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OUT ON A—
LIMB
by Bo McLeod
I suppose the limit is
reached when you have pick
ets marching around with
signs saying the World’s Fair
is Unfair.
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Now Premier Khrushchev
has joined President Johnson
in stating that war is stupid,
and only “idiots want war.”
This doesn’t comfort me a
bit, tho, for I still believe the
idiots are in the majority.
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service is making
great strides in a sort of
backwardly direction.
A few years ago, postal
cards cost a penny and first
class mail three cents. Now
it’s four cents for a postal
card, five cents for a letter-
But while the prices have
been changing, . the services
are about the same." ” *
They’ve introduced 'Z i P
codes and other fancy things,
but it still takes about as long
for a letter to go from here
to yonder. They still missend
a few epistles now and then,
and once in a while a parcel
post package is a bit damag
ed, but overall the effect is
about the same as always,
< even to these “cut backs” in
service.
Except that it costs more.
What kind of progress and
improvement
By the way, why did Post
master Ray of Albany lose
his job for “politicking” a
couple of years ago, but Post
master General Gronouski
doesn’t get fired for his poli
ticking in Wisconsin recently ?
Does the same Hatch Act ap
ply or
They tell me J. B. Clarke
and Gil Kelley and wives
visited Atlanta last week end,
and the place will never be
the same again.
How’s this for international
coverage ?
Look over inside this issue
and you’ll see three ads sent
in by an ad agency in Austria,
Europe, that is.
We knew The News covet
ed Semmoie like me tax col
lector, out we nave never
claimed to be able to do much
for advertisers in foreign
countries.
We'll try anything, though,
so flip over and read the ads.
One word of caution: if you
decide to order anything tney
are selling, write the address
one letter at a time, like we
did in setting the type.
Now all we've got to have is
someone who can ifcau what
ever language the insertion is
written in, so we can find out
to whom to send the bill.
O—
Big doing are headed your
way for the next few weeks.
' Here’s to the misguided
ones who keep talking about
how slow and easy life is in
a small town. Sorry, it just
ain’t so, friends.
People have come in the
office to insert Notes of
Thanks in times of sickness,
and some times they have a
tremble in their voice and
tears in their eyes because of
the sincerity of their feeling
of gratitude.
Since Mima has been til, 1
know again how they feel.
People sure are nice !
Bmalßunu ilk Nenrt
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DISTRICT LITERARY WINNEIR®—This group of stu
dents represented region IB in the state literary
meet .in Mac.cn last Satuiday, because of their
success in district competition- Left to night are district
first place winners Jenny Johnson, Susan Shingler and
Carolyn Reagan, trio; Coslby Thomas, boy’s declamation,
and Barbara Smith, shorthand. Thomas went on to win
the statewide first first place in declamation.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY—
Signup time at hand for junior b’ball
SIGNUP TIME for the youth baseball program in Seminole
opens Saturday afternoon at the ballpark on the Colquitt
hi*way, says Champ Bridges, director.
Bridges says boys of ages
10 through 14 are invited to
report to the park at 1:0b p.
m. Saturday; and boys of
ages 7,8, and 9 will report
at the same time on Sunday-
Pre-season practice will be
gin as soon as the ooys en
roll, he added.
The regular season of play
Will open on May 11th. An ex
hibition pony league game
<ages 13 and 14) will be play
ed Saturday night when a
Dothan pony team comes
here. This game was post
poned from last Saturday.
Bobby Nichols will assist
Bridges in operating the pro
gram this year. They expect
over 200 -boys to take part.
Other helpers will be little
league managers Sam Burke,
Jack Herring, Morris John-
Ison and Hub Williams; and
I Willie Blackburn, Roy Moul
;ton and Sterling Easom will
ihelp with the midget loop.
Bridges says an effort will
be made to begin a girls soft-
IN CHORAL CONCERT
Miss Marvilyn Wright will
participate in the annual
spring Choral Concert at Ste
phens College. She will
jsing a solo part in Paul Hin
demith’s “In Praise of Music.”
The concert program will
include Shakespearean songs,
[choruses from Medea, music
composed for poems of Emily
Dickinson and Thomas Wolfe,
and motets and madrigals.
Miss Wright is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Glenn Wright.
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DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1964
ball program, if enough girls
indicate interest. Games
would be played in the park
one night a week, and all
girls interested in playing
should signup Saturday af
ternoon, too.
Girls should be between the
ages of seven and 14.
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FIRST MEMBER Luther Spooner, right, sells the first
membership card in the newly organized Seminole Ath
letic Club to Mayor Arden Parker, to kick off the effort to
organize a group to encourage and support the high school
athletic program. Spooner is serving as temporary chairman
of the organization,, until a membership drive is completed
and permanent officers can be elected. Serving with Spooner
are Milton Johnson, Howard Rogers and E. A- Pumphrey.
The club hopes to reactivate interest and “spirit” in the
football team first, then offer its services to other teams
in the community.
SCHS gains tie for fourth place in
state competition for literary honor
SEMINOLE COUNTY High School is accustomed to picking
up trophies in basketball, in fact the institution has the
reigning state champions of the girls class “B” division, and
now they have brought home a trophy for accomplishment in
literary competition.
In the state meet in Macon
Saturday, SCHS entries rolled
up enough points to place
Seminole in a tie with Glenn
ville for fourth place out of
the 30 to 35 schools repre
sented, according to J. B.
Jenkins, principal.
Cosby First In State
The top Seminole entry in
the mee u was young Cosoy
Thomas, son of Mi. and Mrs.
Ross Thomas, who won first
place in boy’s declamation.
Coached by Mrs. Ann Smith,
Thomas gave an adaption of
an oration by Roger Wilson,
“Where Free Men Shall
Stand.”
Thomas was also a member
of the school’s debate team
which had placed second in
the state in earlier competi
tion. The debate team’s snow
ing, plus points made by the
one-act play and in the spell
ing contest, added to the re
sults of the Macon meet and
brought the coveted trophy
to Seminole.
Other members cf the de
bate team were Joy Barber,
Carolyn Reagan and Bert
Trulock. Mrs. Smith coached
this team, and the one-act
play, in the district elimina
tions.
i Others representing district
IB in the Macon meeting were
i the girl’s trio, composed of
Jenny Johnson, Carolyn Rea
gan and Susan Shingler, and
coached by Robert Strickland;
and the shorthand district
-winner, Barbara Smith, coach
ed by Mrs. Billy Jones.
Postal service to
be cut back
In complying with Postmas
ter, General John A. Gronou
ski’s order to limit service at
the local post office and save
money by limiting service,
; there will be parcel post deliv
ery in the city limits of Don
’ alsonville only five days a
weeks, say postmaster 0. M.
Roberts.
Effective May 7, Thursday,
parcel post will not be deliver
ed on Thursday. Also, no mon
ey orders will be issued at the
» °^ ce * Money order window
’ will be closed all day on Thurs
day, May 7 and each Thurs-
I day thereafter. No money or
‘ der applications will be accept
ed by rural carriers on Thurs
day.
All first class mail will be 1
delivered as usual by the city
[ carriers as well as the rural
carriers.
Iron City Changes
The limited adjustments in
some Postal servees ordered in
Washington March 10, by
Postmaster General John A
,i Gronouski to save $12.7 mill
ion will begin to take effect in
l Iron City and other cities May
14, Postmaster Walter E. Ard
said today.
Service changes planned
locally include the following,
Mr. Ard said.
Saturday window service
will be limited to four hours
8:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon.
Money orders will not be ac
cepted on Saturday and Rural
Carriers will not accept money
order applications on Satur
day.
' The Postmaster emphasized
that no essential major ser
vices are effected under the
orders. There will be no
change in home delivery or
special delivery, for example.
Letters and other first-class
mail will be handled with the
same priority as ever.
The economy step, Mr. Ard
exolained, in in line with Pre
sident Johnson’s programs un
der which recent Federal in-
I come tax cut was provided-
Friends of Mrs. R. M. Mc
’ Leod. Sr., “Mima” to her
' 'family, will regret to learn
I I that she is a patient in Donal
-1 'sonville Hospital. They hope
I she will soon be completely
’ J well and back at home.
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- Mrs. Nora Spooner enjoyed
1 visiting in Tallahassee on Sun
iday.
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