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Newspaper Page TextPansy Planting । Time By Frances Meeks It seems lately, there’s been more writing than planting around our house. The pansy plants have just ■ been set though, and that’s a major accomplishment. Using well-marked soil and well-rot ted manure, they are sure to get a good start with plants be ing watered after they are set to settle roots and remove any possible air pockets. We try to remember, too, where we plant things; as plants like children, don’t thrive on good intentions. • Pansies are the most re warding annual to grow. Plants set after the weather turns cool begin to bloom by Christmas, usually, and continue to bloom, getting more bountiful and beautiful if kept picked, until hot weather does in the last one in late May—possibly June. When pansies fade, replant beds with zinnias and mari golds. With a little care the latter will bloom until pansy planting time comes again. Pansies aren’t really as deli cate as they seem. The pansy is Anchorage, Alaska’s adopted city flower, and even a short stay there reveals why. Al though not native to Alaska, once planted, they reseed them selves. Each May the little pansy seedlings come up so thick they must compete for light by climbing each other. Anchorage gardeners hardly ever devoted a planned bed to just pansies, but stuck them in as fillers among other plants to help achieve a more petal-to petal affect. While out planting pansies, try sprinkling a package of the new twinkle phlox on the soil. Not much soil preparation is needed. Just clear a spot and scatter the seed. Even if you forget where you planted them, come spring, they’ll remind you. Besides, they'll reseed them selves for years to come. It’s time to plant so many different seeds. Plant sweet peas, bachelor buttons, shirley poppies, California poppies and larkspur before it’s too late. Wildcat Spirit Soars At RHHS Rally It was a deafening, thunder ous roar! School spirit soared to new peaks, as was evident Tuesday afternoon at the pep rally staged by cheerleaders, teams and students of Rich mond Hill High School. Well planned and executed, the rally included introductions of students, cheerleaders, team members and coaches, plus a skit and a mock protest against Ludowici’s Blue Tide. School spirit carried over through gametime when Rich mond Hill basketball teams played Ludowici before one of the largest crowds of mostly Richmond Hill folks seen as sembled in a long time. Both teams lost in score by small margins, but the name of the real game was sports manship and Richmond Hill and Ludowici as well displayed it in good and wholesome amounts. R. H. Students Choose Class Representatives last week members of each respective high schol clas elect ed their class representatives. Nominations were made by fac ulty members from students meeting qualifications of good personality, good scholastic standing and good citizenship. Elected Mr. and Mrs. Eighth Grade were Karen Haymans and Tony Kicklighter. Miss Ninth Grade is Karen Boles and Mr. Ninth Grade is Steven Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. Tenth Grade are Lynda Jones and Dennis Rush ing. The Junior Class elected Randy Murray and Cindy Sims. Mr. and Miss High School Senior are Gary Bashlor and Elaine Ellis. Baptist Honors Rev. & Mrs. Byrd A reception honoring Rev. & Mrs. Glenn Byrd, and to wel come them to the Richmond Hill community was held Sunday afternoon from 3:00-5:00 in the social hall of the Richmond Hill Baptist Church. A large crowd attended and welcomed the new pastor and his family. Creative Writing 1 Stressed At R. H. School Recently, eighth grade stu dents of Mrs. Frances Meeks 1 completed interesting creative ’ writing assignments. The first 1 part of the writing experiment 1 was to write a dream each pupil 1 had actually experienced. This ' accomplished, the next assign ment was to write a poem tell ing the same dream in free verse style. The students had a great deal of fun with their learning ex perience, and in a recent dis cussion on American Education Week decided to try to get samples of their work publish ed. The first selection is a story by Tony Kicklighter, followed by a poem in free verse style by Albert Anderson. Both se lections were chosen by the Bth grade classmates of these two youngsters. MY DREAM By Tony Kicklighter, Grade 8 One night I dreamed I was an aquanaut in an underwater ex periment. We were on the Ben Franklin, a nuclear sub, cap able of reaching a depth of ten miles or more, when I was aroused by an alarm of danger —a strange being was present. In a flash I jumped in my scuba gear and was vaulting out of the door. My attention was focused around the kelp beds. I saw two gleaming blobs ' peering at me! I wheeled to retreat and 1 found great stinging tenacles wrapped around my leg. The monster and I were locked in ’ the fury of battle. Weakened and tired from my ■ underwater struggle, I became 1 very still. Mustering energy for ' one final blow, however, I man -1 aged to cut off one of the • streamy arms. Again, I struck savagely and gouged out one of his fiery eyes. He sank his teeth deeply into • my leg. The water turned a ' noxious red and tasted extreme ' ly bitter. In the end I was so badly mangled that I could barely swim away! In my last desperate kick I loosened rocks which fell on him. I barely escaped death, but the area was ridded of at least one monstrous devil-fish. DEATH RIDE By Albert Anderson, Grade 8 One night, while tossing and turning, I had a dream. My dream began with me as a man with the whole world at my command! I was sitting at the gears of a rail. “Lord, please, don’t let my ma chine fail.” I decided, to run two laps before the race, and started At a steady pace, then I be gan to climb. I desperately needed a little more time! Now the race was about to start, And I had to get there and do my part! The light went green, and you could see a thick smoke screen. My hands began to itch, and I felt my wheels as They dug a ditch. My ears were aware of sounds behind me. I could hear the crowd yelling for me to win. A car started ahead of my dragster, when suddenly, I had to do it—l had to go faster! Instantly, I realized I could not see. I thought the crowd was cheer ing for me. I felt my car begin to lift and I felt my life As it started to drift. When I could open my eyes, to my surprise, I saw a wall, and I heard the crowd’s cries! Then it happened to me, I hit the wall! I tried to get up, but couldn’t even crawl. Most of my body felt as light as my head. I thought but four words — “I KNOW I’m dead!” For Sale Harley Davidson Motorcycle M-SD) SIOO.OO. Electric Guitar and Amplifer $25.00 All in good condition. Contact Dennis Hughes, Rt. 1, Pembroke, Ga., Phone 842-2278. Andrew Johnson was the nation’s only ex-President to be elected to the Senate. R. H. Plans American Education Week Alease M. Boles, third grade teacher and chairman of the Richmond Hill School com mittee responsible for plan ning ways to promote and commemorate American Edu cation Week, has announced her committee’s plans. Roger W. Jessup, school principal, explained that American Education Week, an nually held the second week in November, is designed to focus the attention of the American public on the Na tion's schools and the busi ness the schools, our most im portant industry, are all about. “The committee proposes,” says committee member Mrs. Pearl Cook, "to bring to the attention of the public that, whether or not you have chil dren in school, America’s edu cational system is of great im portance to you, for a nation can only progress as her peo ple progress educationally.” Miss Launa Floyd, teacher aide, a talented artist and committee member, contribu ted three original, attention getting, bulletin board dis plays in the school’s hallways promoting education. On Monday each student re ceived a newsletter for their parents giving information concerning events planned for local commemoration of Amer ican Education Week. On Tuesday the committee distributed commemora tive bookmarks to all students. Two special events took place Wednesday. First, an art show in each classroom, judged by Mrs. Genie Garner , and a guest artist from Arm • strong College, was held. The . winning exhibits from each > class are on display in the school lunchroom. Plan to I see them when you visit the r school tomorrow. At 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, a > program was presented at a i special assembly of elemen tary pupils by second and third grades and their teach i' ers Mrs. Pearl Cook, Mrs. G. Maxwell, Miss Elizabeth Sepion and Mrs. Alease Boles. The playlets were the culmin ation of Social study units and were focused on highlights of the history of the American educationnal system. At a special high school as sembly, Thursday, the Future Teachers of America and the organization’s sponsor, Mrs. Frances Meeks, presented two speakers, Mr. Jim Nix, state biologist and superintendent of Bryan County Schools, Mr. J. R. DeLoach, each speaking on timely topics. Mr. DeLoach addressed the students on budgets and fin ancing problems of public schools. Mr. Nix showed an interest ing and educational film on pollution problems facing America and spoke an con servation measures needed, and some being undertaken to correct these problems of grave national as well as local concern. Tomorrow, Friday, Novem ber 14, the public is invited to an Open House at Rich mond Hill School from 1:30- 3:00 p.m. Visit the school and get a glimpse of education in action. The school wishes to thank local businessmen, Mr. E. C. Robinson and Mayor I. C. Casey, for their cooperation in helping to promote American Education Week on the tall Holiday Inn sign on Highway 17, south of Richmond Hill. R.H. Methodists Slate Annual Barbeque Mrs. John Heilman, president of the W.S.C.S. Woman’s Auxil iary of the United Methodist Church, announces the annual church barbeque to be held Sat urday, November 15, at the_ Curry Annex from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Donations are $1.50 for adults and SI.OO for children. Take-outs are available at noon. Local Boy In Vietnam U. S. ARMY, VIETNAM (AHTNC) — Army Specialist Four John H. Brown, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown, Route 1, Richmond Hill, Ga., was assigned as a gunner with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, October 13. Tax Revision Unit Reverses Its Stand ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - Hie Georgia Tax Revision Com mission, unsure of what affect some of its proposals would have, backtracked on two of them Monday and relegated one to the trash bin and the other to a subcommittee. It voted not to try and tie Georgia’s income tax system to that of the federal govern ment. It had voted to reconsider an earlier recommendation that the 3 per cent state sales tax be removed from food and prescription drugs. Instead, the commission ap pointed a subcommittee to study ways of giving tax re lief to those with low incomes and how to make up resulting loss in revenue. Exempting food and medi cine from die sales tax—cou pled with a one-half per cent increase in the tax on other items—was designed to ease the burden on poorer fami lies. However, the commission found it did not know how much money would be lost by the exemptions and how much would be gained with the increase. The commission was charged with finding ways to improve Georgia’s tax system without either decreasing or increas ing state revenues. Estimates were given to the commission earlier that the exemption proposal and the one-half per cent increase would balance out. But Rep. Howard Atherton told the commission Monday that the changes would leave the state with a loss of $8.5 million. He said additional money also would be required to em ploy 50 additional auditors to keep up with the food and drug exemptions. Rep. Al Holloway of Al bany, chairman of the com mission, told the group he was confused. “I’ve had three sets of fig ures in the last seven days,’’ he said. “How are we going to travel on that kind of esti mate?” He agreed that a subcom mittee should be formed to study the Question "in view of the complexities that have been thrust into the subject.” The committee at first was charged with looking into whether tax credits for low income groups on their food and drug sales taxes would be a better method of easing their tax load. However, at 'the suggestion of Atlanta businessman Jim Macobs, the subcommittee’s work was broadened to studying many matters of accomplishing the same purpose. The commission gave up on the income tax question after months of fruitless work. It had wanted to fie the state in come tax to that of the feder al government to simplify things both for the revenue department and the taxpayer. A side issue was help-middle income taxpayers with fami-- lies without increasing anyone else’s taxes too much. But experts said the matter in which the commission pro posed to accomplish its pur pose would increase the tax in some brackets by more than 30 per cent. The commission recently asked the revenue department to come up with a method that would work without an increase at any level. Depart ment experts said Monday they had been unable to ac complish the task. The vote to make no recom mendation on the income tax problem was unanimous. The commission recessed until Nov. 24. Pfc Lanier In Vietnam U. S. ARMY, VIETNAM (AHTNC) — Army Private First Class Dennis L. Lanier, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam E. Lanier, Sr., Route 1 Pembroke, Ga., was assigned October 12 to the American Division in Vietnam as a radio repairman. Jumbo, the most famous circus elephant, was brought to America in 1882 by P. T. Barnum, and its stuffed hide is still on exhibit at Tufts Col lege near Boston. Social Security Squibs Have more than thou Showest Speak less than thou knowest Lend less than thou owest So wisdom will growest. Growing in wisdom is one of the advantages that can, but does not always, come with increasing age. Some say that the very young seek to know it all, the younger adults assume they know it all and the truly wise know they will never know it all. Thus women begin to ask, as they grow older, what ad vantage is there for them to build up their own social se curity protection since they can count on collecting from their husband’s work. There really are some advantages — one big advantage is the fact you will not have to wait until your husband retires to begin collecting benefits. You can take your retirement as soon as you are 62 if you are so minded. And it will continue even though your husband doesn’t quit, or quits for a while and then goes back to work. Then too, you have protection against loss of in come if you get disabled be fore you’re 62, and your fam ily can count on help if you die. Your children can qualify for monthly payments on your account, even though their father is working and finan cially able to support them. Since no one knows what to morrow will bring insurance is a good thing to have — and social security insurance is one of the best. The social security representative comes to the Courthouse in Pem broke, Ga. on Monday, De cember 8, 1969. She’ll be there from 9:30 to 10:30 A.M. if you have any questions you’d like to have answered. Hearing Slated ROME (AP) - A hearing has been scheduled tentative ly ior Tuesday on a suit seek ing to force Gov. Lester Mad dox to allow anti-Vietnam war protestors to use the state Capitol grounds Nov 13. The suit was filed last Fri day by ihe Atlanta Vietnam Moratorium Committee and was transferred to Rome be cause U.S. District Court Judge Sidney 0. Smith was the only judge available to hear it. Maddox had told the protes tors he would permit them to use the Capitol for their de monstation if they would pledge allegiance to the Unit ed States flag and declare their support of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Funds Approved ATLANTA (UPI) - Federal funds were approved Monday for job training projects in Columbus, Cordele, Gaines ville and Tifton. Money totaling $258,974 in cluded under the Manpower Development and Training Act will be used to provide classroom-type training for some 90 underemployed or jobless Georgians. At Columbus, 20 persons will be trained as licensed practical nurses, and another 30 persons will be trained as licensed practical nurses at Cordele. • Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton will train 20 persons in a 48-week course in auto mechanips. RHHS Bov And Girl Os The Month The staff of “The Wildcat Spirit,” Richmond Hill High’s schol newspaper, chooses for each publication the boy and girl of the month. For November the girl of the month is Karen Boles, a ninth grader. Karen is a good stu dent, a considerate, kind and thoughtful person, and certain , ly worthy of this honor. Boy of the month is Gary Bashlor. Gary is a senior and a varsity basketball player. He enjoys hunting, fishing and skiing. He says government is his favorite subject and Mrs. Heilman his favorite teacher. Students like Gary and Karen leave ho generation gap. THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL, Thursday, November 13, 1969—1 Big Field Qualified For Race LUDOWICI—A field of 13 candidates have qualified for the five seats on the city council in the Dec. 3 city el ection here. Two others will seek the position of mayor. All five commission seats will be vacated and a new slate of officials will be seat ed in January. Clyde Gordon, a barbershop owner and an outgoing city councilman, will be a candi date to succeed Mayor Jake Godfrey, who has served as local mayor for over 20 years. Godfrey has declined to seek re-election. Opposing Gordon will be Jack Horne, an employe of ITT Rayonier in Jesup. Horne ran unsuccessfully for the Long County Commission last year. Seeking city council seats are Deputy Sheriff E. S. McGowan; W. M. (Brown) Jones, a sheriff here for 20 years and now a farmer; A. A. Billings, a fireman at Ft. Stewart; Kenneth Wilkes, an employe of Page Aircraft at Ft. Stewart and a local busi nessman; and A. W. Graham, owner of a local nursing home. Also Tommy Wingate and Tommy Howard, both employ ees at ITT Rayonier: Dean Horton, a bakery salesman; Willie Fred Johnson, a Page Aircraft employe; Roy Lee Miller and Gerald Nobles, both Ft. Stewart civilian workers; Marlin Brown, own er of a general store; and David Osborne, a fireman at Ft. Stewart. The five top vote receivers will be elected and will serve for four years. There arc some 900 qualified voters in the city. Outgoing council members, besides Mayor Godfrey and Gordon, are Robert Milton, A. G. Pinkston, D. C. Combs and Tyrone Shaw. 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