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Herbs Will Cure What Ails You
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
Well-known herbalist A. L.
“Tommie" Bass spoke to a
oup at the Cloucfiand Park
g::turday, despite somewhat
inclement weather. Mr. Bass
spoke on the value of herbs for
medical purposes.
The 81-year-old Bass has
been working with herbs for
about 70 years, having started
as a young boy. “My father
was a fur dealer,” he said. ‘At
that time fur dealers also sold
herbs, and we had a 120-acre
homestead. I'd often go out in
thfi fields and dig upierbs to
sell.
With the money he made
from selling herbs, Mr. Bass
would buy gooks about herbal
medicine. “‘l'd read them and
then buy more,”’ he said.
“That's how I started working
with them.”
But when looking back, Mr.
Bass said he regreted havin
started his work with herbs. “%
can't even sleep at night for
getting calls from all over the
country,” he said. “Then I'm
on TV, in the paper, and doing
videos."’
PUBLIC FIGURE
Mr. Bass has appeared on
the Tom York Show in Birm
ingham, Ala., and on two other
local television stations there.
He was also featured on PM
Cloudland Camp
Added To Historic
National Register
Camp Juliette Low, the
Cloudland camp for girls
established in the 19205, was
added Saturday to the Na
tional Register for Historic
Places.
The camp has national
significance, said Ruth Laney,
vice chairman of the Board of
Trustees. Among the criteria
Camg Juliette Low fulfilled to
be added to the register were
requirements for architecture,
landscape architecture, social
humanitarianism and women's
history.
Although more than 100
eople from all parts of
Eeorgia gathered behind the
Juliette Low Lodge for the
ceremony, there were only a
few Chattooga Countians on
hand, including Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Powell.
Mrs. Laney told the group
that when Juliette Low, the
founder of the Girl Scouts, first
visited the site in 1922 she
realized ‘‘the value of the en
vironment around her in the
im?ortance of molding younger
girls for leadership.”
The recognition of joining
Chattooga Countians Fight Again At Gettysburg
By KAREN COOK
Contributing Writer
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Several Chattooga Countians will be part of the reenact
ment of the Battle of Gettysburg this weekend in Penn
sylvania. As many as 19 (,yhattooga residents may have
died at the battle in the summer, 1863.
Local Civil War Reenactors commemorating those who
died there will be Pvts. Jim Nicholson, Cary Meadows and
Bobby Lee Cook. They will be part of what has been
described as ‘‘the largest land battf:e on this continent since
the American Civil %t’ar."
125 YEARS AGO
The reenactment is expected to be similar in scope to
the reenactment of the Battle of Chickamauga since%oth
battles occurred 125 years ago this year,
Both battles are being observed with commemorative
battle reenactments managed by Napoleonic Tactics Inc.
(NTI) and sponsored by the organization originally form
ed to commemorate the 125th anniversary of tile Civil War,
the American Civil War Commemorative Committee. The
Georgia Division Civil War Reenactors, will co-sponsor the
= Chickamauga reenactment that will take place in Chattooga
in September.
~ MEADOWS MARCHES
An estimated 10,000 Civil War reenactors will par
ticipate at Gettysburg, but only one Chattooga Countian
volunteered to take part in the commemorative march to
the battlefield.
Private Meadows, winner of ‘“most authentic private”
award at the Battle of Resaca reenactment, said he is look
ing forward to the strenuous activity. Ten additional miles
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A.L. “TOMMIE” BASS (R), LOOKS OVER HERBS
With Cloudland’s Bob Steele On Saturday
Magazine and on a special pro
gram for WTBS in Atlanta.
Mr. Bass has produced
three video presentations on
herbal medicine and is in the
proces of completing a fourth.
Another will ge started soon,
he said. In addition, a
1.500-p2¥e book about the
historical use of herbs, herbal
recipes, and Mr. Bass’ life is
other sites on the National
Register of . Historic Places..
comes from the U. S. Depart
ment of the Interior and
through the Georgia Depart
ment of Natural Resources,
Laney said.
Still operated as a camp for
girls, Camp Juliette Low is the
only camp on the National
Register. Getting Camp
Juliette Low ready for its
dedication as a national site
was no small task; a great deal
of time, labor, money and
material went into the project.
Hardin Construction Co.,
Atlanta, spearheaded the
volunteer ef&rt to rebuild the
camp sites and renovate the
main camp buildings. It was
one of 38 firms to donate
money and materials to the
endeavor. With the support of
a volunteer workforce, they
refurbished the camp over
three consecutive weekends.
The undertaking showcased
the commitment of several
other companies as well.
Williams Brothers furnished
pressure-treated lumber for the
construction and installation of
Thursday, June 23, 1988
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Duke University in Nort
Carolina.
LECTURES
He has given lectures at
Duke, the University of North
Carolina, the University of
Alabama, and Emory Univer
sity in Atlanta. He has already
made five speaking ap-
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Chattooga County’s Camp Juliette Low,
Cloudland, was added Saturday to the
National Register of Historic Places.
Ruth Laney, vice chairman of the board
of trustees of the camp, stood before a
43 new tent platforms, and
Camgbell Decorating Co. pro
vided the materials and labor’
to flpaint and stain 10 large
buildings. Ready Rent-All suir
plied the necessary power tools
and equipment, and Shaw
Equipment provided
generators with which to
operate them.
“Their combined efforts
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were recently added to the already grueling march. All per
sons participating in the march have hag to submit Soc
tor’s certificates of physical fitness.
Members of the 9th Georgia Reg‘iment, which was reac
tivated as a reenactment unit in Chattooga, will portray
their actual historical unit during one of the battle
scenarios.
FIRST DAY
However on the first day of battle scenarios, the 9th
Georgia will portray a Tennessee-Alabama unit which ac
cidentally tri gereg the Battle of Get%'sburg.
The Confeserate Arx‘llljy of Northern Virginia led by Gen
Robert E. Lee successfully “‘stole a march’’ on the l),,'nion
Army. This meant the Confederates were able to sneak
behind Federal lines.
The purpose of this effort was to gain a massive Con
federate victory on northern soil, thus possibly bringing
Eur(:fie into the fray on the South’s side. Additionally, by
invading the North, Gen. Lee hoped to secure desperately
needed supplies.
STEALING SHOES
Success was thwarted when a brigade of soldiers from
Tennessee and Alabama blundered into a Union Cavalry
unit at McPherson’s Ridge. The Confederates had been
dispatched from the main body of soldiers and were on a
mission to obtain shoes from a warehouse in Gettysburg.
They were moving south toward Gettysburg when they
mad); contact witfi the Federal unit.
The Federal soldiers were armed with repeating rifles
and there were heavy Confederate loses. General Lee, after
receivinilinformation as to the whereabouts of the battle,
ordered his troops from their positions north of the battle
to march south to reinforce the Tennessee-Alabama units.
After reenforcement, the Confederates successfully
ushed the Union forces south through the town of
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mF a presentation in Centre,
Ala., on Mondo?.
“When God put things
here, he put a remedy for every
ailment,’” Mr. Bass said of
herbs. ‘At the present time,
herbs have taken over. Doctors
are changing to herbs in
treatments now. When I
started, though, it was just the
poor who used herbs, but now
it's those with money, too.” _
Most peotple. he added, are
now aware of the medical value
of some herbs. ‘‘They’re better
than pharmaceutical drugs,”
he said. “‘Drugs just ease the
pain, but don’'t do anything
about the cause, whereas herbs
do both.”
CANCER
Mr. Bass also said that
herbs can cure various types of
cancer, if the disease is
detected in time. Yellow orchid,
clover, and violet leaves are
good remedies for cancer, he
said. “They’re much better
than the electric treatments for
it, which don't work at all,” Mr.
Bass said.
Under herbal treatments,
signs of cancer should begin to
disapgear in two to three
months, he added.
For treatment of a common
cold, Mr. Bass recommended
the use of boneset, or Indian
sage, and he said that the herb,
passion flower, is good for the
nervous system. Blueberry
leaves are good for the treat
ment of diabetes and in the
reducing of high blood
pressure, he added.
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were vital to readying Camp
Juliette Low for its dedica
tion,” said Joe Specht,
treasurer of the non-profit
organization. ‘‘The total effort
of refurbishing which was in
itiated by T%le Landmarks
Group answered our dreams
far beyond our expectations.
Now we have a camp that will
last another half century.”
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Summerville veterinarian Bridget Hopkins holds the
younf fawn she treated early this week. The fawn was
found in the Little Sand Mountain area by Kelly and
Kerry Kirby and Lane Copeland, who brought the
animal to Dr. Hopkins, who estimated it to be about two
weeks old. Very weak and suffering from dehydration,
group that came from all Yarts of Georgia.
he said the camp has helped form young
girls into future Yeaders. (Photo By Rich
Jefferson).
The camp has 340 acres, a
lake, river and swimming pool
and a great range of other ac
tivities including tennis, ar
chery, horseback, dramatics,
music, rope and repelling
courses. Leadership training is
given to younger counselors.
Today the camp is unfor
tunately one of Georgia's best
see CLOUDLAND, page 15-B
SECOND DAY
The 9th Georgia will be represented on the second day’s
reenactment since the entire Georgia contingent of Civil
War reenactors will portray this division. The scenario at
thelwheat field will take pfia,ce in such a field prepared by
NTI.
Historically, on the second day of battle, Union forces
had regrouped on a hill line immediately south of Get
tysburg. Union forces not only outnumbered the Con
federates, the Federals also had the advantage of being able
to observe Confederate movements.
The opening action involved a Confederate artillery at
tack. The 9th Georgia attacked a massive Union line
through the wheat fie%d five times. They were repulsed four
times and the fifth assault managed to break a hole in the
Union stronghold.
; LOSSES
The 9th Georgia numbered approximateli 350 soldiers.
Aiproximately 35 of these men were from Chattooga. The
9th Georgia suffered horrible losses in the wheat field. Dur
in%one hour and 30 minutes of the battle, the 9th Georgia
suffered 27 dead and 162 wounded. ¢
eAchlying_statistics based on a 55 percent casualty rate,
killed and wounded, this could be interpreted as showin
that 18 or 19 persons from Chattooga were killed or woum§
ed in the historic battle.
A special memorial service will be held by the Georgia
Division Civil War reenactors in honor of tls\’e men of &e
9th Georgia that spilt their blood for state's rights. The
service wfii be held on the ground where the men of the 9th
Georgia died.
THIRD DAY
The third and final day of scenarios of the Battle of Get
tysburg will portray what is known as Pickett’s chardge.
General Lee's troops gained ground on the previous day
Young Fawn Treated
Local Textile Plants Slow
Turndown May Be Coming, Managers Say
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
~ Textile manufacturing in
Chattooga County has slowed
down slightly during the first
quarter of 1988, according to
local industry spokesmen.
The American Textile
Manufacturers Institute
recently said that the textile in
dustry is ‘“‘in the midst of a
serious market downturn,”
though local production of tex
tiles will only be slightly
affected.
LOCAL PLANTS
“Things have slowed down
a little,”” said Allen Lonas, the
director of human resources at
the Trion Division of the Riegel
Textile Corp. ‘“We've been
working seven days a week in
some departments to keep the
plant runninF, but we haven't
seen much of a turndown yet,
and I hope we don't in the
future.”
According to Roy Brown,
plant manager at the Berryton
Division of Harriet and
Henderson Yarn Inc., while a
the fawn was not expected to live when first brought
in Monday, though its condition had greatly improved
by Tuesday, Dr. Hopkins said. After another two weeks
of treatment, the fawn will be turned over to the Wildlife
and Game Service, which will return it to its natural
habitat. (Staff Photo By Jason Espy).
turndown hasn’t been seen yet,
one could be on the way.
“I don’t see one on an im
mediate short-term look,” he
said. “But on a long-term
basis, a turndown might be
coming."
. LESS SELLING
Brown also said there may
be some softning of the textile
market. “‘There is indeed some
softening r;fiht now,’’ he said.
“The so-called experts and
forecasters say it won't last
lonfi. though. It's all tied in
with the economy, because
with production increases,
there are more goods for the
consumer to buy.”
A softening of the market
occurs when products are not
selling well, product inven
tories are up, or there are few
buyers, Lonas said.
“Thin%s are a little soft for
us now, because we've been
running the departments on
seven days,”’ he said. ‘“‘But
we've slowed only a little bit.”
IN THE BLACK
Lonas added that profits
from the Trion Division have
been rather fi]ood for the first
quarter of this year, in com
parison to the 12 percent
and their morale was still high. He was determined to once
again attack Union positions. General Lee had also been
reinforced with the arrival of Pickett's division.
Confederate troops were formed into brigades and sent
on the advance to meet the Federal soldiers’ defensive posi
tions. After an intense assault with guns and cannon hand
to-hand combat ensued.
RETREAT
Federal reenforcements finally overwhelmed the Con
federates and the Rebels were forced back south. The Con
federates, having won two days of battle, were unable to
maintain the offensive. They retreated back to the Southern
states.
Statistics of the Battle of Gettysbur%accordirfi to “The
Civil War Dictionary’’ by Mark Mayo Boatner 111 shows
Federal forces numbered 88,289. Confederate forces
numbered 75,000. Federal soldiers killed wounded or miss
ixclf numbered 23,049. Confederate soldiers killed, wound
ed or missing numbered 28,063.
OBSERVERS
Between 60,000 and 80,000 spectators are expected to
view the reenactment over a three-day period. Over 10,000
reenactors have registered to participate in the event.
Several hundred cavalry and over 100 cannons are expected
to be represented this weekend. More than one million
musket rounds are expected to be fired.
The Gettysburg battle has been projected to be twice
the size of the ugcoming Chickamauga reenactment in
Chattooga. But that may not be the case.
Civil War reenactor Gen. Jack King, a white bearded
Texan who commands a Texas Brifiade said at the
Chickamauga Leadership Conference held in Chattooga
recently that many reenactors from west of the Mississip-
Si were passing us; Gettysburg in favor of coming to
hickamauga battle in September.
decline of national textile
profits.
“Ours have been much bet
ter than that,”” he said. “I can’t
guote it exactly, but we've
one far better. Trion can
?sually hold its own with pro
its.”
JOBS LOST
Local Harriet and Hender
son Yarns profits have fallen
off some, Brown said, though
not drastically. Lonas
estimated that the local Riegel
division has cut back on bet
ween 200 and 400 jobs in the
past eight years.
“We got rid of a floor shift
operation at the plant here
“that cut out quite a few jobs,”
he said. ““A lot of jobs were lost
all over the state during the
past eight years, and there
were around 900 lost in South
Carolina. I hope it never gets
that bad again.”
MODERNIZING
““There have been less
employees with our firm in the
last eight years,” Brown said.
“We've modernized our mills
to compete with foreign im
ports, and it's something that
was needed, but the net result
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