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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938
SPRING SPECIAL!
PERMANENT WAVES
HALF PRICE!
THE FINEST YOU CAN BUY! NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU
TO GET YOUR WAVE FOR SPRING, WHILE WE ARE RUNNING
OUR ANNUAL SPECIAL.- WAVES REDUCED TO HALF PRICE!
BEGINNING THURSDAY, JANUARY 27TH. WE ARE TAKING
APPOINTMENTS NOW. HAIR IS TRULY MORE NATURAL,
WAVE IS TRULY MORE PERMANENT, WITH ONE OF OUR
BETTER WAVES. '
REMEMBER—THEY ARE GUARANTEED. OUR OPERATORS
HAVE MASTER LICENSE.
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Over 4,000 Tenant
Farmers Ask Loans
ONLY $635,000 AVAILABLE FIRST
YEAR TO FARMERS IN LIMI
TED NUMBER OF COUNTIES
STATE
More than 4,000 Georgia tenant
farmers made application for the
180 farm purchase loans available
in this state under terms of the
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act.
R. L. Vansant, state director of
the Farm Security Administration,
said in Athens this week that 4,327
tenants, sharecroppers, and farm la
borers in the 35 counties designated
for the program made formal appli
cation for loans, while 2,657 others
made inquiries of farm supervisors
but failed to file their applications
by January 15, the closing date.
He said wide-spread interest was
evidenced in the tenant purchase
program all over the state. Nearly
10,000 tenant farmers in the remain
ing 124 non-participating counties
contacted rehabilitation supervisors
and Extension Service county agents
in regard to applying for a loan, de
spite the fact that their counties had
not been designated for the pro-
gram.
“While limited funds forced us to
confine the program this year to 35
Georgia counties,” Mr. Vansant de
clared, “we anticipate an increased
appropriation for the next fiscal
year, which, we believe, will allow
us to make tenant purchase loans in
additional counties.”
Georgia received $635,003 of this
year’s ten million-dollar allotment
for farm purchase loans in the nations
as a whole.
Counties in which loans are being
made this year incipde: Baldwin,
Bartow, Berrien, Brooks, Bulloch,
Burke, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb,
Coffee, Cook, Coweta, Dodge, Dooly,
Emanuel, Fulton, Gordon Greene,
Gwinnett, Hall, Hancock, Hart, Hen
rv, Jackson, Jenkins, Meriwether,
Mitchell, Morgan, Pike, Sumter, Tel
fair, Terrell, Washington, Wilkes,
and Worth.
$12,003,353 SPENT IN STATE
BY WPA FOR STREETS, ROADS
Atlanta, Ga.—A total of $12,003,-
353 of federal and local funds had
been expended in Georgia by the
Works Progress Administration on
road and street improvements since
the beginning of the work relief
program in August, 1935, it is an
nounced by Miss Gay Shepperson,
state WPA administrator. The fig
ure is of December 1. 19-57.
Red Cross Asked
To Aid Stricken
People In China
Freeman Land, chairman of the
Butts County Chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross, has been asked by
national headquarters to assist in
raising funds for the relief of suf
ferers in China.
President Roosevelt has addressed
a letter to Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
chairman of the American Red Cross,
pointing to the urgent need for as
sistace to the civilian population of
China.
It is hoped to raise a fund of sl,-
000,000 to be used in relieving dis
tress among men, women and chil
dren caused by war conditions in
China. Hundreds of thousands of
people in Shanghai and other cities
are homeless and destitute, the sur
vey reveals, and clothing, food and
medical supplies are needed at once.
The appeal is addressed to the
American people to help in this cri
sis.
Mr. Land will receive and forward
all funds donated for this cause.
The American Red Cross has al
ready donated SIOO,OOO from its
treasury and has received collections
for aiding the distressed.
SUPPORT... FOP LOW COST OPERATION mM
A PHD MAINTENANCE AND BETTER
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Livestock Market
Aids This Section
THIS IS VIEW OF JUDGE OGD£fl
PERSONS IN OUTLINING BEN
EFITS OF MARKET STARTED
IN MACON
Macon, Ga. —Judge Ogden Per
sons, Forsyth ,said Thursday estab
lishment of a livestock market here
is felt in his section to be “the
greatest thing Macon has ever done
for farmers and the improvement
of business.”
Tlje jurist, along with his brother,
Robert T. Persons, attended Macon
Chamber of Commerce’s annual din
ner meeting here yesterday.
“Virgil Hooks tells us,” continued
Judge Persons, “that a livestock
grower can now bring a truckload
or carload of cattle here on sale days
and find ready sale for the animals
at fair prices.
“Mr. Hooks says it is not unusual
to be able to get $25 per beef as an
average, and that with the livestock
market operating and the quotations
in the Macon papers as to prices from
day to day, a dealer or grower knows
what he is doing. He gets market
information before he comes to
town, and if he doesn’t like what is
offered, he doesn’t have to come
here and sacrifice his stuff on an un
satisfactory market.
“We were greatly interested in
the discussions before the chamber
of commerce,” said Robe# T. Per
sons, “but the big thing to get Geor
gia self-sustaining in agricultural
products is to furnish farmers with
markets. They don’t need to be lec
tured on how to do things—what
they want of the city man is for him
to buy their stuff when they bring
it to town. They will do the rest.
“And don’t forget that the Geor
gia towns that have done that have
forged ahead of marketless towns
in amazing fashion. Just call the
roll of towns that have markets, and
make comparison.”
ADDITIONAL FUNDS
GRANTED SNAPPING
SHOALS PROJECT
Announcement is made by Rural
Electrification Administration au
thorities in Washington that an ad
ditional grant of $12,833.19 has been
made to the Snapping Shoals Power
& Light Company for building 75
miles to serve 550 families in New
ton, Rockdale, DeKalb and Butts
counties. The money will be made
available as soon as the treasury de
partment clears the voucher. This
allotment makes more than $79,000
advanced for this project.
The money will be used for con
struction materials, poles, wire,
transformers, etc., and some for of
fice expenses, salaries and supplies.
Extra Profit From
One-Variety Cotton
! 74-COUNTIES AND 162 COMMU
NITIES GREW ONE-VARIETY
COTTON LAST YEAR AND GOT
PREMIUM ON SALES
Almost 19,000 Georgia cotton
farmers cooperated in the one-varie
ty cotton community program last
year, according to statistics compiled
by the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
Reports from county agents show
ed that 18,752 farmers planted a to
tal of 303,605 acres in these commu
nities, and produced 175,885 bales
last year. Thei’e was a total of 162
communities in 74 counties of the
state, as compared with 133 commu
nities in 1936.
E. C. Westbrook, Extension cotton
specialist, said that the average
farmer received 60 points more for
the cotton he grew in these one-va
riety communities. And these farm
ers said that they grew an average
of 40 pounds of lint more per acre
than they would have under ordina
ry conditions. This averaged $5.20
per acre extra profit.
According to Westbrook, the price
for one-variety cotton last year was
lower than in 1936, but the amount
of extra profit received through bet
ter prices and yields was about the
same.
“This plan offers the farmer a
definite program for getting maxi
mum yields from the acres planted
to cotton,” he declared, “and does
not interfere with the government
control program.
“At a time when our farm lead
ers are somewhat perplexed about
what sort of cotton program we
should have this year,” Westbrook
asserted, “we can at least recom
mend the one-variety cotton program
and assure the farmers that it is a
profitable plan.”
STARK CHURCHES
TO HOLD UNION
SERVICES SUNDAY
Union services of the Methodist
and Baptist churches of Stark com
munity will be held next Sunday,
Jan. clOth. The morning service will
be held at Stark Methodist church,
with Sunday School beginning at 10
o’clock. Rev. H. E. G^ddy. will
preach at 11 o’clock. Evening ser
vices will be held at Macedonia
church with B. T. U. beginning at
6 o’clock. Rev. George Stone, pas
tor of Stark Methodist church, will
preach at 7 o’clock. Members of
both 'Shurches are making plans for
a successful meeting at both church
es and a large attendance is expected
at both the morning and evening
services.
Visitors from other churches are
extended a cordial invitation to at
tend these services.
GEORGIA FARMERS USED
MORE FERTILIZER IN 1937
Georgia farmers used 181,838 tons
more fertilizer in 1937 than in 1936,
according to figures given out by
the state department of agriculture.
The fertilizer tag sales in 1937
were for 866,360 tons compared to
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684,522> tons in 1936.
The 1937 sales were,the largest
the state has had since 1930, when
926,000 tons were sold.
Farm fires in the United States
take about 3,500 lives and destroy
$100,000,000 worth of property each
year.