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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1972
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Two constitutional questions
will have to be decided by the
Supreme Court of Georgia be
fore Gov. Carter's reorganiza
tion plan can become law, even
if the General Assemb'y doesn't
kill it. First is the bill’s provis
ion that the legislature must
cast a majority vote against,
which, to many lawyers, seems
clearly unconstitutional in the
face of the portion of the Con
stitution which states that to
become law a measure must re
ceive a majority of the votes of
both House and Senate.
Second is the part of House
Bill No. 1 which reads as fol
lows: “If a constitutional officer
affected by the proposed reor
ganization of an agency or
function established or placed'
by the Constitution or stature
objects thereto in writing with
in 10 days after said plan was
delivered to him, any item ob
jected to will be deleted and
will not be a part of the pro
posal submitted to the General
Assembly."
About two score of the Gov
ernor’s proposals were objected
to by constitutional officers, but
Carter reorganized only seven.
The 'egal question, therefore, is
does or does not the above pro
vision limit constitutional offi
cers to only major provisions
affecting their departments.
So, with all this legal squab
bling to come, it may be a long
time before the Governor can
put his plan into effect, even if
he wins in the Assembly.
• •*•••
The Atlanta Public School
System has ordered a holiday
for Jan. 14 to honor the birth
day of the late notorious Mar
tin Luther King, Jr., which is
Jan. 15.
And, speaking of King,
there’s a rumor going around in
the Atlanta Negro community
that King’s widow, Coretta,
may wind up as the b’ack can
didate for the U. S. Senate seat
now held by David Gambrell.
Man, wouldn’t the liberals have
a fie'd day with this, publicity
wise, and just think how much
money would pour in from the
North.
We don't often praise Gov.
Carter, but we now commend
him for picking the right man,
J. T. Gregory, to head the safe
ty planning program which
Carter took away from Labor
Commissioner Sam Caldwell.
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We don't know anything about
the dispute between Caldwell
and Gregory, but if they had to
go their separate ways, the Gov
ernor gained when he persuad
ed Gregory to take the new job.
******
It hasn’t been announced,
yet, but the 1972 Jefferson-
Jackson Day Dinner will be
held at the Marriott in Atlanta
on Monday, Feb. 14, with Con
gressman Wilbur Mills as the
chief speaker.
******
On Jan. 12, 1972, State
Treasurer Bill Burson stood in
the well of the House to be
sworn in for his new office. On
the same day, one year later,
and in the same spot, Burson
will testify before the House
against the abolition of the of
fice.
******
Some Capitol politicos say
that the most potent argument
against an elected State School
Board — as Carter is asking —
is the fact that it will cost so
much to run for the office in
each Congressional District that
the State would be forced into
paying large salaries to the
members. Which will add a
hundred or so thousand do.lars
to state expenditures.
******
We didn’t see it in the Atlanta
papers — nor did anyone else
to whom we talked — but a
Miami paper two weeks ago an
nounced that President Nixon
had appointed a man from Ken
tucky to the Federal Reserve
Board job that Cong. Bill
Stuckey was supposed to get.
However, it has been pointed
out that another such appoint
ment is coming up later this
month, and this may have Bid’s
name on it
However, others say that he
will be given something else,
such as the Undersecretaryship
for the Commerce Department
when Secretary Stans resigns to
raise money for the Nixon cam
paign and the present Under
secretary moves to the top spot.
Or, they say, Stuckey will an
nounce in two weeks his can
didacy for the United States
Senate.
Take your pick of these po
tentials — or figure out your
own.
*••*•«
Former Lt.-Governor Peter
Zack Geer and his bride of
about a vear are the proud par-
Marvin
GRIFFIN
CHANGE COMES WITH
THE NEW GENERATION
Yes, Virginia, there is a gen
eration gap, and you had better
know it, and get with it, or you
will be relegated to the junk yard
in left field.
There is a
generation gap
all right, and I
am willing to
buy the pro
position of
change coming
with the new
generation.
That is, if the change brings a
bout something good and worth
while.
If the proposals for change en
tail nothing but fads, I will not
buy them.
I believe in our young folks. It
is good to have their fresh view
points, and there is much good e
manating from their efforts to
make this a better world for all of
us to live in.
I do not, however, buy the pro
position that it takes something
drastic to shock the sensibilities
of decent people so as to bring the
problem into proper focus.
The young man who bombs a
federal building to protest the
war in Vietnam, and injures or
kills someone in the process, is
nothing but a common criminal,
and he should be put bn trial for
his life.
Goons who invest the Statue of
Liberty to protest the war are
nothing but trespassers, and they
certainly have no feelings for the
majority of Americans who hold
out the statue as a symbol of
American liberty and individual
freedom.
Some of our young people have
no originality whatsoever, and as
soon as federal authorities chase
the present interlopers from the
Statue of Liberty, a new set will
form, and authorities will have to
spend all spring and summer
turning back late demonstrators
who just got the word, and think it
a good idea.
I am for change, but I do not
intend to follow any fellow who
doesn’t have enough pride to
straighten up the rat nest he calls
hair on his head. I do not put
much credence in a hippy
preaching ecology when this
same hippy pollutes the atmos
phere because he failed to get on
intimate terms with a few es
sentials such as soap and water.
A man preaching clean air and
clean water is not very convinc
ing when he is dirty or makes a
dirty appearance.
Now, 1 know all hippies are not
members of the long-haired
gentry, and I also know that
many who look dirty have really
had a bath, but there are many
who do look like odd balls and do
not smell like geraniums, and
most times I am prone to point
the finger of guilt by association
at all of them.
The New Year is approaching,
and I am going to try to under
stand throughout the coming
year just what appeals and fas
cinates a young man about long
hair and sloppy clothes.
NEW CROWD, A
STUDY IN CONTRAST
1 have been discussing the ec-
ents of a fine son. And, to cap
it off, Peter Zack is getting a
son-in-law on March 17, when
his daughter by a previous mar
riage takes a husband.
******
John Sammons Bell, Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals,
had the honor of administering
the oath of office to his good
MODERN
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CONTEMPORARY USE 1
ILLEGAL ABUSE - Robert Campbell R. Ph.
“Necessity is the Mother of Invention”
This tired old phrase has been used and quoted for
centuries and I can only say, that while it may sound
trite, it is most certainly true in our story on Mo
dern Drugs.
The progress we have made did not really accelerate
until the need for new and more effective remedies
became.an absolute, -necessity., due -to-World Ware 11.
Wounds, disease and other disorders associated with
the war, created the demand for more effective -
contemporary prescription drugs and we came to the
call ....
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Flits
25 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Jan. 16, 1947)
THE GEORGIA Highway De
partment has spent $234,245.88
upon projects in Early County
during the past four years, ac
cording to reports made avail
able by Director - Engineer
George McDonald of the Agency.
During the same period, the
State gave Early county $124,-
043.58 for the maintenance of
county roads, the largest sum
granted to the county in any
similar period of time.
A HOST of friends were sad
dened when it was learned Mon
day afternoon that Miss Helen
Chipstead had died at a Dothan
hospital.
FUNERAL services for Mrs.
Charlie Bruner, who died at four
o’clock Wednesday morning of
last week at her home in the
Colomokee community, following
an apolectic stroke suffered ten
days previously, were held Fri
day morning at llo’clock at Mt.
Zion Church, near Bluffton.
The January term of Early
Superior Court will be convened
next Monday, January 20, with
Judge C. W. Worrill, of Cuth
bert presiding.
Grand Jurors - E. W. Jones,
S. G. Maddox, Freeman Hall,
J. Hampton Martin, Hal Clink
scales, W. C. Cox, H. A. Fel
der, E. M. Sealy , B. I. Bost
wick, Sr., W. A. Walker, Theo
White, D. L. Hayes, J. G. Craft,
E. A. Reed, Gordon White, John
Newberry, C. E. Boyett, James
Bryant, C. C. Howell, S. A. Wri
ght, G. O. Lindsey, A. D. Har
riss, M. F. Still, T. H. Smith,
Shelly Simmons, Julian J. Mo
ore, Ralph B. Scarborough, C.
D. Frith, J. N . Owen, E. A.
Dußose, Sanford Wills, Dwight
Harris, J. M. Garrett, A. J.
Reese, R. W. Woolf, H. B. Gay,
M. L. Simmons, Sr., Tom Hen
ry, E. L. Lewis, G. W. Houston.
THE Georgia General As
sembly, in a tumultous session,
early Wednesday morning elected
Herman Talmadge governor to
fill the term to which his fa
ther, the late Eugene Talmadge,
was elected but died prior to
inauguration. Young 33 year-old
Talmadge was chosen on the
strength of 694 “write-in” votes
in the November general election.
centricities of the fellows because
I believe I know them a little bet
ter than I do the girls.
I would say in the premises that
I believe the girls of today have
more sense than the boys if I did
not see the girls as companions to
so many goofy-looking boys.
Not all young ladies are im
maculate in their mode of dress,
and I have no complaint about
that. Times do change, and be
cause ladies of my generation
would not be caught at church
wearing long pants is no reason
why the younger generation
should not wear them if they be
lieve they are dressed properly.
It is always the way one looks at
it.
It is rather ludicrous though to
see a young lady wearing sloppy
blue jeans, with her shirtails out
and her feet as bare as a yard
dog, come into a jewelry store to
see about picking the formal
silver pattern for her coming
wedding. I saw one the other day
wearing blue jeans that had been
cut off at the knees with pinking
shears, a shirt with the tails out
and unbuttoned, and painted toe
friend, Tony Alaimo of Bruns
wick, when Tony mounted the
bench recently as Federal Dis
trict Court Judge.
• ••••*
Gov. Carter will not reap
point Jack Dorsey as a member
of the Workmen’s Compensa
tion Board when his term ex
pires shortly.
50 YEARS AGO
'from the issue of Jan. 12, 1922)
MR. Grady George, of Dam
ascus, was looking after business
in Blakely yesterday.
REV. Spencer B. King attended
a meeting of the executive com
mittee of Bethel Association in
Edison Tuesday.
MR. F. B. Melton, County Su
perintendent of Schools, an
nounces a teachers’ institute will
be held at the school auditorium
in Blakely Saturday morning from
10:00 to 12:30 o’clock.
ALL OLD Officials of the Bank
of Early have been re-elected,
namely: W. H. Flowers, presi
dent; W. M. Sutton and J. J.
Hayes, vice presidents: R. O.
Waters, Cashier; and John G.
Butler, assistant cashier.
MR. AND MRS. Charles E.
Dews announce the birth of a
baby boy at their home on Riv
er Street.
MRS. C. E. Gaulden has re
turned to her home in Camilla,
after spending some time with
her mother, Mrs. J. T. Freeman.
THE Announcement of Dr. E.
C. Smith for County Commiss
ioner to succeed Mr. R. A. Hud
son, resigned, appears in THE
NEWS today.
FRIENDS will be glad to know
that the condition of Mr. Carl
Hobbs, who underwent an ap
pendix operation at a Dothan
hospital about a month ago and
has been quite sick since, is
now fast improving and he will
likely return home next week.
FIRST National Bank officers
have all been re-elected, viz:
J. S. Sherman, president; H. E.
Hightower and M. T. Chipstead,
vice presidents; R. C. Sherman,
Cashier; and H. A. Walton, as
sistant cashier.
75 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Jan. 14, 1897)
A LARGE black spot can now
be seen on the sun.
MR. SETH B. Wilkin was up
from Colquitt this week.
MISSES Lula Grist and Lil
lian Jones visited Bluffton this
week.
MR. C. E. Chipstead is having
his livery stables enlarged.
MR. EUGENE Mann and Miss
Beulah Black left Saturday for
Columbus to attend college there.
THE COUNTY roads are in
good condition and the farmers
are busy hauling guano.
THE HORSELESS vehicles are
growing in both demand and popu
larity in Blakely - bicycles and
baby carriages, when the bicycle
is relegated the introduction of
the baby carriage is only a
question of time.
ON LAST Wednesday after
noon, Mr. M. J. McDowell and
Miss Beulah Tison were united
in marriage at the home of the
bride’s uncle, Mr. S. F. Sul
livan, with Rev. J. G. Corley
officiating.
THE TOURIST Season is now
on and travelers from the frozen
North and West are coming south
to the land of sunshine and
flowers. Blakely, with character
istic indifference, has never let
her existance be known, never
tried to induct tourists to this
favored section by letting it be
known outside of the States. By
accident, however, it became
known to three tourists, Messrs.
Olier Van Every, Henry Van
Every and John L. Wood, all
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
nails sticking out of Japanese
clods, come into a dress shop and
try on a bridal veil.
Now, I guess that is cute, and it
certainly is none of my business,
but I had to leave the store before
I broke down for a good laugh.
What I am trying to say is, all
of that may be all right. “Every
man to his own liking said the
drunk as he kissed the goat
mascot,” but it makes no con
tribution whatsoever to making a
better country. Those things are
fads. They are to be tolerated,
and not followed.
Let us hope that in the year
1972, the parents, many of whom
have lost their tongues in past
years, will do a little more
counseling, and a little less
following.
As for myself, I just hope
everybody will have a healthy,
happy and meaningful year
throughout 1972, and while I do
not promise not to ridicule hip
pies, I will be a little more patient
with them, and I make the resolu
tion and the promise that the first
one of them who comes by to see
me and proposes something good
and worthwhile for this com
munity, and our nation, I will join
him instanter.
This Week
by
Tige’ Pickle
Have you learned to write it
1972 yet?
Don’t be too disappointed if
it doesn’t come about, but I do
believe I see a ray of hope,
though ever so faint, that 1972
is going to be a big improvement
over 1971. I do believe that
good manners and patriotism are
making a come-back.
Here is wishing Mr. C. P.
Gay a long and happy retirement.
After nearly 40 years at the
same old stand, The Farmers
Gin & Warehouse Company, Mr.
C. P. called it quits on Janu
ary 1. This ends, according to
both parties, employer and em
ployee, a happy and pleasant
association. Mr. C. P. has been
so active all these years, I pre
dict that is going to find it a
little difficult for a few days
getting adjusted. I have always
heard the hardest job of all is
doing nothing.
Although Mrs. Wyatt H. Alex
ander, Sr., affectionately known
to hundreds of friends as “Miss
Fannie Alice”, lived a long and
fruitful life, lacking only a few
months of having attained her
97th birthday, her passing brou
ght a touch of sadness to this
writer. I have known her since
the late twenties when she came
to our New Hope school to sub
stitute for some teachers on
occasions. She always was vitally
interested in the children of Early
county and wanted each to have
all the educational advantage pos -
sible. She championed the cause
of the weak and disadvantaged.
Nothing pleased her more than
taking some boy or girl, who was
under-privileged and disad
vantaged, and developing that
person into a useful and good
citizen. Her kindly influence will
be long felt.
There are more registered
Democrats than Republicans in
these United States, a recent
survey reports. Which explains,
I assume, why there seems to
be more nuts in the Democrat
party than in the Republican.
Turkey has banned poppy cul
tivation and opium production
by the end of 1972.
Condensed
Statement of Condition
At the close of business December 31, 1971
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts $5,971,729.99
Overdrafts 8,051.39
Bonds 1,713,815.72
Capital Stock, Bank Bldg. 75,000.00
Furniture & Fixtures 12,037.77
Cash & Due from Banks 1,243,184.57
Other Assets 1.00
$9,023,820.44
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 200,000.00
Surplus 300,000.00
Undivided Profits 388,339.07
Reserves 100,000.00
Deposits 7,764,662.34
Unearned Interest 164,888.49
Other Reserves 105,930.54
$9,023,820.44
YOUR DEPENDABLE HOME TOWN BANK
MEMBER federal deposit insurance corporation
FDM First State Bank
"You’re Always First at First State”
Georgia Jaycees And Finance Assn.
Sponsor $2,500 Award To Teachers
William Renouf, representing the Georgia Consumer Fin
ance Association and Dr. Max Holland, representing the Geor
gia Jaycees, announced to the State Board of Education, meet
ing in Atlanta recently, that their two organizations would co
sponsor a $2,500 annual Fellowship Award in Economics which
will be available to all Georgia high school teachers.
They pointed out that the Georgia Consumer Finance As
sociation and the Jaycees noted that surveys show that high
school students lack understanding of the economics which un
derlie our free enterprise system. They felt that the best way
to aid the greatest number of students was through excellence
in the instruction of subjects in the important economics field.
Accordingly, to encourage Georgia teachers to increase
their interest in and knowledge of economics, particularly in the
field of consumer education, the two civic minded organizations
will co-sponsor this fellowship program which will provide an
avenue for five Georgia teachers to become better prepared in
the instruction of economics.
The Georgia Consumer Finance Association, a non-profit
trade organization representing over 700 consumer finance in
dustry offices in Georgia, has for years supported educational
programs in Georgia through a grant-in-aid and scholarship pro
gram to individuals and colleges.
The Georgia Jaycees, composed of 186 local chapters, pro
motes leadership training through community services for young
men between 21 and 36.
Notes from the
Mayor’s Office
Cases brought before Mayor’s Court
Monday, January 10, 1972:
Drunk and Disorderly 1
Disorderly Conduct 4
Reckless Driving 1
Public Drunkness 1
Reckless Driving &
Disorderly Conduct 2
9
Total Fines and Forfeitures $265.00
The City Clerk’s Office will remain open
during the noon hour for the convenience
of our customers.
Lamar Howard has the duty this week and
will take all emergency calls pertaining to
electricity after working hours. Phone
723-5641
City of Blakely