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OUT ON A—
LIMB
by Bo McLeod
That report of Khrush
chev’s death proves again that
the evil in men’s bones lives
on.
It also proves that little
country weeklies are not the
only ones that make mistakes.
NBC News’ David Brinkley
was quick to point out that
his network did not fall for
the rumor of Khrushy’s
death. I understand this, as
the TV newsmen tell so many
false stories, and they flavor
and color up their reports so
often, they want full credit
for the rare times when they
are not in error.
—o—
Russell’s proposal
to submit the “Civil Rights'’
legislation to a national re
ferendum is as logical as any
thing to be said m Washing
ton in a long time.
Why should not the people
involved be allowed to express
themselves on such an issue?
The polls, surveys and ex
pert analysis of such things
fail to give a true picture of
the wishes of the people, be
cause most of them are too
distorted to be accepted.
If the thing is good, the
people will adopt it- If it is
not good, they will refuse it.
This is such a far-reaching
bill, one that reaches so far
into the rights of the individ
ual, the people should be able
to vote for or against it, one
by one.
Our city government keeps
adding a cost here and a cost
there, the first thing you
know it’ll be pretty costly to
be a citizen of D’ville. The
privilege is worth something,
I agree, but as to how much
it’s worth, I’m not sure.
The addition of a fee for
garbage collection may be
necessary, If it is, that’s all
there is to it. But it’s been
collected for years without
extra charges, why can’t it
continue?
On the other hand, I would
not want to be without garb
age pickup service, would
you?
After looking in on a little
of the action on a few of the
TV Leap opeias, I can’t see
how any Wife can trust any
husband, any husband can
trust any wife, or anybody
can trust anybody. There are
so many shifty folks depicted
there, and all of them are a
little sick in the head, chest or
nasal cavity. This may be a
true reflection of real life,
but I don’t believe it.
I nominate Edge of Night
for having the sickest char
lelers of them all. Or maybe
Love of Life, or even Search
for Tomorrow. Come to think
of it, the competition is too
tough, I withdraw my nomi
nation and vote them all sick-
If you’d like to try to fig
ure some way to help the ath
letic situation in the commun
ity, you could attend the
meeting at Green Top tonight
at 8:00. No revolutionary plot
• is to be laid, no sneaky, med
dling acts to be hatched. Just
a few interfeted citizens - ex
- changing ideas on what—if
anything—-could be done.
I don’t see how an objective
like this could offend any
one, and it might do some
good.
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Single Copies: Ten Cents Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia,
VOLUME XLV
SECOND MEETING TO
FORM CLUB
A second meeting to organ
ize a sports boosters club in
the community will be held at
Green Top tonight, says Lu
ther Spooner, the temporary
chairman. 1 J
Spooner invites all persons
interested in supporting and
encouraging athletics to at
tend at 8:0)0 o’clock.
* * ♦
RAIN CONTINUES
C. J. Patterson, official rain
recorder, reports the total
rainfall for the year now is
25.89 inches-
Patterson says 2.60 inches
have been recorded this week,
including Tuesday’s 2.42.
Brannon elected! president of Lions
club; other officers named by group
NEW OFFICERS have been elected by the Donalsonville
Lions Club, and Jack Brannon will be the new president,
to succeed Darby White.
Elected with Brannon were I
Dr. Robert Starling, Merrian
Minter and Wallace Drake,
vice presidents ; Leon Barnes,
secretary, Gil Kelley, tail
twister, William Arden Park
er, lion tamer. Directors to
serve two-year terms are Dr.
C. C. Stewart and David
Davis. Serving one-year terms
are holdover directors Luth
er Spboner and Watson Lee.
White, as immediate past
president, will also be a di
rector.
The club also re-elected j
Mrs- Marion Roberts as its I
sweetheart.
The officers will take of
fice on June 1.
In other business, the club
heard from Jabo King about
the minstrel show to be stag
ed on May 7 and 8. Hudson
Owen urged the members to •
try harder to sell the candy
in the fund raising project
now underway.
For the program, chairman
Francis Santi presented Mrs.
Ronald Henning and several
FHA girls who gave a skit to
point up the problem litter
bugs cause in the parks and
public places in the state. A
national anti-litter and beau
tification period opened this
week.
Following this, Santi talk
ed about the Civil Rights i
bill, the Supreme Court’s de
cision outlawing formal pray
er in schools, and the way peo-;
pie in government are spend-;
ing the nation into debts
which “our grandchildren and
great grandchildren will have
to pay.”
Santi quoted Senator Her
man Talmadge on how the so
called civil rights bill was i
really “11 different bills rolled
into one.” He also pointed out
that the bill was “drafted in
secret, either by the Attorney
General, or someone designat
ed by him and delivered to the
House Judiciary Committee,
where no debate was permitt
ed, no amendments allowed,
and no questions were permit-
DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 ,
INDIANS PLAY MILLER
HERE FRIDAY
The SCHS baseball team
will play its first home game
on Friday afternoon at 4:00
o’clock, when Miller County’s
Pirates come to town.
It will also be the first game
of the season for the Semin
oles. The game in Cuthbert
Tuesday afternoon was rained
out and will be played later.
• * *
Pony Game Saturday
The Pony League baseball
team will play Dothan’s Pony
League at the Little League
baseball park Saturday night
at 7:30. Everyone is invited
to come and support the team.
♦ * ♦
Ited by any member of the
'committee-”
Further, Santi quoted Sen
ator Talmadge, “The bill was
sent to the Senate, where, by
sheer weight of numbers, it
was not allowed to go to a
committee of the United
States Senate.
“I think the reason is that
they do not wish the Ameri
can public to know the dras
tic provisions of this bill,” the
Senator has said. “Those of
us who are opposed to this
i egislation are going to do
■ everything we can to acquaint
I the American people with the
acts about its far-reaching
provisions.”
Concerning the Supreme
Court’s decision on prayer in
the schools, Santi said it was
each man’s perogative as
’whether he agreed with it,
but it seemed to be the open
ing of a trend to “remove any
official recognition of God
from our government.” He
said it seemed to encourage
the filing of suits against re
ligious references, and the
danger is in this, as much as
from the original ruling.
As for the spending of
money by the federal govern
ment, Santi cited several
leases of “waste and extrava
gance, like the use of federal
aid to purchase more wives
for certain officials in Kenya,
and the purchase of business
suits for Greek undertakers.”
“We ought to look at our
selves as we spend money we
don’t have for ridiculous
I things- wh ; le we leave the re
payment of the bills to gene
rations yet hnbom,” he said
PTA MEETING TUESDAY
NIGHT AT 8:00
The Etementarv PTA will
meet Tuesday night, April 21,
at 8 o’clock. All parents and
teachers are urged to attend
and voice their opinion on how
we can better our PTA.
WE NEED YOU!
Mrs. Roy Pierce,
Publicity Chairman
Garbage collection fee to be added
to city bills; tax reduced a half mill
A NEW CHARGE has been added to the living expenses of
the people of Donalsonville, but the same action has
brought about a reduction in taxes.
The city council has voted
to add a charge of SI.OO a
month to every home served
by the garbage pickup depart
ment. This would pay for two
pickups of garbage a week at
the home. Businesses will pay
an additional $3.00 per month
for daily pickup of garbage.
Mayor Arden Parker says
to offset the increase, the city
tax rate has been lowered
from 4 1,2 to four mills-
“This action by the council
should result in more revenue
to the city, yet the amount
the average taxpayer pays in
a year’s time should be about
the same. The decrease in
taxation should make the
total amount each one pays
the Same, except for those
who have been receiving the
collection service while pay
ing little or no city tax,”
Mayor Parker said.
Parker says he has “check
ed” the results the new me
thod would bring about on
“four or five taxpayers,” and
they end up paying about the
seme in a year’s time.
I The mayor says the action
!is designed to put the respon
sibility of paying for the ser
vice on those who benefit
I from it. “We have many
people who pay practically
no city tax, yet these people
receive as much from the
city in garbage collection
service as the one who pays
much more,” he commented.
Billing for the service will
be made along with the bills
for water and sewage ser
vice, he said, and the first
billing will take place on May
1, for April.
The mayor pointed out that
[the city operates three trucks
in the collection of garbage,
and several employees are
required.
“We have been studying
this action for a long time,
and we are convinced it is
FINAL CLINIC MAY 10TH— ,
2nd polio vaccine feeding less than Ist
The final report of partici
pation in the second reeding
of Sabin polio vaccine shows
that 6410 doses were served.
Os these, 6064 were given in
the Sunday clinic, and .346
were given by Mrs. Louise
Reynolds at the health depart
ment last week end.
The report also shows a
decrease in the number of
persons taking the vaicine. In
the first feeding, 7606 people
took the oral vaccine, or 586
more than the second. .
Still the county’s percent
age of over 100% in the first
feeding, and 92.7% in the se
cond is better than most com
munities have, says Herb
I Crosby.
$3.00 a Year in Advance
the fairway to solve the pro
blem. Naturally, the city
needs income in order to oper
ate, and we wanted away in
wnich all citizens would oe
fairly effected,” Parker com
mented.
Parker also reported that
“several” merchants have ap
plied for license to sell car
tons of unchilled beer in the
city limits. This was done fol
lowing a recent act of the
council to allow it, but no es
tablishment has been able to
start the sale until tax stamps
arrive.
A license to sell the beve
rage will cost $25.00 per year.
In addition, a city tax of four
cents per oan will be collected.
Members of the council are
Goree Johnson, Carl Spooner,
Jr., Jack Wright, L. J. Easom.
FLOWER SHOW HERE ON
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
&eaae don’t forget the
Spring Flower Snow which
is being held at the pavil
lion at Cypress Park on
Tuesday afternoon and night.
Entries must be ready for
judging by eleven o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
to bring all of their flowers
for exhibit in the show.
The theme is “A Century
of Southern Beauty” and the
show is being sponsored by
the Garden Clubs of Donal
sonville and Colquitt- There is
promise of an outstanding
show with the help of all
lovers and growers of flowers.
In addition to speciman ex
hibits there will be arrange
ments of artistic design, ta
bles, and school exhibits as
well as exhibits of annuals,
biennials, perrennials, bulbs,
shrubs and vines, potted
plants, ornamentals and roses.
So'bring what you have and
help the Garden Club to put
on a good show.
The third and final feeding
of the vaccine will be held on
May 10, he added.
Crosb v advises all persons
who Tt *d the early feedings
to see dr family doctor a
bout it. fhey can go ahead
and take the third feeding in
the clinic, then see about the
other types of protection.
Dr. Robert Starling again
stressed the importance of
each person taking all three
types of vaccine. ‘“Each feed
ring was of a type of vaccine
to protect against certain
f kinds of polio. A person sim
ply does not have 100% pro
tection unless he
three types of vaccine,” he
said.
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