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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Os
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME 112—NO. 15
Auburn to Sign
Rex Howell, 1971
Rex Howell, Blakely’s own
basketball star has committed
himself to signa scholarship with
Auburn, Alma-Mater of his big
brother Alex.
Howell, a high school All=-
American from Blakely, Ga. said
that he will sign a basketball
grant-in -aid with Auburn when
signing time comes in 1971. How=
ell will thus be a member of next
year’'s Auburn freshman team.
Howell is the brother of former
Auburn captain Alex Howell, who
played in the late 60's.
Young Rex, star player of
Georgia Class A champ Early
County High, averaged 25 points
and eight assists per game last
year. The 6-0, 160 pound senior
has already made one pre-season
All-America team and is a sure
bet to make more.
Lynn said the early commit
tment of Howell will be abigboost
to the Auburn program.
‘*Anytime a boy like Rex com
mitts this early, your recruiting
has to be getting a big boost,"’
Lynn said. ‘“We are real happy to
get him. Plenty of schools want=
ed him.
‘““We are impressed with his
quickness and his great shoot=-
ing,’' he went on. ‘‘He shoots like
his brother Alex. He is tough
mentally and has the character
that it takes to be a great one.
‘‘He is one of the best guard
prospects in this part of the coun=
try and the best one in Georgia."’
Howell, who was named the
Bobcats & Bobkittens
Take Double Header
The Blakely Bobcats and Bob
kittens took a double-header from
the Seminole basketball teams
Tuesday night. The boys won
80-60 and the girls had a 50-25
win.
Boys
In the boys’ 80-60 win, Rex
Howell led the scoring with 33
points, Marvin Earnest had 17,
Sam Wells 12, Scott Starr 4, Jim
Daniels 5, Robert Newberry 4,
John Ricketson 3, and Charles
Moses had 2. Sam Wells led the
rebounding for the Cats with 13
grabs. Robers was high for Sem=-
inole with 35 points. The Cats hit
46% from the floor.
Girls
The Bobkittens downed the
Seminole girls by a score of 50-
25. Dana Jan Brown was the point
leader with 26 points, Nancy Hol
man had 8, Cheryl Harvey 6, De=
bra Ducati 4, Stephanie Still 2,
Cynthia Cleveland 2, and Beverly
Johnson 2. Loyette Stephens,
Barbara Summerset and Barba=-
ra Lee led most of the action for
the guards.
Split with Dawson
The Bobcats opened their sea
son on November 24 with a loss
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Early Twirlers
hold regular
meet, Nov. 30
The Early Twirlers Square
Dance Club held its regular meet=
ing, Monday, November 30.
““Flunk’’ Goff of Pelham called
for the club.
A business meeting is planned
for Wednesday, December 2, at
the Bank of Early at 7:30p.m., to
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Auburn head basketball coach Bill Lynn (right)welcomes Rex How=
ell to Auburn with a firm handshake. Rex, an All-America
prep baskethall player revealed his decision to sign with Auburn
last week. Coach Lynn said Rex is one of the top prospects in the
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country.
Most Valuable Player in the
Georgia Class A Tournamentlast
year, said he made his decision
early in order that he may con
centrate on the upcoming season
without having to think about
which school he would attend.
Young Howell averaged 13
points a game as a freshman and
to the Terrell County Green
Wave. The Cats lost by a score
of 61-59 to last year’s GIA dou=
ble-A champs. Marvin Earnest
led the scoring for the Cats’ with
30 points. Coach Tommy White
hurst said that the Cats had great=
ly improved since their opening
loss, but that in three or four
more games should improve even
more.
Girls
The Bobkittens wonbig in Daw=
son by halting their opponents 58~
19. Coach Hilburn Donahoo used
all of his girls in handing the Daw=
son girls the defeat. Dana Jane
Brown led the scoring with 22
points, Nancy Holman had 14,
Harvey 8, Still 5, Ducati 3, Cleve
land 3, Johnson 2, and Jeanie Hol~
man had 1. Also seeing action
were Loyette Stephens, Barbara
Lee, Barbara Summerset, Same
my Holman, Camille Jordan, Pam
Jordan. Paula Bryant, Toma Se=-
na Watts and Faye Bulter.
Calhoun, Albany, Dothan
Friday night both teams will
meet Calhoun County here. Then
on Saturday night, the boys will
meet Dothan here and the girls
will play Albany here. ,
elect officers for the coming
year, all members are urged to
attend.
Mrs. Gerald Lumpkinand Mrs.
Joe Glass served delicious re
freshments.
Verna Sammons won the cake
baked by Mrs. Jerry McLain.
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WHERE DECEMBER 25 " COMES IN
THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER WHEN THE
TEMPEIRATURES MAY BE IN THE 9O 5!
Santa Claus is coming to town!
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
19 as a junior. He made All-State
last year and ‘‘High School All-
America Basketball Magazine'’
named him a district All-Amer=
ica this season.
About 65 schools wanted How=
ell, including nine SEC schools.
Rex is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Howell, Sr. of Blakely.
Patients listed as being admit=
ted and discharged the past week
at Early Memorial Hospital were
as follows:
ADMITTED
Ralph Williams, Herdisene
Harris, Anna Johnson, Ellen Gi
lbert, Rodney Igles, Opal Smith,
Charlie Mae’ Harris, Irene Dick=
ey, Mary Helen Wright, Larry
Enfinger, Mildred Lee, Etta
Jarrett, Menla Smith, Aurelious
Hutchins, Catherine Hall, Sarah
Reed, Willie Henry Sadberry, Ab
bie Hunter, Jerri Collier, JoAnn
Love, Katheryn Mitchell, Nancy
Overtree, Alma Hollinger, Floyd
Sammons, Melvin Wimberly, My=-
rtice Anderson, Cora Johnson,
Debra Peters, Curtis Hall, Fran=
cine Reese, Robert Goode, Fran
ces Ferguson, Curley Pelt, Linda
Houston, Cora Washington.
DISCHARGED
William Sellers, Thomas
Walkins, Barbara & Baby White,
Annie Harris, Johnny Foster, Be=
atrice Epps, Gertrude Blount, C,
G, Brewer, Cora Speed, Millege
Smith, Curley Pelt, Dannie Glenn,
Elvin Beasley, Lillie Webb, Co~
ra Washington, Mary Jo & Baby
Boy Andrews, Debra Peters,
Linda & Baby Houston, Georgia
Mae Johnson, Melvin Wimberly,
James Spooner, Albert Johnson,
Creasie Hayes, Bridgman Har
ris, Tara Cook, Francine Reese,
Alma & Baby Girl Hollinger, Ho=-
mer Houston, Sarah Ann & Baby
Girl Mitchell, Floyd Sammons,
Francis & Baby Girl Ferguson,
Aurelious Hutchins, Larry En
finger.
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BLAKELY, GA., THURS. MORNING, DEC. 3, 1970
Commissioners
hold bus
meeting '
The board of Early county com=
missioners held its December
sessionn Tuesday, on which was
mostly routine, except the elect
ion of county departments heads,
but a busy meeting.
There were no changes in the
county's personnel and all were
re-elected as follows: Edwin
Swann, road superintendent;
Stone & Stone, county attorneys;
Dr. J.G. Standifer, physician; P.
L. (Bam) Bridges, sanitation en
gineer; Mrs. Ann Smith, county
nurse; Mrs. Annette Chapman,
health department clerk; Charles
Robertson, farm agent; Larry
Taunton, assistant farm agent;
Miss Ann Akers, home econom=-
ist; Earl Lindsey, caretaker, pu=
blic buildings.
All members of theboard were
present, namely; Chairman A.D,
Wilkerson, Lemuel Tiner, J.O.
Evans, W.H. Balkcom and Donald
McArthur.
R. L. Poke Co.
to publish 1971
City Directory
Mobley Howell, Executive Di=-
rector of the Blakely - Early
County Chamber of Commerce,
announced last week thatthe R.L.
Polk Company of Richmond, Va.
is making preparations to publish
the 1971 City Directory of Blakely.
The Directory is publishedevery
two years.
George R. Harris, represent
ing the R.L. Polk Company, is in
Blakely making plans for the new
directory which will be published
in the early fall of 1971, Enume
rators will be sent in early next
year to make the actual census
and name listings.
A letter from the R.L. Polk’s
home office assured the Chamber
that they will make every effort
to publish the finest directory that
Blakely has ever had.
Ga. Jaycee-
Jaycette Fall
Board meet held
Highlights of the Georgia Jay
cee-Jaycette Fall Board Meeting
held in Atlanta at the Royal
Coach Inn, November 13-15. The
guest speakers, Mrs. Jeane Dix=
on, Washington Columnist that
predicted President Kennedy's
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Deliquent Ta
December 1, 1970
The Early County Board of Commissioners have as of this date
instructed the Sheriff of Early County, Oree Thompson, to turn o
ver to the County Attorney, Lowrey Stone, for Levy all Deliquent
Tax Fifas not paid by December 15, 1970.
A.D., Wilkerson, C.L. Tiner, J.O. Evans, W,H, Balkcom, Donald
McAuthur
Santa Claus to Visit
Blakely, Dec. 5
Santa Claus is coming to town-=
this Saturday afternoon at 2:00
p.m.
According to George Warrick,
Chairman of the Blakely Mer
chants Association and Bernard
Herring, Chairman of the Santa
Claus Visit -~ Ole Santa will
arrive at 2:00 p.m., on Saturday
afternoon, December 5. He will
be escorted around the Squareon
a Blakely fire truck and will visit
with the children and distribute
gift stockings in the Early County
Herbert Hawk
speaks to
it
ions o nS. S.
Herbert Hawk, field represent
ative of the Social Security Ad
ministration, the Albany office,
was the speaker at Tuesday's
meeting of the Blakely Lions
Club, and told what social secur=
ity checks means to the economy
of Early County and Blakely.
Mr. Hawk said that 1,700 Early
countians draw checks from the
SS Administration, totaling
$102,000.00 monthly. Os these
1,700 people, 1,000 are retired,
200 diabled and 700 surviving de=
pendent children or dependent ad
ults.
Mr. Hawk advised Lions and
their guests if they have questions
or problems involving Social Se
curity to call the Albany office.
The office now accepts collect
long distance calls. It has proven
less costlier to accept calls, Mr.
Hawk stated, than to send a re
presentative out in the area to in
vestigate complaints or quest=
ions. He emphasized that people
contact the Administration in Al=-
bany, and not ask questions of
neighbors, as many times friends
and neighbors give out the wrong
answers, simply because they do
not know the facts, but are only
relating what has been told to
them by some other misinformed
person.
Lion Doctor Warren Baxley ar
ranged the program and Mr. Hawk
was introduced by Lion ‘‘Tige"’
Pickle.
President Marshall Day presi
ded and announced that the annual
ladies’ night Christmas party will
be held on December 11, and Lions
must get their tickets inadvance,
and turn in the number of guests
they expect to invite by Dec. 4.
During the luncheon Mrs. Merle
Haisten, club pianist, gave the
usual good listening music.
Visitors at the meeting in=-
cluded Phillip Moore, a guest of
Fletcher = Thompson; Virgil
Jones, a guest of Herman Hend
ley; Ken Davis, of Albany, guest
of Paschal Jenkins; Clarence
Pheil, of Cordele, guest of Jim=-
my James, and Bill Chestnutt, of
Atlanta, a guest of Jim Malsber
ger.
Homemaker’s
Council organizes
An organizational meeting of
the Early County Extension
Homemaker’s Council was held
November 24th to unite the seven
Home Economics Clubs in the
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Courthouse from 2:00 p.m. until
5:00 p.m.
A large crowd of young folks
and adults are expected to be on
hand to greet Santa when he ar
rives.
Mr. Warrick also stated that
beginning this Thursday, Dec. 3,
the retail merchants of Blakely
will remain open on Thursday af=-
ternoons through Christmas.
The Santa Claus visit to Blake
ly is sponsored by the Blakely
Merchants Association.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY HOLDS
FIRST SUPPER MEETING
‘‘Georgia has had fourteen
frontiers - more than any other
state in the union’’, Mrs. Philip
Bryant, Deputy Surveyor - Gen=
eral of the State of Georgia told
members of the Early County
Historical Society and their
guests here Tuesday night at the
first supper meeting of the So~-
clety since its organization in
1968, when Early County observed
its Sesquicentennial.
Using maps of the first settle
ment in Georgia in 1733, Mrs.
Bryant gave a most interesting
story of the expansion of the
areas settled by General James
Edward Oglethorpe, who she cal
led the William Penn of Georgia
colony.
The Spaniards were turned
back on the south inl742by Ogle=
thorpe’s troops at St. Simons Is=
land. The Creek Indians who oc~
cupied most of the state were
friendly until 1751, their trails
were valuable trade routes a
cross Georgia, Alabama and on
out to the Mississippi River.
More land was taken in by the
settlers, and the Cherokees began
pushing further south. Theirs was
an advanced civilization, two of
their chiefs were graduates of
Princeton, yet the federal gover
nment forced them to move to the
reservation beyond the Missi=
ssippi in 1835-37, in what has been
called ‘‘the Trail of Tears’'.
The frontier moved westward
across Georgia little by little. In
1802 Georgia sold all its land west
of the Chattahoochee River to the
federal government, this ex
tended to the Mississippi. In 1814
the southern part of Georgia was
made a part of the state through
the Jackson treaty, Early, Irwin
and Appling counties were sur
veyed and marked off and grants
were later made, of the lands
claimed by settlers.
There are no stories of the old
west which could match the raids,
killings, and scalping of those
that took place along the Oconee
and Altamaha Rivers in the late
1700's Mrs. Bryant said. ‘““How
Georgia survived the Revolution,
is truly a miracle, she was the
youngest and smallest of the col=
onies in 1775. The British cap=
tured Savannah in 1778 and re
mained until 1782, Mrs. Bryant
“Fifty Years of Service”
Mrs. Byron R. Collins, prom=
inent Blakely resident and form=
er teacher in the Early County
schools for thirty years, was hon=
ored Sunday morning at the eleven
o’clock worship service in the
First Baptist Church when she
was presented a certificate inre=-
cognition of fifty years of service
as a Sunday School teacher atthe
church.
The former Alice Fudge of Col=
quitt, she came to Blakely as a
bride. She and Attorney Collins
were married June 14, 1911. Soon
after arriving here she became
affiliated with the Blakely Baptist
Church and started teaching the
Young Men's Bible Class. She has
taught other classes inthe Sunday
School, but consistently for more
than thirty years she has taught
a teen-age Girls Sunday School
Class. Her last class of 199 was
the sixteen year old Young Ladies
S.S. Class.
Col. Collins was superinten=
dent of the Sunday School for
many years, serving in this ca=-
pacity until his death, Dec.
25, 1925.
The presentation of the ‘‘Fifty
Year Certificate’’' was made by
Jim Perkins, Clerk, First Bap=
tist Church. Mrs. Collins wases~
corted to the pulpit by Lloyd
recalled.
Her story of the frontiers made
Georgia history come alive, as
she told of the various parishs
being formed and the counties
created from the parishs. Seve=
ral outstanding histories of Geor
-gia were cited by the surveyor
general ‘‘But’ . . . she said,
‘“there is a wealth of material that
has never been told. Someone
could write an interestinghistory
using just the material that has
heretofore been passed by''.
The charming speaker, who has
been a Georgian since 1935, was
introduced by Mrs. E.P. White=-
head, President of the Early
County Historical Society.
Mrs. Whitehead recognized
Mrs. J. Emory Houston, Chair
man of the Historical Tour Com=
mittee and committee members:
Mrs. H.M. Richardson, Mrs. R.
C. Singletary, Jr., Mrs. Frances
Stratton, Mrs. John Hudspeth,
Wilton Howell, Mrs. Fred
Brooks, and Mrs. W.M, Barks=-
dale.
The Courthouse Inventory
Committee, Mrs. Fletcher
Thompson, Chairman, Mrs. Jim
Richardson, Mrs. JohnHudspeth,
Mrs. Vivian Reynolds, and Mrs.
Perry Bridges.
Miss Virginia Harvey, Chair
man, Miss Dot Harvey, Quitman
Harvey for the cemetery survey
in and around Jakin, Georgia.
Mrs. G.]J. Correll, Chairman of
Church Histories. Fourteen
church histories have been com=
iled. Mrs. R.C. Singletary, jr.as
the Society’s Historian, who has
kept a scrapbook the past two
years, recording much of the
county’s history, wasalso recog=~
nized. The scrapbook was ondis
play. '
Photography was handled by
Wilton Howell, Mobley Howell and
Mrs. W.M, Barksdale. Publicity
of the Society’s activities, re
search and discoveries was by
Mrs. Barksdale. The Early Coun=
ty News and WBBK were recog=-
nized for their co~-operation.
Mrs. George Nelson reported
on Open House during the Histor=
ical Tour of Homes at the Speight=
Jones House, mentioning the en=
thusiam of the teen-agers over
the possibilities of preserving
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P ‘ r .E
Mrs. B.R. Collins is presented a certificate of recognition for fifty
years service as a Sunday School teacher at the First Bap
tist Church by Jim Perkins (left), Church Clerk. Dr. C.D. Horton,
pastor, led the closing prayer. .
George, Superintendent of the
Sunday School; Dr. C.D, Horton,
pastor, who had brought the
morning message, led the clos~
ing prayer.
Mrs. Collins’ daughter, Mrs.
Victor Yeargen of Rome, Ga. at=
tended the service and was on
hand for the presentation. Many
church members stood when
PULL FOR BLAKELY
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this house and the numerous ways
vigsitors considered that it might
be used. $3,000 has been pledged
and S2OO has been contributed in
cash for the preservation of this
house, Mrs. Nelson stated. A
campaign will be launched after
January 1, 1971 to preserve this
structure.
It is now being considered that
rooms might be secured for a
contribution to the preservation
of the house, and these rooms fur
nished and decorated in memory.
One person has already asked for
the entrance hall and back halle
‘‘Please bring or mail your
checks to the Early County Li=
brary’’, Mrs. Nelson requested
in refernece to the donations to
preserve the 1860 Speight-]Jones
house.
Mrs. Nelson was recognized
for her work in preserving his=
torical structures inthe county by
the president.
The book, ‘‘Collections of the
Early County Historical Society’’
is ready for the printer, Mrs.
Whitehead said. There will be
forty papers giving local history;
nineteen reprints of the 1890’s;
twenty-two genealogies and the
other materials just mentioned
above in this book. :
Officers for 1971-73 were
elected. Mrs. Whitehead was re
elected president of the Society;
James B. Murdock, Jr., vice pre=~
sident; Mrs. R.C, Singletary, Jr.,
historian; Mrs. Vivian Reynolds,
secretary; W,K. Dekle, treasur=
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Mrs. G.]. Correll reported the
slate of officers secured by the
nominating committee.
The Camp Hicita dining hall
was decorated in fall colors.
Greenery, leaves and redberries
decorated the center of the tables.
Little bronze colored log cabins
brought to mind the frontier
theme. The speaker’s table was
centered with a handsome ar=
rangement of mums, fall leaves,
fruit and berries, centered with
a natural colored duck. Pine
boughs and large lighted candles
were used on the native-brown
stone mantel. A minature front=
ier scene made by Cubscouts of
Den One, Pack 92, and potted chr
ysanthemums decorated the en
trance.
asked by Mr. Perkins thatall who
were once members of Mrs. Col=
lins' class please stand. Others
whose children had benefited
from being in her class were al=
so asked to stand; this was inre=
cognition of the impacther teach=
ing had made on the church and
its members.
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