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VOLUME 54
Thanksgiving In
Ga. To Be Marred
By Road Deaths
"26 Killed. 435 injured in 855
auto wrecks.”
That well could be the grim
Monday morning headline in
Georgia newspapers following this
year’s Thanksgiving holiday
weekend. And it likely will be.
too. for this is the State Patrol’s
prediction for the 102-hour per
iod from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
27 through midnight Sunday,
Dec. 1.
"Our prediction of 855 traffic
accidents which will claim the
lives of 26 persons and cause
injury to 435 others is based on
past Thanksgiving holiday ex
periences and present trends,” ex
plained Col. R. H Burson, di
rector of the Georgia Department
of Public Safety.
“It is simply a projection of
statistics which, unfortunately,
are usually pretty accurate. But
this doesn't necessarily have to
hold true. For instance, the driv
ers themselves, who actually
cause such tragedies through
carelessness and reckless driving,
could reverse the trend and thus
repudiate our prediction if only
they will drive carefully, sensi
bly and obey all traffic laws. We'
strongly appeal to them to do
that.”
While the safety director hopes
motorists will heed his appeal, ।
the State Patrol is leaving noth
ing to chance. It will carry out
a massive traffic enforcement op
eration throughout the 108-hour “
period, similar to others, staged
during long holiday weekends. I]
Col. Burson said the patrol will .
be at top strength with some 600; J
members of the uniform division i
working around the clock. They!
will be augmented by GBI agents, ■
radio operators, license examin- (
ers, State Revenue agents and (
Game and Fish Department en
forcement officers who will serve 1
largely as spotters. In all, the
task force will comprise about 1
1,000 men.
In addition to regular recog
nizable patrol cars, unmarked
cars, airplane spotters and rov
ing “tactical squads” will be used 1
in seeking out violators. Radar 1
and other speed-timing devices
will be extensively employed.
Col Burson, Lt. Col. L. G. Bell, 1
deputy director, and Maj. Por- ;
ter Weaver, the patrol’s com- ■
manding officer, will direct the
gigantic enforcement operation '
from strategic points over the
state. Road checks will be made 1
at unannounced places on a 24- I
hour basis.
In outlining his strategy in the 1
upcoming life-versus-death con
test on Georgia’s roads (football
coaches call it a game plan), Col. I 1
Burson calls on the public, all lo- 1
cal and county law enforcement
officers, the press, radio and tele- '
vision stations and various safety
organizations throughout Georgia
for wholehearted cooperation in '.
carrying out this safety drive.
Last year 25 persons were
killed in Thanksgiving weekend (
traffic mishaps, the second high
est in Georgia’s history. The
worst was in 1966 when 27 fa- (
talities were recorded. The low
est was in 1949 when only four
persons ceased to exist because
of somebody’s mistake in driving.
a car.
Robert Overstreet
Visits County Schools
In Cultural Program
Robert Overstreet, of the Geor- ।
gia Southern drama department, ’
visited each of the schools in
Wheeler County Tuesday as a
part of the continuing cultural
enrichment program.
For the high school students,
Overstreet gave a synopsis of
Carson McCullars' “The Ballad
of The Sad Case” and then read
the concluding scenes from the [
story.
Overstreet read to the elemen
tary groups from Hans Christian
Anderson’s collection of fairy'
tales and poetry written by Em
ily Dickinson and Conrad Aiken.
Overstreet appears on the Geor
gia Educational Television Net
work on the 4th Wednesday night
of each month at 10:30. He is
currenly discussing and present-'
ing the works of Georgia writers.
Wheeler County Eagle
WANTED BY THE FBI
JEW
I . > lOr y
JOHN WILLIAM CLOUSER
John William Clouser, a Florida mental hospital escapee, who has
vowed not to be taken alive, is one of the FBl’s “Ten Most Wanted
Fugitives.”
On the night, of April 2, 1964, Clouser and three other inmates
escaped from the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee and re
portedly forced two hospital employees to drive them to the Columbus,
Georgia, area. The hostages were robbed but released unharmed. A
Federal warrant issued at Montgomery, Alabama, on April 9, 1964,
charges Clouser with transporting a stolen car from Georgia to Ala
bama, where the stolen car was recovered abandoned.
A former police officer, Clouser was admitted to the Florida State
Hospital in February, 1964, after being adjudged mentally insane. He
was then facing numerous criminal charges and had earlier been
convicted of participating in the robbery, kidnapping and beating of
two theater managers. His conviction was appealed, however, due to
a state error, and he was released and granted a new trial.
He is a white American, born at Chicago, Illinois, on March 29,
1932. He is 5'9” tall, weighs from 165 to ISO pounds and has blond
hair, blue eyes, a stocky build and ruddy complexion. He is tattooed
with a panther on his right shoulder and a heart pierced with an arrow
on his left shoulder.
He Is described as a sadist who would not hesitate to beat a victim
to death, is an expert pistol shot, exercises and lifts weights regularly
and is proficient in Judo and Karate. Consider him extremely
dangerous.
Should you receive any information concerning the whereabouts of
John William Clouser, you are requested to immediately notify the
nearest office of the FBI, the telephone number of which may be
located on the first page of local telephone directories.
Savannah Symphony
Presented In Concert;
Recently In Wheeler
The Savannah Symphony was
presented in concert here recent
ly by the Wheeler County Board
of Education as a part of the sys
tem-wide cultural enrichment
program.
The program was designed to
expose the students to some of
the classics. Perhaps the best
liked and most familiar number
was “Colonel Bogey March”
which was made famous through
its use as background music for
the movie “The Bridge On The
River Kwai.”
Other favorites were “Flight [
of the Bumble Bee”, which mu
sically pictures a bumble bee in
full flight, and selections from
Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side
Story.”
Chauncey Kelley, conductor of
the Symphony, narrated the pro
gram.
This is the second performance
of the Savannah Symphony in
this county. They first appeared
'here in February, 1967. Sections
of the orchestra performed here
during the past school term also.
Wheeler Co. Training
School Members At
District Meeting
Six members of the Wheeler
County Training School Future
Homemakers of America chapter
along with their advisor, Mrs. C.
C. Harris, attended the District
Meeting in Swainsboro.
The theme of the meeting was
“Speak Up for Citizenship Out
I for Neighbors.” Our chapter was
responsible for the evaluation
sheets.
It was enjoyable to everyone
who attended.
The F.H.A. Chapter conducted
an initiation ceremony and pre
sented the new members with an
emblem of the organization.
Lee Anner Jackson
Chairman of Public Relations
Rita Towns Named
To Sweetheart Court
Miss Rita Towns has been
elected to the Sweetheart Court
of Lambda Upsilon Chapter of
;Tau Kappa Epsilon National So
cial Fraternity at Georgia South
lern College.
Miss Towns was presented to
the fraternity members at a
Sweetheart Tea held October 31,
at Howard Johnson's Restaurant
in Statesboro. She will serve on
the court for the remainder of the
'6B-'69 school year.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George E. Towns of Alamo.
ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
■Power Co. Sponsors
Editorial Award For
High School Students
Plans are now being made for
the seventh annual Jack McDon
ough Editorial Award competi
tion sponsored by the Georgia
Power Company for Georgia high
school students.
The contest, named in honor of
Georgia Power’s retired board
• chairman, seeks to recognize the
•high school junior or senior who
writes the best editorial on free :
i enterprise in America and has •
! the editorial published in his [
; school newspaper during the;
1968-69 school year.
The contest winner will receive ।
• a SSOO scholarship to the Henry i
W. Grady School of Journalism;
of the University of Georgia. He]
also will receive a plaque of rec- j
; ognition and an electric type-)
; writer.
No limit is set on the number !
of articles an individual or school.
may submit or on the length of!
the editorials.
Entries should be sent to Dean •
John E. Drewry, Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism, University:
! of Georgia, Athens. A special sac- 1
ulty committee wil judge the edi
torials.
The award will be presented:
at the next meeting of the Geor- •
gia Scholastic Press Association;
•in May, 1969. Deadline for en
tries is April 10, 1969.
Junior Class Os
W. C. T. S. Sponsors
68-69 Beauty Pageant
“Stars in Your Eyes” was the ■
theme when the Junior Class of
the Wheeler County Training
School sponsored the Miss W. C.
T. S. beauty pagent for the year
1968-69 Tuesday night.
Jacqueline Strong was crowned
“Miss W. C. T. S.” and Winnie
Monette Baker was crowned
“Little Miss W. C. T. S.”
Competition for the contestants
included talent, bathing suit, and
evening attire. It was a lovely
experience for all the contest
ants.
Principal G. A. Weatherspool
crowned the queens.
Contestants included the fol
lowing girls: Tammy Andrews,
Gwendolyn Williams, Johnnie M.
Williams, Layne Troup, Winnie
M. Baker, Truly Hall, Sylvia
Mackey, Terri C. Wright, Diane
Harris, Rena Bryant, Frankie
Grant, Marilyn Y. Holloway, Jac
quelyn Mackey, Claudia Cono
way, and Jacqueline Strong.
The Junior Class would like to
thank everyone who assisted in
making this event possible.
Mrs. B. Moore, Advisor
Marsha Powers, Chairman
Training Course For
20 Sewing Machine
Repairmen To Begin :
The State Labor Department’s'
[training course for 20 sewing ma-It
I chine repairmen, which begins [ ■
; Dec. 16 in Soperton, is the first 1 ;
' such project in Treutlen County I:
jin a little more than a year. |i
The $65,036 40-week project
jwill be administered jointly by!]
I the Labor Department and the [ j
; Division of Vocational Education • i
lof the State Department of Edu- ]
•cation under provisions of the | <
Manpower Development and”
Training Act.
The first sewing machine re-! i
! pair course, which began in Sep-p
tember 1967 and ended last May, I]
[graduated 16 of the 20 persons!
who started the training. Follow-|'
[up by the Labor Department re-I;
! veals that nearly all graduates [i
are currently employed—almost h
all of them in training-related i
ijobs. b
“The success of the September I
1967 project and the continuing:
need by area employers for'
j trained repairmen justified a re-I
run of the training,” said Labor
Commissioner Sam Caldwell.
Training will take place eighl :
hours a day, Monday through I
Friday, in the Manpower Devel j
j opment and Training Center in |
i Soperton.
। “The Treutlen-Laurens area’s
j continuing industrial growth will
lead to more skill training in the
area,” Caldwell said. “Our stud-
I 1
. ies reveal that an untrained sew
• ing machine repairman receives
। $1.60 an hour on the average to
‘ I start, but that entry level pay
rate increases to as much as $2.20
an hour after 40 weeks of inten
sive MDTA training.
“Additionally, employment in
। this field is not subject to sea- j
sonal fluctuation and will be of
a permanent nature.”
| For the most part, trainees will
j be young men whose limited ed- j
1 ; ucfitional and employment back-!
' grounds do not make them com- j
,| petitive in the labor market. They j
will receive instruction at no cost j
1 to them, and those who qualify
will be paid a small weekly al
' ] lowance during training.
In addition to remedial educa
: tion instruction early in the
course for those who need it, the'
‘ i
I commissioner said, all trainees ।
I will receive individual counseling:
! I
during training.
i I
I Pointing out that more than 85 I
, i per cent of Georgia’s MDTA grad-I
[nates have been placed on train-1'
ing-related jobs, Caldwell said:|
; “This training wil benefit the re- ]
. Icipients, of course, by raising!'
• their level of employability and'
■ | adding them to the labor force. j.
[But it will also serve employers!:
|in the area by making available I;
: new workers highly trained in a 11
i skill which is badly needed.
“There are approximately 30'
I industries within commuting dis-;
i tance which stand to benefit from '
this training. MDTA courses are p
j just one phase of the department’s I
■ total program of providing max- !
. !imum training and employment ।
opportunities for all Georgians.” j;
i He urged unemployed and un-'
deremployed persons living in'
Treutlen, Telfair, Montgomery I
I and Wheeler counties who de- [ 1
sire more information about
• training to contact the Labor De-, 1
, partment’s Dublin office at 139/
■ N. Franklin Street.
Wheeler Co. Training
School Program
The Savannah Symphony and!.
L Robert Overstreet poetry reading i:
were highly enjoyed and deeply
appreciated by all units of spec-::
; ial education at Wheeler County '
• Training School.
A poll was given to determine ;
which was enjoyed most, and '
not at all surprising, Mr. Over- [
I street won with his wonderful
selection of poems. '
Mrs. Dorothy Johnson,
Wheeler County Training .
School reporter
Warren L. Conner, Jr.
Receives Promotion
Warren L. Conner Jr., 21,
whose parents live in Glenwood,
► was promoted to Army sergeant
Oct. 31 near Pleiku, Vietnam,
where he is assigned to the 4th
Infantry Division as a support
driver.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1968 SINGLE COPY 5c
Union Primitive ’ 1
Baptist Revival To
Be Held Nov. 25-30
The Union Primitive Baptist ।
Church at Alamo, will have a re- | i
vival beginning November 25, j;
and continue through November [;
30. Services will begin each eve- .
ning at 8 o’clock.
Guest ministers will be as fol
lows: Monday evening, Elder El-।
liott Tucker of Ocilla; Tuesday! ।
evening, Elder Ed Glisson of j.
Douglas; Wednesday evening, El- ,
der Sam Hodgeman of Fitzgerald;!,
Thursday evening, Elder Cleon [
Radford of Fitzgerald; Friday!]
[evening, Elder Bill Mullis of Tif
'ton; and Saturday evening, Elder •
! McKinley Wright of Barnesville. |.
Elders Ralph L. Riner of Vi-;,
[ dalia, will be the speaker on •,
Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m.',
i Dinner will be served on the;,
'church grounds immediately fol
| lowing the Sunday morning wor-1 •
I ship service. ’
The public is cordially invited ;,
: to attend each service.
! I,
W. Brown Nevels
Assumes RC&D
Biologist. Position
i W. Brown Nevels has been se-1
lected as Wildlife Biologist for p
the Tri-County Resource Con-1'
servation and Development. 1
Project according to an announce- [
ment by C. W. Chapman, State[
I Conservationist for Soil Conser- j :
vation Service at Athens.
Nevels comes to the Tri-Coun- j'
ty RC&D Project from Oxford, [
Georgia where he has been SCS
I '
Work Unit Conservationist for]
Newton and Rockdale counties •
for about three years. He will
;be located in the Project Office i
!in Soperton. As Biologist he will I
assist the project sponsors and;
individual landowners in the in-1
stallation and operation of wild- [
j life and outdoor recreation en-!
terprises. The Tri-County Project]
| is sponsored by the Ohoopee Riv
jer Soil and Water Conservation]
District and the County com-1
missioners of Treutlen, Montgom-'
ery, and Wheeler counties.
Nevels is a native of Sale City, j
He received his Bachelor of!
Science Degree in Agriculture
I from the University of Georgia
jin 1946. He holds a Master of i.
Science Degree in Wildlife Man-]
j agement from Ohio State Uni- ]:
! versity. He served as Biologist! •
‘ with Georgia Game and Fish ' I
I Commission from 1951 through p
1 1953. He served as Assistant 11
' Manager of the Pineland Planta-' ]
[ tion in Baker County during; <
]1954. While on the 30,000-acre j.
[Pineland Plantation he was re-H
! sponsible for developing and ;
I maintaining food and cover for 1 1
quail, dove, turkey and ducks. •
He came with Soil Conserva- j <
• tion Service in 1955 and worked |i
! in Decatur County and was Work ; i
'Unit Conservationist in Miller |
County from 1957 to 1965. <
Nevels is married to the for-!:
। mer Gladys Dailey of Ringgold.' <
[They have four children, Doris
; age 16, John age 12, Nancy age <
i 10, and Robert age 8. Mrs. Nevels! i
l is presently employed by the
I Newton County Department of j
I Children’s Services as Child Wel
• fare Worker. The Nevels are very .
' active in civic, church, and school I
! activities. Mr. Nevels is a mem-j
; ber of the Covington Rotary ['
IClub. All of the children are ac-] 1
tive in school activities. Doris is [ 1
!on the staff of the Newton Coun- '
ty High School Annual. All the 1
family are active members of the !
Allen Memorial United Methodist '
Church at Oxford, Ga.
The Nevels plan to move to 1
Soperton in the very near future. ] 1
<
Bake Sale To
Be Held Nov. 23
i
The W. C. H. S. Beta Club will <
sponsor a bake sale on Saturday, :
November 23, at the REA Build- ]
ing in Alamo from 9:00 A.M. un
'til . . . !<
Come out and serve two pur- 1
' poses—Get your baked goods for I
Thanksgiving — and support the.
Beta Club’s money-making proj- ’
ect
i
DEATHS
Ed Carpenter - Milan :
Mrs. Gussie M. Poole - Chaun-
cey
Jeannette Fritz - Mcßae 1
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Os
South In Freight Rate Struggle
The United States Supreme
Court has given the South a ma
jor victory in its long struggle
for equality of freight rates.
On Tuesday the Court unani
mously affirmed a decision of a
Federal District Court setting
1 aside an order of the Interstate
! Commerce Commission which, if
allowed to stand, would have dis
criminated against the South in
the cost of shipping freight.
The South’s case was presented
by former Georgia Governor Carl
E. Sanders representing the
Southern Governors’ Conference.
Sanders served as Chairman of
the Freight Rate Committee of
the Southern Governors’ Confer
ence during his term as Gover
nor of Georgia.
The former Governor said:
“The Court decision means that
the South has prevented the im
! position of an artificial trade
[barrier which would impede the
[industrial development of the
South. An industrial concern can
! locate in any area of Georgia or
[the South in the future without
[ being at a disadvantage in the
। vital matter of freight costs. To
[ have lost this case would have
been a crippling blow to our ef
forts to bring new industry to
Georgia.”
At issue in the historic case
was a 1965 Order of the Inter
state Commerce Commission
[ granting railroads in Northern
istates a preference in the divis-
I ions of revenues accruing on joint
i hauls between Northern and
I Southern territories. The Com
! mission had attempted to justify
i its Order on the theory that costs
:of handling freight traffic are
higher in the North than in the
I South.
j In the oral argument of the
case on October 17, 1968, San-
Solons Get Look
At Improvements
In State Parks
Parks Director John L. Gordon
i and legislators from four Geor
: gia counties—Bulloch, Cobb, Ful
ton and Ware—have just com
pleted an inspection tour of
North Georgia parks.
The House lawmakers on the
tour —members of the State In
stitutions and Property Commit
tee’s recreational facilities sub
committee—were Paul Nessmith
Sr. of Statesboro, chairman; Hugh
Lee McDaniell of Marietta, vice
chairman; William Sims Jr. of
Atlanta, J. D. Grier Jr. of At
lanta, Ottis Sweat Jr. of Waycross
and Joe Higginbotham of Deca
tur.
Topics discussed on the tour in- [
eluded new facilities, both those!
in the planning stage and those
under construction; possible ex
pansion of the existing parks, and
continued improvements of liai- i
son with federal recreation agen-!
cies.
An inspection tour of South!
Georgia state parks is scheduled 1
in December.
Georgia Power Wins
Advertising Award
Georgia Power Company’s ]
newspaper advertisements the:
past 12 months have been chosen:
the best in the nation in the util
ity field and its advertising de- [
partment presented a Socrates •
High Award signalizing the hon-'
or.
Entrants in the 45-year-old an-1
nual competition by Public Util- ]
ities Ad-Views, a national publi- 1
cation, are rated on a point sys-'
tern. Judges consider “the skill-;
ful use of an idea, visualization, 1
copy and layout, total effective- i
ness in selling appliances, in-:
creasing the use of the utility’s 1
services, and building the com- j
pany’s goodwill.
Winners are announced by Vin-,
cent Edwards Ad-Views, of West:
Newton, Mass., sponsor of the •
Socrates Award.
Georgia Power, a frequent [
winner of monthly Socrates a- j
wards, has been ranked in the [
top five by Ad-Views annually
for the past six years. In 1963
the company won the other top
advertising award in the utility
field, the best complete adver
tising program award of the Pub
lic Utilities Advertising Assn.
NUMBER 33
1 ders told the Supreme Court that:
the Commission’s Order would
' require the South to subsidize
the transportation system of the
North. He argued that the people
of each territory should support
their own transportation system...
Cotton Referendums
To Be Held In Dec.
।
The period December 2.
through December 6 has been set
for the marketing quota referen
dums for the 1969 crop(s) of up
. land and extra long staple cot
ton, J. O. Perdue, Chairman, Ag
ricultural and Conservation
' County Committee, reminds farm
ers. The vote(s) will be held by
mail, as they have been for the
, past 2 years. Notices of farm..
[ acreage allotment(s) will be
mailed to operators of cotton
, 1 farms prior to the referendum.
If quotas are approved by at;
least two-thirds of the upland
. growers voting, the programfs)
under which payments are made
to cooperators will be in effect.
While all program details of
. the upland cotton program will
not be announced until after the
, i November 8 crop report of the
Agriculture Department, the farm
domestic allotment has already
been set at 65 percent of the fann
acreage allotment. Farmers who
sign up early next spring to par
ticipate in the upland cotton pro
gram and who plant at least 9ft
percent of their farm’s domestic
acreage allotment but not in ex
cess of the permitted acreage for
. the farm will be eligible for
, price-support loans on all their
, cotton crop and for price-support
payments based on the projected
, yield and the farm domestic al
lotment.
Upland cotton projected yields.
—used to determine cotton pro
: gram payments—vary by individ
। ual farms, based on county and
I State average yields. State yieMs
are based on 1963-67 harvested
[yields, adjusted for abnormal
1 : weather conditions, for trends.
: and for changes in production
i practices. The State projected
: yields average out to the national'
yield of 545 pounds per acre.
Georgia’s projected yield i?
’! 502 pounds per acre.
Provisions Given For
Registration Under
1968 Gun Law
Detailed procedures for regis
] tering machine gun, sawed-off
! shotgun, sawed-off rifle, silencer,
i deactivated war trophy and other
I destructible devices were an
' nounced today by A. C. Ross
District Director of Internal Rev
i enue for Georgia.
The Gun Control Act of 1988
[ requires that weapons and de-
I vices of this type must be reg
j istered with the Internal Revenue
[Service by December 1.
Mr. Ross said that copies of
i Registration Form 4467 are avail
' able at Alcohol & Tobacco Tax
j and other IRS offices.
The forms are prepared in
three copies, two of which should!
ibe mailed to the Director, Alco
hol and Tobacco Tax Division.
| Internal Revenue Service, Wash
:ignton, D. C. 20224. The third ~
! copy may be kept by the owner
lof the firearm or destructive de
• vice.
Firearms or destructive de-
I vices should not be brought tc.
ian IRS office to be registered,
[Mr. Ross said.
1 Under the new law all fire
[arms and destructive devices re
j quiring registration must be idien
' tified by serial number. If ac.
I firearm or device does not have •
] a serial number, the owner should
! phone, visit, or write the nearest
; IRS Alcohol and Tobacco Tax
[office and number will be as
j signed.
After obtaining the number..
! the owndr is responsible for af
'fixing it to the firearm or de
! vice before completing the regis
[ tration form. Additional informa
! tion may be obtained by contact
ing the nearest Alcohol and To
bacco Tax or other IRS office.
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Troubles come through the
(things we let slip through our
| lips rather than those we let slip
I through our fingers.