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VOLUME 46.
Wheeler County
Panthers Win Class
B State Champs
The Wheeler County Panthers
were like the strong Egyptian
Pyramids against the mighty
winds; although they were rock
ed at times but they stood fast
and came out victorious as State
Champs for class B, which is
the first time in history.
Our hats are off to the coach
ing staff as well as the players.
The Panthers defeated Rockmart
Friday 37-49. They plaed Ocilla
for the State Championship Sat
urday and defeated them 38-40.
Fans lets give the Panthers a
hand. Hooray for? the Panthers!!
Miss J. M. Wright and J. W.
Graham. Coaches.
Atlanta Journal
Sponsoring County
Wide Spelling Bee
A county-wide Spelling Bee
will be held in Wheeler County,
sponsored by The Atlanta Jour
nal, W. H. Kent, County School
Superintendent, announced to
day.
Each school in the county will
pick their contestant, and hold
contests in their respective
schools on March 17. Winners
from each school in the county
will meet at the Wheeler Coun
ty High School in Alamo for the
official County Bee. Judges will
be principals of participating
schools.
The winner will receive a
$25.00 Savings Bond and repre
sent Wheeler County in the Dis
trict meeting to be held at Geor
gia Southern College in States
boro on April 18.
National 4-H Club
Week 1961
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE OF GEORGIA
Proclamation
BY THE GOVERNOR:
WHEREAS: Georgia’s 146,396
members of 4-H Clubs are observ
ing National 4-H Club Week,
March 4-11, 1961; and
WHEREAS: The 4-H Clubs
compose Georgia’s largest youth
organization and its purpose is
to give equal training to the
Head, Heart, Hands and Health,
being conducted by the Univer
sity of Georgia College of Agri
culture Extension Service through
the County Agricultural Agents
and Home Demonstration Agents
along with the help of 13,130 local
volunteer 4-H leaders who are
leading men and women in the
local community; and
WHEREAS: Georgia’s 4-H Club
members, working with over
441,539 projects, apply the latest
farming and homemaking infor
mation in these fields, keeping
records, arranging displays and
giving educational demonstrations
to pass this information to others;
and
WHEREAS: The leadership
and citizenship training w’hich
4-H Club members receive in
this program is a valuable asset
to our Democratic way of life;
now
THEREFORE: I, S. Ernest Van
diver, Governor of Georgia, do
hereby proclaim March 4-11, 1961,
as “National 4-H Club Week” in
Georgia, and urge all of our
people to support and encourage
the work of this organization that
has as its motto “To Make The
Best Better,”
In Witness Whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the Seal of the Executive De
partment to be affixed. This 14
day of February, 1961.
S. Ernest Vandiver,
Governor
Wheeler County
Library Now Open
To Public
The Wheeler County Library
has reopened in the building
formerly known as the Palmer
Furniture Company. A few becks
are on hand and more are ex
pected in the future.
All who have books belonging
to the library which were bor
rowed before the fire are asked
to please bring them in as early
as possible.
The librafy will be open on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wheeler County Eagle
For three days next week, Georgia again will have two
Governors in the State Capitol. Here Governor Ernest
Vandiver confers with his junior counterpart,. Youth
Governor Johnny Bargeron, of Wrens, executive head
of the Sixteenth State Y.M.C.A Youth Assembly, which
will be in session March 16, 17, and 18. With 874 Hi-Y and
Tri-Hi Y leaders already registered, Johnny will lead the
largest Assembly since its inception in 1946.
County Commissioner Secures
Services Os Prominent Doctor
Commissioner Wallace Adams
has secured Dr. H. D. Smith of
Mount Vernon, to be in the
county one afternoon each week
to render the services to the peo
ple of the county that was for
merly handled by tjhe Health
Department.
This has been done in response
to the Grand Jury recommenda
tions of the February term of
Court.
Dr. Smith will be in Alamo two
afternoon and in Glenwood two
afternoons each montn.
His schedule is as follows:
Wednesday, March 15—Welfare
Office Building, Alamo.
Wednesday, March 22 — City
Hall, Glenwood.
Wednesday, March 29—Welfare
Office Building, Alamo.
Wednesday, April s—City Hall,
Glenwood.
This schedule will be followed
each month thereafter. The hours
Nation! 4-H Club
Week March 4-11
National 4-H Club Week,,
March 4 to 11, is being observed
by about 5000 youths in Wheeler
and surrounding counties. The
young people, 10 to 21 years old,
are among the 2,302,000 4-H’ers of
America who belong to some 94,-
200 clubs in rural, urban, and
suburban communities.
Georgia has an enrollment of
146,396. Wheeler County has 432
members. This year’s continuing
theme for the Head, Heart,
Hands, and Health group is to
“Learn - Live - Serve Through
4-H.” Among the special 4-H
Week activities planned for
Wheeler County will be special
4-H Sunday programs in several
of the churches.
The Week is being highlighted
nationally in Washington, D. C.
by a team of six 4-H members,
representing 4-H’ers everywhere,
who will give the annual “4-H
Report to the Nation.” The 'de
port will review in story and
pictures outstanding 4-H Achieve
ments and current projects. While
in the Nation’s Capitol, the three
girls and boys will visit the
White House, meet several mem
bers of Congress, high Govern
ment officials, and other national
leaders. After a short stay in
Washington, they expect to go
to New Yorfk and perhaps else
where to meet with other 4-H
friends.
Club members everywhere
share honors with the 302,500
men and women who serve as
unpaid volunteer leaders, and
guide 4-H work in local com
munities throughout the 50 states
and Puerto Rico. Among purposes
of 4-H Club Week are: To ac
quaint more young people with
opportunities open to them
through joining or forming 4-H
Clubs, to increase public under
standing of 4-H aims and accom
plishments, and to express ap
preciation to the many friends
of 4-H who support the “'Learn by
doing” program of character de
velopment and good citizenship.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961
will be from 12:30 until 2:30 p.m.
each Wednesday, All citizens of
the county who need these serv
| ices are urged to keep the above
I schedule in mind and meet Do
i tor Smith in Alamo or Glenwood.
Local Board No. 157
Wheeler County
Alamo, Georgia
j The Selective Service Board
No. 157, Wheeler County, is lo
cated in the Alamo City Hall.
The Local Board Office is open
on Monday and Tuesday each
week ik|om 8:00 a.m until 5 p.m.
Every male person of the Unit
ed States is required to Register
with a Selective Service Board
within 5 days after he reaches his
18th birthday.
New Truck Law
Explained Here
Murray A. Chappell, Director,
Motor Vehicle License Unit, an
nounced today that a representa
tive of the Tag Department will
be in the Wheeler County tag
agent's office on Maiich 20 at 2
o’clock, fcr the purpose of ex
i plaining the new truck register
j ing law to all truck owners of
I this county.
T. A. Morrison, tag agent, ask
। ed that all truck owners see this
i representative since the new bill
I is based on the total gross weight,
i including the weight of truck
। plus load, instead of the old
| method of the pulling tonnage of
! the tatuck.
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Rev. Billy Key
The Glendwood Methodist
' Chuthh will have a revival, dur
-1 ing the week of March 12-17,
j with both morning and evening
i services.
The morning services will be at
i 10:00 a.m. and the evening serv
i ices will be at 7:00 p.m.
The Rev. Billy Key, pastor of
| the Waynesboro Methodist
I Church will be the visiting evan
! gelist. Rev. Key is a widely
■ sought minister by the churches
; throughout the South Georgia
: Conference. Throughout his mini
stry he has done outstanding
work.
The public is invited to attend.
Wheeler County
Grain Survey
Scheduled
A survey of all farms in Wheel- i
er County which produce feed 1
grains will get underway in the 1
next day or so, according to J. i
O. Perdue, chairman of the Wheel- j
er County ASC Committee.
The survey is to be conductedl
throughout the “major feed grain;
producing areas,” which includes ‘
Wheeler County, as an advance;
step in connection with proposed :
feed grain programs now under I
discussion. The proposal would!
include adjusting the 1961 acre-!
age of corn and other feed grains. I
To put such a program into op
eration for 1961 crops in a man-!
ner which would be fair to all;
growers, accurate data must be |
obtained immediately for the pos- i
sible establishment of feed grain i
base acreage for all farms in the
major feed grain producing areas.
Such information will include the ■
acreage history of corn, grain J
sorghum, barley and oats, as welll
as the acreage devoted to other
crops and land uses, for all farms;
in the area where one or more i
of these feed grains were pro- 1
duced within the past two years.'
In othef counties, called “mi-;
nor” feed grain producing area, :
such data will be obtained for!
each feed grain producing farm
for which a request is made by
the owner or operator of the •
farm.
Mr. Perdue stated that each I
farm operator or owner who pro- ’
duced feed grain in 1959 should
go to the county ASC office by
March 10 and sign a “Feed
Grain Acreage Report.”
District PT A Slate
Named In Mcßae
Mrs. Frank L. Zeigler cf Vi
j dalia was elected to a full term
■ as director for the Sixth District
! Division, ^Georgia Congress of
j Parents and Teachers, at the
I Spring Conference here Wednes
: day.
I She presently is serving an
I unexpired term of Mrs. Zender
! Dean of Warner Robins.
Mrs. Leigh B. Humphrey, also
i of Vidalia, was re-elected secre
l tary.
More than 60 members from
। throughout the district division
I gathered at Mcßae Methodist
! Church to hear Mrs. Ralph Hobbs,
of Columbus, state mental health
chairman, emphasize the PTA’s
| platform — interest i n better
; homes and betted education for
, all children.
| Mrs. Griffin Mizell of Mcßae
I was chairman of the committee
; in charge of local arrangements.
'Working with hed were Mrs.;
'Jack McGinty, Mrs. J. C. Maloy
: Jr., and Mrs. E. P. Gillespie.
Julian Raburn, Telfair County:
I agent is president of the Mcßae-.
i Helena PT A, which was host
! to the meeting.
Included in the Sixth District ;
Division are counties of Telfair,;
Toombs, Wilkinson, Laurens, ;
Houston, Wheeler and Twiggs.
j Mrs. G. W. Lancaster of Ala- ;
mo inrtoduced Mrs. Hobbs.
Mrs. Cherry Yancey
Dies Wednesday
After Long Illness
Funeral services were held
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. from the
Mt. Olivet Methodist Church for
Mrs. Cherry Selph Yancey, 70, of
Helena R-l, who died at the home
of her granddaughter Mrs. Bob
by Cox in Alamo Wednesday
after a long illness. The Rev.
Earl E. Hart and the Rev. Ray
mond Chauncey officiated, and
burial was in the church ceme
tery with Harris & Smith Funer
al Home in charge of arrange
ments.
Mrs. Yancey was born in
Wheeler County on September
13, 1890, the daughter of J. E.
and Mary Clark Selph. She was
first married to Jim Bentley and
her second marriage was to Jim
Yancey. She was a member of
Mt. Olivet Methodist Church.
She is survived by one son, J
C. Bentley; five grandchildren;
Mrs. Bobby Cox, of Alamo; Mrs.
Opal Cooper, of Mcßae; Miss
Ruth Bentley and Jimmy Bentley,
of Helena, and Freddie Bentley,
of Mcßae; one sister, Mrs. S, S.
LaFavor and three brothers,
John Henry Selph, Sammy Selph
and Reesy Selph, all of Wheeler
County.
Lone Bandit Hits
College Box Office
A gunman held up the box
I office at the Georgia Southern
■College gymnasium, Statesboro
i Saturday night and got away
। with about SSOO while spectators
! watched the finals of the state
। junior college basketball tourna
j ment.
Pat Yeager, physical education
; instructor at Georgia Southern,
■ was manning the box office, and;
ihe described the gunman as ’
। about 35, five feet six inches, i
1 weighing 165-175 pounds, and
I wearing a blue and white check
ered jacket with a brown hunting
!cap. He had a .45 automatic pis
; tol.
This description tallied closely
I with the description of a bandit
i who had held up the Pic-N-Pay
Market in the Bacon Park Shop
i ping Center at Savannah Wed
| nesday night and got away with
I about S3OO.
Bulloch County and Statesboro
■ police officers were making an
■ investigation and seeking the
; bandit, who was said to have
| fled in a late model green car.
' State Highway Patrol units in all
| southeast Georgia were alerted to
jbe on the lookout for the gun
| man, and it was reported that all
; late model green cars were being!
; stopped in an attempt to appre
•hend him.
Emergency VA
Hospital Cases
Explained
Georgia Veterans Service Di
rector Pete Wheeler says inquir
ies are frequently made about
quickly admitting a veteran to a
VA hospital in a medical emer-
I gency.
I The best way, he says, to
! place a seriously ill veteran in
,!a VA hospital is for the veter
j an’s private doctor to telephone
I the hosiptal’s admitting doctor
। and discuss his conidtion.
I “This procedure insures the
I fastest possible action,” Wheeler
j commented, adding that the Vet
erans Service Department will
I assist veterans seeking admit
। tances in both emergency and
1 routine cases.
| Wheeler also reports that a
' veteran with a nonservice-con
i nected condition may now re-
I ceive outpationet treatment if he
is scheduled for admission or al-
• ready a patient in a VA hos
। pital.
VA outpatient care for non
|service veterans was recently ex
l tended to provide them pre-hos-
I pital and post-hospital services.
Wheeler says laboratory and x
!ray examiniations will be includ
ied, along with ether before-and
; after hospital treatment, without
; actually placing these veterans in
I a bed.
/ XsAn Wl P We're glad to join in celebrat-
II / L/l -X/ ing National 4-H Club Week.
U\ J w XT And it is with pride we salute
FA \ \ 4-H girls and boys and leaders
r'V Z \ 1 our s ^ a ^e along with the
p Lt\ V> ' \ two million members and 400
-x i \ \ thousand volunteer leaders in
“J q // | other 49 states.
Lions Club Sponsoring The
Ocmulgee Fat Cattle Show March 17
The Ocmulgee Fat Cattle Show
and sale will be held at the
Milan Livestock barn on March
17th. The showing of the steers
will begin at ten o’clock and the
sale will be held at 2:30. The
boys are grooming and fitting
their steers for the show and are
looking forward to participating.
All farmers are invited to bring
their cattle they are feeding out
on this same date.
E. H. Cheek, teacher' of ag
riculture at the Perry High
School will judge the show. Mr.
Cheek has been teaching Voca
tional Agriculture for twenty
five years. His boys have done
an outstanding job through the
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Telfair Woman Held Aller Male's
Body Found Buried In Roadside Park
The Macon Telegraph
DUBLIN — A crude, shallow
grave back of a roadside park
yielded the body of a 61-year-old
Virginian and his wife has ad
mitted shooting him and driving
to Georgia with the body in the
car trunk, officers reported Tues
day.
The body was clad only in
iL wk
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Chip Bell
Chip Bell, a junior at Telfair
Co. High, is a candidate for the
office of Youth Governor at the
Sixteenth State Y.M.C.A Youth
Assembly, which meets March 16,
17, and 18 at the State Capitol
in Atlanta.
Chip is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray U. Bell of Alamo. He has
been an outstanding leader in
the Mcßae school and community.
He has served as vice president
and world service chairman of his
Hi-Y Club, and is a member of
the glee club, the church choir,
and assistant editor of the school
paper, the Trojan.
Some 48 leaders of Hi-Y and
l^i-Hi Y Clubs throughout the
state will venture into politics
during the three day session as
they campaign for the 13 elective
offices in next year’s Youth Leg
islature.
Paralleling the operation of the
General Assembly, the Youth
Assembly gives young people a
practical experience in govern
ment. The theme for the 1960
Assembly is “Liberty Must Be
Earned by Every Generation.”
David Clements
Honored At Georgia
David Clements, son of Mr. and
Mds. Johnnie Clements, has been
elected treasurer of the Wesley
Foundation at the University of
Georgia for the next year.
The Wesley Foundation is the
Methodist students organization.
It is maintained at seven state
colleges.
years in fitting and showing cat
tle at Blakely and Perry High
schools. Mr. Cheek has had a
. lot of experience with the beef
j cattle enterprise and the spon
। sors are looking forward to hav
: i ing him judg the show.
This show is being sponsored by
’ the Milan Lions Club. And is
;! only one of the many worthwhile
. i activities sponsored in the Milan
I community by this group. Jack
Wetherington, cahier of the Bank
1 of Milan is chairman of the Fi
' nace committee for the show.
The Milan FFA Chapter is
.; showing ten calves in the Oc
: j mulgee Fat Cattle Show.
NUMBER 47
long underwear.
The dead man was identified,
by Dinwiddie County, Va. Sher
iff A. Hill Burton as John W,
Gaul. He said Mrs. Flonnie Mae
Gaul, 56, also of Dinwiddie coun
ty, but form er ly of Jacksonville,
has admitted the crime.
Mrs. Gaul was born and
reared in Telfair County and i®
the former Miss Flonnie Mae Ed
monson, the sheriff said. She was
being held without bond in the
Petersburg, Va., jail on a mur
der charge.
Sheriff Burton said the Gaul®
had a series of domestic diffi
culties, but he added that “of
my own knowledge she has not.
said exactly why she killed her
husband.”
A preliminary hearing is.
scheduled in Dinwiddie County
next Monday.
Shot February 26
Mrs. Gaul shot her husband in
the back with a .38 caliber pistol
last Feb. 26 as he sat in the of
fice of a motel the couple oper
ated four miles from Petersburg,
the sheriff said. At least two shots
were fired, but apparently only
one struck Gaul, piercing hij
heart and lodging just under tha
skin in his chest.
A neighbor, whom Sheriff Bur
ton identified only as a Minis. Av
ery, helped Mrs. Gaul put her
husband’s body, wrapped in a
sheet, in the back of. their Cadil
lac, according to the sheriff.
Sheriff Burton quoted Mrs
Gaul as saying her husband had
slapped her during an argument
and she went to Mrs. Avetty’s,
borrowed her gun and came back
and shot her husband.
Mrs. Gaul then drove to Tel
fair County with her husband’s
body in the car trunk and spent
the night. The next day she drova
six and a half miles beyond
Dublin on the Wrightsville High
way and buried her husband in
Iqdoad daylight at the rear of a
roadside park.
Dinwiddie Deputy Sheriff W.
A, Caudle quoted the woman as
saying she had “a right hard
tussle” getting the body out of
the car trunk but finally manag
ed to make it.
Sheriff Zollie Compton of Jef
ferson County and a deputy, Jack
Hodges, turned up the gruesome
find Monday night about 300
yards from a wayside park be
tween Wrens and Mcßae.
Sheriff Compton said he pre
viously had talked with the Vir
ginia sheriff and had heard two
versions of Mrs. Gaul’s story
about where she disposed of her
husband’s body.
Body Found
With Deputy Hodges, Sherif!
Compton checked the roadside
near a park she mentioned in one
story, found some fresh earth
covqded with brush, and then
found the body. The Jefferson
sheriff said he radioed Laurens
Sheriff W. R. (Rock) BusseH and
GBI Agent Henry Walden who.
arrived at the scene later, and
also contacted Sheriff Burton
who was on his way back to Vir
ginia.
Mrs. Gaul couldn’t remember
exactly where she had disposed
of her husband’s body.
Sheriff Burton, Deputy Caudle
and Trooper M. L. Duke of the
Virginia State Police had been
in Mcßae since Sunday nighty
looking for the grave.
The case was broken, Sheriff
Burton said, after Mrs. Gaul told
a daughter!, Mrs. Lelio Padgett of
Alexandria, Va., the dead man's
step-daughter, who then called
in police. Mrs. Gaul had called
Mrs. Padgett to ask her to say
that she had been visiting her
last Monday and Tuesday in or
der to establish an alibi and later
revealed to her the crime.
Dr. Larry B. Howard, assis
tant dihector of the State Crime
Laboratory in Atlanta, flew here
to conduct the autopsy, which,
was ordered by Dublin Circuit
Judge Harold E. Ward.
According to Deputy Caudle,
the motel operated by the Gauls
was raided about three years ag®
by Dinwiddie County authorities
and Mrs. Gaul was charged with
operating a house of prostitution
and using cabins for immoral
purposes. She served a 90-day
sentence at the Virginia Women’®
State aFrm at Goochland, Va^
and paid a $250 fine on th®
charge, Deputy Caudle said.