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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. 113—NO. 19
four Apply for City
Retail Liquor License
Four applications have been
made at the City Clerk’s Office
for Retail Liquor License. These
applications will be acted upon
by the Mayor and Council at a
council meeting to be held at
7 P.M. on January 11, 1972.
Those having applied are:
Kate Anderson, doing business
as Kate’s Package Store at 319
North Church St., Claude Day,
doing business as One-Stop Dis
count Liquor Store at 907 North
Main St., George H. Gee, Jr.,
The Staff at the
Early County News
extends their Best Wishes
for 1972!
First Baptist Holds
Banquet for Students
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A Christmas Banquet for Senior High and College Students
of the First Baptist Church, a semi-formal affair, was at
tended by approximately fifty young people Thursday night
at the Blakely Woman’s Club. Games were conducted by Larry
Scott, Minister of Music and Youth, the program was closed
with a devotional, “The Greatest Event of the Year”.
HOSPITAL LIST
Patients listed as being admit
ted and discharged the past week
from Early Memorial Hospital
are as follows:
ADMITTED
Annie Killingsworth, O. F. Ever
son, Marie Ofton, Sherry Bar
ron, Eloise McAlpin, Florizel
Houston, Billy McFay, Cliff Hat
taway, Verdell Graham, Corne
lous Davis, Lester Smitheart,
Annette Chandler, Ella Wiley,
Eloise Mosely, Harvey Middle
ton, Benjamin Sims, Merle Hais
ten, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Ro
gers, Karon Worthy, Carol Gos
horn, Betty Davis, Eillie Fields,
Imogene Hagood, Tom Ritter,
Brenda Bailey, Bertha Davis, U.
C. Odom, Forrest Gazaway, Al
die Taylor, Ella Sparrow, Scott
Moulton, Wanda Jones
Good Luck And New Year Foods
Throughout the world the New Year holiday is associated with
certain foods believed to bring good luck: Often, too, there is an
exchange of dishes between friends.
Eating customs on this date can be traced to ancient eras.
Serving sweets, for example, goes back to the time when sugar cane
was discovered. A favorite Roman food was honey; apples dipped
in honey were also a feature of Hebrew New Year’s observances,
which take place sometime between September 6th and October sth.
The American Indians associated acorns and salmon with New
Year’s Day. In our Southwestern states there was a belief that good
fortune would come to those who ate black-eyes peas on January Ist.
People believe in some parts of the globe that a full salt shaker
foretells a good year. Rice cakes are served for New Year’s in
Ceylon, yet some places like China refrain from rice. In India they
believe that the cooking of new rice assures prosperity.
Counts
doing business as Discount Liq
uor Store at 12 Courthouse Sq
uare; Robert “Buck” Nobles,
doing business as Buck’s Pack
age Store at Arlington Highway,
(SR 62) across from old Arl
ington Street junction, approxi
mately one mile East of Square.
COUNTY APPLICATION
Applications for County Re
tail Liquor License will be avail
able at the County Clerk’s office
one day next week.
DISCHARGED
Betty Spann, Sallie Freeman,
John Harris, Edith Ducati, Hat
tie Hill, John Williams, Donna
Lovatt, Mark Lovatte, Frankie
and Baby Trent, Auburn Roberts,
Lindsey Still, Forrest Gazaway,
Sandra Lee, Thelfred Harrison,
Marie Hudson, Laura Wiley,
Joseph Davis, Alice and Baby
Lingo, Scott Moulton, Mary Mo
ody, Ella Wiley, Donna Lovatte,
Dorothy Taunton, Wanda Jones,
U. C. Odom, Claude Barfield,
Bertha Davis, Annette Chandler,
Jimmie Johnson, Ruby Andrews,
Minnie Strafford, Willie & Baby
Fields, Brenda & Baby Bailey,
Betty & Baby Davis, Carol Gos
horn, Karon, Worthy, Cora Ea
som, Imogene Hagood, Billy
McFay.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts - “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
Students Home For Holiday Season
Blakely and Early County stud
ents at home for the holidays who
will return to their respective
colleges and universities next
week include.
Georgia Southwestern College,
Americus: Dewey Cannon, Donna
Fetner, Johnny Enfinger, Gary
Clinkscales, Kathy Tiner, Terry
Bruner, Karen Harris, Vickie
Jarrett, Donnie Hull, Deborah
Day McLendon, Debra bucati,
Liza Lisenby, Linda Anderson,
Mike Collier, Tim Everson, Bro
wnie Widener, Jack Sanders,
Fred Sessions, Johnny Crowdis,
David Crowdis, Jack Dean.
University of Georgia, Athens:
Ulmer Bridges, Bill Stone, Da
vid Askew, Pam Cheek, Mike
Gilbert, Carol Sasser, Steve Sin
gletary, Carole King, Margaret
Dußose, Randall Williams, Cliff
Houston, Robert Morton, Linda
Felder, Charles Hobbs, Dwayne
Gilbert, Patti Dyer Gilbert, Re
becca Knighton, Jimmy Hat
taway, Rita T. Clinkscales, Sam
Clinkscales, Roy Mercer, Mac
Balkcom, Susan Askew, Wayne
Balkcom, Lisa Jordan, Annette
Davis, Carlton Davis,
Abraham Baldwin College,
Tifton: Alan Tiner, Warren Mc-
Lendon, Ruth Perkins, Allen
White, Larry White, Douglas
Thompson, Tommy Jenkins,
SOWEGA
Manpower to
honor volunteers
The SOWEGA Rural Manpower
Project of the Georgia Depart
ment of Labor will honor the
volunteer workers in this area
with an Appreciation supper at
the Town and Country Club here
on January 14.
A pilot project, and the only
one in the state, it has been in
effect most a year in twelve
counties in southwest Georgia;
the project is to assist the un
employed, employers and work
ers at the grass roots level.
With headquarters in Albany,
satellite offices have been set
up in eleven counties, ie, Early,
Seminole, Mitchell, Grady, Col
quitt, Clay, Calhoun, Worth, Ran
dolph, Terrell and Miller. Once
a week a professional in
terviewer from the project office
CONT ON PAGE 2
NW YEARGREETINGS
It is a special occasion, the hour of midnight. The
moment is here to ring out the old and welcome the new.
The old year is gone, consigned to memory. Coming
up now is a fresh, new supply of time. We have plans
and dreams.
There is time, at the moment of change, for reflection.
We must briefly look over the shoulder to estimate
progress and achievement. We must recognize where we
are, and where we are going. If we fail to do this, then
January 1 is important only because we change the date
on our calendar. We can look to the future — but we
must build on the past.
Ring now the bells loud and clear. Gather together
with family and loved ones. Share the warmth of this
moment, this time, with one another, in the spirit of
togetherness.
BLAKELY GA., THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 30, 1971
Ritchie Lewis, George
Middleton,
Middle Georgia College, Coc
hran: Art Redding, Tommy Har
vey, Mike Collier, David Mose
ley, Joe Peters, Danny Phillips.
Clink Alexander, Larry Fussell,
Cinday Rabon.
Valdosta State College, Val
dosta: Sue Johnston, Elise Bow
man, Danny Westbrook, Jacel
Evans, Dennis Johnson, Jimmy
Barksdale, Arthur Barham,
Jan Phillips, Diane Jordan, Wil
liam Ricketson, John Ricketson,
Hilluard Kitchens, Sherri Set
tles Middleton, Martha Dußose,
Seaborn Goff, Elise Bowman,
Robert Pullen, Mary Edith
Gleaton,
Georgia Tech, Atlanta: Frank
lin Arnold, Danny Goodyear, Jeff
King, Wally Houston, Jimmy
Chancy, Billy Newberry,
Georgia Southern College,
Statesboro: Liz Gay, Carole Mc-
Neal, Judy Collier, Clay Jordan,
Mary 0. Thompson, Tom Wat
kins, Terry Smith, Patricia Gay,
Rhonda Waller, Earl Ware.
Troy State University, Troy,
Ala.: Ann White, Vickie Fryer,
Nancy Holman, Beth Owen.
Andrew College, Cuthbert: Ann
Aline Pickle, Gail Jones,
Brownie Fryer, Robert Brown,
Richard Shoemaker.
Robert A. Hook
Elected Vice
Chairman GNNP
Peter S. Paine, chairman of
the board of Great Northern
Nekoosa Corporation, today an
nounced the election of Robert
A. Haak as vice chairman. Mr.
Haak was previously president
of Great Northern Paper Com
pany, a division of Great Nor
thern Nekoosa. Mr. Haak will
devote his time principally to
marketing. He was elected
president of Great Northern Pa
per in 1966 after a lifetime ca
reer in that company’s sales
department.
Samuel A. Casey, chief exe
cutive of Nekoosa Edwards Pa
per Company until its merger
with Great Northern Paper, will
assume the presidency of Great
Northern Paper in addition to his
present duties as president of
the parent corporation.
LaGrange College, LaGrange:
Patricia Bridges: Shorter Col
lege, Rome: Marvin Earnest;
Albany Technical School, Rickey
Middleton; Valdosta Technical &
Trade School, Wayne Middleton.
Albany Junior College: GilGlea
ton, Carol Chapman, Carl Hobbs,
Auburn University: Tommy
Hall, Janie Bryan, David Shef
field, Mike McNeal, Jeanie
Clinkscales, Rex Howell, Lodge
Holman, John Brown, Jackie
Gentry, Stanley Holly, Bill War
rick, Harold Dunaway.
Mercer University Southern
School of Pharmacy: Lindsey
Pickle. University of South Caro
lina: Spears Westbrook; Univ
ersity of Alabama Dental School:
Alex Howell; Martha Berry Col
lege: Norman White; Huntingdon
College: Cynthia Minter; South
GeorgiaCollege:Steve Emigholz.
Mary Baldwin College Staunton
Virginia, Joanna Dean. Marion
Institute, Marion Ala., Joe Dean
Emory at Oxford: Sue Taylor.
(Note: An effort has been made
to contact several other students,
or their parents, but at the time
of this writing this information
was not available. Please phone
723-5363 and let me add your
student’s name to the list. Mrs.
W. M. Barksdale)
Bulletin
100 Years Ago
E. H. Grouby, one of the edi
tors of the Early County News,
received two or three painful
cuts with a knife, on Wednes
day night last, in a difficulty
between him and Col. B. H.
Robinson.
“A clipping from the 100 years
age column of the Columbus En
quirer, Dec. 29, 1971”
Read our “75 Years Ago” Colu
mn, Page 4, about the Town
Council assessing a whiskey li
cense in 1897.
Mr. Paine, as chairman, will
remain chief executive of Great
Northern Nekoosa, with Mr.
Casey as chief operating officer.
State Board of Education
Endorses Sales Tax Hike
The State Board of Education
at its December meeting
endorsed an increase of one per
cent in the Georgia sales tax.
A resolution passed by the
board stated that the application
of a statewide increase of one
percent in sales tax would raise
an estimated $l4O to $145 million
annually beginning in fiscal 1973
and that such revenue should
first and foremost be used by the
state toward meeting the needs
of public elementary and sec
ondary education. Needs spelled
out in the resolution were
teacher salary increases, the
establishment of a statewide
kindergarten program, the ex
pansion and improvement of vo
cational education and the full
implementation of a special ed
ucation program.
The present slate of officers
for the State Board was re
elected for another year. Chair
man is Roy Hendricks of Metter,
representing the first congress
ional district. Sam M. Griffin,
Jr., Bainbridge, was elected
vice-chairman, and Henry Ste
wart, Cedartown, vicb-chairman
for appeals. Griffin represents
the second congressional dis
trict and Stewart, the seventh.
In ruling on an appeal from a
student in Grady County, the
State Board reversed the de
cision of the Grady County Bo
ard of Education which required
the student to drop out of scho
ol because she was married. The
State Board ruled in favor of
sixteen-year-old Lenita Wil
liams Smith who claimed that
her legal and constitutional
rights to attend public school
were violated. The board further
requested the Grady County
board to carefully re-study its
policy making it mandatory that
when a student marries he must
withdraw from school for one
year.
In an attempt to give guidance
to local boards in setting policy
concerning married students,
the State Board passed a reso
lution requesting that “where
possible adequate provisions be
made available for the education
of all citizens of school age,
married or unmarried, and that
the State Board of Education re
quests that any policies promu
lgated by local boards of edu
cation be based upon the edu
cational needs of all citizens
of Georgia, and that policies
promulgated set forth all pos
sible opportunities for citizens
-o obtain the needed educational
background for fulfillment of a
good life.”
In similar action, the board
adopted a resolution calling for
local boards either to re-study
its present policy or to adopt
a new policy regulating the at
tendance of pregnant students
in the public schools of Georgia.
The resolution directed that po
licy adopted by the local sys
tem should where possible in
clude adequate provisions for
the education of the pregnant
student and that any constraints
imposed upon the student be
based upon health and educa
tional factors rather than be of
a punitive nature.
The State Board approved the
use of $50,000 in vocational ed
ucation funds to support a vo
cational component at the Bruns -
wich Junior College. This pro
gram is provided for by a joint
agreement between the Board
of Regents and the State Board
of Education concerning pro-
Bennett L. Smith Retires
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Bennett L. Smith receives a watch from the City of Blakely,
Mayor Lysle McNeal makes the presentation.
Bennett L. Smith, Super
intendent of Streets in the City
of Blakely for 19 years is re
signing this position because of
his health, effective December
31. He was presented a Auctron
watch by Mayor Lysle McNeal
at the City Hall Tuesday as a
momento of appreciation from
the City.
A native of Blakely, he was
with the State Highway Depart
ment 12 years and maintenance
man for the county 16 years
handling heavy equipment. While
with the State Highway he was
superintendent eight years.
“I believe this was kind-of-a
record”, Mr. Smith said, speak
ing of his 19 years as head of
the Street Department. He re
called that he began working for
the City of Blakely when George
Gee, Jr., was mayor nineteen
years ago. Mr. Gee declared he
had selected a man who stayed
on the job and stayed with his
men, “He has been everything a
person should be to hold down
this job”, Mr. Gee said. “I did
the city a good day’s work when
I secured the services of Ben
nett Smith as Superintendent of
Streets”.
Mr. Smith has thirty men
working under him. He said the
biggest job his crew has tack
led was to start in after the
explosion in January 1970. In
fact his biggest job throughout
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gramming in area vocational -
technical schools and junior
colleges.
A policy pertaining to the
release of data from the newly
established Statewide Testing
Program was adopted by the
board. This policy states that
district and statewide test re
sults may be released to the
public only with a statement
of limitations. It further states
that test results from local
systems, individual schools and
individual students will be re
leased to the public only upon
written approval of the state
superintendent of schools and
that test results from local sys
tems, individual schools and in
dividual students will be re
leased to themselves or larger
units of which they are a part.
Finally, the policy says that
individual schools and local
school systems may not pub
licize test results unless the
data represent at lease 90 per
cent of the enrollment of the
grade levels tested.
Approval was given by the
State Board to a $2,500 teacher
fellowship program to be spon
sored by the Georgia Jaycees
and the Georgia Consumer Fin
ance Association. Five SSOO a
wards will be given to teachers
to enable them to broaden their
education in economics.
the year is “cleaning up the
Town”.
It has been his crew’s job
to widen North Main Street,
South Main Street, and College
Street one block out from Court
Square. They have built concrete
bridges over the Big Ditch on
Bay Street, North; and over the
upper Big Ditch at Jefferson
Street; over the Baptist Branch
at Chattahoochee Avenue and
Lancelot Lane; and over a small
ditch on South Bay Street; and
two concrete bridges over the
ditch that divides the back part
of the cemetery from the old
part of the Blakely cemetery.
The crew has cleared land on
the south and west side of the
cemetery; put a curb and gutter
along Howell Street and on Mea
dowbrook Drive near the swim
ming pool.
Mr. Smith will not leave the
work entirely, he plans to go
back a few days each week and
help out. Zeke Middleton has been
named Superintendent of Stre
ets and will take over Janu
ary 2, 1972.
In the meantime Mr. Smith
plans to take.it easy, his hobbies
are hunting and watching TV,
and will be limited for a time
to just the TV.
He is married to the former
Annie Lee Johnson. The Smiths
reside on Colquitt Road,
Blakely.