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Uni ess Parity Achieved
Local Farm Group May
Go On Strike Dec. 14
Georgia farmers plan a
statewide strike on
December 14 it their
demands for "100 percent
parity" are not met,
Wendell Kersey of
Henderson told the Home
Journal Monday. The
nationwide farm strike
idea was organized
September 12 in
Springfield, Colorado, he
added, and said 44 states
have already set up
organizations.
The Georgia group
plans to meet this
Thursday night at 8:00
p.m. in the Unadilla High
School gymnasium and is
expecting up to 10,000
persons, according to
Wendell's brother,
Tommy. Officials of the
Middle Georgia strike
force will be elected at
that meeting.
At midnight Thursday
the South Georgia far
mers plan to begin an 18-
hour, 100 mile, tractor
drive through Georgia to
focus attention on their
needs. They will be
escorted by Georgia State
Troopers on the trek. The
Middle Georgia farmers
are not involved in this
effort, Wendell Kersey
stated.
The middle Georgia
group basically wants
one hundred percent crop
parity. Kersey told the
Home Journal Tuesday
morning that "corn and
most other crops are at
the same prices they
were twenty years ago. In
the meantime, equipment
costs and other costs of
farming are five times as
high as they were in 1957.
We simply are not
recovering our in
vestments now on
anything but peanuts."
He continued, "Now the
government is changing
the peanut program.
We're already losing
money on most other
crops. Now we don't know
what the peanut parity
will be either."
In a letter distributed
from the national strike
headquarters in
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Are you all sick of all
the Halloween goodies by
now? Well, you have a
year to recuperate! I do
hope it was a safe and
happy Halloween for
everyone.
Saturday Mr. and Mrs.
Buster Hamsley along
with two of their sons,
Terry and Kenneth and
their daughter, Sandra
Harper, visited with their
oldest son, Danny and his
wife, Ann, in Athens and
they alt attended the
Georgia- Richmond
game.
I was glad to see Sherry
Huff Rogers and her
daughter, Kelly, home
this week for a visit.
Sherry, Ben and Kelly
now live in Tallahassee,
Florida. As I write this,
Sherry's father, Rev.
Tom Huff, is doing better
but is still a patient in the
Perry-Houston County
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Vic
Thompson and Darrell
visited the George
Pfleffers in Adel Sunday.
Friday night David, the
boys and I spent a very
enjoyable evening with
some friends, the Jim
Ellis family, who live just
outside of Cordele.
Dee and Lucy Henson
and their children were
visited last Thursday and
Friday by relatives, Mrs.
Nell Griffin and Mrs.
Annette Driskell from
Moultrie.
Cynthia Adams was
home over the weekend
with her family, the Mark
Colorado, the
headquarters urges all
American farmers on
December 14 to cease any
farming activities, in
cluding purchase of
materials and equip
ment, unless Congress by
midnight December 13
acts on their request.
Higher governmental
prices on soybeans,
wheat, livestock and all
other agricultural
commodities are needed,
Tommy Kersey says. He
gave the Home Journal a
copy of the letter from
Colorado that says more
than one fourth of all
American farmers will be
forced to refinance
current loans or liquidate
their assets to meet loan
payments unless 100
percent parity is
established.
The letter says, "The
farm family is facing
extinction. For the past 20
years, American
agriculture has had to
bear the burden of
maintaining U.S. balance
of trade with the rest of
the world. Agricultural
prices have been us' by
the state departme’ a
bargaining leve ith
foreign nations."
"Profits have long been
marginal on American
farms and ranches.
Under the existing
programs and marketing
structures, it has become
impossible even to meet
the costs of production.
The current action is not
an appeal tor price
support, for the creation
of a faulty economy tor
agriculture, or for
government subsidies. It
is rather a rejection of the
current farm program,"
the group adds.
Kersey said, "Ac
cording to section 101 of
the USDA Economic
Stability Act of 1977, we
are asking that
agricultural products
prices be increased or
decreased on a periodic
basis to justify increases
in production costs and
living costs tor us-the
Adams. Tuesday Betty
Adams spent the day in
Hawkinsville with Mark's
mother, Mrs. L.B.
Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Knowles from Macon
visited Sunday with Mrs.
Marie Yawn and her
family. In the afternoon
Tim and Mary Yawn and
little Terry Dale came
over to visit.
The adults of the
Community Mission
Baptist Church enjoyed a
get together Friday
evening at Dee and Lucy
Henson's home. The
ladies at the church will
be studying Sarah
Monday evening at 7:30
p.m. at the Henson home
on Thunder Drive. Any
ladies of the community
who would like to is
welcome to join them.
Last Wednesday
evening Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Hutto visited with
their friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Waters from
lowa down In Cordele. On
Friday the Huttos went to
Moultrie to visit with
their daughter and her
family, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Singletary and
girls.
We are now into
November which to me
conjures up visions of lots
of autumn leaves
everywhere, cooler days
and nights and turkey! I
hope you have a good
week. May God bless and
keep you.
Hinky of Hayneville
producers. It means
simply a fair price tor our
Catholic
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St. Patrick's Ladies Guild is sponsoring its
“Fall Festival” on November 5, from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. at the parish hall on St. Patrick’s Drive in
Perry. A television and afghan will be raffled,
and on sale will be a multitude of baked goods,
Christmas items, and "junk” items. Left to right
behind the assortment of goods are: Portia
Christian, Joan Haas, Leona Aromatorio, Estelle
Forchette, Deanna Borden, Bertha Duckworth,
Irene Habitzruther, and Florence Rudden.
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