Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, October 29, 1971, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 57 Joyce Powell Selected DAR Good Citizen The senior class and faculty of Wheeler County High School have selected Joyce Powell as the Daughters’ of American Revolution Good Citizen for 1971-72. Joyce is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Powell of Glenwood. Only the girls of the senior class of an accredited public or private high school are eligible for this recognition. They must possess the follow ing qualities to an outstanding degree: dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. A certificate of award is given by the National Society to each Good Citizen whose name is sent in. A Good Citizen Pin is awarded to each Good Citizen by her sponsoring chapter. Each girl selected will be sent a questionaire to fill out to compete for the State Good C iti zen. The winner in each of the state’s six districts will re ceive five dollars from the State Society. State Winner will go to the State Conference and will receive a SIOO.OO Bond from the National Society. From all the State Winners is chosen a National Good Citizen. She is presentedat Continental Con gress, and is given a silver bowl suitably engraved, and a SI,OOO College Scholarship. Caldwell Sets New Regulations On Insurance On January 1, 1972, new, tough regulations to prevent the “twisting” of life insurance policies will become effective in Georgia. Comptroller General Johnnie L. Caldwell released stringent regulations on life insurance policy replacement. These final regulations take into consid eration information received at a recent open hearing held on insurance practices in Georgia. “In our efforts to stop the few unscrupulous agents who prey on people through “twist ing, ’ or the arbitrary replace ment of life insurance policies with other policies the par ticular agent happens to be selling, we have formulated these regulations to protect Georgians from unethical busi ness practices,” said Caldwell. The new regulations require that agents present consumers, considering a change in in surance policy, with a statement of comparison showing all the advantages and disadvantages of changing policies. The com parison must include ail in formation concerning amount of premiums, frequency of pay ments, benefits, options, and cash values. The statements must be signed by the applicant, the agent, and a responsible officer of the insurance com pany offering the new policy. In addition, a notice outlining suggestions for consumer pro* tection on replacing life in surance policies must be given to each applicant. White collar workers will outnumber blue-collar workers by more than 50 per cent by 1980, according to Labor De partment projections. However, 31 million workers will be em ployed in blue-collar jobs, an increase of more than 2 million over 1970. Wheeler County Eagle Workshop Set For Municipal Election Officials Nov. 24 A workshop for municipal election officials will be held in Milledgeville at Georgia Col lege in the large lecture room of Chappell Hall in the Home Economics Building from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Nov. 24. The workshop is one of eleven being conducted throughout the state during the next few months under the joint sponsorship of Ben W'. Fortson, Jr., Secretary of State, the State Election Board, the Georgia Municipal Association, and the University of Georgia. Also, sponsoring the workshop are the Oconee and Heart of Georgia Area Plan ning and Development Com missions. The purpose of the workshop is to acquaint municipal elec tion officials with the regis tration and election procedures as contained in the Municipal Election Code as amended by the Georgia General Assembly . Participants will include city clerks, city voter registrars, municipal political party of ficials, municipal poll man agers, and other municipal election officials. Instruction for the program will be given by Secretary of State Ben W. Fortson, Jr., and Ms. Frances Duncan,Mr.Fort son’s assistant. There will be no registration fees or other costs for participants beyond personal travel and meals. The area being covered by the Milledgeville workshop spe cifically includes Jasper, Put nam, Hancock, Baldwin, Wash ington, Wilkinson, Johnson, Laurens, Bleckley, Treutlen, Montgomery, Wheeler, Telfair, Wilcox, Pulaski and Dodge counties. However, election of ficials from any municipality in the state are welcome to attend any one of the scheduled works hops. Persons wishing further in formation should contact the Secretary of State, State Capitol, Atlanta; Jerry Griffin, Georgia Municipal Association, 506 Fulton Federal Building, Atlanta; Ms. Ann Anderson, Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Athens; or President J. Whitney Bunting, Georgia College at Milledgeville. Revival To Begin Sunday At Church Os God In Wheeler Revival services will begin Sunday, October 31, at the Com munity Church of God in Wheeler County. The evangelist will be David Hutcheson of Hazlehurst, and services will begin each eve ning at 7:30 o’clock. Everyone is invited to attend. In these days of inflation, telling a girl she looks like a million isn't too much of a compliment 1 fig i „ g eAb m I - • L Nuclear Exhibits Pictured above is the Power Promenade, an area in the visitors center at the Georgia Power Com pany’s Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant. The center is situated on a hill overlooking the plant site on the Aitamaha River in Southeast Georgia. Visi tors walking the Power Promenade may light a lamp with electricity they produce themselves or they also may control a model of a nuclear reactor. ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385 National Fashion Wagon Week Honors American Working Girl > ^^^9l The 'American Working Girl’' is being honored this year during National Fashion Wagon Week, October 25-30. Working women are being honored because they present a fashionable, neat and pleas ant appearance in the world of business, all of which they do on a budget, and for their sense of fashion and good taste. The sponsor of National Fashion Wagon Week is Min nesota Woolen Company, a fifty year old Duluth. Minne sota based firm operating un der the trade name of “Fash ion Wagon." Today’s 29 million working women represent 37% of the total labor force in the U.S. Marv Tyler Moore was chosen to accept the "Amer ican Working Girl” award, symbolically, representing the ideal working girl as she does on her own CBS Television show. National Vocational Guidance Week Wheeler County High School will give special emphasis to the nation’s sixth National Vo cational Guidance Week to be observed here and throughout the country October 24-30. The purpose of the week is to focus public attention on the fact that choosing a career is an important decision, one worthy of planning now for real ization tomorrow. Young people today face a bewildering selection of career and job possibilities. Mature adults, whose jobs have become obsolete by technological prog ress, are having to select new careers and retrain for them. Disadvantaged citizens of all ages need to select andprepare for job opportunities being opened up by government and private programs. Assisting people select and find jobs and careers is the work of thousands of pro fessional counselors in schools, colleges, government and voluntary agencies, industry and private counseling centers and firms. The award, presented to Miss Moore by' Richard C. Polinsky, president of Fash ion Wagon, reads: "1971 Na tional Fashion Wagon Week Award to The American Working Girl, accepted bv Marv Tyler Moore on behalf ' of all working women who bring style, taste and fash ion to the business world. Through her portrayal of Mary Richards on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Miss Moore symbolizes the mod ern woman in the world of business.” Fashion Wagon, whose products carry the Good Housekeeping Seal, is a lead ing national seller of worn en's, men's and children’s fashions, through "party plan” sales. Previous woman-of-the-year Fashion Wagon awards have been given to Helen Keller, Pearl Buck, Jean Shrimpton and others. The week is sponsored by the National Vocational Guid ance Association and its local chapters and branches through out the country. Talmadge Finds Flaws In Nixon Tax Proposals U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal madge, a ranking member of the .Senate Finance Committee which is studying President Richard M. Nixon’s new tax plan, said in Washington that the administration’s tax pro posals appear to favor big busi ness. “The President’s proposals as modified by the House ap pear, at least on the surface, to primarily benefit business,” Sen. Talmadge said. "Benefits to the individual taxpayer seem to be secondary.” “The charge has been made, ” the senator added, “that the tax provisions are preferential to big business and discrimi nates against rank and file peo ple. It shall be my purpose, and I hope the purpose of the Finance Committee, toexamine these charges carefully to make sure the ordinary taxpayers of America get a fair break.” The Georgia senior senator tied his comments on the Nixon plan to a renewed call for overall tax reform in the nation. “The need for tax reform is overwhelming, ” Talmadge declared. Bar-B-Que Supper In Alamo Oct. 29 The Lamplighter Little Theatre, located in Alamo, is sponsoring a bar-b-que supper on Friday, October 29th. Plates can be picked up between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. for $1.25 per plate at the Alamo High School Cafetorium. Come and join everyone for supper before the Mcßae vs Alamo Football Game being played in Alamo. It is too often thecasethat the harder you run after hap piness. the faster trouble overtakes you. Alamo Baptist Ready To Open Educ. Building Alamo First Baptist Church will open its beautiful, newly remodeled educational building this Sunday, October 31. The walls of the old church audi torium still stand, and many sacred memories linger, but the interior of the structure has been completely remodeled so as to comprise a modern and comfortable unit for graded Bible stud)'. The newly remodeled unit will house the pastor’s study, plus the following departments of the Sunday School and Church Training: Adult, "Youth 2, Youth 1, and Pre-school 3. The other departments will be adequately housed in the previously exist ing annex, which lias also been partially remodeled. In ad dition, an attractive choir room las been formed out of a for mer garage. All the church buildings will be united with the new sanctuary by a covered walk. The Rev. Raymond G. Johnson, pastor, states that the . members of the church are very thankful to God for the wonderful facilities, and are eager to enter the new building for Sunday School on October 31, to continue the study of God’s Word. Three Schools Tax Exempted Three private schools in Georgia have been granted tax exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednes day. The schools are the Wash ington-J ohns on C ommunity Schools Inc., Harrison; Windsor Academy Inc., Macon; and Ocmulgee Academy Inc., Lum ber City. The IRS saidall three schools have publicly proclaimed ra cially nondiscriminatory ad missions policies. An IRS spokesman said that when private schools publicly announce such policies, the tax collection agency assumes such a policy is in effect. The spokesman added that the IRS maintains a vigorous program of auditing tax exempt organizations and private schools are carefully watched to insure they comply with ad missions policies which qualify them for tax exempt status. Vets Can Get Income Protection On G. I. Policy Only about 20 percent of Georgia, WW II and Korean Conflict veterans holding G.I. Insurance are taking advantage of an option for add ing an inc ome protection rider to their policies, A. W. Tate, Director of the Veterans Administration Regional Office reported. Those who have policies num bered with prefixes of ,r V,” “R” or “W” can have the rider added to their policy, provided they are in good health and under age 55 Tate said. The so-called Total Disability Income Provision (TDIP) en titles the insured to monthly payments in the event he be comes totally disabled before he reaches age 65. More than 750,000 veterans have the rider. Nearly 3.5 million are eligible. Policyholders receive $lO monthly for each SIOOO of in surance held and the payments continued as long as disability exists. The disability must exist for at least six months, with payments starting the seventh month. Cost of the added protection varies with age and type of policy, according to the VA official. Details and application forms are available at the VA office to which the insured sends his premiums, or from any VA office. Veterans also get in formation from veterans ser vice organization repre sentatives. Reckon a man who never makes a mistake get tired of doing nothing? FRIDAY, OCT. 29, 1971 SINGLE COPY 5d Wheeler County Hospital Appreciation Day Held Oct. 24 As the Wheeler County Hos pital begins its fourth year of operation in Glenwood, Admin istrator Thomas J. Owens looks back on some lean times but is enthusiastic and optimistic about their accomplishments and the future. Glenwood Mayor G.M. Joiner and Alamo Mayor Herbert E. Webster join him by designating by proclamation October 24 as “Wheeler County Hospital Ap preciation Day” and observing October 24-30 as “Hospital Ap preciation Week.” This resolution was pro claimed in appreciation of the vital role the hospital plays in the county. In a brief ceremony at Open House Sunday, a plaque was given to L. B. Chambers “in appreciation of his devotion, untiring efforts, and construc tive interest” in the hospital. The plaque will hang in the recently completed new wing which will be known as the L. B. Chambers wing. Cham bers is chairman of the hospital authority. The hospital opened in October, 1968, with twelve beds. Total admissions were about 30 per month with total revenue for the year about $148,000. Financial assistance from the county was a necessity and those were the lean times. Gradually however, the scene clanged. More and more people sought medical care at the hos pital. New equipment was added, more people were added to the staff, and the revenue in creased. Today the hospital includes the new wing of six semi private rooms, an enlarged kitchen, and laboratory has been moved into a trailer. The equipment has been up graded and includes a two-bed Beans! Beans! Beans! ATHENS—Georgia’s soy bean harvest is in full swing this week, and while the state doesn’t have ’beans running out its ears, it is gathering a record crop. In fact, soybeans seem well on their way to setting five records this year. Acreage, yield per acre, total pro duction, price and value are likely to be higher than ever. No doubt about the acreage, says James E. Jackson, right, Extension agronomist at the University of Georgia, and one of the soybean’s best friends. There are 639,000 acres this year-20 percent above 1970. Only one Georgia crop, corn, outranks soybeans. ’Beans have long since passed peanuts, cot ton and tobacco. Georgia farmers are learning how to grow soybeans, too. Evidence of this is the 25-bushels-per-acre average yield. This record also means record total production—about 16 million bushels. And it couldn’t come at a better time, according to Jackson. The American Soy bean Association is estimating an average price of $3 per bushel for this year’s crop. If it holds up, Georgia farmers will receive nearly SSO million for their ’beans. Despite the increase in pro duction, still more ’beans are needed. Even with this year’s record, the state will grow less than half enough for the booming poultry and livestock industry. But things are looking up in Georgia. Soybean growers voted overwhelmingly recently to form an Agricultural Com modity Commission for their crop. And many of them were in Tifton for the first Soybean Exposition Tuesday, to catch up on the latest in equipment and production practices. heart monitoring system with a remote monitoring unit at the nurses station. This, in essence, gives a two-bed car diac unit. The operating room contains a heart monitor also. The all-new x-ray equipment recently leased is the very latest for diagnostic work. The automatic developer dries the film for quick service. This Panel Approves Bill To Honor Russell In Ga. The Senate Public Works Committee sitting in Washing ton has favorably reported out a bill to name the proposed new 14-story federal office building in Atlanta after the late U. S. Senator Richard B. Russell. The measure to name the new facility after Sen. Russell was introduced by Sen. Herman E. Talmadge last year shortly after the Georgian’s death in Washington last February. The proposed building, which under the bill would be named the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, is to be built on the block where the Atlanta City Hall is located. It is near the State Capitol where Russell served as speaker of the House of Representatives and later as governor of Georgia. The federal structure is to contain enough facilities for all the federal courts now head quartered in Atlanta as well as all federal regional offices which require a downtown lo cation. Cost estimates for the pro ject have ranged from $27- million to S4O-million. NUMBER 30 will enable the radiologist to come to the hospital instead of patients being transported to neighboring hospitals for diagnostic x-rays. The laboratory was moved into a large trailer because of the drastic increase in lab work. Specimen- have in creased from about 100 per month to 660 per month. All lab work is now done locally. The personnel consists of five registered nurses, two licensed practical nurses, and 21 other employees. The hos pital is affiliated with the LPN School in Eastman, and is work ing with the local high school’s vocational office training pro gram. The payroll lias in creased from S3IOO to S6IOO per month and admissions are running about 75 per month. Dr. H. I. Connor is chief of staff and Mrs. Helen Coleman is director of nurses. Dr. L. C. Mcßae Jr. and Dr. Marvin Wall, local physicians, are on the staff also. Owens reports the financial situation for the past year has been sound and the hospital operating in the black. Total revenue from October, 1970 through August, 1971 was $369,000. “We feel we have a sound ■ operation -a business where we are involved 24-hours a day, seven days a week. We are the hub of health care for the whole community,” Owens said. Future plans call for another addition for private rooms. Convention At Jekyll Attracts Related Meetings When the Georgia Baptist Convention meets at Jekyll Island, Nov. 8-10, fifteen aux iliary meetings will also be held. The Convention’s 130-mem ber executive committee will conduct a business session Monday, Nov. 8, at 2:30 p.m. at the Jekyll Island Baptist Mission. The Convention begins Monday night at 7. Other meetings will include an inspirational pastors’ con ference, a religious education association, pastor’s wives, alumni groups from Georgia Baptist colleges and Southern Baptist seminaries, and the for mation of a “fellowship of 65- plussers.” The Georgia Baptist Pastors ’ Conference at Gould Auditorium on Jekyll Island Monday after noon will feature Southern Bap tist Convention leaders and Georgians. Dr. CarlE. Bates, SBC presi dent and pastor of the First Baptist Church, Charlotte, N. C„ will speak, as will Dr. Theodore Adams, professor at Southeastern Baptist Theo logical Seminary, Wake Forest, N. C., and former pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Georgians are Dr. Charlie Shedd, author-lecturer, and pastor ofthe Jekyll Island Pres byterian Church; and Dr. John T. Tippett, pastor. Calvary Temple Baptist Church, Savan nah and chairman of the Con vention’s executive committee. Alumni meetings for colleges and seminaries will be held throughout the three-day Con vention, usually in connection with meals. Baptist college alumni groups include Mercer University, Tift College, and Norman College. SBC Seminary alumni meetings include Southeastern, South western, New Orleans, and Sou thern Baptist Theological Semi naries. The pastors’ wives fellow ship and the Georgia Baptist Religious Education Associ ation will meet on Monday prior to the Convention. Other meetings include area and associations! missionaries and a Mercer Extension De partment luncheon.