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THE HOGANSVILLE HERALD
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ROBERT E. TRIBBLE, President
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ANGELA BROWN P, O. BOX 426
LAYOUT EDITOR Manchester, GA 31816
Official Legal Orgwt for the City of Hogarm, ille
,000
At the newspaper we
receive letters to the editor
all the time. Some point out
what a bad job we are doing,
some point out what a good
job we are doing, some just
voice an opinion and the list
goes on and on.
Each of you has gotten a
letter I'm sure. Some you like
to read and some you would
rather not. But you still open
them and read them.
Recently, while doing my
Bible study, I was reading
Matthew 28:20. When I'm a
little down or something is
going on in my life, that verse
seems to help lift my spirits.
If you do not know the
verse, a portion of it reads:
"Surely I am with you
always."
As I studied the verse and
cross referenced it, I turned
-- to the Internet as I often do
you were too busy to talk with
me.
I noticed at lunch you
looked aroun " maybe you just
felt embarrassed to talk to me.
You glanced three tables over
and noticed some of your
friends talking to me before
they ate, but you wouldn't.
There was still more time
left, and I hoped that we would
talk. You went home and had
many things to do.
After they were done, you
turned on the TV; just about
In all probability very few arrive early.
of us prepare in advance for One of the most impor-
our weekly worship time. We tant ways to prepare for
get up as late as we can so Sunday worship is to worship
that we can get a little extra God all week long having
rest sometimes because we dally devotion times and
have gone to bed later than reading our Bibles daily. We
usual on Saturday night, also should plan some time to
When we finally get up we worship with our family at
have just enough time to get home and visit the sick dur-
dressed and get to church, ing the week.
Sometimes it is hard for the Finally, we need to
ladies to decide what they remember who it is that we
want to wear so they might areworshippingallweeklong
change clothes a couple of and especially on Sunday. He
times, is the awesome living God
Even if we do get up early who makes Himself known
and have some extra time to us in three Persons, the
some of us spend it watching Father, the Son and the Holy
television or reading the Spirit. We should always
newspaper or our mind is still remember that He loves us
on a problem that needs to be so much that He gave His only
worked out at work. For the begotten Son Jesus to die on
younger couples getting the the cross for our salvation.
children ready to go or the AndwhenJesusleftthisearth
dog settled in so that there He gave us His Spirit to live
won't be a disaster around the within us and to empower us
house when we return can be .to live holy lives as best we
difficult, can.
THERE ARE some sim-
ple things we can do to help
prepare ourselves to be ready
for Sunday School and
Church. We can go to bed
early on Saturday night so
that we can be ready to meet
God on Sunday. When we get
up on Sunday morning we can
listen to television preachers
and study our Sunday School
lesson before leaving in plen-
ty of time so that we wilI
These are some things we
can do to help prepare for
worship and you can proba-
bly add others. Let us all put
them into practice so that we
can know that we have been
in the presence of Almighty
God as we leave our time of
worship and that we have
been blessed to depart on
Sundays ready to serve Him
with all that we are.
A VERY SUCCESSFUL
In 1964 Constance Baker
Motley became the first black
woman to serve in the New
York Senate. She became a
federal judge in 1966 and was
the first black woman to be
appointed to the federal
bench.
A LATE PLUMBER- The
lady answered her front door
LADY- She was born in Newto find a plumber standing
Haven, Connecticut the 9th there. "I am here to fix the
of 12 children and her moth- leaky pipe," he said. "I do not
erwasthefounderoftheNew have a leaky pipe and I did
Haven NAACP. She earned anot call a plumber," the lady
degree in economics from answered.
New York University and a "What?" huffed the
law degree from Columbia plumber, "Aren't you Mrs.
Law School in 1946. In 1945 Snyder?""The Synders move
she became a law clerk for out of here a year ago,"
Thurgood Marshall who wasexplained the lady. "How do
the chief counsel of the you like that," grunted the
NAACP's Legal Defense plumber, "They call you up
fund. and tell you that it is an emer-
Over the next two gency and then move away."
decades she worked on some
of the nation's most impor- PSYCHOLOGY- A sales
rant civil rights cases includ- lady in a candy store always
ing Brown vs Board of had customers lined up wait-
Education of Topeka, which ing while other sales ladies
was the case in which the stood around with nothing to
Supreme Court ruled that do. The owner of the store
segregation in public schools noted how popular she was
was unconstitutional, and asked her what her secret
She worked on a case in was.
Little Rock in 1957 that led "It is easy. The other
President Eisenhower to call ladies scoop up more than a
in federal troops and led the pound of candy and then start
legal charge to win James taking some away. I always
Meredith's entry into the scoop up less than a pound
University of Mississippi in and then add some more to
1962. it."
i these days to see what com- anything goes there and you
ments others might share or spend many hours watching, t •
see if they are getting some- I waited as you continued 1
thing out of a scripture that watching TV and ate your
I'm not. meal but again you wouldn't•
Anyway, the important talk tome The quote used as the title the same emotional issues I well remember that
. ' .-- of this column was spoken by that all of us had, but who had Spock's self-sacrifice scene
thing is as I researched At be.dtime you were totca- Leonard Nimo- in his role as ii in "The Wrath of Khan" actu-
Iy tired. After you said good In one episode Spock ally brought tears to mem-
Matthew 28:20 something y learned to control them.
popped up that caught my n!ght to.your family you "VVOne of my favorite tele- notes his conflicted Vulcan- bers of the theater audience.
attention. The line read: "A ptoppea mto oea ann yeu " ' ms of all time
.t Letter from God."' asleep, l had so much want-, ws ° f:: ra k and I was Human nature and says, "I I recall that fans were
survive because my intelii- :i! stunned at the death of the
Before I opened the win- ed to be part of your day. We a.4. oa o, ah gence ::: -: haracter this despite the
could have had so : week
ei(,e a letter from God ...,n 9I .i rnoy: t. , ]In those few words there th pdck s death had
.... v ....""" I wasa small boy when was and continues to be a les- " :: been leaked before the movie
would it be one of the good together. - - .. Star Trek first aired While son for all of us. series and nerformed was released. In addition, it
ones or one of the bad ones I tore you so much that I " • ' "
I • " y.
wait eve" da" for a thought some of my contemporarms Almost every conflict, be admirabl had already been reported
i But, because my interest was
13' .y jl ,l~ ,
! : peaked, I opened the window "rm erorthanks Well ma" be enjoyed looking backwards it between individuals, Unfortunately, he hadthe character would be
.t:, . 7"" .". viewing the plethora of west- nations, or on an even larger been typecast as Spock. It reprised.
:: and read the letter, tomorrow., u oey wamng:. . erns, others of us were look- scale, is most often caused by would prove to be a charac- Thanks to the Genesis
!! ,, After reading it, Ithought, om' nena, ..._
i::: I would like to share this with emotion. I get angry with you, ter from which he could never Project, Spock did survive
Just a few years after the you get angry with me, the disassociate- and he tried. In andenjoyedmoreadventures
my readers because I'm sure first human was blasted into emotions escalate, andbefore 1978, Nimoy wrote an auto- aboard the starship
many of them would like toTHANK GOODNESS I
read it as well. had said my morning prayer,
!i: So here goes, the letter I had said grace over my
[i from God: meals and the night before I
!:i said my evening prayer. If I
Good morning, had not, can you imagine how
[::: As you got up I watched I would have felt?But then I
and hoped you would talk to thought, I pray but do I lis-
i me. Just a few words, such us ten?
thanking me for something There is a big difference.
good in your life yesterday or If you will notice, in the let-
last week, wou/d do. ter it read, "We could have
But I noticed you were had so much fun and accom-
!
busy selecting the rightplished so much together."
i clothes for work. I waited My focus turned to John
again to hear from you. 10:27 which reads, My sheep
i When you ran around the hear my voice, and I know
house collecting papers, I them, and they follow me;"
knew there would be a fewThat is another column for
minutes to stop and say hello, another day.
o, but you never slowed down. As I focused on my Bible
I wanted to tell you that I study, another thought rushed
could help you accomplishthrough my head. Wonder if
more than you ever dreamed the person God wrote the let,
possible if you would just ter to would call upon him in
spend some of each day with a time of need. Probably so,
me. then I wonder how God might
At one point you waited respond and all I could think
fifteen minutes in a chair with about was Matthew 7:23 that
nothingtodo.Iwaitedtohearreads,"AndthenIwilldeclare
from you. to them, "I never knew you;
• ( Then I saw you spring to depart from Me, you who
your feet; I thought you want- practice lawlessness."
.,, ed to talk to me, but you ran If there is a message to
. to the phone and called a thiscelunmitisasimpleone,
friend. I watchedasofftowork "Take time each day to talk
you went and waited patient- and listen to God and life
ly all day long to hear from might just be a little less bec-
k, you. With all your activities tic and more productive.
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space, and just a few years
after the Cuban Missile Crisis
literally threatened the exis-
tence of humanity, and years
before the first humans
walked on the moon, there
was Star Trek, showing us
worlds beyond our imagina-
tions.
ALL of the major repeat-
ing characters in Star Trek
were human, with the excep-
tion of green-blooded Speck,
who was written as being
half-human and half-Vulcan.
Many Star Trek fans
wanted to be Captain James
Kirk because he was the one
in command. But there was
always a group of Star Trek
fans, myself being one of
them, that truly appreciated
the character of Spock.
Spock, a person who had
long the disagreement
becomes physical.
If we could ever take emo-
tions out of that equation, the
root cause could typically be
addressed.
Spock did that. He was the
calming influence that played
foil to the emotional outbursts
and actions of his human ship-
mates - specifically Captain
Kirk and Dr. Leonard
"Bones" McCoy.
LEONARD NIMOY had a
number of roles before Star
Trek.
Star Trek lasted a mere
three years before being can-
celled by NBC, which might
go to indicate the leadership
of NBC then was just as poor
quality as it is today.
After Star Trek was can-
celed, Nimoy starred in other
biography titled, "I Am Not Enterprise.
Spock" in which he dealt with Unfortunately, Spock/
the issue. Nimoy could not cheat the
Star Trek fans provedeffects of COPD, or Chronic
undeterred and Nimoy Obstructive Pulmonary
reprised the role of Spock in Disease, apparently attrib-
six movies based on the orig- uted to 30 years of smoking.
inal Star Trek series. He So Speck leaves us, fol-
would also appear in other lowing the path already tray-
movies and television pro- eled by DeForest Kelley (Dr.
grams based on Star Trek. McCoy) and James Doohan
Despite having a success- (Chief Engineer
ful career in other aspects of Montgomery Scott).
the television and movie Nimoy, as Spock, showed
industry, along with being a us children - most especial-
writer, singer and photogra- ly boys - that emotion-fueled
pher, Nimoy realized that he confrontation was not the
would forever be closely answer, but that mental dis-
aligned with the character of cipline most often was.
Spock.In1995,hewouldwrite The character of Speck
another tome titled, "I Am will always "live long and
Speck." prosper" at least in our mem-
ories.
"THE NEEDS OF THE
MANY outweigh the ..."
That's my opinion.
............... I1
In the
Hogansville Herald
Compiled by Rob Richardson
• PREPARE TO PAY IT YOURSELF - The top story in
the March 6, 1975 Hogansville Hera/d reflected the
inflationary tone of the times. 'The city council voted
hero Monday night to pass rate increases on gas and
electricity on to their customers effective with the next
billing. The decision to do so followed an explanation
of the rate structures by city manager Adrian Wilborn."
• ,6, GOOD DEAL EMERGES - A local fundraiser was
also worthy of the front page. "Although the economy
is at an alltime high and prices are soaring, a person
can still get a full course dinner at the low price of just
$2 on the special day of Sunday, March 9 when once
again the library science club will be serving a mouth-
watering feast hero as the famous turkey dinner." The
meal would include turkey and dressing, cranberry
sauce, green beans, potato salad, rolls, cake and a
choice of coffee or tea.
• OTHER HEADLINES - "Penny Is Worth a Penny and
No More, Say Officials;" 'Weight Off Wisely Program
in County;" "Future Homemakers Club Has Meeting;"
"Reader Complains;" "Zoning Change Brings Group
Before Commission."
