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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
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VOLUME NO. 109—NO. 41
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Early County High FBLA Chapter
March 24-30 has been pro
claimed as Future Business
Leaders of America Week in
Georgia by Governor Lester
Maddox and in Blakely by Mayor
Hugh Redding. The local Chap
ter at Early County High School
will be observing this week with
special activities.
On Sunday March 24, the club
will attend the Westview Metho
dist Church in a body. On
Monday, members will clean
the trophies in the two trophy
cases at the high school. Tues
day, 13 seniors who are com
pleting the Business Education
Vocational Program at Early
High School will workas "Secre
taries for a Day” in various
establishments In town. On
Wednesday, they will observe
Teacher Appreciation Day by
serving the teachers refresh
ments at recess and by placing
flowers in the teachers lounges
and the principal's office. On
Thursday, several members will
present a radio program on Radio
Station WBBK. Friday has been
set aside as Dress Right Day
for all FBLA members. FBLA
girls will attend school attired in
dress that would be appropriate
for an office. Boys will dress as
business executives. On Satur
day, a group of members will take
favors which they have made to
the hospital to be placed on the
natient's trays. Each day of the
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Mayor Hugh Redding (center) and local FBLA officials 1 to r,
Gayle Nix parliamentarian; Esther Lovering, vice president;
Carmen King, President; and Rhonda Bush, secretary, as the
Mayor proclaims March 24-30 as Future Business Leaders of
America Week in Blakely.
Former Blakeyite,
Beatrice Brown
Dies In Dothan
Mrs. Claud Brown, 304 North
Orange Ave., Dothan, met death
when she was overcome by smoke
from a fire which swept through
her home early Wednesday morn
ing of the past week. Mrs.
Brown was the former Miss Bea
trice Duke, who was born in Blak
ely and spent her childhood and
young womanhood here. She was
53 years of age and had resided
in Dothan since 1933.
Funeral services were held at
the graveside in Blakely ceme
tery Thursday afternoon, 2 o'
clock, Dr. Paul Duffey, pastor
of First Methodist Church, Do-
€arl^ County ewe
week spot announcements will be
made on radio station WBBK
concerning the importance of
business training in a changing,
business world.
The FBLA Is the national or
ganization for all students en
rolled in business subjects. The
local club is affiliated with both
the national and state organi
zations.
This year the local chapter
has been honored by having its
president. Carmen King, serve
as state secretary of FBLA.
She has visited many sections of
the state and participated in pro
grams at area conferences. She
will also be on the program at
the FBLA State Convention to be
held at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel
in Atlanta on May 3 and 4.
The local chapter has had a
very successful year. Fifteen
members have earned their as
sistant’s degrees and are work
ing on the supervisor's degree.
One member is working on her
leader degree which is the high
est attainable. Projects which
the local club has completed
this year are: bringing articles
and packing ditty bags for ser
vicemen overseas, makinga con
tribution to the Empty Stocking
Fund, making a contribution to
the March of Dimes, decorating
the Christmas tree in the lobby
of the high school, decorating
teachers’ lounges and teachers’
than, of which the deceased was
a member, and the Rev. Benton
W. Taylor, pastor of the Edison
Methodist Church, officiated.
Survivors are her husband,
mother, Mrs. Mable Duke,
Edison; two brothers, C, D. Duke,
Jr., Edison; W. S, Dike, Macon;
two sisters, Mrs. Thelma High
tower, Blakely; Mrs. Dudley
Hayes, San Antonio, Texas.
LIVESTOCK
MARKET
Sales totalling $35,550.09 were
reported at Moseley Livestock
Barn Tuesday as 118 cattle and
653 hogs were sold.
No. I’s sold for 16.81; Light
l's, 16.59; No. 2’s, 16.58; No.
3’s, 16.07; No. 4’s, 16.51; Heavy,
16.77; No. 1 Rough, 13.70; No.
1 Meat Type, 16.97; Light No.
1 Meat Type, 16.88.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
lunchroom at Christmas, serving
refreshments to the teachers at
Christmas, carrying favors to
the Convalescent Home at
Christmas, making a contribution
to the Easter Seal Campaign,
sending a box to a former stu
dent at Early County High School
who was wounded in Vietnam,
and serving as registrars for
the Southwest Georgia FBLA
Area Planning Conference at
Abraham Baldwin College In Tif
ton. The local club has offered
to the Pilot Club of Blakely its
services in selling lilies for the
Easter Seal Campaign for crip
pled children on April 5 and 6.
The Future Business Leaders
of America organization seeks to
(1) Develop competent, aggres
sive business leadership. (2)
Strengthen the confidence of
young men and women in them
selves and their work. (3) Create
more Interest and understanding
in the Intelligent choice of busi
ness occupations. (4) Encourage
members in the development of
individual projects and in estab
lishing themselves in business.
(5) Encourage members to im
prove the home and community.
(6) Participate in worthy under
takings for the improvement of
business and the community. (7)
Develop character, train for use
ful citizenship, and foster patrio
tism. (8) Participate in coope
rative effort. (9) Encourage
and practice thrift. (10) En
courage Improvement In scholar
ship and promote school loyalty.
(11) Provide and encourage the
development of organized re
creational activities. (12) Im
prove and establish standards
for entrance into store and office
occupations.
Officers of the FBLA Chapter
at Early County High School are:
president, Carmen King: vice
president, Esther Lovering;
secretary, Vicki Batson; treasu
rer, Rhonda Bush; reporter, Jane
Collier; chaplain, Peggy Lord;
parliamentarian, Gail Nix; spon
sors, Mrs. Guy King and Mrs.
E. L. Lewis, Jr.
Activities of the week were
planned by the FBLA Week Com
mittee composed of Alice Tye,
chairman; Duane Sullivan, co
chairman, and Gall Nix.
Mrs. Milliner
Dies In Colquitt
Post Saturday
Mrs. Osie Harrison Milliner,
88, who resided with her
daughter, Mrs. Lewis Cleveland,
614 Flowers Drive, passed away
early Saturday evening in the
Miller County Convalescent
Home following a long Illness.
The widow of Henry Milliner,
she was born Nov. 30, 1879, but
had lived most of her life In
Early County at EUmascus. She
was a member of the Vllulah
Baptist Church in Clay County.
Funeral services were con
ducted by the Rev. Paul Irvin
Mortday morning in the chapel
of Bryan Funeral Home. Burial
BLAKELY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1968
ALEX HOWELL DAY
SET FOR MARCH 28
Mayor Hugh Redding has is
sued a proclamation designating
March 2 Bth as "Alex Howell,
Jr., Day.’’ This is the day set
aside by Blakely people to honor
the Blakely young man who has
carved a name for himself in
the Southeastern Conference as
a star basketball player at Au
burn Lhiversity.
“Alex has brought honor and
good publicity to Blakely”, the
mayor said, “and now it is our
turn to return the favor.”
Alex, the elder son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Howell, Sr., has
played varsity basketball at Au
burn for the past three years,
and his senior year, the season
just ended, was captain of the
team. Alex has distinguished
himself as a hard-working mem
ber of the Christian Athletes'
organization.
And on the night of March 28th,
A PROCLAMATION
BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BLAKELY:
WHEREAS, Alex Howell is a native of the City
of Blakely, Georgia, and a graduate of Early Coun
ly High School where he distinguished himself
both as a student and as an athlete; and
WHEREAS, the said Alex Howell then entered
Auburn University where he continued to excel as
a student and also as a member of the Auburn
Bashetball team; and,
WHEREAS, on account of his excellent charac
ter and oustanding qualities of leadership, he was
elected captain of the Auburn Basketball team for
the 1967-68 season; and,
WHEREAS, all of he people of Blakely are right
fully and justly proud of the splendid accomplish
ments and fine character of Alex;
NOW, THEREFORE, the premises considered,
and by virture of the powers vested in me as May
or of the City of Blakely, I do hereby proclaim
March 28th, next, as ALEX HOWELL DAY. Let
an authenticated copy of this proclamation be de
livered to Alex Howell, and let the same be pub
lished in the Early County News in the issue of
March 21st and March 28th.
Witness my hand and the seal of the City of
Blakely, this the fourth day of March, 1968.
A. HUGH REDDING
Mayor of the City of Blakely
Attested: C. A. BELL, Clerk.
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Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Lane
Sunday P. M.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cal
lie Marie Godfrey Lane, 61, wife
of Ralph Lane, were held Sunday
afternoon, 3 o'clock, in the chapel
of the Bryan Funeral Home, the
Rev. A H. Lanier officiating.
Mrs. Lane, known to many
friends as "Godfrey”, died sud
denly on Thursday of the past
week at the family residence on
Central Avenue. She was a
native of Pansey, Alabama, where
she was born January 28, 1907,
but had lived most of her adult
life in Blakely. She was a regis
tered nurse, a graduate of the
Frazier-Ell is School of Nursing
in Dothan. She was a member
of the Sowhatchee Baptist Church.
Interment was in the Blakely
cemetery. Dr. Don Bush, Joe
Sheffield, Evan Wasdin, Willet
McDowell, A J. Singletary and
was in the Cross Roaas cemetery
near Damascus. Pall bearers
were Joe Bryan, Henry and Hal
Haddock, Rex Jones, Donald Mc-
Arthur, Mallle Cleveland.
In addition to Mrs. Cleveland,
other survivors are two sons,
Curtis and Winston Milliner,
Damascus; daughters, Mrs.
Dewey Callahan, Damascus; Mrs.
Bunah Grier, Eufaula, Ala.;
twelve grandchildren and fifteen
great-grandchildren.
at the Town and Country Club,
Blakely, fans and a host of Auburn
people, including Auburn coaches’
and certain members of the Au
burn basketball and football team,
will gather to honor Alex Howell.
Bill Lynn, head basketball
coach, will be the principal
speaker. Also to appear briefly
on the program are Jeff Beard,
Athletic Director, and Head Foot
ball Coach, Ralph (Shug) Jordan.
Early County High School’s bas
ketball team, which won the Re
gion 1-B championship, and
coaches Tommy Whitehurst and
Tommy Steele, will be special
guests at the dinner.
Tickets to the gala affair can
be obtained at Hall Drug Com
pany, Fryer’s Pharmacy and Ho
well Drug Company. But make
haste I Only 250 can attend be
cause of the limited facilities
at the Town and Country Club,
and only a few tickets remain.
Gene Bush served as pall
bearers.
Survivors, in addition to the
widower, are two sisters, Mrs.
Fred Jordan, Auburndale, Fla.;
Mrs. Lloyd Logan, Francesville,
Ind.; five brothers, Almond God
frey, Lakeland, Fla.; Clark God
frey, Auburn Godfrey, Wyatt God
frey, Auburndale, Fla.; Arthur
Godfrey, Melbourne, Fla.
HOSPITAL LIST
Patients listed as being admit
ted and discharged at Early Mem
orial Hospital during the past
week include:
ADMITTED
Larry Carter, Evelyn Daub,
H. O. White, Gordon Houston,
Blanche Woolf, James Tift, Hazel
Holt, Hattie Mae Joiner, Irvin
White, Beatrice Echols, Renee
Wilson, Louise Carter, Rebecca
Gentry, Nettie Nobles, J. T.
Beagles, Gladys Yarnell, Sarah
Guy, Leola Coleman, Mark Cra
mer, Alma Hoover, Ida Bell
Moore, Thelma Hightower, Nina
Gordon, Jerri Collier, Willie
Irvin, Susie Williams, Virgil
Blackburn, June Winkler.
DISCHARGED
Martha Hudley, Thelma
Cooper, Annie Toole, Jim
mie Granger, Willie Irvin, Elea
nor Pritchett, Virgil Blackburn,
Deborah Milner, Nancy Moore
and Baby, J. E. Davis, Gladys
Yarnell, Susie Williams, Mild
red Hodges, Gladys Cashwell,
Rep. M. Howell
Guest Speaker At
Rotary Friday
Representative Mobley Howell
gave the members of the Blakely
Rotary Club an interesting ac
count of the recent session ofthe
Georgia General Assembly at last
week’s meeting. Mr. Howell is
serving his second two-year term
as Early County's representa
tive. The program was arranged
by Rotarian "Buddy” Maddox
and the speaker was introduced
by "Tige” Pickle.
Visitors at Friday’s meeting
were Rotarians Claud Ward and
Steve Stephenson, of Dothan, Bus
ter Lockett, of Cuthbert, making
up attendance: Robert and Jimmy
Crowdis, guests of their father,
Rotarian Dr. Jim Crowdis: W'ayne
Balkcom, guest of his father,
Rotarian Ralph Balkcom; Pat
Dye, Alabama assistant football
coach, guest of his brother, Ro
tarian Nat Dye: high school
seniors Miss Dee Dee Llsenby
and Jimmy Barksdale, guests of
the class president, honorary
Rotarian Charles Hobbs.
Fourth Six Weeks
Honor Roll
At ECES
The Early County Elementary
Honor Roll for Fourth Six Weeks
are as follows:
Fourth Grade - Brenda Clines,
Sandy Davis, Celilia Evans,
Laura Foster, Ginny Harrison,
Vic Knight, Penny Merritt, Tam
my McDowell, Russell McNeal,
Tommy Odom, Tommy Powell
Cindy Raines, Tim Roberts, Bar
bara Snellgrove, Karen Starr,
Teresa Still, Steve Tiner, Janice
Yerg.
Fifth Grade - Claude Bell,
Phyllis Gilbert, Mary Horton,
Camille Houston.
Sixth Grade - David Arnold,
Dianne Boone, Laura Sue Cleve
land, Penny Jordan, Sondra Mer
ritt, Kim Settles, Cliff Sheffield,
Kim Vickery.
Seventh Grade - Davy Brown,
Charles Fetner, Cheryl Harvey,
Joe Jordan, Lea Roberts, Step
hanie Still, and John Stone.
News Features
Four Color Adv.
Today’s edition of the Early
County News includes an unus
ual advertising technique, a four
color pre-printed Insert featur
ing baseball Hall-of- Famer,
Dizzy Dean.
Hercules Incorporated, maker
of agricultural chemicals, has
chosen the Early County News
as an important link in its com
munications chain to citizens of
this area. The Hercules cotton
herbicide, "Herban”, is adver
tised locally through this paper,
as well as on radio and tele
vision stations in this area.
C. A. Stainbeck, manager agri
cultural promotion, Hercules, In
corporated, stated: "We feel that
local newspapers are one of the
most important elements in ad
vertising. For this reason we
have scheduled this full page
Hi-Fi pre-print placed in the
Early County News. We are
glad to contribute to the local
economy of Blakely in this man
rer, and appreciate the conside
ration of cotton producers in this
area for our products, Herban
and toxaphene.”
Hercules is using 115 local
newspapers in the cotton pro
ducing states from North Caro
lina to Texas. The pre-print
was produced by Larry Painter
and Associates, agency for the
agricultural chemicals division
of Hercules, and was printed at
Springfield Gravure, Springfield,
Ohio.
Edna Bridges, Sudye Ateele,
Willie Smith, Flewellyn Wil
liams, Sim Land, Arbella Lof
ton, David Turner, Ida Moore,
Virgie Currie, Jerri Collier,
Thelma Hightower, William Cox,
J. T. Cannon, June Winkler,
Early Reed, Renee W'llson, Nina
Gordon, and Rebecca Gentry and
Baby Girl.
SUSAN ASKEW CHOSEN
STATE HOMEMAKER
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Susan Askew
Susan Georgia Askew of Early
County High School, Blakely, has
been chosen state Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow for
Georgia. She will receive a
$1,500 scholarship from General
Mills. Miss Askew, who Ilves
at Box 327, Arlington, ranked
first among 14,402 senior girls
in 330 of the state’s high schools.
Second In the state Is Anita
Faith Smith, West Rome High
School, Rome. She will receive
a SSOO scholarship.
Honorable mention winners
are: Phyllis Adrienne Bara
shlck, Henry Grady high school,
Atlanta; Gretchen Louise Kraul,
St. Plus X Catholic high school,
Atlanta; Elaine Gay Huckleberry,
Avondale high school, Avondale
Estates; Barbara Diane Coppin
ger, Bainbridge high school,
Bainbridge; Margaret Lee Mo
rey, D'Youvllle Academy, Cham
blee; Cheryl Janice Hunt, White
County high school, Cleveland;
Linda Rae Williamson, Dalton
high school, Dalton; and Shirley
Lee Callicutt, Pebblebrook high
school, Mableton.
Achievement In the 14th an
nual Betty Crocker Knowledge
and Attitude test, prepared and
scored by Science Research As
sociates, Chicago, determined
the awards. A total of 603,798
senior class girls In 15,079 of
the nation's high schools were
enrolled for the examination
given Dec. 5, 1967.
As Georgia's State Homemaker
of Tomorrow for 1968, Susan,
together with homemakers from
the other 49 states and the Dis
trict of Columbia, becomes eli
gible for honors as All-Ameri
can Homemaker of Tomorrow.
The winner of this award will
be determined on the basis of her
score in the original test plus
personal observation and Inter
views during an expense paid
tour of Colonial Williamsburg,
Va., Washington, Q C., and Min
neapolis, Minn., for state Home
makers of Tomorrow, each ac
companied by a faculty advisor.
The American Table Dinner
in Minneapolis, at which the All-
American Homemaker of Tomor
row will be announced, climaxes
the tour. First place winner will
have her scholarship Increased
to $5,000 with scholarships for
the second, third, and fourth place
winners being Increased to
$4,000, $3,000, and $2,000, res
pectively. Each state winner's
school will receive a set of
Encyclopaedia Britannica from
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
in Washington, the girls will
act as hostesses at a reception
for United States Senators from
each girl’s state and represen
tatives from their home dis
tricts.
In 1957, Priscilla Jones, now
Mrs. Nick Collins, R. R. 2, Blak
ely, wnlle In Blakely high school,
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became Georgia State Betty
Crocker Homemaker of Tomor
row, and went on to be named
All-American Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow, the top
national honor in the program,
which carried with It a $5,000
scholarship. She took her col
lege work at the Lhlversity of
Gteorgla, majoring in home eco
nomics. She now has three
children, including twin girls.
Being the recipient of honors
is nothing new for Susan Georgia
Askew. In recent weeks she
was named Star Student, won a
State Homemaker Degree, was
the state winner In the Mobile
Home interior design contest,
and received the Crisco Award
for the most outstanding home
economics student. She is vice
president of the Future Home
makers of America and the reign
ing Miss Early County High
School.
"Being a delegate to the
National Future Homemaker con
vention in 1966 was my most
exciting experience,” says
Susan. "This experience was
very rewarding and made me
more aware of the opportuni
ties unlimited in all areas of
the home economics field. And
I learned during that week that
even though people are of a dif
ferent region, race, or religion,
we could work together for the
betterment of our organization
and nation.”
The successful homemaker,
says Susan, must have that most
important ability to "manage
time, energy, and resources to
achieve maximum happiness and
satisfaction for herself and her
family.”
Sewing, drawing, swimming,
and reading are her hobbies and
one of them —sewing— Is her
favorite homemaking duty. She
plans to attend Georgia college
and the Uhlverslty of Georgia
to study interior decorating.
Anita Faith Smith, second place
winner, also plans to attend col
lege. She has chosen the Uhlver
slty of Georgia. Her favorite
homemaking duty is cleaning
house and washing dishes and
clothes. Anita has studied the
piano for nine years and also
plays the guitar. Both are among
her hobbies, which also include
reading, creative writing, and
sewing.
The most important talent for
a homemaker, she says, is com
mon sense and a level head—
the ability to cope with every
day problems as well as any
emergency.
Scholarships of about $1,500,
000 have been awarded winning
girls since the Betty Crocker
Search started 14 years ago.
During that time approximately
6,000,000 girls have been en
rolled In this program, the only
one of Its kind exclusively for
high school girls.