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VOLUME 57
Wheeler County
Puts Best Foot
Forward For Judges
Wheeler County put her best
foot forward Friday for the
visit of the judges in the Beauti
fication Through Conservation
contest and other visitors.
As the Group V winner,
Wheeler is one of the five
counties visited by the judges
for the final selection of the
state winner in the contest.
The other counties are Ben
Hill, Union, Morgan and Gordon.
The winner will be announced
at the annual meeting of the
Georgia Association of Conser
vation Districts on Dec. 13.
To present the county to the
judges, first they viewed a
closed circuit television pre
sentation of interviews with
people over the county' who had
participated in the work leading
to Wheeler’s being selected a
group winner.
Following this was a slide
presentation of Wheeler’s con
servation highlights by Jimmy
James, soil conservationist,
and a bus tour of the city of
Alamo. A buffet luncheon was
served at the Alamo Methodist
Church. During the afternoon
the bus tour continued in Glen
wood and various locations over
the county'.
The tour in Alamo included
the new Dixon Park, the First
Baptist Church, the J.T. Pickle
and D. N. Achord rose gardens,
and other points of interest.
In Glenwood, the bus visited
the new water and sewer sys
tems, the Wheeler County Hos
pital, and the construction site
of the nursing home.
The conservation tour of the
county took the group to G. W.
Harvey’s floriculture project,
a new pond at the W.H. Thomas
farm, and W. J. Mitchell’s com
mercial catfish operation and
tile drainage. Maurice John
son’s complete water disposal
system on a 110 acre field
and his beef production was
visited and the Singing Pines
Plantation. Roadbanks which
had been treated for erosion
and beautification were seen
along the way.
Judges for the contest are
Mrs. Barbara Parks, Home
Service Advisor, Flint E.M.C.,
Reynolds; J. Hall Cambell, As
sistant State Resource Conser
vationist, Raleigh, N. C.; and
Archie W. Bunch, North Caro
lina Association of Conser
vation Districts, Laurel Hill,
N. C.
The Alamo Garden Club acted
as hostesses for the day’s
activities.
PCA Film Wins
Nations Highest
Film Awards
The new Production Credit
Association film “Credit, A
Capital Idea” has received one
of the Nation’s highest film
awards, according to Neill K.
Alford, general manager of the
Ohoopee Production Credit As
sociation.
The animated film on profit
able use of farm credit was
bestowed “The Chris ’’statuette
at the 19th Annual Columbus
International Film Festival in
Columbus, Ohio.
“The Chris” is comparable
to the “Oscar” which is given
in the motion picture industry.
Os 470 motion pictures enter
ed in the festival in the areas
of education and industry only
59 statuettes — the festival’s
highest award — were present
ed.
The high award was the first
ever received by a motion pic
ture of the Farm Credit System.
The farmer-owned and ope
rated Ohoopee PCA has 731
farmer-members and is ex
tending $10,038,3 75.00 to these
members in Toombs, Mont
gomery, Wheeler, Tattnall,
Candler and Emanuel counties
for their operating and capital
investment credit on an inter
mediate term basis.
The film is available from
your local Production Credit
Association office or from
Farm Credit Bank Services,
P. O. Box 1499, Columbia, S.C.
29202.
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with First District Rep. G. Elliott Hagan when they were in Washington in connection with the
United Concerned C itizens of America (UCCA) and other an ti-bussing groups’three-day meeting.
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Trial Set In Death Os
Jeff Davis County Man
Roy Smith Jr. of Snipesville,
in Jeff Davis County, lias been
bound over to the December
term of Superior Court in
Hazlehurst, in the shooting
death, October 30, of Homer
Wilcox.
Judge Gorden Knox of Hazle
hurst in conducting the hearing
Friday denied bond for Smith.
The suspect Jias reportedly
been moved to the Bacon County
jail since Jeff Davis County
has no county jail facility.
Smith is accused of having
shot Wilcox five times with a
.38 oq liber pistol in a rear
room of the Willard Davis Beer
and Wine Store on U.S. Highway
342 near Hazlehurst, while Wil-
County Agent
Sentenced
In Eatonton
The Macon Telegraph
Putnam County Agent Lamar
Freeman was fined SSOO Mon
day after pleading guilty to
charges of stealing a cow and
calf.
Freeman, who was suspended
by the Georgia Cooperative Ex
tension Service when he was
indicted by a grand jury in
September, has resigned his
post as county agent, an ex
tension service official in
Athens said late Monday.
Judge George L. Jackson also
ordered restitution in the
amount of SI,OOO to Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Gardner, who own
a dairy ferm in Putnam County.
Freeman was placed on three
years probation.
Details of the incident were
not available Monday.
Gospel Sing At
Hope Baptist
There will be a gospel sing
at Hope Baptist Church in Glen
wood, on Saturday night, Nov.
20, at 7:30.
Featured singers will be: The
Mimbs-Family, Jack Sheffield
and The VilulaTrio, Miss Peggy
Grimsley, The Countrymen
Quartet and other good singers.
Come and enjoy a night of
good gospel singing.
Joseph D. Barber
Aboard USS Wasp
Navy Fireman Apprentice
Joseph D. Barber, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tommie Barber of
Rt. 2, Glenwood, is aboard the
aircraft carrier USS Wasp,
homported at Quonset Point,
R. 1., and now conducting anti
submarine training exercises
in the North Atlantic.
Walter B. Githens
Completes Training
Navy Petty Officer Third
Class Walter B. Githens, son
of Mrs. Frances Githens of Rt.
2, Glenwood, graduated from
Naval Hospital Corps School,
Naval Training Center, Great
Lakes, 111.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
cox was talking on a telephone.
Smith was arrested on the
following morning back of the
Union Camp woodyard on the
Lumber City Highway after lie
lad gone to the home of Cecil
Chavis and asked Chavis to call
the sheriff. Smith reportedly
gave himself up to Hall and
landed over a .38 caliber pistol.
Wilcox, 39, was the widower
of Mrs. Helen Wilcox, who was
shot and killed after being
abducted in a robbery at their
rural grocery store.
Summary Os 1971
Georgia Baptist
Convention
Georgia Baptist Convention
unanimously approved con
version of Norman College
properties into a conference
and assembly centerandas2o,-
000,000 expansion at the Geor
gia Baptist Hospital during its
meeting at Jekyll Island last
week.
Messengers (elected repre
sentatives) from the million
member denomination also ap
proved a record s6,2ol,6ooCo
operative Program budget for
1972 and made plans for a year
long 150th anniversary observ
ance in 1972.
A resolution expressed op
position to lowering the legal
age to 18 for buying alcoholic
beverages. Another resolution
supported public officials who
have sought to protect “prin
ciples of separation of church
and state assured in the first
amendment to the Con
stitution.”
The Convention turned down
a motion to instruct Georgia
Baptist Children’s Home trus
tees to operate a home for
children of all races.’’Trustees
dropped racial restrictions
from the home’s charter in
1968 but have admitted noblack
children.
“Methods of becoming more
effective in the total metro
politan areas” of Georgia will
be studies and reported back
to the 1972 Convention by a
special study committee ap
proved by the Convention.
In voting to use Norman Col
lege properties as a religious
assembly ground, the Con
vention assumed the assets and
liabilities of the now-closed
junior college at Norman Park
in Southwest Georgia. The mil
lion dollar debt will be retired
through $450,000 anticipated in
the next 6 years from the Con
vention’s capital improvement
and endowment program, con
tinued annual budget allo
cations, and income on endow
ment funds held by the Georgia
Baptist Foundation.
Principle must be above
expediency if our political
system is to endure.
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Lucky for some business
men there are stenographers
who can spell.
Federal Land Bank
Reduces Varible
Interest Rate
"The Federal Land Bank of
Columbia has announced a re
duction in the variable interest
rate on long-term ferm loans
of 1/4 of 1%. This reduction
will be effective on Dec. 1, on
new loans on the variable in
terest rate and on all outstand
ing variable rate loans,” ac
cording to Raymond L. Evors,
manager of the Federal Land
Bank Association of Swains
boro.
“This is the fourth interest,
rate reduction on variable rate
loans during this calendar year
by the Land Bank which has
been made possible by improved
conditions in the wholesale
money market and the continu
ing increase in loan volume
at the variable interest rare, ’
said Mr. Evors.
The interest rate on variable
rate loans charged by the Land
Bank is determined by the cost
of money in the central money
markets and the cost of ope
rations of the Bank and As
sociations.
“Land Bank loans are
tailored to the credit needs of
each individual farm operation
and may be repaid at any time
without a prepayment penalty, ”
Mr. Evors continued.
“The Federal Land Bank of
Columbia makes long-term
variable rate farm loans
through farmer-owned Federal
Land Bank Associations serving
every county in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida,” Mr. Evors said. The
Bank has loans outstanding to
over 43,000 farmers, growers
and ranchers in the amount of
over SBOO million through the
46 Land Bank Associations in
the four-state district.
The Federal Land Bank As
sociation of Swainsboro serves
the long-term credit needs of
1000 farmers, growers and
ranchers in Candler, Emanuel,
Jenkins, Montgomery, Screven,
Tattnall, Toombs and Wheeler
counties with more than $16,-
000,000.00 in long-term credit.
Jet Crashes
Near Baxley
A Navy jet crashed near Bax
ley last Thursday, about a mile
from a nuclear power plant
under construction. The pilot
bailed out but later died.
Witnesses at the Edwin I.
Hatch Nuclear Power Plant said
the plane exploded in the air,
the pilot ejected, and then the
plane exploded again before
crashing on the opposite side
of the Altamaha River between
Baxley and V idalia.
Employees from the power
plant rescued the pilot from the
swamp where he had landed
with his parachute. He was
unconscious and was taken to
Appling County Hospital by am
bulance, but died later.
The plane was based at the
Naval Air Station at Marietta.
A spokesman at the air station
identified the plane as an A4L
single seat jetattachedtoAttack
Squadron 205.
Senator Herman Talmadge Cites
Heed for Sound Rural Economy
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge, addressing the recent
Bankers Symposium on Govern
ment held in Washington, em
phasized the need for expanded
agricultural credit and rural
development.
The Georgia senior senator,
who is chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, dis
cussed some of the things his
committee has been doing this
year.
“A major thrust of our
committee has been in the field
of credit,” Talmadge said. He
cited as examples the Rural
Telephone Bank Bill, legislation
to expand the authority of the
Farmers Home Administration,
and other committee action
aimed at improving the lot of
the nation’s farmers and rural
dwellers.
“Another important action to
49 Schools In Ga.
Uncertified By
State Fire Marshal
Out of the approximately 1800
schools in Georgia, 49 schools
are completely uncertified for
occupancy by the State Fire
Marshal’s Office and another
93 are only partially certified.
Partial certification occurs
when a school receives cer
tificates of occupancy for some
of their buildings; but not for
all of them.
The situation in Georgia has
improved during the last year,
Comptroller Gen. Johnnie L.
Caldwell stated, with a 25 per
cent decrease from 1970 in the
number of uncertified and par
tially certified schools. In 1970,
195 schools were uncertified or
partially certified. In 1971, this
number had decreased to 142
schools.
City Election
To Be Held In
Alamo Dec. 7
There will be a City Election
at the City Hall in Alamo,
Georgia, on December 7, 1971,
for the purpose of electing a
Mayor and three City Council
men to fill the expired terms
of Herbert E. Webster, Mayor;
Lewis P. Mercer, Forest Fields
and Dr. William E. Curl,
Councilmen.
The Polls will be open at
7:00 A.M. and close at 7:00
P.M. Anyone wishing toqualify
for any of these offices may
do so by registering with the
City Clerk on or before No
vember 18, 1971.
Deadline for Registration to
vote will be November 15,1971.
Herbert E. Webster,
Mayor, City of Alamo
5 239,136 Grant
The Department of Housing
and Urban Development has ap
proved a $239,136 grant for a
neighborhood facility in Fitz
gerald.
The facility will contain 12,-
348 square feet and serve ap
proximately 12,633 residents
of Ben Hill County.
Wheeler Health
Dept. To Hold
Diabetic Clinic
The Wheeler County Health
Department will hold a Diabetic
screening clinic on Monday,
November 22, from 1:30 to
3:30 p.m.
Eat a good hearty meal and
come to the clinic in two hours.
The T.B. skin test will be
offered also.
CONTACT
Do you have a problem or
need in your life or home?,
Is life full of meaning and
purpose for you? Does happi
ness and joy characterize your
life? Regardless of who you are,
let me help if I can. Contact the
Methodist Parsonage at 568-
2651 in Alamo.
FRIDAY, NOV. 19, 1971
meet credit needs of rural
America was the introduction
of legislation to finance major
economic development to
America’s smaller communi
ties and rural areas,” the sen
ator said.
“This bill would establish
a new farm and rural develop
ment credit system. First, it
would create an entirely new
credit agency — the Federal
Rural Development Credit Sys
tem. Second, it would reorgan
ize the Farmers Home
Administration. ”
After explaining in some de
tail the various aspects of these
pending bills, Sen. Talmadge
said:
“While the emphasis this
year has been on credit, the
committee must never lose
sight of its objective to main
tain a strong agricultural econ
omy. Too many people take
agriculture for granted. For
too long, farmers lave been
treated as second class citi
zens.
“Agriculture is the most im-
Brewton Parker
Enrollment Up
For Fall Quarter
Enrollment at Brewton Par
ker College for the fell quarter
lias reached 609, an increase
of 91 over fell quarter in 1970.
This is an increase of 18 per
cent on total number of students,
although a few more of this
year’s enrollees are part time
scholars.
Breakdown of the student body
shows 276 sophomores and 338
freshmen. There are 282 male
students and 332 females.
Seventeen students are from
states other than Georgia while
three are from foreign
countries or territories.
Toombs County has the dis
tinction of sending more stu
dents to Brewton Parker
College than any of the other
158 political sub-divisions. En
rollment of the leading counties
include: Toombs, 120; Mont
gomery, 61; Jeff-Davis, 46; Ap
pling, 36; Laurens, 36;
Emanuel, 35; Treutlen, 34;
Wheeler, 23; and Wayne, 22.
End Os Year
Farm Surveys
The successful producer ad
justs his production according
to supplies on all other ferms,
both here in Georgia and Nation
ally. The basis of this adjust
ment on many ferms is the
end-of-year production and in
ventories published by the
Georgia Crop Reporting Service
of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. To update the num
bers, this service must have
the help of thousands of farmers
and ranchers. The end-of-the
year ferm surveys get underway
in late November and in early
December, according to
Frasier T. Galloway, State Sta
tistician.
Many producers will be asked
about number of harvested
acres, production of crops,
livestock numbers, poultry
numbers, and ferm labor and
wages. Some producers will
receive a questionnaire in the
mail. Others will be visited
by an enumerator working part
time for USDA.
Each producer in the survey
sample is urged to cooperate.
After filling in the answers to
the questions the questionnaire
is forwarded to the Crop Re
porting Service’s office in
Athens for processing. With
good response from the pro
ducers in the sample, both enu
merated and via mail, the
sample will be adequate topro
duce reliable estimates for
Georgia’s Agriculture.
The 1970 cash ferm receipts
in Georgia came to almost $1.3
billion which emphasizes its
importance in the State.
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portant industry in this country.
Farmers provide consumers
with an abundance and variety
of foods of every kind and in
every form, readily available
at all times at feir and reason
able prices.”
Pointing out that national
estimates indicate that about
30 per cent of all jobs in pri
vate employment are agri
culturally related, and that
agri-business accounts for
about one-fourth to one-third
of the gross national product,
Sen. Talmadge declared:
“Because of diminishing
ferm population and the num
ber of ferms, the contributions
and accomplishments of agri
| culture receives less and less
emphasis and attention. We
Bartow Park To
Get U. S. Grant
Facilities at the Bartow
County Park area cm Lake Al
latoona will be trebled as the
result of a $196,226 grant from
the Department of Interior’s
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.
Announcement of approval of
the grant was made by Georgia
. U. S. Sens. Herman E. Tal
madge and David H. Gambrell
in Washington.
Total cost of the expanded
improvements will be $204,026, -
it was pointed out.
Human Resources
Handbook Answers
Calls For Help
Where do I go to get help
when I need it?
Georgia’s first Handbook of
Human Resources contains the •
answer in its listing of 150
Georgia statewide helping
agencies. It has been developed
by the Department of Family
and Children Services and the
University of Georgia to collect
and circulate information about
resources and services to those
in need.
Gov. Jimmy Carter, calling
cm all Georgians to use the
handbook to help others, said,
“I have had for many years a
strong concern for the people
in Georgia who, for various
reasons, find themselves and
their loved ones in situations
of human suffering and crisis.
Equally, I have maintained a
keen interest in seeing that our
resources and services are de
livered in an accessible and
effective manner to those in
need.”
The handbook is a compilation
of information on human ser
vices that are either adminis
tered by the State or those
other public or private agencies
that serve on a statewide basis. •
Exceptions were made for spe
cial services being offered on
a multi-county basis without
rigid residency requirements.
The handbook is not a sub
stitute for local (city, county,
or multi-county) directories of
human resources.
The handbook is divided into
five areas of service: Chil
dren, Youth, Adults, Senior
Citizens and Communities. It
is indexed alphabetically and
according to service.
The development of the hand
book was a project of the Uni
versity of Georgia Institute of
Community and Area Develop
ment and School of Social Work
and the Georgia Department of
Family and Children Services.
The total cost of printing was
covered under an 1115 Grant
from the Social and Rehabili
tation Service of the Department
of Health, Education and Wel
fere.
A limited number of copies
are available to service agen
cies and individuals. For in
formation contact: Francis
Stewart, Coordinator of Inter-
Agency Programs, Room 441,
State Office Building, Depart
ment of Family and Children
Services, Atlanta, Ga. 30334.
NUMBER 33
know that agriculture is im
portant.
“But, we must never lose
sight of the feet that a sound
and productive ferm economy
is vital to the well-being of
our nation.... Yet, some people
say ferm programs have been
a feilure. To the contrary, ferm
programs have been relatively
successful, and they will be
needed in the future.
“As chairman of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture and
Forestry, I want to provide
our fermers and our rural resi
dents with the opportunities they
so richly deserve. They de
serve no less, but more im
portant, I am convinced that
our nation overall will be better
for it.”
He' II Continue
Pushing For Tax
Revision, Lester
Lt. Gov. Lester G. Maddox,
addressing the Tift County
Farm Bureau’s annual meeting
in Tifton, said some of the
same people who labeled in
creasing the state sales tax
“regressive” when he proposed
it, threw their support to the
use of the same method to
finance MARTA (Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Autho
rity).
“Increasing the state sales
tax is a fine idea when it’s
theirs, but apparently, when
somebody else proposes it, it’s
‘regressive,’ ” he said.
“Up in Atlanta, we’ve had a
host of state and local govern
ment officials and others
begging and pleading for
passage of the MARTA rapid
transit bill for months, asking
for a one-cent increase in the
state sales tax in the four
affected counties in the Metro
I area in order to finance the
plan.
“And many of these are the
same ones who, for the last
two years, fought with all their
might to defeat my program
for a statewide increase in
the same tax, so that we could
provide needed teacher salary
increases, increase aid to local
governments, provide some
long-overdue ad valorem tax
relief, and help meet other
pressing state needs,” Maddox
declared.
“If they’re so much in fevor
of using an increase in the
state sales tax,” he said,
“where were they when the
people needed them to help us
get on with the job of helping
move this state forward? It’s
the same tax, and if they’ve
changed their tune just because
they don’t like Lester Maddox,
they’re nothing but a bunch of
hypocrites.”
The outspoken former gover
nor expressed dissatisfaction
with the present state tax struc
ture and called the burden upon
the ad valorem taxpayer “un
fair and discriminatory.” He
said many fermers, home
owners and small businessmen
are in financial trouble because
of rising ad valorem taxes and
indicated that he plans to con
tinue fighting for tax revision.
“Os course, just as most
Georgians, I would sincerely
like to see our state grow and
prosper without having to initi
ate any increase in taxes of
any kind,” Maddox asserted.
“But when it becomes obvious
that this isn’t possible, and
when it becomes just as obvious
that our tax structure is proving
damaging to some of our finest,
hardest-working citizens, then
we have to get used to the idea
of a tax increase which will
begin to rectify the situation.
“And certainly, the state
sales tax is the least objection
able and most equitable avail
able to us right now. This is
the one tax which permits all
Georgians to share the burden
and share the benefits at the
same time.”