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Vol. 141, No. 1 - Waynesboro, Ga. 30830
Established in 1882
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - $1.00
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Two Burke County dairies were recently among the top five
picks for best chocolate milk in the state by YouTuber afool-
zerrand.com. In a quest to travel the world in search of the
best of the best, currently including 1,520 milk brands in 51
countries, he stumbled upon two local flavors that had him
coming back for more. Leeann and Caroline Keith, pictured-
above, granddaughters of Jimmy and Ginny Franks who own
Southern Swiss Dairy, proudly display their family’s chocolate
milk, which ranked in the top spot on the list. In fifth place was
Hart Dairy, whose farms are run by Vaclav and Maggie Reindl.
Their son Jakob sports a chocolate milk mustache at right.
See our Facebook page for the link to the video.
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Stone takes oath as
Superior Court Judge
ROY F. CHALKER JR.
rchalker@bellsouth.net
For the first time in many
years, a Burke Countian is a
member of the Superior Court
bench of the Augusta Judicial
Circuit.
Monday, Waynesboro
attorney Jesse C. Stone was
sworn in by Governor Brian
Kemp to the post vacated last
year by Judge Michael Annis.
Prior to Stone’s
appointment, it had been 25
years since the county had
a representative on the court
when Bettieanne Childers
Hart lost her post to Judge
Neal Dickert in a close 1996
election. Prior to that, it had
been over half a century
since Judge G.C. Anderson
of Waynesboro was on the
bench.
For ten years, Stone, a
Waynesboro native,
represented the 23rd Senate
District of Georgia, which
includes Burke, Glascock,
Jefferson,
SEE
Jenkins, Johnson,
McDuffie, STONE,
Screven, and 6A
COVID CORNER
According to the Georgia Department of Public Health,
Burke County has had a total of 2,356 COVID cases since
the beginning of the pandemic. This number includes 1647
confirmed cases and 709 instances in which antigens were
found which indicated an earlier infection.
The agency also reported Tuesday that there had been
a total of 51 confirmed and probable deaths here from the
vims, including one in the last week.
The county has been averaging about 4 new cases per
day for the last two weeks and has had a total of 138
hospitalizations.
The DPH reports that there have been a total of 990,821
cases of COVID 19 in Georgia, resulting in 16,927 deaths.
This total includes 2,166 probable COVID deaths and
14,761 confirmed deaths.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MICHAEL SEARLES
In the United States, voting
has been the hallmark of
democratic participation.
It also has been one of the
more contentious issues that
our nation has faced. Of the
twenty-seven amendments
to the U.S. Constitution, five
extended the right to vote
by broadening the franchise.
The 15th Amendment ratified
in 1870 was designed to
protect U.S. citizens from
being denied the right to vote
based on race, color or former
slave status. The amendment
specified that all men over the
age of 21 would be entitled
to vote regardless of race or
color. The 17th Amendment
was ratified in 1913 changed
the way senators are elected.
Prior to the amendment,
senators were elected by the
legislature for each state.
The 17th Amendment shifted
the power to elect senators
from the state legislature
to the people by popular
vote. The 19th Amendment
was ratified in 1920, making
voting available to women in
state and federal elections.
The 24th Amendment was
ratified in 1964 making it
illegal to require voters to pay
: The evolving voting challenge
a poll tax ending the practice
of disenfranchisement due to
the lack of money. The 26th
Amendment ratified in 1971
lowered the voting age from
21 to 18 giving voting rights
to any American citizen who
was 18 years of age or older.
While Amendments were
adopted and laws passed, the
ability to exercise the right to
vote has proven a challenge
for African Americans.
Neither the 15th nor the 19th
Amendments guaranteed
black men and women open
access to the franchise. Even
when access was granted
it often was on a limited
basis. From 1870 to 1877,
2,000 African Americans
held local, state and federal
offices with 16 serving in the
U.S. Congress. The numbers
dwindled after 1877 with
Representative George Henry
White of North Carolina
giving his farewell address
in 1901, signaling the last
Reconstruction era African
American to serve in the U.S.
Congress.
Twenty-five years would
pass before another black
man, Oscar Stanton De Priest
of Illinois would be elected
to serve in the House of
Representatives and seventy-
two years before African
Americans from the South
would enter that body.
In 1973, Andrew Young
Jr. of Georgia and Barbara
Jordan of Texas were elected
to the Congress. The loss
of political representation
in Congress was not due to
a lessening interest on the
part of African Americans.
Blacks were barred from
participating in the political
process by violent acts by
groups like the Ku Klux Klan,
poll tax requirements, literacy
tests, and local pressures of
businesses, employers, and
landowners.
Even with the passage of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
not all things were made
equal. The right to vote did
not always provide black
citizens an opportunity to
be represented. In Burke
County, Georgia, eight black
citizens brought a class action
in the United States District
Court for the Southern
District of Georgia alleging
that the county system of at-
large elections of five county
commissioners
violated the
constitutional and
statutory rights of
the county’s black
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