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VOLUME 57
History Os The
Ocmulgee River
Country Published
A recently-published book,
Pioneer Days Along the
Ocmulgee, is providing con
siderable interest to resi
dents of the Ocmulgee River
country . The book gives a com
prehensive history of the area
comprising Telfair, Dodge,
Pulaski, Wilcox, Ben Hill and
surrounding areas.
The book tells of the early
Indian inhabitants; the coming
of the pioneers; the Indian wars
and the struggles of the pioneers
to carve their civilization from
a primitive wilderness. Many
of the pioneers are named and
located so that they may be
traced by their living descen
dants.
Fussell M. Chalker, the
author, is a native of Fitz
gerald and has served thirty
eight years as a Georgia edu
cator. He has been a class
room teacher at Fitzgerald High
School and at West Georgia
College. He has served as Prin
cipal of Douglas and LaGrange
High Schools andasSuperinten
dent of Carrollton City Schools.
The author is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and numerous
scholastic, professional and
fraternal societies.
Since its publication, the book
lias been the object of numerous
newspaper items, including fea
ture articles in the Atlanta
Journal by Violet Moore and
Hugh Parks. It has received
favorable reviews by such
magazines as the Georgia
Magazine and the Georgia His
torical Quarterly.
In giving his reasons for
writing the book, Professor
Chalker stated that, aside from
his love of the writing, he felt
that much attention has been
given by writers to other sect
ions, but that our section has
been neglected, so that the
fascinating story' of our own
area has not been amply told.
He stated that he wrote the
book in the hope that it would
provide a worthwhile contri
bution to a neglected phase of
Georgia History .
Vets News
On Education
GI Bill education is not
limited to former Gls, A. W.
Tate, Director of the Atlanta
Veterans Administration Re
gional Office, pointed out. Some
193 wives and children, widows
and orphans of Georgia vet
erans are now attending classes
in college, pre-college and
graduate schools with the help
of monthly VA subsistence
checks.
Wives and children of vet
erans who are totally and per
manently disabled by Hlness
or injury connected with their
military service are eligible
for VA educational help up to
$175 per month. Widows and
orphans of veterans or service
men who died of service-con
nected causes are alsoeligible.
Tate said the law authorizing
education for wives and chil
dren, widows and orphans of
veterans and servicemen was
passed several years ago. “It
is not a new law,’’ he said,
"but it is overlooked by many
who could greatly' benefit from
its provisions. After her hus
band’s death, several years may
pass before the widow of a
veteran becomes concerned
about acquiring job skills for a
new life. By then it may not
occur to her to look into her
eligibility for GI Bill edu
cation.”
Rumpelstilskin
In Alamo Dec. 3
The Lamplighter Little
Theatre is presenting the 3
Act Musical Operetta “Rumpel
stilskin” on Friday, December
3, Saturday, Dec. 4, Thursday,
Dec. 9, Friday, Dec. 10, and
Saturday, Dec. 11. Curtain time
is 8:00 p.m.
Admission is by paid reser
vations only. C ontact the foH ow
ing phone numbers in Alamo.
568-2531 or 568- 5111.
Ofttimes there is a mar
who buys-a second-hand cat
and finds it hard to drive his
bargain.
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100 TONS
There is more than one way to get to the top. This 100-ton steel top to Atlanta Gas Light
Company’s new liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank near Atlanta was constructed on the tloor of the
tank and then raised 142 feet to the top of air pressure. Note workmen on rim of tank. The tank
will hold 1 2 million gallons of LNG at minus 260 degrees F. As a liquid, natural gas is only one six
hundreth its normal volume. Purpose of the LNG plant is to provide additional reserve supplies.
The new tank will hold enough gas to provide the residential requirements for an entire year for a
city of 30,000. (PRN)
100-Ton Gas Tank Roof
e
Raised By Air Pressure
ATLANTA (PRN) - Here’s
a new way to “raise the roof.”
The 100-ton roof for the
steel tank of Atlanta Gas Light
Company’s new liquefied
natural gas (LNG) plant was
built on the floor of the tank.
Then air pressure under the
roof was increased and the
giant lid slowly rose 142 feet
to the top. There, workmen
welded it in place. The entire
operation took about five
hours.
This is the latest
development in the LNG plant
under construction for Atlanta
Gas Light near Riverdale,
Reorganization And Management Improvement Study
Gov. Jimmy Carter said last
week that state reorganization
“will provide more fringe bene
fits and improved personnel
practices for the State’s more
than 50,000 employees.”
“Our State now has an ex
tremely high rate of resignation
every year. This is a direct
result of the feet that most
employees receive less in sal
aries and fringe benefits than
Open House Set
For Roper Corp.
The Management and Em
ployees of Roper Corporation
cordially invite you to attend
Open House at our Plant on
Tuesday, December 14, between
the hours of 2:30 and 5:30 p.m.
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.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
Georgia, just south of Atlanta.
Scheduled for completion by
next summer, the plant will
provide the company with
additional reserve supplies for
days of peak use.
The lank will hold 12
million gallons of LNG,
enough to provide all the
residential natural gas
requirements for an entire
year to a city of 30,000. The
company has slightly more
than this amount of back-up
supplies already in smaller LP
plants around the state.
Construction will begin
shortly on a second, larger
LNG tank.
they would receive outside state
government. This excessively
high rate of turnover is not
conducive to the proper morale
or standards of professionalism
necessary to provide the best
possible in services to the
Georgia people. The imple
mentation of these recommend
ations of the reorganization
study team will be a major
step toward reducing this loss
of experienced and highly quali
fied personnel,” Gov. Carter
said.
Gov. Carter said the most
important recommendations af
fecting state employees are in
the areas of personnel, insur
ance and motor vehicles.
“The State gradually has im
proved working conditions of
its employees,” the Governor
said at a news conference. “But
never before have so many
recommendations been made at
one time.”
“The feet that state govern
ment is not as responsive as
it should be to Georgia tax
payers is not the feult of our
rank and file employees. Un
coordinated and unplanned
growth is to blame.”
The Governor said many state
employees have played a key
During summer months,
natural gas will be taken out
of the pipeline and
refrigerated from
approximately 60 degrees
above Fahrenheit to 260
degrees below. This will
liquefy the natural gas,
reducing its volume by one six
hundreth.
When needed to supplement
incoming gas supplies, the
LNG is vaporized to its normal
state and put back into the
distribution system.
The tank, which was
constructed by Chicago Bridge
& Iron Company, is the largest
in Georgia.
role in the year-long reorgan
ization study. “I want to ex
press my appreciation for this
help,” he said. “I hope all
employees will join me in urg
ing legislative approval of re
organization. There are many
benefits in the plan for all
state employees as well as all
Georgia citizens.”
Winter Quarter At
Area Tech School
To Begin Dec. 13
The Winter Quarter at Ben
Hill-Irwin Area Vocational-
Technical School will begin
Monday, December 13.
We are able to take new
students in the following course
areas: Diesel Mechanics, Radio
and T.V., Drafting, Business
Education, Machine Shop, Weld
ing and Food Service Manage
ment.
If anyone is interested in
starting at the Winter Quarter,
please contact the school at
468-7487 or P. O. Drawer M,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
A raving beauty is off
times a young woman who
finishes 2nd or last in a
beauty contest.
Senator Talmadge fears President
Hixon's Phase Two May Dot Succeed
Georgia’s Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge says he lias growing
doubts that the Nixon adminis
tration’s Phase 2 can be made
to work.
Sen. Talmadge’s obser
vations were made at a press
conference prior to delivering
the principal address to the
38th annual meeting of Gold
Kist, Inc., in Atlanta.
The Georgia senior senator
was referring to a growing
list of exceptions made by the
Pay Board and Price Control
Commission since Phase 2 went
into effect Nov. 15. Said he:
“Phase 2 must have some
flexibility' about it, but it is
beginning to look like now that
these people don’t have the
determination to make it work. ’ *
The question of who will be
come the new U. S. Secretary
of Agriculture was brought up
several times during the press
conference. President Nixon
New Quarters
For 4100 At
State Hospital
Tuesday was R for Reorgani
zation Day at Central State
Hospital as 4100 patients and
300 employees moved to new
quarters and assignments. The
move was made necessary by
the recent decision ofthe Geor
gia State Board of Health to
make CSH the Regional Hospital
for Central Georgia covering
the Counties of Jasper, Putnam,
Hancock, Monroe, Jones, Bald
win, Crawford, Bibb, Twiggs,
Wilkinson, Peach, Macon,
Houston, Bleckley, Laurens,
Johnson, Pulaski, Wilcox,
Dodge, Ben Hill, Telfair,
Wheeler, Treutlen, Jeff Davis,
Montgomery and Toombs. All
patients from these Counties
requiring hospitalization will
be admitted to Central State
Regional Hospital.
In addition, Central State will
be the final backup hospital for
long-term patients from other
sections of the state after other
possibilities for treatment have
been exhausted. As Dr. Charles
Bush, Director of Hospital Ser
vices for the Division ofMental
Health explains it - “We will
first see if the patient can
possibly return home, or if
family conditions have changed
so that he can be cared for by
his family. If this can’t be done,
we should try to locate him in
a foster home, where he can
have some degree of normal
living - or in a nursing home
if he needs this level of care.
GED Test To Be
Given At East
Laurens High
The General Educational De
velopment Test (GED) will be
given at East Laurens High
School in Dublin, Saturday, Dec.
4, beginning at 8:00 a.m. in
the school cafeteria.
The test is designed for per
sons who for any reason left
school before graduation, and
are at least twenty years of
age and a resident of Georgia.
If you are between 18 and 20
years of age, you must have
special written permission
from Frary Elrod, Adult Divi
sion of Education, State Depart
ment of Education, Atlanta, Ga.
30334.
The test puts emphasis on
Reading and Comprehension in
the areas of: Reading, English
Grammer and Literature, Sci
ence, Social Studies and Math.
The test is designed so each
person works at their own speed
but the average time required
is approximately seven hours.
For additional information
contact any High School Coun
selor or Allen Smith, Eastman,
374-2240 or Dublin 272-0520.
FRIDAY, DEC. 3, 1971 SINGLE COPY 5C
•rjTtccarr- meftaaTi « wi—rii w iw«w^w»<»wwxw«swn»«--—■ —
has nominated Dr. Earl L. Butz,
an assistant to former Agri
culture Ezra Taft Benson, to
succeed Clifford Hardin who
has resigned.
Sen. Talmadge voted against
Butz’s confirmation in the Sen
ate Agriculture and Forestry
Committee, but the committee
approved him by a vote of
8 to 6.
Talmadge recalled that the
Power Has Begun
Flowing From New
Ga. Power Plant
Power has begun flowing from
the first 700,000-kilowatt unit
of the Georgia Power Com
pany’s Plant Bowen located be
tween Rockmart and Carters
ville, Edwin I. Hatch, president,
announced.
Mr. Hatch said the new unit
features a variety of environ
mental protection equipment,
including a $4-million cooling
tower. The tower, like three
similar ones being constructed
for additional units at the site,
insures that plant operations
will have no adverse effects
on the water quality of the
adjoining Etowah River.
In addition, a sl-million elec
trostatic precipitator is in ope
ration at the new unit, and
three others are being built.
The precipitators capture up
to 99 percent of all fly ash.
Two stacks, tall as 100-story
buildings, will disperse com
bustion gases ter above the
ground.
A second 700,000-kilowatt
unit is scheduled for completion
in 1972. A third unit, of 850,-
000-kilowatt capacity, will be
completed in 1974 followed in
1975 by a fourth unit of the
same capacity.
When these additional units
go into operation, the giant
steam-electric installation will
have a total capacity of 3,100,-
000 kilowatts and will be the
largest on the company’s
system.
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GEORGIA WALKING HORSE Ihe second annual Georgia
Walking Horse Christinas Sale is slated Saturday. Dec. I I at the
Southeastern Fairgrounds in Atlanta Ihe event, which gets
underway at 10 a.m., features pleasure horses, brood mares,
colts and top show horses. Ihe event is open to the public.
Walking Horse Sale
Set For December 11
ATLANTA (PRN) - The
second annual Christmas
Walking Horse Sale has been
scheduled at the Southeastern
Fairgrounds in Atlanta,
Saturday, December 11 at 10
a.m.. it is announced by
Burney B. Parks, president of
the Georgia Walking Horse
Exhibitors Assn.
The sale will offer excellent
pleasure horses, both hunting
and trail; good brood mares;
colts and yearlings and top
show horses.
Georgia’s walking horse
population exceeds 16,000,
the second largest of the
equine registrations. Top
honors for the past three years
have gone to Georgia walking
horses, according to Mr. Parks.
“We’ll have all the
tenure of Secretary Benson was
“a rather dark day” for agri
culture in the nation. He said
that even though Butz held a
subordinate position, he has
since “made speeches all over
the country making those same
pronouncements” tliat. were a
part of the Benson philosophy.
The senator said he did not
use his influence as chairman
of the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee to sway any committee
vote, and that he does not in
tend to lead a Senate floor fight
against Butz.
Asked why, if he opposed
Butz in committee, he would
not take an active role against
him in the Senate showdown,
Rock Howard
Draws Pollution
Control Assignment
R, S. “Rock” Howard execu
tive secretary of the Georgia
Water Quality Control Board,
has been selected by the
Environmental Protection
Agency as one of five state
level water quality program
directors for its new federal
state task force assigned to
evaluate state permit programs
and effluent (wastewater dis
charge) controls.
The effluent and permit pro
grams are the primary means
by which the states control the
degree of treatment given vari
ous municipal and industrial
waste water discharges inorder
to protect receiving waterways
in their separate jurisdictions.
With Howard on the task
force’s state contingent will be
other water quality authorities
representing New York, Cali
fornia, Michigan and Wyoming
— all of which, like Georgia,
are states reputed to operate
highly effective water pollution
abatement and prevention pro
grams. The remaining seven
task force members all repre
sent EPA on either the national
or regional level.
excitement incident to a horse
show,” said Mr. Parks, “with
the added color of the
auctioneer’s chant.”
Auctioneers at the second
annual will be Col. Eddie
Bryant and Col. Ron Harris,
well-known on the horse sale
circuit.
The public is invited to
attend and to participate in
this event, Parks said, adding
that facilities have been
provided for comfort and
enjoyment. The sale area is
indoors and heated, adequate
seating has been arranged for
participants and spectators
and food and drink will be
available.
Southeastern Fairgrounds is
located just off the Lakewood
Freeway and Atlanta’s South
Expressway.
NUMBER 35
Talmadge replied:
“I don’t feel strongly enough
against him to try to impose
my will on the U. S, Senate.
Other senators can use their
own judgment.”
Asked about possible presi
dential candidates in next year’s
election, Sen. Talmadge said
“at least six of my colleagues
in the Senate have indicated
they will run, and 25 or 30
others are hoping to be struck
Wheeler Asks For
New Legislation
For Georgia Vets
Georgia Veterans Service Di
rector Pete Wheeler apir. a-cd
this week before a joint meet
ing of the senate and house
committees on defense and vet -
erans’ affairs, and announced
several recommendation
which he said tad developed
as a result of Gov. Carter’s
‘Goals for Georgia’ meetings.
One of Wheeler’s recom
mendations is for legislation
providing “lifetime honorary
fishing and hunting licenses to
any honorably discharged vet -
eran who is a legal resident
of Georgia.”
Wheeler said that the De
partment of Veterans Service
could determine a veteran’s
eligibility similar to the pro
cedure now followed in issuing
of lifetime drivers’ licenses to
Georgia veterans, Georgia tas
provided its veterans with free
drivers’ licenses since 1949,
Certain severely disabled
veterans receive a grant (the
current amount is $2,800) from
the Veterans Administration for
the purchase of a specially
equipped vehicle. Wheeler
wants legislation passed that
would exempt veterans in this
category from all state sales
taxes on such a vehicle.
Wheeler also is asking for
legislative action to provide
for exemption of all ad valorem
taxes on vehicles for which
eligible veterans receive the
familiar red, white and blue
HV (Handicapped Veteran)
license tag, which is issued to
a veteran who has lost, or lost
the use of, an eye or a limb
as a result of his military
service.
Wheeler also wants an exist
ing law updated so that Viet
Nam veterans who meet certain
disability and income require
ments would be eligible for an
exemption certificate on busi
ness licenses.
Recalling that legislation en
acted in 1969 changed Veterans
Day from the traditional Nov.
11 to the fourth Monday in
Oct., Wheeler said, “Therearc
more groups continuing to cele
brate Veterans Day on Nov. 11
than there are observing the
new date.
“Since we are convinced that
the veterans of Georgia will
never accept the fourth Monday
in October as a substitute for
Armistice Day or Veterans Day,
we strongly recommend tliat
legislation be enacted that would
designate Nov. 11 as ‘Veterans
Day in Georgia’ and that this
date be adopted as the legal
holiday for the observance of
Veterans Day in the State of
Georgia,”
4 H GROWS
Latest figures show there an
more than 92,500 Fuur-B
Clubs in the United States and
Puerto Rico. Youths in more
than 3,150 counties across the
nation participate in 4-H. This
year as 4-H passes the
half-century mark, its rolls now
include the names of over 30
million alumni. Over 500,000
adult, junior and teen volun
teers contribute their sendees
and time to provide leadership
for the organization.
If you eat slowly, you will eat
less. This is particularly true
if you have a large femily.