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Inaugural Address Os
Governor Joe Frank Harris
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The Governor and Mrs. Harris shown cutfingthecakeltthe ball.
This day began as a venture of faith
for me and my family many months
ago. Being Governor of Georgia is a
tremendous honor and an awesome
responsibility that, with God’s help, I
accept.
Seventy-seven distinguished
Georgians have preceded me in tak
ing this solemn vow, and it is with
humility and a strong faith in the
future and in my God that I assume
the challenge of this high office.
To my family and to the many other
Georgians who worked so tirelessly to
make this moment possible, I thank
you from the bottom of my heart. I
pledge to you that I will spend the next
four years striving to be the kind of
governor that you will always be pro
ud you worked and voted for. I will
need your continued support and your
prayers in the days, months and years
to come.
As I stand here before you today,
the 78th Governor of the Great State of
Georgia, I am keenly aware that at
this very moment and on this very
spot, the past meets the future.
In preparing for this moment, I
read many of the inaugural addresses
given by governors before me, and
Hull To Speak At Tri-Rivers
Waterway Development Meeting
Tri-Rivers Waterway Development
Association wili assess problems and
prospects of the Apalachicola-
Chattahoochee-Flint Waterway at its
annual meeting Thursday, Feb. 3, at
the Blakely Country Club.
Speaker for the annual event will be
William J. Hull, one of two lawyers
employed recently to help the
citizens’ group break an impasse bet
ween the State of Florida and the
Corps of Engineers over the future of
barge transportation on the water
way.
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Mr. and Mrs. Stan Usry of Blakely.
what is so immediately apparent is
that every man who has served as
governor of this state shared a com
mon hope and desire to make Georgia
a better place to work, to live and to
raise children. lam like all of my
predecessors in that I, too, cherish
that dream for Georgia, but like each
of those individuals, I hope my per
sonal experiences and abilities will
make that dream come true.
I am a believer in the lessons of
history, and 1 am a believer in
building on a solid foundation. I am
also a believer in the people of our
state. We in Georgia have a history of
sound state government, especially in
recent times, and I intend to build on
this solid foundation which has been
left as a legacy to us by previous
governors and previous legislatures.
I am taking office during a time of
economic uncertainty, and I am not so
naive as to try to paint a picture of
financial bliss in state government. I
am only too aware that the realities of
the economy will limit the scale and
scope of my administration, but I am
prepared by determination and per
sonal experience to make the most of
the limited resources at our command
Hull, who now lives on Sea Island,
Ga., participated in the development
of the Ohio, Monongahela, Kanawha
and Green river systems in the Nor
theast. He helped create the National
Waterways Conference and the Na
tional Waterways Foundation and re
mains active in both groups. Between
trips to Washington, he is revising the
book, “The Origin and Development
of the Waterways Policy of the United
States,”” which he and his son wrote in
1967.
Tri-Rivers President E.E. Bishop,
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Kendall is the two year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Alexander of
Blakely.
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for the time being.
I am committed to stringent and
responsible management of the
state’s fiscal resources, to getting the
most service possible for every tax
dollar and to the principle of better
government, not more government.
While I fully intend to see that state
government is managed and operated
within its means and with no tax in
crease for the next four years, let me
hasten to point out that my commit
ment does not require state govern
ment to operate without dreams, nor
does it mean that those dreams can
not or will not be fulfilled. Georgia
will not stand still.
Present acomplishments, present
achievements were once only dreams
to those who came before us. Without
dreams, a boy child born 46 years ago
in a cotton mill village in north
Georgia would not be standing here
before you today taking a solemn oath
of office to serve as the Chief Ex
ecutive Officer of this state for the
next four years.
I am following in the footsteps of a
long line of outstanding governors
who were both dreamers and doers,
Sr., of Dothan said he felt Hull would
cast the light of history on multiple
delemmas faced by communities
along the Alabama-Georgia-Florida
waterway.
Also on the program will be Col.
Patrick Kelly, Mobile district
engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
The general membership meeting
will begin with registration at 5:30
p.m. EST. There will be a social
period at 6 p.m., and the dinner
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Brent is the seven year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Scarborough of
Blakely. .
33rd Annual
Chamber Os Commerce Banquet
The Thirty-third Annual Dinner
Meeting of the Blakely-Early County
Chamber of Commerce was a resoun
ding success with good fellowship,
food and entertainment.
Starlite Productions presented an
hour long program of varied types of
music. From Classical to Broadway
to a take-off on Dolly Parton, there
was a type of music for everyone. A
supper club arrangement was used
this year for the membership in atten
dance.
Robert Collier and Charles
DeLoach did an outstanding job with
the arrangements and were well
pleased with the entire events of the
evening,
During the program, outgoing
President Paul Angeloff recapped the
past 18 months of his term and wished
every success to Billy McFay as he
leads the Chamber in 1983.
New Corporation
Announced
An industrial development project
was announced Friday night at the
Blakely-Early County Chamber of
Commerce Annual Meeting by out
going president, Paul Angeloff. The
announcement was made on behalf of
the Early County Development
Authority chaired by Jim Richardson,
Consolidated Pelletizing Corpora
tion will be located in Damascus on 11
acres of land and will be situated on
Seaboard Railroad.
The plant will be finished and put in
to operation by May 15 The corpora
tion will be made up of five nearby
peanut mills, The Maddox Corpora
tion, Blakely, Arlington Oil Mills, Arl
ington, Farmers Fertilizer and Mill
ing Co., Colquitt, Fudge Gin Co., Col
quitt and Damascus Peanut Com
pany, Damascus. :
The plant will employ 8 people at
startup and a maximum of 14 in full
production. The plant expects to
pelletize 35 to 40 thousand tons of
peanut hulls annually.
Consolidated will produce hull
pellects for fuel and feed, range
cubes, special pellets for the cattle
and horse industry and kitty litter.
The primary object of this plant is
to furnish employment and to turn an
almost worthless product into profit
from the sales of fuel and feed and to
eliminate pollution that exists now at
most of the plants from burning hulls,
The corporation expects to research
any other possibility that will cause
more efficiency and profit from this
plant.
A recent goal of the chamber was to
assist the Development Authority in
creating 100 new jobs during 1983 for
Early County. The fourteen jobs
created by this project emexplifies
the committment by the Chamber and
the Authority.
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Elected outgoing Directors receiving plaques of appreciation for three and one
half years of service were left to right: Raymond Singletary, Jr., Tige Pickle, Joe
Bryan, Red Knighton, Caroline Redding and Fred Foster.
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Front row: Charles DeLoach, Banquet Co-Chairman; Executive Director Nan
cy Kinsey; Robert Collier, Banquet Co-Chairman; 1983 President Billy McFay.
Back Row: Paul Angeloff, Qutgoing President.
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1982 President Paul Angeloff receives Outgoing President’s Plaque from in
coming President Billy McFay.
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son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stone of
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Eric is the four year old son of Mr,
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