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GEORGIA MAN-MADE BEACH OPENS FOR SEASON—Another packed season
of recreation and vacation activities is" scheduled to begin April 18 at Ida Cason
Callaway Garden’s Robin Lake Beach, the largest man-made beach in the world.
Located at Pine Mountain, Ga., the beach is built with Georgia sand and borders on
a 65-acre lake that will be the site of various water sports from April through Sep
tember. Overlooking the beach is a unique dining pavilion composed of 21 steel and
concrete “mushrooms” that can provide shelter and dining area for about 1,000
persons. The pavilion was first opened to the public last summer. The beach facili
ties will be used for family picnics, one-day outings, and vacations throughout the
season.
Spotlight Gives
Herman's School
Plan Big Display
Herman E. Talmadge’s proposed
constitutional amendment to vest
exclusive administrative control
of public schools in the states con
tinues to get an airing above the
Mason-Dixon Line.
Latest evidence of this was
seen when the Committee for
Constitutional Government, Inc.,
an independent organization with
headquarters in New York City,
used the senator’s proposal as the
subject for its current “Spotlight”
bulletin.
The publication took a favor
able stand on the proposed a
mendment and urged its nation
wide reading audience to study
and support it. Commenting on
the “Spotlight” article, The La-
Grange (Ga.) Daily News had this
to say editorialy:
“Sen. Herman Talmadge’s pro
posed constitutional amendment
. . . has received surprise support
from more quarters than many
Southerners had imagined would
have the courage to speak out
favorably. It still stands a chance
. . . Georgians are aware of the
tremendous job Sen. Talmadge
is doing.
“His approach toward rectify
ing the mistakes of the Supreme
Court is excellent. His amend
ment undoubtedly states the prin
ciple of local government to
which any citizen of the U. S.
must adhere if he understands
democracy's function is based up
on that principle.”
School Children Who
Work Need Permit
“Georgia school children will
not find summer jobs - as plentiful
this year as in several recent
years,” Georgia’s Commissioner of
Labor Ben T. Huiet said this
week in reminding them that the
Georgia labor laws have several
provisions governing hours and
type of work they can do.
“In order to work, all children
under 18 years of age must se
cure an employment certificate.
These are secured from the city
or county school superintendent.
“During the summer vacation,”
Huiet says, “boys from 12 to 16
years of age may work 40 hours
a week in wholesale and retail
establishments, such as grocery
stores and drug stores, but are
not permitted to work after 9 p.m.
The same applies to girls from 14
to 16 years of age.
“When school is in session, the
law provides that boys from 12
to 16 years of age and girls from
14 to 16 may work 4 hours a day
after school, 8 hours on Saturdays
and holidays, but not after 9
p.m.,” Commissioner Huiet con
tinued.
“Under the Georgia Law there
are no limitations to the type of
work or the number of hours
minors from 16 to 18 years of age
may work, but they are required
to have an employment certif
icate, the Labor Commissioner
concluded.
As much as 15 percent of the
chicken feed is wasted when
feeders are filled two-thirds full,
point out poultrymen for the
Agricultural Extension Service.
"’Keep Wheeler County Green"
Wheeler County Eagle
■4-H Food Projects
Teach Gardening,
Food Preservation
From garden to freezer or
pantry shelf to the table.
Those are the three steps 4-H
Club members use to assure their
families of plenty of vegetables
with a garden-fresh flavor all
year around.
Mrs. Martha Harrison and Miss
Marian Fisher, state 4-H Club
leaders, Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, said this
week that last year 25,719 mem
bers enrolled in the garden proj
ect; 8,493 in frozen foods, and
■ 15,672 in food preservation.
I “In these three projects, spon
sored by business - firms which
have supported the 4-H program
for many years, boys and girls
learn how to grow the best veg
etables and fruits, and how to
freeze, cook and serve them,”
Mrs. Harrison and Miss Fisher
pointed out.
Through demonstrations, ex
hibits at fairs, and all-around 4-H
achievement, club members will
compete for awards ranging from
county medals to S4OO scholar
ships for excellence in these proj
ects, the state leaders declared.
There are two garden projects.
In Georgia the donor is - H. G.
Hastings. Judged on a demonstra
tion and also on records, the boy
- and girl who score highest in
district achievement meetings are
given expense-paid trips to State
4-H Club Congress in Atlanta.
There the champion is chosen and
he or she receives a trip to Na
• tional 4-H Congress in Chicago.
The garden achievement proj
ect is sponsored by Allis Chalmers
Manufacturing Company. Trips
to State and National 4-H Con
gress are provided and college
scholarships worth S4OO each will
; be presented the eight members
■ who are selected as national win
ners. This project is judged 100
. percent on records.
A scholarship also is the goal of
participants in the food preserva
tion project. Each girl who takes
part in this project at district
meetings is given a subscription
to National 4-H News by the
state sponsor, Dixie Crystals, Sa
i vannah Sugar Refining Corpora
: tion. The Sevannah concern also
provides a trip to State 4-H Con
gress for district winners. State
champion in this project is then
given a trip to Chicago by the
national sponsor-the Kerr Glass
Manufacturing Company.
Where records and a demon
: stration are required, records
count 40 per cent and the demon
stration 60 per cent. In the frozen
foods project this year girls will
1 be required to give a 10-20 minute
demonstration on freezing meats.
A trip to state congress is the
■ reward for being a district winner
' and an expense-paid trip to Na
; tional 4-H Congress awaits the
state winner.
FEAR OF FAILURE
Miss Audrey Morgan, family
life specialist, Agricultural Ex
tension Service, says adolescents
often worry too much over fear
of failure. Failure to some extent
is common to all. Parents can
help a youngster realize that
| failure is not necessarily followed
!by ridicule, embarrassment, and
I shame.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1959
Mrs. Wesley Daniel
Buried Monday At
Snow Hill Church
Funeral services were held
Monday at Snow Hill Baptist
Church for Mrs. Wesley G. Daniel,
56, of Rentz R-l. The Rev. Bobby
Moye officiated, and burial was
in the church cemetery with
Adams Funeral Home in charge
!of arrangements.
Pallbearers were J. R. Keene,
, Hugh Chambers, L. B. Chambers,
Gilman Jones, Woodrow Daniel
and George Rountree.
Mrs. Daniel became ill Satur
day and was pronounced dead
upon arrival at a Dublin hospital.
I She was a native of Laurens
County and was the former Hat
. tie Chambers.
। She is survived by her husband;
; three daughters, Mrs. Malcolm
Sanders and Mrs. Clayton Be
i fingfield, of Cadwell; and Mrs.
’ James N. Hobbs, of Dexter; two
■; sons - , Randal • Daniel and Bennie
Daniel, of Cadwell; five grand
children; three sisters, Mrs. Ed
Jones, of Uvalda; Mrs. Marvin
Rountree, of Washington, D. C.;
Mrs. Homer Glenn, of Jackson
ville, Fla. and two brothers, Lon
nie Chambers of Glenwood and
Hack Chambers of Uvalda.
Glenwood FHA On
State Honor Roll
i The Glenwood F. H. A. Chapter
• was recognized at the State Con
; vention in Atlanta this past week
. end, as one of the State Honor
I Roll Chapters for the 1959-60 term
■, of school.
The Glenwood Chapter has had
- 50 active members enrolled this
. year. The Chapter Mothers were:
; Mrs. Wyman Phillips, Mrs. J. W.
- Lord, Mrs. Herman Pickle, Mrs.
! Elton Bradley, Mrs. Stanley
I Adams, Mother of the Chapter
; President, Linda Adams, has also
■ been helpful in the Chapter ful-
I filling the State Requirements for
the Honor Roll.
: In order for a chapter to meet
■ the standards of the Georgia As
; sociation of Future Homemakers
. of America, the Chapter must
। have reached the required num
■ ber of points in each of the follow
■ ing sections:
Part A—lnterested, active mem
। bers.
Part B—lnformed, conscien
: tious officers.
। Part C—Hold regular meetings
‘ with interesting programs.
: Part D — Interesting, worth
while Education projects and ac
■ tivities.
Part E—Publicity.
Mrs. William Fields has been
the Chapter Advisor for the past
two years, and the Chapter has
' been on the Honor Roll for both
years.
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PROBLEMS OF
DIVERSIFICATION
Marketing specialists, Agricul
tural Extension Service, point out
that wide diversification which
has taken place in Georgia agri
culture in the past 25 years has
i brought about new problems - .
■ Markets for new products have
: not come easily. Competition from
established production areas and
lack of concentrated volume to
. justify market facilities and at
tract buyers have caused serious
problems.
American Cancer
Society Announces
$5,000 Grant
The American Cancer Society’s
Georgia Division has made a
grant of $5,000 to Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta
which offers free care for incur
able cancer patients from through
out Georgia.
McKee Nunnally, president
of the Georgia Division, said the
Cancer Society makes a sizable
grant to the home each year as
part of its program of services to
needy cancer patients.
In accepting the grant, Sister
Mary Evangelist, Mother Superior
of Our Lady of Perpetual Help,
said, “We have been watching
with interest the great progress
made in research work on cancer
and hope in the not too far distant
future that our work for terminal
cancer patients will no longer be
necessary. Nevertheless, while it
still is necessary, we do appreci
ate you remembring our work
even as you march on to greater
j victories.”
; Sister Evangelist offered the
Cancer Society assurance of the
I prayers of both our patients and
sisters for all of you engaged in
this most important work.”
The home, operated by the Sis
ters of Mercy of the Catholic
Church, is supported by public
contributions. Since it was estab
lished in Atlanta in 1939, the
home has cared for 4,558 patients
of whom 600 were Catholics. Os
the patients, 1,781 were men,
2,777 women; 3,023 were white,
1,535 Negro.
As long as there is space in the
75 beds of the home, no incurable
cancer patient is refused aid if
he or she is of sound mind.
“The American Cancer Society
is very proud to have a part in
the wonderful work of this home
and the 17 dedicated Sisters who
care for its patients,” Mr. Nunnal
ly said.
Philosophy of Home
• Demonstration Work
! By SHIRLEY HARRIS
Home Demonstration Agent
“What a man hears he may
। doubt, what he sees he may
possibly doubt, but what he does
himself he cannot doubt.”
That statement was made by
Dr. Seaman Knapp, a founder of
home demonstration work. Dr.
Knapp referred to a crusade he
I began in East Texas in 1903.
There he persuaded a farmer to
“take a chance” and run his farm
exactly by advice and instruction
coming from government stations
and specialists. Townspeople of
fered to repay the man whatever
he might lose on the experiment.
At the' end of the year the
farm “paid off” S6OO more than it
would have had the farmer con
tinued his old practices. His
neighbors saw this was trye be
cause they had continued to farm
the old way and their income was
S6OO lower than their friend’s.
The Texas farmer and Dr. Knapp
had pioneered the way for Agri
'cultural Extension work.
Then Dr. Knapp enlarged his
program to include women. He
gained their confidence by show
ing their daughters better meth
ods of canning tomatoes in Girls’
Tomato Canning Clubs. “You
can’t go into a man’s home and
tell him you’ve come to teach his
wife how to cook,” Dr. Knapp
reasoned. “He’d have to slam the
door in your face out of respect
for his wife’s cooking—be it good
or bad. But you can go to a man’s |
house and say you’re interested in
helping teach his daughter better
homemaking practices.”
Home demonstration work has I
come a long way since those days. I
You may have heard about the i
work, you may have seen some of;
the results of the work conducted
by the Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, but, may
we suggest, borrowing from Dr.
Knapp’s philosophy, that until
you participate you may doubt
the value of the work.
This is National Home Demon-,
stration Week —a mighty good ■
time to join a local Home Demon- i
stration Club. For details, call or
see your local home demonstra-;
tion agent.
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For safety’s sake keep all rugs,
secure and free from loose edges, I
advises Miss Lucile Higginboth-!
am, health education specialist,'
Agricultural Extension Service.
Subscribe io The Eagle.
Farm Bureau Begins
Scholarship Program
For Rural Youth
With fewer people remaining
on the farm, and two technical
agricultural jobs open for each
agricultural college graduate—
the Georgia Farm Bureau Federa
tion today announced a scholar
ship program to encourage tech
nical training of rural youth.
John P. Duncan, Jr., GFBF
President, Quitman, and GFBF
Women’s chairman Mrs. Willett
Robinson, Sylvania, today an
nounced four college scholarships
totaling SI,OOO would be made to
■ deserving rural youth.
The four scholarships of $250.00
, each will be awarded to two boys
: and two girls in Georgia. Presen
■ tations will be, made during the
annual Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation convention.
■ “These scholarships are design
ed for rural boys and girls who
are planning to study Agriculture
: or Home Economics in Colleges,”
• GFBF officials disclosed. The a
wards will be based on the
■ student’s scholarship record, per
■ sonality, participation in extra
. curricular activities, and personal
. interviews of the ten finalists. A
wards will be made only to
students whose family is a mem-
■ bei- of the Farm Bureau.
Interested rural students may
obtain details and application
■ form from their County Farm
Bureau chapter, County and
iHome Demonstration Agent, or
Vocational Agriculture Teachers.
Applications must be submitted
to the County Farm Bureau
chapter by May 30.
The American Farm Bureau
Federation recently disclosed that
on nationwide basis, land grant
agricultural colleges are turning
out 8,500 graduates to fill the
■ yearly 15,000 job openings avail
। able to agricultural college gradu
■ ates.
Rural boys and girls planning
to take advantage of their agri
cultural backgrounds and go into
some type of work related to ag
riculture, will find a vast, wide
open field of interesting careers,
Farm Bureau reports.
Nation’s Agriculture, official
publication of the 1,600,000 family
member American Farm Bureau
r Federation, recently reported
there are 25 million workers in
agriculture and related fields—lo
million of them farm, 6 million
produce for and service farms,
and 9 million process and distrib
ute farm products.
1 College officials have classified
all agricultural jobs in eight
broad categories. They say there
are more than 500 distinct occupa
tions within these categories.
Each, in some way, affects agri
culture or is supported by agri
culture.
Fishing Information
From Fulton Lovell
A change in an old Georgia
custom has removed the “dividing
line” between fresh and salt
water fishing.
Heretofore, the Seaboard Rail
way, which extends from Savan
nah all along the coast, has been
the dividing marker. Fishermen
were allowed to fish below the
line without a license.
But State Game and Fish De
partment director Fulton Lovell
said a new ruling by the Commis
sion has removed the line and
that anglers fishing in fresh water
must have a license.
No license is required to fish in
i salt water. Fresh water licenses
cost $1.25.
“The dividing line in the future
will be that point where fresh
water ends’ and salt water be
i gins,” said Lovell. “Those fishing
। above that point must have a state
! fishing license.”
i Actually, there has never been
a law establishing the railroad as
the divide between salt and fresh
water. However, it has been a cus
tom for many years to fish below
the railroad without a license.
“Since salt and fresh water fish
won’t mix, anyone who is catch
ing fresh water fish Will know
| he’s fishing above salt water,”
■ Lovell said.
Game and Fish Commission
I wildlife rangers have been order
jed to check licenses of anglers
■ fishing below the railroad but not
in salt water, Lovell said.
■ —
Records show a cow’s produc
! tion, cost of feed, and income
above feed cost, say dairymen at
i the Agricultural Extension Serv
ice.
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ALAMO HOUSING PROGRAM
IS NEAR COMPLETION
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' Mrs. Esther J. Morris
Dies In Macon
After Long Illness
■ I Funeral services were held
। Sunday at 4 p.m. in the chapel
' i of Hart’s Mortuary in Macon for
’ I Mrs. Esther J. Morris, 72, of
t Macon, who died Saturday morn- i
■ ing after a long illness. The Rev.
> A. W. Ray officiated, and burial
> was in Macon Memorial Park. 1
। Mrs. Morris, widow of George:
) W. Morris, was born in Wilkinson
; County, the daughter of Judge!
■ Harris Hogan and Mrs. Clara;
! Knight Hogan. She had lived an I
i Macon for 40 years and was a I
member of the First Street Meth-
■ odist Church.
) Survivors include a son, Carl I
' E. Morris of Santa Monica, Calif.; i
’ two daughters, Mrs. B. J. Graves i
-of Titusville, Fla. and Mrs. H. C.'
■ McKinney, of Macon; five grand-1
■ children; one great-grandchild; i
• two brothers, Raymond Hogan ■
1 and Candler Hogan, of Alamo
- and three sisters, Mrs. W. E. Cur
> rie, of Alamo; Mrs. Agnes
■ Schwalls, of Scott and Mrs. Tom ;
Mixon, of Quincey, Fla.
i j Mrs. H. C. Reynolds
| Dies Last Thursday
After Long Illness
Funeral services were held!
Friday at 3 p.m. in the Glenwood,
1 Methodist Church for Mrs. H. C. |
Reynolds, 63, the former Miss i
. Mollie Pennell, who died last
J Thursday in a Lyons hospital
after a long illness. The Rev. Wal
’ ter McCleskey, pastor, and the
Rev. Lum Morrison officiated, j
’; and burial was in the Glenwood ;
Cemetery with Murchison Funer-|
al Home of Vidalia in charge of
’ arrangements.
} Pallbearers were L. G. Rey-1
1 nolds, Roy Cook, L. G. Morrison.!
Nayo Reynolds, J. P. Morrison Jr 1
and Glenus Pennell.
' Mrs. Reynolds was born in ।
। Washington County, the daughter ,
. of the late Amos and Sarah Brad- i
. ! ford Pennell. She was a member I
11 of the Glenwood Methodist i
t i Church.
( j Surviving are her husband; one
l | daughter, Mrs. James M. Frailey,
of Warner Robins; six grandchil
dren; five sisters, Mrs. Belle
Snellgrove, of Macon; Mrs. Clara
I Morrison, of Glenwood; Mrs. Lola
Stinson and Mrs. Cora Cook, of I
Dublin; Mrs 1 . Addie Smith, of At
lanta; and one brother, J. M.
Pennell, of Ninty-Six, S. C.
W. C.HS.Beta Club’
Elects Officers
The Wheeler County Beta Club
held its last meeting of the 1958-
59 school year Tuesday, April 28,
1959. A new Beta member, James
1 Thigpen, was inducted. Janice Sue I
> Welch gave the devotional and I
- Margaret Maddox read a poem,l
“The Making of Friends.”
In the business meeting we e-;
lected officers for our next school
1 year. They are as follows:
1 j President, Janice Sue Welch.
‘ I Vice President, Patty Ryals.
Secretary, Carolyn Hall.
Treasurer, Bobbie Sikes.
I Reporter, Gwen Clark.
Program committee, Patty 1
: Ryals, Verma Harrelson, Eliza-1
beth Ann Hopkins.
Sponsor, Mrs. A. P. Hopkins. ।
This was the last time our sen- !
1 ior girls would be attending Beta
Club with us. Those graduating
are Lorine Clark, Helen Dixon,
Mary Ann Fulford, Margaret ।
Maddox, Judy Purvis, Peggy!
Stokes’, Ruth Thomas, Martha 1
Varnadoe, Carol Warmock, and
Ellen Williams.
We will start next year with :
the following enrollment: Verma
Harrelson, Leon Montfort, Eliza- i ■
beth Oliver, Patty Ryals, Janice , ‘
Sue Welch, Elizabeth Ann Hop- j.
kins, Gwen Clark, Nancy Hinson, |,
Cindy Gilder, Ted Morrison, 11
Mickey Nelson, Bobbie Sikes, j.
Carolyn Hall, Aaron Maddox,I'
Glenda Hartley, James Thigpen '
and our sponsor, Mrs. A. P. Hop-'
kins. ■.
Aromatic tobacco covers should !
be removed when plants are two ■ ’
inches high, states J. O. Bethea, '
agronomist-tobacco, Agricultural
Extension Service. ;
Please do not ask for credit. '
We don’t have enough money, |
either.—Anonymous.
Plans are in the final stages
j for Alamo’s two housing proj
i ecfs. Construction is to begin
within the next ten days on 12
houses allotted the city under the
government’s “221” program and
invitations for bids on a 20-unit
low rent project are now being
advertised.
I The twelve “221” houses, 10 for
white occupants and 2 for Negro
occupants, will be $9,000, three
i bedroom homes. They can be
’ purchased by displaced families
I and those not eligible for low-rent
! projects. After an initial payment
: of S2OO, the maximum mortgage
maturity is forty years.
If families make application so
eligibility on these houses before
or during the early stages of con
struction, changes in the plans
i and color schemes can be made
i to suit individual taste so long
las the original price is not al
‘ tered.
j Standard Development Co. Inc.,
I of Macon, is the contractor on the
“221” project.
The low-rent project, with an
estimated cost of $266,188, wilL
! consist of six duplex, four singles,
| and one office building, for white
j occupants, and one duplex and
two single units for Negro occu
pants. Bids for this project will
be opened on May 26th at 2 p.m
at the City Hall in Alamo.
These units will be of solid
1 masonry construction. The white
I units will be located on Lucille
| Avenue adjacent to the Wheeler
County High School and the Ne
gro units will be erected near the
Negro high school. Curb and gut
ters will be added to the present
; paving.
This project is to provide mod
। ern. sanitary dwellings for peo
' pe in the low income bracket at
a price they can afford to pay.
Alamo became eligible for the
, “221” housing program after the
i low-rent -project was approved,
j The city first launched efforts
I for a federal housing project in
11952 but the program was drop-
I ped by the federal government,
i When the program was reacti
i vated in 1956, Mayor John M.
I Clements and other city officials
! tried again. Their efforts resulted
in Alamo being the first small
city in the nation to get its work
able project approved by the
government.
Wheeler County Ordinary D. N..
Achord is the executive director
of the Housing Authority of the
city of Alamo.
Civil Service
Examinations
New examinations have been
announced by the U. S. Civil
Service Commission for filling the
positions of Farm Credit Examih
er with the Farm Credit Admin
। istration, paying starting salaries
j of $5,985 and $7,030 a year, and
. Medical Technologist for duty
■ with the Veterans Administration
■ paying from $4,980 to $7,030 a
i year.
The jobs to be filled from the
Farm Credit Examiner examina
tion are located throughout the
; country and assignments require
j travel over areas ranging from
| sections of states to the entire
(United States. To qualify, appli
cants must have had appropriate
j experience. Pertinent co 11 ege
j study may be substituted for part
iof the required experience. Ap
-1 plications will be accepted until
further notice by the Board of
U. S. Civil Service Examiners,
U. S. Department of Agriculture^
Washington 25, D. C.
Medical Technologist positions
are located in clinical and re
search laboratories of the Vet
erans Administration’s nation
wide network of some 200 hos
pitals and clinics. Applicants must
have had pertinent experience
and college study. Applications
will be accepted until further
notice and must be filed with the
Board of U. S. Civil Service Ex
aminers of the Veterans Admin
istration in the area where em
ployment is desired. Civil Serv
ice Announcement No. 1948 gives
full information on how to apply.
Further information and ap
plication forms may be obtained
from many post offices through
out the country or from the U. S
Civil Service Commission, Wash
ington 25, D. C.
A boost for the Eagle is aboost
for Wheeler County.
NUMBER X