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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME 93 } NO, 5
STATE ADJUTANT
GENERAL ROTARY
CLUB SPEAKER
Ernest Vandiver, Adjutant Gener
al of the State of Georgia, who is al
-80 in charge of the Civilian Defense
Unit of Georgia, was the guest speak
er at last week’s meeting of the
Blakely Rotary Club, held Friday at
noon.
Mr. Vandiver witnessed the atom
ic explosion at the Nevada proving
grounds the past spring and also one
of those set off in 1051, He devoted
a large part of his talk to describing
these explosions, the preparations
made in advance for them, and of
their effects, painting a word picture
of the power of this new weapon
of destruction. The 1953 bomb had
the power of 20,000 tons of TNT, the
speaker stated, and the heat and
shock waves were intense seven miles
from the point of detonation, this be
ing the distance he and others were
stationed from point zevo.
Mr. Vandiver also told of the
plans his state set-up have formu
lated in case of an atomic attack on
Georgia. His talk was one of the
most interesting the Rotarians have
heard and made a profound impres
sion upon them.
The speaker was introduced Sy
Rotarian Jim Hill, program chair
man, and the club had as its guest
William Clearman, Early county civ
il defense director.
The meeting was presided over by
President Dick Rogers.
BETHELW. M. U.TO
MEET WED., SEPT. 23,
AT VILULAH CHURCH
The ladies of the Woman's Mis.
sionary Union of the Bethel Baptist
Association will meet with the Vi
laulah church on Wednesday, Septem
ber 23, at 3 o'clock, for their last
rally of the present church year.
Mrs. E. L. Rish, secretary of the
second district, has prepared an in
teresting program and will preside at
the meeting.
All W, M. U, members of the a»
sociation are invited to attend and
members of the execulive commitiee
are urged to be present at the
business session.
MRS, B. B, JOINER, Secrelary,
MRS, JOHN UNDERWOOD, Sept.
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(IN ANNEX)
A consolidation of the Neal Logue Co,
stock of Enterprise, Ala.,, and Boyett's
fine stock of good is brought about by
them losing their lease in Enterprise and
the need to move a large inventory quick.
Check our inside ad for unheard-of
prices. Catch our spots on Radio WOOF
and watch for circular in the mail.
STARTS AT 9:00 A. M.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 18
FREE GOODS - FREE MONEY
(Owred by Logue™s locy of Ga.)
WE CLOSE AT 8:00 P. M. ON BATURDAYS
Carlp Countp News
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—*“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
LIONS DIST. GOVERNOR
TO VISIT LOCAL CLUB
ON NEXT TUESDAY
Joseph M. Grollman, aninbridm-‘
civie leader and business man, who is
district governor of Lions lntvrnn-‘
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Blakely club an official wvisit at next
Tuesday's meeting. Mr. Grollman’'s|
distriet comprises 48 clubs in aouth-i
west Georgia. Lions International is'
the world's largest service organiza- !
tion, with almost one-half mmion}
members, 10,000 clubs in 45 coun
tries. President C. P, Jenkins urges
la full attendance when the club is
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iHARRELL WHITE GIVEN “
. S2OO SCHOLARSHIP AT ‘
| UNIVERSITY OF GA.
Athens, Ga. Maston Harrell
iWhile. Route 5, Blakely, has been
' wwarded a S2OO scholarship by the
| Sears Roebuck Company to begin his
| study of agriculture at the Universi
ty of Georgia this fall.
| He will register as a member of
lnw Freshman class in the Universi
ty's College of Agriculture, White
lis one of twelve outstanding high
schoo! graduates who were awarded
Sears scholarships for study at the
University this vear. Eight of the
winners will study agriculture and
four home economics
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alma
White, of Blakely, White was an
outstanding student at Blakely-Union
High School, where he was presi
dent of the Future Farmers of
America. 3 member of the ¢H Club
and Beta Club and the football and
baseba!l teams
He was an active participant in
livestock contestzs and won honora
ble mention in a national livestock
vdging conlest
Sears scholarships are awarded on
the basis of high school records,
participation iln oulsde activities,
and interest and proficiency in agri
culture or kumt- cconomics
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT, l 7; 1953,
COUNCIL FAVORS
ONE-WAY TRAFFIC
ON PUBLIC SQUARE
At a regular meeting last week,
the Mayor and Council of the City
of Blakely went on record as favor
ing one-way traffic around the
square, effective October 1, with
parking on both sides by reversing
the inside meters. This was done,
it was said, due to increase and
congestion of both pedestrian and
motor traffic and on plea from the
police department. A meeting of
the Council will be held on October
1 to allow any one to discuss the
above action.
A truck route through Blakely to
get the large trucks and vans off the
square was discussed. It was pro
posed to use both County street and
Bay street, and extending Bay
street north to Howell avenyie near
the new city well.
The Council also offered to give
50 per cent of the cost of equipping
midget football teams, same to
come out of the recreational fund,
provided the other half is raised.
This was suggested in order to al
low various organizations to have a
part in the work,
A fence around the disposal plant,
with grass sodding and shrubbery
to protect as well as beautify the
grounds, was ordered,
Bethel Baptists Plan
For ‘A Million More
In 's4’ Campaign
The churches of the Bethel Bap
tist Association will observe Prepara
tion Week for “A Million More in
‘54" September 20-27, it is an
nounced by Rex Kidd, Assocational
Sunday School Superintendent, and
the Rev. J. R. Bowen, Field Worker
for the association.
This special week is the kick-off
cvent in the campaign of Southern
Baptists to enroll a net gain of a mil
lion people in Sunday School in the
coming year.
Evening sessions will be held in
most of the churches Monday through
My;lwvm.uod&oehnnb-‘
es will observe the week before or
the week after September 20-27,
A new book, “The Pull of the Peo
ple,” by Dr, J. N, hrnm.vmboi
taught and used as a guide book for
mummmm.]
Action that the churches will take
homuhdfll&ohwui
lines: Organizing additional Sunday
School classes; expanding the Sun
day School ministry to babies; ex
panding the Sunday School ministry
to people unable to attend because
of old age, illness or Sunday employ
ment; adopting a plan to locate peo
ple not enrolled in Sunday School
and assign responsibility for their
enlistment; adopting a program of
weekly visitation; and perhaps or
ganizing one or more branch Sunday
Rehools,
The goal for Georgla is one hun
dred thousand; the goal for the Beth
el Baptist Asociation s 957; goals
for the churches will be announced
st an amoclation-wide rally to be
held on the opening day of the cam
paign, Seplember 20, at the Blakely
Baptist Church at 3:00 p. m. Pas
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the »brly County News of
September 13, 1928
IN THE Democratic primary Wed
pesday L. G. Mardman was re-elect
od governor, Eugene Talmadge com
missoner of agricullure, George 1L
Carewell seeretary of state, M. L
Duggan state school superintendent.
W. J. Kidd was named state senator
hnbm.fi:flc:.
MRS BEN PERRY spent several
days in Atlanta the past week.
MRS D M. PEBARL has returned
1o Atlanta, after a week's visit here
to her mother, Mrs. J. . Loyless ]
MR BERNARD DAWBON, of Co-
Jumbus, & former renident of Blake-
Iy, was in the city Wednesday,
BOBCATS TO OPEN
FOOTBALL SEASON
FRIDAY NIGHT
The Blakely Bobcats open the 1953
football season Friday night at 8
o'clock againgt Calhoun County High
School of Morgan on the home field.
This is the second year Morgan
has fielded a team and last year the
Bobeats were able to defeat the
Hornets by a score of 20-7 in Leary.
Coach Steve Summerhill and As
sistant Coach Ray Knight are put
ting the thirty-four boys through
their paces each day. “We have a
more experienced team, with speed,
deception; and a little more weight
than last year’s team, and if the boys
get in shape, our opponents will
know they have been in a ball game,"”
says Coach Summerhill,
Herbert Swords. a Senior letter
man and one of the best defensive
backs of last year, will Captain the
team. He will be assisted by Carl
Fariss, Co-Captain, who is a reliable
guard.
Other lettermen are: Ted Sirmons,
center; Bill Barksdale, tackle; Royce
Davenport, guard; Ted Smith, end;
Aubrey Rentz, half back; Eugene
Watson, half back; Norman Smith,
tackle.
Additional boys who will be in the
action are Al Felder, full back; Har
vey Woolf, end; Rodney Boyett,
tackle; Tommy Jordan, end; Mickey
McDonald, quarter back; Calvin
Loyless, back; William Amos, guard;
Crawford Swann, tackle; Edmond
Sheflield, center; Henry Wall, cen
ter; Perry Jarrett, back; Pace White
head, tackle; and Buddy Sites, end.
Seagon tickets for all six home
games for adults and students are
on sale at reduced price. It is hoped
that all the people of Blakely and
Early county will support the team
by purchasing a season ticket and
being loyal by their presence at all
games. ;
Additional features of the games
will be football programs, by which
you can know the players by name
and number, as well as follow the
play. Also the Midgets will play a
half before the varsity game and dur
ing the intermission of the game.
All types of refreshments will be
sold by the F. F. A, Chapter to help
' make the game complete,
l The probable starting line-up: Ted
Sirmons, center; Royce Davenport,
| left goard; Carl Fariss, right guard;
either Rodney Boyett or Norman
‘Smid\. left tackle; Bill Barksdale,
l:kht tackle; Harvey Woolf, left end;
'Ted Smith, right end; Herbert
fSwndn, quarter back; Aubrey Rentz,
‘uz half back; Eugene (Red) Wat
son, right half back; and Al Felder,
| full back.
l The following cheer leaders were
elected by the student body to cheer
' with the returning lettermen, Claud
‘elte Flaming, Alice Batchelor, Char
otte Waller, and Ina Frances Waller:
Lanelle Sheffield, Peggy White, Nel
lie Ann Chandler, Joan Mansfield.
| Back up the Bobeatg—for it is
!mr to build boys than it is tol
‘mend men,
tors, Sunday School Superintendents,
Department Superintendents, teach
ers and officers, and many others,
from the 39 churches of the associa
tion are expected to attend.
PROF, 1. L. GRAHAM, u former
superintendent of the Blakely public
schools, was a visitor in the ity
Tuesday.
75 YEARS AGO
(From lesue of loph:bor 13, 1878)
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* THANKS to Mr. Bartow Brooks
for a peck of potatoes,
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EARLY COUNTY was represent.
ed at the Democratic Convention by
R. . Lanier, E. C. Bower, and P
8. Hightower. Major T. F. Jones
was electod as Early county's mem
ber of the SBecond Distriet Demo
eratie Committee,
HARMONEERS QUARTET
TO APPEAR IN CONCERT
HERE SEPTEMBER 24
The Harmoners Quartet, who will
appear in concert in Blakely on
Thursday night, September 24, at
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830 o'clock at the American Legion
Home on Arlington Road, under aus
pices of Post 5259 of Veterans of
Foreign Wars. Advance tickets are
76¢ for adults and 50c¢ for children:
admission at door will be SI.OO for
adults and 50¢ for children, Com
mander Joe Pittman announced.
Mrs. W. T. Hammack,
Of Bluffton, Dies At
Chll'lotte, N- Cb
Mrs. Elizabeth Purifoy Hammack,
of Bluffton, widow of the late Wil
liam T. Hammack, died at the home
of her brother, Charles H. Purifoy,
ir Charlotte, N. C., on Wednesday
}afternoon of last week. Mrs. Ham
mack had only recently gone to visit
in the home of her brother.
A native of Upson county, Mrs.
Hammack lived in Blakely for a
number of years but had resided in
Bluffton for the past forty years.
She had many friends throughout
this section who learned with deep
regret of her passing.
She was a member of the Bluffton
Methodist Church, where rer funersi
was held Friday morning at 10.30
o'clock, with the Revs. H. G. Shear
house, of Adel, and Ramus Freeman,
of Edison, officiating. Prior to the
funeral her body lay in state in the
church from 9:30 to 10:30. Inter
ment was in the Blakely cemetery,
with W, O. Shepard, K. J. Hodges,
R. G. Mansfield, Herman Bass, F.
W. Bell and Mitch Bell serving as
pall-bearers, and Minter Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
~ Surviving Mrs. Hammack are three
sisters, Mrs, Ralph M. Hobbs, Sr., of
Blakely, Mrs. J. K. Murphy of Arl
ington, Va., and Mrs. A. W, Breckle
of St. Genevieve, Mo.; and a
brother, Charles H. Purifoy, of Char-
Jotte, N. C,
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Back Up The Bohcats
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Attend the opening game Friday
night, 8 o'clock, in Blakely, against
the Morgan Hornets,
Let’s show the Bobeats we are for
them.
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First State Bank
Blakely, Georgia
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUuT
$2.00 A YEAR
PRISONER OF
WAR JOB RIGHTS
ARE OUTLINED
Atlanta, Ga.~—~Korean Prisoners of
War are not barred from reemploy
'ment rights with their former pre
service employers, even though their
detention in an enemy pricon caused
their total service to exceed the
four-year limitation in the Universal
Military Training and Sexvice Act,
Lwlil}ia.m K. Barrett, director of the
State Department of Veterans Serv
ice, said today.
According to Barrett, a spokesman
ifro-m the Bureau of Reemployment
Rights, Department of Labor, ex
plained that an inductee is not sub
ject to the four-year limitation un
less he reenlists or otherwise volun
tarily extends his period of service.
His reemployment rights would not
be affected if he is involuntarily re
tained for more than four years as
a prisoner of war, A reseryist or
‘member of the National Guard called
to active duty and returned from an
enemy prison camp after four years
of service has reemployment rights
under the law because his rights
continue beyond the four-year pe
riod if he is unable to obtain orders
reieasing him. An enlistee may
serve more than four years and re
tain his reemployment rights if the
extension beyond four years is im
posed pursuant to law.
It is clearly evident that the Con
gress did not intend to deny reem
ployment rights to any veteran who
i involuntarily retained in service,
particularly if the involuntary re
tention was due to imprisonment by
the enemy,
Barrett invited interested persons
to go by the nearest branch office
of the State Department of Veterans
Service for advice and assistance.
‘The nearest branch office is located
[at courthouse in Blakely and mana
!gw of the office is Tom Morgan,
SERVICES AT CHURCH OF
CHRIST
~ The following services have been
announced for next Sunday, Septem
ber 20, at the Church of Christ, on
Fort Gaines streef:
10:00 o'clock: Bible School.
11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m.:
Preaching by Donald Davis, Minister,
of Dothan.
The public is invited.
CARD OF THANKS
To my friends who have been so
kind and thoughtful of me during my
ililness I would like to express my
sincere appreciation,
For the cards, flowers, visits, trays
and gifts, 1 want to thank you.
| MRS. CARL HOBBS.
. Roy Bowden, Extension Service
floriculturist, says deep planting of
bulbs (up to eight ilw:u) tends to
'nroduce a smaller “mother bulb” but
a greater number of stem-bulbs,