The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 52

dTclcftraph Travel 2E Engagements 4E Books 8E Dave Barry Manatees arc sweet lovable creatures but not exactly the brightest creatures HEALTH ITNESS The debate on artificial sweeteners over if EXPLORING LIE IN THE SOUTH iscoverw '4 coming Monday WS SundayUi April 26 1998 Wil rt Af I pi i gg W1 Eating disorders Our country is plagued by an eat ing disorder and not talking about anorexia or bulimia This food problem is between two members of the opposite sex What do you want to know What do you want to idea at matter to How comical has the male female din ner dilemma become? So much so a national restaurant chain recognized the predicament and its advertis ing execs are using it as the hook for a com mercial pushing a new line of fish and chicken sandwiches eaturing a little boy and girl playing the roles of adults the ad capitalized on the exchange between the two before they decided on the fish and chicken sandwiches you says the boy sit ting behind the wheel of what appears to be a 1960s automobile to get a to get a burger? Want to get a his car mate mockingly replies about fish? What about chicken? the sense the boy says The spot ends with the two having decided on the new prod ucts and they live happily ever after Or until the next dinner debate Bet been there and done that Probably more than a few times And maybe as recently as last night There you are in your car headed out cf the driveway in the mood for anything spe really Anything is ian seafood a You are driving now or being driven In a direction but not a particular one You are not driving to anything or away irom anything just driving With hun ger but without a clue on how to satisfy it about not Mexican but anything Eyes begin to roll at this point Dis creetly of course You slow the car because you vant to drive too far in case head ng away from whatever restaurant you lecide on sometime before 1999 for lie meal how about a com dog chips and i fountain coke from the Eyes roll indiscreetly it does matter? Where do you vant to do you want to At this point ugly names many mprintable in a family newspaper are inderstood at the ends of the queries wen though they are not spoken where do you want to You so and so) what asking (Differ ent so and so) So the battle continues each trying to get the other to decide thus ending this zisit to culinary purgatory It be a battle at all not ike we all eat at least a couple of imes a day every day We have plenty of iractice at eating And there never seems to be a decision iroblem when just men or just wom en Decisions are quick or compromise comes easy Why is guess If the Pillsbury Dough Boy and the lolly Green Giant decided to dine ogether be ordering in 10 min ites The same for Aunt Jemima and Mrs Butterworth But throw Chef Boy ar dee and Betty Irocker together and still hungry in hour later Unfortunately we seldom make the jerfect call We second guess and try toead minds and trust our instincts Does she really want pasta a third traight night or is she just being nice?) Sometimes though you hit it and ictually make it to the restaurant vithout having to stop for gas or medical reatment When that happens one thing left or to Rick Nolte is sports editor of The Macon Telegraph i 1 Rick Nolte Southern Sundays MegemloWortnfete IWI 11 L'S 'U 1 IfrLI U' uxB WB Johnston I I I I 1 'V iHMMHRRH jwwb KSJE! In fBBMv fyz tk i tV 4 ru itaiK i A 2( I ip S' SI: 'IJ BS xK i TO xefcp BL I WBH 4jhhi The secret room in the Hay House has fueled rumors about hid den Confederate gold Myth tied to Hay House persists 133 years later MrA'P TfiSXdS While talk of lost Confederate gold in Macon may be more rumor than truth in Wilkes Count)' Confederate gold remains a part of that communi history The story is on 10E By James Palmer The Macon Telegraph he Yankees were coming anny Andrews and her traveling party were among the displaced Georgians trying to find their way home among the chaos that was the end of the Confederacy She stayed in Macon on Monday night April 17 1865 Street in front of the Lanier House is filled with officers and men rush ing to and fro and everything and everybody seems to be in the wildest she wrote in her book War Time Journal of a Georgia She left town the next day on the Macon Western Railroad that ran from Atlanta to Augusta was such a crowd waiting at the depot that we could hardly push our way through and when the ladies' car was opened there was such a rush that we consid ered ourselves lucky to get in at she wrote trains that went out tins morning were supposed to be the last that would leave the city as the Yankees were expected before night and many predicted that we would be captured Ours had on board a quantity of government specie and the assets of four banks besides private property aggregating all together it was said more than seventeen million Macon 175 j823 W9s ABOUT THIS SERIES Over the next eight months as Macon approaches its 1 75th birthday The Macon Telegraph will explore our rich histo ry' Each Sunday examine another facet of past And we want your help If got an idea for a story about heritage please let us know by calling James Palmer at 744 4345 mailing him at jajopilmeraolcom or faxing him Robert Sony The Macon Telegraph The root cellar is a more likely place for gold to have been stored says Julie Groce a member of the Hay House staff 1 Specie means money usually coins In 1865 it would have meant gold and silver Was there that much money on the train as it pulled toward Vineville? Who knows? the remembrance of a frightened 24 year old watching her world crumble to pieces But it adds one more aside to a story circu lated in Macon for more than TOO years and remains alive today According to published accounts Macon held one of the largest supplies of Confeder ate government gold in the South during the Civil War It was supposedly second only to the supply in Richmond Va At some point the story goes a portion of the gold was lost or hidden and never recovered And some where in Macon perhaps in Hay House or buried along the banks of the Ocmulgee Riv er the gold remains today waiting for some one to dig it up is a recurring question I guess call it a persistent said Julie Groce Groce is overseeing the on going renovation of Hay House The Hay House is connected to Pleasesee GOLD 1OE at 744 4385 Zb iA' Knight Ridder Lyim Rhodes is a major force in tournament bass fishing emale angler makes waves Her victory in bass fishing tournament is a first By Pat Robertson The (Columbia) State COLUMBIA SC If you have aspirations of breaking into the good of boy fraternity of tournament bass fishing in the South and you already have two strikes against you then you had better be good very good or Lynn Rhodes being a Yankee from Pennsylvania was bad enough Being a woman trying to make it in the traditionally male bas tion of South Carolina tournament fishing ust made it worse There was only one thing to do: Prove her ability on the water And the Sununerville angler did just tha by winning the South Carolina Bass ederation Tournament on Santee Cooper becoming the first woman ever to win a South Carolina fed eration event She was one of two women in tlie tournament Because of high muddy water and strong winds only 40 of the 134 anglers actually caught fish and Rhodes was one of only two to weigh in a five bass limit Officials said that while hers is the first win by a woman in a South Carolina federation event female anglers have won federation tournaments in other states Pleasesee ISHING 1OE fl II.