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The Summerville News, Thursday, June 9, 1988
Letters To The Editor
AIDS Quilt Not Vietnam Wall
Editor:
Over the Memorial Day weekend, Atlanta’s
homosexual eommumt&:nvaled a huge hand
made quilt containing the names of some 3,500
victims of AIDS. The attendant TV cover:g:
showed visitors to the exhibit dxq)laym&.
9ms;ons one would expect to see where death
is topic.
However, | took umbrage at the comments
of one attendee who, after saying he personal
ly didn’t know any of those whose names ap
pear on the Vietnam Memorial (The Wall), liken
ed his reaction to seeix;fithequflt to his first
visit to the Vietnam wall. Nonsense!!! Let me
tell fi;? why.
58,000 plus names on that wall in
Washington represent Americans who
were . . . rightly or wrongly . . . called to arms
by their nation. I will argue that if we had
legitimate business in Vietnam, we shoud have
concluded it as quickly as possible. The way we
fought there, or more accurately, failed to allow
our military to fight there, is why that wall is
over 10 times longer than it sbou{i have been.
(If, God forbid, there is a next time, the politi
cians should go)!
On the other hand, with the exception of
those who tragically contracted AIDS via blood
transfusions or some other passive means, the
Seeking Correspondent
Dear Editor:
My name is Kenneth Jones. I am now con
fined at Walker Correctional Institution. The
reason why [ am writing is to put an article in
The Summerville News, hoping that a nice, in
telligent young lady wouldp like to correspond
with an intelligent young man as a friend.
I am from Rochester, N. Y. My hei%\t is
56", my weight is 145 pounds. I am a black
male but I am a bright skinned young man,
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3,500 names on that quilt represent indivduals
who contracted the deadly disease by means of
an activity proscribed by traditional morali
ty . . . homosexuality, dnfi!lbuse and pro
miscuous heterosexuality. y had a choice —
and made the wrong one.
To compare the Vietnam Wall with this
muflt should be offfensive}(;l anyone who
even a vestige of our quickly vanis
traditional — read that "o?d fas{.ioned'hm—g
The only thing the wall and the quilt have
in common is that tbe{ both represent those
who died as a result of folly.
National folly in the case of the wall. Per
sonal follgein the case of the quilt.
And the lack of direct personal control over
the national folly of Vietnam has made those
dg:hths doubly hard for this country to deal
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Prevention of AIDS is largely a personal
process.
Prevention of another Vietnam is a much
more difficult national process.
If we are to survive as people — and as a
nation — we must do both!!!
Dick Bachert
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very handsome. M{ age is 22. | am not look
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be a possible relationshi%(a)lso.
From A Young Man Doing Time
Kenneth Jones EF-205349
P. O. Box 98, Dorm 6
Rock Spring, Ga. 30739
Walker Correctional Institution
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New Industry
Locates Here
A new industry has located
in Chattooga County and it
could Erovide up to 50 or 60
new jobs within the next six to
nine months.
Keith Mowry, formerly
materials manager for Wire
Assemblies Inc., is opening
Wire Tech Ltd. in the old Wire
Assemblies building on
Highway 48 west of
Summerville.
SOLD
Wire Assemblies was Fur
chased late last year by a firm
based in Mississippi and it clos
ed the Summervifie plant and
moved the operation out of
Georgia. All workers at the
plant lost their jobs.
Mowry said he was also
without a job after the buyout
and decided to start Wire Tech
in Summerville because he lik
ed the area and the productive
workers at the plant.
Wire Tech hopes to begin
hiring next week or the week
after, Mowry said. At the pre
sent time, the company is tak
ing the names and phone
numbers of prospective
workers and will contact them
to fill out an application and be
interviewed within the next
couple of weeks.
7 OR 8
Initially the plant will
employ seven or eight people,
Mowry said, but current plans
Rabies Clinic Slated
A rabies ciinic will be held in Summerville and Trion
Saturday and at Lyerly and Menlo on the following Satur
day, June 18, sponsored by Dr. Bridget Hopkins, Summer
ville veterinarian.
The cost for vaccination will be $6 per animal.
The first clinic will be held at the l~p armers and Mer
chants Bank in Summerville from 12:30 until 2:30 p.m.
Saturday and the second will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at
Trion Town Hall.
On Saturday, June 18, the first clinic will be held from
1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Lyer
ly. The second that day will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
at the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Menlo.
call for expanding the opera
tion to 50 or 60 workers within
six to nine months.
The plant will produce wir
ing harnesses in an operation
similar to that of tg: Wire
Assemblies plant.
Three Hurt
In Mishap
Three people were injured in
a three-vehicle accident on
Lyerly Highway at Bolling
Road Wednesday morning.
Sgt. Larry Bennett of the
Summerville Police Depart
ment identified the injured as
Janice Mae Sink, 35, Summer
ville Rte. 1, Sandra Kay
Gilbreath, 37, Summerville
Rte. 1, and Judy Knox, 27, 403
Summerville Gardens Apart
ments, Summerville. 'Fhey
were taken to Chattooga Coun
ty Hospital by a Chattooga
Emerfency Medical Service
ambulance.
A vehicle driven by James
R. Covinfton. 76, Summerville,
was involved in a collision with
the Sink car and a vehicle
driven by Wesley Allen Cook,
40, Rossville, said Sergeant
Bennett.
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Brian White, right, public affairs manager in Dalton for
General Teliphone. told the Summerville-Trion Op
timist Club Friday that local telephone systems will
develop in future years to the point that different local
companies can compete with each other in the same
area. He said that in 1988, GTE would invest
$225,000,000 for improvements and that Chattooga
County would not get regular touch-tone dialing until
at least 1992. Optimist Billy Payton welcomed White
to the meeting. (Photo By Rich Jefferson).
Mina Suzuki Receives Scholarship
Mina Suzuki, Tokyo and an
exchange student at Chatmoga
High School during the
1986-87 school year, has been
awarded a music scholarship
from Shorter College in Rome.
The scholarship, a one-half tui
tion grant for four years, was
announced this month by Dr.
Alan Wingard, head o{ the
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Powell Helps Council
Get Christmas Lights
After months of wondering
whether there would be
Christmas lights in downtown
Summerville this December,
the Retail Council of the Chat
tooga County Chamber of
Commerce announced Tuesday
that funds had been made
available to rent the lights.
LIGHTS '
Sue SpiveK‘.3 executive vice
president of the Chamber, said
that it would cost the group
$1,500 a year to rent lights, but
that half the money for a three
year rental period had been
contributed by Chattooga
County Commissioner Harry
Powell.
The other half has been pro
milsedhli)y tlée City of guLmlxgnher
ville, Mrs. Spivey said. Lights
cannot be leaseg without the
financial backing of both the
county and the city, Mrs.
Spivey said.
Eddy Ellenburg, president
of the chamber tfiis year, is
negotiating with different leas
in§ companies for the best ren
tal price, she said.
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In other business, Council
members thanked area
Shriners for their help raising
money for the Chauoog: Coun
ty HosYital. but that there was
a problem with parking and
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CONFETTI
One merchant pointed out
that masons left the cars park
ed downtown on the street all
day even after their parade,
which he said ruined business
for that Saturday. Another
merchant said that the confet
ti strewn on the street during
the garade piled up in front of
his door all week.
The Council heard that the
Hospital Authority
Meets With Atlanta Firm
The Chattooga County
Hc::fiital Authority met late
Wednesday afternoon with an
Atlanta grm interested in
managing or buying the
facility.
A called meeting of the
Eanel was set for 5:30 p.m. to
ear a proposal from Ken
Williams o?oWilliams and
Associates, Atlanta.
Williams earlier this year
successfully asked for permis
sion to examine the hospital’s
books to determine whetfier his
firm would be interested in
managing, leasing or buying
old Tooga Theater is still for
sale. Insurance for the buildin
is a problem, Mrs. SEivey saitf,
and so is the cost of keeping up
the theater. “If it's such a good
money-maker, th does he
want to sell it?"’ she asked.
The Council also announced
that it would s:fiport the Old
Timers' baseball game next
month, and that the July pro
motion is scheduled from .fime
30 through July 9.
the hosgitaL
The hospital continues to be
plagued with massive deficits
that threaten the future of the
facility. The nine-month deficit
through the end of April was
$151,000.
Area Shriners have raised
$20,000 for the hospital, the Ci
ty of Summervilfia has con
tributed $5,000 and Chattooga
Commissioner Harry Powell
has given the facility SIO,OOO
in the last month.
Williams' comgany owns
hospitals in Rockmart and
Ellijay.
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