The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, March 31, 1955, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextInspection Is Required for GI Home Loans All new homes must be inspect ed by either Veterans Adminis tration or Federal Housing Ad ministration inspectors during construction to qualify for GI loan financing, John M. Slaton, Manager of the Georgia VA Re gional 'Office emphasized this week. Mr. Slaton said that with the spurt in GI loan activity during the past year, the Atlanta office has received many requests from builders and veterans to appraise ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS ANYTHING EXCEPT LIFE. LAMAR GIBSON Nahunta Office Hours: Friday —9:00 to 5:00 . * Saturday — 9:00 to 12:00 Fine... danger .> ... smoking In bod I Don tdoit - you’ll live longer! Other good rules are: Don’t use frayed electric cords — Don’t use flammable cleaning fluids — Don’t over load your wiring system - Don’t let children play with matches - Clean out junk from attic and 1 \\ basement fend Be careful with oil stoves! SPARKY SAYS: DON'T GIVE FIRE A PLACE TO START! V : Important Notice | to Taxpayers of t 1 Brantley County YOU MUST RETURN YOUR PROPERTY □ Q FOR TAXES TO ME BEFORE MARCH 31, 1955. I M □ AM IN MY OFFICE DAILY MONDAY THROUGH □ M SATURDAY, EXCEPT WEDNESDAY AFTER- M □ NOONS, TO RECEIVE RETURNS. g [AFTER MARCH 31, THE TAX ASSESSORS | WILL VALUE YOUR PROPERTY. B M EVERY TAXPAYER MUST SIGN PERSONALLY H □ FOR HIS TAX EXEMPTION. Q M THANKS FOR YOUR COOPERATION H □ BEFORE MARCH 31. M * ' ■■ | John M. Wilson I M M □ H TAX COMMISSIONER BRANTLEY COUNTY □ homes that have not been in spected during construction. “Under the GI Bill, all new housing must be inspected by Government inspectors during construction to determine whe ther or not the houses meet VA’s Minimum Property Require ment,” Mr. Slaton pointed out. The Inspection requirements of the VA do not apply to residential construction which has been com pleted for more than a year, Mr. Slaton said. Qne of the American Cancer Society’? chief goals is to improve services to needy cancer patients. “LET US REASON TOGETHER” By REV. D. A. LASTINGER, Retired Methodist I Minister OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM One dictionary meaning of op timism is, “A disposition to take the most hopeful view;—opposed to pessimism.” One definition of pessimism is, “A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things; a melancholy or depressed mental attitude/* Which are yop: an optimist, or a pessimist? Whichever you may be is going to reflect itself in your attitude toward your work. If a merchant is a pessimist he will ndt buy sufficient merchan dise. If a farmer is a pessimist his work will be lukewarm and with poor results. We are thinking of these tw types of character particularly in connection with you and youi Church. Your optimistic ot pess imistic view will reflect itself in your attitude toward and your in- Information on Social Security Law Changes D ependent survivors of wage earners and service men who died after 1939 and before September 1, 1950, may now be eligible for survivors insurance payments under the new Social Security Law. One and a half years’ work, or 6 quarters of coverage, is all that is required to insure a work er who died before September, 1950. This time requirement could have been met at any time after 1936 and up to September 1, 1950. Possibly a claim was filed at death of worker, but could not be paid because he was not in sured at the time. If you are a dependent survivor, a widow age 65 over, a widow with children under age 18, or a dependent pa rent the Social Security Office, 307 Nicholls Street, Waycross, Georgia may be able to help you. If convenient call at the office, or write them for information about this insurance. sl2 billion cancer cost Our nation will have about 500,00 new cancer cases this year, the American Cancer Society es timates. ■ That means a loss of 3,500,00^. man-years of work, and will cost society $12,000,000,000 in lost goods and services. terest in your Church. Are you hopeful for your church, and looking for the best? In case you are you will as a matter of course be interested ancj active in that way which is ex pressive of your hope. On the other hand, if you take the least hopeful view that will also be declared in your lack of interest and work. You will say, “What’s the use?” Optimism is the mainspring of vision and a venturesome faith. It is impossible to make. the op timist walk in the shadows and halt in his steps. He will find light, courage and strength. I heard a great servant of God and the Church say, he “neveh intend-, ed to have the ‘blues’ until he received straight news from hea ven that God Almighty is dead”;. We think God is the God of the optimist. Cotton Farmers Urged to Release Unwanted Acreage King Cotton is still on its throne in Georgia, but if farmers keep underplanting their cotton acreage allotments by 163,000 acres like they did in 1954—the throne might become shaky in future years. That is the opinion of E. C ; Westbrook, cotton specialist for | the Agricultural Extension Ser vice, University of Georgia. West brook called the failure of farm ers to plant their cotton acreage in 1954 “a definite financial loss to the state, and one they cannot afford to repeat in 1955.” The cotton specialist pointed out that state and county allot ments are determined on a five year .planted history basis, and that allotments to farms are made on a three-year planted record. “A farmer who doesn’t plant his 1955 allotment,” Westbrook said, “loses history for his farm, county, and state. But if the far mer releases the acreage, the history is not lost to his farm. If planted by some other farmer, it is not lost to the county or state.” "Westbrook pointed out, how ever, that a farmer must utilize part of his cotton acreage on his individual farm for a least one year out of three, or else lose his tory completely. Mar. 1 is the deadline for south Georgia farmers to release un wanted acreage. South Georgians desiring additional acreage have until Mar. 8 to make application. The release deadline in north Georgia is Apr. 1, the application deadline, Apr. 8. Westbrook said some western states are planting 95 to 98 per cent of their ajloments and pro ducing yields four times the Georgia average. “It is easy to see that a lack of utilization on our part can put Georgia out of the cotton business in a hurry,” he declared. Research Shows Plant’s Place In Potato Yields Sweet potato growers who cut off part of the plant’s foliage to make handling easier when plant ing are cuttin r Jown yields, ac cording to t<-„*s at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station at Tif ton. Silas Harmon, associate horti culturist, said this week that his work with sweet potato breeding shows that every leaf that is re moved cuts down on the yield of the plant. When all leaves are re moved the yield is reduced by 30 percent, he stated. To study root formation Har mon set out 100 potato plants with leaves and 100 from which all leaves had been removed. Af ter five days he dug up each plant. Plants with leaves were forming a good root system while the root system of those without leaves had barely begun. ‘‘This points up the fact that leaves are very necessary in or der for the plant to establish it self,” he declared. Harmon said vine cuttings are better than po tato draws or slips for trans planting because the cuttings are freer of disease and produce smoother potatoes. “Draws never should be set for seed potato production,” he added. When draws are planted, Har mon said the larger plants are much better than smaller ones. In comparative plantings the lar ger plants yielded about 30 per cent more No. I’s. Harmon point ed out that the larger plants aver aged about 50 percent greater weight than the smaller plants and were one to two inches lon ger. The horticulturist said he finds that the use of starter solutions and plenty of water when setting sweet potato plants pays big dividends. • About five, per cent* of lung cancer cases are cured today. Over 50 per cent could be cured if they were diagnosed early enough, the American Cancer Society says. Saturday Will Be National Crippled Children’s Day Crippled children will be in spotlight when Georgia joins the nation in setting aside a day to learn about and help meet cripp led children’s needs, Saturday, April 2. The day before Palm Sunday, it will mark observance of the second National Crippled Child ren's Day, sponsored in conjunc tion with the annual Easter Seal Appeal. Georgia’s observance, sponsor ed by the Georgia Society for Crippled Children, the Easter Seal Agency, will be highlighted by Lily Parades in numerous cities, where lapel-sized lilies, symbol of the Seal drive, will be sold by volunteers on street corners. Hundreds of youngsters, too, will benefit from bunny hops and Easter egg hunts to be held by elementary and high school students on and before Crippled Children’s Day. Little more than a week re mains before the close of the Seal drive on Easter Sunday, April 10. Some 400,000 Georgians re ceived Seals in the mails last week. “We do not seek only funds”, Miss Mary Webb, executive di rector of the society, said in an nouncing the observance date, “If Crippled Children’s Day will help Georgians to look at cripp led children as children rather than handicapped children, we will be a major step ahead.” The American Cancer Society is the only volunteer agency supporting a comprehensive pro gram of education, service to can cer patients, and research for the control of cancer. a Quiz that’may save your life OWhat is cancer? • A An uncontrolled growth of cells. If permitted to spread through the body, " X M.S it inevitably leads to death. » . , •.. / . | \ Can cancer be cured? e A Many types can be cured, ZW but only if they are discovered ana X JL* treated early. QHow can cancer be discovered • in time? A /> By your doctor who X jL* has available many diagnostic tests, QWhat is the American • Cancer Society? A J /> which fights cancer by research, XjL* education and service to cancer's victims. Cl What has it accomplished? kJ e A ” helped save an American from V dying of cancer on an average of X XL* every seven minutes last year. Cl Does that mean it has solved the V" cancer problem? A X Jk* Americans will die of cancer this year. Cl Can I help to prevent Y • this tragedy? A By h~hh axamina- V_ D / /W tions yourself. And by contributing X AL* to The American Cancer Society. Q- Strike back at cancer... man 1 • cruelctt enemy ^Give Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 31, 1955 Union Bag Offers 3 Scholarships In Forestry Three college scholarships in forestry, each carrying a grant up to SI,OOO yearly, are being of fered this year to young Geor gians by Union Bag & Paper Corporation, it is announced by J. -J. Armstrong, manager of the company’s Woodlands Division. The scholarships will be re newable each year for four years if satisfactory scholastic work is maintained. Union Bag officials say, and wjnners of the awards may choose any accredited forestry school in the eastern half of the United States, subject to the approval of the company’s Awards Committee, To be eligible a candidate for the scholarships must be a gra duate of an accredited high school. He must be a legal resident of Georgia, and “be vitally inter ested in pursuing the profession of forestry as a career.” He must be outstanding in his scholastic work and have participated in extracurricular activities. Two of the three grants will be awarded to FFA members and, or 4-H Club members, it is stat ed, provided these applicants meet the Awards Committee’s requirements. The awards will be made irrespective of the youth group to which the applicant be longs. The third scholarship will go to a Georgia resident with 4-H or FFA membership not a re quisite for application. Each grant will provide S6OO, What will my contribution hp licpd fnr? A For research that may some day MCUOCUXVI. J* Mve your life, for education and for X JL* helping cancer's victims. American Cancer Society plus the cost of tuition, regis tration, and matriculation fees, but the total cannot exceed SI,OOO annually. Applications should be sub mitted on or before May 15 to W. J. Bridges, Jr., chairman, Forestry Scholarship Awards Committee, Woodlands Division, Union Bag & Paper Corp., Sa vannah, Ga. Application blanks and further information will be furnished on request. Cancer death rates among sur geons is only 65 per cent as high as the male cancer death rate, American Cancer Society figures show. KNIGHT-VICKERS DRUG STORE Ernest Knight, Carey Jones and Luke Stewart, Pharmacists Phone 2254 Jesup, Ga.