YOU ARE THERE - December 3, 1980

Five THS students made Honor Roll for Fall Quarter: Sandi Brinson, Ronald Baker, Rodney Wadley, Jill Sammons, and Kregg Ricks.

Ricks reprinted a mule column authored by Gov. Marvin Griffin.

IZOD Lacoste was the "Choice of Champions" according to the Sir Shop ad.

Teen of the Week was Jeanie Morris.

Treutlen Scrapbook photo: Lowrey-Evans house across the street from First Baptist Church.

"Airplane" with Leslie Nielson was playing at Pete's Drive-in.

Rummage Sale at Browns store - furniture, toys, clothes.

Pioneer Day was celebrated at the Nursing Home.

Al Ricks received his diploma from Mr. Driggers. Al was attending college.

Glenn Williams was playing basketball for Brewton Parker.

New Chevys ranged rom $6498 for the Chevelle Malibu to $8263 for the Camaro Z-28 at Peacock Chevrolet.

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YOU ARE THERE - December 3, 1975

Forty-two merit badges were presented to 17 Boy Scouts.  Six of the Scouts advanced to higher rank.

Mike Foskey reported on the Hi-Y Club in a front-page article.

Sixty-two 4-H'ers were honored at the annual banquet.

Mr. and Mrs. Graydon Ware visted their daughter,  Mr. and Mrs. Roy N. Rawlins, and Scott in Valdosta.

The Business and Professional Women's Club (B&PW) met at the home of Mrs. Johnnie Moring.

Baptist and Methodist Choirs of Soperton combined for a Christmas cantata.  Both churches also alternated by live broadcasting of services by WYOK.

Treutlen Scrapbook showed a 1945 class photo of Rosemont School.

The Woods-Todd trial was being prepared in Alamo.  The two black women were charged in the shooting death of white insurance agent Ronnie Horne.

Treutlen boys beat Montgomery, 79-73.

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1985 Thanksgiving - Maurita Ricks's 2nd Grade

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November 27, 1985

How many of these kids can you identify? If you know them, please give us the names (left to right) as a blog comment. Your comment will remain as long as the blog exists on the internet. The names will be searchable on the blog.

Others that week: Lots of Mulberry Bush store photos, basketball, 50th anniversaries - Herbert Morris, Roy Jordan, Sr., Eloise Phillips and Bobby Cammack with $10,000 check.

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1980 Vidalia Tip-Off Tournament

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November 26, 1980

I know it would have cost a lot, but I wish that all gymnasiums had been painted white inside like the one at Vidalia.  Much brighter; pictures clearer.  The cheerleaders were there, as well as the basketball teams.

Others that week: TPS program, Velma Purvis at 70, three-school pageant, retired teachers, Sportsman's Club meeting, three deer photos, Coke Cash Caps, Donna Raiford, Dick Raiford.

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1975 Our Winning Midget Team

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November 26, 1975

The picture was made just before they left for Waynesboro with the trophy from Dublin in front.  Sitting with the trophy are No. 13 Kermit Webb-HB, DB (left) and No. 50 Danny Shepard-T, MG (right).
Row kneeling, left to right: No. 30 Nicky Spikes-HB, No. 23 Tony Hunt-HB, N. 75 Tommy Drawdy-G, MG, No. 83 Tim Habersham-FB, No. 20 Albert Lawson-LB, No. 7 Danny Sweat-MLB, No. 37 Jeff McLendon-E, No. 84 David Renfroe-LB, No. 17 wendell Foskey-QB, DHB, No. 6 Jeff Raiford-DB, No. 26 Johnny Pace-DB, and No. 98 Kirt O'Neal-LB.
Back row: No. 68 Tommy Corbin-T, MLB, No. 45 Scott Braddy-QB, DE, No. 33 Roy Green-FB, OLB, No. 81 David Knight-T, OLB, No. 67 Ronnie Phillips-MLB, No. 5 Vince Wadley-E, No. 46 Marvin Baker-HB, DE, No. 52 Randall Little-G, DT, No. 86 James williams-E, No. 73 Jimmy Foskey-E, No. 80 Mitch Johnson-C, No. 69 Chet Cox-E, No. 40 Jimmy Sharpe-G, DT, and No. 41 Marty Keene-T.
Mark Hall, No. 84-E was not available for the picture.
Yes, they came home with another trophy from Waynesboro.

Others that week: Vidalia Parade's Treutlen entries, TPS program, Mrs. Hardy, Festival Committee on porch of Fowler-Lawton House, Boys Basketball Team, WYOK crew and building, TES kids, THS mirror bought by school newspaper budget.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 27, 1985

Toombs County was number one in attendance at the Million Pines Festival with figures double that of second-place Laurens County.  Treutlen was third, and Emanuel was fourth.  Appling County was 5th, and Jeff Davis County was 6th. Treutlen County accounted for less than 10 percent of the total attendance.

Aetna Insurance Company paid off the $10,000 rain insurance claim to the Festival.  It was the fifth year that the Festival carried rain insurance.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Morris celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jordan, Sr., celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Ricks's column about telephones stated that mobile phones could be bought for $2,000 to $3,000 and operated for $100 to $300 per month.

Mrs. Mamie (George) Ricks, who operated the boarding house for many years, died at age 89.  Her homemade pies were scrumptious!

Former Soperton teacher Blanche Sykes died at age 82.

FFA member of the month was Barry Norris.

Windsor's column: "A man in love is incomplete until he is married.......

    .........Then he is finished." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

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YOU ARE THERE - November 26, 1980

Gilda Ann Driggers, Melissa Byrd, and Sandra Hooks were winners in the three-school pageant.

Who shot J. R.?  These participants in the "Pine Poll" all got the right answer: Shirley Brantley, Virginia Allen, Becky Smith, Edith Vanlandingham, Marsha McDonald, Donna Shurling, and Jackie Heath.  Even 25 years later, many people remember that it was Kristin!

Lauren Shurling was pictured with a 1920 button hook that had belonged to her great grandmother, Mrs. Morris H. Newsome.

Corduroy overalls wer $21 at Katherine's.

"Coal Miners Daughter" was playing at the Brice Cinema.

Hunters with deer: Herbert Hall, Bill Barrett, and Wyman Poole.

Cuba Walker was assigned to student teach at Metter Primary School.

The church page that Mr. Windsor started his first year with the paper had diminished to less than a quarter-page with four sponsors: Mayor Frank Radford, Judge Clayton Stephens, Clerk of Courts R. H. Warnock, and  the J. G. Webbs' Firestone store.

Diane Renfroe was playing basketball for Gordon Junior College.

Faith Tabernacle announced the Glory Land Bazaar for December 6.

Tonya Gillis was the only fifth grade Honor Roll student, and Sheila Fowler was the only one in sixth grade.

Mrs. Loutrelle Edenfield's art students were doing well, as Mrs. Neva Williamson received first place with the Dublin Fine Arts Association, and Curt Wommack was awarded first place in Morganton, NC.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 26, 1975

A report from the Million Pines Festival showed just over $5,000 in gate receipts and estimated attendance of 12,000. Explanation: Children came in free, and so did exhibitors; student tickets were 50 cents, half-price tickets were given for special services.

The Treutlen Midgets were champions of the "Optimist Bowl" in Waynesboro.

Soperton's new radio station WYOK, held its Grand Opening at McArthur Gymnasium. The leading act was Roy Drusky and the Loners.  Also on the program was a singer with a unique voice and referred to as "a rising star in country music". His name is Gene Watson.

For killing deer out of season, and a guilty plea, a hunter was fined $300 and 12 months probation.

Mrs. W. G. Calhoun showed off an old-timey washing machine, which was mostly rollers and framing.  Even the wash tub was extra.

J. W. Rogers, Sr., celebrated his 80th birthday.

Julian B. Rushin of Augusta died at age 62.  He and his family lived in Soperton in the 1950s.  He was a very important employee of Knox Lumber Company, and people still say that he could build anything.  My brother, Dale, and I still have screened boxes for crickets and catalpa worms that he made.

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1985 The Warnocks' Dishrag Gourd Vine

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November 20,1985

Over 60 feet long and growing! Herbert and Jerlene Warnock with a few of the grandchildren at the back fence in Orland.  For further details about the dishrag gourds, read the "You Are There" on this same blog this same week.

Others that week: Lots of pictures at the Mulberry Bush store, TES football banquet, TPS program, Caroline Gillis and Vacation Reading Club, Rhodus Hardy's deer, Craig Williams's deer, kids gathering hen eggs, Nursing Home, and Primary kids.

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With Radiation There Are Doses and More Doses

To paraphrase Ralph Nader: "Unsafe at any Dose"

This photograph of the detonation of an atomic device was made at the Nevada Test Site, but I was not there.

After enough stink was made about the sick and dying children of Utah, hundreds of miles away from the blast, who were exposed to the fallout of radioactive dust and particles, the nuclear testing went underground.

Most people nowadays have quit smoking, but most of us remember it well enough to know what it was like.  In the open air, you hardly ever smelled someone's cigarette.  In a car with the windows closed, it was stifling

Here's the analogy: When nuclear testing went inside, the danger was increased.  If you could smell it, it would have been stifling.  The radiation that once spread to all parts of the planet was contained underground in tunnels, horizontal and vertical.  The people who worked in those places had a greater chance of contracting cancer or other disease than the hundreds of troops who stood nearby as the mushroom clouds formed.

We had secret clearance and were never allowed
 to carry our own cameras except at our tiny
homesite of Mercury, NV. This web image
looks exactly like the tunnel that I worked in
most of the time, a couple miles inside.

I spent hours shooting film inside the underground exploded caverns on days when the ventilation was off and gas masks were necessary.  I never received any notices or records of exposure.  In fact the Army has no records of the time I spent at the Nevada Test Site.  They have all my records from Army Pictorial Center and from Vietnam, but they cannot produce the records of my atomic testing.  There is anecdotal evidence claimed by some that tons of file cabinets full of records at NTS were carried to landfills.  Fortunately I saved some of my records, but never saw any that would document my exposure to radiation.

Not grease paint just light radiation 
not conforming to normal science.
(Sabattier Effect)

The Department of Defense and all of the military puts confidence in the theory that radiation can be quantified in doses, and that human disease can be determined by that dose theory.  You'd think that a photographer, like myself, would accept such science.  It's just like photographic exposure, isn't it.  The more intense the dose of light, or the duration of the light, will cause an increase in film density.  Ahhhh, but you ignore solarization, the Sabattier Effect, in which the cause and effect ignores the rule. Shadows become highlights, and highlights become shadows.

If the dose theory fails in photography, the same can be true in the dose theory of Ionizing Radiation.

Unlike Vietnam Veterans, all two million of them, the radiated vets have served all over the world in every branch of service.  Agent Orange was used in one country.  Most of the American nuclear testing was done at NTS in Nevada, but nuclear reactors and weaponry have been proliferated everywhere. Just about every case is isolated.  Each veteran must fight his own individual battle for justice and compensation. He must face a tangle of red tape to even begin a claim, unknowledgeable bureaucrats that may as easily send him the wrong direction instead of the right one, and finally QTC.  QTC is the largest private provider of government-outsourced occupational health , and injury and disability examination services in the nation. I met one of their doctors in building 25 on Peachtree Street.  He was a quack, and the examination was a farce.

Radiated vets need a class-action team of lawyers.  That was one of the means that finally brought justice to the Vietnam Veteran from exposure to Agent Orange. I'm a life member of NAAV - National Association of Atomic Veterans.  Most of our guys go back to the days of atmospheric nuclear testing, some 60 years ago. Add 18 years, the minimum age of induction, and understand that we're not talking about youth.  I respect those veterans, but I just wish they had worked harder to enlist younger members in their ranks, those servicemen exposed to radiation outside of NTS, starting with the crew of the Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine launched in 1954.  Atmospheric testing at NTS lasted until 1963. NAAV had nine good years to broaden their scope. Today the scope should extend to the victims of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq and beyond.

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1980 Harringtons Honored by Chamber

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Clayton Stephens presented a plaque to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harrington for 40 years of continuous service, 1940-1980, in their five and ten cents store on North Second Street (the 1918 Holmes building).  C. B. Garrett also was honored for 24 years as the Frito-Lay potato chip man.

Others that week:  Frank Radford (Citizen of the Year) and family, officers and directors of the Chamber, Football and Band, Lions Club fried chicken dinner, horse with kids, TPS program, Carol Crowe and Jane Asbell playing checkers, Rayford Price's deer, Glenn Phillips's deer, James Burkett, Nursing Home, Sammie Meeks's store promotion, Lauren in news office, Donna Shurling at banquet.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 20, 1985

Carolyn Renfroe and Dianne Scott caught 145 bream and catfish from an unidentified local farm pond.

Caroline Gillis read 202 books in the Vacation Reading Club.

TES Principal Joe Moore's suggestion was approved by the BOE to change the school mascot from Eagles to Vikings, and the colors from green and gold to red and black.

People were squinting to see Halley's Comet.

Jerry Clower entertained at the state Farm Bureau Convention, attended by Chester Kight, A. D. Joiner, Eddie Young, and C. M. Moseley.

Michael J. Fox was "Teen Wolf" at the New Pal in Vidalia.

Elementary Football players enjoyed their banquet.

Fannie Belle Holton introduced "dish rag gourds" to many Treutlen Countians.  One of the vines at the Herbert Warnock place was over 60 feet long and still growing. After giving away many gourds, 50 big ones remained on the vine.  They're good for washing dishes, pots, and people.  (My vine from Mr. Herbert's seed grew to 35 feet with several gourds.  Wonder if anybody is growing them now, descendants of Miss Fannie Belle's first gourds?)

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1975 Bobby Lee Gillis at 90

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November 19, 1975

Bobby Lee Gillis was one of the oldest living citizens when he turned 90, and he almost made it to 100, dying at the age of 99 in the summer of 1985. He was a son of David Gillis, and the family once lived in the log house, the oldest house in Soperton, that now stands in Jean Gillis Park.  Originally it stood on the high ground of Third Street near the Bill Hall house.  For many years it was in the Peterson swamp with gasoline equipment stored in and around it.  Clayton Stephens made sure it was saved when the Peterson property was sold, as it stood a few years on school property just  east of the Treutlen County Training Center. Mr. Gillis served as County Ordinary, and his interview during his nineties is now a part of local history.  His brother Marvin, lives in Illinois, where he became a noteworthy scientist and industrialist.

Others that week: Football and band, First Baptist Church on Troup Street and Atlanta police and motorcycles during President Ford's visit.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 19, 1980

Retiring Mayor Frank Radford was named Citizen of the Year.

Three new businesses were recognized by the Chamber of Commerce: D'Hue's Discount Foods (Mrs. Dick Raiford), The Mulberry Bush (Mrs. Carlton Warnock), and The Game Room (Harold Cox).

The THS Band won the Class A Division of the East Georgia Marching Festival.

The city discussed buying an additional four acres at the Recreation Center for a swimming pool.

City Council voted to raise the train speed limit from 15 mph to 25 mph, as requested by the railroad.

Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Parrish celebrated their 50th anniversary.

The Lions Club raised $1500 for charity from sales of sausage & biscuit at the festival the annual chicken dinner.

The Vikings lost to state number-one ranked Savannah Country Day, 27-21. The team's other losses for the season were to Class AA Lyons and  Blackshear and to Metter.  It was one of the best 6-4 teams in school history.

Brantley Ricks received the FFA's highest degree, American Farmer, presented at the National Convention.

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Airport Exposure Risks Health and Humiliation

I'm calling on the Atomic Veterans who read my blog to pay special attention to this post.

Since the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has broadened the list of diseases connected to Agent Orange, we need to push ahead to support the apparent links of our exposure to Ionizing Radiation to various diseases.

The radiation danger of airport screening is gradually coming to the forefront of the screening debate.  We need to do all we can to focus attention away from the embarrassment of nakedness to the more important health issues.  To again emphasize to the public that there is no level of radiation that can be considered safe.

Some Atomic Veterans have been fighting the battle for over 60 years, from the time they were first exposed to Ionizing Radiation.  But for others the issue is as brand new as this week's headlines.  For example a story from the Huffington Post, which said in part: "Concerns about privacy and low-level radiation emitted by the machines have led some passengers to refuse screening. Under TSA rules, those who decline must submit to rigorous pat-down inspections that include checks of the inside of travelers' thighs and buttocks. The American Civil Liberties Union has denounced the machines as a "virtual strip search."" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/body-scanners-airports_n_783479.html

Any dose of radiation may produce a delayed health effect. Delayed effects from radiation exposure may occur months, years, or decades later. It is not possible to predict if or when these effects will occur. We know that, and there should be no debate about it.

The late Dr. John W. Gofman knew what we know to be true, and he advocated our position as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.  "Dr. Gofman's exhaustive research led him to conclude that there is NO SAFE DOSE-LEVEL of ionizing radiation.  http://www.rense.com/general41/airporttravelerstoget.htm

Read the Wikipedia article about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gofman and the related article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

Also you will find of interest http://www.whale.to/a/gofman.html  and  http://www.doh.wa.gov/hanford/publications/health/mon2.htm

There are two opposed theories about exposure to Ionizing Radiation.  

One has always had the support of the Department of Energy, the military, the corporations which have been involved with DOE research, the medical industry, and the nuclear power industry.  They all have had a vested financial interest in concluding that low-level radiation is safe.  It's the same attitude as the companies who manufacture the airport screening equipment.

On the other side are the innocents who have nothing to gain except justice and health protection.  DOE set up dose levels of radiation to establish that some levels of exposure are safe.  The years of research by Dr. Gofman and others have concluded that low levels of exposure are dangerous and can be manifested in diseases 20 to 40 years later.

When you hear your friends discussing the privacy issues of airport screening, be sure to tell them about the screening devices that produce Ionizing Radiation.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 19, 1975

The Mighty Eagles finished the season in TES football with 9 wins, 4 losses, and one tie. They had a dinner at Sweat's Barbecue.

R. A. Perry was honored as one of four Georgians to receive the 33rd degree in Masonry.

Region 3-B was realigned with these schools in order by ADA: Adrian- 88, Richmond Hill- 110, Portal- 112, Toombs Central- 118, ECI- 142, Wheeler County- 173, Savannah Country Day- 182, Bryan County- 206, Treutlen- 255, Metter- 267, McIntosh County- 269, Montgomery County- 270, Reidsville- 291.

Clayton Stephens caught a glimpse of President Ford in Atlanta, but Bill Ricks was a block away with his camera. They were in the city to pick up Bill's barely used 1974 Ford Galaxy.

Bobby Lee Gillis, on his 90th birthday, shared a letter from his son, Marvin, who lived in Illinois.  One line read: "You have seen your boyhood farm become the City of Soperton."

The new First Baptist Church on Troup Street was set for dedication.

The Vikings lost to Lyons, 51-6.

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UFO Over Soperton

The unretouched  photo is exactly as it was seen last Saturday evening near sundown.  The view is from the north side of Main Street facing southwest over McLeod's Convenience Store.  We don't know what caused it, but it's not much different from what was depicted in the news last week.

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More Late News on Agent Orange Benefits

VA begins paying benefits for new Agent Orange claims  

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

These initiatives show the VA’s commitment to modernizing its claims process, thereby providing Veterans with faster and more accurate decisions on their applications for benefits.

http://www.ironcountyreporter.com/archives/2010/november/11-10-2010/article05.htm

Agent Orange Claims Will Take Time To Pay

"If the VA’s current plan pans out, they will be issuing disability rating decisions and checks on a weekly basis.

"The VA does not have all the information it needs to rate and process retroactive disability claims, some of which date back 25 years."

http://www.theveteransblog.org/blog/?p=2091

VA offers Agent Orange fast track

Colorado

"VA officials encourage all Vietnam Veterans.....to file a claim now."

http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20101109/NEWS/101109899/1079&ParentProfile=1067 

Ind. veteran may benefit from Agent Orange list

The VA said it expects more than 150,000 veterans to submit Agent Orange claims within the next 12 to 18 months. And there are many more like Burkat, who have submitted claims and are waiting for a decision. 

http://www.necn.com/11/13/10/Ind-veteran-may-benefit-from-Agent-Orang/landing_health.html?&blockID=3&apID=b96dbf4515da4ffe94a45676bae2e646

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1985 Final Game - THS over Jenkins, 13-7

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Another football season draws to a close with a win, so here's a photo of one of the plays.  There are hundreds of negatives of varsity football games in my files, but hardly ever did anyone buy a print. Could that be the reason I hardly ever scan one for posterity?  Just joking.

Others that week Peggy Price's deer, Tommy Gore's deer, Eddie Williams, Jr.'s timber rattler, pageant pictures, Bob Sanford, TES program, Jail renovation and tree removal, H. P. Barwick's big pear, Carol Crowe, TPS kids.

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1980 On Berryhill's Bluff

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November 12, 1980

Left to right: Representative L. L. Pete Phillips, Tri-County RC&D Coordinator Gene Bowers, State Senator Hugh Gillis, DNR Deputy Director Pete McDuffie, and Chairman Jim L. Gillis, Jr. visit Berryhill Bluff overlooking the Oconee River, where a project was beginning to improve boat ramps with rip-rap, toilets, and picnic tables at Pete David Dead River, Highway 46 Bridge, and Clark's Bluff Landing.  After completion, time and vandals destroyed the remarkable improvements. (Negative filed 80 1105, but published Nov. 12, 1980)

Others that week: Scout of the Year Terry Proctor with Mr. Lee, Hi-Y boys with yellow ribbons in honor of hostages in Iran (at election time when Reagan defeated Carter), American Education Week Proclamation, Mike McNair received pilot license, Suzanne Smith, Katherine McLendon, Jackie Heath, Carolyn Heath.

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Bill Ricks of Soperton: This is not a flag-waving article

Bill Ricks of Soperton: This is not a flag-waving article: "10 Hard Truths About War for Veterans Day (and Every Other Day) Click the linkhttp://www.alternet.org/world/148818/10_hard_truths_about_w..."

This is not a flag-waving article

10 Hard Truths About War 

for Veterans Day 

(and Every Other Day) 

Click the link

http://www.alternet.org/world/148818/10_hard_truths_about_war_for_veterans_day_(and_every_other_day)/?page=1 

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1975 Oliver Speaks Farming

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November 12, 1975

I have no idea why I stopped and made a picture of the Oliver sign on the tin building across the street from the Courthouse.  I was always fascinated with the sight of that warehouse of corrugated galvanized metal contrasted with the surrounding buildings of brick.  Maybe I needed it for a Photo Quiz. "Oliver" just speaks farming. Who was the lawyer-turned-farmer in the the TV show "Green Acres"?  That's right, Oliver. How many Olivers can you name who were farmers in Treutlen County?  You can Wiki, as I did, to learn how James Oliver created a better plow in the midwest of the mid-1800s. Want to improve your education?  Ask an old farmer, "What is a number-ten Oliver?"

Others that week: Football, Mrs. Lavada Barwick's late-blooming day lily, FFA National Convention, TES exhibits, midget football team, Dr. Glawson and family.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 13, 1985

Christy Wilkes, Rhonda McLendon, and Jamie Morris were winners in the three-school pageant.

Windsor's column was about the Goat Man showing up in Loos Angeles after a six-week absence.

Ricks cleaned out his office drawer and made a column by writing about each item. 

"Looking Back" - Nov. 15, 1935 - Route 29 from Soperton to Tarrytown was about to be paved - the first road paving ever in Treutlen County.  A bit of street paving was done shortly earlier.

The Seafood Center next to Soperton Ice Plant was open six days a week.

Fried chicken - all you can eat - $1.99 - at J. W.'s Pine City Restaurant.

The Vikings went to Millen and beat Jenkins County, 13-7.

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YOU ARE THERE - November 12, 1980

When city qualifying ended, Frank Radford was not on the ballot. The former mayor had threatened many times over the years to give up his seat, and this time he did.

The two-story, historic, C. D. Williams House was set for destruction after the First Baptist Church sold the building for $1,000. It stood on the lot across the street from the Methodist Church, where the three crosses are in 2010.

Preliminary Census figures showed Treutlen population over 6,000.

Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Ricks wrote about the famous play that made the Bulldogs number one, also about Lindsey's foray to Smutt, Georgia, where he ran off the road the previous July with charges made.  He had other exploits in Athens. (Maybe that's when Ricks began to suspect that the Bulldogs were not number one in every respect.)

Windsor wrote about the popular TV series "Dallas," and the "Pine Poll" asked "Who shot J. R.?"  Most thought it was Dusty.

"50 Years Ago" - Nov. 14, 1930: " The Orianna Boys Basketball team beat Soperton."

Tony Thigpen won the ARC "Grocery Run" raffle.

Since we didn't have Google Maps back then, the newspaper printed instructions to Savannah Country Day.

Pete McDuffie visited Berryhill's Bluff with the Gillis Brothers and "Hard-working Gene Bowers".

William A. Ricks

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Late News on Agent Orange Benefits

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Local veteran may benefit from VA's expanded Agent Orange list 

(Indiana)

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hobart/article_78c12549-1999-5979-8513-793018c06a7c.html

VA begins Agent Orange payments

The American Legion - November 2, 2010

http://www.legion.org/veteransbenefits/92438/va-begins-agent-orange-payments

Paying new Agent Orange claims a complex drill

By Tom Philpott

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VA to pay benefits for new Agent Orange claims

Farm and Dairy

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http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/va-to-pay-benefits-for-new-agent-orange-claims/17361.html

William A. Ricks

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