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The Choice
By JACK ARNOLD
Pustor, Pembroke Methodist
Church
“For Demas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world . .”
11 Timothy 4:10.
This is all we know of what
happened in Rome between Paul
and Demas. The choice of Demas
obliterated his name from the sub
sequent history of Christianity,
when as faithful companion of
Paul, he could possibly have in
herited the greatest work in the
world and been accorded a place in
immortality. But instead he goes
down in history with Judas Is
cariot as one whose love of world
ly things caused him to choose
the path of least resistance, the
way of the world.
By this description we see
Demas as a deserter just as vill
ainous and cowardly as any per
son who deserted a place of re
sponsibility before the withering
fire of the enemy, whether that
enemy be attacking the strong
holds of political freedom or the!
faith of Cod’s people.
But the choice is always there j
to be made. That’s our God-given |
blessing. If the world attracts us
more than the things of the spirit,
we may choose it rather than the
way we know to be right. Usually,
though, in making the choice, the
chooser is handicapped by a short
ness of the vision that is neces
sary if one is to choose correstly.
Could Demas have envisioned the
mighty results of the work of
Paul, he doubtless would have re
mained faithful. Could Benedict
Arnold have envisioned the great,
nation that rose out of the Ameri
can wilderness, he would not have
betrayed the interests of the build
ers of that nation. Could Karl
Marx have envisioned the great
advances made in behalf of the
working man by democratic, con
cerned governments under the
hand of God, it is doubtful that
he would have retreated to hope
less atheism and Godless govern
ment as an answer to the social
problems of the 19th century
world.
We are pitifully bound to the
present and persistently wrapped
up in the meager concerns of the
day. That is our trouble today.
People learn of the Christian way
and don’t remain faithful to it.
Every day people ask, “Well, why
doesn’t so-and-so go to church any
more?” The answer is that “so
and-so doesn’t think that the
church is doing anything for him.
But there is a place called Truth
toward which the church of the
Living God relententlessly moves.
We don’t have the vision to see
where it will lead us in 10 years
or 50 years. But with faith, we
can know that the hand of God
moves us toward His Kingdom.
For Demas progress wasn't fast
enough. The rewards were not
quick enough. So he decided to
make the best of life while he had
it. He chose to cast his lot again
with this present world. It was
a fatal choice. It’s too bad that
so many folks are making this
sace fatal choice today. It’s true
that, like Demas, we can’t see the
worthy things that will happen in
the future. But if we are not
blessed with vision, we are bless
ed with something better. That
something we call faith. Faith
gives us the feeling that worthy
things are going to happen. It
tells us that the church is doing
something for the world, for com
munity, for us as individuals. It
wraps us up in the special con
cern of God, a concern centered
upon those with faith enough to
see that this present world, allur
ing as it may be, is not the World
of our destinies. This faith tells
us that our lives have been creat
ed from eternity and for eternity
and that being in love with this
present world won't help our lives
to me consummated in eternity.
Those who choose the world that
Paul chose are like Columbus sail
ing an uncharted sea. They are
so excited by the trip that they
stand in the bow of the ship eager
ly watching for something that
they know lies ahead. But they
don’t know where it is or when
they will reach it. So in the mean
time they devotedly keep the ship
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P. O. Box 36, Pembroke, Ga.
FIRST PUBLISHED VIEW OF PEMBROKE'S EDUCATIONAL TV STATION
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The above is a picture from the blue print of the building for the new TV Station being erected in the Northern section of Pembroke on lands sold to the State Board of Education by Mrs. J. O. Strick
land, Jr. Below show’s material for the tower being unloaded, and a story about the new station. It will be of the very latest design and is looked forward to as being a big step forward in the
educational set up for the state. Bryan County’s Superintendent of Education, J. R. DeLoach has been very active in securing this station and assisting in its location. •
New Telephone
Directories To
Soon Be Out
The new telephone directory for
the Pembroke Telephone Co., Inc.,
is in the process of being put to
gether and printed and it is ex
pected to be mailed to all the new
telephone subscribers by November
20 th.
If there are those that are go
ing to install a telephone, if they
will see the telephone company
IMMEDIATELY they can get
their name listed in the new direc
tory. If there are those that wish
to have an advertisement in the
new directory if they will contact
F. 0. Miller at The Journal office
this can be done, if attended to at
once.
This will be one of the nicest
directories ever published here and
also will contain hundreds of more
names than one ever has, due to
the expansion of the lines made by
the company in order to properly
serve our territory.
SIREN WILL BLOW
Starting Thursday, November 8,
the siren will be blown promptly
at 12 o’clock each day, this was
supposed to have started earlier
but due to timing difficulties it
did not start. But starting this
Thursday you will hear the siren
each day at 12 o’clock noon.
in trim. They find ways of alter
ing it and adding to it so that
the ship may sail more efficiently.
They depend on the ship for not
only their continued life, but as
the blessed vehicle, constructed
through faith, which that faith
tells them will bring them to the
shore of the land of their dreams,
“where the air is so pure that
there is no death.”
The choice is ours as individuals
to make. We can follow the way
of Paul and board the ship of
Destiny for the homeland of the
soul. Or else, we can follow Demas,
love this world as our best friend,
pour our ardor and devotion into
it, and then go down with it at
the end of the age.
WHEN TO FISH
(Baaed on Hart Wright Co. 1962 Fishing Calendar and
Subject to Local Weather Changes)
High Tides Tybe.
NOVEMBER
Thursday 1 Poor Evening 9:48 A.M.
Friday 2 Fair Evening 10:31 A.M.
Saturday 3 Fair Evening 11:21 A-M-
Sunday 4 Good Evening 12:19 P.M.
Monday 5 Good Morning 1:25 P.M
Tuesday 6 Good Morning 2:34 P.M.
Wednesday 7 Best Morning 3:41 P.M
USE OUR EQUIPMENT TO HELP MAKE ALL
YOUR FISHING DAYS “BEST" ONES
TO MAKE A FISH A SUCKER USE EQUIPMENT
FROM
LANE OIL COMPANY
(Pembroke Ice Company)
L. C. (Buck) Lane
Pembroke, Ga. Phone 6M-2MI
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Henry Moses Weeks, 48 Year Ola Pembroke man murdered mile and
half North of Pembroke.
Probably Killed
About Dark Sun.
The body of a Pembroke man,
Henry Moses Weeks a 48 year-old
man was discovered in a ditch on
a dirt road leading from tire
Statesboro highway over towards
the Noah Beatty place early Mon
day morning, and it is said the
man that discovered the body there
Monday morning had passed the
same spot Sunday night shortly
after dark and the automobile was
there but not seeing or thinking
anything he continued on, but on
Monday morning when he came
back by and the car was still there
he looked a little more and discov
ered the dead man in the ditch,
about 30 feet back of his car. He
had been shot at close range with
buck shot, once in the read and the
other just over the heart.
The body was dragged out of the.
road into the ditch where the kill
er or killers left it.
The dead man is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Kennedy
Weeks of Pembroke; two sons My
ron Weeks with the U.S. Marines,
Calvin Weeks of Pembroke; three
daughters, Miss Avis Weeks of
Port Wentworth, Miss Elizabeth
PEMBROKE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1962
Weeks and Miss Jackie Weeks of
Pembroke; his father, Walter
Weeks of Savannah Beach ; his
mother, Mrs. Jim Taylor of Pool
er; two half brothers, W. L. Weeks
of Savannah, Grady Taylor of
Bloomingdale; and a sister, Mrs.
Lois Jenkins of Winston-Salem,
N. C.
The body was taken to Morri
son’s Funeral Home in Pembroke
where funeral arrangements are
pending.
A full scale investigation is be
ing made into the murder and it
may be that soon there will be
some developments in the case.
Authorities believe that there are
those that could shed some light
on the case but they are afraid to
talk, and with this situation it is
hard to make much progress.
Weeks had lived in Pembroke
for several months and when kill
ed was working in a bakery at
Statesboro at night making dough
nuts, etc., and brought quite a few
back to Pembroke each morning
with him. He was last seen at
the Hoke Smith store about a mile
from where he was killed shortly
after dark Sunday night. It be
ing his custom to stop there on
hi* way to work at Statesboro.
Mrs. Miller, Mr.
Mixon Are Wed in
Vidalia
In the Chapel of the Ist Baptist
Church of Vidalia on October 26,
at 8 o’clock in the evening, Mrs.
Allie Jean Williamson Miller be
came the bride of Fred Coolidge
Mixon in a ceremony officiated at
by the Rev. O. L. Pedigo.
The bride, given in marriage by
her brother-in-law, Brien Lynn,
wore a three-piece costume suit of
champagne brocade silk cocoa ac
cessories. She carried a hand bou
quet of bronze cymbidium orchids
and chocolate carnations.
Mrs. Flannery Salter served as
her cousin’s matron of honor.
Ushers were Arnie Page and L.
A, Robert*.
Following a reception held in the
church parlors, the couple left for
a wedding trip to the mountains.
Mr. and Mr«. Mixon will live in
Meadows Estatez in Vidalia,
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Mr. Rogers and his wife and
three children have been in Bry
an County for about three
months, and are living in the W.
O. Stubbs residence at Lanier.
They are very active in every
movement in the county and take
their part in all the county acti
vities. They came to Bryan coun
ty from Dekalb County.
Jim Rodgers, resident engineer
jf the new Educational Television
Station being built in Pembroke
addressed the Pembroke Lions
Club at the last meeting.
Mr. Rodgers gave an interesting
talk about the operation of the
station and illustrated its working
mechanics with several interesting
drawings.
The main purpose of the Educa
tional Television Station is to sup
plemest the classroom teacher with
additional teaching aides. At pres
ent the teacher has the text book
and the boards to illustrate ma
terials. With the coming of Edu
cational Television, the programs
are planned in advance and the
teachers are given guides to use
with the programs. Another in
teresting point brought out was
the fact that the teaching tapes
would magnify items, bring in new
and expensive materials, and bring
in scenes from many foreign
places.
The programs will be centered
all forms of education, music, art,
literature, biology, science and for
ieign languages. There will be a
I field of interest for all children.
For adults the programs will oper
ate from 6:30 in the afternoon un
til 10:30 at night. It may carry
programs such as How to Watch
Basketball, How to Play Little
League Baseball, How to Bake a
Cake, How to Finish a Table and
many other varied subjects.
The main purpose of the pro
gram is for the Education of the
children and adults. It is not for
entertainment. Thene will be no
commercials, no live programs
originated in Pembroke.
The Channel will bo Number 9
and the people will be able to pick
up the station on the ordinary tele
vision set.
Mr. and Mrs. John O. Shuman,
■ Eric and Caryn, of Port Went
worth, were recent guests of Mrs.
Shuman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
U. Williams, of Pembroke.
Official Organ Bryan County and City of Pembroke
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Shown above is a picture of the drag line unloading the huge TV
tower that will go up for Pembroke’s TV Station.
Construction of
Ed. TV Tower Gets
Underway Mon.
Construction of WEGA’s tele
vision tower began Monday with
the arrival of three carloads of
specially fabricated steel at Pem
broke. A crew of tower specialists
headed by Clinton Capps of the
J. M. Hamilton Company, Gas
tonia, N. C., will assemble and
erect the structure in the com
ing weeks. The tower crew also
arrived Monday and began work
by transporting the tower sections
from the rail siding to the station
site.
The tower which will beam State
of Georgia Educational Television
programs to the home and schools
in this area reaches over 1,000 feet
in height and requires 7,000
pounds of nuts and bolts.
While sections of the tower are
becing assembler! and painted on
the ground a Statesboro construe-
CALENDAR DE EVENTS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER B—WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1062
Thursday, November 8—
Y. W. A. Meeting, Pembroke Baptist Church, 7:00 P.M.
Friday, November 9—
Home Demonstration Council, Lanier Church Social Center, 10:45
Sunday, November 11—
ATTEND SERVICES AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE.
Junior Choir, Pembroke Baptist Church, 4:00 P.M.
Monday, November 12—
Pembroke Lions Club, City Case, 7:30 p.m.
WSCS, Pembroke Methodilt Church, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 13—
Carrie Bell H. 1). Club, Home of Mrs. Robert Williamson, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 14—
Fellowship Supper, Ellabell Methodist Church, 7:00 P.M.
Fellowship Supper, Pembroke Methodist Church, 7:00 P.M.
Prayer Meeting, Advent Christian Church, 7:30 P.M.
Choir Practice, Pembroke Christian Chnrch, 7:30 P.M.
Senior Choir, Pembroke Methodist Church, 7:30 P.M.
Children’s Choir, Methodist Church, 3:30 P.M.
Prayer Meeting, Baptist Church, 7:30 P.M.
Adult Choir Practice, Pembroke Baptist Church, 8:15 P.M.
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tion firm, Inman Stewart, fore
man, will complete reinforced con
crete foundations for the tower
and its guy wires. Within five
weeks the tower should be com
pleted and construction of the
building housing- the television
equipment should begin.
WEGA-TV is the second of a
series of educational television
stations being built by the State
Department of Education. WXGA
operates on channel 8 in Waycross
and WEGA will broadcast on chan
nel 9.
Girls Win and
Boys Lose Tues.
On Tuesday night the two bask
etball teams from Bryan County
High School went to Richmond
; Hill for their game. It resulted
i in the girls winning their game
by a score of 34 to 21. But the
boys did not fare as well, they lost
। to Richmond Hill by the score of
38 to 28.