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VOLUME 55
Sonny Bartlett Is
Student Teaching
In Wheeler Schools
Student teachers come to their
jobs armed with a certain fresh
ness that is hard to beat.
Yes, the student teacher is sup
posed to spend the three months
“practice teaching” all the phil
osophy and methods he learned
during his four years of college.
But as every good teacher know r s,
all the ideas are not in the books, i
It takes a new mind to give the
old ideas a new twist—to come
up with brand new things. And
that is what Ernest Bartlett is ’
doing in Wheeler County.
Ernest, or “Sonny” as he is
best known, is doing his student
teaching in art under Jim Beas- [
ley. art instructor in the Wheeler;
County school system. In this rolel
he has jumped right into the mid- (
die of the school activities, ad-1
ding that patricular freshness'
mentioned earlier.
As is customary with student j
teachers. Sonny only observed atj
first. Then he moved into the)
more active role of assisting |
the teacher. From there he has, i
on occasions, assumed the re- j
sponsibility of classes, worked in- i
dividually with students, and real
ly got his teeth into teaching.
He has adopted the local phil
osophy of “knowing the child” |
and is doing a case history on
each student in one class plus |
learning a great deal about the [
others he meets.
He has helped identify and is i
working with some students in
doing in-depth study in their
special interest areas. For exam
ple, one student is interested in I
architectural design. Sonny is |
sharing with this student not only <
the knowledge he has derived i
from study but a great deal of ac- j
tual experience he has had with '
his father who is a contractor, j
As his special project, he su- ।
pervised the design and construe- i
tion of the set for “Oliver”, the,
musical production presented re- ■
cently by the Wheeler County;
High School Drama Society. :
“Oliver” was the big production ■
of the year and drama coach 1
Edward Robbins and Jim Beasley ।
agree that Sonny couldn’t have,
been here at a better time.
His work in the production was ;
right in line with his experience, i
Sonny was a student assistant in |
the art department at Georgia,
Southern and has helped design:
many of the sets for the major ।
productions at the college.
The musical appealed to hisl
interest too since he plays sev-;
eral instruments and sings quite
well. His favorites are folk songs.
A versatile young man, Sonny
is a “serious” amateur photo
grapher and has done free-lance
writing for the Augusta Chron- ■
icle.
Os the various art forms, he ’
prefers sculpture but is deft at j;
several. He won the first place j
award for a monoprint he entered
in the Open Division of the Cali
fornia Art Exhibit in the summer ; 1
of 1968.
Sonny has joined into the com
munity affairs too. He is attend-;
ing the Alamo Methodist Church;
where he sings in the choir and|'
the word is going around town j
that his ideas for banquet and;'
decoration themes are excellent.
The role of the student teacher;
is important to Sonny Bartlett;
and he is working hard at it.
Sonny is a native of Waynes-;
boro.
Sp/4 Donald H. Clark
Assigned To Ft. Dix
Sp/4 Donald H. Clark, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Eschol L. Clark of
Alamo, Rt. 1, has completed basic ■
training for his army duties. He
left May 5 for Fort Dix, N. J.
Clark is a helicopter mechanic
and a door gunner.
He is scheduled to go to Viet
nam soon. He graduated from 1
Wheeler Co. High School in 1968.
DEATHS :
J. W. Sheffield - Milan
Mrs. Tommie Brown - Wheeler
County
Mrs. May S. McAllister - Hazle
hurst
Mrs. Vann Dent Culverhouse - j
Mcßae
L/Cpl. Frank C. (Abie) WU- ;
liams - Jacksonville, Fla. i
Wheeler County Eagle
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 — BOX 385
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Shown above are the two vehicles involved in a wreck
near Workmore last Thursday. Two negro men in the auto;
were killed instantly.
The huge gasoline tank (not shown) that was on the'
back of the truck was thrown completely over the wreckage.
It was reported that only a small amount of gasoline leaked
from the tank.
Two Men Lose Lives In Truck-Auto
Wreck On Mcßae-Jacksonville Road
A well known Jacksonville Ne
;gro resident and his brother of
' Fitzgerald were killed instantly
past Thursday morning at 9:30 o’-
[ clock in an automobile-truck col
| lision on Ga. 31 and U. S. 441
11.02 miles South of Mcßae near
। Workmore.
j The men were identified by the
! Georgia State Patrol as Sam
i Graham, 78, of Jacksonville, and
. Isiah Graham, 71, of Fitzgerald.
National Nursing
Home Week
To Begin May 11
Nursing homes in Georgia to
iday announce that they will par-
Iticipate actively in National Nurs
! ing Home Week being sponsored
by the American Nursing Home
Association.
In joining the program, Morris
Campbell Jr., president of the
| Georgia Nursing Home Associa
|tion, said that member nursing
| homes will begin National Nurs-
I ing Home Week on Mother’s Day
[Sunday, May 11.
The main purpose of the ob
servance is to encourage the com
-1 munity to visit the more than
700,000 aged and infirm in the
Nation’s nursing homes.
“We are joining with the 7,200
member homes of the ANHA to
make sure that not one single pa
tient is overlooked on Mother’s
Day,” said Mr. Campbell.
“We’ll all be having an open
house on Mother’s Day, because
most of the Nursing home pa
tients are women. But the men
will be visited too, of course. This
year’s theme is “A Better Life
through Community Concern.”
All of us in the nursing home pro
fession are going to get the com
munity to come in for a visit.”
“We can provide for all of the
needs of our patients but one—
we can’t show them that the com
munity cares—we cannot relieve
their feeling of remoteness from
community life unless the com
munity does care and does come
in,” he added.
Officials of the American Nurs
ing Home Association have ex
pressed the hope that two and!
one-half million people will come ;
into nursing homes on Mother's
Day. Last year it is estimated that
over two million joined in the
observance.
■! The 1966 Chevrolet driven by.
Isiah Graham is reported to have
■ skidded into the path of a large
truck owned by the Union Oil
Company of Helena, as Graham
applied the brakes when coming'
■ too close to a mobile home being
transported in the same direction.;
■ The driver of the truck was iden
tified as Little Richard Bryan,
33, of Helena. Bryant was not ser
iously injured.
Trooper C. H. Brown of the
Helena Patrol Station made the \
' investigation.
Funeral services for both men
were held Monday, May 5, at Mt.
Dolloway A. M. E. Church near
.Jacksonville with the Rev. R. W.;
Lott officiating.
Sam and Isiah Graham were ’
born in Telfair County, the sons
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam |
Graham. Sam is survived by his;
wife; one foster son and two fos
ter daughters-in-law, and five'
grandchildren. Surviving both is '
a sister, Mrs. Eula Lamar, of Fitz-.
gerald, and two brothers, Milton
Graham, of Jacksonville and Sol
omon Graham, of the Fitzgerald I
Nursing Home.
Burial was in the Graham
Cemetery with Wells Funeral
Home in charge of arangements.
Gov. Proclaims May
12-18 "Police Week"
Gov. Lester G. Maddox has pro-,
claimed May 14 as “Peace Offi
cers Memorial Day” in honor of '
the federal, state and municipal
officers who have been killed or
disabled in the line of duty, and
the week of May 12-18 as “Police
Week” in recognition of “the serv
ice given by the men and women >
who protect us through enforce
ment of our laws.’
“The police officers of America
have worked devotedly and self
lessly in behalf of the people of !
this nation, regardless of the peril
or hazard to themselves,” the gov- !
ernor said. “These officers have ;,
safeguarded the lives and prop-!
erty of their fellow Americans.
“By the enforcement of our
laws, these same officers have;’
given our country internal free-'
dom from fear of the violence and!
civil disorder that is presently
affecting other nations. Thesel
men and women, by their pa- 1
triotic service and their dedicated
efforts, have earned the gratitude;
of the Republic.”
"Keep Wheeler County Greerf
Wheeler Educational
Improvement Project
Convention Feature
The Wheeler County Education
al Improvement Project was fea
tured at the International Read
ing Association convention held
in Kansas City, Mo. on April 30
through May 3.
Mrs. Ruth A. Bond, EIP direc
; tor told the Wheeler County stofy
at one of the morning sessions.
During the session, she narrated
a slide presentation on the entire
school system.
Afterwards, Mrs. Bond and Mrs.
Evelyn Morris, reading specialist
in the county, answered questions
relative to the organization of the
; project. The areas arousing the
most interest were kindergarten,
cultural enrichment, college in
volvement, and the summer pro
gram.
; During the entire week of the
meeting, a display on Wheeler
County was on exhibit. The dis
play consisted of an enlarged EIP
emblem which proclaimed
"Wheels Are Turning In Wheel
;er”, a map showing the exact lo
cation of the county in Georgia,
large panels listing the progress
made yearly by the EIP, scrap-
' books of newspapers, clippings
and pictures, and several books
and pamphlets giving information
about the county.
Phases of the Wheeler County
I EIP was also discussed by Dr.
John Codwell, associate director
;of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools, sponsor of
the project.
Later in the week, Mrs. Bond
served on a panel which reacted
' to the entire institute and to the
individual programs.
The Wheeler County school sys
tem was the only rural system
| in the nation featured at the con
vention.
! “I feel that Wheeler County
I was honored to be asked to pre
; sent their story at such a meet
ing,” Mrs. Bond said. “And I feel
that we were able to contribute
'to other schools by offering sug
gestions concerning similar prob-
i lems of other schools.”
Mrs. Marie Causey, guidance
counselor at the Wheeler County
High School and EIP evaluator,
attended the meeting also.
Ten Georgia Power
Co. Servicemen
To Attend Clinic
Ten Georgia Power Company
appliance servicemen from this ।
and other south Georgia areas will'
attend a one-day portable appli
ance service clinic in Macon May
9.
They are D. J. Corley, Eaton-;
ton; M. E. Tharpe, Hawkinsville;
J. O. Jackson and W. O. Dunn,
Macon; C. F. Harrell, Jr., Mcßae;
B. Bradley and C. L. Parker, Mil-!
ledgeville; W A. Gammage, Per
ry; O. D. Evans, Soperton, and
D. A. Clarke, Vidalia.
The clinic will be held at
Georgia Power’s service building
on Riverside Drive. It is one of
nine planned throughout the state
this spring to provide company
servicemen with the latest skills
in servicing customer equipment.,
Those who attended a previous;
clinic are A. C. Miller, Cochran;
Charles Moore, Dublin; C. V. Mc-
Clain, Eastman; C. B. Bailey,
Gordon; W. M. Jackson, W. W.
Coleman and J. K. King, Macon;
Ed Arrington, Mcßae; W. T.
Thompson, Milledgeville; R. F.
Harris, Tennille, and J. F. Hobby,
Wrightsville.
High School Golf
Tournament Set
The state finals of the Class-C,
High School golf tournament will
be held at Little Ocmulgee State '
Park on Monday, May 12.
The winner in this state event
last year was Putnam County.
The event was held in Eatonton.
The winner of the region tour
nament held at Little Ocmulgee;
State Park last week was Strat-;
ford Academy of Macon. They fin-;
ished 2nd in the state contest last I
year and will be the favored team ;
when they play at the park Mon-j
day.
Georgia’s 1968 lamb crop is es-I
timated at 3,200 head, according i
to the State Corp Reporting Serv- j
ice.
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1969
Ga. State Campers And Hikers
Hold Convention At State Park
11 The Georgia State Association'
>; of the National Campers and
Hikers Association held their'
■!spring Campvention last Friday,'
Saturday and Sunday at Little
■ j Ocmulgee State Park, with camp- i
hers from all over Georgia, plus;
: I some from Tennessee and Flor- 1
|ida. Four hundred and 20 units,;
•Imembers and guests, registered:
1 for a total of over 1000.
5 The Georgia State Association
was started about four years ago‘
! 1 with four families. They now
>jhave 765 families, with 37 chap-'
’ | ters in the state.
‘ 1 One of the many activities en
| joyed by the campers was a:
; । “Teen Beauty Contest,” with 13 [
’ i girls participating. Miss Nancy i
'' Herndon of the Rebel Rousers:
’ i Chapter of Savannah, was select-,
1 ; ed “Teen Queen,” and will repre-;
’isent the association at the Na
’ I tional Convention that will be j
> j held at Rocks Pond Campground i
’; at Eutawville, South Carolina in
j Ju ’y- i
i A parade which was scheduled •
J ifor 4:00 p.m., Saturday got off to i
';a late start and arrived in Mc-j
| Rae about 5:00. They circled;
’; through Mcßae and Helena to the |
■delight of the large crowd of;
': people waiting to see it.
1 | On Sunday morning a dedica
| tion service and morning worship
! service was held at the park from
' 110:00 to 11:00 o’clock. A new wor-1
Lship area was dedicated with ser-1
! vices being conducted by State!
Chaplain Howard Griffin, Jr.
New officers were elected and ■
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Frank C. Williams
Killed In Vietnam
Funeral services for Marine
1 L/Cpl. Frank C. (Abie) Williams,
; 20, of Jacksonville, Fla., who died
I April 18, in South Vietnam were
held Wednesday, April 30, at 2:00
p.m., from the Springfield Baptist I
‘Church in Jacksonville, Fla., with |
a military chaplain officiating.
I Burial was in Evergreen Ceme-!
, tery, Jacksonville, Fla., with full j
military rites.
L/Cpl. Williams was a native
of Jacksonville, Ga., and had;
lived in Jacksonville, Fla., most
of his life, graduated from An-1
'drew Jackson High School there
' and was a member of Springfield '
! Baptist Church. He had been in;
Vietnam since September of 1968.;
Survivors include his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Williams of;
Jacksonville, Fla.; grandmother,.
Mrs. J. D. Lowe of Jacksonville,!
Ga.; aunts and uncles, J. D. Lowe,
Jr., of Helena, Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Lowe and Mr. and Mrs. John'.
Lowe of Jacksonville, Ga., Mr. :
iand Mrs. John E. Briley and Mr.;
and Mrs. Frank C. Lowe of Jack-;
sonville, Fla.; great uncles and I
' aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Leg- i
; gift of Mcßae, Mr. and Mrs. Frank :
; Veazey, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie;
iVeazey and Mrs. Fred Veazey of.
Broxton, and Mrs. Lucile Single-;.
ton of Blanco, Texas; and many!
; cousins from Georgia, Florida andi.
: Texas. !•
Those from Telfair County at-p
; tending the funeral were: J. D. |
;Lowe, Jr., and son Robert of Hei-1
■ena; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Leg-.;
;gitt, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yawn,;
: and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Raw-; ।
Jiins of Mcßae; Mrs. J. D. Lowe, 1
! Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lowe and;
Isons William and Gary, Mrs. I
[John Lowe, Lonnie Hudgens and !
(son Billy, and J. D. Bishop of!
I Jacksonville; and Mrs. Sonny j'
Hinson of Brunswick.
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'installed. They were, Fred and
Marian Germann of Macon, pres
ident; Forrest and Mary Cole of
'Smyrna, vice-president; Jake and
iWynelle Graham of Warner Rob
'ins, secretary; and Grady Os
| borne, Jr., of LaGrange, treas
i urer.
| The national convention, which
was mentioned earlier, will be
‘held in the middle of July in
South Carolina, and the fall camp
I out will be held the 2nd week
।in October at Magnolia Springs
State Park at Millen.
Dublin Man Is
Quilling The U.S.
Rlames High Tax
| Fred Flanders, a 64-year-old
I fourth-generation Georgia farmer,
I says taxes and farm labor are
I too high in America.
| So, he’s moving to Australia.
Flanders, of Dublin, Ga., auc
: tinned off his 800-acre seed farm,
Ishipped a few keepsakes ahead,;
I and packed the rest of his fam-1
ily’s belongings into suitcases. !
I ।
He and his wife and two chil
dren left Wednesday on their I
move to the land “down under.” j
I “It’s just getting impossible to
I make it as a farmer here (in the j
| United States),” Flanders said of |
j labor and equipment continues to i
■ climb, my crops have been get- i
I ting cheaper.
“My taxes (on his Georgia i
farm) have increased threefold j
within the past five years.”
American farmers, Flanders |
I said “cannot afford to pay their |
I helpers a decent wage. I wanted ;
' to —and tried—but the cost of ev- 1
ierything was rising while the |
I price of my crops was going I
I
' down.”
i In Australia, which he visited i
I two years ago, he said “the gov- j
i ernment seems to want to see
; farmland improved. They don’t |
I tax you when you make improve-1
I ments on your farmland. Here j
I the government taxes improve- 1
I ments you make, almost encour
| aging you to let your land and;
■ buildings erode and go to waste.”
| Mrs. Flanders said the move
|hasn’t been easy, “but it has been!
! fun.
j “We’re the trailblazers,” she ad-1
|ded. “We’re going to make the l
start and some of our friends say I
they’ll follow.”
Harry McAlum
■ls Installed As
I
Safety Chairman
Harry McAlum, a junior Ac-|
| counting major from Alamo, was;
j recently installed as Safety chair
; man for the Dorman Hall House
i Council at Georgia Southern Col-;
i lege.
I McAlum, a ’66 graduate of,
Wheeler County High School, is ■
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton l
;K. McAlum of Alamo.
Methodist Revival
Begins May 18
The Alamo United Methodist
Church announces a series of
spring revival services beginning
May 18 and continuing nightly
i through May 23. H. Edward Rob
i bins will be in charge of special
• music and congregational singing.
The pastor, Richard G. Ault-!
■ man, will be preaching each night.
A nursery will be provided each
i evening. Services will begin at
18:00 p.m. You are invited.
Pfc. Eddie Cooper
Serving In Vietnam
Army Private First Class Ed- ■
die Cooper, 19, son of Mr. and!
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Mrs. George Cooper, Route 1, Hel-
; ena, was assigned as an infantry-1
‘ man with the Americal Division
;in Vietnam, March 21.
ITS A FACT!
Beauty is a good feast for love
jbut it is a poor meal for matri
mony. I
NUMBER 5
Price Support For
1969 Peanut Crop
Set At $247.50 Ton
Price support for 1969 crop
peanuts, based on minimum nar
tional average, will be $247.50
per ton compared to $240.25 far
last year, the U. S. Department
of Agrictulture reports.
The national minimum support
level reflects 75 percent of parity
support level for the 1969 crop
compared to 77 Vi per cent parity
minimum level for the 1968 crop..
USDA’s announced minimum
support price level is based on
August 1 estimates.
The minimum price support for
, 1969, while decreasing to 75 per
. cent of partiy compared to 77%
per cent of parity last year, raises
the minimum national average
support price $7.25 per ton.
The dollar rise reflects increas
ing cost of production, and rising
living cost increase under the par
ity formula for the farmer but
pegs the minimum national aver
। age at 75 percent of a full parity
| index.
The Georgia Farm Bureau Fed-
I eration had requested the V. Si.
; Department of Agriculture to
i raise the minimum national anr
! erage support price to 80 percent
i of parity. Such a level would have
j given a 2% percent increase in.
। parity points over last year.
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Herman Voices
Optimism About
Senior Senator
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge,
;who for more than 12 years has
I worked side by side in Washing
|ton with his close friend, Sen.
; Richard B. Russell, expressed con
fidence that the Georgia senior
■ senator’s “great personal strength
j and the best available medical at
tention” will see him through his
! bout with a lung tumor.
In a statement issued from his
Capitol office, Sen. Talmadge
said that Georgia and the nation
“are stronger and more prosper
ous today because of the long and
distinguished service of Dick Rus
sell, and I wish for him many
'more years in his position of
I leadership in the United States
Senate.”
The Georgia junior senator,
whom Russell advised of his con
| dition in a phone call shortly after
'the diagnosis was made at Wal
ter Reed Army Hospital, said he
I shares the optimism of Sen. Rus
■ sell and his physicians.
Sen. Russell is now undergoing
cobalt radiation treatment for the
tumor which he said “I think it is
fair to assume it is malignant.”
'Meanwhile, the 71-year-old sena
tor now in his 36th year in the
Senate, and currently president
I pro tempore of the Senate is car
rying on his duties as usual.
Maddox Awarded
Stars And Bars
The first Order of the Stars and
Bars to be presented was award
ed recently to Gov. Lester G.
Maddox. In making the presen
tation James M. Edwards, com
mander-in-chief of the order,,
said:
“This Law and Order Award 1 to
Lester Maddox, Governor of
| Georgia, is for his dedicated serv
ice and outstanding accomplish
ments in preserving law and or
der in the country, community
or state.”
Edwards also mentioned the
governor’s work in connection
with penal reform in citing his
accomplishments. In addition to
! the certificate, the governor re
| ceived an Order of the Stars and
i Bars lapel pin.
Gov. Maddox proudly displayed,
the medal and certificate to visi
tors in his office and remarked:
“This is one of the biggest hon
ors ever bestowed upon men, and
I’m really proud of it.”
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