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PAGE TWO WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE PUBLISHED FRIDAYS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHEELER COUNTY Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office in Alamo Georgia, under Act of March 3, 1879 Published at Alamo, Georgia, By EAGLE PUBLISHING COMPANY GWENDOLYN B. COX Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year (In Wheeler County) $2.00 Six Months (In Wheeler County) $ 125 One Year (Outside Wheeler County) $2.50 Six Months (Outside Wheleer County) $1.50 Subscriptions Plus 3% Sales Tax Payable In Advance N ATI ONA L EDITORIAL slMa WIN PENDLETON Picking Up The Pieces — You sure do see a lot of Eisenhower- Nixon bumper strips these days. We don’t know how it was in your neighborhood, but where we Jive they seemed to blossom out the day after the election — just like spring flowers. Another strange thing we have noticed the past week is the large number of our friends who knew all the time exactly how the whole thing was coming out. Only we can’t remember hearing any of their wonderful predictions “before” election day. Then, they were just looking wise, saying “anything can happen” and “it wouldn’t surprise me, either way” and ‘watch the silent vote” and other such trivia. Most of the time they were merely driving a few nails in the wall to be used in case they might need a hook to hang an alibi on — come Wed nesday morning. It seems we were alone in thinking that the Democrats had a chance. 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GEORGIA Autherlzed GENERAL^ ELECTRIC T*l«vi«i*n Dealer gress— and that always in mod ern times, the presidential vot ting has followed the congres sional trend. (It didn’t work that way this time, did it?) And it didn’t work the other ‘ way either. President Eisen hower’s coat-tails weren’t long enough or strong enough to drag all of his little “favorites” in with him. Oh, it’s true we were among the millions who suddenly saw the end when Israel marched into Egypt. But, there’s no credit in that. Anybody can score a race when the lead man tyas “lapped” his nearest rival. We were in Texas those last few days. Late one night, after we made a “prin cipal address” we were having coffee in the home of our host. A few friends had been invited over to meet the “speaker”. This was Texas—where the Democrats had regained their strength. We decided to have some fun —a straw vote. Twelve persons in i the room. And twelve hands went up for President Eisenhow er. They looked a bit surprised themselves. And everyone a Democrat. So, what does it prove? Only two things are certain. First, President Eisenhower re ceived more votes than Stevenson. Second, more Democrats were elected to the Congress than Re publicans. Does this mean that the Demo cratic party still is the dominant party and that President Eisen hower was elected “in spite” of I being a Republican? i Or does this open a new era in WHEEI.BIR COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY. GEORGIA American politics, where any candidate can be elected on per sonal popularity — or advertising? If this is true — and if you carry it down to the local level— it could mean a break down of the party system as we know it. A candidate would run with a party label in order to get his name on the ballot. But from there on it would become a mat ter of “soap selling” as the Madi son Avenue advertising men have been saying it it. Those fancy dans in their grey flannel suits have been using this technique in publicizing President Eisenhow er and the Republican party for the past four years. Did it work? Or would Mr. Eisenhower have won anyway? The answer to that one will keep the experts busy for a while. And Washington publicists and public relations men can be ex pected to make the most of it. So don’t be surprised when your favorite Congressman is intro duced on T-V with a singing commercial. Could be? POLITICSonPARADI . Williams In our column written on Oc tober 24th, we tried to predict the results of the national election on a state-by-state basis. We wrote at the end of the column, though, that if some nationally important matter affected the vot ers’ thinking in the last few days, then all polls would go out the window. This is exactly what happened when the Middle East crisis suddenly erupted and mil lions of voters, particularly wom en, decided that Eisenhower could keep us out of war better than Stevenson. However, as we predicted in that column, Eisenhower would have won, anyway, but the Suez crisis enlarged his vote to a land slide. This is the consencus of opinion of all political analysts, including even Adali Stevenson, who is quoted in the press as saying that it was a close race until the war clouds gathered. Leaving the president’s race out of the picture, where Ike ran far ahead of the Republican Party, “Politics on Parede” scored a clean sweep in other election predictions. We predicted several weeks ago that the Democrats would retain control of both Houses of Congress. Which they did. We predicted that Senator Wayne Morris would win in Ore gon, even though Eisenhower would carry the State. Which is the way it came out. We predicted that Democrat Frank Lausche would win the Senate race in Ohio, but that Ike would carry the state. This came true. We predicted that Republican Randolph Thrower would get 35 to 40% of the vote in Georgia’s Fifth District Congressional Race. He got 40%. And we further predicted that if we don’t quit bragging about predictions coming true, we’ll have few friends left. So, ’nuf said. Speaking of Republican candi date Thrower, all of his 54,000 votes weren’t exactly for either him or President Eisenhower. Mr. Thrower managed to con vince a lot of Fulton County Democrats that he would do away with the county unit system in Fifth District Congress reces, if he was elected. So, since many Atlantans don’t like the unit sys tem, they voted for Thrower. Actually, Mr. Thrower, if elect ed, would have had absolutely nothing to do with this method of holding a Democratic Primary, and Jim Davis’ Congressional Committee would have gone ] ahead and set the next primary | under the unit system, as before, | in all likelihood. If Mr. Thrower deliberately I tried to deceive the people, he i deserves a heavy measure of cen- : sure for hypocrisy. Most likely,: though, he was just ignorant of j the facts. The committee appointed by Governor Griffin to investigate fuel oil purchases and various other matters at Milledgeville State Hospital was supposed to hold a hearing last Friday, but postponed because of the death of Judge Joe Ben Jackson. This committee is composed of j Attorney-General Eugene Cook, State Auditor B. Ji Thrasher Jr. and Secretary of State Ben Fort son — all fine men, but with so many important jobs to do that their time is being wasted on this - — REMEMBER YOUR SUB- i SCRIPTION—IT IS IMPOR TANT TO THE EAGLE New Task-Force 57 Chevrolet Trucks! They “flattened” Yukon mountains with the most modern truck VB's of all! ^wß 19 Mv-niiiaii „ BBBN - V*^**”®*^^ v w: ' Q |^§||||||^ U. . . - . ‘ : Rated G.V.W. of these payload-carrying heavyweights goes all the way up to 32,000 pounds! New VB-powered 'S7 Chevrolet trucks, heavily loaded, made one of the world’s toughest roads look easy! In a straight-through test run, they rolled over the famous ALCAN Highway to Alaska—in less than 4S hours (normally a 72-hour run). Here's proof-in-action of power that’ll handle your toughest jobs—and keep coming back for more! resOag. ■ •' ^^’ 4- :■'-‘ g ; ,t Whatever your job, there’s an Alcan-proved Chevrolet Task- Force truck ready right now to save you time and money! Only franchised Chevrolet dealers display this famous trademark Telfair Motor Co., Mcßae, Ga. Brewton-Parker Barons To Open Season Saturday Brewton - Parker’s 1 basketball Barons will open their 1956 - 57 college season Saturday night in Mt. Vernon playing host to South ern Tech’s Green Hornets from Atlanta. Game time is 8:30 following a 7 o’clock preliminary tilt. The Barons soundly trounced their Alumni squad last Satur day night in an exhibition tilt, 113 to 93. Gene “Turkey” Wells paced the attack with 30 points. TIPS ON COOKING CHEESE Unless low heat is used in melting cheese, it may be tough and stringy, says Mrs. Betty Alex ander, consumer education spe cialist, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Georgia Sharp or aged cheese is best foi cooking because it melts easiei and blends well with other in gredients. More than a billion pounds of cheese are made in the United States every year, according to nutrition specialists at the Col lege of Agriculture. 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Chevy’s big VB’s-including the new 283-cu.-in. Super Taskmaster—turned in top performance jobs. They hauled typical loads up and down towering grades and through washouts that sucked wheels into hub-deep mud. They roared on through miles of heavy dust that narrowed visibility to a few hun dred feet. And in spite of the varying altitudes and temperatures, not a single truck was forced to drop out or turn back! Stop by and see them soon! Proved on the Alcan Highway Champs of every weight class I FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1956 FIRST PROPJET - PRO PELLED combat transport to join the U. S. Air Force, the Georgia-made C-130 Hercules, has completed simulated “war time” tests at Pope Air Force Base, N. C. One of the Army equipment items air-delivered by the C-130 was a 12,500-Ib. truck, shown (above) being yanked by its extraction ’chute from the plane. The truck float ed safely to earth supported by six huge cargo canopies (left.) Air Force pilots and crew members and Army para troopers said they were im pressed with the new 62-ton cargo-troop air carrier during six weeks of aerial maneuvers. Officials of Lockheed at Mari etta, where C-130s are in quan tity production, expressed pride that the versatile Hercules per formed the tactical air duties for which it was designed. Equipment air-dropped included self-propelled weapons, . jeeps, guns, food, medical supplies and road-building equipment. A to tal of 160 tons of supplies, 315 dummies and 485 paratroopers were dropped. Alcan run supervised, certified by the AAA.