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VOLUME 54
'Right-To-Rioi'
Idea Denounced
By Sen. Talmadge
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge,
long an outspoken advocate of re-;
storing law and order in the Unit- I
ed States, branded the demon- ■
strations at the recent Demo-■
cratic National Convention in
Chicago as “another shocking ex
ample of the misguided philoso-[
phy that people have a right to
riot."
The senator, delivering the an- j
nual banquet address at the i
Peace Officers Association of[
Georgia's 68th annual convention
in Macon, told the lawmen, that '
“the policemen in Chicago may
not have had the news media on
their side, but they certainly had
a vast overwhelming majority of 1
the American people with them.”[
Although he deplored the riot- ।
ing and the police action that re- i'
suited, Sen. Talmadge assertedl
that a “far greater damage was ■
inflicted upon the forces of law ’
and order.” He declared:
“No one of course likes to wit
ness violence and bloodshed. It
■was unfortunate that people were 11
hurt in the melee. But far worse, :
in my estimation, is the fact that ■
policemen were severely casti
gated for doing no more than''
their duty, and for only trying to |
maintain law and order.”
The Georgia senator charged [
that “too many people today have[
gotten it into their heads that
there is a right to riot in this coun-'
try. There is no such right, and
the sooner we put this mistaken 1
idea to rest the better off this,
country will be.” I 1
He called the “right-to-riot”
idea an outgrowth of “an attitude
of both official and unofficial r
permissiveness that pervades our |;
society today,” and added that
“the American people need only
to look around them to see the •
results” of this attitude.
“Never before,” Talmadge said, ••
“have there been such domestic;
discontent and disorder and such
scorn and disrespect for all es- >
tablished authority. Never before
has so much hatred roamed the
land, and never before has re-;
spect for law and order fallen to [
such depths.”
Urging the involvement and
the interest of all government
leaders, “from the highest to the
lowest,” and al! citizens, Sen. Tai-i
madge declared:
“We can curb crime and we
can halt lawlessness by enforcing[
the law the way it was written
and the way it was meant to be
enforced, and by making it clear i
to everyone that people who
break the law are going to be !
swiftly punished without fear or(
favor, regardless of any lofty
banner they may profess to travel'
under.”
The senator and former Geor-|
gia governor, who was speaking •
for his 21st year to the POAG
convention, hailed the Georgia
peace officers for doing “an out-[
standing job,” and said the best ।
tribute he could pay them is the
fact that there is no organized
crime in Georgia.
Grazing To Be
Permitted On
Diverted Acres
Chairman J. O. Perdue of the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation County Committee
today reminded farmers that
grazing will again be permitted
on acres diverted under the cot
ton. feed grain and wheat pro
grams starting October 1, 1968.
This grazing privilege does not
apply to land in the Conservation
Reserve or the Cropland Adjust
ment Program. Harvesting of this
acreage, however, is still prohib
ited on all participating farms for
the rest of the year.
Glenwood Halloween
Carnival Will Be Held
At Gym October 24
The Glenwood Halloween Car
nival will be held Thursday. Oct.
24, at the Glenwood Gym. Carni
val time will be at 6:00 p.m., with
supper being served from 5:30
untiil 7:30.
A variety show will be held at
9:00 o’clock. Come bring the fam
ily and enjoy an evening of fun.
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DR. WILLIAM E. HULL
Baptist Student Convention To Be
Held Ai Rock Eagle 4-H Center
Politicians, a professor, and
pastors are featured speakers for
the Baptist Student Convention,
Nov. 1-3, Rock Eagle 4-H Club
Center, Eatonton.
Lt. Gov. George T. Smith and
Jimmy Carter, one-time guber
natorial candidate, are the politi
cal figures. Both men are active
Baptist laymen.
Dr. William E. Hull, New Tes
tament professor at Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville, Ky., will be Bible
teacher for the weekend conven
tion.
The Rev. Claude Mcßride, pas
tor Milledge Avenue Baptist
Church, Athens, and the Rev.
William L. Self, pastor, Wieuca
Road Baptist Church, Atlanta,
will address the college students
and faculty advisors.
Other speakers will include R.
H. Falwell, Southern Baptist Stu
dent Department, Nashville,
Tenn, and Nathan Porter. South
ern Baptist Home Mission Board,
Atlanta.
A song based on the conven
tion theme, “To Every Man and
Nation,” was written by Bill Ray
Hearn, song leader for the meet
ing. Hearn, former minister of
music in Thomasville, now lives
in Waco, Tex.
University of Georgia students
will present dramatic theme in
terpretations. Student summer
Price-Support Loan
Program Available
For Wheeler Farmers
The rate at which farmers make
use of the price-support loan fea
tures of the voluntary wheat pro
gram is an important factor in
• the market price of wheat, ac
cording to J. O. Perdue, Chair
man of the Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation County
Committee.
He pointed out that 500 mil
lion bushels of 1968 and previous
crop wheat are being held off the
market under current loan, re
' seal loan and in Government
owned stocks at the end of Aug
! ust.
“That’s a lot of wheat to be
held off the market,” Mr. Perdue
said. “It is almost a year’s sup
ply of wheat for U. S. consum
, ers.”
About 200 million of the 500
million bushels isolated from the
market are 1968-crop wheat.
However, the traders and people
in the market had forecast that
by the end of August there would
be 250 million bushels of 1968-
crop wheat under loan.
The local farm program official
believes that failure to reach the
level anticipated by the trade
has pushed the price of wheat
down below what it otherwise
would have been.
“The rate at which wheat is
going under loan is an important
factor in the market’s appraisal
of the supply situation,” Mr. Per
due said. “Farmers can improve
(their own situation by using the
loan program. It helps them ir
two ways. Where wheat is selling
below the price-support loan val
ue it gives producers immediate
guaranteed price above the cur
rent market. And I am con
vinced that the market prices will
improve more quickly as larger
quantities of wheat are put un
der loan.”
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
LT. GOV. GEORGE T. SMITH
missionaries from Georgia col
! leges will report on their work
lin Malawi, Israel, Malaysia, Ari
zona, Washington-Oregon, and
[ Georgia.
Miss Harriette Lewis, Georgia
[ College at Milledgeville, is state
! BSU president. The Rev. Aubrey
L. Hawkins is secretary of the
i department of student work for
■the Georgia Baptist Convention.
Daniell Baptist Assoc.
Elect New Officers
At Recent Meeting
The monthly meeting of the
[Daniell Baptist Association Pas
tor’s Conference was held in the
■ President’s Dining Room at
Brewton Parker College last
week.
The Pastor’s Conference is a
fellowship of the various pastors
of the thirty-nine churches of
the association where the com
mon interests and problems of the
[ ministers are discussed with un
derstanding, tact, and empathy.
New officers were elected and
installed for the coming year at
the business session. Rev. Milton
Smith, Pastor of the Alston Bap
[ tist Church was elected to serve [
[ as president of the group for the I
! ensuing year. He succeeds Rev.
Robert Woodall of the First Bap
• tist Church of Alamo. Elected to
[serve as Vice President and Pro
l gram Chairman was Rev. A. D.:
[Stanfield, Pastor of the Glenwood
! Baptist Church. Stanfield suc
i ceeds Rev. Don Robert, Pastor i
of the Tabernacle Baptist Church!
iin Vidalia. Rev. Charles Bettis,
Pastor of the Harmony Baptist [
! Church in Soperton was elected
to serve as secretary to the group.
■ The outgoing secretary is Larry
[ Varnadoe, Minister of Music at [
the First Baptist Church in Vi-!
i dalia.
! Others attending the meeting
were Dr. J. T. Phillips, Pres.
Brewton Parker College; C. E.
Milton, Mount Vernon; C. J. Mil
! ton, Lyons; Shuford Jones, As-|
i sociational Missionary; Dr. Allen
•J. Freeman, Dean of Students at
■ Brewton Parker College; Thomas
! Barnard, Lyons; and Ashley Jor
dan, Vidalia.
The Daniel] Baptist Association
!is made up of the churches in
■Toombs, Wheeler, Treutlen, and
Montgomery Counties.
6th District PTA
To Meet Oct. 26
At Lumber City
The Parent Teachers Associa
tion of the Sixth District of Geor
gia Congress will hold its fall con
ference October 26, with registra-,
tion beginning at 9:30 a.m. and
call to order at 10 a.m. at the
East River Street School in Lum
ber City.
Miss Mary Hart Whitehurst, of
Jeffersonville, assistant director,
will conduct the meeting.
Mrs. Talmadge Powell is pres
ident of the PTA at the East
River Street School. PTA mem
bers from Houston, Twiggs, Wil
kinson, Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens,
Treutlen, Wheeler, Telfair,
Toombs and Montgomery Coun
ties are expected to attend.
Reservations for the luncheon
should be made through local
• PTA units by October 19th, Mrs.
i Powell said.
Ga. Spot Breeders
■ Show And Sale Set
Oct. 25 In Valdosta
! The members of the Georgia
(Spotted Swine Breeders Associa
। tion plan to hold their Fall State
Show and Sale at the Lowndes
County Livestock Auditorium in
Valdosta, Oct. 25.
The hogs consigned to the sale
! are the best from all consigners,
i Their quality is good enough to
igo into established herds or for
। the foundation of new herds.
[These hogs are sound, thrifty,
i meaty, and top quality individ
' uals.
[ The show will get under way
!at 10 a m. with Joel West, swine
(specialist from the Ga. Coastal
[Experiment Station in Tifton as
(judge. The sale starts at 1:30 p.m.
with the auctioneering done by
i the nationally known auctioneer
Col. Ted Hughes from Valdosta.
j The Georgia Spotted Swine
| Breeders Association is made up
I of several Spot Breeders through-!
; out the state who believe “Spots I
are the modern breed for today’s'
need.” Officers for the Associa-■
tion are, President — Curtis
Knowles, Milan, Ga.; Vice-presi
dent—W. Preston White, Alamo, (
Ga.; Sec-Treas.—Mrs. W. H. Deal,
I !
Statesboro, Ga. Directors are E.
E. Watson, Ft. Gaines, Ga ; Jim
my Blitch, Statesboro, Ga.; and
P. L. Pennington, Andersonville,
Ga.
Everyone attending the show
and sale is invited to attend the
banquet and business meeting on
Thursday night, Oct. 24. For fur
ther information or catalog con
tact Mrs. W. R. Deal, Route 4,
Statesboro, Ga. 30458.
Montgomery Selected
As Winning County
(In Ohoopee District
~ Montgomery County has been
. । selected as the winning county in
■ | the Ohoopee River Conservation
. I District in the statewide “Beauti
, j fication Through Conservation”
. j Awards Program. The program
;is co-sponsored by the Georgia
11 Electric Membership Corporation
( and the Georgia Association of
Conservation District Supervisors.
The selection of Montgomery
: County as a District winner was
[made by a judging committee;
composed of L. L. Phillips, George
Norris, and L. R. Payne. The com-!
, mittee was appointed by Conser
vation District Chairman Jim L.:
(Gillis, Jr.
Montgomery County will now
compete with the 6 winning coun-1
ties in GACD Group V to deter- (
I mine a state regional winner to
Ibe announced November 1. If
| successful as a group winner,
Montgomery County will then I
compete with the winner in the (
four other Groups in the state for j
; the SSOO prize being contributed I
•by the 41 Electric Membership!
Cooperatives in Georgia.
Wheeler Co. Hospital
Open House To Be
(Sunday, October 20
! The public is cordially invited'
Ito attend an informal Openhouse
of the Wheeler County Hospital
(Sunday, October 20, from 2:00
IPM - 5:00 PM.
: The hospital has had an ex-.
(tensive and complete remodeling!
i program and is a facility which j
(the people of Wheeler County
( may be proud.
Hospital Administrator Thomas
;J. Owens announced the members
(elected to the Medical Staff of
[the hospital. They are: General!
• Medicine: Marvin J. Wall M. D.,
(Glenwood; W. H. Beding
(field M.D., Vidalia. General Med
icine and Surgery: H. I. Conner
M.D., Vidalia; A. J. Yates M. D.,
• Soperton; Benjamin B. Neely M.
D., Lyons. Pathologist: James D.
Hurst M.D., Milledgeville.
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DEATHS
Mrs. Mary Spires Knight -
Telfair County
Sgt. Dawson Clements - Glen
wood
Eason R. Mercer - Ft. Lauder-
, dale, Fla.
Mrs. Eliza Hulett Vaughn - Tel
fair County
• Pfc. Lovett L. Harrell - New
I York City
Mrs. Rosa T. Ryals - Macon
Mrs. Eddie L. Evans - Macon
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1968 SINGLE COPY 5c
Sgt. Dawson Clements
! Killed In Vietnam,
Buried In Glenwood
i[ Funeral services for Sgt. First
(Class Dawson Clements, 30, who
| died October 3 in a plane crash
• in South Vietnam, were held
• Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the chapel
of the Murchison Funeral Home
■! in Vidalia.
Chaplain Charles W. Meyer and
। Elder Ralph L. Riner officiated.
Burial was in the Glenwood
. City Cemetery with full military
. honors.
Sgt. Clements was a native of
[Wheeler County and had been in
I the service for 13 years.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Eva Clements; two sons, Dawson
• Clements Jr. and James Clem
[ents; a daughter, Tammy Clem
jents; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle C.
[Courson; his stepfather, D. M.
(Courson, all of Glenwood; two
• sisters, Mrs. Glenn Anderson of
Atlanta and Mrs. E. T. Fowler of
(Dublin; two brothers, Sgt. Robert
I E. Clements in Alaska and Ever
! ett L. Clements of Glenwood.
• Murchison Funeral Home was
, in charge of arrangements.
।J. T. Mimbs Elected
Chairm'n Little Creek
Watershed Assoc.
• J. T. Mimbs, of Rt. 1, Lumber
( City, was elected Chairman of
• the Little Creek Watershed As
[ sociation at a meeting at the
• Wheeler County Courthouse Oc
tober 10. Mr. Mimbs is a promi
[ nent farmer in the Shiloh Com-
I munity and is a member of the
। Board of Stewards of the Shiloh
! Methodist Church and a member
11 of the Board of Directors of the
| Little Ocmulgee Electric Mem
; bership Corporation.
1 Other officers elected were Le
| Roy Clark, vice-chairman, and
i ( Ray Bell, secretary. W. J. Mit
i; chell, W. H. Thomas, Jr., Clady
i i Cox, Morris Johnson and Colon
( Clark were elected directors.
The sponsors of the Little
1 [ Creek watershed are the Ohoopee
[River Soil and Water Conserva
[! tion District and the Wheeler
• County Steering Committee of (
the Tri-County RC&D project. I
! i
The primary objectives of the
: Little Creek Watershed Associa- i
I .
I tion which will be included in!
i the work plan are to construct [
approximately 20 group-type ir-!
rigation reservoirs, a large multi- j
• purpose reservoir near Alamo (
[and to accelerate the installation)
। of conservation practices through-1
| out the watershed area which j
i consists of 90,000 acres.
Cake Bake Sale
i
I Mt. Carmel Church will have!
[ cakes for sale, Saturday, October;
j 16, at the Little Ocmulgee REA |
i Building in Alamo at 10:00 A.M.;
Come and buy a cake for the I
' week end.
NOTICE
The Public Health Nurse will [
! not be in the Wheeler County I
Health Department on October •
'l7, 18, and 22nd. Any one sched-(
uled for shots on these days, •
! please come in on October 23rd. j
$4 Million Building Plan Proposed
For Veterans Home In Milledgeville
MACON —A proposal for a $4
million building and improve
ment program at the Georgia
War Veterans Home in Milledge
ville was announced today by
State Veterans Service Director
Pete Wheeler.
Speaking to the Macon Lions
Club, Mr. Wheeler said, “We plan
to build successively, a series of
; three new wings with a total ca
(pacity of 420 beds during the
(1970-1975 period. To carry out
[this plan will require appropria
i tions. As new wings are com-
Ipleted, equal bed space in the
[ present facility will be abandoned
i and that portion of the old build
[ ing demolished.
If our plans are successful, by
j 1975 we will have a new modern
I facility for veterans at Milledge
: ville consisting of a four building
complex; be able to give proper
! care to 570 veterans without ov
' ercrowding; and have spent in
1 completing the new complex al-
Georgia's Small Timberland Owners
Say Tax Structure Should be Revised
Georgia’s small timberland
• owners have told the Georgia Tax
Revision Study Commission that
unless some adjustment is made
in the present ad valorem tax
• structure the state’s second larg
est business will be “out of
business.”
Representatives of the state’s
200,000 timberland owners —most
of them with less than 300 acres—
said they were not seeking pref
erential treatment, but a revision
that would allow them to con
tinue to supply the consumers.
Citing a University of Georgia
study, the group testified that
land should be taxed on its pro
ductive capacity, similar to a
Florida system that recognizes
। the “income capitalization” ap
proach.
The timberland growers said
under this system, the grower
would be required to get the most
out of his land or be penalized.
Such would insure the continua
| tion of the wood industry, which
| ranks second in the state’s econ-
( omy and contributes more than a
billion dollars annually.
Economists have said that with
in 30 years, the Southeast must
double its wood production. Rep-1
resentatives of the Georgia For
estry Association say the billion
dollar industry of today could be
come a two billion dollar econ
omy in 10 years.
Already the wood using indus
tries are taking a close look at
Georgia’s ability to produce suf
ficient quantities of wood and
many have chosen other nearby
.) states to locate their plants, a
, j spokesman for the Georgia For-
■estry Association told the tax
study commission.
j Because of increased taxes
’! many timberland owners are
1 ! clearcutting their lands and re
'! ducing the tax base, according to
j the testimony. However, under
1 , the proposed “income capitaliza-
! tion” method, they would be re
! । quired to keep a full growth of
' | timber to meet existing taxes.
| The University of Georgia
J study showed that in many cases
! counties would receive more tax
[ income because of the full growth
required. “This should alleviate
Graham Community
Entertainment Friday
| The Graham Community ladies I
j invite you to have a free meal
(with them at the Graham Com
[ munity Club House on Friday, (
[October 25, at 7:00 p.m.
j Please bring a pocket full of,
i dimes and enjoy the fish pond, [
I bingo and cake walk. The pro-!
! ceeds will go to improve the!
! building.
Mrs. Oris Braswell, President;
NOTICE
!
I It is the policy of the Wheeler
I County Hospital that all services [
!of this facility are all available!
ito all people in the community I
[ without regard to race, color, or j
I national origin.
Thomas J. Owens,
Administrator
October 3, 1968 27-2 t!
most $4 million over a period of
5-7 years.”
He noted that the old building
which now houses around 400
veterans is becoming more expen- [
sive to maintain and that pro-!
fessional engineering studies have
shown the facility to be deterio
rating around the foundations.
The studies also revealed that.
modernization and renovation [
would be more expensive than a [
new building.
Mr. Wheeler said, “Based on the •
number of veterans returning to
Georgia each year there would be
a need for at least 570 beds at
the home by 1975. As it is now'
i there are 400 veterans in a build
j ing with room for only 300, while
I we have 100 veterans in the Cen
{tral State Hospital because of the
[ lack of bedspace.”
The 150-bed Carl Vinson Build
ing now under construction is ex
pected to be opened sometime af
ter the first of the year.
NUMBER 28
I any fears from counties that tim
: ber growers want to get out o£“
paying their fair share of taxes,”
■ said Edwin L. Douglass of Att
gusta, president of the statewide
■ forestry group.
j Major reason for the change
! would be to add uniformity and!
allow counties to conform to the
I law. Most counties today are un
■ able to comply because of the
requirement that they assess the
lands each year to come up wilh
1 a “fair market value.”
The Georgia Department of
( Revenue and county officiate
would set rates for the formula.
Men Os Courage
Destined To Rim
Nation - Maddox
Gov. Lester G. Maddox, asl
dressing the centennial celebra
tion of the Blackshear Masonic
Lodge, said “God and the Bible
are the foundation stones of oar
order, as they must be for- our
। nation if it is to continue as the
j ‘land of the free and the Frame
of the brave’ and not be transs
formed into the ‘land of the cow
ard and the home of the slaved ”
Charging that America’s na
tional leaders were guilty of
“cowardice” in allowing civil dis
turbances and the seizure of the
USS Peublo. Gov. Maddox de
clared:
“I can think of only one reason
why our eyes have witnessed
these things—and that is cowacd
ice . . . I am confident that the
people, the voters, are going to
turn this tide of cowardice next
month.
“Those leaders who have
1 backed away from the challenge
of building a better America^ a
freer America, will find them-
! selves backing away from Wash
ington to make room for men of
real courage.
“Men who will stand up against
the advance of Communism . , .
Men who will stand up against
the breakdown of law and oKder
. . . Men who will stand up for
the principles on which this coun
try was founded . . . Men lite-
George C. Wallace.”
Wheeler County
Negro Boy Killed
In Lumber City
i A shooting incident took
! last Sunday night at Collins Cafa.
known as “The Rock”, on the odd
• river road at Lumber City, be
tween 12:00 and 1:00 am, ac-
I cording to the Telfair Sheiififfs'
1 office.
It is reported that Roscoe Cur
-1 tis Barge, age 25, allegedly pidJedS
I a .25 caliber pistol and fired sev
eral shots in an argument over a
girl in the dance hall.
One shot hit Melvin Chambers
in the leg. Chambers is trona
Hazlehurst. Another shot stnackr.
j Mrs. Leo Mackey, of Wheeler
' County, in the leg causing a flesh
' wound. A third shot seriously
■ wounded George Tobler, age 14.
jof Wheeler County. Tobler was
; carried to the hospital in Hazle
hurst, and then to Macon where:
he died enroute at Eastman.
After the shooting, Barge is.
। said to have left the Case by the
; back door and forced his way
into an auto, and proceeded oei
;to Lumber City, where he way
apprehended by Powell and
Shaw of the Lumber City Polish
' Department.
He is now being held in the*
! Telfair County jail and lias been
^charged with murder, accordiw
: to the Sheriff’s Office.
Miss Adams Pledged
At Brenau College
Miss Martha Ann Adams
' pledged Alpha Gamma Delta Sor
ority at Brenau College.
She is the laughter of Mr. and 1
Mrs. A. M. Adams of Alamo.
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Money may not buy happiness
but it surely helps one look Soh
I proof.