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V OLUME 1— NUMBER 37
4-H Winners Cheer For Safety
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Leading 214 million 4-H members in a rousing “hurrah” for safer highways, homes and farms
are these eight national winners in the National 4-H Safety Program. Calling for even greater en
thusiasm and emphasis on the traffic phase of safety is Anthony G. De Lorenzo, vice president in
charge of the public relations staff of General Motors, which is safety program awards donor for
the 16th consecutive year. Each of these winners received a S4OO college scholarship from GM. In
addition, General Motors gave them and other safety winners all-expense trips to the 39th National
4-H Club Congress in Chicago. Left to right (kneeling) are: Elsie Clasen, 18, of Glenwood, Minn.;
Janies Fassett, 18, of Alstead, N. H.; Christian Scherer, 18, of Olney, III.; Pamela Gay Chiles, 17,
of El Reno, Okla.; Frank Kleiietko, 15, of Golden, Colo.; and Richard Hatler, 18, of Crossville,
Tenn. Standing are Vivian Warminski, 16, of White Deer, Texas: Mr. De Lorenzo; and Gwen Anne
Smith, 17, of Reno, Nev.
William N. Yates, Sanitarian, Added
To Tri-County Health Department Staff
ed; checking sewage disposal sys
tems and advising in the construc
tion of new systmes in order that
they comply with recommended
standards; checking milk supplies
and dairies.
These services, as other serv
ices of your Health Department,
are free to the popl. If you have
any problem dating with any
phase of sanitation, please leave
your request at the Health De
prtment in Alamo for Mr. Yates.
Sanitation is a Way of Life, it
means better towns, churches,
schools and communities . It must
come from within the people and
grow as a moral obligation on
each individual. USE YOUR
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Sylvia Thomas, of Glenwood, To Wed
Dr. James F. Aycock, of Hollywood, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. S. Thomas
of Glenwood wish to anounce the
engagement of their daughter,
Sylvia Thomas to Dr. James F.
Aycock, son of the late J. E. Ay
cock and Mrs. Aycock, of Holly
wood, Fla.
The bride-elect, a graduate of
QuT an High School, Quitman,
received her BS degree in Home
Economics at Auburn University.
While at Auburn, Miss Thomas
was a member of Omicron Nu, the
home economics honorary society;
the Independent Women’s Organ
ization, Towers; Dolphin Club;
and Gamma Sigma Sigma. She
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The Wheeler County News
William N. Yates, formerly of
Moultrie, began his duties as Tri-
County Sanitarian Dec. 1. He
wil Iserve Wheeler, Montgomery
and Jeff Davis counties. He will
be in Wheeler County one day
each week except one week and
wil! be here two days that week.
At present he iis Scheduled to be
in our country each Thursday.
Public Health Sanitarians per
form many services for thepeople,
some of these include: checking
food service establishments and
recommending permts for them;
(checking water supplies, public
and private, and recommending
ways of improving well protec
' tions and correcting contamina-
(tion shown in water samples test-
.vas awarded the Loveman, Jose
ph nd Loeb Clothing and Textiles
Scholarship and the Lee Moody
"eholarship.
The bride-groom received his
Anamatology at Tulane Univer
sity and his Doctor of eVterina
.m Medicine degree at Auburn
University, where he was a mem
ber of the OTS fraternity.
The wedding will take place
Dec. 30, at three, in the Glenwood
Baptist Church. No invitations
will be sent out, but everyone is
(inv’tcd to attend the wedding and
the reception afterwards.
Brodnax, Mitchell
To Direct Georgia
Heart Fund Drive
Georgia H. Brodnax of Atlanta
and W. Cameron Mitchell of
Hampton will serve as co-chair
men for the 1961 Heart Fund
campaign in Georgia .announces
Carter L. Redd, of Atlanta, chair
man of the Georgia Heart Asso
ciation’s Board of Directors.
Mi. Brodnaxis vice president of
Georgia Power Co., and Mr.
Mitchell is executive vice presi
dent and treasurer of Southern
States Equipment Corp, in Hamp
ton.
They will direct the fund drive
which will be held throughout the
state during February. Contribu-
J lions to the Heart Fund will en
; able the Georgia Heart Assn, to
continue its programs of research,
professional and public education,
j and community services.
During the current fiscal year,
I the heart association has allocat
ed more than $170,000 for cardio
। vascular reserch on state and na
tional levels. The association has
: also bee in strumental in the or
ganization ofl6 clinics for in
digent cardiacs and in the deve
lopment of several educational
cl ncs to assist stroke patients.
The heart association during
1961 will again place emphasis on
' home therapy for stroke victims
, on the assumption that many of
, can rehabilitate themselves to the
point where they can care for
; their own needs and, in some in
। stances,return to gainful employ
ment.
DON’T GUESS ON
LIMING SOIL
Never guess at the amount of I
lime to be applied to soil, because '
'■veiTming can be as bad as not;
; n ma r|y cases, warns P.
J. Bergeaux, agronomist for the '
'■ '-ers’ty of Georgia Agricultu
ral Fx‘ r, nsion Service. Lime cor
acidity. -u ; plies plant nu
‘rr-.U, mrkvs other plant nu
.rients more available and pro
motes bacterial activity. The only
-v-e wav to get the correct
amount of lime is to follow soil
test recommendations, he says.
"LT AN LITTER FOR
HEALTHY CHUKS
Broiler houses should be tho
’■oughlv oi aned between every
cf chic’-£ says Extension
"-’■ltryman Milton Dendy of the
Urivn-opy o f Georgia College of;
Agriculture. He advises using 4
inches of clean, dry new litter
fh' brood is changed. If
o l d litter must be reused, be sure
to remove all wet spots and cak
ed litter.
About half of the nation’s crop
of improved pecans is from Geor
gia’s 2.5 million trees.
Pop Hines Sez
Atlanta — The reliability of
a.. at Gov. Vandiver spys he will
do compared with what he actual
ly do« f hs been a matter of pub
lic con^rn, if not alarm.
it began long before his report
ed illness and some 20 situations
. <■; iily come to mind which have
passed before the public eye like
th colors of a kaleidscope and
piv^ni contusing shades to the
■rncu\ cna.acter as an offi
cial.
.. ■ months have passed the
■ question has been asked whether
। Vancziver is an executive or an
l illusionist.
Anew disclosure by State Au
ditor B. E. Thrasher concerning
| State Highway Board funds does
not answer either question. It
only accentuates the quecy.
News about Thrasher’s report
so alarmed the governor that his
usual Thursday afternoon news
। ^violence was moved up to 10:30
then was t 5 minutes late
wade Vandiver was being briefed
on an alibi and the use of terms
he felt would get him out of his
dilemma. It was all quite in
teresting.
There was so much illusion in
the handling of figures alone with
an attempt to change the defini
tion of words as set down by
Noah Webster, that Charlie Pou,
usually the exponent of Vandiv
er’s thoughts, had to say public
ly, “Governor, I don’t get it.”
When Charlie Pou can’t get
what Vandiver tries to put over,
the governor certainly attains the
ultimate in obfuscation.
Throughout Vandiver’s cam
paign for governor in 1958 there
was much publicity about hones
ty bein gone of his virtues. He
enlisted the support of the Atlan
ta Newspapers to verify it. In hia
inaugural address he admitted n.
Honesty, of course, takes many
forms. In the context of these
paragraphs honesty is considered
aS that quality in a many which
shows him fair and truthful and
above misrepresentation.
A man who claims honesty as
virtue neither practices duplicity
nor decietfulness in speech or ac
tion.
In the light of press interpreta
tion of the latest reports on the
use of highway funds by State
Auditor Thrasher, the evaluation
of Vandiver as governor brings
into focus some recent political
legerde-main quiet contrary to
the picture the governor sees of
himself in the mirror.
One swallow, of course, does
not make a spring. But scientist#
have long sought the motivation
which directs the swallows back
wit hsuch regularity to Capis
trano.
The regularity with which Van
diver is brought back to fie con
fronted with his campaign pro
mises and promises made to the
legislators, together with some
unusual actions of an executive
nature, make those Georgian^
who do not know Vandiver, won
der what kind of a bird he is.
What is the motivation?
Outstanding among these, of
course, is whether the Governor i
knew someone had become fa
miliar with his act of illusion ,
which made him fear to face the (
school teachers of Georgia at an ■
annual meeting of the Georgia
Education when the teachers pro- I
posed his public condemnation by
resolution for failure to provide
a salary increase to support a liv
ing wage.
But before coming to the eli- I
matic revelation in the State Au- (
di tor’s report about highway
funds, other examples must be
^■ned Lr hc degree in which
they contribute to the question
of whether Vandiver is a compe
tent executive or in fact an illu
sionist.
These are:
Vandiver was the center of
charges by the Stephens County j
Chamber of Commerce that he |
diverted the loute of Superhigh
way 75 from Atlanta to hi" home
town of Lavonia, near farm land ,
owned by him and other land ac
quired by Robert Russell, his
brother-in-lw, and Willis Harden,
a member of the Highway Board.
Improper use of a Georgia Air
National Guard plane to the Vir
gin Islands after he had publicly
announced the plane would be
used only to Miami and commer-
Icial facilities used beyond.
I Sudden flip-flop on his pro-
miso to abide by the results of the
। straw vote in Georgia on pledged
or unpledged electors and went
> for pledged electors when the
! vote was adverse to his original
| promise.
Failure to clean up conditions
at Milledgeville when it was
। shown that patients lived in filth
wh le he spends enormous sums
1 to build elaborate homes for ad
■ min Arative personenl. No pun
jishment (or officials who rc.,^,
h s Milledgeville inspection tour
r ound t n most revolting conm
1 tmns there.
.nxonmng the people of Geor
gia the state was on the-verge of
bankruptcy when actually a sur
। plus of 30 mhillion dollars result-
I ed in the fiscal year he mention
। ed.
j Promising to operate the state
j tn a more economical manner by
j holding “outgo to income” and
Ahen presenting a deficit financ
ing budget which this year ap
proimates 23 milf.on dollars, thus
violating the constitutional pro
vision that no moneys shall be ob
ligated beyond the amount col
lecte d n revenue during the pre
vious fiscal year.
Increasing salaries of already
highly paid department heads,
and salaries of executives of the
purchasing department by about
$90,000, while at the same time
pay increases are denied for state
employees who ar paid far blow
the average of those in surround
ing states.
[Promising to stop Authority
Financing for “projects of short
term life” and then taking under
consideration a $100,000,000 bond
issue for maintenance of high
ways, when maintenance is ob
viously a recurring item and “a
project of short-term life.”
Admitting that moral condi
tions in Atlanta are those of Sod
om and Gomorrah, based on vices
associated with the illegal sale of
mixed drinks, but fails to direct
his law department to take cor
rect steps.
Employed, at enormous cost,
“experts” from Chicago, known
as “1313 boys” whose stated ob
jective was to wipe out the Con
stitutional officers of the state
government and make them ap
pointive by the governor under
his dictatorial powers.
Attacking the construction of
Rural Roads and preventing their
expansion under the explanation
that Rural Roads were expen
sively constructed. Nevertheless,
using the savings on Rural Road
construction by the previous ad
ministration to build more rural
roads under identical specifica
tions and falsely announcing them
to be built under “state-aiu ’ ap
propritions.
Being disloyal in his atti' ’de
; toward his appointees to the State
Board of Corrections by gjvn.g
aid and comfort to its attackers,
the Atlanta newspapers, until the
| situation reached such a stage
that the Board members felt re
quired in a public statement to
I demand that the newspapers tell
. faets.
Giving shifty replies to ques
tions at his news conferences, in
particular a question from a news
ser* fee as to what he had done
to im dement the honesty in gov
ernment law. The sole xplana
tion was that the law had been
passed although Vandiver well
know the question was direcietd
to how he is implementing the
law under his administration and
not to its passage.
Promised more than 24 months
ago t omake public the names of
insurance agents to which he has
given insurance premiums in re
turn for political debts but never
has done so.
Promised to build a new 1200
capacity industrial prison to re
lieve congestion at Reidsville but
has never done so.
Promised to immediately (Jan
uary 196 J) to initiate a Prison
Industry Authority which by the
ufie of prison labor would manu
facture at great savings every
type of supply used by state
agencies, but has not fulilled that
promise.
Never defended against attacks
by the integrationist press the
fact that 55 per cent of the peo
ple questioned in public hearings
in 10 Congressional districts
would rather have closed schools
than accept any integration as is
being advocated by his committee
ALAMO. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2960
populai .y known as the Sibley
Committee for Integration head
< <• by an officer of the Trust Co.
of Ga., many of the hig here
:.utivcs of which contributed to
his election campaign.
। SoudaL io pack me State Board
1 of Education with five new mem-
is, to a total of 15, under the
arpum nts that to pack the board
would improve the eficiency. At
I :he same time he is responsible
for six of the .ten members of the
I present board, but ha taken no
| s’ops t. request their resignations
in order to get efficient members.
Allowing the tobecome inactive
. which has prevented the Atlanta
i lieysp.qaro acs pting liquor ad
ieitisii g for those editions cir
culated in dry counties. The
money involved has been various-,
ly estimated up to one million
I dollars in advertising. Many
claims have been made that being
| able to illegally distribute liquor
। advertising inedryoun etaoin
i advertising explains the intensity
of the support which the news-
I papers give Vandiver.
| The above 20 examples, whet
her the}' result from a wavering
< tnu mind and character, un
steadiness and inconstancy of
principle, or the acts of illusion
ist, they do lead up to the latest
an ' certainly the most reprehen
i sible instance of double talk to
Hno people and the legislature.
This involves about four mil
; lion dollars of funds diverted by
I Vandiver from what he said, in
preparing his 1960-61 budget, was
Required lor acute maintenance of
highways. The money goes to a
■ county contract program which
j Vandiver has represented to the
। people as improper.
In a message to the General
| Assembly and which is now the
subuject of scrutiny under those
terms by which honesty is defined
as fairness, truthfulness and
above misrepresentation, Vandiv
er said:
“To meet acute maintenance
(needs as far as budget resources
will permit, I propose that we
raise the amount budgeted for
highway repairs in the coming
fiscal year from $15,000,000 to
$20,000,000.”
Now Auditor Thrasher’s report
( reveals that what Vandiver rep
resented as an “acute need” was
not a need at all but an illusion
by which some four million dol
lars of maintenance funds could
be diverted to county contracts,
about which Vandiver is on pub
lic record as having called im
■ proper.
The diversion of four million
dollars rfom “acute maintenance
ne d .” brings into focus the hon-
( esty as well as the validity of
' the present campaign to bond the
a one year crash maintenance
: tate for $100,000,000 to carry out
program under an “authority fi
nncing” scheme directly contrary
to Vandiver’s use of authority fi
nancing for “projects of short
-term life.”
| That it has required more than
I six months for the auditor’s re
port to reveal the contradictions
between what Vandiver says and
what he does directs itself to the
question of whether anything
Vandiver says he will do can be
I h icved at the time he says it.
I. four million dollars, pre
sented an “acute need”’ can be j
diverted from its intended allo-j
cation within the period of one I
year how much of $100,000,000 I
will have to be diverted and for I
what in the 18 months between !
next January and the 1962 pri
mary election in order to get it
all spent by that time?
Fath month Vandiver serves as
governor seems to bring proof
that there is many a slip between (
th' tongue and the till.
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Ag. Leaders Thank
Russell For Aiding
Georgia Farmers
( Two Georgia agriculture grot ps
'ha\e presented Senator Ric . d
B Russell with resolutions thrn.
ing him for his leadership in Con
gress in behalf of the state’s farm
ers and poultrymen.
The Alumni Assn, of the Uni-
Agriculture praised Russell for
' versify of Georgia College of
'his efforts to strengthen agricul
tural research, extension and in
: struction.
| Another group, the Georgia
Poultry Federation, presented
Georgia’s Senior Senator with a
। resolutiuon of appreciation for
his “enlightened, persistent, and
effective leadership”! n Congre s
in behalf of the state’s multi-mil
lion dollar chicken industry.
Assn, of the Agriculture Coi’c.e,
A delegation from the Alumni
headed by Dr. Irvin M.Woffard >f
Savannah, presented its reso'u
tionto Russell at his office m
( Winder on Nov. 23.
A. C. Smith. Jr., of Cur. uni ng,
presidents of the Poultry Federa
in, made .his group’s presen i
tion to Russell at a meeting of ' le
Federation’s Board of Directors ,n
Atlanta on Nov. 16.
Both resolutions highly pr: s
ed Russell’s work as chairman >f
the Senate Agriculture Apj ”O
priations Subcommittee. Th' is
the Senate unit that has cha ge
of the appropriations bill for ’ :e
Department, of Agriculture .nd
related agencies.
The Alumni Association of the
College of Agriculture noted Ht>s
sell’s long-time interest in rm
research, extension and instruc
tion and declared:
“His influence in the United
States Senate has been primarily
responsible for strengthening sev
eral phases of Georgia total agri
cultural program by providing
funds necessary to support such
work.”
“Thi ssupport,” the Association
continued, “is building for the
people of Georgia a College of
Agriculture to more adequately
serve the needs of the farmer-,
and farm businsses of the south
east.”
The Poultry Federation cited
to secureaworkableandrealist ic
Russell for his sucessful efforts
to secure a workable and realis
tic poultry inspection program,
and to establish a $950,000 Poul
try Disease and Management Lab
oratory t the University of Geor
gia in Athens.
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HOOKED — New York police
have arrested Pancho Molina,
sought in connection with the
shooting of a 9-year-old girl
during a pro- and anti Castro
riot in New York. Molina fre
quently wears a hook to re-,
place a missing hand.