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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1968
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Politics oAn Parade
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The State Capitol was ever
more dead last Friday, when we
were walking around hunting
some political news. Seemed as
if at least half of the employees
were gone. What happened was I
that Thursday, May 30, was a
holiday, as was Monday, June 3,
so a lot of folk tock Friday
against their annual leave and
thusly had a 5-day holiday per
iod. Sho’ made it hard on the
news media, though, for unless
the politicians are there to talk
with, you can't find out much.
**•••«
The appointment of Asa Kelley,
Director of the State Prison
Commission, to be Superior Court
Judge in Albany was an excellent
choice of Governor Maddox's.
Mr. Kelley has a brilliant legal
mind, and, as everybody knows,
he only took the prison job in the
hope of getting a judicial ap
pointment. He wanted to be
on one of the appellate courts,
but the Superior Court is a good
stepping stone. He has already
qualified for nomination in the
September Democratic primary
and is not likely to have oppo
sition, since the Albany Bar rec
ommended him to the governor.
»**••*
Al Hatcher, Deputy State In
surance Commissioner, has de
cided against running for Con
gressman in the First District.
Although he received a tremen
dous amount of encouragement
to make the race, including sub
stantial financial support, from
nearly every county in the dis
trict, Mr. Hatcher decided that
his business interests would suf
fer if he was elected and would
then have to spend most of his
time in Washington. Hatcher has
a large number of rental apart
ments in Athens, plus a big shop
ping center going up at Dublin,
all of which he has developed
over the past ten years.
Apparently, now. Congressman
Elliott Hagan will not have any
serious opposition for the Demo
cratic nomination.
*** • • •
Court of Appeals Judge George
Whitman, Sr., who was appointed
to the post by Gov. Maddox, says
that he’ll stay in the race to the
end, in spite of strong opposition
from Attorney Bill Norton, of
Gainesville. Rumors have been
going around that Judge Whit
man, who is over 80, would not
seek re-election if he had an op
ponent.
Mr. Norton will give the elder
ly jurist a tough race, and quite
a few lawyers to whom we have
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talked say that he’ll win. These
lawyers tell us that Judge Whit
man is considered by the Bar of
Georgia to be too old to be at all
effective on the Court of Appeals,
j and that he shouldn’t run. He
■ has a high pension from his
many years on the Superior
Court bench in Atlanta, plus he
could still do all the work he
wanted to as Judge Emeritus.
• ••**«
Veteran politician Fred Hand,
of Pelham, former Speaker of
the Georgia House, has qualified
for the Senate seat being vacated
by Bill Flowers, of Thomasville.
Attorney Frank Vann, of Camil
la, also in Mitchell County, is
running for the post, too, which
means that the longtime political
rivalry between the two largest
towns in the county will wax hot
and furious again.
*•*•**
Recently, we wrote about the
work incentive program which
Bill Burson, Director of the State
Dept, of Family and Children’s
Services, and Sam Caldwell,
State Labor Commissioner, are
trying to get started in three
Georgia cities to give job train
ing to mothers drawing public
welfare. Well, the program is
about to come a cropper, be
cause Wilson Wilkes, Director of
the Budget, says that it’s a new
program and he can’t okay the
$170,000 needed. Mr. Burson says,
however, that it is not new, that
it’s merely a re-phasing of an
OEO program to work incentive.
At any rate, it’s held up so far
until Attorney-General Arthur
Bolton renders an opinion.
* * * « « *
SILLY REMARK OF THE
WEEK — Atlanta Mayor Ivan
Allen, Jr. made a speech the
other day in which he declared
that Atlanta stores shut their
doors when Martin Luther King,
Jr. was killed OUT OF RE
SPECT FOR DR. KING. If that
were so, why didn’t Rich's and
the other big Atlanta stores close
their branches in Cobb and De-
Kalb Counties? Mayor Allen, and
everybody else, knows that they
closed their Atlanta stores purely
because they were afraid of riots
and arson.
• * * « » •
Presidential candidate George
Wallace will make a major ad
dress in Atlanta on June 13.
Preceding his speech will be a
$25 per person fund raising din
ner at the Marriott Hotel. On
June 16, Wallace will appear on
the national television program,
i “Issues and Answers’’.
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
NEW TERMINOLOGY;
SAME MEANING
Those who saw one Walter
W. Heller, special fiscal con
sultant to President Johnson
and the present administra
tion, on the television program
"Face The Nation” last Sun
day were certainly not men
tally refreshed at the end of
the program.
The expression "I told you
so" does not really solve any-
thing, and
most times it
is not even
self -satisfy
ing, but I
have said on
many occa
sions that the
Washin g t o n
crowd now in
control of the government,
and the five candidates who
are campaigning for the office
of President, do not intend to
spend the wealth of this na
tion prudently.
Mr. Heller is most positive
in his demands for a 10 per
cent surtax to raise $lO bil
lion. He states he is opposed
to the proposed $6 billion re
duction in spending by con
servatives in the Congress.
This means he is for a tax
increase, but he is opposed to
a decrease in spending. In
other words, he just wants
more money to throw away on
experimental and wasteful
poverty programs.
The clamor by liberals for a
tax increase is not made in the
interest of balancing the bud
get. Far from it. The give
away crowd has no intention
of reducing the annual de
ficit of S2O billion. No thought
is given either to curtailing
the public debt of more than
$354 billion which will re
main for our children and
our grandchildren to pay, and
on down for many generations
to come.
Mr. Heller opined also that
the fiscal programs of all five
candidates for the presidency
(He excluded Governor Ronald
Reagan and former Governor
George C. Wallace) was very
similar in nature. “There is
very little difference in what
Hubert Humphrey, Bobby
Kennedy and Eugene Mc-
Carthy of the Democrats pro
pose, and what Richard Nixon,
and Nelson Rockefeller advo
cate. They are like peas in a
pod.
FOLLOW ENGLAND;
HEAVEN FORBID
It has been said by many
historians that this nation fol
lows Great Britain by about
15 to 20 years. We have done
that in several fields, and to
our national discredit
Britannica rules nothing
anymore. A Labor or Socialist
government has destroyed a
once pioud empire. England
has been rendered impotent,
and only recently it was ne
cessary to humble this great
country again by a devalua
tion of the Pound.
An old philosopher once
said: "The future is only the
past again, entered through
another gate".
If we are not astute enough
to profit by the errors of
others, and we turn a cold
shoulder to the pages of his
tory, then we, too, will move
down the road to decline.
WHO WILL FACE
THESE PROBLEMS’
We are confronted with in
flation at home. A wasteful
poverty program, or rather
give-away programs, coupled
with the additional expense
of fighting a war in Vietnam,
has brought about an annual
deficit of S2O billion.
Rapidly declining balance of
trade credits has consistently
drained the gold reserve from
Fort Knox. Distant relatives
of Solomon in the “Great
Sassiety" have invented a
canard about “paper gold”,
but this is only a potion of
political “guk". One of the
oldest laws of economics is that
when “cheap money” begins to
circulate, it drives the good
or dear money into the hands
of the hoarder, or under
ground.
We have failed in America
to provide law and order for
the citizens of this great Re
public. This is fatal to a De
mocratic society. The laws of
man in a free society must be
obeyed.
We have sent more than a
ha 1 f-million Americans to
Vietnam to fight a war, and
so far, we have been afraid to
turn them loose to fight, and
we have been afraid to bring
them home.
What do the liberal Demo
crat candidates offer as a so-
FILES
25 Years Ago
(From the Issue of June 10, 1943.)
BERRIEN C. MINTER. 81, be
loved and life-long Early Coun
tlan, died at his home in Jakin
on last Wednesday after a three
day illness.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON MC
CORKLE, 46, former Early
Countians, was found dead the
morning of May 29 at a lumber
company in Albany where he
served as night watchman.
**••
FIRE which originated from
a kitchen flue burned the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rabon,
at New Hope, the past Satur
day.
**•*
MRS. GRADY HOLMAN, Mrs.
Bill Smith, Mrs. Luther Robin
son, Mrs. Ralph Brown, and Mrs.
Max Middleton were joint hos
tesses Thursday night at the
Middleton home, entertaining the
seventh grade with a prom party.
Those present were, Lavinia
Aplin, Alicia Barbree, Wilma
Batchelor, Hilda Bowman, Ro
bert Bridges, C, W. Bruner,
Billy Cook, Nelda Davis, Win
ston Driver, Earl George, Olen
Goocher, Oil in Goocher, Edward
Grinsley, Martha Grimsley,
George Hammond, Billy Hayes,
Eddie Hudspeth, Mary Ruth Hunt,
John L. Jones, Billy Joe Jordan,
Emily Justice, Hoover Chancy,
Eleanor Joyce King, Melba King,
Tommie King, Opal Mathis, Cur
tis McDonald, Harvey McDonald,
Mickey Middleton, Bob Prit
chard, Earline Robinson, Bobby
lu Sirmons, Dorothy Sirmons,
Gloria Smith, Jean Stewart, Lois
Strictland, Carl Tolar, Maribelle
Weaver, Joan Webb, Jerry Wil
liams, Mabel Williams. Melba
Williford, Dorothy Woolf, and
Myrene Rogers.
MR. AND MRS. C, G. Brew
er, Mr. Virgil Oswald and Mrs.
Ben Haisten attended the Lions
Clubs’ state convention held in
La Grange this week.
RALPH DANIEL, who has been
at home for several days, has
returned to the University of
Georgia to continue his pre
medical studies.
50 Years Ago
(From the issue of June 6, 1918.)
A TOTAL ECLIPSE of the sun
will occur Saturday, June Bth.
Darkness will descend upon the
earth from .Aberdeen, Wash., to
Orlando, Fla.
****
MESSRS. J. & Shermart and
R. C. Singletary piloted a party
to Panacea Springs, Fla., Satur
day evening, returning Wednes
day morning.
♦ ♦♦♦
MRS. L D. FELDER and child
ren are spending a couple of
weeks out at Glenn Springs.
♦ ♦♦♦
MR. RUSSELL SUTLIVE, of
Uncle Sam’s army, is at home
on a visit to his mother.
lution to these pressing prob
lems? What about the two
moderate Republican candi
dates? What do they have to
offer? The answer is the
same . . . nothing.
What these candidates are
talking about is how to spend
more money in the city slums.
They are thinking of settling
the war in Vietnam in order
to have $27 billion more to
spend. They are talking about
a “negative income tax". Now
this is real reverse English on
a political boondoggle.
A “negative income tax”
only means while the citizens
of this nation pay income tax
es, money will be taken from
them to pay the welfare-stat
ers a guaranteed annual wage.
We must all pay taxes to
furnish SIOO billion to rebuild
the cities, and not a person in
this entire area, that we know
about, burned down a single
store in a city.
The terminology is new, but
the meaning is the same. It
only means there will be no
change in government unless
somebody other than one of
the five candidates of the two
major parties is elected Presi
dent.
Anybody for George Wal
lace to bring this mess to a
grinding halt?
How Prevalent
Is Cancer?
In general, people underesti
mate the likelihood of getting can
cer and have little or no factual
knowledge about how many people
get cancer.
According to the American
Cancer Society, cancer will strike
about 25% of the population, or one
person in every four, during
their lifetimes. An ACS sur
vey conducted by Lieberman Re
search, Inc., New York, brought
out that a quarter of those queried
strongly underestimated the In
cidence rate of cancer.
Os those who felt they are less
likely to get cancer, the main
reasons offered were “I’m heal
thy’ 1 —41%; “I don’t smoke”
—26%; and “cancer does not run
in my family” —25%.
The probe also revealed that it
was the men who underestimated
the threat to the nation's health
and women who overestimated
the challenge.
On the matter of recovering
from cancer, about half the popu
lation, the ACS probe showed,
believe that a person has a
"fairly good” chance. A smaller
group thought he had a “very good
recovery chance." At the other
end, some 23% think a cancer
patient has "not much chance”
or "no chance at all” of ever
getting well.
It’s stimulating to report that
about three-quarters of all
Americans feel that the discovery
of an over-all cancer cure is just
aroung the corner. With 49%
believing the cure will be found
in the next 10 years, an addi
tional 28% feel it will arrive
in the next 10 to 20 years.
It is worth noting that those
who go regularly for cancer
checkups have often had con
siderably greater personal con
tact with cancer than those who
do not go for physicals. And,
similarly, these goers knew more
cancer patients in the family and
outside It who have recovered
from cancer.
*•**
MISS MILDRED ABERNATHY
returned this morning from Vir
ginia, where she has been at
tending school the past year.
•***
MRJi W. G, PARK and Mrs.
R. O. Waters and children are
spending several days this week
at Panacea Springs, Fla.
MR. BILLIE BUCHANNON has
enlisted in the Navy, passing the
necessary physical examination
this week at Americus.
*♦♦♦
MISSES Iva and Evie James
have returned from Tallahassee,
Fla., where they attended school
the past year.
75 Years Ago
(From the issue of June 8, 1893.)
PROF. W. H. KILPATRICK
has accepted the principalship
of the Blakely Institute for the
next year.
THE closing exercises of the
Cedar Springs Academy were
held last week. Listed on the
program were Martin Sheffield,
Brown Regan, Albert Martin,
Maude Sheffield, Lelia Roberts,
Ollie Hixon, Della Gordon, J. C,
Grimes, Ida M. Sheffield, Nanny
Crozier, Willie Cowart, Fannie
Sheffield, Linda Sheffield, Mar
vin Perdue, Lilia Golden, Loua
Shirah, Lelia Pyle, Claudie Ro
berts, Nettie Mosely, Connie
Sheffield, Clarence Mosely, C. L.
Howard, Estelle Vickery, Ralph
Mosely, Clyde Mosely, Willie
Howard, Nell Crozier, Will Kirk
land, Nola Roberts, Lizzie Hix
on, Annie Mosely, Julius Hud
speth, Florence Kellum, Ola
Merrit, Florrie Mosely, Evie
Vickery, Eugene Porter, Luven
da Cowart, Sissie McGlamory,
Lessie Mosely, Nettie Mosely,
William Sheffield, Alma Lasse
ter, P. C. Johnson, M. M. Min
ter.
»>•»
THE commencement exercises
of the Blakely Institute were a
splendid success. Among the
hits from the primary depart
ment were a song by little Miss
Hattie Smith and Master Jim
Beusse and a sketch by little
Miss Urla Burrus and Master
Johnny Williams. On Tuesday
evening exercises opened with
an overture by Misses Minna
Collins and Carle Jones. Misses
Annie Hammack and Ella Jones
made a hit in the next sketch,
as did Miss Maggie Smith. "Per
dita," by Miss Gertie Jones,
was charmingly rendered. In
the next skit the following were
outstanding: Misses Kalla Mae
Odum, Ida May Edder, Ethel
Jones, Josie May Jones, Cyl
lene Smith, and Mittie Platt,
Children And
Cancer
While the chances of any child
being stricken by cancer are re
mote __ only one youngster in
7,000 develops the disease —
the figure can also be mislead
ing. Restated another way, it
means that there are some 4,
500 children under the age of
15 who will succumb to cancer
this year.
The figure becomes even more
serious when it is realized that
almost half of these will die of
leukemia. And that more child
ren of school age will die of
cancer than of any other disease.
Thus cancer among children is an
important health problem.
Cancer of the blood-forming
tissues, leukemia, is charac
terized by the abnormal produc
tion of white blood cells. Acute
leukemia strikes children main
ly and is treated today by drugs.
Drugs, or a combination of
drugs, have proved capable of ex
tending life for a few months
to as long as five years —
hopeful signs that medical
science is on the right track.
Children’s cancers are often
hard to recognize, since they
may masquerade as trivial dis
orders. A knowledge of can
cer’s warning signs and symp
toms, if acted upon promptly,
may serve to save a child’s life.
While leukemia accounts for
half of the incidence of cancer
among children, and is still in
curable, in many other types of
cancer a stricken youngster
stands an excellent chance of
recovery.
Among these other types of
cancer found in children is neu
roblastoma, or cancer of the ner
vous system. Surgery and drug
combinations work well here.
Even some brain tumors among
children are quite curable, if
treatment is begun in time.
Surgery or radiation, or both,
supplemented by a drug, in some
instances, completely arrests
cancer of the lymph nodes, tech
nically known as lymphosarcoma.
Eye tumors in similar fashion,
if detected early in a child are
curable.
Another form of children’s
cancer that is gradually being
brought under full control is
Wilms’ Tumor, or cancer of the
kidney. Success in treating this
condition via surgery, radio
therapy and a drug called Acti
nomycin D has been responsi
ble for saving the lives of many
youngsters. Bone cancer, an
other form of the disease found
in childhood, is being suc
cessfully treated today by sur
gery and radiation.
The American Cancer Society,
has always been in the forefront
of the fight against leukemia.
Last year some 70 grants total
ling more than $2 million were
made by the Society directly or
indirectly to aid the struggle
against leukemia.
This intensive research must
be continued and expanded. And
of the utmost urgency today is
the need for a simple test to
diagnose leukemia before it de
velops in the blood stream. The
more support we give these re
search specialists the quicker
we will solve this pressing pro
blem.
Do you know the
seven warning signals
of cancer?
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than two weeks, go to
your doctor immediately.
American Cancer Society^
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Dr. Daniel
To Speak at
G.C.A. Meeting
Dr. O’Dall Daniel, Head of
Animal Science Department of
University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia, will be the guest speak
er at the Early County Cattle
men’s Association, June 6, at the
VFW beginning at 8:00 p.m. All
cattlemen in this area are in
vited to attend this meeting.
Some people make such a mess
out of their personal finances
you’d think they were getting ad
vice from the government.
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Upon graduating from the U. S.
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degree and a commission as a
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