West Rome's Chieftains Club conducted its annual membership drive on Monday and Tuesday. Club representatives visited every home in West Rome, encouraging residents to join the group and help support West Rome's academic, sports, and fine arts activities. The Chieftains Club hoped to have the highest percentage of active parent members in the state. Mrs. Wheeler Wood, chair of the drive committee, coordinated the program with help from Mrs. Leila Wilson and Mr. Walter Trimm.
West Rome went into their game with the Cass Colonels with a handicap: Chieftain regulars Doug Reed and Curt Wallace were both on the injured list for the week, leaving West Rome's defense in a difficult position. Coach Larry Parker said that he was moving Billy Faulkner and Thomas Crowley into the slots left open by Reed and Wallace's absence. Thankfully, the defense was able to hold Cass off, while the offense totally destroyed the Colonels to post a 34-0 victory. Coach Nick Hyder admitted that he was surprised, as he expected the game to be much closer since Cass was highly rated and had been predicted to win the game. West Rome had 265 net yards rushing and 164 yards passing, while holding Cass to only 56 yards rushing and 83 yards passing. Randy Hatch and David Love shared quarterback duties in the game, while David Watkins and Stan Green proved to be the team's best receivers. Randy Hatch also had 83 yards on the ground in eight carries, while Henry Studyvent had 71 yards rushing and Thomas Crowley had 70 yards.
Nowadays we're accustomed to local option sales taxes, but did you know that Rome state senator Sam Doss was a member of a committee that recommended that Georgia consider a 1% local option income tax? Had it passed, residents in communities where the local option tax passed would have had to file a local income tax form as well as a federal and state form; Doss said that the income tax would be easier to implement than a sales tax. Thankfully, the income tax idea was abandoned and the sales tax proposal passed (at least it allows out-of-town shoppers who spend money in Rome to help support Rome schools through their sales tax spending).
Fashion designer and former Roman Frankie Welch was honored on September 30th as the Rome and Floyd County governments declared that day as Frankie Welch Day. Welch was given the keys to the city (which unfortunately don't really open anything) at a luncheon in her honor; afterwards she showed off some of the many scarves she had designed, including her new "See Georgia First" scarf.
Piggly Wiggly had sirloin steak for $1.19 a pound, lettuce for 25¢ a head, and grapefruit for 15¢ each. Kroger had chub packs of ground beef for 53¢ a pound, sweet potatoes for a dime a pound, and Libby's beef stew for 49¢ a can. A&P had chuck roast for 47¢ a pound, Farmbest ice cream for 79¢ a half-gallon, and Viva paper towels for 35¢ a roll. Big Apple had calf liver for 89¢ a pound, Chase & Sanborn coffee for 55¢ a pound, and Coca-Cola/Tab/Sprite for 33¢ a carton plus deposit. Couch's had Oscar Mayer hot dogs for 69¢ a pound, whole coconuts for 29¢ each, and pork brains for 29¢ a pound (and that's one food I've never sampled).
The cinematic week began with The Italian Job (starring Michael Caine) at the DeSoto Theatre, Midnight Cowboy (starring Dustin Hoffman & John Voigt) at the First Avenue, Popi (starring Alan Arkin) at the Village, and a double feature of The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly and Hang 'Em High (starring Clint Eastwood) at the West Rome Drive-In. The weekend switch out brought Thoroughly Modern Millie (starring Julie Andrews) to the DeSoto Theatre, The Lion in Winter (starring Katharine Hepburn) to the Village, and The Love Bug (starring Dean Jones) to the West Rome Drive-In, while Midnight Cowboy continued at the First Avenue for another week.
The Archies held on to the number one slot for another week with "Sugar, Sugar." Other top ten hits included "Jean" by Oliver (#2); "Little Woman" by Bobby Sherman (#3); "I Can't Get Next To You" by the Temptations (#4); "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly & the Family Stone (#5); "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson (#6); "Easy to Be Hard" by Three Dog Night (#7); "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones (#8); "This Girl Is a Woman Now" by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap (#9); and "Green River" by Creedence Clearwater Revival (#10).
While we wouldn't see it on this side of the Atlantic for several more years, the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast in the UK this week in 1969. Here in the US, Love, American Style made its premiere on ABC on September 29th.
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