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EARLY COUNTY FUTURE CITIZENS
Ansley Molman, sen of ¥®. and
Mrs. Jimmy F. Holman, resides
with his parents at 214 Meadow
brook Dr., here in Blakely,
Rotary Club
Hears Smith
Past Friday
George T. Smith, Speaker of the
Georgia House of Representa
tives, and candidate for Lieuten
ant Governor, was the speaker
at the past week's meeting of the
Blakely Rotary. The largest crowd
of Rotarians in many months
was present (only 3 absentees) to
hear the Grady countian deliver
a "‘non-political political speech.”
The theme of Speaker Smith's
talk was ‘‘conservativeness and
economy in state government.”
He was given a warm round of
applause at the conclusion of
his talk. He was introduced by
Ralph Balkcom.
Visitors present were Cecil
Dußose, Lonnie Chester, Edward
Balkcom, guests of Ralph Balk
com; Sevola Jones, guest of
“Tige” Pickle; 1. D. Felder,
guest of “Red"” Felder; Jim Grist,
guest of Dunbar Grist; Chalker
Williams, guest of Elwood Mar
tin; Kenneth Musgrove, Billy
Peters, Jim Hodge Timmons,
guests of Robert Collier; J. G.
Dunn, of Opp, Ala., guest of A.
J. Singletary; Tuck Swann, guest
of Mobley Howell; Ward K. He
seid, manager, Chattahoochee
Plywood Corp,, guest of Mark
Holt; J. S. Bailey, of Tallahassee,
Fla., guest of George Gee, Jr.
Short Court Session
The criminal docket of Early
Superior Court, convened here
Monday morning by Judge W. I.
Geer, lasted less than one-half
day. All cases were continued
and Judge Geer dismissed the
jurors before noon, and court was
adjourned.
: THOUGHT FOR TODAY
« We must work for the works of
‘him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man
can work.—John 9:4.
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and Mrs. Bobby Royce Smith of
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Charlie Tanner Dies
At Home In Edison
Charlie Wesley Tanner, 79, pro
minent life-time resident of Cal
houn county, died suddenly at his
home in Edison, the past Friday.
Death was attributed to a heart
attack.
Born in Calhoun county, the
son of Charles Hudson Tanner and
Virginia Whiddon Tanner, he was
engaged in farming. Funeral ser
vices were held in the Salem Bap
tist Church, of which he was a
member Saturday morning, con
ducted by the Rev. J. C. Brad
shaw. Interment was in the Sa
lem cemetery, Manry-Minter
Funeral Home in charge. Pall
bearers were Walter Jones, Oli
ver Sanders, Elvin Coleman, Roy
Fellows, Troy Turner, Emory
Culbreth.
Only survivor is a son, Cecil
Tanner, of Edison.
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Life Underwriters
Hold Monthly Meeting
The Blakely Association of Un
derwriters held its monthly
meeting at the Holiday Restau
rant on Thursday, July 14. This
was mostly an organizational
meeting for the coming year.
Out-going president, Bill Cheek,
turned over the presidency to
Robert Collier, the president for
the coming year. Other officers
for the coming year are: J. T.
Manry, Ist vice president; John
Powell, 2nd vice-president; Bili
Cheek, secretary and treasurer;
Board of Directors are Melvin
Jordan, T. S. Chandler and Stan
ley Houston,
An effort will be made before
the next meeting to enroll all
life Underwriters in this area
into the club. Gordon Adkinson
was welcomed into the club as a
new member and was given the
assignment of providing the club
the program for: the August
meeting. ‘
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Only 7 percent of Finland’s
land is arable.
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America’'s Rural Electrics,
after 30 years, maintain
over 50% of all electric lines,
but serve less than 10% of
the people in this nation —
distribute only 4% of the
electric power, and generate
only about 1% . . .
We average some 3.3 ‘cus
tomers’ per mile of line, with
$460 per mile in dollar rev
enve . . . compared to the
35 customers and about
$7,000 per mile for the com
mercial power companies . .
Of the s4'2 billion in loans
to Rural Electrics, over $2
billion has been repaid . . .
along with almost S6OO mil
lion in interest.
Do these figures indicate
we're “taking over” the elec
tric power industry?
Of course not. In fact,
rates and demonstrated
efficiencies of Rural Elec
trics are an important
“yardstick”” measurement of
electric power costs . . . and
this benefits ALL users of
electricity!
This program is one of the
soundest investments in
America’s progress that the
people have ever made.
Georgia Agncultural
Engineer Elected To
National Office
Stanley Brian Steel, a senior
in the COOP program of the Ag
ricultural Enuineering Depart
men!, U'niversity of Georgia, was
electod president of the National
Council of Student Branches of
the American Society of Agricul
tural Engineers, June 30, at Am
hert, Mass. For the representa
tives of the Georgia Student
Branch, the election was a grand
climax to the annual meeting of
the parent ASAE which was held
on the campus of the University
of Massachusetts this year,
Mr. Steele, from Blakely,
Geuorgia, is an outstanding stu
dent and will also be president of
the Georgia Student Branch for
Fall Quarter 1966. Beginning with
the Summer Quarter, 1964, he has
alternated quarters of class work
with quarters of training work
with the Georgia Power Com
pany, one of the industries parti
cipating in the COOP program
with the Agricultural Engineering
Department.
He has made an excellent re
cord in both phases of his en
gineering training. During his
school quarters he has been very
active in the Georgia Student
Branch of ASAE which provides
extra curricular opportunities for
professional development. He has
served the Student Branch as
secretary and vice-president. He
also served as Business Manager
of the National Student Journal
published by the Georgia Student
Branch in 1965, the year the an
nual meeting of ASAE was held
on the campus of the University,
of Georgia.
Gold-Panning Is
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New Pastime In
Ga. Parks System
Atlanta, — (GPS) Add anoth
er to Georgia's long list of
“firsts”. The latest addition: A
gold mine. And that prompted
Gov, Carl E. Sanders to quip:
“Georgia is now the only state
that owns a railroad, hotel and
gold mine.”
The governor made his remark
when Wayne W. Blackburn, for
mer Georgian now retired and
living in Clearwater, Fla., came
to Atlanta recently and donated
his completely furnished sum
mer home and 193 acres of gold
bearing land in Lumpkin County
to the State of Georgia for use
as a state park,
In accepting the gift, Gov. San
ders said: “Mr. Blackburn is do
nating this land, a comfortable
and furnished home, a grounds
maintenance shop, office equip
ment, a truck and complete
mining and placer equipment.
So, in effect, Mr. Blackburn has
given us a state park ready for
use. This is a truly magnificent
gift.”
To the donor, the governor
added: “On behalf of the peo
ple of Georgia, Mr. Blackburn,
I thank you for your generosity,
I know that thousands of Geor
gians will appreciate this oppor
tunity to pan for gold on their
own state park. It will, of course,
be known as Blackburn State
Park.”
Commented Stabe Parks Di
rector Horace G. Caldwel: *“The
fact that Georgians soon will be
able to hunt or pan for gold on
their own state park should make
it one of the most popular parks
in our system. Each of us now
can truthfully say he owns a
share in a gold mine."
Blackburn, 70, a retired lum
ber and building supply dealer,
said he has wanted for some
years to convert the mountainous
land into a park himself but
finally decided it would be too
ambitious a project, He added:
“The state can do a much bet
ter job."
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GA., THURS., JULY 28, 1966
Great Northern To Build
Mill In Florida For
Newsprint Production
New York, N. Y. — Peter 8.
Paine, Chairman of the Board
ard Chief Executive Officer of
Great Northern Paper Company,
announced today that Great Nor
thern intends to build a mill in
Northwest Florida to manufac
ture newsprint and bleached
kraft pulp conditional upon its
obtaining additional timber cut.
ting contracts to support the pro
ject, completion of mill site ar
rangements and a practical solu
tion to the problem of waste
treatment, Present plans call for
completion of the mill in 1969.
This decision follows extensive
market studies indicating contin
ued healthy growth for newspa
pers and strong demand for news
print in the year ahead.
With two large mills in Maine,
Great Northern is one of the larg
est independent manufacturers
of newsprint and groundwood
specialty printing papers in the
United States. The company also
has a kraft linerboard mill in
Georgia where a multi-million
dollar expansion program now
underway is expected to appro
ximately double present produc
tion and add a third machine to
manufacture 9-point semi-chemi
cal corrugating medium by late
1967.
Earlier this month the Company
said it would enter softwood ply
wood manufacturing in the South
through a new subsidiary, Chat
tahoochee Plywood Corporation,
and it is now building a mill at
Cedar Springs, Georgia, that will
produce 60 million (3) square
feet of plywood annually by July
1968,
Insurance Regulations
Eased In Georgia
Clayton, Ga. — Thousands of‘
young male drivers under 25 are
tinding it easier to get automo
bile insurance due to a change
in insurance regulations, Comp
troller General James L, Bentley
said here recently.
- State regulations were altered
in 1964, Bentley said, to give in
surance companies some incentive
to write insurance for young
drivers.
A recent survey of the situa
tion by his department indicates
that more and more insurance
companies are making it easier
for young drivers to get car in
surance, Bentley said in a speech
to the Clayton Rotary Club.
“There’s no reason that a teen
age driver or any young driver
should be automatically penalized
because he is young,” Bentley
declared.
Bentley noted, however, that
younger drivers face higher in
surance rates because a higher
proportion of accidents oc.'r in
that age bracket.
Roughly 25 percent of all acei
dents involve drivers under 25,
he said, adding that driver edu
cation training sharply reduces
this high accident rate. Bentley
said that his department has ap
proved rate reductions of up to
15 percent offered by some com
panies to young drlvers who
have had driver training.
Each company in Georgia is
required to write an assigned
proportionate amount of high
risk insurance, he continued.
The 1964 change in regulations
gave companies credit for vol
untarily writing policies on young
male drivers. Bentley said.
Georgia's driver classification
plan has offered further relief
for teen-age and younger driv
ers, Bentley continued.
Bentley, state insurance com
missioner since 1963, said that
before he took office all young
drivers between 16 and 25 paid
fthe same high insurance rate,
The present plan provides for a
gradual reduction in rates each
year as the young driver nears
25,
Soldier Tells Of
War In Viet Nam,
Asks For Help
Mrs. Herbert Maddox, who re
sides on Lee Street, here in
Blakely, has recieved a letter
from her husband, Capt. Herbert
Maddox, who is with the 25th In
fantry Division in Viet Nam, ask
ing for aid to the people who live
in the little village where he is
stationed, His letter, in part,
says:
*, . . The VC came into a little
village last night, about a half
mile from here. I went down
there myself, but was too late.
They had killed a 49 year old
man, shot him twice, once below
the heart and in the back, The
bullet went through him and all
the way through his bed. He was
in bed when it happened. His
wife is 50 years old and has six
children, 2 boys and 4 girls. They
do not have any food or clothes,
and no money to buy any. Her
husband worked here in the Di
vision for us that is why they
killed him.
“The reason I am telling you
this is because I want to help
these people and the only way I
know to do this is to try and get
the people of Blakely to help. A
large number of towns through
out the United States are support
ing families and orphanages in
South Viet Nam and I don’t want
my home town left out.
“Maybe they could read this
and get an idea or better un
derstand what it is all about. See
if the people would send in old
clothes, canned food and money.
If money is sent a postal money
order can be made out to the
Commanding Off., Support Com
mand, 25th Inf. Div. If they send
clothes and food, try to send it
all at one time. The people over
here are very sensitive and
proud and it must be handled
very carefully not to offend them.
“Do your part on this. These
little children need help and they
need it as soon as possible. I am
‘going down there tomorrow and
get them some rice and if I can
I'll get some clothes from the
Division’s Helping Hand Pro
gram.
“I just hope the people will re
spond, when they are asked to do
something like this I feel they
will. If they could only under
stand what the people over here
are going through, this is one
h - - - of a war. The VC killed
a village ehief- a short distance
from here and the Division got
together and moved his wife and
children close to our base and
built her a new house, This is
the only way we are going to
win this war, we have to win
their confidence and the support
of the people in order to get their
support over here, this is a dif
ferent kind of war than the U. S.
has been in before.
“We can bomb the oil depots
at the Capitol and Haiphong, we
can cut off the supplies but they
continue to operate because this
is a guerilla type warfare and
they can get supplies by killing
and looting and operating in
small bands or groups. If we can
ever get the full support of the
local people we can win the war,
because they will inform on the
Y. &"
This idea, advanced by Capt.
Maddox, now serving in Viet
Nam, has been endorsed by May
or Hugh Redding, Mayor of
Blakely, and several others. As
the gathering of clothes, food
and money get under way, and
the people of Early County and
the City of Blakely want to con
tribute, they have been asked to
bring the clothes and food to the
City Fire Department,
Mrs. Maddox resides at 221 Lee
Street and her telephone number
is 723-5031. She will be glad to
pick up items from those who do
not have a way to deliver things
to the Fire Department at the
City Hall. Phone her and inform
her where to pick them up.
It might be possible for Early
Countians to adopt more than
one family,
Employment Tax_
Return Deadline
Georgia area employers have
Gn important tax deadline on Au
gust 1, 1966, A. C. Ross, District
Director of Internal Revenue,
reminded all employers that this
is the due date for reporting
and paying income tax withheld
and social security tapes for the
calendar quarter ending June 30,
1966.
Employers should use Form
941 to report their tax liability
for this period, Mr. Ross said.
It should be mailed with deposi
tory receipts and full payment of
taxes due to District Director of
Internal Revenue, 275 Peachtree
St, N. E,, Atlanta. Ga., 30303,
Mr. Ross pointed out that tax
payer who made timely deposits
of all taxes due for the quarter
in a Federal Reserve Bank. or
an authorized commercial bank,
have until August 10, 1966 to file
returns.
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Shelly Simmons Gets
50-Year Masonic Pin
Some 100 Masons and their la
dies assembled in the dining
room of Magnolia Lodge No. 86,
Free & Accepted Masons in
Blakely last Thursday night to
attend a covered dish supper and
to witness the presentation of a
50 year Masonic Service Pin to
Mr. Shelly Simmons, Past Mas
ter of Magnolia Lodge. The pre
sentation was made by Dr. Jack
G. Standifer, Past Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Georgia,
Mr. Simmons accepted this hon
or in a few appropriate words.
Mr. Coy Watson, Worshipful
Master of Magnolia Lodge presid
ed and presented his line offic
ers.
The ladies of Blakely Chapter
No. 282, Order of the Eastern
Star, had charge of the refresh
ments. Mrs. Carolyn Jordan,
Worthy Matron of Blakely Chap
ter, introduced her line officers.
The Past Matrons of the Eastern
Star and Past Masters of Mag
nolia Lodge were also introduc
ed.
This is the second 50-year Ma
sonic Service pin to be present
ed this year. A third pin will be
presented in October.
Order Of DeMolay
Last week, some 25 or 30 mem
bers of the Albany Chapter of the
Order of DeMolay together with
the chapter advisors, were over
to Blakely and conferred the De
Molay degree in full form, The
seven boys who became full
fledged members of DeMolay in
cluded Douglas Thompson, Jim
my Newberry, Mac Balkcom,
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Evans and Franklin Swann. These
seven will constitute the charter
members of the Blakely DeMolay
Club which will function until a
chapter is organized. Some 30
or more members of Magnolia
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