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JhM I EIGHTS THE WAY
W OF FREEDOM
Nothing So Permanent as
Slack Ink on White Paper
By LEON SMITH
Editor
The Thomaston Free Press
A popular expression in the
journalism classes and in the
city rooms z of large newspapers
proclaims “nothing is so dead as
yesterday’s news.”
The expression is designed
more to impress the student and
cub reporters on the importance
of getting the news while it’s
new than to compete for a truth
prize. Yesterday’s news is not
dead, particularly if it is record
ed in the black and white per
manency of a newspaper.
Most people do cast aside a
newspaper when a succeeding is
sue comes into the home but the
people who publish newspapers
realize the importance of yester
day’s news tomorrow. A frac
tional percentage of each issue
is held back — some for a few
days, a few more for weeks, a
small number for a year and
then three or four copies for
ever.
As the first few days pass peo
ple drop in for the recent back
issues to clip a wedding story to
send an out-of-town relative; a
news report of a club meeting
for a scrapbook. A lawyer, of
ten retained by a client after a
news report of an accident
wants the back issue to become
better acquainted with the case.
And a merchant wants another
copy of his ad from last Friday.
Often insurance adjusters must
obtain newspaper accounts of ac
cidents they are investigating
while many companies require an
obituary notice from a news
paper before paying a death
claim. Then the fish market of
ten sends around to pay two
cents a pound for some old news
papers.
With the passing of weeks and
months the back issues become
more important. The people re
questing copies are more urgent
ly in need of them. Many news
papers charge as much as twenty
times the original price for back
issues several months old. This
isn’t exhorbitant to the person
who needs an old back issue and
it’s only fair price for the pub
lisher.
When newspapers complete the
cycle of a year the remaining
three or four copies of each is
sue are gathered up to be bound,
in a permanent file. It is often
at this period that the publisher
becomes desperate for a back is
sue that he failed to save.
The year’s supply is bundled up
and sent off to be bound into a
book-fashion volume. If the
newspaper is the legal organ of
the county copies are bound for
the offices of the sheriff, ordin
ary and the clerk of court. Most
newspapers maintain one or two
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volumes of the bound files.
These bound copies of news
papers become more valuable
with the passing of the years. Go
into any courthouse in Georgia
and visit the offices of the sher
iff, clerk or ordinary and take
a look at the vault - protected
bound volumes of yesterday’s
and yesteryear’s newspapers.
Many date back to the days of
reconstruction. Complete files of
the legal organs from the first
day of publication are there.
From these volumes much val
uable information is obtained
through the years. Election re
turns are reviewed, marriage
dates are checked, births are
looked up — surprising the peo
ple who forget the part of a
child’s name that isn’t used. But
the newspaper has it all record
ed in black and white, bound in
protective volumes which are
stored in fire-proof and burglar
proof vaults for posterity.
The volumes in the newspaper
office settle many arguments,
from yesteryear’s elections to
the 'price of blue ribbon syrup
back in 1906.
These bound volumes correct
ly record chronologically the
progress of a community and
anyone who thinks they aren’t
interesting might -accept the
challenge to start thumbing
through a volume five, ten,
or fifty years old. Talk about
a book “you can’t put down”—
anyone accepting the challenge
had best do it when he has
plenty of time on his hands.
Yesterday’s news is not dead
by any means. It’s just resting
until someone has a need for it.
Unlike television and radio which
vanishes like cotton candy after
use, the newspapers will wait in
definitely for a recall into ser
vice.
Remember — when its in the
black and white of a newspaper
it is being preserved for genera
tions to come. Just another ser
vice of the most faithful servant
of any community — the news
paper.
David E. Griner
Kills 3 Rattlers
A rattlesnake approximately
six feet long and having ten
rattlers an a button with a heart
shape on its back was killed last
Saturday by David Earl Griner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Griner
of Patterson.
David Earl shot the large snake
that morning and later in the day
two small rattlesnakes appeared.
He killed the small ones with a
stick.
Home businesses invite
your patronage.
Fiery Crash
Kills Trucker
Near Baxley
BAXLEY, Ga. — A tractor
trailer truck driver was killed
in a fiery crash two miles south
of here Wednesday, Sept. 26.
The State Patrol tentatively
identified him as George Mar
shall of Albany, a driver for the
Hamburger Motor Express Co.
of Albany and Savannah.
Patrol Sgt. George L. Sims
said the truck loaded with gen
eral freight, struck the left side
of Sweetwater Creek Bridge on
U.S. Highway 1, then traveled 117
feet and crashed into the right
side of the bridge. The vehicle
then brust into flames.
A Funeral Home director
told the sergeant that the driver
probably was dead before the
truck caught fire.
The sergeant said that the driv
er may have dropped off to sleep
or may have experienced me
chanical trouble. Traffic was
blocked on the highway for more
than an hour. The mishap oc
curred at 5:45 a.m.
Progress Reported
As Sheep Program
Begins 3rd Year
The second group of 16 Four-
H Club sheep demonstrators in
Georgia will be selected late this
month or in early November,
Sheep Specialist Denis DeLoach
of the Agricultural Extension
Service announced this week.
This will be another step in a
promotion program that has
brought Georgia from near the
bottom in sheep production, to
one of the leading sheep produc
ing states in the Southeast. The
program, sponsored by the Citi
zens & Southern National Bank
and the Extension Service, begins
its third year this month.
Since October of 1954, DeLoach
said, approximately 400 Georgia
farms have added sheep enter
prises. He added that approxi
mately 30,000 animals have been
shipped into the state during the
two years, with most of them go
ing to South Georgia.
The specialist said 7,700 head
of open ewes were brought in
between May 1 and July 15 of
this year. He predicted Georgia
will have 50,000 head by the end
of 1957.
DeLoach said the quality of
Georgia sheep has improved
along with the increase in num
bers. There now are 37 purebred
producers in the state, compared
to seven two years ago.
Further evidence of the boost
in quality is the fact that Geor
gians recently bought the six top
purebred rams at one of the out
standing sheep shows in the
country. Averaging S6OO apiece,
the animals came from the East
ern Stud Ram Sale at Staunton,
Va. They went to Fred Darnell
of Rabun Gap, Dr. Mashburn of
Cumming, Earl Phillips of Gaines
ville, Dr. and Mrs. Ida Bell Davis
of Gray, and N. D. Crowder of
Toccoa (two).
The first 16 Four-H demonstra
tors were selected about a year
ago when a like number of adult
farmers made their initial pay
ment of 20 ewes on the 100 fem
ales each received at the outset
of the program. The second pay
ment will make possible the addi
tional 4-H sheep projects to be
established this month or next.
DeLoach said there will be 105
adult and 4-H result demonstra
tions with sheep in 103 counties
at the end of the program’s first
five years.
The C & S Bank has announced
an awards program to honor the
seven outstanding sheep farmers
in each division each year. The
first awards will be presented
at the annual meeting of the
Georgia Sheep Breeders Associa
tion in January.
The sheep program has proven
successful to the extent it is a
part of many successful farmers
program, and has the support of
all banks in the state.
SHEEP ON WAY
BACK IN GEORGIA
Sheep are on the way back in
Georgia. In October, 1954, there
were only 7,000 sheep in the state.
As of June, 1956, there were over
30,000. Denis DeLoach, Agricul
tural Extension Service sheep
specialists, says the goal for the
state is one-half million head.
Controlling Johnson grass is
complicated, say Agricultural Ex
tension Service specialists, be
cause it re-produces by both
seeds and rootstocks. Rootstocks
grow deeply and are often un
harmed by cultivation.
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