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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Charlie Rufus
Stevenson
Funeral services for Char
lie Rufus Stevenson, 63, of
Helena, who died Monday of a
heart attack, were held
Wednesday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock from the Helena Bap
tist Church with the pastor,
the Rev. Dickie Johnson of
ficiating.
Burial followed in Telfair
Memorial Gardens with Har
ris and Smith Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Stevenson was bom in
Telfair County on January 2,
1909, the son of the late Robert
Rufus and Sarah Annie Taylor
Stevenson. He was married to
the former Miss Oreita Ash
ley on December 24, 1933,
was a member of the Helena
Baptist Church and was an
auto mechanic.
Survivors include his wife
of Helena; two sons, Thomas
R. Stevenson of Mcßae, and
Jerry R. Stevenson of Con
yers; one daughter,Mrs.Billy
Brack of Mcßae; four sisters,
Miss Juanita Stevenson, Miss
Angie Ruth Stevenson and Mrs.
E. S. Winn, Jr., of Mcßae,
and Mrs. Preston Smith of
Dublin; two brothers, Clyde
Stevenson of Mcßae, and
Maurice Stevenson of Pinellas
Park, Fla.; and one grandson,
Steve Brack of Mcßae.
A happy holiday can be ruined
by a traffic accident.
Politics olii Parade
fl?
The district conventions to
elect delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention bid
fair to develop into situations
which the State Committee
can’t control, considering that
Negroes are giving notice that
they will bus blacks to them
in huge numbers. And who
knows what will happen be
tween Negroes and whites if
tempers flare.
The Wallace people will,
undoubtedly, field candidates
for every post open, and we
hear that two of the Alabama
Governor’s top organizers
will shortly be in Georgia.
However, the Wallace people
are not likely to announce
their preference for Presi
dent.
Speaking personally, we
would like to see Wallace
folks win every delegate posi
tion. And we urge all friends
of Wallace to attend the con
ventions. In our opinion, noth
ing would turn the Demo
cratic Party back toward the
conservative side more tlian
for Wallace to go into the
convention with several hun
dred solid votes.
Very clearly, the Demo
crats have no chance of win
ning the presidency this year
if they nominate somebody
like McGovern, who incident
ally, is responsible for all
these crazy Party rules pro
viding for public election of
delegates. His idea, of course,
was to get a bunch of liberals
elected since this is the only
way he could possibly’ have
any cliance of winning the
nomination.
Speaking of Wallace dele
gates, we wrote last week
that some Floridians are say
ing ttat George will win a
majority vote in their pri
mary. Now comes Arlie Tuc
ker, former Speaker of the
Georgia House of Repre
sentatives, who has been living
in Florida for many years,
to say that in his opinion
Wallace will beat all the can
didates put together in the
Sunshine State voting. And
since Arlie was always one of
the best politicians to walk
down the pike, we have an
idea he knows whereof he
speaks.
*****
A former governor of Geor
gia told us last week that he
believes Garland T. Byrd, for
mer Lt. Gov., and longtime
politico, could beat Gov. Car
ter for a delegate post in the
Third District, if he would
run flat out as a Wallace man.
If this should happen, the Car
ter political stock would fall
to an abject low, since the
Chairman of the Party,
Charlie Kirbo, is going to be
defeated for a delegate post
by Irving Kaier, who will re-
William Varnadoe
Funeral services for Wil
liam Varnadoe, 77, of Tampa,
Fla., who died Thursday, Feb.
10, were held at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday in Fishing Creek
Baptist Church. Burial was
in Fishing Creek Cemetery
with Masonic rites.
Mr. Varnadoe was a native
of Telfair County, but had
resided in Tampa five years.
He was a member of Fishing
Creek Church, the Royal Arch
Masons of Lyons and veteran
of World War I, serving with
the Army.
Survivors include one son,
Willie L. Varnadoe of Tampa;
two brothers, Ernest Vama
doe and Earl Varnadoe, both
of Lumber City; one sister,
Mrs. Vera Bird of Denson,
Arizona; and two grandchil
dren.
Thomas Wainwright
Funeral Home of Hazlehurst
was in charge of arrange
ments.
Eugene Brown
Eugene Brown, 59, of Rte.
2, Hazlehurst, died Friday.
Funeral services were held
at 11 a.m. Monday in Satilla
Free Will Baptist Church, with
burial in the church cemetery.
Mr. Brown, a native of Tift
County, had lived in Hazle
hurst 30 years. He was the
custodian of the Hazlehurst
Post Office.
ceive the same Negro votes
which will elect Julian Bond.
**« * *
Legislators, including most
of the Appropriations Com
mittee, have assured Agricu
lture Commissioner Tommy
Irvin tlat they have no inten
tion of allowing his budget to
be cut so that the Market
Bulletin is curtailed in publi
cation.
*****
Ernest Vandiver has called
a press conference in the
Senate Chamber at the Capitol
for Wednesday afternoon, Feb.
16, “to make a political an
nouncement.’’ He doesn’t say
so, but you can bet your bot
tom dollar that Vandiver will
formally announce his can
didacy for I nited States Sen
ator at this time.
*****
Several legislators have ex
pressed dismay at the gover
nor’s budget concerning the
Cooperative Extension Ser
vice and his proposal that it
become affiliated with the
Area Planning and Develop
ment Commissions. They say
that if this is done many
counties will wind up without
a county agent and other such
aids to the agricultural in
dustry in the state.
*****
Irregardless of the gory
details about the young man
who was subdued by the gov
ernor’s bodyguard last week,
the fact remains that Carter
once again demonstrated the
truth of our many accusations
that he is terribly ignorant
in politics. And for the reason
that the youth’s grandfather
was one of the governor’s
chief supporters in Augusta
and had contributed thousands
to his campaign. Did, or did
not, the governor remember
this? Either way, it showed
one heck of a lack of political
sagacity, particularly since
the frail kid was certainly no
physical threat,andcouldhave
been handled by the body guard
with one hand.
*****
State Commissioner of
Agriculture Tommy Irvin lias
been asked to serve on an
executive committee set up in
the Southeastern states to de
velop agricultural planks in
the Democratic Party ’s plat
form for tire 1972 election.
He hasn’t made up his mind,
yet, whether or not to accept.
*****
The Governor’s Prayer
Breakfast will be held this
year on March 1, but guests
are limited to an invitation
list prepared by Carter. It
will still number 1,000, how
ever.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. L'dell Beecher Brown;
four sons, Jimmy Brown,
Gerald Brown and Billy
Brown, all of Hazlehurst, and
Sp/4 Tommy Brown of Ger
many; two daughters, Miss
Hilda Brown of Hazlehurst,
and Miss Virginia Brown of
Macon; two brothers, Buck
Brown of Hazlehurst, and John
Henry Brown of Burmont,
Conn.; and three sisters, Mrs.
Irene Boney of Hazlehurst,
formerly of Telfair County,
Mrs. Grover Fletcher of
Omega, and Mrs. Julie Good
of Tifton.
Thomas Wainwright
Funeral Home of Hazlehurst
was in charge.
Clarence Wilbert
Towns
Funeral services for
Clarence Wilbert Towns, 48,
of Telfair County, who died
Sunday at Central State Hos
pital in Milledgeville, follow
ing a long illness, were held
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’-
clock from the Chapel of
Harris and Smith Funeral
Home with the Rev. James
E. McCain, pastor of the Mc-
Rae First Baptist Church of
ficiating.
Burial followed in the
Scotland Cemetery with Har
ris and Smith in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Towns was born in
Telfair County, the son of
the late William T. and Nora
Bass Towns.
Survivors include two bro
thers, Robert L. Towns and
Herman Towns, both of Jack
sonville, Fla.
D. Quillian Harris
D. Quillian Harris, 80, died
Sunday at his residence in
Pitts. Funeral services were
held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in
Pitts United Methodist
Church. Burial was in the
city cemetery .
Mr. Harris, a native of
(EDITOR S NOTE: This
week's column was written by
Gaine and Fish Department Press
Services Editor Manin Tye while
regular columnist Dean
Wohlgemuth is on leave.)
ATLANTA (PRN)-Oneof
the most popular innovations
at the recent boat show in
Atlanta was the bass clinic, an
affair sponsored by an
outboard motors
manufacturer and hosted by
Lake Seminole's best known
bass fisherman. Jack Wingate.
Due to the growing interest
in fishing for this species,
there was hardly standing
room after all the seats had
been taken. The clinic
consisted of a number of
expert fishermen telling why
they were able to catch more
bass than most less successful
anglers. They told how to
locate bass under a variety of
conditions. One thing that
many anglers did not realize
was that the bass could be
found along the shoreline
during extremely muddy
water conditions.
1 was fortunate enough to
sit through portions of the
first three clinics. One
highlight of the Saturday
afternoon session was a talk
by Rev. Bill Conine of
Thomaston. Bill told of the
excellent fishing on the Flint
River for largemouths and for
what he called the Flint River
Smallmouth. This is a member
of the redeye bass family that
is found on the Flint.
Bill says that both species
of bass can be caught on
spinner baits, plastic worms
and a number of other lures.
The Flint is a beautiful stream
that would be worth floating
for the scenery alone.
Although they pictured a
scene located some distance
south of Atlanta, the color
slides that accompanied the
lecture looked as if they had
been made in the North
Georgia mountains.
The Saturday night clinic
consisted of a movie and talk
by Eufaula, Alabama bass
fisherman and lure
manufacturer Tom Mann. In
the film, Tom caught 13
largemouth bass during a day
on Lake Walter F. George (he
called it Lake Eufaula). Only
Gwinnett County, had lived
most of his life in Pitts. He
was a retired fanner and a
Mason.
Survivors include a son,
D. Q. Harris Jr. of Mcßae;
two brothers, E. R. Harris
of Decatur, and J. Harold
Harris of Pitts; a sister, Mrs.
Guy M. Sanders of Cleveland,
Ohio; and four grandchildren.
Dekle Funeral Home was
in charge.
Mrs. Aline G. Smith
Mrs. Aline Gibbs Smith, 36,
of Lumber City, died Saturday
night from injuries received
in an automobile accident on
Highway 117. Funeral ser
vices were held Tuesday at
3 p.m. in the Shelton’s Chapel
United Methodist Church.
Burial was in the Riverside
Cemetery.
Mrs. Smith was a native of
Metter, and lived in Lumber
City for the past three years.
Survivors include three
daughters, Miss Deborah Hig
ginbothom, Miss Theresa Hig
ginbothom and Miss Maria
Higginbothom, all of Lumber
City; one son, John Higgin
bothom of Lumber City; one
stepson, S/Sgt. Tyrone Smith
of Ft. Richie, Md.; one bro
ther, Robert Lee Gibbs of
Ludowici; six sisters, Mrs.
Pearl Clements of Lumber
City, Mrs. W. C. Browning
of Glenwood, Mrs. Norman
Bidlingmaier of Jesup, Mrs.
Don Smith of Marietta, Mrs,
Chris Taylor of Lexington,
Ky., and Mrs. Charles Mc-
Cleod of San Antonio, Tex.;
and mother, Mrs. J. T. Gibbs
of Ludowici.
Thomas Wainwright
Funeral Home of Hazlehurst
was in charge of arrange
ments.
George W. Creamer
George W. Creamer, 71, of
Hazlehurst, died Sunday
evening in the Clyde-Duncan
Memorial Hospital after a
BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH
Georgia Game and
Fish Commission
Bass Clinics Score
At Boat Show
one of these bass weighed less
than five pounds. The largest
was a nine pounder.
With the majority of the
country’s bass fishermen using
bait casting equipment, Tom
Mann is an exception. He uses
spinning tackle, but not the
light tackle used by most
anglers. He has a stiff spinning
w o rm rod and an
intermediate-size reel that can
be used for light salt-water
fishing. His line is 17 to
20-pound test monofilament.
Tom usually fishes with a
plastic worm. He lets the lure
settle to the bottom and
moves it by raising his rod tip.
He then lowers the rod to let
the bait settle to the bottom
again and reels in his line
before making another sweep
of the rod. When a bass
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short illness. Funeral ser
vices were held at 3 p.m.
Wednesday in Oak Grove Bap
tist Church. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Mr. Creamer was a native
and lifelong resident of Jeff
Davis County, a retired farm
er, and a member of Oak
Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Mary B. Creamer of
Hazlehurst; five daughters,
Mrs. Myrtice Tucker, Mrs.
Edna Moody, Mrs. Carine
Cannon, Mrs. Louise Sellers
and Mrs. Lucile Crawford, all
of Hazlehurst; six sons, Willis
Creamer of Shakopee, Minn.,
Cecil Creamer, Sam Creamer
and George W. Creamer Jr.,
all of Hazlehurst, George
Creamer and Herman Cream
er, both of Jacksonville, Fla.;
four sisters, Mrs. L. H. Cal
houn of Lumber City, Mrs.
Alice Hayward and Mrs. Maria
Dikes, both of Hazlehurst,
and Mrs. Ellen Tucker of
Broxton; two brothers, T. J.
Creamer of Hazlehurst, and
Calvin Creamer of Lake City,
Fla.; 40 grandchildren; five
great-grandchildren; and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Miles Funeral Home of
Hazlehurst was in charge of
arrangements.
Jessie Mack
McCranie
Funeral services for Jessie
Mack McCranie, 18, who died
Tuesday afternoon following
an auto accident, were held
Thursday afternoon (today) at
3:00 o’clock from the Milan
Church of God with the pastor.
Sister Thelma Norris offici
ating, assisted by the Rev.
Russell Lowery.
Burial followed in Redhill
Cemetery with Harris and
Smith Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Mr. McCranie was bom in
Dodge County cm April 15,
1953, the son of Mrs. Hazel
Selph McCranie and the late
Eddie McCranie.
Survivors include his
' mother of Milan; three sis
' ters, Mrs. Joan Wrye and
Mrs. Janie O’Neal of Milan,
| and Mrs. Joyce Teal of Macon;
and one brother, Travis Mc-
Cranie of Milan.
John Issac Spires
Funeral services for John
Issac Spires, 29, who died
Tuesday afternoon following
an auto accident, were held
Thursday afternoon (today)
from the Antioch Baptist
Church with the pastor, the
Rev. Hobson Brown offici
ating.
strikes. Tom reacts by striking
immediately.
He uses a smaller spinning
outfit and six-pound test line
for fishing in extremely clear
water. This outfit has helped
him to take limit or near limit
catches when other anglers
were unable to score.
Tom says that one of the
most important things that an
angler must learn is where in a
lake to find fish. He said that a
depth finder could prove
invaluable in locating
submerged bushes, logs, rock
piles, ledges and other
“structure” where bass like to
gather.
“The man who catches a lot
of bass will also lose a lot of
Pires,” Tom said. He claimed
Burial followed in the
church cemetery with Harris
and Smith Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Rollie
Spires, Keith Curtis, Clayton
Jones, Artis Yawn, Weldon
Nix and Robert Jones.
Mr. Spires was bom in
Dodge County on November
27, 1942, the son of the late
Joe Lewis and Lizzie Jones
Spires.
Survivors include three
sons, Rocky, Rusty and Ricky
Spires; one daughter, Miss
Tammy Spires, all of Warner
Robins; one brother, Wilmer
Spires of Milan; one sister,
Mrs. Evelyn Fouto of Warner
Robins; five half-brothers,
Roy Jones of Macon, Tobe
Jones and Tom Spires of
Milan, Bud Spires and Bob
Spires of Rhine; and five half
sisters, Mrs. Rachel Brown
of Milan, Mrs. Arthur Lee
Conley, Mrs. Joe McDuffie
and Mrs. Adelle Hulett of
Rhine, and Mrs. Neta Conley
of Eastman.
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only 15% of the people who
purchase tags have done so.
We want to urge you to come
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years of age or older you
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MOBILE HOME DECALS
must be purchased on or be
fore March 31. These decals
sell for $3.75 and taxes must
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is purchased. If the trailer
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to have lost as many as 50 in a
day. “No wonder you started
making them!” someone in
the audience said.
Tom Mann and others
showed how an angler could
use a little scientific
knowledge and catch more
fish. Another speaker said that
fishing was almost getting to
the point where you could
feed all the information into a
computer and be told where
to go and what lure to fish. If
the fishing were really bad, the
computer might even say, “go
home.” This man stressed the
value of fishing just for fun
and said that the enjoyment of
a fishing trip could not be
measured entirely by the size
of the catch.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GA. 30411
FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 1972
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the rush and the penalty.
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AND HELP YOU.
T. A. Morrison,
Tax Commissioner
Wheeler County Georgia
Welfare Advisory
Committee Holds
Meet In Atlanta
The State Welfare Advisory
Committee presented its
recommendations on welfare
reform and reorganization of
the welfare department and
state government to the Geor
gia Department of Family and
Children Services at its quar
terly meeting Monday, Feb.
14, in Atlanta according to
Rev. Harrison Morgan of Al
bany, Chairman of the 21-
member Committee.
Eugene W. Owen, Assistant (
State Director for Adminis
tration of the Department of ,
Family andChildrenServices,
Georgia
Scene
in higher
Dy education
Dr. DuPree Jordan Jr.
Change is very much like
the weather for some. Many
people talk about it but very
few do anything about it.
There has been a great deal
of lip service paid to change
and innovation in all segments
of our society, particularly in
the field of education.
Unfortunately, actual
performance has rarely
measured up to the high
rhetoric.
“The where, when, and how
of trying innovations are
governed by the unwritten
code that it is better to do
unto others than to do unto
thyself. That is, most people
are hot to change the world
but are reluctant to change
themselves.”
Those statements opened a
most provocative article the
title of which appeared in the
first eight words of the initial
sentence, by Dr. Norman E.
Hearn of the US Office of
Education. The condensation
of a longer presentation made
by Dr. Hearn was published in
the February issue of Phi
Delta Kappan magazine.
In talking about change,
and the attitudes which people
have toward innovation, Hearn
went on to say: “This
phenomenon probably
contributed to Machiavelli's
observation that there is
nothing more difficult to carry
out. nor more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous
to handle, than to initiate a
new order of things.”
The author noted times,
places and circumstances
w here it is likely to be more or
less difficult to innovate.
Among his observations were
these: “Youth brings
enthusiasm and energy, but
associated traits of impatience
and naivete tend to cause as
many problems as they
solve . . .Deciding when to
innovate
deciding when to make love,
though there haven’t been as
many books written about it.
Maybe someone should write
the Sensuous Innovator. There
is not only a better place but a
better time to think seriously
about changing some aspect of
the school system . . .How- you
innovate depends on you. The
kind of person you are and
where you stand in some
hierarchy of power or
influence affect
to bring about desirable
educational change . . .”
The educator cautions his
readers of many obstacles in
the way of change, and points
out the strong human
tendencies against it. He says:
at the invitation of the Com
mittee, discussed tire latest
developments on the proposed
state reorganization plans af
fecting the Department.
The one-day open meeting
was held at 11:00 a.m. at the
Presbyterian Center on Ponce
de Leon Avenue.
Chester Varnadoe
Completes Training
Navy Airman Chester D.
Varnadoe, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel D. Varnadoe,
and husband of the former
Miss Norma J. Smith, both
of Lumber City, graduated
from recruit training at the
Naval Training Center in
Orlando, Fla,
A graduate of Telfair Coun
ty High School in Mcßae, he
is scheduled to report to the
Naval Training Center in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Cheese is one of the dairy
industry's hottest selling items.
Despite rising retail prices,
consumer purchases last year
were up about nine percent
from a year earlier. Sales
dropped a little during the first
half of 1971. but have
remained eight percent over
1970 levels since March.
“In short, the innovation will
be met with blind resistance
by the system. If the
innovator cannot live and cope
with this phenomenon he
should stay out of the
innovating business.”
This federal official, whose
title at USOE is Coordinator
of Education Communication
and Change Strategies, refers
to Everett M. Rogers and his
review of the literature in the
field of change. which
concluded that people change
in stages. The sequence of
these steps, according to
Rogers, is as follows:
“Awareness, when he has
heard of the idea, but has no
great concern; interest, when
he actively considers it but is
not informed sufficiently well
to try it; evaluation, when he
begins a serious attempt to
determine its value for
himself; trial, when he engages
himself with it temporarily
without commitment to the
new thing; and finally
adoption, when he commits
himself to it.
These ideas of change and
innovation have application in
every area of life today. They
are not only a matter of
concern to educational
leaders, but certainly to all
public officials, community
leaders, and to every sensitive
citizen in today’s complex
world.
Norman Hearn concludes
his article with these words:
“The successful innovator is
the one who can effectively
manipulate the variables and
strategies along the continuum
of problems rekted to where,
when, and how to cause
change for the improvement
of education. He is a person
who approaches the task of
changing people, including
himself, as a teacher ideally
would. His orientation to
people is that they are
students to be taught, not
enemies to be overcome. He
basically believes that most
people like to do new things,
even though they don't show
it; that they will change if
they understand the benefits
to them and society and if
they know- how they are to
change. The mature innovator
knows that change may take
more time than anticipated
and that resistance to new
ideas can be expected. He
approaches his community as
a social scientist might,
viewing it as a social organism
that is dynamic and reactive
and ever capable of
adaptations if the approaches
are right.” (61)