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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE
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NATION A L EDITORIAL
v* ' 1 las'socTatlo'n
Tales Out Os
School
By BERNICE McCULLAR
VISIT TO McRAE— I brought
back with me to the State De
partment of Education the mem
ory of a warm and friendly eve
ning that I spent visiting the
school at Mcßae recently. High
school students presented a 20
minute play, “The Flattering
Word”, which I enjoyed. Barbara
Smith is a genuine comic. I hope
she gets to do more with drama
. . . Gladys Gille.spie’s 3-D’s;
Daughters Diane, Delaine, and
Dawn are 3 darlings . . . Students
whom I taught and loved at
GSCW gladdened my heart with
rememberings . . . Mrs. Jeff
Smith, who used to edit the
GSCW publication, has the same,
sweet face full of friendliness . . .
Mcßae is such a clean-looking lit
tle town. It’s a credit to the peo
ple, the council, and to the young
sters who have more pride in
their town than to clutter it up
with trash . . . Two men officers
of the PTA I observed with great
appreciation. It’s wonderful when
men take tyme to help . . . High
light of the program was the an
nouncement that Telfair’s ele
mentary school was one of four
approved in a new accredited
rating. The others are the highly
rated Westminster in Atlanta, De
catur High that operates between
Emory and Agnes Scott, and one
in Troup County. Telfair is travel
ing “in high cotton”, and its
Thanks, folks
T'i'o
for your patience
and understanding
The ice storm really gave us a hard time.
Ice-laden trees tore down power lines and
interrupted electric service in this area.
All our line crews were called immedi
ately into action. Additional help also was
obtained from neighboring areas. These
crews worked around the clock until your
service was restored.
We know it was not easy to do without
electricity even for a short time, and we
sincerely regret the inconvenience caused
to our customers. We wish to thank all of
you for your understanding and patience
during this emergency.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
C. W. Roberts, Vice President
। achievement should make you
proud.
GEORGIA IS AHEAD— A re
cent survey of our statistical of
fice reveals that Georgia is ahead
‘ of all Southern states except Flor-
L i ida in the percentage of pupils
who attend high schools that are
’ accrediated by, the Southern As
’ sociation of Colleges and Second
-1 i ary Schools. Os the 203.150 pupils
1 i enrolled in grades 9 through 12
1 of Georgia's high schools, 70.51%
' of them attended these accredit
’ i ed schools. In Florida, the figure
! .is 71.02%. Georgia and Florida
1 are way out ahead of the other
J Southern states in this.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
i THE TEACHER EXAM? — Some
[ of Georgia’s teachers are opposed
; i to the National Teacher Exami
nation, which is now optional in
Georgia and carries as benefits
. (1) summer grants of money to
. study, (2) an increase in pay and/
. or, (3) the setting up of a new
, teaching field. Do YOU think a
> teacher exam is a good idea?
i Some people say that if the teach
t er knows the subject she should
। not mind taking an examination
. and if she does not know it, she
. should not be trying to teach it
. to children. Dr. M. D. Collins, who
• Iwas for 25 years state superin
[ tendent of schools, once said,
. “You can no more teach what
. you don’t know than you can
l come back from where you
■ haven’t been.” Next National
Teacher Examination will be held
i January 28 at 10 places in Geor-
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY. GEORGIA
gia.
QUESTION IN THE MAIL.—
Every day we get queries about
how the new school building
money is being distributed to the
systems. Here is the answer again.
It is being distributed on the basis
of fifty dollars per teacher to all
197 school systems, and SlB per
। child only to those schools that
i have had an increase in their
school enrollment since the other
building program was set up in
1951-52.
—
PLAN FOR YOUR BRIGHT
! CHILDREN—Your State Board of
for setting up a pilot project in
each Congressional district for
Education has approved $40,000
gifted children. In this way, we
can study the most effective ways
of dealing with these bright
brains, and help all schools to
make plans to develop this talent.'
Georgia and 4he nation need ev
ery ounce of brain power that we
have and can develop. It is the,
natural resource that is most;
precious and non-replaceable.
THE MOON MADE SIMPLE—
Two Georgia teachers — Dr. Ira
[Aaron and Dr. Bernice Cooper, at
the University of Georgia —have
spent a year rewriting Readers’
Digest articles for fourth grade
children. Dr. Aaron rewrote an
erudite article on “Lightning—lts
wonder and Dangers”. Dr. Cooper •
did one on the moon. Did you
every try to write something sim- j
pie enough for a child? You’re I
likely to get a whole postgraduate
course moonstuff or mythology i
the process.
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WHAT CAN THE SCHOOLS
DO ABOUT IT? — A television
man told me with disgust the
other day of a TV program in
which grown-ups howled with
enthusiastic deligth when a wom
an succeeded in the silly game
of throwing balls at a dish and
breaking it. Such inane programs
make the Russians delight in
pointing to America as a land of
childish minds, despite our mil
lions of people of scholarly at
tainment. What do you suppose
the schools could do about the
soap operas and the silly stuff on
the airways? Any ideas? Write
me.
OLDSTUFF—If you think criti
cism of education is something
new, go back and read Aristo
phanes’ play THE CLOUDS. In j
that drama, he pokes fun at the i
way Socrates was teaching the
youth of ancient Greece. Sounds
as modern as tomorrow.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE TEN
YEARS CAN MAKE!—In 1949-
50, we spent slll per child lor
the public schools in Georgia, had
769,961 pupils enrolled, 23,766
teachers, who got an average sal
ary of $1,997, had 19,760 high
school graduates. In 1959-60, we
spent $225 per child, had 1,000,759
pupils enrolled, 33,302 teachers
who averaged $3,90 2 in salary,
and had 34,127 graduates.
WHICH GRADE WOULD YOU
GUESS? — Where do you think
the largest number of children
are in Georgia’s schools? Which
grade would you guess is the big
gest? It’s the first grade. In 1959-
60, there were 65,965 white chil
dren in the first grades of Geor
gia. and 39,020 Negro children. In
white 12th grades, there were
28,094, and in Negro 12th grades,
there were 8,787. Where do we
lose children along that road from
the first grade to graduation
night? Seen any lost children late
ly? What’s your community doing
about them?
IRISH SCHOOLMASTER —
Down at Sunbury, now a ghost
town but once a thriving little
port where Button Gwinnett and
other early Georgians did a bust
ling business with the ships and
trade and crops, an old Irishman
onee ran one of the best schools
in the South. His name was Wil
liam McWhir. He was also a min
ister and a friend of George
Washington. He was a great Latin
scholar. If you stop by the Mid
way Church sometime, halfway
between Savannah and Bruns
wick, and read the four or five
markers out in front, one will
tell you about this old Irishman
and his school in early Georgia.
WANT TO KNOW HOW
MANY?—How close would you
come if you had to guess how
many high schools we have in
Georgia” Os our total 1.930
schools, 518 of them are high
schools. That’s 341 white high
schools and 177 Negro high
schools.
Keep pesticides out of reach of
children, pets, and irresponsible
persons, is the advice of Miss Lu
cile Higginbotham, head of the
Extension health department.
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HOW'S THIS FOR A BRAKEMAN?
Pretty Sandra Kane waves them on as the Stone Mountain
Scenic Railroad is dedicated.
The railroad, dedicated last week, will encircle Stone
Mountain,and authentic replicas of the famous old General
and Texas will draw 1860’s style sightseeing coaches along
the five-mile track around the mountain.
COVERING
! THE UN
BETHLEHEMS CHRISTMAS
CHEER - WATER
On Christmas day in Bethlehem,'
trucks of the United Nations Re-j
lief and Works Agency rolled in
to town where Christ was born,'
bringing supplies “more precious!
than the refugee’s rations,” a de-!
flayed report from the agency an
| nounces. Th4 -brought water for
'distribution among the populat
ion, tormented by two years of!
parching drought in Jordan.
The little community has be-!
come economically stagnant since
the demarcation line cut off the
straight paved road which used
to connect it with its natural ec
onomic neighbor. Jerusalem, in
five minutes, and the bus route
on a detour winding through ter
raced, blanched hills now’ requires
thirty minutes. Since 1948, when
Bethlehem opened its doors to
thousands more than those al
ready living there in camps, the
community counts 10,000 refugees
। drawing rations within its boun
daries.
SHOW-WINDOW OF EVOLUT
ION
The World’s first international
biological station is now’ develop
ing in the Galapagos Isles, a
unique wild-life preserve off Ec
uador. UNESCO announced a
$6500 grant made to the new Dar
win Foundation w’hich, headed by
Sir Julian Huxley, will build
laboratories on the island for the
purpose, among others, of making
a census of animals threatened
with extinction.
U. N. STAMPS TOTAL MIL
LIONS
Since establishment of the U. N.
Postal Administration in 1951, ap
proximately 274.000,000 stamps
। and items of postal stationery
I have been printed, according to
ian estimate made last w’eek.
Gross revenue from philatelic
i sales has in that interim reached
i almost $10,000,000, and will be
! augmented in 1961, it is estimated
by another $1,500,000.
The figures are exclusive of
stamps used on official and visi
tors' mail, since the U. S. Post
Office Department is reimbursed
! for all postage dispatched from
! the headquarters of the United
j Nations. In 1960 alone, the reim
: bursement amounted to more
than $450,000.
LIFE EXPECTANCY RISING
Recent studies by the Populat
ion Commission of the United
Nations have indicated important
gains in average life expectancy.
• in the 20-year span from prewar
i years through most of the postwar
period. Marked decreases in jnor
> tality rates in many countries are
the basis for the improvement,
the commission notes.
In North America, Australia.
New Zealand and most countries
I of Northern and Western Europe.
! expectation of life rose from 60 or
more years in 1937 to 65 to 74
. years, in 1957. For India, Mexico
! and many other countries in Asia,
! Africa and Latin America, prewar
! expectation or life was below 40
! years. Indra as a w’hole does not
। appear to, have advanced much
■ beyond that point, the commiss
i ion said, but Mexico gained 10
! years between 1940 and 1950, and
’] Mauritius 18 year In countries of
। this group where progress has
i been most definite, expectation
I of life at birth now ranges from
'SO to 59 years.
—
MOTHERS, BABIES GAIN
FROM SOLDIERS GIFT
i A maternity hospital and baby
clinic w’as the w'elcome Christmas
gift from 800 Canadian soldiers
serving with the UN Emergency
Force in the Middle East to their
Palestine refugee neighbors. The
hospital will be a permanent
memorial to the troops, doing
“untold good over the years,’’said
the Canadian UNEF troop com
mander.
NEW TV SERIES ON UN
Alistair Cooke, host of Omnibus,
will personally conduct a series of
TV tours in and out of the United
Nations, so that the American
! public may get a close-up glimpse
lof the workings of the internat
ional organization. Titled “Inter
■ national Zone,’’ the programs will
,' feature human interest stories
concerning delegates, interpreters.
UN soldiers, international person
alities and problems, both at
■ i headquarters and abroad. “We
i hope to get people genuinely in
: I terested in the United Nations
J and w’hat it does,’’ said Mr. Cook.
Backed by the United States
Broadcasters Committee for the
United Nations, the 13-program
series will be produced under UN
supervision and in UN television
studios. Check local newspapers
for time of release.
>
FILM DECUMENTARY
IN MAKING
1 Terence MacArtney-Filgate of
‘ Canada has arrived in Beirut to
! begin work on a color film on
Palestine refugees in the Near
: East. The documentary will de
pict the work of the teams of
; the United Nations Relief and
' Work Agency there. Its director
1 was awarded a Grand Prix at the
' 1960 film festival in Cannes, for
“The Back-Breaking Leaf.” a
similar feature about migrant
tobacco workers in Canada *
CHEAP SEED ARE MOST
EXPENSIVE
i Cheap seed are the most expen
: sive in the long run, says Harvey
. Lowery. Extension seed market
• ing specialist at the University of
■ Georgia College of Agriculture.
Test after test have shown that
■ top quality seed of a recommend
. ed variety or hybrid will out yield
seed of poor quality or of an un
. > adapted variety by at least 20
; percent, Mr. Lowery explained.
U. S. Army
Recruiting Service
The United States Army is our
I country’s largest single organiza
tion needing young men and
women capable of learning and
applying the technological ad
vances of our time.
To acquire the most capable
■ men and women that our country
has, the modern Army offers high
i school graduates their choice of
j technical schooling or training if
' they will become a part of this
great defensive team. This chois
is guaranteed in writing even be
. fore the individual signs the con
■ tract for his or her services.
Graduates taking advantage of
this offer are trained in the ca
reer field of their choice with
comprehensive instruction and |
‘ the finest equipment devised. Af
’ ter receiving a solid foundation in
■ the fundamentals of their chosen
fields, these graduates are placed
: in positions where they may build
i their knoweldge and skills to the
highest degree.
Whichever career field they en
i ter, they are given the opportu
nity to advance as high as their
Pre-Season Boat Check Pays Oft
Most boaters start the season with a full com
plement of safety equipment on board, but outboard
people have found that many tend to neglect these
things as the season goes along.
Now would be a good time to run a “safety
check” on your boat to make sure that everything
is as it should be.
Commonly neglected items in many out
boards are life jackets ant buoyant cushions.
Check to see that all straps and ties are still
sewed on firmly.
If life jackets have been stored in the forward
hold or under the seats, examine them for any signs
of mildew or rot. Make sure that the covering of
bouyant cushions has not worn through and that
the stitching is tight and secure at all points.
Go over your boat thoroughly. Screws and bolts
have away of working loose, so check each one for
tightness with a good screwdriver of the correct
size. If they are too worn to tighten properly, re
place them immediately with others of the same
length in the next larger thickness.
How are your lights? Check all wires and
connections and replace bulbs. Clean the lenses
... a good household cleanser will cut any film
which has accumulated on them.
Your battery and battery box should be clean
and free from any corrosion residue. A strong solu
tion of baking soda is best for this job, but don’t
let any get into the battery itself. If your motor is
not equipped with a generator, take the battery into
a service station and have it brought up to full
charge.
Examine all your “lines” very thoroughly. Any
manila hemp rope which has become very soft
should be replaced, for the softness means that
the fibers have broken and will not carry a full load.
Cleats and other hardware should be checked to
see that they are secure.
The inside of your boat should be given a
thorough inspection. Are all seats tight? Are steer
ing wheel and control lever secured firmly?
If there is any woodwork on your boat, check
for splintering. A file and sandpaper will re
move the possibility of any splinters causing
injury to yourself or your passengers. Smooth
down the rough spots and revarnish them right
away.
You have a fire extinguisher on board, and some
sort of whistle or horn. But what about a first aid
kit? If you have one, check its contents; if you
haven’t, this is an important item you shouldn’t
put off acquiring.
Finally, give .vourself a safety check. Go over
the rules of safe boating. Review your knowledge
of the laws and practices of the waterways.
These few simple precautions, taken before you
cast off for a day on the water, will save time, prop
erty and even life. They are based on recommenda
tions contained in the OBC Seamanship Course.
1. Don’t go aboard with arms full of gear. Stow’
your equipment aboard first, stack it on the dock
and load it after you are seated, or have someone
hand it to you. Be careful when fueling. Keep all
flames and sparks away. Keep a fire extinguisher
handy.
2. Never jump into your boat from a dock.
It could injure you or damage the boat.
3. Don’t overload. Overloading reduces free
board and places you in danger of swamping. The
number of seats in a boat is no indication of ca
pacity ; they re to provide different seating arrange
ments. The Outboard Boating Club of America
capacity plate is a sure guide to safe loading.
4. Keep the weight of your passengers and
gear evenly distributed from side to side and
from bow to stern.
5. Check your motor installation before start
ing the motor. The drive shaft should be perpen
dicular to the water. A motor tilted forward will
force the stern down and the bow up. A motor tilted
backward will raise the stern and push the bow’ dowm.
I£th ® Propeller isn t deep enough, it won’t get a good
“bite" and your motor will be overstrained.
6. The motor should be mounted m the center
of the transom. Make sure that the bracket screws
ar ^ ^oop a chain or line through the brackets
and the transom knee brace as a precaution against
losing the motor.
i. If jour motor does not have a gear shift,
be sure to cast off the mooring lines before
starting the motor. If it does have a gear shift,
start the engine in neutral, then release the
lines.
plenty of room for the stern to swing
around when turning away from the dock.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1961
abilities can take them. Their
earning powers are determined
only by their own abilities.
Qualified high school graduates
' who want a thorough education
i in the career field of their choice,
। with a profitable and secure fu
ture, are urged to contact Ser
geant James R. Smith today at
, the U. S. Army Recruiting Sta
tion located at The Mcßae Re-
L serve Training Center, each
f ! Thursday morning.
TREAT COTTON SEED
; Treating cotton seed used for
■ planting is low cost insurance
which almost always pays off
well, says Extension Agronomist
LW. H. Sell at the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.
i [Although treating seed cannot
guarantee a good stand of cot-
I ton under all conditions, tests and
> । experience by growers show that
seed treating can pay dividends
of many dollars per acre in in
creased yields and protection
against costly replanting, he ex
plained.
Biscuits and speeches are im
proved by shortening.
GAME
AND
FISH
By FULTON LOVELL