Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME 50
Executive Order
Gives GBI
New Auihorily
An executive order signed by
Gov. Carl E. Sanders Monday
gave the Georgia Bureau of In
veshgation full statewide police
powers.
“I am confident that the ex
panded power of the Bureau will
enable it to do a more effective
job in combating crime in Geor
gia,” Sanders said.
Col. Lowell Conner, state pub
lic safety director, announced that
he will set up a special squad to
operate on a statewide basis. In
the past, the State Patrol could
go into a county for investiga
tions only if requested by the
county law enforcement officials.
Sanders said that he and Con
ner started conferring about the
move more than a year ago.
“This step could not be taken
until now because the funds were
not available until the current
fiscal year began on July 1,” San
ders said.
Meanwhile, a dispute between
Conner and Solicitor General Wil
liam Boyd, of Fulton County
flared anew.
Conner said he had never as
signed a GBI agent to a special
auto theft squad which disbanded
a few cays ago. Boyd said Con
ner had made the assignment in
front of witnesses and agreed to
formatioon of the unit.
Commenting on Conner’s de
nial that he had first assigned an
agent and then withdrew him,
Boyd said:
“He believes in polygraph ex
aminations (lie tests) so let’s all
take one. Let him take one. I’ll
take one and everybody else con
cerned can take one, and we’ll
see who's telling the truth.”
Byselle Bedgood Os
Vidalia Dies In
Savannah Saturday
Funeral services were held
Monday at 11 a.m. in the Taber
nacle Baptist Church in Vidalia
for Bycelle Bedgood, 67, who died
Saturday in the Warren Candler
Hospital in Savannah after a short
illness.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. Sidney Odom, the Rev.
Charles Whitson and the Rev. H.
W. Scoates Jr., and burial was in
Pine Crest Cemetery with Mur
chison Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Ariis Rigdon,
John Sharpe, Ed Braddy, Kenneth
Hightower and Herman Moore.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the Vidalia Masonic
Lodge.
Mr. Bedgood was born in Wash
ington County on February 14,
1897, the son of Jim and Mamie
Frances Tanner Bedgood. He was
Seaboard Freight Agent for 44
years and was a member of the
Tabernacle Baptist Church and
the Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Sally Cannon; three
daughters, Mrs. M. H. Brewton,
of Savannah; Mrs. Ben Jones, of
Macon, and Tina Bedgood, of Vi
dalia; one son, Raymond J. Bed
good, of Atlanta; 12 grandchil
dren; 12 great-grandchildren, and
two sisters, Mrs. Frank Outlaw,
of Wrightsville, and Mrs. M. M.
Barbe, of Gulfport, Fla.
Advertise in the Eagle.
Fifty-Five New Industries Locale
On Georgia Power Lines This Year
Fifty-five new industries, re-1
presenting a capital investment of I
$72,020,000, located on the lines of ;
the Georgia Power Company dur- i
ing the first six months of 1964, i
E. A. Yates Jr., vice president and i
manager of the company’s area j
development department, an- j
nounced this week.
This compares with 34 new in- J
dustries, with an investment of'
$25,396,000, that began operation |
in the power company’s service .
area during the first six months
of 1963.
All facilities as reported by the
power company are manufactur
ing or processing plants, each with
a minimum capital investment of
$50,000 and employing at least
Wheeler County Eagle
a
W \ W Maae.
Don J. Brown, (left), Omaha, Neb., and Dr. Ronald Goldstein, Atlanta, Ga., representing the U. S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce, discuss the Jaycees’ new mental health and mental retardation program with
President Johnson at a White House conference. Aims of the program are improved mental hospitals and
community centered treatment and rehabilitation facilities. Jaycee chapters conducting the plan will
provide time, money and volunteers to overcome a 20 year lag said to exist in these areas of concern.
Co-sponsors are the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, Sears-Roebuck and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Stale Mission Emphasis In Slate In
September By Georgia Baptists
The Georgia Baptist Conven
tion, in cooperation with many
of the 3,000 cooperating churches,
will place a special emphasis up
on mission work in the state dur
ing September.
State Missions Season of Pray
er, and special offering for the
mission program, will be observed
by Woman’s Missionary Union
Sept. 10, and in Georgia Baptist
Sunday Schools Sept. 13, accord
ing to Dr. Searcy S. Garrison, At
lanta, executive secretary-treasur
er for the convention.
Operating with a budget this
year of $559,000.00 and employ
ing or providing assistance to
nearly 175 persons, the State Mis
sions emphasis is a vital part of
the work of Georgia Baptists, and
a key emphasis within the state.
Through their Home and Foreign
Missions Boards, Georgia Baptists
seek to provide mission emphasis
throughout the United States and
the world.
Areas of mission work in the
state include departments of Sun
day School, Training Union,
Brotherhood, Church Music, Evan
gelism, Student Work, and a Pro
gram of Negro work.
Other phases of the State Mis
sions program include operation
of the newly-acquired Georgia
Baptist Assembly at Toccoa, Pas
torial Aid, Associational and area
missions programs, a study-serv
ice ministry at Milledgeville State
Hospital, juvenile rehabilitation
programs, emergency church
building aid, full-time chaplains
at Reidsville prison and Battey
hospital, as well as work in good
will centers and a ministry at the
school for the deaf at Cave
Springs.
In Woman’s Missionary Unions
throughout the state, special study
groups will meet to examine State
Missions ministries, and as has
been a custom for many years,
the WMU will make special of
ferings for this work.
10 workers.
In addition to the new plants,
63 existing industries expanded
their operations during the first
six months of 1964. Total invest
ment in these expanded facilities
was $62,475,000. During the first
six months of 1963, a total of 41
manufacturing plants increased
their productive capacity at a cost
of. $13,035,000.
The new and expanded units
of the first half of 1964 will givej
employment to 6,573 Georgians
at annual wages of $23,347,700.
Manufacturing plants and addi
tions during the first six months
of 1963 provided 4,995 jobs at
annual wages of $16,696,000.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1964
In Georgia Baptist Sunday
Schools, on Sept. 13, special pro
grams will be conducted on State
Missions, and special offerings
will be taken in Sunday Schools.
Dr. Garrison, as executive secre
tary-treasurer for the convention,
is administrator for the State Mis
sions program, which is operated
under the Administration Com
mittee of the Convention’s Execu
tive Committee.
Offering goal this year is $160,-
000.00.
1965 ASC Committee
Elections Announced
County and Community Com
mitteemen who will administer
ASCS programs in 1965 will be
elected by farmers in August, ac
cording to an announcement by
W. H. Booth, Chairman of the
Georgia Agricultural Stabilization
Conservation State Committee.
This year’s elections will be
held by mail. August 21 has been
set as the final date by which
ballots must be postmarked or
personally delivered by farmers.
Ballots will be mailed to all vot
ers on record by the ASCS county
office on or before August 11.
Complete instructions will accom
pany the ballots which will de
scribe how they are to be marked
and returned in pre-addressed en
velopes requiring no postage. Last
year Georgia farmers had a 73.3
percent participation in the elec
tions. Wheeler county had a par
ticipation of 75 percent. The
county committees now serving
will be responsible for seeing that
all phases of the election process
are properly performed. This year,
the slate of nominees will include
the names of all persons nomi
nated by petition who are found
willing to serve and are eligible.
The present community and coun
ty committees now serving will
make additional nominations nec
essary to complete the slate for
voting. Persons who are elected
chairmen of the community com
mittees will serve as delegates to
the county convention to be held
between August 24 and 31 for the
purpose of electing the county
committee. Newly elected county
and community committees will
take office on September 1, 1964.
Lockheed-Georgia
Contract Increased
The Air Force has announced
an sll million increase in the es
timated total of a contract with
Lockheed-Georgia Co., to S4O mil
lion for aircraft production at
Marietta.
Sens. Richard Russell and Her
man Talmadge said the Air Force
announced it has obligated an ad
ditional $4 million on the contract
to bring obligations to date to $lB
million.
Boundaries Set For
ASCS Elections
J. O. Perdue, Chairman, Agri- j
cultural Stabilization and Conser- j
vation County Committee, today!
announced the designation and !
boundaries of each community I
within the county where elections |
of ASC community committees i
will be held during August. The |
elections will be held by mail ।
with ballots postmarked or re-1
turned in person to the county ■
office by August 21.
Boundaries of the various com- i
munities where elections will be j
held are: I
Alamo, Glenwood, Landsburg, |
Shiloh and Union-Springhill.
The Chairman reminded farm-1
ers that the elections will choose j
three committeemen and two al- ■
ternates for each community. The!
chairman, vice chairman, and reg-'
ular member of the elected ASC j
committee will also serve respec- ;
lively as delegate, alternate dele-!
gate, and second alternate dele
gate to the county convention to
be held soon thereafter, where
the ASC county committee will
be chosen.
Farmers eligible to cast ballots
in the election will be all those'
who are participating or are eli
gible to participate in one or more
of the national farm programs j
which the committeemen help to ;
administer locally, and who are!
of legal voting age and a farm i
owner, tenant, or sharecropper, i'
Persons not of legal voting age!'
who are in charge of the farming:'
operations on an entire farm are j
also eligible to vote in the elec-1'
tions.
Programs administered by the j
ASC county and community com-L
mittees include the Agricultural;,
Conservation Program, acreage al
lotments, marketing quotas, com-',
modify loans, the feed grain pro- > ■
gram, the voluntary wheat pro- j
gram, the Sugar Act program, the j
National Wool program, farm stor-i
age facility loans, and others as ■ 1
assigned by the Secretary of Ag-;,
riculture.
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
The following is a list of pa
tients who were in the Wheeler
County Hospital during the week
of July 13th:
Mrs. Ruby Jane Nix, Helena
Mrs. Gertrude Joiner, Glenwood
Mrs. Annie Lee Elton, Alamo
Miss Carol Douglas, Glenwood
Mrs. Johnnie Roberson and
baby, Alamo
Mrs. Vivian Johnson and baby,
Alamo
Mrs. Shirley Hilliard, Glenwood
Gordon Joyce, Mount Vernon
Brantley Purvis, Alamo
Jim Henry Mercer, Glenwood
Pearlie Wilkerson, Alamo
Eugene Stone. Glenwood
Colored patients listed as fol
lows:
Monie McAllister, Ailey
Wanda Green, Glenwood
Carrie Johnson, Alamo
Madison Harvey, Alamo
George Williams, Mt. Vernon
Mrs. J. J. Thompson
(Buried In Vidalia
Sunday Afternoon
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Taber
nacle Baptist Church in Vidalia
[for Mrs. John Jordan Thompson,
I 87, the former Miss Mary Kaye
I Kea, who died Friday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. John A.
[Wilkes, in Covena.
Services were conducted by the
I Rev. Charles Whitson, and Elder
ID. R. Temples, and burial was in
! Pine Crest Cemetery with Mur
| chison Funeral Home in charge
| of arrangements.
i Pallbearers were Danny Wilkes,
Roger Adams, Billy Thompson,
Harold Peterson, Hubert Thomp
son and Ray Adams.
Honorary pallbearers were Es-
I lie Thompson, George Kea, Louis
(Kea, Dessie Kea, George Thomp
i son and Andrew Kea.
I Mrs. Thompson was born in
j Emanuel County on April 26,
i 1877, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
। John Kea and lived in Emanuel
। County all of her life. She was
[ a member of North Thompson
। Baptist Church.
। She is survived by five daugh
! ters, Mrs. John A. Wilkes, of Cov
jena; Mrs. Drayton Adams, of Vi-
Idalia; Mrs. J. H. Atkins, Mrs.
(Raymond Zorn, of Augusta, and
[Mrs. A. C. Giles, of Claxton; one
Ison, Guyton Thompson, of Nunes;
117 grandchildren; 27 great-grand
i children and one sister, Mrs. An
। drew Turner, of Garfield.
Sanders Swears
In New Georgia
School Council
Gov. Carl E. Sanders has sworn
;in members of the newly creat
’ed Georgia Education Improve
|ment Council, a body whose ob
i jective is to set long-range edu-
I cational policies for the state.
! The Governor pointed out the
i creation of the council by the 1964
Legislature was the No. 1 re
| commendation of the Governor’s
I Commission to Improve Educa
। tion. Said he:
“This is a new approach in the
I education spectrum. They (the
; commission) simply recognized
i that in the past Georgia had pri
i marily planned from administra-
I tion to administration. There was
!no real long-range cooperative
! planning between the Board of
Regents, the Department of Edu
-1 cation and the Legilsature.”
Gov. Sanders said that if the
General Assembly had not en
i acted the education improvement
■ program which the commission re
i commended “Georgia would have
! been left in the dust. Now we are
leaving other people in the dust.
We have to keep running as fast
; as we can. Now we’re ahead and
!we want to stay ahead.”
j Joseph A. Whittle, Brunswick
attorney, was elected chairman
jat the council’s organizational
'meeting. The 12-member council
.will have a budget of $50,000 and
; expects to name a full-time direc
! tor at an early date.
—
i Pedestrian: “Sorry, but I just
! don’t give money to men on the
' street.”
Panhandler: “You want I should
■ open an office?”
Sen. Goldwater And LBJ Both
Likely To Campaign In Georgia
Present indications are that both
U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, the
newly-nominated Republican pre
sidential candidate, and his oppo
nent-to-be, President Lyndon B.
Johnson, will come to Georgia dur
ing the campaign and deliver ma
jor speeches. Here’s where the in
dications come from:
Before returning home from
San Francisco, Georgia delegates
who helped Goldwater win the
GOP nomination said the senator
has promised them informally to
address a big state-wide rally in
Atlanta sometime during the cam
paign.
Atlanta’s Roscoe Pickett, the
new Georgia national committee
man, said Goldwater has indi
cated a willingness to speak in
Atlanta on a date to be set later.
Pickett said plans for the
“tough” job of trying to pull
Georgia out of its traditional
Democratic column this year (this
has never been done before) will
be started at a state-wide meet-
SINGLE COPY 5c
Gov. Sanders And Col. Conner Favor
Stronger Highway Patrol For State
Ever since Co. H. Lowell Con
ner, a career man in Georgia’s
27-year-old public safety setup,
became director of the Depart
ment of Public Safety in 1961 he
has been telling everyone who
will listen that a major need in
reversing Georgia’s traffic death
toll is to strengthen the State
Patrol. He’s still saying that.
And now' it appears that the
state public safety' director is get
ting some help where it counts.
For example, Gov. Carl E. San
ders, in a message in the just-re
leased annual report of the Safety
Department, said this:
“There is no doubt that the
number of fatalities could be re
duced by' enlarging the Depart
ment of Public Safety. Each life
saved would be a tremendous
blessing to loved ones, and would
be an economic saving of SIBO,-
000 (the estimated economic loss
per each fatality) to the state’s
economy.
Georgia's Murder
Rale Double The
National Average
Georgia’s murder rate is dou
ble the national average Mnd third
highest in the country, according
to an FBI report released Monday.
The Georgia murder rate in
1963 declined over the 1962 rate,
but there were still 396 offenses
of murder and non-negligent man
slaughter recorded—a little better
than one a day.
According to the report, Geor
gia had a homicide rate of 9.4 per
100,000 population compared with
the national average of 4.5 per
100,000.
Aside from a decline in mur
ders and rapes, most other cate
gories of crime showed an increase
in Georgia during 1963, the re
port showed.
Two other Southern states —
Alabama and South Carolina —
have higher murder rates than
Georgia.
Wheeler County
Included In Hiway
Construction Bids
Bids will be received by the
State Highway Department on an
estimated $7.6 million dollars in
new road construction and im
provement contracts on August 7,
according to State Highway Di
rector Jim L. Gillis.
The coming letting will include
three Interstate, one Federal-aid
Primary, one Federal-aid Urban,
seven Federal-aid Secondary, and
eleven State-aid contracts, calling
for work in 26 Georgia counties,
Mr. Gillis said.
Included in this is the following:
Wheeler — 10.041 miles of
grading and paving on the State
Route 126 — Laurens County Line
Road, beginning at State Route
126, approximately 4 miles south
east of Alamo and extending north
and northwest to the Laurens
County line.
ing of Republican workers on a
county and precinct level in At
lanta Aug. 31.
And here at home, State Demo
cratic Committee Chairman J. B.
Fuqua, of Augusta, predicted that
President Johnson will visit Geor
gia at least once during the up
coming presidential campaign.
Said he:
“Yes, I think the President will
be in Georgia during the cam
paign — at least once and perhaps
more than once. He has never
overlooked Georgia.”
Meanwhile, speculation runs
high as to how Georgians will
vote in the November presiden
tial election. Both Chairman Fu
qua and Gov. Carl E. Sanders ex
press beliefs that the majority of
Georgians will vote Democratic
as they have always done. But,
judging from reports being heard
throughout the state, this con
ceivably could turn out to be that
year that was for the Republican
Party in Georgia.
NUMBER 15
“If services are not expanded^
we will pay the price in blood.
There is no better area in which
to expand than in the area of
traffic safety.’’
Col. Conner, in the annual re
port addressed to the Governor*
to members of the General As
sembly and to members of the
Board of Public Safety, said:
“This report reflects an increase
over 1962 in the number of traf- -
fie fatalities, the number of peo
ple injured and the total number
of traffic accidents. This increase
is offset to some extent by th&
increase in the number of miles
driven, the number of licensed
drivers and the number of reg
istered vehicles.
“While this department has
tried to operate in an economical
and efficient manner, it has been
called on to perform an ever in
creasing number and variety ot
duties. Two new divisions have
recently been added to this de
partment. The regular patrol ac
tivities have been increasing at
the rate of about eight percent
a year.
“As the traffic problem contin
ues to increase in size and com
plexity, this department will he
more and more dependent on the
complete cooperation of the Gov
ernor and the members of the
General Assembly.
“We feel that our primary duty,
protecting the lives of the citi
zens of Georgia, is a sacred trust
We feel that we can safely say,
without being conceited, that the
protection of the lives of our citi
zens is the most important duty
performed by any department o!
our state government.”
And now, with encouragement
from Gov. Sanders, the safety di
rector is going all-out in an effort
to increase the size and effective
ness of the State Patrol.
Col. Conner said that he will
ask the General Assembly whe»
it convenes in January for enough
money to hire 250 new state troop
ers. The men would be hired at
the rate of 125 a year for th*
next two years. Said the director:
“Georgia has fewer trooper*
than any other state in the South,
even though it has more miles
to patrol. The traffic is increas
ing, each year there are 90,000
more cars and 110,000 more driv
ers on the roads. Every year we
have added men there has been
a reduction in fatalities. And wa
certainly need more troopers
now.”
The total strength of the pa
trol’s Uniform Division is novf
only 393 men.
Sen. Talmadge To
Speak At American
Legion Convention
The 46th annual State Conven
tion of the American Legion, De
partment of Georgia, gets under
way Friday, July 24, at the Au
gusta Town House in Augusta
and will continue until Sunday*
July 26.
Senator Herman Talmadge will
be the featured speaker on Sat
urday evening at the annual ban
quet honoring outgoing Depart
ment Commander Herman Spohn,
of College Park, and Auxiliary
President, Mrs. O. B. Cawthon, of
Atlanta.
Other speakers to appear be
fore the delegates during the con
vention include Congressmen El
liot Hagan, John J. Flynt and Ro- -
bert G. Stephens. Donald E. John
son, of West Branch, lowa, a can
didate for National Commander of
the American Legion will alse
address the Convention.
Business sessions for the Le
gion will get underway at 1:0#-
p.m. on Friday in the ballroom
of the Augusta Town House. The
Auriliary will meet at 9:00 a.m.
Friday in the music room of th»
Augusta Municipal Auditorium.
National President Mrs. Lucil*-.
Johnson, of Nebraska will be
guest of the Auxiliary.
Some 2500 Legionnaires and.
Auxiliary members representing
-285 American Legion Posts in- -
Georgia are expected for this
event. On Sunday, July 26, new
officers will be elected for the.
coming year and will be installed:
as the last order of business.
"Keep Wheeler County Gnes*