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VOLUME 56
Approval of Low
Income Housing
Loan Announced
Gov. Lester G. Maddox has ;
announced the approval of a
551.800 loan for the planning
of a 150-unit low and moder- J
ate income housing in Floyd
County.
The funds will be utilized
for the purpose of planning the
construction of a $2,250,000
housing project to be located
on a 100-acre tract of land ap- .
proximately two miles north
of Rome’s central business dis- ;
trict.
It is anticipated that the
rents from this housing project I
will range from S7O to $125 a
month. The project was spon
sored by Housing, Inc., a pri- |
vate organization formed for I
the purpose of planning low •
income housing.
These funds were made
available by the Appalachian
Regional Development Act
which was created to provide ;
solutions to some of the eco- |
nomic development problems 1
within the Appalachian region. ;
Total cost of the project will I
be $64,750, the $51,800 loan i
from the Appalachian Region
al Commission representing 80 i
per cent of the cost. The re
maining $12,950 will be pro
vided by Housing, Inc.
The project application was
made with the assistance of
the Atlanta office of the Fed
eral Housing Administration
and the Georgia State Plan
ning Bureau.
Governor Names
Members To New
Planning Board
Gov. Lester G. Maddox has
appointed five members to the
new Policy Board on State
Planning and Community Af
fairs. The board replaces the
State Planning Bureau in
name.
The appointees include May
or Jack Leßoy of Ailey; Ful
ton County Commissioner Jim i
Aldredge; State Sen. Frank
Coggins, attorney; Columbus
Mayor J. R. Allen, and Morton
Rolleston, owner of the Heart
of Atlanta Motel.
Created by the 1970 Georgia
General Assembly, the board
is designed to set up policy :
and direction for the state in
utilizing physical, economic ;
and human resources.
The governor serves as
chairman of the board.
Special Summer
Programs Given
At State Parks
Seven Georgia state parks
are offering special recreation
programs to summer visitors
through Sept. 8, according to
State Parks Director John L.
Gordon.
The programs include such
varied activities as evening '
campfire programs and illus
trated lectures by qualified na
turalists, and during the day
such events as softball games,
paddleboat races and the like.
In addition to these activi
ties, Vogel State Park, near
Blairsville, also offers Monday
night variety shows, Wednes- .
day night movies, and dancing
on Friday and Saturday even
ings, it was pointed out.
Other Georgia state parks
which have scheduled regular
summer recreation programs
are Black Rock Mountain near
Clayton; Elijah Clark near
Lincolnton; Hard Labor Creek
near Rutledge; Red Top Moun
tain near Cartersville; Frank
lin D. Roosevelt near Pine
Mountain, and Tugaloo near
Lavonia.
Further information about
these programs and other at
tractions in Georgia's 45 state
parks may be obtained by
writing the Georgia Denart
ment of State Parks, 270 Wash
ington St., S.W.. Atlanta, Ga.
30334.
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Union Camp Corp. Opens New Plant
Union Camp Corporation’s I
Higgston Plant received its
; first load of logs Tuesday, June
23rd. This first load came from
Montgomery County and was
: cut from the lands of Henry
McArthur. Mr. McArthur is a
prominent farmer and timber
1 grower and was one of the ear
lier landowners to begin inten
sive forestry practices.
Union Camp, a long time
member of the family of wood
using industries, is a company
which employs more than 14,-
000 people, and currently rec
ords net annual sales of very
close to a half billion dollars.
The Company’s Building Prod
ucts Division, of which the new
Higgston facility is a part, now
boasts annual sales of nearly
150 million board feet of lum-
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New York—(HK)— Passengers
flying American Airlines from
Chicago’s O’Hare International
Airport can now obtain tickets
automatically in less than a min
ute. An experimental Automatic
Ticket Vendor, developed by
IBM Corporation for a three
month test at O’Hare will take
special American Express and
Air Travel cards for the pas
senger self-ticketing.
I ber, and 130 million square
feet of southern pine plywood.
According to W. B. Geiger,
Plant Superintendent, the
Higgston facility is the latest
in a series of growth installa
tions being put on stream by
the company. The Higgston fa
cility plans to process approx
imately 35 truck loads of tree
length pine logs per day; this
timber to come from both com
pany controlled and privately
owned timberlands within a
60 to 75 mile radius of the
plant. Annual production of
the mill will be approximately
18 million board feet of lum
ber and 40,000 cords of pine
pulpwood chips. The facility
will provide employment for
approximately 40 persons.
The magnetically encoded
cerdit card is inserted into the
machine, which delivers the ticket
less than one minute after the
passenger pushes buttons indicat
ing the desired accommodations.
With 300 million passengers
expected to be flying on U.S.
scheduled airlines by 1975, such
machines could greatly reduce
ground ticketing time.
Sen. Russell Is
Given Award By
U.S. Army Assn.
Georgia’s U. S. Sen. Richard
B. Russell has been presented
the annual award of the Hub
of the South chapter of the
Association of U. S. Army. The
presentation was made at the
senator’s home in Winder.
The “inspirational award” of
the metropolitan Atlanta chap
, ter is presented each year to
a “distinguished Georgian
for his contribution to the
United States Army.”
The award, a plaque, initial
ly was to have been presented
to Sen. Russell last February
but the Georgia senior senator
was hospitalized at that time.
Walter L. Wells
Appointed To
FHA Area Post
John N. McDuffie, State Di
rector of the Farmers Home
’ Administration announces the
। appointment of Walter L.
Wells to the Telfair-Wheeler
Area FHA Committee. Mr.
Wells appointment is for three
years and he replaces Thomas
N. Haley whose term expired
। on June 30.
Mr. Wells is a native of Tel
i fair County and he has lived
for 40 years in the Jacksonville
Community where he is a
prominent farmer and merch
। ant. He is a member of the
I Blockhouse /eptist Church.
Jacksonville Lions Club, and
is a deacon in his church. He
j is married to the former Maude
j Fussell and they have one son.
Other members of the FHA
I Telfair-Wheeler Area Commit-
I tee are Clark W. Dopson of
' Mcßae, and Eugene Harris of
i Rt. 1, Glenwood.
I The Farmers Home Admin-
I istration makes farm operating
j loans, farm mortgage loans,
; rural housing loans and water
, and waste disposal loans. Mr.
| Wells will assist the other
i members of the Area Commit
i tee in determining eligibility
' for all applicants for FHA
loans. The Committee also
: helps determine the amount of
each loan and in addition per
’ forms other duties related to
the Farmers Home Adminis-
I tration program in Telfair and
' Wheeler counties.
Herman T. Langley is Coun
i ty Supervisor of the local FHA
I office and other members of
। his staff are Henry Hicks and
Mrs. Mary Gilleland.
Ga. Food Store
Disqualified From
Stamp Program
A Dublin food store has been
| disqualified from the federal
food stamp program for viola
tions, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s Food and Nutri
tion Service reports.
George Moore Gro. & Coal,
351 S. Jefferson Street in Dub
lin, owned by George C. Moore
was charged with selling in
eligible items which included
i coal, paper products, soap, wax,
shoe dye and cigarettes.
The disqualification, which
started July 3, will last six
months. The grocery store may
not accept food stamps coup
ons during the disqualification
period, according to the Food
and Nutrition Service.
An FNS regional official
here explained that food cou
pons, by law, can be used only
to buy food, excluding certain
’ imported foods.
Participating food stores a
gree in advance to abide by
the laws and regulations. Any
store that breaks the law or
regulations — and anyone who
pressures a store to do so —
weakens and endangers the
whole program, established to
■ combat hunger and malnutri
tion, Russell H. James, FNS
regional director, pointed out.
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1970 SINGLE COPY 5c
Sen. Talmadge Gives His Views
On Ending War In Vietnam
Georgia’s U. S. Sen. Herman
E. Talmadge called “so-called
amendments to end the war”
in Vietnam “misnamed and
misleading.”
The senator said the anti-
War measures have been ‘over
sold and over promoted” to the
American public as “some kind
of cure-all for the terrible and
frustrating war in Vietnam.”
He said they actually were
“little more than an exercise
in futility.”
Sen. Talmadge was princi
pal speaker in Sandy Springs
at the official dedication of the
new Northside Hospital, an
$8.5-million, 240-bed modern
facility scheduled to open July
6. It was financed through
federal Hill-Burton funds, mat
ching money from the state,
and private subscriptions.
Discussing the anti-war
amendments that the Senate
has debated for some six weeks
Sen. Talmadge declared:
“This has been a debate on
theory. I see no practical re
sult. These measures, including |
the Cooper-Church amend- I
ment, even though adopted by I
the Senate, will not by them- ।
selves end the war in Vietnam.
“There is hardly a remote
chance that they would be
passed by the House of Repre- ।
i
Special Enrollment
Examination Set By
Internal Revenue
A. C. Ross, District Director
of Internal Revenue Service
for Georgia, announced today
that the annual Special En
rollment Examination will be
conducted on September 28
and 29 in Georgia for persons
wishing to represent taxpay
ers before the Internal Reve- .
nue Service.
Forms 2587, “Application for '
1970 Special Enrollment Ex
amination,” may be obtained |
by writing District Director, I
Internal Revenue Service, 275 i
Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, I
Georgia 30303. The completed j
Form 2587 must be accompan- j
ied by a $25.00 check or money |
order made payable to the In- |
ternal Revenue Service to cov
er costs of administering the |
exam. Both the application and i
the fee must be sent to the Di- i
rector, Audit Division, Internal '
Revenue Service, Washington,
D. C. 20224 by August 31, 1970.
The 1969 examination has
been reproduced in IRS Pub- 1
lication 683, “Sample of Spec
ial Enrollment Examination.”
The publication may be ob- !
tained free of charge by writ- '
ing the District Director at the I
above address.
The specific time and location
of the examination will be an- '
nounced in this newspaper at ;
a later date.
sentatives and, even if the
House were to reverse itself,
they would sureiy ue vetoed
by the President.”
He said the anti-war move
in the Senate “has generated
false hopes and increased dis
sension” about United States
involvement in Southeast Asia.
“According to how they have
been presented to the public,
a vote against them is sup
posed to mean that you are
against ending the war and fa
vor prolonging it,” Talmadge
asserted.
“This of course, is patently
ridiculous. A vote for them, on
the other hand, is supposed to
mean that the war will come
to a statutory close because the
Senate decreed it.”
“That is how these amend
ments are construed in the
minds of many Americans who;
like most of us, are totally fed
| up with the war. But I think
a majority of the people real
ize that it is just not that sim
ple,” he said.
Sen. Talmadge reiterated his
j position that ‘if the Senate de-
I sires to bring the hostilities to
| a close, legislative action
j should come in the form of a
concurrent resolution directing
the President to bring the
troops home.”
| “This would,” he explained,
i “have the force of law, but it
I would not impinge on the
: President’s prerogatives as
i Commander-In-Chief of the
' Armed Forces. If Congress has
I the power to make war, then
it also has the power to make
peace.”
He termed this a far more
effective approach to the
problem.
“So far the attack has focus
ed on tying the President's
hands and on financially starv
: ing him out of the war,” the
| senator said. ‘So long as the
; troops are in the combat field,
' the President must not be de
i nied the ability to meet any
। military contingency that
i might arise in order to protect
them.”
Sen. Talmadge said he did
I not advocate “a policy of sur
i render.” In fact, he said, “I
Barbecue Supper
There will be a barbecue
| supper on Saturday night, July
18, at the Ocmulgee Academy
' building site.
The public is invited to at
tend. Serving will begin at 6
o’clock p.m.
Monfort-Nobles
Family Reunion
The Monfort-Nobles family
reunion will be held at thee
Little Ocmulgee State Park on
Sunday, July 19.
All members of the family
1 are urged to attend.
NUMBER 15
don't see how we can surren
der from a war we have not
been fighting. I am not cer
tain of the effectiveness of
such a move at this late date,
but I still feel that if we are
going to destroy the Commun
ist war effort, to bring the ene
my to a bona fide conference
table, then the war should be
fought on our terms with ev
ery necessary resource at our
command.”
Jimmy Carter
Pledges Swift
Use Os Troops
Gubernatorial candidate Jim
my Carter speaking in Macon
Saturday, July 11, called for
“the strictest enforcement of
discipline under the laws of
our state and nation.”
Carter told an American Le
gion gathering that as gover
nor he “will not permit our
cities to be burned or looted.
I will not permit the disrup
tion of our college campuses.’
Carter said he would not
hesitate to send “seasoned and
trained troops” to quell a dis
turbance in a community or
on a campus.
The candidate said that in
the event he had 'to declare
martial law in an area, he
would personally accompnay
the troops.
Carter said that as governor
he would encourage a patriot
ic spirit among the youth of
Georgia.
Troopers Lauded
For Their Work
During Holiday
Despite the fact that more
cars traveled more miles on
Georgia roads during the re
cent July 4th holiday weekend
than ever before, the State Pa
trol did a credible job in keep
ing down the number of acci
dents, injuries and deaths, the
record shows.
And the patrol’s three top
officials—Col. R. H. Burson,
director; Lieut. Col. L. G. Bell,
deputy director, and Maj. Por
ter Weaver, commanding offi
cer — were high in their praise
of the performance of the hard
working troopers.
Here’s how the scoreboard
read: 21 fatalities, three under
the number predicted and sev
en less than a year ago; 253
injuries, compared with 374
predicted and 305 injured last
year; 474 accidents, as against
1,276 perdicted and 835 re
corded during 1969’s July 4th
holiday week end.
The troopers, working with
out the help of some 50 patrol
men stationed at the second
annual Atlanta International
Pop Festival in Byron, issued
a total of 7,501 tickets to mo
. torists, including 3,326 arrests
and 4,175 warnings. They
worked 13,636 man hours and
patroled 242,327 miles.
Sharpe Named To
; Manage Maddox's
Lt. Gov. Campaign
' T. Malone Sharpe, Gov. Les
; ter G. Maddox’s chief of staff,
will manage the governor’s
I campaign for lieutenant gov
ernor, it was announced. Mad-
I dox said his brother, Wesley
‘ Maddox, will be his campaign
; coordinator.
Sharpe had considered ear
lier to run for the office him
self, but decided against it be
cause of a serious illness. La
ter when he had recovered
■ from the illness he decided to
j stay out of the race since-
Maddox had entered the field.
1 Sharpe’s chief of staff posi
tion is nonpaying and largely
, honorary.
DEATHS
Olin Kennedy Harrelson -
Helena
Creighton Smith - Adel