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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY. AUG. 13. 1970
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
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On August 19, what may
turn out to be the biggest polit
ical rally of the current cam
paign will be held in Americus
for Gov. Lester Maddox. It is
billed as a Third District ral
ly and everybody in Georgia is
invited. Its sponsors say that
Sumter County was a Maddox
stronghold in 1966 and the folks
want to show that they are even
stronger for him this time.
There will be lots of entertain
ment from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M.,
and the Governor speaks at
8:00. Location of the rally is
the Farm Center.
******
The Greensboro Herald -
Journal last week endorsed Carl
Sanders for Governor. The Her
ald-Journal is owned and pub
lished by Carey Williams, mem
ber of one of Georgia’s most
distinguished newspaper famil
ies (no kin to us we’re sorry to
say), and a member of the
Board of Regents for the past 21
years, which is longer than any
one person has ever served on
this board. Carey, incidentally,
supported Marvin Griffin
against Sanders in 1962, and is,
also, supporting Lester Mad
dox for Lt.-Govemor.
******
If Comptroller-General can
didate Mike Padgett manages to
put together a coalition of tabor
and the Negro vote he will es
tablish himself as a strong con
tender for the runoff in this
race. Some people say he al
ready has put this coalition to
gether, and, if so, he joins Al
Hatcher, Johnny Caldwell and
Joe Sports as one of the leading
contenders.
Gubernatorial candidate Char
les Swint, Sr. is considered a
candidate without any chance of
winning. But, Mr. Swint doesn’t
seem to know this; he’s spend
ing a lot of money on radio ad
vertising and campaign posters.
*•••*•
Consistent with our prediction
of last week that George T.
Smith will be third man in the
Lt.-Govemor’s race, one of the
most prominent men in Decatur
County declared at the Capito'
last Friday that George won’t
carry his home county of Grady,
which is next door to Decatur.
Personally, we think that this
prophet is wrong, but it is a fact
that Mr. Smith has lots of oppo
sition from his home people.,
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After the trouble last Spring
on the University of Georgia
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campus, some or us were won
dering if anything would ever
be done to the demonstration
leaders. We are happy to report
that four out of the five leaders
won't be back in school this
September, and probably the
fifth also. In addition many
others who took part are up for
hearings, and three leaders face
criminal charges. So, at least,
the administration at one school
of higher learning has the back
bone to stand up to rioters.
Incidentally, the Regents held
a seminar in Savannah last week
for all security officers in the
University System to discuss pos
sible demonstrations this Fall
and to acquaint the officers with
their duties and powers.
******
Dixon Oxford, of Dawson,
who has been a power in Geor
gia politics for many years, will
spend the last two weeks of the
campaign working in the of
fices of Al Hatcher, candidate
for Comptroller-General.
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About 20 of Georgia’s' Ne
gro leaders held a meeting at a
Holiday Inn in Atlanta on Sat
urday, August 1, to discuss
whom they would recommend
that Negroes support in the var
ious races. No final decision was
made at this time, but another
meeting will come soon.
The meeting was supposed to
be closed, but militant Negro
Hosea Williams appeared with
a bunch of kids to picket the
session, and declared himself in.
He raised hell about everything
in general, and seemed quite up
set because he hadn’t been in
vited. Our informant gathered
that Hosea is mad because C.
B. King won’t get out of the
governor’s race and let Hosea
trade off the black vote.
******
We have just learned that Bill
Birrson, candidate for State
Treasurer, was the first man be
hind Lester Maddox in walking
off the platform in Waynes
boro recently while J. B. Stoner
was speaking.
• * * * * •
Two recent polls in Columbus
eave Lester Maddox a majority
of 53% and 64%. The amazing
feature was that he ran ahead
in the Negro community.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Linda Jenness ,the Socialist
who is trying to run for gover
nor without paying a fee or
getting up a petition, must be
raising a little money from some
of her fellow leftists. She is dis-
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
GOVERNOR’S RACE
IB 17 VARIETIES
The present Governor’s race in
Georgia is one of 57 varieties, and
voters can find a candidate from
any point of the political spec
trum. The crop is certainly diver-
sified. Political
ph 11 os o -
phles vary
from Nazi on
file right to
those who ad
vocate the
tenets of Karl
Marx. There
are left-wing-
ers and right-wingers with plenty
of stops between. There are
beared ones and slick faces.
There are moderates with one
Negro candidate. You name it,
and they will present it. Liberals,
conservatives and moderates
with radicals on the flanks. There
are nine running on the
Democratic ticket, and three
“humping it” under the Re
publican standard. There is more
from which to choose and more to
let alone than any campaign ever
run in Georgia.
This is the time Georgia
Republicans are intensely in
terested in what the Democrats
are doing. It is the timewhen
Republicans have a tendency to
meddle in Democratic affairs. It
is difficult for them to keep their
hands off the selection
Democrats make to run under the
party label in the General
Election.
The same opportunity to
participate In the Democratic
primary is not there in 1970 as it
was in 1966. Democrats and
Republicans have general
primaries on the same date, and
voters must declare themselves
either for Democrats or
Republicans, and there will be no
crossing of party lines in the
primaries, as was the case in
1966.
I have been hearing rumblings,
and these rumblings have the
context of political rumors.
Republicans are said to want
their candidate to run against
Carl Sanders and not Jimmy
Carter. Evidently they believe
they will have more success
against Carl than they will
Jimmy. I do not know why this is
so, but it is blowing in the wind.
At this stage, (and politics has
not warmed up enough to provoke
a good “cuss-fight”) it seems
most likely there will be a run-off
between Carl Sanders and
Jimmy Carter for Governor, and
Lester Maddox and George T.
Smith for Lt. Governor, on the
Democratic ticket. If that is a
reality, there will be more fur
flying in the run-off than in the
first primary. Many believe
Lester will sew it up in the first
primary.
THE GUTTIEST MAN
IN GEORGIA POLITICS
While Georgia voters have a
selection from soups to nuts in the
Governor’s race, (no insult in
tended), most have overlooked
the fact that Representative
Charlie Jones of Liberty County,
a third Democratic candidate, is
perhaps the “guttiest” candidate
ever to appear on the Georgia
political scene. Charlie is running
against the Governor and the Lt.
Governor for the second spot,
anybody who doesn’t think that
takes a preponderance of
political guts, has never been on
the hustings.
Charlie is in the middle of two
fellows who are hitting at each
other with knouts made of bear
chain, and that is no good place to
be. Charlie says the office of
Representative does not offer as
many emoluments and ad
vantages as the Governor’s and
Lt. Governor’s combined.
A LADY CALLS
MY HAND
Several weeks ago I wrote a
piece about my inability to un
derstand how Decatur County
could have lost population over
the last decade despite the fact
that a number of new factories
had opened in the county since
1960, all utilities had reported a
healthy increase in customers,
and the retail sales tax had shown
a phenominal increase.
I reported a disappointing loss
of 3,499 of our citizens in the
county since 1960, and I
tributing a two-color brochure
detailing her platform, which
sounds mighty Communistic to
us. She, of course, will be low
man on the totem pole, even if
she gets on the ballot.
FROMt
OUR
NIES
25 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of August 16,1945)
Early County’s meat allotment
will be increased during die
month of August, Secretary R.C.
Job, of the Chamber of
Commerce, has announced. Mr.
Job, accompanied by J.L. Jordan.
Sevola Jones and Ralph
Scarborough, market operators,
spent the past Thursday and Fri
day in Albany consulting with War
Food Administration officials.
JAPAN HAS ACCEPTED the
surrender terms based on the
Potsdam declaration. The
announcement of the acceptance
of these terms, made
simultaneously in Washington,
London, Moscow and Chungking
Tuesday evening at six o’clock,
brought to an end the bloodiest
war in all history.
GENERAL DOUGLAS Mac-
ARTHUR has been named as
supreme commander of all Allied
governments to arrange for
formal surrender and occupation
of Japanese territory. General
MacArthur has directed the em
peror to send representatives to
Manilla Friday to arrange for the
formal signing of an armistice
and receive the Allied demands.
IN BLAKELY, THE Japanese
surrender was greeted with the
same enthusiasm which prevailed
thorough-out the nation. A large
crowd gathered at the Baptist
church at 8 o’clock Tuesday night
for a union observance of thanks
giving and prayer. A series of
prayers appropriate songs and a
talk by the Rev. W.E. Storey,
comprised the solemn program.
The pastor had the assistance of
the Rev. J.A. Davis and the Rev.
Cliff Davis.
Auto owners, giving vent to
their pent-up feelings, tooted
their horns for many hours, and
the siren at the local utilities
plant hailed the announcement of
surrender by blasting away for
several minutes.
All business houses in Blakely
were closed for a holiday
Wednesday, the drug stores
observing Sunday hours.
H.E. HIGHTOWER announced
this week that the contract for the
construction of the freezer-lock
er plant had been let and that
actual work was scheduled to have
begun Wednesday.
PFC. ABNER WHITE, of Route
3, Blakely has recently received
his discharge from the army,
after a service of six years and
three month—the last two years
of which were spent in the
European theatre of operations.
DAWSON, GEORGIA— JOE
Grimsley, formerly Warden of
Early county and more lately of
speculated on who these people
were, and what they were doing
before they moved away. I very
facetiously remarked that ac
cording to the rise in economy
these folks evidently were not
missed, and right there, dear
reader, I played old Billy Ned.
I received a letter from Mrs.
Rick Miller, who now lives in San
Diego, and she took me to task,
and rightly so. She said in part:
“I would like to think that I have
been missed by at least two
people in Bainbridge since 1960-
my parents-and also that I have
made some contribution-and still
do-at least $5.15 byway of the
Post-Searchlight. (And more the
times I get to come home for a
visit.)
“Now, that’s one of us 3,499 who
left since 1960, and there are only
3,498 to be heard from!”
I really had in mind money,
jobs, factories and local
economy, and not human
resources when I made that fool
statement, and I hasten to
remove my big foot and the
typewriter from my mouth, and
apologize to this much-missed
fine lady of our community.
Mrs. Miller is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harper Daniell of
Bainbridge, and was Eleanor
Daniell before her marriage to
Rick Miller, a gymnast who
coached at Florida State
University for several years.
Mrs. Miller also coached the girls
while at FSU, and the couple is
expected to visit here this fall
when they attend “Gymkana” at
Tallahassee.
The greatest of all of our
resources, not the money on
deposit in the banks, are our
human resources, our people,
and we look forward to the day
when all our Bainbridge folks,
even to the far western shores of
California, will come back to
make their homes with us again.
This Week
by
Tige’ Pickle
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J
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Newspapermen and doctors are
alike In some respects. If there
happens to be a nut or a quack
in the profession, rarely anybody
calls attention to the fact, but re
main quiet and hope that the
culprit will go away. I have long
considered the Atlanta news
naoers, meaning The Constitution
and Journal, have been about the
best the South has to offer. But
of recent years, their ultra
liberal views, particularly as
espoused by The Constitution, are
a little bit more than I can take. If
they tell it like it is, giving each
side’s views, that I can endure.
That is the way it should be. I
thought when Ralph McGill, a
scholarly writer and a man of
great ability, but had become ob
sessed with the racial problems,
passed away. The Constitution
would choose a man who would ex
press more the views of most
Georgians. But, nay, not so, along
came Eugene Patterson, of Adel,
Georgia, of all places and out
McGills . But Patterson left, not
exactly of his own accord, I un
derstand, and is now where he be
longs, or was the last time 1 heard
anything about him, with The
Washington Post.
After Patterson’s pleasant de
parture, a guy named Reg
Murphy, who use to write
Calhoun county, has been named
warden of Terrell county to
succeed Louis Cummings,
recently resigned. Mr. Grimsley
assumed his new duties here
Wednesday, Aug. 15.
ELEVEN MEN WERE sent
from the local draft board yester
day to report for induction in the
armed forces at Fort McPherson.
They are: Henry Paul Justice,
Thomas E. Martin, Purvis Jack
son, James P. Murkerson,
Edward Lominec, J.C. Brown,
Willie J. Jackson, Joseph Dean
Garrett, Bill Conley, Julius
Houston, Jr., Felix Lee
Herrington.
WILKERSON UNDERWOOD
MOCK, 69, well known and life
time Early countian, died at his
home in the Hentown community
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
MRS. NORA SHEFFIELD
Scarborough became the bride ol
Sevola Jones Sunday, Aug. 12.
The Rev. W.E. Storey performed
the ceremony at the Baptist pas
torlum at 9;00 a.m.
50 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of August 12,1920)
CLIFFORD WALKER, CANDI
DATE for governor, will speak
at the courthouse in Blakely Fri
day morning at 11 o’clock in the
interest of his candidacy.
JUDGE FRANK PARK,
Congressman from the Seconc
Georgia district, has beei
spending several days here with
his brother, Col. W.G. Park.
WATSON RICKS, who has been
at Bainbridge for some time, re
turned home this morning and will
spend some time with home folks.
CURTIS MIDDLETON, who has
been absent from home for
several years in Uncle Sam’s em
ploy, has returned and accepted a
position with the Blakely
Hardwood Lumber co.
MR. ROY ALEXANDER has
been in off the road for several
days suffering with an attack of
malaria fever.
MR. MACK STRICKLAND left
Tuesday for Atlanta, where he
will spend several days on
business.
75 vtAKS AGO
(from the issue of Aug. 15, 1895}
MISS LUCY LOKEY, of Clay
county. Is the guest of Mrs. Lula
Chancy.
MR. MOSE WARREN, of
Arlington, visited Blakely
Sunday.
MISS MAYME PERRYMAN, of
Smithville, Ala., is visiting her
brother, Mr. R.L. Perryman.
politics for the same paper, was
first named editor of the editorial
page, but now 1 notice is just
plain editor of The Constitution.
And Reg was doing pretty good, I
thought, until one day last week,
he comes out In his personal
column and says that Ted
Kennedy Is the only man who can
save the Democrat party. What
a thing for a grown man to sayl
I have been voting for the Dem
ocrats all my life, but it Ken
nedy is die best man to save the
party from starvation and
demolition, then let the starving
began and somebody drop the
bomb, for the once beautiful old
party of Wilson, Roosevelt and
Truman isn’t worth saving. How
about a man, married man, out
with a single girl, running the car
off a bridge, and leaving the girl
to drown, as president of the
United States ? Perish the thought
and the idea. Ifwe Democrats are
going to continue to live, or
merely exist, we've got to come
up with some brand new faces. My
opionlons of Fullbrlght, Muskie,
McGovern, Humphrey and that
crowd are the same as of Ted
Kennedy. I just wish Spiro Agnew
hadn't quit the Democrats. He’s
my man, even though a
Republican. 1 am not nearly as
Interested In saving our two
major political parties, as I am
in saving this great country. And
Agnew seems to be the only man
with guts enough to say what needs
to be said. I hope my old friends,
Leo Aikman, Harold Martin,
Celestine Sibley and sports
writers Jesse Outlar and Charlie
Roberts will forgive me for
slugging their boss, but I had to
get It off my chest.
The General Primary election
primary is less than a month
away, and still very little election
talk Is going on. The Sanders
people are making a lot of noises;
every now and then you hear
Jimmy Carter mentioned, and
Jimmy Bentley, the Republican
seems to talk like a man who is
sure to gain the Republican party
nomination, and Is waiting until
later to fire his big guns. From
SWEET POTATOES of the new
crop are being offered for sale.
The crop will be an abundant one.
MISSES BERTA SMITH and
Fannie Alice Jones visited Col
quitt the past week.
MR. WILL ODUM IS NOW WITH
the New York Store.
MR. J.C. CHANCY’S STEAM GlN
nery started up this morning. Mr.
H. M. Haynes brought in a bale
of cotton this morning.
MRS. ADA GREEN, of Eufaula,
and Mrs. Charlie Sanders of
Coleman, were guests last week
of Mrs. B.L. Brown.
THE DEATH OF Mr. Edgar M.
Brunson is recorded this week.
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"You Are Always First At First State"
where I sit it seems like it will
be Sancfers versus Bentley in the
General Election, but one thing
I think is for sure—that Lester
Maddox is going to be the next
lieutenant governor. Even people
who say they aren't going to vote
for him will make this statement.
And you know what Governor
Maddox has got going for him.
They say he pops off his mouth
too much, but they also say two
things for sure—he is honest and
he has integrity. I believe Lester
would tell on is own grandma if
caught her dipping her fingers in
State funds. This is one reason I
don’t place any faith in Carter’s
hints of dishonesty in former
governor Sanders' adminis
tration. Maddox looted him over
with a Bill Bailey fine tooth comb,
found nothing, and if he had
Governor Lester would have al
ready made the announcement
himself before a dozen TV
cameramen and a room full of
news hounds. Lester also has a
way of drawing a crowd.
Two most welcome and
pleasant visitors I had this week
' were former residents of Blakely
who were just passing through our
town from Mobile, Alabama,
where they had been visiting their
sister, Mrs. Sheppard, the
former Miss Sarah King, all of
whom are the children of the late
Spencer B. King, long-time and
beloved pastor of the Blakelv
Baptist Church. My good visi
tors were Dr. Spencer B. King,
Jr., professor of history at Mer
cer University, and Miss Made
King, the speech theroplst, of
Americus. Os course we did a
lot of reminiscing about the good
old days, and I learned that the
other brother, Bernard is still
doing the Baptist Brotherhood
work, and that Nell King, now
Mrs. Davis, is in Paris where
her husband is on an assignment
with the United States govern
ment.
Docter King grew up in Blak
ely, and if my memory serveth
me correctly, he played on
Blakely's first football team. I
never had time to ask him to
verify the story that Editor Hoyle
Wingate wants
S. W. Ga. declared
Disaster Area
Harry L. Wingate, Jr. onMon
: day, August 3, in telegrams to
’ Senator Hetjn^ J’a^dge and
Congressman Maston O'Neal
urged their support in having the
Department of Agriculture
designate Southwest Georgia a
disaster area with respect to the
corn crop which has been struck
by blight. Wingate further stated
in his telegram, that in his travels
JUDGE H.C. FRYER is having
lumber placed on the ground and
will have constructed a neat re
sidence on his lot facing the
Methodist church.
70-Day
Dove season set
for three parts
Georgia gunners win have
three dove seasons to choose
from this year according to
George T. Bagby, Director of the
State Game & Fish Commission.
The 70 day season willbedivi&d
into three parts with the first
beginning September 5 and
running through September 26.
The second shooting period win
run from October 21 through Nov.
7. The last season will start Dec.
17 and end January 15.
This new three-season concept
is being tried by the Commission
to better equalize the shooting
pressure on the doves, and to give
hunters all over the state a fair
chance. The season is set by the
Game & Fish Commission in
cooperation with the regulations
set by the Bureau of Sport
Fisheries and Wildlife, since the
dove is a migratory gamebird.
Reports Indicate that the dove
population is doing well and the
prospects look good for the
coming season. Shooting time will
begin at 12 noon on the open days
and die daily bag limit will remain
at 18 birds.
The East Ghor Canal In jor
dan irrigates 30,000 acres in
the northern Jordan Valley.
Fleming, also a member of that
first team, likes to tell about
the famous drop-kick field goal
Spencer once made to defeat
a Blakely rival. Every time Hoyle
tells the story the field goal gets
ten yards longer. When I first
heard it Hoyle said Spencer was
standing on the 20 yard line.
The way he tells it now is that
Spencer is still on the 20-yard
line, but from the other end of
the field. Wow I An 80-yard field
goal. Maybe when Docter King
tires of his history chores, the
Falcons will put him to work.
They are in great need of a good
field goal kicker.
around the 2nd District, he had
found the situation critical and
the com growers are in great
need of assistance.
“In being designated a disaster
area", Wingate said “corn
growers will be eligible for loan
assistance.”
Wingate, who Is running for the
2nd District Congressional seat
said that he has visited many com
growers in the last few weeks and
has seen in some areas entire
fields of com which have been
destroyed by the blight.
Call: n.n™..
Stamey Houston
Blakely- 723-3670
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