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VOLUME 57
South Georgia
Methodist Youth
Set Meeting Date
Youth from South Georgia
United Methodist Churches will
meet at a large youth Assembly
on St. Simons Island in an at
tempt to bridge the communi
cation gap.
The week-long Communi
cation Workshop begins cm July
26th, and will feature Encounter
Groups for personal communi
cations, film festivals, creative
writing workshops, drama
workshops, radio workshops,
film making workshops, simu
lation games, art, music and
celebrations led by Howard
Hanger.
See your Methodist pastor for
more information and an appli
cation blank.
Rhine Man Shot
In Head, Dies In
Telfair Hospital
From Times-Journal
Eastman, Ga.
Anderson Maloy, about 50,
of Rhine is being held in the
Dodge County jail on a murder
charge in connection with the
fatal shooting of Robert Wilcox,
about 50 and also of Rhine,
at the Jenkins Case in Rhine,
July 5, according to Sheriff
Jackson Jones.
The murder warrant was
sworn out by the dead man’s
wife, Lucile Wilcox.
The sheriff said Maloy shot
Wilcox following an argument
between the two men. Wilcox
was shot through the head with
a .38 caliber pistol. “The bullet
. passed through Wilcox’s head
and landed on the floor of the
cafe,’’ the sheriff said. Wilcox
was carried to the Telfair
County Hospital, where he died
the following day.
Sheriffs Convention
Sheriffs from all over
Georgia are in Rabun County,
for the Annual Georgia Sheriffs
Convention. The convention
started on Tuesday, July 20,
and ended on Thursday, July 22.
Lieutenant Gov. Lester G.
Maddox officially opened the
convention with the Keynote
Address on Wednesday, July 21,
at 2:00 p.m.
On Thursday, July 22, the
Sheriffs conducted sessions and
heard addresses by Jimmy H.
Young, President, National
Sheriffs Association; Ferris
Lucas, Executive Director, Na
tional Sheriffs Association; and
Col. Ray Pope, Director of
Public Safety.
Gov. Jimmy Carter ad
dressed the Annual Convention
at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The Georgia Sheriffs Associ
ation has been holding Annual
Conventions since 1954.
Sheriff Marley Cannon, Host
Sheriff for the Convention stated
that according toadvance regis
tration this was to be the largest
convention ever held by this
group.
Baton Twirling
Clinic At GSC
The Eighth Annual Twirling
Stars Clinic will be held at
Georgia Southern College, July
25-28, under the direction of
Linda Brannen.
Classes for beginners, inter
mediates, corps majorettesand
advanced champions will be of
fered. Special instruction in
those areas will include charm
and modeling, uniform ideas,
twirling and marching, parade
routines, and novelties; hat and
cane, soft shoe, bells, and chair.
Other activities planned for
the three day workshop will
include a Beauty Review and a
talent night.
Working with Mrs. Brannen
as staff members will be Janice
Lord, a member of the Atlanta
All Stars, Evie Keirnan of the
Lakeside Drill Team, and Nan
Oliver and Lena Lou Waters of
Statesboro High School.
The clinic will begin at three
o’clock, Sunday afternoon July
25 with registration.
Wheeler County Eagle
Bridges Span Generations
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Two bridges on Two-Chop Road at the Screven-Bulloch County line span more than just the
swirling waters of the Ogeechee River. They span the generation gap .. .several generations in fact.
The new bridge in the foreground opened to traffic last Spring, but the older wooden structure,
built as a toll bridge for horse-drawn vehicles in 1850 and probably used by General Sherman’s
army on the march to the sea, continued to provide a crossing for the courageous horseless carriage
owner until late last year. The new bridge was built by the State Highway Department of Georgia
through a county contract at a cost of $371,154.00. (PRN)
Wheeler County Youth Dies In
Wreck, Four Others Injured
One Alamo youth was killed
and four injured in an auto
accident Wednesday night about
10:15 p.m., on Georgia 27, near
Radio Station WDAX in Telfair
County.
Children On First
School Entry Must
Have Immunization
While most Georgians are
still lazing through a long hot
summer, a significant number
of parents are already looking
forward to fail and the entry of
.heir children into school for
the first time.
Dr. Lillian Warnick, who is
director of the State Health
Department’s child health unit,
says that children should be
receiving Georgia’s seven com
pulsory immunizations now, if
they expect to enter school in
September.
“The law is very specific,’’
says Dr. Warnick, “It requires
a child to have a certificate of
immunization covering seven
basic diseases — or the child
cannot be admitted to Georgia
schools for the first time.”
The physician points out that
rubella was added to the re
quired list this year. The other
diseases spelled out by state
law are diphtheria, whooping
cough, tetanus, measles, polio
and smallpox.
Private physicians and local
health departments cooperate
in immunizing youngsters, ac
cording to Dr. Warnick.
“Kindergarten students and
first graders are involved, ” she
explains, “but out-of-state stu
dents enteringthe highergrades
must also have proof of
immunity'.”
She adds, “Time is running
out. If the child isn’t fully
protected parents should make
arrangements at once or face
difficulty in putting their chil
dren in school in just a few
weeks.”
Thompson Brings Congressional Task
Force On Revenue Sharing To Georgia
Congressman Fletcher
Thompson announced he will
bring a Congressional Task
Force comprised of himself,
Congressman Jack Edwards of
Alabama, and Congressman
John Kyle of lowa, to Atlanta
on Friday in order to acquaint
Georgia government and busi
ness leaders with President
Nixon’s Revenue Sharing plans.
The Task Force will be in
Atlanta on Friday, July 23, and
have meetings with business
and government leaders sche
duled the entire day.
Thompson said a forum for
law makers will be held in the
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 -
According to the Helena State
Patrol, Jessie Carlton Bras
well, 19, of Rt. 2, Alamo, driving
a 1970 Chevrolet lost control
of the auto on the rain-slick
highway, and skidded across
the road side ways striking
the front of a tractor trailer
truck. The driver of the truck
identified as Police Norton of
Garden City, applied brakes
and had stopped at time of
impact.
A passenger in the Braswell
car, Kenneth Elton, 17, of
Alamo, was dead on arrival
at Telfair County Hospital.
Other passengers, Miss Patsy
Mathis, 17; Miss Connie
Mercer, 16; and Miss Lynn
Registered Horse
Show Set For
Macon August 1
A Registered Palomino Horse
Show will be held in Macon on
August 7, at Central City Park.
There will be 15 halter classes
beginning at 10 a.m., and ten
performance classes in the
afternoon.
Four open performance
classes are also scheduled. Two
championship classes for Eng
lish and Western pleasure will
offer a total of $l5O in prizes.
Ray Brown of Copan, Okla.,
vill be judge for the show
which is approved by the Palo
mino Horse Breeders .Associ
ation. Admission will be open
to the public and refreshments
will be available on the grounds.
The show is sponsored by
the Middle Georgia Saddle Club
and the Bibb County Jaycees,
who will also sponsor the Geor
gia State Horse Show in Macon ,
on September 25.
More information may be re
ceived from Kelly Gunnells,
P. O. Box 5511, Macon, Ga.,
31208.
State Capitol Friday at 3 p.m.
Thompson said “Revenue
sharing is the cornerstone of
the President’s plan to revita
lize the American system of
■government. It returns decision
making to the local level by
giving no-strings-attached
Federal tax money to the State,
counties and cities. The plan
for general and special Revenue
sharing will provide State and
local governments with a total
of sl6 billion in flexible funds.
Nearly' $6 billion will be new
money above and beyond what
States and localities are now
receiving.”
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Purvis, 16; all of Alamo, along
with Braswell were brought to
the Telfair County Hospital.
Later Miss Mercer and Miss
Purvis were carried to the
Macon Hospital.
Cpl. E. W. Curl of the Helent
State Patrol Post investigated
the accident.
Wallace Adams
Recognized By
Forestry Assoc.
Wallace Adams of Glenwood
was recognized for his services
as a director of the Georgia
Forestry Association at the
group’s recent annual meeting.
Noll A. Van Cleave, newly
elected president of the state
wide forestry organization, said
Mr. Adams has given valuable
service to the organization and
had been a major factor in the
growth during recent years.
“When we have dedicated men
serving as directors of this
organization, we can continue
to expand our services to the
members and better serve t.
State of Georgia through the
forest interests,” Mr. Van
Cleave stated.
The directors of the Georgia
Forestry Association serve
without pay and travel through
out the state at their own ex
pense to serve the organization,
the president explained. He said
many of the directors have
devoted a near-lifetime of
service.
The Georgia Forestry As
sociation is a non-profit, state
wide organization of forest
landowners and wood using
firms banded together to pro
mote the forest industry. Forest
interests in Georgia make up
the second largest segment of
the state’s economy,generating
more than a billion dollars
into the state each year.
President Van Cleave said a
mammouth program to attract
new members into the Associ
ation is planned and directors
would serve as a focal point
in this campaign. “We are re
doubling our efforts to better
represent the total nrestecon
omy, ” he added.
He said that by united effort
the forest interests could better
serve their own industry and at
he same time bring a better
balance to the state economy.
Temperature and humidity
are very important when
storing fresh fruits. Today
many fruits are purchased in
plastic bags. Extension Service
home economists suggest
poking a few small holes in the
bag. This will provide ventila
tion and let out some of the
moisture which accumulates.
Sen. Talmadge flgain Takes On fight
for farmer, Supports Tobacco Program
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge, long a cliampion of
America’s downtrodden farm
ers, <mce more is doing battle
with critics of the tillers of
Industries Locate
Forty Six New
In Ga. This Year
Forty-six new industries,
representing a capital invest
ment of $96,615,000, located
on the lines of the Georgia
Power Company during the first
six months of 1971, J. Curtis
Smith, vice president, indus
trial development, announced
this week.
The new units will give em
ployment to 2,967 Georgians
at annual wages of $17,057,000.
During the first six months
of 1970, there were 56 new
plants added to the company’s
lines, Mr. Smith said. These
represented capital invest
ments of $85,459,000 and em
ployment of 5,464 workers at
total annual payrolls of ap
proximately $35,267,800.
All facilities as reported by
the power company are manu
facturing or processing plants,
each with a minimum capital
investment of $50,000 and em
ploying at least 10 workers.
In addition to the new plants,
44 existing industries expanded
their operations during the first
half of 1971. Total investment
in these expansions was $69,-
146,000. This represents em
ployment for 1,416 additional
workers at annual wages of
$7,206,000.
Plants expanding their ope
rations in the first half of
1970 totaled 64 at a cost of
$46,912,200. This created em
ployment for 2,376 additional
workers at annual salaries of
an estimated $13,242,350.
Baptists Study
Colossians, Job
Colossians and Job will be
the Biblical books taught at a
Family Bible Conference, July
26-30, at the Georgia Baptist
Assembly in Toccoa.
Teachers will be Dr. Ralph
Lee Smith, Southwestern Bap
tist Theological Seminary of
Fort Worth, Tex., Job; and Dr.
Malcolm O. Tolbert, New Or
leans Baptist Theological Semi
nary, Colossians.
Featured preacher for the
week will be the Rev. M Iton
C. Gardner, Jr., First Baptist
Church of Thomasville. Dr.
Searcy S. Garrison, executive
secretary-treasurer of the
Georgia Baptist Convention,
will bring the keynote message
Monday night.
Classes for pre-schoolers
children, and youth will also be
provided. The week is spon
sored by State Missions depart
ments of the Convention and
the Georgia Baptist Woman’s
Missionary Union.
The book of Job, which deals
with the problem of suffering,
will be the book studied by
many Southern Baptist churches
next year during “January Bible
Study Week.”
Each year, the conference
features the Biblical book which
will be studied the following
January and one additional book,
according to the Rev. 0. M.
Cates, secretary of evangelism
and chairman for the 1971 c<m
ference.
Mornings and nights are de
voted to study and inspiration
sessions, while afternoons are
open for recreation and rest,
Cates said.
Also scheduled during the
week is a conference for associ
ational and area missionaries
of the state Baptist Convention.
The mission workers’ confer
ence is coordinated by the Rev.
Ernest J. Kelley, cooperative
missions secretary.
FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1971
the soil and the national pro
grams which help to sustain
them.
The Georgia senator, chair
man of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, in a Senate speech
strenuously opposed an amend
ment sponsored by Mormon Sen.
Frank E. Moss, D-Utah—anon
smoker who engineered the ban
on broadcast advertising of cig
arettes—to kill all federal to
bacco support programs.
“The amendment before the
Senate now,” Talmadge said,
"is the most vicious I have
ever seen. This amendment
would abolish the tobacco pro
gram. It would prohibit the
paying of export subsidies....
prohibit cooperative govern
ment-industry foreign market
development programs....pro
hibit sales under P.L. 480, and
it would prohibit inspection or
grading of tobacco.”
"All of these purposes,” he
charged, “are aimed at the
hearts of tobacco growers. It
would literally destroy a pro
gram, and the honest God-fear
ing people who participate in
that program. It would literally
confiscate their property by
government fiat. It would
literally make beggars out of a
self-supporting, self-reliant
people.
"And for what? And for that
I have no answer. Foi-1 can see
no earthly good in this amend
ment. The oily thing it will
accomplish is to make paupers
out of tobacco growers, and
cause harm to our national
economy.”
Sen. Talmadge characterized
Registration For
Wheeler County
Day Care Center
The Wheeler County Board
of Education is providing an
Additional service, a day care
center for children that are
between the ages of 3 and 5.
This project is funded partly
by Local, State and Federal
funds under Title IV-A. This
service is to take care of the
children for the working and
home bound mothers.
Parents of the 3 and 4 year
olds are asked to register your
children at the Junior High
School on July 26, between the
hours of 8 a.m., and 1 p.m.
Most children that will be in
the 5 year old group have pre
viously registered. If yours has
not, please do so during the
above stated hours.
Bumper Thumper For Safety
THE SW IXGEK”—This huge two-tun hammer is one of the
key test devices used by North American Ruckwell’s Automo
tive Products Division (APD) in developing a new energy ab
sorbing bumper system that will be required by the govern
ment’s safety standards on 1973 model cars. APD is the largest
independent supplier of bumpers to the automobile industry.
The huge hammer swings on the end of an 1 I-foot-long arm.
The pendulum permits testing of bumper systems on vehicles
or a rigid frame at the company's Automotive Technical Center
in Troy. Mich. The pendulum can deliver an impact that simu
lates speeds up to 15 miles per hour. According to John S. Judd,
APD president, an impact simulating five miles per hour means
a force of 20.000 pounds in terms of a 5,000-pound car. At 10
miles per hour, Judd said, that force level increases to 80,000
pounds.
SINGLE COPY 5(5
the Moss amendmentasa "con
temptible provision” sponsored
by those who “have used every
trick in the book to discredit,
degrade and criticize producers
of our food and fiber.”
He said such programs cost
the government only $53.1-mil
lion in 1970, while at the same
time domestic tobacco sales
netted $4.6-billion in federal
and state taxes and foreign
sales added $467-million to the
U. S. balance of payments
position.
The Georgia senior senator
further defended the tobacco
program because it is “one of
the few crops that can still
utilize family labor and provide
a reasonable income on a small
farm. Thus it represents the
strongest bastion of the small
family-type concept.” He
added:
“This amendment would ac
complish no good whatsoever.
It will not stop the sale of
tobacco. It will not stop the
advertising of tobacco. It will
James K. Elton
Dies In Auto
Wrack Wed. Night
James Kenneth Elton, 17, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin
Elton of Alamo, was killed in
an auto accident Wednesday
night in Telfair County. Funeral
services will be held Friday
afternoon (today) at 3:00 o’clock
at the Wheeler County Gym
nasium with Elder E.R. Reeves
of Empire, officiating, assisted
by the Rev. Raymond Jolins on.
Burial will be in the Scotland
Cemetery with Harris and Smith
Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Freddie
Nobles, Tommy Fulford, Skip
Clark, Randy Pope, Tommy
Spivey, Steve Spivey and P.
Purvis.
Honorary pallbearers will be
members of the Basketball and
Football teams; Ernie Pope,
Jimmy Day, Wendell Seabolt,
Larry White, Ted Morrison,
Mike Perry, Billy Clark and
Jim Mullis.
Mr. Elton was born in Mcßae
on January 12, 1954 the son of
James Franklin and Leah
Runelie Smith Elton and was a
student at Wheeler County High
School.
Survivors include his father
and mother; and one brother,
Karl Elton, all of Alamo; and
grandmothers, Mrs. Jeff Elton
of Alamo, and Mrs. James D
Smith of Macon.
NUMBER 16
not make it unlawful to smoke
tobacco.
“It will not contribute one
iota to better health in this
nation, but it will be harmful
to the economy of this nation.
It is designed oily to punish
the tobacco grower in this coun
try. It has no other purpose.”
Sen. Talmadge concluded his
remarks to his Senate col
leagues this way:
“I will not take advantage of
a downtrodden people who have
literally' devoted their lives to
furthering the interests of this
great nation. On the contrary,
I will expend every ounce of
energy at my command toward
defending them.
“I have in the past, and will
continue to do all in my power
toward furthering their in
terest, and in so doing, further
ing the interest ofall our people
and of our country. I hope the
amendment will be defeated.”
Mrs. Paul Humphrey
Attends Annual Home
Economics Institute
Spotlight was on the consumer
July' 14 and 15 when Georgia
College held its eighth annual
Home Economics Institute
which attracted some 100 home
economists from all areas of
the state.
Objectives of this year’s con
ference, “Consumer Concerns
of the Seventies,’’was to stimu
late concern for and increase
understanding of consumer wel
fare.
Specifically the six objectives
are, according to Dr. Ruth
Sneed, chairman of the home
economics department: to
stimulate concern for con
sumer welfare; to gain a better,
understanding of the role of
the home economist in con
sumer education; to understand
effective ways of teaching con
sumer education.
To become acquainted with
the services that are available
to the consumer; to increase
understanding of protective
legislation for the consumer;
and to become more aware of
the rights and responsibilities,
which are essential for better
communication between the
consumer and producer.
Nine speakers were present
to help the home economists
gain these objectives. Featured
speaker was an alumnus of <
Georgia College, Dr. Mary
Stevens Gibbs, presently serv
ing in the educational depart
ment of Consumers Union, Mt.
Vernon, N. Y. Bom in Davis
boro, Dr. Gibbs is on leave of
absence to the Consumers Union
from Indiana State University,
Terre Haute, Ind.
Among those attending Geor
gia College’s eighth annual
Home Economics Institute was
Mrs. Ruth C. Humphrey of Mc-
Rae.
State’s Gas Use Is Up
ATLANTA (PRN) -
Consumption of gasoline in
Georgia increased substantially
in 1970 compared to the
previous year, according to
Eric Holmes, Executive
Secretary of the Petroleum
Council of Georgia.
Total gasoline consumption
in Georgia in 1970 was
2,318,640,000, Holmes
reported. By comparison,
Holmes pointed out, gasoline
consumption amounted to
2,190,245,000 in 1969.
Holmes said that 1970
gasoline consumption in
Georgia was 5.9 per cent
higher than the previous year.
This compares with a
nationwide increase of 3.9 per
cent in gasoline consumption.
On the national scale, stated
Holmes, the leading gasoline
consuming state in the
country was California with
9,227,084,000 gallons. The
total gasoline consumption for
the entire 50 United States
was 92,051,037,000. This
represents a 46.6 per cent
increase in gasoline
consumption over 1960.