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ASC Community i
Candidates Are
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Nominated |
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All 33 candidates for ASC [
community committee posts in !
Wheeler County were nomi- '
nated by petition by eligible |
farm voters, according to a re- |
port from J. O. Perdue, Chair- |
man of the County Agricul- |
tural Stabilization and Conser- |
vation (ASC) Committee. In |
September farmers will elect |
three members and two alter- |
nates in each community to 3
serve one-year terms. Since |
there are 5 ASC communities !
in the county, a total of 25 (E
community committeemen are !
to be elected. 3
ASC community committees |
assist in carrying out Govern- ?
ment farm programs locally ‘
and help keep farmers in- (fl
formed of purposes and pro- 2
visions of these programs. (
Also, shortly after they are |
elected in September, the com
munity committeemen will }
convene to elect one member '
and two alternates to the }
County ASC Committee and !
to choose the County Commit- |
tee Chairman and Vice-Chair- |
man. |
The three-member County |
ASC Committee, assisted by |
the community committees, is |
responsible for administering |
all ASCS farm programs in |
the county. Currently in |
Wheeler County, the principal !
farm programs are Feed Grain
ACP Practices, Price Support 1
and Farm Storage Facility '
Loans for Eligible commodi- |
ties. ’
The farmers of Wheeler i
County are to be congratulat- l
ed for nominating all commun- |
ity committee candidates by |
petition instead of leaving it |
up to the incumbent commit- ‘
tees to name a slate. Nomina
tion by petition is a sure way |
for producers to get candidates |
they want on the ballot.” Mr. |
Perdue said. {
The ASC community com- |
mittee candidates nominated !
by farnf voters are as follows: |
Alamo Community— !
H. S. McNeal, Bobby Mor- ;
ris, Hollis Johnson, J. M. |
Thomas, Aaron Harville, Wal- |
ter Clark, T. H. Harden, Jr. |
Glenwood Community— t
Isaac Culver, Jr., Harper En
nis, V. D. Roberson, W. N. |
Hari, A T Clark, C. M. An
derson, Martin Wilcher. !
Landsburg Community— ’
Jack Frost, Thomas Avery, |
S. D. Nelms, James E. Brown, |
J. W. Goss, J. E. Collins. |
Shiloh Community—
J. J. Pope, W. D. Ussery, E. |
E. Elton, Harry Mitchell, Olin |
A. Bell, W. C. Pittman !
Union - Springhill Commun- |
ity—
Russell Harrelson, W. H.
Thomas, Jr., Carl Adams, O. |
C. Adams, W. C. Thomas, Es- |
chol White. |
sl-Million Plant
Starts At Gibson
A sl-million kaolin-process
ing plant is now under con
struction at the junction of
Glascock, Warren, Jefferson
and McDuffie Counties. 3
Thiele Kaolin Corporation of
Sandersville is building the
plant which will both mine !
and refine the high grade of |
clay which is mainly used for
coating high-grade paper, it |
was pointed out. f
Notice :
The First Baptist Church at !
Alamo is accepting sealed bids |
on the old pastorium building. |
This building must be removed z
to allow construction of a new !
Sanctuary. Bids must be sub- |
mitted to the following per- g
sons by August 25, 1970.
Jimmy James |
T. C. Fulford i
R. U. Bell |
Rev. R. Johnson |
19-2¢ |
Wheeler County Eagle
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS—Scenes such as this are being re-enacted daily in the Hurricane Celia
stricken coastal bend area of Texas as American Red Cross relief workers bring aid to the more ‘than
65,000 families whose homes were damaged by the worst hurricane ever to hit the Texas coast. The Red
Cross is seeking generous contributions from the American people to help meet the emergency and
long-range needs of Celia’s victims, Contributions should be sent to your local Red Cross chapter.
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Birthday Aug. 22
The nation’s oldest city, St. ‘
Augustine, Florida, will cele- ‘
brate its 405th birthday on Sat- ‘
urday, August 22, at a “Day |
in Spain” fiesta to be held in ‘
its restored area on historic
St. George St.
The birthday celebration,
scheduled to be held across }
three days, August 20 to 22, |
will be highlighted on the final
evening with the cutting of a |
huge birthday cake in the
shape of St. Augustine’s famed
Castillo de San Marcos nation
al monument, the great fort
on its bayfront, which was
never captured in its long his
tory.
The cake will be decorated
with 405 gas jets to be lighted
just prior to the cake cutting
symbolizing the city’s anniver
sary. It will be cut by a sword
presented by the Spanish gov
ernment.
The city, founded in 1565 by
Don Pedro Menendez de Av
iles, Spain, will also feature
at the fiesta its widely-known
team of sword fighters com
posed of members of the Jay
cees, sponsors of the anniver
sary celebration.
There will also be three days
of Spanish music and displays
of some 30 carnival booths
with local residents offering
foods and wares to the visitors.
Huge Structure
Ground has been broken in
Cobb County on one of the
largest international distribu
tion centers in Georgia —a
420,000 square-foot building
for the Arrow Company.
Located just off 1-20 near
Six Flags Over Georgia, the
structure will be large enough
to house nine football fields,
it was pointed out. Expected
to be completed next February,
the plant will employ 200-225
persons.
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in the mid-1970’5, will scientifically explore the Martian surface.
It's development was made possible by a powerful, automated
communications system spearheaded by a Control Data 6400
computer.
School Busing Is
Damaging To
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The Children
With another back-to-school
l movement soon to begin, U. S.
Senator Herman E. Talmadge,
in a radio report to his fellow
Georgians, made some timely
remarks on the subject of
school busing.
And the senator didn't mince
words in voicing his disapprov
al of this court-sanctioned
practice. Here are some of the
things he said:
% “School children and teach
| ers—black and white—will be
bused far from their homes
and out of their neighborhoods,
t against their will, and to the
| detriment of the fundamental
| purpose of schools in the first
l place, and that is education.
| “School children in fact are
E being made pawns in a gigan- I
tic political struggle that has
‘ become far removed from the
i 1954 Supreme Court decision
against legal segregation.”
Pointing out that “children
are being made to go to a cer
tain school because of race”
| and “are denied the right to
| attend the school of their
| choice because of race,” Sen.
| Talmadge asserted: “Yet, we
heard the Supreme Court an
nounce only last year that ‘no
person is to be effectively ex
cluded from any school be
cause of race.’ ” He added:
]. “It boggles the mind to see
| the courts and the Congress
. say that students shall not be
| assigned to or excluded from
l schools on account of race, and
then to consider the prospect
| of a virtual army of federal
agents descending upon the
! South this fall to enforce arti
| ficial desegregation . .. Equal
{ ly appalling is the damage that
‘ is being inflicted upon up
-1 rooted children and their edu
i cation.
“T would hope that some
reason would be restored in
! our educational process where |
schools will be used primarily i
! for educational purposes.” {
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SIOO,OOO Slated
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For State Park
In Coffee County
Approximately SIOO,OOO
worth of facilities will be part
of the initial development of
th new Coffee County State
Park near Douglas, it was an
nounced by State Parks Direc
tor John L. Gordon.
The first facilities to be con
structed at the 1,480-acre state
park will include a careaker's
residence, a rest station, a com
fort station, a well and water
system, picnic tables, grills,
and 25 tent camping sites with
water and electricity hookups.
Construction of these facili
ties is expected to begin in the
near future, it was pointed out.
Commenting on the future
state park, Director Gordon
said;
“We are very grateful to
Senator Frank Eldridge of the
7th District and the represen
tatives of the U. S. Bureau of
Oudoor Recreation, the City of
Douglas and Coffee County
whose cooperative efforts have
transformed the dream of a
state park in this part of Geor
gia into a reality.
“What is being accomplished
in Coffee County is an out
standing example of what city,
county, state and federal team
work can do for the people of
Georgia.”
The site of Coffee County
State Park is located five miles
west of Douglas on Route 32
and less than 50 miles east of
Interstate 75.
The area has been described
as a highly scenic and heavily
wooded region where natural
beauty is unhampered by tra
versing power lines.
U.-Ga. Summer
Commencement
About 2,400 students will re
_ ceive degrees during com
| mencement exercises Aug. 2!
' at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, execu
tive director of the National
Associaion of State Universi
ties and Land-Grant Colleges,
will address the graduates at
10:30 a.m. in the university
coliseum. Christine Elaine
Cayler of Jasper will present
the valedictory speech. Miss
Caylor, an education major,
i has a 4.13 grade point average
out of a possible 4.50.
Among degrees to be con
ferred are 105 doctors of phil
osophy, 63 doctors of educa
tion, 928 masters degrees, 188
specialists in education degrees
and 1,054 bachelor degrees.
Professional degrees include
one doctor of veterinary medi
cine, 49 bachelors of pharmacy
and five juris doctorates.
Those from Wheeler County
include, Timothy Alan Curris,
of Glenwood, ABJ degree;
Thomas Robert Hartley, BSA
degree, and Rickey Edwin
Towns, BSED degree, both of
Alamo.
The worse eye trouble is the
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1970 SINGLE COPY 5¢
New Veterans Bill Signed To
Increase Compensation Pay
The Veterans Administration
Regional Office, Atlanta, re
ported today that a bill the
President signed August 12
will increase monthly compen
sation payments for most of
two million veterans who in
curred disabilities during mil
itary service.
Assistant Director Harry W.
Piper said the eight to 12 per
cent increases will be retroac
tive to July 1.
He said veterans will receive
their regular monthly checks
for August on Sept. 1, comput
ed at the old rate. Later, in
early September, most veter
ans will receive another check
which will reflect the retro
active increases for July and
August. The following month
—on Oct. l—regular monthly
checks will include the in
creases.
Piper stresses that since the
increased payments are auto
matic, veterans need not con
tact the VA to receive them.
He said the 12 per cent in
crease goes to totally disabled
veterans, including those who
also receive additional com
pensation for such disabilities
as deafness, blindness, and the
loss of—or loss of use of—
arms and feet.
Under the new rates, com
pensation to veterans with a
100 per cent disability rating
will be raised from S4OO to
$450 a month.
Those with a 90 per cent
rating will be increased from
$226 to $250 a month; 80 per
cent disability, $2Ol to $223;
Sewerage Grant
For Georgia City
Gov. Lester G. Maddox an
nounced the approval of a
$175,000 federal grant to as
sist the City of Cartersville
with sewerage improvements.
The Appalachian Regional
Commission in Washington
made the award, supplement
ing a basic grant provided un
der the Federal Water Act of
1956, now the Federal Water
Quality Act.
Total construction cost will
be $2,615,972 with the Appa
lachian Regional Commission
funding eight per cent, the
Federal Water Quality Act
providing 30 per cent and the
City of Cartersville providing
the balance.
The project will consist of an
interceptor sewer and a pump
ing station, and will add sec
ondary treatment facilities to
an existing plant on Pettit
Creek.
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NEW YORK IS ABOUT TO BE ATTACKED by highly intelligent ape
men commanded by a gorilla general in the Twentieth Century-Fox
film, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes.”” The time: is the 22nd
Century. Strange mutants inhabiting the atom-bombed ruins of
New York are threatened by the military forces of an ape empire.
Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison (shown above) along with
James Franciscus, Maurice Evans and Kim Hunter star in this
seauel to Fox's highly successful film, “The Planet of the Apes.”
70 per cent, $174 to $193; 60
per cent, $147 to $163, and 50
per cent, $122 to $135.
(The additional allowances
for dependents of veterans
rated 50 per cent or more, also
are being increased.)
Other increases are as fol
lows: 40 per cent, SB9 to $96;
30 per cent, $65 to S7O; 20 per
cent, $43 to $46; and 10 per
cent, $23 to $25 a month.
The new law also permits
restoration to compensation
rolls the remarried widows of
veterans whose remarriages
end in death or divorce. This
provision becomes effective
next January 1.
The VARO Assistant Direc
tor said another provision,
which would affect compara
tively few veterans, would pre-
New Barracks
Os State Patrol
Is Dedicated
Dedication ceremonies for
the State Patrol's new bar
racks (Patrol Post 43) in Cal
houn were held the other day
with Gov. Lester G. Maddox
delivering the principal ad
dress.
In his remarks, the governor
who appropriately was intro
duced by Col. R. H. Burson,
director of the Georgia De
partment of Public Safety, as
a strong advocate of maintain
ing law and order, told the
gathering this:
“T've seen first-hand what a
great job our highway patrol
men are doing, all over Geor
gia, and the letters from tour
ists and local citizens alike
keep coming in to let me know
that my high regard for your
organization hasn’t been mis
placed.
“Especially in view of the
increasing civil unrest we have
experienced in recent years by
those who wage war upon so
ciety, our nation, law enforce
ment and the lives, liberty and
property of our people, the
conduct and performance of
our state patrolmen have
earned the respect and admi
ration of all Georgians . . .
Georgians owe you a great
deal, and I want you to know
that we’re proud of you.”
DEATHS
John E. Brewer . Lumber
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James D. Wilcox - Hazle
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John Barron - Rhine
NUMBER 20
sume certain illnesses of for
mer prisoners of war during
World War 11, the Koorean Con
flict, and the Vietnam era te
be service-connected for pur
poses of compensation pay
ments.
Police Should Be
Given Authority
And Weapons
“If the policeman on the
job, who is in a position ta
know, feels that he needs mace
blackjacks, shotguns or what
ever, then he should be givem
these weapons,” declared Gow.
Lester G. Maddox in a speech
to the Fraternal Order of Po
lice meeting in Tucker.
“I realize,” he said, “that a
policeman doesn’t need such
weapons for routine duties but
you never know when a rou
tine call can turn into a majar
confrontation. Policemen have
been known to be shot and
killed when issuing a routine
traffic ticket. Escaped murder
ers driving stolen cars some
times object to being given a
ticket.
“Policemen should be —they
must be — well armed with
both weapons and the authar
ity to use them.”
Gov. Maddox said that if a
policeman is threatened and
badgered to such an extent
that he is afraid to use his
weapons to apprehend crimin
als and protect himself in the
process, then he would be bet
ter off with no weapons at all.”
“If the present trend con
tinues,” Maddox asserted, “and
the pressure groups and their
politicians have their way, you
shouldn’t be surprised to see
policemen being charged with
kidnapping when they make
a lawful arrest, and others eit
ed for speeding when they give
chase to a robber.
“I'm fed up with seeing the
police officer pictured as the
villain every time he has the
guts to do the job he’s hired
to do.”
The governor said that “the
only way we are ever geoing
to stop the spiraling crime rate
that is destroying this coumtry
is to stop the criminals who are
committing these crimes. And
the only way we are going to
stop the criminals is to give
the law enforcement officer
the means and the authority
to do his job.”
Gov. Maddox concluded his
remarks with this warning te
the public:
“If the American people do
not get behind the law en
forcement officer and give him
the support and encourage
ment he needs, then we ean
just kiss this country goodbye:
No countiry can last witheut
law and order. And you can’t
have law and order without
effective and efficient law en
forcement agencies and offi
cers.”
“As far as I'm concerned,”
he added, ‘“there is no group
of men anywhere more loyal,
patriotic, hard-working and
dedicated than our men in
blue, and I stand with them
100 per cent.”
2 Ga. Professors
Seek Fort Site
In Bibb County
Two University of Georgia
professors are seeking the ex
act location of a 19th Century
Army fort near Macon so that
it may be resored as a tourist
and educational center.
Dr. Louis DeVorsey and Dr.
John Waters said the fort was
called Fort Hawkins and was
used during the Creek Indian
War and the War of 1812. They
are using old maps in their
effort to determine its loca
tion. .