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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
‘Garden Spot Of
GOD'S COUNTRY
VOLUME 102—NO. 28
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Dr. Donalson
Rotary Club
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Guest Speaker
A well-known ‘Georgia -educator and ‘
@ past district governor of Rotary
was the guest speaker at last week's
meeting of the Blakely Rotary Club.
Dr. George 'P. .Donalson, presidenti
of ABAC, Tifton, gave the club mem
bers and a number of guests his in
-terpretation .of 'Rotary’s meaning—its
objects and ‘ideals :and how they may
be put into practice—and his talk was
both entertaining and informative and
received the 'hearty :applause of his
hearers. Dr, 'Donalson, who was in
the city as a guest of the Blakely
Chapter of Future'Farmers of America,
was introduced by Hal 'Hobbs, presi
dent of the «¢hapter.
Other visitors present at Friday's
‘meeting, ‘whi¢h was 'héld :at ‘the Town
& Country Club, were Edward Balk
com. advisor to the FFA (Chapter, a
guest of ‘the club; Bill Moore, .of the
Davis ‘& Floyd Co., ‘Saffold, a :guest of
Rotarian . Jack Huddle; 'Léßaqy Starrett
.and Bill “Nexen, of ‘the Chéhaw Coun
cil of Boy “Secouts, ;guests .of Rotarian
Raymond ‘Singletary; George Bryan,
.of ‘Statesboro, :a :guest .of Rotarian
Barney Wynne; and .Dwayne Christen
sen, Blakély 'high school senior, a
guest of ‘honeorary member Jimmy
Rogers. : ;
President Elder Crawford presided
ove rthe 'meeting :and. Rotarian Ray
mond ‘Singletary ‘was jprogram chair
man.
JAKIN GIRL IS ;
WINNER OF LEGION
ORATORICAL CONTEST
Betty' Bowen, Jakin high school
junior, was ‘winner .of the Oratarical,
Contest held recently, according to 'W.
F. Underwood, contest chairman for
the American Legion, Post No. 11.
Placing second was Marilyn Waller,
senior at Damascus high school.
Awards will be presented to the
winners at the March dinner meeting
of the Legion and Auxiliary and will
be $25.00 and SISOO, respectively. -
Mrs. Wilbur Evans, of Jakin High
School, and Lonmie Chester, of Da
mascus High School. coached the con
testants. Judges weer the Rev. Cecil
Wimberley, Chester Clardy, and Mrs.
W. F. Underwood.
Betty, as first-place winner, will go
to Thomasville today to compete in
the district contest.
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Corlp Countp News
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Cotton And Peanut
Varieties For ‘6l
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Areß ded
re xecommenae |
Recommended cotton and peanut
varieties for 1961, based on tests by
Georgia Experiment Stations, were an
nounced this week by J. R. Johnson. |
head of the Extension agronomy de
partment at the University of Georgiat;
College of Agriculture. |
These have been tested under con
trolled experimental conditions and
have proved to be superior, Mr. John-;
son said. ‘
Cotton varieties recommehded for‘
planting this are Coker 100-A (W. R.),
Empire (W. R.), Plains, Auburn 56,
and Dixie King.
Peanut varieties are Dixie Spanish,
Spanette, Argentine, S. E. Runner 56-
15, Dixie Runner, Early Runner, Vir
ginia Bunch 67, Virginia Runner G-26,
Virginia Bunch G-2, Georgia 119-20,
and NC 2.
Good seed play a very important
part in making high, economical
yields, according to Mr. Johnson. A
farmer who plants poor seed of infer
ior varieties can not compete with
one who plants recommended varie
ties of proven high germination, he
continued.
Using “certified seed of these varie
ties is a sure way to know that the
-seed is of known origin and perfor
mance, the agronomist said.
Certified seed growers produce seed
under supervision of the Georgia Crop
Improvement Association.
SCIENCE FAIR
BLAKELY SCHOOL
MARCH 9-10
The annual Science Fair of the
Blakely school will be held next
“Thursday and Friday, March 9 and 10,
Principal Frank Buckner has announe
ed. The exhibits will be open so the
public all day Thursday and until 9
o'clock that evening. They will be
open, also, until 3:30 o'clock Friday
afternoon when judging will take
place. ;
In charge of the fair are Mrs. Ed
Morton, Mrs. Warren Cleveland, and
Bobby Terrell, of the high school. and
Mrs. Bill Bostwick, Mrs. W. H. Wall,
and Mrs. H. L. Martin, of the grammar
school.
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Alaska, California, South Dakota,
)and Utah account for 74 per cent of
the total domestic gold production in
the United States.
Success to All Who Puy Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
Second District Music
Festival To Be Held
Here Friday And Saturday
The Blakely High School Band wm|
be host to he Second District Music
Festival on Friday and Saturday, it is
announced by Marcus Mulkey, direc
tor of the Blakely Band and Festival
chairman. The Festival is sponsored
by Georgia Music Educator's Associa
tion.
The Instrumental Festival is sched
uled for Friday and the Choral and
Piano Festival for Saturday. ‘
INSTRUMENTAL FESTIVAL |
The Festival opens Friday morning
at 9 o'clock at the Mangham auditor
ium. The Bands and Twirling are
planned for Friday. Each band will
have 30 minutes to “warm up” and
they will play before three judges
for rating. Each band will be allow
ed 30 minutes for concert. They will
also read music for an additional rat
ing.
Band directors are: Richard Haw
kins, Bainbridge; Charles Luttrell, Al
bany; Bud Marcus, Pelham; Leon Las
tinger, Tifton; Eugene Wyles, Sylves-l
ter; Tommy Greenhaw. Cairo; Harry
Martin and Maynard Sell, both of Al-!
bany; Ronald Brooks, Camilla; Don
Robinson, Colquitt; and Marcus Mul
key, Blakely. |
Bands participating will be: East‘
Dougherty, Pelham, Tifton, Albany
Junior High School, Worth County‘
High School, Cairo, Mitchell County
High School, Miller County High
School, Albany High School, and.
Blakely High School. |
Many students representing these
bands will play solos and ensembles.
There will be 26 brass and 40 wood
wind solos and ensembles made up of
students from the bands, and this
event will be held at the Blakely
Methodist Church on Friday.
Fifty-one twirling solos and ensem
bles will be staged at Standifer Field,
lweather permitting.
’ CHORAL FESTIVAL
'~ The Choral Festival will be held
Saturday, March 4, at Mangham
auditorium at the Blakely High
School, beginning at 9 o'clock in the
morning. Taking part in the Choral
will be Baker County, Elementary
School; Cairo Southside Junior High
Additional $35 Million
Farm Operating Loan
: Fund Made Available
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L.
' Freeman today announced that an ad
ditional $35 million had been mafie
available for farm operating loans, ac
cording- to Edward D. Morton, local
FHA supervisor.
At the same time, Secretary Free
man said USDA'S Farmers Home Ad
ministration has been instructed to
“review its regulations, and take every
step within its authority to meet farm
credit needs.
“To the extent that farm loan poli
cies and available funds can prevent
it, no qualified family farmer will be
required to give up farming because of
his inability to finance his 1961 opera
tions,” the Secretary said. |
The volume of loans made by the
FHA so far this year is running 20
percent ahead of last year. As a result;
of the increased demand, the supply
of funds for new borrowers is nearly
exhausted in about 17 states.
The $35 million came from a con
tingency fund made available by Con- |
gress for the 1961 fiscal year. Pre
viously, $197,100,000 has been made
available for this type of credit for
the 1961 fiscal year. As of February
10, approximately $l5O of the $197
million had been loaned and most of
the remainder committed.
In announcing measures being taken
to meet credit needs, Secretary Free
man said “We expect that the ex
pansion of Agricultural credit services
can be carried out without additional
personnel, and with no increase in ad
ministrative expenses. |
“Additional - loans will be made
available to farmers, but this will not |
result in any actual increase in ex
penditures of the Federal Government
since borrowers of the Farmers Home
Administration have a superb record
of repaying their loans.
“Over the past nine years the total
real net income of farm families from
farming has dropped approximately
one-fourth; farm prices have dropped‘
to around four-fifths of the parity
level. Faced with declining prices and
income, many beginning and other
farmers have been financially hard
pressed. In many cases they have ex
hausted their regular line of credit and
thus in 196) are facing the threat of
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School; Bainbridge High School; Mec-
Intosh School; East Dougherty Junior
High School; Bainbridge High School;
Vashti, Cai.o High School; Albany
High School; Miller County High
School; Edison High School, and
Blakely High School.
Choral Directors of the 13 choruses
are: Mrs. Virginia Jones, Newton; Ed
Timmerman, Cairo; Mrs. Eleanor Mid
dleton. . Charles Lettrell, and Maynard
Sell, all of Albany; Kenneth Nilson,
Bainbridge, and Miss Mildred Burton,
Thomasville.
PIANO FESTIVAL
The Piano Festival will be held at
the Blakely Baptist Church Saturday
morning beginning at 9 o’clock. Schools
taking part in this division will be
Bainbridge High School; Southside
Junior High School; Cairo High
School; Albany High School; Mamie
Brosnan School; Albany Junior High
School; Edison High School; Morgan
Junior High School; Mclntosh School;
Albany Elementary School, and Miller
County High School.
Piano teachers of the students en
tering in competition are: Mrs. Cath
erine Nilson, Bainbridge; Ed Timmers
man, Cairo; Mrs. V. T. Varron, Cairo;
James Reddick, Mrs. H. H. Perry,
Mrs. Lilly Kitchens. Mrs. Anna Bland,
and Mrs. D. P. Verner, all of Albany;
Mrs. Ennis Brooks and Mrs. Fred
Lowe, Edison; Mrs. Ruth Gaulden,
,Camilla; and Mrs. J. A. Key, Colquitt.
Over 1500 students of southwest
Georgia are expected to attend the Fes
tival. Mrs. Harvey Brown is projects
chairman for the local Band Boosters
Club and has announced her con
cession committee—Mrs. Joe Sheffield,
Mrs. Whalen George, Mrs. K. J.
Hodges, Mrs. J. C. Temples. Mrs. G.
E. Culpepper, Mrs. Walter Brooks,
Mrs. Emmett Smith, Mrs. J. T. Man
ry, Mrs. Chester Houston, Mrs. J. E.
Craft, Mrs. Bob Houston, Mrs. W. S.
Alderman, Mrs. George Warrick, -Mrs.
Rayph Balkcom, and Mrs. Cecil Dußose.
Officers of the local Band Boosters
Club are: Linton Willis, president;
‘ Mrs. Sara Brown, vice president; Mrs.
George Warrick, secretary; Mrs. Guy
King, reporter; and Bert Tarver.
treasurer,
‘Two Injured In Auto
Accident Thursday P. M.
An automobile accident the past
Thursday afternoon on State Highway
39 (Fort Gaines Road) 5 miles north
of Blakely, painfully injured a Blake
ly lady and another from Long Lake,
111. Injured were Mrs. J. R. Donnan,
of Blakely, who received lacerations
about the face and injuries to the right
eye, in addition to bruises, but no
broken bones. Mrs. Charles Rehder, of
Long Lake, 111., who, with her husband,
was en route to Florida, sustained
fractured ribs and bruises and lacera
tions. Both are undergoing treatment
in Baxley Clinic, and are expected to
be dismissed sometime this week end.
CARD OF THANKS
We appreciate so much the flowers,
cards, phone calls, and other expres
sions of interest and kindness shown
us during our recent illness.
WILLIAM H. ODOM AND
SON, BILL.
having to give up the struggle against
adversities they have suffered through
no fault of their own.
“It is the intention to reverse the
downward trend in farm income and
enable efficient family farmers to
earn and get a parity of income. When
the new farm program becomes effec
tive, these efficient family type farm
ers will again be good commercial
credit risks. It would be unthinkable
to allow many efficient farrn families
to give up the struggle now because
they are unable to obtain credit need
ed to finance 1961 operations.”
Farm operating loans are made by
the Farmers Home Administration to
farmers who cannot obtain adequate
credit elsewhere. The funds may be
used to pay for equipment, livestock,
feed, seed, fertilizer, tractor fuel and
other farm and home operating needs,
and to refinance chattel debts. Loans
are scheduled for repayment in ac
cordance with the borrower's ability
to repay, over periods not exceeding
seven years. The interest_ rate is 5
percent.
The loans are used to finance family
type and smaller operations. Edward
D. Morton, local FHA Supervisor
whose office is located in the Warrick
Building, Blakely, Georgia, serves
Calhoun and Early counties,
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Mrs. Addie Mock
Dies Suddenly At
Home Onßt. 3
Mrs. Addie Tiner Sheffield Mock, 75,
died suddenly at her residence on
Route 3 at 9:30 o’'clock the past Thurs
day morning. |
A native of Early county, she was
born April 17, 1885, «nd was the
daughter of Ben Tiner and Mollie
Sheffield Tiner.
‘ Mrs. Mock had resided all her life
in this county and had many friends
who learned with sincere regret of
her death.
She was a member of Hentown
Church of Christ where her funeral
was held Saturday afternoon, with
Ralph Lewis and J. P. Waddell offi
ciating. Interment was in Flat Creek
cemetery, Miller County, Manry-
Minter Funeral Home in charge, and
John 1. Cooper, Marcine Cooper, Will
Tiner, Stanley Tiner, Bobby Tiner, and
Eurrell Tiner serving as pall-bearers.
Surviving Mrs. Mock are a son,
Charles Randall Sheffield of Blakely;
a daughter, Mrs. Vernon Lindsey of
Colquitt, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Lester
Cooper of Blakely; three brothers, John
Tiner of Colquitt, Ga., Jim Tiner of
Albany, Ga., and Wright Tiner of Don
alsonville, Ga.; four grandchildren and
2 great-grandchildren.
Sponsor The Future I
Of Georgia’s Crippled
Children And Adults
You can sponsor the future of a
crippled child or adult when you give
to Easter Seals, stated C. M. Wallace,
Jr., State Chairman for the 1961 Eas
ter Seal Campaign.
The annual appeal will be held from
March 2-April 2, this year. Last year,
the futures of 2,552 crippled children
and adults were sponsored through
Easter Seal Contributions.
Ninety per cent (90%) of all money
contributed remains in Georgia to
serve crippled children and adults.
The lion's share of total expenditures
for last year went for care and treat
ment of physically handicapped per
sons. This amount was $102,280,58.
Total amount of Easter Seal dollars
contributed last year was $271,822.
The 1961 Easter Seal Campaign
marks 40 years of service by the Na
tional Easter Seal Society. Its state
affiliate. the Georgia Society for Crip
ple dChildren and Adults announces
10 years of service. .
’ The Society reported that there are
‘thousands of crippled Georgians who
‘could benefit from Easter Seals’ serv-*
ices and programs. To make this possi
ble, increased contribntions are need
ed. Its rehabilitation centers in At
lanta and Albany are working at maxi
mum patient loads. A real problem is
the need for expansion of facilities to
meet the needs of those crippled
children and adults who look to Eas
ter Seals for hope, care and treatment.
Easter Seals serves all types of crip
pling disabilities, regardless of age,
race or creed,
Give generously to Easter Seals in
1961 and sponsor the futures of crip
pled children and adulis.
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The rarest mammal in America is
the black-footed ferret.
And be prepared to seize opportunities for advance
ment. . . able to defend yourself—against the on
slaught of financial emergencies.
Every pay day, make a deposit in a bank savings
account—here at the First State Bank.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
“BLAKELY'S OLDEST AND LARGEST”
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Miller Girls Topple -
Turner 43-36, Take
1-B West Crown
The Miller County girls toppled Tur
ner County 43 to 36 here the past
Saturday night to capture the 1-B.
West basketball tournament and earn
ed the right to represent the region
in the state meet. Elizabeth Shingler,
Glenda Wells and Louise Houston
were the effensive stars for Coach Joe
Lowrey's stars. who had upset the dope
the night before with a torrid 47-46
victory over the Seminole Squaws, who
had entered the tournament undefeat
ed and heavily favored.
- The final game was anti-glimactic,
‘the big game having been the night
| before, the outcome of which was net
determined until the exact time the
kbuzzer sounded. Screaming, shouting,
{hysterical fans were left limp with
the wild finish.
The Blakely girls gave an excelleat
account of themselves, being eliminated
by Turner Countyiin the Friday night
semi-finals. Blakely's sharp-shooting
forward, Jane Chandler, who scored
118 points in the three games she play
ed, was one of the tournament’s out
standing players.
- Tournament results:
Wednesday night: Seminole 64,
‘ Vienna 26; Blakely 58, Pelham 47; Tur
ner County 56, Mitchell County 31.
Thursday night: Seminole 68, Cuth
bert 26; Blakely 62, Terrell County 53;
Miller County 61, Norman Park 36.
Friday Night: Miller County 47,
Seminole 46; Blakely 57, Turner Coun
ty 70.
Saturday night: (finals) Miller
ICounty 43, Turner County 36.
DIST. GOVERNOR ;
VISITS BLAKELY
LIONS CLUB
The Governor of Lions International
district 18-C paid the Blakely club an
official visit Tuesday, when the club
met at the Town & Country Club.
Governor D. D. Morrison, of Pelham,
spoke on “The March of Lionism” and
related the world-wide influence this
organization had spread since it came
into being in 1917. Although not the
oldest service organization, the dis
trict governor stated, it has now be
come the largest, with over 15,000 clubs
and over 600,000 members in 111 coun
tries and geographical locations.
Governor Morrison was introduced
by Lion Alex Howell, who is a mem
ber of the district governor's cabinet.
serving as zone chairman for this
area.
Guests at the meeting, presided over
by President Ed Balkcom, were the
Rev. Aurel Muntean, of Dawson; Jim
Christian, of Athens, and Alex Stew
art, of Albany.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend to each of you
our sincere thanks for every manifes
tation of your thoughtfulness and kind
ness at the time of the passing of our
loved one.
The Family Of
MRS. ADDIE MOCK.
Soybeans should be planted about
corn planting time or when the ground
is thoroughly warm, says Harold Gur
ley, Extension Agronomist.