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ASCS to reveal details
of New Farm Act soon
“Due to the number and
complexity of changes in farm
programs triggered by the New
Farm Act, details of new
programs will not be available
as soon as we and area farmers
would like,” J. Alton Pullin said
today.
“We do expect to be making
an announcement concerning
proposed farm program rules
very soon,” said Pullin who is
chairman of the Spalding
County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Committee, charged with ad
ministering Federal Farm
Programs.
“Farmers are quite naturally
interested in getting program
details resulting from the New
Farm Act as soon as possible,
because some of the changes
also will affect some crops
planted and harvested in 1977,
in addition to crops covered
during the 4-year life of the new
law,” Pullin said.
“We are currently gearing up
to make wheat deficiency
payments, which were
generally increased by 43 cents
per bushel for 1977 crop
wheat by a provision of the New
Law.
“The process can only work
just so fast with so many
changes, and we hope farmers
will be patient with us for the
short time it will take from the
signing of the law until the new
regulations are developed.”
“The law has some new
wrinkles that have to be ironed
out,” Pullin said. “For
example, the law requires us to
establish the 1977 acreage on
each farm which is normally
used for the production of crops,
or normal crop acreage, a term
farmers will be hearing a lot.
County and State ASC Com
mittee members are very much
a part of the process being used
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to determine program rules on
normal crop acreage. This is
one reason it’s important that
farmers report their 1977 crop
acreage to the ASCS office, if
they have not already done so.
“While the details of the 1978
Agricultural Conservation
Program have just been* an
nounced, practices in addition
to the wide range of national
practices may also be
developed at the local level to
meet specific pollution or
conservation problems. This is
another indication that farm
programs will be based more on
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Speaker
Bishop Paul Locke A-
Granadosln of the Philippines
will speak at 7:30 Thursday
night prior to the quarterly
conference at the Kincaid
Memorial United Methodist
Church.
Pine Tree
Garden Club
has meeting
The Pine Tree Garden Club
met for October at the home of
Mrs. T.A. Howie.
The meeting opened with an
inspirational reading, “Tribute
to a Tree,” given by Miss Janice
Howie.
Mrs. Charles Joiner presided.
The treasurer’s report was
given by Mrs. Cliff Beckham.
Mrs. Sandy Johnson of the
Griffin Handicraft Center gave
a demonstration of macrame.
Each member started a
macrame hanging basket
holder for her home.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess.
Attending were Mrs. Richard
Hobbs, Sr., Mrs. Lemuel
Watkins, Mrs. Ray Timmons,
Mrs. W.H. Crouch, Mrs. Jack
Tingle, Mrs. Tom Howie,
Mrs. Cliff Beckham, Mrs.
Charles Joiner, Mrs. Gene
Wilson and Mrs. Lome
Shewfelt.
R. M. Barfield
serving aboard
USS Eisenhower
Navy Airman Apprentice
Robert M. Barfield, son of
Robert L. Barfieeld of Route
One, Zebulon, Ga., is serving as
a crewmember aboard the
Navy’s newest aircraft carrier.
The USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower was commissioned
at the Naval Station, Norfolk,
Va.
Harold Brown, secretary of
Defense, was the guest speaker
and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower
was the honored guest at the
ceremony.
He joined the Navy in
January, 1977.
local situations and on solving
local problems,” Pullin said.
“The economic and en
vironmental impacts of the new
farm program rules also must
be determined as a part of the
process of making the rules.
The local imput and public
scrutiny may tend to slow the
process of getting out final rules
and regulations, but will help
assure ASCS and the farmers
we serve of having solid,
meaningful programs for
American agriculture,” Pullin
said.
Davis named
Imperial
plant manager
Imperial Homes, a company
of Wick Building Systems, Inc.,
has appointed Warren Davis,
40, of Thomson, Ga., to the
newly created position of plant
manager and director of field
operations.
Davis, who also will be
responsible for product
development, engineering,
purchasing and pricing, comes
to Imperial with 12 years of
experience in the manufactured
homes industry, said Gus
Gustafson, general manager of
Imperial.
Among Davis’ new duties will
be the initiation of on-site crane
erection services.
Davis, originally from
Illinois, has purchased a home
at 840 Hanover drive, Griffin,
where he will live with his wife,
Shirley, and their 8-year-old
son, Steve.
Prior to accepting the position
with Imperial Homes, Davis
was general manager for a
major home manufacturer in
Thomson, Ga.
Another company of Wick
Building Systems, Artcraft
Mobile Home Manufacturing,
operates a facility in Winder,
Ga.
Student to sing
on tv program
Ruth Jean-Guillaume,
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.
Felix Jean-Guillaume of Griffin,
will be on the program when the
Sjpanish Department of
Piedmont College, Demorest,
Ga., presents a musical
program on Channel son Oct.
30 at 8 a.m.
Miss Jean-Guillaume is a
native of Haita and is a
sophomore at Piedmont,
majoring in Spanish and pre
med.
She is a soloist, member of the
trio Las Chicas and will sing
Esa Mujercita.
Export trade
BUENOS AIRES (AP) -
With exports totaling $2.35 bil
lion for the first five months of
1977, or 75 percent more than
for the same period last year,
Argentina showed a favorable
trade balance of $930 million,
reported the Secretariat for
Foreign Trade. While all export
sectors registered gains, the
Secretariat noted that manufac
tured goods were up 40.6 per
cent over the same five-month
period of 1976.
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Arlington National Cemetery. Cleland lost both legs and
one arm during action the conflict with North Vietnam.
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Wording of law
scares financiers
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - Explain
the meaning of “prudent man”
and you might improve stock
prices, help companies raise
capital, cut down on paperwork,
provide more and better pen
sion benefits, and help in
vestment managers sleep.
All these considerations are
viewed as possibilities by critics
of ERISA, the Employe Re
tirement Income Security Act of
1974, which mandated that
pension fund managers use pro
dence in pension fund in
vestments.
Perhaps no other investment
law on the books is more criti
cized for such a variety of rea
sons. Some investment man
agers confess that their biggest
daily battle is now between
ERISA and the maintenance of
their own sanity.
It isn’t difficult to understand
why. In passing the act, Con
gress failed to define what it
meant by a “prudent man,”
whom investment advisers are
supposed to emulate. It’s still
anybody’s guess, which is too
precarious an approach to law
for less than steely nerved port
folio managers.
Griffin Chapter of Ducks Unlimited
Cordially invites Area Sportsmen and Friends
Good Fellowship Shotgun Raffles
Good Food and Good Fun T ° Ar * Pr, "» Aut * lon »
Ducks Unlimited 40th Anniversary Banquet
Thursday, Oct. 27, 1977 — Griffin Moose Lodge
Free Beer, Door Prizes, Raffles, Auctions
Prime Rib Dinner — Over 20 Wild Life Art Prints
Cocktails Begin At 6:30 P.M. — Membership Tax Deductible
Ducks Unlimited Membership sls Tick,u * Dow
Dinner $lO Contact Cecil Davis
Ticket Chairman
Total Donation $25 « 7M39
“I feel uncomfortable be
cause I genuinely am trying to
do a good job, but I have no
guidelines,” said Paul Wilson,
executive vice president in
charge of the trust department
at Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia.
Critics say the law’s vague
terminology is forcing pension
fund managers to be overly
conservative, cutting down
yields and depriving companies
not among the nation’s top 50 of
investment capital.
“It’s forced us to a very con
servative, passive approach,”
said Wilson. “We have the de
sire, knowledge and technology
to do a good job, but we’re back
to basics. We’re superprudent.”
Explaining the consequences,
Wilson continued: “We’re tim
ing market moves rather than
varying our item selection. We
choose only the very best com
panies. We’ve given up on the
marginal companies.”
Said Kenneth Brown, presi
dent of Graphic Arts Inter
national Union, and labor
trustee of pension funds:
“Many small businesses are
being denied the capital that
would otherwise be available to
them.”
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Boys Club to sponsor carnival
The Solomon Street Boys Club
will sponsor a Halloween
carnival and disco show
Pulaski DAR
to furnish library
Pulaski Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution met
for October at the Lewis-Mills
house. Mrs. John H. Goddard,
regent, presided.
Douglas Hollberg, Sr. of the
Historical Society made an
impromptu visit, saying the
Society has been successful and
the Lewis-Mills house is free of
debt.
Plans now is to complete the
John H. Chatham Memorial
Library at the house A.
standing committee of Mrs.
L.C. Olson, Mrs. Isaac W.
Wheeless, Miss Martha
Weaver, and Mrs. John H.
Goddard has been appointed to
furnish the library with
Storyhours
begin Nov. 2
The Flint River Regional
Library announces a fall series
of storyhours for preschool and
school age children.
Thw storyhours will be for a 7-
week period, beginning Wed
nesday, Nov. 2.
A session for 3-year-olds will
be from 9:30 - 10:00, a session
for 4 and 5-year-olds from 11:00
- 11:30, and a storyhour for
kindergarten to third grade
from 3:30 - 4:15.
Both morning storyhours will
require registration.
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CAUL US ABOUT CATERING YOUR
NEXT FAMILY OR GROUP MEETING
Kentucky fried Ztekeiu
Locally Owned and Operated By
Ralph and Ginny Freeman.
— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 25,1977
Monday night at the club.
Children through junior high
age are encouraged to wear
Georgia’s history, beginning
with signing of the Treaty with
the Creek Indians in 1825.
Hollberg said the information
would be valuable to the youth
of this community. Pulaski
DAR was asked to assist in
making this venture a reality.
After a brief business session,
Mrs. Henry Raven introduced
Mrs. Martha Del ‘Etoile who
gave an account of her exploits
in genealogy. Mrs. del ‘Etoile
said “Roots” has created a near
revolution and people had
become so eager to trace their
ancestry one had to wait in line
at the Archives and Historical
Libraries.
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costumes.
The carnival and show will
begin at 8 o’clock and end at
11:30. The admission will be 25
cents for children and 50 cents
for adults. The fee includes
entry to the carnival and disco
show.
Games and activities are
planned.
Further information is
available from Scott Murphy
of Scott Coggins at the Solomon
Street Boys Club or by calling
228-5566.
Bevil chosen
for Air Force
medical training
Airman Joseph B. Bevil, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson H. Bevil
of 129 Woodmont drive, Griffin,
has been selected for technical
training at Sheppard AFB,
Tex., in the Air Force medical
service field.
The airman completed basic
training at Lackland AFB, Tex.
Airman Bevil is a 1977
graduate of Griffin High School.