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Newspaper Page TextPage 6 The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga , March 22, 1973 A New Look in Nutrition Labeling We all are becoming aware that the Food and Drug Ad ministration has issued some proposals concerning nutrit ion labeling. In the next few months we will see on our packaged foods more de - tailed nutritional information of great importance to peo ple. Just “ what ”, “ why ”, “ how ”, and " when ” is this new labeling to come ? I 1969 the White House Conference on Food, Nutrit ion and Health expressed con cern over the existence of poor nutrition in the U.S. A recommendation was made at this conference that a sys tem be set up for putting nutrition information on pac kaged food to help Americans eat a better balanced diet. The Federal Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) dir ected research over a per iod of two years to deter mine; (1) if the consumers would use this information on a label, and (2) if so, tomers prefer. The FDA st udi js showed that consumers are Interested in nutrition information and want it on the labels. The studoes also re veal the type of label format most preferred by persons of all ages and economic gr oups. The iamous Italian painter Giorgione (1478-1510) was nicknamed “Big George” because of his size and his repu tation as a painter. We’ll buy your car even if you don’t buy ours. What's Volkswagen up to now? Simply this: We're in the market for good used cars. So bring yours in. And we'll take a look. We'll probably end up giving you more money for it than anyone else around. Os course, if you see something in our showroom you'd like to drive home, please do. Otherwise the bus fare's on us. Boyer Volkswagen, Inc. 103 Lee Ave. Waycross, Ga. ><»< >«■»< X»< >«■». X» • XMH >4BTK X >X»J LET'S TALK TIMBER MR. TIMBER OWNER, are you inte rested in getting the highest dollars for your poles, logs and pulpwood. Having a supervised cutting operation that will protect your young trees for later income? Then wait no longer! Allied Timber Company, Inc. would like to quote you a price before you sell. PLEASE CONTACT ALLIED TIMBER COMPANY, Inc. Phone 912-285-8282 Box 1259 Waycross, Ga. 31501 JOHN CONGER EDISON PEEPLES Office 912-576-5834 Office 912-576-5834 Home 912-638-4508 Home 912-576-5996 Box 606 Box 606 Woodbine, Ga. 31569 Woodbine, Ga. 31569 > Around home & down on the farm Virginia Raulerson Co. Extension Home Economists The FDA submitted in Jan uary a 12-part proposal for food labeling practices. The over.all objective of the pro posal is to bring about bas ic and far-reaching changes in the labeling will provide the American consumer with specific and meaningful new information on the identity, quality and nutritional value of a wide variety of general and special foods available on the nation’s market place. Labels will follow a stand ard format. The format and headings for ” Nutritional Labeling will be : + ” Serving size ” + “ Servings per container” + “ Protein content ” + “ Carbohydrate content” + “ Fat content ” + " Percentage of U.S. re commended daily allowances ( RDA) for protein, vitamins, and minerals. This format will be requir ed whenever nutrition label ing is used, to allow con sumers' to find easily the pertinent information. Amounts of protein, vita mins and minerals will be given as a percentage of the RDA as established by the National Academy of Scien ces. These will replace the outdated Minimum Daily Re quirements ( MDR) previous- ly used. Protein amounts will also be given by weight. Furthermore, the standard format will usually list sevn Important vitamins ans min erals. If a food contains less than 2 percent of the RDA for four or more of the seven nutrients, the manufacturer may list only those present at more than 2 percent of the RDA: however, there must be an appropriate disclaimer for the nutrients used Labeling of cholesterol and fat is designed to help people who want to limit their in take of these substances for health or dietary purposes. However, the FDA is dis claiming any support for the theory that these factors con. tribute directly to the inci dence of heart and circula tory disease. On the other hand, consumers should be able to identify foods for in cluding in fat-modified diets recommended by their phys. icians. The new FDA proposals for labeling include definitions of “ dietary supplements ”, up per and lower limits for each vitamin and mineral which may be in a special dietary and “ limitation ” food pro duct. These labeling pro posals are scheduled to be come final later this summer. PLAN TO GIVE IT 4-H'ers Have Got If- Pride in Communities ATHENS — Four-H “Com munity Pride” has received the go-ahead for a second year. That means 90 young Geor gians will be prepared to tackle community problems in 1973. Scheduled July 30 to August 3 at Abraham Baldwin Agricul tural College, Community Pride is a five day workshop sponsored by the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky. The program is designed to create awareness of community prob lems and to stimulate cor rective action. Ninety delegates from selected communities will attend on full scholarships provided by the sponsor. Work ing in teams of one volunteer leader and several 4-H mem bers, they will concentrate on methods of identifying, cor recting and preventing com munity problems. Following the workshop, teams will return home to undertake Community Pride action programs. “The summer program will focus on all areas of com munity development, including beautification, recreation, health, conservation and government,” said Harold Darden, 4-H leader with the University of Georgia Exten sion Service. Savage Named to Extension at University Dr. Savage ATHENS-A native of Colorado Springs and a two-time graduate of Colorado State University has joined the University of Georgia College of Agriculture as an assistant Nahunta garden club hosts rescue unit chief The Nahunta Garden Club met with Mrs. Dan Jacobs as hostess Tuesday afternoon March 6th. The guest on the program was Chief Gary Crews of the Brantley County Rescue Unit, who gave information about how the Rescue Unit was star ted for Brantley County. A question and answer period followed with members asking questions on how the Rescue Unit operates, where funds No-Fault insurance sidetracked to 74 session The No-Faultlnsurance Bill passed by the House March 8 was sent to the Senate and assigned to the Senate Banking and Finance Comm ittee headed by Senator Eu gene Holley of Augusta. At the request of the sponsors of the bill, it will remain in Committee until the 1974 Legislative Session rather than risk its defeat on the floor of the Senate. Rep. John Greer of Atlanta, Darden added that instruc tors will place special emphasis on correcting and preventing environmental problems through community action. Instructors for the workshop are members of Extension and other University staffs, as well as leaders in the field of community development and environment. “Once Community Pride groups are established,” Darden said, “4-H teams are encouraged to keep records of their accomplishments. At year’s end, success stories are submitted in competition for state awards.” Darden called attention to the fact that the Community Pride Program is a part of a “rapid expansion of the Geor gia 4-H organization in the last decade to meet urban needs of our changing society. Through such programs,” he added, “4-H will continue to play a larger role in solving growing problems in cities and com munities.” Community Pride is cooper atively developed by the Extension landscape com munity development, conser vation, horticulture and 4-H staffs. professor of poultry science. He is Stanley I. Savage who will work as area poultry scientist with the Cooperative Extension Service. In addition to bachelor of science and master of science degrees from Colorado State, he holds the Ph. D. degree in agricultural biochemistry and nutrition from the University of Arizona. Dr. Savage is also a graduate of Northeastern Junior College at Sterling, Colo. He was a student trainee in poultry at Campbell’s Institute for Agricultural Research, Fayetteville, Ark., for brief periods in 1966 and ’67. At both Colorado State and the University of Arizona, Dr. Savage was a graduate re search associate in poultry. The new Georgia Extension worker is a member of the Poultry Science Association, and in College was elected to Gamma Sigma Delta and Phi Kappi Phi honorary’ societies. came from and expenses on monthly basis. Every citizen of responsi bility should take an interest in knowing these things and helping when possible. Who knows at what hour he or she might need reliable transpor tation for medical help. Mr. Crews let themembers observe as he showed the equipment in one of the Units and explained its use. It is ra ther expensive so keep the do- a major sponsor of the No- Fault Bill, said, ” while I wish we could have finished passing a No-Fault Insurance Bill this year, I am glad the Senate did not kill our bill. Had they brought it to the floor and defeated it, we wo uld have to wait until the 1975-76 session to try to get it through again.” “ By keeping it in Com mittee the Senate will have the opportunity to study the issue Georgia swamps least appreciated One of the least appreci ated things in this world is the richness of a Georgia Swamp. Many people have learned how a swamp holds back the flow of rain water and les sens flood threats down stream. And that, when a swamp is filled or drained, the change is made at the expense of landowners and householders downstream wh ose proprty becomes less val uable because it suffers oc casional water damage. But too few of us value a swamp for what the swamp itself is, or appreciate the un usual grandeur of this rare association of water and land. Perhaps the best known sw amp in Georgia—and surely the swamp most famous out side of Georgia- is the Oke fenokee which covers 300, 000 acres where Georgia and Florida meet. Even the names of Georgia swamps sound like poetry: the Ocmulgee River bottoms, Altamaha River swamplands, Grand Bay near Valdosta, Monkey John Swamp near Savannah, and , of course, the Okefenokee. All of these are swamps or bottomlands which Brook Meanley descri bes in his recent book " Sw amps, River Bottoms and Ca nebrakes.” As one who has had some experience in most of the sw amps or bottomlands that Me anlet lists, I can assure you that none exceeds the natural ness nor glory of the better Social Security News O.L. Pope, District Mana ger of the Waycross Social Security District Office war ns people who are receiving Social Security Benefits to beware of con men in this area who hold themselves out as being connected with the Social Security Administra • tion. Recently three men went to an elderly couple’s home out from Offerman, Georgia pretending to be employees of the Social Security Ad - ministration. In some way they had found out that the old man was receiving so cial security benefits. They told him they would be able to help him get more so cial security benefits if he would submit to a medical examination. While the fake nations coming in as it de pends on ALL to keep our Units in operation. Others present were Mrs. Jesse Lee, Mrs. George Loyd, Mrs. James Mason, Mrs. J.B. Strickland, Mrs. Elroy Strick-' land, Mrs. Andrew Sutton, Mrs. Sherman Tomlinson Misses Mary Knox and Miss Mary Mason. Refreshments were enjoy ed in a colorful atmosphere of spring flowers brought in doors. this summer and I feel cer tain they will put a good bill on the floor of the Senate in the second half of the 1973- 74 session,” he said. “ The House passed No-Fault in the last weeks of this session and there was not enough time, in my opinion, for an ade quate review by the Senate Committee.” Rep. Greer urges everyone interested in this legislation to express their views to their Senator this summer. Georgia swamplands. The Great Dismal Swamp near Norfolk may have been even more marvelous, but not in my day. It has been abused grossly. Hopefully, the recent decision of Union Camp to give a major section of the swamp to the governmentwill lead to its eventual restora tion. However, there is muchev idence that a swamp that has been degraded badly cannot be restored ecologically with in the life of a living gen eration. The swamp of the Southeast is a delicate bal ance of water, land, plants, trees, birds, mammals and reptiles. One may easily pick up a drop of mercury with the fingers than restore such a balance. This suggests that now is the time to protect Georgia’s swamps before Georgians are asked to do the impossible. The Georgia Conservancy has been in favor of Wilderness status for the Okefenokee for years because this would in sure that the area is left unaltered. The Conservancy opposes dredging and drain ing wetlands because, among other things, the Georgia sw amp influences and to some extent regulates the flow of water between the uplands and the sea. It performs with out cost to the taxpayers and saves massive investments in water control structures. To alter this natural process would mean economic as well as ecological disaster. stripped the old man for the examination one of the other criminals kept the wife busy away from her husband while the other man went through the old man wallet and took $90.00. The man posing as the doc tor had gray hair. Pope advises all social se curity beneficiaries to insist that anyone calling at their home on Social Security mat ters furnish identifying in - formation and if they are not sure of the caller’s i dentity to call his office at once at 283-34 to verify if the person is actually a representative of that office. Pope said, the social se curity would never send a doctor to a claimants home. Nematodes in the Garden Land preparation for the home garden is now under, way in Brantley County. Gar dening for many of you may be a hobby or in some cases a necessity. In either case, you expect a good vegetable yield for your efforts. One of the mostdestructive pest in the hime garden is the nematode. Statewide re the nematode. Statewide re ports indicate that 80 to 90 percent of the home gardens are infested with plant para sitic nematodes. How does one determine if he has a nematode problem ? The mos t accurate method is to have a nematode count run on a soil sample from your gar den. However, if the plants in your garden became stunt ed last year, turned a yellow ish color with leaves cut down ward, appear to be under a drought strain, and contain knotted or galled roots, you have nematodes in your soil. This tiny worm lives in the soil. When the soil becomes warm in the spring, the pest punctures the young feeder roots. The infected roots die. This cuts off food and water going from the roots to the top of the plant, thus causing the plant to be stunted and unproductive. In many cases the home gardeners attribute damage caused by nematodes to natural causes such as dry, hot weather and never realize that a disease problem exist. Each year more and more gardeners are becoming a ware of the root-knot problem and are attempting to control this costly pest. Root-Knot nematodes can be controlled by applying a chem ical to the soil. Some garden ers do not use a soil treat, ment because they are not aware of the root-knot nema- 4-H club members The Live Oak 4-H Club meeting was held Wednesday afternoon in the school lunch room . Our Presijent, David Roys ter, called the meeting to or der. We said our pledges. Some sth grade members gave their demonstrations that they will show at Clov- I It only I takes one I catastrophe. Protect yourself. Call us for a descriptive brochure — before ■ you plant. Echols Insurance Agency Call J. O. "Buddy" Echols 1 Gardner St. 647-2190 or ...representing 647-5317 -Ju Paul Thompson County Agent tode problem in their garden. Others become concerned too late and in many cases are not able to obtain the reco mm ended chemical in their county. Before you plant your garden this spring, treat the soil with a chemical nema tode control. It can be treated easier than you think. At the time vegetables are planted or just prior to plant, ing, rows should be layed off by making a furrow six to eight inches deep. Where Nemagon 50 percent EC, or Fumazone 70 E is used, two tablespoons of either mater ial should be placed in a pint jar. Finish filling the jar with water and knock two nail holes in the lid ( one for pouring the chemical and the other to equalize press ure), and even or distribu te the pint of mixture in the bottom of a furrow 100 feet long. Cover the furrow im mediately to prevent the ch emical from escaping. Nemagon in the granular form is an effective chemical for treating home gardens. Use Nemagon granules at a rate of 4 ounces of 32 per cent granules per 100 feet or row. They should be spri. nkled in the bottom of a 6 to 8 inch furrow and covered immediately. Nemagon gran ules should be stored in an air tight container made of cardboard, metal, plastic, or glass. Do not pp glass. Do not purchase Nem agon granules that have been removed from the original container and packaged in reg ular paper bags. Granules re main effective about 10 days after being removed from air tight containers. Do not let nematodes des troy your garden this year. Treat the soil before you plant. erleaf DPA. Larry Wainright gave a demonstration on sheep “ Money Getters.” Donna Brantley gave one on “ Car ing, Cleaning, and operating a Mixer”. Alisa Altman show ed how “ To Make Your Job Faster”. Pam Sheppard told us about “ Wildlife ”, Carole Weese, Reporter.