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Letters To The Editor
Writer Urges Gas Out
Dear Editor,
If you have the space, I sure hope that you
will print this E-mail and pray “all” Americans will
be a part of this.
3 Anytime we can stick it to them it’s a good
ay
Last year on Aé)ril 30, 1999, a gas out was
staged across Canada and the U.S. to bring the
price of gas down, and it worked. It's time to do
something about it again.
This time, lets make it for three days instead
of just one. The oil cartel decided to slow produc
tion to drive up gasoline prices. Lets see how many
Canadian/American people we can get to ban to
gether for a three day period in April, NOT TO
BUY ANY GASOLINE, during those three days.
LETS HAVE A GAS OUT.
Problems And More
Problems About Community
Dear Editor:
I do not know the Smith lady who you gave a
one-page story in the interest of animals and I
think it was the humane society — I didn’t get her
phone number.
In the Dry Valley-Trion area people are hav
ing groblems with their animals being shot in the
head, goisoned and tied with rope and material
around the neck, bashed in the head and left lay
ing on the roadsides especialli' the Sand Pit Road
area where three were recently and one on West
Tate Road. All were huge dogs but one brown and
white beagle left hanFing in the brush face down
and back &et and tail up.
Some mysterious soul enjoys beating on gar
bage cans with something making a lot of racket
at nights and the vents in the eaves in the top cor
ner of the house is out. The Deputy said wind
couldn’t have done that. Prowler’s and burglar’s
have been around. Maybe all these will go to
church and repent.
The unknown male caller who wanted S2O.
To get medicine and I couldn’t do that made me
wonder after those pizza hold-up stories. I told him
maybe his druggist would let gim have part of a
prescription on credit.
This female calling around saying she’s from
avideo series and a T.V. series and wanting to find
out if us ladies have sons 14 to 18 years of age and
How Sweet It Was
Editor,
During a March weekend in 1950, most of the
people in Summerville and the surrounding area
mafe their way to Atlanta to see the Summerville
High School boys basketball team take on the al
ways powerful team from Valdosta for the state
championship. Valdosta was favored to win hand
ily, but our players, coaches and supporters could
not understand that and certainly would not ac
cept it.
So 50 years ago the Summerviile High School
boys basketball team sent the defemfing state
champions home surprised but convinced that
Summerville High School was the new state cham
pions.
Being a member of that team has been one of
the highlights of my life. lam sure that all the play
ers on that team feel the same. There was a cfose
ness among the players on that team that has en-
Student Needs Help
Dear Editor,
We are doing research reports in my fifth
grade class. [ will %e reporting on the lovely state
of Georgia. The reports are due in May anJ cover
topics such as geography, industry, and tourism.
The reason I am writing you is to ask if you
could publish my letter in your paper. I am hop
ing some of your readers in your community will
write to me and tell me about their experiences,
local traditions, and some stories about what it is
Guest Column
Historie Lessons
EACH FEBRUARY we celebrate the
birthdays of our country’s father and first
president, George Washington, and our 16th
President, Abraham Lincoln. Nowadays we
lump both celebrations into a single holiday
— Presidents’ Day. The decision to consoli
date gave everyone a three-day weekend and
makes great sense for retailers. Unfortu
nately, it has perhaps resulted in our paying
less attention to the individual deeds and
heroic works of these two remarkable men.
This President’s Day, I would like to reflect
on the life of George Washington.
We know Washington as a great man
because of his historic accomplishments -
leading the Continental Army to victory over
the British and helping to establish the great
est democracy the world has ever known.
What is less known is the way he conducted
his everyday life which, no doubt, contributed
to these remarkable achievements.
From childhood through adulthood,
George Washington carried a copy of the
“Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in
Company and in Private Conversation” - a
list that he had copied by hand as a school
boy. These 110 “Rules of Civility” were origi
nally written by French Jesuits in the late
16th century. Washington modeled his be
havior on these rules and used them as a sort
of roadmap for how one should conduct him/
herself in society.
While some of the rules may be dated
(e.g. — “Kill no vermin, or fleas, lice, ticks,
etc., in the sight of others” (Rule 13) or “Spit
not in the fire” (Rule 9)), most reflect a time
less concern for one’s neighbor and fellow
citizen, such as the first rule, “Every action
done in company ought to be done with some
sign of respect to those who are present” or
the rule that “Artificers and persons of low
degree” should be treated “with affability and
Do not buy any gasoline from APRIL 7
THROUGH APRIL 9, 2000. Buy what you need
before the dates listed above, or after, but try not
to buy any during the GAS OUT. If you want to
help, just send this to everyone you know and ask
them to do the same.
Webrought the grices down once before, and
we can do it again! Come on North America lets
stand together.
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Even if you receive this 100 times keep pass
ing it around, this way you know everyone is be
ing informed and no one will forget!
Phil B. Hail
Mentone, Ala.
if so she wants to speak to them. Now made us
wonder why?
I said, “I am an old widow woman and don't
have any”.
My neighbor, Mrs. Wesson called me yester
day. Her batteries in her phone had gone dead.
Then she'd chanfied them and then I couldn’t get
any incoming calls or call out for awhile. Then I
Sot incomin§, but couldn’t call out and on Wednes
ay night all that called in were wrong numbers.
Ladies and All-Tel came today and the tele
phone just wouldn’t work anymore and he was so
nicekand polite and exchanged it for one on his
truck.
They have the most courteous workers I have
ever met [ do believe.
By the way, one big doswas “Old Root” Uncle
Leroy Browns 18-year-old og and he’s heartbro
ken, she’s dead and so was Cindy Stinson who shed
alot of tears.
My neighbors, W. J. and Odella Keith came
with their truck and tractor and piled up all &ine
brush in four piles to later burn and Mr. and Mrs.
Jenkins for the small amount they did for me.
Chattooga County needs a lot of cleaning up
still. About time for spring house cleaning, too.
Mary Childers
Summerville
dured for 50 years and still remains today. Some
of the members of that team have Easseg on but
we will always remember them as the champions
they were. We miss each one of them so much,
especially as our thoughts are rekindled by the 50
year anniversary of our championship is upon us.
I realize the number of people in our town,
who remember this team is growing smaller each
year but those who do remember, I believe, will
agree that on that March Weekend 50 years ago, a
wonderful memory was born.
The members of that team were Herman
Fletcher, Bobby Nix, Joe Faye Dacus, Sewell Cash,
Bobby Bush, Billy Flanagan, Tommy Ratliff, Billy
Morehead, Bu({dy Lanier, Jack Glenn, Sims
Hawkins, Winfred Hardeman, and Coaches Gar
land Pinholster and Brooke Pierce.
Bobby R. Bush
Caroleen, NC
like to live in Georgia. I live in Southern Califor
nia, and [ am sure many things about Georgia are
different from where I live. Also, if any of the read
ers find time to reply, it would be great if they
would enclose a copy of my “published” letter.
Elizabeth M. Goldstein
Cielo Vista Elementary School
Room 10 Mrs. Hansens Room
21811 Ave. de los Fundadores
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
courtesy, without arrogance” (Rule 36 — in
other words, don’t look down your nose at
anyone.
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LIKE MANY OF US, Washington
struggled to maintain control in his daily life,
and several of the rules centered on manag
ing anger and avoiding vindictiveness:”...[l]n
reproving show no signs of cholor but do it
with all sweetness and mildness’ (Rule 45).
Most of the rules related to common acts of
courtesy. Washington’s life was filled with
accounts of personal politeness and political
civility. For example, at President John Ad
ams’ inauguration, he gestured for Vice Presi
dent Thomas Jefferson to precede him at the
dais, in keeping with Rule 33: “They that are
in dignity or in office have in all places pre
cedency.”
Washington believed that civility and
common courtesy clearly had a place beyond
polite society and should extend to all people.
Because George Washington respected all
people, everyone in turn, respected him. This
is the simple, but profound lesson taught by
Washington that has withstood the test of
time. He was a great man not only for his
deeds, but for the way he conducted himself
and treated others. He left us a rich legacy
that each of us would do well to remember
as we celebrate his birthday.
Verse Of The Week
A prophet is not without honor, save in
his own country, and in his own house.
— Matthew 13:57
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“If They Cancelled ‘How To Marry A Millionaire’
Because It Was In Poor Taste, Then Why Is Geraldo
Still On The Air?"
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Air Pollution Solution
An acronym war is brewing in Atlanta.
It’s between the GRTA (Georgia Regional Transporta
tion Authority), the ARC (Atlanta Regional Commission), the
DOT (state Department of Transportation) and the EPD (En
vironmental Protection Division).
Each bureaucracy is fighting a turf war to decide in what
way government will allow Georgians to travel from one place
to the other during the next quarter-century or more.
Most of their plans involve greater restrictions on the
freedom of individual motorists — all in the name of the “great
god of the environment.”
The answers are simple but are of no interest to those
who seek people control rather than solutions to air pollution
and traffic problems.
The answers are:
1. Limit the expenditure of all DOT funds to streets,
bridges, roads and highways. Exclude all train systems, air
ports, bike trails, buses, trolleys and MARTA clones from the
DOT budget.
2. Build the entire Outer Perimeter, starting immedi
ately with the Northern Arc.
3. Build the Appalachian Foothills Highway from some
where between Trion and LaFayette to Gainesville and per
haps all the way to I-85 near the South Carolina line in North
east Georgia.
4. Build the Georgia part of the Memphis to Atlanta
Highway.
5. Move most state government offices out of Atlanta,
just as the Georgia Secretary of State already has moved part
of her office to Macon. Chattooga County would love to be
come the new home of the DOT.
6. Close all Atlanta area parking lots owned or leased by
any government or regional acronym quasi-governmental
agency.
7. Turn off the air conditioners in the summer and all
heating units in the winter in every state and federal govern
ment office building inside 1-285 except for the State Capitol.
That way, Georgia Power Co. might be able to turn off one of
its coal-burning plants.
8. Take away their vehicles — especially SUVs —and turn
off all utilities to the offices of all environmental lobbying
groups and at the homes of their officers, board members and
individual members in Georgia. The lobbyists claim to be dedi
cated to their cause. Let’s see if they are, really. Give them
funeral home hand fans, walking shoes, bicycles . . . and per
haps skateboards. And blankets for the winter.
9. Dump the goofy, enormously expensive idea of build
ing bike trails from the suburbs into Atlanta.
10. Don'’t build a fifth runway at Atlanta-Hartsfield In
ternational Airport. Better yet, let’s close one of the existing
runways. That would really cut down on air pollution. Many
air travelers are already traveling to Birmingham and Chat
tanooga to keep from being ripped off by the airlines in At
lanta.
11. Abolish all state and regional transportation- and
growth control-related agencies except for the DOT, which
has served the state well. We don’t need more regional or state
control over anything else.
12. Tell the EPD, the federal Environmental Protection
Agency and wacko environmentalists to take a hike, along with
dollars from any federal agency. Yes, this one is but a mere
dream but it never hurts to dream.
These propoesals should cure Atlanta’s transportation
and purported smog problems rather easily.
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Poor Party Candidates
Both Republicans and Democrats have a sorry batch of
major candidates running for president this year.
The Democrats have lying socialist environmentalist Al
Gore and Bill Bradley, who is even further left politically than
Gore.
Republicans have George W. Bush, the wishy-washy Es
tablishment choice and John McCain, the “Manchurian can
didate” who seems to have an itchy trigger finger. Can any
one spell W-A-R?
Alan Keyes, a former ambassador under President
Reagan, remains in the race. Although he would be an excel
lent, principled GOP nominee, Keyes has no chance of get
ting the Republican nod.
Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn would have been a
good mainstream Democratic candidate for president. He
would have been a sure winner.
Steve Forbes, principled owner of the magazine by the
Zame name, was the Republicans’ best chance to win the presi
ency.
Come November, voters will likely have a choice between
an outright socialist nominee of the Democratic Party and
from the suicidal Republicans, a hot-tempered, somewhat
bizarre-acting senator, or an unprincipled governor who
doesn’t seem to have a clue.
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Hypocritical News Media
Gov. George W. Bush caught all sorts of flak from the
national news media for not speaking out against Bob Jones
University, which doesn't allow inter-racial dating. It is op
posed to Roman Catholicism, as are many Protestant denomi
nations.
Vice President Al Gore spoke at a Jewish synagogue from
which all women and children had been banned. He hasn’t
been accused of sexism and being exclusionary by the ever so
sensitive liberal and hypocritical national news media.
Wonder why?
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Chattooga Farm Bureau participated in the
annual Farm Bureau Day at the state capital
on Feb. 7. Those attending the meeting with
Senator Waymond “Sonny” Huggins were,
from left, Jean Scoggins, Steve Scoggins,
Wayne Hurley, Chattooga Farm Bureau
Joseph Perkins
a kick out of these ballot box shenanigans,
which he referred to as a “dance of the seven
veils.” The secretary said he would be distrib
uting extra party registration cards for the
Bay State’s primary (held the same day as
California’s) for Democrats wanting to switch
back.
“On their way out,” said Galvin, “they
can say, ‘lt was a nice visit to the Republican
Party, but now I'm going home.”
ONE WOULD THINK that the po
litical media would be up in arms about this
cynical corruption of the party primary sys
tem. However, hardly any of the political re
porters and correspondents covering the
Republican primary race have written or ut
tered a discouraging word about these overly
partisan machinations.
That’s because most of these political
reporters and correspondents, and their edi
tors or producers, are Democrats or, as they
like to masquerade these days, “indepen
dents.” So whatever helps the party of Gore
(and Bradley) is just fine with them.
How else to explain, for instance, the
front-page headlines Gary Bauer garnered
this week upon his endorsement of McCain?
As if it makes some kind of difference.
When Bauer himself bowed out of the
GOP presidential race a fortnight ago, after
receiving less than one percent of the vote in
the party’s New Hampshire primary, he was
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The Summerville News, Thursday, March 2, 2000 —
Attend Farm Bureau Day
Ruth Cook, Lyerly, is serv
ing on the 2000 Georgia Farm
Bureau Women'’s Committee. As
amember of the Women’s Com
mittee, Cook will educate the
public about Georgia’s agricul
tural industry. A member of the
ChattooHa County Farm Bureau,
Cook will serve on the state com
mittee as a representative of the
Georgia Farm Bureau’s Ist Dis
trict.
This year the committee is
promoting Georgia’s beef indus
try. Cattle is the sixth-largest
cash crop in Georgia, with a di
rect impact of more than $1 bil
lion on the state’s economy.
There are an estimated 25,000
cattle ‘producers in the state with
a cattle inventory of 1.3 head of
cattle and calves.
Research conducted during
President; Senator Huggins, Virginia Million,
Ral;])(h Cook, Chattooga Vice President; Ruth
Cook, District I Women’s Committee Chair
man; Scott Fowler and Tabitha Fowler, Chat
to]?ga )Farm Bureau Secretary. (Contributed
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from editorial page
considered such an inconsequential factor
that the story was buried deep inside most
newspapers.
Steve Forbes’ recent withdrawal from
the Republican presidential race offers an
other case in point. When the magazine pub
lisher folded his tent a week ago, he boasted
10 Republican delegates in his column. How
many did McCain have at the time? Only one
more, compared to Bush’s 27 delegates.
You would think that Time or
Newsweek (both of which have run fawning
cover stories on McCain) or some other re
spected news organization would have taken
note of that fact. But apparently they were
too busy building up McCain (and softening
up Bush) to notice.
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WHEN DEMOCRATS left their party
to vote for Ronald Reagan in the 1980 s, they
did so because they truly felt he was the best
man for the presidency. By contrast, the
Democrats who are voting for McCain in this
year’s Republican primaries are doing so not
because they really want him to win the presi
dency, but because they think the longer he
holds on against front-running Bush, the
better the prospect that a Democrat will be
elected president in November.
© 2000 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE
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Joseph Perkins is a columnist for The
San Diego Union-Tribune.
the past three years on a newly
discovered bee¥ component, con
jugated linoleic acid, further sup
ports the healthfulness of beef.
Conjugated linoleic acid has been
shown to have protective prop
erties against heart disease, can
cer and diabetes.
Cook is a member of the Ly
erly First Baptist Church where
she teaches Sunday school and
works with children’s church.
She and her husband, Ralph,
have four children and six grand
children. The Cooks produce
tgattle, soybeans and hay on their
arm.
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Cassidy Alexis Gardner
was chosen as Most
Beautiful, Miss Photo
genic and America’s
Cover Miss in the 16th
Annual Valentine Page
ant at Mt. Ber;y Square
Mall on Sunday, Feb
ruary 27th.
Cassidy will go to the
State Finals in Macon,
Georgia.
Cassidy is the 4 year old
daughter of Jeff and
Carrie Gardner, and
Wendy Brown. ‘
Her grandparents are
Tommy and Cherrie
Gardner, Gary and ‘
Carol Brown, Beverly
Finister and the late
Margaret Gardner.
Cassidy has three broth- \
ers Zachary Gardner,
Justin Broyles and
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