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VOLUME 51
Peace Officers Fund
Backed By Sanders
And Vandiver
T;vo long-time friends and
benefactors of the law enforce
ment profession — Gov. Carl E.
Sanders ar.d former Gov. Ernest
Vandiver — had the opportunity
the other day to publicly com
mend Georgia’s peace officers for
their dedicated service and to re
new their pledges of continued
support of future programs in
their interest.
Speaking at the Peace Officers
Association of Georgia’s spring
meeting, held at Fort Valley and
dedicated to honoring officers
who were killed in the line of
duty, both the governor and the
immediate past governor dwelt at
some length on the future of the
Peace Officers’ Annuity and Bene
fit Fund.
Wilcox County Joins
Ga. Planning And
Development Comm,
W. c x County has joined the
Hes: of Georgia Planning and
Development Commission, the
planning division of the State De
part rent of Industry ar.d Trade
announced Friday.
The decision to join the com
mission was made at a meeting
last week of the Wilcox County
Board of Commissioners, the an
nouncement said.
John Noble of Rochelle was ap
pointed as city director and D. E.
Turk was named county director
■or. the commission.
The Heart of Georgia Commis
sion, headquartered at Eastman,
also includes the counties of Pu
laswi, Bleckley, Laurens, Treutlen,
Montgomery, Wheeler. Dodge and
Telfair. Its director is Kenneth A.
Sibal.
There are 15 area planning and
development commissions in the
state. The purpose of the organi
zations is to work toward develop
ment of the human, economic and
natural resources of the partici
pating cities and counties.
Mrs. Rachel U. Day
Os Alamo Dies At
Her Home Monday
Funeral services were held in
the Alamo Baptist Church Tues
day a: 4 p.m. for Mrs. Rachel
Ussery Day, 71, widow of ■'he
late Joseph Lee Day, who died at
her home in Alamo early Mon
day morning after a long illness.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. Neal Wall and the Rev. J.
P. Quattlebaum, and burial was
in the Beulah Cemetery with Har
ris & Smith Funeral Home in
cnarge of arrangements.
Mrs. Day was born in Wilkin
son County on November 6, 1893,
the daughter of Joe Ussery and
Mrs. Leona Avery Ussery, and
was a member of Snow Hill Bap
tist Church.
Survivors include three sons,
Tyrus Day, of Uvalda; J. T. Day,
of Tamps, Fla,, and James Day,
of Alamo; three daughters, Mrs.
Maude Foskey, of Glenwood; Mrs.
Margaret Maddox and Mrs. Mary
Dixon, of Alamo; three sisters,
Mrs. Willie Pearl Woodward, of
Macon; Mrs. Naomi Johnson, of
Glenwood, and Mrs. Lola Mae
Carter, of Pahokee, Fla.; 18 j
grandchildren and 19 great-grand-|
children. |
Slate 4-H Council Meeting, June 2-5
To Draw 1,000 To Rock Eagle Camp
The 32nd annual Georgia 4-H Club Council meeting, scheduled
for June 2-5 at Rock Eagle, will attract nearly 1,000 boys and girls
and their leaders for three days of leadership and citizenship dis
cussions and the usual summer round of. 4-H politicing.
Dr. T. L. Walton, state 4-H
leader with the University of
Georgia Extension Service, said
two boys and two girls from each
county will serve as official dele
gates to the convention and will
have the responsibility of elect
ing new state 4-H officers.
The current State Council of
ficers, along with 36 boys and
girls who are leaders of the six
District 4-H Councils, will be on
hand to assist Dr. Walton and his
staff with this year’s session.
The enthusiasm and suspense
that go with the annual election
is one of the program highlights,
and campaigning by what is ex
pected to be a record number of
Wheeler County Eagle
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The open skies, a clean, clear, bass-packed Georgia
lake and a proud young lad with his day’s catch of
fish typify some of the basic reasons behind the state’s
observance of Soil Stewardship Week May 23-30.
Sponsored by the State Soil and Water Conservation
Committee and the Georgia Association of Soil and
Water Conservation District Supervisors, the week
will be featured by special soil stewardship services in
churches and schools and in community civic clubs.
FHA Loans Available To Small
Towns For Modern Water Systems
Some 5,000 farmers and rural residents in Georgia have found
that they do not have to rely on troublesome wells and unsafe water
supplies. “The Farmers Home Administration is helping these peo
ple obtain modern, central water systems that provide safe, treated
water at reasonable cost,” S. L. VanLandingham, State Director said
! today.
During the past two years loans
(have been .r.ade to towns of Sum
> ner, Bostwick, Mitchell, Cullo
;den, Siloam, Danville, Allentown,
I Tarrytown, Stillmore, Summer
! town, Cecil, Surrency, Pulaski and
(Mineral Bluff. Loans have also
(been made to Dade County and
( a nonprofit group in a rural com
'munity in Walker County. When
completed, these systems will
! serve a total of 1752 customers,
! including several hundred farm
. ers and a number of small indus
; tries. Loans for eigh more small
! towns are now being processed.
Mr. VanLandingham points out
that these water systems afford
safe, treated water and the con
venience of central distribution,
i “One of the most important bene-
Glenwood Baseball
Team Wins From
Dexter Sunday, 23-1
The Glenwood baseball team
' journed to Dexter Sunday, May
1 16, and w r on over the Dexter team
j23-l. The winning pitcher was
: Tracy Rivers whose record is now
: 2-0 for the year.
Rivers pitched a one hit game
' and struck out 23 batters. The
j leading hitters were Charlie War
( ren, E. Vann and Tracy Rivers.
! The next game for Glenwood
| will be played against the Alamo
i team in Glenwood May 30.
candidates will get underway the
afternoon of the first day.. Nom
inations will be made at a 4:15
p.m. assembly on Wednesday;
June 2, and campaign speeches
will begin immediately. The elec
tion will be held from 7:30 to
8:30 Friday morning and the win
ners announced at a 10:30 o’clock
assembly.
j
Delegates and candidates will
( call a halt to the politicing sever
ial times during the meeting to
; hear speakers and take part in
I discussion groups emphasizing
। this year’s theme, “Learning,
j Leading, Serving — Your Oppor
j tunity.” I
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1965
; i fits,” says Mr. VanLandingham,
• ( “is that a water system is the first
• (step in making small towns and
, । rural communities attractive
•! places to live. It encourages pop
l j ulation growth, the building of
t i new homes, and is necessary if
I; these communities are to get
(small industries. For example, an
। {important industry will be located
i I in Walker County as a direct re
, I suit of the construction of a wa
■; ter system in that county with
■; an FHA loan.
I' Loans may be made to small
i towns and unincorporated, thick
:(ly settled rural areas where ade
l quate credit is not available. The
■'loans are made by banks, insur
. ance companies and other private
■ lenders and are insured by the
' Farmers Home Administration.
i They are repayable over long
• terms at low rates of interest. The
! FHA supplies supervision and as
■ sistance to town officials and lo
i cal leaders in making applications,
1 (obtaining engineering service,
(cost estimates, designing, financ-
1 i ing and building the system. Mr.
'(Van Landingham says, “These are
! ideal exampigs of the value of
; cooperation. Local leaders pro-
* (vide initiative, private lenders
: I furnish the money and the Gov
lernment guarantees the loans and
(provides technical guidance.”
L. Wayne Howell, County FHA
' j Supervisor who services Telfair
j and Wheeler Counties said appli
' I cants desiring information on loan
I assistance for providing central
: water systems should contact his
; office.
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Abby Woodward
Who Died Saturday
! Funeral services for Mrs. Abby
Woodward, 78, who died in Stu-
. hrt, Fla. Saturday following an
> extended illness, were held at 3
J p.m. Monday in the Glenwood
j Methodist Church.
J Thg Rev. Donald Hughes and
j (he Rev. Jar.es Moore officiated
J and burial was in the Glenwood
' City Cemetery.
Survivors include two sons, I
(William C. Woodward of Canal
■ Point, Fla., and Pinkens Wood-
I ward, of Okeechobee, Fla.; one
daughter, Mrs. Maxine Channey,
'of Homestead, Fla.; three sisters,
Mrs. Maggie Pope, of Canal Point,
Fla.; Mrs. Eunice Argo and Mrs.
Msry Rowland, both of Alma;
i ar.d one brother, John C. Mc
i Bride, of Vidalia.
To The Taxpayers
Os Wheeler County
For some time now there has
been rumblings of property re
valuation in Wheeler County.
I That it is needed is reflected by
the increased amount of. money
the local government has put in
schools.
Wheeler County is in good
shape financially, but there just;
isn’t enough money coming in to
take care of the jobs which must
be done if our county is going to
keep up with the pace of the state,
much less the nation.
Property revaluation is the ap
parent solution. Every county in i
Georgia, sooner or later will have
to face up to revaluation of tax
able properties. One hundred of
Georgia’s 159 counties have al
ready completed or are in the
process of revaluation programs.
| Professional revaluation has few
disadvantages and far greater ad
vantages than local revaluation.
The higher cost is generally more
] than offset by better quality and
| completeness of results as well
I as by better satisfied taxpayers.
Positive features of the program
I are: Inequities of overassessment
| and underassessment will be cor
rected. Businesses will be more
fairly taxed. The County will be
come more attracted to new in
dustry. The County will be able
to get available State snd Feder
al grants. Property not on the tax
books will be found and taxed,
i Good procedures will be adopted
to maintain the results so taxes
will be fairly distributed. Reval
uation or Equalization only de
termines good estimates of the
j market value of each parcel of
property.
Wheeler County Taxpayers
1 should not only be interested, but
should be actively engaged in
' । helping provide information and
1 ( publicity about Tax Equalization
1 during this revaluation program.
Counties having completed re
| valuation found two results in
- 11 variably occured. (1) Tax reven
। I ues increased although millage
, । rates were cut considerably. (2)
. i Property tax burdens are distri
’ buted more equitably. The County
■ Board of Tax Assessors will con
tinue with the present powers of
( authority and taxpayers will still
। have their same rights to appeal
any assessment they feel unfair.
Respectively
WALLACE ADAMS
Comm. Roads & Revenue
■ Wheeler County, Alamo ;
j Wheeler County
i Revaluation Started
Work has begun on the ap-;
praisal and mapping of all real
estate in Wheeler County. This
work will be completed in time ;
for the county to use in prepar-!
ing the 1966 tax digest. The ap
praisal firm of Cole-Layer-Trum
ble Co. of Atlanta was contracted 1
for this work.
At the present time eight men:
from the firm are working on :
this job. Each property in the
county will be visited. Some of I
the questions asked the property ■
owners wi 1 be:
Number of acres in tract; from
whom was it purchased and ap
proximate date of purchase.
These facts will aid the mappers i
when searching the records in!
order to determine the property'
lines. Questions will also be ask- 1
ed about the land: Number of :
acres in cultivation, permanent’
pasture, woods, etc., and tobacco;
allotment acreage. Questions will'
be asked about the buildings::
number of rooms in house, num- (
ber of baths, type of heating, age(
of house, etc. Permission will (
then be asked to measure and in-1
spect the buildings.
Charles Folds
Job Supervisor.
Roselyn Moore
Awarded Music
Scholarship to YHC
Miss Roselyn Moore, daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. James C. Moore,
has been awarded a music schol-;
arship at Young Harris College.
Miss Moore is a senior st the
Wheeler County High Schoo'
where she studies piano under
Mrs. Kent Currie.
Formerly a student of Wadley
High School she studied music:
under Mrs. Marvin Huling.
Soil Stewardship Week Set For
May 23-30, Challenge Os Growth
With dominion over the earth
and the fullness thereof man bears
a great responsibility to his Mak
er, to himself and to all the liv
: ing world around him —a re
; sponsibility for maintaining and
, developing the natural endow
ments with which he cohabits the
, earth.
Each year we give recognition
to an important part of this re
’ sponsibility in observance of Soil
j Stewardship Week. We do so this
Georgia Power Co.
Offers To Increase
Alamo's Tax Receipts;
Details of the Georgia Power|
\ Company’s offer to increase by!
133-1/3 per cent its gross receipts
i tax payments made annually un
; der the untility’s Municipal Part
nership Plan were presented May
17 to Alamo City Council by com
( pany officials.
This offer of a voluntary in
' | crease, represents an upward re
, ( vision of the rate of payment from
three to four per cent on gross j
i sales of electricity to residential I
,: and commercial customers with
! in the city limits.
The Municipal Partnership
t Plan, instituted in 1947, provides
! for Georgia Power Company to
(: make these payments to the city
'! in place of. occupational license I
( taxes. The payments are in addi-
J tion to the company's property
!; taxes.
j John J. . McDonough, board
. I chairman, had announced in De
jeember, 1964, the company’s of
: fer to increase the Municipal
J Partnership payments.
| “In recent years,” Mr. McDon
; ough said, “more and more of
' I our Georgia cities have been fac
। ing the problem of adequately
i financing an ever-growing num-|
ber of services and operations. It .
'( is hoped that these additional I
funds will be used for vital mun-
( icipal services.
“Municipal partnership pay-i
,! ments to Georgia’s cities for 19641
; based on the three per cent gross (
i receipts figure,” he said, “are ex- ‘
' peeled to total an estimated $3,-
200,000. Payments for 1965, with
' the gross receipts figure at four ;
i per cent, are expected to reach;
$4,685,000. Os the $1,485,000 dif
| ference, $1,200,000 will represent
■ the one per cent increase and the i
remainder the anticipated growth;
■ in electrical consumption.”
It is estimated that the city of
! Alamo, under the new percentage
iof payments, will receive an in
i crease of $450.00 in gross receipts;
। taxes for 196'5 from the Georgia
; Power Company. This will make,
’a total of $1650.00 in gross re
; ceipt taxes for 1965 from the;
: Georgia Power Company.
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Garden Club Meets
The Wheeler County Garden;
; Club held the last meeting un-;
! til September 13 with 22 mem- i
ibers present.
They had a real good meeting!
with discussions on line and mass;
i line arrangement and different i
(containers for design used. Also;
I the use of mats was discussed,
i The September meeting will;
I feature mass line arrangement,;
; containers and mats.
Foy Kent Jr. Killed
In Atlanta Accident
Saturday, May 8
; A tradegy in Atlanta claimed;
i the life of a former resident of
Glenwood May B'.
Killed when the wall of the;
Greenbrier Shopping Center col- ;
j lapsed was Foy Kent Jr., 26, who
। was living in Forest Park, and ;
formerly lived in Glenwood.
I Funeral services for Mr. Kent
iwere held May 10 at the Forest ;
; Park Baptist Church.
: Graveside services and inter
; ment -were at the Glenwood
Cemetery Monday.
Survivors include his wife and
(two children: his mother, Mrs.
Helen Kent. Miami, Fla.; his fath
er, Foy Kent. Forest Park; two
brothers. Hershell Kent. Air Force
; Academy. Colorado Springs, C 010.,.
, and Dale Kent. Atlanta; and sev
‘ eral aunts, uncles, nieces and
nephews. I
SINGLE COPY 5c
year from l May 23 through 30
with the theme :‘The Challenge
Os Growth.” We acknowledge
man’s dependence on the soil and
his duty to care for it. We have
come to know that a land of. con
servation is a land of plenty.
Our conservation responsibility
is a product of the growth that
characterizes the United States,
and growth presents a challenge
that becomes more demanding
with time.
Midway the decade of the Six
ties, as we venture into the total
and awesome universe, we are
fast becoming aware of an ex
i tension of man’s responsibility.
■ There dawns upon us the realiza
। tion that, bit by bit, man is slip
i ping his veil of ignorance and mis
understanding, sweeping aside
the aged shrouds of timidity and
fear, to approach new horizons
of human achievement.
In the laboratory, on the soil,
beneath the sea and into space,
our forays into the unknown in
search of the “whys” and “hows’’
! bring us always closer to truths
, we have only vaguely suspected.
! Our imagination leaps to engage
more profound mysteries.
It is imperative, in the face of
Elsmer Jean Smith
Appointed To
Research Fellowship
Elsmer Jean Smith of Glen
wood a first year student in the
School of Medicine o.f the Medi
cal College of Georgia, Augusta,
has (been appointed to a Summer
S’udent Research Fellowship in
the health sciences. The appoint
ment, announced today by Dr.
, Raymond P. Ahlquist, associate
dean for research, will give Miss
Smith “an opportunity to work in
a medical environment during the
I summer months while contribu'-
j ing to an important investigative
; project in the field of medicine.”
i Miss Smith’s work, to be carried
I out under the supervision and
'guidance of Dr. Holde Puchtler,
; Associate Research Professor of
: Pathology, is titled “Histochemi
: cal properties of connective tis
; sue.”
1 Funds for the study will be
provided by National Institutes
lof Health of the United States
Public Health Service.
Later in the upcoming academ
ic year, Miss Smith’s work will
; be summarized in a technical pa
per which will then become a
part of the Medical College’s per
manent research records. The fol
lowing Spring, the report will be
-evaluated for possible present
ation to a convocation of the fac
' ulty and students during a school,
sponsored Research Day program,
j Miss Smith is the daughter of
; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Smith, of
Glenwood.
Elton Elvis Johnson
Dies In Wheeler
County Hospital
Elton Elvis Johnson, 19, ci Rt.
12, Glenwood, died in the Wheel
;er County Hospital Wednesday
(afternoon after a long illness.
A native of Mississippi, he had
(lived in Glenwood for 14 years
'and was a construction worker.
Survivors are his parents, Mr.
'and Mrs. Robert Johnson; a broth
jer, Melvin Lee Johnson; a sister,
(Miss Doris Jean Johnson and his
| maternal grandmother, Mrs. Des
! sie Towery of Glenwood, and sev
' eral aunts and uncles.
। Murchison Funeral Home of;
;Vidalia was in charge of funeral,
i arrangements.
Music Club To
Present Recital
Friday, May 21
The Wheeler County Music.
Club will present a piano recital;
on Friday evening, May 21, at.
7:30 o’clock in the Wheeler Coun-
: ty High School cafetorium.
Pupils of Mrs. Billy Clark and
Mrs. Kent Currie will play solos,
duets, and trios in a lovely set
i ting prepared for the occasion.
Sweet potato acreage in Geor
gia is expected to be up about;
| eight per cent this year.
1 this remarkable boldness, that we.
2 pause with each unfoldment to
2 understand our role and its mean
i ing.
2 We are stewards of what we
- survey. Whatever we may chance
to discover about our world, or
• worlds beyond, we are privileged
t by a Higher Authority than our
, selves. The rewards of this privil
-2 ege are accompanied by serious
? Obligations. Nowhere will we be
more constrained to meet our re-
- sponsibility, to honor our trust,
1 to discharge our obligations as;
e । stewards, than on earth with its
- (soil and water resources, the stuff
. on which, after all, our lives de
-1 pend.
-1 We have learned from bitter
-; experience the price of disregard!
a । for those obligations. Where we
1. misuse and abuse the land we
51 reaped subsequently the floods
(end dusts and utter desolation.
, \ We in America have survived
,; those mistakes. We are earnest
ij ly endeavoring to husband and
’; develop our soil and water re
s (sources — to heal the scars of our
. j land. In this effort, there are yet
;jtoo many who believe the prob
(lems of soil and water to be prab
f' lems onlj 7 for the land owner and
’ ( operator. They must be impress
:ed with the meaning of steward
ship. They must come to know
; that although our resources to
(meet present and future needs
. ; are adequate, they will remain;
; ; adequate only as we of country
. and city together use and develop
them wisely. The speed with
r which stewardship becomes a fact
-j (of life in our cities can well be
. marked as a facet of the chal
■ lenge of growth.
G i The best use of land and water
s to meet human demands on a
continuing basis becomes more
, urgent. As each day passes, this
fact looms larger in importance
Jin both urban and rural areas.
>! This is the nature of the chab
] lenge of growth that confronts us:
j; To cultivate more widely, among:
! all our people, the conservation at- •
C titude for conservation, is th®
essence of stewardship and stew
ardship is the God-given privilege
I of humanity.
Six New Juvenile
Homes Are Planned
।
Gov. Carl E. Sanders has an-
।: nounced plans for the constrwe
! tion of six juvenile detension
( homes over the state in the next
two years in a move aimed, at
i keeping children out of common*
.jails.
He said three will be built in
; the fiscal year beginning July I
(and the other three the follownngr
fiscal year. The detention centers-
1 will be located in Hall, Ware,
, Richmond, Dougherty, Floyd and
■ Washington Counties.
Total cost of the facilities will
ibe $1.2-million and the money
already has been appropriated!
;by the Legislature, the governor
| said. He emphasized that if the
(six centers are not enough to
keep children out of jails and a-
■' way from hardened criminals'
■ I more will be built later.
I A recent study showed that 5v
; 000 children were lodged in jails
;: during one year, he pointed out.
Eight Counties To
Discuss Forest Plans
Eight counties making up the
Heart of Georgia Planning and
(Development Commission sent
i representatives to a forest semi
r.ar in Dublin today. The gxotqr
will hear plans for increased utiJ-
(ization of timber products in the
'; area.
Representatives went fr®®.
; Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Mont
! gomery, Pulaski, Telfair, Treut
■ len and Wheeler counties.
The meeting was sponsored by
(the Commission and the Cooperar
; tive Extension Service forestry
; department. The seminar will he
, gin at 4 p.m. at the Dublin Elks
; Club.
Several officials of both spon
soring organizations will present
information on forest resources
and the outlook for expansion of
the market for forestry products.
Supper will be served at 6:38
p.m.
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