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Cumming, Georgia.
A. S. C. NEWS
Marketing quotas for the 11M»0
crop of upland cotton apply to all
producers those who elect Choice
•B) allotments os well as those
with Choice (A) allotments, Kdsel
Martin, Manager of the Agricultur
al Stabilization and Conservation
County Office, said today.
Notices of the national average
price support rate for both Choice
fA) and Choice till cotton were
recently mailed to all producers
In the county. Each cotton grower
'was given the size of his Choice
fA) and Choice (It) allotment for
1960 ts-fore the cotton marketing
quota referendum last December.
Cotton growers who want their
Choice iHi allotment in effect for
1960 must file that decision with
the ASC County Office not later
than March 16.
’fhe Choice <Bl allotment for a
farm is 10 percent larger than the
regular or Choice <A i allotment.
Price support available for cotton
produced on a Choice (Bi allot
ment farm is 15 percent of parity
less than for Choice (A) cotton.
Under the present law, a pro
ducer who does not elect the Choice
<Bi program will have the Choice
fA) program in effect for his farm.
After the deadline of March 16
for electing a Choice (B) allot
ment, there will, in general, be no
changes from one allotment to
another. Cotton produced on any
acreage in excess of the chosen
allotment for the farm will be
subject to a marketing quota pen
alties.
UP—GRADING. CATTLE
pradine of cattle can be
accomplished bv using good pure
bred bulls and renlacing low ooa
lltv cows with heifers having de
sirable beef breeding qualities from
better than average dams in the
herd, declares Ralph Williams, ani
mal husbandman, AES.
More than half the men a* West
Point and Annr.nolis each year re
port they were Boy Scouts.
33.500,000 persons have been af
filiated with the Boy Scouts of
America since 1910.
Notice To The Public!
The R & S Cafe
located on the square
will open on Sunday
March 6th from 7 a. m.
’til 6 p. an.
Serving HAM or CHICKEN
All you can eat $1.25
E. J. Brooks, owner
The New Hoffman Tele
vision with hand wir
ed circuits, full power
Transformer and many
more of the finest fea
tures ever offered in TV
See them now at...
Cumming TV—Appliance Service
Ph. Tu. 1-ZiZZ Cumming, Ga.
REGULAR MEETING OF CUM
MINO CHAPTER NO. 546 O. E. S.
¥
Will lx* held each Second and
Fourth Tuesday Night at 7:30
O’clock.
All members are irrgfd to attend
-TOLENE WALLS. W. M.
CLARA MAE COX, Secretary
► ©TBS
Ranger, Edward L. Wright
1959 ranks right up with the
top years we have experienced in
fire control; however, there Is still
plenty of room for improvement.
Even though wc h.ad five hundred
land eighty-three less fires than in
1958; we burned some one thou
sand and ninety-four more acres.
The total loss amounted to fifty
thousand nine hundred and thirty
nine acres.
The Commission attributes two
reasons to this increase. First, and
most important, is the fact that
three more counties came under
fire protection. This added some
four hundred thousand forest acres
to the twenty-one million acres al
ready under protection. The new
counties included Houston, Ran
dolph and the lower section of
Clinch. The second reason is that
we had a series of large fires to
break out in northwest Georgia
this past April.
Our statewide report shows that
careless debris burning touch off
some two thousand six hundred
and seven of the fires and one
thousand four hundred and seventy
five were of the incendiary nature.
Smokers placed third, causing one
thousand thirty-four fires. From
those three elements we can ac
count for more than two-thirds of
the total fires. Fighting, railroads,
campers, lumbering operations and
various miscellaneous causes ac
counted for the remaining fires.
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: h vivid!, show conditions at Hospital 18 Gapping holes. fnllin K plaster, and crowded waiting room, the plumbing is rusted
and exposed, wiring is dangerous, and there aren't nearly enough beds for the need.
CONDITIONS AT VETERANS HOSPITAL
REPORTED "SHOCKING” BY WHEELER
... I • 1 Tt I _ _ ~ ~ ...f 111 m. M I,‘ »I I fill I 1 hACIXI tO I IX IX
Hu Pete Wheeler
Georgia Department of
Veterans Service
An ancient building with rot
ting walls and crumbling ceil
ings, old Hospital 48, is the only
government hospital in Atlanta
available to the veterans of
Georgia a horse-and-buggy
hospital in the medical jet age.
And even if the old building
were modern, it would not be
near large enough to serve the
veterans of this huge million
population city, Georgia, and
the Southeast.
k visit to Hospital 48, as the
above photographs testify,
would amaze even the most in
■ sensitive person. He would find
desperately ill veterans turned
away for lack of accommoda
tions and those "who were
■ ••lucky” enough to enter ate I
| housed in a ouilding partially 70 i
I years old. The "newest” portion i
lis 40 years old. • 1
The hospital has a capacity :
of only 300 beds with which to :
serve applications of more than
10,000 veterans per year who
need medical care. Each day the
■ waiting room is crowded with
. veterans seeking entrance, yet
; each day the hospital can accept
! only a few from this group of
! the sick.
The personnel at Hospital 48,
I working oftimes in almost im
possible circumstances, are to be
: commended. They are doing an
, outstanding job without proper
-’facilities.
i The hospital has no facilities
1 whatsoever for the mentally ill,
- a field now recognized as one
; of the most critically important
fields of medical care. These—
many of them actually suffer
ing the scars of war—must
either crowd their way into
state hospitals or pay huge
sums for private care.
There are also no facilities at
all for women patients the
women who accepted military
jobs alongside the men in re
cent wars.
It is almost impossible to
imagine that the United States
government would even main
tain so aged a building as Hos
pital 48. The walls have gapping
holes where the plaster has been
torn away. The plumbing is
rusted and unjointed in places.
The wiring is extremely dan
gerous. (The building could be
, classified only as a fire hazard.)
Yet our government appropri
, ated several millions to erect a
Thursday, February 25, 1960.
new modern 650-bed hospital on
Formosa for Chinese veterans.
There is not a single room in
this entire hospital with a pri
vate bath, regardless of how
desperately ill the patient may
be. And there are'no restrooms
at all for their visitors.
The need to begin construc
tion on a new veterans hospital
in Atlanta, with at least a 1,000-
bed capacity, is extremely criti
cal. Even at the very earliest, it
will arrive too late to save many
deserving veterans.
Congress should consider an
immediate investigation of the
facilities at Hospital 48. There
is little doubt that such an in
vestigation would show the need
for an immediate appropriation
of the necessary funds for the
hospital Georgia’s veterans
need.