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VOLUME 47
Vandiver Signs
Bill Eliminating
Speed Timers
The use of speed timing devices
are now illegal in Georgia towns
and cities.
Gov. Ernest Vandiver signed
into law Thursday a bill outlaw
ing use of the timer devices ex
cept by state officers outside city
limits.
Both houses of the legislature
quickly approved the bill, aimed
at speed traps and, to begin with,
specifically directed at Ludowici.
The small southeast Georgia
town has been criticized by the
American Automobile Association
membership for what is described
as an injudicious use of speed
timers. The AAA had asked its
members using U.S. Highway 301
to bypass Ludowici.
Vandiver asked the AA to no
tify its eight million members
about the new Georgia law.
“We feel that traffic should no
longer re rerouted around our
cities and around our state,” Van
diver said in a telegram to the
AAA headquarters in Washing
ton.
Millions Saved
Under Georgia
Parole System
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Georgia
is saving taxpayers millions of
dollars annually by reducing the
state’s prison population and re
turning offenders to society un
der a supervised probation sys
tem.
Evidence of this is seen in a
report to Gov. Ernest Vandiver
by the State Board of Pardons
and Paroles, whose members also
serve on the State Board of Pro
bation.
The probation system is saving
taxpayers some $5-million a year,
the board said, and it noted that
a constantly rising prison popu
lation has been checked. Geor
gia’s prison population declined
from 10,183 last June 30 to 9,326
as of December 31, 1961. There
now are 10,811 offenders serving
probated sentences.
Cost of probation supervision
is $39.10 a person annually, while
the annual cost of maintaining a
person in prison is $475.
During 1961 the board reviewed
a total of 5,540 cases, of which
1,572 paroles were granted and
3,968 were denied. The previous
year 1,004 paroles were granted;
5,402 were denied, the report
showed.
The board attributed this im
proved over-all picture to its re
cord of paroles granted, coupled
with an increased interest by
judges and solicitors in the pro
bation system.
Members of the pardons-pa
roles and probation boards are
Mrs. Rebecca L. Garrett, chair
man; Hugh C. Carney and Wal
ters O. Brooks. Travis B. Stewart
is director of the Board of Pro
bation.
Proposal Would
Outdo Court On
Rights — Talmadge
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Another
major battle is brewing in the
U.S. Senate over so-called civil
rights. This one is being trig
gered by a bill, sponsored by the
Kennedy administration, which
would prescribe nationwide, stan
dardized literacy tests in federal.
elections.
Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, who
has been up front in previous
battles and will be there when
the first shot is fired in this one,
had this to say about the liberals’
latest attempt at force legisla
tion:
“Senate Bill 2750 is a further
effort to destroy the few remain
ing rights of the states.
“Article 1, Section 2 of the
Constitution of the United States[
makes it unequivocably clear
that the power to determine the
qualifications of voters resides in [
the respective states.
“Even Earl Warren’s Supreme[
Court in the Lassiter case handed
down in 1'959 unanimously up
held this constitutional principle.
“It is inconceivable to me how
anyone would attempt to outdo
the Supreme Court in destroying i
the rights of the states.”
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SOUTHERN'S "BIG JOHN” GRAIN CAR
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Like the character in the currently popular song, this “Big John” covered
hopper car of Southern Railway System is “broad at the shoulders and
narrow at the hips,” says Traffic World magazine. For comparison.
Southern posed “Big John” with its little brother at left, a standard size
steel covered hopper. The railway says that the jumbo lightweight alumi
num car pioneered by Southern is the big reason it can offer greatly
reduced freight rates on grain moving into and within the South. The 100-
ton capacity car, of 5,000 cubic feet, has 12 roof hatches and 8 discharge
’ | hoppers for fast loading and unloading. Now, D. W. Brosnan, Southern’s
President, says the railway has design engineers working on a 200-ton
■ i capacity car which railroads no doubt will promptly name “BIG, Big John.”
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[ Georgia Members Os Souihern Pine
Assn. To Attend Industrywide Meet
I Georgia’s manufacturing mem-
1 [ bers of the Southern Pine Asso
elation will attend the 47th an-
! [ nual (.meeting of the Association
■ [ April 2-4 at the Roosevelt hotel
■ | in New Orleans, it was announced
' ■by Edwin L. Douglass, Augusta,
, a director.
1 ; Douglass, president of Augusta
‘ [ Hardwood Co., said Georgia’s ■
’ ! manufacturers will join several [
’ j hundred other delegates to the .
' j meeting—officials from through-
; out the South and the nation in-
!; terested in the Southern Pine ;
. | lumber industry’s progress and 1
i growth during the past year.
’ | Os special interest this year '
’ | will be further implementation of
J' the Southern Pine Association’s [
1 1 expanded Trade Promotion pro
: i gram and a campaign for new
: [ markets, Douglass said.
Southern Pine is the region’s '
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Newton Elected By
Write - In Vote
i
, i An election was held in Glen
[ [ wood Tuesday to elect a County
; I School Board Member from the i
; i Glenwood District.
■ i Vansel Newton, a write-in can- :
' didate, was elected by polling ’
. [ 298 votes to L. B. Adams, in- :
. | cumbent board member, 164.
[ i A total of 487 votes were cast.
[ Newton will begin his six-year 1
term January 1, 1963. <
Non-Farm Employmeni Reaches
1,050,000 Ai End Os 1961 Says Huie! i
In his twenty-fifth annual re-1
port to the Governor and Gen-!
: eral Assembly, Commissioner of
Labor Ben T. Huiet states that
' non-farm employment increased
throughout the year and exceed
ed 1,050,000 at the year’s end.
During 1961 the State Employ
: ment Service was used by em
: ployers in hiring workers for
129,551 non-farm jobs. In addi
tion 132,600 farm jobs were filled,
i according to Mr. Huiet.
The average weekly wage of
; factory production workers was
$70.82 in November at an hourly
wage of $1.74. The average hour
ly wage for this same type work
, one year ago was $1.65.
Job insurance payments under
■ the state program totaled over
$39.3 million, which is an in
l crease of almost $9 million over
1960 and slightly more than was
paid out during the recession
year of 1958. In addition, the
‘ Georgia Department of Labor su
pervised the payment of over
■ $12.6 million in federal funds as
a result of the temporary extend
;ed unemployment compensation
i program and to unemployed fed
) eral workers and ex-servicemen.
Considerable work has been
done in connection with the Area
Redevelopment Act which was
। signed on May 1, 1961. Labor
market reports on which local
areas are judged with respect to
1 “substantial and persistent” un-
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1962
principal tree species and the
strongest of the structural woods.
The U. S. Forest Service has
predicted the South will even
tually become the main concen
tration point of the nation’s total
lumber supply.
William S. Parks
Elected Methodist
Lay Leader
William S. Parks, businessman
and farmer, of Rhipe, has been
elected lay leader of the South
Georgia Methodist Conference.
He was elected by the confer-1
ence Board of Lay Activities to.
succeed the late Charles P. Gray ;
who died last December.
Parks has held several offices [
in the South Georgia Conference j
and in his local church. Prior to [
his election as lay leader, he was!
secretary of the lay activities j
board and lay leader of the |
Americus District.
Hudson J. Owen, Donalson-1
ville, was elected secretary of
the lay activities group to suc
ceed Mr. Parks. A Donalsonville
businessman, he has previously
served as president of the Bain-1
bridge Sub-district and as an as-1
sistant lay leader in the Thomas-1
ville District.
Ben Griffin, of Hawkinsville I
was elected the new lay leader!
of the Americus District.
1 employment have been prepared. I
I Farm mechanization, moves to
urban areas, automation and the!
arrival of new industries have |
made it necessary to increase the I
number of labor market surveys, j
occupational studies and counsel- j
ing as normal functions of the j
Agency.
There has been a great deal of;
activity in assisting local areas in :
connection with their efforts to j
obtain new industrial plants.).
“New industry will not seriously,
consider locating in an area with-1
out a- knowledge of the labor po- j
tential in skills as well as num- ■
bers and that is where we enter I.
the picture,” Mr. Huiet stated.
The Department of Labor’s !,
State Employment Service office
serving this county is located at .
139 N. Franklin Street, Dublin. (
It also serves Bleckley, Dodge, i (
Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery,^
Toombs, Treutlen and Wheeler |'
Counties.
This office, managed by Mr.,,
Harvey N. Spivey, assisted em- j.
ployers of the area in filling, 2,- j'
258 non-farm jobs in 1961. Dur-'
ing the same time, farmers hired ) J
through the local office workers ; 3
to fill 7,863 farm jobs.
In 1961, $112,442 in job insur-! ^
ance were paid to unemployed'.
workers in Telfair County. At;
present there are 186 unemployed j ]
workers getting job insurance on I <
claims filed in Telfair County. ‘:
I Kiwanis Club
Receives Charter
Saturday Night
“A Kiwanis charter is a ticket
on a train of community service,”
Larry Martin told the Wheeler
County Kiwanians when he pre
sented their charter Saturday
night.
The presentation of the charter
was Martin’s last official act as
the 1961 governor of the Georgia
district. He was introduced by
the new governor, Myles L. Cook
In his address to the 125 Ki
wanians and their wives attend
ing the charter banquet, Martin
discussed “The Image of Kiwan
is”. He cited community service
and vocational guidance as im
portant phases of Kiwanis work,
j “A club is only good when at
. work,” he said.
O. J. Cliett Jr., immediate past
i lieutenant governor of the eighth
i district, was toastmaster for the
i occasion.
The Rev. Richard Ribble, Vi
i dalia Kiwanian, entertained the
i group with several musical selec
: tions and a monologue of a driv
| er’s training instructor and his
I pupil.
The flags, banner, gavel and
gong, and a secretary’s kit was
presented the new club by Carl ।
Cannon, immediate past presi- j
[ dent of the Vidalia club.
| Special guests, which included
i Fred D. Windbrenner of Kiwanis ;
I International, were introduced|
i by Howard Hinson, Lt. Governor'
!of the Eighth District. Other
guests were representatives from '
clubs in Brooklet, Lyons, Metter, i
Statesboro, Swainsboro, and Rey-!
nolds.
Wheeler County club president,;
D. L. Griffin welcomed the'
guests and accepted the charter j
on behalf of his club.
Value, Not Mint
Tuleps, Attracts
Industry To Ga.
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Gov. Er-'
nest Vandiver went to Thomaston;
the other evening to welcome the)
Federal Paper Board Co., of 80-:
gota, N.J., to Georgia. The com-;
pany plans to build a plant there. ।
In a speech, delivered at a din-1
ner sponsored by the Thomaston !
and Upson County Chamber of
Commerce in honor of. the new j
industry, the Governor .said:
“We want the officials of this
fine new industry to know that
we are welcoming them into a i
bustling, thriving state.
“We want them to know that •
they have not come to an area।
of mint juleps and panama suits, j
or rocking chairs or worn out
front porches.
“They are now located in the)
grand, soverign State of Georgia 1
where business is the byword j
and industry is the backbone.”
Georgia’s attractions, Vandiveri
pointed out, are geographical lo-1
cation, climate, variety of crops,;
rainfall, forestry products, sea I
ports, labor supply, favorable tax j
policies and clean government, j
Christmas tree production isi
profitable only when quality trees j
are produced, according to Exten-।
sion Forester B. R. Murray.
Rev. Spivey Dies;
Former Pastor Os
Glenwood Church
Rev. Walter P. Spivey, 57, for
mer pastor of the Bellevue Bap
| tist Church in Macon and one- 1
time Mercer University student,
died Wednesday in the Wayne
Memorial Hospital in Jesup after ■
a short illness.
| Funeral services were held at '
ill a.m. today at the First Bap
i tist Church in Jesup, with Rev. 1
|F. T. Jenkins and Rev. B. E.
! Howard officiating. Burial was in ’
[Macon Memorial Park at 4:30
P.m.
Spivey had served churches in
j Glenwood, Gray, Ashburn and '
j Lumber City, and at the time of ;
i his death was pastor of Bishop’s
| Chapel in Summertown. In addi
i tion to his pastoral work, he was
[division manager of the Pruden
tial Insurance Co. at Statesboro.
A native of Johnson County, '
! Spivey attended Mercer and '
Southwestern Seminary, and was [
ordained in 1932. During World [
War n, he was a chaplain in the'
Azores. i'
i Surviving are his wife, Mrs. ['
I Kate Haywood Spivey, of Jesup;'
, I four daughters, Mrs. Hazel Lip- !
[scombe, of Munich, Germany, ■
I Mrs. Marjorie Rogers, of Macon,'
Mrs. Marilyn Barker, of Glen
wood, and Mrs. Jackie McNeely, [
of Jesup; three sons, SFC W. P. j
Spivey Jr., of Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.,'
■' G. Truett Spivey, of Macon and
William H. Spivey, of Sylvania;
'; his mother, Mrs. A. H. Spivey,
lof Wrightsville; five sisters, Mrs. j
'lSara Roberts, of Norfolk, Va., I
Mrs. W. H. Yarbrough,, of Se-■
bring, Fla., Mrs. Vinie Lou'
■ । Blount, of Tampa, Mrs. W. L. i (
[Spence and Mrs. M. F. Spence,;
1 both of Macon; one brother, J.
[W. Spivey, of Macon, and 12
[ grandchildren.
Hart’s Mortuary, of Macon was
1 : in charge of local arrangements.
NeSmith-Harrison Funeral Home
Hos Jesup was in charge of ar
■ [ rangements there.
Shiloh Methodist
Church Barbecue
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[ The Shiloh Methodist Church [
■i is to have a pork barbecue this
j Saturday, Feb. 10. Plates will be
[served from 5:00 until 8:30.
1 [ We invite each of you to come
j and eat with us. The plates will
! cost one dollar each and proceeds
j will go to buying shutters to be
| placed on the church windows.
I We are barbecuing three hogs
| and we want you to help us eat
। all this good meat.
। Rev. Carroll and Rev. Gothard
j are selling tickets in Alamo and
; the meal will be delivered. .
j Please contact them and they
| will deliver to your door.
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I Make it a habit to keep your
I feet on the ground and you’ll
[ never have far to fall.
I LABOR COMMISSIONER HUIET
MAKES 1961 REPORT
Atlanta, February I—Georgial—Georgia
Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet (left) presents a copy of
the Department of Labor’s twen
ty-fifth Annual Report to the
Chairman of the State Advisory
Council Chairman, T. M. Forbes.
On the right is the Director of
i the Employment Security Agen
cy, Georgia Department of La
bor, Marion Williamson. In pre
senting the report for 1961,
Commissioner Huiet states that
non-farm employment had in
creased throughout the year and
exceeded 1,050,000 at the year’s ।
end and that the average hourly
■ wage of factory production work
ers increased from $1.65 in No
vember 1960 to $1.74 in Novem-1
ber 1961. He also reported that
। employers had hired 129,551
workers for non-farm jobs re- j
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Leaders Os Six Counties Meet To
Map Plans For Area Development
More than 100 leaders of six
counties in Middle Georgia met
in Eastman last Thursday night
to face their two main econc-mic
problems, loss of population and
low income, and to do something
about them.
Plans to form an area develop
ment organization were made by
representatives of Bleckley,
Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski. Telfair
and Wheeler counties.
Eastman City Manager John G.
Thomas was elected temporary
chairman and Walter McCart,
manager of the local Ocmulgee
Electric Membership Corpora
tion, was named temporary sec
retary.
The plan whereby the six-coun
ty area, with a population of 83,-
809, organize in somewhat the
same way as several counties in
the Coosa River Valley area in
North Georgia did, was discussed.
In that group, the area develop
ment is financed by each county
contributing 25 cents per capita
in a program in which all of the
Methodist Church
Announces Lay
Speaking Dates
Rev. John B. Carroll announ
ced today that most Methodist
pulpits will be filled in Wheeler
County every Sunday morning
from now through Easter.
Below is a schedule of the Lay
men who are to participate in
this great movement.
Feb. 11—Shiloh — Jack Mc-
Ginty, Mcßae.
Feb. 18—'Bay Springs — O. L.
Rawlins, Jacksonville; Browning
—.Paul Dent, Hawkinsville.
Feb. 25—'Bay Springs — H. B.
Barnes Jr., Mcßae.
March 4—Bay Springs — Ralph
Pullen, Helena; Browning — Ed
ward Towns, Alamo.
March I'l—Shiloh — H. B.
Barnes Sr., Mcßae.
March 18—Bay Springs — Es
chol Powell, Lumber City;
Browning — Harold Cravey, Mi
lan.
March 25—Bay Springs — Al
vie Bass, Helena.
April I—Bay Springs — Wil
liam Monroe, Helena; Browning
— George Clark, Eastman.
April B—Shiloh — D. Q. Har
ris, Mcßae.
April 15 —Bay Springs—Mackie
Simpson, Glenwood; Browning—
G. L. Hutcheson, Eastman.
April 22—Bay Springs — Mrs.
T. J. Smith Sr., Mcßae.
Rev. Carroll insists that all
Methodists attend these great
services. “We need the coopera
tion from each of you in order
to make these services meaning- 1
ful. May God blsss us in our en-1
deavor.”
ferred to them by the State Em
ployment Service and a slightly
larger number of farm workers.
Job insurance payments under
the State program totaled over
$39.3 million, which was an in
crease of about $9 million over
1960. In addition, the Depart
ment of Labor supervised the
payment of over $12.6 million in
federal funds as a result of the
Temporary Extended Unemploy
ment Compensation Program and
to unemployed federal workers,
and ex-servicemen. The Council,
of which Mr. Forbes is chairman,
was created by the General As
sembly to assist the Commission
er of Labor in solving problems
I concerning employment security.
' It is made up of leaders repre
senting employers, employees
■ and the general public.
counties work together in the de
velopment of the entire area.
Before counties in the Middle
Georgia area could enter such a
program, city and county govern
mental bodies in each would have
to sanction such a move.
In discussing the potential of
the Altamaha River Basin for in
dustrial, recreational and tourist
development, the county leaders 1
heard reports that showed:
(1) More than half of Georgia’s
counties lost population between
1950 and 1960 and the six county
area total population loss was 5,-
200. The only county of the six
to gain population was Bleckley,
with a 4.6 per cent increase.
Wheeler suffered the heaviest,
loss, being down 20.4 per cent;,
Telfair lost 11.4 per cent, Dodge,
7.7 per cent, Pulaski, 6.9 per cent
and Laurens 2.4 per cent.
(2) The population between 28
and 44 years of age decreased in
the area by more than 6,000 and
in all there were 9,000 fewer per
sons under the age of 45 than
there was in 1950.
(3) Other statistics showed that
some 40 per cent of working pop
ulation in the six counties is stiE
engaged in agricultural or for
estry activities, with less than 1®
per cent of the area’s combined
labor force engaged in manufac
turing activities and only nine
per cent is trade functions.
(4) It was shown that the aver
age weekly manufacturing wage
in the area falls $lO short of the
low state average of S6O and that
the overall yearly per capita dis
posable income average less than
$940, some S7O below the state
average and SB2O under the na
tional average. The U. S. average
per capita disposable income was
set at $1,758 and the state aver
age at sl,lll. Os the six counties
only Pulaski with a $1,013 aver
age equalled or exceeded the
state average.
All of the counties fell consid
erably below the national aver
age with Telfair having a $975
average; Dodge, $931; I^aurens,
$920; Bleckley, $905; and Wheel
er, an $872 average.
Plans For Livestock
Improvement Assn.
Now Underway
By M. K. Jackson
County Agent
Plans are now underway to ms
ganize a Livestock Improvement
Association to include livestock
producers and others interested
in livestock, from Wheeler, Tel*-
fair and the southern parts of
Dodge and Laurens Counties:
Monday night, February 19, is
the date set for the organizational
■ meeting. The place will be an
nounced at a later date.
The decision to organize an
Association comes as the result
of a group of livestock producers
from these counties, meeting to
gether and discussing what needs
i to be done to improve the live
| stock situation in the area.
These producers felt that a
I Livestock Improvement Associa
; tion, composed of beef, swine and
1 dairy producers, could be very
instrumental in conducting a
i livestock program.
At a meeting held in Mcßae
ion January 23rd, R. B. Curtis,
. President, and Tap Bennett, Sec
retary-Treasurer, Georgia Live
i stock Association, told the group
' that the State Association has
been of tremendous value in the
expansion of livestock production
j in Georgia.
All livestock producers in the
1 area are invited to attend the ar
’ ganizational meeting on February
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Thigpen TV Service
Awarded RCA
Dealership
Thigpen TV Service of Mcßae
has been awarded an RCA Deal
ership, and has a complete line
of color and black and white tele
visions.
This shop is fully equipped
with all new color test equip
ment.
Everyone is invited to visit the
shop and see the new RCA line.
See the advertisement elsewhere
in The Enterprise.
NUMBER 43