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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1969
SCHOOL NEWS
FHA to compete
in District Sewing
contest Nov. 1
Three Early County Future
Homemakers of America will
compete Saturday, Nov. 1, in the
District Make it With Wool Con
test at South Georgia College in
Douglas. Rebecca Knighton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs- W. D.
Knighton; Sammie Holman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max
Holman, and Loyette Stephens,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. M.
Stephens, Jr.; will model a wool
garment they have made, and the
garments will be carefully eval
uated for construction by the
judges. District winners will go
on to the state competition on
November 15.
Rebecca's garment will be en
tered in the Senior Suit Division.
It is a green three-quarter-length
coat with a green plaid skirt made
by a Vogue Pattern. Sammie will
enter the Junior Sult Division.
She chose of rust plaid, a three
quarter-length coat with an a-line
skirt made by a Butterwick pat
tern. Loyette will enter the
Junior dress division. Her out
fit is of aqua wool. It is an
empire dress with set in sleeves
made by a Simplicity pattern.
The girls will be accompanied
by their Home Economics teach
er, Mrs. Charlie Houston.
Sid Shingler
Alpha Tau Omega
Fraternity Pledge
Sid Shingler, Jr., Route, 1,
Jakin, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.H.
Shingler, was listed among the
sixteen students at Emory Uni
versity pledging the 1969-70
pledge class of the Alpha Tau
Omega social fraternity.
Winter is coming and so far
we haven’t heard of a single
manufacturer coming out with
thermal mini-dresses.
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Area Students
initiated into
Kappa Delta
Carmen King
Twenty students were initiat
ed into the national Kappa Delta
sorority last weekend (Oct. 17-
19), when Delta Phi chapter in
stalled at Georgia Southwestern
College, Americus. The instal
lation of this first national sor
ority on Southwestern’s campus
was a goal toward which ’ the
former local Kappa Delta Theta
sorority has striven since its
organization in January 1967.
The Georgia Southwestern in
itiates to Kappa Delta from our
area are: Mary Carmen King,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
King, Blakely; and Shirley Ann
Manion, Blakely.
CORRECTION
The names of Laura Foster,
6th grade, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Foster, and Claude
Bell, 7th grade, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C, A. Bell, Early County
Elementary School, were omit
ted from the honor roll list
last week.
‘"The Lord helps those who help
themselves. All others seem to
contact the Government.”
Speed Reading
Course offered
area residents
A Speed Reading Course will
be made available to people in
this area by the Early County
School System, according to
Superintendent Lonnie Chester.
An organizational meeting will
be held in the office of the
School Supt. at 7;30 p. m. No
vember 4. The course will be
taught by an Instructor from
Andrew College.
Tlie course is tentatively sch
eduled for two hours, one night
a week, for six consecutive
weeks. Fees will be $lO for
enrollment and $7.50 for books.
Those interested may enroll
on the evening of November 4,
there must be a minimum of
tifteen enrolled for the class
to begin. Those who are in
terested, but unable to attend
at that time, should contact Mrs.
Hunt Westbrook at the County
School Superintendent’s office in
the Early County Courthouse or
phone 723-4610 prior to that
date.
The course is designed pri
marily for adults, it will also
be open to Seniors in high sch
ool.
Ga. Resources
Institute to be
next Summer
Early County school teachers,
principals, librarians, curricu
lum directors and administra
tors have a unique opportunity
next summer to attend the Geor
gia Natural Resources Institutes
according to Chester McKnight,
Early County forest ranger.
The Institutes are three weeks
in length and will be held at
Shorter College in Rome, June
15-July 3 and Valdosta State
College, June 22-July 10. Ex
penses for room, board and tui
tion for the seminar on the use
and conservation of Georgia’s
natural resources are paid for
by the Georgia Natural Resource
Education Council, the National
Science Foundation, or by
Grants-in-Aid from the Georgia
Department of Education.
Upon completing the three week
course, the participants may re
ceive college credit toward
either undergraduate or gradu
ate degrees. The Institutes may
also be used to fulfill course re
quirements for renewal of teach
er certification in counties where
this is required, said Ranger
McKnight.
Coordinators of the Institutes
are Dr. Philip Greear at Shor
ter, and Dr. Clyde Connell at
Valdosta who are Chairmen of
the Biology Departments at their
respective colleges. Each seg
ment of course is taught by ex
perts from related state and
federal agencies, and industry,
such as the Soil Conservation
Service, Georgia Game and Fish
Commission, Georgia Forestry'
Commission, State Parks De
partment, the timber industry and
others. The Resources Insti
tutes have received national ac
claim for excellence in purpose
and achievement, and are prais
ed unanimously by all teachers
who have attended in the past.
Many have enthusiastically term
ed it one of the “finest and most
valuable courses” they have ever
taken.
Ilie Resources Institutes are
sponsored by the Georgia Natural
Resource Education Council,
which is comprised of represen
tatives from the state and fede
ral conservation agencies, the
timber industry and conserva
tion groups.
Ranger McKnight stated that
any educator desiring additional
information or an application for
enrollment at one of the 1970
Institutes should contact Frank
Craven, chairman, Georgia Na
tural Resource Council, c/o
Georgia Forestry Commission,
Box 819, Macon, Georgia 31202,
or the colleges involved.
- BOOK TIME -
BY MRS. PAUL MORELL
Greetings one and all, near and
far, wherever you are I!
First question today - Do you
have the time ? Or enough time ?
Can you define time? Just what
is it? Writers refer to the E
ternal Present . . Now is all
we have. Yesterday is gone-
Where we do not know and to
morrow has not yet arrived,
thank goodness, but before you
realize it, tomorrow will be here.
Where is tomorrow right now,
and yesterday? Is it wound on
a huge spool of the universe
to be re-used somewhere else
by another person? What do we
mean by saving time? We can’t
put it in the bank or in a box
or put it away for a rainy day.
You recall the story of the Chi
nese who had heard Americans
talk so much about saving time,
he asked what did they do with
all the time they saved ?
Who peered into the mists of
antiquity and decided to make
some distinction about this time
business? You guessed right
the first time - the Egyptians.
Sidney Lens in AFRICA -African
Giant says very simply “the
Egyptians left humanity quite a
legacy of knowledge. On July
19, 4241 B.C. they introduced
the calendar. It divided the day
into 24 hours, the month into
30 days, and the year into 12
months. There were 5 days
left over - since there are 365
days a year, but the Egyptians
listed these as holidays, not part
of any month.
The idea of having the Roman
god Janus with his 2 faces, one
to peer into the past (December)
and the other to scan the year
ahead was always interesting to
me.
Os course we use the Julian
calendar, named on account of
changes made at the time of one
Julius Caesar. Time does
change, you know, and for some
reason I do not understand (and
I admit to being easily baffled)
about 200 years ago some ad
justments had to be made. Don't
ever quote me, you might land
in jail, but as 1 recall, there
was a difference of about 11 days
and George Washington was bom
on February 11th but due to the
calendar change the date was
shoved up to February 22nd.
It seems that powers that be
can’t do anything to time Itself,
but they can sort of irritate it. .
They finally quit monkeying with
the calendar so they turned their
attention to the clocks. If they
couldn’t add another day or a
month they had to do something -
they would add an hour, so some
body thought up the brilliant idea
of turning back the clocks (or
forward, it didn’t make any dif
ference just so time was being
changed in the only possible way)
for one hour. That way it will
make people think it is later
than it really is. No matter
now when you look at your watch
it is late. The phrase "later
than you think’ ’ must have been
made famous by a frustrated
man accustomed to telling time
by the sun.
Meanwhile the man who thought
it all up is howling with glee
because he had southwest Geor
gians getting up at what used to
be 4 o’clock and going to bed
at 8 o’clock. Thanks to some
body’s tardy conscience, time is
handled better now we turn our
clocks back an hour.
So often we say we haven’t
time to do this or that . • •
God gives everyone 24 hours
and it is remarkable what some
people accomplish in that length
of time. Most of us waste
time without realizing it. As
Kipling said, "If you can fill the
unforgiving minute with 60
seconds worth of distance run”,
you’ve really accomplished
something. Anybody can waste
time but it is too precious to
fritter away.
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Someone has said it is in
teresting and revealing to ob
serve how families spend their
money. Those who scream the
loudest they don't have any would
surprise themselves if they would
look objectively at their expendi
tures. To know a person quick
ly, really to size them up look
at their checkbook, assuming you
can. That truly tells all." What
we spend our money for is the
thing that "gets us" at the time
of purchase. It was most im
portant-most desirable. Later
we may regret it. Have you
bought something and regreted
it?
One time I was on the train
coming in to Blakely from Al
bany. I was alone which is hard
to understand. Perhaps some
one put me on the train with
strict orders to stay on until
the train reached Blakely. Any
way the news-butch came along
(and why should he be called
that when he sold things to eat ?)
He had little glass pistols and
lanterns that contained pink and
blue and yellow and white and
green bits of candy. It was
irresistible- What was money
for but to spend, I thought, so
I happily decided to get not one
but 2 lanterns. They were so
pretty and well worth the price-
Ownership was sweet. As I re
call I did not eat any of the
candy - these would be gifts.
From every conceiveable angle
I admired those lanterns- They
even had little handles.
Before long the train neared
Blakely and I began to have mis
givings as to the wisdom of my
purchase. Mama wouldn’t like
it - she'd think I was out of my
mind. There were a few mo
ments of debate - the lanterns
were pretty but I had acted hast
ily without due thought. The
evidence was unmistakable. It
must be destroyed. How? And
leave no trace ... In a flash
the solution came. I managed to
get the train window up a little
more and dropped the two lan
terns out and no one has known
to this day.
Yes, how we spend our money
is important and furthermore
how we spend our time is equally
important. As some families
have spent their extra dollars
on cars, travel, house, church,
clothes, yard, pets, books, per
sonal adornment, education, re
creation, etc., so various people
spend their time on those things.
It is trite but true when you
want to get something done,’go
to a busy person. That one un
doubtedly puts first things first
and sort of apportions the time
accordingly.
What a person is doing at that
particular moment is most im
portant to that person, conscious
ly or unconsciously.
Some folks claim they can do
two things at once - like study
and listen to the radio. Os course
being a believer in concentra
tion, the one brain variety and
thankful for that, I can’t ap
preciate the desirability or ne
cessity of doing two things at
once-
Was it Daniel Webster who
could dictate 4 letters at one
time and not lose the continuity
of any of them? Every one
knows too his was the largest
brain ever. And most of us
don’t use all we have-
There’s some lines called
"Listening To The Radio” that
fit in here.
Now let's turn on the radio
I want to hear the latest news;
Oh, don’t you love his deep voice-
He is the one I always choose.
I’m tired of hearing Paris talk
talk talk -
But tell me honey, did you hear
That awful tale about- guess who -
From what they say it’s true, I
fear.
This summer has been just one
more,
1 haven’t bought a thing to wear;
It seems hot weather means get
hot
Then why should we go any
where ?
The news is just the same old
thing;
It’s wrapped and packaged nice
and neat;
1 like to hear the radio,
It simply makes my day com
plete.
Yes, there are so many voices,
so many sounds clamoring for our
attention oftentimes we are pre
vented from THINKING and you
remember the famous statement:
90% of the people DON'T THINK;
8% think they think and 2% think.
Where do we fit, you and I?
Dr. E. Stanley Jones, Metho
dist missionary to India, con
ductor of Ashrams in this coun
try, author, speaker, a most
unusual minister, is credited
with saying that one of the mar
vels of life is the ability of
the average mind to refuse to
accept an idea. Mental lazi
ness is probably one of the most
common traits of man.
Recently I was sitting in a
car waiting. The area near the
post office teems with the ghosts
of forgotten years. The trees
were tall, the place seemed as
if in suspense, waiting for some
thing or someone. I thought
Only the land stays here;
The people come and go,
Generations live and die,
Trees in repetitious cycle
Bud, show leaves, and shed them
Releasing - law of life-
The years pass on and on
And all the pattern’d path
Os right we fail to see;
Each has to make his own;
Would that earth could whisper
Truths the Past has proved
And help us live inbrighter mood
For only land stays here!
Yes, time is exceedingly
strange. Jericho’s history pos
sibly reaches back 7000 years.
Egypt had the first civilization
6000 years ago- Where is that
Time ? Man has built, then des
troyed in a rather consistent
pattern.
For years I have regretted
the burning of the library at
Alexandria, Egypt and the book
"THE EGYPTIANS” by Isaac
Asimov that is at the library
states very clearly that Bishop
Cyril is believed to be responsi
ble. Did I mention French Sol
diers defaced the Sphinx because
they idly used the features as
goals or whatever you call them
in target practice? They had
time on their hands and used it
unwisely, destructively.
Time! There’s never enough.
Incidentally the Arabs invented
clocks. In that way they got even
with everybody - Numerals were
enough to invent but they added
clocks to the list.
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Some 1,500,000 Americans
now alive have been cured of
cancer says the American Can
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FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS the United States has poured
biilions of dollars into foreign countries in a world-wide spending
spree that has helped put our government and the American tax
payer deep in debt.
Summarizing the aid program, the U. S. has spent more than
$122 billion in foreign assistance. Add another S6O billion in
interest paid on what we have borrowed to give away, and the
total comes to $lB2 billion.
These funds have gone to just about all of the 3'/i billion people
in the world in almost 130 nations. During all this time, U. S. gold
reserves have dwindled from $22.8 billion to $10.3 billion. In
curring balance of payments deficits year after year, we have sent
to foreign countries almost $37 billion more than they have re
turned to us.
The national debt totals some $365 billion—about $57 billion
more than the combined public debt of all other nations of the
world.
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IN RECENT YEARS there has been growing disenchantment
with foreign aid spending. American taxpayers are tired of having
to tighten their belts at home and cut back on domestic programs
while billions are still being spent to help prop up foreign
economies.
Dissatisfaction with the aid program has greatly increased be
cause of the war in Vietnam. Here we have been fighting this war
at great cost in blood and treasure. And at the same time, many
of our so-called allies, beneficiaries of U. S. aid over the years, not
only criticize our involvement in Vietnam but also give aid, trade
and comfort to the enemy in Hanoi. This does not make much
sense to American citizens who are fed up with the war and with
foreign aid.
Sweden is a recent case in point. Sweden has received $156 mil
mion in U. S. aid and wants more. Yet, this nation has sided with
North Vietnam, castigated our government, and extended sanc
tuaries to American military deserters. And just recently, Sweden
announced plans to give Hanoi aid and loans of more than S4O
million.
Our State Department is beginning to take notice, as well it
should. This is the kind of thing that suggests the need for a
thorough review of the U. S. foreign aid program.
I don’t think anyone wants to see United States aid to any
nation, reputedly a friend or not, translated into helpful trade or
assistance to our enemy on the battlefield.
-Notice-
Due to the Invitational being
played in Quincy on Nov. 4,
the Ladies Golf Association will
have their luncheon meeting on
Nov. 11. All members are urg
ed to attend this November meet
ing as trophies for the club
championship will be given and
plans will be made for the annual
Christmas party.
At the Invitational in Donal
sonville on Oct. 24 Agnes Cul
pepper won the Championship
flite; Mary Claire Herring won
runner-up in the championship
flite- Leah Howell won consul
ation in second flite and Peggx
Davis won consulation in the third
flite.
Great Britain has about 5-
m ill ion dogs-
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
-Notice-
The Blakely Garden Club will
meet November 6 at 3:30 at the
home of Mrs. J. B. Rice. The
program is Christmas arrange
ments with all members parti
cipating.
BELL OR FLARE?
Fashionable shaped slacks
for fall/winter can be found ~
with varying leg designs. Some
menswear manufacturers offer
"elephant leg" or extreme bell
styling, while others offer so
phisticated, slightly flared bot
toms such as models from
Jaymar-Ruby. Says President
Burton B. Ruby, "Jaymar slacks
designs are intended to blend
tastefully with other sports
wear items, whatever the oc
casion."