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More Questions On Theater
Dear Editor,
My, my, Mr. Agnew and Mr. Lindsey, why
are we so Xefensive%n The focus of mfy letter was
rll‘ot on the greed of the owners of the Tooga
Theatre.
First, the intention of my letter was to alert
the people of Summerville and Chattooga Coun
ty to the bias reporting of the newspaper. Ac
cording to the “General Managers note’’ his
comment was that if the Theater owners could
get $500,000 for the property, then they should
fio for it. In other words, The Summerville
ews doesn’t care how badly the peog!e of Sum
merville are taken!?!? Why isn’t The News
questioning these closed meetinfis more ag
gressively? If Harry Powell was holding clos
ed meetings it woulg be all over the front page.
Secor?(fiy. I also wanted to point out what
incompetent leadership the Summerville City
Council has displayed. From the City Council
I would like to know the following:
(1) What was the original offer on the Tooga
Theatre?
(2) What was the counter offer on the Tooga
Theatre?
(3) And would any member of the City Coun
cil personally sink $90,000 for the purchase of
the Tooga Theatre? @ L
Now, Mr. Agnew and Mr. Lindsey, why did
you not publish all those expenses on your ex
tensive renovation and equipment in your rep-
Answering ‘Stupid Questions’
Dear Editor:
It has come to my attention that according
to Chase’s Annual Events Calendar, Friday,
Sept. 30, is designated ‘‘ask a ‘stupid’ question
day.” To my knowledge, the purf.tose of this day
is to “‘encourage curious people to overcome
their timidity and ask that ‘stupid’ question.”
(Let me clarify that the only ‘stupid’ question
is the one not asked).
As communication director of the Summer
ville Community Seventh-Day Adventist, [ am
frequently asked questions about my church:
long afiuestions, short questions, and yes, occa
sionally a silly or ‘stupid’ qauestion. But no
matter what tfie question may be, I am always
happ{ to listen and try my best to provide a
satisfying answer.
To commemorate “ask a ‘stupid’ question
day,” I would like to provide a few answers to
some serious and not so serious questions
curious people often ask:
1. Yes, the Seventh-Day Adventists are
Christians, firmly basing our salvation on
Jesus. We are not a cult or sect. The denomina
tion was founded more than 100 years ago and
has since grown into a worldwide organization
with more than five-million members.
NTI Thanks Community
Dear Editor;
On behalf of everyone associated with the
125th anniversary of the Battle of
Chickamauga reenactment, we would like to
thank the residents of Chattooga County for
their support and hospitality during the past
few months leading up to tge reenactment.
Although Mother Nature didn’t cooperate,
a number of citizens from this county helped
make the weekend festivities a reality. Without
the following organizations, eur event would
not have been the healthy and safe weekend
that we all enjoyed. @~
* Chattooga County Hospital.
* Chattooga County Sheriff’s Department.
* Chattooga County Rescue.
* Georgia State Patrol.
* Georgia Department of Human
Resourges, EMS. =~ o
Also, a very special thank you to Steve Dun
can, Duncan & Son Contractors Inc. for his con
tinuous help during the weekend to ensure run
ninfi water was available in the food area and
in the camps, and to Jim McNew and his fami
ly for their unending supply of energy and sup
port, and willingness to of}f,er help to ensure a
job was done.
There are countless other citizens of this
Not Everyone Should Vote
Dear Editor:
That everfyone should exercise his right to
vote is one of the most asinine, yet widely ac
ceg)ted views in contemporary American life.
The Ad Council, Hollywood airheads,
editorialists, and countless others promote the
myth that there is something shameful about
not registering to vote. In order to correct this
problem, as they see it, they suggest schemes
to encourage uninterested Americans to
register.
Of course, it is true that ours would be a bet
ter country if all Americans were well-informed
and participated in the political process. But
most of our countrymen are poorly informed,
as is evidenced by the makeup of our elected
officials in Washington, so it is getter that most
people stay home on election day.
Ft has been determined, in the state of South
Carolina, that many people do not register so
that they can avoid jury duty. These people,
who are so irresponsi{)le that they refuse even
‘the simplest task for their country, are about
Don’t Dwell On Past
Dear Editor:
“What a might{ Army. It covers the moun
tains like night. These soldiers charge like in
fantry. They scale the walls like picked and
trained commandos. Straight forward they
march. Never breaking rank — no weapon can
stop them — they swarm upon the city ..."
No, I am not talking about the Battle of
Chickamauga at all, but about the battle for
men’s souls that were in, the battle to save
America from total destruction, and the final
battle of Ann:fiaddon, when all the forces of
anti-Christ shall rise up against the establish
ment of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
Already we can see the labor pains of this birth
in nature with calamities increasing in intensi
ty as we near the day.
Conceminfi the reenactment — dwell on the
past and you'll lose an eye, but the parable goes
on to say, forget the past and you'll lose both
eyes. Have we already forgotten the heartbreak
of brother against brother? It was remarked by
one official how well all the folks got alon,
together — Why can’t God’s people go as wefi
ly? If you are la[\;ing all of your cards out on
the table, then why was it necessary to hold all
of those closed door meetings? From the defen
sive tone of your letter, and the lack of facts
and figures in your reply, and the number of
closed meetings that hady to be held, it appears
that no one has been slandered but someghin%
might have been exlposed! If I am wrong,
want to know that I am wrong. I will be the
first to apologize in The Summerville News.
You see gentleman, accordin% to the infor
mation I have received, the City of Summerville
has over a million dollar surplus. If the people
want a civic center then let's build them a nice
new civic center, instead of b‘:fi'ing some
dilapidated old building. After all, even the
Chamber of Commerce is not going to locate
their new building downtown.
Pat Horton (Chairman of the Committee for
a better Chattogfa Count}si)
Little Sand Mountain Road
Summerville
Editor’s Note: The Summerville News op
poses secret meetinfs by public officials. Never
theless, state law allows closed sessions under
specified conditions, one of which is the discus
sion of possible real estate purchases. City of
ficials will tell you that each closed meeting has
been met with aggressive questioning by The
News and that each session has been reported
in the newspaper.
2. As a church, we worship on Saturda,
because God stated, ‘‘Remember the Sabbati
day, to keep it holy. The seventh day is the Sab
bath of the Lord thy God.” (Ex. 20:8-10).
3. No, our health-centered diet does not lead
to stunted growth. (Many choose a vegetarian
diet, or at least limited intake of meats). In fact,
recent studies show that Adventists have a
much lesser risk of suffering from car
diovascular ailments, even cancer, than their
countet(})arts, who eat v?fi' liberal diets
cultured with meats (especi pork).
As a church, we also avoid tge use of alcohol
and tobacco. Good health is an important part
of our lifestyle and message! The mentioned
studies even show that, as a group, Adventists
tend to live seven years longer than other peo
ple because of this lifestyle.
Now, have I answered your questions? If
not, make full use of this day or any day to con
tact me at 857-5641. I'm always willing to talk.
Sincerely,
Debbie Hedgecock
Communications Secretary
Summerville Seventh-Day Adventist
Church
county who helped make this event areality —
from inviting us to many community meetings,
to the businessmen and businesswomen who of
fered discounts to all the reenactors, but there
are two people in the area that deserve special
recognition. It’s not often that we meet people
who are continuously trying to make their com
munit})" a better place for their neighbors, but
over the past few months we have met two in
dividuals who are trying to improve the quali
ty of life in this county — Sue Spivey, %hat
tooga County Chamber of Commerce and
Sheriff Gary McConnell. Our staff has been
very fortunate in getting to know these in
dividuals, working with them, and solving pro
blems with them. They are exceptional people.
Thank you again Chattooga County. We
hope you have a greater unders%anding o¥what
American history can be all about, and what the
American Civil War means to you. We know we
have made a difference in what living history
means here. Even though we are leaving, we
know the spirit of living history will live on.
Sincerely,
Patrick {/lassengill, President
Nancy Massengill, Vice President
Napoleonic Tactics Inc.
Gettysburg, Pa.
to be encouraged to register by a proposed law
in that state which would select jurors from the
South Carolina’s driver’s license lists, rather
than from voter registration lists. The irony of
this proposal is that it originates from that
state’s Republican party. Irresponsible citizens,
generally, rejoice at the sound of the
Democrats’ campaign promises to spend more
and more on giveaway programs which hel
breed more and more irresponsibility. Soutg
Carolina Democrats will genefit from this
Republican effort.
The trafiedy of such thinking is that
America will suffer as uninformed citizens are
convinced that they too have a moral respon
sibility to participate in the country’s decisions.
Every sane, law-abiding citizen should have the
right to vote in the United States, but we would
be better off if irresponsible and uninformed
peogle were not encouraged to vote.
Sincerely,
Tom Hardigree
Hartwell
when our cause is just — Why couldn’t 5,000
¥eople. called by His name meet in a field and
all on our faces in heartfelt repentance and ask
God to forgive our self-seeking and love of
pleasure and idolatry and to ask God as He
judges America to remember mercy — Already
we see this judgment falling in many wa(y:'s —
in a blasphemous film being shown in Chat
tanooga and the dismemberment of babies in
the Atlanta abortuarys — What are we to do
— in Bible days God’s people called a fast and
met in solemn assembly. Og sound the trumpet
in Zion. How God’s word of judgment is warn
ing, but who will hear ...
You can blow the trumpet ‘‘And if Kou go
to war in your land against the enemy that op
presseth ycu, then you shall blow an alarm with
the trumpets and you shall be remembered
before the Lord your God, and you shall be sav
ed from your enemies.”’
Numbers 10:9
Jean Gauld
Trion
Thanks For Reenactment Help
Dear Editor:
To the people of Chattooga County:
The Chattooga County Historical Society
thanks all of those who volunteered their time
and their talents in an effort to make the
reenactment of the Battle of Chickamau?a run
as smoothly as possible. Jt was an honor for our
Throw The Bums Out!
Dear Editor:
The founders of the American republic en
visioned what they called the ‘‘citizen
statesman’’ . .. peo l’t; who would leave their
normal callings ang offer for political office,
often at considerable hardship.
The idea...it was and still is a good
one...was that those who served in govern
ment would hold office for several years, then
return to live under the system they had helped
to mold. They would have no special privileges
or economic benefits. They wmsscsimply return
to their previous vocations with little more than
the greatly enhanced admiration and respect of
their countrymen. That was obviously a much,
much simpler time.
The founders would be appalled at our cur
rent situation:
Professional politicians “‘serving”’ . .. and I
use that term very loosely ... 10, 15, 20 and
more years in office, continually returned there
by an electorate convinced that the more
“senioritgr" their representative has, the more
state or federal largesse he'll be able to take
from the citizens of Utah and shovel to the
citizens of Georgia or Alabama or wherever.
That horribly misguided belief may explain why
somewhere aroung‘:)lG percent of all incumbents
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Rives To
TRANSPORTATION Commissioner
Hal Rives is pulling the old carrot-on-the
stick trick, and it looks like he’s going to
get the General Assembly to follow his
lead.-
Rives has unveiled an ambitious
$650-million highway improvement pro
gram for Georgia, but warns that about
one-third of it won’'t become reality
without the six-cent motor fuel tax the
DOT has wanted for several years. The
odds are with him this time around,
though, because the 1990 state budget is
going to be the tightest in recent memory.
New revenue will have to come from
somewhere, and Gov. Joe Frank Harris'is
not about to break his pledge of no new
general taxes.
* * *
RIVES SAYS he could return about
SIOO-million in general funds to the
treasury if he gets his 6-cent gas tax, and
a lot of legislators like the sound of that.
Legislators also adore new and widen
ed roads, of course, because their consti
tuents gripe about bad roads more than
anything else. Roads mean prosperity,
which means happy businessmen, which
means campaign donations come reelec
tion time.
* * *
CHATTOOGA COUNTIANS should
go down to the Capitol during the budget
presentations by the state department
heads in January. The DOT, in presenting
its case for its yearly budget, puts on the
best show of any of the departments.
Rives last year staged a 30-minute slide
show revealing in full color perhaps 50 or
60 before and after shots of Georgia roads
that have been improved.
The legislators ooohed and ahhhed and
sat on the edge of their seats as if some
feathered vamp were parading across a
stage. They were like children in can-
Potpourri
from editorial page
Under option two, where we lose three
schools, and the package costs $6-million,
the charge to county taxpayers drops to
$90,956. Sounds a bit like state sanction
ed bribery.
* * *
WHY DOES the state, under the
governor's education program, want to
spend that kind of money in our county?
Because the governor and his experts have
defined the “‘product,” and they think they
get a better “product” by busing children
farther and farther, and making education
in Georgia more and more standardized.
While this is happening, we have less
and less local control of education. We
need more local control, not less. If by op
posing the assembly line view of little
human beings requires resisting QBE,
then the board should be supported when
it resists the ‘‘recommendations’” made by
QBE. I have a hunch that struggling
against such QBE recommendations could
be a first step toward regaining some local
control of our schools.
Capitol Beat
By Andy Bowen,
Capitol Correspondent
Get Tax
county to have been chosen for such a tremen
dous undertaking, and the gracious welcome
and suggort given those involved will long be
remembered.
Sincerely,
A. J. Strickland
President
are reelected. (That statistic says that I'm in
the minoritfl'. but if there are two good guys
running, I'll routinely vote for the new good
guy just to keep the old good guy from grow
ing a root).
Only around one-third to one-half of
reqlistered voters care enough to make it to the
polls on election day. It may be a disaffected
cynicism born of an attitude that notlu.ni' 'S go
ing to change anyway, so why bother? But it
could be a bfissing: I{ two-thirds to one-half of
the electorate don't care enoufih to inform
themselves about the issues and the candidates,
they're doing the rest of us a favor by not
votini Though as I survey the scene, I don’t
know how they could screw things up any more
than have the so-called informed voters.
But, I disgress.
What I started out to say was this: To their
credit, the Republicans nailed a little noticed
plank into their platform calling for a limita
tion on terms for elected office holders. That's
an idea whose time is long past due!!!
And one I hope a majority of you will start
thinking about.
Dick Bachert
4053 Glen Meadow Drive
Norcross
dyland, and I thought some were about to
swoon.
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AN ACE that Rives has up his sleeve
is his pledge that if the gas tax isn’t
enacted by the General Assembly, then
the first projects to be cut will be in the
major developmental corridor plan. One of
those is U. S. Highway 27, which runs
through House Speaker Tom Murphy’s
district down in Haralson and Paulding
County.
Your legislators won't talk tax until
after Nov. 8, to be sure, but expect plenty
of selling to be done on the new six-cent
gas tax between then and Christmas. By
next July, it’ll be a reality.
* * *
JIMMY AND Rosalynn Carter are
about to celebrate an anniversary, and it
has nothing to do with marriage or bir
thdays. Oct. 1 marks the second anniver
sary of the dedication of the Jimmy Carter
Library and Museum and the Carter
Center of Emory University.
I spoke briefly about the anniversary
with the former president and first lady,
and each had been so busy they were sur
prised that the anniversary is so close at
hand.
§ & 3
WHILE NEARLY 300,000 people
have visited the museum in the past two
years, and about 300 scholars have spent
more than 1,000 research days at the
library, the Carters are the most proud of
the humanitarian work the center has done
in developing nations.
Drawing on the expertise of 17 highly
experienced experts in all fields of health,
agriculture and international relations, the
Carters through the center have been able
to bring about positive change in Third
World countries plagued by disease,
famine and conflict.
* * *
THROUGH A new program called The
American Agenda, Carter and former
President Gerald Ford have called
together experts from throughout the
U. S. to help create a list of important
issues they will suggest the next president
tackle right away.
Because of the reputation the Carter
Center has gained in the past few years,
whether it is Bush or Dukakis, the next
president will have to listen.
News Clips—
TRUE
Patience is the ability to idle your
motor when you'd rather strip your gears.
— Boston Globe
* ke *
DEFINITION
Nominee: A modest gentleman shrink
ing from the distinction of private life and
diligently seeking the honorable obscuri
ty of public lifi. — Pevil;s Dictionary
WRONG ADVICE
The trouble with good advice is that it
usually interferes with our plans. — San
Francisco Chronicle
The Summerville News, September 29, 1988
£ Cheri’s
: By Cheri Teague
Down In The Mouth
I PROMISED you last week that I'd tell you more
about my dental experience. So, here goes.
I had to have some cavities filled. First of all, I wasn’t
too hyper about getting a shot in the mouth. I hate that!
I could give blood until I go dry, or get shots in the arm
until I look like a habitual drug user without the idea of
the needle bothering me. But, the thought of those needles
in my mouth is another story.
WHEN THE dentist came in to give me my first shot,
I asked him how much it would hurt if I didn’t get the
shots. He recommended that I get them.
What's a girl to do? I tried to be brave. I watched him
coming toward my mouth with that long, sharp needle.
I even remained still as he gave me the shot.
HE ASKED if it hurt. When I replied, “‘no,” he said,
“Do you always tear up like that?”’ Sure enough there were
a couple of tears running down my cheek. How
embarrassing. . i e T s
He gave me three shots in that side and left me. One
of his assistants asked me to move to another room. By
this time, I was already feeling the medicine. I had a little
headrush when I got up. I probably looked about half
tipsy.
HE DRILLED and filled. Because I was going to be
gone the next week, I had to have all the fillings on the
same day. & ot R
Unfortunately because of his schedule, I had to leave
for about an hour or two and come back in the afternoon.
- The shot process began again. This time as he worked
on my teeth, I realized I was going to have a problem ex
pectorating because my whole face was numb.
SURE ENOUGH, he kept telling me to spit, but I
couldn’t. My brain was saying ‘‘spit,” and my lips were
saying, ‘we'’re trying.”’ L S
" After he told me to spit about six times, I said in an
irritated mushmouth manner, “‘I can’t spit! I can’t spit!”
He got a real kick out of that.
So he got the suction hose after me.
I ALSO asked him to look at my wisdom teeth. The
way he opened my mouth, maneuvered my lips, and felt
my teeth, I felt like a horse. When he got finished, I ask
ed him if he could tell how old I am. The weird part was
that he could.
Don’t you just love to visit the dentist.
* * *
I would like to hear from any of my readers who have
comments or suggestions for my column. My address is
705 Creswell Hall UGA Athens, GA 30609.
Commentary .:.
his hands at a public sink. When Smith arrived, some of
the bloodstained water was still in the basin. From there,
any hope the major had of tracking the fiend down was
lost. Smith knew better than to go into Dorset Street,
where half the criminals in London converged, for if he did,
he might never have emerged.
Meanwhile, an important find was discovered in
Goulston Street. Constable Alfred Long found a remnant
of Catherine Eddowe’s dress on the ground, lying direct
ly below some writing chalked upon a wall. The words,
“The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for
nothing,”” had not been ’Ehere 35 mi:mtes earlier, Long said.
BY 2:55 A.M., Sir Charles Warren of London’s
Metropolitan Police force, had arrived in Goulston Street.
Warren, in the investigation’s most astonishing episode,
refused to let the writing be photographed, even ordering
that it be erased.
Major Smith, who never got along with Warren, claims
that Warren himself rubbed the words out, though this
has not been proved certain. Sir Charles said that he had
it erased to prevent an ‘‘anti-Jewish uprising,” but I
wonder if he might have known a little more about the
writing than he let on.
* * *
THE POLICE learned nothing more that night, but
two inquests were held the following week. It is also in
teresting to note that about a week before the murder, Dr.
Thomas Barnardo was attempting to seek help for pro
stitutes, at the time when every woman in London was
terrified of the Ripper.
He was in a particular East End boarding house one
night and heard one woman say, ‘‘No one cares what
becomes of us. Perhaps one of us will be killed next.”” The
doctor thought little of it, until he saw her again in a Cable
Street mortuary. Elizabeth Stride had unknowingly pro
phesied her own death.
* * * .
AFTER THE double murder, the killer vanished for
a period of about six weeks. But he would strike again,
and for the last time, on Nov. 9, in what would be the most
horrible and sickening murder of all.
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