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The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., June 30, 1960
Governor Joins Georgia Jaycees
In Operation Safety Break July 1-4
Gov. Ernest Vandiver today ini
tiated a program aimed at redu
cing Georgia’s Fourth of July
Weekend holiday toll, which the
State Department of Public Safe
ty estimated will reach 20 dead
and 195 injured.
The Governor proclaimed July
1 through July 4 as “Operation
Safety Break,’’ pointing out that
this is a highway safety program
sponsored by the Georgia Junior
Chamber of Commerce, whose
state headquarters are in Perry.
In his proclamation, Gov. Vandi
ver stated that the program, ini
tiated on a state wide basis in
1959 by the Jaycees, consists of
providing free Coca Cola and cof
fee, as well as safety tips, to mo
torists throughout the state.
“It is felt that such efforts on
the part of the Jaycees last year
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resulted in a reduction of traffic
fataliites and injuries,” the Gov
ernor stated, urging all Georgians
to cooperate in this year’s pro
gram.
Some 75 Jyacee clubs are co
-1 operating in the “Operation Safe
ity Break” program. Club mem
' bers will man refreshment stands
strategically located throughout
(he state. Motorists will be invited
to take a break in their holiday
driving by stopping at the stands
where free Coca-Cola and coffee
will be dispensed along with safe
ty information.
Col. William P. Trotter, direc
tor of the Georgia Department of
Public Safety, calls the project “a
positive deterrent to recklessness
on our highways.”
State officials and Jaycee offi
cers have arranged to broadcast
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"SAFETY BREAK" SPONSORED BY GEORGIA JAYCEES
Atlanta Jaycee Jack Wray and Miss Bette Spence offer refresh
ment to travelers Robert Rice and family from Independence, Mo.
Sign at right invites motorists to pause in their jouurney over the
Fourth of July to cut down fatigue and help reduce accidents. This
is one of the first of many such booths to be set up all over Geor
gia in preparation for the long weekend.
| news on traffic conditions in the
Atlanta area from a helicopter
sponsored jointly by The Atlanta
Coca-Cola Bottling Company and
WSB TV-Radio.
In making preparations for the
safety effort, Doug Blankenship,
State President of the organiza
tion, pointed out that the first
local program was conceived in
1955 in Ft. Valley and since has
been adopted as a project not on
ly by the Georgia Jaycees, but by
the U. S. Jaycees in a number of
states.
Personal Mention
Gene Wills of Auburn Universi
ty, Ala. was the weekend guest of
Bobby Tuggle.
* * ♦
Miss Doris Manning of Braden
ton, Fla. spent several days last
week with Miss Joyce Lee.
* ♦ *
Larry Walker, student at the
University of Georgia, spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Cohen Walker.
♦ * ♦
Mrs. Edith Harrell has returned
to her home in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla. after spending several weeks
with her daughter, Miss Joyce
Lee.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Nunn, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson Moody and Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Brown spent last
Thursday at Ida Cason Gardens.
♦ * *
Mrs. Harold Beatty and children
of Macon were the guests of Mrs.
Eliza Massee and Miss Katharine
Cater last Thursday.
# ♦ ♦
Miss Alice Jane Hardy, student
at the University of Georgia, spent
the weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Hardy.
* ♦ ♦
Henry Rozier of Los Angeles,
California, was the guest of his
daughter, Mrs. J. G. Beavers, and
Mr. Beavers several days last
week.
♦ ♦ *
Judge and Mrs. Bowie Gray and
son, Joe, of Tifton visited relatives
in Perry last Friday.
* ♦ ♦
Gary Boler, A1 Lasseter, Nor
man Parker 111, Bill Waddick,
Bobby Jones and Porter Staples
participated in a Jaycee golf tour-
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Talbert so Head
Georgia Alumni
Membership Drive
Dr. W. G. Talbert Jr. of Warner
Robins, Ga., has been named
chairman of Houston County for
the 1960 Fund-Membership Cam
paign of the University of Georgia
Alumni Society.
The 1960 Campaign began in
March and one phase of this year’s
drive will end the latter part of
May. The goal set for Georgia
alumni in Houston County is 40
active members for this year out
of approximately 134 total alumni
in this county.
Dr. Talbert will work under the
leadership of Mr. Thomas O. Mar
shall Jr. of Americus, who is the
Third District vice president of
the Alumni Society for 1960.
Houston county in 1959 in had
25 active members of the Georgia’s
Alumni Society who contributed
$165 toward the Society’s program
of strengthening the University of
Georgia academic program.
Approximately SIOO,OOO has been
allocated to the University of
Georgia this year from the Univer
sity Foundation to provide
graduate scholarships, graduate
fellowships, to supplement faculty
salaries, to increase the holdings
in the University Library, and to
promote the University in many
ways.
Georgia alumni in Houston Coun
ty are urged to cooperate with
this year’s county chairman and
reach the goal of 40 active mem
bers. The Alumni Society operates
on a calendar year and this year’s
membership is for the calendar
year 1960.
nament in Valdosta from Monday
through Wednesday of this week.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Cabero
attended a family reunion in Haw
kinsville last Sunday.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Saville and
family of Atlanta were guests of
the Robert Tuggles last weekend.
♦ * *
Mr. and Mrs. Huey Rutherford
of Atlanta spent several days last
week with her mother, Mrs. H. D.
Gordy. Doug Rutherford, who had
been visiting his grandmother, re
turned home with his parents.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beddingfield
spent Wednesday in Moultrie with
daughter, Mrs. Bill Yearta, and
family. Billy Yearta, grandson of
the Beddingfields, was celebrating
his second birthday.
* * *
Betsy Glover spent several days
last week in Jacksonville, Fla.
with Lt. and Mrs. Charles Carioff.
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