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Under The Act of March 3, 1879
Published in The City of Pembroke Every Thursday
Flank O. Miller Owner and Editor
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Ye Editor Will Celebrate
64th Birthday Sunday, July 14
Friends From All Over Georgia Will Be Invited To
Needmore Farm For The Annual
Birthday Celebration
Every year we more or less figure that “well this will be
our last birthday celebration,” but as the time draws near
and so many of our friends tell us, “I am coming to your
birthday party this year,” and while it is a big job to get the
food and necessary arrangements prepared for thg event,
still we get a great kick out of having our friends come and
spend the day with us: So again this year we are throwing
wide open the doors and gates to Needmore Farm and invit
ing all of our friends, to come and spend the day with us and
help celebrate having reached the 64th Mile Post along Life’s
Highway From the Cradle to The Grave.
The celebration will be held on Sunday, July 14th, as
that is the nearest Sunday to our actual birthday, which is
the 16th, and it has been our custom in the past years to have
our birthday parties on the Sunday nearest our birthday. We
would be most happy to have all of our friends gather with
us at our little home in Pembroke, enjoy a good barbecue
dinner with the trimmings, meet your other friends and let
all of us have a good time. After all “time is running out on
us,” and at the best there can’t be many more celebrations
for Ye Editor at Needmore Farm, we are getting along well
towards the end of “life’s highway,” and we have no promise
of there ever being another.
But at that we have much to be thankful for, and we arc,
we are enjoying unusually good health, working harder than
we ever have before, (but it seems to agree with us), we
eat every and anything we have the opportunity to, and while
old Father Time has "cut down our activities in some phases
of life,” still we are not letting the gray hairs and old age
get us down, we still have young ideas, and get about a great
deal more than you might imagine.
But, in all seriousness, we feel that we have more friends
than we are entitled to, we appreciate each and every one
of them, and we are th'e happiest when we have our friends
around us and enjoy talking to and have them talk with us.
We are going to be greatly disappointed if any one of our
special friends fall to come to Needmore Farm on Sun
day, July 14th. We are going to be looking for you, so come.
There will be some “special” invitations mailed out, but
it is not necessary for you to get one, if you are our friend
and would like to attend our birthday celebration on Sunday,
July 14th, at my home, NEEDMORE FARM, in the City of
Pembroke, come right on, you will find the latch string on
the outside and a warm welcome by Ye Editor and his wife,
who does most of the work while we get the glory.
We will be expecting you.
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(Editor’t Note: The follow
ing is the second in a series of
three columns dealing with the
nation's agricultural crisis.)
IN ITS REPORT on the appro
priations bill for the Department
of Agriculture, the House Commit
tee on Appropriations pointed out
that there are “inherent contradic
tions” in the present farm program
which make it impossible for it to
remedy the problems it was de
mised to solve.
% The Committee
observed that,
while recom
mending the ex
penditure of $1
billion through
the Soil Bank
Program to re
k duce production,
I the Department,
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on the other hand, proposes to ex
pand the research programs to
increase crop yields. Furthermore,
while advocating drastically-re
duced production, it is invoking
the two greatest incentives for in
creased production—further reduc
tions in acreage allotments and
support prices.
WHILE A LARGE portion of the
blame for the current agricultural
crisis rests with Agriculture De
partment policy makers who are
attempting to ride in all directions
at once, part of the trouble lies
with the agricultural laws passed
in 1938.
At that time the United States
produced such a large share of the
world’s supply of basic farm com
modities, it was felt that the reg
ulation of domestic production
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Sec. Benson Asks
Fair Trail For
Soil Bank
“Farmers deserve a fair trial of
, the Soil Bank," Secretary Benson
I recently told an audience of Ne
; braska farmers. He said, "The
Soil Bank, as you well know, was
set up to maintain farm income
’ while cutting down production of
! surplus crops. The Acreage Re
; serve is a temporary, emergency
measure. ... If the Acreage Re
serve is allowed to work it can
i lessen the undue stimulus to live
■ stock production and the downward
. pressure on livestock prices. . , .
The Acreage Reserve did not have
a fair trial last year.”
The Secretary declared that, al
though it was contrary to his phil
osophy to pay farmers for not
producing, farmers cannot be ex
pected to bear the complete bur
den of adjustment in a situation
which is a national responsibility.
The Secretary also pointed out
that surpluses have been diminish
ing for the past 16 months, and
that, if the acres in the reserve
this year are forced back into
production next year, the costs of
supports could be greater than
would have been the cost of an
1 Acreage Reserve Program for 1958
basic crops. Surpluses, he predict
ed, will again pile up at a cost to.
taxpayers and a loss to farmers.
Secretary Benson said that the
livestock future is brightening and
that the familiar cycle in cattle
numbers apparently lias turned. A
7-year expansion in cattle on U.S.
farms has come to an end. After
climbing from about 77 million at
the beginning of 1949 to nearly 1
97 million head at the beginning I
of 1956, the cattle inventory this
past January was down by 1.6 mil
lion. And what is more important,
the Secretary commented, the cow
herd alone was reduced by 1.2
million from the high level of
1955. Hog production also has
eased off, and market prices of
cattle and hogs are now generally
2.00 to $3.00 per hundred pounds
higher than at this time last year.
He was of the opinion that the
decrease in cattle numbers would
continue for a time but that a big
drop in numbers such as occurred
in 1934 and 1937 is not expected.
GRIFFIN ALMOST
SPEECHLESS WHEN
BIG MOMENT CAME
ATIANTA, — (GPS) Folks in
Pulaski County worked long and
diligently in preparation for“ Ma
rvin Griffin Day” which was plann
ed to coincide with the Governor’s
visit to Hawkinsville to dedicate a
new unit of the Georgia prison
system. But they almost didn’t get
to hear the speech Gov. Griffin
had prepared for the occasion.
What happened was this: After
he took off by plane from Dobbins
Air Base, his staff at the Capitol
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would serve to stabilize world sup
plies. Time and experience have
shown, however, that production
curbs at home have been matched
by increases abroad.
This has been further aggravated
by foreign aid programs under
which this country has sent 738
technicians overseas to improve
foreign agriculture coupled with
the policy of withholding American
commodities from competition on
the world market. As a direct re
sult the value of surplus agricul
tural products held by the Com
modity Credit Corpofhtion has
soared from $2.6 to $8.2 billion
since 1953.
• • •
IN THE LIGHT of these con
tradictions, the House Appropria
tions Committee raised two basic
questions which must be resolved
' if any benefit is to accrue from the
, present farm program. It said:
"If it is sound to expand
production through increases
■ for the various programs of
the Department, it is highly
questionable whether the Con
| gress should appropriate large
sums for the acreage reserve
under th^ Soil Bank. If it is
, ■ sound to reduce production, as
. the Secretary proposes, he i
should be required to stop re
’ during price supports and cut
ting acreage when his own
records show that increased
, production has been the result
of these actions during the
s past few years."
discovered he'd left his speech be
hind. Ordinarily this wouldn’t have
been too bad because Griffin is
well known as a speaker par ex
cellence, whether with or without
a prepared text.
But even he nardiy could
. expected to ad-lib the many facts
and figures dealing with the penal
system that had been set down on
paper. So, his aides got in touch
with a friend of the Governor’s in
Cochran and dedicated the speech
' to his secretary,
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At the same time they relayed
a message to the Governor’s plane
via the airport control tower, that
he didn't have his speech but that
a copy would be waiting for him
। in Cochran on the way from Macon
to Hawkinvilje. With speech in
hand, the chief executive told his ,
audience:
“I shall be forever grateful for 1 1
this occasion and it will remain 1
as one of the red-letter days of c
I my career in public office. . . .
With the addition of this newly- *
constructed unit, there are now (
15 state-operated prison units in '
Georgia. Seven of these have been
constructed since Jannary, 1955, at 1
a cost of $420,000.
“This program has allowed the i
inmates to utilize their skills in
learning new trades.”
Supreme Court
Must Be 'Bridled',
Asserts Talmadge
ATLANTA. — It's becoming in
creasingly apparent that more
and more Americans are becoming
giavly disturbed over the way the
U. S. Supreme Court is conducting
itself these days. And one of the
most outspoken of these disturbed
citizens is Georgia’s U. S. Sen.
Herman E. Talmadge.
In his latest criticism of the
high court, promted by series of
decisions handed down in a single
day recently, Talmadge said the
Supreme Court “continued their
unrestrained attempt to set them
selves up as a -nine-man dicator
ship of this nation.,, The count,
he declared, should be “bridled.”
"For many years I have been
trying to point out the calculated
effort of this court to destroy state
soverignty and local government,
to amend our Constitution, and to 1
usurp the prerogatives of the Con- 1
gress to legislate for the people,''
he asserteed.
“In one of the decisions (just I
handed down) the court even at- i
tempted to put restraints upon the I
power of Congress to investigate. .
Investigation is absoutely essen- I
tian if the Congress is to make |
laws reflecting the will of the ।
L people.
“A man who freely admitted that ;
he associated and cooperated with ;
known Communist was freed from I
a conviction of contempt of Con-
• gress because he refused to answer :
i a guestion on the ground that his i
“Conscience would not permit him. I
If we are to have witnesses i ■-
i fuse to answer questions in the I
i courts and before congressional |
i committees it will completely di -1
nipt both the judicial and :< i.Ji-
I tiv. proc.dures of this nation.-”
■ Sen. Talmadge quoted Thomas '
Jefferson as having said: “The
judicial branch is the instrument
i which, working like gravity, with
i out intermission, is to press us at
last into consolidated mass." The
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junior senator went on to say that i
“the Supreme Court, as Jefferson ।
night stealing, away the liberties
predicted, is like a thief in the
of our people.
“The only hope for reversing
this trend and putting the Supreme
Court back to ruling on laws rather
than usurping the power of Con-
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The traffic it will bear: 230,000 volts. That
is twice the voltage carried by any other
line in the state. It is a thousand times
the highest voltage used in the home.
The recently completed transmission line
reaches 102 miles from Plant Yates, on the
Chattahoochee river below Carrollton, to a
giant new substation at Bonaire, south of
Macon.
To provide electricity whenever and wher
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। gress is that the people of the
I U, S. awake to this grave threat
and arise in righteous indignation
to demand that thebridle, which
Jefferson, George Mason, Eldridge
Gerry and other patriots who gave
us our form of government wanted
to put on the Supreme Court, is
promqtly and premently applied.”
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