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DEVOTED. TO THEHEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHFFr FR rniru-rv .
Volume 30*
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CONG. HUGH PETERSON
In this issue of the Eagle wH]
be found the formal announce*
ment of Congressman Hugh
Peterson, for reelection to the
office of Congressman from the
First Congressional District of
Georgia, which office he has held
for the past ten years,
He is no stranger in politics in
Wheeler county. He is again
asking your support in the com*
ing primary, which will be held
July 4th. An active campaign is
anticipated. Read his announ*
cement:
Announcement
For Congress
To the Citizen* of the First Congres
sional District:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for reelection as your Representative
io the Seventy-ninth Congress of the
United States.
Your support is deeply appreciated
HUGH PETERSON.
CARD OF THANKS
To our many friends we wish
to thank them from the bottom
of our hearts for their many
kindness, thoughfulness, and
bereavement. We implore the
Sup erne Ruler of the Universe
that He bring His richest blest
sings upon each and every oat
of you.
Mr and Mrs.
Guv 0. Stone.
M, H. Boyer Announces
For Re-election As
Solicitor General
The Eagle calls your attention
to forma! announcement of M. H
Boyer, the popular and efficient
Solicitor General for reelection
to the office which he has held
for twentysfour years
Mr. Boyer has attended to bis
duties as Solicitor General with
honesty and fairness, and be has
made scores of friends through
out the Oconee Judicial Giruit
who will rally to his support in
the coming election on July 4th
Read his announcement
For Solicitor General
To the People of the Oconee
Circuit:
I trust that my administration
of the affairs of the office of Soli*
citor General of this Circuit
meets with your respect and ap*
proval. The results of my efforts
prove effectiveness, fairness,
force and honor.
I am a candidate for reelection
to this office.
With grateful thanks.
M. H. BOYER.
MRS. BURNETT
BURIED TUESDAY
MRS. O. H. BURNETT,
LUMBER CITY, DIES
Mrs. 0. H. Burnett, of Lumber
City, died in an Atlanta hospital
Sunday after an illness of six
weeks. She was a member of the
Primitive Baptist Church of Hazel
hurst.
Survivors include her husband;
two daughters, Miss Mary Lee
Burnett, Reidsville, and Miss Ra
chael Burnett, Atlanta; two sons, I
Lester Burnett, Savannah, and Avi
ation Cadet John R. Burnett,
Memphis; mother, Mrs. John El
ton, Alamo; three sisters, Mrs.
Ralph Thomas, Mrs. Clarence Mar
tin, of Alamo, and Mrs. E. E.
Garrison, Bradenton. Fla.; four
brothers. Joe Brook, Jim Ollis and
Frank Elton, all of Alamo.
The body was taken to Lumber
City for funeral services at 2 p. m.
Tuesday at the Lumber City Bap
tist Church, with the Rev. Mr.
Agan officiating. Burial was in
the Riverside Cemetery.
NOTICE TO ALL TIMBER
OWNERS
Do you know the value of your
woods? Are you getting a fair
price for your timber?
The Georgia Department of Fores
try would like to help answer these
questions for you, said the County
Agent this week.
The Department of Forestry has a
trained timber cruiser working with
in the First Congressional District.
His services arq available to you so
that you may know the amount of
timber you have on your land and
also advise you on cutting and mar
keting it so that you Can get the
highest price possible. It is impos
sible for the Forestry Department to
cruise all of everyone’s timber due
to limited personnel and time, but
we can make available, for those who
desire it, at least one day’s service
for each land owner. Approximate
cost to the individual of about 20
cents per acre.
Anyone desiring this service con
tact your County Agent or your
District Forester, address, States
boro, Ga., Box xNo. 263, or phone
Statesboro 328.
Bible Study
The Methodist Bible study met
at the home of Mre. Kelly Adams
on Wednesday afternoon at 4
d’clokt, with ten members pres
ent. The lesson was very inter
estingly taught by Mrs. Martin
Sibley. Rev. J. H. Allen also
presented plans for a bouse to
house canvass in connection with
the revival which is to be held in
Glenwood beginning April 3rd.
Mrs. Adams served lovely re*
f eshmenta of chicken salad,
sandwiches and coffee at the
close of the meeting
Miss Blida Hurst
Complimented
Mrs. W. A. Rivers entertained
the members of the Glenwood
Method ikt choir, on Wednesday
evening, naming as honoree Miss
Hilda Hural, whose marriage to
Mr. Palmer Browning will take
place at an early date.
Lively spring flowers in pink
and white were used in decorat*
ing the living room. After the
practice the guests were invited
into the dining room where the
table was lovely in its setting of
pink flowering, peach and pink
candles.
Refreshments of chicken salad
salted nuts, fruit punch, and
bride’s cake, decorated with pink
and white feeing, were served for
this happy occasion
Mrs. Rivers presented Miss
Hurst with'a dainty gift and the
rest of the evening was spent in
, pleasant conversation and music.
FOR SALE
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1941 Ford, Tudor, Good con*
dition; privately owned; reason*
able G R Peeples, Alamo, Ga
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944
PAN AMERICAN TANKER SKIPPER
DECORATED BY ADMIRAL LAND
350 Members of the Propeller Club of New York Witness Award
of the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal
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Comm. John Lund, master of tanker, S. S. Pan Maryland, receiving from
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service
Medal for heroic rescue at sea.
New York —Commander John Lund,
master of the Pan American tanker,
S. S. Pan Maryland, was honored at
a luncheon held in the Waldorf-
Astoria, and presented with the Mer
chant Marine Distinguished Service
Medal. The presentation, on behalf
of President Roosevelt, was made by
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chair
man of the U. S. Maritime Commis
sion, before 350 members and . guests
of the Propeller Club of Ne\v Tgrk.
After reading the presidential cita
tion dealing with his heroic rescue of
27 Norwegian seamen, Admiral Land
paid the high compliment to Lund by
calling him “the salt of the earth”—
“And I know of no higher compliment
which can be bestowed on a man,” ho
added.
Further honors were paid to Cap
tain Lund by James Patterson, gen
eral marine manager of Pan Ameri
can Petroleum & Transport Company,
who presented the skipper with the
original drawing of a tanker on con
voy at sea. Captain Lund was almost
as pleased with this drawing, executed
by the famous marine artist Hunter
Wood, now of the U. S. Coast Guard,
as he was with the medal. He said
he would treasure them both, and the
drawing would soon hang on the wall
of his home.
Captain Lund, a native of Denmark,
started his sea career in 1916 on
schooners. During World War I he
sailed as an ordinary seaman on old
wooden ships. He left the Old World
in 1919 and arrived here, fittingly
enough, on July 4th, Independence
Day. Also fitting is the fact that he
joined Pan American Petroleum &
Transport Company on October 12,
1936, the birthday of another great
navigator, Christopher Columbus.
An interesting fact is that the ship,
GEORG STAGE, a full-rigged Danish ,
training ship which gave Captain I
Lund his early r -mr.nship. is now ।
known as the JOSEPH CONRAD, in ■
service in this war training cadets for ।
the U. S. War Shipping Administra- <
tion. I<
In addition to a dais full of high-11
Wheeler Girl With
WAC in Denver, Col
Pvt. Bertha Sue Clegg, of this
county enlisted last November
2nd, for service with the Womens
Army Corps and at that time the
campaign for Air Wacs had just
been opened and she entered that
branch. After a thorough Basic
preparation at the historical Fort
Oglethorpe training center, Pvt
Clegg was sent to Buckley Field,
Denver Colorado to begin her
field work, where she now wears
1 the coveted insignia of the Air
1 Forces and is carrying her share
1 of responsibility in connection
with vital records in the classi
fication section.
Mr*. J. J. Cooper has received
several letters from Pvt. Bertha
> Sue Clegg stating she finds her
> work with the Womens Army
Corps very interesting.
, ranking naval and maritime shipping
, men — including Vice-Admiral Cran
t dell, Rear Admirals Kelly, Steadman.
- Farewell, Captain Manning, Com
- niander McCawley and others, official?
? of the American Oil Company and its
f affiliate, Pan American Refining Cor
r poration, were on hand to honor Cap
• tain Lund and Rear Admiral Land.
■ These included Dr. R. E. Wilson.
I Charles H, Wagner, C. F, Hatmaker
E. G. McKeever* J. A. Carroll, Jr.,*
. (James Patterson, T. A. McQuillingf
- and others.
I A feature of the luncheon was an/
- extemporaneous speech by Dr. Wilson,'
president of the oil companies, who
surveyed the current oil production
land transportation situation. Dr. Wil
son pointed out that today the oil in
dustry is working at the peak, and
that this' country is now shipping to
the fighting fronts seventeen times as
much ( regular gasoline and seventy
five times as much aviation gasoline
a day as it did in the last war.
In tracing back the early dark days
of the war, Dr. Wilson said the oil
industry and the railroads responded
to the crisis caused by the sub war- '
fare campaign and the shifting of
coastwise tankers to overseas service
by working 21 hours a day, seven days
a week, in getting the oil to the rail
ways tank cars, and in unloading this
oil as fast as it arrived at eastern
ports. Such movements ran as high
as 1,000,069 barrels per day at the
peak.
Today, Dr. Wilson concluded, trans
portation problems have been largely
overcome by the completion of the two
“big inch” pipelines and many other
smaller pipeline projects, plus the
building of many tankers and barges.
However, military demands have con
tinued to increase, to use up this
transportation about as fast as it be
comes available. He added that thanks
to the unflagging efforts of the men
of the cil industry—ranging from the
workers jn the fields to the marine
men, .such as Captain Lund and his
crew —no fighting front has been with
out the oil and gas needed to wage
the war.
COLORED SCHOOLS
IN RED CROSS DRIVE
We greatly appreciate the
1 interest which the colored schools
s have taken in the red cross drive,
t They have reported $105.70 up
t to this time
! We also have a good report
t from Shiloh community. They
have turned in $880.50
, We have not had an official
r report from Glenwood, but un*
s derstand that they have almost
r reached their quota
e Alamo has collected $693.52.
a The total amount we have receiv*
- ed from the county is $1145.02.
Mrs. R. E. Carlisle,
j Treasurer.
a
r LOST STRAYED OR STOLEN
y—A Cook. Liberal reward of
Laughs if returned before supper
CONG. HUGH PETERSON
WRITES LETTER 10
PEOPLE OF DIST.
To the Citizens of the First District:
May I express to you my gratitude
i’or the confidence which you have
placed in me as your Representative
in Congress during these years of
urmoil and unrest when so many
ssues have arisen that vitally affect
our people. I have constantly kept
before me the responsibilities of my
Juries as your Representative in the
legislative halls here in Washington,
and it has been my sincere effort to
rive that type of faithful service
which you so richly deserve.
I have announced my candidacy
for reelection and I trust that my
'record of service warrants and will
receive your continued support in the
primary election of July 4th.
As is so well known to every family
md to each individual throughout the
ength and breadth of our country,
Ve are now engaged in a terrible
vorld conflict. We, of America, are
oday standing face to face with the
■old, hard facts and realities of war
—war in its most terrible aspects—
destruction, hardships, grief, heart
aches, bloodshed and death. Over
ten million of our young men are in
the armed forces. Thousands have
already made the supreme sacrifice.
Hundreds of Thousands are now en
gaged in mortal combat with the
enemy. Millions are today moving
mp to the battle fronts in distant
lands. All in an effort to subdue the
enemy and win the war as quickly as
wssible and with the least possible
loodshed and death.
It is our duty at home to give our
united efforts in support of our men
whose records of bravery and
achievement on land and sea, in the
air and underneath the waters, are
unequalled by those of any fighting
forces since the dawn of time.
As more and more of our men are
moved up to the battle fronts I know
and realize the extreme interest and
anxiety on the part of their families
snd loved ones back home. I want
he relatives of the men and women
tn the armed service to call on me
whenever you feel that I can render
any service, and to contact me re
garding any matter in which I might
mssibly be able to give assistance or
secure information.
May I likewise reassure you of my
continued devotion to the duties of
this great office should you afford me
the honor of continuing to serve you ]
as your Representative in Congress
.‘or the next two years.
Again thanking each of you for 1
your confidence and support, I am,
Sincerely,
Hugh Peterson.
.Vashington, D. C.,
March 18, 1944.
Springhill Club News
The Springhill club met i
4arch with Mrs J D Burkhalter
md Mrs Robert E Clark. 18
nembers were present.
After the devotional, Mbs
Jodbee distributed several very
iseful phamplets, consisting of
loultry tips, and cow and repair
>f household equipment
Mrs. Robert E. Clark, Mis
Alton Clark and Mrs Jimmy
Pitta gave a demonstration on
making a comfortable bed for
the benefit of those who are able
to attend meetings of the home
nursing course
Reports of committees were
made as follows: Food preser
vation, 459 quarts; eggs and
chickens sold, 12,547; and baby
chicks on hand, 263
After delicious refreshments
were served the meeting adjourn
ed to meet at the home of Mrs
Alton Clark in April
REPORTER
Found one wheel and spair tire
and tube on the Springhill road.
Owner may get same by giving
proof and identifying and pay it g
advertising fee. J. T. Heath.
• Go to Church Sunday
Sample Copy 5c Number 43
JUDGE MM «
mMECM
The Eagle calls attention in
this issue of the formal announce
ment of Judge Escbol Graham,
for reelection to the office of
Judge of the Superior Court of
the Oconee Judicial Circuil,
which efficehehas held for the
past 24 years, and during this
ik tiod Judge Graham has made
S ate-wide reputation for the
able and efficient manner in which
he handles the business of the
ol Court Judge Graham is noted
for the chargt s he delivers to tbg
Grand Juries of the seven],
Ciunties that he so ably scives
every school child should hear
these lectures.
He is often called upon to pre*
side :n the higher Courts of this
Stale, knowing of his ability as
a judge of the law. He is seldom
ever reversed in his decisions by
the higher courts.
Judge Graham needs no intros
duction to the people of Wheeler
Cuunty, he knows as many people
iu the county as if he lived here,
He has many warm friends over
this Circuit who will rally to his
support in the coming primary
to be held on July 4th.
His announcement followt:
JUDGE GRAHAM ANNOUNCES
FOR RE-ELECTION
To the People of the Oconee Judicial
Circuit:
1 am a candidate for re-election
to the office of Judge of your Su
per or courts, subject to the rules
of the Primary,
24 years, with soberness and cir
cumspection, J have served you, do
ing my best to try cases according
to law and evidence, to temper jus
tice with mercy, and to help you
make your county a cleaner and
safer place in which for you and
your children to live.
The business of the courts is be
ing attended to, promptly and im
partially, without undue influnece,
and without unnecessary expense
and inconvenience to you.
lam fighting a good fight. lam
not yet ready to be delivered up.
The Office of Judge belongs to the
people. The right man on the
Bench means something to you. My
experience, the way I run the courts
and my record, on which I am run
ning, is at this time worth your se
rious consideration.
I am indebted to you for your
cupport and cooperation. I appre
ciate your confidence and the respect
you have for your court. If you re
elect me you will not lose that re
spect but will continue to enjoy that
service of your judge to which you
are entitled. Y|)u have not failed
me. I will not fail you.
With faith in the people and with
best wishes for you and yours, I am,
Your friend,
Eschol Graham.
March 23, 1944.
Hendrix-Powell
A marriage of much interest in
Alamo was that of Miss Corene
Hendrix and Pvt. Clayton Powel|
of Camp Livingston, Louisana,
who is stationed there in Uncle
Sam’s Army were married here
in the presence of a few relatives
last Saturday evening. Judge D.
N. Achord performing the cere*
mony.
The bride is the eldest daugh*
ter of Mr. and Mra. G. M. Hend
rix, of Alamo, and is a very at
tractive young lady, and has
\many womanly traits.
The groom is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dole Powell, formerly reais
; dents of this place, but now of
: Gardi,\Georgia.
Canada’s plant breeders have
opened millions of acr« to agrieul
, ture by development of early matur*
ing grain. . .
