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Notable Career Closes
As A. 6. Dudley Passes
Achievements In Business, Industry
And Community Building Were Many
A career notable for achievements in industry and
business as well as community development closed yes
terday morning with the passing of Alonzo G. Dudley at
the age of sixty-six. g
The distinguished Athenian is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Va—u‘ Te
palmer Dudley, his daughter, Mrs.
Mottt McLanahan of Elberton;
three sons, Frank C., E. Gordon
and James W. Dudley, his mother,
Mrs. J. S. Dudley and several
grandchildren, of Athens.
Until he was in an accident on
a hunting trip several months ago,
Mr. Dudley was one of the busiest
citizens in Athens, a person of
considerable drive and force and
physical stamina that served him
and the community as a bulwark
against breakdown despite an ex
traordinarily heavy program of
activities. But the accident
seriously impaired his health and
while after several weeks of ill
ness at his home on Fortson Drive
he returned to activity, his health
was such that he never regained
his characteristic vigor. Death
came as he slept Sunday morn
ing at 5 o’clock.
No citizen of Athens has car
ded on with such exeeptional
success a more varied activity as
did Mr. Dudley. During the fifty
five years he was a resident of
Athens, his interests were of such
2 broad nature that few enter
prises of a community nature fail
ed to receive his attention and aid,
personal and financial to a li
peral extent. A
Born In Madison
He was eleven years of age
when his parents, the late J. S.
Dudley of Madison* county and
Mrs. Dudley moved to Athens. His
industry was of such outstanding
caliber that while in his early
manhood he ventured upon be
ginning of a small hosiery plant
upstairs in a building in down
town Athens. From that modest
basis he developed the small
manufactory into what is now the
Climax Hosiery Mill, located on
Oconee street, one of the largest
industries of its kind in the State
Such was his ability as .a textile
manufacturer that in 1915 the
citizens who then owned the Ath
ens Manufacturing Company
started in 1828 on the Oconee
river, by a group of Athens citi
zens who were among the firs
to launch the textile industry ir
Georgla, - invited thent to- become
associated ‘with that company. A
few years later he acquired ar
interest in the Mill and it was
later moved to its present loca-:
tion, up the Oconee. Although a
the time Mr. Dudley becme in
terested in the Athens Manu
facturing Company it employec
only about one hundred persons
under his direction it was ex
panded, larger buildings erected
and additicnal machinery install
ed, until it now employed around
five hundred people. At the time
of his death Mr. Dudley was sole
owner and president of not only
the Athens Manufacturing Cgm
pany but the <Climax Hosiery
Mill, which he established.
Pioneer In Industry
Under his management the Ath
ens Manufacturing Company
changed from waterpower as a
means of operation to electricity.
He was perhaps the first Geor
gla industrialist to use the large
national magazines and periodicals
to advertise his préduct, 8 practice
which is now followed by several
of this State’s manufacturers. Mr.
Dudley 20 years ago boldly pio
neered as a national advertiser and
bought page advertisements for
his hosiery mill’'s products in the
Saturday Evening Post and other
Magazines of national ecirculation,
thus advertising this State’s indus
trial progressiveness.
He was a member of the Board
of Directors of the National Bank
of Athens, was a director of the
Chamber of Commerce many
limes, and was a member of the
Board of the University Athletic
:‘\ssociation, in which ‘capacity he
Was one of the staunchest sup- |
Porters of the athletic program Otl
the University, where his eldest
n, Frank, graduated and was a
football star. Shortly before his
death, the late Chancellor S. V.
Sanford publicly paid tribute ?OI
Mr. Dudley for the latter’s part in
erection of the Sanford Stafil}lm‘
Mr. Dudley was one of the original
financiers “of, the Stadium. During
s construction; he was on hand|
almost daily and when the turf:
Was developed, he 3uperintend_ed
that phase of the construction with
the result that it is one of the
Most perfect football fields in the
nation,
Community Builder ,
A good many years ago, when
2lf began to win popularity as
¢ Sport in which the many, rather
than the few, could enjoy, Mr.
Dudley recognized the need for a
Modern golf course for Athens. At
the time there was a small, nine
hole course with inadequate club
house facilities in Athens. The
Membership wag small and re-
Sricted. The course had been de
“gned by club members and was
& more-or-less haphazard affair. 1
At great personal expense, Mr.
Dudley launched the new club,’
bringing here as the designer
Donalq Ross, at that time the top
flight £olfing engineer in the na
tion, The location for the course
Was selected and Mr. Ross laid
out an eighteen hole' course that
'akes rank with the brt in the
Sate. To give a more aii-round
ioPeal, a large lake, stocked with
fish, wag incorporated, for those
"o liked to fish better than golf
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and for members who enjoyed
both.
A modern clubhouse with ample
facilities was erected and the
membership began to swing up~|
ward. However, lean days were
ahead and it was Mr. Dudley who
pulled the club through these
crises by use of his own money
and hours of untiring effort. To
day the club is on sound footing,
thanks to its chief spcgnsor, with
a large membership and regularly
scheduled tournaments\ which at
tract entrants from all parts of
‘the south. And, fitting enough, Mr.
Dudley served the club as its pres
}idept from its inception until the
present time.
l In his community service, Mr.
Dudley was instrumental in erec
tion of the present building of the
Athens Young Men’s Christian As
sociation, occupying the office of
Presiflent of that organization sev
eral fyears. :
Civic Achievements
. After serving as a member of!
the Athens City Council, and as
a member of the State Legisla
ture, Mr. Dudley was elected
Maycr of Athens; serving five
consecutive terms in that office,
After an interval of two years he
was ected- Mayor after which
he retired from active participa
tion in government. He served on
the Athens Bond Commission,
as well as the Athens Housing
Authority, subsequent to being
Mayor and his interest in the poli
tical life of the community re
sulted in his eleciion to the Clarke
County Democratic Executive
Committee and to the vice-chair
manship.
Mr. Dudley sponsored an
amendment to the Athens City
Charter under which a few years
later the revolving fund plan for
hard-surfacing streets was set up.
Prior to that time street p;i\{/ing
was greatly impeded by lack of
a financial plan for carrying on
improvements, but with the crea
tion of additional financial facili
ties the City was-enabled to do
more paving than would other
wise have been possible.
When he became Mayor, Mr.
Dudley found the City in debt ap
proximately $250,000. He insisted
upon the adoption of an retrench
ment program, despite the fact
that governmental retrenchment
is not always generally popular
’and economy was practiced until
the debt was paid off. His salary
as Mayor was returned by him to
the City, so as to relieve the muni
!cipality of that expense.
| oOld Jail Dismantled
One of his first acts as Mayor
was removal of the unsightly old
City jail from the City hall pre
mises. He encouraged and assisted
in erection of the present Civic
Hall on the site of the dismantled
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Elliott Roosevelt Due To Tell Story
Today On Why He Backed Hughes' Plane
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—(AP)
—Elliott Roosevelt gets his
' chance today to tell how and why
he reversed the Aimy’s Nzartime
rejection of Howard Hughes’
| photo reconnaissance plane.
: Chairman Ferguson (R.-Mich.)
of the war investigating subcom
mittee said he probably would put
| Roosevelt and John W. Meyer,
| Hughes’ free-spending publicity
{man, on the stand side by side to
| check on details of the lavish
| Meyer parties which preceded
| Roosevelt’s recommendation of
| the plane.
; Among other things, the com—‘
| mittee wants to ask the second
|son of the wartime President: |
| 1. On what basis he decided
| that Hughes’ plane, still not in
use by the Army after costing
|about $22,000,000 in government
|funds as well as a chunk of
.| Hughes’ own mohey, would be
| “the most suitable” for phaio
| work in Europe. :
g 2. Whether he was influenced
| by $5,083.79 worth of free enter
| tainment and an introduction to
' screen actress Faye Emerson, now
| his wife.
1{ 3. What he knows of an about
! face on the Hughes plane by Gen
} ‘om H. H. Arnold, then Chief of
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Vol. 115, No. 176. Full Associate~ Press Service
UN Marks Up First Peace Victory
As Dutch, Indonese Ceasz-Firing
.
Orders Will Be Issued By Both
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Sides Tonight Ending 13-Day War
BATAVIA, Java, Aug. 4— (AP)—The Indonesian Re
public joined the Dutch tonight in announcing a cease-fire
order to troops, stopping hostilities in Indonesia and giv
ing the United Nations its fiArst.big victory for peace.
A Republican reply to the Ui N
Security Council’s demand for a
halt to the 15-day war said the
Republic was issuing a cease-fire
to all tro6psy tonight. The an
nouncement \‘as broadcast from
Jogjakarta shortly after 8 p. m.
(7:30 a. m., Eastern Standard
Time). The Dutch had announced
Sunday a cease-fire effective this
midnight. Dutch advances had
halted even before the deadlines.
Jogjaharta announced plans for
a midnight broadcast by Predident
Soekarno in his capacity as com
mander in chief of troops.
The Republican government
asked the Security Council to ap
point an impartial committee to
‘supervise~enforcement of the
cease-fire. It said Dutch military
operations had cut communications
in numerous places, leading to dif
ficulties in enforcing the order on
\the Republican side, and askedl
lthat it would take this into con
sideration. . |
A Dutch qukesmansaid most
Netherlands units were already
pulled up,’ several hours before
the midnight deadline. There was
almost no activity today at
Semarang, which had been the
Dutch troops’ expected jumping
off place for an attack toward
Jogjakarta. ; '
The United Nations Security
Council last Friday called upon
both sides to cease fighting.
Troups !ithdrnw;t |
In statements yesterday the
Indonesians said they were “will
ing” to cease hostilities, but that
a truce could be carried out ef
fectively only if the Dutch with
drew to demarcation lines es
tablished last October. There was
no indication of Dutch agreement
,to this.
At noon the Dutch announced
{landing of troops on the island of
! Madoera, off' the east coast of
| Java. .
Details of the operations on
Madoera—which was to have been
included in the Indonesian Re
public under the Cheribon agree
ment—were not disclosed by the
Army spokesman, who said meré
ly that “safety measures”’ were
being taken at the request of the
population.
He added, however, that large
quantities of rice were being ship
ped to Madoera for relief of the
1,000,000 or more persons living on
the island, most of whom he said
were starving as a result of being
cut off from the Java mainland.
Orders for Dutch troops to cease
military operations effective at
midnight tonight were issued last
night by Dutch, Acting-Governor
General Hubertus J. Van Mook
despite an expressed belief that
the U. N. Security Council was
exceeding its authorities in in
tervening. 4
Broadcasts from the Republican
capital of Jogjakarta last night
said the Republican government
agreed “with the (Security Coun
cil) decision that hostilities should
cease and was prepared to con
cert all its efforts for the execu
tion of the cessation of hostilities.”
Ceriain Terms
The broadcast statement added,
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BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—
(AP)—A Senate investigation
of - wartime entertainment
spending by “many firms”
was promised today by Sen
ator Ferguson (R.-Mich,) who .
termed a “glaring example”
the spending by Howard
Hughes’ Aircraft Company.*
Ferguson made the promise
to Democratic colleagues as
an inter-party squabble broke
out over the course of his war
investigating sub-committee
inquiry into the Hughes air
onnft'oonteasts.. - .o . .
Army Air Forces, in less than
two weeks’' time in the fall of
1943. ¢
The committee has sworn tes
timony that Arnold first turned
thumbs down on the plan, then
gave orders to open negotiations
for 100 of them after Roosevelt,
at that time a colonel in charge of
air reconnaissance in /Europe,
recommended the craft.
The committee opened its sec
ond week of public inquiry intc
approximately ~ $40,000,000 of
plane contracts awarded Hughes
and Henry J. Kaiser, his erstwhile
Full Program For l
Agronomy Short
Course Announced
A compiete program for the |
Annual Agronomy Short Course!
to be held August 5-7 at the Uni- |
versity of Georgia has been an- |
nounced by Protessor W. O. Col-|
lins, head of the Dcpartment of |
Agronomy and Short Course !
Chairman. |
Brown Rawlings, agricultural'
economist, Federal Reserve Bank,!
Atlanta, will be principal speak-|
er at the first session, Tuesday,
8 p. m, in the Forestry School
Auditorium. He will discuss “The
hights and Responsibilities of Lang
Ownership.” The talk will be pre
ceded by a dinner meeting of the
Athens Chapter of Friends of the
Land, for which reservations
can be made by contacting Prof.
Collins at the College of Agricul
ture.
The Wednesday program will
be as follows: ) l
10:00 — Welcome Rddress, by
Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell presi- |
dent, University of Georgia;
110:45 — “Putting Agronomic Sci
ence to Work,” Dr. Emil Truog,
head, Soils Department, Univer=
sity of Wisconsin; 12:00 — “Pro
gressive Conservation,” B, H.
Hendrickstn” ~projéct “Supérvisor,
Southern Piedmont Conservation
Experiment Station, Watkinsville.
12:10 — “Nutrient Content of
Georgia Soils” Joel E. Giddens,
director, Soil Testing Service,
University of Georgia; 12:20 —
“Some Problems in the Produc
tion of Ce-tified Seed,” Hugh A.
Inglis, agronomist, seed -certifi-
Icé\tion, Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Service. .
Wednesday Tour
The Wednesday afternoon ses
sion will consist of a tour of the
Southern Piedmont Conservation
Experiment Station.
Members of the Georgia Sec
tion of the American Society of
Agronomy and Soil Science So
ciety-of America will meet at tne
Holman Hotel Wednesday at 7 p.
m., for a dinner meeting, at
which there will be a business
meeting. Dv. Emil Truog will be
the main speaker.
Thursday’s session will open at
9 a. m, with a talk on “The Fer
tilizer Outlook” by W. A. Minor,
assistant secretary United States
Department of Agriculture, and
will continue throughout the day
as follows: :
! i0:00 —“How the Soil Feeds
the Plant,” Dr. Emil Truog; 11:10
—“Winter Grazing,” E. D. Alex~
| ander, agronomist, Georgia Agri
| cultural Extension Service; 11:20
—“A Preliminary Report on the
Use of Various Insecticides in the
. Control of Cotton Insects,”” Har
lold D. Loden assistant professor
lof agronomy, University of Geor
| (Continued On Page Two)
partner in one enterprise.
Meanwhile, Senator Pepper
(D.-Fla.), a committee member,
said the hearing has not produced
“any evidence of fraud, corrup
tion or profiteening in these con
tracts, but seems to be limited to
entertainment involving Colonel
Roosevelt.”
“We are almost outdistancing
Hollywood with Hollywood color
in this investigation so far,” Pep
per told a reporter. “I hope that
in investigating corporate expen
ditures by war contractors, this
committee is not going to be lim
ited to those for Colonel Elliott
Roosevelt.”
Still uncompleted was Meyer’s
account of how he spent approxi
mately $169,000 in less than five
yvears to entertain Hughes’ busi
ness associates and their friends.
The publicity man’s testimony
was cut short Saturday by a
souabble over the trend of ques
tioning.
Senator Cain (R.-Wash.) had
started asking about Meyer’s draft
status during the war when
Thomas A. Slack, Hughes attoer
ney who had been attending the
hearings, contended that subject
was outside the province of the
cotamittee,. - Bx SREEaa
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Mzhatma Gandhi at Lahore, India. Between the Hindu leader and the daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, is Raj
lesimari Amrit Kaur..a Gandhi diseiple. At extreme right is unidentified member of the Indonesian delegation,
}~ WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—(AP)
—The Treasury said today Its
| agents tracking down dope smug
glers and moonshiners met des
perado violence this spring rem
iniscent of “the old rum-running
days.”
| Two investigators were slain
from ambush and one sgquad of
“T-Men” had their car riddled
by bullets while shooting it out
with dope smugglers on the Cali
fornia-Mexico border.
Two — and possibly three — of
the smugglers were wounded fa
tally, although they lived long
enough to escape into Mexico, the
Treasury said. The agents were
untouched.
The Treasury also told why it
failed to get its men in some
cases.
These men were “rubbed out”
in “warfare within and between
lgangster groups.”
«The situation was particularly
’tense along the United States-
Mexican border, where rival
!gangs were battling for power at
the same time that United States
and Mexican authorities were
;conducting a vigorous campaign
to break up their activities,” the
department’s annual summary of
enforcement activities related.
. The two treasury officers slain
Ewerc: e Y
Clarence J. Trask,.a customs
patrol inspector, ambushed on the
Arizona border April 8 while ot
watch for suspected liquor smug
glers.
Dr. H. B. Henderson
Is Kiwanis Speaker
Dr. H. B. Henderson, dean
of the Dairy Department, Uni
versity of Georgia, will be the
guest speaker at the Kiwanis
meseting Tuesday, August 5, at the
N & ‘N Cafeteria at 1 o’clock.
Speaking on “The Dairy In
erests As They Pertain To ‘Agri
culture In The South”, Dr. Hen
derson will illustrate his message
with slides. The program was ar
ranged by Paul Williams.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and contin
ued hot through Tuesdaf.
Slight chance of afternoon
thundershowers.
GEORGIA: Partly cloudy
today, tonight and Tuesday.
~ widely scattered thunder
showers in extreme south
plt:s:ion. Warmer today; con
‘ tinued hot tonight and Tues
| day.
TEMPERATURE |
B e s sRO |
a 0 e
MR oo e
‘| Normal .... .... .... .19
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .. .. 1.12
Excess since August 1 ... .52
Average August rainfall .. 4.67
Total since January 1 . ..30.13
Deficit since January 1 .. 1.17
ESTABLISHED 18%
|l S. AND GREAT BRITAIN HOPEFUL
} A Third Increase Termed Major.
- Contribution To Marshall Plan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.— (AP) —The United States
and Britain, embarking on a new phase of the postwar
“Battle of the Ruhr,” are shooting at a one-third increase
in German coal output by year’s end as 4 major contribu
tion to the Marshall Plan.
- Production now 'is running
about 220,000 tons a day, only
half the peak reached when Hit
ler’'s war machine was rolling at
full speed. 3
The official hope is that the
tonnage can be stepped up to
300,000 in December, followed by
further gains to 350,000 or more
daily.
Diplomatic authorities who out
lined these aims today, along
with some of the headaches in
trying to solve one of Europe’s
most important recovery prob
lems, were cautiously optimistic
that the approaching huddle of
Anglo-American experts here will
give new impetus to the gradual
gains made since V-E Day.
Exactly when the talks will
start remains in doubt. Presuma
bly, however, Prime Minister
Attlee’s report to Parliament
Wednesday” on Britain’s economic
plight will clear the way for his
country’s representftives to be on
their way. .
Knofiy issue
Officials say that agreement
appears near on a proposed new
solution of the basic and knotty
issue of how the mines should be
managed. This is to turn the oper
ating voice back to German tech
nicians from both the British and
American zones, with tight super
vision retained by the occupa
‘Strike Against Law’:
New Union Proposal May Avert
Scheduled Ford Strike Tuesday
DETROIT, Aug., 4 —(AP)—An
official of the CIO United Auto
Workers said today that the un
jon had a new proposal which it
koped would avert a strike of
107,000 Ford Motor Co., employes.
Richard T. Leonard, UAW
CIO vice preseident, did not re
veal terms of the new suggestion
which he said -was to be offered
t, tnhe company at a last-ditch
negotiating session.
The strike was was scheduled
for noon Tuesday.
Leonard’s statement came mo
ments after the company delega
tion announced that it had no
new plang for averting the threat
eneq walkout, which would be
the first major strike in the auto
industry in 17 months.
’ The two sides a~e at odds over
a pension plan and contract termg
to protect thes union against pen
altv provisions of the Taft-Hart
ley law.
l Cuts Vacation
, Henry Ford 11, youthful head
tof the big auto firm, declined to
tion powers. Such an arrange
‘ment long has been urged by
American officials. The mines
‘themselves are in the British
‘zone.
[ Already the British have start
ed relaxing their system of tight
‘direct controls, which critics con
‘tend was resented by the German
miners.
' Britain and the United States
also are agreed that more food
and consumer gcods for the min
ers and ‘their families are neces
sary, that machinery must be re
paired. more skilled miners re
cruited, and transportation im
proved. 5
~ Authorities recognize, howevel,
that revival of a single hot con
troversy — such as whether the
imines ultimately are to be social
ized—might wreck the conference.
1t was largely for this reason that
Secretary of State Marshall in
sisted that its agenda exclude
broad problems of German’s fu
ture. The United States has pro
’posed that the question of owner
ship be shelved for five years,
BANK ROBBERY
JERUSALEM, Aug. 4—(AP)—
Eight young Jews, including a
girl; killed a Jewish official and
wounded the Jewish manager of
Barclay’s Bank in Haifa today and
. escaped with $5,200. .
attend the last scheduled session
although he cut short a vacation
tc return here.
“1 do not think my attendance
at this morning’s session could
add anything helpful,” the youth
ful company president stated
early today in a telegram to Le
onard.
He termed the proposed walk
out “not an attack on the labo:
policy of the Ford Company but
a strike against the law” and add
ea that the UAW-CIO seemed
“determined” to strike ‘“unless
we agree with you to establish for
ail industry what seems to us a
disastrous precedent for scuttling
urion repsonsibility provisiong =
the Taft-Haytley law.”
A walkout has been approved
by the union’s international exe
cutive board, the Ford division
and the rank-and-file. 3
Ford denied the union official’s
contention that a disputed pen~
sion plan was a major issue in
the dispute, 'insisting he saw no
“major difference betwee us” on
tHat point. . .
Athens To Be On
Washington To New
Orleans Air Network
' WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—(AP)
-—Atlantig. airlines ..urged the
Civil. Aeronautics Board today to
approve itg operation on a net
work of routes in the southeast,
on which it proposes to provide
“day coach” service combining
2ir and bus transportation at a
fade rate of three and one half
cents a mile.
Sam J. Solomon, president of
Atlantic, told the poard he has
no objections to its approving ex
tensions of of Delta Airlineg and
Capital Airlines in the southeast
ern area, as recommended by cab
examirners.
Solomon insisteq that hig pro
posed operation would not com=
pete with trunk-line carriers and
would “make air travel accessible
to millions who cannot now af
tord it or to whom air transpor=-
tation is not immediately avail
able.” :
_Atlanta airlines ‘“day coach”
proposal includes this suggested
route:
Washington to New Orleans via
Richmond, Danville, Greensboro,
Winston Salem, High Point,
Charlotte, Spartanburg, Green=
ville Athens, Atlanta, Pensacola,
Mobile, Biloxi and Gulf Port.
Under Atlantic’s plan it would
operate charter bus service to
outlging communities along its
routes. It recently was recomend
ed for such anh operation in ten
cities within a New York-Wash
ington-Pittsburgh triangle.
Eight airlines originally peti
ioned the board for new routes
tapping the southeastern states,
but examiners recommended that
only Delta and Capital be grant
ed new routes in the area.
Examiners Ralph L. Wiser and
Lawrence J. Kosters recom
mended that. Delta be permitted
to extend from Meridian, Miss. to
New Orleans via Hattiesburg and
from Atlanta to New York via
Ashville, Roanoke, Lynchburg,
Charlottesville, Richmond «“and
Washington, and that Capital be
permitted to extend from Bir
mingham to New Orleans, via
Mobile, and from Bristol t 6 At
lanta, via Ashville. i
Services Held For °
McElroy Baby Today -
Funeral services for thé in
fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray B. McElroy, Lexington Road,
were held this afternoon at 2 p.
m. at the Oconee Hill Cemetery.
The Reverend E. D. Carlock,
pastor of Oconee St.eét Metho
dist Church, officiated at the
grave side service. .
The infant died Sunday morn
ing at 11:20 a. m. at a local hos~
pital. o
Survivors are the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray B. McEiroy, a sis
ter, Mary Cornelia McElrey, a
brother, Ray B. McElroy jr,,
grandparents, Mrs. J. E. McElroy,
and Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson,
sr., all of Athens.
Funeral arangements were by
MeDorman-Bridass Cg, S