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VOLUME 56
Wheeler Enters
Beautification
Contest For 1971
The 1971 Beautification
Through Conservation Contest
for Wheeler County got off to
an enthusiastic start Thursday
night at the regular meeting of
the Alamo Garden Club.
Jimmy James, Soil Conser
vationist, explained the pro
gram with a slide presentation
about the state-wide beautifi
cation program sponsored by
the Georgia Electric Member
ship Corporation, and the Geor
gia Association of Conservation
District Supervisors.
The program is similar to
the one Wheeler County entered
and won district honors in last
year. It has as its purpose to
beautify Georgia through con
servation methods and to im
prove the total environment.
A §IOO prize is given the dis
trict winner and SSOO goes to
the state winner.
The entire county is invited
to participate in the program
and several clubs and organ
izations were represented at
the kick-off meeting. Some re
ported various projects for im
provement already underway.
“We are interested in all
phases of beautification through
conservation and want the
people over the county to tell
us about their activities,’’
James said.
“A scrapbook will be kept
cm all the activities on both
public and private property.
We urge the people to tell us
about what they are doing so
we can include it in the scrap
book,’’ James continued.
In a meeting of the various
committee chairmen, Mrs.
Jimmy James was named to
serve as overall program
chairman. Committee chairmen
are: Little Ocmulgee EMC, L.
B. Chambers; County projects,
Miss Cindy Nelson; City of
Alamo, Woodrow Gillis; City
of Glenwood, L. W. Kent; Scrap
book, Mrs. Jimmy James;
Photography, Ramon Meguiar;
Publicity, Mrs. Normalene
Hartley; Correspondence, Mrs.
Louise Morrison; Soil Conser
vation Coordinator, Jimmy
James; Alamo Garden Club,
Mrs. W. R. McDaniel; Schools,
Mrs. Wm. S. Clark; Scrapbook
Cover, Palmer Crawford; Fi
nance, Mrs. Frances Griffin;,
and Industry, Jimmy Fields.
Montgomery Co.
Wins Class B
Championship
Montgomery County ’s Eagl
ettes won their 28th consecutive
triumph and the State Champ
ionship Saturday night, March
20, in the Macon Coliseum.
The finals began Wednesday
night with Montgomery playing
Union County , or. Thursday night
Atkinson County, on Friday
night Glenville, and on Saturday
night they played South West
Laurens. Judy Curry of Mont
gomery County was named
Class B’s Most Valuable For
ward while teammate Debra
Foskey was selected the Most
Valuable Guard.
Other team members were
Juanita Sneads, Justine Clark,
Vanessa Kinsey, Diane Lane,
Susan Richardson, Kay Martin
and Joni Browning, who missed
playing the last couple of tourn
ament games with an injured
foot.
This was the second State
title for Mayes Dobbins of the
Eaglettes, for one of his teams
cashed in all chips in 1961.
The Montgomery team used
two “must’’ ingredients en
route to their State crown. A
sticky defense that shut off
the scoringpower and an offense
that scored more points for
their victories.
New
Road Chief
Donalsonville’s Hugh Broome
is the new State Highway Board
chairman. He was elected to
succeed Reginald Trice of
Macon, who did not seek re
election to the board this year.
Effective date is April 16.
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Washington: Two Brewton-Parker College officials listen intently as U.S. Rep. G. Elliott Hagan
describes the age and history of hue! recovered after the recent bombing of a section of the U.S.
Capitol building Dr. J. Eheodore Phillips (left) Brewton-Parker president and Colon Sammons
(right) college business manager, attended the recent convention of the American Association of
Junior Colleges. Capitol architectural experts estimate the brick were made around 1814, for
renovation of the Capitol following the attack on Washington by British forces in the War of 1812.
Hagan called the recent bombing "an evil, senseless assault on the hallowed seat of our American
government.” (PRN)
Annual Tri-County Hog Show
Held This Week At Soperton
Soperton — Brent Coleman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cole
man of Glenwood, showed his
Duroc barrow to the Grand
Championship at the Third an
nual Tri-County Hog Show here
this week.
The Reserve Champion was
shown by David Glisson of
Soperton. Showmanship top
honor went to Bobo McNair of
Soperton.
Blue ribbon winners were
Allen McDonald of Tarrytown
in the light weight class; Bobo
McNair in the medium light
weight class; David Glisson in
the medium weight class; Brent
Coleman in the heavy weight
class; and Gary' Brinson of
Soperton in the homegrown
class.
The show was sponsored by
the Tri-County Resource Con
servation and Development
Project and businesses and in
dividuals in the project area.
Eddie Young of Soperton was
the show chairman and Dr. Bob
McGuire of Athens was the
Judge.
A complete list of winners
is as follows: Grand Champion-
Brent Coleman; Reserve
Champion - David Glisson.
CLASS I - Light:
First place - AllenMcDonald;
Second place - Cleon Brown;
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Springtime Fun
As springtime approaches, a young lady’s fancy often
turns to thoughts of open fields, warm sunshine and a
steady breeze catching and holding a brightly colored
kite against a blue sky. Pretty Diane Shaver knows
that kite-flying can be fun. She also follows safety
rules outlined by the Georgia Power Company. She
never flies her kite near power lines or in an electrical
storm. She doesn’t use metal in the kite or string and
keeps clear of all roadways. Diane cautions her friends
not to attempt to remove a kite if it should become
tangled in electric wires or on an electric power pole.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
Third place - Dale Meeks;
Fourth place - Tracy Mc-
Lendon; Fifth place - Mike
Atkinson.
CLASS II - Medium Light Weight
Ist place - Bobo McNair;
2nd place - Ted Mercer; 3rd
place - Teresa McLendon; 4th
place - Teresa McLendon; sth
Wallace Spencer
Takes High Score
On Proficiency
Army Private First Class
Wallace Spencer, 20, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Spencer,
Route 1, Lumber City, recently
at Ft. Jackson, S. C., was his
company’s high scorer on the
Physical Proficiency Test held
at the end of his advanced
individual training.
The rigid test, based on skills
that require coordination and
endurance, is designedtoevalu
ate a soldier's physical capa
bilities and to determine
whether he has the stamina
needed in battle.
PFC. Spencer entered the
Army in September, 1970, and
completed basic training at Ft.
Jackson.
He is a 1970 graduate of
Wheeler County High School
in Alamo.
place - Jimmy McNair.
CLASS 111 - Medium Weight -
Ist place - David Glisson;
2nd place - Jimmy McNair;
3rd place - Jimmy McNair;
4th place - Joey Thomas; sth
place - Thomas Mercer.
CLASS IV - Heavy Weight -
Ist place - Brent Coleman;
2nd place - David Glisson; 3rd
place - Gary Brinson; 4tl;
place - Ricky Flury; sth place -
Lamar Brown.
HOMEGROWN CLASS -
Ist place - Gary Brinson;
2nd place - Jimmy McNair;
3rd place - Joey Thomas; 4th
place -BoboMcNair; sthplace -
Joey Thomas.
SHOWMANSHIP -
Ist place - Bobo McNair;
2nd place - Allen McDonald;
and 3rd place - Dale Meeks.
Nurses Choir To
Present Concert
At Stucky Baptist
The Student Nurses’ Choir
from Georgia Baptist Hospital
School of Nursing in Atlanta,
under the direction of John V.
Glover, Jr., will present a con
cert Saturday, March 27th, at
7:30 p.m. at Stuckey Baptist
Church. The program consists
of a variety of musical compo
sitions ;;from Latin works by
Hassler, Lotti and Di Lasso
to hymns, spirituals and popular
pieces.
The Student Nurses’ Choir
is composed of young ladies
who are training for the nursing
profession. They have been
chosen to represent their school
because of their musical and
scholastic ability.
Georgia Baptist Hospital
School of Nursing is the largest
school of nursing in Georgia
and has the reputation for being
the finest in the area. Education
of the Georgia Baptist nurse
emphasizes that total nursing
care includes ministry to the
whole person, which includes
his emotional and spiritual
well-being as well as his physi
cal well-being.
Sgt. Marvin Ussery
Earns Air Force
Outstanding Award
Chief Master Sergeant Mar
vin L. Ussery, brother of Mrs.
Dudley Benton of Lumber City,
is a member of the 313th Tact
ical Airlift Wing at Forbes
AFB, Kan., that has earned
the U. S. Air Force Outstanding
Unit Award.
Sergeant Ussery is a 1938
graduate of Wheeler County
High School, Alamo. His wife,
Nell, is the daughter of L. A.
Pace of Orlando, Fla.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1971
Suspect Arrested In Three Alurder
Cases Committed In Area Counties
The Atlanta Journal
A slender ex-convict,
charged in three murder cases,
was being held in an undis
closed jail Friday and authori
ties said he may be linked to
five other slayings.
The man was identified as
William J. Pierce Jr., 33, of
Route 3, Swainsboro.
“We have reason to believe
that three to five more cases
of murder, along with as many
as 10 other criminal charges,
may be involved,” said Deputy
Sheriff Howard McCook of
Swainsboro.
Sheriff Herman G. Yeomans
Wheeler Co. And
Vidalia Split
Doubleheader
Wheeler County and Vidalia
split a doubleheader Saturday
in Alamo, with the Bulldogs
winning the first game behind
Freddy Nobles, 8-2, but Vidalia
taking the second fray, 12-5.
Wheeler County travels to
Hazlehurst Saturday night for a
twin bill with Jeff Davis, with
the first game scheduled to
start at 6 p.m.
Nobles went the route in the
first tilt, allowing the Indians
but two hits and shutting them
out until the seventh and last
frame. By that time, the Bull
dogs had tallied eight runs in
cluding three in the first inning.
Nobles fanned five and walk
ed six in his first outing of
the season. He also contributed
a single to the attack.
Leading Bulldog hitter for
the first game was Kenneth
Elton with two singles in three
trips. Randy Pope had a double
and Pedro Purvis a single.
The second game was a night
mare for Wheeler County pitch
ers and Coach Ted Morrison
used four hurlers trying to find
one who could get the ball
across the plate. In all, 13
Vidalia players drew bases on
balls to help their cause.
Pope started but was relieved
by Elton, Purvis and Bruce
Gilder.
Skip Clark caught both games
for Wheeler County and set
something of a record by throw
ing out eight Vidalia players
attempting to steal during the
doubleheader. He also had a
triple and two singles in the
second contest.
Elton, Pope and Steve Spivey
got the other Wheeler County
safeties in the second game.
FIRST GAME - Vidalia - 000
000 2- 2 2 4; Wheeler Co.
302 102 x- 8 5 0.
SECOND GAME - Vidalia -
502 010 4-12 8 5; Wheeler
Co. - 012 002 0-5 6 4.
Johnston and Johnston; Pope,
Elton (2nd), Purvis (4th), Gilder
(sth) and C lark.
Mrs. Johnnie
Holmrs Hartley
Funeral services for Mrs.
Johnnie Holmes Hartley, 77,
of Alamo, who died Tuesday
in the Wheeler County Hospital
following a long illness, will
be held Thursday afternoon,
(today) at 3:00 o’clock from
Snowhill Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Alamo
Cemetery with Harris and. Smith
Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Hartley was bom in
Treutlen County on December
17, 1893 the daughter of the
late Charles C. and Mary
Frances Wright Holmes. She
was married to Willie A. Hart
ley in April, 1917, in Wheeler
County and was a member of
Snowhill Baptist Church.
Survivors include her hus
band; two daughters, Mrs. Willa
Dean Coffee and Mrs. Nell Pur
vis; and a brother, C. L.
Holmes, all of Alamo; and two
sisters, Mrs. Henry Thigpen
of Soperton and Mrs. Rudy Cole
of Mt. Holly, N. C.
Jr., also of Swainsboro, said
Pierce has been charged in
slayings occurring in Appling,
Jeff Davis and Treutlen coun
ties.
The crimes occurred, au
thorities said, in an immediate
nine-county area.
Sheriff J. B. “Red’’ Carter
disclosed that Pierce has been
indicted on one count of murder
and two of aggravated assault
in Appling County.
The sheriff said the charges
stem from an attempted robbery
Jan. 28, in which Mrs. Vivian
Miles, a 60-year-old country
grocer, was shot and killed
and her 5-year-old grand
daughter, Rhonda Ursery,
severely beaten.
Carter said the little girl
lias since recovered.
The Jeff Davis County case
was said by officers to involve
the disappearance and death
of Helen H. Wilcox, a 32-year
old mother of four who helped
her husband in the operation
of a rural grocei’y near Hazle
hurst.
Sheriff Marcus L. Hall of
Hazlehurst, said Mrs. Wilcox
disappeared from the store Jan.
22 and was not seen again
until her body was discovered
Wednesday, March 17, in a
wooded area west of Hazle
hurst.
Hall said a State Crime l ab
oratory report indicated Mrs.
Wilcox had been strangled but
Literary Meet Winners
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President of Region 4 B, Mayes Dobbins and Region Secretary',
W. L. Chambers present second place trophy to Principal James
Mullins of Wheeler County.
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Left to right: Frank Pickle, Kenneth Hartley, Gary Coleman,
Tony Owens are shown with their teacher, Mrs. Tommy Owens
and Brewton-Parker College Dean, Aaron H. Swain. The quartet
won first place.
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Dr. Paul Davis, Assistant to the President at Brewton-Parker
College, congratulates Wheeler’s Ist place winning trio composed
of Gina White, Angela Owens and Maria Pope. Mrs. Tommy
Owens, Music Director of the Wheeler County Schools looks on.
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refused further comment.
Treutlen County Sheriff
Lewis Johnson told the Savan
nah Morning News earlier that
the fatal shooting of a woman
grocer near Soperton Jan. 12,
possible was linked tothe simi
lar deaths in Appling and Jeff
Davis counties.
Johnson told the newspaper
a suspect in the slaying of
Mrs. lacy Thigpen, 51, was
being held in custody but de
clined to say if it were the
same man.
The Treutlen County Sheriff
said, however, that he was
“working closely’” with Sheriffs
Hall, Carter and Yeomans.
A Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation agent, known to be
assigned to the case, refused
to discuss the investigation.
‘•There was an agreement,”
he told “the Associated Press
in a telephone interview.
“You’ll have to talk to the
individual sheriffs. I can’t say
anything at all right now.”
Yeomans said Pierce was
arrested last Friday night, Mar.
12, near Summertown, a small
community some 12 miles north
of Swainsboro in Emanuel
County.
“We had a lookout for him,”
Yeomans said. “The sheriff
in Screven County had a bur
glary warrant for his arrest
and Sheriff (Zollie) Compton
of Jefferson County wanted him
NUMBER 51
on a larceny charge.”
Carter said he served the
Appling County murder warrant
on Pierce at the county jail
at Swainsboro.
“I had me a car to go on,”
the Appling County sheriff said.
‘•The description wasn’t exactly
right ... but it was similar.
There were some other things,
too, some marks on the car
and all. But I don’t want to go
into them at this time.”
Carter also said there was
a witness to the robbery at
tempt in which Mrs. Miles was
slain.
“There was a delivery boy,
Joe Overstreet of Alma, bring
ing bread to the store just
about the time the man left,”
Carter said. “There’s a little
sidewalk outside the store. The
man stepped off the sidewalk,
let the bread boy go by, then
fired two shots at him.
“The shots missed, but the
bread boy was able to tell me
what he looked like.”
Carter indicated—as did the
other sheriffs—that he had been
appraised of the full extent
of the investigation, but re
fused to discuss the over-all
case with newsmen.
“1 don’t mind talking about
my case because I’ve got it
all wrapped up,” Carter said.
“But I don’t want to spoil a
case for someone else.”
Carter described Pierce as
being about 6 feet tall, weighing
around 170 pounds, and said
Pierce had “reddish-brown
hair trimmed in what I call a
‘decent’ haircut.”
He said Pierce is unmarried
and has been working as a
service station attendant.
Rubella Shots
Now Required
For School Entry
The State Board of Health,
meeting in Atlanta Thursday,
added rubella to the list of
immunizations required for a
child entering school for the
first time.
The Board’s official ruling
will be in effect in September,
when the 1971-72 school year
begins.
Rubella—sometimes called
“German measles—is in itself
a comparatively mild disease.
However, the disease if con
tracted by a pregnant woman
often leads to mental retard
ation or other crippling con
ditions in the baby.
Rubella is the seventh im
munization now required for
school entry in Georgia. The
others required are for diph
theria, whooping cough, small
pox, measles, tetanus and polio.
Tony Couey
Named Head
Coach At
Brewton Parker
i Coach Harold Tony Couey
1 has been named head coach
and athletic director at
Brewton-Parker College ac
! cording to a statement issued
I from the office of President
Phillips. Couey has been assis
tant to Coach Tracy Rivers
who earlier this week resigned
to accept a four-year college
offer.
Couey played four years of
high school athletics at Glen
wood and was graduated from
Brewton-Parker in 1963 where
he was outstanding in both
basketball and baseball. He re
ceived his bachelor’s degree
from Georgia Southern College
and his master’s from Middle
Tennessee State University.
Previous to his return to Brew
ton-Parker Couey was a mem
ber of the coaching staff of
Georgia Southwestern College.