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- THURSDAY, AUG.
3,2006
THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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JOHN KUYKENDALL
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LAURm LEWIS
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ROB RICHARDSON
/~SSOCIATE EDITOR
ANDY KOBER
ASSISTANT EDITOR
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Hogansville, Georgia 30230
I had many compliments
on my column written a cou-
ple weeks ago about dealing
with changes in my life. I
would like to take the time
to thank everyone that
called, stopped by the office,
and dropped me aline telling
me how much it meant to
them. I must admit, it was
probably one of the most
moving columns I've writ-
ten this year and that is
because it came from the
heart. I'm really glad that it
touched my readers,
because I'm not sure if it
reached the people I really
wanted it to for they have
not acknowledged reading
the column at all.
What I did not say how-
ever in that column was how
difficult a time I really had
dealing with the changes. It
was hard because of being
on an emotional roller coast-
er. One minute I would be a
little depressed, the next I
would be angry, and so on
and so forth.
The toughest problem to
overcome was the anger
issue. I would really get
angry sometimes, even
though I tried extremely
hard not to. Anger is not a
good emotion, trust me.
The depression was
somewhat easy to deal with,
my doctor prescribed med-
ication for that. Anger how-
ever is a different thing all
together. There is no magic
medication or spell or any-
thing else .you can purchase
or produce to help you get
rid of anger.
Ironically, the answer to
getting rid of the anger was
right there all along, I just
wasn't looking. But, I did
eventually find it.
SUNDAY OF last week,
I was at home by myself late
in the evening and to say it
had been a rough day would
be putting it mildly. I settled
down to watch a little televi-
sion, but really couldn't con-
centrate on it or anything
else for that matter.
Always finding comfort
in my Bible and prayer, I
decided to turn off the boob
tube and do a little reading
of God's word.
Funny, I guess the good
Lord knows just when to
touch us. I flipped open my
Bible in no particular fash-
ion and just begin to read.
Imagine my surprise when
the story about Christ at the
Jerusalem temple was right
there on the page in front of
me.
Reading the story I real-
ized that Jesus was no
stranger to anger either.
There were times in his life
when he reacted with anger,
most often at injustice.
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However, there I was read-
ing about the most famous
incident when Jesus over-
turned the tables of the
money changers in the tern-
pie.
I realized in that moment
that if Christ could become
angry, it was definitely easy
for men, like myself, to do
s0. i dO understand howev-
'er, that Christ loved peace
and was not one to approve
of violence. And he trusted
God to bring about justice in
his own time. Even when the
hour of his death neared and
Roman soldiers pursued
him, Jesus instructed his dis-
ciples: "Put your sword in its
place, for all who take the
sword will perish by the
sword." In the Beatitudes,
Jesus preached, "Blessed
are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the chil-
dren bfGod.
AS I STUDIED more and
more, it became clear to me
just how right Christ was to
trust God to deal with and
distribute justice ff any was
needed. I went to bed that
night knowing it was alright
and perfectly human to get
angry sometimes as long as
we do not resort to violence
as retaliation. I also learned
that it is better to pray that
God will take your anger
away and to pray for the per-
son that made you angry.
THE NEXT morning, I
awoke in a better spirit.
There was a way to put the
issue behind me, but it meant
again having to allow myself
to suffer some while the
other party could have what
they wanted. It was a tough
thing to do, but I put my pride
behind me, did the Christian
thing, and said I'll do what-
ever it takes to settle this
issue and put it all behind
me.
Ironically, since then I
feel much better because I
know that I've done the right
thing, I've turned it all over
to God for him to deal with,
and above all, I've taken my
life back.
I also know that many
prayers have been sent up
on my behalf and I would like
to say thank you to everyone
that took the time to pray.
It's really true that old cliche,
"Prayer really does change
things."
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I would take my page lay-
outs home with me on Friday
afternoon. I would have a list
of every football game in the
country and the time they
were to be played. I would
also have a list of whatever
else would be taking place on
Saturday. The Hawks were in
Poughkeepsie for an exhibi-
tion game with the Celtics. It
was game three of the World
Series. And God knows what
else.
After dinner, I would go
into my bedroom, where I also
had a desk. I would lay out
each page and check off each
game or event until I had a
place for it all in the Sunday
section.
But it was never that easy.
A lot of things could happen.
I will list a few of them:
*Furman Bisher would
get carried away and write
30 inches when I had esti-
mated he would write only 25.
Cut Bisher and you die. I'd
have to figure out a way to
get his entire story in.
* Something odd would
happen at a Tech game. I had
to find room for that, too.
* I would have Alabama-
Tennessee on page eight, but
Tennessee would pull off an
astounding upset, and I would
have to move it on to page
one.
* A plane would crash.
That happened to me. I was
about through with the next-
to-last edition when .they
called me in the composing
room to tell me the plane ear-
rying Marshall University
football team was down, and
a lot of people were dead. That
had to be the lead story in the
section.
I lowered the eight-col-
umn sports masthead and
ordered an eight-column, 60-
point headline to cover a
crash story that would run
across the top of the page,
five lines deep, and then jump
to another page.
That meant everything
else on the page had to be low-
ered. I jumped more of
Bisher's Georgia story and
Outlar's Tech story and
Minter's piece from the
Alabama-Tennessee game,
and I cut the feet off the play-
ers in the photograph in the
middle of thepage. Somehow
it all fit and, with the excep-
tion of footless football play-
ers, looked as though I had
planned it that way in the first
place.
* The World Series would
get rained out.
* I would block out a ver-
tical spot for a photo to go
with the Georgia sidebars. All
photographs from the
Georgia game would be hor-
izontal.
* Some pro bowle : at the
Little Rock Open would bowl
a perfect game. Normally, I
would put the results of the
Little Rock Open bowling
tournament in agate type
(very small type) under the
final results of some car race.
But somebody bowling a per-
fect game is news, so I'd have
to find a spot for it.
* A story coming in over
the Western Union telex
would catch fire.
Some of the most excit-
ing times I can remember
growing up in the Athens
area were my visits to my
cousins, who lived in rural
Jackson County, some nine
miles from the nearest paved
highway.
My cousins lived in the
house that my mother and
her brother grew up in. There
was no electricity and not
even a battery radio until I
was a big boy.
I remember the first
radio my mother purchased
when I was about 10 years
old. The depression was
beginning to lift. We never
missed this luxury item when
we would visit our cousins in
the New Harmony commu-
nity though. There were
more exciting things to do
than listen to the radio, like
playing Fox and Hound.
EARLY IN THE morning
we would drive the cows to
the big pasture about one
mile behind the old home
place in the woods. When I
say drive, I mean we escort-
ed the cows on foot, each cow
was Wearing a cow bell
around it's neck so it would
not get lost. About an hour or
so before sundown, it was our
job to go back to the big pas-
ture and drive the cows back
to the barn for milking.
My cousins would put on
a show at milking time when
they would shoot streams of
milk into the gaping mouths
of the half-dozen or so cats
waiting. They always had to
be careful my uncle did no.t
catch them squirting the cats
with milk, though.
My brother Bobby and I
never developed into good
milkers, but our other' broth-
er, Gene, was as good as I'd
ever seen. This led our moth-
er. to buy us a cow at home.
SOME OF qUR rural
friends would ride the fami-
ly work mules on Sunday, but
neither my uncle or grand-
father would allow this. They
would say our mules had to
work six days a week and
they were entitled to rest on
Sunday.
Automobiles in those
days were called cars and
h~,*,*
THEY NEVER men-
tioned any of this in journal-
ism school.
The Constitution's veter-
an Charlie Roberts was in
Baton Rouge one Saturday
for the LSU-Ole Miss game.
I had it across the top of page
two. It was a night game being
played in a Central time zone,
which meant I could expect
to have Roberts's story about
,10 minutes before deadline.
I wrote the headline ahead
of time. I wrote "OLE MISS
STOPS LSU." The good thing
about headlines is the words
can be separated by a print-
er. If Ole Miss won, then fine.
If LSU won, all I had to do is"
tell the printer to move "LSU"
where "Ole Miss" had been
and vice versa. "LSU STOPS
OLE MISS."
I had the headline set. I
had to close at 12:15 a.m. At
12, I called the office from
the composing room.
"Got Robert's top yet?" I
asked.
"Any minute," said the'
desk.
Five minutes passed. No
top.
Somehow I felt if I went
up to the office and stood by
the telex machine and prayed
hard enough, Robert's top
would come to me.
The minute I got back to
the office, I saw the machine
had already started.
"Get me the first para-
graph off and run it down by
hand," I said. I started back
to the composing room. I
would make it. Just make it.
But then something caught
my eye. It was the Western
Union telex machine that was
typing Robert's top. There
was something odd about the
machine. There was smoke
coming out of it.
I broke for the machine.
By the time I made the six
steps to it, I saw a flame. A
flame! The Western Union
machine was on fire; and
Charlie Robert's top was in
there!
I never did find out what
caused the fire. Some sort of
electrical short, I suppose.
But I do know that I reached
down among the flames, with
complete disregard for my
personal safety, pulled the
paper away and saved it.
to be continued next
week
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could be heard from a long
way as they traveled. I can
remember my uncle asking
my aunt, 'VCho passed by the
big road about two hours
before sundown?" She could
always tell by either sight or
sound.
I HAVE SAID there were
no modern utility services in "
the 30s, but this Jackson
County area did have tele-
phone service. Most cus-
tomers kept their telephones
even during the depression.
This was a multi-party
line. All the women on the
party line would pick up on
the party line after the noon
meal and have a chat. If an
emergency arose, the caller
would ask that the line be
cleared for emergency.
One summer night while
visiting our cousins, the
young people would enter-
tain themselves and the,old
folks by pretondfng to:be
politicians running for pub-
lic office. Before we went to
bed the grown folks would
hold an election. We had a
great time.
SOME OF THE promises
made by us children includ-
ed paving all roads to Athens
and Commerce, even paving
cotton middles to prevent
,grass in cotton. Other prom-
rses included air condition-
ing in all churches and
schools, and provide most
conveniences to the public.
During the afternoon,
especially during the electri-
cal storms of summer, the
entire family would assem-
ble in the storm pit which was
dug from a steep bank off the
public road.
This was a great social
hour for us children. We
looked forward to the all
clear signal from our uncle,
but we always had something
exciting to do.
In the
Hogansville Herald
Predecessor to the Hogansville Home News
Compiled by Rob Richardson
.BASEBALL INVASION- The top stow in the Aug. 2, 1956
Hogansville Heraldwas about a district Little League Tournament.
"A horde of pint-sized baseball lovers, accompanied by hun-
dreds of their devoted followers, invaded Hogansville this week
and put on an exciting demonstration of skill in the national past-
time to hang up one of the finest records in Little League tour-
nament play of the year." The highly-awaited conclusion would
be a showdown between the Hogansville All-Stars and the Griffin
Americans.
*THE APATHETIC AND THE POWERFUL -Another frontpage
story was about the low voter turnout in the passage of a hos-
pital bond issue. "All but 183 of Hogansville's registered voters
were conspicuously absent yesterday as the hospital bond issue
come to a decision. 152 of the 183 votes cast obligated the total
population of the city to accept the additional tax burden to
finance the proposed new addition to the city-county hospital to
the tune of $170,000." Results were not in for the county as a
whole, but the "same refrain" was being heard and the bond
was expected to pass.
TRUE FAMILY TREE - A front page photo showed R.M. Ware
"Head of the Ware clan," standing next to a tree hehad plant-
ed 60 years prior in 1896. Visible behind him was a house built
by his grandfather in 1836.
CINEMA TIME - Movies showing at the Royal Theatre includ-
ed Screaming Eagles, Fury at Gunsight Pass, Outpost in
Morocco, Two Years Before the Mast, Toy Tiger, The Leather
Saint and The Revolt of Mamie Stover.
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