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VOLUME 48
James Neil Gillis
Named STAR
Student Al WCHS
James Neil (Jimmy) Gillis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Gillis,
has been chosen STAR Student
for 1963 at the Wheeler County
High School. He chose Mrs. Mar
garet W. Johnson as his STAR
Teacher.
A senior, Jimmy serves as trea
surer of the Key Club and is a
member of the Beta Club. He is
a member of the Alamo Methodist
Church and is president of 'the
Methodist Youth Fellowship.
He plans to enter Middle Geor
gia College at Cochran next fall
and study for a major in electri
cal engineering.
Mrs. Johnson is the librarian
at Wheeler High and teaches Eng
lish. She is advisor to the Library
Club and coaches the senior play
each year. She is the senior home
room teacher.
A graduate of Berry College,
Mrs. Johnson also attended The
Woman’s College of Georgia and
Eastern Oregon College of Edu
cation at La Grande, Oregon.
Rev. J. R. Bowen
Attends Mission Meet
The first Nation-wide Associa
tional Missions Conference of
Southern Baptists was attended
by Rev. J. R. Bowen, Missionary
of The Daniell Baptist Association,
at Gulfshore, Miss., February Il
ls.
He was invited to consult with
leaders from fourteen Southern
Baptist agencies, and Association
al Missionaries from forty-eight
states. The Conference studied
ways to aid churches to better
minister to the spiritual needs of
people.
Tne 650 in attendance were di
vided into sixteen study groups,
where each member could con
tribute to the assignment.
“The Association Evaluating Its
Effectiveness” was the study
group of which Rev. Bowen was
a member.
The summation of the findings
required a ream of paper.
The Conference was sponsored
by the Home Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention,
Atlanta.
Dr. Courts Redford, Secretary
of the Home Mission Board said,
“The Conference was planned to
bring together associational lead
ers to confer with each other and
Southern Baptist agencies on
plans to help the churches across
the nation to do a more effective
work.
BROILER INCOME
Income from commercial broil
ers in Georgia in 1962 reached a
little over $l6B million, according
to the Georgia Crop Reporting
Service. This was almost sl2 mil
lion more than in 1961. Georgia
led the nation in broiler produc
tion for the 12th consecutive year.
Advertise in The Eagle.
Glenwood Couple Gives 1345 Acres
Land To Brewion Parker College
A gift of 1,345 acres of. land ini
Laurens County to Brewton Par-j
ker College at Mount Vernon was |'
announced by Mr. and Mrs. R. |
T. Gilder at a meeting of the
trustees of the college this week. i
An estimated value of the gift
was described by J. Theodore
Phillips, president of the college,
as “in excess of $100,000.00”. |,
Phillips stated that this tract of ।;
land is in excess of the 700 acres I
of land given by the Gilders about
two years ago. Proceeds from the i
sale of selective marketing of the I
timber is to be used to erect a
new home for the president, it
was noted. This brings the total -
of the two tracts given by the
Gilders to 2,045 acres — all in :
Laurens County and bordering
the east bank of the Oconee River
about 20 miles north of the col
lege.
Plans were laid at the meeting
of the trustees to honor the Gild
ers during a college chapel pro
gram. They are to leave for a trip '
to the Holy Land within the next ;
few days and the celebration is to
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February 16-23 is NATIONAL FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA WEEK.
Governor Carl Sanders signs a proclamation calling upon the citizens of Georgia
to cooperate in the observance of this event. Looking on are (1-r) State FFA
Vice-Presidents, Floyd Tabor, Jr., Perry; E. D. Bryant, Danville; Bobby Bos
well, Hogansville and Travis Moon, Lavonia.
President Kennedy Having Hard
Job Selling His Estimate Os Cuba
' I Despite the fact that President
John F. Kennedy is going too full
lengths to convince the American
1 people that the Cuban situation
1 is well under control, others oc
cupying high positions in official
J Washington apparently don’t agree
with him.
Latest evidence of this was seen
recently when Georgia’s two U.S.
Senators, Richard B. Russell and
Herman E. Talmadge, were back
’ home during a brief Congression
al recess. Both spoke out on the
current Cuban situation. Both
’ warned of the dangers under pre
sent conditions.
“The longer the United States
puts off action against Cuba, the
more difficult and costly it will
। be to rid the Western Hemisphere
. of Communism,” delcared Sen.
Talmadge.
“Sonner or later, Castro must
be toppled from his throne and
Cuba’s ties with Moscow severed.
' Only then, and not until then,
Pvt. James Peavey
Undergoing Training
, FORT JACKSON, S. C.—Pri
vate James E. Peavey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew J. Peavey, of
Alamo R-2, has begun his basic
comabt training at Fort Jackson,
! S.C., where he has been assigned
|to Company C, 19 Battalion, 5
’ Training Regiment of the U. S.
Army Training Center, Infantry.
( This is the first phase of his six
months active duty training with
the army and a part of the obli
gation he incurred upon enlisting
in the Army Reserve.
be deferred until their return.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Gilder, as
well as their children, attended
Brewton Parker. Now serving as
vice chairman of the trustees,
Gilder has long been affiliated
with the college as a trustee and
benefactor. He has also held many
important posts in civic, religious
and fraternal work. For many
years, he served as a member of
the Board of Education of Lau
rens County. He is presently the
General Superintendent of the
Sunday School at the First Bap
tist Church in Glenwood, a posi
tion he has held during the past
decade. He and his family are ac
tive in all phases of church "work,
serving as a deacon, chairman of
the building committee, and other
activities of his church.
Recently, fifty farmers from
America visaed Russia and he
was selected as one of the group
to make a month’s tour behind
the iron curtain. He is a Mason,
Shriner, active in Rotary, and as
a speaker to civic and religious
groups.
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FREBRUARY 22, 1963
, will the United States and Latin
i America be secure. Cuba has be
. i come a Communist stronghold, di-
J reefed by the Soviet Union, just
; off our shores and the island is
.; rapidly being built into the sec
! i ond strongest military power in
i this hemisphere.”
1 1 Citing the latest official esti
mates of the Cuban arsenal, Tal
l madge said: “Castro’s Cuba is to
: j day perhaps a greater menace
■! than it was at the height of the
‘ i October crisis, and the situation
1 ! worsens day by day. There is
• i mounting evidence that Castro,
: aided and abetted by the Krem
; j lin, is turning Cuba into a military
: i fortress.”
Referring to reports of the pre
■l sence in Cuba of four heavily
: armed Soviet combat groups and
i more than 100 MIG fighters, as
• I well as untold thousands of so
called Russian advisers and tech
■ \ nicians, Sen. Talmadge declared:
, ■ “The free world is watching to
| see what steps the United States
: will take to drive this threat from
, its doorstep. It is becoming in
creasingly urgent that the United
; States take whatever action may
: be necessary to show the world
' that we are too soft to firmly en
: force the Monroe Doctrine, now
J or at any time in the future.
. I “It is a mystery to me that the
i' United States can commit men
.! and millions to an undeclared war
J against Communism halfway
: around the world in Vietnam,
while an even greater threat ex
: ists on our very doorstep.”
1 Sen. Russell, who is chairman
•of the Senate Armed Services
’i committee, had this to say: “I am
I not afraid of any invasion of Mi
' ami or Miami Beach or even Key
' West, but you may be sure the
■ Communists in Cuba have com
i prehensive plans to take other
. Latin American countries by sub
' version.”
Pointing out that while the
' United States congratulated it
' self on last fall’s diplomatic vic
| tory over the Soviet Union, Rus
sell said it mus‘ be remembered
that Nikita Khrushchev “ran out
on nearly every promise he made
. . . We must continue — with
the Organization of American
States — to press Khrushchev re
lentlessly on every point.”
U. S. Population
At 187 Million
The population of the United
States has risen by nearly eight
million since the 1960 census to
an estimated total last January
1 of 187,293,000, the Commerce
Department’s Census Bureau said
Friday.
The Bureau said the figures do
not include U.S. servicemen sta
tioned abroad. It represents an
increase of 7,970,000, or 4.4 per
cent, over the figure for April 1,
1960, the announcement said.
Cleburn E. Gregory
Dies Unexpectedly
In Atlanta Monday
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Trinity
Chapel for Cleburn E. Gregory,
former political editor of The At
lanta Journal, who died unex
pectedly Monday night in Atlan
ta hospital. Dr. Charles F. Schwab
officiated, and burial was in De
catur Cemetery.
Mr. Gregory was closely asso
ciated with reporting politics un
til his retirement from The Jour
' nal in 1950.
Born in Lewisport, Ky. on the
Ohio River, an area rich in In-
I
dian remains, Mr. Gregory was
for many years interested in In
dian artfacts, as well as Indian
history and lore, and his know
ledge served the state and served
well when he headed the Histor
ical Commission.
As executive secretary of the
Historical Commission Mr. Greg
ory was active in placing thous
ands of bronze markers at signifi
, cant spots throughout Georgia. He
was an active member and former
deacon of the Decatur Christian
Church and was a member of the
Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity.
Survivors include his wife; two
daughters; one son; a sister, and
six grandchildren.
Georgia Power Co.
Distributes Checks
A check for $1,059.13 was de
livered February 19, to the city
of Alamo by H. L. Boyd, District
Manager, Georgia Power Com
pany.
Checks were delivered to Mc-
Rae $6,304.75, Helena $1,582.87,
Chauncey $341.01, Lumber City
$1,462.13, Milan $1,484.42, Rhine
$616.10 and Scotland $238.49.
This tax payment represents
three percent of the gross receipts
in 1962 from the sale of electric
power, under the Municipal Part
nership Plan, to commercial and
residential customers of the com
pany. It is in addition to the com
pany’s property taxes, which on
a statewide basis last year totaled
$7,308,700.
More than $2,734,000 in 1962
gross receipts taxes is being paid
this year to the communities of
Georgia. This is an increase of
more than $246,000 over the
amount paid last year.
The company’s total tax bill for
1962 was $31,596,000. This does
not include the sales tax which
the company collects from its cus
tomers for the State of Georgia.
; Neither does it include the sales
tax which the company pays on
materials used in its operations.
Attendance Cup
Section A of the Fifth Grade
received the Attendance Cup for
the third consecutive school month
with a 98 percent attendance.
Mrs. Gladys Williams, Instructor.
"Keep Wheeler County Green"
Airman J. D. Montford
Graduates From
Officer School
Airman First Class Jack D.
Montford, of Glenwood, has grad
uated from the Noncommissioned
! Officer Preparatory School at Mc
j Coy Air Force Base, Fla.
I Airman Montford, who received
; the academic achievement award
!in his class, was trained in the
j responsibilities and duties of non
; commissioned officers. The course
i included study in organization,
' management, leadership, military
j justice, security and human rela
i tions.
: The airman, a flight training
! equipment specialist, is returning
!to his permanent unit at States
boro. A graduate of Glenwood
High School, he is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry B. Montford, of
‘ Glenwood.
Airman Montford is married to
the former Joylean Floyd, of Ox
ford, Ark.
Charlie J. Adams
Os Glenwood Dies
i In Mcßae Hospital
Funeral services were held
Saturday at 2 p.m. from the Sar
dis Baptist Church for Charlie
‘ Jenkins Adams, 84, well known
resident of Glenwood, who died
last Thursday night in the Tel
fair County Hospital. The Rev.
Raymond Walden officiated, and
j burial was in the church cemetery,
j Mr. Adams was born and reared
in Wheeler County and was a
prominent farmer. He was active
. in church work until his health
failed several years ago.
Pallbearers were Talmadge
, Morrison, Dixon Morrison, Junior
Dixon, Edward Towns, Wallace
Adams and Eschol Adams.
Honorary pallbearers were Wil
lis Warnock, Troy Mims, Newman
O’Quinn, Gene Elton and Milton
Smith.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Leona Dixon, of
I Glenwood; one daughter, Mrs.
’ j Arva Towns, of Glenwood; two
j sons, Roy Adams, of Glenwood
1 ; and Al Adams, of Atlanta and
i three grandchildren.
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Henry Galbreath Jr.
Os Ailey Dies In
Savannah Hospital
! Henry H. Galbreath Jr., 39, died
J Tuesday in Memorial Hospital in
. ■ Savannah after a short illness.
Mr. Galbreath was a construc
i tion worker and a son of Mrs.
i DeAlice Booth Galbreath, of Ailey
J and the late Mr. Galbreath.
i He is survived by his mother,
two sisters, Mrs. Ray Waller, of
Vidalia, and Mrs. Laymon Coop
er, of Soperton; five brothers,
j Devoy Galbreath, of Shaw Air
1 Force Base; Hilburn K. Gal
i breath, of Albany; S. L. Gal
i breath, Reginald Galbreath and
| Herman B. Galbreath, of Ailey.
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Give Georgians Right To Govern
Themselves Says Sanders In Address
i “We must give our people .. .
| our municipalities . . . our coun
- ties the right of self-government.”
Thus declared Gov. Carl E. San-
i ders in a speech before the Al
ibany Judicial Circuit Bar Asso
ciation, meeting recently in Bain
j bridge. Subject of his address was
I “The Need for Constitutional Re
(i vision.”
' । “We must have a State Con
: stitution that defines the limits
•i of govrenmental power, rather
, I than one which limits the power
lof the people to govern them
. । selves,” said the Governor, him
* self a lawyer.-“I sincerely believe
! that our faith in the baliity of the
; people to rule for themselves has
| been vindicated.
i “Those who do not trust the
! people, fear them ... In the Geor
i gia of today, more people than
i ever before want to share in their
: government.
i “Our aim is to give Georgia a
I solid Constitution . . . made of
• !
। the firm material of fundamental
। law — everlasting character —
permanent in nature. I am confi
| dent that the Constitutional Re-
1 vision Commission which I ex-
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$5.5 Billion Development Program
Proposed For Southeastern Rivers
A U.S. Study Commission said
Monday that a four-year study
| of southeast river basins showed
| that $5.5 billion will have to be
। spent to meet the natural resourc
i es needs of the area by the year
! 2,000.
i The Commission, instructed by
’ Congress to prepare a plan for
i the over-all development of land
I and water resources to produce
• the maximum benefits in meeting
i the projected needs, said that
i about $l4O million would be need
। ed in each of the next 40 years.
The commission predicted that
; the population in the area would
i double to about 10 million persons
by 2,000 and said that future needs
: would include 27 power plants,
;64 reservoirs, numerous water
■ ways, 209,000 acres of irrigation
land more than 1.5 billion more
i gallons a day of water than at
present.
Commission chairman J. W.
i Woodruff. Jr., of Columbus, Ga.,
I said the proposed report was sent
to the governors of Alabama, Flor
ida, Georgia, South Carolina and
North Carolina — the five states
included in the 88,000 square mile
Conservaiion
By W. E. VASSEY
The following is a quotation
from the Georgia Farm Bureau
News—February issue.
“Planting Corn Following Sod
Increases Yield. . .”
Planting corn on land which
previously has been in Orchard
' grass-Ladino clover sod for two
or more years has consistently in
' j creased yields in tests conducted
jby Research Agronomist C. D.
Fisher and J. W. Dobson Jr. at
1 the Mountain Experiment Station
1 at Blairsville.
The greatest increase in yield
' (66 percent) was obtained from
: the first crop of corn after four
• years of sod. Excellent increases
' were also obtained from the sec
ond crop of corn after four years
of sod, and from the first and
second corn crops after three years
of sod.
The increase in yields were
measured by comparing the crops
of corn which followed the var
ious periods of sod with contin
uous plantings of corn.”
The above test results only bear
out further that which has been
proven in our section of the coast
al plain area, states Martin L.
Bridges, Montgomery - Wheeler
County Work Unit Conservation
ist.
In addition to corn, excellent
increases in yield and quality
have been obtained by growing
tobacco in a Bahia grass sod or
Coastal Bermuda grass sod. Any
one who is interested in this prac
tice should see your Soil Con
servationist or County Agent to
get more details of management
techniques, fertilization, etc.
, pect the 1963 Legislature to ere-1
ate will provide us such a Con-1
stitution.”
Gov. Sanders pointed out that
in its 68-year history, the 1877
Constitution was amended 301
times, and in the 18-year exis
tence of the present 1945 it has ■
been amended 381 times, includ
ing 327 local amendments and 54:
general amendments.
“Certainly this is not in keep-1
ing with sound theories of con-1
stitutional government Now, this i
new Constitution has itself be
come a hodgepodge . . . This flood
of amendments is unquestionably
weakening our Constitution,” he
declared.
“What, then, is the remedy? Is
it to undertake another re-writ
ing of the Constitution, only to
see it become another crazy-quilt
of amendments in a few years?
Or, must our goal be a new Con
stitution, based on the fundamen
tal law of our state government?
Undoubtedly, the latter goal is
the ideal goal ... My feeling,
my fellow lawyers, is that the
Constitution of Georgia must re
flect an inerent trust of the peo
ple.”
area studied, and to affected fed
eral agencies.
He said review and comment
by state and federal agencies
would be required before the pro
posal is acted upon by the Presi
dent, Congress and the respective
states.
A commission spokesman said
consideration was given to a pro
posal by Georgia Gov. Carl San
ders for a deep water channel
across his state to provide water
transportation from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.
However, this proposal was re
jected by the commission for the
40-year period as not being econ
omically feasible.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.,
disclosing the proposals ahead, of
Woodruff, said a detailed report
would be made to government of
ficials concerned next week.
A spokesman said the $5.5 bil
lion prediction includes all pro
grams now under consideration
which have been publicized ear
lier. He said more than one-third
of the total cost is figured for the
Apalachicola -Chattahoochee-Flint
river basins which run through
w’est central and west Georgia in
to northern Florida.
The commission found that the
availability of land and water."
will not be a limiting factor ini
meeting projected needs through;
the year 2,000. The report urger
that the long-range needs in the
development of resources be met
by cooperative action on the part
of private interests and govern
| ment.
| Projects and programs repre
senting an average annual invest-
i ment — private interests at all
■ levels and governmental agencies
[ —of about $l4O million for each
of the next 40-years for the re
1i source development are also pm
-11 posed in the lengthy report.
■ | The report shows study findings
; in flood control and preventions
domestic and municipal water
; supply and improvement and safe
guarding navigation; reclamation;-
; irrigation and drainage of land;
possibilities of hydroelectric pow
er and ndustrial development; soil
conservation and utilization; pres
ervation, protection and enhance
ment of fish and wildlife resourc
es; the development of recreation;
sediment control! polution control
and protection of public health
and the problems of hurricanes
and beach erosion.
The report points out that all'
elements of. the plan need not b®
developed at once, but early ac
tion in new construction, reserva
tion of land and water for latee
development, and acceleration of
existing programs is important to
the future of the area.
; The commission also found thes»
1 conclusions.
I Flood damages are locally idem
■ tifiable problems throughout the*
| area.
Ground and surface waters de-
I veloped or proposed for develop
- ment in the comprehensive plan
' are generally of good quality and
। fully adequate for all foreseeable
; uses.
Expansion and extension off
| waterway facilities can be accom
j plished to accommodate the proj
ected increases in waterway traf
fic.
The hydroelectric facilities. ’ in
cluded in the plan would meet'
only a small part of the demand
; for electric capacity and energy.
, The remainder can be generated
i by thermal plans in the area c*
j can be imported from nearby
i areas.
Specific suggested projects al—
i ready have been outlined by the
j commission at public hearings is
the respective river basins, Theses
spokesmen said, may be variowdy
undertaken with public or pri
vate funds.
In a summing up, the commis
sion said it expects the area’s pop
ulation to more than double te
about 10 million persons by th®,
year 2,000 with three of every
four persons then to live in urbant
areas.
It foresees a five-fold increase,
in total personal income. Count
ing men, women and children, ifc.
said it expects average per capita
income to rise to $4,000 annually,
more than two and a half times
the 1960 figure.
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