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ey are being spent in research
and development of accepted
sewage disposal processes, it
would be a monumental discov.
ery to find a near perfect sol.
ution to combat pollution.
Treatment processes that do
not emit foul odors, require
high yearly operating costs, and
could treat thousands of gallons
of waste each year, would be
the ultimatefind. Large cities
need filters to clean the air
and supply oxygen to the atmos
phere. Solutions to noise and
reflection problems are need,
ed. Principles of air condition,
ingis being researched to exc.
hange moisture, heat and other
CALVARY H.D.
CLUB MEETING
The Calvary Home Demonstra.
tion Club met Thursday, April
6th at the Calvary Community
Center.
Mrs. J. E.Aldridge demonstr
ated the art of cookin with bro
wning bags. Mrs. Raulerson,
Home Demonstration Agent, ta
lked on preparing congealed sa-
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ASSOCIATION
(FORMERLY THE Bth DISTRICT MADDOX CLUB)
WELFARE MYTHS
... and the FACTS
as seen by the
Georgia Department of Family and Children Services
MYTH:
They’re living it up on welfare.
Minimum Income Requirements and Welfare Grants
fora Family of Four in Georgia in 1971 (Per Month)
BLS* Poverty DFCS DFCS
Budget Level Budget Actual
Budget Payment
Food $145 $lO4 $l2O $ 79
Clothing 65 46 44 29
Shelter 112 80 61 41
Transportation 38 27 XX
Medical 43 31 X X
Other 30 22 X X
Total $433 $3lO $225 $149
*Bureau of Labor Statistics
FACT:
A welfare mother must feed, clothe and house a family
of four on a maximum of $149 per month. The $149
maximum public assistance payment really means
inadequate housing, poorly fed and ill-clothed children,
and the frustration and shame of not being able to live
like everyone else.
The average payment in January 1972 to an individual
receiving Aid to the Aged was $55.52: to the Blind,
$67.38; and to the Disabled. $63.09. The average pay
ment to a family receiving Aid to Families with De
pendent Children was $101.06.
THE WELFARE DEPARTMENT IS MAKING AN
EFFORT TO EXPLODE SOME OF THE POPULAR
BUT MISTAKEN NOTIONS ABOUT WELFARE
and welfare recipients, this is the
FOURTH IN A SERIES OF SIX MYTHS . . . AND
FACTS.
A VIEW
OF THE FOREST
BY
H. L. NEAL, JR.
AREA FORESTER
AND
E. J. RHODEN
COUNTY RANGER
desires of man.
Some cities have made a disc,
overy in the use of trees, can
trees solve such complicated
problems? Does mankind rea»
Uy want to solve these prob
lems?
Interested citizens can call
your local County Forestry Unit
for assistance concerningtrees
in our environment. The Fores
try Commission has personnel
available for help in solving
many of these environmental
problems.
rainfall for April 1972 to date
Brantley tower—-. 03 inches
Nahunta tower——.ls Inches
Waynesville tower— .03 inches
lads for the warm days ahead.
Mrs. Patricia Highsmith gave
a demonstration on decorating
cakes with or without profess
ional decorating tips.
pared by club members was
enjoyed by those attending the
meeting.
Migrant Past Inspires 'Yuba City'
By PAT SWINGLEY
LAST summer when the
graves of 25 murdered
transient farm laborers were be
ing discovered in orchards along
side Feather River at Yuba
City, Calif., singer - songwriter
Letha Purdom took a particular
interest in the bizarre story.
So much so, she wrote a song
about a migrant farm worker,
touching on the subject of the
Yuba City graves.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Le
tha’s special understanding of
the California farm workers
goes back to when, as a young
ster in the early fifties, she
worked in the California fields
with her family.
She’s particularly concerned
about people’s apathy toward
these workers. “It really hurt
me to hear the people in Yuba
City refer to the migrant work
ers as 'just winos’ or ‘just
bums.’ I know those people.
Maybe a lot of them are winos
and bums, but most of them are
good people. They are human be
ings,” she said.
Letha’s recording of “Yuba
City” was released in October
about the time accused murder
er Ju a n Corona’s trial was
scheduled. However, the trial
was postponed until April after
Corona had a heart attack and
the record is being given a re
newed push to correspond with
the new trial date.
“Country music stations have
been playing it, but I was in
Florida recently and some of the
pop disc jockeys asked me about
it. I think it should be pitched
to all the stations.” she said.
The record, Letha’s first, was
produced bv Bob Tubert and re
corded at Woodland Studios. Re
leased on Woodland’s label, Nas
eo, the words to the song are:
Poppa that old hat that you
were wearing when you
left
Couldn’t hide the tears rail-
ing down your face
Your shoes were full of
holes
your pants were,
patched and old
And you carried that old
beat-up brown suitcase.
One day we got a letter
postmarked Marysville
Where you were living in
an old abandoned bus *
Picking cross the river in
the Yuba City fields
To try and make enough to
send for us.
Chorus:
Poppa we never heard from
you again where, did you
go?
Are you sleeping in a Yuba
City grave?
I pray for you every night
■ just hoping you're all
right.
You deserve more than a
Yuba City grave ..
When the citrus trees again
reveal their yellow gold
To the pickers who arrive
in Yuba City
lo their ladders pierce the
ground \
\bove the graves they
never found
Whose loved ones will be
left there without pity.
•Chorus) i
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Letha camo to Nashville '.wo
and a half years ago with her
husband, David, ai;d two older
children, to try to break into the
industry.
Iler husband had spent 12
years in the Air Force and his'|
last tour of duty was three years
in Japan, where Letha started
singing publicly, working in
chibs and as a member* of the
Tokyo Grand Ole Opry.
“At that time I was the only
American member,” she said.
“A lot of the younger people!
there are up on English and the
country songs are sung in Eng
lish,” she said, “but they prettj
well stick to the standards like
the Hank Williams songs. You’d
be surprised how well they can
imitate the country music stars.”
When the Purdoms left Japan
they went, to Tampa, Fla., fur
two years where Letha did club
dates and was encouraged by
country entertainer Claude Gray
and Bob Beckham of Combine
Publishing Co. to come to Nash
ville.
“I started writing songs just
before we moved to Nashville.
Claude Gray told me that just
about anybody they sign to a
contract now must write songs,
too. He told me to write about
what I’m familiar with,” she
said.
Since she has been in Nash
ville, Letha has added a daugh
ter to her family, 18-month-old
Dalmi. The Purdom sons are
Davy, 10, and Dallas, eight. Her
husband works for the Federal
Aviation Administration at the
Metro Airport Tower.
"If it was not for his en
couragement, I’d have backed
out of a singing career long ago.
He’* my best friend really,” she
says. They met in Lincoln, Neb.,
through her brother, who was
also in the Air Force.
“My husband is very bright.
He’s iii electronics and has had
some college and he’s taught
me. I only got to the sixth
grade. I used to feel insecure
about my lack of education, but
some of our best friends are
colonels in the Air Force, I’m
friends with a lady author and,
of course, we have friends in the
music industry, and they’ve all
encouraged me not to feel that
'ers pierce tin
Letha Purdom
Worked in California fields as a youngster
way.”
Over the past two months
she has formed her own band,
called the Essence of Time,
which came about as a matter
of timing. She was auditioning
for Opryland when she met an
other Opryland hopeful, guitar
ist Johnny Adcock.
“Perhaps I shouldn’t say this,
but they were turn log away
some of the best talent. It was
held at the Opry bouse wttb so
mike and you just kind of fade
out. It was one of my most em
barrassing moments and I re
gretted it, but one good thing to
come out of it was the hand.
“I had turned in my appli
cation and was silting there
watching the others audition
' while waiting. Or rather, what I
could hear of them anyway.
There was this boy sitting be
hind me picking a guitar and I
was real irritated. Then I start
ed listening to him and he was
very good. I asked him to play
for me on stage and we worked
out the keys to my song.
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“When they called me on
stage, it was a mistake. I had
dreamed of performing on the
Grand Ole Opry stage with a
lot of people in the audience, but
I was so embarrassed and
shaky, it was not like I’d
dreamed it at all. I didn’t want
to do it, so I sang as low as pos
sible so they could only hear
the music.”
Adcock later rounded up oth
er musicians, his father, lead
guitarist John Adcock; Allan
Stout, bass, and Larry Jones,
drummer. The group worked up
a show and is now appearing in
local clubs and at private par
ties. They are currently booked
into the 2806 Dinner Club on Gal
latin Road and will be playing
there, Tuesdays through Sun
days, for the next three weeks.
“We do just about any kind
of music. We even have a few
Broadway numbers and we do
comedy,” said Letha.
“They are all professional mu
sicians and they’re devoted so I
don’t think we’ll have any prob-
lems. When we become g o o a
enough, we’ll take the show out
on the road. If you’re good
enough in Nashville, then you’ll
be good enough at any club any
where.”
33 Persons
Die Daily
in Fires
ATH EN S— F ires, like
automobile accidents, always
happen to someone else—never
to you.
However, if this is a typical
day in the United States, 33
persons—also unsuspect
ing-will be killed by accidental
fires.
And most of the victims,
says Cecil Hammond, engineer
with the University of Georgia
Extension Service, will be
children and elderly persons.
Hammond, studying figures
which show that 12,200 U. S.
citizens die in fires every year,
explains that smoking and
matches consistently rank as
the No. 1 cause of fires in
buildings.
Electrical fires, usually
caused by faulty or misused
equipment, destroy nearly
150,000 buildings each year.
The average daily toll of
fires in this country is tremen
dous, Hammond points out. In
addition to the 33 lost lives, it
includes: 1,486 homes, 315
apartment buildings, 30
schools, 10 churches, 127 farm
buildings, 215 stores, offices
and restaurants, and 139
industrial plants.
Hammond believes these
figures should be sufficient to
cause all of us to guard against
accidental fires—both at home
and where we work.
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga.. Anril 13 1972
GOLDEN ISLE
SPEEDWAY
RACE RESULTS
Eddie McDonal, Sr. took the
checkered flag at the Golden
Isles Speedway Friday night,
but not without a fight from the
Triple Terrors, Rod Eulenfeld,
San Sommers and Wayne “Su.
gar” Shgart. The seventeen
car starting line-up with ex.
perts behind the wheels, gave
racing fans lots of thrills and
great expectations as the fi.
eld battled for the first place
throughout the 40.1ap feature.
Wayne Shugart suffered pro.
blems with his machine, but
fans were on their feet as th.
ey watched the little fellow
from St. Augustine come from
the tail of the pack, push his
way through the middle and
run most of the feature in th
ird place. But Lady Luck ju
st wasn’t with him and he
ended up in tenth spot, with
his no. 38 smoking badly.
The Hobby drivers picked
up speed and gave the fans
their money’s worth in an ex.
citing 15 lapper. Ricky O,Qui.
nn, on his first attempt at
racing, bounced off the wall,
but came back strong and pl.
aced fourth, just a bumper a.
way from Danny Farmer.
Seventeen year old Ricky "Ea.
NOTICE
Dr. Jaime Perea, will be at the Brant-,
ley County Medical Clinic every Monday
and Friday.
Office hours are as fallows;
Monday - 10:00 A. M. - 4:00 P. M.
Friday - 2;00P.M. -4; 30 P. M.
Dr. Drury will be in the clinic every
Tuesday and Thursday at his regular
scheduled hours.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do
without, and to depart. -Viscount Morley
gle” Earnest from Daytona Be
ach, Fla., gave a spectuacular
thrill show on his Yamaha Cy.
cle jumping over six automo.
biles. Motorcycles enthusiasta
will be glad to know that Eagle
likes the Golden Isles and wants
to come back soon to attem
pt an even longer jump.
OFFICAL SCORES:
LATE MODEL DIVISION:
1. Eddie McDonald, Sr. -Tifton
2. Rod Eulenfeld, • Woodbine
3. Sam Sommer, -Savannah
4. Eddie McDonald,Jr.-Tifton
5. cuyler Payne, -Brunswick
6. Eldon Yarbrough, -Jackson
vllle
7. Dutch Diestel, -Brunswick
8. Randy Cole, -Jesup
9. Rufus Thrift, • Glynco
10. Wayne Shugart,- st. Aug
ustine
HOBBY DIVISION
1. Tommy Riggins, -Jackson,
ville.
2. Elton Beckwith, . Jackson,
ville
3. Danny Farm er,.Brunswick
4. Ricky O’Quinn,.Brunswick
5. Grady O’Qu inn
