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Wheeler County Eagle
Volume 39
MR. J. R. CHAMBLISS TO HEAD WHEELER
COUNTY RED CROSS FUND DRIVE FOR 1953
J. R. Chamliss, Alamo, has
accepted the chairmanship
of the 1953 Red Cross Fund
Drive, it is announced today
by J. P. Morrison, Jr., Glen
wood, chairman of the
Wheeler County Chapter of
The American Red Cross.
The Fund Chairman is
manager of The Little Oc
mulgee Electric Membership
Corporation in Alamo, and
has lived in Wheeler County
for the past twelve years. He
is one of the leading citizens
in Alamo and is an active
worker in both church and
community programs.
Mr. Chambliss announces
the following plans for the
campaign:
The sub-chairman for the
county districts are: Mrs.
Lancaster, Alamo; G. C.
Barnhill, Glenwood; Mrs.
Grace Windham Smith, Shi
loh; and Miss Esther Godbee
with her Home Demonstra
tion Clubs will work the Ru
ral areas. ,
The plans are to have one
day to contact you for your
contribution — that day be
ing Saturday, March 14. The
sub-chairman or an assistant
for each district will call at
each residence and business
on that day and you are urg
ed to be prepared to make a
liberal contribution. The
quota for Wheeler County is
$636.00, and since there was
no campaign in the county
last year, please respond this
year and help Mr. Chambliss
make this a successful drive.
You are familiar with the
varied services of the Red
Cross, but you will find in
this edition of the Eagle sev
eral reminders as to the
great work this organization
has done and is now doing.
One item wil familiarize you
with a new project concern
ing your children, which the
Red Cross has undertaken. It
is a new weapon against pa
ralysis from Polio called
ammma Globulin —produced
from human bloor donations.
Another item informs you of
our President’s appeal to the
nation to support the Red
Cross.
Too, there are about 100
boys from Wheeler County in
the Armed Forces and their
only contact with their fam
ilies, in an emergency, is thru
the Red Cross.
So, Give, Give, Give, that
this great work for humanity
might continue.
Former Wheeler
Health Nurse Wins
Safety Award
Miss Ann Dudley, former
Health Nurse of Wheeler
County has been awarded a
trophy for safe driving at a
Gainesville, Georgia Lions
Club Meeting.
Miss Dudley was presented
the trophy, after being rec
ommended by law enforce^
ment officers to the Lions
Club as a driver with a rec
ord for safety under unusual
conditions.
Miss Dudley is now the
public health nurse of Gain
esville, Ga.
Hours For "Greatest
Show On Earth"
The Greatest Show On
Earth, beginning at the Pal
Theatre in Mt. Vernon, this
week will be presented as fol
lows :
Thursday and Friday, 3:30,
7:00 and 9:45 P. M.
Saturday, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00
and^9:3o P. M.
Sunday, 2:30, 8:30 P. M.
Sunday, 2:30, 8:30 P. M.
Admission, Matinee, 25 and
50 cents.
Evening, 30 and 60 cents.
The management requests
all patrons to arrange to see
each show from the begin
ning. ,
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6CIA Members
Adopt Changes
At Annual Meet
Members of the Georgia
Crop Improvement Service at
their eighth annual meeting
recently held at Macon ad
opted a number of changes
in their by-laws and consti
tution in order to better
serve Georgia’s rapidly ex
panding certified seed indus
try.
Changes resulted in the
addition of 11 new directors
for the association, one from
each of the six districts of
the University of Georgia
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice and one from each qf
the five commodity groups—
cotton; corn; horticultural;
small grains; grasses and le
gumes; and miscellaneous
crops.
The new directors chosen
are: R. J. Marshburn, Hom
er; A. J. Singletary, Blakely;
John I. Spooner, Donaldson
ville; C. M. Sims, Pembroke;
L. R. Tucker, Royston, small
grains, grasses and legumes;
W. J. Estes, Haralson, cot
ton; Ridley Monk, Sylvester,
corn; F. A. Richter, Cairo,
horticultural; and W. R. O’-
Dell, Newnan, miscellaneous.
Directors re-elected for an
other three year term are:
Robert Hill, Alamo, and Ray
Taylor, Tifton.
Another change involved
elected of the president and
vice president by the associ
ation instead of by the board
of directors as formerly. El
ected president was John F.
Hester, Monroe and George
Potts, Newnan, was elected
vice president. Hester and
Potts, with immediate past
president, D. E. Nalley, Cum
ming, will serve as the as
sociation’s executive com
mittee.
Action taken by the board
of directors included approv
al of the following items in
the report of the certifica
tion committee: adding
Plains cotton to the varieties
eligible for certification;
adding Wong and dropping
Sunrise barley; adding Cok
er’s 47-27 and Coastal and
dropping Sanford wheat;
dropping Nortex 107 oats;
dropping Bonanza tobacco;
adding Virginia Bunch G-2
and 67 and Virginia Runner
6-26 peanuts; and adding
yellow Gatan soybeans, Su
wannee Bermuda and Tifton
127 Bermuda grasses.
The directors also voted to
make the State 4-H Crop Im
provement award a trip to
the National 4-H Club Con
gress instead of a gold watch.
The 1952 State 4-H winner
was Don Morris of Emanuel
county who received a gold
watch at the annual ban
quet from Associate Director
Walter S. Brown of the Ag
ricultural Extension Service.
Resolutions commending
the work of University of
Georgia scientists in testing
and breeding seed and that
of Hugh A. Inglis, seed certi
fication agronomist of the
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, were also passed.
RENEW YOUR SUB
SCRIPTION
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA.
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“Sure... sure, the princess has a baby...
but I wont to read about my own grandchild..
". . and the only place I can do that is in my
own local newspaper.
"International news is fine LI . but it's the
local stuff that gets cut out and pasted in my
scrapbook! For news about people £ know, I
read my own newspaper!"
READ YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER
Annual Meeting Set
For Vidalia National
Farm Loan Group
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Vi
dalia National Farm Loan
Association, the date for the
Annual Stockholders Meet
ing was set for Saturday
morning, March 28, at 10 a.
m., in the auditorium of the
Vidalia High School, Vidalia.
An interesting program is be
ing arranged.
It is anticipated that a
very large percentage of the
Member Stockholers of this
long term Farm Loan Mort
gage Cooperative will attend
this meeting. The Associa
tion handies loans through
the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia for its members re
siding in Tattnall, Toombs,
Montgomery and Wheeler
county. Loans may be made
or any agriculture purpose.
The officers and directors
of this Association are as
follows:
Dr. B. M. Brown, president,
Lyons; H. D. McArthur, vice
president, Vidalia; Homer
Johnson, Mt. Vernon; C. L.
Fiveash, Lyons; J. M. Smith,
Jr., Manassas; E. O. McKin
ney, secretary-treasurer, Vi
dalia; Mrs. Louise M. McDo
nald, assistant secretary
treasurer, Vidalia.
The principal office of this
Association is located in Vi
dalia.
Myra Hughes In
Play At M. G. C.
Myra Hughes, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hughes
of Wheeler County will play
the part of the Spirit in the
one act drama, “The Sum-
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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1953
Wreck Victims
Now Improving
Mrs. Carl Pickle and Mrs.
Willie Roundtree are report
ed improved following a
wreck Tuesday in which the
car driven by Mrs. Pickle ran
into the back of a car driven
by Mrs. Oliver Thomas. Mrs.
Thomas was not injured.
Mrs. Pickle received lace
rations of the lower lip and
Mrs. Roundtree was severely
bruised, and is still a patient
at the clinic. Mrs. Pickle was
dismissed after treatment.
Singing Concert
Big Success
The Singing Concert held
at^Glenwood Gym last Friday
night was reported a big suc
cess with between 1500 and
2000 people attending. Gate
receipts totaled over $1300.00,
and between $200.00 and
$300.00 was taken in at the
concession stand.
People expressed the hope
that onther such concert
would be held in the near
future.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our ap
preciation to all the friends
and relatives whose acts of
kindness, words of comfort,
and beautiful floral offerings
helped us during our recent
sorrow in the loss of our wife
and mother.
CHARLES I. JOSEY
And FAMILY.
mons of Sariel”, to be pre
sented at Middle Georgia
College, Cochran, on March
sth at 8 P. M. Myra was on
the dean’s list for the fall
quarter at MGC.
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WHEELER COUNTY 4-H CLUB GIRL PLANS TO
CELEBRATE 4-H CLUB WEEK SPECIAL WAY
Mr. Grover Gillis
Died In Dublin
Hospital Wednesday
Mr. Grover Gillis of Alamo
died Wednesday in a Dublin
Hospital, after an illness of
several months. Mr. Gillis
was a familiar figure around
Alamo. His many friends will
be saddened to learn of his
death. Funeral services will
be held at Glenwood Meth
odist Church Friday at 11:00
A. M.
Glenwood Senior
Class Sponsoring
First Square Dance
The senior class of Glen
wiod High School is sponsor
ing the first square dance in
their new gym on Monday
night, March 9th, at 8:30 p.
m.
The music will be furnish
ed by Al Vickers and his
Swingsters.
The admission will be 75
cents per person.
The public is invited.
Work Begins On
Sinclair Station
In Glenwood
Work has begun on the
new Sinclair Station in Glen
wood this week. The hew
building is being erected by
O. I. Harris for Adams &
Futral, Inc. The new station
is expected to be one of the
nicest and most modern in
the south. It will be located
on the corner of Highway 15,
and 280 near the Glenwood
Hotel.
I'LL Buy that shot-
GUN NOW* I SOLD SOME
STUFF FROM THE ATTIC KX
WITH A WANT AD
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Sell “White Elephants”
/ Buy What You Want!
DO
WITHOUT
A
NEWSPAPER? ’
I SHOULD SAY NOT!!
“We cut corners in a lot of ways;
we save pennies like all get out . . .
but we always have a paper.
“It’s our contact with the outside
world; it’s a form of communication.
“We can do without a lot of
things . . . but we have to have our
newspaper!”
SEE YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER
Number 45
A Wheeler County 4-H
Club girl will celebrate Nat
ional 4-H Club Week, March
7-15, in a very special way.
Gayle Windham, Route 1,
Glenwood, has been invited
to attend a four-day train
ing meeting for District and
State 4-H Club officers at
Daytona Beach, Fla. The
meeting will be held March
12-15.
Gayle is vice president of
the Southcentral Georgia 4-
H Council.
Some 75 leaders of 4-H in
Georgia—including the dis
trict and state officers, ad
visers, and about 20 members
if the University of Georgia
Agricultural Extensioir Ser
vice staff —will combine bus
iness and pleasure during the
Florida outing.
This is the second year
that Zig Callaway, owner of
Silver Beach Apartments at
Daytona Beach, has provided
the trip for the 4-H group.
Gayle and the other offic
ers are expected to review
the 1952 Four-H record and
make plans for the organiza
tion for this year. State 4-H
Club leader W. A. Sutton said
the youngsters will set up
goals for ’53 and discuss the
methods of getting 85 per
cent of all 4-H projects com
pleted this year. The com
pletion record in 1952 was
80.3 percent of 409,156 proj
ects carried.
Another important item on
the agenda will be a discus
sion of the Georgia 4-H Club
Center at Rock Eagle. Four-
H members themselves have
raised over $90,000 for the
project, and the district and
state officers will talk over
plans for continuing their
campaigns. until the Center
is completed, probably in ’55.
The pleasure part of the
trip for Gaye and the other
4-H’ers will include swimm
ing in the Atlantic ocean and
tours to Silver Springs, Ma
rineland, St. Augustine and
other attractions in the Sun
shine State.
Lewis Mercer
Ai Mechanics School
Lewis Mercer of Alamo left
Sunday for Atlanta where he
will attend a special school
for Mechanics. The course
is expected to last for sev
eral weeks.
SINGING CENTION
TO BE HELD MARCH 8
There will be an all day
singing convention at New
Bethel Church at Ryals Old
Still in Dodge County, Sun
day, March Bth.
The public is invited to at
tend.
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