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OUT ON A— LIMB 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. —o— 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. SnnalfifltwtllF Single Copies: Ten Cento VOLUME XLVI I- ™m* _. I j||t, W \ W I ' wJR// ”•1J 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 JU ■' ■pL IB ; i J T" f - MEW fl bt "Wiß /1B \ I JLi i . ' ■ wBHBBPB® 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. NUMBER 14