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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME 114 - NO. 6
Local Queens Compete
in Peanut Festival
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Denise Killebrew
Miss Denise Killebrew, 1972
Miss Blakely and Cathy
Zipperer, 1972 Little Miss Pea
nut, will represent the city and
county at‘the National Peanut
Festival in Dothan, Alabama,
October 18-20. Sponsored by
the P. H. Fitzgerald Post 11,
American Legion, they received
the titles of Queen and Little
Miss Peanut at the Early County
Peanut Festival and Fair last
fall and were named to repre
sent Blakely at the 1972 Nation
al Peanut Festival.
Miss Killebrew is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kill
ebrew of Damascus, Georgia.
She is employed at Conner In
surance Company. Arlington, Ga.
and plans to attend Abraham
Baldwin College. She has held
the title of Miss Forestry Queen
for the Blakely Area Forestry
Unit and Miss Southwest Georgia
Academy, at Damascus. She is
a member of the Damascus Bap
tist Church and a former member
of the Beta Club and FHA in
high school.
Cathy is the seven year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Zipperer of Blakely and a second
grade student at Early County
Elementary School, Blakely. Her
talent is dancing. She will repre
sent Blakely at the National Little
Miss Peanut Contest on October
18 at the Houston County Farm
Center in Dothan and ride on
the front of the Early County
float on Saturday at the parade.
Denise will ride on the apex
of the Peanut float from Early
County. She goes to Dothan Wed
nesday for the four days the con-
Journey to Claxton
SWGA Warriors Defeat
Robert Toombs, 34-6
Southwest Georgia’s Warriors
breezed to their sixth win Friday
night defeating Robert Toombs
of Lyons, 34-6.
Fullback Dave Gowan bolted
two yards in the first period
to open the SWGA scoring. The
PAT kick failed. Gowan went
in from 26 yards out and James
Newberry toed the PAT as the
Warriors took a 13-0 lead to the
dressing rooms at halftime.
Bill Ducati smashed over from
two yards out and Randy Lane
also scored in the third period
for the winners on a 6-yard
run. Newberry added the PAT
kick after each score. A 35-
yard run by Ricky Dowdy in the
final period closed the scoring
for the Warriors. Newberry
again toed the pointafter. Gowan
had 88 yards on 14 tries and
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testants will be on hand to be
judged in the several categor
ies. The winner will be se
lected Friday night, October 20.
Dowdy 63 on six totes to lead
SWGA.
STATISTICS
SWGA Toombs
First Downs 14 7
Yds. Rush. 181 210
Yds. Pass. 185 32
Comp-Attempts. 11-20 3-8
Inter, by 2 0
Fumbles Lost 0 2
Punts 3-40 5-28
Penalties 60 30
The Warriors go to Claxton
next to meet likewise on un
defeated Pinewood Christian in
a showdown for the SEAIS A-
South leadership.
The Census Bureau reported
5.7 million persons regularly
walk to work.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts - “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”
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I Arts & Crafts Festival
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The Historical Society’s Arts
and Crafts Festival, October 14,
Early County’s float in the Nat
ional Peanut Festival parade (for
October 21), sponsored by the
Inter-Club Council, City of
Blakely and Early County and
being designed by the Blakely
Jaycettes, and American Edu
cation Week were the main topics
discussed at the Oct. 5 meeting
of the Inter-Club Council at the
First State Bank Community
Room with President Gerald
Bruner presiding.
Mrs. E. P. Whitehead, pres
ident of the Early County His
torical Society, praised the local
civic clubs for their cooperation
in planning and participating in
the forthcoming Festival. The
Jaycees and Rescue Unit are
erecting the areas for art ex
hibits. “There will be a program
for all ages throughout the day",
she said.
Music on the hour will be pre
sented from a stage on the South
side of the Court Square. A
puppet show at 3 different hours:
11:30 a. m., 12:30 p. m., and
1:30 p.m. will be presented by
four Albanians through the court
esy of the Albany Public Library.
Six well-known fairy tales will
be presented, two at each per
formance.”
The Art will be on the East
side, exhibited on fencing, these
paintings will be for sale. Other
art not for sale will be inside
the Courthouse. A Country Store
will have homemade cakes,
jellies, candies, handmade dolls,
stuffed animals and locally potted
plants for sale on the North side.
Also a Flea Market with good
used items and “white elephants”
will be on the North side.
Concessions on the west side
are planned by the Society who
will serve a noonday meal ($1.50
a plate) and old fashioned goodies
like peach puffs, hoecakes and
gingerbread. The Blakely Jay
cees will sell Foot-long hot dogs;
and the Bus Hands Homemakers
will have a Sweet Shoppe. The
Cuba Community Club will have a
concession.
MAST
Roger Davis, president of the
Blakely Jaycees announced “a
helicopter (part of the MAST
project) will visit Blakely at
3 p. m. October 14, landing in
downtown Blakely, to better ac
quaint citizens with the proposed
MAST project. The Federal
government, military, and civ
ilians are finalizing plans to
provide helicopters and person
nel for this area during an emer
gency.
“For Early County to join the
program, $408.00 is needed.
Part of this money has been
pledged. The Blakely Jaycees
have accepted the challenge to
raise Early County’s share of
the $22,000 needed for equip
ment. The main item needed
will be radios. Our obligation
to the military is to purchase,
install and maintain the civilian
frequency radios in the heli
copters and at the base sta
tion”, he said.
“This particular MAST pro
gram will serve 54 counties
with 13 helicopters.”
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Mrs. Evelyn S. Gee, will exhibit some of her original art collection at the Arts and Crafts
Festival, Oct. 14. In the den of her home in Blakely Mrs. Gee tells of a woodcut by Georges
Roualt; a sepia etching of Michelangelo by Salvador Dali; a lithograph by Pla Domensch; and
a cat sculpture by Li-Ching on the table. Several original pieces will be exhibited at the Fes
tival.
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1972
Jerry Rogers, Chairman of the
Blakely-Early County Stay and
See Program reported, “the of
ficial records were sent in to
the Tourism Division of the Ga.
Chamber of Commerce on Sept.
28.”
President Bruner stated funds
have been raised to send win
ners, if any, to the annual State
Chamber of Commerce banquet
in Atlanta should Blakely and
Early County receive recogni
tion. Last year a special award
was received for Clean-up by
the local committee.
Mrs. Eddie Martin described
the float planned by the Jaycettes
for the National Peanut Festival
Parade. Miss Blakely, Denise
Killebrew and Cathy Zipperer,
Little Miss Peanut, will ride
on the float.
Mrs. Bill Knighton, represent
ing the American Legion
announced “Make Education Top
Priority” is the theme for Nat
ional Education Week, October
22-28. The auxiliary will ob
serve this week cooperating with
the Early County Schools. The
Auxiliary realized a good week
from their concession at the re
cent Fair and donated SSO to
go toward schooling for a child
with dyslexia.
Bill Knighton reported approx
imately S7OO was given in prize
money at the 1972 Early County
Peanut Festival Fair and ex
pressed appreciation for the ex
cellent cooperation of the Early
County Extension Service and
civic clubs for their exhibits.
The Rev. Larry E. Roberts,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church, chose Exodus 2 for the
Scripture, pointing out the lead
ers of Blakely’s civic clubs that
God works through people who
will do what He needs done.
“Some have a tendency to limit
God,” he said, but God is not
limited.”
Family Fun
For all Ages
A day of fun for all ages is
the goal of the Early County
Historical Society in planning
the Arts and Crafts Festival
October 14 to be held on the
Court Square in Blakely.
The resurgence of arts and
crafts over America indicates
the need of changing the pace
and to put variety into daily
life. For an entirely different
day, visit Blakely where you
will find art in all media, some
for sale, other art on exhibit,
and crafts ranging from hand
made quilts to birdhouses. There
will be exhibits of educational,
artistic and historical value in
the corridors of the courthouse.
Local organizations will be
in charge of food concessions
on the west side of the Square;
a country store and a fleamark
et will dominate the north pos
ition.
The City of Albany will make
a contribution to the day. Jud
ges in the arts and crafts com
petition are Albany residents,
Mrs. George Meldrum of the
art department of Albany Jr.
College, assisted by Mrs. Fred
Holman.
A puppet show will be pre
sented through the courtesy of
the Albany Library, an out
growth of the library’s summer
fun program under the direction
of Mrs. Nina Lyon, children’s
librarian. She and Delight Can
ning will be the puppeteers. The
stage, designed and built by
David Piper, will be set up
under his direction. They will
present favorite children’s stor
ies at 3 different hours: 11:30
a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Piper and Miss Canning, Albany
Jr. College students are pages
at the library.
Other entertainment will be
featured on each hour of the day
from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Musi
cal numbers will vary from rock
groups to folk singing.
Demonstrations of old crafts
will be given by native Early
Countians. Quilting by members
of the Sunshine Club, a senior
age group, will continue through
out the day as they relay at
this task. Radford Wright and
Bill Hodge will demonstrate bas
ket weaving as they learned it
from their forefathers.
Miss Montine Martin will
display hook rugs and demon
strate this art. A plaster-craft
demonstration will be given by
Mrs. Herman Hendley; and an
oil tinting of photos by Mrs.
Hugh Eubanks.
Among the many exhibits will
be handmade quilts by Mrs. Flor
eid Davis; ceramic display by
Mrs. Hardy Jim King; needle
work by Mrs. Hugh L. Martin;
art collection by Mrs. Evelyn
S. Gee; an afghan exhibit by Mrs.
Robert Hall and a Model A Ford,
restored and owned by Jimmy
Wasdin.
A great opportunity to buy
gifts is afforded by the Festival,
especially handmade gifts for
Christmas; or to acquire some
original art and crafts for the
home; or to come, LOOK, and
spend a few hours in pure pleas
ure.
MAST Helicopter
To Land in
Blakely, Sat.
A military rescue helicopter
(part of the Military Assistance
Safety & Traffic Program) will
land in downtown Blakely Sat
urday, Oct. 14, at 3 p.m. Early
Countians will be able to see
first hand the equipment avail
able that is to be used to handle
emergencies.
A military officer will be on
hand to answer questions and
explain the purpose and pro
cedure of rescuing people in an
emergency. The Blakely Jaycees
invites everyone to see this life
saving project -- “The Life it
saves could be yours”.
This MAST demonstration,
sponsored by the local Jaycees,
is one of their projects to give
air rescue and medical services
in emergencies to Early Coun
tians.
Worth County Horn Next
Bobcats Win Sixth
Defeat Brooks Co. 27-7
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Andy Bush (30) follows blocking of Mike Evans (75) and Edward Moseley (74) to pick up first
down for Bobcats during 27-7 rout of the Brooks County Trojans.
The Bobcats displayed a
punishing defense Friday night
in Quitman to defeat the Brooks
Co. Trojans 27-7. The stingy
Bobcat defense allowed region
leading QB Don Rich only 173
yards in the air while holding
the Trojans to zero yardage.
BOBCATS SCORE
The Cats kicked off to the
Trojans with Andy Bush booting
the ball out of the end zone.
The Cats didn’t make their
move until after an exchange
of punts when Luvon Fowler
recovered Brooks’ fumble punt
reception of the Trojans’ 29
yard line.
Seven plays later,. Joe Jordan
turned right end for the first
score. Andy Bush booted the
extra point for a 7-0 lead.
INTERCEPTION
The defense set up the next
score when Luvon Fowler in
tercepted Rich’s pass on the
first play following the Cats’
kick-off.
The Bobcats marched the re
maining 27 yards in seven plays.
This time Danny Vickers bulled
over from the 3. Bush kicked
again and the Cats led at half
time 14-0.
63 YARD DRIVE
The Bobcats took the second
half kickoffand marched 53yards
in 13 plays only to be stopped
at the six yard line. A motion
penalty set the Cats back five
yards and eventually led to a
fourth down. Andy Bush at
tempted a 21 yard field goal,
which barely missed to the left.
Brooks County took over on
their 20 yard line and promptly
punted after three plays. The
Bobcats took the ball at their
37 yard line and began driving
again.
This time the Bobcats reached
pay dirt after driving 63 yards
in 13 plays. Vickers scored
the touchdown from the five.
Bush’s kick was no good and
the Cats led 20-0.
The Bobcats kicked-off to the
Trajans and again forced them
to punt. Here, the Bobcats
began another drive that went
54 yards in 9 plays. The big
play on this drive was a 21
yard pass to Robert Taliaferro.
Bush scored from the six and
booted the PAT for a 27-0 lead.
Don Rich finally hit his region
leading pass receiver for 75
yards and a touchdown with 26
seconds left. Mitchell was open
for the first time of the game
and the starting secondary was
sitting on the bench then.
Previous to that play Tali
aferro had been covering Mit
chell man-to-man and allowed
him only two receptions for 13
yards.
DEFENSE
The stingy Bobcat defense con
sisted of Lamar Hutchins and
Odel Reddick at ends, Billy Ja
cobs and Edward Mosely at
tackles, Charles Powell at
middle guard, Andy Bush and
Luvon Fowler at linebackers,
Cliff Sheffield and Robert Tali
aferro at cornerbacks, and Ver
del Graham and Joe Jordan at
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Jeff Jennings
safety.
OFFENSIVE LINE
Providing the holes for the
Cats’ backs were Mike Evans,
Pat White, Charles Summerset,
Frankie WilliamsandJohnStone.
Stone suffered a broken hand
early in the game but played
throughout the night on both of
fense and defense.
Vickers was the leading rusher
with 77 yards in 22 carries,
Jordan had 46 on 17 and Bush
carried 14 times for 40 yards.
Luvon Fowler caught 4 passes
and Robert Taliaferro took in
two tosses from Jordan.
STATISTICS
EARLY BROOKS
Ist Down jg 6
Yds. Rush. mg 0
Yds. Pass 55 173
Pass. Comp. 6-9 9-15
Inter, by 2 0
Fumbles Lost j 1
Punts 2-32.5 3-36.7
Penalties 25 62
Hospital List
ADMITTED
Mamie Swords. Charlie
Moore, Lillie Odom, Estell
Thompson, Johnnie Mae Mer
ritt, Joel Love, Laura Pickle,
Grace Pate, Bevelyn Ann Bax
ter, Eunice Tolbert, Luther War
rick, Bronnie Roberts, Charlie
Tedder, Shannon Pittman, Phil
lip Ready, Lorelie Suggs. Don
Con't on inside
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Oct. 14, 1972
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WORTH INVADES
The Worth County Rams will
be in Blakely Friday night try
ing to break the Bobcats’ win
ning streak as they did here two
years ago. The situation was the
same. Bobcats were 5-0 and two
touchdown favorites over the
Rams who defeated the Cats 28-
14. That year the Cats were
looking ahead to their showdown
with Americus, which could
cause the same problem this
year.
The Rams may get a shot in
the arm if their star halfback
named Bowen, the same boy
that lead the Rams’ upset in
’7O, is back in action. He has
been out the entire season with
a broken collar bone.
Rev. Bowen
To Speak to
First Methodist
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Rev W. T. Thomas
The Reverend W. Thomas
Bowen will be the guest preach
er at the morning worship ser
vice in the First United Methodist
Church on October 15. Reverend
Bowen is Director of Admissions
and Public Relations at Andrew
College in Cuthbert. Before
taking this position at Andrew,
he was the minister of the Grace
United Methodist Church in Vi
dalia, Georgia.