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VOLUME NO. CO ,-jjV <?_■* \ 0. '8
Peachland
Journa
BY DANIEL 8. GRAHL
SOME FBI FIGURES ON THE
USE OF FIREARMS & OTHER
WEAPONS IN SERIOUS CRIME
Several weeks ago in this
uiii.i we had something to say on
proposed federal legislation to re
strict and regulate the ownership
-and use of firearms. This week
we want to pass on some figures
in the matter.
The figures we are going to
quote a;e from the F. B. I. Uni
form Crime Report for 19G6, just
twj years ago. We believe Diem to
he more accurate than figures
from any other source.
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used. Then we will give the total
number of serious crimes and the
total number in which firearms
were used.
Homicide: Total Committed in
1966, 10,920. Firearms in -6,476 or
59.3 per cent. Knives or cutting
instruments, 22.3 .per cent. Perso
nal weapon (hands, feet, etc.) 9.4
per cent. Blunt objects, 5.4 per
cent. Miscellaneous, 3.6 per cert.
Aggravated Assault. Total Com
mitted, 231,800. Firearms, 43,578
or 18.8 per cent. Knives, etc., 33.6
percent. Blunt objects, 22.3 per
cent. Personal weapon, 25.3 per
cent.
Robbery. Total committed, 153,
420. Armed with firearms. 59,680
or 38.9 per cent. Other weapons.
19.4 per cent. Strong arm (mug
ging), 41 per Rent,
Other categories included, For
cible Rape, 25,330 cases; Burglary
1,370,300 cases; Larceny, 894,600
cases; Auto Theft, 557,00 cases.
The total number of serious
crimes committed in 1966 came to
3,243,370. Of that total firearms
were used in 109,734. Weapons of
some sort were used in only 3.4
per cent of the total.
We do not say that we should
not have some sort of reasonable
firearm control. But we do say,
for the safety of the country, the
responsible people of our nation
should not be deprived of rifles
and shotgur.s for sport use and to
protect their property on the ba
sis of the figures above.
CONGRATULATIONS are IN
ORDER FOR STEVE DUGAN
And we do most sincerely con
gratulate him.
Steve, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. Dugan of Hardeman Avenue
and a graduate last month of Fort
Valley High School, has just been
named by Governor Maddox and
Democrat Party Chairman James
Gray as a delegate (voting, if
you will!) from Georgia to the
national convention in August.
It is our understanding that he
will be the youngest (he just turn
ed 18 in May) voting delegate ev
er to attend a national convention.
We in Fort Valley and Peach
County have been aware for some
time of Steve’s activities and his
abilities. He has been writing both
news and features for the Leader
Tribune for the past several years,
and has done an excellent job of
it. In addition, he has a great in
terest in. politics and feels that all
of our youth should take an active
interest in governmental affairs.
In faet, rigiht now he is work
ing in Congressman Jack Brink
ley’s Georgia offices to establish
and make more active “Brinkley
Advice Clubs” of young people, a
movement he suggested and ac
cepted and endorsed by Brinkley.
During the campaign two years
ago for the Democrat nomination
for governor, Steve worked with
candidate Jimmy Carter.
While in high school he was one
of the organizers of a Vietnam
Affirmation program held in the
gymnasium and was very success
ful.
Yes, sir. We do heartily con
gratulate Steve on the honor he
is receiving and for his fine inte
rest and work in governmental
affairs.
We will list
the crimes by
category, gi v e
the number o f
each category in
which firearms
were used, and
percenta g e in
which other in
struments were
THE LEADER
Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley, Ga., Thurs., July 11, 1968
Stc. e Dugan Named
As Demo
Steve Dugan, an 18 year-old Ft,
Valley youth and a writer for the
Leader-Tribune, last week was na
med by Governor Lester Maddiox
and Democrat Chairman James
Gray as one of the voting mem
bers of the Georgia delegation to
the Democratic National Conven
tion in Chicago in August.
Governor Maddox’s office call
ed the Leader-Tribune last week
to advise of the appointment and
said that to the (best of their in
formation he was the youngest to;
ever attend such a convention as
a voting delegate.
Young Dugan, who is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Dugan of
Hardeman Avenue, graduated in
the class of 1968 at Fort Valley
High School and registered to
vote last May.
Dugan has been interested in
politics and governmental affairs
for several yearsr. He is current
ly working in Congressman Jack
Brinkley’s Georgia offices setting
up and promoting “Brnkley Ad
vice (Clubs” of young people, one
of his own ideas endirsed by the
Congressman from the Third Dis
trict.
Two .years -ago he worked in the
organization of gubernatorial can
dite Jimmy Carter.
An aide to the governor told
the Leader-Tribune that Dugan
first attracted the governor’s at
tention last spring when he was
named Attorney General at the Y
MCA sponsored Youth Assembly.
In his .role as Attorney General
Dugan and an assistant went to
Washington and entered suit for
token damages of $1.00 against
the United States, claiming that
the constitutional rights of Geor
gia had been violated by the re
fusal of the Federal government
to allow the state to secede from
the Union.
The young delegate has been
writing news and features far the
Leader Tribune for the past seve
ral years.
Hunt High Grad.
Returns In
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Exchange Prog.
Miss E. Yvonne Beauford, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beau
ford of Fort Valley and a 1965
graduate of Hunt High School has
just returned from participating
in an exchange student program
at Cedar Crest College in Allen
town, Pennsylvania. She was chos
en because of her outstanding ac
ademic and leadership abilites at
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georga
where she is pursuing a major in
sociology and a minor in Spanish.
Yvonne was quite impressed by
the warm reception given in her
honor at Cedar Crest and found
the atmosphere miost congeniel
throughout her semester of varied
experiences there. Perhaps her
best expression of her experience
as an exchange student were cit
ed in a talk given to the Cedar
-Crest student body, in which she
said, “The value of an exchange
program is in the learning exper
iences in relation to other people
—that which tomes from social
interaction which you could not
get elsewhere. There are some
things you can’t learn from books.
The exchange program makes
things real for you. There are
some things you learn best thru
experience; and the exchange pro
gram provides the experiences.”
Days Told That
Byron Cannery
Will Be Open
According to officials of the
Peach County Community Can
ner in Byron, the cannery will be
open only on Tuesday, July 16th
of the week of July 14th through
the 20th.
The week of July 21st through
27th the Cannery will be open
three days, 23rd, 24th, and 25th.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
HEAD THE WANT AD8
Local Kiwanis
Sponsors Youth
Tennis Tourney J
Mr. Jasper C. Bryan, president
of the local Kiwanis club recently
presented a check to Mr. Judson
Williams, coach of the Fort Val
ley High School Tennis Team. The
group recently competed in the
Southeastern Junior Open Tourn
ament at Bitsy Tennis Center in
Atlanta.
Players include Pete Dunning,
Nancy Marshal], Virginia Belsor
and Linda Crowder.
Virginia Belson reached the
quarter-finals in Girls 18 and un
der. There were 16 States and 1
foreign country. They plan to play
in the Coosa Valley Open in Rome
on July 15. The -Cracker Land in
Athens, and the Georgia Closed
in Macon. Coach Williams stated
that he would rank Virginia Bel
son in the Top 5 girl players in
the State.
Girl Softballers
Chosen For
All-Star Team
The following players have been
chosen for a team to represent Ft.
Valley and play against several
out of town teams, There are 20
players tau the team which will be
sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
The first 20 selected are as fol
lows:
CHARLEY BROWN — Lisa
Burnette, Judy Yancey.
DYNAMITES — Nancy Byrd,
Debra Carson, Judy Moye Corinne
Irby.
SUGAR BEARS — Marsha
Beckham : Nan Hatchett, Susan
Marshall, Jo Richardson, Kay Yan
cey.
WAVES — Cheryl Bridges, Ann
Harrelson, Baribara Reddick, Kaiy
Taylor, Pam White.
TOM BOY'S — Pat Rowers, Deb
bie Bruce, Ginger Lane, Sandy
Lane.
The alternate selections are:
Margie Bowers - Charlie Brown;
Katy Sims - -Charlie Brown; Judy
Giles - Sugar Bears; Kim Sand
ers, Tom Boys.
The first home game will be at;
2:00 p.ro., Wednesday, .July 17 at
Little League Park against Thom
aston, .Ga.
^Debtuiker
BY JOHN HARVEY FIJBBAY PHD
| ARE AMERICAN NOT ELK ELK
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The animals commonly called
American elk are actually deer, of
the family named Wapiti. The
wapiti deer are of the red-deer
group and are represented by the
"cervus canadensis" of North
America. Other elks in America
may belong to the Moose family—
a term restricted to the American
type of elk. So, when you go elk
hunting again you may bring home
a wapiti deer or a moose, but
you’ll call it an elk
Blue Bird Purchases
Company In Florida
Albert L. Luce, Jr., president
of Blue Birdr Body Company, an
nounced Tuesday that the EE-ZY
Trailer Company of Panama City,
Floridra, will be acquired August
1, 1968.
The products of this company
are two and four wheel trailers
used to transport boats. These
trailers at the present time are
distributed in Florida, Alabama,
and Georgia.
This company will have the
name of EE-ZY Manufacturing
Company, and will continue to be
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Chown above, left tio right
A. D. Brann, B. G. Bickley, Roy
Barrett and Doyle Johnson, the
new officers of the Marshallville
Lions Club. Dr. Brann of Fort Val
Icy was the installing officer.
Before the induction ceremonies
the Loins had a feast on 1 LB.
Charcoal Steaks with Homemade
Peach Ice Cream for dessert ser
ved by Hostesses Lioness Dock
Luckie and Lioness C. C. Crown.
The .-well fed .“Pride” of Lions
choose as their president for the
coming year Lion Roy Barett who
Kim Jones Hurls
4-Hit Softball
MARGIE AND PAT BOWERS
LEAD BITTING ATTACK
Kim Jones of the Waves pitch
ed a four-hitter and defeated the
league-leading Sugar Bears 4-3!
Kim was backed by (good field
ing, especially by shortstop Cheryl
Bridges,
The Waves were ted in hitting
by Katy Taylor and Cheryl Bridg
es with two hits each.
The (Sugar Bears wore led bj
-Marsha Beckham who ..had a
run homer.
in the second game, the Tom
(Boys defeated Charlie Brown by
the score of 15 - 14.
Margie Bowers kd
Brown with four hits. She
followed by Lisa Burnette who
•was 3 for 4.
Rat Bowers had 3 hits includ- .!
ing two honeruns. She also had
help from the following Tom Boys::
Joyce Brandon, Linda Bartlett, (
Ginger .Lane, Debbie Bruce and -
Sandy Lane.
Capt W. H. Barker
Wounded Bv VC |
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ICapt. VV. H. Parker of Fort Val
ley, a member of “The Green
Beret” .was wounded in action on
June 26.n when his team was en
gaged ni battle with the North
Vietnamese. Capt Parker was sent
to a military hospital near Tokyo,
Japan, where he underwent surg
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sho older
He rs improving . and , will ... -be ,
sent to the States as soc-n as he
is able to travel. He has been a
warded the Purple Heart as a re
sult of being wounded.
Capt. Parker is married to the
former Miss Dena Israel, and they
have one son Billy. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Parker.
SHOP LN YOUR HOME TOWN
READ THE WANT - ADE
based in Panama City.
The addition of this company
continues to widen the areas
where Blue Bird has operations.
In addition to the Fort Valley
operations of Blue Bird Body Com
pany, Cardinal Manufacturing Co.
and Peerless Manufacturing Com
pany, there is Blue Bird Mid-West
in Mout Pleasant, Iowa, Canadian
Blue Bird in Brantford, Ontario,
Canada, and Blue Bird Centro
Americana in Guatemala City, Gu
atemala.
$4.00 PER YEAR — IN ADVANCE — SINGLE COPY, 10c EACH
| was presented a new Gavel by
Lion Dr. Brann while retiring
President B. G. Bickley touched
| the Gavel for good luck for the
leader and the new Secretary and
Treasurer Doyle Johnson look on.
The other new officers iduct
ed durning the ceremoines are.
1st. Vice President - C. C. Crowe
Lion Tamer - Rev. Bob Cantrell
Tail Twister - - Dock Luckie
Directorrs - Bobby Allen B. G.
Bickley, Dock Luckie, and Xesh
Murph.
Mrs. Byrd Named
By W. O. W. Society
Mrs. Maxine Byrd, 309 Magno
lia Street, has been appointed as
field representative for Woodmen
of the World Insurance Society.
The announcement was made by
R. E. Cullom of Albany, state man
ager for South Georgia.
A native; of Elm-ore County, Al
abama, -Mrs. Byrd is a graduate
-of .Anduisia High Schorl She is
superintendent of the Young Peo
ples’ Department of the Sunda y
lSchool ' at the First Ba P tist Church
is superintendent of the In
Training Union, a mem
her of the choir and the W. M. U.
and a member ©i Woodmen Unit
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Listen
By E. B. ADAMS
want:- you. He has a wonder
ful plan for your life. He has a
for everyone’* life. And His
plan for your life, far excels all
other plans which you or anyone
else might suggest for your life.
It’s a plan which _is best suited
lor „vou, and could well -be only
; 0J you.
Gta- knowns youi .temperatment
your environment, your nature,
and your capabilities; He knows
about you, and wants you to
piay the part He has for your life.
)t „ 0 :d be , pa - t He has so well
fitted .to your life that if you fail
Him, it will never be carried out
fcy OTe else . , feei we can just _
ly sa.v that (Tod’s plan for each of
our lives consists of some particu
Jar type of service, to some parti
cular people, in some particular
place, at some particular
An-d if we fail
God it wilil go
undone. This is
why God is cal
ling you to ful
fill the particu
lar task He has
for your like;
whether it be
part time or full
time service.
It could be in the field of prea
cher, evangelist, missionary, teac
her, song leader or some, other
field of service.
It could fl>e in conjunction with
nurse, scientist, merchant,
or in any other realm
life. Your life in the hands of
is just as important to Hint
is the life of anyone else, whose
is entrusted to Him. “God is
respector of persons.”
10:34
people, God wants you to
His plan for YOUR life; but
will never know unless
until you become willing to
Him show you, by trusting
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USD A Begins Food
- Crawford
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture began distribution of US
DA-donated foods to eligible needy
families in Crawford Qounty on
July 8.
Miss McGarity
Goes To Miami
Georgia will be well represent
ed at the National Meeting of the
Future Homemakers of America
in Miami Beach, July 8 - 11. FHA
State Adviser, Mrs. J. Mac Bar
ber, reports that 79 FHA dele
gates from Georgia left by plane
Saturday to join with some 1200
other FHA delegates from all ov
er the United States in a four
day national meeting.
The FHA national meeting is
planned and carried out by the
youth delegates. Each State As
sociation is responsible for a par
ticular portion taf the meeting.
The Georgia delegates’ assign
ments include presenting a skit
highlighting Georgia's Tecin-Age
Nutrition program, providing
workshop leaders, and participat
ing in the All-States Chorus.
The FHA national meeting will
launch the 23rd year of this na
tional youth organization of high
school home economics students.
Future Homemakers of America
has a national membership of ov
er 600,000 members in more than
12,000 chapters throughout the
United States and its territories.
In Georgia there are 30,571 mem
bers in 499 chapters.
Miss Jan McGarity, daughter
Dr. and Mrs. J. N. McGarity is
representing Peach County in
Georgia Delegation. Miss
ity was accompanied to
by her mother, and one of
pioneer founders of the
Homemaking Organization,
J. N. McGarity and her Advisor,
Mrs- Allen H.. Young.
TRADE WITH LOCAL STORS
Wour life into His hands. Your
elementary school teacher, your
high school teacher or your teac
her at college, cannot teach you
what they want you to learn or to
know; until first they have you
as their pupil. And the first thing
you need to do is to be accepted,
become a part of that school. No
surgeon can operate upon a pati
ent until first they have the pati
ent. The same is true with God.
God can’t even begin to reveal or
teach to you the plan He has for
your life until first He has you;
until you become a part of His
family of believers. And God acc
epts all who will come. He never
turns down anyone when we mean
business,
To become a part of God’s fam
ily of believers, we have to be
born into it. There is no other way.
We become part of our natural fam
by means of the natural birth.
We become part of God’s family
of believers by means of the spir
itual (birth. “He (Jesus) came unto
His own, and His own received
Kim not. But as many as received
Him, to them gave He power to
become the sons of God, even to
tiiem that believe on His name:
were born, not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.” John 1:
“There was a man of the phari
sees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of
the Jews: The same came to Jesus
b y night, and said unto Him, Rabbi
we know that Thou art a teacher
come from God: for no man could
do these miracles that thou doest,
except God be with Him. Jesus
answered and said unto him. Ver
ily verily, I say unto thee, Except
man !be born again, he cannot
the kingdom of God. Nicode
mus saith unto Him, How can a
be born when he is old? Can
enter the second time into his
womb, and be born. Jes-
USDA’s Consumer and Market
ing Service said space for storing
the food, certifying eligible fanii
lies and distrirbuting the food has
been obtained in the Webb Build
ing at the corner of U. S. 341 and
Agency Street in Roberta, Ga.
The USDA food distribution
center opened at this location at
8:00 a. m. on Monday. Families
wishing to apply for food .should,
come in between the hours of 8:00
a. m. and 4:30 p. m., officials said.
Families already receiving some
kind of public assistance such as
Aid to the Agjed ,Aid to the Blind
and Aid to the Disabled are auto
matically eligible to receive the
donated foods. Taking- part in the
program will not affect their weir
fare check.
Other low-income families want
ing to take parts in the program
should take something showing
their total monthly income when
they make their application, offic
ials said.
Hussell H. James, SE district
director of USDA’s consumer food
programs office in Atlanta, point
ed out that the decision to open
a USDA-operated cammodity dis
| tribution program in Crawford
was made only after the. county
declined to operate either this pro
gram or USDA’s food stamp pro
gram.
Crawford is one of several hun
dred low-income counties that
have been 'offered financial assis
tance from the Consumer and Mar
keting Service to pay local admin
istrative costs of operating a food
donation program.
Normally, local pftveninien t
pay the local costs of operating a
food assistance program, and the
federal government -pays for the
donated food or the bonus food
stamps.
Crawford declined to operate a
food program, James said, and for
this reason the Consumer and
Marketing Service will operate the
program. Certification of those eli
gible to receive the food will be -
handled by C&MS personnel,
us answered, verily, verily I sa.v
un(o thee, except a man be born
of water and of the Spirit, he can
not enter the kingdom of God. That
which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the
Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born
again”. John 3:1-7.
Young people, I want to say
once more before closing, God
does have a plan for your life. He
has a plan for you; and it mat
ters not What the color of your
skin may be. It matters not what
denomination or church you’re a
member of, or whether or not
you’re a member of any church.
It doesn’t matter about your so
cial standing or how much of this
world’s goods you possess or don’t
possess. It matters not how pop
ular you might be; your ateletic
capabilities, your degree of intel
ligence, or the professional in
signa you might some day have
attached to your name. God still
has His own plan for your life.
And this don’t necessarily mean
that some plan you might already
have isn’t gpod. In fact, in God’s
plan for your life, it could well be,
He would include yours; expand
upon yours. You see. your plan
for your life, with God in it,
makes the difference, makes your
plan to be a good one.
On the other hand His plan for
your life could be entirely differ
ent. It could be a plan which you
have never thought about. But
lets keep in mind that God and
He only knows the plan best suit
ed f-or you. And His plan never
fails and when followed always
leads to everlasting life.
Many enter this world and leave
without ever discovering God’s
plan for their lives. Don’t let this
be true with you. You’ll be sorry
if you do. Remember the sk>ng,
“Take my life, and let it be con
secrated, Lord, to Thee.”
Isn’t it wonderful God would
consider using you or using me in
His plan? — BE WITH US NEXT
WEEK.