The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, August 25, 1955, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textf Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 25, 1955 Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia CARL BROOME EDITOR and PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Extension Worker Writes Leaflet On Recreation Cash income on Georgia farms from 1930 to 1952 increased four and three-fourths times. This en abled farm families to have a higher standard of living, to buy more labor-saving devises, and so to have more leisure time. These facts, according to M. L. Van Winkle, recreation specialist for the Agricultural Extension Service, College of Agriculture, made a guided recreation pro gram a necessity in rural Geor gia. “Wholesome recreation helps people to a better physical, men tal, and social development. It brings about better relationship among people and communities, more cooperation in community enterprises and better under standing of each other, Van Win kle says in a leaflet, “Recreation In Rural Georgia.” Recognizing the need of devel oping an enriched rural recrea tion program, the College of Ag riculture Extension Service add ed a recreation specialist to its sass in 1946, Van Winkle ex plains. Depending upon local leader ship of adults and 4-H Club mem i bers to help conduct the work, \47 leader training .meetings were (held last year in which 3,868 persons participated. County Home Demonstration Councils contribute financially and other wise to the 4-H recreation pro grams wihin the counties, Van Winkle states. In the 4-H Club phase of rec reation, he reports that blue a- // )) Butterick ; Printed \ Pattern H 7472—50< Sizes 12 to 20 Princess-line coatdress buttons from roll collar to hem. Yoke is attached with a tuck seam. J. 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Bradley explained that support rates vary because of location dif ferentials based on the freight rate to the mill area of the Caro linas. “The appropriate premium or discount for grades and staple other than middling 15/16-inch will be applied to the rates an nounced,” Bradley stated. It was pointed out that loans will be available from banks and other agencies that have enter ed into agreements with the Com modity Credit Corporation, through April 31, 1956, and will mature July 31, 1956. These loans will be available on cotton stored in warehouses approved by CCC and in farm storage structures approved by ASC Committees. Small grain for grain produc tion also can be grazed, but cattle should be taken off not later than Feb. 15 in South Georgia, Mar. 1 in North Georgia. Tales Out of School By BERNICE McCULLAR State Department of Education LITTLE BOY’S PRAYER: "Dear God, please put the vita mins in cake and candy instead of spinach and cod liver oil.” OVERTIME WORK FOR THE HENS: Homemaking class down at Hoboken developed a project of cooking wedding cakes for the brides in their community. Latest one they made was a giant cake that took fifty-five eggs! (Speak ing of homemaking students, a Cobb county girl made 39 gar ments for her family at a cost of $55.00.) “WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?” Isn’t it startling to remember that in Georgia less than fifty years ago, there were people who ac tually opposed the whole idea of public education? “What’s the big idea?” many a man said. “Why should I be taxed for public schools? Let every man educate his own kids.” Dr. John Allman, retired Georgia assistant school superintendent who moved’ to Ohio this month, said when he came to Georgia fifty years ago, that opinion was more wide spread than you’d believe. Many schools operated only two or three months. What blessings we have — and take for granted! AFTER MANY A BATTLE — “Vocational education is in its strongest position in history, but we must pull together to do an even better job of it,” Dr. M. D. Mobley, Georgian who is now executive director of the Ameri can Vocational Association, told agmen and homemaking teachers on his trip down from Washing ton recently. He recounted the battles against vocational educa tion waged by powers in Wash ington in an effort to get it off the federal money list and back to the state finances. “It was only because you vocational people had done a fine job for the peo ple all over this country that those people rose up by thous ands and protested against any lessening of vocational services. Just now when Russia is gradu ating twice as many technical students as we are, and starting vocational schools at an alarming rate in an effort to bring us to our knees by outproducing and underselling us in the world mar ket, it is not wise to curtail our training. People who know how to produce keep their standard of living high and their country strong. Only the strong can be free, and only the free can be strong.” New vocational appro priation by the 84th Congress is $26,500,000; of this, between $75,- 000 and SIOO,OOO comes to Geor gia to strengthen its vocational program. RULES: Little boys had a club on the school grounds. On the wall was this sign: “Our Rules. Nobody act big. Nobody act small. Everybody act medium." BILLY AND THE BISCUITS: Did you know that 3,512 boys were among the 48,399 high school students who studied homemaking in high schools in Georgia last year? They especial ly like the study of family rela tions, learning how to select and care for their own clothes, how to refinish furniture, how to build a barbecue grill in the backyard and cook on it, and how to get along better with little brothers and sisters. One lad said, “I was curious to find out if this cook ing stuff, making biscuits and NEW SARASOTA TERRACE Hotel SARASOTA, FLORIDA - tow PACKAGE RAfiSV Doubl* tadiicliflf I minimum air sere from eMee ’ flUfgJe - - ATLANTA $ 7XB* BOSTON 135 AR CHICAGO .......... 12X02 NEW ORLEANS 81.01 NEW YORK 114.42 PHILADELPHIA - 115.11 WASHINGTON, O.C. 09.02 DRIVE-YOURSELF special low rate y $29.95. Includes 100 mile* FRBE DRIVING. New 1 Ford or Chevrolet. cakes is as hard as the women folks try to make out. Now when they brag to me, I just say, ‘You should try eating MY biscuits sometime!’ ’’ SEE IF THIS IS RIGHT; What do you want to read in your newspaper about your schools? A study called WHAT TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, done recent ly, presents evidence that we don’t tell you that you most want to know. There were 5,067 par ents queried. They said that ex tra-curricular activities (like football games and school dances) were 13th on the list of what they wanted to read about the schools, but first on the list of the school news we send in. They said that their first interest was what their children are doing in the classroom. That’s fourth on the list of what they get. This fall Georgia’s editors are .meeting with us in 16 Georgian towns to help us learn how to get school news written more effectively for you. HE’S A MAN YOU SHOULD KNOW: The State Department of Education is right next door — only to the folks in Atlanta. It’s hundreds of miles from you who live down in Seminole and Charl ton and way up in Rabun and Dade. But there is a staff man near you. He’s the liaison man between you and your State De partment of Education. You should know him. Invite him to your club to speak. Here are the eight men who do this work: J. M. Jarrard, Gainesville, J. G. Gorham, Ochlochnee, Fred Black mon, Thomson, Oscar Joiner, Statesboro, J. H. Morrison, Way cross, Irby Evans, Woodbury, R. G. Williams, Americus, and Jack Lance, Calhoun. IS YOURS? Too many pro grams are dull.and boring. With all the interesting things going on in the world, no program — at school or PTA or elsewhere — has a right to waste people’s time with dullness. Pearl Buck says, “Every hour that people are willing to give to a meeting should be w r ell-planned and in terestingly presented. There is little time left in the world.” T. V. Smith said, “An educational program is somebody talking in telligently about something that matters.” Think on these things when YOU have to plan the school assembly, the faculty meeting, the PTA, the Saturday teacher study group. Life is too short to be bored. Georgia Firms Lead South in Tree Planting ATLANTA, GA. — The pulp and paper industry in Georgia topped all southern states in tree planting in 1954-55, according to a survey conducted by the South ern Pulpwood Conservation As sociation. H. J. Malsberger, forester and general manager of the SPCA re vealed that 44,681,200 trees were planted by 13 pulp and paper companies and five pulpwood suppliers who cooperated in the survey. Companies accounted for 44,371,200 trees being planted in Georgia and suppliers 310,000. The planting program by in dustry and pulpwood suppliers exceeded the 1953-54 program in Georgia by over two million trees. Florida was second in the South, planting 39,399,500 trees. Last year Florida led the region and Georgia was second. Companies and suppliers pur chased 45,360,050 trees from Ge orgia state nurseries while 1,870,- 450 were raised in company nur series. Brunswick Pulp & Paper Co. of Brunswick raised 1,285,000 trees in its nursery while Union Bag & Paper Corp, of Savannah raised 584,550 in its nursery. Companies participating in this program were Brunswick Pulp & Paper Co., Gair Woodlands Corp., Armstrong Cork Co., Ray onier, Inc., Georgia Kraft Co., St. Marys Kraft Corp., Union Bag & Paper Corp., International Paper Co., West Verginia Pulp and Pa per Co., St. Regis Paper Co., Bo waters Southern Paper Corp., Container Corporation of Ameri ca, and The Champion Paper a/id Fibre Co. Pulpwood suppliers in Georgia who participated in the planting program were B. E. Pelham of Ellaville; Leo Mooradian of Hapeville: J. T. Strahan Co. of Port Wentworth; Varn Timber Co. of Hoboken; and Turnell and Morgan of Madison. Better Crops Result from Atomic Study BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — The atom is at work on the farm. The article “The Atom Works for Your Farm” in the August is sue of The Progressive Farmer, Southern farm and home maga zine, relates that peacetime fruits of atomic research are here with better results with fertilizer, higher yielding plants, new at tacks on crop diseases, and pro gress on pest control. Each year more than $1 billion is spent on commercial fertilizers with millions of dollars worth of it going to waste. Atomic tracers now can tell how and when to feed plants for greater profit. Tracers made radioactive by exposure in an atomic furnace may be phosphorus, iron, sul phur, carbon, or any one of a number of elements. The scien tist mixes one of these elements with fertilizer, then applies it in different ways — near the seed, deep down in the ground or on the surface. With this tool he can tell when the plants begin to pick up the fertilizer, how much is picked up, and how long it takes to spread inside the plant. For instance, the North Caro lina Experiment Station found that the peanut plant quickly goes straight down for its plant food and ferilizer did best when placed eight inches directly un der seed. The atom is also bringing a revolutionary new kind of plant breeding. Using gamma rays to get mutations or changes from the normal breeding pattern, Dr. Calvin Konzak, a Brookhaven scientist, developed a rust-resist ance oat variety in a year and a half. Usually plant breeding methods would have required 10 years and much more money to achieve the same results. Dr. W. C. Gregory exposed peanuts to gamma rays. Results: A variety that produces 30 per cent higher yields per acre than average; another with a size and shape better adapted to mechan ical harvesting; a third resistant to common leafspot disease. A strain of corn, exposed to ra diation, is now being grown in Florida. If it resists leaf blight atomic science will score another success. The atomic war against screw- Tax Books Dear Friends, The 1955 County Tax Books are now open. If any one wishes to pay their 1955 taxes now, we are ready to receive the payments. All delinquent taxpayers will please come in and see about your back taxes as the County needs the money. The longer the fifas stay here the more it runs into extra money and costs to you. So, please come in and take care of back taxes. Those of you who have a back tax on your car or truck will have to have these paid by Jan. 1, 1956, in order to be able to get a car tag. A law was passed Jan. 1, 1955, stating that the tax on cars and trucks must be paid before you can buy your 1956 tag. Please don’t wait until the last minute to pay these as you will have to have your tax receipt before you get your tag. John M. Wilson TAX COLLECTOR OF BRANTLEY COUNTY worm fly in an experiment con ducted on the island of Curacao in the Caribbean resulted in the eradification of the fly from the island in less than a year. Without any shattering explo sions or awesome mushroom clouds, scientists will continue their research for results in the form of improved crop varieties and better farming practices. CONTROL OF BLOSSOM END ROT Control of blossom-end rot of tomatoes can best be attained if irrigation is available, according to Agricultural Extension Serv ice horticulturists. Mulching also is very helpful because it con serves moisture. Plants which have received either too much or too little nitrogen are usually more susceptible, the specialists say. Now Open So, please come in and get these at once. A nickels worth of electricity will keep food frozen 30hours in a home freezer.* * BASED ON RESIDENTIAL RATE GEORGIA POWER. AND 2 LIGHT COMPANY Your Friend, PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS KNIGHT-VICKERS DRUG STORE Ernest Knight, Carey Jones and Luke Stewart, Pharmacists Phone 2254 Jesup, Ga.