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OsZ Qlnuntu News
Volume 125-No. 27
© Early County News, Inc.
In Edison
Peanut Princess Crowned
At ’B3 Peanut Rally
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Winners in the 1983 Peanut Rally Pageants were (UR) Heather Hilton - Little
Miss Peanut; Donna Mote - Peanut Rally Princess; and Allison Porter - Junior
Princess.
Miss Donna Mote, 17 year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy W.
Mote of Cuthbert, was crowned 'B3
Peanut Rally Princess and Queen of
the ‘B3 Peanut Rally & Appreciation
Days in Edison Thursday evening.
Donna is a senior at Calhoun County
High School.
First runner up was Laura Lynn
Davis, 17 year old daughter of Mr and
Mrs. Bobby Davis of Blakely. She is a
senior at Early County High School.
Second runner up was Miss Jamie
Kelly of Blakely, a senior at
Southwest Georgia Academy.
Miss Allison Porter, 16 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Porter of Edison was crowned Junior
Princess. Amber Walters was first
runner up and Kimberly Hlomes was
second runner up.
Heather Hilton, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Hilton 111 of Morgan was
crowned Little Miss Peanut. Heather
Paul, Phillips In Run-Off
The February Ist election for
Calhoun County School Superinten
dent will be decided in a run-off bet
ween Elementary School Superinten
dent Bobby Paul and Stan Phillips of
Edison.
Paul received 46.8 percent of the
Missing Girl’s Body Found
The body of 17 year-old Laura
McMinn, missing since January 2,
was found Saturday in a wooded area
near the mobile home where she lived
with her guardians.
According to the Calhoun County
Coroner, the teenager died of a self
inflicted gunshot wound to her head.
A sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun
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Denis Thompson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Kleckley of Cuthbert was
Ist runner up. Sherry Angela
Eubanks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Murry Eubanks of Edison was 2nd
runner up.
The Peanut Princess and Little
Miss Peanut Pageants were spon
sored by the Calhoun County Farmers
and the Georgia Peanut Commission.
The fabulous ABAC “Goldduster’s”
entertained between each section of
the beauty pageants, making as many
as 18 costume changes.
Other contestants included Wendy
Avera of Edison, Melissa Cook of
Morgan, Beth Harpe of Edison, and
Ann Morris of Cuthbert in the Little
Miss Peanut pageant & Anita Cheney
of Edison, Wendy Lumpkin of Blakey
of Blakely, and Melanie McClendon of
Edison in the Peanut Princess Con
test.
votes or 798, Phillips got 386, Pat
Schramm, 327, and Ann Gleaton 159.
The winner of the February 15 run
off will fill the unexpired two year
term of L. Mitchell Conner, who
resigned in December after 22 years’
service.
reported missing from the mobile
home was found beside the body.
A search conducted early in
January, centered within several
miles of the trailer, had failed to turn
up any signs of the girl.
The body was found Saturday after
noon about one-half mile south of the
trailer by two hunters.
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Janice, age 4^ and Lee, age 2 are
the children of Mr. & Mrs. Earl A.
Anderson.
Thursday, Feb. 10,1983
Early County - Blakely, Georgia 31723
“FHA - An Investment In Youth”
National FHA Week — Feb. 6 -12
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The Early County High Chapter of
Future Homemakers of America will
join 12,500 other chapters in a nation
wide celebration of FHA Week
February 6-12, 1983. Celebrated as a
part of Vocational Education Week,
this annual event gives FHA/HERO
members as opportunity to show how
their background in home economics
and participation in Future
Homemakers of America help
prepare them for the future.
The theme for the week is “FHA-An
Investment in Youth". The 125
members, which includes about 17
young men, have scheduled an ex
citing week of activities. Plans outlin
ed by Chairman Rita Robinson and
Willie Jean Williams assisted by Co-
Barge Traffic Hampered By Florida
Rob, age 13 and Gaberial, age 9 are
the children of Ray & Kaye Jordan.
Chairman Angela Rogers and Tammy
James Include: Sunday - Church Day
- Each member and his/her family
will attend the church of their choice.
Monday - Appreciation Day - FHA’ers
will present teachers and staff a token
of appreciation. Tuesday- Chapter
Day - Members will wear special
badges and the February monthly
meeting will be held. Wednesday
-Publicity Day - A special feature in
the Early County News will highlight
the week’s events. A bulletin board
will be placed in the school lobby.
Thursday - Senior Citizen’s Day
-Members will present a program at
the Senior Citizen Center. Friday
-Fund Day - FHAer’s will run a Valen
tine Flower service. Saturday - Good
Casey, age 6 mo., is the daughter of
Mr. & Mrs. Chad Mock.
FHA officers for 1982-83 are: (L to R Front Row) Lucy Bailey, Chr. Honor Roll;
Brenda Brooks, Chr. of Newspaper; Carole Hompton, Chr. of Music; Tonja
Houston, Chr. of Banquet; Laura Lynn Davis, President; Ginger Davis,
Secretary; Lisa Easom, Treasurer; Linda Hawkins, Vice-Pres, of Programs;
Terri Cook, Chr. of Exhibits. (L to R Standing) - Theresa Holmes, Chr. of Public
Relations; Valerie Thompson, Chr. of Newspaper; Lasonnia Blunt, Chr. of Pro
jects; Willie Jean Williams, Chr. of FHA Week; Pam Evans, Vice Pres, of
Degrees; Melissa Hunter, Chr. of Bullentin Board; Marthena Ansari, Chr. of
Devotions; Rita Robinson, Chr. of FHA Week; Katrina Hunter, Parliamen
tarian; James Smith, Photographer; and Norma Jackson, Chr. of Bullentin
Board.
Neighbor Day - Members will do
something nice for his/her neighbor.
Future Homemakers of America is
a national vocational student
organization with two kinds of
chapters, FHA and HERO. FHA
“It is intolerable to permit the State
of Florida to enforce, by means of ar
bitrary and copricious obstructive
tactics, its prejudice against river
basin development upon other states
in the same river basin.”
This statement, by William J. Hull
of Sea Island, Co<ounsel for the Tri-
Rivers Waterway Association, set the
tone for his address Thursday night at
the Blakely Town and Country Club.
Blakely was host to the 1983 Annual
Tri-Rivers President E.E. Bishop, Sr.
of Dothan addresses his remarks to
crowd of approximately 130 (below)
as guest speaker William J. Hull
(seated at left) listens.
Jennifer, age 12; Rand, age 8 and
Cacye, age 4 are the children of Dr. &
Mrs. Ken Payton.
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chapters emphasize comsumer
homemaking education. HERO
chapters emphasize home economics
related occupations. There are 12,500
FHA/HERO chapters and 40,000
members nationwide.
Tri-Rivers meeting which was attend
ed by members from Georgia,
Alabama, and Florida.
Tri-Rivers was formed to insure a
safe navigational channel in the
Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
river system & contends barge traffic
is being hampered by Florida of
ficials’ objections to removal of rocks
in the lower Apalachicola River.
The organization has hired two
lawyers, Hull and Woodie Liles of
Tallahassee, to take the matter to
court if necessary.
Florida officials, along with en
vironmentalists and seafood growers,
contend the dredging would harm
marine life.
Hull and Liles recommended Thurs
day night that the group first write to
the Secretary of the Army, reminding
him of his responsibility to maintain
the country’s navigational water
ways.
The controversy dates from 1973,
when the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers held a hearing in Marian
na, Fla., to unveil its plans for main
taining the river’s 9-foot channel.
In 1981, the mobile District of the
Corps of Engineers applied for a rock
removal permit from the Florida
Department of Environmental
Regulation. The Florida office did not
object to the plan, but did not issue the
permit because three Florida counties
voiced opposition, Hull said.
The Tri-Rivers association sought
enactment of a bill last year that
would direct the Corps to go ahead
with the rock removal project.
Alabama and Georgia congressmen
supported the bill, but the Florida
delegation did not, and the measure
died.
Hull contends the tri-rivers region
of northwest Florida, southwest
Georgia and southeast Alabama
stands to lose 32,689 jobys by 1990
without, a dependable waterway.
But Col. Patrick Kelly, district
engineer in Mobile for the Corps of
Engineers, said navigation on the
waterway improved in 1981 because of
heavy rainfall and better manage
ment of lakes. He said 1983 should be a
“normal year for navigation” on the
waterway.