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VOLUME 75—NO. 35
Surplus Food Donations
Set New Records in 1959
U.S. surplus food donations set I
a new record during the 1959
fiscal year, according to a De
partment of Agriculture report
received at the Chattooga ASC
Office.
Distribution for use in school
lunch programs and by char
itable institutions in this coun
try and by needy persons both
here and abroad totaled 2 billion
980 million pounds, an increase
of 5 per cent over the previous
fiscal year, the report shows.
Domestic outlets received all
of the increase, with donations
to schools, institutions and
needy persons totaling slightly
more than 1 million pounds for
the year, compared with 871
million pounds the previous year.
Greater amounts of wheat flour,
corn meal, rice, nonfat dry milk
and butter to needy persons in
family units accounted for most
of the gain.
’59 Cotton Crop Forecast at
14.7 Million Bales
Cotton production this year,
as of September 1, is forecast at
14,678,000 bales according to the
latest U.S. Department of Agri
culture report received at the
Chattooga Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservation Office.
The indicated yield per acre is
470 pounds—the highest of rec
ord; it compares with the pre
vious high of 466 pounds har
vested in 1958 and the 10-year
average of 329 pounds. Cotton
production in 1958 was small
-11,512,000 bales: the 1948-57
average was 14,046,000 bales.
The 1959 — crop forecast of
14.678,000 bales of 500 pounds
gross weight is equivalent to 14,- ,
555,000 running bales. If the
ratio of lint to cottonseed is the
same as the average for the past ,
5 years, production of cottonseed
this year would be 6,090,000 tons,
compared with 4,798.000 tons in
1958.
NEWS NOTES
New Conservation Reserve
Deadline: If you want to put
land in the Conservation Re
serve of the Soil Bank next
year, you now have until the
end of September to take the
first step. The Chattooga ASC
Office has just announced an
extension from September 10 to '
September 30 in the deadline by
which farmers must submit their 1
requests for basic payment rates
under the program.
The Conservation Reserve is a 1
program under which farmers
voluntarily retire general crop- :
land from production in return :
for an annual payment by the
Department of Agriculture and
cost-sharing help in applying
conservation practices to the i
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Bryan and Allison Join Sales Force at Garnett's lor Furniture
Garnett’s for Furniture announces the addition to the. sales force of Earl F.
(Red) Bryan and Gary Allison.
Young Bryan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bryan, of Route 2, Lyerly. He
is a graduate of Summerville High School and has just returned from four years
of service in the United State Air Force. His wife is the former Sherlene Raby, of
Wichita Falls, Texas.
A little over fours ago Bryan got his first taste of the furniture business
when Garnett's opened its new store. He was first employed in the shipping de
partment and then briefly in sales.
Bryan will represent Garnett’s in the territory comprised of South and West
Summerville, Berryton, Lyerly, Menlo, and Cloudland.
Allison has also just completed his four years of service in the United
States Navy and returned to his native Chattooga County. He resides with an
uncle and aunt, the W. L. Shropshire^, at 417 North Commerce. Gary completed
the tenth grade at Summerville High School and then additional work for a
diploma in the Navy. He is now entering the furniture business for the first time.
Allison will represent Garnett's in the territory of Trion, Pennville, Moun
tain View, and Welcome Hill.
Both Bryan and Allison arc welcome additions to Garnett's growing sales
force.
GARNETT'S for furniture
land. The first step is for a
farmer to ask his county ASC
committee to fix a basic rate for
the acreage he wants to put into
the program. He then bids be
low that basic rate, and the
county office selects the best of
fers within the funds available.
In announcing the 20-day ex
tension of the deadline, the De
partment of Agriculture said it
is brought about chiefly by
problems connected with a new
legal provision. The law now
limits the payment per acre un
der the program to the local
fair rental value of the acreage
offered based on crop produc
tion during the past 5 years. This
has brought problems in areas
where drought and other nat
ural disasters have unusually
affected crop yields in recent
years.
The Department says pending
legislation may change this pro
vision, and it is also re-studying
the method to be used in apply
ing it. When the situation is
clarified, new instructions will
be sent to the field. Meanwhile,
farmers get a 20-day reprieve
before time runs out on that all
important first step in the 1960
Conservation Reserve.
NEW LAW ON
VETS PENSION
EFFECTIVE JULY 1
All veterans, widows and or
phans receiving pensions from
the Veterans Administration will
receive with their September
checks a summary of the pro
visions of the Veterans Pension
Act of 1959 enacted by the 86th
Congress, the VA announced to
day.
Veterans who receive com
pensation checks for service
connected disabilities will not
receive information about the
new law because it does not
apply to them.
All who do not receive the
summary of the new law with
their checks, may be assured the
new law does not apply to them,
W. E. Jackson, Contact Repre
sentative of the Veterans Ad
ministration Office, Rome, Ga.,
emphasized.
The new law provides that the
amount of pension will be based
on the amount of other income
which the veteran or dependent
receives, Mr. Jackson said. The
greater the other income the
lower the pension and vice versa.
The new law will not be effec
tive until July 1, 1960, he
stressed. It will govern all appli-
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Championship Pears? . . .
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Are these championship pears? Mr. 11. M. Pettyjohn of Dry
Valley Road, Summerville, thinks they are. They were grown
on Mr. Pettyjohn’s place. Each of them measured 4'4 inches
and weighed Ui pounds. If any person can grow a larger pear,
they are welcome to claim the title, but Mr. Pettyjohn will have
to have the proof.
cations for pensions after that
date. Those already on the pen
sion rolls will be affected only
if they choose to change over to
the new system.
Mr. Jackson repeated that vet
erans and dependents need not
write directly to the VA about
their pensions. All who have an
option under the new law will
receive a summary of the new
system in September, to be fol
lowed at a later date by a de
tailed analysis of the new pen
sion act.
Those having a choice under
the new law will be invited to
make it with care after they are
familiar with the provisions, be
cause any change received by
the VA is irrevocable. Those
who change to the new system
i will not be permitted to return
I to the present system.
Further information and as-
I sistance may be obtained from
! the Veterans Administration Of
' fice, Room 205, West Building,
9! 2 East Second Avenue, Rome.
SHORT SHORTS
Platsburgh, N. Y.—How short
are short shorts? The City Com
mission didn’t say when it
banned them, and the issue is
still unresolved. So when police
arrested Mrs. Lise Fournier, 21,
of Montreal, recently, they had
her husband measure her shorts
on the spot.
| Currently it’s up to Judge Irv
j ing Goldman to decide whether
12 Vz inches is too short. While he
i is pondering the matter, he re
leased Mrs. Fournier on $5 bail.
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GARY ALLISON
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA.,’THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
COBB REPRESENTS
CHATTOOGA ON
SAFETY COUNCIL
An all-out effort to organize a
representative and active Safety
Council in the 150 counties now
without one in Georgia will be
made by the Margaret Mitchell
Safety Council during the next
12 months, J. G. Bradbury, of
Atlanta, the council’s president,
declared this week.
Incorporated under the laws of
the state of Georgia, Bradbury
explained, the Margaret Mitchell
Safety Council is a non-partisan,
non-profit, non-commercial in
dependent service organization.
It has as its “Goal for All Geor
gians: Fewer Accidents, More
Joy, Longer Lives.”
Clyde C. Cobb, Trion, is the lo
cal representative on the Board
of Directors of the Safety Coun
cil.
President Bradbury announced
the appointment of Donald L.
Moore, veteran Atlanta jour
nalist, educator, and civic leader,
as the first executive director of
the Margaret Mitchell Safety
Council. “After considering the
I applications of more than a
; score men over a period of six
| months, our Personnel Commit
! tee unanimously recommended
; Mr. Moore’s employment,” he
said.
Moore is a graduate of the
University of Georgia, where he
majored in journalism, and has
a master’s degree in social ad
ministration from the Y. M. C. A.
Graduate School. He has served
successively as reporter for the
Ashville (N. C.) Citizens-Times;
copywriter and editor for the
Georgia Power Company: first
director of the teen-age business
training program, Junior
i Achievement, in the South: and
las editor-manager of Southern
Building Supplies, a trade maga
zine for building material dis
tributors in 18 states.
Moore is a past-president of
the Atlanta Junior Chamber of
Commerce and of the Atlanta
Council of Camp Fire Girls. He
has served as a member and
bulletin editor for Gyro. Kiwanis,
Lions, and Hoo-Hoo chibs. The
latter is an international fra
ternity of lumbermen for which
Moore served on the Supreme
Nine.
He resides in Decatur, where
his family is active in the First
Methodist Church. President
Bradbury said an intensive sur
vey of the safety activities con
ducted or sponsored by local
civic, educational, business,
and professional organizations
throughout Georgia is now being
conducted by the Margaret
Mitchell Safety Council from
Atlanta headquarters, prepara
tory to implementing the coun
cil's extensive program goals.
The council’s offices are in
suite 807 of the 41 Exchange
Place Building, across from the
Hurt, Building at Ivy Street. The
telephone number is JAckson
4-8165. The mail address is P. O.
Drawer 2203, Atlanta 1. Georgia.
A special meeting of the board
of directors of the Margaret
Mitchell Safety Council will
firm up plans for cooperation
with, and service to, local safety
councils and safety-dedicated
groups throughout the state,
Bradbury said.
The Chattooga Library has
books which offer practical help
on all aspects of club work.
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Widows, Children
Helped By Change
In Pension Law
An estimated several thousand
Georgia widows and children of
veterans of World War II and
Korea will become eligible for
pensions next July 1 under a new
law passed recently, reports Pete
Wheeler, director of the State
Department of Veterans Service.
The new law, Wheeler ex
plained, gives the same eligibility
for pensions to widows and chil
dren of World War II and Ko
rea veterans as that of survivors
of World War I veterans.
When the new law goes into
effect next year, widows of
World War II and Korea veter
ans, who meet the income re
quirements, can get pensions by
showing that their husbands
served at least 90 days in the
armed forces during either of
the last two wars.
Previously, widows of World
War II and Korea veterans had
to show that their husbands had
a service connected disability at
time of death. This requirement
is removed by the new law.
The new law sets the same in
come requirements for widows of
World War I, World War 11, and
Korea veterans.
Under it, a widow without chil
dren who has an annual income
under S6OO will get S6O a month
pension. If income is between
S6OO and SI2OO she will get $45.
If income is between SI2OO and
SIBOO, she can get $25.
A widow with one child and
an income under SIOOO a year
will get $75. The pension drops
to $65 for the SIOOO-S2OOO
bracket, and to S4O for the S2OOO-
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ATLANTA:
THE FIRST MILLION
Mggr
Coming Sunday, Oct. 11 a superb edi
torial and pictorial edition for Georgians
to see. to save and to send—to everyone,
everywhere. ATLANTA* THE IIRSI
MILLION, a special Sunday edition, de
scribes in depth, the entry of Atlanta’s
five-county metropolitan area into the
million population class. In the Sunday
Atlanta Journal and Constitution of Oct.
11, top staffers and full-color section
fronts tell the story: To Make A Million
Takes . . . NERVE by Ralph McGill . . .
WORK by Pat Watters . . . Faith by
Celestine Sibley ... MEN by Jack
Spalding.
Inside ATLANTA: THE FIRST MIL
LION, other top staffers paint word
pictures of Georgia’s Capital City—tell
how far it has come and how far it is
going.
Coming Sunday, Oct. 11 in
^ljc^Hanta Journal
Covers Dixie Like the Dew
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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
\Th*§outh’f Standard Neuspaftr,
TIME TO FILE FOR
GAS TAX REFUND
Annual claims for refund of
Federal excise tax paid on gas
oline used for farming must be
filed by September 30.
A. C. Ross, District Director of
Internal Revenue, said these
claims should be made on Form
2240 for gasoline used between
July 1, 1958 and June 30. 1959.
Mr. Ross said copies of Form
2240 and a helpful booklet.
“Farmer’s Gas Tax Refund”,
Publication No. 308 (6-58) can
be obtained from Internal Reve
nue offices at 275 Peachtree
Street. N. E., Atlanta 3. Georgia.
Honolulu—A bill to keep meet
ings and records of Government
boards and agencies open to the
public has been enacted by the
Hawaii Legislature.
Executive sessions, however,
would be permitted upon vote of
two thirds of the members of the
board or agency. The bill, ap
proved recently, also exempts
matters involving invasion of in
dividual privacy.
S3OOO bracket. The pension is in
creased by sls for each addi
tional child.
The new law, Wheeler noted,
also sets a sliding scale of pen
sions, based on income, for vet
erans with non-service con
nected total disability.
NOTICE
Dr. 11. C. Hardin's one day
out of his office each week
will be WEDNESDAY.
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