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The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County
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TOMMY TOLES
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Editorials
Recreation Fees
Summerville's Recreation Department
seems to be going the route of the city's
fire department. It appears that charges
will be assessed to all non-city residents
who use recreation facilities or participate
in recreation programs.
The sad part about it all is that most
are children.
April 1 is the date set for implementing
a fee system. Between now and then,
recreation and city officials expect to come
up with a schedule of fees. The most like
ly plan may involve flat fees for families
and individuals.
The reason for implementing a fee
system is the same as that for initiating
a subscription plan for fire protection ser
vices. Chattooga County Comissioner
Harry Powell hasn't come up with a firm
amount of money he will pay Summerville
for those services.
Fire protection is a matter of life and
Welcome, Mrs. Floyd
Friends of the Library has scheduled a
reception for Linda Floyd, the county's
new librarian, for Feb. 10.
Mrs. Floyd has admirable academic
qualifications for her position and she has
some excellent plans for improving library
services in Chattooga County during the
coming months and years.
Friends will sponsor a membership
drive during the next few months in an es-
Reed Family Honored
The Joe Reed family of Chattoogaville
has been named District Farm Family of
1986 and will compete in the state finals
next Jan. 31 in Albany.
In being selected the district’'s best
farm family, the Reeds had to have their
farming operation scrutinized closely by a
panel of judges. Their records were in
spected, as was their farm.
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The following are excerpts from the Jan. 27, 1938 edition of The Summer
ville News.
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POSSUM TO AID IN POLIO DRIVE — AMERICUS — A call for possums
to aid in the fight on infantile paralysis has been issued by Mrs. Howell Sim
mons of the Americus-Sumter County Garden club and American Legion com
mittee. The possums will not be used as a new treatment for the disease. Mrs.
Simmons is merely appealing to hunters to donate possums to be used in a
community possum supper Saturday night to raise funds for the infantile
paralysis foundation.
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AD: THE PRESIDENT’S BALL — Celebrate the President’s birthday Jan.
28, 1938. Music by Mack Thomas: Script sl. Given each year for the benefit
of fighting infantile paralysis. Sturdivant Gym. Prizes will be given.
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bills, no filler lever. No pressure bar. This pen given free if you can buy one
in the city for less than two dollars. Also $1 pencils to match pens, only 29 cents.
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AD: SATURDAY ONLY — THIS WEEK — We will pay delivered Sum
merville: colored hens, 15 cents per lb.; Leghorn hens, 12 cents per lb.; old
roosters, 7 cents per lb.; 2 lb. friers and under, 16 cents per lb. Poultry heavily
fed on grain immediately before selling will be docked 5 per cent. Rice Morgan,
Summerville.
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death but that doesn't seem to matter to
the commissioner. Therefore, it's unlikely
the fact that 70 percent of those who use
city recreation services are county
residents, will make much of an impression
on the commissioner.
A fire service subscription plan and
recreation fees would be unnecessary had
the commissioner been reasonable and
demonstrated that he was a capable
manager of limited county resources.
If the commissioner doesn't come up
with funds before April 1, a fee system will
likely go in effect.
It's worth wondering how many
children will no longer be able to par
ticipate in baseball or similar programs
because they or their families lack the
financial resources to pay the fees. It's also
something for Commissioner Powell to
think about.
fort to obtain the necessary resources for
the library. The reception will be a good
time for local residents to get to know Mrs.
Floyd better and to welcome her to our
community.
We're proud to note that she chose us
as much as we chose her. We welcome her
and pledge our support to her efforts on
behalf of our county's library.
One of the main items that weighed
heavily in the Reeds favor was communi
ty involvement, according to the judges.
By being named District Farm Fami
ly, the Reeds have brought honor to
themselves and to all of Chattooga
County.
We wish them success as they compete
against other Georgia families in Albany
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Viewpoint
By Tommy Toles, Editor
Gen. Lee Attacked
it takes a lot to get me angry but at
tacks on the South's venerable general,
Robert E. Lee, are guaranteed to make me
turn purple.
The latest outrage comes from
bureaucrats at the U. S. Postal Service in
Washington, D. C., as well as the Citizens’
Stamp Advisory Committee.
Georgia artist Jon Toorchen,
Cleveland, had proposed a stamp to be
Georgia’s Constitutional Bicentennial
Commemorative Stamp. The design has
been endorsed by Gov. Joe Frank Harris,
Sen. Wyche Fowler, Sen. Sam Nunn, the
National Association of Postmasters —
representing 42,000 postmasters, five
more Southern governors, Sons of Con
federate Veterans, a British Consul
General, and the Military Order of the
Stars and Bars. It is featured as an insert
in this column.
You will note that about 20 percent of
the design features a portrait of General
Lee and the Confederacy's battle flag.
Albert V. Casey of
the Postmaster §"
General's office wrote e
Toorchen last August ‘fit"
that the Stamp Advisory B ‘
Committee ‘‘took the "& i
position that it would be § 3§, fEY J
in poor taste to celebrate Wil =/“
Georgia's joining the E. AP
Union with a stamp that U5A99
alludes to its subsequent i
secession from that
Union. I agree with this
position and have directed the committee
to look elsewhere for a Georgia statehood
stamp design.”
Another Postal Service bureaucrat,
Stephen M. Gordon, wrote Toorchen last
December, ““The inclusion of a portrait of
General Robert E. Lee on a stamp com-
On The Funny Side E
By Gary Solomon W
Shoot All Snorers?
People who snore should be shot. Or so
my wife says.
“Anyone in particular you're referring
to?"" I reply innocently.
But as I reach for the blindfold and last
cigarette, the faces of friends I've salvag
ed from such a fate flash to mind, and I
realize there is yet hope for the afflicted.
You see, like anyone suffering an illness
— be it alcoholism, drug addiction, or male
pattern baldness — snorers respond best
to sympathy and understanding, not
threats. They need the support of sensitive
friends who will “‘wake'" the second mile
with them, so to speak. And just as there
are varied decibel ratings among the offen
ding parties, there are diverse methods of
treating each.
Take for example, my wife (apologies
to Henny Youngman). When I snore she
first rubs her palm smoothly across my
face to gently wake me. If unsuccessful,
she runs her nails lightly across. If still no
response, she calls the cat to rake its nails
not-so-lightly across. That usually does the
trick.
As a child, I approached my older
brother more respectfully when he snored.
memorating Georgia's entry into the union
would come close to mocking the very
ideal it is intended to honor."
Toorchen, as you might expect, is livid
over the rebuff. He sees the rejection as
more of a political act that is symptomatic
of Republicans in Washington losing touch
with Middle America.
The Postal Service's rejection of his
design is “‘tortured logic,” says Toorchen.
“Like a family, Southern sons decided to
leave home. The message of the Prodigal
Son was that THE RETURN. The Postal
Service refuses to recognize the return. It
pretends that General Lee is not part of
our 200 years."
Like Toorchen, I have had dealings
with the Stamp Committee. It is
frustrating, to say the least. When Con
gressman Larry McDonald was alive, he
worked diligently to have a com
memorative stamp issued in honor of Mar
tha Berry, who founded Berry College. By
any stretch of the imagination, Miss Berry
is deserving of such national recognition.
Her accomplishments in that era of our
history would be nothing short of astoun
ding for a man. As a woman, she overcame
numerous obstacles to provide an educa
tion for the poor children of the South.
He may as well have been dealing with
a concrete wall. Evidently, the Commis
sion saw Miss Berry as some sort of
Scarlet O'Hara and the plantation where
she started her schooling as another Tara.
Rejection of Toorchen's stamp design
is infuriating — but not unexpected.
Perhaps bombarding Postmaster General
Preston R. Tisch, Washington, D. C.
20260-0010, with letters or cards in sup
port of Toorchen’s design might help. You
can also reach Toorchen at Rte. 4, Box
4840, Cleveland, Ga. 30528.
Knowing his somewhat uneven tempera
ment, | would tiptoe to the living room
couch and try not to wake him in doing so.
Better to let a future spouse whip him in
to shape than to risk my life at such a
tender age, was my philosophy.
His dealings with me consisted of a
single, direct statement: “‘lf you snore
tonight, not even mom and dad can save
you tomorrow."” Not surprisingly, I didn’t
snore. Nor did I sleep, for that matter.
In college I would reach over with my
leg (it was a rather small room, the Poor
Boy Special) and jostle my roommate's
bed when he snored. Then while he drowsi
ly tried to recall what earth-shaking dream
he must have been having, I would hurry
to sleep. It worked like a charm.
With a heavy duty, industrial strength
roomie after college, I created a variation
on the earthquake theme. This buddy fell
asleep thunderously on the floor every
night as we watched television. Turning up
the TV only increased his volume too, for
some reason. Finally after several months
of missing the last half of every movie
because of him, I discovered a cure.
see ON THE FUNNY SIDE, page 5-A
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Guest Column
By Richard H. Fink
Hook And Crook?
The phrase by hook or crook’ is thought to have
originated in early 14th century England, where so-called
Forest Laws governed the rights of the poor to collect
firewood.
The poor were not permitted to use axes or saws, but
were allowed to cart away only the wood they could pull
off trees using either a hooked pole or a sickle, known as
a crook.
More than 600 years later, guess what? Government
officials are still formulating such silly regulations — and
the contemporary version could cost U. S. consumers as
much as a billion dollars a year.
At issue is a preliminary ruling by the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce that Canada is subsidizing its domestic
lumber industry. As a result of these allegedly unfair sub
sidies, the argument goes, American homebuilders and
handymen are buying inexpensive Canadian lumber, in
stead of more costly U. S. products.
The Commerce Department, as 1 result, has proposed
a 15 percent import duty on Canadian lumber.
It's not that the Canadian government is giving the
lumbermen a direct subsidy, mind you, the way the United
States subsidizes agriculture. Instead, the bureaucrats at
Commerce have decided that the Canadian provinces are
charging loggers too little to harvest logs on government
owned lands — as if its any of our business to begin with.
A group of American lumber producers had filed a com
plaint alleging that these charges, known as ‘“‘stumpage
fees,” are the equivalent of a subsidy, and therefore are
subject to ‘‘countervailing” import duties.
In other words, the U. S. lumber industry is determin
ed to use the power of Washington to club its Canadian
competition, by hook or by crook. Unfortunately, the
American consumer is the one who really stands to get
clobbered, a point made clear by my associates, Pamela
Heard, Jerome Ellig, and Mary Melrose — who estimate
that the average price of a new home will be driven up by
SI,OOO because of the import duty.
As Nariman Dehravesh, a vice president of Wharton
Econometrics, has noted, *'There is no question that the
proposed duty would raise the price of new homes in the
United States. The tough question is how much.”
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the
price increase at about S3OO per house. Heard, Ellig, and
Melrose believe it could be much more. Either way, every
hundred dollar increase will price more Americans out of
new homes. But the problems for U. S. consumers won't
end there. High lumber prices will affect home
improvement projects as well. Traditionally, when hous
ing costs go up, more Americans decide to stay where they
are and remodel existing homes. Since 35 percent of all
the lumber used in U. S. residential construction comes
from Canada, an import duty will drive up the cost of
remodeling as well.
Moreover, the tariffs are expected to cause 16,000
workers in construction and other related industries te lose
their jobs. Says Henry Getz, president of Morton
Buildings, an llllinois construction firm, ‘“lumber protec
tionism won't save any jobs — it will merely transfer jobs
from one industry to another. The proposed duties will
cause a net job loss in 46 states and the District of
Columbia.
Such protectionism is also likely to put the kabosh on
U. S.-Canadian free trade negotiations. Indeed, it could
even spark a trade war. Hard on the heels of the Commerce
Department ruling, the Canadian government announced
@t would impose a huge 67 percent tariff on American corn
imports. Why? Because U. S. agricultural subsidies were
driving corn prices so low that Canadian farmers were be
ing forced to sell their corn for less than it cost them to
grow it. The United States shouldn’t be taxing Canadian
lumbe}’ imports, it should be welcoming them. The propos
ed tariff makes about s much sense as the old Forest laws.
(Richard H. Fink is President of Citizens For A Sound
Economy, a 250,000 member Washington-based citizens’
organization).
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