Photos and More Photos

There are other photos of the Soperton railroad depot before it was renovated into a city hall in 1973. (The open house was September that year.) The unique thing about this snapshot is that it also captures a moment in local history, February 10, 1973, when everybody woke to see the biggest snow ever seen previously or since in the area.

Believe it or not, the photo was made from a black and white negative. Imagine that!

FEBRUARY 1977 FOURTH WEEK

The Elementary School Football League held a banquet at the community house. The top photo shows the 8,9,and 10 year olds coached by Wayne Sumner, Wade Clark, Gerald Smith, and Gene Bowers.

The bottom photo shows the 11 and 12 year olds team coached by S. D. Hanson and Tommy Cullens.

Check snopes.com before using

I don't have time to research all the uses of WD-40, but snopes is always helpful and very quick. Check it out below:


http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/wd-40.asp

USES FOR WD-40

There's a lot of useless stuff on the internet, but somebody sent me something useful. Try them at your own risk, as I haven't had enough time to try them all:

WD-40
Everybody needs to know this.
I had a neighbor who had bought a new pickup. I got up very early one Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray painted red all around the sides of this beige truck (for some unknown reason). I went over, woke him up,and told him the bad news. He was very upset and was trying to figure out what to do - probably nothing until Monday morning, since nothing was open. Another neighbor came out and told him to get his WD-40 and clean it off. It removed the unwanted paint beautifully and did not harm his paint job that was on the truck. I'm impressed! WD-40
Water Displacement #40. The product began from a search for a rust preventative solvent and degreaser to protect missile parts. WD-40 wascreated in 1953 by three technicians at the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes from the project that was to find a "water displacement" compound. They were successful with the fortieth formulation, thus WD-40. The Corvair Company bought it in bulk to protect their atlas missile parts.
Ken East (one of the original founders) says there is nothing in WD-40 that would hurt you.
When you read the "shower door" part, try it. It's the first thing that has ever cleaned that spotty shower door. If yours is plastic, it works just as well as glass. It's a miracle!
1.. Then try it on your stovetop... Voila! It's now shinier than it's ever been. You'll be amazed.
2.. Here are some of the uses:
3.. Protects silver from tarnishing.
4.. Removes road tar and grime from cars.
5.. Cleans and lubricates gui tar strings.
6.. Gives floors that 'just-waxed' sheen without making it slippery.
7.. Keeps flies off cows.
8.. Restores and cleans chalkboards.
9.. Removes lipstick stains.
10.. Loosens stubborn zippers.
11.. Untangles jewelry chains.
12.. Removes stains from stainless steel sinks.
13.. Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill.
14.. Keeps ceramic/terra cotta garden pots from oxidizing.
15.. Removes tomato stains from clothing.
16.. Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots.
17.. Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors.
18.. Keeps scissors working smoothly.
19.. Lubricates noisy door hinges on vehicles and doors in homes.
20.. Gives a children's play gym slide a shine for a super fast slide.
21.. Lubricates gear shift and mower deck lever for ease of handling on riding mowers.
22.. Rids kids rocking chairs and swings of squeaky noises.
23.. Lubricates tracks in sticking home windows and makes them easier to open.
24.. Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close.
25.. Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers.
26.. Restores and cleans roof racks on vehicles.
27.. Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans.
28.. Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons, and bicycles for easy handling.
29.. Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly.
30.. Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools.
31.. Re moves splattered grease on stove.
32.. Keeps bathroom mirror from fogging.
33.. Lubricates prosthetic limbs.
34.. Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell).
35.. Removes all traces of duct tape.
36.. Folks even spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve arthritis pain.
37.. Florida's favorite use is: "cleans and removes love bugs from grills and bumpers."
38.. The favorite use in the state of New York --WD-40 protects the Statue of Liberty from the elements.
39.. WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a LITTLE on live bait or lures and you will be catching the big one in no time. Also, it's a lot cheaper than the chemical attractants that are made for just that purpose. Keep in mind though, using some chemical laced baits or lures for fishing are not allowed in some states.
40.. Use it for fire ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and stops the itch.
41.. WD-40 is great for removing crayon from walls. Spray on the mark and wipe with a clean rag.
42.. Also, if you've discovered that your teenage daughter has washed and dried a tube of lipstick with a load of laundry, saturate the lipstick spots with WD-40 and re-wash. Presto! Lipstick is gone!
43.. If you sprayed WD-40 on the distributor cap, it would displace the moisture and allow the car to start.
44.. It removes black scuff marks from the kitchen floor! Use WD-40 for those nasty tar and scuff marks on flooring. It doesn't seem to harm the finish and you won't have to scrub nearly as hard to get them off.
Just remember to open some windows if you have a lot of marks.
45.. Bug guts will eat away the finish on your car if not removed quickly! Use WD-40!
P. S. The basic ingredient is FISH OIL

More Signs from the Signman

This week's signs:

JOHN BREWTON WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 19 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY.

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY AMY POWELL. FROM MAMMA, DADDY, AND MATTHEW.

LORDY LORDY. KEITH EDGE IS FORTY.

HONORING ROSA PARKS AND MARION ANDERSON.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR SIGNMAN (Snuck this one past him!)

HONORING BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND FREDERICK DOUGLAS.

MEET OUR CONGRESSMAN JOHN BARROW AT PIGLET, SATURDAY 1 TO 2:30.

HONORING MR. T. C. LITTLE FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE FOR SO MANY.

YOU'RE OVER THE SPEED LIMIT NOW KATHY H. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

MORE FEBRUARY PHOTOS

FEBRUARY 1977 SECOND WEEK
The Soperton Jaycees provided the winning team at the Donkey Basketball game, if there is such a thing as a winner in Donkey Ball. The organization has come and gone several times over the years in Soperton. There are strict high standards for attendance, membership, and other requirements, but they make quite a difference in the communities that can sustain them.

FEBRUARY 1977 THIRD WEEK
The Viking boys advanced to the play-offs, coming out second in the sub-region with a loss to Wheeler County. Both teams went to the region tournament, but the Vikings lost to Bryan County. The team was highly competive, but the region was among the best in the state.

This Week's Signs

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MARY AND DOVER CARTER. FEB 12.

MISTY. WILL YOU BE OUR VALENTINE. WE LOVE YOU. FRANK AND TYSON.

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY ASHLEY HARDY FROM NANNY AND PA.

HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY JOHNNY LYLES. LOVE. YOUR FAMILY.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809. SPIRIT LIVES.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS. GLORIA HOLT.

FISH-O-RAMA. COMING TO CROW-MART. BASS PRO BUDDY BYRD WILL BE TEACHING FISHING 101.

New Links

I've sadly neglected my original input lately. Too much going on, too little time to post.
Look for some new links: 1- Soperton weather thru msn; I saw it on a friend's computer and liked it. 2- Soperton's website. 3- Treutlen County Schools website. 4- Wheeler County Chamber of Commerce, a great one that is being updated. 5- Wheeler County Schools website.

As I write, the representatives in Congress are giving short speeches on the Iraq question. All of us are prejudiced by our backgrounds. I like the song "Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching As To War" but I really don't understand it. Could someone explain if a Savior, who gave up his own comfort and life, would or could ask us to take another's life in order to protect OUR comfort and lives. Be slow and careful in coming up with an answer. I haven't come up with one yet.

I hope that everyone who supports war, the current one or any other, will also support paying the entire cost of war. We've got a long way to go in compensating the veterans of the Vietnam era. I've been fighting VA, going on two years, but I'm not likely to ever see a penny, considering the puny budgets for veterans. I wear an old hearing aid that has been repaired, likely for the last time. VA will not even provide a hearing exam for me. My hearing problem is otosclerosis, a genetic disease. None of my relatives have it, but science shows that ionizing radiation contributes to the disease. I was exposed while I was in the Army at the Nevada Test Site. When the atmospheric testing went underground, the contamination stayed underground in the tunnels I worked in. There are a million Atomic Veterans who have been exposed. It would cost about $3 billion to give all of those veterans 100% disability. A paltry amount considering the tens of billions we are spending in Iraq.

Sold a few pictures recently. Enough to pay for paper and a little bit of ink for the thirsty printer. Paying off the computer, printer, and scanner will be amortized over several years - long enough for the equipment and me to be obsolete. As the good doctor said, "I have a dream."

Enough said? More than enough!

Donkey Basketball

SECOND WEEK OF FEBRUARY 1977
The Augustus McArthur gym was always packed for the Donkey Basketball games. Honey Pot was the most wicked donkey of them all. Wayne Sumner was chosen to ride the beast, and in this photo the pair were counseling with each other.

Recent Signs

Recent Signs by the Sign Man:

HAPPY 56TH BIRTHDAY LINDA JOHNSON ON 02/09/07. LOVE VIOLET AN D BLAKE.

FUTURE IS BRIGHTER. ETHANOL PLANT IS COMING. OVER 100 JOBS TOO.

BARRY STOKES SIGNS WITH TROY. GOOD LUCK NO. 75.

HAPPY BIRTHDY TO HUNTER NICOLE. 02/10/07. FROM G AND G.

Cover for new Harlequinn SuperRomance

Soperton's own Cynthia Reese has received the cover layout of her upcoming Harlequin SuperRomance novel entitled "THE BABY WAIT," which will be on the shelves in April or can be pre-ordered now at Amazon.com

Her second novel, yet to be titled, will be published in October. For further information, go to her website:

www.cynthiareese.net

Catching up on the Signs

It has been a busy week in Possum Corner, so we better catch up with the Sign Man, as he has been especially busy:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WILL HEATH.

MEET SOPERTON'S NEWEST CELEBRITY AT WWW.CYNTHIAREESE.NET

THANKS BROTHER GEORGE. YOU DO A GREAT JOB.

BAR-ROOM DANCING AT CROW-MART.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JADE ROGERS FROM YOUR FAMILY.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE HARRELL ON 02/07/07 FROM THE OTHER HALF.

BALLROOM DANCING AT CROW-MART

COLTS WIN. DUNGY, HARRISON, MANNING - MVP. YOU MADE IT.

Character Collection

These three photos are the first of the "Character Collection". All of the individuals have character, and some of them are real "characters" in other senses of the word. All of these were photographed in December 1970, while I was home for Christmas from my first year at RIT. It was good to get some real grits from my mother's table, get away from the frozen north, and to visit with homefolks.

Kennon Peebles was cutting meat at Red's IGA, located at the present site of Crow-Mart. Kennon is younger than me, but both of us worked for Uncle Red when the hours were long and wages were small. Kennon was good in the market and he could do everything in the store, including maintaining the coolers and freezers. Red's was the first grocery store in Soperton with air conditioning.

Elise Ricks Dorsey Cullens was on the way to the Post Office, toting the mail for the Bank of Soperton, when she good naturedly struck a pose for camera. She was a real cut-up and added much comic relief to the serious job of banking.

John McLendon was quieter than his brother Bruce, but he was interesting, too. He always wore overalls and a hat, and he was never without his pipe and can of PA (Prince Albert smoking tobacco). He was relaxing in the car outside of Red's.

I Want My Country Back

Signs by the Sign Man:

MEET SOPERTON'S NEWEST CELEBRITY AT WWW.CYNTHIAREESE.NET

THANKS BROTHER GEORGE. YOU DO A GREAT JOB!

I read the following to the Sign Man, and he said it read like something I had written when I was all fired up about something. Like anything else in print, you can read it or not, pass it on or not. I'm not to give you any extra blessing for what you do with it:

Please pass this along. Let's see if we can send it to everyone in
the USA who has a computer.
By Rick Roberts - 760 KFMB AM (San Diego)
I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but here's the bottom line, I
want my country back.
I want my kids to be able to walk to the store or walk to school
without being abducted by some 3-time convicted child molester. And
the politically correct powers that be in this country just can't seem
to get over themselves with "CAN'T WE JUST HELP THIS! PERSON! " No!
You can't. But they're let loose to prey on more children. I want my
kids back.
I want my country back.
I don't agree with everything this President does. I've never agreed
with anything 100% that any President has done or said.
You know, I was very young during the Vietnam War. So I probably
missed that thing by a hair. I don't know whether I would have agreed
with that or not at the time. I was too stupid to have an opinion at
that point and time even though I thought I did.
I want my country back.
I want some semblance of respect for authority, whether I agree with
it all or not.
I want the Boy Scouts to be "boy" scouts, not boy and "we think she's
a girl" scouts. I want Girl Scouts to be "girl" scouts not Girl
Scouts and "Bruce."
I want my country back.
I want to be able to wake up in the morning knowing that I can walk
outside without some gang-banger on parole taking my life.
Or being able to go down and purchase a car without having to worry
about, you know, 90% of the parts being made overseas in some
sweatshop.
I want my politicians, when they finally do get my vote, to do what
they said they were going to do in the first place.
I want the Abramoff's of the world to be labeled what they
are....nothing more than organized crime in a better suit.
I want people to say something and when they say something look at me
in the eye. And mean what they say. Not say what they think I want
to hear.
And then do what they want to later, politically or any other way.
I want to be able to go out and work and make a decent wage and buy a
home. Half the people that are listening to me right now can't even
afford to buy a house unless they're working three jobs.
And I want America to be America. All of those opportunities, all of
those things that made her great, I want those returned to the
forefront.
If you want to come to this country we welcome you with open arms. We
simply ask that you abide by our laws. I don't want you to snub your
nose at our laws, then take advantage of our opportunities, and then
cling to the constitution most of which you can't even read because
you don't speak the language.
I want us to secure our borders because the country is worth securing.
The people that live here are worth protecting.
I want my country back.
I want my children back. I want some semblance of what this country used to be.
It's worth protecting. It's worth defending. I don't recognize this
country anymore.
Not politically, not philosophically, not spiritually.
Whether you like it or whether you don't, God was a part of building
this great nation. To remove him is to take away the very foundation
of what this country was all about.
I don't care about your political correctness!
I don't want to know your sexual preference!
I could care less about all of that. Stop making it the headline of the day!
That's not America.
I want my country back!
And the only way I'm ever going to be able to get this country back is
if I reach out to the brothers and the sisters that all feel the same
way and we say " No! You can't have our country." It's not for sale!
Take the price tag off this country!
Take the price tag off the heads of our children! Stop it already!
The politically-correct-psychobabble-~~ You are not qualified to
release sex offenders back into our neighborhoods.
The southern border, more than any other border, needs to be secured
tomorrow. For all those that wish to come to this country to take
advantage of her opportunity, to live under a constitution~ a living
document that breathes in and out just like you do~ this country is
not for sale. I should know. I'm one of the owners You can't sell
it without my permission.
Please pass this along. Let's see if we can send it to everyone in
the USA that has a computer.
"I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!"- !