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VOLUME 50
Farm Safety
Week Begins
On July 19th |
National Farm Safety Week ac- ’
tivities for this year started at•
the White House, and through the I
Cooperative Extension Service of I
the U.S. Department of Agricul-1
ture, are expected to reach every '
farm and rural home in America. [
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
has proclaimed the week begin- i
ning July 19 as National Farm >
Safety Week, and has called up-[
on all Americans to observe it ‘
and its theme, “Safer American j
Families Everywhere.”
Willis E. Huston, Extension en- ;
gineer at the University of Geor- |
gia, is coordinator of the special I
week’s activ tieii s PcH
week's activities in this state.
“Our purpose,” Mr. Huston said.|
“will be to draw attention to the[
rural accident situation and pro
mote intensive, year-round acci- 1
dent-prevention programs in rural I
communities all over the state.”:
Sponsored jointly by the Na- 1
tional Safety Council and USDA,
Farm Safety Week programs try '
to cut down on the accidents that:
kill 8,700 and injure 800,000 farm
residents in the United States each :
year.
“The dollar cost of farm acci-[
dents,” Mr. Huston said, “is 1.5
billion.” He added that the grief,!
loneliness, and pain that acci- I
dents bring cannot be measured, j
The Extension engineer contin- i
ued that most accidents involve!
human failure — improper atti
tudes, carleessness, lack of atten- (
tion to rules and regulations, andi
many others.
During Farm Safety Week,
county Extension workers, farm;
organizations, and other groups:
will help prevent accidents by:
giving farmers and their familiesl
the facts and pointing out pre-:
cautions they can take.
Each day of the week will em-!
phasize a special theme. The i
theme for Sunday, July 19, is [
“Reverence for Life.’’ This will be i
followed on Monday with “Safety[
Begins At Home.”
Mr. Huston said special promo- j
tion will be placed on agricultural ■
chemicals (Tuesday) and recrea
tion safety (Saturday) this year.[
Other areas to get special atten
tion during the week are falls, [
highway safety, and machinery.
Dr. L. C. Aiderman Jr.
To Assume Duties
In Cochran August 1
Dean J. T. Morris, Acting Presl [
dent of Middle Georgia College
announces that Dr. Louis C. Ai
derman Jr. the new president oi
the college will assume his dutiei
on August 1. Dr. Aiderman cornel J
to Middle Georgia College from :
Henderson College in Henderson
Kentucky where he is now presi
dent. Dr. Aiderman will move hit
family to Cochran the later par;
of July.
Six new faculty members havt
been added to the college forth( .
fall quarter beginning Septembej ;
21. Included are, C. Eugene Cra I
vey, instructor in chemistry. Mr
Cravey’s home town is Alamo. Hi
holds the B.S. degree from Geor- [
gia Southern College and the M I
S. from the Medical College of [
Georgia. He has prior teaching [
experience at Abraham BaldwiJ !
College and Georgia Southern Col ;
lege.
Mrs. Ferris Brack
Is Buried At
Mount Olivet
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Mount
Olivet Methodist Church for Mrs.
Feiris Brack, 61, of Eastman R-4,
who died Monday in a Macon
hospital. The Rev. Eschol Grimes
officiated, and burial was in the!
church cemetery.
Mrs. Brack was a native of Lau
rens County, but had resided in [
Eastman for the past 12 years.
She is survived by her husband; [
three daughters, Mrs. Lois Morris.:
Mrs. Essie Bennett, of Eastman ■
R-4 and Mrs. Helen Widener, of ’
Chauncey R-l; three sons, Eskell,
Herschel and Hudson Brack, all j
of Eastman; one sister, Mrs. Lillie
Mae Clark, of Helena; a brother,!
Riley Reden, of Macon, and sev-I
eral grandchildren and great- ■
grandchildren.
Wheeler County Eagle
Georgia Baptists Sei Special Day
Baptist Village, Georgia Bap-i
tists’ ministry for the senior citi-l
zens, will receive the attention of
2994 Baptist churches, when a
special offering will be received:
on Sunday, July 19th. All of the |
leaders of the Convention, togeth
er with the pastors and local
church leaders are looking to July
19th as a day when they can
share in this new program which
has been in operation for over
six years. The goal for the offer
ing is a modest $160,000.00. Re
ceipts will be applied to the care
of two out of three of those pre
sently residing at Baptist Village,
and also to extend the service
until it reaches a total of 300 peo
ple, Administrator Harvey R.
Mitchell said. During the month
of July, the Christian Index, the
Baptist periodical, which goes
weekly into 120,000 homes, has
carried various items ol interest
and news concerning the growing
ministry. This, together with
thousands of pieces of informa
tion sent out from Baptist Vil
lage, Waycross, along with let
ters and other contacts, will cause
literally hundreds of thousands of
members of the Georgia Baptist
churches to be talking about this
much needed and worthy service.
The membership of the churches
of Georgia now stands at 935,768
(Nov., 1963). The ideal would be
that every Baptist would have a
part in all that Baptists do. There-[
fore, this is a very special month'
and this is a very special date
among Georgia Baptists.
Baptist Village is building and
expanding constantly under a
master plan designed for modern
care for 300. Baptists have just
dedicated their newest buildings
which brings the minis ry up to [
120, now, and has a service cen
ter for the full 300.
Dedication Day was held on
June 4th, when a thousand people
gathered to rejoice at the accom
plishment. Visitors go to the Vil
lage daily to see what is being
done. It is easily accessible, in j
the southeastern part of Georgia,!
inasmuch as Federal Highways 1,
Georgia Tobacco Market To Open
This Year On Wednesday, July 29
Commissioner of Agriculture
Phil Campbell has announced that
the Georgia Tobacco Advisory
Board, meeting at Jekyll Island,
voted to recommend opening
Georgia’s tobacco sales this year
on Wednesday, July 29.
Campbell said the vote was
unanimous for opening the week
of July 27 with 6 members voting
for opening on the 29th and two
members voting for opening on
the 30th. Therefore, Campbell said
he has accepted the recommenda
tion of the members of the Board
and that the tobacco marketing
season will begin in Georgia on
Wednesday, July 29.
He noted that this year the
Board reported a desire to shift
to a Wednesday opening instead
of the usual Thursday in the hopes
of having 20 selling days rather
than the 17 Georgia growers have
had for the past few years.
For the first time the Carolina
market opened last year on a
Thursday following the close of
Georgia’s sales rather than their
normal Tuesday opening. If the
Carolina market again chooses a
Thursday opening this year, this
will give Georgia one additional
day at the beginning of the sales
and two days at the end of the
season as tobacco buyers leave
Georgia and go directly to the
Carolina market.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1964
■|23, 82 and 84 go through Way
■ I cross. The Village, itself, is 101 l
ll cated on State Route 22, just 5
. I minutes west of Waycross. Bap
.j tists are grateful for the press,
■ | radio and TV service that has
: been so abundantly offered to aid
in all of their endeavors. Cer
tainly, at this time of the year,
. these media of information are
. doing extraordinary service for
■ this good cause.
Army Specialist Five
Buren G. Webster
In Summer Training
FORT LEWIS, WASH. (AHT
NC) — Army Specialist Five
Buren G. Webster, 25, son of Mr.
■ and Mrs. Elza F. Webster, Ala
; mo R-2, and other members of
the 4th Infantry Division are pro
viding support for the annual
summer Reserve Officer Train-
, ing Corps training program at
. Fort Lewis, Wash., ending July
. 30.
Specialist Webster is regularly
■ stationed at Fort Lewis as a dis
patcher in Headquarters Com
pany, 2d Battalion of the divi-
; sion’s 12th Infantry.
He was graduated from Wheel
; er County High School in 1956
■ and was employed by the Ford
Motor Co. in Hapeville before en
. tering the Army in October 1961.
Atlanta Gas Co.
Plans Meeting July 21
Cn July 21, at 8:00 p.m., a sec
ond meeting will be held at the
Atlanta Gas Company in Macon
' plan the organization of a lay
epilepsy league in Georgia. The
1 first and foremost aim of this
league will be an education pro
gram for the general public.
Anyone who is interested in
helping form this league will be
welcomed at this meeting. Those
who would like more information
please call or write to:
Mrs. Baxley Hickman, 745-0640
Rt. No. 8, Wilson Rd.
Macon, Ga.
I Realizing the importance of
each day to tobacco growers in
marketing their tobacco, the Board
voted on the Wednesday opening
hoping this would give Georgia
[farmers not only two additional
| days at the close of marketing if
|the Carolina belt opens on a
[Thursday, but also an additional
(day at the beginning of market
[ ing.
The two members voting for the
[July 30th opening were: Senator
Bobby Rowan of Berrien County
[and Senator Talmage McKinnon
[of Atkinson County. The remain
ling six members of the Board
। are: Colquitt County Representa-
Itive David L. Newton; Toombs
j County Representative Ross P.
[Bowen; Bacon County Represent
lative H. Dorsey Deen; Frank Pid-
I cock 111, President of the Geor
gia Flue Cured Tobacco Ware
housemen’s Association, Multrie,
[Georgia; Mr. Dudley C. Ray, far
mer, West Green, Georgia; and
[Georgia Farm Bureau President,
' Harry L. Brown.
The Georgia Tobacco Advisory
[Beard was established in Georgia
[by the legislature in 1955 and
[charged with studying the tobac
|co situation each year to deter
[ mine the best opening date for
! the most farmers. As Commission
er of Agriculture, Campbell heads
i this Board.
Miss Elsmer Smith
To Attend Medical
College Os Georgia
AUGUSTA — One hundred stu
dents from throughout the state,
including Elsmer Jean Smith, of
Glenwood, have been offered
places in the 1964 freshman class
in the School of Medicine of. the
Medical College of Georgia.
Miss Smith is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Elsmer Laden Smith,
Glenwood R-2. She is a graduate
of Truetlen High School and took
her pre-mediqal studies at the
University of Georgia. According
to George R. Greene, Medical Col
lege registrar, Miss Smith is due
to enroll in the medical curricu
lum September 3-5, during which
she also will participate in fresh
man orientation exercises. Classes
are scheduled to begin immediate
ly after Labor Day.
First year courses in the School
of Medicine include classroom and
laboratory instruction in anato
my, histology, embryology, neurq
anatomy, physiology and biochem
istry. These courses are designed
to provide the'student with basic
information on the structure and
function of the normal human
body. The material will find clin
ical application during the third
and fourth years of the medical
curriculum when students receive
assignments in the college’s teach
ing hospital (Eugene Talmadge
Memorial Hospital) working un
der faculty supervision in the de
partments of Obstetrics, Pedia
trics, Internal Medicine, Surgery,
Psychiatry, Physical Medicine,
and other disciplines.
Successful completion of the 4-
ycar curriculum will qualify for
graduation and a year of intern
ship in an approved hospital.
The Medical College of Georgia
is a state-aided unit of the Uni
versity System of Georgia.
Five Fitzgerald
Workers Injured
The roof of a cotton gin which
was under construction in Fitz
gerald was damaged by a freak
gust of wind Friday afternoon.
Five workers were injured in
the accident. Two of the victims
were hospitalized and three others
dismissed after treatment at Ben
Hill County Hospital.
The buiiding is part of an ex
pansion project for the Fitzgerald
Oil and Fertilizer Co. There were
ten men working in it when the
wind hit. Falling timbers and
metal struck five of the workers
as they ran from the building,
which was termed a total loss.
Wheeler County
Representative On
Study Committee
Mackie Simpson, Wheeler Co.
Representative has been appoint
ed to a fifteen member House
Reapportionment Study Commit
tee by House Speaker George T.
Smith.
The purpose of this committee
is to study and work out a plan
of reapportionment for the House
of Representatives which is un
der Federal Court order to re
apportion by next year.
At the first meeting of this
committee on last Tuesday in At
lanta. Representative Simpson
was elected Secretary to the
Committee. It is expected that
the committee will hold public
hearings throughout Georgia in
an attempt to get the ideas and
thinking of all the people for this
important task.
Advertise in the Eagle.
“Georgia Day ” At World’s Fair
To Be Celebrated Wed., July 22
; “Georgia Day at the World’s
i Fair” will be celebrated July 22.
I Peanuts, peaches, Georgia chick
[ ens, State officials, beauty queens
I and Georgia songs will all play
I an integral part in the success of
“Georgia Day.”
Governor and Mrs. Carl E. San
ders will head the official dele
gation of “Georgia Day” partici
| pants to New York where the
I headquarters will be the Waldorf
। Astoria Hotel. The highlighted
[ day will begin with the Governor
I hosting a press breakfast to which
j members of the New York press
| corp have been invited. At this
I breakfast, Georgia chicken, Tal
i madge country ham, grits and
Senator Talmadge Praised For His
Advice On Obeying "Rights" Law
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge,
one of the most vigorous and out
spoken opponents of the civil
rights bill throughout the con
gressional debate, fought with all
his might to bring about its de
feat in the Senate. But once the
bill was passed and signed into
law, the senator told his fellow
Georgians that he “cannot advise
anyone to violate the law.”
Now he is praised in many
quarters throughout the state for
this sage advice. Typical of this
reaction was seen in a recent Au
gusta Chronicle editorial, entitled
“Talmadge’s Sound Advice,” —
which said:
“The high degree of civic re
sponsibility shown by Georgia’s
U.S. Sen. Herman Talmadge in
I advising residents of this state to
[ respect law, and to refrain from
i violating even those statutes of
which they disapprove, is typical
of the superior type of leadership
with which Georgia people gen
erally are favored.
“Sen. Talmadge referred speci
fically to the so-called civil
'rights’ law, which he had op
posed consistently and vigorously
in the Congress, and which could
have been no more palatable to I
him than it was to a large percent- j
age of his constituency.
“Many thought, and still think,
that the law is evil in its concep
tion and in its effects — not be
cause it might advance the legal
status of Negroes, who have al
ways had more sincere friends in
this region than in the North, but
because it sets up possibly un
constitutional and certainly anti
democratic central federal power
to destroy one set of rights while
purporting to assert others.
“Sen. Talmadge has not been
fighting a race battle. The real
racists are those who have spent
the past several years trying to
incite one race against the other,
and they include not only the
Ku Klux type but also hypo-1
ertieal do-gooder agitators. The
senator, along with others, has
been engaged, instead, in a his
toric battle to preserve democracy,
local and state self-government,
rule of law, and safeguards of the
Constitution against the old and
ever-persisting pressures of cen
tralized autocracy.
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Standing, left to right: Wheeler County Health Nurse,
Mrs. Ruby Johnson, Mrs. Agnes Hughes, Secretary, Wheeler
County Mental Health Organization, and Rev. J. P. Quattle
baum, chairman.
Anyone interested in a Mental Health Program are in
vited to attend the next meeting, August 11, at 2:30 p.m. at
the Methodist Church in Glenwood.
SINGLE COPY 5c
fresh ‘flown from Georgia’ peach
es will be served.
At the Fairgrounds, Governor
Sanders will unveil a marker at
the site of the “General”, famous
Civil War railroad engine, which
is exhibited at the Better Living
Center. Following this, the offi
cial delegation will tour the
grounds via the Greyhound Glid
er and will visit at the Monorail
which will be named “City of
Gainesville” for the day.
Ovid Davis, Vice-President of
the Coca-Cola Company will host
a tour of the official party through
the Coca-Cola Pavilion. Luncheon
will be served at the Festival of
Gas Pavilion and will be hosted
“Utterly vital to his concept of
government, as it was to that of
Jefferson, Madison, Washington,
Franklin and other Founding
Fathers, is compliance with law
as promulgated by our represent
atives while at the same time pro
ceeding by strictly legal means to
work for change in any laws we
find to be unwise. This funda
mental concept of citizenship is
completely opposed to that an
archistic theory which tells every
man to obey only those laws he
wishes to obey.
“Sen. Talmadge said to the peo
ple of Georgia, *1 cannot advise
anyone to violate the law.’ That
was his position with regard to
racist demonstrations and racist
reaction to them, and it is his pos
ition with regard to reactions to
the effects of the civil ‘rights’
statute.
“For him to advise anyone to
violate an unwise law now would
be to forsake past high principles,
and to adopt the philosophy of
anarchy preached and practiced
by those who succeed in foister
ing this punitive legislation on
the nation.
“Instead, he has advocated a
consistent attitude of responsibil
ity, which is the best foundation
from which to work for those
changes which will return us to a
democratic and free-enterprise en
vironment.”
Mrs. Math Cooper
Dies In Lyons
Mrs. Math Cooper, 64, the for
mer Miss Jessie Lee Bass, died
late Saturday afternoon following
an apparent heart attack.
Mrs. Cooper was a lifelong resi
dent of Toombs County, and was
a member of the Baptist Church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. M. J. McCarty, of Reids
ville, and Mrs. W. C. Powell, of
Glenwood; four sons, Carl Coop
er, of Wyoming; Edgar Cooper, of
St. Marys; Eugene Cooper, of Cal
ifornia and Hubert Cooper, of
Lyons; 13 grandchildren; two
great-grandchildren; two broth
ers, Edgar Bass, of Lyons; Grady
Bass, of Soperton, and two sis
ters, Mrs. John H. Moore, of Vi
dalia, and Mrs. F. W. Knight, of
Stilson.
NUMBER 14-
:by the World’s Fair Corporation,
i and the Atlanta Gas Light Co.
Formal “Georgia Day at the.
[ World’s Fair” ceremonies will be.
! held at 2 p.m. at the Industrial'
(Common. The World’s Fair Band'
j will play Georgia songs. Partici"
! pating on the program from Gear
; gia will be Governor Sanders;.
[ Miss Georgia, Vivian Davis; Mrs;
'Georgia, Mrs. Elaine Whitehurst;.,
| and Miss “See Georgia First”,
i Sheila Stringer.
At the Industrial Common- a
Georgia booth with giant signa
| saying “State of Georgia Invites
You to Coke and Peanuts” wili
be set up. Here soft drinks and
10,000 bags of peanuts will be giv
en out. The peanuts were contri
buted by the Georgia Agricultar-.
al Commodity Commission fat
Peanuts.
Following the official ceremon
ies, Governor Sanders and the.
[ delegation will be greeted at the*
I U.S. Pavilion by Norman K. Win
ston, U.S. World’s Fair Commis*-
i sioner and Thomas L. Hunt, Spe-»
: cial Assistant to the U.S. World’! ■
! Fair Commissioner. The party
will then tour the Ford Pavilian.-.-
At 8:30 p.m., Miss Georgia will.,
pull the switch to activate the •
Beam of Light which shines front
the Tower of Light at the Electees
Power and Light Building. That*
night, Guy Lombardo and his ;
band will salute the State of Geor
gia through music at the Indu»
trial Common.
Other special activities in a©-•
cordance with “Georgia Day”
elude the flying of the Georgia
flag by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotei
and the featuring of Georgia dish
es on their menu.
Coordinating “Georgia Day aiV
the World’s Fair” is the Georgia
Department of Industry aofffe
Trade.
Mrs. Vela MacDonaldl
Dies In Ailey Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Velar
MacDonald, 72, of Ailey, who died
at her residence Tuesday night ,
after an extended illness were
held at 3 p.m. Thursday in the;.
Ailey Baptist Church.
1 The Rev. Robert Brewer anfr
I the Rev. English Byrd officiated.;
j and burial was in the Thompson'
| Cemetery.
Mrs. MacDonald was a life-long*
[ resident of Montgomery County
and a member of the Ailey Bap
| list Church. She was the daugh
[ ter of the late Rev. and Mrs*,
iGlen J. Thompson.
Survivors include one son, Glen,;
[J. MacDonald, of Ailey; twe
! brothers, C. G. Thompson and EL,,
!M. Thompson; two grandchildren,,
i Paul MacDonald and Mary Mac---
.Donald, of Ailey.
The body remained at- the
Frank Murchison Funeral Home,
l until one hour before time fat '
I the funeral when it was taken t®-u
| the church to lie in state.
। —
Annual Quarter
Horse Show To Be
Held In Waynesboro
The Annual Quarter Horse-
Show will be held in Waynesbar&;
on August 1. The show will be
held at Windy Hill Ranch start
ing at 9:00 a.m. with Halter class- ■’■
es for registered horses. The trai
ler show will be free to spectators.
At 1:30 p.m. the performance
classes, including roping, reining,,
barrel racing, cutting and western
pleasure will get under way.
The highlight of the day wilK.
be the Youth Events which, will
begin at 7:30 p.m. These classes*
are for youngsters 18 years oMfii
and under. The horses shown: te,
this division do not have ta bee
registered. Youth Events will in
clude showings at halter, west
ern pleasure, western riding, rein
ing, barrel racing and pole bend-,
ing. A high-point award wiR
made to the youth winning most;,,
places during the evening. Fat*
further information contact Mrs...
Bruce Solman, Rt. 1, Box 128,,
Keysville, Ga. Food will be avails
able on the grounds throughout
the day provided by the Burke'
County 4-H Club. Proceeds firom.-
this will be used to send countj.,
youngsters to district meets.