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Glenwoodßaptist
Church Has
New Tennis Court
Cne of the latest improve
ments made by the Glenwood
Baptist Church is the addition
of a new tennis court. This is a
dream come true for the G, M,
Joiner family as they looked
forward to the day when they
could give this to the church to
be enjoyed not only by the
Church family hut others in the
community that would like to
play tennis, The Electric Mem=
bership Corporation of Alamo
installed the poles and assisted
with this community project
which is one of their main
items of business is to be a
service in the community.
In addition tothe tennis court,
basket ball goals, a badminton
net and a Kiddy Gymn set have
been installed, It is beginning
to look like a real play ground
. for the entire family.
4 good recreation program
built around your church is
healthy and enjoyable, The peo~
ple of the Church invite you to
come and enjoy this playground
with them.
Wally Adams Visits
Foreign Countries
Wally Adams of Glenwood,
Victor Allen and Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Allen of Jekyll Island
departed from Jacksonville,
Florida June 24th, They flew
to New York and Rome Italy,
On June 25 they arrived in
Athens Greece, A Foreign tour
was especially prepared for
them.
They will travel via plane,
train and ship. A private auto~
mobile will be provided at each
stop with an English speaking
guide. They will see all points
of interest at each stop., The
four-some will play golf at St.
Andrews Scotland. This golf
course is the first in the world.
The party will visit Patras
Greece, Brindisi, Naples Rome,
Perugia, Florence, Venice,
Milan Italy also Lucerne and
Zurich Switzerland. They will
tour Paris France, London Eng
land, Edinburgh, Gleneagles and
Ayr Scotland.
The Allens and Wally Adams
left June 24 and will arrive
home July 20.
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Three Die In Wrec
Three persons died Monday in a wreck near Lumber City on
Georgia 117.
Lucille C. Peacock of Rt. 15, Maxville, Fla., driving a 1969
Pontiac, lost control of her car on a curve, skidded across the
center line and struck a Mack truck operated by Lester Harrell
Dopson of Jacksonville, according to the Helena State Patrol.
Mrs. Peacock along withtwopassengers inthe car, Ira William
Peacock, 69, and Nancy Drew, age 9, also of Maxville, Fla., died
in the wreck.
Trooper Breedlove investigated the accident.
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Shown above is Alex P, Smith, Jr. on left, and Max Hoover,
Chairman of the Board of Roper Corporation, at the meeting held
in Mcßae June 22. Mr. Smith was instrumental in contacting
Roper Corp., through the Georgia Department of Industry and
Trade who brought them to Mcßae tolookat the building formerly
occupied by Mcßae Products Co., and also to see the community.
Ga. Peanut Princess
Contest Set For July 7
Eighteen lovely girls from
virtually every major peanut
producing area in South Georgia
will be in Tifton July 7, to
participate in the annual Geor
gia Peanut Princess Contest, a
portion of which will be tele
vised over four middle and
south Georgia television sta
tions on July 9.
The contestants will gather
at the Rural Life Building at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College for the preliminary
stages of the contest on July 7,
and judges will narrow the field
down to five top-place winners,
These five girls will then
journey to Macon the next day
for the final phase of the con
test, which will be video taped
for showing over the following
stations on July 9:
WMAZ-TV, Macon - 7:30
p.m,; WCTV-TV, Tallahassee -
Thomasville - 8:30 p.m.;
WSAV-TV, Savannah - 10:00
p.m.; WALB-TV, Albany - 10:00
p.m.
The Georgia Peanut Princess
contest is anannual undertaking
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
of the Georgia Peanut Com
mission, which conducts na
tional and local promotion for
peanut growers in Georgia for
the purpose of increasing con
sumption of peanuts and peanut
products.
The current Princess is Miss
Joyce Jowers of Irwin County,
who will receive a SSOO scholar
ship at the completion of her
reign on July 16, at which time
the new Princess will be of
ficially introduced to hundreds
of peanut growers and their
families present for the sixth
annual Georgia Peanut Prog
ress Day program ai Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College,
sponsored by the Georgia Pea
nut Commission,
The 1971 contestants are:
Paulette Brown of Swainsboro;
Phyllis Causey of Blakely; Hilda
Collins of Whigham; Joy Collins
of Pelham; Rhonda DeMott of
Hartsfield; Jewell Donaldson of
Metter; Connie Eason of Manas
sas; Virginia Hallman of
Boston; Pamela Haskins of
Thomasville; Patricia Lee of
Arabi; Carla McClelland of
Morgan; Brenda Merritt of
Wray; Anita Odom of Iron City;
Lynn Odom of Warwick; Sarah
Riddle of Tifton; Rita Rogers
of Arabi; Ellen Stewart of
Donalsonville; and Jacqueline
White of Bainbridge.
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G.l. Bill Time
Running Ouf
Many eligible veterans now
have less than three years re
maining to use their educational
benefits under the current G, I,
Bill. A, W, Tate, Director of
Atlanta Veterans Adminis
tration Regional Office, said
that most veterans with service
between January 31, 1955 and
June 1, 1966 were eligible for
schooling but their cut-off date
is May 31, 1974,
Mr. Tate emphasized that
the veteran’s educational pro
gram must be completed by
the cut-off date. ““Some
veterans in this category be
lieve they have until 1974 to
begin school,” he said. “The
law states otherwise.”
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Many Georgians
Incensed Over
Fortson Firing
Many Georgians, both in and
outside state government, are
‘up in arms over Gov. Jimmy
Carter’s firing Secretary of
State Ben W, Fortson, Jr., as
keeper of the State Capitol and
its flower-bedecked grounds ==
a duty he performed proudly
and esficiently since 1955,
The governor, by executive
order, transferred the respon
gibility to the State Building
Authority. Typical of the re
action, the Atlanta Constitution
had this to say editorially:
“We note with dismay that
Gov, Jimmy Carter has stripped
Secretary of State Ben Fortson,
the old starling fighter, of his
responsibility of keeping the
State Capitol grounds beautiful,
“Efficiency in government?
Humbug! Fortson has spent hun
dreds of hours of his own time
helping make the flower
bedecked Capitol lawns as beau
tiful as any in the country..
And, when necessary, he has
taken strong measures to drive
those pesky invading starlings
away. We take comfort only in
the knowledge that ‘Mister Ben’
will at least be a ‘special ad
visor’ to the State Building
Authority.
“But who would have thought
the governor of Georgia woul
end up on the side of the star.
lings?”?
State Patrol
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Upgrading Motor
Vehicle Inspection
A move by the Department
of Public Safety to upgrade
the quality of motor vehicle
inspections in Georgia is under
way but may cost as many as
300 inspection service stations
their license to inspect
vehicles, Colonel Ray Pope,
Public Safety Director, said
the State Patrol’s Motor Vehicle
Inspection Division is now con
tacting the stations which are
not complying with the in
spection law and taking action
against them ranging from no
action to suspensions.
A total of 286 stations are to
be suspended. Seventy-four will
be put on probation, There is a
total of 146 against which no
action will be taken., Colonel
Pope saidthere were 34 stations
which were operating strictly
by the law and would be sent
complimentary letters for their
good inspection proceedures.
Colonel Pope said the state
has a good inspection law and
the Department has a mandate
from the General Assembly to
enforce the law. “This we plan
to do,”” he said. “We helieve
the public has a right to have
an adequate inspection and ope
rate a safe vehicle, We are
simply tryingto serve the public
in the best possible manner.”
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Trucks Haul Produce
WASHINGTON
About 67 per cent of all
fresh fruits and vegetables
now delivered to the Na
tion’s 41 largest metropoli
tan areas arrives by truck.
FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1971
ROPER CORP. GOMING T 0 MeRAE,
OPENING 1N EARLY FALL EXPECTED
Treat Criminals
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like They Treat
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Victims, Maddox
“Either the policemen are
going to win or the criminals
are going to win, and I'm on
the side of the policemen. Either
socialism, communism and an
archy are going towin or Amer
icanism, private enterprise and
freedom will be the victors,
and I stand squarely with the
principles represented by the
stars and stripes.”
Thus declared Lt. Gov.
Lester G, Maddox as the fea
tured speaker at the closing
session of the Peace Officers
Association of Georgia’s spring
meeting held in Eastman,
‘“Policemen,” he said, ‘“‘are
being shot down and mutilated
in New York, Georgia, Calif.,,
and throughout the nation, and
other innocent people are being
executed in their homes and
shot down on the streets,
“And the blood of these vic=
tims of violence is upon the .
hands of those in the White
House, in the Congress, in the
Supreme Court and other high
public offices who have issued
decisions and directives and
passed laws which favor the
criminals, the Communists and
the anarchists and tie the hands
of the law enforcement officers
“in this country.
“These are the ones respon
sible for the wanton lawlessness
sweeping our country andtaking
innocent lives, They are guilty
as sin,”’
Declaring that “the time for
appeasing, coddling and com=-
promising with these animals
who shoot down our policemen
is over’’ and ‘“the time for
playing cops and robbers and
running down those who enter
the homes and businesses of
law-abiding citizens to rob,
rape and kill is over,” the
outspoken former governor
said:
“In this day and age when
ire is a demand that every
sody be treated equally, I think
the murderers and anarchists
should be afforded the same
treatment they give their
victims,
“Since these cowardly crim
inals don’t bother togive police~
men and other law-abiding citi
zens a chance to run and hide,
neither should they be given a
chance to run and hide.
“Rather than being run down
and captured, they should be
shot down and killed on the spot
when they’re caught slaughter
ing policemen or other innocent
people,’’ Maddox asserted.
4 Refired Peace
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Officers To Be
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Highly Honored
When the Peace Officers As
sociation of Georgia holds its
71st annual convention in
Macon, Oct. 10-12, it will be
stow its highest honor -- POAG
Life Membership -~ upon four
of its own members.
The four veteran peace of
ficers, all now retired after
many years in the law enforce
ment profession, are:
Arthur L. Hutchins, captain,
Georgia Bureau of Investi
gation; Samuel E, Taylor,
Barnesville chief of police; B.
J. Coleman, lieutenant, Georgia
State Patrol, and Oliver D,
Peters, U. S. Penitentiary in
Atlanta.
“The association’s executive
committee voted, by secret bal
lot, for these men to receive
this high honor from a list
containing the names of ten
outstanding officers who were
recommended,”’ explained
Major E, D, Mink, POAG secre
tary-treasurer.
C. M. Hoover, Chairman of
the Board of Roper Corporation,
Kankakee, 111., has announced
intentive plans for opening of a
lawn mower production facility
in Mcßae, to be in operation
by the early fall of this year.
Roper will be situated in the
facility formerly occupied by
Mcßae Products Company.
In a meeting with local civic
leaders, J. H, Connor, Presi
dent of all of Roper’s lawn
rnower manufacturing ope
rations, stated that the facility
would produce steel deck lawn
mowers which will be sold to
Sears, Roebuck and Co. The
exact number of employees to
be employed has not been de
termined at this time but with
the exception of a few key
management people the plant
will be staffed by local person
nel. Mr. Connor stated that
Roper is looking forward to
being an active and contributing
citizen of the area.
Mr. Connor further stated
that the preliminary decision
to locate this part of Roper’s
business in Mcßae, was purely
an economic decision which
hopefully will allow Roper tobe
more competitive in the lawn
mower business.
Georgia Farmers Warned Against
Packing Produce In Infested Straw
As harvest time approaches,
Georgia farmers and shippers
are reminded by plant pest
control officials of the United
States Department of Agri
culture to be careful about using
hay or straw inshipping melons
and other produce. They point
out that it is illegal to use hay
or straw packing for shipments
moving from areas infested by
the white-fringed beetle unless
the packing has been freed of
these pests. ;
Federal domestic plant
quarantines restrict the move
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Highway Department Crews
Uncover Ancient Relics
ATLANTA (PRN) — While
building roads, State Highway
Department Construction
crews dig up some strange
things, but how about a set of
dentures . . .18 million years
old. These choppers belonged
to a 165-foot shark which
swam the seas that covered
coastal Georgia eons ago.
Some of the teeth were six
inches long, probably insuring
quite a contribution from the
tooth fairy.
The huge shark teeth are
only part of a group of
paleontological and
archeological treasures
construction crews have found
while building 1-16 and 1-95 in
south Georgia. The collection,
displayed at the June 17th
Highway Board meeting at
Jekyll Island, included smaller
shark’s teeth, a section of
whale backbone, and the
tooth of a mammoth. Last
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Understanding The
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Elderly Patient
A six week course in “Under
standing the Elderly Patient -
‘New Concepts in Geriatrics
Nursing for Paramedical Per~
sonnel’’ will be offeredat Geor
gia Southern College beginning
June 29, at 5:00 p.m, in the
GSC Biology Building.
The course will be designed
in six sessions beginning June
29, and going through July 6,
13, 20, 27 and August 3.
Georgia Southern College will
finance the program under a
grant obtained from the Georgia
Council on Gerontology directed
by Dr. Robert P, Wray.
Staff members from the GSC
faculty and the St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Savannah will in~
struct the course.
Topics to be included in the
six week session are ‘“Biology
of Senescence and Socio=-
logical,” “Psychological As
pects of Aging,”’ ‘‘Special Nur
sing Techniques,” ““Counseling
the Elderly,” and ‘“‘Geriatric
Nursing.”
ment of hay and straw from
areas infested by any of these
pests. The restrictions are
necessary to help prevent
white-fringed beetles from
hitchhiking into new areas by
means of infested hay or straw,
plant pest control officials point
out, Although restrictions on
the movement of hay and straw
from areas infested by this
pest are in effect throughout
the year, the danger that pests
will be inadvertently spread in .
infested shipments of crops is
greatest at harvest time,
year, construction crews
found the bones of a giant
sloth. The University of
Georgia excavated the site and
reportedly will be able to
construct a nearly-complete
skeleton from what was
found. The sloth was said to
be 18 feet long and 8 feet high
when alive.
These denizens of Georgia’s
forest and coastline have been
dead since at least the ice
ages . . .18,000 years ago.
Their remains were found
under 35-40 feet of soil, and
the smaller shark’s teeth were
dredged from some 50 feet
under the bottom of the
Altamaha River.
Also on display at the
meeting was a set of bottles,
found during escavations on
I-16 in Chatham County.
Some of the bottles are said to
be at least 100 years old.
NUMBER 13
Funds Sought By
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Ga. Commission
Judicial Study
The Governor’s Commission
on Judicial Processes has ap
plied for a $105,000 federal
grant to help in the study of
15 areas of Georgia’s judicial
system, according to State
Court of Appeals presiding
Judge Robert H, Hall, com
mission chairman,
The grant, requested of the
Justice Department’s Law En
forcement Assistance Adminis
tration (LEAA), would be used
to hire a professional research
assistant in court adminis
tration problems and about four
other persons,
The five would make a study
of judicial administration prob
lems in the state and the find
‘ings would be the basis of the
commission’s recommend
ations to the governor on judi
cia! reform,
The commission would not
be limited to the 15 areas of
study and, in fact, Judge Hall
said he has requested citizens
to suggest others.
One additional area is a state
law along the lines of a Senate
bill introduced by Georgia’s
U. S. Sen. Herman E, Talmadge
which requires the trial of a
defendant in federal court soon
after his arrest, it was pointed
out.
. The white-fringed beetle is a
serious pest in areas of the
Southern United States where
they are established. They are
potential threats to other sec
tions of the country.
White-fringed beetles attack
a wide variety of crops and
ornamentals, causing severe
damage. States with areas
regulated under the Federal
white~-fringed beetle quarantine
include: Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee and Vir
ginia,
Only portions of the States
designated as white-fringed
beetle infested areas are sub
ject to quarantine restriction,
Packing used in shipments
to be moved from infestedareas
into noninfested areas must
either be hay or straw which
is free of any of those pests or
a substitute, nonregulated ma
terial.
Shipments of potentially in
fested crops, straw, hay and
other regulated items are sub
ject to inspection, Any ship
ments found to be moving il
legally are liable to return to
point of origin or to treatment
in transit -~ usually more costly
than treatment at point of origin
-- at the owner’s expense,
Farmers and truckers can
find out if the particular areas
from which they are moving
regulated material are infested
by contacting the local plant
pest control office or county
agent.
9 County Grant
A $32,710 grant has been
made to help continue planning
for economic growth in a nine
county area of Georgia.
Counties in the district are
Atkinson, Ben Hill, Bacon,
Brantley, Charlton, Clinch,
Coffee, Pierce and Ware,
The Slash Pine Area Planning
and Development Commission
obtained the grant from the
Economic Development Ad
ministration, U, S, Department
of Commerce.
First Cotton Bloom
In Wheeler Co.
Eddie Fulford of Alamo, was
the first person to report a
new cotton bloomtothe Wheeler
County Eagle,
He will receive a one year
subscription for this.