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The Ghoison Brothers, Messrs Clyde, Jell and Hopp, and their nephew Mr. Billy Booth,
inspect their field of crotalaria, which they firmly believe has added much to the upbuild
ing of their farm land.
Soil Conservation Plan Questions and Answers
Proves Very Profitable Regarding Status of
On Ghoison Farm Social Security Benefits
GROSS TOBACCO SALES
HIT 7,160,396 POUNDS
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ucrooi-r rvir. uiycie have not WO rKed in covered em-
The Ghoison brothers, Clyde,
Jeff and Hop and their nephew,
Billy Booth have made soil con
servation planning and practice \yjn I be entitled to benefits when
pay off on their farm which is lo
cated on State Highway Three
seven miles north of Butler.
Back
realizing tnat his soil was slipping
away from him through erosion
and the fertility was decreasing.
He made application to the Dis
trict Supervisor of the Middle
Western Ocmulgee River Soil
Conservation District for assistance
in working out a soil conservation
plan, M. P. Dean, soil convserva-
tionist worked with them in
analyzing their farm and assisted
them in working out a complete
plan.
When the plan was completed
the Ghoison Brothers started to
Valdosta, Ga., Aug 13—Gross
sales bn the Georgia-Florida flue-
cured tobacco markets Monday,
August 12, totaled 7,160,396 pounds
Q. I got my Social Securitv at an average of $39.72 per hund-
card in 1937 while 1 was working red - The average was only 50 cents
on WPA. When I left WPA in 1938 less than 1st Fridy’s average.
I went to worn for the government. Sales for the season totaled 121,-
954,489 pounds for an average of
I am 65 >uais of age next month? $45.79.
A. No, you will probably not be
Macon Plans Action
On Parking Problem
Benny Priftchett Loses
Grim Fight with Malady
ny was suffering from a bone dis
ease, efforts were made to get him
to Johns Hopkins for treatment. But
physicians shook their heads. It
Macon, Ga., Aug 13—Holding off Forsyth, Ga., Aug. 13—Death
with the hope that the issue would came today to Benny Pritchett who I
not come directly under its atten- had been waiting for it bravely for
tion, the City Council Tuesday many months.
night wil be forced to take action The months had seen in some
on the traffic situation in Macon, ways, the happiest and most in-
since the transportation group of teresting of his 14-year life for Ben-
the Chamber of Commerce has sent ny. He had received stacks of cards
in a communication favoring park- and gifts from practically every
ing meters and angle parking in state in the union,
down-town Macon. The communic- When it was discovered that Ben-
ation asks that some action be ta
ken.
Two traffic surveys are now un
der way heer.
Macon once had parking meters
but after a terrific howl they were was to ° l a l°> tliey said. The disease
removed from the business section, dac l progressed too far.
The protest was raised again by Benny had his birthday early,
auto owners. Now many say that just in case. His class at school
angle parking, instead of parallel bave a t for him at his home
parking, and parking meters will „
help solve the present congestion. ^' 1 ts P° UIC d m from Forsyth peo-
pie and then they began to come
£ j VVHELAN'S FINE from all over the nation, when
UPHELD BY DIRECTOHS °‘ Ben " y S ea “ y b ‘' th '
Among the gifts was a Boy Scout
Augusta, Aug. 11—A $250 fine suit from the Forsyth troop- Ben-
and an indefinite suspension from ney had been working on his Ma-
organized baseball imposed upon con Telegraph paper route, trying
Dr. E. J. Whalen former president 1 to earn the money for his suit,
of the Savannah Baseball Club, by when he became ill. He will be
President E. M. Wilder of the Sal- buried wearing the suit, according
ly League, was unanimously up
held by the leagues’s directors in
Augusta Saturday.
Whelan was banned from base
ball and fined for attacking Um
pire Harry Rudolph in the um-
to his own wish.
Beny lived to see^ his four
teenth birthday and for weeks be
yond, but there was no hope of
recovery and he waited calmly and
bravely for the end that came at
pire’s bench room in Savannah be-j 5:20 a. m. today,
tween games of a Savannah-Co- Beny is survived by his mother
lumbus double-header July 28. j and his step-father, Mr. and Mrs.
Whelan struck Rudolph in the: Robert Williams: two brothers, Mil-
face when the umpire refused ton and Floyd Pritchett; two sis-
to discuss banishment of two Sa-Jters; Jeanette and Naomi Pritchett,
vannah players from the first and his grandfather, A. A. Prit-
game. chett of Juliette.
Visit Beautiful—
Radium
prings
Albany, Georgia
Open All Year Around
to the Public
Sw‘m, Dine, Dance
Golf. Plav and
Picnic
• **OOf, OPEN 0 A. M. to 11
P. M. Every Day.
• BEST FOOD In the Sooth.
Dining Room Open Daily 11
A. ML to 10 P. M
Dance Every
Niaht
Except Sunday 8:30 to 12:30
• Review all Radium Springs
has to offer. Think how quick-
. ly and easily you can get
here. Just pack up and como,
and stay overnight. '
ployment under the Social Securi
ty Act a sufficient length of time
to acquire an insured status.
Q. What wouid it take to ac
quire an insured status?
A. In order for a person to be
entitled to social Security benefits
when he becomes 65 yeais or age
it is necessary that ill he have
worked in employment covered by
the Social Security Act; and (2j
earned at least $50.00 per quarter •]
in at least one-half or tne number
of quarters as have elapsed from
January 1, 1937 until that persons
work, like most of Taylor county hirthnav
farmers ore not rich, and the total ^ T !
age of Mr. Clyde, Jeff and Hop is
around 189 year and Billy at that
time was only 17 years of age.
labor was one of their main A - A person
Q. I will be 65 years of age on !
Sept. 8, 1946. How many quarters
will I need to be tuny insured ?
A. A person who will be 65
handicaps but by keeping at the y ears of age' in July, August or
job and with assistance from soil ^‘PtemDer of 1946 will need 19
conservation service on their ter- quarters to be fully insured; 68
race lines and a terrace demon- Quarters have elapsed since Jan. 1
stration in which the local Ford iy3 ‘. the 33 diviued by 2 will give
dealer demonstrated the ability oi the requued quaners, 19.
his tractor to build terraces they Q. How muen will my Social
started and once started they have Security benefit be when f become
stuck to it. We will not attempt lo 65?
go through his complete farm plan a. ft would depend on the
but will deal with only one phase amount of your average monthly
crop rotation as it was applied to wages. If you snouid average $lod
this one field. per month for the past iu years
With the help of the terracing then your benefit wouid oe $2i.uu
demonstration this field has prop- per montn for as long as you nve.
erly terraced in 194u. And his crop Q- How about a wife, wouiun i
rotation started. In analyzing thit, she be entitled to a Social Secun-
iield, the following was noted, it ty benefit too?
had a gentle slope with about 25 A. If you are entitled to Social
per cent of the top soil washed Security benefits oi $27.50 pe.
away and had been in row crops montn and your wife is also 6o
for years which had used all the years of age then she will receive
plant subsistence from the soil $13.75 in addition to your benefit,
until Mr. Ghoison attempted he This would be a total of $4l.2o per
was only getting about 8 bushel9 month.
of corn per acre and about 1/4 Q. Suppose my wife is not 65
bale of cotton- With this informa- years oi age. Can she draw any
tion a three year strip rotation ol benefits?
cotton grain (followed by Cra- A. She would be entitled to a
talaria) and corn arranged in wife’s benefit until she is 6d yeais
strips of one terrace interval wide of age. In tne event of your death,
between ridges was put in to op- if she is not 65 years of age, and
eration in 1941 and the Ghoison you are insured under the Sociat
brothers have followed it since security laws, sne wouid be entn-
then People who travel the high- lea tc a lump-sum payment, fl' you
way’every day, skeptical at first are fully insured then when sne
now agree that rotation and cro- is oe sne wm
talaria pay off. This year the dow’s benefit.
Q. Where can
oe entitled to a wi-
pay
Ghoison Brothers estimate tiiai
thir corn will yield about o0 bush
els per acre and in 1944 by actual
measurement their cotton yield
was almost a bale to the acre.
Crotalaria, the magic plant, as
some call it, that makes the field
look like a giant flower garden is
a summer legume, nitrogen gath
ering plant. It can be planted di
rect as an early spring seeding on
small grain, or interplanted with
corn. Seed from first crop shattei
out and the plant reseeds itself.
After that it is the champion vol
unteer and reseeds itself. Mr
Ghoison has only seeded this fielci
twice in five years.
a person file his
Social Security benefits?
A. Tne Social Security office for
tins area is located at 113 1-2 12th
Street, Coiumous, Georgia. Teie-
paone 3-1912.
..REP HUGH PATERSON
TO TOUR EUROPE
Washington, Aug. 13— Cong: ess-
man Hugh Paterson of the First
Georgia District, chairman of the
House Committee on Territories,
will leave September 5 for Europe
to make a study of the govern
mental operations for the State, In
terior and War Departments, it be-
Mr. Clyde Ghoison estimates come known Tuesday .
that his crotalaria has provided Congressman Paterson will be
him with the equivalent of 3UG accompanied by Dr. Meredith
pounds of nitrate of soda per acre Burrill, of the Interior Department,
and tons of organic material that He said they would spentd some
when added to the soil insure the ti me in the British Isles and would
nature-holding capacity so bene- con fer with General Lucius Clay,
ficial to the soil. in charge of the military govern-
This is only one of the practices ment of Germany,
the brothers have established on Object of the study, the Geor-
their farm. We will biing you gia congressman said, is to for-
more of their conservation prac- mulate a policy for governing ter-
tices in next week’s issue of the ritries administered by the Unit-
Herald. led States. «
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REYNOLDS METHODIST CHURCH
SPECIAL REVIVAL
SERVICES
AUGUST 19th Thru 28th
Each Day 11:00 A. M. and 8:30 P. M.
REV. JOE H. BRIDGES, Preaching
Good Singing An Added Featme
A Cordial Welcome to All