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Gov. Sanders, Comm. Campbell
To Head Dairy Festival Program
EATONTON —The Eleventh
Annual Putnam County Dairy
Festival will be held here on
Wednesday, June 5.
Two prominent civic lead
ers, Charles Hudson and John
A. Smith, have been named as
eo-ctiaimien for this tradition
al affair, which is sponsored
bv the Eatonton Exchange
Chib.
The festival has been sched
uled for Wednesday again this
year because stores in sur
rounding towns are closed on
Wednesday afternoons.
The two chairmen said this
makes it possible for more per
sons to attend.
Gov. Carl E. Sanders will
make the principal address of
the day and Sixth District
Congressman Carl Vincent has
been invited to attend.
Last year Mr. Sanders “un
officially” opened his success
ful bid for the governorship at
the Putnam Dairy Festival.
Phil Campbell, Georgia’s
Commissioner of Agriculture,
will head a long list of state
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officials, state representatives
and state senators who will
also be present.
Miss Careen Hart, Georgia’s
1963 Dairy Princess, will also
be present along with other
beauty queens from around
the state.
A giant parade through
downtown Eatonton, featuring
four or five bands and approx
imately 30 floats, will kick off
activities at 10 a.m. This will
be followed by the platform
program on the court house
square featuring the govern
or’s address and the crowning
of the new Putnam County
Dairy Queen by the Dairy
Princess.
The Putnam County Dairy
Queen is selected each year in
the latter part of May during
a huge pageant at Rock Eagle
4-H Club Center, which is lo
cated in Putnam County.
Immediately after the plat
form program a giant barbe
cue will be served on a block
ed off city street.
At 2 p.m. Gov Sanders will
dedicate the Uncle Remus
Museum, a project of local
citizens, which will be opened
to the public sometime this
I month. The museum honors
Joel Chandler Harris, who was
born in Putnam County.
Entertainment will be pro
vided on the square during the
afternoon along with free rides
for the youngsters, and, at 7:30
p.m., the new Putnam County
Dairy Queen will be honored
at a banquet for invited guests
at Rock Eagle 4-H Center.
A street dance in downtown
Eatonton beginning at 9 p.m.
will conclude the day’s ac
tivities.
Textile Industry
Asked to Help
Bond Campaign
Atlanta — Cooperation of
companies in the textile indus
try will be sought this spring
in promoting the payroll sav
ings plan for the purchase of
United States Savings Bonds
by employees.
Charles F. Myers, Jr., Presi
de nt, Burlington Industries,
Inc., has been appointed by
Treasury Secretary Douglas
Dillon to head the textile pro
gram, to be held April 1
through July 4.
“For more than 20 years
payroll savings has been the
lifeblood of the Savings Bonds
program, accounting for more
than half of all E Bond sales,”
Mr. Myers stated.
Goal in the textile industry
will be to encourage individual
companies to present the Sav
ings Bond program to em
ployees who will use the pay
roll savings plan, and company
goals of 50 per cent partici
pation will be encouraged. This
should result in 35,000 new
savers in the textile industry.
“Effective debt management
—in which the United States
Savings Bonds program has an
important part —is essential to
sound fiscal and monetary pol
icy,” the textile industry chair
man stated. “Largely because
of the promotion of payroll
savings by business and indus
try, Savings Bonds account for
nearly 21 per cent of the na
tional debt held by the pub
lic.”
Mr. Myers further comment
ed, “the payroll savings plan
offers every American the op
portunity to help his country
while at the same time ad
vancing his own economic
well-being.”
Top Truck Driver
Has Remarkable
33-Year Record
ATLANTA — A 54-year-old
Atlantan who has been in
volved in only 3 accidents in
nearly 3 million miles tonight
was announced as Georgia's
"Truck Driver of the Year.”
Governor Sanders congratu
lated Charles L. McConnell of
1500 Rogers Avenue, S. W., as
being a "first-rate representa
tive of a fine group of drivers.”
Chosen in an annual contest
conducted by the Council of
Safety Supervisors of the
Georgia Motor Trucking As
sociation, McConnell has driven
2,660,000 miles over the past
28 years for Ryder Truck
Lines, Inc. He previously drove
300,000 miles over a period of
5 years for Complete Auto
Transit.
McConnell, who started out
driving a chain-driven Mack,
has averaged as many miles
per year as 10 automobile
drivers.
What are the major changes
he has noted in 33 years on the
highways?
Better roads, better cars and
trucks, better pay and status
for truck drivers and “more
courtesy and consideration
among drivers for each other
because of heavier traffic con
ditions."
Willie C. Nesbitt
Member of 16th
Eng. Battalion
FORT HOOD, TEX. — Anny
Sergeant First Class Willie C.
Nesbitt, whose wife Daisy, lives
on Route 2, Covington, Ga., is
a member of a crew that re
cently cut an access road
through rough terrain to a
major tactical demonstration
area on the Fort Hood, Tex.,
military reservation.
The road provides access to
a high observation point need
ed for a reinforced armor bat
talion attack demonstration
scheduled in conjunction with
the 1963 Armor Association
meeting to be held in May at
Fort Hood.
Sergeant Nesbitt is a squad
leader in the 16th Engineer
Battalion’s Company D at Fort
Hood.
Nesbitt, son of Willie D. Nes
bitt, 2747 E. Fifty-fifth St.. |
Cleveland (Oh o). is a gradu- !
ate of Herring High School, ।
Decatur, Ga. , |
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Why Push for Higher Corn Yields?
By Ed Hunt
(County Agent)
For many years corn has
been a major grain crop in
Georgia. Today it is grown in
every county of the state and
o almost every farm. A major
part of the cropland in the
state is devoted to corn.
Much has been discovered
and learned about corn grow
ing in the past 35 to 40 years
which has resulted in greatly
increased yields and lower cost
of production. From 1925 to
1946 the state average corn
yield was 10.6 bushels per acre.
Between 1946 and 1956 the
The ABC's of Air Conditioning
With summer just a couple
of months away, it’s timely to
talk air conditioning which has
become almost as prominent in
the American way of life as
ham and eggs.
Countless new homes are
c o m p 1 e t e ly air conditioned.
Millions of older homes have
each been equipped with vary
ing numbers of units. Hence —
the working efficiency and
cost of the system is one of the
foremost considerations in
modern home planning.
The fact that you have a
good quality system or units is
no automatic assurance of sat
isfactory air conditioning. Many
other factors are involved. For
example, the orientation of the
house, the tightness of the
dwelling, how well it is “lined”
and insulated.
Here are some suggestions
from the Southern Pine Asso
ciation on the ideal climate for
efficient, economical air con
ditioning:
1. The way your home is sit
uated with respect to the sun
is important. If the main liv
ing areas get too much sun
shine in the summer, an undue
strain is placed on the units,
which raises your electrical
bills.
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average production was 17
bushels per acre. In 1960 the
state average yield was 32
bushels per acre. This is too
low for a farmer to make pro
duction costs.
Why Yields Are Up
Agronomists of the Coopera
tive Extension Service, Univer
sity of Georgia College of Agri
culture, give si x practices
adopted by Georgia farmers
major credit for the increase in
corn yields. These practices
are: (1) better land selection;
(2) use of lime and higher ra
'tes of fertilizer; (3) the plant-
2. The best system will labor
in vain if your dwelling isn’t
tight to start with. Whether the
house is tignt or not depends
on the wood framework which
holds it together. For the home
to stay snug, it should be
framed with strong, pre-shrunk
lumber. A pre-shrunk condi
tion gives an advantage of as
much as 400 percent in nail
holding power. This is assured
by a process of seasoning, a
mandatory grade requirement
in the case of Southern Pine
framing.
3. Proper insulation is an
extremely important factor of
air conditioning efficiency. Not
only should your house have
the right insulating materials
in the right spots, but it also
should have a snug “lining.”
Ample lining should exist un
der floors, between walls and
beneath the roof—applied to
the structural framework as a
base for surfacing materials.
An ideal “lining” is a one inch
thick layer of lumber in each
of these three crucial areas.
This lining of boards braces
and strengthens the framework,
ties together the house, and
brings the high in s u lat io n
value of wood to bear in assur
ing air conditioning efficiency.
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ing of higher yielding hybrids;
(4) closer spacing of plants;
(5) early, thorough and shal
low cultivation, and (6) use of
increased amounts of nitrogen
and laying by 35 to 40 days
after planting.
Why a Corn Program
Although the state average
per-acre corn yield is higher
than ever, many farmers are
not obtaining economical yields
from land planted to corn. To
correct this situation and to
help make all corn growers
more efficient producers are
primary aims of the Master
Corn Program in this county.
Lower cost of production
per bushel is a must for New
ton county farmers if they are
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to grow corn profitably.
DON’T WASTE GOOD SEED
ON POOR LAND
It takes good soil to produce
60 bushels 'of corn per acre, the
1963 goal for Newton county
farmers in the Master Corn
Program, says County Agent
Ed Hunt.
“Ponr, droughty land or wet
land should be improved before
planting to corn,” he explains.
“Loamy soils that are fertile,
well drained and which are
capable of producing 60 bus
hels of corn per acre should be
selected,” he says.
The county agent pointed out
that 60 bushels of corn per acre
can be produced for a total cost
of about 75 cents per bushel.
Thursday, April 11, 1963
leaving about 50 cents per
bushel as net profit. He says
that the total cost figure in
cludes costs of land rent, labor,
fertilizer, seed, one-half of
cover crop cost, if any and all
ows 10 percent for overhead.
Roasting ear varieties of
com that are recommended for
Georgia are: Hybrid Truckerg
Favorite, Truckers Favorite,
Silvermine, and Snowflake.
Dry beans are among the
least expensive sources of cal
ories, protein, iron and two of
the B vitamins —thiamine and
riboflavin — according to Dr.
Mary Gibbs, Extension Service
consumer marketing specialist.