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VOLUME 55
Wheeler School
System Rated
As Standard
For the second year, the
Wheeler County School system
and each of the three schools in
the county have been pronounced
standard by the State Board of]
Education, This system is one of
the 30 systems in Georgia to have
all schools standard.
Os the 30 systems, 12 are in
dependent systems which can us
ually meet the standard require
ment easier.
There are three categories for
meeting standard requirements—
required, essential, and desirable.
The required criteria are a pre
requisite for standardization.
Some items are considered es
sential but it is not necessary to
have all of these to be classified
as standard. Then there are the
desirable items for which there'
are no minimum requirements but
the standards include such items;
in an effort to up-grade all
schools.
There are some sections of the
standard criteria that is not ap-'
plicable to this system such as,
system with 10,000 ADA (average
daily attendance) must meet cer
tain standards.
Under the section governing the
school system, the eight stand
ards are Board of Education, su
perintendent, specialized services,
school maintenance, pupil trans
portation, fiscal policies, school
food services, and exceptional 1
children services.
Os the possible score of 130, the;
system scored 100 points. All of ;
the 16 required items listed are;
met and the system has 30 essen-;
tial items where only 13 are re
quired. There are 54 desirable;
items provided.
At the Glenwood Elementary'
School, 165 items were met out I
of a possible 191. There are 39
items required and provided.
There are 27 items listed as es
sential and the school has 48.
There are 78 desirable items pro-j
vided.
The Wheeler County High,
School scored 188 of a possible
207 points. There are 43 stand
ards required and met; 33 essen
tial and 57 met; and 88 desirable,
items provided.
At the Wheeler County Train
ing School, the score was 43
items required and 43 met; 33
essential and 53 met; and 77 de
sirable items provided. The school
scored 188 of a possible 216 points.;
The State Board of Education
has the responsibility of estab
lishing and enforcing minimum
standards for the operation of all
public schools in Georgia.
Superintendent Jack P. Nix
said this detailed information'
should prove to be of great value
in improving the schools of Geor
gia.
Bookmobile Schedule
Katherine W. Gray Bookmobile
June 2—Alamo Baptist Church
9:15-10:30: Glenwood Baptist
Church 11:00-12:30.
James M. Yawn
At Chanute AFB
Airman James M. Yawn, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Yawn,
Rt. 1, Rhine, has completed ba
sic training at Lackland AFB,
Tex. He has been assigned to Cha
nute AFB, 111., for training in the
flight training equipment field.
Airman Yawn, a 1964 gradu
ate of Telfair County High School
in Mcßae, received his B.S. de
gree in 1968 from the University
of Georgia.
Notice To
Residents Os Alamo
Due to the increase in expenses
incurred in the operation of the
City Sanitation Department, it
has become necessary to assess a
garbage charge of SI.OO per month
for each person and business
place that uses this service. This
fee will be included on your wa
ter card beginning next month
and will be paid along with your
water bill at the City Hall.
Respectfully. ।
Mayor & Council of Alamo. Ga.
Date —May 5, 1969
Wheeler County Eagle
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 — BOX 385
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Mcßae Catholic Church Dedication
And Open House Sunday, June 1
The congregation of the Mcßae
Catholic Church announces the
] dedication of its church and par
sonage on Sunday. June Ist. An
i Open House will be held from
3:00 until 5:00 in the afternoon
' during which tours of the build
ing will be given and refresh
ments will be served.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. The congregation looks
forward to welcoming its many
friends from the community and
surrounding countryside and
towns. No other invitation are
being sent locally.
The formal dedication of the
building will take place in the
. morning at 11:00 a.m. with Bishop ]
■ Gerard L. Frey of Savannah of
ficiating. A dedication dinner will'
Soil Conservation
Service Report
Soil Conservation Service per- ;
•sonnel assisted nearly 75,000
Georgians in the planning and ap-
I plication of soil and water con
servation plans last year, accord
ing to the SCS Annual Report
’released by Cecil W. Chapman,
' State Conservationist, Athens.
The report, “Changing Face of
■The Land,” highlights soil and
water conservation accomplish
ments in Georgia.
More than 105,000 land owners:
land operators cooperating with
Georgia’s 27 soil and water con- 1
I servation Districts are developing ■
and carrying out conservation
programs.
“These people understand that
the future quality of the living
: environment in America depends ■
; largely on the actions they take ;
>on their own land today and,
what’s more important, they’re
’doing something about it,” Chap-:
man said.
“We're helping them wage the
■ conservation battle in the coun-.
tryside and at the edge of cities (
: because that’s where you find ‘,
' most of the land, water, and oth
; er natural resources. We're happy ;.
Ito have helped Georgians liter
ally change the face of the land
through the application of suit
able conservation practices,” he
said.
Conservation practices applied
last year by land owners with
SCS assistance include conserva- (
tion cropping systems — 305.000
acres; contour cultivation — 138,-
000 acres; pasture and hay plant
ing—94,ooo acres; woodland man
agement-349,000 acres; terraces .
:—783 miles; and tile drainage— ,
258 miles.
Hospital Patients
The following patients were ad- j'
mitted to the Telfair County Hos
pital last week: Anne McCranie, |
John J. Yawn, and Lollie Pitts of! ;
Chauncey; Mattie Stanley, Alvin ■’
Lewis, and Lillie Moon of Milan;
Josie Mae Lampkin, Crystal, (
Horne, and Edna Primm of East-! (
man.
Jessie Thompson, and Mary;'
Wesley of Helena; Willie Cooper,;’
W. T. Hulett, Chris Spires, and; ;
Ida Williams, of Mcßae; Barbara]’
Lawrence, Juanita Mathis and;
Lonnie M. Achord, of Alamo; Gailj
B. Ryles of Baxley.
Donna Jean Miller of Cochran;]
Velma Troupe, Tommy Purvis!
and Nonie B. Ryals of Rt. 1, Hei-I
ena: Jed Dopson of Jacksonville: j
Joann Lamb of Mt. Vernon; Reg- j
ina Towns of Towns; Ollie Mae
iWasdin and Virta Wood of Hazle-j
hurst: L. L. Dennis of Rhine, and ;
Leila Tomberlin of Mcßae Manor, ’
follow the ceremony and will be'
held at the Plantation Restaurant I
at 1:15 p.m.
Extensive remodeling has been •
done to the thirty-year-old resi-I
dence purchased by the congre- 1
gation from Mrs. William Booker,'
former resident of Mcßae. Two j
; full-time church workers, Brother ‘
Lawrence Jochim and Brother
Ralph Reihle, did the repairs and ’
construction work during the i
months of January and February '
this year. Come and give your ap-;
praisal of the completed product.,
Vacation Bible School
Alamo Baptist Church
ATTENTION! If you are be-;
tween the age of three and six-]
teen years, you are cordially in- •
; vited by the Alamo Baptist
] Church to begin your summer va- ;
; cation in a wonderful way by at- i
tending our annual Vacation Bi
ble School.
Preparation Day for the school
will be held this coming Satur
day, May 31 from 9:00 to 12:00
A.M. A parade and picnic will be
held for all present on this day.
The week of the School is June
'2-6 from 8:30 to 11:30 A.M. This
will be a week of worship, Bible
1 study, mission emphasis, hand
] work, and recreation.
There will be a parent’s night
on June 6 at 8:30 P.M. All parents
are invited to attend.
Moose Sponsor
Benefit Supper i
The Georgia Moose Association, ■
having heard of the plight of ;
SUE STANLEY, a resident of i
Eastman, has rallied its forces to;
help raise the money necessary '
for hospital bills, etc.
Kent A. Youmans, Vice Presi-!
dent of the Georgia Moose As-,
sociation, who is currenly assist-;
ing the people of Eastman to ob
tain a charter for a Moose Lodge]
has informed this paper of the
following facts:
Eastman Moose members have’
joined together in an effort that,
above all else, shows the frater
nal spirit of Moose everywhere.
Each member has volunteered to ]
cook and donate food and sell
advance tickets for a benefit sup
per for the SUE STANLEY
FUND.
Moose members from all over
the state will be attending, as
well as many dignitaries. This
program has statewide coverage
by newspaper and radio and will:
be included in the Loyal Order of
Moose “Get Acquainted” radio
program. The supper will be held
from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Friday,
May 30, at the high school cafe
teria immediately followed by
short talks on civic affairs and
community service by Congress
man W. S. “Bill” Stuckey, E. E.
Crumbley, State Civic Affairs
Chairman, and Wallace McNair,
President, Georgia Moose Associ
ation.
Advance tickets are now on ;
sale by Moose members and a rec- ’
ord turnout is expected.
DEATHS
William Bruce Conner - Ml.
Vernon
James Richard Thomas - Glen
wood
Mrs. Ruth Thompson Crafton -;
Cross City, Fla.
Milton Carter - Rochelle
Jay Hampton Beck - Sanford, j
Fla.
Speed-Up In Welfare
Check Issuance Is
Announced By Burson
A sweeping modernization of.
Georgia's welfare check issuance'
: system which will get first wel
ifare checks to eligible citizens’
within one week of their approval
: for benefits has been announced
:by State Welfare Director Bill
Burson.
I The streamlined system will go ]
into effect July 1 and represents!
the implementation of a six- '
; month management study under-'
] taken jointly by the Divisions of
Business and Social Administra-
] tion of the State Department of;
: Family and Children Services. It
] marks the first time in the agen-
I cy's 32-year history that modern
business methods have been ap
plied to welfare benefits pay-
] ment procedures.
; Under the Department’s current j
methods checks are mailed on a ;
: staggered basis over a 20-day per- ]
! iod of each month and new re-1
'cipients whose papers are re-j
; ceived in the State Offices after j
jthe deadlines for their alphabets j
;cal sequences must wait until the I
following month to receive their]
! checks. Under the new system i
first checks will be mailed within I
] one week after receipt of approv
’ al forms from the County Depart
ments and all subsequent checks
will be dispatched at one time on
jthe first day of each month.
J “Persons and families applying ]
; for public assistance need money ,
! immediately upon approval and,
। then they need help in solving the
I problems that caused their need
■ for money in the first place,” Bur
' son stated. “Our new Improved
i Benefits Issuance System (IBIS)
- has been designed to answer crit
ical money needs and, at the same
time, to free welfare caseworkers’
I time for social services to solve
problems.”
IBIS is based upon maximum
utilization of electronic data pro
cessing technique to assure es
-1
ficiency and economy of opera
tion by eliminating manual paper- j
handling operations and duplica-1
tion of control functions. A total ■
of 20 forms will be eliminated by |
the new system and employees at;
] both State and County levels will ]
be freed to spend more time on j
■ welfare services.
“This system marks the begin- j
i ning of the end of paper-shuffling
! in welfare,” the State Director ex
i plained. “We have spent too much
| time tied down by bureaucratic
j red tape and, as a result, we have
: given more attention to filling out
i forms than to helping clients be- i
come self-sufficient.
“I believe welfare recipients I
j will welcome this change which
will get their money to them
: faster and I am confident County
; Commissioners will approve of it j
i because, by paying State wel- j
• fare checks with greater speed, |
, the demand for county-paid gen- i
1 era! assistance on the local level
will be greatly reduced.”
! The Improved Benefits Issuance
: System was developed by the De
; partment’s Program Management
: Officer, Dick Bridges, and per
’ fected by a Departmental Task
Force headed by Deputy Director
Phil Cawthon.
“This certainly should disprove!
what some have said about wel- ]
fare people not being innovative 1
and progressive,” Burson said.
“It makes me very proud to be ’
associated with such brilliant and j
dedicated people. This is just the;
beginning of the face-lifting we
, intend to give this Department to ;
get it out of the Dark Ages and
into the 21st Century.”
During the month of May the.
Department mailed 165,248 checks
totaling $10,538,204 to 282,311
needy Georgians, including 90,- 1
318 aged who are too old to work, ]
3,199 who are blind, 30,774 who.
i are too disabled to work and 36,-
973 parents and caretakers of
121,047 dependent children who
are too young to work.
Pfc. Ernest Cobb
Serving In Vietnam
’ Army Private First Class Er
nest E. Cobb, 18, son of Mr. and
i Mrs. Clarence Cobb, Helena, was
] assigned to the Americal Divis-
I ion in Vietnam April 28 as a gun
i ner.
I !
ITS'S A FACT!
It takes a long time to feather
a nest on a wild goose chase.
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1969
Surtax Did Not Curb Inflation
Senator Herman Talmadge Says
; As chairman of the Joint Eco-
L nomic Committee’s Subcommittee
I ! on Economic Statistics, U. S. Sen.
‘ ( Herman E. Talmadge opened
I hearings in Washington on the
)] statistics of inflation and job va
; i cancies with pertinent remarks
- i regarding both items on the
■ i agenda. Said he:
'j “The galloping inflation that
• | grips our economy has created a
'; national problem that could be
l come a national crisis. The 5.1
■; per cent rate of inflation we ex
-11 perienced during the past year
- ] has robbed the American consum
-j er of much of his purchasing
power.
. j “To the family who must buy
i; a home and pay 8 per cent inter
-iest, to the couple who can no
■ ] longer afford to dine out occas
- j ionally, to the housewife who
Thomas J. Owens
To Receive Award
. I
t j Thomas J. Owens of Glenwood,
. I will receive the Distinguished
Achievement Award in Medical
. Technology, a national honor be
, stowed by the American Medical
Technologists, at the society's
, 31st Annual Convention, July 7-12
Jin Atlanta.
11 Mr. Owens was named recipient
■ of the award because of his out-
I standing contribution to his state
society and the profession of
I medical technology.
i The Distinguished Achievement
■ Award is granted annually to only
: 20 members of the American
Medical Technologists, a national
: registry of medical laboratory
j technologists with membership in
i excess of 10,000. Home office of
- the organization is Park Ridge,
- Illinois.
• ] Presentation will be made to
■ Mr. Owens at the Awards Ban-
■! quet, social highlight of the scien
litific gathering featuring lectures,
I workshops and exhibits.
; Mr. Owens is presently Wheel
. ier County Hospital administrator,
jHe has previously held positions
(as laboratory director, and admin
i istrator for Clyde Duncan Memo
rial Hospital, Hazlehurst, and Lib-;
erty Memorial Hospital, Hines-'
ville.
i
Dottie Clark Wins
i Award At Honors
]Day Program
Forty-six Berry College stu
dents from nine states, including
16 from the Rome area, shared in
I scholastic awards, prizes and;
! plaques presented Wednesday, i
jMay 21 during the first of two’
! Honors Day programs held in the j
Berry College Chapel.
Recognition also was given dur-;
ing the program to Dr. John R.
Bertrand, president of Berry Col- ’
lege, as Faculty-Staff Member of
the Year. Dr. Bertrand was cho
sen by a secret majority vote of I
I the entire student body in the;
j YMCA-YWCA and student gov
i ernment sponsored election.
Other award and honor winners!
'named at the Honors Day pro-:
■gram included: the Buckhead;
; (Ga.) Business and Professional l
Women’s Club Awards, to Dottie.
] Clark, a senior from Alamo, Ga., j
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eschol
]L. Clark, Rt. 1, Alamo; to Janet;
Pettyjohn, a junior from Sum-]
i merville, Ga. and to Janice Vann, |
a senior from Trenton, Ga.
Scholarships for academic
’achievement were presented;
Wednesday, May 28 to conclude;
] the Honors Day programs for the 1
1968-69 academic year at Berry. ;
KITCHEN SAFETY
Faulty equipment can be the
cause of an accident. Miss Annette
I Ray, home economist with the ■
; University of Georgia Cooperative
’ Extension Service, suggests that
]you check kitchen appliances for
frayed electrical cords or unusual
! sounds. Give careful attention to
i suggestions in the maintenance
: manual.
• Georgia’s 1968 lamb crop is es-;
' timated at 3,200 head, according;
to the State Corp Reporting Serv
ice. 1
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■ finds that she must work harder
! to stretch her food dollar, infla
. tion is not just something you
I read about in the daily news
■, paper. It is a harsh reality.
“Most distressing is the fact
; that the anti-inflationary mea
: sures taken during the past yeai
seem to have had no effect. The
: American taxpayer was told that
i the 10 per cent tax surcharge was
necessary to stem the tide of in
flation.
“Now, almost a year later, he
■ finds that inflation is worse than
■ ever. During the first quarter of
; 1969, prices rose 1.5 per cent. In
March, prices rose at an annual
1 rate of 9.6 per cent.”
Regarding the second item
> concerning his committee — job
■ vacancies— Sen. Talmadge said ]
> that “although the rate of un-;
employment is currently only 3.5,
per cent of the labor force, 2,540,- j
000 people are out of work.”
j “I believe,” he continued, “that;
| a nation-wide program for the;
' regular collection of job vacancy ]
I data would assist these 2.5-mil-1
11 lion to get jobs, and would make;
’ our rate of unemployment even ’
I lower.
' “While some people are unable j
' to find jobs, many industries com- 1
plain of chronic shortages of
. workers. ... I feel that the gov
ernment must do a better job of!
1 matching job seeks with job va-!
: cancies.”
Gary Coleman
1 Awarded Scholarship
To Cons. Workshop
J Gary Coleman has been award
ed a scholarship to the Bth An
’ nual Natural Resoruces Conser
j vation Workshop to be held at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
! College in Tifton, the week of
' 'June 8-13, 1969.
J “The scholarship is being spon-;
] sored by the Ohoopee River Soil’
i and Water Conservation District,”:
. isays Jimmy James, Soil Conser-i
■ vation Service District Conser- 1
vationist in Wheeler County. L. I
•B. Chambers of Glenwood is the:
I local supervisor for the District.
According to James, the work-1
| shop will provide a week-long;
j study of Georgia’s natural re- 1
i sources and how they can best
! be managed. It will include class-!
jroom lectures and field trips tol
; observe conservation work. Work
! shop subjects will include land
judging, soil and water consera-!
tion planning and application,
wildlife habitat development, and
; forestry improvement.
A new workshop feature this
year will be a trip to the Okefe-;
nokee Swamp near Waycross.
This swamp is well known na- J
; tionally for its wide variety of 1
; plants and wildlife.
The workshop is conducted an -!
nually by the Georgia Chapter of ;
the Soil Conservation Society of
America and the Georgia Asso
ciation of Soil and Water Con
; servation District Supervisors. It
■ has been awarded several national!
। honors for its excellent conserva- ‘
! tion teaching.
Sam Dunaway, District Conser- ’
vationist with the Soil Conserva
tion Service in Winder, is the
■ workshop director. He has served
'in this capacity for most of the
! eight years the workshop has
ibeen operating.
Instructors and counselors are
] provided by the Soil Conservation
; Service, Georgia Forestry Com
; mission, Georgia Game and Fish
; Commission, Agricultural Re
search Service, and other cooper
ating agricultural agencies.
! Gary Coleman is an outstand- .
ling student at Wheeler County
; High School. Her is the son of ;
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Coleman of
Rt. 2, Glenwood.
Other boys from Wheeler Coun
ty who have attended the work
'shop in the past are: Tim Grimes,
Wayne Johnson and Larry Tan- ;
ner.
More than 1,100 selected high <
school boys have graduated from
; this workshop since it was first ’;
; held in 1962. Director Dunaway j
] says, “More than 200 boys will ]
; attend the workshop this year. I ] i
; look for this to be the best work-1
jshop that we have initiated.” J
NUMBER 8
•;
Traffic Wrecks
Kill People In
(Wholesale Way
■ i
Traffic accidents are responsi
’ | ble for killing people on Geor
jgia’s highways in a wholesale
: way.
, Proof of this is shown in a Stat® 1
■ Patrol statistical report released
1 by Col. R. H. Burson, director of
।! the Georgia Department of Pub-
! lie Safety.
, i For example, multiple-death;
11 accidents (wrecks in which two l
or more persons are killed in a
; single accident) claimed the lives
>, of 495 persons in 198 accidents
] during 1968. This represented
i 27.9 per cent of Georgia’s traffic
'death toll last year.
Eight accidents caused the
! death of five persons in each mis
hap—a total of 40 fatalities.
In 17 crashes, four persons lost
’ their lives in each—a total of 68.
In 41 other accidents, three fa
! talities resulted in each one—a
'total of 123 victims.
There were 132 accidents in
which two persons had their lives
snuffed out in each—a total of
! 264 deaths.
This violent type of accident
] that liquidates two or more per
isons in a single crash was large
; ly responsible for bringing Geor-
> I gia’s 1968 traffic death toll to a
: record high of 1,780.
“This is wholesale slaughter of
; human lives and there is no jus
tification for it,” declared Col.
, Burson. “Speeding, which resinite
, in head-on collisions, running off
। j the road and other explosive
■ ’ crashes, is a leading cause of these
: tragic accidents.
i “One of the saddest aspects of
| this situation is the fact that:
many of these people involved are
’the innocent victims of a rash act.
jon the part of a thoughtless, foo
lhardy driver. Until the individ
; ual driver makes up his mond to.
| obey all of our traffic laws, and
| to drive carefully and sensibly at
all times, these needless killings:
’ will continue.
“We of the State Patrol wiH!
i continue to do all within oar
: power and resources to prevent it,,
but in the final analysis it is up
to the drivers themselves to real-
. ly stop ft. We implore them to de:
that—and do it now.”
More Arrests Os
Ga. Traffic Law
Violators Noted
State patrolmen made 2,665
more arrests for traffic law vio-
! lations in Georgia during 1969’s
first quarter than in the same
period last year. The total was
31,625, an increase of nine per
cent.
This increased State Patrol ac
tivity was revealed in the Acci
‘dent Reporting Division’s 3-
month report released by Col. R.
H. Burson, director of the Geor
gia Department of Public Safety.
During the period a total of '
20,321 patrols (up 11 per cent)
spent a total 163,495 hours (up
14 per cent) patrolling 4,079,014
miles (up 29 per cent). Total
hours spent on investigations:
showed a 16 per cent increase.
The patrol’s increased enforce
ment activity likewise was re
flected in court action. For in
stance, of the 32,500 cases dis
posed of in the courts, which was:
an increase of 13 per cent, 28, HZ
resulted in convictions, also a 13;
per cent increase.
Powell Sing
The annual Powell School
House singing convention will be
held Sunday, June 1. The school
house is located nine miles west
of Lumber City.
Singing will begin at 10:30 a.m.
and lunch will be served.
Frank White, President
IT’S A FACT!
If you race a train to a cross
ing and it’s a tie, you lose.