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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GA, 30411 FRIDAY, AUG, 6, 1971
Deaths And Funerals
Mrs. Bonnie
Harris Lopez
Funeral services for Mrs,
Bonnie Harris Lopez, 19, who
died Tuesday, July 27, in the
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
in Tallahassee, Fla., following
a brief illness, were held Friday
afternoon, July 30, from the
Alamo Methodist Church with
the Rev. Richard Altman of
* ficiating, assisted by the Rev.
Raymond Johnson,
Burial was in the Alamo City
Cemetery with Harris and Smith
in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Lopez was born in
Macon the daughter of Oscar I,
and Maxine Curry Harris. She
lived for several years in Alamo
and for the iast nine years had
lived in Tampa, Fla. She was a
student at North Florida Junior
College in Madison, Fla,, and
was married to Ernique Lopez.
Survivors include her hus
band of Madison, Fla.; parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar I, Harris
of Tampa, Fla,, former resi
dents of Alamo; brother, Ran
dall Harris of Tampa, Fla,;
grandmothers, Mrs, W. E,
Curry of Alamo, and Mrs, Lynn
Harris of Monroe; and uncle,
W, E. Curry, Jr., of Tampa,
Florida.
James Shannon Poole
Funeral services for James
Shannon Poole, 7-year-old
Poumics o:m PARADE
By Sid é Williams
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A preliminary reorganization
plan for 65 state-budgeted
agencies was unveiled last week
by Governor Carter and his
study team — and a tremendous
how! of protest went up from
nearly every agency involved.
The 65 agencies would be re
grouped into 18 divisions, but
the preliminary plan does not
take into account the 200 state
non-budgeted boards, commis
sions and bureaus. These 200
are being studied now and will
later be placed “in the appro
priate departments”.
Several constitutional depart
ments are affected drastically
but under last year's legislative
act, their elected directors have
veto power over the proposals. If
any of these proposals are
vetoed, some say that the Gov
ernor may come back and ask
the General Assembly to enact
special legislation putting them
into effect. However, to do so
would require a two-thirds ma
jority vote in the Assembly,
plus a vote of the people, so it
is hardly likely that these con
stitutional departments will be
touched if their directors say
nay.
State Supt. of Education Jack
Nix is expected to protest vehe
mently over the proposal to
move the vocational schools out
of his department. But, the bright
young Turks in the reorganiza
tion set-up seem to have goofed
on this, for the reason that all
but two of thesc schools are
owned outright by the various
county systems of education,
and how can the state take them
over?
Secretary of State Ben Fort
son seems to be hurt the most
of all the constitutional depart
ments, but Mr. Ben has had a
“no comment until I talk to the
Governor.”
The popular Dept. of Vet
erans Service is to be placed un
der Human Resources, but we
can’t see the strong veterans
organizations in Georgia allow
ing this to happen, counsidering
their many friends in the legis
lature. In fact, many of the
affected departments have close
ties with Representatives and
Senators, so they may be able
to easily gut the whole program.
Os course, the biggest bar to
Carter getting this program
through the Assembly is the
political inepitude and lack of
experience in government among
his young Turks. As one legisla
tor said to us last Friday: “If
the General Assembly stood all
that crowd down in the well
of the House and looked them
over, they probably wouldn't
even take a vote on reorganiza
tion”.
* * % *®
We found no mention of the
Americus youth who drowned
while on an outing with his
family at Lake Blackshear Sun
day, were held Tuesday in the
Church of God in Glenwood.
Burial was in Glenwood Ceme-~
tery.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Tillman Poole of Rt. 4,
Americus, he was a native of
Toombs County.
Other survivors include three
sisters, Miss Kathy Annette
Poole, Miss Margie Nell Poole
and Miss Judy Mae Poole; two
brothers, Timothy Wayne Poole
and Jimmy Allen Poole; ma
ternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Salem Thigpen of Mt.
Vernon; and paternal grand
mother, Nina Mae Poole of
Glenwood.
Mrs. Johnnie
Bohannon
Funeral services for Mrs,
Johnnie Stephenson Bohannon,
50, of Rt. 1, Hazlehurst, who
died Saturday were held at 4:30
p.m. Monday in the chapel of
Thomas Wainwright Funeral
Home with burial in Palms
Memorial Gardens.
Mrs, Bohannon was a native
of Telfair County but had lived
in Hazlehurst 20 years. She
was a member of Towns United
Methodist Church,
Survivors include her hus
band, Gaskin L. Bohannon; a
son, G, L, Bohannon Jr. of
Hazlehurst; a daughter, Mrs,
state’s educational TV network
in the reorganization proposals,
but we hear that both the one
operated by the Dept. of Edu
cation and the one of the Uni
versity System will be merged
and placed under the Dept. of
Administration, which will be
controlled by the Governor. This
network is said to be the 4th
largest in the nation, behind
NBC, CBS and ABC. Just think
how much propaganda power
any governor could have
with this under his control.
*% % *
Recently, Gov. Carter made
.a speech before the Honors
Program students at Wesleyan
College in Macon, in which
he was vitriolic in criticism of
the program. Don't ask us why.
At any rate, the chairman of the
Mercer University Art Dept.,
Dr. Marshall Daugherty, wrote
the governor a blistering letter
about what Carter said. Some
quotes from his letter: “What
seemed to me at first glance a
heedless broadside is now re
vealed as a calculated move in
your attempt to take over the
Dept. of Education™ . . . "I
am sorry to see you using the
brightest young people of the
state as pawns in this power
play”.
* ¥ * %
Memo to the Public Service
Commission: When the big utili
ties give unwarranted wage in
creases — far above the cost of
living increase — and then make
application for a rate increase
to pay the wage hike, why don't
you turn them down? Pretty
soon, they wouldn't be so free
with their pay hikes.
* % =% *
Fifth District Congressman
Fletcher Thompson is pressuring
the federal Office of Economic
Opportunity to demand a re
fund from Julian Bond's
Frontiers Unlimited for the
$43,037 overpaid Frontiers on
a contract.
* % * *
Lester Maddox received a
tremendous reception at his two
speeches in Washington last
week. The one before the In
ternational Platform Assn. was
a standing room only crowd,
and he signed autographs for
an hour. The Lt.-Governor was
muchy pleased, also, with his
reception at the National Press
Club.
Incidentally, Maddox sho’
was courted by the Georgia
politicians in the Capital City.
Senator Gambrell, incidentally,
practically had a fit until he
managed to arrange to do some
thing for Lester and finally came
up with a breakfast. PARADOX:
Carter trying to cut Maddox’s
throat in Georgia, and Gambrell
fawning over him in Washington.
Jerry Johnston of Hazlehurst;
three brothers, Jake Stephen
son and Arnold Stephenson, both
of Towns, and Howard Stephen~
son of Orlando, Fla.; and two
sisters, Mrs. Sue Rosenblatl
of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs,
Thelma Spivey of St. Peters
burg, Fla.
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Howard Bruce Wright
Howard Bruce Wright, 17, of
Rt, 4, Eastman, was killed in
an automobile accident near
Poplar Springs Church Friday
night. Funeral services were
held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Stokes-
Southerland Chapel, with burial
at Parkerson Cemetery.
Mr. Wright was a lifelong
resident of Dodge County and
would have been a senior at
Dodge County High School this
fall,
Survivors include his par
ents, Mr, and Mrs,J, W, Wright
of Eastman; two brothers, Rob
ert Wright of Eastman and
James Wright of Macon; ma
ternal grandfather, Arthur
Lewis of Eastman; paternal
grandfather, Monroe Wright of
Eastman.
Stokes-Southerland Funeral
Home of Eastman was in charge
of arrangements,
R. J. Buchanan
Funeral services for R, J.
Buchanan, 74, of Thomaston,
who died in Hallmark Nursing
Home in Warner Robins, Thurs
day night, July 29, were held
at Hightower Memorial United
Methodist Church at 3 p.m.
Saturday, Burial was in South
View Cemetery.
Mr. Buchanan was a charter
member and past master of
East Thomaston Masonic Lodge
No, 175, and a past steward of
Hightower Memorial United
Methodist Church, He retired
from Peerless division of
Thomaston Mills in 1958,
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Vermodis Smith Buchanan
of Thomaston; two sons, Aaron
Buchanan of Chamblee, and
James Buchanan of Warner
Robins; two sisters, Mrs, Mary
Johnson of Brookhaven, Miss,,
and Mrs. B. L, Caldwell of
Milan; nine grandchildren, and
one great-grandchild.
Pasley-Fletcher Funeral
Home of Thomaston was in
charge of arrangements.
BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH
GEORGIA GAME AND
FISH COMMISSION 1 ;
Carping About Fishing
Tourney’s
Try This One
ATLANTA (PRN) — It
pleases me no little bit that
someone has come up with a
new type of fishing contest
that should help improve
fishing, rather than deplete
populations of desirable
species.
My good friend Calvin
Pearce of Lumpkin tells me
that the Lumpkin Lions Club
has produced an idea to be of
benefit two ways...they’ll
raise money for projects to
help the needy, and they’ll
reduce the number of carp in
Walter F. George Reservoir,
Calvin is going to head up
this weeklong assault on carp,
dubbed a Carp Tournament,
to be staged at Florence
Marina on the upper end of
Walter F. George. The intent
of the tourney is simply to
remove as many carp as
possible, which will help to
improve sportfishing in the
lake,
Rules are virtually
non-existant in this tourney,
at least as far as method of
catching is concemed, since
what they want is results . . .as
many carp as they can get.
This means you may use rod
and reel, any type bait you
like, any method you like,
bowfishing rigs, “I don’t care
if you use a pitchfork if you
want,” says Calvin, ‘‘just get
the carp.”” He admits that this
isn’t the best time of year for
bowfishing for carp, but if this
year’s event is a success it may
be staged earlier next year to
aid the bowfisherman.
“We're even giving a prize
for the smallest carp,” Calvin
told me. “We’re doing that so
that no one will throw back a
single fish ...we don’t want
Mrs. Lola R. Dixon
Mrs, Lola R, Dixon, 68, died
Sunday night in Dodge County
Hospital. Funeral services
were held at 4 p.m, Tuesday
in the chapel of Horme Funeral
Home, Burial was in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
A native of Treutlen County,
Mrs, Dixon had lived in Dodge
County for the past 40 years.
Survivors include four daugh
ters, Miss Lillie Mae Dixon
and Mrs, Mary Leta Parker,
both of Eastman, Mrs. Mildred
Thompson of Plainville, and
Mrs, Dorothy Moore of Chaun
cey; three sons, Carlton Dixon
of Plainville, David Dixon of
Eastman, and Dennis Dixon of
Albany; and two sisters, Mrs,
Eva Batts of Macon, and Mrs.
Lorene Bass of Cochran,
R s e
Mrs. Hazel Hickman
Mrs, Hazel Hickman, 34, died
Friday in Dodge County Hos
pital, Funeral services were
held at 3 p.m. Sunday in New
Union Baptist Church with
burial in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Mrs. Hickman, a lifelong
resident of Dodge County, was
a member of New Union Church,
Survivors include her hus
band, Grady Hickman; three
sons, Barry Hickman, Gary
Hickman and Eric Hickman,
all of Eastman; parents, Mr,
and Mrs, George Yawn of
Chauncey; two sisters, Mrs,
Frank McVey of Mcßae, and
Mrs, Jerry Davis of Chauncey;
and a brother, Leon Yawn of
Warner Robins.,
Horne Funeral Home of East
man was in charge.
Mrs. Wilma Barnett
Mrs., Wilma Haley Barnett,
59, died Monday in Elbert Coun
ty Hospital. Funeral services
were held at 4 p.m. Wednesday
in New Bethel United Methodist
Church with burial in the church
cemetery.,
Mrs. Barnett, a native of
Hart County, is survived by
her husband, W, C, “Bill’’ Bar
nett; four brothers, Armond
Haley of Palm Beach, Fla,,
W. H, Haley of Hazlehurst, Tom
Haley of Lumber City, andHol-~
man Haley of Tulsa, Okla.; and
three sisters, Mrs. Reba H,
Craft and Mrs. Theron Ward,
both of FElberton, and Mrs.
Lorene Rathbun of Macon,
Hicks Funeral Home of
Elberton was in charge.
any carp turned back. We'll
give prizes for all sorts of
things, both daily prizes and
weekly prizes, Altogether,
we’ll have something like
SI,OOO in cash and prizes to
give away.”
The big cash prize is $5 per
pound for the largest carp
caught during the week of
August 16 through 21, out of
Walter F. George. Another top
prize is a free weekend,
including lodging and a boat
and motor, for a family of up
to six, at Florence Marina,
Also, there’ll be prizes for the
biggest string of carp each day,
the biggest string for the week,
and for just about every other
excuse you can dream up to
give a prize for.
Competition will be divided
into three categories: men’s,
women’s and juniors
(youngsters under 12). Entries
will be $2.50 for the two adult
categories and $1.25 each for
juniors. On payment of an
entry fee an angler will be
given a ticket, which also will
be used in a prize
drawing ...so even if you
don’t catch a fish, you have a
chance to win something!
Hours for entering prizes
are 7 am. to 9 p.m. daily,
Monday through Saturday,
August 16 through 21,
Anyone wanting to enter
should go to Florence Marina,
buy a ticket, and start carping'
Wouldn’t it be nice if more
tournaments for fishermen
were aimed at removing
undesirable species in bulk,
rather than vast numbers and
large sizes of fish most of us
cherish , . .such as bass?
Here's wishing the best of
success to this venture!
Registered Horse
Show Postponed
The Registered Palomino
Horse Show which had been set
for August 7 at Central City
Park in Macon has been post
poned because of the danger
of the Venezuelan equine en
cephalomyelitis epidemic.
A A TR A SOO S bt 40 it 4
Rev.
Joseph
Dean
Growing Old
“You can’t teach an old dog
new tricks.’’ We are beginning
to find out that this old saying
is just not true. In fact, senior
citizens are discovering that
learning new tricks, newskills,
new approaches have giventhem
a whole new outlook on life,
Learning increases happi
ness because happiness is so
akin to learning: Itisaprocess
of how we travel through life.
We accomplish one goal after
another, and then have the vision
to see more significant goals
appear.
Leaming increases better
health habits which result in
more enjoyment of old age.
People who are in the habit of
learning tend to make use of
better medical attention.
Learning helps an older per
son take the normal risks of
daily life and go through diffi
cult periods of change more
satisfactorily., For instance, a
learning person is not so fear
ful in making an expenditure,
or in going into debt for a
while, whereas a person who is
not in a learning stage, becomes
very possessive and wants to
avoid spending any money even
for necessities.,
Learning helps older pgrsons
to become more flexible, crea
tive, more able to cope with
tensions and prejudices and
problems that exist in the lives
of all human beings no matter
what their age.
For some men, retirement
can be a traumatic experience.
But they can readjust well by
learning new skills which re
semble work. They often re
spond enthusiastically even to
day classes which teach crafts
like carpentry, ceramics, lea
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control systems know These hiehly sophisticated
troubleshooters keep watch night and day through
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instantly. Automatic equipment goes into action
reclose the open switch. Should this fail, the supc
visorv system can, in many cases, remedy the trouble
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patched by radio
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price of electricity low. Those things, however, can't
continue to offset today's soaring costs
But whenever you measure the value you get
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therwork., They enjoy the com
pany of other men their own
age in these classes, Both men
and women find a renewal in
their lives through the new
motivation that learning ex
periences give them.
We can all encourage our
local community to provide,
not more shuffle board courts,
which promote artificialactivi
ties to “kill time,”” but more
reality centered experiences.
Some examples are these:
Travel tours, flower growing
contests, art classes, use of
tools to make bird houses, dis
cussion groups on books and
personal experiences, shopping
expeditions to nearby cities,
participation in lectures for
young people, seminars on how
senior citizens can join hands
to tackle local community prob
lems,
A widening range of interests,
new areas of living, creative
thinking and creative action,
all help toward self fulfillment
toward using more and more
of God’s many gifts, toward
building up the total Christian
man, Jesus Himself said, ‘I
am come that you may have
life and have it more
abundantly,”” John 10:10,
By increasing our capacities
to learn, to develop, to live
fully at every age in life, we
are honoring God’s work of both
nature and grace. Then we can
begin to appreciate all the more
the words of Jesus, *lam the
Way the Truth and the Life.”
John 14:6.,
God bless you now,
Joseph Dean
Catholic Chapel
Statewide Public
.
School Testing
Program Approved
A statewide school testing
program was endorsedby Geor
gia’s State Board of Education
this week during its July meet
ing in Atlanta,
Funds for the program
($500,000) were allocated this
year by the General Assembly,
according to H, Titus Single
tary, Jr., associate state super
intendent for instructional ser
vices.
Achievement and mental
maturity tests are to be ad
ministered in grades 4, 8 and
12, The program is designed to
furnish information about im-
portant characteristics of indi~
vidual students. The general
objectives include pertinent
data needed for the improve
ment of the instructional pro
gram, provide information for
the guidance of students and
define needs of a given student
population for the purpose of
overall curriculum develop
ment at the school, system or
state level, Singletary said.
The State Board reserved
the right to determine at a
later time specifically how test
results are to be used. Final
testing procedure and the pro
fessional firm to furnish the
tests are to be determined.
Approval was also given for
state support of two cents per
meal served for the public
school food service program,
The money will aid local sys=
tems to meet the new federal
minimum wage law for lunch
room workers,
Jack P, Nix, state superin
tendent of schools, informed
the board that during the last
fiscal year the department
transmitted $27 million in fed
eral funds to support public
schools breakfasts and lunches,
special milk funds and money
for lunchroom equipment, mak
ing Georgia a national leader
in school food service.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert,
chairman, Professional Prac
tices Commission, presented
the board with a copy of the
professional standards and a
code of ethics which the com
mission has adopted for Geor
gia’s professional teachers.
The comimission was created
by the General Assembly in
1967 to develop the standards,
Authorization was given to
the department by the board to
distribute an additional $124,-
726,88 in Instructional Assis
tance Program grants to 35
Georgia public school systems,
The money is the remainder
of $3.2 million in state funds
allocated by the legislature this
spring to assist local elemen
tary systems in certain cur
riculum areas,
Per person use of red meat
in 1971 once again is heading
for a new high, according to
the US. Department of
Agriculture. Last year it was a
record 1855 pounds—3.s
pounds above per capita con
sumption in 1969,
ATLANTA (PRN) — Major
league sports today seem to be
a constant fight with each
sport claiming dominance over
the others. The pro football
people are constantly saying
that football has passed
baseball; the basketball folks
are quick to say that they have
passed up both; and the soccer
lovers feel certain that their
sport is gradually catching the
others in popularity with the
youngsters.,
With this type of battle
among sports going on, it’s
refreshing to see athletes from
every realm of sport teaming
together this summer to coach
and entertain youngsters at
the Super Sports Clinic,
coming up at Atlanta Stadium
on Saturday, August Bth.
The Super Sports Clinic was
conceived by the Georgia
Recreation and Park Society
as a “show piece” for the
nation to demonstrate what
big league athletes can do for
the youth of America by
combining their talents.
Each of the major sports of
baseball, football, basketball
and soccer will be featured in
the clinic program, which will
last throughout the day,
starting at 11 a.m. But there
will also be individual sports
like tennis, golf, Karate,
wrestling, archery, gymnastics
and track featured in the
program,
Instruction and
entertainment for the
youngsters will continue at a
fast pace all day and will be
climaxed by the Braves game
against the St. Louis Cards
that night at 8:05.
Some of the men who have
volunteered their help for the
clinic are Hank Aaron, Luman
Harris and Ralph Garr of the
Atlanta Braves, Lou Hudson,
the all-pro forward of the
Hawks, is heading up the
basketball program, which will
feature Georgia Tech
All-America Rich Yunkus
Pete Maravich, and Hawks
rookies George Trapp and Jeff
Haliburton.
Wayman Creel, who was
.
Direct VA Loans
The Senate Committee on
Veterans’® Affairs has favor
ibly reported legislation toper
mit resumption of direct loans
by the Veteran’s Administration
to GI home buyers, it was
announced from Washington by
Georgia’s U, S. Sen. Herman
E. Talmadge, a committee
member,
The program allows veter
ans who live in “credit short
age’’ areas to obtain direct
home loans from the Veteran’s
Administration.
These areas, which are al
most exclusively rural, are
sections where the veteran finds
it almost impossible to acquire
lending capital at a rate which
he can afford, Talmadge ex~
plained.
Since its inception in 1950,
the program has made avail
able to some 311,145 veterans
the sum of $3-billion, The pro
gram recently has become al
most inoperative due to lack
of funding.
There are some 2,000 ap
plications presently on file with
the Veteran’s Administration
which cannot be processed be
cause of a lack of funds, the
senator said,
‘I have been assured,” Tal
madge said in announcing the
committee action, ‘“that the VA
will resume issuing direct loans
on August 1, if this legislation
is passed by Congress, and I
feel that it is absolutely im
perative that this be done.
“Fifty-nine per cent of
America’s substandard housing
is located in these so-called
credit shortage areas, and pri
vate lenders do not regardthem
as a good investment.”’
Regarding efforts by the VA
to secure private financing for
the veteran, the Georgia senior
senator declared:
‘““Bitter experience has been
proven that private lenders are
simply not available. Veterans
who live in rural areas of the
country should not be treated
as second-class citizens, and I
hope Congress will speedily
act to provide adequate home
financing for veterans.,”
Sen, Talmadge said 108 coun=
ties in Georgia would be eligible
under the program,
named football Coach of the
Year last year by the Georgia
Hall of Fame, will coordinate
the football portion of the
clinic with assistance from
former Atlanta Falcon and
San Diego Charger defensive
coach Hal Herring.
Atlanta Chiefs coach and
general manager Vic Rouse has
his entire team set to instruct
for the clinic. And each of the
minor sports has a notable of
its own heading up the
individual programs—-such as
Crawford Henry in tennis and
Paul Anderson in weight
lifting.
The clinic will be the first
all-day affair of this scale ever
presented in the U.S., and its
success this year could lead to
similar clinics in major league
cities throughout the nation.
The entire day of activity,
including a reserved area ticket
to the Braves-Cards game,
costs youngsters (regardless of
age) $3.00.
Portions of the proceeds go
to the Georgia Recreation and
Park Society to be spent on
special recreation projects of
the Society’s member
departments throughout
Georgia,
Many companies have also
contributed their help toward
the success of the clinic. For
instance, Irvindale and Miss
Georgia Dairies have put
thousands of dollars of
advertising money into the
clinic as a public service.
Youngsters can purchase
tickets to the clinic by sending
$3.00 each to: Super Sports
Clinic, Box 4064, Atlanta
30302, 4
OLD-TIMERS NOTE-The
Braves Old-Timers Game,
which is coming up on
Saturday, August 14, at
Atlanta Stadium, will be
played at night this season.
The Old-Timers contest
between the best Braves
players of the past and the
former St. Louis Card greats is
scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
with the regular Braves-Astros
game following at 8:05.