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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1973
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Royston A. Ingram Sr. (center) was recently presented with
the 25 Year Legion of Honor Award from the Kiwanis Club.
Ingram is a past president and charter member of the local
Sutton Prepares
Performance Bill
Senator Franklin Sutton,
representing the 9th District
in the Georgia Senate, has
drawn up a bill for in
troduction in the 1974 Session
of the General Assembly,
which would somewhat alter
the present contract system
of buying and selling certain
farm commodities.
According to Sutton, the
caption of the proposed
legislation reads, “certain
contracts for the purchase of
agricultural commodities
shall not be enforceable
unless there is incorporated
within such a contract a
performance bond guaran
teeing the performance of the
obligations under the contract
by the purchaser
The area represented by
Sutton is largely agricu
turally-oriented, and a
great deal of cotton,
soybeans, tobacco and other
such crops are produced
there.
Said Sutton, “Although this
legislation is primarily aimed
at cotton, it is designed to
include soybeans, peanuts,
and other similar crops sold
under bulk contract”.
According to Sutton, such
legislation has long been
needed to guarantee the
financial ability of the pur
chaser to complete his con
tract.
“As an example”, said
Sutton, “if cotton was selling
for 20 cents, and a man en
tered into a contract to
purchase at 30 cents, should
cotton go up to 50 cents, the
purchaser would have a
windfall".
“By the same token’’,
continued Sutton, “a man
could form a ‘dumb-head’
corporation and offer a
contract under the market
price and tie up a lot of cotton.
Or, if the market is below the
contract, he can just go into
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Sutton contends that the
small, average farmer needs
some protection, and needs to
display financial respon
sibility in dealing with such
vital commodities as cotton,
Game Still Human
LOS ANGELES - “The
game is played by human be
ings and we should keep it
that way,” says NFL official
Jim Tunney.
His answer was in response
to the suggestion that video
tape instant replays be used in
helping determine close calls.
Tunney, Hollywood High
School principal and 14-year
veteran of the NFL striped
shirters, made the time-tested
point that the camera is only
two-dimensional and most
judgment calls are based on
depth.
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club. Recipients of awards for outstanding work in Kiwanis
were Cecil Mize (left) and Leon Boling.
soybeans, and similar crops.
“Even though I believe this
bill will be a step in the right
direction, there does exist
certain areas of modification
and amendments, which
would perfect the bill to the
out his hands (simulating two
play h running downfield)
and Gloving them laterally,
side by side, indicating a
camera could correctly detect
the infraction in such an in
stance. Then he put one hand
in front of the other, blocking
off one from a clear view, thus
eliminating the chance of an
accurate picture for some
thing like pass interference.
“Instant replays are prob
ably the greatest thing that
has happened to pro football,”
he said, adding with semi-se
riousness, “They have given
the fans a chance to evaluate
satisfaction of both industry
and producer. The tentative
draft of this bill will be
available to any segment of
the general public affected, in
order to study and offer
amendments”, concluded
Sutton.
the job the officials are do
ing;”
Tunney travels in a group of
six officials .
“Staying together like this
enables us to know each
other’s strengths and weak
nesses and helps our ability to
work with each other through
this familiarity,” he said.
“We grade each other after
every game and are graded
by an observer. Then there’s
the NFL film which we view
as a group every Saturday
night. Every play is filmed
and we run back some plays 5,
10 or 15 times.”
Undulant Fever
Outbreak Noted
Twenty cases of laboratory
confirmed cases of
brucellosis, or undulant fever,
affecting Georgia people have
already been reported in the
state this year, according to a
report just issued by the
epidemiology section of the
Department of Human
Resources. A total of 19 cases
were reported in 1972.
Brucellosis is an infectious
disease of the reproductive
organs of cows, hogs, sheep,
goats and in rare instances,
horses. It causes abortions
among breeding stock. People
become infected when ex
posed to diseased animals
primarily on farms and in
abattoirs or slaughter houses.
One of the most recent
cases involved a middle-aged
West Georgia farmer who
was hospitalized in Sep
tember with an original
diagnosis of typhiod fever. He
was suffering from malaise,
weakness, fever, night sweats
and had experienced a 15-
pound weight loss during the
previous month. The
diagnosis was changed to
brucellosis after a blood
specimen submitted to the
physical health division’s
microbiology lab in the
human resources agency
revealed presence of the
disease.
The family medical history
indicated that the victim’s
wife had also been ill. She had
experienced low grade fever
at night, weakness, headache,
thirst and a 30-pound weight
loss over the past four
months.
Both patients were placed
on tetracycline therapy; both
are recovering.
Human resources workers’
investigation of the cases
suggested that the wife’s
exposure likely occurred
when one of their cows game
premature birth to two claves
in mid-May. She had assisted
in the delivery, and two or
three weeks later her first
symptoms appeared.
Her husband had abundant
opportunities for exposure.
He had assisted with
deliveries and “cleaning” of
several cows in the herd and
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19 CASES LAST YEAR
had also been exposed
through the practice of ar
tificial insemination of his
cattle—a method of breeding
he began in April 1973.
Earlier, the farmer had
requested the Georgia
Department of Agriculture to
test his entire herd for
brucellosis after several cows
aborted. The test conducted in
July resulted in the discovery
of five infected animals. One
of the five was the cow that
had given birth to the
premature twin calves.
State public health
veterinarian Dr. Keith Sikes
points out that this case
illustrates the hazard an
infected herd presents to a
farm family, adding that
infected cattle and swine also
represent health hazards to
abattoir workers.
“Control programs manned
by the Department of
Agriculture are our best hope
for eradication of this
disease,” he says. “While
brucellosis or undulant fever
is fatal to only about two
percent of people who fall
prey to the infection, it’s a
serious illness that can recur.
Some cases have been known
to last for years.
“If farmers and abattoir
workers would wear rubber
gloves and clean coveralls
while tending or slaughtering
animals, this would help,” he
comments. “However, the
best preventive measure is
still control among animal
herds.”
Dr. James Andrews, a State
Department of Agriculture
veterinarian, says he believes
brucellosis could be
eradicated in Georgia “in
three or four years” if
eradication programs receive
adequate support.
“Federal funding for
brucellosis eradication has
been sharply cut in recent
years,” the agriculture of
ficial explains, “and states
have been left with more and
more responsibility for
providing facilities and
personnel. Despite these cuts,
we have managed to continue
a strong surveillance
program. Milk samples taken
from the state’s dairy herds
are checked for invective
agents four times a year
Other commercial animal
herds are inspected as often
as facilities and personnel
permit. We usually have
between 300 and 400 herds a
month under quarantine,
which means we check them
every 30 days until the
problem clears up, and then
require two negative tests at
90 day intervals.
“Although there’s no real
Exercise Helps
Avert Back Ache
We sometimes refer to an
activity as “back breaking,”
but experts point out that it
may be just as hard on our
backs to do nothing at all.
Says Han Kraus, M.D.,
whose patients included the
late President John Kennedy:
“... Lack of sufficient exer
cise and good exercise habits
instilled in childhood is the
main cause of tension pain,
back pain, overweight, and
heart disease in later life.
Geriatrics starts in the
cradle.”
Orthopedists point out that
where back trouble is con
cerned, exercise may have
important therapeutic as well
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threat to consumers since the
reporductive organs of
animals are not used for
food,” Dr. Andrews con
cludes, “brucellosis is an
economic threat to owners of
animal herds—and a personal
health hazard to them and to
slaughter house workers. We
hope eventually to have
facilities and personnel to
check all market animals for
the disease. If and when that
times comes, we can
eradicate brucellosis—not
before.”
as preventive value. If we ig
nore early distress signals
from our back warning us of
weakened and injured areas,
the trouble is apt to crop up
later in more serious form. If
we listen to what our back is
trying to tell us and work to
strengthen it through appro
priate exercise, we may ward
off future agony.
Of course, if you have back
trouble, you’ll need profes
sional guidance to determine
which therapeutic exercises
will be helpful to you. Exer
cise without a specialists’ su
pervision could do you harm
rather than good.