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VOLUME 53
Georgia Schools
To Share In
$158,000 Fund
Georgia school systems will
share a $158,000 federal bonus to
help buy new books and other
materials for libraries.
State School Suipt. Jack Nix
reported that a recently-approved
supplement to the elementary
and secondary education act will
bring Georgia’s total amount un
der the program to $2.2 million
this year.
This is the breakdown in new
library money going to Middle ।
Georgia school systems:
Bibb County, $6,103; Monroe,
5482; Crawford, $280; Peach, $742;
Houston, $2,413; Twiggs, $433;
Wilkinson, $433 (cq); Baldwin,
51.063; Bleckley, $162; Taylor,
$363, Macon County, $66.
Jasper, $268; Putnam, $360; La
mar, $362; City of Barnesville,
5123; Laurens, $834; City of Dub
lin, $677; Upson, $634; Washing
ton, $912; Pulaski, $254; Dodge,
$723; Wheeler, $219; Telfair. $543;
Wilcox. $355; Turner, $369; and
Crisp, $859.
Other central area systems are ;
not scheduled to receive any of
the additional funds.
The state school board has ap-,
proved an amended plan for ad
ministering the library aid pro
visions of the elementary and sec
ondary education act to enable i
systems to “pay as you go.’’
Federal cooordinator Joe Ed
wards of the state department
explained it this way;
A school district with an allot
ment of SIO,OOO, for example,
•would receive an advance of 60
per cent, or $6,000, as soon as
projects totaling SIO,OOO are ap
proved by the coordinator’s office.
Additional funds will not be
sent to the system until orders
are placed, materials received
and proper forms and invoices tot
aling $6,000 reach the state office.
If an acceptable project request
for reimbursement in the amount
of $2,000 is made at a later da tee,
this amount will be drawn from
the allotment balance of $4,000.
Future acceptable requests for re
imbursement would be drawn
from the system's balance until
the entire allotment is exhausted.
Edwards pointed out that funds
are alloted 40 per cent on per
child enrollment and 60 per cent
on need.
The extra money is profided on
the basis of increase in actually
allotments over tentative allot
ments. and from additional funds
coming from school districts
declared ineligible because of
non-compliance with desegrega
tion requirements.
$43,244 Federal
Grant Approved
For State Park
Gov. Lester G. Maddox has an
nounced the approval of a $43-
244 55 federal grant for outdoor
recieation improvements at Hard
Labor Creek State Park, near
Rutledge. It is the result of a
proposal submitted to the gov
ernment by State Parks Director
Horace G. Caldiwell, Maddox said.
The federal grant, to be match
ed dollar-tor-dollar in’state funds,
will come from the Land 2nd
Water Conservation Fund. The
governor said the money will be
used to construct a clubhouse
overlooking the park’s new 18-
hole golf course.
The project will be directed by
Col. Haywood Burke of the Geor
gia Department of State Parks.
Private Wommack
Serving In Vietnam
CAM RANH BAY, VIETNAM
(AHTNC) — Army Private Wayne
R. Wommack, 24, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wade R. Wommack, Route 1,
Alamo, arrived overseas in April
and is assigned to the 71st Artil
lery near Cam Ranh Bay, Viet
name.
Private Wommack is a member
of the 71st Artillery’s 6th Bata
lion. He entered the Army in
January 1964.
The private, whose wife, Mar
garet, lives on Route 1, Dexter,
graduated in 1961 from Laurens
High School, Rentz.
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Wheeler County Eagle
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Mrs. Georgia 1967, Faye Thompson of Monroe, waves good-by to
a crowd of well-wishers during send-off ceremonies held before
her departure for San Diego, California, and the Mrs. America
competition. Mrs. Thompson is representing our state in the annual
search for the nation's outstanding mother-wife-homemaker-citizen
and is being sponsored by Atlanta Gas Light, Georgia Natural Gas
and Savannah Gas Company, The new Mrs. America will begin her
year's reign on May 14 — Mother's Day.
Miss Hilda Braswell
Among Top Top 10
At Honors Program
Hilda J. Braswell, daughter of
I Mr. and Mrs. Or-is Braswell, Rt. 2,
I Alamo, iwas honored among the
I Top Ten saphomones at the an
| nual Honors Day program held
iat Abraham Baldwin Agricultur
jal College, Tifton, May 9, in the
college auditorium.
Dr. Loyal V. Norman, Academic
Dean, presented the honor stu
! dents and also the Dean’s List for
the current year who had achiev
ed this goal. The awards were
given by Dean T. M. Cordell.
Georgia And Nation
Will Honor All
Peace Officers
| Peace officers, both the living
। and those who lost their lives in
• the line of duty, will be honored
.in Georgia and throughout the
•: nation during a special week this
. mont h.
I Here in Georgia, Gov. Lester G.
Maddox has proclaimed May 17
as “Peace Officers Memorial Day”
. in honoi- of the federal, state and
municipal officers who have been
’killed or disabled in the line of
.duty, and the week of May 16-22
as “Police Week” in recognition
i'of “the service given by the men
i and women who, night and day,
'’.stand guard in our midst to pro
’ tect us through enforcement of
: our laiws.”
Special memorial services will
be held May 17 at Fort Valley
(where peace officers and their
i wives will gatherfor their anmual
spring meeting and barbecue. Gov
i Maddox will deliver the principal
address. He will be introduced by
■Col. R. H. Burson, director of the
I Georgia Department of Public
! Safety. Lt. Gov. George T. Smith
‘ also will be a featured speaker on
• the program,
f -
Federal Grants,
Loans Approved
For Ga. Projects
Georgia U. S. Sems. Herman E.
• Talmadge and Richard B. Rus
' sell have announced two Public
Health Service grants to Georgia.
One, for $122,575, was to the
Georgia Societf for Crippled
’Children and Adults in Atlanta
for rehabilitation service. The
’other, for $36,612 from the Di
vision of Mental Retardation, was
for mental retardation planning.
The senators also announced
Housing and Urban Development
loans to two Georgia cities for con
' strutting of low 7 rent housing. Doe
• run received a loan increase of
$70,186 to help meet costs of con
structing 26 homes. Folkston re
ceived SB,IOO for preliminary,
planning for 54 homes.
DEATHS
Mrs. Alice D. Poole—Chauncey
Mrs. Marjorie Thigpen—
Savannah
Pfc. Terry Lynn Yawn—
Haynesville
Milford E. Fleming—Chauncey
Thomas Sandiford—Ocilla
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
Broiler Output
Hits $225 Million
Four hundred and seventy-one
’ million broilers is a lot of chicken.
Neveertheless, that's the num
ber grown by Georgia producers
last year, according to W. Perry
Joiner, Cooperative Extension
• Service poultry scientist. “It's
: enough to give every man, wo
• man and child in the state a
chicken dinner every day for ten
months out of the year,” he said.
Georgia’s broiler output in 1966
brought producers nearly $225
million, more than any other
• farm commodity, but that is only
pert of the picture, Joiner con
tinued.
“That many broilers required
’ about 5 million hens to supply
commercial hatcheries with the
necessary hatching eggs,” he ex
pl. .rt d. “If that many hens lined
up in nests side by side, the line
would extend from Atlanta to'
Boston.”
And 471 million broilers eat a
lot of conn. According to Joiner. I
they consumed about 38 million
bushels, almost 65 percent of all
the corn harvested in the state
last year.
Tour Os Gardens To
Be Held In Dublin
The Federated Garden Clubs of
Dublin will sponsor a “Tour of
Gaidens”, which will include the’
gardens of several local Hemero
callis Society members. The tour
will begin at 9:30 on June 7 at the
Laurens County Library.
Those who are interested in;
seeing some of the beautiful day
' lilies grown in this section are
asked to be at the library at that
time. The gardens of Mrs. W. S.
Reese, Mrs. J. B. Bedingfield, Mi s. (
Edison Harbin, Mis. Howard Wal
; dron, Mrs. Harold Shepard, Mrs.
J. T. Mercer, and Mrs. Steve Mer
|Cer will be visiiited.
Mrs. Harold Shepard is chair
man', “and 1 serving on this commit
tee with Mrs. Shepard are mem
bers of the Bellevue, Dublin, Erin,
Shamrock and Green Acres Gar
; den Clubs.
Tickets may be purchased in
advance by sending $2.00 to cov
er tour and lunch, or SI.OO for
tour alone, to Mrs. J. M. Scar
borohgh, 623 Brookdale Drive,
Dublin, Geangia 31021.
WOOD IN HOMES
A recent study by the Univer
sity of Georgia and the U. S. For
est Service shows that Georgians
(are now building some 13,000 sin
gle-family homes annually. Ap
■ proximately 122 million board
• feet of lumber is used in these
r.ew structures, according to Co
operative Extension Service For
esters at the University.
The Georgia Crop Reporting;
Service reports that weather con
ditions during March w 7 ere very;
favorable for planting spring and
(summer vegetable crops. Plant
• ings of watermelons and canta
loupes have been completed in
-outhern areas.
j Advertise in the Eagle.
WCH Foresty Team
Places in State Meet
At Indian Springs
The Wheeler County FFA For
eriry team participated in the
annual State Forestry Meet at
Irdian Springs, Friday, May 5.
This is an annual affair where
the .best teams from high schools
throughout the state meet to de
-1 term! ne the best in the state
; in Forestry. Wheeler County plac
■ed 4th in the contest.
The Wheeler team was repre
sented by students enrolled in Vo
i cational Agriculture >at Wheeler
County 7 High who have been
i studying Forestry as a part of
'•their curriculum in Vocutioinal
; Agriculture and are active mem
bers of the Future Farmers of
I America. This team is composed
of 10 students and several alter
nates. It was this team that won
• first place in the region several
• weeks 'ago at Reidsville.
! The team is composed of the
following boys: Keith McNeal
t and Robert Hartley, who had the
j job of planting trees; Vernon
; Thomas and Keith McNeal, selec
■ i five marketing; Leon Fields and
1 Vernon Thomas, estimating vol
' ume of pulpwood from standing
] trees; Billie Cartwright and Mel-
Ivin Poole, estimating volume of
| saw timber from standing trees;
jHugh Coiu e y and Eugene
,’ Th igp en, tree identifieat ion;
Melvin Poole and Gary Coney,
ocular estimation; land measuie
! ment, Billie Cartwright and Rob
’|ert Hartley; log scaling. Hugh
( 1 Couey and Eugene Thigpen; pulp
wood sealing, Leon Fields and
I !Jesse Braswell; sawing, Lanier
Brown and Larry Leggett. Gary
'; Clark was an alternate.
The boys, who placed first in
'. the state event were: Jesse Bras
. well in scaling pulpwood volume
’on a truck; Leon Fields, in esti
mrtimg standing pulpwood vol
,i'w in standing timber; Billie
Cartwright won third plaice in
! land measurement, Hugh Couey
‘won fourth place in scaling saw
timber, and Lanier Brown and
Larry Leggett won third place in
sewing. The total score for fourth
pl. :e was 18 points won by our
, I team.
The State Forestry Contest was
won by Lanier County High, the
1 1 team with the high score for first
' place; second 1 place was won by
Pelham High; third pla.ee by Pat
' terson High and fourth place by
Wheeler County High.
J Though we didn’t place first
this time, we came up in the state
meet from sth to 4th this year.
We expect to get first next year.
iWe know these boys can do it.
■ All it will take is 'a little more es
• foit on the part of each of us.
. We wish to thank our boys for
’ doing the fine job which they did
.in this meet as they were com
, peting against 19 of the finest
I teams in the state, and to come
out 4th is quite a feat. To the
hoys who placed in these events,
congratulations to you for vour
accompliffhmer.it. Let’s work for
the state winner next year.
George Pollard, Jr.
Member Oustanding
Crew Os The Month
CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS.—
• Staff Sergeant George A. Pollard
. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George
• a Pollard of Rt. 1, Helena, is a
member of the Outstanding Crew
। of the Month in his Strategic Air
. Command (SAC) unit at West
over AFB, Macs.
Sergeant Pollard and other
, crewmen were cited for their
performance during operational
and training missions.
He is an airframe maintenance
technician in SAC, the nation’s.
combat ready intercontinental
. missile and bomber force.
The sergeant attended Wheeler
County High School and complet
ed requirements for his diploma
after entering the Air Force. I
Hi- wife, Betty, is the daughter
of Mrs. Lucile White of Jackson
ville, Fla.
Harrelson Family
Reunion May 21
The annual Harrelson Family
Reunion will be held Sunday, May
21, at the Little Ocmulgee State
। Park. All Harrelson relatives are
। invited to attend along with their
families and bring a picnic lunch.
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1967
FFA Quartet String
Band, Public Speaker
Place in Dist. Contest
The Wheeler County High FFA ’
’1 quartet, composed of Larry Leg- 1
: gett, Hugh Couey, Leon Fields,
• and Ray Mequrar, competed in
■ the Area FFA Meet in Lyons and
• at the Region ’Contest at Reids- 1
■ ville High School, where they;
won second place. They sang;
1 “Gospel Train” and “Skip To;
Lou.” By winning in the region (
. j this placed them in a position’
. where they might .get to partici- j
■ pate in the District Contest to be
i held at Jekyll Island May 13. The
’ contest was won by Toombs Cen
[, tral.
■' The Wheeler string band, com
' composed of Tony Elton. Leon
I Fields, Gerry Grimes, Robert
■ Smith and Talmadge Pritchett,
i ’ competed' on the area level, win-
I ning second place, then competed
’ in the region, placing fourth. They
> played “Guitar Boogie”, “Wild
I; Flower”, and “Your Cheating
! ; Heart.” For the time that they
i; have played together, they did a
■! good job. We are looking forward
i •to next year and more experience
■ ! and a first place.
!I Larry Clark participated in' the
■■Area Public Speaking Contest at
' i Lyons. The subject which he
: I chose was on Forestry, “A Gold
■ • Mine in Trees’’. He did 1 an excel
; ’ lent job this year in this contest,
. ■ winning third place. We congrat-
• ulate Larry, our only senior ipar
■ | ticipating in this contest, for a
i i job well done. We stall miss him
: next year as a part of our team
11 participating in these events. We
' i are sure that he will use the ex
'; perience gained through his pub-
■ lie speaking FFA to help him
i; throughout 'his school career.
■ j We are quite proud of these
’ I contestants representing us in
■ i these events and. hope that they
'! will continue to work hard to win
! ( again next year when these con
1, tests roll around.
r I
Wheeler County
FFA Wins Again
11
■ i The Wheeler County High FFA
won third place in the Land Judg-
; ing Contest sponsored by the
1 , Southeast Vocational Agriculture ;
. • District and' the Soil Conserva
• tion Service held at Soperton. ।
This contest is based on the
’contestant having a good knowl
’ adge of various soil types found ’
• in our area. They have to judge;
I eight types of soil, place them ac-;
i cording to Class 1 through VIII, I
, and recommend treatment for the
’and class selected. Treatments:
| recommended 1 are. applying lime
.if soil is acid, terracing where ’
’ 1 nd is rolling, strip cropping, ’
planting permanent cover such as
trees, putting in permanent pas
ture, planting row crops, and rec-'
i ommendtog rotations to be used. 1
The Wheeler County High FFA
L, r d Judging team is composed
'of Larry Webster, Jesse Braswell.
’' Mike Chambers and' Eugene Thig-1
j pen. These boys have studied soils \
jand soil types as a part of their
• Vocational Agnioulture program ’
and were chosen to represent
1 their chapter in this contest be-
I cause of their ability to recognize,
j various soil types and to place.
’them cccordirg to the class in,
which they fall.
In select/ng soil types, their de- 1
cisions must be based on the I
denlh of the soil, depth of produc
tive top soil and subsoil, type of
soil such as sandy loam, clay or'
• clay loam, or deep sand, perme- ’
ability of the soil, slope, drain
: ge, and use of the land for crops.
They did an outstanding job,
pl: :vg third in the district.
This contest was won by the;
Swainsboro High FFA. This team
later represented the District in
the state contest, won it, and con
' tinned on to Oklahoma for the
.National Land JudgingC contest.
'They placed 191’h out of 50 teams.
Swainsboro has an excellent team ’
I each year.
Our team is improving each
' each year. Next year, with an-;
j other year of work in preparation. ’
’ we hope to place first in the state
rind get “hat trip to Oklahoma for
1 the National Land Judging Con- '
, lest.
Total milk produced on Georgia ;
farms during March is estimated
at 89 million pounds by the Geor-.
gia Crop Reporting Service. This
is up 4 million pounds from the J
same month last year. 1
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Gov. Maddox Lashes Self-Appointed
"Do-Gooders" In U. S. Government
Gov. Lester G. Maddox, long
l an outspoken critic of the all-!
powerful federal government, cut
' loose the other day with a double
, barreled blast at what he called
' “self-appointed Washington do
gooders.”
In a speech before the Data
, Processing Management Associa-1
I tion’s Atlanta Chapter, the gov
’ ernor declared:
j “We are experiencing in the
• । United States.—of .all places'—a ’
’ brand of bureaucratic distator
’ ship unparelleled' in the history of
' this great land. We are witnessing •
’ a crumbling of local government
while a handful of self-appointed I
Washington ‘do-gooders’ are fore-1
’ ing their own personal wishes up
'on the people.
j “This situ'ation cannot long en
j diure. Either we must leave local
I government in the hands of the J
t ’ —
Wheeler Livestock
Judging Team Places
In Top 10 In Contest
The Wheeler Counity High Live-!
' I stock judging team placed in the I
'I top ten in the Livestock Judging;
■contest held recently at Reid's-1
ville. This contest is the largest,
held in this Southeast Georgia
District each year. This year there!
| were 44 schools participating in;
this event. Competition was very ;
■ keen and close, as always. Al
though we didn’t get first place.
’ we did place 7ith, with only 35 i
pdinlts separaitirlg the top ten :
teams. Wheeler County scored 535!
points out of a possible 600 to
I place 7th.
The students representing the:
1 local FFA were Vernon Thomas
:Gary McGee, Roy Braswell, Mel-'
‘' vin Poole and Lanier Brown. ’
■ These boys were selected to rep
resent the chapter because of the
progress they have made in judg
ing livestock as a part ot their
! Vocational Agriculture program
at Wheeler County High. They
made a study of judging market
classes of livestock—hogs and'
; beef cattle. This has enabled them ’
to learn much about the market;
classes of livestock and selecting!
! those tlnait are 'best. Through this ;
I study they placed high in the dis- ’
trict contest.
’ The high boy from our FFA in I
the contest was Melvin Poole, I
’who scored 188 points out of 200•
to place 7th as an individual in
; the comtesit. The other followed ।
close behind him.
The contset was to judge four j
classes ot market livestock; bar-1
r rows, gilts, steers and heifers. I
The livestock was judged on '
quality, conformation, and cut- •
out percentages of the various
।market livestock. The classes had’
! four classes' in each class, four ।
hei’ers, four barrows and four
gilts, these to be placed according •
to which was No. 1; No. 2; No. 3;'
land No. 4. it was quite a feat to;
• judge these commercial cattle and
hogs as it is a hard job to do.;
•Congratulations to our team for;
. the job they did representing us
; in this event.
After the contest was over the
; boys were served a delicious bar-1
.becue dinner, cooked and prepar-’
। ed on the Prison Farm. It was en-i
joyed by all.
Wheeler Home Ec.
Clubs To Sponsor
Bicycle Safety Rodeo
The Bicycle Safety Rodeo spom '
। sored by the Wheeler County;
’ Home Economics Extension Clubs,;
will start at 9:00 a.m. Saturday,
; May 20. Lieut. B. P. McKinnon I
of the Georgia State Patiol
' will begin the events with a •
movie and talk on safety. After
wands the contests will be held.
The different age groups will;
be grades 1-3, grades 4-6., grades’
7-8, and grades 9-12. Each child,
will compete for first place in his’
own age group only. There are 10
‘ separate events in which each •
participant may enter. Prizes will ’
be awarded to the first place win- '
' ner in each age group and rib-1
; bons will be presented to the sec
■ ond and third place in each group.
On May 20, be sure to put your ।
bicycle in the car and bring your j
entire family to enjoy the fun.
After the presentation of awards,
I refreshments will be served.
NUMBER 5
' local people or we must sur.randet
' our very lives to one 'giant, mon
olithic 'government situated on.-
the banks of the Potomac.”
Gov. Maddox said 'that ‘Wafer
it is true that changing times re
quire new solutions to old prob- •
lems, it is nevertheless mandatory
that these solutions come within
the framework of the basic law
lof the land and that law comes:
from the people.” He continued:
j “The choice, my friends, is
clear. It is either self-govern
ment —the type of government wei
hold so dear—or rule by Wash
ington. And I’m sure we all agree
• that we are capable of handling,
! our own affairs.
“This administration has reeog
• nized the need to build for to
morrow. And, tn recogniing out:
; needs, we have placed l full faith.
in ability of 'the people of our
I state to recognize their own op
; port-unities and have a voice in
our plans to seize and make the
most of them.”
The ‘governor further said that
I“a sharp line has been drawn.
’ between the two schools of politi
cal thought in the United States—
’ liberalism on the one hand and
• conservatism on the other.” He-
I added:
’ “Unfortunately, some of the
| news media and the left-wingers
have attempted to paint those™.
I who disagree with their views as
‘extremists’ and ‘clandestine-.’
They seem to disregard the faet:;
i that some of the greatest states
men of all times have taken the
position that conservative gov-
• ernment is the best government
and that the people fare belie#
! when they govern themselves.
“It has been my lifelong belief
’—both as a businessman and ai<
public servant— that conserva
; tism is the surest route to suc
cess?’
Cotton Allotment
Transfer Balloting
To Be Held In May
'Cotton farmers in Wheeler Coun
ty will vote the middle of May
to decide whether they want ter
be able to sell or lease their cot
ton allotments outside the coun
; ty, S. W. Yawn, Chairman. Agri
| cultural Stabilization 'and Conr
! servation County Committee, has
I announced. The referendum on
i'the question will be conducted'
I during the period May 15 through
| May 19. Ballots may be retumedii’
'by mail or delivered by hand to
{ the ASCS county office during
that time.
The only question to be decided
[by the balloting is whether ap
! land cotton allotments may be
| transferred during the next two •
years to farms which are owned
or controlled by someone else and'::
; located in other counties. Such
| transfers may be made by sale or
by lease. In no case may transfera."
I be made outside the state. An af
fiimative vote by at least two
; thirds of the county’s cotton farm
ers who vote will permit such
transfers during the next tw®-
years, 1968 and 1969.
Two similar referendums were
! conducted in 1965 and 1946
'throughout the Cotton Belt, and::
'growers in 412 counties have al—
• ready approved the allotment
i transfers. The vote this May will
|be held only in counties where
• such transfers have not previous
jly been approved.
The chairman points out that
voting by mail is easy and con--
; venient, and the vote therefore
j should be 'large and fully repre
; sentative of the wishes of cotton
farmers in the county.
I Copies of the ballot will be seetc
to all cotton producers of record
in the county, together with in
formation describing the pro
; gram’s purpose and operation.
Any cotton producer who has a
; question about the referendum o*
■ about who is eligible to vote isr.
• ringed to get in touch with the*
ASCS county office.
BEES AND VEGETABLES
Bees are great little helpers for
- vegetables growers. According to ■
' Cooperative Hxten'sion Service,
’horticulturists at the University
of Georgia, the little hcney-nsaJi
; ers are essential for good pollina
tion of cucurbit crops such asr
cantaloupes, cucumbers, squash,
and water melons.