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’ ' dom-Meeks Smith Predicts Fruithd
Engagement Legislative Session
BAXLEY—Mr. and Mrs.
Woodrow Dick Purdom an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter. Carol Ann. to
Waldo Emest Meeks, son of
Mr and Mrs. Floyd M.
Meeks of Pembroke.
The wedding will be April
11 at 7 p.m. in the Baxley
First Baptist Church.
Miss Purdom. a graduate of
Appling County High School,
is a candidate for graduation
in June from Georgia South
ern College.
She is the granddaughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John
Marshall Tomme Sr. of La-
Grange and of the late Mr.
and Mrs. James Lewis Pur
dom Sr. of Nahunta.
A graduate of Effingham
County High School. Mr.
Meeks attended Georgia
Southern College and is a
candidate for graduation in
August from Savannah Tech
nical and Vocational School.
He is employed by Georgia
Pacific of Savannah.
Mr. Meeks is the grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. Emest Ne-
Smith of Statesboro and of
the late Mr. and Mrs. M. N.
Meeks of Brooklet.
Entire populations drag
through lives never completely
free of gnawing hunger or the
debilitating effects of sickness
horn of malnutrition, contagion
or both.
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Better looking in your kitchen.
ATLANTA (PRN) - Lt.
Gov. George T. Smith has
expressed optimism that,
despite the fact that this is an
election year, significant
legislation will emerge from
the current session of the
general assembly.
As for a progress report at a
press conference, the Lt. Gov.
pointed out that his
committee
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LT. GOV. SMITH
is -working
overtime
‘‘doing
their home
work”, and
he predicts
the final
three weeks
of the ses
sions will
be extreme
ly fruitful.
“Os course the major bill is
the Appropriations Bill, on
which budget hearings are still
in progress,” he said.
“This year the senate and
house Appropriations
Committees are holding joint
hearings which will not only
save time but also spare the
department heads from having
to make the same budget
presentations twice — once
before each committee as has
been the custom in the past,
“Smith added.
Asked to comment on the
most significant education
bills that have been passed by
the Senate this week, the Lt.
Governor listed the following:
Senate Bill 13, which
reduces the teacher-pupil ratio
to 1 to 25 in all grades from
1-12. At present the ratio is 1
to 25 in grades 8-12, and 1 to
28 in grades 1-7. This bill is
now in a sub-committee of the
House Education Committee.
Gov. Smith commented
that he has long advocated
reducing the ratio to 1 to 20
in the first three grades, and
he is hopeful that ultimately
Georgia can achieve this.
Senate Bill 223 increases
maintenance and operation
from $1,050 per state allowed
teacher to $1,350, effective
July 1, 1970. This bill is now
in the House Education
Committee.
Senate Bill 224 freezes
local support for education at
the present 18V4 percent under
the Minimum-Foundation
Program of Education
(MEPC). It also is in the House
Education Conmittee where a
compromise amendment is
being worked out.
“This bill, as passed by the
Senate, provides actual tax
release for the ad valorem
taxpayer.” Smith said, “since
the required percentage of
local support has been
increasing each year.'
Georgia Day Planned In Savannah
Savannah, Ga. (PRN)- The
237th anniversary of the
founding of Georgia will get
under way next week in
Savannah with great fanfare.
The Historic Savannah
Foundation is sponsoring a
week-long celebration from
February 8 - 15, highlighted
by a Georgia Day Luncheon
February 12ih featuring a
prominent speaker, two
downtown tours and a festive
Sunday on the waterfront.
Eighty organizations in
Savannah are expected to
participate with special
lectures, films, exhibits and
volunteers. The week,
commemorating General
James Oglethorpe’s historic
landing on the banks of the
Savannah River, will come
alive, especially for children.
An art show depicting this
period of history done by the
school children of Chatham
County will be on display at
the Oglethorpe Mall. A
restoration paint-in is on the
agenda for Saturday, February
14th. Youths will paint a
downtown house in an
authentic Savannah color to
the accompaniment of music
in the sqaure.
The Historic Savannah
Foundation is planning two
interesting tours. The first,
Friday February- 13th will
include residences, an office,
and a museum house, all in
candlelight. On Saturday,
February 14th an authentic
low country oyster roast in a
downtown square will precede
a walking tour of five
residences in that area. Gaiety
and pageantry will line the
Waterfront on Sunday the
15th. To the accompaniment
of orchestras, concessions
selling historic memorabilia,
baked goods, children’s
souvenirs, luncheon served by
a local restaurant, and
riverboat tours, General James
Edward Oglethorpe will land.
A colorful pageant reenacting
the founding of the colony
will entertain the crowds
lining the park.
History will take on a gay
and colorful mien the week of
February 8-15. There will be
something for everyone from
puppet shows to candlelight
tours. For further information
write the Historic Savannah
Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box
17 33, Savannah, Georgia
31402.
Paint Brush
Pointers
You’ve just put the final brush
stroke on that room you’ve been
painting! Doesn't it look marvelous
with that new crisp color on the walls?
You sigh the most satisfying sigh, and
flop down in the nearest easy chair.
Ah—comfort!
Before you get too settled, stop to
think —isn't there something you're
forgetting? Os course - the clean-up
job! Now for the great debate - should
you stash all the brushes in the base
ment and forget about them until
tomorrow, or should you clean them
and put them away? As in most cases,
procrastination is not the best policy.
The success of your future painting
sprees depends a lot on the shape of
your brushes, and the time to keep
them at their best is right now!
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If you have used a fast drying latex
paint, immediate cleaning is a must—
and it's simple. All you have to do is
wash the brushes with soap and water
and rinse them thoroughly.
If oil base paint was your choice,
first soak your brushes in the proper
solution turpentine or mineral spir
its for oil-base paint, enamel or var
nish; and alcohol for shellac. Some of
the new synthetic resin enamels
(epoxy, urethane, etc.l may require a
stronger solvent than mineral spirits.
Ask your paint dealer for the correct
type. Loosen the paint by working the
brush against the side of the container.
Remove stubborn paint that is caked
on the outside of the brush with a
putty knife. Then squeeze the brush
with your fingers to remove paint
from the heel of the brush. Repeat
this process until your brush is per
fectly clean. To remove excess clean-
ing solution, just brush the bristles
across a newspaper.
Al this point, the same rules apply
no matter what kind of paint has
been used. Rinse and comb bristles
into shape, let dry. and wrap in heavy
paper. Store the brush in either a sus
pended or a flat position to keep the
bristles straight.
If you have any brushes from a pre
vious paint job that are caked with
dried paint, you can put them back
into working order. There are three
types of cleaners available at paint or
hardware stores that will help you do
the job.
For nylon brushes, a solution of
water and a household cleaner with a
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trisodium phosphate base is often the
answer. Let the brushes soak over
night in the solution to loosen the
paint. After cleaning the brush, wash
it in detergent and water and let it dry.
Solvent liquid cleaners can be used
with any brush, regardless of what
type paint was used. Depending on
their strength, solvent cleaners take
at least twelve hours to soften the
paint.
Methylene chloride cleaners can be
used with equal success on oil base or
water base paints. This type of cleaner
works on a different principle-it
releases the bond between paint and
the bristles, and works in a short
/ol
amount of time - usually 15 or 25 min
utes. All you have to do is remove
paint with a wire brush or scraper.
Now you have the details. As soon
as you get up out of your chair, you
can start a clean-up program that will
make your brushes behave like new!
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Another season another rea
son lor making “wlwopee" is in
store this Christinas for young
sters gifted with relatives who
have young ideas about the
present Holiday happiness is
t he name of t lie game
One line of toys makes child's
play out of the age old shop
ping problem hv printing on
sw
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boxes the age level for which
the toy is intended Among
such popular pastimes for chil
dren are those produced by
Milton Bradley Company They
include board games, card
games, skill and action games,
puzzles and arts and activities,
which play delightfully into the
hands of youngsters of all ages
There are scores of appro
priate gifts lor which adults will
receive the season's greeting
and gratitud" of girls and boys
They should always Im- se
lected with the age of each child
in mind. And they’re relatively
inexpensive and easily avail
able. so the adults need not cut
any corners
MILLIONS FOR MILLIONS
During fiscal year 1969.
Catholic Relief Services dis
tributed $158.298.114 worth of
food, medicine*. clothing and
other supplies among 10 mil
lion poor people of all races
and religious in more than 70
con nt ries.
ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
A mercy airlift to Bia fra ns
blockaded by the Nigerian ci>il
war is financed by Joint Church
Aid I .S.A.. a consortium com
posed of Catholic Relief Ser
vices, the American Jewish
Committee and Prohsia n t
Church World Service. Bol
stering the work of European
church relief agencies, the
American consortium provides
food and medicine to Biafra's
war-plagued poor of ail ages
ami religions.
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Gov. Lester Maddox
Reports People
ATLANTA (p RN ) -
Government belongs to all of
us, not just those in office.
Each of us has as much equity
in our government as we do in
the homes and businesses we
love and want to protect.
Those in office react to
pressure, and the problems we
face in America today were
brought on because the wrong
people have been applying
that press
ure.
We need
more hard
working,
patriotic,
God-fearing
citizens like
yourselves
applying
the press
ure. Then
we would see this nation make
a quick about-face and start
returning to the principles of
love of country, love of God,
and pride of America -a
return to our heritage of
liberty.
Just as are other concerned
Georgians, I know you are
disturbed and alarmed by the
steady increase in crime we are
witnessing, in our city and
across the nation. Its evil
influence is felt in nearly every
home, in nearly every business
and school -- almost
everywhere we turn.
Crime is decaying the very
foundation of our democracy
with its ruthless attacks on
American society, turning
many streets into
battlegrounds and homes into
fortresses.
Professional criminals are
taking over many legitimate
businesses, spreading pain and
suffering through lethal
narcotics and drugs, forcing us
to pour millions of the
taxpayers’ dollars into the
fight to control them, and
moving our nation to the
brink of disaster.
At this very minute,
gangsters are circulating their
poison among the young
people in the Tenth Street
section of Atlanta, heedless of
the lives they destroy and the
heartbreak mothers and
fathers experience as they see
their children’s lives and
bodies being wasted by the
slow death of drugs.
We in the Maddox
Administration are wide
awake to what is happening,
and the budget I
recommended to the 1970
Georgia General Assembly
contained measures which will
work to head off this plague
of death and destruction
before it grows larger.
We have asked for funds to
add ten additional GBI agents,
to be assigned to a special unit
to combat organized crime
and the menace of illegal
narcotics.
We requested funds for 36
new positions to begin
operation of a new, 100-bed
Alcohol and Drug Unit at
Central State Hospital at
Milledgevillle.
We asked for funds to add
another qualified drug
inspector to the Pharmacy
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Board replacing an inspector
withdrawn by the U.S. Bureau
of Narcotics -■ who would visit
schools and organizations with
the facts about the dangers of
drugs.
Forward-looking Georgians
know that these additional
measures I have proposed will
go a long way toward slowing
down the ever-widening spiral
of crime and drug abuse that is
reaching into the lives of more
and more of our people each
day.
It won’t be an easy task.
The job can’t be done by any
group or interest working
independently.
But with the combined
efforts of local governments.
State Government, civic
organizations, and private
citizens, the moral and social
corruption inflicted upon us
by organized crime and
dangerous drugs can be
reduced - and maybe one day
eliminated.
The means to begin are in
the budget I have presented to
the General Assembly.
CALORIES 00 COUNT
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Topping off a nourishing
meal, two Latin American
youngsters solemnly satisfy a
sweet-tooth But not all chil
dren in developing regions are
so lucky. Millions suffer from
malnutrition that stunts their
bodies and dulls their minds.
For many, the calorie intake is
below the survival level.
To help remedy this tragic
situation. Catholic Relief Ser
vices provides noon meals for
almost 5 million children, re
gardless of race or religion, in
have-not countries worldwide.
Often, it’s a child's only meal
of the day.
You can join in easing the
hunger pangs of children in the
more than 70 countries assisted
by Catholic Relief Services by
contributing to the 24th annual
American Catholic Oversea-
Aid Fund Appeal from Marcl
Ist through Sth. Send you
donation to the nearest Cath,
lie church or to Catholic Ov<u
seas Aid. Empire State Rail,
ing New York. N. Y 10001
Even if it won’t, let them cm
cake, your gift will buy some
undernourished child his dad
bread
BILLIONS FOR RELIEF
Shipment* of food, medi
cine*. clothing and other Catho
lie Relief Service* *upplie* have
totaled a *laggrring $ 1.991. -
161.500 vin« the American
Catholic aid program
was inaugurated in 1913. 'To
join thi* mere' movement. *vnd
your contribution to the nearest
Catholic church or to Catholic
Overseas Aid Empire Stale
Building, V Vork. V V
