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VOLUME 56
Ga. Enters Float
In Tournament
Os Roses Parade
For the fourth consecutive
year, the State of Georgia will
enter a float in the Tournament
of Roses Parade at Pasadena,
California, on New Year’s Day.
Georgia’s floats have won an
award each year they have com
peted in the annual California
classic, including two national
trophies and the Best of States
Award.
Adorning this year’s float, Unit
#52 in the parade lineup, will
be Nancy Carr of Midland, Miss
Georgia; Amy English of Hawk
insville, Miss See Georgia First;
and Devony DePew, Thomasville
Rose Queen. Miss DePew repre
sents the city of Thomasville
which celebrates the 50th An
niversary of its Annual Thomas
ville Rose Festival in 1971.
Entitled “Georgia: Wonderland
of Fun,” the float will bear
more than 100,000 blossoms, all
white. Two graceful live oaks—
Georgia’s state tree—sweep to
gether and cross trunks, their
branches spanning 50 feet in
length. Cascades of chrysanthe
mums overlayed with roses and
shaded cattleya orchids em
bellish the oaks.
Participation In
Food Programs
Jumps 33 Per Cent
The number of needy Georgian s
receiving assistance through U.
S. Department of Agriculture food
programs jumped 33 per cent in
October over the same period
last year, Russell H. James,
Southeast, regional director of
USDA’s Food and Nutrition Serv
ice, reports.
According to James, the in
crease occurred in the food stamp
program which is in operation in
107 of the state’s 159 counties.
In October, 190,654 low-income
Georgians received nearly $3
million in bonus food coupons.
In the same period last year,
71,270 persons received $423,-
597 in bonus stamps.
Recipients spend the coupons
like cash at authorized food
stores for domestic foods. They
are not able topurchase non-food
items with the coupons.
The commodity distribution
program assisted 144,702 needy
people in 52 counties in October.
This was a decrease of 34,723
from the 179,425whowereassis
ted by the program during the
same period last year, because
several counties changed to the
food stamp program. This pro
gram provides over 20 USDA
donated foods to supplement the
diets of needy' people.
In Georgia the State Depart
ment of Family and Children
Services administers the food
stamp program, while the State
Department of Education super
vises the distribution of the USDA
donated foods — both in coopera
tion with the U. S. Food and
Nutrition Service.
Dean’s List Given
At Brewton Parker
For Fall Quarter
Approximately ten per cent of
the students enrolled at Brewton
Parker College are listed on the
Fall Quarter Dean’s List ac
cording to an announcement today
by Aaron H. Swain.
Thirty of the fifty-five high
achievers are women students
while twenty-five are men. This
represents a considerably higher
percentage of women students
due to the high male-female ratio
of the total student body.
Those named to #ne esteemed
list include: Jeah Browning,
Debra McDaniel, apd Mrs. Kay
NeSmith of Glenwood; and Jerry
Curran of Lumber City .
Dean Swain extended his
“heartiest congratulations to
those named to the esteemed
list.” Inclusion on the list re
quires that a student carry at
least 15 quarter hours of work,
earn at least a 3.5 grade point
average, and make no less than
a “B” on any course.
The Georgia Heart As
sociation’s Heart Fund fights
heart attack, high blood pressure,
rheumatic fever and rheumatic
heart disease, congenital heart
disease and many others.
Wheeler County Eagle
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May your fortunes rise to new heights.
Good health, good friends abide
with you the whole year through.
Former Telfair County Man
Killed By Robbers In Cordele
A former Maconite and a native
cf Telfair County, was one of
two liquor store employes shot
and killed in Cordele Wednesday
night, apparently while resisting
an armed robbery.
Hilton Frederick Rawlins, 45,
liad moved to Cordele about four
months ago from Macon, where
he had lived for the past 10 to
12 years.
Also killed was Edward Wood
of Cordele.
Police said one man was shot
with a shotgun and the other with
a .38 pistol, and at least two
Area Vocational
And Technical
School Winter Qt.
The evening division of Ben
Hill-Irwin Area Vocational-
Technical School will begin its
Winter quarter schedule of class
es on Monday, January 11, 1971.
The school will be operating
at nearly full capacity in all
areas of instruction, and they
feel that the courses offered
during the winter quarter will
answer the requests of all local
citizens for evening courses.
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GEORGIA STAR TO SHINE OVER GREAT BRITAIN IN 1971.
Dick Stobbs on left, District Sales Manager, Pan American World
Airways and Dr. Jack Nix on right, State Superintendent of Schools
discuss with Mrs. Mozelle Christian, Georgia Chamber of Com
merce Director of STAR the awards for the 1971 Program.
STAR’S top prize for 1971 is a trip via Pan American World
Airways to Great Britain, an opportunity for the state winner to
serve as a Georgia ambassador.
AMMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
robbers are believed to have
been involved.
The amount of money taken
was not known but the cash reg
ister was emptied except for
small change.
, The gunmen apparently made
their escape in a blue Oldsmobile
with an Alabama license plate.'
The shooting occured at the
Riverside Package Store on U.
S. 280 about a mile west of
Cordele.
Heart Os Georgia
Gets $212,476 Grant
For Day Care
Senators Herman E. Talmadge
and Richart B. Russell have an
nounced a Health, Education and
Welfare Head Start Grant of
$212,476 to the Heart of Georgia
Community Action Council, Inc.,
■ in Eastman.
The grant will be effective
for 12 months beginning Feb
-1 ruary 1, and will serve 220
I children full day, in Bleckley,
I Dodge, Houston, Laurens, Mont
gomery, Peach, Pulaski, Telfair,
Treutlen, Twiggs, Wheeler and
Wilcox Counties.
Georgia Power
Warns Os False
Representation
Georgia Power Company of
ficials have learned that persons
falsely representing themselves
as company employes have cheat
ed unsuspecting customers by
pretending to perform services
they claim are required for
safety.
The company reported that two
men recently cheated an elderly
woman out of $575. Officials
said the men, posing as inspect
ors, went to the woman’s home
and told her they had to inspect
her wiring. After looking in her
attic, they said the wiring was
unsafe and they would do some
spraying for her protection.
The two worked in the attic
for about two hours and told the
woman the charges were $575.
Because of her poor eyesight,
she let them make out the check.
The woman told officials the
check was cashed shortly after.
The power company em
phasized that its servicemen do
not inspect wiring or do any kind
of spraying in homes.
Ga. Egg Producers
Vote To Continue
Marketing Order
Georgia egg producers have
voted to continue operation of
Marketing Order No. 2 of the
Agricultural Commodity Com
mission for Eggs it was an
nounced today after a meeting
was held for the purpose of
counting ballots cast by egg pro
ducers.
Commission Chairman, Sidney
Miller, of Irwinton said that
eighty-four per cent of those
voting were in favor of the con
tinuation of the Order.
The Agricultural Commodity
Commission for Eggs was formed
in 1961. Egg producers in Georgia
are assessed 2d per 30-dozen
case of eggs for the purpose
cf research, promotion and edu
cation.
FRIDAY, JAN. 1, 1971
Xmas Holiday Traffic Deaths fall
Below Estimate, 500 Reported Hilled
The final Christmas holiday
count showed 500 persons died
in traffic accidents during the
78-hour week end, well below
the pre-holiday estimate made
by the National Safety Council.
"The final death toll fell be
neath the council’s estimates as
we hoped it would,” a council
spokesman said Monday. “This
indicates the nation’s motorists
and pedestrians themselves are
acting more safely and respon
sible than they have in recent
years.”
It was the third holiday period
this year in which the auto
motive toll had fallen below the
estimates of highway deaths made
Hagan Opposes
Tanzania Aid
WASHINGTON (PRN) -
Four Members of the Georgia
Congressional delegation have
protested a $9 million credit to
Tanzania by the International
Development Association to
increase production of
flue-cured tobacco for export.
In a letter to President
Nixon, Congressman G. Elliott
Hagan, Maston O’Neal, W.S.
(Bill) Stuckey, Jr. and Jack
Brinkley urged that the action
be prevented.
“In view of the fact that the
U.S. Government supplies
more than one-fourth of the
funds used by the International
Development Association,” the
letter stated, “we, as Members
of the United States House of
Representatives from the State
of Georgia, protest the $9
million credit to Tanzania for
■ the purpose of doubling the
current production of
flue-cured tobacco forexport.”
Congressmen Hagan,
O’Neal, Stuckey and Brinkley
pointed out that there is
already a worldwide surplus of
of flue-cured tobacco. “In the
United States alone, there are
approximately 850 million
pounds under CCC loan
arrangement,” the four
Representatives emphasized in
their appeal to the President.
The letter also points out
that Tanzania already enjoys a
commonwealth preference in
the United Kingdom market of
18.5 cents a pound, and free
duty on tobacco produced in
that country. These two
advantages, plus low cost
production, puts Tanzanian
tobacco in a much more
competitive position in relation
to our own.
“If the $9 million credit to
double Tanzania’s flue-cured
production is allowed,” said
the four Georgians, “this will
definitely have an adverse
effect, not only on the families
who hold the 200,000
flue-cured allotments, but on
our entire economy.”
They added their opinion
that the fact all other sectors of
our economy are being
depressed at this time worsens
the situation.
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Washington: Four Georgia Congressmen (LTR) G. Elliott Hagan, Ist District. Maston O’Neal, 2nd
District, W.S. (Bill) Stuckey, Jr., Bth District,and Jack Brinkley, 3rd District, look over the letter they
wrote to President Nixon, protesting action that would adversely affect the flue-cured tobacco
industry. (PRN)
by the council.
The council tad said it ex
pected between 550 and6sopers
ons to die during the long week
end.
“We like to believe that the
council’s urging to wear safety
belts, drive defensively and to
avoid the abusive use of alcohol
lias been takingeffect,”the coun
cil spokesman said.
Sgt. James McAlum
Awarded Bronze Star
U. S. Air Force Master - Ser
geant James D. McAlum, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. McAlum
cf Alamo, lias been decorated
with the Bronze Star Medal at
Rhine-Main AB, Germany for
meritorious service while en
gaged in military operations
against Viet Cong forces.
Sergeant McAlum was cited
for his performance as command
post supervisor at Bien Hoa AB,
Vietnam.
He is now assigned at Rhine-
Main to a unit of the Military
Airlift Command.
A 1956 graduate of Wheeler
County High School, the sergeant
attended Modesto Junior College
while at Castle AFB, Calif., and
Armstrong Junior College at
Savannah.
Sergeant McAlum’s wife is the
former Rosaleen B. Fogarty from
Ireland.
GET TOGETHER
Want to help get things
together? Four-H’ers are
always doing something in a
club or special project. And
they’re doing it together. Find
out more. Contact your local
county Extension agents. They
will help you get together with
4-H.
Irvin Voices Protest
Os Foreign Leaf Loan
ATLANTA (PRN)
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin has contacted all
of Georgia’s Congressional
Delegation protesting interest
free loans to two foreign
countries which would increase
competition for Georgia
tobacco on foreign markets.
In a letter to Georgia
congressmen Irvin pointed out
that the International
Development Association, an
arm of the world bank, recently
granted a loan of 9 million to
Tanzania and 4 million to
Uganda to expand their
production of flue cured
tobacco solely for export
purposes.
In his letter Irvin said the
fifty year interest free loans,
which were made with a
non-paid back grace period of
ten years, could increase the
world’s surplus of tobacco and
SINGLE COPY 5b
The final tabulation showed a
total of 584 deaths from accidents
of all kinds during the period
between 6 p.m. local time Thurs
day and midnight Sunday.
A breakdown:
Traffic 500
Fires 53
Miscellaneous 31
Total 584
California recorded the most
automotive deaths with 49. Texas
reported 41, Missouri 28 and
New York State 25.
No deaths were reported as a
result of plane crashes.
Judgement Entered
Against Seed Firm
A judgement of SSO plus court
costs has been entered against
Pennington Grain & Seed, Inc.,
Vidalia, for falsely labeling 150
bags of rye seed in violation of
the Federal Seed Act, the Con
sumer and Marketing Service
reports.
Officials of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture agency said
the rye, shipped from Vidalia to
Lulu, Fla., was labeled to con
tain 98.5 per cent pure seed,
.6 per cent other crop seeds,
and no noxious-weed seeds. The
seed was found to contain 92.91
per cent pure seed, 5.53 per
cent other crop seeds, and the
noxious-weed seed, wild radish,
at the rate of 74 per pound.
Agricultural seed containing
the noxious-weed seed wild
radish in excess of 27 per pound
is prohibited from sale under
the Florida state law and regu
lations and therefore is pro
hibited from shipment into that
state under the FederalSeedAct.
increase competition for
Georgia tobacco, of which
about seventy percent goes to
foreign markets.
Pointing out that such
competition could have an
adverse effect on the price of
seed by American tobacco
farmers, Irvin suggested that
Georgia congressmen contact
World Bank President Robert
S. McNamara about the matter
if they thought it advisable.
Funds for loans made by the
International Development
Association come principally
from eighteen of the wealthier
member countries including
the United States.
Irvin said Georgia
congressmen Stuckey, Hagan,
Stephens and O’Neal,
representing Georgia’s tobacco
growing areas as well as other
members of the state’s -
congressional delegation, had
agreed to look into the matter.
NUMBER 39
Deadline Nears
For Krturuing
Income Reports
Georgia Veterans Service Di
rector Pete Wheeler today cau
tioned the more than 55,000
Georgia veterans, widows and
dependents on the Veterans Ad
ministration’s pension rolls that
only about two weeks remain
for them to file reports on their
1970 income.
“January 15, 1971 is the abso
lute deadline for notifying the
VA about personal income,’’said
Wheeler. “The VA must have the
income figures by that date in
order to determine the pension
amounts for the coming year.”
Income questionnaires were
mailed on November Ist so that
they might be completed and
returned to the VA in ample
time for processing. “Failure to
complete and return these ques
tionnaires by January 15,”
Wheeler warned, “could result
in the suspension of payments or
necessitate the repayment of
some benefits to the VA.”
Veterans and widows receiving
compensation for service-con
nected disabilities are not re
quired to report their incomes.
Any veteran or dependent who
wants assistance in completing
the questionnaires should contact
the nearest, office of the Georgia
Department of Veterans Service.
New Vocational
Education Funds
For Disadvantaged
New Vocational Education
funds now available for dis
advantaged students are the be
ginning of an innovation in school
funding—school accountability.
One million dollars, approved
for Georgia school systems by
the State Board of Education,
will be distributed to nine secon
dary and five post-secondary
schools. In return, these schools
have promised to produce certain
results.
Each school must increase the
number of disadvantaged students
enrolled and reduce the number
of dropouts. If the requirements
are not met by the schools, funds
will be discontinued. Each school
receiving money must report on
the results of the money’s use,
in effect, be accountable for the
money they receive.
Programs to be designed with
the funds must involve grades
seven through 12 and interlock
the academic curriculum with
the vocational curriculum with
the goal of providing direct ap
plication of work settings toaca
demic learning.
Disadvantaged students will
participate in their own special
courses, but Will share other
'activities with regular students.
Selected schools must also
have representatives make at
least one home visit to each
disadvantaged student as well
; as provide an outreach effort
designed to return dropouts to
school and into programs
specifically designed for them
such as short-turn vocational
classes.
Schools must also provide
short-term programs for stu
dents who definitely intend to
drop out. The programs should
give these students at least some
type of entry level skill.
In an effort to aid students
after they complete their par
ticular courses, schools must
provide a continuous job place
ment service for every student.
KEEPING PECANS
Fresh pecan kernels may be
kept successfully in a covered
jar in the refrigerator for six to
nine months or in the food
freezer below zero degrees for
12 to 18 months.