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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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Fireworks Law i
Lobbying Draws
Fire Of Cravey
Atlanta - Decrying the annual
courting of certain legislators by the
Fireworks people, Safety Fire Com
missioner Zack D. Cravey today re
newed his fight for a “safe, sound and
enforceable law” governing Fireworks
in Georgia,
In a letter to Governor Ernest Vandi
ver, Lieutenant Governor Garland
Byrd and House Speaker George
Smith, Commissioner Cravey said the
Fireworks people at each session of the
General Assembly have but one pur
pose, namely “to see that no Fire
works Law is put on the Statute
Books to replace the present Fireworks
Law which is no Law at all.” He point
ed out that the present law has been
so adjudged by the Attorney-General
and that in the meantime the Fire
works people are reaping a golden
harvest, the state is not receiving a
single penny in licenses fees and the
life and limb of Georgia's youth is be
ing jeopardized by the wanton sale of
every conceivalbe kind of dangerons
fireworks.
Commissioner Cravey promised that
if given a safe and sane Fireworks
Law he will put between $150,000 and
$200,000 in the State Treasurer through
fireworks licenses revenue by next
January. Futher, he promised that
there would be no more serious in
juries. If he failed to deliver on these
promises, he concluded, he emphasized
he would be the first to ask the Gen
eral Assembly next year to repeal the
law,
BLAKELY BOYS TO
RECEIVE AWARDS
Atlanta, Ga. — March 22 is the date
set by the Georgia Vocational Agri
culture Hundred Bushel Corn Club
for its annual luncheon. It will be
held at the Dinkler Plaza Hotel.
According to J. G. Bryant, State
Supervisor of Agricultural Education,
556 Future Farmers and 17 adult farm
ers will be honored.
The luncheon, which ,is sponsored
each year by the Cotton Producers
Association in cooperation with the
Vocational Agriculture Division of the
State Department of Education, is for
the purpose of recognizing Future
Farmers of America, vocational agri
culture evening class members and
young farmers who have produced 100
bushels or more of cron per acre.
The Cotton Producers Association
also gives keys and certificates each
year to the members of the Hundred
Bushel Club. Included among the
number to receive these awards from
D. W. Brooks, General Manager of
CPA, will be two from Early county.
These boys and their school are:
Blakely High School—Linton Thomp
son and Olin Thompson.
William L. Swann
Receives Promotion
Friends will be interested to learn
of the recent promotion of Airman
Second Class William L. Swann, as'
revealed in the folowing letter to
Swann's father, Sheriff C. C. Swann:
Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia
February 6, 1961.
Mr. C. C. Swann,
Blakely, Georgia.
Dear Mr. Swann: .
It was my recent pleasure to con
gratulate you son, Airman Second
Class William L., upon his promotion.‘
His performance of duty and his con
duct, both on and off duty, earned this
promotion for him.
Your son is doing a fine job in this
organization and can enjoy an excel
lent and rewarding future in the
United States Air Force. You can be
Justly proud of him.
It is men like your son, who are de
veloping into highly trained profes
sional airmen, that materially assistin
making the Strategic Air Command
and the US Air Force the great aero
space power for peace that it is today.
Again let me congratulate you on
your son's achievement.
Sincerely.
JAMES D. HAMPTON, JR.,
Captain, UUSAF Commander‘
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PHIL CAMPBELL
TO HEAD 1961
CANCER CRUSADE‘
Phil€ampbell, commissioner of ag
riculture, has been named state chair
man of the American Cancer Society’s
1961 Education-Fund Crusade in Geor
gia,
Mr. Campbell's appointment was an
nounced by McPee Nunnally of At
ianta, president of the American Can
cer Society's Georgia Division.
Mr. Nunnally said the Crusade would
be conducted throughout Georgia dur
ing April, which is designated by
Congress as ‘Cancer Control Month”.
It will have the dual purpose of edu
cating people on how to guard against
cancer and raising funds to support the
Society’'s programs of research, public
and professional education and services
to needy patients, he said.
Mr. Campbell is now serving in his
sixth year as commissioner of agricul
ture. He also served six years in the
Georgia Legislature.
He is a graduate of the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture and a
past president of the University of
Georgia Alumni Society. He is secre
tary-treasurer of the Stone Mountain
Memorial Association. ]
Mr. Campbell resides on his dairy
and cotton farm in Oconee County,
near Watkinsville. He is married to
the former Nan McCreery of Savan
nah,
In accepting the Crusade chairman
ship, Mr. Campbell said, “With cancer
predicted to strike in two of every
three homes, there is the urgent need
for everyone to do his share -in the
cancer control program.
“It is my hope that the business and
civic leaders of every Georgia com
munity. will give their talents. time
and dollars toward the success of this
1961 Cancer Crusade.”
Breeders Services
Record Sizable
Increase In State
Use of artificial breeding, whieh
makes available to all dairymen some
of the best breeding stock in the na
tion, shbwed a sizeable increase in
Georgia last year, according to H. K.
Welch, head of the Extension dairy
department at the University of Geor
gia College of Agriculture.
. The total number of first services
released by American Breeders Serv
ice shows that a total of 39,740 cows
were inseminated in 1960. This is an
increase of 1,716 over 1959, a four and
one-half percent increase, Mr. Welch
said. This figure includes beef cattle,
but they account for only a very small
percentage of the total.
The Dairy Cattle Breeding Associa
tion of Gainesville led all organiza
tions with 2,774 first services, he re
ported. Technicians for the Gainesville
organization are Jim Jones of Flowery
Branch and Shelton Allison of Clarkes
ville.
Second high was the DeKalb Asso
ciation, where Claude Phillips of De
catur is technician, with 2422 first
services. Third high was the Coosa
Association at Rome with 2,231 first
services. Wallace Cochran is techni
cian,
Fourth and fifth were Tryon Rey
nolds, Jenkins Association, 2,190, and
Joe Kyte, Monroe Association, 1,932,
DR. A. HAMP CLARK
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
ATTEND C. A.R.
CONFERENCE
Misses Sue Hobbs, president of the
Captain Johnston Blakely Society;
Louise Williams, acting state record
ing secretary, and Elinor Martin, vice
president, attended the 22nd State
Conference of the Georgia State So
ciety, Children of the American
Revolution, Friday and Saturday,
February 24-25. They were accompan
ied by Miss Annette Alexander, Senior
President, and Mrs. H. M. Richard
son, State D. A, R. Chaplain and a
guest of the State C, A. R. President
and Senior President,
The meeting was held in Albany.
with the Thronateeska Society. Ap
proximately 100 members and guests
were present and were entertained in
the homes of CAR and DAR members.
The Captain Johnston Blakely So
ciety won an award as a Gold Honor
Society for 1961. Several other awards
were won .and Sue Hobbs, the presi
dent, was elected State Parliamentar
ian for 1962.
Travel Exhibit
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Depicts State’s
Vacation Assets
Atlanta, Ga. — The Georgia Depart
ment of Commerce, the state’s No. 1‘
agency for promoting tourism, has
added another arm to its program |
seeking a larger share of the U. S.|
tourist dollar. It's a 30-foot travel ex
hibit which will be on display at im-.
portant events outside the state. |
The large animated exhibit is be- |
ing unveiled at the National Outdoor
Exposition in New York City’s Coli-l
seumn, according to Jack J. Minter,§
director of the Commerce Depart- |
ment. '
Georgia will be projected as a “Year-‘
Round Vacationland” to the, 200,000
persons expected to attend the expo
sition from February 18 through Feb
ruary 26. ‘
Visitors to the Georgia exhibit will
pick up one of six telephones and hear
a tape recording about Georgia, spot-}
lighting “The Empire State of the
South” as a leader in vacation and
Civil War Centennial activities, Min
ter explained.
Attractive brochures and ot'ier Geor
gia vacation literature will he distrib
uted to all who visit the display. The
National Outdoor Expor.tion is said to
be New York’s largest travel show
and, although it is an annual event,
this is the first time the State of Geor
gia has ever been represented, Minter
said.
This colorful and impressive animat
ed exhibit will be used in much the
same manner at the Ohio Valley Sports
and Vacation Show March 4-12 in
Cincinnati and at the &edbook Travel
Show in New Jersey April 26-May 6,
it was pointed out.
Some 6,000 persons are expected to
visit, the Georgia travel exhibit and
learn about the state’'s many vacation
spots and tourist attractions during the |
three shows. '
Bill T. Hardman, manager of the
State Commerce Department’s tourist |
division, said Georgia hopes to attract |
thousands of new visitord during the |
year with the use of this new travel
exhibit.
Georgians representing chambers of|
commerce and other groups interestedi
in vacation attractions throughout the |
state will assist Hardman and his staff |
at the Georgia exhibit. |
CARD OF THANKS ‘
I would like to take this method of |
thanking my many friends for tfiei
prayers, cards, visits, calls and flowers |
during my recent stay in an Albany!
hospital. l
HANSFORD CLEVELAND.
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Blakely Livestock
Market Report
Moseley Barns' weekly auction sale
amounted to $20,952.95 Tuesday, as 48
cattle and 506 hogs were sold,
Light No. 1 meat-type hogs topped
the market at $17.30 per hundred
weight, No. 1 hogs sold for 17.07; No.
2's, 16.61; No. 3's, 16.20; No. 4's, 16.00;
No. s's, 16.00; No. 1 roughs, 14.10.
DIVIDENDS PAYABLE
ONLY ON CERTAIN
GI POLICIES
Atlanta, Ga. — The recent announce
ment oy the President for a speed-up
in.payments on 1961 GI life insurance
dividends has caused some misunder
standing among Georgia veterans.
Many believe.a special dividend will
be paid to all exservicemen who for
merly held GI insurance, reports Geor
gia Veterans Service Director Pete
Wheeler.
Wheeler explained, however, that an
nual dividends will be paid only to
those veterans who currently have par
ticipating National Service Life Insur
ance or U. S. Government Life Insur
ance in force on a premium-paying
basis. Policies which have lapsed be
cause of non-payment of premiums will
not draw dividends.
He added that dividends aren’t pro
vided to Korean veterans issued insur
ance following April 26, 1951. Policies
after that date are of the non-partici
pating type and don't receive dividends
from the surplus premiums.
Normally, dividends are paid out
over a full 12-month period. This year,
at the President’s direction, the VA
hopes to complete all payments on or
before June 30th.
Wheeler estimates that more than
89,000 former Georgia servicemen will
share in the dividend payment pro
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