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Letters To The Editor
God Bless Us All
Dear Editor.
Well it's almost Christmas time again. Here
I am a middle age man and I find myself look
ing for Santa thaus, just like a kid again.
This is the greatest time of the year. The
kids are excited, moms and dads are in a hurry
to get everything done. Mom's baking cakes
and dads trying to keep the house warm.
Everything exciting around the house. The kids
go to bed early ang get up early. It's just like
it was when I was a kid.
Mr. Editor, if I have been true to God above,
if I have been a good husband, if I have been
First Lady’s Message
Dear Editor:
At this time of year when the nation’s
capital is aglow with holiday lights and the
season’s spirit of love, peace and goodwill, I'm
always reminded of another specia? kind of love.
And that is the way in which Foster Grand
parents give so generously to children with
special needs. These chilgren include those
youngsters who are at risk of losing their lives
to drugs and alcohol.
For decades, 1 have supported the Foster
Grandparent Program. | have seen hundreds
of “‘grandparents’ working with youngsters in
schools, hospitals, juvenile detention centers,
shelters for neglected children and homes for
the mentally retarded. If there is one place
where the holiday spirit truly shines all year,
it's in the hearts of tflese senior volunteers and
the relationships with their ‘‘grandchildren.”
Foster grandparents often reach children
who may seem unreachable. They bring hope
and light to youngsters who have known only
Messiah Or Madman?
Dear Editor:
On Dec. 14, The Atlanta Constitution ran
an editorial decrying the senseless taking of
over two-score innocent lives in California w%:en
a madman carried a handgun aboard a PSA air
craft to settle a grudge against his former
supervisor.
In September, 1983, over the Sea of Japan,
another madman struck down another airliner
to settle a grudge against his nemesis, a United
States Congressman, Larry McDonald, the
most outspoken anticommunist in the free
world and the only American elected official
killed by the communists. 4
And the communists got a bonus. Among
the remaining 268 men, women and children
murdered on KAL 007 were some 30 to 40 of
South Korea's top intelligence people returning
from CIA training here.
I said all that to say this: Let us suppose
that the demented madman who destroyed that
PSA flight had survived. Given the gravity and
horror of his crime, how do you suppose we
would feel about and treat him four years after
that deed. He would most likely be a resident
Field Trip Praised
Dear Editor:
[ have just returned from my second field
trip with the gifted classes from our county
school system. I want to let them know how
much [ enjoyed going.
To begin with, they were well prepared by
their teachers, Miss Hardy and Mrs. Beck. The
students had done extensive background work
on the storyline of the play, ‘A Wrinkle In
Time," and the ballet, *‘The Nutcracker.”
They were attentive and displayed good
hehavior during all performances as well as the
Thanks From Johns Mountain Club
Dear Editor:
The John's Mountain Ruritan Club would
like to thank everyone for making the fund
raising event a success on Saturday, Dec. 19.
We, the members, especially would like to
thanlk Red Food Store for supplying the turkey
On The Funny Side - wre
before the doctor stopped by, she would
shoot the chair upright and bark, *“You vill
spit now, und only now. You vill not spit
again until I tell you. Ees clear?”
**Jawohl, Fraulein!" patients quickly
learned to shout as they snapped to atten
tion with a crisp salute, ' Ees clear as bell!”
IT WAS IMPORTANT to stay in
Helga's good graces, otherwise she might
inadvertently jar the doctor's arm when he
was elbow-deep in one of your molars. In
fact, one time she forgot to tell me to spit
before 1 left the office, and I nearly drown
ed before my mom could call her for per-
a good dad, if I have been a good neighbor,
maybe old Santa Claus will have me a gift under
the tree.
I'm still lookin‘f for the greatest gift of all,
which is the Second Coming of Christ, to receive
us up to glory to be with Him.
Let me ask and invite everyone to go to the
church of their choice, and enjoy this
Christmas, and God will bless you for your ef
fort. Merry Christmas and God bless you.
Ray Teems,
Dry Creek
confusion and loneliness. Yet the volunteers will
tell you that they benefit as much as the
child);en. Their service brings them the chance
to give and learn and grow as well as a wonder
ful sense of satisfaction. I have never seen
another program where the old and the young
benefit so much from one another. ,
During this holiday season, as we pray for
peace and thank God for the gift of love and
our precious freedom, let us also open our
hearts to children who are threatene(f by the
horrors of substance abuse. At this most ap-
Eropriate time, I ask every citizen to join in
elping our Foster Grandparents touch more
young lives at risk. You can help fulfill our
dream that in holiday seasons to come, the
faces of all America's children will shine with
love and laughter, and their lives will be drug
and alcohol free.
Sincerely,
Nancy Reagan
of California’s death row awaiting his fully
justified execution.
Consider, then, our treatment of the mad
man responsible for the killing of 269 people
aboard KALOO7: He is the President’s guest of
honor at the White House. And when he stop
ped his caravan to further his absoluteg/
masterful PR sweep of America, one of those
in the crowd was quoted as having said, ‘lt was
like the coming o(} the second Messiah.” (May
God save us from our fellow citizens who not
only equate a mass murderer with the Messiah,
but think we await a second Messiah)!
So, what's the difference?
The name of the madman aboard that PSA
flight will soon be forgotten by all but those
who lost a loved one at%fis hands. But the mad
man who most assuredly ordered the destruc
tion of KALOO7 will be remembered as long as
history books are written. His name is Mikhail
Gorbachev!
Dick Bachert
4053 Glen Meadow Drive
Norcross 30092
long bus rides and rest/food stops. The students
were certainly promoting a good image for our
county schools.
Also, I would like to take this opportunity
to thank Miss Hardy and Mrs. Beck for put
ting forth the effort to }E)lan these tr(iips for our
students so they can have these educational
experiences.
Sincerely,
Becky Groce
Summerville
and ham. Alsc, we would like to thank Bill Hub
bard for painting the signs, and The Summer
ville News and WGTA. Thank you.
John's Mountain Ruritan Club
Ray Teems
mission to drain the reservoir.
Thank goodness things have changed.
We've come a long way since the early
days of dentistry. Today’s professionals
are polite, friendly and ready to root every
canal in your cabeza if it will help ease your
pain.
* * *
AND THANKS, Santa, for the early
Christmas present. If Helga and Dr.
Tenderpulp still walk among us after 10,
these many years, put a lump of coal and
some chain-link dental floss in their stock
ings for me, will you? It’s the least we can
do for them.
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Guest Column
By Jim Ransom
Prayers For Peace
WHATEVER the final outcome of the U. S.-Soviet
summit on arms reduction, there is the encouraging
thought that we're at best moving toward a more peaceful
relationship between the world’s two super powers.
What's especially significant, yet hardly mentioned, is
the timing of the summit to coincide with our celebration
of the birth of Him who is the Prince of Peace.
THE MEDIA took little notice that while President
Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev were meeting
to negotiate nuclear arms reductions, across town at the
Washington Cathedral Soviet and American religious
leaders were in another kind of summit, praying together
for a just and lasting’ peace.
It was providential more than coincidental, I think,
that the Soviet leader and his aides arrived in Washington
at the time of our lighting the Christmas tree on the White
House grounds. Whether or not any of the Soviets felt
anything for that occasion, it was at least opportunity for
lifting our own thoughts in praise and celebration. And
that encompassed every American’'s prayers for peace.
ATHEISM may be the policy of the Soviet government
and secularism may be threatening our own way of life,
yet the religious faith of our fathers provides us hope
beyond measure as in the words of Jesus who said *‘Bless
ed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children
of God.” (Mt. 5:9).
No one can advocate the cause of peace and good will
without being somehow touched by the Spirit of Him who
is the Prince of Peace. And with that kind of power, there
is hope even for the hopeless.
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Jasper Dorsey
Convention Bad Idea
THE DEMOCRATIC National Con
vention of 1968 in Chicago was a watersh
ed in U. S. politics. It was the beginning
of a malaise in the party, which has pro
duced only one winning candidate for the
White House since. ..and that one has
provenaito be an aberration, because
Georgia's Jimmy Carter could not be
reelected for a second term. He practical
ly put his state out of the President
business.
It is perhaps the height of irony that
the 1988 National Democratic Convention
was eagerly sought and won for Atlanta.
There is a strong suspicion, also, that the
city and all Georgia will come to repent
this success.
* * *
MEMORIES are short about what
took place in the '6B Chicago convention,
but not to the Georgians who attended or
tried to. The official Georgia delegation
was ignored, then rejected, then given half
a vote each, after a fight in the credentials
committee. Enraged, half the delegation
abandoned the scene and left for home.
Recall the permissiveness of the times,
Chicago and the convention came to be
dominated by thousands of radical leftists,
unwashed, flag burners, and hate America
extremists who camped out in the parks
along Lake Shore Boulevard, about the
hotels and convention hall. These people
threw stink bombs into hotels and meeting
rooms and rioted in the streets daily. They
came to intimidate the convention and suc
ceeded to a considerable extent. Gene
McCarthy was their spiritual leader.
EVEN CHICAGO’S Mayor Richard
Daley, no timid soul, was unable to
restrain and control the riots. The head of
Georgia's delegation, then Gov. Lester
Maddox, said it was fairly easy to enter
and leave their hotel. . .if they had 150
police to protect them.
At one point during the convention the
delegates and others on the floor became
so unruly that Chairman Carl Albert, then
speaker of the U. S. House, lost control in
one particularly chaotic moment. Accor
ding to Tip O’Neil in his book ‘‘Man of the
House,’ President Lyndon Johnson wat
ching on TV, phoned Mayor Daley and
ordered him to get control of the crowd.
Daley sent his man, U. S. Representative
Dan Rostenkowski, to take the gavel away
from Chairman Albert and restore order.
Albert never forgave them.
* * *
GEORGIA’S LEGALLY selected
Letters To The Editor
DOT Ripped By Commissioner
(Editor’s Note: The following letters were
sent to The News by Chattooga County Com
missioner Harry Powell, who asked that the
be published in tl;e order thsy were provided{
*
To The Residents And Voters Of Chattooga
County: :
I am sure that these letters from and to the
Department of Transportation, Atlanta, are
selgexplanatory as to whether our state of
ficials are pulling for or against us. On Nov. 16,
1987 I requested material to pave roads in
Chattooga County because of the condition of
the roads and the cost for this work. .
As you know, from traveling these roads,
they were not even finished when the roads
were built years ago. One of these roads begins
at the end of Farmersville road and goes North
throu%h Subligna to the Walker County Line.
One also begins in Subligna and goes East to
the Walker %lounty Line. The third road is the
old road between 100, Holland, Ga., and 114,
Chattoogaville, Ga. Everyone who has travel
ed especially the Chattoogaville road knows
very well that this road has never been sealed
with a toF coat and is, therefore, breaking up
very badly.
A truck route has been opened up at Gore,
through Subligna, across the mountain,
through Rock Spring. I am glad to present
these letters to you because I had previously
stated that we would be able to recap and take
care of the balance of the smaller roads and
bridges in Chattooga County with our 1 percent
Sales Tax. I am very afraid that our officials
have not been concentrating on very many
roads but have been so worried about Chat
tooga Counfi's prison.
would like to ask the general public, *“Who
is the Big Papa in our immediate territory.”
When you ride these roads about which I have
spoken, I am sure you who travel them daily
would appreciate a finished road rather than a
partly finished road. This situation has been
prevalent for some 15 or 20 years.
Thank you,
Harry Powell
Chattooga County Commissioner
* * *
November 13, 1987
Dear Mr. Powell:
In anticipation of possible funding for the
Local Assistance Road Program (LERP) for
calendar year 1988, it is time to begin develop
ing a prog'ram reflecting resurfacing needs on
your road system.
In order to effect the desires and needs of
the local government, we request that you sub
mit a pflgtity listing of Your resurfacing needs
as you anticipate them for calendar year 1988.
The Department’s engineering staf¥will then
review your requests to determine the needs
based on roadway conditions. In order to have
a program developed, if funding is made
D
delegation, whites, blacks and women,
were insulted by a challenge that they
were ‘‘hand-picked’”” and not
“democratically elected.”” The challenger
was a self-appointed Julian Bond, of all
people, who had some of his own ““hand
picked” friends, chosen only by himself. It
was unknown if they were registered
voters in Georgia. So permissive was the
convention leadership that it caved-in to
Bond and gave both groups only one-half
vote each.
Bond also contrived to get one of his
friends recognized in order to nominate
Bond for vice president of the U. S., thus
enhancing his celebrity. Television news
ate it up; so, Julian made a good living for
years from that event. He went about the
country making radical speeches for pay.
The more radical he became the higher his
fee.
HUBERT HUMPHREY won the
nomination in '6B, but that was almost
secondary to the massive radical
demonstrations and riots. What if the
rioters had been controlled and the lawful
delegates seated? What if the leadership
had not insulted other Southern delegates?
What if Humphrey had not shown himself
tied to ultra-liberalism? Maybe Richard
Nixon would not have swept the Southern
states as he did.
The Party ‘“reformed” itself with
quotas of women, blacks and the poor, the
antithesis of democratic selection. It of
fended the key fund raisers and its basic
Southern support; so, it hasn’'t won a na
tional election in that 20 years since
Chicago . . . except one in '76 when Jimmy
Carter ran against Washington and peo
ple thought he was a Southern Conser
vative. He proved he wasn't.
THE '6B NATIONAL Democratic Con
vention was a pure disaster because of the
extreme left. The '72 Convention in Miami
was almost as bad. The 'BO Convention in
San Francisco added a new dimension to
the radicals with massive demonstrations
by the homosexual sodomists. They will
come in force to Atlanta with their deadly
disease.
Will this eagerly sought Democratic
National Convention be a boon to Atlan
ta? Will it enhance our public relations im
age throughout the nation and the world?
Could be . . . but don’t bet on it. The peo
ple who lead and dominate this process
despise Southern Conservative
Democrats.
available during the next session of the general
assembly, we need to have your priority list
submitted to the District Engineer, Mr. F};lton
Rutledge, by Dec. 1, 1987.
Thank you for your attention and coopera
tion in this matter which will allow the Depart
ment to assist you in your road and street im
provement needs.
Yours very truly,
Hal Rives
Commissioner, DOT
* * *
November 16, 1987
Mr. Felton Rutledge
Department of Transportation
District Engineer, District Six
Cartersville
Mr. Rutledge:
We received a notice this morning concern
ing the LARP program for 1988 from Mr. Hal
Rives, Commissioner. We certainly appreciate
this note and especially since we have a few
miles that we wilf)not be able to meet this year
with 1 percent Sales Tax and do bridges, also.
If you recall, I asked you some two weeks
ago to delete one road that was on this program
which is the Trion/Broometown Road, 263. We
still beg of you to consider the Price Bridge
Road 53 between Holland and Chattoogavilfe.
Also, the road between Gore and Subligl:la; the
north half has never been covered with plant
mix. We would like to also include the Welmyer
Road that leads from Old Highway 27 to the
Walker County line, 90. Also the road from
Gore to the foot of Silver Hill, 329. County road
7 from Tidings Country Store to Silver Hill
Road. Road lg, South end of Little Sand Moun
tain Road. State Line Road, 230. Highway 332.
Thank iy_;ou.
Harry Powell
Chattooga County Commissioner
* * *
December 17, 1987
Dear Mr. Powell:
Reference is made to your letter dated Sept.
11, 1987, to me, regarding a request for pav
ing on three roads in Chattooga County.
After receipt of your letter I asked the
District to evafuate condition of the road and
to provide a needs evaluation. That evaluation
has now been received and the existing condi
tion as shown by the needs rating does not in
dicate a need for paving at this time. We will,
therefore, not be able to assist you in the pav
ing of these three roads. At some later time as
the road condition deteriorates further, we will
be happy to review the condition again.
We apfireciate your interest and if, we may
be of further help, please let us know.
Yours very truly,
James D. McGee
Deputy Commissioner, DOT
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