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Sometimes when life,
work and the world become
stressful for us, we just need
a good laugh. The past few
weeks, with the holidays and
more, have been kind of
stressful for me and I decid-
ed what I needed was a good
laugh.
Then I thought I'll bet the
folks out there who read my
column need a good laugh too.
So, this column was born
and is just for the purpose of
sharing a good laugh.
I hope you find the things
included in this column as
funny as I did and I hope you
will laugh away some of your
holiday stress.
Let me ask you, how many
stories of outrageous
tragedies have started with
the statement, "Hey guys,
watch this!"?
A friend of mine decided
THINKING ABOUT our
Father brings to mind this lit-
tle joke
On the first day, God cre-
ated the dog and said: "Sit all
day by the door of your house
and bark at anyone who
comes in or walks past. For
this, I will give you a life span
of twenty years."
The dog said: "That's a
long time to be barking. How
about only 10 years and I'll
give you back the other 10?"
After some thought, God
to put up a basketball goal for agreed.
his kids to enjoy. He attached On the second day, God
the goal to his garage. During created the monkey and said:
one of his kid's birthday par- "Entertain people, do tricks,
ties one of the high school and make them laugh. For
basketball players decided to this, I'll give you a 20-year
show off for the kids and life span."
decided to do a quick dribble The monkey said:
and dunk. He screams, "Monkey tricks for 20 years?
"Watch this!" Begins drib- That's a pretty long time to
bling hard toward the goal, perform. How about I give
does a fantastic dunk and you back 10 like thedog did?"
slammed into the garage And once again God
door, luckily only his pride agreed.
was hurt. He got up and said, On the third day, God cre-
"This doesn't have the safe- ated the cow and said: "You
ty offsets like my high must gointothe field with the
school." Well duhl farmer all day long and suf-
fer under the sun, have
BLONDE JOKES really calves, and give milk to sup-
shouldn't exist, not all port the farmer's family. For
blondes are air heads, but you this, I will give you a life span
have to admit the jokes are of 60 years."
funny and here is one that The cow said: "That's kind
might make you giggle a lit- of a tough life you want me
fie: to live for 60 years? How
A young blonde pilot is about 20 years and I'll give
beginning flying lessons and back the other 40 years?"
is in a two-seater airplane And God agreed again.
with just the instructor pilot. On the fourth day, God
He has a heart attack and created man and said: "Eat,
dies. The frantic young sleep, play, marry and enjoy
blonde pilot calls out a May your life. For this, I'll give
Day. "May Day! May Day! you 20 years." But man said:
Help me! Help met My "Only 20 years? Could you
instructor pilot had a heart possibly give me my 20, the
attack and is dead, and I don't 40 the cow gave back, the 10
know how to fly. I'm just the monkey gave back, and
learning to be a pilot. Help the 10 the dog gave back; that
me! Please help me!" makes 80. I think 40 years
She hears a voice coming would be okay?"
over the radio saying: "This "Okay," said God with a
is Air Traffic Control and I snicker, "since you asked for
read you loud and clear. I will it I'll give you the 80 years."
talk you through this and get So that is why the first 20
you back on the ground. I've years we as humans eat,
had a lot of experience with sleep, play and enjoy our-
this kind of problem. Now, selves. For the next 40 years
just take a deep breath, we slave in the sun to support
Everything will be fine! Is our family. For the next 10
the plane flying level? Is the years, we do monkey tricks
instructor pilot strapped in to entertain the grandchil-
his seat? Just give me your dren. And for the last 10
height and position." years, we sit on the front
She says, "I'm 5'4" and I'm porch and bark at everyone.
in the front seat." And that's how life is
(After a long pause she explained through God's cre-
hears) "O.K." says the voice ation. Thank the cow, mon-
on the radio "Now, repeat key and dog.
after me: "Our Father Who There it is, the column
art in Heaven " designed just for laughs.
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Let's Iook today at lawn fler, scraped his knuckles
mowers and see what we can burned his hand on the muf- : i
learn from them. Often the when the wrench slipped,
plaimole ordinary things in: hurt his toe When he kicked
life can teach us something it, called it a stupid piece of :
if we will let them. junk, and was about to use
Lawn mowers must be some Sunday School words /' f il
instruments of God designed on it, he decided it might be
to teach mankind humility! in the best interest of the i :w
There is nothing more aggra- lawn mower and himself if
vating than a lawn mower he just stopped and had a
that will not run right! And, word of prayer.
oh the humility, patience and The preacher dropped to
perseverance we are taught his knees and prayed, "Lord,
while working to fix one of either help me fix this stupid
those rascals. We even learn piece of junk or fix it where
how to pray better while it cannot be fixed! As fate
working on one of those con- would have it he had to go to
traptions, the shed to get another tool
The story is told about a to work on the mower with.
preacher who had abadexpe- As he returned to the front
rience with a lawn mower yard he found his lawn
and what the Lord taught him mower sitting there in
through it. The preacher had flames. He said, "The Lord
an old push mower that was answered my prayer but He
several years old that had also taught me to be careful
been giving him a lot of trou- what I asked for because I
ble. One day he was cutting might get it!"
the grass in the front yard After moving tothe coun-
when it quit running on him try in late 1970, our first rid-
again, ing mower was purchased.
The preacher took a cou- While living in town we cut
pie of wrenches out of his our grass with a push mower
pocket and began working on because the yard was not that
the old mower. After he had large. Both our first and see-
ond riding mowers were pur-
chased used, and we didn't
buy our first new mower
until three or so years ago.
One day in the early
Spring my old mower was
giving me big time problems.
It would run a short distance,
sputter, stop and do all kinds
of crazy things. I worked
hard on it in an effort to patch
it up so the thing would run
some more. I even beat on
the mower in an effort to
make it run but that didn't
work either. Finally, the
mower was carried for
repairs and I found out the
problem was a simple one.
The mower was fixed and
used for several more years.
Let me share with you
four things I learned about
life from my experience with
that old lawn mower.
First, things in life that
we ust attempt to patch up
instead of removing com-
pletely will keep us from run-
ning for the Lord. The Bible
tells us that our sins will find
us out.
Secondly, no matter how
hard you "beat" on someone
you cannot make them run
for the Lord. It takes love,
compassion and understand-
ing to get their attention.
Third, it takes a great
effort to get a person to run
for the Lord who has never
moved in that direction in
years. It takes patience to
lead them there.
Lastly, it is not the obvi-
ous things in life that causes
failure but rather the little
things. Solomon said, "It's the
little foxes that spoil the
vines."
My old lawn mowers
have taught me many things
over the years. There is a
good bet that yours have done
the same for you. Thinkabout
it.
Next week we will look at
the well pump and see what
we can learn from it.
As my career in the corn- I believe the last, final
munity newspaper business bastion of honest journalism
inevitably approaches the is with those who do not pose
day it ends, I cannot help but for cameras and have no
wonder who will pick up the desire to win prestigious
reins, awards. Instead, they work
Once a most trusted pro-to provide you with truth and
fession, today journalists honesty. They do not allow
are being heaped together personal feelings or beliefs
with a few really bad apples to interfere with reporting
that get major exposure,facts, which - admittedly -
NBC news anchor Brian is not always easy.
Williams reported riding in
a helicopter shot down in SOlVIETIMEBACKIwas
Iraq. That won him an talking with a fellow com-
award. Unfortunately it was munity newspaper person,
a lie sharing experiences while
Fox News contributor looking ahead.
Bill O'Reilly reported on Like me, he is concerned
certain experiences during with the future of journal-
the war between England ism especially community
and Argentina. Turned out newspapers. A few years
not to be true. behind me, he might still be
The darling of MSNBC,working when I send in my
Rachel Maddow, appeared final copy.
to deliberately use old, out- He described us as
dated information on which "anachronisms of a bygone
to offer a smear piece and era" and maybe he is cor-
was caught, rect. If so, we will carry that
JaysonBlair, formerly of description as a badge of
The New York Times simply honor as the twin ideals of
created fake news stories honesty and integrity fall by
complete with fake quotes, the wayside.
Then there was Stephen It has been said the
Glass, of the New Republic, immediacy of social media
who wrote fake news for could bring the end of corn-
three years before being munity newspapers.
caught. Perhaps it will, but I think
And on and on. not. As we all know, there is
too much on social media
that is simply not true.
Consider a social media
post I recently read. Person
A is complaining about sub-
standard home repairs made
by Person B. In fact, based
on Person A's diatribe, one.
would never hire Person B
to do any work. But, there
were a number of people
who posted good things
about Person B's character
and work ethic. So who is
correct? Did Person B real-
ly perform crappy work, or
did Person A just have the
proverbial axe to grind?
Without an unbiased person
to report on it, who really
knows?
Then there was the poor
guy accused of being a
"porch pirate". Pictures are
posted of a guy approaching
a door, he looks at a pack-
age, but doesn't take it. Just
walks off and out of surveil-
lance camera range. The
homeowner cannot wait to
post the images to social
media for all to see.
Thankfully, because of a hat
the person's face never actu-
ally shows. Turns out the guy
is actually a resident of the
neighborhood looking for a
mis-delivered package. He
explained the delivery serv-
ice reported his package as
delivered, but it was not at
his door. He went looking
around the neighborhood
trying tO find it. He report-
ed actually finding his pack-
age. Do I believe him? I can
relate having packages mis-
delivered.
On social media, no one
checks sources or their facts
before sharing a post and
once out there, it proves
nearly impossible to correct.
Who will be replacing
us?
I have no idea, but in the
community newspaper
world honesty and integrity
are still important.
That's my opinion.
Andy Kober is a regular
columnist for Trib
Publications. He can be
reached at
andykober@hotmail.com
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From the pages of the J nuary 11, 1979
Edition of the Hogansville Heral
Adrian Wilborn Fired As Hogansville City Manager
Hogansville City Manager Adrian Wilborn was fired as City
Manager January 2 by a 3 to 2 vote by the Hogansville City Council.
The action was taken at the first meeting of the year without fan-
fare while Wilbom was out of town attending the funeral of his moth-
er-in-law in Thomaston,
"It came time to either hire this man as city manager or not hire
him," explained new y e ected mayor Eddie B. Todd. "The majority
voted not to hire him. It was fair by the fact that it was the night it
had to be done, the first meeting of the year," he concluded.
Hogansville city attorney Quillian Baldwin advised the council
that the city charter provides for the city manager to continue to
receive his salary for two months following a sudden dismissal, as
in the case of Wilborn. Baldwin also stated that Wilborn had ten
days in which to appeal the council's decision. When contacted
later Wilbom stated that he had no intentions of appealing.
'q'o be perfectly honest, it was a great relief to hear the news.
I feel like my life has been lengthened by at least ten years by coun-
cil's decision. The pressure on me was so great that I couldn't have
stood it too much longer anyway," Wilburn stated.
No Cause Known For Christmas Eve Fire
A Christmas Eve fire at the Hogansville Uniroyal Plant caused
considerable damage although no official dollar figure has been
issued, stated Uniroyal Plant Manager Bill Bittinger.
The fire was contained to the top floor, which suffered exten-
sive smoke damage, and the fourth floor which received water dam-
age.
The fire was reported by Hogansville Councilman Charles
Jetmore at 9:15 Christmas Eve when he stated he saw a flicker in
one of the top windows. "1 thought it was night watchman with a
flashlight because you could see it for a second and then it was
gone, only to reappear again," he stated. About the same time
Jetmore called in the alarm, the ADT alarm (fire alarm hookup)
sounded in the fire station that is connected to the mill. Ten fire-
men answered the call.
Public Service Commission that would raise the basic home tele-
phone service rate 45 cents a month in Hogansville.
Items compiled by Jack Bagley
Southern Bell Files For Rate Increase (Compiler's note: Items presented here are copied exactly as
Southern Bell today fileo a rate increase request with the Georgia they appeared in the origina/ newspaper pages )
