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Letters To The Editor
Thanks For Help
Dear Editor,
We would like to thank Lewis and Lisa
Wilson, of the Sheriff's Department, and
Western Auto, for coming to the aid of our
friends from Wartenbug, \fiest Germany, Elsa
and Erwin Schmitt.
This was their first visit to the United
States. They have traveled all over the states
and Canada, visiting the many friends they
have made through the years.
When they arrived in Summerville, they had
been traveling since 3 a.m. Wednesday, Sept.
16. When they found the post office closed, they
tried several people who were unable to help
them find us.
Thanks Paper, Powell
Dear Editor,
I would like to express my thanks through
your fine paper. I am referring to the recent
grading and paving of Johnson semetery Road,
West of Chattoogaville. The condition of the
road during bad weather has often been a real
problem. ’l%nanks to Mr. Harry Powell and his
Thanks Community
Dear Editor:
We would like to exfiress our sincere ap
preciation to evera{lone who participated in the
special benefit ball game for our son, Lee.
We are deeply %rateful for the sponsors who
made it {)ossigle or WSAF to broadcast the
event. Also, we would like to thank the staff
of WSAF, members of each softball team, those
who worked in the concession stand, and
everyone who contributed and participated in
the events.
We extend a special heartfelt ‘‘Thank-You”
Bike-A-Thon Success
Dear Editor:
I want to thank everyone who helped make
the St. Jude Hospital bike-a-thon at (filattooga
Hifih School a success. A total of $1,150.60 was
collected.
More concerning the benefit for St. Jude
‘Crisis’ In Chattooga?
Dear Editor:
Throughout the years society has suffered
tremendously due to some form of a ““Crisis.”
Some of which, are the result of decisions made
in supreme locations such as; The White House,
and the Royal Embassys’ . .. Some are due to
the usage of discretion applied by such
authorities as — governments, senators and
State Representatives. And still, there are
faltering gecisions made by an even less rank
ed group of authorities, tfi,e select few whose
decisions determine the stability or alterations
of our rural and urban districts. These in
dividuals hold the titles of: City/county commis
sioners, mayors, councilmen, Chamber of Com
merce members and other elite titles.
Although these individuals have the
authority to amend certain infractions, and are
looked upon with uttermost respect and trust
to fulfill these positions in the way of render
ing eciuality and justice for all, they are usual
ly inclined to concentrate on what is normally
considered as the most important aspects of the
city as a whole. Their attention is directed in
ways of developing a city of competitive poten
tialy in comparison to other districts throughout
the state. So they strive to improve financial
securities, social assets and exterior
beautification.
They are not %rofoundly involved with the
inner city — problems, the things you and I
know as the detriment to Epeople andy the areas
where we live. Oh sure! Everyone notices the
obvious damage upon the cities facial features;
the broken sigewalks, or the need of one, the
abandoned buildings, the overly filled trash
dumpsters, the street repair necessities and all
other problems of similarity which reflect public
relation images upon tourists, or governmen
tal visitors.
Yes, it seems as if we are strictly against
tolerating any form of existance which imflies
error upon the — renewal capability — of the
city as a whole.
Well what about the pegple who make up
the popoulation of the city? Can not anyone see
the actual damage being done to the residents?
What about the ‘‘Advancing Crisis’’ that has
accelerated to a level of shockin§ comllm)rehen
sion just within the past decade. .. People,
we're talking about Drugs!!! Alcohol!!! the in
fluential damage the pro;lect. Yes! It's (Exite
unpleasant and sometXung as to be done about
it. But When — Where — How-and-Who???
Well the answers are (1) (Now) (2) (Here) (3)
(We acquire the techniques through positive ef
fort. And at last — Who? — I guess now is the
opportunity for !ou to disreqard this article,
and pretend it does not apg y to you. Sure,
there is a great percentage o d]you that do not,
and wouldg:lot indulge regardless to whatever
the circumstances were. Still, the fact remains,
there’s also a great percentage that do indulge,
and will effectively influence others to do
likewise, providing this “crisis” continues to
spread. :
Let's give the benefit of doubt to the
older/more mature group of citizens and say
Our address is confusing since we are on a
rural route in the Subligna community, and
have a Walker Countfi' telefihone number. They
became confused when they were unable to
reach us. Language was no barrier as Elsa and
Erwin’s English is fluent.
Lewis and Lisa called us. We don’t know
how they became involved, but we want them
to know how grateful we are.
Thank You again, Lewis and Lisa.
Sincerely,
Bernice and Gene Crane
Route 4,
Summerville
employees. The road is in Freat shape and will
serve our community well.
Thank you.
Irene Ry;tliff
P. O. Box 226
Lyerly
to Keitha Shamblin and Terry Adams, who
worked vear]y hard in preparing and organizing
this special event for Lee.
The money which was raised will go toward
Lee’s medical expenses at the Emory %hfldren‘s
Cancer Clinic in Atlanta.
We are proud to be a part of a community
that genuinely ‘“‘Cares for Others.” So many
people have expressed their concern for Lee and
we are indeed grateful!
Sincerely,
Ricky and Beverly Veatch
Children Research Hospital will be given at a
later date.
Mrs. Kathleen Simms
Bike-a-Thon Coordinator
Summerville
they are beyond the tendencies to merely
adventure of such experiences. That is absolute
ly wonderful!!! God gfess You!!! And let's pray
that he continues to grant you such strength,
courage and confidence. However, if one of the
‘“victims” is someone you know — a friend, an
associate, or of some kinship, does it not effect
you too?
What about the children? Whose are they?
Whose will they be? Can they be blamed for
adventure? Cafn they successfully denounce the
opportunity of gaining acceptance among par
n*():glar peegls? Jgust hgw vurl:erable are tfier;'?
I want you to take a moment and answer
those questions as best you can. But please!!!
Answer not with haste, nor with just tfie mind,
but with the humanity that lies within the
midst of the heart . ..
“Well now that you feel the pain also, just
what are we going to do?
There are several options. Some people need
clinical help. Some need another source of con
fidence, which will enable them to see
themselves as they truly are. Some need to
separate fantasy from reality. Whatever the
case may be, doesn'’t it seem apparent they fail
ed to reach these conclusions under their own
reliance? Maybe they need the positive in
fluence from someone, anyone who really cares;
someone — who will be — A friend. ..
“And the children,” surely they can be
taught more in depthly in order to make them
better prepared for making the right decisions.
Fundamental teaching 1s sufl%cient in an
academic standpoint, but what about the times
when students are not within the confines of
a classroom? This is when additional knowledge
is re&uired.
“iod Bless our parents for their *‘struc
tured” teaching and guidances. Yet, due to the
structured manner of teaching, we still
gathered the true definition of some things, on
our own accord — faltering to some and surviv
ing others.
Along the path of life, I guess we all con
sider (mentally) the impossib?:— such as tur
ning back the hands of time, usually for our own
personal benefit and for different reasons. Some
of us would like to re-gain a specific time and/or
events, others woxfid like to deter from
something in the gresent life. However, the past
can be no more. It can serve a purpose as far
as beini a basic format for future decisions. So
being that, we can not rebound our own lives,
why not do something similar. Like helping
direct someone today, in a different yet better
way. You may not be able to help them all, but
if at least one — your efforts, are to be
rewarded.
“‘Let’s Face It People.”
This modern day crisis is rapidly spreading
throughout the city with tragic c?;vastation.
And to counter its excelling rate — may we help
someone . . .
And may Heaven help us all —
Written by:
Timothy L. Harshaw
Summerville
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munities. We, as teachers, must remind the organizations
that they serve us rather than control us. They must repre
sent the most of us rather than the loudest of us.
(6) We must be professionally honest about the TCT
(Teacher Certification Test). The teacher test for veteran
teachers is a nuisance, but it is not racially biased. The
mere fact that a higher percentage of individuals from a
certain racial, economic, or geographic category scores less
well on a test does not mean the test is biased.
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(77 WE CANNOT be enemies or adversaries with
parents, politicians, or the public. Educational reform can
not succeed without us or them. We must be together and
address our common problems of poverty, permissiveness
and parental unconcern in many families.
The graduating class of the year 2000 is entering
Georgia’s first mandatory kindergarten class this year. We
are enrolling approximately 100,000 students into the
kindergarten class. How many of this class will drop out,
fail, succeed, or test adequately?
* * *
ONE MILLION students, 60,000 teachers, two-million
parents, and an additional three million Georgians have
a big stake in the QBE class of 2000.
The task of teachers now is to sort out what is real,
what is rhetoric, and what will work. Educational reform
will succeed or fail in our local school buildings.
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CHS Homecoming Dinner
The Chattooga Education Assn. (CEA) will sponsor a
turkey and dressing ‘‘homecoming dinner” at the Chat
tooga High School Cafeteria from 4-8 p.m. Friday. The
meal, which will include turkey and dressing, candied
yams, green beans, homemade rolls, tea or coffee, will
cost $4 per plate. Desserts will be available for a
seflarate price. All proceeds will be used for the CEA
scholarship profgram. The meal will be prepared by CHS
lunchroom staff members and served by CEA members.
Shown in the CHS kitchen are teachers Wrzlene Selman
and Darlene Scoggins. (Staff Photo By Kay Abbott).
Jasper Dorsey
Labor Loses Credibility
LABOR DAY was a little late this
year. So are labor unions in starting a
comeback to the abusive political and
economic power they enjoyed a few years
ago.
Things must be even worse than they
seem. A few optimistic stories have been
planted here and there by their academic
friends and a few hired flacks, predicting
a labor resurrection in time for the next
election.
* * *
DESPERATION is indicated,
however, by the disinformation planted by
something named ‘‘Corporation for Enter
prise Development,” called by syndicated
columnist Warren T. Brookes, a front for
government labor unions American
Federation of Teachers (AFT) and
American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Here's the propaganda: ‘‘High-tax,
highly regulated and heavily unionized
states . . . do best overall,” while ‘‘Sunbelt
states are doing poorly.” It ain’t so. The
facts are opposite. Big labor’s beloved,
top-ranked ‘“A” states: Michigan, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and
Massachusetts had a combined payroll job
growth about half the national average
from 1970 to 1986 — 21.9 percent to a
U. S. average of 42.9 percent.
* * *
LABOR PROPAGANDA gave 16
mostly Southern and Western states a low
“D” rating, but these states were three
times better than the union’s ‘A"’ states,
with a payroll job growth of 63.5 percent.
That was 48 percent faster than the U. S.
average. .
Truth is, union membership has plung
ed from 34 percent to 18 percent in the last
30 years for non-agricultural workers.
When the President in 1981 fired all the
PATCO union air controllers who'd struck
against the American people, it was a long
overdue lesson to union arrogance. The
public applauded.
* * *
THERE HAS been little, if any, sym
pathy with a CBS-TV writers strike or the
one at NBC-TV. These people are highly
paid. Overpaid, says new management,
who's trying to cut skyhigh costs. It’s
business isn’t it? An NFL strike is in the
wings, goody.
Now comes the real bandits, the United
Auto Workers (UAW). They are paid
about S3O per hour, including fringe
benefits, like getting 95 percent of full pay
if they're laid off for up to a year. Only the
United Steel Workers (USW) make more.
Now you know why Big Steel cannot com
pete with imports and why U. S. car com-
Letters To The Editor
Likes To Read Hosmer
Dear Editor,
Glad to see Lane Hosmer back in the sad
dle again.
Trion Golf Club Thanks
Dear Editor:
As a spokesperson for the ladies of Trion
Golf Club, I wrote a letter thanking merchants
and individuals (Sept. 3) who donated time and
gifts for the Ladies’ Invitational Golf
Tournament.
On The Funny Side ..o
“In the meantime, you've got homework
to do, and bedtime’s at 8:30 now that
school’s started.”
* * *
I COULD’VE CRIED, I could've just
cried. With all kinds of moans and groans
and mumbled complaints, I shuffled
grudgingly back to my room to hit the
books.
Now that I'm out of school and can
hunt grasshoppers to my heart’s content,
fall no longer brings on bouts of despair.
The slight nip in the air, the leaves turn
ing, and the softer sun all make for a
magnificent season.
Honor a friend
or loved one
and help fight
heart disease
The Summerville News, Thursday, October 1, 1987
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panies cannot compete either.
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WHAT’S THE agenda of the UAW
now? It's always more, of course, but this
time it's even worse than that. The union
is demanding (they never just ask) a
lifetime job at a guaranteed annual wage
with a guaranteed annual raise and a
guaranteed independence from any sort of
control by management. They call this
package ‘‘job security.”” Do you have it?
Do you know anyone who has that sort of
security? Should anyone? Why?
To put all this into perspective: these
jobs which pay astronomical wages, re
quire only the ability to read and write,
plus a little manual dexterity. A modest
amount of strength helps on some
assignments. But here’s the mind blower:
the most complicated job on the assembly
line merely requires two or three weeks of
training.
** * i
SOMEHOW 1 believe willing, hard
working, enthusiastic folks can be found,
thousands of them, who would be eager to
work for less, much less, even half as
much. Moreover, if U. S. car companies are
ever to compete with foreign competitors,
that excessive labor cost must come down
substantially . . . starting with the extra
excessive costs of top management.
To reduce labor costs, it is necessary
to set examples by the chief executive and
his team. It can't be done by paying CEO'’s
multimillion dollar salaries and bonuses.
Even firms which performed poorly con
tinued to pay exorbitant salaries, in
cluding yearly increases and bonuses. Ab
solutely deadly.
* * *
SOME FEEL that there were times
when unions were necessary. Maybe so.
But the argument is always distorted, for
it compares those times with today. The
true question should be: was it better than
what it replaced? The much criticized
“sweat shops” of New York's garment
district early in this century were still
superior to working conditions where
those immigrant workers came from, said
Nobel winning economist Milton Fried
man, whose mother worked in one to put
him through college.
Consider what Big Labor wants by
“more:”” More wages, more taxes, more
welfare, more government, more protec
tion from any competition, more union
power to manage and control things, more
government meddling and planning in
politics and the marketplace, more hard
left pols. Is there any wonder they've lost
favor with the American people?
John W. Smith
Box 27
Marshallville, Ga. 31057
Regretfully, I failed to include Sally Espy
and Red Foocf' Store in the list. Both were im
portant in making the tournament a success,
and I apologize for the error.
Thanks Sally and Red Food Store.
Faye Williams
WEDNESDAY evening after dinner, I
started out the door to take advantage of
the few remaining hours of sunlight.
“Where are you going?"’ my wife asked.
“To experience the first day of fall,” I
replied joyfully.
“Well, don't stay out too late,” she
said. “You know how cranky you are when
you don’t get enough sleep. And besides,
you always say the cooler air makes your
knees ache.”
* * *
I TURNED AROUND and came back
inside. Wouldn't you know? I finally have
the freedom 1 dreamed of as a child, and
my body won't let me enjoy it.
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