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Thursday, November 7, 1968
USDA Okays 1969 Cotton
Research And Promotion
ATLANTA —The U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture has approved
the 1969 cotton research and
promotion program developed by
the Cotton Producers Institute
and recommended by the Cotton
Board.
The 1969 program budget under
the Cotton Research and Promo
tion Act totals $lO million, ac
cording to USDA’s Consumer and
Marketing Service. About $6.7
million of the total $lO million
program is budgeted for sales
promotion efforts. The remain
ing $3.3 million will go for cot
ton research.
A 20-man Cotton Board, selec
ted by the Secretary of Agricul
ture from nominations made by
cotton producer organizations, is
responsible for the administra
tion of the program. The program
is financed through assessments
of $1 per bale from upland cotton
producers, and collected by cot
ton handlers designated by the
Cotton Board.
The Cotton Board has entered
into a contract with the Cotton
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Producers Institute under which
the Institute is responsible for
developing a proposed research
and promotion program and for
implementing the approved pro
jects. The Institute is governed
by a Board of Trustees consis
ting of 51 cotton producers se
lected by producer organizations
throughout the Cotton Belt.
In endorsing the second annual
research and promotion pro
gram, Secretary Orville L. Free
man commended efforts by cotton
producers to strengthen cotton’s
competitive position and improve
its markets through such a pro
gram.
Southeast Products
On Plentiful List
ATLANTA-Southeastern agri
cultural products head a list of
eight foods which the Consumer
and Marketing Service of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture
says will be plentiful during Dec
ember.
Broiler-fryers, turkeys, fresh
oranges and fresh grapefruit will
be given extra emphasis during
the month in press, radio and
television releases to alert con
sumers of the abundant supplies
and expected attractive retail
prices.
Other times on the December
plentifuls list are canned
tomatoes and tomato products,
onions, dry beans and dried pru
nes.
Employers Asked To Give
Veterans Preference
Private employers in Georgia
have been asked by Congress to
give veterans preference in hir
ing, A. W. Tate, Manager of the
Atlanta Veterans Administration
Regional Office, said today.
The request came in a resol
ution which, Mr. Tate explained,
declared it to be the sense of
Congress that agencies the
Federal Government should:
* Give preference to job
seeking veterans.
* Seek to get private indus
try to voluntarily give veterans
priority.
The resolution also asked pri
vate employers to “exert every
effort to carry out the objectives
and purposes” of the resolution.
Mr. Tate said his experience
indicated that - except for the
Don't Worry —
Flying That Low
If you see a C-5 Galaxy fly
ing over your area in the months
to come and it looks awfully low--
don’t worry.
First, because the Galaxy is
the largest airplane ever built,
it’s probably higher than it looks.
Second, the lower-than-usual
flights are planned that way.
They’re part of an extensive
test schedule laid down for the
gridiron-sized airlifter.
Lockheed-Georgia Company
today said low-altitude air work
around Dobbins Air Force Base
just south of Marietta will be
kept to a minimum. But some
will be necessary.
Typical of these flights will
be airspeed calibration runs over
the Dobbins east-west runway at
an altitude of 1200 feet, and
touch-and-go landings.
Special cameras and other
equipment on the ground record
passage of the airplane over
the runway during calibration
tests. Data gathered during the
tests help verify accuracy of the
big transport’s airspeed indicat
ing system.
Mrs. Maddox Receives 20-Year Pin
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MRS. D. L. MADDOX received her 20-year pin from Southern Bell
officials at a luncheon Friday at the Porterdale Hotel. Tom Strick
land, Athens District Manager, does the pinning while Ray Reece,
Covington Southern Bell manager, looks on at right.
veteran who is going back to
school this fall - the one over
riding need of today’s veteran
was to get an adequate, satis
fying job.
“While the government has in
stituted various programs to im
plement the Congressional requ
est,” Mr. Tate pointed out,
“the importance of securing full
cooperation from private empl
oyers is underscored by the fact
that six of every seven Americans
are employed in private in
dustry.”
In his second annual veterans
message to Congress to call upon
the nation’s employers in behalf
of the veteran. He said:
“A man who has fought for
his country deserves gratitude.
But gratitude can be no substi
tute for the job he wants - and
needs.”
In responding to the Pres
ident’s request, Congress supp
orted the President’s position sa
ying “one of the most immedi
te and acute needs of members
Mobile Homes Winning Acceptance
Nationally as Permanent Homes
The mobile home rapidly is winning acceptance in much of
the United States as a permanent home, according to the
Mobile Home Manufacturers Association of Chicago.
Sales of mobile homes grew from 9<»,000 in 1961 to 241,000
last year and may exceed 300.000 in 1968. an industry spokes
man said.
With the conventional housing industry struggling to main
tain any growth at all, mobile home makers are piling up in
creases of better than 10 per cent a year and now have captured
roughly 25 per cent of the total annual new home market.
The fact that they can produce an air conditioned house
completely furnished for $5,000 to $6,000 is the big reason
trailer makers do big business.
Antwerp Zoo Hails A "First”
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Visitors to the Antwerp Zoo can admire 6 of the 14 mountain
gorillas presently flourishing in zoological surroundings: 2
males, 2 females. 1 young female and the new-born male, named
Victor, by zoo officials, the first ever to be delivered within
the confines of a zoological
garden
The Antwerp Zoo. presently
celebrating its 125th anniver
sary is delighted, as are the
visitors, that they have so
many of this rare species
together.
This "first" will certainly
attract the attention of the
world’s zoological societies
It is hoped that “Victor” will
of the Armed Forces upon dis
charge ... is to obtain early
and suitable employment in pos
itions which will enable them to
be self-reliant, which will pro
vide meaning, purpose and ful
fillment in their lives . . . .”
Mr. Tate said that employers
hiring new veterans were not si
mply helping out because of the
“great personal sacrifices” vet
erans have made to “defend free
dom and bring justice and peace to
the world.”
“In return” Mr. Tate said,
“employers will be getting men
who have gone through a period
of virorous discipline and trai
ning; men whose judgment has
matured with experience, men
whose military service is now'
behind them; men who are now
ready to want to begin their
careers, establish households
and settle down to raise families.
‘Weterans are among the most
stable and promising employee
prospects in the labor market
today,” Mr. Tate said.
thrive and other healthy an
thropoids will be bom in the
future
Brussels, where Europe be
gins, offers easy commuting
to Belgium's varied attrac
tions, including a visit to the
fascinating Antwerp Zoo.
SABENA Belgian World Air
lines' jets fly to Brussels daily
from New York.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Dewey Shirah Has Been An
Invaluable Ribb Employee
By Sara McGinty
“Sometimes when people walk
by my office and see me bending
over my desk, they think I am
asleep.’’
But appearances are highly
deceptive in the case of Dewey
O. Shirah, designer for the Por
terdale Division of Bibb. His
attention is focused on a sample
of fabric and big sheets of graph
paper to which he is transferring
the weaving pattern of the cloth.
The work is so tedious, the de
signer must rest his eyes about
every two hours, and get up and
move about to relieve back and
neck strain.
A designer in a textile plant
does not dream up and draw pretty
flowers and other patterns to be
used on the fabrics the plant pro
duces, as the uninitiated might
think. “It is the job of a sty
list,’’ Mr. Shirah says, “to cr
eate original designs.” Designs
used by Bibb are usually provi
ded by the customer to fit his
specific need and taste. The de
signer’s job is painstaking analy
tical work, starting with the cus
tomer’s sample and working out
detailed instructions for the wea
ving room to reproduce the sam
ple.
It is usually difficult for a
technician to explain to a lay
man just what he does, but Mr.
Shirah will try. He says he
gets his customer sample in a
gray (or greige) fabric and puts
it under a small but powerful
magnifying glass he calls a pick
glass. Under this he is able to
^ee each thread in the sample
and trace its journey over and
under the filling. C® his graph
paper he puts a cross mark to
indicate that the warp is on top
of the filling and leaves a blank
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space when the warp is on the
bottom side. From this design
of crosses and blanks, the wea
ving room supervisor knows how
to instruct the workers and set up
the looms to fill the order.
Textile designing is one job
not yet threatened by automation.
It obviously takes a special kind
of person to do such a highly
specialized job — above all, one
who is meticulously careful with
the tiniest details. Long years
of on-the-job training and ex
perience, plus an education in
textile engineering have prepa
red Mr. Shirah for the position
he has held since January, 1957.
Bom in Florala, Ala., Dewey
Shirah moved with his family to
Columbus while he was still in
school. During summer vacat
ions he worked in Bibb’s Colum
bus Plant, having jobs in spinn
ing, twisting and the cloth room.
In 1933 he received a degree in
textile engineering from Auburn
University, after taking a special
two-year course no longer of
fered at Auburn. After gradua
tion, he went to work in the de
signing office in the Columbus
Plant where he remained until
1934, then left for a job in Green
ville, S. C. In Greenville he
worked as a weaver in a textile
plant until July, 1936 when he
returned to Georgia and took a job
in Porterdale in Fancy Fabric
Production. Greenville called
again in April, 1940 but Dewey
needed only five months there be
fore deciding it was Georgia and
Bibb he wanted from then on out.
In September, 1940 he became
assistant overseer of weaving
at Osprey. His next move was
to the General Office of Porter
dale as designer for the division.
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til I retire.”
It was m Columbus that Dewey
met and married Grace Plem
mons of Greenville, S. C., who
was working for Bibb as a draw
ing hand. She resigned seven
years ago to become a full-time
homemaker.
The Shirahs live at 30 North
Broadway Boulevard, Porterdale
and have three children. Only
one, 17-year-old Karen, is at
home. Dewey, Jr., a salesman
living in Augusta, is the father of
three children, ranging in age
from four to 12. Dewey was a
Dean’s List student and basket
ball star at the University 'of
Georgia. The Shirah’s older
daughter, Patricia is married
to Robert Denckhoff, Jr. and li
ves in St. Louis, Mo. They have
one child. Pat, a music major
at Flora McDonald School in
Red Springs, N. C., had a gla
re arous career with the Red
Cross before her marriage. She
worked with the Recreation Di
vision of Red Cross in Korea
for 15 months during which time
she met her future husband, ser-
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Dewey O. Shirah
ving with the armed forces there.
The Porterdale designer has
used his leisure time to become
involved in community affairs.
He is a past president of Por
terdale Presbyterian Church, a
member of the Masons and Elks
and served for two terms as
President of the Porterdale Ju
nior ihgh PTA. Ms hobbles
are what one might expect for a
man whose work day is made of
unraveling tiny threads and
translating patterns to crosses
and blanks on graph paper. He
likes to watch sports events on
television and to stare at the
calm surface of a lake for a
ripple in the water that might
indicate fish are biting at his
bait!
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