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VOL LXVH. 26
THE CLEVELAND COURIER.
PLATFORM
For White County and -- P
Clevelands
A Cleaner and More Beautiful
: City *
All Highways Graded and
Paved f
To Make White County the
Mecca for Tourists
Develop ment of Winter
Sports in Mountain Area
Cleveland Council Signs
For
The Mayor and Council voted
to &ive a franchise to the Atlanta
Gas Light Co. to furnish natural
gas to Cleveland.
The company will defray ALL
cost and plan to give Cleveland
natural gas service by 1967
Ike Jackson Fired
Isaac Jackson has been notified
by the Gainesville Highway De¬
partment office that his job as
maintenance patrolman terminat¬
ed as of April 15
He told The Courier Tuesday
no reason was given
gfHe has held this job 15 years
Officers Nab Two la
Santee Still Operation Monday
Rufus Allison and other Feder¬
al and State officers destroyen a
100 gallod steamer in Upper
Sautee Monday and arrested
Robert Harold Sutton andGeorgo
J unior Smith and they were re¬
leased on $500 boud.
They destroyed 1,500 gallons of
masb. They confiscated a farm
tractor
For the information of tbe lady
who called us Tuesday morning
relative to several items we must
advise her that The Courier is not
supported by taxes. However,
The Courier does welcome infor¬
mation ahoot ALL public affairs
and will try to have a “look-see >1
into how they are conducted. We
cannot have someone looking
about all the time, because we are
insufficiently supported
Turner fold Displays
Nev Ford Mercury
On pasc 4 you will find a half
page Ad for Turner Ford notify¬
ing the public that they have the
new Ford Mustang on display
today. will be
John Sosebee, manager,
pleased to let you drive this new
Bport car. See him as soon as
possible.
Gov. Sanders stotes that $33
million of the last $47 million m
interstate money from Washing¬
ton was spent in the Atlanta area
for superhighways
The Constitutional
Commission have increased
term of both the State Senate
House to 4 years
NOTICE
Wheu you peed ANY
Printing please give ALL of
to The Courier
Singer’s Homs
Snzlo's Pinza’s nsw horns near
ftamford, * idow which Cram., Is glazed has aIw**^*®* with tosulat
-
glass tp help keep the indoor
Bate’’ at fits temperature and
Idity recommended Mr
expert# tor the
Be not forgetful to enterUio strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares -Hebr. I3;2
The idea t • • that life is a vale of tears
ie jut as falae as the idea . t • that life is a
place of entertainment Life is a place of
service,/— Tolstoy
Can't the bitter factions in the county
be brought together so we can have
UNITY?
According to figures on the economic
status of the 10 Appalachia states Georgia
and Kentucky are the lowest and possi¬
bly will be given hi^h ptiority with Fed¬
eral funds in the hope to raise the stand¬
ard of living of the people.
Georgia has 35 counties'<in the Appaia
chia area
Touriam is a $329 million business in
Georgia.
White (rounty c«n look forward with
confidence to 1 apid growth in tounem,
With the Senator Richard B, Raeeell
Scenic Highway to bs paved to at least
Hogpen Gap by late tall, work star.ed on
winter eporte at Raven Cliffs, some form
of work to get under way on the Dr Mas¬
ters tourist project after July 1 and some
construction on the extention of the Bine
Ridge Parkway in Georgia in 1965 our
ioture looms very bright,
W. A. Ash and Clvrence S’amey are
working oh ptaas (or a great expansion
of th.it Holiday - .jlanor so ae to lake care
of several hundred people.
You can now get set for Winter Sporie
at Raven Cliff's.
The Couiier tvante to see at least a*
8 mall lake built tor ice skating and a
bobsled rnn made before tne first snow¬
fall of Ibis winter and we feel sure that
Ibis wi|l be done.
$4,300,000,000 has been requested to
provide a new economic foundation for
the dept eased Appalachian -area,
^Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr , undersecre.
tary of commerce and chairman of the
Appalchiana r gari^ commission, nas put
forward a most interesting program to
deal with poverty in this ares,
He recommends an expanded highway
system, development and control of the
Hrea’a-ubuoUeni water resunteea, acceler¬
ated construction of sewerage facilities,
promotion of recreational ateas and a
broad huma nresources progra m to pro¬
vide education, bousing and other ser¬
vices,
Mr. Roosevelt will have broad powers
to channel funds to specific areas.
Cleveland and White County should
begin now to think of sound and pro¬
gressive projects and sub nit them for
canaideratiou just ae soon as the bi!J
passes the Congress.
Venus will attain her greatest bril¬
liance on May 13. Be sure to see her
Tbe Georgia Supreme Court held ou
April 9 that the 16 Negro sit-in demon
atratore in Savannah it aaiounted| to
violence and was without question tbe
wilful, unlawful invasiob of Ihe rights of
another. M
Whttu the Appalachi 1 bill passes Con¬
gress shortly then we fee) that Franklin
O, Roosevelt Jr, will see that a good roafi
is bail! iuto Raven Cliffs and another
one up Davis Creek to the Leeman Auder.
son Waterfall.
We have heard of some Cleveland fel¬
lows say that they plan to go to Wash¬
ington within a short lima— maybe tne
middle of May or the first of June—to see
what thev can do to get some Federal
funds for While County,
The Courier has been hoping for John
Richardson, Gainesville, to announce
that he has a crew ot engineers makiDg a
survey for an ultra-modern highway
from 129 in Bine Ridge district to Teen a.
tee Gap. Mr Gillie ordered .this survey
Oct.,9, I663
Mrs, L, G. Neal tells there’s nothing
like tbe first horseback ride to make a
person feel better off
Mrs, Polly Stamey muses some women
spend tbe first part of tbeir lives loosing
(or a husband, and the last part wonder¬
ing where he is,
George Taylor declares tbe battle of the
saxes will never be won by either side,
t here is too much fiaternis ng with tbe
enemy.
If your subscription to The
Courier is out then you had|better
be sliddmg us some cold green at
once if you want The Courier to
continve its regular visitf to your
home each week.
There’s more water in all the
streams and rivers than anyone
ever saw before- Can (the Alas
kan earthquake have anything to
do with it?
War Posts
A total of 435 military post;,
gnd stations were operated
t nits the of Army ft lKlLBrtS;
arid War
CLEVELAND, GA* APRIL 17 1964
Local News
Send ag the MEWS eo that » will
appear in The Charier. Wa will ap
paredte poor
Telephone or write The Courier
the NEWS.
Some people are predicting a
lot of tornadoes this spring and
summer •
Yeomans Costello telle that
everybody reads The Courier and
he is anxious for folks to come to
see him, but they just can’t make
it uutil the County Commission¬
ers make some very needed re
pairs on this road.
George Davidson of Detroit
plans to visit here in May.
Wilburn L. Reed, Jr., Gajnes
viile, was here Sunday. He is in
the runoff on April 32 against
Sheriff Ed England and reports
are most favorable for his election
Grady Satterfield of Dewberry
Church, Hall County, visited his
aunt, Mrs. F. M. Glover, April 10
Lightning killed 12 registered
Holstein cows in a barn 9 miles
north of Butler April 7
Grady F. Crocker faces Sheriff
A. J. Chapman of Habersham
County in the lunoff April aa
Miss Minnie Adams is better
after an illness of over a week
Rev. Joe Fulbright returned
home Monday from Ga. Baptist
Hospital
Jess Tow is in Ga. Baptist Hos
pital recovering from an opera¬
tion for varicose veins,
Tou can expect a killing frost
around May 15
E C. Hefner of Augusta is
spending several days here j
Wayne Nix is in Hall County
Hospital with leukemia
Miss Mary Lou Suttou advises
we had 1.09 inches of rainfall
i rom April 12 to 14
A woman crlled usTuesday and
wanted to know why the County
Commissioners purchased all the
Crenshaw property on 75. She
wanted us to print the regu¬
ar meetinS date and time of the
Commissioners and the
White County Board of Educa¬
. The County Commission¬
ers meet each First Monday at 9
a. m. and the Board of Education
the Second Tuesday at 9 a. in.
Arthur Adams of Laramie,
Wyo,, sent us a booklet of views
of Wyoming and wants his
White Couuty friends to see
lis country
Mr. and Mrs. Lanier Chambers
and Beth of Atlanta spent the
weekend at home
Mr. and Mrs, Don Fain and
Mike Atlanta spent the weekend
lere with parents
A small freak tornado struck
4 he home and two chicken houses
of Mrs. Mary Lou Harkins last
Friday afternoon around 2 doing
considerable damage. Neighbors
saw it coming over George Mc¬
Afee’s home and descending onto
the Harkins place.
Lake Lanier is the highest ever
The water on the Chattanoochee
is up very near the bridge—boats
are prohibited from going under
it. 23 is flooded just south of
Flowery Branch
Mrs. Ji F. Ivie and Pam of At¬
lanta spent Wednesday with
parents, Editor and Mrs. Jas. P,
Davidson
Lee Palmer wants the weather
to get hot so some luscious and
shapely young ladies can don a
black satin bathing bikinis and
get a feel of the water in Unicoi
State Park Lake
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Fulbright Heads
Mercer Alumni
Funds Drive Here
MACON, Ga. — The Reverend
Mr. Joe F. Fulbright of Cleveland
has been appointed White County
Chairman of Mercer University’s
loyalty fund campaign, the EMGA
program, which will be continued
through April.
The appointment of Mr. Fulbright
was announced today by Dr. Rufus
X. Harris, president of Mercer.
L
Charles Wayne Nix Passes
’Funeral services 1 r Charles Wayne
Nix. 21, Clarkesville, were conducted
Wednesday from Antioch Bapti t Church
Bine Ridge district. White County, In¬
terment was in the church temetery
He died Monday in Hril c°unty Hos¬
pital of leukemia a ter entering there
April 10
He is survived by bis wife, Mrs Beckie
Palme.' Nix, a young son, Clarkesville;
patents, Mr, end Mrs, <;harles |Olney Nix,
Blue ltidge district; a brother, Michael,
Cleveland; tvro sisters, mibs Betty Nix
aud Miee Jean Nix, Cleveland.
Meridian, Miss (FHTNC)—William K
Loggins, seaman apprentice, L'BN, eon of
Mr, and Mrs. H. W. Loggins, RI Cleve¬
land, <a , has reported for duty at tlie
Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Meridian,
Miee,
Mr, ami Mre, Elmer Price epent the
weekend with Mr. and Mr*. Aarou West
moieiaud
Ernest Crane has resigned asPoliceman
in Cleveland and Hugh Elrod is now on
the job in his place.
Cliff Sims of Kobe' cetown was in town
I'oeeday.
If you want to store grain for 1965 see
Mark Black about details,
The Grand Jury appointed Curiis Dor¬
to r eplace Fred Moore on the White
Boa d of Education
You'll find the Grand Jury Present
on page 3 of this issue
Footnote to
Silent Spring
RACHEL CARSON’S highly contro¬
versial book on how this country
is poisoning its environment has
been upheld to a great degree by
a ranking federal official.
Secretary of Interior Stewart
Udall cited <a number of cases in
which fish are being killed by
pesticides. He gave other instances
where measurable amounts of DDT
have ben found in animals.
Rachel Carson, because of Silent
Spring (serialized by The Journal)
received quite a bit of abuse. She
was branded by many as an alarm-
1st.
Now, perhaps, there will be a
general awakening to the dangers
she (cited. Now, perhaps, Ameri¬
cans will see clearly the suicidal
way they are mongrelizing their
water and generally polluting their
habitat *to the point at which it
may become unlivable — Editorial
in Atlanta Journal.
New Drug Research
Looks Promising
RESEARCH on “Cyclorphan,” a
non-addictive pain-killing drug 40
times as powerful as morphine,
looks promising, scientists at the
University of Rochester report.
The componud, synthesized at the
University and tested on animals
for the past three years, is called
a “morphine antagonist” because it
reverses most of the physiological
actions produced by morphine. The
pain-releiving Characteristics of
chemical compounds are separated
from addictive characteristics, and
physiological actions such as low¬
ered rate of respiration are re¬
versed.
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PINEY WOODS
PETS Says:
DEAR MISTER EDITH:
The stock market is usually
pretty good indicator of what’s
come. I noted that prices of
of the big cigarette-making
have been rising sharply laitely,
after dropping when the surgeon
general’s report came out listing
the hazards of smoking.
People easily forget warnings
they dislike, so cigarette sales are
climbing again. Also, too many doc¬
tors have set bad examples by re¬
fusing to give up smoking them¬
selves.
Lots of us are something like
the old reprobate who went to his
doctor with a misery. Told he
would have to quit smoking, drink¬
ing, chasing women and staying out
late, he asked in astonishment:
‘‘What’s left to make life worth
living?”
Yours Truly,
PINEY WOODS PETE.
— Atlanta Journal,
A Tribute to
The Ladies of
Robertstown -
I would like to pay a very honor¬
able tribute to the ladies of
Robertstown. They are the kind
to lend a helping hand when need¬
ed or a shoulder to weep on.
I ran across an old newspaper
clipping dated about 1948. It told
of the WMU packing a feed bag
of necessities for distribution in
Japan. A very touching contribu¬
tion was a doll wrapped in a pink
blanket and slipped in by a little
girl by the name of Connie Rae
Abernathy. When asked why she
contributed her favorite doll, her
reply was “I want some other
little girl to love the doll as I do.”
That wasn’t the only package
shipped by these fine ladies. The
WMU is still active today by some
very faithful members who have
been blessed by these deeds. They
have spread love in many foreign
countires as well as their own
community.
A (community club has now been
organized. They are working to¬
ward helping nature beautify their
town and extend a welcome to
strangers. The three churches of
•the community are working to¬
gether toward the good of humanity
— you are always welcome to join
us.
— A WMU MEMBER
PROCLAMATION
By The Mayor of the City of
Cleveland, Georgia
WHEREAS the complete conquest
of cancer, which will develop
new in 9,000 additional Georgians
this year, and take the lives of
more than 4,600, depends upon
vigorous programs of Scientific re¬
search and public education; and
WHEREAS the medical research
programs of (the American Can¬
cer Society have already signifi¬
cantly increased the number of
lives now being saved from cancer
and holds promise of greater life¬
saving potential through studies
dealing with the icause, prevention,
and treatment of cancer; and
WHEREAS the efforts of 90,000
volunteer workers of the Georgia
Division of the American Cancer
Society -to TELL THEIR NEIGH¬
BORS of the dangers of cancer and
of the precautions they can take
to protect themselves hold forth
the immediate prospects of help¬
ing to save more than 1,100
Georgians who this year will die
needlessly of cancer through fear
or lack of knowledge and protective
action.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, S. W.
REYNOLDS, Mayor of Cleveland,
Georgia, do hereby proclaim the
month of April, 1964, to be
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR MONTH
I also ask the people of Cleveland
te continue in their support to
encouragement of and cooperation
with the American Cancer Society
until this disease is finally elimi¬
nated.
RUINED BY ADVERTISING: The
man who used to run a small
town business groaned as he
clared; “Advertising ruined
business,” he said, “I let my
petitor do all of it *»
The Bakers:
$470 Tax On
$82,000 Income
WASHINGTON — A new side¬
light on the tangled financial af¬
fairs of Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
has come to light.
Material made available by in¬
vestigators of .the Senate Rules
Committee showed that the former
Senate Democratic aide and his
wife paid a total federal income
tax for 1961 of $470.96, on gross
income of $82,565.42.
Income on their joint return,
after business losses and one half
of long terms gains, was $24,810.99.
The typical tax for a married
couple with net income of that
amount would have been about
$5,200, assuming seven personal
exemptions — the Bakers have
five children — and a standard
10 per cent deduction.
Why the difference? Tax work¬
sheets supplied by the Committee
showed the Bakers had these major
deductions —
* Interest payments, mostly on
big bank loans, totaling $12,064.32.
* A casualty loss of more than
$27,000 for storm damage to an
Ocean City, Md., motel partly
owned by Mr. Baker.
* Charitable contributions, $2,
028.37; taxes of $1,928.81; and
entertainment costs of $1,521.24.
The salaries of Mr. Baker and
his wife in 1961 came to $29,316.84.
Intome of $43,011.85 was reported
as a capital gain from sales of
securities. Only 50 per cent of
this amount, or $21,505.92, was
taxable as a long-term capital
gain.
In addition, there was income,
before deductions, of some $10,200
from the law firm, and from in¬
terests, rents and dividends. All
this brought gross income to more
than $82,000.00.
Federal law prohibits disclosure
of income tax returns. But the in¬
formation was shown on the work¬
sheets, which were prepared by Mr.
Baker’s accountant. Included with
the worksheets was a photographic
copy of a Treasury refund check
for $4,484.02, as the Senate payroll
office had withheld more than
$4,800 in taxes from the salaries
of Mr. Baker and his wife during
the year.
Beauty in Georgia
WHEN THE Garden Clubs of Geor¬
gia met in Augusta this week,
there was a good cause for great
pride. Gov. Sanders’ speech read
like a formal commendation that
should have been accompanied by
ruffles and flourishes.
He cited some of the results of
hard work in recent months by the
garden clubs and other allied with
them: legislation controlling bill¬
boards on our highways, a new law
helping to curb water pollution,
placement of litter barrels along
many highways.
The governor stressed the garden
clubs’ work not only in clearing
away unsightly blights on the coun¬
tryside but also in widespread
planting of shrubs and flowers. It
goes without saying that all this
enriches life for Georgians, and
Gov. Sanders pointed out another
great benefit:
“The simple fact is that the more
that is done to make our state
more attractive, then the more we
will attract visitors from other
areas.”
Georgia now has a $329 million
tourist industry. No longer are
travelers to and from Florida as
likely to route themselves around
Georgia, or most of it, beicause
they fear speed traps or dis¬
courteous treatment by law offi
cers.
Having removed some of the de¬
terrents, we now should concen¬
trate upon some of the induce¬
ments.
Clean, unobstructed highways
could be among these. Well-planned
well-planted rights-of-way and city
streets could be another. Fresh,
unpolluted streams would be both
an inducement for the visitor and
vital protection for the local resi¬
dent.
What the garden clubs can do
for Georgia already has been
shown; their usefulness will grow.
— Editorial in Atlanta Journal.
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