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The Summerville News
The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County
WINSTON E. ESPY
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JAMES BUDD
NEWS EDITOR
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Editorials
States Fined
The Transportation Department has
announced it was, in effect, fining the
states of Vermont and Arizona, because
state officials were not ‘doing enough to
crack down on speeding.
The department will withhold federal
road aid funds of $5.1 million from Arizona
and $1.9 million from Vermont. It's the
first. time the federal government has
penalized states for not insuring that no
more than half of all drivers exceed the 55
mph speed limit.
The department is only complying with
regulations which have been in effect for
years. Yet public support for the 55 mph
law, and federal regulations designed to
force compliance, has been eroding in re
cent years —as oil prices decline and there
is a plentiful supply.
In almost every state drivers exceed
Kurt Waldheim
Just about everyone now admits U. S.
media attacks on Kurt Waldheim have -
helped him in his bid to become Austria's
president. That's because Austrians view
these allegations as outside interference.
The question now is whether the
charges made against Waldheim were pro
ductive of something good and whether
they were wisely timed. The other question
is whether guilt by association has been
used as a tactic.
The charges have established beyond
much doubt that Waldheim concealed ar
my service between 1942 and 1945 in
biographical data supplied various
sources.
It's now documented that Waldheim
served under Gen. Alexander Lohr in
Yugoslavia in this period, when Jews were
being deported and when partisans were
being executed. Lohr was later executed
as a war criminal.
It should be kept in mind that the mass
murder of Jews was ordered by Hitler in
1942 (after he realized Germany might lose
the war; he blamed English and American
intervention of the Jews and warned he
would make them pay if Germany were
defeated again).
Deportations were carried out by the
SS, but one assumes the army knew about
them. It would be hard to believe other
wise. Nevertheless, lieutenants in the Ger
many Army probably didn't know what
the fate of these Jews was to be. Few knew
this horrible story until after the war.
The execution of partisan guerrillas
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39 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the June 19, 1947 edition of The Summer
ville News. s ST
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS RETURN LAST WEEK FROM
WASHINGTON — The senior class of Summerville High School returned last
week after a nine-day trip to Washington. The group, which included 37 seniors,
Miss Gracie Lee Kelly and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rudicil, left Summerville on
the morning of Monday, June 2.‘ il
NEW SWIMMING POOL SOUTH OF TRION OPEN — A new swimm
ing pool one mile south of Trion was opened for business Saturday. Known
as John's Pool, it is owned by Ross and Fred Thomas and John Justice. The
Eool is 160 feet long and 65 feet wide, with a separate shallow end for children.
lectric lights will illuminate th: ma‘ at n‘ight.
AD: BIG HOE-DOWN — Big Square Dance Trion Gym, Thursday night,
June 26th. Proceeds to be used for Redmen Softball Uniforms. Come one and
all. We guarantee good wholesome fun and plenty of good music. Music by
Southern Swingsters. X S
AD: BULMAN OIL CO. — Summerville-Trion Highway. Gasoline direct
from the pipeline. Regular gasoline: 22.9¢ per Gal.; Ethyl gasoline: 24.9 c per
' gal. We have U. S. Tires and Tubes.
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the limit in wholesale numbers. Even
highway patrolmen admit the average
speed today in most states (Virginia is sup
posedly the most law abiding) is 65 mph.
Only a massive crackdown, with radar
and extra patrol cars, could reverse the
trend. Figures prove that the lower limit
saves many lives, however, and there’s
resistance to hiking the limit. This would
lead many to drive faster than they’re now
driving. It would also increase oil con
sumption, making the country more
vulnerable to a new oil embargo.
If states are now to crack down hard
on speeding, widespread public an
nouncements and warnings are justified,
to alert and warn drivers who have been
driving 65 for some time. One suspects
many will continue to do so.
carrying out ambushes has been standard
practice for centuries, all over the world.
Waldheim can’t be faulted for that; also,
he either had to carry out orders or face
court martial.
Can he be faulted for not trying to halt
the deportation of Jews by the SS (perhaps
with army logistical help at times)? If he
knew the fate of the Jews, one could argue
— 40 years later — he should have done
something. But he has repeatedly stated
that he didn't know. Also, what could a
lieutenant have done?
. As yet, charges that, Waldheim knew
what was happening to Jews are un
proven. It has been shown that he conceal
ed a past he was ashamed of, in view of
post-war revelations. It is also known that
his family in Austria opposed the Nazis
and that he was drafted into army service.
So, as even his accusers have been saying
in all fairness, one should not jump to con
clusions based on the idea of guilt by
association.
GOOD ADVICE
It's much better to sit tight — than at
tempt to drive in that condition. — WOW
Magazine
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DID YOURS?
If your budget has survived paying
your taxes, it's time to take a vacation. —
Christian Science Monitor
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o W by James Budd
Farewell
This is my last issue as editor of The
Summerville News. I've been looking for
some new territory, some new stories to
cover and have landed a job with The
Marietta Daily Journal.
I have enjoyed my tenure as editor
here. I've made some dear friends and pro
bably a few enemies.
I want to thank Gene, David and Bill
Espy for hiring me on that cool, rainy day
back in April, 1982. Our separation is
amicable. The Espys are known
throughout Georgia as some of the finest
in the newspaper business. They have a
long, proud history in this industry. Sum
merville and Chattooga County should be
proud of them. M
To my friends, I wish you only the best.
To my enemies, try not to gloat too long
over my leaving because the next guy they
hire at my desk may be tougher on you.
I've tried to be fair, accurate and unbias
ed. The truth hurts sometimes.
To my friends and enemies alike, it's
been fun.
In fact, it's been a riot at times.
I've enjoyed working in Chattooga
County. This county is blessed with a uni
quely independent populace. There’s col
or and flare .. . style.
In this day of bored landscapes where
each town looks the same with repeating
facades in both buildings and people, it's
refreshing to break away, to experience
something different. Chattooga County
breaks the mold. That's what I've always
liked about this place.
There’'s a book waiting to be written
about what goes on in this county. There
are plenty of interesting characters.
Readers of the book would be astounded
and say, “What great fiction.”
The writer would say, “‘Hey, it's not fic
tion. That really happened.”
Conversely, the same inherent indepen
dent nature of most people here thwarts
a unified effort toward progress. Several
years back we did a readership poll and
one person bemoaned on the questionnaire
Guest Column
Biggest Little Investment
By EDWIN FEULNER
Several of my colleagues recently at
tended a luncheon honoring J. A. Parker,
a Washington, D. C., businessman who
was named ‘“Man of the Year” by Good
will Industries of the Nation's Capital.
A consultant and lecturer, president of
the Lincoln Institute, and the former pro
ud owner of a Volkswagen bug which he
nursed along for nearly half-a-million
miles, “Jay’’ has spent most of his adult
life helping others help themselves.
He is a true believer in giving people
a hand up — rather than a handout, a
philosophy that has worked well at Good
will Industries, as it has at countless other
voluntary organizations around the
country.
At Goodwill hundreds of people who
mifht otherwise be on the streets or on
welfare have been transformed into pro
ductive, working people. And Jay has
played a very major role: providing in
spiration, lots of his time, and a special
knack for arranging happy marriages bet
that the motto of Chattooga County
should read, “Every man for himself.”” The
comment had a ring of truth to it.
Petty jealousy is a fact here as it is in
many small communities I'm sure. If a
neighbor does well financially or builds a
new house or gets a new car or achieves
some accomplishment, a pang of jealousy
seems to arise. That's something I never
liked about this place.
Another poignant comment I recall
through the years came from a resident
who had lived here about eight years or so,
coming from a larger area out of state.
This person said, “I just love it here. It
reminds me of what it was like 50 years
ago.Y,
Many do not want change. They fear
it. They've got their little nest egg built
up, they’'ve got their little niche in the
small pond and who cares about anyone
else? So what if there's no growth or jobs.
In the past, I suspect many in leader
ship roles here prided themselves in being
so prudent, so careful and so slow to ac
cept change. Twenty years ago, I suspect
many leaders said, “We don’t need any
new industry. We've got all the jobs we
need. Everybody’s got their niche.” Twen
ty years ago there were three times more
jobs in the textile industry here.
The strategies of the past are usually
responsible for the successes or problems
of today. Out of 159 counties in Georgia,
Chattooga County was 151 last year in
unemployment. Only eight other counties
in the state had a higher unemployment
rate.
Not to linger too long on the negative,
as an “outstide” observer (They say unless
you go back at least three generations
here, you're considered an “outsider’)
there have been signs of an upswing
recently. The jobless rate here has fallen,
new businesses are opening up and there
seems to be a growing, unified effort
toward solving some of the problems
created by past mistakes.
I wish you all good fortune. Farewell.
ween Washington-area residents who en
joy a little spare cash and a charitable
organization that always needs it.
As extraordinary as Jay's and Good
will Industry’s achievements are, they are
not unusual. All over the United States,
in big cities and small towns, you can find
people helping people.
One major grant-giving foundation,
New York's J. M. Foundation, has even
set up a pilot awards dprogram to identify
those organizations doing the best job.
The f M. Foundation has an unusual
range of interests — all of them intertwin
ed with two overall themes: voluntary ac
tion and “individual responsibility.” It is
interested in rehabilitation of the physical
ly handicapped; treatment of alcoholism
and alcohol abuse; biomedical research and
medical education; disease prevention; and
health-related public policy research.
The awards program is relatively
modest, consisting of four $20,000 grants
to organizations with outstanding
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‘Things’
JASPER, GA. — I catch myself doing it all the time,
calling things ““things.” It seems that a lot of us would
never get through a conversation if it weren't for the word
“thing.” I tell my wife to “hand me that thing” or “don’t
throw any of my things out.” A “thing,” I guess, is a short
cut for anything that we prefer not to discuss in more vivid
detail or something that we really cannot recall the pro
per name for. “The Watergate thing” was referred to often
as a “‘thing”’ or “‘you know what I mean.” Nixon used the
word ““thing” for just about everything in the book. ‘““The
Mitchell thing,” “the overall thing” and “the Segretti
thing” popped up in the White House tapes all the time.
“You know what I mean” was there hundreds of times,
m:all of us use this term many times in every conversa
. I just didn’t realize how many times until I was hun
ting up some trivia for a game. “Thing-a-ma-jig”’ means
just about everything that was a little mechanical when
I was a boy. It's still used frequently, too, I've noticed.
I listened to an interview on television the other day
between a well-known news commentator and a celebrity.
“You know’’ was in the conversation so many times that
it was impossible to count them. ‘I was crossing the
street, you know, when I looked up, you know, the
buildings were tall, you know, so I couldn’t look up again,
you know."” There were 30 minutes of this. Walter Cronkite
was addicted to “you know’ and all of the speakers I've
heard lately use ‘“‘you know’’ more than any other term.
I am guilty moreso than anyone you know of these
things, but it's fun watching and picking them out' of
somebody else’s speech. ‘“What-you-may-call-em” is a term
used for anyone or anything a person forgets in some parts
of the country and “watchamacallit” is used in other
sections.
Have you ever heard the expression “‘thinking about
the unthinkable?”’ Or how about a man who has the
‘“means’’ (meaning he is rich) to do things with. There are
so many words that we used as we were growing up that
mean something different now. “Gay" is one of the words;
‘“‘queen” is another. There are others like “trick” and
“swinging.”” Even “stout” back then meant that a person
was strong, but now it means the person is fat. ‘‘Special
treatment’’ meant that we were a special person (VIP); but
since the day of the mafia, it means to kill someone. And
nown;;iays. “s 0 and so”’ simply means a bad person or an
Hs.o. ."
Oh, there were some cute little expressions in the Twen
ties and Thirties, like “‘snowing down South,”” which meant
a woman's slip was showing, and “it's four o'clock,” which
meant that your fly was open, or a nicer term would be
that your pants are unzipped.
President Reagan's “‘shucks” is really a cover-up word
for something vulgar that begins with sh-. You might
think of this word the next time he grins and says, “Aw,
shucks,” as what he really means. Women used “‘shucks’’
during the last century while men used the baser word.
“What in the Sam Hill"’ was another term used back then
which is made a little rougher now, and “rub out” simply
meant taking an eraser and doing just that; now, however,
it means to kill. “Wasted"” used to mean that we didn’t
put something to good use, and now it, too, means to kill.
All of these words which have changed their meaning
can throw us at times and might make us sound silly to
some, and to anyone who would even snicker at us
oldtimers for talking about something that you think is
something else should get a pencil and start writing down
some of this trivia. It might explain a lot of things.
“Things,” 1 said.
And before there were so many hospitals, “nurse”
simply meant to suck or breast feed. I kinda wish the love
ly ladies in white could pick up another name because some
folks in Florida still talk about nursing an orange. Another
term that takes on a different meaning than what it used
to have is ‘‘massage parlor.” It used to mean a place to
get rid of a Charlie horse, but, now, oh, well, ““you know
what I mean.” And there was a time when “Madam’’ was
equal to “My Lady” but look what it means now.
I often wonder if someone who died in the 1930's could
come back and converse with people on earth today. Of
course, they would find a “fat chance” and a “slim chance"
mean the same thing, and I'm afraid they would call what
- we refer to as “legend” as a pack of lies, Oh, well, maybe
we will never need the old language anymore. But if we
do, we can show them “a thing or two.” Aw shucks, you
know what I mean.
Mountain
Echoes
by
Jimmy Townsend