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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA APRIL 6, 1961.
May Reduce Taxpayers New $30-Million
Cost by $500 Million j Steel Mill Seen
As Boon to State
ATLANTA—Georgia’s future
GRAY—Lawmen here are still
ATLANTA—Gov. Ernest Vandiver,' P uzzled as to exactly what caused
the highly competitive field of in- laid up with a severe attack Q f j n . the tremndous explosion two weeks
dustrialization continues to appear fluenza, left his sick bed the other ag0 tbat virtually destroyed a quar-
rosy. day to deliver two speeches on a operation at nearby Ruby.
Latest evidence of this is seem subject close to his heart - mental j Jones Coumty Sheriff Holmes
in "the recent disclosure that Geor- health. i Hawkins said Sunday that he has
gia is being considered as the loca- He went to Milledgeville Statereleased a Negro he was holding
tion for a $30-million iron and steel Hospital and from there to Grace- i on suspicion because of lack of evi-
mill and a $10-million to $12-mil- wood School for Mental Defectives,' r'ence. We still haven t given up
lion cement plant. Both plants near Augusta, to break ground for on him, but we ve got to have more
To the farmer, the would be built im Quitman County, five new mental health buildings. | to g0 on ’ Sheriff Hawkins said.
These groundbreaking exercises I A larger piece of that the sheriff
marked the beginning of am $8.6 described as bone has been sent to
million state construction program the State Criminal Lab for analysis,
in this field. 'Other pieces of material believed
The Governor’s launching of these 1 to he bone and flesh have already
projects followed by one week his been sent to th e lab, but the sheriff
signing in New York of $8.6-million said he had received no analysis
worth of bonds to provide funds for y et -
a portion of the $17.5-million men- I The quarry explosion occurred
I ta 1 health construction program j March 19. A large dynamite bunker
MACON, Ga.—Though Middle
Georgia is no longer primarily a
farming section, and industry has
far out grown agriculture in its
contribution to the dollars produc
ed, the farm situatiom in all its pha
ses is still of importance, here, and
Hie newly enacted feed grain pro
gram is worth our study.
To the city man, the program will
appeal because it promises to “re
duce the ultimate feed grain pro
gram costs to taxpayers by about
$500 million
program is important because it
aims to increase farm income; to
the housewife, the important thing
about the program is its aim to
“help assure the consumer of fair
and stable prices for meats, poultry
acid dairy products.
Briefly, the facts about the pro
gram are these: It applies only to
1961 crops, grains and sorghums,
and attempts to divert at least 20
percent of the 1959-60 acreage of
these crops. The farmer who co
operates with the program will re
ceive payments on each acre divert
ed. The payments will be in the
form of grain (from the vast) a-
mount stored) or a cash equivalent.
Half of the estimated total pay
ment for a farm will be offered to
producer as soon as he signifies he
will cooperate.
The non cooperator will get only
the market price, whatever it may
be; he will receive no price support
payments and forgoes the price
benefits of production adjustment
as Government stocks of grain and
marketed.
The acres (20 percent of the 1959-
GO average on his farm) the farmer
omits from corn (up lo 20 percent)
must be devoted to conservation
use on the farm. In general, to
cover crops, water storage wild life
practices and trees. (It is unlikely
that any of the diverted acres will
go to trees, since the program is for
one year).
On corn, for example, the nation
al average corn support price is set
at $1.20 a bushel. A farmer whose
average was 70 bushels of corn, per
acre for the base period, will be
paid $42 per acre for the 20 percent
of his acreage taken out of corn
production.
According to Bibb County Agent
Dewey Maxwell, average corn pro-
CeoTon 1960 was 32
Vandiver Calls
For More Mental
Aid in Georgia
Quarry Blast At Ruby
Still A Mystery
Two Road Crashes
Leaving One Dead,
Fourteen Injured
Atlanta, Ga.—Two accidents in
volving head-on collisions south of
Waycross on U. S. 1 killed ccie per
son and injured 14 others, one cri
tically, the state patrol reported
Saturday.
The injured included a man and
his wife and two children from
Atlanta who were on their way to
Jacksonville, Fla., to visit relatives-
State patrolmen said only two-
passengers, one in each accident,
escaped injury. All four cars were
virtually demolished.
One of the accidents occurred
Friday afternoon during a rain
storm so heavy “you could hardly
see six feet ahead of you,” Trooper
W. E. Strickland said. The other was
at about 3 a. m. Saturday.
in Southwest Georgia.
Jack J. Minter, director of the
Georgia Department of Commerce,
the state’s No. 1 agency for promot
ing industrial development, said
the steel mill eventually would in
volve a $100-million investment. It
would be operated under a lease
arrangement by a group of Texas
and Georgia financiers.
Minter, who has been working
on the steel mill project since last
August, said it is "still in the spec
ulative stage” and its construction j
is dependent upon two factors.
They are (1) the obtaining of
mineral leases an enough ore-bear
ing land to provide a 30-year re
serve for the mill and (2) the “prov- ,
ing out of deposits to the satisfac- |
tion of the bonding company which
will handle the financing” of the
project.
To become a reality the mill will
require an “unequivocal analysis
as to the availability of reserves,”
Minter said. But he added that Gov.
Ernest Vandiver already has pro
vided $9,000 in state funds to do j
the core drilling necessary for the
analyses.
(Capt. Garland Peyton, head of
the State Department of Mines,
Mining and Geology, said he is
convinced that there is more than |
an ample supply of satisfactory
grade iron ore to support the pro
posed operation.)
“We believe,” said Minter, "that
by June 1 all the preliminary stud- (
ies and other necessary details can
be satisfactorily worked out
that construction can begin by
projected at the beginning of his blew up and set off a series of fires
administration a little over two and gasoline explosions which tore
years ago. jdown the buildings at the quarry.
“The breaking of fallow ground i Officials and lawmen said then
symbolizes the hope for a harvest,” | ,hat ,he explosion was deliberately
Gov. Vandiver said. "The harvest se ^ bu * bave n°t as yet found out
we seek here is the restoration of wb Y or wbo se t the blasts,
minds gene wrong. We believe that 1 Robert Seabrook. 23, a Negro em-
harvest is not far over the horizon.
“Too long has this ground lain
fallow. Too long have our mentally
unwanted, neglected, often curable
but seldom cured, we must halt
now, not tomorrow or the next day, j
the rapid increase in the number'
of this lost legion which hints that
we ourselves may be among those ;
stricken.”
Effective July 1, the operating I
budget of Milledgeville State Ilos- [
pital will be $13,750,000 annually,
an increase of $3,850,000 since the |
institution was transferred to the I
State Health Department, he said, j
The new buildings there will in
clude a 627-bed addition to the Ar
nail Building,
treatment and training center, a
central kitchen and a staff dormi
tory and apartment building.
At Gracewood School for Mental
ploye of the quarry, is still missing
and has been since the explosions
Sheriff Hawkins said Sunday he
doesn’t know if Seabrook was in the
blast or has “just gone off some
where.”
The sheriff said the crime lab is
still studying a set of footprints
found at the scene and from which
plaster casts were made.
4 GI’s Detained in
Russian Officer Feud
BOIN GERMANY— Four young
American GI’s were being held by
500-bed intensive the u - s - Army in connection with
the beating Monday night of a So
viet Army Lieutenant Colonel, it
was disclosed.
The U. S Army and Soviet Em-
. ._ . , , , , bassy refused to confirm or deny
and Defec ives, where ground was brok- . r . , . „ . IT o «• • i
L . , . -- ,, , the incident. But U. S. officials pri
en for a 3 0-bed infirmary, Vandiv- 1
umeuy, vdimiv- vatplv fparpfi a Snvipt nrotest
September. This could be the great- ‘er said the addition of this building, / " .* ,
“ - i l Informed sources said the •
est thing that has ever happened ,and t'wO Negro dormitories will pro
to Georgia.”
The proposed cement plant is still
sources saut the mci-
f dent took place in Frankfurt
vide an expansion of patient pop- ,, ” ...
,7. , 1 ., T,, where the Russians maintain r
ulation from 1,500 to approximately .... . .
’ " military mission accredited to th,
i U. S. Army.
in the "formative stages”, the com- 1,900.
bushels, per acre. Such a farmer 'merce director explained, with ini-| ‘‘So this groundbreaking is just! The soldiers involved, betweei
w. . ,u t uve approximately $19.20 tial market and resources studies the beginning of the journey to nor- lg and 20 years old, were from th
per acre for the acres taken out of now netting under way. The cement malcy - and the beginning of the u s 3rd Armored Div. in Frankfur
production (20 percent of his total). P lar >t would have to be located ad- end of ‘Misery, Incorporated,’ the the sources said. x
The program actually includes jacent to the limestone deposits In Governor said in both his speeches. ( The sources gave these detail
oats, rye, and barely, but since' southern part of Quitman Coun- “The future will bring problems of the incident:
these grains are long since planted ty. 'of its own, but they will not dis-j The soldiers, who had beer
in the South and in many cases ' An initial $30-million investment courage or defeat us if we resolutely drinking, were driving thru Frank
have begun to head up, there can in the steel mill will be made at a ibear the burden of today. furt when they stopped for a traf
scarcely be any acreage cut in site in Georgetown in Quitman Co. | “We must attack the mental fic light. An automobile with th
these. Whether (here will be event- Gedrgia’s second smallest county, health problem with far more hope words “soviet military mission
ually a program to pay for plowing located across the Chattahoochee I iUnd v jg 0 r than we have been doing printed on it drew alongside als
River from Eufaula, Ala. |f 0r decades. The solution of this stopping for the light.
It will utilize a new direct-reduc- !problem requires strenuous, united One or more of the America’ -
tion method with electric furnances effort along new lines. Conservat- left the car, opened the rear doc
instead of open hearths. Called the ism and compromise end only in of the Soviet car, pulled the Sc
“Strategic Udy Process," it utilizes gestures. vist officer out, and punched hir
so at a minimum cost of $40, per electricity in the reduction from ore i ..jf we wan t more than gestures, several times before pushing hir
acre, according to Extension Service i 0 p jg j ro n and steel, and cuts out 1 we must b e a i e rt, we must be per- back int0 tbe car-
representatives. A payment of $42 two s ( e ps now used in the open- s j s tent - we must fight for the pre
an acre for not planting seems fair, .hearth method. Result: Less operat- ' c j ous r jght of a sound mind in t
since it is a form of insurance a- j^g costs. Only one other plant of healthy body.”
gainst drought or hail or other bad its kind is in operation. It is at Ni- |
weather conditions. ( agara Falls, Ont.
A consensus of the reaction of six '
up the small grains is anybody's
guess, though no such proposal has
been made in Washington to date.
The farmer, who produces an a-
verage of 70 bushels of corn does
local farmers to whom I talked a-
bout the program is that it is a
“good deal", since it eliminates the
risk on the 20 percent acreage not
planted.
FDW Bibb County farmers grow
corn for sale; they grow it to feed
hogs and cattle, and the effect of
the new program in this county will
be virtually nil, according to Emir
Nearly 600 workers will be em
ployed at the steel mill, Minter
said. Associated industries would
raise the figure on new jobs to
Some 1,500 with the possibility that
the project would create around
5,000 jobs within two years.
The leasing will involve land in
Quitman, Stewart, Webster and
possibly Randolph Counties. Land-
profit
Labor Pickets
Georgia Solon
For Pay Vote
The GI’s then returned to the:
car and drove away. The Russian
noted their license number an
notified the military police.
Extent of the Soviet officer’s ir
juries was not known.
One-fifth
of your electric bill
goes for taxes
THAT’S RIGHT. Nearly 20 cents out of every
dollar the Georgia Power Company receives
from you in payment for electric service goes
to pay our federal, state and local taxes.
In 1960 our tax bills totaled more than
$29,875,000 — nearly $82,000 for each day of
the year! This averages more than $41 for
every customer we serve.
In fact, tax payments are the company’s
largest item of expense, exceeding operating
payroll by 30 per cent.
Since taxes help to meet the cost of govern
ment, they benefit every citizen of Georgia.
Among other things, they help pay for schools
for your children, police protection for your
family and fire protection for your home.
Yes, like you, the Georgia Power Company
pays taxes — in full measure. It’s part of
being a good citizen.
TAX-PAYING
NVESTOR-OWNED
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
Atlanta, Ga. — Representatives
of several labor units Monday pick
eted a congressman who voted
against the $1.25 minimum vote
bill, whic+i failed to pass by one
vote in the House.
I Pickets paraded in front of a
hotel as Rep. P. C. Davis, D-Ga. ar
rived to address an Atlanta C of C
luncheon meeting.
I Sign? carried by 40 pickets said:
“Congressman Davis, this is 1961
not 1861.”
Skipper, who heads the ASC office owners in the area may
h p ’ much as $700 an acre for ore and
But in many Middle Georgia stiU re,ain thelr land - Mlnter P oint-
Georgia counties, farmers grow ed ou '-
from 40 to 150 acres of corn, much | Because of t-he impact of a popu-
of it for market. Ration increase this huge develop-
It looks as if the program may ment would generate in Quitman, , ^ . ,.
accomplish what it sots out to do: County (population 3,115) and in | Low-wage^ a y ls > J
Help raise farm income, reduce Georgetown, the State Commerce on $1.00 an our.
government costs and start work- Department has sent its planning
ing off the CCC’s inventories of division representatives to George- m
grain—there are now $4 billion of town to devise a comprehensive . James Davis, yo r v
food grains overflow in storage.
Singers Coming to
New Life Church
There will be regular worship at tr *" S P° rt ^;Vi‘\Tve Vo" snend* some leaders, and it won’t be the last.’
r rE' “ ,he
«... ... ... 2 . 2” ii n p S to serve the plant, the direc- tuneneon discussion
,tor said.
SUNDAY COMICS
\ Brighter and
A
Better Than
Ever Before
nlaci for orderly expansion, Minter have made the difference.”
s . dd Davis passed thru the liines and
"The mill will use both dock fa-'said, “they are perfectly welcome
cilities, which will be built on the to picket . . . . This is not t,be ^st
Chattahoochee River, and railroad time I ve had opinions that differ
transportation. Also the Georgia Po- with some of these so-called labor
will be by the Pastor, Rev. J. B
Lumpkin.
The Hammonds Trio from Tho-
maston will be the guest singers,
Saturday night.
CHILDREN + MATCHES*
trouble/
Kt
World Market
Of $40 Billion
Seen for U. S.
on congres
sional issues said most of Presi-
'dent Kennedy’s emergency anti-
I recession measures would be more
'damaging than helpful to the na
tion's economy.”
Sen. Talmadge, D-Ga., declined
I to criticize most of the administra
tion’s proposed welfare measures
| but warned that a $4 billion bud-
Iget deficit is a conservative esti-
| k££P MATCHES OUT OF THE REACH
OF 'YOUNGSTERS - ALWAYS /
| WASHINGTON—A London trade mate.
expert Sunday predicted a $40 bil-
lion world market for U. S. traders ^
in 1970. . ...
I U. S. exports, a big factor in this
country’s balance of international
payments, will more than double
in the next 10 years, according to
Geoffrey S. Browne, managing di
rector of the Economist Intelligence
Unit of London.
' Brown, writing in the April issue
of Nation’s Business Magazine said
credit buying, Europe's economic
boom and rising living standards
in underdeveloped countries will
widen the world market for U. S.
goods.
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