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Volumn 36
Georgia Urged To
Meet Food-Grading
Problem With Law
The State Department of Com
merce’s state-wide program to en-!
courage Georgians to process and ’
market more Georgia-grown food—!
•and have it “Georgia-labeled” as :
quality food—is getting momentum.
Latest evidence of this was seen
when vegetable and fruit growers
and buyers from 20 South Georgia
counties gathered recently at 1 Thom
asville. They termed legislation that
would bring about standard garding
of Georgia produce “the only solu
tion” to the problem, and adopted a
resolution calling for such a law.
Those present, who were particu
larly interested in such produce as
okra, beans, tomatoes, cabbage, green
corn, sWcet potatoes, watermelons
and cantaloupes, agreed that the'
main hinderance to proper market
ing of Georgia’s $5-million produce
crop simply is lack of grading.
In its current Newsletter, just re
leased by Secretary Clark Gaines, the
State Commerce Department said:
“We think the Thomasville meeting
was a highly important one, and that
great good will come out of it if the
proposal of several district agents
attending the conference is followed,
namely, that the growers and agri
cultural workers hold similar meet
ings in all their various communities ’
and counties.
“We would like to join in urging
that not only county meetings be
held to discuss grading problems, but'
also district conferences be held in i
‘Middle, North, East and West Geor- |
gia. Georgians rapidly are recog
nizing their economic opportunities ,
and taking advantage of them. Let’s
solve this food-grading problem so
we can better compete with Cali-1
fornia, Virginia and other states that
have such laws.”
Cpl. Ralston Jenkins
Servin? With Air
Force On Guam
Andersen Air Force Base. Guam,
Marianas Islands, Jan. 31.—Corporal
Ralston G. Jenkins, United States
Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. ‘
G Jenkins of Alamo, has arrived'
overseas for duty with the 514th
Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
(very long range) on Guam.
A former student at Wheeler Coun_
ty High School, Cpl. Jenkins entered ।
the service in 1942. His first over- ।
seas assignment was in the China- i
tßurma-India theatre.
He will be assigned as Radio ope- j
rator on one of the Big B-29’s used j
(by the 514th Squadron to gather j
weather data over the north Pacific, 1
and track the many typhoons that!
plague the area each year.
Nearly All Citizens
Affected By Public
Service Comm. Work
Mere Georgians are affected di-.
rectly by the Public Service Com-1
misison than by the functions of any j
other State department.
This fact was revealed last week i
by Matt L. McWhorter, Chairman of I
the Commission, in a speech before
the Dalton Civitan Club.
Chairman McWhorter discussed
the work of the Commisison to the l
Civitans, outlining the method by
which the body goes about fixing
utility and transportation rates.
According to McWhorter, property j
owned in Georgia by the companies j
regulated by the Commisison is al
most one billion dollars, and the
wages they pay amounts to $154,000,-
000 per year. Total employment is
45,000.
“Thus you see,” said McWhorter,
“The vast network of utility and
-transportation companies in this
state touches almost every citizen—
even more than are affected by the
tax-gathering agencies, for a great
many Georgians do not pay state
1 taxes.”
McWhorter explained to the Civi
tans that utility and transportation
rates as fixed by the Commission
must be fair to consumer, to the
company and to stockholders of the
company. Also, he said, the Com
mission tries to fix rates that will
allow a company to expand and pro
vide better services to the public.
Economists of the USDA say that
prospects for supplies and prices of
most insecticides in 1950 are about
the same as *hey were this year.
This should serve as a warning to
farmers and local dealers to deter
mine their needs and order early.
Wheeler County Eagle
Alamo Baptist
Church News
Sunday morning—10 o’clock is the
hour for Sunday School. The Y. W.
A.’s will present a program at Sun
■ day School. Come and enjoy this
: program as well as a good Sunday
■ School lesson.
At 11 o’clock our pastor, Rev. Tid
' well will bring to us a very inspiring
mesasge. Come to church and wor
ship with us.
B. T. U. is at 6:30 Our B. T. U.
is growing—won’t you come and help
us make it better? We need you and
you need to come to B. T. U.
Preaching Service will be at 7:30
Sunday evening with the pastor in
; charge.
Do not miss either of the services
Sunday. We will be expecting you.
The Lois Linnelcoln Circle will
meet with Mrs. R. G. Jenkins Mon
-1 day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. The
Grace Winn Business Woman’s Circle
' will meet with Mrs. T. A. Morrison
Monday night at 7:30 with Mrs. Mor
ris Kusnitz as co-hostess. We are
expecting all members to attend these
meetings.
The R. A.’s, G. A.’s and Sunbeams
will hold their regular mothly meet
ings at the Church Monday after
noon at 3:30 o'clock. All members
I must go, if you do not you will miss
। something for your leaders have a
very nice surprise for you.
County Unit System
Under Attack Again
By “Same Old Crowd”
Georgia’s county unit system has
been attacked again ih a suit filed in
I Federal District Court in Atlanta by
; an Atlanta merchant and a director
: of the Southern Regional Council
The suit against the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee, seek
ing to have the unit system declared
unconstitutional, was filed by Harold
C. Fleming, public relations director
of the Council, which is alleged to
favor of mixing the races, and Ber
nard South, of Atlanta.
This is the fourth in a series of
efforts by opponents of the county
unit system to eliminate it in Geor
gia.
The first came in 1945 when the
-1 Arnall administration sought to pass j
through the Georgia General As- ‘
sembjy a bill which would have re- :
quired a candidate for state office
to receive a majority of the popular
. vote in addition to a majority of the
, unit vote. This proposal was killed ,
; by the legislature.
The second attempt came when Dr. 1
I Cullen Gosnell, Professor of Political
Science at Emory University and well
| known “liberal”, filed a suit in Fede-
I ral Court against the constitutionality'
I of the unit system. A Federal court of
three judges upheld the County Unit i
System, but Gosnell and his associ- ■
ates took the case to the U. S. Su- i
preme Court. This highest court re
fused to review the findings of the
lower court, which upheld the District
Court’s judgment.
The third effort to destroy the'
i county unit system came in 1947 when •
I forces of former Governor Eurith!
I D. Rivers and Acting Governor M. E. I
I Thompson held a “rump” conven-1
i tion in Macon and sought to throw ;
out the legal Democratic Executive 1
Committee. The State courts took,
jurisdiction, however, and ruled out'
Rivers’ and Thompsons’ committee. I
This ,the fourth effort to destroy
the unit system, apparently is brought
by the same forces which made the
previous attempts.
I A majority of Georgians are united
(behind Governor Herman Talmadge
in fighting these efforts to change
Georgia’s traditional system of elect
ing hes public officials.
Crude Gum
Market Report
Prices received" by producers for (
crude pine gum delivered to proc
essing plants during the week of
January 23 to January 28 averaged
$20.70 per standard barrel. This
compares wjth Vie previous week’s
average of $20.49.
The 21 ,reporting plants received
4,525 barrels or 215 barrels per plant,,
as compared with 202 barrels a week
ago.
The average estimated content per
■tandard barrel was 9.83 gallons tur
^entine and 295.9 pounds of roSin.
The gum graded 10% WW, 15% WG,
'5% N, 31% M, 19% K and below.
Now that four out of five farm
homes in the nation have electric
service, rural home comfort during
the cold winter months has been
raised cinsiderably.
Alamo, Wheeler County Georgia, Friday. Feb. 10, 1950.
Predicts Homemaking |
To Top All Pursuits
Os Women In Georgia
In Georgia, housewives today out
number the women in all other roles
combined, by a ratio of three to two.
This is the finding of Annamary
Morgan, consumer research director
of Perma Starch laboratories, Illi
opolis, 111., who based her calcula
tions upon the results of a nation
wide study.
The study is being conducted by
Miss Morgan to uncover current facts
about American women to be used
in the introduction of a new synthe
tic starch which stays in clothes
through many washings. * The re
search reveals that slightly more
than 673,440 women in Georgia over
the age of 20 this year will manage
hemes as opposed to following other
pursuits. They will constitute 69
per cent of the 971,600 Georgia fe
males of adult years expected to be
included in the 1950 census.
The Georgia average of women en
gaged in homemaking, 69 per cent
tops the national average of 61. The
percentage of the combined eight
state South Atlantic area and the
District of Columbia is 63 for the
6,065,900 females in this area.
Also disclosed in Miss Morgan’s
report is the fact that Georgia wom
en have achieved a current birthrate
cf 27.7 children per 1,000 (population.
The highest rate in the area is South
Carolina’s, which is 28.7.
Many Babies
Suffocate Needlessly |
Os the forty-one babies under one ,
year old who met accidental death
the last half of 1949, 29 died from suf
focation.
“Most of these died in bed,” averred
L. M. Lacy, Vital Statistiican of the'
Georgia Department of Public Health,
“through the thoughtlessness of the
parents. Eleven suffocated while
sleeping with the parents: 8 smoth- .
ered under the bed covers and 2 got •
j their heads* caught and were
, strangled.”
Eight others died from such mis
cellaneous causes as choking on pe
cans or strangling on milk.
i “It wme as a surprise to me,” Mr.
. Lacy said, “when the death reports
came in to find so many little chil
i dren had died from causes which
might have been prevented had the
parents been aware that babies are
active even while sleeping.”
I Public Health officials recommend
j that babies be bedded separately from
adults, that babies beds have hivh
sides to prevent falling out of bed
and that small objects which might
■ choke them, be kept out of reach.
* A
| I Sardis and Shiloh
Nora Ruth Webster spent Sunday
with Gayle Windham.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman O’Quinn and
son Ronnie visted Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
O’Quinn Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Tullie Windham and
i baby of New Orleans, La. visited R.
। W. -Winciham and family last Fri-
I day.
I Winifred and Cheryl Elton spent
I Sunday with Ruthona and Peggy Us
sery.
I Mrs. Emma Smith spent Saturday
| night with Mrs. Belle Mead.
I Jack Windham is heme from New
Orleans, La. for a visit with his
parents Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wind
ham.
Mrs. Frank Sears and son Preston
spent the week end in Atlanta.
Mrs. Rosa White returned home
from Atlanta Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Pittman and
daughter Billy Jean spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Dixon.
Mr. and Mrs. Stell Davis of Mt.
Vernon visited Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
O’Quinn Sunday. Mrs. O’Quinn re
turned home with them for a few
1 days.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Butler visited
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Maddox Sun
day afternoon.
James OwCn and Wayne Maddox
’ spent Sunday with their grandmothei
Mrs. Ellie R^addox.
Ruthona and Peggy Ussery spent
Saturday afternoon with Maxie Jb
Mimbs.
Mrs. W. D. Ussery spent Monday
afternoon with Mrs. Bill Mead.
Mr. and Mrs 1 . Marctis Clements
made a business trip to Atlanta this
week.
Oora O’Quinn and Fay Cox at
i tended preaching services at Shiloh
: Sunday.
- Come to Sunday School at Sardis
i Sunday morning at 10;00 o’cclock
Preaching at 11:00 o’clock.
Veterans Reminded
To Report Earnings
To VA Office Mar. 1 !
Veterans taking G. I. Bill institu
tional training w ere reminded today
by Vaux Owen, Manager, Georgia
VA Regional Office, that reports of
their 1949 earnings are due at their
VA Regional Office by March 1.
Failure to submit the rpeorts be
fore the deadline, may result in su
spension of subsistenance payments
until such time as the reports reach
VA, Mt. Owen warned.
The earnings reports — covering
only income from productive labor
for the calendar year 1949 — are
used by VA as the basis for adjusting
each veteran’s subsistence for the j
current year (1950).
Farm trainees received necessary
VA forms (Form No. 7-1922) early
this year . As part of their course of
training, they generally receive as
sistance from their instructors in
closing their books for the past year,
and in transfering data to the VA
form.
On December 1, 1949, a total of
305,772 verterans were taking institu
tional on-farm training under the GI
Bill. Ninety-three percent or 285,-
030 were operating their own farms.
U. S. May Re-Imburse
For Property Losses
Due To Enemy Action
All citizens of Georgia, both vete- ’
• ran and non-veteran, who suffered i
loss or damage to real or personal ,
I property as a result of enemy action
। during World War II are urged to
make application to the War Claims
Commission in Washington, D. C. for
I possible reimbursement by the Fede
ral Government, William K. Barrett,
' director of the State Department of
Veterans Service announced today.
Barrett also stated that the War
Claims Commisison desires a full
। report from all citizens either veteran
or non-veteran, who suffered per
sonal injury, impairment of health,
or torture, or who were not paid
wages for labor, during World War
11, as a result of enemy action.
After a complete tabulation of all
claims is made, the War Claims Com
mission plans to submit a request to
Congress to enable action to be tak
en on the claims, he revealed.
According to Director Barrett, spec
ial forms which 'applicants may use
to forward the above information
to the War Claims Commission
have been distributed to the
68' field offices of the State Depart
ment of Veterans Service. Managers
of these offices will be glad to assist
any applicant in completing these
forms.
These application forms, Barrett
stressed, are not to be confused with
similar forms which were recently
distributed by the War Claims Com
mission and the State Department of
Veterans Service, for use of former
prisoners of war,, or their survivors.
The prisoner of war forms are for
the application of approximately
SI.OO per day as compensation for
substandard rations received by our
troops while they were held by the
enemy .
State Meeting Os
Legion Auxiliary On
February 18-19
A state-wide meeting of The
American Legion Auxiliary will be
held in Macon on February 18-19.
with representatives from Legion
Posts and Auxiliary Units all over
Georgia expected to attend. Dele
gates of the two organizations will
be headed by George Hearn, Mon
roe, state commander of the Legion,
and Mrs Guy O. Stone, Glenwood,
state president of the Auxiliary.
Saturday, February 18, will be de
voted to a meeting of the state exe
cutive committee and other com
mittees and commissions of the Le
gion, and a Legion-Auxiliary ban
quet and dance that evening at the
Dempsey Hotel. The Sunday con
ference will be highlighted by dis
cussion of plans for requesting fur
ther action on opening all beds in the
huge Veterans Administration hos
pital at Dublin and for defeating the
veterans’ affairs section of the Hoov
er Commission report.
£ll Legion Posts and Auxiliary
Unit officers are especially asked
to attend the conference, Commander
Hearn and Mrs. Stone say., Other
Legionnaires and Auxiliary members
who can attend are welcome to all
activities during the week end they
emphasized.
Single Copy 10c
Mr. Farmer Builds |1
A Septic Tank
! For most farms, a septic tank con
‘ riected to a field disposal system is ■
the safest and most efficient method ‘
of disposing of sewage, according to 1
Grady Fuford, teacher of vocational 1
agriculture at Alamo High School, i
At the same time. Mr. Fulford 1
pointed out that each of the Veteran : I
Farm Training classes in this coun- I1
ty will soon hold a demonstration on 1
building a septic tank with all in-l<
terested farmers invited to attend. |
Mr. Black is cooperating with VFTP j ’
Instructors V. W Hartley, Lee Evans. !
N. A. Wynn Jr., and G, W. Fulford
in selecting a site for the septic tank ;
and laying out the disposal field. /
I Hugh R. Roberts, regional farm en- '
| gineer for the Portland Cement As- j
sociation, says that the disposal of I
sewage by this method is a simple
process. It enters the septic tank I
where bacteria break it down into'
mineral matter, gases and liquids. |
The mineral matter drops to the bot- |
tom of the tank the gases pass off |
into the air and the liquids flow
out through the drain tile line and
, are absorbed in the soil.
It is important that the septic tank
be large enough—at least'soo gallon
capacity—and toe placed a safe dis
tance from the water supply, Mr.
| Roberts pointed out.
This simple procedure for con-'
I structing the septic tank is outlined |
1 by Mr. Roberts.
The inside dimensions must be at
, least 3 feet wide, six feet long and
five feet deep and where the soil is
. firm only an inside form is needed.
I Holes in the end boards of the forms
provide openings for setting the 4-
' । inch sewer pipe outlet and inlet in
। position with the outlet hole about
i three inches below the inlet. Pipes
I are set before the concrete is poured.
; A mushy mix for the tank can us
i ually be made in proportions of five
j gallons of water, one sack of port
i land cement, 2 1/4 cubic feet of aver- ;
1! age wet sand and three cubic feet of
1 gravel up to IH inches in diameter.
If the mix is too stiff to place readi
ly less sand and gravel are added:
‘ ; if it is soupy more sand and gravel
are needed. Only 20 sacks of cement
are needed for the 500 gallon .tank.
1 After the concrete for the bottom of
the tank is placed, the walls are ebn-
1 structed. The cover is usually made
■ of reinforced concrete slabs about
3% inches thick and 12 inches
. wide. The slabs are cast on a flat
> surface and later placed on the tank.
The field disposal system into
which the liquid flows from the sep
; tic tank consists of a concrete dis
tribution box and drain tile lines.
The box receives the liquid. The tile
lines connected to the box carry the
' liquid out into the soil. The size of
box varies with the number of drain
. tiles used. A box 18 x 20 x 12 inch
inside dimensions will handle three
■ ’ines. The tile lines are laid with
• open joints in a trench about 18 inches
' deep, partially filled with gravel.
■ Length qnd number of tile lines de
fend on the type of soil and amount
of sewage to be disposed of. There
should be no fewer than two tile
lines, each at least 50 feet long.
Mr. Roberts emphasizes that by
doing the work himself, a farmer can
for about SSOO properly protect his
water supply, install a constant pres
sure pump and kitchen sink, put tub,
toilet and lavatory in the bathroom
and install a state-approved septic
tank system.
Orval U. Crawford
Serving Aboard
Destroyer C. R. Ware
Orval U. Crawford, boilerman, sec
ond class, USN, of Route 1, Glenwood,
recently arrived in the Mediterranean
area aboard the destroyer USS C.
R. Ware with fleet units which re
lived ships of the Sixth Task Fleet.
During his four-months of tour
duty in this area he will be afforded
an opportunity to visit many of the
countries of southern Europe and
northern Africa.
Two Services At
Bay Springs Sunday
Rev. Forrest E. Linder announces
। there will be services Sunday morn
. ing, February 12, at 11:00 o’clock at
Bay Springs Methodist Church. His
• subject will be “World Peace”,
i “God’s Plan Concerning Man” is
■ the interesting subject he has chosen
• for the ’Evangelistic hour, 7:30, Sun
; day evening. Special music has
1 been arranged by the chofr for both
- services. The public is cordially in
vited to come to church Sunday.
Number 40
Farmers Advised Not
To Burn Woods
To Kill 801 l Weevil
Farmer should not make the costly
mistake of burning their woodlands
to reduce the number of boll weev
ils. The timber destroyed in such
fires is often times worth much more
than the best cotton crop that could
be produced, and farmers cannot de
pend on this method to rid their lands
of the weevils.
The Georgia Department of Ento
mology has warned that farmers do
much more harm than good, burn
ing woods to kill the weevils. T.
M. Gunn. Assistant Director of the
Department, says, “We strongly urge
that the farmers do not burn off
I wood lots which contain trees of
I value, as the loss of the trees would
be much greater than the gain of
I killing a few boll weevils.”
Gunn stated that the boll weevil
j winters chiefly in the adult stage in
। woods, grass, around gins, barns, rock
i dams or terraces er other protected
places near cotton fields. Seldom do
weevils go further than 25 to 30
yards from the cotton rows. Accord
ing to Gunn, a “thorough clean-up of
fields, terraces and fence rows, com
bined with an early program of cot
l ton poisoning next spring, will great-
I ly reduce the boll weevil population
' without the extremely costly measure
| of burning woodlands.”
Guyton DeLoach, Director of the
Georgia Forestry Commission, stated
that he concurs strongly in the rec
ommendations of the Entomology
Ddbartment. DeLoach stressed the
fact that many acres of valuable
woodlands are destroyed by numer
ous wild forest fires resulting from
persons burning for the weevil. “The
loss in standing timber is often many
times the value of the best cotton
crops the farmer can produce,” said
DeLoach. “Furthermore, there are
great losses through erosion on burned
i lands, destruction of the forest repro
duction, massacre of wild life, and
■ even destruction of farm homes and
buildings. The price is far too high
to pay for the inefficient and even
unreliable destruction of a few boll
weevils.”
Cross-Section
Os America
The Boy Scouts of America is ob
serving its 40th Anniversary. Al
though it began with a small mem
bership in 1910 it caught on rapidly.
By 1916 Boy Scouts had rolled up so
creditable a record of service to their
communities that the Congress of the
United States granted the Boy Scouts
of America a Federal Charter.
The record shows that the current
active membership is two and a half
million boys and leaders. During the
organization’s forty years, more than
sixteen million, five hundred thou
sand have been influenced by the
Scout Oath and Law. As a matter
of fact, nearly twenty percent of the
male population of America today has
been identified with the Boy Scouts
of America.
The purpose of Scouting, reads the
Federal Charter, “shall be to promote,
through organization and cooperation
with other agencies, the ability of
boys to do things for themselves and
others, to train them in Scoutcraft,
and teach them patriotism, courage,
self-reliance, and kindred virtues.”
Today, the Boy Scouts, virtually a
cross-section of American life, are at
the mid-point of a two-year Crusade
to “Strengthen the Arm of Liberty”
by bringing a better Scouting pro
gram to more boys under better
trained leaders. This worthy effort
will have its climax in a great Na
tional Jamboree this summer which
will fittingly be held op historic
ground—Valley Forge, Pa., where
George Washington and his heoric
Continental Army helped to lay the
foundation for our Republic. It will
be a gathering of youth who will be
among the nation’s top leaders a few
decades hence.
To the Boy Scouts of America on
their fortieth anniversary, we say.
“Happy Birthday!”
COTTON SUPPLY
The 1948-48* supply of American
cotton was about 17,550,000 bales
(1948 production of 14,868,000 and
carry-over of 2,682,000.) Domestic
consumption this season will total
about 7,635,000 bales.and exports will
account for about 4,700,0i)0 bales.
Cotton specialists point out that the
best way to increase cotton yields
and income is by more efficient pro
duction and wise cooperation of
farmers and businessmen.