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A A. Priie-Winninc Newspaper i 1954 vc Better Newspaper A Contests 72ND. YEAR, NO. 8 Peachlt^ journal By DANIEL K. GRAHL BROTHERHOOD WEEK - I960 This is Brotherhood Week. It is a time set aside by many people in our great land, and in truth, in the world, to re-dedicate themseh :*s to the principle that there are certain basic things that nil people are entitled to. It is appropriate that such an observance be made, but it is even more appropriate that ALL peo¬ ple stop and realize that the other person has a few dignities and rights that he is entitled to. We hear much in our section of our great land today about race, and the problems is brings forth. These are not only trying times, they are tortuous times, and as such we believe that our position, speaking in generalities, should he reappraised. First, let us stop and take into consideration that all of us have to live together, for better or for worse, and that tolerance is a very necessary ing »i:ent. By tolerance we mean a mutua' understanding of and sympathy for the other persons problem or condition. Tolerance, then, as we have de¬ fined it, is a necessary ingredient of r-!v effective brotherhood. m x a imnenjeus stride has been ta¬ ken toward the realization of the leal meaning of brotherhood. The third ingredient necessary for real brotherhood is the belief and understanding that we are all children of God, and as such we must be judged on our own merits. We do not believe that brother¬ hood requires that we attend a Negro school, or a school in China or India. We do not believe that we are being discriminated against because we are not able or are not allowed to attend such a school, BUT, we do believe that we are discriminated against if we are not provided with equal facilities, both from a physical as well as an instructional standpoint where public funds are used. We do not believe that we are discriminated against if we are allowed to vote when we pass the name test as others as to intelli genee, property ownership, taxes paid, etc. BUT, we would feel that we are discriminated against if we passed all of those tests, met all of the standards, and still were denied the right to vote. We believe that the minority groups, one of which we happen to be a member of in so far as membership in Congress is con¬ cerned, should also be tolerant, and understanding. Tolerance is no one-way street, It should be observed and practiced by the norities as well as the majorities. No person has any control over what race, nationality or country he or she is born to. Each, in the words of our own Declaration of Independence, is entitled to lib¬ erty, justice and the pursuit of happiness. Each person is entitled to equality so far as the law is edn oerned, and to their own religious beliefs. At no place is one entitled to a greater share of public facil ities, both physical and instruct ional, than the other. We in our section of the country have a greater responsibility, in ■mm* 1 respects, than peop’e in the other sections. We have a race problem, and no pussyfooting can call it anything else, that no other section of our nation has, and yet I must in fair¬ ness say, we think our section has done more with that problem than any other group of people in the history of humanity. And yet, we must do more. We must recognize that many social and racial problems are pre¬ valent here and are prevalent else¬ where in the nation. Understanding of a problem is nece -ary before any real brotherhood can be ef¬ fected. We heVev? ; n an effective and (Continued on Back Page) Under.'land’ng or an hone fort to stand, another prime ingredient of such an ob servance. When me rsta i another and his or her problem, fieaher Winners Last Week In County Primary | s i M 1 : 4 ■jg i | If 1 M*4 1 • mm*** / ■ \ J Sherriff W. Herbert Breland Coroner G. C. “Dud” Poole j Reach County Sheriff W. Herbert Beeland and Coroner G. j C. “Dud” Poole, shown above, were re-elected to their offices last Wednesday in the Peach County Democratic Primary. Sheriff Beeland polled a total of 1,823 votes out of 2,320 cast to outdistance two opponents, Frank E. Flowers and J. W. Bradshaw. Flowers polled 389 votes and Bradshaw garnered 270 in the primary balloting. In the coroner's race Poole tallied 1,401 votes and L. B. Knight, his only opponent, received 831 votes. All other county office holders were unopposed for re-elec¬ tion in the Democratic primary. Spring Flower Show To Be Held At Armory Here On March 16th Mrs. J. J. Greg., who is chair of the Fort Vail 1960 Flower now has (leased the name.; of he v committees who will erve. j ,ie theme of the Flower Show < “WE SALUTE OUR TOWN”. The Flower Show is scheduled for V.’e iaesday, March 10, from 1:03 to li.vO P.M. The committees who will serve ire: STAGING National FFA Week is Being r ( (*(1 Future Farmers of America members throughout the nation are scheduling special activities to focus public attention on the work of their organization during the National FFA Week, February 20-27. Locally, members of the Fort Valley FFA Chapter plan Radio Programs, Window Displays, put ting up display posters, also hold ing local chapter meeting, bulletin boards in ILgh School, use of stickers and emblems on car win¬ dows a.id letters and other acti¬ vities. The Fort Valley FFA chapter has 26 members. President this year is Larry Borders. Mr. C. E. Thomas, Vocational agriculture instructor in Fort Valley Hibh School, serves as advisor of the FFA chapter. The national Future Farmer or¬ ganization had 370,000 meftnbev j with 9,000 local chapters in he -G states and Puerto R co. Mcm bership in Georgia totals over t8, 000. Future Farmers choose .tie week of George W :.~h: ’g'on’s birthday each year for the f V.ervance of National FFA Week, Although usually recognized as a Revolution ary War General and our first President, Washington’s first love was the farm he called Mount Ver ion.' There, he was one of 'he ' first in the nation to practice con ur p'antirg, crop rotations, fe r - 'Jhzatson, and other so! con no¬ vation and improvement method; . It was more than a century after Washington’s death before ire - •;al use was made of many of h- 1 <oun *l agr.ci.tural practices he advocated. . | WoilltJlTs Clllb Fo | Meet March 1st The Fort Valley Woman’s Club will meet on Tuesday, March 1, at the club house at 3:00 p. m. for their annual business meeting. Mrs. T. A. Jones, president, w 11 pre.-.lde over the business session. Hostesses are to be Mrs. E. R. Anderson, Mrs. L. F. -Stephens, Mrs. A1 Rube!, Mrs. W. H. Hop¬ kins, Miss Lelia Mae Royal, and Mrs. J. W. Lancaster. GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY Leader Tribune, Fort Y'alley, Ga., Thurs., Feb. 25, 1960 r :mnan - s •s. Ray Schofield Co-chairman . Mrs. llu- all Rear Mrs. Norman Faircloth, Mrs. Robert Lanyon, Mrs. Ed Wilson, j Mrs. E. W. Bowman, Jr., Mrs. \ ’bar! Burnett, Mr. ’S. Don Kin : nett, Mrs. Hugh Sawyer, Mrs. A. H. Barnett, Mrs, Frank Goodrum, Mrs. Edwin Richardson, Mrs. W. | E. Greene, Mrs. L. R. Newberry, Mrs. Elton Luckie, Mrs. Tom An thoine, Mrs. William Khoury. AWARDS Chairman Mrs. T. A. Jones ENTRIES ! Chairman - Mrs. F. B. Little, Jr. Mrs. T. W. Cleveland, Mrs. Leon Bridges, Mrs. Lewis Green, Mrs. | John Lee, Mrs. A. M. Solomon, : Mrs. Charles Bartlett, Mrs. Rob ! ert Walker. CLASSIFICATION Chairman - Mrs. C. B. Aimon Mrs. E. L. Duke, Sr., Mr. Turn I er > Mr. R°y ce Bartlett. CLERKS ‘ r Harman - Mrs. Homer Duke Mrs. J. H. Kline, Mrs. Dcxton Whitley, Mrs. David Sammons, 1 Mrs. I 1 . B. Childre, Mrs. F. M. Williams, Mrs. Earl Adams, Mrs. Jimmie Stevens, Mrs. William Khoury, Mrs. Frank Scarlett. JUDGES Cha : rm n n - Mrs. L. W. Smith JUDGES LUNCHEON Chairman - Mrs, Clyde Wilson Mrs. Joe Douglas, Mrs. Bill Tom Jones, Mrs. Willard Pearson, Mrs. Claude B. Wilson. PUBLICITY Mrs. A. L. Pearson, Mrs. Wil¬ lis Webb, Mrs. Norman Faircloth. FINANCE Mrs. Bill Tom Jones HORTICULTURE Cha'rman - Mrs. Willis Webb Mrs. Maxwell Murray, Mrs. ; Jach Duke, Mrs. Henry Holland. ARRANGEMENTS Chairman - Mrs. Jimmie V. Duke Consultant - Mrs. Bill Liipfert Mrs. Elton Luckie, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Sr., Mrs. Robert Hess, Mrs. L. W. Smith. Jr. Division Mrs. E. W. Bowman, Jr., Mrs. Vo man Faircloth, Mrs. Willis ’ebb, Mrs. Hugh Sawyer, Mrs. t. L. Pearson, Mrs. Robert Lan yon. HOSTESS cairman - Mrs. Robert Hess ( Mr=. Richard Parks, Mrs. John Sanders, Mrs. Charles Sims, Mrs. PH ■hton Shepard, Mrs. T. M. Bail ey, Mrs. W. J. Braswell, Mrs. Ches ter WiUgm, Mrs. Waltpr Pearson, Mrs. C. H. Sammons, Mrs. B. A. Shipp, Mrs. Carson Slappey, Mrs. Richard Sadler, Mrs. Tamp Cline, Mrs. W. E. Bowman, Mrs. J. E. Bozeman, Mrs. Rob . ert Morrell, Mrs. Ira Sammons, I Mrs.. Homer Allen, Mrs. Charles Evans, Mrs. V. L. Brown, Mrs. 8 Halprin, Mrs. John Pearson, , Mrs. O. B. Bankston, Mrs. Herbert Hiiey, Mrs. George Haslam, Sr„ Mrs. J. W. Lancaster. EDUCATIONAL Chairman - Mrs. R. P. Swan SCHEDULE Chairman - Mrs. A. L. Pearson Funeral Today For Mrs. C. M. Orr, 90 Funeral services for Mrs. Clif ford Merry Orr, 90, will be held oduy at 4:00 p. m. at her home, 424 West Church Street, in Fort Valley. Mrs. Orr died yesterday after a lengthy illness. A native of Lumpkin, Georgia, Mrs. Orr had lived in Fort Valley for many years. She was a mem j her of the Fort Valley Methodist Church and of the local chapter of the U. 1). C. She was a for¬ mer member of the D. A. K. and of the Garden Club. The services will be conducted by the Rev. V. L. Robertson, pas ;or of the Fort Valley Methodist Jhureh. Burial will be in Oaklavvn Cemetery. She is survived by her daugh¬ ter, Miss Wilma Orr, of Fort Val¬ ley. Rooks Funeral Home of Fort Valley is in charge of arrange men ts. Federated Garden Club Executive Board Met Tties. Plans were discussed for the Flower Show which will be on March ,16th at the Armory when the executive board of the Fort Valley Federated Garden Club gathered at the home of Mrs. Clyde Wilson on Anderson Ave. ,ni Tuesday m miing, February 23. Mrs. Lawton Pearson, president of the Club, presided over the bus¬ iness meeting. The Federated Garden Club has a garden center at the store of Mr. R. C. Poole on Vineville St., and the center is open each Tues¬ day afternoon from two until four o’clock and each Thursday morn¬ ing from nine until eleven o’clock with a member of the club pres¬ ent at this time. On Thursday morning of this week Mrs. L. W. Smith will be at the center and w li represent the Fort Valley Club. Members of the club that are at the Gt .'den Center will help anyone if they so desire in the selection of seeds and plants for seasonal planting. Present at the executive board meeting were Mrs. L. W. Smith, Mrs. J, J. Gregory, Mrs. Bill Tom Jones, Mrs. E. W. Bowman, Jr., Mrs. Claude Wilson, Mrs. B. A. Shipp, Mrs. C. B. Almon, Mrs. Lawton Pearson, Mrs. Ray Scho¬ field, Mrs. Frank Goodrum and Mrs. Clyde Wilson. Mrs. Russell P. Houser and Mrs. Adelaide Kell attended the Georgia State Floral Association Convention which met in Macon on Monday and Tuesday of this week. KEEP; THIS ONE IN ORBIT; r V * \ r * / A J TO MIET CURRINT NIIDS, AMERICAN FARMERS PRODUCE TO ENOUGH REACH THE MILK MOON, EVERY IF STACKED 8 DAYS 4 END ON END IN QUART BOTTLES ! CC ^IiCA ■r > | ! fm FUTURE FARMERS OF I v a | 3’ twl 3/S t wm 1 wm -Wt l I ( Mayor Rigdon Seeks Re-election March 23; Deadline On 9th Cheshire Cats Will Play Albany Here On Saturday Night The Cheshire Cats, Macon’s pro¬ fessional basketball team that is riding a 20-3 record, will meet the Albany Blues in a return game here next Saturday night at the high school gym. The game was switched from Macon because of the State AA tourney now in progress there. The Albany team defeated the Cheshire team, 79-71, in Albany and the Cats say they are deter- j mined to get things square. Both teams are loaded with ex¬ college players. The Blues center their attack around (5’ 8" Bob Flower, a coach at Albany High, Jack Roth, brother of famous Bob Roth of the House of David, and James Hughes, ex-Mercer ace, and Phelan Lowe, a Fort Valley man vho is now head coach at Albany High School. The Cats will have Doug Harris and Donnie Veal, two of this years Mercer stars, and Tommy Mixon, Jill Fitch, Norman Carter, Claude Green, Jim Holton, and Milton McBryant. The Fort Valley Recreation As sociation is sponsoring the game. They will also sponsor the pro¬ fessional tournament here again this year on March 14, 15, Hi. Toisriiey AI 1 o Be II in 1 1 lliidi The finals of the state Class “A” and “C” basketball tourna¬ ment will be held in the Fort Val¬ ley area this Friday and Saturday. After a session in the Houston County Gym in Perry Friday af¬ ternoon, the tourney will move to the Hunt High Gym for a Friday i uveu n K session bcg.nning at 5:00 p.m. (Saturday morning all games move to the Health and Physical Education budding at The Fort Valley State College. It is the o pinion of the majority of persons connected with the tournament that this is the only facility in this area with adequate space for fans and team.;. Earlier sentiment fav¬ ored the use of the Hunt High Gym, but the limited facilities caused a change of mind. A large facility is needed cause fans sertse a rematch of the District 4 finals when Hunt de feated Perry 49-37 for the Champ ionship. $3.50 PER YEAR — IN ADVANCE Green wave Drops Tilt To Heard And Is Out of Tournev Fort Valley High School’s boys basketball team come to the end of the trail for this season when .ieard County dropped them, 43- 27, on Wednesday night of last week in the region tournament in X.aGrange. Failure to hit their baskets, in addition to accuracy and good ball handling on the part of Heard ac counted for the defeat. Ray Rear on led the local of- j fensive efforts as he counted for | i2 porn x ee Faircloth followed with six points and Donnie Hall nan hit four. C. Awbrey got 13, R. Dabney 12, and L. Nutt 10 for Heard. Some 15 fouls were assessed a gainst Fort Valley, and Heard hi; nine of 18 foul attempts. Heard was charged with only five fouls and Fort Valley hit three of five, Kiwanians Heard Dr. J. P. LaRocca At the luncheon meeting last Friday of ‘be Fort Valley Kiwani Club the guest speaker was Dr. J. P. LuRocca, Professor of Phar¬ maceutical Organic Chemistry, at be University of Georgia. Dr. LvTloccn spoke of Research "Yon-re and Manufacture of iru'rs and was heard with much interest. The speaker was presented by Mr. C. W. Peterson, program di¬ rector for the meeting. Mr. James C. Liipfert, the pres¬ ident of the Kiwanis Ciub con¬ ducted the business features. Mrs. Paul Chapman and Mrs. Chester Lowe, of Macon, were guests last Sunday of their moth¬ er, Mrs. W. B. Austin. Garden Snooper Be sure and keep an eye on the Japanese Magnolias in front of the Thomas Public Li¬ brary. They are beginning to burst into bloom and will be beautiful soon. \ Poole To Seek Post On City Council Fort Valley Mayor Irving Rig¬ don yesterday qualified with the Fort Valley Democratic Executive Committe to run for re-election in the primary to be held here on March 23. Rigdon has been mayor of Fort Valley for the past two years. G. C. “Dud" Pcole, eieeled last week to succeed himself as Peach County coroner, also qualified yes* terdav to succeed himself as a member of city council, Cecil Martin, local electrician mid Robins Air Force Base employ e e, last Saturday paid his qualify* ing fee to run for a full four-year term on the utilities commission. His fee was accepted by the Ex ecutive Committee co ’dlliona'ly. H. J. Avera, chairman of thfl committee, said that the fee wa* accepted conditionally pending a elarif'cation by the Civil Service Commission of Martin’s eligibility to make the race. Civil Serviee regulations, in some instances, pro hibit civil service employees from active participation in political activities. Mr. Avera said that such clari f'cation has been requested from the commission in Washington. Prior to yesterday two present members of the utilities commis¬ sion, William J. Wilson, chairman, and Jack Hunnicutt, had qualified for re-election co their posts, and Wallace B. Hardeman, Jr., had qualified for the unexpired term of the L.Je Mrs. C. Hall on that body. Clinton Hutto, a member of city council for the past four years haii qualified to succeed himself. Since Poole’s qualifying, John Armstrong is the only incumbent councilman whose term is up who lias not qualified. Mr. Armstrong t<j!d the Leader Tribune yesterday that he will dof initely not be a candidate for re election. Qualifying deadline for the city primary is noon on March 9, and voter registi'ation deadline is noon on March 12. The primary will be held on March 23. The polls will be open from 7:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. The mayor is elected for a< two year term and the councilmen aad commission members are elected for four years. One commission member this year will be elected for two years, to fill the un-expir ed term of Mrs. C. Hall, and can¬ didates for that office must so specify. The c.ty has six councilmen and four members of the commission, with three of the councilmen and two of the commission members coming up for election each two years. The voters on March 23 will al so elect three members of the city Democratic Executive Committee for four year terms. In addition to Mr. Avera the present member.' »t he committee are Geo. M. Haslazn, Jr., secretary, and Leman P. Duke, (treasurer. The general elccuan of city of fic.als will he hold in April in ac¬ cordance wil l the citj charter. Bicycle in section To Be lie3 -1 Friday Fort Valley Police Chief Grady W. Cochran sa d ' >•' ■■ week that a bicycle i. sp'-o ■ •111 he held v the local schdoi 1 Friday. He said la ; gie’on, of .0 ; Macon olice ■ men;, and I! •• . eld, iha Georgia H trX wav. j airo’ - ; be on hand 0 vs i tii in e .on. . The cii’i i is 3 U ■ the first .nspectioii ;ii a he primary school on ver§ to a' 9:00 i. m. At ; ) o’clori, ihey will go to the II. Hunt school. At 11 ’r loci: th ; will go ip ihe white b’gh sch-.o: and v.-;.l wind up the inspec 'on at the white elementary chooi at 2:00 p. m. C.Cef t. nr. ‘ a his appreciate \ to county sehcol su* or.n.e..d Erne c: ■on, ml to oil >r school officials, for heir “very fine e..operation” in having the inspection.