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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020
BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL
PAGE 3A
50 Years Ago
'Dedicated to the
Community
Barren 1
OLUME NO. LXXH
TELEPHONE 867-
WINDER GEORGIA 30680
Wednesday, January 7, 1970
2 SECTIONS - 18 PAGES
10£ PER COPY
NUMBER 41
OPINIO
| Heritage
| “The heritage of the
Is the seed that brings ^
Ihe harvest of the future "
Archives Building, Wasl"
^on.
Keynote Address By
Humorist Newt Hielscher
Bus Dedicated
By First
Baptist Church
The Twenty-Fourth Annual meeting of the Winder-Barrow
Chamber of Commerce will be held on Monday, January 12th
with a dinner and program. The meeting will be held at the
Winder Lions Club building beginning at 7:30 p.m., Cliff
Rutledge, president, announced that invitation and tickets have
been mailed to members and guests.
Charles Sanders chairman of
the program committee will §
preside. The meeting will be §
opened with the invocation by i
the Rev. Derris Davenport, f
pastor of the Winder First Bap- §
tist Church. T. Penn Me- 1
Whorter will present the spe- |
cial guests, J. D. Withers will I
present awards and Dr. John E. I
Stansell will present the speak- f
er. The keynote address will be |
made by Newt Hielscher, from |
Shreveport, La.
Mr. Hielscher is a noted I
orist and it is said thathis talks 8
are a .sure cure for the blues. I
One who recently heard him ■
said, “It’s next to impossible
to laugh and have ulcers at the r
same time. Based on this phi
losophy, Newt Hielscher is a
sure cure for whatever ails
people.”
He has had over 15 years
experience as an after dinner
speaker. He holds two degrees
from Texas' A & M University-
where he served 11 years as
a professor and assistant to the
dean of engineering. After 18
years as a teacher he entered
the insurance field and for 15
years was agent, assistant di
rector of training and agency
manager for the Great Southern
Life Insurance Company.
He is a member of the Inter
national Platform Association,
National Circuit speaker for the
Knife and Fork Clubs and the
Executive Dinner Clubs of Am
erica.
He is married and has two
children. A resident of Shreve-
por + La. for 15 years where he
is an active deacon and Sunday
School Teacher in the First
Baptist Church, member of the.
Lions Club; having served as
president and District Gover
nor with 25 years perfect at
tendance; member of the Fel
lowship of Christian Athletes
and Chamber of Commerce. 40
year veteran with Boy Scouts of
l America and has received the
Silver Beaver award.
“We feel that we are most
fortunate to have obtained this
outstanding humorist for our
annual meeting and I feel that
everyone will go away from the
meeting with laughter and hap-
' pine s s in their hearts and a bet-
■ ter feeling for their fellow
man,” Sanders said.
Officers and directors for
1 1970 will be nominated and el-
1 ected. Pre sent officers and dir
ectors are: C. A. Rutledge,
> president, James Farmer,
- Vice-President, Mrs. Helen B.
|Sometimes history gi' us
fen with such strong ch c t-
|s and impregnable faif^t
^becomes impossible fdp r
ature to be obscured. | en
|bugh their lot in life | ne
| lowliness and seemiir 3 "
|urity. Nevertheless, re
1 something from with that
Eyes them a quality whic n ~
|t be completely hidderP m
jp minds and the vision o: Hr
As a can is
After last Sunday’s morning
worship, the congregation of the
First Baptist Church gathered
to dedicate their new bus, a 66
passenger All-American, cus
tom-built by the Blue Bird Co.
of Fort Valley, Georgia at a
cost of $11,330.
The pastor spoke briefly
of the intended use of the bus;
to expand and strengthen the
church’s outreach and minis
tries. After Charlie Saunders,
chairman of the Transportation
Committee, thanked the people
for their support in acquiring
the bus, the pastor led the pray
er of dedication.
Ilow men.
i, not to be put under a
1 but on a candlestick,
te of humble
dedicati
Hankind will not go wput
H§1 cognition and reward.
|||Sueh a man is now mng
Hinder his home. In his -
|| ^'ement from his choseio-
tion which he has fol ed
•oughout a long and h<r-
te period of time he has o-
h our community as his ne
ere he resides in what ist
! to us a retrospect of ch
isfaction and rewarding c-
nplishment in the knowjge
t many are his friend stud
ny there are who loveim
a result of his devjon
1 love for them in the p
en he taught them and sl-
them, molding their wn
iracter, as was his, byjat
^the Master Teacher. I
Regular routing of the bus for
transporting people to and from
the church is being planned,
and will begin soon. Derris A
Davenport is pastor of the
church, and Royce McNeal is
Minister of Music and Youth.
NEWT HIELSCHER
FIKST-BAP1IST CHURCH BUS DEDICATED. TheneW66pas-
bcngefAH-American bus with custom built body by The Blue
Bird Company for the Winder First Baptist Church was de
dicated fo| 0 wing last Sunday’s morning worship. The bus
yost $11,330 and will be used to expand and strengthen
the churches outreach and ministries. A regular schedule
to transport people to and from church is being planned.
Pam Jackson Selected
As BA-R. Good Citizen
Some Long-Distance
Rates Reduced Jan. 1
Approximately 800 county of
ficials, state senators, repre
sentatives, Gov. Lester Mad
dox, Lt. Gov. George T. Smith,
Speaker of the House George
L, Smith and other ranking state
officers mil attend. The spon
sor is Association County Com
missioners of Georgia.-
Breakfast meeting is sche
duled for 8:00-10:00 AM. Jan
uary 19 in the Ballroom of the
Marriott Motor Hotel in Atla^r 5 "-..
Pam tiackspn, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Jackson,
of Winder, has been selected as
the “Good Citizen for 1970”
by the .Sunbury Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Re
volution.; |
The Good Citizen award is
made by the D. A. R. to the
Senior girl who is voted most
outstanding on a basis of in
tegrity, dependability, and pa
triotism. CThreSl Senior girls
were nominated|>y their class
mates and the final selection
is made by the faculty at Win
der-Barrow High School.
By her/selection, Miss Jac-
son becomes eligible for Dis
trict, State and National a-
wards trom theNational Society
Daughter s pf the American Re
volution. Miss Jackson and her
mother will be honored by the
Sunbury Chapter at their March
meeting. .
A member of the Senior Class
at Winder4'Barrow jHigh School
she has been active^throughout
her high school career in a
number of clubs and'activities.
A 4-H member for right years
she has served as vice presi
dent 196 7-68; parliamentarian
[jve no hesitancy in recoml 0 f the County Council 1968-69;
Ending him to any school boari delegate to district rallies; at-
| need of a teacher, principal tended project achievement and
j superintendent.” The let-j4-H Camps*for 7.years; was
tr wais a certification for R. D; name d outstanding 4-H girl
llntosh. “His scholarship i% n 1966 and has won 33; ribbons,
station-to-station calls of dis
tances ove'r 196 miles will save
up to 19 percent of the present
rates. These lower rates will
apply at all times of every day
and night of the year, with the
night and late night time per
iods having the lowest charges.
When the new long distance re
ductions go into effect on New
Year’s Day, extra savings will
be realized as the late night
calling period will be extended
by one hour to 8:00 a.m. (Cur
rently, late night rates are in
effect from midnight until 7:00
a.m.)
In addition to customer-
dialed long distance calls, the
reduced rates will also apply
to calls sent paid from central
offices with no outward Direct
Distance Dialing capability;
calls to manual offices and dial
offices not equipped for inward
customer dialing; and operator
reconnected calls involving
I This came to our atteipn
cently from a friend of as,
paper salesman who as
1 us and sells us his pfi-
sjts. In conversation within
H learned about this m.
Itb learned of his “soft-sg-
i and very courteous and g-
manly manners” from |r
end. He told us of his “kn
nd” and “really great me-
y\ Our salesman frid
ft had lunch with this geni-
rin on two occasions and sj-
Isted that the background^
||s man would be both infi
lling and informative for cr
SLders. We agreed.
Telephone’s customers in
Georgia will enjoy reduced
rates on interstate long
distance calls. The new rate
schedule, filed with the Feder
al Communications Commis
sion by the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company
and adhered to by the General
System, represents the eighth
reduction in charges for inter
state long distance calls in the
last ten years.
Customers who dial their own
Producers in Barrow. Co
unty will receive notice of their
feed grain bases and an explan
atory leaflet on the 1970 feed
grain program in January, ac
cording to Mr. R. O. Lovin,
Chairman of the Barrow Coun
ty Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation (ASC) Com
mittee.
Sign-up period for the volun
tary farm programs - in
cluding wheat and cotton as well
as feed grains - will be Feb
ruary 2 through March 20.
The 1970 feed grain program
will be much like the 1969
program, the ASC Committee
Chairman said. Provisions of
the 1970 wheat and cotton pro
grams were announced earlier.
Mr. Lovin gave the following
details on the feed grain pro
gram:
1. Acreage diversion and di
version payments. Minimum
diversion at 20 per cent of a
farm’s feed grain base acreage
wil 1 be required for program
participation. No payment will
be made for the first 20 per
cent diversion, except for small
farms.
Payments will be made
for additional diversion of corn,
grain sorghum and barley.
Maximum additional acreage
that can be diverted for pay
ment will be the larger of 30
per cent of a farm’s feed grain
base or 25 acres less the qual
ifying 20 per cent diversion.
Payment rate for this additional
diversion will be based on 40
per cent of the total county
price support (loan plus sup
port payment) times a farm’s
projected yield of the crops in
volved. No advance diversion
payments will be made.
Breakfast is to give county,jqf-
ficials an opportunity to pro
mote matters of county inter
est with their own delegations
and other members of the Gen
eral Assembly.
Hugh Logan, President of A
CCG and commissioner of
Clarke County, will present the
Association’s legislative goals.
Principal attention this year
centers on local government’s
guest for more revenue to im
prove and extend local service
time the
Tag Sales In
Barrow Gain
Over Last Year
PAM JACKSON
es. At the same
county commissioners are ask
ing for legislation to bring about
tax reform and relieve property
owners of undue increases in
ad valorem taxation. County
spokesmen will discuss dispa
rities among school children
and the equalization of educa
tional opportunities by further
state assumption of school
costs.
County officials have been
urged to invite their legisla
tive delegations to attend as
their guests.
In addition to county com -
missioners, county clerks, war
dens, sheriffs, administrative
officers and tax officials usual-,
ly come to an ACCG Legis
lative Breakfast.
Nationally acclaimed singer
Frank Boggs will perform on
the breakfast program accom-
panie d by Jack Butler’s Or
chestra.
Franklin House was first in
line to buy a 1970 automobile
tag in Barrow County. He re
ceived the No. 1 tag from the
Barrow County Tax Collector
Joe Harwell when the tags went
on sale Friday morning, Jan
uary 2, 1970.
As of Monday afternoon, Mr.
Harwell reported that he had
already sold 880 tags as
compared to 574 through Jan
uary 6, 1969. He said that he
expected that he would sell over
1,000 tags before this week is
over.
In 1968 there were 8,300 tags
shipped to Barrow County. In
1969 there were 10,300 and this
year he will have over 11,000
tags to sell by the deadline.
“I urge everyone to buy their
tags early and avoid the long
lines and waiting as the dead
line approaches. We are setup
in our office now so that we can
take care of most everyone in a
Mr. Har-
The Bank of Barrow has
opened additional space tor
customer parking, James Har
rison, president announced.
In the past both the entrance
and exit of the customer park
ing lot has been from Stephens
Street.
“For our new customer
parking area the entrance will
be from Stephens Street and the
exit on Broad Street. This will
give a total parking area for 40
cars and in addition to more
parking space should also be a
time saver for our customers,”
Mr. Harrison said.
a reduction to 90 cents, from
$1.00, for three minute custom
er-dialed coast-to-coast calls
and the advancement of the
time these bargain rates ap
ply from 7:00 p.m. to after
5:00 p.m. General Telephone
will also introduce a 35 cent
coast-to-coast rate—less for
intervening points—for a one
minute DDD call between mid
night and 8:00 a.m. Each ad
ditional minute will be 20 cents.
At present, the late night rate
is 75 cents for up to three
minutes and is in effect only
until 7:00 a.m.
With a few exceptions, there
won’t be any changes in per-
son-to-person rates or on calls
where the customer utilizes
an operator due to preference
or because special handling is
required (credit card, collect,
etc.)
Under the new interstate re
gulations, station - to-station
Maynard, Jr., Harry O. Smith,
Royce Jackson, John Bottoms,
T. Penn McWhorter, Dr. John
E. Stansell, D. R. Akins, Sam
Dunaway, Sandy Schwartz and J.
D. Withers. S. W. Draper has
served as advisor to the pre
sident and directors.
Ex-Officio members include
C. H. Grider, publicity, J. B.
Lay, Chairman of the Barrow
County Board of Commis
sioners and Ben Cash, presi
dent of the Winder Jaycees.
Reservations are to be made
and tickets picked up by Fri
day, January'9th.
1st Church of Winder she has
,een a member of the Youth
'vhoir for 5 years, has served
|s Sunshine Chairman and
[ice-President of her Sunday
chool Class; was adepartment
fficer, has held offices in the
raining Union and has been a
jble School and Nursery work-
j for three years; was Youth
’eek Chairman in 1968-69,
\VA secretary am, anen)ber
I the Christmas Float Com-
littee.
Pam has worked in the Re-
fonal Library and as m ^
a the school library, served
a Panorama Senior 01355 £-
for and alternate Student
Suncil Representative, She
Us elected the Most Intelli-
gnt and outstanding^^
1$9; received a certm CJte of
Mrit from University 0(Ge
gi; has received seven
fc- highest fMes i» ^
clsses a scholastic letter and
pi, and was nominated tor the
Gvernor’s honors prog rai -
She plans to attend Wen r l
ot[ia College and mahr
very few minutes,
well said.
The Tax Collectors will be
open every day from 8 to 5 p.
m. and will stay open during the
lunch hours for the conven
ience of citizens of the county.
Georgia Motorists willpayan
additional fifty cents fee across
the board for 1970 automobile
license tags.
The increase in the Georgia
motor vehicle tag fee will be
used during 1970 to cover the
additional costs for the initial
manufacturing of five-year re-
flectorized tags to be used in
the state beginning in 1971.
Beginning in 1971, plates will
be made for five year use.
Instead of a new plate every
year , a car owner will pur
chase a decal to be affixed to
the five-year tag.
All tags will be reflector-
ized in order to provide
modern safety precau-
Upper limits will be estab
lished on the per-bushel rate
which will be paid for the ad
ditional voluntary diversion of
feed grain acres. The max
imum payments will be: for
corn, 60 cents per bushel; for
grain sorghum, 55 cents per
bushel (not hundredweight); for
barley, 45 cents per bushel.
2, Price-support loans and
payments. National average -
price-support loan rates on all
feed grains will be the same as
in 1969. However, corn loan
rates, while unchanged, will
be at $1.08 per bushel, “No.
2” basis - which is equal to
the 1969 level of $1.05 for av
erage quality. 1
The National average loan le
vels of the other feed grains
will be: grain sorghum, $1.61
per hundred weight; barley, 83
cents per bushel; oats, 63cents
per bushel;rye,$1.02 per bush,
el. (Price-support) is required
by law for oats and rye, but
Continued on Page 3A
Terry Dunanoo
Associated With
Realty Company
store managers,
Merchants,
and business people of Winder
are invited to attend a meet
ing to be held at The Peoples
Bank Conference room on
Tuesday, January 13th at 11:00
a.m. regarding a burglar a-
larm system.
The meeting is sponsored by
General Telephone Company in
conjunction with Electrone
Neal Jackson, president
Neal Jackson
gage, Inc.
ced this 1
ahoo,
sociated
licensed
man.
Mr. Dunahoo is
uate of Winder-1
School and £--t
gree in
Georgia
graduation
in Winder as a lane
a field closely relai
estate. ,
Mr, Neal sai d,
ah „o is famiUar m
pie and properties
County and we feel
mil be an ass
company-
> ~ :n Realty and Mort-
of Atlanta, announ-
week that Terry Dun-
Of Winder, is now as-
with the firm as a
real estate sales-
5 a 1961 grad-
-Barrow High
j received his de-
Civil Engineering from
Tech in 1965. Since
he has been located
State Patrol
Report For
December
a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (present
day rates cover the 7:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. time period. The
evening time period will re
main the same . . - from 5:00
p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
The hew night rate is sche
duled to be in effect Monday
through Friday from 7:00 p.m.
to 8:00 a.m. (presentnight rates
cover 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.),
plus all day and night on Satur
days, Sundays, New Year’s Day,
July 4th, Labor Day, Thanks-
Continued on Page 3A
git; is thus that we envision
B life and works of one, Mr.
If D. McIntosh. He is ah ■el-
gif ly- man, small of stature,
gi one with much vitality and
|l|very active even in retire-
pgjnt. He engraves upon one’s
HfKl the impression of kind-
||js, humility and extreme gra-
iNsness towards everyone
§tjl whom he comes in contact.
Die following article is re
united from The Edgefield
Sergeant J. G. Smith of the
Lawrenceville State Patrol post
announced today that his post
has investigated 16 traffic ac-
made 40 arrests and
cidents,
issued warnings in Barrow
county during December.
Commenting further Smith
said 17 persons were injured
in the 15 accidents along with
1 other killedr
Estimated property dam
age amounted to $27,600.00.
more
tions.
The state prison will continue
to manufacture Georgia auto
mobile tags.
Continued on Page 3A
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Jan.
7,1970 edition of The Winder News.
BOE
continued from
1A
the HVAC systems at the high school.
The work at Westside Middle School is mostly
finished on the common areas of the school, Pemo
said. He said the WMS work in summer 2019 was
concentrated on classrooms and the 2020 work
would be in hallways, gym, cafeteria and other com
mon areas of the school. Pemo also reported work
on the district’s third high school, Barrow Arts and
Sciences Academy is ‘ ‘on time and on budget.’ ’
GLOBALPATHWAY
Lee Bane, director of innovative learning, and
Brandy Alexander, academic director for the Univer
sity of Georgia, outlined the Georgia Global Pathway
program, a new effort that aims at black, low-income
and first-generation college students for study abroad.
A release from UGA said research shows that stu
dents who study abroad “enjoy significantly higher
four- and six-year graduation rates from college.
Bane said after the meeting that the program seeks
to expose students to the benefits of studying abroad.
He said students from better educated and wealthier
families get those benefits. First-generation students,
he said, are often happy just to be in college and don’t
recognize programs that can broaden horizons.
The J. W. Fanning Institute at UGA will work with
Barrow County administrators on the program. Bane
said the program is in its first year.
PROPERTY TAXES
Houston made a presentation on property taxes to
the board. She said the presentation has been made
to the Winder City Council and the Barrow County
Board of Commissioners.
Administrators and board members have com
plained for years that the district has less revenue than
comparable-sized school districts.
Houston said the Barrow County school sys
tem has the second-lowest amount of school taxes
among the seven counties that includes Barrow and
surrounding counties. Barrow County has about $40
million in school taxes, including bonds. It does not
include city school districts.
It has the third highest number of students in those
counties, behind Gwinnett and Hall, both of which
are much laiger than the others. Jackson and Oconee
counties are the smallest with about 8,000 students.
Gwinnett is the largest district with 185,000 students.
Barrow County has the third-highest millage rate
at 18.5 mills. But Walton and Jackson counties also
have millage rates with more than 18 mills - 18.6
mills for Walton and 18.858 for Jackson. The lowest
school district is Oconee County at 16.5 mills and the
highest is Clarke at 20 mills.
Houston said the median Barrow County home
value is $134,300. Based on that number, a property
owner would pay about $957 in school taxes. Ac
cording to the schools, the local share of education
is $2,845. Jackson County is the highest at $6,983. It
would take about 40 years, Houston said, to pay the
local share of a student’s education.
“The discussion (among senior citizens) that ‘I
have already paid for my child’ is usually a false dis
cussion,” Houston said.
Barrow County’s school taxes are near the bot
tom, when considering surrounding county schools,
Houston said. Board member Stephanie Bramlett
said Debi Krause and she talked to a man about the
tax numbers. She said people are “listening” to the
school’s story about the district. She said the man had
a different interpretation and different numbers. She
pointed out that Cobb, DeKalb and Forsyth counties,
which are mentioned at the beginning of the presen
tation, have much laiger numbers of students than
Barrow County.
OTHER BUSINESS
In other business, the BOE:
•agreed to hire Derrick Maxwell as interim princi
pal for Winder-Barrow High School. He will replace
A1 Darby, who will move to the central office next
week. Darby will work in the student services depart
ment under assistant superintendent Ken Greene. He
will work on transportation issues and district-wide
athletic questions.
•saw a report that shows the district had 14,319
students on the 80th day of school. At the same time
in 2018, the schools had 14,058 students. The gains
continue to come at the middle school and high
school area. Both county high schools have a little
more or little under 2,000 students. Haymon-Morris
and Russell middle schools each have more than 900
students. Russell has 977, nearly 1,000. Two of the
district’s elementary schools, Yaigo and Kennedy,
have more than 900 students. Kennedy had 933 on
the 80th day and Yaigo had 927.