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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1968
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
W. H. FLEMING PUBLISHER-EDITOR
W. W. (BILLY) FLEMING BUSINESS MANAGER
Published Every Thursday By the Early County News.
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Everybody one talked to
around the Capitol last week
could discuss nothing but the big
switch of a half dozen State of
ficials from the Democratic to
the Republican Party. But, all
some people could say was:
“What's going to happen next.”
And well might we all wonder,
in this year of amazing political
developments.
Folks who paid close attention
to this column, mailed on Sept.
7, would have known that some
thing was in the wind. We
couldn’t be very explicit on ex
actly what was going to happen,
but we hinted at it very strongly
in writing about what Phil Camp
bell might have in mind. For in
stance, we wrote: ‘but, what
ever Phil does, he is likely to be
joined by a number of other
prominent state political figures
who most of the time look to
Campbell as a bellwether”. And
we concluded: “At any rate, we
have an idea that a drastic turn
about in Georgia politics is
about to emerge".
Some people believe that these
men have made a grievous er
ror, insofar as their personal
political fortunes are concerned.
As one Capitol observer pointed
out; “Wallace will carry Geor
gia, and even though Nixon'
wins the presidential race, he's
not going to feel very beholden
to anyone in this state — except,
of course, to Bo Callaway, who
has done so much for Nixon
over the years, including his
yeoman work at the 1968 GOP
convention. So, that leaves the
bolters little chance of exercis
ing much influence at the na
tional level.
“Then”, he went on, ‘these
officials are up for re-election in
1970, and will be sure to have
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Democratic opposition. Maybe
they’ll win their races, and may
be they won’t, but they’ll have a
hard campaign, which would
have been avoided if they had
stayed Democratic. Particularly
will they have a tough job of
winning in the general election if
the Democratic ticket is headed
by a popular moderate who will
get practically all of the Negro
vote, plus a sizeable batch of
the conservatives’.
“To top it all off”, he said,
“there’s liable to be a hot battle
between the old line Republicans
and these newcomers. We just
can't see Bo Callaway letting
anybody take the leadership of
the GOP away from him in
Georgia, and, on the other hand,
we can’t see Phil Campbell,
Crawford Pilcher, Jimmy Bent
ley, et al, playing second fiddle
to anybody (except Herman Tal
madge), after all these years of
calling the shots as they saw fit.
“There are various other
reasons why I think they made a
mistake”’, he concluded, ‘‘but
those three illustrate my point’.
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The Humphrey-Muskie ticket is
in bad enough shape in Georgia,
but the national Party added salt
to the wounds last Friday when
they sent a third rate team of
“political experts” to Atlanta to
hold a Southern Regional meet
ing. This team was headed by a
young man of 27 tender years
whom nobody in Georgia had
ever known before. With him
were a half dozen other political
novices who read their canned
advice on how to carry the
Southern States, Actually, there
was one halfway expert with
them, a Negro woman State
Senator from Maryland, who at
least knew the rudiments of pol-
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NO MYSTERY ON
SENATE VOTE
Some political prognostica
tors and wise owls are at
tempting to enshroud the U.
S. Senate race between Her
man Talmadge, incumbent,
and Maynard Jackson, an At
lanta Negro attorney, with
political mystery.
The liberal press bemoans
the fact there
was no bloc
vote on the
part of the
Negroes sup
porting Jack
son, and the
party savants
)-claim a great
victory for
Talmadge. Jackson claims his
vote was a great moral vic
tory in Georgia.
A quick rundown on the pri
maries of September 11 shows
a very small turnout of voters.
Not more than one-third of
those qualified to vote in the
state went to the polls. The
vote was small for Negro
voters and the vote was small
for white voters.
Challenger Jackson got a
bout 175,000 votes and Tal
madge got nearly a half-mil
lion. Negro voters cast their
ballots for Jackson and white
voters stayed with Talmadge.
There are a few observa
tions to be made on the pri
mary race. Maynard Jackson
got 47,000 votes in. Fulton
County and Talmadge 55,000.
In Hancock County which has
a majority of Negro voters on
itics.
This crowd very clearly is
depending on the young people
to carry Georgia for Humphrey,
and, in fact, stated flat out that
they expected youth and the Ne
gro vote to win for the party in
November. They did a lot of
talking about what the National
Party would do for the state
party in the various states, but
most of their promises were for
future weeks, not right now. If
Humphrey wins the presidency,
it will be in spite of his field
people, rather than because of
them,
After the regional meeting
ended, Georgia Democrats cau
cused to map strategy. As might
be expected from the neophite
politicians in charge, not one iota
of constructive planning was de
veloped, We don't know for a
fact, but we suspect strongly that
Fulton County Democratic Chair
man John Greer, who has always
been a good solid politician, wept
in his beer after the caucus was
over. And ditto National Com
mitteeman Bill Trotter.
$&% % = @
We hear that Atlanta Negro
leader Jesse Hill is asking for
Federal poll watchers to be sent
to Georgia for the general elec-
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the registration lists, 1,700
voted for jackson and 1400 for
Talmadge. This points out the
enthusiasm of Negro voters
for their candidate but in Mc-
Intosh and Liberty Counties
where the vote is predomi
nantly Negro, Jackson got no
vote to amount to anything.
Talmadge carried both of these
counties with a small vote.
1 would venture to say, with
out too much -contradiction,
that the normal Negro vote in
Georgia on a good turn-out
primary election would be in
the vicinity of 200,000.
WHOSE 0X GOT
GORED THIS TIME?
When the garbage union at
Memphis went on strike and
the late Martin Luther King,
and other trouble-makers, de
scended on the city to demon
strate, and thereby worsen a
bad situation, that great cla
rion of hypocrisy, the Atlanta
Constitution, extolled the Si
mon-pure virtues of the strik
ers and demonstrators, and
came forward with some
mouthy criticism about the
governing authority of Mem
phis.
“The strikers” contended
Ralph McGill, Publisher, “had
a right to demonstrate to
publicize a point”, but now
when garbage men are on
strike in Atlanta for higher
wages, and refuse to go back
to work despite the pleadings
of Mayor Ivan Allen, the same
newspaper attacks the motiv
es of the strikers. “They do
not (the garbage men) need to
demonstrate in Atlanta to
make a point, because Ivan
Allen is the Mayor, and the
situation is not the same in
Atlanta as it was in Mem
phis and other cities”, they
contend.
tion, particularly to Atlanta.
*&% % % %
This is straight from the
horse’s mouth. Congressman Bill
Stuckey has no interest, whatso
ever, in running for either Gov
ernor or Lieut.-Governor of
Georgia, but if Dick Russell or
Herman Talmadge ever get out
of their Senate seats, Bill will
be the first man in the race.
*%% % % »
J. L. Allen, aide to Gov. Mad
dox, is noted for helping young
people in trouble. Last week, he
even helped his own secretary.
This lady, Mrs. Carolyn Alexan
der, was scheduled to make a
speech to some ladies civie
group at Tucker, but fell ill and
couldn’t go. So, her boss, Mr.
Allen, pinch hit for her.. What he
told the good ladies we don't
know, but it must have been
pretty good; they congratulated
him on being the type of boss
who'd take over for his secre
tary.
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As of today, you can bet your
bottom dollar that the 1970 gov
ernor’'s race will find Carl San
ders for the Democrats and Bo
Callaway for the Republicans
pitted against each other in the
general election.
FROM T
OUR'
FILES
25 Years Ago
(From the issue of Sept. 30, 1943.)
LOUISE, the little five-month
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Lanton, of this county,
died Sunday night at the local
hospital, after a week’s illness
from pneumonia.
Garbage which collects, and
is permitted to accumulate for
days, is the same the world
over. Like kinfolks on a visit,
it begins to “stink after the
second or third day”. Georgia’s
capitol city of Atlanta is in
fested at this time with some
very smelly garbage.
Rastus McGill, Publisher,
and Eugene (Little bit) Pat
terson, Editor, of the Consti
tution, have had some mean
things to say lately about
hippies and garbage collectors.
In fact, some of the readers
in this section are a little con
fused about this turn in
journalistic thinking. I have
had several calls about it late
ly.
There is no mystery about
it really. The leopard has not
changed his spots. Rastus and
Little Bit had to shift their
stances because the exigencies
of the political situation de
manded it.
The garbage men helped to
elect Ivan Allen Mayor of At
lanta, and Ivan is certainly
the fair-haired boy of the At
lanta press. The strikers are
now saying “nuts to Ivan”, and
this is most degrading to the
image the Atlanta newspapers
created for their amanuensis.
The Atlanta press must back
Ivan instead of the garbage
crowd.
It is ironic that Hosea Wil
liams and Ralph Abernathy
were arrested the other day in
Atlanta for doing the same
things they were praised by
the Atlanta press for doing in
Memphis and St. Petersburg,
Florida.
It all depends on whose ox
gets gored, but it is ludicrous,
to say the least, to observe
this crowd castigating the
strikers because they had the
effrontery to oppose Ivan Al
len. If the strikers were pro
testing against the State Capi
tol and Lester Maddox, Ras
tus, Little Bit and others
would be giving aid and en
couragement to the strikers. _.
Some of the pieces written
in the Atlanta Constitution re
cently read like excerpts from
one of Governor George Wal
lace’s speeches. There is noth
ing more obvious than the in
congistent act,
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LIEUT, J. R. Lee, a popular
Cairoite, who, as a bombadier
in the U, S. Army Air Forces,
was recently reported missing
in action over Europe since
August 17, is a war prisoner
of the Germans, his wife here
was advised in a telegram
received last week.
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THE cotton ginners census re
port, released this week by W. Re
Pullen, special agent of the
department of commerce, shows
that 7,291 bales of cotton had
been ginned in Early County from
the crop of 1943 prior to Septe
16, as compared with 4,176 bales
to the same date from the crop
of 1942,
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THE Senior Class of Blakely
High School announces the follow=
ing candidates for class officers:
President, Leonard ('‘Deacon’’)
George; Vice President, Billy
('‘Chaplain’’) Farriss; Secre
tary and Treasurer, Richard
Clardy; Reporter, Robert
(‘‘Hollywood’ ') McCormicke
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MR. AND MRS, R. F. Laubs
cher, of Cleveland, Ohio,
announce the birth of a son,
Raymond Henry, Wednesday,
Sept. 22, Mrs, Laubscher is the
former Miss Vivian Williams,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
T. Williams, of Blakely.
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FRIENDS will be interested to
know that Lt. Bruce F. Williams
of the U, S Marine Corps, who
has for many months been
‘“‘somewhere inthe Pacific'’area,
has returned to the states, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H, T.
Williams, receiving a telegram
Wednesday to that effect.
50 Years Ago
(From the issue of Sept. 26, 1918.)
BEN, the little S 1/2 year old
son of Mr, and Mrs. B, B,
Godwin, died Monday following
a several days’ illness.
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MR, JOHN W, McLENDON,
72, of the Lucile community,
died Tuesday night after a seve
ral days’ illness. He was the
father of Mr. J. J« McLendon,
Jr., of Blakely, and we were
pleased to count him among our
personal friends.
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MISS LUCILE MIDDLETON,
of Blakely, and Mr. Chester He
Loback, of Brunswick, were mar
ried at the First Baptist Church
in Atlanta at 8:30 o’clock Mon
day night, Sept. 16, the Reve
Georgia Lions Certified
To Sponsor Peach Bowl
ATLANTA (PRN)— You've
heard of the Rose Bowl, Cotton
Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange
Bowl and others. Now the
Lions of Georgia, numbering
over 11,000 strong, have been
certified by the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
to sponsor a major, post-season
college football game to be
known as the PEACH BOWL.
The game will be played
Monday, December 30, 1968 at
Grant Field in Atlanta,
Georgia. Kick-off time is 8:00
PM and the game will be
televised nationally.
Actually, the Georgia Lions
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Charles W, Daniel performing
the ceremony. The couple are
now making their home in Bruns
wicke
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MR, AND MRS, M, Ts Chip
stead and Mr. and Mrs. Ds Re
Deal formed a party motoring
over to Albany Monday to spend
the day.
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MRS, C. M, BAGGS will teach
the seventh grade in the Blakely
school this term, it was an
nounced this week.
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MESSRS, John Brooks and
Carl Fryer have been up from
Brunswick this week on a visit
to the home folks.
(From the issue of Sept. 28, 1893.)
BOYD STATION baseball team
defeated Racketville 12-10 last
Saturday.
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THE Arlington Courier has
been leased by Mr. W, W, Flem
ing, lately of Americus.
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MORE THAN 150 pupils are
now enrolled at the Blakely In
stitute.
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MR, SETH WILKIN was up from
Colquitt last week.
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MISS IDA MAY ELDER enter
tained a number of her friends
at a birthday party last Fridaye
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W H, ALEXANDER, JR., left
this week for Augusta to enter
the Medical College of Georgia.
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Lighthouse Foundation, Inc., is
the certified sponsor. Thisis an
organization supported by
every Lions Club in the state of
Georgia. Funds generated for
this organization go towards
sight conservation for the
under-privileged. Since it’s
beginning in 1949, the
Lighthouse has expended more
than $400,000 in this effort.
The Georgia Eye Bank was
founded by andis supported by
the Lighthouse. Profits from
the Peach Bowl will go for an
extended eye research program
and sight conservation work.
The NCAA, in certifying the
Peach Bowl, did not restrict it
in any manner in the selection
of teams to play in he Peach
Bowl. It is expected, however,
that one team will be selected
in the Southeastern area and
the competitor from outside
that area to provide national
interest for the contest.
President of Lions
International, David A. Evans
will attend the first annual
Peach Bowl Classic and he is
expected to participate in the
half-time activities.
Sim Manning is President of
the Lighthouse and the Peach
Bowl. George Crumbley is the
Bowl’s Executive Director.
Anyone interested in tickets
may order them direct from the
Peach Bowl, P. O. Box 1336,
Atlanta, Georgia, 30301. The
price is $6 per ticket and 50c to
be enclosed to cover cost of
handling and postage.
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Graduates Basic
Personnel Course
Marine Private Bruce L. Mil
ler, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W, V. Miller of Route 1, Jakin,
Ga., was graduated from the
Basic Personnel Administration
Course at the Us S, Marine Corps
Recruit Depot, Parris Island,
SG
The course, designed to train
Marines in the fundamental as
pects of personnel administra
tion, covers office management,
personnel accounting, officer and
enlisted records, pay separation
and discharge, military corres
pondence and publications.
Students are assigned to the
course upon completion of re
cruit training or individual com=~
bat training,
Upon graduation they are as
signed administrative jobs at
various Marine Corps posts and
stations throughout the worlds
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