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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Os
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. 110—NO. 36
TWO STAR STUDENTS
NAMED AT ECHS
Patricia Bridges and Danny
Westbrook have been named the
1969 STAR Students for the Early
County School System, the Blak
ely-Early County Chamber of
Commerce announced this week.
Where usually one STAR Student
is named, due to a tie and the exact
duplicate number of points made
on the College Board Scholastic
Aptitude TEST(SAT) and scho
lastic averages the first semes
ter of the senior year these two
are named STAR Students.
Patricia is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bridges
and is senior at Early County
High School. She is head
majorette and president of the
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Miss Tarver
Early County High School band.
She is a Class officer of the Senior
Class; secretary of the Senior
Beta Club and vice president
of the Future Teachers of Ameri
ca. She has attended State and '
District Conventions of the FTA
and participated in the district
clinic and solo festival of the
band throughout the eight years
she has been a member of the
high school band.
She participated in the 3 act
play, "Arsenic and Old Lace"
her sophomore year and the Dis
trict one-act play, "Patterns"
her junior year. A member
of the First Baptist Church, she
takes an active part in Sunday
School, serves as Training Union
President, and is a member of
the Youth Choir and YWA’s.
As STAR Student, she has se
lected Miss Mildred Tarver of
the Early County Elementary
School as her STAR Teacher.
Miss Tarver has taught school
28 years. One year she taught
the first grade and has taught
the Fourth Grade 27 years. She
was named Teacher of the Year
in 1964 at the local school. She
is a member of the Early County
Education Association, GEA and
PTA, and is a past vice pres, of
the Ella Jones PTA in Blakely.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles C. Tarver, she is a
native of Clayton, Alabama, mov
ing to Blakely when she was five
years old. She attended Wesle
yan College, Shorter College, and
received her B.S, in Elementary
Education from Georgia College.
A member of the First Baptist
Church, she is a former Sunday
School teacher and a member of
the Night W.M.S,
County
Danny, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hunt W'estbrook, is president of
the Senior Class at Early County
High School. He was recently
cited as one of the outstanding
high school students of English
by the National Council of
Teachers of English, named one
of the top ten in Georgia. He
has played football and baseball
for four years, being co-captain
of the football team for 1968-69.
Danny has participated in three
school plays, going to district
this winter and was a member
of this year's district debate
team. He is a member of the
Beta Club, vice president of the
Hi-Y Club and was co-ordinator
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of Civic Youth Day, a Hi-Y spon
sored project, last spring. A
member of the First Baptist
Church, he was master of cere
monies at the Youth banquet last
week, and took part on the pro
gram.
Danny has selected Mrs. Bruce
Houston as his STAR Teacher.
Mrs. Houston has taught English
in high school fourteen years,
teaching at Early County High
School twelve years; she for
merly taught at Sylvon High
School in Atlanta and Madison
High School, Madison, Florida.
She is sponsor of the Senior
Class and Homecoming; coach
for declamation, debate and one
act play; and sponsor for the
literary district meet;
She has served as president
of the Junior Woman’s Club,
second vice president of the PTA
and program chairman of GEA',
besides being a member of these
organizations, she is a member
of the National Council of
Teachers of English; Georgia
Council of Teachers of English;
Early County Education Associa
tion and a member of the First
Baptist Church,where she is a
former Sunday School teacher.
Sie is a graduate of Mary
Persons High School, Forsyth;
Tift College, Forsyth, cum laude
with an AB degree in English,’
while in college she was a mem
ber of Alpha Psi Omega national
honorary drama society and Edi
tor of the campus newspaper.
These announcements were
made as a part of the Student
Teacher Achievement Recogni
tion (STAR) Program, sponsored
statewide by the Georgia Cham-
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Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
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Georgia’s Only Gold Emblem Chapter - 16 Years
CHAPTER OBSERVES NATIONAL F. F. A. WEEK
The Early County High FFA
Chapter is sponsoring and carry
ing out a number of special
activities this week as the 150
members celebrate National FFA
Week. Tie theme this year is
"FFA —An Opportunity For
Youth." More than 450,000 FFA
members in the United States
are joining together to present
this theme to people across the
nation and to emphasize the im
portance of agriculture.
The FFA provides opportunity
for youth to participate inactivi
ties and to gain experience which
leads them to excel, to grow,
and to become outstanding young
leaders for agriculture in
America. Through FFA, a mem
ber can develop skills and
prepare himself for his vital role
as an adult leader in American
Agriculture. Many young people
grasping these opportunities
progressed. Many more in the
future will find opportunities in
FFA to learn, to do, to earn,
to serve. Experience in leader
ship, citizenship and cooperation
are main aims of the FFA, which
our Chapter Program of Work
is designed to provide for the
members.
It is the intent of FFA mem
bers to focus attention on agri
culture and FFA by informing
the public through various acti
vities sponsored this week. Some
of these activities include radio
Food Stamp & Commodity
Programs Discussed
At a meeting of the Early
County Board of Commission
ers here Tuesday afternoon, it
was ascertained that the Food
Stamp Program would be put
into effect as soon as feasibly
possible, and until then com
modities will be applied for and
distributed if possible under the
program already established.
Lemuel Tiner was appointed Food
Stamp Program Chairman,
appointed by t\. D. Wilkerson.
Tom Mann, with the State De
partment of Family and Children
Services, who met with the Com
missioners to explain both the
Food Stamp Program and the
commodity program said,
"Eventually all counties will con
vert to the Food Stamp Pro
gram”. He pointed out com
modities are received free of
charge, only the transportation
must be furnished by the county
to bring commodities to the ware
house for distribution, but they
receive 30£ a mile to offset
the cost.
At present, 1034 are receiv
ing commodities in Early County.
Usually about one third of the
families receiving commodities
sign up and secure food through
the Food Stamp Program, he
continued, Reasons cited for the
difference in numbers include:
some fail to qualify for the pro
gram and others fail to put up
the amount of cash necessary
to secure stamps.
BLAKELY GA., THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1969
programs, clean-up campaigns
at the school, special news arti
cles, Teacher Appreciation Day
with refreshments served to the
high school teachers, and a chapel
program, at least one activity
for each day of the week. The
guest speaker at the Friday
morning chapel program will be
Mike Collins, State FFA Presi
dent. Mike is from Cairo where
he has made an outstanding
record in vocational agriculture
and his FFA Chapter. The regu
lar monthly night meeting was
held this W'eek with a program
on the National theme and the
Chapter Farmer Degree Cere
mony was conducted for 15 mem
bers that have earned the degree
this year. Tiese members are:
Sonny James, Gary Hunt, Robert
Pullen, Tommy Clines, Marcus
Craft, James Rogers, Jimmy
Balkcom, Jerry Batchelor,
James Cannon, Billy Collier,
Mike Ellis, John Moseley,
Tommy Jenkins, Millard Scar
borough and David Temples.
30th ANNIVERSARY OF FFA
The 1968-69 school year is the
30th Anniversary of the Early
County High FFA Chapter. The
Chapter was awarded its 16th
“Gold Emblem" at the National
FFA Convention held in Kansas
City last October. This Gold
Emblem was given on the ac-
It was figured the Food Stamp
Program would cost the county
approximately $255.00 a month.
A great deal of discussion as to
how to keep community aides
who are now employed by OEO,
lead to the placing of a long
distance phone call to Mrs. Vir
ginia Barfield in Columbus, who
was not able to be contacted
by phone, efforts made failed to
clear up the reason community
aides were available under the
commodity program and their
salaries would not be paid by
OEO under the Food Stamp Pro
gram.
Tucker, with the Department
of Agriculture, the agency under
which the Food Stamp Program
is received, stated he learned at
a meeting Tues. a.m. that com
munity aides woujd continue their
work in Miller County under the
Food Stamp Program. It was also
related that aides were employed
in Calhoun County another neigh
boring county with the Food Stamp
Program.
At present $3280.00 is being
paid each month by OEO for sala
ries of aides in Early County;
sixteen people have jobs under
the commodity program.
Four of the county com
missioners voted for the Food
Stamp Program at the February
board meeting. They explained
that many of their constitutents
have told them the food furnished
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complishments made in the Chap
ter the past school year.
Last September 65 new green
hands were initiated into the
Chapter. The Chapter Officers
for the 1968-69 school year are
Joe Whatley, President; Steve
Singletary, Vice-President; Mil
lard Scarborough, 2nd Vice-
President; Sonny James, 3rd
Vice President; Daniel Wilker
son, Secretary; Marcus Craft,
Asst. Secretary; Terry Davis,
Treasurer; Larry White, Asst.
Treasurer; Robert Pullen, Re
porter; Tommy Jenkins, Asst.
Reporter; Wayne Powell, Sen
tinel; Alan Tiner, Asst. Senti
nel; Allen White, Parliamenta
rian; Gary Hunt, Asst. Parlia
mentarian; James Rogers, Chap
lain; Bob Williams, Asst. Chap
lain; and Sue Johnston, Chapter
Sweetheart. Early in the school
year this group of officers met
and planned an interesting and
challenging Program of Work
for the year. This Program of
Work includes many activities
that offer opportunities for valu
able training experiences for the
members.
The Chapter operates two la
boratories, the Chapter Farm
and Forestry Plot,where mem
bers get valuable first hand ex
perience in addition to the class
room and school shop facilities.
The farm is 24 acres on which
members plant cover crops, rye
W. F. Underwood
To Head Rotary
For 1969-70
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W. F. Underwood
W. F. (Pete) Underwood, Blak
ely hardware merchant, will head
the Blakely Rotary Club for the
year 1969-70 becoming the 44th
president of Blakely’s first ser
vice club which was organized
in 1926. Mr. Underwood was
unanimously elected at last Fri
day's meeting and will succeed
Lowrey S, Stone, and assume
his civic duties at the first meet
ing in July.
Elected to serve with the new
president are C. P. Gay, Jr.,
vice-president, and Guy Duna
way, secretary and treasurer.
Dr. Jim Crowdis was in charge
for grain, peanuts, corn and have
3 acres of pasture. The mem
bers have constructed a live
stock barn which houses the pure
bred swine and provides a good
place for demonstrations and
swine shows. The Chapter also
has a purebred Hereford Bull for
members and adults to use. To
operate the farm the Chapter
owns a Ford pickup truck, live
stock trailer, Ford tractor and
leases or owns all other neces
sary plows, harrows, planters,
etc.
The Forestry Plot is leased
from St. Regis Paper Company
and is a 20 acre plot on the
Three Notch Road. A part of
the vocational agriculture cour
ses offered includes a forestry
class and a Pulpwood Production
Course. In these two courses
the students get firsthand ex
perience in the latest forestry
practices. This year five acres
of the plot has been clear cut,
bulldozed, bedded up and replant
ed with improved slash pine seed
lings. These facilities and others
provided by the FFA Chapter
are all a part of the opportunities
provided to vocational agri
culture students and FFA mem
bers in Early County High School.
The Chapter is grateful to the
many individuals and businesses
who assist the Chapter in various
ways in making all these facili
ties possible.
MARKET REPORT
Sales totaling $54,899.08 were
reported at Moseley Livestock
Barn Tuesday as 239 cattle and
586 hogs were sold.
No. I’s sold for 20.00; Light
l’s, 19.75; No. 2’s, 19.25; No.
3’s, 18.01; No. 4’s, 15.90; No
s's, 14.00; Heavy's, 19.50; No.
1 Rough, 15.00; No. 1 Meat Type,
20.25; Light No. 1 Meat Type,
20.00.
of the program at Friday’s meet
ing. He is chairman of the Early
County Heart Fund and presented
a short motion picture titled
"Candidate For A Stroke." Prior
to the film Rotarian Crowdis
listed a few simple do's and
don'ts to avoid heart disease:
"don't eat animal fats, don’t
smoke, do take exercise, walk
ing or jogging."
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V. F. W. DANCE
Sat. Nite, Feb 22
Music By
BOBBY AND THE
DIAMONDS
Couples Only
9:00 Until!!!
(Cancer Aid)
Bobcats Play
In Tifton
Friday Night
The Early County Bobcats will
play Perry at 8;30 p.m. Friday
night at the Abraham Baldwin
College gymnasium for the State
tournament bid. Cairo plays
Center of Waycross at 7 p.m.
Friday night.
The finals will be Saturday
night at 8;30 p.m. at the ABAC
gymnasium.
The Early County Bobcats,
playing the Cairo Syrupmakers
Saturday night in the Region 1-A
West Boys basketball champion
ship match, lost to Cairo 34-23.
The contest was a match bet
ween the region powers, Cairo
won a regular season contest
and Early triumphed in the play
off game last Monday to deter
mine the top-deeded team for
the tournament.
In that game, Early played
the freeze-up, slowdown type of
game to perfection and emerged
with a 20-15 victory. In the
Championship tilt the tactics did
not pay off.
Early scored two points in the
first period and one in the second
while Cairo managed fourineach
to make the score 8-3 at the half
time. After intermission, the
Bobcats came back strong, the
score was 12-9 the third quar
ter and 14-11 in the fourth to
account for the final score.
In field goals Early shot 10
and Cairo 12; from the free
throw line Cairo hit 10 of 12
and Early made 3 for 3.
The Scoring:
Early - Hollington, 1, Howell, 8,
Arnold, 1, Brown, 7, Earnest, 6.
Cairo - Higginbotham, 10, Har
per, 4, T. Taylor, 10/ Rackley,
6, Strickland, 4.
City Court
Held Monday
A short, but busy session of
Blakely City Court was held here
by Judge Phillip Sheffield Mon
day. Most cases involved the
usual traffic and liquor viola
tions, and court was adjourned
shortly before noon.
KNOW YOUR POLICEMEN
H. E. Glass
Assistant Chief of Police, Her
bert Eugene Glass has been on
the Blakely police force one year.
A native of Miller County, he is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Glass of Colquitt and a gradu
ate of Miller County High School.
Assistant Chief Glass has been
a police officer two years', he
served one year with the State
Prison System at Bainbridge.
Prior to that he was in train
ing for six weeks at the Police
Academy in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is a member of the Assembly
of God Church, Colquitt, Geor
gia.
His wife is the former Becky
Jean Bradley of Haines City,
Florida, they have two children,
Ulendy Dianne, 2, and Dennis
Eugene, one year old. The Glass
family resides on River Street in
Blakely.
Oil in Goocher, a law enforce
ment officer of fourteen years,
is a native Early Countian and
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Gen. Truman
To Address Lions
Club Tuesday
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Gen. Truman
General Louis W. Truman,
U.S.A. retired, who is now the
Director of the Georgia Depart
ment of Industry and Trade is
scheduled to address the Blakely
Lions Club Tuesday at noon.
In recent years, General Tru
man commanded the VII U.S,
Army Corps in Germany, where
he had under his command more
firepower than any commander
had ever had before. Prior
to his retirement, General Tru
man commanded the Third U.S.
Army Corps in Germany, where
he had under his command more
Army with headquarters at Fort
McPherson in Atlanta. As such
he commanded the largest num
ber of troops under any command
in the Continental United States.
On September 1, 1967, General
Truman became the Director of
the Georgia Department of In
dustry and Trade.
President Warren Cleveland
urges all Lions to be present
to hear this outstanding speaker.
Mack: "Whatever happened
to that pretty wife of yours that
you used co saw in half in your
magic act?’
Jack: "Oh, she’s living in
Miami and Denver."
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Ollin Goocher
has resided here most of his
life. He is the son of Mrs. Lee
Goocher and the late Mr. Goo
cher and attended Blakely High
School.
Mr. Goocher has had train
ing with the FBI and training in
Criminology in the Institute of
Applied Science, Chicago, 111.
and majored in the Science of
finger-print identification and
classification of criminal inves
tigation and modus operand!. He
is a member of the Georgia
Peace Officers Association;
Magnolia Lodge, 86, F&AM and
Hasan Shrine Temple A^DMS,
of Albany, Georgia, and a mem
ber of the First Baptist Church
of Blakely.
He is married to the former
Sally White, of Blakely: they have
three children, Mrs. Faye Goo
cher Lewis of Damascus; Ollin
Goocher, Jr., and Olen Goocher
of Marietta, Georgia. Mr. and
Mrs. Goocher reside on Route
5, Blakely.