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THE REAL THING—Army medics got a real casualty to
work on in the North Carolina maneuvers when para
tioop Sergeant John St. Pierre was knocked unconscious
after a jump with the 82nd Airborne Division. Still
wearing his parachute, Sergeant St. Pierre is worked
over by a trio of medical men. The sergeant was partici
pating in a gigantic air drop during a mock invasion as
the Army-Air Force maneuvers, Exercise Southern Pine,
reached their climax.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Mass Paratroop Jumps
iay Soon Be Qutmoded
BY DON WHITEHEAD
FORT BRAGG, N. C., Aug. 27.—(AP)—Army and Air
Force generals predicted today that mass paratroop jumps
by airborne infantry may soon be outmoded by big assault
landing aircraft.
They were impressed by the first tests of the C-122 as a
fast carrier of heavy equipment in the war games which
reached their final phase here this morning. And they see
no reason why infantrymen couldn’t be landed with the
-ame efficiency. e i i B e
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Discuss European
Defense Alliance
BLED, Yugolavia, Aug. 27 —
(AP)—Formation of a strong de
fensive bloc against Russian im
perialism in Southeastern Europe
is believed here .to have been the
aim of W. A. Averell Harriman’s
week-end visit to Marshal Tito.
Harriman, President Truman’s
top-tanking diplomatic trouble
shooter, paused in Yugoslavia Sat
urday and Sunday en route from
Tehran, Iran, to London.
It is an open secret that the U.
S., Britain and various other At
lantic pact countries would like
countries in this area—Yugoslavia,
Greece, Turkey and perhaps Italy
—to draw together in a military
alliance.
Collectively they could mount
enough strength in fighting men
and material to challenge, with
American help, Soviet hopes of
obtaining a controlling position in
the Mediterranean.
Large Army
Yugoslavia has an army second
in size only to Russia on the Euro
pean continent; the Greek army
has been toughed by its experi
ences in the recently-ended civil
war and is equipped by the U. S.”
The Turks always have proved
formidable foes.
The U. 8. State Department and
Joint Chiefs of Staff dreamed of
such an alliance as long ago as
1946. At that time, Tito was al
lied with the Kremlin.
Support for the alliance was
demonstrated by congressional
passage of the Greek-Turkey ald
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Former Athenian
Dies Of Stroke
Mrs. Nancy Kennebrew Cook,
wife of J. A. Cook, Franklin, N. C.
and daughter of the late Dr. E. R.
Kennebrew and the late Mrs. Nan
cy Sloan Kennebrew, formerly of
Athens, died at 8 o’clock Sunday
morning shortly after suffering a
stroke at her home in Franklin. *
Mrs. Cook was 57 years old and
was born in Athens. She was a
graduate of the old State Normal
School, now Coordinate College of
the University of Georgia,
Mr. and Mrs. Cook lived in Eat
onton, Ga., before moving to
Franklin five years ago.
She is survived by her husband,
a sister, Miss Harriette Kenne
brew, Franklin; brothers, E. Rob
ert Kennebrew, Memphis, Tenn.,,
and William O. Kennebrew, Wiif
ter Haven, Fla., sister-in-law, Mrs.
Mildred Hanson Kennebrew, Bir
mingham, Ala., and a number of
nieces and nephews.
Services were to be held this af
ternoon at 4:30 o'clock from the
Methodist Church in Franklin,
Please Water The Dogwoods In Front Of Your Home Or Business
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press So;ic;
The mass jumps and dropping of
heavy equipment by parachutes
are daring and spectacular—but
sometimes they are costly in both
lives and equipment even under
ideal conditions.
Lt. Gen. John Hudge, command
er of the maneuvers, told report
ers he believes the C-122 assault
aircraft has “tremendous possi
bilities” for transporting both men
and equipment into battle.
“We should do all we can to de
velop the assault landing craft,”
he said.
Assault Craft
Air force Maj, Gen. W. R. Wol
finbarger, deputy maneuvers com
mander, said the assault craft have
“great possibilities in eliminating
the mass paratroop jumps.”
“And we should work toward
this end,” he added.
This wouldn’t mean the end of
the cocky and well - trained pa
ratrooper entirely. For paratroop
ers still would be needed to ‘chute
to the ground behind enemy lines
in small numbers to prépare crude
.landing strips and guide the planes
in.
“There will always be some sit
uations where paratroop jumps are
needed,” Wolfinbarger said, “but
developing an assault landing craft
would mean we could move the
bulk of equipment and men by
afr.”
Elimination of mass paratroop
jumps would be another sign that
the Army is changing fighting
habits it used extensively in World
War Two. Over the weekend it
was learned that the famed rangers
are being broken up and assigned
to individual infantry missions.
There still will be Rangers, but
they will be trained and assigned
as individuals, not as units. That
marks the end of an era for the
daredevil boys, this country’s equi
valent to the dashing British com~-
mandos. Authoritative sources here
said the rangers in Korea have
ceased to exist as a unit.
But to get back to the C-122, the
speedy assault aircraft—, -
The big ships were used to land
jeeps, howitzers, and other heavy
equipment during the drops of
6,000 paratroopers and their equip
ment in the past two days. All the
ships landed safely on a makeshift
landing strip and the airborne in
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and warm this after
noon, tonight and Tuesday.
Wednesday partly cloudy and
continued warm with slight
chance of showers. Low tonight
68; high tomorrow 92. Sun sets
7:06 and rises tomorrow 6:03.
GEORGIA — Fair and not
much change in temperatures
this afternoon, tonight and
Tuesday.
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RAINFALL
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Total since August 1 .. ... .26
Deficit since August 1 .. .. 3.89
Average August rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 .. ..30.07
Deficit since January 1 ... 6.07
Policy Toward
India Indicated
By JOHN SCALIX
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—(AP)
A new and less benevolent Amer-
Jican policy toward India appeared
.certain today to result from Prime
Minister Nehru’s refusal to sign a
United States-backed peace treaty
with Japan. 3
American officials made no se
cret of their bitter disappointment
at India’s public denunciation of
the proposed treaty draft, coming
as it dli)g only nine days before
the start of a formal 50-nation
peace conference in San Francisco
Sept. 4.
India’s arguments for boycot
ting the signing, officials here said,
seemed to echo Russia’s long
standing objections, and give pow~
erful, timely ammunition to a new
Moscow . propaganda drive to
wreck the Japanese treaty.
Separate Treaty
In New Delhi, Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament
today that India will sign a sepa
rate treaty with Japan as soon as
Japan has acnieved independent
status.
Nehru, whose treaty statement
brought cheers from Parliament,
did not explain what he meant by
“independent status.” He might
have been referring to the period
after the peace treaty is signed
and ratified, when the formal U.
S. occupation will end; or he might
have meant the time, no one
knows how far distant, when all
U. S. troops in Japan will be with
drawn and U. S. bases relin
quished.
A gseparate pact between the U.
S. and Japan is expected to be
signed after the main peace treaty
is disposed of. That pact would
provide a new legal basis for keep
ing U. S. troops in Japan for its
defense.
The State Department yesterday
made public India’s decision not
to sign the U. S. backed treaty
along with an accompanying
American rejection of India’s ar
guments.
A 35-member Russian delega
tion, meanwhile, was on the high
seas bound for the United States.
Headed by Deputy Foreign Min
ister Andrei Gromyko, the Soviets
are expected to unleash an all-out
propaganda barrage at the pact at
San Francisco and then stage a
walkout.
In Moscow, the Soviet govetn=
ment newspaper attacked the pro
posed treaty as an American at
tempt to set Japan against other
Asian peoples and make it into an
American colony.
The proposed Japanese-Ameri
can military agreements, the pa
per added, mean “strangulation of
the national interests of Japan.”
At least 46 nations are expected
by American diplomats to approve
the peace pact despite Russia’s
threats. Only Burma and Yugo
slavia so far have joined India in
refusing to sign.
Key State Department officials
said they are convinced the tim
ing and nature of India’s criticisms
were not set to give added punch
to Moscow’s expected propaganda
offensive. ;
g Misguided Effort -
Rather, they attributed it to
what some of them view as a mis
guided effort by Nehru to steer a
neutral course in the East-West
conflict and emerge as leader of
the Asiatic democracies.
These officials indicated to a
reported that the State Depart
ment intends to substitute tougher
diplomatic tactics for the almost
unlimited patience and kindness it
has displayed In dealing with Neh
ru so far.
Nehru’s somewhat fardy and
spectacular refusal to sign the
American-British sponsored trea
ty, they said, in effect constitutes
blanket indictment of American
g'olicy throughout the Far East,
This clearly calls for a re-ex
amination of past American poli
cies to determine what can be
done to make India and other
southeast Asia nations understand
basic American aims more cor
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Rites Held For
Accident Victim
Funeral services were to be held
today from the New Holland
Church at Gainesville for J. L.
Scott, 22 year old auto accident
victim who was killed at 6 o’clock
Saturday afternoon on the Daw
sonville Highway outside of
Geainesville.
Mr, Scott is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Alice Nell Lester
who lived in Athens prior to her
marriage, his parents, and several
brothers and sisters.
Mr. Scott had been employed
by the Goodyear Company of
Gainesville for the past year and
was driving a Company truck at
the time of the fatal accident. The
driver of the other car involved
in the wreck was killed and a four
teen year old Gainesviile boy was
seriously injured. Both cars were
almost completely demolished.
The many friends of Mrs. Scott
will be deeply grieved to learn
of the death of her husband.
Interment is to be in the New
Holland Baptist Cemetery. The
Vickers Funeral Home of Gaines
ville handled arrangements for the
services,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORCIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1951.
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TERRITORY — Map shows distances from Red supply
base at Rashin, North Korea, to nearest Russian terri
tory and Vladivastok. Rashin was plastered August 25
with more than 300 tons of bombs by 35 U. S. B-29s from
bases in Japan and Okinawa. Rashin, one of the best
ports on Korea’s east coast, was bombed once before—
August 12, 1950—by B-29s which dropped 500 tons of
bombs.— (AP Wirephoto.)
End Of Arms Trade
With Reds Urged
Approval Of Bill To Halt Flow
Of War Material Is Requested
BY EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.— (AP) —Senator Sparkman
(D.-Ala.) asked the Senate today to approve a new meas
ure aimed at'drying up the flow of arms, ammunition and
at]olmic and military material to Soviet Russia and her sat
tellites.
“This is a good bipartisan bill, but I guess we face a
fight,” Sparkman told a reporter in advance of Senate de
bate on a measure that would cut off all U. 8. aid for any
nation engaging in embargoed trade with Iron Curtain
countries.
Want A Cheap
Hatrcut?
Go To N.Y.
SMYRNA, N. Y, Aug. 27 —
(AP)—A barber in this central
New York village has been cut
ting hair for 50 years—at 25
cents a head. And, he says he
sees “no reason to chanze.”
“I made a good living 50 years
ago and m making a good liv
ing now,” John Widger main
tains.
Widger works 15% hours a
day. He takes only a half hour
for lunch and a nap.
Rev. Thompson
Touring Europe
Rev. Gordon Thompson, jr., pas
tor of the Allen Memorial Metho
dist Chureh of Oxford, Ga., left
Thursday, August 23rd for an ex
tensive trip abroad. Rev. Thomp
son is going to Oxford, England, as
a reserve gelegate to the Ecumen
ical Methodist Conference being
held there next week. He will go
by air to Scatland for the weekend.
Then he will proceed to London
and Oxford for the duration of
the conference.
After the close of the Ecumeni
cal Conférence he will fly to Paris,
France, where he will spend three
days. His itinerary includes Swit
zerland, Austria, Italy, Greece,
Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Spain,
and Portugal.
During his stay in Switzerland
he will take an Alpine motor trip
into the mountains near Lucerne.
Three days in Rome, Italy will
include a trip to Naples, where he
will visit the ruins of Pompeii.
To Visit Greece
From Rome he will travel on to
Athens, Greece and spend two
days sightseeing there. His next
stop will be Istanbul, Turkey, for
two days.
The itinerary is planned to allow
a visit of six days in the Holy
Land.”, He will visit the sacred
shrines of Old Testament History
and see the Mount of Olives, Geth
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Senators Kem (R.-Mo.), Wherry
(R.-Neb.), Byrd (D.-Va.), and
Malone (R.-Nev.) have amend
ments that would clamp manda
tory restrictions on all such trade
and permit no exceptions.
“Lacks Teeth”
Kem said the proposed export
control bill “lacks teeth and con
tains an escape clause that weak
ens existing law.” 4 ‘
He is author of a measure which i
Congress tacked onto an appro
priations act in June. It ordered
President Trumran to halt eco
nomic assistance to any nation
engaging in trade with Russia and
her satellites, The new measure
would extend the ban to arms
aid.
Kem and other congressmen
contend that the National Secu
rity Council has failed to enforce
this by making numerous excep
tions, as it is authorized to do if
it finds the national security jus
tifies exceptions.
Some European nations now
getting U. ‘B. aid, they say, are
shipping metals, oil, machine tools
and other war-potential goods to
Russia, Communist China and
other areas.
In a statement last night, Kem
said the Senate leadership is “put
ting the cart before the horse” in
scheduling the bill before the
Senate has acted on Mr. Truman’s
request for an $8,500,000,000 for
eign aid program.
He also declared that the Sen
ate was being asked to act on the
measure without any committee
hearings.
House Passage *
~ Pointing out that the House
passed the export control bill with
almost no opposition after a study
of trade between Iron Curtain and
other countries, Sparkman said
some exceptions must be made in
Western Europe “or big increases
will be required in U. S. aid.”
“Unless Austria and West Ger~
many can get coal from Poland,”
Sparkman said, “it must be sent
from the United States at three
times the cost and paid for with
dollars.”
Embargoed goods include “arms.
ammunition and implements of
war, atomic energy materials, pe
troleum, transportation materials
of strategic value, and items of
primary strategic significance
used in the production of anmns,
ammrunition, and implements of
war.”
" RIDGWAY DECLARES COMMIE
BY DON HUTH
TOKYO, Aug. 25.— (AP)—The Red China radio today
hurled bitter new charges that Allied “plainsclothesmen”
and American warplanes had again broken neutrality of
the Korean war’s truce talk zone.
It also made unsubstantiated charges that U. 8. planes
flew over the Red China coast last week. It asserted these
flilgkhts had something to do with the suspended armtistice
talks.
A Peiping broadcost monitored
here said:
1 — American warplanes flew
over China’s coastal cities Thurs
day and Saturday.
2—American and Scuth Korean
“plainclothesmen” violated the
Kaesong neutral zone “again” Sat
urday.
3—On Saturday afternoon seven
American planes “invaded” the
Kaesong area.
No Red Reply
The radio acknowledged receipt
of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s
latest message, which threw dcwn
all earlier Red charges of neutral
ity zone violation, but gave no of
ficial reply.
Ridgway told the Reds Saturday
that resumption of talks was up
to them. Communists broke them
off Thursday, charging that an
American warplane attacked Kae
song to “murder” the Red delega
tion.
TOKYO, Aug. 27 — (AP) —
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway flew
to Korea today to confer with
the United Nations cease-fire
negotiators.
There was no immediate indi
cation of what was discussed.
He returned to Tokyo tonight,
after less than four hours in
Korea.
The supreme commander’s re
fly was the strongest blast he has
evelled at the Communists. He
said that charge and others were
false, fabricated and unworthy of
reply.
The Peiping broadcast, quoting
an editorial in Sunday’s Peiping
Peosle’s Daily, used such express
ions as: “The extreme malevolence
and shameful degradation of the
American murderers.”
It called the American govern
ment “the most despicable and
barbarous in the entire world.” It
said the Americans were “strang
ling the armistice negotiations.”
And it contained this ominous
phrase:
“Quite obviously, before the
American side changes such a con
temptible and savage attitude, re
sumption of negotiations is incon
ceivable.” |
The new Red blasts came as
night-flying B-28 light bombers
reported heavy strikes against Red
convoys moving along supply lines
in North Korea.
Clements Report
AP Correspondent Olen Cle
ments reported from U. S. Eighth
Army headquarters that Commun
ist traffic has been unusually
heavy since talks were suspended.
In the past, such traffic Hhas
presaged a Communist attack.
Fifth Air Force pilots reported
nearly 1,200 Red vehicles de
stroyed or damaged in the past
three days.
Peiping radio was detailed in
its charges that U. S. planes had
flown over the Chinese mainland.
It gave dates, exact times, num
bers of planes, and places.
It reported them over the pro
vinces of Kiangsu, Shantung and
Chekiang. Most of them, it said,
were seen in the Tsingtao area. It
said two were seen near Shankhai.
The Reds did not say any at
tacks were made,
Demonstration School
Registration Friday
The University Demonstration
School will begin its 1951 - 52
school term with registration on
Friday, August 31. Busses will run
and will pick up the first load of
children around 8:30 a. m. and the
second load at about 9:30 a. m. Re
gistration will be completed by
noon and pupils will return home
in time for lunch.
Birth Certificates
The Clarke County Board of
Education requires that each child
entering school in the first grade
p-esent a birth certificate. Please
be sure that the child brings his
birth certificate when he comes to
register. If the child does not have
a birth certificate, one may be se
cured from the Public Health De
partment in the county in which
the child was born, or from the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Georgia
Department of Public Health, At-
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Fitzgerald Cops
Pursue Killer
0f Aged Jailer
FITZGERALD, Ga., Aug. 27.—
(AP)—A heavily armed posse
sought to drive Allen Spires,
wanted for killing an aged jailer
and wounding the sheriff, from a
swampy, nine square mile lowland
today.
As a result of yesterday’s shoot
ing Ben Hill County Jailer J. H.
Smith, 70, was dead with a bullet
through his heart and Sheriff J.
V. Griner had four slugs in his
shoulder. ‘
Griner reported fronr a hospital
that he and Smith stopped Spires,
a 50-year-old maker of ax han
dles, to check his car for illegal
whisky.
Spires, the sheriff said, ram
med his car, opened fire and then
sped off in his own car.
Posse Formed
Immediately after the shooting
a posse was formed and rein
forced by State Highway Patrol
men and agents of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation,
A station wagon, believed to be
Spires’, was found abandoned near
the lowlands and he was thought
to be on foot in a heavily wooded
area.
The posse was cautioned that
after the shooting Spires was re
ported to have gone home and
obtained a high powered rifle
before fleeing again.
Joe Fussell, farmer and former
member of the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation, suffered a heart at
tack and died while assisting offi
cers in setting up road blocks. He
was riding in a patrol car and
died while being taken to a hos
pital. :
Three prisoners in the Ben Hill
county jail took advantage of the
excitemrent and absence of offi
cers on the manhunt and broke
out of the jail during the night.
Police Report
W. G. Fowler, identification of
ficer of Fitzgerald police, report
ed a white man named Muscle~
white and two negroes sawed
through a bar of a second story
window, slid down blankets and
stole an automobile parked near
by. The car belonged to a prisoner
who. had been booked a short
time previously. :
Sheriff Griner’s arm was shat
tered by the bullets and he was
taken to Atlanta today for treat
ment by a bone specialist in an
effort to save the arm.
Officers continued searching for
Spires but had found no trace of
him early today.
NO COMMENT
ATLANTA, Aug. 27—(AP)—
Former Gov, Ellis Arnall, back in
Atlanta today still maintained a
“no comment” attitude on his talk
with President Truman last Tues
day.
Arnafl said it was “not unusual”
for hifh to visit the White House
and there was “no news” in his
talk with the President.
lznta 3, First graders who register
ed in May need not report until
September 4. |
All classes will begin meeting on
full day schedule Tuesday, Sep
tember 4. The lunchroom will be
gin operating on that date, lunch
prices remaining as they were dur
ing the past school year,
Pre-Planning
Teachers will begin a week of
pre - planning conferences on
Tuesday, August 28, for the pur
pose of setting up plans fer the
year’s work. Several new members
have been added to the staff this
year.
The school will have a twelfth
grade this year for the first time.
The curriculm has been expanded
to include several new offerings
in the fields of commercial science,
art, mathematics, social science,
language arts, homemaking, voca=
tional agriculture, and science.
HOME
EDITION
Week-End Death
- Many Hurt
’ #
~By The Associated Press
An automobile crashed head-om
into a heavy oil truck last night
and killed ffve Savannah negroes,
sending Georgia’s week-end acci
dent death toll soaring to 17.
An out-of-state accident fook
the life of Melvin Wallace Gallo~
way, 50, of Columbus. He was
killed when his motorbike ram
med the side of a moving Central
of Georgia train at Smiths, Ala.
The smrash-up which killed the
five negroes occurred nea: Spring
field. The truck driver, R. W.
Cooler, and a sixth negro, War
ren Whitfield, were the only sur
vivors.
Cooler said the auto came
straight at him on the wrong side
of the highway and he was unable
to swerve the truck aside in time.
The dead were listed as Frarck
Williams, his wife, Pearl; his
mother-in-law (name unavaila
able), Annie Whitfield and an
unidentified woman.
Other Accidents
Other accidents over the state
involved automobile, trains and
planes.
The Seaboard Air Lines’ north
bound Palmland, clipping 310!3 at
75 miles per hour, killed Paul L.
Johnson, 39, atop a trestle near
Savannah yesterday.
A 12-year-old boy, George
Summerlin, and his dog both es
caped the train. Summerlin out
ran the oncoming train to safety,
while the dog leaped into the wa
ter.
Two men, still not identified
positively, died in a light plane
crash near Valdosta Sunday mor
ning. The plane, coming in to
land, suddenly swerved, tried to
climb and crashed.
Both occupants were believed to
be from Florida.
Z. W. Lasseter, 30, of Brooklet,
was killed yesterday afternoon
when his pickup truck ran off the
road and overturned.
Marvin Littleton, 25, and Mel
vin Clarence Eason, 43, died early
Sunday in a grade crossing col
lision between the truck they oe
cupied and a freight train near
ehulon.
A 44-year-old Columbus m
George W. Johnson, was
when his truck, loaded with
horses and mules, crashed through
a bridge guard rail near Buena
Vista Saturday. A negro helper,
Will Dumas, was injured. Four of
the animals were killed.
Youth Killed
A 19-year-old Canton, Ga.,
youth, Royston V. Mullinm:n
killed when his car sm &
utility pole in Atlanta E
Patrolman L. S. West said ]
linax was fleeing arrest T
speeding.
A head-on collision in Augusta
Saturday resulted in the death of
Mrs. Flora C. Thompson of Au~
gusta and Mrs, Ira D. Seiler of
West Palm Beach, Fla. Dr. Seiler
was injured.
A truck-automobile collision
near Gainesville Saturday eost
the lives of J. Lee Scott, 22, and
Marvin A. Bachman of West Or
ange, N. J.
Fourteen-year-old W. L. Me-
Intyre of Gainesville, a passenger
in the truck with Scott, was in
jured critically.
. . .
‘ Kiwanians Will
'Hear Boy Scouts
Ray Nichotson and Charlie
Hammond, two Explorer Boy
Scouts of Athens, who have been
away at camp this summer, will
be featured at the Kiwanis Club
luncheon at Tuesday, 1 p. m. in
the N. and N, Civie room.
Ray Nicholson was at the Thil
mont Scout Ranch in New Mexi
co, and Charlie Hammond was at
the Jacksonville Naval Air Base.
J. M. Molder, Scout Executive for
Northeast Georgia has charge of
the prograrm.
Don Weddell, past president of
the Athens Kiwanis Club, was
featured on the last Kiwanis In
ternational magazine. The picture
was taken at the recent conven=
,tion which was held in Memphis
land shows Dr. Weddell seated at
the information booth. Dr. Wed
dell also is past District Secretary
and served on the International
[ Committee for Conservation. ,
Official of Farm
Bureau Sets Talk |
Wilson Still, Macon, represent- |
ing the Georgia Farm Bureau Fad= |
eration will speak here next Fri=|
day night at a meeting of the
Clarke County Farm Bureau, it
was announced today by H. E.i
Wood, president of the Gflkti'
county organization. £
Mr. Wood said the meeting will
be held at the court house, begin-|
nin% at 8 o'clock. The public, as
well as members of the Bureau,
are invited to attend the meeting
and hear Mr. Still, b -