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Volumn 38.
Georgia Counties
Competing For Forest |
Fire Prevention Prize
“More than forty-five counties have
entered Georgia’s SIOOO forest fire
pi<evention contest, and more appli
cations are being received daily”, ac
cording to announcement today by
Hugh Dobbs, president of the Geor
gia Forestry Association, sponsors of ;
the contest. Dobbs stated “that by
the time the entry deadline arrives
September 1, we expect every one
Os the 85 eligible counties to be par
ticipating.”
Listed among the counties which
have already joined the race for the
piiae money are: ^Baldwin, Bibb,
Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Calhoun,
Carroll, Cobb, Colquitt, Coweta,
Crawford, Dade, Dougherty, Decatur,
Dodge, Emanuel, Jasper, Lamar,
Laurens, Long, Lowndes, Macon,
Meriwether, Monroe, Muscogee (Ist
to enter), Paulding, Polk, Stevens,
Stewart, Talbot, Taylor, Terrell,
Thomas, Truetlen, Troup, Upson,
Walker, Ware, Wayne, Wheeler, and
Wilkinson.
Commenting on the interest and
progress to date, Dobbs urged all
counties, once they have joined the
Tanks of those competing? to begin
immediately to organize their lead
ership and committees to push forward
with the (job olf determining the
causes of fires and the means of pre
vention. Emphasizing the known
fact that most of Georgia’s wild woods
fires are caused either by incendiar
ism or carelessness, the Association
president said, “Our problem in for
est fore prevention is actually people,
not fire. If we can get the people
to be careful with fire at all times
in and around the woods, we will
greatly cut the number of fires and
reduce the acreage burned. If the
people will take care of the fire, the
fire will take care of itself.”
Contest manuals have been fur
nished to all County Foresters and
other leaders in particiating counties.
The manuals explain the methods of
forming County Contest Councils and
various committees, including an in
dustrial committee, to find and com
bat the causes of fire in the county.
Additional information on contest
rules, regulations and methods are
available from the Georgia Forestry
Association, 905 Citzens and Southern
National Bank Bldg., Atlanta.
Kelly B. Moore
Dies Wednesday
Funeral services were held Friday
morning at 11 o’clock in the Grimes
Church for Kelly B. Moore, 33, bar
ber and farmer, who died on August
22 in the University Hospital in Au
gusta after five months illness. The
Rev. Lennie Grimes, pastor of the
Holiness Church officiated, and burial
was in the Grimes Cemetery with
Harris &. Smith Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Russell Lowery,
A. T. Nix, Ferd Nobles, Edgar Grimes,
A. B. Grimes Jr., and A. W. Brown.
Mr. Moore was born in Telfair
County December 27, 1918, the son
of Richard and Ommie Skipper
Moore. He was married to Miss
Josephine Mullis on September 13;
1941, and was a member of Pine
Level Free Will Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife; four
children: Ronny Earl, Wayne Kelly,
Ricky Delmar and Hazel Moniece;
his mother, Mrs. S. L. Grimes; step
father. S. L. Grimes; two sisters: Mrs.
Jesse White and Mrs. Esker Grimes,
and four brothers: Roy, Willard, Ger
rel and Wilton. •
Fire At Hattaway’s
Gin Wednesday
The cotton dryer erploding was the
cause of a fire at Hattaway’s gin
Wednesday.
The fire was quickly brought un
der control and Mr. Hattaway re
ports no injuries and that cotton
ginning will be resumed immediate
ly.
Prompt action by the citizens of
Alamo kept the damages at a mini
mum.
These Rushing Days
BY J. SEABORN WINN
Milner, Ga.,
All people are in such a rush
To do their daily task,
Until they take no time to hush,
Look up to God and ask,
T ord, let me daily lean on You,
Serve You with all my heart,
Help me ever to be true,
And always do my part.”
Wheeler County Eagle
State President J
Points To Role 1
Os P. T. A?s in Georgia I
“Back to School” is a familiar ex
pression of all parents and teachers j
|in Georgia with September so near i
l at hand. “With the school doors (
swinging open wide to the thousands ;
of boys and girls, I believe the P. T. j
A. has a definite role in the physical ]
welfare of every school child in
Georgia,” says Mrs. Ralph Hobbs, j
President of the state P. T. A. at her j
i home in Cataula. j 1
Mrs. Hobbs points to the accom- , f
plishments of the follow up pro-:
gram of the Summer Round-Up in ।
1 every parent-teacher association. Al-i <
Iso that the school lunch program re- ,
ceives full cooperation from the ,
I home. The National P. T. A. recent- ।
ly issued this statement —“We recog-1
nize that the sale of such items as .
carbonated beverages, candy, and,
! other confections in school may in- j,
terfere with effective nutrition edu-',
! cation. We also recognize that the
sale of these items in schools is an
administrative problem, that the re
sponsibility of the parent-teacher or
garnization is interpreting to parents .
the dangers involved in substituting
these items for milk and other more
nutritious foods in the child’s diet,
so that parents will give adminis
trators the backing needed to remedy .
the situation.”
J With the continued threat of war
; : clouds the parent-teacher is con
. cerned with Civil Defense and has
i made it one of major emphasis. There
. | will be need in some areas for day ’
nurseries due to women working in
, defense plants. “I wish mothers
i! could feel that they are making a
11 real contribution to the emergency
I by caring for their young children
. in the home rather than taking a
, job”, pleads Mrs. Hobbs. “We also
need to be on the alert for young-
. sters whose fathers are in the serv
[ ices away from home, this makes
for an unbalanced home life for any
= child. Attention is pointed that in
I one community in Georgia some of
the fathers of the P. T. A. have taken
it as their task to see that outings are
planned for these youngsters.”
Safety in the home, school, and
, community should always be our
, concern but the parent-teacher has
। accepted August 15 to October 15 for
1 their time for special emphasis on
Child Safety, sponsored by the Geor
gia Safety Council. The slogan, “A
child may dare, so drive with care”
will give force to this program.
Governor Talmadge has added em
r phasis to this safety program by
. writing a personal message to every
school child in Georgia.
Enrollments will begin with reg
. istration day and the morning school
, opens in many associations. Not just
, parents and teachers but every in
। terested citizen should be asked to
t j join. A membership in a local par
(! ent-teacher association is a stake in
the future of your community, state
j and nation.
’i The greatest assignment for any
par'ent-teacher association and its 1
. membership during the coming year
( is to continue to interpret the Mini
. mum Foundation Program of Educa
. tion to every citizen, how it works
locally, on a county basis, and at the
; state level. It is the greatest step
forward for Georgia and her people
, in the history of our state. We must
see it through, with patience and un
derstanding. Let no one say it will
not work or it is not necessary. Just
ask yourself and everyone else the
question—How would we meet some
’ of our most pressing educational
needs without funds that will come
because of the Minimum Foundation.
Program of Education?
“These are important assignments
as schools open their doors and P. ,
I T. A.s swing into action, but Geor
gia's boys and girls, her human re
sources, are worthy of every hour
' spent and ever effort made for their,
' welfare,” declared Mrs. Hobbs.
Regular Services
At Glenwood
Baptist Church
Church services will be held at
Glenwood Baptist Church Sunday.
Sunday School will be at 10:30 a.
m. Church will be at 11:30 and 8:15
p. m.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express my sincere ap
preciation to the many people who
were so helpful during the fire at
the gin last Wednesday. To each of
you I say thank you for your help
Sincerely
1 J. F. HATTAWAY ।
Alamo, Wheeler County, Georgia, Friday, August 31, 1951
Dealers Can Pay
More In Trade-In
On New Automobiles
Franchised new car dealers map
.now offer a prospective customer
more than the ceiling price for a used
car as a “trade-in” on a new model,
according to a ruling issued today
from the Savannah District Office of
Price Stabilization.
Under the price control law ceil
ing prices for used automobiles are
listed in guide books which dealers
thioughout 61 South Georgia coun
ties are using.
Harold Leventhal. Chief Counsel
for the OPS, has ruled that “the es
sential sale of a new car for which
a used car is turned in as part pay
ment, is a sale of the new car and
the allowance on the used car may
exceed the ceiling price for a cash
sale.”
New car dealers who desire furth
er clarification of the measure may
contact the Savannah District Of
fice, G. Elliott Hagan, Director, at 102
West Broad Street in Savannah.
Etta Lee McDaniel
Elected Girls Vice
President 4-H Council
Etta Lee McDaniel, Wheeler Coun
■ty 4-H Club member was selected
Girl’s Vice President of the State
4-H Council at the meeting in Mil
ledgeville, August 20th to the 24tb
over four other candidates.
1 Among the outstanding men heard
were: Ernest Rogers of the Atlanta
Journal; Ralph McGill of The At
lanta Constitution; Hon. Herman Tal
madge, Governor of Georgia; Dear
and Director C. C. Murray of the
University of Georgia; President Gu>
Wells of G. S. C. W. and Extensior
personnel such as: W. S. Brown, W
A. Sutton, L. R. Dunson, Bab Rich
ardson, Martha Harrison. Also the
International Farm Youth Exchange
delegate, Wilmarose Nicholson.
The saw the State 4-H Talent show
and Tractor contest in which Harrj
Mitchell participated and took pat
in the Recreation each night.
The group attended the Grounc
breaking exercises for the new state
4-H Camp at Rock Eagle.
Those attending from Wheelei
County were: Griffin Mitchell, Harrj
Mitchell, Gene White, Etta Lee Mc-
Daniel, Clara Ann Bridges and Gayle
Windham.
Displaced Farmers
Available For Work
On Ameican Farms
Thirteen hundred German expellee
farmers, selected by a group of Ger
man-speaking Americans, are readj
for immigration to the United States
as soon as they get American spon
sors, according to the United States
Displaced Persons Commission.
The farmers are selected after care
ful study by four county agents, an
Extension Service dairyman' and a
farmer. The commision said that if
farmers in this country who need
help will act immediately, the ex
nellee farmers can be brought into
this country by October.
Sponsors, the commission said,
must assure a job, housing and trans
portation from the port of entry to
the place of resettlement in the
United States. He must assume that
the expelle will not become a public
charge. The expellee must sign a
good faith oath under- which he
agrees to abide by the terms of em
ployment offered.
This Displaced Persons Commis
sion advised farmers looking for
workers to fill their late fall labor
demands, and to meet future short
ages, to write or wire the Displaced
Persons Commission, Washington, D.
C., for assurance forms.
Myra Hughes To
Compete Tn State
4-H Club Contest
Myra Hughes accompanied by Miss
Esther Godbee, Home Demonstra
tion Agent attended the State 4-H
Cotton and Its Uses meeting and
banquet in Macon August the 15th
to the 17th.
Myra was on the program at the
banquet giving her demonstration' on
rug making, using cotton materials.
Myra was the winner in the South
Central Georgia 4-H Project Achieve
ment meeting and . was selected for
the honor of appearing on this pro
gram by the State Office.
She will compete for state honors
at the State 4-H Congress in Atlanta
lin October. ' .
Wheat Goal
For Georgia
185,000 Acres
> State 1952 production goals for fall
• seeded wheat, barley, oats, and rye,
I were announced today for Georgia by
,! T. R. Breedlove, Chairman of the
' State Agricultural Mobilization Com
f mittee.
According to Breedlove, the State’s
- acreage goals for these fall-seeded
5 crops are as follows: Wheat, 185,000
s acres: oats, 900,000 acres; barley,!
- 7,000 acres; and rye, 6,000 acres.
These goals apply only to fall
-11 seeded crops. Goals for spring
-i seeded crops will be announced later,
i \ In making this announcement,
- Breedlove explained that these a-1
i creages are consdered to be Georgia’s
f share of the national goals for each
1 of these fall-seeded crops. The ha
■ tional goals for wheat of 78,850,000
■ acres; for barley of 12,865,000 acres:
f for oats of 6,035,000 acres and for.
~ rye the 1951 harvested acreage, are
2 in line with good land use and for.
all possible expansion of feed crops
including hay and pasture.
The national wheat goal calls for a
slightly larger acreage than was
seeded in the fall pf 1950 for harvest
in 1951. The State goal of 185,000
acres compares with 166,000 acres
_ seeded in 1950. These goals are de
d signed to fill all known require
e ments and to maintain a safe reserve
for emergency.
h Emphasis on feed and cover are
reflected in the national goal for
d fall-seeded oats. The State goal of
a 900,000 acres compares with 815,000
_ acres in 1950.
The national barley goal, in line
n with the effort to increase the pro
e auction of feed for livestock, is about
’ 15 percent higher than last year’s
n planted acreage. 11,275,000 acres
t ! were planted in 1951 and 13,235,000
[_' acres in 1951.
ie No individual farm, goals will be
, e established.
.v No Timelocks
’yl
,t uetiigia school teachers won’t have
to sit in classrooms eight hours a
d day and then attend P.-T. A. meet
;e ings and do homework at night on
their own time. State School Supt.
;r M. D. Collins says some local systems
■y have misunderstood the State Board
■- of Education’s orders setting an eight
e hour work day for teachers.
“The local boards can give the
~ ’ teachers credit for the school work
i they do each day, regardless of wheth
er its done in the classroom or else
where,” Collins said. “If a teasher
supervise children riding the bus to
school each morning, she can be al
lowed to count this time. If she
e works on a paper sale, visit’s a pu
” pils home, or attends a P.-T A. meet -
y (ng, the local system can credit her
!S with this time as working. It was
* not intended that a teacher should
iS sit at her desk for eight hours a day
| and then spend the evenings doing
school work on her own time.”
n Most teachers always have put in
a more than eight hours a day working
ls for their students, Collins said.—M.
d .L. St. John in Atlanta Constitution.
° Check For $61,000.00
1 Sent Georgia Chapter
° From Polio F’dation
e
t A check for $61,000 to help pro
c vide care for Georgia polio patients
a has been received by the Georgia
e State Chapter of the National Foun-'
- dation for Infantile Paralysis, it was
announced today by Jesse Draper, of
- Atlanta, Chapter Chairman.
r When March of Dimes funds are
r raised, Mr. Draper explained, half
" stays with the local chapter and half
1 goes to the national headquarters for
*• researsh, professional education and
emergency aid, such as the check just'
: received.
Mr. Draper said the record break
ing polio incidence during the past
three, years had exhausted the treas-:
uries of hundreds of chapters across
the country.
s “While we cannot tell what the
- final score of 1951 may be”, he add-
I ed, “the fact remains that up through
d the end of July the National Foun
h dation had sent almost $4,000,000 in
emergency funds so that chapters in
e 42 states might carry on their pa
n tient-care disbursements.”
>• At present the Georgia State Chap
h ter is providing funds for the care, in
- whole or in part, of polio patients af
r flicted this year in addition to under -
* writing the patient care costs of those
stricken prior to January 1, 1951.
s — —7
a An advertisement in The Eagle is
‘ worth a dozen on a post.
Single Copy 5c
14-H Club Poultry
Show Will Be Held I
In Alamo Aug. 31 I
The Wheeler County 4-H Poultry
Show will be held on Friday, August ;
31st, at 10.00 a. m. near the Health
Office in Alamo.
This is an annual event partici- ;
pated in by 4-H boys and girls in ,
the 4-H Poultry Chain and spon
sored by the Sears Foundation.
H. W. Bennett Extension Poultry ;
I Specialist will do the judging. Mr.
Bennett has been doing this kind of
work over a period of years and he
has become very proficient even to
the extent of getting the pullets “to
tell him” what kind of flock manage
। ment they have received from the
different 4-H club members.
Be sure to come and see some
nice pullets to be exhibited in the ;
show.
Mr. Bennet will make this an in
teresting and educational feature of
our 4-H Work in poultry.
The boys and girls will receive
SBO.OO in prizes. The amount they
receive will depend on the kind of
job they have done in this project.
The 4-H members participating m
this event are; Glenda Bishop, Mar
tina Pope, Kathryn Swain, liJaxie Jo
Mimbs, Barbara Hinson, Wallace
I Monfort. Loomis Hartley, Bobby
Horne, Willard Browning and Jimmy
Nicholson.
Opening Date
Brewton-Parker
College Sept. 18
Brewton - Parker Junior College
will open for the fall quarter on Sep
tember 18. Registration will begin
from 1:00 till 5:00 P. M. on that date.
Classes will begin on September 19.
Due to the 12th grade program all
, colleges must expect a drop in fresh
man enrollment this year. Approxi
-1 mately 60% of the Georgia high
schools didn’t have a graduating class
this year. In spite of this Brewton-
Parker’s enrollment is ahead of ex
pectations. The college has started
and will continue a night class of
veterans, so the total enrollment will
probably be about the same as last
.' year.
’ Brewton-Parker Junior College is
the largest and most progressive in-
! stitution of its class in this entire sec
tion. The college enters its 47th year
! under most favorable conditions.
' From a modest organization in 1905.
its growth and influence have had
| constant development and enlarge
ment of interest.
’ Its graduates, both men and wom
en, have taken prominent place in
' the affairs of church and state, and
its future, viewed as a church school
or as an advanced educational insti-:
tution irrespetive of denominational
: lines, is a credit to its founders and
those who have been instrumental in
its development as a scholastic cen
ttt.
Medical Attention For
Service Dependents Is
Made Easier By Navy
The Department of the Navy has
i made available a revised identifica- J
tion card for qualified dependents
of Navy and Marine personnel in or
der than those dependents may quick
ily establish eligibility for hospital
and medical care in service hospitals
and dispensaries, according to W. K.
Barrett, director of the State De
partment of Veterans Service. I
Barrett said the new card, desig
| nated NAVPERS 1343, will be issued !
by unit commanding officers upon .
request of personnel having depend
i ents. ;
However, if the serviceman is|
! overseas, the dependents may pro-1 j
cure a card from either the Bureau of,,
Naval Personnel, Washington, cr L
Headquarters, Marine Corps, Wash-1,
ington, whichever office is appropri-l
: ate.
j Barrett eyplained that neither the
Air Force nor the Army provide I
similar cards, but that dependents cf
personnel who are members of these
arms may show allotment papers in
order to establish eligibility for treat
ment at military installations.
Barrett advised the dependents? of j
all servicemen to establish eligibili-
Ity in advance of anticipated need.
He said that after the need for such
treatment arises, precious time may
be lost awaiting the establishment of
such eligibility. The facilities of all ।
Veterans Service Offices are avail
able to those who wish to establish
their right to medical care and treat
' ment.
Farm People To
Review Agricultural
Programs Sept. sth
Farm people in Wheeler County,
as well as other people interested in
farming, will have an opprtunitp to
review the policies, programs and
agencies of the Department of Agri
culture and to make recommeda
tions for improving the programs, R.
E. Tuten Sr., Chairman of the Coun
ty Agricultural Mobilization Commit
tee, said this week.
Copies of a report, Family Farm
Policy Review, prepared by a com
mittee in Washington representing
the various branches of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, have been sent
to County Agricultural Mobilization
Committees by the State Agricul
tural Mobilization Committee which
.is headed by T. R. Breedlove.
The report, Mr .Tuten points out,
sets forth the policies and programs
of the department which are designed
to be of assistance to farm people
and make certain recommendations
as to how these programs might be
improved.
Farmers and others interested in
farming in Wheeler County are urged
by the County Agricultural Mobili
zation Committee chairman to par
ticipate in a county wide meeting
which will be held at the Court
House in Alamo, on Wednesday, Sep
! tember 5, beginning at 2:00 p. m.
and running until all business has
been completed.
Secretary of Agirculture Charles
F. Brannan, in releasing the report,
! declared “Because so much of the
{world is rural, every opportunity for
■farm people to better themselves and
the conditions surrounding lural life
can do for world peace something
that great armies cannot possibly ac
complish.”
The secretary continued, “If de
mocracy is to be a continuing source
of hope to rural people elsewhere in
1 the world, democracy must continue
! to advance in rural America. De
spite the remarkable progress in ag
riculture, there are still many prob
lems to be solved. That’s why we've
■ started an analysis of all our pro
i grams and agencies to see how we
can imnrove our services to the na
j tier’s family farms.”
; County and community meetings
of farm people and others will be
held in practically all counties, Mr.
Tuten said. A report will be made
of the reaction of people in Wheeler
County and their recommendations
will be prepared by. the County Ag-
Jri cultural Mobilization Committee.
The county reports will be sent to
the Secretary of Agriculture through
the State Agricultural Mobilization
Committee, together with a separate
ptate report prepared by the State
{ A Vicultural Mobilization Commit-
Supervisor Announces
Steedley’s Promotion
To Area Forester
J. D. Strange, Program Superyi
, sor. Naval Stores Conservation Pro
! gram, Valdosta, announced today
that the title of A.'G/Steedly, local
program field administrative officer,
has been changed from Inspector to
that of Area Forester. Mr. Strange
stated that this change was brought
about by the recent reclassification
of the position held by Mr. Steedley.
Mr. Strangle added that this
change in title is in the nature of a
promotion for Mr. Steedley and is
official recognition by the Forest
Service of his ability and good work
being done by him. Mr. Steedley
has been in Mcßae about five-and
a-half years, and has had about
18 years experience in naval stores
and forestry work in the South.
Any person desiring information in
regards to naval stores or the require
ments for earning a Naval Stores
Conservation Program payment
should contact Mr. Steedley and he
will be glad to be on any possible
help.
LAYING HENS
Persons deciding to add a small
flock of laying hens to their farm
program are advised that it is a good
thing to begin with 200 to 500 layers.
Also, there is enough labor on many
Georgia farms to justify building a
flock up to 1,000 layers.
NEW BROILER
The Georgia-Light broiler is a
white-plumaged bird with some black
। feathering in the neck and tail, and
: this breed is receiving favorable com
ments from broiler raisers. It was
| produced at the University of Georgia
J College of Agriculture 4 farm.
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