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VOLUME 57
Christian Life
Conference Set
For St. Simons
The Southeast District YMCA
cf Georgia is sponsoring the
annual Christian Life Con
ference at Epworth-by-the-Sea
on St. Simons Island during the
week-end erf April 30, May 1
and 2.
Nancy Carr (Miss Georgia)
and Ed Kilbourne will help with
the conference. Miss Carr will
speak and sing and Mr. Kil
bourne, a folk singer, will do a
concert.
This year each Y-Club mem
ber will be placed in a group
erf about ten people. These
groups called rap sessions will,
we hope, give the members a
chance to open up about his or
her problems. Each session
will be held under the super
vision cf a rap leader.
Below is a list of the people
who will help with Christian
Life Conference.
Rap Leaders - Mrs. Dorothy
P. Jackson, Waycross; Mrs.
Donnie Swain, Mt. Vernon; Rick
Reese, Waycross; Mrs. Bobbye
Cobb, Statesboro; Pate Bridges,
Savannah; Mrs. Beverly P. Wil
liams, Millen; Wally' Hostetter,
East Point; Don Goldthwaite,
Atlanta; Mrs. Charles Hinson,
Charleston, S. C.; Wayne Clark,
Rome; Hamp Lankford, Athens;
and Mrs. Joe Wooten, Atlanta.
College Assistants - Harry
Davis, Georgia Southern Col
lege; Judy Amis, University of
Georgia; Jan Larisey, Univer
sity of Georgia; Horace
Larisey, Bob Wilson, Jane
Thompson and Hubert Harvey,
Georgia Southern College;
Harry Purdom, University of
the South; Lynn Ann Allen,
Georgia Southern College.
Chris Fievet, Fort Lee, Vir
ginia; Cindy Goldthwaite, Agnes
Scott College; John Gay and
Dorotliy Harris, University' of
Georgia; Jo Anna Abel, Diane
Hilliard, Rodney Barnwell, Judy'
Field, Gary Evans, Susan Por
ter, Ed Roberts, and Tim Park,
all of GeorgiaSouthernCollege;
Maie Hatcher and Carroll Gay,
University cf Georgia.
Chaplin - Reverend Charles
Hinson, Charleston, S. C.
District Officers - Nancy
Black, President, Millen; John
Walker, Ist V. P., Mcßae;
Bonnie Wainright, 2nd V. P.,
Hazlehurst; Cathy Hoile, Secre
tary, W'aycross; and Deborah
Bell, Chaplin, Sylvania.
Youth Governor-Cindy Jones
and Director of Advisors -
Phil Chandler.
Ed Houston Elected
Director Georgia
Poultry Federation
Ed L. Houston, President of
Eastern Pullets, Inc., of Lum
ber City, was elected as a new
Director of the Georgia Poultry
Fedei-ation at the annual spring
meeting at Callaway Gardens.
Mr. Houston, who resides
in Douglas, is a veteran of 24
years service in the Georgia
poultry industry. He is a Direc
tor of the Georgia Egg Associ
ation and a member of the
Poultry Leaders Round Table.
Horace Sewell of Dalton, was
elected President of the Feder
ation and Perry McCranie of
Tifton, was elected as one of
three Vice-Presidents. Billy
Crider of Douglas, was re
elected a Director.
Dick Worrell of Douglas, a !
former Director, was honored 1
as a member of the Poultry i
Leaders Round Table along with ;
McCranie, Houston, Crider,
Russ Emerson of Douglas, and
Lannis Thomas of Blackshear.
Homecoming At
Community Church
Os God April 25
Homecoming will be observed
at the Community Church of
God in Wheeler County on Sun
day, April 25.
The Rev. Bill New will be
the guest speaker at the morn
ing worship service at 11:00
a.m. Dinner will be served at
noon and there will be singing
in the afternoon.
The pastor, Lorene Boyd,
and members invites everyone
to attend.
Wheeler County Eagle
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STATE HOG CHOLERA FREE - Commissioner of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin, right, accepts a Certificate from Under Secretary
of Agriculture Phil Campbell which recognizes Georgia as a hog
cholera free state in special ceremonies in Atlanta. Georgia,
which ranks Bth in the nation in swine production, began hog
cholera eradication efforts in 1962 and has experienced no
outbreak now in more than a year. (PRN)
Hagan Heads Business
Development Conference
WASHINGTON (PRN) - A
one-day Business Development
Conference designed to help
Georgia businessmen to help
themselves will be held in
Milledgeville, Georgia, May
7th under the sponsorship of
First District Representative
G. Elliott Hagan and two
other Georgia Congressmen.
Co-sponsoring the
conference, to be held on the
campus of Georgia College, are
Representatives Robert G.
Stephens, Jr. of the Tenth
District and Jack T. Brinkley
of the Third District.
The conference will be
hosted by the Georgia College
department of business
administration and economics
and conducted by
representatives of the U.S.
Department of Commerce
Office of Business Services.
Congressman Hagan said the
conference will feature
presentations by
representatives of a number of
Federal agencies. Their goal,
he said, will be to bring
Federal expertise to bear on
the problems of the State’s
small businesses and local
governments, outling Federal
aid available and the proper
procedures for getting it.
Professor J. Gordon Long,
who is handling arrangements
for the program at Georgia
College, said invitations are
being mailed to businessmen
and local government leaders
across the State. He added
that those who are interested
in attending but have not
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Stream Adopted
Pictured above is one of J. W, Graham’s Vocational Agriculture
classes removing the litter from a bridge in the Little Creek
Watershed.
Mr. Graham’s Vo-Ag Department “adopted” Little Creek as
a project to remove the cans, bottles, tires, paper bags, wrappers,
dead animals, etc. during Earth Week. This project will assist
the County-Wide GEMC & GACD Beautification sponsors in their
contest as well.
Mr. Graham’s class has started a litter pile behind his class
room to focus attention on the amount of trash that can be collected
during a period cf one week. These classes and other classes
and groups throughout the county school system are helping the
overall cause by doing something about the environment.
received invitations should
write him at Box 572, Georgia
College, Milledgeville.
The schedule calls for
activities to begin at 10 a.m.
with a welcome and opening
remarks, after which
Representatives Stephens,
Hagan and Brinkley will take
part in a roundtable
question-and answer session.
Then will come
presentations by
representatives of the U.S.
Department of Commerce
Office of Business Services,
the General Services
Administration, Small
Business Administration,
Interstate Commerce
Commission, Warner Robins
Air Materiel Area, Department
o f Housing and Urban
Development, Farmers Home
Administration, Federal Trade
Commission, and Bureau of
Census.
Long said the deadline for
registration is May Ist.
Two From Wheeler
Practice Teaching
Two Georgia Southern Col
lege students, whoare residents
of the Wheeler County area,
have beenassignedtheirstudent
teaching activities by the De
partment of Professional lab
oratory Experience of the
School of Education, for the
1971 Spring Quarter.
The assignments are as fol
lows: Sue Joiner and Beulah
D. Fulford, Wheeler County
Elementary in Alamo.
Wheeler County
Represented At
Music Festival
Congratulations to those stu
dents who represented Wheeler
County in the instrumental
music festival at Georgia Sou
thern on Saturday. Arnold Coats
performed a Chorale by Bach
on the trombone. A clarinet
duet, consisting of Joy McNeal
and Sarah Williams, played
Amaryllis by Henri Ghys. Cal
vin Ryals performed a
Sarabande by Bach on the bari
tone horn. Three students,
James Thompson, Tommy Mc-
Neal and Mark Thurman, com
prising a trumpet trio, per
formed a Sixteenth Century
Canzone by Adriano Banchieri.
These students were rated
from 1 through 5 according to
performing excellence with one
(1) being the highest rating.
All of these students made a
fine showing for Wheeler Co.
The clarinet duet received a
2, Arnold Coats 3, Calvin Ryals
1, and the trumpet trio a 1.
Housing Loan
Program Expanded
The rural housing loan pro
gram of the Farmers Home
Administration has been ex
panded recently by taking in
larger towns and with more
loan money, J. N. McDuffie,
Georgia State Director of the
lending agency announced this
week. “Ammendments to the
Housing Act passed in Jan
uary,” explained Mr. McDuffie,
“now give FHA authority to
make loans in cities and towns
up to 10,000 population and some
people living in towns of 10,000
to 50,000 population may qualify
for loans to build or buy in
rural areas.” Previously the
agency could make loans only
in places of 5500 population
or less.
Mr. McDuffie says the FHA
is having by far its biggest
year in housing loans. Georgia
is one of the agencies biggest
lenders of housing credit and
another increase in funds is
expected next year.
Loans are available to
eligible applicants for the con
struction, purchase or repair
of dwellings for their own use.
The cost of the building lot may
be included in the loan. The
interest rate at present is
7-1/4% and loans can be pay
able for as long as 33 years.
Loans are made only tofamilies
who cannot meet their housing
credit needs from commercial
credit sources.
FHA also makes loans to
finance rental housing proper
ties.
Herman T. Langley, FHA
County Supervisor at Mcßae,
serves Telfair and Wheeler
Counties. Mr. Langley says that
his office is looking forward
to an increase in loan appli
cations and volume of loans.
Applications are filed at Mr.
Langley’s office.
O. A. Science
Club Attends
Science Program
Members of the Ocmulgee
Academy Science Club attended
the Science Day Program held
at Middle Georgia College,
Saturday, April 17th.
Bruce Colston, Wayne Hin
son, Kim Ussery, Vicki Powell,
Gina Harris and Beverly Harris
attended this program. They
were accompanied by Mrs.
Catherine Barker.
They saw exhibits on elec
tricity, biology, botany, chem
istry and computer program
ming. They were introduced to
many new instruments used in
the science program.
Everyone who attended the
program enjoyed it and learned
many new things about science.
Truck Taxes
Reported
WASHINGTON — An
nual state and federal high
way use taxes for a typical
heavy truck range from sl,-
654 for a three-axle tractor
trailer (40,000 pounds gross
vehicle weight) to $3,400
paid by a five-axle tractor
trailer (72,000 lbs. GVW).
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1971
Senator Talmadge Sees Cost Os
national Health Plan Excessive
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge, a high ranking member
of the Senate Finance Com
mittee through whichallfederal
health proposals must pass,
said he does not favor passage
cf any broad, national health
insurance plan at this time.
His reason: It might become
a “fiscal nightmare.”
Sen. Talmadge, speaking to
the Fulton County Medical So-
Football Team Aids
Crippled Children
The Wheeler Co. High and
Jr. High football teams have
taken on the responsibility' of
selling Easter Lily pins to give
aid to the crippled children of
Georgia. Coach Stan Cook stated
that he was asked to head the
drive in Wheeler Co. by Coach
Vince Dooly of the University
of Georgia. He in turn gave the
task to his 1971 football teams.
Players will be in Alamo and
Glenwood on Saturday, April
24, from 9:00 to 12:00 a.m.
Contributions by mail can be
sent to Stan Cook, Wheeler Co.
High School. Make checks pay
able to the Georgia Easter Seal
Society. Your contribution may
mean the difference between a
child walking or remaining in
a wheel chair for life.
County Winners
Named In State
Wide Spelling Bee
The Georgia Association of
Educators (GAE) are spon
soring a State-Wide Spelling
Bee in order to provide op
portunities for our students.
The following objectives are
expected outcomes to be de
rived as a result of partici
pating in the Spelling Bee.
1. To help pupils develop
the ability to learn to spell
quickly and accurately.
2,T0 provide for the use of
spelling words in meaningful
activities.
3. To help make automatic
the correct spelling of words
most needed in written ex
pression.
4. To help pupils to meet
the competitive world objec
tively.
Each school in the county
held its own eliminations. The
winners were as follows:
4th Grade Winners: Alamo -
Mike Harvey; Alternate -
Priscilla Clark: Glenwood -
Sandra Vann; Alternate -
Darrell Williams.
sth Grade Winners: Alamo
Elem. - David Tuten: Glen
wood Elem. - David Frost;
Alternate - Danny Lumley.
6th Grade Winners: Wheeler
Co. Jr. High - Sarah Williams;
Alternate - Becky Meguiar.
7th Grade Winners: Wheeler
Co. Jr. High - Sheila Williams;
Alternate - Jolly Clark.
Bth Grade Winners: Wheeler
Co. Jr. High - Debra Browning;
Alternate - Wade Fulford.
These students were trans
ported to Wheeler Co. Sr. High
on April 14, for eliminations
for the county winners. Mrs.
Margaret W. Johnson was in
charge of this contest.
Our County winners are: Win
ning Speller - Sarah Williams
of the sixth grade who is the
daughter of County Agent, David
Williams and Sue Williams, who
teaches Special Education in
Glenwood. Our County winner
for alternate is Debra Brown
ing of the eighth grade, who is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas L. Browning of Hope
Community.
These students will go to
Statesboro for First District
Eliminations.
CONGRATULATIONS to our
county winners and good luck
to Sarah Williams in the District
Eliminations.
Mrs. Mary K. Clark,
GAE Public Relations
Chairman
ciety in Atlanta, said he thinks
the nation lias “taken care” of
medical needs of the elderly
and the poor through Medicare
and Medicaid, and that the
“overwhelming majority” of
other Americans buy their own
health insurance.
The only possibility for ex
panding insurance which he
favors now, he said, would be
catastrophic health insurance,
a means to help Americans in
danger of being financially
wiped out from long-term ill
nesses.
The Georgia senior senator
said he expects tighter cost
controls on the existing Medi
care and Medicaid programs
to come this year, and favors
holding off an expansion of
broader health insurance until
more experience is gained with
present programs.
“I anticipate supporting a
Catastrophic Health Insurance
Plan again this year and expect
that legislationalongthose lines
would be sympathetically con
sidered by the entire Con-
Insurance Rating Method
Changed By Caldwell
ATLANTA (PRN) -
Comptroller General Johnnie
L. Caldwell announced today
that Georgia has become the
first state in the nation to do
“away with automobile and
homeowners insurance
price-setting for all companies
by a Rating Bureau.”
“I promised the people of
Georgia during my campaign
that I would seek to modify
the authority of the Rating
Bureau to create more
competition and hopefully
lower prices.” Caldwell went
on to say that with this action,
Georgia’s Open Competition
Law will have a better
opportunity to work “like the
legislators who passed it
envisioned it would.”
The new policy by the
Insurance Services Office
(ISO), which is composed
from the various rating
bureaus operating in the
states, will apply initially only
to private passenger non-fleet
auto insurance and
homeowners insurance.
“In the past,” Caldwell
noted, “the Bureau has
supplied statistics to
companies, has established
insurance rates, and has filed
these rates which all its
members used. Thus, we have
had a great uniformity of
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Jr. High Begins Spring Football
The Wheeler County Jr. High began football practice, in
pads, April 13, under the guidance of Coach Stan Cook and four
erf his varsity players, Irving Davis, Willie Gillis, Jim Turner
and Mike K. Dixon. The boys playing will make up the core of
next years Bth grade team and “B” team. They are practicing
toward two spring games at the latter part of spring practice.
One to be held May 7, before the general public. Coach Cook
said that he was proud of the interest and turn out of the 33
boys now playing.
Players are: Charlie Mackey, Alphonse Powell, Theria Wooten,
Kelly Mcßae, Charles Cox, Wade Fulford, Phil Clark, Johnny
McDaniel, Torenzo Perry, Walter Collins, Marion Alston, Otis
Lee, Ricky Bryant, Frederick Burnette, Jimmy Gillis, Johnny
Bryant, James Turner, Ronnie Benton, Sport Cox, Donnie Clark,
Marlon Davis, Morgan Hurst, Joey Browning, Dee Hall, Van .
Newton, Greg Mayfield, Ronnie Screws, Joshua Powell, Melvin
Knox, Lynn McQavirk, Franklin Watson, Craig Vicks and Robert
Travis.
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gress,” Talmadge said, adding:
“Predictions on the legis
lative course of broad National
Health Insurance proposals
would be difficult to make at
this time. My personal feeling,
which I think is shared by
many members oftheCongress,
is that until we have developed
and employ adequate profes
sional controls on costs and
services in the health care
field and effective public and
private administrative capa
city, National Health Insurance
might become a fiscal night
mare which would haunt the
sponsors and the nation for
many years to come.
“The stakes are too high for
us to be swept away with good
intentions.”
“However,” Sen. Talmadge
said in closing, “as we gain
experience with Medicare and
Medicaid, and as we see the
effect of some of the improve
ments we expect to make this
year, a gradual and orderly
expansion of health insurance
programs might come about.
prices being offered to the
public. This is not true
competition.”
The Bureau will only supply
facts to companies now, but
will not recommend or file
rates.
Georgia is the first state in
the nation to go on this
system with the possibility of
several other states following
suit.
Caldwell observed that “this
rate setting procedure that the
Bureau used in the past
created a bad image of price
fixing for the insurance
industry. I am very pleased
that it has been eliminated.”
“The people will benefit
from this action because it will
hopefully create a greater
price diversity among
companies, and the companies
will benefit because it forces
them to become responsive to
the public’s needs.”
Caldwell went on to say
that “the industry should be
given credit for this step. It is
just one step out of a number
of progressive moves to make
the Georgia insurance Industry
more service-oriented.”
Comptroller General
Johnnie Caldwell also serves as
Georgia’s Insurance
Commissioner.
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“When that time does come,
I am certain that the Congress
acting on the legislation will
be challenged by the same con
siderations — cost controls,
quality of care andthe problems
of administration (red tape) —
facing us in Congress today.”
Wheeler County
Represented At
FHA Luncheon
The Wheeler County High
School was represented at the
FHA District II State Degree
Luncheon, April 17, at the
DeSoto Hilton Hotel in Savannah,
by Annette Nobles, Joyce Powell
and Christine King, ac
companied by Mrs. Ruth C.
Humphrey and Mrs. Christine
Harris. District II is composed
of about one-fourth of South
east Georgia.
The theme of the luncheon
was “Signs of the Times.”
The program featured Mrs.
Jackie Roush as the guest
speaker.
Miss Carolyn Ellington, State
Director of FHA, assisted by
Carolyn McLendon of Dublin,
presented the degrees. There
were 107 degree earners in
District 11. Congratulations to
each State Degree earner.
Other than the degree earners
there were 27 of the girls’
advisors, two chapter mothers,
and approximately seven stu
dent teachers. Some special
guests were John Letson, Vo
cational Director of Savannah,
Mrs. Myrtice Edenfield, Assis
tant State Supervisor of Home
Economics Education of
Swainsboro, Jackie Roush and
FHA State Officers.
The delegates and advisors
motored home delighted of the
students achievements for
themselves, their families,
school and community.
0. A. Faculty
Attends First
Annual Convention
On April 16, all roads led
to Southland Academy of Ameri
cus, for the faculty of the
Ocmulgee Academy. There
were fourteen faculty members
who thoroughly enjoyed the edu
cational experiences and the
hospitality prepared for them
by the Southland Academy
Faculty.
After a short general as
sembly in the gymnasium each
teacher was invited to attend
the workshop of his choice.
There were many interesting
and educational topics dis
cussed by well qualified edu
cators. Each workshop had its
1 especially selected person to
MC the discuss ion and/or lec
ture for two hours.
After a tasty lunch prepared
and served by the Southland
Academy Boosters Club and
PTO members, the teachers
either went to additional work
shops or enjoyed an extended
tour of the lovely, functional
plant.
As the day ended, each
teacher realized just what an
inspirational and beneficial ex
perience he had enjoyed as he
shared and absorbed knowledge
to help him become a better
instructor for our priceless
treasures - our children.
POOR DRAINAGE
Whether you garden a little
or a lot, be aware of the
problems of poor drainage.
Extension horticulturists ex
plain that poorly drained soils
contain little oxygen. Oxygen,
of course, is necessary for root
growth. Roots growing—or
trying to grow—in such areas
cannot absorb the water and
nutrients needed by plants. So
the plants fail to grow or
bloom. They become weak and
stunted, and may even die.