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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1969
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Politics ©An Parade
By Sid Williams
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The General Assembly is back
in session after a two week re
cess to allow the Appropriations
Committee to study budget re
quests from state departments.
But, no appropriations bill has
been drawn, for the reason that
the committee feels it has to
wait until the question of new
taxes has been settled, so they’ll
know what amount of revenue
they have to work with.
And the matter of taxes is
still very much up in the air. We
doubt that anybody in the state,
including legislators and the
Governor, have any clear idea
of what will be the outcome of
the tax question. Georgians will
just have to wait and see, but
one thing is clear, the legisla
ture is not as ready to adopt a
new tax program now as it was
before it went home to check
with the people.
♦ •*•*»
Speaking of taxes, James H.
“Sloppy” Floyd, Chairman of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee, is rapidly making a
name for himself as the cham
pion of the people. His “Hold The
Line” on taxes is earning him
much respect from Georgians
who think that advocates of new
taxes are way out in left field.
A number of people have stated
to us that they sho’ would like
to vote for Floyd for governor.
Mr. Floyd, of course, is not
going to run for governor, for
reasons of health, if no other, but
he certainly deserves a place in
the forefront of those who be
lieve in economy in government.
******
We predict that the federal
court at Macon is not going to
let the State Dept, of Family and
Childrens Service retain its max
imum payment rule on the
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amount of money going to de
pendent children, but the three
judge court very clearly let it
be known in the hearing last
week that they have no intention
of trying to tell the General As
sembly that it must appropriate
more money so that a mother
may receive her total budget
needs no matter how many child
ren she has.
This means that the money
available will have to be paid
out on a percentage of need
straight across the board. A
study made by Director Bill
Burson shows that about one half
of the recipients will get a small
raise and the other half a small
cut. It’s ironic, but the Atlanta
Negro woman who filed the suit
for more money is going to have
her grant cut.
******
Speaking of Burson, he’s the
first department head in history
to urge an increased appropri
ation for another state depart
ment. He asked the Appropria
tions Committee to give the
Health Dept, another two million
dollars so that they could carry
out a birth control program
through Medicaid.
A ♦. * A *
When Hubert Humphrey told
a group of Georgia Democrats
last week that they had to “take
Georgia back for the Demo
crats", Joe Sports, Party Execu
tive Director, asked him: “What
are we supposed to do, just say
we don’t like Republicans?"
Julian Bond, incidentally, didn’t
get invited to the meeting.
Speaking of Mr. Sports, we
hear he may run for Congress
in the Bth District next year.
And, if we were a betting man,
we’d wager a goodly sum that a
formidable candidate for that
Congressional job will be State
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
ULTRA LIBERALS
UTTER FALSEHOODS
On Saturday, February 1 of
this year, John Pennington,
. columnist for
the Atlanta
Jour na 1, re
peated part
of a speech he
heard at a
Church Coun
cil in Atlanta
recently. Re
peated Pen-
nington:
“One speaker in the clos
ing phases of the 62nd an
nual council of the Atlanta
Diocese of the Episcopal
Church was pointing out
Thursday that about 15 years
ago Marvin Griffin, then
Governor of Georgia, assign
ed a state photographer to
make pictures of white and
blacks eating together, the
pictures to be used as evi
dence that certain citizens
were violating the South’s
tradition of segraga'tion.
“His comment followed a
session in which the council
had adopted resolutions
dealing with such matters as
open housing, equal em
ployment for all, recom
mended minimum wages for
church and domestic help,
and state and federal and
church observance of the
birthday of Dr. Martin Lu-
Senator Roscoe Dean, of Jesup.
******
NOTE TO LEGISLATORS:
Have you thought about the fact
that if you adopt the so-called
Missouri Plan of choosing judges
in Georgia, the big power struc
ture in this state will own the
judiciary. For they pretty much
ly control the Bar Association
group who would have the final
word on who’d sit on judges’
benches.
*«*•*•
Comptroller-General James L.
Bentley several months ago or
dered his state fire marshals to
inspect the various county prison
camps. They did and found many
violations. But, so far only half
of such fire perils have been
corrected. County commissioners
in the others told Mr. Bentley
that it will cost too much money
to do so, in view of the fact that
the county camps may be aban
doned any day.
******
ROMANCE AND MOTHER
HOOD: Doris Martin, secretary
to Assistant Attorney-General
Frank Blankenship, is sporting a
huge engagement ring from
Frank. The wedding is to be in
May. And, Mrs. Ray Dabbs, as
sistant to Demo Party wheel Joe
Sports, is just before becoming
a mother. Also, Joe’s secretary,
Susan Stovall, has up and mar
ried Atlanta accountant Bennie
Carroll.
Gossip for the week. Finis.
FFA Provides Opportunity,
Not Instant Success
FFA provides an opportunity for youth in agriculture to learn,
to do, to earn, to serve. The FFA organization does not make
these young people great. But rather it provides them the op
portunity to excel, to grow, and become outstanding youth
leaders for agriculture in America.
Experiences in leadership, citizenship and cooperation, and the
pursuit of vocational and educational objectives provide these
young people with opportunities for personal growth. Partici
pation by members at local, state and national levels within
the organization is the basic plan.
An FFA member begins his career as a student of vocational
agriculture. He has thus elected to begin his career in agriculture.
He and the others like him find common goals and objectives in
FFA.
His opportunities in FFA are many; much more than the awards
or contests which are important in providing competition, ex
perience, incentive and encouragement. The member can apply
what he learns in the classroom to his personal agricultural
situation. Through active participation, the member can demon
strate his ability in public speaking, parliamentary procedure
or livestock judging. He also takes part in establishing chap
ter goals, and just as important - helps accomplish them.
Many typical chapter activities include earning their own re
sources and providing community service.
Future Farmers of America are celebrating FFA WEEK,
February 15-22. Their theme - “FFA. . .an opportunity for
youth.' ’
Through the FFA, a member can develop skills and prepare
himself for his vital role as an adult leader in American agri
culture. Millions of young people have grasped these oppor
tunities and progressed. Many more will find opportunities in
FFA to learn, to do, to earn, to serve.
ther King, Jr. ]
“Who is there to say! the (
speaker asked, ‘that we have j
not moved forward in these
last 10 or 15 years”?
The above blackface type is ,
what John Pennington stated ।
•the churchman said. Penning
ton then says on his own:
“We have moved forward
in the past decade or so to
the extent that resolutions
which 10 years ago would
have raised a storm of pro
test were adopted with lit
tle or no dissent. And, too,
there were no state photo
graphers out making pictures
of the dining, which was in
tegrated”.
The churchman quoted by
Pennington uttered a false
hood. He may not have known
he was telling an untruth, but
in the language of us every
day folks, that is the “way
lies are compounded”. Pen
nington knows the man did not
tell the truth.
HIGHLANDER-A HOT
BED OF COMMUNISM
In 1957 reports came to me
in the Governor’s Office
that the Highlander Folk
School of Monteagle, Ten
nessee, was conducting a work
shop of Communism, and that
if I wanted to catch the late
Martin Luther King, Jr., con
sorting with the leading Com
munists in this country, I
could do so if I sent a photo
grapher to attend the folk
school.
I sent Ed Friend, at state
expense, to Monteagle to get
pictures of the Communists at
work in this country. He en
rolled in the school.
Mr. Friend came back to At
lanta, and he had the proof.
He had pictures of the late
Martin Luther King, Jr., sit
ting in the midst of the na
tion’s leading Communists. He
also brought back other pic
tures of social activities held
in the evening, after the work
shop had closed for the day,
these pictures would make a
normal healthy billy goat
retch, just to look at them.
We did not use the pictures
of the social activities, but we
did use the picture of Martin
Luther King, Jr., sitting in
council with the Commies, and
learning ways and means to
destroy this country.
This picture was never re
futed. It could not be. It was
true, and J. Edgar Hoover,
Director of the Bureau of In
vestigation, knows it to be
true.
I, for one, do not intend to
celebrate the birthday of one
Martin Luther King, Jr. The
fact that he was a Negro has
nothing to do with it. I don’t
worship at the shrine of
traitors to our nation, and that
goes for the white people who
consort with Communists, and
work to destroy our country.
FOLKS MAY EAT WITH
WHOM THEY PLEASE
I never instructed, nor did
the state pay any^photographer
to make pictures of whites and
Negroes eating together for
the purpose of showing any
thing.
If Negroes and whites want
to eat together, that con
cerns only those who are in
volved. That is a man’s right.
There is a lot of difference
in snapping a picture to get
“the dead wood” on avowed
Communists, and taking one
to prove that whites and Ne
groes were dining together.
The pinks, the welfare-stat
ers, the one-worlders and the
liberal sophists do not mind
telling an untruth to carry a
point. They are the ones who
cry bigotry, discrimination and
intolerance at most of us in
America, but who is a greater
bigot, or who is more intol
erant in action, word and
deed than a muling left-wing
er when you head him up in
a corner?
I DO NOT BELIEVE
THE BIBLE TEACHES
FILTH & OBSCENITY
I have just finished reading
Aiken Taylor’s piece in the
Presbyterian Journal of Jan
uary 22, 1969, “Clydie Should
Have Gone”.
Tavlor reports on a Church
youth conference held at the
Marriott Motor Hotel in At
lanta earlier in January. His
report is revealing.
If you haven’t read this filth,
please do so, and you will join
me in saying those who con
ducted this lewd, foul and dis
gusting exhibition in the name
of youth and religion, are guil
ty of blasphemy and corrupt
ing youth.
If this is the new breed, then
I am glad I belong to the old
school.
It was said the Marriott was
the only hotel in Atlanta that
would take the conference. I
do not doubt that, but the
next time a conference of this
kind is held, it should be in a
stable. The agenda was the
stable variety.
I do not believe the Bible
has any connection with filth
and obscenity, and parents
should make it their business
to find out what kind of peo
ple are instructing their child
ren.
Child Dependency
Tax Deduction
Clarified
Divorced or separated parents
planning to claim a child as a
dependent on Federal income tax
returns can avoid possible tax
controversy by carefully reading
guidelines.
C. G. Lane, Local Represen
tative of the Internal Revenue
Service, said the guidelines
should be referred to especially
in cases where divorced or sepa
rated parents claim the same
child as a dependent.
Generally, the parent with cus
tody of the child for the greater
part of the year is entitled to the
dependency deduction. There
are exceptions to the rule, de
pending on the terms of the
decree and the amount contri
buted to the child’s support by
the parent who does not have
custody.
This special rule does not
apply if someone other than the
parents provides over half the
child’s support for the year,
Mrs. Lane said.
Georgia taxpayers can obtain
a copy of the guidelines by send
ing a postal card to the district
office requesting Publication 501,
“Your Exemptions and Exemp
tions for Dependents.’’ This
publication is available free of
charge. The address of the At
lanta District Office is P. O.
; Box 1642, Atlanta, Georgia 30301.
In 1968, an estimated 73,000
cases of cancer of the colon and
rectum will be diagnosed in the
U.S. In 1964, 710 surgeons died
of this cancer. Last year 45,
000 died of the disease; 23,300
women and 21,700 men.
In a recent study of 32,177
symptom-free persons, three of
every thousand were found to have
cancer of the colon and rectum.
FROMf
OUR
FILES
25 Years Ago
(From the issue of Feb. 24, 1944.)
THERE are 2,014 white people
living in Blakely, according to a
careful revision of a religious
census made by the pastors of the
Baptist and Methodist churches.
*♦♦♦
LUCIUS E. CAUSEY, 68, died
at his home in this county on
Wednesday of last week. His
death came a few hours after an
apoplectic stroke.
FRANCIS R. HAMMACK, for
mer agent in charge of the At
lanta Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, was last week appointed
by Governor Ellis Arnall as State
Director of Corrections, replac
ing Wiley L. Moore, resigned.
Mr. Hammack was sworn in im
mediately and began Monday the
duties of chief of prisons. Mr.
Hammack is a native of Blakely.
THE NUMBER of registered
voters eligible to participate in
the Early county primary on next
Thursday, March 2, totals 3,831.
***#
50 Years Ago
(From the issue of Feb. 20, 1919.)
MRS, SARAH CUMMINGS, dau
ghter of Judge and Mrs. W. J.
Kenney, died at the home of
Mrs. J. M. Bethune in Blakely
at an early hour this morning
from influenza pneumonia con
tracted several days ago.
MISS ESTHER COHEN, sister
of our fellow-townsman, Mr.
Morris Cohen, died last Thurs
day night about nine o’clock after
a five-day illness from pneu
monia. Miss Cohen came here
from Montgomery to be with
her brother, who is desperate
ly ill and does not know of his
sister's death.
****
MRS, B. B. GODWIN was car
ried over to Dothan last Friday,
where she underwent an operation
at a hospital in that city.
♦♦♦*
DR. AND MRS. J. H. Crozier
and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Golden,
of Cedar Springs, were among
Tuesday’s visitors to the city.
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REPORTS from the united states SENATE
YOUTH POWER IS FAST becoming one pf the most potent
forces in America. College enrollments are up, participation of
young people in election campaigns is increasing, and many more
of those under 21 are assuming the responsibilities of marriage,
families, and jobs. In almost every area, including the military,
youths are being given a greater and more important role in the
shaping of our society.
Unfortunately, I do not believe that most state voting require
ments have kept pace with this increased recognition of youths as
responsible and active citizens. All states, with the exception of
Georgia and three others, require a person to be twenty-one before
he can vote. To deny the vote to 18-to-20 year-old men and
women, who comprise about five per cent of the total population,
is to deprive our elections of a vital and progressive viewpoint
which can serve as a check against complacency and inject a
needed element of flexibility into our system.
* * *
FOR SOME 20 YEARS we have seen young people in
Georgia, 18 and above, assume the mature responsibilities of
voting and their performance has exceeded even the greatest of
hopes. Voting registration has been greatly increased. The rising
generation has taken a more active interest in civic affairs, and it
is justifiably proud of the part it has played in the development
of Georgia and America.
4 * *
IT IS TIME for youth power and responsibility to be recog
nized and implemented in other states as it has been in Georgia.
I am prepared to support a constitutional amendment, which
would have to be ratified by two-thirds of the United States
Senate and three-fourths of the state legislatures, to provide that
the age limitation for voting in federal elections would be lowered
to eighteen.
In these high-powered, fast-moving, and turbulent times our
hope indeed lies with the young men and women of the future.
Only by instilling in them a sense of national pride and civic
fulfillment can we expect them to rise to the demands of the age.
Lowering the voting age to eighteen would be a solid step in this
direction.
MR. L. J. GEORGE has been
seriously ill at his home here
for the past several days.
♦ *♦*
OUR COTTON OWNERS are
still standing out and refusing
to sell at the prices offered by
the New York gamblers. We
trust they will be able to retain
their grip until the mills have
supplies. Then the price will
go up to where it should be.
****
75 Years Ago
(From the issue of Feb. 22, 1894.)
While wrestling with Perry
man Dußose this morning, Mr.
Seth Wilkin was so unfortunate
as to dislocate his right ankle.
MR. GILL WILLIS is visiting
in Dawson this week.
****
COL. J. D. RAMBO, of Bluff
ton, was in Blakely Tuesday.
MISS IDA SHEFFIELD, of
Cedar Springs, is visiting in
Blakely this week.
MESSRS. W.J. Batchelor and
R. R. Roberts, of Racketville,
were in town Wednesday.
MR. D. W.JAMESwas a visitor
to Arlington Monday.
About 3,500 war widows will
use their new G. L education
benefits during the 1969 spring
semester.