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VOLUME 48
Former Oconee I
Solicitor Fined
On Tax Count
A former FEI agent and one
time key figure in state govern
ment, Roger H. Lawson, was
fined $4,000 Monday on no con
test pleas to charges of failing
to return income for federal taxes ,
in 1957 and 1958.
Lawson, new a Hawkinsville at
torney, was state highway chair- ,
man and later chief state investi- .
gator in the administration of for- '
mer Gov. Marvin Griffin. He also
is a former solicitor general of
Oconee Circuit.
A criminal information in U.S. .
District Court charged him with
failing to report $53,246 in income
in 1957 and $71,760 in 1958 — the
last two years of the Griffin ad
ministration.
He entered nolo contendere
pleas and Judge Boyd Sloan fined
him $2,000 on each of the two
counts. The case was tried in At
lanta.
He will have to pay the back
taxes, plus interest and penalties,
as well as the fines, according to
District Attorney Charles Good
son.
Premeasurement
Service Offered
Wheeler Farmers
Farmers in Wheeler County are
now being offered premeasure
ment of the 1963 allotted or per
mitted acreages of. tobacco, cot
ton, peanuts, feed grain, and feed
grain diverted acreages.
Farmers wanting this service
-are asked to make application at
the ASCS county office as quickly
as possible so that the premea
surement program can be coordi
nated with wheat performance to
the maximum extent possible.
County ASCS Chairman, J. O.
Perdue, says the sooner farmers
file applications for premeasure
ment, the sooner our committee
can plan the workload. To do an
orderly job we must know the
work-load in advance. This will
enable us to hire and train the
necessary reporters to do the job.
Mr. Perdue pointed out that
there are definite advantages to
a farmer in using ASCS’ premea
surement service. By having an
acreage equal to the allotment or
permitted acreage determined in
advance of planting, the farmer
can plant the farm’s full allotment
or permitted acreage without fear
of overplanting and thereby avoid
wasting time, labor and fertilizer.
Actually, the cost of premeasure
ment to the farmer is very small
in comparison to its value to the
farmer, Mr. Perdue said.
Mr. Perdue stated that farmers
who apply for premeasurement
should be certain that someone
is available on the farm who is
qualified to point out to the AS
CS reporter the fields on which
the allotment crop acreage is to
be premeasured.
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Glennville Woman Killed As Speeding'
Car Bumped Off Road By Another
A Glennville woman was :
hurled to her death early Sunday
when the sports car in which she ।
was riding was pushed off the
highway by another automobile
during a high speed chase.
Police said Mrs. Betty Altman
Gicas, 31, and Ray Ansley, of
Lyons were apparently fleeing
from a night club brawl near <
Claxton, when they were forced
off the road. Two men have been '
arrested by state patrol officers
and are being held on murder
charges in Evans County jail.
Officers identified the two men
as Duaine Moss and Douglas
Crow, both of Pembroke. War
rants have been issued for the ar
rest of four other men believed to
be involved in the incident, police
said.
According to investigating offi
cers, Mrs. Gicas was in the night
club near Claxton when a fight
erupted at about 12:30 a.m. Mrs.
Gicas left, got into the sports car
with Ansley and apparently asked
him to take her home, police said.
Witnesses said that as the small
Wheeler County Eagle
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WIIIRO IVIES
Give To The Marching Mothers
, , An army of Marching Mothers
i will soon be knocking on doors
i . throughout the country in the an
' nual March of Dimes.
Welcome the neighbor who
rings your doorbell with a gener
ous contribution. Here’s why.
' Every year hundreds of thousands
of American children suffer the
' cruelty of birth defects and ar
: thritis. Just as the National Foun
। dation discovered in the polio
’ fight, these children can be help
; ed if they get proper medical care
! and that is the prime goal of the
I 1963 Mother’s March. Funds raised
। will help expand the March of
A-1C Harold Clark Named Airman
01 The Month At Laughlin AFB
' Laughlin’s first Airman of the
; Month for 1963 is a man who will
' i save the Air Force over SB,OOO a
I year because he designed a de
vice to hold jet engine parts. He
is A-1C Harold R Clark
1 Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Clark, of Ala
' I mo, a machinist with the 3646th
; I Maintenance and Supply Group,
who has been selected January
Airman of the Month for Laugh
lin AFB.
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Mrs. Couey To
Present Pupils
In Recital
, ; Mrs. Naomi Couey will present
1 her music pupils in a recital
i Thursday night, January 31, at
• 1 7:30 at the Wheeler County High
School cafetorium.
Those to be presented are: Gina
White, Clair Smith, Maria Pope,
■ Diane White, Kenneth Hartley,
I Justine Clarke, Peggy White,
. Elaine Joiner, Joyce Sumner, Jo
Ann Smith, Betty Jenkins, Gwen
Cox, Paulette Dixon, Elizabeth
■ Pickle, and Sandra Hamilton.
Suzanne Gilder, Rita Towns,
; Gayle Thomas, Sara Clarke, Gina
. Maddox, Carol Lynn Hartley, Con
• nie Smith, Daphine Clarke, Sue
; Sikes, Kay Webster, Carey White,
■ Joseph Pope, Susan Cox, Joy Cox,
i Shirley Thomas, and Annie Mae
> । Dixon.
I The public is invited to attend.
sports car sped away from the
club, on U.S. 280, five miles east
of Claxton, it was overtaken by
the car in which Moss and Crow
were in and forced out of control
and off the highway. Mrs. Gicas
was killed after being thrown 25
feet from the car.
Police said the two suspects
denied knowing the car they were I
chasing had overturned and ;
wrecked. Officers have taken I
statements from witnesses con- j
firming details of the chase.
Police have not identified the
driver of the pursuing car. Offi
cers said Ansley will be called
as a material witness. He was
slightly injured in the wreck.
Four other men, said to have
been in the persuing car with
Crowe and Moss, were arrested
late Sunday and identified by au
thorities as Jerry Futch, 23; Rich
ard Burnfed, 22; Palmer White,
20, and Douglas Davis, 20, all of
Bulloch County. These men are
also being held on a murder
charge.
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA.FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1963
; Dimes treatment centers for birth
; defects, arthritis and polio. There
are already more than 50 of the
centers located throughout the
i country.
The March of Dimes research
program proved that polio can
be controlled. Now research scien
tists whose work is financed by
March of Dimes funds are seek
। ing clues for the prevention and
cure of birth defects and arthritis.
You are helping crippled young
■ sters get the help they so despe
rately need when you give to the
Marching Mothers.
Airman Clark designed and
manufactured a device which holds
. an air adapter for jet engines. The
■ adapter for jet engines. The
: adapter can now be machined on
; the base. Previously it had been
re-worked at off-base depots.
On the flight line, Airman
Clark machines parts on equip
ment for T-37 and T-33 aircraft.
He has been a machinist since
completing his basic training at
Lackland AFB, in Texas in De
cember 1955. A native of Alamo,
he enlisted in the Air Force in
Atlanta.
His ability to work with others,
1 courteous manner and above aver
age personal appearance were
cited by his supervisor.
Three Overseas Tours
I Previously assigned to Strategic
I Air Command units for five years,
• the airman served in 1956 with
। the 19th Bomb Wing at Home
i stead AFB, Florida and had a
TDY tour in North Africa for
three months. During this time
he was a machinist on B-47 and
, KC-97 aircraft.
| In 1957 he was on TDY to the
1 Azores for three months from
। Homestead AFB. He was assigned
:to a B-47 Wing and went as a
machinist with KC-97 supporting
tanker aircraft.
Before coming to Laughlin in
! February 1962 he served for 15
; months in Pakistan. He has been
I in the Air Force for over seven
years and holds the Good Conduct
Medal with one loop and the Air
Force Longevity Ribbon. Airman
Clark is married to the former
Wynette White, daughter of Mrs.
R. P. White, of Alamo.
During a ceremony last Tues
day at the Del Rio Municipal
Building Airman Clark was pre
sented a proclamation by Mayor
A. C. Kennedy making him Hon
orary Mayor of Del Rio. Wednes
day he was interviewed at Radio
Station KDLK. Next week he
will be guest of one of the civic
clubs for a luncheon.
From Laughlin AFB Airman
Clark will receive a SSO U.S. Sav
ings Bond. In Del Rio he and his
wife will be overnight guests at
a local motel with breakfast in
bed. They will also be dinner
guests at a Ciudad Acuna res
taurant. Del Rio merchants will
also present him with sls worth
of cleaning and pressing, 10 gal
lons of gasoline and a long dis
tance telephone call home.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of John Randall
O’Quinn Jr. acknowledge with
grateful appreciation your kind
expresssion of sympathy. Words
will never be enough to thank our
friends tor all their kindness to
us.
O'Quinn Baby Dies
Unexpectedly In
Mcßae Thursday
i Funeral services were held
i Saturday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock
;in the Alamo Baptist Church for
John Randall O’Quinn Jr., 20-
j months-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Randall O’Quinn, with the Rev.
! Neal Wall and the Rev. Mr. Quar-
1 terbaum officiating. Burial was in
! the Alamo Cemetery with Harris
& Smith Funeral Home in charge
' of. arrangements.
Pallbearers were Leon Mont
j ford, Carrs Evans, James Bell.
: Donald Riddle, James Carroll and
■ Ted Hartley.
i Members of the honorary es-
I cort were F. M. Whitehead, Forest
i Fields, M. F. Gross, Woodrow
' Gillis, Paul Stevenson and Ed
: ward Towns.
The child died unexpectedly last
।' Thursday in the Telfair County
■; Hospital in Mcßae. His mother is
■ ■ the former Miss Martha Pickern,
•, of Cadwell.
| Survivors include his parents; '
,' grandparents, J. B. O’Quinn, of !
l Alamo, and Mrs. Rheta B. Pick- '
i ern, of Forest Park and his great- i
' ’ grandmother, Mrs. A. V. Pickern, i
■ of Cumming. [
i The Veterans Corner
■ 1 Here are authoritative answers '
'I by the Veterans Administration
’ i to questions from former service-,
; jmen and their families:
i Q — How long does the VA
i education program for Korean
! Conflict veterans have to go?
i A— All education under the
j Korean Conflict program must be
j completed by January 31, 1965.
I Q — In reporting my income
;to qualify for veterans pension,
do I have to include my pension
’j as part of my income?
'' A— No. Veterans pension or
1 :
'; compensation payments are not
1 1 considered to be reportable in-
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i come.
I Q — Are peacetime veterans
1 eligible for GI home loans?
I A— No, the law does not ap
'; ply to those veterans who were
’ ; not on wartime duty.
Homecoming Ai Brewion Parker
1 1
J College Sei For Saturday, Jan. 26
, I Homecoming at Brewton Par
■ ker College, Mount Vernon, Sat
| urday night, January 26, always
,I a festive occasion, will be even
| bigger this year if the Student
' | Council has its way. The basket
' j ball game, between Norman Col
; lege and the Blue Barons, always
'' a great show, will have several
' activities to add to its attractive
: ness or pull this year.
| In the week preceding Home
! coming, the students are busily
j engaged in decorating the dormi
tories for a prize to be given by
the Council.
On Saturday, the date of the
i game, a Pep Rally will be held
! at 2:00 p.m. Immediately followed
■ I by a Motorcade which will pass
(through Mount Vernon, Ailey,
(and Vidalia. This will have ade
quate escort by the Montgomery
■ County Sheriff’s Office and Vi
dalia Police Department.
As always, the peak of excite
ment will come with the selec
. tion of. the Queen. Students have
ialready selected, by secret ballot,
| five girls who will constitute the
i court. The Queen will be selected
by a panel of judges. The judges
lin this case are the members of
i the fighting Blue Baron Basket
■ ball squad. At the half time cere-
Ocmulgee Livestock
Association Sponsors
Barrow Show
By M. K. Jackson
Four-H Club members (both
. Iboys and girls) also FFA mem
bers will have an opportunity to
! participate in the Barrow Show
: set for March 19 at Mcßae Live
-1 stock Market. Adults will show
pens of three. Time is running
| out for adults and youth groups
। to turn in the number they plan
ito enter in the contest.
If you have any questions con
‘ cerning the show, let me know
. and I will be happy to answer
;' them.
■; Send in your entry notice right
i: now to my office before you for
'get it!
Taxpayers Urged To j
Take Tax Refunds
In Savings Bonds
Taxpayers were reminded to
day of the new plan allowing them
to take their tax refunds in Unit
ed States Savings Bonds, by A.
C. Ross, District Director of the
Internal Revenue Service.
Beginning with the 1962 Indi
vidual Income Tax Return, eligi
ble taxpayers will be given the
opportunity of taking their re
funds in Series E. Savings Bonds, I
in addition to the standard options I
of each or applying the refund to!
next year’s tax. When Savings i
Bonds are chosen, the smallest!
possible number of the highest
denomination bonds will be is
sued, along with a check to cover;
any remaining balance of a dollar I
or more.
The idea of allowing a taxpayer j
to choose between Savings Bonds ■
and a check is not new. Taxpay- ■
ers have been recommending it j
I for years. What enabled the Treas-1
' ury to offer it with the 1962 re-I
' turns was the recent installation :
'of high-speed data processing ■
j equipment to handle tax returns. ■
। The Treasury also conducted a I
j survey of taxpayers to determine |
’ their interest in a Savings Bonds !
I refund. A significant number of I
■ those questioned said they would i
: take their tax refunds in Series j
■ E. Bonds if given the option.
; Last year approximately five
billion dollars in refunds were
returned to American taxpayers.
Sales of Savings Bonds could thus
be swelled by many millions of
dollars in the next few months,
thus putting more of the public
debt into the hands of small sav
ers.
The tax forms — 1040 (long)
and 1040A (short) — have been
changed to provide an extra space
in which taxpayers may elect U.
S. Savings Bonds for their re
funds. Information on the option
also appears in the instructions
for both of these forms.
Some say that the biggest draw
back to budding love is blooming
expense!
■ mony, in which the Queen will
- be crowned, Captain Jackie Min
; ton will crown the Queen. Co
i Captain, Bill Sutton will present
; the flowers to the girl chosen to
rule over the Homecoming.
Robert Anderson, Freshman
> Class President; James Epps,
Sophomore Class President; Joe
■ Conville, Sophomore Class Vice-
President; Tommy Holton and
Terry Cheek, who are Student
■ Council members will act as es
corts for the pretty girls who will
vie for the honor.
A reception will be held in the
. Dining Hall immediately follow-
I ing the game which is expected
[ to draw a capacity crowd to the
; Brewton Parker campus.
Oxford Mfg. Reporis Record First
Half Sales And Earnings For 1963
ATLANTA — Earnings of Ox
ford Manufacturing Co., Inc., in
’ creased 56 percent in the fiscal
. 1963 first half, ended last Novem
ber 30, to a record $1,276,021,
J equal to $1.55 a share on 824,533
common shares outstanding at the
; end of the period, it was announ
ced today by John P. Hunter Jr.,
president. Comparable first half
earnings last year were $814,454,
or sl.Ol a share on the 806,660
common shares then outstanding.
Net sales for the Atlanta-head
quartered apparel manufacturer
1 likewise reached a new high for
' the fiscal 1963 first six months,
> totaling $28,659,252, up 47 per
r cent from $19,446,159 a year ear
’ Her. '
Sales and earnings were also
f «
’ up substantially for the fiscal 1963
1 second quarter over the compara
ble year-ago period. Net income
■ for the recent three months was
r $583,734, or 71 cents a share,
- which represents an increase of
42 percent over $411,833, or 51
t cents a share earned in the cor
■ I responding fiscal 1962 period.
j Sales for the second quarter this
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: Ocmulgee Livestock Assn. Steer
Feeding Demonstration Completed
By: JULIAN A. RABURN
(County Agent)
The steer feeding demon.-tra
tion, sponsored by '.he Ccmulgee
Livestock Assoc.? m, was con
cluded on January t;h when the
60 animals on feed were sold.
Although some individual ani
mals showed a financial loss, the
i program was judged to be a suc-
I cess insofar as the overall results
l was concerned.
j One of the purposes of the Live
stock Association is to encourage
the production of livestock in the i
area. The results of this demon- I
i Master Corn Program I
Meeting Held
By M. K. Jackson
! A group of thirty-five farmers
j and businessmen met at the I
I Wheeler County School Cafetor-1
' ium last week and made plans
I for this year’s corn program.
! Mr. W. H. Gurley, Extension•
। agronomist, gave an interesting
I talk on the Master Corn Program '
' as it relates to Wheeler County.
।He used slides in his talk that
| illustrated many of the points he
discussed.
A short summary of the Soil
Fertility Program was given by
local county agent. A total of five
hundred fifty soil samples were'
taken in 1962. One hundred eighty !
nine different farms were repre- ■
sented in the samples sent to be |
analyzed. Dry weather held the
county yields back from what
would have been a normal in
। crease in yields under favorable
weather conditions.
Tentative plans were made at
the meeting to set up five to ten
domnns.t,rations ..ly/er the
county. In order for a farmer to
qualify he must take soil samples
on the 5 or 10 acres that he en
ters as a demonstration. (It is
hoped that other fields will be
sampled too.)
Another requirement is to fol
low the recommendations an
amount of lime and fertilizer to
be used which will be based on
soil sample analysis report.
Mr. Bob Tuten, Chairman of
this program plans to call a com
mittee together to draw up com
plete plans on rules and regula
tions since prizes will be provided
for highest per acre yields. An
entrance fee of SI.OO has been set
to aid in checking corn yields.
Several farmers are planning to
use herbicides for weed control
on one or more acres either in
the contest or in addition to acre
age in corn contest.
Mrs. Wallace Ryals, Wheeler
County Home Demonstration
Council President, and other mem
bers of the council and Miss Wil
lie Leggitt, Home Demonstration
Agent, served a delightful meal
for the occasion.
• year amounted to $14,255,916, a,
- gain of 53 percent over year-ear
-1 Her volume of $9,299,015.
“The considerable improvement
, during the last 90 days in the
! international situation and the
; general economy and business out
• look causes us to look ahead to
, the coming six months with con
s fidence and optimism,” Mr. Hun
, ter commented.
) “Retail stores generally had an
. excellent Christmas season, with
sales running well ahead of a year
. ago. Inventories at the retail level
. seem to be in a healthy condition
and Oxford management believes
the stage is set for a continued
high level of activity in the ap
parel field,” the company presi-
( dent added.
Oxford Manufacturing operates
1 a broad network of plants, distri
■ bution centers and other facilities,
: primarily in the Southeastern part
: of the country. The company’s ex
, tensive lines of men’s, women’s,
: and children’s apparel are mar
keted by more than 10,000 retail
■ outlets in all 50 states, including
. major department stores and
; specialty shops.
NUMBER 41
stration, together with the one
conducted by the Mcßae Cham
ber of Commerce last year, indi
cates that cattle feeding has a
place on some farms. It is often
said that the small producer can
not compete with the commercial
feedlots. In answer to this ques
tion, Durward Lewter, manager
of one of the biggest feedlots in
the world located in Big Springs,
Texas, recently had this to say:
“Commercial feedlots will not
take over the beef-finishing busi
ness because of the capital and.
I management required. A big feed
' lot takes a tremendous invest
i ment, and feeding doesn’t gener
! ally attract big capital.” He fur
ther commented, when asked the
question if. he saw' the big lots
crowding out the farmer feeder,,
that “farmer feeders are the most
serious competition we have. If
' a farmer hires two or more men,
I figure I can beat him. But if
he has only one man, and is rea
sonably prudent, nobody will
■ force him out.”
The results of this demonstra
| tion gives us some information
worthy of study. Os course, the
profit or loss with any group of
animals depends on a number of.
factors including the relationship
of feeder to slaughter prices, the
efficiency of gain and many oth
ers.
Here is a summary of the re
! suits of the demonstration. The
; beginning weight of all 60 steers
ion September 22nd was 27,050
pounds. The ending weight on
January Sth was 43,700 pounds.
This is a total gain of 16,650
pounds or an average of 2.59
pounds gained per head per day.
Each pound of gain required
an average of. 7.14 pounds of feed.
Broken down this represents 5.S
pounds of ground snap corn, 1.2
pounds of supplement plus a small
amount of minerals. Feed costs
per pound of gain w’ere 16.10
cents. When other costs were add
ed to this the total cost per pound
of gain came to 19.03 cents.
The initial investment in these
animals plus the investment in
feed, etc. amounted to $8,637.53.
The net sales value of these ani
mals was $9,199.32. This left a
profit of $561.79 or an average
return of $9.36 per steer. When
computed on the basis of 108 days,
the time the animats were on
feed, this represents a 22 percent
return on capital invested. A com
plete summary of the demonstra
tion will be made available, in
the near future, to all of those
who might be interested.
The Ocmulgee Livestock Asso
ciation wishes to thank all of
those who helped to make this
demonstration a success. It is only
through the combined efforts of
many people that such a demon
stration could be conducted.
$1,264,081.97 Paid To
Veterans In Area
The Mcßae Field Office of the
Georgia Department of Veterans
Service assisted the veterans, their
: dependents, or their survivors in
i this area to receive $1,264,081.97
I in benefits from the Veterans Ad
i ministration during 1962, it was
announced this week by John A.
Hall, local office manager.
The Mcßae Field Office of the
Georgia Department of Veterans
Service serves Telfair, Wheeler,
Montgomery, Treutlen, Toombs
and Jeff Davis Counties.
This money was paid to the
veteran or his survivors in the
form of death claims, compensa
tion, pensions, education benefits,
or GI insurance claims in recog
nition of the veteran’s wartime
service to his nation at considera
ble personal sacrifice to his own
economic progress or his physical
health.
By their very nature, these sums
flow immediately into the local
economy in the form of purchases
at local retail stores, thereby cre
ating local jobs, supporting local
churches and schools, and even,
paying local taxes.
State-wide the Department of
Veterans Service assisted Georgia
veterans or their families in se
curing some $132 million in bene
fits from the VA in 1962.