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Sarin (Cnuntg News Volume 125 - No. 25 © Early County News, Inc. Thursday, February 3rd Green Grass doggers In Razzle Dazzle Concert V Wjl The ever-loving, high kicking, all stomping unbelievable Green Grass Cloggers will perform in a razzle daz zle concert at Mangham Auditorium on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. This group of Southern Appalachian dancers and musicians have entertained au diences throughout the United States and abroad since 1971. Combining their musical and dance talents, the Cloggers offer a self-contained enter tainment program. Their performances are like wat ching a moving history lesson. Clogg ing has been called a “melting pot” dance of the Appalachian Mountains. One can easily see evidences of the early settlers-foot dancing of the Irish, clogging of the English, and rythym of the African and Cherokee Indian. An important aspect of the Green Calhoun Co. Peanut Rally, Appreciation Day, Feb. 3&4 The 1983 Calhoun County Peanut Rally and Appreciation Day will be Thursday and Friday, February 3 and 4. Thursday evening the Georgia Peanut Commission and the Young Fanners will present the Peanut Princess Pageant and Little Miss Peanut Beauty Contests. The event will be presented in the Calhoun Coun ty High School Cafeteria at 7 p.m. Ad mission will be $5 per family, $3 adults $1.50 students, and 50* under 12. Bobcats Ranked 4th, Undefeated 1H in OHt ■ ‘^B ■ % JUI Mi Ok W ■iW M f^K. Wr >.jw ?.*r t. ■ (J* 3KT --iIK .W> MawA tj ■ it ffjfc * 'JyV^ * dr" ' The Early County High Bobcats’ Basketball team went into their game Tuesday night undefeated with a 13 game winning streak and ranked No. 4 in the state AAA rankings. As the News was being put to bed Tuesday night, Coach Whitehurst’s Bobcats were hosting a tough Bainbridge team they managed to beat by a two-point margin earlier in the season. Leading scorer for the Bobcats is John Ingram, averaging 25 points per game. Leading rebounder is Kent Jackson with 11 rebounds per game. Pictured above are: Kneeling (L to R) Earl Boozer, Nora Barnes, Elijah McCoy, and Charles Williams. Standing are Jim Tabb, Junior Haynes, John Ingram, Alien Callaway, Roger Johnson, Kent Jackson, and Reggie Brown. Grass Cloggers philosophy is to share dancing with as many people as possi ble. In addition to the concert, the company will share their heritage with the Early Middle School pupils as well as the general public. The school workshop will be held on the day of the performance while the square dance clinic will be held on Wed. Feb. 2 at the American legion. The Court Square Art Council is for tunate to have the opportunity to bring this energetic and very talented dance group to Blakely. Tickets are $3.00 for council members, $4.00 for non members and $5.00 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at the Book Keeper, Collier Insurance, and Georgia Telephone Corp, as well as from Court Square Art Council Board Members. Entries into the Princess contest are limited to families of Peanut Farmers or quoto owners, age 17-22, seniors or graduates, unmarried without children. Entries may be made through local high school voca tional agriculture departments in Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Mitchell, and Randolph counties. Entries in the Little Miss Peanut Contest are open to girls age 4 to 6 in Calhoun and surrounding counties. continued to page 8 Thursday, Jan. 27,1983 Early County - Blakely, Georgia 31723 Heart Fund Kick-off The annual Early County Heart Fund Kick-off Dinner was held Friday night, January 21, at the Early County Middle School. Mrs. Dot Cannon, President of the Early County Heart Unit, welcomed the guests and the in vocation was given by Dr. Joseph Blakely Bucks Are Returning Blakely Bucks are coming again! The Blakely merchants are pulling together again this year to offer their customers big cash prizes! Drawings will be held Saturday, February 12, 19, and 26 at 10:00 a.m. on the Courthouse steps to give away nearly SI,OOO in Blakely Bucks plus a number of other prizes. Also, this year two “hatchets”, a’la George Washington, will be hidden in the participating merchants’ stores each week. The hatchets will be worth $25.00. Clues will be given each week as to where to find the hidden hat chets. Don’t miss out on your share of the prizes and prize money, be watching next week for further detail and a list of participating merchants. Blakely To Host Trl-Rlvers Group Which looms larger in the light of history, the problems of the ACF Waterway, or its prospects? Association members and friends will try to answer that question and others at the Tri-Rivers annual meeting Thursday, Feb. 3 at the Blakely Country Club. Guiding their thinking will be William J. Hull, who over his long career as an attorney participated in the development of several major rivers of the Northeast and the formation of the National Waterways Conference and the Na tional Waterways Foundation. Now semi-retired and living on Sea Island, Ga., Hull will speak at the 6:30 continued to page 7 Hodges, Pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. The entertainment was presented by Anna Hattaway and the Patty Zip perer School of Dance. Anna, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hat taway, presented a skating routine in cluding the skating limbo. A demonstration on aerobic dancing was presented by Tina Burnette, Elaine Bush, Kim Chapman, Glenda Day, and Cathy Zipperer. Mr. Paul Angeloff, 1983 State Vice Chairman, presented Richard Grist, ;; * -Ab W • A W j ’ ■ < M u ! I iwBH i \ i I ■ f j i If I H Early County Heart Unit President Dorothy Cannon and Early County Heart Fund Chairman Dr. James H. Crowdis are pictured above in center with service awards presented at Friday night’s Heart Fund Kick-off Dinner. Also pictured are (L to R) Veryl Garland of the American Heart Association, Mr. Paul Angeloff, State Vice-Chairman of the 1983 Heart Fund Campaign, Mr. Gus Walters, guest speaker, and Mr. Perry Bridges, Kick-off Dinner Chairman. Others receiving service awards at the Heart Fund Kick-off Dinner were (L to R) Denise English, Janis Still, Doris Dixon, and Richard Grist, Jr. BL Ptß ' ■Ft IF ■ v j ■ 1 kb HHr I I w*— I * I . EM 1983 Magnolia Lodge Officers 1983 Magnolia Lodge #B6 Masonic Officers are: front row (L-R) Ralph Jenkina, Chaplin; Terrell Collins, Senior Deacon; William H. (Billy) Cobb, Worshipful Master; J.W. Gowan, Senior Stewart; and Wayne Middleton, Senior Warden. Back row (L-R) Garlin Evans, Junior Stewart; John C. Allen, Junior Warden; Cal Cox, Junior Deacon; Franklin Swann, Tyler; and J.O. Napier, Secretary. Jr. with a Certificate of Appreciation for his outstanding work with the an nual Heart Run. Mr. Grist was one of the original organizers of the run in 1981. Other awards were presented to Dot Cannon, Janis Still, Doris Dixon, and Denise English. The guest speaker, Mr. Gus Walters, was presented by Dr. James H. Crowdis, Jr. Mr. Walters is a past Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Heart Association. He is presently serving on the nominating committee for the Southern Region of the USPSI64O6OOOO 25* American Heart Association and a delegate to the meeting in New Orleans in March. He has been a Heart Association volunteer for the past sixteen years and an open heart surgery patient. Mr. Walters presented a special award to Dr. Crowdis for his thirty years of volunteer service in Early County. Mr. Perry Bridges, who, along with his wife, pat, coordinated the Kick-off Dinner, ended the program with a note of thanks to the sponsors and all of those who gave of their time to make the supper a success.