50 Years Ago: May 28, 1974

POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE ’74
Dublin High
Graduation for Dublin High School seniors will be held on Friday, May 31, at 8:00 p.m. at the Dublin High School Gymnasium, Principal Walter Foy announced today.
Using as their theme a quotation by John Dewey,”Education is not preparation for life; it is life itself,” the top honor graduates will present the program.
These students are Cathy Hickman, Bill McLees, Mary Pat Jones, Sara Freeman, Susan Sapp, Jean Sculati, and Tina Price.
Other honor graduates are Charles Dalziel, Tom Easterly, Randy Graham, Scott Thompson, Andy Williamson, and Bobby Wyatt. To be in the honor group, a student must maintain an average of 90 or above for the four years of high school.
It has been requested that pictures be taken after the ceremony, not during the exercises.
High School diplomas will be given to 172 seniors graduating from Dublin High.
West Laurens
West Laurens High school will graduate 163 seniors on Friday night at commencement exercises at 8:30 in the school gym.
Top honor graduates, Juanita Ikner, Kathy Holland Nancy Lord, and Kirk Hogan, will speak on “Living Free – but Responsibly,” the theme of the exercises.
Other honor graduates include Karen Baggett, Debra Faye Clark, Ora Christine Clark, Randy Earl Dominy, Diane Harden, Jerry Eldridge Hatcher, Mary Elizabeth Jones, Myrtle Ann Lee,
Martha Elizabeth Miller, Millie Mullis Branch, Susan Elaine Raffield, Rhonda Lou Roach, Roy Raymond Sabine, Jr., Wilford Smith, John McKinley Warren, III, and Shelia Faye Windham.
A duet, “My God and I,” will be presented by Karen Baggett and Ora Clark.
Diplomas will be presented by William P. Johnson, Laurens County School Superintendent, following the presentation of the seniors by J. Alex Woodard, Principal.
East Laurens
East Laurens High School will graduate 70 seniors on Thursday night in graduation exercises at the new gymnasium on the school campus. The ceremonies begin at 8:00 p.m.
Diplomas will be presented by William P. Johnson, Superintendent of Laurens County Schools, following addresses on the theme, “Keys to Successful Living” by the honor graduates.
Honor graduates are Kathy Webb, Beverly Fulford, Mary Ann Logue, Delane Holland, Lynn Faircloth, Jimmy Garrett, Thelma Blue, Lynn Daniels, Johnny Graham, Herman Hudson, Cheryl Moss, Patty Pawn,and Benji Bradshaw.
East Laurens School Principal J.M. Warren, Jr. will present awards to special graduates. Lynn Daniels and Kathy Webb will provide an instrumental number .
Mary Graham, Patricia Richardson, Karen Lord, Judy Brown, Larry Montford, Kelvin Wright, Willis Holland,and Mike Sheppard will serve as ushers.
David Brown will give the Welcome and Barbara Knight will introduce the Honor Graduates. The Invocation will be given by Jerry Pooler with Willie Gene Williams giving the Benediction.
Josey Christian
Graduating from Josey Christian Academy at exercises on Thursday night at Josey Athletic Field will be Matthew Bailey, Kathy Canady, Bob Creel, Karen Crow, Kathy Fountain, Debra Graham, Mike Harper, Sydney Kyzer, Steve Lewis, Michael Stephens, Sandra Tickle, and Clifton Wilkinson, Jr.
Kathy Canady, first honor graduate,will give the honor address. Appreciation will be expressed by Kathy Fountain. Bob Creel will lead the senior class in singing “Graduation Day.”
Honor graduates are Kathy Canady, Karen Crow, Kathy Fountain, Debra Graham, Steve Lewis, and Sandra Tickle.
Board of Directors President Ben Hutchings will make the diploma presentations. Awards and presentation of the class will be made by Bobby G. Spivey, Josey Headmaster.
The main address of the evening will be delivered by Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox, who will be introduced b Sydney Kyzer.
Ushers for the program will be Deborah Garrett, Mike Killingsworth, Marcia Martin, Randy Murphy, Anita Philips, Sonny Spivey,and Allen Williams.
The Invocation will be given by Steve Lewis and the Benediction by Michael Stephens. Karen Crow will give the Welcome Address.

DUBLIN REELS FROM STORM
“I’m just glad I’m alive,” said William Dent, standing beside his overturned mobile home in the Clearview Trailer Court of Telfair Street on Sunday evening.
Dent and his wife, Doris, were relaxing in their mobile home when the tempest-like storm hit Dublin about 6:30 Sunday afternoon. “I was in the living room watching television. My wife was in the kitchen when the trailer stared shaking. I hollered at her to lie down on the floor,” Dent recounted. At that time, the winds lifted Dent’s trailer from its blocks and dropped it upside down a few feet away.
Another home in the park was also destroyed. Its occupants were out of town at the time.
The two trailers in the Clearview Court were among more than a half dozen mobile homes which were demolished in the Dublin area Sunday afternoon when the furious winds and driving rains came. More than an inch and a half of rain was dumped on the area during the storm.
The brunt of the storm followed a course about a mile south of Bellevue Avenue traveling easterly. Very slight damage was reported in the rest of Laurens County, with damage limited to blown over trees and a mangled barn roof.
Immediate estimates of damage following the storm were placed at $100,000 by the Dublin Police Department. More than fifteen persons were left homeless. There were three injuries reported. Mr. and Mrs. Dent were both injur ed slightly. Mrs.Dent was treated and released at Laurens Memorial Hospital for leg injuries. Her husband received a small cut on the hand and a blow on the back of his head.
The hardest hit area was Fair Street where a three-unit apartment building was blown down. Zosca Stanley, 7, an occupant of one of the apartments, was treated for arm injuries.
The roof of the apartment building was taken off and thrown against a neighboring house owned by Johnnie Lattimore. No one in the Lattimore house was injured. The back wall of the apartment house fell down, scattering debris over a two block area. Lattimore’s car and chicken pen were covered by flying portions of the apartment roof.
In East Dublin, damage was scattered. Three trailers were destroyed at Upside Down Charlie Mobile Homes on Central Drive, and a trailer was blown off its blocks at Warnock’s Trailer Park. Utility wires were blown down on Larsen Street and King’s Drive, with the hardest hit area being the intersection of Poplar and Clover streets. Power lines snapped by falling limbs an trees posed a threat along Clover Street and in numerous other places around town.
A spokesman for the Georgia Power Company reported this morning that repair crews worked around the clock to restore services to cut off customers. Only a few houses remain without lights this morning, the spokesman added.
Trees were blown down over a wide area causing city sanitation crews to be called to work Sunday evening to clear fallen branches and trees from streets.
Dublin Police Chief Vernon DeLoach praised his department and the Dublin Fire Department for the fast and efficient manner in which they handled the situation.
No official report has been made about the nature of the storm, but the damage was caused by high winds, not a tornado, most observers agree.

WORKERS CLEAR UP DEBRIS
The storm is now long gone, but the aftermath remains, and according to City Manager Jack Crane, street and sanitation department crews will work throughout the week removing fallen limbs and trees around the city.
The street department will work with the sanitation department getting debris up and disposed of, Crane said. Clean up efforts will be concentrated in the hard-hit Woodard and Garner Streets, but the remains of the storm, which cover the entire city, should be removed by the end of the week.
Crane asked the indulgence and cooperation of persons who have rubbish to be picked up. He said that limbs and trees should be cut into four foot sections and placed next to, not in, the street for quicker pick up. He added that the storm clean up will slow down normal operations in the street and sanitation departments, but normal garbage pick up should not be hindered.
Crane added that placing limbs in the street not only creates a traffic hazard and stops up storm drainage, but also is a violation of a city ordinance.
The City manager took the opportunity to thank city employees who worked until midnight clearing away fallen limbs and making city streets passable.

GOLF HIGHLIGHTS DUBLIN INDUSTRY
The Industry Appreciation Week, sponsored by the Dublin-Laurens County Chamber of Commerce, employed the golf tournament held yesterday at the Dublin Country Club which was a huge success as Dublin and Laurens County businessmen blended with the area’s industrial people, enjoying the 18-hole tournament and the dinner and festivities afterwards.
Using the Callaway system of scoring, Emory Lake, W.L. Wilkes, and John Edenfield were the championship flight winners.
Henry Cantera, with a 71, was the medalist.
Other winners were as follows:
First Flight – Louis Alexander, Hoyt Peppers, and Bill Lovett
Second Flight – Louie Livingston, Phillip Baker, and Jack Simons
Third Flight – Howell Chambliss, Allen Thomas, and Benny Davis
Fourth Flight – Jerry Keith, Bob Price, and Harold Duncan
Fifth Flight – Don Bradell, John Dowdy, and Bob Walker
Sixth Flight – Ed Head, Ed Neighbors, and Roy Chappell
Luther Tomlinson won the longest drive on No. nine contest, hitting the ball 301 yards while McGrath Keen was closest to the pin on No. six, and Jerry Keith was closest to the pin on No. 17. Thomas J. Perry was the bogey hole winner.
Among the door prize winners were Tom Kellam, McGrath Keen, David Taylor, Bob Walker, Thomas J. Perry, Jimmy Wyatt, Don Tanner, Bush Perry, Billy Brown, Don Bradell, Julius Lynn, W.L. Wilkes, Bob Nelson, John Dowdy, Dr. Newman Lozier, Hoyt Peppers, Louie Livingston, Henry Cox, Bill Andre, Bobby Cochran, Foster Blue, M.G. Combs, and Hughes Ward.
Firms participating in the prizes included Alexander Office Equipment, Alprodco Gate Manufacturing, Barwick Furniture, Biljo, Inc., Brown Furniture Co., C & S Bank, Dublin Forest Products, Dublin Garment Co., Dublin Mall Merchants, Dunn’s,
Ed Powel TV and Electronics, Evans Cabinet Co., F & M Bank, Georgia Plywood Corporation, Georgia Power Co., Hogan-Scarboro Corp., J.P. Stevens, Co., Inc., Laurens Park Mill, Lovett & Tharpe, Maxwell Brothers Furniture, Morris State Bank, Nyanza, Inc.,
Oconee Electric Membership Corp., Pyr-A -Larm, Shamrock of Dublin, Ltd., Smith Jewelers, Southern Printing Co., Southern Sales Co., Strange Drugs, Uniroyal, Inc., F.W. Woolworth, Co., Edenfield Vending Co., ARA, and The Macke Company of Dublin.
Before the prizes were awarded by M.Z. “Brother” Claxton, Louie Livingston, Chairman of the Industrial Committee of the Dublin-Laurens County Chamber of Commerce, and McGrath Keen, President of the Chamber of Commerce, made short talks pointing out the importance of industry to the community.

QUALIFYING FOR RACES
Qualifying for strictly local offices for the Democratic and Republican Primaries will be limited to two different set of offices, according to Laurens Ordinary Ray Camp.
Two members of the Laurens County Board of Education are slated to run for nomination in the primary. The two whose terms are nearing an end are Jimmy Stinson and Robert Lord.
Both Republicans and Democrats can nominate candidates for the two posts in primaries that will be held the same day.
Members of the Laurens County Democratic Executive Committee will also have to qualify to run for places on the committee. Committeemen for the
Executive Committee are elected in the primary. Whether or not the Republican Party in the county will have candidates for their executive committee is not known.
The qualifying fee for the school board races is $25. For Executive Committee posts for the Democrats, the fee is $1. The last day to qualify for any of the posts is 12 noon, June 12th. Ordinary Camp said that candidates could start qualifying on Monday at 8:30 in his office.
Members of the House and Senate in the General Assembly qualify with the state not with the county, Ordinary Camp stated.

PILOT CLUB OFFICERS
Officers for the 1974-75 Pilot Club were recently elected and are Lorene Rowe, President; Lina Faulk, Vice President; Nell Daniels, Corresponding Secretary; Nancy Stinson, Recording Secretary; Frances Reinhardt, Treasurer; Luelle Pinholster, Director; Imogene Wells, Director, Amy Cannon, Director; Carol Craig, Director; and Betty Parker, Director.

DUBLIN SERVICE LEAGUE
The Dublin Service League met on Thursday, May 9th, at the Dublin Country Club for its annual business meeting. Mrs. Malcom Towson, President, welcomed the members, new members, and these retired members, Mrs. Louie Curry, Mrs. Richard Graves, Mrs. Robert Hammond, and Mrs. George Spicer.
Members who will retire this year were also recognized and are Miss Sophia Benchina, Mrs. Fulton Glenn, Mrs. Thomas Kellam, Mrs. Don Lamb, Mrs. Thomas Patterson, Mrs. Quentin Price, Mrs. Derrell Smalley, and Mrs. Barron Smith.
The Scholarship Committee announced that the recipients of the Service League Freshman Scholarships are John Anderson, Sara Ann Freeman,Tommy McTier, and Linda Martin.
Officers for the 1974-75 were installed by Mrs. Richard Graves and are Mrs. Paul Kellam, President; Mrs. James Kibler, Vice President; Mrs. Harvey Willis, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Warren Carswell, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Arnold Adams, Treasurer; Mrs. James Garner, Reporter; Mrs. Joe Uliano, Historian; and Mrs. Dale Thompson, Parliamentarian.

ENGAGEMENT
Harden – Young
Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Harden of Dudley announce the engagement of their daughter, Diane, to Edward Earl Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Young of Dublin.
Miss Harden will graduate from West Laurens High School on May 31st and is employed by the Bank of Dudley.
The future bridegroom also will graduate from West Laurens High School on May 31st.
The wedding will be on June 14th at eight o’clock p.m. at the Dudley Methodist Church. No formal invitations will be sent, but all friends and relatives are invited.

OUR MEN IN SERVICE
Ft. Ord, Califonia – Army Private Eddie L. Fuqua, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Fuqua, 1518 Academy Avenue, Dublin,Georgia, completed a basic army administration course at Ft.Ord, California.

Marine Private Rufus C. Hubbard of 32 William Street, Dublin Georgia, graduated from recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina.

Joyce Ann Duffie, daughter of Clinton Duffie, East Dublin, Georgia, has recently completed training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She is the granddaughter of Georgia Mae Duffie and is a graduate of East Laurens High School.

Mildenhall, England – Staff Sergeant Will O. Holloway, whose wife, Rubye, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Davis of 408 Vine Street, Dublin, Georgia, is a member of the 513th Tactical Airlight Wing that was recently presented the U.S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.
Sergeant Holloway is a vehicle mechanic at Mildenhall RAF Station, England, with the 513 which was cited for meritorious service in support of U.S. Air Forces in Europe from July 1, 1972, to June 30, 1972.

CIVITANS INSTALL OFFICERS
State Court Judge W.M. Towson was installed as President of the Dublin Civitan Club last night at the annual Ladies Night. Other officers installed were Darrell Stephens, President-elect; Kenneth English, Secretary-treasurer; the Rev. Jim Rush, Chaplain; and Emory Lake, Sergeant-at -arms.
Retiring Civitan President Reuben Wells is the Chairman of the Board of the Dublin Civitans, and members include Caulion Peacock, Vernon DeLoach, James Hudson, and Emory Lake. The officers were installed by Billy Smith of Albany, Governor-elect of the South Georgia District of the Civitans.
Attendance awards were given to Wyatt Gordon, Earl Thomas, Wallace Miller, Reuben Wells, and Elbert Mullis. A special award went to James A. Hudson and Wallace Miller and two awards to Elbert Mullis, including one for selling over 1,000 fruit cakes last year.
Retiring President Wells challenged Civitans to work with the new officers to make the Dublin club even better than it is now.
Governor-elect Smith compared the Civitan Club to an auto race, saying the officers and members constituted the engine, the drive, and the pit crew that make winning a race possible
R. Lynn Wooddy, teacher in Dublin High School and Director of the plays produced by the Thespian troupe there, was named the Civitan’s Man of the Year and was presented a plaque.

E. LAURENS FHA ATTEND MEET
Members of the East Laurens Chapter of Future Homemakers who attended the annual State Convention were Gail Fulford, Deborah Baker, Beverly Fulford, and Karen Lord. Also attending were “The All Americans,” a band group started by the chapter, who presented the entertainment at the Friday night session. “The All Americans” are Beverly Fulford, Fred Young, Cammie Fennell, Teresa Lake, Greg Fennell, Delane Holland, Dan Young, and Parissa Fennell. The instrumentalists for the group are Judy Brown, Pianist; Joey Barwick, Lead Guitar; Frankie Faircloth, Bass Guitar; and Mike Sheppard, Drums.
At the Saturday morning District Breakfast, the East Laurens Chapter received awards for Camp Improvement Project for Camp John Hope, for State Degree Earners, Impact ’73, and for being an honor roll chapter.
The highlight of the convention came on Saturday night when Karen Lord was officially installed as the new State Future Homemaker President. Karen has been in FHA for three years and has served as secretary and as president of the chapter. She is the recipient of the Home Economics Award and is a state degree earner.
She is also an honor student, a member of Beta Club, where she is Club Projects Chairman, a Tri-Hi-Y Chaplain and scrapbook chairman. She is a member of the Student Council, 4-H, and the girls basketball team.
The FHA Advisor is Mrs. Jeanette Fulford.

EMERALD CLUB MEETING
The Emerald Business and Professional Women’s Club met in the home of Mrs. D.P. Little on Saturday. Mrs. D. H. Brown presided at the meeting, and after the devotional, the Minutes of the last proceedings were given by the Secretary, Mrs. Bernice T. Myers.
All standing committees made reports, and Miss Rebecca Ford spoke on the success of the fashion show given by the club. Plans for the annual club trip were discussed. This year the trip will be to Stone Mountain on June 8th.
The following members were present: Mesdames Hollingsworth, T.B. O’Neal, R. May, C.W. McGockton, N.J. Williams, A.M. Coates, E.B. Pooler, D.H. Brown, M.Q. Clark, S.H. Jordan, L.L. Perry, D.P. Little, B.T. Myers, M.L. Edwards, and Misses Harriett Mackey and Rebecca Ford.