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VOLUME 57
Talmadge Seeks
More Credit For
Rural Dwellers
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge firmly believes that
farmers and other rural resi
dents need credit just as much
as city dwellers — and he’s
out to see that they get it.
Addressing a joint meeting
of the Federal Land Bank As
sociation of Dalton and the
Northwest Georgia Production
Association of Cartersville held
in Chatsworth, the senator told
the large gathering that the
expanded capital requirements
necessary for the ope ration of
an efficient farm makes it
difficult for young farmers to
get started.
The cost of land and machin
ery and other necessary items
of production are generally far
beyond their capabilities, Tal
madge said, adding: “A source
of credit tailored to a young
farmer’s specific needs and
repayment ability' is absolutely
necessary if these young men
are to remain on terms.”
The Georgia senior senator,
chairman of the Senate Agri
culture C ommittee, went on to
say: "Credit has become a
vital, necessary'tool fora farm
er if he is to successfully
return a profit from his labors.
“For the continued well
being of the nation it is essen
tial that they have available a
dependable supply of credit mi
terms tailored to their special
needs and capabilities and ad
justed regularly to changing
economic and agricultural con
ditions.’’
Sen. Talmadge said a bill
lie introduced in the Senate
last April “completely rewrites
the farm credit laws applicable
to the Farm Credit Adminis
tration.”
He said the bill, if enacted,
would increase the activities
of land banks, credit banks,
production credit associations
and banks for cooperatives.
“In short,” Talmadge said,
“it will enable the term credit
system to respond to the ever
increasing needs of termers
and to serve a wider segment
of rural America.” He added:
“For many years rural
America has been subsidizing
the growth of American cities.
The educated children of rural
people have moved to the cities
in order to take advantage of
greater economic opportunity.
“Rural economic develop
ment would undoubtedly lead
to a cessation of the out-migra
tion that presently occurs. Our
children and their children
should not be forced to leave
the area for lack of an economic
opportunity.”
Stockholders Meeting
Os Federal Land
Bank Oct. 7
The annual stockholders j
meeting of the Federal Land ;
Bank Association ofSwainsboro
will be held in Swainsboro, on
October 7, according to
Raymond L. Evors, manager of
the Association.
One of the highlights of the
meeting this year will be a
report on Association progress
during the past year. The elec
tion of one director is also
on the program and a report
of the board of directors on
important actions taken during
the year.
The annual meeting will get
underway at 7:30 p.m. at the
National Guard Armory.
Directors of the Federal Land
Bank Association ofSwainsboro
are Dolan E. Brown of Twin
City, President; H. Homer Dur
rence of Manassas, Vice-
President; Fate De Loach of
Metter; Willis McLain of Lyons;.
and Elmo D. Rich ofSwainsboro. ;
The Swainsboro Association i
makes long-term loans to form- I
ers, growers and ranchers in i
Candler, Emanuel, Jenkins,
Montgomery, Screven, Tattnall,
Toombs and Wheeler counties. |
It is entirely owned by the
members it serves.
Source of story, Raymond
L. Evors, Manager.
An outstanding example of
the tail wagging the dog would
be a man offering to coach
women in the art of backseat
driving.
Wheeler County Eagle
It Was Hoop Eberhardt Day
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Nearly 1.000 of his coworkers and friends came to the Kock Eagle 111 Outer
\ugust 20 to pay tribute to L. W. Eberhardt Jr. and his wife Eleanor. Eberhardt
retired \ugust 31 as director of the I niversity of Georgia Gooperat ive Extension
Service. He had been with the organization 35 years. Ered Davison, president of the
I niversity, and Henry Garren, dean and coordinator of the College of Agriculture,
right, were on hand to extend congratulations and thanks. The Eberhardt portrait
will hang in the Extension Service conference room in Athens. I he honorees also
received a silver service, fishing and hunting equipment, and a set of golf clubs.
Local Ins. Agent
Dies Mon. Morning
Edward Leonard Williams,
42, a well known insurance
agent of Mcßae, was found dead
Monday morning of an apparent
self-inflicted shot in the head,
according to Deputy She riff Tom
Cross of tne Telfair County
Sheriff’s Department. He said
Mr. Williams used a .38 caliber
pistol.
Deputy Cross said he was
called to the scene at 9:15
a.m. by someone who heard
the shot, and found the body
between Sugar Creek Bridge
and Helena.
Coroner Emory Hulett called
Dr. Larry Howard, State
Criminologist, of Atlanta, and
held an inquest. The jury re
turned a verdict of suicide.
Funeral services were held
from the Helena Baptist Church
Wednesday at 3 p.m., conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. Dickie
Johnson.
Pallbearers and honorary
pallbearers were Masons.
Mr. Williams was bom in
Dodge County on November 5,
1928, the son of J. B. and
Thelma Dunlap Williams. He
was married to Miss Patricia
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Governor Jimmy Carter cuts the ribbon formally
opening the Visitors Center at Georgia Power Compa
ny’s Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant. The plant is
under construction 10 miles north of Baxley, along
side the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia. The
Center will be open to the public Wednesday through
Sunday each week. It includes audience-participation
exhibits and animated presentations to explain the
use of nuclear energy as a power source and tell of
Georgia Power’s environmental protection programs.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
Morrison on May 9, 1954, and
was a member of the Helena
Baptist Church, the Mcßae
Lions Club, and Helena Masonic
Lodge #536 F.&A.M.
Survivors include his wife;
two sons, Edward L. Williams
Jr., Steven Mark Williams and
a daughter, Mrs. Sherry Heath,
all of Mcßae; his mother, of
Milan; a sister, Mrs. Felton
Clark of Merritt Island, Fla.;
and two brothers, Floyd Wil
liams of Mcßae, and Dan Wil
liams of Helena.
Burial was in Zion Hope
Cemetery with Harris and Smith
Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements.
Clifford Browning
To Graduate
One student from Wheeler
County is among the 237 stu
dents who will graduate from
South Georgia Technical and
Vocational School at the end
of the summer quarter. Grad
uation exercises will be held
at 9 a.m. on September 22,
with Dr. Charles McDaniel,
Chairman of the State Advisory
Council on Vocational Edu
cation, as guest speaker.
The graduate from Wheeler
County is Clifford Browning,
Business Machines Main
tenance.
Masked Man Tries
To Break In
Langley Home Fri.
A masked man identified by
Sheriff Jack M. Walker as Ray
mond Friendly of Lumber City,
attempted to break in the home
of Mrs. Herman Langley Friday
morning about 11 o’clock while
while Mr. Langley was away,
home.
The man, wearing a mask
made of a blue handkerchief,
with holes cut at eye level,
shook the front door and tried
to enter. He was armed with a
shot-gun with six shells, a
sawed-off 12 gauge shot-gun, a
hatchet and a kitchen knife,
the Sheriff said.
When Mrs. Langley asked him
what he wanted he said “he was
hungry and wanted something
to eat.” After asking him to
leave she said, “wait a minute.”
She ran back and called the
Sheriff’s office, and secured a
rifle and shot at him through
a small pane of glass in the
door, but missed him.
Friendly ran and hid in an
abandoned house where he was
found by the Sheriff and other
members of the department,
with the aid of bloodhounds
borrowed from the Montgomery
Prison Branch at Mt. Vernon.
He surrendered and was later
turned over to Federal
authorities for trial on several
counts pending against him, and
will be returned to Telfair for
trial at a later date.
Friendly had been out of jail
on probation for three weeks
and told the Sheriff he had
been living on watermelons,
tomatoes and eggs wherever
he could find them.
Robert M. Herring
Serving In Germany
Army Private First Class
Robert M. Herring, 17, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Barton Herring
of Rt. 2, Glenwood, is serving
with the 62nd Artillery in
Germany.
PFC. Herring is servingwith
the Artillery’s 6th Battalion
near Bitburg, Germany.
Testing For Roper
Corp. Sept. 9th
Representatives from the
Dublin Office of the Georgia
Department of Labor will be
in Mcßae on Thursday, Septem
ber 9, for additional testing
for the prospective employees
of The Roper Corporation.
Twenty persons will be tested ■
beginning at 9 a.m. and an
additional twenty persons will
be tested Thursday afternoon
beginning at 1 p.m. in the Grand
Jury Room at the courthouse.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 1971
Defendants W aive Heari ngs
In Baxley Jail Raid Case
Savannah Morning News
Six men charged with con
spiring to commit murder - in
an unsuccessful attempt to re
move William J. Pierce, Jr.
from jail last week end have
waived a preliminary hearing
pending the outcome of a grand
jury' investigation.
The men include the husband
and four other relatives of one
of the nine persons Pierce is
accused of killing.
The attempted jailbreak oc
curred Saturday night, August
28, when between 10 and 15
men, some of them armed,
broke into the office of Sheriff
J. B. “Red” Carter and de-
Two Car Wreck
Fri. Afternoon
Five people suffered multiple
, cuts and bruises Friday after
noon at 6:30 o’clock when two
automobiles collided head-on
near the Georgia State Patrol
Station in Helena. All of the
occupants of the vehicles were
taken to the Telfair County
Hospital for treatment.
One car was driven by Roy
Gee, 41, of Pendergrass, and
with him were his wife and
five-year-old son Stephen. The
passengers in the other vehicle
were Mr. and Mrs. John K.
Reynolds of Helena, according
to the State Patrol.
Trooper W. E. Peacock in
vestigated the accident.
Bar-Be-Cue Supper
At Ocmulgee Acad.
Okmulgee Academy will have
a Bar-Be-Cue pork and chicken
supper at the school Saturday,
September 11. The meal will
be prepared at the school by
the members. Serving will be
gin at 5:30 p.m.
“T. F. Simmons and the
Country Gentlemen” will pro
vide the music.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
William Troy Edge
Completes Training
PFC. William Troy Edge, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Edge
of Alamo, has completed Signal
Corpman Instruction School at
Fort Gordon. After a 16 day
furlough here with his parents,
temily and friends, he will leave
on September 15, for Ft. Lewis,
Washington.
He will leave Ft. Lewis on
September 17, for a tour of
active duty in Vietnam with
the United States Army,
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LaFavor Reunion
Sunday, Sept. 19
The descendants of James
and Nancy LaFavor will hold
a reunion at Little Ocmulgee
State Park Sunday, September
19.
Picnic dinner will be served
at noon.
Area Technical
School To Hold
Graduation Sept. 15
Ben Hill-Irwin Tech will hold
its first graduation exercises
Wednesday evening, September
15, at eight o’clockat the school
on the Old Ocilla-Fitzgerald
Highway. Charles A. Harris,
Chairman of the Board of Edu
cation, will be the principal
speaker for the occasion, with
officials of the school and sev
eral students also participating
in the exercises.
Approximately 130 students
comprise the first class to
receive training in office oc
cupations, skilled programs,
and health occupations.
Friends and relatives of the
members of the class of 1971,
as well as the general public,
are cordially invited to attend
the ceremonies.
Overheard: ‘‘He’s no avia
tor. The only hours he ever
spent in the air were while
jumping to conclusions.”
manded that he turn Pierce
over to them.
Attorney Gordon Knox of
Hazlehurst, appeared before
Justice of the Peace E. D.
Dixon Friday and waived the
hearing for the six.
All remained free on bond.
Those named in the various
complaints include Homer Wil-
Veterans Should
Enroll Early For
61 Bill Training
“Veterans planning to enter
college this tell under the GI
Bill should take immediate
steps to get their certificates of
eligibility,” said Georgia
Veterans Service Director Pete
Wheeler. “While many colleges
and universities may have al
ready closed enrollment for the
fell term, there are also quite
a few which still have vacan
cies.”
Wheeler pointed out that vet
erans returning to a school
they attended previously do not
need to get another certificate.
Veterans changing schools or
making a change in their major
courses of study, however, must
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - Inside Stone Mountain’s rustic grist
mill Vannette Whitley (1) and Vickie Hall inspect some pottery
and mill-ground corn meal that will be on display during the
Park’s third annual Yellow Daisy Festival September 10 - 12. A
potter, blacksmith and basket maker from the restored town of
Westville, Ga. will demonstrate their 185 O’s crafts each day near
the Railroad depot, and the grist mill will be operating Saturday
and Sunday. A wide variety of other activities will include
clogging and square dancing, mountain music and fiddling
contests art and flower shows. (PRN)
Yellow Daisy Festival
Planned For Sept. 10- 12
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.
(PRN) — Clogging and square
dancing . . .1 8 5 o’s0 ’s
crafts . . .mountain music and
fiddling contests . . .art and
flower shows . . .all this and
more is scheduled for the
1971 Yellow Daisy Festival
September 10 - 12 at Stone
Mountain Park.
The action-filled folk
celebration heralds the annual
appearance of millions of
yellow Confederate Daisies on
the granite slopes of Stone
Mountain.
Activities for the three-day
event are from 10 a.m. to 7
p.m. each day, with special
times slated for contests and
entertainment on Saturday.
One of the new attractions
this year is “Fair Square” near
the main Railroad depot. A
stroll through the area is
reminiscent of the bygone era
of yesterday. Panning for
gold .. .hog calling, cross cut
saw and pole felling contests
date back to great-grand
mother’s day.
Country music contests
featuring blue grass, country
and western bands and
foot-stomping fiddlers are on
the agenda for Saturday
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cox, husband of the late Helen
Wilcox of Hazlehurst; his bro
ther, B. L. Wilcox; twocousins,
Burch Wilcox and W.G. Wilcox,
and a brother-in-law, Tommy
Selph, all of the Hazlehurst
area.
Also charged is James Hayes,
apparently no relation to Mrs.
Wilcox or her husband.
get approval ot such changes
from the Veterans Administra
tion.
Wheeler also is reminding
veterans attending summer
sessions at Georgia’s colleges
and universities to be sure
that they return their cer
tificates of attendance cards
to the VA. These so-called
“cert” cards should be re
turned during the last full month
of their period of enrollment.
Veterans enrolled under the
GI Bill in training below col
lege level must return their
“cert” cards each month in
order to continue receiving
their monthly checks.
Full information on all G:
educational benefits may be ob
tained from any' office of the
Georgia Department of Vet
erans Service.
A magnet on the side of a
refrigerator will keep a grocery
list within easy reach.
afternoon from 1- 5 p.m. at
the Square. Hosts will be
Howard Cunningham and the
Men of Country Music. A hog
calling contest will be held
during intermission from 2:30
- 3 p.m.
1850’s craftsmen from the
restored town of Westville,
near Lumpkin, Ga.,
demonstrate away of life
from yesterday that is in
striking contrast to today: A
blacksmith, potter and basket
maker will be on hand Friday
from noon until 7 p.m., and
Saturday and Sunday from 10
a.m. -7 p.m.
Activity also will be
concentrated at the Riverboat
area. Canoe jousting, dating
back to medieval days, is being
co-sponsored by the Georgia
Canoeing Assn, on Saturday
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Clogging and square dancing
by the “Clogging Squares”
takes place Saturday night
from 5 - 6:30 p.m. at the
Riverboat dock. The Atlanta
International Folk Dancers
will entertain from 7- 8 p.m.
both Friday and Saturday
nights. Decked out in
authentic costumes, the group
performs dances from 25
countries.
NUMBER 23
Mrs. Wilcox, 32, disappeared
last Jan. 22, from the small
rural grocery store which she
and her husband operated. She
was not seen again. Officers
said Pierce led them to her
body after his arrest last March
12.
Sheriff Marcus L. Hall of
Hazlehurst said a State Crime
Laboratory report showed that
Mrs. Wilcox tod been strangled.
Pierce is accused of killing
others in Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina.
His trial in the slaying of
Mrs. Wilcox has been moved
from Baxley to Jesup, and is
scheduled to begin Sept. 20.
Information Center
On Economic Actions
Is Co. ASCS Office
All residents of Wheeler
County may obtain answers to
questions on operation and in
terpretation of the Presidential
order of August 15, on prices,
rents, wages and salaries from
the Wheeler County Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
servation Service (ASCS) Of
fice, according to Gene Harris,
Chairman of the County ASC
Committee.
County ASCS offices through
out the United States have been
chosen as information centers
to answer questions from all
citizens on President Nixon’s
Executive Order which is
designed to stem inflation and
strengthen the national econ
omy.
The Wheeler County ASCS
Office is receiving official
answers to questions con
cerning the President’s action,
and any person in Wheeler
County who wants or needs
precise information should get
in touch with the County Office,
Mr. Harris said.
The Wheeler County ASCS
Office is located in Alamo.
The mailing address is P. O.
Box 448, Alamo, Georgia 30411.
The telephone number is 568-
3711. In charge of the office
is W. L. Helton, County Execu
tive Director. The office has
a staff of 4 persons.
“Ours and all ASCS Offices
throughout the nation, will func
tion as information centers in
all locations outside of highly
urbanized areas,” Mr. Harris
said.
County ASCS offices are not
to handle complaints or appeals,
he said. They will serve only ,
to provide official information.
Persons with complaints will
register them with the most
convenient district or sub-dis
trict office of the Internal Reve- .
nue Service.
“Neither will interpretations
or guesses be made by ASCS
county office people. They will
answer only those questions
for which they have been sup
plied answers. If they don’t
know the answer to a specific
question, they will say so. If
a member of the public wants
the county office to obtain an
answer, the question will go by
phone or mail to the nearest
IRS district office,”Mr. Harris
said.
Normal function of ASCS
county office is to administer
term action programs of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
on the local level. County com
mittee Chairman Gene Harris
said ASCS service to termers
will continue wilnout inter
ruption.
“Our county office people
welcome the opportunity to
serve their country and are
happy to make the extra effort
in this crucial period,”he said.
Laser beams are not likely to
replace conventional wood
working machinery in the near
, future, but they are proving
useful in certain specialized ap
plications. Advantages of laser
cutting include narrow width
cut, smooth cut edges, no saw
dust and quiet operation. And
because only the laser beam
contacts the wood surface,
there is no tool wear and no
pressure on the work piece.
Slow cutting speed is the chief
disadvantage of laser cutting at
this time.