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Carlo v,uunto News
Volume 124-No. 11
© Early County News, Inc.
Interest Growing Here In Drug Program
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Over 500 Attended Meeting
This is the second of a series of ar
ticles about Drug Awareness in Early
County, the purpose of a Sept. 30 Town
Hall meeting.
The following are excerpts from
statements made by Pataula Circuit
District Attorney Charles Ferguson at
that meeting.
"I think there are some very con
cerned people in Early County for the
drug problems that we have. This
started with a Grand Jury action a
couple of years ago...interest has
grown and I don’t think anyone really
anticipated the interest to the extent
that we have tonight.
This interest, I think however, is
shared not only by you citizens of Ear
ly County but by people all across the
state of Georgia and all across the
United States. Illustrating this I would
like to share something with you that
was sent to me by the District At-
School Bus Drivers Honored
In 1976, Governor George Busbee
issued a proclamation setting aside
Oct. 27 as the day honoring School Bus
Drivers over the State of Georgia.
These people are to be commended
for their perserverance in a job well
done, as well as for their loyalty to the
community and school systems. It
takes a lot of patience, kindness, and
brotherly love to be a bus driver.
Future Citizens Feature
To Be Published
Future Citizens feature to return!
Yes, we are going to run the future
citizens in the paper again this year.
Interpress Studios will be returning
in October. All photos will be published
at no charge.
Make your appointment now by call-
Merchants Association Christmas
Parade Scheduled For December 3
The Merchants Association of
Blakely is sponsoring a Christmas
Parade, Friday, December 3,1982, at
4:30 p.m. The theme of the parade is
“There’s No Place Like Home for the
Holidays." We are inviting all area
merchants, business, civic clubs,
school groups and other interested
people to participate and join us for
all the fun.
Decorated floats and vehicles,
bands, clowns, choirs, beauty queens
and any other entries appropriate for
parades are encouraged to par
ticipate. We do ask that no Santa
Clauses be present. He will arrive on a
special float sponsored by Merchants
Association.
Cash Prizes - Yes CASH prizes will
be presented to 3 winners. The
catagories will be:
Weekend / BobcatsVislt / SGA Visits / A-Team Packers Support
Football / Sylvester / Southland / Host Abbeville Your Team
tomey in the Rome judicial circuit.
He had a Grand Jury in Floyd County
where they have a drug problem,
reflect their concern. This is what
they said, “We are already fixed on
our strongest concern, the drug pro
blem. In reporting to our joint
meeting with the City and County of
ficials, however, we do not feel there
is strongly enough stressed gravity of
our concern. We feel that the direct
result of the illegal sale and regular
abuse of drugs and the consequences
of such conduct not only greatly con
tribute to the crime rate, but con
stitute a clear and present danger to
the moral fiber that holds our society
together. We urge our legislators,
court officers, law enforcement of
ficials, public speakers, and in
dividual citizens to become aware of
the magnitude of this problem and
make every possible effort to gain
These are the people who have to get
out in all kinds of weather and pray
for safety for the most precious cargo
anyone can carry, which is our
children.
God bless each of you and we love
you.
Eleanor P. Sheffield
Probate Judge &
Former Bus Driver
ing 723-8713 nights or 723-3260 days.
Ask for Betty.
We need as many children as possi
ble to make this feature a success. You
can also have that family portrait
you’ve been wanting made.
- Best theme - “There's No Place Like
Home for the Holidays"
- Best Christmas Theme - Commer
cial
- Best Christmas Theme - Religious
Only decorated floats and vehicles
will be judged in these 3 catagories.
There will be a $7.50 fee for these en
tries, so make plans now for your
group to sponsor a float and compete
for CASH prizes.
Deadline for entry will be
November 22, 1982. Contact the
Blakely-Early County Chamber of
Commerce office or write to No. 2
Court Square or call 912-723-3741,
Blakely, 31723.
We look forward to seeing you on
Decembers, 1982.
The Parade Committee
-Drug Awareness: Second Os A Serie
control of the problem of illegal
drugs.”
Another thing showing the concern
growing is that the Lion’s Club Inter
national has established three goals
for public service to the Community.
One of these is awareness of the drug
problem. But people are becoming
aware that the drug problem does ex
ist, and again I think Early County is
certainly in the forefront of it and I
congratulate you for it.
I want to limit my comments for the
most part on the drug law itself, what
they are and the possible punishment
and what the punishment can be. I
also want to deal somewhat with some
of the changes our legislature has
brought about in 1982. I think this
reflects their concern, and I would say
they are concerned about the drug
problem.
But first, as far as illegal drugs,
most of what we have contained in the
Georgia Code Substances Act and this
is an act that provides, with the help
of the Georgia Board of Pharmacy,
What the Georgia Board of Pharmacy
meeting did was to tell the legislature,
in effect, what the most dangerous
drugs were so that they could gear the
punishment to the seriousness of that
type drug.
Because of that, under the Georgia
Controlled Substances Act, we have
five schedules; schedule one being the
most serious and five the least
serious. This is just briefly how they
go about determining drugs in each
schedule.ln schedule one these drugs
David Smith In Concert
David Smith, Choral Director at
Early County Middle School, Early
County High School and Director of
Music at the First United Methodist
Church of Blakely, will present a
Vocal Concert of sacred and secular
songs on Sunday, October 24th at 3:00
p.m. a the First United Methodist
Church. He will be accompanied on
the piano by Mrs. Elizabeth Darden.
After graduation from Crisp County
High School, Mr. Smith received an
AA degree in music from Andrew Col
lege, Cuthbert, Georgia where he
studied voice with Larry Belt. While
at Andrew he was soloist with the Cap
pella Choir, member of the Choraliers
and named outstanding music student
of 1967. He also received a BA degree
in music from Adams State College,
Alamosa, Colorado where he attended
on a full voice scholarship.
Mr. Smith served in the USAF and,
while stationed at Mac Dill AFB, Tam
pa, Florida, he studied voice with
John Anderson, head of the voice
department at the University of South
Florida. While in Tampa he was
soloist with the Tampa Orator! Socie
ty. After completing his tour of duty at
RAF Chicksands, United Kingdom,
David was hired as general music
teacher and choral director at
Seminole County Middle School and
youth choir director at Friendship
United Methodist Church, Donalson-
Amateur Boxing October 23
For all of those boxing fans, there
will be live amateur boxing Saturday,
October 23rd at the Early Elementary
School Gym. This event is sponsored
by the Blakely-Early County Recrea-
Southside Baptist Church will be
holding Revival Services beginning
Monday, Oct. 25th through Sunday,
Oct. 31st. The services will be at 7:30
nightly with a nursery provided.
The Rev. J.B. Redd of First Baptist
Thursday, Oct. 21, 1982
Early County - Blakely, Georgia 31723
Southside Baptist Church
Revival Services To Begin
have high potential for abuse; two
there is no current medically ac
cepted medical use for it; three there
is a lack of accepted safety for the use
even with medical supervision, this is
where we have our most serious
drugs. Examples of drugs in this area
are heroin, mescaline, and metha
quallone.
For a minute I would like to mention
some things that the legislature has
done. The fact that methaquallone is
in schedule one now reflects an act of
the legislature. It used to be a
schedule two drug, and it was a drug
that could be prescribed by the doc
tor. This is no longer so. The
legislature, along with testimony
from doctors, realized that this is not
a legitimate or medically accepted
use for methaquallone or qualludes
anymore. The doctors cannot
prescribe it and no druggist can
possess it.
Schedule two are drugs that have a
medically accepted use and abuse can
cause a psychological and physical
dependence. Examples of this are:
Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, and Am
phetamines. Schedule three...typical
abuses are less than in schdule one
and schedule two. Regular abuse can
cause some physical and mental
dependence but not as great.
Schedule four has essentially the
same criteria. Examples of schedule
four are: Chloral hydrate,
Paraldehyde and Dyoratone. I'm us
ing really the type of schedules where
we have had cases involving this.
ville.
In 1978 Mr. Smith became Choral
Director at Early Middle School and
Director of Music at The First United
Methodist Church. He now directs the
choral program at both the Middle
and High Schools with an enrollment
of over 200 students. In 1979 he receiv
ed a Master of Education degree in
Music Education from Columbus Col
lege.
Mrs. Darden attended Andrew Col
lege at Cuthbert, Georgia where she
studied organ and piano with Trellis
Case and Larry Belt. She also attend
ed Georgia State College for women
where she studied with Mrs. Gertrude
Allen. While there she served as stu
dent accompanist for voice students.
She served as organist at First
Presbyterian Church in Cuthbert for
three years and the First Methodist
Church in Cuthbert for fourteen
years. She is presently serving as
organist at the First United Methodist
in Blakely. Mrs. Darden is also aide
and accompanist for both the Middle
and High School Choruses; and ac
companist for the Camerata Chorus of
Eufaula, Alabama.
The Court Square Arts Council ex
tends to all an invitation to come and
enjoy this outstanding concert Sunday
afternoon, October 24th, 3:00 p.m. at
the First United Methodist Church,
Blakely, Georgia.
tion Department. Boxing will begin at
7:30 p.m., make your plans to be
there. The admission for adults will be
$2.50, children 14 and under will be ad
mitted free.
Church, Putney, Ga., will be guest
speaker. He is the former pastor of
Arlington First Baptist.
Mark Eades from the First Baptist
Church of Donalsonville will be in
charge of the music.
Schedule five - examples of this are:
compounds that contain some amount
of codeine.
Just possession, of schedule one or
schedule two can result in sentences
of possibly two to fifteen years, along
with this there is also the possibility of
a ten thousand dollar fine. A second
offense the punishment is five to thir
ty years in the penitentiary. Now if
you are caught with a sale or giving
away, any kind of distribution, posses
sion or attempting to distribute one of
these in schedule one and two, then
the punishment can be five to thirty
years in the penitentiary and a second
offense is life in prison.”
If it is a schedule two drug and it is a
non-narcotic schedule two drug, if you
are caught with possession punish
ment is possible two to fifteen years;
second offense is five to thirty years;
and if you are caught with the sale or
distribution or possession with intent,
you can also be confined for thirty
years.
Under schedule three, four and five,
possession gets you one to five years;
second offense is ten years and sale or
distribution or possession with intent
to one to ten years.
There is one exception, marijuana is
not really included in one of these
schedules. If you possess any more
than an ounce of marijuana, this is a
felony punishable by one to ten years
in the penitentiary. If you are caught
with less than an ounce, and you have
had no prior offense or possession of
marijuana or any other drug, the
In teres t Ra tes Lowered On
USDA Farmers Home Loans
Interest rates on most loan pro
grams at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Fanners Home Ad
ministration will go down Oct. 1,
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block announced today.
Block said the reduction, which will
be as much as a full percentage point
for farm operating loans and market
rate community facilities loans,
reflect progress in the nation’s drive
to roll back inflationary interest
rates. Reductions will apply to farm,
community and rural housing loans
made by the rural credit agency.
The reductions are a result of
legislation that calls for the USDA
agency’s interest rates to parallel
those in other key sectors of the
money market.
“We are able to lower our interest
rates because the cost of money to the
U.S. Treasury has been down in re
cent months and the average yield for
municipal bonds also has been
lower,” said Charles W. Shuman,
Fanners Home Administrator.
In farmer programs, the interest
rate for farm operating loans is reduc
ed from 14.25 percent to 13.25 percent.
For long-term farm loans, such as
farm ownership, soil and water,
recreation, grazing associations, ir
rigation and drainage and Indian land
acquisition, the rate declines from
13.25 percent to 13 percent.
For limited resource borrowers,
operating loan rates drop from 11.25
percent to 10.25 percent and farm
ownership loans move downward
slightly, from 6,625 percent to 6.5 per
cent.
In the emergency loan program, the
rate drops from 17 percent to 16.25
percent on actual loss for disasters oc
curring after Oct. 1 to applicants who
can obtain credit from other sources
but choose to borrow from the agency.
For borrowers unable to obtain credit
from other lenders, actual loss loans
will continue to be made at 8 percent.
For borrowers eligible for continued
annual production loans, the rate goes
down from 16 percent to 15.5 percent.
Under the agency’s housing pro
grams, the interest rate drops from
13.5 percent to 13.125 percent for
USPS 16106000 ZiU
judge might give you up to twelve
months and/or give you a fine of up to
a thousand dollars.
Now, as Charles Middleton of the
Drug Task Force mentioned, we are
all citizens and we are here not only to
talk to you but to also get you in
terested in preventing it. When I get
them (drug abusers) the charge has
already been made and the crime has
already been committed. Then again,
too, our job is also to prevent it.
All of these punishments that I’ve
talked to you about before are involved
wherever the substance is, the amount
doesn’t really matter. We do have a
law called “trafficking”. This involves
larger quantities of these substances.
This is also an area where the
legislature has made some changes.
We already had the law and statutes
in marijuana and trafficking in co
caine. We have now added this year,
trafficking in methaquallone.
I’ll tell you about some of these
-trafficking in cocaine. Trafficking in
volves just the possession of it. They
get “trafficking” because you have
such a large amount. They know that
if you have a large quantity of co
caine, that you are dealing with it. If
you have at least 28 grams, but less
than 200 grams of cocaine, your
sentence is 5 years in the penitentiary
and a fine of fifty thousand dollars.
Every sentence that I tell you about
under the trafficking section, when I
say five years, that means five total
years. The sentence cannot be
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single family housing, rural rental
housing and housing site loans.
The rate for housing loans to above
moderate-income borrowers (and
moderate-income borrowers who can
afford Housing and Urban Develop
ment Department rates) was lowered
from 15 pewrcent to 14 percent on
Sept. 20.
For community facility and water
and waste disposal loans, the full in
terest rate drops from 11.625 to 10.625
percent. This rate is based on current
market yields for municipal obliga
tions. The intermediate rate, for com
munities of moderately less than
average means, declines from 8.375
percent to 7,875 percent. The rate for
lower-income communities remains
unchanged at 5 percent.
Shuman said the intermediate rate
recently introduced by the USDA
agency “will keep credit resources
alive for many communities that need
public facility improvements to
create job opportunities or maintain
present employment.”
Guaranteeed loans for business and
industrial development continue to be
negotiated between borrowers and
lenders. Loans made by Farmers
Home for small scale biomass energy
projects will be made at 15 percent in
stead of the previous rate of 13.25 per
cent.
Farmers Home Administration is
the rural credit agency of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. It makes
a wide variety of loans and grants and
provides technical assistance to help
improve economic and living condi
tions in rural America.
Services of the agency are delivered
through the system of nearly 2,000
county offices, 300 district offices and
46 state offices covering rural areas
throughout the nation.
Blood Mobile
November 3