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Josh Wheat. Ernest Anderson and Marlon Maddox leaf through the water
conservation booklets issued to sixth grade students by the Soil Conserva
tion Service.
Water booklets to be
donated to schools
by Josh A Wheat ,
Soil Conservation Service
"Water, the Basis of Life" is the
title of a comic-fxxik style booklet
delivered to the Peach County schools
Ernest Anderson, school super
intendent, received the booklet'- from
Marlon Maddox, district supervisor
with the Ocmuigee River Soil
Conservation District, and Josh
Wheat, district conservationist with
the Soil Conservation Service
The booklets will be distributed b\
Superintendent Anderson to all sixth
grade students in the Byron and Fort
Valley schools.
The booklets, with a different
Dairy prices
Secretary of Agriculture John Block
today announced that the govern
ment’s dairy price support levels will
remain unchanged for the next six
months Block said this action comes
after President Ronald Reagan signed
into law legislation rescinding the
requirement for the semi-annual
increase in the support price schedule
for April 1.
Block said rescinding ?he scheduled
increase will reduce government
expenditures by nearly $150 million
during the remainder of this marketing
year He also said it will help bring
milk production more in line with milk
consumption.
Block said the president’s action
would also save consumers approxi-
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m £l s Fun The children at at Easter Mrs. Taverne
it * ' Payne's Family Day Care enjoyed
■As, an egg hunt on Thursday. Shown
left to right: Daniel Rayburn,
VI ; I Allison Kimberly Walton, Sapp. Bowman, Susan Ballard. Joyner. Jeffery Paige
James
«s I Hunnicutt, Brandon Hunnicutt.
David Walton, Adam Barefoot,
JHl Joyner.
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FVPD to engage in National
Police Week activities
The Fort Valley Police Department is
planning to participate in a number of
events throughout the middle Georgia
area during the upcoming National
Police Week. May 7-15, according to
Sgt. John Rowe.
Sgt Rowe stated that National Police
Week activities give police officers a
chance to compete among themselves
and to enjoy fellowship. Officers from
the Fort Valley department will join
some 20 other middle Georgia law
enforcement agencies in the full week
of activities
At 10:00 a m on Saturday. May 9,
there will be a display of police
equipment at a middle Georgia
shopping mall The Fort Valley
department will have at least one
patrol car and motorcycle on display
that day.
On Sunday there will be a softball
tournament, and on Monday there will
be a golf tournament far the officers.
Sgt Rowe pointed out that the
tournaments are only open to peace
officers.
On Tuesday, April 12. there will be a
pistol and rifle match at the Bibb
County Sheriff s Department firing
range. firearms
Sgt. Rowe stated that the
competition will be the height of the
activities and that some 17 trophies will
be awarded. "We hope to be bringing
some of those trophies home this
year,” Sgt. Rowe said.
The pistol team from Fort Valley will
be comprised of Sgt Wayne
McKinnon, Officer F E. Rowell,
Officer David Hudson. Officer Robert
Thomas, Officer Gary Trawick and Sgt.
lohn Rowe.
subject each year, are published by the
Sod Conservation Society and pur
chased by the Ocmuigee River Distric t
for the students. They are intended to
give students a better understanding of
our narural resources conservation
work and the organizations devoted to
the cause The donation of the booklets
by the district is part of its activities
assoc lated with the upcoming Soil
Stewardship Week observance May
24 31 It is hoped that by giving the
booklets to each sixth grade class each
year all of Peach County’s students
will become more informed about soil
conservation and be more devoted to
the cause in their later lives
unchanged
match $270 million in lower retail
dairy prices during the period April 1
through September 30.
Look Who’s New ©f -
Mr and Mrs. Don Doles announce
the birth of their daughter, Melissa
Morgan Doles, on April 20, at the
Coliseum Park Hospital in Macon. She
weighed 7 lbs. 3oz. '
Proud grandparents are Mr and
Mrs Homer Lee Clark and Mr. and
Mrs Donnie Dries, all of Fort Valley.
Sgt Rowe stated that the pistol team
will undergo a great deal of practice
before the competition
On the final day. May 15, there will
be a display for law enforcement
officers only by the Strategic Air
Command.
The week's activities will come to an
end with a memorial service at Warner
Robins City Hall. That service will be
dedicated to the last peace officer to
die in the line of duty as of that time.
Sgt. Rowe added that the city of Fort
Valley has sponsored a full page ad on
the inside front cover of the National
Police Week booklet.
The page will be “dedicated to those
who have given so much, so very often
for so little in return,” and is signed by
Fort Valley Mayor Rudolph Carson.
Person
to Person
Home tor the weekend in Taylor
County were Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Cobb from Mississippi.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Whatley of
Reynolds enjoyed the weekend with
their daughter, Donna, who was home
from Gdlege for the Plaster holidays.
Elwvn McKinney, executive director
for the Chamber of Commerce, is a
patient at the USAF Regional Hospital
in Elgin AFB. Fla. His address is Ward
4. West, Elgin AFB. Fla. 32542.
Around Our Town
Mrs. Ann Demons Scantling came
from Greensboro, N.C,, to visit her
brothers and hts family, the John
Demonses of Crcstview Drive. Joining
her later were son, Wayne, from
Orlando, Fla., and daughter and her
husband, Kaye and Bill Marks from
Atlanta
Homes needed
for students
Homes are being sought now for
teenagers from 22 countries who will
arrive in the United States in August as
participants in the Youth for
Understanding International Exchange
Program They will come to sample the
life of America as real family members.
Students bring to their American
family the cultural enrichment of their
own country and a sincere desire to
learn about our daily life here. Families
provide food and housing and guidance
and companionship Students provide
thcir own spending money and clothing
expense and YFU insurance covers any
medical costs.
This is a family adventure, one in
which the family will grow to
understand another culture and learn
more about their own country as they
explore the it community with iheit
exchange student, h is an opportunity
for your family to contribute in a very
rc a ^ wa >’ tu international good will. For
more information please call your local
^ out ^ ^ ndetstanding repre
sentativc Nits 1 at Kennoy, Kathleen,
Ga., (912) 987-3497.
Students to
register May 14
15 at Byron’s
new school
Registration for kindergarten and
first grade will be held May 14 and 15
at the new school in Byron, lhree
things are needed to register children
— the child’s birth certificate, health
certificate, and certificate of im
munization.
Both health and immunization cards
can be obtained either from the Health
Department or a private physician An
appointment must be made with the
Health Department. Call Fort Valley ot
Byron on Friday afternoon.
Officers attend
special course
Georgia law enforcement officers
recently gained practical knowledge
and techniques in the recognition and
investigation of explosive devices and
bombs in an "Explosive Devices -
Bomb Investigations” course offered
by the Georgia Police Academy in
Atlanta.
The course, offered in conjunction
with the Federal Bureau of investi
gation, was held April 13-17, 1981.
Attending the course was Captain
Isaac Lawrence of the Fort Valley
Police Department.
The week-long intensive course was
taught by Special Agent Peter W.
Me Far lane, bomb coordinator for the
Atlanta FDI office
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Visiting Mrs, Evelyn McCrary and
"Auntie", Mrs. Mary Lyons, were
Mrs Anita Hogan and son, Ricky, and
Miss Avis McCray of Macon. Brother,
Calvin Davis, and his wife, Ella, came
from Opelika, Ala.
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Reagan Patrice Costen came from
Savannah with her parents the Ralph
Costens (Patricia Brinson) to visit her
grandparents the Phelps Brinsons of
Camp John Hope Road,
Visiting in Fort Valley also were Dr.
and Mrs. Luther Vance of Perry; young
Samuel Beauford, visiting his parents,
Miss Arita Edwards from Spelman
visiting her mother, Mrs. Zodie
Edwards,
Mrs. Lucy Edwards became ill and
her children came from Detroit. Mrs,
Catherine Bayliss, Mr. and Mrs. John
Bayliss, and daughter, Tyra, daughter,
grandson and great-granddaughter of
Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Minnie Baylis and
her daughter, Jeanette Bradford, and
her children Anisa and Erica, along
with Leah Baylis, all came to visit.
Visiting also was Miss Betty Jean
Rhodes,
Anthony and Malcolm Irby came
with their parents, John and Joycelyn
Adkins, from Nashville, Tenn.
Malcolm went back to school; Anthony
is staying on for a visit with his
gtandparents, the Joseph Adkins. He
went to Hollywood, Fla., to keep his
granddaddy company while his
grandmother, Mrs. Lillie Adkins,
attended the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority regional meeting. Miss
Patricia Simmons stopped fot a visit.
She was on her way to the same
meeting. Several other persons went.
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lop Row fl.-R): Handers Tompkins * Forsyth and Twist ex; Tommy Murphy
■Fort Valley; John Adams - Coliseum; James Westmoreland - Toccoa;
Johnny Holland - Cherokee: Harold Swint - Forsyth.
Front row (l.-R): Hobby Fainter - Georgia Textile Mfg. Assoc.; Cindy
McIntosh - Bellevue; Douglas FI /is - President GTMA; Dorothy Rivers
■Payne (From Fort Valley); Rick Tew - l aurel.
Nine Bibb plants awarded
The Bihb Company recently had nine
of its plants receive safety awards. The
awards were for going the entire year
(1980) without having an accident
within the plant that caused an
employee to lose time from work.
Tommy Murphy, Tracy Rivers,
Population Continued from front
now ranks 54th and is expected to rank
51st hy 1985.
Ling range projections forecast
Peach County to rank 48th by the year
2000 with a population of 33,100,
representing an increase of 73 per cent
over present figures while the state of
Georgia as a whole is expected to
experience a 30 per cent increase.
During the 10-year period between
1970 and 1980 Peach Giunty ranked
third among the counties surrounding
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Clarence Jones and Mike Ktnnas of
Fort Valley recently went to Atlanta to
receive the Fort Valley plant's award.
Only one other company in the
Georgia Textile Manufacturing
Association had this many plants to
receive the prestigious awards
Peach in growth.
Crawford County led the six-county
area with a population growth of 33.11
per cent. Houston County followed
with a 22.70 percent growth rate,
Macon County grew 5 32 per cent
during the decade while Bibb County
grew only 4.07 percent,
Taylor County was the only county to
lose population during that period,
showing a 2.15 per cent decrease in
population.