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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1969 EARLY COUNTY NEWS Official Organ of Blakely and Early County > BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723 tl W H. FLEMING PUBLISHER-EDITOR W. W. (BILLY) FLEMING BUSINESS MANAGER Published Every Thursday By the Early County News. Ebtered at the Post Office in Blakely, Ga., as Second Class matter under Act Os March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 0 One Year-43.09 Six Months—s2.o6 ADVERTISING RATES All cards of thanks, memorials, resolutions and matters of similar nature are charged lor at a minimum of SI.OO for 50 words or less. Other rates furnished upon application. Classified Rate — 25 words Or less, 50c. Each additional word 3c One time insertion. — MEMBER - GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION Politics Parade Xi/ /T yv M/h'ams a w m b\ 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 MANRY-JORDAN FUNERAL HOME Established 1937 313 S. Mail St* Phoae 723-4200 BLAKELY, GEORGIA We Serve Any Insurance Policy Ah** For Uiltod Fonily Life iiwroico Co. 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. raoiwr^> 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. Master Charge "THE BEST TRAVELING COMPANION” Take it and use it, wherever you g 0... At Home and Abroad... Shop where you see this emblem: She YOUR DEPENDABLE HOME TOWN BANK MEMBER federal deposit Insurance corporation FULL i*mm* First State Bank FDKf OF BLAKELY ■ 'You Are Always First At First State” jML I Herman Talmadge 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! Read the Early County News I