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69th Year, No. 32
Peackland
journal
By DANIEL K. GRAHL
THE FIRE WHISTLE BLOWS
AND THE PEOPLE RUN
There is probably nothing quite
so universally interesting as see
ing the fire trucks run and runn
ing after them.
And there is nothing probably
■quite so useless (in most cases)
as an ordinary citizen like yours
truly at a fire.
I got a thrill out of following
the trucks when I was a boy and
I still get a thrill from the same
thing. And yet, it has been brought
to my attention on several occas¬
ions how automobile traffic to
and from the scene of a fire has
hampered swift ard efficient fire
fighting.
For a number
Bpl cf months we
Jr^l flgl have made it a
practice to see
Iflh how many non
jflH fighters brea k
« and run with the
^■9 sound of the fire
Sffll whistle. The no.
is almost always
sufficient to hamper somewhat the
efficient fighting of the fire.
Or course, it is understandable
for a person to break and run if
the fire is in their own neighbor¬
hood. Self preservation, whether
of body or material things, is the
first law of nature. However it
is our belief, and we believe that
of Fire Chief Clinton Hutto and
the other fire fighters that a per¬
son not actively engaged in fight¬
ing the fire should refrain from
impeding the fighters in any fash¬
ion. This includes cluttering up the
streets with unnecessary vehicles
which may impede the arrival of
additional equipment or additional
fire fighters.
In many cities it is a violation
of an ordinance to so impede the
work of the fire department.
We have a good fire department
in Fort Valley and we respectfully
urge all non-fighters to be care¬
ful not to clutter up the
with vehicles and not to get in
the way of the fighters at the
scene of the fire. The savings in
promptly putting out the fire will
be well forth people waiting to
look at the scene of the fire.
HEADLINE TELLS THE STORY
A headline in one of the daily
pi»pers told a good story this week.
The headline (quote): “Where¬
abouts Of Ezra Benson Poses Mys¬
tery.”
We’re glad the press is coming
up to date. Most of the American
farmers have been wondering since
1963 where the secretary is. He
has been “lost” in their opinion
ever since he took office!
GREENWAVE WILL OPEN
SEASON IN NEW’ STADIUM
The 1957 Greenwave
team will open their season on
Sept. 6 in a ‘new* stadium. The
playing field will be the same
but new concrete spectator
built to seat 2,800 people, are
ing completed at the present time.
It is the desire of school and
ball officials to fill the new
for the opening (and all
quent) game. We believe the
of this area will do just that.
The new stands are being
structed on the west side of
son Field and the stands
were formerly used on that
will be moved to the east side
make approximately 5,000
available at all home games.
Atop the new stands is a
press-box, and we herewith
it upon ourselves to invite
and newspaper representatives
the visiting teams, along with
Macon and Atlanta .papers, to
with us there during the season.
While we are at it, we
stand indications are that the
Greenwave will again be a
team. Probably the weakest
at the .present time is the
sive quarterback. The passing
of Russell Venness will be
The others leaving,
James Brand, will be missed,
but Homer Jackson, Jimmy
Richard Wilson and Jimmy
iams should take up most of
slack in the running
It is understood that
Schofill plans to move from
to tackle. That may be a very
move. Nelson is mighty strong
his brother Bill set him a good
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Fort Valley, Peach County, Ga., Thurs., August, 15, 1957
Fori Valley Schools To Open Thurs.,
August 29; Members Listed
Registration at the Fcrt
Schools will begin on
August 29, at 8:30 a.m. All
dents except First Graders
register and receive books on
sday, August 29. All students
meet classes and be given
ments on Friday, August 30,
ginning at 8:30 a. m.
Labor Day will be observed
a holiday.
The above announcements
made this week by Peach
Superintendent of Schools
R. Anderson who also said
students who are to enter the
grade should report to the
School building on Friday,
30, at 8:30 a. m.
“A child must be six years
age before December 1, 1957,
,
order to be eligible to enter
this term," he added. “Each
must present a birth
before he or she can be
in the first grade.”
It was also announced that
Barbara Bell will teach
piano lessons. The cost of
lessons will be $10 per month.
The new school building
at the end of Forest Drive in
Westview section, to be known
Funeral Held For
Mai^arCt £5 L.
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James On Tuesday
Funeral services were held
at four o’clock last Tuesday
noon for Miss Margaret
James, 72, who died at noon
Monday, August 12.
The services were held at
graveside with the Rev.
E. Hodges, pastor of the Fort
ley Bapttst Church, officiating.
Burial was in Oaklawa
tery.
The daughter of the late
J. B. James and Mrs.
Bairron James, Miss Janies
a native Georgian. She wa3 a
ber of the local Baptist
since 1895 and was a retired
cal and public school music
Survivors inciuda cne sister,
J. R. Ttiney, of Fort Valley,
a number of nieces and
Nieces are Mrs. Evelyn James
tin, Livingston, Ala., Mrs.
James Milton, Nashville,
Mrs. Anna Margaret James
sion, New Haven, Conn., Mrs.
garot Baldwin Lubely, of
Church, Va., Mrs. Estelle
Searcy, Griffin, Ga., and
were Joseph W. Kinney, Fort
ley, Ga., Charles Baldwin,
boro, Ga., Marvis Baldwin,
go, 111., James Baldwin,
Church, Va., John H. James,
freesboro, Tenn., and Thomas
James, Keysville, Va.
Rooks Funeral Horae of
Valley was in charge of
ments.
Baptists Stage
To College Day 8'
Sunday, August 25, will be
-to-College Day at the Fort
Baptist Church. Both services
that day will be devoted to
young people who are soon to
for the first time.
At the morning service, a
ion will be reserved for all
students, and they will be
special guests of the day. All
lege young people of the
are urged to be present, and
bring their dates if they desire.
At the evening service, both
college students and high
students will be recognized.
high school students will
the choir and will render a
musical number. Some of the
lege students will have short
at the evening service, telling
some ©f the opportunities
on college campuses.
Following the evening
all students, high school and
lege, and their dates, are
to a fellowship-refreshment
iod in the basement.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude M.
have returned from
where they spent several days
friends.
Mrs. Ocie Ray Seals, of
will arrive in Fort Valley
week for a visit with relatives,
Fort Valley Elementary School,
will open for the first time with
the coming term of school. The
building will house grades four,
five and six and all students in
these grades should register and
receive their books at this build¬
ing.
A list of the faculty and school
personnel is as follows:
First grade, Miss Elizabeth
Brown, Mrs. Elwood Broadrick,
Mrs. Charles Bartlett; Second
grade, Miss Neoline Boykin, Miss
Emily Shepard, Mrs. Flem Hill;
-bird grade, Miss Margaret Wright
Miss Jeanine English, Mrs. Billy
Jeannes; fourth grade, Mrs. Nell
Dover, Mrs. Scott Williams, Miss
Fleurette Maddox; fifth grade,
Miss Mary Bridgers, Mrs. Charles
Sims, Mrs. Carolyn Ruffo; sixth
grade, Miss Sara Lowe, Miss Doris
Darby; seventh grade, Mrs. Frank
Lowery, Mrs. W. K. Avera; eighth
grade, Miss Gladys Hall, Miss Lei¬
la Mae Royal. High School: Mrs.
Sam Mathews, Miss Louraine Gil¬
more, Miss Tommie Guess, Miss
Eleanor Bell, Miss Virginia Her¬
rington, Miss Annette Shepard, Mr
Charles Tyre, Miss Thelma Wilson,
Mr. Tom Campbell, Miss Jane
Brantley, Mr. Charles Sims, Mr.
Charles Thomas, Mr Norman Fair
cloth, Mr. Richard Parks, Mrs. C.
H. Carson, Mr Stan Beckham, Miss
Sadye Tanner, Miss Patricia Tho¬
mas, Miss Norma Boyer, Mrs. Ge¬
orge Wheaton, Visiting Teacher,
Mrs. Brown Rodgers, secretary,
Mrs. R. B. Bentley, lunchroom man
ager, and Ernest R. Anderson, su¬
perintendent.
Lions Club Holds
Bimonthly Meeting
Plans for Ladies Night and in¬
stallation of officers highlighted
the regular bimonthly meeting of
the Fcrt Valley Lions Club held
last Thursday noon at th Woman’s
Clubhouse.
Lion President Lamar Crosby an
nounced that the Ladies Night
speaker would be District Gover¬
nor T. J. Mays, Jr., Stockbridge,
Georgia, current governor of Dis¬
trict 18-E. The meeting will be
held Thursday night, August 22,
at 8:00 p.m. at the American Le¬
gion Clubhouse.
President Crosby announced the
j appointment of Dr. A. D. Brann as
Chairman of the Sight Conserva*
tion Committee and of Horton
Green as Publicity Chairman.
New members at the meeting
were Bobby Joyner and O. P. Scar¬
brough. Visitors were Dan Grahl,
George Culpepper III, Gene Bailey
and Gordon Culpepper.
Post Office To
Start New Route
The Fort Valley Post Office will
inaugurate service on a brand new
route within the near future, ac¬
cording to Assistant Postmaster
B. J. Hudson, and along with in¬
auguration of the new sA vice,
carrier assigned to the route will
have a new means of transporta¬
tion - a shiny new bicycle!
Hudson said that daily mail de
| liveries will be made in the West
view section on Hardeman (Third
; Street) and the northern end
Westview Drive; in the
. Park section on Princess, and the
| portion of Courtland not
at the present time, and a part
Cemetery Drive. Also
for the new mail service is
fifteen streets off South
Street; four streets of Spruce
reet; and some eight streets
beyond the Fort Valley State
lege.
No definate date as yet
been set to begin delivery
to these sections. However,
son- said that it would begin
soon as the city completed
ing markers bearing the names
the streets and the residents
bered their houses and put up
boxes.
Mrs. J. C. Lloyd and Mr.
Mrs. Louis P. Singleton were
ts lacst weekend of Mr. and
Frank Belyeau of Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Leeman Duke
; Mr. a id Mrs. Jimmie Duke
; spending several days at
j nah Beach.
Young People Ar e
HosU At Parl
-
Miss Pat Yaughn, whose engage¬
ment to Dan Hires of Macon has
been announced, was given a par¬
ty by the Young People’s Class of
the Baptist Sunday Schcol at the
home of Miss Betty Jean Smith
on Macon Street.
She was presented a meat plat¬
ter of her china pattern by the
I class.
Refreshments were served by
the group.
Those present were Mrs. Louise
Braswell, Miss Doris Pender, Miss
Janice Jones, Miss Dorothy Jordan,
Miss Ethylyn Joyner, and Miss
Betty Jean Smith.
The honoree, Miss Pat Yaughn,
was also presented a plastic fruit
juice set.
The marriage of Miss Yaughn
and Mr. Hires will take place at
the Nazarene Church in Septem¬
ber.
El) BECK TO PREACH AT
METHODIST CHURCH AUG. 25
Ed Beck, former star Fort Val¬
ley High School basketball play
and currently varsity center ol
the University of Kentucky basket¬
ball team, will be guest speakei
at the evening service of the F 01
Valley Methodist Church at th.
evening service on August 25.
Mr. Beck is studying for the min
istry. He has many friends in Fort
Valley and it is expected that a
large number will be on hand to
hear him.
Mr. N. II. Baldwin
Has 80tli Birthday
The many friends in Fort Valley
of Mr. N. H. Baldwin, who made
his home here over a long period
of years, are interested to know on
the occasion of his 80th birthday
anniversary, on July 26, that all
the members of his immediate fam
ily assembled in Falls Church, Va.,
for the celebration of the day and
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Luberly and Mr. and Mrs. James
Baldwin who reside in Falls Chur
ch.
Those who attended the reun¬
ion were: Mr. N. H. Baldwin, Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Luberly and child¬
ren, Mike and Jay.e, Mr. gnd 'Ifm.
James Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Baldwin, of Waynesboro, and
Mr. Marvin Baldwin, of Chicago.
Mr. N. H. Baldwin is now mak¬
ing his home in Albany, Ga. He is
the brother of Mrs. Ben Fincher,
of Fort Valley.
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FLASH FLOOD In Lampasas, Texas, made rescue workers of many
townspeople. Shown here is the rescue the following morning of an
exhausted victim of the flood, which swept Into the town of some
6,NO persons so fast many didn’t have time to evacuate, (fcda Photo)
Greenwave Football Practice Starts Mon.
Practice for the 1957 edition of
the Fort Valley High School Green
wave football team will begin next
Monday night at 7:00 o’clock ac¬
cording to head coach Norman
Faircloth.
( Coach, Faircloth called for all
candidates for the team to meet
him and coach Charles Sims at
* ^ gymnasium at that time,
le was also announced that the
beautiful new concrete stands for
the football field, with a seating
capacity cf 2,800, will be ready for
opening game here against
I Cuthbert on September 6.
I The complete 10-game schedule
for the local team was also releas
ed, with games as follows:
Home games, Sept. 6, Cuthbert;
Sept. 27, Hogansville; October 11,
$3.00 Per Year In Advance
Mrs. Thompson Acquitted Of
Murder Charges By Peach Jury
Softball Schedule
Announced For
Rest of Year
All games to start at 6:00 p.m.
at the field on Montrose Street.
FIRST WEEK:
Tuesday, August 13, City vs
Blue Bird “All American”.
Wednesday, August 14, - Bap
tist vs Methodist.
Thursday, August 15, — Jay
cees vs Blue Bird T & D.
SECOND WEEK:
Tuesday, August 20, Jaycees
vs Blue Bird All American
Wednesday, August 21, — City
vs Methodist
Thursday, August 22 Bap
tist vs Blue Bird T&D
I’HIRD WEEK:
Tuesday, August 27, — Baptist
vs Blue Bird All American
Wednesday, August 23, Jaycees
vs Methodist
Thursday, August 29, — City vs
M, e Bird T&D
FOURTH WEEK:
Tuesday, September 3, Blue
Bird T&D vs Jaycees
Wednesday, September 4, —
Blue Bird All American vs City
Thursday, September 5, Metho¬
dist vs Baptist
FIFTH WEEK:
Tuesday, September 10, — Blue
Bird All American vs Jaycees
Wednesday, September 11, —
Methodist vs City
Thursday, September 12, — Blue
Bird T&D v» Baptist
SIXTH WEEK:
Tuesday, September 17, Meth
odist vs Jaycees
Wednesday, September 18, Blue
Bird T&D vs City
Thursday, September 19, •— Blue
Bird All American va Baptist,
DORIS KNIGHT Y W. A.’»
MET ON MONDAY
The Doris Knight Y. W. A.’s
met on Monday, August 5, at the
home of Annie Laura Willis. They
opened with prayer led by Mrs.
tus.-ell Tomlinson.
The program was on the South¬
ern Baptist Work in Switzerland.
Each part was in the form of a let¬
ter.
At the close of the meeting re¬
freshments were served by the
hostess.
Forsyth; October 25, Harris
ty; and November 1, We3t Point.
Away, Sept. 13, Cochran; Sept.
2Q, Troupe County (LaGrange);
October 4, Jackson; October
Manchester; November 15,
Robins.
Faced with the loss of six
lars and three reserves,
Faircloth said that the team
plenty of rough work before
opening game. The regulars
through graduation are
Brand, stellar halfback;
Vennes, strong-armed
Danny Ray and co-cg.ptain
Hallman at guards; Joe
at tackle, and Lawrence Joyner
end. The reserves lost were
man Frederick, Erne-st Read
Mrs. Claudia Thompson was ac
quitted late Tuesday afternoon by
a Peach County all-male jury of
murder charges growing out of
the fatal shooting of her husband,
C. P. ‘Buck’ Thompson last March,
The jury deliberated approxi¬
mately one hour before returning
their “not guilty” verdict.
Mrs. Thompson, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Reed, ti Id the
jury in an unsworn, prepared
statement that she and her hus¬
band were playfully tussling on
their bed and the .25 calibre pis¬
tol, which neither thought was
loaded, fired and killed her hus¬
band.
The freed woman also testified
that her husband came home late
on the night he was killed and
hat he “had been drinking a little
>ut was not drunk.” She said he
was laying in the bed amd she was
sitting by him talking when he
“jokingly” said, “I belmve I’ll
Mississippi Clark
To Leave Radio To
Go With Pepsi-Cola
The Leader-Tribune learned this
week that Mississippi Clark, man
ager of local radio station WFPM
has resigned his position, effective
September 1 to re-enter the beve¬
rage field.
He has accepted a position with
the Pepsi Cola Company as Georgia
manager of the territory south of
Atlanta, with three plants in Flor¬
ida also included in his territory.
“I would like to express my ap¬
preciation for all of the wonderful
co-operation given me by the local
merchants and business men,” the
retiring manager said. “I feel that
the added opportunity offered by
the beverage industry, however,
warrants my going back into that
line of work.”,
Clark was for many years asso¬
ciated with the Fort Valley Coca
Cola Bottling Company. He became
manager of the loeal radio station
st me months ago. His many years
in the beverage industry make
him wall qualified for his new po¬
sition.
At th# present time no manager
has been named by the Dawson,
Ga., corporation which owns the
local station to succeed him.
Drink Stand Burns
At High School
Local fireman were roused from
their beds at 4:25 Sunday morning
by a small blaze that completely
destroyed the drink stand located
on the grounds of the High SchooL
One fireman said that as he
approached the site, he feared the
school itself was afire because of
the immense amount of smoke.
The stand was situated just
south of the school building and
almost directly in front of the
f?ym.
The fire was out of control by
the time the call was received,
fire officials said, with no chance
of saving the stand. The school
building was not endangered. How¬
ever, the fire department stayed on
the job until the last ember had
burned as a precautionary meas¬
ure.
Origin cf the blaze is undeter¬
mined.
Bennett Rigdon.
Boys expected to report for the
first practice are, ends, Wayne
Young, Gene Pearson, Edward
Woodard, Julian Jones; tackles,
Gene Burnett, Nelson Schofill,
Alan Evans, Jimmy Anderson, and
Mike Schofill; guards, Kenneth
Jones, James Oakes, Jack Doles,
Earl Holland; centers, Jo# Ault
man, Coalson Pender; quarterbacks
Philip Yi ung, Bobby Jones, Donnie
Hallman; halfbacks, Homer Jack
son, Jimmy Sutton, Jimmy Hill
iams, John Edwards, Richard Wil¬
son, Ronny Bradshaw, Bill McGe
hee, Bud Ilashtm; fullbacks, Vandy
Gates and Ernest Anderson.
“All of the boys came through
spring practice i 1 fine style,” the
shoot you.” When he pointed the
pistol at her, she said she began
“tussling” with him for it and
the pistol fired, with the bullet
entering his body under the left
arm.
The autopsy report from Dr.
Herman Jones of the State Crime
Laboratory stated that the bullet,
a copper-jacket .25 calibre, went
through the deceased’s lungs and
lodged just under the skin under
his right arm.
Dr. Jones testified at the trial
that it would have been highly
impri bable for the deceased to
have received the wound in the
spot he did receive it during a
tussle. However, Defense Attorney
George B. Culpepper, Jr., challen¬
ged him on the testimony and
questioned him about a mistaike he
(Dr. Jones) had made in locating
the wound.
Testimony presented to the cor¬
oner’s jury last spring brought
out the fact that Thompson was
married to a woman in Eatonton,
Ga., and that they had six child¬
ren, five of them dependents. The
defense in the trial claimed that
the deceased swore that he had not
been previously married at the
time he and Mrs. Thompson secur¬
ed a marriage license in Peach
County, and that it was more than
a year before Mrs. Thompson knew
of the children. She said, in her
statement, that her husband then
told her about the children but
said that he was divorced from
his wife in Eatonton.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were
living in the home of her father
at the time of the fatal shooting
and Mr. Reed, who was a Peach
County Deputy Sheriff at the time,
testified that he was a/sleep at
the time the bullet was fired. He
testified that when he heard hia
daughter cry out she told him,
“Buck is shot. Call the ambulance.”
Sol. Gen» William West intro¬
duced a statement allegedly made
by Mr. Reed before the coroner*!
jury which read that Mrs. Thomp¬
son told him, “ I have shot Buck.
I thought the gun was unloaded. H
Mr. Reed denied making this
statement to the coroner’s jury.
Rev. Robert Green
To Be Heard
By Methodists
Rev. Robert Green, Minister of
the First Methodist Church of
South Orange, New Jersey, will
preach at the First Methodist
Church here next Sunday night.
He is an A. B. and B. D. graduate
from Asbury, and did graduate
work at Drew Theological Semi¬
nary. Brother Oeen has served
pastorates in Kentucky and New
Jersey. He is a member of the Ne¬
wark Annual Conference and also
serves his Conference as Secre¬
tary of the Board of Temperance.
Mrs. Green is a native of Fort
Valley and befi.re her marriage
was Miss Maude Brown Edwards.
She along with her husband and
two children, Margaret and Mer¬
ritt, are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Edwards.
The pastor will preach at the
morning service and his subject
will be “A Faith to Live By. »*
Attend Sunday School and Chur
ch and help make August a Great
Month For God.
coach said, “and hot contests will
be waged for several starting po¬
sitions. All of the starting posit¬
ions are wide open.”
Coach Faircloth also asked all
freshmen who are in:e;ested in go¬
ing out for ■football to meet him
at the gym on next Tuesday morn¬
ing at li) o’clock. He expressed a
desire for a large turnout of the
freshmen, pointing ut that the
freshmen of this year *|| soon
make up most of the earn.
Last year’s team lost only two
games, both by a ,»u; ouch. twn
margin. Warner Robins beat them
in their final gim* of the regular
season and Trion Sea them i:i a
playoff c nleat for the district
title.