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Apple Production May Bring
A Record; Special Week Set
. Georgia apple growers are In
the middle of what could be a
record harvest, and plans are
already underway to c< lebrate
the bountiful crop.
The state’s 1965 apple pro
duction is estimated at 630,000
bushels, and if the estimate holds
up it will exceed the previous
high by some 130,000 bushels.
About 500,000 bushels is the most
• pples Georgia has produced in
any prior season, according to
C. D. Spivey, Cooperative Ex
tension Service horticulturist at
the state University.
Mr. Spivey added that this
year’s crop will nearly double
last year’s. In 1964 production
wis cut to only 364,000 bushels
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because of a late cold spell.
Yield of the popular red de
licious variety was reduced by
three-fourths.
But this year is a different
story, and plans are moving a
head for Georgia Apple Week,
September 19-25 -- the height
of the 1965 harvesting and mark
eting season. (Gathering of this
year’s apple crop began around
August 1 and will continue well
into October.)
The special observance will be
climaxed by a Georgia Apple Pr
incess Contest at Stone Mountain
Park on September 24 and 25.
The Park’s public relations de
partment is sponsoring the con
test. Three awards—valued at
$750 for first place, S3OO for
second, and $l5O for third--are
being offered.
Mr. Spivey said the contest is
for girls age 16-22. Judging will
be on a basis of beauty, poise,
and personality. The competition
is open to all counties in the
state, and a county may enter
more than one contestant if it
likes. A $25 entry fee will be
used to cover meals and lodging
for the two days at Stone Moun
tain Park. Each contestant’s
name and address, along with the
fee, should be mailed to Reggie
Goldsmith, 28 Cain St., N. E.,
Atlanta, Ga. 30303. Deadline
for entering is September 15.
An adiitonal feature of
Georgia Apple Week will be a
free apple for everyone who visits
Stone Mountain during the Sept
ember 19-25 period.
And the apples this year, ac
cording to Mr. Spviey, will come
from a wider area of the state
than ever before. Apple pro
duction Is expanding southward,
he said, and there are now large
plantings as far down as the Ft.
Vally-Marshallvllle area.
The bulk of the production,
however, is still up in the moun
tains of North Georgia. Gilmer
Is the leading apple-growing
county in the state, followed by
Habersham County in second
place and Fannin County in third.
Rye Shortage
Causes Seed
Lookout In Ga.
ATLANTA—There is an acute
shortage of good rye in Georgia
this year, Commissioner of Agri
culture Phil Campbell said. Seed
dealers and farmers should,
therefore, be on the lookout for
any unadapted or mislabeled rye,
warned Campbell.
Several years ago Georgia
farmers, without knowing exactly
why, had quit using rye as a
winter forage and grain crop.
This was because the varieties
being sold in Georgia were
Northern varieties that would not
grow here. x ?
The Georgia Department Os
Agriculture Seed Division and the
Georgia Experiment Stations
began experimenting with rye
and have since determined var
ieties which do well in Georgia
and are now used by our farmers.
Seed dealers were told to stop
selling the Northern varieties.
Campbell said he is warning
all seed dealers to not take the
shortage of Georgia adapted
varieties of rye as an excuse
to sell Northern rye in our state.
Senator Talmadge Cites Good,
Bad Sides Os New Economy
ATLANTA (GPS) —"Georgia’s
great economic revolution of the
past decade has opened the door
to unlimited opportunities, but
It has brought problems as well
as progress,” declared U. S.
Sen. Herman E. Talmadge.
In a speech before the Georgia
Rural Electric Managers Asso
ciation in session at Callaway
Veterans* Widows
To Get Pay Raise
In October Checks
The October dependancy and
indemnity compensation checks
for widows of veterans whose
death was attributable to ser
vice wIH reflect the increases
in military pay recently set by
Congress, the Veterans Admin
istration announced today.
These Increases, the third to
be granted within the past two
years, are based upon the grade
and years of service of the de
ceased veteran, Elbert B. An
derson, Contact Officer, Veter
ans Administration Regional Off
ice, Atlanta, Georgia, pointed out.
The increases in compensat
ion are comparatively small when
the lower enlisted grades or a
few years of service are the
determining factors.
But they grow larger as they
reflect higher rank or pay grades
and the total years of service
of career servicemen.
The checks are expected to
reach the widows on or about
October 1, VA said.
Walton Grower
Finds Soybeans
Good Cash Crop
Give soybeans the same care
as cotton and corn and they will
be a new cash crop, says Jerry
Tillman, a Walton County farmer
who Is having increasing success
with the crop.
Mr. TUlman planted 22 acres
of the Hampton variety last year
and liked them so well that he
planted 100 acres of the same
variety this year. He had planted
small acreages in previous years
but had had a soybean maturity
problem when he planted fol
lowing harvested oats.
He discussed his problem with
County Agent Bill Bowers and they
worked out practices which have
proved to be successful for Mr.
Tillman. The soybeans are
planted between June 1 and June
15 on land from which oats have
been harvested. Before planting
the land is disked twice, smoothed
twice with a disk harrow and
dragged twice to handle the oat
residue.
Mr. Tillman double inoculates
all seed with nitrogen-fixing bac
teria and adds molybdenum as
recommended. He uses around
500 pounds of a 5-10-15 ferti
lizer per acre. “Pm convinced
by research results that soybeans
are heavy users of potash,” Mr.
Tillman says.
When the land is properly pre
pared, he points out, the seed well
inoculated and an adequate
amount of high-potash fertilizer
used, "I find the net income from
soybeans is close to that from
cotton and they are much easier
to grow.” He makes around 30
bushels per acre.
County Agent Bowers and Mr.
Tillman agree that better
shatter-resistant varieties and
proper selection of newly
recommended soybean her
bicides make the crop even more
attractive as a cash income
source.
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Gardens, the senator asserted
that “one of the most pressing
needs facing the state today is
for everyone concerned to work
toward the achievement of a more
equitable balance between urban
and rural economic advance
ment.”
“Unfortunately,” he observed,
"while our urban areas, parti
cularly the large metropolitan
centers, are growing at an un
precedented rate of progress,
rural sections of the state rapidly
diversifying economy and the
transition from agriculture to
industry, Talmadge said “the
migration from farm to city may
never be stopped entirely, but
it can and should be slowed down
by providing more job opport
unities and a better chance to
earn a living in rural com
munities.
“Farming alone can no longer
sustain rural economy, and the
development of local resources to
attract new business and in
dustry, resulting In the creation
of more non-farm employment,
is imperative if our rural ec
onomy is to move forward in
stead of standing still.”
Sen. Talmadge said Georgia’s
network of vocational-technical
training school “are proving
themselves to be a vital force
in meeting the demands of a
changing economy and in rural
development.”
He urged that the importance of
these training centers in the
state’s educational system not be
underestimated, pointing out that
“of all the jobs in Georgia, now
and in the future, only a very
small percentage require a
college degree, but virtually
everyone of them require a high
school degree of skill and special
training.”
Egg Cooking Queen
Will Demonstrate
Winnish Dish On TV
Mrs. Hilbert J. Witmer of Sa
vannah prepares an egg dish she
calls “egg melody.” The egg
recipe has brought her eating
and traveling pleasure.
In a recent "Win With Eggs
Contest,” Mrs. Witmer parti
cipated in a state cooking con
test and was declared first place
winner. With this honor, she
won a trip for two to the New
York World’s Fair.
Mrs. Witmer explained that
the name of her dish wasn’t
hard to come up with. Her
family loves music and when
she was trying to decide on a
name for her entry in the con
test the younger daughter sug
gested the name "egg melody.”
Mrs. Witmer will demonstrate
this prize winning recipe on tele
vision next week. It can be seen
on the Growing South program
on WGTV, Channel 8, next Fri
day, October 15, at 7 p.m.
In addition to Mrs. Witmer’s
appearance, Rudy Standish, the
Egg Omelette King, will also be
on the program to demonstrate
the art of omelette-making.
The “Win With Eggs” con
test in which Mrs. Witmer won
was sponsored jointly by the
Georgia Egg Commission, the
Georgia Power Company, and
the University of Georgia Co
operative Extension Service.
This is one of five Growing
South programs which may be
viewed next week on WGTV and
the entire Georgia Television
Network.
Growing South is televised each
weekday evening at 7 o’clock on
WGTV, Channel 8, the University
of Georgia’s educational televis
ion station.
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Aiken Has 27-Year ASCS Service Record
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ROY AIKEN (left), retired manager of the Newton ASCS County Office, gets a well-done hand-shake
from H. G. Jones, upon 27 years of service with the farmers and citizens of Newton and Butts counties.
Looking on are members of the ASCS organization, left to right: Mary Allen, Betty Patrick, Geneva
Stubbs, A. E. Hays, Sr. and J, H. Ellington.
Aa College
Alumni Group
To Meet Sat.
J. E. Fain, general public rel
ations manager of Colonial
Stores, Inc., Atlanta, will be
the principal speaker Saturday,
October 9, at the 11th annual
meeting of the Alumni Assoc
iation of the College of Agric
ulture, University of Georgia.
The meeting will begin at 10
a.m. in the Biological Sciences
Auditorium on the University
campus In Athens.
Another highlight of the meet
ing according to President Adron
Harden of Zebulon, will be the
Miss Carolyn Joyner Is New
Newton County Home Economist
Miss Carolyn Joyner, who is
the new Extension Home Econ
omist for Newton County, is from
Bulloch County and Statesboro,
Georgia. She graduated from
Statesboro High School and rec
eived her B. S. Degree in Home
Economics from Georgia South
ern College in 1960.
Miss Joyner began her work
with the Georgia Cooperative Ex
tension Service in October of
1960, serving as Assistant Home
Demonstration Agent in Crisp
County. She held this position
until May, 1962 when she re
signed to enter Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, Texas, from which
she received the Master of Rel
igious Education Degree in 1964.
Miss Joyner comes to Newton
County from Atlanta where she
was employed at Georgia Baptist
Hospital as Assistant Director
of student Activities, working
with the student nurses in the
School of Nursing.
During her summers while in
college and seminary, Miss Joy
ner worked at the Bulloch Cou-
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presentation of the Association’s
Distinguished Service Award to
D. W. Brosnan, president of the
Southern Railway System. The
award recognizes Mr. Brosnan’s
efforts on behalf of Georgia ag
riculture, particularly his pur
suit of lower freight rates on
grain used by poultry and live
stock feeders. Georgia Comm
issioner of Agriculture Phil
Campbell will make the presen
tation.
Georgia Farm Bureau Feder
ation President William L. Lan
ier will introduce Mr. Fain.
Following the presentation and
the address, the organization’s
annual business meeting will be
held. Reports by President Har
den and Secretary-Treasurer
Elmo Hester of Decatur are sch
eduled.
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Miss Joyner
nty ASCS office, several sum
mers at Ridgecrest Baptist Ass
embly, and as a summer miss
ionary to Illinois.
Miss Joyner succeeds Mrs.
Virginia (Ginny) Jones as Newton
County Extension Home Econ
omist.
xuursuay, October 7, 1965
Vice President W. A. Sutton
of Atlanta will unveil a program
of work on long-and short-range
objectives of the organization.
Making committee reportswill
be Past President Bob Blalock
of Woodbury on legislative; Dir
ector Olin Ginn of Decatur on
membership; Mr. Hester on stud
ent recruitment; and Past Pres
idents Irvin Wofford and Ralph
Mobley on resolutions and nom
inations, respectively.
Four directors will be elect
ed. Districts already have nom
inated Loy Cowart of Twin City
for the First District and D. Q.
Harris of Mcßae for the Eighth
District. Two additional state
at-large directors will be nom
inated and elected.
Confidence Men
Invade Medicare
S. S. Program
E. L. Rawls, social security
district manager in Atlanta, today
cautioned local residents about
a new type of confidence man
who has appeared in some sec
tions of the country since pass
age of the new “Medicare” pro
visions of the social security
program.
Mr. Rawls stated that these
confidence men often represent
themselves as employees of the
Social Security Administration
and say that they are authorized
to sell and receive payment for
health insurance in advance, at
a discount.
These men attempt to swin
dle elderly people by confusing
them about the new health insur
ance program, Mr. Rawls added.
Particularly for the person 65
or older, Mr. Rawls declared,
the first line of defense against
these swindlers Is accurate In
formation about both kinds of
health insurance protection
available under the program —
hospital insurance and medical
insurance.