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VOLUME 46.
Three People Hurt
In Wreck Wednesday
On Highway U.S. 23
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Owens and
Raeford Melton Smith, all of this
county, were painfully injured
Wednesday morning about 8:30
o’clock when the 1957 Plymouth
automobile driven by Billy Ow
ens, and a 1957 Chevrolet driven
by Raeford Melton Smith collided
at the intersection of U.S. High
way 23 and the Cedar Park-Scot
land road.
Trooper Joe Alday, who in
vestigated the accident, said the
Owens car was crossing the high
way toward Scotland when it
was struck by the Smith car
which was headed toward Mcßae.
All three occupants of the ve
hicles were taken to the Telfair
County Hospital for emergency
treatment. Mrs. Owens remained
a patient there but the men were
dismissed.
Dr. L. C. Mcßae, Jr.
To Locate In
Glenwood
Dr. L. C. Mcßae Jr., will open
a Medical Clinic in Glenwood
around July Ist.
Dr. Mcßae comes to Wheeler
County as no stranger. He was
born May 30, 1930 in Glenwood
and was delivered by the late
Dr. W. A. Rivers, and went
through the fifth grade there.
In 1940 his family moved to Mt.
Vernon where they reside now.
Dr. Mcßae finished his elemen
tary school there, and graduated
from High School at Brewton
Parker in 1946.
From 1946-1950, he attended
North Georgia College, Dahlon
gea, and was graduated with a
major in Biology and a minor in
Chemistry. He later received a
Master’s of Science degree in Bac
teriology from the University of
Florida.
In September 1956 he entered
Medical School at the University
of Florida, and was graduated
June 1960. In June 1961 he will
complete a year of internship in
Interna! Medicine at the Univer
sity of Florida.
Dr. Mcßae, comes to Wheeler
County not only with his college
training, but with more than five
years of experience with the
Florida State Board of Health.
During this period he worked as
Bacteriologist, and Blood Bank
Technician, and has continued to
work part-time at the Gainesville
Blood Bank.
Dr. Mcßae, met his wife, Betty,
in Orlando where she was in
Nurse’ training and they were
married in 1952. Mrs. Mcßae is
from Vero Beach, Florida, and
they have four sons; Curtiss 8,
Mark 6, David 2, and Douglas 1.
The Clinic will be fully equip
ped with x-ray, cardiograph, and
other necessary equipment for a
thorough medical practice. Instal
lation of all this equipment will be
completed during the month of
April.
Plans for an “Open House” will
be annuonced later to invite the
public to meet Dr. and Mrs. Mc-
Rae, and to see the interior of
the Clinic, and the equipment
that will be available.
Mrs. Ray W. Bell
Appointed Chairman
Alumnae County Chairmen for
the Georgia State College for
Women have been appointed in
districts throughout the state.
These county chairmen assist the
GSCW Alumnae office in revising
the mailing list of GSCW alum
nae.
There are approximately 15,000
living alumnae whose addresses
are known. Mrs. Ray W. Bell of
Alamo, serves as chairman for
Wheeler County.
Clark Wins
Wheeler Race
S. Ashley Clark defeated Mrs.
W. C. Brown, the incumbent,
Tuesday for a four-year term on
the Wheeler County Board of
Education.
Clark received 126 votes, while
Mrs. Brown, who is completing
her fourth year on the board,
received 57.
The contest was for the Erick
District Post on the board.
The future is hidden even from
those who make it.
Wheeler County Eagle
'Look Up and Live,' says Huiet
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“Look up and live,” Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet reminds Georgians who work near electric lines.
Here, W, S. Pruett, right, of William S. Pruett Con
struction Company, points out a hazard to Commis
sioner Huiet involving a crane and electric lines.
“Carelessness with electricity and irrigation pipes,
derricks, nut poles, TV antennas, drilling rigs, cranes,
scaffolds, house moving, tree trimming and other oper
ations causes accidents which result in needless injury
and death, bringing grief to many Georgia families.”
Mr. Huiet said that employers now are legally responsi
ble for the safety of their workers around high-voltage
lines. A new booklet on the subject is available by
writing to the Inspection Division, Georgia Department
of Labor, 287 State Labor Building, Atlanta 3, Ga.
Wheeler County Bulldogs Win Over
Pineview But Lose To Dexter
The Wheeler Bulldogs won both
games last Tuesday night when
they played Pineview.
The girls won with a score of
61-19. Glenda Hartley and Caro
lyn Manus scored 15 points each
for the victors and Miss Shar- '
ron scored 8 points for the de-1
seated.
The Wheeler boys played a won
derful game, the final score was
64-60. Jimmy White scored 32
points for the Bulldogs and Win- ।
James E. Fowler
Dies Os Pneumonia
Wed. Afternoon
Funeral services will be/held j
in the Cedar Grove Methodist!
Church Friday at 2 p.m for James j
Edward Fowler, 80, who died of I
pneunomia Wednesday afternoon
about 5 o’clock at the home of his
son. Sol Fowler, near Alamo. The
Rev. Lennie Grimes will officiate,
and burial will be the church |
cemetery with Harris & Smith [
Funeral Home in charge of ar
rangements.
Grandsons will serve as pall
bearers.
Mr. Fowler was born in South
Carolina on August 2, 1880.
Survivors include five sons;!
Truett Fowler, of Fitzgerald; Sol i
Elisha, Otis and Hubert Fowler,
all of Alamo R-l; two daughters,!
Mrs. A. J. Abbott, of Alamo and i
Mrs. Richard Livingston, of Moul-1
trie; 23 grandchildren; 23 great-'
grandchildren; one brother, Jul
ius Fowler, of Douglas and a half
brother, Ottis Fowler, of East
man.
Georgia's Expanding Wood-Using
Industries Need More Trees Grown
You can live in town and still
grow trees to help supply Geor
gia’s expanding wood-using in
dustries.
With more and more people de
serting the farm and moving into
towns and cities because of the
high costs of farm operations, the
lure of industrial payrolls and
other reasons, many acres of land
in Georgia are now idle.
But if you are a landowner who
no longer lives in the rural area,
you can still put those idle acres
to work by contacting your coun
ty forest ranger.
The ranger, as well as the coun
ty agent and officials of other
agricultural agencies, are prepar
ed to help you plan a reforestation
program.
They will aid in site prepa
ration. They will help you choose
the right specie. They will as
sist in ordering your seedlings
from the nursery. They will ar-
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1961
ston scored 32 for the losers.
Friday Night
Friday night, the Bulldogs lost
two games to Dexter. The girls
score was 71-63. Glenda Hartley
scored 27 points for the Bulldogs,
iand Miss Bai.-on was high for
। Dexter.
The Dexter boys defeated
Wheeler with a score of 44-42.
Jimmy White scored 16 points for
the Bulldogs and Dixon was high
| for Dexter with 13 points.
James A. Clark
Assumes Duties On
USS Independence
James A. Clark, A.N. 523-47-
197, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
! Clark of Alamo has assumed his
| new duties aboard the U. S. S.
I Independence, having been trans
ferred originally from Pensacola,
Florida, byway of Norfolk, Va.
He has visited Newfoundland,
Madrid, Spain, Port Lyauty, Afri-
I ca Barcelona Spain. Norfolk, Va.
I is now his home port.
James wife, Nancy, has ac
cepted her former job in Kansas
City, Mo., and will join him on
his return to the states.
To The Voters Os
I Erick District
I wish to thank the voters of
! the Erick District for your sup
; port in the recent election as a
member of the Wheeler County
Board of Education.
I will perform my duties to the
best of my ability to the county
and our school district.
S. Ashley Clark
range for a contractor to plant
your trees by mechanical means.
In the year to come, they will
advise you on the proper manage
ment of your, growing forest.
The Georgia Forestry Commis
sion, which maintains six modern
forest tree nurseries, still has
several million seedlings avail
able. They are top quality, di
sease-free plants.
The landowner can, of course,
go directly to one of the nurseries
to pick up his order, but if he
is too pressed for time to handle
the details, the ranger or one of
the other agents will make all
the arrangements.
Whether you are a landowner
who live away from or you still
live on your land, now is the time
to investigate the possibility of
making those abandoned fields,
cut-over forest and slopes produc
tive through reforestation.
GA. MOVES CLOSER;
TOWARD CURBING
DRAG RACE GAME
Georgia has moved a step closer j
toward breaking up the deadly!
game of drag racing on public!
roads.
The Georgia House of Repre-!
sentatives, just before the Legis-1
lature recessed for two weeks
passed without opposition a bill
making it a felony to drag race on
public thoroughfares. The vote '
was 111-0. It now goes to the Sen-1
ate for action.
Dooly County Rep. Tom Sang- j
ster, author of the bill, appealed
for enactment to “help put a stop j
to the senseless, homicidal slaugh
ter upon the streets and roads of j
Georgia by those who would re-1
। move motor vehicle from the
realm of pure transportation and
convert it into a weapon of death
and destruction.”
Sangster said the bill has
| “teeth” in it and would be an ef
fective deterrent against drag j
racers.
The measure provides a one-to-1
five-year prison penalty for per
sons convicted of illegal racing
on the highways, and its also pro-1
vides prison terms for passengers I
in a drag race and for persons who
' contribute to a drag race.
In short, the bill covers anyone i
i who participates in a drag race
| on a public road “in any manner
whatsoever. The measurse also
provides for suspension of a driv-;
er’s license of any convicted vio- '
lator of the law.
During a six-month period last
year there were eleven document-J
ed drag race deaths on Goergia’s
public roads. Public Safety De
partment officials estimated at
j least nine others were kill-|
I ed in drag race accidents where I
j avilable evidence could not pos
j tively document the cause. Eight
i of the eleven documented cases of
! fatalities involvel innocent per-1
: sons, records show. ;
' Rural Development
Committee Organized
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By Shirley Harris
The various Wheeler County |
organizations are joining forces
to improve the county situation.'
This group is organized as the
Wheeler County Rural Develop-1
ment Committee. It is one of the ■
committees which comes under
the Wheeler County Program De
velopment Board.
Prior to this year the Wheeler
County Farm and Home Program ■
which only included problems of
' farm families has been set up. |
1 This year it has been changed to
| include the entire county and I
I therefore is titled, “Wheeler.
County Program Development
Board.” Committees named under
this board are: Rural Develop-
I ment, Agronomy, Livestock, Soil
j and Water, Food and Nutrition,
i Home Improvement, Home Beau-'
tification and Youth.
Friday night, February 3, the
Rural Development Committee
met and organized. Mr. Dewitt
Harrell, Extension Rural Develop
ment Agent, was guest speaker.
He explained to the group the
purpose of this committee.
Problems discussed in “round
table” form were on the need
for income for small farm opera
tors (especially men workers),
closer cooperation of everyone
and a better understanding of
education, recreation facilities, re
ligion, health and community
improvement. By working closely ,
and helping each other with aris
ing problems this commitee will
be an asset to the entire county.
Mr. R. E. Tuten is chairman of:
the Rural Development Commit
tee and Mr. M. K. Jackson is Exe
cutive Secretary.
The committee has agreed to
assemble within a month to draw:
up definite plans for future work. |
Those attending this month’s
meetings were as follows:
Rev. Jim Gunter, R. E. Tuten, ;
Mr. and Mrs.. Z. O. Thomas, Mrs.:
W. J. Ryals, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert,
Tuten, Mrs. Mary Dixon, Mr.:
John Mcßae Clements, Mr. D. L.
Griffin, Mr. Henry Davis, Mr. L.!
M. Achord, Mr. J. F. Hattaway,:
Mr. Horace Davis, Mr. Herman,
Langley, Mr. Paul Butts, Mr. Ed.
Richardson, Mr. J. N. Johnson, i
Rev. Harold Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. ■
M. K. Jackson, Mr. G. M. Joiner, :
Mr. Harvey Kent, Mr. Harvey
Manley and Miss Shirley Harris.
Please do not ask for credit ,
We don’t have enough money
Homer Boggus To Be
Honored With
Autograph Tea
i An autograph tea honoring
' Homer Boggus, author of “Tears
'Of Joy,” will be given Sunday,
i Feb. 12, from 3 until 5 p.m. at
! the Glenwood Methodist Church.
Mrs. C. A. Austin of Vidalia,
I noted book reviewer, will discuss
scenes from the book at 3:30 and
4:30 p.m.
“Tears Os Joy,” an interesting
j story of South Georgia soon after
j the Civil War, was released last
| November by Vantage Press, Inc.
of New York City.
Boggus is a native Georgian,
iHe was born in Heard County,
j educated in Savannah, and now
: resides in Fitzgerald. His wife is
| the former Margaret Browning of
i Glenwood.
Two Wheeler County men are
I included in the dedication of the
j book. The late Jacob A. Brown
■ ing, father-in-law of Boggus, and
I the late J. P. (Pat) Morrison,
! uncle of the author, helped him
! a great deal with the historical
; background of the book.
I The tea is being sponsored by
' the Glenwood Book and Garden
Clubs and the Alamo Garden
! Club. The public is invited to at
: tend.
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Cooking Queen And
District Queens To
Be Selected Soon
Georgia’s Third Cooking Queen
and six District Queens will be
' selected later this year, according
i te Shirley Harris, Wheeler County
i Home Demonstration Agent.
I Deadline for entries to the Geor
: gia Poultry Federation is March
1.
| Entry forms may be obtained
‘ by concacting Miss Harris at the
■ County Courthouse. The contest
!is open to all homemakers, 18
j years of age or older, except em
! ployed Home Economists.
! Preliminary judging will be
' during March with six finalists
j appearing in the South central
District Cook-off in Douglas in
April. The District Cooking
: Queen will compete in state
1 finals in Atlanta on June 8-9.
For her prize, the District
I Queen will choose a 9-cubic foot
! refrigerator or 30-inch range. The
i second and third place winners
; at the district contest will receive
■ a roaster and mixer. The State
Queen may select a 14-cubic foot
center-drawer refrigerator or
1 double-oven range.
One hundred dollars will
I be awarded the county which has
i the most entries sent in tto
i Gainesville.
Proleci Your Colton History Acreage
And Allotment For 1962
;l In order for farmers to protect
, i their 1962 cotton history acreage
: and allotment there are certain
things they will have to do in
'the year 1961, according to John
:F. Bradley, Administrative Of
' ficer of the Agricultural Stazili
zation and Conservation State Of
fice.
Farm cotton allotments will be
: reduced where the farmer fails
to plant at least 75% of his al
. lotment or where he fails to re
■ lease his allotment in 1961 to the
ASC County Committee. For
1 farmers who plan to plant their
' allotment, no action is needed.
However, where the farmer
knows that he will not plant 75
. percent of his allotment, he can
; help himself and at the same time
. help other farmers in the county
by releasing this allotment for re
apportionment. If the cotton al
। lotment is released to the county
I committee, this preserves not
I only the individual farmer’s 1961
planting history, but the plant
ling history of the county and the
State. This prevents loss of al-
I lotment t o individual counties
and to the State of Georgia.
Bradley urged farmers who
(know now that they are not go
iing to plant their allotment in
11961 to visit the local ASC county I
I office and preserve their history,
! by releasing their allotment for:
' use by other farmers within the I
: county. The deadline date b y
! which the County Committee may
accept this released acreage is
March 10, 1961.
, Cotton Farmers must meet cer
tain requirements in 1961 in or-
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Employers Fill 120,000 Jobs Through
Stale Employment Service, Huiet
Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet reported to the Georgia
General Assembly here today
that the local office of the Geor
gia State Employment Service
serving this area helped to fill
120,474 non-farm jobs in the state
during 1960.
“These jobs range from the pro
fessions through highly qualified
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Prince Preston
Dies In Hospital
In Savannah Wed.
Former Congressman Prince
Preston died in Memorial Hospital
Wednesday of cancer.
Preston, 52, of Statesboro, was
elected to Congress from the First
District in 1946. He was defeat
ed in the Democratic primary last
September by Elliott Hagan of
Sylvania.
Cross-Road H. D C .
The Wheeler County Cross-
Roads Home Demonstration club
met Tuesday afternoon, January
31, at the home of Mrs. George
Coleman. Miss Shirley Harris
gave the devotional.
As this was the first club meet
ing of the year it was a business
meeting devoted to the naming
of project chairmen and other
business of the club. The next
meeting will be at the home of
Mrs. Emmet Gillis and will be
style revue where the ladies are
asked to model dresses of then
making.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing Mrs. Coleman assisted by
Janice served Coca-Colas, sand
wiches and crackers.
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. der to fully protect the allotment
■I for their farms in 1962. These re
i quirements are:
i 1. Plant at least 75 percent of
i the 1961 allotment,
or
2. Release at least 75 percent
of the 1961 allotment to the ASC
County Committee by March 10,
: 1961,
’ 3. Acreage planted plus acre-
age released be at least 75 percent
of the 1961 allotment
or
4. If the entire allotment was
released in both 1959 and 1960,
some cotton must actually be
planted in 1961 to protect the
farm allotment in 1962.
Acreage in the Conservation
Reserve Program of the Soil Bank
at the regular rate will be con
sidered as land planted to llot
ment crops for the purpose of
meeting the above requirements.
Bradley stressed that if farmers
do not meet these requirements
their cotton allotment will be sub
ject to reduction of up to 50 per
cent in 1962.
Each ASC County Committee
will complete the reapportion
ment of released cotton allotments
available in their county to other
I farms in the county by March 24,
, 1961, and mail allotment notices
: to the operator immediatelythere
' after.
Cotton farmers are cautioned to
I see the ASC county office if they
do not plan to plant cotten in 1961.
Otherwise the farm’s, the coun
: ty’s, and the State’s history acre
age may be affected.
technicians, as well as service and
unskilled jobs. Over 100 place
ments were made in professional
and managerial positions each
j month,” Commissioner Huiet staL
led.
November. 1960, average hourly
wage of factory production work
ers was $1.65 as compared to $1.61
for December, 1959. Non-farm
employment stayed above one
million throughout the entire cal
endar year. The high came ia
April with 1,026,300; the low in
March was 1,010,100.
The Department of Labor's.
State Employment Service office
serving this county is located at
North Franklin Street in Dublin.
It also serves Laurens, Bleckley;
Dodge, Johnson, Montgomery,
Telfair, Toombs, .gnd Truetlew
counties.
This office, managed by Henry
W. Thompson, Jr., assisted em
ployers of the area in filling 2,-
437 non-farm jobs in 1960. During
the same time, farmers hired
through the local office workers
to fill 9^944 farm jobs. Farm place
ments for the year totaled 146„-
| 075.
Job insurance payments totaled
$30,446,745, which is $8,496,888
less than the peak year of 1958
In addition, the Georgia Depart
ment of Labor supervised the
payment of $2,125,008 in federal
1 funds t o unemployed federal
workers, ex-servicemen, and vet-,
erans.
“Employers filed claims for
249,198 weeks of partial unem
ployment during which they could
not furnish full-time work,
though the claimants did retain
a job attachment. January I, 1961„
found the job insurance trust
fund at over $143,430,000, almost
three-fourths of a million dollars
higher than a year ago. It appears
the fund is adequate to meet any
foreseebale unemployment emer
gencies,” Huiet asserted.
In 1960, $19,545.00 in job in
surance was paid to unemployed
workers in Wheeler County. At
present there are 53 unemployed
worker getting job insurance on
claims filed in this county.
“Georgia’s non-farm employ
ment has stayed consistently
above one million sinee
hitting that mark in May 19691
Our economy is basically sound
Job insurance absorbs the shack
of most of our non-farm worker*
who become unemployed through
no fault of their own since over
75% of these workers are covered
by the job insurance program.
“The indications are that 1962
will see a reversal of the reces
sionary trend which started last
year, and as your Commisskmer
of Labor I believe we can look
forward to greater numbers of
wage earners in Georgia ths*
year,” Commissioner Huiet con
cluded. ■
P.T.A Meets Thursday
In School Cafetorium
The Wheeler County High
School P.T.A had a very suc
cessful program on Thursday,
February 2 honoring the P.TJL
Founders, Alice McLellan Birney
and Phobe Hearst. This was P.-
T.A.’s 64th. birthday.
A skit entitled “A House Ta
Live In” was prepared by Mis
Colleen Smith and Mrs. L. M.
Pope, the two fifth grade teach
ers. The characters were 20 child
ren from the sth. grade. Nar
rator was Sarah Montford. This
skit revealed different needs in
the right sort of home and school
where children are reared.
Mrs. John Carroll read tho
scripture and G. W.| Lancastw
prayed. Mrs. Raymond Chauncey
led the singing.
Former P.T.A Presidents and
other visiting celebrities were pre*-
sented corsages and boutonnieres
Mrs. G. W. Lancaster’s Found
ers Day display was an inspira
tion to all.
A collection of $13.29 win ho
sent to the State P.T.A to he^
carry on extensive work.
The hospitality committee head
ed by Mrs. V. A. Sikes and Mnc
Ruby McAlum made everyone
happy by serving delicious hot
chocolate and cup cakes, the lat
ter frosted in yellow icing with
letters P.T.A in blue on earl
cake, blue and yellow being the
P.T.A. colors.
The fifth, tenth and twelfth
grades won attendance awards
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