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Editorials
Dr. Goodwin’s
No Nomnsense Approach
The recent stir about Chattooga Coun
ty Commissioner Harry Powell’s negotia
tions with Tri-County Hospital in Fort
Oglethorpe about taking over the county
ambulance service has puzzled many
residents. Commissioner Powell took over
the service Jan. 1 after failing to offer our
own Chattooga County Hospital a con
tract they could accept.
Since the takeover Jan. 1, Dr. Hugh
Goodwin has done an admirable job as
medical adviser, but within three weeks of
the takeover Powell wrote in a letter to am
bulance service employees he was “truly
let down at some of the things that have
been carried on.”
Powell considered letting another
hospital take over the service, People are
wondering why?
~ In a Jan. 16 memo to all emergency
fedical service employees Dr, Goodwin
wrote: “We have an image to uphold, we *
AFTERMATH OF ATTACK ...
Shame On Our Allies
One of the most disturbing aspects of
Monday’s attack by the U. S. on Libya
was not the attack itself — for it was cer
tainly justified — rather it was the
negative reaction by America’s allies.
Only Britain, Israel and Canada stood
firmly behind the U. S. decision to extract
an “eye for an eye” against madman
Moammar Khadafy.
France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden
— virtually all of Europe — spoke
negatively about the U. S. attack. France
and Spain, in fact, refused Monday to
allow the U. S. attack aircraft to fly over
their respective nations, making the trip
1,200 miles longer than necessary and fur
ther endangering U. S. pilots.
The French especially should be asham
ed. How quickly they forget how many
U. S. lives were lost on their soil in both
World Wars in attempt to rescue them
from despotic rule. What happened to the
spirit of Marquis de LaFayette, the French
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2 39 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the April 17, 1947 edition of The Summer
ville News.
CERTIFICATES FOR FREEZER LOCKER TO BE SOLD — Directors
of the Farm Bureau have agreed on the use of revolving certificates as means
of raising funds for the construction of the freezer locker for Chattooga Coun
ty, which is being sponsored by the Farm Bureau. According to Harry Powell,
Vice President of the Farm Bureau, the revolving certificates will pay a
minimum dividend of 3 to 6 percent per annum.
* * *
LEGIONNAIRES OPEN SEASON SATURDAY AGAINST TRION —
The Summerville Legionnaires will open the 1947 baseball season with Trion
Saturday at 3:30 at Legion Field. The team, under the management of Fred
Stewart, has been looking good in practice and exhibition games and should
be in fine shape for the opening game. s
. *
1,220 HANDICAPPED PERSONS GIVEN JOB PLACEMENTS IN
FIRST QUARTER OF 1947 — Job placements of handicapped persons by the
Georgia State Employment Service, Department of Labor, during the first
uarter of 1947 totaled 1,220, Commissioner Ben T. Hulet announced yester
gny. This is an increase of approximately 63 percent over the corresponding
period of last year. . ¢
“
“LITTLE WOMEN" TO BE PRESENTED TONIGHT — Do you think
times have changed since Grandma was a girl? Are you of the opinion that
people are different now than they were 50 years ago? If so, you will be sur
prised to find how similar are the trials, (ribulations, romances, tragedies and
ambitions of modern families to those of old when you see “Little Women,"
which is the three-act play that will he prosented by the senior class on Tues
. day eyening, April 27, at the Sturdivant Gymnasium.
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work in the public's eye. I want each
employee to act and dress professionau.
Treat each patient as you would want to
be treated.”
Goodwin continued: ‘‘Please make
every effort to get to work on time...l
will not tolerate any employee talking
negatively about this service to the public.
It has been brought to my attention that
this is happening. I also know of one inci
dent where an employee was talking
negatively about our service in front of a
patient and family member. If you are
dissatisfied with your job or the service,
WE DON'T NEED YOU.”
It sounds to us like Dr. Goodwin is at
least attempting to run a tight, profes
sional ship, without regard to politics or
the whims of the commissioner. Perhaps
Dr. Goodwin's no-nonsense style runs con
trary to some in county government.
general who aided the U. S. in the Revolu
tionary War? What happened to the spirit
of LaFayette who is memorialized in the
names of towns in virtually every state in
Ameriea?
It is a fact that more than 330,000
American soldiers are stationed in Europe
protecting those nations against the
menace that lies a stone’s throw to the
east. British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher — America’s friend — so nobly
pointed out this fact Tuesday in Parlia
ment to the jeers of the opposition Labor
Party.
Virtually all of America, including
Chattooga County citizens, support Mon
day’s actions against Libya. This nation
is plainly tired of getting kicked around by
tin horn madmen and our allies better take
note of this change in the collective con
sciousness of all Americans. There will be
other terrorist attacks and we expect
them, but from now on somebody will pay.
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3 by James Budd
Halley’s Disappointment
In case you didn’t notice Halley's Com
et made its closest approach to Earth last
Thursday at about 4:34 p.m. :
Whopee. Let's face it. Halley's celestial
snowball has been a letdown this go
around. The astronomers say the comet
approached Earth as close as 38 million
miles this time, which is about 10 times
more distant than its closest recorded ap
proach 1,100 years ago.
Thirty-eight million miles. Seemed
more like 938 million miles.
The comet is now 'dggfipg farther and
farther from Earth and will not come back
until 2062. I don’t even want to think
about 2062 because I surely won’t be here,
but I wish the future population better
luck in seeing the comet than we had in
1986.
Probably by 2062, Greyhound will have
space buses to take passengers to the
moon for a closer inspection of the comet.
To be honest with you, I looked for the
comet a few times and think I actually saw
the little sucker, but it looked just like
another star in the cold January sky, albeit
a “fuzzy star.”
As I looked to the heavens, I wondered
why Halley's caused so much of a fuss to
begin with. How could ancient civilizations
become so alarmed over this fuzzy little
Budget Book Burning
With Congress now sweating out the
arduous task of meeting the Gramm-
Rudman-Hollings deficit targets, the
“Washington Monument Ploy’’ (WMP) is
making its annual appearance. WMP is
shorthand for a tired old budgeting argu
ment that goes something like this: if spen
ding is cut for, say, the U, S, Park Service,
then the Washington Monument will have
to be closed to' visitors to save money.
This year's run of WMP (pronounced
wimp) has a slightly new twist. Several
weeks ago, Daniel Boorstin, the Librarian
of Congress and an eminent U. S. scholar,
trooped across the street from the Library
building to the Capitol to sound an alarm
against cutting the Library's budget. Pro
posed cuts would, he said in his testimony,
require a reduction of more than $600,000
in book purchases and about the same
kind of cut in book preservation work.
Then he added a kicker, just to make sure
everyone got his point — he announced a
reduction in Library reading room hours,
saying that he would no longer be able to
keep the Library open late at night and on
weekends. The Library, under the
Boorstin WMP plan, now closes at 5:30
(except on Wednesday) and Sunday hours
have been eliminated. ‘ !
This was bound to raise howls of pro
test on and off Capitol Hill, since many
Washingtonians use the library as part of
their work in the public policy process.
“The greatest of republics has been
served by the greatest of the world's
libraries,” Boorstin said. **But this will not
continue to be possible unless the Con
gress Lukes measures Lo repair the damage
Lo be done by the vyut and unprecedented
cuts in the library’s budget.”
Guest Column
By EDWIN FEULNER
star? Why would the ancients gnash their
teeth and pound their chests over this
comet? Astronomers say the comet was
closer on its previous approaches to Earth
and therefore had more of a visual impact.
Mark Twain was born in the year of
Halley’'s Comet approach *and died 76
years later on its return. Hey, Mark, I'm
not impressed anymore.
When I was younger, a long time ago,
I really thought I was lucky because pro
babilities indicated I would be alive to ac
tually see Halley's Comet. I envisioned a
bright, neon streak glaring across the
evening sky, a streak that would make it
seem like daylight, make dogs howl and
birds sing at midnight. Instead I got a
“fuzzy, wimpy star.” It's akin to expecting
an electric train set for Christmas and get
ting three oranges instead.
I suspect later in life when those of us
who “saw” Halley's this time are asked by
generations yet unborn about the comet,
the answers will be similar to the stories
fishermen sometimes tell after their return
home.
“Yeah, junior, I remember Halley's
Comet in 1986,” the oldtimer will say.
“It lit up the sky at night, made dogs
howl and birds sang at midnight.”
According to Boorstin, cutting the
budget is another example of
Washington’s misplaced priorities.
“Historians will not fail to note that the
people who could spend S3OO billion on
their defense would not spend $lB million
on their knowledge,” he said, ‘‘and could
not even keep their libraries open in the
evening.”
* “They will recall the last epoch of the
Roman Empire when Romans were so fear
ful of the barbarians that they imitated the
barbarians. These are not the priorities of
civilization and freedom.”
Boorstin is trying to WMP his way
through Gramm-Rudman like every other
special-interest pleader — instead of
seriously examining the Library of con
gress budget and coming up with the
necessary savings.
- As anybody who has ever managed any
business or program knows, one can
always find a way to trim 5 percent from
the budget without having to resort to ex
treme measures. But that's not the way of
U. S. budget politics.
The political Left has now seized upon
the unfortunate circumstances of the
Library to get a little free television
coverage, staging demonstrations at
which such catchy slogans as “Books, not
bombs!” are chanted. This, of course, is
not the choice the President and Congress
made — budgeting, especially at the
federal level, is not a binary proposition,
'there are many priorities to weigh.
. All of which leads to a final point.
Boorstin may lack the fortitude to make
tough budget choices, but he has
' dramatized the great defect in the much
i o GUEST COLUMN, page 10-A
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A Jimmy Townsend
Georgia On My Mind
JASPER, GA. — “Melodies bring memories, that
linger in my heart. Make me think of Georgia. Why did
we ever part?”’
* * *
Five towns have been the centers of government in
Georgia. Savannah was the seat of the colonial govern
ment. In the Revolutionary War, Savannah was seized by
the British and in 1778 the new state government conven
ed in Augusta. In 1795, the capitol was moved west to
Louisville. Nine years later, the town of Milledgeville was
legislated into existence to serve as a more central state
government. The convention of 1877 decided to put the
location of a capital to a popular vote, and Atlanta was
selected by a wide margin over Milledgeville.
* * *
“Some sweet day when blossoms fall, and all the
world’s a song. I'll go back to Georgia, cause that's where
I belong.”
* * *
Dick Wilson was born in a log cabin near Gainesville
in 1829. As a young man he left Hall County on a mule
and had S4O in his pockets. Wilson parlayed that into a
fortune estimated at S4O million, earning much of his
wealth in trade during the War Between the States. His
daughter was Grace Wilson Vanderbilt and his grandson
was Cornelius Vanderbilt 111. His closest friend was An
drew Carnegie. In his late years, Wilson was a part of
Eastern society and seldom discussed his humble origin.
You might say that he didn’t want anyone else to bring
it up either but that's the way most Aristocrats are made.
* * *
““Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through, just an old
sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind. Georgia, Georgia,
a song of you, comes as sweet and clear as moonlight
through the pines.”
* * *
General James Longstreet, who Robert E. Lee called
“‘my old war horse” spent his later years in Gainesville
where he opened the Piedmont Hotel. His guests include
Woodrow Wilson whose wife had relatives in Hall Coun
ty. Two of Wilson’s daughters were born in Hall, one was
born in the hotel.
* * *
“‘Other arms reach out to me, other eyes smile tender
?;.us‘efll in peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to
* * *
Pop. Warner who gained football immortality as a coach
at Carlisle, Pitt and Stanford, actually began his coaching
career at the University of Georgia. His 1895 team went
3-4 and Warner was paid $34 a week. His salary was rais
:dlt2o6s4(i) a weekAin 11896 when Georgia went 4-0, including
0 win over Auburn in a game w i in
Ben Nalley invented the hugdle. b
* * *
Gold was first discovered in Lum kin Coun 1828.
In 1830, the first mint in the Soutl‘: was e:tatglii:hed in
Gainesville by Templeton Reid. He minted gold until 1836
when a government mi‘nt was established in Dahlonega.
* *
The Cherokee Rose was named Georgia's state flower
in 1916. On April 6, 1935 the brown tgasher was first
chosen the Georgia state bird by official proclamation of
the governor. In 1970 it was designated by the legislature
as the officxal. bird of Georgia. In 1975 the honeybee was
named the official insect beating out the yellow jacket sup
rted by some “yellow i "
gl(:osen {he statz w?l‘; fJlacket,s. In 1979 the azalea was
honeysuckles by some, omer. These (ae o callal
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“GEORGIA, GEORGIA, NO PE I
FIND ...JUST AN OL ' P
GEORGIA ON MY MIN%.'S‘WEET st ol
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News S 0 TRUE
. Propaganda is baloney so artfully
Clips isguised that it passes as food for
thought. — Cit:cinnati Enquirer
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Leurn from the mistakes of others —
you don't live long enough to make them
: all yourself. — Norfolk (Va.) Chest