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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUMN 105 NO, 30
Blakely F.F.A. Parent-Son Banquet
Big Success With 240 in Attendance
The Blakely Farmers Future
America Chapter held its 24th
Annual Parent-Son Banquet on
Friday night with about 240
members, parents, teachers,
school officials and friends in at
tendance.
Mr, J. L. Branch, Assistant
Supervisor of Agricultural Ed
ucation for District I, was the
main speaker, He called atten
tion in his speech to the theme
of the banquet ,‘Agriculture —
Vital to America” and empha
sized the importance of just how
true this will be, how vital agri
culture will be in the future. His
speech was certainly a challenge
and inspiration to everyone. Mr.
Branch was introduced by Nor
man Gay. the State President if
the Georgia Association of Fu
ture Farmers of America. Nor
man is from Sumner, Ga. where
he is also serving as president
of his chapter this year. Norman
spoke briefly and brought greet
ings from the State Association
which has a membership in ex
cess of 18,500 Mr. F. H. Gay,
father of the State President ac
companied him and Mrs. Branch
also attended the banjuet,
One of the highlights of the
banquet was the presentation of
herorary memberships in the
Chapter to Mr. R. K. Sites, Coun
ty School Superin‘endent and
the late Mr. Grady Smith,
retired vice - president of the
First State Bank. Each yeor
the members select certain local
men who in some way have as
sisted the chanter and have
helped to further the work of
the F.F.A. and honor them by
making them honorary members.
In this 24 years the chapter
has selected 44 men and women
for honorary membership and a
large group of these attended the
banquet Friday night. George
Easom, chapter secretary, was in
charge of the presentation of
honorary degrees. /
In the chapter awards pro
gram the Cliff Singletary Award
for Public Speaking was given to
George Easom He received a
very pretty silver cup given by
Mr. R, C. Singletary, Jr.; a medal
given by the National F. F. A,
Foundation; and the Cliff Single
tary Award Plaque given by the
chapter. Mr. J. J. Hewitt, Presi
dent of the Blakely Lions Club,
presented cash awards to the
first, second and third place win
ners in the Chapter Public
Speaking contest. These were
George Easom, Jack Tedder and
Jan Jenkins. Each year the
Lions Club presents these cash
awards to the winners in the
Public Speaking contest. ‘
Mrs. George Nelson presented
the Howard Nelson Harrison
Award Plaque to Don Harper
who won first place in the Soil'
Conservation Essay Contest,
EARLY COUNTY :
SHOWS SHARP JUMP
IN ACTUAL SALES
Georgia retail sales for 1962
totaled $5,731,463,157, on an in
crease of 11.19 per cent over the
$5,154,353,718 collected in 1961,
the Georgia State Chamber of
Commerce reported today. The
year-end total for Early County
came to $18,393,610 as compared
to $10,345,809 for 1961.
Fourth quarter total for 1962
for the entire State ammounted
to $1,549,197,374, compared to
$1,404,399,230 for the same period
during 1961, the State Chamber
reported,
Early County's total for the
fourth quarter is $9,651,178 com
pared to 3,018,501 for the fourth
quarter of 1961..
“STAY IN SCHOOL”
EMPHASIZED BY FHA
Did you know that more than|
one third of the nation’s young
people drop out of school before
completing high school. This
means one million young people
will drop out of school this year.l
Because youth recognizes this |
problem, and considers it to be'
one of the top concern of teen- '
agers, the Future Homemakers of‘
America have included “Stay in
Corlp Conntp News
' This award and a medal are giv
en by Mr, and Mrs. George Nel
son to the Chapter winner of the
Soil Conservation Essay contest
which many members of the
Chapter enters each year,
Mrs. Nelson also presented the
Soil and Water Conservation
medal given by the Blakely
Woman’s Club to the chapter
winner who was Walter Frank
Baxley this year.
Walter Frank Baxley als>
received the Soil and Watoz:
Management award medal given
by the National F.F.A, Foun
dation. Other National F.F.A,
Foundation medals and w:inners
|were: Star -Chapter Fa mer,
Tommy Williams; Crop Farming,
Danny Chandler; and Farm Me
chanics, Lawrenca Williams.
Nine Ch-pter memb:rs were re
cently initiated as Junior Farm
ers. the highest degree a chap
lter can give for accomplishments
in the F.F.A. These members
who were presented their Junior
. Farmer certificatcs were: Gene
Howard, Cal Cox, Rudy Jarrett,
Gerald Howard, Charles Knight
on, Billy Temples, Ned Taylor,
Jimmy Ray Murkerson and Jas
per Knighton,
: Another main feature of the
Iba.'.;;'et program was a raview
,of the highlights of the chaper
| activities for the past year and
. 1962-1963 school year, This part
, of the program was given by Jan
Jdenkins, Ronny S!ill and Billy
, English,
} The Brown sistors Carol, Ju
i dy, Mary and Madeline enter.
itained the group with thres
songs. one of which was “I'm In
Love With A Boy of The F.F.A.”
Mr. and Mrs, Perry Bridges also
provided the dinner music.
Jack Tedder gave the welcome
and Mr. Billy English, Sr. gave
ih¢ response to the welcome,
Walter Baxley gave the intro
duction of guest. Rev. Lee Wil
son gave the invocation and
Rev, W, E. Storey gave the
benediction,
A delicious barbecue and
Brunswick stew meal was served
with potato salad, bread, ice tea,
cake and ice cream. The Barbe
cue was prepared by Mr. Em
mett McLendon and the stew
was prepared by Mr. Lewis
Jones,
Mrs. Charlie Houston and sev
eral of the Blakely F.H.A girls
served the meal.
Officers of the Blakely F.F.A.
are: president, Tommy Williams;
vice-president, John Odom; sec
retary, George Easom; treasurer,
}Walter F. Baxley; reporter, Bil
ly English; parliamentarian, Carl
:Erwin; sentinel, George nash;
chaplain, James Collier; chapter
'sweebhearts, Charlotte White
hurst and Betty Timmons; advis.
}ors, R. E. Balkcom and T. A.
Williams,
School” as one of their National
projects. Blakely FHA’ers em
phasized this project at their
|last meeting through a skit,
| “Dropouts are Left-outs” present
,ed by program chairman, Judy
!Allen. Participants included Ann
Richardson, who portrayed “Miss
|Wedding Bells”, Barbara Sand.
'ers.. who portrayed “Miss Per
| sonality Minus”, Mary Chand
| ler, ‘Miss Employee”, Penny Wil
lis, “Miss Boredom”, Anne Lance,
the doctor.
The devotional, entitled “I Am
A Future Homemaker of Ameri
ca”, was presented by Norma
Willis and Beverly A, Gilbert,
land refreshments were served by
| Susan Howell and her Commit
tee. A song fest was lead by
Beverly E. Gilbert, Beverly A.
Gilbert, Peggy Wimbertly and
'Elizabeth Sessions.
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| CARD OF THANKS
~ We sincerely wish to express
our deepeet appreciation to the
many friends and relatives who
gave their very kind expressions
of sympathy by visits to our home
and the funeral home, cards,
flowers and in personal contacts
out in the city and county during
the recent passing of our loved
one,
Leßoy Jr., Dell and '
Mac Thompson,
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY, MORNING, MARCH 14, 1963
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Gov. Carl Sanders paid a brief visit to Early county the past Thursday to view the
vast operations of the Great Southern Land & Paper Company at Cedar Springs.
The chief executive was highly pleased and happy about this sixty million dollar
operation and pledged the state’s co-operation. Shown above standing in front of
t'.e administration building are Edwin L. Cowan, Southern’s executive vice-presi
dent; Governor Sanders; W. F. Daniell, research director, of Great Northern Paper
Co., Millinocket, Me.; Herman M. Richardson, president, Blakely Chamber of Com
merce, and State Senator Julian Webb, of Donalsonville.
'BLAKELY WOMAN'’S
CLUB HOLDS MARCH
LUNCHEON MEETING
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‘ A Conservation program was.
: presented at the March luncheon
meeting of the Blakely Woman’s
Club. Chester Clardy, Soil Con
servationist, showed a color trav
elog, featuring National Parks,
the film was most interesting and
included parks over the entire
United States. Mrs. J. W. Bon
ner, Chairman of the Conserva
tion Dept. and program chairman
|for the day. introduced Mr.
Clardy.
' “Kolomoki State Park is one
of the out:tanding parks in the
l state of Georgia”, Mr. Clardy
said in talking about the parks
in Georgia, he and Mrs. Clardy
have visited a majority of these
|parks as they continue their
search for rocks and Indian arti
facts, Mr. Clardy exhibited many
different rocks which were both
colorful and unique.
Mr. and Mrs, Clardy are well
known for their camping trips,
he advocates family camping for
’real “Togetherness”, with each
| member of the family taking his
or her part in camp life and ac
|cepting responsibility, he warn
ed, “Take along as little as pos
sible when you camp or the trip
lwill be too much trouble”,
{ Mrs. George Nelson presided.
Mrs. J. E. Freeman gave the de
votional, “Not Hasty in Judge
iment and Always Generous",i
| these words were taken from the;
, Club Collect. “It is the hasty and
unfair judgment that Christ con
| dems”, she said in the inspiringi
devotional, “never judge a per
i'stm unless you know their envire-:
ment. heredity, acquaintances.i
education, etc.” she said in part.
Reports were made by . Mrs,,
E, W, Yarnell. Mrs Nelson ex-|
pressed appreciation for the ex-f
' cellent work done by the House
Committee and the Yard Com
mittee, she stated all reports were |
mailed out February 18 to state
and district. She read a letter
from Mrs., Bruce Shaeffer, new
head of the Welfare Department
in the state and pointed out that
already the name had been|
changed to the Department of
Family and Children Services. |
The president reported on the
Library and improved Library'
!facilities, she reminded Club
“members that it was through the
‘help of members of the Woman’s
Club and such public spirited
women as Mrs, R. C. Singletary,
Sr., that Early County now has
the attractive new library,
Mrs, Nelson told of a recent
letter from Mrs, Singletary and
said Mrs, Singletary reported she
is improving as she is visiting
with her daughter in Opp, Ala,
Mrs. C. G. Brewer, Mrs. E. W,
Yarnell, and Mrs. Frank Tinney
were named on the nominating |
committee. April hostesses will
be Mrs. Frank Buckner, Mrs.'
Josh John Davis ang Mrs, B.
Wynne,
Guests at the March meeting'
were: Mrs. H. L. Wingate, of Elli. |
jay, Ga., a State Chairman; Mml
ROTARIANS SEE
GREAT NORTHERN
MOVIE FILM
Blakely Rotarians at last Fri
day’s meeting were shown a slim
of the Main forests and the op
erations of the Great Northern
Paper Company, of Millinocket,
Maine. W, F. Daniel, Manager
of Engineering and Research,
R, E. Crossley, Assistant Mana
ger for Engineering and Research,
both of Millinocket, and W. H.
Simpsen, Senior Engineer, cur
rently residing in Blakely, rep
resented Great Northern in pre
senting the film program to the
club. Rotarian R. A. Houston
was program chairman,
Guests at Friday’s meeting in
cluded Tom Chandler and Billy
Smith, both of Dawson, guests
of Rotarian R C, Singletary,
Jr., Frank Dean, of Franklin,
N. C, and J. A, Ward, of Dothan,
guests of Rotarian Charles De.-
Loache; Bob Merchant, of Al
bany, guest of Rotarian H. M.
Richardson; Bill Miller, West
Palm Beach, Fla., and Jack Far
mer, of Blakely, guest of Rotarian
A. J. Singletary; Stuart Carter
of Dothan and Buster Lockett, of
Cuthbert, both Rotarians making
up attendance; Marvin Wills and
Bob Johnson, of Albany. guests{
of Rotarian George Gee, III; and
Blakely High School senior Billl
Golden, guest of Senior Class
President, Bill Cox.
President James M. Bryant
presided over the meeting,
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4-H CLUB PRESENTS
PROGRAM AT THE
BAPTIST CHURCH‘
The 4-H Club of Blakely pre.-
sented a program at the Blakely
}'Baptist Church Sunday night, in
| observance of 4-H Club Week,
The program included: the Wel
come by Carole Monfort, presi
dent of the County Council;
“What Is 4-H Club Sunday?”,
Dorothy Phelps; “Purpose of 4-H
Sunday”, Carroll Waller; Devo
tional, Fifth Grade 4-H Club
members, prayer Art Redding.
| “The Country Church, Judy
Jones; Ten Grang Ships, Sixth
’Grade 4-H Club members; Spec.
‘ial Music, Fifth and Seventh
‘Grade 4-H Club members; “I Met
God in the Morning”, Theresa
‘Se‘ners; Deditation of Seed and
Soil, the Rev, W, E, Storey. 4-H
Club members were urshers and
Ronnie Balkcom was song leader,
M
Monroe Loyd, Mr. and Mrs, Ches.-
ter Clardy.
The clubhouse was attractively
decorated with yellow Spring
flowers. An arrangement of yel
low gladioli. mums and crab ap
ple blossoms in a low green bowl,
standing on a polished wood base,
decorated the speaker’s table,
Yellow glads and crab apple blos
soms decorated the registration
table,
Mrs. Fred Brooks and Mrs. W,
B. Martin were hostesses at the
two eourse luncheon.
Blakely Jaycees
Hold Meeting At
Town and Country Club
The Blakely Jaycee's first
meeting for the month of March
was held Wednesday Night .at
the Country Club,
Two new members were wel
comed into the club by Presi
dent Nick Collins: they were
Larry Browne, and Jimmy Ror
sitt. Other guests attending were
Richard Ray, a National Jaycee
Director from Perry, Hal Kun
kel, executive Vice President of
the Georgia Jaycees, and Mr. and
Mrs. Butler from Candaya. New
York.
President Collins read letters
of thanks received from Mrs.
George Nelson and the Early
County Board for the help the
Jaycees provided in remodeling
the library building.
The projects committee,
headed by Chairman Walter
Hodges, was given the approval
of the club to look into the pos
sibility of renumbering all
houses and businesses in Blake
ly. This would be done in co
operation with the Post Office
for improved street and mailing
addresses,
This year is the fifth conse
cutive year the Blakely Jaycees
have sponsored the Star Student
land Star Teacher program in
lEarly County and the Club has
been given an award of appre
ciation for this service. The
Blakely Jaycees will give an all
expense paid trip to the State
Star Student and Teacher Ban
quet for the local Early County
Winner, Miss Susan Gilbert and
her teacher Mrs. E. D. Morton,
on March 19.
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|TO ATTEND DAR
CONFERENCE
The Georgia State Society,
Daughters of the American Revo
lution, will hold its annual State
Conference in Columbus on Mar
ch 15, 16, and 17, The Ralston
Hotel will be headquartres,
The Tollowing will attend the
meeting from the Peter Early
Chapter of Blakely: Mrs, Her
man M. Richardson, State Treas
urer; Mrs. J, E. Houston, State
Chairman Historical Scrapbook;
Miss Annette Alexander, Regent,
Peter Early Chapter; Mrs, H. L.
Bell; and Mrs, P, H. Fitzgerald
alternates, |
Mrs. Grady Holman, Sr., and
‘Miss Mattie Butler will also at.
tend.
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American Legion To
Give Steak Supper
For Athletic Teams
All boys who play football,
basketball and baseball from the
echools of Blakely, Damascus
and Jakin are to be treated to
a charcoal steak supper at the
Legion Hall the night of March
26th at 8:00 o’clock. All others
in sports and athletics in the
Early County Schools are invited
also, but there will be a chargel
of $2.00 per plate for these.
Early County Fat Cattle Show and Sale
To Be Held March 21st and 22nd
Early county's fourth annual
fat cattle and show will be held
here in Blakely on Thursday and
Friday March 21 and 22, Ike
Newberry, general chairman, has
announced,
The committee is working
hard to make this show the
largest and best to date. and al
ready more than 50 head of pure
bred steers have been entered,
Mr, Newberry said, These steers
will be exhibited by Early coun
ty FFA and 4-H Club boys and
girls,
The show will be held at the
Moseley Livestock Barns, be -
ginning at 2 o’clock on the after
noon of Thursday, March 21, The
sale will take place the next
morning at the same place.
A big street parade will also
feature the show sale date, this
to begin at 5 o'clock. Following
the parade a banquet will be
held at 8 o'clock in the American
Legion building with Dr, Pete
Donaldson, former president of
Abraham Baldwin College, as
principal speaker, Cattle show
winners will be announced and
prizes and ribbons awarded at
o
H. Grady Smith
Blakely Banker
Passes Away
One of Blakely’s best known'
and most respected citizens,
Henry Grady Smith, died in a
local clinic here the past Friday
morning following a long ill
| ness,
Mr, Smith, the son of fiames
Jackson Smith and Jeffie Eth
ridge Smith, was born Nov, 7,
| 1885, hence was 77 years of age.
He had spent most of his adult
| life in the banking busines;, and
| had lived all of his life in Blake
| ly, except for 15 years when he
was connected with banks in
Homestead, Florida, He served
as executive vice-president of
the First State Bank, and prior
to that was employed by the
old First National, the fore-run
ner to the First State Bank. In
1962 Mr, Smith went into semi
retirement, but remained at the
First State in an advisory capa
city and came to his office al.
most daily until ill health pre
vented it. His passing brought
sadness to his many friends
throughout this section. '
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock !
in the chapel of Manry-Minter'
Funeral Home, the Rev, W, E,'
Storey and the Rev, L. C. Wim-'
berley officiating. Burial took‘
place in the Blakely cemetery
with John Mosely, A, D_Harriss,
Walton Knighton, Lewis B, Fry
er, Edward Balkcom, Robert Col
lier, Dr. Don Bush and Bill
Cheek serving as pall bearers,
The bank directors and tellers
and attorney, J. W. Bonner,
formed an honorary escort,
Survivors are his wife, Mrs,
Kathleen Odum Smith. Blakely;
a brother, Jack Smith, of Albany;
a sister, Mrs, O, R. Rivers, Tal.
lahassee, Fla,
EARLY COUNTY LIBRARY
NEWS
New books recently added to
the library’s shelves include the
following:
House of Hope by Lynne Reid
Banks,
Valley of Yesterday by Cleo
Stephens,
Gun Empire by Norman Dan
iels,
The Cry of the Owl by Pa
tricia Highsmith,
Harvest of Hope by Faith
Baldwin,
Tale for the Mirror by Hort
ense Calisher,
Believe my Love by Laurene
Chinn.
Southern Plantation by Lillian
Britt Heinsahn,
The Demoniacs by John Dick
erson Carr,
Wake in Fright by John Dick
son Carr,
Wake in Fright by Kenncth’
Cook.
PULL FOR BLAKELY
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PULL OUT
$2.58 PER ANNUM
the banquet, !
The big evening of fun will
take place at Standifer Field on
Friday night March 22, at 8
o'clock. A calf scramble will
take place with 45 teen-age boys
scrapping for 15 pure-bred cal
ves. A greasy-pole climbing con
test and greasy pig catching con
test will be held with 4-H club
girls taking part in this attrac
tion, “All in all,” Mr, Newberry
said, “this show promises to be
an exciting event.”
Arranging the show and sale
is the ‘following committee:
Norman Alexander, Carroll Rog
ers, John Moseley. Ralph Balk
com, Ted Whitchard, Ralph
Balkcom, Joe Cannon, Dr, R, A.
Houston, Tony Williams, County
Agent Judson Cooper, Tige Pick
le, Mayor George Gee, Sr., Dr.
Don Bush. Henry Haddock, Se
vola Jones, Ivey Chambers, Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Waller, Mrs.
Floyd Tedder, Mrs. Charles Gar
rett, Edward Balkcom, Lyle Mec-
Neal, Robert Puckett, A. J.
Singletary, C. P, Jenkins, R. R.
McLendon. James Bryant, J. J.
Hewitt, Nick Collins, P, A. Pitts,
Homer Bush, K. J. Hodges.
Charles E. Dews
Edison Attorney
Charles Edward Dews, Sr.,
69, prominent Edison attorney
and business man, died at 12:30
am, Friday in Phoebe Putney
hospital, Albany, following am
illness of three months. Compli
cations following a heart attack.
suffered a week earlier, resulted
in his death.
A native of Nashville, Tenn.,
where he was born March 31,
1893, the son of Charles Edward
Dews and Catherine Kirwin
Dews, he had been living im
Southwest Georgia since the
twenties. One time during this
period, he was a resident of
Blakely. Since 1933 Mr. Dews
had resided in Edison, where he
was a practicing attorney and
business man, He represented
Calhoun county in the state
House of Representatives for two
terms, and had served two terms
in the state senate from the old
9th district which comprised® the
counties of Baker. Calhoun and
Early, He was a veteran of
'World War I and was a member
|of the Edison Legion Post. He was
'a member and past president of
the Edison Lions Club, and mem
‘ber of the Edison Methodist:
Church,
| Final rites were conducted
Saturday afternoon, 4 p. m_ in
the Edison Methodist church, the
Rev. R. E. Dorsey and the Rev.
Dale McCord, officiating. Man
ry-Minter Funeral Home, of’
Blakely, was in charge, with in
terment in the Blakely cemetery,
the following serving as pall
bearers: Claude Wiggins, Jr.,.
Dan Hammack, Jr., Sam Beck
ham, Bill Gay, Northern Dough
erty, Grover Palmer, Hubert
Sanders, Calvin Sthram, Honor
’ary pall bearers were the officiall
board of the church and Dan
Hammack. Sr., J. T, Webb, Cecil
Webb, Clark Sawyer, Walter:
Griffin, Albert Manry, Arfhur
Lindsey, C, P, Jenkins, Bill
Israel, C, W. Lowe, C. D, Duke,
Billy Lane, J. S. Coleman, T. N.
Wiggins, Willis DuVal),
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs, Alexine Bates Dews, Edi
son; five sons, Charles E. Dews,
Jr.. Fort Gaines; Robert T, Dews,
U. S. Army, Korea; Rev. Thomas
M. Dews, Thomaston; Kenneth
Dews, Winterville, N, C.; Alton
Dews, Edison; one daughter, Mrs_
Thomas Jenkins, Blakely.
ATTEND CATTLE SHOW
" The Early County News
Urges You To Support The
Livestock Industry In Ouxr
County By Attending The 4th
Annual Fat Cattle Show And
Sale Here Next Thursday And
Friday.
W. H. Fleming.