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VOLUME 53
School
Sketches
By Normalene Hartley
One of the handicaps of rural
schools is the lack of association
with educators on the national
level. Thanks to the Educational
Improvement Project, Wheeler;
County no longer has this handi
cap.
Local school personnel fre-,
quently attend interstate and na
tional meetings. Most recently,,
Mrs. Gwen Flanders attended the
Research Institute in Early Child
hood Education in Washington.
D.C.
At this meeting, research cen- 1
ters from the University of Ari
zona, Syracuse (N.Y.) University,:
and Cornell University described ;
various projects being conducted
by their centers.
Each of these centers is wonk-;
ing under the basic assumption I
that teacher behavior is the criti
cal element in learning. These
and- other such centers across the
nation are beginning to pool their ;
knowledge and resources in an
effort to eliminate the lag be-1
tween research and its application i
in the classroom. The centers will,
complement each other rather
than compete with each other.
The institute was limited to I'so
persons and Mrs. Flanders was ; ■
one of four from Georgia attend-j
ing. Wheeler County was the only ;
rural school represented, from I
Georgia. The trip was financed
by the Jessie P. Noyes Founda-'
tion, a contributor to the Educa
tional Improvement Project.
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Congratulations to Miss Anne ;
Johnson on her election to presi- ]
dent of the First District Library ■
Assistants. Anne is the daughter .
of Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Johnson. ;
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Mrs. Ru+h Bond attended the
Citizens' Conference on Mental (
Retardation in Savannah Tuesday.
The conference is one of ten such ,
conferences held across Georgia.
The conferences are designed to ■
give concrete aid to communities
in developing local programs and
services for the mentaly retarded/
and to ex-plain state services
available. -;
Mrs. Bond is the coordinator of 1
the special education program in (
the Wheeler school system.
Wheeler Co. Splits
With Twiggs Co.
Here Friday Night i
Wheeler Countv split with ‘
Twiggs County in the opening (
games of the basketball season
here Friday night. !
In the opener, the Wheeler
girls never seemed to get. their
proper balance for winning even
though Gwen Cox 62®) and Anita *
Butler (21) were both scoring. .
The guards looked good but their J
eagerness cost them too many .
fouls. *
Twiggs was the 5-8-50 winner i
sparked bv the 31 points by tall '
and caipable Sherrye Floyd and
Cindy Chance’s 21 points. i
It was a different story in the j
boys game with Wheeler on top (
68-42. It was a walkaway with
the whole bench getting an op- ]
portunity to plav. j
Clay Clark took scoring hon- ,
ors with ?0 ooints and eight re- ]
bounds. Larry Leggett was in (
there with 1-5 points and eight re- (
bounds. Cofc-bv Benton and Hugh ,
Couey broke into double figures
with 10 points each. (
229 New Library
Books On Display
At Eastman R.E.A.
i
This is one way of describing ,
the collection of 229 new library ;
books for teenagers, ages 15 to 18 s
- and of special interest to adults {
as well - on display at REA Build- i
ing, Eastman from November 27 E
to December 7. Here in an or- t
ganized exhibit is an opportunity t
to see the books - in non-fiction
and fiction - that will help youth (
and others to better comprehend :
and cope with the world we live -
in today and will tomorrow. The i
dissplay will be open from 3:00 to j
5:00 p.m. i
Librarians will meet Novem- f
ber 27 from 1:30 to 3:30. Special c
Parents Day on December 1. s
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HAPPY DEMOCRATS — The faces of three top leaders of I
the Democratic Party of Georgia reflects smiles as they ’
gather to discuss party finances. Left to right, W. D. Trippe ;
of Cedartown, Treasurer, and Chairman of the Finance;
Committee; Governor Lester Maddox, titular head of the!
State Democratic Party; and James H. Gray, Albany, State!
Chairman. Treasurer Ts ippe and the Georgia Democrats I
are “moving well” toward an announced goal of SIOO,OOO !
to finance the Democratic Party of Georgia Headquarters •
for the next two years.
Heart Os Ga. Planning Commission
To Meet In Dublin Tuesday, Nov. 28
The Heart of Georgia Planning
and Development Commission has
announced a dual conference to
be. held at the Holiday Inn in
Dublin Tuesday, November 28,
according to an announcement by
Ken Sibal, Executive Director.
The first session will -be a
community development work
shop scheduled for five o’clock at
Three Wheeler Co.
Teachers Attend
Annual Convention
Three Wheeler County teachers
attended the annual convention of
the Georgia Association of School
Counselors held last week end at
Jekyll Island.
Mrs. Ruth Bond, iMrs. Marie
Causey and Mrs. Janet Montgom
ery heard addresses by Dr. Buf
ford Stefflre of Michigan State
University, Eugene Patterson, ed
itor of the Atlanta Constitution,
and Dr. Robert Hop'poek of New
York University, who spoke at
the convention.
Small group meeting were plan
ned with distinguished educators
from over Georgia participating!
and sharing their knowledge and !
experiences.
Book Fair To Be
Held At Wheeler
High Nov. 28 - 29 - 30
A Book Fair will be held at
Wheeler Countv High School on
Nov. 28, 29 and 30. Bocks will be
on display in the school library.
On Thursday evening from 7
until 9 pm. Onen House will be
held- in the library. To begin the
program, a skit, “The Magic
Book,” will be oresented in the
cafetorium. Students from kin
dergarten through the sebror class (
will be included in the skit. A
short film entitled “Project Dis
covery’’ will also be shown.
The book fair committee invites
all students, parents a'nd visitors
to attend the fair. The fair will
not only help spur student inter
est in reading and building home
libraries, but will also 1 ebntfifoute
to a worthwhile project. The
school earns 26 per cent of all
sales and profits will be used for
projects undertaken by the
Wheeler County PTA, the spon
soring organization. Mrs. David
Williams is serving as book fair
chairman.
The book fair display will in
clude attractive new books from
many publishers in all popular
price ranges. All reading areas of
interest to students will 'be repre
sented . The committee is work
ing with Educational Reading
Service, a professional book fair
company, to furnish an individual
selection of books for the fair.
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
| which time a report will be pre
isented covering a series of 10
i workshops held in the area since ।
: last September. This will be fol
; lowed by a discussion of propos
ed- legislation designed to author
ize counties in the area to issue ■
revenue bonds for industrial de-'
velopment. Speakers for this oc
casion include Adrian Norton of
the C&S Bank in Atlanta; Don- !
aid Kunian, Robinson - Humphrey
Company in Atlanta, and Don'
Lamb, Dublin, who is chairman of
the Heart o-f Georgia Commission.
Sibal stated that only four of the
nine counties in the area are au-'
thorized. to issue revenue bonds
for industrial development.
Dinner will be served at the
conclusion of the afternoon ses- -
sion to be followed by the regu- i
lar monthly meeting of the board;
of directors. This session has;
been labeled “Legislative Aippre- -
ciation Day” at which time form
er Senator Jimmy Carter will be;
the principal speaker. Members ‘
of the General Assembly to (
honored on this occasion include: I
Senator Hugh Gillis, Soperton;!
Senator Roy V. Noble, Vienna;
Representatives John H. Ander-!
son. Jr., Hawkinsville; Norman
B. Doster, Rochelle; Douglas Du- 1
; bignion, and C'arlus D. Gay, Dub- ;
Jin; Dr. Frank P. Holder, Jr..
! Eastman and Joe C. Underwood,:
j Mt. Vernon.
• -Members of the board of di- ,
| rectors of the Heart of Georgia !
have been invtied to both sessions :
They are: Don Lamb and J. D.
Brown, Dublin; Newell NeSmith
land Wyndell Dykes, Cochran;
Johnson Hall and Wilie Sapp,
Hawkinsville; Will Peterson and
J. Clayton Stephens, Soperton; !
Calvin Stone and Davis Richey.
Wileox County; L. B. Chambers/
; and W. S. Clark, Wheeler Coun
ty: Dr. E. M. Harrington and
John G. Thomas, Eastman; Billy :
Walker and James Windsor, Mc-
Rae; Jack Leroy and Bobby
' O’Neal Montgomery County.
Mr. Sibal emphasized the im
portance of these conferences,
- since the Commission would not.
have a December meeting. < .
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Spaulding Grove
Baptist Church
The Spaulding Grove Baptist ;
Church of Alamo, celebrated the !
/birthday of their pastor, the Rev. !
J. W. Harvey and the Church an
niversary on Sunday, November
12. The Rev. Otis Mcßae of Dub- .
’.in. brought the message.
The Rev. Harvey who is 83
years old, is one of the oldest ।!
ministers from this section. He .:
has been pastoring for 52 years. ■
He is the father of 11 children, j
56 grandchildren, 78 great -grand
children and 1 great-great-grand- !'
child.
Two Indicted
In Lumber City
Bank Robbery
Two men were indicted by a !
j federal grand jury in Savannah
J Wednesday, Nov. 15, in connection
with the $26,300 robbery of the
Bank of Lumber City on August
I 2nd.
Indicted were James C. Dixon,
128, and Girard Vincent Hermany.
19. Both were arrested by fed- i
; era] agents in Pottsville. Pa., eight
| days after the robbery.
The two are charged on four(
, counts, the most serious of which :
! is robbery and the use of intima-!
| dation. If convicted Os all four!
। counts they could receive as much ;
as 05 years in prison.
I According to the Savannah of-1
fice of the Federal Bureau of In- 1
■ vestigation, at the time of the rob- i
i bery, the bank president, William I
i C. Williams, and two employees,!
I Mrs. Margaret Hulett and Mrs.l
' Ann (Harris, were ordered inside a ;
1 bank vault shortly before closing ;
! time at 3 p.m.
Williams said one man held a I
; gun on him and ordered him to i
! fill a sack with money. After
j getting the money, the robber fled
। in a car with an accomplice.
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Kim Clark Chosen
Best Citizen
j How about a pat on the back j
! for your favorite teen? The week |
,of November 13 through 19 is i
Youth Appreciation Week. Will
■ you show your appreciation to
, .your favorite teen in a special
■way?
To recognize and show appre-I
I ciation to the teen citizens the ’
Family Living .Class at Montgom- ।
ery County High School is spon
’sortn-g a Teen Appreciation Week,
next week, November 13 through !
19. Beginning next Monday al
ermipaign emphasizing the quali-1
■ ties of a well-rounded teen citi-1
! zen will be announced to the stu- j
■ dent body. The student will j
choose a boy and girl citizen from [
each hemeroom, and an overall'
i! boy and girl citizen will,-be chos-1
■en by the Family Living Clas-. j
In honor and recognition of,
the chosen teen citizen a chapel'
program will be given that will;
rconsist of the skits on good teen |
: citizenship. Also, each of the ■
chosen citizens will wear lapel I
| slogans signifying their good!
i citizenship.
The qualities used in picking!
the teen citizens consisted of their f
participation in church. school;
;and community activities, their!
' loyalty to the school and its prim j
;cipals, their sincere relationships !
with others, their moral standards
and good character, and their I
'grades. Other required qualities '
were that the chosen citizens!
- dress neatly and appropriately, i
respect and accent parents and
teachers, and respect private and i
public property by taking a pride |
in helping to kcop the property:
clean.
The chosen overall boy and girl
' citizens are Kim Clark and Mae j
Heule. Let’s give them a pat on
the back.
Kim Clark is the son of Mr. I
land Mrs. Harry Clank of Glen-|
wood.
The Familv Living Class urges!,
parents to join the camoaign to
encourage and promote teen-citi
zens. There are many - just look
around you, and “Thank Good-■
. ness for Boys and Girls.”
200 Million
Population
The Macon Telegraph ,
Some paper up in West Virginia
arjaly^pd the labor force .in. -
AtYierica’s 2'oo-milliom population, i '
dsj the way it went:
“Half the total is under 2-1,
leaving 100 million to work. There
are 70 million, over 615, leaving 30 i
million to work. Government em- i
ploys 24,000,001. That leaves- 5c ;
999,999 people to work. The mil- I
itary has 5,600,000 in- services, 1
leaving 399.999. In hopitals and
sick are another 203,000, leaving '
196,999. Jails are keeping 1 Oil,ooo. j
leaving 95,999 to do the work. 1
Pecple lost or missing total 54,- i
COO. leaving 41,999 -of which t
44.997 are bums, protesters or ag
itators. <
“That leaves you and me to do I
the work.’’ ; I
Sometimes it seems that way. s
Two Indicted
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 , 1967 SINGLE COPY 5c
Dr. Wright Hicks
Dies In Uli Sleep
Sunday, November 12
Dr. Wright Grant' Hicks, 46,
prominent and. higmy esteemed
I Jackson physician, ‘ <iied in his
' sleep early Sunday morning, Noy.
j 12, at his resident at 797 Brodli
wood Avenue following a long ill
ness.
Dr. Hicks was born September
27, 1921, in Roibbt-ta. the son of
the late Rev. David Yancey Hicks
j and Mrs. Pearl Wright Hicks.
Upon graduation front 1 ! Craw
ford County School. Dr.
; Hicks studied al the University of
Georgia where he received his
; Bachelor of Science Degree in
; 1942, He attended and graduated
from the Medical College of
' Georgia, serving his ‘internship at
. the University 'Hospital in Aug-us
. ta. Di-. Hicks served in the U.S.
Army Medical Corps from 1946
j to 1i948, going to Jackson in 1948
j to establish medical practice.
i Dr. Hicks was the first Chief
I o-f Staff at Sylvan Grove Hospital
i whbn it was opened, in late July
119-62. He was a member of the
! American Medical Association,
i the Georgia Medical Association,
the Spalding County Medical So
ciety, a director of the Georgia
Academy of General Practice and
of the Butts County Medical As
sociation.
An avid siports enthuias-t and
staunch University of Georgia
supporter, Dr. Hicks was the first
I presidents of the Butts County
I Athletic Association and former
i chairmlan. of the Butts County
: Bulldoig Club and of the Univer
sity of 'Georgia Alumni Society.
He was a former member of
the Jackson Kiwanis Club. Dr.
I Hicks completed a year of resi
! dence surgery at the Macon Hos-
I pita! in 19-62 and continued full
time medical practice, until ill
health forced him into a less
s-trenuous routine.
Funeral services for Dr. Hicks
. were held Monday morning at 11
j o’clock from the Jackson First
j Baptist Church with the Rev.
! Robert L. Thompson, pastor, and
I Rev. Terrel] Hancock officiating.
! Interment was in Jackson City
I'Cemetery with Haisten Funeral
! Home in charge of arrangements.
He is survived- by his wife,
' Mrs. Mungaret Pierce Hicks;
. three sons, Wright G. Hicks, Jr.,
i student at Oxford College of Em
! ory University, Bruce Hicks and
Joseph Hicks, all of Jackson; one
: brother, Dr. David Hicks of Or
j land®, Fla.
. Dr. Hicks was a brother-in-law
! of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. 'Parsons of
, Mcßae.
Final Christmas
Workshop To Be Held
November 28th
The final Christmas Decorations
! Workshop will be held on Novem
ber 23. All club members and
! interested persons are reminded
that this is the last date for the
workshop. Any person wishing to
attend is invited to Contact the
Extension Office for information
on supplies needed to participate
in the workshop.
November 2-8 is the date sched
uled for Dempsey and Crossroads
to participate in the workshop,
but this will not prevent other in
terested persons from, attending.
Springhill wli] hold its Christ
mas Workshop at their commun
ity center on Monday night, No
vember 27, at 7:30 p.m., a week
later than it had beep originally
scheduled. Ahybhe in this com
munity interested may 1 obtain
more Information from Rebecca
Walker, Home Ecohomist at her
Office in Alamo.
Hart Gets Signs
From Highway Dept.
H.'.rtwell and Hart'County ..-/up- j
>nOtieed as far as tourists travel- ’
ing Interstate 85 are concerned -
'are now receiving their rightful
prominence stature bn the heavily
traveled four-lanb ; highway.
Huge signs pointing to Hart
well’s exit have been put into
.place and others are planned in :
the immediate future at the Whit
worth exit between Lavonia and '
the South' Carolina state line.
HartiWell and Hart County offi- '
cials, responsible for the action
by the State Highway Depart-,
ment, are pleased with “the re- -
suiting action.”
! GSC Student Hits Indian Pay Dirt
i With 9-County Land Study Recently
,: (The Atlanta Journal)
i!
s i A Georgia State College senior
archaeology students has isolated
/and studied 70 Indian sites in
_ ^Central Georgia.. His work has
(already paid off'an new knowl
edge and may :pay off in new
J tourist attraction for Georgia.
s The student Jerry Nielsen.
I who was given a grant by the
_' Heart of Georgia- Planning and
. i Development Commission for
j - the purpose of identifying Indian
3 sites showing the richest prom
-1 ise for developing tourist attrac-
I: tions.
p He found seevfal likely sites
( and summ'arized ithe significance
_ iof hiS work by saving that the
!data “permits us to fill ini a real
j voil in our archaelogical know-!
j i ledge of the State of Georgia.”
| He said that the grant “afford-;
j; ed a real opportunity to investi-!
I i gate an area of the state which!
r i heretofore was almost unknown '
; j archaelogically.”
Nielsen did preliminary work
’■in Bleckley, Pulaski, Wilcox, 1
' i Dodge. Laurens, Wheeler, Mont- i
} I gomery, Telfair and Treutlen
11 counties.
He spent 10 weeks locating and
I mapping prehistoric Indian sites I
11 in the drainage of the Ocmulgee;
( ! and Oconee rivers- where they j
(.' meet the Altamaha.
r । An example of what lielsen!
„! found and reported in his evalua-1
.; tion of one location in Telfair:
! County. He said that finds there ;
“indicate successive occupation ;
, 1 period ranging from the Archaic ;
(6-8000 8.C.) through Mississip-'
' j pian (ending about 14’00 A.D.) pe-
riods.
J Markings on much of the frag-:
mented pottery discovered here.
suggest ties between looal In
-5! diians and those living on the Flo-
I ri da Gulf Coast and l on streams
j draining into the Atlantic Ocean. ’
* Amo nig Nielsen’s findimgs in the
nine counties were multiple and
Judge J. K. Whaley
j Dies In Mcßae
After Long Illness
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JUDGE JOHN K. WHALEY
Funeral services were held Sat
urday at 3 p.-m. from the Sharon !
Baptist Church for John K. Wha
i ley, 65-year-old judge emeritus of
the six county Oconee Judicial;
’Circuit, who died- at. his home!
here early Friday morning after
a long illness. T(ie Rev. J. W.
Herndon, Pastor of the Mcßae
Methodist Church, officiated, and
burial was in the, church ceme-,
tery, with Harris & Smith Funeral
Home in charge of ai-rangements.
Active pallbearers were Frank
'■Jackson; Walter D^orrison, Julian!
Peterson, J, Lee., Willcox, Andy
Hill, Jack M. Walker, Maui ice',
Johnson and Preston N. Rawlins.
i Jr. ~■ f
Hinrqraiy pallbearers included,
^femb^rs of the Oconee, Circuit!
jßar Association as a body, and!
Valda Wooten, Walter Barrett,
: Henry B. William's, Ralph Mine
han, Bill Mdßae. Billy Mcßae,
Al Williams, Howard Wopten,
Grady Williams, Dave Williams,
E. C. Ryals 111. John David Clark,-
Buddy NeSmith, Ivey Smith, O.
G. Smith, Harvey, Graham, Dr.
George E. Callihan, H. M. Spur
lin, Ernest Dyal, Dr. Frank Mann,
Jr., E. B. Smith, Jr., Jack C.
Best, Harry Berman and H. C.
Graham. Also the County officials
who served during his term of
: office.
' Continued On Back Page
NUMBER 3®
i sigle component habitation sites,
mounds, a quarry site and a his-
I toric site.
Nielsen rounded our his survey'
. with a classification of all the ma
terial collected at each site.]
An analysis was made of 2,68®
shreds recorded® from all sites'
. yeilding pottery.
A mound site was found in Lau
rens- County south of Dublin -
near the west bank of the Oconee,
River, just southwest from Buck's
Landing. The mound was describ
ed by Nielsen as “a solitary fea
ture, approximately eight feet in
height, 100 feet in diameter at-its
' summit and 150 in diameter at its
base.”
iA test excavation was made and;
sherds and flint arrow heads were
found. Nielsen recommended -
I further excavation.
; The site in Telfair County, east
'of the Ocmulgee River in the
i county’s northwest corner, and
southeast of Mizell Creek, was
identified by Nielsen as a village
! site and- yielded sherds, amw
i heads, points, grinding stones, a
I pipe and an axe fragment.
I Ultimately, the Heart of Geor
; gia Planning and Development
Commission hopes to use Nielsenfs
! findings as the basis of others
who will come behind him tic
- study the area for tourism de
; velopment.
Christmas Bazaar
To Be Held In
i
Alamo December 2
The Wheeler County Home E«i
--: nomics Committee will hold a -ba
zaar on December 2 at the Little
Ocmulgee EMC (REA building;
in -Alamo beginning at 10:00 a.m.
; and lasting until 6:00 p.m. A bar
becue chicken plate lunch will be
' sold. Handmade items and bak
■ ery items will be sold with the
proceeds going to the committee's
program of work for 196-8.
The program of work will cen
ter on improving community rela
tions and developing resources:
within each community in the
county. In 1068 the committee
i will focus more attention to de
: veloping leadership within indi
' vidual clubs, January will be
! ‘Make Georgia Beautiful iMonth’*
, and the committee hopes that it
will be able to initiate, encourage
J and support campaigns on Making
Wheeler County more beautiful,
i through the planting of trees and
' shrubs and the control of litter
thrown on public roads.
Direct VA Loans
Available To Many
Georgia Counties
There are now more than 112:
Georgia counties in the Veterans
Administration’s list of “directs
home loan counties. Pete Wheel
‘ er, Veterans Service Director,
said, “Direct VA loans can be
made in areas where private cap
! ital is not generally available.’*
Mr. Wheeler added that many
: of the counties on the direct loan
list are restricted in that certain
; municipailities within the counties:
are not open to the direct loans.
Any field office of the Georgia
Department of Veterans Service'
can supply interested veterans
with a list of direct home loan
areas.
In addition the Veterans Ad
ministration may guarantee a
; home loan by a private lender to
i an eligible veteran up to $7,50®
; or 60 per cent of the loan, which
ever is less. l .1 'A Jif
The Veterans,. sAl^pybstpatiprv.r
estimates that btrout- 85 f>er ’cisn£ *
!of the GI home.^lpp^ JjeJußD u
I made are to Cold War and Viet
i nam era veterans. Under recently
f passed legislation World War 1 IT
veterans may still apply for home -
loans using the regular formula
for computing eligibilit-y.
There is no maximum on
amounts of guaranteed or insured!
loans made to veterans.
Further information on direct
or guaranteed VA loans is avail
able at any field office of the
Georgia Department of Veterans'
Service. The nearest office is lo
cated at Mdßae. Its manager is
H. B. Barnes, Jr.
There is no right way to do a
wrong!