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NEWS
VOTING UNDERWAY FOR
FARM COMMITTEE POSTS
Butts County farmers are now
receiving mail ballots for election
of ASC community committees,
announced R. H. Burford, Chair
man of the County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
(ASC) Committee. Marked bal
lots are to be put back in the
mail or returned to the County
ASCS Office by September 11.
In each of the four ASC com
munities in the county, eligible
farm voters will elect 3 commit
teemen and 2 alternate commit
teemen to serve for one year.
ASC community committees aid
the County ASC Committee in
administering Government farm
programs. The community com
mitteemen also elect members
and choose officers for the Coun
ty ASC Committee.
In the community committee
elections, voters may vote for up
to three persons. The ASC Chair
man said it is important that
farmers know that they are to
vote for only three because in
the past they have voted for five
candidates. Voters may select
from the candidates listed on the
ballot or may write in choices.
Mr. Burford pointed out that
elections are by secret ballot. He
said, “When a voter has marked
his ballot, he should fold it and
seal it inside the plain envelope
addressed to the County ASCS
Office and seal that envelope.
“Then he should sign and date
that outer envelope on the back.
This is very important because
his ballot cannot be counted un
less he has signed and dated that
outer envelope.
“This dual envelope system is
for the voters’ protection,” Mr.
Burford explained. “The plain en
velope guarantees a secret ballot.
The outer envelope insures that
only eligible voters vote. Before
the votes are counted, the plain
envelopes are removed from the
outer envelopes and shuffled to
make it impossible to identify
any individual ballot.”
When ballot envelopes are re-
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Of The Pat Few Day
Mrs. Jim Watkins, Sr., Jackson
Harry P. Thomas, Macon
J. F. Brooks, Jackson
Robert H. Strawn, Jackson
G. R. Lewis, Jackson
C. A. Anthony, Flovilla
G. L. Smith, Jackson
James Darnell, Flovilla
Winfred A. Cook, Jackson
C. N. Brownlee, Jackson
L. J. Brown, Jackson
H. P. Jolly, Douglasville
Mrs. E. L. Young, Jackson
Lamar H. Thaxton, Inglewood,
Calif.
W. R. Henry, Jackson
Shirley Pittman, Sharpes, Fla.
Leon Dorner, Forsyth
Gerald McClure, Forest Park
M. D. Hodges, Atlanta
Gordon Bankston, Jackson
Maggie Belle Smith, Jackson
Mrs. W. H. Reynolds, Griffin
Mrs. Bobby W. Ivey, Indian
Springs
ceived in the County ASCS Of
fice, Mr. Burford said, they re
main sealed and are deposited in
a sealed ballot box immediately
where they will remain until the
County ASC Committee publicly
counts the ballots on September
15, 1970, at 8:00 a. m. in the
Butts County ASCS Office.
Any farm owner, tenant, or
sharecropper who is of legal age
may vote if he has an interest in
a farm and is eligible to partici
pate in an ASCS program offered
in his community.
Any person who believes he is
an eligible voter but who has
not received a ballot by Sept.
5 should get in touch immediate
ly with the County ASCS Office
in the basement offices of the
Courthouse in order to obtain a
ballot.
The newly elected community
committees will serve as delegates
to the County Convention to
elect farmers to fill vacancies on
the County Committee. The
County Convention will be held
on September 17, 1970, at 9:00
a. m. in the Butts County ASCS
Office. The convention is ope n to
the public.
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L. E. Rast
Is Named
Bell Head
L. E. Rast, executive vice presi
dent, was elected Monday by the
board of directors to fill the po
sition of retiring Southern Bell
president Frank M. Malone.
Malone is retiring on Septem
ber 1 after a career of more than
42 years with the company. He
L. E. RAST
will continue to serve on the
board of directors and the ex
ecutive committee.
Rast, a native of Athens, Ga.,
and a graduate of the University
of Georgia, began his telephone
career in 1937 as a lineman in
Miami, Fla.
In 1965, he was appointed vice
president and general manager
for the company’s operations in
Florida. In 1968, Rast was elec
ted vice president and a member
of the board of directors of the
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make their public debut Thursday, Sept. 10 at A B W Chevrolet Cos. The Vega models, named after “a bright star of
the first magnitude,” are (clockwise from lower left) a two-door sedan, a panel express, a Kammback wagon, and hatch
back coupe. All four are powered by a unique new four-cylinder, 140-cubic inch, overhead cam, aluminum alloy en
gine. The engine, which develops 90 horsepower (80 SAE net) in the standard unit and is available in a 110 hp (93 SAE net)
version, delivers a maximum combination of low pollutant emission, exceptional fuel economy, and spirited performance.
Built on a 97-inch wheelbase, the Vegas feature a variety of automotive body and component innovations. Their ride and
handling qualities have been the subject of high praise from those who have driven them. Besides the available engines,
a choice of four transmissions is offered: the standard 3-speed manual shift, or the 4-speed manual shift, automatic
Powerglide, or semi-automatic Torque Drive.
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FRANK A. MALONE
newly formed South Central Bell
Telephone Cos. with headquarters
in Birmingham.
In 1969, he returned to South
ern Bell’s headquarters as ex
ecutive vice president and a mem
ber of the board of directors and
its executive committee.
Malone, a native of Florence,
Ala., and a graduate of Auburn
University, began his career with
Southern Bell in 1928. He served
as assistant vice president of A
T & T in New York before being
elected vice president-public re
lations for Southern Bell in 1951.
He was elected to the board of
directors in 1960 and president
on August 1, 1965.
Active in Auburn University
alumni affairs for many years,
he is chairman of the Auburn
Alumni Engineering Council. Mr.
and Mrs. Malone will continue to
make their home in Atlanta, and
he intends to continue his activ
ities in many of the organizations
with which he is presently associ
ated.
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Weekly
Devotional
BY DAVID BLACK
Pastor Jackson and Fellowship
Presbyterian Churches
“All The Way My Savior Leads
Me” is a joyful affirmation of
the peace of mind and surety of
purpose Jesus Chrst gives his fol
lowers. And that joy and peace
are the primary characteristics
which shine through the life of
the blind hymn-writer Fanny
Crosby.
When Fanny Jane Crosby was
six weeks old she caught cold, and
a country doctor of Putnam
County, New York, unwittingly
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prescribed a hot mustard poultice
for her inflamed eyes. The result
was total blindness for life.
All the elements necessary for
bitternesL, self-pity, and despair
seemed to gather around the
little blind girl, for shortly after
she lost her eyesight she also lost
one of her parents through the
death of Jier father-.
But as the clouds gathered in
the outer world Fanny Crosby
turned to the resources of her
inner world and began, with the
Lord’s help, to develop a bright
ness of spirit and clarity of
spiritual vision. Her determina
tion to make the most of the life
God gave her is illuminated by
some verses she wrote when she
was only eight years old: “Oh,
what a happy child I am, Al
though I cannot see. 1 am re
THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1970
solved that in this world, Con
tented I will be.”
After attending the New York
Institute for the Blind as a stu
dent, Miss Crosby was accepted
On the staff as an instructor.
She married. She lived a full life,
and shared with the world her
inner joy through the writing of
many secular songs and several
thousand gospel hymns. God’s
power which enabled her to be
more than conqueror over human
blindness allowed her to say:
“All the way my Savior leads
me; what have I to ask beside?
Ca n I doubt His tender mercy,
who through life has been my
guide. Heavenly peace, divinest
comfort, here by faith in Him to
dwell! For I know, what-e’er be
fall me, Jesus doeth all things
well.”
