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Editorials
Local Scores Increase
The Chattooga County and Trion
School Systems have received generally
good news on student achievements in tak
ing various examinations during the last
school year.
With a few exceptions, students in the
city and county systems improved their
scores in 1986 over previous test results.
In almost every case, the scores of the
pupils in both systems were higher than
the average for all of Georgia. Consistent
testing helps track the progress of
students, or lack thereof, each year.
In almost every case, the City of Trion
system scores were higher than those of
Chattooga On The Road
Tom Moreland, Georgia Department of
Transportation (DOT) Commissioner,
seems to be smiling on Chattooga County
these days.
Already this year, the DOT has
authorized more than SBOO,OOO worth of
work on around 30 miles of streets and
roads in the county. Most involves resur
facing with plant mix. One project pro
vides turn lanes at the new Summerville
Middle School and at the city's industrial
park, both on Bolling Road (Highway 100).
Menlo, Trion, Summerville and residents
outside those cities will be receiving the
What’s Needed?
The Chattooga County Sheriff’'s Office
reported that it arrested 25 motorists in
June on charges of driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants (DUI). Sixteen of
those had been arrested before on DUI
charges.
One had been arrested seven times
before on DUI charges and nine times on
other charges, according to the monthly
report. ;
The Sheriff's Office performed an in
valuable service in arresting the 31-year
old motorist — but arrest him is all the
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39 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the July 17, 1947 edition of The Summer
ville News.
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ARE THEY OR AREN'T THEY? — Recent accounts by residents of Rome
of seeing ‘‘flying saucers indicate that several citizens of that city have joined
the trend of thought of the rest of the nation. One woman even says that she
saw about 100 of the “‘saucers” flying in formation. Three other Romans say
they saw one of the objects (or are they?) and described it as a disc with an
orange glow.” But as for the Summerville area, either citizens have not been
alert enough or they have been too alert, for as yet no one has reported sighting
tfle discs. The $64 question still remains — Are they, or aren’t they? Mythical,
that is.
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CLARKSON RESIGNS: AKIN COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT — Coun
ty School Supt. Katherine M. Clarkson resigned last week as head of Chattooga
County Schools, her resignation becoming effective Aug. 1. At a called meeting
of the Chattooga County Board of Education last Friday, C. B. Akin, present
superintendent of Summerville City Schools, was unanimously elected to fill
Mrs. Clarkson’s unexpired term. Mrs. Clarkson said she felt her time was too
divided between her work and her home. Having served for five years as head
of county schools, she will now “become a housewife,”” she added.
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FIRST CHATTOOGA COTTON BOLL REPORTED HERE ON JULY 4
— R. T. Baker, near Summerville, reported that first Chattooga County cot
* ton bloom to The News office on Friday, July 4. The second bloom to be reported
this year was one grown on the farm of T. T. Toles, Menlo. It was brought to
Summerville on July 5.
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the Chattooga County system. The
method of testing may make some dif
ference in results but it's clear that the
county system has areas needing improve
ment in order to reach the level of educa
tion offered by the Trion schools. Of
course, the Trion schools will be making
every effort to improve during the 1986-87
school year.
Parents and taxpayers, as well as
educators and school board members,
should assess the scores carefully and in
sist on changes designed to improve the
quality of education in both systems.
benefit of the resurfacing.
* The county should receive more than
sl-million in revenue from the special pur
pose roads and bridges sales tax this year.
If Chattooga County Commissioner Harry
Powell is able to authorize an amount of
county work equivalent to that of the
state, another 30 to 40 miles of county
streets and roads may be improved this
year, depending on weather limitations.
Sixty to 70 miles of road work valued
at around $l.B- to $2-million in one year
isn't something to be taken lightly.
department can do.
Why was he back on the road again
after seven DUI arrests? Why was he not
serving time in jail or prison with such a
record?
If the fault lies with state law, changes
need to be made. If it lies with the courts,
harsher punishment needs to be handed
down.
Otherwise, innocent people may end up
dying on Chattooga County’s streets and
roads because of this one motorist.
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By Tommy Toles, Editor .
If It Ain’t Fried .. .
If it ain’t fried, it ain’t Southern!
Well, almost. That adage is as close as
any when it comes to describing the
essence of good Southern cooking. It
doesn’t cover all the bases because you
don’t fry everything, such as homemade
peach ice cream, but ample quantities of
lard can usually improve almost anything
— even the stuff Yankees pretend is food.
There has been a disturbing tendency
in recent years for Southern food to be sup
planted by imports from the North. It’s all
part of a Yankee conspiracy to make us
start talking like somebody from
Brooklyn, N. Y. It's a known fact that
eating bagels and lox, for example, will
cause previously normal Southerners to
start using words such as ‘“dem” and
“dose” for ‘‘them” and ‘‘those.”
The only good thing about the Jimmy
Carter presidency was that it reintroduc
ed grits to Washington, D. C. From the
end of the War of Northern Aggression un
til 1976, grits were replaced with
something called ‘‘cream of wheat.”” And
then came little brown pieces of fried card
board that Yankees tried to tell us were
‘“hashbrowns.” (Even frying doesn'’t help
the taste of cardboard).
But when Carter became president,
things Southern suddenly became “in’" in
our nation's capital. Even grits found a
home in the classier restaurants in
Washington. But too many times, the
restaurants tried to mess with a perfectly
good dish by serving it with sugar, for ex
ample, instead of with butter, salt and pep
per — like God intended for grits to be
eaten. You could even find a decent fried
egg, instead of a gooey glob that had been
soft-boiled. Yankees call it poached.
But when Carter started acting like,
well, Carter, before his four years were up,
grits and other solid, Southern food fell in
to disfavor. Instead of pinto beans, Califor
nia quiche came into vogue.
Instead of country ham, restaurants
began serving more fried cardboard that
no self-respecting hog would claim. And
Guest Column
Protectionism Wrong
We're all familiar with the vivid
description of the opening battle of the
American Revolution known as ‘‘the shot
heard 'round the world.” When our
forefathers opened fire at Concord Bridge,
they initiated a universal quest for
freedom from tyranny that still lives
today.
Unfortunately, our modern-day Con
gress, cut from a cloth far inferior to its
continental predecessor, has now fired
what I fear is likely to be remembered as
the second shot heard 'round the world —
the first salvo in what could be a bloody
and senseless international trade war.
Moreover, whereas the first shot was
fired at our enemies, the second is being
fired at countries that are among
America’s closest allies.
The trade war our House of Represen
tatives seems eager to engage in won't kill
anyone. But it's likely to kill a lot of
peoples’ dreams for a better, more pro-
cream of wheat made a triumphant return
down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Southern food became known as *‘soul
food” over the years because, quite ob
viously, it's good for your soul as well as
your body.
It's hard to beat a good breakfast of
sawmill gravy, biscuits, sugar-cured coun
try ham, bacon and homemade sausage;
fried eggs where the yellow creeps over the
plate, grits, homemade pear preserves and
hot black coffee.
For dinner and supper (lunch is what
Yankees eat), the mouth hungers for but
terbeans, pinto beans, string beans, fried
"tators with onions, creamed corn, fresh
sliced garden tomatoes, cracklin’ cor
nbread, green onions, radishes, hot pep
pers guaranteed to make your eyes water,
sweet bell peppers, and in season, collards
or turnip greens with a dash of pepper
sauce; sweet slaw (none of the stuff with
horseradish on it), boiled cabbage, new
"tators with the skin still on; and in season,
home-grown English peas; fried squash,
fried okra and a huge glass of iced tea.
A lot of misguided doctors — who pro
bably were trained in Yankee medical
schools — will claim that good hog lard will
make you have hardening of the arteries
and heart trouble. But think about it —
lard is slippery even when cold so it stands
to reason that goodly doses of it in
vegetables and meats will help the blood
slide through the arteries with ease.
The reason folks in the South have
started having so much heart trouble is
because they have started eating things
like parsley, an odious Yankee weed that
should be sprayed with 2-4-D until
eliminated from the face of the earth.
Yankee restaurants even served
parsley with grits when Carter was presi
dent. Maybe that’s what happened to his
presidency — maybe he actually ate the
parsley.
You always pay for it when you forget
your raisin’ . ..
By RICHARD H. FINK
sperous life. And there will be just as many
American victims (if not indeed actually
more) than casualties among such trading
partners as Japan, West Germany and
Taiwan.
The House of Representatives has
passed an ‘‘Omnibus Trade Bill”’ 295 to
115. The bill is heavily protectionist and
would choke off America from interna
tional markets while raising prices on hun
dreds of items you buy every week.
Among other provisions, the bill would
force the President to retaliate against
trading partners for a host of newly
defined ‘‘unfair’’ practices, including non
adherance to workers’ rights as defined by
the International Labor Committee,
despite the fact that the U. S. has never
embraced these standards.
Furthermore, the bill would mandatori
ly reduce trade with certain specified na
tions by 10 percent per year until these na
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a Jimmy Townsend
Wearing A Hat
I seldom wear a hat for several reasons. I used to try
to wear one and it would generally end up where I left it.
I have one now that I wear on occasion and I keep it in
the car so if this occasion arises I put it on. I think a lot
of this hat, not because it keeps the sun out of my eyes,
but because of the fellow who gave it to me. It even has
his signature inside.
I made a trip the other day and whlie enjoying some
mountain scenery picked the hat off the car seat and put
it on. It started raining hard as the night approached and
I hurried to the car and started home.
The headlights caught her sharp against the black of
the night on the other side of the road. For only an ins
tant the picture was there, and then it wasn’t. But that
flash of lightning against the black sky afforded me
something that remained in my head. In that instant I saw
a mother with wet, unkept hair, standing holding a young
baby in her arms, one hand on the head or shoulder of
another, a wistful, cringing thing of a girl who held tight
ly to her mother’'s dress. Beside them was a battered
suitcase.
A car zoomed out of the night on the other side and
the woman raised her hand and begged for a ride. The car
went on by and the hand dropped. I drove on through Fair
mount to the other side of town before turning around and
going back. Lightning flashed and the thunder roared as
I drove up beside the three and asked if I could be of any
help. I asked her if I could drive them somewhere. ‘“Who
are you?" she asked and I told her knowing that that
wouldn’t make any difference. I told her that she need not
worry, that nothing would happen to her, and that for the
sake of the kids she was going to have to get out of the
storm.
“Just go on. I'll wait for somebody else.” I asked her
where on earth she was going that time of night, and she
said that Rome was her destination. I begged her to get
in with the children and that I would drive them to Rome,
a distance of about 40 miles. ‘“No sir,” she said flatly as
the rain slid down their faces. It dawned on me that she
was waiting, hoping for a woman driver, or a car with a
woman in it.
I drove down the road a piece, but my conscience made
me turn around and go back again. I asked her if I could
take them to the nearest motel and that I would pay for
it, “No!" she screamed, “The Lord will take care of us and
I'll wait.”
As I drove on another car passed and she put her hand
in the air. She dropped it as the car sped on. I continued
the drive on toward home. I have to drive slow at night
because my eyes are not what they were 30 or 40 years
ago. Besides that the rain made seeing even more difficult.
This gave me plenty of time to think. I tried to blot the
family out of my mind by playing the radio. It didn’t work.
Finally, I drove in our driveway and under the carport as
the rain continued to fall.
I went in the house and my wife greeted me with ‘“That
hat makes you look 30 years younger.” I put my hand up
to the hat quickly because I had forgotten to take it off.
I looked inside the houndstooth where the name ‘“‘Bear
Bryant” hit me like a ton of bricks. . .
RESERVE
Believing all you hear is matched only
by telling all you know. — Mason City (la.)
mEwsc .
T DEFINITION
Cllps A bore is one who is here today and
here tomorrow. — L. A. Count Down
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GROWING UP
You are only young once, but you can
stay immature indefinitely. — Qdebolt (la.)
Chronicle
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SOUND OFF
Nothing is impossible — if you don’t
have to do it yourself. — Grit
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MAY BE
He who laughs last may be trying to
be polite to the person who told the story.
— Toledo Blade