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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCT. 9, 1969
Good Books Suggested for Reading
Mrs. Paul B. Morrell
Today we begin a new pro
gram where we have an oppor
tunity to relax and let our minds
luxuriate in something easy to
listen to and, I trust, like.
The Sabbath has a good sound -
sturdy, admirable, dependable
and serving God sort of sound.
This will be a splendid time to
have our first get together. We’ll
talk about books and other things,
several, in fact.
Someone has said there is
some good in everything, even
in the evil things and it is the
good that enables them to have
strength to continue. So it is
with books. Only good ones
are worth reading. Why fill
one’s mind with second or fifth
rate stuff when the best is ob
tainable ? Why put so much
time and money on the outside
of the head and spend so little
on the inside ?
Os course, you have heard
about people being asked if they
were cast away on a desert
island in the middle of the Paci
fic Ocean (though a mile off
ought to be enough) and you
would be alone with only 6
books, which books would you
choose ... I would really like
to know. Have you picked out
the books ? Perhaps next time
I’ll list 6 favorites thought it
will be a hard job. Many
people named the Bible which we
call one book although it is really
66. Incidentally some 16 year
old boy who was very mixed up
emotionally (speaking in its
broadest sense) wrote a psychia
trist for help and among other
things she suggested a reading
of the Psalms. What we read
actually helps us form our opin
ions and isn’t it surprising what
a large number of people can’t
make up their minds about a
subject. I’ve said for years, 1
exercise my mind by changing
it.
A while ago I was referring
to an opinion poll. While we’re
talking about it, have you ever
known anybody who was asked'?
I haven’t either.
You’ve heard the famous
words: "Be sure brain is en
gaged before putting mouth in
gear!" An old story one year
is new 2 or 3 years later. Some
public speakers save jokes from
a well-known magazine saying in
10 years no one will recognize
them. One of the funniest stor
ies ever is so extremely old
it is new - the one about a stage
comedian coming out, complain
ing of the heat and saying he
was so hot he would love to
step out of his skin and sit in
his bones. Pity those Greeks
didn’t know about Charlie Hous
ton and his air conditioners.
The amusing statement reveals
hot weather has been with us a
long time. One of the Greek
play writers originated that, Aes
chylus, 1 think. t
Our reading keeps us informed
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Ashley Temples, Commander
about events past, present and
predictions for the future. Ro
ger Babson said "The future
has a habit of suddenly and
dramatically becoming the pre
sent." Reading wisely tends to
cushion the blow. The more we
learn the more we want to learn.
How limited one’s horizon when
reading Is bypassed.
In "THE EGYPTIANS" by
Isaac Asimov a teasing bit of
information concerns a canal,
possibly the grandmother of the
Suez canal. Many Egyptian mon
archs had wanted a canal dug
from the Nile River to the Red
Sea. According to Herodotus
Necho, Pharaoh of Egypt around
600 B.C. hired Phoenician sail
ors (the best in the world) to
circumnavigate Africa. He was
told it took 3 years! Herodotus
refused to believe the entire
story because the sailors were
supposed to have seen the noon
day sun north of the zenith, not
realizing they were in the south
temperate zone.
This was not a practical trad
ing route because it took too
long. Isn’t a journey to the
planet MARS expected to be ac
complished in a year or is it two?
The trip of the Phoenicians took
much longer than today’s trip to
the moon and back. Incredible,
isn’t it? No, that 3 year excur
sion was LENGHTY. It wasn't
until 2000 years later that the
voyage around Africa was prac
tical. Meanwhile poor Necho
died before the canal was finish
ed and during the reign of Darius
(521-486 8.C.) the canal was
completed. This easy to read
book is at the library entitled,
"The Egyptians".
Recently one of Hall Drug Com
pany's books pulled me inside the
store. Some day I’m going to
spend the day there and look to
my heart’s content. For a num
ber of years it has been a prac
tice of mine to look around and
buy something that is especially
appealing, haul it home and if
possible put it in a gift drawer.
By having it gift wrapped the
temptation to use or enjoy it
selfishly is gone but it is es
sential to slip a little card un
der the outside ribbon or paper
saying what is inside the pack
age; otherwise you are asking
for a disaster. A person for
gets you know. While at Hall’s
why not have a good time I
reasoned. For ages almost Kalil
Gibran’s THE PROPHET had
been on my private FBI list
(Forward - Buy it!) but some
how my hunger for the book
and it had never met, so there
it was. I could have hugged it.
Let me give you a quotation:
"You give but little when you
give of your possessions. It is
when you give of yourself that
you truly give-’’
There is so much trash of
fered the public. Why not
get something anybody would be
proud to own? "THE PROPHET"
of course, is regarded as a
classic.
There’s Eugenia Price’s NEW
MOON RISING, well worth the
cost of time and book. The author
whom I have seen and heard speak
is an excellent Christian writer,
speaker and novelist. This
second novel about the Gould
family on St. Simon’s Island has
just been published. Her first
story, "The Beloved Invader"
is downright sweet and sad. It
does your heart good. Instead
of her books following in the usual
consecutive order, "NEW MOON
RISING” precedes chronologi
cally "THE BELOVED IN
VADER".
These are the kind of books
anybody would be glad to own
and Mr. Hall either has them or
will order them for you. This is
about southern families told the
way we like it. Having a book
at home, bought and paid for, is
convenient for reference, for
showing to friends in conversa
tion, much preferable to it being
parked in another location.
Was it Oliver Goldsmith who
would sell the shirt off his back
in order to buy a book? Who can
afford NOT to buy a book? Saadi
a Persian sheikh of some 700
years ago expressed it this way
and if anyone wants it read slow
er let me know: (It is worth
copying.)
"If of thy mortal goods thou
art bereft,
And from thy slender store two
loaves alone to thee are left.
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. ’ ’
That’s our sober thought for the
day and here is one for the
health bulletin board: "There
are two things bad for the heart:
Running upstairs and running
down people. ’ ’
UNTIL NEXT SUNDAY 8:30 A.M.
GRANDMA’S ADVICE
Your life’s too short for grud
ges, dear,
Don’t hold them deep within your
heart,
Or they will mold your inmost
thought
And daily be life’s bitter part.
But fill your mind with lovely
words
And treasure what is fine and
true:
A Christian trying just to serve
And God and life will be real for
you.
Forestry Unit
News
There is no set time for fer
tilizing your trees. A starving
tree ( should be fed regardless
of the season.
A soil test of your yard would
give you accurate data on the
type fertilizer to use, accord
ing to Preston Fulmer, Area
forester, Georgia Forestry
Commission, Blakely.
Leading arborists recommend
10-8-6 and 10-6-4 for all hard
wood species and pines over six
inches d.b.h. (diameter breast
height). Pine, under six inches
d. b. h., can be fertilized with
about five pounds of tankage of
cottonseed meal per 100 square
feet of bed area.
The rate of application differs
between hardwoods and pines,
according to Fulmer. On broad
leaf species, one to two pounds
for trees less than six inches
d.b.h. and two to four pounds
over six inches.
For pines, over six inches
d. b.h., two to four pounds per
10p .square feet is recommended
if they are planted in groups.
If the pines are in an open
area, the recommendation is two
pounds per inch at d.b.h.
Fulmer warns that fertilizer
should not be put within two feet
of the trunk. The holes should
be 18-24 inches deep, about two
feet apart, and slanted toward
the tree, he added. Loose soil,
peat moss or decayed leaves
should be used to fill the holes
after applying the fertilizer.
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Marital status
of men affected
by Education
Men with low incomes are less
likely than men with higher in
comes to marry before they reach
age thirty-five, reports FI
NANCE FACTS, a monthly news
letter on consumer behavior pub
lished by the National Consumer
Finance Association.
Quoting a nationwide survey
based on Bureau of the Census
studies, the newsletter states
that men with a college educa
tion (who are usually the ones
earning the higher incomes) are
more likely than men with a
high school education to marry
when they are 25 to 34 years old.
If they do marry, men who have
not attended college are more
likely than married men with
college training to discontinue
living with their wife by the time
they are 45 to 54 years old.
The survey does not estab
lish whether the college edu
cated man’s wife stays married
because of his preferred income
status or because college train
ing makes him a more under
standing mate- Either way, the
moral of the story seems to be:
If you want to earn more money
and keep your wife, get a col
lege education.
"School Lunch
Week" set for
October 12-18
In proclaiming October 12-18
"School Lunch Week” in Georgia,
Governor Lester Maddox urges
all citizens, especially parents of
school children to learnaboutthe
State's public school lunch pro
gram.
According to Miss Josephine
Martin, Chief Consultant, School
Food Service Program, Georgia
Department of Education, School
Lunch Week will be observed in
Georgia schools by special stu
dent activities, special menus,
parents’ day, PTA programs and
school food service displays.
Georgia ranks second in the
nation in the percentage of child
ren reached by the school lunch
program. Approximately 780,000
youngsters receive lunch at
school each day.
"The School Lunch Program
in Georgia has as its objective
to provide every child in Geor
gia’s schools foodeducationanda
nutritionally adequate lunch,
said Miss Martin. "We realize
that food is a tool of education.
Every lunch served contains
the foods needed to provide one
third to one-half of the child’s
daily food needs. The school
lunch contains: one-half pint of
milk, two ounces of meat or meat
substitute, three-fourths cup of
fruit and/or a vegetable, one
serving of bread and two tea
spoons of butter.
"Other foods are added to meet
the energy needs of children.
Through the School Lunch Pro
gram, children are getting a
balanced meal, and they are
learning good food habits," Miss
Martin commented.
Not only does the School Lunch
Program provide nutritionally
sound lunches for Georgia young
sters, butitalsoboosts Georgia’s
agriculture industry.
Approximately $50,000,000 of
farm products are consumed an
nually in school lunches, includ
ing 180,000,000 half pints of milk,
11,520,000 pounds of poultry, 9,
536,000 pounds of meat, 4,104,000
pounds of peanut butter, 4,795,2 00
dozen eggs, 72,000,000 pounds of
fruits and vegetables. Georgia
schools spend $30,000,000 locally
for food each year and provide
an outlet for locally produced
food products.
The average price paid by
pupils for lunch is 29 cents.
The lunch is available at less
than the actual cost. Federal
funds through the National School
Lunch Act and the Child Nutri
tion Act provide about 15 cents
per lunch in cash and foods.
Hunting Season
announced by Ga.
Game, Fish Com.
DUCK HUNTING SEASON SET
Georgia duck hunters will have
a longer season to enjoy their
sport this year. The 57-day sea
son will be November 20 through
January 15, the State Game and
Fish Commission, and U. S. Bu
reau of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife announced today.
Bag limit for ducks is three
per day with a possession limit
of six. The daily bag must not
include more than one black duck,
two wood ducks, and either one
canvasback or one redhead.
In addition, a hunter may take
five mergansers per day, in
cluding no mqre than one hooded
merganser. Tie possession limit
is 10, including no more than two
hooded mergansers.
Coot season is the same as duck
season, with a daily limit of
10, with 20 in possession.
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MORE DEER, MORE HUNTERS;
MORE TRAINING NEEDED
Intensive efforts which began
some twenty years ago to bring
deer back to Georgia are paying
off in a big way, now ... the
fruits of labor are ripening, and
harvest time is here-
Each year, deer seem more
and more plentiful just about
everywhere in the state- And
each year, more and more coun
ties are opened to hunting, be
cause there are now enough deer
in them for hunting. There are
126 of Georgia’s 159 counties
now open.
With this increase in the herd,
it’s really no wonder at all that
more folks are interested in
hunting deer. The number of
hunters increases or decreases
with the availability of game.
Now, logically enough, the deer
being a big game animal, re
quires more firepower in the
weapons used to take them. This
can create a hazard if too many
hunters in the woods fail to
take into account the potential
danger in their hands.
With the rapid increase in
hunters, obviously there is a
certain number of persons going
for the first time each year.
Back in great-granddaddy’s
day, a youngster was taught how
to shoot, and taught carefully.
Ammunition was precious be
cause of cost and availability,
and a man figured on putting meat
on the table just about every
time he pulled the trigger.
But with the great change in
times, many a hunter goes into
the woods with mighty little train
ing and experience in the use of
firearms. Every once in a while
you’ll run up on a fella with a
shiny new rifle in his hands,
and after short discussion, you
may learn he’s never fired a
shot through it . . .but he’s
hunting with it.
Youngsters raised nowadays
in large cities and towns have
little or no opportunity to learn
proper use of firearms. There’s
a great need for a good training
program to help these neophytes
learn something about the guns
from which they hope to derive
pleasure . . • but too often they
derive only misery.
What’s the answer? Hard to
say, but here's a tip of the hat
to the National Rifle Association,
for it’s nationwide training pro
grams, both for adults and youth.
NRA has been accused in recent
years of being anything but good,
yet careful scrutiny fails to re
veal anything but good coming
from the organization.
NRA trains folks of all ages
to use their firearms properly
and safely, teaches them to shoot
better and helps them enjoy one
of the finest sports God ever
gave to man.
If more youngsters were given
the opportunity to learn proper
use of firearms, and given an
opportunity to enjoy the sport
of hunting, a lot less of them
would have those "Saturday Night
Specials" • • -dangerous, cheap,
shortbarrelled small caliber pis-
Lt. Gov. Smith
to visit canyons
at Lumpkin, Ga.
Lt. Governor George T. Smith
plans to make an official inspec
tion visit to the Providence Can
yons, Lumpkin, Georgia — on
October 13, 1969.
In this regard, the Chairman
of the State Study Committee,
Senator Hugh Carter of Plains,
would like to invite everyone in
Early County and surrounding
areas to be present during this
presentation.
The visit will begin officially
at 10:00 A. M. on the 13th, at
the site of the Canyons. The
visitation is expected to be con
cluded by 12;3O P.M.
Flint River Girl
Scout Council
being conducted
John H. Slaton, Blakely City
employee, has been named chair
man of the 1970 forward appeal
for Flint River Girl Scout Coun
cil which is presently being con
ducted throughout Early County,
it was announced today by Mrs.
A. T. Cyganiewicz, president of
the Flint River Girl Scout Coun
cil.
Volunteer workers, under the
leadership of Mr. Slaton will
seek to raise SBOO in order to
continue and expand Scout acti
vities for girls from seven to
seventeen years old in this area.
"I have accepted chairmanship
of this campaign with pride," Mr.
Slaton said, "because 1 know that
the program offered to Girl
Scouts in our town will help
them to become better citizens
at home, in their community and
in the world. ’ ’ Mr. Slaton went
on to explain that the funds con
tributed to this campaign will
be used to bring better scout
ing to more girls. The launch
ing of the up-dated program for
the Girl Scouts of the ’seventies
requires additional training for
many Girl Scouts volunteers in
our Council.
"Through Girl Scouting," Mr.
Slaton affirmed, "our girls can
enjoy wholesome recreation,
make new friends, learn practi
cal skills, and develop healthy
attitudes that will help determine
the direction their lives will
take." The theme of the Finance
Campaign for Girl Scouts is "Girl
Scouting - A Promise In Action.”
Will you make a promise to help
them serve?
tols which are good for abso
lutely nothing but to get some
one in trouble.
Youngsters must be taught to
respect a weapon, and the pur
poses for which it was created.
If they’re taught this, and taught
to be good sportsmen, they’ll
learn to respect the rights of
others, and to be good citizens.
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Gov. Usfir^Maddox
Report<)Ol People
ATLANTA (PRN) -
Sometimes when I point out
to a department head or some
other public official where
money can be saved by the
implementation of more
efficient methods, by the
elimination of unneeded
employees or by some other
method, the reply I often get
is, “Why, Governor, that’s just
peanuts. That’s not worth
worrying ।
about when
you con- ’
sider that
our govem
me n t
spends
nearly a
billion
dollars' a
year.”
Well, one
taxpayer’s dollar may be
peanuts to some people, but
it’s hard-earned money to
Lester Maddox.
Those of you who farm for
a living know the meaning of,
and the importance of,
efficiency in your operations.
You have to measure your
fertilizer, count your seed and
cut costs wherever you can on
labor, transportation, supplies
and marketing.
You don’t rent a tractor if
you have one of your own
that will do the job.
You don’t buy gasoline
from your friends at higher
prices if you can get it
somewhere else for less.
You don’t hire somebody
to build a barn for you on a
“cost plus” basis when you
know you can get the same
barn built for a lot less money
when you let contractors bid
for the job.
You don’t keep a man on
your payroll year after year
when he only comes in about
once a month, and he’s drunk,
or getting over a drunk, when
he comes in that day.
Neither would you put up
with a man receiving a day’s
pay from you for a day’s work
who spent most of his time in
his own fields or in those of a
neighbor.
And, if you’re concerned
about mismanagement on
your farm, you should be just
as concerned about
mismanagement in your state
government, because that’s
wasting your money, too.
With a few minor
exceptions, all the money
which the State receives and
spends comes directly from
you, the taxpayer.
And your money was being
wasted in the ways I described
a little while ago when Lester
Maddox took office as
Governor.
Os course, I haven’t been
able to stop up all the gullies
of graft, inefficiency and
outright waste, but let’s look
for a moment at what has
been accomplished.
I found the Department of
Industry and Trade with an
unauthorized indebtedness and
doing everything except what
it was supposed to be doing.
This political playhouse has
been remodeled and is now
one of the most efficient and
most effective such agencies in
the United States.
By weeding out a few
policies and a few people in
the Board of Pardons and
Paroles, we changed that
agency from one clouded in
secrecy and doubt to one
dedicated to serving all
citizens openly and on an
equal basis.
We found that the State had
been renting computers
without any competitive
bidding from the suppliers,
even though these rentals had
reached a volume of almost
eight million dollars per year.
For the first time, now,
competitive bids are required
before computer rental
contracts are let.
It had long been the
practice in State Government
for politicians to reward their
friends and supporters with
gasoline purchases. By putting
an end to this practice some
500,000 dollars of your
money was saved in the fiscal
year ending June 30,1969.
We have a state employees
cafeteria which advertises
itself to be “non-tax-sup
ported”, but as much as 4,000
dollars of your money goes
into its inefficient operation
every week. We have worked
to correct this, and although
the job has not been
completed, I am not through
pulling at this particular weed,
and before my term of office
is over, I believe we will have
it pulled tip.
It took me a number of
months to get a man fired who
had stolen some 130,000
dollars from a credit union
over a number of years. For
four years others had known
about the thefts, but they
probably said, “Well, that’S
just peanuts. Nothing to get
excited about.” In fact, after I
found out about it, here was
still an attempt to cover up
and action was taken only
after I threatened a public
hearing in the Rotunda of the
State Capitol.
Well, I know that if you put
enough peanuts together in
the right place, you can raise
an elephant. I see one penny
as part of a dollar, and I see
one dollar as part of a million
dollars.