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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 II 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 (Continued on Second Paige) R ' I 1 tai ' - w 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 NUMBER 15 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 (Continued on Second Page)