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hie Summeruille News
Hotline
County students havin
problems with their homeworfi
assignments may a%ain be
assisted this year by the
Homework Hotlyi'ne.
The hotline has been in
operation this year since Sept.
7, and has been functioning
Mondays through Thursdays,
accordm? to John Hayes,
director of attendance for coun
ty schools.
The hotline staff has been
reduced from four teachers per
day to two, though ad
ministrators expect as many or
more callers than last year. A
total of 479 calls was made dur
ing the 1987-88 school term.
PURPOSE
The goal of the hotline,
Hayes said, is to focus on so
cal{ed target groups of
students, including those who
are poor readers, potential
dropouts, and students failing
too many courses.
During the last school year,
the Homework Hotline was
funded for students in all
grades, kindergarten through
12. This year, however, funding
will only cover grades five
through 12.
Even though funding does
not cover them, Hayes said
that students in grades
Mentone’s World
Now Paints With
By KAREN COOK
Contributing Writer
A s S W G
William Badham, 93 years
old this week, remembers what
it was like to be a World War
I ace. After the United States
entered the war, the Alaba
mian went to France as a
casual officer and volunteered
for service with the French Ar
my in aviation.
Transferring later to the
elite 91st Squadron, United
States Army, he made his
mark as a flier. On the side of
his plane he painted a picture
of a knight riding a horse and
poking a devil with his lance.
The Picture foreshadowed
Badham'’s future vocation as
an artist, and exgressed his
ability to shooting down enemy
planes.
ENEMIES AND
AWARDS
He is officially credited with
the destruction of five German
planes in combat. He became
an ace on Oct. 29, 1918, and
was awarded the Distinguish
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Ray Berry, Alabama state checker champion, looks over
Bo{; Cooper’s shoulder as Cooper meditates on his next
move. Cooper, Dalton, is the Georgia state champion.
Cooper may have defeated Paul Davis of Scottsgoro,
Ala., in this game, but neither Cooper nor Berry won
trophies at the Summerville tournament last Saturday.
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Homework Hotline
Larry Jones, a teacher at Summerville Middle School,
assists a caller to the Homework Hotline on Monday.
The hotline has been in operation this year for three
weeks, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., weekdays except Fridays.
kindergarten through four will
still be given assistance.
“That doesn't mean that
teachers won't answer their
calls,” he said. “We really need
to work with the younger
children in those grades and
ed Service Cross and other
decorations.
~ He received the Distin
guished Service Cross for ex
traordinary heroism in action
near Buzanzy, France.
The award reads, ‘“This of
‘ficer gave proof of exceptional
bravery while on a
Ehotographic mission 25
ilometers within the enemy
lines. His plane was attacked
by a formation of 30 enemgl air
craft; by skilled work Badham
successfully manipulated his
camera and obtained
photographs of great military
value.”
Badham smiles, ‘I would
shoot for a while and take pic
tures for a while.”
THE ARTIST BOMBS
Today Badham lives a quiet
life atop Lookout Mountain in
Mentone, Ala. He has a love
and afipreciation of nature and
art. He paints or sketches
dail}yi.
owever his piercing blue
eyes glow when ie speaks of
his combat flights and his
friends who were fellow
soldiers, many of whom did not
survive the war.
He recalls one particular
early flight. He and his pilot,
Maybe For Some, But These Men Take The Game Seriously
Thursday, September 29, 1988
help then(')nfet intoa %attern of
using good study habits right
at the early ages.”
TUTORING
In conjunction with the
see HOTLINE, page 2-B
War I Flying Ace
Watercolors
Captain Cook were to drop
258)ound percussion bombs on
a German tarfiet.
“We cut a hole in the plane
near the bottom of the fuselafie
gearbmy feet,” he sgidl.) T (Ie
ombs were in a nearby box.
’thhnm{s.nm
my feet and E ush them one by
one out the hole, I'tried to be
as accurate as possible.
“Things were going well
enough until the very last
bombgl was to drop g(l)%, away
from me and rolled forward
towards Cook. I s(i'gnalled what
had hapfened to Cook who im
mediately pulled the nose of
the glane up which sent the
bomb back to me.
“We didn’t know what sort
of impact it would take for the
bomb to explode. Anyway, in
a hurry as the bomb was roll
ing back to me I tried to block
it with a hockey type of move.
“It slipped past so without
even thir&rj’.ngg unlocked my
seatbelt and crawled after it.
Cook leveled the plane off and
the bomb rolled back to me. I
hastened its departure through
the hole,”’ Bacfilam laughed.
On an even earlier flight,
Badham and his pilot were
ordered to fly very low below
the clouds. “We were sitting
For the old warriors of the checker board battles,
impugning their iame is a serious matter. A flippant
comment about the noble game of checkers is to
them what throwing down the gauntlet was to a
knight in Merrie Olde England.
“Checkers is a kids' game,” a snide fellow says
to this year's Alabama state champion.
“It certainly is,” replies the state champion. ‘“So
is football.”
The snide fellow looks at him and blinks. The
state champion continues.
“Can your kid play football like Joe Namath?”’
“Of course he can’t llplay football like Joe
Namath!” the snide fellow shoots back angrily.
“Well, he can’t play checkers like I can, either.”
Ray Berry, the Alabama state checker champion,
was in Summerville this past weekend, along with
several other checker players of renown. The event
that brought them here was the fourth annual
Southeastern Open Checker Tournament, sponsored
by the Checker Club of the Summerville Recreation
Department.
Other noted players included Bob Cooper, the
Georgia state champion, and Ezra Rolader, who has
competed at the natignal l;evel aor many years.
Berry knows most of the good checker players,
and he inows exaggg' how good he is.
“I'm just as N%‘ a checker fii)layer as if I played
football in the NFL or basketball in the NBA. TKere
AIDS Cases Increase Statewide
Although reported cases of
acquired immune deficiency
syndrome have increased
statewide, it is impossible for
the public to find out if AIDS
cases have gone up in Chat
toogla County.
o statistics are available
on how many AIDS cases have
been recorded in any county, a
s?okesman for the gepartment,
'of Human Resources (DHR)
said, but in a 16-county district
which includes Chattooga,
there have been 34, cases
reported. i
Of those, 18 are livinf. 14
are dead, and the status of two
others is unknown, said Harold:
Griffin, the district
epidemiologist.
The district runs from Dade
County in Northwest Georgia,
east to Fannin County, where
Blue Ridge is the county seat
south to éha'okee Coung;'. and
west to Paulding Count(:{vl'é The
two largest cities in the district
are Rome in Floyd County and
Dalton in Whitfield County.
NUMBERS UP
From 1981, when AIDS
was first identified, through
August 1986, DHR received
458 reports of AIDS cases. By
Aug. 22, 1988, the number of
reported cases of AIDS had
more than tripled to 1,597.
ducks for anti-aircraft fire and
were shot down inSide our
lines. I recall one plane that I
was in had 40 shellpholes init,”
he said.
WAR AND PICTURQS
Badham was shot down three
times. He was never cafifired
or seriouzlar injured. As the war
proliress so did his respon
sibilities to the goint where he
became combat mission
planner.
Contrastingly, Badham'’s
watercolor Paintings show no
remnants of the effects of war.
He has painted all over the
world witi the exception of the
Far East. A great deal of his
art was done in Santa Fe,
N. M., where after World War
I he and a colony of about 20
young artists gathered to live
and paint.
Badham ventured deep in
to “Old Mexico” where he felt
inspiration. He has painted
seascapes, landscapes, chur
ches, as well as other observa
tions of life around him.
Although Badham's work
has been exhibited in museums
and gallerys all over this coun
try his work remains relative
see MENTONE, page 10-B
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
' Features/News l
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State Won’t Release County By County Numbers
Griffin said county by coun
ty statistics of AIDS cases are
not released to the press, or to
the county pubfic health
departments. Thefi' are
reported directly to the state
by the lphysic:ians who test
potential carriers of the virus.
VIRUS
AIDS is a virus which at
tacks the body's immune
system, leaving victims
susceptible to a wide variet{ of
infections and cancers. It is
usually transmitted through
anal sexual contact. Homosex
ual males have the highest in
cidence of the disease.
Griffin hinted that the
reason county by county
statistics are not available to
the public is to protect AIDS
carriers. The concern about
who is a carrier and who isn't
could cause more problems in
rural areas than in larger
population centers, Grifgfin
said.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Across the state, the
greatest proportional increase
of the disease occurred among
women. This number rose from
19 in August, 1986 to 88 in
August, 1988. The number of
chil%l:'en with AIDS increased
from seven to 25 during the
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The picture of a Southern military man, William
Badham, posed for this photo wearing his World War
I uniform. He painted a picture on the side of the plane
he flew on missions, and later became a full-time artist.
He turned 93 on Tuesday. (Special Photo).
William Badham
are about 500 really good checker players in the
country, and I'm about number 46. I'm in the big
leagues,’’ Berry said. ¥ S
‘His confidence springs from his belief in the
game of checkers. Berry may call checkers a
i:game." but he makes it sound more like a way of
ife.
“‘Checkers is wonderful. It's so simple a child can
plagr it, but so complex a man can’t master it. And
it doesn't cost a thing,” Berry said.
Berry, 68, plans on competing successfully in
tournaments for many years to come. He said he
doesn't think he'll ever turn senile because as he
says, “‘I exercise my brain"’ playing checkers.
According to him there is a 93-year-old man who
lives in Virginia who stays alive just worrying about
winning or %osing his next game of checkers. “He's
tough as a pine nut,” Berry said.
This seems to bolster the theory recently put for
ward that people live longer if they have things to
look forward to. Berry could have 25 more years of
checkers competitions before he turns 93.
And you want to play checkers the way most of
us want to age-slowly. “Move fast and lose’ is the
motto of the reputed world’s char;\fi)ion, Berry said.
“Move fast andpyou won't see it all"” is what Marion
Tinsley, the world champion, told Berry.
Everyone who takes the game seriously must
learn how to think 10 to 12 moves in advance Berry
said. And the good players know all 142 openings
that may be assigned before the first move of tfie
game is taken, and they know how they want to
respond.
* * *
Berry contrasted the rugged, keep-your-mind-in
shape life of the old checkers competitors with what
he sees in younger generations. A mind is a terrible
same period.
Notable shifts in the racial
breakdown and numbers of
cases within various risk
behavior ougs have also been
recorded.?r-l 1986, 71 Fercent of
the persons with AIDS were
white and 27 percent were
black.
By 1988 whites had drol?-
ped to 64 percent while blacks
increased to 34 percent of the
AIDS cases reported.
Hispanics continued to make
up two percent of the total,
Griffin said.
HOMOSEXUALS
Homosexual and bisexual
males accounted for 82 percent
of the total AIDS cases in
1986, but this figure dropped
to 77 percent by 1988.
Otf\’:rs who practice ‘“‘high
risk behavior” l?ave shown an
increased rate of infection with
the virus, the state said. These
include heterosexual in
travenous drug users, who
formerly made up seven per
cent of the AIDS cases and
now make up 8.9 percent, and
those who were infected
through heterosexual contact
with someone in a high risk
behavior category, up from two
percent to 3.2 percent.
OTHERS
Other persons with AIDS
formerly accounted for 9 per
cent of reported AIDS cases;
they now make up 10.7 per
cent. These are the victims of
transfusions of contaminated
blood, or blood products,
before testing of the blood
supp'}y was begun in 1985.
“These trends in Georgia
AIDS cases suggest that
AIDS is moving more into the
black community, possibly due
to an increase In cases amon
IV drug users and throu, fi
heterosexual contact with fV
drug users and bisexual
males,” says Joseph Wilber,
M. D., medical director for
DHR's AIDS program.
“The drop in the percentage
of AIDS cases among
homosexual males, who were
the first to conduct extensive
education within their com
munity, shows that educa
tional efforts are effective,”
Wilber contended.
SEMINAR
“Aids in the Workplace,"” a
seminar to helf managers cope
with health, legal, personnel
and communications aspects of
AIDS as it affecg’:c the
workplace, will be held next
Wednesday at the Hyatt
Regency Atlanta.
The seminar is sponsored
by the Business Council of
Getting Together
With Tenn. River
And Mountain Man
About 125 people with the
Chattooga County You;g
Farmers Association visi
the Tennessee River Music
Farm on Lookout Mountain
Saturday. It was the annual
farm tour for the association.
Young Farmers Advisor
Kennith Moseley said that the
tour was a success and a ‘‘big
event for us.” The 800-acre
farm is owned by Randy Owen,
lead singer for the music group,
Alabama.
Junior Tucker, Owen’ farm
manager, led the grou[i on a
tour of the facility, including
Owen' machinery shed, lake
and cattle sale barn.
Tucker also told the group
about the embyro-transplant
process, which is now being us
ed in beef cattle (g)roduction and
is practiced on Owen’ 300 head
of cattle.
TRANSPLANT
Through the embryo
transplant process, Moseley
said, a number of embryos
from a cow of ‘‘superior
genetics” are placed into an
“‘average cow.’
thing to waste, and Berry said checkers are the solu
tion to the aimless boredom of today’'s youth.
“Today kids who drink pop and watch TV.
They're as dumb at 20 as tgey are at 10 'cause
they're just passing time. When I was 18 those were
Depression times and we didn’t have any money.
About all we had to do was play checkers.”
No one could afford to buy a checkerboard, so
they made them out of cardboard, and Coke bottle
tops served as checkers. One side turned their bottle
t;o(s)s upside down to distinguish them from the other
side’s pieces, he said.
According to him, it was during the Depression
that the game of checkers really became popular.
And he doesn't fault todagr's younger generation as
much as he just wants others to enjoy the game
that has made such a difference in Lis own%ife.
“I don’t blame the kids. I'd be doing the same
thing. If my daddy could have bOl:ight me a Camaro,
I'd have been out dri:ing it arclun , t0o,” he said.
But Berry didn’t have a Camaro, and the checker
habit developed through éears of playing at lunch
and at breaktime at the Goodyear Tire éo. plant
where he worked in Gadsden, Ala. Finally, 10 years
ago, Berry started playing in tournaments.
“I don’t win too many tournaments,” Berry said,
with uncharacteristic self-effacement. ‘“But I won
the ll‘\llississippi Open in south Pittsburgh the other
week.
“If I play a fellow I never played before and he
says ‘I ain’t too good,” that don’t mean a thing to
me. He doesn’t con me one little bit. I treat him as
though he as the world’s champion. There have been
times when I didn’t treat a man as though he was
and I got beat.”
see GAME OF CHECKERS, page 2-B
Geo:fia, the Public Relations
Society of America and the
Aangan Red Cross.
program, geared to
level management, will mcllgz
experts from health, legal, &:‘
sonnel, and communicat
fields. The speakers include a
director of public information
for the Centers for Disease
Control, an Atlanta attorney, a
vice president of risk manage
ment for a utility, a vice presi
dent of human resources for a
major Atlanta corporation and
a business writer.
FOR WHOM?
*“This seminar is a must for
chief executive officers and for
senior management, ?amcu.lar -
ly those responsible for human
resources and communica
tions,” said Ron David, chair
man of the Communications
Advisory Committee of the
Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter
of American Red Cross and
board member of the Georgia
Chapter of Public Relations
Society of America.
The “Aids in the Worlq#aoe
Seminar”’ will take place from
8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on
Wednesday. Registration is
$55 and space is limited. For
registration information, call
the Business Council of
Georgia at 223-2264.
“Whereas the average cow
would only give birth to one
calf a year, it could have as
many as 20 or 30 superior
gfgztic cal:fi ’ißThe pCrocess is
also use erry College’s
livestfl; Moseley added.
A cookout was held at the
Lawrence Park in Menlo after
the tour, organized l:;y a com
mittee consistixllf of Dennis
McCary, Tena' urley, Eddie
Massey, Randy Mills, Jimmy
Taylor and Clint Hunter.
SPONSOR
Sponsors for this year’'s
tour and cookout, Moseley
said, were Farmers and Mer
chants Bank, North Georgia
Electric Membership C:)elsl.,
North Georgia Farm Credit
System, Bank of LaFayette,
Bankson Oil Company, Chat
tooga Farm and Garden
Center, Gold Kist Store, Valley
Farm Supply, Farmers Sxipply,
D&E Haerare and Farm
Supply, Swanson Auto Parts,
Penn Auto Supply, First
Federal Savings and Loan,
Rhinehart Equipment, North
Georgia Blasting, Loughridge
see FARM TOUR, page 6-B