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The American Legion this past weekend
celebrated its 70th anniversary. Post 129
in Chattooga County joined in the nation
wide observances with a party and cake
cutting Saturday evening at the Chat
tooga Memorial Home. Shown from left
Local Delis Observe
Diabetes Awareness
The **American Diabetes
Alert” will arrive in Chattooga
County next Tuesday as a part
of the national observance of
Diabetes Awareness Day.
The program will be offered
by the Rome Area Chapter of
the American Diabetes
Association and is being used
to educate the public about
diabetes. Chattooga County is
a member of the Rome chapter.
Lincoln Still Best Loved President, Ogletree Says
A Student Of Lincoln’s Life, Impersonator Says Lincoln Would Have Been South’s Best Friend
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
*
After more than 120 years, Abraham
Lincoln still wins presidential popularity
polls because of his “*deep humanity,”
love for people, and his grasp of what
America is all about.
That's what David Ogletree, associate
pastor of the Atlanta First Methodist
Church said about the man he sometimes
pretends to be. Ogletree has done an im
personation of Lincoln for almost 20
years, including a performance for the
Iriends of the Chattooga County Library
last week.
Ogletree's first performance as Lin
coln was in February, 1970, during a
family night supper at his church. “They
asked me if I would do it, and 1 did,” he
said. “That was the beginning, and then
I was invited to speak at other churches,
schools, and civic clubs.”
LINCOLN RESOURCES
He is listed in the DeKalb County
Resource Guide for schools, and said he
now performs as Lincoln “constantly.”
During the years he has given his
presentation, Ogletree said he has never
written a speech for it. "I key it for in
dividual groups. It's geared more for
children, retired, and historical groups. I
never give the same speech twice, and
that keeps if fresh for me."”
Ogletree said that when he spoke for
the Chattooga Friends of the Library in
the Chattooga County courtroom, he had
originally keyed his performance for an
adult audience, but changed it at the last
minute when he saw the number of
children in the audience.
“1f it's geared for the child, it will
reach the adult,” he said. "'lt always
varies, and that makes it fun. Every
group is different.”
HE LOVED TO READ
Ogletree added that the children
responded well to his presentation. ““They
were very attentive and responsive,” he
said. *'They asked questions when my
part was over, and they had a good
background about Lincoln.
“Because it was for the Friends of the
Library, I discussed Lincoln's love of
books and literature. At one point, his
library consisted of six books, and in his
carliest years, the only book he had was
his mother's family Bible, which affected
the rest of his life,” he said.
Ogletree also spoke here about Lin-
Legion’s 70th Birthday
Self-assessment tests will
be available for local residents
to learn about their own risk of
developing diabetes and to
learn the fact about diabetes at
the following locations:
— Red léoods Deli, Sum
merville Shopping Center.
— Hurley's Deli, 528 South
Commerce Street.
— Palmers Deli, Highway
27, North, Trion.
Through the ‘‘Diabetes
are Betty Haney, president of the Post
129 Auxiliary; Chattooga Commissioner
and Mrs. Jim Parker; and Post 129 Com
mander Monroe Mathis. (Staff Photo By
David Espy).
Alert Day,”’ the ADA hopes to
identify a number of persons
who may have diabetes. It is
estimated that more than
250,000 Georgians may
already have diabetes and not
know it.
For more information about
diabetes, the “Diabetes Alert”
and the Rome Area Chapter,
call 23522327 or
1-800-241-4556.
coln's childhood and about his four sons.
1 didn't deal with the assassination
much at all,” he said.
ORIGINAL COSTUME
The costumes he uses when imper
sonating Lincoln has changed little since
he first began. “‘l've replaced the boots,
and I may have replaced the pants, but
everything else is what I started with,”
he said. As Lincoln, Ogletree also wears a
top hat, coat, bow tie, and special shirt.
1 also have a pocketwatch that I
added later, and I based the costume on
pictures and paintings of Lincoln,
because we have no doubt as to what he
looked like. He was really a fashionable
man for the time he lived in.”
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Ogletree possesses about 700 books
dealing with Lincoln, plus several files
and clippings. ‘I can't imagine a facet of
his life that I don't have information
on,”" he said. '*All my research is done at
my library."
He also collects other items relating
to Lincoln, including stamps, postcards,
statues, busts, plates and dolls. He also
has one original photograph of Lincoln
and an original Currier and Ives print of
the president.
A FALSE LINCOLN
Ogletree said many portrayals of Lin
coln in books or on television have not
been accurate. *‘The mini-series, ‘Gore
Vidal's Lincoln,’ for example, was com
pletely erroneous,’ he sai(i). A historical
novel should be true to the facts, and
when he wrote his book, Gore Vidal
wrote some things that had no factual
Thursday, March 16, 1989
1-B
Get Ready For Turkey Season
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
*,
Wearing the proper
clothing and chosing areas in
which turkeys are located are
the most important prepara
tions for turkey hunting, accor
dini to two local hunters.
Turkey season will open in
Chattooga County on March
25 and will end May 5.
David Jones, principal of
the Summervilre Ni)iddle
Hubby’s Hobby Helps Wife Garden
Wagon Hauls Tools, Fertilizer
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
*
Leonard Hughes’ favorite
hobby has proven to be pro
fitabl‘:e for liiis wife, Corine.
Hughes has made a scale
model two-horse wagon for
gardening or working in the
yard at their home near Trion.
““My wife had been after me
for a long time to build a wagon
for her to use,” Hughes said.
“I've had it finisherf for three
or four weeks now.”
WHEELBARROW
He said the ‘‘garden cart”
is used to transport fertilizer,
tools, and other items around
the house. ‘lt takes the place
of a wheelbarrow.
“I'd say the whole time it
took me to make it was about
two weeks,” Hughes added.
It could be made in two days,
but the way I went about Xo
ing it took two weeks, because
I was doing other things at the
same time."”
He modeled his wagon from
his memory and a picture he
basis.
“1 try to get beyond the myth and
the legend, because the man is more ex
citing. 1 want people to see the man, his
humanity, and who he was.”
ASSASSINATION
Ogletree has discussed Lincoln's
assassination as the sole topic of his
presentation. "I spoke to a group of fifth
graders last week and dealt with it en
tirely. I try to get the details across well,
but don't get macabre with it."”
Lincoln was assassinated by actor
John Wilkes Booth in 1865, after the end
of the Civil War. He was the first
American president to be assassinated.
“Booth was a great actor at Ford's
Theatre, where he shot Lincoln,” Ogletree
said. “He planned it well and was able to
escape.
CAUGHT ON FLAG
“Lincoln was sitting in a balcony box
watching the play, ‘Our American
Cousin,” and Booth shot him during a
scene when there was much laughter
from the audience. He planned to jump
from the balcony and ride away on his
horse, but he was already wearing his
sEurs. and he didn't reckon on them cat
ching onto a flag on the front of the box.
}fie. fell, and broke his leg when he land
ed.
Booth escaped to Maryland, where his
leg was set by Dr. Samuel Mudd. About
a week after he shot Lincoln, he was trac
ed to a farm in West Virginia, where he
was hiding in a barn.
“The posse from Washington found
him in the barn and called for him to
come out, but he wouldn't. They set fire
to the barn, and Booth ran out. One of
the men, Boston Corbett, shot him,
which was probably for the best, because
Booth was sly enough to have escaped
them if they'd tried to bring him back to
Washington,” Ogletree said.
BOOTH DEAD?
“They buried him secretly in a river,
and there were rumors for a while that it
was not Booth they had l,:]ried‘ and that
he had lived to be an old man in
Oklahoma. But there was enough proof
that the man they killed was Booth."
Several others were also implicated in
Lincoln's death, Ogletree addeg, and they
were either hanged or imprisoned. Dr.
Mudd was also imprisoned, though he
was later pardone(i) by Lincoln's suc
cessor, Andrew Johnson.:
Ogletree said he feels that, if he had
not been assassinated, Lincoln would not
have hved long, anyway. "He had an in
see LINCOLN, page 4-B
Features/News
School, and Mark Hegwood,
owner of a Summerville sports
store, both hunt turkeys dur
ing season, and offered advice
for successful hunting.
FIND THEM
“The most important thing
is to hunt where there are
turkeys," Jones said. ‘‘This is
primarily done by pre-season
scouting, so that you can find
a place where turkeys are
located, where they roost and
hang out.
“When the season comes in,
most of the hunting is done ear
ly in the morning,” he added.
saw in a re}irinted 1902 Sears
catalog. ‘I put the thing
together at half the size of a
real two-horse wagon,”” Hughes
said. ‘I had fii)ur bicycle
wheels, which was all I started
with, and got the
measurements for an authentic
two-horse wagon from the
book. My father was a
blacksmith, so I remembered
about the size of one.”
“It's exactly like a two
horse wagon, except, instead of
having chains on the front
where they would hitch the
horse to the wagon, I put a
cross-T so we could pull it
around.”
MEASUREMENTS
The wagon bed is two feet
wide and six feet long, Hughes
said. It is 14 inches deep, and
has four 20-inch modern
aluminum-spoked Dbicycle
wheels. The wheel base is about
55 inches.
“There's not been much
gardening time since I built it,
but my wife will use it when
she starts working in the
fiarden or in the yarg with her
owers,”’ Hughes said. ““She
likes to see stuff grow.”
see HUBBY'S HOBBY, page 4-B
“You try to locate the turkey
and listen for it to gobble.”
Turkeys may be lurefi to the
hunter by an artificially
induced call, he said.
TURKEY CALL
Various types of calls may
be used, althou%h a box call is
recommended for beginning
hunters, H(:fwood said. A box
call is a small box with a hing
ed top that is scraped against
the side of a box to create a
sound similar to a turkey yelp.
“For the veteran hunters,
we have the mouth and
diaphragm calls and the
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DAVID OGLETREE READIES TO IMPERSONATE LINCOLN
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gredator calls to locate the gob
ler," Hegwood said. Hegwood
also sells recordings of turkey
noises at his store, and rents
video tapes that demonstrate
the pro Fer use of the calls. He
also sells books dealing with
turkey hunting.
USE CAMOUFLAGE
Aside from knowing how to
use the calls, Hegwood said
that having the proper clothing
is the most important Eart of
hunting turkeys. ““You have to
be able to fit into the
background,”” he said.
“Turkeys have tremendous
eyesight.”
Hegwood also sells
camou afie clothing and spray
paint at his store, in addition
to turkey decoys, gun chaps,
numbers four and six size am
munition, and turkey guns.
"Theguns that have Keen en
dorsed by the National Wild
Turkey Foundation have been
moving well so far,” he said.
HEN OR GOBBLER?
Jones added that a hunter
should know the difference bet
ween a turkey hen and gobbler
hefore he goes hunting. ‘‘Male
turkeys have different-colored
+heads and a beard,” he said.
see GET READY, page 4-B