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VA News
Several thousand veterans In
college this fall will not get the
G L education check they ex
pect In November from the Vete
rans Administration, Admini
strator Donald E. Johnson said
today.
It would make him very happy
if the college-bound G.L Bill
veteran proved him wrong this
fall, he declared.
The fact Is, Johnson said, many
who were enrolled in college last
semester have failed to send In
their end-of-term Certification
of Attendance card, and cannot
be paid in the upcoming school
term until they do.
Administrator Johnson said the
VA is also holding nearly a half
million dollars worth of June
GL Bill checks which cannot
be mailed either until the at
tendance card reaches VA com
puters-
G. L Bill college students who
did mail in their attendance cards
in June will get paid the new term
allowances on time - but those
who skipped mailing to VA the re
quired card certifying that they
had completed the spring term
will not get paid until they
straighten out their accounts with
VA.
This can be done, Administra
tor Johnson said, by mailing
in that 3x7 white card with a
blue stripe across the top to the
VA immediately. If the veteran
has lost this Certification of
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Attendance card, he should get
in touch with the VA office which
has his records and ask for an
other.
Administrator Johnson said
thousands of delays and thousands
of lost man-hours are en
countered on college campuses
and In VA offices each year -
avoidable if campus GL’s and
college registfars perform on
time the few, necessary chores
to certify veterans' attendance.
A. W. Tate, manager of the
Veterans Administration Re
gional Office In Atlanta, said
today that more than half of the
91,000 Georgia veterans who hold
$742,591,000 worth of govern
ment life Insurance have not yet
converted these policies from
term to a permanent plan.
In 1968, he pointed out, Geor
gia veterans paid $11,648,000 in
premiums to keep both term and
permanent government policies
in force.
World War II and Korean Con
flict veterans hold most of the
term policies, Mr. Tate said.
Now at an average age of 49.7
years, World War II veterans
in Georgia who have not con
verted their insurance will soon
find their National Service Life
Insurance premiums going up
as a result of advancing age.
Permanent insurance costs
more to begin with, but the pre
mium rates for permanent in
surance never go up. Permanent
policies also have loan, cash
surrender, paid-up and extend
ed insurance values, whereas
term policies do not.
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FFA NEWS
The regular monthly night
meeting of the Early County High
Chapter of the Future Farmers
of America will be held Thursday
night, August 7, 1969 at the Vo
cational Agricultural Building.
At this time Robert Pullen, Chap
ter President, will give a report
on his trip to the State FFA
Convention in Atlanta.
The annual planning meeting
was held Tuesday night, August
5, 1969 at the Riverside Fish
Camp with officers attending and
planning the various activities
for the year. Chairmen and
Co-chairmen of committees were
elected and reports of chairmen
and co-chairmen will be made
Thursday night.
The Calendar committee met
Monday to sell ads for the FFA
Calendar, and officers met Mon
day afternoon for a training ses
sion.
All members are urged to
attend this meeting.
Veterans can obtain detailed
information about the various
government life insurance per
manent plans from their nearest
VA office, Mr. Tate said.
Emory University is at Atlanta.
Paul Revere had another dis
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ride to warn colonists the British
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1969
Racing soon to begin
at Aia. International
Talladega, Ala The world's
greatest auto racing facility, the
mammoth Alabama International
Motor Speedway, is destlnated to
become a "must” on every tra
veler's list of things to see in
the South.
The ultra-modern $5 million
speedway is currently receiving
its finishing touches and will be
ready for automobile and tire
testing programs during the early
days of August. The first sched
uled events, a pair of stock car
races worth more than $157,000,
will offically kick off the activity
during the second weekend of
September.
Alabama International is the
world's newest and most signi
ficant monument to speed, and
it's the product of the imagination
and promotional genius of Wil
liam H. G (Bill) France, presi
dent of the International Speedway
Corp, which controls Daytona
International Speedway as well as
the new plant here.
France, who is also president
of the National Association for
Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR),
the world’s largest auto racing
sanctioning body, has pumped
over 30 years of auto racing
experience and knowledge into
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the new "dream track.”
It’ll be something to see when
the 'Barna 400 (Saturday, Sept.
13) and the Talladega 500 (Sun
day, Sept 14), roar off the line
in the inaugural races.
The sprawling speedway is 2.66
miles of five-lane, high banked
asphalt and it’s eventual grand
stand seating capacity will be
over 150,000. Over 75,000 more
can watch the action from the
spacious infield.
The breath-taking north and
south turns are banked 33 degrees
and are five stories high. The
"dog leg” turn in the "D” corner
of the trioval is banked 18
degrees. Racing experts are pre
dicting that NASCAR's powerful
Grand National racers will
eclipse the 200-mile-per-hour
barrier around the demanding
black ribbon.
It took over a year to carve
Alabama International out of the
rich northeastern Alabama soil,
40 miles east on Interstate High
way 20 from Birmingham and
100 miles to the west of Atlanta.
A new 6,200-foot Talladega Jet
port runway is within walking dis
tance of the high-banked north
turn, for the benefit of airborn
visitors.
St. Regis recently plants
266,000 Pines in Early
St. Regis Paper Company re
cently planted some 266,000 pine
trees in Early County where the
company manages 8,700 acres
of forest.
Early County was one of
15 counties in Georgia that the
company reforested extensively
during the winter planting season.
Throughout the state St. Regis
planted some ten million young
pines which will be ready for
harvesting in 25 to 30 years.
In Georgia, Alabama, Flori
da and Mississippi, where St.
Regis forests are concentrated,
the company reforested 36,700
acres of woodlands with 27 mil
lion trees.
Marcus G. Rawls, manager of
the company’s southern forest,
said St. Regis has planted nearly
a half-billion young pines in the
four Deep South states, through
its annual reforestation program
in the past ten years.
Rawls explained that the prac
tice is to plant about four trees
for every one that is harvested
to assure a continuing supply of
wood to make paper and paper
products at its kraft mills in
Jacksonville, Pensacola, and
Monticello, Miss. The result
is a perpetual forest that provides
recreation, conservation, wild
life and natural beauty, as well
as wood fiber-
The company grows the trees
it needs at its Lee, Florida,
The scenic city of Talledega,
resplendent with majestic ante
bellum homes and oak-lined ave
nues, is eight miles south near
the shores of beautiful Logan
Martin Lake.
Alabama International is stra
tegically located in the heart of
the Southland, with over 20 mil
lion people living within a radius
of 300 miles.
Bill France, one of the most
influential personaltiies in the
auto racing industry, pioneered
stock car racing in the late ’3os
and ushered in the modern era
of the super speedway when he
opened the 2.5 mile Daytona lay
out in 1959. His determination
and ability have been major fac
tors in pushing auto racing attend
ance figures into second place
among all sports.
France is a man in motion...
so there’s now a Talladega.
"We wanted to build the world’s
most modern, fastest, safest,
most complete racing complex,
France said, "and that’s exactly
what we have at Talladega.
Everything for the competitor,
his crew and the fan has been
provided.
One of the major keys to locat
ing the facility here was the
site’s accessibility, one of the
most important elements in
France's overall program.
The track is less than two
miles from Interstate 20, the
artery that connects Birmingham
and Atlanta. Traffic coming from
the Interstate and from U.S High
ways 77 and 78 feed onto an eight
lane Speedway Boulevard and into
a 30-lane entrance to the park
ing and infield areas of the track.
Every possible innovation has
been included; a double retaining
wall in front of the grandstand,
a unique start/finish line located
near the first turn, four tunnels
into the infield, a modern hospi
tal, 15 spacious restrooms, even
a campground.
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BY GXOBGK THOMPSON
Spending a vacation — with
the accent on "spending”—can
be a buy of a lifetime or a
budgetary bust. To avoid the
mismanagement of money on
a trip, don't take a holiday
from budgeting, even if it
means giving up an occasional
“extra'’ such as an expensive
chair lift ride or a fancy hooked
rug at a roadside stand.
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by eating most meals picnic
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Last night Clara and Matilda watched TV,
baked brownies
and got a tan.
For about a nickel’s worth of electricity.
Seems the girls are saving for vacation. And
getting a head start. A couple of sessions with
the sunlamp costs one-third of a cent.
And they love watching television in the
evening. Four hours costs only two cents.
Matilda’s pretty keen on brownies, so she
makes them often. For half a cent a batch.
Add the lights and refrigerator, and they’ve
spent about a nickel.
C lara keeps the books, so she knows: electricity
is inexpensive. And she could quote you
the figures. Georgia Power's average price for
residential use is just 1.64^ per kilowatt-hour.
T hat s 23 percent below the national average.
The convenience convinces Matilda. Gives
her more time to do things in the evenings.
Like relax.
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tempt the palate and watch the
wallet.
Surprisingly, cooking a meal
yourself, if you take advantage
of the many time and labor
saving products on the market,
takes little longer than a res
taurant stop. Yet it saves money
and, what is more, gives chil
dren a chance to play away
their pent up energy.
Entertainment, it has been
estimated, should average about
$6 a day per person, which al
lows for such expenses as film,
souvenirs and entrance fees for
parks, museums and other tour
ist attractions. Keep track of
what you spend, and, when
you've reached the limit, put on
the brakes!
Unexpected automobile serv
ice charges have a “cars and
effect” relationship on budge
tary imbalance. A good way of
minimizing such repairs is
through the regular use of de
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Now is the time to take ac
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you don't jinx your journey or
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travails.
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