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Statesboro Jaycees ended Sunday movie ban in 1940s and boosted polio vaccine in 1963
Historical Society hears about civic organization’s past
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
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, left, Statesboro Jaycees presidents in 1965-66 and 1967-68, spoke Monday to the Bulloch County Historical Society. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
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.
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