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VALDOSTA, GA, — Tobacco buyers sift through mounds of the leaf in a ware*
house here as the Georgia-Florida flue cured tobacco market opens.
Tobacco Farmers Take
Home Record Earnings
By CHARLES S. ALDINGER
VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPI) — To
bacco farmers who got their
crop to the opening day of the
Georgia-Florida flue-cured mar
ket Wednesday took home rec
ord prices.
Prices per hundredweight
went a? high as SBO at one
North Florida market, but the
Federal State Market News
Service said the majority of in
creases were up $2 to $3 above
last year’s opening average
price of $67.91, which was then
a record.
Roy Pearce, owner of seven
warehouses and a man who has
been in the tobacco business 51
years called Wednesday “the
best opening day I’ve seen in
many years.”
Foreign as well as domestic
buyers crowded warehouses of
the two states in the first mar
ket opening of the season in
tobacco belt states.
Highest prices were reported
in Live Oak, Fla. where some
sales of more than SBO per
hundredweight were reported,
although the highest sales by
leading cigarette companies was
reported at $79.
“We’re just producing better
tobacco in Florida because the
government has cut down on
acreage allotments and the only
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Few, parents; sisters, Mrs.
Mattie M. Jackson of Grif
fin; Shirley Ann Few; Brot
hers, Mr .and Mrs. William
H. Few, Jr., Willie C. Few,
Lewis Few, David Few, James
Few, all of Milner would like
to express their sincere ap
preciation to their many
friends and relatives for their
visits, calls, food, cards, flow
ers and other expressions of
sympathy duriwg their recent
bereavement in the passing
of their dear son and brother,
PFC William Thomas Few on
July 13, 1969.
Special thanks to Major
Tuthrie, U. S. Army; the
staff of United Funeral Home
and our many white friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Barks
dale, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wal
ton, Mr. and Mrs. James
Ivey, Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Smith and family, Mr. and
Mrs. K. P. Domingos.
May God pour out his rich
est blessings on all of you. It
will long be remembered.
WEEK-END
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Were Sellingfor $7.37
Sizes 8 to 20.
A Few Half-Sizes in
Solids and Prints
All First Quality
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Thursday, July 24, 1969
way for farmers to make more
money is to improve the quality
of their crop.”
In a day when everybody had
booming sale prices, only one
Thomasville, Ga. warehouse re
ported poor sales of $64 per
hundredweight —a price attri
buted to extremely dry weather
that held down the qualify of
the leaf.
The prices seemed to hinge
increased government-financed
subsidies of as much as 79
cents a pound for some prime
grades and a booming foreign
cigarette market.
Domestic cigarette sales have
lagged in recent years since
lung cancer and other disease
was linked to smoking. But in
Europe and Asia, smoking is on
the upsurge.
Estimated general averages
on several markets Wednesday
ranged from S7O to $73 per
hundredweight.
The market service reported
that quality was improved on
the first day of the market this
year, while the percentage of
nondescript declined sharply. A
larger proportion of good and
fair primings was sold Wednes
day.
Ray Is Critical
Os “Over - Budget*
ATLANTA (UPI) — Warning
that Georgia is close to "real,
real” financial trouble, State
Treasurer Jack Ray called Wed
nesday for constitutional amend
ments against budgeting more
money for an upcoming budget
than was taken in by the state
in the prior fiscal year.
Ray abhored the practice in
recent years by the General As
sembly of budgeting more than
has been taken in. He said the
state has been fortunate with
revenue windfalls in recent
years.
"We’ve had about four or five
good years now, since 1960,”
Ray said, comparing the fiscal
picture to farming. “But one of
these years it’s not going to
rain. When that happens, it’s
going to be pretty rough, then,
boys, I’ll tell you.”
Ray’s statements highlighted
testimony before the Public Fi
nance Articles Committee of the
Constitutional Revision Commis-
, The percentage of lemon to
‘bacco increased, with over half
the sales classified as this
color. Marketings consisted
principally of good to low prim
ings, fair lugs and nondescript.
Volume at most markets was
described as heavy.
Deliveries to the Stabilization
Corporation on some markets
were estimated at from four to
10 per cent of the gross sales,
last year on opening day, 7.8
per cent of the gross was placed
;under this government loan.
Following are auction bid
averages per hundred pounds
on a limited number of rep
resentative U.S. grades and
changes from opening day last
year:
CUTTtRS
Low lemon, $79 up $3.
LUGS
Good lemon, $79 up $4; fair
lemon, $77 up $4; fair orange,
$76 up $3; low orange, $73 up
$3.
PRIMINGS
Good lemon, $76 up $3; fair
lemon, $73 up $2; low lemon,
S7O up $3; fair orange, $73 up
$3; low orange. SSB up sl.
NONDESCRIPT
Best (priming side), $62 up
$2.
sion.
State Auditor Ernest DaviS
recommended that the power to
issue bonds be given solely to
the General Assembly. He add
ed that the legislature should bi
able to vote monies for general
obligation bonds which would bo
pooled into a single fund and
held In reserve for the projects,
tor which they were voted.
This would mean only tw<
agencies would be required td
designate bond expenditures
. one for roads and the other foi
general building purposes.
Presently the State Ports Au
tnorlty, the Building Authority
and the Jekyll Island Authority
are empowered to issue bonds.
Art on wheels
BOSTON (UPI) -
“ARTABOUT” is a mobile art
workshop designed to introduce
parents and teachers in Greater
Boston to new methods of using
the fine arts to stimulate
learning in children.
It started visiting six Greater
Boston communities July 7 for a
week at a time until Labor Day.
Sculpture and pottery
exhibits are held in the traveling
van. Each day a professional
sculptor and a potter
demonstrate the use of clay to
make sculpture, relief and
pottery, and direct work sessions
for children and adults.
The mobile workshop is open
Saturdays and Sundays to
exhibit the efforts of workshop
participants.
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Thompson Says
U. S. Forcing
School Closings
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Rep.
Fletcher Thompson, R-Ga.,
charged Wednesday the federal
government, in demanding de
segregation,, is forcing the clos
ing of some badly needed
schools.
Federal law forbids the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare (HEW) to require
a system to close a school in
order to qualify for federal aid,
Thompson said, adding that it
occurs under the guise of “vol
untariness.”
He said schools involved are
generally found in all-Negro
areas. Finding it difficult to in
tegrate at levels set out in fed
eral guidelines, Thompson said
local officials will close the
school in order to qualify for
badly needed funds.
“It is inconceivable that the
federal government.. .could be
involved in depriving these
communities of the use of bad
ly needed school buildings—yet
that is exactly what is happen
ing,” Thompson said in a House
speech Wednesday.
He said HEW officials deny
they force school closings.
He continued, saying some
HEW officials maintain that all-
Negro schools cannot be operat
ed constitutionally even if they
are located in all-black neigh
borhoods.
Thompson said HEW is in
directly forcing the closing of
one Negro school in Fulton
County and has already brought
the closing of six schools in De-
Kalb County.
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ATLANTA—Georgia state school superintendent
Jack Nix along with James S. Peters of Manchester
chairman of the state board of education shown at
the July meeting of the state board at the capitol.
The Georgia Board of Education has asked the U. S.
Justice department to spell out just how the board
can order statewide school desegregation.
Top Roles
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Otto
Preminger has signed Kay
Ihompson, Ben 1 iaz.za and
Nancy Marchand for top roles in
‘Tell Me That You L ovc Me
Junie Moon.”
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HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Irving
Mansfield has withdrawn as pro
ducer of “Beyond the Valley of
the Dolls,” the 20th Century-
Fox sequel to Mansfields wife’s
(Jacqueline Susann) first novel.
Georgia News
GM Employes
Expected Back
ATLANTA (UPl)—Some 4,200
assembly-line plant workers are
expected to begin returning to
work at the General Motors Co.
Lakewood plant Friday, bring
ing to an end an 86-day strike.
Workers lost more than $7
million in wages during the
strike that began April 28; Gen
eral Motors production was off
about 900 cars and trucks daily.
The strike, brought to an end
when members of the United
Auto Workers Local 34 voted to
ratify an agreement by union
and GM negotiators Wednesday,
drew ou of disagreement on lo
cal issues following a merger of
Chevrolet and Fisher Body
plants into the Lakewood as-
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duction of Chevrolet Chevelles
and Pontiac Tempests, as well
as trucks.
Rome Weather Post
Slated To Reopen
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
U.S. Weather Bureau in Rome,
Ga., closed April 30 in a general
effort to streamline the depart
ment and cut expenses, will be
:"'«nened during August.
Sen. Richard B. Russell an
nounced the reopening Wednes
day, saying the facility will op
erate eight hours dally, Monday
through Friday. At times when
the facility is closed, forecast
and warning services will be
piovided by the weather bureau
in Atlanta.