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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Os
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. Hl—NO. 13
FIGHTING CATS FALL
TO YELLOW JACKETS
The Yellow Jackets, No. 2
team in Double-A, in Alabama,
had allowed nine other opponents,
only 25 points all season, closed
their season with ten victories
On a cold, cold night the Early
County Bobcats turned in their
hottest performance, but still
went down to their ninth defeat,
losing to the powerful Abbeville,
Alabama Yellow Jackets, 32 to
14, to end the disastrous grid
season.
The small, injury-riddled Bob
cats led by feather-weight Stan
ley Holley, filling in for Robert
Newberry, side-lined with a pul
led muscle, made a game of it
for two quarters, holding the
Yellow Jackets scoreless in the
first quarter, 12 points in the
second while posting eight of
their own.
"Badcat and Player of the Week”
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Warren McLendon
Players of the Week in the
Bobcats final game against Abbe
ville were John Ricketson and
Warren McLendon. McLendon
played perhaps his finest game of
the season. The senior guard
was outstanding as a blocker and
made five tackles while playing
well defensively. Warren is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Me-
Basketball Teams Open
Season Friday Night
The Early County Bobcats Bas
ketball team will open their 1969-
70 season here Friday night,
November 21 against Clay
County.
This should be an interesting
season for the spectator, the
Bobcats have added several
strong opponents to their sche
dule which includes Dothan, Tho
masville and others. Cairo will
come 'to Blakely for the first
time: this game has become one
of the biggest rivals in south
Georgia.
This year's team, which has
the potential of being the great
est basketball team at Early
County High, will be composed
of: Dewey Cannon, 5'10” Cap
tain and a Senior; other Seniors
are: Cliff Starr, 6’7”; Tim
Everson, 6’0”; Johnny Scarbo
rough, 5’11”; Juniors: Rex Ho
well, Co-Captain, 6’0”; Marvin
Earnest, 6’4”; John Ricketson,
6’2”; Jim Daniels, 5’11”; Stan
ley Holley, 5’9”; Sophomores:
Scott Starr, 6'3 ’; Scott Houston,
6’4”; and Robert Newberry, 5’9”,
according to Coach Tommy
Whitehurst.
-DANCE-
V. F. W.
Sat. Night Nov 22
9:00 P. M. Till!
BOBBY & THE
DIAMONDS
Public Invited
Couples Only
(Kar County
and no losses.
It was Ronnie Barnes, Ronnie
Bush and quarterback Chucky
Riley who did the Bobcats in.
Riley scored once, Bush twice
and Barnes crossed the double
stripes three times. Terry Ro
land booted two extra points.
Holley passed to Randall Wil
liams, who made a sensational
catch, for 24 yards and a touch
down, and big John Ricketson,
who had a great night, ran for
the two points. The Holley-
Williams combo set up the other
Bobcat score, a 30 yard pass
play to the Yellow Jackets 3,
from where Ricketson bulled it
across.
Linescore:
Abbeville 0 12 6 14 32
Early 0 8 0 6 14
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B -IT
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John Ricketson
Lendon.
Ricketson smashed the tough
Abbeville line for 104 yards and
scored one touchdown and one two
point conversion. He also made
five tackles from his defensive
halfback position. John is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ric
ketson.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
The girls basketball team at
Early County High will open the
season with Clay County girls
here Friday night, November 21
and will play Bainbridge Tues
day, November 25. Both games
will be played in Blakely.
The probable line up will be
picked from the following: For
wards - Nancy Holman, a Jun
ior; Diane Collier and Dana-Jane
Brown, Sophomores. Guards -
Kathy Tiner, Gail Johnson, Sen
iors; Debra Ducati, Kerry Wal
ler, Loyett Stephens, Juniors:
Sheryn Hunt, Sophomore.
Coach Hilburn Dunahoo said,
“The team is in as good con
dition as they could be ... if
we can get ourselves primed
mentally, the fans will see some
good games”.
Mrs. Delie Todd,
Leary, passes at
home Wednesday
Mrs- Delie Elizabeth Holder
Todd, 79, died at her residence
in Leary on Wednesday of the
past week, November 12. She
was a native of McClean, Miss
issippi, and was born Nov. 20,
1889, and was a member of the
Mars Hill Primitive Baptist
Church where funeral services
were held on Friday, Elders
Elzy Bryant and Don Roberts
officiating. She had been a re
sident of Leary for the* the past
six years.
Burial was in the Mars Hill
cemetery, Manry-Jordan Fune
ral Home in cha^e of arrange
ments. Pall bearers were Mike
Wilson, Quinton Adams, Kenneth
Todd, Walter Todd, Hollis
Adams, Robert Temples.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs-
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
GEORGE WARRICK
buys McKinney
BUILDING, LAND
A recent real estate trans
action makes George A. War
rick owner of the former Mc-
Kinney building and land on South
Main and Liberty Street. Mr.
Warrick purchased the property
from Mrs. Genevieve M. Me-'
Kinney and Miss Genevieve Mc-
Kinney at an unannounced price-
The building formerly housed
the Martin & Son Chevrolet Com
pany, which is now located in new
quarters at the corner of South
Main and Boulevard.
Mr- Warrick, in business with
his father, Alto Warrick, in the
operation of the Economy Auto
Stone, air-conditioning sales and
service and other endeavors,
says this business will move its
new quarters after the first of
January 1970. The building is
currently being re-modeled and
renovated. “We expect to en
large our present line and take
on others’’, Mr. Warrick stated,
“and make of it one which we
believe our customers and
friends will appreciate, and one
in which they will enjoy shop
ping”.
The store will have two en
trances, from South Main and
Liberty, and from the Liberty
Street entrance, customers may
park in the rear, and enjoy free
parking.
George Alto Warrick, Jr., in
charge of the air-conditioning
department, is associated with
his father and grandfather in
the operation of this business.
The company’s legal name is
The Warrick Company.
BUCK MAKES
FATAL MOVE
INTO THE CITY
The sign near the school might
now have to include "Deer Cross
ing” as well as “DEAR Children -
Crossing”.
A four point deer was killed
near the Early County High and
Elementary Schools about 6 A.M.
Wednesday morning by a Blakely
Policeman.
Policeman Fyerson Chandler
was patrolling the area early
Wednesday morning, going out
Columbia Street, turning around
and returning by the schools,
where only two large transfer
trucks had traveled Highway 62
during that time and it is be
lieved that the buck was hit by
one of the trucks.
It apparently had entered the
city by the Baptist Branch; come
across Puckett's pasture, and
started across Columbia Street.
It was injured and Mr. Chandler
shot it. The deer might have
thought it was in a Safety Zone.
MRS. LOUISE SLADE
DIES WEDNESDAY
IN FLORIDA
Mrs. Louise Dunbar Slade, 67,
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died
Wednesday, November 19, at St.
Mary’s Hospital, West Palm
Beach, Fla. Following a lengthy
Beach, Fla., following a lengthy
illness. Mrs. Slade resided in
Blakely with her sister, Mrs.
W, J. Grist for a short time in
the 1940's and often visited here.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later. Survivors be
sides Mrs. Grist include three
other sisters and two brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grist
and Mrs. E. P. Whitehead left
Wednesday for West Palm Beach
to attend funeral services which
were tentatively set for Friday.
Big Ben in London has been
keeping time since 1856.
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Rye was named “the grain
of poverty’ ’ because it will grow
on poor land farmed by people
of poverty.
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India is the home of the bark
ing deer which barks like a dog.
Martin Adams, Leary; one son,
Lester Todd, Cuthbert, and 6
grand and 9 great grandchildren,
and a brother, Neely Holder,
Arlington.
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 20, 1969
MOON WALK ACCEPTED
AS MERELY ROUTINE
Americans have begun to ac
cept the impossible as merely
routine. The second moon flight
was effected early Tuesday
morning, and although television
and radio blared the news al
most continuously, the average
man on the street accepted the
news as merely routine. As
tronauts Charles Conrad and Alan
Lions vs. Jaycees
Rag-Tag Football
The Blakely Jaycees and the
Lions Club will meet Thursday
night at 7:30 P.M. on Standifer
Field.
The game will be rag-tag foot
ball and promises to be an ex
citing event as the two all-star
(?) teams tangle. (If bad weather
exists, the game will be changed
to basketball and played in the
ECHS gynasium.
DR. HORTON, NEW
VICE PRESIDENT
BAPT. CONVENTION
Dr. Charles Dorsey Horton,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Blakely, was elected
vice president of the Georgia
Baptist Convention, Novem
ber, 11, at the 1969 Convention
held at Ponce de Leon Baptist
Church in Atlanta, to serve with
Dr. Walter Moore, President,
as one of the four vice presi
dents chosen from leaders
throughout the state.
Dr. Horton is a member of
the executive committee to the
convention from the Bethel Bap
tist Association; and served this
year as Chairman of the Con
vention Budget Committee, pre
senting to the Convention a bud
get of $5,648,000.00 with a goal
for distributable funds of $6 mil
lion. He previously served on the
Convention’s nominating corti
mittee.
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Dr. C. D. Horton
Dr. Horton is moderator of the
Bethel Baptist Association, and
has served as vice moderator.
He came to Southwest Georgia
as pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Blakely, in February,
1965, moving herefrom Acworth,
Georgia, where he was pastor of
the First Church. Prior to that
he was pastor at the Crawford and
Reidsworth Baptist Churches.
Since he has been at the First
Baptist Church here, total gifts
for all causes have gone from
over $35,000 to more than SSB,
000. The church has bought and
paved a large parking lot, west
of the church; redecorated the
educational building and re
structured the front of the sanc
tuary and the church office,
bought a new organ, employed a
full time professionally trained
church secretary and secured a
full time janitor. During 1969
there were 38 baptisms into the
fellowship of the church.
Dr. Horton has served as pre
sident of the Blakely - Early
County Inter Club Council, while
serving in this capacityhebrought
various state-wide speakers to
Blakely, encouraging civic ad
vancement. He spearheaded the
Certified City Program in which
the City of Blakely is partici
pating; and the Stay and See
Georgia Program, sponsored by
I - Bean set their mooncraft
Intrepid on the moon’s surface
in the dark hours of Wednesday
morning, leaving their pilot,
Richard F. Gordon, on the com
mand ship Yankee Clipper, con
tinuously orbiting the moon, to
pick them up later for the re
turn to Mother Earth.
All proceeds from this game
will be donated to the Empty
Stocking Fund. Admission will
be one (new or like new) toy
for adults - children will be
admitted free- Please bring all
the old toys and any donations
possible and help provide a little
happiness to some child at
Christmas.
BLAKELY JAYCEES
LAUNCH SAFETY
DRIVE NOV. 23
The Blakely Jaycees have
launched a drive for Safety, to
remind the public of the neces
sity for safe and sane driving.
Jaycees will man a Road Block
here Sunday, November 23 be
tween the hours of 1 P.M, and
5 P.M. During this time they
will distribute Safety literature
and emphasize SAFE DRIVING.
"Stay Alive - Join the Jaycee
Safety Drive” is the slogan for
the campaign. Road blocks will
be set up on Columbia Street
and on U.S. Highway 27, North.
Jaycees conducting the road
block will be Art Powell, Jimmy
Brewer, Durwood Johns, Ben
Cooper, Byron Hayes, Rex New
man, Bill Patton, Greg Fekays
and Felix Davis.
Musical Program
Presented
Rotary Friday
Blakely Rotarians heard a de
lightful musical program at last
Friday's meeting featuring Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Horton, directors
of the Early County High School
Band, and selected members of
the band. Taking part on the pro
gram were Roger Sammons, sax
aphonist, Tommy Harvey, pi
anist and guitarist, Wayne
Powell, guitarist, Mike Griffin,
drummer, and Clink Alexander,
organist
Mrs. Horton opened the pro
gram leading the audience in the
singing of "Got The Whole World
In My Hands”, did a solo num
ber, "Autumn Leaves.” Tommy
Harvey, to his own guitar ac
companiment, sang "Don't It
Make You Wanta Go Home.”
The program ended with Mr. and
Mrs. Horton and the entire musi
cal group singing "This Land Is
Your Land.” The program was
arranged by Marvin Singletary.
Guests at the meeting included
Warren E. Jones, Chicago, Frank
Davis, Albany, guests of Ray
mond Singletary, D. A. Lewis,
Ocala, Fla., a guest of Jack
Collier, and high school seniors
Mary Ann Jester, Ruth Perkins,
Frank Thomas and Jerry Hunt.
President Pete Underwood
presided.
-NOTICE-
Schools in Early County will
dismiss on Wednesday afternoon,
November 26, at the end of the
school day for Thanksgiving holi
days.
Schools will reconvene on Mon
day morning, December 1.
Lonnie Chester
Supt., Early County Schools
the Inter Club Council and the
Blakely-Early County Chamber
of Commerce.
Blakely Junior Miss
To Be Chosen Nov. 22
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Seated left to right) Miss Dianne Riley, Miss Glenda Mulkey, Miss Phyllis Causey. (Standing
left to right) Miss Lynda Parker, Miss Ruth Perkins, Miss Jackie Gentry, and Miss Rebecca
Knighton. (Not shown) Miss Kerry Waller, Miss Annette Davis, and Miss Jeanie Clinkscales.
Oh, to be young and beau
tiful again!!ll That’s what you
might think if you took a look
at the ten charming and talent
ed contestants entering Blake
ly’s Junior Miss Pageant, Sat
urday, November 22, 1969, at
7:15 p.m. in Mangham Audi
torium, sponsored by the Blak
ely Jaycettes.
The contestants are: Miss
Jeanie Clinkscales, an Early
County High School Senior and
the 17 year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Clinkscales; Miss
Annette Davis, the 17 year old
brown haired daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Davis of Ar
lington, Georgia; Miss Jackie
Gentry, 5 foot 6 inch, blonde
haired daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Gentry; Miss Rebecca
Knighton, a strawberry blonde
High School Senior is the dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs- W. D.
Knighton; Miss Glenda Mulkey,
Graveside rites
held Saturday for
Mrs. Ernstine
Graveside funeral services in
the Blakely cemetery for Mrs.
Forrest Ernstine, 51, were held
here on Saturday morning, con
ducted by Dr. C. D. Horton.
Mrs. Ernstine, the former Miss
Annie Nell Collins, resided at
1359, Redding, California, and
passed away in a hospital there
on Monday, Nov. 10, after a long
illness. Memorial services were
held in Redding. Mrs. Ernstine
was born and reared in Blakely,
and was the daughter of Mrs.
B. R. Collins and the late Mr.
Collins. She attended the Blak
ely schools and was a graduate
of Shorter College, Rome-: She
had been a resident of Redding,
California for 25 years.
Survivors, in addition to her
mother, are the widower, and two
sons, Glenn and Jimmy Ernstine,
of Redding, and a sister, Mrs.
Victor Yeargan, of Rome, Ga.
Manry-Jordan Funeral Home
was in charge.
Little Nathan
Henderson dies
Atlanta, Ga. —Nathan Hender
son, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred N. Henderson, 4169 Briar
cliff Road, N. E., Atlanta, Ga.,
died Friday following a lengthy
illness.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, Nov. 15, at Spring Hill
Chapel, Patterson and Son Fune
ral. Home, Atlanta- Interment
was in Arlington cemetery, At
lanta-
The young boy's mother is
the former Martha Jane Rogers,
a native of Blakely.
Survivors besides the parents
include: Mrs. J. Cl (Martha)
Rogers, Atlanta, maternal grand
mother; and paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred N.
Henderson, Sr., Albany.
the 5 foot 3 inch, brown haired
contestant is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Mulkey.
Miss Kerry Waller, a 5 foot
8 1/2 inch High School Student,
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Waller; Miss Lynda Par
ker, the brown haired, 5 foot
4 inch daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Parker; Miss Dianne Ri
ley, a brown haired Junior at
Early County High School is the
daughter of Mrs. Vida Riley:
Miss Phyllis Causey is the blonde
haired daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Causey; and Miss Ruth
Perkins, the 5 foot 3 inch dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Per
kins of Blakely.
The contestants will make four
appearances on the day of the
Pageant. An individual inter
view which will test their in
telligence, poise and persona
lity on Saturday afternoon, then
that evening in the sports wear
"Slim" Oxford
passes in Early
Hospital
William Williford "Slim” Ox
ford, 70, native of Terrell County
died Sunday morning in the Early
Memorial Hospital after an ill
ness of one week. Graveside
services were held Monday mor
ning at Sardis Baptist Church
cemetery in Terrell County with
Dr. L. C. Cutts officiating.
Mr. Oxford was born Sept
ember 28, 1899 and was the
son of the late Annie Lee W'all
Oxford and William Hill Ox
ford. He was a veteran of'
World War I and a member
of the Sardis Baptist Church.
He was a lifetime resident of
Terrell County but had been at
the Blakely Nursing Home for
the past two years.
A sister, Mrs. Ed Joiner, sur
vives.
Dick Perryman
dies at Emory
Univ, hospital
Richard Lowery (Dick) Perry
man, 62, of Leary, a retired
merchant, farmer and banker,
died in Emory University Hos
pital, -Saturday after a long ill
ness. Until recent retirement,
he was president of the Jordan
Banking Company in Leary. He
He was a member of the Leary
Methodist Church and served on
its board of trustees and ste
wards.
Mr. Perryman was born Nov
ember 9, 1907, the son of the
late Robert Lee Perryman and
Lillian Griffin Perryman, and
lived all of his life in Leary.
Final rites were conducted by
the Rev. Joseph Kelly, the Rev.
Max Barlow and the Rev. Eu
gene Barlow, Monday, 11 o’clock
in the Leary Methodist Church.
Interment was in the Leary ceme
tery. Pall bearers were James
PULL FOR BLAKELY
— OR —
PULL OUT
$3.09 PER ANNUM
division, in talent and evening
dress. There will be no bathing
suits.
Earl "Tlge” Pickle will be
Master of Ceremonies. Miss
Sharon Renae Lumpkin, Early
County's Little Miss Peanut and k
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lamar Lumpkin will also par
ticipate in the Pageant.
For entertainment, Mrs. Har
rell Trice will sing and will be
accompanied by Miss Sharon
Coates of Fort Gaines, Georgia.
The winner of the Pageant
will journey to Atlanta in Janu
ary to compete in the State Pag
eant. She will receive a local
scholarship and trophy in the
Blakely Pageant.
Advance tickets are on sale
as follows: Adult Advance Tic
kets 75^, at Door, SI.OO. Stu
dent Advance Tickets 25^, at
Door 50£.
Prominent Clay
County citizen
dies here Friday
Herman S, Bass, 72, promi
nent Bluffton citizen, a retired
farmer and merchant, died Fri
day afternoon in the Early Memo
rial Hospital following a lengthy
illness. A native and life long
resident of Calhoun County and
Bluffton, he was born August
7, 1897, the son of Marcellus
Bass and Willie Sanders Bass.
He was a World War I veteran.
He was a member of the Bluff
ton Baptist Church where funeral’
services were held Saturday as- ,
ternoon, Dr. C. D. Horton and
the Rev. Marvin Smith officiat- .
ing. Interment was in the Bluff
ton cemetery, Manry-Jordan
Funeral Home in charge, and
the following serving as pall
bearers: Curtis Hubbard, Felix
Goins, Cellus Goodman, Olin
Stone, Jack Durham, John C. Bru
ner. Those serving as an honor
ary escort were Joe Hammack,
Claude W. Lowe, Willis Duvall,
Tommy Manry, Tommy Orr,
Tommy Owen, Russell Mansfield,
Ben Frank Cooper, Ham Ward,
W. J. McKemmie, Marvin Wil
liams, Charlie W'illiams, Rufus
Williams, Melvin Brown, A. C.
Bruner, Wilmer Knighton, Bill
Hubbard.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Irene Gay Bass, Bluffton; a dau
ghter, Mrs. Hamp Clarke, a
granddaughter, Mrs. Charles
Bush, both of Blakely.
Suddeth, Alvin Suddeth, Earle
Norton, Lewis Butler, Robert
Dixon, Eldon Wilkinson, Bobo >
Webb, Bill Jordan and Manry-
Jordan Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Frances Hammond Perryman and
two sons, Jack H. and Richard
L. Perryman, of Leary; a dau
ghter, Mrs. N. C. Houston, Nash
ville, Tenn., and a granddaughter.