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VOLUME 49
Baptist Students
Elect President
Phillip C. Smith, of Athens, a
student at the University of Geor
gia, has been elected president
of the Georgia Baptist Student
Convention, it was announced to
day. The Student Convention is
comprised of 23,000 Baptist stu
dents enrolled in Georgia colleges
and universities.
Smith, elected to succeed John
Baxley, of Atlanta, took office
at the annual leadership retreat
held at the FFA Camp, Coving
ton, attended by more than 500
students.
Univ. Os Georgia
Law School To
Honor Dick Russell
The University of Georgia Law j
School Association is honoring!
Senator Richard B. Russell on |
May 4, at the annual Law Day
exercises in Athens.
Russell will be presented a
scroll for outstanding service to
the Law School, the University,
and the State. He is an alumnus
of Georgia’s Law School, Class
of 1918.
Alex A. Lawrence, a prominent ’
Savannah attorney and long time |
friend of the Senator’s, will pre-;
sent the scholl to Russell, who;
went from the School of Law!
to become Barrow County’s re-'
presentative in the General As- j
sembly, Speaker of the House of j
Representatives, Governor, and 1
now Georgia’s Senior U. S. Sen- j
Ted Hartley
Is Awarded
Scholarship
Ted Hartley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Hartley Jr., of Alamo,
and a Junior in the Wheeler
County High School has been
awarded a scholarship sponsored
.by the National Science Founda
tion of Washington, D.C. to be
used at the University of Georgia
under the direction of Dr. Car
roll T. Clark. Ten girls and 20
boys were chosen from around
five hundred applicants from the
various high schools of Georgia.
Ted has been assigned to work
on a project in mathematics un
der the direction of Dr. James C.
Cantrell. This will be a six weeks
Summer Institute.
Eligibility for this program re
quired that the applicant be in
the upper ten percent of his or
her class scholastically, in addi
tion to being properly recom
mended by the Principal and
teachers, plus excellent scoring on
the PSAT, SCAT and Mental Ma
turity tests.
This program is designed to
give each student a realistic idea
of what it means to become a
mathematician or scientist.
Our school is proud of Ted and
feel that he will represent us
well. We extend to him our con- j
gratulations and good wishes.
20 Top European Farm Equipment
Executives To Visit South Georgia
Southwest Georgia will be
come a world center of the farm
equipment industry next month
when more than 20 top European
farm equipment executives visit
the state to study the latest in
American farm implements.
The men, all members of Ford
Motor Company’s Tractor Divi
sion, will be joined by top man
agement members of Ford’s U.S.
Tractor and Implement Opera
tions for a three-day meeting at
the Company's Southern Training
Center at Vienna.
Countries represented include
Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Aus
tria, Portugal, Switzerland and
Norway.
The group will headquarter at
the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge
in Albany and will begin arriv
ing in Georgia, Sunday, May 5
aboard company airplanes. They
will leave Georgia from Cordele
on Wednesday, May 8.
In addition to their business
meetings, the European guests
will be given a liberal dose of
Georgia and Southern history
each day as they travel by spe-
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USB A PROMOTES THREE SOUTHERNERS -President Henry B. King of the U.S.
Brewers Association announces three promotions in the Southern District under the 1
USBA’s new "positive posture” program for better law observance, research into social
problems, and a broader public understanding of beer’s place in American life and busi
ness. William I. Truby (center) the Southern Director, was named Director of Advertising
and Public Relations in the New York office; Jesse J. Thompson (left), Florida Director at
Orlando, becomes the Southern Director in charge of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi; and C. A. Griffis of Decatur (right), formerly with
USBA for 8 years, returns as director of Georgia’s program. All three men saw service in
World War ll—Truby in the Marine Corps, and Thompson and Griffis in the Army. All
are married and together have increased the South’s population by 11—Truby with four
sons, Thompson with two sons and a daughter, and Griffis with three sons and a daughter.
The triple promotion was effective May 1.
James Yawn Wins First Place In
Ocmulgee Fat Cattle Show April 26
i James Yawn, son of Mr. and
! Mrs, H. D. Yawn, won first place
I in the Ocmulgee Fat Cattle Show I
। held at the Milan Livestock Barn
on Friday, April 26. He is a jun-
l ior in the Milan High School and
President of the Milan FFA Chap
ter.
His steer, a Hereford (polled)
weighed 965 pounds. He pur-1
chased this steer from E. C. Jones,
of Milan, a polled Hereford breed
er. The animal was purchased last
June. The Bank of Milan bought
it for 50c per pound and it was
sold to Wilbur Yawn, of Mcßae.
Allen Hart, son of Mrs, Lorene
Hart, showed the Reserve Cham
pion, an Aberdeen Angus weigh
ing 760 pounds. The Bank of Mi
lan bought this steer for 40c per
pound. Allen purchased it from
Guy Jones, Angus breeder of Mi
lan, last July. Wilbur Yawm, of
Mcßae bought it on resale.
On Fitting and Showing, James
Yawn was first, Kenneth Bell of
the Glenwood FFA Chapter was
second, and Allen Hart of the
Milan FFA Chapter was third. I
The third best calf in the show
was bought by The Merchants &
Citizens Bank of Mcßae. It was
owned by Kenneth Bell of the I
Glenwood FFA Chapter.
The fourth best calf, owned by
Henry Yawn, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. D. Yawn, was bought by The
Mcßae Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany and The Southern Gum Pro
cessing Company of Mcßae.
The FFA Chapter wishes to
thank all who had any part in
■ making the show successful,
j It was judged by C. D. Bran-
cial bus from Albany to Vienna.
W. N. Hudson, Wilcox County
Agent, will join them on each
trip and discuss local and state
farming, the War Between the
States, and other areas of inter
est in the South.
On Monday evening, May 6,
many of the visitors will attend
a testimonial banquet at Rochelle
in honor of R. H. Williams, Ford
Farm Efficiency Award Winner
in cotton. On Tuesday evening,
the group will have a private
banquet at Gargano’s in Albany.
The meeting at Vienna was
called to discuss the possibility of
marketing American-made farm
implements 'n various European
countries. Besides studying the
entire Ford line, the men also
will view many competitive im
plements.
Ford hosts for the meeting will
be Irving A. Duffy, vice presi
dent—general products group;
Robert J. Hampson, vice presi
dent and general manager—Trac
tor Division, and Emery Dear
born, general manager of U. S.
Tractor and Implement Opera
tions.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1963
nen, Livestock Consultant for the |
Vocational Division.
j They also wish to thank the
owners of Milan Livestock Barn,
Dr. Don Bell and all the workers
there for helping in organizing
i and selling the animals.
| Those who supported the show
financially were:
; Southern Gum Processing of
Mcßae, Mcßae Coca-Cola Bottling
Company, Oconee Tractor Com
pany of Mcßae, Southern Cotton
Oil Company of Mcßae, Mer
chants & Citizens Bank of Mc-
Rae, Bank of Milan, Milan Chain
Saw Company, Smith and Weth
erington Finance Company, Weth
erington Insurance Company, Tel
fair Timber Corporation, Ernest
Martin, H. A. Cook, W. D.
Knowles, T. L. Marchant, Joe C.
Jones, Tai Cannington, Henry At
taway, Floyd Attaway, Spires
Service Station, Jack Jones, Je
rome Studstill, Joe Selph, Wade
Butler, Milan Drug Company,
Wayne Curtis, T. I. Dowdy and
Hazell’s 5 & 10.
Angus Cattlemen
Production Up
Angus cattlemen in the nation
' are recording purebred calves at
a rate of almost 30,000 head per
month, according to Frank Rich
ards, secretary of the American
Angus Association at St. Joseph,
Missouri,. Regijstratioins for the
first six months of the national
organization’s 1963 fiscal year
totaled 176,950 head, an increase I
of more than 10 percent over the
same period of 1962.
; Sales of purebred black, horn
less animals also are higher than
' last year. Transfers of ownership
of Angus in the six-month period
are running 7.9 percent above
last year. The half year total was
146,405 head.
ator.
. The award will be made at a
luncheon at the Center for Con
tinuing Education on the Univer
sity campus.
Mrs. Don Harbin
Seriously Injured
In Automobile Wreck
Mrs. Don Harbin, of Mt. Ver
non, wife of Coach Don Hanbin,
of Brewton-Parker College, was
seriously injured Saturday about
6:15 p.m. when she ran her small
! car off the highway to avoid
I striking a stalled auto in the mid
dle of the road, or hitting an on
coming car. Her car is said to
have turned over three times.
She was carried to the Conner-
Beddingfield Hospital, Vidalia and
underwent an operation for the
removal of her spleen about mid
night, and is reported to be re
covering satisfactorily. She was
enroute home from Vidalia when
the accident happened in front of
the McGregor Methodist Church
in Montgomery County.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE EAGLE—
Homemakers Os
Future Advised
Addressing the Georgia Assn.
Future Homemakers of America’s
18th annual convention, just held
in Atlanta, Gov. Carl E. Sanders
had this advice for the youthful
delegates:
“As young ladies and future
homemakers, you probably don’t
feel like Charles Atlas with the
world on your shoulder, but your
role in advancing society is by
no means a small one. Quite the
contrary.
“Most of you will be the most
vital link in a long chain of nec
essities when you become parents
with children to raise and edu
cate. Please don’t forget for a
moment that education — regard
less of how you approach it —
begins at home.”
Dairymen To Meet
In Atlanta May 8
All Georgia dairymen have
been invited to attend a meet
ing sponsored by the National
Milk Producers Federation to be
held at the Biltmore Hotel in At
lanta on Wednesday, May Bth.
The time is 10:00 a.m.
Officials of the National Fede
ration will be on hand to dis
cuss legislation and other issues
pertinent to the dairy industry.
Included will be a discussion of
mandatory quotas, and how such
quotas would affect dairy opera
tions in Georgia, if passed by
Congress.
State Commissioner of Agri
culture Phil Campbell and mem
bers of the Georgia Milk Com-
I mission will take part on the
program.
Square Deal For
America Is Aim
Os Sen. Talmadge
To say U.S. Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge is pleased at having
been appointed to the U.S. trade
negotiating team would be a gross
understatement. In fact, the Sen
ator and former Georgia gover
nor terms it “the most important
assignment I have had in public
life.”
“It is the first time I have had
an assignment affecting not only
I our state and country, but the en
j tire Free World,” he declared.
Talmadge will be one of two
Senate and two House members
serving on the U.S. team. The
group will negotiate trade agree
ments with foreign countries un
der the terms of the 1962 Trade
Expansion Act.
The Georgia Senator said it
would be “catastrophic if the Free
World divided into warring, com
petitive trade blocs.” He said he
has been “quite distressed” to see
Common Market nations taking a
“protectionist” attitude, particu
larly on agricultural products,
such as poultry, feed grain and
wheat.
“But I do think I can recog
nize a fair proposition when I see
one,” he said, “I’m going to do
my level best to see that this
country gets a square deal.”
Local Veterans
Office To Be Closed
May 13-16 For School
The Mcßae office of the Geor
gia Department of Veterans
Service will be closed May 13-16,
Manager John A. Hall has an
nounced, since personnel will at
tend the Service Officers’ School
in Macon at that time.
Mr. Hall said in the event vet
erans and their families need as
sistance while the offices are
closed, they should contact the
Central Office of the Veterans
Service Department in Atlanta.
Their phone number is JA 5-5501.
The Mcßae Office serves
Toombs, Montgomery, Truetlen,;
Telfair, Wheeler and Jeff Davis
Counties.
The Service Officers’ School is
conducted annually to help any-1
one involved or interested in serv-;
ice to veterans to stay fully in- i
formed on regulations, proce-;
dures, and laws affecting veter- j
ans. !
Peggie's Gift And
Flower Shop To Have
Formal Opening
Peggie’s Gift & Flower Shop I
in Mcßae will have its formal
opening Friday, May 3. t
There will be door prizes and
refreshments. Everyone is cor
dially invited to visit the shop
and see the selection of lovely
gifts and flowers.
See the advertisement else
where in The Eagle.
Voice Os Democracy
Winner To Appear
On WMAZ Television!
Susan Johnson, of Royston, i
Georgia’s Voice of Democracy ‘
winner, Will be featured on
“These Are Your Schools”, the
weekly television program of Dr.
Claude Purcell, State Superinten
dent of Schools.
The entire half-hour is devot
to this program and will provide
a tremendous boost for the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, sponsors
of the Voice of Democracy broad
cast script-writing program. The
telecast, No. 32 in a series, will
appear on WMAZ-TV, Macon,
May 6 at 9:30 a.m.
87 students from Telfair par
ticipated in the contest which
was sponsored locally by the
Warren W. Powell Post, V.F.W.
"Keep Wheeler County Green'
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PROCTOR & GAMBLE’S new $4-million synthetic de
' tergents plant is dedicated at Augusta. Principal speakers
| for the dedication program April 17 were Governor Carl E.
Sanders, center, and P&G Board Chairman Neil McElroy,
right, shown here with Thomas B. Gill, manager of the plant.
The plant is the first facility of its kind in the Southeast
and produces P&G’s line of synthetic detergents.
The detergents made at the plant, plus household soap
products produced in other P&G plants, are stored in the
Augusta plant’s five-acre warehouse for later shipments to
markets throughout Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Florida.
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Colson-Rivers Memorial Hospital
Construction Is Now Underway
The Colson-Rivers Memorial
Hospital is now under construc
tion. The Finance Committee is
still soliciting donations and the
selling of debenture notes.
Funds are being raised by tax
deductible donations (big or lit
tle) fund-raising projects and by
the sale of debenture notes which
will be redeemable Januarj 7 1,
1970. The total amounts needed
for the building of the hospital
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Freeman R. O'Neal
The Georgia Power Company
has named Freeman R. O’Neal as
sales supervisor of its Macon di
vision, C. W. Roberts, company
vice president, announced this
week. He succeeds the late Hugh
S. Dodgen.
For the past nine years, Mr.
O’Neal has served the company
|as Macon division commercial
, sales engineer.
A native of Dudley, Mr. O’Neal
! joined Georgia Power in 1926. He
has served as lolal manager at
Eatonton, Sparta and Hawkins
ville and as manager of the Dub
lin distriit. Following a five-year
period of self-employment, Mr.
O’Neal rejoined Georgia Power in
1951 as a wholesale town «epre
sentative. He later held the posi
tion of community development
representative, and in 1954 was
named Macon division commercial
sales engineer.
Mr. O’Neal is a former presi
dent of the Dublin Lions Club,
and a member of the Masonic
Lodge, the Elks Club, and the
Shrine organization.
He is married to the former
Miss Madge McGriff, of Hawkins
ville.
1 is an estimated $30,000.00.
If you have not been contacted!
: by a member of the Finance Com
mittee and would like to be a
part of such a necessary and
worthy cause for our community
and county, please contact any
one of the following members:
ALAMO—'Edward Towns, Mrs»
Wade Hartley, Mrs. Frances Grif
fin.
GLENWOOD — Gerdna Join
er, Mr. and Mrs. William Fields^
Mrs. Delmus Sears, Mrs. Harry
Clark, L. B. Chambers, Mrs. Har*
i vey Manley, J. W. Graham, and
I Dr. L. C. Mcßae.
i Contributors thus far to oul
I Community Hospital are:
J. C. Boatwright
Annie Boatwright
Pearlie Mackey
Mrs. Mary Eva Beacham Jubß
Max Smith Dept. Store, Vidalia
Farmer Furniture Co., Sopertoa
Atchison Grocery Store
Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Coleman
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Beauchan^
Dearborn, Mich.
Mrs. Eunice Tillman
Miss Kay Boyett
G. A. Weatherspool
James M. Graham
Victor L. Graham
C. W. Roberson
Mrs. J. A. Pope
C. M. Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. William Fields
Annette Thompson
Max Smith
Bennie S. Adams
W. H. Kent
R. L. Atchison
B. R. McGowan
Mt. Vernon Bank
Wallace Adams
M. C. Guin
Mrs. C. J. Adams
James E. Roller
Dan Foskey
J. H. Dixon
| Holland Construction Co.
11 J. P. Morrison
Isaac Culver
Mr. and Mrs. Gerdna Joiner
Athalaine Wommack
Arthur Johnson
B. F. Jones
Delmas J. Sears
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Williams
C. W. Roberson
Mrs. J. J. Selph
C. M. Jordan
Mrs. M. C. Horne
John Heath
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Massey
W. A. Adams
Hilton Smith
Western Auto
Mt. Vernon Drug Co.
Ga. Furniture Co.
Reba Humphrey
Harry Clark
James Scarborough
C. G. Brown
Agnes Manley
Adams & Futral
Wheeler Co. State Bank
James Gordon
Foskey Tire Company
Glenwood Health Council
J. K. Tucker
J. A. Crockett
27 New Troopers
Add Strength To
Highway Patrol
It’s going to be more difficult
in the future for reckless motor
ists to get by with violating Geor
gia’s traffic laws. Reason: Tha
State Highway Patrol is now big
ger and stronger than it has been
in many years.
Col. H. Lowell Conner, direc
tor of the Department of Public
Safety, announced that the 23rd
State Patrol Training School has
just been completed and the 27
graduates have been placed on
active duty throughout the states
“With the addition of these 27
well-trained troopers, badly need
ed for some time, we hope to sea
a noticeable downward trend in
■the traffic death toll develop,*
he said. “This is an exceptionally
fine class since 21 of these men
have had previous experience
with the department as radio opt
erators or driving license exam
iners. It brings our Uniform Di
vision strength to 418 officers and
men, the highest in recent years.*
The six-week school, held at -
patrol headquarters in Atlanta^
was the first one conducted un
der the Sanders’ administration
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