THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Millard B. Gdn=s, President
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Youth Sports Help
Children Develop
If you are one of those
parents that has a child
involved in youth sports, you
know first hand how much
work is involved. Taking a
child to practice several days
each week, then to games all
the hours spent washing uni-
forms, and so on.
While it can be very frus-
trating and sometimes even
down right tiresome, you
hang in there and in the back
of your mind, it's an outlet for
your children. That's not the
big picture at all.
I coached Little League
baseball and football for a
number of years and even
umpired for a few and I can
tell you first hand, the things
that youth sports teaches
children can not be measured
by how much it cost parents
nor the time they have to
spend at the fields.
Each of you in the work-
place know how important a
team concept in the day-to-
day operations of business.
It's impossible to get any-
thing done if you don't work
as a team. Children learn the
team concept early in youth
would not be a true statement.
Nor, is it true that children
that participate in sports
always turn out to be good lit-
tle boys and girls. However,
I know from personal expe-
rience with my children and
the children I've coached,
overall most children that
participate in youth sports do
well in life.
I've had former players
from my teams that didn't do
so well in life. Just like other
people, they've made some
bad choices, but not many.
So, the rewards for chil-
dren that participate in youth
sports continue throughout
their lives.
I WOULD ALSO like to
point out that sometimes
sports. They know how children have bad experi-
importoJnt it is to do their job • .ences w.hile.parff£cipating h
'on the field and how impor- • • youtl sports, but those inci
tant it is to help their team dents are usually rare.
Sometimes, you will find a
mates.
One of the most impor-
tant thing that youth sports
teaches children is discipline.
A child has to be disciplined
to play their position, no mat-
ter what it is. It also takes a
lot of self discipline to get
called out on strikes, handle
making an error or getting
pulverized by a linebacker.
Self discipline is one of the
most important things in life.
Sports also teach children
the importance of working
hard and working to improve.
Children involved in sports
quickly learn that in order to
hold their own with other chil-
dren on the playing field, they
must improve their abilities.
They also learn that compe-
tition becomes tougher as you
move up in levels of play and
they must reach that level of
competition. So, they are
taught you must work to get
better and you must work
hard to improve your skills.
coach that puts winning
above everything, and when
that happens you have a seri-
ous problem. But, for the
most part, I've found that
youth coaches understand
that youth sports are for
training and development
and try their best to put those
things above winning. Let's
face it, everybody wants to
win. It's human nature to
want to be the best, but a
coach should never put win-
ning above developing the
skills of players and teaching
them the things I've men-
tioned above that they can
use throughout their lifetime.
THE LESSONS learned
by children in youth sports
are lessons they take with
them into life. Usually, chil-
dren that participate in youth
sports do better in school, get
along better with other chil-
dren and do not usually get
into as much trouble as those
that do not participate. Of
course, to say all children that
mrticipate in youth sports
erform better all around
AS THE SEASON comes
to a close for many teams, I
would like to take a moment
to say thank you all the par-
ents for allowing your chil-
dren to participate, to the
coaches for taking your time
to coach, to the players for
being dedicated and to those
that support the youth pro-
grams for caring. It takes all
of you working together to
' make a program successful,
but more importantly, to help
these youth develop into
strong leaders of tomorrow
for our community.
I hope the season was a
good one for each of you and
I hope that each and every-
one of you will be out there
again next season.
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Best Friend and Kathy Sue
Written in 1978
This is a love story, or
what's left of it. It began when
I was in the third grade, and
so was my boyhood friend and
idol Weyman C. Wannamaker
Jr., a great American.
The summer break had
passed, and it was the first
day of the new school year.
We were standing, Weyman
and I, by the playground
swing set where Weyman ran
a thriving porno business.
Weyman's older brother
was in the Navy. He came
home on leave and brought
Weyman a deck of playing
cards with pictures you did-
n't see that often in those
timid times.
For a dime, you got a blind
card draw out of Weyman's
deck, and you didn't have to
give the cara back until lunch
period. Weyman sold out
almost every morning, and
by the time the cards and pic-
tures were too worn for fur-
ther rentals, he had a down
payment on a movie projec-
tor, which is another story.
"THERE'S a new girl in
our class," Arnold Bates
walked up and told us. Arnold,
who was one of Weyman's
best customers, got all the
inside information at school
because his mother taught
sixth grade.
Arnold also wore thick
glasses and got extra dessert
in the lunch room. "Arnold
ain't worth killing" is what
Weyman thought of him.
This time, however,
Weyman was keenly inter-
ested in what Arnold had to
say. I knew that because when
Arnold wouldn't tell him the
new girl's name unless
Weyman rented him his
favorite card for free,
Weyman belted him one.
"Kathy Sue Loudermilk,"
said Arnold, picking himself
up off the playground dirt.
You didn't make deals with
the third grade godfather.
It was love at first sight.
Weyman already had a stable
of grade school lovelies that
even included a fifth-grader,
Margie Roundtree, who wore
lipstick and was talked about
in faculty meetings.
"She's headed for nothing
but trouble," is what Arnold
Bates said his mother heard
the principal say about her.
Weyman simply wanted to be
there when she arrived.
But there was Kathy Sue
Loudermilk.
I had never seen Weyman
act as he did over this new
girl in class. He brought her
candy. He walked her home
from school every day. He
tried to break Arnold Bates'
arm for talking to her during
morning recess. He even
offered her one of his play-
ing cards for half price.
Weyman was delirious with
love.
AS THE YEARS PASSED,
nothing changed. When
Weyman was 16, he bought
his first car, a 1953 Ford. He
covered the backseat with a
chenille bedspread, put shag
carpet on the floorboard, and
hung a pair of foam rubber
dice from the rearview mir-
ror.
It was in this romantic set-
ting that they spent evening
after evening parked in the
pecan grove behind the Lind
Creek Fundamental Back-to-
the-Bible Church.
Nobody knows the real
reason they never married.
Weyman bought a
went into the
ness. Kathy Sue had
filled out her
the time she was out
school. They
sweater when she
Weyman called the
day. I could tell
was wrong.
"Hear about Kathy
he asked.
I hadn't.
'!Ran off and
Weyman said.
"I'm sorry," is all I
think to say.
know?"
"Arnold Bates,"
answered, chokinl
tears. He was sacking
of onions at the time.
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What Is a Real Family In This Day?
Here it comes again. The
family is under attack again.
It seems the enemy is on the
warpath again and his sights
are on the home. Just in the
last Week we have hard
about the decision of Canada
to allow same sex marriages.
For those who will open the
eyes of their understanding,
it is plain to see this is an
a.t0mpt or atan, to corrupt
what littl morality and
decency is left in this coun-
try. While the American fam-
ily clings to a fragile thread
by those who still stand for
the truth, the enemy of the
home is using our neighbors
to the north to "sanction" the
abominable lifestyle they
have chose. Again, this is
nothing more than an attempt
of the devil himself to cor-
rupt that which God calls a
family.
May I submit to you today
that the family, the home is
made up of one man, one
woman, for life, and any chil-
dren that God blesses them
with. One does not have tO
read very far into the word
of God to find this is God's
plan, and a plan that is non-
negotiable. The Bible states
that God created the man
called Adam and then he cre-
ated the woman called Eve.
Then God brought to Adam
his wife Eve and command-
ed them to be fruitful and
multiply.
WITHOUT trying to be
sarcastic, as someone has
already stated, if God intend-
ed for man to be with man,
he would have created Adam
and Steve instead of Adam
and Eve. It is quite impossi-
ble for humans of the same
sex to carry out the com-
mands of God for populating
this earth.
If one continues to read
through the word of God, they
will be confronted with other
scriptures that relate God's
plan for marriage and his
utter disdain for what our
land has deemed an alternate
lifestyle. Old Testament pas-
sages such as Genesis 18-19
and Leviticus 18 and New
Testament passages such as
Romans 1 and 1 Timothy 1
convey in no uncertain terms
the sinful nature of homosex-
uality. Today let the record
state that the introduction
and sanction of such a tray-
esty of the commands of
scripture into our land will
cause our 4and to crumble
from the inside out. A care-
ful study of the fallen world
empires will show that the
beginning of their demise
was the decline and complete
disregard of moral standards.
May I also state that by
speaking out against the sin
of homosexuality, it no way
makes me homophobic, a gay
basher, a hate-monger, or any-
thing else the politically cor-
rect crowd wants to label it.
Just because one the lifestyle
is labeled an abomination, it
doesn't mean that the indi-
vidual is abominable in the
eyes of God. We must under-
stand that it is sin thht sepa-
rates humans from God and
not one in particular. No mat-
ter the sin and no matter how
man labels it, sin is sin and it
was for the sins of
me that Jesus died to
God does not hate
vidual and one of
children m no
bor hatred
anyone. Yes, the
the Gospel is one
demns sin, but it
that shares the love
through the sacrifice
son on the cross of
God hates no '6ne,
Bible says, For
the word, that he
begotten Son..."
says that, "God
his love toward us,
while we were yet
Christ dies for us."
Don't confuse the
Just because one
against sin and error
make them a
fact the opposite is
one fails to stand for thel
and fails to warn of the
Satan is
one is showing a
by the enemy himself.
this world wake up
that Satan "
listen to the truth that
died to save sinners
Paul says,
B •
50 Yea00 Ag
In the
Hogansville
"CELEBRATION:
readiness for a big and glorious
July celebration for the
and surrounding areas one week
Saturday..." The event was
include a parade, a barbecue and
ance by Lt. Gov. Marvin Griffin.
*DANGEROUS TIMES:
Thompson, age 60, some five miles
of Greenville, was killed
about one o'clock when the car he was
ing was struck by a Central of Georgia
near Allie."
JUNE, 1953: Showing at The
Theatre was 'Bride of the Gorilla' with
Chaney, Martin and Lewis in
and 'The Jazz Singer' with Danny
and Peggy Lee.'
*BARGAINS: The Miracle Bam
men's undershirts at four for $1 and
two for $1. Handkerchiefs
12 for $1.00, a far better price than the
for $100' inadvertantly posted in a
week's ad.
*FOOD AND CONTR(
Baldwin's Market continued to mix low I;
ing with feisty banter, noting hey
the old man but they can't stop
advertised 10 ounces of popcorn for
and Tripe for $.24.
