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OUT ON A— LIMB by Bo McLeod Let’s face it, there’s not much going on this week, ex cept the Republican Conven tion in San Franciso. And most of what can be said a bout that affair is being said out there. Os course we have a few observations on the thing: It’s still fascinating to me, the way the chairman knows the ‘ayes’ or ‘nays’ have it, even before the vote is made. They break right in and pro nounce the decision without waiting for any minor details, like tabulations, or weighing the expressions. This proves the chairmen are really effi cient, or they’re a little bit prejudiced. It was good to see the lib erals filing a ‘minority’ re port, wasn’t it? Nelson Rockefeller made a plea, amidst boo’s, for a plat form plank to throw “ex tremists” out of the party. I wonder what he would have done if the plank had been adopted, because it’s impossi ble to imagine anyone who is more extreme than he is. You found yourself wond ering if maybe GOP stands for Grumpy and Ornery Peo ple, after seeing how they attack one another. The planners were very shrewd in holding the conven tion in ’Frisco. They knock ed all the “prime time” TV programs off the air but they didn’t interfere with “Love of Life” or “Search for Tomor row.” To bum(p the soap operas would have cost them to many “backlash” votes and they knew better than to risk it. Gov. Scranton has a new theme song: “I lost my (bleep bleep*) in San Francisco.” At the same time, Barry goes about humming, “I’m sitting on top of the world.” Rocke feller croons “It’s been a long, long time,” and Nixon softly croons, “Long, long ago.” Ike was chanting a few medleys, and it was hard to recognize anything distinct or clear. ♦campaign, that is. Seeing these conventions in action (?) ought to help stop talk of forming another par ty. The Democrats still have to hold their convention, and bv then we’ll be fully con vinced the country needs few er political parties, not more. I haven’t seen any topless iswim suits out there, but I did hear a few headless speakers. They call it Cow Palace be cause so much ‘bull’ is shot there, I guess. ——o— The way I figure it, the summer vacation is just a bout half over this week end, so be of good cheer, kids. You can go back to school pretty soon- I know how anxious you are to do this, but please be patient. —0- It didn’t take them long to recapture that convict below town on (Monday afternoon. I imagine that Inmate Rod gers most have felt pretty frustrated by it all. because all he had to show for his ef fort was a sore leg and a long er sentence. Thank goodness Rodgers was captured nuickly. I don’t believe we could have stood another round of rumors, like when Ben Mathis was loose. Bnialaumi dlr fai Single Copies: Ten Cent® Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia $3.00 a Year in Advance VOLUME XLVI WO:’. I , 11 * k [ W? 'V▼l 11 W X « ’j 1 y -tF- SrmWff WATERSHED the preliminary plan ning of a watershed along Fish Pond Drain are these supervisors of the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District. Seated left to right are Reid Andrews, of Calhoun County, Judson Mayfield, Grady, John Collins, Mitchell!, and Mac Sloan of Miller. Standing are Clarke Mosely, temporary chairman of the project, and R. P. Armstrong, Seminole’s soil conservationist. Newspics STILL 180 DAYS'— Seminole schools to open August 28 THE SCHOOL calendar for the 1964-65 term has been re leased by N. P. Malcom, Seminole County’s superintend ent of schools. The white schools will be gin the new term' at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, August 28. The first holiday comes on October 29, when the district GEA meeting is held. Other holidays include No vember 26 and 27 for Thanks giving; December 18 thru January 4, for Christmas,. March 4 for the cattle show, and April 16-19 for Easter. Schools close on May 28, after 180 days of classes. More Work for Teacher Teachers will have ten more working days following the recent ruling by the State De partment of Education. They will work from August 17th thru August 29th on pre planning, and from May 31st thru June 11th on post-plan ning. * * * 1964-65 School Calendar White Schools Pre-planning (teachers) August 17 thru 29. School opens': August 28 District GEA: October 29 Thanksgiving: November 26 and 27 Christmas: dismiss Decem ber 18 and return January 4 Cattle show: March 4 MELON SEASON ENDING, PEAS COMING NOW Marvin Wright, manager of the s+ate farmers market, says this vear’s watermelon season about over, but peas have started coming in vol ume. Wright said the market is now handling 20 to 40 tons of peas each night- * * * Want Ads Get Results! DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964 Easter: April 16-19 School closes: May 28 Post-planning (teachers) — May 31 - June 11. * • « Colored Schools Prc-p.anning (teachers) August 31 - Sept. 12 School opens: September 11 District educational meet ing: October 7 Thanksgiving: November 26 and 27 Christmas: dismiss Decem ber 22 and return January 4 School closes: June 4 Post-planning (teachers) June 7 thru 18. aijfllrV Mt T 7• V J' K 18. " i g wgl|| SmH9e : & W W-■ £ ' : tjgL' jaj>ggg OFFICIALS CONFER—State highway department officials and members of the Seminole County Board of Commis sioners confer on details affecting roads in the Fish Pond Drain watershed proposal. Left to right are Wilson Roberts Earl Olson, Bartow Gibson, M. G. Driskell, Hugh Broome and Leon Barber. Olson and Driskell are sta'/j highway engineers, and Broome is a member of the state highway board- Rob erts, Gibson and Barber are Seminole county commissioners. Convict escapes from work detail near here, captured two hours later A CONVICT was recaptured only two hours after he escaped from a road gang that was working south of Donalson ville Monday afternoon. The convict, Charles Fran cis Rodgers, white male, 38 years of age, ran from: a work detail assigned from the state prison at Bainbridge, around 2:GO p m., Monday. The detail was working on Georgia high way 91, near the Riverturn store. The guard, Wiley Jack Helms, fired a shotgun blast at Rodgers as he ran, striking him in the right leg. Dr. John Davis and Phil Spooner were inspecting cat tle in Spooner’s field east of the point of escape, and they spotted Rodgers, who was 1 in his prisoner’s uniform. Davis called his wife on his truck radio and she relayed the in formation to the local state patrol station. Several troop ers went to the field where Rodgers had been seen, and Ed Pumphrey made the ar rest of the convict, about two and a half miles east of the place where he had left the work detail. The leg wound inflicted by Helms had slowed the escapee, making recap ture possible. Others taking part in the manhunt were Troopers Cecil Franklin, Jr., Morris Stewart, C. L. Marchant and Lt. J. R. Lee. Hugh Broome used an air plane to help locate the con vict in the field while troop ers were coming. Also head ing for the search were offi cers and dogs from the Bain bridge prison. According to the Bainbridge prison office, Rodgers is now in confinement and will fully recover from the leg wound. He may be transferred to a prison in Atlanta. Rodgers has a record of crimes and sentences dating from 1942. He has served varied terms in many prisons in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland. He was sentenced at Lumpkin in Stewart County on April 4, 1964 and sent to Bainbridge to serve a 66-year term for burglary. He had a previous escape attempt on his lengthy rec ord, as he tried to escape from a Goshen, N. Y. prison several years ago. Watershed meet coming July 30 A meeting is scheduled to be held at the courthouse on Thursday evening, July 30, as another step in the prelim inary planning for a water shed along Fish Pond Drain. Dan Searcy, who is a speci alist in watersheds for the state of George, will speak at the gathering, and he will ex plain the things that must be done locally to bring the pro ject into being, says R. P. Armstrong, Seminole’s con servationist. The Seminole chamber of commerce will send letters about the meeting to all land owners along the proposed route, and all interested per son are invited to attend, too. “The people of Donalson ville should be vitally inter ested in the project,” Arm strong said. “It offers a solu tion to the community’s drain age problems, and a display of interest by the people of Donalsonville would be help ful.” Armstrong said that J- M. Flanders, acting area conserv ationist, E. R. Pullen, area engineer, and Brown Nevells, Miller County’s conservation ist, were here this week. Aft er an inspction of the water shed route, the .men expressed ootimism over chances for the project's success. The project would involve 55.000 acres, mostly in Sem inole County, with parts in Earlv and Miller counties. It would begin in the southern tins of Early and Miller, and move through Donalsonville, to d»-ain into Ray’s Lake near FDR school. A number of steps must be made to bring the project in to existence, Armstrong says. A request must be made by a local organization, then it is to be inspected and approved by area, state and federal agencies, before it can be sub mitted to the agriculture com mittee of the Congress for authorization. Clark Moselv is temporary chairman of the organization. Perry Walker is secretary. NUMBER 12