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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. —O— 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. —o— 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 Single Copies: Ten Cent* Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia $3.00 a Year in Advance VOLUME XLV .. •• • * 8881 mWw 'III • i W. P Bl h i - * lit W ■ t”’." Weeks# - EKEEE «■ EEs WRRMBMhHK 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. • ♦ • Want Ads Get Results! 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. l' * /i wMf Ok JI K 'I I J "'ll ' ' 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. « • M - Mrs. Nora Spooner enjoyed 1 visiting in Tallahassee on Sun iday. NUMBER 52