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Turning Back The Pages Os Time — Builders of Our Bank and Community Years Ago
Bank's First President
ANDREW JACKSON EDWARDS
Who was elected as the President of the bank when it
was organized in 1907, his wife was Sarah Virginia Brannen,
and they had eight children, three of them still living, George
Tom and Miss Wilma Edwards. Mr. Edwards was engaged
in farming and turpentine and like interests. He was inter
ested in community affairs. The bank opened for business
in the store building which was use in recent years by Mr.
T. H. Edwards as a grocery store. Mr. A. J. had two other
brothers that were well known leading farmers of their day,
they were Hamp Edwards and John Quincy Edwards.
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Was President Os Bank 21 Years
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JULIUS MORGAN
Julius Morgan was President of the bank from 1913 to
1934. He served Pembroke as Mayor more than once, he
was known throughout Georgia as “Jew” Morgan, because
he was a Hebrew, who had come to Pembroke and made his
home, married Miss Jessie Gibson, and they had 4 children.
Julius, Sigo Ann and Kathryn, and several grandchildren.
Mr. Morgan believed that “Pembroke was the promised land",
his heart and soul was here, and you could always count on
him to get behind and help any cause that meant good for
Pembroke and Bryan County. The bank utilized two of the
buildings of a block of five that Mr Morgan built in the
19$$’s and named the Bold Block. His home was on the
square where the postoffice is now located. There is no
doubt in our mind but that the late Julius Morgan was one
of the greatest boosters and workers for our town and com
munity of any man of any time, and his death was one of
— our greatest losses.
THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL
"The Little Man-Was A Big Man"
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A. H. CROOM
Known to his friends as “Herbert” no man ever lived
in Pem .roke that was more loyal to the bank, to the city or
to his friends than A. H. Croom. He having learned how to
live as a poor man, and also how to live as man with money,
but never letting it make a loot of him. Ye Editor count
ed “Herbie Croom” one of his best friends, for we were
thrown with him, and believe that we knew him better than
many.
Not every one know of many of the fine things tha the
did for people, and we are sure that there was much that
we never knew. He was a man of the woods, dealing prin
cipally in land, trees etc., and he knew the worth of our
lands, when many of us failed to recognize the value of our
farm and timber lands a few years ago
Mr. Croom served as a Councilman with Ye Editor as
Mayor, and during that time plans were made to build some
homes here in Pembroke, C. L. Gruver, A. H. Croom and F.
K iller in Daydream,
Psychiatrist Says
AUSTIN, Tex. (UP) - A
j Tsychiatrist. trying Io save
। James C. Cross Jr. from the
; electric chair, testified Monday
I that Cross was acting out a
• sexual daydream when he
I strangled two coeds in his
I apartment and did not even
i know* he was killing human
i beings.
! As for raping Susan Rigsby,
j one of the girls, the psychia
; trist, Dr. Richard J. Alexander,
; said
j “He told himself that since
| he had gone this far, he ought
■ to go ahead and do something
• to justify it. At this point, he
: sexually assaulted Sausan.”
! Dr. Alexander, the first
i defense witness in Cross’
j murder trial, said Cross had
। been bedeviled for several
' years by daydreams that
| nvoived “rape, sadism and
: sometimes torture.”
Incurably Insane
He said Cross continued to
' have these fantasies in jail,
was insane, would never be
• cured and ought to be put away
indefinitely in an institution.
Dr. Alexander flatly contra
dicted Dr, David Wade, a
psychiatrist who testified Satur
day for the prosecution. Dr.
Wade said Cross was sane
when he killed the girls and is
sane now.
Cross has been on trial since
Feb. 14 on a charge of
murdering Susan last July 18.
He also is under indictment on
a charge of murdering her
friend Shirley Ann Stark. Both
girls were from Dallas.
Shirley Ann took Susan to
Austin to register at the
University of Texas for the last
half of summer school. Accord-
, ing to Cross’ confession, they
came to his apartment to
shower and change clothes
■ because they were tired and
hot after a 200-mile drive from
Dallas.
He also admitted raping
Susan. In the middle of the
night, he said, he dropped their
bodies in a field. They were
found 12 days later but there
w’as little pathologists could tell
about what happened to them.
Dr. Alexander said Cross, 23,
who was a junior in the
university, was a “schizoid.”
which means that he has "a
great deal of inner fantasy life
which has emotional force.”
RM.
Sadistic Daydreams
He said he examined Cross
ast Aug. 20 and several times
after that and Cross had told
him about a recurring sadistic
daydream that began several
years ago.
“He said he tried to put it out
f his mind,” Dr. Alexander
said. “He said it involved the
body of a person—a female—
but it was no one he knew.”
Alexander quoted Cross as
saying Ihat when Shirley and
Susan came to his apartment
’he knew this thing was going
to happen.”
“He wanted something to
interfere to keep it from
happening,” Alexander said.
“His motives were not entirely
sexual and not entirely self
oreservative.”
He quoted Cross as saying, “I
still can’t understand why I
didn’t get up to let them up."
Alexander said that after the
bodies were found. Cross finally
realized what he had done.
Peekskill
Mother
Has Quads
COLD SPRING, NY. (UPI)
- The 36-year old wife of a
Peekskill, N.Y., hair stylist
gave birth to quadruplets
Monday.
Officials said Mrs. Helen
Acebal became the mother of
three girls and a boy in two
hours and eight minutes. She
entered Julia L. Bi- ’erfield
Memorial Hospital at 10:14
a.m. and began giving birth at
12:06 p.m. The first born was
a girl and was followed three
minutes later by a boy.
Another girl was born at
12:16 pm. and the final girl
at 12:18 p.m. Ya
Each infant weighed less than
3 pounds.
Mrs Acebal and her husband,
Ronald, have one other child—
Ronald Jr., 16 months. They
live in Crompond, N.Y.
The children were delivered
by Dr. Lawrence Giampe, who
reported both the mother and >
children were in good condition.
Thursday, February 23, 1966,
O. Miller built four good homes and sold them, Mr. Croom
use to jokingly refer to our building activities as the GMC
crowd, Gruver, Miller and Croom, and today Mrs. Croom is
living in one of the homes we built and sold to the late Mike
Gilbert. Yes, A. H. Croom was a “go getter”, a good friend
and one of the best citizens Bryan County ever had.
"Long Time Friend Os The Bank"
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DR. J. O. STRICKLAND, SR.
Dr. Strickland was without a doubt connected with the bank
longer, and worked harder for it, and made more sacrifices of
his time and money to make the bank a financial success than
any of the others. He was with the bank in the starting of it,
he remained with during his entire life time, and during the time
when all of our banks were having their banking troubles, he
placed his entire fortune at the disposal of the bank, to save it,
and make it a strong financial institution.
In addition to doing this for the bank, he served humanity,
as a practicing physician he was never too tired or busy to ans
wer the call of those that needed him, and made many long trips
when he knew that he would not get a dime for going. He had a
heart of pure gold, and was one of the most unselfish men that
—it has ever been Ye Editor’s privilege to know.
He was honored by his people with election as County Com
missioner, and other offices, was always active in politics and
was what is known as a “wheel horse” in politics, when he took
sides, he went all the way, one never had to wonder where Dr.
Strickland stood on anything, he was always out in the open and
fighting for the things he believed in.
In our book, the world has too few men like our good friend,
the late Dr. J. Oscar Strickland, a friend of all. “nd a man that
was “four square”.
The chi dren were immedia
tely put into incubators, but
hospital authorities issued a
special bulletin about two hours
after the birth saying they
appeared healthy.
The first little girl weighed in
at 2 pounds 12 ounces, the same
as that of her brother born
three minutes later. The third
born was the smallest at 2
pounds 9 ounces and the last
girl was the heavyweight at 2
pounds 13 o . Tces.
The some 88 million U.S.
motor vehicles are said to con
taminate the U.S. environment
daily with 350,000 tons of sulfur’
dioxide and other air pollutants.
GARDNER'S GROCERY
BLITCHTON, GEORGIA
Where Route 80 and Route 280 Join
'FINEST FOODS AT LOWEST PRICES"
Mrs. Pickford's Pound
OLEO 17c
Hunts 14 Oz.
CATSUP 19c
Hunts 2’/ 2 Can
PEACHES 29c
Gallon
WESSON OIL $1.89
Robin Hood 10 Lbs
FLOUR 99c
Delmonte 46 Oz.
Pineapple Juice 29c
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GARDNER'S GROCERY, Blitchton, Georgia
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—Section 2
More than 77% °j the
men and 46.5% of the women
in the U.S. now have auto
driving licenses . . . Profes
sions that are predicted to
grow fastest in opportunities
and income during the 1960’s
are medicine, dentistry, engi
neering, nursing, chemistry,
physics, teaching, mathemat
ics, accounting and social
work . . . Airplane passenger
service ivas inaugurated in
the U.S. on May S, 1919 . . .