The Statesboro Jaycees, organized beginning in 1938 and fully chartered in January 1940, introduced Sunday movies as a fundraiser in the 1940s – helping to end a city ban on showing motion pictures on Sundays – and two decades later led a local drive to push the polio vaccine to a large majority of the population.
Statesboro Jaycees ended Sunday movie ban in 1940s and boosted polio vaccine in 1963
Historical Society hears about civic organization’s past
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![Rodney Harville, right, who was a Georgia Jaycees state director for 1967-68, notes that the Statesboro Jaycees were officially launched at a meeting in January 1939 at a restaurant called the Tea Pot Grille. He and Jack Henry, center, and Edwin Akins, le](https://statesboroherald.cdn-anvilcms.net/media/images/2022/04/26/images/Historical_Jaycees_2.max-752x423.jpg)
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