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The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County Georgia
WINSTON E. ESPY DAVID T. ESPY, JR. TOMMY TOLES
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Our Opinion
Proceed Cautiously
The final report by the Governor’s
Growth Strategies Commission will be
given to Gov. Joe Frank Harris next
Wednesday. The findings in that report
will likely affect Chattooga County during
the coming decade and beyond into the
21st century.
The plan will have nine parts: develop
ing an education ‘‘culture,” strengthening
human resources, improving access to
capital for business, supporting develop
ment of local communities and ‘“home
grown'' jobs, enhancing statewide
transportation, protecting natural and
historic resources, increasing support for
local infrastructure (roads, bridges, utili
ty lines, etc.), establishing a water reser
voir program and establishing a system
for coordinated planning.
Many of the proposals appear worthy
of support. Others, such as ““a system for
coordinated planning,” seem likely to
Volunteers Apply Now
Chattooga Countians should lend their
full support to current efforts to organize
a volunteer service program for Oak View
Nursing Home and Chattooga Hospital.
Several volunteers already help out
several hours a week. But many more are
needed to better serve the needs of Oak
View's residents and the hospital's
patients.
An unpaid volunteer coordinator is be
ing sought to direct the activities of
volunteers who offer their time and talents
to the program. There's no doubt that a
person with the appropriate communica
tion and organizational skills is residing in
Chattooga County. All he or she has to do
is come forward and offer assistance to the
program.
Joys Of Autumn
It has been a pleasant autumn in Chat
tooga County. The weather has been crisp
and sunny for much of October and the
leaves have changed from a dark green to
multi-colored hues of orange, red, yellow
and amber.
The first frost of the season hit at mid
month, causing kudzu leaves to shrivel
and turn gray and putting an extra bit of
bite in turnip greens. It was the first time
that local residents had to scrape their
windshields since early last spring.
The long, hot, muggy months of sum
mer appear to have been swept away by
the waves of cool fronts lapping across the
Southeast. Rain has been infrequent at
times this month but the aridity doesn’t
seem to be as painful as it was last July.
Halloween will be observed by
youngsters of all ages next Monday and
: 44 YEARS AGO
IT HAS JUST been announced by the Rome office of the United States
Employment Service of the War Manpower Comunission that a representative
of a company on the west coast manufacturing B-29 Superfortress bombers
will be at the Rome office Nov. 13 through the 25th, and during this time ar
rangements have been made for this representative to be at the Chattooga Coun
ty Courthouse on Thursday, Nov. 16, and also Thursday of the following week,
Nov. 23, to interview applicants for work with the company.
* * *
THE WAR PRICE and Rationing Board will be closed all day Friday, Nov.
3, 1944. It is necessary that we close to enable us to mail out the “A” gasoline
books.
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reduce home rule by the state’s cities and
counties. Just as efforts are being made to
concentrate state educational power in the
hands of appointed — rather than elective
— officials, it appears that the state will
impose certain ‘‘minimum’ planning re
quirements on local citizens through their
city or county governments.
Although preliminary reports by the
Commission give lip service to the concept
of home rule and local autonomy, they also
make it clear that the state plans to de
mand some type of “land use planning”
(i. e. zoning) throughout the state —
whether it’s needed or wanted by local peo
ple and their locally elected officials.
Chattooga Countians should support
the worthy objectives listed by the Com
mission. But they should also cast a wary
eye toward granting the state more power
over local affairs.
Retired people — men and women —
would find an excellent opportunity to be
of service at both facilities. Some could
provide clerical skills. Others could simp
ly chat with the residents a few minutes
each week, write letters or read books, the
Bible, newspapers or magazines.
One big need is for a program design
ed specifically for the male residents of
Oak View. Perhaps the brotherhood of a
local church could start meeting at the
nursing home or take on this work of love.
We commend Oak View and Chattooga
Hospital for initiating this effort. We're
confident that the people of our county will
respond with enthusiasm toward this wor
thwhile project.
black cats and orange jack-o-lanterns will
be in vogue for at least one day. Leaves
rustling in the cool night air will add to the
aura of mystery and fun.
And before we realize what’s happen
ed, the leaves will be piled in brown clumps
at the base of bare-limbed trees or
plastered against a fence by a chilling nor
thwesterly wind. Thanksgiving will arrive
with youngsters looking past the roast
turkey to the arrival of Santa Claus.
The year is fleeing into the past and
brushing us with its variety of sights,
sounds and traditions. Autumn is a
fascinating season because it marks the
transition from the growth and greenery
of summer to the repose and renewal of
winter.
Enjoy it, the joys of autumn pass away
all too quickly.
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Rock Music Harmful?
PEOPLE HAVE different tastes in
music. For example, I enjoy country music
but cannot abide hard rock. Some of my
acquaintances turn up their noses at the
efforts of John Anderson and George
Jones, but adore David Bowie.
Science has now indicated that dishar
monic music — of the kind often heard in
hard rock — may cause physical and men
tal damage. The sounds can cause pro
blems in learning and memory and change
the structure of brain cells, a more alarm
ing finding.
* * *
THE RESEARCH was done by Ger
vasia M. Schreckenberg, a neurobiologist
at Georgian Court College, Lakewood,
N. J., and Harvey H. Bird, a physicist at
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Ruther
ford, N.J. They used mice in the
experiments.
In one of their studies, three groups of
mice were used, according to an ‘‘lnsight”
magazine report. One listened to Strauss
waltzes for eight weeks, another was rais
ed in silence and a third heard disharmonic
sounds in the form of incessant
drumbeats. All the mice then went
through maze training. Two groups per
formed as expected. The third —the one
exposed to disharmonic music — wandered
off with no sense of direction and had dif
ficulty finding the food at the end of the
maze.
* * *
ALL THREE groups were then left
alone for three weeks and again exposed
Potpourri
By Rich Jefferson
Move UN To Chattooga?
MONDAY WAS Tower of Babble Day,
or, officially, United Nations Day. So
meone is always suggesting the venerable
institution be moved to New Delhi or
Outer Mongolia, but I suggest Chattooga
County.
We can swap the UN for the Pennville
prison. Third World diplomats would un
doubtedly feel at home with Pennville’s
third world art gallery.
Diplomats from Upper Volta's capital
of Ouagadougou, as well as those from
North Korean, Capitol of Pyongyang, or
Ceylon, and Bangladesh, can sit at The
Round Table during lunch and discuss
politics with the leaders of Chattooga
County.
Support for the “International Year of
the Small Businessman” could be traded
by the Chamber of Commerce for interna
tional support for Gov. Joe Frank Harris’
Amendment 1. This tradeoff could have
greater international sympathy than now
imagined.
* * *
HARRIS WANTS everyone at the
state level to be appointed, with the gover
nor the only elected official over state
education policies that the voters can turn
out. That's what a “yes” vote means on
Amendment 1. Maybe the state level
educational establishment will want to ap-
Viewpoint
By Tommy Toles, Editor
to the maze. Two of the groups did well
and found the food easily. The disharmonic
group did poorly. 4 o S
The researchers then dissected the
brain tissue of the disharmonic group and
found abnormal ‘‘branching and
sprouting’’ of the neurons, and disruptions
in the normal amounts of RNA, a chemical
vital to short-term memory.
THEY SUSPECT that the music’s
rhythm and not its harmonic or melodic
structure is the cause of the learning,
memory and brain cell deterioration.
“Everything in life goes in arhythm, even
the life of a single cell,”” said
Schreckenbert. ‘‘ All the biochemical reac
tions are rhythmic. If that harmony is
disrupted by some kind of disharmony,
then it can cause detrimental effects.”
Bird pointed out that the tests were on
mice, which have mammalian brains, “‘and
insofar as human beings have mammalian
brains, we cannot preclude the possibility
that disharmony may effect human brains
as well.”’
IT MIGHT be well for parents to
remember the tests when their teen-agers
sit down to do their homework beside a
radio or tape player blasting out wild hard
rock music. Parents ought to remember
that they are also exposed to rock music
when it is played at home by their children.
Now, where’'s my George Jones
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point the governor. In any case, third
world diplomats would understand Harris'
desire to consolidate power through
Amendment 1.
Malcomb Muggeridge called the UN a
“tragically absurd assembly.” Others have
recommended that the United States turn
its national sovereignty over to the UN.
That would make all nations brothers,
right? As we all know, since the time of
Cain and Abel, brothers have gotten along
famously.
* * *
“BUT HAVE there not been civil wars
in history?’’ asks Lloyd Billingsley in his
book, “The Absence of Tyranny.”
‘““Have these not been among the most
bloody and vicious conflicts ever? A good
case can be made that, far from preventing
conflict, the UN has engendered it. ‘War
is bad, therefore the UN should run the
world’ is a non sequitur of cosmic propor
tions. Think about this scenario: Interna
tional bureaucrats, the majority from dic
tatorial regimes that hate the West, run
ning the world. It is ridiculaus, like offer
ing to solve the problems of the Chrysler
Corporation by turning the company over
to the United States Postal Service or to
the people who run government liquor
stores (the only kind allowed) in Ontario.
see POTPOURRI, page 15-A
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=", By Buddy Roberts
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What Most Readers Want
SINCE JACK the Ripper hasn't killed anyone since
late last month, 1 found myself without a topic for a col
umn this week. Thus it was that I came to be poring
through my files and old copies of The News for an
inspiration.
In the 1974 file, I found a column written by Woodrow
Espy, who was the news editor at that time. A portion of
this column I though was rather amusing, and, since it
also fills up space, it was a good candidate for a
Commentary.
* * *
THE COLUMN said, in part:
A NEWSPAPER editor never knows what to expect
when he begins to ask questions of his readers. One
Midwest editor composed a list of answers to a question
naire on what a subscriber would like to read. Here are
some of the responses indicating what the average readers
would most like to see in the newspaper.-
1. My name in big, bold letters.
2. A front page article showing how crooked the city
government is most of the time.
* * *
3. MY WIFE'S NAME is big, bold letters.
4. A feature article showing 25 ways on how to cheat
on income tax forms.
5. My kids' names in big, bold letters.
6. A local news item about the affair my neighbor is
having.
7. A classified ad offering a new home for sale for
$4,000.
8. More news about lawbreakers.
* * *
9. AN EDITORIAL condemning high school teachers
for being too liberal with F’s.
10. A wedding picture of the bridegroom instead of the
bride, especially when he is more handsome than she is
pretty.
11. A sports picture of me when I bowled 183.
12. More advertisements on things that merchants are
giving away.
13. A front page picture of my neighbor being hauled
out of the bar by his wife.
* * *
14. A FRONT page spread about the deadbeat who
lives across the street from me who just had his car
repossessed.
15. More letters to the editor naming all the crooks we
have in town.
* * *
THE PRECEDING listing may have been compiled 14
years ago, but I'd bet that a more recent listing would be
much the same. It’s just what most people want to read
about.
Considering it gave me the substance for a column, I
know it's what I wanted to read about.
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