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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1969
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
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Politics Parade
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The astronauts’ walk on the
moon and the tragedy in which
Senator Edward Kennedy has
been involved has just about
been the sole topic of conversa
tion around the Capitol — and
elsewhere —for the past week
or so, with nothing much said
about politics. There are strong
political overtones in each, how
ever.
Rev. Ralph Abernathy and his
SCLC crowd, aided by Senator
Ed Muskie and other liberals,
have mouthed off about the
money spent on the space pro
gram, saying that it could have
been far belter spent on poverty
in this country. This was asinine
on their part, for the space pro
gram has provided thousands
upon thousands of jobs for
Americans and has developed
the technology which will make
millions of jobs in the future.
What Abernathy and the lib
erals actually mean is that the
money spent on space should
have just been given, free gratis,
to those who don’t want to work.
In a nation where employers are
crying for help, only a very
small percentage of those whom
the liberals claim are living in
poverty need remain in that
state.
******
As for Senator Kennedy, we
don’t judge him one way or the
other in regard to the accident
which took the life of a young
woman; it may have happened
just exactly as he said. But,
what should disturb everybody
is the fact that he went into
shock after the accident hap
pened and failed to report it for
8 or 9 hours. It speaks mighty
poorly for a potential President
of the United States to lose h^
presence of mind under any cir
cumstances. If he were leading
this country, who can now trust
him to remain cool and "on top
of things’’ in the event of a
great national emergency.
Kennedy, however, will run
1 and be re-elected as Senator
' from Massachusetts. We don’t
; believe, however, that he will
make any effort to win the Dem
ocratic nomination for President
in 1972. Hubert Humphrey, after
I winning the Minnesota Senate
. race next year, will very likely
J face Richard Nixon again.
*»*•••
J There is quite a controversy
‘ going on in Georgia among the
; Republicans. One faction, led by
State Chairman Wally Wasden,
wants candidates of their Party
from Governor on down, and are
’ urging Republicans to run in
1970. The other faction feels that
• they should concentrate on only
* two races—Governor and Lieut.*
I Governor — and not split their
; efforts and their money. Also,
; this latter faction is arguing that
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too many local races in the var
ious counties will unify the Dem
ocrats all over the state. In our
opinion, however, Wasden is go
ing to win his point and there
will be Republican candidates
for most Statehouse offices and
for several Congressional seats.
******
On the Democratic side, Carl
Sanders remains far in the lead,
though Jimmy Carter is working
bard. However, Carter is going
to find it a tough job to take the
albatross of liberalism from
around his neck. And Georgians
are a long, long way from being
ready to elect a liberal governor.
******
When Governor Maddox went
into office he requested all State
departments to erect a flagpole
and fly the United States and
Georgia flags. The State Depart
ment of Veterans Service, after
months on months of trying to
find a flagpole and the neces
sary equipment, has now raised
one on the front of their build
ing at No. 1 Hunter Street. The
Governor will dedicate it shortly.
******
Members of the Atlanta news
media seem to take great de
light in baiting the Governor on
issues of the day, particularly on
integration. Apparently, they
want to make him angry, hop
ing, we presume, to badger him
into statements they can round
ly criticize. Last Friday was
such a day. A newsman from
WSB-TV asked the Governor
some questions which seemed
insulting to some of us looking
on, and Maddox reacted almost
violently. He became terribly
red in the face and gave bitter
answers. Finally, he turned and
walked away. Personally, we
think the Governor of Georgia
deserves more courtesy than
some of those Atlanta newsmen
give him.
* » « 4 4 «
Pay no attention to the talk of
another special session. There
just "ain’t’’ going to be one,
what with the tobacco season on
in South Georgia, crops to be
gathered all over the state,
folks on vacation, and the gen
eral hum-drum of the summer
months. Then, when Fall comes
it will be too close to the regu
lar session due in January.
******
Labor Commissioner Sam
Caldwell has reinstated his Chief
Appeals Judge, Bill Strong,
whom he recently suspended on
various charges, which, appar
ently, are now ironed out.
******
A wasp's stinger is located
at die end of the abdomen.
♦ ♦♦♦
Limited numbers of seedless
watermelons are now being
grown.
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
THE EAGLE ON
TRANSQUILITY
The world watched last Sun
day afternoon, and well into
■ 1 the night and
mor ni n g as
| 1 Astr o n a u t s
* Neil Arm-
strong and
| Buzz Aldren
k ’ success! ull y
guided the
BE first Lunar
MB B ■ Limb down to
the surface of the moon, and
sat with lumps in throats and
dry mouths as Armstrong and
Aldren walked on the face of
the moon.
It was a spectacular feat un
equalled in the annals of his
tory, and folks wore out the
adjective “fantastic”, as they
viewed man’s first visit to the
moon.
A member of the working
force of this newspaper came
to work Monday morning and
said: “I started to stay home
today. I am sick.” When told
if he was sick he should return
home and to bed, he said: “I
am not that kind of sick. I
am suffering from “Cron
kitis”.
When Neil Armstrong came
-down the ladder of the Limb,
and was enveloped in the
shadows, I was looking so in
tently at the screen that for a
moment I thought I saw a big
rock out on one side with
painting on the face of it in
large white letters “See Rock
City”. That was not the case.
It was only a figment of my
imagination. That is about the
only place I know where the
painters of “See Rock City”
signs have not visited.
THIS IS JUST
THE BEGINNING
The feeble attempt of the
Russians to dim the glory of
Apollo 11 by hastily putting
Luna 15 into orbit was no
more than a fizzle.
The peerless achievement of
NASA in putting the first men
on the moon is perhaps the
first great breakthrough of
mankind in twenty centuries.
The achievement is the pro
duct of an accumulation of
scientific data of the entire
celestial cosmos handed down
by scientists and matheticians
over many centuries.
It began with Ptolemy about
130 B. C. who contended the
earth was the fixed center of
the universe, about which the
sun and stars revolve.
This theory was superceded
by Copernicus, 1500 A. D.,
who held that the earth ro
tates daily on its axis and that
the planets revolve in orbits
around the sun.
Then Galileo Galilei (1564-
1642), founder of experimental
physics and astronomy, added
his part to cosmic research.
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727)
brought his laws of universal
gravitation to the workshops
of mathemeticians and astro
nomers. Newton was a keen
student of Johann Kepler
(1571-1630) who published his
Laws of the Universe. The
English astronomer, Sir Wil
liam Herschel (1738-1822)
came out with his first reflect
ing telescope, and the curiosity
of man exceeded all other
laws.
Robert Hutchings Goddard,
a New Englander, (1882-1945)
began his development of
rocket propulsion, and the
United States got Wernher
vt>n Braun from the Third
Reich, and this German is re
sponsible for the progress
made in the propulsion of all
NASA space rockets, includ
ing Apollo 11.
Building on the knowledge
of the ages, American scien
tists, American "know-how”,
American ingenuity, courage,
vision and determination and
the intrepidity of American
astronauts, all went into the
pot to bring about this great
achievement.
As I look back I think of
the great sacrifice made to
space exploration by Astro
nauts Grissom. White and
Chaffee, and I look with pride
upon Armstrong. Aldrin and
the Lone Ranger, Mike Col
lins, who minded the lone
some store while his two com
rades did the moon caper.
This man Collins was riding
shot gun, and he did a whale
of a job.
Americans have spent bil
lions in the space programs.
We will certainly not halt any
future space explorations. To
do so would spit in the face
of science and progress.
In my opinion, Apollo 11 is
just the beginning, but all the
world will attest it is an
auspicious beginning.
This Week
by
Tige’ Pickle
4?^
As of this moment I haven't
reached a decision whether to
cast my vote for the best male
actor for 1969 in favor of Joe Na
math, the football quarterback,
or Ted Kennedy, the United States
Senator from Massachusetts.
Both have been on television
recently, and both turned in a
performance equal to that of
Lionel Barrymore in his great
est day before the footlights.
Despite Senator Ted’s e
motional explanation, he left
more unexplained than he ex
plained. When six men and
women, none married to each
other, get together on a lonely
island for the purpose of holding
a celebration, and then when the
party is discovered, after one of
the young ladies meets a tragic
death by drowning, none but the
dumbest would believe that the
gathering was for the purpose
of playing musical chairs, or
maybe that exciting and naughty
old game called "drop the hand
kerchief.’’ That, in essence,
is what Senator Kennedy was say
ing. It is regrettable that the
young woman met her death, and
it is disappointing to learn that
a man who has the brains, back
ground, training and knowledge
to be a United States senator
would panic and do the asinine
things Kennedy did. He cer
tainly must have been possessed
of a feeling of guilt and wrong
doing or else the police would
have been notified shortly after
the accident. However, some
good might accrue from the
tragedy. It could very well re
sult in ending the Kennedy Era.
That would be good.
****
Now let’s take up the case
of Joe Namath, who learned the
football trade from that master
tutor, Bear Bryant, the Univer
sity of Alabama head man. Who
taught Joe the acting business,
I don't know, but whether he was
taught or endowed at birth, he
turned in a top-grade perfor
mance on TV a few weeks ago,
when the football commissioner
decreed that Joe would either
cease and desist as the Jetquar
terback or sell the Batchelor’s
Three, a glorified New York
beer joint where gamblers and
shady characters were prone to
meet and discuss business of
mutual interest. The commis
sioner appropriately thought that
football players, especially one of
Namath's ability and standing,
consorting with gamblers and
others of dubious standing in the
community, was not conducive
to the best interests of football.
Joe maybe should be forgiven
of his shortcomings, for unlike
Kennedy, he never displayed any
great amount of brain-power,
except when The Bear was there
to guide him, and then all of a
sudden he found himself deluged
with money, fame and adulation,
and either of these have destroy
ed bigger and better men than
Namath. I’m glad that Joe saw
the light and is going to pitch
for the New York Jets because
he is one of the great quar
terbacks, but still must prove
There are some who are cri
tical on the grounds we should
take the money and feed the
hungry. If we took all the
money we have spent on space
programs and spent it in give
away programs, when we pick
ed the last dollar out of the
barrel, and gave the last bean
out of the commissary, the
hungry would still be with us.
This is not meant to be cal
lous. I want to see every hun
gry child fed. I want to see
the aged, the halt and the lame
and the blind adequately pro
vided for, regarldess of color
race or creed.
We can properly feed those
who merit our sympathy and
care, and still explore the
galaxies of the universe, but
when a big, brawny, healthy,
meat-eating sorry specimen of
humanity (who won’t work)
protests or demonstrates for
for free food, let him suffer
with the “miss-meal” cramps.
Apollo 11 is too big to let
human termites gnaw at the
glory and the success of the
the undertaking.
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OUR '
FILES
25 Years Ago
(From the issue of Aug- 3,1944.)
PVT. OTIS JOHNSON, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson,
RFD 3, Blakely, has been a
warded the Purple Heart, it was
learned the past week, when the
parents of young Johnson re
ceived the medal through the
mail from their son.
****
FIRST LIEUT. Edgar R, Abbott
was killed in action in France
on June 17, his wife, the for
mer Miss Selma Gruber, was
notified this week.
*♦*♦
AFTER AN ILLNESS of three
months' duration, due to a heart
condition, Mr. Ozro Thomas Car
michael died at his home four
miles southwest of Blakely last
Thursday morning at 8;30
o'clock. He was 74 years old.
♦ ♦**
J. ED CHANCY, local busi
nessman and native citizen, was
elected Mayor of Blakely for a
two-year term at Tuesday’s city
election.
Elected along with Mr. Chancy
to serve as Councilmen for two
year terms were C. R. Barks
dale and J. D. Rogers, Jr. Dr.
Barksdale was a candidate to suc
ceed himself and Mr. Rogers
was a candidate for the place
on Council now held by L. B.
Fryer. Mr. Fryer was not a
candidate for re-election.
* *♦*
THE FIRST BALE of cotton
was ginned here Monday after
noon at 1:15 o’clock by Gordon
White, one of Early County’s
most successful farmers. Gin
ned by the Farmers Gin and
Warehouse Company.
**♦*
MR. AND MRS. Cyrus Duvall
Duke announce the engagement
of their daughter, Peggy Louise,
to Dudley C. Hays, USNR, son of
Dr. and Mrs. George Skillern
Hays, of San Antonio, Texas.
The wedding plans will announ
ced later.
♦*♦*
OF CORDIAL INTEREST to a
wide circle of friends is the mar
riage of Miss Juanita Corley to
Aviation Cadet Ohlan Robert
Brooks, 111, of Gunter Field,
Alabama. The ceremony took
place at the home of the bride
groom Saturday evening in the
presence of the immediate family
and a few close friends. The
Rev. W. T. Bodenhammer per
formed the impressive ring cere
mony.
**♦*
OF CORDIAL INTEREST is the
announcement made today of the
marriage of Miss Mary Hazel
Chandler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Chandler, and Har
vey O. Brown, of Columbus and
Blakely, which was solemnized
Friday, July 28, at 8 o'clock.
****
50 Years Ago
(From the issue of July 31, 1919.)
THE FORMER Bank of Blak
ely building, recently bought by
Mr. A. W, Ball, of Thomasville,
and Mr. H.B. Ainsworth, of Blak
ely, is now being used for the
local post office-
♦ ♦ ♦♦
mr. j. j. McLendon, ac
conhpanied by Mr. Earl George
went down to Bainbridge Sunday
and brought home Mrs. J. J.
Cannon, who had been in a hos
pital in that city for treatment
for some time-
♦ ♦ ♦♦
MR, D. B. JERNIGAN and
children, Eva and Evelyn, are
visiting in Macon, guests of Mr.
Jernigan's daughter, Mrs. Will
ingham.
♦ ♦♦♦
DR. J. L. GRAY, of Climax,
was a guest yesterday of his
himself, before he can be com
pared with the L’nitases, Starrs
and Jorgensens. Without a foot
ball in his hand, Joe's friends,
money and fame would vanish
and he would find himself just
another one-legged Indian in need
of a haircut, and the Batchelors'
Three wouldn’t gross enough
money to keep the crushed ice
machine running.
brother, Col. Alvin H. Gray.
****
MR. ED CHANCY reached
home last Thursday from New
York, where he went to buy
the fall line of goods for Chancy’s
Store-
****
MRS JENNIE PURIFOY has
returned home from a visit to
her daughter, Mrs. J. K. Mur
phy, at Linwood, Ala., and is
now at the home of her dau
ghter, Mrs. R. M. Hobbs.
****
MESSRS C.E. BOYETT and
F. A. Barham have sold to
Messrs. J. R. and F. B. Cal
houn, 750 acres of land lying
three miles southwest of the
city, Mr. J. D. Abernathy hand
ling the deal. Also, on yester
day Mr. S k. Bush sold to Mr.
J. L. Spurlock 36 acres In the
Colomokee district for a con
sideration of SI,BOO.
**♦♦
COL. LOWERY STONE has
returned from a several days'
outing up in North Georgia.
****
MR. FRANKS JONES, of Bain
bridge, spent Sunday in the city
with the family of his mother,
Mrs. T. F. Jones.
75 Years Ago
(From the issue of Aug. 2, 1894.)
MR. S H. POWELL, the furni
ture man will occupy the new
brick building being built by Mr.
E. M. Brunson on .South Main
Street.
****
MR. O. D. BRUNSON is now
with his brother, Mr. E. M.
Brunson, in the store on South
Main Street.
****
MAJOR T. F. JONES, Dr. W.B.
Standifer, Col. W. A. Jordan
and Hon. J. P. Lane, Early Coun
ty’s delegates, left this week
for Atlanta to attend the state
democratic convention.
****
MR. J. T. LINDSEY has com
menced the erection of a dwelling
on River Street on that plot
of ground known as Elizabeth
Park, opposite the residence of
Mr. B. Chancy.
MR. W. A. BARKSDALE is
now with the mercantile estab
lishment of Mr. D, W. James.
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REPCRTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS the United States has main
tained large contingents of our Armed Forces in Western
Europe, at great cost, that today are no longer needed.
The commitment of between five and six divisions of American
troops is a result of policies of the 1940 s and the 19505, when
the security and economic well-being of our European allies were
more in question. We now have a new set of circumstances, a
new and prosperous Europe, and we need new policies on the
part of Europe and ourselves.
First, the United States needs to reduce by at least half the
troops over there. Secondly, the nations of Western Europe
themselves ought to start doing more and spending more to look
after their own defense.
* « ❖
THE UNITED STATES is presently deeply involved in a war
larger than the Korean conflict and more expensive on an annual
basis than World War 11. In addition to the half million men in
Vietnam, we have other troops scattered all over the world.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to bear the burden of the
cost. The dollar drain and multi-billion balance of payments defi
cits year after year make even more critical the need to reduce
spending in every possible area.
This many troops in Europe is something we no longer need.
It is an expense we no longer can afford. They are there to show
the Flag, as evidence of U. S. commitment to the NATO alliance.
The United States of course will stand by its European allies in
the event of Communist aggression. But we can show this resolve
with far less troops than we have stationed there at this time. The
cost is approximately $2 billion a year. Half the number could
save perhaps a billion dollars a year.
With the mobility of troops and our massive airlift capabilities,
test maneuvers have already demonstrated that a sufficient num
ber of troops could be put on the ground in Europe in the event
of any emergency in only a matter of hours.
« * *
I HAVE JOINED the Senate Majority Leader in cosponsoring
a resolution calling for a substantial reduction of United States
forces in Europe. It is patterned after a similar measure of two
years ago that was endorsed by some 49 Senators. This reso
lution merits the attention of the Senate, and I hope that the Ad
ministration will take heed and act accordingly.
MRS. P. F. WADE and dau
ghter, Miss Pearl, left Tuesday
for North Carolina.
****
MR. R. L. PERRYMAN and
Mr. Henry Suey have formed a
partnership and will conduct a
general grocery and warehouse
business.
*♦♦♦
PEBBLES from Long Branch:
"Mrs. M. T. Majors, of Fort
Gaines, is visiting Mrs. J. G.
•Corley .... Mr. Will Howell
and sister, Miss Mina, of Mars
Hill, visited here this week.
Jaybirds have been known to
steal partly finished nests from
other birds and rebuild them for
their own use.
WmDEAS!
vXfczy? by
CANADA DRY
Where the Unexpected is Expected
Unexpectedly, you’re the
family’s favorite painter!
Without telling anyone in
advance, go to an art supply
store and get three inexpensive
tubes of oil paint and some
thinner, plus one brush and a
canvas.
With your darkest paint,
make three vertical lines and
three or four horizontal lines,
forming rectangles. With your
lighter colors, fill in some of
the rectangles. Add some odd
title such as “Three Girls in a
Breeze,” hang the painting in
the living room—and wait ’til
the family learns, unex
pectedly, that you’re a painter!
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