of
Mexicans crossing into the U. S. illegally.
Federal officials say the surge of illegals
into the country has increased 50 percent
in the last three months — above the
already heavy flow.
It's estimated that almost two million
people will be arrested on the border this
year. But another million of so will slip in.
Simpson, who almost succeeded in getting
immigration reform legislation passed on
several occasions, has usually been
thwarted by Congressmen Peter Rodino of
New Jersey and Speaker Tip O’Neill of
Massachusetts. (The Hispanic vote has
elected many Democrats in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and California).
Simpson wants to make it unlawful for
employers to hire illegals, making
.penalti stiff enough to curb this practice.
¢He would also grant permanent or legal
. status (citizenship) to millions who slipped
More Efficient Appliances
In 1976 California became the first
state to pass a law requiring manufac
turers to make appliances more energy
efficient. California acted soon after the
first Arab oil embargo. Since, five other
states have enacted similar laws.
Massachusetts is currently considering
a new, tough law. More important, the
federal government was ordered by a
court, in July of 1985, to consider issuing
federal energy-efficiency standards for all
appliances.
The energy saved could make an enor
mous difference in utility bills for
customers and in expansion requirements
for utility companies.
That's why, in Massachusetts, the
Massachusetts Electric Company, is ac
tively supporting proposed legislation to
set minimum efficiency standards for ap
pliances. The company believes such a
change would enable it to avoid building
new generating plants in the immediate
2
39 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the April 3, 1947 edition of The Summer
ville News.
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DEPUTY SHERIFF A. BLOODWORTH KILLED SUNDAY — Arthur
B. Bloodworth, chief deputy sheriff of Chattooga County, died Sunday night
as a result of injuries received earlier Sunday night while serving an assault
and battery warrant on Jack George Hardin at his home on Black Street, Sum
. merville, Sheriff Bloodworth went into the house to arrest Hardin, who asked
permission to go into another room. Bloodworth followed, and suddenly Har
din grabbed a shotgun and aimed at Bloodworth who grabbed at the weapon.
The gun was discharged and the entire load entered Bloodworth's upper thigh,
inflicting a wound which caused him to bleed to death.
Hardin was arrested and placed in the county jail and after Bloodworth’s
death was charged with murder. Bloodworth had been connected with the
sheriff’s office for several years and \:as formerly chief of police at Trion.
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AMVETS, VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II TO ORGANIZE POST IN
CHATTOOGA COUNTY — State officials of the country’s largest World War
11 veterans organizations will be in Summerville in the near future to help
organize a post of AMVETS.
* * *
COUNTY TEACHERS VISIT U. OF GEORGIA — On March 28 and 29
. the county school superintendent, the schodl supervisor and several teachers
visited in the demonstration school at the University of Georgia at Athens to
~ make a special study of the English, math and guidance programs. They observ
r: 51” these and other areas and had conferences with teachers about the work
JAMES BUDD
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in, in past years.
This may be the last chance in this
decade to enact meaningful immigration
reform and control in the opinion of
members of both the House and Senate.
There are hopes Rodino and O’Neill might
not block the effort again.
The Senate has already passed a
reform bill. If Rodino and O’Neill kill this
hope, the resulting chaos, divisiveness and
crime surge might turn out to be their
monument and legacy on Capitol Hill.
There are objections from some
Hispanics — such as San Antonio Mayor
Henry Cisneros — that punishment for
employers might lead them to avoid hir
ing legals. There are objections from
others to granting citizenship to millions
of illegals, on the basis that they suc
cessfully dodged the law for a certain
number of years.
If these opposing groups are not suc
cessful, the House — where so much
legislation has died in the past five years
— might join the Senate and provide bet
ter security along the nation’s borders and
better job protection: for'U.’S. citizens. It
should.
future.
Estimates are that the typical ap
pliance of 10 years ago can be made
anywhere from 70 to 40 percent more effi
cient. In a household with freezer,
refrigerator, dishwasher, clothes washer,
perhaps two hot water heaters, the dif
ference in electric consumption can be
considerable.
Since no one knows hqw long the new,
low oil prices will continue, and since
energy conservation makes sense from
every angle anyhow, one hopes the Depart
ment of Energy will soon come up with a
proposal for Congress to mandate stan
dards for industry. They could take effect
at a time which would enable present ap
pliances to have been sold and apply to
new products only.
This is one of the more sensible, and in
expensive ways to reduce energy costs for
the average American and increase the
supply of energy for future and industrial
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v 1 by James Bu‘dd
April 1 Should Be Abolished
It started about 6 a.m. Tuesday when
a radio deejay said over the airwaves that
the Atlanta Braves announced overnight
that they were moving to Birmingham,
Ala., for the 1986 season. Half asleep still,
I was stunned. Then the deejay said,
“April Fools.”
A few minutes later after a shave and
a shower, my wife said she had an appoint
ment with the doctor today because she
thinks she’s pregnant. What! I shouted.
Then she said, “April Fools.”
I've never read research on how April
Fools Day came about, nor do I have a bur
ning desire to research'the matter. I
suspect, however, it has something to do
with some quaint northern European
tradition like May Day“and maypoles, etc.
As far as I'm concerned April Fools can
go the route of St. Patricks Day — back
to antiquity.
All across the U. S. people are pulling
April Fools pranks.
There are a few I would like to see:
Imagine President Reagan's staffers
waking him up at 4 am. to say Libyan
leader Moammar Khadafy just drew a
“line of death” down the Potomac. *‘April
Fools,” the staffers would say.
“April Fools,” Reagan would say.
“You're fired.”
What if Soviet leader Gorbachev call
ed Reagan on the ‘“hotline’”’ and said,
Memorial Program Set
SundayAt Local Hospital
The Chattooga County
Unit of the American Cancer
Society is sponsoring a
memorial service for families
who have plaques at the Chat
tooga County Hospital Sun
day, April 6, at 2 p.m.
The Rev. Jimmy Bryant
will brinf a short address in the
lobl%v of the hospital.
hose with al)laques hanging
at the hospital are: James D.
Abney, Martha Hays Adams,
Mary O. Adams, James G. (Bil
if') Allen, J. Curtis Amos, Jr.,
ames Claude Bnilley. J. Ed
mond Baker, Dr, Herbert M.
Ballenger, Thomas D.
Ballenger, Sr., Mrs. Ida Scog
gins Barton, Mrs, Earl Beatty,
r., Clyde J. Bennett, Dewey
Lee Bennett, Otis Bennett, Dr.
E. M. Blue, Peter L. Boney,
Mrs. J. C. (Marie) Boyd, John
2. Brad&. Vivian Kellett
Bryant, R. L. Byars, Han?'
Byars, Paul F, Byars, Lizzie P.
Cannon, Clyde ‘‘Cuie”
Chamblee, Mrs. Ollie Cherry,
Mrs. Mae Copeland, Samuel {
Cordle, Jr., Robert N.
Crawford, Lettße Crawford, Vi
vian Hawkins Davis, Gladston
“Datch’ Dempsey, A. G. (Pete)
Dunson, Mrs. Eunice B. Dye,
Richard J. Dye, Sr., Gartrelle
Duff, Harper W. Edwards,
E.R. (Rifl) Ellenbu;f. Louise
Baker Ellenburg, Mrs. Har
rison (Wanda) E‘léin. Mrs.
Mw Elizabeth Elrod, Mrs. In
ez' .E;Kz. James D. (Donnie)
Espy, John G. Espy, Mrs, 0. J.
Espy, Woodrow W. EsKy,
Drusilla Wood Fisher, An
thony Rag (Tony) Floyd,
James H. (Sloppy) Floyd and
Mrs. R. C. Fltgd.
Also, W.O. (Bill) Ford,
Ruth Fuller, Eileen C.
Galloway, Burl Gaylor, Clarice
0. Gilbert, Goosgv Edd Gor
don, J. W, Gore, Jr., Gordon D.'
Green, Lillie Viola Hale, David
“Ronnie, baby. What you did in Libya real
ly riles me. We're dropping the bomb.”
““What, you little 5.0.8.!” says
Reagan. -
“April Fools, Ronnie,” says Gor
bachev. “See you at the next summit.
Regards to Nancy.”
What if Sylvester ‘‘Rambo” Stallone’s
press agent called a news conference and
said Stallone is auditioning for a Walt
Disney production of “Peter Pan” as
Peter.
What if the U. S. State Department
called up the president of Panama and
said, ““You know that canal we gave you
a few years back.” “Well, we want it
back.” ;
“Just kidding, Lopez.-April Fools.”
The pranks are as endless as foolish. So
is April Fools Day.
HUGHIE MAJORS DIES
A person I admired for courage and in
tellect passed away recently. Hughie Ma
jors of Menlo often wrote me or called, sug
gesting story ideas or to tell me how much
she enjoyed the newspaper.
A descendant of a founding Chattooga
County family, Hughie Majors was
educated in New York where she lived and
taught for many years. I know from talk
ing with her that she was in a painful bat
tle with cancer, but she never felt sorry for
herself.
C. Hamby, Bob Hames, James
(Buddy) Hammond, Elanor
Thomas Hankins, James H.
Helton, Dwight R. Henderson,
Miss Emma P. Henson, Miss
Fannie B. Henson, Edith L.
Hosmer, Paul S. Hosmer,
Henry A. J. Housch, Jr., Mrs.
Ralph (Betty) Housch, Mrs.
George (Nancy) Hubler, Miss
Venice L. Hughes, Eleanor
Dees Jackson, James R.
Jackson, Jr., Cleland C. James,
Mrs. Cleland C. James, Wesley
Johnson, Mrs. Beulah Ray
Kellett, R. Ralph Kellett, Sr.,
Sewell Kellett, .F ohn Knox Ken
nedy, John W. King, Sr., Mrs.
John W. (Lillian) King, Sr., An
nie Myrtle Koonce, Alice Gore
Knox, Nan Little Langford,
James T. Langston, Henry B.
Lee, Jessie Carl Lee, Melvin
Wayne Lee, Mrs. Anne Allen
Lindsay, J. Wheeler Logfilins,
Mrs. J. Wheeler Logfins. ag-
Eie Earline London, Mrs. Julia
ocfi). Robert Earl LHlona.
H. D. Mallicoat, Jr., Lucille E.
Mann, Roy W. Mann, Sr. and
John Harry Marks.
Also, Leonard Martin, Mrs.
Mabel McCullough, Carl M,
McCollum, Mrs. Nellie
McCollum, Albert F, McCurdy,
Sr., Bessie McElheney, Harry
Lee McGinnis, Daniel Lee
McWhorter, Wiiliam Curtis
Meacham, Mrs. James E.
(Melba) Meredith, Jeanne C.
Mincey, Dorothy Williams
Mixon, Fred R. Money, James
L. Morehead, Mrs. O.G.
Morehead, Agnes Morgan,
J. T. Morgan, Rice M, M%gan.
Mrs. Ma;faret Medlock Moss,
Homer Mundy, Margaret S.
Osgood, George B. Padgett,
%rs., Ali Cecil alli\nour..)éluamis
ep rs, Annabelle L.
Puterfi:fi)g.e James Andrew
Pilgrim, Jr., Joe Pullen, Betty
Davis Putnam, Mrs. Grady
(Mattie) Ramey, James Luther
“Luke” Ratliff, T. S. Renfroe,
James A. “Jim" Roach, Alfred
T. Robinson, Carl D. Robinson,
Florida Wright Rodenburg,
Clifford Rounsaville, Mildred
Rowlette, Clinton Rowlette,
Mrs. Rossie Shireman, Leola
Tallent Smith, William H.
Smith, Sr., Joe Stephenson,
Leon C. Story, Mamie W.
Strange, Mark Strawn, Frank
Sturdivant, George M. (Jack)
Tallent, Hem?' Gragly Tallent,
William Taylor Tallent and
Dellie Teague.
Also, %lessie Alexander
Thomas, Howard Ross
Thomas, William M. (Bill)
Thornton, Mary George Truitt,
Joseph Hall Tyler, Henfi'
Clarence Vaushn. Rubg T.H.
Vernon, Effie C. Waits, Stanley
Waits, H. L. (Luke) Warren,
Sr., Mrs. Clora K. Weems,
Maude O. Weems, Paul B.
Weems, Charles H, Wells, Mrs,
G. Toole Williamson, William
Carl Wilson, E. B. Wifiard,
Katherine Wolsiffer, Mellie
Martin Woods, J. B. Woodard,
Mrs. Ruby Fondren Wright,
Hobart J. (Hub) Young and
Rowena L. Young.
Plaques ordered (not receiv
ed) are John H. Allen, Mabel
Ballenger, R(B' Fagette Camp,
J. B. Dollar, Dale Peppers and
Louise Rome Stewart.
NO BLEACH
If you must use a bleaching
agent on silk or wool, use 3 per
cent hydrogen peroxide, say
Georgia Extension Service
experts.
* * *
MICRO BUYS
L The l;nicrowave o;/en was
the appliance most often pur
cinuedP during 1984, acconflng
to the Georgia Extension
Service.
¢ % Mountain
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'@ Jimmy Townsend
Ducktown Homecoming
JASPER, GA. — Bull Patrick was told by Dad to
““draw his time" after the near hanging of the king of the
gypsies near Ducktown, Tenn., in 1927 or 28. The usual
notice of five days to vacate the company's house came
with Bull's last check.
It was just a few nights later when the dreaded sound
of the siren came wailing over the red hills. This meant
something was wrong at the mines. We had heard it many
times before and it usually meant the death of a miner and
sometimes several. Women were walking toward the mine
and my mother was one of them. These women walked hur
riedly with heads held high, not taking their eyes off the
Burra Mines. Dust was now covering the basin and this
meant just one thing . .. a cave-in. }
Word came out that my daddy and seven miners were
trapped. Mama told us children to go home immediately.
Of course, we didn’t, but we did hide from her in the crowd
that had gathered. Men began with shovels, picks and
anything else they could put their heads on, attempting
to dig through the dirt and big rocks. This went on until
up in the next day, but there was so much dust over the
town it made visibility very poor. The men began to tire
and some of the women joined in, trying to help. There was
crying, yelling and praying coming from the crowd.
Bull Patrick came walking out of the dust and picked
up a cross-tie that was in the way and hurled it away from
where the opening to the mines was supposed to be. He
began to work feverishly, first with a shovel, then a pick
and then he was working with his bare hands. Some of the
men were saying, “‘lt's no use,” but Bull yelled for them
to get back to work. He was a big man, that one was, and
it had been said that he had killed a horse with one blow.
The men as well as the crowd had gotten a lot quieter. Bull
kept working, and I don’t believe anything would have
been done in the way of a rescue that day if it hadn’t been
for Bull.
I looked at my mama. She was just standing there look
ing at the big hole which covered about two or three acres
of ground. I looked at her feet. She was barefooted and
her feet were bleeding. She had lost her shoes on the way
to the mines and hadn’t looked down to miss them. She
fxellt no pain because her mind was just fixed on that big
ole.
Bull let out a bellow. “I heard them,” he said, with a
chuckle that meant only one thing. He was as happy as
if he had discovered gold. The men from the outside went
in the hole and began carrying the trapped miners outside
in their arms. Bull came walking out of that hole carrying
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