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4-H CLUB ACHIEVEMENT WEEK--NOVEMBER 6-14
Chattooga 4-H’ers Have
Outstanding Records
OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP—HELEN OWINGS
Helen Owings, a 16-year-old 4-H club member of Gore community
made her first War Bond address—a four-minute speech to the Sum
merville-Trion Rotary Club which brought the sale of $109,950 in bonds.
The speech also won her a job with the Trion Manufacturing Company
a textile firm in the county.
Helen won a scholarship to Savannah early in September to take
part on the program and to see the 4-H Club Liberty Ship, the S. S.
Hoke Smith, launched. Later she was the guest of Penelope Penn and
Rich’s in Atlanta over their WSB personality program.
She also attended the first State 4-H Club Congress in Atlanta,
where she spoke on “We did it before and we can do it again” to the en
tire group. The title of Junior Champion War Bond Salesman of 4-H
Clubs in the United States was bestowed on her at this time. Mr.
Cheatham of the State War Bond Savings Staff presented her with a
“Minute Man” medal and said Helen would later receive a special cita
tion from Secretary Morgenthau, of the treasury department.
Helen has been given a free trip to the National 4-H Club Congress
and will speak at the Thomas E. Wilson dinner where there will be ap
proximately 1,600 4-H club members, 4-H club leaders, extension agents
and special guests.
CLOTHING WINNER—CHARLOTTE BALLENGER
Charlotte Ballenger, of Gore 4-H Club, has followed her 4-H Club
motto “to make the best better” for six years and has done excellent
work in all of her projects.
She won the county honors in the County-Wide Fashion Revue and
entered the District Style Revue in Athens. She was one of the district
winners there and was presented the material to make a three-piece wool
outfit from Rich’s in Atlanta.
Miss Ballenger was a contestant in the State Style Revue held ar
thp State 4-H Club Congress in Atlanta in October and was a blue rib
bon winner there. Her enure outfit including accessories cost approx
imately $25.00.
Charlotte has been a good all-round club member, being president
of her community club, vice-president of County 4-H Council, worked
with younger members and their projects, and with general programs.
She was selected this year as a 4-H Club Commando and did some ex
cellent work in the sale of bonds, salvage drives and the enrollment
campaign during 4-H Mobilization Week.
Charlotte is now in college at GSCW in Milledgeville, but her cloth
ing interest is still with her and she is majoring in Home Economics.
YEAST BREADS—BARBARA KIMBELL
This is four years of good 4-H Cub work that Barbara has finished
and she is trying to make the best better in all her 4-H projects.
Barbara is 12 years old and has been making bread for three years.
She entered the County Yeast Bread Contest with plain and fancy rolls
and a loaf of bread and walked ofi with the county honors.
Barbara has taken active part in 4-H Club work such as salvage
campaigns, bond drives, enrollments, etc. Then, too she is secretary o
her club for this year and with three other girls gave a demonstration
on Victory garden insects to four different ladies’ clubs.
QUICK BREADS—JULIA ANN GARVIN
4-H Club members start learning home-making practices early in
life and Julia Ann is on her way a'ready.
Julia Ann is a 11-year-old 4-H Club member of Menlo and has been
practicing the making of biscuits and corn meal muffins this year and
won the County Bread-Making Contest in June. She also entered the
district contest and won honorable mention there.
She is also learning to make her own clothes and entered one oi
her dresses that she had made in the County Dress Revue and won sec
ond place and a medal there.
HEALTH—MARGARET BREWER
The fourth H of the emblem of 4-H Clubs represent Health, which
is essential to health and success. As a 4-H member, they always pledge
their health to better living.
In the county-wide 4-H Health Contest, Margaret Brewer, of Lyerly
4-H Club, was the healthiest girl in the county. She entered the dis
trict health contest with her records in Athens and won honorable men
tion there.
BEEF PROJECTS
Melvin Plunkett continues to increase his beef herd and to improve
quality of same. Three years ago Melvin bought a grade Angus steer
borrowing money from the local bank to pay for the steer. The steer
was fattened out and sold at the Rome Fat Cattle Sale and Show in the
spring. The clear money received from this animal and that made
from other projects has been used to increase and improve his beef herd.
Melvin has now increased his herd to one purebred Hereford bull
one purebred Hereford heifer, one a’most pure Hereford cow and sev
eral good grade calves.
Melvm has only sold very little from his herd for the past two years
but is getting in good shape to be ready to help feed our armed forces
with some good steaks. Boys like Melvin who are taking interest in the
work and getting started in with livestock will some day be our leading
livestock farmers.
The parents of Melvin are to be congratulated for the encourage -
ment and help they have given. These parents are helpmg in every way
possible and, above all, not like some, the boy does not have the project
and the father the pocketbook. The boy is now in business for himsel .
Congratulations, Melvin, and Chattooga county is looking forward tc
having another good farmer located in the county.
There are many other 4-H Club boys in the county who are doing
many of the things Mslvin is doing and certainly deserve honorable
mention.
Dill Ballenger, Jr., and Herby have purchased a purebred Hereford
male. This male was bought to replace a grade. Dill and Herby have
several good Hereford females and are well started on the road to be
coming real livestock farmers. These two boys along with the father are
taking advantage of soil-building practices and are improving their
pasture as fast as possible.
Among the others who are doing a real job with beef cattle are:
Clyde Fulton, Willard Hendrix, Weyman High, Billie Chapman, Bob Ed
wards, Terry Williams. Herby and Ralph Cook, Bob Strawn, Tom Hill
Hutchins, Ernest Massey, Ernest Lee Hutchins, Carlton and J. T. Cordle
and Clinton Brown.
Jim Earl Reece, of Lyerly 4-H Club, has chosen dairy cattle for his
project. Jim Earl did not choose a scrub calf to start with, but rather
selected a purebred Guernsey cow. Jim Earl’s cow is nc/w fresh and
showed in competition at the County Fair with all dairy cows and won
grand championship.
Jim Earl has chosen a project which requires a little more financial
backing probably than some. Two calves from this cow, however, will
probably pay for her and have him clear of debts.
Jim Earl is doing one of the many things which will help to keep
America strong in producing one of the most essential foods.
Again projects of this kind will create interest enough in farming
to keep our youth on the farm. Jim Earl and his parents are to be con
gratulated.
PIGS
Several boys have chosen pigs as a project and are doing a splendid
job of producing much needed food. Among those doing a splendid job
are:
Billy Mills, Fermon Owens, Ray Williams and Arthur Lee Brewer of
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1943.
Chattooga County 4-H Members Observing
National 4-H Achievement Week
Four-H club members in Chattooga county are joining the nation’s
homefront army of 4-H club members this week in taking time out to
check up on their war-time activities and 1943 accomplishments.
Nov. 6-14 has been designated as National 4-H Club Achievement
Week and the 1,700,000 club members throughout the nation are report
ing to their clubs, communities, counties, states and nation on what
they have done to help win the war, and the results of regular 4-H
project activities.
Here in Chattooga county, community achievement programs are
being held in the following 4-H clubs:
Monday—Menlo and Teloga 4-H clubs.
Tuesday—Lyerly, Berryton and Pennville clubs.
Wednesday—Subligna, Gore and Echols clubs.
And all of the 4-H clubs in the county will come together on Friday.
Nov. 12 for a county-wide Achievement Day at the county courthouse.
The club members are reviewing one of their most successful years
They have made an outstanding record in the sale of war bonds and
are producing a bumper food crop. They have been active in salvage
drives and other war-time activities. Enrollment has greatly increased
this year.
Chattooga County 4-H members put on a most successful 4-H Mob
ilization week early in 1943 and 257 new members resulted from their ef
"orts. 475 members have carried Victory Garden projects this year and
225 participated in the “Food for Fighters” activity in which they
pledged to grow enough food to feed for a year the men from Chattooga
county serving in the armed forces. This food included beef, pork,
poultry, Irish and sweet potatoes and eggs.
The 4-H Clubs competed with each other in the collecting of sal
vage with Lyerly 4-H Club being the winner of the cash prize. They
have collected 77,000 pounds of scrap metal, 6,000 pounds of rubber and
5,000 pounds of other salvage.
The Georgia 4-H members bought a station wagon ambulance and
gave it to the American Red Cross Chapter in Atlanta and Chattooga
county club members donated $75.00 toward the ambulance.
Seventy-one “4-H Club Commandos” were organized in different
clubs over the entire county to reach into every farm home with war
time programs. The Commandos are outstanding club members who
volunteer to contact a certain number of homes on special programs.
Some of them this year included scrap drives, bond campaigns, enroll
ments and project and record completions.
The County 4-H Club Council which is composed of all officers of
the Community clubs sponsored the 4-H Liberty Ship Bond Drive. The
county ranked third place in the State of Georgia with the total sales
of $889,950.00 in war bonds. Most of these were small denominational
bonds from people who had not bought many bonds before.
The Council also sponsored a lunch stand at the County Fair and
cleared SIOO.OO to be placed in their treasury for use of scholarships to
outstanding club members.
A Tri-County 4-H C’ub Short Course was held at Camp Wahsega,
near Dahlonego, this summer with 35 boys and girls attending. There
they studied rock, soil and minerals, handicraft, wildlife and wholesome
recreation. Those going to camp were chosen from the best records of
the year.
Chattooga county 4-H club members have set an example and a goal
that challenges the youth of this nation to a stronger Victory program
in 1944.
Food for Fighters of Chattooga County
Early this year there was a plan set up whereby Chattooga county
4-H club members could make a direct contribution to the nation’s war
effort along with the rest of Georgia’s club members —a plan that had
been endorsed by a member of the Regional War Production Board. It
has had a greater appeal to young people than any plan offered to
stimulate food production.
The 4-H Club members selected as one of their war jobs for 1943 the
production for market (insofar as possible) a year’s supply of the f'"*
lowing foods to feed all of the people serving in the armed forces fi\ e i r
Chattooga county. After the project was started all the 4-H membt> ec
wrote to some one of their selection that is serving the armed forces
from the county and told them what the 4-H’ers were doing in the way
of food production.
All reports show that this goal will be reached in the county as
they have concentrated on growing seven basic foods—beef, pork, poul
try, peanuts, Irish and sweet potatoes and eggs—and have grown large
amounts of all.
_ The county winners are Charline Hutchins of Menlo 4-H Club and
Fermon Owens of Gore 4-H Club. Charline is a natural leader in her
•lub and has been president for the past two years and she made a
grand effort to get her Club to be 100% in the Food for Fighters project
Charline and her family have put approximately 10,000 pounds of beef,
850 pounds of pork, 390 pounds of poultry, 820 dozen eggs and 2,860
pounds of potatoes on the market this year.
Fermon Owens, who lives on top of Little Sand Mountain, by the
help and the co-operation of his family, enlarged on his projects and
increased the number of them and really pushed back his hat in this
project. He sold 14 small pigs, 2,492 pounds of poultry and 7,902 dozen
eggs. Besides these he sold 5,200 pounds of sweet potatoes, 4,000 pounds
of tomatoes and 125 bunches of turnips.
Besides having all of this food to be placed on the market for some
boy in the armed service, Fermon has made quite a bit of profit from
this particular project.
Two thirds of Chattooga county’s club members took active part
in this project.
the Gore 4-H Club.
Billy Bishop, Charles Crawford. Eugene Dotson, Billie Joe Jones
Charles Floyd and others of Lyerly Club.
Hal Wilson, Jimmy Willingham, Howard Welch, Billy Ward, Hen
derson Jones, Ernest Massey, Tom Hill Hutchins and Harold Bryant of
Menlo Club.
Aubry and J. W. Conaway, Carl Fowler, Jr., Hugh Murdock and
others of Subligna Club.
Roy York of Teloga Club.
Hugh Murdock, Aubry Conaway, Ray Williams and several others
started out this spring with purebred gilts. Luck to you boys and here’s
hoping you have some good good pigs for sale.
Many of the boys have chosen crops for projects and this year have
done unusually well considering the scarcity of fertilizer and other
handicaps.
Most every boy has chosen some part of a food for fighter project.
The 4-H Club boys have shown the girls and grown-ups too that boys
can and have produced good gardens and truck crops. Many brothers
and sisters have worked together in producing and preserving foods.
This makes a splendid combination. Let’s have more of it next year.
Those boys who have unusually good records and are producing for
market crops of this nature are: Charles P. Hamilton, Clinton Brown,
of Subligna; Fermon Owens, Harold and Oliver Cargle, Max Cooper, J.
B. King, Jr., Wyles Thompson from Gore Club.
Those choosing poultry and who have led the way in producing
food for our fighters are:
Branson Gaylor, Donald Smith, Hannah McDaniel, Melba Reece,
Wallace Johnson from Lyerly; Juahita Massey, Robert Massey, Char
line Hutchins from Menlo Club; Wylma Brown, Ruby Ellen Scoggins,
■ Subligna Club; Fermon Owens and Wyles Thompson from Gore Club.
You people are doing your part and are to be congratulated for the
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County 4-H Council President Writes:
To All 4-H Club Members of Chattooga County:
Congratulations, fellow 4-H Club members, on your splendid work
during the past year!
Let us stop for a minute to take an inventory to see if we have
reached our goals that we set at the beginning of this year.
First, each of you pledged to grow enough food to feed the men
from this county in the armed forces for a year. From the various re
ports of individual club members this goal will be reached.
Second, our county ranked third in the state in donations for a
station wagon ambulance to the American Red Cross.
Third, we organized “4-H Commandos.” You Commandos were se
lected as the most outstanding members of your club. You assisted in
the scrap drive and much interest was aroused in the drive by each club
competing against each other. You 4-H Commandos did a great work
in helping our enrollment to increase by getting new club members.
Fourth, we ranked third place in the state in selling bonds for the
4-H Liberty Ship, and first in the sale of small denomination bonds.
There was so much interest and enthusiasm shown by each of you in
this drive.
Although you have made the past year a successful one, we want to
strive to do even more in the coming year toward winning the war. Let
us always keep in mind our motto, “To Make the Best Better.”
Sincerely yours,
RITA BAKER,
President County 4-H Club Council
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