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The Summeruille News
The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County Georgia
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Editorials
Goals For 1988
The new year of 1988 will be ours Fri
day and with it will come more challenges
for Chattooga County, Georgia and our
nation.
Now should be a time to set goals for
the coming 12 months. Following are a few
we hope to see realized in 1988:
* Peace between Chattooga County
and the City of Summerville.
* Campaigns conducted on the issues
and not on personalities or trivialities.
* An equitable agreement between the
county and Summerville or all four
municipalities for a new landfill to serve
the community for at least the next 20
years.
* A substantial — and real — reduction
in the county school system’'s dropout
rate.
* More spirit and dedication given to
academic and athletic programs at Chat
tooga High School by students, parents
and educators.
. * Completion of Menlo’s sewerage
system. : o
* Approval of funds to expand Chat
tooga Water District's system to the
Teloga area.
* Construction of a 63-bed addition to
Oak View Nursing Home.
* Continuation of the county’s steadi
ly growing economy, rather than a
recession.
* Fire protection for the entire county,
whether through the creation of fire
districts or a new agreement between
Schools 0f Excellence
Twenty-seven of Georgia's public
schools were recognized as 1988 Schools
of Excellence recently by the State Board
of Education.
No Chattooga County or Trion schools
were in that elite number.
Georgia's program allows one elemen
tary, one middle and one high school in
each Congressional District to receive the
annual awards.
The criteria for selection as a School of
Excellence include clear academic goals,
high expectations for students, order and
discipline and freedom from drug use,
rewards and incentives for students,
regular and frequent monitoring of stu
dent progress, exemplary student pro
gress, development of good character and
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45 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the Dec. 31, 1942, edition of The Summer
ville News. ?
* * *
CHATTOOGA COUNTY housewives can save enough steel for 1,537
machine guns simply by replacing one can of fruits or vegetables a week dur
ing the next year with fresh or home-packed produce, a leading food distributor
estimated recently. The program would save 9,073,664 pounds of steel if car
ried out by all of Georgia's 743,743 families, it was brought out.
* * *
GEORGIA FARMERS WILL participate in an egg marketing program in
1943 conducted by the agricultural marketing administration to assure fair
prices and ready sale for all eggs, according to T. Walter Hughes, AMA state
supervisor. The program will be in operation throughout the AMA's southern
region, as well as three other states.
* * *
THE NATIONAL INCOME for 1942 is expected to exceed
$117,000,000,000, as compared to $95,000,000,000 in 1941 and $77,000,000,000
in 1940. Commerce department figures indicate that wages and salaries will
score the largest gain, exceeding $80,000,000,000.
* * *
THE CENSUS REPORT shows that 8,318 bales of cotton were ginned in
Chattooga County from the crop of 1942, prior to Dec. 13, as compared to the
7.834 bales of 1941.
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Summerville and the county government.
* A community-wide program design
ed to reduce alcohol and drug abuse by our
young people.
* The start of work on U. S. Highway
27 from Russell Airport in Floyd County
to Highway 156 at Armuchee and the let
ting of a contract on work from that point
to Taylors Ridge.
* One new industry for the county and
continued economic health for our existing
industries and businesses.
* Renovation of the courthouse to
eliminate fire hazards that could destroy
the historic structure.
* Construction to begin on Lyerly’s
water system improvement and expansion
project.
* Work to start on an industrial park,
and recreation area at Trion.
* At least one more family physician to
locate in the county. °
* A spirit of toget}flrness among all
political factions insofar as the future good
,of the county is concemh"’und areduction
of personal animosity between some of our
leaders.
* Fewer drunk drivers, accidents, in
juries and fatalities.
If we accomplish a majority of these
goals in 1988, Chattooga County will have
made significant progress toward the
future and laid the foundation for a bet
ter community for our children and
grandchildren.
values, teacher effectiveness, staff
development and teacher evaluation and
recognition, positive school climate, effec
tive involvement of parents and the school
community, administrative leadership, ex
emplary curriculum, maintenance of high
quality programs and improvements to
other programs.
Schools in Northwest Georgia receiv
ing the award were in Cobb, Whitfield and
Gordon Counties.
The goals are attainable. Perhaps
educators and board members in the Chat
tooga and Trion systems might wish to
visit one or more of the award-winning
schools this school year and pick up a few
tips.
TOMMY TOLES
EDITOR
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Different Resolutions
THIS IS the time when a lot of Chat
tooga Countians will make well
intentioned resolutions for 1988. And
Saturday is the day when many of those
same resolutions will be broken, never to
be thought of again . .. until 1989.
Most of us could stand to make some
reasonable resolutions, not only for 1988,
but for the remainder of our lives. For in
stance, all of us should:
Be kinder to everyone we meet, even to
those who don'’t like us and wish us harm.
* * *
HELP OUR fellowman with a bag of
groceries, toys, transportation, payment
I°f a utility bill, a friq{}jilydglgter._ a phone
call or an offer of help at:times other than
at Thanksgiving and .at Christmas. And
without any publicity.
“Adopt” a lonely elderly person who
may have an uncaring family or whose
family has already gone through those
golden gates. They would appreciate a
note, a brief visit, a phone call, a card or
maybe lunch at a local restaurant on
occasion.
* * *
REMEMBER in our thoughts and
prayers the families throughout our nation
who have loved ones in prisoner of war
camps, whose children have run away from
home, and whose loved ones are being held
as hostages in forsaken places.
Take 30 seconds each day to thank God
that we live in the United States.
Walk humbly among all men.
On The Funny Side
By Gary Solomon
oil And Twinkies
OPEC, THAT pack of Middle East
petroleum potentates, have had their pro
blems the past few years maintaining the
stranglehold they once held on world oil
prices. Their recent meeting in Vienna,
thankfully, was no different.
The ministers of OPEC, the Organiza
tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries,
gathered to set 1988 oil prices and produc
tion quotas for the 13 nations that are
members of the cartel.
There's only one problem. Iran and
Iraq are both members of OPEC, and most
of the other countries involved have taken
sides in the war between those two mor
tal enemies. In fact, conflict between
representatives attending the meeting
made fighting in the Persian Gulf seem
tame by comparison, from all reports.
* * *
AT THIS POINT in time, it's doubt
ful they could agree on the price of a pack
of gum, much less an official price for oil.
Industry analysis say this lack of cohe
sion could destabilize oil prices and bring
them down by as much as 15 percent in the
next several months, lowering the cost of
a gallon of regular gasoline to 55-60 cents
in some parts of the U. S.
That news jarred to life a memory
which has been stored in the cobwebs of
my brain for rr;ore tixan a decade. ,
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DO YOU recall the first time you saw
Viewpoint
By Tommy Toles, Editor
Give an honest day's work for a day's
pay to our employers.
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TRY TO HALT our harsh remarks
about the physical appearance of those
who deem not to be as pretty or handsome
as we think they should be, and to be more
understanding and patient with the gen
tle souls in our midst who have mental or
physical problems we may not fully
comprehend.
Be more honest, honorable and loyal.
Always think for 10 seconds before we
open our mouths. :
Listen more to the other person. He or
she probably has something more impor
tant and beneficial to say than we do.
Try to fill our minds with things that
are just, uplifting and honorable.
* * *
NEVER CLOSE our minds to the
realities of this world.
Offer constructive ideas to improve the
lot of others without regard to who
receives the credit for a sound and
workable proposal.
Tell your parents, brothers and sisters
at least once per day that you love them.
Forget old wrongs, be more forgiving,
and make today’s personal enemy tomor
row's friend.
* * *
IF WE all stand firm on just one of
these resolutions, Chattooga County will
be a better place in which to work and live
in 1988.
gasoline selling at over 50 cents a gallon?
I do. It was at a 7-11 store in Denver, Colo.
I pulled in one morning to fill up in late
1973. Gas had been 48.9 the night before
when I passed by. Now the sign read
“*Regular, 52.9."
I nearly fainted. I mean, the shock
wasn't as strong as, say, what I felt when
President Kennedy was assassinated (or,
later, when the space shuttle exploded),
but it definitely registered on the Richter
Scale.
The first thought that came to mind
that morning was, ‘“Well, this is it. Ar
mageddon'’s here. Kiss it goodbye. This is
the end.” There was just something
magical about the 50-cent barrier. Gas
prices would never top it, or so I thought.
* * *
IT WASN'T the end, of course. It was
only the beginning. I went looking for a
better deal that day, figuring the 7-11 had
merely jacked up its gas prices to match
everything else in the store. A few months
later I was lined up with the rest of my
neighbors, hoping to buy enough 60-cent
gallons to get me to work and back. And
by the 1980’s, the price hovered at $1.20
or more.
That was to be a bad week all around,
as it turned out. Hostess Twinkies two
packs rose above 20 cents for the first time
as well. Talk about Richter Scale reactions.
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Guest Column
By Edwin Feulner
‘Peace’ 0f Death
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I HATE TO sound sullen in the middle of the holiday
season and so soon after the party atmosphere that swept
Washington during the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, but
it must be faced: U. S. interests in Central America are
being undermined, and the consequences will be dire.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his American
friends, while morally abominable, certainly know their
stuff. Consider the task they face, and how well they've
succeeded so far. /
* * *
THEIR TASK is to ensure the entrenchment of the
communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. This requires (1) that
the U.S. Congress stop funding the Nicaraguan
Democratic resistance (the *‘Contras’’), and (2) that the
Soviet Union, its clients and satellites continue giving the
Sandinistas the enormous amounts of military hardware
and other forms of aid'and advice necéssary for tighten
ing their totalitarian noose. SR ki
At first glance, this would seem close to impossible:
On the one hand, Ortega must go to Moscow from time
to time to pat-a-cake with his Politburo soul mates. It's
a good idea to butter up your benefactors now and then,
and Ortega has done this frequently.
* * *
BUT IF HE gushes and coos too much over the
wonderfulness of the Kremlin, might not even his
apologists in the U. S. Congress begin to question the
wisdom of selling out the freedom fighters and letting the
Sandinistas continue to run roughshod over the
Nicaraguan people and establish another base for com
munist subversion on America's southern doorstep?
Ortega and company clearly knew how to resolve this
dilemma: Coo and gush over the Kremlin ad nauseum and
forget about Congress. By now, Ortega must be wonder
ing if his congressional allies would desert him even if he
invaded Key West.
* * *
“DEAR COMRADE Gorbachev,” Ortega said in a re
cent speech at the Kremlin, *‘the Nicaraguan people, which
eight years ago freed itself from capitalist exploitation,
is proud of its fraternal relations with the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics . .. We will never give up our frater
nal relations with the Soviet Union . .. I thank the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet people
in general on behalf of the Nicaraguan people for their un
conditional and generous support given us during the
course of these past years . . . Long live the 70th anniver
sary of the October revolution!”
Ortega’s friends in Congress seem not to care that,
even as he droned on about the peace-loving Kremlin, the
Red Army in Afghanistan continued one of the most
murderous, savage occupations in history, which the San
dinistas apparently think is peace-loving, since they've
never condemned it in the United Nations. That occupa
tion, of course, is just one in a long list of crimes Moscow
has committed since the start of the Soviet ‘‘revolution”
that Ortega celebrates. Having played kissy-face in
Moscow long enough, Ortega set sail for Washington to
do the same thing with House Speaker Jim Wright and
his other friends on Capitol Hill. Here he was so successful,
as the New York Times’ Stephen Kinzer reported, ‘‘that
the Sandinistas now believe they can succeed in going over
the president’'s head to Congress ... "
* * *
“THROUGH A series of skillful political maneuvers
in Managua and Washington,” Kinzer wrote, ‘‘the San
dinistas may have won at least a temporary edge in the
effort to sway Congress. Mr. Ortega has portrayed himself
as open and willing to compromise . .. "’
Temporary edge? This has all the earmarks of a per
manent victory. Congressman Wright, who has played a
huge role in Ortega’s success, blasts those who won’t join
the applause as being *'afraid that peace will break out.”
Thanks to that kind of thinking, Nicaraguans will enjoy
the kind of “‘peace” Cubans have enjoyed for the last 28
years, and Wright's home state of Texas, among many
others, had better brace for a fast-rising tide of refugees
fleeing the “‘peace” Ortega wants to preside over.
* Wil otk A
(Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a
Washington-based public policy research institute).
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