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early county news, Thursday, jan. 20, ion
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
Official Organ of Blakely and Early County
BLAKELY, GEORGIA 31723
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Politics oAr Paradi
The General Assembly con
tinues to grind away with re
organization, and prospects in
the House — as we predicted
two months ago — are that the
Governor will get a major part
of what he wants. Or, to put it
more accurately, after the com
promises he has made, which
were necessary if he was to get
anything to speak of.
There are plenty of items in
the bill to which no one objects,
but he could have secured these
with an Executive Order or by
merely asking the Assembly to
so vote. But, of the controvert
sial parts, he is not likely to get
any from the House without
some change.
The Senate may be another
story, but we are informed by
a member of that body, who is
numbered among the most ar
dent foes of reorganization, that
Carter may have somewhat
changed the minds of some
Senators who had been oppos
ing him. Our informant said
that the Governor put forward
a real good case in the hear
ings.
In our opinion, the Senate
will not give the Governor as
much as the House does, but he
is stil going to get a goodly
part of the bill okayed. How
ever, all that he gets could
have been done much more
easily by Carter just sitting
down with legislators and de
partment heads and working it
out. In that way, a great deal
of controversy could have been
avoided, and the Governor,
himself, would have gained in
popularity, instead of dropping
sharply as he has.
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In speaking before the Senate
on reorganization, Gov. Carter
twice speculated that State
Treasurer Bill Burson will re
sign his office shortly. He said
that Burson would be the logi
cal one to head the Division of
Fiscal Affairs which Carter
wants in the Dept, of Adminis
trative Services, but that “since
Burson is going to resign” his
choice for the job would be Pat
Blanchard, presently Assistant
Treasurer.
The writer's opinion is that
Mr. Burson will resign as Treas
urer shortly after the Assembly
adjourns, and begin laying the
groundwork for his campaign
for the U. S. Senate.
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MANRY-JORDAN
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Uihtd Family Life lasaroace Co.
Lt.-Gov. Maddox’s speech to
the House last week in opposi
tion to reorganization was car
ried last weekend on TV sta
tions in Augusta, Albany, Sa
vannah, Tallahassee, Fla., At
lanta, Columbus, Macon and
Chattanooga. The broadcasts
cost $3,355, plus $2,100 for
the tapes, and the money was
donated by many friends over
the state.
We predict without equivoca
tion that the bill permitting 14
ft. trailers to be moved over
Georgia highways will NOT
pass.
Lester Maddox told us last
Friday that he will go to Flor
ida to campaign for George
Wallace in the presidential pri
mary if Wallace requests it.
This is in line with what Lester
has said ail along, i.e., that he’ll
campaign anywhere Wallace
him to.
As our readers know, we are
a friend of Carl Sanden and
supported him in the 1970 gu
bernatorial race. So, the follow
ing statements are not made to
do him any damage. But, we
don't believe he's going to run
for the Senate seat now held by
David Gambrell, in spite of
the recent publicity that he is
considering this seriously.
There are many reasons why
we hold this opinion — too
many to elaborate upon in this
space — but a good many of
his close friends agree with us,
and some of them have advised
him not to run. They say it is
too soon after his 1970 defeat,
and that the situations which
beat him then haven't changed.
All the politicos in the state
know what we mean by the
word “situations".
• •••••
CHIT-CHAT — BUI Gunter,
new appointee to the State Su
preme Court, is the only Jus
tice with a full head of hair. Os
course, they ail have plenty of
brains, including Gunter, but
it’s sho' a baldheaded row.
Gov. Carter says it’s a secret
as to when "The General" loco
motive will be moved to Geor
gia, and the date won’t be an
nounced in advance. Guess he
figures the State of Tennessee
might try to steal it again.
• •••••
Going back to the U. S. Sen-
eoeeeeeaaoeeeeßooeaaagQQeooaee
Marvin
GRIFFIN
A NECESSARY
AFFLICTION
The Georgia General Assembly
will convene this morning,
and lawmakers will have a
busy session if they tackle all the
problems fac
ing the people f 4^
of our state at
this time. W
Promising to jA
stir up the J -
greatest a- ,
mount of fuss 7
is Governor a
Carter’s plan
to reorganize the departments of
state government.
I do not know about his entire
reorganization plan. I am not
knowledgeable about specific
items in the program. I know a
bout some of them, and some I
like, and some I believe wUI not
save any money and will accom
plish nothing worthwhile.
Those proposals that have been
tried, weighed and found wanting
should be put back in the brief
case, and those designed to
promote economy and efficiency
in government should be adopted.
It is as simple as that to me.
Unfortunately, this year is
election year, and most repre
sentatives would prefer to see the
boat kept on an even keel with as
little turbulence as possible. No
member of the General Assembly
likes to tackle controversial mat
ters on election years.
What I am trying to say is no
political pig should be consumed
by lawmakers in its entirety. I
won’t eat a whole pig because I do
not care for lights and livers, and
some of the trimmings that go
with hogs.
Anyway, the people’s repre
sentatives will repair from vaca
tion to labor next Monday, and I
hope they will not confound and
confuse us any worse than we are
already. The General Assembly
will convene in compliance of the
law on the second Monday in
January, and I hope that if we do
not get anything worthwhile from
their efforts, at least, we won’t
get hurt.
One old rustic friend of mine
said many years ago that he did
not hope to get anything good out
of the General Assembly, but by
and large, he didn't lose anything
either.
WHEN IS ENOUGH
REALLY ENOUGH?
The Georgia Commissioner of
Revenue gave out a statement
the other day in which he stated
he would “in all probability, turn
down the tax digests of every
county in the state next year” be
cause in his opinion he felt that
counties were not appraising tax
able property on the basis of 40
percent of its market value. He
opined he would have turned
down 1971 returns if he had had
the time.
Now, we Decatur Countians are
still paying for the equalization
program made by a St. Peters
burg firm several years ago. The
firm came into Decatur County
and raised taxes on every piece of
land within the confines of the
county to comply with the 40 per
cent assessment.
Must we pay out another hand
some sum to foreign agents, or
will we do the job ourselves?
State property taxes are
perhaps the most burdensome to
pay. They must be paid regard
less of the financial condition of
the owner. Those who owe
ate race, Repr. Sam Nunn is
telling his fellow legislators that
he WILL be in it. Could it be
that Davd Gambrell won't run,
and Nunn will be Carter's can
didate?
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Louis Pasteur, born 1822, in a small town in France,
was by far one of the earliest pioneers in the ever
existing battle concerning bacteria and the cause, effect
and cure of and with micro-organisms.
His studies, often scoffed at by his associates, on
fer mentation, have been the basis for much of the
progress being made today in the field of anti-biotics.
Among his many credits, he introduced the process known
as “pasteurizing” to the world and affected the series
of rabies injections that will prevent the excrutiating,
agonizing death of the victims of rabid animals diseased
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Hwee 723-3441
Obituaries
Charlie Scott
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aies Rmonaay
in norma
Charlie T. Scott, Sr., 58, of
Wauchula Hills, Florida, died
Monday. He had lived in Hardee
County 12 years and formerly
operated a food store in Wau
chula Hills. Prior to that he
resided in Bartow. Survivors in
clude his widow, Mrs. Alma
Evans Scott; three daughters,
Mrs. Mavis Conerly, Wauchula,
Mrs. Bobbie Boatwright, Winter
Haven, and Mrs. Neva Farrer,
of Zachary, La.; three sons,
Charlie T. Scott, Jr., of Clear
water, L. Oscar Scott, Haines
City and Elton Scott, Tallahass
ee; his mother, Mrs. Tommie
Scott, and a sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Seger, Bartow.
Mr. Scott was born in Early
County and lived here prior to
1943.
Mrs. Anderson
lengthly illness
Mrs. Myrtice Roberts Brook
ins Anderson, 66, 310 Ft. Gaines
Street, died on Thursday morn
ing, January 13, in Palmyra
Park Hospital, Albany, after a
lengthy illness. She was the wid
ow of George W. Anderson, and
was a member of the Blakely
Church of Christ. Mr. Anderson
was born in Hancock, County,
Georgia, July 2, 1905 and had
lived in Blakely since 1945.
Funeral services were held
Saturday morning in the Blakely
Church of Christ with the pastor,
Kenneth Cook, and the Rev. A. H.
Lanier, Jr., officiating. Inter
ment was in Memory Hill ceme
tery in Milledgeville in the after
noon, with Manry-Jordan Funeral
Home in charge.
Survivors are 5 sons, Richard
Lamar and Donald Brookins, of
Blakely, J. N. and Francis Bro
okins, Stanford Conn., and Ray
mond Brookins, Danbury, Conn.;
step-son, Glover B. Brookins,
Marianna, Florida, 20 grand
children and 5 great-grand
children.
property taxes on their homes,
and cannot pay the taxes, will
eventually lose that home.
ThosP^ho deal in stocks and
bonds, and those who make large
salaries, clip coupons or collect
rents need not fear for their
homes, but a poor citizen with
nothing to claim but the home he
lives in is in constant jeopardy of
losing that home unless he can
get up enough money by the 20th
of every December to pay taxes
on it.
Now, along comes the Southern
Regional Education Board with
the statement that Georgia could
collect an additional $2lB million
a year if levies in Georgia
equalled the national average.
That may be so, but the annual
income of Georgians is certainly
below the national average.
One of the saddest things in
American life is to read where
some widow’s little home is being
advertised for sale at public out
cry to satisfy tax fifas issued a
gainst it.
A man’s home may be his
castle all right, but it is a shaky
castle when the long shadow of
the tax gatherer moves across
the threshhold.
We hope the General Assembly
will move in the field to ease the
burden of home owners. There
was a time when the Homestead
Exemption gave hope, but that
time is gone.
There comes a time when
enough is enough, and property
owners have about arrived at
that point.
Funeral Services
heldfor
Mrs. Whatley
Mrs. Georgia Horn Whatley,
75, of Arlington, died in Phoebe
Putney Hospital, Albany, on
Thursday, January 13, after a
long illness. Her husband was the
late Charles Monroe Whatley.
Mrs. Whatley was a native of
Early county, born March 6,
1896, the daughter of Lucious
Horn and Lou Urquhart Horn.
She was a member of the United
Methodist Church of Arlington,
where funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon, conducted by
the Rev. Roy Dial and the Rev.
J. B. Redd. Interment followed
in the Oak Grove cemetery, Man
ry-Jordan Funeral Home in
charge, and grandsons and nep
hews of the deceased serving as
pall bearers.
Survivors include 6 sons, Cole
man E. and Paul Whatley, Arl
ington, Douglas Whatley, Colum
bus, Hugh Whatley, Japan, Bruce
Whatley, Cuthbert, Gene Whatley,
Atlanta; 4 daughters, Mrs. Alice
Cauthen, Trinidad, Colorado,
Mrs. Doris Hinton, Opelika, Fla.,
Mrs. Lois Harris, Athens, Mrs.
Joyce Irwin, Atlanta, 30 grand
children, 15 great-grandchildren.
HUS
25 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Jan. 23, 1947)
THE FIRST step toward the
eventual paving of the Jakin road
was taken when this road was
made a member of the state
highway system last October 15,
G. H. Owen, county road super
intendent, revealed this week.
This was done in keeping with
the state’s county site to county
site projects.
“LET’S MAKE Blakely a place
of beauty,” said Mrs. George
Gee, president of the Woman’s
Club, in her New Year address,
which she gave before a large
group of local club women at
the January meeting.
SUSAN DIANNE TAYLOR, 17-
month old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy S. Taylor, died
Sunday morning at 10 o’clock
following an illness of a week.
SUCCUMBING to an illness of
two months' duration following a
stroke, Mrs. EllenO. Taliaferro,
68, wife of Mr. Ellis H.
Taliaferro, died on Tuesday
morning of last week at 10:30 a.m.
EN ROUTE TO Tallahassee,
Florida, directors of Highway
27 Association, representing
cities all the way from Chat
tanooga, Tenn., where they went
to attend a regular monthly as
sociational meeting, visited
Kolomoki Mounds here the past
Friday. All were high in their
praise of the mounds as a tour
ist attraction. While at the
mounds the group were served
with a repast of sandwiches and
drinks, which was arranged for
them by the local Chamber of
Commerce. Hending the dele
gation to Tallahassee were Hu
bert Griffin, president, and Rob
ert C. Carrol, executive
director. J. D. Rogers, Jr., of
Blakely, is a vice president of
the association, but could not
go to Tallahassee, and R. C.
Job and Dunbar Grist repres
ented Blakely at the meeting.
50 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Jan. 19, 1922)
YESTERDAY’S daily papers
carried the announcement that
Mrs. Lila H. Rambo had been
confirmed as postmaster of
Blakely.
EUGENE GENTRY, a young
farmer of the Urquhart district,
was found dead in bed early
Monday morning. The Cause of
his death was given as angina
pectoris by Dr. S. P. Holland.
MRS. E. M. Brunson and little
son, Edgar, are visiting relatives
in Vidalia.
MISS NELLE Alexander is
visiting Miss Elizabeth Perry
in Cuthbert this week.
MR. M. B. Murkerson, sexton
at the city cemetery, is quite
ill this week.
LITTLE MISS Elain Berman
entertained a number of her
friends at a birthday party Sat
urday afternoon.
MR. AND MRS.WiII Sullivan
and children, of Americus, are
spending this week in Blakely,
loiter To Editor
Dear Editor:
I would like to extend the pre
vious article in the form of a
letter I had printed in the Early
County News of Complimenting
Blakely, Georgia, during my last
visitation there prior to the past
Christmas season by saying the
citizens in Early County are due
much credit because of my having
noticed the wonderful way the
GOLDEN RULE is put intoprac
tice. Not having been scheduled
to preach, such a privilege was
offered to me immediately before
it was time to from the two
pastors - Rev. David Matthews
and Rev. Melvin Moody. From the
preaching of a sermon, Mrs.
Eleanor Sheffield stated--Such
preaching as that should be put
into writing. According to an ex
pression of CONCERN about the
present-day trends of life having
been expressed by several resid
ents in Early County, it is en
couraging to have learned of the
guests in the home of Mr. W.
H. Howell.
MISS NETA STUCKEY, who
is teaching in the Leesburg scho
ol, spent the week end here
with her parents.
THIS IS Election year and
Early County will start the ball
rolling with a special election
for county commissioners next
Tuesday.
75 YEARS AGO
(from the issue of Jan. 21, 1897)
CORN IS selling in Kansas
at 8 1/2 cents a bushel.
MR. MACK SMITH visited Al
bany last Sunday.
Mr. B. C. Bird and family,
of Colquitt, were visitors here
this week.
MANY HOGS have died in Blak
ely this week, but the number
that prowl the streets does not
seem to have been lessened.
MISS CARRIE Grist has gone
to Wilcox County to teach school.
COLOMOKEE NEWS: “Mr. R.
R. Lanier is visiting in Quitman
county this week . . Mrs. G. T.
Collins visited Mrs. J. C. Loy
less Sunday . . Mr. L. T. Prit
chett was down to Blakely Mon
day . . Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Pettigrew were guests of the
family of Mr. W. H. Trippe
last Sunday . . There was an
enjoyable entertainment at the
home of Mr. W. J. Jordan last
Friday night, given for Misses
Manie Nesbitt and AnnieLanier.”
THE DEATH of Mr. John Hayes
is recorded this week.
Messrs. A. Fort, W. T. But
ler, R. A. Hudson, T. J. Fort
and R. A. Merritt of Jakin,
were in town Monday.
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letters being interested which
have been published in to Early
County News from me. The
STAFF of it deserves much com
mendation for the time that is
used in preparing its CONTENTS
to be as they are. On individ
ual in your area, Mrs. Nettie
Dee Wiley, has stored away
copies of it for as long of a
time as 5,6, and 7 months,
and I can say I have read copies
of it 4 and 5 months proceed
ing the publishing date. In the
past the Early County News has
been sent to us by a subscrip
tion having name of one in our
residence attached to it. Due to
the renewal of the subscription
having been discontinued, it
seems that not having had the
paper weekly to read about the
news in your area is missed. 1
Notes from the
Mayor’s Office
CaieA biought Mayoi'A
Couit Monday,Januaiy 17, 1 972 :
Viunk & ViAoideily 2
ReAiAting AneAt 1
Speeding 1
Vliving w/o 1
Public ViunkneAA 1
ReckleAA Piiving-
ViAoideily Conduct ?
Total 7
Total FineA 6 Foi^eituieA $165.00
lt'A againAt the law to
tampei with meteiA belonging to
thetCity. CaAeA will be made
againAt anyone caught bieaking
the Aeal oi tampeiing with
theii watei oi light meteiA.
BuAineAA HcenAeA ale due.
Vead line iA Febiuaiy 29.
City Tax. bookA aie now open
^oi letuming youi City TaxeA.
k good many people think it'a
not neceAAaiy to letum City
TaxeA, thiA iA not tiue. lt'A
veiy impoitant that you letum
youi City TaxeA each yeai. I
you do not make a city tax le
tum, the tax boaid doeA it fioi
you and a 10% penalty iA added.
Bill McMullen haA the duty thiA
week and will take all emeigency
callA peitaining to electiical
pioblemA a^tei walking houiA.
Phone 725-5970.
City of Blakely
The first prize fight with ■
million dollar gate was the
Dempsey—Carpentier bout
held on July 2, 1921.
Dempsey won.
am including a dollar as a part
of the subscription fee request
ing that you sent it to us, and
this may cover a period of time
of 3 or 4 months with 3,6, or
9 cents lacking. In conclusion I
will say that I would commend
Blakely, Georgia, as an area
where anyone can find A WARM
AND HEARTY WELCOME.
Gratefully yours,
Evanelist Arnold Woodlief
(Marianna, Fla.)