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Religiously Speaking
By Rev. Howard D. Blalock, Pastor
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Blackshear
DRINKING and driving
In a recent year the FBI “Uni- :
form Crime Report” noted that
drinking drivers caused twenty
two P er cent of all traffic ac
cidents, and one out of every
five drivers had been drinking.
Also, according to the National
Henman TRimnoGE
Speaks from your
FAVORITE TELEVISION STATION
: 7:30 P. M.
: Sept. 3-10-11
Vote For DEWEY HAYES
For SOLICITOR GENERAL
Following is the Text of a Radio Address by Dewey Hayes on
August 20 in the Interest of His Candidacy:
HELLO FRIENDS AND
FELLOW SOUTH GEORGIANS:
This is Dewey Hayes, candidate for Soli
citor General of the Waycross Judicial Circuit.
I am delighted to be able to contact you in
your businesses, in your homes and whereever
you may be through radio facilities. I have
enjoyed seeing a great many of you already
around your tobacco barns, in the tobacco
warehouses, as well as in your homes and bu
sinesses. I am especially delighted with the
vast number of our good people who are tak
ing an active interest in my campaign all over
the circuit. It is gratifying to meet so many
people interested in good, clean, honest gov
ernment and courts of justice. A government
can be no better than its people. The honor,
integrity and justice in your courts can be no
better than your Solicitor General.
If you Solicitor General is not a man of
integrity, with a deep sense of honor and jus
tice, then you do not have a court, you have a
hall of mockery with human beings, being
the sacrifice.
Your Solicitor General must also be qua
lified in every respect to hold the office,
mentally and physically.
As you probably know, I am a veteran of
World War 11, having served in Europe and
in Asia. I am proud to have served my coun
try in her time of need, although I do not want,
nor do I expect to be elected simply because
I am a veteran, but rather on my qualifica
tions and ability to serve, and ably represent
you, the people of this judicial circuit.
At this time I would like to go back to
my training, experience, and
that have prepared me for this office. I am a
graduate of Mercer University Law School,
I think one of the best scholastic law schools
in the south. I have seven years of full tune
active law practice. I have served in the State
Legislature for the past four years and I m
completely familiar with the making of all
laws, as a member of the special Judiciary
Committee, I thoroughly studied every law
that was passed in the House of Representa
tives, and obtained much knowledge from this
intricate study of Georgia law.
DEWEY HAYES For SOLICITOR GENERAL
Safety Council, liquor took an
average of two lives per hour
on the nation’s highways during
the three-day Christmas holiday
weekend.
If figures do not lie, drinking
one for the road’’ can be a grave
THIS AD PAID FOR BY FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF
offense.
More and more the drinking
driver is becoming an irresponsi
ble enemy, not only to those he
passes (?) on the road, but to the
entire public. He is feared more,
and is more dangerous, than the
man in the street with loaded
firearms.
Many Americans have yet to
learn that a driver who has drunk
any alcohol of any kind is a
menace on the highway.
A Swedish research team
tested a number of drivers under
the influence of three or four
beers, which traditionally the
American driver and many jud
ges believe cannot really impair
driving ability. Even with these
few beers, however, the Swedish
drivers showed great confidence
and mediocre judgment. They
knocked down markers, failed to
see signs, stopped close to, but
not at, marker flags, and parked
badly. But they felt fine about
it all. Researchers concluded even
a small amount of alcohol de
creases performance and ability
by twenty-five to forty per cent.
A new machine is being invent
ed for drinking drivers, the value
The Waycross Judicial Circuit needs an
active, full time, sober, Solicitor General. He
must be physically and mentally able to do
the job. The office of Solicitor General is no
place to pension out “used to be’s and has
been’s”. The job requires a tremendous a
mount of work, immediate investigation and
preparation of all cases. If a crime is com
mitted in your community, your Solicitor
should be on.the scene immediately thereafter,
investigating all phases of the alleged crime,
interviewing, and obtaining written state
ments from all witnesses, as well as taking
photographs. This should be done and must
be done, day or night. By so doing the true
facts will be obtained and properly presented
to the Grand Jury. If the evidence does not
make out a case then it should be dismissed.
If from the evidence the person should be
tried, then he should be vigorously prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law. If there is not
an immediate investigation of an alleged
crime, and your Solicitor sits, rocks and waits
until the next term of court to look into the
matter, then it is too late. An immediate in
vestigation will establish the real facts. If you
wait until all the accused’ friends and rela
tives have been to see the witnesses, then it’s
impossible to ascertain any part of the truth,
because they often suffer from loss of memory
and sometime loss of facts. If you have sworn
statements made immediately after the crime
along with photographs of the scene, and a
complete up to date reoort on all the circum
stances surrounding the case, justice will
prevail.
The great majority of the people, com
posing the Waycross Judicial Circuit in Cof
fee, Bacon, Ware, Pierce, Brantley and Charl
ton counties are inherently honest, tolerant
and law-abiding citizens, who believe in doing
the right thing. They are entitled to be repre
sented by a Solicitor that will work for their
best interest and protect them and their fam
ilies, not only in their homes but on the high
wavs as well, from hoodlums and willful and
reckless law violators. If you elect me to this
office I will work with all other officials,
whomever they may be, your Judge, Sheriffs,
Clerks, Reporters, Grand Jurors and all law-
of which I fail to see.
It is a coin-operated drunk
ometer with which a person can
give himself an intoxication test.
According to Dr. Henry Newman
of Standford University such a
machine is in the near future.
After a cocktail party or an even
ing at the saloon one could de
posit a coin in a slot, breathe into
a bag and out would come a slip
showing the amount of alcohol
in the blood. Then one is sup
posed to decide whether he
should drive or walk.
To be in either predicamant,
driving and drinking or walking
and drinking, is dangerous.
It may be quite a surprise for
some to learn that walking after
drinking is even more dangerous
than driving after drinking. The
Automobile Legal Association re
port that twenty-six out of every
one hundred pedestrians involved
in fatal accidents had been drink
ing, compared with eighteen out
of one hundred auto drivers
under the influence.
Franklin P. Jones has well said
that “Perhaps the best way to get
rid of bottlenecks is to get rid
of bottle.”
A worker in Canada some time
ago saw a sign which taught more
than was intended. One of the
village bars was undergoing some
alterations when the carpenters
discovered the bottom step was
unsafe.
They propped yp a temporary
sign to warn incoming patrons.
On that sign were these signi
ficant words, “Mind the first
Step.”
As Jay Gee says, “Many things
drive a man to drink—but the
trouble really starts when he
tries to drive away with it.”
Counties Added
To Georgia’s
Broiler Area
The annual survey of Georgia’s
broiler industry is complete, and
two more counties have been
added to the list of commercial
broiler growing counties. They
are Hart and Rabun.
Arthur Gannon, Extension poul
tryman at the University of Ge-
orgia College of Agriculture, said
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 30, 1956
this makes a total of 41.
He pointed out that the broiler
area now includes practically all
counties of North Georgia. The
poultryman continued that broil
er growing is increasing in South
Georgia, but added that the num
ber of growers and the volume of
production is still small in com
parison with North Georgia.
Gannon said there are over 1,-
300 growers in each of the three
largest broiler producing coun
ties: Cherokee, Forsyth, and Hall.
Twenty-two counties in North
Georgia have over 100 growers
each, he added.
The survey — conducted by all
county agents of the state —show-
ed there were 11,084 cammerical
broiler growers in Georgia on
May 1. Gannon explained that
a commercial grower is one who
has a broiler house capacity of
at least 2,000.
“Os the total number,” he con
tinued, “7,225 were in the 10
counties where most of the broil
ers were grown. There were 3,-
195 growers in the 31 additional
broiler counties, and only 664
abiding citizens. It will be my purpose to make
our Circuit clean, progressive and safe for
our children.
As your Solicitor General I will visit each
and every community regularly. Crime must
be and will be reduced, and so far as humanly
possible eliminated.
In our Circuit every year children go to
juvenile homes and become hardened crim
inals, that could have been helped when the
first signs of poor citizen conduct was noticed.
It will be my endeavor to help these children
understand the reasons for being good citi
zens and enjoying the full benefits of Chris
tian living
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wi iscuss youth problems with school
officials and church workers. By working
hand in hand we could give guidance to youths
in the earliest stages of lawlessness and in
most cases prevent them from taking the
wrong path in life and becoming hardened
criminals.
I will make an immediate investigation of
all alleged crimes and institute a pre-trial con
ference with all court officials, on the week
prior to the opening of court. The purpose for
this will be to speed up court and have all
cases ready for trial. Nol prossing all cases
where it appears that the state can not make
out a case, and where people of our Circuit
have been hauled into court, not for some some
crime they have committed, but for malice or
unjust Dersecution, that so often occurs. After
a complete full scale inevstigation on all cases,
those people that have committed crimes in
our Circuit will be prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the law.
To you, the people, I pledge my loyalty,
support and devotion, and if you elect me to
this office I will hold high the faith that you
have placed in me.
In conclusion, let me say that with your
cooperation, your help, and your prayers, I
will endeavor to make you the best Solicitor
General that this Circuit has ever had.
I thank you.
DEWEY HAYES.
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