From the March 3, 1971 edition of The Forest-Blade:
Cowart is named ‘Man of the Year’
Loy D. Cowart, Jr., Twin City dairyman-farmer, was named Emanuel County’s “Man of the Year in Soil and Water Conservation”. Mr. Cowart’s selection was announced Thursday night at the tenth annual meeting of the Ohoopee River Soil and Water Conservation District at Montgomery County Elementary School Cafetorium. Making the presentation was L.L. Phillips, secretary-treasurer of the Ohoopee District and representative to the General Assembly from Treutlen County. Mr. Cowart was selected on the basis of his “high standards of excellence in soil and water conservation” in cooperation with the Ohoopee District.
In House chambers
George L. Smith II, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, welcomes two Swainsboro pharmacists and a minister to the Georgia House of Representatives during a recent visit. Mills Harrison, Butch Parrish, and the Rev. Orman Sloat, pastor, First United Methodist Church, Swainsboro, who served as chaplain of the House.
