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Wheeler County Eagle
Volume 39
Daniel Association
B. W. M. U. Meets
At Sardis Church
The B. W. M. U. Annual
meeting of the Daniel As
sociation was held at Sardis
Church, Wheeler County, on
Jan. 15th, with One Hundred
present.
The theme of the program
was “Our Task”.
Mrs. E. L. Tanner, Superin
tendent of the Daniel Assoc
iation, presided at the meet
ing.
Pastor O. L. Pedigo of Vid
alia gave the worship mes
sage. Other outstanding talks
wqre given by Miss Helen
Meredith, Missionary from
South America, and Mrs. P.
F. Martin.
Mr. J. P. Jardine of Brew
ton Parker inspired the aud
ience with a mesage in song.
A delicious luncheon was
served by the Sardis W. M. S.
The afternoon session was
devoted to business, roll call
and officers reports.
An installation service for
the new Officers closed with
Pastor Whitfield praying the
Prayer of Consecration.
The 1954 Annual meeting
will be held in Alamo.
Wheeler Oil Well
In Stale Os Progress
Interested parties in the
Jordan Heirs, number one
exporatory oil well, being
sunk in Wheeler county, are
optimistic on the venture
and the hole has been sunk
co 400 feet by using a local
ng.
This week, a heavy duty
rig has been placed over the
well and a standard drill will
take over for completion to
oil or bed rock.
T. R. Davis of Vidalia, who
is in charge of general acti
vities, said that Ocala lime
rock structures had been met
at 368 feet which is rather
high. Shallow gas seepages
have been drilled through.
Davis said drillrs expect to
get to 1,000 feet depth with
the standard drill and then
the lower depths will be
pierced by a rotary bit.
Ten-inch casings are being
used but presently will be re
duced to eight-inch pipes.
Davis said that many oil
companies are asking for in
formation on the hole and
want to be kept in touch with
the log.
No special information is
expected to be derived before
the well is down at least 1500
feet.
The Dixie Drilling Compa
ny which is owned by Davis
and the National Resources
Corporation are jointly as
sociated in this and four
other wells to be drilled dur
ing 1953 in this area.
W. C. H. S. Beta
Club Meeting
The Beta Club met Friday,
January 16, 1953, and discuss
ed the subject of inviting
new members into the club
who were eligible. These are
two who meet the require
ments.
The Beta Club has a store
at the school building in
which they sell paper and
pencils. The proceeds will be
used to help pay expenses for
the ones going to the Beta
Club Convention.
Graham 4-H Club
Met January 10th
Graham 4-H club met Jan.
10, 1953 with Miss Godbee.
The folliwing girls painted
flowers on their candy jars.
Gail Ray, Helen Fulford, Eliz
abeth Oliver, Mary Leila Cle
ments, Mary Ann Fulford,
Mary Ruth Thomas, and Mar
jorie Oliver.
Subscribe for the Eagle and
keep up with your county af
fairs.
IN THE SWIM
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Pooling their efforts to beat polio, Randy Smith, 10, of Rome
and physical therapist Bertha Andrews, team up for water treat
ment at Georgia Warm. Springs Foundation where hundreds of
youngsters and adults depend on March of Dimes aid to speed
their recovery. 1952 was the worst polio year in history with
over 55,000 cases reported. Help is urgently needed to care for
»r Ck< L n and confirm research hopes for the future. Join the
1953 March of Dimes before the campaign closes on January 31.
Glenwood School
Menu Jan. 26-30
MONDAY
Hot Dogs with Homemade
chili, Carrot Strips, Peach,
Clobbler, and Milk.
TUESDAY
Pimento cheese sandwich
Lima Beans, Apple Salad, and
Milk.
WEDNESDAY
Creamed Turkey, Turnip
Greens, Potato Souffle, Corn
bread, Butter, and Milk.
THURSDAY
Tuna Fish Salad, Green
Butterbeans, Squash (no
cheese) Crackers, Honey Balls
and Milk.
FRIDAY .
Macarroni, Cheese, Lettuce,
with Dressing, Whole Wheat
Bread, Butter, Milk.
Legion Child Welfare
Panels On Desertion,
Delinquency Planned
Juvenile Delinquency and
Desertion will be major sub
jects for discussion at the
Area C child welfare confer
ence of The American Legion
and its Auxiliary in Atlanta
on February 12-14. Repre
sentatives from 12 southern
states and Panama will at
tend, according to Melvin B.
Coalson of Alpharetta, child
welfare chairman of the Le
gion in Georgia and general
conference chairman.
Georgians who specialize in
these fields will lead panel
discussions. On the Juven
ile Delinquency panel will be
Miss Frances Vance, director
of the child welfare division
of the State Department of
Public Welfare; Lieutenant I.
E. Thomas, chief of the vice
squad of the Atlanta Police
Department, under whose ju
risdiction the juvenile divis
ion comes; and Judge W. W.
Woolfolk of the Fulton Coun
ty Juvenile Court. Mrs. Am
ber W. Anderson, special as
sistant in the Fulton County
solicitor' general’s office, will
talk on Desertion.
Others speakers of nation
al prominence will take part
on the program, under the
direction of Randel Shake
and Pat Geile from The Am
erican Legion’s National
child welfare division.
James E. Powers of Macon,
past Department commander
of the Legion, will be the
conference banquet speaker
on February 12 at 7:30 p. m.
at the Henry Grady Hotel,
where all sessions will be
held during the three-day
period. Now serving his sec
ond consecutive term as Na
tional chairman of the Leg
ion membership and Post ac
tivities committee, he is also
chairman of the veterans’ re
habilitation commission of
the organization in Georgia
and manager of the Macon
office of the State Depart
ment of Veterans Service.
Approximately 250 men
and women from Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, North Carolina, Okla
homa, Panama, South Caro-
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 1
50,000 Eligible Vets
Failed To File For
POW Payments
- About 50,000 World War II
vetrans who are entitled to
payment of $1.50 a day for
1 time spent in enemy hands
' under forced labor or inhu
mane conditions have not yet
sent in claims for compensat-
* ion, William K. Barrett, dir
ector of the State Depart
ment of Vetran Service, said
today.
i Barrett learned from the
; War Claims Commission that
many of these vetrans op
perantly believe they aren’t
, eligible for the payment be
: cause they received an earl
ier sl-a-day allowance for
time spent as POWs on sub
standard diets.
The $1.50-a-day payment
! is authorized by Public Law
303, the War Claims Act of,
1952, for all U. S. Servicemen'
who were subjected to forced
labor or inhumane treatment
while held as prisoners of
war.
1 This payment is in add
' ition to the sl-a-day com
! pensation paid by P. L. 896,
Eightieth Congress, to ex-
POWs: whose food in captiv
ity was not up to the stand
ards required by the Geneva
Convention.
The deadline for claiming
payment under the new act
is April 9, 1953. Former civil
ian internees are not elig
ible as they were for the first
payment.
Claim forms for the Cur
rent POWs benefit were mail
ed by the commission direct
to 132,000 ex-prisoners of
. war whose names were on
file. About 80,000 veterans
or their survivors have re
turned them.
Living ex-prisoners file on
Form WCC-611. Form WCC
-660 is used by survivors, in
cluding widows, dependent
husbands, children and par
' ents, in that priority.
These forms carry a place
for entry of the applicant’s
. claim number, established in
the earlier sl-a-day payment
according to Barrett. An ap
plicant who has no record of
iou paau jaqumu unnia siq
put off filing for that reason
since the commission will
supply the number when the
claim comes in. Forms are
available at any Field Office
of the State Department of
Veterans Service.
Barrett invited interested
' persons to come by the near
est branch office of the State
Department of Veterans Ser
vice for further information
’ and assistance. The nearest
branch office is located at
Glennville and the manager
of the office is Parker W.
Thompson.
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lina, Tennessee and Texas
: are expected to attend the
. sessions, which start at 1:30
. p. m. on February 12 and end
at noon'on February 14.
Maurice Webb of Newnan
. is chairman of the distin
, guished guests committee,
, and Mrs. C. R. McQuown of
■ Decatur is co-chairman of
• the committee on general ar
■ rangements.
Landsbury H. D. Club
Holds First Meeting i
Os The New Year
The Landsburg Home D' [
onstration Club held its fir
meeting of the year in
nome of Mrs. J. M. i
Avery, Fridays afternc
Jan. 16, with seventee Jv*.
ies present.
After Devotion and JV
iness session Miss G
gave a demonstration on
ing bun or roll baskets
reed and and plywood. Sev
eral baskets were made by
the group.
Miss Godbee also told us
about some new vegetables
and asked all who were in
terested to try them..
Mrs. Willard Wright, Coun
ty Librarian brought a nice
collection of books from
which the ladies chose their
favorite stories- and authors.
During the social hour re
freshments were served by
the hostess.
SOCIAL SECURITY
, (This is one of a series of ar
• tides on old-age and surviv
■ ors insurance under the So
. cial Security Act. These ar
; tides were prepared by your
. Social Security Office at Sa
. vannah. You can get more
, information from that office
by visiting there, writing, or
telephoning 6-1589.)
The protection of the Soc
, ial Security Act has been ex
. tended, since January 1, 1951
, to what are called “regular
. iy employed domestics”. This
. means that only those per
■ sons who are fairly steadily
. employed by the same house
holder are covered by the
Act.
. * Generally speaking, we can
s that a domestic is cover
ed if he or she works for one
employer at least 24 days in
: a calednar quarter. For a, do
mestic worker to be covered
for work that she does in a
private household, she must
work for any one household
at least some part of each 24
days in a calendar quarter.
Calendar quarters are
3-month periods starting Jan
uary 1, April, 1 July, 1 and
October 1.
Besides working for the em
ployer on at least 24 days in
a calendar quarter, the do
mestic must be paid at least
SSO in cash wages by the
same employer. Only cash
wages are counted; the value
of meals, room, or clothing,
cannot be added to the cash
wages so that the employee
may be covered; nor should
they be reported by the em
ployer.
If a domestic works for an
employer 24 days in one cal
endar quarter, her work will
be covered in the next quart
er even if she works less than
24 days, if she is paid at least
SSO in cash wages.
All domestics who work in
a private home may be cover
ed; a cook, a maid, a chauf
fuer, a gardener, or a valet.
Domestic work on a farm op
erated for profit is covered,
but only if it meets the pro
visions of the law covering
regular farm workers. (These
will be described in a later
article.) Domestic employ
ment in a hotel, or a board
ing house is usually covered
no matter how much is paid
in wages, nor how many days
the employee works.
Domestic employees will
need social security numbers,
the same as other persons
covered by the act. Numbers
can be gotten at your social
security office at Savannah,
Georgia. You can also get a
booklet there explaining your
rights and duties under the
law.
Housewives who employ d#
mestics should make sure
that they, too. understand
their rights and obligations
under the law. You can get a
booklet describing your duties
under the law by writing, call
ing, of visiting your social se
curity office. This booklet will
also enable you to obtain the
forms needed to report wages
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. cJJk fS SHARE IN PRESIDENT'S
® SPENDING PROGRAM $660,000 ;
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FHA’ER AND FRIEND— Han-
nah Pope, one of the en
terprising Future Homemak
ers at Glenwood school, whi
dressed dolls with the scraps
left over from their clothing
unit in Homemaking, sent
dolls to Korea, and wrote and
presented an FHA skit about
it. “A three way project
which was a learning exper
ience for them, a community
serve to their PTA, and ah
internatiinal goodwill project
showed skilled planning on
the part of the Glenwood
girls”, said state FHA lead
ers. A story about the pro
ject and this picture of Han
nah Pope and the doll she
dressed was carried in a rec
ent issue of the Georgia Fu
ture Homemaker News. Miss
Jackie Christian is their
homemaking teacher and
chapter adviser.
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CHICAGO — Pert Mitzi Proux
who will be officially titled Miss
National Rug Cleaner of 1953 at
the National Rug Cleaners’ Con
vention in the Sherman Hotel hdTe
January 17 says housewives can
look Hkfe models, stay peppy, pretty
and young looking by being smart
about planning their household
chores.
Miss Proux, a top Chicago TV
personality, says wives can save
hours of drudgery by cleaning their
carpets by telephone. Call your
professional rug cleaner who has
the required skill, know-how and
mechanical equipment to service
them properly. This way both
wives and rugs can be kept fresh,
lovely and new looking!
Renew Your Subscription To
The Eagle Today!
and make tax payments. The
telephone number is 6-1589.
Ask for the booklet called “Do
You Have A Maid?”.
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Norman Rockwell, America’s most famous illustrator, is shown talking
with the models he used to paint one of the pictures appearing on a
1953 calendar devoted to Ford Motor Company’s fiftieth anniversary.
He found these models among his neighbors in Arlington, Vt. Posed
at left as the late Henry Ford, when he was a watch repairing boy of
10 years, is Robert Deßlock, 12, seventh grade student at Arlington
Memorial school. Rockwell chose Bernard Cullinan, custodian at the
Arlington school, to depict a neighbor visiting Mr. Ford’s work shop.
I Wheeler County’s share ini
President Truman’s proposed!
1953-54 Federal spending pro'
' gram will be approximately
$660,000 according to the
Georgia State Chamber cf
: ,Commerce.
The Chamber’s executive
i vice president, Walter Cates,
I said for all Georgia counties
! were obtained after the
Chamber learned that Geor
gia taxpayers will have to
i pay $1,045,207,100 in Federal
taxes if the budget is approv
ed. He said this amount is
I almost five times the amount
i of taxes collected last year in
Georgia to finance the entire
• state goverment budget of
■ $228,876,799.
; The State Chamber esti
‘ mates that Georgians present
> ly bear 1.33 per cent of the
> total Federal tax burden. “Al
; though the President’s bud
-1 get message calls for a total
: expenditure of $78.6 billion
• next year,” Cates said, it is
■ expected the Federal gover
ment will collect $68.7 billion
in taxes and other revenues.
This means that a deficit of
$9.9 billion alone would be
more than the total amount
of money required to run the
whole Federal establishment
as late as the fiscal year 1939
through 1940.
One of the campaign prom
ises of General Eisenhower
! was reduction in Federal
spending accompanied by low
er Federal taxes. The major
ity group in Congress is also
on record for less Federal
spending and for relief to tax
payers at an early date.
“The sincerity behind these
promises may now be measur
ed by the zeal with which the
hew administration and the
new Congress tackle the Tru
man budget and .cut it down
to a size the taxpayers can
handle,” Cates said.
PTA Meets Al Alamo
School February sth
Hospitality and Refresh
ment P. T. A. Committee re
quested to serve on February
sth at 7:30 P. M. in Alamo
School Auditorium as fol
lows :
Mrs. J. R. Chambless.
Mrs. Julian Tanner.
Mrs. E. J. Foster.
Mrs. Hilton McAlum.
Mrs. Otis Couey.
Mrs. Lewis Maddox.
Mrs. Lamar Clark.
Mrs. Eschol Gibbs.
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