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We Need Hospital
Editor;
Please let's work together to prevent the
closing of our communi%; hos ita?.
_ After working in different Kospitals. stay-
Ing with my sister, Eva Carver, who was
critically ill and passed away on Sept. 8 in this
hospital, I believe the paramedics, doctor and
Reenactor Praises People
Dear Editor:
As a Civil War Reenactor, and visitor to nor
thwest Georgia to commemorate the 125th An
niversary oFChickamauga. I would like to
thank you and everyone in the area for mak
ing our stay a most pleasant and memorable
one,
Although I am a native Virginian, I have liv
ed in central Ohio for seven Bears. My two
fellow travelers (both native Ohioans) and I
were moved and touched by the kindness and
warmth which were shown us everywhere, from
Fort Oglethorpe to Rome.
I hope everyone enjoyed the event as much
as we gid. and I hope that it was a fitting
memorial to the soldiers, blue and grey, who
performed the heroic deeds that changed our
nation, 125 years ago.
It would be a fond hope that next year, as
School Reunions Cited
Dear Editor:
As coordinator for the Chattooga Education
Association’s Sesquicentennial %chool Reu
nions I would like to express my appreciation
to all those who helped to make our school reu
nions a success. I especially want to thank the
chairmen of the various committees — Sara
Nelson, Dennis McCary, Brenda Ratliff, Jo Ann
Mitchell, Gwen Bentley, Ellen Martin, Martha
Tucker, Joy Toles, Margaret Parker, Maxine
West, Jesse Mann, Doris Shepherd, Louise
McCollum, Wright Wheeler and Pat Scogfins.
A special thanks also to those individuals
Homecoming Dinner Success
Dear Editor:
On behalf of Chattooga Education Associa
tion (CEA) I would like to express apgreciation
to the people who helped make our homecom
ing dinner a success.
Special thanks go to Betty Hawkins and the
luncl?rei():om staff who prepared the delicious
meal and to Jack Catrett for allowing us to use
Be Saved Today
Dear Editor;
& Jesus is coming soon. Be prepared to meet
im. : o !
I Kings 4:3, 4, 24. It's so wonderful to sit
under our vine and have our own fig tree to eat
from.
Jesus is the vine and the fig tree is His
What’s The Difference?
Dear Editor:
Clutching her baby to her breast, she ner
vously reached for the knob on the door to the
waiting room. She had never done anything like
this before and she was scared.
The room was full, but none of the others
looked up as she entered. The nurse took her
name and motioned toward the empty chair in
the corner. Again, none of the ot%er women
looked at her as she made her way to the chair.
Except for the occasional sniffle from the young
girl near the door, it was silent.
Over the next hour the other women were
summoned through the door next to the nurse’s
station. The room remained nearly full,
however, as those leaving were replaced %y new
arrivals. i s
Then it was her turn. The baby had been
good, but now began to fuss as she was led in
to the “‘examination room.” The “‘doctor” came
in and seated himself in the chair across the
table. He said nothing as he opened the file he
carried.
Finally he looked up. Before he could speak,
she blurted: “‘Doctor . .. my husband doesn’t
make much money, we have one child already
and now I'm pregnant again. Doctor, we just
can't afford two children!”
“I understand,” he said. ‘‘But since you've
brought your other child, let me propose an
alternative: Rather than risking your life by
aborting the baby you carr‘y in your womb, why
don’t we simply get rid of the one in your lap
there. After all, he’'s much easier to get to and
it really doesn't matter to me which one I kill.
You settle him down a bit while I get my scalpel
from the next room. Turn him over on his back
and pull the blanket away from his chest and
over his head so he won't see the knife.”
Commentary
deed amazing.
One evening, as 1 was watching the
games, a Chattanooga NBC-affiliated
news broadcast cut in, lasting for a few
minutes. During the program, a survey
was taken, asking if viewers felt the Olym
pics contained too many sports. Phone
numbers were given for viewers to voice
their opinions. e
I DIDN'T CALL in, but I thought a lit
tle about the question. I decided that the
Olympics do not contain too many sports,
but did feel that more television coverage
should be given to each. What I mean by
that is, some of the major Olympic sports,
such as basketball, diving and gymnastics,
are given much of the on-air time, but the
“lesser’’ events are often untelevised.
As an example, I particularly wanted
to see some of the archery events. But I
never saw any. Granted, a few minutes of
archery may have been televised when I
wasn’t watching, though I feel as if more
entire nursing staff to be “‘super" for their care
and compassion,
“We need this hospital.”
Madge Corneau
221 gatawba Road
Summerville
we pay tribute to the events at the Atlanta
Campaign. we could again visit your beautiful
area and learn more about our nation’s story.
Again, thanks to all and God speed.
Sincerely,
Freeman Carmock
36th Va. Comp. A. CSA
Todd Miller
12 East Southington Ave.,
Worthington, Ohio 43085
Mike Wifitey
30th Oh. Comp. A.-U.S.A.
(Near Columbus, Ohio)
P. S. Congratulations to the two fjoumalist;s,
Buddy Roberts and Cheri Teague, for their ex
cellent Anniversary Edition of The Summer
ville News. Hard work and good writing shows
and pays off. Keep up the effort to preserve
local history!
and businesses for their financial contributions
and to the principals for allowing us to use their
schools.
Also a special thank you to the news media
for their cooperation, especially Buddy Roberts,
who fajthfufi? attended our meetings.
It was a pleasure to work with the commit
tee in planning this once-in-a-lifetime event. “As
the crow flies, distances are short; and as
history unfolds, 25 years represent but a mo
ment."’
Sincerely,
Wylene Selman
the high school lunchroom.
Many thanks go to the community for their
support of this worthwhile groject. Proceeds of
this event go toward the CEA Scholarship.
Sincerely,
Darlene Scog(fins, President
Chattooga Education Association
Word. It's so sweet to walk in his shadow and
to know he is our blessed Lord who died for us.
Dee‘lir friends, be saved today ‘if you are not
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Mary Johnston
608 Union St.
Summerville
The horror of what she’d just heard rushed
at her and she leapt to her feet and screamed
one word: ‘‘Murder!!!”
“No, madam. All that separates what you
came here to do and what I have just proposed
istime . .. about a year I'd guess. What would
that make you???’
Over two-million babies are poisoned or
dismembered and scraped and sucked from the
former safety of their mother’s wombs every
year in the nation on which God is alleged to
have shed His blood. @ Al
I have heard that, barring post-abortion
complications (and there are many more of
those than Planned Parenthood talks about), a
woman in America today can have her baby kill
ed for around SSOO. That makes abortion a
sl-billion a year ‘‘industry.” Aren’t those who
perform those abortions nothing more than
very well paid hired killers?
And, itp so, doesn’t that make those of us
who remain silent accomplices to that killing?
Or are we somehow exempt because tEe
Supreme Court said in 1973 tfxat it was legal?
When Hitler's minions faced the judges at
Nuremburg after World War 11, their defense
that what %hey did was within ‘‘the law” and
they were only ‘‘following orders.” They were
hanged.
I'm guessing that when those who practice
abortion . . . and those who meekly acquiesce to
what they know' in their hearts to be
wrong . . . face that final Judge, the hangman’s
noose will seem a desirable alternative. But,
they won't have an alternative!
Dick Bachert
4053 Glen Meadow Drive
Norcross, GA 30092
from editorial page
time should be devoted to such events that
are not televised as much.
THIS YEAR, the majority of the on
air time went to diving, swimming, basket
ball, track and field, volleyball, gymnastics
and boxing. That’s all well and good, and
I realize that the networks have only a cer
tain amount of broadcast time, and that
many people may not be interested in the
“minor”’ games.
I just think a little more should have
been said and shown about the other
events. I was happy to see portions of the
water polo and fencing events, but sports
such as the steeplechase, hammer throw,
discus, or even field hockey would have
also been nice to see.
* * *
I GUESS I've complained enough,
because I still thought the games were
great again this year, as they always are.
I'm sure I'll feel the same way about the
games of the 25th Olympiad, in 1992.
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Biting Fingernails
ONE OF MY latest goals is to let my fingernails grow
out. Actually, I've been literally trying to do this for years
without any luck.
My hands have had a rough life. Not only have I jamm
ed several of my fingers by playing sports and the like,
but I've always had the habit of popping my knuckles and
biting my fingernails.
* * *
I’'M NOT just talking about nibbling, I mean chewing
those suckers off in the quick. The whole idea is really
stupid. Not only does it look bad, but it hurts too. So, I'm
trying to quit.
I've been told that I have small nail beds. That means
the amount of nail actu:llly a:tachfd to my finger is small.
MY BEST FRIEND, Michele, makes me sick. She has
unique fingernails. Her nails are attached almost all the
way to the end of her fingers.
My boyfriend’s Aunt Donna is a manicurist. Both she
and his mom have beautiful fingernails. They're my “‘in
spiration.” :
* * *
ANYWAY, MY fingernails are staring to grow a lit
tle. It's tough for them to grow. Since I've always bitten
them, they're soft and brittle.. That means it doesn't take
much to break them or at least to chip them.
By now, you probably know how I am. I'm not very
good at being careful and graceful about things like this.
I was talking to a friend of mine in the band about my
efforts, “I didn't know country girls were supposed to have
long fingernails,’’ he said.
* * *
NOW WHERE did he get a notion like that? I explain
ed to him that a girl can haul hay, drive a tractor, feed
chickens and milk a cow with fingernails just as well as
she could without them. Who knows, the cow might even
like it.
I don’t know how successful I'm going to be with this.
I'll let you know about my progress.
I just thought I'd add that if the ‘‘Chief” could get
away with writing about growing a beard, then I could get
away with writing about growing fingernails.
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High Political Stakes
A CLASSIC election-lyear battle of
money and political muscle is under wa
in Georgia as the armies of George Busx
and Micilael Dukakis continue the fight to
win the uncommitted state for their can
didate for president Nov. 8.
While top Democrats concede the GOP
has more money and will develop a more
effective phone bank, the majority party
in Georgia has an organization that some
believe filas seldom been stronger in state
history.
Georgia, all sides agree, is up for grabs
Nov. 8.
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DESPITE Ronald Reagan’'s
363,000-vote margin in Geor%a in 1984, no
one is counting on anything but the unex
gected, tough-talking {)arty leaders from
oth camps insist. As little as one or two
percentage points might separate the win
ner from the loser the morning of Nov. 9.
The game of strategy that is being
played out statewide involves former
Republican U. S. Sen. Mack Mattingly
ang incumbent Democratic U. S. Sen.
Wyche Fowler as much as Bush and
Dukakis, however, according to Dukakis
State Chajrma:l: Milie De}’egter.
THE DEMOCRATIC machine that
helped Fowler beat Mattingly in the 1986
Ug Senate race has been restarted, oil
ed up, and hitched to the older machines
of Gov. Joe Frank Harris, U. S. Sen. Sam
Nunn and as many state legislators as
possible, said DeVegter, himsefi a key aide
to Harris for six years.
Also, some state employees have either
been authorized to go on leave or have quit
their state jobs to help forge a Democratic
victory in November.
* * *
IN ORDER to make sure they work
hard for Dukakis-Bentsen, DeVegter has
made it clear to Democratic elected of
ficials that a Republican win Nov. 8 would
increase the chances of Georgia having a
GOP governor elected in 1990.
. “T%e locals understand that,” says
DeVegter. “Nobody out in the counties
wants to have to go see a Republican
governor for what they want. This is only
a tune up for the 1990 races.”
On The Funny Side
By Gary Solomeon
Oral Roberts Weird
I USED to like Oral Roberts. I really
did.
In the 19705, he and his organization
presented some of the finest religious pro
gramming television has ever seen — and
in prime-time, no less.
The production values were first-rate,
unlike most religious specials where the at
titude seems to be, ‘“Let’s just throw
something together, and the Lord will
bless.” Unfortunately, someone always
forgets to cue the Lord in those situations.
ONE PARTICULARLY good pro
gram was ‘‘Oral Roberts in Hawaii.”
Richard Roberts, the heir to the throne,
and wife Patti sang a number or two, back
ed by the World Action Singers, that band
of All-American kids from Oral Roberts
University. Then Oral himself offered a
brief message of hope and closed with,
“And remember, something good is going
to happen to you!”
Admittedly, I was rooting for Oral at
the time, because a girl from my
hometown had made the World Action
Singers. Who cares if she was a bit uppity
and thought she was God’s gift to music?
She was still a hometown girl, and not
since Ralph Neely made all-Pro for the
Dallas Cowboys had the local folks been
so proud.
* * *
DURING THE 80s, however, it's been
a race between Oral and Michael Jackson
to see who can be strangest. First Oral
claimed to see a gigantic Jesus telling him
to build bigger buildings on the campus of
ORU. Then last year he swore God was go
ing to ‘“‘call him home” if he didn’t raise
$4-million for his ministries.
Now he’s sent a fund-raising letter to
his “‘prayer partners’’ encouraging them
to follow his example by writing the word
“Jesus’’ on the heels of their shoes.
* * *
“AS YOU put your foot down, know by
your faith you're bruising the devil's
head,” he tells his followers. ‘“The devil
should always see the sole of your shoe
coming down on him.”
Quick, Michael, do something crazy
before Oral's steals your title as King of
the Bizarre.
WK
OF COURSE, we must assume that all
this talk of ‘“‘bruising Satan’s head’’ with
The Summerville News, Thursday, October 6, 1988 .. ..
Capitol Beat
By Andy Bowen,
Capitol Correspondent
DeVEGTER HAS not only strengthen
ed the old Democratic organizationa in
counties that went for Fowler in 1986, but
he has targeted borderline counties and
strong Mattingly counties for Democratic
attention between now and Nov. 8.
A Democratic Party insider said about
500,000 voters will be reached before Nov.
8 by the party’s telephone corps, but
others acknowledged that the Republicans
might reach even more (g)eople by phone,
urging them t;c:l votfi G I:
THE BATTLE for the minds of the
undecided Georgia electorate will become
more and more hardball as days pass than
it would if one candidate or the other were
clearly ahead here, experts say.
“I don’t want to sound like a broken
record, but Dukakis is not just a liberal
Democrat, he is a very, very liberal
Democrat,”” charged Fred Cooper of
Thomasville, Bush’s campaign chairman
in Georgia.
* * *
COOPER CHARGED that state
Democratic leaders are doing all possible
to “camouflage’” Dukakis’ ligeral tenden
cies, and pledged that Republican strate%'
in the next few weeks includes “unmask
-1? Dukakis and Bentsen through media
advertising.
““He is not acceptable in the South.
He'll get so much pressure from the
Democrats in the South to come spend
some time down here, they’ll mumble out
nice things about him and all that because
the margin will help them,” said Cooper.
‘“‘But t%ey disagree with the man
philosophically.”
* * *
ONE OF THE biggest single factors in
favor of the GOP in November is the
363,000-vote advantage Ronald Reagan
had in Georgia in the 1984 presidential
election.
Republican officials say they believe
the ranks of so-called Reagan Democrats
have enlarged since then, and the swit
chover voters might have become so en
trenched in Republican philosophy that
they can be counted on for support Nov.
8. Because no one knows for sure, the tug
of-war for your vote continues.
shoe soles is meant to be symbolic. Surely
Oral doesn’t believe a spiritual being can
be whipped by penny loafers and wing
tips? Still, one has to wonder why anyone
would waste time, money and postage on
such banal trash. Doesn’'t Oral have
anything better to do?
Well, maybe not, now that his son has
taken over as head of the empire.
* * *
THE WEIRDEST thing of all is to see
how much Richard Roberts has become
like his father. Watching ‘‘Richard
Roberts Live’ is like seeing Oral reincar
nated. Same style, same message, same
hairdo. One recalls from ‘‘Ashes to Gold,”
the book by Richard’s ex-wife, Patti, how
Richard struggled to break free from his
father's domination. He cbviously didn’t
make it, however.
Now Richard has a new wife who,
unlike Patti, is committed lock, stock and
barrel to the *‘signs and wonders” ministry
her father-in-law started years ago. Oral
backed off from that approach during the
70s to gain a wider, more mainstream au
dience through his prime-time specials, but
now he's returned to it and brought
Richard along, too.
* * *
IF YOU'RE into writing words on
shoes and stomping around town, claim
ing victory over the devil with every step,
then the Oral Roberts of today may be for
you. But as one who misses the subdued,
down-to-earth approach that made Oral
Roberts a household name a decade ago,
give me ‘‘Oral Roberts in Hawaii”
anytime.
Yes, it was less theatrical, but it had
a lot more class. ;
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