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VOLUME 46.
'Hoi' Wire
Thieves Loose
Something new in the way ol
thieves has been reported in
Wheeler County. Someone has
been stealing electrical service
wires frcm the Little Ocmulgee
Electric Membership Corp.
At least 10 instances where the
wires were stolen have been re
ported to J. R. Chambless, co-op
manager. In three cases the wires
were “hot” even though there
was no meter on the buildings
The fact that some of the “hot”
wires were serving two churches
apparently did not bother the
thief.
Chambless said the culprit evi
dently was familiar with electri
cal work because he had hooks
for climbing poles and knew how
to handle hot wires.
“It i s extremely dangerous
though,” Chambless said, and ad
ded that he knew’ of a man be
ing electrocuted in an attempt to
steal wire.
The stolen wire could be used
by an elctrician for outside wir
ing or sold as scrap copper, he
said.
A SSO reward is being offered
by the co-op for information suf
ficient to convict the thief.
Is American
Famine Possible
By H. L. Davis
This morning at breakfast in
the United States 8,000 more
mouths than yesterday morning
demanded to be fed, as our pop
ulation skyrockets from 180,000,-
000 to double this amount by
2000 A.D. The expanding U. S.
stomach will have an increasing
ly voracious appetite. We are
eating 50% more food today than
20 years ago. We will need anoth
er 50% before your one-year-old
reaches 21.
Each day the United States is
losing over 4,000 acres of non
repiaceable food producing soil
— eroded into uselessness or
buried under concrete and steel
of super highways, sprawling fac
tories and mushrooming suburbs.
Each year we lose 100,000 fami
lies from the farms. Though to
day a fat United States is plagued
with surpluses of certain crops—
Tomorrow, we may be plagued
by hunger. This means fewer
farmers cn less land trying to
feed more people.
This means that you as farm
ers, the producers of food for
these people, must begin to act.
Erosion is worse than the thief
that slips around in the dark. Yet
it is more easily stepped. Many
farmers are yet in the dark. They
think they have no erosion. Ero
sion is going on 24 hours a da}'
on every acre of land. To com
bat this and to keep your farm
in a productive state you must
practice a sound soil and water
conservation program. The time
is past for this season to install
a new terrace system, yet all of
you can contour your rows, plan
a rotation of your crops so as to
put back more than is taken out
of your soil. Corn following corn
is a mighty good rotation pro
vided the stubble is left as long
as possible before turning under.
This holds the soil in place. For
this to be ideal, leave your lit
ter, plant a catch crop on all
your land, and by all means con
sider mulch planting of your
crops in the near future.
Delvis Wayne West
Delvis Wayne West, 3, of Glen
wood, died Saturday at the home
of his grandfather, Albert West,
at Mount Vernon, after an ex
tended illness.
Survivors are the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Delmas West, Glen
wood, a sister, Virginia Ann West,
Glenwood; a borther, Dennis
Wayne West, Glenwcod; the pa
ternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Albert West, Mount Vernon, and
the maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Adel Clark, Thomaston.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bethel
Church by the Rev. Lawrence
Hardy and the Rev. Aaron Sel
lers. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
The body was at the home of
the grandfather, Albert West, at
Mount Vernon until time for
services.
Sammons Funeral Home of
Soperton was in charge.
Wheeler County Eagle
More Power for Georgia
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This artist’s drawing shows how the Georgia Power
Company’s Plant Mitchell near Albany will look
when the scheduled addition of a 125,000-kilowatt
generating unit is completed. The $22-million addi
tional unit (shown as the light-shaded part at the
building’s upper right) will increase the plant’s gen
erating capacity by approximately 300 per cent. The
completed addition will make the South Georgia
installation the fifth most powerful electrical gen
erating plant in the Georgia Power Company’s state
wide system of 29 hydro and steam-electric plants.
Literary Club
Elects Officers
The Library Club of Wheeler
County High School met and
elected the following officers for
the 1961-1962 school year:
President, Cheryl Elton —Vice
President, Jackie McNeal — Sec
retary and Treasurer, Frances
Ryals—Reporter, Sue Winham —
Parliamentarian, Paulette Lan -
dry— Historian, Joan Horne.
Mrs. R. N. Wood Dies
After Long Illness
Funeral services were held in
the Scotland Methodist Church
Monday at 4 p.m. for Mrs. R. N.
Wood, 85, of Wheeler County, the
former Miss Addie Martin, who
died Saturday at the home of
her dauhgter, Mrs. N. A. Mercer
in Lumber City, after a long ill
ness. The Rev. W. A. McClellan
officiated, assisted by the Rev.
Bobby Moye and the Rev. C. A.
Morrison. Burial was in the Scot
land Cemetery with Harris &
Smith Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Mrs. Wocd was born in Wash
ington County on March 17, 1876,
the daughter of G. Newton Mar
tin and Mrs. Eliza Braswell Mar
tin. She was married to Mr.
Wood in 1894, and was a member
of the Scotland Methodist Church.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. N. A. Mercer, and Mrs.
Alma Reagan and three grand
children.
Wheeler County Included In
Highway Improvement Projects
Wheeler County is included in
the highway improvement pro
jects under the first increment
cf bonds of the Vandiver admini
stration highway reconstruction
program.
Highway Board Chairman Jim
L. Gillis says that 126 projects
located in 130 counties are in
cluded in the first S3O million
dollar increment covering a total
of 2,269 miles.
Wheeler County’s share of
work under the first bond incre
ment will consist of 5.5 miles of
widening and resurfacing on U.
S. 441 from U. S. 280 to the
Dodge County line.
Chairman Gillis explained that
bends have not yet been validat
ed and sold, but that it is hoped
that this will be completed in
time to begin letting contracts by
May. The Chairman added that
the projects in the first increment
probably would be split into
three separate contract lettings
in May, June and July.
A total of 1,019.3 miles of Pri
mary, and 1,250 miles of Second
ary highways will be widened,
reconstructed, o r resurfaced
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1961
Robert A. Hartley
Dies Thursday
After Long Illness
Funeral services will be held
this (Friday) afternoon at 3
o’clock from the Alamo Baptist
Church for Robert A. Hartley,
80, highly esteemed resident of
Alamo, with the pastor, the Rev.
Raymond Y. Chauncey, offici
ating.
Mr. Hartley, a well known re
tired farmer, died at his home
Thursday of pneumonia. He had
been in declining health for three
months. He was born in Wash
ington, Ga. on August 13, 1880,
the son of the late George Wash
ington Hartley and Mrs. Celia
Brantley Hartley, and was a
member of the Baptist Church.
He was married to Miss Annie
C. Wommack in January 1901.
Survivors include three sons,
Haywood R. Hartley, of Rich
mond, Va.; Thomas Alvin Hartley
and Robert A. Hartley Jr. of Ala
mo; three daughters, Mrs. Leroy :
Clark, Mrs. A. P. Hopkins and
Mrs. Allincra H. Gilder, of Ala
mo; 15 grandchildren; one sister,’
Mrs. J. H. Cantrell, of Atlanta,
and five brothers, B. H. Hartley,
T. N. Hartley, J. M. Hartley, E.
S. Hartley and C. C. Hartley,
all of Alamo.
Burial was in the Alamo ceme
tery with Harris & Smith Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.'
The future is hidden even from
those who make it.
under the first bond increment,
Mr. Gillis said. He emphasized
that this is only the first bend
increment of the SIOO million
dollar program, and other pro
jects would be forthcoming in
subsequent bond increments.
Joy Evans Wins
Spelling Bee Friday
Joy Evans, eighth grade stu
dent at Wheeler County High
School, made a perfect score and
won the Wheeler County Spelling
Bee Friday.
For spelling the 100-w’ord test
correctly she received a $25 sav
ings bond and the right to repre
sent the county in the district
meet to be held in Statesboro
April 18.
Joy is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Evans. She was run
ner-up in the county spelling con
test last year.
Nathan Jones was runner-up
in the contest this year and rep
resented the Glenwood High
School. Daphene Clark was the
entry from the Union School.
Montgomery County
Wins Girls Class B
State Championship
! Montgomery County Class B
i School won the State Basketball
Girls Championship Tournament
in Macon last week.
Eileen Adams, daughter of Mr.
, and Mrs. A. M. Adams- of Alamo
was selected as the class B girls
tournament’s most valuable play
er.
Adams, playing on a badly
; sprained ankle, led her team to
; the championship with 23 points
in the final game. She led the B
i tourney in scoring with 64 points
j in three games.
Janice Green, daughter of Mrs.
Lynette Fowler Sharpe, of Mt.
j Vernon was hailed as the out
i standing guard to appear in the
meet.
Poultry Cooking
Contestants Range
From 19 To 69
Whether 19 or 69, every wo
man likes to be known as a good
j cook.
j And, that is the range of ages
of the 36 women who have been
| chosen from 1,416 entrants to vie
! for the title of Georgia Cooking
■ Queen for 1961.
j These are the ones who will
i compete in district contests in
April sponsored by the Georgia
। Poultry Federation in co-operation
1 with the University of Georgia
I Cooperative Extension Service
! and the Rural Division of the
Georgia Power Company.
The top cook from each of the
1 j six districts will cook their fa
iorite poultry receipes in Atlanta
lon June 8 and 9- On the night
। of the ninth, the new State Cook
: ing Queen will be crowned by
I Mrs. Jesse Jackson of Mayfield,
i last year’s top cook.
Prizes for district queens will
■include electric refrigerators,
i ranges, roasters and mixers. The
’state queen will have the choice
of a deluxe model refrigerator or
! range. All prizes are presented
jby the Rural Division of the
! Georgia Power Company, accord
ing to Abit Massey, executive di
’ rector of the Poultry Federation.
The number of entrants this
: year was more than seven times
‘ the number last year, Miss Nellie
j Boyd, head of the nutrition de
; partment of the University of
s Georgia Cooperative Extension
i Service, reported. Miss Boyd
Iheaded the panel of judges who
■ selected district contestants, and
: will select district and state win
ners.
Mrs. Gaul Is Indicted
On Murder Charge
DINWIDDIE, Va. — Mrs. Flon
nie Mae Gaul Monday was in
dicted on a charge of murder in
the shooting of her husband.
Circuit J-' ’ge J. Garland Jef
ferson Jr. granted a defense mo
tion to have Mrs. Gaul, 56, com
mitted to a state mental insti
tution for observation.
No trial date was set. The
grand jury returned its true bill
in 40 minutes.
Mrs. Gaul is charged in the
death of John W. Gaul, 61. His
body was found covered lightly
with dirt and tree branches in a
roadside park near Dublin, Ga.
Mrs. Gaul told police she shot
her husband, put his body in the
trunk of their car, and drove to
Georgia.
Mrs. Gaul has been held in cus
tody since her arrest March 5
She waived a preliminary hear
ing in county court on the mur
der charge March 10.
The Gauls, married for about
six years, operated a motor court
on U.S. 1, about six miles south
of Petersburg.
Baptist Cottage
Prayer Meetings
Cottage prayer meeting will be
held next week as follows:
Monday, March 27 — Home of
Mrs. Robbie Murphy.
Tuesday, March 28—Home of
Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Currie.
Wednesday, March 29—Baptist
Church.
Thursday, March 30—Home of
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Joiner.
Friday, March 31 — Home of
Misses Ray Nita Stewart and
Myrtle Braswell, Ailey.
The Port of Savannah for more
than a century has been the naval
stores shipping capitol of the
world.
Georgia Power Co.
To Add To Plant
Mitchell Near Albany
A $22-million generating unit
will be added to the Georgia
Power Company’s Plant Mitchell
near Albany, John McDonough,
company president, announced
this week. The addition will al
most triple the installation’s size
and generating capacity.
Completion of the new 125,000-
kilowatt unit will make the
South Georgia installation the
fifth most powerful electrical
generating station in the Geor
gia Power Company’s state-wide
system of 29 plants.
Presently, Plant Mitchell has
two generating units with a total
capacity of 45,000 kilowatts. The
plant became operational in 1948.
Actual construction of the ad
ditional unit will begin either
late this year or early in 1962.
Engineering studies and design
work for the unit, however, are
currently under way. Approxi
mately $250,000 will be spent on
the project this year. Engineers
have scheduled the unit to go into
service in April, 1964.
“Our decision to enlarge Plant
Mitchell,” Mr. McDonough said,
“was based both on the extra
ordinary past economic growth of
the Southwest Georgia area and
on the anticipated similar growth
in the future. It is the company’s
feeling that we must do more
than merely keep pace with a
region’s growing economy; we
must have the electric power and
facilities ready and waiting for
that expanded economy.”
The new unit, to be added to
the east side of the existing plant,
will be equipped to burn coal.
The coal-handling facilities serv
ing the units in operation will be
expanded to serve the new unit.
The additional unit will be even
more efficient than the present
ones and will operate at a higher
steam pressure and temperature.
Plant Mitchell serves not only
as a source of electric power for
the Southwest Georgia area but
is linked with the Georgia Pow
er’ Company’s state-wide system
of generating stations, which sup
ply nearly 10 billion kilowatt
houn- of electricity annually to
industries, homes, farms and
businesses throughout Georgia.
Plant Mitchell is named in hc-n
--of the late W. E. Mitchell, presi
dent of the Georgia Power Com
pany from May, 1945 to February,
1947.
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Sfeedley demonstrates importance of sharpening hack
; correctly.
Efficiency In Gum
1 Pre duct? on
By: A. G. Sfeedley
U. S. Forest Service
Many factors affect gum yield.
The greatest factor being the size
of trees worked together with
amount of live crown. The man
ner of installing : cups and tins
is very important. Another fac
tor is streaking habits such as
sharpening and keeping the tools
in good working order. Apply
; ing acid to the fresh cut streak
ils anther key to more efficient
| gum production. It takes all these
। factors working together for in
j creased gum yield.
A school was recently held in
three locations in Telfair Coun
| ty. This school was to emphasize
high gum yield factors to both
landownerg and labor; in apply
ing the latest techniques in tur
pentining. Much interest was
shown by 160 people in attend
ance.
The teaching methods employ
ed was to first arouse interest
in good workmanship by discus-
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Chip Bell Elected Youth Govenor Os
17th "Y" Youth Assembly In Atlanta
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Chip Bell
March 16, 17, and 18 were big
days for over 800 “Y” Club
members and the highlight of the
; “Y” year when delegates from
j clubs all over Georgia met in
; Atlanta as senators, representa
tives, and press delegates-. Telfair
Rev. Marcus Jowers
To Conduct
Revival Here
The Rev. Marcus Jowers, pas
: tor of the Hinesville Baptist
; Church, will conduct the spring
revival at the Alamo Baptist
Church beginning Sunday, March
' 26.
The revival will continue
I through March 31 with services
j each day at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The nursery will be open for both
services Sunday and each night
service.
The Rev. Raymond Chauncey,
pastor, invites the public to at
tend.
I Last Day To Buy
Automobile Tags
April 1 is the last day to buy
tags without penalty.
The tax office will be open
I every day until tag season is
‘ over. If ycu work we will be
: glad to let you have your tag at
i your convenience.
I Don’t forget to file for Home-
I stead exemptions.
T. A. Morrison
Tax Commissioner
sing the importance of obtaining
high gum yield. This affects
labor, landowner and local busi
ness by high income from adop
ting good streaking habits. The
second step was to demonstrate
methods that makes for high
gum yield while the learner ob
served closely. The third step was
to have each person perform
while others criticized his work
manship. Much interest was
shown by actively participating
in beth the discussions and per
formance while being criticized
by hig friends. Among the promi
nent landowners who participated
in streaking trees were Dr. C. J.
Maloy, Mrs. Anna Crider and
many others. J. B. Fletcher, local
automobile dealer, realizing a
great many of his sales are made
from turpentine money stopped
by the school and actively cut a
fresh s:reak.
This school was sponsored by
the recently formed Telfair For
estry Group.
This group will be glad to have
any suggestion from anybody
who wishes to advance greater
forestry work in Telfair County.
NUMBER 49
County High School was repre
sented by Chip Bell, Mary Aim.
Hogan, Peggy Marion, Donna.
Owens, and Eddie Taylor. Bar
bara Smith did a fine job as Sec
retary of the Senate.
Youth Assembly convened at
1:00 o’clock o n Thursday..
Throughout the day the dele
gates heard the various bills read,,
amended, and introduced in the
two houses. Among those partici
pating in this Assembly were
Justice T. Grady Head, Justice T.
S. Chandler, Hon. Ben W. Fort
son, Walter R. Thomas, Justice
Carlton Mobley, Hon. Garland 17
Byrd, and P. T. McCutchen. Eu
gene Patterson, editor of the At
lanta Constitution spoke to thei
press delegates. Johnny Bargeron.
Youth Governor for 1960-1961,,
delivered a most inspiring speech.
The Senate and House operated
continuously from 8:30 till 5:30
on Friday. During this time
many bills were passed, lost, or
tabled. Excellent-and often im
promptu-debates were given, and
these were the deciding factors in
many bills. The press representa
tives interviewed Governor Van
diver that morning, and toured:
The Atlanta Journal and Consti
tution offocies that afternoon.
Friday night members attended,
a banquet held at the Shrine
Temple, after which Harlee
Branch, President of the South
ern Georgia Power Company,,
spoke. Each gubernatorial candi
date spoke, also. The Miss At
lanta Show, along with the Geor
gia Tech Quartet, provided
sparkling entertainment — bring
ing a lovely evening to a close.
Youth Assembly convened once
more at 8:30 Saturday morning,
and the remainder of the bills
were debated until 12:30, when a
joint session of the House and
Senate was called. After the
Governor’s report on bills, George-
Boswell of the Atlanta Constitu
tion presented the Best Bill
Awards, one of which Telfair
County High School won from
the southeast district. The covet
ed McCutchen awards for out
standing performance on the Sen
ate and House floors preceded
the announcement of the new
Youth Governor and officers.
After a trying few moments of
suspense, the Telfair High dele
gates were delighted to see Chip
Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. U.
Bell of Alamo, and grandson, of
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Perdue, of
Alamo, march in the position of
Youth Governor of the 17th State
YMCA Youth Assembly—thereat
highlight of a session filled with
highlights.
Five More Areas
To Receive
Federal Funds
Five more Georgia communi
lies will receive federal funds in
preparation of comprehensive
plans for growth development
Jack Minter, director of the
Georgia Department of Com
merce, was notifid today by Sem
ator Herman Talmadge, that the
Urban Renewal Administration
had approved a $16,300 grant to
the Department in aiding Hazle
hurst, Hinesville, Homervißiei
Lavonia and Swainsboro for their
local planning programs.
These five communities thus
join 22 other small and medium
size Georgia cities and counties;
which have had their community
planning programs broadened
and accelerated with over SIOO,-
000 in matching funds secured
from the federal government by
the Georgia Department of Cam-,
merce.
Experienced consultant city
planners, working in close co
operation with the local plan
ning commissions and other
community' officials in these five
cities, will prepare comprehea
sive planning programs aimed al
promoting orderly growth in each
area.
Other communities previously
or presently participating in such
programs, under the derection cd
the Planning Division of the De
partment of Commerce, include:
Albany, Alamo, Americus;
Barnesville, Blakely, Buena Vis
ta, Carrollton, Cordele, Cumming;
Hahira, Harlem, Jackson, Toccoa,
Warner Rebins, Metter, Nashville;
Perry, Thomson, Waycross and
Winder.