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Brewton-Parker Founders
Day Was Great Event
Climaxing 50 years of existence, Brewton-Parker College
on last Thursday, celebrated Founders’ Day with an elaboiate
program presided over by President M. A. Murray, and at
tended by large numbers of former pupils and a concourse of
friends from far and near.
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Visitors were greeted in the
administration building by a well
organized registration committee.
In the hall of the same building
was a display of pictures and oth
er material, depicting the history
of the school from its beginning
as Union Baptist Institute to its
present status as a Junior College.
The program began in the audi
torium at ten o’clock with the
presentation of a one-act mission
ary play, “To Thine Own Self.”
The characters in the play were:
Lynetth Mixon, Sylvania; Patsy
McLean, Alma; Martha Shear
ouse, Bloomingdale; Betty Horne,
Mount Vernon; Dale Warnock,
Tarrytown.
At ten-thirty the Glee Club,
under the direction of Prof. J. P.
Jardine, presented a varied musi
cal program. Soloists were Gene
Williams of Columbus; Mary
June Brown of Cobbtown; and
Sherley Middleton of Ludowici.
Rev. M. A. Murray, president
of the college, presided at the in
spirational hour. The invocation
was given by Rev. R. L. Robin
son, a former president of the
school.
Rev. J. R. Smith, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Mcßae,
gave an interesting sketch of the
life of the Hon. C. B. Parker, one
of the school’s founders. Dr. A.
M. Gates, formerly president of
Brewton Parker for a long num
ber of years gave a sketch of the
Tis of Dr. J. C. Brewton.
Rev. James R. Reed, an alum
nus of Brewton-Parker, as well
as a graduate of Mercer Univers
ity and Southern Baptist Semi
nary, delivered the inspirational
address. In speaking of the
“Workman Unashamed,” Rev.
Reed graphically illustrated the
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part played by a Christian college
in continuing the work of the
Christian home during the very
formative years after a young
person has completed high school.
His stirring message was a strong
plea for a greater emphasis on
Christian education. Rev. Reed
is at present pastor of Garden
City Baptist Church in Savannah.
The benediction of the morning
service was pronounced by Rev.
J. D. Rabun of Lyons, long-time
friend and loyal supporter of the
school.
At 12:30 lunch was served in
the college dining room. The
bountiful supply of delicious food
was largely due to generous con
tributions from local friends and
alumni of the school.
The alumni met for the purpose
of organizing at 1:30 in the audi
torium. Rev. Harry V. Smith of
Mercer University delivered the
message and assisted in the or
ganization. Mrs. G. T. Gilder, Jr.,
of Glenwood was elected presi
dent of the Alumni Association.
After a close ball game on the
local diamond, where Brewton-
Parker Barons played South
Georgia, a social hour was en
joyed in the newly-decorated
parlors of the girls’ dormitory.
“EMPHASIS” COUNTIES
Home dmonstration agents’
“emphasis” counties are establish
ed because no one specialist could
devote her time to keeping up
with latest developments in her
subject and also give demonstra
tions on it in 159 counties. She
emphasizes her subject in a few
counties at a time.
The current trend in Home
Demonstration Club work in
Georgia is toward more volunteer
local leaders assisting in organiz
ing, training and evaluating the
Home Improvement program.
(heirdell News - - -
Miss Shelby McLendon was
wek-end guest of Miss Ora Thom-
Edward, Joe, Jimmy, and Ray
mond Chafin and Floyd Wynn
were among those going to Little
Ocmulgee Park for a week-end
Boy Scout trip.
Johnnie Davis and the Lone
some Pine boys will be at tire
Wilkes High School May 14th.
Admisison will be twenty-five
and fifty cents.
Paul Thomas spent the week
end in Warner Robins, Ga.
Friends of Delmas Wood regret
that he is ill and wish for him a
speedy recovery.
Miss LaFaye Darley spent Sat
urday night with her grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Stew
art. •
Mrs. Clarence Wilkes and
Homer Wilkes were th guests of
their mother and grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Ricks, Saturday night.
Pvt. and Mrs. Odell Glover are
the proud parents of a baby girl.
Mrs. Bryant Knight has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Mark
Beasley, of Soperton. Mr. and
Mrs. Beasley ar the parents of a
baby boy. i
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Darley,
Mrs. Frances Jackson, Miss Avis
McDahiel, Bill Jackson, and G. W.
Wilkes were visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. William Stewart Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Collins
and Charles Collins s-pent Satur
day night with Mr. and Mrs. John
McDaniel.
Mrs. Lougenia Johnson, Susie
and Truman Johnson were visi
tors in Dublin Saturday.
V/hot About Pollution! x
£> OILED down to the bare essentials, conservation is not
just a word with a simple meaning—it is away of life
and a social attitude. It calls for ever tightening, sane man-
agement of resources for the direct benefit
of ALL the people.
It should be of vital concern to every
American that every 24 hours, a 40 acre
farm floats down the Mississippi River.
Steps are being taken to prevent this
useless loss in efforts to eliminate bad
farming practices and poor forestry
practices.
Some day we are going to be forced to
do something about pollution. Few, if any,
states have adequate laws to protect the life blood of our
land—the streams and rivers. Water is the most abused
of all our resources. Yet, next to the air we breath, it is the
most important single thing on earth. You could survive
for a long period of time without food but without water, you
soon would perish.
One sportsman was selected by a wildlife club to
study water conditions and report hack to members.,
Several meetings later, the man stated that he had done
considerable research on water conditions. Uis entire
report was summed up in a single sentence. “What I
discovered was enough to convince me that as long as
I live I will never drink the stuff again.”
Georgia is noted for its muddy rivers. Look at the Chatta
hoochee River below Columbus and witness a rolling, boil
ing, action of muddy soup. Then try to convince yourself
that one day years ago, it was a sparkling clear river teem
ing with fish. It still is a beautiful river at the headwaters
around Helen. In fact, it is one of our better trout streams.
Recently, an engineer whose job it is to help keep
our rivers and streams healthy, told me that we are cer
tain to lose completely several of our streams or rivers
to ’pollution. Perhaps not right away, but as industry
moves in, the pollution will be such that we will be
forced to mark oil certain rivers as hopeless.
Some of the New England states are reported to have
already had this situation. If we could get the right answers
NOW, there would be room for plenty of new industry and
we could still have decent water.
Occasionally there is a sudden and heavy flow of
waste in a Georgia river or stream. The result is devastat
ing. Thousands of dead fi h float on top and drift down
stream to become meals for vultures. Hundreds of calls
flood the Game and Fish Commission demanding action
to stop the slaughter. The Game and Fish Commission
is powerless to act since it does not have a law it can
put into operation. All matters of this type are and must
be handled by the State Health Department.
Individual citizens have been known to obtain injunctions
to halt certain cases of pollution.
It is not just a matter of good fishing—it is also of con
cern to our recreation, boating and even our drinking
water. Raw sewage and sick and diseased animals are re
ported to be among the mass of undesirable dumpage get
ting into the Chattahoochee River before it gets down to the
point where Atlanta pipes it out for its ever increasing popu
lation.
The finger pointed at industry as the principal of
fender is a false accusation. All types of industry have
been most cooperative in helping to correct the evils.
Many industrial plants have gone to great expense to
neutralize their waste before releasing it in rivers or
streams.
If all other sources of pollution were as cooperative as the
industrial plants, there would be no cause for alarm. In
South Carolina, the industrial plants put up the money to
hire experts to investigate and correct their pollution evils.
Now what can we do about it? A water expert told me that
the answers can be found, but it would need the wisdom of
King Solomon plus a few boxes of aspirins. Surely our pro
found business men and public spirited citizens can gather
around a conference table and come up with measures to
insure Georgia a future of clean, good water.
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T. C. T. S. Seniors
Report Nws Os
Colored Intrest
T.C.T.S. boys and girls track
teams received medals for first
and second place winners in the
track and field meet held at Ft.
Valley State College May 23-24:
(Girls Division) Ist Place—
Broad Jump, Vettie Raggs; 2nd
Place—Broad Jump, Alberta No
ble; 2nd Place—High Jump, Ro
nella Noble; 2nd Place—44o Yd.
Relay—Alberta Nobles, Ronella
Nobles, Nora Robinson; 3rd Place
—IOO Yd. Dash, Dorothy Kincy;
4th Place—loo Yd. Dash—Sarah
Smith.
(Boys Division) Ist Place—
Mile Relay, Russell Stanley; Ist
Place—Bßo Yd. Relay, William
Beachem; 2nd Place —Pole Vault,
Norman Johnson; 2nd Place—44o
Yd. Relay, Russell Stanley.
Miss M. L. Alexander feted the
T.C.T.S. Dramatic Club with a de
lightful buffet luncheon at the
home of Mrs. Editha Smith, April
22nd.
Mrs. Editha Smith served as
hostess to T.C.T.S. Alumnae As
sociation, April 20.
Rev. J. B. Bryant was installed
as pastor of First Baptist Church
by Reverends P. T: Phillips and
J. S. Lattimore, Sunday, April 25.
Mrs. Eva Little will entertain
the 4-sth grade classes of Treut
len County Training School at her
home Sunday evening, May 2.
Outlaw Grove Baptist Church
will celbrate its 31st Anniversary
May 2nd. Dinner will be served
on the church grounds.
The District Usher Board of the
Church of God In Christ will
The Fly And
The Sinner
O wretched man I am! who
shall deliver me from the body
of this death. Romany 7:24. Read
8: 1-5.
A fly was expecting to enjoy
some food and became caught on
a sheet of fly paper; what seems
to be sod proves to be a snare.
The more the fly tries to free
himself the more entangled he
becomes. He dies in a struggle
to free himself. This is also true
with a sinful man He is deceived
by his sins, bound by the chains
of evil habits. If left to himself
he dies in his sins. Paul had such
an experience. He described the
struggle he had to free himself
from sin but found himself help
less and in despair. He likened
himself to the condition of the
Roman prisoner to whom the
body of a dead man was chained.
He explained; O wretched man
that I am who shall deliver me
from the body of this death? I
thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Jesus came to break
the bounds of sin and to proclaim
liberty to the captive and the op
ening of the prison to them that
are bound. Daily we have cause
to thank God for Christ, our lib
erator, who frees us from sin.
Thought for the day: Whom
Christ makes free is free indeed.
Services April 23
For Eugene Walls
Eugene J. Watts, 74, died at his
home on Route 2, Soperton, April
22 after an illness of ten days. A
native of Johnson County, he had
lived in Treutlen for thirty years.
He was a son of the late Eugene
and Eleanor Odom Watts. He
was a member of the Baptist
faith.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 3P. M. Friday, April 23,
from Rosemont Church with the
Rev. T. H. Beckworth officiating.
Interment was in the church cem
etery. Pallbearers were G. W.
Wall, Marvin Powell, John C.
Powell, R. E. Cone, Grady Bass,
and J. P. Gillis.
Survivors include wife, the
former Miss Ethel Foskey to
whom he was married in 1909,
five sons, Mander, Wilma, Fonzo,
and Herbert Watts, Soperton, M.
J. Watts, Glenwood, 2 daughters,
Mrs. Lutrell Hall, Mrs. Alline
Bearden, Soperton, 21 grand
children, 3 great grandchildren.
Sammons Funeral Home, Sop
erton, was in charge of arrange
ments.
meet in Lyons, Georgia, May sth.
The Friendly Six Quartet is
scheduled to sing at Phillips
Chapel Church May 10th at 2:00
o’clock P. M.
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THE SOPERTON NEWS
Piney Mount Riles
For Mrs. Johnson
Mrs. Dessie Lou Johnson, 53,
Route 2, Adrian, died April 20
after a short illness. Born and
reared in Johnson County, she
was a daughter of H. W. Criswell
and the late Ella Bray Criswell.
She was a member of the Baptist
Church.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Thursday, April 22 at Piney
Mount Methodist Church with
the Rev. J. L. Manning and the
Rev. Walter Spivey officiating.
Interment was in the church
cemetery under the direction of
Sammons Funeral Home.
Survivor^ include husband,
Harvey Johnson, one son, Har
vey Walden Johnson, Alma, fa
ther, H. W. Criswell, Soperton, 5
sisters, Miss Mamie Criswell, Mrs.
Jessie Ricks, Soperton, Mrs. Ed
monjj Odom, Vidalia, Mrs. U. D.
Card Os Thanks
We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness and
sympathy given us in the sickness
and death of our loved one. Also
for the beautiful floral offerings.
We pray God’s richest blessings
on each of you.
Mrs. H. M. Webster
and Family
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Thursday, April 1954
Homestead Exempt'n
Law lor Farm-Owners
tiled by Gene Cook
Further iuformation has been
given by Attorney-General Eu
gene Cook on the liberalization of
the homestead exemption law.
For instance, Cook said; “The
owner of a farm located in this
state who resides in a dwelling
house situated on the farm is en
titled to a homestead exemption
as to the entire tract of land
which the dwelling house is situ
ated, to a value of $2,000.00.”
Another example cited by the
Attorney-General is as follows:
“A home owner would be entitled
to a homestead exemption up to
the value of $2,000 on an apart
ment building if he occupies one
of the apartments as-a home, him
self, no matter how many apart
ments he rents out.”
Cook ruled, also, that two per
sons could each claim an exemp
tion of $2,000 on a duplex oc
cupied and owned by both of
them, “when the line of owner
ship division follows a natural
and bona fide plan.”
Braddy, Adrian, Mrs. Jim Ricks,
Macon, one borther, M. L. Cris
well, Dublin.
