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THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Perspective of
The Newsman
If you talk with anyone
who has made a career of
newspapers, they can tell you
there are many challenges to
the job. To say it takes a spe-
cial person to work in news
would be an understatement.
Newspaper reporters do
not have normal work hours.
A newsperson works when
the news is going on. For
instance, you may start your
day at 8:30 a.m., but you have
a commission meeting that
begins at 7 p.m. So, you work
the full day, then attend the
meeting. It ends at 10 p.m.,
but you still have to write the
story. So, you could end up
working a 12 to 16-hour day.
Honestly, newspaper peo-
ple get used to the long hours
though and it doesn't bother
them like it would most peo-
ple. Unfortunately, the fami-
ly never gets used to it. I can't
tell you how many family
functions I've missed over
the years, like birthday par-
ties or even high school or
Little League baseball games.
Holidays are few and far
between for news .people. The
help her, and I'm honestly try-
ing. One of our reporters has
been assigned to the story and
is working diligently on it.
Unfortunately, it's going to
take him time and while that
is no consolation, at least we
are trying.
As I said, this can be one
of the most frustrating parts
of a newspaper person's job.
The sad part about this
particular case is, in my opin-
ion, is not only did the inves-
tigator not handle the case as
it should have been, and the
attorney not utilize docu-
mentation at his disposal that
could have maybe changed
the outcome, but the judge
made some mistakes in the
courtroom, as well.
Unfortunately; even with
newspaper has to,make the all this the bottomla is, the
iday. a jury. Now, the jhrf cauonly
I could go on and on about
all those things, but often we
forget as news people why
we continue to do this type of
work. It is simply because we
love and enjoy it. We want to
make a difference in the com-
munity. Even though it is
impossible to cover every
event, to make everyone
happy, and even print the per-
fect newspaper, we want to
give the community a news-
paper it can be proud of.
THE HARDEST thing
about being a newspaper per-
son is seeing things in the
community that need chang-
ing, injustice happening or a
simple case of abuse and not
being able to do something
either immediately or at all.
Over the years, I've seen
so many things that I knew
were wrong, needed chang-
ing or were just not right and
was unable to do anything
about it. Not because I didn
want to. Not because the
newspaper didn't want to.
But, because there was sim-
ply nothing that could be done
about it.
Recently I was contacted
by an individual who asked
me to take a look at a court
case. She provided documen-
tation that would jump out at
any attorney, let alone a crim-
inal lawyer. There were
flaws, there were mistakes
in the handling of the inves-
tigation; the list could go on
and on. She was asking me to
make a decision based on the
facts presented to them.
Having served on a jury, I
know this to be true.
So, in effect, the entire
process broke down and it's
possible that an innocent man
was convicted wrongly and
has spent several years
behind bars. Of course, that
remains to be seen. I in no
way want to make an accusa-
tion until I have all the facts.
This is just one example
of the things I'm talking
about. Sometimes, it's easy to
become aggravated, side-
tracked and even confused in
the news business.
THE POINT I'm trying to
make is simply this. While
news people want to cover
everything they possibly can,
help the community as much
as they can, and stay
informed about everything
that is going on in the com-
munity, it can be a hard, chal-
lenging and aggravating
job.
From this newsperson's
point of view, the reason
newspapers exist is to keep
the community informed,
serve the community and
aboveall, help in any way pos-
sible to correct injustice. It's
not easy, sometimes thank-
less, but is a satisfying career.
The bottom line is, I am
very passionate about my job
and would never do anything
else.
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Homemade Biscuits Save Marria
Wr/tten in 1979
Jerry Clower, the funni-
est man alive, does a routine
on one of his records about
biscuits. Jerry says the
absence of homemade bis-
cuits at the American break-
fast table is one reason the
divorce rate is going up.
"Saddest sound in this
world," Jerry once told me,
"is the sound of them little
canned biscuits being popped
open early evah mawning' in
evah house in the neighbor-
hood."
Jerry goes, '%Vhop ! Whopl
Whop!" as an illustration. It's
enough to make a grown man
Cry.
I agree with Jerry Clower.
Give a man a homemade bis-
cuits in the morning, and he'll
come home to you at night.
The Pillsbury Doughboy, with
his dratted canned biscuits,
is a lousy home wrecker.
There was a time, espe-
cially in the South, when the
woman arose early enough in
the morning to prepare home-
made biscuits for her hus-
band and family. It was a sim-
pler time. Before mixed dou-
bles replaced sex.
Women in those days
served plates of piping hot
biscuits. Big, fluffy biscuits.
Cut one open, slap a portion
of butter between the halves
and then cover that with your
choice of jam or jelly.
"A breakfast without bis-
cuits," went a famous saying,
"is like a day without sun-
shine."
But what, if anything,
endures? The last homemade
biscuit I saw was in a muse-
um behind a glass case.
It is time, women of
America, to come to your
senses. Halt the alarming
increase in the divorce rate!
Bring the homemade biscuit
back to your breakfast table!
We can all work together! You
make 'em, we'tl eat 'em. What
could be more fair?
I MUST INSIST on tak-
ing a hard line on this matter.
An woman within the range
of this column who subse-
quently serves her family
canned biscuits for breakfast
in anything but an extreme
emergency is a brazen hussy
who smokes filterless ciga-
rettes, drinks beer from a can
and doesn't shave her legs.
I called the editor of a
famous cookbook, A Taste of
Georgia, for help. She lives
in Newnan and later this
month, she is taking her book
to the White House to pres-
ent a copy to Rosalyn Carter.
A Taste of Georgia is in
homes all over the country,
including Alaska, where the
Eskimos are now eating grits
with their whale blubber. The
book contains thousands of
Deep South recipes, includ-
ing some for biscuits.
The editor of A Taste of
• Georgia is Mrs. White. Mrs.
John N. White. Martha White.
I swear.
"It's not that hard to make
biscuits in the morning," said
Martha White. "It's just that
it takes a lot of time. Most
women these days simply
don't want to spend that much
time in the kitchen in the
morning when there are so
many other options open to
them."
Like watching
"Donahue"? Like playing in
the Wednesday morning
running for political
Like marching on
plant?
I LOOKED in A
Georgia for a biscuit r
One is for "Angel
You need flour,
soda, salt baking
sugar, shortening,
butter milk. Cook for !
utes. Sounds divine.
And one more
ingredient most
The last woman to
cuits for me in the
was a lady I
years. I can
ing her, '%Vhat
biscuits so good?"
'%ove son," she
"I put in lots of love."
Homemade
breakfast, ladies?
once? And soon?
He'll taste the
promise.
BY SPECIAL
NEWS IS CARRYING
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BY MORELAND,
MOST WIDELY READ
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Remember: Golden Rule Is Still
Go back to the days of
your childhood and try to
remember those early
Sunday school days. Go back
to those days of summer vaca-
tion bible school. Remember
the Bible stories, the games,
the crafts, the grape popsi-
cles, and the skits. I can
remember some of those
, days. I guess my generation
can ythat,thOse were the
good old days. In thinking
about those days, I can
remember in Bible school and
in Sunday school being taught
the golden rule.
We as children were
taught to do unto others as we
would have them do unto us.
The golden rule is found
specifically in Matthew 7:12
which says, " Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them: for this
is the law and the prophets."
Although times have
changed, society has
changed, people have
changed, and practices have
changed, the principles of the
word of God have not
changed. Truly the golden
rule is still golden.
I wonder ff today's gener-
ation had that rule instilled
in them as previous genera-
tions, if we would see the vio-
lence we see today in our
land? We hear the horror sto-
ries of school shootings, we
hear of the accounts of bul-
lies in our schools, and many
times we wonder what has
happened to our young peo-
ple. But my question is :
Where are the parents?
Where are the parents who
were raised their children in
church?
WHERE ARE the parents
that stood behind the teacher
when the teacher used disci-
plined the student at school?
Where are the parents that
taught their children the gold-
en rule. I admit that despite
the best efforts of some of the
parents. There are some
young people who still get into
major trouble. However,
compare the problems of
today with the problems of
yesterday, and we can see the
vast difference. Why?
I feel like the reason we
have such clicks in school.,
such acts of bullying, and
such incidents of revenge is
because we have forsaken the
biblical principle that men
have referred to as the gold-
en rule. May we be also
reminded that a lot our young
people have not only forsak-
en the golden rule, but we as
adults have done the same.
We have been so engrossed
in a self-preserving society
that we have forgotten about
the other guy. On our roads
common couresty is almost a
thing of the past.
There are those who still
will let a driver in the line of
traffic, there are those who
will stop at a light and leave
the entrance to a business or
side street open, and there
are those who will still use
their turn signal, but we also
read and hear of road rage
and general discourtesies. In
stories acts of kindness are
fading, in grocery stores, and
even in some churches there
are those who only care for
self. Although the New
Testament may be approach-
ing 2000 years old, the gold-
en rule is still golden.
IF A PERSON
carefully consider
Matthew says in his
he would find there
aspects to the
There is a positive
there is a negative
negative side says that
not to do things unto
that we do not want
us. There is a positive J
the rule. We are to
what we would
us. We are not
harm others,
and show acts of
The Bible says in
18:24 "A man that
friends must shew
friendly." The
will reap what we
Someone has said it
"What goes around
around." King
in Ecclesiastes,
bread upon the
thou shalt find it after J
days.
Today, why not
concerted effort
to be unkind
extra special
someone an
even ff they are unldndt
just because the
golden.
50 Years
In the
Hogansville
Pmdecamatothe
*BUSY WEEK - There was
hard news in Hogansville in 1953.
page stories included •"Lightning
Down Chimney,' '24 Men Leave
Induction,' 'Four Injured in
Collision' and 'Col. Willie Johnson
While Fishing.' Also on th
ture of )ageant contestants in a
labeled 'Truckload of Beauty' and
piece about Mr. and Mrs. Whitley
returning from a honeymoon trip
included stops in Cuba, among
places.
• CINEMA- Playing at the
were such epics
Condor'with Cornel Wilde, 'The Kid
Amarillo' with Smiley
and Barbara Stanwyck in 'All I Desire.
Royal was also taking part in a
in which two Donald Duck l
boxes of silverware would be
• IN STORE Hogansville's
Gallant was offering girls
$2.95 value, at half price;
for $3.97 and men's sport shirts for
$1.59' or two for $3, saving 18
, Redmon Furniture was trying to
ticket items by offering a free
to purchasers of the $239.95
Agitator Automatic Washer.
• WANT AD STANDOUTS: A
bedroom apartment, for rent at
week.
