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Wednesday, September 7,1994, Houston Times-Journal
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Editorials
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Your opinion
Johnson needs promotion
Editor:
I would like to congratulate and commend Sgt. Willie B. Johnson of the
Perry Police Dept, for patrolling some of the more secluded unlit areas of
the business community of Perry, and catching three thieves in the act of
stealing mobile home axles and wheels.
This is the example a sergeant should be setting for his troops.
This is exactly the protection and service the business community wants
and deserves.
He should be promoted to Captain right away and put over the Patrol
Division.
Thanks, Willie B.
Pete Griffin
Perry, Ga.
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Society Editor, from the Houston
Home Journal’s files.)
50 Years Ago
♦Legal Blank Forms - Blank
Mortgages, Bills of Sale,
Promissory Notes, Retail Title
Notes, and various Other Forms for
sale at Home Journal Office.
♦Belter Home Town Contest
Underway, sponsored by the
Georgia Power Co. subject “Five
Ways to Make My Community
Better”, in which a total of $5,200
in War Bonds will be awarded to 60
contest winners. the purpose of
the contest is to obtain ideas from
as many Georgia citizens as
possible on the subject of the
improvement of home towns. Each
community will be encouraged to
make such civic improvements as
will promote better living
conditions and economic
opportunities.
An important objective of the
program is the creation of additional
jobs so that the postwar period will
not bring a migration from Georgia
of former soldiers and war workers
seeking opportunities in other
states. Essays will not exceed 100
words and may be enteral in adult
and children’s divisions. Awards
will be given at county and state
August meetings bring back fond memories
“August” meetings have come to
a close as summer begins to give
way to fall, the kids get back in
school and vacations come to an
end for most folks, until another
year rolls around.
Most of you have either been to
your church homecomings,
anniversaries, pastor’s appreciation
days or other special events, these
are what the old folks call August
meetings. They usually pack the
church to the bream for that day to
hear good preaching, good music
and good food.
All the August meetings will
have “dinner on the grounds”
following the service and delicious
food is always in abundance,
especially the sweet stuff. Many of
the meetings will feature good old
gospel singing after dinner and the
country churches will ring with
song and music.
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Fair offers new, exciting features
Last year more than 150 million
people attended more than 3,200
fairs in the United States and
Canada. Fairs strive to attain new
and varied activities for their
respective patrons each year. This
year’s Georgia National Fair is no
different. The following is a partial
review of “What’s New” at this
year’s sth Anniversary Georgia
National Fair.
•’’Fair Bear” mascot.
•’’Tower within a Tower”
souvenir booth under the Clock
Tower; Fair and Agricenter items
on sale.
•Reithoffer Calliope at North
Gate with benches.
•Motorcycles of Distinction
exhibit.
•Fine Arts display in Roquemore
Conference Center.
•Welliver’s Carriage shop
exhibit.
•Elephant rides (from Royal
Hanneford Circus).
•’’Rhett Butler” and “Scarlett
O’Hara” look-a-likes, OCT. 7 AND
8 ONLY.
•New Daily Free Entertainment:
5-H Ranch Petting Zoo (exotic
animals); Dan Barth’s Medicine
Show; Zeek and the Model A
Hillbilly Car; Pro-Bot; Brad
Bodary; Mime; and Wild Ones:
rollerblade, skateboard, and bicycle
spectacular.
•Reaves Arena Concerts: Lome
Morgan with special guest Collin
Raye, Oct. 8; and an evening with
Billy Ray Cyrus, Oct. 15.
•Alltel Entertainment Stage Free
Entertainment: Coasters (Charlie
Brown’s Tribute), The Vogues, and
The Waycross Express.
•Pace Car from Atlanta Motor
Speedway on display.
•Miniature Horse Show, Oct. 10
and 11.
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25 Years Ago
♦ Sports Column begins in
Houston Home Journal this week
on the Sports Page.
♦ Telephone Co. in new office.
♦ Retail Sales rise by 14% in
Houston County in the second
quarter of 1969 over the figures for
the same period in 1968.
♦ 1 lb., 11-oz-baby bom here;
still living at 13 days.
As newspaper folks we regularly
get invitatiofls to the “August”
meetings, homecomings, etc. In
fact there was a time when most
every Sunday during July and
August could have easily been
spent at a “dinner on the grounds.”
Over the past 30 years my family
has probably graced the tables at
well over half the churches in the
Tri-County area. I could name
most of them, but the list would be
too long. We have enjoyed good
fellowship, good food, and good
singing at every place we have
visited.
Last Sunday Frances and I
attended the one-hundredth
anniversary of the Fairview
Methodist Church near Lavonia
where I was raised (some English
teachers prefer reared). My brother
and his family were present as well
as a third cousin who still lives in
Agricenter
Executive Director |
•Draft Horse and Mule Show,
Oct. 12-13. Demonstration for
school field trips, Oct. 12-13.
•’’The Wool Story” exhibit with
spinning and weaving.
•’The Dairy Story” exhibit, Oct.
10 to 15.
•Junior Shepherd’s Lead Class
split from adults, Oct. 7.
•Professional Cake Decorating
competition sponsored by Dixie
Crystals, Sugar, Oct. 9.
•Cooking with Pork competition
sponsored by Georgia Pork
Producers, Oct. 12.
•Hobbies Department “Trash to
Treasures”: items made from
recycled plastics, fabrics, paper,
glass, metal and wood.
•Fair Bear Creative Writing
competition.
• Smokey Bear Collectibles
competition.
• Smokey Bear’s 50th
Anniversary observed by Georgia
Forestry Commission in Heritage
Hall. Harry Rossoll, Smokey artist
from Atlanta, will draw Smokey for
children, Oct. 8.
•’’Landscapes in Action” FFA
competition. Winning landscape
design will be executed at Fair in
Heritage Hall.
•Honey Bee exhibit greatly
expanded to educate fairgoers on
importance of bees to Georgia
agriculture.
•4-H Variety Show moved to
Alltel Entertainment Stage. Will
allow more people to see this youth
Remember when?
A look back at events from Perry's past
10 Years Ago
♦Local youth need more
activities than tennis or little
league, City Council told by Perry
City Councilman, Jim Hendrix.
He suggested a bowling alley and
putt-putt golf Councilman Ralph
Gentry said that the addition of new
activities would not only keep
youngsters busy and off the streets,
but may also encourage businesses
to locate within the city.
Houston Times-Journal
Lavonia.
There was nothing spectacular
about this event. In fact it fit right
into .the pattern of “August”
meetings; good fellowship, good
food, good preaching and good
singing. And let me tell those of
you who don’t know already, I am
not a Methodist and never have
been, not that there would be
anything wrong with it.
As we sat in the nine year old
church building, I noticed on the
wall the number of those present
for the past two Sundays. Nine
were present the Sunday before and
13 the Sunday before that.
Probably 150 were present for the
anniversary, coming from many
miles away. The old church
building burned in 1985 when
struck by lightning.
Great-grandfather McWhorter and
his bride are buried in the old
competition.
•’’Farming, Then and Now”
exhibit includes Centennial Farms
on one side contrasted by modem
fanning.
•Railroad crossing safety
program, “Georgia Operation
Lifesavcr”, in Heritage Hall.
•Georgia D.A.R.E. speedboat on
display.
•Boy Scouts of America locator
service in Heritage Hall.
•Kroger food stores present
“Food for a Family of Four for a
Year” exhibit.
•Jay Reakirt Blacksmith
demonstrations.
•Lots of new food items and
speciality booths all over
Fairgrounds.
•Georgia Living Center Artists
in-Residence: Anthony A. Brown,
watercolor, acrylic; Bruce C.
McCain, Woodcarver; Joseph
Favreau, blacksmith; Middle
Georgia Woodcarvers; Annie
Green, “paints” with yam; Atlanta
Woodcarvers; David West, stained
glass; Lola Robuck Josey,
watercolor; Mildred Nix Huie, oil;
Jim Davis, pottery; Jim Mitchell,
pottery; Scott Wiederholt,
wildfowl carver.
I should note the above list is in
no way all inclusive and many
favorites such as the racing pigs,
Grandpa Cratchet, livestock and
horse competitions, the Reithoffer
Midway, the Royal Hanneford
Circus, arts and crafts, commercial
exhibits and much more will be
returning to this year’s Georgia
National Fair, October 7 through
16. There’s much to see and do at
the Fair. I encourage everyone to
make plans to attend this year’s
special sth Anniversary
Celebration.
5 Years Ago
♦Religious clubs slated for BOE
discussion. Houston County Board
of Education will discuss the effects
of the court decision to eliminate
all types of formal prayer before
football games at the regular
scheduled board meeting Tuesday.
♦ Carl Pierce won the Perry
Country Club Championship with
a total of 140.
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cemetery at Fairview, as well as
other kin. When on visits places
such as this the mind attempts to
carry us back through the years into
what seems to be past eternity.
When my brother, sister and I
grew up in Lavonia we had as many
black friends as white. Back in
those days the word discrimination
had hardly been invented. We ate at
the tables of our black friends
because we wanted to. We spent
many hours playing and working
with them because we wanted to.
Please see TRIBBLE, Page 5A
| »4 Veto I
Roley
. T/j/t/r Staff Writer I
One seven
times worse
comes calling
Jesus looked at his followers,
and addressed them on changing
their lives.
A man sweeps out his house. In
doing so, he runs off a demon from
the house. But, he replaces the de
mon with nothing. Several days
later the demon comes back and
finds the house empty. He returns
to the house with seven demons
worse than the first.
The Pilgrims came to America
looking for a place where they
could practice their religion free
from the harassment of the Church
of England. In America, they
thought they had found the perfect
land, a land big enough that all, ex
cept the native populations, could
worship God as they pleased.
And so America was built as a
Christian nation, even though from
time to time we have had severe
disagreements on what exactly that
meant.
We knew from the first moment
we were founded, from the first
moment European man stepped foot
on this land and planted colonies
that we were a land blessed. We
were to be the land that God would
use to lead the world back to him,
we would the city on the hill, the
new Israel.
And for years, we strived, as a
nation, to fit into the mold of the
New Israel, conquering first the
Canaan of the Western frontier,
then the Canaan of a trade empire.
But, somewhere, somehow
along the way, the nation lost its
faith. Somehow along the way, we
stopped believing in the Christian
God.
Like that man who Jesus said
swept out his house of a demon, we
swept out our national house
Christianity. Some areas, especially
rural areas, have held on to the
Christian God; but, the nation, as a
whole, is what is as post-Christian.
As a Christian, I believe in
Christ; and, although I, by my ac
tions, do not always show that be
lief, I believe Christianity is the
best moral code available, both to
the individual and a nation. I say
this to make this point—this is not
about the validity of Christianity.
We have, as a nation, swept the
belief systems that we developed
under Christianity out. And, like
the man who swept the demons out
in Jesus' parable, we have not re
placed the former belief system
with anything else.
Perhaps five-ten years ago, this
would not have meant much in a
community like Perry. But, just
last week the fruits of this action
turned up in Perry when the Perry
Police Department made a major
drug bust.
More and more what is wrong
with the nation is making its way
into our city, a city that has, for the
most part, not rejected the old
Christian system. However, the in
fluences of the nation which has fil
ters down in popular entertainment
and culture. And, the rural areas,
such as Perry, are beginning to
look like the more urban areas in
the late 50s and 60s.
As that happens, the young lose.
faith and embrace the national ni
hilism so prevalent in our society.
What is wrong with America?
After we swept our belief system
out, we put nothing in its place.
Please see ROLEY, Page 5A
