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Letters To The Editor
Bureaucratic Run-Around
Dear Editor:
~ On April 4, 1984, 1 was convicted for driv
ing under the influence of intoxicants (DUI).
M?' driver's license was revoked for five years.
After two years, I would be eligible for a pro
bationary license provided I maintained a
perfect record for tflose two years,
I kept a perfect record, and in April, 1986,
I tried to get my probationary license. I was
told by the Department of Publ,ic Safety (DPS)
in Atlanta that my license was never forward
ed to them by the person responsible in
LaFayette. Therefore, my revocation time had
never started.
The DPS said that all I needed was for the
Fersons responsible for the handling of my
icense to write them an official letter giving
them the date that my license was taken from
me, and then they could issue me a proba
tionary license.
Simple, right?
Not so! Nobody in LaFayette would take
responsibility for tf)),e mistake in processing the
paperwork.
I checked with the city police, but they refer
red me to the sheriff's ofg((:)e. The sheriff's of
fice referred me to the courthouse. No one
anywhere would help me. They all blamed so
meone else for the mistake.
The city police had arrested me, so I figured
they were responsible for handling my license.
But when I asked a police official, who then
worked for the police department, if she could
help me by writing a letter to the DPS giving
them the date my license was taken from me,
she refused, saying it wasn't their fault that my
license had gotten lost.
I then went to the clerk of court’s office and
eleained mg roblem to Bill McDaniels. He
called the D Spand they told him exactly what
was needed, which was the date my license was
taken from me. He said he would get together
with the police official and together tel:a?, would
send the BPS the information they needed. The
following is the letter the DPS received, which
gives them no information whatsoever.
“July 3, 1986
Department of Public Safety
B 8 Box 1456
Atlanta, Ga. 30371
Revocation Unit
Dear Sir:
This letter is in reference to Gregory Lynn
Smith Ga. No. 258153960. This subject has
come to our office in reference to his license. To
my knowledge if we had his license they were
either returned to Mr. Smith or sent to your
office.
We do not have his license at this time.
Thank you,
Charles R. Richardson, Chief
LaFayette Police Department”
By this time a couple of months had pass-
Reason For Conviction?
Dear Editor, e ' :
I think that the reason the McGuire boy was
convicted in court, was to keep the GBI, the
Sheriff's Department and court systems from
looking bad.
Michael Whitehead beat his. He was the
first to be tried on the Dec. 10 drug roundup.
Asking For Prayer
Dear Editor:
Request for Prayer.
I would like for all the Christian people to
g}ease say a Erayer for my mother, Rosa B.
cGuire; my baby girl, Marti Laelia McGuire;
and my brother, A?vin McGuire.
They are all very sick. Also, please say a
Thank You, Judge Hand
Dear Editor:
In a ruling almost certain to be overturned
by the 11th Sircuit Court of Appeals, Federal
District Judge W. Brevard Hzrmdp recently gave
Alabama Christians a victory in their suit to
remove from schools there 42 textbooks he
deemed to promote “‘the religion of secular
humanism."’
Since the U.S. Supreme Court declared
secular humanism “a religion”” a number of
years ago, the 11th Circuit will have to resort
to some of its most creative reasoning to throw
out Hand’s decision. I just know they're up to
it, however.
Permit me a brief but related digression: Are
some of you as sick and.tired as I am of the
left’s constant carping that ‘‘secular
humanism’’ is° some kind of mythical
boogeyman invented by the so-called religious
right as a rallying point against the activities
of the left? If humanism is a myth, how in the
world do these clowns explain away Humanist
Manifestos 1 and 2 of 1933 and 197377
But back to Mobile and Judge Hand.
It appears the Judge grounded his decision
in the definition of a religion as put forth by
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ed and I wasn't even close to getting my license,
which I was entitled to at tfizt time. I talked
to the same ai)olice official again sometime later
and she finally agreed to send the DPS the in
formation they needed. The following is a copy
of that letter.
“November 6, 1986
Degartment of Public Safety
P. O. Box 1456
Atlanta, Ga. 30371
Revocation Unit
Mrs. Ayers:
This letter is in reference to Gregory Lynn
Smith license No. 258153960. This subject was
arrested in LaFayette and charged with driv
ing under the influence and other related
charges. These charges were turned over to
State Court and the subject's driver’s license
were turned over to the Walker County
Sheriff's office. The clerk of Walker County
Court advised that he did not have the subject’s
license. Therefore we as the arresting agency
to have last contact with the subject’s license,
must take responsibility for the loss of those
license.
The date of the citations were on Dec. 9,
1983 and his license were taken at that time.
Thank {ou very much for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Barry Hollis, Judge
LaFayette Recorders Court”
I finally received my license on Feb. 11,
1987, 10 months after I was supposed to have
gotten it. Now, 10 additional months is a lor;f
time to go without being able to drive, especial
ly when I was supposed to have my license.
During that period of being given the
runaround, I was stopped while g;iving to
work. I had te have a way to work. 1 was ar
rested and taken to jail for no license and no
insurance. I couldn’t get insurance without a
license, and I couldn’t get my license because
someone had failed to do his job.
I'm not mad because a mistake was made.
I'm mad because it took so long for anyone to
help me.
Now, I am facing possible prison, stiff fines,
and enormous lawyer fees. A man has to be able
to get to work.
My drivinf privileges were denied to me
because of a clerical error. Should I be punish
ed so severely for a mistake in paperwork? I
don’t think so.
I'm wondering if there is any city official out
there who will help me clear tl;is problem up?
My future depen(l; on it.
Thank you very much,
Gregory L. Smith
P. 0. Box 1221,
LaFayette, Ga. 30728
Home 397-2316
Work 638-3811
Then Bill Adams was the second oné/ Heé dls6
beat his charge. ; '
So they had to do something or it was go
ing to make them look bad.
All of them.
Sincerely yours,
Catherine Ramey
prayer for me. I am not sick, but God knows,
I need it, too.
I feel the doctors are doing everything they
can. With your prayers I feel éod “{KI too. Your
prayers will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Mark McGuire
theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich states that a per
son's ultimate allegiance is the test. If one's
ultimate allegiance is to a country or to an
ideology, rather that God, then that person is
creating a religion out of a country or an
ideology!
Sounds pretty logical to me. Which is why
the appelate court will overturn the decision.
Look folks, let's face some by now pretty ob
vious facts: There are some reafi'y powerful peo
ple out there who desperately desire to expunge
God from every aspect of our national life and,
more particularly, make Christians an en
dangered species.
However, my short-term concern for real
American Christianity is tempered by my
knowledge that the God (capital “G") I worshi
is plenty big enough to dealp with the god (smafi
“g'"") they worship.
In tfi]e interim, prayers and letters of
gratitude to Judge Hand c/o the Federal Cour
thouse in Mobile, Ala., are certainly in order.
Dick Bachert
4053 Glen Meadow Drive
Norcross, GA 33092
449-6690 or 443-5300
Slow Down Speeders!
Dear Editor:
I am hoping that you will print this letter,
for I think it is something that should be
brought to everyone's attention, and that's the
crosswalk’s in town, and the speeder’s that go
through town without any refiard to the peo
ple that are trying to cross the street.
I would like to know what the speed limit
is in town, and why it is not enforced better
than it is, in the first place, the cross walk si@gxs.
are too small and too high up, for anybod{ ut
transfer truck drivers to see, they should be
lower and bigger, and it does no good to wait
until the ligfit turns red to cross the street
because people coming out of the side streets
don't slow down either. There might be one out
of a hundred people in this county that respects
the people trying to cross the main street, and
when anybody stops for me, I thank them,
because I,have been yelled at, and cursed out,
for trying to cross the street, when I had the
right of way.
I work at the county courthouse, and part
of my job is going to the post office for the mail
every morning. | run errands for any of the peo
ple at the courthouse, and I have to cross the
streets several times a day, eve}'l{‘gs?'.
And what happened to me on ay mor
ning, March 9, is the reason that I decided to
write this letter, as I was coming back to the
Thanks For Reprint
Dear Editor:
I wish to take this o?ortunity to thank The
Summerville News and the Rotary and Op
timist Clubs for making it possible for each one
of our students in grades K-7 to take home a
re(E)rint from the ‘‘Reader’s Di%est" entitled
“Go to the Head of the Class.” This timely ar
ticle is informative and full of practical sugges-
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courthouse with the mail, I was attempting to
cross the street at the corner of Downes Apart
ments, the light was on red, and I had the right
of-way. But there is no sign there that says not
to turn on red but this woman was coming out
of that side road onto the main street, she was
looking left, she never once turned her head
rilght to see if anyone was crossing the street.
If I had not been watching her, she would have
run over me, and knocked me down.
As it was, she hit my right leg and knocked
me off balance, and I I‘lit the hood of her car
with my hand, but she did not stop.
I don’t know who this woman was, but if she
reads this letter she will know who I am talk
ing about, for she never had the courtesy about
her to stop and apologize, or to see if I was hurt.
I reported it to the police station, but they
couldn’t do anything, because I didn’t get her
tag number.
But the city dpolicemen could do something
about the s ers that go right through the
main part o?fgwn. with no regard for anybody
trying to cross the street, and something needs
to be done about it before somebody gets hurt
bad or killed. If it's not stopped now, think
what it will be like when the new highway is
comé)leted.
ffie Mae Cox
Summerville
tions. It is our hope that all parents will read
the article.
Thank you for Kour continuing support of
and interest in public education.
Sincerely,
Sue Hayes, Principal
Trion Elementary School
The Bubba’'s and Bobbie Sue’s of the
world sit at home night after night trying
to think of someone just like themselves
with whom to-associate. Hopefully they
are very, very lonely.
The Summerville News, March 19, 1987 .
Rotarians Push
Polio Plus Plan
The Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club has pledfed full
support for the Rotary Interna
tional Polio Plus program this
year and is seekinf additional
community help for thz(fro
gram, which is designed to
eliminate polio and other dead
ly diseases worldwide.
The club has agreed to
supply $3,900 for the program,
SIOO for each of its members,
this year. »
Rotary International has a
goal to raise $l2O-million in
three years for the project,
which befian in June, 1986. The
funds will be used to purchase
golio vaccine. An additional
2.5-million is being sought to
maintain Rotary’s polio task
force for the next five years.
DONATIONS
The Summerville-Trion
Club’s donation to the project
is over and above its scholar
ship and STAR Student-
Teacher programs.
It is estimated that up to
six doses of the oral polio vac
cine — at four cents each —
Guest Column -
vantage — bold, entrepreneurial leadership. It is needed
now more than ever.”
“It is the one thing the Japanese are not equipped to
compete with,” he says. Few have said it better.
* * *
(Richard H. Fink is President of Citizens For A Sound
Economy, a 250,000 member Washington-based citizens’
organization).
DR. B. LOVINGOOD
QUALITY DENTISTRY
AT REASONABLE PRICES
Hours: 9 a.m.-12 Noon; 1-5 p.m. Daily
2 West First Avenue - Summerville
PHONE 857-3902
maf' have to be fl'rovidod each
child in develog f countries.
An estimated 100-million
babies are born each year in
developing nations, said Jack
Herring, club president, and
the Polio Plus program is
designed to remain in effect for
five years. The $l2O-million
figure is for polio vaccine only.
Each year, polio strikes
300,000 to 500,000 children
worldwide each gw. said Her
rin%and Allen “Butch” Eleam,
club vice gresident. killing up
to 50,000 and maiming
thousands more.
The “plus” in the Polio Plus
program will be a followup pro
gram to immunize as many
children as possible against
measles, diptheria, tuber
culosis, tetanus and whooping
cou}g{h.
erring said any Chattooga
area group or individual
wishinf to contribute to the
Polio Plus program may con
tact any Summerville-Trion
Rotary member, himself or
Eleam. e
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