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Editorials
Vote For Gary Andrews
Six candidates are seeking one seat on
the Georgia Public Service Commission
(GSC) next week, including former
Lookout Judicial Circuit Judge Gary B.
Andrews, Chickamauga.
Andrews was appointed to the PSC
post last year by Gov. Joe Frank Harris
after the incumbent, Mac Barber, resign
ed under pressure following an investiga
tion into some of Barber's campaign con
tributors. Andrews is seeking to complete
Barber's term, which expires in 1990.
Andrews is a native of Chattanooga,
Tenn., but was reared in Northwest
Georgia, graduating from Gordon Lee
High School in 1964. He holds law degrees
from the University of Georgia and has
served as an assistant attorney general in
Atlanta and Chickamauga.
Study Issues, Then Vote
Between 2,700 and 3,200 of the 9,275
registered voters in Chattooga County are
likely to go to the polls next Tuesday and
cast ballots in the general primary. In
terest in politics appears to be unusually
low this year, apparently because of the
lack of local races or a hot statewide race.
Local residents will choose a state
representative to serve their interests in
the Georgia House during the next two
years, as well as three members of the
Chattooga County Board of Education,
one of whom is unopposed for reelection.
On the state level, four candidates are
seeking the Democratic nomination for the
U. S. Senate, four are running for state
school superintendent, three are vying for
one Public Service Commission (PSC) seat
and six more are running for another PSC
post. Gov. Joe Frank Harris and Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller face token opposition, as do
State Agriculture Commissioner Tommy
Irvin and State Labor Commissioner Joe
Credit To Chattooga
Sophia Watkins Rodriquez, a native of
Summerville, recently was named ‘‘Miss
Barbizon'' by the large modeling school of
the same name.
She also has a small part in an upcom
ing movie, and is a successful model in
Atlanta. The former Miss Watkins is a
1980 graduate of Chattooga High School,
a graduate of Morris Brown College. She
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The following are excerpts from the Aug. 7, 1947 edition of The Summer
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WILLIAM TURNER GETS COMMENDATION IN HOLLYWOOD
PAPER — William Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Turner, Summerville,
recently received a commendation in a column of the Hollywood Citizen-News,
The Column, written by Sheila Graham, predicted a *‘great future” for the Sum
merville boy who is soon to appear in his first role in a moving picture. Said
the writer: ‘“The Blanchard-Davis picture, “On Parade, has newcomer William
Turner of Georgia in a top role. And from what I've seen of him, he's a young
man with a big future in Hollywood."
The Summerville boy will play the part of a Notre Dame football player and
will have a ‘‘regular’’ or speaking role.
* * *
AD: WHISNANT’S NORTH GEORGIA FRUIT FARM — Pick your own
tree ripe Elberta Peaches $1 a Bushel. Bring your own basket. “‘There is nothing
as good as a tree-ripened peach” at Whisnant's North Georgia Fruit Farm, Sum
merville, Georgia. Turn west at square and follow signs.
* * *
AD: PARK THEATRE, DICKEYVILLE — “It's Air-Conditioned.”” Dou
ble feature *Kilroy Was Here'' plus ‘‘Forbidden Trails’’ and chapter 6 of the
Tarzan serial.
* * *
AD: SAVE AT THE LOOP — Living room suites, 3-pc. wine or blue velour,
$134.50; Duncan Phyffe sofa, S9B; nine-piece Bassett dining room suite to go
at only $289; kitchen cabinets, Marsh & Austell, $39.50 up.
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He was first elected a Superior Court
judge in 1980 and reelected in 1984, serv
ing in Chattooga, Walker, Dade and
Catoosa Counties. His roots are in this
area.
By all accounts, when Andrews was a
Superior Court judge, he handled himself
with honesty and dignity and adjudicated
cases fairly based on the evidence. When
necessary, he questioned witnesses
thoroughly and incisively.
We are convinced that he brings those
same qualities of leadership to the PSC
and feel he deserves to complete the re
mainder of his appointed term on that
state agency. Therefore, we commend the
candidacy of Gary B. Andrews to the
voters of Chattooga County in the
Democratic primary next Tuesday.
Tanner.
So there are enough contested races to
interest almost any voter who takes the
time to investigate the issues. The News
has run detailed articles on local contested
races and interviewed statewide can
didates who have visited Chattooga Coun
ty in an effort to inform local citizens.
People who have taken the time to
register should take the time to study the
candidates and the issues. Otherwise, they
should stay home next Tuesday. The key
to good government is not a large voter
turnout if most of those voters are unin
formed —that's an assurance of bad
government. Voters who have taken the
time to educate themselves should vote
and help ensure good representative
government locally, statewide and
nationwide.
We get the kind of government we
deserve.
also is employed by Piedmont Airlines and
serves as assistant director of Housing at
Morris Brown.
With all those activities, it's hard to see
how she has time to catch her breath. All
of them, of course, bring credit to her and
her family as well as to Chattooga County.
Congratulations on being named ‘‘Miss
Barbizon."
WILLIAM T. ESPY
ADVERTISING MANAGER
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By Tommy Toles, Editor 1;
You’re A Winner!
By this time in an election campaign,
the pace has become almost frenzied for
candidates, their families and their staffs.
What started out a few months or weeks
ago as a fresh and exciting challenge has,
in reality, become quite a grind.
Folks running for statewide office or
national office usually have a pretty good
idea by now whether they will win or make
a runoff. That is, if they have the service
of a professional pollster or have an effi
cient, reliable in-house survey operation
under way. Even if a candidate knows he's
going to get wiped out next Tuesday, he
is still going to have to smile, pretend he
still has enthusiasm for the sake of the
voters and the media and that he has a
chance. It's all part of “the game.” All
such folks can do is hope for a proverbial
last-minute miracle. Most of the time it
doesn’t occur.
For those involved in tight races where
a runoff is likely, the general wisdom in
Georgia is to hope for a respectable
second-place showing. The theory is that
the top vote-getter has gotten all the votes
he's going to get and the second place
finisher will garner most of the votes of the
other candidates in the runoff. That usual
ly holds true unless the top candidate gets
something like 48 percent.
While state or national races get most
of the publicity, the real battles are fought
in local races where styles of campaigning
vary as widely as the number of can
didates in a particular race.
Missing are the high-powered (and ex
pensive) pollsters, the extensive staffs
(usually the staff is the husband or wife
and maybe the kids), the funds (many local
candidates fund their own races to a great
extent) the scientific or organizational ap
Guest Column
Deficit Trials On TV?
By EDWIN FEULNER
The year: 2017 A.D. The place: the
ruins of American civilization, somewhere
in the old capital. An old man, held cap
tive in a futuristic glass interrogation
booth, is on trial. His crime: failing to con
trol deficit spending.
Old man (to child prosecutor): “I've
already told you, it was all going to work
out somehow. There was even talk of an
amendment. But no one was willing to
make the sacrifices. I'm afraid you're
much too young to understand.”
Young boy: “Maybe so. But I'm afraid
the numbers speak for themselves."
(Camera pans ruins and haggard, ragged
spectators). By 1986, for example, the na
tional debt had reached two-trillion
dollars. Didn't that frighten you?"
The play goes on for another thirty
seconds, the dialogue ending with a close
up of the old man.
“I have a question,” the old man says.
"“Are you ever going to forgive us?"
This eerie projection of the not-too
distant-future is one of a long-running
series of W. R. Grace & Company commer
cials on government waste. The three ma
jor television networks have refused to
allow it on the air during prime time
because the commercial is “‘controversial”
and does not advertise a product. Accor
ding to the networks, ‘‘The Deficit Trials”
proach (you walk door-to-door even if half
the people you see aren’t registered and
even if half of those remaining won't vote
for you).
A lot of candidates find out on election
day that not all the people who smiled and
took one of their cards or promised to vote
for them — did. It's as former Gov. Mar
vin Griffin is quoted as saying: ‘‘Not
everybody who ate my barbecue voted for
me.
Since there's usually no reliable way" for
local candidates to know where they stand
in the hearts of the voters, they're forever
asking friends (or people they think are
their friends) **“What do you hear.” Usual
ly, their friends tell them what they want
to hear, which is not always the truth.
Families find it hard to believe that
folks can be so nasty with them just
because mom, dad, husband or wife is run
ning for alocal position. They get surpris
ed and, oftentimes, hurt.
Candidates find that by the time
they've passed out the 6,000 th card, shook
the 10,000 th hand and worn out three sets
of shoes, two pair of tires and eaten a quick
greasy hamburger for dinner and supper
amonth in a row, they've started wonder
ing whether it all is worth it.
For the loser, none of it seems wor
thwhile. Even though forced to maintain
a gracious exterior, losers find that the
loss is painful and bitterness is easy to feel
inside. The winner, meanwhile forgets the
midnight shift changes, the holes in the
shoes, the sore back and feet, the loss of
25 pounds on the campaign trail, and the
insistent worries.
You're a winner and that's what mat
ters on election night.
falls under the Fairness Doctrine rule re
quiring equal time for opposing view
points, adding this as a further reason not
to run it — even though Grace has
reportedly offered to pay for equal time.
ABC, CBS, and NBC say they will not
broadcast in prime time any adver
tisements that involve ‘‘a controversial
issue of public importance.” You read that
right. If it’s not **Silver Spoons,” “‘Dynas
ty,” or some other dribble, viewers are
presumed not to be able to comprehend it.
Thinking, according to network doctrine,
is reserved for network news pundits, who
presumably bring their flapdoodle ideas
from on high. Viewers of NBC Nightly
News must suffer through John
Chancellor's predominantly liberal night
ly commentaries, but these same viewers
can't be shown ““The Deficit Trials.”” The
networks profess to have concern for
public service, at least that’s what they
usually say when airing some ‘‘documen
tary’ or quasi-news program. But now the
truth is out. The networks are only for
public service so long as it coincides with
their self-interest, i. e., boosting the im
ages of their overpaid pundits.
The really perplexing thing about the
networks’ rejection of ‘“The Deficit Trials”
is that other public interest advertising —
some of it by W. R. Grace — has run before
see GUEST COLUMN, page 12-A
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Funny Side ¢
Beauty Pageants
There are two things on which my home town claims
bragging rights. Both are listed on roadside signs at every
entrance to the city.
The first is, ‘‘Gary Solomon no longer lives here.” That
pleases everyone to no end. The second is, ‘*Home of the
Connie Mack World Series.”” That pleases them even more.
The Series, established for boys aged 17 and 18 and
named after one of professional baseball's legendary
players, is great entertainment for sports fans. Teams
from the United States and several foreign countries com
pete for the title.
It's more than just a week-long tournament every
August, though. Through the years it has become an
event, complete with parade, princess pageant, and ma
jor league scouts.
The princess pageant, a scaled-down version of Miss
America, is the showcase by which local young ladies are
chosen to “‘host™ each team in the tournament and cheer
them on to victory. In my day, the girls were judged on
three qualifications: looks, looks, and looks. I doubt it's
changed much since then.
Among local males, the pageant is known somewhat
bitterly as the Break-up Ball. That's because each winner
immediately ditches her boyfriend so she'll be available
for romance when the visiting teams hit town. Most of the
girls save themselves time and effort by mailing out pre
printed ‘‘Dear John' letters on Aug. 1.
Being elected to host a team is a dream come true for
any young lady — unless, that is, she is chosen to serve
the home team. Then it becomes a horrible nightmare.
For one thing, there's no thrill in entertaining young
men who will still be around after the series to recall her
pledge of eternal love. For another, it's almost impossible
to recruit other girls to assist her. When the girl chosen
as Miss Hometown walks down the street, other young
ladies duck into doorways and dive behind shrubs for fear
she will ask them to help.
In some ways, you can't really blame them, though.
After all, while visiting teams and their hosts feast on filet
mignon at the country club, the local team is usually
treated to hot dogs at grill number three in the city park.
Home town boys often fantasize about someday get
ting revenge on their sweethearts by bringing the Ms.
Teenage Bombshell Pageant or the Miss Ready, Willing
and Able Contest. to town. Then, while training to act as
escorts for those young lovelies, they would send out form
letters to their girlfriends with the greeting, “To whom
it may concern . .. "
Unfortunately, it hasn't happened yet. Instead, the
young men forgive and let their special ladies come crawl
ing back after the tournament ends. With the happy
couples together once again, all is right with the
world . . . until next August.
News
Clips
WHERE?
There must be a lot of good in some
people, when you consider how little has
ever come out of them. — National News
* * *
GOOD REASON
The fact that figures don't lie is a good
reason to stick to a diet. — Waterloo (la.)
Courier
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TRUE
Truth may be stranger than fiction but
it will never sell for as much. — Louisville
Times
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ARE YOU ONE?
Some folks are like blisters — they
don’t show up until the work is done. —
Marshalltown (la.) Times
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ANY TAKERS?
A vacation is what you take when you
can't take what you've been taking any
. longer. — Columbia (SC) Record