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VOLUME 57
Charles Bartlett
To Head State
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SCS In Georgia
Charles W, Bartlett, 45, of
North Carolina, has beennamed
State Conservationist for the
Soil Conservation Service in
Georgia with headquarters in
the State Office at Athens. He
replaces Cecil W, Chapman of
Athens, who retired June 1,
after 38 years of federal
service,
As State Conservationist,
Bartlett will direct all ope
rations of the SCS in Georgia.
SCS is the agency of the U, S,
Department of Agriculture
established by Congress topro
vide technical assistance to
rural and urban people in the
conservation and development
of the Nation’s land and water
resources.
In Georgia Bartlett will
supervise SCS employees who
are providing such services
to over 107,000 land owners
in all counties of the state.
Assistance is given throughco
operative agreements with the
state’s 27 local soil and water
conservation districts.
Bartlett, a native of Crisp
County, has been State Conser
vationist of the Soil Conser
vation Service in North Caro
lina for the past 2 years.
Bartlett graduated from the
University of Georgia with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
Agronomy in 1949. He began
his career with SCS as Soil
Conservationist at Americus,
the same year and later held
similar positions at Lumpkin
and Cuthbert.
He served as Area Conser
vationist in charge of SCS ope
rations in the Waycross area
from 1959 to 1962 before as
suming the duties of Assistant
State Conservationist atthe SCS
Siate Office in Athens in 1962,
A year later, in 1963, Bart
lett was selected as one of 4
SCS men in the Nation to attend
graduate school and eam
Masters degrees in Public Ad
ministration (Conservation) at
the University of Michigan.
Upon graduation Bartlett
served in the Watershed Ope
rations branch of the SCS in
Washington for a brief period
before becoming Assistant State
Conservationist in West Va,
Two years later, in 1967, he
was selected as State Conser
vationist of North Carolina,
where he has served until the
present as head of all SCS
operations in that state.
In 1970 he was chairman of
the North Carolina Board of
Farm Organizations and Agri
cultural Agencies, He is a mem=-
ber of OPEDA (Organization
Protessional Employees De
partment of Agriculture)andthe
Soil Conservation Society of
America, He was chairman of
the Georgia Chapter SCSA in
1963.
Bartlett and his wife Edna,
daughters Linda and Susan, and
son Walton, will move to Athens
in the near future.
Wheeler Litter
Patrol Formed
Recently the Wheeler County
Steering Committee for the
GEMC-GACD Beautification
through Conservation contest
organized a Litter Patrol to
aid in the control of thoughtless
dropping of litter in the county.
Members of the Patrol re
port names of offenders and
letters reminding guilty per
sons of their thoughtless deeds
are being sent. No offense is
intended only to remind these
people of the need for everyone
in our county to help make
Wheeler attractive.
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Wheeler County
Recreation Program
Beginning June 14 - Legion
Field, 5-8 year old, 4-5 p.m.
Monday thru Thursday; 9-12
year old, 5-6 p.m. Monday thru
Thursday; 13-18, contact Ted
Morrison or Clay Clark for
schedule.
Monday night, June 21, regis
ter for summer softball, Meet
at Legion Field at 8:00 p.m. for
draft, ages 17 and up. (All men
are eligible that are not playing
in any other summer program
sponsored by city of Alamo
and Wheeler County.
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STONE MOUNTAIN — “Gosh, we've never been a one millionth visitor before,” exclaimed
10-year-old Billy White, upon hearing that his dad was the one millionth tourist to visit 3,200-acre
Stone Mountain Park this year. Mr. and Mrs. S.B. White of Raleigh, North Carolina and their four
children, visiting the Park for the first time, were welcomed by Georgia Secretary of State Ben W.
Fortson, Jr. Mr. Fortson, (l) also Chairman of the Park Memorial Committee explains the
completion plans for the Memorial Area to Mr. and Mrs. White (c), Stuart, 6, Barbara, 9, William,
10, and Ellen, 12. (PRN)
Stone Mountain Has
One Millionth Visitor
STONE MOUNTAIN (PEN)
-~ Stone Mountain Park,
already the South’s largest
tourist attraction, welcomed
its one millionth 1971 visitor
Saturday, a pace well ahead of
1970, the previous record
year.
The millionth visitors, Mr,
and Mrs. S.B. White and four
children from Raleigh, N.C.,
were greeted by Secretary of
State Ben W. Fortson Jr
Fortson is Vice-Chairman of
the Stone Mountain Memorial
Association.
“Park attendance is running
about 17 per-cent ahead of
last year,” Fortson said, “and
it looks very much like we are
going to come close to the
four million figure this year.”
Officials said that park
W heeler County High Wins
Baseball Class B Title
Wheeler County’s Bulldogs
pushed across a pair of fifth
inning runs and Freddy Nobles
fired a six-hitter as the ’Dogs
captured the State Class B
Baseball crown with a 2-1 win
over Toccoa Wednesday night,
The victory gives Coach Ted
Morrison’s Bulldogs a 26-5
record. It was Wheeler County’s
first state title in the school’s
history, Toccoa’s Tarol Beaty
allowed only two hits, but
Wheeler eked out the decision,
After four scoreless innings,
Wheeler’s Tommy Spivey and
Randy Pope walked. They ad
vanced on a2 passed hall and
scored on Beaty’s error and
another miscue by the first
baseman,
Mike Franklin’s sixth inning
tripple and Bart Hove’s infield
safety produced Toccoa’s only
run. Nobles fanned 12and didn’t
walk a batter in improving his
record to 13-3.
Beaty permitted just twohits,
wiffed 10, but walked six. Toc~
coa also committedthree costly
boots, Singles by Skip Clark
fourth, and Steve Spivey, second
accounted for Wheeler’s only
hits,
Toccoa took the lead with a
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
surveys show a marked
increase in out-of-state
visitation during the first five
months of this year. “More
than 21 per-cent of our guests
have come from states other
than Georgia,” Secretary
Fortson said. “This relates to
18 per cent for the same
period in 1970.”
The Park also is enjoying a
broadening international
interest acoording to Fortson.
“So far this year, we have had
tourists from a dozen foreign
countries including England,
C hina, Israel, Australia,
Mexico and Venezula.”
“Already in 1971, visitors
to Stone Mountain have
brought four million dollars in
travel-based revenue into
Georgia,”” he said. “This also
first game win Monday, but
Wheeler came back Tuesday
and Wednesday for its first
State Championship.
Usually a high school will
have one good pitcher, but this
year Wheeler County had two,
senior Freddy Nobles who was
8-4 last year and wound up
13-3 this season, and Kenny
Elton a junior who won the
second game Tuesday, Nobles
also hit third in the batting
order, playing centerfield when
he wasn’t on the mound and
was one of the more consistent
and long ball batters on the
team. As a junior he struckout
120 batters in 66 innings and
batted .385.
Senior Steve Spivey and junior
Tommy Spivey, brothers,
formed the keystone com=~
bination and worked well on
double plays this year, Randy
Pope at third and Kenneth Elton
at first gave the Bulldogs an
experienced fine fielding in
field, Tommy Fulford, Pedro
Purvis, Lynn Leggett, Johnny
Dixon along with Nobles shared
the outfield duties while veteran
Skip Clark, who has been the
Wheeler County catcher for a
couple of years, handled the
means that more than
$120,000 in sales tax return
has been generated by the
Park.”
Fortscn added that the
figures on economic impact
are based on national travel
research, indicating that each
tourist averages spending
$17.50 per day for lodging,
food, sightseeing and
associated services. At Stone
Mountain Park tourcists registes
visits of 6 to 8 hours, requiring
an overnight stay in the state,
“Stone Mountain has a
broad appeal to both
Georgians and citizens from
throughout the United
States,” Fortson added.
“Since 1965, Stone Mountain
Park has been host to more
than 15 million visitors.”
pitchers well and kept down
would-be base stealers with a
strong arm and a quickrelease,
Add it all up and you have a
State Class B Championship
club, Coach Morrison started
with the aforementioned boys
plus Bradley Watson, Ronnie
McArthur, Willie Gillis, Lester
Lowe, Calvin Ryals, Jackie Hin
son, Tony Owens, Mitchell Mc-
Gee and Bruce Gilder, and weld
ed the entire crew into a quick
thinking ball club.
Although they had goodpitch=
ing in most every game, top
defensive play and enough hits
when they counted to get to the
final championship game, it took
alert base running and heads
up play for the Bulldogs to
come off the field for the last
time this year as State
Champions,
George R. Haymons
Aboard USS Hoel
Navy Fireman George R.
Haymons, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George W, Haymons of Rt. 1,
Lumber City, has returned to
his homeport of San Diego,
aboard the guided missile des
troyer USS Hoel, after a seven
month deployment with the U.S.
Seventh Fleet in the Western
Pacific,
Highlighting the cruise were
.visits to Chinhae, Korea and
Australia,
The ship provideda marching
unit to represent the U, S. in
the Chinhae Harbor Festival
and Australia’s Annual Coral
Sea celebration.
In addition, his ship was
awarded the Cruiser-Destroyer
Force Battle Efficienty “E”
plague and six departmental
“E” awards for Fiscal 1970.
Ocmulgee Academy
Sets Steak Supper
Ocmulgee Academy will have
a steak supper, on Saturday
night, June 19, at the school.
Serving will begin at 6:00
o’clock, All friends and mem
bers are invited to attend.
june Term Os Wheeler Superior Court
To Convene In Alamo Monday, June 21
The June Term of Wheeler
County Superior Court will con
vene Monday, June 21, with
Judge James B, O’Connor
presiding.
The Grand Jury will meet
Monday morning, June 21, at
10:00 A,M,; Traverse Jury has
been ordered toreport on Tues
day morning, June 22, at 9:00
AM,
GRAND JURY
Monday, June 21, 10:00 A,M,
Smith Mc¢Daniel, R, M, Horne,
J. J. Pope, Mrs, Paul Hinson,
Dorothy A. Fulford, J. Troy
Wheeler County
Names Delegates
To 4- '
0 4-H Council
Wheeler County this week
named four regular delegates
to the biggest 4-H meeting of
the year,
Jo Ann Clark of Mcßae;
Wanda Ussery and Gary Cole
man of Glenwood; and Joe Grif
fin of Alamo, will attend the
38th annual convention of the
Georgia 4-H Council. Their se
lection, based on overall 4-H
work and leadership-citizen
ship accomplishments, was an
nounced by David H, Williams,
County Agent, and Miss Cindy
E, Nelson, County Extension
Home Economist.
The event will be held June
21-24 at the Rock Eagle 4-H
Center.
In addition to regular dele
gates (Gwo boys and iwo girls
from each county), District and
State 4-H Council officers, state
4-H officer candidates,
scholarship recipients and
other members and leaders will
swell total attendance toaround
1,000,
The group will leave Alamo
Monday morning, June 21, in
time to arrive at Rock Eagle
and register by 12 noon., Fol
lowing lunch special music will
begin in Talmadge Auditorium
at 1:45 p.m. and the Council
meeting’s first assembly will
get under way at 2:00 o’clock.
L. W, Eberhardt Jr,, director
of the University of Georgia
Extension Service, will official
ly open the program.
Highlights of the three-day
meeting include talks by Miss
Vonda Kay Van Dyke, Miss
America of 1965; Gov. Jimmy
Carter, and Florida State Foot
ball Coach Steve Sloan,
Gov. Carter will speak at
the closing assembly Wednes
day, June 23, as a part of the
traditional 4-H citizenship
ceremony. Miss Van Dyke is
scheduled to speak Monday
night, and Sloan, who was an
All-American quarterback at
Alabama, will be on the pro
gram Tuesday morning.
Between 30 and 40 candi
dates for the Six offices on
the 4<H Council for 1971-72
will be nominated late Monday
aiternoon, Campaign speeches
will begin immediately and will
continue until the voting begins
at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
Tommy L. Walton, State 4-H
leader with the Extension Ser
vice, will announce the winners
during the Wednesday morning
assembly.
Lewis McLean
Completes Training
Navy Seaman Apprentice
Lewis McLean, son of Mr. and
Mrs, George McLean of Rt. 1,
Lumber City, was graduated
from basic training at the Re
cruit Training Command,
Orlando, Fla.
He is a 1970 graduate of
Central High School in Mcßae,
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The Wheeler County High
School Canning Plant will be
open each Tuesday and Thurs
day. The plant will openat 9:00
o’clock and close around 4:30.
The price for canning will be
‘same as last year.
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1971
Mimbs, Mrs. J. C, Pitts, T, A,
Irwin, Bobby Cox, R. L,
Thomas, Rufus H, Manley, Guy
Cox, R. W, Hall, Harper Ennis,
Mrs. W, B, Winham,
Grady Evans, Isaac John Cul
ver, Jr., Billy Wilson, Bernis
Yawn, Mrs. Louie Varnadoe,
Rhine Shoofing
Leaves One Dead
And Two Wounded
One man was killed and two
others wounded in a shooting
that took place in a Negro
case near Rhine on June 4,
according to Sheriff Jackson .
Jones.
The sheriff said that Harry
lee Ellis shot and killed
William Arthur Riley with a
,32 caliber pistol and then
wounded two of Riley’s bro
thers, J. B, Riley, Jr.and Tom
my Lee Riley, who were also
in the case,
The wounded men were car=-
ried to the Telfair County
Hospital.
All those involved were
Negroes, the sheriff said. He
added that he has not yet de
termined the cause ofthe shoot
ing.
~ Ellis has been charged with
murder in connection with the
Riley death, and withaggravated
assault in the wounding of J, B.
.and Tommy Lee Riley, Ellis
is being held in the Dodge
County jail.
Ellis is a resident of Jack=
_ sonyille, in Telfair County, and
the Rileys are from Dodge.
On June 5, Jones said, another
shooting took place in the
vicinity of Rhine. A white man,
not identified, is said to have
shot a Negro in the leg, ““but he
won’t identify who shot him and
it took a little talking to even
get him to admit he had been
shot,”” the sheriff said.
No charges have been made
in connection with the second
shooting, Jones said.
Camp Is Elecied
Head D7 County
Officers Assa,
Jack L. Camp, veteran Fulton
County tax commissioner, was
elected president of the County
Officers’ Association of Geor
gia for 1971-72 at the associ~
ation’s convention in Macon,
Others elected were:
Ira Spell of Jesup, vice presi
dent; Mary Will Hearn of Jack
son, re-elected secretary
treasurer; and Byron Turk of
Gainesville, replacing Camp on
the executive committee,
1% % % TERVNhi N
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Thomas Mercer Aftfends Workshop
Thomas Mercer attended the Tenth Annual Natural Resource
Conservation Workshop at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
in Tifton, last week according to an announcement by Jimmy
James, Soil Conservationist for Wheeler County. His scholarship
was sponsored by the Ohoopee River Soil and Water Conservation
District.
Thomas joined 240 other boys from 137 counties throughout
Georgia in a week packed full of study of our natural resources,
Instructors for the Soil Conservation Service, Georgia Forestry
Commission, Georgia Game and Fish Commission and Agri
cultural Research Service taught their respective disciplines
in the classroom and field.
The winner of the SSOO scholarship to the College of his
choice was Tim Leard of Lavonia, who scored 178 of a possible
200 points.
Although Thomas didn’t win a prize, he scored well in the
examination and in the recreational activities. Thomas is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lanier Mercer of Rte, 2. Glenwood.
SINGLE COPY 5¢
Robert C. Franklin, Ronald
Rhodes, W. H, Warnock, Wil=
lard McDanieland Mrs, Emmett
Joyce.
TRAVERSE JURY
Tuesday, June 22, 9:00 A.M.
Glen C, Cheek, Jimmy F,
Clark, Bobby Grimes, Rudene
T, James, Hilton Smith, Louise
James, John T, Elton, Willard
N. O’Quinn, J. F.Kimmons, Jr.,
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James Barnhill 1l
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Receives Degree
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At Georgia Tech
James Edwin Barnhill 111
graduated with honors June 12,
from the Electrical Engineering
School of the Georgia Institute
of Technology.
His social fraternity is Chi
Psi and as a Freshman he had
the nighest schotastic average
of any of the pledges. As a
senior he was awarded S2OO
for continuing excellence in
scholarship throughout his four
years. He was Treasurer of
this fraternity during his junior
year,
Not only has he maintained
a Dean’s List average each
quarter during these four years
but also has been initiated into
the following scholastic honor
societies: Phi Eta Sigma, Tau
Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and
Phi Kappa Phi.,
Last summer he worked 4s a
Design Engineer for Hewlett
Packard in Colorado Springs.
During the school years he has
belonged to several clubs, the
band two years and was a part
time employee at the Georgia
Tech Engineering Experiment
Station,
He is the grandson of the
late Rev, and Mrs. James Edwin
Barnhill, Jr. of Glenwood, and
the South Georgia ME Con
ference, and Mrs, Dell Cassidy
Colson and the late Dr. Colson
of Glenwood.
NUMBER 11
J. B. Bass, Robert Monroe
Humphrey, Marcus C, Coleman,
Donald Harold Ennis, Larmza
Vines, Ray Tanner.
James E, White, Ruby Pearl
Johnson, Alton B, Clark, G, F.
Clark, Geo. E, Towns, Earnest
Chapman, Grady W. Fulford,
Pearlie Mae Mackey, T. A,
Hartley, J. P, Morrison, Jr.,
Charles Griffin Mitchell, John
Tipton, Hazel W, Brooks, Isiah
Smith, Roy L. Williams.
R. L, Wilds, J, C, Lee, R, U,
Bell, E, H. Grimes, Hilton Mc-
Alum, W, L. Conner, Bezel
Burns, James M, Fields,
Roscoe Chambers, Mrs. G, M,
Joiner, Oris Braswell, O. B,
Evans, Helen F, Hartley, Mrs.
John Walter Clark, Mrs. J. T,
Manus.
Gregory J. Brooks, Georgia
Kate Ussery, Alton R, Clem~
ents, Bennie O, Sharpton, Mar
garet Johnson, James F, Fields,
Jr., Carl Pruitt Browning, Vir
ginia J, Hartley, Pratt E,
Raffield, Allen James, Mrs,
G. E. Currie, C, C, Coleman,
Harvey George Bright, Mackie
_Simpson, J. C, Boatwright, Ben
Harvard, Kenneth Avory Mont
ford, Roy Adams, Woodroe Gil=
'lis and Joe Louis Roberson.
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Georgia Habeas
"
Corpus laws Hit
By Bond Aimand
Georgia Supreme Court Chief
Justice Bond Almand of Atlanta,
speaking at a session for
superior court judges during
‘the State Bar of Georgia’s re=
cent annual meeting lin
Savannah, urged revision of
1 state and federal habeas corpus
statutes to put an end to “‘the
never-ending of a criminal
trial,”*
“There is a common expres=
sion that everyone is entitled
to his day in court, but that
does not mean he is entitled to
1,000 days,’’ the chief justice
said.
Almand said the “unending
flood’’ of habeas corpus pro
ceedings is the most pressing
problem of the state and federal
courts at both the trial and
appellate level.
Habeas corpus proceedings
are those in which a prisoner
attacks the validity of his con=
finement, attempting to show
court error and gain his re
lease,
“The defendant in a criminal
case has a constitutional right
to a speedy trial,” the 77-year
old jurist said. “However,
the state, after his final con=
viction, also has a right to the
speedy execution of a sen=-
tence.”’
New Drinking
L]
Driver Task
Force Planned
The Department of Public
Safety is making plans to get
drinking drivers off Georgia
highways =-- literally -- ac=
cording to Director Colonel Ray
Pope. The State Office of the
Coordinator of Highway Safety
has announced its approval of a
three year, $1,200,000 project
aimed at curtailing alcohol use
on Georgia’s highways, which
figures in more than half of the
State’s traffic fatalities each
year,
Plans are for creating an
eighteen member task force
trained in the detection and
apprehension of the drinking
driver. The team is designed
specifically toremove the drunk
driver from the public roads
and help cut traffic injuries
and deaths caused by Driving
Under the Influence,
WASHINGTON —More
than eight million persons
—one out of every nine
workers in the U.S. — are
employed by the Nation’s
~ trucking industry.