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PAGE 4 - HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS - OCTOBER 12, 2000
His Old Newnan High Letter Jacket
I found my old high school let- me.
ter jacket the other day. I was "Grizzard is the only person
looking for something else in the who never had a single assist in
back of a closet at my mother's his entire basketball career," an
house and came upon it--blue ex-teammate was telling some-
with off-white leather sleeves and one in my presence. "That's
a block N sewn on the front, because he never passedthe ball."
I had forgotten it even exist- I hit over .300 my senior year
ed. I suppose that years ago when in baseball, but they were all bloop
I graduated from high school, I singles except for one of those
simply cast it aside as I leaped bloopers that rolled in some high
into the more material collegiate weeds in right field. By the time
world, the ball was found, I was around
Why News Gets "I put it up for you and kept the bases for the winning run.
it," my mother said, "in case you "Why don't you take it home
ever wanted it again." with you?" my mother suggested "Enough years have
I played basketball and base- after I had pulled the jacket out passed now that I
In OrDoe Not ballatNewnanHighSchool" Ilet- °f the cl°set" "Maybe y°u'll have probably could lie
• • • S tered in both sports, which is how some children one day and they
I got the jacket in the first place, might like to see it." about my high school
My number, 12, is stitched on one I reminded my mother I was
Each week it is the responsi- of the sleeves. The face of a 41and down three marriages, and athletic, vareeralldget
bility of myself and Rob
Richardson, associate editor, to tiger--our mascot-- is on the the future didn't look that bright away lth most of it."
sort through the news and pho- other, for offspring. But I suppose a
tographs that are received at the Enough years have passed mother can dream.
now that I probably could lie about
newspaper office. There is a great
deal of each to deal with and the my high school athletic career I DID BRING the jacket home
decision of what will run is a dif- and get away with most of it. with me. Alone, up in my bed- stop I ever saw until a ground ball
room, in front of a mirror, I pulled hit a pebble one day and bounced
ficult one to make. I KNOW GUYS who barely it over me for the first time in a up and broke his jaw.
As we begin to sort through made the varsity who've man- long time. Ever hear that haunting song
the news items and photographs, aged to move up to allstate sta- Alot of names came back with "Where Are the Men I Used to
they are put into priority order, tus with the passing of enough the jacket. Clay, John, Buddy, Sport with?" r
That order consists of a number The other problem is pho- years. Russell, Richard, A1. And Dudley They've all got kids, I guess,
of things, but the top pi'iorlty is tographs; we receive many pho- But I'll be honest. I was an and the Hound, who's still look- and their mothers are happy.
try and place news in a timely tographs each week. average athlete, if that. I aver- ing for his first base hit since he It's funny about my jacket. It
manner. Each week we find a Unfortunately, we all know that aged maybe 10 points a game in was 15. still fit wellon my arms and shoul-
number of items that can be held everyone is not a photographer, basketball, and shot the thing on And then there was Wingo, of ders, but I couldn't get it to but-
and a number that can't. I can include myself in that cat- every opportunity that came to course, the best high school short- ton anymore.
Once production begins on the egory.
newspaper, the second factor of Each week we receive a large
news placement begins. Each number of photographs and a
week, the number of pages for decision has to made to either run
the newspaper is determined by the photograph or not run it. The
the amount of advertising sold. largest number of our pho-
Most weeks, we run what most tographs are brought in and are
newspapers refer to as "loose not staff photos.Everything from
pages." Most newspapers try to Polaroids to professional shots
have about a 60 percent ratio of are delivered to the newspaper
advertising and about 40 percent office. Unfortunately, not all the
news content. Lately, we have photographs are good ones and
been running pages that range in can be used. This week for exam-
the 40 to 50 percent advertising pie, we received a number of pho-
range. Unfortunately, the amount tographs that were either out of
of news received at the newspa- focus or of very bed quality.
per office is always more than The decision has to be made
can be placed in the number of if those photographs will reprint
allotted pages. So, a second round in the newspaper or if they are
°feliminati°nbegins'Usually, the not of good enough quality to
first items placed in the newspa- print. Some were not of the qual-
per are the items that did not ity to reprint well in the newspa- -
make the pages the week before, per, so we had to discard those
After that, the dated and timely photographs.
items from the news received are As I said before, we would like
placed, to print everything that is brought
to us. However, many factors
WHILE we would like to run determine what will be printed
every news item we receive in and what will not be printed.
the paper that week, it is an almost These are only a few of the things
impossible task. that determine if a certain item
Almost every week, we have will be printed.
to leave something out of the
newspaper and we regret having WE WANT everyone to con-
to do so. However, we can only tinue to bring us all of their news
run the news we have space for. items and we will print as much
Each week a number of items of it as we possibly can. Please
have to be left out. While we don't bedisappointedifyouritem
understand the importance of is not in the newspaper the week
printing as much news as we can, you bring it in to be printed. If it
we realize we can't print every- is not in the first issue, it will most
thing. I've bad several stories of likely be in the second issue.
my own that did not make the After all, that's why we're
paper. As a matter of fact, I have here, to print the news and we
five stories that have been left want to print as much as possi-
out of the paper recently, ble.
What's Your opinion?
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I guess some
be expected after all
of neglect in the closet.
BY SPECIAL
MENT WITH HIS
DEDRA, THE HOME
CARRYING
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UP IN NEARBY
AND BECAME THE
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ALL AMERICA BUT
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HOGANSVILLE IS
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ESTABLISHED
IN 1996, AND A
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ICATED TO HIS
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FDR's Warm Springs Parties
Parties similar to but much
smaller than the one at Blue
Springs were held on a regular
basis on the Foundation's campus
when the President was at his sec-
ond home. A favorite party site
was the home of the Irwins near
the medical building.
Often there would be only six
or eight at the dinner table -- the
hosts, the President, Grace Tully,
Steve Early, Sissy Ixwd, Leighton
McCarthy and Fred Botts at one
party recalled by Ann Irwin Bray.
She was a pre-teen then, and
observed the goings-on from the
periphery, where she was in
charge of another guest, Fala, the
President's Scottish terrier.
To these parties Roosevelt
always came in his wheelchair. He
would dominate the evening.
He almost always insisted on
mixing the drinks. He preferred
martinis ("four to one," he told
Merriman Smith, the United Press
reporter) according to most of the
evidence, and this may have been
in large part due to the fact that
he could be more theatrical in the
preparation of those than other
cocktails.
HE ALSO SERVED them
often at the White House and the
Little White House, though Hoke
Shipp of the Foundation staff, who
was in charge of supplying the
Little White House, says gin was
not a noticeable big demand item
on the drink list.
He says Roosevelt liked the
wine of the countryside, so to
speak, and kept local fruit brandies
and moonshine along with popu-
lar brands of bourbon and scotch
on hand for himself and his guests.
Moonshine was illegal even
after Repeal. It was unaged corn
whisky made in hidden spots along
the Flint River. One such still was
forever after referred to as
'oosevelt's still," because, accord-
ing to legend at least, he occasion-
ally drove there with a Secret
Service agent to chat and pick up
. the supplies for a party.
This criminal behavior, if it did
indeed occur, was not routine pro-
cedure for stocking the liquor cab-
inet at the Little White House.
More often, the illicit corn was
brought over by a friend like
Henry Toombs, who preferred it
to commercial liquor, as did many
Georgians. This traffic was also
criminal, technically, but the coun-
ty sheriff was not feared, since he
was an occasional supplier to the
President, himself. Or so the local
historians believe.
SOMETIMES THE partying
at Warm Springs was sequential.
It might start early, at the end of
the workday, with cocktails only
at the Little White House, where
Roosevelt, whatever the drink of
the evening, was a real pusher.
("How about another little sippy,"
he would urge friends as he
wheeled among them.)
"Roosevelt liked the
wine of the country-
side, so to speak, and
kept local fruit
brandies and moon-
shine along with popu-
lay brands of bourbon
and scotch on hand for
himself and his
guests,"
Some or all of the group would
then drive the few minutes down
the mountain to the Irwins for din-
ner, singing and listening to
Roosevelt's corny jokes. Mabel
Irwin set down her memories of
one such evening. Harry Hopkins,
head of the Works Project
Administration, was there.
Roosevelt kidded him in the cur-
rent vein of WPA critics, who
insisted that WPA
not work for their pay.
"Harry, did you hear
accident in
"No, sir, Mr.
haven't heard. What
%Yell, one of the
digging
el so long
handle out and he
his back." His face would
at this and other
anything meant to lighten1
-- the smile would
would go his head in that
gerated gesture of mirth, s
would roar, "I love it?
just love it?" But
implored Eddie Cantor o
er occasion to q
jokes on his radio
the jobs
by the victims of
(Next week: Daisy
favorite cook.)
'THE SQUIRE OF
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TAINS ALL OF THE
REPRINTED IN
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SALE ALL GO TO
SEVELT
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Havingthe Right Friends Is E
The other day while reading
in the book of 2.Samuel, I came
across the story of Amnon, a son
of King David. While reading this
account about Amnon, a verse
jumped out at me and reminded
me of a young man I once knew.
The verse was 2 Samuel 13:3, "But
Amnon had a friend, whose name
was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah,
David's brother; and Jonadab was
a very subtil man." The subtil that
is used to describe Amnon's
friend means that he was a clever,
cunning, and crafty fellow. He
was so clever, he helped Amnon
plan and commit a dreadful sin
(not implying there are some Sins
that are not dreadful). This story
of Amnon reminded me of a young
man I became acquainted with in
another town.
I was asked to see this young
man I'll call Eddie. Eddie was in
the county jail and after much
inquiry, the story was told me.
One night Eddie, then eighteen,
and a friend were in a mountain
tavern. During that visit, Eddie's
friend began to have trouble with
someone else in the bar. After a
little while, Eddie became so
drunk, he was put by his friend
in the back seat of the car, passed
out. What was to happen next
would change Eddie's life forev-
er. Eddie's friend and that other
fellow began to fight. Before it
was all over with, the friend had
driven Eddie and the other fellow
to a remote place on that
Tennessee mountain. What took
place next is inconceivable. With
Eddie passed out drunk in the
back seat, Eddie's friend (I'm not
sure of the order) shot and then
tied that other fellow to the
bumper of the car and drug him
back and forth across a three mile
stretch of dirt road. Obviously the
other fellow was kidnapped and
murdered.
To make a long story shorter,
one day when Eddie was twenty-
one, I sat in the courtroom and
heard the judge instruct the jury
as to the applicable laws regard-
ing that particular case. The next
time I sat in that courtroom, I
heard the judge sentence Eddie
to life in prison for felony mur-
der. There are many more things
"Eddie's friend
began to have trouble
with someone else in
the bar..."
that could be related about the
story of Eddie, but as I write this
article several years later, as far
as I know, Eddie is still in a
Tennessee state prison. He is
there all because he was with the
wrong person in the wrong place.
The story of Eddie is a tragic
one, but an even greater
is that not only was one
but three. Eddie and his
have
because of their'
spent in prison. The
all of this is simply,
Amnon, need to
friends wisely.
son, as well as old, has
serious trouble
friendships they made.
ought to know all
the friends their
and help in the choice
friends. It could save
Good friends are
and what a
to have friends that
friends.
ued while bad
be shunned. In this
of sex, drugs, and
should teach our young
value of
understand now
a while when the
world are in prison
enjoying life, they will
and be thankful.
