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4—The Pembroke Journal, Thursday, September 28, 1967
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•JOURNAL
Published in the City of Pembroke, Georgia
Each Thursday
FRANK O. MILLER Editor and Publisher
MRS. F O MILLER ..Associate Editor
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Time Runs Out For I. G. Lanier
When the Lord called Ivey G. Lanier home last Satur
day morning at the ripe old age of 92, Bryan County lost one
of its best citizens, a man who we thought was about the
best citizen in our county. A good church man, a good all
round citizen, a fine father, and all the other goods things
that could be said by an outstanding citizen, with nothing
to mar his record of life in his little country home about
three miles north of Pembroke.
It was the privilege of the Editor of this paper to know
(IG) Lanier as few people knew him. We know that he
thought a great deal of us, and he was the one man that we
prized the friendship of more than anyone else we know.
Yes we believed in Mr. Lanier and we feel as though he be
lieved in (F. O.)
When he was a member of the Board of County Com
missioners it was our privilege to learn more of him than
before, it was then that we learned the true characteristics of
Mr. I. G. Lanier.
He had one of the finest families that we knew of, a
fine loving wife and three fine daughters, plus four grand
children. He loved each and everyone of them and like
wise they loved him. No man could have been a better
father or husband than I. G. Lanier. He was a good neighbor
and loved his fellow man as few of us do.
We think it was a compliment to his memory when the
pallbearers and honarary pallbearers were named, that each
and everyone of them except Dr. Hames was referred to by
their first and last name. That was IG Lanier, for we were
Frank to him and he was IG to us. Long will be remembered
this fine gentleman who has gone on ot his reward, and we
want to say that in our opinion, if he is not in Heaven with
his Lord, then poor little FO will never make it. Yes, few
men lived the life that Mr. Lanier did. The pity of all of
this is the fact that there are not enough men like him, for
us to be losing any that we have.
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Although the national election
is more than a year away, there
is already a great amount of talk
about the presidential race, par
ticularly concerning whom the
Republicans will field against
President Johnson. (We take for
granted that LBJ will run again,
though some wishful thinkers ar
gue that he will step aside, par
ticularly if his popularity ratings
are as low next summer as they
are now. No practical politician
believes this, however.)
Five GOP leaders are princi-1
pally talked about as the only 1
possibilities of receiving the nom
ination of their party. They are:
Governor Romney, Governor
Reagan, Governor Rockefeller,
Richard Nixon and Senator
Charles Percy.
Until recently, it was conceded
that Nixon and Romney were in
the lead. But, when Romney
made the statement that he was
brainwashed in Vietnam, his!
standing plummeted downward, i
Nixon, then, probably leads the
field at present, and most cer
tainly among the professionals
and those who attended the last
GOP convention, many of whom
will be back next year.
The pollsters say that Governor
Reagan is moving up rapidly,
and that if Nixon doesn't win on
tlie first ballot, then Reagan may
get the nomination. His major
strength lies in the conservative
wing of the party, which, in past
years, has been dominant in the
GOP.
The other two leading contend
ers, Rockefeller and Percy, are
liberals, and if the delegates lean
toward this philosophy, then
Rockefeller could be considered
the one toward whom the dele
gates would be inclined, primar
ily because he is thought to be
the strongest candidate against
President Johnson on the liberal
side.
But, Rockefeller has stoutly
maintained that he is not a can
didate, and apparently will make
no effort to secure the nomina
tion. Very obviously, though, he
would accept a draft. Consider
ing this, the politicians believe
that Sen. Percy has no chance
for Ihe top spot, but could con
ceivably win the nomination for
Vice-President.
Right now, the smart boys be
lieve that Nixon will win at Mi
ami next year, but that Johnson
will beat him in November.
This writer believes that the
GOP convention will deadlock for
several ballots and that, event
ually, they will get together on
Rockefeller. We think, also, that
LBJ would find the New York
Governor harder to beat than
any other Republican, though we
The Mayor Was
A Busy Man
Last Thursday
Everyone does not know
the many calls that the Mayor
of the City of Pembroke gets
to do one thing or another.
But last Thursday we were
busy trying to attend services
at our own church, in the
morning and again that night
But on top of this we were
asked to make an address of
welcome to the Tattnall Mis
sionary Baptist Association,
made up of the colored
churches of Bryan, Liberty,
Evans, Tattnall and Long
Counties and possibly others,
and realizing that we were
the Mayor of the colored peo
ple as well as Mayor of the
white, we could not tell these
colored friends of ours that
we could not go. so we accept
ed the invitation.
We arrived there at what
we thought was the proper
hour, 7 pm., and when we
asked our friend of many
years. Rev. T. J. Lynch, Mod
erator of the Association if it
would be possible for me to
get away in time to attend
Revival Services at our own
church, and then he asked
what time could we be back,
and we told him not later
tha,n nine o’clock, he prompt
ly Cold me that would be
plenty of time, and then made
the fallowing remark. "Mr.
Mayor .vou know you white
folks meet on time, but we
negroes hvve to wait for our
folks to eon.'e and then stay in
to the night".
We went to our Revival ser
vices and got back to the
colored church a t nine, and I
never saw such a large crowd
of cars at the chinch, it was
near to impossible for us to
get parked and into th^ church
which was running over with
delegates from the various
churches of the associatiot?.
would bank on Mr. Johnson to
win narrowly in November. (Os
course, if the Vietnam conflict
has ended favorably by then, the
President could have another
landslide.)
One reason we believe Rocky
would be so strong is that Martin
Lucifer King, Jr., has made a
deal to support him. This was
consumnated when ‘ Rockefeller
visited Atlanta about three years
ago to talk at King’s church.
| Since then, the SCLC head has
i sniped at Johnson continuously,
i and recently made the statement
that he would oppose the Presi
dent next year. Also, SNICK and
various other militant Negro or
ganizations are bitter with LBJ
and will do all they can to take
the Negro vote away from him.
We would guess that they can
handle about half of them .
If this be true, then Rockefeller
will start off with a broad base
of support in the big city states,
i only 12 of which are needed to
carry the electoral majority. Add
to this the regular Republicans
(unless the conservatives bolt)
and Rockefeller has a lot of
votes.
Then, we have to consider the
George Wallace potential candid
acy. If the former Alabama gov
ernor runs, and the other two
candidates are Johnson and
Rockefeller, Wallace will carry
6 or 7 Southern states, plus get
ting a whale of a vote in many
other sections of the nation. No
one could predict now how the
various states would split and
who would wind up with the elec
toral vote, but if no candidate re
ceived a majority, the House
of Representatives would choose
a president. Our opinion is that
the Wallace candidacy would
help President Johnson.
The whole situation is high
ly fluid, and could change com
pletely during the next twelve
months.
As a Democrat, though, we’re
afraid. If for no other reason
than that the famed Washington
seeress, Mrs. Jeanie Dixon, has
predicted that the Democrats
will lose the White House in 1968.
And her record of correct pre
dictions runs over 90%.
THE GOVERNOR’S LOSS IS
OUR GAIN — Lester is doing
pretty well in his battles against
liquor and gambling in Georgia,
but he’s about lost his war on
mini-skirts. They’re all over Cap
itol Hill, and we males are not
sorry. But, the Governor should
n’t be surprised; he’s been mar
ried long enough to know that a
woman always gets her way in
the matter of dress.
We enjoyed some of the old
spirituals sung, only as the
colored people can do, and
hearing the brethren through
out the church with their
Aniens ever so often brought
back fond memories when I
went with my grandmother to
the old time hardshell church
es where they said Amen when
the spirit touched them, just
like our colored friends were
doing.
Finally the Mayor was given
a short welcome by the rep
resentatives of the various
churches, and then Rev. A. E.
Hagan made an introduction
of the Mayor, followed by Rev.
r. J. Lynch, the Moderator
with his welcome to the Mayor.
Then the Mayor responded
by telling the colored people
that he was glad to be there,
that he was among friends,
telling them that Rev. Lynch
had given us the minutes of
this very same Association to
print more than forty
years ago, and all of our
business dealings with him had
been very pleasant, and also
that we had known Rev. A. E.
Hagan for nigh onto 40 years,
knew his daddy who was also
a Baptist preacher, and it was
once said that on Sunday
morning he would take his text
from The Hawkeye, a paper
edited by the Mayor’s father
many years ago, when he
printed the truth on both
white and colored. Then we
made a short talk to the large
crowd telling them that they
were in the right place and
doing the things that would
lead them to Heaven, but if
they did like so many of their
race who was following the
leadership of the Communist,
people who do not believe that
there is a God, that we were
headed for greater trouble
than they could imagine. We
got a fine show of apprecia
tion for these remarks and we
wound up our remarks tell
ing them just as I believe, that
nature is closer to the wishes
of what our Lord would have
us do and cited them that the
Blue Birds and the Black Birds
never mixed or mingled, and
neither did the Red Birds with
either of the others. We told
them that one may be as good
as the other, but they remain
ed friendly and separate, and
that we felt that was the way
the Lord wanted the colored
and white to do. Be friends,
treat one another fair and
right and go our separate
ways, and we believe that nine
tenths of those in the church
went along with our way of
believing.
When we sat down. Deacon
Brown asked for the privilege
of paying a few short remarks
of praise to “our Mayor”, and
he paid us the tribute of being
a good Mayor for all the peo
ple both white and colored and
that they were honored to have
him give the address of wel
come to their Association to
the City of Pembroke.
You can say what you please
these colored people demon
strated to us that they are sin
cere believers in the Lord and
the Mayor considers them
among our best citizens.
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Well Known Lady
Died Wednesday
Buried At Beulah
The death of Mrs. Stella
Dukes on last Wednesday at
' the Memorial Medical Center ;
where she was carried follow
ing injuries received in an
automobile accident. Mrs.
. Dukes 85, and was a former
resident of Liberty County,
but had moved to Savannah
following the loss of her home
place for the Fort Stewart
reservation.
Mrs. Dukes always attended
the Willie Day reunion at the
Marcus May home each Labor
Day, and was there at the last
one, and her picture along
with other members of her
family appeared in The Jour
nal on the 7th of September.
We are carrying this picture
again today due to her unex
pected death coming so soon
after we made her picture out
at the Willie Day Reunion,
where those who lost their
homes in the Fort Stewart
area meet every Labor Day
and renew acquaintances and
enjoy a big old fashioned
basket dinner. (
The Journal editor always
! attends these affairs when it
। is possible and have learned
t to know and love a great many !
, of these fine people.
She was brought to Bryan
and laid to rest out at the
cemetery at Betllah Church
just 2 miles south of Pembroke.
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