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Hyacinth
By Frances Meeks
In a favorite old Greek myth,
the hyacinth is said to have
sprung from the blood of the
beautiful .Spartan youth, Hya
cinthus favored Apollo, and
caused the youth to be killed
by a quoit thrown by Apollo
while the two were at play. In
his grief, Apollo caused a
purple flower to spring from
the drops of blood that fell
from the brow of Hyacinthus.
Today the hyacinth is a fav
orite spring flower of the lily
family. It first came from
Africa and Asia and was
brought to Europe in the early
1500’s some accounts say. It
was very popular with the Eng
lish and with the Dutch.
The flower grows to a height
varying from six inches to a.
foot and a half. The more com
mon blossom colors are blue,
white, pink or purple. In recent
years plant scientists have de
veloped new colors of orange,
yellow, cream and magneta.
They make a fine display in
the garden during the months
of March and April. The flow
ers are drooping or bell-shaped
and very fragrant.
Hyacinths are grown in open
beds, in hothouses, and in the
house. They are grown from
bulbs. Outside they need rich
and well drained soil. Bulbs
should be planted in this sec
tion between September and
Novamber as their roots do
most of their growing in the
fall. Plant yours soon for a
most colorful spring.
Richmond Hill Lions
Gormandize (Again!)
“Ah, the sweet fruits of vic
tory” This remark was emit
ted by half the Richmond Hill
Lions Club membership on the
night of October 22, 1969 at
International Paper Com
panys’ Belfast Lodge.
It all began this way: Lion
Carlton Gill, attendance chair
man last year, came up with
a novel idea that was adopted
by the club. He divided the
entire membership in two
groups — teams 1 and 2. At
the conclusion of a pre
determined period the team
evincing the best attendance
at regular meetings was to be
feted by the losers to a supper.
Last Wednesday night was
the culmination of this con
test.
Team number 2 set forth a
bounteous marine repast con
sisting of golden-fried fresh
trout and channel bass filets,
succulent boiled shrimp,
steaming pots of buttered grits,
crisp cole slaw and of course
sumptious hush puppies.
FThirty-one Richmond Hill
Lions attended the feast along
with the following distinguish
ed guests: Senator Edward
Zipperer; Lion Roy Jones, Dis
trict Governor 18-B; Lion W.
A. Gassaway, Zone Chairman;
Lion Fraser Rambo, Past Dis
trict Governor and presently
a member of the Hinesville
Club; Lion Flowers of the
Hinesville Club; Commissioner
Jerry Wilson and Mr. A. L.
Kelly.
The Richmond Hill Club
also honored the local boy
scout troop members and their
dads. Lion President John F.
Heilman singled out this group
in acknowledging the clubs
pleasure in their attendance.
After all guests had been
introduced and a great volume
of food had been consumed.
Lion President Heilman turn
ed the program over to Lion
W. A. Gassaway who intro
duced Lion District Governor
Roy Jones. Lion Governor
Jones’ sagacious remarks were
well to the present. Calling
upon his talents as a leader
in Lionism, Governor Jones
delivered an inspiring talk
which was relished by all in
attendance. He challenged all
Lions to exhibit and mirror
the great qualities of Amer
icanism and service in the
community.
One thing remains question
able — if the losers, team No.
2, really lost anything — after
all they were allowed to eat
Lion Robinson and Lion
Casey's fare.
The next Richmond Hill
Lions Club meeting will be
November 12, 1969 at the
Richmond Hill Recreation As
sociation building.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Crowe
and daughter, Teresa of Jack
sonville, Fla. are returning
home after a months stay in
Walton, Kentucky. They were
there attending a horse rally.
On their return they will visit
relatives in Pembroke, Mrs.
Leona Hodges and Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Crowe.
Girl Scout
Founder Former
Bryan Resident
Monday afternoon, the Rich
mond Hill troups of the Girl
Scouts of America, the
Brownies, Juniors and Cadets,
held an inter-troup meeting to
celebrate the birthday anniver
sary of their founder Juliette
Gordon Low.
The girls were interested to
learn that their founder’s par
ents were one time owners of a
home and resided in Bryan
County. The former home of
the W. W. Gordons, parents of
Juliette Gordon Low, built in
1850, is located at Folly Farms,
formerly Myrtle Grove Planta
tion, in Bryan Neck. It is pres
ently the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter W. Meeks. Earlier,
records show the site to be part
of an original land grant to
Colonial Governor John Reyn
olds by King George II of Eng
land.
The Girl Scouts centered
their celebration around sta
tions of learning which includ
ed studies of their founder’s
life and family, their World
Friendship Fund, facts about
the American flag and partici
pation in dramatics.
The group enjoyed some Hal
loween fun and ended their
meet with refreshments which
included a birthday cake.
The program was planned
and coordinated by Mrs. Roy
Williams, community scout di
rector. She was assisted by
leaders Mrs. E. C. Robinson,
Mrs. Michael Hamilton, Mrs.
Billy McTeer, Mrs. Rothell
Wasson and new Brownie as
sistant leader, Mrs. Dorothy
Allen.
R. 11. Halloween
Carnival
Includes Supper
Friday night the annual Hal
loween Carnival is being stag
er! at the Richmond Hill School.
Beginning at 6:00 p.m., a
spaghetti supper will be serv
ed in the lunchroom. Donations
are SI.OO for adults, 50c for
students and 25c for pre-school-,
ers. Come and treat the family
to a dinner out. All proceeds
go to benefit the school.
You will also enjoy the des
s«rt shop. It will be set up on
one side of the lunchroom.
Homemade goodies with plerffv
of coffee will be available. Join
your friends for dinner, dessert
and coffee — either or both.
Relax while the youngsters en
joy supervised Halloween fun.
Many booths are nearing
completion. Students, teachers
and parents are working hard
to put on the best carnival ever.
Help by participating in some
way.
Richmond Hill
Teams Announce
Captains
The captain of the girls’
basketball team this year is
Elaine Ellis, a senior. Serving
as co-captain is Brenda Davis.
Leading the boys' team is
Gary Bashlor, David Groves is
co-captain.
Coach Jimmy Giles announc
ed the schedule of games near
completion, and that both.
teams are looking forward to
beginning the season.
The first game is scheduled
to be played at home, Tuesday,
Nov. 4, when the Richmond Hill
Wildcats face the Ludowici
tea ms.
All games begin at 7:00 p.m.
Schedule Os
4-H Clubs
George Washington Carver
—first Tuesday in each month.
Pembroke High School —
first Wednesday in each
month.
Black Creek School—second
Tuesday in each month.
Bryan County High School
—second Wednesday in each
month.
Richmond Hill High School
—second Friday in each
month.
4-H Chib
Announces Officers
The Richmond Hill Fifth
Grade 4-H club has announ
ced their new slate of officers
for the 1969-1970 year. They
are are follows: Chip Foster,
President; Pam Darieng, Girl’s
Vice President; Chris Darieng,
Boy’s Vice President; Janet
Fox. Secretary-Treasurer; Ste
wart Schwabe, Reporter; and
Billy Sheppard, Parliamen
tarian.
Richmond Hill
P.T.A. Highlights
At a recent meeting State
Patrol Sgt. Griffen, district
supervisor for Safety Educa
tion and Public Relations, spoke
to a large group of interested
parents and teachers on the
need for school safety patrols,
explaining the training pro
gram and duties of these
youngsters.
The Richmond Hill P.T.A.
Executive Board recommended
that the local unit sponsor and
equip ten safety patrols for the
school. This recommendation
was passed and is being imple
mented.
A recommendation was also
passed to buy a book cart for
the school for the purpose of
more efficient, and effective use
of reference books dictionaries
and other materials.
Principal Roger Jessup an
nounced 534 students currently
enrolled at the school with the
average daily attendance run
ning near 98 per cent. Enroll
ment is lower than last year,
but daily attendance average
is higher.
Richmond Hill
Man Killed
In Vietnam
Sgt. Harry Lee Boles, son of
Leslie S. Boles and the late
Janie Mae Boles, was buried
with full military honors on
Saturday, October 18, 1969 at
Bryan Neck Baptist Church.
Rev. Pete Broxton delivered the
eulogy.
He was inducted into the
Army on August 4, 1965. His
assignments took him to Korea,
Germany and recently into Viet
Nam. Leaving for Viet Nam
on August 16, Sgt. Boles was
killed in combat instantly Oc
tober 3.
Born November 14, 1944, Sgt.
Boles was a graduate of George
. Washington High School near
. Richmond Hill. Before his in
duction he was an employee of
( Union Camp Corporation of
Savannah.
। Survivors include his father,
. Leslie S. Boles; stepmother,
Mrs. Alease M. Boles; three
. sisters, Misses Albirda, Karen
, and Christine Boles; one step
sister, Miss Maria Myers; three
brothers, Samuel Boles, Jr.,
। Airman George Boles and
Isaiah Boles all of Richmond
. Hill.
Richmond Hill
P.T.A. Officers
Attend Dist. Meet
Last Saturday, Richmond
Hill P.T.A. president, Mrs. Fred
Newlin; vice president, Mrs.
Robert Parker, and secretary
treasurer, Mrs. Theron Darieng
attended the District Meeting
of the Parent-Teachers Asso
ciation held at Jenkins High
School in Savannah.
The main speaker at this
meeting was Mr. Jerry Meri
dith, representing the Uptight
Crisis Center. He explained
purposes of the center and
problems faced by youth involv
ed in illegal use of drugs.
Mrs. Newlin, quoting Mr.
Meridith at a recent local meet
ing, related that even more im
portant than parents loving
their children is that parents
love each other. All agreed that
Mr. Meridith had indeed given
food for thought.
Richmond Hill
Basketball
Schedule
Nov, 4—Ludowici, home
Nov. 7—Darien, away
Nov. 11—Marvin Pittman
(boys), St. Vincent (girls),
home
Nov. 18—Bryan County,
away
Nov. 25—Ludowici, away
Dec. 2—Bradwell Institute,
away
Dec. 9—Bryan County, home
Dec. 12—Marvin Pittman,
away
Dec. 16—Bradwell Institute,
home
Jan. 6—Hardeeville, S. C.,
away
Jan. 9—Ludowici, away
Jan. 16 — Bluffton, S. C.
away
Jan. 17—Savannah Country
Day, home
Jan. 20—Ludowici, home
Jan. 23 — Bluffton, S. C„
home
Feb. 3 — Hardeeville, S. C.
home
Feb. 7 —Savannah Country
Day, away
Feb. 10—Darien, home.
Richmond Hill To
Get New Residents
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Sebas
tian of Newtown Square, Pa.
enjoyed a delightful week in
Richmond Hill, as the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Rush
ing.
The Sabastians were return
ing home from a three week
tour of the southern part of
U. S. including a three day
stop-over in Las Vegas and
several days in Mexico.
Last month the Rushings and
Sebastians toured the coast
line of Florida, all the way
to Key West.
Os all the states visited, the
Sebastians prefer Florida and
Georgia and are looking for
ward to settling in the Rich
mond Hill area in the near
future.
Richmond Hill
Honor Roll
First Six Weeks
sth Grade: Pam Darieng,
Chip Foster, Janet Fox, Kelly
Henderson.
6th Grade: Becky Newlin,
Lyn Black, Cindy Kinard.
7th Grade: Susan Ellis, Julie
Foster, Debbie Hennessee, Pam
Hester, Andre Hollis, Fred
Newlin, Jo Ann Robinson.
Bth Grade: Karen Skinner,
Kim Henderson.
9th Grade: Alex Scott, Deb
orah Shuman.
11th Grade: Paul Rahn,
Maria Myers.
Card Os Thanks
I wish to thank everyone
for being so nice to me dur
ing my surgery and stay in
the Warren Candler Hospital.
Thanking them the Drs.,
nurses relatives and friends
for the flowers, cards, calls
and prayers and visits.
May God bless each of you.
Mrs. J. E. “Nell” Strickland
Mrs. Harry Gill,
Sr. In Hospital
Friends of Mrs. Harry Gill,
Sr. of Richmond Hill will be
sorry to learn that she is again
hospitalized.
She was admitted to St.
Joseph's Hospital Sunday’night'
and her family reports her con
dition slightly -improved.
Miss Delia Lane of Jackson
ville, Fla. is home visiting her
mother, Mrs. Carlos Lane, who
is in the Bulloch County Hos
pital.
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Carter
of Macon, Ga., visited over the
week-end with Mr. Carter’s
uncle Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Port
erfield.
Mr. James W. Sikes Jr. of
Pembroke has been admitted to
Walter Reed Hospital for test
and x-rays.
Mrs. Douglas Crowe is a pati
ent in Memorial Medical Cen
ter in Savannah. She has un
dergone surgery.
Mrs. Ida Pearl Conley, one
of the supervisors at the Pem
broke Manufacturing Company
is a patient in the Bulloch
County Hospital. All of her
friends wish her a quick re
covery.
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Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies will be dedicated Friday, Oct. 31. The handsome 10 story
library is considered one of the finest university libraries in the country. It will hold over a million
volumes and will seat 1,500 persons. The top floor will house the papers and collections of
Georgia's great literary figures. A balcony around the floor provides a spectacular view of the
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ATLANTA (PRN) -
Railroading has come in for an
unusual amount of attention
in Georgia this month and I
like to think it is because of
our increasing importance in
transportation.
The National
Transportation Conference
met in Atlanta last week as did
the American Association of
Passenger Traffic Officers.
Next week, a special
British-
American
trade ex
hibit, pull
ed by the
world
famous
Flying
Scotsman,
will visit
Atlanta. On
top of all
that this year marks the 75th
anniversary of Southern
Railway System.
Atlanta and Georgia have
come a long way from the
little railroad town of
Terminus that made Atlanta a
transportation hub.
And, now Atlanta, and
most of the rest of the great
state of Georgia, is moving full
steam ahead to bigger and
better things. Our one-time
image as a narrow gauge
puffer-belly has long since
been dispelled, and our State
is fast becoming recognized as
the modern engine of
opportunity and
progressiveness that it is.
Before the steam engine
was developed and perfected,
only those cities located on
the Great Lakes, by the sea or
on a large river had much of a
chance of growing and
prospering.
Georgia’s oldest city.
Savannah, was the only city of
any importance in our State
for a long time because it
could receive ships on the
Atlantic.
But, those rough and ready
railroaders of yesteryear
accepted geography as a
challenge, rather than as a
limitation.
They literally moved
mountains to put down the
track which was to make the
settlement of the land west of
the Mississippi a reality instead
of a fool’s dream.
And, once these
sometimes-crude tracks were
laid, the men who took the
old steam engines through on
them had to be adventurers,
too. Fighting Indians,
mudslides, rockslides,
washouts, outlaws, buffalo
and blizzards was no job for
the meek or the cowardly.
Because these early
railroaders did accept the
challenge and succeed, and
because men and women of
the railroad today have carried
on that proud tradition passed
on to them, ours has become
the most prosperous nation on
the face of the earth.
Railroaders didn’t do the
job all by themselves, but they
certainly deserve a large share
of the credit for what America
is today.
Even in modem days, both
in peacetime and while we
have been at war, the railroads
have served our country well.
But, I cannot honestly say
that our country has done the
same for railroads.
When any competitor in
the American private free
enterprise system becomes too
bogged down by governmental
bueaucracy, it really has to
struggle to stay strong. It goes
without saying that railroads
have had more than their share
of governmental interference.
Many regulations have been
necessary for the protection of
the general public, but some
of the regulations and
restrictions imposed upon our
railroads seem to be designed
to serve politicians instead of
the people.
That’s not only true in
railroad industry, but in
virtually every business and
industry in our country today.
I understand that the
all-powerful pharaohs of
Ancient Egypt used thousands
of slaves to build the pyramids
in their honor, and, when a
project was completed, the
slaves were executed. They
were no longer needed, and
their knowledge of the secrets
contained in the gignatic
monuments were believed to
be better kept by dead men.
In away, this seems to be
the attitude of some in our
own federal government
toward the men and women
who have dreamed, planned,
sweated and toiled to build
this great nation, a monument
to free men everywhere, under
the private free enterprise
system.
Some politicians and
short-sighted bureaucrats seem
to be saying that the project is
finished now, and so you
people who have worked so
hard for so long are no longer
needed.
They are ready to kill off
initiative.
They are ready to execute
enterprise.
They are ready to slaughter
personal ambition.
They seem to fear the
profit motive.
Well, maybe a pyramid
didn’t require much
maintenance, but you had
better believe that the
economy of the United States
of America cannot survive
without the devoted attention
of men and women who are
the builders of the movement,
who know it and who love it.
During the infancy of this
nation, governments at all
levels courted the railroads.
Railroad companies were given
free rights of way, in many
instances, and government
subsidies were numerous.
Small wars were waged
between towns competing for
a railway line and personal
fortunes were risked without
the blink of an eye.
The railroads came.
They hauled the cattle and
the timber from the West and
the steel and manufactured
goods from the East. They
connected Chicago with New
York, Dallas with Seattle, and
Atlanta with Baltimore.
They helped us to win
World War I and World War 11.
Yes, railroads have
provided, and are still
providing, an invaluable
service to our country, just as
the thousands of other private
industries have contributed to
America's greatness.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Dal
ton Griner for the past two
weeks have been their son.
Capt. and Mrs. Harry D.
Griner and children Rocky and
Janice from Chanute A.F.8.,
Rantoul, 111. They plan to
leave on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Ander
son of Pembroke attended the
funeral of Mrs. Anderson’s
uncle, Mr. Shelly T. Waters
of Brooklet, Sunday afternoon.
Services were held at the
Brooklet Primitive Baptist
Church at 4 p.m.
Mrs. George Sikes of Savan
nah, Ga. is a patient in Me
morial Medical Center, where
phe will undergo surgery. Mrs.
Sikes is the aunt of Mrs. J. A.
Hill.
Col. J. H. Carter, brother of
.Mrs. J. U. Williamson is in
Hunter Air Force Base Hos
pital in Savannah. His condi
tion is critical.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Futch and
family and Mrs. Dan Futch of
Leesburg, Fla. were here last
week-end to attend the Futch
Reunion.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Hughes Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. S. E. Akins of Stilson.
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Levi's Casual Slacks, pnd Jeans
Hush Puppies by Wolverine
Work Shoes and Boots
Cowboy Boots, All Sizes by Acme
Dress Hats, Wide and Narrow Brim
Suits, Sport Coats by Sewell
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Friends of Mrs. Nannie Bur
pitt of Kingsport, Tenn, will
regret to learn she has had
the misfortune of falling down
the steps and breaking her
arm last week. Mrs. Burpitt
makes her home with her son
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burpitt
and family of Kingsport, Teas.
Mrs. Ronald Harvey’s
father, Mr. B. F. Roberts of
Ellabell celebrated his sixty
seventh birthday last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Griner
and Capt. and Mrs. Harry D.
Griner, Rocky & Janice visit
ed in Jacksonville, Fla. last
week-end. ’While there they
visited Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Succop and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Bryant
Mrs. Tiny Finley of Savan
nah is making her home with
Miss Ann Parrish for a while.
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