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by Bo McLeod
I know a little more about
Dog Days this week than I
did last week. I know that as
far as we’re concerned, Dog
Days did not begin on July 3,
but on July 28.
I used Webster’s dictionary
as my source, and I can und
erstand why he was mistaken,
since he was a Yankee and
had never been to Seminole
County. I should have relied
on my trusty almanac, but I
was careless for a while, and
I have learned my lesson.
On the other hand, it may
be that since Lyndon is in
office he’s changing Dog Days
along with so many other
things. Or could it be t'he Su
preme Court?
I’m glad I made the mis
take, because it prompted one
of my favorite people to take
pen in hand and write a card
to testify for the July 28th
Dog Dayers. It was Miss 1 No
ra Lawrence Smith of the
Wiregrass Farmer, Ashburn.
Miss Nora says “I am an
old timer,” and “my date is
right.” She notes, too, that it
rained on the 28th, and ac
cording to the legend it’s sup
posed to rain every day for
forty days.
I’m sure our farmers will
receive this news with the
reaction it deserves, but I
hcpe they won’t be too loud
about it.
I will not be a delegate to
the National Democratic Con
vention in Atlantic City next
month. I could give several
reasons but to sum it up I’ll
say I’m not going because I
wasn’t invited.
As far as we know, the
title of “Firstest with 1 an 0-
pen Cotton Boll” goes to John
B. Roberts, who brought one
to Commercial State Bank on
last Friday.
Being a fellow sufferer, I
make no remark about his
bringing the boll to the bank
er. I never question anything
a man does around the bank.
Wonder what ever became
of the “boirib shell” Henry
Cabot Lodge was going to re
veal at the GOP convention.
Must have been a dud.
And so was Lodge.
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Edenfield and Walt
er Harrison of The Millen
News suggest a “a moratori
um of one week in the dis
semination of news to the
world insofar as it pertains to
murder, arson, riots or any
civil disorders of any nature.”
“The desire of news media
to get the biggest and ugliest
news story of the moment is
doing this country a great
disservice and will eventually
cause a revolution, if it is not
restrained. Freedom of com
munication does not give li
cense to destroy a nation,”
their editorial continues.
The editorial suggests that
“we let God enter the case not
as a Prosecuting Attorney
but as the only One that can
really solve the problems of
the present age.”
Amen. This would solve it,
and only this would. Trouble,
it’s too extremely simple and
old fashioned. Extremism has
became a dirty word to some
folks who won’t agree to try
anything that’s been preach
ed regularly, if not too suc
cessfully, for 2,000 years.
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VOLUME XLVI
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STUDYING THE CODE—Like other .such groups over
the state, the Seminole County Democratic Execu
tive Committee is studying the new election code passed
by the recent session of the General Assembly. Shown
inspecting the new rules are, left to right, seated, Bill
Brigham, chairman, L. E. Williams, Al Cordell. Standing
are Mrs. Mae S. Garwood, clerk, B. B. Barber and Roscoe
Burke. Brigham succeeds Cordell as chairman of the
committee, a post Cordell held for two years. Cordell has
been on the committee most of the time since 1935, and 1
he will continue to represent Iron City as a member. A
meeting is planned in Atlanta August 6 and 7, to explain
the election code and Brigham plans to attend.
AT FOOTBALL FIELD—
’Cue for athletics planned August 10
(Special to The News)
ON MONDAY evening, August 10, at the high school football
field, a gala event will be held. The high school band,
cheerleaders, members of the football, baseball and basket
ball teams will be there. In fact, the whole county is invited
to the barbecue.
Who’s puting it on and
why? Some of your friends 1
are planning it to raise money
for the high school athletic
program. They have formed
the Seminole Athletic Club
and will be in charge of the
festivities.
There will be home-cooked
barbecue and brunswick stew.
Then yells by the cheerlead
ers and marches by the band.
Next an introduction of the
athletes, and finally an old
fashioned country auction
and country store.
The door prize will be a 12-
gauge Mossbery shotgun.
Tickets to the barbecue are
SI.OO for adults and 50c for
children twelve and under.
In case of rain, the barbe
cue and program will be held
in the grammer school cafe
torium at 6:30.
Luther Spooner is president
of the athletic club.
RAINFALL REPORT
R. P. Armstrong reports
that 6.13 inches of rain have
been recorded at his official
station for the month of
July (thru Wednesday noon).
For the first six months of
the year, 35.46 inches had
been officially recorded, thus
the year’s total now stands at
41.58 inches. Normal for the
year is 52 inches.
Armstrong called attention
to the fact that only .98-inch
was received at his station on
Tuesday of last week, and
much more was received in
the city limits at that time.
Armstrong’s is the only offic
ial gauge in the county.
Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia
DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1964
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NEW PIANO—A new piano has been placed in the sanc
tuary of Friendship Methodist Church, in memory
of the late Rev. C. B. Ware and Mrs. Ware. He was 1 asso
ciate pastor of the church at the time of his death. His
granddaughter, Miss Sue Smith, is seated at the piano,
and looking on are, left to right, Mrs. C. W. Smith, his
daughter, Mrs. Wallace Drake, music director, and John
Drake, Jr., chairman of the memorial fund.
Others on the fund committee were Mrs- Woodie
King and Charles Bridges. The Checkering grand piano
was dedicated by Rev. Henry K. Edwin in his last serv
ice as pastor here. Miss Sknith played for the service.
Fish pond drain watershed meeting
coming tonite at 8:00 at court house
A MEETING to make further plans and fulfill more require
ments toward the development of a watershed along
Fish Pond Drain will be held in the Seminole County court
house Thursday, July 30.
The meeting will begin at I
8:00 p.m, says Clarke Mosely,
temporary chairman of the
planning committee.
The first item of business
will be election of permanent
officer, Mosely said.
Dan Searcy, a specialist in
watersheds for the state of
Georgia, will be the principal
speaker, and he will explain
the procedures that must be
followed locally to bring the
project into being.
The project would affect
55,000 acres of land, mostly
in Seminole County. It would
start in the southern portions
of Miller and Early counties,
and proceed through Donal
sonville and down Fish Pond
Drain into Ray’s Lake near
the old FDR school building.
The preliminary planning
for the project has been led
by Seminole County’s chamb
er of commerce. Officials of
state and federal agencies,
and county officials of the
counties concerned have indi
cated interest in the project.
280 landowners have been
invited to the meeting, but
Mosely stressed that the gen
eral public is invited.
$3.00 a Year in Advance
| A similar procedure result
ed recently in the approval of
a watershed project for Dry
Creek in Early, Miller, Deca
tur and Seminole counties.
NOMINEES NAMED FOR
A»uS COMMITTEES
ASC community committees
for tne county s tour districts
met on Wednesday morning
of this week and selected
nominees for this year’s elec
tion. They are:
Donalsonville: E. B. Avirett, Le
roy Dutton, J. B. Clarke, Joe F.
Joiner, Billy Wade Lewis and Joe
Miller.
Iron City: Percy Hornsby, Jim
my Hornslby, John Ritchie, John
Emory Trawick, M. S. Waddell and
Zeyward L. Williams.
Steam Mill-Rock Pond: Martin
Hunter, Bob Fiveash, Talmadge
Frasier, Sam Mills, Roy Mims and
Hoke Parker.
Spring Creek: Clyde Earnest,
Heyward Johnson, Leroy Johnson,
Randall Johnson, James H. Horne
and J. W. Warriner.
Additional names will be
added to the ballots if re
quested not later than Friday,
July 31st. Petitions must be
signed by six eligible voters
from the same community.
Return Those Ballots!
Ballots will be mailed this
week. Voters will have three
full weeks to return the ball
ots, and Leon Barnes, office
manager, promises that those
who do not return the ballots
promptly “will hear from us
on a daily basis.”
“We want a 100 percent re
turn,” Barnes said.
SIGN-UP PERIOD FOR
EMERGENCY AID
The Seminole ASCS office
has received a “go ahead” sig
nal on the emergency AGP
program.
The county committee has
set August 3 thru August 21
as the sign-up period for re
questing cost-shares- The pro
gram will pay seventy per
cent of the cost of rebuilding
terraces, waterways and dit
ches damaged by heavy rains
during the period March 1
thru May 2, 1964. Land level
ing is also available in con
nection with reworking ter
races.
Anyone interested in part
icipating should file a request
during the sign-up period. Re
quests already filed under the
regular AGP cannot be chang
ed to the emergency program,
says Leon Barnes, office man
ager.
AU work under the regular
ACP and emergency ACP
must be completed by the re
porting dates specified on
each approval. These dates
can be extended to December
31, 1964, if requested, Barnes
said.
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