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- EDITORIAL -
One Simple Rule
If children were taught in the home hy their parents
and in the m hooh and Sunday schooh by their teachers
one simple little rule of action, think of the sorrow ami
.uffcring it would save, not to mention the countless mil
lion* of dollar*.
rhis rule of action wouldn’t require anv new laws, it
Honldnt cost a dime of taxpayers money, and it would
reduce the cost of law enforcement and court trials Re
-peet for the rule would eventually become automatic with
most children as they grew up.
hc *" '"“ ny -
stra in I“'^ hatching, automobile
stealing, etc., etc.
And what is the of action that would reduce our
children T' rWOr ' , ■ “ I,C '°‘ ’ l "'
hildren when it was taught to them dailv hv their parents
me'int? * Wi “' “f -I.- it
Rule ‘Keep )ollr h u „ds off other people and other
P-P 1 - property.” It’s that simple to toftrouble.
Dean Advocates
Tax Reduction
ATLANTA — (GPS) State
Sen. Roscoe E. Dean Jr., of Je
sup, told the Okeefenokee REA
Cooperative Association’s rec
ent annual meeting in Hahunta
that rural Georgia is a “sleep
ing giant” with the power to
put through the changes in
fovernnient which would lead
o a greater degree of indivi
lual freedom and responsibi
ity.
He said that the greatest re
straint of all that can be
placed upon government — fe-
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SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES
(FHINC) Sept. 3 — Seaman
Layton M. Calloway, Jr., USN
son of Mr. and Mrs. Layton M.
Calloway, Sr., of Route 7, Rich
mond Hill, Ga., is serving at
U. S. Naval Base, Subic Bay,
Republic of the Philippines.
Subic Bay, located on the
South China Sea, is the largest
naval complex of its kind in the
far Pacific, providing re-fuel
ing, re-supply and repair faci
lities for ships for the Seventh
Fleet.
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Reports From
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WASHINGTON 1
KWH a? t BgHRfW
CHARGES OF police brutal
ity are bandied about so loosely '
today that, aside from being an ;
insult to the intelligence of the |
American public, the effective
ness of law enforcement has
been undermined.
‘‘Police brutality” has become
the veritable
clarion call of
the criminal
and the mob
in the street.
It has added
immensely to
the problems
of the police- I
man who al-
ready is handicapped by federal
court decisions and an apathetic
public as he endeavors to dis
charge his duty of protecting
lives and property.
Although charges of police
brutality have reached a great
crescendo, and been in part re
sponsible for more than one
riot, including Los Angeles, it
is my view that a majority of
the American people know they
are without substance, that this
is just another manifestation of
a growing disrespect for author
ity and law and order. It is part
and parcel of an alarming trend
in this country that people can
defy the law and take it into
their own hands.
PEOPLE WHO get them
selves overworked about the cur
rent “police brutality” frenzy
would do better to concern them
selves with brutality toward po
licemen, the duly constituted
officers of the law under which '
we all live.
Mobs, hoodlums, and crimi
nals cry “police brutality” al
most by reflex, and in a number
of instances demonstrators have
New Social Security Laws And What
They Mean To You And Your Family
By J. W. Overstreet, Jr.
District Manager
Savannah, Georgia
Many low-income farmers u
Bryan County will be able to
report more as net earnings
from self-employment in years
after 19^5 because of a libera
lization of optional reporting
requirements in the 1965
Amendments to the Social Se
curity Act, J. W. Overstreet
Jr., social security district
manager in Savannah, Georgia
announced this week.
The new amendments per
mit farmers whose gross in
come in a year is $2,400 or less
to report two-thirds of their
gross income as their net earn
ings from self-employment.
The option under the old law
limited the amount of gross
earnings that could be used to
figure net earnings to SI,BOO.
Overstreet gave the follow
ing explanation of how the op
tional method of reporting
farm self-employment income
works, using the new maxi
mum amount.
A farmer who has gross in
come of $2,400 from his farm
during his taxable year may
haVe less than S4OO or actual
net earnings, and he would not
be able to get any social se
curity credit at all under the
usual income reporting re
quirements. Under the option
al method available to tann
ers, however, he may report
2/3 of his gross income, or
SI,OOO, a net earnings from
self-employment.
If a farmer’s gross income is
over $2,400, from farming op
erations only, and his net is
under $1,600, he can report
either his actual net profit or
$1,600 as pet earnings from
self-employment.
A farmer who has gross
earnings of over $2,400, must
report his actual net earnings
for social security purposes, if
they are $1,600 or more, Over
street stressed.
A farmer who already gets
monthly social security pay
ments should consider that if
his gross farm income is more
than $2,400 and he reports un
der the optional method, he
may have some of his benefits
withheld that year since his
income will go above the sl,-
500 retirement test limitation,
Overstreet added.
A farmer who chooses to re
port his net earnings under the
optional method must, also do
so when he makes his report to
the Social Security Administra
tion for purposes of the re
tirement test. He cannot use
his “optional” net earnings on
his Federal income tax return
and then report his "actual”
The PEMBROKE JOURNAL
। mimeographed and distributed
I charges of police abuse even be
; fore their demonstration, such
| as recently in Berkeley, Calif.,
and in Albany, Ga. Other “bru
tality” complaints have been
lodged in cases where at great
personal risk of life and limb
police officers did no more than
use force necessary to subdue
vicious criminals. As a San
Francisco judge pointed out in
one such case: “How should a
policeman disarm a desperate
criminal coming at him with a
knife? Are there some sporting
rules he must follow, such as
allowing the assailant to draw
first blood?”
Time after time in recent
years, policemen have been set
upon and attacked by hordes
demanding that law violators
under arrest be turned loose. In
Chicago, two policemen were
castigated by a judge for draw
ing their pistols on two men
who went at the officers with
broken beer bottles. Such is this
trend in the country today that
it is no wonder that our police^
men are unsure of where they
stand.
♦ ♦ ♦
POLICE OFFICERS, in the
city, the county and the state,
are our first line of defense.,
against crime and lawlessness,
which today is rising at an un
precedented rate. They should
be accorded the respect and sup
port commensurate with the
vital role they have in our
society.
They need a vote of confi
dence instead of criticism from
those they are charged to pro
tect.
net earnings for purposes of
the retirement test.
Benefit eligibility require
ments for children and widows,
were changed by the 1965
Amendments to the Social Se
curity Act, J. W. Overstreet,
Jr., social security district
manager in Savannah, com
mented this week.
A child of a retired, disabled,
or deceased worker who could
not inherit personal property
from his father under state
law, as previously was re
quired, will be able to receive
monthly benefits under this
new provision, Overstreet con
tinued.
In order for the child to get
benefits under this provision,
one of the following require
ments must be met:
(1) —The worker must have
acknowledged in writing that
the child is his.
(2) —the Worker must have
been decreed by a court to be
the father.
(3) —the worker must have
been ordered by a court to con
tribute to the child’s support
because the child is his.
(4) —the worker must show
by evidence that he is the
father of the child and was liv
ing with or contributing to the
support of the child when the
worker became entitled to bene
fits or reached age 65 (which
ever is earlier), became dis
abled, or died.
Another provision allows wi
dows or dependent widowers
to continue getting benefits on
their deceased spouse's earn
ings record if they remarry,
after age 60, if a widow, or
after age 62 if a widower,
Overstreet continued.
A widow who remarries
after 60 (or 62 in the case of a
widower) will get a benefit
equal to half that of her de
ceased spouse.
If the remarried widow's
benefit as a wife on the record
of the new husband is greater
than that payable to her as a
remarried widow, she will re
ceive a benefit equal to the
| higher, Overstreet stated.
Anyone having questions
. about these new provisions I
1 should get in touch with the j
| Savannah social security dis- '
i trict office, located at 101 E.
| Liberty Street, Overstreet con- I
I eluded. The telephone number
is 232-4321, Ext. 374.
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An Interesting
Letter From One
Os Subscribers
We are carrying the letter
that w e received today from
one of our valued subscribers,
and feel that it will be inter
esting to many of our readers.
The letter is as follows:
Punta Gorda, Fla.
Sept. 17, 1965.
Dear Mr. Miller:
You will never know how
thrilled I was today when
I opened the Pembroke Journal
of Sept. 16th and saw your col
umn “Interesting Items From
Old Issues Bryan Enterprise.”
I have been trying for years
to find an old map of Bryan
that would show where Let
ford, Norden, Hayman, etc.,
were situated. Your story was
so refreshing.
When I was a young teen
ager my uncle William Perry
Clanton lived for awhile in the
old Tuten house where Tuten’s
Mill had once been. The old
railroad bed was still there
where the loggers hawled the
trees out. I remember a Par
nell family living near the
Tuten house. There was a
small church nearby. I thought
at the time that the Tuten
house was so large and beauti
ful. I lived in Savannah, but
the area around Little Creek
Cemetery was the most beau
tiful place in the world to me.
It was there in the one room
schoolhouse that I first start
ed school. The teacher was a
daughter of Mrs. Minnie Rahn
who loved nearby.
I am trying to copy every
tomb in every cemetery of
Bryan County and along the
Ogeechee. So far I have al
most completed the cemeteries
of Little Creek, Wise, Clyde,
Bragg, Black Creek, Beaulah
Baptist, Ash Branch, Bryan
Neck Presp., Downs Cemetery
(Effingham near Eden) and
the Eden Cemetery. I shall
finish North Side, Smith, Lib
erty Chapel, and others in Ft.
Stewart of Bryan County when
1 return next Spring.
I am looking for old family
records from Bibles in Bryan
that have never been recorded.
Births were not recorded prior
to 1920 or 21. That means our
ancestors are lost. The early
records of the county were lost
in a fire. The early census of
Georgia was burned when
Washington was hit in the War
of 1812.
I have located one very old
Bible of Bryan that is in the
possession of my second cousin,
Mrs. Viola Blitch (Mrs. G. W.
Blitch) who lives near Beulah
Baptist Church. It is dated
1827 and the first record was
written in it by Rev. Geo. W.
Moore, 1829. By her gracious
ness she has let me copy it
and the record is being publish
ed in The Georgia Genealogi
cal Magazine under the aus
pices of The Wiregrass Georgia
Chapter—Sons of The Ameri
can Revolution. Editor, Mr.
Folks Huxford, Homerville, Ga.
It will be published in the Oc
tober issue of this year. It
contained the Royall, Cox,
Hickman, Pate, Downs, Mur
row, Slater, and other family
names. The Bible record was
first started by Mary Royall,
daughter of Arthur and Anne
Royall, who came to Georgia
in 1764 from North Carolina.
The early record of the Royall
family has been recorded in
Effingham County. The name
is spelled Ryall in Gaelic. Mary
Royall was born January 10,
1773 and married Spencer Cox
on February 25, 1795. They
lived in Bryan County.
Now, Mr. Miller, you can see
how grateful I am of any news
item in your paper that men
tions the people of the past.
How about printing the date
people were born when you
publish stories in your column
of families that are living? I
recommended your paper to j
Mrs. Dukes of California.
I hope that you will write a j
story about Mrs. J. 0. Strick- ;
land, Mr. Moss Strickland, and
all the old and feeble people. '
I think it would cheer them up
to see their names in your pap
er. In writing I'm sure you
will agree with me that there’s
interesting facts in everyone's
life that will make a good story.
There's a Mrs. Shuman who
lives near Black Creek Ceme
tery on the highway. She must
be in her 90s now. I wonder
who she was, who were her
parents, and her- grandparents?
If someone doesn't get the an- i
swers before it is too late,
genealogists will never know
the answers. How about tell
ing us who yo v r parents,
grand-p., and great grand-par-
ents were? I’ll bet you don’t
know but I have read lots
about them. The Maurer (Mur
row ?) family is mingled in the
early Miller (Mueller) family.
Sorry my letter is long but
I, too, like to write. I plan
to write a book when my large
suitcase is filled with Bryan
County history.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Anne Clanton Knecht
P.S.: My subscription ex
pires in October so I’m enclos
ing a check for next year.
You'll probably keep me on
your list. Keep reading the
early newspapers. My great
great-grandfather, Elbert Sims
(killed in Civil War) had
brothers named Jinks and
Glenn Sims. The early editor
could have been my Jinkins
Sims or a son.
Anne Terrisa Clanton
(Mrs. Anne T. Knecht)
Sanders Taboos
Liquor Sales On
Jekyll Island
ATLANTA — (GPS) There’s
no doubt about it, Gov. Carl E.
Sanders believes a campaign
promise is something that
should be kept inviolate. Take,
for instance, the matter of
selling liquor on state-owned
Jekyll Island.
When he campaigned for
governor three years ago, San
ders strongly opposed the idea,
and promised that liquor would
not be legalized for sale there
during his administration. And
it hasn't, either.
But the other day it appears
that liquor stores were headed
for the island. The Glynn
County Commission had voted
to issue liquor licenses to three
motels on Jekyll. State ap
proval of a liquor license neces
sary after it is approved loc
ally.
Following the commission's
action, State Revenue Com
missioner Hiram K. Undercof
ler said he would study the
matter. But hardly had the
words left his mouth than a
statement was issued from the
governor’s office.
John C. Harper, Gov. San
der’s press secretary, announ
ced that “the governor has re
quested and directed that no
license be granted for the sale
of alcoholic beverages on Je
kyll Island.”
“His reason,” Harper ex
plained, “is that he has opposed
it for years and that Jekyll
is a family park facility.”
Upon learning of Sanders’
statement. Commissioner Un
dercofler said: “In view of the
governor’s request we will not
issue any licenses for alcoho
lic beverages on Jekyll Island.”
And that, it would appear,
closes the matter — at least
for the duration of the San
ders administration.
STATE 'IN RUNNING'
FOR GIANT A-PROJECT
RUSSELL DECLARES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 —
“We have won the first skirm
ish and now the main battle be
gins.”
That’s how Senator Richard
B. Russell summed up Georgia’s
prospects for winning the giant
S3OO million “atom smasher” to
be built by the U. S. Atomic
Energy Commission.
Russell, a member of the
Joint Congressional Atomic
Committee, announced earlier
this week that five Georgia lo
calities had survived the initial
screening of potential sites for
the nuclear research facility--
formally called a 200 billion
electron volt particle acceler
ator.
The Georgia sites that will
receive further consideration as
the location for the facility are
the Atlanta area (with suggest
ed sites in Fayette, Newton and
Bartow counties), Bainbridge, j
Forsyth County, Fulton County,
and Savannah.
These five localities in Geor
gia are among 85 throughout
the country that will undergo
further extensive surveys and I
evaluation as the site for the i
accelerator. The 85 were chosen '
from about 200 formally pro- ;
posed to the AEC.
Senator Russell said he was ;
“pleased and gratified" that '
Georgia has met the basic re- I
quirements for the location of I
the laboratory.
“It means we are off and
running for this tremendous
economic and scientific prize,”
he said. “I must emphasize
and caution, however, that we
are up against formidable odds
in the final site selection com
petition.”
“I can assure the people of
Georgia that I and every other
member of our delegation in
Congress will continue to do
everything we properly and ap
propriately can to see that
Georgia receives fair and full
consideration by those respon
sible for making the ultimate
decision,” Russell added. “We
will go the limit to try to bring
this facility to Georgia.”
Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly
Smith visited his parents, Dr.
and Mrs. W. E. Smith for the
week-end.
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Sixth in a series.
Other families in Georgia
enjoy low-cost
electric heating cooling
IN ATLANTA, Mr. C. W. Carmichael talks about
total-electric living: “My wife and I are sold
on it!” (After converting his 10-room home,
he built and sold five additional total-electric
houses.) Their residence is warmed by base
board heaters. They own a dishwasher, range,
refrigerator, washer, dryer and water heater.
Total Monthly Cost of Electricity $29.00
IN DEMOREST, Habersham County, the Bill
Ivie family praises total-electric living. Their
seven-room, two-bath home is heated with
electric baseboard units. Mrs. Ivie says, “Indi
vidual room thermostats let us keep the baby’s
room warmer than the rest of the house.” They
have a range, water heater, washer and dryer.
Total Monthly Cost of Electricity $21.29
IN AUGUSTA, the Bill Oldham family moved
into their new heat pump-equipped, six-room
home just eight months ago. They enjoy the
consistently comfortable indoor climate. Mr.
Oldham says, “I’ve lived in every type of home,
but total-electric living is the best.” Appliances
include a range, refrigerator, water-heater.
Total Monthly Cost of Electricity $22.54
IN COLUMBUS, the Thomas Forman family
admires its first total-electric home. “Every
thing stays much cleaner!” says Mrs. Forman.
Fan-forced wall insert heaters plus window
air conditioners keep the temperature pleasant
all year. The nine-room home has a dishwasher,
disposal, washer, dryer, refrigerator and range’
Total Monthly Cost of Electricity $24.00
Why don’t you step up to the
joy of total-electric living?
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
BROTHERDHOOD OF
BAPTIST CHURCH
TO HAVE SUPPER
The Brotherhood of the First
Baptist Church will hold a
meeting on Friday night at the
social hall of the church, at
which time a covered dish sup
per wil be served. This meeting
is for the men only, and is of
much importance, because the
officers have not been elected
for the church new year, and
will be done at this meeting. All
members are urged to attend.
The meeting will be held at 7:30
p.m.