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Peach picking under way on Tommy Johnson’s orchards in Pike County.
‘lt’s tlie biggest disaster we’ve ever had 9
Irvin estimates drought cost
at $560-million in Georgia
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -
Drought losses in the six coastal states
of the Southeast are estimated at more
than $1 billion, with no relief in sight.
State agriculture commissioners
from Louisiana to South Carolina
assessed their drought pictures in
separate interviews during a recent
conference last week with U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Robert L. Ber
gland.
Thomas T. Irvin of Georgia, where
130 of the 159 counties have been
declared a disaster area, said losses
are estimated at $560 million.
“It’s the biggest disaster we’ve ever
had,” Irvin said. “We’ve lost the com.
Soybeans are critical. It’s cut deeply
into peanuts. Some farmers are on the
verge of bankruptcy.”
Gil Dozier of Louisiana said his state
is in such dire circumstances that ef
forts are being made to seed clouds.
“Soybean yield will be reduced as
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at 40 that he had at 26 was either
precocious at 20 or is retarded
at 40.”
Poll shows lawyers do not plan to advertise
The concensus of attorneys in the
Griffin area is not to advertise, even
though the Supreme Court has given the
right to list fees for routine services
such as writing wills or handling un
contested divorces.
Many attorneys feel that advertising
will hurt the consumer and the law
profession.
Dick Mullins, lawyer and city
commissioner, feels that if a person
seeking legal assistance chooses a
lawyer based on an ad, then he will not
know the quality of the lawyer but just
his fees.
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much as half,” Dozier said. “Cotton
isn’t hurt as bad, but pastures are
literally burned up. Beef and dairy
cattle are hurt badly, with some far
mers already using winter feed.”
He estimated losses at nearly SIOO
million.
Jim Buck Ross of Mississippi said he
has had inquiries about a disaster
declaration but none has been made
yet.
“Within 10 days it could be critical,”
Ross said. “Pastures, hay and all other
crops have about used up the subsoil
moisture. Soybeans will be bad without
rain soon.
“If we got a tropical blow that didn’t
blow away people it would be a god
send. It’s the only way I see to alleviate
the situation.”
Bryan Patrick of South Carolina said
his state hasn’t been declared a
disaster area but should be.
“Our losses are roughly SIOO million,
Child’s game ends in tragedy
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A game of hide
and-seek with a friend ended in the
death of 5-year-old Paul Greenlee,
police said today.
The boy’s body was found Saturday in
a small ice chest in the carport by a
neighbor who had gone to the home to
console the parents during a massive
search.
Police Chief Charles Otero said today
that the boy was playing hide-and-seek
with a 3%-year-old companion Thurs
day and decided to hide in a small ice
Howard Wallace agrees with Mullins.
He said, “Advertisements for lawyers
are the same as advertisements for
products.” His reasoning is that the
most appealing ad might win the client,
but it might not be the best product.
A balance between the public’s right
to know prices of legal services and
deceiving advertisements will have to
be met, Robert H. Smalley believes. “I
can understand the reasons for the
Supreme Court decision, but I have
serious reservations about it,” he
added.
Richard Collier is basically against
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, July 11,1977
and that’s conservative,” Patrick said.
“I’d say one-third of the corn crop is
gone. Hay and pastures are in bad
shape. But tobacco, our No. 1 cash crop,
is in pretty good shape.”
Assistant Commissioner W. Comer
Sims of Alabama said the state has
declared 50 counties disaster areas
although the federal government hasn’t
acted.
“Our pasture conditions are lousy,”
Sims said. “Farmers already used
their reserve cattle feed during the cold
winter. Our losses are high, probably
SIOO million to $l5O million.”
Doyle Conner of Florida noted that 30
of the state’s 67 counties have been
declared a federal disaster area and
losses are estimated at $133 million.
Bergland told the commissioners and
others at the conference Thursday and
Friday that he is trying to update fed
eral disaster regulations to give more
loan and grant benefits to hard-hit
farmers.
chest. He said the other boy accidently
tripped a latch, locking the Greenlee
boy inside, where he suffocated.
The boy was last seen Thursday
afternoon and was the object of a wide
search by several hundred persons,
using helicopters and tracking dogs.
A medical examiner said the boy
apparently died of asphyxiation. “I
have several small children of my own,
and small children are limber and can
squeeze into tight places,” said Dr.
Peter Lardizabel.
the idea because he fears that “some
unscrupulous lawyer might mislead the
people by giving false qualifications
and by telling untrue actions that he
can do for them.”
He thinks advertising will further
hinder the consumer due to the fact that
client fees might be increased in order
to pay for an attorney’s extra cost of
advertising.
Sam Murray agrees with the Griffin
lawyers that there will be a great
danger of misrepresentation.
A careful monitor by the state bar on
lawyers advertising is the answer
NEWS
Peach harvesting is under way in
Spalding and surrounding counties and
growers are reaping a smaller but high
quality crop.
Blake Brantley of the Georgia
Experiment Station is just back from a
peach decline conference in Fort
Valley.
The conference studies diseases
which cause peach tree short-life and
trees to die in old orchards.
Brantley said the designation of
acreage to peach growing is spreading
throughout the state, especially in the
southern part in the last 5 to 10 years.
This year, however, the total crop
will be less because of the extremely
hot and dry weather.
The Georgia Experiment Station had
announced earlier that the peaches had
received the right number of cold hours
for a plentiful yield.
If it had rained more the peaches
would have been juicier and larger and,
in essence, would have provided a
larger carlot. It would take less large
peaches to make a carlot than the
smaller ones being harvested.
Ed Thaxton, peach growers financial
analyst, said of the crops he has con
tracted to harvest from the respective
farmers, his workers would be har
vesting through August.
His crews began their work in mid-
June. He has contracted to send at least
20 peach pickers to each orchard where
he has an agreement to pick.
Thaxton and Sons has contracted to
pick peaches from some 12,000-13,000
trees.
Thaxton said he had opened the or
chards to the public. Pickers may
traverse the orchards and pick all the
peaches they want for a minimum fee
per bushel.
Thomas Johnson, a Pike County
peach grower, has some 250 acres
under peach production with some
22,000 trees in Pike and the surrounding
counties.
Johnson said his crops were showing
at least a 50 per cent decrease in carlots
this year because of the size of the
peaches.
“The peaches are small because of
the dry weather but the quality is also
excellent because of the dry weather,”
Johnson said.
He said the sugar content is high and
the crop would have been a good one,
“had we had enough rain”.
One among several varieties,
Johnson sells is a hard type non-melting
cling peach which is cooked in South
Carolina, pumped into tank trucks,
taken to Ohio and frozen for one of the
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People
...and things
Dedicated tennis players sweating it
out on courts at city park, despite heat
wave.
Couple grocery shopping at night,
buying items they didn’t need, just to
get away from house not air con
ditioned.
Message on First Presbyterian
board: “Lamps don’t talk-they shine.”
James R, Fortune proposes to insure no
abuse of the right to advertise.
Attorney Mullins states that the best
way to choose a lawyer is byway of
mouth from people who have used the
lawyer’s services.
Clifford Seay and Claude Christopher
believe that lawyers were doing fine
without the ruling. Sid Esary agrees
with the two attorneys and adds that the
only lawyers who might benefit are the
ones in larger areas.
Many agree with Thomas G. Smith
that “the end result will tarnish the
reputation of lawyers.”
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‘Carterette’ gets
200 miles per gallon
BALTIMORE (AP) - The “Car
terette” gets 200 miles per gallon of
gas, its designers say. That’s not
surprising — the vehicle is built from
two bicycles and a lawnmower motor
and weighs just 150 pounds.
Sergio and Merika Minnone say they
built the red and black Carterette, with
a white fringe on top, in response to
President Carter’s appeal for fuel con
servation.
The Minnones left their home in
Nyack, N.Y., on July 4 to bump along
the shoulders of interstate highways on
a 400-mile trip to the White House to
show off their creation.
They arrived here Saturday night and
plan to head today for Washington,
where Mrs. Minnone said their
congressman, Benjamin Gilman, has
It was her brother, not cousin
Mrs. Elaine Mask Houston was 4-
years-old when her mother died and she
remembered the young boy with her
grandmother as one of her cousins.
She did not know until recently that
the 9-year-old boy was her brother.
Mrs. Houston found she had a brother
when she saw a copy of her birth cer
tificate. It indicated she had a sister
and brother.
Mrs. Houston and her brother, Joe
Mask, who makes his home in
Hinesville were reunited over the
weekend.
They have a younger sister, Mrs.
Geraldine Winegardner who lives in
Pennsylvania.
It seems that after the death of Mrs.
Houston’s mother, she and her sister
were raised by their father, Lewis
John Carlisle makes the statement
that, “Law, like medicine, is a
profession and it us not very
professional to sell oneself as a
product.”
Attorney Collier feels it will not help
the grace of the profession. Larry
Evans agrees with the state bar that “it
is not appropriate.”
“I doubt seriously any attorneys will
advertise in the near future, primarily
because attorneys do not advertise and
lawyers may not feel comfortable with
advertising through the media,” John
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—
Fair and warm tonight with lows near
70. Mostly sunny and hot Tuesday with
highs in mid 90s.
LOCAL WEATHER—Low this
morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 66,
high Sunday 94.
Smaller but have more juice.
Weather
arranged for them to meet Carter
sometime this week.
“It’s terribly exciting,” said Mrs.
Minnone.
Mrs. Minnone said they felt Carter
was sincere in asking the American
people to find new ways of conserving
energy.
“We felt we had to do something,”
she said.
The result was the Carterette.
It operates at one speed, about 20
miles an hour. Pedals are used when
going uphill, the Minnones said.
Minnone, 31, a native of Palermo,
Italy, was a mechanical engineer and
test driver for Porsche-Alfa Romeo
before he came to the United States five
years ago with his 30-year-old wife, who
is from Paris.
Mask, and the brother was raised by
their grandmother.
The children’s mother was Mrs.
Lucille Cochran Mask and she has two
sisters, Mrs. Ocie Conwell and Mrs.
Jewell Bostwick, and two brothers,
Russell Cochran and Walter Cochran,
living in Griffin.
Joe Mask lived with his grandmother
until he was old enough to join the CCC.
He later joined the armed services and
made a career of it until his retirement
to Hinesville.
Mrs. Mask and her brother were
reunited in Hinesville Saturday night.
After the initial meeting with Mrs.
Mask, he talked to his other sister in
Pennsylvania by telephone.
The three plan a family reunion soon.
M. Cogburn concluses.
concludes.
Roger Huff and Barron W. Cumming
feel that the only lawyers who will take
advantage of the ruling are those in
volved with legal clinics and legal aid
type programs.
The Georgia Supreme Court has
ordered the State Bar of Georgia, much
to their objection, to revise its rules to
allow lawyers to advertise. Even with
state bar regulations, Attorney Huff
still believes that not many attorneys
will advertise.
