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District 4-H Club winners in Brantley County and their projects are L. to R: Kymer Mathie
Jr. Electtic; sonya Bass, Sr. Recreation; Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson, Co. Extension Home
Economist; Cindy Raulerson, Sr. Home Furnishings & Art; Bebbie Colvin, Jr. Home Furnishings
As senior members Sonya and Cindy will represint the Southeast Extension District at the State
4-H Congress to be held in Atlanta in August.
Postal
Service
Day
The inauguaration of the new United
States Postal Service on July 1, will be
celebrated in Washington, D. C., and in
every post office across the country. Post
master Louise Drury has announced that
all members of the community are in
vited to visit their local post office on
July Ist and enjoy the hospitality of the
men and women who comprise the new
U. S. Postal Service.
Visitors to the post office will be given a
souvenir envelope imprinted with the old
and new insignia of the Postal Service.
This envelope will also be made available
in limited numbers as a first day cancel
ation-for just the cost of an 8^ stamp-by
stamping and cancelling half of the sou
venir envelopes in advance. This will be
the first time First Day Covers have been
available in all U. S. Post Offices.
A photographic display of modern Postal
Service jobs and functions will help visit
ors learn more about the men and women
of the Postal Service and how each mail
user can help them to serve the commun
ity better. Postmaster Louise Drury has
also just announced that there will be
other special events at the post office on
July 1.
Cash prize to anyone with a one dollar
bill with Nahunta zip code on it. 31553
WESTERN AUTO
FEDDERS & WESTERN AUTO
AIR-CONDITIONERS
FROM 5, 000 BTU TO 24, 000 BTU
Nahunta Georgia
CAN YOU AFFORD TO LOSE
SIOO.OO
YOU DID IF YOU TRADED CARS BEFORE
YOU TALKED WITH .. .
JACK H. RENTZ
Padgett Pontiac-Cadillac, Inc.
WAYCROSS, GA. PHONE 283-7711
Dick Hagen is in FORD COUN-
TRY now. See him or call him in
Waycross, Ga.
283*3131 OFFICE
283-0043 HOME
KAMCO DISTRIBUTORS
WHOLE — RETAIL
STEREO TAPES - 8 TRACK $3.99
4 TRACK $1.29
COMPLETE LINE OF NOVELTIES
HORTENSE, GA. PHONE 473-2397
IN STOCK
INFORMATION
FROM YOUR
CO. EXTENSION
OFFICE
By George A. Loyd
County Agent
CORN BLIGHT SITUATION:
Since we are approaching
the time of year again when
Southern Leaf Blight struck so
much of our corn last year,
farmers are very much con
cerned about this year's crop.
According to reports I re
ceived from Dr. Norman E.
McGlohon, who is head of the
Cooperative Extension Ser
vice Plant Pathology Depart
ment, the situation in Geor
gia continues to look prom -
ising. As of week June 7-12,
blight was found in only two
locations in Georgia. This was
some volunteer corn in Bacon
County, and on corn contain
ing the Texas male sterile
cytoplasm in Tift County.
Dr. McGlohon reports states
that the disease has shown up
in several other southern
states, but as far as can be
de term ined in confined to vol -
unteer corn or know suscept -
able varieties.
Brantley County farmers, as
well as most other Georgia corn
producers, were fortunate in
obtaining enough Fl and F 2
seed from resistant varieties
to plant most of their crop.
Unofficially it is reported that
this has not been true through -
out the corn belt and that the
large corn producing states of
the mid-west had only enough
resistant seed to plant about
60 -65% of their crop.
It is reported that the blight
has been found in more coun
ties in lowa and Illinois than
any other states. The disease
also showed up in two new
counties in Ohio last week.
These are all large corn pro
ducing states.
Although I have not had any
reliable information as to what
the situation is in the corn belt,
an indication that there may be
some concern is that corn fu
ture suddenly rose sharply two
weeks ago.
Check the trunk for grandma’s
old swim gear because Gay '9o's
bathing suits are getting more
and more popular. They’re com
ing on the beach scene in bold
stripes or ruffes galore atop
knicker-length pants.
Can babies
be bom
addicted
to drugs?
Effects of drug abuse on the urn’
bom are discussed on page 4 of
the Federal source book: "An
swers to the most frequently asked
questions about drug abuse."
Write for your free copy. Send
in the coupon below.
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Servicemen Not
Being Trained
To Fight Drugs
McDonough — “American
servicemen apparently are not
being provided with one
much-needed weapon. And
that is sufficient information
and instructions to fight the
battle of drug-addiction.” This
is the opinion expressed by
Georgia Veterans Service Di
rector Pete Wheeler in an
address before the Henry
County Farm Bureau Friday
night at American Legion Post
55 in McDonough.
He said that one-fourth of
the estimated 200,000 hard
drug users in the United States
are veterans and most of them
have seen service since the
start of the Viet Nam War.
“We have lost over 45,000
fine American men in the
fighting in Viet Nam,” said
Wheeler, “but many addition
al lives are being wasted due
to the drug problem which has
become so acute as to con
stitute a disease of epidemic
proportions among our veter
an population.” And he
stressed the urgency of “pur
suing all immediate steps to
bring its cancer-like spreading
to a halt.”
Wheeler said, “The cost of
the drug problem to American
taxpayers is staggering. The
Veterans Administration in
1970 announced plans to esta
blish five drug treatment cen
ters during 1971 and to have a
total of 30 such centers by
1973. Now, VA medical offi
cials have revised their figures
and plan to open 40 drug cen
ters.” He added that even this
number very likely will have
to be increased.
Blaming the widespread
drug addiction among veterans
on their exposure to drugs
while in the Armed Forces,
Wheeler said that more inten
sive programs outlining the
dangers of drug abuse need to
be implemented in military
indoctrination programs. »
He said that the U.S. Senate ■
Committee on Veterans’ Af
fairs has scheduled emergency
hearings on drug abuse among
veterans on June 15 and 16,
1971.
SOUTH’S DEER
POPULATION UP
The number of deer in the
thirteen Southern states has
increased from approximately
303,000 to more than 2
million 400 thousand-an
eightfold increase-since the
mid-1940’5, according to
figures released by the South
ern Forest Experiment
Station of the U.S. Forest
Service.
The Southern Forest Insti
tute reports this dramatic
increase in the deer popula
tion closely parallels the
initiation and growth of the
tree farming movement in the
South.
Tree farming has brought
an extension of modern for
estry practices to many
private landowners which, in
turn, has helped create a
more favorable environment
for deer and other forms of
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FOREST INDUSTRIES
PLANT GAME FOOD
Many of the South’s pulp and paper, lumber and plywood
companies are experimenting with planting supplemental game
food plots along access roads, electric power-line rights-of-way,
and rights-of-way for underground gas and oil pipelines.
Usually planted with Bahia grass cover, browse or a
fast-growing game food like kobe lespedeza or other legumes,
the supplemental plots provide excellent food for deer, wild
turkey, rabbits and other wildlife. The game food plots
provide other benefits too; they help control erosion along
rights-of-way and promote better hunting for local sportsmen.
As a result of management techniques like this, previously
unproductive land now helps support wildlife on forest
industry-owned woodlands throughout the South.
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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 24, 1971 ♦.
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