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VOLUME 56
Ag. Comm. Irvin
Halts Operation Os
Two Meat Plants
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin today announced
the suspension of operations at
two Georgia meat processing
companies.
Inspection has been suspended
at McLemore’s Abattoir in
Vidalia due to unsatisfactory
operational sanitary procedures,
sewage waste disposal system,
insect and vermin control, con
demned inedible and restricted
material control.
In addition, Williams Meat
Company of Dearing has had a
suspension placed on operations
due to the owners refusal of
cooperation and his further
ordering local inspectors to leave
his plant. Williams Meat
Company recently passed a Fed
eral survey meeting operational
requirements.
Operations and inspections at
the two plants will be resumed
as soon as requirements of the
Georgia Wholesome Meat Act
are met.
Commissioner Irvin said in
announcing the closing of the
two plants that he is determined,
through the authority of the
Wholesome Meat Act, that all
meat sold within the boundaries
of this state will be wholesome
and will be processed under the
Department of Agriculture’s
stringent sanitary' requirements.
Sunday School
Workers To See
Lombardi Film
A Vince Lombardi film will
be a feature of “Sunday School
’7l” at Rock Eagle 4-H Club
Center, Nov. 20-21.
Featured speaker for the con
ference will be Dr. James E.
Coggin, pastor, Travis Avenue
Baptist Church, Fort Worth.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Sunday School Department
of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention.
Dr. Julian T. Pipkin, depart
ment secretary, said the motion
picture emphasizes motivational
training with which the late pro
football coach developed his win
ning teams.
Dr. Pipkin thinks the same
determination and drive which
produce a winning athletic team
will bring positive results in
building a strong Sunday School ,
in a local church.
In a discussion period, prin
ciples from the Lombardi film
will be applied to Sunday School.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND. Md (PRN) - 2nd Lt. G.
Elliott Hagan. Jr., Ordnance Corps, U. S. Army, has completed
the Mechanical Maintenance Officers Course at Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland, and will leave this month for
Heilbronn, Germany, where he has been assigned to the 572nd
Heavy Equipment Maintenance Company. The son of
Congressman and Mrs. G. Elliott Hagan of Sylvania, Georgia, Lt.
Hagan is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he
received his commission in the Reserve Officers Training Corps
program. He is married to the former Pamella Jane Norman of
Dover, Georgia. Mrs. Hagan will accompany Lt. Hagan to
Germany.
Wheeler County Eagle
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BEAUTIFICATION THROUGH CONSERVATION
Local leaders in the Beautification Through Conservation contest, from left to right, Jimmy
James, Mrs. Jimmy James, L. B. Chambers, Wade Hartley, Mrs. Wade Hartley, Mrs. T. A. Morrison
and Mrs. Preston Lake.
When a panel of Beautification
Through Conservation judges
toured Wheeler County recently
to see how this county measured
up in comparison to the four
other counties competing there
were many' things that could not
be shown. They were the ugly
things that had been eleminated
by the people of the county.
The contest is sponsored by
the Georgia Electric Member
ship Cooperatives and the
Georgia Association of Conser
vation District Supervisors in
each of the conservation regions
in Georgia.
Wheeler is the smallest of the
five counties competing for the
state’s top honor in the contest.
And, while the competitive spirit
between Alamo and Glenwood
borders on fiery rivalry, the
attitude of the people about beau
tification and conservation has
been of one accord.
So it is that - win or lose
the people have achieved a cer
tain amount of satisfaction from
working together toward a com
mon goal. And, when the activi
ties were being compiled in a
Wheeler Co. Eagle
To Be Published
Early Next Week
The Wheeler County Eagle will
be published on Wednesday of
next week because of Thanks
giving holidays.
Anyone having news or adver
tising, please deliver tothe editor
by 9:00 a.m. Monday, November
23.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
scrapbook as part of the contest,
it was dis covered that many more
people had been involved than
anyone realized. Some of the
people involved were clubs,
schools, governmental agencies
and individuals.
The judge’s tour included pri
vate homes and enterprises, pub
lic facilities and schools. The
tour gave the judges a view of
landscaping done on city and
county property through the joint
efforts of these agencies and
local garden clubs. Trees were
given out and planted not only
Macon Arts Council’s
Christmas Present
To The Community
The Macon Arts Council will
sponsor a Sunday afternoon con
cert December 6th. The perfor
mance will begin at 2 p.m. and
there will be no admission char
ges. This free concert is the
Arts Council’s Christmas pres
ent to the Macon and Middle
Georgia Community for its past
and continuing support of The
Grand Opera House.
The concert will feature The
Atlanta String Quartet consisting
of four members of the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra.
The Atlanta String Quartet is
a truly unique ensemble in its
fortunate blend of similar age
(ranging from twenty-four to
twenty-seven), artistic dedi
cation, excellent training, and
extensive individual experience
with chamber music.
Beginning with a full series
of concerts at the Atlanta Mem
orial Arts Center and tour con
certs through the Southeastern
United States during the 1970-71
season (under a grant from the
National Endowment for the
Arts), the Atlanta String Quartet
is dedicated to fullfilling the
prediction of Robert Shaw, who
has called this group “The next
great American String Quartet.”
Dress is informal. For ad
ditional information, call the Box
Office at (912 ) 745-7925.
Natural Gas Powers Car
To New Speed Record
Atlanta (PRN) — A new
world land speed record was
set on the salt flats at
Bonneville, Utah recently by a
rocket-propelled vehicle,
dubbed The Blue Flame,
which streaked to 622.407
m.p.h.
With his record shattering
run, driver Gary Gabelich, 30,
of Long Beach, Calif., topped
the previous land record by
over 21 m.p.h. The record had
been held since 1965 by Craig
Breedlove who drove the
Spirit of America to 600.601
m.p.h.
Sponsored by the natural
gas industry, including Atlanta
Gas Light Company, The Blue
Flame was designed and
constructed for the Institute
of Gas Technology in Chicago
by Reaction Dynamics, Inc.,
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The vehicle took two years
to build at a total project cost
of some $500,000. It measures
for beauty but as an experiment
to see how they fared in this
locale.
They saw some of the ponds
which have pushed Wheeler to
an all-time high in pond con
struction. These ponds are being
used for a variety of purposes
such as irrigation, fishing - both
general and specifically for cat
fish, - watering of livestock and
wild life, flood control, etc.
The vegetation of 75 miles of
eroded roadsides was included
in the tour as was some examples
of the 140,000 feetof newparallel
terracing in the county.
Glenwood’s new sewer system
currently being installed and the
addition to the Wheeler County
Hospital at Glenwood were high
lights of the tour.
Many' businesses in the county
showed areas of progress and
several churches have been or
are in the process of building
programs.
Wheeler is competing against
Cherokee, Barrow, Lanier and
Morgan Counties in the contest.
The judges are Heyward Gay
erf GEMC, George Martin of
GAUDS, and Robert Dertel, of
the Soil Conservation Service.
The winning county will be
announced at the GACD annual
meeting in Savannah, on Dec. 7,
by Walter Harrison, president
of GEMC. At the same time he
will present the winning county
with SSOO made available by the
41 Electric Membership Co
operatives in Georgia.
MOST IN THE NATION
Georgia has the largest
number of 4-H Club members
in the nation. State 4-H leaders
report that there are 158,227
boys and girls enrolled in 2,636
organized 4-H Clubs in the
state.
LEARN BY DOING
Georgia 4-H Club members
enrol led i n 360,995
learn-by-doing projects and
activities last year. These
projects were valued at more
than $lO million.
38-feet, 2.6 inches in length
and eight feet, 1.5 inches from
the ground to the top of the
tail fin. Its total weight,
without fuel, is 6,500 pounds.
The engine used to power
The Blue Flame to the new
record - similar in design to
the one used to land men on
the moon - uses liquefied
natural gas (LNG) and
hydrogen peroxide as
propellants.
LNG is a very cold form of
natural gas, the same gas used
in thousands of Georgia homes
for heating, cooking and
clothes drying. The gas is
liquefied by reducing its
temperature to minus 258
degrees Fahrenheit.
N atural gas produces
virtually no pollution when it
burns and is now being used,
on an experimental basis, to
power passenger vehicles. It is
also being considered as an
aircraft fuel.
FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1970
State Patrol Predicts forty Highway
Deaths Over Thanksgiving Holidays
“40 KILLED, 561 INJURED
IN 1,914 AUTO WRECKS!’’
That well could be the grim
Monday morning headline in
Georgia newspapers following
this year’s Thanksgiving holiday
week end. And it likely will be
for this is the State Patrol’s
prediction for the 102-hour
period from 6 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 25, through Sunday mid
night, Nov. 29.
“Our prediction of 1,914 traffic
accidents which will claim the
lives of 40 persons and cause
injury to 561 others is based
on past Thanksgiving holiday ex
periences and present trends,”
explained Col. R. H. Burson,
director of the Georgia Depart
ment of Public Safety.
“It is simply a projection of
statistics which, unfortunately,
are usually pretty accurate. But
this doesn’t necessarily have to
Baptists Oppose
Pornography Report
The Public Affairs Committee
of the Georgia Baptist Conven
tion has written to President
Nixon expressing opposition to
the proposals of the President’s
Commission on Pornography and
Obsenity.
The Baptist committee has
asked Mr. Nixon to reject the
Commission’s recommendations
and to appoint another commis
sion to prepare a report “more
,in keeping with our Country’s
historic commitment to morality
and decency.”
The Commission’s proposals
would remove all restrictions
on sales of pornographic
materials to adults.
Expressing agreement with the
opinions of the three dissenting
members of the President’s
Commission, the Baptist public
affairs committee said, “It is
our conviction that the found
ations upon which the Nation
was established would be
seriously threatened should the
recommendations of the Presi
dent’s Commission on Pomo
grapliy and Obsenity be adopted.”
Members of the Baptist com
mittee include Dr.R. J. Robinson,
pastor, First Baptist Church,
Augusta, and chairman of the
convention’s executive commit
tee; Dr. Monroe F. Swilley, Jr.,
president, Atlanta Baptist Col
lege; Dr. J.RobertSmith,pastor,
First Baptist Church, States
boro; Thomas Frier, Douglas;
Dr. Allen B. Cornish, pastor,
Waldrop Memorial Ba<'* io + <’h r
ch, Columbus; Dr. S.
Garrison, Atlanta, .ne
tion’s executive secretary
treasurer; Dr. Walter L. Moore,
Cedartown, convention president;
and Jack U. Harwell, Atlanta,
editor of the Baptist journal,
The Christian Index.
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The needle-nosed, natural gas-powered vehicle, The Blue Flame, streaked to a new world land e
' speed record recently on the Utah salt flats near Bonneville. Sponsored by the natural gas industry, v
including Atlanta Gas Light Company, The Blue Flame's new record is 622.407 m.p.h., over 21 r
m.p.h. faster than the old record. The fuel for the rocket engined-car was liquefied natural gas with c
hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant. (PRN) c
) hold true. For instance, the driv
ers themselves, who actually
a cause such tragedies through
n carelessness and reckless driv
g ing, could reverse the trend and
y thus repudiate our prediction if
b oily they will drive carefully,
s sens ibly and obey all traffic laws.
r We strongly appeal to them to
, dothat.”
While the safety director hopes
motorists will heed his appeal,
c the State Patrol is leaving noth
b ing to chance. It will carry out
b a massive state-wide traffic en
cl forcement operation throughout
- the 102-hour period similar to
’ others staged during long holiday
, weekends.
Col. Burson said the patrol
will be at top strength with some
f 650 uniform troopers working
, around the clock. They will be
t augmented by plain-clothes GBI
o agents, radio operators, license
examiners and enforcement of-
TREES INC REASE OXYGEN
SUPPLY
I Eighteen people who live on
this planet can receive their
lifegiving oxygen needs from
’ each acre of growing trees.
Scientific research has deter
t mined that a young, vigorous,
a high yield forest grows an
s average of four tons of new
j wood per acre per year and
that it releases to the air one
3 ton of oxygen for every' ton of
s wood grown. Thus, each acre
5 of young, well-managed forest
can release four tons of oxygen
„ per year. One million acres of
new, vigorously growing forest
wiil create enough oxygen
every year to serve the needs of
18 million people. On the
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, other hand, old-growth forest
consumes as much oxygen as it
can generate.
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Emergency Food And Medical
Program Opens In Wheeler
The Heart of Georgia Com
munity Action Council, Inc., with
central offices in Eastman, has
initiated an Emergency Food and
Medical Service Program in
Wheeler County, according to
an announcement by C. J.
Broome, Executive Director.
Wheeler County is one of the
twelve counties served by the
Agency. Current budget in
Wheeler County is SI,OOO per
month.
This program is designed to
help low-income residents. It is
funded under the 1967 Economic
Opportunity Act as a National
Emphasis Program and its pur
pose is to provide, on a tem
porary emergency basis, such
foodstuffs and medical services
as may be necessary to counter
act conditions of starvation,
hunger or malnutrition among
the poor.
The program in Wheeler
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ficers from other state agencies
who will serve largely as spot
ters. In all, the task force will
comprise about 1,000 men.
In addition to recognizable pa
trol cars, unmarked cars, air
borne spotters and roving “tac
tical squads” will be used in
seeking out violators. Speed
checking devices, including the
new “foolproof” radar units and
Rembert Cravey
Opens Law Office
Rembert C. Cravey, Attorney
At Law, has opened offices at
205 S. Third Avenue in Mcßae,
for the general practice of Law.
Mr. Cravey is a life long
resident of Telfair County living
in the Milan area.
He was graduated from the
University of Georgia School of
Law, and is married to the former
Marianne Maloy and has two
children, Curt and Lisa.
Elementary School
Principals To Mset
In Savannah
The elementary school prin
cipals of Georgia, who comprise
a department in the Georgia
Association of Educators, will
conduct their annual conference
in Savannah at the Savannah Inn
and Country Club, November 19-
21.
The first general session
speaker will be Laurel M. Pen
nock, Associate Executive Secre
tary of the National Association
of Elementary School Principals.
This first session will be held
at 7:30 p.m. on November 19.
County is being conducted by
John D. McDonald of Telfair
County, assisted by Mrs. Nell
Garrison of Telfair County, an
Aide from the Telfair Neighbor
hood Service Center in Mcßae.
Mrs. Elaine Ryals, Supervisor
of the Emergency Food and Med
ical Service Program for the
Heart of Georgia is assisting
them in implementing this pro
gram in Wheeler County.
The program has the co
operation and approval of Wallace
Adams, County Commissioner,
Mrs. Gwen Cox, Director of the
Department of Family and Chil
dren’s Services, H. E. Webster,
Mayor of Alamo and other in
terested citizens.
An office has been opened in
Alamo on Railroad Street, in
the building known as the old
Simmons Grocery Store, and will
be open on Monday and Tuesday
of each week.
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Vascar equipment, will be exten
sively employed, it was pointed
out.
Col. Burson, Lt. Col. L. G.
Bell, deputy director, and Maj.
Porter Weaver, commanding of
ficer, will direct the gigantic
enforcement operation from
strategic points over the state.
Road checks will be made at
all hours.
Last year 43 persons were
killed and 436 injured in 1,219
Thanksgiving week end traffic
mishaps in Georgia.
Dance Students
From Area Attend
Atlanta Ballet
On Saturday, November 14, a
group of students from the Hazle
hurst-Mcßae Schools of Dance
journeyed to Atlanta for the At
lanta Symphony’s presentation of
the Atlanta Ballet in Fall Reper
toire. The performance was held
in Symphony Hall in the Atlanta
Memorial Arts Center. Guest
Conductor was Simon Sadoff and
Director of the Atlanta Ballet
is Robert Barnett. The program
included Classical and Modern
Ballet as well as a new work
choreographed to songs made
famous by the “Beatles.”
Chaperones for the trip were,
Dr. and Mrs. Dan Elrod and
Mrs. Edward Wilson of Hazle
hurst, Mrs. Johnny Bradfield of
Mcßae, Mrs. Maxine Rivers and
Mrs. Fields of Alamo, and Mrs.
Duane Fech, Director of the
Hazlehurst-Mcßae Schools of
Dance.
Students attending from the
Mcßae area were: Reta Helen
McLaughlin, Susan Batchelor,
Susan Mann, Leonard Paul Hum
phrey, Deb Bradfield, Gena
Weatherly, Dorcus Cravey, Eve
Fields, Roxanne Rivers and
Alicia Selph.
The entire group was priv
ileged to have been invited to a
backstage Autograph Party im
mediately following the perform
ance. They also observed Ballet
and Character classes conducted
at the Atlanta School of Ballet.
A Dance Field Trip is planned
for December where all students
of the Hazlehurst-Mcßae Schools
of Dance will have the oppor
tunity to see the Atlanta Ballet’s
performance of “Sleeping Beau
ty.” In the spring the school
will attend the University of
Georgia’s Children’s Theatre
production of “Alice in Wonder
land” in Athens.
Veteran's Corner
Elderly veterans whoare seek
ing admission to VA hospitals
for non-service connected dis
abilities no longer will be re
quired to sign a so-called
“pauper’s oath.”
Georgia Veterans Service Di
rector Pete Wheeler said that
the recently approved Public Law
91-500 also “makes all veterans
with non-service connected dis
abilities automatically eligible
for VA hospital care if they are
65 or older, regardless of their
financial situation.”
The measure also authorizes
the admission of peacetime vet
erans age 65 or over for treat
ment of non-service connected
conditions in VA hospitals.
Outpatient treatment and other
required medical services are
also provided to any veteran
receiving pension or compen
sation based on need of regular
aid and attendance or who is
permanently housebound.
The law also authorizes drugs
and medication at Veterans Ad
ministration expense to veterans
in receipt of Aid and Attendance
benefits.
Wheeler said the new changes
will benefit many Georgia vet
erans and he said any veteran
wanting more detailed infor
mation should visit the nearest
office of the Georgia Department
of Veterans Service.