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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD'S COUNTRY
VOLUME 9% } NO. 42
SENIOR CLASS GRADUATION FRIDAY
NIGHT TO DRAW CURTAIN ON ‘54-'55
TERM OF BLAKELY-UNION SCHOOL
The calendar of events for the
Blakely-Union school commencement
season continued through the past
week and will be brought to a con
clusion tomorrow (Friday) evening,
‘June 3, at 8 o'clock, when the senior
class graduation exercises take place
at the Methodist Church.
MRS. CRAWFORD'S RECITAL
A large number of interested friends
aMtended the recital by the pupils
of Mrs. E. T. Crawford on Wednesday
night of the past week. This program
had been postponed from May 19,
Taking part in this program were:
Glyndell Thompson, Duane Mellefte,
Edward Morton, Billy Fleming, Gerry
‘Hause, Rickey Houston, Billy Under
wood, Judy Jones, Susan Howell,
Sheila Pitts, Beverly Gilbert, Joyce
Peak, Anne Gilbert, Rachel Rice, Joy
White, Jeanette Goocher, Barbara Wid
ener, Anne Knighton, Frances Jones,
Dianne Sites, Anne Knighton, John
Ralph Jarrett, Faye Brown, Gayle Ra
bon, Janice Knighton, Nancy Brown,
Jacquelyn Davis, Judith Bucknér, Syl
via Rogers, Martha Ellen Houston,
Priscilla Marshall, Henrietta Wiley,
Priscilla Jones, June Still, Fleda Mer
:t. Alice Batchelor, Herman McDuf-
JACK & JILL KINDERGARTEN
A large crowd greeted Mrs. C. G.
Brewer's Jack & Jill Kindergarten
graduation program at the school aud
itorium Friday night. Following the
interesting program presented by these
youngsters as outlined in The
News the past week, Mrs. Brewer de
lvered certificates to the following
graduates: Tommy Gilbert, Lee
George, Harriet Houston, Seaborn
Grist, Cliff Bush, June Bynum, Ronnie
Temples, Howard Williams, Cynthia
Gordon, Mike MeGahee, Linda White,
Robert Thompson, Mac Balkcom, Rob
ert Morton, Judy Brown, Richard
Crowdis, Charles Middieton, Lynn
Middleton, Andy Sanders, Paul Smith,
Rita Thomas, Beth Nix, Joe Sheffield,
Betty Goocher, Bart Martindale, Tom
Baxley, Kathy White, Richard Shoe
maker, Edward Temples, Laura Brown.
ane Lomax, Carol McNeal, i
'nn:upon. Mary Brown, nm’%-r
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BACCALAUREATE SERMON
The large auditorium of the Meth.
odist Church was crowded to capacity
Sunday evening te hear the baccalau
reate sermon by the Rev. C. R McKib
ben, pastor of the church. The min
ster's text for his able message was
“Man’s Greatness.” and for his Serip
tural background he read the Eighth
Psalm. The sermon was an earnest
and forceful admonition to the grad
uates 1o remember the greatness and
CONGRATULATIONS TO EARLY
COUNTY’S CLASS OF ‘55
We at Boyett's wish you
continued success in the
years so come.
CHAS. E. BOYETT DEPARTMENT STORE
Corlp Connip News
dignity of man, for as David said in
the Eighth Psalm, “thou has made him
a little lower than the angels, and has
crowned him with glory and honour.”
The processional and recessional
were by Miss Evelyn Dußose; the in
vocation and benediction by the Rev.
F. W. McDuflie.
EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION
The Eighth Grade graduation exer
cises will take place tonight (Thurs
day), beginning at 8 o'clock, in the
high school auditorium. The public
is invited to attend this program.
SENIOR CLASS GRADUATION
The Senior Class graduation exer
cises Friday night at / the Methodist
Church will bring to a close the 1954-55
term of school and is the closing event
in the series of commencement enter
tainments. The following program will
be presented.
Processional, “Grand. March” (Ver
di): Miss Evelyn Dußose.
Invocation: Rev. P. Z. Smith, First
Assembly of God.
Address: Julia Oldham, Salutatorian.
Address: Dr. Henry King Stanford,
President G. S. C. W.
Awards: Dr.\J. G. Standifer.
Address: Dean Cook, Valedictorian.
Presentation of Seniors: G. W. Hause,
Supervising Principal.
Roll Call of Seniors: Nick Collins,
President of Senior Class.
Si &“u:n " S?perln\en;nn ':l
tes, ty t
Schools.
Alma Mater: Senior Class,
Benediction: Rev. K. V. Shutes, Free
Will Baptist Church.
Recessional, “Jubilant March” (Sol
ly): Miss Evelyn Dußose.
Candidates for graduation are: Bar
bara Dianne Balkcom, Mary Alice
Batchelor, Nellie Ann Chandler, Gracie
Patricia Anne Davis, Yvonne Davis,
Marian Erwin, Martha Leona Hodges,
Helen Frances Holman, Carolyn Ame
lia Hutto, Mamie Dale Johnson, Betty
Ruth Jones, Ruby Louise Jones, Jacky
Eugenia Loyless, Barbara Marsh, Lin
da Anne Morgan, Sarah Julia Oldham,
Christene Reed, Lois Lanell Sheffield,
Francet LeMay Sims, Betty Clyde
Swann, Peggy Ann Swords, Evelyn
Merle Ti?m'l'n:n Ann White,
Martha Jean X Harriet
Wynne, E J. Baker, Ch:.rn Rodney
Boyett, Oscar Maxwell Bynum, Henry
Echols Collins, Henry Dean Cook, Bob
g Ray Glass, Byron Edgar Hayes
Emory Jordan, Sidney Harrell
Mercer, John Harold Perry, Charles
J lhnn'd Starling, Jimmy Ox
ames s
ford Sgill, Wilmer Joe Strickland,
James Edward Swann, Bobby W, Ted
der, James Clifton Temples, James
Edgar Tucker, William Henry Wall, Jr.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1955,
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—*“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
Will Deliver Address At
Senior Graduation Exercises
Here Friday Night
Dr. Henry King Stanford, president
of the Georgia State College for Wom
en, will speak at the commencement
exercises of the Blakely-Union Public
School tomorrow (Friday) evening,
June 3. Before coming to the wom
an’s college, Dr, Stanford was assistant
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chancellor of the University System of
Georgia. Prior to that he served as
president of Georgia Southwestern
College at Americus; director of the
University Center in Georgia; and di
rector of the School of Public Admin
istration of the University of Denver
He studied at Emory University; the
University of Heidelberg, Germany;
University of Denver; and New York
University
Dr. and Mrs. Stanford, with their
four children. reside in the former
governor's mansion in Millegeville. It
has been the home of the GSCW pres
idents for a number of years
MRS. MARIE ANDERSON
ELDER DIES IN GEORGIA
BAPTIST HOSPITAL
Mrs. Marie Anderson Elder, wife of
James Ellis Elder, of Avon Park, Fla
died in the Georgia Baptist Hospital
Atlanta, Friday. May 2
Mrs. Elder had made her home In
Avon Park since her marriage on Jan
uary 8 1938 She had been In declin
ing health for some time. She was
the youngest child of the late Mr. and
Mrs J. W. Anderson, of Early County
She was a 8 member of the Florida Ave
nue Baptist Church of Avon Park. She
was & loyal Christian and » faithiul
and loving mother and siste and
lived a Christian life devoled 10 her
church, family and friends. and YW
know her was 1o love her
Mrs. Ellis = survived by her hus
band, two ddughters, Barbara Sue and
Martha Jean; four sisters, Mrz Ruby
Roberts of Atlanta, Mrs. Callie Sueé
Hayes of Blakely, Mrs. Fay Hogue of
Atlanta, Mrs. Jewel Beazley, Jr o
Dalias, Texas: three brothers. J B
Anderson of “l;gh!n{‘ Cola W H
Anderson of Plant City. Fla. R E An
derson of Atlanta. two half-brothers
Harry Anderson of Houston Texas
George Anderson of Panama City. and
8 number of nieces and nephews
Funeral services were held Sunday
at 4 p 1 in Florida Avenue Baptist
Church and interment in Bougainville
cemiclesy he Rev. J M. Gilbweath
and the Rev. Kenneth Tucher afficd
atexd Pallbearers were Clifford Las
siter, George Lewis, C. E Harper. Ross
Bighie. 8§ F. Outlaw, J. G Harrell
honorary pall-bearers. A B White
Dr I W Chandier. Charles Metealle
Lenhe LUsormas { iatvhece KU.‘ ¥ H
Litewt Joe Frania Jack \wuh( 4 (
| Roach, Jessie Murray. Dr. Weenns
BLAKELY THEATRE
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
William Campbell, Robert Campbell in
“CELL 2455, DEATH ROW"
SATURDAY
Wild Bill Elliott in
“BITTER CREEK"
LATE SHOW SATURDAY
Tab Hunter, Dawn Adams in
“RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND”
SUNDAY-MONDAY -TUESDAY
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March
and Mickey Rooney in
“THE BRIDGES TO TOKO-RIT
WEDNESDAY
“CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE SLAVE GIR™
Damascus And Jakin
Schools Close Term
With Graduation
l Graduation exercises were held at
the Jakin and Damascus schools the
past Friday night. The following re
ceived their high school diplomas:
DAMASCUS: Robert Brownlee, Hen
rinel Middleton, Beverly Ann Black
shear, Anice Elizabeth Cleveland, Max
Harris Jones, Harold Edward Phillips,
Barbara Rae Widner, Peggy LaVerne
| Peterson, Willie Ann Polk, Etta Ruth
Whitehurst, Cleo Bernice Weaver.
JAKIN: Edna Earle Newberry, Viv
fan Ruth Hill, Clara Jean Phillips,
Betty Jean Murkerson, Roy Gerald
McMullen, Dauphis Wayne Buckhalt
er, Deward Lafette Harper, Gaston
Cannon, Jr., Maxwell Hiram O'Hearn,
Malcolm Quinton Tedder, Ida Evelyn
O'Hearn, William Edward Hudson,
Lizzie Allene McArdle, Helen Patricia
Edwards, Lessie Ruth Young, Mary
ll‘nncu Hudson, Delma Lee McMullen.
ROTARIANS ENJOY
MUSICAL PROGRAM BY
YOUNG MUSICIANS
Members of the Blakely Rotary
Club, meeting at noon the past Friday,
enjoyed a program of music presented
by eight pupils from the music class
of Mrs. E T. Crawford. The program
presented by these talented musicians,
each number of which was warmly ap
plauded, included a piano duet by
Glyndell Thompson and Duane Mel
lette; a plano selection, “Whisperings
of Love,” by Henrietta Wiley; a piano
selection, “Tales of Vienna Woods,” by
June Still; a voeal solo, by Priscilla
Jones; a piano selection, “Norwegian
Concerto,” by Fleda Mercer; a read
ing, “A Little Girl Dreams She Goes
to Heaven,” by Alice Batchelor; and
the closing number, a piano selection,
“Carolling of the Birds” by Herman
McDuffie. Mrs. Crawford announced
the program.
! Other visitors at Friday's meeting
‘lndmhd Frank Allen, of Albany, a
(guest of Rotarian Osear Whitchard;
i-fl Bill Fowler, of Donalsonville, a
| guest of Rotarian Guy Maddox.
l President Bill Boyett presided over
the meeting and Rotarian Elder Craw
| ford was program chairman
i RO YSO SO
'LIONS CLUB TO BEGIN
~ ANNUAL SALE BROOMS,
{ MOPS NEXT MONDAY
| Blakely Lions Club President Bert
Tarver announced this week that the
club's annual sale of brooms, mops
land floor mats made at the Georgia
Factory for the Blind will begin next
' Monday and continue for a 8 week
| Along with these products, the club
will have for sale a United States
Flag The sale of these itlems has
Htwo-fold purpose, Mr. Tarver stated
It helps the blind workers who make
them, and the profits derived by the
‘club goes toward the club's activities
in communitly betlerment
The club will equip a truck and each
afternoon a group of Lions will go out
of town offering these items for sale
An effort will be made 1o conlact ev.
ery home, but in the event any home
(15 missed. Mr. Tarver says to telephone
any member of the club for these
flems and they will be delivered im.
medistely
Opera Singer Turned
Evangelist To Lead
wo-Week Reviva
“I wanted to be an opera singer, but
God changed my mind.,” These words
of Rev. Carl W. Barnes, evangelist,
who will be at the First Assembly of
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God Church for two weeks beginning
next Sunday, June 5, describe a choice
he made that led him into the evange
listic and gospel singing field
“I was just a country boy when they
told me | was to sing one of the solo
parts in a production of The Mikado
at Western Kansas State Teachers
College. "I didn't even know what an
opera was” he recalls. Later he went
on to sing the Mikado in a Rotary con
vention at Parsons, Kansas. He reports
that he will give vocal performances
cach night during his revival here
He has traveled widely in this coun
try and lived in a number of cities, but
he calls his home Tullashoma, Tenn. He
has been a preaching evangelist for the
last 25 years and prior to that a song
evangelist on the Pacific coast and in
the central states
He remembers that when he lived
in Fordyce, Ark., that some of his
friends received mail with a drawing
of four dice on the envelope with the
word Arkansas underneath
Did you receive any mail that
way?
No.” he laughed, “nobody would ad
dress & lettgr that way to a preacher
He bullt churches in the following
places: Fordyce, Ark.; Springfield. Mo
Pine Bluft, Ark.. and Waxahachie. Tex
He served a 8 an executive of the
Boy Scouts of Ameriea for seven
Years a 1 Okmulgee, Okla. and also
{ a 8 period in Durant, Okla. He als
has been a Red Cross life saving in
fiructor and an examiner
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NEW SHOE SHOP TO
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OPEN THIS WEEK
Blakelys newest business enter
prise, the Guy Jones Shoe Shop, b
scheduled 1o open on Saturday, it has
beens announced This business s Jo
ealed In 2 new buiding on North
Main streel, to the rear of Hall Drug
Company The owner and operastor b
Guy Jones, son of Mr and Mrs L B
(Casey) Jones This young man ha
just RBaished school 8t Georgia School
fs the Deaf., at Cave Springs A
Jones invites the public 1o visit his
and Maltedd that b will st o inle
any busritwes: lesudefod him
1955 GRADUATES
We Salute You!
CONGRATULATIONS AND
BEST WISHES FOR THE
JOURNEY WHICH LIES
AHEAD
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Blakely, Georgla
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CAMP FIRE GIR'S
At an impressive ceremony last Wed
nesday afternoon the Happy Bluebirds
graduated from Bluebirds to Camp
Fire Girls with the Ataya Camp Fire
group assisting in the exercises.
The program was given on the lawn
in front of the Camp Fire Lodge at
the Methodist Church, with a large
jerowd of mothers and interested
friends attending.
Twenty little Bluebirds changed
from their blue tie to a red tie and
twenty Camp Fire Girls left the cere
mony with their new Camp Fire Book
lnnd certificate, stating they had com
pleted three years of Bluebird work
and were ready to become Camp Fire
Girls,
The program opened with “Yester
day—A Look Into the Past” by Pa
tricia Davis, Ataya Camp Fire leader;
“Today-—What the Camp Fire Girl As
pires to Be,” by Beverly Barksdale;
and “Tomorrow—The Future of These
girh Entering Camp Fire,” by Carleen
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Mrs. Willard Dußose, the Hm
Bluebirds' Counselor, made a
presentation of the group and their
achievements,
Highlights of C. F. G. were given by
the following: Name and Insignia, Mer
lyn and Sterlyn Davis; Ranks, Char
l.;n:l-l Dunning; Crafts, Priscilla Mar-
The seven Crafts explained: Home,
June Sims; Creative Arts, Nancy Was
din; Outdoors, Linda White; Frontiers,
Peggy Jones; Business, Gail Rabon;
Sports and Games, Lynn Hodges; Cit
izenship, Martha Pritchett,
Lsims Loyless gave the Watchword
and« Sydney Howell the Law of Camp
Fire. As the Bluebirds formed a cir
cle the Ataya Camp sapg “She's a
I Camp Fire Girl”
Mrs. Dußose and Patricia Davis as
|Sisted in the candle lighting service,
{“Hold High Your Torch” The new
;Camp Fire group chose “We-to-ma
chick” as the name for their group,
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ol ceremony iced punch
lund cookies were served to about 70
present.
| Members of the Wetomachick Camp
| Fire Girls are: Mary Willard Dußose,
Lynn Rogers, Alita Bell, Mary Jane
Owen, Ann Gilbert, m Peak, El
eanor Martin, Joy ~ Angeline
|Jarrett, Linda Johnson, Shirley Tem
ples, Rachel Rice, Marjorie Hall. Car
lulyn White, Judy Jones, Betty Tim
mons, Charlotte Whitehurst, Dorothy
Phelps, Amelia Goocher, Susan Gil
bert.
REV.JOE MILLS RECEIVES
BACHELOR OF DIVINITY
! DEGREE AT SEMINARY
| The Reverend Joe Mills was awarded
his Bachelor of Divinity degree by the
| Southern Baptist Seminary, Loulsville,
{Ky.. on Thursday, May 26 This degree
ln based upon a preseribed three-year
course of study on the post-graduate
lkwl Rev. Mr Mills sttended Hilton
High School and the Georgia Institute
(of Technology and received his B. A
degree from Mercer University, Ma
teon, Ga. He was licensed 10 preach
‘hy the Pirst Baptist Church, Atlanta,
Ga. in 195], and erdained by the
Blakely Baptist Chureh in 1952 In the
‘summer of 1952, Rev. Mr Mills served
the Beulah and Providence churches
in the Bethel Association. Attending
{the gradustion were Rev. Mr Milly'
iparents. Mr. and Mrs R E Mills of
Early County, and his brother. Mr R
'E Mills, Jr. of Atlanta