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VOLUME 45.
"Gunsmoke's"
"Kitty and Doc"
On Telethon
“KITTY” and “DOC”, Topnotch
stars of television’s famed adult
western, “Gunsmoke”, will head
line Middle Georgia’s fourth an
nual Cerebral Palsy Telethon.
This year’s Telethon has been
scheduled for Saturday and Sun
day, May 23 and 24. It will start
at 10:30 P. M. Saturday night and
continue through 4 P. M. Sunday.
WMAZ-Television, Channel 13,
will carry the annual charity
event which for four years has
provided necessary funds to carry
on the work of United Cerebral
Palsy of Macon and Middle Geor
gia.
“Kitty and Doc” will be ably
Graduation Plans At
Glenwood Announced
Graduation plans have been
announced by J. F. Cason, prin
cipal of the Glenwood * High
School. The Rev. Tucker Single
ton, pastor of the Soperton Bap
tist Church, will be the guest
minister at the baccalaureate
services on Sunday, May 17th, at
11 a.m.
Howard Gilreath, manager of
Radio Station WVOP in Vidalia,
■will be the speaker at the gradua
tion exercises on Monday night,
May 18, at 8:30 p.m.
Elaine Avery and Margie Ben
ton have the highest scholastic
averages and will give the vale
dictory and salutatory addresses.
The senior class will leave May
20th for a 15-day educational tour
of Washington, New York City
and Canada. Mr. and Mrs. James
Fields and Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Guy Rivers will accompany the
seniors on their trip.
Senior class officers are: De-
Leon Rowland, president; Peggy
Pickle, vice president; Janice
Windham, secretary; and Margie
Benton, treasurer.
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PVT. TERRELL POWELL
Army Pvt. Terrell Powell, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Powell, R-l,
Lumber City, completed advanced
individual training April 17 with
the 2nd Armored Division at Fort
Hood, Tex. Powell is scheduled to
depart soon for his new assign
ment with the 4th Armored Di
vision in Germany. The 4th is a
major unit of the NATO shield of
defense in Europe. The 20-yeer
old soldier is a 1958 graduate of
Lumber City High School.
More than 40,000,000 Americans
now living will develop cancer if
present rates continue. The Amer
ican Cancer Society says a regular
health checkup offers the best
protection against the disease to
day.
Wheeler County Eagle
supported by two other headliner
stars whose names will be an
nounced later. In addition to
“Kitty” and “Doc” and other na
tional headline stars, WMAZ’s
popular “Jack and Jolly” and
“The Smith Brothers” will be
featured.
Also, entertainment acts —lit-
erally hundreds of individual and
group performers—will appear
during the 18-hour charity per
formance.
“Kitty” and “Doc”, who are
veterans of the entertainment
field, will step out of type several
times during the Telethon for
dancing and comedy acts.
As plans for the fourth annual
Telethon progress, details will be
announced by Middle Georgia
Cerebral Palsy officials.
James Hall McDaniel
Buried At White
Springs Church
Funeral services were held
Monday at 4 p.m. in White
Springs Baptist Church for James
Hall McDaniel, 22, AO-3, U. S.
Navy, who was killed in a plane
crash on April 9 on Cheju Island,
Korea. The Rev. Henry Morris
and the Rev. Mr. Sizemore of
ficiated, and burial was in the
church cemetery with Harris &
Smith Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. McDaniel was born in Ox
nard, California on August 12,
1936, the son of John Alexander
and Audrey Hall McDaniel. He
was married to Miss Peggy Pitts
of Wheeler County on November
9, 1957, and was a member of
White Springs Baptist Church.
Pallbearers were Bobby Cox,
Gerrell Harris, Hugh Dorsey,
Wendell White, Roy Gilder and
Dwight Palmer.
Survivors include his wife; his
parents; one brother, John Mc-
Daniel Jr. of Glenwood and a sis
ter Mrs. William Henry, of Au
gusta.
G. T. C. Athletics
Director Announces
Lettermen Awards
Georgia Teachers College ath
letic director and basketball coach
J. B. Scearce Jr., has announced
that eight members of his 1958-59
basketball tear© have been se
lected to receive lettermen a
wards.
Only three seniors are included
in the list of honorees. They are
6-4 forward George McLeod,
Reidsville; 6-2 guard Cary Moore
LaCenter, Ky.; and 6-2 forward
Walker Cook, Pineview. Cook re
ceived three cage monograms, and
McLeod and Moore earned two
each.
Other lettermen are 6-2 guard
Chester Curry, Wheelwright, Ky.;
6-3 forward Whitey Verstraete,
Moline, Ill.; 6-5 forward Connie
Lewis, Millen; 6-5 freshman cen
ter Carlton Gill, Richmond Hill;
6-5 forward Eddie Owens, New
Albany, Ind.; and 5-11 guard Ray
Hassett, Harrisburg, 111.
This marks Curry’s third letter,
and the second for Verstraete.
Team manager Pete McDuffie,
and team trainer Fontaine Brew
ton, both of Mcßae, will also re
ceive the “T” for their work.
The 1958-59 team won 19 and
lost 12, and reached the final
round of eight at the NAIA tour
nament in Kansas City.
Please do not ask for credit.
We don’t have enough money,
either.—Anonymous.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1959
Rock Eagle Adds
Nature Trail
As New Attraction
Walking along a newly com
pleted nature trail, which winds
along creeks, valleys, and hills,
and which has over 100 varieties
lof trees,, shrubs, and flowers,
I marked with signs for identifica
tion, will be a new thrill for
i adults and 4-H’ers attending
meetings or on weekend retreats
this year at the Rock Eagle 4-H
Center, near Eatonton.
Dogwood, Redbud, Flowering
Crabapple, Azales, Sweetshrub,
Holly, Mountain Laurel, Hy
drangea, Rhododendron, and
Grancygreybeard are just a few
of the plants to be seen on the
trail. Extension Landscape Spe
cialist T. G. Williams says many
of the flowers and shrubs along
the trail grow native in the area.
Others were obtained from dif
ferent parts of Georgia and trans
planted.
Four-H’ers who attend camp at
the Center this year can plan to
take wildlife and nature study
classes in which the trail will be
used, according to State 4-H
Leader Tommy Walton. Two
classroom areas have been pre
pared on the trail for this pur
pose.
Another new attraction at the
Center, only a few paces off the
nature trail, is a beaver dam.
Frank W. Fitch, Jr., Extension
biologist, says seven beaver dams
have been built on the 4-H Re
serve. One is about 50 yards long.
About 15 beavers are living in
the area. Quail, muskrats, rac
coon, foxes, rabbits, snakes, deer,
and a few other wildlife species
also are found in the area. Food
patches are prepared for the wild
life, and Fitch says when these
are in full growth about 20 deer
will live on the 4-H Reserve,
which covers 1,276 acres.
One thousand acres at the Cen
ter are in timber, and to keep it
in fop condition Extension forest
ers have begun a management
program of thinnings and im
provement cuttings and a full
harvest cutting every ten years.
About four-fifths of this land is
in pine. The other is in hard
woods.
Dorsey Dyer, Extension forest
er, reports the present rate of
growth of the timber is increas
ing its value about sl6 per acre
each year. At present there are
5,360,450 board feet of sawtimber
on the area and 3,650 cords of
pine pulpwood. By 1969 the saw
timber volume is expected to
reach 10,000,000 board feet.
A Christmas tree plantation is
included in the forest manage
ment program. About eight acres
are planted in Arizona cypress
and red cedar. Extension foresters
plan to harvest and sell the ma
ture trees each year. Money re
ceived for the Christmas trees
and the timber will be reinvested
in the forest management and
other activities of the 4-H Center.
A pecan orchard on the 4-H
land will interest many farmers,
states Extension horticulturist,
Ray Livingston. The orchard will
test various types of pecan trees
in this part of the country. Liv
ingston says about 150 trees will
be planted. There will be two
each of 15 named varieties, and
two each of 60 seedlings being
collected from various parts of
the Southeast.
Glenwood Scouts
Have Barbecue
The Glenwood Scouts will have |
a chicken and pork barbecue in :
Glenwood at Tipton’s store, Sat- ■
urday, May 16. This barbecue will
be cooked on charcoal and will be
very delicious. Hot dogs, ham-|
burgers and snow cones will also'
be on sale throughout the after-1
noon. The time of the barbecue ;
will be from 5:30-8:00 o’clock.
This is a benefit barbecue to 1
provide funds to partially pay i
the expenses of sending a group !
of Genwood Scouts on a tour of ;
the West and to Philmont Scout i
Ranch, Cimmaron, New Mexico, j
The price of tickets is 75c and i
SI.OO. Your patronage will be |
greatly appreciated.
This barbecue was originally i
scheduled for last Saturday, May
9, but because of weather con
ditions and other reasons it was
postponed.
Cancer can no longer be called
a “woman’s disease.” The Ameri- ’
can Cancer Society says that 53 j
out of every 100 cancer deaths oc- i
cur among men.
Local Student
Charter Member
Emory Sorority
Nell Chambless, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chambless,
Alamo, is among the 440 women
who became charter members of
national sorority chapters at
Emory University during the
weekend of May 8-10.
Ten organizations received
charters in the largest sorority
installation ceremonies ever held
on a university campus. The
women’s groups participating
were: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha
Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Chi
Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta
■ Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta,
i Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma and Phi Mu.
Miss Chambless is a charter
member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
| Throughout the weekend, each
■ sorority held private services and
I celebrations. Events in which all
I groups joined included the formal
; presentation of charters by the
I University at 1:30 p.m., May 8,
iin Glenn Memorial auditorium,
{ and a giant reception for several
■ thousand guests held on Sunday
I afternoon on the Emory Quad-
I rangle.
Prickett Child
1 Killed When
Struck By Car
Otis Gerald Prickett, 20-month
-old son of Mrs. Betty Jo Fowler
Prickett, was killed instantly
Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. when he
ran in front of an automobile
driven by Massey Green, colored,
according to Sheriff John B.
' Walker.
The accident happened at the
barbecue stand operated by Dock
I Padgett at the Southern Cotton
Oil Mill in Mcßae and was
witnessed by two men, who said
lit was entirely unavoidable.
: Green was placed in jail on an
■ open charge, bit is expected to
> be released.
I Chief E. L. Blume and Sgt.
Otis Samples made the investiga-
1 tion.
Funeral services for the child
will be held Friday at 3 p.m. in
I the Cedar Grove Methodist I
। Church with the Rev'. Lennie:
j Grimes, pastor of the Red Hill
I Holiness Baptist Church, officiat
i ing.
j Survivors include his mother; :
। grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Junior
j Padgett, of Mcßae; great-grand
। parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elisha
; Fowler, of Alamo; step-great-
I grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Isom
.Padgett, of Helena R-l; great
| great-grandparents Mrs. Snell
' grove, of Mcßae and James E.
i Fowler, of Wheeler County.
I Burial will be in the Cedar
' Grove Cemetery with Harris &
' Smith Funeral Home in charge of
! arrangements.
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Clean-Up Week
May 25th-30th
Let’s make Alamo the cleanest
town in Georgia. Volunteer trash
haulers will be available on
I Thursday, May 28th. Contact City
Hall. City trash truck will be
available all the week.
New garbage cans and trash
burners will be available at cost I
at the local fire department.
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> Citizens of Alma have presented a new automobile to President Ted Phillips of Brewton
Parker College at Mount Vernon. Left to right are J. J. Jones. Valene Bennett, M. E. Butler,
chairman of the trustees of Brewton Parker; President Phillips, Clyde Stokes, and Cecil
Lee. Nathan Cohen and Leon Grantham, who also participated in the presentation, are not
shown. Dr. Phillips is a former Baptist minister at Alma.
Y. G. Chambless
Funeral Held
Wednesday
Funeral services for Young
Green Chambless, Sr., 86, of
Rentz, were held Monday after
noon at the Cemetery.
The Rev. James A. Callahan,
assisted by the Rev. Arlo Remick,
officiated, with burial in the
Rentz Cemetery. Grandsons serv
ed as pallbearers.
Mr. Chambless died Sunday
nght in a local hospital from in
juries suffered in the recent fire
which destroyed his home.
Native of Monroe County, and
son of the late Lawson Green
Chambless and Mary Ann Clower
Chambless, Mr. Chambless moved
to Rentz in 1918.
He was a retired farmer and a
member of the Rentz Methodist
Church.
Mr. Chambless was married to
the late Miss Nannie Coleman.
Survivors are five sons, Eldred
Chambless and C. Ray Chambless,
of Rentz, Howell G. Chambless of
Atlanta; Ralph Chambless, of.
Alamo, and Young G. Chambless,
Jr., of Dudley; four daughters,
Mrs. H. D. Avera, of Tampa, Fla.;
Mrs. D. L. Green, of Montrose;
Mrs. W. W. Wells and Mrs. Glad
stone Jansen, of Dudley; fifteen
grandchildren; seven great-grand
children, and one sister, Mrs. J.
W. Mays, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Wheeler County PTA
Meets Tuesday, 7th
The regular meeting of the
Wheeler County P. T. A. was held
Tuesday evening, May 7, in the'
school library. This was the last I
meeting of the school year.
The program was opened with ■
the devotional by Ted Morrison,!
and prayer by Mr. Lancaster.
O. B. Wilkes, district represen- ’
tative of the Woodmen of the |
World, introduced Jimmy Town
send of Dublin as the speaker of
the evening. He talked on the
good qualities we can instill in
our children. Mr. Townsend pre
sented a check to Mrs. Louise
Morrison, president of the P. T. A.,;
j from The Woodmen to be used in .
, a community project.
Mr. Bell presented a plaque to
Woodrow Gillis, honoring him as
“Mr. Woodman,” and a flag to
: Ramon Meguiar, who accepted in I
। behalf of the local Cub Scouts.
Following these presentations,:
the following new P.T.A. officers
were installed for the 1959-60
school year:
President—Mrs. T. A. Morrison;
First Vice President—Mrs. Henry
Davis; Second Vice President—
Mrs. Marvin Tillman; Secretary—
Mrs. Marvin Clark Jr.; Treasurer
—Mrs. Wade Hartley and Parlia
mentarian—Mrs. L. M. Pope.
At the close of the business
session the hostesses for the even
ing served delicious refreshments,
and an enjoyable social hour
followed.
BAKE SALE
The Vera Campbell Circle of
the Alamo Baptist Church W. M.
U. will sponsor a Baked Goods;
Sale on Friday, May 22, at the I
REA office from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
You may call and reserve your
' purchase if you like.
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IMEN AND WOMAN WHO
{ROBBED JOHN MELVIN
CAUGHT BY OFFICERS
■ I
Glenwood
{{Methodist Events
Since the morning service on
- :
i May 17 at Glenwood Methodist
, । Church will not be held due to
I the Commencement Sermon at
J the High School, the Church is
' । planning a special service to be
। j held at the regular hour of even-
1 1 ing worship that day. All mem
. bers of the Church, and all whose
। interest is here, are especially in
vited to be present at that service
t at 7 o’clock on Sunday evening,
J May 17. This service will be con
j ducted by the Pastor.
>; Another special service is to be
| held at Glenwood Methodist
[! Church on Thursday evening,
; May 21, at 8 o’clock. It is to be
■ conducted by the Rev. Guy K.
; Hutcherson, a former pastor. All
members of the Glenwood Meth-
’ ] odist Church, all members of the
. | neighboring Churches where
■ I Brother Hutcherson has served,
. I and all friends of the Church are
L {invited to attend this service.
. i On Friday morning, May 22, the
Fourth Quarterly Conference for
the Glenwood Charge will be
conducted by the Rev. James H.
Wilson, Superintendent of the
Dublin District of the Methodist
Church. The Conference will be
gin at 11 o’clock that morning,
with Brother Wilson preaching.
‘ | Following the sermon, dinner will
■ be served at the tables outside the
। Church. After the dinner on the
: grounds is finished, the business
j session of the Conference will be
’ i conducted. A bit of a special serv
ice is planned in connection with
> I this Conference, since it will be
\ the last one conducted here by
J Brother Wilson in his pre’sent
’ I term of office on the Dublin Dis
"■ trict. Brother-Wilson is complet
ing six years on the District, and
i the law of the Methodist Church
: is that he must now change his
work. Hence, this Quarterly Con
! ference is planned as an honor
to Brother Wilson. All the mem-
{ bers of the Glenwood Charge,
both Glenwood and Landsburg
; Methodist Churches, are needed at
this Conference, with a basket of
| lunch. All Methodist people in the
' reach of this newspaper are
cordially invited to attend the
entire session of this Conference,
from 11 a.m. on to the close.
All friends of the Church, and
all friends of Brother Wilson are
invited to attend.
VITAMINS A AND C
Nutritionists, Agricultural Ex
tension Service, recommend eat
ing one serving of vitamin A food
every other day. Food rich in vi
’ tamin A are apricots, broccoli,
cantaloupe, carrots, kale, spinach,
sweet potatoes, turnip greens and
winter squash. Sometimes foods
containing vitamin C may also
■ count as a vitamin A source.
There are about 19 foods that
' contain vitamin A or C which
i can be grown in Georgia.
Only a doctor can diagnose and
treat cancer. Your best chance for
cure is to see him in time, says
! the American Cancer Society. !
' i Sheriff John B. Walker said,
today that the two men and a;
woman who robbed John Melvin,,
taxi driver, of Mcßae of more
1 than SIOO in bills, $15.00 irt
t change, and a pistol on March 19,
’; were taken into custody Wed
t, nesday and lodged in jail in Mc
; ■ Rae and Hazlehurst.
’ j The Sheriff identified the trio
as Montgomery Lee Turner, 19;
H. R. Turner, 32, and Wanda Sue
Reynolds, of Baxley, 19. All gave
their home address as Jackson
ville, Fla., but said the Turner's
■ father lived in Telfair County
about 10 years ago.
GBI Agents Lt, Henry Spurlin
and J. R. Dunn of Hazlehurst
caught Montgomery Turner and
■ the woman after they had a fight
in Hazlehurst and stole a used
car in which they went to Pear
-1 son, set fire to the automobile
and destroyed it.
The officers were assisted by
Sheriff Hatton of Hazlehurst in
’ capturing the robbers, who signed
| confessions to the robberies here,
■ and in Dublin and Fitzgerald. The
1 I
Sheriff said Montgomery Turner
is in the Telfair County jail, and
the woman was being brought
here today.
During one of the hold-ups
30-year old Warren Williams of
Hazlehurst, taxi driver and pool
hall operator, was shot six times,
tied and left bleeding in a wood
ed area off the Douglas highway
near Hazlehurst.
Georgia Baptists
To Attend Annual
Convention In Ky.
Georgia Baptists, by the hun
dreds, will be leaving home this
week-end for Louisville, Ky., and
the annual meeting of the South
-1 ern Baptist Convention, and meet
- 11 ings of various groups in connec
; tion with the Convention.
The 102nd session of the con
vention gets under way Tuesday
night in Freedom Hall in Louis
ville. Prior to the actual conven
tion beginnings, the Woman’s
. Missionary Union of the Southern
Baptist Convention will hold it’s
annual convention. Also sched
uled Monday are meetings of the
SBC Pastors’ Conference, and the
Religious Education Association
of the SBC.
The SBC Music Conference will
meet on Monday also, and will
be under the leadership of Dr..
Paul McCommon, Atlanta, secre
tary of the department of church
music of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention, who is president of the
south-wide group.
The pre-cor.vention meetings
have grown in importance in
recent years, and now, most of
the Georgians who will attend
the sessions, leave home in time
to attend all the pre-convention
meetings.
Actual sessions will bring into
sharp focus matters of interest to
Georgia and Southern Baptists.
I Brooks Hays, newly-named
• TVA director, and former con
gressman from Arkansas, is presi
i dent of the Southern convention,
■ and will be presiding officer at
the opening session. He completes
his second term of office this year,
and, is not eligible to succeed
himself.
The sessions continue morning,
afternoon and evening through
Friday. The convention meets in
Louisville this year in honor of
the centennial observance of the
founding of the Southern Baptist
Theological Sfeminary, the “par
ent” seminary for Southern Bap
tists.
Wheeler County To
Participate In Drive
Wheeler County will participate
in the drive for Cerebral Palsey
May 23-24, in connection with the
Telethon on Channel 13, Macon,
sponsored by the United Cerebral
Palsey in Macon.
Through this, we hope to ob
tain much needed help for chil
dren in Wheeler County who are
victims of this condition. Anyone
wishing to make contributions
please call Logan 8-3930 on Satur
day May 23 or May 24. Someone
will come by and get your con
tribution and the County Total
will be called in the Telethon or
Sunday afternoon.
NUMBER 4.