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Thursday, June 27, 1957
Georgia Rural Roads Benefit Under Work
Os Roger Lawson, Says Dalton Publisher
DALTON, Ga., June 26.—A co
worker on the Georgia Rural
Roads Authority has described
Roger H. Lawson, State Highway
Board and Rural Roads Authority
chairman, as the driving force that
has pushed the gigantic $100,600,-
000 Griffin-sponsored rural road
building program steadily for
ward.
L. A. Lee, publisher of the Dal
ton Citizen and Dalton News and
a member of the Rural Roads Au
thority since its inception in early
1055, said here that Lawson’s “ad
mnistrative ability” has kept the
rural roads program on schedule.
Under the Legislative Act set
ting up the Rural Roads Author
ity, some 5,000 miles of new pav
ing are to be provided throughout
Georgia's 159 counties. Under
Lawson’s guidance, Mr. Lee said,
the first three increments of Rural
Roads Authority Bonds have been
sold and some 2,500 miles of new
roads costing some $36,000,000
have been let to contract already.
This comprises about 36 per cent
of the total program.
In July, the Rural Roads Au
thority official noted, the fourth
increment of Rural Roads Au
thority bonds, amounting to some
$17,500,000, will be sold. Fourth
increment bond funds will be used
to build another 639 miles of new
rural roads in 121 counties. The
new issue of Rural Roads Author
ity bonds will raise the total out
standing in Authority bonds to
some $64,500,000, Me Lee said.
The Dalton publisher said at a
recent meeting of the Rural Roads
Authority in Atlanta, the Author
ity members expressed pleasure in
the progress of the rural road
building program and commended
Mr. Lawson for “his outstanding
leadership.”
“The way he can get things
"SAVANNAH BACONS" I
WRITE THEY ENJOY
PEMBROKE JOURNAL
Among Ye Editor's favorite peo
ple are Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Bacon
and their two sons, Luther and
Larry. Although they hang their
hats in Savannah at a beautiful
home on 56th Street, their hearts
are really in Pembroke where they
lived for several years and played
such an important part in the Bap
tist Church and many organiza
tions.
A note received recently from
• Mrs. Bhcon made Ye Editor and
Liz, our office boy, appreciate
them all the more. While sending
a check renewing their subscrip
tion for two years, she wrote: “1
couldn't get along without The
Pembroke Journal and you could
n’t get along without Elisabeth
Medders. Best wishes to both of
you. Louise Bacon.”
Mr. and Mfs. Paul Frere and
daughter, Pansy Tillman, of Fort
Pierce, Florida, spent several days
here last week with relatives and
friends. Mrs. Frere is the former
Miss Constance Fennell.
Miss Jan Deal spent last week
end in Wrightville where she was
the guest of Miss Mary- Jo Ful
ghum. Miss Deal and Miss Ful
ghum were roomates at Teachers
College.
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done -the way he can get people
to work for him, and the smooth
organization he runs is something
that amazes me,” Mr. Lee said.
“He is an exceptional type found
in government these days. We cer
tainly need more like him to han
dule the expenditures of our tax
dollars.”
Mr. Lawson, a Hawkinsville at
torney, resigned as Solicitor Gen
eral of the Oconee Judicial Cir
■ cuit when he was first appointed
। to the State Highway Board on
I July 17, 1955 by Governor Griffin.
’ The Oconee Circuit covers a seven
! county area in mid-central Geor
gia with a population of 100,000.
■ He had held the solicitor’s post
1 from 1948 to the time of his ap
pointment to the Highway Board,
i As top man on the Highway
s Board, Lawson is among the bus
- iest department heads around the
i State Capitol in Atlanta. The
- Chairman of the Highway Board
1 is chief administrative officer of
K the gigantic Highway Department,
which employs some 5,000 persons
s throughout Georgia. Besides being
PEMBROKE TRAVELERS
NEAR ALASKAN
DESTINATION
Word has been received here by
friends and relatives from Mr. and
Mrs. J. Gordon Bacon that they
are nearing the end of their long
journey. The prominent Pembroke
couple left several days ago for
Anchorage Alaska, to visit their
daughter, Mrs. W. W. Pickett, Sgt.
Pickett and their two children,
Emily and Wilson.
The cards were mailed from
Juno, Alaska, where Mr. and Mrs.
Bacon were waiting to board the
plane for the last leg of their
journey. They left Savannah on
the bus and were hoping to make
the trip by bus and boat.
While they will be missed in
Pembroke, folks back home are
floks back home are delighted that
delighted that they are having the
opportunity of taking such a splen
did trip and of seeing their loved
ones.
The many friends of Al Buhler
are delighted that he has improved
following illness of several days.
Mr. Buhler is the popular owner
of the Highway 280 Restaurant.
Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Collins and
son, Johnny, from Jacksonville,
Fla., were guests during the week
end of Mrs. M. D. Griffin and
George T. Spinks.
Chairman of the Highway Board
and Chairman of the Rural Roads
Authority, he is Chairman of the
State Bridge Building Authority.
The Federal Aid Highway Act of
1956, which has given a big boost
to highway expenditures of all
i sorts, has meant a complete re
vamping of Administrative pro-
I cedures at Highway Department
Headquarters. Lawson has not
hesitated to make changes where
he deemed it necessary. He has
had the full backing of Governor
Griffin in running the department.
Before settling down to law
practice and getting elected to the
solicitor’s post in the Oconee Cir
cuit, Mr. Lawson served as a spe
cial agent for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, being assigned to
FBI offices at Cleveland, Toledo,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Long Beach,
■ Jackson, Miss., and Gulfport,
. Miss. He was resident agent at To
ledo, Long Beoch and Gulfport.
Born in Hawkinsville, November
12, 1913, Mr. Lawson attended
public schools there from 1920 to
1931. He attended the Citadel at
Charleston, S. C., from 1931 to
• 1933 and the University of Georgia
from 1933 to 1936. He graduated
I at Athens with a L.L.B. degree.
i At Hawkinsville, County Seat
. of Pulaski County, Mr. Lawson is
■ a member of the Methodist
• Church, Rotary Club, Masons and
. Shrine. He is also a member of
t the Georgia Bar Association, in
- which he holds membership on the
. Board of Governors, and the
, American Bar Association.
An affable speaker, he not only
e can talk with authority on road
e building, court procedure, criminal
1 investigation and the like; he re
f cently delivered the major address
eulogizing Confederate President
s Jefferson Davis at a UDC Memo
g rial Service.
R. H. CLUB MEMBER
HELPS WITH MIDWAY
CHURCH PROJECT
, At a meeting of a number of
I garden club representatives Thurs
, day at old Midway Church, Mrs.
, Robert L. Greene, Richmond Hill.
. played an important role in plan
[■ ning for the improvements of the
i- church grounds.
Mrs. Greene is especially active
[ in Garden Club work and has ser
ved as judge at flower shows put
o on by the Pembroke Garden Club.
The improvement has been plan
e ned as a project of the Associated
r Garden Clubs of Southeast Geo
ri rgia. The Pembroke club is a mem
e ber of the larger group and was
hostess at a recent meeting. As
n there was not a representative
B from every club in the association
t at Thursday’s meeting, it was re
e cided that the association will vote
. on taking this project at their
1 first meeting which will be held
in Baxley on September 6.
Mrs. Greene is secretary of the
r church grounds project cammittee.
1
Mrs. Bennett Aycock and son,
i- Randy, have returhed from a visit
to Mrs. Aycock's sister, Mrs. J. E.
Dye in Great Falls, S. C.
1 '
, Sandra Schwamlein returned to
■ her home in Forsyth Monday after
I visiting Jay Ann Cason and Lou
Joy for a week.
/ THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL
He follows his father in his ca-1
reer of public service. His father
was the late Judge Harley Fleet
' wood Lawson, prominent Georgia
jurist. His mother is Mrs. Rena
Brandon Lawson.
The Georgia highway chief is
married to the former Miss Bar
bara Danie), daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. J. W. Daniel, of Claxton.
If things are in a hustle and bus
tle around Highway Department
headquarters in Atlanta, Lawson
doesn’t find them much different
when he goes home for the week-!
end. Keeping things lively at home
are six children—Rena, 17; Hugh,
16; Nancy, 11; Harriett, 8; Starr,
5; and Matilda, 1. Rena will
be a senior at Hawkinsville High
School this fall.
The kids and Mrs. Lawson are
just as enthused as dad over the
frequent outings at the Lawson
farm place four miles out of Haw
kinsville. The farm has a nice
camphouse and fishing pond. As
might be expected, Mr. Lawson’s
hobbies are fishing and hunting.
His marksmanship is especially
good on quail.
Mr. Lawson has gained the ad-'
miration of newspapermen cover
ing the State Capitol beat in At
lanta. Through this medium, he
has sought to reveal to the public
just what is going on in the High
way Department. Perhaps, due to
his training jn the FBI, he has a
knack of coming to the point.
Speaking recently before a
Chamber of Commerce meeting in
southeast Georgia, Mr. Lawson
said he has looked on his job as
chairman of the Highway Board
“as an opportunity to serve.”
“I think that J have had the
chance to do something worth
while for Georgia, which is my
I native state,” he continued. “Geor-
I gia has served me well. In this
■ state I began my life, my career
i and my family life; and I tell you
t that I feel grateful to my state for
■ the opportunities it has afforded
I me.”
EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
ATTEND NEW SUNBURY
■ ASS'N MEETING
Members of the executive com
mittee of the New Sunbury As
sociation from the Lanier and
Pembroke Baptist churches join
ed the other members Monday in
a luncheon meeting at the Or
lando Motel in Ludowici.
Going to the meeting were J.
T. Stubbs, Lar^gr, and the Rev.
John R. Joyner the Rev. Rich
ard Cates and D. E. Medders,
Pembroke.
One of the important items
taken up at the session was the
plan to employ an associational
missionary. It was reported that
ten churches in the association
had contributed or made a defi
nite committment to the project.
Chairman of the committee is D.
E. Meders and other members are
the Rev. J. P. Wilcox, Ludowici,
and the Rev. John Henderson,
Hinesville. The committee will
work with the Georgia Baptist
Convention in securing a mission
ary.
The Rev. Thomas George of
Jones Creek is chairman of the
executive committee and presid
ed at the meeting. Moderator of
the New Sunbury Association is
J. T. Stubbs.
BIDS WANTED FOR
SCHOOL BUS ROUTE
Sealed bids will be accepted by
the Bryan County Board of Educa
tion for the school bus route
formerly carried by Mr. Lorin
Mason, deceased. The bids to be
opened on Tuesday, July 2, 1957.
The Board reserves the right to
reject or accept any bid. This the
4th day of June, 1957.
Bryan County Board
of Education
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eldridge
and Henry Jr. of Columbia. S. C.
spent the weekend in Pembroke
with Mrs. Eldfidge's mother. Mrs.
T. J. Bacon. She was accompained
home by her daughter, Trudy, who
had been with her grandmother for
several weeks, and Beverly Bacon,
of Atlanta, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. 0. Bacon.
Christine Hurst of Miami, Flor
ida is the guest of her grandpar
ents, Dr. and Mrs. D. B. Edwards,
for several weeks. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Graham
Hurst.
Mr. and Mrs. William McGahee
of Savannah announce the birth of
a son on Friday, June 21, at the
Warren Candler Hosuital in Sa
vannah. The baby weighed 7-%
pounds. Paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. McGahee of
Savannah. Mrs. MsGahee was the
former Miss Sara Holton of San
dersville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Hurst and
Jeanette Hurst were with relatives
in Worth County last week.
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