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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1969
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Gov. Lester Maddox
Report||^ People
ATLANTA (PRN) -
During the first two years of
the Maddox Administration,
Georgia reached an
unparalleled position in
education. We provided for
the very first time in history,
two ten percent salary
increases for academic
personnel who serve in higher
education.
We also broadened our
financial
aid pro
grams for
students
including
scholarships
in medicine
and teach
ing and a
guaranteed
loan plan
for students
in need.
Other programs were
implemented which brought
higher salaries for teachers,
record strides in penal reform,
increased momentum in
expressway development and
greater emphasis on highway
safety.
Because of the cooperation
and support from local
governments, educators and
professional and business
people from throughout the
State we were also able to
upgrade and improve our
facilities for our mentally, ill,
embark upon a program for
the establishment of regional
mental hospitals and bring in a
new era of industrial
expansion.
But the speed of our
progress has been curtailed by
the failure of the General
Assembly to approve needed
revenue measures. The
one-cent sales tax increase to
provide Georgia’s cities,
counties and local school
systems, during the first year,
alone, a total of some 100
million dollars in sorely
needed revenue was rejected.
It is my sincere hope that
the people of this State will
give their support to our plan
for a better Georgia, and that
we may still see the needs of
our State fulfilled.
As we think about progress
and building, it is fitting that
we turn our thoughts toward
the means whereby we may
find happiness and fulfillment.
We must restore the
American dream —a dream
that includes two elements,
our faith in God and our form
of government.
Benjamin Franklin told the
Constitutional Convention in
1787:
"1 have lived a long time
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and am convinced that God
governs the affairs of men. If a
sparrow cannot fall to the
ground without His notice, is
it possible that an empire can
rise without His aid?”
Then Franklin called for
prayer. Out of that prayer
meeting came the United
States Constitution, which has
become a model for
freedom-loving people
everywhere.
It was George Washington
who envisioned America as a
land where men of all creeds
might live together and
worship in freedom under
God. The brave patriots who
served under Washington at
Valley Forge — and their
modern-day counterparts in
Korea and Vietnam — have
made, and are making
sacrifices that liberty might be
preserved. They fought then,
as they are fighting now, to
uphold a cause which draws its
greatest strength from the
belief in man’s ability to guide
his own destiny with the help
of God.
But today the American
dream is under attack. Strong
forces are seeking to destroy
the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Immorality, corruption and
crime — growing some nine
times faster than the
population increase — are
tearing the very heart out of
America.
Campus disorders are
widespread. There are so many
of them, and they are
occurring with such frequency
that the newspapers can’t
carry the accounts of them as
front page stories, but must
list them in summary articles.
This wave of terror is
promoted and financed by the
Communist Party.
The sit-ins, strikes and
other protests witnessed at
Harvard, Princeton and other
Ivy league universities last
month were led by the
Students for a Democratic
Society, an organization
described by FBI Director <l.
Edgar Hoover as a “new type
of subversive" and "infiltrated
by the Communist Party.
I am encouraged by the
fact that the vast majority of
Georgians are not following
the rabble-rousing crowd. Our
young people have shown
maturity by ignoring —for the
most part — the slogans and
exhortations of our enemies.
Ninety-nine percent of
Georgia youth devote their
time to productive pursuits.
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
ONE PERSON,
ONE NUMBER
I saw the other day where
beginning July 1, the U. S.
military services will join in
a numbers game which is de
signed to wind up where a
citizen of the United States
will eventually have only one
number.
On July 1, new recruits,
draftees and officers will be
assigned num
bers that are
the same as
their Social
Security num
bers. This
means the
military s e r
vices will fol
low the In-
ternal Revenue Service which
has already issued tax num
bers which coincide with So
cial Security numbers. Many
states, and other governmental
subdivisions, are joining in,
and before long a citizen will
only have to remember, or be
responsible, for one number.
Since we have all become
pawns of the Federal govern
ment during the past decade
or so, the consolidation of all
numbers into just one will be
a help to the citizen. Perhaps
banks will assign accounts in
the same manner. This would
be a convenience since we
have become a nation of num
bers, and big numbers at that.
Even our public debt has
grown so big that the aver
age fellow in the street does
not know how to write a num
ber of that many digits.
Going back to our personal
number. It will be easier for
the Washington crowd to con
trol the average citizen. If a
citizen fails to fill out a form
demanded by some bureau of
the Federal government on
how many people use the
bathroom at his home, and at
what hours, the big knocker
Bureaucrat can execute form
GHA-246 320 IAH, and this
will order Federal agent
3-926-456-342 to immediately
apprehend citizen No. 4-245-
675-920 and put him in jail for
non-compliance with the or
der.
Now this kind of procedure
will please a certain segment
of our population. The liberal
element is never satisfied with
what the majority decides at
the local level. There are al
ways a number of egg-heads
who believe that bureaucrats
in Washington are more quali
fied to prescribe the medi
cine needed to cure an illness
at the local level than are the
people who live on the spot.
Any way, the “one person,
one number” policy may help
the individual.
ONE PERSON, ONE
VOTE IS A SHAM
AND A LIE
This one person, one num
ber thing brings to mind just
how the U. S. Supreme Court
members have made congen
ital “jassacks” of themselves
skin-diving for the “one man,
one vote” theory of repre
sentation in legislative bodies
thoroughout the length and
breadth of our land, and forc
ing judicial fiat on the people
of the several states and the
legislatures of these states.
The Houses of Representa
tives and the Senates have
been forced by the Supreme
Court to reorganize in every
state in the Union to appor
tion membership according to
population, when the Supreme
Court is powerless to do away
with the election of two U. S.
Senators from each of the 50
states of the Union. “You
must reorganize your legisla
tive bodies on a “one man, one
vote basis,” ordered the Su
preme Court, and yet, the
court is living a lie in its es
tablishment.
The founding fathers evi
dently intended for land and
areas to be represented in
government as well as folks
living nose to nose in crowded
urban ghettos. The U. S. Con
gress has a House where folks
have representation in pro
portion to population, and a
Senate where each state of
the 50 has two Senators re
gardless of the size or the
Population of the state. Alas
ka is the largest state in the
Union, and Little Rhode
Island is the smallest, but
each of these states has two
Senators. California has more
than 16 million people, and
a^ain, Alaska has only 226,-
000 according to the census of
1960, but both states have
two U. S. Senators. Does this
constitutional provision make
for better government in our
nation, or are we worse off
FILES
25 Years Ago
(From the issue of May 18, 1944.)
SUCCUMBING to an illness of
several months’ duration, Mr.
Henry Mack Temples, 62, well
known resident of Blakely, died
at his home on River street
last Thursday morning at 11
o’clock.
♦ ♦♦*
BLAKELY’S new air-condi
tioned train made its initial trip
through Blakely the past Friday
morning, arriving on schedule at
8;21 o'clock, and a large dele
gation of Blakely citizens were
on hand to greet it.
****
MRS. STELLA HODGESHud
son, beloved citizen of Donalson
ville and native of Early county,
passed away Wednesday evening,
May 10, at the home of her dau
ghter, Mrs. J. H. Hanna, in Don
alsonville. Mrs. Hudson, who
was 54, died of pneumonia.
*♦♦♦
MISS GUERRYLU SHEF
FIELD, of Panama City, visited
friends and relatives here last
week and attended the Junior-
Senior dance Friday night.
COUNTY TREASURER J.
Frank Gilbert went over to Do
than Tuesday to undergo further
treatment at a hospital in that
city.
****
MISS SYBIL CHANDLER, of
Brunswick, and Miss Mary Hazel
Chandler, of Valdosta, spent the
week end in the county with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Chandler.
MR. AND MRS, M. K. Wea
ver, of Barwick, Ga., announce
the marriage of their daughter,
Ina Lou, to Henry Edgar Pier
son, Jr., of Blakely and Lawson
Field. The ceremony was per-
because of it? Really, that is
not the question. Our central
government is not founded on
a “one man, one vote” prop
osition, and there is nothing
the Supreme Court can do a
bout it.
Now mind you, that is not
to say the court would not
stick its nose into the question
if it had an opportunity, but
this is one area where the
Court is afraid to act.
And this leads me to the
point I started out to make.
The thinly populated states of
the Union would not tolerate
any attempt to change the
Constitution of the United
States, and reduce the repre
sentation in the U. S. Senate
from sparsely populated or
small states, but they will per
mit the Supreme Court to do
a hatchet job on the states
themselves.
If a state desired its Gene
eral Assembly to be organized
on the basis of membership in
the Senate to represent land
areas, and membership in the
House on the basis of popu
lation, why did we permit the
Supreme Court to deny us
that right when they are
powerless to deny that right
to the central government
which created the court.
We have gone to sleep many
times in past years, and when
we awoke our rights were
gone. We are going to sleep
again, and when we awaken
our children and our schools
will be gone.
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formed by the Rev. Spenser B.
King at his home May 5, 1944,
at 10 o’clock.
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ABBEVILLE, ALA. — The
marriage of Miss Eleanor Black
lidge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Edwin Blacklidge, of
Abbeville, Alabama, to Mr. Hugh
Linwood Martin, son of Mrs.
Jessie Martin, of Hilton, Ga.,
took place April 30th in the First
Methodist church in this city,
with the Rev. Lloyd W, Tubb
officiating.
50 Years Ago
(From the issue of May 15,1919.)
AFTER AN ILLNESS of seve
ral months, Mr. Walter Whit
chard died Monday night at the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. O. Whitchard, on Cuth
bert street.
♦♦♦♦
BETHEA BEARD is among the
Blakely soldier boys who have
recently returned from the “big
scrap" overseas. He is spending
a few days in Blakely this week
with friends who are giving him
a cordial welcome.
****
EDITOR R. R. Powell and Ex
press Agent E.E. Lord, of Ar
lington, were in the city a short
while Saturday.
MISS RUTH CARTER, of Bluff
ton, who has been with the Y.M.
C. A. organization overseas, has
recently returned home and
arrived in Blakely this morning
to spend some time with her
sisters, Mrs. F. P. Davis and
Miss Fannie Carter.
****
MR. AND MRS C. C. Lane
and little son and Mr. and Mrs.
Alto Warrick went over to Do
than Sunday to visit relatives.
DR. W. H. ALEXANDER went
up to Macon Wednesday night
to attend a meeting of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway Surgeons
Association in session in that
city today.
♦♦♦♦ .
MURRAY FAIN, a member of
the famous 151st. Machine Gun
Battalion, Rainbow Division, U.S
Army, has received his discharge
and is visiting his brothers, Mr.
Mack Fain, in Blakely. Mur
ray has been in the thick of the
fight from the very beginning,
and has many harrowing exper
iences to relate to his friends,
who are giving him the glad
hand.
75 Years Ago
(From the issue of May 17,1894.)
MR. JACK POWELL is now
with the Blakely Observer.
****
MR. E. M. BRUNSON is hav
ing the finishing touches put on
his residence on River street.
♦ ♦♦♦
THE Sunday School picnic at
Hilton Station last Saturday was a
huge success. Blakely was large
ly represented.
♦♦♦*
MR. J. D. FUDGE has torn
down the old Stewart shop on
River street and a handsome
store house will take its place.
MESSRS^ Brunson & Alexander
will have their saw mill thorough-
This Week
by
r Tige’ Pickle
When you see a movie adver
tised as "adult’’, it is safe to
assume that the people inside
very possibly are 21 years of
age or older, but not very adult.
*♦♦♦
An old timer is one who can
remember when such pictures
were known as dirty movies.
***♦
This business of the United
States racing with Russia is get
ting a bit silly. Racing to the
moon, the missle race, the con
test to determine which country
has the most bath rooms, tele
phones and so on. I believe
if one of our politicians visited
Russia and discovered a huge
pile of horse fertilizer, he at
once would interpret some sini
ster move, and come home and
advocate that our nation raise
more horses and introduce a
bill to purchase more pitch forks
and shovels.
♦ ♦♦ ♦
Noted and quoted: "On TV
one night this week, an M.D,
and heart specialist stated that
to him a person was dead when
his mind stopped functioning,
which is something to think about.
ly repaired soon and will do a
deal of lumber making in the near
future.
♦***
CAPT. E. HILTON and Mr.
Gene Boyd were up from Hilton
Station Monday.
MR. B. V. BIGBIE, of Clay
county, was a visitor to Blakely
this week.
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****
MESSRS, Bob Dostor, Jr., and
Wyatt Alexander, Jr., are visit
ing Dr. M. T. Alexander at Apa
lachicola, Fla.
**♦ *
MR. R. H. POWELL, JR., has
been awarded first honor in the
senior class at Mercer Univer
sity.
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
I HAVE CONCLUDED hearings as Chairman of the Joint
Economic Committee Subcommittee on Economic Statistics to
look into the census taking process, and to examine the necessity
of the personal questions that are asked.
I scheduled these hearings because of numerous complaints
from the public to the Congress about the census. Many Georgians
in fact have written to express their objections to certain questions
dealing with bathroom facilities, marital status, and the quality of
one’s living quarters.
There have been serious allegations of invasion of privacy,
and the issue was raised as to the necessity and priority of certain
questions of this type in the census. Moreover, there has been
widespread dissatisfaction with the possibility of punitive criminal
penalties for failure to answer all these questons.
In view of the timeliness of this inquiry because of decennial
census in 1970, I felt it appropriate to call administrative officials
before my committee in response to increasing public criticism.
* * *
MY SUBCOMMITTEE heard two days’ testimony from such
experts on the subject as the Secretary of Commerce Maurice H.
Stans, Paul W. McCracken, Chairman of the President’s Council
of Economic Advisers, and Congressman Jackson Betts of Ohio,
who advocates restricting the census to only six mandatory
questions with the remainder of the responses being voluntary.
We are now in the process of weighing the purpose of such
detailed questions, whether it is necessary, and the extent of its
intrusion into the private affairs of our citizens. Many people
believe, with some justification, there is already too much gov
ernment snooping into people’s private affairs, and the time is
overdue for studying the overall situation.
* * *
WE CERTAINLY NEED to examine all the census questions
to determine if they are justifiable as a valid government function.
A government as huge as ours, of course, cannot function ef
ficiently without accurate statistics upon which public programs
can be based and from which needed information can be drawn.
We must not, however, use the need for greater governmental
efficiency as an excuse for unwarranted invasions of the right of
privacy or as a means of harassment of the citizen who has every
right to be left alone.
And if that be true there are lots
of dead college students and a
large number of politicians, and
now and then you’ll even see
a dead man driving an automo
bile ”. —Bub Lang in The Ome
ga News.
****
When you see people start
seeking who their people were
and where they came from, it is
pretty safe to assume, they are
getting ready to go.
****
Governor Maddox ran an ad at
his expense in some papers try
ing to work up support for a tax
increase. The chief executive
would have gotten more bene
fit from his money if he had
thrown it in a hog pen and hol
lered "sooey." The only people
who are in favor of more taxes
are those who are going to get
back more money than they pay
in—like politicians, expecting a
pension or a judge emeritus.
♦ ♦♦*
Wonder how Senator Kennedy
came out on his visit to Alaska
and if he ever found a skinny
Eskimo.
i ♦***
Some scientists claim that the
moon is inhabited with teen-age
girls. It was discovered when a
telephone was shot to the moon,
and then when a call was placed
they found the line busy-
Quote of the week from Megid
do Message: "Gossip is like
mud on the wall—you can wipe
it off, but it leaves a dirty spot."