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NEWS OF AGRICULTURE, FAMILY LIVING AND
• COMMUNITY A CTIVITIES IN NE WTON COUNTY
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Patients admitted in Hospital
during past week:
Robert Griffith, Mrs. Sara M.
Bledsoe, Mrs. Hattie Head and
Baby Girl, J. E. Bennett, Linda
Cheuvant, Penelope Elliott, Mar
tha Jordan, James F. Hogan,
Clarence Lee Allen, Mrs. Van
elle Wells, Fred L. Hewell, Nancy
Elaine Moss, Patricia Delaine
Moss.
Mrs. Laßue Lunsford, Mrs.
Lizzie Bell Steadham, Ulmont
Maddox, Mrs. Marion Floyd,
Russell Dollar, Mrs. Annie Sue
Stokes, Mary Elizabeth Meadows,
J. W. Ricks, Mrs. Martha Mc-
Giboney, C. Travis Christian,
Samuel Singley, Lucius G. Car
ney, Mrs. Ruth C. Sherwood,
Mrs. Shirley Shadburn and Baby
Boy.
Abner Harper, Jan Ballard,
Mrs. Helen Marie Ballenger and
Baby, J. B. Savage, Mrs. Quintlss
Johnson, Audrey Smith, Mrs.
Sheilah Denny and Baby Boy,
Mrs. Miriam Pritchett, Thomas
A. McCord, Mrs. Fannie Kate
Bates, Mrs. Francis Brown, Dave
Thompson.
Mrs. Joyce Smith, Mrs. Jennie
Ogletree, Ezra Hayes, Phillip
Hathcock, Mrs. Edna Knight,
Mrs. Brenda Faye Yarbrough and
Baby Girl, Paul Carter, Lisa
Johnson, Trent Blankenship,
Fred Townley, J. C. Smith, R. W.
Holder, Miss Teresa Walden,
Mrs. Mildred Carter.
Mrs. Clara Freeman and Baby
Boy, Mrs. Geraldine Maddox,
Jerry Webb, Bobby L. Tuggle,
Regina Adkins, Mrs. Willie Flor
ence Thrasher, Mrs. Nina Daniel
and Baby Boy, H. B. Pointer,
Mrs. Emma Summers, Mrs. Mat
tie Pearl Stanley, Dianne Terrell,
Issac Allen, Miss Sadie Little,
Mrs. Annie Frances Hunter.
Patients remaining in hospital:
Mrs. Mirlon Floyd, Mrs. Fa
nnie Kate Bates, Paul Allen Car
ter, Lisa Johnson, Mrs. Frances
Louise Brown, Mrs. Joyce Smith,
Mrs. Oterla L. Kirkland, Mrs.
Jennie Ogletree, Trent Blanken
ship, J. B. Savage, Mrs. Brenda
Faye Yarbrough and Baby Girl,
Ezra Hayes.
J. C. Smith, R. W. Holder,
Mrs. Fannie Lazenby, Mrs. Mil
dred Carter, Miss Teresa Wal
den, Mrs. Edna Knight, Mrs.
Lizzie Steadham, Mrs. Natalie
Rogers, Mrs. Miriam Pritchett,
Mrs. Annie Sue Stokes, Fred L.
Hewell, Phillip Hatchcock.
Miss Sadie Little, Mrs. Mattie
Pearl Stanley, Mrs. Annie Fran
ces Hunter, Issac Allen, Dianne
Terrell, Mrs. Magnolia Starks
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MOBILE HOME SHOW SET FOR ATLANTA FARMERS MARKET IN SPRING. Final
plans are underway for the first Southeastern Mobile Home show to he held in Atlanta
April 2X May 1. Here. Phil Campbell, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, gives his final
okay to the project with representatives of the Mobile Home Industry. Standing, left to right,
are George Alexander. Co-Chairman for the Mobile Home Show; John B. Manley, Executive
Director of the Georgia Mobile Home Association: and Emory Brinson. Director of Markets
Division for the Georgia Department of Agriculture. .More than 150 mobile homes, travel
trailers and campers will be on display for the trade and the public at this first southeastern
show.
Prosperous Farms Benefit
All Georgia, Russell Says
ATLANTA — Senator Richard
B. Russell says all Georgians
have a “real and vital stake” in
seeing that Georgia has a healthy
and prosperous agriculture.
Russell, in a speech to the
Georgia Farm Equipment Asso
ciation In Atlanta, said that de
spite gains in industrialization
“farming is and will remain a
major factor in the life and
economy of Georgte.”
“Although less than 13percent
of our people now live on farms,
it is estimated that fully three
fourths of all our manufacturing
employees in Georgia work In
industries related to agricul
ture,” he said.
Russell said that Georgia
farmers, and agriculture gen
erally, are not sharing fairly In
the nation’s unprecedented
wealth and prosperity. “To me,
it is nothing less than scandalous
that the average per capita In
come of farmers In Georgia Is
one-third less than that of or
dinary laborers In non-farmact-
Ivites,” he stated.
The Georgia Senator said he
did not agree with those who
maintain that the great pro
ductivity of American farmers
constitutes a national problem.
“On the contrary,” he said to
me that it is a great blessing
and one of the prime sources
of our strength as a free nation.”
Senator Russell, who is Chair
man of the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee and a fore
most Congressional authority on
defense matters, sharply cri
ticized plans of Defense Secre
tary Robert S. McNamara to
pbas« out all but a small force
of the country’s remaining long
range bombers. He said he felt
this was an unnecessary risk of
the nation’s security.
“No man yearns more than I
for the day when we can In safety
lay aside our awesome weapons of
destruction and devote the re
sources and energies they re
quire to humanitarian pursuits,”
Russell said.
“But until we reach that sum
mit of human progress, we must
remain strong If we are to remain
free. For on the strength of
America rests the hope of the
future--for ourselves, our child
ren and our children’s children.”
Every Series E United States
Savings Bond ever sold continues
to earn Interest as a result of
extensions granted on the life of
the Bonds.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
13 Newton Workers
Aiding Cancer Study
Dr. A. H. Letton, Chairman
Professional Education for the
Georgia Division, American Can
cer Society, reported this week
that 13 volunteers in Newton
County are working to complete
the final annual survey in the So
ciety’s massive Cancer Pre
vention Study.
The six-year study has been
termed the “most Important can
cer control task” undertaken by
the Society, Dr. Letton said, and
Is aimed at obtaining informa
tion from 235 subjects in Newton
County to help uncover environ
mental factors which may be can
cer causing.
Nationwide, more than 70,000
volunteers have carried out the
massive research survey with
more than 500,000 families. “No
investigation of such magnitude
has even been conducted before
In the history of medicine,” Dr.
Letton said.
The study covers more than
28,775 persons In some 70 Geor
gia Counties. Each of these per
sons furnished many details of
their Ilves In 1959, answering
more than 250 carefully framed
questions to help analysts deter
mine If those who develop cancer
differ in some way from persons
who don’t.
Five follow-up surveys have
produced valuable information.
Facts from this study were in
strumental in providing statisti
cal data to support the linking
of cigarette smoking to the
mounting Increases in lung can
cer deaths.
This last follow-up is most
Important, Dr. Letton explained,
since most of the concrete find
ings of the six-year volunteer
study will be based on this ex
tensive questionnaire In com
parison to the first survey.
Georgia volunteer research
ers have maintained contact with
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Covington Woman
Receives Letter
From Viet Soldier
(Editor’s Note: The following
letter was received by Mrs.
Frances Roberts of Covington
from SP4 Charles Gaumont in
Viet Nam)
Dear Mrs. Roberts,
I would like to let you know
that I received one Christmas
card that you sent from Atlanta,
Ga., through channel 5, WAGA.
I was elected to receive the
letter and I would like to say
Thank You everyone in the State
of Georgia and also from the
other 50 States for I have seen
many things, cards, packages,
books etc., from every lo
cation of the country, New Eng
land, California, Oklahoma,
Texas etc. We found many of the
real common things like
checkers, cards, pens, are all
items which we may have a hard
time getting in Viet Nam. Weare
receiving in operation Christmas
Star from the people in the States.
I would like to say that being
here in Viet Nam may be a hard
thing for some but most fighting
men have pitched In and have
made it a lot better. We have
all given up much but together
we are able to get extra bene
fits all the way from getting a
day off in our company each
week to a good hamburger to a
real bunk and mattress to sleep
on. Our food in the mess hall
is always Improving and we are
eating at table and chairs with
even tooth picks. Every night
there is a movie to go to you
are off duty.
I only wish that these people
who protest the fighting in Viet
Nam would be made to serve a
normal tour of duty 12 months in
the county and talk to some of
the fighting men over here, then
let them go back to the States
and let them tell their stories
over. The stories would change
completely around in 99 percent
of the cases. With this I will
have to say, May all of our
prayers hp untt^ EdQd,
Freedom as we know in the
America’s throughout the world
some day.
A fighting man,
Charles
Madison Federal
Land Bank To Help
Note Anniversary
As a service to farmers, the
Federal Land Bank Association
of Madison will join in a national
program of public information
keyed to the 50th Anniversary
of the Federal Land Bank Sys
tem. The Madison Association,
along with some 700 other as
sociations and the 12 Federal
Land Banks, will carry out the
program to make all Americans
aware of the importance of ag
riculture.
James P. Hatchell, the local
Association manager, stated that
large segments of the country’s
all but 5.68 per cent ofthe 28,775
subjects. Last year, 413 deaths
were reported among the survey
subjects.
“This is an outstanding
achievement when you consider
that every survey is conducted
entirely by volunteers and re
quires the mobilization of 1,839
workers in Georgia over a five
year span,” Dr. Jetton said.
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“How Herbicides
Vi ork“ Is Topic
For T\ Program
Control of weeds--one of the
most important practices In mo
dern farm management—is made
easier for farmers today through
the use of herbicides.
The use of chemicals to con
trol weeds has a long history.
Common salt was used a cen
tury ago. Between 1895 and 1909,
Investigators in the United States
and Europe studied copper sul
fate, salt, iron sulfate, sulfuric
acid, and carbolic acid as chem
icals for controlling weeds.
The discovery of the selective
herbicidal properties of certain
dinltro dye compounds by
workers In France In the 1930’s
was an Important step. These
early discoveries of selective
chemicals demonstrated the pos
sibility of chemical control of
weeds and stimulated continued
search for chemicals that would
kill unwanted plants and not kill
crop plants.
Just how these herbicides work
will be explained next week on a
Growing South program on the
Georgia Television Network. The
program Is scheduled on Monday,
January 10, at 7 p. m.
Guests for the program will
be James F. Miller and William
Hogan, Extension agronomlsts
weed control, University of Geor
gia.
The Growing South program
is aired each weekday evening at
7 o’clock on the Georgia Tele
vision Network. Member stations
of the network are WGTV, Chan
nel 8, Athens; WXGA-TV, Chan
nel 8, Waycross; WVAN-TV,
Channel 9, Pembroke, and WJSP
TV, Channel 28, Warm Springs.
The program is produced co
operatively by the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education and the
College of Agriculture at the
University of Georgia.
Good Soybean
Yields Promote
More Acreage
Georgia farmers who made 40
to 45 bushels of soybeans per
acre last year are encouraging
increased acreage of the crop in
1966, reports J. R, Johnson, head
of the Extension Service
agronomy department at the Uni
versity of Georgia, who says
that such yields make soybeans
a very good cash crop.
He cited the example of two
Thomas County producers, Harry
Pilcher and Allen Sherrod. Mr.
Pilcher made 45 bushels of soy
beans per acre on 50 acres and
also baled 40 tons of soybean
hay after gathering the beans.
Mr. Sherrod produced 42 bushels
per acre on his soybean crop.
Mr. Pilcher planted the Hamp
ton variety,, using one bushel of
seed per acre. He applied moly
bdenum to the seed before
planting. He used 600 pounds
of a 5-10-15 fertilizer per acre
and planted In 28-inch rows.
He dusted the soybeans three
times with Sevin to control in
sects.
The Extension Service agrono
mist stated that soybeans offer an
excellent opportunity for Georgia
farmers to increase their in
come. Many farmers, he added,
are already taking advantage of
this opportulnty. Soybean acre
age In Georgia increased from
96,000 acres in 1963 to 186,000
in 1965.
Mr. Johnson pointed out that
the Extension Service has set a
goal of 300,000 acres in soy
beans in a new state program
projected through 1970.
population, such as city dwellers,
factory workers and the like, are
not award of the vital part which
agricultural people take In adding
to the basic strength of the nation.
With agriculture moving into a
“challenging new era of develop
ment for rural America and of
production for the world-wide
battle against hunger,” it be
comes Increasingly necessary
that the true, complete story of
agricultural progress and pot
entials be told, he said.
Herman Talmadge Named Man Os
Year In Service To Agriculture
Senator Herman E. Talmadge
has been named 1965 Man of the
Year In service to Georgia agri
culture by The Progressive Far
mer. Announcement of the re
cognition is made in the Jan
uary issue of the magazine.
“No one has more claim to the
title 'Friend of the Farmer’ than
Georgia’s Senator Herman E.
Talmadge,” say the editors of
The Progressive Farmer. His
Interest in agriculture, conser
vation, forestry, and America
nism has brought him numerous
state and national awards. The
one which he values most highly
is the National 4-H Club Alumni
Recognition Award presented in
1953.
Senator Talmadge was born
and reared on a farm in Tel
fair County where he was a 4-H
and FFA member. He operates
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USS AMERICA (CVA-66) —
Machinist’s Mate Second Class
Rufus Houston, USN, son of Mrs.
Ruby Houston of Route 4, Coving
ton, Ga., is serving aboard the
attack aircraft carrier USS Am
erica, operating in the Mediter
ranean with the Sixth Fleet.
America, the Navy’s newest
attack carrier, is armed with
surface-to-air “Terrier” guided
missiles and the latest in Naval
jet aircraft. She is part of an
Attack Carrier Striking Force,
consisting of two large carriers,
two guided missile cruisers and
about 16 destroyers.
When not operating at sea, Am
erica will visit port cities
throughout the Mediterranean.
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two farms of his own, one at
Lovejoy where he lives and an
other, the old family homestead,
at Forsyth 35 miles away. At
Lovejoy he grows row crops
and beef cattle and has a large
plant for processing country
cured hams. The Forsyth farm
Is in pines. “He is now earning
a reputation in Congress as a
friend of the farmer, particularly
the cotton farmer of the South,”
state the magazine editors.
During his six years as Gov
ernor of Georgia, among accom
plishments of his administration
were rural road building at an
unprecedented rate and the In
auguration of a statewide for
estry improvement and pro
tection program.
Much of the credit for the Rock
Eagle 4-H Center goes to him.
The auditorium there is named
for him. As Governor, he
matched private donations with
state money to assure its com
pletion.