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The Fish Are Biting!
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* . I : New electric co-op lines are
|W [vA I being built to serve still un-
served areas . . . lines are be
-1™! ing “heavied up” to take care
M o f increasing use of low-cost
electric power by co-op Mem-
L- /| *'*"'. As new lines cross the land,
■J they attract new homes, new
kBREHH 31 farms, new industry .. . foster
■ffiliiSiUM ygf economic growth. What was
IMSfWM If i once idle land now is a site for
■ 11 new activity. This makes prog-
UlKh |Mw|||n| ress an d economic growth .. .
S All rural electric co-op mem-
bers aren't farmers . . . many
work in the cities and towns
. operate rural businesses
£ mSi ’ ® ut tbe ^ can ''^ Ve m °d"
I m m K ern ” because electric co-ops
Im. m H| H 3 H J brought low - cost electricity
||g | —l| into the dark areas when no
0^ e sle would undertake the
j° b • " • Look around . . . you’ll
Hi / see that the electric co-op is a
i v ‘ ta ^ P art °f our commoHify’ B
progress . . .
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Membership Corp.
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HI MARK OF EXCEILENCE
Are you going to
go through another year
thinking you can’t afford
an Oldsmobile?
Our own that an Olds represents.
surveys indi- Take this big, exciting
cate that quite a Delta 88, for example. It starts
few people think an Oldsmobile is out out with a surprisingly modest
of their reach. They think it costs a lot more price. Add to this the features that make
than it really does. Result? Many people it such an outstanding value—extras that
buy an ordinary car and end up with a lot are included in the modest price: □ Reg
less car and value for their money. ular-gas Rocket V-8 □ Power Steering
It’s so unnecessary, too, because Olds- □ Power Brakes, front discs □ Nylon
mobile has many models that are priced loop carpeting □ Bias-Belted Tires □
right down with the so-called low-priced Door Side-Guard Beams □ Hidden Radio
cars. Antenna □ Flo-Thru Ventilation □ Bigger,
So why settle for the ordinary when you better riding 124" wheelbase. Check these
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Oldsmobile: Escape from the ordinary indy* pace'car 1970
Final plans for
Lay Witness
Mission Westview
Final plans for the Lay Wlt
ss Mission to be held March
..v, "1 and 22 at Westview Unit
ed Me. ioc it Church have been
announced. Julian Epps from
Headland, Ala., co-ordinator, and
a team of laymen from Georgia
and Alabama, will arrive in Blak
ely at 6 p.m. Friday, March 20.
At 7 p.m. a covered dish fel
lowship supper will be held in
tire church.
8;00 p.m. - fellowship sing
ing and get acquainted session.
8:15 p.m. - divide into small
sharing sessions for discussion,
prayer-and sharing.
9;15 p.m. - re-assemble in
sanctuary for closing session.
Saturday, March 21, 1970 -
10:00 a.m. - neighborhood cof
fee group meetings. Coke ses
sion at the church for Jr. and
Senior High Youth of the Blakely
area. We expect 10-12 young
people from Alabama to head the
program. All young people of
the Blakely area are encouraged
to come and join the Sharing of
Christian fellowship and Ideas.
11:00a.m. -2:00p.m.-Church
wide picnic at Kolomoki park at
the new picnic shelter.
7;00 p.m. - fellowship singing
and general assembly at church.
7;45 p.m. - Small group dis
cussion, prayer and sharing.
9‘oo p.m. - Alter prayer time
in sanctuary.
Sunday, March 22, 1970
9;50 a.m. - Sunday School with
visitors in classes
ll;00 a.m. - Morning Worship
Alabama Officer
would tax
beer buyers
From the Dothan Eagle
Dr. George Johnson, county
health officer, has proposed a
tax of one cent per can on
all non-returnable metal bev
erage containers to pay for
picking them up.
Dr. Johnson pointed out that
an election is coming up and
suggested that residents con
tact candidates to ask them
for a commitment on cleaning
up litter.
“It certainly appears that
the people who throw the cans
on our streets and highways
should be required to pay for
picking them up,” Dr. John
son said.
“Hie cans constitute a far
greater health hazard than
the birds.”
Dr. Johnson said the alumi
num cans are almost inde
structible.
The metal corrodes very
slowly and the only way to get
rid of them is to cover then*
with dirt or pick them up.
Since covering them is costly
and impracticable “we are left
with the task of picking them
up," Dr. Johnson said.
Besides being unsightly and
offensive, the cans serve as
breeding stations for mosqui
toes and other insects.
“During the warm growing
season when mowing machin
es are in operaton along the
rights of way there are times
when cans are thrown by the
mower blades with great velo
city onto the highway.
Sooner or later someone is
going to be injured by these
flying cans, Dr. Johnson said.
Although the law prohibits
throwing trash and litter along
streets and highways the
chance of being apprehended
for such a violation is remote,
Dr. Johnson said.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY MAR. 19, 1970
5
Gov. I^e^addox
Beport^^Rg People
We’ve heard a lot about
President Nixon’s “Southern
Strategy” since the 1968
presidential election. Almost
every political observer in the
country has taken his turn at
defining it.
Yes, the N ixon
Administration does have a
political plan for the South.
And, in my opinion, it’s one
of the most sinister and brutal
—-i:. : _ -1
p o litical
maneuvers
of Twent
ieth Cen
tury Ameri
ca.
I believe
that stra
tegy is to
continue to
trample
upon the
constitutional rights of black
and white children, teachers
and parents, ignoring the fate
of education, our communities
and the taxpayers’
investments, keeping up the
pressure at the same
intolerable, criminal pace until
later this year, when easing the
led by laymen
12;00 a.m. - Covered dish
lunch and farewell.
Support this mission and your
church! Visitors are welcome.
Witnesses attend
Christian Cons,
in Cordele, Ga.
"Fulfillment of Bible prophecy
in our day clearly shows that the
end of wickedness is very near.’ ’
This thought provoking statement
was heard by an audience of
884 persons attending the Chris
tian conference of Jehovah’s Wit
nesses in the Crisp County High
School auditorium Sunday, March
15, in Cordele, Georgia.
Walter R. Wlssman, District
Supervisor, from Brooklyn, New
York, addressed the audience
on the widely advertised Bible
sermon, ‘ ‘Withstanding the Pre
ssures of Our Day”.
Ours Is a day of many pres
sures and tensions such as the
pressure Involved in earning a
decent living, pressure caused
by sickness or accident and the
pressure of Insecurity because
of increasing crime and violence.
We can be thankful for the
Bible because through Its divine
wisdom we gain insight as to the
causes of these problems and
personal counsel for dealing with
them. Only Jehovah God, the
Author of the Bible, has com
plete understanding of man, his
past history and what the future
holds for him. He is the only
one who fully knows all the pres
sures and visible and invisible
causes, something humans can
not.
Wlssman, an ordained mini
ster since 1938, went on to say,
"Although we live In a genera
tion of greatly Increased pres
sure, we also live In a genera
tion that will experience a re
lease from such pressure.”
He then added. "Through study
of the Bible and through appll-
attack will aid some
Republican candidates for
Congress, governorships and
other state and local offices.
In the meantime, innocent
black and white children, their
teachers, their parents and
education will continue to
bear the onslaught of the
un-American, unconstitutional
and ungoldy edicts and
guidelines decreed by
Washington and the courts.
There’s a plan for the
South, all right. When a
federal judge in California
says, “I’ll give you a couple of
years to desegregate,” and a
federal judge in Georgia says,
“I’ll give you till the sun
comes up,” there’s a plan.
And when Georgia passes a
law outlawing forced bussing
of children and the pairing of
classes to achieve forced
segregation or forced
integration -a law modeled
after a New York State law
which was allowed to stand -
Georgia’s law is brushed aside
as meaningless. And I don’t
have to tell you that New
York’s law is still going strong.
The federal courts didn’t
touch it.
The Justice Department
didn’t touch it.
HEW didn’t touch it.
And they won’t.
My friends, this is
happening in the United States
of America. We are witnessing
some communist-style,
iron-booted tyranny in this
country.
In decision after decision,
the United States Supreme
Court has proved that it is
intent upon making laws, not
just interpreting them as it
should. The Supreme Court
has totally ignored the
Constitution in many
decisions, and it is making
demands upon the American
people which are in direct
violation of the Constitution.
Congress has the power and
the authority to put a stop to
it and bring an end to the
takeover of the Legislative
branch of government by the
Judicial branch. But, Congress rt
has abdicated its responsibility
to the American people.
The Senators say, “We’re
outvoted.”
The Congressmen say, “We
can’t do it either.”
And even while these
elected representatives of the
people say they can’t do
anything to stop it, another
right, another freedom and
another school are lost.
The future of this country,
the safety of our children, our
survival as a free people and
the liberty of every American
citizen depends upon the
willingness of Congress to
tome to grips with this crisis.
The moment they decide that
their duty to the Constitution,
to the people and to their
country comes first, they can
move.
And I call upon every
member of Congress,
particularly those from the
Southeastern states, who
believes in constitutional
government and the greatness
of this nation to unite and
flatly refuse to support any
piece of domestic legislation
until the hand of the federal
police state has relinquished
its death grip upon public
education, and our children
and their parents and teachers
have their freedom as
Americans restored.
The time has come for
every American, in or out of
public office, to choose
between political gain and
quality education ... between
dollars and our children ...
and between votes and
liberty. There can be no
middle ground if America is to
survive.
cation of its principles and coun
sel, we can successfully with
stand the major pressures of to
day and we can gain happiness.
People without hope or know
ledge of God usually think only
of the present, they lack happi
ness because they see no future.
Being able to look beyond the
current problems or worry and
see millenniums of peace shrinks
the size of the problems and
brings present joy.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in more
than 200 lands are helping
honest-hearted persons of all
languages and races to gain this
valuable knowledge through the
more than one million Bible stu
dies that they conduct with such
persons every week.
It's funny that a wife who can
see right through you doesn't
notice a missing button.
WMU holds
annual meeting
March 16-17
Mrs. John Underwood, Presi
dent of the WMU and Mrs. J.
Emory Houston, President of the
Night WMS, First Baptist Church,
Blakely; Mrs. Don Curran, Pre
sident of the Southside Baptist
Church WMU and Mrs. Jimmy
James of that church, attended
die annual meeting of the Geor
gia Baptist Women’s Missionary
Union in Columbus, Georgia,
March 16-17.
Mrs. J. J. Clyatt, Tifton, pre
sided at the Monday afternoon
meeting at the Columbus Muni
cipal Auditorium, the opening
session began at 2 p.m., the theme
was "The Future Is Now”. Dr.
and Mrs. Herbert Caudill, for
mer missionaries to Cuba were
the speakers for the Monday af
ternoon meeting.
"Mission - ’7O-Columbus”, a
presentation on mission visions
for the Columbus area, was led
by Thomas S. Roote, Jr., city
missions superintendent at the
evening program. June Whit
low, promotion director for
Southern Baptist WMU spoke on
“The Vision Glorious” In the
closing message Monday night.
Executive Secretary Dorothy
Pryor, Dr. Edward B. Llndaman,
space scientist from California;
and missionaries Dorotha Lott
and Gwen Powell were on pro
gram Tuesday. Missionaries
leading devotionals included;
Miss Maxine Mosley of China;
Mrs. Russell Hillard and Miss
Mary Ann Forehand of Spain;
Mrs. John Patten and Mrs. Paul
Moody of Thailand; and Miss
Lott and Miss Powell.
Former State WMU Pre
sidents, Mrs. Ernest L. Miller
and Mrs. Jehn L Alford, both of
Atlanta, were among the others
on program and conducting the
memorial service. Freddye
Marshall, opera headliner, was
guest soloist; a chorus from the
Wynnton church in Columbus,
presented special music.
Westview S. S.
Class holds
meeting
The Louise Hayes Sunday
School Class of the Westview
Methodjst Church met March 10
at the home of Mrs. Hubert Ha
yes.
President Joan Dunnahoo call
ed the meeting to order. Plans
were made for an Easter party
NOTICE
The Tax Books are now open for
making returns for 1970
State and County Taxes.
Returns Must Be Made By April 1,1970
Pay your delinquent taxes now and save
before turning them over to the Sheriff
Also 1970 Automobile License Tags
Must Be Purchased
By April 1,1970
Get Your Tags Early
And
AVOID PENALTY
W. J. HAMMACK
TAX COMMISSION!!, EAKLY COUNTY
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Couple celebrates 50th anniversary
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MR. AND MRS. H. H. REEVES AND FAMILY
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Reeves
of Jakin were honored recently
on the occasion of their 50th
wedding anniversary by their
children Miss Vaudlne Reeves,
of Atlanta; Mrs. Daphlne Tipton,
of Chattahoochee, Florida; Mrs.
Wavine Lightsey, of Statesboro;
Mrs. Evolyne Williams, of Quit
man; Mrs. Jean Chandler, Mrs.
Gloria Berry, and Mr. Robbin
Reeves of Atlanta, all of whom
formed the receiving line.
A reception was held at the
Reeves’ home from 2:00 until
5:00 o’clock in the afternoon.
The oval table, overlaid with
Mt. Ararat
Church to hold
Revival 22- 27
Dr. Charles Bishop, pastor of
the Calvary Baptist Church,
Bainbridge, Georgia will be the
evangelist at the revival ser
vices March 22 through March
27 at the Mt. Ararat Baptist
Church, Freeman Road, Blakely.
The Rev. Joseph Hodges, pas
tor of the Mt. Ararat church,
extends a cordial invitation to
friends and neighbors to hear
this well known Baptist minister.
Services will be held each night
at 7;30 p.m. beginning Sunday,
March 22.
at the Convalescent Home, March
25. ;
The eight members present
enjoyed the fellowship and re
freshments.
ATTEND PTA TONIGHT!
a gold lace-trimmed cloth, held
nuts, mints, and a three-tiered
cake decorated in gold and white.
The cake was served by Mrs,
W. M. Reeves. Gold punch was
served by Mrs. June Poole of
Statesboro, a granddaughter of
the couple. The guest book was
kept by another granddaughter.
Miss Jennifer Chandler of At
lanta. Mrs. Jimmy Finch, a
niece from Tallahassee, Fla.,
directed the guests to the gift
display area.
Many friends, neighbors, and
relatives called during the after
noon.
Smith-Hall
Reunion to be
held March 22
The annual Smith-Hall reunion
Camp Hlclta, Kolomoki State
Park, Sunday March 22, 1970.
The program will begin at
12:30 after which a basket lunch
will be served. All friends and,
relatives are Invited.
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