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PAGE SIX 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. Good things HAPPEN when YOU help thru RED CROSS + DICK TRACY' Enjoy the fast-paced action ot' plainclothes sleuth Dick Tracy in his relentless battle against crime. 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