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wORGIA F. F. A. WEEK OPENS
Five purposes of the Future Farmers of Amer
fca are pointed out to Governor Herman Tal
madge by Billy Howard of Plains, state F. F. A.
president. The Governor has officially proclaim
Observance det
For FFA Week
Chapters In Athens Area Plan
! Active Part In Week's Events
Georgia Future Farmers will observe National F. F. A.
Week this week with their largest membership since the
state association was formed 22 years ago, according to
Billy Howard of Plains, state president,
11 F. F. A. chapters in S atea,
ingudfn‘;, ones at University Dem-
Onstrafi(;n SC“OOI m A.theqs, wm‘
terville, Bogart, Watkinsville, Ila,
Danielsville, Colbert, Come;‘ and
Arnoldsville will take part in ob
servance of the week.
The local chapter will present a
program over Station WGAU on
Wednesday at 12:45 p. m,
Nearly 14,000 Georgians from
993 schools are now members of
this national organization for farm
boys who are studying vocational
agriculture in high school. F. F. A.
membership in this state last year
was 12,053 and for the nation was
280,111, ki :
A proclamation officially sett;gg
aside February 18-25 as “Georgia
Future Farmer Week” has been
signed by Governor Herman Tal
madge.
Aunual Observance
Howard says that since 1947 Fu
ture Farmers of America have an
nually observed the week of
George Washington’s birthday as
national F. F. A. week. At Mt.
Vernon, he explained, Washington
practiced good farming methods
which are today an example and
an inspiration for boys studying
agriculture.
The primary aim of the F. F. A,
is to help farm boys help them
selves by providing opportunities
for the development of qualities of
leadership, character, thrift, serv=
ice, patriotism, cooperation and
scholarship and affording whole
some recreation, agriculture and
citizenship training.
F. F. A. members in this state
now actually cultivate more than
50,000 acres of land and have
nearly a million dollars invested
in livestock, crops and equipment,
according to Howard. Among their
more outstanding activities he list
ed the planting of around two mil
lion pine seedlings this winter,
many of them given to the boys
by Junior Chambers of Commerce
through a joint pine planting pro
ject; and the development of perm
anent and temporary pastures.
SOIL WORK
State To Be
Featured At
.
National Meet
Delegates to the National Asso
ciatlon of Soil Conservation Dis
tricts, who will meet in Atlanta,
ebruary 28-March 1-2, will re
tive a complete report on the soil
onservation district program in
eorgia since its start in 1937.
The report will be in the form
t a beautitully illustrated bulle
in, Building Georgia Through Soil
onservation Districts, which is
eing published by the State Soil
onservation Committee, ;
The new publication, according
0 E. H. Thomas, secretary of the
tate Soi] Conservation Committee
d soil conservationist of the Ex
nsion Service, ig dedicated to the
8,547 farmerg in Georgia who are
Slng their lang wisely in coopera
19nt With the soil conservation dis
ricts,
Copies of the report may be ob
ined by writing to B, H. Thomas,
gricultural Extension Service,
thens, Ga, g
The Publication covers progress
'ade by farmers who are cooper
ting with the districts program in
uch fields g farm planning, erop
Otation, eoyer crops, water dis
-osal systems, flood control, put
¢ wet land o work, forestry,
Astures, research, highway im-
TOVement and other subjects.
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ed this week as “Georgia Future Farmers Week.”
Other purposes of the F. F. A. are to encourage
cooperation, scholarship, citizenship, service and
patriotism in its members,
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4-H Girl Wins
W ashington Trip
For Good Work
Miss Rhonwyn Lowry, one of
Georgia’s all-tibe 4-H cham
pions from Colquitt, has ac
cepted an invitation to appear
on a panel of outstanding club
members at the National 4-H
breakfast in Washington, March
6. G. L. Noble, National Direc
tor of Boys and Girls Club
work, through the Georgia 4-H
club leader, W. A. Sutton, ex
tended the invitation to Miss
Lowry.
A member of the University
of Georgia 4-H Club, Miss Low
ry last year won first place in
the State Rural Youth Talk meet
at the State Farm Bureau Con
vention and received an expense
paid trip to Chicago to compete
in the national meet.
FFA Chapter At
Danielsville
Plans Banquet
DANIELSVILLE.—A father-son
banquet to the held on Friday
night, March 3, at 7:30 is being
planned by the Danielsville Fu
ture Farmers of America chapter.
At the regular meeting of the
Madison County High F. F. A,
chapter held recently with Presi
dent Eugene Dale presiding, re
ports from committees were made
and a quartette was formed.
Reports were given by the fol
lowing boys who were chairman
of their respective Contest Com
mittees: American Farmer Contest
by Albert Sanders; Chapter Con
test by Edward Christian; Nation
al Chapter Contest was explained
by Mr. Baker, adviser; Secretary
Contest by Herman Maddox.
Public speaking Contest by Eu
gene Dale; Quartet Contest by
Phil Griffeth; Farm and Home El
ectrification Contest by Donald
Jones; Forestry Contest by John
Davis. A report on the winter
Grazing Contest was given by
Howard Chandler, Corn Contest
was explained by Neal Sartain and
the Cotton Contest by J. M. Da
vis.
Mr. Herndon and Mr. Worrell
agreed to train the quartette and
the following boys expressed their
desire to participate; Neal Sartain,
Ivan Adams, Doyle Hardman,
Keith McElroy, Joe Paul Strick
land, Albert Sanders, Buddie
Scarborough, Charles Fortson, and
Bennett Fortson.
Agricultural
Meeting Dates
Monday—Brooks Crossing Home
Demonstration meeting, home of
Mrs. Fred Hill, 2 p. m.
The first nation-wide survey
under the National Housing Act of
1949 gets under way today.
Tuesday — Home Demonstration
Council meeting at Georgia Power
Kitchen in Athens at 10 a. m.
(Luncheon for attendants at 1 p.
m. in Georgian Hotel.)
Fowler’s Home Demonstration
meeting, home of Mrs. H. K. Rum
sey, 3 p. m.
Wednesday — Winterville Home
Demonstration meeting, schoo 1
building, 3 p. m.
Thursday — County and Home
agents northeast Georgia district
meeting, Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Building in Athens, 10 a.
m.
Friday — Demonstration School
4-H club meetings (boys and
girls). Grammar school at 9:30 a.
m. and high school at 10:20 a. m.
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Wally Berger, a slugger with 1
the Boston Braves in in the 30s, is
the new manager of the Twin
Falls, Ida., Cowboys in the Pio
neer League.
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otton
Contest .
.
Prizes Set
For the fourth year in a row, the
Georgia Cottonseed Crushers As
sociation‘is offering $3,500 in prizes
to Georgia farmers who make the
largest yields of cotton on five
acres, E. C. Westbrook, agronomist
of the Agricultural Extension
Service, announced today.
Farmers in each of the six Ex
tension Service districts will com
pete for district prizes in addition
to the state award of SSOO for the
farmer who produces the largest
yield in the state. There are three
prizes offered in each district: $250,
first; $l5O, second, and SIOO, third.
The contest is sponsored by the
Georgia Cottonseed Crushers As
sociation, and conducted by the
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service.
Farmers who desire to enter the
5-Acre Cotton Contest this year
should contact their county agent
and obtain copy of the rules and
regulations governing the contest,
Westbrook said. The deadline for
entering the contest is June 15.
The state winner in 1949, W. A.
Meadows, Cochran, produced three
bales per acre on five acres. This
yield exceeded the top yield in the
5-Acre Cotton Contest in .both
South Carolina and North Caroli
na, according to Westbrook, and
“this seems to indicate that when
farmers make full use of all of the
information that is available about
growing cotton, attractive yields
can be produced.”
Farm Housing
Survey Underway
The first nationwide survey un
der the National Housing Act of
1949 got underway today and will
include ten important agricultural
counties in Georgia, according to
Harry A. White, state supervisor
of the survey.
Responsibility for the survey
rests with the U. S. Department of
Agriculture which will obtain in
formation from about 9,000 farms
throughout the United States.
“In the past, little direct aid has
been provided for improving hous
ing conditions on farms,” White
pointed out, “but the Housing Act
of 1949 as passed by the 81st Con
gress has established a program of
research to analyze existing condi
tions and has made provisions to
extend technical services and fi
nancial aid to farmers needing
help in their construction activi
ties.
Crop Group
.
Officers For
1950 Chosen
Officers of the Georgia Crop In
provement Association elected at
their recent fifth annual meeting
in Macon are W. B. Sexton, Byron;
president, D. E. Nalley, Cummings
vice-president; Hugh A. Inglis,
Athens, agronomist—seed ¢ertifi=-
cation; Hazel W. Tate, Athens, se
cretary-treasurer.
Terms of the 12 directors are
staggered with four being elected
each year. J. H. Marshall, Evans,
was elected from the Northeast
Georgia district; D. E. Nalley, from
the Northwest Georgia district;
and Robert A, Hill, Alamo, and
W. B. Sexton, Byron, were Tre
elected from the Southeast and
Southwest Georgia districts, re
spectively.
4-Hers Ready
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To Begin ‘SO
Garden Projects
Now that they have received the
signal—brightly colored seed cata
logues—boys and girls in Georgia
are anxious to get started in be
coming experts 4-H gardeners,
according to W. A. Sutton, State
4-H Club leader.
It is estimated that more than
30,000 of these rural youth in
Georgia will take part in the 1950
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Without proper preparation of the soil it is
difficult to have a successful garden. First step
is spading up the ground. Spade deeply, using a
straight-edge spade or fork. A pointed spade
leaves scalloped depressions in the ground, and
water collects. Second, spade systematically in
straight lines and avoid turning the soil over
completely—turn it over at an angle of about 45
degrees. After thorough spading, apply organic
fertilizing material — manure, compost or peat
moss. Work this in well, but if you are working
National 4-H garden program. In
it they will learn to manage
a well-planned garden, carry out a
program of vegetable insect and
disease control, and market pro
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You Have a Vital Stake in Telephone Bargaining:
“
it's YOUR money
i Southern Bell Wages and Working Conditions Already Are !
Among the Best — Any Increase in Wages Would Have
To Be Paid By Telephone Customers — There Is No Other
- Way Wage Increases Can Be Paid
" You have a vital stake in telephone wage negotia
tions, for it's the money you pay in to us that we pay
out in telephone wages.
Telephone employees are well paid. We believe
you will agree after looking over the wages paid fully
experienced employees here, shown in the box at the
right.
Telephone wage rates have been increased 117%
since 1939, compared with an increase of less than
70% in the cost of living.
- But wages are not the whole story. Telephone em
ployees have the advantage of steady work, with no
seasonal layoffs. They get vacations with pay, up to
three weeks, plus six holidays a year. In addition, they
enjoy the real security provided by one of the best
pension and benefit plans in any industry. Among oth
er things, it provides:
® A pension with a minimum of SIOO a month,
including Social Security, at age 65, and
liberal provisions for earlier retirements.
® Sickness and accident benefits, up to a full
year’s pay, depending on length of service.
® Death benefits, up to one full year’s wage,
depending on length of service. :
FOR ALL OF THESE BENEFITS, THE EMPLOYEE
PAYS NOTHING — THE COMPANY PAYS ALL
Any way you look at it — wages, working condi
tions, pensions and benefits — telephone employees
are doing all right. And that’s the way we think it
should be: It takes all these things to get and keep
good people.
SOIL PREPARATION NECESSARY
duce 1 an economical and ap
proved manner.
Incentives for outstanding ach
ievements in gardening include
a nurrber of awards and prizes.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
BY ARNOLD M. DAVIS
on a bed of flowers or vegetables avoid packing
a solid layer of organic material on the bottom
of the bed. Next apply a top dressing of a com=
plete chemical fertilizer, Consult your garden
supply dealer on this, as soil requirements differ
in various areas. It can generally be applied at
a rate of five pounds to 100 square feet, Finally,
rake over newly spaded areas to eliminate roots,
stones, air pockets and to provide a good, smooth
bed for germination and growth of your plants.
This will pay off later in the season.
1 The 4-H garden program is con
ducted under the direction of the
Agricultural Extension Service.
County Extension agents will
furnish complete information.
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Wrens Has Distincetive Record
(Editors Note—lt lis fitting
that this story be published dur
ing F.FA. week as the vocation
al agricultural and F.F.». pro
gram are closely correlated.)
By RICHARD ASHWORTH
WRENS — Th: vocational ag
riculture department at Wrens
High Schocl holds the distinction
of being one of the state’s and na
tion’s oldest. .
Vocational agriculture teachers
here have been teaching boys in
Jefferson and surrounding coun
ties how to farm by “book learn
ing” and practice since 1817, when
the high school’s vocationai agri
culture department was establish
ed among the first under the
Smith-Hughes et in 1917,
And instructor W. K. Calla
han, who's beei. in the department
since its founding reckons he
holds a national record in voca
tional ag school teacher for hold
ing down his job now for over 33
years.
Callahan, a native of Tennessee,
came to Wrens as vocational
teacher after receiving his agri
cultural training at the Universi
ty of Georgia’s College of Aricul
ture.
The state’s oldest department
has ser.t more than 1,500 “educat
ed farmer out into the world
HOW DO THESE ATHENS WAGES
LOOK TO You?
A telephone operator at the top rate here now
get average pay of $44.57 a week ($193.88 a
month) including differentials and overtime.
Plant craftsmen, such as central office repair
men, at the top rate for cities like Athens now
average $75.16 a week ($326.95 a month) in
total pay, including overtime and differentials.
The telephone business is regulated in a way that
Unions and most other businesses are not. Federal
and State Commissions determine the rates we charge
for service. Any increases in telephone wages would
force us to ask for an increase in telephciie rates.
WHAT ABOUT THE CONTRACT?
Southern Bell and the CWA-CIO are engaged in
collective bargaining on wages at the request of the
Union.. We earnestly hope that a settlement can be
reached that will be fair to the employees, to tele
phone users and to the Company. Meanwhile, the
public has every right to expect uninterrupted serv
ice under the present contract between the Company
and the Union, which provides that, quoting the con
tract itself, “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAY IT
(the contract) BE TERMINATED EARLIER THAN
JUNE 5, 1950.”
WRENS VOCATIONAL AG CANNERY
» » » Instructor W. K. Callahan At Work
~(Photo by George Abney, Jr.)
PAGE FIVE
“better fitted to meet the problems
of farming.” Both high school and
adult students are trained. The stu
dents can select courses in eonser
vation, wild life, forestry, food
preparation, wood and metal
shops, and others.
The department has its own
cannery—patronized by local ci
tizens during the summer—and
rents 850 freezer locker eompart
men’ for food storage.
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