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VOLUME 56
Carter Submits
M. 253 Billion
Budget Request
Gov. Jimmy Carter obviously
is a man of unbounded energy
and stamina. Take his first
week in office, for instance.
From noon Tuesday, Jan. 22,
through Friday, Jan. 15, he
(1) was inaugurated as Geor
gia’s 76th governor, delivered
his acceptance speech, held
a reception at the Governor’s
Mansion, and attended four in
augural balls; (2) delivered his
State of the State address to
the General Assembly, and (3)
returned next day to present
his budget messagetothe legis
lature.
In his budget message, the
new governor outlined a record
spending plan of nearly $1.3-
billion for Georgia during fiscal
1972, along with new revenue
measures aimed at producing
$l2B-million to help finance it.
He placed emphasis on edu
cation, antipollution measures,
highways and grants to local
governments.
In his State of the State ad
dress, Carter, himself a former
state senator, urged the legis
lators to approve a new con
stitution for consideration by
Georgia voters in 1972.
He also urged passage of his
governmental reorganization
bill, which, as it later develop
ed, was passed by a vote of
163-to-8 in the House just be
fore Gov. Carter began his
budget message. Obviously
pleased by this speedy’ action
in the House, the governor
called attention to it before he
launched into his prepared re
marks.
In his budget message, the
46-year-old chief executive
made a strong plea for his
tax proposals, saying failure
to approve them would mean
continued high ad valorem taxes
and prohibit the state from
carrying out its obligations in
welfare and exceptional (edu
cation) children’s programs.
Gov. Carter actually re
quested $1.253-billion, plus
SSO-million from a 2-cent in
crease in gasoline taxes ear
marked for roads. He alsopro
posed other revenue measures,
including a 2-cent increase in
cigarette tax to produce S7B
- $lO-million of which
would be collected this fiscal
year ending June 30.
Without this tax revision,
Carter emphasized, he would
have no alternative but to fall
back on a “zero budget’’ that
would offer very little in new
programs and perhaps a cur
tailment in services.
Looking ahead to 1972, Gov.
Carter declared: “We must
either cut state service or find
new sources of revenue. I
recommend some of both.”
March Os Dimes
Marathon Show
Hollywood and Television
stars, Linda Crystal, Clu Gala
ger, and Sherry Lewis will be
the guest entertainers for a
March of Dimes Telerama, Jan
uary 23 and 24. WALB-TV,
Channel 10, Albany, will host
the 19 hour Marathon show
in support of the fight against
birth defects. The Telerama
will begin at 8:30 p.m., Satur
day, January 23, and conclude
at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, January 24.
Scores of entertainers from
Albany and the surrounding
area, and civic leaders will
join in the spectacular appeal
for ail out community-wide at
tention to the problem of birth
defects.
Viewers in counties outside
of Dougherty County' will have
the opportunity to make Tele
rama pledges to their local
March of Dimes. Local pledges
will be retained in the local
Chapters.
WALB-TV has held March
of Dimes Teleramas in past
years raising over $40,000.00.
They say bread is the staff
of life. We Americans must
believe it, for we eat a lot of
bread. In fact, the average U.S.
consumer eats three and
one-half slices every day. Add
that to all those biscuits and
muffins and that makes—a lot
of bread.
Wheeler County Eagle
S|fß W RE ATS MIL* W
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WHOt 1 SOME !O\S I Speaker George 1 Smith 11, of the Georgia House of Representatives
(left I aiul I t I esb i Maddox, who presides over the Senate, drink a toast with cups of cold
milk to gel the I | session of the General Assembly off to a wholesome start. Milk is provided
to Georgia legislators by the Agricultural Commodity Commission and the Georgia Milk Producers
Association (PRN)
State Offering Reward In
Soperton Store Death
The Macon Telegraph -
State Sen. Hugh Gillis of
Soperton has notified authori
ties the state is offering a
SI,OOO reward for the appre
hension and conviction of the
person or persons guilty in the
Tuesday murder of Mrs. J. B.
Thigpen, 52, general store ope
rator in the Orriana Com
munity.
Treutlen and Laurens County
authorities are conducting an
investigation in the murder,
along with Georgia Bureau of
Investigation authorities and
local and Dublin city police
forces.
Gillis is state senator from
the 20th District that includes
Treutlen and Laurens Counties,
along with Johnson, Wheeler,
Sgt. James McAlum
Receives Bronze Star
U. S. Air Force Master Ser
geant James D. McAlum, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton McAlum
of Alamo, has been decorated
with the Bronze Star Medal
for meritorious service while
engaged in military operations
against Viet Cong forces.
Sergeant McAlum was cited
for his performance as a com
mand post supervisor at Bien
Hoa AB, Vietnam.
He was honored during cere
monies at Rhein-Main AB,
Germany, where he now serves
with a unit of the U. S. Air
Forces in Europe.
The sergeant, a 1956 graduate
of Wheeler County High School,
attended Modesto Junior Col
lege extension at Castle AFB,
Calif., and Armstrong Junior
College, Savannah.
His wife is the former Rusa
leen B. Fogarty from Ireland.
WHAT IT WAS WAS FOOTBALL
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What it was was football or that’s what these four young things
contended at Pensacola Beach, on Northwest Florida's .Miracle Strip.
Going through the cheerleader motions is Janie Villane and Susan Lee,
with pom-poms and centering the ball is Michelle Kary to Josephine
Peyton. It’s football time —but still beach time, too, at Pensacola Beach.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
Montgomery and Toombs Coun
ties.
It was reported Friday that
there is a local drive to collect
more reward money in the mur
der case.
Treutlen Sheriff Lewis C.
Johnson reported Mrs. Thigpen
Sen. Hugh Gillis
Vice Chairman Os
Approp. Committee
In addition to his duties as
President Pro Tempore of the
Georgia State Senate, Senator
Hugh M. Gillis of Soperton,
has been named Vice-Chairman
of the Appropriations Commit
tee of the Georgia Senate. This
Committee will begin a series
of hearings on the Appropria
tions Bill on Monday, Jan. 18th.
Lieutenant Governor Lester
Maddox announced his Com
mittee Appointments shortly '
after assuming office this week.
Maddox named Senator Gillis
to the Agriculture Committee,
Banking and Finance Com
mittee, and Penal and Correc
tional Affairs Committee.
Senator Gillis is also Ex-
Officio member of the powerful
Rules Committee, Economy,
Reorganization & Efficiency in
Government Committee, andthe
Senate Administrative Affairs
Committee.
Gillis has already introduced
several important pieces of
legislation, and other measures
will be introduced within the
near future. One of the first
measures introduced by Gillis
was a bill to create a State
Athletics Commission.
was shot about 10a.m. Tuesday,
with a bullet fired in the head,
apparently from a pistol.
The body was discovered by
a customer at the store, some
eight miles from Soperton,
about 30 minutes later, accord
ing to Sheriff Johnson.
Investigators said Friday
several leads are being checked
out in the case.
Laurens Sheriff W. R.
“Rock” Bussell’s office in Dub
lin, is assisting in the investi
gation as are GBI Capt. H. M.
(Spud) Spurlin of Mcßae and
special GBI agents Henry
Walden of Dublin, and Hugh
Conner of Mcßae,.
Conservation
Cost-Sharing
Program
Top farm program officials
from Georgia will be at the
Hotel Wade Hampton, in Co
lumbia, South Carolina, next
Monday and Tuesday, (Jan. 25-
26) for a first hand briefing
on the new Rural Environmental
Assistance Program (REAP)
for 1971.
Members of the Georgia
State Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation (ASC) Com
mittee, will head a delegation
from Georgia that includes State
Executive Director, J. Paul
Holmes, Jr.; and Program
Specialists J. F. McEntire and
H. S. Petty.
Announcement of the new pro
gram formerly known as the
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram (ACP) was made by Sec
retary of Agriculture, Clifford
M. Hardin earlier this month.
Secretary Hardin said that
REAP will emphasize a broad
attack on environmental prob
lems created by the Nation’s
farming operations.
This announcement of the new
program will permit resump
tion of the Federal Cost-sharing
of various beneficial conser
vation programs with farmers
but that public benefit practices
such as Pollution Abatement,
Enduring Soil and Water Con
servation, Recreation, Wild
life and Open Space will be
stressed.
Details of the new program
will be spelled out by Washing
ton ASCS officials including
Charles M. Cox, Assistant to
the Deputy Administrator for
State and County Operations;
Ray Hunter Director of the
Conservation and Land-Use
Policy Division; Leo Schaefer,
Director of the Compliance Di
vision; Claude L. Greene, Jr.,
Southeast Area Director; Roy
Garren, Deputy Area Director,
and William H. Cummings, Di
rector of the Information
Division.
There’s a bit of the south
up north. Nearly 3 Yankees
eat Georgia eggs for every
Georgian.
FRIDAY, JAN. 22, 1971
Department Os Agriculture To fllake
Emergency Loans To Oil Ga. farmers
U. S. Senator Herman E.
Talmadge, Chairman of the Sen
ate Subcommittee on Agri
cultural Credit and Rural Elec
trification, announced today that
Jan. Bible Study
At Alamo Baptist
Rev. Raymond G. Johnson,
pastor of Alamo Baptist Church,
announces that plans have been
completed for five nights of
concentrated Bible Study for
all ages.
These special studies begin
Sunday, January 24, at 6:30
p.m., during the Training Union
hour'. They will continue Mon
day, Wednesday and Thursday
nights from 7:30 toil 8:45 and
will conclude during Training
Union on Sunday, January 31.
The adults will be studying
the three epistles of John under
the leadership of the pastor;
Youth 1 and 11 will study 1 John
under the direction of Bob
Tuten; Mrs. B. L. Bridgeman
will lead the Children 11 group
in a study of Music in the
Bible; Children 1 will partici
pate in Singing Praises under
the direction of Mrs. W. H.
Thomas, Jr.; and Mrs. Walter
Riddle will be in charge of
the nursery.
Pastor Johnson states that
he considers these studies to
be a rare opportunity for
Biblical instruction for each
member of the family.
Revenue Plan
Agnew To Boos!
Vice President Spiro T. Ag
new will make a two-hour visit
to Atlanta Jan. 27 to explain
President Richard M. Nixon’s
revenue-sharing plan to some
200 county officials from
throughout the Southeast.
The vice president is ex
pected to go directly to the
Holiday Inn near the Atlanta
Airport for a 10 a.m. speech
to Southern members of the
National Association of Coun
ties.
The Atlanta meeting is to be
one of five regional gatherings
of the association which Agnew
will attend between Jan. 20
and 29, it was reported.
Antique Fair At
Perry Feb. 3-4
“Antique Fair,” the eighth
annual antique show and sale
sponsored by the Beltista Club
of Perry, will be held Wednes
day and Thursday, February
3rd and 4th, at the National
Guard Armory on Macon Street.
The two day show will bring
some 21 dealers from three
states to Perry to display and
sell their merchandise. Tickets
at a SI.OO donation, good for
both days, can be purchased
from any Beltista Club member
or at the door.
Proceeds are used by the
club to give a college scholar
ship toa deserving Perry senior
and tosupportthe club’s various
other civic projects.
Miss Webster Named
To Dean’s List
Donna Kay Webster of Alamo,
has been named to the fall
quarter Dean’s List at Georgia
College.
An average of 3.2 out of a
possible 4.0 for 15 quarter
hours if academic work and an
all-college average of at least
2.5 must be earned by a Geor
gia College student in order
to be placed on the Dean’s
List.
A total of 220 GC students
have been placed on the fall
quarter Dean’s List, including
51 who made all A’s in their
academic courses for the
quarter.
the Department of Agriculture
lias promised to make emerg
ency loans available to all
farmers who suffered severe
losses because of com blight
or unfavorable weather condi
tions.
Talmadge had earlier ex
pressed dissatisfaction with the
Department of Agriculture’s
decision to designate only 17
counties as emergency loan
areas. The designated counties
are Appling, Bacon, Baldwin,
Burke, Jeff Davis, Jenkins,
Johnson, Laurens, Miller,
Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs,
Treutlen, Washington, Wayne,
Wheeler and Wilkinson. “I have
personal knowledge that there
are several Georgia counties
which have not been declared
emergency loan areas although
corn production in those coun
ties was reduced by two
thirds,” the Georgia Senator
stated.
In a December letter to As
sistant Secretary T.K.Cowden,
Senator Talmadge urged the
Farmers Home Administration
to meet its obligation, make
emergency loans to com farm
ers, and adequately fund the
Baptist Men's Day
At Alamo Baptist
Baptist Men’s Day at Alamo
Baptist Church gets under way
Sunday, January 24, with a
, breakfast at 7:00 a.m., for all
the men of the church. The
breakfast will be a time of
food, fellowship and inspiration
with E. L. Pickle, chairman
of the food committee and Bob
Tuten bringing an inspirational
address.
Dick Tuten, director of the
brotherhood of the Alamo
Church, states that the men
will teach all Sunday School
classes from age nine and above
during the 10 a.m. Sunday School
hour. The worship service at
11 a.m. will, also, be under
the direction of the laymen. A
male choir will bring special
music accompanied by Murray
Couey at the piano. Three eight
minute messages will be de
livered on various aspects of
Christian witnessing. These
will be brought by James W.
Mullins, Palmer Crawford and
J. F. Nicholson.
Baptist Men’s Day is being
held in churches throughout the
Southern Baptist Convention to
spotlight the importance and
responsibilities of men in con
tinuing the Christian witness
through their respective
churches.
Jim Parham Announces New Look
For Welfare, Names Saucier Deputy
Herschel Saucier, child wel
fare specialist and career
social worker, has been tapped
Deputy Director of the Georgia
Department of FamilyandChil
dren Services by Director Jim
Parham. The appointment is
effective immediately.
“A “new look’ for welfare —
including not just a relief check
but effective counseling and gui
dance for social and emotional
distress -- is a goal I’m work
ing toward,” Parham said.
“We are through “patching
up’ Georgia’s programs of pub
lic assistance and child ser
vices. We need a total service
program for homeless, neglect
ed and deliquent children to
help them from very early
childhood to late adolescence
to grow up sound in body and
mind. We need a treatment
approach to services for dis
tressed families including the
blind, disabled and aged who
often are alone and friendless.
"I am depending on Saucier
as my assistant and as the
Department’s Deputy Director
to lead this effort. His back
ground uniquely qualifies him
to make significant contri-
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emergency loan program.
Talmadge was assured bythe
Department of Agriculture that
loans will be available on an
individual basis to farmers whe
have suffered severe losses.
Although a farmer may live in
a county not designated as an
emergency loan area, he is
eligible for low interest emer
gency loans if he suffered a
severe loss and cannot get cred
it from other sources. In a
letter of December 30, Assis
tant Secretary Cowden assured
Senator Talmadge that the
Farmers Home Administration
will use its authority to make
emergency loans in all counties
in which individual farmers are
eligible.
Farmers who desire more
POPULAR Pl \NI IS
Georgia is the No 1 peanut
producing state in the nation,
and Georgia “goobers” are just
about everywhere, l ake peanut
butter, for example. It is esti
mated that this peanut product
is in 80 percent of all American
homes. There probably aren't
many foods that can top that
record.
PRESS SPEAKER Don
Carter, vice president and
executive editor of The
Redord, daily newspaper
published in Hackensack, New
Jersey, will be one of many
outstanding speakers at the
43rd annual Georgia Press
Institute at the Georgia Center
in Athens Feb 18-20. Mr.
Carter directs a staff of 200
reporters and editors in
covering one of America's
most affluent and diverse
suburban markets. He is a
native of Plains, Ga., a
graduate of the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism at
the University of Georgia, and
a former city editor of The
Atlanta Journal.
butions in the development and
coordination of service pro
grams for the State’s thousands
if children and families.
This is the second time for
the 45-year-old Saucier to
serve as Parham’s assistant.
He helped Parham build the
program for the Department’s
Division for Children and Youth
from 1963 to 1967. He has
continued to serve as Assistant
Director for the Division.
The Department of Family
and Children Services Director
stated that he chose Saucier
because of his long, exemplary
record in social services and
his particularly outstanding job
in developing childrenandyouth
programs in Georgia. He cited
the development of a state
operated juvenile court ser
vices program, the multi
county child welfare services
program which was a first in
state-supported and county
shared efforts to help children,
the child care licensing pro
gram and a program for the
treatment and rehabilitation of
delinquents in their own com
munities.
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information about the avail
ability of these loam; should
contact their local office of
the Farmers Home Adminis
tration.
Ga. State Telephone
Company Files
For Rate Increase
H. C. Hearn, Jr., President
of the Georgia State Telephone
Company, announced this week
that the company has filed an
application with the Georgia
Public Service Commission for
an adjustment in present local
exchange tariffs throughout its
service area.
Georgia State Telephone
Company has nearly 18,000 st
ations in its 26 exchanges in
the state. The company serves
more than 7,000 customers in
its larger communities of
Glennville, Springfield, Donal
sonville, Homerville and Gray.
Mr. Hearn said that some
of the factors contributing to
an adjustment in rates were
continuing rising costs of equip
ment and materials, increasing
wage levels necessary to attract
and retain qualified employees,
increasing taxes and higher in
terest rates required to obtain
new capital financing.
In support of this, Mr. Hearn
stated that the company has
increased its plant investment
in excess of $3,500,000 or 41%
in the past three years, and in
the same period interest ex
pense had increased 29%. He
further stated ttat property
taxes had risen 101% and the
company payroll 26% since
1968.
E. L. Osborne, State Man
ager of the company, stated
that residential and industrial
development in the area served,
tad been responsible for an
increase of over 3,500 new
customers in the last three
years, and that accompanying
this growth is the demand for
higher grades of service, re
quiring substantial investments
in new facilities and equipment.
To meet this demand for
improved service, the company
has reduced its multi-party
service 38% system wide, and,
in some exchanges, has elimi
nated multi-party entirely by
offering only one, two and four
party service.
Mr. Osborne pointed out that
new central office buildingsand
equipment with their necessary
cable additions have been placed
in service in the communities
of Pineview, Odum, Screven,
Rochelle, Jeffersonville and
Danville. This has resulted in
an upgrading of service for
these customers.
He added that Georgia State
Telephone Company has not re
ceived any adjustment in
general rates in tlie majority
of its exchanges in the last 10
years. In fact, the company
has provided free calling ser
vice between some if its ex
changes without any adjustment
in rates, even though the cost
of equipment has been high
and the loss in toll revenue
has been substantial. Inaddition
to large expenditures in the
past few years, we plan to
continue our capital improve
ments in 1971 by investing ap
proximately $2,000,000 in new
plant and facilities that have
been engineered and designed
to accomplish our goal of con
tinually providing improvedand
modernized service for our
customers.
If you have success growing
house plants, chances are you
are pretty well in the know
about proper watering prac
tices. Gerald Smith. Extension
Service horticulture depart
ment, says more house plants
are killed by improper watering
than by all the other mistakes
combined.