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4—The Pembroke Journal, Thursday, February 8,
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Published in The City of Pt i<,ke Every Thursday
Frank O. Miller Er,, Owner and Publisher
Mrs Frank O Miller . . A , st Edltor -
Mrs Nancy Bazemore . .Society Editor
Official Organ of Bryan Co e tv ,r J The City of Pembroke
Savannah Morning News Reaches
"Low Ebb" In Writing Article
About Death Os Sheriff Smith
The people of Pembroke and Bryan County were
shocked on Wednesday morning when “Old Betsy,’’
The Savannah Morning News arrived here with an
account of the death of our Sheriff.
Knowing “this bunch” as we do, we certainly
should not have been surprised at just how low and
little this paper can and wi l stoop to take a lick at
the people of the little counties. But we have always
tried to practice letting the past be the past, especially
when writing an article about the death of anyone.
Because in saying anything about the “past,” it could
only hurt those that loved the party and was already
in more trouble than they could possibly bear, with
out having “it smeared on” after death had occurred.
The writer, who has been Mayor of Pembroke
longer than anyone else ever has, and who has had
more “ups and downs” with the i cgime headed by
the late Sheriff Kyle I). Smith.
We knew Kyle Smith as. well as anyone else, he
had his faults, and who has not got them, but in all
fairness to his memory we would lik to say that he (
was an outstanding citizen of our Hl tie city, he was
a fighter when it came to politics, and up until his ]
death, no one was ever able to take him to defeat.
He knew that we had never been a “bosom bud
dy” of his, but we were always fair to him, and he
was to us. Neither of us fooled the other one.
But for The Savannah Morning News to write an
article like the one that app ared in Wednesdays
Morning News, is unbelievable, and something that
each and everyone that has anything to do with the
Savannah Morning News should be ashamed of.
In all their "scandal niong.ring,” nothing was
shown to east any disrespect on our late Sheriff, and
after all il was all politics, and the two men that were
featured in the article, the Sheriff and our Represen
tative. Hon. -lack W. Shuman were the best of friends.
Both i.alized that their differences were "political.”
and should have* been forgotten long ago.
Such as this certainly does not do “Old Betsy”
any good. The people of the country counties know'
that this outfit is just as “rot tn, as it is possible
to get,” an dshould not bo snips ised at anything they
stoop to do.
HISCENITY UNIT NAMED
President Johnson has named
m 18-member Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography
4iose job will be to investigate
he relationship between such
laterlal and antisocial behavior,
specially in minors.
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“One Thomas Edison
in a generation
is no longer enough..."
Charles F. Kettering
First President, Thomas Alva Edison Foundation
Thomas Edison defined genius as “one percent
inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
His achievements are beacons of the free
enterprise system. He gave the world the first
incandescent lamp. He invented the motion
picture, fluoroscope, phonograph. And Edison's
research stirred waves of thought that produced
radar, radio and television.
Edison held 1,100 patents. Started the first
industrial research laboratory. Launched 100
businesses of his own. And conceived and built
the first electric utility system.
Charles Kettering was right. Not one. but
thousands of imaginative, industrious young
people are needed to sustain our kind of progress.
Now a new generation of dreamers must con
tinue Edison's explorations. The future depends
on their bright discoveries.
N < “Edisons." just mail eoxfioi, and sfa, f explorim/.
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MEDIC ARE PHFMH M I I’
The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare has an- ■
nounced an increase of sl-a
-month in the monthly premium
on the voluntary medical insur
ance program which supplements
medicare.
Dr. Breckman
To Speak At
Meth. Church
Dr. Franc is L. Brec kman of
the Methodist Committee on
Overseas Relief will speak at
the Pembroke Methodist
Church Thursday, Feb. 8 at 8
p.m.
Dr. Breckman is a native of
Fort Dodge, lowa and a grad
uate of Morningside College,
Sioux City, lowa, and of the
Boston University School of
Theology.
Dr. Breckman has been with
the committee on Overseas
Relief since 19(50. He visits
overseas each year and serves
as information link between
the fields of need and the local
Methodist church e s which
raise funds to meet the needs.
Dr. Breckman is this year's
representative of the- Method
ist General Board of Missions
in the churches of the- Savan
nah District. He has recent
ly completed a tour of refugee
camps in Vietnam.
I he monthly fellowship sup
per of the Pembroke- Meth
odist Church has been changed
to Thursday night so that the
congregation may hear Dr.
Breckman speak. Supper will
be served at 7:30 p.m. and the
program will follow. A free
will offering will be taken for
the speaker’s expenses.
The public is invited to hear
Dr. Breckman.
Baptist Circle
Begins Study
The Mattie Parrish Circle
met Tuesday, Jan. 30 at the
home of Mrs. Frank Hendricks
at 3:30 p.m.
A program study entitled
“Students work overseas in
Ghana, Peru, and Thailand”
was presented by the hostess,
Mrs. Frank Hendricks.
Mrs. Hendricks pointed out
that today's world is rapidly
becoming a world of young
people who are making pres
suring demands upon the
adults. “We need to give the
young people places of leader
ship in our churches,” she
said.
Mrs. Hendricks program be
gan a concentrated study of
various phases of student work'
which the circle will continue
for three months. After the
program Mrs. J. C. Mikell led
a prayer for the work being
done in the countries discuss
ed on the program.
The Mattie Parirsh Circle
of the WMU furnished a ham
for the dinner served before
the annual WMU meeting at
the Pembroke Baptist Church
Thursday night, Feb. I.
Mrs. Grover Denmark, circle
president closed the meeting
with a prayer for missionaries,
after which refreshments
were served during a social
hour.
Those present were Mrs. J. |
C. Mikell, Mrs. A. H. Croom, I
Mrs. Leona Underwood, Mrs.
Grover Denmark, Mrs. Earn
est Pevey, Mrs. R. B. Reed,
Mrs. Winnie Griffin, Mrs. D. '
H. Porterfield, Mrs. .1. T.
Donahoo, Miss Wilma Ed
wards, Mrs. Ben Brewton, Mrs.
W. W. Pickett and the hostess
Mrs. Hendricks.
BCHS BETA CLUB
Wanda Gaines, Jan Martin,!
Cathy Strickland, Brenda
Wilkes, Billy Conley, Renard
Davis, Douglas DeLoach. Wen
dell Glisson, Anthony Lee,
Glynn Miles, Greg Harvey,
Ray Kangeter, Frank Miles,
Dwight Newman, J. 0. Wil
son, Clara Carter, Patricia
Cowart. Donna Jones, Janell
Lewis, Selma Shuman, Caro
lyn Warnell.
Iris Bazemore, Norma Ba
con, Rtia Cribbs, Kitty Davis,
Brenda Futch, Carolyn Futch,
Betty Jean Mock. Emily Pick
ett, Barbara Shuman. James
Cason, Jimmie DeLoach, Ben
Fields, Richard Hammond,
Michael Owens, Ronald Sand
ers, Billy Downs.
Richmond Hill
Takes Pair
RICHMOND HILU-Richmond
Hill bagged Hardeeville in a
basketball twin bill here Tues
day night. The boys took a 73-43
victory and the girls rolled to a
37-30 triumph.
Luther Hurst (14), Bairy
Spence(27) and Isiah Boles (10)
led the Richmond Hill bovs.
Clyde Scott hit 15 for Hardee
ville.
Pat Hurst had 27 for Rich
mond Hill’s girls and Marie
Hudson (12) and Gail Floyd
(12) led Hardeeville.
Journal Will Be
In Demand From
This Issue On
With a special election call
ed to elect a Sheriff for the
unexpired term of the late
Kyle D. Smith, who passed
av. ay last week, and with a
hot campaign on for the un
expired term which will run
until Toimrv Ist. 1969. The-i
not later than September of
this year, and probably soon
er, another election will be
held to fill all the places in
the Court House from Coronet
to Judge, and with a “bushel
basket’’ full of candidates,
willing to serve the “dear
peepul”, it will make The
Pembroke Journal, the official
newspaper for Bryan, and the
only one paper, much in de
mand by all of our citizens.
Now is the time for you to
subscribe for The Journal, if
you are not already a reader
of the paper. We are going
to try and give you all the
r-ews, and will give you the
“low down” on all election
news.
The price of the subscrip
tion to The Journal will in
crease soon, due to the in
creased cost of postage, paper
and getting the paper out,
which is always on the rise
in cost. But all subscriptions
will be honored for as long
as they are paid in advance.
As a special inducement to
those that would like to get
ahead with the paper, we will
send the paper FOUR YEARS
to all that MAIL US SIO.OO.
You can save money by doing
this and it will save us a lot
of record keeping.
Brvan Countv
Gels \\ in, 71-57
PEMBROKE—The B r y a n
County Redskins, putting four
men in double figures, rolled to
a 74-57 victory over Bradwell
Institute here Tuesday night.
The Bryan Coun y girls won the
opener, 61-52.
Raymond McCoy (22), Doug
Deloach (19), Mike Owens (13)
and Mike Eutler (10) keyed the
Redskins victory. Mike Sparks
and Tom Verras had 17 points
each for Bradwell Institute.
Betty Hughes hit a season
high 36 points to pace Bryan's
girls. Darlene Butler (15) and
Sharon Jones (10) were the oth
er Bryan girls in double fig
ures. Deborah Collins (26),
Laura Hutchinson (15) and
Lynn Porter (li) paced the
Bradwell Institute girls.
ON FOOD STAMPS
The Agriculture Department
reports that food stamps are
helping 2.6 million needy Ameri
cans. The stamps buy nearly
$1 million worth of 1 od daily.
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Politics oJ n Parade
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4 This column went on record
■ several weeks ago as prophesy
i ing that J. W. Claxton would
। never be impeached and con
s victed in regard to his action on
- the State Board of Pardons and
Paroles. We based this on the
belief that Mr. Claxton would
, resign the job if it began to look
। as if he was in serious danger.
However, until an employee of
j the department took it upon her
self to try to help Claxton by
' publicizing the trouble the Gov
ernor's son had been in, he was
certain to be exonerated of the
charges. But, when this em
ployee foolishly sought to help
> him, her actions backfired and
legislators came under terrific
pressure from their constituents
• to impeach Claxton.
. She took these steps on her ■
own hook, because Claxton is
much too smart a politician not I
to know how it would boomerang'
on him. Also, he is not the type j
person to try to gain advantage
from the indiscreet acts of any I
person, must less a young man's '
first offense.
• At any rate, he took the only j
possible course left to him. And I
in six months the general public )
will have forgotten all about it. j
******
Three weeks ago, we wrote:
that the Governor would leave
various capital improvement
money out of his budget, plus
one million dollars from his
emergency fund, in order to cut
out the 10 million which the At
torney-General ruled couldn’t be
appropriated. Last week, the
daily press also reported this and
named the departments which
would lose their capital improve- j
ment money.
Actually, these capital im- i
provements will be delayed only
six months, and the way revenue
collections are running now, I
very probably the State will end ,
the fiscal year with a surplus. |
At least, this is what an admin
istration leader told us last Fri
day.
some legislators are still talk
ing about cutting 30 million or so i
out of the Governor's budget, but
we pinned several down and they
couldn't specify exactly from
where it would come.
♦** * * *
Pete Wheeler, Director of the j
Slate Department of Veterans
(Service, received last week one
of the longest telegrams ever
gotten in Georgia. It was 12Vz ■
feet in length, and came from i
the White House. It’s contents:
were the full text of the Presi
dent's special message to Con
gress concerning onc-stop coun-|
seling centers over the nation for '
veterans and their dependents,
t which Mr. Wheeler inaugurated
> in Georgia two years ago.
******
The many, many friends of 1
. former veteran legislator Frank
Twitty, of Camilla, will be hap-i
i
py to know that he is now on the
! road to recovery after a bout
i with cancer. He has another op
' eration coming, but the doctors
say he should be back in the
■ swing of things within two
months. As all the longtime pol
iticians know, Mr. Twitty was
just about the shrewdest law
i maker ever to sit in the Georgia
House.
♦ *♦♦♦*
Those who doubt that Martin
Lucifer King, Jr. is a Communist
are going to be hard put to ex
■ plain why he is conferring so ar
j dently with Stokely Carmichael
, who admitted in Castro’s Cuba
that his entire life is based on
Communist ideals and objectives.
Judge Alva Foster, of Clayton
j County, proved his political sa
i gacity last week when he had the
| entire Clayton ministerial dele
! gation as his guests at the Gov-
I ernor’s Prayer Breakfast. Not
i that that was his reason for in
; viting them, but it was still good
J politics.
**•»•»
Mark this down: As soon as
■ this session of the General As
: sembly is over, legislative lead
j ers will take steps to hire a full
I time budget officer for the As- ■
sembly. They already have a
man in mind. Everybody admits
they need one badly.
******
Rumor says that veteran polit
ico Roy V. Harris has already
selected his candidate for gov
ernor in 1970. According to the
scuttlebutt. Mr. Harris says that
the man is so well known as a
segregationist that he won't have
I to mention the subject. Also, it
! is said that Roy won't even tell j
I the man that he should run, I
I since he “doesn’t want the fel
j low to start acting like a can-
I didate”.
The Democratic National Com
! mittee will hold a "Victory ’6B” I
, regional conference in Atlanta on ;
j Feb. 23-24 'for a limited number ;
' of outstanding Democrats from
■ Alabama. Georgia. Florida, Lou
, isiana, Mississippi, South Caro
lina, the Canal Zone, Puerto
■ Rico and the Virgin Islands".
• Members of the Georgia State
| Democratic Executive Commit
i tee and other prominent- state
j Democrats have been invited.
Nationally known speakers will ■
, be present.
****** ,
Georgia lost one of her finest
citizens last week when Col. Ross
■ Sharpe, of Lyons, passed away.
The father of Malone Sharpe,
I Gov. Maddox’s Chief of Staff,
Col. Sharpe was a dominant po
litical figure in this state for
! many years, and, as Senator
■ Herman Talmadge stated in the
Congressional Record ‘ the peo-
1 pie of Toombs County, the State I
of Georgia, and the Nation have j
I suffered a great loss”.
Masons To Meet
A regular meeting of Pem
broke Lodge No. 469 F&AM
will be held Saturday, Feb
ruary 10th.
A fish supper is planned for
this meeting. All members
are urged to attend. Visit
ing brethren are wlecome.
L. F. Rogers, Secretary
Mrs. Nugent Griffin and
Mrs. Danny Warnell and chil
dren spent the week-end in
Moultrie with Mrs. Griffin’s
daughter, Mrs. Billy Mock and
Mr. Mock and family. Mr.
Mock is principal of the Sun
set School in Moultrie and
Mrs. Mock teaches in the
Moultrie High School. Mrs.
Warnell’s son, Bill, is spend
ing the week in Moultrie.
Mrs. Sharon Siple and Mrs.
Shirley Mitchell of Augusta
visited their mother, Mrs.
Cecil Futch of Pembroke,
Tuesday.
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yl COLON FLOYD
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Also In The Market For Timber, Timberland,
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He literally sparks with effici- I/Jj
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Visit your rural electric coopera- |
five and find out more about the
wonders of electricity.
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so why not YOU!
Laziness
An old New Englander was
remarkably well informed, but
so very lazy that the new pastor
asked him how he had contrived
to leam so much.
He replied, "I just heard it
here and there—and I was too
lazy to forget it."
Navy denies link in transfers
of two officers