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LIMB
by Bo McLeod
By the time certain people
get through twisting the
thing around, there is no tell
ing what that vote Gov. Wal
lace of Alabama received in
Wisconsin will signify. They
are already claiming it was
a 3-1 victory for the civil
rights bill.
Just how they derive such
things from the fact that a
deep South Governor received
over a quarter of a million
votes in a Yankee state, I do
not know. Not having a mys
tical insight, all I can see
is that Gov. Wallace received
the support—as proved by the
final test z the secret ballot —
of hundreds of thousands of
people.
You could increase the im
pact of Wallace’s votes and
the message it brought by
considering that he had more
opposition up there than any
visiting politician ever had.
The churches, the national
administration, state and local
officials were very active a
gainst him.
(They even appealed for
votes against Wallace on re
ligieus and ethnic grounds. I
didn’t think the enlightened
progressives recognized such
elements anymore- I guess
they do, but only when they
can make a profit from it.)
The point is that there was
little chance for Wallace to
receive many accidental votes.
A person had to really want
to vote for Wallace to do so, in
the face of such pressure.
Over 250,000 of them evident
ly wanted to.
I’d like to see what kind of
vote the governor of Wiscon
sin would get in an Alabama
primary. That would prove a
few things, too.
Our school band gave a
nother display of its talents
Tuesday night, when they
were guests and entertain
ment for members of the
Lions club and many visitors.
The group drew many com
ments of praise from the
people there. It can be ad
mitted the audience was very
partisan in favor of the band,
and just about anything they
would do would be pleasing.
But this is better because it
proves there are hundreds of
“fans” of the program and
this strengthens its hold on
the future.
How good was the perform
ance by the band? Look at it
this way: it lived up to the
introduction Francis Santi
gave it, and that takes a lot
of doing.
We have a letter from a
reader inside these pages and
we invite vou to turn over
and read it.
I’m not sure if it is agree
ing with an earlier comment
in the Limb, or if it is taking
the other side. No matter, we
always welcome written ex
pressions from readers, and
we are happy to publish this
one. . . ,
There is no signature to
the letter, but it was signed.
We withhold the name by
request. .
Remember, this is the
prime requirement for hav
ing your opinions published.
You must sign it. We can
withhold the name, but
someone must be willing to
stand behind it, you see.
Brevity helps, too!
JkmalaDiitnU? Nmd
Single Copies: Ten Cento Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia $3.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUME XLV
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OBSERVING FHA WEEK—‘Over a half million Future
Homemakers of America are observing this week as
National FHA Week. Joining the observance are the
members of the SICtHIS chapter. Here their officers watch
while Mayor Arden Parker signs his proclamation of the
special period. Seated left to right are Linda King, secre
tary-treasurer, Mayor ’Parker, Linda Phillips, president.
Standing are Patricia McMullen,-, reporter, and Peggy
Godby, vice president. Mrs- Vic Hickson is adviser.
FIRST GAME LN CUTHBERT—
Indians open baseball season Tuesday
A TEN-GAME schedule has been released by Walter Daniels,
coach of the Seminole County High School baseball team.
The IB west schedule fea
tures round robin play and in;
eludes two games with each
of five schools-
The Indians open their cam
paign on Tuesday afternoon,
April 14, by going to Ran
dolph County. It continues
through May 15, when district
and state playoffs begin.
Coach Daniels says the re
sults of the games during the
regular season will decide sub
region champions who will
compete for further honors-
Last year, the Indians won
the district championship but
fell in the first round of state
competition.
Coach Daniels says he has
about 30 candidates for places
on the team. He says these
will be cut back to 16 or 18
regulars. And despite the
loss of three sparks from last
year’s team, in the gradua
ation of Reuben Roberts, Coo
ter Whittaker and Leonard
Spconer, Daniels expects to
field a strong team.
“We have a lot of help from
the boys from Jakin, and we’ll
have some new boys from
Champ Bridges baseball pro
gram, so we should have a
little experience advantage,”
he said.
The complete schedule:
April 14, Randolph County, there
April 17, Miller County, here
April 21, Blakely, there
April 23, Pelham, here
April 28, Terrell County, here
May 1, Randolph County, here
May 5, (Miller County, there
May 8, Blakely, there
May 12, Pelham, there
May 15, Terrell County, there
DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964
Practice sessions have been
slowed 1 by the finishing of
spring football practice, and
the weather has been bad for
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MUSIC MAKERS—Making music together are the boy
and girl of the month at Seminole* County High
School. Chosen by the school’s FHA chapter, Miss Mary
Ann Baker is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Baker.
She is honor roll chairman of the FHA, secretary-treas
urer of the senior class, and a member’ of the Methodist
church, where she is president of the MYF. Ronnie’s pa
rents are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred King.. He is treasurer of
the Hi-Y chapter and a senior. He attends the Baptist
church and is active in Sunday School and youth work.
Makeup clinic for polio vaccine to be
Friday, Saturday at courthouse
PROMOTORS OF the Stop Polio Sundays campaign in Semi
nole County are looking hopefully toward the makeup
clinic to be held Friday and Saturday at the courthouse,
and they say a large number of people must participate in
it, or the county will have lost
first feeding of the Sabin oral
m the first feeding of the
vaccine, the county nad more ;
participants than people, as
/oj6 persons took the medi
cine. in the second distribu
tion Sunday, the number fell
to only 6064, or 87.7 of the
population.
Hero Crosby, chairman of
the project, says the makeup
clinic will be operating at the
health department office all
day Friday and until noon on
Saturday. He says the vaccine
will be available at the make
up clinic, in the same way it
was before. That is, it will be
fed on a small lump of sugar.
Little time will be required
and there will be no charges.
Crosby heads the Lions
Club committee which is spon-
SCHS ‘Y* CLUBS TO STAGE
TALENT SHOW ON
FRIDAY
The three *Y* clubs ofSvminole
County High School will sponsor a
talent show o n Friday night at
8:00 o’clock in the high school
auditorium.
An added attraction will be a
boy’s beauty contest.
Admission prices will be 25c for
students and 50c for adults. The
purpose is to raise money for
World Service.
I The public is invited.
the fine start it made in the
polio vaccine.
soring the effort to free the
county of polio- He pointed
out that the percentage of
participation in the first feed
ing of Type I vaccine was
over 1(M)%, because some
people from neighboring coun
ties and states took the vac
cine.
Dr. J. R. Starling, medical
chairman of the committee,
says there “could be many
reasons for the drop in par
ticipation, but we are hoping
the makeup clinic will bring
the total number of doses
to 100% participation.”
Dr. Starling said he has
heard of no one suffering any
reaction from the first feed
ing. “We can assure everyone
the medicine will be tasteless,
odorless, and it will not have
any aftereffects. We would
stress again the importance
of all ages, and it doesn’t
matter if he or she has had
the inoculations, the oral vac
cine is still desired.”
Type 111 vaccine will be fed
on Sunday, May 10, Crosby
says.
Dr. Starling commented
that 87.7% participation is
considered “very good”, but
it should not be accepted as
a sufficient percentage. He
said when as much as 75%
of the population take the
vaccine the campaign is con
sidered a success.
THE 30-DAY WEATHER
OUTLOOK
The thirty day agricultural
weather outiooK ror tne
month of April for South
Georgia, SE Alabama and inW
Florida issued by the Weath
er Bureau Advisory Agricul
tural Meteorologist, Tifton,
Georgia, April 2, 1964.
Temperatures during April
will average above normal
over all of the Tri-State Ag
ricultural area- Daily mean
temperatures will average
between 65 and 70 degrees.
Maximum temperatures
should average from 76 to 84
degrees with afternoon tem
peratures reaching 85 degrees
or higher on 4 or 5 days. Min
imum temperatures should
average between 55 and 60
degrees but will fall to 45 de
grees or lower on 2 or 3 morn
ings. The probability of freez
ing temperatures occuring in
the Tri-State Area is less
than one in ten at the present
time and will become negligi
ble by mid April.
Rainfall during the next 30
days will range from light to
moderate for the period. To
tals are expected to ranfce
from 1.50 to 3.50 inches over
most of South Georgia to 2.50
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