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October 1939.
? Our Question Box ?
Questions
1. How many Federal
banks are there?
2. What is a caoutchouc?
3. What are the chief occupa
tions of the inhabitants of Norway?;
4. Where is Andalusia?
5. What two countries do the
Pyrenees mountains separate?
6. In what human gland is io
dine normally found?
7. Who first used laughing gas|
pr nitreus oxide in surgery?
8. What is the okapi?
'■ 9. What are epiphytes?
- la K >' ou talked into a drug,
Store and asked for magnesium sul- j
phate, what would the clerk give
Answers
U I- Twelve.
T 2. India rubber.
}' 3. Lumbering and fishing.
4. A southern part of Spain Is
known by that name.
5. France and Spain.
6 The 'thyroid gland.
7. It is believed to have been
first used by Dr. H. Wells, an Amer
ican dentist, in 1844.
8 . A recently discovered animal
Of the giraffe family and a native ot
the Semliki forest near the north
east border of the Congo basin has
that African name.
9. Plants which grow upon the
surface of other plants for mechan
ical support but which do not obtain
untriment from them.
10. Epsom salt.
BROWN TO BROADCAST
Director Walter S, Brown, of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, will broadcast for the Georgia
program sponsored by the Board of
Regents of the University System,
over Station WSB. Atlanta, from
6:15 P ,M. to 6:30 P. M., October 12.
In addition to discussing in general
ities the functions of the Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service, Di
rector Brown will tell radio listeners
ln detail of the part played by Ex
tension specialists, county agents,
and home agents in the Rural Elec
trification program.
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tion purposes.
Pointing out that much confusion
still exists regarding the unemploy
ment Compensation program and the
Old - Age Assistance program, the
Bureau asserted they are entirely
separate and distinct and the only
similarity is the use in both systems
of the worker's Social Security Ac
count number for identification and
record keeping purposes.
“Many claimants for Unemploy
ment Compensation,” the Bureau
said, “believe their right to jobless
benefits is based upon deductions
from their wages. This is a mistaken
assumption since the worker in
Georgia pays nothing for Unemploy
ment Compensation.
“Only the employer contributes to
the Georgia Unemployment Com
pensation Trust Fund, from which
jobless benefits are paid. Not only
Is no contribution required from the
worker but any deduction from his
wages for this purpose, whether
made directly or indirectly, is ex
pressly prohibited under the law.
The Unemployment Compensation
program is administered by the
state but the Federal Government
assumes the administrative cost.
“The Old-Age benefit program,
on the other hand, taxes both work
er and employer, and is adminis
tered by the Federal Government.”
AUGUST INCOME OF FARMERS
Cash income of American farm
ers for August was 13 per cent j
greater than that of July, accord
ing to an estimate made by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. The
August total was estimated at $643,
000.000 from farm marketings and
$42,000,000 in government benefit
payments. This compares with
July’s total income of $570,000,000,
and that of August last year $628.
000,000. The Department estimated
the farm cash income for the Jan
uary-August period of this year at
$4 594.000,000 compared witn $4,-
612.000,000 for the same period in
1938. Government benefit payments
for this period totaled $492,000,000,
in comparison with $306,000,000 last
| year.
To encourage the planting of for
est trees, the 1940 AAA farm pro
gram will make it possible for any
cooperating farmer to earn as much
as $30 for tree planting, in addition
to his regular soil-building allow
ance.
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BRIEFS
FARM COSTS FACTS
In discussing how farm prices re
acted during and after the World
War, J. W. Fanning, Georgia Agri
cultural Extension Service econom
ist, reminded us that conservatism
that prices axe higher than in 1914,
is a pretty swell word at this stage
of current events, Fanning said
which means that prices of farm
commodities must increase more
rapidly now than in 1914 to gain
advantage over costs. He declared,
however, there are, as in 1914, costs
which the Georgia farmers can con
trol. These include feed, seed, and
commodities for family mainte
nance. Incidentally, he added, never
before has a live-at-home program
been sounder than now.
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FIRES ON FARMS
Fires on Farms last year took a
total of approximately 3500 lives
and caused property damage of $95,
000,000. Recently Secretary Henry
A. Wallace, said that these losses,
largely preventable, are principally
to the following causes: Defect
ive ohimneys and heating appara
tus; combustible roofs: lighting;
combustion; matches
and smoking; gasoline and kero
and misuse of electricity. Ade
inspection of farm houses and
farm buildings should be made
at periodic intervals throughout the
followed by the immediate re
moval of fire hazards.
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FOREST FIRES
And, speaking of fires, we are told
the Forest Service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, that an
average of one forest fire every two
and a quarter minutes occurred in
the United States last year, burned
33,815,100 acres—an area almost
as great as the state of Georgia—
and caused dimage estimated at
$36,888,460. The statistics show that
91 per cent of the 33,815.100 acres
burned over in the 1938 fires were
on unprotected private land, and
that 30,876,230 acres, or 17 43 per
cent of all unprotected lands, were
burned over during the year. The
great bulk of the property damage
from last year's fires was also suf
fered b y the forests of this unpro
tected private property, the Forest
Service reports.
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POULTRY RECORD BOOKS
A new poultry record book for
demonstration farm flocks is now
available for distribution, Arthur
Gannon, Extension poultryman, an
nounces. These books are distrib
uted through county and home dem
onstration agents and a flock own
er must first agree to keep records
before a book is provided. Record
keepers forward a copy of the
monthly record to the Extension
agents. Each month a summary of
the records is prepared in Gan
non's office and a summary report
is issued. A copy of this record with
a sheet of poultry tips prepared by
the Extension poultryman is sent to
each cooperator.
Public Still Confused Over
Unemployment Insurance
Workability
^ Bureau of unemployment
compensation today reminded
workers that they are not
required to pay any part of their
wages for unemployment compensa-
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Ante-Bellum Homes
SARA C. HUTCHINS PATTERSON
Continued from last week.
Near the georgia Railroad stands
the Huson house, a pretty house of
small house type, but quite large,
Judged by today’s standards. The
dormer-like windows for the upper
half story are a striking feature. It
was back of this house that Sher
man hanged a spy and it is in this
house he is supposed to have stopped
to rest and make plans or eat a
meal.
Across the Georgia Railroad
finds the old Herring place, with its
double deck porch and Bohemian
glass lights around the doors, stand
ing in the midst of a grove of giant
and aged cedars and oaks. It is now
oocupied by the Avery family and
was built in the 40's by a Mr. Her
ring from Augusta, a cotton buyer.
Behind this stands the home of
Judge J. W. B. Summers, later
called the Dunlap place.
Coming back to town we find
only one building left that was there I
during 1861-65. It Is the Bank
Building, called the Turner Mem
orlal Building. It was originally a
hotel and stood in Oxford, but was
torn down and moved by ox team
to Covington and rebuilt as a store
building, later being remodeled as
is now.
Back of this somewhat angularly
on Pace Street stands the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Ramsey, recently
bought from the estate of Miss
Lottie Hendricks. This is a very |
much remodeled old home, but is
noted for its hand made
ian columns of the Ionic order.
And now as I close this write-up
of old homes I cannot resist telling
just one story not - so much o a
house as a location and family. It is
Wells’ Corner. The corner on which
the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. T.
Wells, for many years postmaster
of Covington, stood, just off the
town square. The home of Mrs. R
R. Fowler, Sr., their daughter, is
there now, and is the old house
worked into the present dwelling.
Some of the Wells family have lived
here almost 100 years. It was Mrs.
Wells, of whom it is told that she
tore up the trouseau to make band
ages and who helped nurse soldiers
in the old Boys Academy building.
The S. M. F. College building and
the First M. E. Church, often driv
ing. a s did other women of the town,
in the only available wagon with a
mule to get the wounded off the
trains from Atlanta.
In writing this article I have in
corporated most of the stories I
have heard told in my family about
the town. I am, by the way, the 4th
generation to live here. If I have
made mistakes, please forgive me.
and if you can tell me more, I want
you to do it.
I suppose some of you readers are
now wondering why Sherman didn't
burn Covington as he did most of
the towns he passed through. Well,
I am told, a member of his staff
was in school with a Covington boy
and it was because of the friend
ship of these two, a Federal and a
Southerner, that Covington was
spared. The name of the Covington
boy is not known.
KMIV YOUR
. TIMBER .
Just ahead is the season when
fire gets in its deadliest work of de
struction in Georgia forests. Ten j
years ago, there was little concern ,
on the part of the citizens of Geor-!
gia over what was happening to the;
State's timber resources. Fires I
raged, axes swung, saws buzzed, and
the Georgian went about his busi-'
ness, unaware that these ravaging
forces had any relation to his own
social and economic well-being. To-;
day Georgians are beginning to see
the State's forests as something of j
a rainbow on the economic hosizon.
Providing shelter, fuel and a mui- ■
of other comforts for man 1
titude
through the centuries, the Georgia!
pine found its way less than a dec
ade ago into the laboratory of a
scientist to be tested for a new and
important use. Weighed in the bal
ance, it was not found wanting. Al
though Georgia pines lift their
plumy crowns to the skies as silent
ly today as ever, they are speaking
to cautious capital more effectively,
perhaps, than all the more vocal
agencies in the state engaged in the
distribution of come-hither to cap
ital propaganda. of
If fire should break out in any
Georgia’s Chamber of Commerce j
Buildings, fire-fighting equipment
Is available for their protection. For
Georgia pines, functioning now for!
Georgia as powerful protection magnets is sadly for j
idle capital, fire
inadequate.
Georgia’s new pine-using indus
tries are giving employment to hun
dreds of citizens. They are also ad
ding to the state’s income by dis
money for raw materials.
money paid for labor and ma
terial finds its way into the State's j
commercial blood-stream, It is to!
interest of all Georgians, there- j
to cooperate in the effort to j
forest fires. 1
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Results)
■ IS TIME TO
CONTROL BORERS
III PEACH TREES
Suggestions for controlling peach
borers were offered Georgia peach
growers this week by Elmo Rags
dale, of Athens, horticulturist for
the Agricultural Extension Service.
Mr. Ragsdale advised the use of
Ethylene Dichloride Emulsion, and
paradichlorobenzene, commonly
known as P-C Benzene, to kill peach
borers. He said P-C Benzene in the
crystalline form has been used for
several years in treating trees over
four years old or older to control
peach borers. Ethylene Dichloride
Emulsion is used for trees from one
year old up to any age, he added.
"Where P-C Benzene has not been
applied to peach trees in north
Georgia, it should be applied im
mediately, if favorable results are to
be expected,” Ragsdale pointed out.
“Beginning now, central and south
Georgia applications should be made
up until October 25. Four and five
year old trees should receive three
fourths ounce per tree, while trees
beyond that age should be given one
ounce per tree.”
Methods of preparing Ethylene
Dichloride Emulsion and proper
strengths and dosage for young
trees from one year old up to any
age have been worked out by Oliver
I. Snapp, of the U. S. Bureau of
Entomology and Plant Quarantine,
Fort Valley, Ga. The emulsion can
be made at home in 50 per cent
stock solution by following-specific
instructions given by Snapp in the
Georgia Experiment Station circular
E-424.
Ethylene Dichloride, ready for
use, can be bought from a number
of manufacturers, Ragsdale stated
I- most cases, for small orchards
and for those growers- not exper
ienced in mixing emulsions of this
kind, it is advisable to use the ready
prepared product, he said.
“Ethylene Dichloride is applied
either by spraying or pouring at the
base of the tree, while P-C Benzene
crystals are placed around the tree
about one inch, from the bark,”
Ragsdale pointed out. “In the use
of both materials, several shovel
fulls of dirt are placed around the
trees to prevent the loss of the fum
igant.”
YOUTH VS. OLD AGE
In spite of the fact that our pres
ent attention is riveted on celebrat
ing Citizenship Day on October 12
as a memorial to youth there is jus
tification for reminding ourselves of
men approaching old age. It has
gotten so that in business particu
larly a man is considered old when
he is forty or over; it is wise for
us to examine the truth or falsity of
this statement. For much an exam
ination there is no more valuable
ally than the Public Affairs Pam
phlet entitled “Jobs After Forty.”
NOT A RURAL PROBLEM
In a rural community there is a
place for men and women until the
very end of a long life. But as soon
as a community begins to take on
city aspects the lot of the oldsters
becomes harder. Many business
houses refuse to hire workers over
45 0 ver 40. and even over 35 is con
,
s i(j e red when the working force is
t, e i n g expanded. The age limits for
selllngi clerical and even teaching
positions are also arbitrarily set. >
STOVES GET For Avoid READY Winter the Rush NOW HEATER
Circulators
We handle one of the best lines of
Circulating Heaters and our prices
are among the lowest in the city.—
All that we ask is a visit before you
buy. Priced from—
$24.00
—TO
$39.75
Piper Hardware Co.
Phone 80 E. M. PIPER, Proprietor COVINGTONi Gj
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CAGE SCmiG[
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IFTERJHJS WEEK
BY J. HOPE BRANHAM
By the end of this week Palmer
Stone's basketball teams will have
completed two weeks of training in
fundamentals and will be ready for
a week of rough work in scrimmage.
Coach Bill Dillard has announced
that he will select 10 players from
the candidates for the boys’ team
and pit them in a scrimmage sched
ule that will determine the start
ing line-up for Palmer-Stone this
season.
The girls’ squad, which is a rath
er large one this year, will be picked
over and 16 players will be ohosen
face each other in a week of
scrimmages which will be used as a
guide in choosing their number one
outfit for the coming cage season of
battles.
Both the Palmer-Stone boys and
girls are scrapping hard for their
respective positions and Coach Dil
lard's task of selecting the starting
teams is no easy one.
While actual floor work has not
yet been in progress it is a settled
fact that Palmer-Stone will be pre
sentable in any company in the Yel-
1 jw River League this season.
Coach Dillard has been working
hard with his charges and he ex
pects to be right in the thick of the
championship fight when the court
battles this season get underway.
Royal Crown’s Oxford-sponsored
basket bail team, composed of form
er Palmer-Stone players, is hard at
work for the coming season of play.
Two practice sessions per week
are being held and reports are that
a fine team is in progress. Practice
is held on Monday and Thursday
nights in the Palmer-Stone Athletic
building.
The 1940 cotton quota will not re
main in effect unless approval is
given by two-thirds of the eligible
cotton growers voting in a referen
dum to be held Saturday, Decem
ber 9.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY
WHEEL GOOD!
Remember—Prices are going up and we can lay-away
for a small deposit, any article in our store.
We have a complete line of wheel goods, including
Bicycles, Velocipedes, Coaster Wagons.
—WE NOW HAVE LAWN RYE GRASS SEED
Piper Hardware C 1]
Phone 80 Covington, Georgia
RANGES
-SEE OUR LINE OF
COOK STOVES
AND RANGES
They are attractive, mod
ern and made of good quality ma
terials. The prices are lpw on all
models despite the advance in
prices. Buy now and save before
winter comes.
Abund ^ t G ; azin g Red ««s th
High L Cost of Milk e
What will be the cost of produc
ing a gallon milk in February, 1940?
That, according to Frank W.
Fitch, dairy specialist for the Geor
gia Extension Service, will depend
c-t how much grazing is provided
for the animals.
“Production cost of a gallon of
milk is always lowest when cows
have abundant grazing,” Fitch de
clared. "And, because the permanent
pasture season ends soon, the wise
procedure will be for farmers to get
some temporary grazing crop seeded
early in October.”
The dairy specialist said the re
turns in milk from fall-seeded graz
ing crops will depend very largely
upon whether or not these two or
three rules are followed in seeding:
(1) Land well prepared and having
plenty of plant food; ( 2 ) a heavy
rate of seeding—at least twice the
amount of seed that would be used
for making a grain crop, and (3)
getting the seed in the ground early
i' the fall so it can get a real start
ahead of cold weather.
Fitch also called ittention to the
fact that a real thick sod helps pre
vent winter killing and permits
grazing without injury to the land
even when rather wet. “When it is
ready to graze, turn the cow. in, let
them fill up, and then take them
off,” he said. “For two family cows,
one acre seeded will be sufficient
and comparatively little other feed
T. C. MEADOR
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v Covington . .41
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Small Heater
If it is small heater for t
a
home, we can supply you"
will warm the room P u ickly
economically. We urge you M f |
our line—then buy. Priced
$4.95
$12.5 0
will be needed when
good.”
For mixture and
the dairy specialist rate
farmers consult < 1 ®
agent. their i*
Record Enroll,
ln State C,
The enrollment this faj,
the largest in the history»
versity System of Georgj
a financial problem due
of additional instruct®
funds with which to Pay
cording to Chancell or s. v
Dr, Sanford attributes
enrollment in j
where , „ “primarily Borgia a
lav.j to the d
that prohibit the chlit
working, and 0 the midi
laws which give parent
tr 3
money which they ft,
ing a college and scraping education together’
and daughters.’’ lot
183,000 MEN]
Taxes paid last year by
roads of this country n
been sufficient to pay a ye
for an added payroll of u
road employees.
Airlines have had no fj
dent in United States in
half year says CAA chain]