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VOLUME 49
Naval Stores
4-H Club Camp
Held Aug. 6-8
Three days of intensive train
ing in the production and use of
naval stores was held for 98
South Georgia boys and girls
who had been na.red delegates
to the 15th annual 4-H Club
naval stores camp.
The event was held August
6-8 at the Lowndes County 4-H
Camp near Valdosta, in the heart
of the state’s “gum belt” and was
sponsored by the American Tur
pentine Farmers Association.
The 4-H members — 51 girls
and 47 boys — were selected to
attend the camp on a basis of
their work in forestry and home
improvement projects.
C. Dorsey Dyer, Cooperative
Extension Service forester at the
University of Georgia, said young
sters who attend are better equip
ped to help the state maintain
its place of leadership in the naval
stores industry.
Mr. Dyer said Georgia has led
in naval stores production since
about 1925. “For the past few
years.’’ he continued, “the state
has produced approximately 80
percent of the nation’s supply and
about one-half of the total world
supply. Georgia gum producers
received over $25 million for their
1962 crop.”
The 4-H campers — many of
them from farms w’here gum is
produced — studied five topics
related to the industry. Geor
gia trees and how they grow,
gum production, managing Geor
gia’s forest resources, measuring
forest products, and furniture —
facts and refinishing, was pre
sented during the three - day
event.
Delegates learned how gum
and other forest products are pro
cessed when they toured the
Langdale Co. plant near Vald'atr.
on Wednesday morning, Aug. 2.
The camp ended Thursday aft
ernoon. August 8, with an hour
long final examination beginning
at 3 p.m.
Joining Mr. Dyer on the in
struction staff was Ted Walker.
Nelson Brightwell and Bill Mur
ray, Extension foresters; Jim
Spiers, area forester. Southern
Pulpwood Conservation Associa
tion; John Poole, forester, Inter
national Paper Co., and Miss Ava
Rodgers, Extension home furnish
ing and art specialist.
Livestock Meet
Set Nov. 7- 9
“Livestock and Youth” will be
the theme of the 14th annual con
vention of the Georgia Livestock
Assn, to be held in Griffin Nov.
7-9, it was announced.
The convention will be spon
sored jointly by the Griffin
Chamber of Commerce, the Geor
gia Experiment Station and the
Butts County Livestock and Pas
ture Assn. The GLA is composed
of some 2.000 members.
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Former Hazlehurst Mayor Among
Five Given Sentences In Dope Case
Five persons convicted of a
narcotics conspiracy centered in
Jesup, have been sentenced by
U.S. District Judge Frank M.
Scarlett at Brunswick.
“I don’t know what happened
to Jesup." Scarlett said, ‘‘but in
stead of the law-abiding Chris
tian community I knew as a
young lawyer, K became one of
the worst places in the state.’’
James M. Lewis, a Jesup auto
mechanic whose conviction was
his second involving federal nar
cotics laws, was sentenced to five
years in prison.
The other defendants were giv
en B-year probationary sentences
and fined $750 each.
They are Barney Mallard, Jes
up, convicted by a jury of con
spiracy; W. Clifton Madray, Jes- ■
up real estate agent; D. Fleming)
Kennedy, Appling County physi-'
cian; and Harold Clifford Harri- i
son, a building contractor and;
former mayor of. Hazlehurst.
The last three entered pleas of
nolo contendere (no contest) aft
er they were arrested last year.
Wheeler County Eagle
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Sponsored by Os. Dept, of Industry snd Trade * Os. Press Assn.
GEORGIA HERITAGE—The Georgia Press Association was
founded on August 30, 1887, in a meeting of representatives of
25 weekly newspapers at Milledgeville. Although several news
paper men previously had suggested such an organization, the
credit for bringing the group together for the initial meeting
belongs to M. D. Irwin, editor of the Conyers Solid South. In
April of 1887 Mr. Irwin urged the weekly press of Georgia to
form an association similar to those existing in several other
states. Other editors took up the call, and the August meeting
in Milledgeville resulted in the formal establishment of the
“Georgia Weekly Press Association.” Mr. Irwin was elected first
president of the GWPA, and J. N. Moore of the Milledgeville
Union-Recorder, vice president. Other late 19th century Georgia
papers represented at the meeting in 1887 were: Athens Chron
icle, Atlanta Sunny South, Blackshear Georgian, Canton Ad
vance, Cartersville Courant-American, Conyers Weekly, Craw
fordville Democrat, Cumming Clarion. Cuthbert Liberal, Dublin
Post, Fairburn News, Franklin News, Greensboro Herald, Irwin
ton Southerner and Appeal, Jasper County News, Milledgeville
Chronicle, Monroe Advertiser, Perry Home Journal, Sandersville
Progress, Savannah Local, Sparta Ishmaelite, Swainsboro Pine
Forest, and Warrenton Clipper.
Methodist Home For Aging To Open
Around Sept. 15th In Americus
Magnolia Manor home for the
aging is nearing completion in
Americus and is expected to
open about September 15,
Magnolia Manor is the retire
ment center being constructed by
the South Georgia Methodist
Conference. While owned and op
erated by Methodists, the home
is open to persons of all faiths
and denominations age 62 and
above. Applications are currently
being taken for admission in Sep
tember.
The center is built in Southern
Colonial design and will accom
modate 216 persons when com
pleted. In consists of 42 apart
ments for couples and 132 apart
| ments for single occupancy. All
I rooms and corridors are carpeted
j with each apartment completely
| furnished. The building is all elec
: trie with central heating and air
| conditioning.
Magnolia Manor will be one of
the South’s most modern homes
for the aging. All safety factors
for the elderly have been includ
ed in its design. Each room con
tains an inter-communication sys
tem so guests can be in 24 hour
daily contact with house super
visors. The building is fire-proof
i and is protected by a central
I sprinkler system.
; Nominal medical services will
:be provided for occupants by
Magnolia Manor with major hos
pitalization and medical bills
) taken care of through individual
; medical insurance.
i Included in the center will be
I large lobbies, lounges, sun par-
i Another defendant in the con
t spiracy, the late Wayne County-
Sheriff J. Clarence Reddish, had
• been tried before a jury in a case
that resulted in a mistrial. He
I was killed in an automobile
wreck shortly after the trial.
Dr. Lester Boone, Jesup veteri
; narian, was the first to be sen
: tenced in the conspiracy. He re
ceived a 5-year term in 1961.
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Ocilla Man Donates
First Cotton Bale
To Goldwater Fund
!
Marion Green, a life-long Dem-{
j ocrat, ginned Irwin County’s first
I bale of cotton of 1963 and said
; he would donate the proceeds to
the national campaign to draft
j Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.,
! for the Republican presidential
I nomination.
Green’s bale, ginned, brought
5272.50. He said he would make
| the contribution because he want-1
i ed to “assist in retiring President j
- Kennedy.”
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1963
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■. lors and television rooms. A
i beauty shop and barber shop will
> also be located in the building.
Magnolia Manor is located 1.51
■ miles from downtown Americus I
on a 392 acre tract across from
i the American Country Club.
- Rates and information may be
? secured from Magnolia Manor,
5 Box 346, Americus.
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Gladstone Rhodes
Dies Saturday After
1 = Having Heart Attack '
Funeral services were held in
the chapel of the Harris & Smith
Funeral Home Monday at 11 a.m.
I for Herman Gladstone Rhodes, •
[ 54, of Glenwood R-l, who died
. Saturday in the Macon Hospital
of a heart attack. The Rev. Ray-
. j mond Wilder Jr. officiated, and
burial was in the Alamo Ceme-1
,Itery.
. Pallbearers were Ivy Kirby,
. Truitt Browning, Gene Elton, Ed
Phillips, Edward Towns and M.
F. Gross.
Mr. Rhodes was born in Wheel-I
■ er County on April 22, 1909, the!
. son of Asa Thomas Rhodes, and)
■ Mrs. Ruby Cox Rhodes. He was
a member of Shiloh Methodist
Church and of the board of stew
ards.
Survivors include his wife, the;
former Miss Queen McMillan;!
two sons, Ronald Rhodes and 1 '
Sammie Rhodes, of Glenwood R-l;I
his mother, Mrs. A. T. Rhodes; j
five sisters, Mrs. W. H. Weldy,; ■
Os Mcßae; Mrs. Alma White, Mrs. j'
' G. P. Whitacre, Mrs. C. M. Ham- \
mond, of Tampa, Fla. and Mrs. j ■
M. L. Dußois, of Lake Hamilton, j
Fla. and three brothers, W. Ed-; 1
ward Rhodes, T. L. Rhodes, of;
Vidalia and Elder L. Rhodes, of ; ■
Alamo. ; 1
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M. L. Mcßae Funeral 1
Held At Marietta
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MARIETTA — Services were ) ]
held Tuesday at the National..
Cemetery here for Marcus Lin-' ;
wood Mcßae, 75, former Mont-;,
gomery County sheriff and farm-|
er who died in the U.S. Veterans,]
Hospital at Augusta.
A volunteer in World War I, p
he served in the famed Rainbow ' c
Division overseas for thme years, | s
mostly in France.
I Son of John and Missouri Me- ; I
I Leod Mcßae, he was a member ; c
of the Mt. Vernon Presbyterian ' t
Church. 1 1
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Ella Dickerson, of ; I
Homerville who now resides in, e
Orlando, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Thad : 1
Huckabee, of Albany; two daugh- i c
ters, Mrs. J. L. Gilleland, of Gun- \ S
ter Air Base, Ala., and Mrs. W. i J
I B. Mathews, of Orlando, Fla., and;?
j a son, Robert Gerald Mcßae, of! J
1 Satellite Beach, Fla. i g
! Weather Outlook For
; Month Os August
Over South Georgia
The 30 Day Agricultural Weath
er Outlook for the month of Au
gust for South Georgia, Southeast
Alabama and Northwest Florida
issued by the Weather Bureau
Advisory Agricultural Meteorolo
gist, Tifton, Georgia, August 1.
Temperatures during August
are expected to average near nor
mal in northwest Florida and
somewhat below normal in south
| east Alabama and South Georgia.
; Daily mean temperatures will av
; erage between 80 and 84 degrees
with afternoon temperatures
j reaching 95 degrees or higher on
'fl to 9 days during August. Early
I morning low temperatures will
j average between 68 and 74 de
grees with few readings below
65 degrees.
Rainfall during August will be
heavy over all of the Tri-State
Agricultural Area. Rainfall totals
will vary’ widely from- place to
! place but should average between
7 and 10 inches in northwest
Florida and extreme ; southeast
Alabama and extreme southern
Georgia. Over the remainder of
southeast Alabama and South
Georgia rainfall is expected to
average between 5 and 8 inches.
Rainfall is expected Ito occur
mostly as afternoon and evening
thundershowers at regular fre
quent intervals.
Sunshine during the next 30
days is expected to average about
165 percent of possible with most
cloudy periods occurring in the
early morning and late afternoon.
Soil Temperatures — will hold
about steady during the next 30
days changing only as the soil
moisture changes. During periods
।of low soil moisture three inch
(bare soil temperatures will reach
115 degrees in some sandy loams.
During periods of high soil mois
ture soil temperatures will level
off below 100 degrees.
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! Clyde L. Payne
Serving On
! Aircraft Carrier
USS ENTERPRISE (FHTNO— i
Clyde L. Payne, electronics tech-i
nician third class, USN, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hay
; mons, of Lumber City R-l, is
serving aboard the nuclear-pow- j
ered attack aircraft carrier USS j
ENTERPRISE, currently operat- j
ing with the Sixth Fleet in the)
! Mediterranean and slated to re
i turn to the U.S. late this summer.
The ENTERPRISE has been
with the Sixth Fleet since Feb
ruary.
! Recent ports of call for the car
j rier include Genoa, Italy, and)
I Rhodes, Greece.
The ENTERPRISE, an Atlantic!
Fleet unit, normally operates out'
of Norfolk, Va.
Prominent Wheeler j
) County Resident
Dies Unexpectedly
Funeral services were held)
Monday at 5 p.m. from the Glen-)
i wood Methodist Church for Gro-)
i ver C. Barnhill, 74, retired rural I
i letter carrier and world traveler, I
who died unexpectedly at his!
) home Saturday afternoon.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. Claude Croft, and burial was;
in the Glenwood Cemetery with)
Sammons Funeral Home, of So- j
perton in charge of arrangements.)
Mr. Barnhill, a life-long resi
dent of Glenwood, was the son;
of the late P. R. Barnhill and An-|
nie McCallum Barnhill. He re-)
tired in 1959 after serving fori
52 years as a rural letter carrier \
with the Glenwood Post Office.!
He was past president of the i
Rural Letter Carriers of Georgia;)
a member of Masonic Lodge 479;
a member of the Glenwood Meth
odist Church, and of the board of ;
stewards.
During .the past 15 years, Mr. ‘
Barnhill traveled to various parts!
of the world and lectured;
throughout Georgia about his! ।
travels.
Survivors include two sons, I i
Richard G. Barnhill, of St. Pet-!
ersburg, Fla. and J. Alex Barn-,
hill, of Huntsville, Ala.; three H
daughters, Mrs. J. P. Deering, of! ’
San Diego, California; Mrs. C. j :
M. Ansley, of Pulaski, Tenn.; i c
Miss Maxie Lane Barnhill, ofi c
North Guilford, Conn., and twojj
grandsons. <
Red Cross Ready To
Aid Families Os
Training Men
Any family of a serviceman as
signed to Swift Strike 111, the
large-scale mock war now under ]
way in the Carolinas and Geor
gia, will be able to call upon its ‘
local Red Cross chapter for help '
in event of a family emergency *
or other welfare problem which '
requires contact w’ith the service
man, it was announced here yes- :
terday.
James F. Howard, home serv- '
ice chairman of the Duval Coun- 1
ty Chapter, American Red Cross, 1
'said Swift Strike combat units
include Red Cross welfare staff
members who are able to reach ■
men in the field in case of emer
gency. >
i If a serviceman is needed and
I
the facts justify his leaving com
bat training exercises, the man’s 1
commander mqy authorize emer- .
gency leave, '“hen the Red Cross J
will help expedite his trip home i
and, if needed, will provide em- J
ergency funds, Howard said. ’
Operation Swift Strike began
, Sunday and is scheduled to end
August 15.
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Geer Sees Need *
For More School
i Busses—Not Less
।
Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer told ।
• the Georgia School Bus Associa- ,
; tion’s annual convention, held re- (
: cently at Jackson Lake, that
-1 “rather than being unnecessary, .
■ school bus transportation is now I
I more necessary than ever.” Said
• he:
I “Many ot our citizens, I fear, ■
’ I have reached the mistaken con
-11 elusion that because so many
1 1 families have left the farms and
■ j moved to the cities, that fewer
’ i school buses are needed.
' “Too many of. our people, I be
lieve, 'improperly associate school
L, ■■ -< 4 rt - \ 4 4 • v*, Li ~, II L*
I bus transportation only w-ith rur
jal schools. Some of them, I am
! afraid, think that the school bus
I transportation system is no long
ler necessary and should be abol-
I ished as an unneeded expense.
“You and I know that the exact
reverse of this is true. Instead of
needing less school buses, we ac
tually have had to have more.
During the last three years, for
! example, we have had to provide
! additional buses for 34,000 pup
| ils — 14,000 more than in 1962
alone.
“Thirty-one more school buses,
were operated in Georgia during
the last school year than during
the previous year. Rather than
being unnecessary, school .bus
I transportation is now more nec
iessary than ever.”
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank everyone
I who sent food, flowers, visited
I and tried to comfort us in so
‘ many ways during the untimely
j death of Danny Browning, our
I dear son and brother. May God
; bless and guide you.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Briley,
Wayne, Joan, Joyce, Bobby,
Jimmy, Bruce and Polly
Browning.
Slate Purchases 45 Mobile Homes
For Placement In Georgia Parks
Since assuming his duties as
date parks director in the San
ders administration, Horace Cald
well, well known South Georgia
hotel and resort operator, has
Deen working hard in an effort
io upgrade the 36 parks in the
date system.
His latest move was the pur
:hase of 45 air-conditioned mo
bile homes to be added to the
date parks facilities. They were
nought at a price of $169,700 from
:he Knox Homes Corp., of Thom
son, whose bid was the lowest of
five submitted.
The house trailers will be rent
ed to vacationing Georgians and
sut-of-state tourists. They are ex
oected to be available by Aug.
15.
Caldwell sees the new facili
ties as a big boost to attracting
more people to the state parks,
which he says have inadequate
cabin facilities. He said he knows
of no other state which has be
gun using mobile homes for rent
al purposes in state parks. Use
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Sen. Talmadge Still Hopes For
Lower Customs Duty On Poultry
In face of the European Com- ;
mon Market’s latest refusal to :
lower the customs duty on Amer
ican poultry, the future doesn’t
appear too bright for the U. S. ,
poultry industry as far as over- ’
seas trade is concerned.
But U.S. Sen. Herman E. Tai- :
madge, who will serve on the .
U.S. trade negotiating team at i
scheduled tariff-cutting confer
ences in Geneva next April, isn’t
even thinking about throwing in
the towel. He contends that the
“poultry situation may not be be
yond redemption.”
The Georgia senator recom
mends that the United States im
mediately raise its tariffs on ;
“French perfumes, French wines <
and German cars.” He said such ।
Downward Trend
In Traffic Toll
Noted In July
July got the second half ofJ,
1963 off to a good start—ine one j
important area, at least. The sev-1;
enth month recorded a downward ।
trend in Georgia’s traffic death -
toll. (
In showing a 15 percent de
crease in traffic fatalities, July '
became only the second month
so far this year to record a de- ।
cline over comparable months in I
1962. The other month was March ।
with a slim seven percent drop.
This encouraging news is con- ।
tained in consolidated statistics
compiled by the Georgia Depart
ment of Public Safety’s Accident
Reporting Division and just re
leased by Col. H. Lowell Conner,
director.
The report showed that dur
ing the first seven months of this
year a total of 658 persons were
killed in traffic accidents com-
pared with 600 a year ago, an in
crease of 58 fatalities, or ten per
cent.
Rural area deaths totaled 519
for the seven-month period, an
increase of 56, or 12 percent, over
a year ago. Urban area fatalities
were up only one percent, from
a total of. 137 to 139. Pedestrian
deaths throughout the state
dropped by five, from 101 to 96.
There was an estimated 28,512
more cars and trucks traveling
an estimated 450,203,620 more
miles over Georgia’s roads this
year than in 1962. As a result,
Georgia’s death rate( based on
the number of persons killed to
each 100-million miles traveled)
went up from 5.8 to 6.1.
“While July’s improved record
is far short of wiping out the
ugly over-all picture for the year,
at least it is encouraging,” Col.
Conner said. “We are hopeful this
is a turning point and that each
of the remaining months will
show a downward trend.
“We’ll continue doing our duty
in an effort to maintain safety
on the highways, but in the final
analysis it’s up to the individual
drivers. We appeal to them to
drive carefully and sensibly at
all times.”
by families will be emphasized,
he added, with a limit of two
weeks.
Thirty-five of the trailers are
10-.by-50-feet in size and are de
signed to accommodate from six
to 8 persons, while the other ten
are 20-Sby-40-feet and will, ac
commodate 10 to 20 persons.
Rental prices have not been defi
nitely established but are expect
ed to be $7 or $8 for two persons
per day and up to sl2 or sl4 for
families up to 10, he said.
The cost is about half that of)
a cabin, the director said. The
larger trailers cost $5,200 each;
the smaller ones $3,350. Built to
specification, the trailers will be
placed on permanent concrete
foundations and are reinforced to
last at least 15 years, it was point
ed out. |
They will be placed at the fol-!
lowing parks: Rep Top Mountain,!
15 trailers; Elijah, 10; Hard Labor!
Creek, five; Indian Springs, five; i
Fort Mountain, five, and Frank-.
lin D. Roosevelt, five. |
NUMBER 17
action could result in the Com®
mon Market lowering its higiK
tariff on poultry.
Poultry interests will be reprew
sented on the negotiating iteanu.
The other Senate member is Sen-
John Williams, of Delaware, than
nation’s second largest poultry
producing state. Georgia is tfte*~
No. 1 state in this field.
The Common Market’s present!,
tariff level o» poultry product®
is about 15 cents a pound
according to some estimates’, ha®
reduced U. S. poultry import®
from approximately S6O-millioi®
a year to about S2O-million.
In the Geneva negotiations next
year the United States and than
Common Market will “trade” con
cessions. The U.S. will agree ten
reduce tariffs on certain product®
the Europeans want to export
exchange for their reducing tat'-*’
iffs on certain of American ex-«
ports.
“I have been assured by Presi
dent Kennedy and others that w®
will (insist that agricultural com
modities as well as industrial
products be included on the list
for negotiations,” Sen. Talmadges*
said. “If our government stand®
firm, I hope the situation is not
beyond redemption.”
Talmadge emphasized that ta®
date the government has beera
firm. Said he: “I happen to-know*
of my own personal knowledge®
that the government has donas
everything in its power to geto’
the Common Market to lower th®*
tariffs on poultry. There has bee©^
no foot-dragging.”
Nonetheless, the tariffs havw»
not been lowered. And in view
of that, Sen. Talmadge says it i®
now time to retaliate and “show""
them two sides can play.” Her
suggested France and Germany'
as the targets because, he con».-
- tends, they were the “intransi-
-1 gents” responsible for keeping tins?,
poultry tariffs high.
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i Georgia Solons,
Sanders United
On Rights Issue
Gov. Carl E. Sanders, who raw
. cently made a strong argument's
before the Senate Commerces
; Committee in opposition to Piesw
ident Kennedy’s pending civiß
nights legislation, is well please#,
with the reaction to his appear'*-
ance in Washington. Said he:
“I am proud that all of th>
Georgia senators and congress
men feel exactly like I do o®>*j
this issue. We feel that it is fun
damental that we must protect,
the property rights of all citi~ -
zens.”
He was referring to the public,
accommodations proposal in that
President’s civil rights package.. ..
It was on that section of the biO',
that ithe Georgia governor testi
fied at length before the commit*
tee.
Sanders, in his presentation^,,
urged Congress to leave the so
lution of racial problems on ar
voluntary basis. He said enacts —
ment of the legislation would re
sult only in resentment and re
sistance.
Asked if the Georgia delegations
believed there was a change oft
defeating the Kennedy-sponsored:?
bill, the Governor replied: "They
feel that if it is passed, it wonTs
be passed in its present form.”
Sanders also said his testimony-:'
before the committee was favor
ably received by both those so»:
and against the measure.
Summer Round-Up
Clinic Day To Be Held
There will be a summer Round-
Up Clinic Day, sponsored by the.
Wheeler County Health Depart--
ment, for beginning school chil
dren on the following dates:
August 13 — Glenwood School,..
Glenwood, beginning at 9:06 o’-
clock.
August 16th — Wheeler Coun
ty High School, Alamo, at 9:o©^
o’clock.
August 20th — Wheeler Coun-
Ity Training School, Alamo, as
। 9:00 o’clock.
You are urged to bring yom...
i child for this check-up.
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