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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1968
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Politics o£n Paradi
Practically all political news
last week centered on the State
Democratic Primary, the results
of which were about as most
people expected. Senator Herman
Talmadge won handily, as every
body knew he would, though
some thought Negro Maynard
Jackson would get more votes
than he did. Talmadge called
the result several weeks before
the primary, when he declared
that he would win 3 to 1. And
Secretary of State Ben Fortson
almost hit the nail squarely on
the head when he predicted
about 800,000 ballots would be
cast.
In last Friday’s Atlanta Con
stitution, cartoonist Baldy show
ed Maynard Jackson walking a
lonely street at night and asking
a black cat if it had seen a bloc
vote anywhere. Very obviously,
Jackson didn't receive the Negro
vote that he expected, and prob
ably still doesn't know why.
We're glad to tell him. He didn't
get the Negroes to the polls be
cause the old time Negro leaders
in the state were indignant at a
young upstart coming into the
picture and taking on the top
man in Georgia politics. For, if
he had run Talmadge anywhere
near a close race, then Jackson
would have been a power in
Georgia Negro politics. So, the
Negro leaders who have worked
for years to reach their present
pinnacle just made certain that
a majority of the colored regis
tration didn’t vote. We wrote two
months ago when Jackson en
tered the race that this was like
ly to happen.
The slate of Democratic Pres
idential Electors chosen last Fri
day by the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee ought to sat
isfy the Humphrey forces to a
"T” Every one of them are
pledged to support HHH, and
are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats.
Os course, the Julian Bond crowd
may rise up in arms because
none of them are on the list, but
such a complaint can get no
where.
Most people can identify at
least some of the Electors, but
for the benefit of those who can't
herewith is a brief biography of
each:
L. W. "Chip” Robert of At
lanta — Treasurer of the Demo
cratic National Party back in the
30’s and Humphrey Campaign
Director this year. Is a well
known architect.
Mrs. James F. Meacham —
Atlanta housewife and Vice-
Chairman of the State Commit
tee. Has been active in state po
litical campaigns about 8 years
and supported Jimmy Carter in
the 1966 primary. She’s one of
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Ivan Allen, Jr. — Atlanta
Mayor, ex - segregationist and
former county unit supporter.
Irving Kaier — Atlanta lawyer,
and primarily a Carl Sanders
man.
Charles M. Jones — Political
power in Liberty County which
has more Negro voters than
white; member of General As
sembly.
J. L. Pilcher of Meigs — Form
er Congressman from the 2nd
District; fanner and banker.
Jack Majors — Resident of
DeKalb County and son of the
late R. E. L. Majors, newspaper
publisher at Claxton. Chairman
of the DeKalb County Demo
chatic Party.
W. Elliott Dunwoody, 111, of
Macon — 35 year old archtect
and former member of the House
of Representatives.
R. A. Dent — Augusta legisla
tor and only Negro in the Geor
gia House to vote for Maddox in
the Assembly election of January
1967.
i Wm. Carroll Ward — Employ
i ee of J. B. Fuqua's Augusta TV
» station, and brother of Judge
f Harold Ward of Dublin.
s Mrs. Mamie B. Reese — Negro
i Dean of Women at Albany State
i College.
s Mrs. P. Q. Yancey — Wife of
I a respected and well-to-do Atlan
t ta Negro dentist.
t Os these 12 Electors, seven
• were delegates or alternates to
• the recent Democratic National
Convention, and none of them
came home when the Governor
urged them to do so.
• •••*•
Dixon Oxford, prominent Daw
son businessman and former
State Revenue Commissioner,
says there were 16 Federal men
in Terrell County to watch the
voting in last Wednesday’s pri
mary. They even installed a pri
vate phone in the courthouse lob
by, presumably to keep in touch
with Washington. They made
themselves so obnoxious at the
ballot counting that finally a
banker, who was calling the tal
ly, shoved back his chair and
invited one of the agents to do
the counting himself. He
wouldn’t, though.
******
Governor Maddox’s call for a
tax increase of two hundred mil
lion dollars at the next session
of the legislature is going to be
very conducive to the people to
kill the constitutional amendment
in the November election which
would give both House and Sen
ate 4-year terms. Folks won't
want to wait four years to "get
at" a legislator who votes a tax
increase of this magnitude on the
people of Georgia.
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
WHO WILL ELECT
NEXT PRESIDENT?
One fairly reliable news
source stated the other day
that the next President of thA
United States would be elect
ed by the white-collared, blue
shirted, khaki-twilled, middle
class American.
I am inclined to agree with
this prediction. I think the
working man, and the man of
modera t e
means is fed
up to the ears
with having
t o foot the
tax bills for
all the social
experimen t s,
and wild-eyed
fiscal nos-
trums advocated by Sociolo
gist professors, and impracti
cal economic theories advo
cated by those who have never
made a dime except at the
public till.
I do not believe Americans
will follow along with the
likes of Ralph Abernathy, and
his proposals to turn the
treasury of this nation over to
any segment of our popula
tion. I do not believe ethnic
groups will have sufficient
pressure to figure in the elec
tion of the next President,
and by no stretch of the ima
gination, will the hippies,
yippies, beatniks, and the great
mass of unwashed punks, cut
any ice whatsoever in the se
lection of the next President
of our country.
The time has arrived for
Americans to “fish or cut
bait”, and this fact has
brought an awakening in the
ranks of people, who are
neither rich nor “dirt-floor"
poor.
THE FORGOTTEN
MAN OF THE U. S.
Folks are seriously troubled
about the war in Vietnam,
where over a half-million of
our sons are involved, and
television has pointed out to
millions of Americans just
how far down the road to
ward anarchy this nation has
gone during the past few
years. The Vietnam War and
a lack of law and order are
two principal issues in the
present Presidential race, but
the middle class Americans I
have referred to above are
worried about being the “A”
Number One scapegoat of our
national society.
The Kennedys, who are
eminently wealthy, never wor
ri e d about being without
money. They never had to.
They were born with money,
and what they sought was
power. The Rockefellers have
also had all the money they
could use, and what they seek
now is power. It has been said
that the two most corrupting
influences in American poli
tics are money and power. I
do not say the Kennedys and
the Rockefellers are corrupt
because they are wealthy, but
most of the power they seek
will be had at the expense of
the middle class.
The founders of the Ken
nedy and Rockefeller dynas
ties were able to amass bil
lions because they lived and
operated in a nation of free
enterprise and bountiful op
portunity.
One of my friends, who is a
close friend of a number of
financial tycoons, states that
while these multi-million
naires espouse the liberal
causes to appeal to the ad
vocates of the welfare state,
they believe if they can get in
the White House, they can
save the government of our
country from Communism.
I do not buy this kind of
political guck. The people who
provide the backbone for pro
gress and development in the
U. S„ and who pay a ma
jority of the taxes, are not the
millionnaires, and they are not
the recipients of the govern
ment dole. The middle class,
the working man, the lawyer,
the doctor, the merchant and
the farmer provide most of
the tax money.
When any new scheme to
pour out billions is concocted,
it means an increase in tax
es, and this increase will fall
on those who already pay the
majority of the tax load. The
followers of Ralph Abernathy
will not pay the taxes. Their
livlihood already comes from
the Government. The million
naires will not be hurt to a
damaging degree, but the man
in the middle will assume an
other burden which he can ill
afford to bear.
HAVE YOU AMENDED
YOUR DECLARATION?
The present Congress, fol-
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FILES
25 Years Ago
(From the issue of Sept. 23,1943.)
ANOTHER Early County young
man has given his life for his
country. This became known
when Mrs. C. C. Black of this
city received a message Tues
day afternoon from the War De
partment stating that her son,
Lieutenant Dan Black, of the
United States Army Air Forces,
was accidentally killed on Sept.
11th, somewhere In the European
war zone.
****
THE hearts of many friends
were saddened Monday by the
death of Mrs. Jewell Still Jones,
wife of Mr. Sevola Jones, of this
city, which occurred at 1:15 p.m.
in a Cuthbert hospital, where she
had been undergoing treatment
for sometime.
****
MR. JOHN WRIGHT JORDAN,
71, died at his home in this
county last Thursday shortly
after noon, after a protracted
illness, the immediate cause of
his death being a heart attack.
JIMMY JACKSON, the three
year-and-nlne-month-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Persis Jackson,
of near Hilton, was burned to
death at the home of his parents
late Wednesday afternoon, Sep
tember 15.
*•*•
OF INTEREST to friends
throughout southwest Georgia is
the announcement of the marriage
of Miss Sarah Leah Fain, of
Blakely, to First Class Petty
Officer Ernest Alexander Howell,
U. S. Navy, which occurred on
Sept. 15, at 6 o’clock, at the First
Methodist Church at Seattle,
Washington.
***•
MR. AND MRS. W. M. Reeves,
of Jakin, Georgia, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Edna Ruth, to William L. Lane,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Lane,
of Blakely, the marriage to take
place in October.
50 Years Ago
(From the issue of Sept. 19,1918.)
ED PAULK and Leonard
Kirkland, two white men impri
soned in the Early County jail
on charges of arson for having
burned three negro churches In
the eastern part of Early County
escaped from the Blakely jail
last Thursday night and have not
yet been apprehended.
****
MR. AND MRS. Henry T. Wil
liams, of Americus, are visit
ing relatives in Blakely.
****
AFTER spending a several
days’ furlough in Blakely with
his brother, Mr. M. Berman,
and mingling with friends, Mr.
Abe Berman has returned to
his duties at camp.
****
THE FRIENDS of T. S, Chand
ler, Jr., are sorry to learn that
he is ill with typhoid fever.
lowing the demand of Presi
dent Johnson, increased taxes
this year. The surtax of ten
per cent goes on the bill now,
and taxpayers have been sent
forms to execute before Sep
tember 15.
Taxpayers are instructed to
amend their declarations to
meet the new tax increase.
The Collector of Internal Re
venue is already reaching out
his hand to take more money
away from the workers before
it is even earned.
U. S. News and World Re
port states if Hubert Hum
phrey is elected, he plans to
pour billions into the cities to
eliminate the slums. Where
will these billions come from?
Who will pay most of it? You
will pay it, and I will pay
it.
We have failed in Southeast
Asia, and we have failed at
home, and looking these fail
ures in the face, moat Ameri
cans are not inclined to favor
wasting billions on welfare
projects of dubious value.
These are the things that will
enter into the election of the
next President in November.
MRS. REESE WOOLF, of die
Bethel Community, died at a
Dothan hospital early Wednes
day morning following an opera
tion.
*•*•
MR. CHIPSTEAD GRUBBS is
now office man at the Empire
Cotton Oil Company, succeeding
Mr. Thomas H. Underwood, who
left Sunday for Mercer Univer
sity, where he will enter the
Student's Training Corps until
he is called to the colors.
•***
MISSES Dena and Sallie Turner
of Lucile, are among those at
tending the Blakely schools this
fall, and are boarding with Mr.
and Mrs. Bryant Turner, on South
Church Street.
75 Yeats Age
(From the issue of Sept. 21,1893.)
MRS, J. D. FUDGE was over
to Albany Sunday.
****
MRS. J. D. RAMBO and Miss
Ollie Rambo were down from
Bluffton Monday.
****
MASTER Lawrence Rambo
rode his bicycle down from Bluff
ton Monday and enrolled in the
Blakely Institute.
**••
MISSES Sallie McAllister, of
Shorterville, Ala., and Mary Ken
non, of Fort Gaines, are the
guests of Mrs. Ida Cook.
***•
DR. M. F. PICKLE of die
Cuba Community, was in town
Wednesday.
****
A BABY BOY arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. EX W.
James this week.
****
DR. W. B. STANDIFER was
called to Bluffton this week to
see Mrs. Mary J. Rambo.
Veterans currendy hold more
than 5 million VA-administered
insurance policies with a face
value of nearly S3B billion.
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Original Poem
By Roma Seals
The following poem, composed
and submitted by Mrs. Roma J.
Seals, seems most appropriate
for dils time of the year.
Well, election time is over
the excitement has cooled down
Some are wearing great big
smiles
And some are found with
frowns.
A lot of people did turn out
and many votes were cast
And the many men elected
have before them quite a task.
Our city and county is in their
hands
This job I do not envy
For in doing what they think
right
They are sure to make some
enemies.
We must abide by all they say
and help If ever we can
And let us try to never forget
the politician is just a man.
Lets not get hard feelings
as many of us often can
Because this makes him often
wish
He had been the losing man.'
Roma J. Seals
Rev. Al Craft
Accepts Pastorate
At Norman Park
Al Craft resigned the pastorate
of Center Hill Church near
Loganville to accept First Church
in Norman Park, effective
October 1.
Mr. Craft formerly served
these churches: Pine Bluff near
Camilla, Sowhatchee near
Blakely, New Bethel near Cuth
bert, Bethany near Leary and
Cedar Hill near Owenton, Ky.
He was educated at Norman
Junior College, Mercer, and
Southern seminary.
Mrs. Craft was Iris Wincey
of Moultrie, also a graduate of
Norman and Mercer. They have
two children and Mr. Craft is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmitte
Craft of Blakely.
It is believed the inspiration
for characterizing Uncle Sam
with a long beard, striped pants,
and tall hat may have come from
Dan Rice, a circus clown years
ago.
man creates his own climate
and the perimeter of the cock
pit blots away the murmur of
road and wind.
Your next car can cater with
soft seats fitted to the contours
of your body, and memory
systems that complement your
driving habits.
Your next car is 15 choices,
but only one shape.
Gov. I^^^Maddox
ReportfOi Pe °P le
May I take this opportunity
to thank the many hundreds of
Georgians who sent donations
to help erect three flag poles at
the governors mansion. Some
months ago I was told that the
mansion was not an
appropriate place to display the
national and state flags. But I
say to you its a sad day in
Georgia when any place is not
appropriate
to display
the national
flag . . . a
flag fori
which many
thousands
of courage
ous Ameri
cans have
died and
more are
dying every day in Viet Nam. It
is significant that one of these
very soldiers in Viet Nam, who
daily risks his life for the cause
of freedom, sent me a fifty
dollar donation saying that he
wanted to help raise the flags a
little higher so people can see
what we stand for. I pledged
when the flags were raised and I
now pledge again that they will
fly for all Georgians and
Americans to see as long as
Lester Maddox is in the
governors office.
There are many elements in
this country who now question
this struggle for freedom. They
say we should pull completely
out of Viet Nam ... but they
don’t say what will happen
after we do, when the forces of
communism overrun the
country and one more country
is surrendered. They complain
of police brutality ... but they
have no answer to mob
brutality against policemen.
They call for “justice” and
“democracy” but they speak of
it as a one way street. We can
only have true justice and
democracy when all the people
in this land are given freedom
of expression .... not just
those who are promoting their
minority causes.
And we are hearing a lot
about civil disobedience in this
country. Bums and beatnicks
are telling us they have the right
to disobey any law they don’t
agree with, that they can
simply choose the laws they
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will obey and forget the rest. Its
time for a little less civil
disobedience and a little more
civil OBEDIENCE. How can
these anarchists expect anyone
to obey the laws they promote
if they refuse to recognize the
laws we have now? If a law is
unfair or unjust, there are duly
recognized constitutional ways
to change it. How can we have
any respect for law and order if
bands of bums are allowed to
roam the streets, endangering
the lives of decent citizens,
defying police officials, and
saying that they have the right
to ignore a law if they don’t like
it?
America is now at a cross
roads. Like the traveler in the
woods, it must choose which
path it will take .. a path of
order or a path of
lawlessness ... a path of
financial responsibility or a
path of rampant, uncontrolled
inflation .... a path of equal
justice for all or a path of
special privileges for a few.
The Supreme Court has
made this choice difficult.
They have taken God out of the
public schools but left the
Communists in. They have
upheld the rights of leadersand
rioters and tied the hands of
civil officials trying to stop
them or even defend
themselves. Its a black day
when God has to play second
fiddle to the Communists ...
when lawlessness takes
precedence over safety and
order.
The road is not an easy one.
But as your governor I am
doing everything in my power
to correct these injustices and
return America to a sound
course directed toward security
both at home and abroad,
toward maintaining streets
which are safe for our children,
toward putting God back
where he belongs in
America... in the public
schools aqd in the minds of
elected officials on every level.
I cannot fight this battle alone.
I need the help of all Georgians
to take an active interest in the
affairs of government and to
get out and vote for the
candidates who will lead us to a
better Georgia and a better
America.