Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME 51
4-Lane Highway
Sought Between
Macon,Brunswick
The Altamaha Area Planning
and Development Commission, in
it meeting last week in Baxley,
has joined in seeking a four-lane
highway from Macon to Bruns
wick along Rtes. 341 and 23.
Earlier in the summer the Ha
zlehurst Rotary initiated action
seeking a four lane highway from
Hazlehurst to Lumber City at the
time of the construction of the?,
new bridge over the Ocmulgee
River at Lumber City to replace
the present structure which has*’
proven too narrow for traffic.
Hazlehurst Rotary Club based ' i
it's appeal on the fact that sev- '
eral highways feed into Lumber
City from the north, and several J
highways feed into Hazlehurst
from the south, with this one high-,
way between Hazlehurst and[
Lumber City handling much of
the traffic flowing from the lead-'
in highways to an outlet, forming
somewhat of a bottleneck on the i
seven-mile stretch from Lumber [
City to Hazlehurst.
Highway 341, from Macon to
Brunswick, is one of the princi
pal highway arteries from Atlan
ta and Macon into Brunswick and :
the coastal resort areas of Jekyll,
St. Simons and Sea Island.
Mrs. Frank Gardner
Dies In U. S. Navy
Hospital Sept. 14
Funeral services were held in
the Vidalia Primitive Baptist'
Church Friday, September 17. at
11:00 A.M. for Mrs. Frances Eliza
beth Long Gardner, 41, of Jack-j
sonville, Fla., who died in the U.
S. Navy Hospital on September 14
after an extended illness.
Elder H. H. Mathis officiated,
and burial was in the Braddy
Cemetery with Murchison Funeral;
Home in charge of arrangements. j
Mrs. Gardner was born in Mont-,
gomery County on August 17.[
1924. the daughter of Thomas J.
Long and Mrs. Landies Moore '
Long.
Survivors include her husband;;
one son, Frank Lewis Gardner, :
and a daughter. Donna J. Gard
ner, of Jacksonville, Fla.; her,
grandfather, W. F. Moore, of Tar
rytown; three uncles, Lee Moore,
of Tarrytown, Ernest Moore, of
Ailey, and John Henry Moore of
Vidalia; and three aunts, Mrs. J.
C. Givens of Tarrytown, Mrs. J.
T. Oliver of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. ;
Pat Palmer of Vidalia.
Willard Windham
Dies Unexpectedly
At Home Saturday
Funeral services for Willard
Windham, 50, who died unexpect
edly Saturday night in his home
in Glenwood, were held at 3:001
P.M. Monday in the Rock Springs I
Baptist Church with the Rev. Wil-'
liams Wallace, the Rev Tommy ■
Morgan and the Rev. Henry Mor- -
ris officiating. Burial was in the ;
Bracewell Family Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, the I
former Miss Willie Mae Neal of I
Glenwood; two sons, Harold
Windham of Dublin and Bobby
Windham of Powder Springs; a
sister. Mrs. Sylvia Faircloth;
three brothers, No al Windham,
Bernard Windham, and Edsel;
Windham, all of Macon; and five I
grandchildren. 1
Sunbeam Corporation Plans To Train
New Employees Beginning Oct. 15
Announcement has been made
that a training prograr. for pros
pective employees of the Sun
beam Corporation plant being
built here will begin on October
15 in the building formerly oc
cupied by the Winn Manufactur
ing Company.
James T. Windsor, Jr., Assist
ant County Commissioner, reports
that the State of Georgia will par
ticipate by providing two men
who will help in the training pro
gram. The Department of Indus
try and Trade will provide one
man and the State Department of
Education or a division of this de
partment will provide the other.
No more than 10 prospective em-
Wheeler County Eagle
-
■
h WOW
I J Iwh
IO IW
I *
Georgia Press Association "Cracker
Crumble" Show Be Held October 16
A pair of gospel singers, shown
'above, turned newspaper publish- I
i ers will lend their varied talents I
■to the Georgia Press Association’s 5
{“Cracker Crumble’’ show October If
16 in Atlanta. !<
The team, a vivacious brunette |
■ with the unlikely name of (Miss) | i
Elsie Griner, Jr., (“Peaches), and <
' her brother, Geunie, will help to '
present what GPA officials call 1
a “true picture” of the contem- t
jporary political scene in the na- <
■ tion and the state.
Elsie and Geunie, who have J
. been in the newspaper business I
- only three years, were favorites (
j of. the audience at last year’s <
i show. They starred in two skits 1
ir which Geunie portrayed a poll-■
taker and Elsie appeared alter-(<
nately as a Goldwater supporter i ]
and a Johnson supporter in a pre- I ;
।election spoof. ||
The “Cracker Crumble” is an (1
annual satire which shows noj;
mercy to any public figure. But ।.
; persons in the public eye bravely ; ■
attend the event in increasing I ■
: numbers each time the show is 1 _
! staged. A theory among the group j
; preparing the show is that the ]
; public figures come because they j
(can’t bear not to know what’s be- (
; ing said about them. ; ■
Governor Carl E. Sanderse, i 1
' Senators Richard B. Russell and j'
; Herman E. Talmadge, and mem- I
! bers of Georgia’s congressional
'delegation, except Republican
Representative Howard Callaway,
are expected to be on hand to
“see themselves as others sec !
them,” as are Atlanta Mayor Ivan i ;
Allen and other city officials.
Norman Shavin, newspaper col- -
j umnist and writer-producer-direc- i
tor of the show, plans surprises j
similar to last year’s unexpected,
personal appearance of Governor
Sanders doing a parody of a tele-'
vision newscast.
And the surprises will be true;
surprises—not even members of ,
the cast will know about all of the '
acts until they appear on stage /
j Norman Shavin says 30 or 40 peo- ?
I pie—especially newspaper, radio- ■
j television and public relations ■
: people—just can’t keep a collec-/
| tive secret.
The Griners, who performed as ,
I two-thirds of a gospel singing trio
| called the “Holy Notes” for years '
I before they <ook over The Nash
: ville Herald, are not the only.
[well-known repeaters in this
| year’s cast.
Al Braselton, the Cracker;
' Crumble’s perennial Governor
I Sanders, and Aubrey Morris, who
I always does Mayor Allen, will be .
Hr. their familiar roles.
ployees •will be trained at one
time.
Over 700 applications for em
ployment have been received
from Telfair, Dodge, Wheeler and
other surrounding counties. More
than 1,400 applications have been
given out.
Mr. Windsor said “applications
are still being taken” and en
courages anyone interested to
pick one up at the Commissioners’
office at the county court house
in Mcßae.
Those who have picked up ap
plications previously are urged to
bring the completed form to the
Commissioners’ office as soon as
possible.
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
Governor Sanders was so im- •
pressed with Al Braselton’s im-;
personation last year that he in- 1
vited Al to play squash with him.
They now get together for squash j
on a regular basis.
While the “Cracker Crumble”;
is designed to provide a fun-filled
evening for all concerned, its real
reason for being is a serious one.
Proceeds from the event go to
the journalism scholarship fund I
of the Georgia Press Association, j
Tickets are sls each and are'
available from members of. GPA. (
Mail orders may be sent to the
Georgia Press Educational Foun
dation, 24 Ivy Street, SE., At
lanta. Georgia, 30303.
The “Cracker Crumble” is j
scheduled for the Marriott Motor i
Hotel. A 6:30 PM. reception will,
precede the dinner at 7:30 P.M.
I Steaks are the feature of the din-[
I ner menu.
■ -
“Mrs. Lena M. Harden
Dies In Bethany
Home In Vidalia
i Funeral services were held in
■ the chapel of the Murchison Fu-
I neral Home in Vidalia Sunday,
! September 12, for Mrs. Lena Mc
[ Coy Harden of Vidalia, who died
[on September 10 in the Bethany
। Home after an extended illness.
The Rev. Frank Morrison offi
ciated and burial was in the White
Springs Cemetery.
Mrs. Harden was born in John-
I son County on November 5, 1889,
; and was a member of the White
: Springs Church. She was the wi
dow of. the late Wilson Harden.
i Survivors include two daugh-
!ters, Mrs. Laurenthia Thigpen, of
; Hazlehurst and Mrs. Lester White
of Atlanta; two sons, Walter
[Lawrence of Vidalia, and George
Lawrence of Alamo; 22 grand
i children; several great-grandchil-:
(dren; and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. [
Andrew Lawrence of Alamo.
Alamo Man Dies
In Nursing Home
In Miami Sept. 16
Funeral services were held
from the Cedar Grove Methodist
Church Sunday at 4:30 P.M. for
Earn White, 58, who died in the
Ramsey Nursery Home in Miami,
Fla., last Thursday* after a long
1 illness.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. L. H. Grimes, of Eastman,
[ and burial was in the church
cemetery with Harris & Smith
Funeral Home in charge of ar
rangements.
Pallbearers were Roger White.
Raymond Marus, Lotis Lawrence.
Doyce Fowler, Jimmy-Purvis and
Billy Purvis.
Mr. White was born in Laurens
County on March 20, 1907, the son
of Daniel and Avie Purvis White.
His wife, the former Miss Lillie
Pearl Manus, preceded him in
death.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Maxine Cummings, of Nor
folk. Va; two sons, Wendell
White and Wayne White, of Hia
leah, Fla.; five grandchildren-;
three brothers, James White, of
Milan; Melvin White, of Alamo,
and, Harlow White, of Clermont,
Fla.; five sisters, Mrs. C. W. Ma
nus, Mrs. A.' T. Lawrence, Mrs.
Myrtice White. Mrs. Viola Fow
ler and Mrs. Louise Brown, of
Alamo; two half-brothers, Wil
liam Purvis and Elbert Purvis,
of Alamo, and a half-sister, Mrs.
.Alice Brown, of Mt. Vernon.
Auto Traveling
Sets New Record
On State Roads
j Thousands more cars traveled
( 1.6-billion more miles in Georgia
- during the first eight months of
1965 than a year ago. Yet, Geor
gia’s traffic death rate, based on
the number of persons killed to
■ each 100-million miles traveled.
dropped from 6.6 to 6.0.
That is the bright spot in the
latest consolidated statistics com
piled by the Georgia Department
of Public Safety and released by
Col. H. Lowell Conner, director.
The 8-month report showed j
that a total of 872 persons lost ।
their lives this year compared |
with 844 last year, an increase of
28, or three per cent.
However, in the rural areas,
where the State Patrol has juris
diction, traffic, deaths decreased
by 15, or two per cent, the com
parative totals being 660 and 675.
On the other hand, urban area
fatalities went up from 169 to 206.
ian increase of 37. or 22 per cent.
Pedestrian -deaths, which are in
cluded in the [total, declined by [
seven, or five per cent.
Motor vehicle registrations to- ;
, taled 1,861,368, up 77.911. or four
per cent, over a year ago. These
cars and trucks traveled a total of(
12.365,049,124 miles, up 1.623,413,-j
372 miles compared with last year, i
—
Nation's Ist Museum
Os Gems, Minerals
Opened In Atlanta
The nation’s first museum of
gems and minerals to be per
manently housed in a business in
[stitution was dedicated and open
ied to the public on Tuesday, Sep
tember 21, at 4:00 P.M. in down
town Atlanta. Fultor. Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association has as
sembled the display of hundreds
of precious and semi-precious
■ stones at their Main Office at 21
[Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta.
Officially named “Gems And
Minerals Cf The World,” the ex
hibit is open to the public from
9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M Monday
through Friday. Arrangements for
; group tours car. be made through
[Fulton Federal’s public relations
department at 522-2300, Extension
[230.
Early James Miller
Os Mt. Vernon Dies
Saturday, Sept. 18
Funeral services for Early
James Miller, 74, of Mount Ver
(non, who died Saturday at the
'residence of his daughter in Ft.
Valley, were held at 3:00 P.M.
। Monday in the chapel of Sam
mons Funeral Home in Soperton
-with the Rev. Charles Bettis of
i ficiating. Burial was in the Glen
wood City Cemetery.
Mr. Miller was a retired farmer
; and had lived in Montgomery
-County most of his life.
Survivors include two sons,
James T. Miller of Guyton and
(Eldridge A. Miller of MacOn; a
।daughter, Mrs. J. T. Rumph of Ft.
Valley; a stepson, D. H. Sears
.of Glenwood; a stepdaughter,
Mrs. Johnnie Ricks of Soperton,
and eight grandchildren.
S-Sgt. D. Clements
Participates In
Exercise In Korea
U. S. FORCES, Korea—Army
Staff Sergeant Dawson Clements,
27, sor. of Mrs. Myrtle C. Clem
ents, Glenwood, participated
in Exercise Eagle Eye 11, a field
training exercise conducted by I
Corps in Korea, Sept. 13-18.
The exercise is another in a
series providing realistic combat
training and conditions for the
testing of communications equip
ment ard operations.
Sergeant Clements, a com
munications sergeant, is assigned
to the corps’ U. S. Army Engineer
Support Detachment.
As a member of I Corps, he is
part of the largest combat-de
ployed Army corps in the Free
World. Comprised of troops from
' Thailand, Turkey. Republic of
Korea and the United States, I
.Corps has the responsibility of
guarding the southern approaches
to Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.
Clements ' ntered the Army ir.
’ August, 1955. and arrived over
-seas in November. 1964, on this
[tour of duty.
। He attended Glenwood High
School.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1965 SINGLE COPY 5c
State School Systems Now Eligible
To Apply For New Federal Funds
I Application forms necessary for]
Georgia’s school system to apply
for federal funds under a program
just financed by Congress are ex
pected to arrive this week, Asso-1
ciate School Supt. Dr. Allen
(Smith said.
The forms will be sent imme
diately to the systems which
must apply tor the new federal
; money and say how it will be'
I used, Dr. Smith said.
Georgia’s share of the $775 mil
lion appropriated by Congress
last week under the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of'
1965 is $27.3 million, according to |
State School Supt. Dr. Claudel
Purcell.
But the figure for Georgia is!
misleading because the state will |
allot $37,342,340.97 under Title li
of the act alone.
- Dr. Smith explained that feder-|
Rabid Bat Is
Found In DeKalb
County Wednesday
A dead bat found in DeKalb i
i County Wednesday has been diag-i
I nosed as rabid by State Health I
! Departmen t laboratories.
According to Dr. John H. Rich-!
| ardson, head of the Health De-!
j partment’s Veterinary S e c t i o n, I
' I this is the ninth bat found in
■ Georgia this year and positively
i diagnosed as rabid. Dr. Richard
| son said that reported cases of
■ j rabies in bats now make that ani-
I mal second to raccoons as carriers
■ j of the disease.
■ । He offered two warnings de
> I scribed as “most important” in
5 1 handling dead bats or those show
, ing any symptoms of illness:
1) Do rot touch or attempt to
1 handle any bat found on the
■ ground or seeming “tame.” This
i warning should be strongly em
■ [ phasized to children.
' -2) Any adult discovering a dead
> < bat is asked to wrap the animal
s i in paper or plastic—without ac
i! tually toughing it—and take it to
I his local health department for
’ i examination.
Dr. Richardson said that no
cases of transfer of rabies from
bats to humans or other animals
have been reported in Georgia.
Extreme caution is required to
I prevent this, he said.
Turpentine Group
Chief Steps Down;
Gillis Takes Over
■ VALDOSTA — The founder of
i the American Turpentine Farmers
[ Association, Harley Langdale, Sr.,
■: 77, has stepped down as president
iof the association he has headed
; for 30 years.
, j James L. Gillis, Jr., of Soper
i ton was named to succeed Lang
! dale at the group’s annual meet-
( ing Monday. Gillis, 45, is son of
:[the state highway director.
Gillis is a farmer, chairman of
. - the State Soil Conservation Com
j mittee and chairman of the Board
I of Managers of the County Com
| missioners Association.
He also is a former state sena-
I tor and is president of the Bank
. of Soperton.
The association has about 15,-
■ 000 members throughout the
i South.
Many Favor Death Penally Aller
Civil Unrest Sen. Edenfield Says
STATESBORO.—Georgians ap
! parently have changed their views
about repealing the death penal-'
ty because of recent civil unrest,
the chairman of a Senate study
committee says.
State Sen. Avant B. Edenfield,
chairman of the Senate Capital
Punishment Committee, said Mon
day he has noted the change in |
j letters received since the group j
I began its public hearings earlier
'his year.
“Prior to the racial unrest (
around the country, the majority I
as letters I received favored elir-j
mating the death penalty. But the
disturbances in Los Angeles and (
Chicago apparently changed that.
Most of the letters I have received
since those disorders overwhelm-
■ | al officials have instructed the
(state to allot the amount which!
[Georgia would have received if I
[Congress had fully financed the
ibill for 1965-66. With the fiscal'
(year already more than twoi
■ months old. it is expected that
erough systems will fail to use
their allotments to leave funds for:
[ all that apply, Dr. Smith added.
Title I provides funds to im
- prove the education of underpri
vileged children,, and allotments [
are based on the number of chil
dren in families with annual in-
Revival To Be Held
(In Wheeler County
dr
,w ;
■ I
I
| -
’ (HHk
REV. A. C. LEGG
• | An old fashion tent revival will
;! be held on the Wheeler County
1 High School Road, Alamo, from
■ September 23 to October 10.
i Services will be held each eve
- ning at 7:30 o’clock, conducted by
the Rev. A. C. Legg, of Fort
j Pierce, Fla. There will be special
j music and good singing.
s Everyone is invited to attend.
R. E. Marchman Dies
1 Saturday In The
[Local Hospital
) I
r j Funeral services were held Sun
[day at 3:00 P.M. in Southside
,। Baptist Church for Risdon Eli
, j Marchman, 61, a resident of the
. Strozier Apartments in Mcßae,
who died Saturday in the Telfair
, County Hospital after suffering a
stroke.
The Rev. Charles Franks, pas
j tor of Southside, and the Rev.
I Eugene Cook officiated. Burial
! was in the Scotland Cemetery
[with Harris & Smith Funeral
] Home in charge of arrangements.
M Pallbearers were Grady Wil
; liams, Shorty Powell, D Godfrey,
. | Claude Hawkins and D. L.
, [ Knowles.
1 j Mr. Marchman was born in Tel
[ fair County on July 10, 1904. the
son of John B. ar.d Mamie Lou
• (Mills Marchman and was married
■ [to Miss Nora Towns on November
’(3, 1933, who survives him.
Other survivors are one son,
fl Robert Marchman, of Mcßae:
■ I three daughters, Mrs. Betty Bow-
I yer, of Augusta, Mrs. Mary Pati
- saul, of Cadwell, and Miss Caro
lyn Marchman, of Mcßae; one sis
. ter, Mrs. Rilla Mazoe, of Bruns
: wick; three brothers, Clay March
man, of St. Simons Island, Fonzer
. Marchman, of Lumber City.
> Frank Marchman, of Alamo; and
five grandchildren.
ingly are in favor of keeping the
death penalty in Georgia,” Eden
" field said.
Also on Monday, grand juries
in the North Georgia counties of
Chattooga, Walker, Catoosa and
Polk urged retention of the death
penalty.
Edenfield said - testimony at the
committee’s public hearings has
[indicated sentiment is about
evenly divided on the question
(of abolishing the death penalty.
The committee will end its
(hearings with public hearing
in Atlanta Nov. 15-16 and is ex
j pected to give its recommenda
-1 ‘.ions sometime in December be
ifore the General Assembly ses
(sion begins in January.
NUMBER 24
comes under $2,000 according
■ the 1960 census..
Robert Beemon, who will,
handle Title I applications for the
' state, said funds alloted under the.
। title can be used for such pro
grams as remedial instruction,,,
1 providing breakfasts, purchasing;,
I new equipment and others. Each
1 system must plan how it will use
I the funds, within state and federal
guidelines.
Once a school is approved to re
■ ceive Title I funds, all its stu
dents, including those from fami
lies whose income exceeds $2,080-
[ per year can share their benefits^,
j Beemon said.
Title II of the aid bill provides
I library funds, Title 111 is for
j educational centers and services.
Title IV concerns research, and.
Title V is for strengthening state
■ departments of education.
Allotments have been figured
j for all Georgia systems, although!,
i a few are not eligible for th-z
] funds because of failure to comply
■ with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Following are allotments under.
; Title I for counties in this area:
Wheeler $123,4931
j Telfair $259,44$
Dodge $341,671
Jeff Davis $116,797
Wilcox $188,589"
Talmadge Takes
Part In Special
Economic Study
Georgia’s U. S. Sen. Herman E
Talmadge will take part in a spe
cial congressional study of eco
nomic problems being raised by
J “Great Society” legislative pro
; grams, it was announced in Wash
-11 ington.
I The survey, to be conducted by
। the joint economic committee of
• ■ which the Georgian is a member,
will attempt to bring to the pub
lic information on how President.
! Lyndon B. Johnson’s programs are
affecting the human resources, it
was pointed out.
It will deal with Appalachia*.
’' anti-poverty, aid to education and
‘ j other “Great Society” legislation..
' [ The group has begun preliminary
• investigations an-d expects to re
'[ lease al least partial findings by
1 1 year’s end.
Talmadge’s office said that the
senator will be involved with
1 parts of the study involving state
[ and local governments, schools,
[public facilities and automation.
: as well as other areas.
Leon L. Lindsey
Os Alamo Dies
In Fitzgerald
Funeral services were held from
the chapel of the Paulk Funeral
Home in Fitzgerald Tuesday at~
4:00 P.M. for Leon Livingston.
Lindsey, of Alamo, who died Sun
day in the VA Hospital in Dub-
1 lin. He was 65 years of age.
The Rev. I. R. Hobby and the.
Rev. J. P. Quattlebaum official
■led, and burial was in the Arbor
Cemetery.
Mr. Lindsey was born in Mans
■ I field on March 7, 1900, the son oE
' John Thomas and Mary Floyd
. Lindsey. He was a member of. the
11 Alamo Baptist Church, and was;
a veteran of World War I. He had
’(lived in Alamo for the past four
( years.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Miss Vera McVey; one
-daughter, Mrs. Bobbie Lindsey
iTuten, of Alamo; four sons, Leon
L. Lindsey, Jr, of Mansfield,
Ohio, Willie C. Lindsey, of Ma
(con, George E. Lindsey, U. S. Air
-Force, Whiteman AFB, Mo., and..
' ■ Carl L. Lindsey, of Laurel, Md.;
(one brother, Troy C. Lindsey, of
Abba; and a sister. Mrs. Maude
Laughinghouse, of Lakeland, Fla..
"WINTERIZING TIME"
Now’s the time to “winterize’*'
broiler houses, Extension Service,
poultry scientists point out. They
say ventilation is ore area that
needs attention. If there is a
smell of ammonia, or a haze of'
dust in the air, ventilation is in
adequate. If there are wet areas:
of li’ter, there is either an ex
cess of air or improper movement
lof the air.
Subscribe to the Eagle.