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WE ARE
BUILDING
A CITY
HERE
Volume LIV, Number 15
REVIVAL BEGINS
W ITH EXCELLENT
SI ATTEND I J l/ilL/jlACii 4NCE .11 AT
OPENING SERVICE
at the Methodist church, with the pas¬
tor, Rev. L. E. Williams, doing the
preaching.
What was considered to be a good
congregation for the opening night of
the revival, joined heartily in the smg
ing of the hymnals under the leader
ship of P. Shaffer Rowland, who came
here from Newnan to lead the sing
ing for the services, which will con¬
tinue through Easter Sunday, April
13.
There will be. services tonight and
Friday night at 8 o’clock. Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock and Sunday
night at 8 o'clock. Services through
the following week will be at 10
each mortiing and 8 o’clock at night,
The board of stewards, at their
meeting Monday night, voted unani
mously to invite the Kiwanis Club and
the Junior Chamber of Commerce to
attend and sit in a body on a
their own selection. The secretary,
Lynn Brown, has written the invita
tions.
Directors Named for
Red Cross Chapter
Dr. Frank Vinson, chairman of the
local Red Cross chapter, announces
that the following men have been
named as a board of directors for the
chapter: W. E. Greene, D. C. Stroth¬
er, M. C. Mosley and A. E. Young
R. P. Swan was elected vice chair¬
man. H. H. Parker is secretary and
treasurer.
Dr. Vinson has appointed the fol
lowing committee chairmen, approved
by the board of directors: Rev. L. E.
Williams, welfare and civilian service;
Walter Lem f'rst aid and life saving;
and D. C. Strother, disaster.
The election and appointment.4
have been approved by Francis Sum¬
merville, district supervisor, who had
previously appointed Mrs. Frank Vin¬
son chairman of the production com¬
mittee.
Home ? Business
Houses II . Aie 4 „„ Built 0„;/ #
Another attractive addition to the
business section will be the brick
building going up next to the Thrifty
Oil Co. behind Rogers, which will be
occupied by an ice cream and cold
drink parlor and will be operated by
The 64 Tire Co.
’ A most attractive small dwelling
house is now almost completed on
Riley avenue. It is bemg built by the
Georgia Basket and Lumber Co.
Two large peach packing houses
have been built recently and are hav
ing machinery installed now. One is
on Vineville street and belongs to
Willard and Russell Pearson, The
other is in Branham’s Grove and be
long’s to J. D. Duke.
Horne Seed Supply
Saves Much Money
a suggestion of County Agricultural
Agent R P Swan this week, in point
ing out that the value of planting
seed for a well cropped two-horse farm
usually ' runs around $90 to $100
ar
“Never has the need for an
dance of good planting seed been more
important” he the” asserted. “This is just
true for usual crops such as
cotton and corn as it is for the other
crops including cowpeas, oats, soy
beans, lespedeza, sorghum, wheat and
th0like '
“Good seed of adopted varieties pro
duced and saved on the farm for
planting and some for sale is’ good
important,” he asserted. “This is just
tinued. “It takes just as much labp
and other expenses to produce a crop
from poor *eed as it does from good
seed; t !, ”s the importance of using
high quality seed.”
In discussing saving of lespedeza
seed, Mr. Swan pointed out that areas
of lesnedeza should be left level. The
land should be of fair to good fertili¬
ty and the crop should be fertilized
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Read widely by the people of progressive PEACH, Houston , Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
DRIVE IS ON TO
CONTROL CANCER
I -
April has been set aside bv the
: President of the United States as
! Cancer Control month and during this
month the attention of the Question American
nublic is called to the of
cancer. The American Society for the
Control of Cancer has been organized
for a number of year8> but it is only
during the past five or six years that
j.j ie Women's Field Army has become
ac tive in an attempt to educate the
general public regarding the early
symp toms and the curability of can
cer, when recognized early and treat
ed promptly.
Practically 1,500 citizens of Geor
gi die every year from cancer, and it
is recognized that fully 5,000 people in
Georgia have active cancer at all
times. A very large percentage of
those who are unable to pay for treat
ment which is frequently expensive,
and can only be given in a well equip
. ped hospital,
The State of Georgia, through state
; appropriation, has established twelve
cancer clinics in various parts of the
1 state in which citizens who are not
able to pay .for treatment may receive
the same at no expense to themselves,
There are two in the Third district,
° ne at Americus ’ the Prather Clinic >
and one in Columbus at the City Hos
Pitel
Many who go to these clinics are
absolutely cured, but unfortunately
many seek advice too late.
The Women’s Field Army is making
a strong effort throughout the state
to inform all women regarding early
symptoms and the importance of ear¬
ly treatment.
The following committees have been
I asked to serve by Mrs. Frank Vin¬
son, captain of Peach county:
County Executive Committee
Mayor A. C. Riley; J. F. Lambert,
school superintendent; Dr. J. B. Kay,
Byron; Dr. R. C. Smisson, Dr. J. E.
. Haslam. Homer J. Avera.
County Advisory Board
Mr^ John Lee, president of Worn
an’s Club; Miss Annette Shepard,
president of Study Club; Mrs. C. N.
Rountree, president Charles D. An
derson Chapter, U .D. C.; Mrs. O. I.
Snapp, president Fort Valley Chapter,
D. A. R.; Mrs. M. C. Mosley, presi
dent Governor Treutlen Chapter, I).
A. R.; Mrs. H. V. Williams, president
o f Service Star Legion and American
j Legion Auxiliary; Miss Thelma Wil
son, president Library Auxiliary;
Miss Hazel Wood, president Fine Arts
Club; Harris H. Hafer, president Ki
warns Club; I). W. Wells, president,
Junior Chamber of Commerce; E. C.
Patterson, commander American Le
K>°n post; Dr. Frank Vinson, chapter
chairman American Red Cross; Rev.
L. E. Williams, pastor Methodist
church; Rev. M. I). Reed, pastor Bap
tist church; Rev. James Coad,' Pres
byterian minister; Mrs. W. O. Gar
rett, president Woman’s Society for
Christian Service; Mrs. R. P. Swan,
president Baptist Missionary Society;
Mrs. Paul Murray, president Ladies’
Auxiliary Presbyterian church; Mrs.
R. C. Smisson, president Ladies Auxii
iary Episcopal church.
Winners In One-Play
Contest Are Named
! Under the direction of Miss Norma
Boyer, the Fort Valley High School
Dramatic club presented the annual
! one-act play contest last Friday eve
ning at the high school auditorium.
Five plays were presented.
The play selected by the judges
winner of first place, I Shall Be
Waiting, had the following cast: Ma
j rv Lillian Culpepper, Emily
Bobby Marchman, Gordon Mathews
and Duke Lane.
Second place went to Junior’s
taehe, players being Lawrence
ton, Jr., Louise Avera, Ann
Gordon Mathews, Sarah Hall, Betty
Thames and George Spear.
First place for best performance
given b rirl went to Claudia Wood
all; second place, Mary Lillian Cui
pepper 1 place, Carolyn Smisson.
Fii’st place for boys, Bobby March
man; s nd place, Gordon Mathews. •
third place, Lawrence Houston, Jr
The wv ng play will be presented
at Cord • n April 8.
The wi n ng play with its cast, will
compete h four schools in Corde’e
Friday night,
FORT VALLEY. PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941
Date Limit Set For
Filing Free Cotton
Classing ^ ° & Requests I
-
Organized one-variety cotton im
provement in Georgia .... file
groups can
applications for free classification of
their 1941 cotton and free market
news service any time aftev their
planting has been completed, but not
later than Au ^ ust ’* according to
^ rec ^ 01 ^ alter S. Brown, of the
Agricultural Extension beiviee,
“The requirement as to earliest
date of filing applications,” Director
Brown said, “means that no organized
one-variety community can file its
application until all its members have
their cotton in the ground. The re
quirement as to the final date upon
which any application will be accepted
is to enable one-variety groups to
obtain supplies and instructions in
time to obtain classification of their
early-ginned cotton. Last year,” he
added, “some one-variety communities
failed to get free classing because they
waited too long to ask for it. The
safest way is to apply as soon as
possible after the cotton is planted.”
! A total of 1,573 organized one
variety cotton improvement groups
were approved for the free classing
and market news service during the
1940-41 ginning season. Of this num
her 129 were Georgia groups, with
reported cotton plantings of 196,399
acres. These figures, compared with
the 1939-40 season, represent a
material increase in both numbers of
groups and acreage grown by approv
ed groups,
Instruction and forms for
applications can be obtained by ad
dressing office of the Agricultural
Marketing Service, 441 West Peach¬
tree Street, N. E., Atlanta, Ga.
See C* Little f Benefit
I |L p T,, W'Vfl* A lid '
DofellSe Pl Ogi h am
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^advantages of the defense p o
an< lc lmpaC *,
nudlfy adde d b .. f
any f nt "
^gia farming m the . J mon of
state farmers and other ^“^Itural
workera ’
State committeemen and chairmen
of county agricultural program plan
ning committees, queried by the / gn
cultural Extension Service m regau
to the effects of the defense program
and war impacts, expressed belief
that any add.tional benefits to Geor
gia agriculture would be offset by the
disadvantages.
State farm leaders pointed out that
the defense preparation and European
war has increased employment in non¬
farm work and is bringing about
closer cooperation, although at the
same time, these factors have caused
a labor shortage on many farms and
added impetus to migration of young
people from the land.
However, farmers asserted that
there is now opportunity for increased
sales of livestock, livestock products,
and fruits and vegetables, even though
the war has reduced income through
a decrease in exports of Georgia’s two
main cash crops, cotton and tobacco.
They explained that higher costs for
commodities purchased by farm peo
pie m living and production has result
ed, in addition to a wider disparity
between prices received and prices
P ai,i -
In regard to farm indebtedness,
their opinions indicated that there is
opportunity for some farmers to
liquidate indebtedness by the sale of
timber, livestock, fruits and vege
tables. They also pointed out that
there will likely be increased indebt
edness to many farmers because of
adjustment costs and rising costs of
’
operations.
Farmers have the chance to do more
soil conservation and improvement
due to the defense boom and the war,
even though an increased acreage in
idle land, because of reduced labor
supply, is expected, There is also
opportunity for most farmers to pro
duce more food and feed.
The farmers stated that income
from forests would be improved due
to higher prices for timb • • and better
markets for low-grade forest products,
although these increased prices will
probably cause ;i w 'e of forest
resources by over e
PEACH GROWERS
TO MEET APRIL 10
r Georgia peach .---- growers will „ meet
in
Macon next Thursday, April 10, to
discuss the marketing of what is ex
-
p ec ted to be the state’s largest crop
since i 93 l.
The sess j on w jjj begin in tbe Hotel
Dempsey at 11 a. m. and will include
a luncheon program to wh ich overv j
peach grower is inv j ted . Many of the i
na ^j on > s leading* buyers will be pres-! invi-1
ent to join in the discussion, and
tations to address the meeting have j
been extended to Perrin C. Miller 0 f ;
Chicago and James J. Banks, Jr., of t
Orlando, Fla.
M r. Miller, ’one of the country’s
best known distributors for many
yearS) now j s connected with the War
Department, engaged in the purchase
0 j f 00 ds for the scores of army en
campme nts throughout the nation.
The War Department’s purchase
gram will reach $100,000 daily this
summer, it was said.
Mr. Banks is a Florida citrus grow¬
er and is widely known for his activ¬
ity in the interest of the industry. He
is chairman of the publications com
m TaZ Btee of the Florida t^ Citrus ScuS Grower
to
peach growers will express vigorous
opposition to proposed changes in rul
in * of the AAA 0 ne of which would
ex lude comTnercial peach orchards
from total acreage under cultivation
unless winter cover crops had been
planted .
T he meeting * is the fourth spring
sponsored , , by the Georgia . As- a
session
sociation of Peach Growers.
Sr Off t Leaders Will
Meet Friday J Night i
I Renresentatives Representatives from iiom Perrv luiy, Ro Ko
berta and Fort Valley are expected at
th ° l>eat ’ h K<dt t ’ omnll,u ' e
meeting «,1 the Boy Ws of America,
^ at^ W^' otlock IT ^
night, AnrH Apnl 4 4, at 8 o dock.
Most important item to be d.scusscd
ls tho intei*council cumporcr, to be
held at Miona Springs in Macon
ty on April 25-27. Troops from
con county wlll be among the 500
Scouts who are expected to participate
from Central Georgia and Chehaw
councils. Camping will be done
patrols.
A report from the regional . msti- ..
tute, held ,n Athens on April 1-2 will
be made. Organization plans for the
district include the registration ol
three new troops and the formation
of cub packs in !• ort Valley and Jerry.
Roberta, Bonaire and Byron are ex
pected to register new troops within
a short time.
AAA Warns Against
| Irregular Practices
Farmers were warned this
regarding certain irregular practices
wb j cb; jf adopted, will result in the
) oss 0 f i;t41 parity and conservation
payments under the AAA farm pro
gram.
T. R. Breedlove, administrative of
f j cer 0 f tbe AAA; Ka j d that landlords
or operators who fail to report prop
er jy t0 tbe AAA officials, the interest
of their tenants of sharecroppers in
their cotton or other crops, will forfeit
t heir entire parity and conservation
payments.
In addition, Mr. Breedlove
that landlords or operators who
ploy schemes or devices such as side
agreements, assignments, or other
methods to obtain the conservation or
parity payments to which the tenant
or sharecropper is entitled will forfeit
their government payments.
Each person who shares in the
cotton crop on the farm is entitled to
AAA payments under provisions oi
the farm program, the administrative
officer explained. The same rule ap
pl'es to persons entitled to share in
other crops for which allotments ar
established, includ ng tobacco, p
nuts and commercial vegetables h o
said.
An auto speeder al-.vn disco
his mistake by accident,
A 1 erred or i; dm -a.
e.'f ely m M^itir:' co' 'oi. re 1
60 Poach County
Fanners to Plant
One Variety J Cotton
In 1940 thirteen Peach county form¬
ers organized the Peach County t ne
Cotton Improvement Assoc,
ation ' ® ue to tfle adverse weather
™ nd ; tion8 that caused some farmers
to plant cotton thl ' ee and f°ur
°"* y eight members completed their
^ utoits. ;
one-variety club adopted Coker
4 in 1 as the chosen variety. This
variety had given excellent results in
experiment station lists for the past
years. I he members oi the one
varluty organization in Peach county
' n 1!,1 ° P 1 educed an aveiage 0 f 30.5
p0Unds of hnt cotton per acre ’ Thc
avt ' laKe production of cotton tor the
county * atd yoaI > all varieties, was ~0S
pounds ol lint lHtton ppl am ‘‘
As a result of the fine showing
made by the one-variety group in
1940, more than sixty farmers have
obtained pure seed of the Coker 4 in
1 variety and plan to plant the entire
acreage of their farms to this high
yielding variety that produces a staple
from one inch to 1 1-16 inch.
hat rt “ a h lgb yleldmg V ^ 'lusck fruit-
1 . nt var,e ; rf pr °*
“ muth , or more cotton per a «' e
than the shorter stapled varieties He
UIg f al falml ' ls J° plant treated
aeed on land adopted to gi owing cot
ton, t» fertilize liberally with a high
g 5 ade fertlllzer > to cultlvate rap *
idly, and to mop cotton plants with a
poigon mixture earl in the growing
sea80n to kill off the first boll weevils.
Says 40-Hour ... .. 1T/ Week .
Is f s - i /,*#,./ lllll r I n if lft I/I (lit.
r
BALTIMORE, Md., March 31—
Brifr ( , w PhiIipR F1( , ming> the
wage-hour administrator, said Satur
h the 40 . hour week and time
“ nd ^ overtime are no,
“ little luxuries likl * c « aret « and lip ‘
stick” but are vital to the nation’s
mora)e
“Some people speak of social gains
h they wel ,, nothing but litt | e
. . . which wt . should all bl .
t() iye jn lhe name f
trioti Bin," Fleming said in a radio fo
on th , wage . hour act . “But they
rp not litfcle i UXU rlea. They are es
sential to the nation’s health and well
b(dng> and by and large they also are
sUindard8 of industrial efficiency.”
pleminjf sai<| he be ,i eV ed the atti
tude that workers should Iabor longe r
than 40 hourg in a week in the inter .
eg j. Q f na fj ona ] defense was a mistak
en one.
“First, the law does not pro
hibit anyone from working more
than 40 hours a week,” he said. ‘It
simply says that if the employe does
work more than 40 hours a week he
must be paid time and a half for
overtime.
Second, there are still more than
6,000,000 out ol work in the United
States. The overtime provision pro
vides an incentive for employers to
reduce the amount of overtime and to
employ more of these now idle work
ers. . . . Thus people are taken off
relief and off charity. They become
self-supporting. Ail of this improves
the nation’s health and well-being and
contributes m an important way to
what we call national morale-that
morale which is quite as important
to defense as are guns and bombing
planes.”
Diligence Important
Fleming said that the diligence
with which people work when they
are on the job is quite as relevant as
the number of hours they work.
“A man who puts in his very best
effort eight, hours a day will produce
more goods than his neighbors, who,
tired out by long hours, may pretend
to work 10 or 12 hours a day but is
actually loafing or resting on the job
half the time. William b imdsen of
the National Defense domiiu-sion told
me that he had found xperienee
that on a 10-h'Hir . ' ordinary
worker docs not a: irk longer
+V. ' ‘if- nr *. one-half
hours Inc its i he may
ng motioni I... tually is
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Fanner fin i ♦ I of a"
st eco
THOUSANDS SEE
PEACH BLOOMS
Hundreds of automobiles bringing
thousands of people from Macon, At¬
lanta and many other places, came to
Fort Valley last week-end to see
this section’s famous peach orchards
dressed in their myriads of beautiful
blossoms which stretch across the
landscape like a blanket of delicate
pink; the beauty of which is unrivalled
anywheie.
The Fort Valley Junior Chamber of
Commerce had laid out and marked
a route 0 f several miles through some
of the biggest and prettiest orchards
f or the benefit of the visitors. They
had also secured the cooperation of
the road forces in scraping all the
dirt roads over route, so that there
were no rough roads to mar the pleas
0 f the trip,
They also secured by the cooper
ation of the members of the organi
zation and local automobile dealers a
goodly number of automobiles to make
a trip to Macon to bring soldiers from
Camp Wheeler to see the blossoms,
LOUIS FAGAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Robert Louis Fagan, acting special
agent in charge of the Atlanta office
of the Federal Bureau of Investiga¬
tion, died unexpectedly of a heart at¬
tack in his room at the Atlanta Ath¬
letic Club Tuesday.
He had been under treatment for
heart trouble for the past two or
three years and was thought to be
much improved.
1 He was 36 years old and was well
known in legal and fraternal circles.
H ‘‘ won bis bachelor of philosophy de
gree at Emory University and his law
degree Horn the Atlanta Law School, _
Following his graduation from law
school, he practiced law for a time
and then entered the legal department
the American Telephone * Tele
graph He entered Company. the FBI in September, | •
1933, serving in the Charlotte and
Washington offices before going to
Atlanta in 1936. He also spent a
brief period opening the FBI office
in Savannah. !
Ht , was active in sigma Nu>
Delta Kappa and Phi Delta Phi !
cron
legal fraternities. He was a member ’
of the Georgia Bar Association.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. E.
M. Fagan; two brothers, Glen Fagan
Algie Fagan, and two sisters, Mrs.
M. L. Hickson and Miss Mary Fagan.
i Funeral services were held in the
Fort Valley Methodist church Wednes
day afternoon with Rev. L. E. Wil
jliams, 1 James pastor Coad, of Presbyterian the church, and minister, Rev.
1 officiating. Interment followed in
Oaklawn cemetery.
j Pallbearers were members of the
F. B. I.—Henry A. Snow, Joe Holmes,
Clarence Toulme, Richard G. Danner,
I Alfred I. Means, and T. Hoyt Davis.
1
EunCml DirCCtOrS t-O
Meet Here _ Ill'll 7
Oil 1
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_
; The third district group of the Geor¬
gia Funeral Directors Association will
meet with McCord and Company here
on April 7. They will be
with a barbecue dinner. The program
will be arranged by the state officers.
Farm Families Make
Over L000 Mattresses
More than 1,000 mattresses have
been made under the cotton mattress
demonstration program in Reach
county.
A center is maintained in Fort
ley and one has recently been opened
in Byron in order that families may
not have to go so far to make their
mattresses. ’
Fifty pounds of cotton and 10 yards
of ticking are furnished by the Sur
pi s Marketing Administration to low
income rural families who receive at
1 t 50 per cent of the family income
f > n agricultural occupations.
small fee is charged each family
6 over the cost of renting buildings,
bines, buying equipment, paying
rvisor in each center, and needles,
etc.
stresses are made under the su
sion of County Agent R. P. Swan.
53 YF.4RS OF
SERVICE
Only newspaper in the heart
of one of America’s
rich agricultural
sections.
$1.50 I’er Year in Advance
KIWANIANS HEAR
YOUNG TELL OF
CUBAN VENTURE
By R. A. HALL
Kiwanians were highly entertained
Friday-by A. E. Young, manager of
the Elrod Stores, and guest speaker
of Kiwanian Homer Avera.
Mr. Young recounted his startling
experiences incident to the opening of
Havana Cuba’s first 5 and 10 cent
store, stating that the Havana popu¬
lace, long exploited by the retailers,
refused to believe that it would be
possible for the articles that were be¬
ing offered for sale to continue to be
available at the opening price, and
staged such a tremendous buyers'
rush they were compelled to close the
doors at intervals to clear the store.
Each succeeding day, instead of bring¬
ing relief, produced an increase in
the madhouse buying as others heard
the news and hurriedly sought a share
before the supply was exhausted or
the price advanced, firmly convinced
that it was a scheme which could not
last.
The store being some ten days out
of eastern markets, was soon depleted
of goods and they were forced to
scour the city in search of items they
could retail at the usual prices and
maintain a semblance of business un¬
til shipments could arrive from the
mainland. ‘The young men of the
city were amazed,’ declared Mr.
Young, “to find young girls clerking
in the store without their ‘duennas’
(chaperones), and seemed convinced
that they were there for their spe¬
cial benefit, changing their minds only
at the advent of many policemen and
a liberal application of hickory.”
Havana is a perfect setting for just
such a bedlam of confusion as por
by Mr. Young. Old Havana,
shouldered to the very edge of one
of the world’s finest harbors by great¬
er Havana, is a place of strange
smeW“ 1 “oy.nds, end », J ’
tortuoug nalT0W ~ Greets bS filled S to
motor horM c l amor ing for the right
of wav and the Inersized^ „ hri]1 Denetratine .
black policemen' all under the watch Ca^k
fll F-rthei' eye of gloomy Hhe ohl Morrow Xes
* afie lu ? old cRy ? * g f wav ^
, 'huiyings The^beSaK* ^rdled
fine J ' S
and barred indows with’ f v fade into
COU ntrv its maeinificenl:
r0val pa j m f or ests banana and sucar
cane overshadowing^^ihe plantations and Brand haciendas
^ UnTrlvinv wretched huts of
tho , ower cla ‘ ' y g all is
feeling of pent up passions and smoul ¬
dering hates which may, and frequent¬
ly do, burst their bounds and bring a
barveK t of discord and death,
Fort Valley Winner
In Debate Contest
Miss Mary Lillian Culpepper and
Harry Singletary, representing th<
Fort Valley high school, debated the
Ellaville high school team last Friday
in Ellavill<?. Fort Valley won unani¬
mously the negative side, the subject
being: Resolved, That the Federal
Government Should Have More Power,
„ jf . Be Speaker
UuOr tO
rrr/ lUgS • (jVer J I OrdaU 1 v
' '
A iva Tab ? r ’ head i t * ine ” n t teach -
cr trainer , for agricultural , education .
in Negro schools *of Georgia, will be
(he speaker on the “Wings Over Jord¬
an” program Sunday morning at 9:30
o’clock. The program will originate
in Cleveland, Ohio, and will be carried:
over the Columbia Broadcasting Sys¬
tem. Tabor will leave for Cleveland
Friday.
The speaker is well qualified by
training and experience to represent
the New Farmers of America and
other vital agricultural interests. He
holds the B. S. degree in agriculture
from Tuskcgee Institute and has
served the State of Georgia in various
agricultural capacities for more than
twenty years. He is thc author of
numerous teaching materials and state
bulletins, and is identified with a.
large number of organizations with
both fitate and national significance.
It is quite an honor to be invited to
speak on this program, as it is one of
Columbia's most popular program’s.