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AS THE RECIPIENT OF A CALLAWAY LEADERSHIP
AWARD, Jerry Murkerson of 229 Liberty Street, Blakely,
and his family were entitled to spend a complimentary
week’s vacation July 6 -13 at Callaway Gardens. A rising
senior at Early County High School, he was selected for
the award by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
in which he serves as state vice president. Other activities
and honors include being president of his church youth
group, alternate to Boy's State and a member of the senior
Beta Club. Shown here at the Gardens Information Center
are, from left, Larry, Mrs. Preston Murkerson, Jan, Mr.
Murkerson and Jerry. Each year the Ida Cason Callaway
Foundation presents the awards to approximately 175 out
standing high school students across the state.
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BY SSG H.R. LESIEUR
Everyone knows that the Army
has riflemen, engineers, tank
drivers and helicopter pilots, but
would you believe that it also
has horse handlers ? One of the
more interesting jobs in Viet
nam today is held by Sergeant
Robert Parker who has the res
ponsibility of demonstrating to
the Montagnards how to train
and handle horses. Seems that
they were afraid of the wild
horses that roamed the coun
try and never bothered to try
and tame them. Sergeant Par
ker travels throughout Vietnam
showing the people how to train
horses to use them for carrying
loads and people-
JOB OPENINGS
Sorry we cannot offer you
training as horse handlers but
we can offer opportunities in
other useful fields. We are
looking for men to fill the fol
lowing job fields. Electronics,
Electrical Maintenance, Auto
Maintenance, Clerical and Medi
cal Field, just to name a few.
If you are interested, call us at
432-7622 (Collect) or drop in to
see us and we’ll give you com
plete information as to how you
can become an important mem
ber of Uncle Sam’s Army. W’e’re
located at 315 Broad Avenue in
Albany, Georgia.
PIZZA, PLEASE
An Army Captain in Vietnam
wrote home and said that he
would give SSO for a pizza. Well,
he has his pizza and still has
his SSO. His family took the
hint and sent along two 12-inch
Pepperoni pizzas, packed in 30
pounds of dry ice. The air
mail postage alone came to S2O.
What a person won’t do for a good
pizza!
FACTS ABOUT THE ARMY: Did
you know ??????
**That the Golden Knights, the
Army parachute team, travels
throughout the United States put
ting on demonstrations for the
public ?
**That the Army Chaplain’s
School is located in Brooklyn,
N. Y. ?
**That ALL members of the
Women’s Army Corps takes basic
training at Fort McClellan, Ala. ?
QUESTION OF THE W EEK
Does the Army have any type
of program that enables a re
cruit to go to college ?
Though you will probably be too
busy during basic and advanced
training to do any outside study
ing, once you get to a permanent
installation, you will find that
there are several such college
programs. If you attend night
classes at a nearby University,
for example, the Army will pay
75 percent of your tuition. Some
night classes are also conducted
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 7,1969
Sgt. Lesieur reenlists
for Three Years
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Major Clarence L. Walker, CO, U.S A. Recruiting Main Station,
Atlanta, Georgia, presents SSG Lesieur discharge for last period
of service. SSG Lesieur has re-enlisted for three additional years.
Staff Sergeant Henry R.
Lesieur, who has served Dough
erty', Early and Calhoun Counties
since December 1967, is really
sold on the Army. This month
he reenlisted for three years.
SSG Lesieur initially enlisted
in the Army on May 2, 1955, and
during his 14 years service has
attended three Army Service
Schools, the latest, the Army
Recruiting and Career Coun
seling School, which he completed
in November 1967. His Army
assignments took him to Korea,
Germany, Vietnam and numerous
assignments in the United States.
The sergeant, father of four,
Michel Raoul, Jon Leslie, Bruce
Dennis and Brenda Ann, is active
in baseball, football, fishing and
hunting. He is extremely in
terested in the youth of today,
on post by leading universities
across the country.
Well, folks, once again it’s
time to say see you all next
week right here in the Army'
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particularly' the youth in this
area of responsibility'. He will
be happy to answer questions
for all young men and women
concerning the Army's enlist
ment options. He is also avail
able to discuss military obli
gations with young men and their
parents, and to discuss the Wo
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women and their parents. His
office is located at: 315 Broad
Avenue, Albany, Georgia, tele
phone (912) 432-7622, "feel free
to call or drop by' anytime’’, he
says.
SSG Lesieur is a member of
Triangle Lodge 708 F&AM, Al
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He resides with his wife, Rita
and their four children at 192
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Professionals appeared in Blakely's
Opera House in Days Gone By
Increasing evidence of interest
in plays by local people prompted
interviews with those who have
taken part in operettas, minstrels
and plays on the various stages
in Blakely. Mrs. Paul Morrell
wrote this article.
By Emily Morrell
Os course Blakely’s celebrated
OPERA HOUSE (that never heard
a word of opera) had no outside
exit, no windows. It is incredi
ble...but professionals came to
it. For several years the Nor
man Field Players with "Smilin’
Happy Jack Kearney" entertained
people of Blakely regularly. Mr.
Kearney would appear between
acts of the play and deliver a
monologue and say he would sing
a song entitled "Johnny, get a
hammer, there’s a fly on baby's
head". The main actor Norman
Field was a very handsome heart
throb and many' women said so
but alas andalackhe was married
so was safe from futher contem
plation. In those days...
The OPERA HOUSE was once
known as the Gay' building 1
believe. "That Old Sweetheart
of Mine’’ was read by yours
truly with a musical background;
Iva James Herring and I gave
a dialogue entitled "Poor Papa’’
on that stage. Another play was
"At the End of the Rainbow."
A minstrel show in the new
schoolhouse was presented with
a number of songs and jokes
featuring Lucile Middleton Lo
back, Myrtice Deal and others.
Just the sight of a piano kept
Ruth Freeman happy so perhaps
she played. The chorous sang
loudly if not well.
Blakely was having movies
regularly at the Cosy Tieatre, a
small store building my father,
James B. Livingston, had con
structed for furniture storage-
Today attorneys Stone and Stone
discuss legal matters there.
Mr- and Mrs. zX. C. Oliver and
Mr. Arthur Posey ran the show
and sometimes they would be des
perate for somebody to sell
tickets. They lived near our
house, so being neighborly they ’d
ask me to sell tickets for them.
It was a break in the monotony of
getting lessons, but only after
facing a purchaser did I realize
it was applied Arithmetic! Prices
were about ten and fifteen cents
admission, and nothing would be
more confusing than for a man
to plunk down a dollar bill and
say "two whole and three
halves". Sometimes in a flurry'
of customers that is patrons.
I’d look helplessly at the man and
ask, "how much change are you
due 7 ’
Ruth George and Lane Coach
man had experience in district
contests in reading and decla
mation. Tie fact that Lane won,
doubtless encouraged him in
seeking a legal career..and be
came prominent in it.
Our class enacted "The Ma
sonic Ring" as a graduation gift
to the world. Tiis is the fam
ous (?), incomparable, modest,
class that has reunions often.
A good stage with adequate
development of the individual who
is so inclined- When a person
has a message to impart to
others it is imperative he have
the opportunity and the vehicle
for the exercise of his God
given talent.
In the third grade a little
blue skirt with red fringe down
the side and a colorful blouse
make a stage an exciting place-
As I recall we sang PONY BOY
or a reasonable facsimile. It
was positively thrilling to change
clothes in the little "clock room”
on the northeast corner of the
first floor of the old school house,
scramble up the stairs and line
up for the correct place on the
program.
Our teacher was the lovely
Miss Farnsworth (the late Mrs.
W. A. Hall). One morning she
had the class wear to chapel
an autumn leaf pinned on their
school clothes and sing "Novem
ber gave a party, The leaves
by hundreds came, etc."
Later some feminine minstrel
managed to have a group of
little girls dressed as butter
flies. A blue dress was assign
ed to me and a pink one to another
girl but her mother phoned mine
that pink made her child look
"sallow ” and would mama let
me wear the pink! Mama agreed
probably because Hooked appeal
ing in neither. However, I was
thrilled with the pink; it has a
mish-mash blue can neverequal.
Our 7th grade teacher put
stars in our eyes with dramatic
presentations that varied. In
one we were pajama clad with
hair hanging (in today’s jargon
"a fall"), candle in hand, and
song turned loose on the air.
To drive the point home, we wore
baby caps and sang "Take Me
Back To Baby-land", a lilting
nostalgic ditty'. "If Tie Stars
Could Talk" was another per
petration.
On another occasion Ruth
George Warrick (Mrs. Alto)sang
the Rosary. We do not recall
the names and subject of the
play wherein Iva James Herring
was Madam York. She is often
called that yet. I was happy to
be chorus girl.
Tie curtain had a fascinating
aura all its own: an aquatic scene
surrounded by squares and rec
tangles of advertising space in
forming trapped viewers of the
merits of local stores.
The auditorium seemed huge
with a large wood-burning fire
place on either side not too far
from the stage. Tie big boys
clustered companionably close
in winter. People near the fire
fried and those ten feet away
froze- Tie good ol' days!
World War I was budding about
the time Blakely had School Supt.
H. S. Bowden on its hands. Mr.
Bowden insisted on two things:
good i. e- embellished writing
for one- (What he wrote wasn't
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Rural Georgia is growth country . . . for in
dustry as well as agriculture. There are favorable
tax and labor situations, sites usually cost less to
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And many industries find a fresh outlook in the
rural areas. Industry, like people, seems to thrive
in fresh air, and breathing space also means expan
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The Consumer-Owned electric systems, long spe
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areas, are working with local and state leaders to
re-vitalize rural Georgia . . . help provide more job
opportunities . . . help restore the balance between
rural and urban communities.
It's part of a long-standing dedication to making
our communities better places in which to live.
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writing; it was calligraphy). The
other was monthly entertain
ments at the school house and
every participant was given ten
points to his or her grade
average. Thus it was easy to
leap from a B to an A status.
He was a generous man and also
wanted to bestow tens of those who
observed Sundays fittingly by
Sunday School and church attend
once- He andtheMethodistminis
ter failed to have a meeting of
minds on this subject, so the
poor children were forced to
study since they were thus de
prived of ten points.
Since Blakely was in the throes
of a school building program
change was in the air. The
auditorium became the high
school area. The stage was
stripped of its glamor. I have
often wondered what became of
the curtain that breathed such
excitement and mystery to an
expectant audience. Smaller
grades were herded to the court
house where justice and learning
were absorbed simultaneously,
we hope. In our study of physi
ology we could name the bones
of the body and trace a drop of
blood. If we missed a ques
tion we learned the correct
answer. This marvelous teacher
was Miss Minnie Colsher from
Winchester, Tenn. She and Miss
Mattie Lou Shook (Mrs. Henry'
Moye) brightened Blakely con
siderably.
A type of boudoir cap worn
when girls did not want the public
to shudder at their uncombed
hair, was new to us, so at one
of Mr. Dowden's concerts we
in this unique class decided to
give the world of Blakely a treat:
all of us sat on the back row
wearing boudoir caps, our hair
neatly hidden but our heads were
a mass of ribbon and lace- We
must have looked like idiots,
but no one laughed, no one
screamed at sight of us.
Tie beautiful new two story
schoolhouse was in process of
construction. I leretofore there
had been ten grades but now
there was more to learn or
the pupils weren't as sharp so an
eleventh graile was added. As
I recall, there was one year
no class graduated and that was
due to the addition of the extra
grade-
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