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VOLUME 58 U
Telfair Man
Dies Os Bums
In Darien Fire
The mayor of Darien died
Sunday from burns and smoke
inhalation suffered last Wed
nesday, September 6, in a
house fire from which his
family escaped.
James W. Caldwell, 38, was
apparently trapped in his bed
room about 2 a.m. Wednesday
morning when a fire flamed
just outside his door.
Dewey Simmons, chief of
Darien’s 40 man volunteer fire
department, said the cause of
the blaze has not been deter
mined.
He said Caldwell was sleep
ing in a room just down the
hall from an air conditioned
room in which his wife and
three children slept.
Simmons said the family
apparently had to struggle to
escape the blaze safely, and
Caldwell was trapped in his
room before finally escaping
through a window.
C aidwell himself had been a
member of the Darien volun
teer fire department, accord
ing to city clerk, Dorothy
Googe, and he had fought nu
merous fires. She said he was
serving his third two year
term as mayor.
Caldwell was first elected
mayor in 1964. As a member
of City Council, he was ap
pointed mayor in January,
1970, at the drowning death
of Mayor W. H. Taylor, Mrs.
Googe said.
Elected in November, 1971,
his present term would have
expired in 1973.
A member of the Lions Club,
Caldwell was a native of
Alamo, but he had lived in
Darien for 18 years.
Funeral services under the
direction of the Edo Miller
& Sons Funeral Home were
held Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.
from the First Baptist Church
in Darien, with the Rev. Manien
Mullis, Rev. W. H. Grooms
and the Rev. T. M. Dirffin
officiating. Interment was at
4:00 p.m. at the Oak Grove
Cemetery in Mcßae.
Active pallbearers were
Dewey Simmons, Vincent
Lanasa, Max Hughes, W. T.
Lamb, Ronald Lamb and Clyde
Jennings.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the City Council,
members of the Volunteer Fire
Dept., members of the
Sheriff’s Dept., John Pack,
Clarence Edenfield, Ossie
Pack and Jimmy Pack.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Edna Caldwell; a daughter,
Miss Eva Marie Caldwell of
Darien; two sons, James Cald
well Jr. and Jeffrey Caldwell,
both of Darien; mother and
father, Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Caldwell of Mcßae; three sis
ters, Mrs. Carolyn Padgett of
Mcßae, Mrs. Mary Ellen Dixon
of Vidalia, and Mrs. Jimmy
Jones of Chap I Hill, N. C.;
three brothers, H. Lamar
Caldwell of Macon, and Eddie
Caldwell and Ira Caldwell, both
of Mcßae.
Parent-Teacher
Organization
Holds First Meet
The Parent - Teacher
Organization of Ocmulgee Ac
ademy heldtheir first meeting
of the school year last
Thursday night at the school
in Lumber City.
The President, Mrs. For
rest Vaughn opened the meet
ing and introduced Johnny Neil
Smith, Headmaster, who in
turned presented the teachers
for the year.
Following a short business
meeting, room count was held
with the 7th grade winning.
Refreshments were then
served.
Ocmulgee Academy
To Have Supper
Saturday Night
A barbeque chicken and
brunswlck stew supper will
be held at Ocmulgee Academy
on Saturday night, September
16. Serving will begin at
6:00 o’clock.
All members are asked to
bring a cake and salad.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Wheeler County Eagle
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WASHINGTON, GA. (PRN) - Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox cut a straight furrow with a mule and a
ceremonial star-spangled plow late this week to officially break ground for a new $330,000,
44,000 square foot plant facility in Washington, Ga. (1-r) Lt. Gov. Maddox, Jabco president James
B. Gilmore, Russ Everett of the Wilkes County Chamber of Commerce, and Mary the mule. (PRN)
Local Teens Invited To Enter
Miss Georgia Teen Pageant
Young ladies of this area
are invited to enter the Miss
Georgia Teen-ager Pageant to
be held at the Executive Park
Motor Hotel in Atlanta, March
16, 17 and 18. The Miss Geor
gia Teen-ager Pageant is the
Official State Preliminary to
the Miss National Teen-ager
Pageant to be held in Atlanta
September 1, 1973.
Third Suspect
Held In Robbery
Os Rente Bank
From The Macon Telegraph
The FBI announced the ar
rest of a third suspect in the
August 30 robbery of the Rentz
Banking Company in Rentz,
near Dublin.
The latest suspect arrested
was identified as Charlie
Woodrow Smith. The FBI said
Sm.'th was taken into custody
Friday at an Atlanta motel.
Smith was arraigned before
U. S. Magistrate Allen L
Chancy Jr. and remanded to
the custody of the U. S. mar
shal for the southern district
of Georgia in lieu of SIOO,OOO
bond.
Previously arrested and
charged with the holdup were
Leon Jones of Atlanta, and
Dorothy McNair of Dublin. An
other suspect listed as Jimmy
Lee Bailey of Atlanta, was still
at large. Some of the more
than $20,000 taken in the hold
up has been recovered.
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-30 Years Os Civil Service Work
Mrs. Eva Knowles was presented a service certificate and
pin by Col. Schoenberg, Director of Material Management,
August 29, for 30 years of Civil Service work. Mrs. Knowles is
the former Eva Morris of Glenwood. After graduating from
Glenwood High School in June, 1937, Mrs. Knowles attended
Freeman Business College in Albany. She graduated from
Steno-Bookkeeping in December 1937.
M"s. Knowles began her civil service career in June, 1942,
in Washington, D.C., where she was employed as a clerk
typist in the G-2 Record Section of Military Intelligence of
the Army, which was located in the Pentagon Building. She
was transferred to Robins Air Force Base in February, 1943,
to the Directorate of Material Management where she has
worked at various assignments as Clerk-Typist and was
promoted to Clerk in June, 1947.
Mrs. Knowles’ latest promotion was to a GS-11 in May,
1958. She received a Sustained Superior Performance for the
period February 15, 1970 through February 15, 1971 as an
Inventory Management Specialist. Mrs. Knowles and her
husband, Jim Ira, reside at Route 2, Byron.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
The invitation was issued
this week by Mrs. Sybil
Shaffer, Executive Director of
the Miss Georgia Teen-ager
Pageant. The reigning Miss
Georgia Teen-ager is Sharon
Carter of Hazlehurst.
Contestants will be judged
on beauty of face, figure,
poise, personality, scholastic
achievement and leadership.
There is no swim suit or talent
competition.
The winner of the Miss
Revival Set For
Landsburg United
Methodist Church
A fall revival is scheduled
to start September 17 and go
through the 22. The time for
each service is 8:00 p. m. The
Evangelist is Rev. Curtis
Drake.
The Pastor Robert Kea
and the membership welcome
you.
Aaron Woodard
Completes Navy
Hospital School
Navy Hospitalman Appren
tice Aaron Woodard, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Woodard
of Alamo, has completed the
Hospital Corps School at San
Diego.
Hospital Corpsmen assist
doctors and nurses in every
phase of medical service in
cluding X-ray, laboratory
work operating room as
sistance and general practice.
Georgia Teen-ager Pageant
will receive a scholarship,
other prizes, and an all
expense paid trip to compete
in the Miss National Teen
ager Pageant.
Contestants must be between
13 and 17 years of age as of
September 1, 1973.
Any teen-ager interested in
entering the Miss Georgia
Teen-ager Pageant may write
for further inf or mat ion to Mrs.
Sybil Shaffer, 215 Piedmont
Ave., N.E., Atlanta, Ga. 30312;
or call area code 404/659-
4610 or 404/659-8964.
Mac Frampton Trio
To Appear At
Alamo Theatre
* The Mac Frampton Trio,
America’s sensational new
concert ensemble, will be pre
senting their exciting pro
gram, “Pops With Class” on
Thursday, October 12 in the
Lamplighter Little Theatre
at 8:00 p.m.
Rapidly becoming one of the
most sought-after attractions
in the college and community
concert field today, the Trio
presents a two-hour program
featuring the piano and per
sonality of Mac Frampton.
Although he has been con
certizing for several years,
Mac first gained national
recognition in 1969 when he
received the Bronze Medal in
the Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition. Since that
time he has appeared with
major orchestras across the
country and on network tele
vision. In addition, he is cur
rently completing require
ments for a Doctorate of Music
at the Cincinnati Con
servatory.
It was at the famous school
that Mac met the other mem
bers of the Trio, percussion
ist Tony Phillips and bassist
Douglas Smith. In Tony and
Doug he found those elements
he was seeking: youth, en
thusiasm, and very special
talent.
A concert by the Mac
Frampton Trio is always an
exciting and memorable ex
perience. Possibly the most
versatile ensemble in the
country today, the Trio pre
sents a program designed to
appeal to the widest variety
of tastes and ages.
Drawing on their back
grounds in the popular, jazz,
classical and semi-classical
fields of music, they bring
their own unique style to the
interpretation of compositions
ranging from Chopin to cur
rent hits, and moods ranging
from comedy to the dramatic.
Adding to the variety of the
concert are solo features pre
sented by each member of the
Trio.
From the great works of
the masters to exciting rag
time, an evening with the Mac
Frampton Trio promises to be
an evening of music marked
by true theatrical quality and
classical ligitimacy.
For reserved tickets call
568-2531 in Alamo. Admission
is $5.00 for adults and $3.50
for children. Seating by reser
vation only.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1972
Georgia Power Co. To Construct
Huge Dam On Oconee River
Georgia Power Company an
nounced that construction has
begun on Wallace Dam, a $97-
million hydroelectric project
on the Oconee River between
Eatonton and Sparta.
The company recently
awarded a contract to Dravo
Corp, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for
construction of the dam and
Food For
Thought
If His Satanic. Majesty The
Devil were organizing a
church to suit His fancy, what
features would He in
corporate? If he had absolute
say-so about the arrange
ments, what sort of a set-up
would he create? I’ve been
rummaging around in my
mental attic and I think I
have come up with some of
the likelihoods.
1. He would emphasize the
physical plant. To low rate
the importance of Christian
theology in the members’
minds He’d accent the bricks
and the landscaping, the
steeples and the educational
buildings, the carpets and the
pews. He would see to it that
these loomed larger In the
concern of the congregation
than anything else.
2. Consistent with his
policy, he’d stress ritualistic
ceremony until it became cold
and meaningless. To do It
he would be sure that the
same order of service was
followed for years on end
• significance. This way he
could get the people so bored
there*d be no possibllty of a
warm spiritual Impluse ever
reaching them.
3. He would see to it that
the man in the pulpit was
always a master of pointless
preaching. He would place a
fellow who sounded educated
and who could quote a few
Bible verses, poetry, Kier
kagaard and some Schweitzer.
Getting nothing from the
sermons, the layman would
blaze himself as too thick
headed to understand such
eloquent profundities.
4. He would take pains to
keep the congregation in a
stew over something, either
incessantly fighting among
themselves of forevermore
criticizing thepreacher, who
ever the Incumbent might be.
5. It would be his prime
concern to Install sad main
tain in all key places of
leadership man and women
who knew nothing of saving
grace, who had merely
‘ ‘joined a church” and had not
been converted to Christ. This
one arrangement alone, would
create in the church as hellish
an atmosphere as Satan could
ever want.
6. The financial program
he would have carried, not
by tithing and sacrificial of
ferings, but by bingo games,
barbecues, spaghetti suppers,
and chicken dinners. He would
do this because in money
matters as in all else He
would like to keep the con
gregation as far from the
Bible as possible.
7. Above all He would be
alert last some orthodox con
servative pastor or layman
plant the obsolete Victorian
notion in the minds of the
people that the final authority
in the church should be, not
the stewards or the deacons
or even the congregational
vote, but Holy Scripture.
I say these are some of
the features the Devil would
likely incorporate in a church
he was free to organize and
operate all on his own. There
is no such institution entirely
under his control, but I have
encountered a few here and
there where some of His
policies plainly had been ad
policles plainly had been
adopted., haven’t you?
Bernie J. Wilburn, Sr.
Pastor, Sardis Baptist
Church, Wheeler County
Ministerial Association
powerhouse. The facility is
part of the $1.5-billion con
struction program Georgia
Power must carry out during
the next three years to meet
the soaring power demand of
the state, according to com
pany officials.
The Federal Power Com
mission issued a license for
the construction in June, 1970,
and preliminary planning, pur
chase of land and site prepa
ration have been underway
since that time.
The 2,400-foot-long dam
will create Lake Wallace, a
new 18,000-acre reservoir
that will be approximately 35
miles long. The 120-foot-high
dam will include two non
overflow sections 235 and 300
feet long, a 530-foot-long In
take bulkhead section, a 260-
foot spillway section and earth
dikes measuring 360 and 715
feet. The work also will in
clude a9OO-foot-long, 15-foot
high saddle dike in addition
to the main dam.
Wallace Dam will be Georgia
Power’s first pumped-storage
facility and the first on the
120, 000-square-mile Southern
Company system, of which
Georgia Power is a part.
With a pumped-storage sys
tem, water that flows through
a dam’s turbines to generate
electricity during hours of
peak demand enters a down
stream reservoir where it can
be stored. Then, during hours
of slack electrical demand,
electric power from other
sources is used to reversethe
College Courses
To Be Offered
In Wheeler Co.
William S. Clark, County
School Superintendent, an
nounces that Brewton Parker
College and the Wheeler Coun
ty Board of Education will
offer college courses in
Alamo, beginning September
18, at 7 to 8 p.m.
Veterans, housewives,
teacher aides and others in
terested in a college education
can sign up for classes now.
The new equalization grant
provided to ail residents of
Georgia now makes it possible
to take two courses for only
$27.00 plus a registration fee
of $15.00 for persons who
have never enrolled at Brewton
Parker.
This program is the be
ginning of a new field of en
deavor to provide wider edu
cational opportunities to the
community. A student may re
ceive enough credits to grad
uate with an A. A. degree and
never leave his community.
Anyone interested in enroll
ing for these courses may
register for the fall quarter
at Wheeler County Junior High
School on September 18, from
7 to 8 p.m.
For further information
contact William S. Clark,
County School Superintendent,
at 568-3041 or Mrs. Marie
Causey at the Wheeler County
Junior High School, phone
■ number 568-2941.
Minister Killed
In Newnan, 6a.
From The Macon Telegraph
A Baptist minister was found
shot to death in the dining
room of his home early Satur
day, Newnan police reported.
The Rev. Donald Evans,
pastor of the Mclntosh Baptist
Church in Newnan, was shot
twice in the neck and head and
once in the stomach, a police
spokesman said.
The spokesman said there
was no evident motive for the
shooting, adding that the vic
tim’s wallet was intact and
there were no signs of forcible
entry into the house.
No arrests have been made
in the incident, but an Investi
gation is underway, the
spokesman said.
SINGLE COPY 5d
turbines. Acting as pumps,
the turbines then return the
stored water to the upstream
reservoir where it can be used
again to generate peak-period
power.
The downstream reservoir
at Lake Wallace will be Lake
Sinclair.
“Because of the plant’s
pumped storage feature, the
lake level will be extremely
stable, enhancing recreation
use,” a Georgia Power official
said. “Completion of the pro
ject will result in one of Geor
gia’s most beaut al and out
standing recreation areas, and
we feel that It will become
known throughout the Southeast
as a focal point for boating,
swimming, camping and pic
nicking.’
He said detailed plans for
recreational and sce.iic land
use are being developed.
Site of the dam will be 13
miles east of Eatonton and two
miles north of the Georgia
Route 16 crossing of the
Oconee River. The reservoir
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Report Os The
County Agent
By David Williams
Time To Lime
“I just don’t see how a
man can farm without soil
testing and liming.” Most
every farmer in Wheeler
County agrees with the man
who made that statement, yet
many of them continue to
overlook this important
practice.
So this reminder: Now is
the time to soil test and lime
if needed. The trend today
is toward applying lime in
the fall. There are several
reasons for this. First,
equipment for putting down
the lime can be operated more
efficiently when the soil is
dry. Second, equipment and
labor are more available now
than at planting time. Third,
lime applied in the fall has
time to react with the soil
by next planting season.
Most growers know by now
that lime unlocks doors to
improved soil fertility, in
creased yields and higher
profits. Soil testing offers
the best method for deter
mining lime needs. Soilbags,
sampling instructions and in
formation on mailing are a
vailable at our office. Come
by or give us a call.
High Nitrogen?
Speaking of soil acidity and
the need for lime, now is a
good time to point out that
soils frequetly become more
acid as more nitrogen is used
to boost crop yields. This is
especially true with am
monium fertilizers, which are
the commonly used sources
of nitrogen. These fertilizers,
when changed to nitrates and
nitrites, release acid andthis
acid condition remains even
after the nitrates have been
taken up by plants or re
leased from the soil.
So yearly applications of
lime may be necessary for
some solid that have been
heavily fertilized with nit
rogen. In fact, research
shows that it takes five
pounds of agricultural lime
stone to counteract the ac
idity caused by just one pound
of ammonium nitrogen ferti
lizer.
Many growers here in
Wheeler County are using at s
least 200 pounds of actual (
nitrogen per acre. Therefore, (
it would require 1,000 pounds j
of limestone to neutralize the c
acid formed by this much s
nitrogen.
The best recommendation r
we can make, especially when c
you are using high rates of j
nitrogen, is to have your soil t
tested frequently and apply v
lime according to the results f
of the soil test. s
NUMBER 24
will be 70 miles east of At
lanta on Interstate 20, and will
reach into Greene, Hancock,
Morgan and Putman counties.
The powerhouse, located
downstream of the Intake bulk
head section, will include two
standard 56,700-kllowatt tur
bines and four reversible pump
turbines, each rated at 52,900
kilowatts.
Other major construction
projects underway by Georgia
Power Include the $422-
milllon Plant Bowen near
Carterville, the billion-dollar
Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Plant
near Waynesboro, the $595-
million Edwin L Hatch Nuclear
Plant near Baxley, and the
$350-million Plant Wansley
near Franklin.
In addition, a $155-million
expansion program is under
way at the company’s Plant
Yates near Newnan.
Fortune
Tellers
Pick Nixon
From Savannah Morning News
President Nixon will be re
elected this year and Taiwan
merged with mainland China
within five or six years, Asian
fortune tellers predicted at
their convention Sunday in
Seoul Korea.
The 100 fortune tellers from
Japan, India, Taiwan ano South
Korea attending the Inter
national Predictors Congress
also said there will not be
another world war but that
the cold war will continue.
They foresaw reunification
of the divided countries --
Germany, Korea and Vietnam
-- within 10 years.
Among the fortune tellers’
other predictions at the end
of a three-day conference
were:
— Around 1990, a holy man
as great as Christ will appear
northwest of Japan, possibly
In Korea.
-- Asian peoples will suffer
from one of the poorest har
vests in history in 1977, and
East Europe will be flooded
in 1994.
— Democrats will win a
U. S. presidential election only
after experiencing two un
successful elections.
Nunn Margin
51,256 Votes
Sam Nunn defeated incum
bent David Gambrell by
51,256 votes in their Demo
cratic primary runnoff for
the U. S. Senate August 29,
but only about one - third
of Georgia voters turned out
to cast ballots, official
returns showed.
Figures released by Sec
retary of State Ben Fortson’s
office, gave Nunn 334,670
votes to 283,414 for Gam
brell. The total vote was
618,084. Georgia has more
than 2 million registered
voters.
The first primary, on Aug.
8, drew 752,207 Democrats,
or about 40.9 per cent. In
that one, Gambrell led Nunn
by some 87,000 votes.
Nunn carried 118 of the
state’s 159 counties, while
Gambrell took 41.
SWEATER SIZES
Sweater sizes are not
standardized, says University
of Georgia Extension home
economist, Margie Mclntyre.
Before making the final
decision on fall and winter
sweaters, make sure they fit.
You may find two sweaters
marked the same size, yet
differing as much as two
inches. Try it on before you
buy it, to be extra sure, and
wear the kind of clothing you
plan to wear beneath the
sweater.