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Volume XLVI, Number 24
Peackland
journal
By Daniel K. Grahl
THE H-BOMB AND ETERNITY
As most of our readers have al.
ready realized we are motion pic
ture enthusiasts. In fact, if we had
- a. Iwffthe like money and
time we
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the picture
VtNI changed.
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ing what the mo.
■Jjtjl B tion picture in
dustry has to do
:• ' with the H-bomb.
This week we saw a fictional
film which involved the explosion
of an atom bomb.
We sat in our seat and saw the
malignant mushroom rise above
the earth, with its accompanying
feeling of impending doom. We saw
the spot where the island was be
fore the explosion, and while we
watched the mushroom rise we
in something like a profile before
cur minds all the good and bad of
the world we have known.
It was something of an awful
feeling to sit there and contem¬
plate the stupendous damage that
the A-bomb did in just one or two
awful seconds.
And that was just an A-bomb,
not an H-bomb.
In Washington the AEC seeems
to be bent on keeping Robert
Oppenheimer from having access
to the secrets of the atomic energy
commission.
We can not forget a fictional
story which Philip Wylie wrote
some months back for one of the
prominent magazines. In his story
a scientist prepared a trea-tise on
the exploding an A-bomb and it
was published in a scientific maga
zine. Two remote scientists took
the treatise to be the real McCoy
and used the premises therein con
tained for an experiment. A num
ber of other scientists throughout
the world realized an error in the
original scientist’s calculations and
moved to warn all the other nu
dear scientists of the world. Too
late.
The experiment had already been
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enormous blast.
That seems to us to be the way
with Oppenheimer. He knows
enough to blow the world to king¬
dom come and yet a man like
Strauss, a man who feefs the-t bis
personal likes and dislikes, his per¬
sonal evaluation, come above that
of an entire commission, has pre¬
vailed upon Eisenhower to deny
him access to A-bomb and H-bomb
information. That to the daddy of
the A-bomb! Does it make sense?
If Oppenheimer is a security risk
it seems to us that the onlv wav
ihe government can make to world
safe is to ei‘her execute Oppen¬
heimer or nut him in solitary con¬
finement for the rest of his life. Do
Strauss and Eisenhower realize
that Oppie can probably blow this
world to whatever lies for it in the
future ?
We want the world protected •
We want all security risks put
where they can not do the world
harm. Presuming that Onpenheim
er is a security risk, then why
don’t the government * put him
where he can’t blow the world to
simthereens, why don’t they take
his pa-ssport away from him so that
he can’t go to Russia?
Those are the questions which
puzzle us. Someone smarter than
we will have to answer for these
problems someday, and we hope it
isn’t Doomsday when they have to
answer.
BLOSSOMS FROM THE
MAIN STEM
Ole Peachtree Pete has been
working overtime this week . '
just like the peach packing sheds j
in and around Fort Valley . . . One
of the things which stood out in
our mind was the way Pete spoke
about McCarthy . . . Senator Mc¬
Carthy, that is ... . Pete wanted
to know why it is that McCarthy
always cries Smear, smear,
smear”, when one of the commit¬
tee members attacks a member of
his staff when McCarthy has ruth¬
lessly in the pa-st attacked any and
everyone who has come before his
committee . . . Stu Symington
(God rest his soul) has our active
sympathy and support ... If we
could help him we would for the
(Ceatinaed on pat* t)
©Jte Jeaber ♦
So. Railwav
Receives Public
Safety Award
Southern Railway System has
just received the Public Safety
Activities Award of the National
Safety Council, for extending its
own safety program to the com
munities it serves through em
ployee family and public safety
programs.
In a telegram to Southern Presi
dent Harry A. DeButts announcing
the award, Ned H. Dearborn, presi
t ♦ nt ul the National Salety Coun
° ’ sal ' ’ I! ' <IUI * ,0 l >e y° u w *"
continue and increase this activity
which is a real contribution to the
welfare of our nation.
The award is conferred by the
National Safety Council on a non.
competitive basis to railroads that
broaden the benefits of their own
employee safety programs by i: in¬
eluding off-the-job, school and oth
er public safety activities,
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Georgia College
Grads Urged To
Remain In South
ATLANTA,—(GPS) Paraphras -
j n g Horace Greely who many years
ago said, “Go West, Young Man,
Go West,” a well known Georgia
banker told the University of Geor
gia’g 1954 graduating class the
other day that to put their college
training to the best use they should
“stay South, the speaker was
Mills B. Lane Jr. president of the
Citizens & Southern National
Bank. Said he:
In the hustling, bustling, vigor
ops New South, Georgia means
business. This state is now grow
i n g more than the cotton, corn,
the peaches, and the peanuts which
made it famous. Today, it is grow
ing opportunities that are waiting
only for the proper cultivation and
bountiful harvesting by young
people,
College graduates today face
tremendous responsibilities to
themselves and the world he said,
These responsibilities begin at
home. Declaring that ‘Georgia is
j ust begnning,’ Lane pointed to
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Gov. Praises
Dairy Society
Governor Herman Talmadge
praised the Atlanta Dairy Tech
nology Society Wednesday for its
effort to promote the dairy in
dustry through education of the
consumer to the importance and
economy of dairy products.
“It is important for the future
growth and prog p erity of the dairy
industry, that the general public
be acquainted with the nutritional
values of milk s-.-.td dairy products
and the economics in food costs
which can be effected through
their liberal use,” the chief execu¬
tive said.
“Statistics released by the Unit¬
ed States Department of agncui
ture show that the per capita con
sumption of milk and milk pro
ducts has declined consider ably
during the past decade. This means
that the dairy industry must seek
through promotion amd educational
campaigns to preserve and expand
its markets.”
Speaking before 300 members of
the Society at the Druid Hills
Country Club here, Talmadge sug¬
gested that the dairy industry take
a page from the book of the citrus
and soft drink industries in pro
moling its products. No other in¬
dustry, he said, has a more natural
or convincing sales theme.
“The dairy industry has a top
product and there is no reason why
it should fall behind in competition
for beverage markets. No other in¬
dustry has a more natural or con¬
vincing sales theme,” the governor
explained.
“The rapidly increasing number
of ] older people offers a challeng¬
ing market for more milk and
da-iry products. Everyone wants to
live longer—and milk will help
achieve a longer and more zesttul
life,” the governor noted.
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Ruffo and
children, of Houston, Texas, have
arrived for a visit in Georgia of
ten days and are guests of Mrs.
S. B. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs.
Newton W. Jordan, Jr.
Fort Valley, Georgia, Thursday, June 17, 1954
St. Andrew’s
Episcopal Church
Sunday is “Family Sunday” at
the Episcopal Church. Services will
be the Holy Communion at 7:30 a.
m. and Morning Prayer and Ser
mon at 11:00 a.m. The 11:00 ser
vice every third Sunday in the
month is directed to all
of the family including small child,
ren.
There will be no choir during
the summer months and hymns
will be selected on the suggestions
from the congregation.
The Church School will meet
throughout the summer under the
direction of Mr. Grant Vennes. The
curriculum of the school will een
ter about visual aids available. The
school meets at 10:00 a.m, each
Sunday.
The Parish House will be open
each Friday night from 8:00 - 11.00
fer the recreation of the young r
people of the community.
You are cordially invited to at
tend the services and activities of
the St. Andrew’s Church, Fort Val¬
ley.
W.S.C.S. Holds
Group Meetings
The group meetings of the Worn
an s Society Christian Service of
the Fort Valley Methodist Church
wil1 be be,d Monday afternoon,
June 21 ’ at 3:30 at tlle following
homes:
Mrs - Geo. M. Haslam’s group
wil1 meet with Mrs. Haslam. Mrs.
Geo. Haslam Sr. will be co.hostess.
Mrs. Maxwell Murray’s group
wil1 meet with Mrs. Lynn Brown,
Mrs. Samuel Taylor will be co
hostess.
Mrs. R. H. Wall’s group will
meet with Mrs. Amos Murray,
The meeting place of Mrs. C. H.
Mathews group will be announced
in the church bulletin Sunday,
Lt. Gov. Griffin
to Attend
Ga- Press Asso.
Lt Governor Marvin Griffin will
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zix nounced todav. ~
Griffin, a ‘candidate for Cover
nor of Georgia will attend the
convention in his capacity as ' Edi
tor and Publisher of the Bain
bridge POST-SEARCHLIGHT
Griffin has been at the helm of
this newspaper in his home town
of Bainbridge for many years.
The Lt. Governor’s brother,
Mayor R. A. (Cheney) Gi i in of
Bainbridge, serves as Managing
Editor of the POST-SEARCH
LIGHT
Cheney Griffin also is serving as
camnaign manager in Marvin
Griffin’s race for Governor of
Georgia,
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New Dodges Have
Arrived Here
Part of the South’s largest single
post-war automobile shipment ar
rived in Fort Valley yesterday
when Hairis H. Hafer received
their latest shipment of new
Dodges, it was announced by Har¬
ris Hafer.
Mr. Hafer pointed out that im¬
mediate re-stocking of cars in this
area- was necessary because of un
expectedly heavy Spring new car
buying. This shipment will help re¬
lieve shortages, especially in new
Spring eo]or selections, and bring
stocks into balance, he added.
Hundreds of Dodge dealers and
their salesmen from Georgia,
Florida, Alahama and Tennessee
gathered in Atlanta- to meet the
huge convoy when it arrived from
Detroit. To avoid traffic conges¬
tion enroute to Atlanta, the convoy
was sent over the road in two sec¬
tions of 35 haulaway trailers each,
which in turn were split into
groups of five and spaced a quart¬
er of a mile apart.
Miss Ann Norris, of Jacksonville,
Florida, arrived Wednesday for a
visit here to Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Strickland and Nick Strickland,
Jr. and will be in the city a few
days. Fort Valleyans are interested
to know tha-t Nick Strickland, Jr.
will leave Monday for induction
in the U. S. Armed Forces.
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T B Statement
Is Released
Flat on your back in bed is still
the best place to recover from
tuberculosis, according to the Geor
gia TB Association,
Carl Fox, the association’s exe
cutive secretary, said thart in a
statement released this week by
the medical section of the National
TB Association, doctors were ad
vised to continue to recommend
rest in bed for their patients,
“While new drugs seem to have
shortened the average patient’s
period of recovery, and have saved
many lives,” Fox said, “this does
not mean that the need for com
plete rest during the active phase
of disease has changed.
The statement, to be published
in the June “American Review of
Tuberculosis”, a medical journal,
says that tests are being marde to
find out by how much bed rest
may be safely reduced. Also,
whether it may be considered un
i m P 01 'tant in some types and stages
of tuberculosis.
“A committee of outstanding
authorities on TB prepared this
statement,” said Fox “They stress
that every TB patient should stay
in a hospital during the infectious
stage of disease.
"This is not only for the benefit
°f the patient, but also is the best
way to prevent others from catch
in E >L”
Fox pointed out that in Georgia,
during the past several years, the
number of newly found cases of
TB has continued at a high level,
tho deaths have dropped.
“It’s wonderful that newly dis
covered drugs have saved lives, hut
the drugs also $reate the problem
of providing costly care for those
who survive. In other words the
decrease in deaths makes our prob¬
lem grearter because we have more
live patients needing care and
treatment.
“By using these drugs to best
advantage, and by continuing or
increasing our educational and
case finding efforts, we could in
Georgia, within 10 years, begin
to make real progress against TB.”
h« concluded, »
3 Day Assembly
F -
loinivalt WitiiPfiBPB
Mr J ° C Bryant M,s ™ Kllen n
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Bryant ’ MrS ’ Bertba G *‘ ison ’ Mr ’
Peter Stribling ’ Curtis Cross ’ wiU
attend the tbree day assembly of
Jchovab ’ s witnesses by car at
JeRUP ’ Georgia ‘ June 25 - 27 ’ spon -
sored by the Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society of New York. The
week end gathering will take place
at Wayne County Training School,
391 Fourth street. It’s purpose is
Bible instruction and concentrated
gospel-preaching in this area,
spokesmen for the group announc
ed today.
Amanda Ragin, Mrs. Rosa J.
Lester, Mrs. Ruth Mincey, and
Agnes Cross will travel to the
assembly city by car Plans are
made to attend all three days, con
sisting of morning, afternoon and
evening sessions of Bible talks, dis.
cussions and demonstrations, which
are open to the public without
charge.
On Sunday, June 27, at 3 P.M.,
they will hear Mr. J. Thompson of
New York give the main public
address. A graduate of Gilead, the
Watchtower Society’s foreign mis
sionary school at Ithaca, New York
Mr. Thompson will speak on
subject “Is Civilization’s End
Near?”
J.ocai delegates will meet with
with about 200 others from twenty
one cities, including Savannah,
Charleston, Augusta, and Macon,
Ga. News Briefs
ATLANTA, (GPS) Griffin’s
John J. Flynt Jr. is the new presi
dent of the Georgia Bar Assn. . . .
More than 1,000 agricultural lead
ers from all over Georgia attend
ed “Walter Brown Appreciation
Day” festivities in Athens the oth
er day. They were honoring Wa-lter
S. Brown, retiring director of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service, who has a record of 37
years of service to Georgia agri
culture ... Dr. M. Gordon Brown,
former Georgia Tech faculty mem
who has been in government
foreign service since 1950, has been
appointed assistant chancellor of
the University System of Georgia
by the State Board of Regents.
Talmadge Re-Affirms Stand
On On TV Show
Students Tie for
Awards in History
Th^ following students tied for
the awards in the study of Georgia
History in the Fort Valley Junior
High School: Ellen Cutler, Janice
Bowden, Martha Hudson, George
Haslam and Bill McGehee. The
awards are offered annually to
encourage the study by the Char
les D. Anderson Chapter Daugh
tels tbe Confederacy, of which
Mrs. Clifford H. Prator is the
president.
Mrs. E. W. Bowman, Sr. was
chairman for the year of this
project.
The winners of the awards are
pupils of Miss Mary Bridges, of
the History Department, and the
awards were gifts of money which
were shared equally by the five
winners.
J^UrbcCUC tO Be
licJcl clt n l\t‘YI10KlS 11
for Gai*lail<l Byrd J
Taylor County friends of Gail.
and Byi "d> candidate for Commis.
S10aer of Agriculture will sponsor
a Garland Byrd Dinner at the Golf
Course in Reynolds, Friday, June
18tb at 7;30 p ' m -
A program has been planned for
the evening which includes a band
concert and an address by Hon.
Garland Byrd, and a barbecue din
ner.
Mr. Byra, a native of Ta'ylor
County, received his high school
education in Reynolds and later
graduated at Emory Law School,
Atlanta. He served several years
with the armed forces during
World War II, enlisting as a pri
vate and discharged as a Captain,
He served with the Combat En
gineers with much of his time
spent overseas in the European
theatre.
Since his discharge from the
Armed Service Mr. Byrd has serv.
Cd aS Re P ,esentat,ve in the Gen -
fr ° m
rayl ° l County ’ Under the present
ad mi»istration he has served as
Assistant Director of Veterans
Servlce Depa,rtmen t a " d Director
J n [ b,s the poslt, CitIzens °" be G™™ wl11 1 resi <? Georgia. n June
20 and qualify with the State
Democratic Executive Committee
as a candidate for the Commission,
er of Agriculture post.
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Pj»Qfrr0g§ GitClI
By Gov. Talmadge
ATLANTA,—(GPS) The State
,,f Georgia has increased its ex
penditures for higher education
from $313 per student in 1948 to
$605 at the present time, Gov. al
ma'Jge told the graduating class of
Georgia Teachers’ College at the
instltution’s recent 26th annual
commencement exercises at States
boro. Not only that, but the choice
of teaching school in Georgia is an
ever increasing field of opportun
ity, he said.
“No longer can it be said that
is laggard in the support
of her institutions,” Talmaxige
said. “I do not believe there is a
single state in the nation with
comparable resources which ; s
doing more for the cause of higher
education than is being done in
Georgia.”
In reviewing the state’s higher
education record since he took of
fine Nov. 17, 1948. the Governor
cited the following major improve
ments:
1. Increased per student expen
diture from $313 to $605 and total
funds available from $14,203,940
to $20,181,995 despite a- $7-million
dron in federal funds paid for vet
ecans’ education.
2. Constructed new buildings
valued at $20,531,375 and spent an
other $5-million on renovation, re¬
pairs and modernization of exist
ing structures.
3. Increased the average faculty
salary from $2,830 to $4,754 with
increases from $5,000 to $9,230 in
maximum salaries and from $1,320
to $2,400 in minimum salaries.
$3.00 Per Year—In Advance
Most Ga. Citizens
Hope Sen. Russell
Has No Opposition
ATLANTA,—(GPS) Richard B.
Russell, of Winder, Georgia’s
junior United States senator, has
qualified with the State Democra
tic Executive Committee as a
candidate for re-election in the
Sept. 8 primary. Most Georgians,
it seems safe to sa'y, would like
to see him returned to the Cong
ress without opposition. At least,
many influential individuals and
newspapers in his home state take
that position.
Typical of how many Georgians
feel about the matter was express
cd by the Rome News-Tribune in
a recent editorial which said in
part:
“We need men of the type of
Dick Russel] in the Senate. His
knowledge of government is unsur
passed. In principle, he is a South¬
ern Democrat, which means that
ho believes in the rights of states
and the individual and in self-re
liance.
Senator Russell’s unsuccessful
cam p a ign for the presidential nom
j na tion two years ago served both
t0 j ncreas e his awareness of amd
j ns j g ht into national problems, and
t0 bring him national respect,
Senator Russell lost in his try for
the nomination, but in that losing
fight, he gained in stature ....
Most Georgians join in hoping that
he goes back to the Senate without
opposition.'
Another example of this feeling
in his native Georgia comes from
The Valdosta Daily Times which
concluded an editorial with these
words: “Senator Russell has serv
e d his state and his country well
through the years. He has demon
strated great ability in periods of
cr j s j s an d his leadership has been
felt in much of the important legis
l a tion of the past twenty years,
.Should he have opposition, there
j s little or no likelihood it would
be strong.
“While we do not hold to the
belief that any one man is indis
pens j b i e) we are strongly of the
belief that the best interests of the
state and nation would be serV ed
by the election of Senator Rus
se] , and w( , hope he hag no oppogi _
tion. He has earned the right to
re-election without being opposed.”
And so it goes. Senator Russell,
who served as governor of Georgia
from June, 1931, to January, 1933,
when he went to Washington to
fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator William J. Harris is now
serving his twenty-second year. He
has been re-elected three times; is
the third-ranking member of the
Senate in point of service. He is at
present the ranking Democrat of
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee and a member of the power
ful Appropriations Committee.
W M. S. Meetings
Mrs. J. R. Kinney was hostess
to the Wright Circle of the Wo
man’s Missionary Society, the Bap
tist Church, Monday at her home
Persons Street. *
Mrs. John E. L'e presented the
program a-nd gave the devotional
feature. Others who discussed the
work in Mission Fields were: Mrs.
Nick Strickland, Mrs. W. D.
Tharpe, Mrs. W. B. Austin.
Others attending the meeting
were: Mrs. K. S. Jallison, Mrs.
Joseph Kinney, Mrs. Fred Cham
P ion . Mrs. Hettie McDaniel, Mrs.
Walter Pearson, Mrs. Mack Bry
ant Mrs. Glenmore Green.
The Elizabeth Johnson Mission
ary Circle met at the home of Mrs.
F. W. Bowman, Sr. for the June
Mission Study.
The business features of the
meeting were directed by Mrs. R.
P. Swan. Mrs. M. F. Johns was
Chairman and the sub
j ec t of the afternoon was Dis
tributing The Word Of God.
Mrs. J. E. Broadrick gave the
Bible study. Others present were:
Mrs. H. W. Kaiser, Mrs. B. A.
Shipp, Mrs. R. S. Jones, Mrs. C. D.
Lavender, Mrs Inard Bryan, Mrs.
Claude Houser,
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ATLANTA,—(GPS) Since the
U. S. Court’s.,recent unprecedented
—and many people think unfor¬
tunate—decision striking down
segregation in the public schools
much has been said and written a
the subject, and there'll be lots
more in the months and years to
come. Some of the views expressed
so far border on double-talk. But
one thing that continues to be
made perfectly clear to the people
of Georgia and the nation is this
state’s forthright stand on the
issue under the leadership of Gov.
Herman Talmadge.
Latest evidence of this was
seen recently when Georgia’s chief
executive (1) appeared on “Meet
th Press,” a national television and
radio program originating from
Washington and (2) met with ,oth
er Southern governors and high
state officials in Richmond, Va.,
Primarily for an “exchange of
views” on how to best achie.e their
8- oa ^ continuing segiegatL J
schools.
In his latest national TV-iadio
appearance, Talmadge told the na
tion that “at least 90 per cent of
the white fend colored people of
my state want their schools left
a l° ne j ust Hke they are” and that
no ammount of any Judici .1 brain
washing will ever change it.” He
mad f jt 1 uite plain that in his
opinion Georgia is not going to
Provide unsegregated public
schools regardless of the court’s
ruling which he described as “a
degree based on sociological
theory.”
He pointed out that the Georgia
constitution provides for separate
schools for whites and negroes and
that the current appropriations bill
would not allow the spending of
state funds for mixed schools, and
added “No federal court can make
me spend state money contrary co
the law -
He further said if it came to a '
question of abandoning the public
school system or sending children
to mixed schools the people of
Georgia would decide in favor of
dropping the public school system.
(Georgia voters will vote in the
November general election or. a
proposed constitution amendment
which would permit the state to
abolish public schools and substi
tute individual grants to pupils.
Sponsors of the measure describe
this as a standby or “i insurance
plan in cave everything else fails
’ n an e ^ or ^ t° continue segregated
schools.)
While the Richmond session was
held behind closed doors, press re¬
Ports from the Virginia city ir.di
cate that a vast majority of the
seventeen states which now have
segregated schools will make every
legal effort to retain them despite
Die court’s ruling that they are
unconstitutional,
But, according to the reports,
there will be no joint action by
these states: each state much work
out its own solution. This approach
reportedly was adopted largely on
the strength of Gov. Talmaage’s
views. And here again Georgia’s
position was the clearest. Said
"?-Imadge bluntly:
“We are going to keep segregat¬
ed schools in Georgia?. Every de
vice, idea and plan there is will
be used -° ^tain this goal. M> ad
niinistrati-n will recommend ways
they can be continued.”
Meanwhile, the Governor,
through the Georgia c-a tion
Commission, is cillir: on .
terested individuals an prou- - r»
suggest plans f ?r r <•; ing - .-is
problem. One public t--.- si- >’
ready has been held and oc _rs
will follow. Gubernatorial candi
dates especially have been asked
to submit plans, as have such
organizations as the Georgia Edu¬
cation Assn., the Parent-Teacher
Assn., and the National Assn, for
the Advancement of Colored People
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Fort Valleyans are interested to
know that Russell Edwards Jr. who
recently graduarted from Emery
University Theological School, has
been assigned the pastorate of the
Palmyra Road Methodist Church,
Albany, and will move to that city
with Mrs. Edwards at an early
date.
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