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VOLUME 53
School
Sketches
By Normalene Hartley
Wheeler County school taxes
are increasing each year, but, if
it's any consolation to taxpayers,
every other Georgia county’s
school taxes are increasing also.
The Minimum Foundation Pro
gram of Education Act (Senate
Bill 180), established in January,
1864. is responsible for this in
crease. Its purpose is to provide
for a uniform distribution and
administration of funds for educa
tion of children throughout Geor- i
gia.
It helps establish and maintain '
minimum standards for public
schools by continued develop
ment and improvement of balanc
ed programs, by providing effi
ciency in the operation of schools,
and it provides a method where- ‘
by all Georgians pay their fair
share of the cost of such a pro
gram.
Beginning on July 1, 1965, the
cost of the state-wide minimum
foundation program was shared
on the basis of 84 per cent for the ■
state and 16 per cent for local .
systems. The percentage of local ■
support is increased by one per ‘ 1
cent per year until the cost is '
shared on a basis of 20 per cent i
local fund and 80 per cent state
funds.
When the program was initiat- :
ed in 1964, Wheeler County tax- .
payers paid $26,109, or 15 per cent ।
of the tax digest, for school pur-:
poses. In the years that have fol-:
lowed the increase amounted to:
1965 - $39,452; 16 per cent; 1966 ■
- $46,4811 - 17 per cent: 1967 -
557.8011 I'B per cent.
The yearly increase will stop i
in 1969 when the counties are
paying the required 20 per cent.
In the event a local system
fails to provide or use the local
funds, the State Board is author
ized to reduce the amount of state
funds allotted to that system by .
the same percentage that system ,
participates.
Education has long been deem
ed the basis for a good and fruit
ful life. Wheeler County children
are indeed fortunate to have the
educational opportunities they:
have. The total school budget for
1967-68 in Wheeler County is
$853,890. Local taxes account for <
$57,801 of this budget.
Compared to the flow of finan
cial assistance from otuside sourc-'
es, Wheeler County’s investment
in education is small in spite of
the yearly increase.
« * *
A new Miss Echo will be select
ed at the Wheeler County High
School on December 16. The pag
eant is sponsored by the annual
staff and they say it will be big-,
ger and better than ever. Put
that date in your notebook.
Wayne Johnson
Pledges Fraternity
At Georgia Southern
Wayne Johnson, of Alamo, a
junior at Georgia Southern Col
lege, Statesiboro, has been named
a pledge of Tau Kappa Epsilon
Social Fraternity at Georgia
Southern.
Mr. Johnson a 1965 graduate of
Wheeler County High School and
a 1967 graduate of Middle Georgia
College, Cochran, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Johnson of
of Alamo.
Jackie C. McCrae In
Carribean Training
Marine Lance Corporal Jackie
C. McCrea, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James McCrae of Rte. 1. Lumber
City, is aboard the amphibious as
sault ship USS Guadalcanal in
the Caribbean as a member of
the Second Battalion. Sixth Ma
rine Regiment. Second Marine Di-,
vision.
While in the Caribbean he will
participate in training exercises,
amphibious maneuvers, helicopter
envelopments and counter - gu
erilla operations.
During the deployment he is
scheduled to visit several liberty
ports in the Caribbean area.
Our forefathers went out and
built empires: toda ' you have to
have a permit to add a room tc
your house.
Wheeler County Eagle
Lockheed - Georgia Company announced
the completion of the one million dollar
CSA Empennage (Tail Assembly) Building
today. George T. Heery, AIA, President of
Heery & Heery, architects and engineers on
the project, and Emil Docekal, Chief Facili
ties Engineer for Lockheed - Georgia Com-j
Mackie Simpson
Named Chairman
Os Steering Comm.
Mackie Simpson has been nam
ed chairman of the steering com
mittee of the Tri-iOounty Resource
Conservation and Development
Project.
The project has as its goal the
improvement of the economic
welfare cf the people in Wheeler,
Treutlefr and (Montgomery coun
ties. Its sponsors are the Ohoopee
River Soil and Water Conserva
tion District and the county com
missioners of each county.
The steering committee is made
v.p of local citizens who will work
with the sponsors to develop a
work plan for the project.
Serving on the committee with
Simpson are: Mrs. Agnes Man
ley, L. B. Chambers, W. S. Clark,
and J. R. Chambliss from Wheel
er County; Mrs. Luther Phillips,
Will Peterson. L, L. Phillips and
Clayton Stephens, Jr., of Treut
len County; Mrs. T. R. Allmond,
D. D. McGregor. Jack Leroy and
Walter Morrison of Montgomery
County.
Methodist Camp
Meeting To Be At St.
Simons Feb. 11-16
Speakers have been announced
for the Methodist Church’s Win
ter Camp Meeting to be held at
St. Simons Island, February 11-
16.
Two Methodist bishops, a pastor
and a missions board executive
will make up the platform for the
camp meeting which attracts per
sons from several southeastern
states. Speakers will be as fol
lows: Bishop Edward Pendergrass,
resident bishop of the Jackson,
Miss., Methodist area; Bishop
John Owen Smith, resident bishop
of the Atlanta Methodist Area;
Dr. Charles Cochran, minister of
First Methodist Church at Mari
etta and Dr. Virgil Sexton, direct
or of the Advanced Department of
the Methodist Board of Missions.
New York, N.Y.
Announcement of speakers was
made by the Rev. Carlton Car
ruth of St. Simons Island, chair
man of the Winter Camp Meeting
Steering Committee. Mr. Carruth
is also Executive Director of the
South Georgia Conference Office
of Evangelism and Church Ex
tension.
Though sponsored by the South'
Georgia Conference -Board of
Evangelish, the camp meeting is
interdenominational. In its 12
year history the camp meeting
has included minister of several
denominations.
Services will be held three
times daily at 10 a.m., 11 a.m.,
and 7:3-0 p.m. Bishop Smith will
open the camp meeting on Sunday
afternoon, February Id, at 3 p.m.
All sessions are scheduled for
Strickland Auditorium at Ep
worth-iby-the-Sea, Methodist Cen
ter and assembly grounds on St.
Simons Island.
There is no right way to do a
wrong!
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
pany, stand in the center of both photo
graphs, illustrating the scale of the 100 foot
high structure. The adjustable aperture (
that conforms to the aft fuselage section of;
the CSA, world’s largest airplane, is seen ati
left. At right, the main doors are open,
i
Police Chief
Is Indicted
In Abbeville
I
The Macon Telegraph
Abbeville Police Chief Wilson '
Rollins has been indicted by a ■
Wilcox County grand jury on a
! change of possessing an over-the
limit amount of tax-paid whiskey
.Sheriff J. D. Whittle reported
Monday.
; The sheriff said he and Georgia
, State Trooper Jimmy Hayes of
the Cordele station arrested Chief
! Rollins Saturday night three miles
north of Abbeville on Ga 129.
According to the Sheriff, the
.Abbeville chief had in his pos
session at the time of his arrest
two cases of tax-paid whisky.
Sheriff Whittle said Chief Rol
lins resigned his post on the spot
! and turned his badge over to,
him.
A Wilcox County Grand Jury
returned a true bill against Rol
j lins Monday, indicting him on ;
the misdemeanor charge, Sheriff ’
, Whittle said.
The case against Rollins is ex
pected to be called to trial in Wil- '
i cox County Superior Court here i
j next week, probably Monday on ;
Tuesday. Rollins is free under
SSOO bond.
Rollins has been a member of
■ the Abbeville police force since ■
April and has held the post of
chief since June.
Previously, he was employed as'
a guard at Robins APB at Warner
Robins.
It is understood that he pre- 1
viously had tendered his resigna-;
tion as police chief, prior to his i
' arrest, to become effective Dec. 4.
■ t
Hospital Patients
The following patients were ■
. admitted to the Telfair County
Hospital last week: Barbara Ann
Watson and Ethel Hendrix of Ala
mo; Kenneth Goodman, and Oc
tavia F. Colter of Lumber City;
George B. Mcßae, Paul Pierce,
Frank Selph. Phillip Rawlins and
Maude Sumner of Mcßae; Patri
cia Ann Parker, Artie Bell Led
better and Shirley Mullis of East
. man.
| Evelyn Jane Kersey, and Doris !
Cowart of Helena; Beatrice Ray
of Mcßae Manor; James Hollo- !
i way, and J. L. Pope of Glen
wood; Eloise Boone of Rt. 1,
Rhine; J. H. Mitchell and Caro
line Walden, of Rt. 1, Lumber
City; Willie Jo Kirby of Rt. 2,
Alamo; Ronald G. Browning of
Rt. 1, Glenwood; Janice Norman
of Macon.
Lula Vida Holly of Chauncey;
Norman Calhoun, W. P. Cravey
and Lizzie Lancaster of Milan;
Doris E. Stone, Teresa Wilson
and Bishop Williams of Jackson
ville; Robert Wilcox and Lena
Guyton of Hazlehurst; Emma
Jean Graham of Rt. 1, Jackson- i
ville; W liam C. Bass of Scotland; i
Hester B. Graham of Rt. 1, Ala- :
mo; and Teresa Howard.
Norris Speaks To
Wheeler County
Chamber Os Com.
I
George C. Norris, coordinator of!
j the Tri-County Resource Conser-1
I vation and Development Porject,'
i spoke to the regular meeting of J
| the Wheeler County Chamber of;
Commerce here this week.
Norris explained the project as [
; a means of lifting the economic I
, level of the people in the tri - ;
J county area of Wheeler, Treutlen I
and Monbg'omei^&unties.
The ultimate success of the j
■ project will depend on how well j
- local people cooperate in the plan- ,
1 ning and carrying out of the proj- |
ect proposals, he said.
In his slide presentation, Norris I
pointed out the 17 per cent de-1
cline in the population in the!
area. The income of 62 per cent j
of the families is less than $3,000 i
and- unemployment is high, rang- |
1 ing from 5.8 to 7.9 per cent, he ।
:said.
i
It is anticipated, Norris said, j
that the RC and D Project will j
improve local agriculture, indus-।
I try, recreation, housing and gen-1
\ eral living conditions.
The project is an open-end pro-
Igram with a duration lasting as
i long as it can be effective in the
area, Norris said.
! If you are counting calories,
look toward pork. According to
Mrs. Rita Waters, Extension home
economist-nutrition, an average
; serving of today’s pork contains
; around 36 per cent fewer calories
' than a few years ago.
Proper land preparation is one
of the most important practices
i necessary to produce high yields
of good quality vegetables. Now .
is a good time to bpgin this land
, preparation, according to J. M
Bartber, horticulturist with the
University of Georgia Cooperative
Extension Service.
Food Prices To Rise By 2-3% Next
Year After Easing in 'G7 Is Prediction
Wall Street Journal
Consumers can expect to spend
2 to 3',j more for store purchas
es of food next year, laregly be
cause of anticipated higher prices
1 for meats, chickens, eggs and
! fruits, the Agricultural Depart
■ ment forecast.
The jump would contrast with
the 1% decline that food prices
are expected to show for the cur
rent year. But it wouldn’t match
the s', price spurt registered in
1966. Since 1957, price increases
have averaged a bit under 2%
annually.
As in past years, the higher
i prices will benefit farmers only
! slightly, with most of the gain
i going for marketing and process
: ing services. Hourly earnings of
i marketing firm employes are
: likely to rise more than output
j per man-hour, causing an increase
in labor costs per unit of pro
! ducts,” the department comment
। ed. Agricultural economists furth-
FRIDAY, DEOEMBER 1, 11967
Holiday Traffic Death Toll Falls
Behind Last Year’s Over Nation
Despite generally wet weather I
across Georgia over the long ’
Thanksgiving week end, the
state’s highway death toll of 25
fell short of predictions.
Safety officias had predicted at
; least 28 would die on Georgia
highways.
Deaths on the nation’s streets
i and highways mounted steadilj’
I Sunday night during the final
: hours of the long Thanksgiving
■day week end, but the death toll
; was behind last year’s record
! slaughter.
Weary travelers clogged roads
.on their homeward journeys Sun-
Rex. L. Poore
Elected President
Os Peninsular-Lurton
Rex L. Poore, of Helena, was
} elected President of Peninsular -
. Lurton Co. by the Board of Di-
I rectors on November 14, 1967.
; Mr. Poore has been with Pen
| insular - Lurton Company since
I 1941 and has held various posi
jtions in the company. He was
! elected vice - president and a
! member of the Board of Directors
I in 1963.
; Mr. Poore has a broad know-
I ledge of the naval stores industry
! and states that his company will
i continue serving the naval stores
I industry with quality products
i and rendering prompt and effi
। cient service to their customers.
I Peninsular - Lurton Company
: has its home office in Savannah,
I and operates International Naval
| Stores Division and Southern
' Gum Processing Division with
■ gum processing plants at Helena
; and Homerville.
Mr. Poore will reside in Helena
spending time in Savannah and
■Homerville in carrying out com
: pany operations.
Mr. Poore is married to the
। former Maxine Maloy of Milan,
| and they have two daughters,
' Cheryl, a senior at Georgia South
! ern, Statesboro and Janet, a fresh
| man at Middle Georgia, Cochran,
i
i The basic rules for making a
i good cup of coffee are simple,
i according to home economists
' with the University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension Service.
Make sure your coffee maker is
clean, your coffee fresh and mea
sure coffee and water accurately.
Georgia has led the nation in
tree planting for a number of
years but, according to Extension
Service foresters at the University
of Georgia, there are still 1 % mil
lion acres of idle and abandoned ।
cropland available for timber!
growing.
Georgia is blessed with abund- I
ant water resources, according to ■
Wayne O'Stean, Extension re
source development specialist at!
the University of Georgia. How- ■
ever, pollution in rivers, streams i
and lakes is becoming a major
problem.
er note that other marketing ex
penses from truck tires to pack
aging also are continuing to rise.
I The department calculations are
! based on the “market basket” of
'farm foods, defined as containing
■ “the average quantities of domes
■ tic farm-originated food products
I purchased annually per house-
I hold in 1960 and 1961 by wage
[ earner and clerical - worker fam-
I ihes and single workers living
j alone.”
I In the third quarter of 1967, the
! retail costs of market-basket foods
I averaged about 2% higher than
j the preceding quarter, but were
idown approximately 2% from a
! year earlier. Significantly, third
' quarter returns to farmers aver
; aged 6% lower than in the 1966
period.
“The spread between retail cost
and farm value of the market
basket foods probably will aver
age 2% to 3% under in 1968 than
in 1967,” the department said.
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I day and swell the death toll to I
' 634. ' <
Last year 748 persons were kill- ;
ed over the Thanksgiving week j
end, a record for any holiday pe
riod.
Maddox To Seek
1
Emergency Fund
In Jan. Session
'! Gov. Lester G. Maddox has an
nounced that he will seek legisla-1 ■
tion to establish a revolving fund,
for each biennium based upon I
the revenue receipts for the pre- j'
j vious biennium. j I
Purprose of the fund, he told a |'
। recent meeting of Statesiboro Jay-''
; । cees, is to assure sound fiscal !,
. mlanagement and operation of ।
. state government. His plan is to:
set the funds aside in order that ;
. state government can meet its fi-,
. nancial obligations in the event i
. of emergencies. Said the govern- |
; ■ or:
। “Such a fund will ibe held in es-1
; crow and cannot be appropriated j
or spent for any purpose other 1
. than paying the state’s bills in l
r cases of dire emergency. This ac-1
1 tion should have been taken long;
3 before this administration took;
3 office. It is a further step in J
. this administration’s effort to as-;
sure fiscal responsibility.”
f Gov. Maddox also said he will
seek legislation to set a mandato-
1 ry fine of SI,OOO for those con
-1 victed of enticing and entrapping!
t tourists and others in illegal:
a games of chance.
The proposed legislation, he ex
a plained, would cover not only '
j those who own establishments,;
. but also agents, employees and:
representatives of the owners and:
□ anyone who knowingly permits
these illegal operations on proper- i
ty owned by them.
Pointing out further that he |
. will ask the General Assembly to |
set a minimum penalty of $2,500
fine, or not less than 12 months j ■
, in jail, for second offenders, the j
governor declared:
; “So-called clip joints and illegal 1
, gambling operations have been a! i
blight on our state for too long. I '
. These changes in the law will:;
make it possible for us to mete j 1
out to those responsible the pun- i 1
ishment they deserve.” ; i
Gov. Maddox said he also will; 1
sponsor legislation to boost the t
reward for information leading to ’
the arrest of persons for capital l
felony crimes from SI,OOO to $25,- 1
000. On that point he said: G
“I believe such a reward offer- |
ied to get information leading to; I
the apprehension and conviction
of those who commit such dread- 1 s
J ful crimes as murder will not i
; only help to deter these fright-::
ful acts, but will also aid in the I
| speedy solving of crimes, and' I
I thereby save multiplied thousands ; i
lof dollars which are sometimes h
: spent on unsolved cases.” 1
। The governor now has the .pow- j
I er, upon recommendation of the ;
; attorney general and the director !;
i of public safety, to offer a reward i
lof SI,OOO for information leading 1
Ito the arrest and conviction of 1
i persons responsible for capital fel- <
'onies. I
I “I do not believe this maximum
■ reward is enough to offer,” Mad-I 1
dox asserted. i <
Going still further in the area 1
■of law violations, the governor J
■said he likewise will sponsor leg- i
' islation to redefine crime and i
.rioting and reclassify crimes com-j
mitted by rioters as felonies, pro
j vid'ing stiff penalties for those ar- 1
■ rested and convicted. ;
“I am very concerned,” he de- 1
■ c’ared, “about the epidemic of i
: riots breaking out in our country.
And I am concerned about the ■'
। careless attitudes of those who ■'
i could have prevented uprisings.” J'
Maddox said there is “a voice;
crying in the wilderness — the
voice of the people crying for 1
leaders who will take a firm stand i 1
against violence and murder in a
the streets.” J
And he said the Maddox ad- 1
ministration “has heard that voice
and is determined to answer the ■
cry, the hunger and the craving 1
of the people.” 1
NUMBER. 34
The county began at 6 p.m. lo
cal time Wednesday and ended?
at midnight Sunday, a 1102-hour"
period.
In comparison, 567 persons were
killed in a similar but non-holi
day period from 6 p.m. Wednes
day, Nov. 8, to midnight, Sun
day, Nov. 12, a press survey show
ed.
The National Safety Council
does not forecast the number at*
fatalities from traffic accidents
expected over the Thanksgiving;
holiday period. The council re
gards the holiday as one witieh
most Americans spend at home.
Two other four - day holiday?
this year had record traffic death
tolls. Fatalities for the Memorial!
Day week end numbered 608, and
-732 deaths were counted during
the Independence Day Observ
ance.
1968 Voluntary
Feed Grain Program
Is Announced
; Secretary of lAigriculure Orville
। L. Freeman has announced a 1948
। voluntary feed grain program
which aims at diverting at taaal;
j <3O million acres - 10 million more
than were diverted in 1967 - bit
: order to change this year’s tw» to
three per cent overproduction to a
two to three per ccent underpro-
; tion next year.
At the same time, he announo
’ed that price support loans on
1967 crops may be extended for“
the first time on grains in conr
i mercial storage as well as grains
in farm storage.
Farmers will 'be encouraged te<
I divert the additional acreage
■ through the offer of diversion pay
ments at 45 per cent of the total'
support (National rate of $1.35
per bushel for corn) times the
I farm’s established yield.
Average per - acre payments
will be slighitk higher than in
| 1966.
(Rates for price - support loans:
land payments for 1968 will con
tinue at 1967 level.
The secretary described the new
program as “the most important^
in the series of actions taken l^f"
USDA to strengthen grain prices.”'
and said that by providing' ttiw
program, “we are doing what the
New Era farm programs enacted,,
in 1965 were designed to do —
tailor supply to demand in ordhr'-
to increase farm prices and pre
vent costly surpluses.”
USDA estimates that farmers
participating in the new program,
will benefit not only from im
proved payments but also front
higher market prices.
“However,” Secretary Freeman
said, “the success or failure of the
1968 program depends in the last;;
analysis upon farmer panfficipa.—
tion. I urge feed grain producers*
to sign up in the program. Only
in this way can we avoid national!
overproduction. IBy diverting- at
least 30 million acres from crop
production to- conserving use, feed?
grain farmers can reduce stocks;.:
and gain much stronger prices.
“This is the farmer’s program..
It has worked in the past .because"--
farmers cooperated. I am confi
dent they will cooperate again
this year.
“With strong farmer participa
tion, farmers will — according' tat
our best estimate — receive over
S4OO million more income fram.'
feed grains than they are getting
in 1967 and nearly “200 mioi®n?
more than in the all-time record;
year of 1966.
“The 1968 program also will:
help firm up 1967 crop prices H-*'
growers use the price - supparfc
loan program for orderly mariret—
ing throughout the year.”
Lumber City Man
Killed In Vietnam
The Defense Department re
leased the names Monday of 11®
men killed in action in Vietnam-
Among them was Spec. 4 Vertii-
L. Mackey, son of Mr. and 'Mrs.
Richard Mackey of Lumber City-
Be sure to include some proteiK;
foods in your daily diet, advises-?
Miss Lucile Higginbotham,