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THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL took ten years to build and contains a colossal
seated figure of Lincoln, carved in Georgia marble.
Serves Third District
'Rep. Jack Brinkley Is A
Vital Force In U.S. House
Rep. Jack Brinkley
U.S. Representative
Jack T. Brinkley, 45, is
serving his fifth term as
Congressman from
Georgia's 17-county Third
District. A former Air
Force pilot, he is a
member of the House
Committee on Armed
Services, serving on the
Military Installations and
Facilities subcommittee,
which has legislative
jurisdiction over military
construction and base
operations. In 1975,
j Brinkley was a House
conferee on the military
construction authorization
bill.
Brinkley is a member of
( the House Committee on
| Veterans Affairs, where he
is chairman of the Sub
committee on Housing,
which has oversight of the
multi-billion-dollar
veterans housing bill
program. Before entering
the U.S. House of
Representatives, he was a
member of the Georgia
House of Representatives
in 1965 and 1966, and
served as chairman of the
Lqcal Affairs Committee.
He is an honor graduate
Young Harris College,
holds a Juris Doctor
degree, cum laude, from
the University of Georgia
School of Law, is admitted
to practice before the U.S.
Supreme Court and is a
member of the Georgia
and District of Columbia
bars.
Brinkley entered the Air
Force after teaching and
coaching basketball for
two years following
graduation from college. A
Korean era volunteer, he
%was accepted as an
aviation cadet and won his
silver wings in 1953. Before
his discharge from the
service, he was an in
structor pilot in the C-119-
G Flying Box Car; he
retains his commercial
pilot's rating today.
In law school after
military service, Brinkley
began his political career,
serving as president of his
legal fraternity, Phi Alpha
#Delta, captain of the
University Moot Court
team; and a member of
Blue Key Honor Society.
He was listed in Who's Who
Among Colleges and
Universities.
He has been active in the
civic life of his hometown,
Columbus, and the state of
Georgia, including service
as PTA president, Sunday
School superintendent,
president of the Young
Lawyers Club, judge
advocate of the South
Georgia District of Civifan
International, and state
volunteer chairman of the
March of Dimes. He is a
Mason, member of
American Legion, member
of the Georgia Farm
Bureau, member at large
of the Chattahoochee
Council Boy Scouts of
America and a member of
Georgia's Rebecca Latimer
First Woman In U.S. Senate
Mrs. Rebecca Latimer
Felton of Cartersville, Ga.
was the first woman to
serve in the U.S. Senate.
She was appointed by
Governor Tom Hardwick
to succeed her friend, Tom
Watson, who died in 1922.
The 87 year old woman
actually served one day
although her term was for
one month.
Her ' husband, Dr.
William H. Felton, was
congressman of the
Seventh District for
awhile. The Feltons were a
powerful team in Georgia
politics. They fought the
convict lease system which
was finally abolished in
1908. They also waged a
campaign for women's
rights.
Mrs. Felton wrote
newspaper articles and
Notes About
Allegiance
To Our Flag
"I pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United
States of America and so
the Republic for which it
stands, one Nation under
God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all."
The Pledge was written
by Francis Bellamy and
published in The Youth's
Companion September 8,
1892. It was not until 1945
that the pledge was given
official Congressional
sanction.
the advisory committee of
the Metro Columbus Urban
League.
In April 1971, Brinkley
headed a six-person Ar
med Services Committee
delegation to Southeast
Asia to observe the Viet
namization program. In
1973, he was in a similar
delegation observing
activities in the Middle
East following the October
War. In 1969, he was on the
Armed Services special
subcommittee in
vestigating the Pueblo
incident.
He is author of the
proposed National Cancer
Research Act to expedite
the search for a prevention
or cure for cancer, and has
been active in legislation to
assure clean blood to the
nation's hospitals.
two books. For 20 years
(1899 1919), she wrote a
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THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT was dedicated
in 1885.
Several Roads Today Mark Old Trails
Indian Trails, Caves And
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Mounds Covered Houston
This area was criss
crossed with Indian trails
when the first white set
tlers came and for many
years afterwards -and the
Southwest section of
Houston County has
several mounds and a cave
that were used by the
Indians.
Leading from Cow-e-tah
Tallahassee, later known
as Coweta Town in
Muscogee County, was
once an important trail
called "Indian Path." It
branched at old An-put
tan-e Creek near
Columbus. One branch of
this trail ran in a north
easterly direction to
Watford in Habersham
County.
Another branch ran
through the lands now
known as Harris and
Talbot Counties, crossing
the Flint River at the in
tersection of Crawford,
Brinkley has repeatedly
been cited by Americans
for Constitutional Action
(ACA) for his conservative
and fiscally resourceful
voting record.
Brinkkley is married to
the former Alma Lois Kite
and they have two sons,
Jack Jr. and Fred, Despite
his attention to legislative
duties he has a 95 percent
voting record for his
Congressional career-
Brinkley travels home to
the Third District every
weekend. He averages
40,000 air miles per year
traveling home.
In the 1974 election,
Brinkley won a fifth term
in the House of
Representatives with 88
percent of the vote, highest
of any Georgia
congressman that year.
column for The Atlanta
Journal.
Taylor, and Macon
Counties, passing through
Houston and Fort Valley,
leading cu t to the old In
dian Agency on the Flint in
Crawford County, thence
to Fort Hawkins and Cross
Keys in Bibb County,
thence through Jones
County, ending at
Milledgeville.
Where the town of
Montezuma now is was an
old trading post, and was a
popular Indian gathering
place from 1798 to 1814. It
was known as the Tim
poochee Barnard set
tlement. The old Barnard
Path passed through Ft.
Valley.
Famed Spring
The highway now used
between Hawkinsville and
Grovania was an original
Indian trail from the
Ocmulgee to the
Thronateeska. This was a
very popular trail used by
the Indians on their hun
ting trips from river to
river.
There was a spring on
the Hawkinsville trail
famed by the Indians for
its medicinal properties.
The Indians in large
companies would camp
near it. Long after they
had left this country for the
Florida Everglades, the
sick and diseased among
them would return to this
spring to be cured.
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On the farm of Mrs.
Becky Till, one of the first
settlers, was a hill from
which the Indians secured
clay for making pipes.
On the farm of Mr. Wm.
Davis, father of Mr.
Manning Davis, one of
Houston's oldest citizens
was a cave and un
derground passage, with
an outlet near Montezuma.
The Indians used this cave.
On the same place can be
found Indian mounds.
There were many
trading posts in Houston
and adjoining counties and
the trails were traveled
extensively. Our spendid
highways today mark the
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pathways of these rude
trails.
Prior to 1821, Indian
tribes roved at will through
the wilderness, holding
their pow wows at Ross
Hill, a Revolutionary fort
just two miles from Perry,
and even after the earliest
emigrants came to this
section it is authentically
related that the Indians
were driven from their
doors.
They held their counsels
or court on Ross Hill, but
slept over near Norwood
Spring, which was called
by the early inhabitants,
Indian Spring.
The Indians said that
Flat Creek was sickty.
There is now an old log
crossing Big Indian Creek,
which was used by the
Indians. They carried this
water Norwood
Spring with them in sklns,
on their hunts.
There is an old cave p
few miles from the Sprlnp
where they took refuge in
case it rained.
While Clark was
Governor, trouble began
with the Federal Goverrf
ment regarding thfe
removal of the tndiansf.
The United State?
recognized the Indian
tribes as owners of thfe
lands on which they livecf,
and so the lands were
never taken from them by
force but were alwayi
bought. When the Indian?
sold land their title was
said to be extinguished.”
The United States made
a treaty with the Creeks as
Indians Springs in January
1921. By this treaty a tract
of land was ceded or sold
by the Indians, and it was
agreed that the United
States might apply $250,000
of the purchase money td
compensating citizens of
Georgia for cattle and
other property taken from
them by the Indians.
Most of Middle Georgia ;
The territory gained
included the remaining
land between the Flint and
Ocmulgee rivers as tar
North as the Chat*
tahoochee.
It was divided by the
Legislature in 1821 into the
Counties of Houston,
Dooly, Fayette, Henry and
Monroe. Governor Clark
advised the Legislature to
distribute this land by the
lottery system, which was
more likely to "do equal
justice to the poor and rich
and insure a speedy
population of the country."
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