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COUNTY 4-H ACHIEVEMENT WEEK
Chattooga County 4-H Members Observing
National 4-H Achievement Week
Four-H Club members in Chat
tooga county are joining the na
tion’s homefront army of 4-H Club
members this week in taking time
out to check up on their war-time
activities and 1944 accomplish
ments.
The purposes of the National 4-H
Achievement Week are:
1. To provide 4-H members an
opportunity to report to the nation
their accomplishments in helping
to win the war.
2. To acquaint parents in every
community with what has been ac
complished by their own boys and
girls through 4-H club work in
helping to win the war.
3. To give recognition to individ
ual and group achievement through
4-H Club work.
4. To develop 4-H Club plans for
the ensuing year based on results
to date.
5. To encourage rural young
people not yet enrolled in a 4-H
Club, to join, and emphasize the
opportunities thereby afforded
them.
November 4-11 has been desig
nated as 4-H Club Achievement
Week and the 1,700,000 club mem
bers throughout the nation are re
porting to their cubs. communi
ties, counties, states and nation on
what they have done to help win
the war. and the results of regular
4-H project activities.
Community 4-H Achievement
meetings will be held all week with
the climax of the week coming
Friday, Nov. 10. All the 4-H clubs
in the county will come together
on this day for a county-wide
Achievement Day at the Summer
ville First Baptist Church audito
rium. Mr. L. W. Eberhardt, Jr.,
Ass stant State 4-H Club Leader,
Tifton, Ga., will be the guest speak
er for this occasion. Other out
standing leaders in 4-H Club Work
are expected to be present.
The Chattooga County Club
members are receiving one of their
most successful years and they
have made an outstanding record
in the sale of war bonds and pro
ducing a good xood crop. They
have been active in salvage drives
and other wartime activit.es. En
rollment has greatly increased
Chattooga County 4-H members
put on a most successful 4-H Mob
ilization Week early in the year
and 250 new members resulted from
their extorts. 525 members have
carried Victory Garden projects
County 4-i - . .dviser Writes
To All Chattooga County 4-H
Club Members:
My hats off to all you splendid
club members .or your fine co-op
eration and achievements during
the past year.
Your record books show that you
have conscientiously planned and
earned out your work for the en
tire year with the thought in mind
to “Do More in ’44.”
I know you have each learned
the lesson that its wonderful to do
things with your own hands, put
ting your heart into whatever your
CHATTOOGA 4-* - MEMBERS
HAVE OUTSTAI ;D NG RECORDS
BARBARA KIMBELL
Barbara is a 12-year-old club
girl from Lyerly and has been
making breads for four years. She
has been a good leader in 4-H
Club work for the four years and
has taken an active part in all
phases Oi her 4-H club program.
Barbara was the county winner
in the yeast bread contest and at
tended the district contests and
competed with 26 other contestants.
She was given a red award of merit
for her bread making.
JEAN MORTON-MARY JIM
BARRY
4-H Club members start early in
learning to be home-makers and
Jean Morton is certainly on her
way!
Jean is a U-year-old club mem
ber for Gore 4-H Club and has
been making corn bread muffins
and biscuits for two years. She
was county winner and won hon
orable mention at the district con
tests
Mary Jim Barry, Menlo 4-H Club
member, was a close runner-up of
Jean’s in bread making. She was
given a free trip to Carrollton to
the district contests.
ROBERTINE JACKSON
Robertine is another one of Ly
erly’s outstanding 4-H Club mem
bers. She has carried the Home
Beautification project for three
years and has been proclaimed
county winner each year and she
will receive a handsome gold medal
this year. She was a second place
winner in the state this year in
the project.
She was most interested in car
rying a project that would aid Vic
tory and in her Food for Victory
project she produced, sold and kept
records on the following:
650 pounds beef. 350 pounds poul
try, 400 dozen eggs, 500 pounds
Irish potatoes, 450 pounds sweet
potatoes, 100 pounds butter, 400
pounds milk, 490 pounds fresh
vegetables, 320 pounds peanutsand
48 pounds strawberries.
With these valuable projects she
had one of the four biggest records
in the state and will receive a $25
War Bond for the efforts.
Robertine keeps on “keeping on”
with her good projects. She is also
the county winner of the 4-H Club
Food for Fighter’s Contest and will
receive another $25.00 War Bond
this year and a number of them
carried Food for Fighters project in
which they pledged to grow enough
food to feed the men from Chat
tooga county serving in the armed
forces for one year. This food in
cluded beef, pork, poultry, Ifish
and sweet potatoes and eggs.
The 4-H Clubs collected salvage
all the year. They have collected
95,000 pounds of scrap metal. 15,000
pounds of waste paper, and 500
pounds waste fat. They have also
bought and sold $698,950.00 in War
Bonds and Stamps.
The Chattooga County 4-H Club
Council sponsored a county-wide
Leader Training meeting for 4-H
Club officers with 100% attend
ance.
A Bi-County 4-H Club Short
Course was held at Camp Wahsega
near Dahlonega, this summer with
50 boys and girls attending. There
they studied rock, soil and iwn
erals, handicraft, Wildlife and
wholesome recreation. Those go
ing to camp were chosen from the
best records books.
Chattooga County 4-H Club
members have set an example and
a goal that challenges the youth
of this Nation to a stronger Vic
tory program in 1945.
The following is the program for
our county-wide meeting:
4-H ACHIEVEMENT DAY
PROGRAM
10:30 A.M.
Nov. 10, 1944
Martha Speer, Presiding
God Bless America All
Pledge to the Flag All
Invocation Rev. M. D. Short
Welcome Billie Mills
Boys 4-H Song All
4-H Victory Achievements
Martha Speer
Special Music Two 4-H Members
1945 Victory Goals James Kimbell
‘What 4-H C ub Work Can Mean
to a Boy or Girl” —~
Bessie Ruth Busbin
Speaker L. W. Eberhardt, Jr.
Asst. State 4-H Club Leader
George P. Donaldson. Dean
Abraham Baldwin College
Songs.
Lunch.
Songs. ,
Awards .. . Mr. O. L. Cleckler
Board Member
Progress Cards
Home Demonstration Agent
Star Spangled Banner All
head thinks best for your heal h,
community and country. Thus
you have helped thousands ol un
known friends and admirers eith
er in some direct way or ndirectly.
Again, I say, “good work 4-H’ers”
for your achievements of today,
you shall receive reward tomorrow
when you become citizens of Amer
ica who are prepared to carry on
with knowledge, training and ini
tiative that 4-H work helps to
maintain.
Dorothy Floyd Sitton
County 4-H Club Advisor
given by the Chattooga County 4-H
Club Council.
Besides this splendid record she
has collected scrap metal, paper
md waste fats, sold and bought
War Bonds and helped out with
he shortage of labor this year by
vorking long hours in the fields.
NANNIE WHITE
Nannie White, of Lyerly 4-H
Club has followed her 4-H motto,
“To make the best better” lor 5
years and has done an excellent
job with her clothmg.
She won the county honors in
the county-wide Dress Revue and
entered the district dress revue in
Carrollton. She was placed in the
blue award group of excellence
there
Nannie made her entire outfit
which could be either dressed up
or down for only $4.44. She has
been a good seamstress, making
most of her clothes- for the past
two years. She is a 4-H Club
Commando in her local club and
has done some good work in the
salvage drives and enrollment cam
paigns this year.
BILLIE MILLS
Billie has been a 4-H Club mem
ber of the Gore Club for four years
and during that time has been
most active in leadership.
He was district winner in the
Rural Electrification Contest for
Boys and will receive a $25.00 War
Bond. He also was given a free
trip to the State 4-H Club Con
gress.
Billie didn’t stop with the Rural
Electrification honors but was also
district winner (second place) in
the State Wildlife Conservation
Contest and received SIO.OO in War
Stamps when he attended the an
nual State 4-H Wildlife Conserva
tion Camp this summer on a free
scholarship. He also attended the
district 4-H contests in Carrollton.
BESSIE RUTH BUSBIN
Bessie Ruth Busbin, a fifth year
Lyerly 4-H Club member, is another
outstanding 4-H club member of
the year. She is now serving as
president of her community 4-H
club and is a 4-H Commando and
did her part in collecting salvage,
selling bonds, etc., during the year.
She won the county-wide 4-H
club speaking contest in the coun
ty and won an award of excel
lence in the district contests that
were held in Carrollton. She spoke
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Martha Speer, a 15-year-old 4-H club member of Menlo commu
nity has made herself well-known throughout the State of Georgia. She
is the State winner of the 4-H Rural Electrification Contest and will
go to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago in December. Her
records will be in competition there with other state winners for a
$200.00 college scholarship.
Martha has been a 4-H club member for four years and has carried
to completion 34 4-H projects. This year she has carried 10 projects,
namely, gardening, entomology, health and nutrition, clothing, home
improvement, home industries, home beautification, cookery, canning
and rural electrification. She is serving as vice-president of the county
4-H Club Council.
She attended the District 4-H Club Contests in Carrol’ton this year
and also the State 4-H Club Congress in Atlanta. She represented the
County Council at the State 4-H Club Conference in Milledgeville in
August. Martha also attended the county 4-H Club Short Course held
at Camp Wahsega.
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JAMES KIMBELL
James Kimbell, a 15-year-old member of Lyerly community 4-H
Club has made an outstanding record this year.
He has been a 4-H Club member for five years and during that
time has had an active part in all 4-H Club activities as well as school
and community affairs.
James has been in charge of his father’s farm this year and also
did his other regular 4-H projects. He is the State winner of the boys
4-H Exterior Paint Contest and will receive a $50.00 War Bond for his
excellent work.
He attended the District 4-H Club Contests in Carrollton, the
County 4-H Club Short Course at Camp Wahsega and represented the
County Council at the State 4-H Ciub Conference in Milledgeville in
August.
James has been president of his local 4-H club for the past year
and made a good leader.
on the subject, “What 4-H Club
Work Can Do for a Boy or a Girl.”
She also attended the County
4-H Club short course at Camp
Wahsega and was a county repre
sentative at the 4-H leadership
conference in Milledgeville.
This is not all —she, too, was a
district winner (second place) in
the State 4-H Wildlife Conserva
tion contest and was awarded a
free scholarship to the annual
State Wildlife Camp for a week in
the Dahlonega mountains as well
as SIO.OO in War Stamps.
INA PLUNKETT
The fourth H of the emblem of
4-H Clubs represent health, which
is essential to health and success.
As a 4-H Club member, they al
ways pledge their health to better
living for their club, their commu
nity and their country.
In the county-wide 4-H health
contest, Ina Plunkett, Subligna
4-H club, was the healthiest girl
in the county. She attended the
district contests in Carrollton and
competed in the health contest
there and was given a reward of
merit.
OLIVER CARGLE
Oliver Cargle is the boys winner
in the Chattooga County 4-H Club
Food for Fighters contest and will
receive a $25.00 War Bond at the
county-wide Achievement Day ex
ercises, Friday, Nov. 10.
Ohver is a 13-year-old 4-H club
boy from Gore community and
lives atop of Little Sand Moun
tain. He has been a club member
for three years.
Here is a report of what he pro
duced and sold this year in the
Food for Fighters contest:
Fifty pounds poultry, 400 dozen
eggs, 3 000 pounds Irish potatoes,
11.000 pounds sweet potatoes, 4,000
pounds peanuts and 27,000 pounds
of tomatoes.
This is a good record and Oliver
certainly did his part in helping
to feed the fighters from his com
munity this year.
Other Outstanding
4-H Projects
Raymond Gayler, Lyerly 4-H
club, was winner in the county
wide 4-H public speaking contest
for boys. He participated in the
district speaking contest and was
given honorable mention there.
Raymond has served as president
of the County 4-H Club Council
this year and was an excellent
leader in his community 4-H club.
Emmadean Brison and Julia Ann
Garvin made outstanding records
this year in food preparation. They
planned, prepared and served meals
to their entire families for one
week. In these meals, they produced
most everything they used.
Lovic Mount was the boys coun
ty health winner and also received
honorable mention at the district
contests in Carrollton. Lovic has
been a leader in his community for
four years.
Billie Chapman, Lyerly, is one
12-year-old 4-H club boy who had
extremely good luck with his live
stock project this year. He showed
one of his animals at the Coosa
Valley livestock show in Rome and
won grand champion on it as well
as two first prizes.
Ernest Hutchins, Menlo, is doing
good work with his livestock proj
ect. He was also chosen by the
county 4-H Club Council to rep
resent them at the State 4-H Lead
ership Conference in Milledgeville.
GEORGIA 4-H MEMBERS
PRODUCE ARTICLES
WORTH $9,525,000
Athens, Ga.—Four-H club mem
bers in Georgia, more than 100,-
000 strong, are taking time out
next week from their regular duties
to survey their 1944 accomplish
ments during National 4-H
Achievement Week Nov. 4-11.
They have given the war effort
their main attention during the
year, L. W. Eberhardt, Jr., assist
ant State 4-H club leader for the
Extension Service declared and as
j We Salute the 4-H Boys and Girls of Chattooga County
And Invite Everyone to Come in
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Pearls, Bracelets, Ear Bobs, Compacts, Lockets, Dresser
Sets, Vanity and Children Sets
CEDAR CHESTS ALL SIZES
EVERYTHING FOR CHRISTMAS
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Congratulations 4-H Members On Your Achievements
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A Salute to the 4-H Soldiers of the Soil
Our Hats Off to the 4-H’ers
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| CONGRATULATIONS 4-H CLUBS OF CHATTOOGA
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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
a result placed added emphasis on
food production and preservation
projects. ' ,
A conservative estimate of the
total values of all 4-H products
marketed or on hand during 1944
is $9,525,000, according to Eber
hardt.
While totals on 1944 4-H work
have not been completed, Eber
hardt cited 1943’s record as an
example of what Georgia 4-H club
members are doing to help win the
war.
Last year food and nutrition
projects attracted 35,103 girls who
canned 1,452,557 quarts of fruits
and vegetab es. In the clothing
project, 35,044 girls were enrolled
and they made articles valued at
$773,355.
Four-H’ers enrolled in corn proj
ects numbered 8,077; wheat 644;
pasture 389; peanuts 3,343; H/Sh
and sweet potatoes 5,510; cotton
2,331 and tobacco 561.
Home garden projects were car
ried on by 53,438 boys and girls and
commercial gardens were grown by
2,878.