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VOLUME 57
Ga. labor Dept.
Sets Testing Date
For Roper Corp.
The Georgia Department of
Labor testing schedule for
prospective employees for The
Roper Corporation is as fol
lows:
9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on
Monday, August 30, in the Grand
Jury Room at the Courthouse.
Twenty applicants will be tested
at each time scheduled on a
first come, first served basis.
There will be no testing this
Friday.
Rev. Kelly Dies
At His Home In
Grovetown, Ga.
Rev. L. A. Kelley of Colum
bia County, Georgia, died July
30th, after a brief illness in
his home at Grovetown. He
was 82 years old.
Brother Kelley had served
as a Baptist pastor for nearly'
fifty years. All of his pastorates
were in his native Georgia.
He graduated from Mercer Uni
versity in Macon, and served
churches in Washington, Sere- .
ven, Wheeler, Telfair, Bullock,
Richmond, Lincoln and Colum
bia Counties. His lastpastorate
was in Columbia County at the
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church.
Brother Kelley is survived
by his wife, Lucile R. Kelley
of Grovetown; three daughters,
Mrs. Patricia K. Jones of Daw
sonville, Lois K. Cater of Jack
sonville, Fla., and Mrs. Louisa
K. Visneski of Nanticoke, Pa.;
five sons, Charles E. Kelley
of Statesboro, Kennethß. Kelley
of Grovetown, Evan L. Kelley
of Atlanta, L. A, Kelley, Jr. of
Orange Park, Fla., and Herman
Kelley of Lincolnton. In addition
to the children Brother Kelley
had twenty-five grandchildren
and nineteen great grand
children.
Brother Kelley was buried
in the Grovetown Cemetary in
Grovetown.
Mcßae Catholic
Chapel Starts
Night Service
This Sunday, August 29, Mc-
Rae Catholic Chapel will begin
evening services at 7:00 p.m.
The new pastor. Rev. Joseph
Dean, announced that visitors
are always welcome and that
the fifth Sunday of the month
will be designated in a special
way as visiting Sunday.
Last Friday the members
of the parish met for the
Stations of the Cross devotions.
After services they elected
their committee chairmen for
the coming year.
Eddie Selph was elected
Religious Education director.
Lairy Dowdy'was elected chair
man of community affairs, and
Art Rodriguez was elected
chairman of ecumenical activi
ties.
Sunday morning services will
continue as usual at 9:00 a.m.
in Mcßae and at 11:00 a.m.
in Hazlehurst.
James W. Coleman
Completes Training
PFC. James Walter Coleman,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus
Coleman of Glenwood, has
finished basictrainingandtruck
driving leadership school at
Ft. Jackson, S, C. After a2l
day furlough here with his
parents, he left August 14, for
Ft. Lewis, Washington. He left
Ft. Lewis August 18, for active
duty in Vietnam.
David N. Gibbs
Receives Promotion
David N. Gibbs, 23, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Thad N. Gibbs
of Rt. 2, Alamo, recently was
promoted toArmy Captain while
serving with Headquarters
Company, U. S. Army Garrison
in Germany.
Capt. Gibbs is a Property
Book Officer in the Company.
He is a 1968 Graduate of Geor
gia Military College in
Milledgeville.
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Atlantan Keith Price, 11, knew he was going to have a big day when he got to meet the governor
of Georgia, but didn't expect to get a big night out of it too. Keith, this year’s Muscular Dystrophy
Association of Georgia poster child, went to the governor’s office for a routine proclamation
signing. But. after Gov. Jimmy Carter officially designated Labor Day (Sept. 6) as Muscular
Dystrophy Day in Georgia, he took such an interest in Keith, a victim of MD since birth, that he
invited the youngster to spend the night at the governor’s mansion on Thursday, Aug. 19. With
Keith, watching the Governor sign the proclamation, is Ed Elson, Atlanta Area President of the
Muscular Dystrophy Association of America. (PRN)
Forestry Unit Moves Info New Building
Mt. Vernon Area and Mont
gomery County Forestry Unit
personnel have moved into new
facilities at the old Unit site,
announced A. L. Jacobs, Mt.
Vernon Area Forester. The
Montgomery-Treutlen-Wheeler
Forestry Unit, Mt. Vernon Area
and project forester offices are
located in the new forestry
building.
The four room structure,
8,400 square feet, cost $6,165.-
07. The facility was designed
by the Georgia Forestry Com
mission and erected by the
local forestry unit and Mt. Ver
non area personnel. The out
side and inside wall framing,
rafters, weather boa rd and floor
joists were precut at the Macon
office.
In addition to the four offices,
there are two baths and a stor
age room. The offices are
paneled and carpeted.
Ed Richardson, ranger,
Montgomery-Treutlen-Wheeler
Forestry Unit, said this is the
third home for the Unit since
1957. Personnel had operated
out of a quonset hut since Jan.
1959. From 1957-59, operations
were out of a one room office.
These buildings are being used
First National Loan
Is SHA's Largest
ATLANTA (PRN) - The
largest loan ever guaranteed in
Georgia by the Small Business
Administration is involved in
the sale of three
company-owned Burger King
outlets to Atlanta businessmen
Kelvin Wall and Felker W.
Ward.
The purchase price,
according to information
furnished by the principals
and the Small Business
Administration’s southeast
regional office, is $350,000.
Financing of a $290,000
SBA-guaranteed loan was
arranged by The First National
Bank of Atlanta.
First National’s Harry
Breeze, assistant vice
president, who handled
arrangements, described the
amount as the largest such
SBA-backed loan ever in
Georgia.
The transaction involves
Burker King fast-food stores at
609 Cascade Ave., SW; at
Bankhead Ave. and Hightower
Rd., NW, and at 881
Bankhead Ave., NW, Atlanta.
Wall and Ward, both black,
will operate the three stores,
using present management and
help, as Thursday
Development Corporation.
With 1971 gross sales of
about $1 million, the three
locations have a history of
consistent growth and profit,
according to Burger King’s
group vice president, John
Hollingsworth. This trend, said
Hollingsworth, should not
only continue, but hopefully
will develop in step with, if
AMMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
for storage. All three struc
tures, as well as a tower and
truck shed, are on a one and a
half acre site on U. S. 280
west of Ailey.
The four area counties are
Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen
md Wheeler.
Albert P. Hopkins
On Dean’s List
Albert P. Hopkins, a Georgia
Southern College senior from
Alamo, has been named to the
Summer Quarter Dean’s List
with a 4.00 grade point average.
To be eligible for the Dean’s
List a student must have at
least a 3.33 grade point average
for the quarter.
Dr. Pope A. Duncan, Vice
President of Georgia Southern
College saluted the GSC Dean’s
List students for their outstand
ing achievement. Additionally
the businessmen of Statesboro
are recognizing these students
for their summer quarter’s
work through a merchant’s dis
count program.
not ahead of, projected
increases in the Atlanta
population. A strong appeal
for quick-food items is among
residents of moderate income
areas, he pointed out. Many of
these areas have Burger King
family restaurants. All told,
the Miami based Burger King,
with 25 Atlanta stores, paces
its competition in the number
of locations.
“First National’s interests in
capitalizing talented and
qualified businessmen - black
and white - are not
unknown,” said Breeze. He
added, “It’s particularly
rewarding to play an
increasing hand in meeting this
commercial need of a thriving
business community.”
Wall and Ward have retained
Leroy Danzy, a Burger King
veteran, as general manager.
Wall, who will serve as
financial officer, is vice
president and manager of
market development for a soft
drink firm. He formerly was
merchandising manager for
Ebony Magazine and
advertising director of the
Amsterdam (N.Y.) News. Wall,
a graduate of St. John’s
University, has lectured at
Harvard and Georgia Tech.
Ward, chief operating
manager for the three stores, is
a U.S. Army Lieutenant
colonel, an aviator with
Southeast Asia, Far East and
European duty. No stranger to
retailing, he is a former Army
operations and logistics officer
and once operated a Chinese
quick-food business.
Frank A. Irwin
Dies Aug. 20
In Nursing Home
Funeral services for Frank
Adams Irwin, 81, of Alamo,
who died Friday, August 20,
in Mcßae Manor Nursing Home
following a long illness, were
held Sunday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock from the Chapel
of Harris and Smith Funeral
Home with the Rev. Raymond
Johnson, pastor of Alamo United
Methodist Church, officiating,
assisted by the Rev. Richard
Altman.
Burial was in Erick ( eme
tery with Harris and Smith in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Clarence
Cravey, Lonnie Kahrmann,
Hubert Tuten, Herman Cravey,
Guy Couey, Ovid Evans and
Grady Evans.
Mr. Irwin was born in Wash
ington County on July 7, 1890
the son of the late Thomas
Jackson and Sarah Boatwright
Irwin. He was married to the
late Rosa Mae Brown and was
a member of the Erick Christian
Church in Wheeler County.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. Julian Tanner of
Alamo, and Mrs. Robert Avery
of Zebulon; one son, Frank
Irwin of Ocilla; two grandchil
dren; and two brothers, Ben
jamin Irwin and Alvah Irwin
of Alamo.
U. S. Postal Service
To Take Over Job
Os Hiring Workers
Hammond B. Smith, South
eastern Director of the U. S.
Civil Service Commission, an
nounced in Atlanta that effective
September 1, the Commission
will no longer recruit and ex
amine applicants for jobs in
the Post Office.
On that date the newly formed
U. S. Postal Service will begin
operation of its own examining
program. The applications of
persons who have previously
established eligibility with the
CSC for Post Office jobs will
be turned over to the Postal
Service. For the immediate fu
ture these applications will be
used to fill postal vacancies.
Anyone interested in employ
ment with the Postal Service
should inquire at their local
Post Office.
The Civil Service Com
. mission provides recruiting and
examining services for the
more than 2-1/2 million
Federal jobs classifiedas being
in the competitive civil ser
vice. The new U. S. Postal
Service is excluded from the
competitive civil service and
will operate its own personnel
merit system.
It’s surprisingly easy to
improve the conduct of other
people, if they follow your
expert advice.
Duncan Clegg Dies
Wed., Aug. 18
In Telfair Hospital
Elbert Duncan Clegg, 70, a
well known resident of Scotland,
died Wednesday, August 18, in
the Telfair County Hospital,
following a brief illness.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at 3:00 o’-
clock from the Chapel of Harr is
and Smith Funeral Home with
the Rev. R. L. Harris, retired
pastor of the Helena Methodist
Church Charge, officiating.
Burial was in Telfair
Memorial Gardens with Harris
and Smith in charge of arrange
ments.
Pallbearers were Cecil
Cook, Carroll Cook, Jack
Walker, Oakley Selph, Bethel
Harbin and Tom Cross.
Honorary pallbearers were
Masons.
Mr. Clegg was born in
Wheeler County on June 27,
1901 the son of the late James
L. and Mary McMillan Clegg.
He was married to the former
Mice Cook in May of 1928
in Telfair County and was a
member of the Scotland United
Methodist Church. Mr. Clegg
was the Worshipful Master of
Thelma Lodge in Towns, and
was a Justice of Peace in Scot
land.
Survivors include his wife of
Scotland; two sons, William
Clegg of Aiken, S. C., and
Elbert D. Clegg, Jr., U. S.
Airforce; three daughters, Mrs.
Robert Holmes of Aiken, S. C.,
Mrs. Edsel Fussell of Ale
menda, Calif., and Mrs. Johnny
( Smith of Jacksonville, Fla.; ten
> grandchildren; one sister, Miss
, Bertha Clegg of Scotland; and
five brothers, Jimmy Lee
’ Clegg, Benjamin Clegg, Lamar
• Clegg and Truman Clegg, all
' of Scotland, and Stanley Clegg
1 of Waynesboro.
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Young Democrats
Urged To Get
Active In Party
Twenty young members of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee will confer in At
lanta on Saturday, August 21,
on methods of getting the young
voters of the state more active
in the party, it is announced
by Zell Miller, Executive
Director of the Democratic-
Party of Georgia.
Mike Jones ofßossville, Vice
Chairman at large for the
executive committee, will pre
side at the session at party
headquarters. All members
participating will be under 30
years old.
According to Miller, young
Georgians just turning 18 pro
vide a fertile field for party
recruitment and also regis
tration. He said figures indi
cate less than half of Georgia’s
18 year-old are registered.
He cited census figures pub
lished in the U. S. News &
World Report showing Georgia
will have 3,111,000 persons of
voting age by 1972, with a
potential of 354,000 eligible new
voters.
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Visitors Center At Nuclear Plant
Artist’s conception of the newly opened visitors center at Georgia Power Company’s Edwin 1.
Hatch Nuclear Plant, now under construction on U. S. 1 near Baxley.
FRIDAY, AUG. 27, 1971
Roper Corp. To Build Huge
New Plant At LaFayette
Lt. General Louis W. Tru
man, Executive Director of the
Georgia Department oflndustry
and Trade, said Thursday that.
, the location of a new Roper
stove plant in LaFayette will
“visibly escalate the resources
of this immediate area.”
General Truman was present
when C. Max Hoover, President
and Chairman of the Board of
The Roper Corporation, one
of the major appliance suppliers
for the Sears Roebuck Company,
announced plans to builda 540,-
000 square foot manufacturing
facility in this Northwest Geor
gia community. When the new
plant goes into production next
year, it is expected to employ,
initially, some 600 people.
Genei*al Truman said that
these new manufacturing jobs
could have the potential of
bringing as many as 1800 ad
ditional people to the area,
establishing 600 new households
in the area, and adding 600
President’s Action
Will Help Farmer,
Sect. Hardin Says
“American farmers stand to
benefit from the actions an
nounced by the President to
combat inflation, to spur the
competitiveness of the U. S.
economy, and to improve our
foreign trade and monetary
position,” Secretary of Agri
culture Clifford M. Hardin said.
“Farmers will benefit by the
actions taken to fight inflation.
The cost-price squeeze is the
number one problem facing
American farmers. Therefore,
we strongly welcome the act
ions taken.
“.Secondly, the steps announ
ced to spur investment in equip
ment and to reduce taxes are
designed to bolster our own
domestic economy and make
jobs. These will provide strong
er markets for our own pro
ducers.
"Finally, the action taken to
impose a temporary surcharge
on imports and the withdrawal
of gold support from the dollar
are comparable to what other
countries have done in similar
balance-of-payments situa
tions. And, as anyone concerned
with agriculture knows, the use
of variable levies by some coun
tries to protect agricultural
systems constitutes permanent
border protection which should
be of stir greater concern to
the world than temporary sur
charges.
“I hope that as our friends
abroad digest this series of
actions they will recognize that
the President is saying that
all of us need to find better
solutions to ourtrade and inter
national monetary problems.
Obviously, American agri
culture could make a much
stronger contribution than it
already has to our balance
of-payments problem if other
countries of the world would
admit more of our farm goods.”
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more school children to en
rollment at the local schools.
“This could mean a total of
approximately two million dol
lars more in total personal
Pierce Trial
Set In Jesup
A Superior Court judge grant
ed a change in the location of
the trial of William J. Pierce,
Jr., Friday, August 20, after
an attorney charged he would
be unable to get a fail- trial
in Baxley.
Judge Jack Ballenger moved
the trial to Jesup in Wayne
County, and said that it would
begin September 20.
Pierce is accused of killing
nine persons. He will be tried
first for the slaying of Mrs.
Vera Sutton Miles, who was
slain at her rural grocery store
near Baxley last January 28.
Pierce’s court-appointed at
orney Randall O. Palmer of
^wainsboro, charged that
Sheriff J. B. “Red” Carter of
Appling County and some mem
bers of the Appling Board of
Commissioners had contributed
to a SI,OOO reward offered for
Mrs. Miles’ slaying, and that
it would be difficult to find
jurors who were not relatives
of either the sheriff or of one
of the commissioners.
Palmer said also that he
asked a change in the location
of the trial because of an article
about Pierce which appeared
in the August issue of “Inside
Detective” magazine.
Palmer’s petition charged
also that a scrap book compiled
and kept in the sheriff’s office
contains pictures and stories
about Pierce. He said the scrap
book is shown to many persons
• A who visit the sheriff’s office.
Palmer said he feared bodily
harm might come to his client.
Clark testified during the
hearing that he had discovered
a pistol in the pocket of Homer
Wilcox, husband of one of the
persons Pierce is accused of
killing.
Palmer told newsmen after
the hearing that he would not
object to the removal of Pierce
from the Appling County jail
in Baxley to the Wayne County
jail at Jesup. However,
authorities said there are no
plans to transfer him at this
time.
FARM PRICES
A better story for farm
prices Ls in the making for the
second half of 1971. Livestock '
prices were expected to pick
up around midyear in response
to tapering supplies and
stronger demand. On the crop
side, economists figure that
supplies will stay tight until the
’7l crops are pretty well made.
From then on, prices may
decline seasonally but are
expected to remain above
recent years because of
reduced stocks.
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income each year, one million
dollars in additional bank de
posits, 18 more retail es
tablishments, and 390 potential
related jobs could be created
to support the additional manu
facturing jobs created by Roper.
“As you can see,” General
Truman added, “these benefits
alone, if realized, are quite
impressive, but also, a broader
tax base will be established
for this area with a resulting
greater financial basis upon
which to provide public, civic,
and cultural services for the
community.”
The M Fayette plant is
Roper’s second in Georgia. The
first, located in Mcßae, is
scheduled to begin production
next month.
“I like to believe that the
announcement being made is
just another indication that the
people of Georgia and the people
of The Roper Corporation share
a relationship that will be mu
tually rewarding,” General
Truman concluded.
Comm. Caldwell
Reacts To New
Nixon Policy
Commissioner of Labor Sam
Caldwell said that President
Nixon's abrupt change in eco
nomic policy is the best move
the President has yet made in
his attempts to combat inflation
and unemployment.
Caldwell, who consistently
lias opposed Nixon’s economic
policies, said: "In general, it’s
probably a step in the right
direction, but I doubt that the
President will be able to thaw
his wage-price freeze when 90
days have passed.”
“We’ve still got to insist
on long range policies to curtail
inflation and unemployment,”
Caldwell said, “and despite
some good elements, the new
policy shows distinct signs of
including stop-gap measures.”
Faced with an increasingly
ligher rate of unemployment
in Georgia, Caldwell said that
he will give the President
“skeptical support, even if
there are indications the new
Nixon policy is another holding
action.”
Caldwell said he certainly
lavors firmer import restric
.ions but would prefer even
larger cuts in foreign aid.
Georgia’s rate of unemploy
ment now stands at 5.2 per
■ent, as compared with a na
. ional average of 6.5 percent.
I’hese are based on figures
not seasonally adjusted and do
not take into account the mas
sive influx of high school grad
uates into the labor market.
Talmadge Seeks
Cumberland Isle
As U.S. Seashore
, U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge lias introduced legisla
tion in the Senate to establish
Cumberland Island off the Geor
gia coast as a national sea
hore.
Talmadge’s bill, cosponsored
by his Georgia colleague, junior
: Sen. David H. Gambrell, is
identical to one Introduced in
the House by Bth District Rep.
W. S. (Bill) Stuckey Jr., and
“represents an effort to pre
serve one of our nation’s most
limited resources — the sea
shore,” Sen. Talmadge said.
The National Park Found
ation, using private foundation
funds, already' has acquired
more than 70 per cent of the
24,000-acre island for public
use and the legislation, if en
acted, would convert this land
into a national seashore, the
senator explained.
The bill also would provide
for gradual government acqui
sition of the remaining area of
the island, he said.