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VOLUME 57
Talmadge Talks
On Vital Issues
Thanks To Bell
Os all the great inventors
through the ages, none perhaps
contributed more in the area
of communications between
individuals than did Alexander
Graham Bell. He invented the
telephone. Here’s a story that
proves that point:
Austell Rotary Club mem
bers and their guests recently
heard U. S. Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge discuss many vital
issues of the day via a direct
telephone hookup from the cloak
rcom in the U. S. Senate to
the Dogwood Country Club in
Austell.
Sen. Talmadge said he was
in between sessions of the
Senate Agriculture Committee
which was discussing the pro
posed cut back of school lunch
programs and the Democratic
Policy Committee meeting.
Here are some of the high
lights of the longdistance ques
tion-and-answer program:
Asked if he foresaw a return
to more localized government,
Talmadge replied: “I wish there
was a trend to more localized
government, but I am afraid
the trend is going the other
way, to a stronger centralized
government. When you have a
strong local government, you
are under the watchful eye of
the local citizens, which is a
much better way to run a
government.”
Concerning the draft, the sen
ator pointed out that Red China
and the Soviet Union are build
ing up their armed forces. He
added:
“The rally thing Red China
and the Soviet argue about is
how they are going to bury us. •
Since we must defend ourselves,
I feel that I must vote for an
extension of the draft.”
Asked what his feelings art;
toward medicare for the aged,
Talmadge said: “I would
support a catastropic program,
but not a program to supply
government sponsored medical ,
insurance for people of all
ages.”
Responding to a question
about the school lunch program,
the Georgia senior senator re
ported that Georgia would lose
about $6-million if the appro
priations were cut as some
suggest. He continued:
“School administrators from
across the United States are
appearing before our senate
committee asking why the fed
eral government’s most popular
program would be cut. I hope
we can solve this problem so
that we can continue to offer
meals at reduced prices or
free to those who can’t afford
them.”
Asked about transporting
children to achieve racial bal
ance in the schools, Sen. Tal
madge declared:
“Busing is herding children
around like cattle. All schools
should be open to all children.
It would also help if school
administrators were color
blind. Mathematics with chil
dren is a disservice to edu
cation.”
Homecoming At
Stuckey Baptist
Homecoming services will be
held at Stuckey Baptist Church
on Sunday, October 3.
Sunday School services will
begin at 10:00 a.m. andpreach
ing services at 11:00 a.m.
Everyone is cordially invited
to attend. A picnic lunch is
planned. _
Sweet Shop Benefit
Sat. Oct. 2
Patrons of the Currie Little
Theatre of Alamo, will present
their choice pastries Saturday,
October 2, beginning at 10:00
in front of the Little Theatre
to help bring up the curtain
on their first production
“RUMPELSTILSKIN” cn Dec.
3,4, 10 and 11, at 8:00 p.m.
Fish Pond Ready
Another fish pond is now
ready for fishing. 50£ Lb.
Wednesday and Saturday only.
Five miles north of Alamo.
W. Hightower Gilder
Wheeler County Eagle
Modern States Life Buys
Historic Screamer Mountain
ATLANTA (PRN)
Historic Screamer Mountain in
Rabun County has been
purchased by Modern States
Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta
and will be developed through
public syndication as a
vacation home community,
President C.M. Fife Jr.
announced today.
“We are quite pleased at
this opportunity to develop >
with private investors a
planned vacation home
community in the beautiful
Blue Ridge mountains,” Fife
said.
“Its growth will be guided
by a wholly owned subsidiary,
Screamer Mountain
Development Inc.”
Screamer Mountain adjoins
the city of Clayton, Ga., to
the west and the Kingwood
Country Club Estates to the
east. Its 3,200-foot peak is the
highest in the immediate area.
Tradition has it that the
mountain received its name
after an Indian squaw
leaped -- screaming - to her
death rather than leave the
beautiful mountains at the
start of the Cherokees’ “Trail
of Tears” forced resettlement
in the winter of 1838.
Fife said Screamer
Mountain Development
proposes to develop the land
along syndication lines with
some 200 to 250 individuals
who will make a limited
capital investment but will
fully share in real estate
appreciation and
developmental gains.
“It is anticipated that many
syndicate members will
• ultimately build on Screamer
but the majority will have
investment objectives as a
primary goal,” Fife said.
The development company
will improve the existing
county-maintained roads on
Jaycee County Fair To Begin October 4
The Mcßae-Telfair Jaycees
will sponsor the annual feir
beginning October 4-9. The
gates will open at 6:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday, and
close at 12:00 p.m. Saturday,
the gates will open at 4:00 p.m.
and close at 12:00 p.m.
Be sure to take in all the
fine exhibits in the new Jaycee
Building. There will be 15 edu
cational exhibits and 15 com
mercial exhibits plus the many
fine arts and crafts to be dis
played.
Students, be sure and stop by
the Dunkin’ Machine and try
Warner Robins Bth
Annual Coin Show
The Warner Robins Coin Club
is holding its Bth Annual Show
at the Warner Robins Recre
ation Center, Warner Robins,
on October 16and 17. Admission
is free.
Knowledgeable collectors
from throughout the eastern
United States will be there to
appraise your old coins and
currency. Several collections
of old coins and paper currency
will be exhibited.
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4-H’ers Help Keep Wheeler Green
Certain Wheeler County 4-H’ers helped “Keep Wheeler
County Green” by painting the city trash cans Wednesday after
noon. It was done to help the Wheeler County Garden Club in
their Beautification Contest, which is almost aver. The trash
cans which were a dull, chipped green color are now brightly
painted and will help remind people to put trash in them instead
of throwing it in the streets or elsewhere. The 4-H’ers shown
in the picture are Kim Hall and Valorie Cox.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
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SCREAMER MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT SET - Modem
States Life Insurance Co. of Atlanta has bought historic
Screamer Mountain in Rabun County and will develop it as a
vacation home community through public syndication,
announced President C.M. Fife Jr. In the foreground of this
picture is neighobring Kingwood Country Club Estates. On the
other side of Screamer is the city of Clayton, Ga. (PRN)
the mountain and new roads
added, Fife reported. A
country club and swimming
pool will be built on top of
Screamer and tennis courts
and stables will be
constructed.
screamer Mountain lies in
the center of one of Georgia’s
few unspoiled areas, noted
Fife.
“Nearoy are Lakes Rabun,
Burton, Tallulah, Nacoochee
and Tugalo for fishing and
water sports. The area
abounds with mountain
streams and the mountain is
15 minutes away from the Sky
Valley ski slopes.”
Some 60 per cent of
to dunk your “favorite’’teacher
in the ice cold water.
Come one, come all, enjoy
all the rides, fine food, and
interesting exhibits at the
Mcßae-Telfair Jaycees Fair.
SOYBEAN BOOM
In 20 of the past 24 years,
American farmers planted
more acres to soybeans than
in the previous year. Total
harvested area went from
about 11 million acres in
1946-50 to 40 million in
1966-70. Some of the things
behind this expansion are the
development of the combine,
greater use of tractor power,
the advent of soybean varieties
adapted to new growing areas,
and chemical weed control.
FARMLAND UP
Farmland in Ihe I .S. has
increased in value during the
last year. USDA says this is
largely because of strong price
advances in the Southeast and
along the Eastern seaboard.
The average value per acre in
March of this year was $199.
This is up $6 from a year
earlier.
Rabun County itself is made
up of national forest land,
including more than 125,000
acres of the Chattahoochee
National Forest.
Also located in the county
is Tallulah Gorge, one of the
scenic wonders of North
America whose depth is
exceeded only by the Grand
Canyon. Nearby Screamer
Mountain is Stekoah Falls,
whose water drops 110 feet
down a cliff.
The Appalacnian Trail goes
through Rabun County and
can be easily reached at two
locations near Screamer
Mountain.
Gifted Program
Underway In
Wheeler Schools
The program for gifted stu
dents in the Wheeler County
Schools is being initiated with
enthusiastic and promising re
sults. The first screening of
students to be involved were
from grades three through six.
Second Graders will partici
pate in the program as soon
as testing results are derrived
and evaluations are made. Pro
visions are made for continual
identification of gifted and po
tentially gifted students.
The participants are eager
to become innovators of
creative processes, and con
sequently, the name they have
adopted for their program is
“Innovators.” The innovators
are conceptualizing from their
classrooms and their program
participations that their activi
ties are only beginnings —
beginnings from which they may
release unlimited talents to im
prove their thinking processes
and facilitate learning. Wheeler
County is fortunate to afford
such excellent expanded oppor
tunities for the county’s
children.
Legislative
Information
ATLANTA (PRN) - The
Georgia House of
Representatives, during its
special session, will again offer
a toll-free “information line,”
to answer questions about its
membership arrd activities.
Citizens anywhere in
Georgia can call with
questions about the House
between the hours of 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m. each day that the
House is in session.
The free calling number for
citizens outside the Atlanta
metropolitan area is
1-800-282-5800. For residents
of the Atlanta dialing area, the
number is 656-5082.
The information line was
first established during the
1971 General Assembly
session. An average of 130
calls per day were received
during the eight week session.
Georgia citizens are
encouraged to call*
Georgia Employ
The Handicapped
Week Oct. 3-9
Gov. Jimmy Carter, inobser
vance of National Employ the
Handicapped Week, October
3-9, praised the efforts of the
Georgia Office of Rehabilitation
Services for reaching a new
goal in rehabilitating 11,512
disabled men and women during
the past fiscal year.
“Because of its high re
habilitation rate,” said Carter,
“the Georgia Office of Re
habilitation Services ranked
seventh in the nation in the
total number of persons re
habilitated and eighth in the
nation in the number of persons
rehabilitated per 100,000 popu
lation.”
“This figure includes the
simple rehabilitation requiring
only guidance and counseling
all the way up to the severely
and multiple handicapped indi
vidual who requires years of
rehabilitation services but who
in the end once again becomes
a contributing productive Geor
gia citizen. This is what re
habilitation is all about,” said
Carter.
The Office of Rehabilitation
Services has over 40 local of
fices and 10 district offices
located in strategic and high
population areas of the state
to serve handicapped and dis
abled individuals.
Services provided through the
agency include comprehensive
evaluation, physical restor
ation, prosthetic appliances,
counseling and guidance, edu
cational training, services in
reliabilitation facilities, trans
portation and maintenance,
equipment, and placement in a
suitable job.
The Rehabilitation Counselor
serving Wheeler County is Pete
Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins can be
contacted at the Department of
Family and Children Services
in Alamo the second and third
Thursday of each month at 1:00
p.m. Last year there were six
teen persons rehabilitated in
Wheeler County and returned
to gainful employment.
The local office of Rehabili
tation serving this area of the
state is located in Dublin, at
507 Academy Avenue. The tele
phone number is 272-6700.
New Law Affects
Many Georgians
On VA Pensions
Quite a number of Georgians
now receiving pensions from
the Veterans Administration
are no longer being asked to
submit annual income question
naires to the Veterans Admin.
Recently enacted legislation
permits the VA to drop the
requirement for veterans and
widows receiving pensions, and
parents receiving dependency
and indemnity compensation
(DIC) payments, provided that
they are at least 72 years old
and have been receiving these
benefits for at least two years
or more.
Georgia Veterans Service Di
rector Pete Wheeler said,
“Persons who meet these re
quirements will not receive in
come Questionnaire cards with
their November 1 checks this
year as they have in the past.
Instead, they will receive an
explanation as to why they are
not being sent IQ cards and
instructions to follow should
there be a change in their in
come. Other pensioners will
receive IQ cards with their
Nov. 1 checks as usual.”
Pensions are paid on the
basis of need to veterans totally
and permanently disabled from
non-service causes, and to
widows and children of veterans
who die of non-service causes.
The amount of pension is based
on their income.
Dependent parents of vet
erans who die of service-con
nected disabilities may be eli
gible for dependency and in
demnity compensation, and the
amount is based on the parents’
income.
Veterans, dependents and
survivors desiring more infor
mation should contact the near
est office of the Georgia De
partment of Veterans Service.
FRIDAY, OCT. 1, 1971
October 3-9 Is Georgia
Fire Prevention Week
ATLANTA (PRN) - Over
12,000 people die from fire
each year in the United States.
Our average daily toll of fire
loss is 33 deaths and 1,486
homes destroyed.
In an effort to call attention
to the need for greater fire
prevention awareness,
Governor Jimmy Carter and
Comptroller General Johnnie
L. Caldwell have proclaimed
October 3-9 as Georgia Fire
Prevention Week.
Caldwell, who serves as
State Safety Fire
Commissioner in addition to
his duties as Comptroller
General, also announced that
he has appointed a steering
subcommittee which will form
and organize a State Fire
Safety and Education
Committee.
Composed of firemen, fire
chiefs, and interested
Georgians, the State Fire
Safety and Education
Committee will develop a
year-round fire prevention
program and materials for use
by local fire departments and
civic groups.
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TRADING TRACTORS
Farmers don’t always wait
for their old tractors to wear
out before replacing them with
newer models. The decision to
buy or trade often hinges on
the demands of the farming
operation. One recent survey
revealed that nine-tenths of the
i farmers had bought or traded
at least one tractor in the
, previous five years.
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Women Os Demo.
Exec. Commiffee
To Meel Oct. 6
A conference luncheon for
all women members of the
Georgia State Democratic
Executive Committee will be
held in Atlanta at the Marriott
Motor Hotel on October 6, it
is announced by Zell Miller,
executive director of the Geor
gia Democratic Party.
Mrs. Dot Padgett of Douglas
ville, vice chairman at large
of the committee, heads the
party’s women’s activities.
“There are more women in
Georgia than men, so simple
arithmetic would dictate that
proper attention be given their
role in the Democratic Party
in Georgia,” Director Miller
stated. “One reason most
women are not more active in
politics is that they are seldom
asked to be.
“Purpose of the meeting of
our women members is to get
more women informed and ac
tive in the party.”
There are 21 women on the
present committee, far more
than on any previous state com
mittee of the party.
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Beauty Area Os The Month
The Willing Workers Neighborhood Service Club project of
beautifying a segment of highway 280, is now a reality. The red
। lilies, winter pinks and the purple pods peeping through the green
shrubbery has attracted much attention as people passed by
admiring the beautiful scenery. This area has won distinction
having been selected as the Beauty Area of the Month. The
beauty area sign of the month is now posted on the area, it is
the most beautiful park in Wheeler County and is known as
! “Jessie’s Park.”
Mr. Dixion is still at work as usual, those present on this
occasion are: Jesse Dixion, chairman of the project, Miss Eula
I Mae Hall, chairman of the program committee, Mrs. Dorothy
Hall, secretary of the club, Mrs. Bertha Dixion, and, of course,
Mrs. Steward just looking on.
We hope to have tables and chairs in this area soon. Please
• come and enjoy the beautiful shade trees.
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The , subcommittee’s
members include H.A. Gober
of the Macon Fire Prevention
Bureau, chairman of the
committee; Chief Buddy
Brooks of the Georgia
Industrial Institute in Alto;
Chief L.C. Cole of East Point,
President of the Georgia Fire
Chiefs’ Association; Chief Jack
Beasley of the Macon Fire
Prevention Bureau, President
Georgia Receives
700,000 Grants
For Health Care
Governor Jimmy Carter
announced tliat Georgia has re
ceived two grants totaling
$200,000 to assist in reducing
Georgia’s health manpower
shortage.
Georgia’s Chief Executive
compared figures on health
manpower in Georgia and mini
mal requirements for an ade
quate health program to illus
trate the need for action in
this critical area. Especially
acute shortages are to be found
in Northwest Georgia, accord
ing to Carter.
“A minimal program re
quires 300 active registered
nurses per 100,000 population,
while Georgia has only 200
per 100,000 population state
wide and only 92 per 100,000
in Northwest Georgia. Dentists
across the nation number 46
per 100,000 population, while
Georgia has 29 per 100,000
and Northwest Georgia only 18.
To reach the minimum standard
for dental hygienists in North
west Georgia the number in
this area would have to be
doubled,” the Governor said.
The State Scholarship Com
mission has received a grant
of SIOO,OOO from the Division
of Nursing of the National Insti
tute of Health to be used to
carry out an intensive nursing
recruitment effort throughout
the State.
Another grant of SIOO,OOO
from the Appalachian Regional
Commission will be used by the
State Scholarship Commission
to provide health career
scholarships to students in the
Northwest Georgia counties of
Bartow, Chattooga, Cherokee,
Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon,
Murray, Paulding, Pickens,
Polk and Whitfield.
Don Payton, Executive Direc
tor of the State Scholarship
Commission, joined with the
Governor in expressing concern
for the needs in the health
manpower field and delight in
the acquisition of these
additional funds “to help in the
recruitment of the number and
quality of health personnel
Georgia so desperately needs.”
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of the Georgia Firemen’s
Association; Bruce Cox,
Director of the Georgia Fire
Institute at Georgia Tech; and
Lloyd Garner, State Fire
Marshal’s Office.
In his proclamation
Caldwell urged for recognition
of “the firemen of this state,
both volunteer and
professional, (who) daily risk
their lives to protect our
safety and property while
often under difficult and
hazardous conditions.”
“With a combined
prevention and enforcement
program, we can also lower
our tragic fire losses while
improving Georgia's fire
insurance rate situation. Fewer
fires will result in lower
premiums.”
Wage Price
Freeze Effective
In Southeast
Voluntary cooperation of
workers, employers and con
sumers continues to make the
wage-price freeze effective in
the Southeast, according to the
regional offices of the Office
of Emergency Preparedness
and the Internal Revenue Ser
vice.
“In 5 weeks of the freeze,
we have received reports of
only 578 complaints of vio
lations in an 8-state region
with a population 0f32 million,”
said William H. Hollaway, Re
gional OEP Director, “and the
general tone of public inquiries
I has been cooperative.”
F. W. Rogers, freeze eo
i ordinator of the IRS Regional
Office, said that in almost every
complaint investigated there
was either a misunderstanding
of regulations or if a violation
existed there was a prompt
roll-back of prices. He also
said the volume of inquiries
to IRS is steadily dropping.
OEP is responsible for gen
eral administration of the
freeze program. National OEP
Director George A. Lincoln
delegated to IRS and to the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service the func
tion of handling public inquiries.
IRS also investigates com
plaints of violations. Together
IRS and ASCS have 780 offices
in Region 4 (Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Missis
sippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee).
Below are samples of com
plaint investigation and com
pliance:
An apartment complex in
Georgia raised rents from
$102.50 to SIIO.OO on a lawyer’s
advice. When a tenant com
plained, IRS investigated, in
formed the lawyer of a Cost of
Living Council ruling that rents
are considered on an indivudual
I unit basis and the increase
। could not be made. The lawyer
so advised the apartment
manager, who complied.
In South Carolina, IRS re
। ceived complaints that a manu
facturer was planning to raise
salaries. Investigation revealed
that the company had intended
to do this because it had other
plants throughout the nation un
der union contract in which
wage increases had been grant
ed. The proposed wage increase
for the non-union plant was not
sufficiently allied with the union
plants to warrant the increase.
When so notified, the manu
facturer agreed to withhold the
increase.
TIMBER TIP
Extension Service foresters
say over 100,000 acres of
forestland in Georgia are being
taken over every year by un
desirable scrub hardwoods.
This is caused by poor
harvesting practices and the
lack of adequate control of cull
hardwoods. The foresters say
prescribed burning is one of
the best and cheapest ways to
minimize the problem. Check
with your county agent for
correct procedures and timing
before trying it.