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The Red and black, Friday, September 23, 1977 Page 3
Disaster area
Cold weather, drought and insects have hurt Georgians
By MATT PRICHARD
Copy editor
The list reads like the script of some new Hollywood disaster
movie: a severely cold winter has crippled the Georgia shrimp
industry, a harsh summer drought and invasions of insects have
economically wiped out scores of Georgia farmers and the
pesticides intended to aid the farmers have killed hundreds of
fish in the state’s waterways.
Total damage to the state's economy will exceed $1.5 billion, it
has been extimated by state officials.
Needless to say, nature has dealt,i with Georgia in an
unfavorable manner this year. The 100-degree pi us weather,
although widely publicized, has been the least of the concerns of
many Georgians
The latest disaster, an invasion of the armyworm, will cost an
estimated $750 million in Georgia, according to State Agriculture
Commissioner Tommy Irvin.
Athens alone has received applications for $38 million for
emergency loans, according to J.R Greene, disaster loan
specialist for the Athens office of the Small Business
Administration (SBA).
THE WHOLE story started with a severe freeze in
mid-January. Average temperatures along the coast dropped
from 45.5 degrees Farenheit to 37.4 degrees Farenheit. This had a
deadly effect on the shrimp larvae that were maturing in the
protected sounds and shallow bays before their return to the
ocean.
In many areas, no love shrimp were found A sample taken by
state marine biologists in February totaled only 2.4 lbs. of
shrimp, as compared to 1033.2 lbs. for February of 1975.
Shrimping is so important along the Georgia coast that it made
up $10,878,695 of the $12,374,585 worth of seafood taken from the
waters off the state in 1976. To protect this valuable activity, the
state Board of Natural Resources voted on May 13 to put a ban
on shrimping until the poDulation could reestablish itself
The ban was lifted for commercial shrimping on July 6, but
during several long months, the shrimpers had to look for ways
to sustain themselves. Some shrimped beyond the three-mile
limit, some headed for the waters of other states, and some went
crabbing.
State officials estimated that 1000 people were put out of work
by the ban.
THE SIX coastal counties were declared a disaster area and
$16 million was set aside for low-interest loans so the shrimpers
could avoid losing their boats and equipment.
Nevertheless, many of the shrimpers were financially crushed.
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Not only was nature harsh, but wholesale shrimp prices dropped
to accomodate an expected abundance as the ban was lifted.
Department of Natural Resourced (DNR) Commissioner Joe
Tanner estimated that the shrimpers would be lucky if they
made more than a fourth of their last year’s income
Meanwhile, as temperatures soared into the 100's, Georgia
farmers suffered through a disastrous drought. By July 24, the
Athens area had received only 18,30 inches, 13.03 inches less than
the normal annual rainfall of 31,33 inches.
With chickens dying of heat exhaustion, soybeans burning in
the field, and cattle being sold since they could not be fed,
farmers with tens of thousands of dollars invested had a lot to
lose
AND LOSE they did: almost three-quarters of a billion dollars
according to Irvin.
Although rain did fall during late July and August, another
problem was to be faced “Pastures have been completely
devastated and lawns, too Those armyworms just don’t stay at
the city limits, you know,’’ Irvin said
The green to brown caterpillar called the “fall armyworm,”
the larvae of a moth, have had a "very heavy effect" in the
Athens area, according to Frank Chaffin, horticulturist for
Classic Nursuries.
Irvin said he feels that the fact that predators were crippled
by the cold weather aided the armyworms.
A homeowner can tell that he has the worm in his lawn if he
sees an unusually high number of birds on his grass and if there
are brown patches, according to Ron Conley, who is with the
Division of Pesticides of the state Department of Agriculture.
LARGE AMOUNTS of pesticides are being used against the
armyworms. Chemicals with names such as Sevin, Alanante,
Nudrin, Lorsban and Diazinon have been sprayed on fields all
over the state However, there have been problems in getting the
pesticides to the farmers and in the effectiveness of those
pesticides
“We are having shortages, since there have been armyworm
problems throughout the sun belt,” Irvin said
"Sevin, which has been used extensively in the past, has not
worked in some areas. There may be some indication that the
insects are developing a certain amount of tolerance to the
chemical,’’ Conley said.
However, the chemicals have been effective in killing fish.
Around 180,000 dead fish were recently discovered at Hard Labor
By JERRY MASON
Copy editor
Beginnng this quarter, Uni
versity students will be paying
$8 more per quarter for health
services. What $20 bought last
year now costs $28.
The increase, announced last
tpring by Dean of Student
Affairs Dwight Douglas, has
been attributed by Health
Services Administrator Warren
Loar to a general increase in
cost to the Service.
“Our deficit for the last
fiscal year was around $200,
000,” Loar said. “We hope that
the $8 increase will put us back
on our budget .”
The last Health Services fee
increase was in 1973, when the
cost per student rose from
$16 50 to $20
Helen
festival
begins
The annual Oktoberfest in
Helen will begin today and run
for two consecutive weekends
The German festivities will
feature games, contests,
bands. German food and beer
and music, according to
Murphy Sconyers. manager of
the Helen Chamber of Com
merce
Today's activities begin at 6
p m and run until 11:30 p.m.
and will be highlighted by
Waterloo, a five-piece German
band
The Saturday program gets
underway at 11:30 a m. and
will feature a dance contest,
more music by Waterloo and
other activities.
Sunday entertainment will
begin at 11:30 a.m. and
continue until 6 p.m. The
Hickory Nut Square Dancers,
the Cullman German Band, the
Bavarian Folk Dancers and
the Kennessay Coggers will all
appear Sunday
There is a $1 cover charge to
enter the Oktoberfest tent
where beer and food will be
served. No beer will be served
on Sunday
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"Costs since then have gone
through the ceiling for us,"
Loar said. "That's why we
needed the increase."
Also under consideration by
the Health Services is a plan in
which prescription drugs pro
vided by Health Services would
no longer be covered by the
fee Under this plan, students
would pay for the .drugs on a
per-prescription basis. Accord
ing to Loar, this will not affect
health services provided dur
ing the fall quarter.
“We would like to look at
other student health services
throughout the country (before
any decision is made)," Loar
said. "We are one of the few
who currently offer full health
services for one fee."
Loar said that although no
future fee increases are
planned, the Student Health
Services would simply have to
"play it by ear.”
Still included under the fee is
the Service’s in patient ser
vice. The in-patient unit
consists of 30 beds occupying
the second floor of the Gilbert
Health Services Building. Uni
versity students may stay in
the unit free of charge for 14
days per quarter, divided into
two continuous seven day
periods. After that, the charge
is about $25 per day.
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Creek State Park, with another kill having been reported along
the Apalachee River.
“Of course, the danger of pollution is ever present when using
pesticides, from runoff when there are localized, extra-hard
rains. I don't think we can say it is conclusively due to the
armyworms, although there has been a large amount of material
used due to the worms," Conley said
Yet. a DNR study revealed that c areless use of toxaphene and
methyl parathion killed the fish at Hard Labor park These
pesticides are used against the armywor ns
IN THE MIDDLE of all of these problems, 130 of Georgia’s 159
counties have been declared disaster areas by President Jimmy
Carter This qualifies beleaguered farmers and shrimpers to
federal disaster loans and payments
But the federal programs are having problems of their own
One program is the disaster payment operation of the
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), a
branch of the U S. Department of Agriculture. It provides relief
in the forms of direct cash grants However, these grants are
based on a discarded allotment system once used for paying
farmers to not plant corn.
So. farmers can be paid for damage up to half of the alloted
acreage but counts against a farmer any production above the
allotment.
EMERGENCY LOANS are available from the Farmers Home
Administration (FHA) at five per cent. However, in order to
qualify, a farmer must prove that he can’t obtain credit at
regular interest rates from a commercial institution.
However, there is a special livestock program for beef and
dairy cattle that will pay 50 per cent of the cost of feed, up to two
cents per pound.
Loans are also available from the Small Business
Administration (SBA) "Interest rates on physical loss are three
per cent on the first $250,000 For economic loss, they are three
per cent on the first $25,000 and six and five-eighths past $25,000,”
Greene said.
“Terms can be extended to 30 years, depending on the farmer's
situation, but the average is 10 to 12 years,” he added
"Most of the applications are being processed The
mechanisms of the SBA office were just not adequate to handle
such a mass of applications expediently,” Irvin said.
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