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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Os
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. 109—NO. 9
BOBCATS DOWN PIRATES
IN SECOND HALF, 13-7
After a lack lustre first half,
the Early County Bobcats staged
a brillant second half recovery
and came from behind to whip
a big , strong Miller County
team 13-6. This gave the Bob
cats a 4-1 record to date, a
13-7 loss to Terrell County,
the only blemish.
The Pirates, coached by for
mer Bobcat assistant Wayne Pro
fitt, started off like a whirling
deverish, and it appeared that
the Pirates were going to knock
out the Bobcats for the first
time since 1954. The Bobcats
and Pirates tied 7-7 in 1960
and that is the nearest Colquitt
has come to defeating Blakely
since 1954 when the Pirates
did the trick 14-0.
The Pirates moved 81 yards
by ground the first time they
got the ball, with quarterback
Ronnie McNease going the final
five yards, and that is the way
the score stood at halftime.
What Coach Knight told his char
ges at intermission isn’t avail
able, but whatever it was, it
worked. The Bobcats came
storming back, marched49yards
with Don Hayes plunging over the
one. Hayes’ run for the PAT
failed. In the same third per
iod end and running back John
Harper captured a Miller fum
ble at the Miller 35, and quar
terback Franklin Arnold moved
his troops across the double
stripes on the first play of the
final period, with Arnold doing
the scoring. This time Hayes’
run for the extra point was good.
This was* Hayes’ night. The
Bobcats ran 51 plays, and Hayes
carried on 33 of these, for a to
tal of 134 yards. He also played
a magnificent defensive game
as did Hoyle McLendon, Danny
White, Sonny McGahee, Tony and
Steve Hammond, David Crowd is,
Wayne Middleton, Jack Dean and
Danny Westbrook whose paws
interception stopped a Pirate
threat, ending the game.
The 'Cats hit the road again
this week end, going to Ashburn
to battle the Turner County Re
bels.
Linescore:
Early 0 0 6 7 13
Miller 6 0 0 0 6
Yardstick:
Early Miller
Ist downs 11 14
rushing 179 177
passing 8 0
passes attpt. 2 8
passes com. 1 0
fumbles lost 11
penalties 40 5
punts 4- 35 3-28
VIETNAM DAY
DECLARED BY
BLAKELY MAYOR
Hugh Redding, Mayor of Bla
kely, has proclaimed Saturday,
October 14, as Christmas Bun
dles for Vietnam Day in Blakely
and Early County and this day
will be given over to soliciting
contributions and packages for
the servicemen in Vietnam.
Mrs. Walter Hodges is 1967
Chairman for ditti bags for
Vietnam, the project is spon
sored by the Early County Chap
ter, American Red Cross with
S. G. (Buddy) Maddox, Jr., chair
man. Mr. Maddox has named
Mrs. Hodges, president of the
VFW Auxiliary, as chairman of
the 1967 project; Miss Marsh
line Giles and Mrs. Jimmy Grif
fin are co-chairman.
Early County has been asked
to make and fill 200 ditti bags.
The bags have already been made
by the personnel at Blakely Man
ufacturing Co. They are bright
red cotton bags with a white
draw string. Each sack has
a small tag "Made by Blakely
Manufacturing Co., Blakely, Ga.,
for the Early County Chapter
ARC". The material was fur
nished by the company. Charles
Alford is the manager.
con't. on inside page.
Co nut£ ews
N. Pratt Secrest,
Rotary Governor,
Speaker Friday
N. Pratt Secrest, Rotary Gov
ernor, District 690, of Thomas
ville, will pay an official visit
to the Blakely club Friday at noon,
President Lewis F. Fryer, Jr.,
has announced. President Fryer
urges a perfect attendance at this
meeting.
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Gov. SECREST
Prior to Governor Secrest’s
Friday speaking engagement, he
will hold a club conference at
the Country Club, Thursday even
ing at 7 o’clock. All officers,
directors and committee chair
men are requested to attend this
meeting.
Mr. Secrest, a graduate of the
University of Georgia, and presi
dent of the Secrest Pulpwood and
Timber Company, of Thomas
ville, and a Rotarian for ten years
is one of the best speakers in
Rotary International, President
Fryer stated, and he hopes that
every member of the Blakely
club will avail himself the op
portunity to hear this outstanding
speaker.
Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Minnie
Lee Barbree
Final rites for Mrs. Minnie
Lee Newberry Barbree, 209 Lee
Street, were held at the First
Baptist Church the past Thurs
day, conducted by the pastor,
Dr. C. D. Horton. Mrs. Barbree,
the widow of Remus Lee Barbree,
died at the local hospital on Tues
day, October 3. Interment fol
lowed in the Blakely cemetery,
Manry-Minter Funeral Home in
charge and the following serving
as pall bearers: Charles
Roberts, Charles DeLoach,
Virgil Jones, Dr. J. H. Crowdis,
Charlie Dunning, Dr. Don Bush,
Alex Howell, Jack White. The
large crowd of friends in at
tendance upon upon these rites,
and many beautiful floral offer
ings attested to the esteem in
which she was held.
Mrs. Barbree was born May
29, 1889, at Jakin, and she has
spent her entire life in this coun
ty, and for the past 25 years had
resided in Blakely. She was a
member of the Bethel Primitive
Baptist Church.
Survivors are three sons, Dor
sey Barbree, Blakely; Dick Bar
bree, Columbus, Ohio; Gene
Barbree, Atlanta; three daugh
ters, Mrs. Carey Houston, Mrs.
Robert Collier, Blakely; Mrs.
Frank Fuller, Jakin; three sis
ters, Mrs. Neal Clarke, Mrs.
Charles D. Murphy and Miss
Beatrice Newberry, all of De
catur, Ga.; one brother, Gor
don Newberry, Waverly Hall, Ga.
OES MEETS THURSDAY
Blakely Chapter #282, Order
of the Eastern Star will hold their
regular meeting, Thursday night,
October 12th at 8;00 P.M. in the
Chapter Room.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead
MAYOR HUGH REDDING CUTS RIBBON TO BANK
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Mayor Hugh Redding (center) cuts the ribbon at a brief
ceremony Sunday afternoon, October 8 and the Rev. Clark
Pafford, (lower, right) led in prayer, prior to open house at
the Bank of Early. Officials, directors and their wives assist
ing with hospitalities included: 1 to r , front row: Jack Sutton,
assistant cashier; Virgil Jones, executive vice president; IL C.
Singletary, Jr.; President; H. J. Middleton, vice president;
Ralph Smith, assistant cashier and the Rev. Mr. Pafford. On
the extreme left: Mrs. Russell Smith, Mrs. Lamar Willis,
Mrs. Harvey Woolf, Mrs. Jimmy Montgomery, Mrs. Sevola
The Bank of Early held open
house Sunday afternoon in their
spacious new brick Georgian,de
sign building, over two thousand
five hundred visitors registered
at the bank duringthe hours of two
to six.
Hugh Redding, Mayor of Bla
kely, cut the ribbon and the Rev.
J. Clark Pafford, pastor of the
First Methodist Church offered a
dedicatory prayer in a brief cere
mony prior to the opening of the
doors at two o’clock.
Bank officials and directors,
and their wives were in charge
of hospitalities during the after
noon. The ladies wore corsages
of paper money, green satin leav
es , tied with green velvet rib
bon and the men wore similiar
boutonnieres. Guests were reg
istered by the bank tellers and
presented a key ring. Souveniers
were hot-pot holders and walk
ing canes. Refreshments were
served. The elegance of the
building was accented with the
flower arrangements, sent in by
friends congratulating the bank.
The new pink brick building
is located on the corner of Col
umbia and Church Streets and has
three entrances, from Columbia,
Church and Liberty Streets. The
parking lot can accomodate forty
cars . There are five teller
windows in the bank and two
drive-in window; a drive-in
night depository is on the west
side. The building has 5,000
feet of space with carpeted floors
three executive officers, a
directors - community room,
which will be available to church
and civic groups, and a most
modern security system with a
MRS. A.C. BROWN
DIED MONDAY AT
MEDICAL CENTER
Mrs. Dora Averitt Brown, Wid
ow of Austin Clyde Brown, died
Monday afternoon, 12:40 o’clock
in the Medical Center. She had
been ill only a short time and her
death was attributed to a heart
attack.
Born in Early county, Sept.
4, 1882, she was 85 years of age
and had spent most of her life
in this county, and for the past
six months had resided in Col
umbus. She was a member of
the Mars Hill Primitive Baptist
Church near Edison, where final
rites were held Wednesday morn
ing, conducted by Elder Elzie
Bryant and the Rev. R. L. Mc-
Rae. Interment was in the Mt.
Zion cemetery in Clay County,
Manry-Minter Funeral Home in
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1967
are Mrs. Larry Barbree, sec
retary to executive vice presi
dent, Mrs. IL R. Stovall, Mrs.
Lamar Willis, and Mrs. Jim
Nolan, tellers; Mrs. Raymond
English, Mrs. Harvey Woolf,
Mrs. Jimmy Montgomery, and
Mrs. Russell Smith Book
keepers; Charity Robinson, maid
and Peter Harris, caretaker.
Among the out-of-town guests
Sunday afternoon were: Mr. and
Mrs. Elder T. Crawford of Al
bany. Mr. Crawford is a former
director and executive vice
president who retired in 1964,
and recently moved to Albany,
he is credited by bank officials
as playing a large part in the
growth and success of the insti
tution.
The bank opened for business
at its new building Monday, Oct
ober 9. The old building on
Courtsquare has been sold to
W. C. DeLoach, owner of Geor
gia Telephone Company,
push-botton control vault.
The grounds have been land
scaped in keeping with the arch
itecture of the building, which
features a facade and four large
white columns, and a fan-shaped
attractively designed glass light
over the double doors at the front.
Officers of the bank are R.
C. Singletary, Jr., president; H.
J. Middleton, vice president; Vir
gil Jones, executive vice presi
dent and cashier; Ralph Smith,
and Jack Sutton, assistant cahs
iers.
Directors are H. J. Middle
ton, Chairman, R. C. Singletary,
Jr., W. C. De Loach, Dunbar
Grist, Virgil Jones, C. E. Mar
tin, Jr., A. J. Singletary, Joel F.
Thomas. Other bank personnel
charge of arrangements and Rel
erford Reynolds, Emory Durham,
J. W. Durham, Dudley Enfinger,
Allison Taylor, Marvin Belisle;
serving as pall bearers.
Survivors are one son, Wayne
Brown, Columbus; 4 grandchild
ren and 4 great-grandchildren,
one brother, Joe Averitt, Lake
Wales, Fla.
MARKET REPORT
Sales totalling $25,300.83were
reported at Moseley Livestock
Barn Tuesday as 172 cattle and
222 hogs were sold. No. 1 Heavy
$17.55; Light No. 1, $17.52; No.
2's $17.25; No. 3's $16.90; Rough’s
$17.15; Heavy No. 1, $15.00; Heavy
No. 1 Meat $18.02; Light No. 1
Meat $17.80.
REVIVAL
Revival services will be held
at the Sowhatchee Baptist Church
on the Cedar Springs Rd., Bla
kely, Georgia, the week of October
22-28 the Rev. Bill Bailey, pastor
has announced.
Jones, Mrs. H. R. Stovall, Mrs. Charles DeLoach. Directors
standing by Mayor Redding (1 to r) Sevola Jones, Charles De-
Loaeh, Joel Thomas, Dunbar Grist, C. E. Martin, Jr., and
AJ. Singletary. On the extreme right, Mrs. Clark Pafford,
Mrs. Joel Thomas, Mrs. R. C. Singletary, Jr., and Mrs.
Virgil Jones; and (back row) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stuckey,
Mrs- H. J. Middleton, Lowrey Stone, and Mrs. A. J. Singletary;
(back row on left) Mrs. Jim Nolan, Jr., Mrs. Larry Barbree,
H. H. Davenport, (Back row, center) C. H. Tedder, Mrs.
Ralph Smith, Mrs. Raymond English, Mr. and Mrs. Lysle
McNeal , and Mrs. G. E. Martin, Jr.
MR. AND MISS ECHS
ELECTED THURSDAY
Susan Askew of Arlington, was
elected Miss ECHS and Donald
Hayes, Mr. ECHS at the assem
bly Thursday, at Early County
High School. They were se
lected from a group of eight
other nominees who had been
nominated by the Senior Class.
The entire student body voted
for Miss ECHS and Mr. ECHS.
Other nominees were Mary
Brown, Cheryl Houston, Kathy
Phillips, Charles Hobbs, Lodge
Holman, and Danny White. Car
men King, editor of the annual,
introduced the nominees.
Susan Askew
Susan Askew nas Deen selected
Miss ECHS at Early County High
School. She is secretary of the
Early County Future Homemak
ers of America and has formerly
served as Ist vice president and
parliamentarian. She holds the
State Homemakers degree and
received the Crisco Award last
year. She attended the State FHA
Convention two years and the Nat
ional Convention last year.
Susan was class project ch
airman last year. She attended
airman her Junior year and Class
president her freshman year. She
has been a Homecoming attendant
three years and a member of the
Beta Club four years, attending
the Stat
the State Convention her Sopho
more year. She was state winner
of the Mobile Home Research
Contest last year and attended
Girl’s State. She has been a
library assistant two years and
wrote the horoscope for the 1968
"Bobcat” annual.
She was "Miss Arlington” on
Father Neal O’Brien, of the
Holy Family Catholic Church,
Blakely, was the main speaker
at the chapel program with Class
11-A, Mrs. Mayion Bedell’s room
in charge of the program. The
speaker gave an interesting and
informative talk on the responsi
bilities teen-agers will soon be
assuming in their respective
communities. He was introduced
by Linda Creel. John Brown
announced the program, Patri
cia Bridges gave the devotional
and Tony Davis led the pledge
to the flag.
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Donald Hayes
Donald Hayes has been elected
Mr. ECHS, he has been on the
Varsity football team four years
and is co-captain of the Bobcats
this year, and playedbaseball his
sophomore year He was Class
President his sophomore year.
He was elected to Who's Who
in the Senior Class and is a mem
ber of the Hi-Y club and chair
man of World Service. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Hayes,
north Main Street, Blakely.
BLAKELY WOMAN’S CLUB
The Blakely Woman's Club will
meet Friday, October 13.;Mrs.
George Nelson, International Af
fairs Department Chairman, will
be in charge of the program.
1965, and is a member of the
Horizon Club where she has serv
ed as president, and held other
offices and was May Queen last
year. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. David Askew of Arling
ton.
"EARLY COUNTY FACTS"
SHOW HIGH CANCER RATE
"Early County Facts" were
reported by Mrs. Sara Hall,
Field Representative of the Geor
gia Division, American Cancer
Society here Thursday afternoon
at a meeting of the Early County
Unit at the Early County Library.
"With a population of 13,300
and 3,600 homes in the county,
3225 people here will have can
cer - BUT 1,663 Can be saved”,
the report showed. Cancer will
strike in 2,400 homes in the
county. In 1966 there were 13
death due to cancer. In the six
years prior to that there were
101 cancer deaths.
The Early County Unit needs
360 volunteers to put across
the earlier treatment EDUCA
TION to save lives now To "Tell
Your Neighbor" of the seven
danger signals, to inform stu
dents of the danger of smoking,
to encourage, even insist, on a
regular check up, and to inform
citizens about what’s being done
with the contributions made each
April in study and research.
Ed Morton, FHA
Supervisor,
Rotary Speaker
Blakely Rotarians heard a most
interesting talk last week when
Ed. Morton, supervisor for the
Farmers Home Administration,
spoke to the club on the activities
of this federal government lend
ing agency. Mr. Morton’s offices,
located in Blakely, serves the
counties of Early and Calhoun.
The Farmers Home Adminis
tration is a non-competetive
agency and makes loans, unavail
able in regular banking chanels.
In a talk documented with facts
and figures, Mr. Morton explain
ed the difference type loans,
mostly to individuals to buy farms
and build homes, revealed the
startling fact that during the 20
years existence of the FHA in
Georgia, that a hundred million
dollars in loans had been made,
and there at been only one for
closure, and that with a loss of
only one hundred dollars. The
program was arranged and the
speaker introduced by Rotarian
Turner Hendry.
Jess Lynn Lindstorm, of Den
mark, the club’s foreign exchange
student who is attending Andrew
College, was a special clubguest
and was introduced by President
Fryer. Young Lindstorm, spoke
briefly, and presented the club
a Rotary flag from his sponsor
ing Denmark club.
Jess Lynn Lindstrom, of Den
mark, the club’s foreign exchange
Jack Collier, formerly of
ocala, Fla., who recently moved
to Blakely where to conducts a
cattle operation in Early and Cal
houn counties was welcomed into
the club as a new member, and he
and his Rotaryanne, Jerri, were
introduced by President Lewis
Fryer. Raymond Singletary, who
sponsored the new members, was
in charge of the induction cere
mony.
Guests present were Mrs. Ray
mond Singletary, and high school
senior Susan Askew, and Don
Hayes, the latter two being in
troduced by class president Ch
arles Hobbs.
Nix Is Promoted
By Golden Glow
Mr. William H. Nix has been
given sales management respon
sibilities by Golden Glow Dairies,
according to an announcement by
Mabry SI Phillips, Golden Glow
President.
Mr. Nix will be responsible for
all product sales outside of the
city of Albany.
Since joining Golden Glow’s
sales department in 1956, Mr.
Nix has served the dairy in al
most every sales capacity.
A native of Early County, he
is married to the former Rebe
Ritchie.
The Nix’s reside on Shadow
lawn Drive in Albany and are
members of the Baptist Church.
PULL FOR BLAKELY
— OR —
PULL OUT
$3.09 PER ANNUM
Mrs. George Nelson, chairman
of the Early County Unit asked
that an effort be made to secure
Chairmen for all committees in
the program. She announced the
following committee appoint
ments: Mrs. E. P. Whitehead,
Films on Earlier Treatment Ed
ucation; Mrs. Kermit Dekle,
Memorial Funds Service; and
Mrs. W. M. Barksdale, Mass
Media; Joe Cannon, Schools-
Earlier Treatment Education;
Mark Holt and Charles Alford,
Employer Education; Billy
Peters, Theatres; Mrs. Wayne
Foster, radio.
Mrs. Hall introduced Mrs.
Mary Keyes Hutto of Albany, new
Field Worker with ASC. Mrs.
Hutto will be visiting Early Coun
ty often in the future, keeping
committees informed and mater
ials on hand for distribution.
Eight volunteers are needed
now to serve as committee chair
men, to further the education pro
gram in Early County, Mrs. Nel
son said.
Election Held
For 1968 ASC
Committeemen
The County Convention, com
posed of 1968 community com
mitteemen elect, met September
26, 1967 in the ASCS Office for
the purpose of electing one county
committeeman and two alternates
and determining the position of
the committeemen.
Mr. Leroy Haddock was re
elected to a 3 year term. Mr.
Sam Clinkscales was elected first
alternate and Mr. Mack Jarrett
was elected second alternate. Mr.
J. W. Miller was re-elected
chairman and Mr. H. L. Martin
vice chairman.
The new committee, which is
the same as the 1967 committee,
took office October 1, 1967. As
county committeemen, they will
be responsible for administering
the acreage allotment programs,
feed grain, cropland adjustment
program, conservation reserve,
commodity loans, mobile dryer
and farm storage facility loans,
wool program, and any other pro
gram that may be assigned by
the Secretary of Agriculture.
W. E. Johnson,
Dies Suddenly
Sunday P. M.
William Ellie Johnson, 55, Mil
ler county farmer, who resided
on Route 4 in the Lucile Com
munity, died suddenly Sunday
afternoon about one o’clock.
Mr. Johnson was born in Mil
ler county, and had spent his
entire life in Miller and Early
counties. He was a member of
the White Plains Freewill Bap
tist Church in Lucile. Funeral
services were held Monday after**
noon, 4 o’clock, in the Flat Creek
Baptist Church, the Rev. Bill
Bailey officiating. Intermentwas
in the church cemetery, Manry-
Minter Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements. Pall bearers
were Bud Justice, Martin Mur
kerson, Bruce Batchelor, M. C.
Powell, Bob Jordan, Carlton
Scarborough.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Lucile Womble Johnson, two
sons, William H. Johnson, Tal
lahassee; Earl Johnson, Blakely;
one daughter, Mrs. Edgar Wors
-1 ley, Arlington; one brother, Blu
ford Johnson, Ruskin, Fla.; three
sisters, Mrs. Irene Layton, Ash
ford, Ala.; Mrs. Freddie Mae
Grubbs, Colquitt; Mrs. Leona
North, Winter Garden. Fla.
In announcing the promotion,
Mr. Phillips stated, "It’s aplea
; sure to recognize Nix’s lengthy
contribution to our company’s
■ success by assigning him to this
position of increased responsi
i bility.”
One man says his wife is a
good driver. It's just the start
ing, stopping, parking, signalling,
and turning that gives her trouble.