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SEVERAL EMPLOYERS MAY BE UNABLE TO PAY HIGHER WAGES AND STILL MAKE ENOUGH PROFIT s
Businesses, Such As Those In Downtown Summerville, Would Have Fewer Workers
County’s Unskilled Workers May Lose Jobs
If Pending Minimum Wage Hike Passes
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Several Chattooga Coun
tians could have a tougher time
finding their first job because
of the minimum wage increase
Congress is expected to ap
prove this month.
Those who have better-
Payi}r(xfi gobs now will also be af
ected, but those who are disad
vantaged, unskilled, or seeking
an entry-level position will suf
fer the most, say some
spokesmen for local businesses.
Many employers are hoping
for alengthy training period in
which a “su{)-minimum" wage
could be paid while new
employees learn their tasks,
but the bill passed by House of
Lottery Can Cost Chattoogans Dearly
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
In the springtime a con
man's thoughts turn to money,
and that's why Summerville
Postmaster Frank Bromley
has renewed his warning
against the get-rich-quick
schemes of chain letters.
This is the time of year that
the number of chain letters
coming into Summerville in
creases. Many unwary Chat
tooga Countians could be
cheated out of hard-earned
dollars, Bromley said.
**No one who participates in
chain letters makes any
money,’ Bromley said. ‘lt all
goes to the people who start
the letter. The people at the top
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Students at Menlo Elementary School
took part in the Georgia State Poetry
Society’s writing contest, with grades one
through six tpartlclpatmg. Winners were
from left in front, Amanda Heaps, Bran
Representatives would shorten
the training period proposed by
the Bush adprginistration from
180 days to 60 days.
The minimum wage has
been $3.35 for eight years, but
the House bill would bring it to
$4.55 an hour. The Senate is ex
pected to take up the bill soon.
LOCAL EMPLOYERS
Some Chattooga County
employers want the chance to
hire more unskilled high school
students to teach them the
basics of business. Some of
them say a 60-day training
period is not long enough. At
least one very successful Trion
businessman said the
minimum wage ‘‘drastically”
limits the number of younger
workers he can employ, and
that another increase will force
him to scale back the hours
they work as well as the
Chain Letters Are Gambling With Few Winners, Lots Of Losers
get the money, and the people
at the bottom get left out. But
that's why it's illegal.”
Chain letters are alluring
because they offer something
for nothing, large sums of cash
for very little investment,
Bromley said. One reason the
letters may brin%l $50,000 or
more to the one who starts the
letter is that the letters are
aimed at people with financial
needs. These people are more
susceptible to the promises in
a chain letter, Bromley said.
LOTTERY
Chain letters are illegal
because they are a lottery,
Bromley said. Chain letters
and lotteries both offer an op
portunity to win a prize for par
ticipating, have a required pay
ment to participate, and a
chance. The chance in the chain
letter is the probability that
Menlo Poetry Winners
number of them he can hire or
keep employed.
“Minimum wage is the
stupidest thing Congress ever
came up with,” said Larry
Stansefi). He owns and
manages Stansell’s furniture
store just south of Trion on
Highway 27.
“] want to give them jobs,
but I have kigs working for
$3.35 an hour who are not
worth as much as the new
minimum wage wants them to
receive. I'll just have to have
the kids come in on Fridays
and Saturdays instead of every
weekday after school.”
SUMMERVILLE
A Summerville employer,
Eugene McGinnis, had a dif
ferent view of the pending
legislation. "It won't hurt us
one bit. I can see both sides but
since it doesn't affect me per-
everyone who receives a letter
will participate in the chain let
ter scheme, he said.
If a chain letter is sent to
six different people in the first
level of maifi)ng, and each of
them sends six more letters to
six more people in the second
level, 36 more people will have
been included in the plot. Ac
cording to the regional chief
gostal insgector in Memphis,
y the 11th such mailing, *‘the
population of the United
States would have been ex
hausted by more than
60-million people.”
If two more mailings were
Fossible. and everyone sent six
etters, ‘‘the population of the
world would have been ex
hausted four times over,” the
inspector said.
YOU CAN'T WIN
That partly explains why it
dy Davis, Adam Hester and Melody
Ward; in back, Sharon King, Steven
Holbrook, Ashley Espy and Nicole Pat
terson. (Staff Photo).
Thursday, April 6, 1989
1-B
sonally it doesn’t galvanize my
opinion.”
McGinnis also said he
favors an entrance level or
training wage. Such a wage is
probab%y necessary for iigh
school students with labor in
tensive jobs, he said.
DARDEN
In an interview prior to the
House vote to approve the
$4.55 an hour rate, Con
%ressman George ‘‘Buddy”
arden said that a hike in
minimum wage did not pass
last year because House sup
porters of organized labor
would not accept a sub
minimum training wage as
part of the deal.
“There were no exceptions;
they would accept no sub
minimums. They couldn't get
the votes to bring it to the
floor,” Darden said.
is mathematically impossible
for anyone but the person who
started the letter to profit from
it. Another part of Sxe scam is
that some OF the names and ad
dresses in the chain letter are
fictitious. The address is ac
tually a mail drop for the pro
moter of the scheme.
Another name is then put
on the bottom of the list of
names in the letter and sent
out to others. The promoter
still receives 80 percent of all
funds raised by the letter
because four of five addresses
are also mail drops for him.
Bromley said that after a
certain point the con man will
start over with a series of new
names. When would-be par
ticipants discover they've been
cheated they also find out there
is no place to complain
“because it was fraud in the
first place,” Bromley said.
Students at Menlo Elemen
tary School last week took part
in a Eoetry contest sponsored
by the Georgia State Poetry
Society Inc., Atlanta. Grades
one through six entered poems
in the contest.
Twenty-five entries were
submitted by the Menlo
students, and were judged by
the Rev. Jinmy Bryant, pastor
of South Summerville Baptist
Church, and Mrs. Honey
Glover, a former teacher in the
Floyd County school system.
Pamela Millwood and Bar
bara Reece were the school con
test coordinators.
Certificates will be
presented to the winners, and
first place submissions were
entered in the state contest.
First place winners were
Steven Holbrook, first grade;
Adam Hester, second grade;
Melody Ward, third grade;
Sharon King, fourth grade;
Ashley Espy, fifth grade; and
Nicole Patterson, sixth grade.
Honorable mentions were
Brandy Davis, first grade, and
Amanda Heaps, third grade.
Following are the first place
entries for each grade.
RAIN
By STEVEN HOLBROOK
First Grade
I like rain.
Because it makes
Sleepinfi noises on the roof.
1 like the rain.
Features/News
One of the main concerns in
Georgia about the minimum
wage hike is summer employ
ment at Six Flags gver
Georgia, Darden said. Six
Flags is the largest employer of
youth in the whole state, he
said.
PROGRAMS
Other work programs that
would be hurt without provi
sion for training wage include
college work study programs,
the Jobs Training Partnership
Act, and programs that en
courage elder%y to work, he
said. Brent Gilroy, Darden's
administrative assistant, later
said that the congressman
voted for the increase to $4.55
after voting for President
Bush's proposal. Bush's plan
calls for an increase to $4.2¥) an
hour with 180 days allowed for
sce COUNTY'S, page 6-B
LEGAL ONES
Some chain letters, such as
prayer or good luck chain let
ters are legal. These require no
payment, and are there?ore not
a lottery. Other illegal chain
letters may be disguised at
multi-level marketing plans. In
these schemes a plan is sold,
rather than a proé)uct or a ser
vice. The promoter conscripts
others to sell the plan, and they
in turn recruit others.
Most multi-level marketing
schemes offer a plan and not a
product or service, Bromley
said. But even if a service or
product is offered, that does
not mean the chain letter is
legal.
TWO MORE PLOTS
* Two other methods of mail
fraud used now by swindlers
are false billing and work-at-
e LOTTERY, page 6-B
MY TEETH
By ADAM HESTER
Second Grade
My teeth are so white,
shiney, and bright!
I brush them every night.
WOW!!! They are such a
sight!
When I see a cavity it gives
me a fright!
Because I know I haven't
been brushing every night!
* * *
MY SUMMER
By MELODY WARD
Third Grade
On a hot summer night
When the stars are bright,
I swim and play
And roll in the hay.
My summer was great
'Cause I swam in the lake.
It was a very hot day
While I rolled in the hay.
* * *
THE WIND
By SHARON KING
Fourth Grade
When I'm outside and the
wind blows,
I can feel the chill go
through my body.
I feel like I'm by myself but
I'm not.
The wind blows my hair
back -
But when it goes away, it
stops.
And I feel like all my
friends are with me.
Sometimes I cannot feel the
chill go through my body
Business Booms As
Panic Grows Over
Possible Gun Ban
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Business has been good for
local gun dealers since the mid
dle ong'larch when U. S. Drug
Czar William Bennett suspend
ed the import of more than
135,000 assault rifles, but
when the dealers can't get guns
to sell, the boom will %e over,
The feelin% here in
November was that a pro-gun
president had been elected, and
the worries dealers and gun
owners had about the possible
election of Michael Dukakis
and the imposition of his anti
gun policies are now worries
dealers and owners have about
the Bush administration and
Congress.
KEY DECISION
At least one dealer made a
critical business decision
following the election of
George Bush this past fall, but
it is a decision he may rue.
Mark Hegwood, owner of Gun
Runners in downtown Sum
merville, said that after Bush
was elected he quit his full time
job to open a gun store.
Previously he operated a small
gun store part-time that was
located close to his home in the
country.
“If the election had gone
the other way I'd still be out
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Hairel Bagley, owner of the Old Gun
Shop, stands by three weapons, at least
two of which might not ever be available
again to Chattooga Countians. From bot
tom, Colt's AR-15 has been taken off the
But the wind still blows my
hair back
And I am by myself.
I love to feel the wind.
* * *
TENNIS SHOES
By ASHLEY ESPY
Fifth Grade
You get new tennis shoes at
the store,
They look real exciting, not
a bit a bore.
You beg and beg to wear
them home,
You say you don’t want
them to be alone.
Your mom in exhaustion
finally gives in,
And you say, “Oh boy,
goody, goody I win.”
You %ike them so much that
vou wear them to bed,
Artist Starts Next Thursday
Phillip DePoy, an Atlanta
based writer, will begin his
stay at Trion Elementary
School as an artist-in-residence
next Thursday, continuing
through April gl.
DePoy has written three
books on poetry, and has
edited several more, while in
volved with at least 27 other
school ‘“‘residencies.”
The Artist-in-Residence
Program is available to state
pub%irc schools through the
there in the sticks doing what
I could. If Dukakis had been
president I don’t know what
would have happened,”
Hegwood said.
Many Chattooga Countians
voted against Dukakis because
they feared what would hafipen
to their Constitutional right to
keep and bear arms. Now they
are buying guns because they
fear what Bush or the Congress
might do.
BUY NOW
*The panic is on,” Hegwood
said. ‘*Since you have the ban
on im?lorts everybody wants
one. They think it's their last
chance at the Chinese AK-47
and they're probably right.
And the price is way up.’
Bennett's ban on imports
included applications to gring
AK-475, Uzis, and other semi
automatic weapons into the
country. The a(f)ministration's
official position was that the
import gan did not affect the
sale or production of similar
American-made weapons, but
it did. Soon after the ban Colt
announced it was removing its
AR-15 from the commercial
market, Hegwood said.
The AR-15, which is the
civilian version of the fully
automatic Ml 6 rifle used by
the American military, will no
longer be available. Sales will
now be limited to the military
and law enforcement agencies,
Colt said.
Vanishing Guns
market, the Chinese SKS is an imfiort
banned by U.S. “Drug Czar” William
Bennett, and a Remington .30-.06 caliber
series 7400, which is still legal and
available. (Staff Photo By Rich Jefferson).
Your mom sa¥(s youre go
ing to ruin your Keds.
You wear them all day and
forever and ever,
You wear them through
just any kind of weather.
You wear them through hot
and through cold,
Until your mom says they
are getting old.
You wear them through
thick and through thin,
Until your mom says it's
that time again.
You get new tennis shoes at
the store,
They look real exciting, not
a bit a bore. ..
* * *
THE EAGLE 1 KNEW
By NICOLE
PATTERSON
Arts-in-Education Program of
the Georgia Council for the
Arts. Its goal is to bring pro
fessional artists and writers in
to classrooms for the students’
“cultural enrichment.”
ENGLISH MAJOR
DePoy was a Dean's List
graduate of Georgia State
University in 1972. He majored
in English and had a minor in
folklore. He obtained a Master
of Media degree from Georgia
BUILD THEM HERE
Hegwood said he hopes
that the Chinese will pack up
one of their factories and bring
it to the United States.
" Polytechnologies of China is
set up to make those guns, and
they can make them here as
long as it’s the imports that are
banned.”’ But, as the dealers
point out, Congress is trying to
extend the ban to many
domestic guns, many of them
hunting rifles.
BANNED HERE?
Several bills are pending in
Congress, some of wgfch would
require a complete FBI
background checg for each
semi-automatic fire-arm a law
abiding citizen owned. Others
would give an unelected of
ficial, the Secretary of the
Treasury, the power to ban the
sale of any new semi-automatic
weapons, including pistols,
rifles, and shotguns.
USE A BOW
Another local dealer plans
to take advantage ofp the
business opportunity he sees in
the current attack on private
gun ownership. Stan Ham
mond, owner and manager of
The Great Outdoors, %rion,
said that he doesn't just sell
guns, and that other kinds of
hunting equipment are becom
ing popular.
“If you can't get firearms
you can’t sell them,” he said.
see BUSINESS, page 6-B
Sixth Grade
There once was an eagle
Who flew so, so high,
He saw the whole world
Right before his eyes.
He thought he was king
Of earth and of space,
He thought he was better
Than the human race.
He thought he would be
king
For the rest of his life,
He thought he wouldn't die
But he gid die that night.
That's all that I know
About the eagle who flew.
Now I wonder what will
hap*gen
0 his spirit I knew.
State University in 1978, also
with a Dean’s List distinction.
He served as a television
writer with the Office of Educa
tional Media at Georgia State
for six years, from 1971 to
1977. He also served as a
creative writing instructor at
the Georgia Institute of
Technology, and at Mercer
University during 1984 and
1985, respectively.
DePoy's three books, ‘‘The
see ARTIST, page 6-B