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VOLUME 56
Wheeler High
Students Named
Semi-Finalist
Three top students in the
Wheeler County High School
have been named semi-finalists
for the annual Governor’s
Honors Program sponsored by
the Georgia State Department
of Education.
Maria Pope was selected in
the field of English, Vicki Ald
ridge was chosen in the field
of art and Gina White was
nominated in music. Maria is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Pope, Vicki is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Vera McCullar
and Gina is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James White.
A student nominated for the
Governor’s Honors Program
must rank in the upper ten
per cent of his class, have an
overall grade average of B,
and have an average of A in
the area in which he is nomi
nated.
The Governor’s Honors Pro
gram is an instructional pro
gram designed to provide gifted
eleventh grade students en
rolled in Georgia public secon
dary schools challenging and
enriching educational oppor
tunities not usually available
during the regular school year.
The program is designed to
assist students in recognizing
their abilities. The teaching
staff tries to develop and
demonstrate different instruc
tional techniques which will
stimulate and challenge the
abilities of gifted students.
House Bill 476
Introduced To
Control Brush Fire
Reps. L. L. (Pete) Phillips
of Soperton and Joe Battle of
Savannah have introduced a bill
to make it unlawful to start
certain brush fires.
House Bill 476 would make
it a misdemeanor to start a
brush fire on someone else’s
land, or to start a fire on
one’s own land without taking
necessary precautions to pre
vent the fire from spreading
to another’s land.
Phillips explained that a
similar law was passed in 1956,
but was omitted when the Geor
gia Criminal Code was revised
in 1968.
The Soperton legislator said
the Georgia Forestry Com
mission at present can prose
cute in such instances only
through the general arson law,
which he said is too cumber
some.
If HB 476 becomes law, he
continued, the Forestry Com
mission will have a better
means of cracking down on
those who start wildfires.
“This is very’ important be
cause of Georgia’s greatfores
try resources,” Phillips added.
“We’ve had numerous wildfires
in South Georgia in recent
years.”
Lane H. Woodring
Wins Nassau Trip
On Thursday night, February
11th, at Miami Beach Conven
tion Hall, Lane Hartley Wood
ring sank six of seven free
throws to win a free trip for
two to Nassau in the Bahamas.
The Ladies Free Throw Con
test occurred during halftime
of the Floridians and Virginia
Squires professional basketball
game at Miami Convention Hall,
Miami Beach, Florida.
Coed's Trial
Is Delayed
The trial of a University of
North Carolina at Greensboro
coed who leaped nude into 30
pounds of spaghetti has been
postponed until March 9.
Pat O’Shea was charged with
“unreasonably' disturbing’’ the
public with her jump into a
giant platter of spaghetti (no
sauce) that two other students
had prepared as their modern
art exhibit at the Weatherspoon
Art Gallery January 11.
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the background, instead of the Fitch Inertial Barrier System now being tested at the interchange of
Interstate 20 and Interstate 75 in Atlanta A similar installation is in use at the Brookwood Station
Interchange. The barrier above has been severely damaged three times, with the vehicle being
driven away each time without even filing an accident report. The Brookwood Station site has
been struck several times also . . w ith no reports of injury or serious damage. (PRN)
Ludowici Court Clerk
Found Shot To Death
Atlanta Constitution -
Superior Court Clerk R. L.
Bailey of Ludowici, whose of
fice records were photographed
this week by federal officials
investigating alleged vote
frauds, speed traps and clip
joints, was shot to death Friday
afternoon, February 12.
Bailey was dead on arrival
at the Liberty Memorial Hos
pital at Hinesville.
A hospital spokesman said
Bailey had been shot in the
chest and that it was under
stood from investigating au
thorities the shooting occurred
at his home.
Georgia Bureau of Investi
gation Agent William Kick
lighter at Hinesville refused
to discuss any details of the
case or even confirm that any
one had been shot.
However, Friday evening GBI
Director Hugh Smith confirmed
that Bailey had been shot four
times with a .38-caliber pistol.
Major Smith said bullets struck
Bailey in the chest, stomach
and under the right arm.
Smith said no arrests had
been made but that there might
be some developments in the
case later Friday night.
Neither Long County Sheriff
Cecil Nobles nor his chief dep
uty, E. S. McGowan, could be
reached for comment. Both
were investigating the shooting.
Justice Department and GBI
officials had been in Bailey’s
office until past midnight on
Thursday morning taking pic
tures of Superior Court records
elating back to 1966.
GBI Maj. Smith said he did
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Herman E. Tal
madge has assumed the Chairmanship of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. One of the
Georgia Senator’s initial actions as Chairman was to
create a new Subcommittee on Rural Development. “I
intend to make rural revitalization a major thrust of
the Committee,” Senator Talmadge said. “We must do
more to promote overall economic development of farm
and small town areas. Moreover, the migration of
people from countryside to city must cease if we are
going to solve the urban crisis." (’hairman Talmadge
also pledged “to fight with every resource at my com
mand for increased income for the nation’s farmers,
and to put American agriculture more on an equal
footing with other segments of the nation’s economy.”
ALAMO, WHEEIJSR COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
not believe the shooting and
the federal investigation of
Ludowici and Long County
records were connected.
“I don’t have any reason to
believe that at all,” he said.
An assistant in Bailey’s of
fice said Bailey had been at
work Friday morning and had
left the office during the early
afternoon. However, the assis
tant repeatedly declined to dis
cuss whether Bailey had been
shot. Asked if she would give
a reporter Bailey’s home tele
phone number, she said she
couldn’t do that, although she
said it was listed in her tele
phone book.
Georgia Power
Newspaper Ads
Second In Nation
Georgia Power Company’s
newspaper advertisements of
the past 12 months have been
chosen second best in the nation
in the utility field and its ad
vertising department presented
a Socrates Honorable Award.
The company was cited by
Public Utility Ad-Views, a na
tional publication that has been
conducting an annual competi
tion for 45 years.
Entrants are rated on a point
system. Judges consider “the
skillful use of an idea, visual
ization, copy and layout, total
effectiveness as a sales aid,
increasing the use of the utili
ty’s services, and building the
company’s goodwill.”
Wheeler Girls
Participate In
Teen Pageant
Miss Gina Faye White of
Alamo and Miss Joni Browning
of Glenwood have been selected
to participate in the Miss South
east District YMCA Teen Page
ant, February 26 in Statesboro,
sponsored by the Southeast Dis
trict of the State YMCA of
Georgia. These young ladies
represent the Y Clubs in this
area. They will be judged on
poise, beauty of face, and con
tributions to their school and
community life.
The contestants will join with
28 other young ladies from
all over the Southeast District
for the pageant. The activities
scheduled include interviews
with the judges, a luncheon
at the Holiday Inn, Reception
planned for the chaperones and
judges along with the con
testants and the pageant itself
beginning at 8:00 p.m. at the
Statesboro Junior High School
on the 26th.
The winner of the District
pageant will represent the
Southeast District Y Clubs in
the State Y Pageant later this
year. She will also serve as
speaker for various Y functions
and represent the district on
local as well as State occasions.
Statesboro Y Clubs will serve
as hosts for the event and the
public is invited to attend the
event in Statesboro, says
Flowers.
Agents To Sponsor
School In Athens
The Georgia Association of
Independent Insurance Agents
and the Insurance Fieldmen’s
Association of Georgia will
sponsor classes in basic
property and casualty insurance
Feb. 18-27 at the University
of Georgia Center for Contin
uing Education in Athens.
The school will provide per
sons seeking insurance agent,
solicitor or broker licenses
with the required 40 hours of
classroom study before taking
a state insurance department
examination, which will be con
ducted on the final day of the
school.
Dodge County Sheriff
Wounded, Wife Jailed
Macon Telegraph -
Dodge County Sheriff Jackson
Jones, 41, was hospitalized
Thursday, February 11, with a
bullet in his left side and his
wife, Mrs. Juanita Grissom
Jones, 35, was jailed on a charge
of assault with intent to murder;
Chief Deputy Bill Strickland
said the sheriff was shot at
about 10 p.m. Wednesday in the
living quarters of the county
jail.
Mrs. Joies was jailed at
about 1 a.m. Thursday after a
brother of the sheriff, Frank
Joies, signed a warrant.
Strickland said he has been
unable to determine what led
FRIDAY, FEB. 19, 1971
Pres. Hixon Lauds fam Productivity
Record, U.S. Best In The World
President Nixon recently
praised American farmers for
providing this country’s people
the best food in the world at a
lower percentage of family in
come than is provided for any
other country in the world.
For this, he said, the Nation
owes American agriculture a
very great debt.
He cited the fact that the
area of the American economy
that lias had the greatest growth
in productivity is American
agriculture, and said this has
not been adequately reflected
in agricultural income.
This report on the President
singling out American agricul-
Arbor Day To Be
Observed Feb. 19
Georgia’s eighty-first an
niversary of Arbor Day will
be observed February 19. Gov.
Jimmy Carter, in issuing a
Proclamation pointed out that
forests occupy 69 percent of
the State’s land area and form
the base for Georgia’s second
largest industry - timber. This
industry accounts for over $1.3
billion a year. Trees perform
yeoman service in storing
water, preventing soil erosion
and are vital to Georgia’s en
vironment.
Thousands of seedlings will
be planted by youngsters
throughout the State. Garden
clubs, agricultural groups,
civic clubs and others in
terested in conservation and
beautification will dedicate this
day to recognizing the value
of our vast tree crop.
Robert Herring
Completes Radar
Crewman Course
Army Private Robert M.
Herring, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Barton Herring, Rt. 2, Glen
wood, recently completed an
eight-week Army Air Defense
Acquisition Radar Crewman
course at Ft. Bliss, Texas.
He learned to test, operate
and maintain a long-range
acquisition radar which is used
with all the army’s air defense
weapons.
Pvt. Herring entered the
Army in August, 1970, and com
pleted basic training at Ft.
Jackson, S. C.
The 17-year-old soldier at
tended Wheeler County High
School, Alamo.
Region 413 Boys
Basketball Tourney
Set For Wheeler
The Region 413 Boys Basket
ball Tournament will begin at
the Wheeler County High School
Gym on Wednesday night, Feb
ruary 24, and continue through
Friday night, February 26.
The following teams will take
part in the tournament:
Wheeler County, Northwest
I Burens, Southwest Laurens,
Treutlen County, GMC, Mont
gomery County and Lyons.
up to the shooting.
He said that when he went
to the hospital, Jones gave him
two weapons. One was a .22
caliber pistol which had not
been fired and the other was
a .25 caliber pistol which had
been fired.
Strickland said the few words
Jones has told him included a
request to do something about
his wife.
Dr. Channings S. Jun, Jones’
physician, said the bullet en
tered the left side, passed
through the small intestine and
lodged in the large intestine.
He said it would be several
days before he could operate.
ture for high praise was
supplied by Ross P. Bowen,
Chairman of the Georgia Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
servation (ASC) Committee.
Bowen said, “I believe not only
farmers but others as well
will be particularly interested
in these comments by the Presi
dent. We who help administer
farm programs for the U. S.
Department of Agriculture have
often reminded our urban
friends that Americans are the
best fed people in the world
at the lowest real cost because
of the efficiency of American
agriculture. It is heartening
to have the President state
this and other basic facts about
agriculture.
In his remarks, President
Nixon referred to the new Com
mission on Productivity, with a
membership of top leaders
representing American indus
try, labor, the academic com
munity, and agriculture, saying
that “a very significant point
was made, not only in the first
meeting, but in the second and
third. On every occasion, it
was this: That, that area of the
American economy that has had
the greatest growth in produc
tivity and that has the highest
productivity per man hour, any
Federal Land Bank Directors
Attend Management Institute
Raymond L. Evors, Manager,
and Dolan E. Brown, Homer
Durrence, Willis McLain Sr.,
Fate De Loach and Elmo D. Rich,
directors of the Federal Land
Bank Association of Swains
boro, have just returned from
Atlanta, where they attended
an advanced management de
velopment institute.
“The institute was conducted
to keep Land Bank Association
officials abreast of the latest
developments and techniques in
modern management,” Mr.
Evors said. The institute was
conducted by the Federal Land
Bank of Columbia, S. C. Of
ficers of the Bank serving as
instructors includedß. A, Darr,
President; Frank L. Barton,
Vice-President and Secretary;
and W. M. Harding, Vice Presi
dent.
“The Federal Land Bank of
Columbia makes long-term
agricultural loans through
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BEAUTY CONTESTANTS?
You’d bet your life on it and though you would lose, chances are these
girls would bring you back to life. In fact, they are the highly trained
representatives of the Georgia Heart Association who travel statewide
developing training programs in the new life-saving technique of
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for physicians, nurses, and
others in emergency and high risk occupations. The technique, mouth
to-mouth ventilation and external chest compression, uses a life-like
manikin called Resusci-anne (the one in the middle). Heart Fund
dollars help make this program possible. Pictured clockwise are Mrs.
Lucy Greene, Miss Bonnie Landis, Miss Susan Carter and Miss Linda
Howard.
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way you want to rate it, is
American agriculture.”
Upon hearing this fact, the
President said he checked fur
ther and found that “we are
the best fed people, but at
the lowest cost, the lowest per
centage of our income, of any
country in the world. And for
that, we are most grateful.”
This fact, he said, “Means
that the Nation owes American
agriculture a very great debt,
which perhaps has not been
adequately reflected in agri
cultural income.”
Mr. Nixon continued, “I am
not happy about the fact that
agricultural income has not
been at the rates that it should
have been over the past few
years. I think the farmer de
serves a fair share of the
Nation’s increasing wealth and
its increasing productivity, due
to the fact that American agri
culture is so productive.”
At the same time, Mr. Nixon
said, “We have problems of
hunger in this country, and
there are problems of hunger
in all countries, rich and poor,
around the world.
“But the problems of hunger
in this country are, in terms
of magnitude, nothing compared
to what the problems are in
farmer-owned Federal Land
Bank Associations serving
every county in the two Caro
linas, Georgia and Florida,”
Mr. Evors said. “The Bank
has over 42,000 loans outstand
ing to farmers, growers and
ranchers in the amount of over
$7lO million through the 46
I^and Bank Associations in the
four-state district.”
Some of the more important
topics presented during the in
stitute include Future of Agri
culture and Farm Credit, Deal
ing with People, Effective Plan
ning, Innovations for the Future
and Business Development.
The Federal Land Bank As
sociation of Swainsboro, serves
the long-term credit needs of
965 farmers, growers and
ranchers in Candler, Emanuel,
Jenkins, Montgomery, Screven,
Tattnall, Toombs and Wheeler
counties with more than $13,-
600,000.00
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countries that simply do not
have the enormous productivity
that we liave.
“And so, as we look around
the world and as we think of
the future of the world and what
is going to happen, we realize
how much American agriculture
can contribute.” The President
said he referred not only to
export markets but to “the
knowledge that we are able
to share with other people which
may make a difference in these
next 10, 15, 25 years, a dif
ference as to whether millions
of people all over the world
will grow up without enough
to eat at all, or whether they
may have a better chance than
they would otherwise have to
survive.”
In the course of his remarks
President Nixon had high praise
for Secretary of Agricultui-e
Clifford M. Hardin, saying that
“when I appointed him, I wanted
a man who would speak for the
farmers and for American
Agriculture to the White House
rather than the other way
around. He has done that. Be
neath that very pleasant and
disarming exterior of his is a
very strong and persuasive and
determined mind. And in these
matters that come before us
and the high decisions that have
to be made at the White House
with the legislative leaders, in
the Cabinet, on the budget and
other matters, I can assure
you that agriculture lias a very
strong advocate.”
Show And Sale
Os Fine Paintings
Sunday, Feb. 21
Art enthusiasts in the area
are in for a treat Sunday, Feb.
21, when the International Salon
from Atlanta will present a
show and sale of fine paintings.
The affair will be held in
Cordele at the Community Club
House from two to six, and is
being sponsored by the Public
Affairs Group of the Cordele
Woman’s Club. Several paint
ings by famous artists will
be for show only, but there
will be many for sale by artists
both famous and unknown, and
representing many different
mediums and periods.
Sammy Hardman, curator of
the museum, and Professor
Daniel Pfeifer, an authority on
Oriental objects of art, will
be on hand to answer questions
about the paintings, or about
objects brought to them for
appraisal.
There will be no charge for
admission, but visitors who
wish to will be able to make a
voluntary contribution. Pro
ceeds will go to the summer
activities of the Teen Club of
Cordele, which is sponsored
by the group.
NOTICE
On February 1, 1971, an
ordinance was passed by the
City Council prohibiting all
manually operated or self pro
pelled vehicles, namely bi
cycles, motor scooters & etc.
from being used on the side
walk of Alamo in the business
district. This violation will be
termed a misdemeanor and
fined not less than $5.00 nor
more than $25.00 per offense.
The vehicle will be stored by
the Police Department until fine
is paid.
We ask all parents to help
us enforce this regulation for
the protection of all the people
who uses these side walks.
By City Council and Mayor
Alamo, Georgia
A speech should be like a
woman’s skirt just long
enough to cover the subject,
and short enough to create in
terest.