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EARLY COUNTY. GA.
Garden Spot Os
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. 110—N0.3
PRIMARY TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY
Bobcats Open Grid Season
With Seminole Friday Night
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Bobcats starting line-up for the first game of the season Friday night, Sept. 6 (front row, 1. to r.)
Jerry Harrell, William Ricketson, Frank Simpson, Danny Westbrook, Warren McLendon, Jacel
Evans, Steve Singletary - (Back row) Randall Williams, Ronnie Hayes, Franklin Arnold, Johnny
Edmondson.
Friday night atß:3op.m.on Stan
difer Field, the Early County
Elobcats open the 1968 football
season facing arch rival Semi
nole County of Donalsonville. The
Indians, defending sub-region
champs, are favored but a deter
mined group of Bobcats have up
set visions.
With only three regulars from
last year’s team, Coach King
faces a tough re-building job,
and also goes against tougher
foes, the Bobcats now a member
of the 1-A region because of
increased student enrollment.
Coach King came to Blakely this
spring to replace Coach Ray
Knight who has been elevated to
the position of assistant princi
pal. Coach Knight will also
assist with the coaching, con
fining his work to the line. Dave
Rivenbark is working with the
backs, and Tommy Whitehurst,
head basketball coach, tutoring
the freshmen.
Only three members of the
squad were regulars last year,
Franklin Arnold, quarterback,
Danny Westbrook, center, and
end Jerry Harrell. Three others
saw limited service—Jacel
Evans, Warren McLendon and
Frank Simpson. This gives a
good idea of the large task fac
ing the Bobcat coaching staff.
"What they like innumbers and
experience", said Coach King,
"they make up in desire and
Local Weather
The following is a summary
of local weather conditions at
Blakely, Georgia, for the month
August, 1968;
TEMPERATURE: Average
daily high, 93.4; average daily
low, 69.7; average, 81.6, depar
ture from normal, plus .7. High
est, 101, occurring on the 22nd
and 23rd; lowest, 61, occuring
on the 29th.
PRECIPITATION: Total, 3.21
inches; departure from normal,
-2.86 inches. Greatest in any
24-hour observational period, .88
inch occurring during the 24-hour
period ending 7 a.m. E.D.S.T,
on the 12th. Number of days
with .01 inch or more, 10; with
.50 inch or more, 2; with 1.00
inch or more, 0. Total since
first of year, 23.73 inches, de
parture from normal for that
period, -16.88 inches.
MISCELLANEOUS: Fog on
the 20th; thunder on the Ist,
3rd, 10th, 11th, 13th, 18th, 21st,
24th and 25th.
LOWREY S. STONE, Observer
U, S, Weather Bureau
Walter Johnson pitched three
successive complete games on
Sept. 4-7, 1908 and won all of
them-by shutouts.
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cte termination.”
The Bobcats returned last
Thursday from two weeks of foot
ball camp at Kolomoki State Park.
Spirit was high at the camp and
the coaches felt the team made
much progress during the drills.
The injury jinx hit the Cats
early as Senior Letterman Wayne
Middleton suffered a broken col
larbone when he fell while work
in? in shorts. Middleton had
been moved from end to half
back to give added punch in the
backfield. It is hoped he will be
able to return early in the sea
son.
Coach Frank King listed the
following players as probable
starters for Friday’s encounter.
On offense Steve Singletary and
Jerry Harrell will open at ends,
Jacel Evans, William Ricketson,
or Eddie Glass will be the tack
les with Frank Simpson and W ar
ren McLendon at guard. Danny
Westbrook will carry the load
at center. The backfield shaped
up with Franklin Arnold atQuar
terback, Ronnie Hayes at full
back, Randall Williams at one
halfback, and either Johnny Ed
mondson, or Hiluard Kitchens
at the other halfback. Evans
is the biggest starter at 250
while Hayes and Williams are
the lightest at 125 lbs. Defen
sively the Cats will have ends
John Ricketson and Harrell, tack
les Simpson and McLendon,
guards Ricketson and Glass,
Blakely TD Club
Held Ist Meeting
Past Tuesday
The Blakely Touchdown Club
held its first meeting of the sea
son Tuesday night at the Town
& Country Club, with a bout 35
members present. President
Bill Arnold presided and in
troduced Dr. Jack Standifer, who'
brought football to Blakely in
1921, and head coach Frank King.
Dr. Standifer spoke briefly and
ne-told the story of the early
days of football at Blakely High
School. Coach King gave a run
down on the current Bobcat team
and stated that 12 of the 20
players he expects to play Fri
day night in the season opener
against Donalsonville, have never
been in a football game. Only
six seniors are on this year’s
team and they were honor guests
at the meeting. These are Frank
lin Arnold, Jacel Evans, Johnny
Edmondson, Frank Simpson,
Danny Westbrook and Wayne
Middleton, the last named being
out for several weeks because of
a fractured collar bone.
The Touchdown Club meets on
Tuesday nights prior to home
games, and the next meeting
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go AheaS”
Linebackers Clay Jordan, Hayes,
and Westbrook, and deep backs
Stanley Holley, Arnold, and Ed
mondson. J. Ricketson, Glass,
Jordan, Holley, Williams, and
Kitchens are sophomores seeing
their first varsity duty.
The Indians boast a large and
experienced backfield featuring
Robert Collins (190-sr), Bobby
Alday (185-sr), Gene Dollar (170-
sr), and quarterback Pat Luns
ford (165-sr). Leader in the
line is tackle Homer Breckin
ridge (200-sr).
"We’ve worked awfully hard
to get ready for this one,” stat-'
ed Coach King emphasizing that
the team practiced 30 times the
first two weeks. "The boys
were a little leg weary by last
Friday but I think they'll bounce
back. We’re depending on a lot
of new players but if they hadn’t
done a good job we wouldn’t be
using them.”
The Football Schedule is as
follows: Sept. 6, Seminole Co.,
home; Sept. 13, Miller Co., home;
Sept. 20, Terrell Co., away: Sept.
27, open; Oct. 4, Central (T-ville)
home; Oct. 11, Mitchell Co.,
away; Oct. 18, Kendrick, home;
Oct. 25, Worth Co., home; Nov.
1, Pelham, away; Nov. 8, Colum
bis, Ala., away; Nov. 15, Abbe
ville, -Ala., away.
Kickoff time is 8:30 o’clock.
The Bobcats need a big turn
out of the "old faithfuls” to
cheer them on to victory.
Patrol Report
Troopers of the Georgia State
Patrol Post *l4, Donalsonville,
Georgia investigated 4 traffic
accidents, made 14 arrest and
issued 27 warnings in Early
County during the month of August
1968.
In the 4 accidents 1 person
was injured and none were killed
while the estimated property
damage amounted to $1,235.00.
Airman Lanier
Now Serving
In Thailand
Airman First Class Andrew
H. Lanier 111, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. H. Lanier, 520 S, Church
St., Blakely, Ga., is on duty at
Übon Royal Thai AFB, Thailand.
Airman Lanier, a photo labora
tory specialist, is a member of
the Aerospace Audio Visual Ser
vice in support of the Pacific
Air Forces. Before his arrival
in Thailand, he was assigned at
Langley AFB, Va.
The airman was graduated in
1965 from Hargrove Military
Academy in Chatham, Va.
will be next Tuesday, September
10, President Arnold stated.
BLAKELY GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1968
W. A. Rodney
Dies Here
Post Friday
W’illie Andrew Radney, 75, re
tired Early County farmer, who
lived near Cedar Springs, died
the past Friday afternoon in the
local hospital after an illness of
two weeks.
A native of Houston County,
Alabama, he was a member of
the Liberty Baptist Church at
Pansey, Alabama. He had been
living in Early County for the
past 22 years. Funeral rites
were conducted by the Rev. Aiken
Etheridge and the Rev. Louis
Williams Sunday afternoon in the
Cedar Springs Free Will Bap
tist Church, and burial was in
the church cemetery. Pallbear
ers were Davis Pyle, David Rich
ardson, Shelton Bruner, Joe Bean
Evans, Roy Smith, Hoyt Sheffield.
Manry-Minter Funeral Home
was in charge.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Evelyn Tye Radney, Blakely; six
sons, Herman Radney, Auburn
dale, Fla.; DeWitt Radney, Cot
tonwood, Ala.; Buck Radney,
Blakely; Earl Radney, Lake Al
fred, Fla.; Ellis and Wiley Rad
ney, Lakeland, Fla.; three daugh
ters, Mrs. Billy King, River
Junction, Fla.; Mrs. Wallace
Shaw, Mrs. Mickey Brett, Tal
lahassee; one step-son, Marvin
Tye, Lake Wales, Fla.; one step
daughter, Mrs. Windel Calhoun,
Colquitt.
Sowhatchee Has
New Pastor;
Rev. Wimberly
Rev. Wimberly
The Rev. Charles R. Wimber
ly is the new pastor of the
Sowhatchee Baptist Church, lo
cated on the Cedar Springs Road
at the Hilton-Damascus Road
crossing. The Wimberly family
moved to Early County last week
and reside in the pastorium on
the Cedar Springs Road.
A native of Ashford, Alabama,
the Reverend Mr. Wimberly was
ordained by the Cedar Springs
Baptist Church at Ashford, twelve
years ago. He attended Howard
College, (Samford), Birmingham,
Ala., and has served as pastor
of the Friendship Baptist Church,
Malone, Fla., and Union Baptist
Church, Donalsonville, Georgia.
Mrs. Wimberly is the former
Edna Maddox of Columbia, Ala
bama; they have two sons, Ken
neth, 13, and Carl, 11.
Sowhatchee Baptist Church’s
new pastor says he feels he has
been used more in the field of
strong church unity than any
other field. The month of Sep
tember is Christian Fellowship
Month and the Sowhatchee Church
is promoting this theme.
Comissioners
Meeting
The Board of Early County
Commissioners met In regular
session here Tuesday and trans
acted only routine business, such
as approving and paying current
bills. All members were
present—G. C. Davis, Chairman;
Sevola Jones, Chalker WTlliams,
Emory Dur 1- nd Guy White.
Sgt. Williams;
Blakely Soldier
Dies In Korea
Another Early County soldier
has given his life in the service
of his country. Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Williams were notified Sun
day that their son, Sgt. John Tony
Williams, 23, drowned in the In
jim River, August 31. The mes
sage stated "Sgt. Williams
drowned while attempting to swim
from the south bank to the north
bank of the Injim River." Sgt.
Williams was one of three sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Williams who
are in the service of their coun
try. Sgt. Rodney Williams is
serving in Viet Nam, and Spc.
4c Ralph J. Williams is station
ed in Okinawa. Another brother,
Perry, and half-sister, Mrs.
Thurman Jenkins, both of
Blakely, also survive. Sgt. Wil
liams had been in service for
six years.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by Manry-Minter Fune
ral Home.
Rotary District Governor
Visits Blakely Club
District Governor W. H. (Bill)
Dunaway, Rotary International,
paid an official visit to the Blakely
Club the past Friday, and ad
dressed the luncheon gathering
at the Town & Country Club.
Governor Dunaway, introduced
by President Lowrey S. Stone,
reminded Rotarians of the "Ser
vice Above Self” motto and urged
his listeners to be always mind
ful of this slogan. He called
attention to Rotary’s foreign ex
change program and said this
program was a real working
power for world peace and ce
menting pleasant relations be
tween the people of the world.
Governor Dunaway met with
Last Rites For
Mrs. Loyless
Held Aug. 17
Funeral services for Mrs. Ed
gar Murray Loyless of 1130 Win
burn Drive, East Point, were
conducted by Minister Myron
Taylor at 2 p.m., Saturday,
August 17, in Hemperley’s Chapel
with burial in Forest Lawn
Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Loyless, the former
Marie Alexander of Blakely,
Georgia, died Friday morning
at South Fulton Hospital. She
had resided in East Point since
1928 and was a member of the
East Point Woman’s Club and
Past Treasurer; a member of
the American Legion Auxiliary
Unit No. 51 and Past President;
a lifetime member of the Order
of Eastern Star, Chapter No.
181; a member of the National
Association of Retired and Vete
ran Railway Employees; and a
member of the Supreme Forest
Woodmen Circle. Mrs. Loyless
was a member of the East Point
Christian Church, the Pep Bible
School Class, a member of the
Lois Group of the East Point
Woman's Council and a Past
Treasurer of the General
Council.
She is survived by her hus
band of 49 years, Edgar Mur
ray Loyless; daughters, Mrs.
Ted E. McAuliffe of College
Park; Mrs. James M. Hensley
of East Point; Mrs. Melvin F,
Hestley of Fayetteville and one
granddaughter, Miss Robin Marie
Hensley of East Point.
Correction
Omitted from the J. R. Herring
funeral last week was two of his
daughters, Mrs. Brown Widener,
Blakely; and Mrs. J. B. Mills,
Brinson, Georgia.
Baboons live on Insects, scor
pions and reptiles as well as
roots.
Local Jaycees
To Sponsor
All Night Sing
The Blakely Jaycees win spon
sor an All Night Sing on Saturday
night, September 28, at the
Standifer Football Field (if rain
ing, it will be held in school
buildings). It will begin at dark
and continue all night.
Amateur Hour starts at 7 p.m.
Adults may purchase advance
tickets for $1.50; at the gate
they will be $2.00. Children
under twelve admitted free.
All profits will go to handi
capped children. So come out
and join the fun and share in
helping others at the same time.
The Jaycees need your support
in this project. Their profit is
in the advance tickets so buy
tickets today from any member
of the Jaycees.
In person will be Steve Sanders,
The Florida Boys, Chuck Wagon
Gang, Klaudt Indian Family,
Wally Fowler, Stevens Family,
Tonemasters and many others.
the club officers and committee
chairmen on Thursday night prior
to the Friday meeting and con
gratulated them for the fine work
of the Blakely club.
Visitors at Friday’s meeting
included Clive Brooks, of
Bradenton, Fla., a guest of W.L.
Stone. Mr. Brooks, a former
resident of Blakely, was making
his first visit back home in 50
years. Club 'guests were Mrs.
Maxie Hattingh, of the Republic
of South Africa, the mother of a
former exchange student, former
district governor T. T. Molnar
and Mrs. Molnar, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. O. Hohnson, all of Cuth
bert, and Mrs. Lowrey S. Stone.
Lashley Infant
Dies August 19
Tania LoWan Lashley, infant
daughter of Sgt. and Mrs. Oliver
Wayne Lashley, of Fort Gaines,
died the day of its birth, August
29, and was interred here in
Blakely Sunday afternoon with
graveside services conducted by
Dr. C. D. Horton.
Manry-Minter Funeral Home
was in charge.
Hilory Burnice Allen
Hilory Burnice Allen, 63, died
unexpectedly at his home on River
Street Tuesday night. The News
will carry complete obituary
notice next week.
Asparagus plants may produce
for 20 years or more.
"We Are For Ya’ Bobcats!”
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Cheerleaders for 1968-69 are: Top Row - Sue Johnston, co-captain; Jackie Gentry, captain;
Carol Chapman, Debra Pugh. Bottom Row - Dianne Jordan, Mary Clinkscales, Sue Glass, Candy
Clifton.
Managers To
Hold Meeting
September 7
Election managers and work
ers, for the September 11 Demo
cratic Primary in Early County,
have been named as follows:
Arlington District #1435:
Buddy Hollington, Doc Mansfield,
Jack Reeves.
Blakely District #866: Joe
Sheffield, R. D. Hodges, Lysle
McNeal
Cedar Springs District #430:
Sid Shingler, Gordon Houston,
Mrs. Claude Golden.
Colomokee District #1535:
K. J. Hodges, Wallace Ivey, Char
lie Tedder.
Cuba District #1164: G, O.
Lindsey, Cyrus Dußose, Sam
Lindsey
Damascus District #854:
W. H. (Hal)Haddock, E. L. Lewis,
Jr., H. J. Wright
Freeman District #1760:
Joe Owen, Ben White, to be
named
Jakin District #1572: John
A, Brown, Jack Cannon, to be
named
Lucille District#ls92: Byron
Bruner, Vinson Evans, R. L.
(Bob) Jordon
Rock Hill District #510:
Dwight Harris, Roy Smith, C. B.
Smith, Sr.
Urquhart District #1140:
Ralph Jarrett, Jut Cox, Coy Wat
son.
There will be a meeting of
the above managers in the Court
house in Blakely, Saturday morn
ing, Sept. 7, at 10:00 a.m., to
discuss the Election to be held-
Sept. 11, 1968.
All of the Election Managers
named are urged to come to
this meeting.
Baptist Hold
Crusade Rally
Tuesday, Sept. 10
Tuesday, September 10, at 8:00
p.m., Baptist Churches of Early
County will hold a County-wide
Crusade Rally at First Baptist
Church, Blakely. This rally
will be a part of those held in
159 counties in the State of Geor
gia in cooperation with the Cru
sade of the Americas. Baptist
in all the Americas will be in
volved in a great crusade to win
the Americas to Christ in 1969.
Baptists in Early County are
urged to be present at this meet
ing.
Rev. Ormond Wolfrem will be
guest speaker. Rev. Wolfrem is
known to some of the Baptists
in Early County, having been
involved in a revival service
here. Special music and an
explanation of the crusade will
be a part of the program.
PULL FOR BLAKELY
— OR —
PULL OUT
$3.09 PER ANNUM
Polls Open 7 a. m.
Close 7 p. m.
6000 Eligible
Approximately 6,000 voters
are eligible to cast ballots in next
Wednesday’s primary to nomi
nate county officers in the Demo
cratic primary. There being no
organized Republican efforts to
hold a primary, Democratic
nomination is tantamount to elec
tion.
The polls will open in all eleven
precincts at 7 o’clock in the
morning and close at 7 in the
evening.
According to Chairman Joe
Sheffield the following is the
lineup, the offices and the candi
dates seeking them:
Clerk of Court: Mrs. Bert
Tarver, incumbent, and Norman
Alexander.
Sheriff: C. C. (Tuck) Swann,
the incumbent, Ivey Chambers
and Oree Thompson.
School Superintendent: Lon
nie Chester, the incumbent, Tony
Williams.
Coroner: L. B. (Casey) Jonqs,
the incumbent, G, W. (Smoky)
Davis.
Ordinary Roscoe D. Hodges,
Tax Commissioner Willie Jim
Hammack, Treasurer Earl (Tige)
Pickle, Surveyor Grady Holman,
Jr., City Court Judge Philip Shef
field, City Court Solicitor Low
rey S, Stone are unopposed for
re-nomination.
In the race for County Com
mission posts:
Arlington-Damascus District:
G, C. Davis, Incumbent, Donald
McArthur.
Blakely-Cuba District: Sevola
Jones, incumbent, Lemuel Tlner.
Cedar Springs- Jakin District:
Chalker Williams, incumbent,
J. O. Evans.
Freeman-Lucile- Rock Hill
District: Guy White, incumbent,
A. D. Wilkerson.
Colomokee-Urquhart District:
Emory Durham, incumbent, Har
vey Brown, Jack Sammons.
District-wise; Rep. Maston
O’Neal, State Senator Julian
Webb, and State Rep. Mobley
Howell (60th district) are all
running unopposed.
Os state-wide interest Senator
Herman Talmadge is opposed by
Atlanta Negro attorney Maynard
Jackson, Associate Justice W. H,
Duckworth is opposed by William
Burton Steis and John L. West
moreland.
Inasmuch as The Early County
News is published on Wednes
days, there will be no election
news in next week’s paper, but
will be carried the following
week.
Gorden Club
The Blakely Garden Club will
hold its first meeting, since last
May, Sept. 12, at the home of
Mrs. Evelyn Gee, the meeting
beginning at 3;30 p.m.
Mrs. Gee will be in charge
of the program. Serving also
as hostess with Mrs. Gee will
be Mrs. Lloyd George. All
members are urged to attend
this very important meeting.