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The Summeruille News
The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County
WINSTON E. ESPY
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TOMMY TOLES
EDITOR
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Editorials
Reprint One More Step
Almost 4,500 reprints of a “‘Reader’s
Digest’ article were distributed to
students in the Trion City and Chattooga
County schools last week. The report ex
plains how parents can help their children
learn better and proposes classroom
changes to improve performance.
Local students were supposed to take
the reprints home to their parents.
Educators, of course, were expected to
read the suggestions.
The article lists six ideas to help
children learn: 1. Make reading automatic.
2. Provide equal opportunity in the
classroom. 3. Teach thinking. 4. Review
before proceeding. 5. Have classmates
help, and 6. Educate at home. It also con
tains a 12-question quiz for parents to
grade themselves on whether they en
courage learning in the home.
““Reader’s Digest” printed the article
in its January edition and despite its
phenomenal circulation, it still doesn’t go
into every home in Chattooga.
That's why The News proposed that
reprints be obtained to distribute to every
student in the Trion and Chattooga school
systems, hoping that most would reach
Elite Company
Company H, 121st Infantry, Georgia
Army National Guard.
Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
Especially when one realizes the new
elite unit will be based partly in Chattooga
County, starting Oct. 1. In fact, the larger
part of the unit will be stationed in
Summerville.
Gen. Joseph Griffin, Georgia's adju
tant general, pointed out to Chattooga
residents last week that Company H will
be anything but an ordinary infantry unit.
All its members must be airborne qualified
and at least a third must be Ranger
qualified. Rangers are among the most
elite components of the U.S. armed
‘Time To Start Living’
Chattooga High School's Band follies
will be held Friday and Saturday night at
the high school cafeteria.
Entitled *‘lt's Time To Start Living,”
the program promises to be a lively, enter
taining way to spend a fun evening and a
surefire way to help the band finance its
activities vear-long.
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49 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the March 17, 1938 edition of The Sum
merville News.
* * *
BUSINESSES IN SUMMERVILLE HOLDING UP MUCH BETTER
THAN IN MANY OTHER PLACES — A majority of Summerville business
houses have advertisements in this issue of The News. They are making a strong
bid for the patronage of those who live in this trade area. Never at any time
have local concerns shown better stocks at this season, and also they have never
been in a position to offer better service in their places of business than at the
present time.
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PLESS LUNCH STAND — The Pless Lunch Stand is one of Summerville’s
busy places. It is unusual that a person calls here and does not see a number
of people enjoying a sandwich or cold drink. This business is known far and
wide as being the home of real pit barbecue. Meats are barbecued here at the
lunch stand, and those who order barbecue know that they are getiing the real
genuine article.
DAVID T. ESPY, JR.
GENERAL MANAGER
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the hands of parents and get them more
involved in their children's education.
That idea was endorsed and financed by
The News, the Summerville-Trion Rotary
and Optimist Clubs.
Admittedly, it's a small step in the bat
tle to improve education in the communi
ty and to reduce the local county school
dropout rate. But it is another positive ef
fort and we want to express our apprecia
tion to the Rotary and Optimist Clubs for
joining with The News in the program.
The enthusiasm for the project by
Trion School Supt. Bill Kinzy, who also
heads the Chattooga Chamber of Com
merce this year, and Chattooga School
Supt. Don Hayes, was also encouraging.
Victory against the dropout problem is
not yet in sight, of course. Many more bat
tles must be waged. And it will require per
sistent and consistent efforts by the entire
community, not just educators, the
newspaper or two civic clubs.
Parents, businessmen and in
dustrialists, as well as other civic, social
and economic organizations must enlist in
the fight for it to be successful.
services.
Former military men who haven't yet
reached 35 years of age are targets of the
new company's recruiters. Other men 17
to 35, especially those who are high school
graduates and plan to attend college, will
be sought out, General Griffin said.
A recruitment office is expected to be
open one day a week in Summerville in the
near future.
Not only will Chattooga benefit
economically from construction of a new
armory and weekend training sessions in
Summerville, it's image will be enhanced
as the location of one of the Guard’s most
elite units.
Students and adults alike have already
put in hundreds of combined hours of work
on the program and no one who attends
will be disappointed.
We commend *‘lt’s Time To Start Liv
ing"’ to your attention.
The title says it all.
WILLIAM T. ESPY
ADVERTISING MANAGER
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By Tommy Toles, Editor W
Gen. Lee And The Stamp
THE FIGHT by Jon Toorchen, a
Cleveland artist, to have his design
adopted by the U.S. Postal Service as
Georgia's bicentennial commemorative
stamp, was mentioned in this spot a few
weeks ago.
The tenacious craftsman is continuing
his battle with the Postal Service
bureaucracy. Ninth District Congressman
Ed Jenkins has called Postal Service
remarks about Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose
portrait is featured in Toorchen’s stamp
design, ‘‘discourteous.”
Dannie L. Reed, grand master of the
Grand Lodge of Georgia, has also written
Postmaster General Preston R. Tisch to
complain about the Postal Service’s rejec
tion of Toorchen’s work.
* * *
THE POSTAL Service's Citizens’
Stamp Advisory Committee rejected the
Toorchen design, blasting the artist’s use
of General Lee’s portrait and a tiny por
tion of the Confederate battle flag. Toor
chen said the Committee’s experts “were
not knowledgeable enough to recognize the
complement to the Confederate-related
subject i.e. the reconstruction flag.
Together both flags make up the recon
ciliation message. I suspect that these ‘ex
perts’ actually failed to recognize both
flags, and as a result, poor General
Lee. .. caught the main blast.”
On The Funny Side -
By Gary Solomon : 4
Lonely Bubba, Bobbie Sue
BUBBA AND Bobbie Sue sat at home
the other night, trying to think of someone
they felt comfortable about inviting over
for dinner.
“How about the Johnsons?”’ Bubba
asked.
“No, they’re black,” Bobbie Sue
replied. ““I like them just fine, but I just
don’t think the different races should
socialize with each other. They've got their
ways, we've got ours, and let’s keep it that
way.”
“Well, what about the Turners?”’ Bub
ba offered. ‘‘They’re real nice.”
* * *
“AREN'T THEY BAPTIST?” Bobbie
Sue asked.
“Oh, yeah, 1 forgot,” said Bubba.
“First thing you know, they’d be tryin’ to
dunk us in the swimming pool. Forget I
even mentioned them.”
““Are the Mealers still in town?”’ Bob
bie Sue wondered.
“As far as I know,” said Bubba, ‘“‘but
wouldn’t it bother you to be seen with a
mixed couple?”
“Mixed couple?”
* * *
“YEAH, SHE'S a Southerner and he’s
from out west somewhere. I understand
her family disowned her when she married
him. To each his own, I always say, but I
can't imagine why anybody would want to
marry someone from such a different
culture.”
“What about the Smiths?”’
“They're mixed, too. She eats wheat
bread; he eats rye.”
Toorchen points out that General Lee’s
likeness has appeared at least three times
on U. S. postage stamps, as well as on two
minted American coins. But it hasn’t ap
peared on a postage stamp since 1965, he
said, ‘“‘and this is due to the discriminatory
policy of the U. S. Postal Service.”
* * *
THE WASHINGTON Post, one of the
least conservative newspapers in the na
tion, has characterized the Postal Service
as simply “a . . . bureaucracy prone to say
no.”
Michael Laurence, editor of Linn’s
Stamp News, said the Service is “a
revenue-producing, merchandising arm of
the government which has abandoned the
craft of printing line-engraved works of art
with George Washington on them in favor
of mass-producing stamps with kitschy,
popular themes...a poster con
cept . . . designed by some design con
sultants from New York.”
The Northeast Georgia artist hasn’t
given up but he is still asking public of
ficials and Georgia residents to write the
Postmaster General in Washington, and
urge him to reverse the Service’s rejection
of Toorchen’s masterful design.
* * *
SOMETIMES, persistence prevails
when all else fails.
“I don’t guess it has to be another cou
ple,” Bobbie Sue said. “Why don’t we try
some of our single friends? How about
Tommy Parker?”
* * *
“HE’S GOT A BEARD now,”’ replied
Bubba. “You know how I feel about
beards. But we haven’t seen Betty Lester
for a while.”
“She’s got a moustache, remember?”’
“Danny Thompson?”’
‘“He’s too old. And besides, he’s from
the wrong side of the tracks. It just
wouldn’t look right.”
“I always liked your friend, Janice,”
Bubba said. “What's she doing these
days?”
“Getting her Ph.D. in mathematics.
We used to be close until that happened.
Now I hide when I see her coming. But the
last time we talked, she did say Skip
Roberts is back in town.”
* * *
“FORGET HIM. He's only got a
bachelor’s degree, and that’s in P. E. Talk
about your dumb jock. That's Skip.”
“How about Larry Bell?”’ asked Bob
bie Sue.
“I heard he was gay. I don't know if it’s
true, but I sure don’t want to find out.”
“David Jones?”’
“He’s a used car salesman,” Bubba
answered, ‘‘and you know how shifty they
can be.”
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THEY THOUGHT for a moment, then
Bubba asked, ‘“Think your mom and dad
see ON THE FUNNY SIDE, page 6-A
Guest Column
By Richard H. Fink
Beltway ‘Viee’
WASHINGTON is a fickle place and, like Hollywood,
it has its fads. But instead of “Miami Vice"” and flashy
fashions, the “inside the Beltway' crowd is forever sear
ching for new buzzwords. This year’'s choice is “‘com
petitiveness,” a politically fuzzy shorthand meaning that
American companies are supposedly having trouble com
peting in the world marketplace due to ‘“‘unfair’ foreign
competition.
Some in Congress are offering trade barriers and tar
riffs as a “‘solution” to the problem, hence exposing the
real meaning of competitiveness, which is as the
Washington Post columnist said recently, ‘‘a less offen
sive word than ‘protectionism’ when talking about trade
deficits.”
It is true that some American industries are having
trouble competing, but the problem lies not in Japan or
other favorite targets of destructive protectionist Congres
sional tantrums: it's right here at home.
* * *
THE “COMPETITIVENESS"” craze has been spark
ed by the rather staggering trade deficit. The U. S. bought
about $169.7 billion more goods from foreign suppliers
than it imported last year, hence the ‘“‘trade deficit.”
But trade deficits, contrary to popular wisdom, are not
necessarily a bad thing in themselves. We should no more
worry about a trade deficit between the U. S. and Japan
than about a trade deficit between California and Ohio.
If American business can buy such materials as steel and
computer chips for less money overseas, they can produce
goods for less money and offer their services at lower cost
to consumers. This frees up American money and labor
for producing other goods and services, which translates
to a higher standard of living for all Americans.
However, many things are unhealthy in extremely
large doses, and we've had too big a dose of trade deficits.
* * *
THERE IS A LOT of loose talk around to the effect
that “traditional” American manufacturing industries,
such as automobiles, are in decline and thus part of the
trade probem. This is simply not true.
As a percentage of the Gross National Product (GNP)
—the total amount of goods and services produced —
heavy industry has held a steady share since 1960, accor
ding to the business magazine Forbes. In that year,
durable goods manufacturing accounted for 13.7 percent
of the GNP — slOl billion (in 1972 dollaars) out of $737.2
billion; in 1985 the figure was 13.4 percent — $481.5 billion
out of $3,585.2 billion.
As Robert Krieble, who recently retired as chairman
of the board of the Loctite Corporation, says ‘America
needs to stop bellyaching about the advantages of enjoyed
by the Japanese and start doing something about it. Pro
tectionist trade legislation is not the answer; it only hides
the problem.” :
* * *
THE SINGLE LARGEST problem with the trade
deficit is the U. S. government’s own annual spending
deficit. The big-spenders in Congress and a series of
presidents lacking the will, political courage, or sense of
responsibility to the nation to make serious efforts to cut
spending, have caused a trillion-dollar — and rapidly grow-
Ing — national debt. The government has to borrow to get
its spending “fix,” and this massive borrowing, by
dramatically increasing the demand for credit, has raised
the cost of capital in America to over three times what
it is in Japan. New taxes would only take even more money
out of the marketplace; the logical solution is to cut, spen
ding dramatically.
Dr. Edward Hudgins, and economist at The Heritage
Foundation here in Washington, suggests an additional
step; continued deregulation of U. S. industry. Over the
past few years, deregulated industries have increased jobs
at over double the rate of the U. S. industrial average. In
particular, Hudgins says that anit-trust laws should be
re-examined with an eye to the damage these cause to the
competitive positions of U. S. companies. For instance,
some joint research projects are prohibited under anti
quated anti-trust laws.
* * *
BUT THERE is another aspect to “‘competitiveness”
almost as wily as a definition of the buzzword itself: com
placent corporate managers, cloned out of elite busines
schools, who are unwilling to try new ideas.
“What is needed instead is a new generation of cor
porate managers willing to take risks in order to catch the
Goldep Ring,” says Robert Krieble. “In addition to our
bountiful resources, that has always been America’s ad
see GUEST COLUMN, page 5-A