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NUMBER 3
VOLUME 59
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This bill board, 12 by 25 feet warns motorists of clip joints and speed traps, as they approach
Long County from the South on Highway 301. A similar sign has been placed at the northern end
of the County on the same Federal highway.
The signs are said to have cost $1,500 each and a twenty-four watch is kept over them by two
highway state patrolmen on duty at all times on eight hour shifts.
Plans Completed
For Jones Creek
Homecoming
The morning sermon by a
former Long countian, and
special music by the choir of
Brewton Parker College, Mt.
Vernon, will feature the
homecoming at Jones Creek
Baptist Church on Sunday,
April 19th.
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Guest speaker will be Rev.
Walter F. Chapman, pastor of
the First Baptist Church,
Ocean Way, Fla.
Miss Hildegard Stanley will
direct the choir for the musical
program. There are 62 voices in
the choir.
The guest minister attended
Mercer University, Furman
University, and New Orleans
Baptist Seminary in New
Orleans.
Mr. Chapman, who is a
veteran of World War 11, saw
service with the army in the
European theatre. He came to
Savannah to assume the
pastorate of the Ardsley Park
Baptist Church from the First
Baptist Church at Maxton,
N.C. After serving the
Savannah church for seven
years he was called recently to
the First Baptist Church,
Ocean Way, Fla. Before coming
to Savannah he has also served
churches in South Carolina.
Mr. Chapman will be
accompanied to the
homecoming at Jones Creek by
his mother, Mrs. Horace F.
Chapman, his wife and three of
his four children, Ray, Don
and Rosalee. The eldest son,
Walter, Jr., is a cadet at the
Florida Air Academy,
Melbourne, Fla.
Mr. Chapman is the son of
the late Horace F. Chapman,
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and of Mrs. Chapman, who
now makes her home in St.
Marys. His paternal
grandparents were the late Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel N. Chapman,
who resided about three miles
from Ludowici.
Luncheon will be served in
the educational building at the
close of the morning program
by the women of the church.
Plans for the home coming
are under the direction of the
pastor, Rev. Norman E.
Beverly.
Odum Accepts
W.H.
Post
In Augusta
W.H. Odum, principal of the
Ludowici High School, has
accepted the position of
principal of the Grace wood
Elementary School, Augusta.
Odum is completing his first
year as principal of the
Ludowici school. He was
recently re-elected principal by
the Long County Board of
Education.
Rev. Beverly To
Preach At Rincon
Rev. Norman E. Beverly,
pastor of Jones Creek Baptist
Church, will be the guest
minister at the revival services
at Faith Baptist Church,
Rincon, Monday, April 20th
through Sunday, April 26.
Rev. M.A. Murray, retired
Baptist minister, will fill the
Jones Creek Church pulpit on
Sunday, April 26th.
Tommy Smith Dies In
Action In Vietnam
News has been received here
of the death of Pvt. 1/C
Thomas C. Smith, Jr., in action
with the U.S. Army in
Vietnam. He was 20 years of
age, and went to Vietnam last
December.
Annual Memorial
Day Program
At Midway
The annual Memorial Day
exercises will be held at
Midway Congregational
Church, Liberty County, on
Sunday, April 28, under the
direction of the Midway
Society.
The program will begin at
11:30 o’clock with Rev. Alvis
A. White, retired Presbyterian
minister of St. Simons as the
guest speaker. He will be
introduced by W. J. Martin,
member of the board of
selectmen of the Midway
Society.
The invocation will be by
Rev. J.W. Miller, retired
Presbyterian minister,
Hinesville.
Mrs. Anthony Nicklas of New
York City will present a special
program of music. The
accompanist will be her father,
Rev. Martel Tremain, retired
Presbyterian minister
Flemington.
Olin S. Fraser of Hinesville,
vice president of the Midway
Society, will preside.
Memorial Day exercises will
be held in the afternoon in the
adjacent cemetery.
The young soldier died on
April 8 while on a combat
operation when he received
injuries from a booby trap.
Funeral arrangements are
pending the arrival of the body
from the Far East.
Survivors are his mother and
step-father, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Milton of Ludowici;
father, Thomas C. Smith of
Conyers; two sisters, Mrs.
Linda Hutcheson and Miss
Gloria Smith, both of
Ludowici; two brothers, Wyatt
Smith and Donald Smith,
Ludowici; maternal
grandparents, Mrs. Bessie
Gordon and Perry Gordon of
Ludowici; paternal
grandmother, Mrs. T.S. Smith
of Ludowici.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by the
NeSmith-Harrison Funeral
Home of Jesup.
Registration Os
Pre-School Children
Continues
Pre-school age children began
registering for next fall’s term
on Wednesday. The registration
will continue.
All children, who will be six
years of age by January 1,
1971, may register. Parents are
urged to bring their children
for registration.
LUDOWICI, LONG COUNTY, GEORGIA 31316
The investigation is being
continued into the identity of
the person who fired a shot
gun blast through a window of
the Methodist Church
parsonage in the predawn
hours of Sunday.
Rev. Raymond F. Cook,
pastor of the United Methodist
Church, said he was standing at
the kitchen sink at 3 a.m.,
drinking water, when the blast
narrowly missed his head.
The blast was reported to be
buck shot from al2 gauge gun.
Sheriff Cecil Nobles has
offered a SI,OOO reward for
information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the
person firing the shot.
The minister is the leader of a
group of Long Countians
seeking a change in local
government and an
investigation of alleged
corruption in governmental
affairs.
Local officers from the
sheriff’s department, and the
GBI are making the
investigation. State patrolmen
have also been sent into the
county, other than those
guarding the bill boards
warning tourists of alleged
speed traps and clip joints.
These signs were erected at the
order of Gov. Lester Maddox.
LT. GOVERNOR GEORGE I. SMITH
Lt. Gov. Smith will be the
guest speaker at the meeting of
the Ludowici-Long County
Chamber of Commerce on
Thursday evening, April 23rd.
Ladies night will be observed at
the dinner meeting, which will
convene at 7:30 o'clock, with
the president, J.W. Jackson,
presiding. Senator Ronald
Adams of Brunswick,
Representative W.J. Salem of
Lyons, and Representative
Dewey Rush of Glennville have
been invited to the meeting.
Proposal To
Form A Local
Jaycee Chapter
A meeting was held Monday
night, April 13 to discuss the
possibility of forming a Jaycee
organization in Long County.
The men present showed a
great deal of interest and are
making plans to begin a
chapter immediately.
All young men 21 years old
to 35 years old are invited to
meet with us at the Franklinia
Restaurant Monday night,
April 20 at 8:00 at which time
we will discuss further plans
for a local chapter. We will be
honored to have with us Mr.
Terry Branch, present secretary
of the Claxton Jaycee Chapter.
Mr. Branch will bring with him
several members of the Claxton
Chapter so that they may
advise the men present of the
steps that will have to be taken
in order to form a local
chapter.
Be sure to attend this
important meeting and bring a
friend with you.
Rabun Phillips
MOUNT VERNON - The Brewton Parker College Choir, 62 voices strong, will perform concerts at Jones Creek Baptist Church in
Ludowici and at the First Baptist Church in Hazlehurst on Sunday, April 19, according to an announcement by Miss Hildegard
Stanley, the director. Performances for both the morning worship service on April 19 and for the Homecoming activities during the
afternoon of the same day are anticipated by Rev. Norman Beverly, pastor at Jones Creek.
Revival At Elim
Baptist Church
Next Week
A series of revival services
will be held at Elim Baptist
Church next week, with Rev.
T.J. Cribb. Savannah
evangelist, as the guest
minister.
Services will be held each
evening at 7:30 o’clock from
Monday, April 20, through
Sunday, April 28.
Special music will be by the
Cribb family, which includes
the minister, his wife and three
children. This will feature each
service.
Plans for the revival were
made by the pastor, Rev. W.G.
Gosnell.
Social Security
News
Q. I am 86 years old and for
the last 10 years my son has
been supporting me. I have
never worked and my late
husband died before social
security started. My son died
last month, and I now have no
income. Is it possible for me to
get some benefit from the
social security contribution my
son made?
A. Probably so, you should
file a social security claim as a
dependent parent. Parents of
deceased workers may be
eligible for monthly benefit
checks if the worker
contributed at least one-half of
the parent’s support during the
12 months ending with the
worker’s death.
Q. I filed a claim for
disability benefits recently and
my claim was approved. I
became unable to work in May
1969, but my first check was
for the month of December
1969. Why did I not get paid
back to May when I became
disabled?
A. The law provides a
six-month waiting period, so
payments are not made for the
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A fishing party on the St. John's River about twenty years ago. From the right, the late Raymond Conwell, Mrs. Conwell formerly of
Milton, Delaware. Mrs. Conwell is the former Eulalie Harrington of Ludowici and now lives at Donaldsonville, Ga. On the left is H.F.
(Doc) Hughes, retired Ludowici business man.
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Methodist To Vote On
Merger At Savannah
Dr. Zach Henderson of
Statesboro has announced that
the South Georgia Annual
Conference of the United
Methodist Church will vote a
second time on a racial merger
plan that body defeated last
June.
Dr. Henderson, who is
chairman of the South Georgia
section of a state Committee
on Merger, said the identical
plan defeated last 'me in
sessions at Valdosta would be
presented when the South
Georgia Annual Conference
meets June 1-5 at Savannah.
Debate on the measure is
scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon, June 2.
The announcement was the
result of nine months of
deliberations in closed door
sessions of both the Joint
six months. Payments to a
disabled worker and his family,
or to a disabled widow or
widower cannot begin until the
seventh full month of
disability. In your case the
waiting period began with
June, ended with November,
and the first payment was for
December.
Q. I received benefits as a
student until June 1969 and
then went to work. I earned
$3,000 in 1969. Must I file an
annual report of my earnings?
A. Yes. If you received any
social security benefits in the
year and earned over $1,680.,
you must file a report with the
Social Security Administration.
This report asks for the months
you did not earn over $l4O.
You are due benefits for these
months. This report must be
filed by April 15.
Social security information
and assistance may be obtained
from the representative who
visits Ludowici on the 3rd
Thursday of each month. You
may contact the representative
at the Courthouse from 9:30
a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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Committee on Merger and the
South Georgia section.
Dr. Henderson said that the
joint committee, in a session
some two months ago,
concluded that it could not
improve on provisions of the
original merger plan. That
document provides for merger
of the black Georgia
Conference, consisting of
30,000 members, with the
white North and South Georgia
Conferences. The white
conferences have membership
totaling just over 361,000.
The plan provides for a fixed
ratio of black membership on
conference boards and
agencies, improved salaries and
pensions for blacks, and
additional leadership roles for
black ministers.
Last June the plan was
defeated by the South Georgia
Annual Conference.
Long Countains
Who Are 111
A number of Long Countians
are in hospitals, or have been
released from them in the past
few days.
In Wayne Memorial Hospital,
Jesup, are Mrs. Charles Phillips,
Mrs. Anna Smith Hart of Lake
Worth, Fla., who was visiting
relatives here when taken ill,
and Tom Hill Davis of
Ludowici. Mrs. Harley
Freeman is at home from Ware
County Hospital, Waycross.
In Liberty Memorial
Hospital, Hinesville, is Mrs.
Red Brassell.
Tommy Johnston is a patient
in Chatham Memorial Medical
Center, Savannah.
Mrs. Inez Smith is ill at her
home.
A Good Florida Catch
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970
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Miss Hildegard Stanley, who
will direct the Brewton Parker
Choir at the Jones Creek
Baptist Church homecoming
on Sunday, April 19th.
Waycross Arts
Festival Starts
April 17
The Fourth Annual Waycross
Arts Festival will be presented
in two acts, April 17-19 and
April 24-26, according to an
announcement made by Jack
Saussy, chairman of the festival
committee.
The festival, sponsored by
the Waycross and Ware County
Chamber of Commerce, will
have as its theme “Something
for Everyone.”
The “First Act” will begin
Friday, April 17, with a
performance by the University
of Georgia Dixie Redcoat
Band.
Saturday, April 18, a
Sidewalk Art Show and an
exhibit on international
cultures entitled “Treasure
Island”, will be open all day.
Want to spark up lagging
appetites and have livelier
cooking? Miss Martha Johnson,
nutrition specialist with the
Cooperative Extension Service,
says you can by using spices
and herbs. Beginners might
start with a tested recipe.
