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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot Os
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO 113—NO. 5
$600,000 Nursing Home
Opened Monday Morning
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The staff at Early Memorial Nursing Home includes: Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Bell Hobby, Mrs.
Bubber Williams; and standing, Jessee Blunt, James Branch, Administrator J. W. Bancroft,
and aides, Mrs. Tommy Biddings and Mrs. Curtis Daniels.
Early County's $600,000 ex
tended care facility at Early
Memorial Hospital opened Mon
day with six patients admitted.
The Early Memorial Nursing
Home is fully staffed under the
Direction of Nurses, Mrs. Ster
ling Davis, the former Charlotte
Love of Blakely, RN and a grad
uate of Southwest Ga. Nursing
School, Americus; Mrs. Doris
(Edward) Balkcom, Direstor of
In-Service-Education; Adminis
trator Joe W. Bancroft; Asst.
Adm. Robert E. (Bobby) Tiner;
consulting staff physicians, den
tist and pharmacists.
The forty bed wing of Early
Memorial Hospital is modern and
efficient in every detail, built
like a T with an extended staff
to form the east wing of the
hospital, it has ten semi-pri
vate rooms and twenty private
Warriors Win First
Football Game 40-0
The Southwest Georgia Aca
demy Warriors played their first
football game this week - the
first football game ever played in
Damascus. The Warriors played
well, too, whipping Terrell Aca
demy, 40-0.
QUICK SCORE
Quarterback Bill Ducati start
ed the game fast as he hit Claude
Bell with a 65 yard bomb on the
first play from scrimage. Ducati
also hit James Newberry for a
T. D.
More and more people nowa
days are concerned about the
higher things in life--like prices
and wages.
A newly-wed couple shouldn’tex
pect the first few meals to be per
fect. After all, it takes some time
to find the right restaurants.
Nothing improves a woman’s
appearance more than a man’s.
Sat. Nite Seat. 25
MUSIC BY
JESSIE MERCER
AND
THE MUSIC
MAKERS
Couples Only
(Sarin Cootg
rooms. Food will be served from
the hospital kitchen.
The rooms are furnished with
Carrom metal furniture, built
in dressing tables with white
marble tops and built-in closets.
The dining room with its Acti
vity Area, the reception entrance
a small beauty parlor and bar
ber shop and an efficiency kit
chen are to the east of the
nurses station which centers the
new wing. The multipurpose
room has a piano and TV, this
area can be closed off from the
dining room with a curtain. The
wooded area to the south, and
the two high schools, Junior and
Senior High Schools to the east
are viewed from the windows of
the activity area and dining room.
The laundry is in the basement.
Mrs. Dave M. Pearl (Vincie
Loyless Pearl) was the first
Ricky Dowdy, playing tailback,
was the big ground gainer as he
scored three T. D’s on long
runs.
T. D.’S CALLED BACK
It would have been a bigger
rout on the Warriors part if
if two touchdowns hadn’t been
called back. One was on an
intercepted pass by Brent Mad
dox and the other was the second
, half kick-off return by Bill Du
_cati.
Starting on offense for the
8L00D...
is needed te
save a life
Ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls, we can not foretell
your personal future--but as sure
as the justotext is moving back
and forth writing out this story,
there will be accidents in Blakely
and Early County in the future.
Where there are accidents. . .
in our modern world of medi
cine--BLOOD is needed to save
a life!
Mr. John Q. Public could care
less. Somebody somewhere has
always taken the responsibility,
so why should he bother.
Yes, a majority of the time
those who give blood have at some
time needed blood--for a loved
one or for themselves; it was
because of THIS they became
involved.
Early Countians remember the
days when we frantically begged
for donors by telephone or per
sonal appeal--then came to radio
and requests went out over the
air waves--and Anally the quiet
time when the Early County Chap
ter of the American Red Cross
joined the Bloodmobile Program
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Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts — “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
patient admitted to the Nursing
Home. Others admitted Monday
were: Mrs. Lula King, Joseph
Davis, Perry Z. Smith, and Mrs.
Perry Z. (Mamie Burns) Smith.
On Tuesday, Miss Myrtice Deal
was admitted.
The staff of the Nursing Home
includes: Mrs. Harvey Thomas,
Greg FEkays, Miss Sharon Wat
ford, Mrs. Hollis Still, Mrs,
Charlie Scott, Harvey Woolf,
Mrs. Mark Brownlee, Mrs. Bill
Hobby, Mrs. Edith Biddings, Mrs
Bob Register, Mrs. Myrtice Ty
son, Mrs. Helen Smith, Mrs.
Betty Moore, Mrs. Christine
Ceasar, Mrs. Jimmy White, Ja
mes Branch, Lewis Walker, Mrs.
Corine Pittman, Mrs. Curtis
Daniels, Mrs. Earl Chandler,
Mrs. James Watford, Jessie
Blunt, Ray Moore, Sol Brunson,
Mrs. Tullis Nall, and Mrs. Cur
tis Holder.
Warriors were Ricky Dowdy,
(TB), Randy Lane (FB), Bill Du
cati (QB), James Newberry (FLB)
Claude Bell (SE), Lamar Pullen
and Ken Craft (LT), Cliff Hat
taway (LG), Mike Pullen (C),
David Arnold (RG), Pat Sam
mons (RT), and Terrell Collins
(TE).
NEXT OPPONENT
The Warriors will meet Lee I
Academy of Auburn, Ala. in Da- !
_mascus at 4 p.m. Friday after
noon.
G. P. Donaldson
to judge Peanut
Cook-off
Peanuts, Peanuts, Peanuts will
be everywhere at Early County’s
first Festival. The Cook-Off
Contest is open to all girls and
women who are residents of Early
County. There will be two divi
sions - Students and Women, with
3 classes in each division - I:
Pies, 11. Cakes, 111 Cookies,
candies or confections. Prizes
for each class is Ist place -
$15.00, 2nd place - SIO.OO and
3rd place - $7.50. Entrants
may try out for one, two or three
classes giving each woman or
girl entering three classes a
opportunity of winning $45.00.
The peanut cook-off which is
sponsored by the American Le
gion under the direction of Miss
Ann Akers, Early County Exten
sion Home Economist, will be
held on Wednesday, September
29, 1971, at 10:00 a. m. All
women and students in Early
County are encouraged to take
advantage of this grand oppor
tunity. For further information
on the cook-off, please call the
County Extension Service at 723-
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BLAKELY GA., THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. 23. 1971
Bobcats Blast Clinch
Friday For 3rd Win
The Bobcats chalked up their
third straight victory Friday
night by defeating the Clinch
County eleven by a score of
5-0.
51 YARD DRIVE
The Cats scored the first time
they had the ball, marching 51
yards in 5 plays. Earnest Wil
son scored the TD on a 7 yard
run. Bush kicked the PAT.
The Cats also scored the first
time Clinch County had the ball
when Andy Bush intercepted a
pass and scampered 54 yards
for the TD. He then kicked
the PAT for a 14-0 lead.
MORE SCORING
On the first play of the sec
ond quarter, Mike Fleming swept
left end for 26 yards and a
TD. Bush again booted the PAT. ■
Tommy Irvin
to speak
to Lion Club
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Tommy Irvin
Thomas T. Irvin, Georgia
Commissioner of Agriculture,
will speak to the Blakely Lion’s
Club at noon, Sept. 28, it is an
nounced by President Lonnie
Chester. Leon K. J. Hodges,
Program Chairman, will intro
duce the speaker.
Commissioner Irvin was born'
in Hall County, Georgia, July 14,
1929 and reared on tenant farms
in White and Habersham Coun
ties.
The eldest of five children,
he assumed responsibility of
helping support his mother and
younger brothers and sisters by
going into business for himself
when his father was killed ac
cidentally in 1945. At that time
he was only 16 years old but by
the time he was 25 he had be
come one of north Georgia’s
most successful youflg busines
smen.
In 1956 Commissioner Irvin
was selected to the Habersham
County Board of Education, an
office he still holds. He has
been active for many years in
the Georgia School Boards As
sociation, serving as a Director.
Vice President and President of
this group. He has served as
Georgia delegate to the National
School Boards Association on
five occasions, is a lifetime
member of the Georgia Parent-
Teacher Association and a mem
ber of the Georgia Educational
Improvement Council.
A former state director of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
he was named Jaycee of the Year
from Habersham County in 1964.
A past Master of Mt. Airy Ma
sonic Lodge and past High Priest
of Royal Arch Masons, he has
held district offices in both or
ganizations. He is both a York
Rite and Scottish Mason and a
Shriner, a director of the Haber
sham Bank and a member of the
Board of Deacons of Antioch
Baptist Church.
Commissioner Irvin was elec
ted to serve four terms as State
Representative from Habersham
County and served on several
important committees, including
the House Agricultural Commit
tee, Educational Committee, In
dustrial Relations Committee and
as Chairman of the Governor’s
Conference on Education.
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Moments later, Lamar Bush
returned an intercepted pass 47
yards for a TD. Bush booted
the PAT and the Cats had a
35-0 lead 13 minutes into the
game.
RESERVES SEE ACTION
The .reserves and B-team
played the remainder of the game
I providing them with valuable ex
perience.
In the third quarter, Danny
Vickers ran 19 yards for a TD.
Bush booted the PAT. Finally,
in the last 19 seconds, Andy
! Bush kicked as 18 yard field
goal boosting the score to 45-0.
Earnest Wilson was the lead
ing rusher with 64 yards in
5 carries. On defense, Dean
White and Luvon Fowler made
9 tackles and Robert Taliaferro
Glenn Sheppard
gives Heritage
talk to DAR
The Rev. Glenn Sheppard,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Blakely, spoke on “Re
ligious Heritage in the Develop
ment of the Constitution of the
United States” at the September
meeting of the Peter Early Chap
ter, DAR Thursday at the Town
and Country Club. He recalled
“It took over four months work
ing from eight to ten hours a
day six days week, for the men who
gathered to draw up the Consti
tution to get the job done. There
was much bickering and dissent
. . .until the 80 year old patri
arch, Ben Franklin, reminded
the assembleage, ‘lf God can
note the fact and care about
i the fall of a sparrow. . .how
can we expect a great nation
ito rise from the earth without
His blessings?”. . .and led in
prayer”.
The Rev. Sheppard recalled
the heritage of the Children of
Isreal, the moving story of their
exodus from Egypt, their wan
dering in the wilderness and
finally possessing the Promised
Land. And the richest heritage
of all, that of the young car
pentar, embarked on a mission
of freedom--as the Savior of
the world. He paid a great
price for that freedom--death
on the cross.
The speaker enthusiastically
quoted Zell Miller, Executive
Director of the Democratic Party
of Georgia who spoke Tuesday
to the Blakely Lions Club. Mr.
Miller was more concerned with
the people of our great nation
returning to the beliefs of our
founding fathers than with par
tisan politics in his forceful ad
dress here, Mr. Sheppard
reported.
The new Baptist minister was
introduced by Mrs. Herman M.
Richardson, past Vice Presi
dent General, NSDAR and past
NSDAR. Mrs. Richardson pre
sented Mr. Sheppard a book com
memorating the 75th Anniversary
of the National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution. Mrs.
F. D. Grist, Constitution Week
Chairman, introduced the pro
gram.
The opening ritual was con
ducted by Mrs. J. H. Williams,
Sr., Vice Regent of the Peter
Early Chapter, DAR, presiding,
officer in the absence of Mrs.
J. E. Houston, Regent; the Chap
lain, Mrs. Grady Holman, Sr.;
Mrs. C. E. Boyett, Flag Chair
man and Mrs. R. C. Singletary,
American History Chairman.
Mrs. William Mills, Co-Chair
man of Constitution Week, read
the President General’s Message
wherein Mrs. Donald Spicer
pointed up Constitution Week.
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The Blakely Jaycettes
will have a combination
BAKE SALE and RUM
MAGE SALE, Saturday,
September 25, starting at
9:00 A.M. It will be held
on Court Square at the
Gulf Service Station next
to the Police Station.
YA’LL COME! ! ! !
made 8.
Those playing well for the
Cats were Joe Jordan, Robert
Newberry, Tommy Thornton, Jeff
Jennings, John Mosely, Bill
Love, Nick Talleyand John Walk
er.
ABBEVILLE TOUGH
The Bobcats journey over to
Abbeville, Alabama Friday night
to try to break a homefield win
ning tradition of the Yellow Jack
ets. Abbeville has lost only
2 games in the last three years
and the Bobcats were the last
to beat them (27-7 upset last
year). They have won their
three games this year by
scores of 35-0, 37-0 and 40-6.
Journey to Abbeville, Friday
night and help support the Bob-:
“cats.
Hal Suit
speaks to
Lions Club
Hal Suit, unsuccessful candi
date for governor, running on the
Republican ticket in last year’s
general election was the speaker
at last Friday’s meeting of the
Blakely Rotary Club. Mr. Suit
made an interesting talk and
made a favorable impression or
his listeners, most of whom are
long-time Democrats, as was
attested by the warm round of
applause he received.
Robert Collier arranged the
program and introduced Mr. Suit.
President John Holman presided
and Miss Ann Akers gave a se
lection of piano music during
the luncheon.
Wilton Howell Receives Award
For Service Beyond Duty
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Mrs. Betty B. Torbert, Officer-In-Charge at the Blakely Post Office, presests Wilton Howell,
Rural Letter Carrier, an award from the U. S. Postal Service. Mrs. Howell(right), and daughter,
Dawn Gillespie, were in attendance at the presentation.
Sidney Wilton Howell, Jr.,
Rural Letter Carrier #l, Blak
ely, Georgia, was presented by
Mrs. Betty Torbert, Office-In-
Charge, in behalf of the U. S.
Postal Service an award of SIOO
for Beyond the Call of Duty and
Beyond the Call of Duty lapel
emblem for service he rendered
on July 14, 1971 to Mr. Ross
Avirette. A letter of recogni
tion accompanied the award from
Mr. M. E. Miller, Suggestions
& Awards Administrator, Atlanta
Georgia. The presentation was
made September 17, at the Bla
kely Post Office.
Masons Hold First
Father-Son Banquet
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Fred Brooks is awarded a 50-year service certificate, apron
and pen by Grand Master, Ralph James (right).
The Father-Son Banquet at the
Masonic dining hall was attended
by approximately one hundred
young men and Masons here re
cently. Grand Master Ralph
James spoke on the future men
and future masons of our country
as seen in the youth of today.
A 50 year service award was
presented to Fred Brooks by
Grand Master James. Mr.
Brooks received the 50 year
apron, pin and certificate. Other
50 year Masons present were
Past Grand Master Jack G. Stand
ifer, Past Master Shelly Simmons
and Past Master Alto Warrick
who was Master of Magnolia
Lodge over 50 years ago.
A 25 year service pin was
awarded to James Tedder by
Grand Master James.
Guests and distinguished mem
bers attending, besides those al
ready named included Mrs.
Ralph James, wife of the Grand
Mr. Ross Averitte, age 79,
and living alone had fallen into
a deep hole near his rural mail
box the night before and was
injured. As Mr. Howell served
the box the next morning, he
could hear the faint cries of
“help.” Professional help was
secured by Mr. Howell before
attempting to move Mr. Aver
itte who had suffered a badly
broken leg, shock and exposure.
Mr. Averitte stated, “I knew to
make you, Wilton, hear me was
my only chance.”
Mr. Howell began his career
with the Post Office Department
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Master; Grand Tyler Phillip C.
McHugh; and officers from Mag
nolia Lodge: Eugene Watson,
W. M.; A. J. Gentry, S. W.;
O. H. King, Jr., secretary; Coy
Watson, Chaplain; Roy Arnold,
Sr. Deacon; Phillip Moore, Jr.
Deacon; Ralph Jenkins, Sr.
Steward; Owen Fussell, Jr. Stew
ard; Tony Rogers, Tyler. O. H.
King, Jr., was introduced as
Grand Conductor of the Council
of the Grand Council R&SM of
Georgia.
The Rev. Glenn Sheppard,
pastor ofthe First Baptist Church
of Blakely brought a message
to the group based on associating
with those who will lead people
in the right way.
A delicious meal was served
by the members of the O. E. S;,
previous to the program. Eu
gene Watson, Worshipful Master
of Magnolia Lodge, presided.
on June 18, 1935 as Post Of
fice Clerk. He served in the
U. S. Navy from September 16,
1942 until October 1, 1945. Re
turning to the Post Office in the
clerk’s position until October
1, 1947 when he transferred to
the rural route he is now pre
sently serving.
Mr. Howell is married to the
former Gladys Gillespie of Al
bany, Georgia. They have five
daughters and six granddaugh
ters.
Our congratulations to Mr.
Howell on this achievement!