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Volumn 37.
Further Expansion
In Livestock Field
Indicated For 1951
An Extension Service livestock
specialist looks for comparatively
high livestock prices to continue in
1951, and prospects indicate further
expansion of the industry in Georgia
during the new year.
Charles E. Bell, livestock expert,
thinks an almost certain labor short
age in 1951 will contribute to the
expansion of the beef business in the
state. “A ioeef enterprise can be
operated with a minimum of labor,”
he said.
While concerned over the cold
weather this winter that followed a
dry summer and fall and cut Geor
gia pastures short, Mr. Bell thinks
this will be a lesson for farmers to
produce enough hay and silage in
1951 to take care of emergencies.
Quoting the latest U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Pig Crop Re
port, Me. 81l said that Georgia led
the nation in 1950 in the percentage
of pigs. “Pigs farrowed in the state
in 1950,” he said, “were 13 percent
more than in 194®.” The specialist
looks for the increase to continue,
but believes it will not be as great.
Only eight states were ahead of
Georgia in number of pigs raised last ’
year, and all of these were m the
middle west. Georgia’s figure was
2,674,000.
Mr. Bell thinks the increase in hog
produtcion in ’sl will be due partly
to the relatively new hog industry in
North Georgia. He pointed out that
there is an increase in that section
because of curtailment of some cash
crops, greatly increased corn yields
and the establishment of ladino clov
er and fescue pastures.
B. W. M s IL Meeting
Daniel! Association
At Soperton. Jan. 18
The Baptist Women’s Missionary
Union of the Daniell Association will
meet at Scperton on January 18. The
Theme of the meeting: Jesus Calls ,
Us
Below is the program:
10:00 Hymn — Prayer
Worship Period—Mrs. Fred Smith
10:20 Welcome—Mrs. J. J. Wind
burn
Response—Mrs. Walter Morrison
Introductions Pastors and Visitors
10:30 Message—“ Let Every One of
You”—Miss Hilda Beggs
(Explanation point 3 on W. M.
U. Standard)
10:50 Skit—“ Hello, Mrs. President”
—Alamo W. M. S.
11:10 Special Music — J. P. Jar- :
dine (Brewton-Parker)
11:15 Missionary Message—“ The
Call of World’s Needs”—Mrs. S. L.
Goldfinch, South America
11:55 Offering
Appointing Committees, etc.
12:15 “Savior, May We Hear Thy
Call-Mrs. P. F. Martin
12:30 —Lunch
1:30 Hymn — Prayer
1:35 Message on Evangelism—“ The
Call to Win Souls”—’Dr. Fred E.
Smith
1:40 Plans for Evangelistic Crusade
—Rev. C. F. Tidwell
1:50 Special Music—Brewton-Park
er
1:55 B. W. C. Federation —Mrs. T. [
Q. Vann
2:10 “Our Needs” — (Our Young
People).
“We Need Your Love and In
terest”—Miss Dorris Claxton
2:15 “We Need Missionary Edcua
tion and Training—Barry Owens
Reports of Committees
Closing Prayer—Dedicating Offi
cers
We want to urge that all ladies at
tend this meeting. It will be a day,
of soul feasting. Next Thursday we
are counting on you being with us.
Each One Must Choose
BY J. SEABORN WINN
Milner, Ga.
j
Each person has the right to choose
The Christ, or turn Him down;
To make this choice none can refuse,
There is no neutral ground.
"Why not let Jesus be your choice,
And toe your daily guide?
To live for Christ is to rejoice
And in His love abide.
A RECORD FOR LUPINE
Production of lupine and crimson
clover seed in Georgia set new rec
ords in 1950. The corn crop was ex
ceeded only yy the record production
in 1949, and the pecan crop was ex
ceeded only by the record production
Most other crops had a smaller pro
duction in 1950 than in 1949.
Wheeler County Eagle
R. E. Tuten Again
Heads Wheeler
Comity Farm Bureau
The Wheeler County Farm Bureau
officers and Board Os Directors held
a meting last Thursday night, Jan
uary 4, for the purpose of electing
officers for the coming year.
The same officers were elected as
for the prvious year:
R. E. Tuten, president; David Hart
ley, vice-president; Lee Evans, sec
retar,y-treasuer, and R. E. Tuten, Jr.,
, assistant secretary-treasurer.
The Farm Bureau has sponsored
many contests in the past three years
and given to the 4-H girls and boys
and FFA ad NF A boys about four
hundred dollars (which was donated
by the farmers and business men of
Wheeler and Telfair Counties) in
prize money.
Anyone should be proud to be a
member of the Farm Bureau. Mem
bers can receive great benefits that
non-members can’t get. For infor
mation see R. E. Tuten, Sr., President
Wheeler County Farm Bureau.
News Os Wheeler
County High School
The basketball teams of old Wheel
. er County High split even in games
played last Friday night with Milan
on. the Mcßae court. Our girls team
lead by Peggy Brown, captain, un
lashed an attack which could not be
denied, and emerged with the high
est score of the season so far, 55-20.
The entire local girls team starred,
while Jones turned in the best of
fensive game for Milan. Hughes
scored 20 points for Wheeler Coun
ty High.
Our Loy’s team turned in one of
I the ’best games of the season but
I lost to the strong Milan team 40-37.
The outcome cif the game was in
1 doubt until the last whistle. Hinson
■ and Kent tallied the most markers
for the local quintet, while Thomas
| was best for the winners.
GIRLS
W. C. H. S. (55) Milan (20)
j Brown (24) F Dowdy
I Hughes (20) F Leay
Page (2) F Jones
| Montfort G Yawn
i Elton G Beasley
! Powell G Peel
BOYS
W. C. H. S. (37) Milan (40)
Hinscn (10) F Thomas (17)
Gilder (6) F (Beasley (13)
I Brown (5) C Knowles (1)
Carwell (7) G Hulett (4)
Kent (9) G Knight (2)
Substitutions: Girls, W. C. H. S.
Bentley (7), Hartley (2), Harrelson,
Watson, Jones. Milan: Spires, Garri
! son, Chanters, Patterson. Boys. W.
1 C .H. S.: Evans. Milan: Land, Jones
(3), Taylor, Baker, Vapghn.
Navy Reduces
Entry Requirements
For Naval Academy
Entrance requirements for the Na
val Academy will be relaxed slightly
; to allow a greater percentage of ap
! plicants to enter on the strength of
; their secondary schooling alone, the
Navy announced today.
Effective immediately both plane
trigonometry and elementary physics
will be eliminated from the pre-entry
' list of mandatory subjects required
of applicants.
However, the Navy said the present
; rigid graduation standards wi!’ not
be relaxed. Future candidates who
become “plebes” without benefit of
i the two courses will find them added
to the normal curriculum. The ad
dition of two extra courses to an al
ready crowded schedule will be ef
fected, the Navy said, by Starting
। “plebe” classroom work two weeks
in ad va nce of the academic year.
The change in requirements an
nounced today was one of a series of
recommendations made in the report
।of the Service Academy Board of
the Department of Defense. Tne
board’s objective was the as
surance of more equal opportunity
। for young careerists to enter the
service academies without prepara
tion beyond typical secondary school
level. A board study of Naval
Academy entrance records covering
| recent years revealed that only about
j 16 percent of the “plebe” class got
i into the Academy on the strength of
normal secondary schooling alone.
ARTIFICIAL BREEDING
The main objective of artificially
breeding dairy cattle is to greatly in
crease the number of daughters from
the best improved bulls and to more
rapidly raise the inherited ability of
cur cows or high milk and butter
fat production.
Alamo, Wheeler County, Georgia, Friday, January 12, 1951
Governor Deplores
Journal's Attitbde
On. Roads, Schools
Writing in his paper, The States
man, last week Governor Herman
lain’.;. ,ge cii.Jion i me .Atlanta jour
nal’s “delight, in ridiculing and be
smirching anything that lairly and
accurateiiy represents the viewpoint
: of Georgia and the South.”
I The Governor called attention to
' the Journal photographing and de
i scribing the worst roads and schools
in the state, rather than the best or
average roads and schools, and said,
that the publication of such did Geor
gia no good with industry and tour
ists.
He said that the Journal’s playing
down Georgia roads caused automo
bile associations in other states to
route tourists around Georgia due to
the fact that the Journal stories left
the impression that most of Geor
i gia’s roads are impassable.
The Governor said, also, 'that the
Journal’s belittling of our schools
stopped many industries from com
ing here, due to the fact that man
agement would not take industry to
a state which did not have a good
school system, and the Journal’s ar
ticles left the erroneous impression
I that Georgia’s schools were the worst
fin the nation.
: Governor Talmadge concluded with i
I this admonition to the Journal’s own- !
ers: “If the Atlanta Journal is so
' dissatisfied with our State and con
i' ditions here, and so despise the peo
ple of the South and the people of
Georgia and our ways of living, I
would suggest to them that they are
carpet baggers of only twelve years
standing, and the people of Geor
gia would not in the least be
moan the fact if they packed their
I bags and returned to Ohio from
whence they came.”
Thomas T. Evans
Dies At Home In
Wheeler County
Funeral services were held from
' Snow Hill Baptist Church Sunday,
afternoon at 3 o’clock for Thomas T.
Evans, 65, who died of apoplexy Sat- .
twday at his home in Wheeler Coun
ty, and were conducted by the Rev.
Henry Johns.
Mr. Evans was born in Laurens
County September 2, 1885, the son of
the late Ben and Mary Coleman
Evans.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Mollie Registr; four sons: :
Otis Evans, of Rentz; Albert Evans, 1
Hyden Evans, and Phillip Evans, of
Wheeler County; seven brothers; Lige
i Evans, J. B. Evans and Lev Evans, of I
■ Rentz; Lonnie Evans, of Dexter; W.
i H. Evans, of Helena; Rufus Evans, of
Norman Park; John Evans, of Them- [
asville: and two sisters: Mrs. H. D.!
Brown, of Chester, and Mrs. J. C.
Registr, of Moultrie.
Interment was in Snow Hill Ceme
’ tery with Harris & Smith Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
|Tali -,e Voices
Plea For Unitv
At Inaugural
A plea, for unity and courage in
meetin: the crisis which confronts us
as a state and nation was the general
theme of Governor Herman Tal
madge’s inaugural address last Tues
day, following his inauguration for
r full lour year tsrm as Georgia’s
Chief Excutive.
“Unity to do a job for the people
mus: be the watchword . . . The time
has come for us to mfeet the respon
sibilities with which we are faced.
“We must unite as never before.
We must use all of our human and
material resources in building up
our own strength so that our Nation
may be strong.
“We must be resolute. We must
work and pray togther. We must act
with courage and in a spirit of the
highest patriotism. We must put
principle above profit. We must la
bor with understanding and in uni
son to assemble for the coming strug
gle all the power and all the strength
We possess”.
The Governor reviewed briefly, the
accomplishments of his two years in
office and said that in all depart
ments and divisions the State gov
। eminent is stronger and more es-I
! licieri: than ever before.
; He outlined what the administra
tion pledges itself to do for the bene-
' fit of the people during the next four
years, and said that his platform,
which the voters endorsed last sum- I
' mer, is more necessary than ever to
strengthen Georgia’s economy and re
sources.
The Governor reviewed the work
i of the Georgia Tax Revision Com
mittee and enumerated its recom
mendations to the General Assembly.
I These include a 3% consumer sales
tax and the abandonment of ad va
lorem taxation of property by the
State.
He said: “As your Governor, I most
respectfully 'give my concurrence and
cupport to the recommendations of
the TAx Revision Committee or trans
lating a broad program of needed
> services for the people into reality.”
. Talmadige reiterated his stand up-
I holding Southern traditions and in
• situtions and the county unit system.
( He recommended that the Assembly
submit to the people another amend
ment to the State Constitution in
corporating the identical language of
the county unit statue law now gov
: orning primaries into the Constitu
tion.
; He concluded: “As your Chief Ex
■ ocutive, I renew my pledge to give to
yev the full measure of whatever tal
-nts, ability- and energy I possess. As
' ’ever before, all of us must be im
' bued with that dieep sense of pa
riotic service to this State and Na
ion without which we cannot hope
, to survive.”
Reports indicate that a good per
centage of the land being taken out
of cotton and peanuts in Georgia is
going into pasture.
Single Copy 10c
! Wild Ride Os Five
Teen-Agers Ends With
1 Dead, Four Jailed
Four teen-age boys of Atlanta are
! being held in the Wheeler County jail
,in Alamo pending an investigation
growing out of an accident Tuesday
I morning, January 9, on route 15 about
16 miles south of Alamo resulting in
the death of Willie Guy Jones, 15,
also of Atlanta, and a member of the
: party.
Those held are Gather Samples, 15,
Billy Gazaway, 15, N. D. Byers, 14,
and Kenneth Daniel, 13.
According to information received
' from the sheriff’s office here the
' boys admitted stealing the car in At
i lanta and headed for Florida, tak
: ing turns at the wheel.
At the time of the wreck Gather
Samples was driving at the rate of
,85 miles per hour, they admittted.
’ When they reached a curve in the
* road he lost control of the car.
Russell Motor Co.
Will Display New
I Plymouth Saturday
Russell Motor Company, Chrysler
Dodge and Plymouth dealers of Vi
dalia, invites the general public to
visit their show room Saturday, Jan- i
s uary 13, where they will have on
■ display the new Plymouth Cran
j brook Fourdoor Sedan, 1951 model.
Complete featurs of this outstand
ing automobile can be seen in their
advertisement elsewhere in this issue
; of this paper.
The manager, Roy Russell, can be
1 remembered as the son of Will Rus
sell who operated Russell’s Barber
; Shop in Alamo several years ago and
has many friends, customers and
relatives throughout this locality that
he he res to have them pay him a
visit Saturday.
Alamo and Towns
0. E. S. Entertain
Worthy Grand Matron
The Alamo and Towns Chapters
Order of the Eastern Star, held a
joint meeting for the Worthy Grand
Matron’s official visit for the year.
T his meeting was held at the Towns
' Chapter, with Associate Grand Ma
tron, Sister Sarah Zorzi, acting in the
absence of the Worthy Grand Ma
tron.
The Chapter room was attractively
decorated with the colors of the or
der and evergreen.
A delicious salad plate and cos
: fee were served after the meeting.
Third Quarterly
Conference At Alamo
Methodist Church
Alamo Methodists will hold third
quarterly conference at Alamo Sun
j day, January 21. The District Super
intendent Rev. Wm. Haygood will
I r-each at Alamo at eleven o'clock,
after dinner the session of the Quar
terly Conference will be held.
Services At Erick
Sunday Afternoon,
January 21 At 3 R M.
We are urging you to participate
in our National Brotherhood Benevo
j lent offering Jan’ary 21, at 3:09 p.
m. at our next Erick service. We
did not take up this offering Christ
mas which is the usual time to do
I
i so.
If you cannot make your offering
On January 21, kindly forward it to
Brother Guy Cox, Alamo, as soon
after that date as possible.
Will you do your best to make this
a worthy offering?
G O. TEASE
W. E. Gilder Injured
In Eye While Trying
To Pen-Up Cow
W. E. Gilder of Alamo is in Dr.
Mann’s Hosiptal in Mcßae suffering
from painful injuries to his left eye
caused from being hooked in the eye
i by a cow.
The accident occurred Thursday
night while Mr. Gilder was trying to
get a cow back into the pen with
her young calf. The cow being
[blinded by a flash light struck, him
in the eye with her horn.
Physicians attending Mr. Gilder be_
Heve they will be able to save the
I sight of his eye.
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East Central
Regional Better
Health Conference
The first Regional Better Health
Conference in East Central Georgia
will be held Wednesday, January 17,
L the Community House in Swains
boie. . hh. all-day meeting will con,
rent at 10.00 a. m. Wheeler County
is one of the 28 counties to be repre
sented and community leaders are
expected to attend.
At the morning session ther will
be discussion of the special health
needs of this section of the state.
Participating in the discussion will
be selected community leaders and
consultants from the State Depart
ment of Public Health, among whom
will be Dr. T. F. Sellers, Director of
the State Department, Atlanta, and
: Dr. W. D. Linquist, Regional Medi
| cal Director, Augusta. Dr. G. Lom
, bard Kelly, President, Medical Col
| lege cf Georgia will also participate.
. All county representatives will be
given an opportunity to discuss their
local health problems.
Following the luncheon, to be
served at the Community House, the
| Conference will have the opportunity
' of hearing Dr. Grace Sloan Overton
' of New York, a national authority on
youth. She will discuss in particular
I some of the problems of boy-girl re
i lationships. Another feature of the
' program will toe a panel discussion
on “The Emotional Needs of Chil
dren.” Participating in this will be:
Grant Husband, Mental Hygiene Di
vision, State Department of Public
Health; Dr. T. G. Peacock, Superin
tendent of the State Hospital, Mil
| ledgeville; Dr. Corbett Thigpen and
I Mitchell Wetherhorn, Mental Hygiene
। Clinic Augusta and Miss Marjorie
| Williams, Health Educator, Savannah.
Mrs. C. E. Powell, Swainsboro, is
j chairman, and T. D. Wooten, Lumber
j City, is co-chairman of the East Cen
tral Regional Committee making
plans for this Conference. The East
Central Regional Committee is part
of the Better Health Conference of
Georgia which is the Health Division
of the Georgia Citizens Council.
Southeastern Duroc
Congress Convenes
In Atlanta Jan. 23
The most profitable swine type
will be the subject of a two-day pro
gram featured at the Southeastern
Duroc Congress, January 23 through
24 at Atlanta.
Besides attracting people interested
in pork production in the South
many visitors from the Cornbelt are
expected to gather at the Southeast
ern Fair Grounds to take part in the
activities.
The program will be patterned
after the National Duroc Congresses,
and will include educational features
such as a type discussion, judging
contest, and carcass demonstrations.
A special pasture tour is planned
the day before the Congress for visi
tors. They will get to see the South’s
year around pasture system and other
features of Southern farming.
Action will start early Tuesday
morning, Janury 23. Immediately
following the registration of guests,
“on the foot” judging of barrow
classes will begin. These classes will
serve as a testing ground for the cor
rect market type and will be of par
ticular interest to all hog producers.
The top six barrows in each class will
be slaughtered and their rating in the
carcass given the second day of the
Congress.
Type discussions, judging contest,
and placing of breeding classes will
mean a busy time far the remainder
of the two-day program. Many
prizes and awards will be given to
the winners.
Serving as a fitting climax will be
the sale of over ICO Duroc bred
spring gilts, fall boars, and fall gilts
in the Southeastern Congress Sale.
This will make available .topnotch
breeding animals to the many new
comers that are naw interested in in
creasing their swine operation.
The Southeastern Duroc Congress
is’ being sponsored jointly by the
Southeastern Duroc Breeders Asso
ciation, state Duroc association in
the seven southeastern states—North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia,
Forida, Alabama. Mississippi, and
Tennessee, and the United -Duroc
Record Association.
The entire Congress program is
free to the public. It is cpc~sored in
the interest of more profitable fork
production in the Southern states,
and many cf the “whvs and where
fores” of good pork -reduction esh
f'e gained by attending.
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Number 36.