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Cornish
Mountain
By MRS. VESTEF MAUGHON
The “Fall Festival” at Pal
mer • Stone School was a great
success. Several families from
this community attended.
Miss Carolyn Armistead,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bur
ton Armistead and Billy Wil
liams were married Saturday
night at 7:00 at Cornish Moun
tain Baptist Church. We wish
them much happiness.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stowe
and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Stowe
visited Mr. and Mrs. Clem
Swords, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Knight and
Mr. and Mrs. James Knight and
Jimmy visited Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Long of Bostwick, Sun
day afternoon.
Ben Stowe visited Mr. and
Mrs. Cornelius Stowe, Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Stowe
visited Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Thompson, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Knight
visited Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Stowe, Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Benny Knight
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
THIS THANKSGIVING DAY
we are thankful for
our many blessings...
our unique Freedom
which is the foundation stona of our country.
This has been the great factor in the great
growth and progress of AMERICA.
Freedom to live and work
for the common good. This gives the right te
everyone to seek work where their abilities
can best be used.
the time, talents, and energy of our employees
which have created and produced a fine line of
products that provide the light for millions.
our opportunity to help build this area
into a thriving industrial community. This has
meant steady employment for many who formerly
had to depend on weather conditions for good
crops.
the Bright Future we see ahead
for our business end employees. We sincerely
trust that our plans and efforts will provide
• good harvest for all for the coming year.
Most of all, we are thankful
to Him who made all of these things
possible.
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and girls, Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Maughon, Tommy, Sandra and
Brenda and Mr. and Mrs. Bob
by Maughon visited Mr. and
Mrs. Vester Maughon. Satur
day night. Later all attended
the auction at Lawrenceville.
Among those visiting Mrs.
Conner Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Davenport, Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Conner, Mr.
and Mrs. Guv Conner, Mr. and
Mrs. Benny Knight, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Lackey, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Maughon and
Mr. and Mrs. Vester Maughon.
Mr. and Mrs. Love Stowe
visited Mr. and Mrs. Craft in
Stathem, Sunday.
Mrs. Lillie Stowe and Mrs.
Conner are on the sick list hope
they will soon be well.
Mr. and Mrs. James Knight
and Jimmy spent Saturday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Knight.
The heartwood section of
black walnut is rated along
with black locust, red mulber
ry, catalpa, and red cedar for
use without treatment as fence
posts.
There is no difference in the
nutritional value of fertile and
infertile eggs, says The Pro
gressive Farmer. i
Highway Chairman Gillis Says
SBMiliion Fund Is Forthcoming
November 18. 1960 — High
way Chairman Jim L. Gil
lis says that additional funds
■ to the Highway Department as
1 a result of Amendment No. 1
i will be more than ample to re
-1 tire the bonds of a SIOO mil
j lion dollar bond issue to re
. pair Georgia’s main highways.
Chairman Gillis said the mo
s tor fuel taxes which are allo
-1 cated automatically for high
ways under Amendment No. 1
are expected to increase some
five per cent as the number of
’ vehicles increase each year. He
said the additional funds would
be used to retire the bonds an
nually for the proposed bond
t issue for maintenance. The
bond issue will have no effect
on county road construction,
Gillis emphasized, and is the
only solution for repairing the
> main highways.
, The Chairman said the High
way Department has just com
pleted a detailed survey of
every mile of Primary and Sec
■ ondary Highways throughout
the state. He said the survey
discloses an urgent need of
slightly over SIOO million dol
lars to repair these highways.
I “The survey reveals that
Primary and Secondary High-
( ways in every county in Geor
’ gia need repairing immediat
ely”, Gillis asserted. He said
these main highways need
widening and resurfacing to
meet the present traffic needs
■in Georgia. He attributed the
. condition of the highways to
| the lack of maintenance funds
over a long period of time, and
to the fact that most of the
main highways in Georgia were
! designed and constructed over
< 20 years ago when the traffic
volume was only a small per
centage of that of today and the
vehicles were not as big and
fast as those of today. No ma
jor improvements to these
highways have been made since
. they were constructed, Gillis
। said.
Highway Department records
I show that Georgia has been
spending less per mile for
1 maintenance than any other
■ state in the Southeast. For ex
ample, Tennessee spends over
$2,000 per mile per year for
maintenance, Louisiana spends
$1,333 per mile per year, Flor
lida spends $1,219, Alabama
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spends $1,174, South Carolina
spends $1,073. Georgia spends
$690 per mile per year for
maintenance.
Gillis pointed out that Geor
gia can no longer afford to
' neglect the billion dollar in
vestment in its existing high
ways. He said any further de
lay in repairing these highways
will have an adverse effect
on the entire economy of the
state.
“Our main highways are vi
tal to the industrial develop
ment and to the future tourist
trade in this state”, said Gillis.
The Chairman pointed out that
since industries and other
business establishments as well
as tourist attractions will be
prohibited along the new In
terstate Highways which are
being constructed in Georgia,
the existing highways must be
improved in order to attract
tourists and new industries to
Georgia.
The Chairman emphasized
that if the maintenance bond
issue is passed by the Gener
al Assembly, the money should
be earmarked for maintenance
only. “Our most pressing need
at this time is to widen and
resurface our existing high
ways and this bond issue will
be solely for that purpose”,
Gillis said.
Gillis said the passage of
Amendment No. 2 in the gen
eral election would assure low
er interest rates on a bond is
sue for highway maintenance.
Emory-at-Oxford
AFROTC Cadets
Visits Robins AFB
November 15th fifty-five of
the Emory at Oxford AFROTC
Cadet Corps were guests of the
base commander, Robins Air
Force Base at Macon. The corps
left Oxford by Grey Hound
bus and arrived at Macon just
before 11:00 A.M. They were
immediately taken to the of
ficers club where dinner was
served.
After dinner, guided tours
were provided by the base in
formation services office and
the 4137th Strategic Wing. The
4137th Strategic wing is a com
ponent of the Strategic A ; r
Command and is now in the
process of setting up a full
complement of B-52's at Rob
ins.
The Cadets were taken
through the various mainten
ance shops, engine, radar, ra
dio, etc. Following this, they
were taken out to the flight
line where they were met by
one of the crews who explain
ed various features of the B-52
and its capabilities. This por
tion of the trip was concluded
when the Cadets were taken
through the operations build
ing. They were permitted to
sit in on an actual briefing of
a crew soon to depart on a
training mission. Following
this, a visit to the wing’s com
mand and staff post was made
in which the Cadets saw and
learned the procedures used to
alert our defense should our
nation ever be attacked. A film
was also shown which depicted
the wing’s function in the over
all Strategic Air Command
mission of keeping world peace.
After leaving the area in
which the SAC unit is located,
a brief tour was then made
through the flight line of Rob
ins AFB, where the purpose
and functions of the Warner
Robins Air Material Command
were seen.
From the comments of the
Cadets, they were highly im
pressed by this trip. Robins set
up the tours so that they would
be interesting and informative.
Other field trips to other bases
are planned throughout the
year.
“16-Ton” Support
Ernie Ford, noted singer and
TV personality, does some seri
ous talking on radio about :
Christmas Seals and their part |
in the light against TB.
Farm Production Vital To
Georgia Strength, Prosperity
A hotdog or even a choice
steak may seem pretty prosaic
when compared with a shiny
new automobile or a guided
missile.
Yet. food, as plentiful as it
is, is just as important to the
prosperity and strength of the
country as automobiles, mis
siles or anything else its peo
; pie produce.
In recognition of the impor-
I tance of all segments of the
। economy to the vitality of the
I nation, Governor Ernest Van-
I diver has proclaimed Novem
| ber 18-24 as National Farm-
City Week in Georgia, Vernon
Yow of Tifton, chairman of the
Georgia Farm-City Week com
mittee, announced this week.
“It is fitting that all citizens,
rural and urban, should recog
nize their interdependence in
contributing to the strength,
character and prosperity of our
Nation,” Governor Vandiver’s
proclamation states.
“It is increasingly important
that the public should under
stand the mutuality of interests
of those wr.o live on farms and
those who live in cities. The
productivity of the farms and
of urban labor and business
continues to provide the food,
the tools, the services and the
goods that afford our citizens
the highest standard of living in
the world,” the proclamation
continues.
While the story of more au
tomobiles, television sets and
other conveniences and the
progress in missiles, satellites
and atomic weapons seems
more spectacular, advances in
the nation’s agriculture are no
less dramatic.
The United States has grown
from a nation in which one of
every four workers had to pro
duce food to a nation in which
one farmer is efficiently pro
ducing food for 24, according
to U. S. Department of Agri
culture statistics. The Russian
farmer, by contrast, still pro
duces food for only four or
five persons.
To get this food from the
producer to the 24 consumers,
there has also been created a
vast, efficient system of mark
eting, storing, transporting, pro
cessing wholesaling and re
tailing. This system works so
smoothly and efficiently that
f v<' 'WH m
As we gather around the festive board, symbolic of the
Bountiful Harvest which inspired the Pilgrims' First Thanks-
C giving Day, may we join Edgar A. Guest in his beautiful
Thanksgiving Prayer:
'Dear Lord, accept our humble prayer of thanks for all Thy
watchful care,
/ M For yield of field and vine and tree Our hearts give grati- V/ V
7 T \ tude to Thee; V
Now lies the frost upon the vine, We see another year
Aj | j decline, -' vT
J \ ’ But through the pain and strife and woe Thy blessings / U
\ manifestly show. y/Ak/J
Dear Lord, for laughter and for song which have been ours;
f° r righted wrong, r
For steps of progress we have made, For all the works of
art an d f ra( ^ e /
Kirx/ F° r science which has conquered pain And given hope
where hope seemed vain; /twIY/O)
For all that helps mankind to live, This day to Thee our
/Awl i thanks we give. I
' Dear Lord, despite its pain and strife, We thank Thee /
[Awl for our richer life; / A ViXvA
f This is a better world for man Than when this closing 1)1
year began; \J W
W\\ w b° b ave suffered still can find Proof of Thy love //
and merc y king; y
/zJwfM \\ In all our works Thy hand we see And bow in gratitude I// MiSwer
*° "’'bee. /
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the average urbanite seldom
gives it a second thought. Food,
in the United States, is some
thing that is always available
at the supermarket or corner
grocery.
Figures released by the
USDA give some indication of
just how big and complex this
system is.
Accoiding to these figures,
the total investment in the
business of agriculture exceeds
S2OB billion — almost three
fourths of the market value of
all corporation stocks on the
New York Stock Exchange, or
four-fifths of the value of cur
rent assets of all corporations
in the United States.
The agriculture industry em
ploys six million people to sup
ply farmers and another 10
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SMO. HAM SALE
CENTER CUTS . - Lb. 79c
BUTT HALF Lb. 59c
SHANK HALF Lb. 55c
WHOLE HAMS Lb. 55c
BUTT PORTION Lb. 53c
SHANK PORTION Lb. 49c
SMOKED PICNICS (Whole) - Lb. 39c
FRESH PICNIC (Whole) __ Lb. 33c
SMALL HENS (Under 4 lbs.) Lb. 39c
YELLOW ONIONS 3 lbs. for 25c
GREEN CABBAGE Lb. 5c
HONEY GRAHAMS (Nabisco) 1 lb. 37c
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million to store, transport, pro
cess and merchandise agricul
tural products, as well as seven
and one-half million workers
on farms and ranches.
Even thought Americans
now spend much more for pro
cessing and packaging than
they did a few years ago, they
still have to work fewer hours
to get the same amount of food
and the added conveniences to
gether.
For example, the figures
show, one hour’s work in a fac
tory today will buy 2.1 pounds
of round steak, compared with
1.2 in 1929. The same hour’s
work will buy 17.6 pints of
milk, compared with 7.8 in
1929.
A little closer to home for
Georgians is the tremendous
amount of food consumed in
the state each year. Twenty
one state farmers markets,
which handle only a portion of
the food in the state, recorded
gross sales of $76,127,916 in
1959.
Over $42 million worth of
Thursday, November 24. 1960
farm products went through
the Atlanta Farmers’ Market
alone in 1959. By the end of
September of this year, over
$33 million worth had been
handled by the Atlanta market.
Direct seeding of pine it
most successful when done in
late winter.
My Nsighbors
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“Hello, Dear—still mad at
me?”