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VOLUME 51
Crop Prospects
Reported To
Be Favorable
The state’s crop prospects re
main favorable, the Georgia Crop
Reporting Service in Athens said -
Tuesday.
Corn has continued to improve,
with 88 per cent of the acreage .
reported in good to excellent con
d:L. ■ An average yield per acre
of 44 bushels w.s indicated —
one bushel above the previous
record.
Harvesting of tobacco was in
full swing with a record high
yield of more than 2.000 pounds
an acre expected. Wet soils have
delayed operations in some areas.
About or.e-fourth of the crop had
been harvested.
The pet nut crop continued to
improve and growers are carrying
out extensive spray programs.
Ninety-two per cent of the crop
acreage was reported in good to
Excellent condition.
The service added that cotton
is continuing to show improve
ment. Frequent showers made it
very difficult to control weevils
and boll worms.
Reported boll weevil infesta
tion was up slightly. Seventy-six
per cent of the crop was setting
bolls.
H y crops were looking good
but harvest has been delayed in '
some areas. Pastures were fur- '
nishing good to excellent grazing i
in most counties.
Peach harvest was active in alll
rea with volume of good quality ।
fruit available. Pecan prospects j
were from fair to good. Apple'
prospects were good in the moun-I
tain counties of north Georgia. I
Market managers reported wa- i
termelons and cantaloupes in vol-I
ume supply. Volume of most oth- i
er vegetables wis on the decline I
in southern districts but near the!
peak in northern areas.
Soybeans were making good |
progress with 84 per cent of acre-'
age reported in good to excellent;
condition. The sweet potato crop I
was responding favorably to the !
abundance of moisture. j
Dana O. Bland Dies
Os Heart Attack
In Dunnellon, Fla.
Funeral services were held i
Monday at 10 a.m. in the chapel i
of the Roberts Funeral Home in i
Ocala, Fla. for Dana O. Bland, 60.1
of Dunnellon, Fla. who died of a;
heart attack at his home Friday, i
Mr. Bland was born in Wheeler 1
County, the son of Simnej- M. i
and Mattie Carrie McMillan i
Bland.
Survivors include his wife; two |
sons and two daughters; two bro-.
thers, T. A. Biand, of Jay Bird 1
Springs and Oscar Lee Bland, of j
Warner Robins, and two sisters, '■
Mrs. B. A. Irwin, of Helena R-l,j'
and Mrs. W. O. Purser, of Alamo. |
Among those attending the fun-'
eral were Mr. and Mrs. T. A. I
Bland, Mrs. Alto Deese. Oscar I
Lee Brand and Mrs. Purser.
Georgia Baptist To
Observe Village Day
Baptist Village at Waycross, i
homes for retired people, is own-1
ed and operated by the Georgia j ’
Baptist Convention and the con-[
vention designates one Sunday in I
every year for the observance of j
Baptist Village Day by Baptist I
churches in the state.
The goal for the special offer- j
ing the churches will receive this
year is 5160,000. The money will ■
be used for the care of two out i
of every three residents now atl
the Village and for the extension '
o the Village ministry, the ad- i
ministrator, the Rev. Harvey
Mitchell said.
Thousands of letters nd infor
mation folders have been sent out |
from Baptist Village to the 3,000 ;
Baptist churches for use in in-;
forming nearly one million Bap-;
fists about the Village ministry;
and the special Village Day.
The huge old oak tree on the ,
Village grounds is the inspira-1
tion for the theme of the Baptist I
Villege Day observance. In pro
motional materials, a picture of I
the trees is used with these words. |
“The great oak: a symbol of!
depth, the outreach, the sustain-1
ing love of God for His older chil- j
dren."
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Local Girl Captures Title 011965
Georgia Poultry Princess In Atlanta
A Brenau College sophomore from South Georgia today reigns as
the 1965 Georgia Poultry Princess. Christa Diann Bell, just turned
19, took the honors over 15 other finalists at the annual Poultry Cor
onation Banquet in Atlanta Friday night.
More than 1.000 poultrymen
and poultry supporters had pur
chased SSO-a-plate tickets to the
Georgia Poultry Federation fund
raising event. They dined in style,
danced and laughed at comedian
Jan Murray.
Miss Bell, a resident of ALmo,
was a Gainesville area finalist in
Princess competition earlier this
year. Four finalists were chosen
from each of four areas to com
pete in the Atlanta contest.
Nancy Lee Hilton of Athens was
first runnerup in the finals, and
Mary Anne Whidden, Nashville,
was second runnerup. Miss Con
geniality henors went to Frances
Burt of Canton.
Other Gainesville area partici
pants were Catherire Stanley,
ELine Edmondson and Juliane
Dixon.
Miss Bell entered Brenau Col
lege last year after graduation
from Telfair County High School.
She is studying biology.
Her college activities include
YMCA, Alpha Chi Omega soror
ity, Tau Sigma honorary dsnee
fraternitv. chorus, Brenau Oc-
Day Os Issuing
Auto Licenses
Changed By Patrol
Drivers licenses will be issued
at the Helena Patrol Station on
Tuesday and Saturday of each
week instead of Thursday as in
the past.
The public is urged to note
this ch.nge and be governed ac
cordingly.
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Georgia Commissioner of Labor Ben T. Huiet (Left) accepts
the 1965 Achievement Award from the International Association
of. Personnel in Employment Security. Presenting the award is
Marion Williamson, Director of the Employment Security
Agency, who headed the Georgia delegation to the Association’s
annual convention in Miami Beach, Florida, where over 1.000
delegates were assembled from throughout the free world. The
top award has come to Georgia nine times since it was initiated
15 years ago. At right is Howard Weeks, Information Officer,
Georgia Department of Labor, also a member of the Georgia
delegation attending 'the convention.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
tette, Lorelei Club and she was
on the dean’s list. Her hobbies are
sewing, reading, singing, dancing
and art.
The winner said her plans are
to complete college and “get a
job.”
She is five feet, six inches tall,
weighs 125 pounds and measures
35'-2-24-36. Her hair is brown,
and she has brown eyes.
Miss Bell is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray U. Bell of Alamo.
She received the Poultry Prin
cess crown from Miss Lynda Ta
. turn, who served last year.
Negro Man Kills
Pitts Policeman
State troopers shot a Negro
msn to death Sunday night about
two hours after he killed the only
policeman in the South Georgia
town of Pitts in Wilcox County.
Officers said John W. Thomp
son, about 50, fired at patrolmen
when they went to his house and
was killed in an ensuing gunfight.
Thompson earlier pulled a 38-
caliber revolver and shot to death
town policeman I. W. Bohannon,
about 52, on a Wilcox County
road about four miles west of
Pitts.
Officers said Bohannon had
stopped Thompson for driving un
der the influence of alcohol.
Newspaper employment totals
339,000, which is a 26.5 percent
increase since 1960, according to
the Department of Labor.
Hilda Jean Braswell
Approved By Regents
For Scholarship
The Boards of Regents during
its meeting in June approved ap
plications for Regents' Scholar
ships for ten students planning to I
attend Abraham Baldwin Agricul
tural College ?this fall. Among the
ten listed is Hild > Jean Braswell. •
Alamo R-2.
The award is made only to
Georgia residents ar.d is awarded 1
to new students who are expected '
to be in the Upper 25 per cent of
the freshman class. It is also a- 1
warded to those upper classmen
; who have already demonstrated
that their w|rk is in the upper i
25 per cent Jof their class. The!
group of students selected fall'
into the upper 10 per cent on the
basis of predicted grades or
I grades already earned.
Talmadge Urges
Honor Students To
Remain In Georgia
“Stay in Georgia and grow ,
■with Georgia;’’
That’s the!advice U. S. Sen.
' Herman E. Talmadge gave some
1400 Georgia high school students
'selected to participate dn the Gov- .
ernor’s Honor. Program when they ।
met recently ps Wesleyan College j
'in Macon. Urging them to seek !
and pursue their careers in Geor
gia, the senator said:
j “If you properly conduct your '
course of action in the years a‘- ■
head, you need not worry about L
an opportunity to develop your '
■ talents and your interests. Op
portunities are numberless, and
they can be found in many places
' for the properly educated and ।
trained.
’ “Georgia is full of them. It has |
abundant resources of virtually
'every kind for almost every tai- :
lent. I urge you to stay in Georgia ;
and grow wUh Georgia.”
Emphasizing the importance of.
schooling, Sen. Talmadge said;
“‘education, from kindergarten to!
' college, has been the basis for the !
igreat progress Georgia has made]
in recent decades, and the full de-1
j velopment o f the state’s human
resources becomes more and more
■vital as the economy and society I
lof Georgia becomes more com-!
j plex.
“Your education and how you
educate your children will assure '
' for Georgia a prosperous and pro- j ■
gressive future. Where others be- 1
! fore you have failed, you can sue-;
ceed, both socially and econom-1
jically, for the betterment of all.”'
The Georgia senator and form-1,
er governor highly praised the j
students for their scholarship and !
'declsred that the Governor’s Hon- 1
'or Program “is helping to fill a ■
'critical need — our failture to (
[note ard emphasize quality and (
i excellence in our students. |)
Following his address, Sen. Tai-; (
madge took part in a question and . ।
(answer session with the students'
~nd met for an hour with students ■
in the social studies program. ,
Local Cities Gel
it
Stale Grants For
Road Maintenance
Direct state grants totalling.
$6,000,000 is being distributed to
478 cities and towns for fiscal'
1965-66. The checks range from
S3O for the tiny Toombs County!
■town of Santa Claus and its five
resident to $1,328,201.30 for At
lanta.
The formula passed by the Leg-'
' islature for dispensing this money ;
provides that cities with 500 per
sons or less get $6.00 per person; '
cities with 500 -to 1,101 persons,
get a flat sum of $3,000, and cities!
with more than 1,101 received
! approximately $2.72 per person, j
The law provides specifically
that the money must be used in '
the construction and maintenance ;
of streets and for aiding in de-i
fraying the cost of providing per- ,
sonnel and equipment for the
control of traffic.
The following is a list of local
cities and the amount they re
ceived: Mcßae, $7,460.00; Scot
land. $1,416; Lumber City, $3,705;
He lena, $3,514; Milan, $3,000; AI- (
ano, $3,000; Glenwood, $3,000;'
Rhine, $2,910 and Chauncey, sl,-
980.
Advertise in the Eagle.
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1965
Alamo Negro Boy
Drowns In Mcßae
Tuesday Afternoon
A 13-year-old Alamo Negro
boy. identified by Chief of Police
Frank McLaughlin as Amos Cur
tis Harvey, drowned about 6:45
p.m. Tuesday while in swimming
in the lake near Central High
School in Mcßae.
With him in the lake were his
brother, Ulysese Harvey, 17;
Odis Bush, 16;'Alice Wooten and
Gail Wooten, who witnessed the
drowning according to the offi
cers. Ulysese Harvey almost
drowned and was brought ashore
by Odis Bush. The body of Amos
Harvey was recovered from the
water about 7:25 p.m. and artifi
cial respiration was applied by
policemen, Prof. R. F. Jackson
and others. When thej’ failed to
revive him he was carried by
Spaulding’s ambulance to the Tel
fair County Hospital where he was
pronounced dead on arrival. He
was later taken to the Spaulding
Funeral Home in Mcßae.
The boy’s mother, Alice Har
vey, is employed in the laundry
at the Telfair County Hospital,
and he and his brother had come
to take her home, w^hen they de
cided to go in swimming while
waiting for her to get off from
work.
Hew Bridge Set
For Lumber City
Over Ocmulgee I
Citizens of Telfair and Jeff!
Davis Counties will be interested!
in the fact that a contract is sche-i
duled to be let some time this 1
year for 3 new, wider bridge, over
the Ocmulgee River on Highway'
341 at Lumber City.
The new structure will be of
concrete from end to end, with
no steel frame over the center
section, as on the present out
dated bridge. The bridge now in
use is too narrow in the center
section for safety, and the new
structure will be considerably
wider.
It is reported that a temporary
by-pass bridge will be built just
west of the old bridge to allow
traffic passage while the new 1
bridge is under construction.
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Wheeler Co. Woman Commits Suicide
At Her Home Wednesday Afternoon
Sheriff Morris Johnson, of
Wheeler County, said today that
Mrs. Hightower Gilder, of Wheel
er County, committed suicide at
her home Wednesday afternoon
by shooting herself in th e right
temple with a pistol. He said the
bullet went in the right side and
came out the left.
The Sheriff said Mr. Gilder
was at O’Quinn’s Service Station
in Alamo when Mrs. Gilder called
him and told him she was going
to kill herself. He said she had
made several threats to end her
life and he did not think she
would do it. He told her that he
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GEORGIA PEACH QUEEN — Stone Mountain, Ga. — Dawn
Williams, left, of Stockbridge is crowned “Miss Georgia Peach”
by Ann Giles, National Peach Queen, as Georgia Peach Week
was climaxed with a colorful Peach Queen Pageant on top of
Stone Mountain. Stone Mountain Memorial Park is rapidly com
ing into its own as one of Georgia’s greatest attractions with a
noticeable increase in tourist visits this season.
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Crop Duster Loses Life In Fiery
Plane Crash Wednesday Morning
Charles Edwin Boney, 30, well
known resident of China Hill.
Iwas killed instantly about 6 o’-
clock Wednesday morning when
I his crop dusting Piper Cub plane
crashed and burst into flames
I near his home immediately after
! take-off.
Boney’s father watched the
!plane as it left the ground and
; saw it fall. He jumped in his
i truck and sped to the scene, but
i the heat was so intense that it
! was impossible to rescue his son.
; It is reported that the plane was
I heavily loaded with dusting ma-
Iterials and g’.s. After take-off it
| reached a height of the tree tops
j when the motor failed and the
’plane fell.
Funeral Today
Funeral services were held this
I (Thursday) afternoon at 5 o’clock
lin the chapel of the Harris &
j Smith Funer.'l Home with the
;Rev. J. A. Brown, Pastor of the
'Seventh Day Adventist Church,
!in Albany, assisted by the Rev.
'Wade Ward, Pastor of Block
'House Baptist Church, officiating.
'Burial was in the Telfair Memor
i ial Gardens with Harris & Smith
Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Boney was born in Fort
Worth, Texas on March 1. 1935,
' the son of William Edwin and
i Mattie Hilderbrandt Boney. He
I was married to Miss Frances
j Seigler in Milan on August 12.
11953, and was a member of Shar
-lon Baptist Church. He was a
veteran of the Korean War.
Survivors include his wife;
j three daughters, Debbie, Gale
land Sherry; a son, Ronnie, and
! his parents, all of China Hill.
Pvt. Revis Sirmans Jr.
Completes Course
■ ABERDEEN PROVING
'GROUND, MD. (AHTNC) — Pvt.
I Revis S. Sirmans Jr., son of. Mrs.
I Brunell P. Sirmans, Lumber City
I R-l, completed a seven-week re
covery and evacuation course at
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.,
July 6.
Sirmans received instruction in
the movement of heavy vehicles
that have been damaged.
The 17-year-old soldier enter
;ed the Army last February and
| completed basic training at Fort
' Gordon, Ga.
would be home in a few min
utes, but she said for him to lis
ten and he would hear the last
shot. He put the receiver up, and
when he reached his home she
was sitting upright in a platform
rocker with the pistol in one hand
and the telephone receiver in the
other. ;
Mr. Gilder did not touch any
thing but went immediately foi
the sheriff, who told this reporter
that it was quite evident that she
took her own life.
Tounsend Funeral Home in
Dublin is in charge of arrange
ments.
NUMBER 14
Wheeler Head Start
Program Helps
Pre-School Children
i Some of the major purposes of"
(the Head Start Program are:
1. To help children feel ade
quate in the new world of school.
2. To help children learn to un
. derstand and live intelligently in.
■ 1 their world.
3. To facilitate growth through..
■ providing the space, freedom and!:
I equipment needed.
4. To help a child find a com—
!; fortsble, contributing place in his
i group.
5. To teach children to manage.
I themselves, their materials, the
! rountines of the day, to take in-
I itiative in planning and doing.,
| things.
! The young child’s need to learn ;
|is stimulated by actual exper
iierces with the common every-.
(day aspects of his environment.
! His desire to know and his in
■ terest become the guidelines a
, long which we plan the direction
'these experience will take. The.
child uses these activities to
'broaden his ever developing store/
lof information. As stated above,
he is helped in building and in
j clarifying concepts.
' —
Mrs. Minnie L. Clark
Os Wheeler County
Dies Monday, July 5
Funeral services were held,l!
(last Thursday morning at 11 o’-
j clock from the Alamo Methodist
। Church for Mrs. Minnie L. Clark.
! 70, who died Monday in the Tel
' fair County Hospital after a short.
I illness.
The Rev. Lennie Grimes oMi
■ । ciated and burial was in Oak
Grove Cemetery near Alamo withr
! Harris & Smith Funeral Home in
I charge of arrangements.
I Pallbearers were Kenneth
! Clark, L. W. Clark. Robert Clark,.
Hugh McGee, J. D. Fowler and:
< Edwin Fowler.
Honorary pallbearers were John .'
W. Clark, Hershel Selph, C. C.
I Coleman, Paul Stevenson, N. M
I Clark and Carl Manus.
Mrs. Clark was born in Lau--
'rens County on December 11.
11895, the daughter of Wise anck
I Emma Brown.
She is survived by her husband,,.
IC. C. Clark; seven sons, Gadya:
'Thomas, of Savannah; O. C
Clark and Rufus Clark, of Alamo:
Walter and C. M. Clark, of At
lanta; W. A. Clark, of Hazlehurst:
and Samuel L. Clark, U. S. Navy.
Okinawa; two daughters, Mrs.
Lucile Jackson, of Atlanta, and.
Mrs. Rosalie Peavey, of Warner
Rabins; four brothers, Nathan
Brown, of Pompano Beach, Fla.™:
J. P. Brown, of Savannah; Hardy-
Brown, of Augusta and Fateh
Brown, of Mt. Vernon; four sis
ters, Mrs. Florence Nelms, of
Glenwood; Mrs. Omie Fowler, of
Alamo; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, oft
Clearwater, Fla.; Mrs. Annie C..
Shelton, of Savannah and a num
ber of grandchildren.
Dr. Charles Prince
Dies Unexpectedly
In Savannah Monday
Dr. Charles L. Prince, 51, pronx.
| inent Savannah urologist, died, at-
Memorial Hospital in Savannah/
Monday after suffering a heart at
tack. He was stricken in the op
; erating room corridor just after
completing an operation. Efforts
!to revive him failed and he died
; at 11.05 a.m.
A native of Cheraw, S. C., Dr.
Prince begsn his practice in Sa
| vannah in 1946. He and Dr. Peter 1
: L. Scardino set up joint offices at:
12515 Habersham St. in 1949, and".
; in 1963 the two doctors establish
ed the Savannah Urological Clin
ic with Dr. Cheng T. Su and Dr.
Irving Victor.
Funeral services were he lew-
Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Greenwich;
Cemetery with the Rev. Ernes' -
Risley and the Rev. Allie Frazier
Jr. officiating.
He is survived by his wife, the ■
former Miss Katherine Wachob
Eaten, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; his mo
:her, Mrs. Charles L. Prince Jr.,,
of Charlottesville, Va.; a son; twai
daughters; two brothers and one
sister.