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HONOREES AT MEETING of Forest Park Junior High
P.T.A. Left to right, Miss Elko Swiney, presenting to Mrs,
Trudy Boswick national PTA life membership; Mrs.
Charles Thompson, Jr., receives State life membership
from Mrs. Jim Buie.—(Photo by Hooper.)
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Farming Has Advance
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From Pitchfork to ice
A Roman peasant would
have felt right at home on
the American farm of a cen
tury ago. He would have rec
ognized the pitchfork, the
scythe, the hoe, and many
of the other tools in use. In
deed, he could step right
into a farming job in many
of the underdeveloped coun
tries today!
The changes on the Amer
ican farm over the last cen
tury have astonished the
world. More progress has
been made than in all of the
thousands of years of pre
vious agricultural history.
And the pace is speeding up
with each passing year.
Within the past 15 years,
field mechanization has
moved from the 3-plow to
the 6- and 8-plow range.
The feedlot has advanced
from the shovel to the push
button. And a whole list of
scientific improvements in
seed, fertilizer, and feeds has
revolutionized farm prac
tice.
Today's farm technology
has moved from the pitch
fork to the office. Ability to
build a square stack of hay
no longer is the mark of a
good farmer. Today, the man
who can plan and manage
is moving ahead in agricul
ture. The buying, selling,
and other management de
cisions he makes after the
consideration of the facts
and records filed in his of
fice make the greatest con
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tribution to profits. There’s
still plenty of muscle-work
left on the farm—but the
1967 farmer is paid best for
his brainwork and man
agerial ability.
Ash Street
School PTA
Meets Tues.
The next meeting of the
Ash Street School PTA will
be Tuesday, February 21, at
8 p.m. There will be a social
hour immediately preceding
at 7:30 p.m. Both the social
hour and meeting will be
held in the school cafe
torium. ,
The Reverend Clint E.
Rogers, Jr., pastor, Second
Baptist Church, will give the
devotional.
We are honored to have as
the guest speaker for this
meeting, Dr. Donald F.
Spille, executive director of
the Metropolitan Atlanta
Mental Health Association.
Dr. Spille will speak on, “A
Look at Mental Health and
Illness From a Practical
Point of View”. This should
prove to be a most interest
ing topic.
Please start making plans
now to be present.
—Mrs, Gene C. Cochran
Publicity Chairman
| Forest Park Junior High PTA
The regular meeting of
the Forest Park Junior High
School PTA was held Tues
day, February 7, in the
school cafetorium. A lovely
rendition of “I'll Climb the
Highest Mountain” was sung
by Becky, Martha, Linda
and Donna Currie, accom
panied by Nita Bowlden at
the piano. Debbie Foster
brought a message on Tri-
Hi-Y and Hi-Y, and Penny
Jones presented the Flag
Ceremony.
Mrs. Barbara Gaultney
presented the Founder’s Day
Program, “A Time to Re
member.”
Mrs. Betty Hardeman was
nominated as our represent
ative for the “Mrs. PTA of
Clayton County” contest.
Life membership to the
State PTA was presented to
Mrs. Charlie Thompson by
Jim Buie. Mrs. Thompson is
president of the Hendrix
Drive PTA and first vice
president of our PTA., Mrs.
Elmo Swiney presented a
Life Membership to the Na
tional PTA to Mrs. Trudy
Boswick,
Carson Geiger presented
books to the <chool library
in honor t + lunch room
staff. Tresc sere received
by Mrs, Sar olan.,
A nomunating committee
to nominate officers to be
elected for the coming school
year was appointed as fol
lows: Chairman, Mrs. Gilly
Gullion; Mrs. Edna Hendrix,
Mrs. Robert Hoeft, Mrs.
Louise Corley and Mr. Jen
nings.
A special commendation
goes to Mrs. Iris Chasteen
and the members of the
hospitality committee for
the beautiful decorations
and delicious refreshments
for the Founder’s Day Pro
gram and previous programs
presented this year. This
committee has done a won
derful job.
—MTrs. L. A. Brooks
Publicity Chairman
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Blessing of
Abundant
Food
Food is so plentiful and so
cheap in relation to income
that few in the U.S. really
worry about hunger. But
this is one of the few places
on earth where abundance is
a fact. Somewhere between
half and two-thirds of all
the world go to bed hun
gry every night. Starva
tion is the oldest threat to
mankind. The Bible tells
how famine forced the peo
ple of Israel to migrate to
Egypt. Today, thousands of
years later, people still are
starving in the famines of
India, Africa and Latin
America.
History is filled with wars
that have been fought over
food supplies. With the spec
tacular development of tech
nology, men are beginning
to learn that it is less dif
ficult to produce food and
other wealth through their
own efforts than it is to take
it from neighbors or from
colonies. The quest for
wealth and food through
war has been futile in this
century. It is possible to be
come rich only by going to
work, not by organizing for
eign legions to take wealth
from others,
Some 200 years ago, Mal
thus forecast a tendency for
population to out-run the
food supply. Recent projec
tions of six billion people on
earth within 30 years have
raised new fears. It seems
desirable that the world
have as many people as can
enjoy a high level of health,
education, housing, food and
other aspects of a good life.
But only American style
technology applied on a
massive scale around the
world can provide food for
the growth ahead.
The dream of abundant
food is closer to reality than
it has ever been. The U.S.
farmer shows what must be
done to make it possible. The
answer is to increase the
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Has Goodwill
Program
The Forest Park Kiwanis
program was presented by
Bill Sperr of the Goodwill
Industries. 7
The program .proved to be
very interesting and infor
mational, explaining the op
eration and function of
Goodwill Industries. Mem
bers found it heart-warming
to learn how much is being
done by the Goodwill people
toward the rehabilitation of
so many unfortunate people.
efficiency of agriculture and
emphasize those measures
which upgrade the capa
bility and quality of people.
An acceptable balance be
tween population and food is
attainable—it has already
been reached in much of the
western world.
—Harvestore, Inc.
ARTHUR GODFREY
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groups, the equally frighten
ing mushrooming of federal
control, and, far worse the
appalling apathy of our
security - oriented urban
masses, all these things at
home add to the heartbreak
ing decline of the American
image abroad and at home,
quite as much as the plaque
of the tourists we send
abroad each year, not to
mention the spontaneous
opportunism which often
passes for foreign policy.
I detest the necessity for
this new streak of militarism
in our lives, but do you
know, the only place in
which I have recently seen
any real sign of patriotic de
votion, any real display of
pride in America, is in our
American Armed Forces in
Vietnam. How I wish my
fellow Americans back home
here could be imbued with
the same selfless, dedicated
spirit.
As you know, I have only
recently returned from a
month of visiting with our
troops in Vietnam, Thialand,
Guam and the Philippines,
and I cannot see that our or
deal in the Far East is any
thing less than tragically
heroic, a miserable national
burden, the politics of which
I am not competent to judge,
but the motives of which
seem to me staunch and
proper. |
Now, through neglect and
wishful thinking, we havei
badly botched our racial |
problems in America, but the
world has no right to sneer
at our torments. Os all the
countries with a really des
perate color problem, only
we here in the United States
are still trying to solve it by
means which are progres
sive. As a matter of fact,
there is much nobility in our
racial agony today, the clash
of intellect against instinct,
of law against prejudice,
the gradual, majestic prog
ress of good versus evil. Yes,
slowly, tortuously slowly,
justice is emerging from it
all.
We Americans should take
heart. We should try to
throw the sense of guilt that
heart. We should try to throw
off the sense of guilt that
separates us from the poor
states of Africa and Asia.
We feel guilty because we
read somewhere that we
ought to feel guilty, and yet,
what is there to feel guilty
about in a nation that has
done more for ordinary hu
man happiness than any
other in the history of the
world? And without chau
vinism or bombast.
No, dear friends, there are
guilty men but no guilty na
tions, and if ever a country
was entitled to feel some
proper pride in what it has
done for the world, what it
has stood for consistently
down through the years, it
is, if I may be permitted to
recoin an almost forgotten
phrase, the good old U.S.A.
Let us remember, with
quiet pride, that those of the
world who mock and abuse
us, do so mostly out of pique.
They really envy us, deep
down, the grand responsi
bilities and the opportunities
of power, the marvelous
prizes and terrible duties.
They fiddle about with petty
criticisms, knocking us here,
deriding us there because
they are subsidiary to the
great design. They resent
our supremacy because in
our new world, uncourtly,
often naive, even uncouth
manner, we may appear to
be trying to force upon them
the blessings of a free so
ciety we’'d really only like to
share with them.
Let us be brave and take
pride in the fact that we
still have the decency to
squabble about what’s best,
even for us.
They think they could do
better, but, in the name of
Good, I would love to see
them try.
God bless you, young peo
ple. I have great faith in our
country because of folks like
you. I am honored, indeed,
to have this opportunity to
greet you and welcome you
here to Kansas City.
Thank you.
‘A Changing Agriculture |
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lation has risen about 70 per
cent. We must learn to live
with super-abundance until
production and market de
mands are brought into bet
ter balance. Agriculture’s
central problem is one of
balanice. . s
Low farm income is of
course a result of these
mounting surpluses, and
more disturbing is the dis
parity between prices of the
things the farmers have to
sell and the prices of the
products they have to buy.
Prices received by farmers
in 1965 were 2% less than
those received in 1963, prices
paid by farmers in 1965 were
10% higher than they were
in 1963, farm prices have
been declining for several
years and the cost price
squeeze has brought less
money to the farmer, since
1945. Non farmer prices
have been increasing and
the consumer’s food dollar
was 47 cents, and in 1959 it
was 38 cents, and it is now
only 35 cents of each dollar,
the lowest since 1939. The
Atlanta Constitution of Feb
ruary 1 stated that the in
come of Georgia’s farmer
for 1959 was $256,100,000
some $65,000,000 below the
1957 level. We must recog
nize that the farmer’s cur
rent plight is not entirely of
his own making. Govern
ment programs encouraged
him to delay production ad
justment after the war. As
surpluses piled up prices
went down, and the farmer
was caught in a cost price
squeeze that made produc
tion adjustment even more
difficult.
Recently, an Atlanta
Banker, in speaking to an
audience of farmers and
bankers used this significant
phrase—‘“Consider the man,
the land, and the plan.” This
three-fold idea is set forth
in Mr. Sibley’s admonition.
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farmer born to the soil?
What should be his plan?
Continued education is part
of it. He needs to know the
latest agricultural . n;pthods
and add them so the expe
rience he has already gained
as a farmer. By diversifying
his crops and continually
studying the market, he
needs to make the most of
the land that is left him.
But more important is for
the farmer to increase his
reliance on local financing
and local leadership instead
of government aid.
Local business men under
stand local conditions and
by helping the farmer they
help themselves. They can
encourage the farmer to stay
on the farm where his skill
is needed . . . such a plan
makes sense. It is practical,
an optimistic goal for the
man and the land.
This quotation shows us
that the realities of the
changing farm scene must
be faced squarely by the
entire nation—by producers
and consumers, by farm pol
icy makers and farm pro
gram administrators, and by
commerce and industry.
Lt. Field, Morrow,
Commissioned
Willard M. Field, whose
mother is Mrs. Mary C.
Huguley of 110 Pleasant Val
ley Dr, Morrow, Ga. was
recently commissioned a
second lieutenant upon com
pletion of the Air Force Re
serve Officers Training
Corps (AFROTC) program
at Georgia Institute of
Technology.
Lieutenant Field also re
ceived his BS degree at the
institute and is a member of
Phi Kappa Theta.
The lieutenant is a 1962
graduate of Marist College
High School.
His wife is the former
Katherine M, Keith.
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Production and marketing
food is the nation’s largest
business. It is three times
larger than automobile
manufacturing, bigger than
steel, and bigger than areo
space.- The developments in
this great industry may not
be as dramatic as space
travel, but they seem more
important to the people of
the United States and to the
world.
The $77.6 billion spent for
food last year was 12% of
the country’s $713.9 billion
gross national product. Our
farms employ 4,125,000 fam
ily workers and 1,484,000
hired workers. Net income of
farmers is nearly sl6 billion
per year.
The food marketing indus
try employs 5,000,000 workers
ranging from unskilled la
borers to highly skilled
scientists. Their payrolls are
$22 billion each year.
Farming and marketing
industries not only are im
portant because they supply
food—they also represent a
substantial portion of the
country’s business activity.
What is good for farmers
usually is good for the na
tion’s economy. ;
—Harvestore, Inc.
Buying meat today is quite
different from a few years \
ago, according to Miss Nelle
Thrash, home economist
with the Cooperative Exten
sion Service. There are 135
different kinds and cuts of
meat in the large supermar
kets.
Lower food prices for pork,
poultry and eggs are ex
pected because of increased
supplies of these commodi
ties, according to Miss Lora
Laine, extension home eco
nomist.