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VOLUME 52
Sanders Grants
Teachers Extra
S2OO Pay Raise
Going beyond his campaign
premise made four years ago,
Gov. Carl E. Sanders has approv
ed average pay raises of S2OO-a
--year for Georgia’s 43.215 school
teachers and $250 for the 4,652
school bus drivers. The raises go
into effect Sept. 1.
The extra S2OO for the teachers
wiil bring to $1,400 the pay in
creases they have received during
the Sanders administration, S4OO
more than the governor promised.
Gov. Sanders, in making the
announcement, emphasized he was
rot touching the $lO5-million
state surplus and that the in
creases are being accomplished
without increased local funds. He
added: “I want to point up also
that no additional state taxes are
necessary.’’
Training Union
Assembly Scheduled
The second Georgia Baptist
Training Union Assembly for
1966 is scheduled for the Georgia
Baptist Assembly, Toccoa, August
15-19, with special emphasis upon
meeting needs of Baptists who
will assume positions of leader
ship in a church or association.
More than 300 are expected to
attend the Assembly, which gets
under way Monday evening, the
15th, and continues through Fri
day, the 19th, under the direction
of the Rev. Garnie A. Brand, At
lanta, secretary of the Training
Union Department of the Con
vention.
A program of activities for all
ages is planned, with emphasis in
church recreation,
the Guard.
“Under continued proper lead
ership, I can foresee no situation
in which such a course of action
would be necessary for Georgia,
because our established state and
local Taw enforcement agencies
repeatedly have shown them
selves prepared, responsible and
effective.”
Hunt For Oil
Set In Treutlen
An Augusta man. F. W. McCain,
has filed application with the!
Georgia Department of Mines and
Geology to drill an oil well for
testing in Treutlen County.
Dr. A. S. Furcron, director of
the department, announced that !
the rotary-rig test, designated as \
McCain-Besci No. 1, will be lo
cated about one and one-half
miles south of Soperton.
A-2C W. O. Holloway
On Duty At Binh
Thuy AFB Vietnam
Airman Second Class Will O.
Holloway, son of Mrs. Lucille
Holloway, of Glenwood, is on
duty at the U. S. Air Force’s
fully operational Binh Thuy Air
Base near Can Tho, Vietnam
Airman Holloway is a mem- i
her of the air police defense force ■
which maintains vital security
and law enforcement at the Me
kong Delta base.
During early activation of the
base—once described as belonging
to the Viet Cong at night —
mechanics helped stand guard
duty and everyone assisted filling
sandbags and building protective
bunkers and revetments.
The installation, officially open
ed in May, provides the first reg
ular heavy maintenance in the
delta for small spotter aircraft
flown over a 21.000-square-mile
military district by forward air
controllers to locate and direct
air strikes against enemy activity.
The airman was graduated from '
high school in 1964 in Alamo.
County-Wide Picnic
The Annual Coutny-Wide Pic
nic will be held Tuesday, Aug
9. a: the Little Ocmulgee State
Park. Supper will be served at
7:00 P.M.
You and your family are in
vited to come and bring the fol
lowing:
I. Picnic basket.
2. Quart of strong sweetened
tea.
3. Eati'g utensils (silver, plates,
cups) enough for your family.
Don’t forget to mark this date
on your calendar and be there.
Wheeler County Eagle
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MR. AND MRS. D. T. DURDEN, of Alamo, celebrated their
50th Wedding Anniversary on Sunday, June 26, with a
recepticn at the Methodist Fellowship Hall, given by
their children, Mrs. Bill Dunn, of Atlanta, and D. T. Dur
den, Jr., of Mobile, Ala. One hundred and sixty-five
guests registered on this very beautiful occasion.
Hagan Proposal To
Benefit Veterans
Representative G. Elliott Ha
gan appeared before the special
'Subcommittee on Discharges and
- D-missals of the Committee on
Armed Services this past week in
: support of H.R. 10267 which
I would extend the ten-year sta
tute of limitations in Section 1552-
(b) of Title X of the United States
Code from October 26, 1961, to
October 26, 1971.
I When the boards of correction
‘of records were authorized in
1951, there were three clauses re
lating to the statute of limita
tions within which applications
; for the correction of records would
:be reviewed. The first was the
blanket ten-year period until Oc
tober 26, 1961, when any record
‘ was to be open for correction for
error or injustice, no matter when
rthe error or injustice occurred.
This is the blanket limitation
which Mr. Hagan’s bill would seek
i to extend another ten years.
The second period was for three
years after the service man first
finds that there was an error
।or injustice in his record.
The :hird provision Allowed the
। board of correction to consider
; any application no matter when
it occurred if it was in the in
terests of justice to consider the
; application and correct the rec
ord.
Since those who have dealt
with the various departments
have found that there have been
some instances where the boards
■of correction have used the blan
ket ten-year statute of limitations
as a bar to consideration of an
application for the correction of
records where there seemed to be
element of injustice, Congressman
Hagan thought that it was desir
able to extend the flat ten-year
statute of limitations. Then the
applications could be considered
on their merits without first hav
ing to get over the hurdle of. first
finding an injustice making the
application worth considering. The
Department cf Defense has now
agreed with ’his pcint of view in
a letter it has sent over through
the Department of the Army.
At the same time that Mr. Ha
gan urged the passage of H.R.
10267. stating he did not want to
appear ungrateful far the more
elastic views that the three boards
of 1 correction have been taking
toward applications which are
filed beyond either of the defin
ite,..time limitations contained in
Section 1552 (b). T. was the in
tent of Congress in making this
consideration possible that each]
case be considered upon its own
'merits a'.d the record be correct
ed where injustice can be shown,
no matter when the error or in
justice occurred. He stated he
hoped that the subcommittee in
its report will stress the import
ance of this general escape clause.
The main feature of permanent
press garments, according to Missj
Margie Mcl'tyre, Extension home )
economist-clothing, is the,: free- j
com from wrinkles. Creases re- |
main sharp, the -earns stay flat—
and so no ironing is required. i
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY. GEORGIA
Riad Deaths Up
8 Per Cent At |
' Half-Way Point
’ Georgia’s traffic death toll at
1 1966’s half-way point stood at 683,
Lan average of just under 114 per
‘ .month during the first six months
Los the year. Compared with last
L year’s comparable period, this is
an increase of 53 fatalities, or a I
^plus eight per cent.
That’s the overall picture de
veloped from a Georgia Depart
ment of Public Safety report re-
1 ‘ leased by Col. Lowell Conner, di- I
I
‘. rector. Here’s a breakdown of the
? ; statistics:
। ■ Rural area deaths went up from j
461 to 521, an increase of 60, or i
,13 per cert. Urban area fatalities'
dropped from 169 to 162, a four I
] ■ per cent decline. Pedestrians kill- j
cd throughout the date, which is
"j included in the overall death to-j
: tai, r.umbeied 91, a decrease ofi
LlO.
There were 105,144 more motor]
[vehicles registered in Georgia i
' during the current first six )
(months than a year ago, 1,880,411!
against 1,775,267.
These cars and trucks traveled
11,365,087,934 miles, an increase
‘ of 848.517,906 miles over a year
[ago. Ye; Georgia’s traffic death]
irate, which is based on the num
,ber of persons killed to each 100-;
; million miles traveled, did not [
rise. It remained at six for both I
Lsix-mcr.th periods.
New Generation
Os The Talmadge
Family Arrives
A new generation of the famous |
Talmadge family has arrived on!
the Georgia scene. But news of
the event didn’t break in Atlan- ■
ta, where the child was born. It I
firs: come to light in Washing-)
ten the other day when U. S. Sen. I
Herman E. Talmadge entered his j
: office*with the proud grin of a
granddad.
Eugene Talmadge, son of the;
senator and grandson of the late
former Gov. Eugene Talmadge'
and Mrs. Talmadge, cf Mcßae, be-'
came the father of a 6-pound, 15-,
ounce boy, born at Atlanta’s Pied
mont Hospital. Hi wife, Gail, and.
। the baby both were reported in
good condition by hospital au
thorities. 1;
Two Students To
Graduate From GSC
Two Wheeler County students
will graduate during the Twenty-
Sixth Annua] Summer Com
[ mencement Exercises of Georgia
Southern College on Thursday,
August 11, at 10:30 A.M. in the
W. S. Hanner Gymnasium. Speak
[er for this occasion will be Dr.
[ Pope Duncan, President of South
: Georgia College.
Those graduating from Wheeler
) County, their degrees, ard their
I majors are: Bachelor of Science
[in Education: David James Hart
i ley (English); Kathryn Beall Till
i man (Elementary Education).
Sanders Praises
Sa. Sheriffs For
Doing Good Work
i Gov. Carl E. Sanders, in a
speech before the Georgia Sher
iff’s Association’s annual conven
tion in Clayton recently, was lav
| ish in his praise of the work be
ing carried on by these county
law enforcement officers. Said
the governor:
I “I thick that if every citizen
had a greater understanding of
the drudgery and exhaustion in-
I valved in your job, then they
i would have a far greater appreci
ation of the efficient-and thorough
manner in which Georgia’s coun
!ty sheriffs perform their duties.
“And each year those duties
are growing more difficult and
more demanding. They require a
■ dedication that too few of our
। fellow citizens fully appreciate. . .
I would like to say at this point
i that both as governor and as a
citizen I am extremely proud of
• the job which you are doing in
and for Georgia."
Referring to rioting and law
! lessness that have been experi
enced in New York, Chicago, Los
| Angeles and other cities around
| the country, Gov. Sanders de
j dared:
j “We are all aware, of course,
I that the last few years have been
| troubled ones, with the threat of.
I civil disorder ar.d violence ever
! present. I’m sure you share my
deep pride that we have emerged
from the crucible of stress and
uncertainty without uncontrol
lable human tragedies and with-
lout indelible strains on our claim
|to self-restraint and wisdom.
“You, and all other Georgia;
peace officers have proved time
and again to the citizens of this, 1
and every other state of the!
I Union, that you are fully capable
(of protecting our citizens with-!
lout help from nonprofessional or;
I extra-legal groups at any level.
“If any situation beyond your
। staff abilities does arise, then the
I properly constituted authority, in
cluding our National Guard, is
ialways available to answer your
| call for assistance.
“Yet through all the recent
i years of tension and challenge,
|we can be proud of the fact that
| such a situation has never arisen
;in Georgia, and that we have
i never been required to mobilize
Weather Outlook
30-Day Period
The Thirty - Day Agricultural
I Weather Outlook for the month
lof August for South Georgia,
| Southeast Alabama and North-
I west Florida issued by the Weath
(er Bureau Advisory Agricultural
I Meteorologist. Georgi a Coastal
Plain Experiment Station, Tifton,'
| August 2:
TEMPERATURES during Au
gust are expected to average
■ near normal over all of the Tri-
State Agricultural area except in
j Southeast Georgia where tem-
I peratures will average below
I normal. Daily mean temperatures
lore expected to average between
! 78 and 82 degrees. Daily maxi
mum temperatures will average
(between 87 and 91 degrees with
afternoon temperatures reaching
:95 degrees or higher on 5 to 8
(days during the month. Daily
'minimum temperatures should
'.average between 68 and 71 de
' grees.
RAINFALL during the next 30
days will continue to vary wide
ly from place to place but should
average between 3.50 and 6.00
over all of the Tri-State Area ex
cept Northwest Florida where it
lis expected to average between
5.00 and 8.00 inches. Rain is ex
pected to occur as showers on 7
to 10 days during the month with
one or two prior’s of general
rains.
SUNSHINE during August is
expected to average about 65 per
cent of possible with 1 or 2 pei
ods of extended cloudiness.
SOIL TEMPERATURES during
August are expected to continue
at seasonal high levels averaging
between 85 and 95 degrees under
4 inches of bare soil.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1966
I-• • I
Youth Music
I Camp To Be
Held Aug. 1-10
A Youth Music Camp for Geor
; gia Baptist young musicians will'
। be held at the Georgia Baptist As- j
Lsembly, Toccoa, August 1-10, Dr. 1
■ Paul McCommon, Atlanta, sec-,
- ret ary of the Department of;
- Church Music for the Georgia!
- Baptist Convention, announced i
'• today.
1 The music camp will feature;
day-long sessions in theory, or- i
ilgan, piano, voice training and!
?; general preparation in the field i
. of music for serious studenls in j
-, this field from Baptist Churches |
. throughout the state. Some 300
i musicians are expected to attend
. the sessions.
Leaders include McCommon;!
: Mrs. Martha R. Settle, Atlanta,'
। director of graded choir activities I
t for the Convention; Edmond D.!
. Keith, director of associational
'work for the convention; the Rev. i
Charles Holland, pastor, Capitol
( View Baptist, Atlanta, camp pas- i
■ tor. and Richard F. Cook, Atlanta,j
! organist.
A program of sacred music will
be presented Wednesday after
noon, at the First Baptist Church,!
Toccoa, at 4:00 P.M. The concert!
’ i is open to the public.
Baptists Emphasize I
State Missions
A special emphasis upon Bap
! list mission ministries in Geor
' gia is scheduled in September,
when many of Georgia’s 3010 Bap-|
tist Churches observe State Mis-!
sions Day, Sept. 8, in Woman’s!
(Missionary Union, and Sept. 11 in!
■ the Sunday Schools.
। A special season of prayer is
scheduled by Baptist women as
■they observe the Mrs. W. J. Neel!
| Season of Prayer with special|
, studies on the Georgia Baptist!
Con vention’s program of mission i
, work within the state, and special
! offerings for the ministries.
On Sept. 11, Georgia Baptist
Sunday Schools will also place
■emphasis upon the missions pro
‘ gram with special assembly pro
i grams presenting the 19 minis
, tries within the state supported
(by the Convention.
With the theme this year “Tell
। Your Neighbors,” an offering goal
(of $200,000.00 is anticipated, with ,
funds in excess of $85,000 00 to (
be applied on construction under
-way at the Georgia Baptist As
, sembly, Toccoa.
The State Mission program of
(the Convention, in organizational 1
form, goes back nearly a century ;
; and there has been state mission i
■ work fostered by Georgia Baptist I
Churches as far back as the early
1800’s. I<
College Queens Spray Away
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Georgia’s College Queen,
Andrea Jane O’Neal (center),
a student at the University of
Georgia and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Tim O’Neal of Hart
well, Georgia, gets a dousing
of spray starch from the Col
lege Queens from lowa and
Michigan, also Georgia girls.
lowa's College Queen, Nancy
Wheelhouse (left), is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Wheelhouse of Rome.
She is a graduate of Drake
University in lowa. The Michi
gan College Queen, a student
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(Talmadge's Bill Would Give Tax
Cui To Teachers For Exira Study
U. S. Sen. Herman E Tal-
I madge, long a strong advocate of
more and better education for
[Georgia and the nation, ha. gone
। to bat in the Congress for teach
i ers who want to improve their
I lot. He has introduced a bill in
‘.he Senate to allow teachers a
( federal income tax deduction for
! expenses incurred in further
j study or training in their profes
sion.
j Talmadge’s bill, which is in the
( form of an amendment to the U.
IS. income tax law, would override
an Internal Revenue Service reg
ulation published July 7 forbid
ding such deductions.
The Georgia junior senator,
County Home Ec
Committee Meets
The Wheeler County Home Ec
■ onomics Committee met Wednes-
Iday, July 27, at 3:00 P.M. in the
I County Extension Office with
t rine (9) members and Mrs. Walk
er, County Extension Home Econ
lomist, present. Mrs. Z. O. Thorn
las, president, presided, and the
i devotional was given by Mrs. J.
I A. McDaniel.
The following plans were made:
COUNTY-WIDE PICNIC: The
i Annual County-Wide Picnic will
be held Tuesday Night, August 9.
at the Little Ocmulgee State Park
at 7:00 o’clock.
STATE HOME ECONOMICS
(COUNCIL: Four delegates will at
tend State Home Economics Coun-
■ cil Meeting in Atlanta September ■
(13-15.
! COUNTY - WIDE CHRISTMAS
PARTY: The County-Wide Christ
mas Party will be held again this
( year and the Dempsey Club will
(be in charge. The date, time and
! place will be announced- later.
! WOMAN OF THE YEAR: The,'
Woman of the Year was discussed
and the clubs will be expected to
get in their nominations and
blanks in the near future.
The committee was glad to
welcome Mrs. Rebecca <M. Walk- i
er, County Extension Home Econ-1
omist, to the county and look for- 1
ward to working with her.
The meeting was then adjourn- i
ed and the group enjoyed home
made peach ice cream.
Callaway To Speak !
In Vidalia
The Toombs County Citizens
for Callaway will honor him with;
a reception at the Vidalia Ameri
can Legion Home on August 8
from 7:30 to 9:00 P.M.
Congressman Bo Callaway, can- ■
didate for Governor, will speak.;
at Michigan State University,
is Kristina L. Hensley (right)
whose parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Gaston M. Hensley of Atlanta. 1
The girls found their wide
brimmed chapeaux while on a
shopping spree in New York.
They picked up their spray
starching tricks during the
Best Foods Home Economics
Event of the National College
Queen I’ageant in which they
had to prove their ability to
iron a Mini dress and to crisp
it with Niagara spray starch.
who is a member of the Senate
!’ Finance Committee which handles
■ tax legislation, said teachers had
; been allowed income tax deduc
tions for summer school and other
■ types of educational expenses
i since 1958 as a result of a law
i' suit won- by a Virginia instructor.
In introducing his bill, he tokf.
'' the Senate that in the midst of
■ intensified federal activity in the
field of education “there seems to
* be one federal agency which has
■ not gotten the message.” He con
■ tinued:
“Judging from one of its re
cent actions, it seems determined
to do what it can to retard the
. progress of education in this
’(country. That agency is the Inter
i nal Revenue Service, which, by
! means of some income tax regu
(lations it has proposed, appears
bent on frustrating the desire for
achieving educational excellence
in this country.”
Along with his remarks in in
troducing his bill, Sen. Talmadge
had inserted in the Congression
al Record a letter he had written
to IRS Commissioner Sheldon Co
hen urging reappraisal of the new
regulations. In his Senate speech
the Georgia senator declared:
“It is the teacher, more than
anyone, who must continue tc
keep her skills current and yet
it is the teacher, less than anyone
who can afford to pay the costs
of additional training. It is the
teacher who will suffer most un
der the proposed regulations, and
i yet it is the teacher that we as a
I nation can least afford to see suf-
( fer.
i “On our teachers rests the fate
;of the generations to come, and
(on the generations to come rests
I the fate of our nation and of the
I world.”
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Progress In Helping
Rural Areas To Be
Reviewed Aug. 9-10
Progress made in helping more
than 80 thousand rural Georgians
! strengthen their farms and cont
imupities will be reviewed at a
(conference in Dublin August 9th
and 10th, attended by F. Marion
(Hay, acting county supervisor for
। the federal rural credit agency.
I Scheduled to address the meet
ling is S. L. VanLandingham, state
I head of the Farmers Home Ad
ministration. Agency representa
! tives from 52 counties in soutife
! east Georgia will attend.
Agency services to be evaluat
ed include recently inaugurated
. insured credit programs for rural
housing, and rural community
waste disposal systems; also, new
'ly authorized grant aid for de
[ velopment of rural water araf
; sewer systems.
Also to be reviewed are recent
-ly expanded credit services that
[ help low-income rural families de
velop income-producing trades
and services, enable family farm
ers to improve, purchase and de
! velop farm land and buildings.
Total credit aid to be advanced
[ this year to family farmers and
. rural communities in Georgia is
estimated at S4O million.
The Farmers Home Administra
tion through 61 county offices lo
[cated throughout rural Georgis
' provides credit assistance accom
! paried by management assistance.
Funds advanced by the agency
[ are used by rural families to fi-
I nance family farms, develop rural
community facilities, and reduce
rural povety.
WDAX Joins Mutual
Broadcasting System
In contracts negotiated in June
at Jekyll Island, WDAX, effective
Monday, August 8, affiliates with
the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Mutual is the world’s oldest and
largest radio network with cor
respondents in every state in the
nation and overseas, thus provid
ing news from where it happens
and when it happens.
WDAX will present Mutual
! News and Sports on the hour and
half-hour live from New York
daily Monday -through Sunday.
As a preview to Mutual, WDAX
will broadcast live from England
: the Cassius Clay - Brian London
heavyweight title fight on Satur
! day afternoon, August 6, at 3:34
i P.M.
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