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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCT. 7, 1871
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Politics oil Farad
XV /f|\\
The General Assembly made
better progress than we fig
ured on reapportionment, so
by the time this is printed, the
boys may be at home- Already,
as of last week, both House and
Senate had passed bills for
their own reapportionment, and
are not likely to make any
changes. That is, unless Gov.
Carter vetoes the Senate bill,
which, as we wrote last week,
he would be very foolish to
do.
Congressional reapportion
ment has been more of a bug
aboo, and when we were at
the Capitol last Friday, vari
ous plans were floating around.
There was even talk of ad
journing and holding this bill
until the regular session in
January. However, with a little
politicking by Lt.-Gov. Lester
Maddox and others, this idea
died aborning.
With all three reapportion
ment jobs done, the state need
oply wait to sec d U.S. At-
Wrney-General John Mitchell
Will give his approval •*
•* ♦ *
Last week we wrote that per
haps the Communists are pay
ing the expenses of Ralph Ab
ernathy and Hosea Williams,
leaders of the SCLC, on their
visits to Russia and Red China.
The evidence seems to point
more and more to this being
true, since Abernathy has issued
a statement high in praise of
East Germany, and compared
the United States unfavorably
with that Communist state.
What surprised us more than
anything else, though, is the
fact that the usually-'ibera! At
lanta Constitut’on editorialised
against Abernathy for this.
•♦ * *
At the Capitol last Friday,
we heard any number of legis
lators speak in condemnation
of Gov. Carter’s refusal to
have the young Negroes thrown
out of the legislative commit
tee room which they took over.
One former close friend and
supporter of Carter told us that
be is through with him. Others
say that Carter's ultra-liberal
ism (which we tried to point out
to the people of Georgia in
last year's elect’on) is assuring
that his fe'low liberal. Senator
David Gambrell, will not be
re-elected in 1972.
Speaking of the Negro take
over of the Capitol facilities,
the mess they left looked like
a bunch of hogs had been there.
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Even the carpet was burned by
numerous cigarette butts.
** • •
Jones Lane, Representative
from Bulloch County, will in
troduce a bill in the regular
session of the Assembly next
year which will provide that
state money for education will
be paid directly to parents, so
that they can send their chil
dren to whatever school they
please. It would apply equally
to both white and black parents.
Jones calls it the “voucher
system.”
We can't see how the fed
eral courts could overturn such
a procedure, since no discrimi
nation would be shown. And,
as everybody knows, many,
many black parents don't want
their children to go to school
with whites, anyway, and they
could use the state money to
set up their own private
schools.
•• • •
As an example of Jimmy
Carter’s ineptitude in politics,
when the Assembly sent a com
mittee to inform the Governor
that the legislature was in ses
sion, he kept them waiting in
his outer office for 15 minutes.
*♦ * •
COINCIDENCE: Lester Mad
dox's birthday was Sept. 30,
and his friends celebrated with
a party for him the night be
fore. Jimmy Carter’s birthday
was Oct. 1, and his staff served
coffee and cake in the Execu
tive offices. And, to top it off,
Jody Powell, Press Aide to the
Governor, has the same birth
date as the Lt.-Governor. And
his middle name is Lester.
** • *
Carter infuriated a number
of legislators when he sent the
note to the Senate saying that
he might veto their reappor
tionment bill, if it didn't pass
as he desired it to be. They
didn’t appreciate the near-ulti
matum, and, also, they figured
that the Governor has no
right to veto this type of legis
lation passed by the Assembly.
“He’s not the jury”, one mem
ber told us, “John Mitchell and
the federal courts will be that".
•* * •
As you probably read in the
daily press, the Governor has
officially announced that the
State Dept, of Veterans Service
is being deleted from his reor
ganization plan. Also, he stat
ed publicly that Civil Defense
will remain in the Dept, of De-
Marvin.
GRIFFIN
OFF TO EUROPE,
AND HAPPY
Decatur County voters gave a
thumping majority to the 32
million bond issue election to es
tablish a junior college in this
county.
The vote was /r’Ak
2713 for and I '
1262 against, ft
and the college yv- t yß
is assured. “
By the time
the readers of / f
this column get . ft
around to MKflr
reading this newspaper, I will be
in Spain with my bride. Miss Lol
lie, and we won’t be worrying a
bout politics. However, we can go
on the trip feeling better about
the future of Bainbridge and De
catur County since this is our
home.
I do not believe our people will
ever regret having taken affir
mative action at the polls on
Wednesday, September 22, and
the vote of more than two to one
was, and is, most gratifying.
I want to take this opportunity
to commend the advocates of the
college and the bond issue. They
presented the case for progress in
the county, and the majority of
our citizens are also to be com
mended for the vision they pos
sess, and the faith they displayed
in taking positive action on the
issue.
The folks who voted against the
bond issue did so in good con
science, and I want to commend
them for the orderly opposition
they presented. This is the A
merican way, and they should not
be faulted for their stand.
There was some opposition to
the junior college on the grounds
that we were very near Florida
State University at Tallahassee,
and that we did not need to spend
money to build a college here.
That institution is in our neigh
boring state, and has no
responsibility to educate the boys
and girls of Decatur County and
Georgia.
Then there was some talk that
a junior college would bring dope
and other ugly things to the young
men and women in our midst.
The purpose of the junior
college is to extend higher
education to the more than 1200
high school graduates of this area
to be covered by the college.
These are our boys and girls.
They live here, and if there is any
dope peddling or dope addiction,
it should be stamped out im
mediately with a red hot brand.
These are our children, and if we
can’t control them at home we
sure can't control them at Athens
or Tallahassee or any other place
far removed from us.
sense under Ernest Vandiver.
Now we hear — not yet an
nounced — that he has de
cided to NOT put the Dept,
of Banking under the Comp
troller-General.
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THE GEORGIA ASSEMBLY
AND REAPPORTIONMENT
I said I was happy. I am, and
you can make book on that. As
Elvis Presley would say, “a man
who lives by himself is nothing
but a hound dog.”
I do have a few misgivings
about being out of the country at
the time the Georgia General
Assembly meets in extraordinary
session to consider congressional
and legislative reapportionment.
When we get back home after a
month’s absence, I hope I do not
find myself voting in Don
Fuqua’s district in Florida, even
though Mr. Fuqua is a very able,
attractive and personable fellow
and a good congressman.
The way the legislative com
mittees are fooling around, the
folks in Southwest Georgia may
get gerrymandered clean out of
the state.
And the way representatives
are plotting and planning, we
mijght find ourselves in the same
district with the boys in Rising
Fawn in Dade County, which is
the buffer between Tennessee
and Alabama in Northwest
Georgia.
The proposal to reduce
membership in the Georgia
House of Representatives from
195 to 180 poses some serious
problems.
Frankly, I do not favor the
reduction, but the “ring-necked
tycoons in charge of the steam
roller” are trying to curry favor
with the big metro newspapers
who wish to stretch us even
thinner in the rural areas.
I hope the representatives in
rural areas can stem the tide, but
I doubt it.
Under the “one man, one vote”
decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court each Representative of the
180 members of the House must
represent a constituency of ap
proximately 25,500 people in
Georgia. The political and social
architects on the high court care
nothing for county lines, and in
some cases counties will be split.
In other words, to create a
legislative district of 25,500
precincts of several counties may
be grouped in the same district.
I do not like this sort of
arrangement, but under the “one
man, one vote” theory, there is
not much that can be done.
Decatur County with a*
population slightly in excess of
22,000 is not populous enough to
have one representative, and if it
were joined with Seminole
County, which has a population in
excess of seven thousand people,
it would exceed the 25,500 figure
by too much.
The most recent proposal is to
create a three-man district of
Decatur, Grady and Thomas, but
under this plan, Thomas with a
population of more than 40,000
would dominate the elections for
Representative.
In the venacular of “us”
wiregrass folks, “Thomas County
could hog the elections.” I have a
high regard for the good people of
Thomas County, but I would not
like to see three Thomas Coun
tians in the Legislature and none
from Decatur or Grady counties.
The entire proposal is a hodge-
FILES
25 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Oct. 10, 1946)
MR. SIDNEY Johnston Stuck
ey, 77, highly-esteemed and long
time resident of Blakely, died
at his home in this city the
past Friday night.
A DELEGATION FROM Blake
ly, headed by Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce R. C.
Job, will attend a meeting to be
held in Columbus Friday morn
ing for the purpose of forming
an association to divert some
of the tourists trade to travel
this highway from Chattanooga
to Florida.
PLANS ARE NEARING com
pletion for the second annual
Early County Peanut Festival
to be held here on the day of
Friday, November 8.
MR. F. M. Mosely was the
honored guest at a birthday din
ner in the honor of his ninetieth
birthday at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. C. M. Dunning, and
Mr. Dunning, the past Sunday.
MR. AND MRS. William Lewis
Mosely, of Blakely, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Mary Kate, to Hoyle McLendon,
of Hilton, the wedding to be an
event of November.
OF INTEREST TO their many
friends is the marriage of Miss
Martha Clements to Mr. Ralph
Jenkins, on Sunday, October 6.
The ceremony was performed
by their former pastor, Rev.
J. N. Barnes, at the home of
the groom’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. W. Jenkins.
MR. AND MRS. W. T. Mc-
Kinnon announce the marriage
of their daughter, Vivian, to Bill
Lofton, the wedding having taken
place Saturday night, October 5,
at their home, with the Rev.
J. Alton Davis performing the
ceremony.
50 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Sept. 29,1921)
MR. JOE HAMIL came down
from Dothan Sunday.
MR. MURRAY JONES, of Bain
bridge, spent Sunday and Monday
in Blakely with home folks.
MR. BYRIi d6l M came down
from Albany and spent Sunday
with his mother, Mrs. W. C.
Odum.
MR. AND MRS. Bernard Her
ring announce the arrival
of Master David James Herring
on Wednesday, Oct. 5.
MRS. J. H. Moye is spending
some time in Atlanta with friends.
podge arrangement at best, and 1
hope the present membership
figure of 195 can be continued.
In the meantime, know that
Miss Lollie and I will be thinking
of you during our trip through
Europe, and in our absence, let
there be no sadnesses among the
good people of our community.
You have been most kind,
thoughtful and generous to both
of. us.
THE TEMPERATURE TOOK
a tumble to 42 degrees on Octo
ber 5.
THE BLAKELY HIGH football
squad opens the season on the
gridiron Friday, when they tackle
the stong team from Dothan High.
Prof. Smith will start the follow
ing line-up: Left end, Bill Brown;
left tackle, Homer Bush; left
guard, Ralph Hutchins; Center,
Tom Grier; right guard, Wal
lace Ivey; right tackle, Flori
zelle Houston; right end, Harvey
Middleton; quarterback, Jack
Brown; left halfback. Bill Boy
ette; Right halfback, Bill Brooks;
fullback, Hoyle Fleming; substi
tutes, Tom Howell, Clyde Rich,
Vivian Calhoun, Lois Dußose.
75 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Oct. 8, 1896)
MR. IDUS JAY visited Hilton
last Tuesday.
HON. W. C. SHEFFIELD was
up from Cedar Springs this week.
A BABY BOY arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W..
Bridges, southeast of Blakely,
the past week.
MR. CLARENCE ALEXANDER
left Monday for Atlanta to attend
Dental College.
BLUFFTON NEWS, by X-ray,
says: “Mr. Jeff McLendon, of
Shellman, and Mr. Oscar Mc-
Lendon, of Racketville, were vis
itors here last week. . .Mr.
John Bethea was in town this
week. . .Miss Mamie Green and
Mr. Andy Lanier visited Bluffton
Sunday. . .Dr. J. S. McKenzie
of Bluffton, was here last
Monday.’’
THEY HAVE CORN to burn
in lowa. A school board has
passed a resolution to use it
for fuel. Corn at 10 cents a
bushel is cheaper than coal, they
say.
Nation's Largest
Broiler Shipment
Made from Mobile
ATHENS—The largest ex
port shipment of poultry ever
made from the United States is
on the way to new markets in
South America.
The shipment, put together
by members of the Rational
Broiler Marketing Association, „>
was loaded aboard the ship
M/V Banador at Mobile, Ala. It
included more than 2,100
metric tons of fresh frozen
poultry, according to Jerry
Cox, poultry marketing
specialist with the University
of Georgia Extension Service.
‘ ‘NBMA members are
pleased that they have been
able to find a new market for
130 full truck loads of
poultry,” Cox stated. “They
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
SCHOOL BUSING has descended on the nation, primarily the
South, like a plague, creating chaos in the schools and weakening
public education.
Children are being uprooted from their neighborhoods and
denied the opportunity to attend schools nearest their homes. They
are being herded about like cattle over distances of 15 to 20 miles,
and sometimes even longer.
This vicious policy has heretofore been reserved almost exclu
sively for the South. Now, other school districts in other parts of
the country are also beginning to feel the blow. Judging from what
I have heard and read in the papers, people there are not happy
with busing either.
I submit, however, that regardless of wherever busing takes
place, it is detrimental to the education and well-being of children.
More than that, it is contrary to common sense. It runs counter to
the law.
Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reads as follows:
“ ‘Desegregation’ means the assignment of students to
public schools and within such schools without regard
to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but ‘de
segregation’ shall not mean the assignment of students
to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance."
That section of the law was put in expressly to prohibit the kind
of supreme idiocy we are witnessing in our schools today. The leg
islative history of Title IV clearly shows that it was intended to
keep school children from being bussed all over creation just to
satisfy the misguided notion of some court or bureaucrat that a
near-perfect mathematical racial balance in the schools must be
attained.
Title IV was debated and voted on by both Houses of Congress.
It was signed by the President. It is the law. It is a mandate of
Congress and as such should be obeyed.
A child's race cannot determine his assignment to public schools.
The Supreme Court said that in 1954. Congress said it again in
Title IV in 1964. Yet, that is precisely what we have in school
busing—because of confusion and lack of direction in the Federal
courts, from the Supreme Court on down, and in the Administra
tion, from the President on down.
I am putting before the Senate a proposed amendment to the
Constitution, that I hope will give the people of our nation a
chance to let their feelings be known and which I hope will re
store normalcy to our schools.
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are optimistic that similar ship
ments can be made during the
next 12 months.”
The poultry marketing
specialist said the broilers were
packed by 28 processors,
making this the largest and
freshest shipment of poultry
ever made from any port
anywhere in the world.
"Almost all of the poultry
included in the shipment was
walking arojuniUdTtf thicken
houftW rMrty'fouf to sevendays'
before it was put on board ship
at Mobile,” Cox stated.
NBMA is a cooperative rep
resenting broiler producers in
ail sections of the country.'Tt
offers a means of economic
growth and stability for the
producer by stabilizing prices
and supplying current informa
tion and statistics on the
broiler market across the
country,” Cox said.
The attitude—often expressed
in Washington—that ' this na
tion can afford anything it
wants” still holds sway among
those who finance government
operations.
* * *
Just two years ago, a new
President was ordering gov
ernment spending cutbacks,
saying that inflation required
monetary restraint and a strong
budget surplus. But. at the
same time, just to be safe.
Congress was voting to raise
Federal debt ceiling by another
Sl2 billion to $377 billion.
Congress knew what it was
doing, and how its spending
appetite grows. Now. two years
iater. Congress has raised the
national debt limit to $430 bil
lion—not quite as much as the
President requested — but
enough for a couple of years.
A planned deficit for the com
ing year will eat up perhaps
sl6 billion of that new bor
rowing authorization