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OUT ON A— LIMB by Bo McLeod Here we go with a new ap proach- : Gov. Scranton stays Senator Goldwater has forfeited his right to the GOP nomination because he admitted in an in terview with a German maga zine that “as of now’” no Re publican could defeat Presi dent Johnson. The governor claims the senator can't win if he doesn’t think he can, so he has no business- being a candidate, with such a hope less outlook. Maylbe so. You’ve got to think yoa can do it before you can do it. On the other hand, it’ll take more than confidence to defeat Johnson. If Scranton considers him self as> strong enough to be elected in November, he has no business in the race, eith er, on the grounds that too much confidence is a liability, too. —o— don’t remember every poltical campaign, so it may be that I have overlooked it in the past, but I can’t recall one when a political platform concerned itself with whether a certain law was or was not constitutional. I’ve read several weird it ems in party platforms, but don’t remember a precedent for the one Scranton, Rocke feller and a few others want ed, for the Republicans to have a plank in the platform stating the party’s belief that the Civil Rights law is con stitutional- There’s enough of politics in the Supreme Court, let s keen the court as far away from the platform as we can. —o— can depend on Georgia to lead the way into the age of wonders, and here we’ve done it again: Georgia is the first State m the nation to have its entire constitution declared uncon stitutional. That’s what the courts did to the new one the General Assembly was work ing on. This was done before the new document was completed, so the contents of it were not a consideration in the case. The federal judges knew a head of the day of court that they would rule out the pro posed constitutional, so why didn’t they sound off sooner, before the State wasted so much money in the extra ses sion? This was clearly a bad case of sloppy work by the judiciary, so let’s send them the bill for what the extra session cost! That escaped convict nam ed Ben Mathis was captured in Enterprise Saturday after noon, and I am certainly glad of it. A few more days of ru mors, reports and ‘manhunts* would have put a lot of us in bed with exhaustion of back, body and nerves. Ben was caught in Enter prise by a negro deputy, and as far as we know he never did cross the river into Geor gia. Well, all we have to do now is go out and catch all the other convicts folks saw over the county. Understand some of the men around town are still go ing off at night a lot, “looking for the convict.” Now they’ll hav< to find another excuse. ißmtalfinntnllt Nraa Single Copies: Ten Cent* VOLUME XLVI i is i IK fl 1 ; B NEW PASTOR —(At the recent session of the South Georgia An nual -Conference, the Rev. Asbury B. Walton was appointed to the Brinson charge which consists of the Methodist churches in Brinson, Cedar Springs, Jakin, Iron City and Trinity, four miles soluith of Donalsonville. The Rev. John M. Hayes, former pastor was transferred to the California-Neveda Conference. The Rev. Mr. Walton, a native of Bremen, Ga., graduated from Young Harris College and West Georgia College, and is in hi sec ond year at Candler School of Theology. He served the Unity Cir cuit at Roopville, Ga., and the Gay Circuit at Gay, Ga., both in the North Georgia Conference. He comes to Brinson from the newly formed Asbury Methodist Church in Albany. The Rev. Mr. Walton is married to a native of Albany, the former Miss Eleanor Howard. They have one child, Merri Lynn, age 3 I|2, and are expecting a second child the end of July. Agricultural jobs still in lead but report says ‘nonfarm’ moving up THE 13-COUNTY Southwest Georgia area features a strong agricultural base and a burgeoning manufacturing com plex, according to a stu ’y just released by Georgia Tech’s In dustrial Development Division. The report, “Highlights oi the Economy of South west Georgia Area,” ura.yzes the problems and potentials of the 13 counties represent ed in the Southwest Georgia Area Planning and Develop ment Commission. These are Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, De catur, Dougherty, Grady, Lee, M i 111 er, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas and Worth. Agriculture, with 21 per cent of all area workers in 1960, still predominates in the area, despite a 50 per cent loss in agricultural jobs dur ing the 1950-1960 decade. In 1960, agricultural workers outnumbered manufacturing workers in all but two coun ties, Dougherty and Thomas. The report indicates that manufacturing jobs, 17-3 per cent of the 1960 total, will overtake the area agricultural jobs by the end of 1964. How ever, farm production is high, livestock production is in creasing, and agricultural ac tivity will remain a vital fact or in the area in the forsee able future. Other leading employment categories in the area are re tail trade (14.4%) and per sonal and recreational serv ices (13.7%). While there is considerable diversity to the area’s resi- Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1964 dent manufacturing activity, much Ox it is related to sea sonal, .ow wage industry, the report levels. Food and kind red products, furniture, lumb er and wood products, textiles and apparel accounted for more than 75 per cent of manufacturing employment in 1960. The Southwest Georgia a rea had a net loss of 898 jobs from 1950 to 1960, primarily because of the disappearance of 16,726 agricultural jobs. | But most of the losses in agri culture, forestry and whole sale trade were offset by gains in all other employment sectors, the report shows. The 13-county area still is a relatively low income, thinly populated section, accordinl to the Tech study. Although the region represents more than nine per cent of the state’s land area, it has less than seven percent of its resi dents and only five per cent of Georgia’s total income. Compared with its share of Georgia’s residents, the area is deficient in total jobs, man ufacturing jobs, bank depos its, wholesale and retail sales, and sound housing units. The study concludes with identification of five econom ic development opportunities Continued on back page Effort begins to secure approval of a watershed for Fish Pond Drain AN ORGANIZATIONAL meeting to launch efforts toward a new watershed project along Fish Pond Drain was held here Wednesday, and instigators of the move hope the result will be a solution to the drainage problems that have plagued Donalsonville for many years. The area to be effected, if the effort is successful, . in cludes 55,000 acres, mostly in Seminole County, with parts in Early and Miller counties. The chamber of commerce of Seminole County sponsor ed the meeting attended by city and county officials, sup ervisors of the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District, farm agency officers and other interested citizens. Clarke Mosely was elected temporary chairman of the effort and Perry Walker is serving as secretary. These men will serve until perman ent officers are elected later. R. P- Armstrong, Seminole’s soil conservationist, says the project is based on a law pass ed in 1954, in which Congress authorizes assistance in flood prevention, drainage, recrea tion and soil conservation in projects too large for individ ual landowners to handle. To bring the law into action, lo cal people must organize and make a request for the feder al money, Armstrong explain ed. City and county govern ments in the area involved must participate as sponsors of the preliminary requests, and in the financing of the project, he added. As a result of this first meeting, requests will made for the federal government to make a preliminary survey of the proposed route, then re port on approximate costs in volved, details of location, ac reage, routing, etc. From this a study will be made by local governmental bodies and the board of supervisors of the soil and water conservation district. If they approve, the proposal will be submitted to the agricultural committee of Congress. A similar procedure result ed recently in the approval of a watershed project for Dry Creek in Early, Miller, Deca tur and Seminole counties. Actual work on the Dry Creek project will begin ths month, Armstrong said. Armstrong siays it will prob ably be several months before final approval of the Fish Pond Drain watershed is made and work is started- It’s worth waiting for, however, because the project offers re lief from the lack of drainage in Donalsonville, as well as in other parts of the counties involved. Beginnng in the southern portions of Early and Miller counties, the wat ershed will follow the natural route of Fish Pond Drain and should furnish sufficient out lets for drainage >to end the backing up of water at the intersection of U.S. 84 and Georgia hiway 39, in Barber town and Porterville, at the $3.00 a Year in Advance i city’s sewerage disposal plant, Highlands subdivision and many other places, he ex plained. It would carry those waters down the drain into Ray’s Lake near FDR school. Also attending the meeting were members of the South west Georgia Area Develop ment Commission. The board' of directors of the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation district moved its meeting from Albany to Donalsonville, to participate in the planning. Among the out-of-iown peo ple at tne meeting were M. G. Driskell and Lan Olson, eng ineers of the state highway ’ department; Bill Reagan, vVuI liner and Mac Sloan, Miller ' County; R. G Middleton, E. R. ’ Pullen, J. M. Flanders, Al bany ; Reid Anu.ews and Donald K. Stewart, Calhoun ‘ County; Judson Mayfield and Continued on buck page PELHAM QUITS RACE FOR PILCHER SEAT State Senator Glenn Pel ham has withdrawn from the Sept. 9 Democratic primary for the Second District Con gressional seat held by J. L. Pitcher, who is not seeking re-election. Pelham notified The News of his decision to retire from the race this 1 week. Pelham’s withdrawal leaves six candidates in the race for the office. Still in the running are Maston O’Neal of Bainbridge; Harry Wingate, Jr., Pelham; C. B- King, Albany; David E. Jones, Sylvester ; James Key ton, and W. C. Tuck both of Thomasville. In a statement to The News this week, Sen. Pelham 1 said, “I am' indebted to the many, many fine people throughout the second district who pledg ed their support to me. I will always remember the acts of kindness and assistance on my behalf.” “There are no hidden rea sons for this decision,” he continued. “I am 1 impressed by the large amount of finan ces needed to complete the race . . legislative independ ence is a necessity for effec tive representation, I am l a fraid that independence would be seriously threatened by the acceptance of needed cam paign contributions. Then, too, the political dimate hov ering over the state since the first of May is not inducive to a campaign of total hon esty. I cannot misrepresent myself to the people of the i district. “I will probably accept a [ position out of the district which has an unusual appeal s to me,” he added. NUMBER 11