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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1970
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
W. H. FLEMING PUBLISHER-EDITOR
W. W. (BILLY) FLEMING BUSINESS MANAGER
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—MEMBER
GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
Governor-Elect Jimmy Car
ter continues to maintain that
his No. 1 legislative aim is to
pass a bill for the General As
sembly to give him the power
to implement a massive reor
ganization of state government.
Last week, we wrote that a law
yer had told us that such dele
gating of power by the Assem
bly is unconstitutional.
After Carter’s re-statement
last Thursday of his intentions,
we sat down with an attorney
connected with the state and
looked up the law on the sub
ject Very clearly, the Consti
tution forbids such, except in
certain circumstances, and
there are any number of Court
decbions on it The ones wc
looked at stated that such ex
ceptions involve the right of
various boards and depart
ments to set up regulations
within the law passed by the
Assembly. But we didn’t look
at all the court cases, and it is
likely that Carter's attorneys
are completely familiar with all
aspects of these court deciffous,
and, apparently, feel that they
can d*aw a bill which will be
constitutional.
However, the chances of its
passing the Senate — even if it
gets through the House — are
practically nil.
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Adjutant-General Bo Hearn,
who former Gov.i nor Ernest
Vandiver will replace Jan. 12,
b going back to Monroe and
help run the family hardware
business — and relax, he says.
He’s had 45 years of state and
military service and feels that
be has earned a rest. Georgia
b much in his debt for a fine
job over the years.
Governor Lester Maddox will
move into an apartment near
Roswell — “you’ll have to ask
Virginia the name of it” —
when he leaves the mansion
next week, but will stay there
only until hb new house is fin
ished. It b located in Chatta
tioochee Estates in Cobb Coun
ty, and work starts this week.
The Governor's main worry
seems to be what he’ll do with
To oil, a with for a Chrittmat richly
blotted with peace and joy.
And to our patrons, our heartfelt thankt
for the privilege of serving you.
MANRY-JORDAN
FUNERAL HOME
hb Bassett hound until the
house is finished, since he can’t
keep pets at the apartment.
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We’ve changed a prediction
of two weeks ago: George Bag
by, head of Game and Fish,
will resign hb job when Gov.
Carter asks him to do so.
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The State Dept, of Veterans
Service — and all Georgia vet
erans — were delighted last
week when Gov. Maddox re
leased SBOO,OOO as the state's
share of the cost of construct
ing the Richard B. Russell
building for veterans at Mil
ledgeville State Hospital.
* * • * * •
The House of Representa
tives’ new public relations team,
Steve Ball and Bob Cohn, are
to be congratulated on the ser
vice they are planning to bene
fit the state's small radio sta
tions and newspapers. With
their Watts line, day-by-day
synopsb of legislation, reports
of votes, etc., the small news
media will be able, for the first
time, to keep up with what is
going on in the House, without
having to rely on the Atlanta
news media.
Ball and Cohn have drawn
some fire from Atlanta News
papers, Inc., but this is just sour
grapes on two top reporters
leaving the big dailies. Person
ally, we don't see why Ball and
Cohn would take the job which
pays them about $5,000 a year
apiece less than they were mak
ing with the papers.
• •••••
Phil Cawthorn let no grass
grow under hb feet in securing
another connection after Car
ter announced that he would
be replaced as Director of the
Dept, of Family and Childrens’
Service. When he leaves Capi
tol Hill Jan. 12, he will become
Georgia representative of a na
tional concern, and at a real
nice salary. Combined with hb
pension, Phil will be doipg a
lot better than he b as Director.
• * • • • •
We're happy that Capt. Her
man Cofer will be the new head
of the State Patrol, if the cap-
MARVIN
GRIFFIN
FEDERAL MEDDLING
RENDERS STATE
GOVERNMENTS IMPOTENT
The President’s Commission on
Campus Unrest handed down its
long awaited report, and as was
to be expected, the findings put
the blame for
campus atroci
ties every
where but
where they be
longed.
The Presi
dent himself I
was condemn
ed by inference 1
because he b leader of the
country, but every American
with an ounce at common senae
knows the President of the UJS. is
not, and should not be, held ac
countable tor breaches of the
peace in the several states of the
Union unless the governing au
thority of the state fails or refuses
to take the steps necessary to re
store law and order.
The Governors of the several
states of our nation are all
designated in the fundamental
laws of the states as “preser
vators of the peace”, and, no
doubt, many of them would do the
jobs required of them if the
“tallow-faced nincompoops” and
social theorists in Washington
would let them alone.
We are paying the price
throughout the country today for
surrendering states rights tor
Federal paternalism. The pain of
even a small-sized bellyache
cannot be assuaged at the local
level without calling on
Washington tor help.
If the very distant relatives of
Solomon along the Potomac
would leave the enforcement of
taws to the people at the local
level who make these laws, there
would be fewer riots with sub
sequent loss of life and
destruction of public property.
Everytime a campus riot takes
place, and student activists
attempt to take over public
buildings, and the Governor is
called on to restore taw and or
der, he is immediately attacked
for doing his duty.
In many instances
In many instances Governors
failed to take positive action, and
rioting bums and thugs destroyed
buildings that cost the taxpayers
of the states involved millions of
dollars. The educational
processes of the institutions were
disrupted, and conscientious
students were denied the right to
pursue an education.
GOVERNORS ACTED
AT KENT AND AT
JACKSON STATE
The Governor of Ohio, James
able Porter Weaver had to go.
Capt. Cofer is a veteran of Pa
trol work, and will do a swell
job. Thia is another appoint
ment on which we congratu
late Carter. We understand that
Porter can stay, himself, in a
top job if he wishes.
There may be a legislative
investigation of the newly an
nounced increase in parking
fees at the Capitol. Some mem
bers of the Assembly say that
the percentage increase is far
too heavy for the small-salaried
state employees.
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This column will not be is
sued next week because of the
Holiday Season. May we take
this opportunity of wishing our
readers the greatest Joys of
Christmas and New Year.
It’s time to be ■
happy... Q
xi Merry Christmas. H
SOUTHEASTERN
OFFICE SUPPLY
A. Rhodes, responded when
called on to restore order st Kent
State University. The National
Guard was called in, and white
the people at the local level say
snipers fired on Guartfaman and
pelted them with stones, bottles
and bricks for a two day period,
the National Guard was con
demned for firing on the mob and,
killing several students.
The charges against the
Governor and the National Guard
did not come from the people of
Kent or the State of Ohio, but
most of the vituperation and
abuse heaped upon the Guard
emanated from the crowd in
Washington.
The same thing occurred at
Jackson State in Mississippi. Os
course, Governor John Bell
Williams was suspect to begin
with because be Is a Mississip
pian, but the facts still remain
that in both cases students
refused to disperse and go back to
their rooms, and, in fact, con
tested the ground with the
National Guard.
It seems to me that people
generally are disgusted with
militant campus leaders who did
not come to college for the pur
pose of getting an education in
the first place. These malcon
tents are in the minority, and the
majority of students on the
campus are tired of the disrup
tions caused by these folks who
engage in everything under the
sun except the purpose for which
they came to college, and that to
to get an education.
There to one thing for sure.
Students who do not like the
establishment can work for a
change at the ballot box, but as
sure as a fellow’s nose points
toward the ground, they will
never force any changes by riots,
arson and contesting the National
Guard.
THE SAME GOES
FOR PORNOGRAPHY
Former President Lyndon
Johnson appointed a Commission
to study filth, smut and por
nagraphic paper being
distributed throughout the
country. Much of this filth to
being sent through the mails.
This Commission released its
report the other day, and made
no decent recommendations. On
the contrary, the Commission,
which met for only two or three
times, recommended that all
taws governing the dissemination
of pornagrabhic material be
repealed. The Commission spent
thousands of dollars of the tax
payers’ money conducting erotic
experiments where participants
were paid for their dubious
services.
Freedom of the Press is one
thing, but distributing filth and
smut to the children of this nation
for the purpose of debasing and
debauching them has nothing to
do with this great American
right.
President Nixon repudiated the
findings of the Commission, and
rightly so, I think.
Some folks say pornographic
purveyors are protected under
the Constitution, but after all,
there is a "public welfare”
clause, and the filth and trash
being circulated in our country
today is not in the best interests
of our Democratic society. Most
of it would shock the sensibilities
of a promiscuous billy goat.
There is an old saying that filth
begats filth, and if you have any
doubts about that, ask the Macon
Police Department to let you see
a movie it made of the Byron
Rock Festival a few months ago.
Peace officers who have seen the
movie state most animals have
more pride than the crowd that
assembled at Byron. They report
hogs were cleaner and tom cats
more discreet.
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25 Years Ago
(from the issw, of Dec. 27, 1945)
MR. JAMES Franklin Alexan
der, 79, native and life-long resi
dent of Early County, died at his
home on Chattahoochee Ave. In
this city Sunday afternoon at
1:15 o’clock.
THE FIRST State Bank last
week declared a 6 per cent semi
annual dividend, payable as of
December 15, Grady Smith, cash
ier, announced Saturday.
Employees of the bank were
each given a month's salary as a
bonus and each received a $25.00
Victory Bond as a Christmas pre
sent.
MRS. SALLIE LANE, 58, died
at her home in Columbia, Ala., on
Tuesday night of last week follow
ing a long Illness. Mrs. Lane, who
was related to many Early coun
tians, had lived in Columbia all
her life.
AUTOMOBILE ANDtruck tires
will go off the rationed list one
minute after midnight next Mon.,
Dec. 31, it was announced the past
week by OPA Chief Chester Bow
les.
SUCCUMBING TO AN Illness of
long duration, Mrs. Mary Ann
Darden-Lane, died at her home
on Cuthbert St. at 4;30 o’clock
Sun. morning. Mrs. Lane's death
was attributed to pneumonia.
TRAGEDY AGAIN has struck
the home of Mr. and- Mrs. Joe
Brown of the Cuba community.
Their only son, Benjamin Eugene
Brown, 16, was killed in an auto
mobile wreck at Webb, Ala.,
early Friday morning and their
son-in-law, George Batson, was
painfully injured.
IT WAS really a white Christ
mas for a number of parents in
Blakely holidays after being hon
orably discharged from the
armed forces. They are Fred
Godwin, J.D, Willis, George Ivey,
W.F. Lawrence, Harvey Thomas,
Marvin Willis, Mack Strickland,
Jr.
CAPTAIN AND Mrs. Grady
Holman, of Augusta, are spending
the holidays in Blakely. Capt.
Holman is on leave from the hos
pital where he is undergoing
treatment for wounds received in
Europe.
IN A BEAUTIFUL candlelight
ceremony at 6 o'clock Thursday
evening, Dec. 13, Miss Anne Vic
toria Sheffield, daughter of the
late Alice Houston Sheffield and
James Alvis Sheffield, became
the bride of Royce Terrell Dun
away, of Unadilla, Ga.
MISS REBECCA Craft, daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Craft of Damascus, became the
bride of L. Patruck Etheredge,
of Moultrie, at a ceremony char
acterized by beauty and simpli
city at four o’clock in the after
noon Sunday, December twenty
third, at the home of the bride's
brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Gary Loyless.
50 Years Ago
(from the issue of Dec. 23, 1975)
W.J. SKINNER died of a heart
attack Monday afternoon at the
home of his brother, J.G. Skinner,
on North Church St.
MR. J.J. McLendon went down
to Bainbridge and brought Mrs.
McLendon home from the hospi
tal. Her friends will be glad to
know she is doing nicely now.
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VETERINARY HOSP.
S.H. BLOCKER teacher of the
Negro schools of Blakely, died
suddenly from a stroke Monday
night.
MR. REESE W. Woolf and Mrs.
Woodie Wood, of the Union neigh
borhood, were married on Sun.,
Dec. 19, by the Rev. J.E. Dykes.
MR. D.H. McDowell, who has
been in India for several years,
is here on a visit to his brother,
Mr. T.B. McDowell, and recei
ving the glad hand from his
friends.
THE BIG BARN on the farm of
Mr. T.O. Whitchard was destroy
ed by fire Saturday afternoon.
MISS LIZZIE JONES and Mas
ter Guy Felton went up to Colum
bus Wednesday to spend Christ
mas with Mrs. T.H. Averitt.
EARLY T.James,former resi
dent of Blakely, died at his home
in Fitzgerald the past Saturday
night.
WOODROW, YOUNG son of Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Brooks, suffer
ed a broken leg last Saturday when
he attempted to climb on a mov
ing wagon.
MR. AND MRS. E.S. Collins, of
Colomokee, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Vera
Fluellen, to Arver Hinton Mose
ly, of Columbus, die wedding to
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take place the latter part of Dec.
75 Years Ago
(from the issue of Dec. 26, 1895)
A WEEK AGO THE catfish In
the Mississippi River had score
bellies on account of rubbing a
gainst the bottom. Now the stream
is out of its banks and flooding die
adjacent country.
A BABY BOY arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D.W. James
this week.
MRS. D.B. Beauchamp, of Bluf
fton, is spending the holidays in
Blakely.
HON. NICK Hightower, of Dam
ascus, was in Blakely Monday.
A CROWD OF gypsies are
stopping on the outskirts of town
and our local horse traders are
contributing toward their sup
port.
MR. SAM FERRELL and Miss
Mattie Crenshaw were married
on the 18th.
MISS ANNIE HILTON has re
turned from school in Cuthbert.
ON LAST Sunday, at the resi
dence of Mr. Joel Singletary, Mr.
J. Chesterfield Loyless and Miss
Albina Singletary were married.
Judge J.B. Chancy officiating.
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