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VOLUME 57
Heart Os Ga.
Finds Jobs
For 73 Persons
The Manpower Resources
Development Program initiat
ed in the 12-county area serv
ed by the Heart erf Georgia
Community Action Council,
Inc., is paying off in jobs for
the unemployed.
C. J. Broome, Executive
Director of the Community
Action Council, advised that
a total of 73 persons have
been placed in jobs through
this program. He said this
much success was achieved
by efforts of the Labor De
partment and Heart of Georgia
Staffers.
A “Registration of the Un
employed’’ program was con
ducted in the 12-county area
on October 28, 29 and 30.
The Registration was conduct
ed in c oope ration with the
Georgia Department of Labor.
Results of that registration
showed 3,934 persons unem
ployed in the Heart of Georgia
Community Action Council
Area.
Many of the Unemployed
Registrants are considered
hard-core unemployed who
lack the training, skills, and
education to find suitable em
ployment on their own. The
Manpower Resources De
velopment Program initiated
by the CAC, in cooperation
with the Georgia Department
of Labor, is aimed at develop
ing jobs and training oppor
tunities for these registrants.
The Georgia Department of
Labor office serving each
area, as well as the County
Neighborhood Service Center
Director, has a complete set
of unemployed applicants
on file.
All business firms having
job openings and training op
portunities available are en
couraged to contact the local
Labor Office or the Neighbor
hood Service Center Director
of each county. These offices
will cooperate in an effort
to refer suitable persons to
the business or firm having
job openings.
The counties served by the
Heart of Georgia Community
Action Council, Inc., are
Bleckley, Dodge, Houston,
Laurens, Montgomery, Peach,
Pulaski, Telfair, Treutlen,
Twiggs, Wheeler and Wilcox.
Eastman Man
Dies In Crash
Garnett Rooks, 41, was kill
ed at Chauncey Monday, when
his pickup truck was struck
fay a Southern Railroad train
at about 8:15 a.m.
Rooks, an employee of East
man Motor Parts Co., was
making a regular round in
Chauncey and had headed back
to Eastman.
The train dragged the truck
Rooks was driving for over
200 yards before coming to
a halt.
Albert Hopkins
On Dean’s List
At. Ga. Southern
Albert P. Hopkins, a Geor
gia Southern College senior
from Alamo, has been named
to the 1971 Fall Quarter
Dean’s List with a 3.66 grade
point average.
To be eligible for the Dean’s
List a student must have at
least a 3.33 grade point aver
age for the quarter.
Dr. Pope A. Duncan, Presi
dent of Georgia Southern
College, Statesboro, saluted
the GSC Dean’s List students
for their outstanding achieve
ment. Additionally the busi
nessmen of Statesboro are
recognizing these students for
their Fall Quarter’s work
through a Merchant’s Discount
Program.
Ocmulgee Academy
Barbecue Supper
A barbecue supper will be
held Saturday night, January
8, at Ocmulgee Academy.
Serving will begin at 5:00
o’clock p.m.
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TOMATOES TOOK TO THE AIR THIS WEEK from Port au Prince, Haiti, to the Atlanta Airport
and the Atlanta State Farmers’ Market. It was the first international flight of produce from the
West Indies and the beginning of an exchange by air of U.S. products with produce from the
Caribbean islands. Joe Cemiglia, left, Atlanta Produce Dealer, and Tommy Irvin, Georgia
Commissioner of Agriculture, were on hand to inspect the airborne tomatoes. (PRN)
Georgia Power Invests Record
$382 Million In Construction
The Georgia Power Co.
invested a records3B2 million
in new construction during
1971, Edwin I. Hatch, presi
dent, announced.
In a year-end report of the
company’s activities, Mr.
Hatch said a major portion
of that sum was spent for
new generating facilities to
meet the greatly increased
demands for electric power
throughout the company’s ser
vice area.
The utility’s fuel bill also
reached a new high, soaring
to more than sllO million,
up nearly 35 percent from
Census Bureau
To Survey Nine
Types Os Farms
Shortly after the first of
January, the Bureau of the
Census will be mailing out
“type of torm” survey report
forms to a selected group of
formers.
There will be nine different
survey forms used. One each
for cash grain, tobacco, cot
ton, potatoes, sugar and other
specialized field crops, vege
tables, fruit, livestock, dairy
and poultry .
Each form is designed to
collect information pertinent
to that particular type of farm
enterprise. Each form is de
signed by sections so that if
the answer to the lead ques
tion is “no” the former may
skip to the next section.
The trends shown in the
1969 Census of Agriculture
indicate that there is an in
creasing degree of special
ization. The completion of the
“type of form” survey report
forms will help obtain a truer
and more complete picture of
this specialization and may
set the pattern for future cen
suses of agriculture.
Bald Statement
Then there was the girl
who was so narrow-minded
she only needed one earring.
-Observer, Norfold, Va.
Really?
She was the kind of a girl
you’d like to bring home to
mother—if you could trust
father.
-Borescope, Pocatello, Ida.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
the previous year.
To help finance its huge
construction program, the
company had to raise some
$330 million through the sale
of new securities. Mr. Hatch
noted that in spite of the
large additional investment
made during the year, the
company’s net income for the
first 11 months was $8.3 mil
lion less than for the same
Alamo Garden
Club Announces
Door Winners
The Alamo Garden Club
Christmas Door Contest was
judged Tuesday night, Dec. 14.
The best over all doors
were:
First place, Mrs. Pauline
Lake; Second place, Mrs.
Louise Holmes; and Third
place, Mrs. Oppielee White.
Those receiving an honor
able mention cm doors or other
Christmas decorations were:
Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, Mrs.
Sally James, Mrs. Suzanne
Morrison, Mrs. Settle Lee
Geiger, Mrs. Pat Aultmanand
Mrs. Ruth Johns on.
Other attractively deco
rated homes were: Mrs. Rita
Powell, Mrs. Grace Towns,
Mrs, Jimmie Ann Kimmons,
Mrs. Ola Mae Purvis, Mrs.
Nellie Whitehead, Mrs. Emma
Lou Robinson, Mrs. G. A.
Hathcock, Mrs. Virginia
Sikes, Mrs. Jessie Webster,
Mrs. Katherine Wilson, Mrs.
Inez Owens, Mrs. Normalene
Hartley.
Mrs. Pearl Clements, Mrs.
Margaret Johnson, Mrs. Ma
rtha O’Quinn, Mrs. Emma
Clements, Mrs. Betty Brown
ing, Mrs. Willa Dean Coffee,
Mrs. Faye Hartley, Mrs. Amy
Lou Bennett, Mrs. Hannah
Rocker, Mrs. Georgia Kate
Ussery, Mrs. Hazel Fields,
Mrs. Linda Brown, Mrs. Pat
Prickett, Mrs. Dollie Mae
Williams, Mrs. Vivian Web
ster and Mrs. Eleanor Cox.
Merchants taking part in
the holiday season were: Sum
ner’s Gulf Station, Webster’s
Department Store, Snow’s
Case, Rocker’s B. P. Station,
Curl’s Pharmacy, Alamo
Supermarket, Cox Shell Sta
tical, Alamo Post Office, Wat
kins Store, Hinson Hardware
and Little Ocmulgee EMC.
period of 1970.
Mr. Hatch said the recent
rate increase granted his
company by the Georgia Public
Service Commission was not
enough to restore company
earnings to an acceptable
level. He pointed out that the
commission’s order cut by
almost half the additional an
nual revenue requested by the
power company.
“Our great and continuing
costs will compel us to go
back to the commission in
1972 for further rate relief,”
Mr. Hatch said. “The increase
approved in 1971 will not al
low us to earn anything on
new plant facilities construc
ted during last year.”
Suit Against
Senator Dean
Is Dismissed
JESUP (PRN) Judge
Gordon Knox today signed an
order which legally dismissed
the one million dollar
alienation of affection suit
filed against Senator Roscoe
Dean several months ago.
Earlier a DeKalb County
Judge threw out of court an
adultery warrant brought
against the Senator.
Senator Dean stated that
his attorneys informed him
that the man who brought the
suit voluntarily dismissed it on
his own.
The Senator further stated:
“I have never met the man
who brought the suit but the
voluntary dismissal proves that
the suit was untrue and
apparently brought in an
attempt to destroy my
political career. Those who
may have attempted to
destroy me politically have
failed.”
Dublin Fire
An early morning blaze,
which destroyed two shops
in downtown Dublin, was
brought under control Monday,
authorities said.
No one was injured in the
fire, which began about 4:30
a.m., firemen said. The shops
destroyed were Toby Fried
man’s Men’s Shep and The
Bootery.
No immediate estimate of
damages was available.
An investigation of the cause
of the blaze was under way.
Patrol Says Speed, Liquor flgain
Cause Os Hem Hear fluto Deaths
The twenty-three totalities
on Georgia roads during the
New Year’s Holiday was con
siderably less than the 35
recorded a week ago during
Christmas, but were four
more than the State Patrol
had predicted for the 78 hour
holiday. Public Safety Direc
tor Col. Ray Pope said speed
and liquor were again the
villans in the New Year’s
record as 13 of the 23 fatali
ties were influenced by speed
ing and alcohol. One of the
big toctors in the New Year’s
holiday record was the multi
ple totality accident, that in
which more than one death
occurs. Three multiple to
tality accidents killed 13
people.
The State Patrol used air-
Report Os The
County Agent
Forget F 2 Seed
By David H. Williams
The results are in. Re
search and farmer ex
periences compared results
of F 2 and Fl seed com of
adapted hybrids last year, and
it looks like the best thing
farmers can do in 1972 is
forget F 2, or second gene
ration, seed.
Everybody is tomiliar with
the situation. In 1970 only'
about 30 percent of Georgia’s
com acreage was planted with
blight-resistant seed. Well,
the blight hit in June, and by
harvesttime the yield had been
cut to a low 31 bushels per
acre.
In 1971, however, better
than 95 percent of the corn
acreage was planted with
blight-resistant seed. The re
sult: 56 bushels per acre,
second highest yield on
record.
Reduced Yields
Os course, there was not
enough Fl seed of blight
resistant varieties to plant
all of the crop last year. So
some growers turned to F 2
seed. As W. H. Gurley, Ex
tension agronomist, says,
“There was nothing else that
could be done.” Thanks to
excellent weather conditions,
several growers across Geor
gia made good yields with
F 2 com.
Gurley points out that “our
research or. F 2 seed had been
tucked away years ago.” But
he and others referred back
to it, and we told farmers
they could expect a 15 to 25
percent yield reduction from
F 2 seed.
Well, it looks now like we
were very conservative incur
evaluation last year. In most
cases, the yield reduction
from F 2 seed was much great
er than the predicted 15 to
25 percent. Agronomist Gur
ley recently sent us the re
search results from three lo
cations in Georgia, and we
would be happy to share these
figures with com growers in
Wheeler County. In fact, we
urge local farmers to take a
look at the results before
planting any F 2 seed in 1972.
Can’t Afford F 2
Gurley said he talked to
several combine operators as
they harvested last year’s
com crop. “They told me
that it was no problem to tell
when they left Fl hybrids
and got into F2s.
“If we had planted all adapt
ed Fl hybrid seed in 1971,
I feel that our state’s average
yield would have been near
70 bushels per acre rather
than the indicated 56.”
As Gurley stated, “There
was nothing else that could
be done last year, but we
can’t afford to go the F 2
route in 1972.”
FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1972
craft extensively during the
holiday, with what Col. Pope
called excellent results in the
areas the planes were used.
Only one totality was recorded
in the nine areas of the State
where planes were used. Acci
dents and injuries were also
drastically' reduced, accord
ing to State Patrol Post Com
manders, in these areas. Ap
parently the use of planes
was a good psychological de
terrent to violators, accord
ing to Col. Pope, as wide
spread publicity in the local
areas where planes were used
State Sen. Dean Will
Introduce New Legislation
JESUP (PRN) - State Sen.
Roscoe Dean. Jr., of Jesup,
said today that he will
introduce several pieces of
legislation at the next session
of the Georgia Legislation as
the result of his arrest and trial
for driving under the influence
last April.
All of the bills the senator
plans to introduce would have
state-wide effect. The bills
would effect those facing
grand jury indictments;
selection of grand jurors and
trial jurors and witnesses to
intox meter tests.
The Sixth District Senator
also plans to introduce a bill
that would require all state or
local governing authorities,
bureaus, agencies or
commissions to hold all
meetings open to tne public
and to keep minutes at such
meetings. Dean stated that it is
time to conduct the public’s
business in the open.
“The time has come for the
citizens of Georgia to be given
rights as human beings when
they are arrested or when they
face grand jury indictments.
All of the people should have
the right to serve on grand
juries and trial juries and to
attend any and all meetings
concerning the public welfare.
“My recent experience as a
citizen accused of driving
under the influence has
opened my eyes to the
injustices a person can suffer.
Today a person has no
recourse to prove his
innocence until he goes to the
expense of a court trial and is
at the mercy of those who
accuse him. This is why I will
introduce legislation that will
protect the innocent and give
all Georgians equal protection
and justice from a law officer
or court official who might
attempt to bring false
charges,” Dean said.
BILLS
EXPLAINED
The first of Dean’s bills
would amend the Uniform Act
Regulating Traffic on
Evans-Mitchell Firm
Plans New Florida Resort
ATLANTA (PRN)
Atlanta-based Evans &
Mitchell Industries (OTC) is
planning a 2,300-acre vacation
home and golf resort near
Destin, on the west coast of
Florida, according to a
weekend interview of
company officials Charles A.
Evans 11, president, and Paul
E. Goldstein,
vice president ■
finance.
The inter
view was based
on a recently
r e I eased
investment
report on
Evans &
Mitchell Industries by the
Robinson-Humphrey Co., a
southeastern-based brokerage
firm.
The report described the
Destin real estate development
as a major resort complex
fronting on the Gulf of
Mexico and on eight miles of
the Choctawhatchee Bay.
had motorists on the lookout.
The aircraft were used
through a cooperative ar
rangement with the Georgia
Forestry Commission and the
State Department of Air
Transportation.
Based on preliminary facts
and figures, the State ended
the year 1971 with 54 fewer
traffic deaths than 1970.
Seventeen hundred, sixty-six
deaths on the highways were
recorded in the year just end
ed compared with 1820 for
1970. This figure may change
in the coming months as some
Highways so as to provide that
any person required or
requested to submit to a
chemical breath analysis shall
have the right to have a
witness present prior to and
during the administration and
analysis of the test; the right
to contact a witness prior to
the test; and to require the law
enforcement to provide a list
of telephone numbers of
potential witnesses, such as
clergymen, if the person is
unable to locate a witness; and
to allow the person as many
telephone calls as would be
necessary to locate a witness.
In a bill relating to
indictments, presentments and
accusations in general, Dean
will seek to provide that any
person who is accused of a
crime before a grand jury shall
have the right to appear
himself before the grand jury
before a bill of indictment is
returned against him in any
case.
Dean said his bill regarding
the selection of grand jury and
trial jury members would
require that the names of all
voters be placed in the jury
box, rather than the present
procedure of having jury
commissioners place only
several hundred names in the
jury box at one time. He said
this would insure that all
citizens would be given a
chance to serve as grand jurors
and trial jurors if they are
qualified.
The senator’s resolution
proposing an amendment to
the Constitution would
provide that only one jury box
for each county would be
allowed and that the names of
all jurors, both grand jurors
and traverse jurors, for all
courts within the county shall
be drawn from one jury box.
Senator Dean made the
following statement when a
mistrial was decided in his
case: “The state has failed to
prove that I was driving under
the influence of alcohol, and
therefore the case against me
has ended in a mistrial.”
A publicly-owned,
diversified real estate
development firm, Evans &
Mitchell Industries has realty
operations in Atlanta, Athens,
Ga., Monroe, Ga., St. Simons
Island, Ga. and in Florida.
Its housing product line
includes Section 235
subdivisions, conventional
housing, condominiums,
developed lots and office
park-industrial park sites,
developed land, a golf resort
and country club complex,
resort property and
condominiums, and
unimproved land parcels.
The Robinson-Humphrey
research report forecasts “that
over the foreseeable future the
company has the ability to
have compound growth in
earnings per share of 25%.”
Robinson-Humphrey
security analyst Larry J.
Baugh estimates 1971 earnings
per share of $0.60, and $0.75
in 1972. Evans & Mitchell
Industries had 1970 earnings
per share of $0.48.
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persons die as a result of
their injuries received in the
year just ended. The overall
figures for the year just ended
showed the State had a 3%
decrease in traffic deaths.
Col. Pope said the State
Patrol would continue its step
ped-up enforcement tech
niques with hopes of continuing
what is believed to be a re
versal of the State’s traffic
death record which has been
climbing steadily in recent
years.
Rev. Johnson
To Direct
Dimes Drive
“Birth defects are forever
— unlqss you help.” That is
the powerful message that
March of Dimes workers are
bringing home to the people
of Wheeler County during the
month of January. The cam
paign here is under the direc
tion of the Rev. Raymond G.
Johnson, pastor of Alamo
First Baptist Church, who has
been named chapter chairman.
Funds raised through the
March of Dimes provide for
more tian 100 medical ser
vice programs across the
country, and these programs
have benefited a number of
persons in Wheeler County.
Throughout the year, the vol
untary health organization
supports research, care, edu
cation and community service
projects. Notable volunteer
efforts have been launched
for rubella immunization
drives with health depart
ments and medical societies.
Mr. Johnson, local March
of Dimes chairman, states
that he has received wonder
ful cooperation and has en
listed an excellent team of
workers. These include the
following.
The Mothers ’ March chair
men for the various areas
of the county are: Glenwood,
Mrs. Martha Kent; Lands burg,
Mrs. L. B. Chambers; Gra
ham, Mrs. Harry Brett;
Shiloh, Miss Wanda Ussery;
Erick, Mrs. Bob Tuten; Hi-
Way 280, Mrs. Grady Evans;
Snowhill, Mrs. Gene Harris;
Stuckey, Mrs. Jimmy Couey;
Springhill, Mrs. Carl Adams;
Alamo, Mrs. David Williams.
Mrs. Abbie Stewart is leading
the campaign among the black
citizens.
The library club, under the
direction of Mrs. Hollis John
son, is in charge of the cam
paign at Wheeler County High
School. Danny Taylor is direc
ting the March of Dimes at
Glenwood Elementary School
and Mrs. Mattie Sue Hinson
at the Junior High School.
The road blocks will be
handled by the 4-H Club under
the leadership of David Wil
liams and Miss Cindy Nelson.
Ronald Rhodes will solicit
tonds in the business area of
Alamo.
The national and local lead
ership will appreciate very
much the cooperation and gen
erous support of all citizens
of Wheeler County.
ONE MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ
1. What teams met in the 1946
National League playoff’
2. What team won’
3. What teams played in the
World Series that year?
4. In what sport is Hubert
Green famous?
5. Has college football always
been an autumn sport?
Answers to Sports Quiz
1. Brooklyn and St. Louis.
2. St. Louis.
3. St. Louis defeated Boston
4 games to 3.
4. Professional golf.
5. No;In 1887 and 1888 several
colleges played in spring,
including Harvard, Prince
ton, Notre Dame, Michigan,
etc.