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VOLUME 53
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Non-Graded Program
Introduced Into
Wheeler Schools
A non-graded program of study
has been introduced in the Wheel
er County School System this
year, according to Mrs. Gwen
Flanders. Curriculum Director.
Although the program will be
used to some extent throughout
the schools, emphasis will be
placed on the primary level. This
will assure that no child misses
the foundation stones in the early
years, Mrs. Flanders said. The
plan strengthens education at the
bottom so that as the student pro
gresses he can in some cases work
faster and possibly finish earlier.
Last year the emphasis was
placed on knowing the child. This
year all efforts are toward using
the information gathered for
meeting each’s child’s needs, she
said.
The traditional grades are elim- !
inated, giving the child freedom ;
to learn in his own way— at his ;
own rate. Instead of using grade :
numbers, e.g. first grade, second
grade, etc., pupils are divided' by i
age and then placed in a group to !
meet his individual needs.
It is a very personal process j
which recognizes that one child !
may need more time to master j
basic skills than another. Under ;
this plan he may take this time '
without having to fail a grade:
and this decreases the possibility |
of frustration and defeat which I
failing creates.
It is a devlopment process — I
adding and expanding — with the i
pupil gaining self-condifence as
he succeeds at one level and !
moves on to new adventures in |
learning.
On the elementary level, the i
non-graded program is being used i
only in the area of language arts. I
Other areas will be included as |
soon as possible.
The non-graded program is not;
as recognizable in high school as |
on other levels because high
school is based on subject matter.
Classes are smaller thus giving (
each student more individual at-!
tention.
Much effort has been made to ;
expand each subject to give the
students a broader scope of study, i
Supplementary text, films, pic- ‘
tures. graphs and a variety of
teaching methods are being used !
so each child has some respon- i
sibility and cakes some contriibu- 1
tion each day in some area.
New courses are offered to en- •
hance some subjects. Creative
dramatics, art and music are ।
available in the elementary grades ;
and courses in speech and art are •
offered in high school.
School officials stress that if a [
child is placed in a different room ,
with a teacher and children other ■
than those with whom he has |
been working, this in no way in- ,
dicates that he has been promot-’
ed or demoted. His grade place
ment remains the same. This l is
done in order to meet each child's I
particular need.
The in-service training of the ।
teachers, a feature of the Wheeler ,
County Educational Improvement;
Project, affords adequate prepara-!
tion of the teachers in the non -
graded program.
“We hope that this plan for a ;
continuous process of learning :
will help children increase in wis-'
dom and in stature so that they
can live effectively with their fel- ■
low man.” Mrs. Flanders con
cluded.
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DEATHS
Mrs. J. H. Gross - Vienna
A. C. Kelly - Eastman
Mrs. Ollie B. Peacock - Eastman
Mrs. Nan Dixon - Glenwood
Mrs. Elira Stallworth Batchelor
- Mcßae
Arthur Lott Ross - Fitzgerald
Marion Austin Vaughn - Tam
pa, Fla.
Ben Jett Whatley - Miami
Springs, Fla.
Mrs. Alma Kinchen - Greens
boro, N.C. 1
Mrs. Bell Carter Davis - Milan
Maj. Cullen Starnes - Mcßae
Correction On Snow
Hill Homecoming
Homecoming will be held at 1
Snow Hill Baptist Church Sun- ■
day, October 29. 1
Everyone is invited to attend.::
A basket lunch will be served at ’
the noon hour.
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W. R, Houston, a Georgia Power Com
pany line construction foreman, uses
a Navy bosun’s gun to fire a nylon
cord across a Lake Sinclair cove. Used
by the Navy to string lifelines between
ships, the bosun’s gun helps the utility’s
linemen get heavy transmission lines
Senator Herman Talmadge Says
Crime Is Second Biggest Problem
Describing crime as America’s
j most serious problem outside of j
; the war in Vietnam, U.S. Sen. ■
' Herman E. Talmadge declared
' that “the way to deal with the in- j
; creasing crime rate is to enforce I
। the law without fear or favor.’'
! Delivering the keynote address ;
। at the Peace Officers Association ■
lof Georgia’s recently 67th annual
convention at Jekyll Island, the'
senator asserted that there havej;
been various “explanations and,
apologies” for the riots this sum-;
mer and the crime problem. Said j
he:
“Most of it amounts to weak-)'
kneed dissertations on what’s i -
wrong with our society. The net
result is that it is not criminals Ji
who are to blame, but society
I have even sat in the Senate and
heard the Congress maligned and I'
blamed for the riots this summer,:
for not doing enough or spending j
enough.
“I have heard poliemen casti-1'
gated and blamed, because they;'
represented authority in the com-,'
munity and therefore are the ene-' J
my ... I think it is high time i 1
that we stopped persecuting law I'
enforcement officers, and started I
prosecuting criminals.”
Sen. Talmadge-said he was sym- ! ’
pathetic to urban problems in
volving poverty, unemployment:
and poor housing, “but I submit:
Glenwood Methodist
To Host Laymen's
Meetma Nov. 3,4, 5
The Glenwood Methodist
Church will be host to a Lay j'
Witness Mission November 3,4,
and 5 beginning at 7:30 -p.m.
Members and friends are invit
ed to attend. Please keep these
dates open as we feel this will
strengthen your spiritual life. (
Baptist Ministers
Wives Conference
At Jekyll Nov. 13
The Rev. James N. Griffith, :
pastor of the Beech Haven Baptist -
Church, Athens, will be featured '
speaker at the annual Georgia -
Baptist Ministers’ Wives Confer- ;
ence to be held Nov. 13, at the '
Carriage Inn, Jekyll Island. <
Griffith, who is author of the
“Pulpit to Pew” column appear- ।
ing weekly in The Christian In
dex, will speak at a banquet '
which begins at 5:15 p.m. on the ;
13th. Earlier, a tea will get un- •
derway at 3:30 p.m. More than i
400 wives of ministers who will be
on Jekyll to attend the 146th ses
sion of the Georgia Baptist Con- 1
vention, are expected to attend
the tea and banquet. <
ADAMO. WHEELER COUNTY. GEORGIA
across ravines, rivers, deep gorges and
swamps. The gun can fire its 140-
pound-test line a distance of about 550
feet. The nylon line then is connected
to a s^-inch rope already tied to the
transmission lines, and all are pulled
across any obstacle by a tractor winch.
, that none of these conditions, or
j even anything worse, is any jus
’ tification for rioting and setting
cities on fire.”
Referring to the rioting this
! summer, Talmadge said he has
: endeavored to determine “why
: the Department of Justice has
! been so meek.” He said justice
Department attorneys take the
position that the exercise of free
’speech is involved. On that point
he declared:
“I am aware of the ‘clear and
- present danger’ doctrine. If threat
ening to burn down Washington,
D.C., telling people to take up
arms calling the President of the
United States an ‘outlaw’, and’
generally inciting to riot, does not
present a clear and present dang- j
er, then we might as well fold- up;
our law books and go home.
“I remember that the Justice i
Department was not so tongue- ’
tied about eight or nine years!
ago. There was a fellow named)
John Kasper up in Tennessee!
charged with going about inciting
people to riot, and the Justice De
partment got him put in jail real
quick. The Justice Department
filed a brief against John Kas-per, ’
and declared that the First
Amendment does not give anyone
the right to persuade others to
violate the law.
“The First Amendment means
the same thing today it did then
and regardless of what lofty ban
ner people may travel under, no
one has the right to violate any
law — city, state or federal. No -
one has the right to tell others to
violate. No one should be per
mitted to run wild in the streets
I throwing Molotov cocktails and
destroying property.”
42nd Annual Baptist
Student Convention
Set For Oct. 27-29
The 42nd annual Baptist Stu
dent Convention will be held at
Rock Eagle Camp, Eatonton, Oct.
27-29.
More than 900 Baptist students ;
from colleges and universities
throughout Georgia are expected
to attend the three-day conven
tion, according to the Rev. Au
brey L. Hawkins, Atlanta, secre
tary of the Department of Stu
dent Work of the Georgia Baptist
Convention, and convention co
ordinator.
Purpose of the convention is
“to prepare students to respond
more effectively to world needs
with a Christian answer,” Hawk
ins said.
Newspaper advertisement: “For;
Sale . . . Rabbit Steaks. Also
wanted three boys to catch alley
cats.”
Maj. Cullen Starnes,
Jr., Laid To Rest In
Mt. Vernon Saturday
i
• i Full military funeral services
■were held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday,
;' in the Mcßae Presbyterian
j Church for Major Cutten G.
. ] Starnes, Jr., 37-year-oW Marine,
. : who died 1 on September 20, when
. i the plane he war piloting caught
. ' fire and crashed in South Viet
,, nam. The Rev. Claude Fullerton
, of Cordele, officiated.
- i Major Starnes was born in Mc-
Rae, the son of Cullen G. and
, Helen Mcßae Starnes. He was a
■ 1953 graduate of Georgia Tech,
, where he was a member of Phi
' Delta Theta fraternity, and had
' been in the Marine Corps for 13 .
years.
Marine Corps officers served as
pallbearers.
j Honorary pallbearers were, E.
•C. Ryals, IM, Murphy Mcßae, Dr.
Griffin Mizell, John Bradfield,
Jr., Jack M. Walker, Robert
j Turner of Warner Robins, and;
I Jimmy Dellinger of Centerville,
j He is survived by his wife, the -
I former Betty Fuller of Mcßae; a
s daughter, Cathy Starnes; one son,
Carey Starnes, of Atlanta; and
; his mother, Mrs. C. G. Stranes,•
iof Mcßae.
- Burial was in the Mt. Vernon '
'Cemetery with Harris and Smith
i Funeral Home in charge of ar
: rangements.
Payne Assumes
Duties With Soil
Conservation Service
James E. Payne assumed his
duties last week as Area Engi
neer with Soil Conservation Serv
ice for the Soperton Area of SCS,
'according to an announcement by
L. R. Payne, Area Conservation
ist at Soperton.
Payne will assist work unit per
’ sonnel of the Altamaha and Ohoo
i pee River Soil and Water Con-
I servation Dsitricts with planning,
\ application and maintenance of
engineering practices on district
: cooperators’ farms in the ten -
county area, the announcement
, stated.
Counties in the area he will 1
। serve are Emanuel, Montgomery.
Toombs, Treutlen and Wheeler in
the Ohoopee River District, and
1 Ajppling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Dav
and Telfair in the Altamaha Dis
trict.
Payne received his BS degree
in Agricultural Engineering from
the University of Georgia in 1941.
He has been employed by SCS
since receiving his degree. He
has served as Work Unit Conser
vationist at Jackson for the past
: 21 years.
He and his wife, Martha, and
daughter, Ellen, plan to move to
Soperton when his daughter grad
i uates from high school in June.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1967 SINGLE COPY 5c
i sth Annual “Cracker Crumble”
To Be Held In Atlanta October 28
The sth annual “Crackle Crum
ible” will take place Saturday,
- October 28, in Atlanta at the Mar
! riott Motor Hotel.
The state’s largest ‘‘barbecue”
।is a political staire designed to
: good - naturedly “roast” the big
’ gest -names in Georgia politics.
; Some 1,100 guests are expected to
- attend the annual event, spon
; sored iby the Georgia Press Asso
ciation for the benefit of its schol
jarship fund.
| The evening will begin with
i a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed
Col. Burke Again
With State Park
Dept. In Atlanta
After an absence of several
I moniths, Col. J. Haywood Burke,
| a Georgia Tech graduate and re
tired U.S. Air Force officer, has
rejoined the Georgia Department
of State Parks in Atlanta, it was
announced by State Parks Di
rector John L. Gordon.
Col. Burke, who served as the
| department's project engineer
-from May, 1'965 to June, 1967, will
’; be in charge of the new parks
development division, including
I all developments of campgrounds
!in the far-flung state parks sys
tem. He also will serve as engi-
i neer to the department's Land
and Water Conservation Division.
“We are very pleased,” Direc
; tor Gordon said, “to have Col.
Burke back with the department.
i He did a fine job as project en-gi
’: neer of our park developments
’ under the past bond issues, and
- we feel sure he will be equally as
valuable to us in further develop
-1! ing and improving Georgia’s state
parks.”
I Col. Burke just recently com
pleted an 8,000-mile trip through
the west and northwest and into
> Canada. He visited eight national
parks and 12 selected state parks
in the United States and three
' national parks in Canada. Upon
his return, he said- he is convinc
ed that Georgia’s parks rank in
the top four among state parks in
the nation in quality and facili
ties.
George Norris Named
Project Coordinator
George C. Norris has been se
lected as Project Coordinator for
the Ohoopee River Soil and Wat
er Conservation District's Tri -
: County Resource Conservation
' and Development Project, accord
ing to an announcement by C. W.
'Chapman, State Conservationist
। for Soil Conservation Service at
' Athens.
Norris came to the Tri-County
RC&D project Tom Lawrence
-1 ville, where he had several years
experience in a similar project in
Gwinnett County. He will be lo
cated in the project office at Sop
erton.
Norris is a native o c Zebulon.
He received his BS in Agricul
ture degree from the University
of Georgia in 1959. He is married
to the former Miss Ellen Adams
of East Point. The Norris’ have
four children, Pat, 7, Karen, 6,
Linda, 5, and Beth, 11 months.
They plan to move to Soperton
about November 1.
Georgia Baptist Convention To Meet
On Jekyll Island November 13-15
The 146th session of the Georgia
Baptist Convention will be held
on Jekyll Island, Nov. 13-15, ac
cording to Dr. Searcy S. Garri
son, Atlanta, Convention Execu
tive Secretary-Treasurer.
More than 2500 Baptist pastors,
their wives, and other church
leaders are expected 1 to attend the
1 annual convention session, being
held this year for the first time
on the state - owned island.
The three-day convention will
;be preceded by a series of pre -
- convention meetings to be held
at Jekyll Monday, Nov. 13. Sched
’uled prior to the actual conven
‘ tion sessions will be the pre-con-
by dinner and then the “roasting”
begins with such notables as Sen
ator Herman E. T. Imadge, mem
bers of the Georgia Congressional
delegation, Governor Lester G.
Maddox, Lt. Governor George T.
Smith, and a host of state and
city officials in attendance.
As in past ‘'barbecues,” it will
be the state’s politicians who will
laugh the hardest at the songs
and skits conceived by a group of
newsmen, advertising and public
relations people and students. Hal
Suit, associate news director of
WSB-TV, will emcee the festivi
ties.
Cost for the entire evening is
$17.50 and tickets are available
through the Georgia Press Asso
ciation, 126 Courtland Street, S.
E., Atlanta. Proceeds from the
show go to the Georgia Press Ed
ucational Foundation which pro
vides money for journalism schol
arships.
Glenn McCullough, exective
manager of the Georgia Press As
i sociation, urges early ticket or-
Jders since the “Cracker Crum
i ble” usually plays to sell-out au
i diences.
New $3-Million
Plan! Picks Ga.
Maddox Reveals
| Gov. Lester G. Maddox has an
’' nounced that a $3-million food
'' packaging products plant will lo
' । cate in Gwinnett County near
’ ■ Lawrenceville.
। i Dolco Packaging Corporation,
J jointly owned' by Dow Chemical
Co. and Olson Brothers, Inc., will
J employ more than- 100 persons
j and have an annual payroll in
। excess of $500,000, the governor
'isaid.
( [ The plant, which will produce
j food packaging products, will be
> located on an 11-acre site purchas
i ed from the Seaboard Coast Line
I Railroad, according to C. Dean
i Olson, company president.
!
j 'Contract for construction of the
77,000-square foot plant has been '
I awarded to Pattillo Construction
I Co. of Decatur, he said. Construe-'
: tion will begin immediately.
j Production of food packaging)
’' materials from polystyrene foam ;
I sheets is expected to begin early!
i next year, Olson said.
j |
; Corn production in Georgia is.
; now estimated at 55 bushels per:
j acre. This is six bushels per acre '
1 above the previous high record,'
i according to the Georgia Crop )
Reporting Service.
Pvt. Donald Leggett
Completes Training
Army Private Donald- O. Leg
; gett. 18, son of Mrs. Nellie Leg
gett, Alamo, completed a field
.communications crewman course'
October 6 at Ft. Jackson, S.C.
During the eight week course,
he was trained to string wire from :
the field to the communications:
center. Instruction was also giv
en in basic electricity, switch-!
board installation and. operation
and pole climbing.
His father, James F. Leggett,
lives in Hazlehurst.
> vention meeting of the Executive
; Committee; the Georgia Baptist
i Pastors’ Conference and the Min
; isters’ Wives Conference. Cther
j smaller groups of alumni of Bap
i tist colleges and seminaries will
’ meet during the week.
Formal opening of the con
| vention will be in the Aquarama
! on Jekyll at 7 p.m., Monday, the
! 13-th, with President J. Robert
; Smith, pastor of the First Baptist
! Church, Statesboro, presiding.
I Smith is completing his first term
jas convention president, and is
| expected to be reelected to a sec
i ond term.
NUMBER 2&
March Os Dimes
Finances Increased
Treatment Centers
Increased public support has
enabled the March of Dimes to fi
nance nearly 100 birth defects
treatment and' research centers
. today as compared with 77 a year
ago. according to Mrs. Normalene
' C. Hartley.
Mrs. Hartley, who is chairman,
of the Wheeler County Chapter
of the National Foundation -
March of Dimes, has just return
, ed from the annual pre-campaign
meeting of the voluntary health
organization in Atlanta.
-Pointing to the fact that nation
al fund-raising receipts increased
during the past campaign for the
third successive year, Mrs. Hart
ley predicted an increase in
Wheeler County during the 39th;
anniversary campaign next Jan
uary.
This prediction was supported
by Mrs. David Williams, campaigrir
chairman, who also attended the
meeting.
“Birth defects is the Great De
stroyer which snuffs out the lives;
of half a million unborn babies:
and kills 60,000 children and ad
ults in this country each year/”’
I Mrs. Hartley stated.
I Noting that more than 250,006
American babies are born with
defects each year, she said that.
March of Dimes Birth Defects
Centens are developing new
knowledge through clinical re
search and providing skilled
treatment to children whose as
, flictions once were thought hope-
I less.
• Scientists at March of Dimes
’ research centers are studying
' causes of defects and means of
prevention, as well as improving
diagnostic, surgical and rehabili
tation techniques.
Project Office
Opened In Soperton
By Soil District
। The Ohoopee River Soil and.
t Water Conservation District’s Tri
) County Resource Conservation
j and Development Project office
- has been opened at Soperton, ac
cording to Jim L. Gillis, Jr., Dis-
! trict Chairman.
I The project office is located' in
i the County Office Building on
First Street in Soperton.
- George C. Norris has -been nam
ed Project Coordinator for Soil’
Conservation Service which will 1
assist local sponsors in Montgom
ery, Treutlen and- Wheeler coun
ties with development of the proj
ect work plan.
Sponsors’ of the Tri-County Rf!
&D Project will be the C'hoopee
River Soil and Water Conserva
tion District and the County Com
missioners in the tthree counties.
The purpose of the project is ta
, develop a comprehensive resource
’conservation and development,
plan which is expected to result in
j considerable improvement in the
economy and social environment’
of the three - county area.
Norris will coordinate the plan
ning efforts of the various State"
and Federal agencies and local
groups concerned' with develop
ment of the area.
Development of the plan wilt
involve an extensive study of
problems, inventory of resources,
I development of alternative pro
posals for improvements, and a
■ final selection of project measures:
by the sponsors for inclusion in;
1 the plan.
Other projects of this nature in.
various parts of the-country have
achieved acceleration of natural
resource conservation, increased!
income from agriculture and for-
’ estry, development of wildKfe-
J and recreation facilities, beautifi
cation projects .improved com
munity facilities, and increased^
employment opportunities through
: industrial development and re
lated activities.
!
Our forefathers went out and
built empires: today you have t®
have a permit to add a room ta
I your house.