Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, September 22, 1972, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 58 Speculative Plant Design Revealed ^’4 * •. ' » - : M■ c * I ..~ . ' -ri * ,-*-U, £.*4 I AahTii iHlm '^yu^ ? I UWIII 1B ■ aUWHI,*«.. -t । uwmJ^JJ^X4£3e ■■*4.-'—K.>— Jabco Industrial Properties of Atlanta this week revealed the architectural design for the “third-of-a-million dollar” industrial plant in Washington, Ga. Ground was broken for the plant by Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox in ceremonies recently. The plant is part of an “Industry-to-Georgia” program which seeks to merge the efforts of Jabco as a private enterprise venture capital Thieves Hit Mcßae Area Wed.,Sept.l3 Wednesday night, Sep tember 13, thieves hit the Mcßae area and stole two Georgia Power Company pick-up trucks in one incident, and a quanity of guns and ammunition in another break in at T. J. Smith Wholesale Hardware Company. It is assumed that both robberies were done by the same people. Sometime after 9:30 p.m., Wednesday, entry was made at the new Georgia Power building on Highway 341, by cutting the chain on the back gate of the newly fenced-in building. The lock was also cut from the Company gas pump, where the thieves filled the two Power Company pick up trucks and drove out the front gate, where they also cut the lock. The same night, entry was made into T. J. Smith Whole sale Hardware Company, also on Highway 341, where rifles, shotguns, pistols and am munition were taken. The 190 guns and ammunition were valued at $25,000. A reward of SI,OOO is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons involved in the robbery. The Georgia Power trucks have since been found aban doned on 1-285 near Atlanta. They were brought to the Macon division to be checked out. One spare tire andsome tools were taken from the trucks, according toa Georgia Power official. Investigating officers were, the Telfair Sheriff’s Office, Mcßae City Police, two State Division of Investigation Of ficers and Federal Agents from Dublin. Georgia South- Western Named Two New Centers The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has authorized the naming of the campus health center and the new library at Georgia Southwestern College. The Herschel Smith Health Center is named in honor of Dr. Herschel Atticus Smith, the official Georgia South western College physician from 1919 until 1961. The James Earl Carter Library is named in honor of Governor Jimmy Carter’s late father, who was a state legislator and strong sip porter of Georgia South western, the University System, and public ed ucation in general. Anyone who has just gra duated from the School of Experience and Hard Knocks knows there were never any discipline problems on the Campus. Wheeler County Eagle Superior Court Judge Hawkins Addresses Oconee Bar Association The annual meeting of the Oconnee Circuit Bar Associ ation convened at McGinty’s Restaurant on Thursday even ing, September 14. This meeting of the Association for the term 1971-2, com posed of all the practicing lawyers in the counties of Montgomery, Wheeler, Tel fair, Dodge, Bleckley and Pulaski, was under the leadership of local Attorneys E. Herman Warnock, Presi dent, and Preston N. Rawlins, Jr., Secretary, both of Mcßae. The featured speaker for the evening was Judge Colbert Hawkins, Judge of the Superior Court of the VOCA Club Hears Guest Speaker At Wheeler High With 88% attendance and a lovely brownette, the first meeting of the VOCA Club was ready to start at the Wheeler County High School. Mrs. Ruth Humphrey in troduced Miss Kay Webster, a college graduate who spoke to the students on “Career Development in Action in Dietetics.” Miss Webster expounded on the subject of a dietetic career in three main fields-Admini strative, therapeutic, and educational. She also in formed the students as to college studying and pre paration for this type of career. Miss Webster, who is a past graduate of Wheeler County High School (1967), is also a graduate of the Ga. College with a double major to ter credit in Home Economics and Dietetics. Miss Webster will be leaving Thursday for Rich maid, Virginia where she will enter ter internship at the Medical College of Virginia. During the social hour de licious refreshments were served by Nancy Powell, Rosalee Smith, Nina Ruth Poole, Joey Screws, and the clubs’ president, RandaU Tarpley. ]boVlk* * • *• * • .’K^w SK|»^:?:;^Wy W^W 1” *U: wW^^iHSrMMtO^ ." -3>N m 2 g» KHKs. ■ -X ■'* "•♦... • ••fall 4 ^■H/. -t **••*'’* .- t%- : 1} ’ •. • *'^' : ‘ j Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gilder participate in promoting National Hunting and Fishing Day. ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385 developer with local efforts to lure industry to non-urban areas of Georgia. Jabco spokesmen said a tenant manufacturer is expected to be secured within six months for the facility, which was designed by Atlanta architect James S. Gray. Construction is now underway. (PRN) Ogeechee Circuit. Judge Hawkins was introduced by Judge James B. O’Conner of the Oconee Circuit. Judge Hawkins, who pre sides over a rural circuit like the Oconee, spoke of his successes under his system of one lawyer throughout his circuit being appointed and designated to defend all per sons accused of crime in instances where suchpersons by reason of financial inability cannot hire a lawyer to defend them. Judge O’Connei’ pre sently appoints all attorneys on a rotation basis to defend these indigent and criminally accused. The officers of the Oconee Circuit Bar Association for the term ending September, 1973 are President, Paul Brown, Eastman, Vice- President, Mickey Baker, Hawkinsville and Secretary Preston N. Rawlins, Jr., Mcßae. 5 160,000 Contract Georgia Tech has been a warded a $160,000 contract to study the abrasion be havior of polyester/wool military uniform fabrics. The research is sponsor ed by the Air Force Materials Laboratory, of the Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Dr. W. Denney Freeston, Jr., newly named Director of the A. French Textile School, will direct the program. Other members of the Textile School faculty participating in the work include Dr. Walter C. Carter, Dr. John L. Land berg, Dr. Wayne C. Tincher, and Messrs. R. A. Porter, R. C. Lathe m, and G. B. Fletcher. Personnel of the Georgia Tech Engineering Experi ment Station will also have an active role. In normal use some mili tary uniforms undergo an ob jectionable change in appear ance. Georgia Forest Industries Set 70,000,000 Trees To help grow a whole new Southern forest by the year 2000, Georgia’s pulp and paper, lumber, plywood and other forest industries planted or distributed 70,509,000 seedlings during the 1971-72 tree planting season, accord ing to the Southern Forest Institute of Atlanta. This total represents 15 per cent of all the new trees plant ed or distributed by forest - products industries in the thirteen Southern states, and includes, 70,448,000 pine seedlings and 61,000 hardwood seedlings. 63,346,000 of these new trees were planted on forest industry-owned land and 7,163,000 were distributed to private landowners for plant ing on their lands. Additional trees were made available to forest landowners from nurs eries operated by the state forestry organization. 17,933,000 seedlings planted in Georgia last season were genetically superior seedlings -- often called Supertrees — which grow taller, straighter, healthier, and up to 20 per cent faster than ordinary pine seedlings. Throughout the South, in dustry planted nearly 470 mil lion trees during the November 1971 - Spring, 1972 planting season. This year’s tree planting season begins mid- November and continues through April, 1973. Besides wood for more than five-thousand different kinds of useful products, Southern forests supply other benefits, the Institute says. “Trees pro vide beauty, places for recre ation, wildlife habitat, soil erosion control, watershed protection, and trees are es sential for a healthful environ ment.” Georgia Power Purchases Two Electric Vans Georgia Power Company has purchased two battery powered electric vans as part of its continuing efforts to reduce operating costs and help improve the environ ment. The vans are scheduled to be delivered In March, 1973. They are among a group of 100 ordered by various com panies throughout the country through the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC) as part of a research program. The manufacturer is Battronic Truck Corp. Georgia Power plans to schedule one of the vehicles for demonstrations to in troduce citizens to the ad vantages of electric trans portation. FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1972 State Board Os fducation Adopts 1974 Bodget Os $600,000,000 The State Board of Educa tion recently adopted a budget for Fiscal Year 1974, request ing nearly $600,000,000 in state funds and setting a list of priorities for funding. The new budget asks for an in crease of $118,174,616 instate funds over FY 1973. Listed as top priorities for funding by the board are addi tional teachers and mini-buses for special education pro grams; vocational education; authority lease rentals for Wheeler Students To Graduate At South Ga. Tech Three students from Wheeler County are among the 226 students who will graduate from South Georgia Technical and Vocational School at the end of the sum mer quarter, September 20. Graduation exercises will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Sep tember 20, with Dr. Russell S. Clark, Assistant State Su perintendent for the Office of Adult and Vocational Edu cation, State Department of Education, as guest speaker. Over 100 counties of Geor gia are represented in the total enrollment of 825. Dea Pounders, Director of the school, reported that students living on the campus com pose 60 percent of the student body. Ninety-four percent of the student body are under 21 years of age. In a follow up of recent graduates of the school an average weekly in come of approximately $130.00 was reported. Director Pounders stated that due to the number of requests and acceptances for programs are nearing the maximum possible enroll ment. The programs offered at the school are: Account ing; Automobile Body Repair; Automobile Mechanics; Avia tion Mechanics; Business machines Maintenance; Cab inetmaking; Clerical, Com puter Programming Tech nology; Cosmetology; Diesel Mechanics; Drafting; Elec trical Construction and Main tenance; Electrical Tech nology; Electronic Tech nology; Farm Machinery Me chanics; Machine Shop; Prac tical Nursing; Radio & Tele vision Repair; Secretarial; Tool and Die Making; and Upholstery. Graduates from Wheeler County are: Johnny A. Steven son, Automobile Mechanics; James Mack Smith, Business Machines Maintenance; and Elizabeth Marie Johnson, Practical Nursing. Wheeler County ASCS Community Boundaries Set Community boundaries have been determined for this year’s Agricultural Stabili zation and Conservation ASC community Committeemen elections in Wheeler County. There are no changes in community boundaries this year. The boundaries are as follows:. - Alamo-Landsburg make up A Community, Shiloh and Glenwood make up B Community and Union- Springhill make up C com munity. To determine community boundaries the County ASC Committee considered the number of firms and eligible voters per community com pared with the other ASC communities, type of farm ing, local political sub divisions, and the availability of convenient communication and transportation for com munity residents. Public notice of community boundaries will be posted Oc tober 2 at Wheeler County ASCS Office, P.O. Box 448, Alamo, Georgia 30411. school building construction (including vocational educa tion); a 5.5% salary increase for teachers and SIOO for school bus drivers; a pupil teacher ratio of 25-1 in grades four through seven; and kindergartens. The budget request for 1974 includes funds for a number erf new programs as well as significant increases in some existing programs. Nearly $1,500,000 is being asked for research and demonstration; $5,325,000 for driver educa tion and $1,500,000 for the severely emotionally dis turbed. Vocational funds re quested are nearly $15,000,000 for high school programs and almost $25,000,000 for voca tional-technical schools. Abid will be made for $1,020,000 for teacher training and re search and s3,96o,oooforedu cation services across county lines. State School Superintendent Jack P. Nix explained that the requested 5.5% increase in teachers salaries is the maxi mum percentage increase now September 23 National Hunting And Fishing Day President Nixon has de signated September 23, as National Hunting and Fishing Day. Cooperators of the Ohoopee River Conservation District have contributed in many ways to our abundant supply of fish and wildlife. During 1971, Wheeler County landowners constructed 14 ponds and these ponds have already been stocked with bream and bass. Ten additional ponds were drained, dams repaired and ponds restocked. More than 125 acres of wildlife food planting were made for dove, deer and quail. These consisted of Dove Proso Millet, Brown-Top Millet, Iron and Clay Peas, soybeans and Bi-Color lespe deza. As a matter of fact, farmers help some type of wildlife every time they plant any crop. However the pie sent trend is to plant food crops so that they mature ' during the winter and early spring months when fields are barren and wildlife liter ally starves to death. The Ohoopee River Con servation District through the Soil Conservation Service provides on-site technical as sistance to Wheeler County landowners for the establish ment of wildlife food plots or fish ponds. Call us at 568-2431 in Alamo if we can help you manage your fish and wild life. Cost-sharing can be re ceived for establishing wild life food plots and fish pond construction. The following district cooperators have re cently constructed ponds, Fred Nobles, Daniel Taylor, Thad Gibbs, George Towns, B. G. Hicox, Lomas Hartley, C. C. Purvis, C. R. Cravey, and Harvey Manley. •W? '4i iWi S3MNL JBMB i «.^.'i. ' *’W \^~ •- ' *.. ». . -J^ 4 M WaOk-M.y *<% '■ /♦ ^w’ 1 ' ..v. Jimmy James, local Soil Conservationist, examines Dove Proso Millet on the R. U. Bell farm. SINGLE COPY 5C allowed by the Federal Wage Price Board. Nix also pointed out that the budget as approved by the State Board will no doubt be modified as he works with the State Budget Bureau. In an effort to obtain more federal funds, thus expanding services to Georgia’s pre school children, Superinten dent Nix asked the State Board to authorize him to modify instructions to 46 school sys tems with early childhoodedu cation programs. Nix ex plained that he had received Report Os The County Agent By David Williams Cotton--Not Trees! Trees near cotton fields don’t have to be sick. A lot of times, however, this seems to be the case. Many cotton farmers have found that their nearby pines--and even worse, their neighbors’ pines—were de foliated along with the cotton. Often times these trees die as a result of defoliation with chemcials which drifted onto them from the cotton field. Defoliants such as Folex and Defare not toxic to trees. The rub comes in when ope rators occasionally add a materia] such as paraquat to get a quicker leaf kill. Airplanes are often used to apply defoliants, and it’s virtually impossible to make an aerial application without overflying some adjoining woods. In many cases, the trees geta dose of defoliants, too. This normally would not be a problem, but with the added chemicals it’s a. different story. So double check those chemicals before using them on cotton. It’s a good way to keep healthy trees and friendly neighbor;.. Soybean Grading Changes .a the way soy beans are grated may be on the way. Anyway, the Amer ican Soybean Association has called for some changes. At its annual meeting in Col umbus, Ohio, recently, mem bers passed a resolution stating that “efforts should be made for soybean pro-. ducers to get the same pre mium for low percentages of moisture and foreign material as they receive dis counts for excessive moisture and foreign materials. . .” William Segars, Extension agronomist and soybean spec ialist who attended the meet ing, said the Associationalso encouraged development of machines and techniques which willaccurately indicate the value of soybeans at the first point of sale. Segars believes that, if changes in the grading system come about, then many soy bean producers may be re- . warded with additional profits for the sale of clean, high quality 'beans. NUMBER 25 an official opinion of the State Attorney General and a letter from the Deputy Com missioner of the State Dept, of Human Resources stating that federal funds can be used for certain components of the early childhood program with out violating Senate Bill 676. The State Board tabled Nix’s recommendation until a later meeting. In other action at its Thurs day meeting the State Board recommended that a com mittee be appointed to review all State Board policies and procedures pertaining to text book selection and purchases. This committee will be ap pointed by State Board Chair man Roy Hendricks. After a request on Wednes day from Habersham County Board Member Tommy Irvin, the State Board authorized the Habersham Board to use funds to build physical education buildings at four elementary schools. Nunn's Capital Visit Paid Off In Endorsements When Sam Nunn, Georgia’s Democratic U. S. senatorial candidate, went toWashington recently his visit ostensibly was for briefings on how the Congress — and especially the Senate — functions. This, of course, would be most helpful to the 34-year old Perry attorney-farmer if if he wins over his Republican opponent, sth District U. S. Rep. Fletcher Thompson, in the Nov. 7 general election. But Nunn returned home with something much more valuable to him at this stage than a “short course” in the mechanics of the Congress. He had the solid backing of Georgia’s senior Sen. Herman E. Talmadge and some other members of the Georgia con gressional delegation, in cluding outgoing junior Sen. David Gambrell, whom Nunn defeated in the runnoff. The strongest pledges of support came from Senators Talmadge and Gambrell. Tal madge, breaking with his tradition of staying out of other people’s campaigns, gave Nunn a strong endorse ment and told Nunn supporters he would work for his election. “Sam, welcome to Wash ington. We look forward to your coming next January,” Sen. Talmadge told Nunn after the Democratic candidate had conferred with the senior in his office. While posing for the cameras with Nunn (whose full name is Sam A. Nunn Jr.), Talmadge remarked that he believed the Georgia House representative has the “ability and integrity and cha racter” to do an excellent job in Washington. . “lam looking forward to having Nunn at my side in the Senate.” But the senator and former Georgia governor reiterated what he had said many times before: “I just don’t think the people of Georgia want anyone telling them how to vote.” After visitingwithSen. Tal madge, Nunn received an equally enthusiastic endorse ment from Sen. Gambrell who said he is looking forward to applying “whatever assist ance I can” in helping Nunn prevail over Thompson in the November election. He added: “I am convinced that he offers a good deal more than his op ponent.” Meanwhile, as he gears up for a vigorous campaign Nunn said: “I plan to run my cam paign on the basis of problems facing us instead of engaging in a day-to-day dog fight with a man who obviously has no concept of issues.