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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME 93 } NO, |1
BOBCATS LOSE
TO REHOBETH,
SCORE 32T0 7
The Bobeats of Blakely-Union® Hi
lost to a non-conference foe, Reho—‘
beth (Ala.) Hi, here last Fridly}
night, 32 to 7, when they could find
no defense aganist a fleet-footed,
fast-charging half back named Bob
Meclnnis,
Rehobeth, a rural school south of
Dothan, is by far the best team the
Bobcats have faced all the year.
Meclnnis scored four touchdowns,
taking a pass for 62 yards for one,
hit the line for six yards for anoth
er, ran an intercepted pass 32
yards for the third one, and skirted
22 yards around end for the fourth.
Rehobeth’s first touchdown, made
by Dawsey on a short buck, was
set up by a 42-yard gallop by Me-
Innis,
Blakely scored first after Rentz
recovered a fumble when the safety
man fielded a punt and let the ball
slip from his hands. Swords passed
to Pery Jarrett, who ran to the
5, a 27-yard gallop. Aubrey Rentz
picked up 3 yards, and Herbert
Swords bulled it over. Felder hit the
line for the extra point.
Bakely 7 0 0 01
Rehobeth . 7 612 732
Scoring: Blakely, Swords; EP, Fel
der. Rehobeth, Dawsey (1), Mecln
nis (4); EP, Messer.
DON'VILLE HERE FRIDAY NIGHT
The Donalsonville Indians come
to Blakely for a game with the Bob
cats Friday night. This is the final
home game of the season and a rec
ord attendance is expected.
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CHEST X-RAY CLINIC
AT HEALTH OFFICE
FRIDAY, NOV. 13
There wil be a Chest X-ray Clinie
at the Early County Health Office on
Friday, November 13, from 9 a m.
to 12 noon. Anyone who is a con
tact to a case of tuberculosis and
those who are recommended by their
family doctor are invited to attend
this clinic. Please come to Health
Office before that date for an ap
pointment.
MRS, RUTH GORDON,
Public Health Nurse.
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BLAKELY HIGH SCHOOL TO
CELEBRATE HOMECOMING
FRIDAY NIGHT, NOV. 6
The annual Homecoming football
game for 1963 will be played Friday
night, when the Donalsonville Semi
noles meet the Blakely Bobcats at 8
p. m, in a regular Region 1-B classic,
Pre-game activities include a pa
rade beginning at the school at 3:30
p. m. All students, alumni, and
friends are urged to be on hand with
a decorated car,
. The Varsity “B” Club is in charge
\of all arrangements for the Home
coming Game. All alumni are cor
dially invited to attend the game and
the dance which will follow imme
dately in the gym.
The varsity football players elect
ed as their Queen of the Homecoming
Game Miss Claudette Fleming, a
Senior, Captain of the Cheer Leaders
and a member of the Beta Club. Her
three attendants are Miss Evelyn
Timmons, Miss Sara Hall, and Miss
Joan Mansfield.
There will be a pregame Midget
game between the Georgia Bulldogs
and the Notre Dame Wildcats at 7:15
p. m. and following this Midgets’
game the Homecoming Queen and her
attendants will take part in the cer
emonies. There will be special mu
sic at half time for your listening
pleasure. All people are urged to be
on hand for the final game at home
for the season. Blakely still has two
games away from home—November
12 (Thursday) at Sylvester and No
vember 20 at Bainbridge.
A PROCLAMATION
CITY OF BLAKELY
Office of the Mayor |
Whereas: Local Associations of
Future Homemakers of America
throughout the United Siates and
Territories are being urged by the
State and National Organizations to
observe a Future Homemakers
Week; and
Whereas: Future Homemakers
need to be recognized for their
many worthwhile activities ecarried
on in the achievement of their pur
poses; and
.~ Whereas: This type of education,
which is an integral part of the pub
lie school program, provides oppor
mfi? for tiirll t;" hk.n‘ the initia
: n planning carrying
out activities related to the import.
ant field of homemaking, needs to
be further promoted and developed:
Now, Therefore, I, Jack G. Stand
ifer, Mayor of the City of Blakely
do hereby proclaim that the week of
November 1-7 be observed as Future
Homemakers of America Week in
Blakely. .
!“T’hh the 31st day of October,
Signed:
JACK G. STANDIFER, Mayor.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOV, 5, 1953,
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
PARTY, STATE I
James S. Peters, Manchester bnnk-’
er, member of the State Board oft‘
Education, and Chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Commit—]
tee, speaking to.the Rotary Clu'bl
and a number of guests here the past
Friday, said Georgians should sup-“
port the Democratic party as the one
best suited to all classes of people,‘
the laborer, the worker, the business
man, the rich and the poor alike. |
Introduced by President Dick Rog
ers, also a member of the State
Board of Education, and who paid
tribute to the speaker’s efforts in
‘behalf of the state’s school system,
Mr, Peters blamed the national par
ty for the loss of four Southern
‘Smes which went Republican in the
1952 election. “I have warned the
"muoul organization repeatedly that
‘the Democratic party was falling to
}nieces in the Southland and that un
less the national party and the
state leadership in the Southern
States developed a more friendl&
relationship, ultimately the Sou
would be found in the Republican
party,” the speaker said. Results
of the 1952 election bore out his
‘prophecy, he said, adding that he
believed the national party is now
convinced that cooperation with the
Southern leadership is necessary
and he forecast a higher degree of
‘harmony and cooperation between
national party leaders and those of
the states.
| Mr. Peters praised Georgia Sena
’ton Walter F. George and Richard
'B. Russell and the entire Georgia
'delegation in Congress and said that
dozens of governmental institutions
and military posts have been estab
lished in Georga, not because of any
natural conditions, but largely as the
result of the power, influence, the
willingness to work and ability of
g!e Georgia Congressional delega
on.
Mr. Peters urged Georgia Demo
crats to attend the Jackson-Jefferson
Day dinners and to otherwise con
tribute to the party, by voting, by
Icontributiu their leadership, and
by contributing their money. Unless
the South supports the party, he
stated, “control of the national .or
ganization will fall into hands of
the more radical elements in the
A resounding applause was ac
corded Mr. Peters at the close of his
highly interesting talk. |
Charlie Houston was welcomed into
the club as a new member by Pres
ident Rogers. 1
Other visitors present at Friday's
meeting included Clark Duncan, of
Buena Vista, a member of the State
Board of Education, a guest of the
club; County Sechool Superintendent
R. K. Sites and Lions Club President
Paschal Jenkins, guests of President
Rogers: Paul C. Gaertner, president
of the Buckhead Rotary Club, mak
ing up his attendance here, a guest
ght-l.'dbh"fl o~ !l.*
A Fuest
Rotarian Earl m Mobley How
ell and “Tige" guests of Ro
tarian Tommy 'l'-al::'; G W
Hause, principal of y - Union |
School, a guest of Rotarian Herman
Cheek ; John Crouch, of Albany, mak
ing up his attendance hore and a
:mol Rotarian Alfred Felder: ud'
Executive MIML‘ |
N 8 guest
of Rotarian Bill Arnold. I
Fleming, of Blakely, clerk; and A.
r.m.-!o'-um.m.
MR. AND MRS, R. C, Ellison, of
Dothan, were guests Sunday of Mr
flln.b.l;hnl.
MRS, V. F. BALKCOM has re
turned from a visit to friends in AL
lanta, |
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MISSB FRANCES MIMS is visiting
friends in Bufaula and Montgom-
THE BOBCATS of Rlakely Hi de
feated Camilla 240 last Priday on
llolhid'mfl..
THE president'al election will be
hed next Tuesday. The Republican
candidate is Herbert Hoover and the
Democratic candidate is Alfred E
Benith
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AT THE 96th annual session of
Bethel Association, held at Leary on
Toesday and Wednesday, the old of.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from tln hrlv County News of
November 1, 1928
TNOJcTINET PriNT
Approximately 50 Blakely FHA
girls and interested friends of the
chapter will attend the annual fall
District FHA meeting in Vienna on
‘Scturdly. November 7. The Blake
ly group has a special interest in
the day's meeting, because one of
their chapter members, Alice Batch
elor, who is serving this year as State
Vice President, is in charge of and
will preside over the meting, About
(800 FHA girls, their advisers, chap
'ter mothers, principals, and friends
from Southwest Georgia will assem
ble for the program, which is to be
gin at 10 o'clock. This represents
half of the chapters in District 1.
The remaining chapters will meet in
Tifton on November 21 with the
same program and the same ofl‘icen‘
in charge, but other chapters partic
ipating. ‘
Highlights of the day's program
will include an address by the Hon-‘
orable E. L. Forrester, and a dintrict‘
fashion show featuring a representa
tive from each chapter attending the
| meeting, and narrated by Mrs. Ber
nice McCullar, a favorite with all
FHA girls. The fashion show, for
| which Blakely's Martha Hodges will
\play the piano, will carry out the
'idea of “The Old Woman Who Lived
in The Shoe.” The Blakely xrot:s
'is carrying the giant size cardboa
shoe, which they made and used in
their own chapter last year, for the
.oceuion. 1
| Mrs. Betty Houston, Blakely ad
| viser, serves as District Adviser in
| Southwest Georgia and has worked
|with, the State Officers, State Advis
er. Mrs. Janet M. Barber, and Miss
|Effie Pullen, District Supervisor, in
planning the day's program. |
| Adults who have been invited to
accompany the chapter include Mr.
G. W. Hause, principal, Mrs. Luther
| Robinson, Mrs. Roscoe Hodges and
Mrs. J. D. Rogers, chapter mothers,
and Mr. J. D. Rogers, State Board of
Education member. Mr. and Mrs.
Rogers have been asked by the State
Officers to sit on the platform dur
ing the morning program and to be
their guests for lunch.
| The FHA girls will be carried to
Vienna on a school bus b;“lr. Wal
lace Sheflield, father of A'er La
fl!hfldl. Mr. Sheffield has car
the girls to all their meetings
for the past several years and has
been a fine friend and great help to
the chapter.
SENIOR CLASS
HOMECOMING DANCE
BTR e &
e wame
Friday night, November 6, from
"?m rchestra will play
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in the school auditorium and admis
donhl&nreouk.fleprrr-
son. Everyone is urged to attend.
W. M. C. RALLY AT ASSEMBLY
OF GOD CHURCH NOV. 10
The W, M. C, Rally at the Assem
::’Q&offihmrm-? fi
a e
vember 10, The meeting will begin
at 10:30 in the morning and lunch
will be served at noon,
Speakers on the program for the
rv beloa’hdn frr Cd«li:.
ra. Dore . Susie Da
vis, and Mrs, m
ficers were re-clected, namely; A, L.
Miller, of Edison, moderstor; W, W,
ME. FRANK HARRIS, of Thom
‘waville, was a guest Wednesday of
Mr. H. B. Alnsworth,
’ 75 YEARS AGO
From lssue of October 29, 1878
, HON, W, C. SHEPFIELD leaves
this week for Atlanta to attend the
,mdl&.h'.hh‘hn. i
' BLAKELY has one of the h-l'
cornel bands in the state. Not only
do they make good music, but they
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PROF. EDISON is & great man.
He not only invented the telephone
and the phonograph, twe of the
most wonderful inventions of the
age, but he has now invented o
discovered a new light. Me calls it
flm‘omm |
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THE PRICE of cotton in Blakely
today b 7to 7 1-de per pound. {
Champion Home Town Contest
Steering Committee Expresses
Appreciation For Cooperation
The Steering Committee of the
Champion Home Town Contest wish
est to express appreciation to all the
citizens of Blakely for the fine spirit
of cooperation and interest shown
in the contest. One of the chief
points in the success of this contest
is in mass participation, for it takes
the work of everyone living here to
build a better Blakely.
Particularly do we want to thank
all those who served on committees
and worked throughout the year on
projects to improve our town. Many
people wrote reports for the Scrap
book and we greatly appreciate their
efforts. The various organizatons of
the town all cooperated in a fine way.
~ As to the Scrapbook Committee,
which was composed of Mrs, E. W,
Yarnell, Mrs. .D. H. McDowell, Mrs.
Felix Barham, Jr. Mrs. W. M.
Barksdale, Julius E. Beckham, and
George Temples, our thanks are
boundless. They did a wonderful
job. The book was unique, ttractive
and neat, a book that every citizen
can be proud of. This committee,
with the aid of many helpers, spent
hours in compiling the scrapbook.
We are greatly indebted to the
Chamber of Commerce for the use
of their office as a place to work on
SCOUT ROUND-UP AT
‘ LEGION HALL MONDAY
NIGHT AT 7 O'CLOCK
. The Early district Boy and Cub
i&ont round-up will be held at the
Legion Hall next Monday night at
;7 o'clock, Phillip ShefTield, chairman,
has announced.
All Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Ex
plorer Scouts, parents, unit leaders,
unit and district commitieemen are
invited to attend. All persons plan
ning to attend are asked to notify
Mrs. W, C. Baxley, chairman of the
committee on d'inn‘rb u-rna‘em"c:i
speaker for evening wil
VSt S
!vl present the round-up
awards, Bernard Herring will be
mu;.:r ?f ceremonies. o
¢ feature entertainment of t
'ovmlnt will be an Indian dance
pageant put on by Troop 5 of Al
bany. This dance is one of daring
and requires skill, in which the
dancers use a flaming hoop.
’ All persons interested in seouting
in Blakely are urged to attend this
annua! ropnd-up,
VFW, GOSPEL CONCERT
SET FOR LEGION HALL
SATURDAY, NOV. 7
The local post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars has scheduled another
big gospel concert, featuring wo
well-known groups, Commander Joe
Pittman has announced.
_ The concert will be held at the
Legion Hatl ou Siturday might, No
vember 7, at 8 o'clock. The Stamps
Henry County Four, of Headland,
Ala, and the Tindol Pamily, of Eu
terprise, are the ncadline attract on:
for this event.
Advance tickets are mow on sale
by VW membess at TB¢ for adults
and 28e for ehildren. Tickets at ihe
door will be SI.OO for adults and Ho¢
for children, Mr. Pittman stated.
..Bank...
Plain, old fashioned common sense that con
siders the practical as well as the theoretical, has
dominated the transactions of this bank since the
first dollar passed over its counters away back
50 years ago,
We have found that it pays in dollars and in
satisfaction. Our customers appreciate our speedy,
sensible decisions
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the scrapbook. This location was
convenient and comfortable, The
personnel at the Chamber of Com
merce, Mr. MecDowell and Mrs.
Mangham, were always helpful to
the group working there.
Our thanks also go out to Bessie
Scott and her coworkers. They made
a fine report on progress among our
colored people and aided greatly in
completing the scrapbook on time.
We appreciate the fine cooperation
of the Mayor and Councilmen of our
town. We found them always eager
and ready to help with any project
that meant progress and growth for
Blakely,
We could not have entered the
contest without the interest of our
local newspaper, The Early County
News. We appreciate the excellent
publicity they gave to the contest
from its beginning. The w edi
tion which The News pub on
September 10 helped to round up
the contest and we realize that this
edition meant many extra hours of
work for both Mr. Alvan and Mr.
Hoyle Fleming, For all of this, we
wish to extend appreciation.
MRS, C. G. BREWER,
MRS, R, D. HODGES,
MRS. E. P. WHITEHEAD.
BLAKELYC. H. T.
CONTEST SCRAPBOOK
GOES TO FINAL JUDGING
Blakely's Champion Home Town
Scrapbook of 1953 has been selected
to be in the final state judging, the
Georgia Power Company, sponsors
of the contest, has announced, the
scrapbooks chosen from the Colum
bus Division to be entered in the
state-wide competition. This final
judging will begin in Atlanta on No
lveuht 9 and the winners will be
‘announced Mfl. 26,
The digisica Jade s Yook vlace in
Columbus the past week, with the
winners as follows:
. Group 1 Towns (up to 1,000
‘population), 25 reports entered.
Those selected were Baconton. Chip
ley, Ellaville, Greenville, Leesburg,
lfiomn Mystic, Nichols, Omega,
Preston, and Leary. Leary, as a
first prize winner of 1962 s eligible
:‘Ms year for sweepstakes competi
on.
Group Il Towns (1,000 to 3,000
population), 12 reports submitted.
The winners were Alma, Ashburn,
Buena Vista, Butier, Meigs, Monte
ruma, Sylvester,
Group IH (3,000 to 20,000 povu.
lation), 10 reports submitted. Win
ners were Blakely, Hogansyille, Man.
chester, Nashville, Pelham, Tifton.
DRIVERS LICENSE
EXAMINER NOT HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Sheriff C, C. Swann announced
this week that the state patro! drive
ers license examiner will not be here
on his customary date, next Wednes
day, November 11, on sccount of
that date being a legal holiday,