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Else red As Second Ciass Mail Matter at the postoffice at Pembroke, Ga.
Under The Act of March 3, 1879
Published in The City of Pembroke Every Thursday
Frank O. Miller Owner and Editor
Mrs. D. E. Medders Local Editor
Official Organ of Bryan County and Tne City of Pembroke
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Governor's "State
Os State" Address
Highlights GPA
The “State of the State” address
by Governor Marvin Griffin high
lighted the annual meeting of the
Georgia Press Association held
this year in Augusta. Hearing
the top state executive declare that
the condition of the state is “ex
cellent” were Frank O. Miller,
publisher and editor of the Pem
broke Journal, Mr s. Elisabeth
Medders, news editor, Mrs. Miller,
and Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Lee, the
latter two owner and managing
editor of the Springfield He il 1.
The local and Springfield news
paper people were registered at
the Bon Air Hotel for the con
vention, attending business ses
sions and social affairs held in
connection with the three day
meeting.
C. J. Broome, Jr., editor-pub
lisher of the Alma Times and a
member of the Georgia Legisla
ture, was elected president. M. A.
Perry, editor of the Metropolitan
Herald of Atlanta, was named
vice-president, and Charles Mar
tin, Jr., editor of the Atlanta
Suburban Reporter of East Point
was chosen treasurer.
The governor spoke at the final
event of the convention, a lunch
eon given by the Augusta news
papers. A newspaperman, pub
lisher of the Bainbridge paper, he
told his co-workers that Georgia
“is carrying forward in full force
all essential governmental pro
ernmental programs designed to
stimulate growth and to create a
climate favorable for business,
i.,. j faWW^
f GEORGIA'S FINEST CROP U
1 WITHOUT DOUBT, Georgia’s most valuable
> “crop” is youth. We want to help our young peo- si
,• 1 pie to grow into the sort of healthy, God-fearing «i ,
’ I law-abiding citizens our state and nation will M! !
I need in the atomic age. 1
I We know that summer camps help produce good f
I citizens for tomorrow. So - - we’ve tried to do S;
I our part in making camping facilities available »' I
to more and more young Georgians.
LAST YEAR . . . about this time and at Rock | >
Eagle 4-H Camp, we dedicated the first Rural • ; I
Electric Cottage. Since then, hundreds of camp- i/ J
ers have enjoyed the facilities provided for them L'il
by the 247,000 members of Georgia’s Rural Elec- yJ
; I trie Cooperatives.
i The first Monday in June of this year marked I y
1 another milestone. On that Day the first group I
I of young campers occupied the spic-and-span I ,
new Rural Electric Cottage at Lake Jackson FEA- I »
FHA Camp. i
GEORGIA’S COOPERATIVES rural electric
| systems were formed to give Service to rural
j Georgia — Service with a big “S”; This is an-
j other example of cooperative thinking for a bigger,
’ better Georgia in the years to come.
1 That’s why we say - - again . . .
CO-O” ELECTRIC POWER IS
Ml GOOD FOR GEORGIA!
I CANOOCHEE !
! ELECTRIC
j Membership Corp. IxV
“A Locally-Owned,
Non-Profit 11
I Electric Utlity” Jg IWII
agriculture and industry.”
Making it clear that tradition
will stand firm in Georgia, the
Governor said, “We will not toler
ate violence in this state, nor
will we yield to the illegal and
unjust attempt made to mix the
races in the schools and colleges of
Georgia.”
He took up the four major state
areas of expenses — education,
highways, welfare and public
health—in that order. Os the first
he said, “For the first time in the
history of Georgia, there is within
reach of every child a high school
education. Our new schools and
added bus routes make it possible
for all children to get a sound
preparation for their future.”
Notes to the Editor
By ELISABETH M. MEDDERS
My weekend at the Georgia
Press Association was profitable
from several points of view. In
the first place, I circulated among
the elite of the fourth estate with
an open mind and a closed mouth,
hoping thus to absorb just a mite
of that inexplicable something
that makes members of the fra
ternity like nobody —or nothing
else — in the world.
I even invaded the business ses
sions, that sanctum of editors and
publishers, where they wax elo
quent in spirited discourse and
wit and repartee are batted back
afid forth, barbed more than often
with an import that could well
take the hide off an ordinary hu
man being. Editors, you under
stand, being extra-ordinary beings,
thus belonging to a class above
and beyond mere ordinary. It is
not, I have discovered, that they
especially want to fit into such
a category, but it is forced on
them. They couldn’t exist other
wise, which even pertains to a
lowly office boy like myself.
Two of the bits of knowledge
that I brought back with me came
not from the press, however. I
learned, after a long and hard
search, where hotels keep their
toothpicks and how to prop up a
broken window in a hotel room.
I wanted the toothpick because,
to put it bluntly, I needed one. I
asked the waiters, the bellhops
and the elevator girl. They didn’t
know’. Somebody suggested the
Golf Room. I poo-poohed that one
w’ith the remark that what in the
world was the connection between
a toothpick and golf. I went into
the Terrace Room. I hunted in the
Plantation Room. I looked in the
East Room. I asked in the Gift
Shop. Finally, as a last resort, I
hunted up the Golf Room. And
there they were.
As for the broken window situ
ation, an up-ended trash basket
and a bottle of barbecue sauce
will do the trick. On top of each
other, they fit exactly under the
window and support it just at the
right height. On this trip the bar
becue sauce was, oddly enough, a
favor at one of the dinners. How
ever, from now on when I visit
hotels I w'ill pack a bottle of bar
becue sauce along with my tooth
brush and other necessities. One
never knows.
ELLABELLE P. O.
IS MOVED TO
NEW BUILDING
Employees and patrons of the
Ellabelle post office are enjoy
ing a new’ building which is not
only attractive inside but has flow
er beds so as to have a pleasing
outside appearance also.
The building is located at the
crossroads of the Arden road and
the post office moved into it on
Friday, June 7.
The new Ellabelle Post Office is
concrete block construction with
inside walls natural colored block
also. It has four rooms with built
in filing cabinets .and fluorescent
lighting. The flower boxes are
built across the entire front of the
building and the parking area is
marked by a triangle shaped flow
erbed with the flag pole in the
center.
Mrs. Marguerite D. Weeks is
postmistress.
BAPTISTS TO SHOW
FILM AT SUNDAY
NIGHT SERVICE
A film will be shown Sunday
night at the regular church serv
ice of the Pembroke Baptist
Church.
“All for Him” is the title of
the film and those who have seen
it say it is both interesting and
informative. It is a film with reg
ular dialogue and will be inter
esting to both children and adults.
It w’ill begin at 8 o’clock.
Posters are up in prominent
places throughout town inviting
the public to the showing of “All
for Him.” In charge of arrange
ments for the evening are Mrs. T.
H. Edwards and D. E. Medders.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Bacon and
daughter, Beverly, of Atlanta, and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eldridge and
children, Trudy and Henry, of
Columbia, S. C., were recent guests
of Mrs. T. J. Bacon and other
relatives.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI
FIED that there will be heard be
fore the Judge of the Superior
Court of Bryan County, on the Ist
day of July, 1957, at 10 o’clock,
A. M., at the Courthouse in the
City of Pembroke, Georgia, the
case of the STATE OF GEOR
GIA VS. BRYAN COUNTY
SCHOOL DISTRICT, ■ Number
1661, pending in said Court, the
same being a proceeding to con
firm and validate a bond issue in
the amount of $125,000 to be is
sued by Bryan County School Dis
trict for the purpose of providing
funds to build, construct and equip
new school physical education fa
cilities such as gymnasiums, ath
letic fields and buildings and
structures useful in connection
therewith or a combination of such
facilities, adding to, improving and
equipping existing properties and
facilities of the Bryan County
School System and acquiring the
necessary property therefor and
paying expensese incident to ac
complishing the foregoing, and any
citizen of the State of Georgia
residing in said County, or any
other person wherever residing,
who has a right to object may
become a party to these proceed
ings
This the 17th day of June, 1957.
/b/ H. B. WARNELL,
Clerk, Superior Court,
Bryan County, Georgia.
THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL
Preston Denounces
Civil Rights Bill
In Congress
WASHINGTON, June 17. —
Congressman Prince H. Preston
denounced in ringing terms the
Civil Rights bill now before the
House of Representatives and call
ed on his colleagues to defeat the
measure which “substitutes justice
by injunction for the precious
right of trial by jury.”
Preston said that Nikita Khru
shchev’s recent prediction on a
television program that our grand
children would live under a gov
ernment of communist socialism
led to the conclusion that “the
astute masters of the Kremlin see
in this iniquitous Civil Rights bill
an enormous stride in the United
States toward the police state un
der which the oppressed people of
Russia new exist.”
“Khrushchev’s optimism about
the adoption in this country of the
Russian mode of government by
tyranny is further explained when
it is considered that this Police
State legislation is not sponsored
by a subversive group or organiza
tion, but by the President of the
United States and the Republican
administration which he heads,”
Preston declared.
“You men and women of this
Congress know full well that the
enforcement of the sweeping pro
visions of this so-called Civil
Rights bill will require a horde
of bureaucrats and Federal police
to ferret out every imaginary in
fraction of this proposed law,”
Preton continued. “Under what
ever name this force may be des
ignated, its functions will inevi
tably be that of secret police.
“Mr. Speakers, by this legisla
tion we are inviting, if not direct
ing, the establishment of an Amer
ican gestapo to spy and snoop and
terrorize American citizens in
every village and hemlet in the 48
states of this Union,” the First
District Representative empha
sized.
In demanding the defeat of the
Civil Rights measure, Preston
warned the Congress in these
terms, “I say to you that we face
tragedy such as this nation has
never experienced when judicial
stupidity and legislative zeal un
wittingly combine to become the
strong arm of Communist Russia
and thus accomplish the disruption
and disunity of this nation in a
manner that the Communist party
could never accomplish alone and
unaided.”
Cook Defines
'Private Ponds'
Attorney General Eugene Cook
has drawn legal borders around
private ponds in their relationship
to the sale and purchase of game
fish in Georgia.
In a ruling handed to Game and
Fish Director Fulton Lovell, Cook
defined a private pond as “a body
of water being wholly on or with
in the lands of one title, where the
fish cannot go upstream or down
stream or to the lands of another.”
Cook said there seems to be con
siderable confusion among owners
of private ponds as to what con
stitutes a “private pond” in con
tradistinction to a privately owned
pond.
A person may dam a stream
crossing his property to impound
the waters forming a pond entirely
within bounds of his property, but
this would not constitute a “pri
vate pond,” it was pointed out,
since the water would be flowing
to and from the pond and onto
the lands of another.
Since the law passed by the Gen
eral Assembly legalized the sale of
game fish with permission from
the Game and Fish Commission,
only “private ponds” as defined by
Cook's ruling are eligible to come
under the bill.
Meanwhile, Game and Fish
Wildlife Rangers have continued
to apprehend violators of the game
fish law. Rangers in the Way
cross district have been active in
the arrest of several violators
illegally transporting game fish
and offering them for sale.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Bacon re
turned to Atlanta Tuesday, leav
ing their daughter, Beverly, with
her grandmother, Mrs. T. J.
Bacon, for several weeks. Also
visiting Mrs. Bacon are Mrs.
Henry Eldridge and children,
Trudy and Henry, of Columbia,
S. C.
WOMEN 18-55, to address and
mail our circulars at home on
commission. Write GIFT FAIR,
(Dept. 8), Springfield, Penna.
Mrs. Effie Johnson spent the
weekend at Savannah Beach with
her daughter, Mrs. Charles Nel
son, Mr. Nelson and their young
son. । _
Griffin Reveals
Big State Plans
At GPA Session
AUGUSTA, Ga. (GPS).—Gov.
Marvin Griffin took the occasion
of the recent 71st annual conven
tion of the Georgia Press Assn.,
just concluded in Augusta, to dis
close big plans for Georgia’s fu
ture development in his “State of
the State” address.
Addressing fellow members of
Georgia’s Fourth Estate for the
third time since becoming chief
executive in anuary, 1955, the Gov
ernor, who is editor and publisher
of The Post-Searchlight at Bain
bridge, revealed that:
1. Thought is being given to
the establishment of junior level
colleges in urban areas such as
Macon, Augusta, Savannah and
Columbus.
2. He feels the University Sys
tem should expand its curricula
by adding the Bachelor of Arts
degree at the Georgia State Col
lege of Business Administration in
Atlanta.
3. Long-range plans are being
formulated to open up the North
Georgia mountains as a national
scenic attraction by constructing a
scenic highway through the area.
Here specifically is what he said
about the proposed plans for the
future of higher education in Geor
gia:
“The increased enrollments in
every branch of the University
System has been of grave concern
to this administration. At a time
when our institutions of higher
learning are growing more and
more crowded each year, thought
is being given to the establishment
of junior level colleges in our
urban areas such as Macon, Au
gusta, Savannah and Columbus.
“This program not only would
relieve the crowded conditions at
our major educational institutions,
but it would make a college educa
tion a reality for additional thou
sands of young Georgians.
“The curricula of the University
System should be expanded wher
ever possible, and 1 feel that the
addition of the Bachelor of Arts
degree at our newest University
System unit, the Georgia State
College of Business Administra
tion, would greatly enhance the
present position of leadership that
this college maintains.”
Regarding the state’s future
plans for the mountain region,
Gov. Griffin declared:
“Long-range plans are now be
ing formulated to open up the
North Georgia mountains as a na
tional scenic attraction to the
thousands of tourists from Geor
gia and the nation. What we have
in mind is to provide a scenic
highway which, when completed,
would make the State Parks in the
Georgia mountains, such as Uni
coi, Amicalola Falls, Vogel, Black
Rock Mountain, Cloudland Can
yon, Fort Mountain, New Echota
and others more accessible.
“Already we have let the con
tract to have a new road reach
ing to the topp of Brasstown Bald
Mountain, which is the highest
point in Georgia. This new over
all scenic route will be compara
ble to the other scenic highways in
the nation, and will contribute
greatly towards making Georgia
one of the leading tourist states in
thethe United States.”
All in all, Griffin’s address was
a comprehensive report to the peo
ple of Georgia through the men
and women of the working press
over the state. He said the “State
of the State is excellent.” He re
viewed in considerable detail the
progress the state has made under
his administration, particularly in
the areas of education, highways,
welfare and public health.
In the field of common schools,
for instance, the Governor pointed
out that he has just approved a
budget of $139,781,460.70 for
Georgia’s public schools for the
next school year, the largest pub
lic school budget in the state's
history and $15,580,000 greater
than last year’s burget.
Source of the general budget is
$122.1-million from the general
appropriations bill and $12.4-mil
lion from the second or “contin
gent” section. Os the increase,
$10,480,000 is from state funds;
$5.1-million from local funds ap
plied to the Minimum Foundation
Program for Education. Among
other things, the increase will en
able Georgia’s 26,000 teachers to
receive a S2OO-a-year, across-the
board pay increase, which makes a
total of SSOO in salary raises they
will have received since Gov. Grif
fin took office.
The chief executive touched on
many other subjects, including the
County Unit System and segrega
tion. On these points he said “our
traditional County Unit System is
being preserved and will be
handed down inviolate to future
administrations” and “we are
standing firm as the Rock of Ages
in our defense against attacks on
our system of segregation.”
Actually, Griffin summed up the
State of the State” when he said:
“Georgia is no longer near the
bottom when the roll of states is
called. She is moving up to her
rightful place among the sister
hood of states . . . Working to
gether, we are assuring a better
way of life for all our people.”
Foreign Aid Plan
Hurts U.S. at Home,
Abroad —Talmadge
ATLANTA. (GPS). — Despite
some strong arguments up in
W ashington against what many
consider “global giveaways,” the
U. S. Senate has passed the Ei
senhower administration’s $3,637,-
000,000 foreign aid bill by a vote
of 57 to 25. Both Georgia Sena
‘ tors Richard B. Russell and Her
man E. Talmadge voted against
the measure, which now goes to
the House for further action.
In opposing the bill, Sen. Tal
madge spoke out from the Senate
floor for the second time in op
position to foreign aid, which he
termed a “strange program” in
which “truth is inverted and re
sults a mirage.” It was, in the
opinion of many observers, per
haps his best senatorial speech to
date; certainly the most thorough
ly documented.
“Let me emphasize that my
views on foreign aid are not di
rected at any individual or group,”
he said in his opening remarks.
“Rather, they are aimed squarely
at the system and at the policy. Or
to be more exact, my criticism is
directed at the lack of policy and
the lack of system.
“I feel strongly that the hu
manitarian responsibility of feed
ing hungry people from our great
supplies of surplus foodstuffs and
the practical responsibility of tak
ing every possible measure for our
own military defense are neces
sary and justified . . . But, cer
tainly, this does not mean that it
is the dutyq of the overburdened
American taxpayer to subsidize
through foreign aid political or so
cial experimentation or all man
ner of global projects of doubt
ful value throughout the earth.”
Talmadge warned that Amer
ica’s present foreign aid policies
will, if continued, make it “inevit
able that we will be forced again
to send our sons to fight and die
in foreign lands.” He said in a
future war the very arms America
now sends abroad could be used
against American forces. Then he
said:
“Thousands upon thousands of
highly paid American jobholders
and their families have been dis
persed throughout 60-odd nations
of the earth to 'show these nations
how to spend our money—and how
to get even more to spend . . .
One wonder how long this nation
will survive such a drain on its
economy?”
Other pertinent remarks of the
junior senator were these: “Our
panicky policies have produced
negative results. We have no de
finable objective. Nor have we
had ... a stable or consistent
policy or plan to achieve it . . .
People don’t like to be forced to
depend on charity; so it is with
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nations. Foreign aid, extended to
the point of continuous depen
dency, breeds ill will.” ‘
In support of his argument,
Sen. Talmadge even used Presi
dent Eisenhower’s own words. He
quoted the President as having
said in a 1954 speech that “we
should stop give-away programs,"
and in a 1952 speech as having
said America must find some way
of bolstering free nations of the
world instead of “annual hand
outs.”
“I agree with the wise and
sagacious words of the Republican
President,” Sen. Talmadge said.
But as for what the adminis
tration is now asking for under
the pending Mutual Security Act,
the senator added: “It is with re
gret, and with all due respect,
that I must voice my sharp dis
agreement with the ‘modern’ Re
publican President.”
Cards of Thanks
I wish to thank our many
friends in Pembroke who were so
kind and thoughtful to send cards,
notes and flowers at the death of
my brother, Roscoe R. Rowe, of
Claxton. Many who did not know
him sent wonderful words of com
fort or showed their sympathy by
kind acts. All of it will be grate
fully remembered by those who
loved him.
MRS. R. L. JACKSON.
We wish to express our deep
gratitude for the friends who in
so many ways showed sympathy
at the death of Mrs. John Drig
gers, sister of Jack Nubern. The
many cards, notes, flowers and
trays of food said in a wonderful
way that your thoughts were with
us, and did much towards helping
to lighten our sorrow at her death.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nubern
and Family.
Spending the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Ham, Jr., were
Mr. and Mrs. George Darden and
young son, George, Jr., of Forsyth.
TOS theatre
PEMBROKE
Air Conditioned
Two Complete Shows Each Night
Shows Start at 7:15 P.M.
MON., TUES., JUNE 24-25
SANTIAGO
(In Technicolor)
Starring
ALAN LADD
ROSSANA PODESTA
LLOYD NOLAN
Also Short Ssubject
WTI)? THUrTTuNE 26-27
GOODBYE,MY LADY
Starring
BRANDON DE WILDE
WALTER BRENNAN
ALSO CHAPTER 9
HOP HARRIGAN
FRiTsAtTjUNE 28-29
A STRANGE
ADVENTURE
Starring
JOAN EVANS
BEN COOPER
— and —
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
(CinemaScope-Color)
MARILYN MONROE
TOOM EWELL