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210,000 Head Slay In State
While two-thirds of Georgia's
calf crop Is still being shipped
out of the state, the one-third
that stays home for feeding
and finishing amounts to a siz
eable 210,000 head.
To help cattlemen do abet
ter job with these, the Coop
erative Extension Service
animal science department has
announced a series of eight st
eer feeding short courses for
early next year.
The schedule is as follows:
January 5, Statesboro, Farm
Bureau auditorium; January 6,
Jesup, State Highway Depart
ment auditorium; January
15, Perry, county agricultural
auditorium; January 16, Cami
lla, G.F.A. peanut building on
U.S. Highway 19 South; Janu
ary 22, Griffin, Stuckey audito
rium at Georgia Experiment St
ation; February 24, Gainesville,
Jackson Electric Membership
Corporation building on Daw son
highway; March 31, Athens, Ag
ricultural Engineering Center
on College of Agriculture cam
pus, and April 29, Thomasville,
new livestock pavilion.
The eight programs will be
similar. Each will begin at 9:30
a.m., recess for lunch from
Social Security
Social Security beneficiaries
need not apply for the 15 per
cent benefit increase just si
gned into law by President Ni
xon. “Every one of the 25
million men, women and chil
dren now on the benefit rolls
will receive the increase auto
matically, ” Robert M. Ball,
Commissioner of Social Secur
ity, said today.
“The first regular check in
the new amount," Commiss
ioner Ball said, “Will arrive
;April 3, the usual day for de
livery of benefit checks cover
ing payments for the month of
March." A separate check in
the amount of the benefit in
crease for the months of Jan
uary and February will reach
beneficiaries later in April,
during the week of
April 20.
Refiguring the benefit am
ounts of the 25 million men,
women, and children now on the
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at 3:30 p.m.
Six subjects and seven speak
ers will be featured at each
session. “Management of New
Cattle," by M.K. Cook, Ex
tension animal scientist, will
begin the programs.
Other topics to be covered
are fattening cattle on temp
orary pasture, fattening cattle
in drylot, use of silage and
other roughages, the economics
of different cattle feeding sys
tems, and use of fescue in a
stocker steer program.
Additional speakers include
W.C. McCormick, head of the
animal science department, Co
astal Plain Experiment Station,
Tifton; Otto Sell, animal scien
tist, Georgia Experiment Sta
tion, Griffin; Bob Lowery, an
imal scientist, Coastal Plain
Experiment Station; O.G. Dan
iel, head of the Extension an
imal science department; Ed
Brown, Extension economist,
and Glenn Conatser, area Ex
tension animal scientist.
Conatser, who will discuss
the use of fescue, will appear
only at th e North Georgia
meetings.
benefit rolls is a tremendous
task, Commissioner Ball poin
ted out, and it must be done
without disrupting the regular
benefit payment cycle.
About one out of every eight
Americans is now receiving a
social security check each mo
nth, Commissioner Ball said.
As of the end of December,
these monthly payments totaled
$2.2 billion and the monthly
total will go up by $345 mill
ion to more than $2.5 billion
as the 15 percent benefit in
crease becomes effective,
of SIOO a month will rise to
sll6 per month; a couple 65
or older receiving the average
couple’s benefit of $l7O, will
have their benefit increased to
$196; the average benefit for
a family made up of a disabled
worker, wife and one or more
children will go up from $237
to $273; and average payments
for a widow and two or more
children will rise from $254
to $292."
TOUR
ST. MARYS, GEORGIA
(PRN) Most travelers,
breezing past this community
on U.S. 17, miss the unusual
facets of this one-time
customs port, unaware of St.
Marys’ intriguing history --
real and legendary. But those
who do make the 11 mile side
trip via Georgia route 40, and
who bother to learn the
community’s past, add a
fascinating collection of
sidelights to their vacation
trip.
Founded in 1787 on a bluff
once the site of an Indian
village, St. Marys first gained
prominence as the
southernmost U.S. Customs
port in the days when Spain
still ruled Florida. For 75-odd
years the community
flourished as a deep water
port, its economic life
depending upon shipping,
trading, lumbering and
shipyards. It was the social
playground of the coastal
planters, site of yacht races in
sheltered waters, and of
glittering receptions and balls
for 19th century VlP’s,
including General Lighthorse
Harry Lee, who died in 1818
on nearby Cumberland Island
during negotiations to cede
Florida to the U.S.
St. Marys declined during
the War Between the States
after Federal gunboats shelled
and burned the waterfront,
driving the inhabitants inland.
For the next 75 years the
town existed as a small Ashing
village noted for towering
trees and grass in the streets.
Today, stories of the 20th
century pulpwood industry
mingle with innumerable
legends -- probably more
fiction than fact - but
nevertheless giving St. Marys’
past a romantic aura.
Wandering the old section,
you can visit the Presbyterian
Church, dating from 1808,
which probably is more
famous for a legendary
GEORGIA
incident involving smugglers
and a horse decoy. Smuggu.. b
was a lucrative business when
the St. Marys River was the
border with Spanish Florida,
and the smuggers were
ingenious. In order to unload
one contraband cargo with no
local interference, the
smugglers led the minister’s
horse up the steep steps into
the Presbyterian Church’s bell
tower. Attaching hay to the
bell rope, they caused the
hungry horse to sound a
continuous alarm. While the
townfolks sought to determine
if it was an emergency or a
prank, the smugglers carefully
unloaded their contraband
unnoticed on the waterfront.
The horse alarm was a very
effective decoy.
Eauallv interesting is the
Georgia Washington Pump and
Oak. Planted in 1799,
purportedly on the day
Washington died, the oak still
stands as a memorial to the
“Father of Our Country”
beside an ancient pump,
surrounded by an iron fence.
The town’s library is housed in
Orange Hall, built in 1822 by
the Presbyterian minister. In
Oak Grove Cemetery are many
ancient graves with French
names, historical footnotes to
drama elsewhere. Some are the
graves of Acadians who fled to
Georgia from Grand Pre,
others are from French Santo
Domingo, refugees who fled
slave uprisings and revolution.
There are gory tales
associated with some of the
old buildings. There’s the
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appearances of a headless
apparition. The story says one
of the hotel guests, beheaded
in a waterfront brawl, still
prowls carrying his head in his
hands. There’s also the tale of
the ghostly barber, who met
sudden death, who
purportedly interrupted a
clandestine poker game in the
house he haunts.
But regardless, the Tourist
Division of the Department of
Industry and Trade says the
physical mementos of the
past, plus the legends - afford
a picturesque background for
a visit to St. Marvs of today.
State of Union
Address
When Governor Lester Mad
dox delivers his State of the St
ate address to the General
Assembly Tuesday, January 13
at noon, the remote facilities
of the Georgia Department of
Education Television Services
will be in the Capitol chamber
to televise it.
The speech will be aired over
the entire Georgia ETV Net
work and will be provided with
out charge to any Georgia com
mercial TV station which would
like to re-broadcast it.
The Georgia ETV remote fa
cilities also will cover the
budget message to the Legisla
ture at noon on Thursday, Jan
uary 15.
Both of these events may
be seen locally on Channel 8.
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VA Report Reflects Growth
The Veterans Administration
today looked back on its 1969
operations in a year end report
which reflected growth and in
creased activities in a majority
of its programs.
Administrator of Veterans
Affairs Donald E. Johnson said
these trends were particularly
evident in the agency’s edu
cational programs. He said a
record number of 783,000 ve
terans, servicemen, sons, dau
ghters, wives and widows are
in training programs of all
types, an increase of 35 per
cent over last year.
Most of these trainees.
736,000, were veterans and se
rvicemen training under the
current GI Bill.
A total of 1,650,000 persons
have trained under this third
generation GI Bill since it went
into effect June 1, 1966. Direct
benefits in VA educational all
owances amounted to $720 mi
llion in 1969.
Mr. Johnson said the report
also reflects VA’s intensified
orientation and counseling eff
orts to encourage more ve
terans and servicemen to apply
for government benefits. In Vi
etnam, VA representatives in
November provided this ser
vice to its millionth service
man.
The VA chief pointed out that
similar service is available
throughout the United States th
rough contact representatives
at VA hospitals, VA offices,
and Veterans Assistance Cen
ters.
VA’s insurance service did
enough business in 1969 to main
tain its position as the third
largest organization of its type
in the United States. It admin
istered government insurance
programs totaling more than 5.6
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million policies, with coverage
valued at more than S3B billion.
In addition, VA supervised
the government-industry Ser
vicemen’s Group Life Insuran
ce program with 3.78 million
members under the group po
licy with a total face value
ol $3V.7 billion.
Beneficiarie - . • these
programs received about ijc.
million during 1969.
Mr. Johnson said an<t’.>
highligni of Vvu year end r
ort was the nearly one on.•
million home loans the agency
guaranteed for veterans in 1969.
He explained that 80 percent
of these loans went to veterans
who served after Jan. 31, 1955,
and that the loans were provided
despite a general shortage of
mortgage funds in many areas
of the country.
Among the significant activi
ties of VA’s budget service
during 1969 was its cooperation
with Treasury and Post Office
Department officials in speed
ing delivery of VA checks to
beneficiaries in the Hurricane
Camille disaster areas of Mi
ssissippi and Louisiana.
The VA’s construction ob
ligations during the year am
ounted to about SIOO million.
This includes contracts for new'
hospitals at Lexington, Ky.,San
Diego, Calif., and Tampa, Fla.,
with a total bed capacity of
1,901. Another contract was aw
arded for the modernization of
the VA hospital in Dallas.
Treatment in VA hospitals
rose 18,000 to 776,000 veter
ans during 1969. The increase
was partly the result of im
proved techniques and facilities
which made shorter hospital st
ays possible, thus permitting a
larger number of veterans to be
treated.
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3,700,000, compared to about
2,800,000 a year ago.