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VOLUME 47
Key Club Organized
With Nine Members
The Kiwanis Club of Wheeler
County has sponsored a Key Club
for Sophomore, Juniors and Sen
iors. The Key Club has nine mem
bers which include Ted Hartley,
Terrell Joyce, Al Hopkins, Jimmie
Gillis, Roj' Thigpen, Tommy Win
ham, David Griffin, Rickey Elton,
and Sammy Rhodes.
The club held its first official
meeting Wednesday, February 28.
It elected for its officers the fol
lowing:
President, Ted Hartley; Vice-
President, Terrell Joyce; Secre
tary, Al Hopkins; Treasurer, Jim
my Gillis.
The Board of Directors are: Roy
Thigpen, Tommy Winham, and
David Griffin. As its weekly meet
ing time the Key Club selected
tentatively Wednesday.
The Key Club greatly appre
ciates the interest and efforts put
forth in forming the Key Club.
Also, we wish to express grati
tude for the dinner we were in
vited to Tuesday, March 6.
Al Hopkins, Acting Reporter
Beta Club Admits
New Members
The Beta Club of the Wheeler
County High School admitted
new members in an impressive
ceremony Feb. 23, with the presi
dent, Sue Clark, presiding. Mr.
Lancaster gave a brief talk on
what Beta Club should mean to
the individual and his or her re
sponsibility in the school. Mrs.
A. P. Hopkins, our sponsor,
stressed the purpose of Beta Club.
Those admitted included: Al
Hopkins, Roy Thigpen, Gail Mont
ford, Nell Hindman, Rickey Elton,
Teddy Hartley, Tommy Winham,
Judy Rhodes, Faye Stokes, Faye
Tillman.
HANDLING TREE SEEDLINGS
Tree seedlings should be car
ried to the planting site in a
bucket or container of soupy
mud. When the seedlings are re
moved from the container, a thin
layer of mud will be left on the
root system to protect the roots
while being planted, says Ex
tension Forester George D. Wal
ker.
Georgia -Growing Complex Os "Tree
Farms" And "Forest Factories"
Georgia is fast becoming a gi
gantic complex of “tree farms”
and “forest factories”. This is in
dicated by figures from the Unit
ed States Forest Service, Southern
Pine Association, American For
est Products Industries, Inc. and
other agencies.
Since 1953, the volume of South
ern Pine sawtimber in 32 Georgia
counties has increased “by an im
pressive 32 percent”, according to
H. E. Ruark, director of the Geor
gia Forest Research Council. Mr.
Ruark was coordinator of a forest
survey recently completed by the
U.S. Forest Service.
“Sawtimber” is a term for trees
of sufficient size and quality for
lumber manufacture. The amaz
ing increase in timber of this cate
gory underscores the progress of
Georgia’s lumber industry toward
a key forecast role in the nation’s
economy.
The United States Forest Serv
ice has predicted that Georgia and
eleven neighboring states will
eventually become the main source
of the nation’s total lumber sup
ply. Already, the 12 states are
contributing a substantial share,
with Southern Pine ranking as a
major structural species nation
ally and accounting for two-thirds
of the region’s total lumber out
put.
Georgia ranks with North Caro
lina and Alabama as the nation’s
three top producing states of
Southern Pine lumber, each man
ufacturing about one billion board
feet per year.
As of anuary 1,1962, Georgia
had more than 5% million acres
of “tree farms.” Nearly one-sixth
of the state’s total land area and
one-fourth of its total forest area
is now invested with “tree farms.”
During 1961 alone, Georgia’s for
est industries, farmers and other
forest owners increased their “tree
farms” accumulation by more than
a half million acres.
Nationwide, 47 states share a
total of 57 million acres of “tree
farms.” Just three states —Georgia,
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Union Bag-Camp Paper Company
Furnishes Pine Seedlings To 4-H Club
More than thirty (30) 4-H Club
boys and girls received pine seed
lings for their Forestry projects
this week.
These seedlings were furnished
by Union Bag Paper Company of
Savannah through their local and
field representatives.
The following club members re
ceived seedlings:
W.C.H.S. Beta Club
To Go To Atlanta
On March 9 and 10 the Wheeler
County High School Beta Club is
to go to Atlanta to attend the
state-wide Beta Club Convention.
Seniors of the Alamo Bela Club
will act as registrars for the con
vention. These are: Sue Clark,
Alice Hamilton, Cheryl Elton, and
Sue Winham. Others to go are:
Jimmy Gillis, Donna Gibbs, Linda
Johnson, Gail Montford, Al Hop
kins and Roy Thigpen. Mrs. A.
P. Hopkins, our sponsor, will
chaperone the club to Atlanta.
Alabama and Florida—have near
ly one-third of this enormous to
tal.
This, of course, is encouraging
news to the hundreds of thousands
of Georgians who owe livelihoods
directly or indirectly to forest
products manufacture. An amaz
ing 45 percent of the 5800 indus
trial establishments in Georgia are
“forest factories” engaged in the
manufacture of lumber, paper,
boxes, crates, furniture, naval
stores, or other timber products.
Present sales of Georgia forest
products — nearly one billion dol
lars a year — could be eventually
doubled or tripled with corres
ponding increases in payrolls if
the state realizes its ultimate
growth and market potential in
the forest products field.
Strong incentives for timber
growers and the workers of Geor
gia’s forst factories are found in
the unique physical properties of
modern Southern Pine lumber
products.
This species of wood was the .
nation’s first building material,
forming the cabins and stockades
of the early pioneers. Today, it
looms as one of the most impor
tant materials of the future. Nevz
building systems place a premium
on strength. Southern Pine is the
strongest of a select group of wood
species rated by the Federal Gov
ernment’s Forest Products Labora
tory as stronger, pound for pound,
than steel.
Moreover, its high natural
strength is virtually doubled by
a process of seasoning and “pre
shrinking” which has been stan
dardized by the Southern Pine
producers.
For such reasons, the species is
ideal for the production of giant
structural sections of glued lami
, nated lumber, wood components
and other engineered devices.
There is a strong possibility that
imporatnt elements of the “engi
neered wood” industry may even
tually locate in Georgia, close to
the source of Southern Pine sup
ply-
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, MARCH 9,1962
> Harry McAlum, Bobby McNeal,
Deland Faircloth, Wendell Mc-
; Neal, Leon Tuten, Keith Smith,
I Joy Cox, Dana McDaniel, Russell
1 > Beck, Cosby Benton, Steve Mont
’ ■ ford, Gaylain Brown, Don Her
l j ring, David Clark, Kim Clark,
j Bernum Beck, Floyd Meeks, Wal
ly Adams, Larry Clark, Dennis
I O’Neal, Jimmy Browning, Keith
I McNeal, Mickey Whitehead, Billy
’ Cartwright, Lynn Johnson, Mich
ael Thigpen, Ronnie Hartley, Rita
i Towns, Tony Edge, Linda Grimes
■ and Johnnie Faye Carroll.
; i This project carries with it the
!' thought of planning for tomorrow
by doing a good deed today.
SOUTHERN PINE
I Southern pine provides enough
J lumber annually to build nearly
. a million homes. In addition, more
t than half the nation’s pulp and
paper is derived from the species',
as well as chemicals, naval stores,
। furniture, and other products.
Their manufacture gives jobs to
nearly three-quarters of a million
persons in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi, North and South Caro
lina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia. When families and
dependents of these workers are
considered, the number of persons
owing livelihoods to forest indus
tries based on Southern Pine comes
to more than Wz million, accord
ing to Extension Forestry Market
ing Specailist H. O. Baxter.
STAR Student And
Teacher Guests Os
Savannah C of C
Sue Clark, STAR Student and
Mrs. A. P. Hopkins, STAR Teach
er of the Wheeler County High
School and Wheeler County Sys
tem went to Savannah last Thurs
day where they were guests of
the Chamber of Commerce and
Central of Georgia Railway with
the other STARS of the First Dis
trict. They were entertained with
a tour of historic Savannah. A
luncheon and appearance on TV.
It was a very inspiring and en
joyable day.
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Athens, Ga.—Dr. J. Whitney
Bunting who will become
dean of the University of
Georgia’s College of Business
Administration Sept. 1. Dr.
Bunting formerly taught at
the University and later
served as president of Ogle
thorpe University. He is now
with the General Electric
Company.
Talmadge Again
Hits High Court
For 'Usurpation'
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Georgia’s
U.S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge,
long an out-spoken critic of the
U.S. Supreme Court for what he
terms “usurpation” of power, fired ,
another verbal blast at the high
court the other day for its latest
ruling on the segregation versus
integration issue.
The court said all racial segre
gation in transportation facilities
is unconstitutional. In ruling in
the Mississippi transportation civil
rights case, the court specified its
past decisions on racial matters
in the transportation field are as
binding on travel within a state
f as on travel between states.
Accusing the Supreme Court of
meddling in affairs outside its
jurisdictitA, Sen. Talmadge in a
formal statement said:
“In holding that its integration
edicts apply to intrastate as well
as to interstate commerce, the U.S. ’
Supreme Court has again indulged '
in a flagrant act of judicial legis-1
lation outside the scope of the ’
Constitution of the United States. |
■ “The Constitution clearly leaves |
■ the regulation of intrastate com-1
■ merce to the individual states and I
: for the court to declare otherwise j
1 constitutes usurpation of the rank
• est order.”
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Young Scientists Get Ready For Fair
At University Os Georgia April 5-7 '
In high schools all over Georgia,
teachers and students are getting
ready for the 14th annual State
Science Fair.
At the University of Georgia,
I too, people are busying themselves
■ with plans and preparations for
i this year’s Fair which will be held
■ at the University April 5-7.
’ । Programs have been sent to
’ I high school teachers, and many
1 1 departments in the University’s
1 1 Science Center are preparing spe
■ | cial exhibits to be displayed dur
-1 ing the Fair.
What is the significance of a
■ science fair? Why should high
■ school students spend countless
i hours on problems and projects?
■ And why should the University
igo to so much trouble to make
j this the best fair yet?
Some of the answers may be
j found in the views of Herbert M.
j Handley, science teacher at Glynn
I Academy in Brunswick. He ex
presses it this way:
“The Fair informs the public
about science and about the new
approach to science—that of prob
lem-solving. It also provides a dis
play of the student’s talent, draw
ing attention to his abilities. Fur
ther, the student has a chance to.
see the work of others.”
Mary Ann Asbell is well quali
! fied to present the student’s feel
ings about the Fair. Last year,
Mary Ann was among the win
ners in state competition and went
I on to capture a fourth place posi
tion at the National Fair with
her project which involved the
extraction of titanium dioxide
from the sands of Jekyll Island.
This year Mary Ann is a fresh
man at the University, majoring
in chemistry. Her college educa
tion is aided by scholarships
awarded her as the result of her
display of scientific talents at last
18 th Annual State
Leadership Meeting
More than 300 career-minded
high school juniors and seniors
will converge on Macon March
10-12 for the 18th Annual State
Leadership Conference of the
Georgia Association, Distributive
Education Clubs of America. Con
vention headquarters will be the
Dempsey Motor Hotel.
Host clubs for the state confer
ence will be the Hughes Voca
tional School and Willingham High
School Distributvie Education
Clubs; Messrs. Bob Collins and
Earl Barron, club sponsors, re
spectively.
High school students in Distri
butive Education study distribu
tion and marketing on a coopera
tive basis. They attend regular
high school during the morning
hours, study job-related subjects
in the D. E. classroom one hour
a day, and work in selected dis
tributive businesses during the
afternoon hours under a program
। planned jointly by the D. E. teach
; er-coordinator and the store pro
! prietor.
Students attending the confer
i ence will compete in various con-
Tests which are an outgrowth of
classroom study — such contests
as speech, ad planning and lay
out, job interview, merchandising
math, window display judging,
spelling, and others.
A highlight of the D. E. con
ference will be the Annual Awards
Banquet on Monday evening at
which time some $2500 in contest
awards will be presented. Ricky
Murray, president of Georgia
DECA, a student at Wyne County
High School in Jesup, will pre
side.
Sen. Talmadge And
Rep. Pilcher Get
Ga. Legion Award
j ATLANTA, (GPS) — Sen. Her- :
man E. Talmadge and 2nd Dis- j
trict Rep. J. L. Pilcher are the ’
! recipients of service awards by;
American Legionnaires from Geor- ,
( gia for “distinguished service to
! veterans and their families” dur- j
. ing 1961.
i The awards were presented at.
' a quail supper held in Washing-;
I ton in conjunction with the na-1
■ tional American Legion Rehabili- j
I tation Conference. Ben Chatfield,'
I of Macon, commander of the Le-i
■ gion’s Department of Georgia,-
made the presentation, the first;
' such awards made in three years, j,
year’s competitions.
She says that the science fair''
gave her a “good look at science.” >
“I learned that there are no'
isolated answers to anything, that j
there must be a reason and a pro-;
cess. I also had a chance to see
the limitations as well as the un
limited possibilities in science,” ।'
she continues.
In summation, “It was fun!” j-
Dr. William H. Waggoner of the
University chemistry department
is general chairman of this year’s
Fair. It is sponsored by the Uni- ‘
versity, by the Georgia Junior
Academy of Science, and by the
Associated Industries of Georgia. ,
Ocmnlgee Livestock Association
Elects Officers Ai Feb. 27 Meeting
R. W. Nunn was elected Presi
dent of the recently organized
Ocmulgee Livestock Association.
B. J. O’Connor and J. B. Clem
ents were elected to serve as Vice-
Presidents. These officers were
elected at the Board of Directors
.neeting held on Tuesday night,
February 27th. Other officers in
clude R. E. Tuten, Treasurer and
Julian Raburn, Secretary.
Also at the Board of Directors
meeting, J. Howell Mitchell was
elected to serve as Director to the
Georgia Livestock Association.
The following were appointed to
serve as members of State Com
mittees: Raleigh Joyce, Beef Cat
tle; James Graham, Swine; Ralph
Foster, Dairy; B. J. O’Connor, Fi
nance; Joe Prescott, By-Laws;
Murphy Mcßae, Publicity; Bill
Warren, Youth; Tom Haley, Pub
lic Relations; H. B. Barnes Jr.,
Marketing; Paul Humphrey, Sani
tation and Preston White, Legis- j
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20 F.H.A/ers Attend District II
Spring Meeting In Dublin March 3rd
Early' Saturday morning amid
the ice and sleet, an excited group
of 20 FHA’ers met at the drug
store in Alamo, with great ex
pectations for the day. These
girls, accompanied by their ad
visor, Mrs. Ruth C. Humphrey,
were off to Dublin to attend the ;
Future Homemaker’s District II
Spring Meeting.
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Mrs. R. L. Mathis
Final plans for the Woman’s
Missionary Union Convention at
Tifton First Baptist Church March
12-14 have been completed. Miss
Janice Singleton, Atlanta, WMU
Executive Secretary has announ
ced.
More than 1,000 Georgia Bap
tist women are scheduled to at
tend the convention sessions, Miss
Singleton said.
The WMU Convention, an Aux
iliary to the Georgia Baptist Con
vention, will hear leaders in
I Georgia and Southern Baptist life,
! including many missionaries with
i duties around the world.
Featured speakers include Dr.
C. C. Warren, Charlotte, N. C.,
Director of the movement among
Soothern Baptists to establish 30,-
■ 000 new churches and missions by
' 1964, and Mrs. R. L. Mathis, Waco,
i Tex., President of the Southern
i Baptist Convention’s Woman’s
I Missionary Union.
Mrs. E. L. Miller, Decatur, Geor
gia WMU President, will preside
at the sessions. Completing her
first term of service, Mrs. Miller
is expected to be re-elected to a
second term. Also scheduled to
be elected are 16 divisional vice-;
presidents, several committee
chairmen, and a recording secre-1
tary.
Sessions get under way Monday
evening at 7:30 p.m., and continue
through noon Wednesday.
'Gov. Staff' Tags
Not Authorized
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Gov. Er
nest Vandiver says he has not
authorized any of his staff mem
bers to use auto tags with the
words “Governor’s Staff” inscrib
ed on them.
An Atlanta firm is offering such
plates for sale at $1 each. There
are two sizes, both the same color
as the 1962 Georgia auto license
plate. One is the same size as a
regular car license plate and the
other is about three inches higher.
lative.
These Committees will meet at
the Annual Convention of the
Georgia Livestock Association to
be held in Waycross, March 22-24.
It was reported at the Direc
tors meeting that the Association
now has 64 members.
Senior Class To
Sponsor Barbecue
The Senior Class of the Wheeler
County High School is sponsoring
a barbecue on Saturday, March
17. Tickets may be purchased from
any member of the Senior Class.
Purchase your tickets before
Friday, 12.00 o’clock, March 16.
The adult plates are SI.OO, chil
dren’s plates 50c. Plates will be
delivered on request.
The profit will be used to fi
nance the Senior Trip. Your help
[will be appreciated.
NUMBER 47
The central theme was “Atom®
For Action” with special emphasis
on spiritual values, family fitness;
personal improvement, family im
provement, and moral values
From the time Libby Booker, State
Vice-President, called the meeting
to order until she led the closing
ritual of the day, things were
really “in orbit.”
One of the outstanding events
of the day was the presentation
iof State News by Mrs. J. Mae
’ Barber, State FHA Advisor. The
' guest speaker, Rev. V. L. Daugh
i erty, of Tennille, was also a great
। hit with the girls.
After the candidates for state
I office had been heard, the voting
. delegates from each chapter cast
their votes. Nominees for State
President are Libby Booker and
Ann Dozier. Newly elected State
Vice-President is Suzanne Warth
en; and the State Chairman of
i Music and Recreation is Marilyn
Brown.
After the meeting, the group
from Alamo went shopping in
Dublin. This tired but happy group
included Mrs. Ruth C. Humphrey,
Alice Hamilton, Judy Rhodes;
Brenda Gilder, Bettye Griffin,
’ Faye Tillman, Paulette Landry,
Shirley Haymons, Dorothy Clark,
. Vicki Gross, Dee Ann Clark, Wil
ma Ann Gillis, Sandra McAlum,
: Linda Harville, Nell Hindman,
Joy Evans, Carol Day, Joy Cox,
Libby Ballentine, Jo Ann Thomp
: son, and Sue Browning.
J The only male member of the
group was their bus driver, Me
, W. D. Ussery.
Glenwood Scouting
Finance Campaign
Scouting today in Central Geor
’ gia is serving more than 7500 boys
and this number is sure to in
i crease sharply in the immediate
years ahead. Such a program re
’ quires the organization of some
330 separate Scouting units at the
neighborhood level, all sponsored
by a community organization and
lead by more than 2300 adult
', scouters who contribute their time
and talents freely for the satis-
faction which accrues from then
work with boys. These leaden
shape the habits of character ac
quired by the individual boy,
: which assume their full meaning
and significance during his camp
ing experience. In Glenwood, our
■ scout, units are part of the Pine
Forest District of the Central Geor
gia Council.
March of this year is the time
for our annual Scout finance cam
paign in Glenwood. It is necessary
that we raise funds to finance
! services that have enabled scout
-1 ing to continue in Glenwood. These
i services include a scout executives
the council office and service cen
ter, Camp Benjamin Hawking
Camp Al Sihah, the Explorer base
; and Camp Pine Lake. The succese
of our drive will be directly pro
portional to the help and support
that the citizens of the Glenwood
community give the program
Hence, in financing these develop
ments, a generous and wise in.
vestment will be compounded ova
and over in its total benefit to
the boys of today and tomorrow
as they continue to look to Scout
ing to provide them the high ad
venture of outdoor life so implicit
in their acceptance of the Scou'
Cath and Law.
We have organized our finance
drive in Glenwood with the help
of numerous workers of the com
munity. These workers will call
upon individuals, assigned t«
them, for their contribution to our
drive. The goal for the campaign
is $300.00. This is our share of the
Council expenses. You will b<
called upon during the weekend
extending Friday through Mon
day, March 9-12. Give liberally
with the fact in mind that yon
are helping our boys to become
better individualists, finer citi
zens and greater Americans.
1961 BROILER INCOME
Gross income from broilers
produced in Georgia in 1961
amounted to $156,272,000. This is
a decrease of $14,934,000 from
the 1960 income, but still exceeds
the income from any other agri
cultural commodity. Average
price per pound for the year was
13.2 cents, compared with 16.1
in 1960, according to the Georgia
Crop Reporting Service.