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OUT ON A—
LIMB
by Bo McLeod
How are you on initials?
What with everything and
everybody known by them
nowadays, you’ve gotta stay
on your mental toes:
UAW KO’s OK of RFK for
VP, says AP.
UC?
We have so many people
who think they have all the
answers, that’s our biggest
problem.
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It’s about time our city
fathers join the march to im
prove the appearance of our
town.
ISO many paint up, pretty up
projects have been completed
by our merchants, the places
without the improvements
stand out more than ever, in
cluding the city building ■ ofi
Wiley Avenue.
—O—
The dignity tumbled when
the Cracker Crumbled in At
lanta last week end. Few were
the state officials who were
missed by the caustic com
ments and pungent parodies.
It’s a healthy thing when
public officials can take such
barbs in good spirit, never
once threatening to put all the
guilty jokesters in the pokey.
Most of our officials can
turn the laugh right back at
you. This is frustrating some
times, but it’s healthy, too.
After the way he won his
championship, I’m not surpris
ed that Cassius Clay would
try to change his name. And
with his mentality, it’s again
no surprise that he would
choose a name like “X” so he
could spell it all by himself
and: write it with his own
hand.
They keep saying you can’t
legislate folks into loving one
another, but they keep trying
to pass that Civil Rights bill.
They know it can’t be done,
so they’re going ahead with it.
President Johnson says a
general war is out of the
question. Says the destruc
tion of a nuclear war would
be so terrible, no one would
think of starting one.
I think he’s right, but I
hope the Commies agree.
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When you get to thinking
our U. S. has all the world’s
troubles, meditate on the
fact that those Beatles have
been honored (yeah, yeah) as
the “best beat group” and for
making the best vocal record
for dancing in all of Britain
in ’63. Also, they have been
praised as Britain’s best song,
writers.
Thank goodness we haven’t
had to hear any of the run
nersup.
That old fog must get deep
inside the eardrums, too-
Os course you usually find
comments about the Beatles
split along party lines. If it’s
the right kind of party I can
stand them, too, but what a
test that system would be.
I will go so far as to admit
that as “beat groups” go, the
Beatles do .sound like they’ve
been slapped around quite a
bit. But not enough.
I hereby modestly nominate
myself for a prize for being a
brave writer. Talking against
the Beatles with three gals—
and a mama — in the house,
takes raw courage, friends.
! Unnalsonuiilr Nmi
r Single Copies: Ten Cents Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia $3.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUME XLV DONALSONVILLE (GA) NEWS % THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1963 NUMBER 48
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• IMPORTANT PLANNING This group of youngsters are
1 pretty serious about the jobs they hold as leaders of the
t 7th grade 4-H cluib of the Donalsonville Elementary School,
‘ and they hold regular sessions to plan the club’s program.
Seated are, left to right, Tuddy Alday, vice president, Steve
Jernigam president, Nan Inman, vice president. Standing,
5 Janet McLeod/ secretary, Joy Miller, treasurer, and Brenda
" Swanner, reporter. Agents Royce Hall, Ray Payne and Miss
| Mary Eason are the program’s adult directors.
1
» Second feeding of Sabin polio vaccine
> to be held in Seminole on April sth
THE SECOND dose of oral polio vaccine will be distributed
t in Seminole County on Sunday, April 5, says Herb
b Crosby, chairman of the project sponsored by the Lions Club.
?: Crosby says type II vaccine
. | will be given at the school
!, buildings in Iron City and
. FDR communities, Seminole
High School and at Seminole
i County Training School. The
s same procedure will be follow-
- ed at each clinic, with a doc-
11 tor and a ijurse at each place, i
1 i Dr. Robert J. Starling, med- i
•icaj chairman of the program, I
1 stressed the fact that every
i citizen of the community
1 should take each of three sep-
? i nrate feedings of the vaccine.
feeding is designed to
21 protect a person against a
2 certain type of polio, and only
s by taking all three feedings
r can a person be completely
i immunized against the dis
i ease.
i “The task of acquiring
• complete immunity against all
polio is now one-third com
t plete,” Starling said. “To fin-
- ish the job, we are asking
everyone to return to a clinic
) Sunday, Anri! 5 and Sunday,
May 10. When this is done,
1 each person will have the best
? protection medical science has ■
s to offer against all types of h
i polio.”
r Again the vacine will be ad-'
ministered on a small cube of •'
t sugar, 'there will be no needles .
J or bad taste, and the vaccine'
i can be received in “just a few
i minutes.” All people, regard
less of age or whether they
J have had the inoculation by
i needle against the disease,
t are urged to partiemat®.
“We can wipe out polio in j,
, this community, if we can ; <
have the percentage of parti-;
cipation we had at the first
clinic,” Dr. Starling said.
“This program will not only
protect the person against
the disease for himself, it will
also .prevent his being a car
rier of the germ to others.
That is why it is important
! for all to come.”
Children too young to take
the Sabin vaccine on the sug
ar cubes can be fed by other
means, he added.
Crosby says the clinics will
again ask for contributions
of 25c per person to defray
costs of the project. “We want
to say again that each person
knows how much he can give,
and we do not want anyone
to miss the vaccine for lack
of money. Give what you can,
or if you cannot, give nothing.
This is not an effort to make
money but to offer protec
tion,” he commented.
In the first clinic held on
March 1, 6684 persons re
ceived the vaccine. In a make
-up clinic held later, an addi
itional 322 doses were given,
bringing total persons fed to
7006, or 101.5 percent of the
county’s population.
“Even with this wonderful
response, we know there were
some who did not get type I
vaccine,” Dr. Starling said.
“Some people came in from
neighboring counties and
states, hence the high figure.
If anyone missed the first
dose, we urge him to go ahead
and take type 11, then see his
own doctor about making up
type I”.
Sunrise service to open observance
of Easter; service to be in cemetery
A SUNRISE service will start the observance of Easter a
mong the churches of Donalsonville, and a community
service will be held that night.
The sunrise service will be-1
gin at 6:23 a.m., and will be
held in Friendship Cemetery,
under the direction of the
ministerial association. Rev.
Henry Erwin will preach the
I sermon, his topic to be “The
Seven Tragedies of the Chris
tian Faith.”
Other ministers of the com
munity will participate in the
program and preparations will
’ be made for seating the con-!
i gregation and for musical in
? struments.
PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC SET
FOR TUESDAY
A pre-school clinic for child-
J ren who will be entering
5 school for the first time this
» fall, will be held at Donalson
• ville elementary school on
J March 31.
» The clinic will 'be held from
1 9:00 to 11:00 a. m. and will
J be sponsored by the PTA. A
doctor and dentist will be pre
sent.
No “shots” will be given at
J the clinic. These can be secur
ed at the health department
office at the court house.
Also, ice cream will be served
[ to the youngsters.
, Each child must bring his
or her birth certificate to the
clinic, the announcement said.
: Response to plea for blood typing
almost nil; fear or indifference?
THE RECENT plea for the people of the community to have
blood typed at one of the local hospitals fell on deaf
ears.
, Lab technicians at the Don
. alsonville Hospital and Semi
. nole Memorial Hospital report
little or no response to the
( plea.
I The problem is to establish
’ a file of the types of blood of
each person in the commun-
J ity, whether the z individual
: should be come a donor or re
b i cipient of blood in an emer
■! gency.
, The process of having the
. blood typed is very simple,
> technicians say, and would
■ take “only a few minutes” A
finger is pricked and a few
drops of blood taken. The
person’s name then is placed
• in a cross-indexed file so that
he could be called when his
, type of blood is needed. Or
> such information could make
i treatment simpler and quick
er, should the person become
a patient himself.
Or, that’s how it would
: work, if the people would par
. ticipate. As it is now, there
is no “walking blood bank,”
no current information is
. ■ available as to where certain
; types of blood can be found,
. and the county is missing the
• t protection such information
•! could give.
|- “I don’t know what is keep-
In the evening, members of
the Baptist, Presbyterian and
Methodist churches will wor
ship together in Friendship
Methodist Church. Rev. Roy
Lewis, pastor of the Presby
terian church, will preach a
sermon entitled “Three Cross
es on a Hill.”
The Methodist choir will
present a program of special
I Easter music, following the
I sermon. Mrs- Wallace Drake
will direct the program, and
soloists will include Mrs. John
; L. Drake, Jr., Wallace Drake,
i Danny King and Buddy Her-
I rington. Mrs. Marion Roberts
i is the organist.
The Church of the Nazarene
will'observe the day by paiti
; cipating in the sunrise service,
then at a special program by
the children at Sunday School.
Regular morning and evening
services will be led by the pas
tor, Rev. James Foster.
Rev- Lewis will preach at
the morning service of the
Presbyterian church, his topic
’ tp be “4s God Dead?”
Rev. Erwin’s topic for his
sermon at the Methodist
church’s morning service will
be “Victory Through Christ
and the Cross.”
Rev. Henry Durham will
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j ing people from coming,” Jer- '
ry Mathis of Seminole Memo
rial said. “It may be fear of
the sight of a little blood, or
i it may be indifference.”
Miss Peggy Bowen, of Don
alsonville Hospital, said blood
typing of the students in the
high school has been done
recently, but this is mostly to
know what type of blood to
use in case one of the students
needs it quickly. x
“We definitely cannot con
sider the students as a ready
source of blood,” Miss Bowen
said. “They are underage, and
we wou’d not use them unless
we simoly had to.
Eligible to participate in
* the “bank” would be all males
! and females between 18 and
60, so long as they are in good
health. Technicians are avail
able to type blood every day
except Sunday, from 8:30 a
m. to 6:00 p. m. It won’t cost
anything.
That’s How It Is ..
I There are nearly 7.000 per
sons in t; e county. Only one
or two ha, e shown any inter
est in the proj<t. The list of
possible donors is at rock bot
tom. and will be until someone
decides to do something about
it.