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By Sid "g\ Williams
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Last week’s rumors were cor
rect, and J. B. Fuqua, State
Democratic Chairman, appeared
on the speaker's platform at
Ellis Arnall's campaign opener
in Newnan. The daily press,
particularly the ones from Au
gusta, immediately reached the
conclusion that Mr. Fuqua's
presence denoted Governor San
ders’ support of Mr. Arnall
Later, the Governor, returning
from California, reiterated his
position of supporting no one in
the primary, but will actively
campaign for the Democratic
nominee in the general election.
A lot of people are saying,
though, that * Fuqua wouldn’t
have been at the Arnall barbecue
without Sanders’ approval.
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Speaking of that barbecue, a
press release from Arnall's
headquarters states that 10,408
plates were served, with a lib
eral estimate of the crowd being
15,000. Twentytwe thousand one
hundred ninety-six soft drinks
were consumed. Total cost of the
affair is listed at $26,258.00.
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Some of Governor Sanders
party at the recent national
Governors Conference told us
that they came away with the
definite impression that Gov.
Romney of Michigan is positive
ly seeking the GOP presidential
nomination in 1968,
At this conference, they said
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TWO MOONS AND %
TWO HEADED PEOPLE
. 5
Alabama Governor George Wal
lace brought down the house
when he said. “I'm about to for
get to mention that I won't be
with you next year; I'll be in
charge of a highway beautifica
tion project in ‘Alabama” — an
obvious reference to his wife as
Governor and he in the same
position as Lady Bird Johns-a
now.
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We are told that a number of
young Republicans in the State
Jaycees are sore with Bo Calla
way because “‘he has taken the
Republican Party and changed
it to the Callaway Party”. They
are lining up with Ellis Arnall
in both the primary and the gen
eral election.
*%* % % @
A campaign worker for Jimmy
Carter called us to remonstrate
against us saying that Carter
doesn't have sufficient cam.
paign funds and isn't “off the
ground”. He said we were hurt
ing Carter. We told this good
friend that if he would send us
some facts about what progress
Carter is making we'd print it.
However, nothing has come so
far, and we can't see any more
this week than last, i. e., that
the gubernatorial contest is
clearly hetween Arnall and Les
ter Maddox at this stage. And
90% of the politicians with whom
we have talked agree with this
opinion.
The Georgia Education Assoc
iation will hold a local leaders
meeting in Athens on August
10-13-12, to which all candidates
for Governor and Lieutenant-
Governor have been invited.
They will have 15 or 20 minutes
each to present themselves and
their platforms to these leading
educators. The GEA is not
likely to declare themselves
openly for any candidate.
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Some people from Macon told
us last Friday that G. Paul
Jones, Republican candidate for
Congress in the Sixth District
against Cong. Jack Flynt, can't
possibly win that election unless
he carries Bibb County by at
least 70%, but that he will do
well to get 40% of the vote. A
poll last week in Upson County,
conducted by the Thomaston
Times, shows Flynt way ahead
in that populous county.
In the governor's race around
Macon, these same folks told us
that the two leaders are Gar
land Byrd and Ellis Arnall.
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Democratic county office hold
ers over Georgia had better be
ready to bestir themselves
mightily in the general election
against Repuhlican Callaway.
They, alone, can do enough to
hold Callaway’'s vote below a
majority, if they'll just work.
But, if by some mischance the
GOP candidate wins, these Demo
officials had better look out;
they’'re sure to have Republican
opposition the rext time they
face the voters; which, for most,
will be in 1968 — right in the
middle of a Callaway term.
Governor Sanders and other
Democratic leaders can do a lot,
but all of them can’t do as much
on a state level as can local
officeholders in their own towns
and counties. And they need not
get the idea they won’t have op
position from the GOP; look at
all those who are running for
the House or Senate this year as
Republicans.
The bell tolls a warning.
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25 Years Ago
(From Issue of July 24, 1941)
MRS. Lena Lane Chambers, be
loved lady of the Sowhatchee
Community and wife of Mr. John
G. Chambers, died Monday at
12:25 o'clock. She had been ill
for about three years and her
death was not unexpected.
* * *
THERE will be no contest in
the election on Tuesday, August
5, to name two members of the
City Council, but there will be a
new member on Council, begin
ning next January. Oscar Whitch
ard, present member of Council,
who has served several terms on
the body, has no opposition and
will be named to another two
year term.
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MISS Vivian Williams, who has
been attending a business school
in Ohio, is in Blakely this week
visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry T. Williams.
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MISS Dorothy Glessen, of Al
bany, spent several days in Blake
ly with her mother, Mrs. Lee
Glessen,
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MR. Fred E. Godwin is in New
Orleans, La., this week attending
the Lions International Conven
tion being held in that city. Mr.
Godwin is representing the
Blakely Lions Club,
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MRS. Carlton Lindsey and
daughters, Misses Julianne and
Lopise Lindsey, and Miss Eve
lyn Hayes, of Griffin, and Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Hayes, of Edison,
were Sunday guests of Mrs. Wal
ter Hayes.
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MISS Merle Reed, of Cedar
Springs, has recently returned
from a five weeks' tour of the
West, where she toured twenty
states, Old Mexico, and Santa
Catalina Island,
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MR. AND MRS. L. D. Fain, of
Tallahassee, Fla.,, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Nelle DeMille, to Mr. Carl Brad
ley Bridges, of Blakely, the mar
riage to be solemnized in late
August,
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THE marriage of Miss Ida Lois
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Editor Hoyle Fleming of the Early County News inspects the swarms of May Flies which appeared on
the old river bridee last Wednesday., Mr. Fleming, an ardent fisherman, contemplates their possible
worth as bait. —Courtesy Post-Searchlight
The swarms of insects which
piled up on the old river bridge
last Wednesday were not giant
mosquitos, but May Flies (or Wil
low Flies, as some call them).
The insects appeared in great
clouds, and settled in drifts on
the bridge, where they stayed for
quite some time, They are harme
less insofar as humans are con.
cerned but from the panicky
calls received at PostsSearche
light, some folks thought a plague
of locusts was descending,
There have been no reports of
any attempts to use them for bait,
but chances are good that some
enterprising fisherman gave it
a try, and if he is successful,
he will no doubt remain quiet
about it,
Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Grady Reese, of Colum- ‘
bus, and Alfred Jackson Hayes, of |
Blakely and Columbus, son of
Mrs. Walter Eugene Hayes and
the late Mr. Hayes, was solemniz
ed Saturday afternoon, July 19,
at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. '
E. Lindsey, Griffin, Ga.
50 Years Ago
(From Issue of July 20, 1916)
THE first election for Mayor
and council under the new law
comes off on the first Tuesday
in August, which is the first day
of the month. Neither the pre
sent mayor nor any of the pre
sent council are eligible for re
election, hence there must be
an entire new ticket in the field.
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THERE are seventeen students
from Early County at the Uni
versity of Georgia summer school
taking a normal course to fit
them for teaching. These are
Misses Ruth George, Edna Reed,
Abbie Roberts, Amanda Houston,
Eva Stamper, Vessie Hayes, Lei
la Hayes, Katie Jones, Nona
Jay, Ruth Sparks, Mary Lizzie
Culpepper, Mrs. N. B. Coachman,
Mr. F. B. Melton, Mr. J. J. Berry
and Mr. W. B. Martin.
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DR. AND MRS. C. S. Middle
ton are entertaining a new ten
pound bhoy at their home on
South Church Street. The little
man arrived last Saturday.
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MR. AND MRS. Murray Brun.
son have returned -from their
honeymoon, to Atlanta and other
points of interest, coming back
by circuitous route covering sev
eral hundred miles, due to the
flood. 5
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FIRE destroyed the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. J. Waller
down at Cuba Friday.
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MESSRS. J. T. Beasley, L. G.
Penny, C. C. Lane, C. H. Carter
and W. R. Alexander are at
tending the Woodmen of the
World Log Rolling in Cordele to
day.
75 Years Ago
(From Issue of July 23, 1891)
PINE VIEW ITEMS, by J. K.
R., says: “On Thursday evening
at the home of the bride's par
ents, Mr. Will Anderson and Miss
Luvernia Pickle were united in
the Holy bonds of wedlock.” *“Mr.
Thomas Smith and wife, of Cot
ton Hill, and Mr. Warren Chand
lor and Miss Rosa Powers were
visitors here Sunday.” “Rev. J.
1. Hill is conducting a protracted
meeting at Friendship church.”
“Mr. J. Q. Scarborough is now
using a razor that has been in
use 200 years." ‘‘Racketville is
now decorated with the frame of
a fine Academy.”
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MESSRS. H. Carmichael and
J. B. Hobbs and Dr. Y. T. Urqu
hart are the delegates to the
Georgia State Agricultural Socie
ty.
808 Dostor has returned from
Apalachicola, Fla.
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MR. AND MRS. J. A. Williams,
of Chipley, Fla., are visiting
home folks this week.
* * *
BLAKELY defeated Columbia
in Blakely last Friday. It was
an excellent game of baseball.
Capt. Thorney Beach of the Co
lumbia team, knocked a home
run. Marshall Chancy and Sheriff
Black kept the crowd in perfect
order.
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ALBANY received the first
bale of the 1891 crop on the 17th.
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EARL (Tige) PICKLE
(Note: Today’s guest
columnist is Mrs. Hubert
Farr, who writes most in
terestingly of a recent trip
to Europe, where she and
Mr. Farr went to visit their
son and daughter-in-law,
Lt. and Mrs. Glenn Farr.
“Tige”).
I thought “Tige” was jok
ing with me when he asked
me a few days after Hubert
and I returned home to
write something about our
trip to Europe. After I read
what he had to say about
me in his column, I decided
if I wanted to stay in good
terms with my neighbor I
had better try. I hope I
can satisfy him.
If our son, who is First
Lieutenant Glenn Farr, had
not been in the U. S. Army
stationed there, of course
we wouldn’t have even fione
He and his wite, Mary, have
been there over two years.
About two months be
fore our_date for departure
we had to get our passforts,
vaccinations for smallpox,
and other shots required.
Many thanks to Mrs. Cain
in Atlanta for scheduling
our flights with Eastern
Air Lines. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester
George, of Blakely.
We drove to Atlanta on
the morning of June 8. Ate
lunch with my sister, Mrs.
R. S. Cawthon. They drove
us w the airport late that
afternoon. Our plane was
an hour late arriving, as
hurricane Alma caused a
late departure from Tam
pa.
I was very tense as I had
never flown. You who have
taken your first flight,
know some of the tension
that we felt. At 7:00 P. M.,
we boarded an Eastern Air
Line Whisper Jet-Boeing
727 for J. F. K. Airport in
New York. Soon some of
the tension and frightened
feeling had passed and we
were on our first flight. A
voice came over the loud
Speaker announcing that
we had climbed to 35,000
feet, traveling at 590 miles
an hour. We were above the
clouds and as I looked down
I could see blue, blue as
water in a lake, edged b
clouds white as snow. Suclyx
a beautiful sight to behold.
Then later as I looked out
the window, the streaks in
the sky toward sunset made
a picture that I don't be
lieve any-artist could paint.
As we neared Washington,
D. C, I noticed hghtmng
flashing in large dark thun
der heads in the distance.
After we arrived at J. F.
K. Airport, we had to trans
fer to International Airport.
Here we had to stand in
line to have our passports
checked, then to another
desk for tickets checked
and have a seat on plane
assigned. With this tasll)( be
hild us we were told to go
upstairs to the waiting
room, but no seats were
available, this was 11:00 p.
m., daylight saving time. I
sat on the side of a step
until a flight was called for
Hanover, England. Hubert
stood or walked around.
At 12:00 P. M., Hubert
and I boarded the huge
Lufthanse Jet-Boeing 7&7,
for Frankfurt, Germany. It
wasn’t very long before the
stewardess started serving
a meal. I had hoped to take
a little nap on the way over,
but there wasn’t many
hours of darkness in that
day for us. Everyone seem
ed excited so there wasn’t
any sleep for me. Many
colletge students and teach
‘ers from Mississippi were
going to work andp study in
Germany for the summer.
Many women with children
were going back home to
visit their families whom
they had not seen in six or
eight years. There were 148
})assengers, besides the
light personnel on the
plane,
A real nice German gen
tleman was our seat com
panion who sat next to the
window. As he couldn’t
speak any English we
couldn’t carry on a conver
sation. I had a little book
let in my purse with some
German and English phras
es and sentences that Glenn
had sent me, so I thought
now is my time for m
first lesson in German, Hi
graciously helped me with
the German pronunciation
as I would try to repeat af
ter him in German, and he
would try to repeat the
English pronunciation after
me. We had lots of fun and
it surely helped to geass
time. I don’t think Hubert
was doing too much nap
ping with all the fuss we
were keeping.
Our flight from N. Y. to
Frankfurt was only seven
hours. It was 12:00 noon
there, local time, as the
time there is six hours a
head of our time.
Glenn was there to meet
us. We were so happy to
see each other. It was two
hours drive on the auto
bahn to their apartment on
the army post. When we
arrived Mary had just got
ten home from her last day
at school.
On Friday and Saturday
we shopped in several near
by towns. On Saturdai' af
ternoon we went to Zwie
'brucken and toured a rose
1 garden. I've never seen ro
'ses so large and beautiful.
I wish everyone of i'lou
could have seen them. Hu
bert said this garden cover
ed several acres. Many oth
er flowers were in bloom.
Fountains and pools added
to its splendor. The coun
try in this part of Germany
is very hilly. The farm land
seemed to be laid out in
plots with different crops
on each, thus a different
color for each plot. Their
crops are grain, sugar beets,
potatoes, of which the larg
est is the vineyards. This
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GA., THURS,, JULY 21, 1966
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A close up of the May Fly (Ephemera varia). This insect, which re.
sembles an overgrown mosquito, appears in swarms about this time
of the year, and is said to be very delectable to fish. Bream strike
?them often as they fall from willows that overhang the water. There
is an artificial fly made to resemble the May Fly.
was harvest time for the
grain. It was neatly stacked
in rows, or we would see
large stacks of baled hay.
We saw a few little trac
tors. As this was Saturday
afternoon we didn't see
many farmers in the field
working. There were no
houses along the roads. All
the people live together in
the villages and go out to
the farms to work. Every
house has almost the same
type of roof with most of
them the same color. Every
house has a basement and
two stories above. There
are no screens to the win
dows or doors in any of the
houses in Germany, Austria
Italy, or Switzerland. In
some parts of the country,
we didn’t see any billboards
for advertisements.
As we stopped on a hill
we could see four or five
villages that were no more
than two miles apart. Every
village has a church steeple.
These villages were small,
the population not more
than three to five hundred.:
The narrow width of the
road was only the space
from the house on this side
of the street to the house
on the other side. We saw
men and women of all ages
and sizes riding bicycles
and motor bikes. In some of
the villages the barns for
livestock joined their home.'
From Zwiebrucken we
went to Homburg where
we had dinner at Schloss
burg Restaurant in an Old
Castle on a hill. The food
was excellent. Germans are
very good chefs. Here we
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saw a beautiful sunset as
we overlooked the city in
Saar district of Germany.
Glenn got his vacation,
so we left in his Ford Mus
tang on Sunday morning in
the rain for fourteen days
of sightseeing in other Farts
of Germany, Austria, Italy,
and Switzerland. Ten days
days were spent in Italy.
Continued next week.
Dr. William E. Ivey
Assigned To Montana
Dr. F. J. Mulhern, Director ot
the Animal Health Division, ARS,
Hyattsville, Maryland, has an
nounced the assignment of Dr.
William E. Ivey as Assistant
ANH Veterinarian in Charge in
Helena, Montana.
Dr. Ivey was born on May 25,
1911 in Jakin, Georgia. He receiv
ed his Doctor of Veterinary Medi
cine degree in 1934 from Kansas
State University. Dr. Ivey began
his federal career in August 1934
working in tuberculosis eradica
tion in Oklahoma and Califor.
nia. In 1937 he was with Federal
Meat Inspection at St. Joseph,
Missouri and in 1940 was assign
ed to brucellosis eradication in
Arkansas. From 1941 to 1946 he
served with the Veterinary Corps
of the U. S. Army. In 1946 he re
turned to brucellosis and tuber
culosis eradication in Oklahoma
and Colorado.
Dr. Ivey is a member of the
Colorado Veterinary Medical
Association. He is married and
has two children. His hobbies
are fishing and traveling.
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