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VOLUME 56
U.S. Commission
Report On Smut
Absurd, Herman
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge, in a Georgia speech, de
nounced the President’s Com
mission on Obscenity and
Pornography as a “statistical,
legalistic, permissive mish
mash that tries to make us be
lieve that anything goes in the
United States today.”
The Georgia junior senator,
principal speaker atthe Douglas-
Coffee County Chamber of Com
merce’s annual banquet in Doug
las, said the commission’s ma
jority report, which recommend
ed the abolition of all existing
laws against the sale of obscene
materials, except to juveniles,
“does a grave injustice to all
the moral values we hold dear’’
in the United States.
Just prior to the Congressional
recess in mid-October, the Sen
ate voted overwhelmingly, 60-5,
to strongly condemn the majority'
report. The action came in a
resolution introduced by Ar
kansas Sen. John McClellan and
cosponsored by Sen. Talmadge.
Sen. Talmadge said the com
mission was createdbyCongress
and mandated to report on the
severity of pornography and ob
scenity and to recommend ways
for its control.
“The commission, for reasons
best known to itself, did pre
cisely the opposite and gave filth
and pornography a clean bill of
health,” he declared. “When a
blue ribbon commission repre
senting the United States govern
ment can find nothing wrong with
pornography, something is seri
ously wrong in this country.”
Referring to the commission’s
recommendation that the United
States follow the example set
by Denmark, Sen. Talmadge as
serted:
“Denmark and the Danes can
do whatever they please, but I
don’t believe the American people
want any part of pornography'.”
Commenting on the nation's
crime rate, up 120 per cent in
the past 10 years, he described
the commission report as “just
another manifestation of permis
siveness that pervades our so
ciety today, particularly in the
area of law enforcement.”
Sen. Talmadge rejected the
majority report and said it ought
to be filed away “as as2-million
mistake.” He added:
“Instead of tearing down our
laws, we need to make them
stronger and enforce them more,
especially those against the sale
and traffic of obscene material
and pornography.”
Wheeler Co. Teacher
Attends Meeting
The sixtieth Annual Conven
tion of the National Council of
Teachers of English was held
in Atlanta, November 22-28. Eng
lish teachers from all fifty states,
as well as some from foreign
countries, were present to par
ticipate in the discussion of vari
ous phases of studyingandteach
ing the English language.
They predict that within a few
decades English will be THE
international language. It is
already the most often used lang
uage in the United Nations.
The high point of the con
vention was Pauline Frederick’s
speech “The World Crisis,”
which was heard by over 1500
people in the Phoenix Ballroom
of the Regency Hotel, Saturday
evening, November 28.
The hosts for the NCTE were
the Atlanta area English Club
and the Georgia Council of Teach
ers of English.
The Wheeler County High
School was represented at the
convention by Mrs. Hazel E.
Joyce who served as the local
host for three different group
meetings.
LIME FOR LAWNS
Lime is the foundation of a
sound lawn fertility program.
It should be applied to lawns
during the fall and winter
months. However, horticul
turists with the University of
Georgia Extension Service say
it’s not desirable or necessary
to apply lime every year.
Contact your county agent for
details on taking a soil sample
for analysis. Apply lime on the
basis of the exact amount
needed.
Wheeler County Eagle
They Lead Over 200,000 Georgia Youths
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I diversity of Georgia, presmiled recognition plaques to state presidents ol three
Georgia youth organizations with a combined membership of over 200,000 young
people. Ii he awards, made at the Association’s annual meeting here, went to Mary
Beth Music, Route 3. Nichols, ol Future Homemakers: Barry George, Blairsville, ol
Future I aimers, and Dol Aleadovvs, Route 2, Cochran, ol I 11.
Wheeler County High Represented
At Kiwanis International Conference
“Operation Drug Alert” was
the theme of the second annual
conference presented for high
school students and teachers of
Georgia by Georgia District of
Kiwanis International on Novem
ber 21-22, at Rock Eagle 4-H
Center near Eatonton. Drugs—
their uses, abuses and misuses
were the main items of dis
cussion.
Clifford Nash, Governor, Key
Clubs presided at the first gen
eral session on Saturday at 1:00
p.m. A panel composed of
students from Emory University,
Georgia Tech and Mercer Uni
versity presented a review on
Drugs and Rhetoric. At 2:15p.m.
Dr. Barrie S. Grieff, Psy
chiatrist, University Health Ser
vices, Harvard University, Cam
bridge, Mass., spoke on “Stu
dents and Drugs.” The Keynote
address was presented by Dr.
Douglas Skeleton, Director Drugs
Dependency Clinic, Grady Hos
pital, Atlanta.
Later in the afternoon we
viewed a closed circuit T.V.
presentation on Drug use—con
structive-destructive, by Dr.
James J. Gill, Harvard Univer
sity and Russell L. Schweickart
Apollo 9 Astronaut. This program
was courtesy of Georgia Edu
cational Television.
At 5:15 p.m. the teachers and
students separated to view
movies and take part in question
answer sessions on drugs.
We were entertained at 8:30
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Bobwhite quail represent about $3 million a year in
Georgia’s economy. They attract more than 126,000
hunters, many from distant states, into the fields each
season. The planting of cover and feed crops helps
to improve the annual harvest of these fine birds.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
p.m. by a swing band from Haw
kinsville.
Sunday morning Spiritual Rele
vance was done by Dr. Judson
C. Ward, Dean of Faculties,
Emory University - his inspiring
message was Freedom—but
freedom for what?
Keynote speaker Sunday morn
ing was Clifford Nash, Governor,
Key Clubs. A youth asks —
panelist reply session concluded
the meeting at 12:15p.m. Sunday.
Persons attending the con
ference from Wheeler County
were Lee Anner Jackson, Presi
dent of Student Council, Wendy
Spearman, Student Council Rep
resentative and Mrs. C. C.i
Harris, Home Economics
teacher.
A report of the conference
will be presented for community
action at a later date.
Lee Aimer Jackson,
Reporter
GRADED TREES
That’s right folks. Christmas
trees are now being quality
graded. Just like meat, eggs and
other commodities. Under a
new system started by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture,
growers are urged to tag each
tree with its grade and height
as well as the name and address
of the producer. Grades are U.
S. Premium, U. S. Choice and
U. S. Standard,
Wheeler County
Junior High
Honor Club
The students at Wheeler County
Junior High have really gotten
off to a flying start, according
to Junior High principal, Ted
Morrison.
For the first time in the history
of the newly formed Junior High,
an honor club lias become active.
Thirty-eight students have ob
tained an average of B plus or
better, and have become the first
members of honor roll at Junior
High.
These students, who have
achieved academic acclaim, will
be honored during a special pro
gram this week, during which
time seventh and eighth grade
students will receive invitations
to join National Junior Beta Club,
and sixth grade students will be
invited to join the National Honor
Society. The students are as
follows:
Sixth Grade - Stan Butler,
La Tonya Harris, Sarah Wil
liams, Kay Browning, Winnie Ba
ker, Tammy Melvin, Nona Col
lins, Wanda Evans, Carla Rogers,
Pat Edge, Donna Spires, Sherry
Rocker, Becky Meguiar and
Merri Clark.
Seventh Grade - GregWilcher,
Ralph Aldridge, Cindy Davis, Kim
Hall, Ed Tuten, Jolly Clark, Ron
nie Benton, Annie M. Kinchen,
Sylvia Howard, Debra Brett,
Elaine Smith, Lillian Newkirk
and Gloria Montford.
Eighth Grade - Debra Brown
ing, Stevie Meguiar, Melinda Mc-
Daniel, Joey Thomas, Elaine
Lumley, Lloyd Estep, Wade Ful
ford, Patty Adams, Elena Har
relson, Joe Hood and Omie l^e
Padgett.
Annual Meeting Os
Georgia E.M.C. To
Be Held In Atlanta
The annual meeting of the
Georgia Electric Membership
Corporation will be held Dec. 7
and 8 at Atlanta’s Marriott Motor
Hotel, Walter Harrison, GEMC
Executive Manager announced
recently.
The meeting is expected to
bring together over 300 rural
electric managers, directors,
and leaders from throughout Ga.
Hon. Albert B. Brooke, Vice
Chairman, Federal Power Com
mission, Washington, D. C., and
Hon. Robert D. Partridge, Gen
eral Manager of the National
Rural Electric Cooperative As
sociation, Washington, D. C.,
head the list of outstanding speak
ers with Messrs. Rick McCool
and Wayne Buffington scheduled
for the banquet entertainment.
The first general session will
begin sharply at 10 o’clock Mon
day morning, Dec. 7. GEMC
President, Theo M. Parkerson
of Eastman will preside at the
general sessions and at the busi
ness meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
A good cure for being sad is
adaptability to the changing
world.
FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1970
Ga. farm Leaders To Attend national
Conference On Hem farm Programs
A National Conference on Farm
Programs for the 70’s has been
called in Washington, D. C., No
vember 30, through December 3,
by the Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service, farm
program agency of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Attending from Georgia will
be the members of the State
Agricultural Stabilization and
(ASC) Committee: Ross P.
Bowen, Chairman; Hugh L. Val
lotton, Vice Chairman; David L.
Eastman Garden Club
To Sponsor Holiday
House Tour Dec. 9
The Eastman Garden Club will
sponsor a Holiday House Tour
and Christmas Bazaar on
Wednesday, December 9th.
The hours for the Bazaar will
be from 10 to 12 a.m. and 1 to
5 p.m. The Bazaar will be held
in the American legion Home
on Oak Street (Cochran Road).
Along with many Christmas items
and decorations made by the
members of the club, homemade
baked goods and candies will
be featured.
The Holiday House Tour will
begin at 1 p.m. and run until
5 p.m. The homes of Mr. and
Mrs, Donald Purser, Mr. and
Mrs, Leonard Rouse, and Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Methvin will
be opened and the main theme
of decoration will be Christmas
Decorations for the home.
Tickets for the tour may be
obtained the day of the tour at
the Bazaar headquarters. Re
freshments will be served at
the Bazaar, 100.
Five General
Telephone Companies
Plan To Merge
Five General Telephone com
panies operating in six south
eastern states have agreed to a
plan to merge.
The boards of directors of all
five firms approved of the merger
plan today.
When the plan is approved
by various utility commissions,
the four subsidiary companies
will be merged into General Tele
phone Company of the Southeast.
Other companies in the planned
merger are General Telephone
of North Carolina, General of
Georgia, Mutual Telephone Com
pany, and Pee Dee Telephone
Company.
Fredrick C. Rahdert, president
of General Telephone Company
of the Southeast, said the larger
company resulting from the mer
ger would benefit all of the com
panies by permitting greater ef
ficiency of administration and
financing.
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Make Your Moo
Four-legged patients who once received
treatment at the School of Veterinary
Medicine at the University of Georgia
now go to college for help. The creatures
probably don’t understand the name
change, but the school is now known as
the College of Veterinary Medicine. Vet
erinary student Larry Judy knows the
Hardegree, andHowardF.Parks,
Members. Also attending will be
J. Paul Holmes Jr., State Execu
tive Director of the State ASCS
Office.
High ranking government of
ficials will address the con
ference on a variety of current
topics, with interest expected to
center on new farm legislation
which now awaits the signature
of President Nixon.
Broad, long-range agricultural
questions also will be discussed
by Secretary of Agriculture Clif
ford M. Hardin, Under Secre
tary J. Phil Campbell, Assistant
Secretary Clarence D. Palmby,
ASCS Administrator Kenneth E.
Frick, and other USDA officials.
On the opening day of the
National Farm Program Con
ference, Oklahoma Congressman
Page Belcher of the House Agri
culture Committee will be lunch
eon speaker. A featured speaker
that afternoon will be Attorney
General John Mitchell.
“Most of the conference will
be devoted to information on
the new farm legislation,” ASC
Committee Chairman Bowen
said. “The legislation is a sig
nificant change in American farm
policy and programs. It is de
signed to give farmers more
opportunity to manage production
for market demand and increase
farm income. It provides farm
ers more freedom in manage
ment of their farms than any
previous farm program legis
lation.”
Eastman Banker Dies
Os Gunshot Wound
Jolin Franklin Jessup, Jr,,
President and Chairman of the
Board of the Bank of Eastman,
was shot and killed early last
Friday morning in the kitchen
of his home in Eastman. J. C.
Barnett, 44 year old brother
in-law of the dead man was being
held in the Dodge County jail in
connection with the shooting, ac
cording to Dodge County Sheriff
Jackson Jones. He is now out
on SIO,OOO bond. The bond was
agreed upon by the state and
defense attorneys and approved
by Judge James B. O’Connor.
Barnett is charged with murder,
the warrant issued by Coroner
Joe B. Giddens,
Barnett, of Eastman, is em
ployed as assistant manager of
a clothing store in Mcßae.
The coroner’s jury presided
over by Joe B. Giddens, ruled
Saturday that Mr. Jessup died
of a gunshot wound fired at very
close range, the bullet striking
Jessup in the left side and travel-
change came about to recognize the fa
cility’s growth. There’re twice as many
faculty members at the vet college this
fall, for instance, than were teaching here
three years ago. Enrollment in the col
lege’s graduate and postdoctoral programs
has increased eight-fold in the past six
years.
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He stated it was his under
standing that producers could
look forward to learning details
of the new farm programs in
the near future. “The National
Conference on Farm Programs
for the 70's is the first step in
Messiah To Be
Presented At
Brewton Parker
MESSIAH will be presented
at Brewton Parker College on
December 6 and December 7
by the Choral Society according
to an announcement today by
Perry Carroll, the director. Per
formance times for the George
Fredrick Handel written Oratorio
will be 3 p.m. on Sunday the 6th,
and at 7:30 p.m. on Monday
the 7th.
Soloists for the religious per
formance will be: Sopranos--
Miriam McArthur, Mavis Ser
mons, Connie Sharpe and Libby
Whorton; Alto--Jennifer Wil
liams; Tenors—Jim Gilbert and
Philip Hampton; and Basses—
Bill Huie, William Humphrey and
Tim Pollock.
The Choral Society consists
of interested singers from the
communities surrounding Brew
ton Parker College and Choir
members of the college.
Bob Neill, organ professor at
Brewton Parker College, will
be the accompanist for the Gates
Hall performance.
ing from left to right, entering
one lung.
The shooting allegedly oc
curred after a heated argument
between Jessup and Barnett over
a family business deal. Two wit
nesses were present at the time,
Jessup’s wife and Henry Brewer.
Barnett’s brother, Albert Barnett
arrived soon after. Brewer had
already calledthe Eastman police
and the Sheriff.
Graveside services were held
for Mr. Jessup in Woodlawn
Cemetery at 11:00a.m., Saturday
with Home Funeral Home of
Eastman in charge of arrange
ments.
Mr. Jessup was born and
reared in Dodge County. He was
a member of the Moose and
Elks Clubs and the First United
Methodist Church of Eastman.
Survivors, in addition to his
wife, the former Miss Annie
Lou Barnett, are one daughter,
Miss Joalene Jessup, and one
son, John Lawrence Jessup.
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acquainting farmers with the new
directions of farm programs,”
Bowen said.
61 loan Benefits
Restored To
Veterans
Georgia Veterans Service
Director Pete Wheeler says that
several changes have been
brought about in the VA Loan
Program with the enactment of
the Veterans Housing Act of 1970.
“It eliminates the termination
dates for veterans of World War
11, Korea and Viet Nam to secure
GI housing,” said Wheeler, “and
this entitlement will now be avail
able until the veteran uses it.”
Guaranteed loans will now be
made to purchase a one-family
residential unit to be owned and
occupied by a veteran as a home
in a condominium housing
development or project, provided
that “the Federal Housing Ad
ministration has approved at
least one of the units in the
development.
Direct loans by the VA are
now authorized for specially
adapted housing for a disabled
veteran without regard to short
mortgage credit areas and with
out evidence of inability of the
veteran to obtain a loan from a
private lender. In the past, it
often has been difficult to obtain
loans for these homes with
ramps, extra-wide doorways for
wheelchairs, etc., because lend
ers felt that such homes would
appeal to a limited market.
Veterans planning to purchase
mobile homes will benefit greatly
from the new housing act. For
the first time, the VA is author
ized to make or guarantee loans
for 30% of the purchase price
of a mobile home up to a maxi
mum loan of SIO,OOO for a period
of 12 years. Wheeler pointed
out that, “this amount of SIO,OOO
is for the price of the mobile
home itself.” Loans up to $17,-
500 will be made when the pur
chase of land is involved. These
loans are repayable over a period
of 15 years.
“In order to qualify for a
mobile home loan,” said
Wheeler, “a veteran must not
have used any of his prior
guaranty entitlement. If a veteran
does qualify, however, and pur
chases a mobile home, it does
not reduce his GI entitlement.
Once his mobile home loan is
paid off, he can use his entitle
ment to purchase a ‘conventional’
home if he so desires.”
The mobile home provision
becomes effective December 23.
Other provisions of the housing
act became effective October 23.
Maddox To Take
Peoples Day
To New Office
When Gov. Lester G. Maddox
moves upstairs in the State Cap
itol to assume his new duties as
lieutenant governor, he will take
his “People’s Day' ’ program with
him. It will be established on
the same regular basis as in
the past, except when the Georgia
General Assembly is in session,
he said.
“I believe we have established
a line of communication between
state government and the people
which would not otherwise have
been possible,” Gov. Maddox
said. “I believe that both state
government and the people have
benefitted from these ex
changes.”
He expressed his appreciation
for the many hours given by
various department heads and
staff members in making the
“People’s Day” program a suc
cess. He also said he was in
debted to the people for “their
trust, their friendship, and their
willingness to work with me to
help make Georgia a better place
in which to live.”