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THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Millard B. Gflrne, President
MIKE HALE
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JOHN KUTKEXDALL
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JA':NE GOLDSTON
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Stop Smoking?
You Can Do it
I'm celebrating an
anniversary. Although I find
it hard to believe myself, on
November I I was smoke free
for one year.
While I would like to say
I quit simply because I want-
ed to, that would not be the
truth.
The reason I quit was
because I was diagnosed with
chronic obstructive pul-
monary disease (COPD). I
wanted to quit, but it took
being diagnosed with the dis-
ease to make me quit.
COPD is the fourth lead-
ing cause of death in the
United States of America and
kills more than 112,000 peo-
ple each year, according to
the American Lung
Association.
The disease restricts the
flow of air out of the lungs. If
there is too much "used" air
in the lungs, there's not
enough room for oxygen-rich
air to enter.
The two biggest com-
plaints I have from the dis-
ease is this.
I have shortness of breath
alot.
Some days are worse than
ot00ers.
I've also noticed a big dif-
ference in my voice.
I have always loved to
sing and now can't very well
because I can't get the air out
of lungs enough to do so.
Sometimes, I have pain and
feel kind of congested.
Unfortunately, I can't get rid
of it. I simply have to wait
until I feel better.
The reason I'm saying all
of this is to remind smokers
that cigarettes kill. Smoking
kills nearly 400,000
Americans each year.
That's about 1,000 persons
a day.
However, if you quit now,
before you contract some
lung disease, you can have the
same chance for a long,
healthy life as a non smoker•
We all know that smoking
CaUSeS cancer.
The links between ciga-
rettes and cancers of the oral
cavity, esophagus, lungs, pan-
creas, stomach, cervix, and
blatters are indisputable.
Smoking may even cause
brain damage. There is a
strong link between smoking
and strokes.
Tobacco use is the nmjor
risk factor for heart and blood
vessels diseases as well as
other problems such as res-
piratory infections and stom-
ach ulcers.
Smoking also messes up
your body chemistry. It
decreased the vitamin C lev-
els in your blood. Vitamin C,
"I had to stop the
old fashioned way:
just quiL I won't say
itwas easy to do, but
you want to quit
yOU CarL"
among other things, protects
you against carcinogens,
boosts immunity, and helps
prevent heart disease.
Smoking increases choles-
terol and it's estimated that
every cigarette smoked rais-
es the cholesterol level by a
half point.
These are just a few of the
reasons to quit.
I think everyone should
quit because I can tell you I
feel better, have more ener-
gy and above all, will get to
spend more time with my
family and friends by not
dying off so soon.
There are many items on
the market today that will
help people quit•
Unfortunately, I was not able
to use any of the products I'm
about to tell you about.
I had to stop the old fash-
ioned way: just quit.
I won't say it was easy to
do, but ff you want to quit you
earl.
Nicotine patches, gums,
inhalers or sprays, coupled
with the prescription smok-
ing cessation drug Zyban,
have been, successful in help-
patients quick smoking,
rding toa 1998 study pub-
lish'¢d in the New England
Jourral of Medicine. Your
doctorcan help tailor a pro-
gram tliat will be most effec-
tive for you.
If you are a reader of
mine, and want to quit smok-
ing, i'n be glad to help you as
much as I can.
Just give me a call and I'll
tell you some of the things I
did to help me quit.
And don't worry, I won't
preach to you about smoking
or why you should quit.
I'll only share with you
someofthe things that helped
me to quit.
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PAGE 4 - HOGANSVIH00 HOME NEWS - Nov. 8, 2001
Lizards Need Some Love, Too
(WRITTEN IN 1986) today, my dear," but it always es of love! Never hold back
hung there in my throat caus- when your are filled with the
It's been more than 20 ing me to cough on her. magic of romance! If nothing
years, but I've never forgot- I wrote love poems to her else works try a tube of
ten the pretty, blond girl who and sonnets and even a dirty Clearasi!
sat next to me in a class I had limerick in a wild, lustful Lizards need love, too.
at the University of Georgia. moment. But I never showed Take it fromone who has been
She worelovely sweaters, them to her. I figured if I did, there.
The only days I didn't notice she would call campus secu-
her lovely hair and her love- rity.
ly eyes were the days she I suppose the real reason BY SPECIAL ARRANGE-
wore her lovely sweaters. Inevermadeanysortofmove MENT WITH HIS WIDOW,
I wanted to speak to her, on the girl of my boyish I was a lizard, and I knew it, DEDRA, THE HOME NEWS IS
to ask her out• I wanted to dreams, however, was that I and I figured she did too• CARRYING SO
take her to the Alps Road was realistic• But the point of all this: COLUMNSBYTHELATELEWIS
Drive-in Theater in my 1958 I was no day at the beach While I was in the hospital GRmZARD, WHO GREW UP IN
red and white Chevrolet. when I was in college, if you recently I received a get-well NEARBY MORELAND, AND
"Lovely sweater you are knowwhatlmeamTherterm card from this very same girl, BECAME THE MOST WIDELY
wearing this evening, my for individuals such as me in now a grown woman of READ GEORGIA WRITER OF
dear," I would say, looking those days was "lizard." course. HIS TIME. GRIZZARD
deeply into her lovely eyes, I had short hair and big She said some very sweet BELONGED TO ALL AMERICA
stroking her lovely hair. ears. I wore glasses. I had a things in the card. She said BUT HE PARTIY
She would grab me as her large pimple on my nose that she enjoyed reading what I BELONGED TO THIS AREA OF
passion soared out of control struck when I was a sopho- write. She even said she GEORGIA, OF WHICH HE
andwewouldspendtheentire more in high school. I didn't remembered sitting next to WROTE SO OFTEN, AND
double feature kissing go awayuntil I hadbeen mar- me in class. I never thought WHERE A PORTION OF I-SS
squarely upon each others tied a year and my wife make she even knew I was anve. FROM NEWNAN TO
mouth, which is about as far me go to the doctor and have I was happyto getthecard HOGANSVII2 IS NAMED IN
aspassionwasallowedtosoar it surgically removed, even though it was 20 years HIS HONOR. THE LEV
back then. My pants always seemed too late. But I also felt a cer- GRIZZARD MUSEUM WAS
to be too short when I was in tainamount of remorse. Dang ESTABLISHED IN MORELAND
BUT I was shy. I never college. That would come in my hesitancy. Dang my tim- IN 1996, AND A WRITING AND
asked her out, not to the Alps handy had there been cam- itdity. Dang my big ears. EDITING LAB IS BEING DEDI-
Road Drive-in Theater, not pus floods, I suppose, but all I won't allow it to go any CATEDTOHISMEMORYATHIS
even to the Varsity for a dou- it really managed to do was further than the card, of BELOVED UNIVERSITY OF
ble steak sandwich with extra expose the fact that I hadn't course. She's probaby mar- GEORGIA.GRIZZARWS BOOKS
onions and pickles, yet gotten the word white ried with kids -- and, any- AND TAPES ARE STILL AVAIl,
I tried my best to speak socks were out. way, they tore down the Alps ABLE FOR SALE THROUGH
to her, but nothing would Road Drive-in Theater. BAD BOOT PRODUCTIONS, P.O.
come out. I wanted to whis- I NEVER ASKED the But let this be a lesson to BOX 191266, ATLANTA, GA
per to her in class, "Lovely pretty, blond girl who sat next the young and foolish. 31118.1266 AND AT BOOK AND
sweater you're wearing to me out on a date because Give in to the mad rush- MUSICSTORFNATIONWIDE.
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Stirring Memories As Time Goes By
During the recent ing from pier 42, Elliott Bay, Tony Dorsett and Pittsburgh.
American League Seattle, Washington. When we came through
Championship Series Duringa four monthperi- Mobile, there, as big as Ike,
between Soame and New odoftime, we operated in the was the Alabama, the very
York, I had the opportunity inlets of Puget Sound doing same ship we had helped
to catch glimpses of the Puget ferry duty for Navy person- decommission some 3O years
Sound area around Seattle nel. earlier. Memories of bygone
that brought back fond mem- We had a ball! all craft days flashed before my eyes.
ories: ................. like my latest assignment I found out that'fluen -
When the war ended in wasn't as regulation as my tial politicians had pulled the
August of 1945, our aircraft first assignment, strings to have this big ship
carrier was on anti subma- The officers and enlisted brought to Mobile where it
rine patrol in the Philippine men in our ship's company of was converted into a nation-
Sea. We were ordered to the sometwentysailorswerejust pier 91 with orders to trans- al shrine. I could hardly
Tokyo Bay area where we waiting to be discharged. We port personnel from the ship believe what I was seeing.
participated in air coverage were marking time! I just to nearby Bremerton, a naval Now some 25 years after
for the signing of the peace, wanted to get back to Athens base where these men would our trip to New Orleans and
While these were exciting in time to enroll at University eitherbedischargedfromthe 55 years after my experi-
times, it didn't compare with of Georgia for fall quarter. Navy or reassigned, ences in Seattle, my memorY
what was in store for those One of the more interest- Little did I realize when was jogged again. It was nice
of us that were too young for ing assignments we had in we pulled away from the big seeing the area I roamed i
discharge at the time. Seattle was participating in battle wagon that day, I would my youth including my expe-
Since I was only 19 years the decommissioning of the see this "Pride of the Fleet" rience withthe USS Alabama.
old and not married, we took battleship USS Alabama in ship again some 30 years Come to think of it, it
our ship to the Puget Sound early summer of 1946. later, would be a good trip today to
area for decommissioning. I Pursuant to orders, we In 1976 our family was on drive to Montgomery and
was assigned to a LCI, a small left our home dock one morn- our way to New Orleans and head south on 1-65 and stir up
landing craft vessel operat- ing and proceeded to Seattle's the Sugar Bowl game against more good, old memories.
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'Amazing Grace' Truer Than
At the beginning of the country, but as a pastor, I long picked them up. Thirdly we
athletic contests of our coun- to see the day when the find in this story that grace
try, someone stands to sing church takes that much pride is God giving undeserving
the national anthem. The in Christ. May the words to sinners. David restored to
singer belts out the words, "O Amazing Grace fillthe hearts
Mephibosheth all that per-
say can you see, by the dawn's of Christians like The Star- tained to his grandfather,
early light..." To a lot of Spangled Banner and God Saul. Just as Mephibosheth
Americans, that song brings Bless America has filled the was blessed because of his
chills to their spine, tears to hearts of Americans. relationship to Saurs son
theireyes, pridetotheirheart Many may not under- Jonathon, we are blessed
and a lump to their throat, stand why a song has such an based on our relationship to
This anthem reveals much of effect on people. To those that unmerited favor. Truly the God's son, Jesus. All that we
this nation's history spirit, would doubt the value of such love of God is undeserved and have is because of Jesus and
and pride. Not only does the a song, they need only look at unearned by those of us who his sacrifice on the cross of
United States have an anthem the grace of God to under- inhabit the eartb, but God"so Calvary. Lastly, we find graCe
that describes her, so does the stand why that old song occu- loved the world that he gave is God keeping unworthy shq"
church of the living God. pies the place it does in the his only begotten son that ners. Mephibosheth was
Probably the most recog- hearts of millions of people, whosoever believeth in him given a permanent seat at the
nized hymn in the world is In order to find the true mean- should not perish." Next in king's table. To those saved
Amazing Grace. The song ing of grace, onesimplyneeds this story, we find grace is by the grace of God, they are
Amazing Grace ought to do to go to the Bible. In 2 Samuel God lifting unable sinners, kept by the grace of God.
for the child of God what the 9, God's Word records an Mephibosheth was lame and The next time you hear
national anthem does for the event in the life of King David unable to get to the king, so the word grace and some dear
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proud American. There are that is a beautiful illustration the king brought old samt of God gets"happY,
those when that old hymn is of Grace:The synopsis of the Mephibosheth to himself, you must remember
sung in church that their story is simple, but the mean- What a picture of grace, man Mephibosheth. When you
hearts swell, the tears flow, ing is profound. In short, could not get to God, so God realize that grace is God lo€"
and the mind tries to imag- David seeks out a family came to where man was and ing unlovely sinners, lifting
ine what it must have been member from King Saul's brought unable humans to unable sinners, giving unde"
like to stand on Calvary's hill house that he may show the himself. David said in Psalm serving sinners, and keepi.
and see the Savior shed his graceofGod.Theonehefinds 40, "He brought me up also unworthy sinners, you m
ust
life's blood for a lost world, is a lame man named out of a horrible pit..." God agree withthe songthat saYS,
In this day and hour in Mephibosheth. This young not only reached down for "There is no other word for
which we live, there has been man has been lame on his feet fallen humanity, but he grace but amazing."
• a revival of patriotism. It is since he was five years old.
a thrill to see the flags way- David sends for this man,
ing from cars, buildings and brings him to the palace and we/co,e your/gtter$.
even mailboxes. As the flag gives him a place at the king's
proudly flies, this revival of table. Thi is a wonderful Please mail them to:
patriotism is evident by the illustration of grace.
refreshing almost silent cry According to the late Dr The Hogansville Home News
of those who promote that Harold Sightler there are
God has no place in govern- four things in this story that P.O. Box 426 * Hogamvil Georgia 30230
ment: (God ordain civil relate to us the grace of God. Please fax them to:
government Romans 13.) As He says first that grace is God
an American it is wonderful loving unlovely sinners. The 7002206
to see that kind of pride in our Bible's definition of grace is
