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VOLUME 48
Leading Magazine
Carries Georgia
Progress Story
Georgia can not “have real pro
gress in the midst of social up
heavels . . . we are going to obey
the laws,’’ Governor Carl E. San-;
ders said in a Saturday Evening
Post article published today.
The 37-year-old Georgia chief
executive told Ben Hibbs, former
editor of the Post, that “While I
am governor, we are not going I
to resist Federal court odrers with !
violence, and we are not going i
to close any schools. We have ■
seen some pretty sorry examples '
c£ that kind of folly in the South, ।
and I want none of it in Georgia.” ’
Georgia, according to Hibbs, re- 1
fused to turn back to the 19th
Century after court-enforced inte- i
gration of schools and today is!
making rapid progress in race re-'
lations, education, industrializa-1
tion and political development.;
The state has become a major i
manufacturing area in the past -
generation and the trend contin- i
ues at an increasing pace, Hibbs
observed.
Georgia has grown from a rural'
southern state to a highly indus-,
trialized area, Hibbs said. The I
most spectacular success stories;
are the growth of the poultry in- 1
dustry, and the agricultural revo-1
lution that has converted idlel
croplands into pastures for cattle ;
and trees for scientific forestry.!
On the political front, the old;
county-unit voting system has■
been eliminated and Georgia has;
reapportioned its State Senate, i
Hibbs acknowledged many “un-■
happy incidents” in Georgia but I
commented that “by and large,
the state is learning to play by
the new rules with peace and or
der.”
Dodge County
Sheriff Trial
Sei For Feb. 19
Trial of Dodge County Sheriff
Lewis F. Mullis on a petition to j
remove him from office has been i
set tentatively Feb. 19.
Dublin Circuit Judge-Emeritus'
Rufus I. Stephens, of Dublin an-'
nounced that date at a Dodge!
County Superior Court hearing on |
demurrers in the Mullis case.
The quasi-criminal case against I
the sheriff accuses him of 41 sep- !
arate counts of “misbehavior and j
misconduct” in office.
Sheriff Mullis has denied all i
the accusations, and in the de-1
murrers asks that the court throw’ I
them out because they show no.
grounds for action against him. |
He also has demanded a trial on !
the charges, he said, so he could |
prove his innocence.
About 20 of the 41 accusations ;
have been amended by arguments ’
on demurrers, but none, as yet,'
has been eliminated by Judge!
Stephens. Nor has the Dublin jur-'
ist ruled on a general motion to ■
dismiss the entire petition.
Roger H. Lawson, of Hawkins-i
ville and Preston Rawlins, of Me-!
Rae represented Sheriff Mullis at;
Wednesday’s hearing. W. O. Coop
er, of Macon also is one of the j
sheriff’s lawyers in the case.
Mt. Vernon attorney J. Wade;
Johnson represented the state as;
solicitor pro-tem of the Oconee i
Judicial Circuit. He was named i
to that post in the case when Sol. i
Gen. Albert Mullis, of Eastman
disqualified himself because of;
kinship to the sheriff.
Among the 41 counts in the mo
tion to remove the sheriff are al
legations accusing him of:
Conspiring with Dodge Deputy !
Benjamin Jackson (Jack) Eckles.
and Jailer A. T. Barrentine to!
use the county jail for a “torture i
chamber and whipping post to;
beat prisoners in their custody.” ■
Approving, allowing and per- \
mitting Eckles to do likewise as i
a means of collecting open ac- ’
counts due him at his grocery
store from persons owing him.
Unlawfully receiving from the
county money for boarding pris
oners at the jail in cases where ,
it is alleged such persons actually j
were not boarded; and unlawfully ■
receiving fees and costs from ।
prisoners w-hich were not due him.
Wheeler County Eagle
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Non-Farm Employment Exceeded
1,117,000 At End Os 1962- Huiei
In his twenty-sixth annual re- (
i port to the Governor and General
I Assembly, Commissioner of Labor
i Ben T. Huiet states that non-farm
i employment increased throughout
I the year and exceeded 1,117,000
I at the year’s end.
The average weekly wages of
i factory production workers w-ere
; $72.62 in November, as compared
i with $70.82 during November of
j last year.
i During 1962 the State Employ
' ment Service was used by em
i ployers in hiring workers for
! 152,041 non-farm jobs. In addi-'
i tion, 119,984 farm jobs were filled.'
I “This is the first time since 1948 j
j that non-farm placements have'
• exceeded the farm placements,”
I Mr. Huiet said.
Job insurance payments under
j the State program totaled approx
imately $24.8 million. This is a
decrease of $14.5 million from
1961. The total paid out under all
federal programs, and the state
program totaled S3O million wh’nh
is a considerable reduction from
the $52 million in 1961. The fed
| eral programs referred to are for
j unemployed federal employees,
j ex-servicemen and the federal
I temporary extension of the bene-'
; fit period which expired earlier j
| in the year.
। In summarizing the report Com-'
Imissioner Huiet said: “1962 has'
' been a year of growth, relatively
■ high employment, and a rate of
: unemployment below the national
' average. However, there has been
; a growing concern with the en
| larging pool of long-term unem-1
j ployed which exists even during
। periods of strong economic activ
ity and growth. The difficulty lies '
| partly in the fact that some cate- ,
i gories of workers are not pre- !
; pared or qualified for the types of
I jobs that exist today. Also, there
1 are local areas which have not
! shared the general economic
I growth and expansion in the state
' and there are limited job oppor- '
I tunities in these areas. We are
, devoting our efforts to cooperat- '
! ing in several new programs di- <
rected tow-ard alleviating these
' conditions,
i
“At the end of the year 66 j
! Georgia counties had been de-t'
dared eligible for assistance under j ‘
‘ the provisions of the Area Rede-1
velopment Act of 1961 and nine I
others were pending.
“At the end of the year two 1 ]
Tattnall Farmer Seis New Record
For Peanuts - 3,529 Lbs. Per Acre i
Jimmy Rogers, a Tattnall Coun
; ty farmer, broke all Georgia pea
' nut-growing records with a pro
■ duction of 3,529 pounds of pea
nuts per acre in 1962.
Rogers was one of 67 peanut
Rep. Hagan Says
Wheeler County
Eligible For Aid
WASHINGTON — Congress
man G. Elliott Hagan of Georgia’s
: First District announced today
i that the overall economic devel
-1 opment program for Wheeler
County has been approved by the
i Area Redevelopment Administra
. tion.
This action is a prerequisite to
Wheeler County being eligible to
। submit applications for federal as
sistance under the Area Rede
, velopment Program and the Ac
celerated Public Works Program.]
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1963
classes in Georgia were ready to
open as a part of the Manpower
Development and Training Act j
which was passed in March 1962.
A number of others are in the
planning stages. All areas eligible
for assistance under ARA are also
eligible for the accelerated Pub
lic Works program, an act passed
in September.”
The Department of Labor’s
State Employment Service office
serving this county is located at
Dublin. It also serves Laurens,
Bleckley, Dodge, Wheeler, Mont
-1 gomery, Treutlen, Johnson, and
: Toombs.
This office, managed by Har
! vey N. Spivey, assisted employers
of the area in filling 3,009 non
farm jobs in 1962. During the
same time, farmers hired through
the local office workers to fill
' 9,190 farm jobs.
In 1962, $75,279 in job insur
ance were paid to unemployed
workers in Telfair County. At
present there are 111 unemployed
workers getting job insurance on
claims filed in Telfair County.
Tommy Williams
Dies Friday
In Lumber City
Funeral services were held
। from Block House Baptist Church
Saturday at 3:30 p.m. for Tommy I
Williams, 72, of Lumber City, who i
died Friday at the home of his!
niece, Mrs. Homer Tompkins after
a brief illness. The Rev. Wade
Ward officiated, and burial was
in the church cemetery with Har-:
ris & Smith Funeral Home in;
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Homer Tomp-!
kins, Edward Williams, Grady!
Hulett, L. J. Spires, Emmett Dan- i
iel and Lester Spires.
Mr. Williams was born in Tel- i
fair County on December 15, 1890,!
the son of Oliver and Sarah Vick-!
ery Williams. He was a member i
of Block House Baptist Church. •
and had never married.
Survivors include one brother, j
Corda Williams, of Glenwood,!
and four sisters, Mrs. Frances ।
Garrison, of Milan; Mrs. Lucie
Bohannon, of Jacksonville; Mrs.;
Susie Smith, of Atlanta, and Mrs.:
Goldia Little, of Helena.
A Girl’s Cycle: Safety pins, fra-.
ternity pins, clothes pins, rolling j
pins, safety pins.
- growers who received keys and
- certificates as members of the first i
- Money Maker Peanut Club dur- ]
■ ing the annual luncheon held in '
Tifton.
‘ Byard Barnes, of Colquitt Coun- ■
ty was second man in production
last year with 3,421 pounds per.
acre. Third were Harvey Jordan ■
and Gerald Dean, of Calhoun ]
County, who made 3,237 pounds ]
■ per acre.
The Money Maker Club is the i
successor to the old Ton Per Acre ;
. Club, which was operated from j
1950 to 1962 with 2,000 or more]
pounds per acre the goal. The ]
Money Maker Club was formed ]
! last year with a goal of 2,500:
, pounds per acre to attain mem- i
bership.
Os the 67 who made this goal
this year, 25 of them were from
| Grady County.
Sanders Asks For
Aid For Farmers
Gov. Carl E. Sanders has re
: quested U.S. Agriculture Secre
! tary Orville E. Freeman to acti
; vate the federal Livestock Feed
Program in Mitchell, Colquitt and
Lee Counties and to authorize
Clay County farmers to graze
. livestock on land now held in
। reserve in the Soil Bank program
The request for emergency as-
I sistance for these livestock farm
: ers was based on the fact that low
! yields, drought and freezing con
' ditions have destroyed grazing
! areas. Earlier, Gov. Sanders urged
; Freeman to activate the Live
! stock Feed Program in Dough
: erty County because of loss ol
| winter grazing there.
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Flue-Cured Tobacco
Growers To Meet
In Douglas Feb. 18
Flue-cured growers from Geor
| gia and Alabama’s bright leaf
: producing area will meet in
Douglas, February 18.
W. P. Langdale, Stabilization’s
| Director from District No. 2, said
! a very informative program has
! been planned for this year’s an
i nual district meeting of growers.
The meeting will be held in the
/ court house at 2:30 p.m.
Langdale stated that growers
i will get first hand reports on the
! overall operation of Stabilization,
I including receipts, processing,
! sales, and stocks on hand. Attend
! ing the meeting will be L. T.
i Weeks, General Manager, and
: other representatives of the Co-
I operative. Also, there will be of
; ficiaLs from the State farm or
| ganizations, agencies of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and
other allied groups present. Full
discussion of all problems con-
J fronting Stabilization will be held,
. followed by a general discussion
period.
Langdale also stated that the
election of the Advisory Commit-
I teemen from each county would
। take place following the discus
| sion period. He urged all flue
! cured growers to be present for
i this year’s sth annual district
I meeting.
District STAR Student
To Be Named In
Savannah Feb. 28
Announcement of the District
STAR Student will be made at
a luncheon to be held in Savan
! nah on Thursday, Feb. 28. Walter
i C. Scott, Secretary of the Savan
' nah Sugar Refining Corporation,
: who is Chairman of the Ist Dis
! trict Student Teacher Recognition
’ Program this year, stated that an
; interesting program for the STAR
: Students and STAR Teachers of
; the Ist District has been arranged.
! The day’s activities are sched
' uled to begin at 10 a.m. at the
’ Savannah Chamber of Commerce,
j located in the old Cotton Exchange
! Building. At 10:30 a.m., the STAR
i Students and Teachers will be
: taken by boat on a tour of the
! harbor, narrated by Richard S. ।
Dunlap. At the conclusion of the
! tour, the Central of Georgia Rail
way will be host to the STAR
■ Students and ’’’eachers, area spon
sors and other guests, at a lunch
! eon at the Penthouse of the First
' Federal Savings and Loan Build
j ing.
I The highlight of the luncheon
' will be the announcement of the
■ District STAR Student and pres
! entation of 5-year appreciation
awards to five of the organizations
!in the district which have acted
• as local school area sponsors since
i the inception of the program.
After the luncheon, the STAR
! Students and Teachers will be
1 transported to the television stud
ios of WTOC-TV in Savannah
i and at 2:30 p.m. will become tele
vision stars themselves when they ;
appear on a one-half hour live
interview program. Proud rela
; tives and friends will be inter-!
ested viewers of this program.
i The State Recognition Program
; will be in Atlanta on March 19th. ■
There are 19 school systems in '
i the 18 counties comprising the Ist.
j District. The Wheeler County
I STAR program is sponsored by
; the Wheeler County GEA.
Modern man is one who drives
a mortgaged car over a bond-fi
nanced highway on credit-card ■
gas. j
; Diphtheria Still A
Threat In Georgia
■ i According to the Georgia De
•jpartment of Public Health there
• j were 458 cases of diphtheria re
i । ported in the United States in
1 ! 1962 of which 64 percent^occurred
= ; in the Southern States. Georgia
■! with 46 cases was second only to
) I Texas in the number of cases re-
1 ported. The vast majority of cases
■ I were under 15 years of age and
! were not properly immunized.
: ! Your Health Department urges
• | YOU to help reduce this unneces
’! sary toll by getting protection
i , “shots” for yourself and your
• j family from your doctor or your
■ ;Health Nurse at Wheeler County
11 Health Center.
Babies should get triple vaccine
(D-P-T - Diphtheria, whooping
cough and tetanus) beginning at
two to three months of age along
with polio vaccine and a little
; later smallpox vaccination. This
protection should be continued
throughout life by periodic boost
’ er shots of diphtheria-tetanus
1 combined toxoid at about four
year intervals. This regimen pro
’ vides life long protection against
' highly fatal 'tetanus (lockjaw)
’ which is almost as prevalent as
’ diphtheria.
Your Health Nurse holds im
munization clinics at the Health
Center in Alamo on Monday and
’ Wednesday at City Hall in Glen
wood on Tuesday from 1 to 4
’ o’clock.
’
Sanders Allots
’ $200,000 To Aid
Young Retarded
Gov. Carl E. Sanders has al
j lotted $200,000 to study the “press
j ing and urgent” problem of build
ing new institutions for mentally
। retarded children of Georgia.
The Governor said the $200,000
would come from the State Health
e I Department’s budget to begin the
. study “immediately.” If necessary,
•j he added, the bonding capacity of
_ the State Hospital Building Au
_ thority would be increased to sup
r ply funds for building the insti
t tutions.
Sanders said everyone who is
! aware of the waiting list of more
t i than 1,200 at Gracewood (hospi
tal for mentally retarded children
near Augusta) “realizes that some
action must be taken immediately
t j to relieve this trying situation.”
’ j Spalding County Rep. Arthur
' j K. Bolton, House floor leader, was
' । instrumental in getting the pro
i gram moving. He was chairman
’ i of a special committee which re
’ i commended construction of new
facilities in this field.
। The older generation thought
■ nothing of getting up at 5 a.m.. .
and the younger generation does
n’t think much of it either.
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Gov. Carl Sanders interrupting a busy schedule for a
preview of the story on Georgia appearing in the Feb
ruary 16 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
The Post story titled "Progress goes marching
through Georgia” tells how Georgia faced up to its
problem and is moving forward at a rapid pace—in
industrialization, in education, and politically.
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Sen. Talmadge Calls For Program
To Assisi The Textile Industry
Georgia’s U.S. Sen. Herman E.
i Talmadge has called on the fed
l eral government to adopt a pro
i gram for effectively dealing with
1 the textile import problem.
Citing the “need for a whole
i and not a piece-meal solution”
I to the problem, Sen. Talmadge
■ told a gathering of New York
! businessmen the other night that
■ steps must be taken to put Ameri
-1 can cotton on an equal competi
tive basis with foreign cotton,
with synthetic fibers and with
>ther materials.
Otherwise, he warned, there
; will be a “further deterioration
; in the economic status of our cot
ton farmers and textile workers.”
The Georgia junior senator was
honor guest and principal speaker
at the New York Southern So-
Native Os Telfair
Buried In Wheeler
County Tuesday P.M.
Funeral services were held in
the chapel of the Harris & Smith
Funeral Home Tuesday at 2 p.m.
for Mrs. Sol H. Fowler, 55, of
Wheeler County, the former Miss
Tanna Bass, who died Sunday in
the Telfair County Hospital after
a brief illness. The Rev. L. H.
Grimes officiated, and burial was
in the Cedar Grove Holiness
Cemetery in Wheeler County.
Pallbearers were Hubert Fow
ler, Truitt Fowler, Doyle Fowler,
Pete Fowler, Junior Padgett and
Robert Clark.
Mrs. Fowler was born in Tel
fair County on March 1, 1907, the
daughter of J. F. Bass and Mrs.
• Ida Prickett Bass, She was mar
ried on December 25, 1937 in
j Wheeler County and was a mem
ber of the Holiness Church.
’Survivors include her husband
3
and one sister, Mrs. Ruby Nix,
, of Helena R-l.
■ I
Georgia Ginners
Honor Sen. Russell
Senator Richard B. Russell was
1 [ presented a plaque this week by
I the Georgia Ginners Association I
in recognition of his many years
of service to the ginning industry
and Georgia’s cotton industry. I
Russell received the award |
from the Georgia ginners in At-1
lanta during the two-day conven- *
tion of the Southeastern Ginners
Association where he made an
address.
The wording on the plaque
read, “Georgia Cotton Ginners
j Association — In appreciation of
his service to the ginning indus
try, this testimonial is presented
to Honorable Richard B. Russell,
11963.”
ciety’s 77th annual dinner. The
theme of the dinner was tlta
South’s textile industry, which ins
the last nine months of 1962 pro
duced 89 percent of the nation’s;
output of cloth woven from cot«-
lon, wool, and synthetic fibers.
Referring to the International.
Cotton Textile Trade Arrange
ment, Sen. Talmadge said the fed
eral government already has set
up machinery to deal with cotton
textile imports. However, he add
ed, the need for some arrangement
for woolen and worsted and man
made fiber fabric imports still
face the United States.
He also asserted that the Cotton
Textile Trade Arrangement,,
though a step in the right direc
tion, “cannot reach its full poten
tial so long as we have a two
price cotton system.”
The primary reason for the tex
tile import problem, Talmadge
said, “is the difference in manu
facturing costs here and abroad-
Foreign manufacturers have a de
cided edge over our manufactur
ers with regard to wages and oth
er costs of doing business.”
The Senator particularly criti
cized the advantage foreign man
ufacturers have in their raw ma
terial costs. Said he:
“Today the off-shore textile mill,
can buy cotton — whether it is:
grown overseas or in the US. —»
it $42.50 a bale less than
mills must pay.”
The result, Talmadge pointed
out, is that foreign mills are abler
to send their products into US
markets and displace products
made here from American cotton-
Then he declared:
“And inevitably, a loss of a
market for domestically made cot
ton textile products is translated
into a loss of a market for Ameri
can-grown cotton. This is not good
for either the cotton farmer or
the textile worker. This is not
good for my good people in Geor
gia or my friends elsewhere iot
the South. This is not good for
our nation.”
Janice Eloise Adams
Winner In Betty
Crocker Contest
I Janice Eloise Adams is winner
I from Glenwood High School o£
i Glenwood, in the 1963" Bettw
Crocker Search for the American-
Homemaker of Tomorrow. She
thus becomes eligible for one of
102 scholarships with a total value;
of SIIO,OOO.
Having scored first in her school
in the knowledge and attitude
tests on homemaking given sen
ior girls Dec. 4, the winner’s pap
er has been entered in competi-
tion with those of other state high,
school winners for state-wide
honors.
The State Homemaker of To
morrow will be named in thex
spring. She will receive a $1,50®
scholarship from General Mills,
sponsor of the program. A sso®
award will be made to the second:
highest ranking Homemaker of
Tomorrow in the state. The school
of each state winner will receive
a set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Later, State Homemakers of
Tomorrow with their advisors will
enjoy an expense-paid educational
tour of New York City, Washing—
I ton, D.C. and Colonial Williams-
Iburg, Va., which will culminate
: with the naming of the 1963 AU
: American Homemaker of Tomor
row.
The national winner’s scholar
ship will be raised to $5,000, with:
second, third and fourth place
winners being granted $4,000, $3,-
000 and $2,000 scholarships, re
spectively.
Prepared and scored by Science
Research Associated, Chicago, th®;
knowledge and attitude test is the
basis for naming of local and state
Homemakers of Tomorrow. Per
sonal observation and interviews
are factors in the national judg
ing.
The 1963 Bettj’ Crocker Search
reached another all-time high in
enrollment, with 410,466 girls in
12,964 schools participating. Since
the program started nine year®
ago, approximately three million,
girls have enrolled, and, including
this year, scholarship awards will
approach the million dollarl madt
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