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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1950.
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BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Farm Editor
A change'is definitely ta!{ing place in Southern Agricul
ture—a transfer from the field hand and the plow mule to
1o wasoline tractor and other mechanical equipment.
) 'l'n; change is needed in order
for Georgia and other Southern
states to take advantage of their
rescurces.
mn a recent address at a meet
ing of Sigma Delta Chi, journal
ism fraternity, University of Geor=
gia, William Brady, Atlanta public
relations consultant, considered
what resources the South had,
states Resources
He said, “Beginning with Vir
ginia and extending to Texas, the
South has enough electric power
io turn every wheel in the nation;
enough coal to supply the world;
enough timber to house the na
tion; enough ‘pulp wood material
to supply the nation with paper;
enough oil to lubricate the entire
wheels of industry; enough gaso
line to keep the work on wheels;
enough electricity to light every
home in the nation; enough water
to supply both hunran and indus
trial needs—the South is honey
combed with rivers and creeks,
and has a rainfall of from 45 to 70
inches a year, climate that is the
envy of the world! scenic beauty
that rivals Switzerland; seashores
iat rival the Riviera of Italy;
enough tropical fruit to supply the
world, It is the home of cotton, the
wonder plant of the world, that
clothes half the two_ billion pop
ulation of the world; it is the home
of peanuts, peaches, pecans, water
melons, scarcely grown anywhere
¢lse in the nation and, or, the
world.”
Mr, Brady emphasized that the
changes will bring about prob
lems, but urged that Southerners
hattle the obstacles and overcome
them because a greater South is
in the making.
He said there is a public rela
Ryegrass Seed Likely
In First - Year Fescue
“If ryegrass seed were present in the fescue seed planted
last fall, Georgia farmers and seed producers cannot ex
pect to have pure fescue seed to sell this first sgason,”
Hugh A. Inglis, Extension Service agronomist in charge of
seed certification work, warned today.
Holstein Field
COLLEGE PARK, Ga., July 4—
Georgia Holstein owners and
breeders will gather on the T. Q.
Sullivan farm near here July 7.
Governor Herman Talmadge,
who owns Holstein cattle and who
has visited dairying areas in Wis=
consin and other states to study
dairying conditions, will speak to
the group at 11:00 a. m. Glen
Householder, of the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America,
Vermont, will also attend and will
appear on the program to discuss
“Advantages of A Holstein Or
ganization.”
Frank W. Fitch, Agricultural
Extension Service dairyman, points
out that plans now call for forming
a Georgia Holstein Club during the
meeting. This is the first all-state
Holstein Field Day to be held in
the state.
“Mr, Sullivan owns one of the
better purebred Holstein herds in
Georgia,” Fitch stated, “and the
visitors will have an opportunity
to look over this herd in the aft
emoon of July 7. Also, in the aft
ernoon an educational motion pic
ture, Holstein Heritage, will be
shown.”
@ther agricultural leaders who
are to appear on the program in
clude Tap Bennett, director of
livestock development, Central of
Georgia Railway, Savannah; S. D.
Tr’uitt. Fulton County agent and
Mr. Sullivan, Mr, Fitch will pre-
July Poultry
9 .
Tips Are Given
By Arthur Gannen, Extension
Service Poultryman
In July, feed a good ration, cull,
treat for parasites, vaceinate, pro-
Vide shade for young chicks, venti
late the laying house, and see that
thickens of all ages have plenty of
cool, clean water,
Cull those hens which have
sowed down or quit laying, and
hustle them off to market. July
s one of the best months to catch
and handle each hen, and to re-
Move those which are not profit
tble layers,
A preparation of benzene
hexachloride is one of the newer
lice remedies, Tt is painted on the
Toosts in the late afternoon, and
the fumes kil the lice on the hens
during the night,
HANDICRAFT WORK
Interest jn doing handicraft
%ork at home is increasing among
Georgia Home Demonstration club
Women, according to reports from
fe State Extension Service.
I!fll‘uiu:rafi: exhibits from 58 coun-
Ues in the state were on display
* one recent Home Demonstra=~
tion Meeting, according to Miss
lefldreq Ledford, Extension home
dustrieg speciaiist.
MES ADD FERTILITY
LEGUMES ApD FER Y
o e tation is ons
Dropey Places in the n; v e fe;
of the best methods o ading ter-
S ey "l h'of the
m?é;s}:’?d rat beco muctwailable
Dlant food that becon::srly -
durlng Winter and
Tonthy. ing
tions job to be done by industry
and business. “Workers must be
sold on their opportunities, on
their good life, on the true value
of their personal right of choice of
work, and their friends,” he added.
Mr. Brady said, “The greatest
opportunity for young college
graduates lies right here in the
heart of the South.”
YOUTH CONFAB
A _communication to the Ban
ner-Herald from R. J. Richardson,
assistant State 4-H Club leader, of
Tifton, reveals that New Orleans
has been chosen the site of this
year’s convention of the National
Junior Vegetable Growers Associa
tion.
More than 500 of the nation’s
farm youths are expected to at
tend the important meeting, which
is the 16th annual convention of
the group. The meeting is sched
uled December 10-14.
There is still time for Georgia
farm youths to enroll in the organ
ization’s production - marketing
contest and to compete for $6,000
in agricultural scholarship and
awards A. & P, Food Stores pro
vides for the event each year.
An educational and entertaining
program has been prepared for the
New Orleans confab. Inspection
trips are planned into the famed
tidewater farm lands of the Gulf
of Mexico, visits to the city’s nrany
historic landmarks, a cruise up the
Mississippi, and many other inter
esting features.
Highlighting the meeting will
be a formal banquet at which time
the national junior vegetable
growing champion will be named
along with four regional cham
pions, 33 sectional champions and
more than 150 .state winners.
Inglis, whose headquarters are
in the Georgia Cotton Improve
ment Association office here, con
tinues that, “We are recommend
ing the no one try to harvest cer
tified fescue seed the first year af
ter planting unless plants of oth
er crops, such as ryegrass are
pulled from the fields.' In many
instances farmers are finding that
the ryegrass will die down and
the fescue will come along the se
second and third years, he said.
Weak Roots
“People who are familiar with
ryegrass realize that this plant
has a weak root system, but that
is sends up about 200 seed heads
from one seed,” Inglis advises.
“They also know that fescue has
an aggressive root system and in
most instances does not produce
many seed the first year. This ac
counts for the large percentage
of ryegrass showing up in fescue
fields now.”
The agronomist pointed out that
in Georgia this season only 31
percent of the acreage planted to
fescue passed all tests for certi
fied seed. Ryegrass in the seed
was the cause of the failure to
meet certification standards in
most intsances. Inglis says that the
small amount of ryegrass in the
fescue does not decrease the value
of this crop for pastures.
Few Seed 4 .
“We do not feel that Georgia
seed growers are responsible for
all of the fuss about ryegrass and
fescue because we have produced
very little seed thus far,” Inglis as
serted. “However,” he continued,
“we georgians are somewhat to
plame for this condition because
the seed we bought showed on the
seed tag that a small percentage
of ryegrass was included.”
Agricultural leaders in Georgia
have an opportunity to help
straighten out this situation, in In
glis’s opinion. He urges that far
mers and seedmen get the habit
of looking at seed tags when they
purchase seeds of any kind, in or
der to know what is being bought.
Farm And Home
Meeting Dates
Wednesday — Hinton Brown
Home Demonstration Club, 3 p. m.,
school,
Thursday — Oconee Heights
Home Demonstration Cluk, 2 p. m,,
Home of Mrs. Mell Bond.
COTTON GINNING CLINICS
Approximately 700 Georgia cot
ton gin owners and operators are
urged to attend one-day clinics
in seven Georgia cities this sum
mer in an effort to cut down loss
es from improper ginning of cot
ton this fall. Clinics are to be held
at Vienna, Dublin, Statesboro,
Commerce, Cartersville and New
nan.
QALITY EGGS
Georgia’s commercial egg mar
keting program can move forward
to new heights when everyone
knows what to look for in quality
eggs, in the opinion of Extension
Service egg marketing specialists.
There is a need for more high
qua}ity eggs .n this state, the spe
cialists say.
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»l‘alnloa_d of new mechanical balers leaving New Holland, Pa., and passing fields being tilled by farmers using old-fashioned horse~ g
{ drawn implements, Scene is in Lancaster County where many of the lush farms belong to members of the Mennonite sects, many &
of whom have an aversion to modern machinery.
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4-Hers Vie In Dairy
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Foods Demonstrations
Some 4,200 Georgia 4-H Club members who are partici
pating in the 1950 National 4-H Dairy Foods demonstra
tion project are thinking up new ways to use an abundant
supply of milk.
" The 4~H club members are com
peting top honors in county as
well as in state and national con
tests, according to Mrs. Martha
Harrison, assistant state 4-H club
leader, and Miss Nellie C. Boyd,
Agricultural Extension Service
nutritionist.
Natienal Winner
Betty Jean Becham, of Musella,
Georgia, won the state champion
ship in the contest in 1949, and
then was adjudged a national win
ner at the National 4-H Club Con
gress in Chicago in December.
Fifteen Geoggia club members
were awarded county medals.
Under guidance of 4-H advisers
and Extension agents, the 4-H’ers
work to show club members and
other groups the latest methods
of preparing tasty, nutritious
dairy foods. Favorites in the sum
mertime menus for 4-H families
are ice cream, milk drinks, frozenr
desserts and cottage cheese dishes.
Not Easy
While a demonstration looks
easy, it is by no means easy to
achieve, reports a national cham
pion. Many hours of study and
practice go into perfecting a de
monstration before the youth are
ready to step on the stage—poised,
confident and sure of their sub
ject. They also must be ready to
answer questions from the audi
ence afterwards. :
Awards for outstanding perfor
mance are provided by the Carna
tion Company, sponsors of the
program. Gold medal: are presen
ted to county winners, while each
state winner is given a handsome
watch. A trip to the National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago next No
vember is in store for eight nation
al champions. =
The program is arranged by the
National Committee on Boys and
Girls Club Work and supervised
by the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
Dairy School
Head Attends
Short Course
H. B. Henderson, head of the
dairy department at the Univer
sity of Georgia, attended the first
agricultural short course work
shop for land-grant colleges at
Michigan State College last week.
He was one of more than fifty
directors and representatives of
colleges in 34 states attending the
conference. s
During the week-long program,
general sessions were held cover
ing problems and phases of short
course work. Among them were
«Administration and Organization
of Short Courses,” “Promotion,
Publicity and Public Relations,”
and “Objectives of Short Courses,”
Besides lectures and panel discus
sions, participants were also
divided into small groups for in=-
tensive study of special problems.
Resource-Use
Conference
At Piedmont
A conference on resource-use
education is being cddnducted at
Piedmont College, Demorest, this
week under the direction of the
College of Education, University of
Georgia.
The conference represents the
first attempt of high school and
elementary teachers frenr a region
in Georgia to study the problems
of that paricular region.
Miss Reba Burnham, director of
resource-use education at the Uni
versity, and Miss Isabel Lumsden,
director of the Piedmont College
Workshop, are co-directors of the
conference.
Participating in the conference
are all the teachers enrolled in the
Piedmont Workshop as well as in=-
terested school and lay people from
six Northeast Georgia counties—
Habersham, White, Franklin, Ste
phens, Banks and Rabun., -
Topics for discussion at the
conference include natural resour
ces, industry, recreation, health,
and education in Northeast Geor
gia. Questions on what resources
we have, how we are using them,
and what the schools can do to
'eugprove their use will be answer
“nanial interest groups on rec
reation, music, art, and audio
visual aids will also be held.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Vision Testing
Program Set
For 4-H Camps
Georgia farm boys and girls
who attend any one of four state
operated 4-H club camps this
summer may have their eyes
tested by a licensed optometrist
without charge.
Miss Lucile Higginbotham,
Agricultural Extension Service
health specialist, said today that
the testing program is now un
der way and that it i; being con
ducted in cooperation with the
Georgia Association of Optome
try. The four camps where his
work will be carried on are
Camp Wahsega, near Dahlonega;
Camp Fulton, near Atlanta; the
Chatham County Camp on Ty
bee Island near Savannah and
Indian Springs Camp, near
Jackson.
Miss Higginbotham pointed
out that health is an important
project among Georgia’s 115,000
Four-H club members.
TOO BIG FOR HIS JOB
CHICAGO — (AP) — John
Sadowski’s trouble is that he is
too big a man for his job. For
years, whenever the City Hall
boilers needed cleaning, he crawl
ed inside and went to work. But
three new boilers have been pur
chased. The doors, 12 by 16 inches,
the too small for a man of Sadow
ski's size—24l pounds.
* The rough, scaly skin of the
shark was used for sanding wood
until cheap sandpaper came on the
market.
Gay Garden Pinks are
Lovely and Easy to Grow
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Dianthus Heddewiggi flowers have brilliant color patterns.
One of the flowers which deserves
to be more popular than it is, is the
dianthus, It belongs to an old fam
ily, with many branches, all lovely,
hardy and easy to grow.
There are biennials, perennials
and annuals among them, none of
which is exacting in culture. Car
nations can be grown in the home
garden, as beautiful as the green
house types. A strain of annual
Chinese pinks, known as Dianthus
Heddewiggi, is especially recom
mended for garden borders, be
cause of its uniform bush habit of
growth, and brightly colored flow
ers which develop at the end of
each branch,
The flowers are single, with flat
petals forming a circle of 2 inches
in diameter. A plant forms a
mound of brilliant color, about a
foot high. The colors are remark
ably clear, and while some plants
are dark red, most of them are
pink of varying tones, marked with |
white. 1
If the flowers are cut before they
produce seed, the plants will bloom
all summer; and often live over
winter, or self-seed, so that they re
new themselves. A strain which
has been selected for fringed
petals is called Gaiety. Therc is
also a strain with rouitted petals,
but similar in coloring to Gaiety.
The seeds germinate quickly, and
NEAR HALF-WAY MARK
Activities Speed Up
At Athens Y™ Camp
BY CURTIS DRISKELL
ATHENS “Y” CAMP, Tallulah Falls, Ga., July 4.—“ Y"”
campers celebrated a big Fourth of July holiday here to
day by participating in an increasingly heavier schedule of
daily activities. This Thursday will mark the haifway point
for the frst four-week session of camp. : : :
This week is Gorge hike week
for “Y” campers, with four of five
units slated for the descent into
Tallulah Gorge by the end of the
week., Yesterday (Monday) the
Senior Unit made the hike, along
with Assistant Director Frank In
man and Supervisor Bobby Forbes.
The Pioneers are to make the hike
on Wednesday with Supervisor
Forrest Neely and Assistant Di
rector Dick Clary, and Friday As
sistant Directors Mike Castronis
and Clary will accompany the Jun
ior Unit into the Gorge and out
again.
Supervisors Exum King and
Neely will go with the Younger
Bovs’ Unit Saturday, and the Cubs
will wind up the Gorge hike
schedule Monday when they make
the hike with Director H. C. (Pop)
Pearson, jr., and Supervisor John
Kennedy.
Tonight the camp will entertain
Camp Chattooga for Girls at eve
ning vespers and program, and re
freshments will be served after
wards.
First Canoe Trip
The first of big canoe trips will
begin for “¥Y”’ campers Wednesday,
with Supervisor Forbes in charge
of a group leaving early in the day
for a three-day venture. The group
will paddle a 30-mile route
through the three big lakes of the
chain—Rabun, Burton, and Speed
—returning ) camp after spend
ing two nights sleeping out. More
canoe trips are already being
formed and will be leaving camp
at regular intervals during the
following days.
On Thursday morning, four
week campers from the Pioneer
and Cub units will leave for the
second in a series of bus trips into
the Great Smoky Mountains for
an itinerary of more than 200
the plants are as easy to grow as
zinnias and marigolds. = ¥
Chinese annual pinks have small
flowers in clusters, but with the
same bright colors. Carnations do
not make as spectacular a show in
‘the border, but they bear cut flow
ers of high quality. The strain
known as Carnation Grenadin is a
‘perennial and should be started
now for flowers next year. The an
nual strains take 90 days to pro
duce flowers, so are usually started
indoors for spring planting.
Sweet Williams are members of
the dianthus family, which are
biennials, living for two years, but
usually flowering in the autumn
from spring-sown seed. Sow seed
now for next year’s flowering, and
keep it up annually if you like the
flowers. They bloom in June when
carried over the winter, and give
the same vivid red and white flow
ers that the annual pinks do. $
Clove or grass pinks are the most
reliably perennial group of this race.
They are fragrant, bloom in early
June, and will live many years.
These are the old fashioned garden
pinks, which are not as brilliant in
coloring as the new annual strains,
but are most welcome when they
come year after year, at a time
when there is not much brilliant
coloring to compete with them.
miles of sight-seeing and camping
out. The group will climb to an
elevation of 6,643 feet above sea
level ‘when they reach the pin
nacle of the trip at Clingman’s
Dome, and will be able to look out
across three states. The trip carries
the group through parts of Geor
gia, North Carolina, and Ten
nessee.
Supervisor Kennedy and' As
sistant Director Inman will be the
staff members on the {rip. The
units will camp out together at
Smokemont, some 4,000 feet above
sea level, and will return o camp
on Friday morning.
A swimming meet for all units
except the Younger . Boys will
make up the weekly athletic eom
petition Saturday. Candy bars will
be awarded fto first, second, and
third place winners in the various
evenis for each unit.
Also set for next Monday is the
third trip into the Smokies, in
which four-week campers of the
Junior and Pioneer Units will take
part. Inman and Neely will ac
company the group. -
Results of the track meet held
here last Saturday:
Pioneer Unit
50-yard dash—George Harbour,
Atlanta; Wendell Crowe, Coving=-
ton; and Hank Klausman, Atlanta.
75-yard dash—Crowe; Harbour;
and Klausman.
Broad jump—Harbour; Jimmy
Baxley, Donalsonville; and Crowe,
Cross country—Crowe; Charles
Benedict, Tampa, Fla.; and Bill
Comer, Atlanta.
Cub Unit
50-yard dash—Penn Crockett,
Atlanta; Kim Gandy, Macon; and
Pat Dye, Blythe, and Eddie John
son, Ripley, Miss.
75-yard dash—Gandy; Johnson;
and Crockett.
Broad jump—Dean Upchurch,
Athens; Dye; and Charles Lane,
jr., Atlanta. :
Cross country—Upchurch; Dye;
and Johnson. .
Junior Unit
50-yard dash—Kalen Kilburn,
jr, Atlanta; Gholston Adair,
Thomaston; and Herbert Reese,
Atlanta.
75-yard dash—Kilburn; Adair;
and Frank Maier, Atlanta.
Broad jump—Adair; Xilburn;
and Maier.
Cross country—Adair; Kilburn;
and English Robinson, Atlanta.
Senior Unit “A”
75-yard dash—Tommy Herndon,
Augusta; Prentice Peabody, Au
gusta; and Sonny Suddath, Athens,
and Bill Fulcher, Augusta.
100-yard dash—Herndon; Sud
dath; and Peabody and Mack O’~
Kelley, Athens.
Broad jump — Herndon; O’
Kelley; and Bobby White, Dublin.
Cross country—Willis Sparks,
Macon; Sanford Butler, Athens;
and White,
Senior Unit “B”
75-yard dash—Squeaky Simp
son, Athens; Gene*Wilson, Atlan
ta; and Jimbo Laßoon, Athens.
100-yard dash—Simpson; Bry
ant Byrd, Blanton, Ala.; and Wil
son and Laßoon.
Broad jump—Byrd; Wilson; and
Phillip Gandy, Macon.
Cross country—Byrd; Wilson;
and Jimmy Dowling, Valdosta.
LONGSHOT PACER
NEW YORK.— (AP) —Evelyn
McKinney, a mare driven and
owned by John Lamb of Eliza
bethtown, N. Y., is a pacer for the
longshot fancier. At Yonkers Race
way’s spring meetong she com
bined with Nona Hanover in the
track’s largest daily double pay
off, $699.40. At Saratoga Race
way’s meeting, she won and paid
$lO4.
MAY SHIFT OLYMPIC DATE
SYDNEY, Australia— (AP) —
The 1956 Olympic Games, now
scheduled for Melbourne, Austra
lia, in October and November,
may be switched to December.
Because it’s mighty cold in Mel
bourne at the earlier time, many
athletes have requested the
change. The change in dates will
be considered by the Organizing
Committee in Melbourne and then
forwarded to the International
Olympic Committee.
| Bernie Creger, second baseman
for the Omaha Cardinals, recently
came to bat twice in the same in
ning against Colorado Springs —
and was hit by the pitcher both
times.
Eleven Michigan State swim
mers were named to the 1950 All
|American collegiate swimming
team picked by the nation’s coach~
es.
The Day We Celebrate
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HE current discussion of freedom and liberties shov/s’
ITwidespread concern as to how secure is our famed inde
pendence,
Independence, according to the dictionary, is exemption
from reliance on others, with the attendant control by olgxets;
direction of one’s own affairs without interference.
| In our celebration of Independence Day, there hay been
something missing. Statesman orators have over-emphasized
political {reedom at the expense of nconomio freedom. There
is abundant evidence that our valiaht forefathers at Lexing
ton and Yorktown were more concerned with freedong to work
and to enjoy the fruits of their labor unmolested, tham in
elections, The elections were a necessary evil to protect this
freedom—individual reward for individual merit.
The Declaration of Independence was a ringiug protest
against political interference, taxation, bureaucracy. It was a
revoit against being pushed around. The Magna Carta and our
own Bill of Rights were directed against the encvoachment of
government upon the rights of the individual, upon his inde
pendence.
Sober reflection raises the question: While guarding the
front door against the open tyranny of government, are we
letting tyranny in disguise slip in the back door with its sug
ared proposals of something for nothing? “Abject dependence
upon government,” said President Eliot of Harvard, “is an
accursed inheritance of the days of the divine right of kings.”
Abject dependence on government is also the accursed pre
scription of a communistic order.
Much of the praise of coKamunism springs from the ignoble
desire for a slavish security without the rigors of ltrulggh.
This soul-sickness includes all classes, high and low. Even
nations. Many businesses are eager for a government handout
if it seems to insure continuance of the enterprise with less
annoying competition; the workingman warts someone else to
secure his job and to take care of him in old age. The farmer
is loath to give up a subsidy; the middle class are tempted to
accept a Government plan to build their homes for them. Each
is ready to sign a blank check in payment. Yet adventuring
and chance-taking on the part of the individual are as neces~
sary to progress and well-beir g as when Shakespeare declared:
“And you all know security
~ Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.”
The responsibility and enthusiasm of the single human is
the “indispensable” of the United States of America,
Independence Day, 1950, gives us the opportunity to rededi
cate ourselves to eternal vigilance against dependence upon
the State, which always carries with it a corresponding loss
of independent action, and self-respect. :
~ Wedo not want to see July Fourth become Dependence Day,
,' . ,
W. Avron Jowes, President i, ¥ ‘ . WJ
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Publinx Battle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 4—
(AP)—Looking around for some
body to tag as the darkhorse of the
1950 National Publinxs Golf Tour
nament, the gallery put a finger
today on Peter M. Grant, jr., a
former Hoosier and now a Phoe
nix, Ariz., restaurant operator.
Grant not only turned in the
best 18-hole card of yesterday’s
first-day round, but also showed
he could take match-play pres
sure by elinrinating the campaign
er with the second-best showing.
The Arizonan, in a piece of pre-
Fourth fireworks, came in with a
71, just one over Seneca course’s
obviously hard-to-crack par, to
take the measure of hard-trying
Lewis North of Denver, 1 up.
Grant eased in after stepping
off the hilly front side in two un
der par, one of the few sub-par
nines carded in the tourney,
Still solidly in the slugging were
a couple of former champs, the
defending kingpin, San Francisco
cop Ken Towns, and the 1939
titieholder, Andy Szwedko from
Pittsburgh’s suburban Millvale.
Both won without difficulty in the
first round.
Also holding onto pre-tourney
favoritism were Bob Inman, trav
eling mewsprint salesman from
Tulsa, Okla., and Steve Shaw, a
timekeeper from Alhambra, Calif.,
both fired 67’s in Saturday team
championship playoffs.
Today’s action figured to cut the
big Publinx field fronr 128 to 64,
getting it down near the size that
mest tourneys start on. There were
210 golfers in the running before
yesterday’s day-long eliminations.
Two rounds of eliminations are
set for tomorrow and Thursday,
each round going 18 holes. That
will leave 36-hole semi-finals to
be played Friday and the 36-hole
title round Saturday.
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Poison Named
OISon Namea
Poison — and plenty of it — has
been recommended as the most
effective cotton pest control by a
University of Georgia entomology
professor.
R. F. Anderson, assistant pro- *
}fessor at the University, has ad
vised cotton growers now warring
against cotton insects to depend on
a liberal use of poison to protect
their crops.
“Cotton insect enemies are at
tacking" with larger forces this
summer than ever before,” Ander
son said. “Two or three times
more boll weevils than ever have
survived the warm winter and are
now chewing away on the cot
ton.”
*© “In addition,” he said, “the boll
worm is also threatening, We have
to counter-attack with poison if
we expect to win.”
Anderson recommended spray
ing with benzgne hexachloride,
texaphene or calcium' arsenate to
kill the weevils and with DDT to
destroy the bollworm,
Twelve to twenty pounds of 10
percent DDT per acre may be
needed for the bollworm, he said.
These must be hit when snrall he
fore they enter the boll and are
protected, Anderson pointed out.
He advised against depending
entirely on bug catchers to protect
the crop, pointing out that these
have never proved very effective.
Tests in Louisiana two years
ago showed that a bug catcher
machine reduced the insects an
average of only five percent, or
oo little to have much beneficial
effect.