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A-2, The Cadiz Record, Wednesday, April 10,1991 © p i n i o n Hussein's actions show double standard IT SEEMS 'YOUR TROOPS The world lives by a double folks drove their T Models IN SOUTHERN IRAQ standard. It is all right to beat across and, I guess, up and your own wife,, but don't beat down the rivers. HAVE MASSACRED AT LAST, ***** A LOT OF WOMEN SOMEONE your neighbor's wife. AND CHILDREN. WE CAN DEFEAT Idi Amin, the African ruler, At one of the Easter lun MILITARILY. slaughtered his own people by cheons at the Cadiz Christian the thousands while the world ByKeithS.. Church I shook hands with 95- looked on. The government of Venable year-old Sophia Gordon, who Sudan prevents food supplies said, "Your hands are cold." to some of its starving people. She then quoted, "Cold hands, When Saddam Hussein in warm heart, dirty feet and no vaded Kuwait President Bush while reaching for your sweetheart." and the United Nations were Bible? I thought of the fairy tale in ***** quick to assemble a half-mil which the maiden kissed the lion men to kick him out. But "I hope m y brain can say to frog and turned him into a now Saddam Hussein is my hand what my heart wants prince. killing his own people and to tell." - mountain folk But Katherine was not so nobody lifts a finger. writer. lucky. She kissed her prince ***** and he turned into a frog, or at Surely the Highway De They don't make things least part frog. partment can build a highway like they used to. The same ***** that will allow you to choose a could be said for winters. bypass, but does not block the Euen Compton recalls that They don't make things as entrance to Cadiz. during thait mother o f all strong as they once did. It now ***** winters, 1917-1918, the Ten takes 29 pennies to do the work Does the Lord look after you, nessee and Cumberland two once did, carry a letter if you lose control of your car Rivers froze.! over so hard that across the land. Letters Just The Other Day Cadiz Rotary ready for annual radio auction By Billy Rawls Just any other day many To our Trigg County friends: has raised more than a quar the lives of all our school Rotarians. people begaiin their day by lis The Cadiz Rotary Radio ter of a million dollars to children within the commu As with all fundraising tening to or I viewing the news. auction will be held April 22- benefit the community and nity. With this year's Rotary events, we would be extremely Untold numbers of words 26, from 7 to 10 p.m. in the youth of Trigg County. With Auction, we hope to raise more appreciative of any donations, and/or pictures evolved into basement of the John L. Street these funds, approximately 45 needed funds to continue to whether it be money, time, an endless list of worries Library. full-tuition scholarships have support these projects and the products, or gifts-in-kind. from which we could choose to The kick-off breakfast will been awarded to Trigg County countless others we help lo Many people have expressed call our own - until a new be held at 7 a.m. in the dining youths to attend the Hop cally. interest in Trigg County group became available. room of the Lake Barkley kinsville Community Col As of this year, not only is handicrafts, whether it be Sometimes we allow these Resort Park on Monday, lege. the Cadiz Rotary Club work furniture-type items or hand things to become obsessions April 22. The local community pool ing with the youth, but also our goods. without stopping to think that This year's action will be has benefited from more than senior citizens through our If you are not able to donate, there is a greater power than aired live over WHOP-FM $10,000 in funding from Ro community service fund. please listen in to the broad man involved in our lives. tary. 98.7 and WKDZ 106.3. Remember that every penny cast and support us by bid The above picture was taken, without my awareness, while An added attraction this Between $35,000 and $40,000 we collect is returned back ding. I was taking t\ quiet time to sort out my my thoughts (a FEW year on Monday and has been spent within the into community services. In closing, the Cadiz Rotary years ago). Each of us has a need of the luxury of examining Wednesday nights is the community on our annual When one of the Rotarians Club would like to thank our thoughts in private. mini-auction. Tuesday night Christmas Shopping tour for contacts you, please consider WKDZ, the Cadiz Record, *** is country store night which the less fortunate children of the fact that all our fundsigo to WHOP and all the many Last week mty daughter, Margaret Jo Shockley wanted to will include a bake sale and Trigg County. help support the many extra other business and individu visit a remote country cemetery where our ancestors rested cake walk. Thursday night, Many thousands of dollars things that the community, als which have helped make in peace. I traveled a few miles into the Pennyrile with my all local artists and have been given to allow our schools, or family budgets the Cadiz Rotary Radio Auc Easter week-e!nd family where we read names on tomb craftspeople will have a school children to attend cannot afford for our chil tion such a success for the last stones that are recorded in my McConnell Family Bible. chance to display their do various competitions and dren. 23 years. There were McConnells, Griffiths, Hicks, Pollards, Whites, nated arts and crafts items to special meetings around the If, by chance, you are not Campbells, and Blakeleys that were our kin though we never be auctioned. They will be on United States. personally contacted to help, David Chesnut knew them. The birth dates went back to 1784. display all week long. The Rotary Club, over the please feel free to contact my Cadiz Rotary Club While my family made these discoveries, my thoughts Over the years, our auction years, has attempted to touch self at 522-8002 or any of the Auction Chairman went back to the most peaceful time of my life when I used to visit two of my great-aunts for weeks at a time. In those days I blazed trails alone in these very woods and rested in the Felix expresses concerns over by-pass plan undergrowth to ponder 'Where did I come from? When would I have to start shaving? What would I become? Oh To the Editor and Readers: lators and Chief Engineer vote for the letting of contracts warning preview of future well, I think I will practice my new discovery that I can On April 19th our state leg Puryear. I also drove to look or table the proposal. Best of road blocks. Today there was wiggle my ears.' islators will be voting to issue at maps at state transportation all, they could vote it down. even a giant yellow bulldozer My daddy took me squirrel hunting there. We didn't get multi-million dollar con headquarters in Paducah. No Perhaps our local officials, on Clarksdale lots... any squirrels, put he taught me to identify trees by their tracts which will change the definitive answers were reacting to the will of their I repeat: Time is of the leaves. We chainced upon a whipporwill that he said was beauty and value of extensive forthcoming in either case. constituents, will become the essence for those Trigg Coun- what made the eerie whistling noise that I heard as I at Trigg Co. property. Major Nor did that office ever pro heroes of this ill-founded pro tians who care about begin af tempted to go to: sleep in the loft of the humble log cabin where changes in local traffic pat vide our local paper with the ject by exercising their powers fected negatively by the pro his mother was bom. terns will cause lost revenue information pursuant to the of persuasion. Even children posed construction and That neck of the woods was quietly exposed to the full glory to our fledgling downtown by-pass as I suggested. in this day and age know how rerouting by-pass. Deluge of nature. The only wheeled vehicle that I was likely to see businesses as well as cause Only on March 27 did we to "Just say NO" when danger with calls and letters our local was the mail-mean's car. wasted time and inconve citizens of Trigg Co. learn accosts them. officials -- Judge Wilson, In later years I took to hunting alone in Trigg County nience to large numbers of how far the project had gone There is no question that vie Judge Cossey and Mayor (mostly to escapie the hubbub of urban life). I saw squirrels our local drivers. towards ground-breaking are surrounded by danger. Sivills, as well as our state peeping at me as they ventured from their nest at the first All of this is the goal of state and the April 19th date of Surveyors puncture our earth legislators, before it is too hint of light in the eastern sky. Huge "Woody Woodpeck politicians and transportation doom. with stakes and cut our late. ers" filled the dawn with noisy hammering while distant cabinet members who not only Now time is of the essence.