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VOLUME 51
Cook, Bolton
Begin Duties
In New Posts j
Eugene Cook walked out of the [
Office where he had officiated for
20 years as attorney general Mon-’
day and took his place on the;
bench of the Georgia Supreme ;
Court.
He went there under an ap- ;
pointment by Gov. Carl E. San--
ders as an associate justice, fill- |
ing a vacancy created last Mon-[
day by the death of Justice T.
Grady Head.
Sanders swore Cook in Mon-1
day morning and then adminis-[
tered the oath to Rep. Arthur K. j
Bolton of Griffin as the new at
torney general.
After taking the oath, Cook ex
cused himself and proceeded with,
the other justices to the Supreme
Court chamber across the street. ;
For the next several hours he ।
listened with others to lawyers!
arguing appeals. Attired in his i
new black robe, Cook made notes ■
on a pad and interrupted lawyers -[
once " twice to ask questions.
Principal Hilton
Completes School
According to announcement
from Georgia Southern College.
A. M. Hilton, principal of the
Glenwood Elementary School,
Glenwood, has completed his pro-'
gram of studies for the degree of
Masters of School Administration.:
In addition to this new degree he ;
also holds a Masters in Business. [
Principal Hilton, who resides at •
403 Peachtree Street, Vidalia, is I
past president of the Wheeler[
County. Georgia Education As
sociation. a member of the Vi-1
dalia Moose Club, American Leg- J
ion, and is presently secretary to ।
the Mission Council of the Pro- i
testant Episcopal Church of the [
Annunciation in Vidalia.
Commencement Held
For Woman's College
Saturday, June sth
The 74th annual commencement'
a: The Woman’s Colleg of Georgia;
was held Saturday, June 5. at
10:30 a.m. in Russell Auditorium:
in Milledgeville.
James A. Mackey, first mem-,
ber of Congress from Georgia’s;
new fourth Congressional District,
delivered the graduation address, j
Dr. R. E. Lee, President, presided;
and introduced the speaker.
The graduates included Gwen
Ellen Clark and Mary Ann Ho-1
gan. of Alamo.
Bennie E. Morris
Is Buried In Oak
Park Cemetery
Funeral services were held in'
the chapel of Murchison Funeral
Home on June 8 at 10 a.m. for
Bennie Eugene Morris, 21, who '
died of injuries suffered in an
automobile accident on June 6.
The Rev. H. W. Scoates Jr.
officiated and burial was in the
Oak Park Cemetery.
Mr. Morris was born in Eman
uel County, the son of George
Wilson Morris Jr. and Effie Mae
O’Ne"l Morris.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Morris, of
Oak Park; a sister, Ellen Wil-’
Mams; two brothers, Karon Har-[
old Morris and Thomas Wayne
Morris, of Oak Park, and his
grandparents, Mrs. Bessie Powell
Morris, of Savannah, and Ephriam
O’Neal, of Vidalia.
Quitman Boy Is
Boys' State Gov.
Clifton Gerald Spencer. 16, of
Quitman. was elected governor
of the 1965 Georgia Boys’ State
at the closing session in Atlanta.
The new governor attends
Brooks County High School,
where he is a member of the foot
ball team, student council, Fu
ture F^rmess of America and
Beta Club.
Spencer, a member of the Na
tionalist Party at Boys’ State,
won the election over Calhoun
Harris of Mcßae, candidate of
the Federalist Party. Ed Boyers,
of Thomaston, Federalist, was
elected lieutenant governor.
Wheeler County Eagle
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TOP SAFETY RECORD—George L. DeMore, left, president, Associated
Industries of Georgia (AIG), presents award of honor to W. A. Pulver,
Lockheed-Georgia president, at Marietta, in recognition of company’s
outstanding industrial safety record, H. Lee Poore, center, is director
of manufacturing operations and chairman of the company’s Safety
Committee. Award came because of company’s low accident frequency
rate of 0.73 per cent, based on 37,197,493 manhours in 1964.
Over 200 companies competed in the 11th Annual AIG Safety
contest. They reported 197,647,764 manhours of work, 1,106 injuries,
with an accident frequency rate of 5.59 per cent. This is the third
time Lockheed-Georgia has won a top award in AIG competitions. It
also has been cited numerous times by the National Safety Council.
Georgia Cour! Oi Appeals Judge
Robert L Bussell Dies Monday
Judge Robert L. Russell of the Georgia Court of Appeals died
of career Monday at the National Institutes of Health, Washington,
D. C. He had been a patiem since March 24.
Russet!, who lived in Winder,
was a nephew of U. S. Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell, D-Ga.
Russell, 40, was named by
former Gov. Ernest Vandiver to
succeed the late Vance Custer of
Bainbridge on the Georgia Court
of Appeals.
Besides being the nephew of
U. S. Sen. Richard B. Russell he
was the brother-in-law of Van
diver. He was a member of the
Georgia House of Representatives
from Barrow' County from 1950
through 1958.
Russell wss the chief strategist
of Vandiver forces in defeating
former Gov. Marvin Griffin on
the rural roads issue in the 1958
Georgia Legislature and later that
year managed Vandiver’s cam
paign for the Demoratic nomina
tion as governor.
He was also a leader in Presi
dent Kennedy’s 1960 campaign in
the South.
Russell was a personal friend of
President Lyndon Johnson who
made frequent checks on his con
dition during the jurist’s illness.
Before his appointment to the
Court of Appeals, Russell had
practiced lew 13 years. He com
pleted his education after combat
service with the Marine Corps in
World War 11, attending Emory
University, Duke University and
the University of Georgia.
He had served as attorney for
the County Commissioners Asso
ciation of Georgia and was Geor
gia Democratic National Commit
teeman.
Russell was the son of the late
Robert L. Russell who was judge
of the U. S. District Court and
the U. S. Court of Appeals.
He was married to the former
Miss Betty Anne Csmpbell of Tal
lahassee, Fla. and they have five
children.
Gov. Carl E. Sanders issued this
statement on learning of Rus
sell’s death:
“It is with deep regret that I
received the news this afternoon
of the passing of the Hon. Robert
L. Russell Jr., judge of the Court
of Appeals in Georgia.
Elbert Hathcock
Is Tankersley-Fletcher
Ford Salesman
Elbert Hathcock of Alamo is
now associated with Tankersley-
Fletcher Ford, Inc., in Mcßae as
a full-time salesman.
Mr. Hathcock invites his friends
to see :he complete line of new'
and clear, used cars on display,
’ and the fine line of Ford and Mer
-1 cur y automobiles.
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
: “Judge Russell was a dedicated
j public servant, a patriot, a man
[ who loved his state and fellow
citizens and a credit to the legal
profession and to the bench which
j he served so ably. As governor, I
’am saddened by this great loss
;to Georgia. As his friend along
[ with thousands of others who
I knew him well, his wise counsel
[and great personal warmth of
[ character will be sorely missed.
“I am sure that all citizens of
Georgia join with me and Mrs.
; Sanders in extending to his fam
[ ily our prayers in this sad hour.”
Teenagers Plan
Annual Meet On
Traffic Safety
Plans are shaping up for the
; 12th annual Georgia Teen-Age
i Traffic Safety Conference to be
[held August 1-5 at North Georgia
[College in Dahlonega. A project
■of the Georgia Teen-Age Traffic
Safety Association, it is conduct
।ed under the supervision of the
• State Patrol’s Safety Education
' Division.
Main purpose of the conference
iis to afford high school students
: from all over Georgia an oppor
i tunity to discuss traffic safety
problems as they affect their own
I age group, their community and
■ the state as a whole, according to
i Capt. L. F. Butler, division super
’ visor.
। The program is diversifed, fea
turing general and group sessions
where various phases of safety
■ are discussed. Programs also in
: dude recreation, swdmming and
other sports, and various enter
tainment features.
High school students, both boys
and girls, with leadership quali
fies and an active interest in
safety are eligible as delegates.
Thev maj - be sophomores, juniors
or seniors as of next fall’s school
i term.
Delegates are selected by high
school principals, school superin
tendents, faculty members or stu
dents themselves in cooperation
w'ith school officials. If not ap
pointed by the school, local civic
clubs or other service groups may
select delegates after consultation
w’ith the school principal.
Total cost, excluding travel ex
penses, is $14.25. This includes
^12.25 for room and board for
‘he entire period and $2 registra
tion fee. For further information
contact the State Patrol’s adult
advisor for the project, Mrs. J. J.
Stephenson Jr., Georgia State Pa
trol, P. O. Box 1456, Atlanta, Ga.
Baxley Native
Arrested In
Ohio Burglary
A South Georgia man was tak-1
en into custory in connection withl
j a $5,000 Ohio bank burglary when 1
i an alert EBI agent saw him walk-[
; ing along a Savannah street.
i The man was identified by the!
FBI as Willie Foster Sellers, 31. 1
of Baxley.
James T. Neagle, Savannah'
FBI agent-in-charge, said Sellers j
surrendered quietly Tuesday when j
an FBI agent recognized him near'
the intersection of Draton and
Broughton streets.
Sellers was wanted in the bur
glary’ of the Miami Valley ißank:
at Quincy, Ohio, on May 29. He
was arrested on a charge of en-:
tering a bank to burglarize and'
obtaining money from a federal
ly-insured institution.
He was arraigned before U. S.
Commissioner. Louis E. Aench
bacher in Savannah and released
on $15,000 bond. The EBI said he
waived extradition and would be
returned to Ohio at a date to be
determined later.
Sellers was a frequent visitor
to Savannah, the FBI said.
i School Os Music
i Starts Monday At
i Alamo Baptist Church
Classes will begin on Monday
for the two-Week School of Mu
sic at the Alamo Baptist Church
under the direction of Larry Var
nadoe of the Department of Music,
Georgia Baptist Convention.
The school js not just for mus
j icians, the Rev. Pat Quattlebaum,
■ pastor, said. It is for anyone who
loves music and wants to learn
something about church music.
And it is an enrichment program
: for those who tilrcady know some
। thing about music.
Members of other churches who
are interested are invited to at
। tend.
The schedule of. classes is as
follows:
Primaries
I Tuesdays and Thursdays:
। 8:00-9:00—’Primary Choir Re-
hearsal
Juniors
Monday, Thursday, Friday:
9:00-10:30—Class “Let’s Make
Music, Book I”
Tuesday:
9-10:30—Jr. Choir Rehearsal
Wednesday:
6:30-7:3o—Jr. Choir Rehearsal
Age Group Workers
Tuesdays:
10:30-12—Class “Graded Choir
Handbook’’
12:00-12:30—Lunch
12:30-2—Class “Graded Choir
Handbook”
(Must observe during Choir re
hearsal)
Intermediates. Y.P., & Adults
Monday and Thursday:
1-2:3o—Class “Hymn Playing”
(Rehearsal time must be sche
duled)
Monday and Friday:
I 7:30-B:ls—Class “Beginning
Music Reader”
! 8:15-8:45— Congregational Hymn
singing
8:45-9:3o—Class “Song Leading”
Tuesday and Thursday:
6:30-7:3o—Youth Choir Rehear
sal
7:30-B:ls—Class “Beginning
Music Reader”
8:15-8:45—Class “Song Leading”
8:45-9:4s—Church Choir
Rehearsal
! Wednesday:
7:30-B:oo—Clsss “Beginning
Music Reader”
1 8:00-8:15—Prayer Meeting
8:15-8:45—Congregational Hymn
Singing
1 8:45-9:ls—Class “Song Leading”
i Wheeler County
H. D. Council To
Sponsor Bake Sale
The Wheeler County Home
Demonstration Council is spon
, i soring a Bake Sale Saturday,
I June 19. preceding Father’s Day
jat the REA Building in Alamo.
; ! The sale will start at 10 a.m. and
Springhill and Union Home Dem
onstration Clubs will be in charge
i of the sale.
I So, remember to come out and
buy your Father’s Day cake from
■ the council, the members remind
. ed.
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1965
17-Year-old Henry County Beauty
| Wins Miss Forestry Title At Jekyll
A 17-year-old Henry County
i beauty Tuesday reigned as queen
i of. the billion-dollar Georgia for
i est industry after competing for
! the title with 31 other county for
i estry queens.
The crown o p Miss Georgia
j Forestry was placed on the bru
jnette locks of Carol Jean Walden
| of Stockbridge by outgoing queen
'Lyn Ray of Thomasville during
the annual banquet of the Geor
i gia Forestry Association meeting
' at Jekyll Island Monday night.
The announcement of the
I queen’s selection and the naming
[ of Gwynn Fain of Seminole Coun
!ty as first runnerup, came dur
[ ing a night of awards. The out
। standing general performance a
! ward went to the 7th Forestry
District. Floyd County was nam
! ed the top county in the state.
The new queen is an employee
. of the Georgia Department of Ag
riculture by day and a student
I at Georgia State College by night.
She received a $350 scholarship
। in the contest.
The Seventh District of the
! Georgia Forestry Commission is
I located in northwest Georgia,
; with headquarters near Rome.
[Druid N. Preston is the district
■ forester and ironically is located
jin Floyd County where county
| ranger Troy Floyd led his county
! to the top spot among the state’s
! county programs.
John H. Buckman recorded the
Dorcas Scarborough
Dies Monday
In Augusta Hospital
Dorcas Rebecca Scarborough,
' eight-months-old daughter of Roy
' i Lee and Christine McDaniel Scar
[ borough of Glenwood, died Mon
’ day night in the Talmadge Mem
, Orial Hospital in Augusta after a
I short illness.
; ; Survivors are her parents; two
[sisters, Debra Lafavor, and An-
I nette Scarborough of Glenwood;
: her maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. McDaniel, of Glen
iwood; her paternal grandmother,
I Mrs. Minnie Henry, of Glenwood,
; and several aunts and uncles.
Murchison Funeral Home of Vi
: dalia was in charge. [
Gillis Infant Dies
Monday In The
Glenwood Hospital
; Graveside funeral services for!
Timothy Eugene Gillis, age one
I day, of Glenwood R-2, who died
। Monday in a Glenwood hospital, 1
were held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in
the Beulah Baptist Church Ceme-
1 tery in Wheeler County.
Surviving are the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Gerome Gillis;
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Wilkerson and Mr. and Mrs. A.
D. Gillis, all of Glenwood.
Sammons Funeral Home was
in charge.
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Mrs. Georgia 1965, Pat Turner
of Swainsboro, is hostess for the
“Gaslight Barbeque” on June 15
as a feature of the Georgia As
sociation of Broadcasters con
i vention at Callaway Gardens.
The barbeque is sponsored
jointly by Atlanta Gas Light
Company and Southern Bell
1 Telephone and Telegraph Com
-11 pany. Atlanta Gas Light Com
. pany was the sponsor of the Mrs.
1 Georgia contest.
SINGLE COPY 5c
best fire record in the state and .
Oglethorpe County, where he is
ranger, was presented with this!
■ award.
The presentation of the awards j
is a highlight of the annual con-!
, vention, which has drawn nearly 1
600 members and their wives to
. the resort island. Throughout
Monday, the delegates heard var
; ious addresses on the future of
the forest industry in Georgia and
the South.
At the banquet Monday night.
Eugene Cravey
Awarded Degree Os
Master Os Science
The Medical College of. Georgia
has awarded the degree of Master
of Science to Clarence Eugene
Cravey of Alamo. The degree was
conferred by Dr. Harry B. O’
Rear, college president, during.
the school’s Commencement ex
ercises, Saturday night in Au-j
gusta.
Mr. Cravey is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. R. Cravey of Alamo.
He was awarded his bacculaur
eate degree by Georgia Southern
College before enrolling in the
graduate program of the state.
medical school.
At ’he Medical College of Geor
gia, candidacy for the Masters de- ■
gree requires satisfactory com
‘jpletion of 45 quarter hours grad-:
| uate credit and preparation of. an;
acceptable thesis. Mr. Cravev’s
major field on the medical cam
pus has been in Biochemistry.
The Medical College of Georgia
, is a state-aided unit of the Uni
• versitv System of Georgia.
! Local Men On
Important Committee
Postmaster Harry James,
>j President of the Georgia Chapter
■; of the National Association of
; I Postmasters, announced this week
. I that Postmaster George Towns!
lOf Alamo and Marcus Bomar of'
[Glenwood have been appointed i
i to the important Time and Place i
i and Cracker Postmaster Commit-1
jtees for the Twenty-Ninth An-'
;nual Convention to be held at |
■Jekyll Island, June 23-27.
In making the appointment, [
j President James stated, “Ad- i
i vance registration indicates that'
■ this will be the largest and most!
I successful state convention in our,
i history. Assistant Postmaster Gen- [
!eral William McMillan, who heads
the Post Office Department’s Bur- [
■eau of Operations, has accepted j
[ our invitation to be the keynote !
'■speaker, and other top officials!
j have been assigned us by our j
\ Regional Director Banks Gladden, i
-of Atlanta. A full and encompass-;
■ I ing program has been planned,
■ i for postmasters devoted to posthl!
matters, particularly in regard to;
1 improving mail service.
“For members of the postmast-1
| er’s families emphasis is being I
; placed on activities that will bring
[ them into the convention pro
;gram and make them more keen
|ly aware of ways in which the
[public can expedite mail service.
[For these reasons, it is necessary
for our committees to be staffed
Iby the finest talent available, and
i it pleases me to announce the ap
: pointment of Postmasters Towns
i and Bomar. They are not only out
standing postmasters in Georgia,
but an asset to our national as
l sociation.”
Pee-Wee League
To Be Organized
j All boys, pre-school through
| eight years old are invited to be
[at the Baseball Park at the school
next Tuesday afternoon, June 22,
! st 2 o’clock to organize a Pee-Wee
League. We plan to practice at
! that time, so please bring your
[gloves, bats and any othef equip
ment that you might have.. We
[ plan to play other teams, so please
, come prepared for a real prac
i tice.
i lam counting on you boys and
looking forward to working with
; you.
Ted Morrison
Money may not buy happiness,
I but it surely helps one look for
j it in more interesting places.
NUMBER. IO
iC. O. Holland, president of tte
[ People Bank and Trust Co. in
[ Minden, La., told the group that
I the South has come from the
j number one economic problem in
the nation to a leader in the field.
But he warned that “we must
[ not let the war on poverty be
. come a war on prosperity.” He
:said that “we cannot strengthen.'
’ j the weak by weakening the
| strong.”
Mr. Holland went on to say that
I in no instance can the wage earn
i er be helped .by pulling down the
; wage payer or help the poor by
[ destroying the rich.
| The association named a long
| time leader in the field as presi
dent to succeed Harley Langdale
Ur., of Valdosta. The reins of pres-
I ident were given to George Peake' ■
[Jr. of Macon and Mr. Langdale
becomes first vice president. A.
E. Patton was re-elected treasur
ier as was Harvey Brown as ex
■ ecutive director, Mrs. Helen M.
[Dixon office secretary.
Mr. Peake is executive vice
: president of Georgia timberlands:
! in Macon and was one of the first
■ registered foresters in Georgia
and Florida.
The association also presented
the Order of the Golden Pine
’ Cone to five Georgians for out
! standing and meritorious service
[to the industry. Those named
[ were Clyde Greenway, director
! of public relations for Sears-Roe
' buck in Atlanta; James Golden,
! director of. public relations for
Ford Motor Co., Southern Divis
! ion in Atlanta; Kirk Sutlive Jr T
I manager of Union Bag-Camp Pa
i per Corp.’s Atlanta plant; L. N..
‘ Thompson, general manager of
, [ mills and timber of the Georgia
-Pacific Corp., in Augusta, and La
■ mar Tillman, a Valdosta attor
!ney.
During presentation of forestry
! awards, there were individual
[county winners named for forest:
■fire records. Those receiving' a>-
[ wards and the rangers were Cand
iler, Warren Cook; Dougherty, J.
iK Jones; Talbot, Harvey Buck
|ner; Newton-Rockdale, James R,
j Pinson; Jeff Davis-Telfair, W. F.
[McArthur; Johnson-Washington,
। Calvin C. Rhodes; Floyd, Troy
■Floyd; Camden, James B. Simp
!son; DeKalb, George Lyon, and
| Columbia, Lonnie O. Morris.
Production Credit
Assoc. Officials To
Attend Conference
Officials of the Vidalia Produe
| tion Credit Association will at>
. tend the annual conference of pro*
I duction credit association direct*
iors and general managers to be-
I held at the Grove Park Inn, Ashe
; ville, N. C., on June 27-29, ac
-cording to Jack Brantley, general 1
1 manager of the association.
[ Mr. Brantley said the confer
ience has been announced by R.7
! A. Darr, president of the Fedeiel
j Intermediate Credit Bank of Col
! umbia, S. C., and approximately
1,000 farmer-directors, general
- managers and guests of. the 77 pro
- duction credit associations in Flor
jida, Georgia, North Carolina and.
[South Carolina are expected t®
i attend.
The conference hast been ar
! ranged by the officers of the Fed
'; eral Intermediate Credit Bank of'
■ [ Columbia, which provides leader
■ [ ship, supervision and loan funds
' [ for production credit associations
| in the four states.
! The local farmer-owned produe
i tion credit associations are pro—
' viding nearly 47,000 farmer-mem
bers in the four states with over
! $305 million in short and inter
mediate term credit.
Officials of the Vidalia associa
[ tion who will attend the confer—,
ence include Henry D. McArthur,
[ president, of Vidalia; Emmet
Joyce, vice president, of Lumber
City; D. H. Callawy, director, of.
Collins, and Jack Brantley, gen
eral manager.
The Vidalia association served
approximately 500 farmers with,
short and intermediate term loans
totaling $2,044,943.18 in 1964 in
Toombs, Tattnall. Montgomery
. and Wheeler Counties, from the
, home office located in Vidalia and
• part-time field offices located in
Alamo and Reidsville.