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GOVERNOR JIMMY CARTER discusses the fire ant eradication program with members of the
Agricultural Research Subcommittee. Shown left to right are: Subcommittee Chairman Henry
Reaves, Rep. Dorsey Mathews of Moultrie, Governor Jimmy Carter, Rep. Henry Russell of Boston
and Rep. Marcus Collins of Pelham. (PRN)
Committee Votes For Fire
Ant Program Expansion
ATLANTA (PRN) - A
Georgia House subcommittee,
after visiting a federal research
center, has voted to
recommend expansion of
Georgia’s fire ant eradication
program.
The agricultural research
subcommittee of the House
Agriculture Committee
reported that federal
authorities will produce
evidence shortly that Mirex,
the main chemical used in
fighting fire ants, is not
harmful to human or animal
life.
Subcommittee Chairman
Henry Reaves of Quitman, and
Reps, Dorsey Matthews of
Moultrie, Henry Russell of
Boston and Marcus Collins of
Pelham, spent some time at
the Gulfport, Miss, site where
the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture
is researching Mirex effects
and the fire ant eradication
program in general.
Rep. Reaves said his panel
.will recommend that Georgia’s
fire ant eradication program
“be accelerated just as fast as
we can”.
“We went to Gulfport,
where the USDA regional
office is,” he continued.
“They’re doing work on the
eradication program there and
also testing Mirex to
determine if it is injurious to
human beings, animals, etc.
They have not found any
effects on animals or fish that
could be determined to be
harmful.”
Reaves added that USDA
Price Says Oil Industry
Ahead In Pollution Fight
ATLANTA (PRN) -
Emphasizing the oil industry’s
commitment to the fight
against pollution, Will J. Price,
President of Standard Oil of
Kentucky, today denied the
claims of ecologists and public
critics who feel that
civilization is headed toward
environmental disaster.
In his keynote address
before 300 Georgia oilmen
who were attending the annual
convention of the Petroleum
Council of Georgia, Price said
that people were looking
around for a culprit and the
oil industry surfaced at an
“inauspicious time”. “I don’t
think I’m indulging in self-pity
when I say that we’ve been a
handy whipping boy ever
since”.
Price stated that lost in the
continuing torrent of rhetoric
and denunciations aimed at
the oil industry “is the ironic
fact that we were ecology
minded when it hadn’t yet
become the fashion”.
“Our industry.. .without
pomp and fanfare.. .vo
luntarily instituted pollution
controls at a cost of millions
of dollars long before the
environment became a
celebrated cause,” he stated.
“We installed floating roof
tanks, smokeless flares,
oxidation ponds and other
equipment without anyone
telling us to do it”.
Price further maintained
that the industry developed
contingency plans in advance
of spills to hold damage to a
minimum and get the mess
cleaned up quickly and
efficiently if or when they
occurred. But few outside the
industry knew about this.
“Not because it was a
guarded secret, mind you. It
simply didn’t occur to us to
experts said they expect to
make a final report to USDA
in Washington in September
and the Georgia panel hopes
the report will induce
Congress to give the state
more acreage to treat.
Rep. Matthews, Chairman
of the full House Agricultural
Committee, added, “We feel
like from what we found out
down there that this
eradication program can be
carried out, that Mirex is the
only effective insecticide, that
it is not harmful to people,
birdlife nor marine life and
these scientists tell us that
without a shadow of a doubt,
it can be done completely
with three applications of
Mirex across this whole area of
the country.”
Rep. Collins termed the trip
“encouraging,” and said he
learned that the Mirex dosages
can be cut in half and still be
effective.
“We have great hopes of
getting the fire ant program
continued and even
accelerated,” he added.
Said Rep. Russell, “I think
the trip will result in the fact
that we’ll be able to combat
the fears of those who think
that Mirex is a very poisonous
bait. It was shown to us that
just about as much as would
be in half an aspirin is enough
to cover an acre.
“I think when this report is
released by USDA it certainly
is going to open the eyes of a
lot of people that have been
under the wrong impression
WILL J. PRICE
toot our horns at the time
because we felt we were only
meeting our responsibilities.
We’ve learned the hard way
not to be so modest,” he said.
Price further pointed out
that now the petroleum
industry finds itself on the
defensive, trying to advise and
convince the public that “we,
too, like to breathe fresh air
and swim in clean water-that
we, too, want to preserve and
protect human life, wildlife
and plant life-that we are
most certainly not profiteering
at the expense of the
environment.”
The 39 year old Standard
Oil president went on to say
that the industry has spent $2
billion in the last five years
alone to protect Mother
Nature, and today is spending
more than $1 million a day on
pollution control research and
application.
Speaking on the automobile
emission problem and the
emergence of the demand for
non-leaded or low-leaded gas,
Price said, “Regardless of
which system or combination
about Mirex,” he continued.
“This report is going to
show that taken in small
quantities Mirex is not
harmful to any type of
wildlife or animal life.
Certainly it is going to show
that it can be used safely and
that is the main point of using
any kind of chemical. In fact,
let me hasten to say that
Mirex is not harmful to the
environment; that it just goes
away and there is no residue
whenever the Mirex is eaten.”
The panel met with Gov.
Jimmy Carter after its return
to Georgia and the Governor
declared he wants to continue
the current program for a
period of three years.
Later, Carter had Matthews
as a guest on his radio program
and expressed great interest in
the panel’s findings.
“If we could just settle this
question of whether or not
Mirex is dangerous to birds,
fish and so forth, it would
mean that we could proceed
without any further
interference with control of
fire ants, which we know to be
a plague on the areas where
they are so heavily
concentrated,” Carter said.
Matthews fully agreed and
pointed out that the federal
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY is
working in conjunction with
USDA on the investigations
into Mirex, a fact he predicted
will result finally in satisfying
people “that there’s no harm
in Mirex.”
of systems is ultimately
adopted, Detroit insists that
the lead additive in gasoline
will interfere with its
operation. They’ve called on
the oil industry to make
unleaded gasoline, and most of
us have already responded by
introducing unleaded and
low-leaded products within
the last year”.
“And yet, ironically, even
though a substantial number
of cars on the road can use the
product, sales of unleaded
gasoline have been surprisingly
disappointing. Here we have a
positive and immediate, even
if only preliminary, step
toward reducing air pollution,
and the public is paradoxically
apathetic toward it”.
Pointing to the few cents
per gallon more for unleaded
gasoline over the regular grade,
Price said that “apparently
people aren’t willing to pay a
couple pennies more per
gallon, even if it IS in the
interest of cleaning up the air.
Now there’s a hue and cry that
the oil industry is cashing in
on the fight against pollution.
Again we have to point out
that unleaded and low-leaded
gasolines cost more to make.”
Price added, “But
apparently people don’t care
much about OUR costs.
They’re concerned about
pollution, only to the extent
that it doesn’t affect their
OWN pocketbooks. I guess
that’s only human nature.”
Price, whose company is
based in Louisville, Kentucky,
was attending the Petroleum
Council of Georgia
convention, which was held at
the Kingwood Country Club
in Clayton on August 9. The
Petroleum Council is the trade
association for all of the major
oil companies operating in the
state.
A FOURSOME goes for the cup on Sea Palms’ moss-hung 11th green, surrounded by magnificent
ind ageless live oaks, second homes and treacherous water hazards. (PRN)
St. Simons Island, Ga. - Mrs. Jerry D. Peters of Brunswick, South Georgia Director of the
American Cancer Society, takes aim on the’ Sea*Palms - Walter Hagen Invitational Pro-Am Golf
Tournament set for Friday, Aug. 13, at the moss-strewn St. Simons Island golf club and resort
community. Holding the target are other members of the tournament committee, (L-R) M. Al
Burke, Trust Officer, American National Bank of Brunswick; Doug Graves, Sea Palms golf pro; and
H.D. “Dusty” Dowdy, Brunswick Pulp & Paper Co. executive and a director of the Glynn County
Cancer Society. Golf pro Doug Graves said the tournament target is over $2,000 for the American
Cancer Society. The Sea Palms golfing event is one of hundreds to be held throughout the nation
in honor of PGA golfing great, Walter Hagen, a cancer victim. Twenty five golf pros and more than
75 amateurs from all over Georgia will go for a host of prizes with entry fees and sponsoring
corporation contributions going to the American Cancer Society. Graves said the event has golf
pros coming in from all over the state to accustom their game to the water-laden Sea Palms layout
in preparation for the 1971 Georgia Open to be held there later in October. The $20,000 Open
will pit Georgia’s top touring players and club golf professionals for what will be this year the third
highest purse for a PGA sectional open in the nation. (PRN)
ANTIDOTE FOR URBAN AMBUSH
In this era of urban ambus!
and mounting hostility to police
officers, one city hits built an
effective bridge between its youth
and the law.
The Jacksonville. Florida. Po
lice Youth Patrol, has provided
intimate exposure to police work
for tt "thousand young men. To
day. more than MX) Jacksonville
teenagers are working side-by
side with police officers on pa
trol. in traffic detail, and in
records and identification, com-
munications. and investigation
detail.
Police Youth Patrolmen are
accepted regardless of racial,
ethnic, religious, economic, or
criminal background. Jackson
ville Sheriff Dale Carson and
Chief Tom Heaney, head of the
PYT program, credit the pro
gram with four principal achieve
ments:
I. Bringing youth and police
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Helps Shrink
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caused by inflammation
Doctors have found a medica
tion that in many cases rives
prompt, temporary relief from
pain and burning itch in hemor
rhoidal tissues. Then it actually
helps shrink swelling of these
tissues caused by inflammation.
The answer is Preparation H*.
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2. More information leading
to crime prevention.
3. Advance information lead
ing to prevention and'or amelio
ration of school racial distur
bances and.
4. Marked reduction in gang
disputes
At first, many Jacksonville po
licemen were as skeptical as
many of the kids. Soon they be
gan to understand - or remem
ber — what it means to be young
and in confrontation with author
ity. And the young have discov
ered the decency and commit
ment required of the successful
policeman.
Perhaps this or similar enter
prises can help other cities re
kindle citizens' recognition that
for relevancy, involvement, and
essential human service, fewpro
fessions offer greater challenge
or reward then the age-old social
institution of police work.
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