HoG:xsvmi£ tI_',I: NEWS - MaRc. 29, 2001 PA(}; 5
Miss Bessie V. Brown
March 4, 1913 - March 19, 2001
|(t(;ANSVILI - Miss Bessie V. Brown, 88, of Hogansville, died
}h 19 at the home of her great-niece in Hogansville. The funer-
vice was conducted March 23 at Antioch Baptist Church in
SVille. The Reverend Wesley Boatman, Mr. Roy Wright, and
"evm Wegienka officiated and interment was in Ramah Baptist
Jh Cemetery in Palmetto.
lbearers were Kevin Wegienka, Kerry Wegienka, Keith
e and nka. Charlie Wright, Brett Chapman, Greg Bailey, and George
(-h ;, ¢s Brown was born March 4, 1913 in Coweta County, daugh-
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wittle t tett Brown of Livermore, California. and special great-nieces,
Kim Shirah, Mrs. Amy Chapman, Mrs. Renea Bailey, and Mrs.
rnUe Bonner, all of Hogansville.
few me Claude A McKibben and Sons Funeral Home of Hogansville
charge of arrangements.
L00'00GN C.E. Stevenson
November 11, 1903 - March 26, 2001
SSEE, FLORIDA - C.E. Stevenson, 97, of Tallahassee,
and a former resident of 11ogansville, died March 26 at
Hospital in Tallahassee. The funeral sern'ice was conduct-
the graveside in Myrtle Hill Cemete' in Hogansville,
the Reverend John Mark Carpenter officiating.
It. Stex enson was born November I1, 1903 in Hogansville, son
late Edward and Luta Forbus Stevenson. He received an AB.
from Oglethorpe UniversitL an M.A. degree from Peabody
',ge, and pursued post graduate studies at the University of
Duke University, and the University of Minnesota. An
in the Naval PreFlight Program during V¢orld War I1, Mr.
was a teacher, principal, and superintendent in the public
)Is of Georgia for 17 years and served as Director of Guidance
:iate Professor of Psycholog3" at North Georgia College
years, retfl-ing in 1966.
Stevenson was involved in church and civic activities, hav-
a member of Lions and Kiwanis clubs, and having served
Jeacon, Sunday School teacher, and church clerk. He lived in
from 1980 until making his home in Tallahassee in 1992,
member of the First Baptist Church of Hogansville.
include a daughter and son-in-law, Gwendolyn and
Norris; granddaughter, Linda Avant; two great-grandchil-
, Lauren a
Avant and Dale Avant, all of Tallahassee; and several
s and nephews.
rr he Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home of
Hogansville
charge of arrangements.
Session Finally Over
The 2001 session of the
Georgia General Assembly ended
at midnight, Wednesday, March
21, 2(K)l, in a circus-like atmos-
phere. A Democrat
Representative dehberately fili-
bustered so that no vote could be
taken on the video poker bill.
(Reportedly, he has significant
investments in video poker
machines.) Welcome to the
Georgia General Assembly. It will
long be remembered as the ses-
sion that changed the flag. Also
there were modest accomplish-
merits of the session not previ-
ously repeated such as creation
of the State Road and Toll Way
Authority to significantly accel-
erate the developmental highway
system which includes US 27 pri-
marily in the less populous areas
of the state. The Governor
received his first legislative set-
back when his idea of raising the
driving age in metro Atlanta
failed.
Unfortunately, I failed to get
enough votes for my amendment
to allow Troup County to enter
the Metropolitan North Georgia
Water Planning District (MNG-
WPD) by a majority vote of the
proposed members vs. The deci-
sion of the Director who is also
the Director of the EPD for the
state. Some of us feel that neither
he nor the Governor want Troup
County in this because of the
activist role that we have played
so effectively in the Tri State
Compact and the federal lawsuit.
I also lost my amendment in re
prioritizing supply so that it would
not be considered until later. We
are convinced that the Governor
and most of the eighteen counties
first and foremost want to con-
tinue to supply increasing
amounts of water to metro
Atlanta. In my opinion, this should
not be done until they correct
water pollution, air pollution and
the movement of traffic caused
by uncontrolled growth.
Last Friday I was listening to
National Public Radio and heard
an interview with Lt. Governor
Mark Taylor. He was talking
about the $800,000,000 we will
spend to construct more class-
rooms primarily to achieve small-
er class size. He indicated that
once this is completed the "results
will jump off the charts." This is
either the biggest selling job for
a massive expenditure or one of
the more naive comments I've
herd in regard to public educa-
tion. Hopefully most of us would
agree that until we get responsi-
ble parents in much greater num-
bers, better curriculum, increase
the competence of mediocre
teachers, students who exercise
personal responsibility by being
drug and alcohol free, and sexu-
ally pure students who strive for
excellence,we can spend all of the
money we want on smaller class
sizes and the results will not
improve much. The 2001 session
did little to help in these areas.
The 2001 legislative session
may be remembered for what we
did not do. We read of 200,000 cus-
tomers facing the threat of their
natural gas service being cut off
because they couldn't afford the
high bills. The legislature did lit-
tle despite a bill to remove the
sales tax on natural gas and
propane that died in committee.
Speaking of tax relief, with a bil-
lion dollar surplus we gave very
little of it back to the taxpayers.
One exception was a continuing
parade of sales tax exemptions.
While I'm all for less taxes, the
problem is that these exemptions
only put a greater burden on the
rest of us because government
spending continues to go up.
People are poor for many rea-
sons. One of these is that they get
involved with 'paycheck advance'
loans, title pawns and loans from
predatory lenders, etc. Also,
video poker victimizes them, but
ironically, the legislator who
killed the bill has a dispropor-
tionate number of poor con-
stituents. While these unfair acts
cry out for legislative relief, noth-
ing of significance came out of
this session.
An innocent bill to add Latinos
to the definition of minorities may
be harbinger of a pendulum shift
in public policy by the legislature.
Already quotas, set aside and cer-
tain affirmative action plans have
been ruled unconstitutional. Now
there appears to be a movement
to move to more of a perform-
ance basis for all regardless of
race. Cynthia "Fucker, the black
editor of the Atlanta Constitution,
said: "If African-Americans are
to continue progressing forward
in the nation's economic main-
stream, we need to start looking
forward too...the heyday of black
civil rights is over. It's time to let
it go." I concur.
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