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THE BUTLER HERALD,.BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 24, 1957.
PAGE SEVEN
FULTON LOVELL
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Legal Muider
T HE hunting season is well under way and already §ome
of our good sportsmen have lost their lives in huvting
accidents.
; i A hunting accident is bad no matter
what form it takes. We know that
guns are accidentally discharged
when hunters crawl through fences,
or when they are riding in cars, and
sometimes when they are cleaning
their firearms. Such accidents are
uncalled for and are strictly due to
the carelessness of the hunter. They
usually result because the hunter has
indulged in too much alcoholic re*
freshments or because he was too
enthusiastice in his hunting, or because he does not
have respect for a deadly weapon. ~1
' Such accidents can truly be considered accidents, even
though they could and should be avoided. If all of us would
delay our celebration until the hunting trip is over and all
guns safely put away, many such accidents would be
avoided. If we would also take heed to the training that
is available to us ar>d attempt to install in each new hunter
the do’s and don’ts for handling firearms, we would build
the proper respect for guns and rifles.
A friend recently told me of a hunting trip where he
spent all day in the woods without success. After his
return to the camp, he and several friends started swap
ping stories of their misses, near misses and experi
ences. One man stated that he didn’t have any luck
nor see any game, but up on Double Fork Cove he had
made three beautiful sound shots. My friend, who had
been hunting all day in Double Fork Cove, decided that
it was time to call his hunting trip to an end. The ex
perienced hunter would look with skepticism upon
the examples used, but they are actual cases. Similar
cases are happening in every state in the nation. These
occurrances cannot appropriately be called accidents.
It is simply a complete disregard to all safety measures,
all game-laws, and no regard to fellow sportsmen.
Why do I call this type of accident legal murder? Let us
analyze the situation leading to two human fatalities and
other possible fatalities. In one case, a man was shot be
cause he was mistaken for a deer simply because he had
on a jacket that was somewhat the same color of a deer.
When the trigger of the gun that killed this sportsman was
pulled, a law was violated because it is illegal to kill a doe
deer in this State, and no one can be sure what he is shoot
ing at unless he sees the animal plainly enough to establish
whether he has antlers or not. In other words, if this hunter
had any regard for the game law, he would have established
the fact that the object he shot was a deer and had antlers
before he pulled the trigger. Was it an accident?
The other case, that I refer to, where the forester was
killed was likewise complete disregard of state game
laws. The case was where a hunter shot a young forest
er, who was running through the woods, thinking it
was a deer, yet it was illegal to shoot antlerless deer
also. Consequently, {here was no excuse to mistake this
forester for a legal deer.
Unfortunately, many people through inexperience, ignor
ance, and disregard for ali laws and human life, kill thou
sands of sportsmen each year. In fact, many of our states
have passed laws so stringent on hunting accidents that
long jail sentences are frequently handed out. This care
lessness and disregard for human like could bring on severe
restrictions. As in almost all cases where a restriction is
necessary, it was brought on by those few who did not use
good judgment and were careless in causing accidents, or
by those who had no regard for human life.
Hunting accidents can be stopped, bu€ it will take the
combined effort of all of us to be careful in handling our
guns, become familiar with the do’s and don’ts in handl
ing firearms and being sportsmen.
Agent Gives Tips
For More Profits
From Hog Farming
County Agent
Gives Tips on
Planting Trees
With the tree seedling supply
short this year, it is more import
ant than ever that additional care
be given the seedlings that are
available.
. That’s the word from County
Agent Vernon Reddish as he
tion tjo information from Bill Hays suggestions
Vvtoncinn Rprvire swine snecialist that ' vlU hel P 4 ’ H Club members
and farmers make their seedlings
live, and grow off in a hurry.
Vernon Reddish, County Agent,
urged local Hog producers to do
everything possible this year to
sell their hogs while the maket
is at a peak.
Thq County Agent called atten-
Extension Service swine specialist
at the University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture, Athens, which
i shows: “On the average, prices
for hogs are higher during June,
July and August than any other
time of the year.”
Hays said the reason is that few
er hogs are marketed during this
period. “When the supply, is scarce
the price is usually higher.”
Continuing to cite information
The County Agent said tree
planting season in Georgia is now
under way and will run until
March 15, but he emphasized that
no planting should be dene during
periods of drought which might
occur.
Reddish explained that seed
lings should be planted as soon as
in his office, the ^ County* * Agent P os .^ , after *** ^ received-j
said: “For the past five years the lf .; here t is drought “But if the
number of hogs received at eight 118 to ° dry or a delay is neces-
Southeastern packing plants has fJ/J™ any other reason the
averaged 35,525 per month dur- ^?^f ahoul ? be heal< f ln t 111 a
ing June, July, and August, and ™ f’ , sbad * place and kept wel1
the average price for the three '
- He passed along four precau
tions that should be heeded when
planting the seedlings:
(1) Keep the roots moist at all
times. When carrying the seed
lings in the field, they should be
in a bucket or container which is
partially filled with water, soupy
mud, wet sawdust, or something,
that will keep the roots moist. I
(2) Be sure the hole is deep
enough for the seedling. If the I ,
root is bent or doubled back, the
monthswas $18.50 per hundred
weight.
“Compare this with average re
ceipts for the next three months:
September, October and November
'—when 66,125 hogs per month were
received and the average price
was $15.85 per hundred weight.
“The difference here shows a
price advantage of $2.65 per hun
dred weight for early marketed
hogs.”
i Reddish told farmers here in this ...
I county that they cat, market their se ^! ln . 8 ._? r ° bably "l 11 P ot . llve
hogs earlier by first feeding a bal
anced ration. He added that early
maturing corn is an important feed
in pushing hogs for the early mar
ket too.
“Second,” he continued, “is pro
viding ample shade and water;
this is vitally important during
hot weather.”
(3) Make sure all of the root
system is below the ground. It
is a good idea to plant the seed
ling about one-half inch deeper
that the root top. It’s always bet
ter to plant too deep than too shal
low.
(4) Pack the soil well around
around the seedling. Air pockets
o ii- v. i n the soil ten d to dry out
ri'S ? “ gl SL We iS£ the a n d the seeding.
was suggested as a third prob
lem. The agent pointed out that
this also will help reduce the
amount of excess lard on the mar
ket. He said the cost of weight
gains increased greatly after a
hog reaches 200 pounds.
State Loses Wellknown
Newspaperman in Untimely
Death of Norman Chalker
Two Talbot County
Brothers Begin First
Tree Farm in State
Atlanta, Jan. 20—Norman Chalk
er, 43, widely known in Georgia
newspaper circles, died unexpecet-
edly Saturday at an Atlanta hos
pital.
Mr. Chalker became ill Saturday
morning and was taken to the
Geneva, Ga.—Ten years ago W. hpspital where he died a short
while later. Death was attributed
A. and W. K. Smith came to Tal
bot County to begin a manage
ment program on trees that has
led to one of the first in the state
to be classified as a tre efarm.
The two brothers depend on the
trees that grow on the 2,300-acre
farm for their income. They came
to the place when it was “just
growing trees” and have estab
was
to a heart attack.
For the past six months, Chalker
had been public relations director
for the Portland Cement Co. in
Atlanta.
He formerly owned and publish
ed the Sylvania Telephone. He sold
the weekly newspaper, which he
had operated for 13 years, before
fished a management program accepting the position with Port-
that continues to set examples for land Cement.
others. • -jQljfilker was a 1937 graduate of
‘‘There was no management the University of Georfgia School
when we came here so we had to. °f Journalism. He worked on the
establish our own method,” W. A. Augusta Chronicle and later
said as he talked of their progress j°i ne d the Atlanta Constitution in
over the 10 years. ,1939, working on the copy
Both of the brothers studied for- | —*—-
estry in their vocational agricul-'
ture classes wile attending South
west DeKalb High School. They
have carried an interest in that,
phase of “farming” since.
desk.
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"APPEARANCES ARE
DECEPTIVE”
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That good things come in
small packages is particu
larly true of medicines. It is
amazing how often a serious
illness is relieved, almost like
magic, within a few hours.
When the new hormones
and antibiotics were first re
leased many people were dis
mayed that some of them
cost as much as 50c each.
They soon learned that not
only were they saving more
lives, but people got well so
much quicker that medicines
per illness now cost less than =
before.
We, of course, price all pre
scriptions as low as opera
tional costs permit.
YOUR PHYSICIAN
CAN PHONE
UNion 2-3875
WHEN YOU NEED
A MEDIffINE
Bring your Prescriptions to
us and they wifi be filled
promptly and carefully.
A great many people en
trust us with the responsi
bility of filling their pre-
soriptions. May we compound
yours?
SMITH'S PHARMACY
BUTLER. GA.
"Prescriptions First”
•Quotation by Aesop
(619-594 B.C.)
VETS FRIENDS GET TOGETHER — Shown above are four good
friends of Georgia veterans who met recently at Milledgeviile to in
spect the State Home for Veterans. Left to right. Pete Wheeler, Direc
tor, State Department of Veterans Service; Congressman Olin Teague,
of Texas, who Is Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee;
Senator Herman E. Talmadge; and Alan Kemper, Director State De
partment of Public Welfare.
You Are Invited
To
OPEN HOUSE
of the
SERVICE STATION & CAFE
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1957
From 3 o’clock P. M. to 7 o’clock P. M.
Located On Highway 19 Half Way Between
Buller a id Ellaville
, : ( < Li
Jule s Serviofs>%NtatioD & Cafe
RUPERT, GA.
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MARCH OF DIMES
* JANUARY , ~~ ~
Although having a total
length of only 277 miles, the
Clinchfield Railroad extends
into five stales.
At today's prices for rail, ballast,
crossties and labor, the replacement of
eight miles of main line track costs a
railroad about a million dollars.
Lots of freight trains' have both names and nick
names. One named the ‘fexas-Oklalioma-
Missowi-KansasjArkansas.Traveler" is called
"TOMKAT" for shirt