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■GEORGIANS
IfIED LEADERS
■jUSINESS
V At i a nt:.n- and six other Geor
i„,n selected among the
- fl f , , most business lead
s' 111 ’ annual polling by Dixie
lfl ai
■^ eiS Magazine.
■ .. f Lee, Editor and Found
■j' .. magazine, listed the At
■ Hal Dumas, President of
■dans as 1 „ _ ,
■ thern Bell Telephone & Tele-
Company; C. B. McManus,
■ of Georgia Power Com-
B^‘. Fran k H. Neely. Board Chair
WT B o ard Chairman, Robert &
tpany: P° bert w - Woodruff
■Trnian of the Executive Com
■ The Coca-Cola Company;
■, c E Woolman, President of
Kjta Air Lines.
1...... : Georgians: Cason Callaway,
of the Callaway Farm
■L an d former head of Callaway
Ei of Blue Springs Farm, Hamil-
E, Robert W- Groves, President of
Ejchan Shipping Company, Sa-
Eaiah: Thomas M. Johnson, Presi
|ht 0 f Johnson, Space, Lane &
Ifnmpany. Savannah; William Mur
| Board Chairman, Citizens &
■Southern National Bank, Savannah;
■falter F. Graefe, President of Po-
Lna Products Company, Griffin;
Ld C. N- Martin, Sr., of East Point,
■publisher of Atlanta’s Suburban Re
iser, named as typical of weekly
Ecwspaper publishers.
14 MILLION BALE
■COTTON CROP SEEN
i THIS YEAR
I WASHINGTON. The Agricul
■sre Department reported last Fri-
Ijv 26,380,000 acres of cotton were
■1 cultivation on July 1. This is an
■rrease of 14.2% over a year ago.
I No forecast on production was
■gven and none will be made until
(jest month. But the crop would be
■tbout 14,770,000 bales of 500 pounds
Ifioss weight if the yield per acre
(quailed the five-year (1944-48)
wage of 269 pounds. At last year’s
field of 311 pounds to the acre, the
top would be 16,490,000 bales.
Production last year was 14,868,-
M bales compared with a ten-year
wage of 12,014,000 bales.
The acreage planted to cotton last
jear whs 23,110,000 acres compared
*ith 22,015,000 for the 10-year av
erage. The Department had set a
planting goal of 21,984,000 acres for
fius year's crop.
The big acreage indicated by the
Sport forshadowed anew cotton
turplus and a return in 1950 to pre
*rar acreage allotments and market
*B Quotas to hold down production.
In Georgia, where considerable
knd was shifted from peanuts to
cotton, a 14% increase was reported.
The Department said the crop is
Jonerally than average in all States
hcept Oklahoma, Louisiana and
Mississippi. In Texas, thd crop has
®ade very good progress, although
eav y rains in the high and low
Pkins made considerable replant
®f> necessary.
CLYDE LANGFORD
granite and
marble company
PHONE 400
Commerce, Georgia
°eal with the Man that
Owns and makes
them himself.
25 YEARS experience
deal at home
save difference
Modernize Heating System
This Summer, Experts Say
Summer is the best time to mod
ernize the heating system, says the
Plumbing and Heating Industries
bureau.
Tile summer of 1949 is the ideal
time for the overhauling of heat
ing plants because all types of heat
ing materials and equipment are
now available and labor is in bet
ter supply.
Thousands of heating systems,
winch survived the war years, are
now due for either a thorough-go
ing overhauling or replacement of
essential items. There is hardly any
phase of home modernization which
will bring such an immediate re
turn in economy and comfort as
the improvement of the heating sys
tem.
The significant progress which
has been made by the heating in
dustry in recent years is another
reason for viewing older systems
critically in the light of new devel
opments in boilers, radiators, con
vectors, oil burners, stokers, and
gas conversion burners, all of
which are now in plentiful supply.
Also in plentiful supply is the
baseboard heating system which is
enjoying general popularity as one
of the newest and most interesting
developments in heating. New con
trols are available, both the in
door and outdoor type, which pro
vide precise regulation of tempera
ture for the utmost in fuel economy
and comfort.
Heart of the heating system is
the boiler. The replacement of
many old boilers with modern
units designed for the particular
fuel to be burned is advisable.
Mew Cap Lamp far Miners
Assures Dependable Light
Development of a crop Irrnp for
miners which gives 25 per cent
more light than ever before avail
able from a cap lamp, has resulted
from years of work by scientists
of General Electric company,
Cleveland; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
West Orange, New Jersey; and the
Mine Safety Appliances company,
Pittsburgh.
This cap lamp has been tested
and approved by the U. S. bureau
of mines.
A direct descendant of the origi
nal miner’s electric safety l3inp in
vented in 1915 by Thomas A. Edi
son, it uses for the first time in any
cap lamp a four-cell battery de
sign without any appreciable
change in size compared with the
preceding three-cell model. It has
100 times more illuminating inten
sity than Edison’s first model. The
additional cell provides greater
wattage and assures a maximum
amount of dependable light during
an entire working shift.
Although the Edison lamp was
Invented originally to improve
safety in mines by eliminating
open flames in gaseous atmos
pheres, many design changes have
been made during the past 34
years. Today, the lighting ability
of the lamps has been so increased
that they are used extensively in
metal mines and other non-explo
sive areas, as well as in gassy coal
mines, to provide better illumina
tion.
Weed Control for Potatoes
Cyanamid holds more promise for
weed control with potatoes than
various forms of 2,4-D, the popular
weed-killing chemical. Tests at
Pennsylvania’s agricultural experi
ment station the past two years
indicate that cyanamid not only
gives good weed control but also
provides nitrogen to the growing
crop later in the season. Prof. J.
Stanley Cobb, in charge of the ex
periments at Penn. State, reports
that granular cynamid was used as
a pre-emergence application, placed
in a band about a foot wide down
the row, at the rate of 400 pounds.
This is the equivalent of 1200
pounds If the entire acre was cov
ered, Professor Cobb explained.
His tests showed that use of cyana
mid boosted the yield of potatoes
by 100 bushels per acre as well as
controlling grass and bread-leafed
weeds.
Finishes Aid Auto Makers
A development of great value to
the manufacturers of automobiles
has been the perfection of a meth
od by which wood tones and wood
designs are pre-printed on a large
flat metal sheet before fabrication
into Instrument boards, moldings,
and parts for interior trim. Great
simplification, time - savings and
avoidance of much handwork are
thus achieved. First, the primer
and ground coat are applied. Next
comes the printing of the graining
of wood tone design. Third, the ap
plication of the final glaze coat of
lacquer.
0 Invented Self-Starter
Thanks to Charles F. Kettering
women qre no longer dependent on
male muscles to start the car when
they wish to go motoring. It was
Kettering who invented the self
starter. Before then it frequently
happened that milady wrecked her
careful grooming and her temper
by trying to start the car herselL
Kettering was the 6? Uant
who settled that problem for aU
women for all time. Today she
merely presses her foot a & a ' ns * a
smal/pedal or presses a button
with her finger.
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
Sights In Arizona
The petrified forest is situated
just 10 miles south of U. S. highway
66, near Holbrook, in northeaistern
Arizona. Within a few miles of
Flagstaff in north central Arizona
are Sunset Crater national monu
ment, Walnut Canyon national mon
ument, Waputki Rational monument
and picturesque Oak Creek canyon.
The town of Williams, also located
en U. S. highway 66,, is the gate
way to one of the most popular
attractions in the nation—the Grand
canyon. Each year thousands of
people from all parts of the coun
try and many foreign lands journey
to the Grand canyon to view this
breathtaking spectacle.
Overfire Jets Abate Smoke
Improvement in furnace per
formance and smoke abatement
have been shown on all types of
stoker-fired and hand-fired furn
aces by the use of overfire jets,
William S. Major, development en
gineer for Bituminous Coal Re
search, Inc., Pittsburgh, reported
in a fuels session of The American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He said maximum benefits from
jets are most likely to occur on
spreader-stoker fired furnaces. The
use of jets has not only been effec
tive in substantially reducing
smoke density, Mr. Major de
clared, but it has increased boiler
and furnace efficiency, reduced
soot and slag deposits on boiler and
economizer surfaces, reduced
both the quantity and carbon con
tent of the cinder carryover,
shortened the flame and reduced
the final temperatures when sur
faces are of the same degree of
cleanliness and enabled furnaces
to operate with slightly lower ex
cess air without unbumed com
bustible gases.
New Finishes in Textiles
Fabrics are appearing on the
market today which offer the con
sumer value, durability and high
fashion never before available in
the history of textiles. It can be ex
pected that these new fabrics will
be available in increasing quantities
during 1949. These fabrics are the
result of new developments, ad
vances and discoveries in the art
of “finishing.” For example, it is
not only possible to obtain wash
able colors; but, finishes and fab
ric qualities which are equally dur
able through washings.
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Ford
overdrive^S^^
.Aik. ||| lH as well as in thd surging smoothness it adds to your ride. In Overdrive your
J|D imp- 9 engine speed drops 30% while car spead remains unchanged. The resulting
savings of up to 15% in gas plus the savings in oil, epgir.e life, and repairs
C -■ more than repay the original cost. But more important is the quieter, effort*
|B Mg ■ less r 'de, the flexibility and power response you get. And it’s controlled by
|| | yowr toe P assin B in a flash ... and a smoother, more relaxing
Jefferson Motor Company
go Lee Street JeEferwn, G.
■ THE FASHION ACADEMY COLD MEDAL AS THE "FASHION CAR OF THE YUK"-~^
STATE REPORTS
STUDENT DROP
IS ABOUT 200
The University System of Georgia
has 200 fewer students this Summer
than it did last Summer, the Board
of Regents reported.
Total enrollment for the 16 units
for the Summer Quarter is 13,603,
as compared with 13,805 last Sum
mer.
Registration in the senior white
colleges showed an increase of 178.
Junior colleges lost 183, and Negro
schools dropped 197.
There are 5,851 veterans this Sum
mer, as compared with 6,540 last
year. Non-veterans increased from
7,265 to 7,752.
PEELING TOMATOES
To peel tomatoes for canning,
place them in a wire basket and
dip them into a pan of boiling water
until their skins blister and slip off.
This usually takes about one-half
minute, but you can judge your
time by the way the peeling slips.
One of history’s greatest under
water demolitions was the blasting
of the nine-acre Flood Rock, near
Long Island Sound, in 1858.
Aaron Burr challenged Alexander
Hamilton to a duel because the lat
ter said he had a “despicable” opin
ion of Burr.
The United States Weather Bu
reau reported more than 10,000,000
different local weather observations
during 1948, according to the Brit
annica. Book of the Year.
DR. H. B. NUNNALLY
RETURNS TO MONROE
Dr. Harry B. Nunnally, for some
time chief resident surgeon at the
Knickerbocker Hospital, New York,
has returned to Monroe where he
will enter private practice in Aug
ust
Dr. Nunnally, son of the late Dr.
Nunnally and Mrs. Nunnally, is re
siding with his grandmother, Mrs.
W. H. Nunnally.
It is understood that anew doc
tors building will probably be
erected within Monroe this fall and
that Dr. Nunnally, along with sev
eral other Monroe physicians, will
have offices there.
ESSAY CONTEST
Last Spring, the Dallas, Ga., Ser
vice Club sponsored an Essay Con
test among high school children.
They invited the youngsters to tell
the old folks (in 1,000 woras or less)
what could be done to improve
Dallas to make it a Champion Home
Town. The Contest was divided in
to two groups—the Junior-Senior
Division and the Sophomore-Fresh
man Division. Prizes were $5.00
first, $3.00 second, $2.00 third, in
each group. Approximately 200 es
says were submitted—eye-openers,
all! The Dallas New Era published,
in full, the essays of all winners.
The Old Well Spring at Bath,
England, has hischarged in 150 years
enough solids to create an excava
tion six feet wide, three feet high,
and nine miles long, yet its water
seems perfectly clear.
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949
GEORGIA PRODUCES
$8,469,460.00 OF
FARM EQUIPMENT
Georgia during 1948 produced
farm machines and other farm
equipment valued at $8,469,460, a
figure 64% greater than the $5,148,-
049 worth of such machinery and
equipment produced in the State
during 1947, C. Parker Persons, Re
gional Director in Atlanta for the
U. S. Department of Commerce, re
ported this week. By this 1948 pro
duction figure, Georgia took the
1947 lead away from North Caro
lina.
NEW VENTURE FOR
FUTURE FARMERS
Seven Future Farmers in East
man have discovered anew “money
crop”—gladioli.
Last Spring the young farmers
planted 12,000 bulbs and 21,000
bulblets, which they purchased with
borrowed money. Their combined
sales amounted to 500 dozen glads
at an average of $1.50 per dozen to
florists in Eastman, Dublin and oth
er nearby towns.
All but one of the boys made
enough profit to pay his expenses.
Any money they make next year
will be clear profit. The lad, who
failed to make a profit, lost 500
bulbs because of insects.
The Idler, published in 1758, stat
ed that “the trade of advertising is
now so near to perfection that it is
not easy to propose any improve
ment,” according to the Encyclo
paedia Britannica.