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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Of
GOD'S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. 107—NO. 51
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High School Corner Stone Ceremonies Held Thursday
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Dr. Rupert H. Bramblett, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia (sec
ond from left) presided at the laying of the cornerstone of the new $850,000 Early
County High School last Thursday; others in picture (1 to r), J. O. Napier, Daniel
W. Locklin, Macon, Grand Secretary; Dr. Jack G. Standifer, (foreground) holds the
level, which is used to lay horizontals.; Ralph J. Balkcom, Chairman of Early
County Board of Education and in back, Edsel Bryan, A. Sidney Jones, B. Coy
Watson, Worshipful Master, Magnolia Lodge, F&AM, and Roy Bush, Colquitt.
The cornerstone of the hew
Early County High School was
laid Thursday afternoon, July 28,
with ago old rites of Freemasonry
conducted by the Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Georgia,
Dr. Rupert C. Stephens, PGM,
Bainbridge, Deputy Grand Mas
ter;” Dr. Jack Guy Standifer,
PGM, Blakely, Senior Grand;
Warden; Burton W. Grier, Atlan
ta, Junior Grand Warden; Shelly
Simmons, Blakely, PM, Grand
treasurer; Daniel W. Locklin,
Macon, Grand Secretary; Roy
W. Bush, Colquitt, Grand Chap
lain; B, Coy Watson, Blakely,
Grand Marshall; David Still, ‘Sen
for Grand Deacon; A, Sidney
Jones, Junior Grand Deacon; J.
0. Napier, Senior Grand Steward,
and Edsel W. Bryan, Junior
Grand Steward, all of Blakely.
Following the opening of :t:
emergent communication of f
Grand Lodge of Georgia in the
hall of Magnolia Lodge No. 86,
the officials proceeded to the
new school building for the cere
mony.
Placed in the lead box, which
was entrusted to the Grand
Treasurer, Shelly Simmons, who
delivered it to the site of the
cornerstone, were six issues of
the Early County News, a Royal
Arch Masonic Bible and four
teen items centering around the
Grand Lodge of Georgia, Magnolia
Lodge, York Rite Bodies, Royal
Arch Chapter and Grand Council
of Georgia R&SM; leaves of
Georgia Masonary; Directory of
the.York Rite Bodies of Georgia
1966; List of Georgia Lodges,
F & A M, 1966; By-Laws of Mag
nolia Lodge No. 86, F & A. M,
1914; Directory of York Rite Bo
dies of Georgia, 1965; List of
Georgia Lodges, 1951; List of
Georgia Lodges, 1950; Program
Georgia York Rite Festival, 1966,
Jar of U. S. Coins, penny, nickel,
dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar.
Copy of letter of accreditation
Early Memorial Hospital; Pro
ceedings of the Grand Comman
dry K, T. of Ga., 1965; Roster"of
officers of Trinity Commandery,
No. 389, K. T., 1965 and 1966 ;
Knights Templar Magazine, June
1966 issue; General Order No.
17 Grand Encampment K, T., 1966;
Letter head Early,County Board
of Education, 1966; Letterhead
Board of Commissioners Early
County, Georgia, 1966; Blakely
Chapter No. 282, O, E. ~ Year
Book, 1966; Roster of Members
Trinity Commandery No. 17 K. v
July 1966; Eastern Star Directory,
1965-66; Roster of members, pre
sent officers and past matrons
find Past Patrons Blakely Chapter
282 0. E. S.; New Age Magazine,
A. A. 8. R. June and July issues,
1966; Pioneer History of Early
County, Georgia, booklet; The
Last Veteran, the Confederate
Flag Pole, booklet; Program 40th
anniversary Blakely Rotary Club
and Bulletin; Blakely - Early
County Chamber of Commerce
Brochure and Map, 1966; Bulletin
Blakely Lions Club, July 26, 1966;
Brochure Walter F., George Lock
and Dam; Year Book 1965 Peter
Early Chapter Daughters of the
American Revolution; Proceed
School of Journalism 23duwliye?
P.O, BOX ‘
ings 1965 Georgia State Chapter,
DAR; Royal Arch Penny, Blake
ly Chapter, No. 44; Roster
Blakely Council No. 39 R, & S. M.,
June 30, 1966; Roster Blakely
Chapter No. 44, Royal Arch
Masons, June 30, 1966; Roster
Magnolia Lodge No. 86, F. & A.
M., June 30, 1966; Roster of Past
Masters of Magnolia Lodge, No.
86 since 1949; Rosters of Past
High Priests Blakely Chapter and
Past Illustrious Masters Blake
ly Council No. 39, R&SM.
Roster of the Faculty Early
County High School and Early
County Elementary School, 1965
1966; Roster of Early County High
School and Early County Ele
mentary School, 1966-67.
The lead box was made by
Luther Warrick, Jr., soldered and
hermatically sealed to be pre
served through the years, and
make interesting reading in the
distant future.
Representatives of the or
ganizations named attended the
cornerstone laying ceremones,
and toured the new building fol
lowing the benediction,
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Mrs. Clyde S. Dickson
Mrs. Clyde Smith Dickson, .72,
died in a Plans, Ga., nursing
home on July 26. She was a mem
ber of the Christian Scientist.
Funeral services were held in the
chapel of Bryan Funeral Home.
Interment was in the Blakely
cemetery, Bob Jordan, Sam
Johnson, Cleveland Martin, L.
P. Shippey, John Johnson serv
ing as pall bearers,
Mrs. Dickson was a native of
Clay County and a retired nurse,
Survivors include three sis
ters, Mrs. Ida Mae Turner, At
lanta; Mrs. Eula Houston, Jack
sonville, Fla.; Mrs. Sallie John
son, Morgan; two brothers, Ralph
Smith, Blakely; J. C. Smith,
Jacksonville,
Work On New Airport
Starts Next Week
Construction of the new Early
County Airport is scheduled to
begin next Tuesday. Commission
Chairman G. C. Davis and airport
committee chairman Sevola Jones
met with the engineers and con
tractors the past Friday, at which
time the work order was issued.
The airport with paved and
lighted runways will be located
on State Highway 62 about two
miles east of Blakely on land
purchased from W, J, Davis,
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GREEN VALLEY
GOLF CLUB
on U, 8. 84 at Jakin)
A Good, Well-Kept Course
Play It And See. Opens
Wednesday, August 10
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JOE AND SNAP
NUNNERY
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
Dr. Henry D. Mercer
To Receive Masters
Degree This Month
Dr. Henry Dwight Mercer has
completed his work in veterinary
pharmacology and toxicology at
the University of Florida and will
receive his degree of Master of
Science this month.
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A graduate of Blakely High
3chool and the University of
Georgia (1960) he received his
degree as Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine and later enrolled in
the Graduate School at the Uni
versity of Florida in 1965 where
he received a NIH Grant. From
1963 until he returned to the Uni
versity, he was employed in Ala
bama by the U, S. Department
of Agriculture, and worked with
a private practice of veterinary
medicine in Early County.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Mercer of Blakely. He is
married to the former Vera Hol
comb, they have one child. At
present he is considering a po
sition with the Food and Drug
Administration in Arlington, Vis
ginia. His duties will be primarily
the testing of new drugs,
Dr. Mercer is attending a
week's meeting of the Interna
tional Medical Association in
Miami, Fla., this week. He is a
member of the American Veteri
nary Medicine Association; Geor
gia Veterinary Medical Associa
tion; Alabama Veterinary Medi
cal Association; Suwannee Valley
Veterinary Medical Association;
Alabama Cattlemen's Associa.
tion; Phi Zeta and Omega Tau
Sigma.
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NOTICE
The Blakely Food Processing
Plant will be open ONLY on
Thursdays for the rest of the can
ning scason. The hours are 8 a. m.
to 2:30 p. m.
For any information pertaining
to canning, contact R. E. Balk
com, Ag Teacher.
“Can anyone tell me what a
fish net is made of?” the teach
er asked.
One boy jumped up eargerly.
“Yes, ma'am,”” he volunteered.
“It's made of a lot of little holes
tied together with a string”
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1966
Refrigerated Food
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Services Extended
In To Blakely
The Blakely-Early County
Chamber of Commerce announc
es the following news release
from the Merchants Refrigera
tion Company of New York, N, Y.
Merchants Refrigerating Com
pany, one of the nation’s largest
operators of refrigerated ware
houses, announced today they
had acquired property from the
Early County Redevelopement
Corporation for the purpose of
erecting a cooler warehouse tc
serve the peanut shellers in the
Blakely, Georgia area.
Anderson & Davis, of Albany,
Georgia has been selected as
the principal contractor for the
project. The initial construction
will consist of a one-story metal
building 120'x216’ and will con
tain 400,000 cubic feet storage
space with a product capacity of
approximately 10,000,000 pounds.
It is anticipated the new ware
house will be completed and
ready for operation in October,
1966.
The Freon 12 refrigeration sys
tem will be automatically con
trolled and the storage rooms
will be operated at temperatures
and humidities ideal for the
storage of nuts. The warehouse,
which will be located just off
Georgia Highway 62, will be serv
ed by the Central of Georgia
Railway. The shipping and re
ceiving platform will accommo
date four rail cars and six trucks.
The Blakely facility will be the
second warehouse Merchants has
constructed in the Southeastern
part of the United States within
the past three years. The com
pany’'s Albany, Georgia ware
house was opened in September
1963 additions to this building
were made in 1964 and 1965.
Merchants Refrigerating Com
pany also operates eleven other
refrigerated warehouses located
in New York City, Buffalo, New
York; Jersey City, Secaucus and
Newark, New Jersey; Hopkins,
Minnesota; Vinita Park, St.
Louins County, Missouri, Santa
Clara and Salinas, California.
Joe W. Bancroft
Named Administrator
Of Local Hospital
akiiaitin
Joe W. Bancroft,' of Florala,
Ala., has accepted an appoint
ment as administrator of Early
Memorial Hospital, R. C. Single
tary, chairman of the Early
County Hospital Authority, an
nounced this week.
. Mr. Bancroft succeeds Allen
'E. Leary, who resigned the local
post to accept a similar one at
Eastman, Georgia, but a much
larger hospital, Mr. Singletary
stated. Mr. Leary has been ad
ministrator at Early Memorial
since the hospital opened in
March of 1963, and during Mr.
Leary's tenure, Mr. Singletary
stated, has seen the hospital
come to be recognized as one of
the most efficient and best ope
rated in the area. Mr. Leary was
instrumental in seeing Early
Memorial become accredited by
the Joint Commission on Accre
ditation, the highest recognition
any hospital can attain,
The hospital has also been ap
proved for the medi-care pro
gram, and also become a mem
ber of the Georgia and American
Hospital Association. Mrs. Vir
ginia Leary, wife of Allen E.
Leary,and former director of
nursing at Early Memorial, has
been named acting director until
Mr. Bancroft arrives on or be
fore September 1. Mr. Leary has
already assumed his duties at
Eastman., Mrs. Edward Balkcom
has replaced Mrs, Leary as act
ing director of nursing,
Mr. Bancroft has had more
than twenty years of hospital
administrator experience. He has
been administrator at the Florala
Memorial Hospital for the past
four years and prior to that was
administrator at Mizell Memor
ial, Opp, Ala, for four years
and administrator at Eucambifi
General Hospital, Pensacola,
Fla,, for nine years. Mr. and
Mrs. Bancroft will move to Blake
sy in the very near future and
occupy the former Tinney resi
dence on South Main street.
They nave one son, who js ar
medical doctor, now with the
U. 8, Air Force,
Ray Knight Tells
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Rotarians About
Foothall Bobcats
An interesting talk by Early
County High School football coach
Ray Knight featured the weekly
meeting of the Blakely Rotary
Club the past Friday. Coach
Knight gave the club a run-down
on the 1966 Bobcats, stating there
are about 55 candidates for this
'vear's team, which will have 14
seniors, but most of them with
little experience. The team will
go to Kolomoki Park August 18,
for eight days of pre-season
training.
School opens September 6 and
the first game will be Friday
night, September 9, in Columbia,
Ala. The speaker was introduced
by John Amrich, program chair
man for the day.
Only visitor present was Sea
born Grist, a guest of his father,
Dunbar Grist.
President Charlie Houston pre
sided and Mrs. E. T. Crawford
gave a program of piano music
during the luncheon.
Luther J. Waller
Injured By Bull
The Past Wednesday
Luther J, Waller, well knowu
Early County farmer of the New
Hope community, was gored by
a bull Wednesday of the past
week, and is recovering at Early
Memorial Hospital, after suffer
ing a punctured leg, fractured
shoulder and ribs.
Mr. Waller was leading the
bull, which had never been
known to be lanyerous, and was
regarded more or less as a pet,
from the home of 'E.’ C. Reese
to his own farm a | quarter-mile
away. Dogs ran up behind the
animal, barking and as Mr. Wal
ler turned to see what the dis
turbance was about the bull
charged and gored himi in the
chest, throwing him to the ground
the animal made another pass
puncturing his left leg.
Eddie Reese, 15 year old son of
the owner of the prize Jersey,
was driving a tractor nearby and
rushed to the aid of Mr. Waller,
he turned the bull into a pasture
and drove Mr. Waller to his
home, where he was rushed on to
the hospital,
First Peanuts
Peanuts are being harvested
first this year in Early County,
where heretofore the first bale
of cotton has been making news.
Sam Glass and Melvin Mulkey
brought in the first two loads of
the 1966 peanut crop on Friday,
July 29, selling them to Farmers
Gin & Warehouse.
The two loads weighed appro
ximately four tons, the peanuts
were reported to grade out good
and will bring approximately
$225 per ton.
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HOPITAL LIST
Patients listed as being admit
ted and discharged at Early Mem
orial Hospital during the past
week include:
ADMITTED
Johnny Beasley, Annie Mae
Bailey, Mary Houston, George
Burns, Bernice Conrod, Lizzie
King, Judy Fleming, Lizzie Mae
Williams, Doris Thurman, Luther,
Waller, Myrtle Jones, Emmie
Melton, Dorothy Kitchens, Flo
rence Lominee, Phyllis Graves,
Sue Mitcham, Martha Perkins,
Jeff Willis, Crarles Brasington,
Lessie Dufell, Clarice Cannon,
Stella Brownlee, Martha Gowan,
Ewell McDowell, Aggie Pickle,
Kenneth Johnson, Hursteen Rol
lins, Sadie Lowe, Mary Ann
Middleton, Alfrieda Jarrett, Cody
Hickox, Emma Brown, John
Broadwater,
DISCHARGED
William Chandler, Olin Bush,
Lucy Maddox, Lizzie Mae Wil
liams, Mary Dykes, Connie
White, Lizzie King, George Burns,
Mandy Broner, Samuel Waller,
Phillis Graves, Annie Bailey,
Annie Sue George, Lila Lindsey,
Iva McKimie, Dennis Merritt,
Warren Cleveland, Kenneth John
son, Jack Bridges, Judy Flem
ing, Charles Brasington, Jeff Wil
iis, Martha Perkins, Bernice
Conrod, Enlily Mitcham and
baby, Carolyn Garrett and baby,
Doroth Kitchen, John Lane,
Pauline Rivers, Carruth Martin,
Officials Tour New Early County High School Plant
A peek of the new high school
building was taken Thursday af
ternoon by school officials, fol
lowing the laying of the corner
stone, A few of the noteworthy
features already in evidence in
clude: an audio visual storage
cabinet in the library and space
for a teaching materials pre
paration center which will be ful
ly equipped for teachers to pre
are visuals for their classrooms,
teachers will be able to make
transparents for overhead pro
jectors to use in classroom in
struction.
There will be clinic, a coms
munications center and a publi
cations room in the new high
school. In the Business Educa
tion Department there will be
IBM dictorphone machines, new
electric typewriters and regular
typewriters; L shaped desks and
Junior executive type desks; and
a key punch machine, given by
Great Northern, to be delivered
in January, 1967.
The new cafeteria will seat
from 325 to 350. Ome excellent
feature of the cafeteria will be
the two serving units, each in a
separate room to allow two lines
to be served at the same time.
Workmen were busy in all parts
of the building, no one place
or part has been completed but
the departments are shaping up;
there is a small stage in the
Dramatic Arts Department, draw
ing boards in the Arts and Crafts
and many outlets already install
ed in the Physics and Chemistry
Department, with more to come
later.
Maj. Mary F. Freeman
Receives Army Medal
Fort Benning, Ga. — Army
nurse Major Mary F. Freeman,
of (Route 5) Blakely, Ga., re
ceived an Army Commendation
Medal in a recent ceremony at
Fort Benning where she is sue
pervisor of clinics at Martin,
Army Hospital.
Major Freeman was cited by
Headquarters, U.S. Army, Eu
rope, for outstanding and meritor
ious service as head nurse of the
Pediatric Ward and later assistant
chief of the Nursing Service,
130th Station Hospital, from
May 1964 to April 1966.
The citation read, in part:
“Through her outstanding pro
fessional and administrative abil
ity, she contributed greatly to
the attainment of a high degree
and state of efficiency within the
Nursing Service.”
Major Freeman supervised an
education program and assisted
with the preparation of a pro
cedure manual,
The dauchter of Mr, and Mrs,
Judson L. Freeman. of Blakely,
‘Major Freeman is a graduate of
Salter School of Nursing in Eu
faula, Ala., and the University
of Omaha, Neb.
Officials Re-Elected
Mayor Hugh Redding and two
members of the Blakely City
Council, Ben Moseley and Walton
“Red” Knighton, were officially
elected for a two-year term here
in the Tuesday, August 2, elec
tion, according to C. A. Bell,
City Clerk.
Voting was light since there
was no opposition. Polls were
opened from 7:00 a. m., until
7:00 p. m,, at the City Hall.
The mayor and councilmen
were elected to take office Jan
uary 1, 1967, which will be for the
second term. Mayor Redding will
serve as mayor, the second term
Councilman Moseley will serve in
that capacity and the third term
for Councilman Knighton,
Mr. Redding is owner and ope
rator of a local drug store. Mr.
Moseley is a contractor and Mr.
Knighton is in the furniture busi
ness.
Other members of the council
are Alex Howell and A. J. Gen
try.
EPIDEMIC
“I hope you can cure my wife
of her Teddy Roosevelt complex,”
said the worried tycoon to the
psychiatrist,
“What kind of complex is
that?"
“Every day she gallops around
from store to store yelling
Charge! Charge!”
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Mrs. Steve Slappey, new Science teacher at the lo
cal high school, peers through the tmall window in
new style classroom door.
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Librarian, in the work room of the library by the audio
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Ralph Balkcom, Chairman Eariy County Board of
Education, and Supt. Lonnie Chester by a drawing
board in the Arts and Crafts room, here Mrs. Al War
rick will be a part time instructor.
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Zula H. Stinson
Set For This P. M.
Funeral services for Mrs. Zula
Hatcher Stinson will be held this
a'ternoon (Thursday) at 3 o'clock
in tha Mothers’ Home Free Will
Baptist Church in Miller County,
the Rev. Jake Scott to officiate.
Mrs. Stinson, the mother of
Mode Stinson, well known Blake
ly business man, died Tuesday
morning at the Blakely Conval
escent Home, where she had re
sided for several montrs. A na
tive and life long resident of
Miller County, Mrs. Stinson lived
in the Boykin commnity, was 77
years of age, and a member of
the Mothers' Home Church. In
terment will be in the church
cemetery, with Colquitt Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements,
Survivors, in addition to her son,
are three daughters, Mrs. Jean
ette Rogers, Mrs. Geneva Cain,
Miami; Mrs. Wilbur Boykin,
Portsmouth, Va.; two brothers,
Alvan Hatcher, Panama City;
Loren Hatcher, Columbus; three
sisters, Mrs. Willis Webb, Mrs.
Gerta Horne, Columbus; Mrs.
Trudie Edwards, Elberton, Ga,
LIVESTOCK
MARKET
Sales totaling $34,508.94 were
recorded at Moseley Barns Tues
lay when 131 cattle and 456 hogs
vere sold. i
No. 1 hogs sold for 24.80; No.
2's, 24.60; No. 3's, 23.85;; heavy
hogs, 24.26 and No, 1 roughs,
18.90,
PULL FOR BLAKELY
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PULL OUT
$3.09 PER ANNUM
Tax Rate Fixed
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At 29" Mills; 2%
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Mills Decrease
The Board of County Commis
sioners met in regular monthly
session Tuesday and fixed the
1966 tax rate at 29% mills a de
crease of two and a half mills
over last year,
The decrease was made possi
ble because of new properties on
the tax books and because of a
five percent increase in valua
tions over last year. These fig
ures are not apt to show a de
crease for tax payers in dollars
and cents, however, as the mill
age decrease and the valuation
increase are not commensurate.
For county tax purposes, the
millege was fixed at 15.50 mills,
a 175 decrease, which makes
county taxes show a slight de
crease over 1965, The schools
decreased their total levy by .75
mills, but not enough to show a
decrease in the actual amount
of taxes in dollars and cents to
be paid. The schools require more
money for operation than the last
year.
«Chairman, Davis stated the
county could probably have made
another one mill decrease, if it
actually knew it was going to get
the $26,000 in federal aid money
which has been applied for, to
wards financing the new airport.
Board members present were Mr.
Davis, Guy B. White, Chalker
Williams, Sevola Jones. Absent:
Emory Durham, be awse of the
illness of his wife,