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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1969
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Politics oAn Parade
ar m
State Treasurer Jack Ray
makes no bones about the pre
carious financial condition the
State of Georgia will be in the
next fiscal year under the pres
ent set-up of income and expen
ditures. The legislature adopted
a budget of $933,000,000, which
includes the anticipated increase
in revenue and the presumed
take from the new wine and in
come taxes.
But, Mr. Ray points out, the
actual income is expected to be
$9Ol million, leaving a deficit of
$32,000,000. In addition, he says,
the 1970 General Assembly is
very likely to follow prevous ex
amples and appropriate supple
ments to the budget, thus adding
to the deficit.
If this happens (not quoting
Mr. Ray) the State will be faced
with two alternatives, i. e., new
taxes or a percentage slash
straight across the board.
Ray, incidentally, will be a
candidate for re-election next
year, and so far knows of no op
position.
***** •
Speaking of candidates, the
latest name to be thrown out as
a potential candidate for the U.
S. Senate, in case Senator Rus
sell retires, is the Senator’s
nephew by marriage and former
governor, Ernest Vandiver.
******
We wrote last week that State
Senator Mike Padgett was con
sidering making the race for
Comptroller-General next year.
Apparently Senator Padgett is
serious; he’s already held a 5-
county meeting of supporters
and has picked former Augusta
Mayor Millard Beckum as his
campaign treasurer.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦
Jimmy Carter, who is already
running for governor, is known
statewide as a dyed-in-the-wool
liberal, but is now trying to pick
up a conservative image. He
told the Austell Rotary Club last
week that in his travels he has
found Georgia a conservative
state, and hinted that this is his
philosophy. However, Mr. Carter
will have a hard job convincing
the state's voters that such a
close friend of the Kennedys can
be anything but the same kind
of liberal they are.
******
A friend of Decatur County
Representative Willis Conger told
us the other day that the genial
and well liked legislator is think
ing of making the race for
Speaker of the Georgia House in
the 1970 session.
***** *
Senator Herman Talmadge
has written a letter to Governor
Maddox in which he reiterated
his intention to again vote to re
peal the law on freezing the
number of participants in the
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other year.
******
Bert Struby, Executive Vice-
President of the Macon Tele
graph-News, is resigning from
the State Board of Children and
Youth because of his greatly in
creased work load since the Ma
con papers were purchased by
the Knight chain. Bert will be
replaced by Wallace Rhodes, of
LaGrange, who will resign his
post as a member of the Advis
ory Board to the Dept, of Fam
ily and Childrens Service. Mr.
Rhodes, incidentally, is Chair
man of the Troop County Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
*•••••
Fast moving, hard hitting Wil
liam Burson, Director of the
Dept, of Family and Children’s
Services, has outrun Jimmy
Carter in the speechmaking cat
egory. Burson made 32 speeches
in the 30 days of April.
• ••**•
There has been talk that Tully
Bond, Macon attorney, will file
a suit in federal court seeking to
have Georgia’s one-term gov
ernor law invalidated. But, he
had better move fast, or the
case won’t be through the Su
preme Court until after next
September’s primaries. A three
judge federal court will undoubt
edly be called to hear the case,
but even if they rule against the
state, they are not likely to force
Georgia to drop the prohibition
until the Supreme Court acts.
At least, that’s what a good law
yer told us. He actually thinks
that Bond has already waited too
long.
******
HEART WARMING - A cer
tain smart young Negro has ap
plied for a state medical schol
arship, and everybody who knows
about him are hoping that he
gets it. Reason being that the
youth comes from a family of 10
children, whose father is a 29-
year federal employee who has
seen every child he has receive a
college education. Incidentally,
not a one of these young people
has ever been arrested for any
thing, or ever participated in a
demonstration.
******
Governor and Mrs. Maddox
will again this year play host to
senior citizens with an Open
House at the Mansion on May 16.
Some 2500 are expected to at
tend.
The same cotton cloth can
be finished to appear as
chintz, gingham, moire, den
im, matelasse. or pique.
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
THE SCARE-BOOGER
REALLY BREATHES
For many years those who
have fought the encroach
ments of the Federal govern
ment on the rights of the
states and the people, have
been accused of being alarm
ists.
Those who have counseled
against continuation of cen
tralization of power in Wash-
ington have
been labeled
I * by liberals as
V —■ “scare-mo n g-
■ ers”, and all
I past Federal
V take-overs of
autho r i t y
WB have been de
wlk ■Bl scr ‘bed as ac
tions to make the Federal
system more workable and
more effective. Legislation giv
ing the Federal government
more power and authority
over the lives of the people of
the several states was always
hailed by the liberal element
as necessary because the states
“were not in a position to do
it themselves or to get it
done”.
Advocates of constitutional
government and states rights
were chided for opposing Fed
eral usurpation of authority,
and arguments advanced by
conservatives to keep those
rights, not granted to the
Federal establishment by the
Constitution, or denied to the
states by the document, in
the hands of the people of the
states, were said by liberals
to be reactionary.
The liberal element stated
“scare-boogers” were being set
up in the field of government
to frighten people about
something that would never
happen.
As recent as 10 years ago,
the entire Georgia delegation
in the Congress was unalter
ably opposed to Federal aid to
education. The two Georgia
Senators, Richard B. Russell
and Herman Talmadge, along
with all 10 members of the
House of Representatives,
were on record against Fed
eral aid to education. The
majority of Georgians were
opposed to it. All of this op
position stemmed from the
proposition that to accept
Federal funds would put the
public school systems in the
several states under some type
of control by the Federal
government. The liberals cried
out in anguish that the argu
ment was false, and by no
stretch of the imagination
would the Federal Govern
ment ever attempt to run the
school systems which up to
that time were the sole re
sponsibilities of the states. Op
ponents of accepting Federal
aid stated “to take this money
would mean surrendering au
thority and control to Wash
ington, and that if the Federal
government cont ribu t e d a
dime toward subsidizing state
schools, this octopus would do
a dollar’s worth of telling and
dictating." Well, the greedy
pushed, and the folks weak
ened, and the "scare-booger”
in the field has become a re
gular fire-breathing monster.
Washington took over lock,
stock and barrel.
AN ERA ENDS
AND SADLY
Those who “pooh-poohed”
the charges of Federal take
over in the public school sys
tems of the several states,
can rest on their shovel
handles or sit down. Local
control of schools is gone.
State government in Georgia,
which appropriates about 82
per cent of the money neces
sary to finance the public
school system of our state, has
very little to say about how
the schools are operated.
No better example of what
I am talking about is to be
found in the proposed reor
ganization of the schools in
Decatur County by the De
partment of Justice with the
backing of the Federal
Courts.
If this iniquitous proposal
goes into effect, it will do ir
reparable harm to white and
colored citizens alike. Some
of the left-wingers say "aw,
go on. Governor, you are just
opposed to Federal forced in
tegration, and while you may
be against it, the colored peo
ple of Bainbridge and Decatur
County are for it one hundred
per cent”.
I do not bother to answer
that silly kind of argument.
Those are the same gourd
heads who are responsible for
our plight today.
If the representative color-
ed citizens of this city and
county will tell me they are
in accord with the govern
ment’s proposal to do away
with, and wipe from the pages
of history of this county, the
operation of Hutto High School,
then, I will be badly fooled.
The Huttos, man and wife,
gave a lifetime of devotion to
the improvement and develop
ment of Negro education in
Bainbridge and in this county.
Hutto High School was the
fruit of unselfish service to
Negro educational opportunity
in this city. Hutto High is a
wonderful school, and its ac
complishments and achieve
ments are many and credit
able.
If the proposal of the gov
ernment becomes a reality,
Hutto High School will be a
bolished. There will be no
more Hutto High School band,
and there will be no more
Hutto High football teams or
athletic teams of any kind
Hutto High will be expunged
from the record. We have, all
of us, always looked with
pride on seeing the Hutto
band perform, and the football
games have been outstanding
events. So, it will be goodby
to Hutto High, folks.
And, you ask, why is all
this necessary? It will be
mandatory if the Federal
courts and the Justice Depart
ment see fit to force it down
the throats of the people of
this county. Colored pupils
have not been denied any
rights or privileges in the
school system of this county,
but that makes no difference
to the Washington planners.
They are going to reorganize
our schools if it ruins, guts
and destroys them.
I said last week parents
should begin to make other
arrangements if they do not
wish to turn their children
over to the experiment mill of
the bureaucrats.
OUR
FILES q
25 Years Ago
(From the issue of May 11,1944.)
TWO NEW members, recently
received into the club, were pre
sented The Four Objects of Ro
tary at the weekly meeting of the
Blakely Rotary Club held Friday
at noon. The two new members
are George Gee and Hilton E.
Hightower.
TWENTY-ONE Early County
men left Blakely Tuesday to
undergo pre-induction examina
tion for service in the armed
forces, Draft Board Clerk C.M.
Dunning has announced. They are
William B. Roberts, William
Alexander Hall, Jr., Arthur A.
Creel, Virgil D. Oswald,
Clarence J. Simpson, John Byrd
Duke, Jr., William A. Cox, Pres
ton E. Cook, Andrew J. White,
Julian W. Busby, James C.
Bryant, James W. Martin, Wil
liam B. Martin, Julian H. Wil
liams, O. Willard Houston,
George A. Temples, Melvin J.
Campbell, James E. Glass, Sid
ney B. Whitaker, Roy Bernard
Lindsey, Joe D. Johnson.
ON WEDNESDAY, May 3, the
Early County Chapter of the Farm
Bureau met and elected H. E.
Hightower, of Blakely and Dam
ascus, president, to fill the un
expired term of the late R. C.
Singletary.
STRICKEN ill with pneumonia
while visiting in Panama City,
Fla., Mr. Jesse Preston George,
77, died last Thursday afternoon
in a Dothan hospital, where he
was carried after being stricken.
MRS. H.T. KING left Saturday
for Atlanta to spend several days
with her daughter, Miss Alice
King.
PVT. ROBERT HOOVER is
now overseas somewhere in
England, his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Brink Hoover, have been
notified.
A MARRIAGE of interest to
friends in the county occurred
Saturday night, when Miss Pau
line Hayes, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Hayes, became the
bride of Sergeant Curtis Allen,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Allen, of this county, Ordinary
D, C. Morgan performing the
ceremony.
MRS ALEX HAYES observed
her 71st birthday at her home
near Langston Sunday with a
dinner part)' with her children
and friends being present. Chil
dren present were Mr. John E.
Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Williams and children, and Mrs.
Harold Lance and Mrs. Henry
Hayes.
MR. AND MRS W. H. Fain,
of Blakely, Georgia, announce
the engagement of their daugh
ter, Sara Caroline, to John A
aron Sellers, of Albany, Geor
gia, son of Mr. and Mrs- J. H.
Sellers, of Vidalia, Ga., the
marriage to take place in June.
50 Years Ago
MR. AND MRS W. J. Barton
have recently moved from the
Hudspeth home on Church street
to the Wade home on Columbia
street.
MRS P. H. FITZGERALD and
children have moved into the
J. C. Chancy home on River
street
THE Board of Commission
ers of Early County have given
authority to Mr. Edwin H. Under
wood, formerly of Blakely, but
now of Bainbridge, for the instal
lation of his invention, the Under
wood Auto Cattle Guard, on any
road in the county that he may
choose. This device of Mr.
Uncterwood’s eliminates the gate
for a motor vehicle and is de
veloped from the old principle
of a railroad cattle guard, ap
plying this principle to the use
of an automobile.
PROF. E. S COLLINS, prin
cipal of the Bluffton High School,
was in the city Saturday and
announced that the school would
close the week beginning May
25. The commencement sermon
will be preached by the Rev.
N. W. Hurst, of Forsyth, a for
mer pastor of the Blakely Bap
tist Church.
MR. EARL GEORGE has re
turned from a several days’visit
to Cordele.
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Dear Mr. Fleming,
On behalf of the Peter Early
Chapter, National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution, I would like to express
much appreciation for the ex
cellent news coverage you have
given to our activities.
As you probably noted, at our
State Conference, our Chapter
received the highest award for
achievement in this field of en
deavor. Needless to say, with
out your cooperation this would
mot have been possible.
Each of our members feels
very fortunate that our News
Editor is interested in our or
ganization.
Sincerely,
Isabel W. Grist
Corresponding Secretary, Peter
Early Chapter, NSDAR
****
Dear Sir,
As a wife and mother, I am
naturally interested in things that
are happening around us. The
other day 1 sat down and wrote
some of my thoughts on paper.
I don’t know if you’ll want to
use them in your newspaper but
I wanted you to read it anyway.
In these days of war, LSD,
and hippies It’s hard at times to
believe that beauty and goodness
even exist. In all the news
media the ugliness of the world
looms at us from all sides and
we wonder why. Thinking of
these things I become very de
pressed and, frankly, frightened.
I wonder if this world we live
in will ever survive the damage
we are doing to it.
After a long winter of hearing
of the brutal death of Robert
Kennedy, the violence on our
College campuses, and the many
deaths of our young men in Viet
Nam, I had reached the point
where 1 didn’t want to hear any
more about any of it. I was
beginning to feel that, juSt may
be, God had finally deserted us,
that He had had all he could take
of the ugly things people did to
each other and the hatred and
evil that we all know exist.
But a few weeks ago, things
began to change. Oh, the same
things were happening as before
but something else was taking
place, too. A change was slowly,
surely taking place. As I looked
out my window I could see the
miracle of Spring. The re
awakening of the trees and flo
wers and the bare, brown earth
turning a lovely shade of green,
a sure sign that God’s hand was
busily bringing color from the
drab-looking earth.
I still don’t like the ugly things
that happen but I know God hasn’t
given up on us, that He is still
showing himself to us in the
beautiful miracle of Spring. He’s
telling us that He’s still there.
Maybe there’s hope fop us yet.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Janice Oliver
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HOSPITAL LIST
Patients listed as being admit
ted and discharged the past week
at Early Memorial Hospital were
as follows:
ADMITTED
Ludie Smith, Mary Eunice
Smith, Angie Haddock, Arthur
Grace, Sara Wimberly, Johnny
Lee Collier, Jim Tom Glass,
Gloria Williams, Wade Wright,
Bertha Ward, Sim Land, Vera
King, Viola Singletary, Jane
Hendley, Jan Anderson, Adell
Washington. Alma McCraney,
Jewell Powell Koon, Vivian C.
Lavatte, Davis S, Pyle, Hattie
Rogers, George Alexander, Polly
Jones, Joe Johnson, Fannie Alex
ander, Robert Burnette, Thurman
Loggins, Gilbert Plowden, El
trymn Jackson, Annie Anderson.
DISCHARGED
John George, Nellie Moers,
Davis Pyle, Annie Anderson,
Johnnie Collier, Pearl Beasley,
Jane Hendley, Hattie Rogers,
Sare Wimberly and Baby Girl,
Alma McCraney, Bertha Ward
and Baby Boy, Cornelia Ander
son, Mary Means, Sallie Rid
dley, Eltrymn Jackson, Earnest
Johnson, Walter Sessions, Oatley
Carter, Gilbert Plowden, Ludie
Smith, Bertha Hasty, Eva Hill
Hobbs, Noah Welch, Havous
Houston, Allie Wilbourn, Delores
Johnson, Robert Burnette, Wil
liam Weems, Raymond Trawick,
Adell Washington, Inez Cody,
Viola Ealy, Palestine Dawson.
Early County
To Be Featured In
Livestock Journal
Special articles about Early
County and the activities of Early
County Cattle men will be featured
in the May 15 edition of The
Livestock Breeder Journal, it
was announced this week by John
H. Williams, Jr., president of the
Early County Cattlemen's Asso
ciation.
This state-wide circulated
magazine with select subscribers
will go into 5,200 homes, and
bring Early County some very
good publicity, Mr. Williams
stated. Representatives of the
magazine were in Early County
last week gathering materials
for the stories, and they were
high in their praise of all Early
County people. ”We go into
four states along the Atlantic
coast, and also West Virginia,
Kentucky, Maryland, New York
and Vermont and we haven’t visit
ed a county as progressive and
cooperative as Early County,”
one magazine representative
said.
President Williams stated that
he and the Early County Cattle-
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Notice
During the periods 9-10 May
1969 and 16-17 May 1969, special
tests will be conducted in con
junction with the proposed Walter
F. George Lock repairs which
will require the Columbia Reser
voir to be lowered. The pool
will be lowered to approximately
elevation 100 M.S.L. which is
two feet below normal. This
reduced level will be for ap
proximately six hours each day
during the above period.
men’s Association are grateful
to the more than 50 Blakely,
Damascus and Arlington busi
ness men and groups who are
advertisers in this edition of
the magazine.
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Sove-Way Stores 5;00 p m
Blakely, Georgia
Thurs. May 8, Fri. May 9,
Sat. May 10
Mariners should exercise ex
treme caution when navigating
in the Columbia Reservoir dur
ing the above periods.
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER
Due to military exercises to
be conducted at Fort Benning,
Georgia, it will be necessary
to close the Chatthoochee River
to all non-military traffic dur
ing 5 and 6 of June 1969 from
2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M., EDT.
The section to be closed is from
the General Eddy Highway
Bridge, mile 141, to mile 143
upstream.
"Business is really more a
greeable than pleasure: it in
terests the whole mind, the ag
gregate nature of man more
continuously, and more deeply.
But it does not look as if it did.”
— Walter Bagehot.