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June is Beef Month
Dear Editor:
Beef production-the third largest cash crop in Georgia--affects the
livelihood of many Georgians in a number of important ways. Aside from
putting nutritious and delicious meals on our tables, beef production has a
significant, positive economic impact on our state and contributes to our
quality of life.
Because of the importance of the beef industry to Georgia, Governor
Zell Miller has proclaimed June as Beef Month.
With over 25,000 beef producers in Georgia, ranching is not only a way
of life but a business. A business which, in 1993, had over S3OO million
in cash receipts, and added over $2 billion of related activity to Georgia’s
economy.
Everyday 66 million Americans eat beef. With over 24 billion servings
of beef served & year it is our desire as an industry to produce the type of
beef you as a consumer want. Our efforts include continually educating
ourselves on genetics, herd health and feed conversion efficiencies so you
can sit down to a delicious, nutritious beef meal.
Many Americans are in agreement with us that beef is what's for dinner.
Sincerely,
Lane Holton
Vote for His followers
Dear Editor:
Please allow me to address the abortion doctors and the women who do
not want their babies, may they know that God hates what you are doing.
You are murdering His little ones. He tells us in the Holy Bible, "thou
shall not murder." You are working against God's Holy Will, and you
will not escape the judgement that will befall you, and your vast fortunes
built up here will not spend in hell.
Many people are very disturbed over dance halls that are allowing nude
dancing. The environment in which we have today is not what we need to
bring up our children. We voters need to vote for the best men who fear
God rather than vote for the party. Our morals are crumbling and it is
high time for us to stop in our tracks and beg God to help us to straighten
them out or we shall suffer the consequences.
Yours truly,
Geo R. Hunt, Kathleen
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In 1989, construction of the Georgia National Agricenter was captured In this pnotograph.
Now, the center Is a major attraction for tourists to the Perry area, hosting agricultural
events, horse and livestock shows, conventions and, of course, The Georgia National Fair.
STREET TALK:
“No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks ...” Hey, everybody,
school’s out for the summer. This week, we asked six local school children what they
have planned during this year’s upcoming vacation months.
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Crystal Johnson
“Me and my mama are
going to Disney World and
me and my dad might go
to Crystal Lake again.”
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“I’m planning to go
swimming and on vaca
tion with my family.”
Are women really that oppressed?
Forbes Magazine published an
article in its March 14th issue titled
"Gender Politics." It was written
by Peter Brimelow and he used
excerpts from a book written by
Warren Farrell, Ph.D., titled "The
Myth of Male Power."
"If women are oppressed, how
come they live much longer than
men, go to college in greater
numbers and have more attention
paid to their diseases?" Brimelow
asks in his story.
Consider some of these
unpublicized and hard to find facts
that were published in Farrell's
book and used in the Brimelow
story in Forbes.
•Male heads of households have
an average net worth only 72
percent that of women heads of
households.
•Men lived on average one year
less than women in 1920. Today
they live seven years less.
•Men aged 20 to 24 commit
suicide almost 6 times as often as
women in the same age group.
Men over 85 commit suicide more
than 14 times as often as women.
•Men arc less likely than women
to attend college (46 percent versus
54 percent) and less likely to
graduate from college (45 percent
versus 55 percent).
•Men make up more than 95
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"I’m going to St. Simon’s
for a week and North Ge
orgia for a month. Then, I
might go to Six Flags and
camping in Kentucky.”
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Zack Yasin
"I’m going to California to
visit my grandparents.”
percent of the work force in
hazardous occupations such as
construction and trucking.
•Men, not surprisingly, account
for 94 percent of occupational
fatalities each year.
•Men make up 99 percent of the
one million volunteer municipal
firefighters. ("We remember that
heavy-weight champion Mike
Tyson was a man tried for rape,"
says Farrell, "but not that the hotel
in which the jury was sequestered
caught fire and, while saving its
occupants, two firemen died.")
•Men work on average 61 hours
a week, counting work inside and
outside the home; women, 56.
(Yes, women do indeed still do
more housework-bul men do more
workplace work.)
•Men are more likely to die
sooner from every one of the 15
leading causes of death.
•Men and their health arc the
subject of just one medical journal
article for every 23 written about
women.
• Men arc only slightly less
likely to die from prostate cancer
than women trom breast cancer.
But breast cancer research gets 660
percent more money.
•Men and women, according to
14 separate studies comparing t*c
sexes, arc equally likely to initiate-
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Hanna Gentry
"We’re going to the
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"My mama is getting us
tickets to Disney World.”
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domestic violence-at every level of
severity.
•Men are twice as likely as
women to be the victims of violent
crime (even counting rape). Men
are three times as likely to be
murdered.
•Men arc the object of 9 percent
of reported rapes outside a prison
annually.
•Men are the object of up to 1
million rapes in American prisons
annually. About 120,000 women
outside of prison are the object of
rape or attempted rape annually.
Rape in female prisons appears
virtually nil.
•Men convicted of murder are 20
times more likely than women
convicted of murder to receive the
death penally. Since 1954 about
70,000 women have been convicted
of murder; almost 90 percent of
their victims were men. But no
woman has been executed for
murdering only men.
Antiochus walks
the halls of U.S.
justice
On Dec. 7, 167 8.C., Antiochus
IV Epiphanes, ruler of the Greek
Seleucid empire, tore down the altar
in Jerusalem built to God, replacing
it with an altar to Zeus Olympios.
Not content with what he had
done, 10 days later Antiochus
ordered his governor in Jerusalem to
sacrifice a pig on the new altar built
to Zeus. The abomination of deso
lation had occurred.
The temple in Jerusalem was the
most sacred place in Israel. In the
Temple, the Jewish nation found its
identity, even in captivity. That is
why Antiochus took the treasurers
from the Temple, that is why
Antiochus sacrificed the pig in the
Temple.
Just as the Temple was the sign
of the Jewish nation, and Jewish
law, so is the Supreme Court to the
United States.
We have often been described as
a nation of laws, a nation that re
spects and adheres to law. The law
is deeply ingrained in our culture.
And, although the reality is often
different from the ideal, we expect
the ground beneath the justice seat
to be level, with everyone being
held to the same standards.
Just as the people of Israel held
the Temple to be a sacred place,
since God was said to reside there,
so we, also, hold the Supreme
Court as a solemn, almost sacred,
place, since the ideas that form our
nation are brought to life there.
However, in recent years our na
tional leaders have played the role
of Antiochus, repeatedly sacrificing
the swine of politics at the altar of
the Constitution.
The writers of the Constitution
wanted the courts, and particularly
the Supreme Court, to be free of
political ideology, with judges
judging cases solely on the law, not
the prevailing winds of popular
opinion. They knew that for law to
be honored, to be respected, that
law must grounded in the solid
ground of legal precedent, pruned by
judicial restraint.
They, therefore, set up the
Supreme Court with members indi
rectly elected by the people,
through the President, who ap
points, and the Senate, who con
firms. They gave the members of
the Supreme Court lifetime tenure
so that Presidents and Congresses
could not replace them because of
ideological differences.
While Congress and the
President played pork politics, the
Supreme Court was to be held
aloof. But, judicial activism has en
tered the bench, and that threatens
all of us.
I have the fear that President Bill
Clinton is about to enter the sanc
tuary of the Supreme Court and sac
rifice a pig on the altar with his
nomination of Stephen Breyer.
The first time I saw Judge Breyer
was on CNN shortly after Clinton
said he had found his man. Breyer
said, at that time, that he wanted to
make life easier for the middle
class. That scares me. I see the
abomination of desolation in his
remarks.
By what standard does Breyer
want to make middle class lives
easier? Is it a standard rooted in the
shallow sands of popular opinion,
or in the personal ideology of
Breyer? Either is very dangerous.
A judge's role is not to make life
easier. A judge's role, particularly a
judge on the Supreme Court, is
supposed to interpret the law in
light of the Constitution. It is the
role of the other two branches of
government to make lives easier, if
they so choose.
I have heard a lot of talk about
Breyer's moderate stance. However,
the rhetoric that I hear from him
has all the signs of a judge intent
on judicial activism.
I think that we sometimes forget
the importance to Perry of institu
tions like the Supreme Court.
Perhaps, at one time, the doings of
the Washington crowd could have
been overlooked by Perry. But, ju
dicial activists have expanded the
federal government's role to an ex
tent where local and state govern
ments arc losing their sovereignty.
We have to be careful that we
put people on the bench, especially
the federal bench, who respect the
Constitution, and especially the *
federal nature of the Constitution.