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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME NO. 113—No 21
BANK OF EARLY NAMES NEW
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
The Bank of Early has named
3 new members to its board of
directors and promoted two of its
officers to higher positions. Vir
gil Jones, who has served as
executive vice president since
joining the bank in 1964 has been
named president, succeeding
R. C. Singletary, who has been
named chairman of the board.
H. J. Middleton, who has served
as chairman of the board since
1945, is retiring and has been
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R. C Singletary
Chairman of Board
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Lewis .B. Fryer, Jr.
Early County receives $89,771.25
for Bridge & Road Construction
Early County has recently re
ceived bridge and road construc
tion contracts totalingsß9,77l.ol.
Two Bridges
Two bridges will be erected:
a concrete bridge on the Rock
Hill to Georgia Highway 62, over
Coheelee Creek, $6,506.40; and
on the Blakely-Centerville Road
over Blue Creek, $8,722.25; and
"Tag Sales Moving Slow”
“Tag sales are moving slow”,
according to W. J. Hammack,
Early County Tax Commis
sioner, who thinks the prudent
automobile owner should stop
by the Tax Commissioner’s of
fice NOW at the Early County
Courthouse and buy their tag
instead of waiting until the last
minute rush before the March 31
deadline.
Those who have gone to buy
their auto tags have been a lit
tle surprised to learn that only
a decal is being issued this year
by the State of Georgia, it is
to be placed on the permanent
five year tag, purchased in 1971.
The 1971 tags are actually the
tiforlp (County ^ews
named chairman emeritus.
The three new board members,
according to Mr. Singletary, are
Lewis B. Fryer, Jr., a Blakely
druggist, Dr. E. H. Giles, a
Blakely physician, and MarvinS.
Singletary, son of the new board
chairman and the third genera
tion of this family to be connected
with this Blakely institution. The
late R. C. Singletary, Sr., was
the bank’s first president, board
chairman, and one of its
organizers.
Elsewhere in today’s News
is a page ad giving a complete
list of all bank officers, direc
tors and business personnel, to
gether with a statement of condi
tion showing the status of this
bank. The Bank of Early right
fully boasts of being one of the
fastest growing banks in this
area. Assets are up by about
1700,000.00 over a compartive
statement of a year ago. Since
1945, and under the present
management, total resources
have risen from $920,624.87 to
$7,205,982.64 as of January 1,
1972, which shows a great grow
th of better than 700 per cent.
Chairman Singletary extends
thanks to the people in this trade
area for their goodwill and con
fidence which permitted this
growth.
Other bank directors are W. C.
DeLoach, Dunbar Grist, Sevola
Jones, C. E. Martin, Jr,, A. J.
Singletary, Joel F. Thomas.
Other bank officers are Jack
Eugene H. Giles
New Directors
for one and a half miles of paving
for the continuation of the Rock
Hill to Highway 62 road,
$31,855.36.
Construction will begin on
these at an early date.
$34,899 Contract
The project covers grading and
draining on 1.442 miles of road
way on the Ga. 62 to Rock Hill
last metal tags to be issued for
five years, a new decal will be
issued each year and the cost
will, of course, be the same as
if it were a metal tag. The decal
will be issued by the tax com
missioners in the respective
counties for the State of Georgia.
“There is no reduction in the
cost of tags to buyers, though,
the decal will cost the same
amount the full size tag cost
last year”. Tax Commissioner
Hammack said. “It is taking
longer to complete a transaction
(using the decals), which is an
other reason Early Countians
should not wait until the last
week before the deadline. We
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts - “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
H. Sutton, vice president, and
secretary to the board of dir
ectors, and Ralph B. Smith,
cashier. Lowrey S. Stone is
the attorney.
Other bank personnel include
Janice Buckhalter, Olivia Dav
enport, Harriett Murkerson,
Beverly Dudley, Rachal K.
Jones, Patricia B. Knight, Lois
Nolan, Virginia Stanley, Pat Wil
lis, Paula Woolf and Peter
Harris.
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Virgil Jones
President
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Marvin S. Singletary
to Blakely Road, according to
State Highway Director Bert
Lance.
County Type Bridge
The project covers the con
struction of a County Type bridge
over Coheelee Creek, according
to State Highway Director Bert
Lance.
will continue to wait on people
as fast as possible but there
is such a rush at the last it
would be well for buyers to
consider getting their decals
now”.
New car owners will receive
a regular metal tag and a 1972
decal, of course these will be
issued at the same price as just
the decal. The highest price paid
by Early Countians for a tag
was S7OO for a truck, it had to
be ordered from the State; the
lowest price for a tag is $3.00
plus taxes of $2.00, making a
total of $5.00.
BLAKELY, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1972
St. Employment
Service Repre.
In Town on Thurs.
A representative of the
Georgia State Employment Ser
vice out of the Albany Office
has visited Blakely every Thurs
day, except legal holidays, since
May, 1971 to assist applicants
and employers with services of
fered through the State Employ
ment Service.
Since the official opening of
the branch office in the Blakely -
Early County Chamber of Com
merce a representative has made
regular visits and his services
have been available between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
each Thursday.
According to Mrs. Verna Sam
mons, volunteer employment
service worker, over a hundred
applications for employment as
sistance and about fifty referrals
to employers having a job va
cancy order on file with the
Services have been made. This
does not include students seek
ing temporary summer employ
ment.
The local office is one of
eleven throughout Southwest
Georgia with volunteer workers
assisting the representative out
of the Albany Office. These vol
unteers will be honored at a
banquet Friday night at the Town
and Country Club, Blakely by the
State Employment Agency. The
Blakely-Early County Chamber
of Commerce is in charge of
local arrangements.
Bert Lance
favors 4 Lane
through West Ga.
Bert Lance, director of the
Georgia Highway Department,
and former banker, of Calhoun,
Georgia, was the speaker at last
Friday’s meeting of the Blakely
Rotary Club. Mr. Lance related
some of the complexities and
frustrations in operating Geor
gia’s highway system.
He brought some words of
cheer to local listeners when he
stated that he was in favor of
developing a 4-lane highway
through Western Georgia, pre
ferable a toll road which has
been suggested by a Muscogee
county legislator.
Mr. Lance was introduced by
Rep. Mobley Howell who ar
ranged the program. Special club
guests were Hugh Broome,
of Donalsonville, State Highway
Board chairman, Earl Olsen, of
Tifton, area engineer, and Mack
McCory and Gary Phillips, of
Atlanta, aides to Mr. Lance.
Other visitors present were
Mayor Lysle McNeal, guest of
Guy Dunaway; Mrs. Winona Her
bik, of Moultrie, and Mrs. Ann
Smith, guests of Bam Bridges;
Dennis Miller, Albany, guest of
Elwood Martin; Jack Burke and
Broadus Simpson, guests of
Gerald Bruner; Charlie Cowart,
Arlington, guest of Mobley How
ell, and Billy Clarke, of Albany
a guest of George Gee, Jr. Presi
dent John Holman presided over
the meeting. Club pianist Miss
Ann Akers gave a selection of
music during the luncheon.
Hospital List
Patients listed as being admit
ted and discharged the past week
from Early Memorial Hospital
are as follows:
ADMITTED
Wanda Taylor, JoAnn Gray,
Bobby Bostwick, Mary Judy
White, Mary Knighton, Baby Boy
Gray, Annie Wells, Jimmy Mon
day, Baby Girl Wells, Tommy
Goodyear, Fannie Alexander, Iva
Jones, Wilber Evans, Maggie
McDowell, Carrie Ford, Ermine
Waller, Wanda Jane Taylor,
Carolyn Alexander, Alma Ho
over, Baby Boy Alexander, Car
olyn Saxon, Connie White, Glenda
Thorne, Pinkie Mells, Virginia
Spruill, Square Pitts, H. H. (Bill)
Carlan, Rex Reeves, Mary
George, Clifford Welch, William
Hudson, Ramona Chase, Laura Jo
Harris, Sue Marie Phelps, Baby
Girl Phelps, Nola Freeman, Baby
Girl Harris, Will Harris, Jr.
CONTINUED ON INSIDE
Vocational School, Stay & See
& Star Student Programs Discussed
The importance of two pro
grams currently being sponsored
by the Inter-Club Council, The
Stay and See Blakely-Early
County Program and the Star
Student-Teacher program and
the status of the Rotary Club
sponsored project, an Area Vo
cational School, were the main
topics for discussion at the In
ter-Club Council meeting here
January 6.
A Chairman for the Stay &
See Program has not been se
cured. Several reported on
clean-up and beautification pro
jects, the Blakely Garden Club
had landscaped a plot near the
Central of Georgia depot; and
another committee from the Stay
& See program has planted five
hundred daffodils and one
hundred pansies at the First
State Bank.
Neighbors have asked for as
sistance in getting several lots
cleaned. With a majority of the
yards and lots throughout the
city in excellent condition, it is
hard to “put up with” a lot
next door that is overgrown with
weeds and vines. Some citizens
have asked that steps be taken
to insist that these areas be
cleaned or have the city clean
Dr. Reasoner
To Conduct
Language Workshop
Atl
Charles Reasoner
Dr. Charles F. Reasoner, Pro
fessor of Education at New York
University, will conduct a Langu
age Arts and Reading Workshop
at the Early County High School
cafeteria on January 25 and 26,
beginning at 8:30 each morning.
In making this announcement,
Mrs. Maurine Bostwick, Curri
culum Supervisor Title I, Early
County School, spoke of Dr.
Reasoner’s work in the areas
of children’s leterature, reading
and the language arts. “As a
curriculum generalist his con
cern has always been that of a
practitioner who focuses on the
individualized learning of each
child, regardless of age or grade
placement, cultural background,
and ability grouping in curricu
lum subjects” he pointed out.
“He has lectured nationally and
has conducted demonstration
workshops in which he puts his
theory into practice -teacher
teaching, learner-doing-while
classroon teachers observe. His
emphasis is placed on the child
as the individualizer, a decision
maker as well as upon the fact
that individualization exposes,
widens and capitalizes upon dif
ferences in educationally des
irable ways.
“Most of all, Dr. Reasoner
recognizes the teacher as an
individual, too. He urges and
helps teachers to develop their
own classroom conditions, situa
tions, and approaches in order
to reach more leaners on a one
to one basis,” she went on to
explain.
A native of Logan, Ohio, his
youth was spent in Mount Ver
non, Ohio; he received his BS
degree from Ohio State Univer
sity and his master’s and doc
torate in education from Teac
hers College, Columbia Univer
sity. He is married to the former
Kathleen Wise of Graniteville,
them and charge the owner for
the work. There is a city or
dinance which requires that lots
be cleaned.
Reports of Clubs
John Holman, president of the
Blakely Rotary Club, read a
letter from Sam Griffin, Ji^,
in reference to the Area Vo
cational School, stating the State
Board of Education has not acted
on this application to date, Mr.
Griffin was encouraging in his
letter and Early Countians will
continue to work for this scho
ol to be established here. There
are six counties in Southwest
Georgia not presently being
served by a Vocational-
Technical School, Mr. Holman
pointed out as he exhibited a
map showing Vo-Tech Schools
and the radius they served.
The Rotary Club is offering
a grant-in-aid to a local girl
or woman who is interested in
studying to be a Registered Nur
se or an LPN, they will award
up to S3OO to a deserving person
who will complete such a course
and return to Blakely to assist
at the local hospital.
President Jerry Rogers wel
comed the presidents and/or re
presentatives of the civic clubs
Blakely City Council Approves
First Liquor Licenses Tuesday
Blakely and Early County’s
first liquor licenses were ap
proved here Tuesday night by
the Blakely City Council when
they accepted and approved lic
enses for George’s Liquor
Store, at 12 Court Square, Bla
kely, George Gee Jr., owner;
Day’s One-Stop Package Store
at 907 North Main Street, Claude
J. Paul Holmes, Jr. Speaks
Citation Given News Media
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Preston Fulmer (center), on behalf of the Georgia Forestry Commission, presented Wayne
Foster (left) of WBBK and Hoyle Fleming of the Early County News with citations commending
their service through the news media toward preventing forest fires.
S.C., a nurse-teacher in the pub
lic schools. They have two
children.
In addition to the 13 years
he has taught on the college and
university level, Professor Rea
soner has had experience teach
ing at every grade level in the
elementary school and three
years experience at the junior
senior high school level.
Included in his recent
publications are: RELEASING
CHILDREN TO LITERATURE,
Dell Publishing Co., Inc. New
York: 1968; WHERE THE READ
ERS ARE, Dell Publishing Co.,
Inc., New York, 1971; and sche
duled for publication in Spring,
1972: ADVENTURING IN
STORYTELLING WITH CHILD
REN’S LITERATURE.
in Blakely, at the beginning of
the meeting. He called on Mrs.
Don Curran; co-chairman of the
Clean-up and Beautification
Committee of the Stay and See
Program, to report on receiving
the State Award in Atlanta from
the Tourism Department of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Curran said she was happy
to represent the Inter-Club
Council and accept the special
award; she reported that every
town honored by the Tourism
Committee had a representative
at the banquet and she felt Blak
ely should have an official pre
sent to accept the award and was
glad she and Mr. Curran couldgo.
She exhibited the attractive
plaque she brought back from
Atlanta, which will be displayed
at the local Chamber of
Commerce.
Miss Marshline Giles, Presi
dent of the Pilot Club of Blakely,
related briefly the many projects
undertaken by the club during
November and December: three
Christmas parties, the Golden
Age, the club’s party and a par
ty for 24 patients in the Men’s
Ward at the Bainbridge Hospital
where they distributed gifts, ser
ved refreshments and conducted
Day, owner; and Buck’s Package
Store, Arlington Highway (Ga. 62)
Buck Nobles, owner.
George’s Liquor Store, Court
Square, was approved to be able
to sell liquor and wine. Both
Day’s and Buck’s Package Stores
were approved for liquor, beer
and wine.
At the January Council meeting
J. Paul Holmes, Jr., State
Executive director of Georgia
State ASCS spoke to the Lions
Club Tuesday on several sub
jects. First he related some
humorous stories about former
Georgia Bulldog Coach Wally
Butts. Mr. Holmes played foot
ball under Coach Butts-, at
Georgia.
Mr. Holmes continued by re
lating the former’s problems
and advantages of today and told
of several new farming pro
grams.
Preston Fulmer, on behalf of
the Georgia Forestry Commiss
ion, presented citations to Wayne
Foster and Hoyle Fleming for
services rendered through the
news media.
Lion President Lonnie Chester
PULL FOR BLAKELY
- OR -
PULL OUT
$3.09 PER ANNUM
games. The local Pilots made
eight Raggady-Ann dolls for the
Empty Stocking Fund distribu
tion; and over a dozen towel
bibs for the patients at Early
Memorial Nursing Home. They
parched 50 pounds of Early
County peanuts, bagged them and
delivered the peanuts to the Red
Cross Hospital at Fort Benning.
Undertook three money making
projects, all were a success;
and collected SIOO for the Eas
ter Seal Campaign.
Mrs. Norman Chadwell, presi
dent of the Blakely Jaycettes,
stated the Jaycettes gave a
Christmas party for patients at
the Convalescent Home, Dec. 16
giving each patient a basket of
fresh fruit; on Dec. 19 they en
tertained 25 patients at a cottage
in Bainbridge, presenting these
women lotion and fruit baskets;
they sent a gift to the forgotten
patient at Gracewood, near Au
gusta. Future red letter dates
for the Jaycees are January 16
and Jan. 22 a supper; for the
Jaycettes, Jan. 22 in Albany
at the Gordon Hotel, when
Charlotte Adkins will participate
in the Speak Up Contest, on
Feb. 18-20 there will be a Board
meeting in Macon.
bids were read for to be used
by the city in 1972. Standard
Oil was the apparent low bidder
with a bid of .1590 for HiTest.
gasoline; .1390 for regular and
.1440 for diesel. Gulf Oil was
the next low bidder with .1590
for HiTest; .1390 for regular;
and .1442 for diesel.
and Empty Stocking Fund Chair
man Marshall Day expressed
their appreciation to the people
of Blakely and Early County who
helped provide a little cheer
at Christmas for underpriviled
ged children.
A joint meeting will be held
with the Rotary Club, i
with the Rotary Club, on January
28 with guest speaker Senator
David Gambrell.
If the two-dollar bill is revived
it could save taxpayers $2.1 mil
lion a year, says James A. Con
lon, director of engraving and
printing,by cutting down on the
number of dollar bills circulating.
Three times as many women as
men have arthritis.