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WE ARE
BUILDING
A CITY
HERE
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939 $1.50 Per Year in Advance
Volume LII, Number 40
NEW VARIETY PEACH DEVELOPED
BY U.S. FIELD LABORATORY HERE
The Bureau of Plant Industry, U.
S. Department of (Agriculture, has
released for propagation purposes a
new peach variety developed at the
U. S. Horticultural Field Laboratory
here.
The laboratory is located about a
mile west of Fort Valley and was for
many years under the direction of Dr.
Lee M. Hutchins and is now under the
supervision of Dr. John H. Weinberg¬
er. Much valuable work for the peach
industry has been done at this labor¬
atory in the study of peach diseases
and peach breeding.
The variety which has just been re¬
leased was tested as U. S. V. 11, and
will be introduced under the name of
Dixiegold. This variety is an open
pollinated Hiley seedling which has
many characteristics of the parent ex¬
cept that it is yellow fleshed. The
tree is very vigorous, and thus far
in Southern Georgia has been resist¬
ant to bacterial spot. It is similar to
the Hiley in requiring less winter
cold to break the rest period than do
most peach varieties. Flowers are
self-fertile. The fruit averages larg¬
er than Hiley, is freestone, and ripens
4 or 5 days earlier than Hiley. It is
ovate in shape, pointed at apex, and
attractive though not highly colored.
The flesh has fair to good quality,
medium firmness and smooth texture.
The two principal merits of the va¬
riety are the early yellow freestone
characteristics of the fruit and thd
relatively low requirement of the tree
for winter cold, which makes it adapt¬
ed to regions having warm winters.
It has been tested only in Southern
Georgia and is recommended for trial
planting in extreme southern peach
growing regions and in other sections
where the Hiley does well?
Dixie Governors Are
MUVllfU Invited to lit Hein IlCip ITlIint
Pldflfi foi" Rate
Rivers Cites South's Great Opportu¬
nity to End Disadvantage.
ATLANTA, Sept. 26.—Governor
Rivers has invited the governors of
all southern states to met* m , ,
this week or next week to map a
orous battle over railroad freight
rates.
As soon as this meeting is held, the
governors of western states will be
asked to join the southern governors
in their fight, the chief executive said.
Governor Rivers returned Sunday
from a two weeks' trip to southern
state capitals in connection with the
action of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in ordering a hearing on
freight rates for the entire territory
from- the Rocky Mountains to the At¬
lantic coast.
“This ... action . us the ,, .
gives
oportunity we ever had to remove
freight differential against the
Governor River# said. “We have
lowed the raill-oads to put a 39
cent differential upon freight
while we were sitting around
over a 1 or 2 per cent sales tax.”
The Governor asked all
«tate state governors governors to to wire wile him him
they can come to Atlanta the
o, this »r the fits, of next,
he will set the date for the
when he receives their replies.
The governors of Missouri and
lahoma already have expressed a
sire to join the southern
in the freight rate fight, and
executives are expected to come
from the middle and northwest,
ernor Rivers said.
“The situation with ... ^Terence to i
removal of the freight rate
nation against the South looks
now than it ever looked before
we are going to put up a united front,
he added.
Shepard Assisting
In Butler
C. L. Shepard, conference lay
er of the South Georgia
conference, is assisting in a
service at the Butler Methodist
this week. The services began
day and will continue through
aight. Rev. E. A. Martin is the
A V he dleaher-Cfcitmne J
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Cran ford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
HUGH HILL LOSES
LIFE IN ACCIDENT
Ernest Hugh Hill, one of Fort Val¬
ley’s most popular young men, lost
his life when a boat, in which he and
three other Fort Valley men were fish¬
ing Wednesday night at Houston
Jake, filled with water and sank.
The others, W. P. Laverne, Clelton
Mathews and John Kell, swam out.
It was said that Mr. Hill could swim,
but for some unknown reason failed
to get out of the lake safely.
Efforts were being made to locate
the body this morning.
He was 22 years old and was an
employee of the Fort Valley post
office.
Survivors include his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. R. Hill; four brothers,
Ralph, Carl, Roy and Flem Hill, and
one sister, Miss Mamie Clyde Hill, all
of Fort Valley.
Feeds With High
Protein Content
Needed for Hogs
County Agent R. P. Swan this week
advised the use of supplemental feeds
for growing pigs, in order to furnish
them sufficient amounts of protein
and minerals.
“Pigs grow very quickly, and if not
given feeds containing a high per¬
centage of protein, it is likely that
the growth of the rapidly-developing
muscular tissues and internal organs
will be retarded,” the agent pointed
out.
“Most grain feeds and green graz
ing crops commonly used for
feeding in this section of the state
are deficient in protein,” he continued.
“Therefore, supplemental feeding of
protein can be f”' ovided throu,fh the
^ ^ tankage( t . oU onseed meal, pea
nut me£, l> soybean meal, fish meal,
'shrimp meal, linseed meal, and skim
m “ k - ’
Due to their availability and piice,
the county agent said that tankage,
cottonseed meal, and peanut meal are
more commonly used by hog grow
| ers. Tankage, he said, is a good sup
,
to feed alone> but the same
at , ower costs> may be obta ined
by feeding a mixture of two parts
tankage and one part cottonseed meal
Qr peanu t me al.
“Hogs require from one-fourth of
| a pound to one pound of protein sup
p i emen t daily,” Mr. Swan said. “The
amount, however, will depend on the
s i Z e of the hog and whether or not
green feed is available.”
a e t e 1 Z n d th-1 ho kinds^of s suf
fer mu ch mo re other
livestock from , lack , of , calcium , . .
in
their . . rations, . since \. their . growth ., is
rapid and , their , ’. ... feeds , usu
grain are
a .. n y i . ow in . minerals. . , He .. said ., that .. .
; ca i c j um deficiency commonly results
j i n p jg S becoming crippled during
growth or shipment and in brood sows
breaking down while suckling pigs.
H e suggested a good mineral supple
ment to keep before giving pigs at
all ,, times .. • a^'lTL” mixture composed of
^ 1,mestone f ’ b bo one
meal, and sa i t .
, g9 , N PEACH GIVEN
UNEMPLOYED PAY
Unemployed woi eis m Peach
county were paid *803.51 in benefits
b V the Bureau of Unemployment
! Compensation during the week ending
September 16 1939, it was announced
toda >'' Number ° f paymentS WaS re
ported at 189.
Total payments to Georgia workers
that week amounted to $82,901.24,
' represented by 12,330 checks which
into 123 counties of the state.
Five hundred two payments for
$4,200.26 to workers in other states
who previously had established wage
credits in Georgia, brought the total
to $87,101.50.
Number and amount of checks
mailed by the Bureau ranged from
one check for 40 cents in Crawford
county to 3,160 cheeks for $29,032.35
the Atlanta area, which censists of
Fulton and DeKalb counties.
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the
_ religion.—Hosea Ballou.
of
AAA Sets Dec. 9
For Referendum
On Cotton Quota
Peach county farmers will vote De¬
cember 9 on whether marketing quo¬
tas similar to those in effect for the
last two seasons shall be applied to
the 1940 cotton crop.
Most cotton farmers are familiar
with marketing quotas, as they have
used them for the last two years to
avoid adding to the already, large cot¬
ton supply and to protect the markets
of farmers who plant within their
acreage allotments.
The national cotton quota proclaim¬
ed by Secretary of Agriculture Wal¬
lace for 1940 is the some as for 1939.
This will make possible, with normal
yields, the marketing within the quota
of approximately 12 million bales
during the year beginning August 1,
1940.
Approval by two-thirds of the na¬
tion’s eligible cotton growers who vote
in the December 9 referendum is re
quired to continue quotas in effect for
1940. The 1939 quota was approved
by 84.1 per cent of the growers
voting.
The conservation phases of the ag¬
ricultural conservation program will
continue to operate, regardless of the
outcome of the December 9 referen¬
dum. However, marketing quotas as¬
sure growers participating in the AAA
farm program who plant within their
acreage allotments that their efforts
to adjust supplies will not be nulli¬
fied by non-cooperators.
Farmers who plant within their
acreage will be able to market all of
the cotton they produce on their al¬
lotted acreage without penalty. ^
marketln S ‘ |Uotas a,e ln effect, if
( non-cooperator must pay . a penalty of
I 3 cents pound all cotton sold
per on
. in the marketing
excess of quota for
his farm.
1
j ! Officials believe world conditions
and present supplies of American
j iton make the 1940 marketing quota
necessary, if cotton farmers want to
prevent disasters that have affected
I them in the past. The Agricultural
Adjustment Act provides the means,
through cotton loans and conservation
measures, $o protect farm interests,
Agent Says Seed
Treatment Means
Increased Yields
Treatment of seed grains will result
in increased stands and more vigor in
|seedlings, which, in turn, will bring
j better yields of grain for Peach coun
| ty farmers, according to County Agent
R. P- Swan,
“The fall planting season is at
band > and treatment of seed oats,
j wheat ’
mean added dividends to the farm
the agent said. . Treated , seed .
ers,
are able .... to get a quicker ■ , and , more
. stand , under , adverse , condi- ,.
! vigorous
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and the C0St ls comparatively . small
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..Commercially commercial y preparea prepared organic o.gamc
mercurlc * can be used at the rate
one-half ounce per bushel as a dust on
see d gl , ain .. he state d. “The regular
barre l cottonseed treater can also be
use. in ..e.tin, seed ,pain "
the formaldehyde treatment, which
consists of one pint of commercial for
maldehyde mixed with one pint
water. This splution, he said, is
plied with a small hand spray
and makes an effective treatment.
The agent said he will be glad to
furnish any further information
sible on the treatment of seed
COTTON
The Department of
through the Bureau of the Census,
nounces in a preliminary report
cotton ginned prior to September
that there had been ginned in
county 2,577 bales from tkis
crop. Last year to the same
there had been ginned 2,442 bales.
The total for the state was
bales as compared to 366,173 for
same period last year.
KIWANIANS WILL
HEAR HAMILTON
Henry A. Mathews presented a
program at the Kiwanis luncheon last
Friday that was full of interest and
entertainment. The first feature of
Mr. Mathews’ program was a solo by
Howard Branham, “My Wild Irish
Rose.” He next presented Edwin,
Parker, who recently came here ;*s
manager of McConnell’s store, who
spoke very interestingly on conditions
relative to the European war from the
young man's viewpoint, declaring that
the young men of this country want
no part in European affair's.
Mr. Parker’s speech was followed
by two more songs by Mr. Branham—
“Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” and
“Stay in Your Own Backyard.”
This program was well received by
an unusually large number of Kiwan
ians, every member being present with
the exception of two.
R. P. Swan, who is responsible for
Friday’s program, announces that
George B. Hamilton, state treasurer,
will be present and talk on “The Re
sponsibility of the United States to
Europe.”
Program to Improve i
Health ( .auditions
Farms to Be Pushed
Judge M. C. Mosley, county manag
er and chairman of the Peach County
Board of Health, announces plans of
th( , county to sponsor a WPA project
for the construction of sanitary pit
type toilet units for farm homes and
communities as a means of protecting
county rU ral residents against such
filth borne diseases as typhoid fever,
dysentery, diarrhea, colitis, hookworm
and others.
■ Mrs. Margaret Hardeman, county
, health nurse, states that of these di¬
seases, typhoid fever has always been
one of the greatest problems of our
•country. Much has been learned con¬
cerning its causes, method of spread
and control with the result that the
disease is not nearly so common as in
former years. But it is still a serious
menace and its final eradication in
Peach county will depend on the in¬
terest manifested by the people indi¬
vidually and collectively.
Typhoid fever is not only fatal in
a large percentage of cases but also
usually disables the victim for many
weeks in non-fatal cases.
Mrs. Hardeman gives the following
instructions in answer to the question,
“How to Prevent Typhoid Fever?”
1. Every person should cultivate
habits of personal cleanliness, with
special regard to washing the hands
thoroughly each time after going to
the toilet.
2. Through sanitation of the home,
especially an approved sanitary, fly
proof privy and proper screens for the
house.
3. Proper attention should be given
to food supplies and drinking wtaer.
Milk is not only a good food for hu
mans but also good tor growing
| g e rms. It should, therefore, be hand
,ed with extreme cleanliness and only
by sease Tbe safest k "° W " plan ° is f" to use milk t
which has been proper l y pasteurized
I wbich has been boi i e d for three
.
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5. Every case of typhoid . oi sus
pected typhoid fever should promptly
be reported to the city, county or state
health department. This is a veiy
important step in preventing its
spread.
6. Excretions from patients should
be carefully disinfected by means of
chloride of lime or some other disin¬
fectant and then buried deep (at
two or three feet) in properly selected
places. By all means body
should be protected from flies and
other insects,
Each farm owner will be asked
furnish only the materials needed
build the number of units required
his home or farm tenant houses.
plant where the units will be
structed complete will be set up
some central point in the county
^ that has been proven to be the
(way of conserving both materials
[labor. I The WPA will furnish all
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$31,810.24 SUBSIDY
CHECKS PAID TO
PEACH FARMERS
R. P. Swan, county agent, announc¬
es that subsidy checks amounting to
$31,810.24 have been received, to be
delivered to 306 Peach county farm¬
ers. The checks received are for 268
Peach county farms. Checks are yet
to be received for 144 farms.
Mr. Swan states that practically all
applications are now in the Athens of¬
fice to be approved for payment.
There are a few applications that have
not been signed by the interested pro¬
ducers. As soon as all interested par¬
ties sign applications they are sub¬
mitted to the state office to be ap¬
proved for payment.
Large Peanut Plant
Is Now in Operation
Georgia’s most modern peanut shell
j ng plant, recently constructed on the
banks of the Flint river, between
Montezuma and Oglethorpe is now in
operation.
The plant, located on the site of the
old Montezuma Fertilizer company, is
one of the largest t and . most . up-to
date in the state and will provide this
entire section with a convenient mar¬
ket for peanuts at all times.
The new industry, a division of the
Kroger Grocery & Baking company,
will provide employment foi many
persons in the section where it is lo¬
cated.
New Trade School
Plan Aids Georgia
ATLANTA, Sdpt. 26.—Establish¬
ment, of five or six specialized voca¬
tional institutions of high school level
in Georgia to which the government
will transport youths and give free
instruction and lodging is provided
in a new congressional bill being
drawn by the federal department of
education, Dr. M. D. Collins, state
school superintendent, revealed yester¬
day on his return from Washington.
The measure provides a three-point
vocational program for high school
students, Dr. Collins said: (1) Free
transportation of students desirous
of specialized training to the school;
(2) his maintenance while instruc¬
tion is being given, and (3) payment
of his tuition.
To establish the schools, the federal
department seeks a grant of $50,000,
000, of which Georgia is scheduled to
receive $2,000,000.
Dr. Collins said Georgia gets a high
percentage of the funds, since the
southern states have one-third of the
school children but only one-sixth of
!the wealth. The money will be con
tro „ e(J by the states with no strings
aUach( , (i by Washington, other than
that of periodic checking to see that
f un( | s were wisely spent and well, Dr.
Collins declared.
This program and the $2,000,000
necessary to carry it through will be
in addition to that of another bill
which will be introduced in congress
at the January session, under which
Georgia hopes to receive $5,000,000
with which to raise the standard of
teacher pay.
Subjects to be taught in the voca¬
tional high schools would be printing,
forestry, animal husbandry and the
like, Collins said. The schools would
be located in the heart of districts
where the demand for their services
would be greatest.
“Boys who want to study special¬
ized vocations often are deprived of
the opportunity because they can’t
get the training at home and haven’t
the money to go elsewhere,” Dr. Col¬
lins explained.
“The federal government pays for
hauling CCC boys from Georgia to
Portland, Ore., and if a boy throws
a rock through a post office window
they pay his transportation to Chilli
cothe, Ohio. So, the educators thought,
why not pay the boys’ transportation
to a school where he can learn to take
care of himself and stay out of
trouble?” Dr. Collins observes.
The bill provides for the interchang¬
ing of students from one state to an¬
other, Collins said, when it is not feas¬
ible to establish and maintain the
same type schools in two adjoining
states.
MAKE STUDY OF
PECAN CULTURE
A group of Peach county pecan
growers spent Monday in and around
Albany, where they studied the results
of the experiments in fertilizing,
spraying and cultivating pecan or¬
chards that are being tried out on or¬
chards in that vicinity. The experi¬
mental work is carried on by the Pe¬
can Experiment Station of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture located in
Albany.
The Mathews pecan grove located
about four miles east of Fort Valley is
being sprayed and managed according
to the recommendations of Mr. Cole
and Mr. Lewis, who are in charge of
orchard management as relates to
methods of fertilizing and spraying at
the Albany station.
The progress that has been made in
controlling pecan scab is very encour¬
aging. Those who went from Fort
Valley praised the work that is being
done very highly.
On orchards where tests are being
carried out it is demonstrated that
a good crop of nuts may be expected
even in a very wet year, as this year.
Unsprayed trees in the same plot have
practically no nuts, while sprayed
trees are loaded with well matured
nuts.
It was the general opinion of the
Fort Valley group that a systematic
program of clean cultivation during
the summer, winter cover crops, prop¬
er fertilization, iand application of
spr^y materials as recommended by
the pecan station authorities will be
profitable to pecan growers.
Those who made the trip along with
County Agent R. P. Swan were W.
T. Pearson, Irvin Pearson, Randolph
Hartley, E. M. Clapp, E. H. Holland,
M .C .Mosley, J. H. Allen, S. M. Math¬
ews and H. A. Mathews.
INSURANCE LODGES
TO PUT UP SI00.000
Fraternal orders whose primary
object is selling benefit insurance
must place $100,000 deposit with the
state commissioner of insurance as
is required by law of all life insur¬
ance companies, Attorney General
Ellis Arnall ruled recently.
In an opinion rendered at the re¬
quest of W. B. Harrison, insurance
commissioner, Arnall said that the
commissioner is charged with the duty
of investigating applications of fra¬
ternal orders to determine definitely
whether they are primarily interested
in writing insurance or in fraternal
work.
“If you find that the operation is
in fact merely an insurance operation
and the cloak of fraternity is spread
around and about it merely as a dis¬
guise and that the principal purpose
of the operation is to engage in the
insurance business with the fraternity
being only incidental, then you are
unauthorized to issue a permit to the
applicant as a fraternal benefit so¬
ciety,” Arnall told Harrison.
All fraternal groups whose fra¬
ternal work is found incidental to
their insurance writing must abide
by all laws of Georgia regulating life
insurance companies, Arnall said.
PEACH
THEATRE
Saturday, September 30
BILL ELLIOT in
“LONE STAR PIONEERS”
Owl Show—
NANCY DREW in
“TROUBLE SHOOTERS”
Monday October 2
RANDOLPH SCOTT in
“FRONTIER MARSHALL”
Tuesday, October 3
CHARLES LAUGHTON and
CLARK GABLE in
“MUTINY ON THE
BOUNTY”
Wednesday, October 4
DEAD END KIDS in
’’HELL’S KITCHEN”
Thursday and Friday, October 5, 6
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PEACH COUNTY
COMMITTEE ON
POLIO IS NAMED
Permanent Committee to Pass on
Applications Is Provided For.
Governor E. D. Rivers, chairman of
the Georgia State Chapter, The Na¬
tional Foundation for Infantile Paral¬
ysis, Inc., this week named the per¬
sonnel of the Peach county committee.
They are W. G. Brisendine, chair¬
man; Mrs. J. H. Allen, co-chairman;
Mrs. Etta Carithers Houston, county
welfare director; J. F. Lambert, coun¬
ty school superintendent; Judge M.
C. Mosley, ordinary, and Dr. J. E.
Haslam.
The state chapter control the fifty
per cent of the funds raised in the
annual “fight on infantile paralysis”
drive, which will remain in the state
for the exclusive use of Georgia vic¬
tims of this dread disease. The other
fifty per cent of the funds is sent to
the national foundation to be used
for research.
The executive committee of the per¬
manent county organization, which
will approve applications from this
county, will be composed each year of
the chairman and co-chairman who
serve during the drive to raise funds;
the county welfare director; the coun¬
ty school superintendent; the ordi¬
nary and the county physician.
“In this way,” Governor Rivers
said, “we will have a perpetual organ¬
ization in each county, composed of
responsible county officials, who will
serve regardless of who is holding
office.”
Members of the state executive com¬
mittee are: Governor Rivers, chair¬
man; H. T. Dobbs, vice-chairman; W.
V. Crowley, treasurer; Lilyan Starr,
secretary; Ralph McGill, publicity di¬
rector, and C. E. Smith, Jr., attorney.
Allen Chappell, of Americus, is third
district member of the board of trus¬
tees.
PLANTS TREES INSTEAD
OF PAYING INSURANCE!
The creation of an estate through
insurance has been talked of for years
and a very practical application of the
fundamental principles of an endow¬
ment insurance are being put into
practice with every apparent reason
for success by Dewey Pulliam of La
vonia, Georgia, states W. D. Young,
assistant district forester for North
Georgia.
Five years ago Mr. Pulliam con¬
ceived the idea of planting pine trees
to create a salable supply of first class
timber by the time he reached the
age of 55 or 60 years. In other words,
Mr. Pulliam believes that he can, with
reasonable care, build up a sizable
reserve fund for his old age in having
a supply of marketable trees ready
for sale at that time.
Acting on this impulse, Mr. Pulliam
began buying land in 1935 with an
initial beginning of thirty-five acres.
Today he has a total of six hundred
and fifty acres. Not all of this land
will be planted to trees, as Mr. Pulli¬
am is interested in farming also.
However, his program for the last
five years has been to plant twenty
five thousand trees per year.
Today he has a total of eighty
thousand slash pines planted and vig¬
orously growing. His program of
planting will be completed this year
when the total will reach one hundred
thousand trees.
Survival has been unusually good
and growth has been rapid. At five
years of age trees in the plantation
have reached an average height of
fifteen feet.
Mr. Pulliam asked and received help 1
from the state division of forestry in
methods of planting and will be ad¬
vised by the division from time to
time as thinning and pruning is need¬
ed to improve the stand.
The division of forestry is operat¬
ing two state nurseries with a produc¬
tion of approximately 25,000,000 seed¬
lings annually for distribution at eo^t
to landowners of the state interested
in creating an estate in this one es¬
sential natural resource.
Mr. Pulliam is to be commended for
thinking of and carrying out such an
excellent idea.
The first orphanage in America was
established in Savannah, Gb., by
George Whitefield, a disciple of John
Wesley, in 1741.