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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1970
MRS. AMELIA BARKSDALE
William Jackson
serves with navy
at Puerto Rico
Navy Petty Officer Secbnd
Class William E. Jackson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Jack
son of Blakely, Ga., is serving
with U. SI Naval Mobile Construc
tion Battalion Forty at Roosevelt
Roads, Puerto Rico.
Prior to duty at Roosevelt
Roads, more than seven hundred
Seabees of his unit reviewed
subjects taught in about sixty
different courses at the Naval
Construction Schools, Davisvllle,
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HELEN TYE
Letter to the
Editor
Dear Mr. Fleming:
Hi all you Early Co. folks!
Sorry I am late with my check
for your paper. We surely do
look forward to Saturday a.m.
when the Early County News
gets to us up here in La.
We sure was sorry to hear
of the trouble you had in Blak
ely last week. Our thoughts are
with all of you.
Please give our best regards
to all our friends in Blakely.
E. Y. and Faye Roberson
116 Holiday Blvd.
Pineville, La. 71360
ALFRIEDA JARRETT
Phone call from
Japan concerning
the explosion
The phone call from the long
est distance, of which we have
heard, came from Yokahoma,
Japan, concerning the explosion,
here Tuesday.
Die call came from Mrs. Paul
E. Brown, the former Eleanor
Sammons of Blakely and SFC.
Brown, who called the residence
of Willie Tom Smith in the Colo
mokee Community, and Miss
Ellen Smith, Mrs. Brown’s aunt,
answered the phone.
Mrs. Brown's mother, Mrs.
Gertrude Sammons has made her
home at the Smith residence
most of the time the past year,
but she was not there when the
call came through. The call
came via of short wave to Tex
as, and by telephone from Texas.
Mrs. Brown said the news
came over the radio earlier in
the morning. The call was put
through about 9 a.m. in Japan,
but it was in the early evening
in Early County.
The Brown's live in the sur
burbs of Tokyo on a U. S, Army
base. They have four children,
ranging from kindergarten age
to the Ninth Grade. They ex
pect to return to the U.S, in
June.
Mr. Brown’s mother is Mrs.
E. M. Brown, who resides on
North Main Street, Blakely.
PEARCE DEATH
continues from front page
McKay, Hamilton Pearce, Jr.,
Hill Clements, Rex Edward, Jr.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Connie Edwards Pearce, of Jakin,
two sons, Jerry Pearce, of Jakin;
and David Pearce, Iron City; one
brother, Mack Pearce, Plant
City, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. B.
F. McKay and Mrs. Henry Ro
binson, Headland, Ala.; and step
mother, Mrs. .Annie E. Pearce,
Grimes, Alabama.
BACKGROUND
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RELEVANT VALUES IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
This article was adapted from
a speech delivered by J. Wilson
Newman. Chairman, Finance
Committee and former Chair
man and Chief Executive Offi
cer of Dun & Bradstreet.
There is an old saying that
problems are never solved, only
shifted and relabeled for the
benefit of newspaper headlines.
Progress is always identified
with problems — political, edu
cational, social, financial — but
actually one term covers them
all. Problems are “people,” peo
ple in motion, going somewhere,
and sometimes getting nowhere,
but always challenging status
quo as they seek the relevant
J. Wilson Newman
values in our changing society.
The manner in which a man is
motivated by the stresses of
opinions, ideas and responses
identifies his character, and re
veals the influences upon judg
ments and decisions.
Let me enumerate some of
the areas where values are un
der attack. In educational fields
there has been noisy evidence
that some students feel that
their inventory of wisdom sur
passes that of their teachers. In
political affairs there is evidence
too, that coercion by the few is
more acceptable than the pro
tection of the many. In credit
matters there has been some
evidence that the creation of
debt may become more valua
ble than the accumulation of
worth. In corporate stockholder
relations there has been evi
dence that the promise of the
bird-in-the-bush years ahead is
more valuable than the real
thing in the hand now. In other
areas of our society, resistance
is rewarded faster than cooper
ation. In divisive segments of
our society, more emphasis is
placed on our differences than
upon areas of mutual interests
and attainable goals. In the fi
nancial world the return on
fixed obligations has for several
years been higher than the re-
turn on equities, reversing a
traditional relationship, and
signaling something debatable
in a change in financial values.
It might be advisable to pause
right here and step back from
the scene and get a long range
perspective on time and place
in the world around us and ap
praise where we stand in the
most amazing decade in his
tory’s most amazing century.
Progress in the Twentieth
Century is a funeral procession
for the ancient legends. The
making of miracles is a daily
trade in chemistry and metal
lurgy. What thrill can a young
ster get from Aladdin’s Lamp
when a finger pressing on a but
ton or pulling on a lever can
poke a hole in earth’s ceiling
and cancel the law of gravity?
What can the Flying Carpet
mean to a lad in a jet that moves
faster than the earth around
the sun? What can Jules Verne
mean to the steel-clad diver
nearly seven miles deep in the
Marianna Trench? Even the
Man on the Moon epic now be
gets the larger objective of a
space hop to Mars. The appe
tite for achievement sharpens
as we devour old objectives, and
seek new ones.
The United States is reputed
to have the highest standard of
living of any nation on this
planet, but does this mean that
we are the most agreeable, or
the most neighborly, or the hap
piest? Definitions of abstract
terms are a bit troublesome.
Progress in our day is accelerat
ing at a rate faster than we as
similate, control, or apply the
benefits at hand. The new is
breathing on the neck of to
morrow as technology combines
invention, new materials and
new methods to attract new
markets and disturb the old
ways of doing things. Events
are accelerating so closelv upon
us that it is difficult to take in
ventory of our progress, or even
our lack of it.
Substantial changes are tak
ing place in educational insti
tutions across the country —
changes which are certain to in
fluence the social order in which
business is a necessary servant.
Let's face the fact. Education
is big business — colossal in
terms of dollars and people em
ployed. Much of the hostility
between the business commun
ity and other segments of so
ciety has been a deep-rooted
misconception of the values as
well as necessity of profits. It
is apparent that some campus
philosophers are rejecting the
values of the “affluent society”
which prosper with profits. No
businessman ever won a medal
for errors that led to insolvency.
The reasoning back of the re
jections of the profit motive in
business cannot be laughed off.
But in applying fair play to
alienated students and their
teachers, with their bumptious
approach toward the free enter
prise system, we cannot be sub
missive in measuring their esti
mate of values to those we re
gard with respect and support
with evidence. Business is com
petitive and where competition
exists ethics are subject to
strain and both internal and ex
ternal control, but there is no
need for business leaders to
capitulate where principles are
defined or to offer words of
timid compromise. It is essen
tial — very essential — that we
identify corporate profits as an
aid to human betterment in our
society.
One of the greatest problems
of our day is that we confuse
the means and the end of our
objectives. In the complexity
and sophistication of our lives
we become so involved in the
“how” that we forget or over
look the “why” of what we are
doing. This applies to educa
tion, business, and the social
sciences, and you can add poli
tics and recreation too.
The analogy of the means
and the end carries over to bus
iness with an especial emphasis
to the businessman who tries to
shrug off his participation in
the social drama of our day.
When a man says “I am going
into business,” what is he think
ing about, and whom is he think
ing about? Well, he had better
be thinking about service to the
community as an end, a goal.
The function of business is to
serve society with products and
facilities as provided by a
special trade, industry or pro
fession.
But there are two sides to the
coin. The maintenance of stand
ards is a sacred obligation, but
the spirit of fair play is equally
applicable to the buyer and sel
ler. The opposite of the “war
ranty” of quality and good faith
is expressed in the Latin “ca
veat emptor,” "let the buyer
beware.” Now the pendulum
swings the other way, and the
politician swings with it. as na
tion, state and city engage in
"consumerism.” with salaried
vigilantes searching for viola
tions of the codes of the market
place. This year and every year
there are hundreds of bills in
troduced in Congress to protect
the consumer. Business cannot
ignore this growing trend
toward legislative control of the
market place and must take the
lead in meeting this challenge
constructively before the threat
grows into punitive and ham
pering reality.
What contribution can busi
nessmen make to meeting the
challenges of tomorrow?
DAR Reviews Pioneer Families
During American History Month
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The Old Freeman Home on Freeman Road (1847-1915) built by Robert Freeman and his wife,
Sarah Elizabeth Grier Freeman, who are the great, great, great, grandparents of many boys and
girls in Early County.
February is American History'
Month, sponsored by the National
Society Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, and in Early
County by the Peter Early Chap
ter, DAR, whose three-fold pur
pose "historic, educational and
patriotic’’ is interlinked.
To better acquaint citizens of
this area of their heritage by’
publicizing historical facts, the
Early County Historical Society’
will furnish information and rare
pictures of sites and hotfies of
pioneer families.
Pictured is the home of Ro
bert Freeman and Sara Eliza
beth Greer Freeman which stood
on the Freeman Road about 8
miles from Blakely. This house
was built about 1847 and torn
down about 1915. The home of
Mrs. Mary Freeman Porter and
Miss Anna Freeman was built
on the site.
This picture was loaned to
the Historical Society by Mrs.
J. Emmett Freeman of 302 North
Main Street.
The picture came from the
Society’s Scrapbook, loaned by
Mrs. R. C. Singletary, Jr., Scrap
book Chairman.
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Robert Freeman, son of Caven
Freeman and Sarah Yeldell was
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R "Spotlighting”
Camille
Jordan
You can rate among the trop
hies wearing these Bobbie Brooks
fashions from their Carefree
Collection. Camille could walk
away with the "Best Dressed"
trophy In this easy pleated skirt
and casual blouse with scarf
accent at the neck. Her shoes
may also be found at Boyett
Dept. Store. They are red,
white and blue ever-popular
spectators by Miss America.
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born in South Carolina 9/8/1823,
died in Early County, 4/20/1909.
He married Sarah Elizabeth
Grier, born 1/18/1830, died 1/
14 T9lO who was the daughter
of Moses Grier and Rebecca
Westmoreland.
Ancestors of the Grier line
age Includes the founder of
Grier’s Almanac and the grand
father of Alexander H. Stephens,
Vice President of the Confede
racy.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Free
man had 12 children: Robert,
Sarah Rebecca, Moses, Nancy,
Mary, Elizabeth Ella, James
Thomas, Anna, Isabel, Joseph
Beulah, and Alice.
Descendants In this area in
clude:
William C. Cox, Jr., three
children: Bill Cox, Mrs. Grady
Kidd and Mrs. John Jordon; John
H. Williams, Sr., and son, John
H. Williams, Jr.; Mrs. Hollis
Sawyer, Mrs. A. D, Wilkerson,
two adopted sons, David N. Wil
liams and Lawrence Williams;
John Porter Smith , Sr., a son
John Porter Smith, Jr.; Mrs.
John G. Golden, two sons, John.
Jr., and Paul S. Golden; Mrs. Carl
Gaulden, Camelia, Robert D.
Hall, a son, Bob Hall and a dau-
ghter, Mrs. Fred Foster; Gordon
Hall-
Lt. Col. (ret) Frances Free
man, Harold Freeman, Mrs.
Harold Creech, Mrs. Curtis Hol
der, Joe, Robert and Malcolm
Freeman.
BASKETBALL
Con’t From Front
Boyd 10 each for Bainbridge.
The Bobkittens, trailing by 5
points at the half, came out in
the second half and handed the
Bainbridge girls a 62-59 defeat.
Top scorers for the Kittens were
Dana Jane Brown with 41 points
and Cheryl Harvey with 12.
Jackie Williamson and Les Grif
fin led the Bainbridge attack with
32 and 21 points respectively.
Both teams will play in the
Region 1-A West tournament Feb.
11-14 in Sylvester, Georgia. The
girls play Feb. 12 and the boys
play Feb. 13. Both are night
games.
HOSPITAL LIST
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Russell, Charles Robinson, Di
anne Nall and Baby Boy, Cora
Glover, Janis Kidd, Albert Black
man, William Evans, Nursey
Threadcraft.