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OUT ON A—
LIMB
by Bo McLeod
Many Americans do not
fully understand just what it
is tnat is happening over near
Viet Nam, but most of us are
agreeable to the “shoot back”
policy they’ve adopted. The
only misunderstanding here
is that some of us didn’t know
such an order was necessary.
I thought it was understood
our Army and Navy would
fight back when attacked.
President Johnson ihust
be firm in this situation, and
we must be prepared to back
his firmness.
Someone said that if the
Communists don’t behave, we
should send some CORE pick
ets over there.
Those lads at the fire house
are certainly proud of their
new fire truck. This is natural
and we should feel good a
bout it with them. A new fire
engine is something to see,
but I doubt it will ever have
the warm personality of Old
Montezuma.
Old Montezuma seemed to
be a part of the community,
it was used occasionally for
fire fighting, but its greatest
contribution was in joining in
to help celebrate things.
Several times the truck
was “stolen” from the fire
house and pushed into a hid
ing place. Once it was missing
for several days.
Looking back, it’s hard to
understand how it was so
easily snitched. It would seld
om start without being push
ed, and it took several deter
mined lads to move it. This
should have caused quite a
fuss and commotion, and the
police should have caught the
culprits in the act every time,
but somehow they didn’t. I
guess the secret was the po
lice enjoyed a little fun, too.
Now it’s not as easy to see
the humor in stealing a fire
truck. That leaves the whole
town without fire protection,
I know now, but we never did
think of it, in those days.
And they talk about today’s
young’uns- Shucks, they’d
have had trouble getting on
the “team” back in the old
days.
That sounds like a really
big shindig, up to the football
stadium Monday night, and
members of SAC, the teams,
and a lot of nice folks will be
glad to see you.
If you have never seen and
heard Buddy Clark in action,
you ought to do something a
bout it. And Arver Mosely is
going to fix the sauce for the
’cue, if he can get away from
the coffee shop for a while.
Dog days all around, and
our city guvmint has decided,
to observe the season by o
pening a drive against all
dogs who don’t have a collar
with a tag on it. with the tag
savin? T have been inoculated,
or words to that effect.
I hope the police will be a
little modest about the way
they destroy the tagless ani
mals. I mean like not shooting
one in front of a -bunch of
kids. That’s a terrible thing
to do, and should be avoided,
if only for common sense pur
poses. There are better ways
of carrying out the law.
No-point is scaring young
people who must learn that
policemen are their friends.
Bunalantwilk Nmd
Single Copies: Ten Ceuta Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia $3.00 a Year m Advance
VOLUME XLVI
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NEW FIRE TRUCK—-This is Donalsonville’s new fire
truck, and its three-man fire department. Checking
the features of the equipment are, left to right, Ladon*
Burke, Louie Jarvis and Timothy Williams, fire chief.
Other parttime firemen and members of the police de
partment conduct regular fire drills and offer improved!
protection to the community.
Barbecue, raffle to benefit athletics
coming Monday at football stadium
A BENEFIT barbecue will be held in the high school football
stadium on Monday evening, August 10. Serving will be
gin at 6:30 o’clock.
On the menu will be barbe
, cue, Brunswick stew, and all
i CONSERVATION MEETING
HERE TODAY
, The annual meeting of
group I’V’s soil and water con
. servation district supervisors
will be held here today (Aug.
i 6) at 10:00 am-
i I Theme for the gathering
> will be “Opportunities for Us
, ing Georgia land for income
i producing recreation.”
The program will be held
i in the grammar school lunch
l room. The Flint River district
i which includes Seminole
■ County, will be hosts. This is
the first time such a meeting
has been held here.
J. T. Mayfield, vice presi
: dent of group IV, will preside
over the program. E. C-Mose
, ly will give the invocation,
: and Senator Julian Webb will
welcome the visitors.
Jerome F. Anderson of the
, bureau of outdoor recreation,
Atlanta, will speak on “Re
; creation, an opportunity for
i Georgia land owners.” Orrie
W. Henson, division of recre
ation and lands, U. S. Forest
Service, will evaluate recrea
' tional opportunities.
', Harry Wilkinson, recrea
tion specialist, soil conserva
-1 tionist service, Spartanburg,
SC., will talk on “Considera-
■ tions in planning income pro
ducing enterprises,” and C. B.
Cox, district cooperator and
operator of Riverview Shoot-
■ ing Preserve, will tell his ex
periences with a farm recrea
tion enterprise.
After lunch, a short tour of
■ Seldom Rest Farm' wiH be led
Iby its owner, John I. (Phil)
Spooner.
Districts expected to at
tend include Alapaha, Flint
‘ißiver, Lower Chattahoochee,
Middle South Georgia, and
| Pine Mountain districts.
DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS
I the odds and ends traditional
for such a meal.
Following the meal, an old
fashioned raffle will be held.
Buddy Clarke, well known as
the man who Chants for high
er prices at the annual cattle
sales, will be the auctioneer.
Clarke will sell items donated
by merchants and business
men of the community who
are supporters of the high
school athletic program. All
money raised by the barbecue
and raffle will be used by the
newly formed Seminole Ath
letic Club to support and en
courage interest in the high
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FIRST BALE OF COTTON—The first bale of cotton in
Seminole County, probably the first in the state,
was ginned Saturday afternoon by Donalsonville Ware
house. Dallas Moore, right, brought the 377-lb bale. D. F.
Wurst, left, reports two more bales were ginned early
this week, and that T. G. Pace of Jakin brought in the
season’s first load of peanuts Tuesday. This means the
harvest season is at hand, Wurst added.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1964
New fire truck arrives, new water
tank ready as city ups fire defense
IT’S A LITTLE: hot for such a thing to happen, but several
people in Donalsonville ’have that feeling that Santa
Claus has been to town, and left a big, red prize for them.
hire Chief Timothy Will
iams, and firemen Louie Jar
vis and -Ladon Burke are the
obviously proud possessors of
a brand new fire truck. It
wasn’t a complete surprise, it
had been ordered for several
months, but since it’s been
here, they’ve been polishing
and petting the thing, like it
was a new toy.
The. in e-uig’hiting unit is
one of tne most modern avail
able today, says Chief Will
iams. When the new' water
tank and network of water
lines and fire hydrants are
completed, Donalsonville will
be in “goo., snape” as far as
fire protection is Concerned,
he added.
The new unit can pump 750
gallons of water a minute. It
carries 1500 feet of 2 112”
hose, 400 feet of 1 112” pre
connected hose, and 200*‘feet
of 1” pressure booster hose,
the chief explained- It carries
500 gallons of water, and is
equipped with axes, ladders,
chemical extinguishers, enter
ing bars, smoke masks, spot
lights and such tools. And it
has a built-in public address
system for directing the work
of the department.
It cost the city approxi
mately $14,000, Williams says
and he adds it was “a bargain
at that price.” He explained
that the improvements in the
department and the hiring of
fulltime firemen should re
sult in lower insurance rates
for the community. A request
for a review of the rate struc
ture will be made soon, in the
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hope of securing such a re
duction, he said.
There are two fulltime fire
men now, Louie Jarvis and
Ladon Burke. These men at
tend fire schools regularly
- and keep up with current de
’ velopments in equipment and
’ procedure. In addition, there
are several parttime firemen,
» and members of the police
■ department join in attending
• regular fire drills.
Another boost in the city’s
defense against fire will, come
‘ when the new water tank and
pipe lines are put into use.
1 This is expected before the
’ first of September, Williams
says. He is also supervisor of
• the city’s water works.. ’
The new tank will hold
250,0C0 gallons of water,
■ more than five times the cap
t acity of the old tank. A new
, well and pumping system, has
J been completed and is con
s nected to the new tank. It
, can pump 1250 gallons a min-
• ute into the tank. Also new is
■ a gas auxiliary engine, to be
‘ used in case of electrical pow
i er failure.
Soon to be completed will
be the new network of water
lines and the addition of six
more fire hydrants. 12,000
feet of water mains are be
ing added to the present sys
tem, and when the work is
completed the city will have
more water pressure, in addi
tion to more gallons.
Williams says the new
system will be “more than the
city actually needs now,” and
he says it should be sufficient
for the fpture needs of Don
alsonville, even with contin
ued growth.
“Over a hundred new dwell
ing houses have been con
structed here in the past few
years, and this has greatly in
creased the demand for wat
er. Indications are that build
ing will continue, at least for
the foreseeable future, and
we want to be ready for the
new growth. We will be in
better position for securing
industry, as well. That’s why
we wanted to install more
w’ater capacity than we ac
tually need at the present,”
v/illiams said.
Other recent improvements
in Donalsonville have been
the purchase of a new police
car; the purchase of a new
garbage truck, placing two
such units into operation; the
securing of a machine to
spray the community for in
sects, the purchase of a new
street sweeper, and a back
hoe and front end loader used
to lay pipes, build ditches,
etc. In recent years, 20 to 25
miles of city streets have
been paved-
The city is not pausing on
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