Abbeville Herald from Abbeville, Alabama • 1

fit hi and HistrJ NEWS VIEWS and GOSSIP By EDWARD DODD Pl -nitol Sluie v-r Two Birmingham Ministers To Lead First Baptist Revival Dr Hudson Baggett Editor town Alabama and they have of the state paper for Ala- three children ages 11 10 and bama Baptists and Asa Couch 6 Minister of Music at the Hun- Asa Couch has served as Street Baptist Church Minister of Music at the 3500 both of Birmingham will lead member Hunter Street Bap-Abbeville's First Baptist I tist Church for more than Church in revival during next eight years Twice he served week These visiting ministers in a comparable position at the Wallaces are coming As we stated last week Governor George Wallace and his candidate wife Lurleen will wind up their campaign with a visit to Abbeville late Monday afternoon of next week They will be on their way to Clayton where they will cast their ballot Tuesday I Volume 51 Number 44 Abbeville Alabama Thursday November 3 1966 ASA COUCH DR HUDSON BAGGETT First Baptist Church Changes Decision To Purchase Property morning A large gathering is anticipated to be on hand for this final appearance prior to election day nvg quarterback club notes Jimmy Crawford president of Abbeville Quarterback Club states that plans are well underway to feed a large number of football fans a chicken barbecue on Friday of next week This will be the final Voters To Use Four-Party Ballots In Tuesday's Election The voters of Henry County I Welcher Sheriff Bryant will use a four-party ballot Fleming Tax Assessor Dan will begin their services Sunday evening November 6 and conclude on Sunday morning November 13 This church has spent four days this week visiting members and prospective members in the interest df this revival Many of the members have committed themselves to pray a minimum of ten minutes each day for the past three weeks specifically for the revival Dr Baggett was elected the new editor of "The Alabama Baptist" less than a year ago For eight years prior to that he served as Professor of Religion at Samford University (Howard College) and before going to Samford he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Florence Alabama A native of Cullman County Alabama he holds a Bachelors degree from Howard College and the Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Theology degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Kentucky edness to assume at present in the light of other more pressing needs" and that (3) "we are convinced that the remodeling is more urgent than the acquisition of all the additional property" Stating that they felt "whatever action is taken must have ftp'1 the First Baptist Church of Dothan In addition he has served the Toulminville Church of Mobile the Lafayette Park Church cjf St Louis Missouri and the Sagamore Hill Church of Fort Worth Texas His training was received at Hardin-Simmons University Baylor University Eastern New Mexico University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas His music leadership in evangelistic efforts has carried him throughout the into Alaska and Australia A native of Big Spring Texas he and Mrs Couch have three children age 12 10 and 9 Pastor Skelton says First Baptist could not have a more attractive evangelistic team for a revival and that all people throughout this area are most cordially invited to attend any and all services Services will be held Sunday night at 6:00 pm Weekday morning services are set for am and weekday evening services at 7:15 pm The closing service will be at the regular Sunday morning hour of 11:00 am November 13 next Tuesday when they go to the polls for the General Election The Democratic Party will have a full slate of candidates for offices to be voted on the Republicans wilt have a partial slate the Third Party of America will have Abbeville's First Baptist Church has reduced the amount of property to be bought immediately in order to "proceed with all deliberate speed" in accomplishing the remodeling of the present buildings The decision made last Sunday evening approved the immediate purchase of the Crawford property but rescinded the decision to purchase the Espy and Methodist Parsonage property so as not to delay the remodeling by a too burdensome debt This action was recommended by the church's Negotiating Committee It was this same committee that recommended the purchase of all Capps Tax Collector Willie Griggs Commissioner District Two James Kirkland Commissioner District Four Chester Sanders School Board Place Two Wilton Holman Coroner Harpe Justice of the Peace Beat 4 On the ballot also will be the names of the Democratic Beat Committeemen There will be no opposition to these candidates as well as most of the others The Republican Party will game of the season that has been scheduled by the Yellow-jackets and will be one of the most interesting games of the season as Headland's Rams will visit the home stadium for the annual tilt between these two teams The QBers will begin serving chicken barbecue at the Abbeville High lunchroom at 3:00 pm and will continue until gametime at 7:30 Tickets may be obtained for the barbecue from any QB member or from the not just a majority but a strong majority of church members in full support of it" the Committee recommended the change in property to be purchased and that immediate action be taken to accomplish the remodeling of all the present facilities Fear was expressed that to carry out the previous decision to buy all three properties would delay this remodeling which was felt to be "more urgent" The Reverend Cole Skelton two candidates and the Independent Party will have only one that of Carl Ray Robinson candidate for governor On the Democratic ticket will be John Sparkman for United States Senator George Andrews for Congressman Third District and Mrs George (Lurleen) Wallace for Governor For Lieutenant Governor offer on the ballot the names of John Grenier who is seeking the seat held by John Sparkman United States Sen Baggett is one of Alabama's more popular preachers He is in great demand as an Interim-Pastor for churches especially in the Birmingham area He is married to the former June Stewart of Reel- three pieces of property earlier The recommended change MISS ELAINE HAYES GOOD CITIZENSHIP GIRL Miss Elaine Hayes a Senior at Abbeville High School was selected Good Citizenship Girl The Senior Class elected three girls and from these the faculty selected one Elaine was selected on dependability leadership and patriotism She is a member of Beta Club and the Abbeville High Marching Band Elaine is the daugh pastor of the church stated that "the church has worked prayed and dreamed hard and ator Jim Martin candidate for Governor Donald Collins Attorney General Alice Hudson State Auditor Jack Callaway State Treasurer Jodie Connell Associate Mem Albert Brewer Attorney General MacDonald Gallion State Auditor Melba Till Allen Secretary of State Mabel Amos State Treasurer Mrs Agnes Baggett Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone school Headland fans may obtain tickets at White-Vann or Headland Hardware Headland fans are invited to drop by early for their chicken barbecue Proceeds from the event will be used for the Abbeville Athletic Association nvg now we've heard of everything Last week in the Wiregrass Farmer Mrs Gordon Livingston gave a recipe for Corn Cob Jelly and they say it is a really good jelly For our Herald readers we are using this same feature was made "in light of several unanticipated developments" the report stated These developments were listed as (1) "strong opposition in the Methodist Church indicating that we will probably not be able to purchase that property according to the previously agreed upon price" (2) "it is also obvious that a large segment of First Jackets Down Wicksburg 45-13 Play Columbia Here Friday Night ter of Mr and Mrs Charles Hayes long to see the day when these important decisions might be made Although there is some disagreement as to just how much and when some of the action ought to take place this church is strongly united on the main thing the determination to provide adequate facilities for all the church's program'" Baptist members feel (that this week Miss Bea is a this is) too large an indebt-good friend of both the Her- ber of Public Service Commission Place Two Roger Clarke Sheriff of Henry County and (Myrt) Watford Commissioner District Four The Third Party of America has the names of only two candidates: Julian Elgin candidate for Governor and Clarence Kelley candidate for Henry County Commissioner District 4 There also will be a column for voters to write-in the names of candidates Voters will also have the opportunity of voting on six state-wide amendments which will appear on a separate For Commissioner of Agriculture Richard (Dick) Beard Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Place One Thomas Lawson Place Two Robert Simpson Associate public Service Commission Place No One (Jack) Owens Place No Two Sybil Pool On the local level the fol-lowing candidates will be listed on the ballot: William (Bill) Baxley District Attorney 20th Judicial Circuit James (Jimmy) Clark State Senator 23rd Senatorial District Buddy Crawford Representative Place One (Bob) Stembridse Place Two Regional Library Board Meets In Ozark Annual Report Shows Circulation Over One Million BY RAY BEASLEY The powerful Abbeville Yel-lowjackets coasted to an easy 45-13 victory over the Wicksburg Panthers in Wicksburg last Friday night It was the sixth straight victory for the Jackets with only one loss to mar the season's record With Jerry Wills filling in for injured quarterback Ricky Stewart the Jackets got off to a slow start but once the offense started rolling the Jackets scored at will Jerry Blount picked up 198 yards rushing in the game to push his season's total to 1090 yards Dale Ezzell Bobby Baker and Bill Ward gained almost 100 yards each to give the Jackets a total of 409 yards rushing in the game Ag Students Renovating Furniture First year students in Vocational Agriculture at Abbeville High School are renovating furniture and related items for a two week period Each boy in the class has or soon will bring in an item to repair and refinish which wffl bring it back into use Some of the items boys are now working on are beds cots desks vanities tables chairs and others According to Porter teacher of Vocational Agriculture the following boys are participating in this worth' while work Joe Welcher Karl Leo Ricky Stinson Tippy Smith Terry Price Steve JACKETS PAD LEAD Abbeville scored 20 points in the third quarter to pad their lead Jerry Blount scored the first touchdown of the third quarter on an 8 yard run The touchdown drive covered 67 yards The extra point attempt was unsuccessful Before the fans were back in their seats good the Jackets were on the scoreboard again Baker picked off a Curry pass and raced untouched 27 yards for the touchdown Blount ran the extra point over for the Jackets Bobby Baker also scored the final Jacket touchdown of the game Baker broke loose for a 35 yard scoring jaunt Blount ran the extra point over again The Jacket reserves played most of the fourth quarter and made several long drives but could not push over the goal for a touchdown Outstanding for the Jackets were Perry Mobley Steve Stokes Bobby Baker Jerry Blount Ronnie Roland Jerry-Wills and Russell Wood Abbeville 19 6 20 aid and the Farmer and at one time was manager of the Wiregrass Farmer Trust you will enjoy this feature nvg training school parade The students of Henry County Training School are busy preparing for their annual Homecoming Parade which has been scheduled for Friday afternoon through the streets of downtown Abbeville This school under the principalship of Ward puts forth a great effort each year in their parade and it is highly enjoyed nvg businesscope A new business is now open in our city Mrs Louise Money has announced the opening of Louise's Restaurant located teen thousand one hundred fifty-two books were circulated from the bookmobile in Henry County A total of 166-105 books were circulated in Henry County during the past fiscal year ending September 30 A total of $15159264 was spent in the region for library service This included: $62- Alabama Side of George Dam To Be Open To Public Soon across the ramp to prevent visitors from driving into the operations area Wicksburg took the opening kickoff and drove for a touchdown before giving up Mrs Carl Farmer Abbeville Mrs Ward Espy Abbeville Mr Bryant Fleming of Shorterville represented Henry County at a quarterly meeting of the board of the Choc-tawhatchee Regional Library which was held at the headquarters library located in Ozark on Monday night Mr Blalock bookmobile librarian was a guest Presiding was Mrs Carl Fanner of Abbeville who serves as the board's chairman Highlight of the meeting were annual reports of circulation and finances given by Mrs Alice Doughtie administrator For the first time in its history the regional library topped one million in the number of books circulated in 18330 through region and member libraries $7063044 by city governing bodies of this was for construe- tion) $7200 book allocation Wilson Don Taylor George Skipper Larry Pitchford Mike Saunders Larry Doswell Hob ert Fletcher Bruce Hancock Kenneth Iott Gary Price Rus-sell Money and Thomas Popularity of the beautiful the ball Danny Curry passed lake formed by the Walter 35 yards to Eddie Lee for the George Dam has grown stead- touchdown with 6:28 left in ily since its completion in the first quarter The point 1963 with visitation so far after touchdown was no good this year already having ex- and Wicksburg took the lead ceeded one million persons 6-0 Construction of the guard Abbeville's first touchdown rails will remove a hazard came on a 36 yard drive with which has hitherto made It Dale Ezzell scoring from the unsafe to permit visitors tojll The Jacket's extra point drive out onto the Alabama 1 try was no good and the ball side of the dam to view the game was tied up take Wicksburg 6 7 0 0 13 Army Engineers are making preparations to allow sightseers access to the top of the earth portion of the Walter George Dam on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River Colonel Marshall Army District Engineer in charge of operating the huge lock dam and power plant will receive bids on November 15 in his district office at Mobile for constructing metal guardrails along both sides of the roadway along the top of the dam from the landward end to an overlook point adjacent to the powerhouse ramp installing precast concrete bumper curbs along the lake side of the parking area at the overlook point and providing a chain barrier in the Stokes building on the corner of West Williams and Kirkland streets on the square New fixtures have been installed and she is now serving her usual good food She will be remembered for her fine food at the City Grill a few months ago Much success to you in this new business venture is our sincere wish STATISTICS Abbe Wicks 19 First Downs 5 409 Yards Rushing 48 86 Yards Passing 90 495 Total Yards 138 80 Penalties 50 2-27 Punts 4-33 from Alabama Public Library Service and $1157890 in federal funds The report shows the increase in local funds as compared with federal funds spent for library service Three thousand four hundred four books were added to the oolleetion bringing it to a total of 66168 A budget of $6293085 to be expended through the regional treasury was adopted The next meeting of the board will be hold in Clio on Januury 23 1967 Board members absent from Henry County were Mrs Boh Soliuuon of Headland and Mrs Duett Kirkland of Newville JACKETS GO AHEAD Bidding for the construction job will be restricted to small a single year Four counties Barbour Dale Henry and Pike in which there are seven libraries make up the region The Abbeville Public Library had an annual circula lion of 24412 books during the past fiscal year Headland Public Library circulated 24-541 which was the highest for any part-time library in the region One hundred seven- After the ensuing kickoff (he tough Jacket defense held the Panthers and forced them to punt On the first play from scrimmage Wills threw a 60-yard scoring bomb to Ronnie business concerns in the in tercst of assuring such firms a fair share of Government 'contract work The Jackets play the Columbia Lions on the local gridiron tomorrow (Friday) Roland Abbeville also added night The Lions have won 3 HENRY COUNTY HOSPITAL October 2G November 1 Admitted to Henry County Hospital the past week were: James Carter Jr Sue Bland Cathy Turner Hilly Capps Viola Wood Martha Holmes Abbeville Mary Weems Route I Abbeville Ronnie Volt Gladys Lewis Houte 2 Abbeville Mavis Smith Route 3 Abbeville Haymond Folds Route 1 Headland othell Bryan Route 2 Headland Willie Weems ilotile 1 Columbia Loyd Mur Miy Route 1 Newville Joe Capps Capps Floy Parmer Route 1 Midland City Willie Mac Johnson Abbeville Untile Mae Cummins ment df test scores indicate the extra point Abbeville scor- and lost 5 They have defeat ed again in Ihe first quarter led Rehobetb 19 13 Cottonwood a limited language learning ability for example the Peace on five v'irrl run In I'rcll 26 I and Wickshui 26 13 Corps tries to place the ip The touchdown was set up The Lions lost to Blakely 13 6 pltcant in an English speak Crippled Children's Clinic Fund Drive In Progress In County Headland 326 Dale County 32 26 Slocomb 40-14 and Ash-ford 32-7 ELECTED TO PI TAII SIGMA FRATERNITY Don William Skipper son of Mr Jared Skipper has elected to membership in the honorary Mechanical Engineering fraternity of Pi lau Sigma Chi Chapter at Auburn University Pi Tnu Sigma was founded in 1915 at the University of minor and has since grown to the attainment ot national recognition having chapters in niiKt of the leading engi Mooring schools and colleges It given pec ii I recognition to those who by their academic practical achievements manifest a real interest and marked ahiltty in their chosen work Ion I a graduate of the kbbevllle High School Class if '61 ing country The placement test natures no preparation and is non-competitive an applicant cm neither pass mu fall when the Jackets recovered a Panther fumble on the Wicksburg 30 The Jackets picked up another touchdown in the sec mid quarter Hobby Baker jror Peace Corps To Test On November12 Henry County area residents interested in pulling then kills to uc ill developing na dons around thp world are in vited to lake the Peace Corps placement test at 00 a on Saturday Novrmber 12 al ton (ieneva Dale and ('of fee Counties It will he the The application loriu not ed the touchdown from the Ifi the placement test is the must yard line The drive began on important factor in the scire the Abbeville vard line Itmito 2 Abbeville Martha Anderson Route I Newville Minnie Stovall Route I Co himhia Dlmissed Ftha Flomnoy Jiilia Mae Hence Samuel Airs amlcr Llndsey Mills I I Post Office Building Henry County Co-Chairnien Kmnry Solomon and Wood ham have set this week October II through November Mh as fund drive time for Henry County's share of the new $30000000 Clinic to be conniruclcd on Ross Clark Circle In Dothan Thin new and modern facility will provide Physical Therapy Occupational Thera py Speech and Hearing Ther npy Psychological Services TO SERVE SPAGHETTI SIPPER FRIDAY NIGHT The Parent Teacher Organi zatinn will serve a spaghetti supper tomorrow night prior to the Abbeville Columbia football game They will le gin serving at Ti 30 and will continue until 7 00 pm This oi gani-ation in ites sou to en joy a spaghetti siippct ami then attend the game Tickets a le obtained from member of the PT or at Ihe high school lunch ion of volunteers Person in tercsted In serving in the Peace Corps must fill out an application if they have not already done so and pretrnt it to thr tester before taking The score came with 7 40 left in the first half Wirkshurg got on the scoreboard again in the first half when Curry passed '23 ards to Danny Par rih for the touchdown A 26 Montgomery realisation of a long time dream of the Dothan Rotary Club who has raised in excess of 100 000 00 and donated It towjittK the construction and furnishing of this rlinlr Funds raised in the five counties will be lumped with the Ro tary donation and then match ed on a two for one basis under the Hill Burton Act Tim program nnd the fund drlvr necessary to make it pos (Continued on Page Eight The Peace Corp- uses the Hraddy Lois Flowers Charlie the test Applications mni obtained from local post be yard pass from Curry to Lee nf got most of the yardage on fires or from the Peace Corp the 70 yard drive Curry placement test to determine how an applicant tan best bo litilijeil oversell The test measures general aptitude and the ability to Irarn a langu age not education ot achieve Mr and Mr Robert A Smith of HunUville spent last Mnrlng Greenie Belchet llKnny ilesslck Ma Smith Othell Bryan Hon nic Volf Mlms Jot CpM Ada 1 1 I to Annie Murry Latt Kelley Washington 20S2A rd to Lee for the extra point The placement test lake ami Abbeville led 25 13 at half week with her mother Mrs and Vocational Evaluation for A Clrnney I the cltlren of Henry Hous about hour and a half time.