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VOLUME 43.
WAR IS DECLARED ON MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: — A proclamation issued by
Governor Marvin Griffin has declared muscular dystrophy an enemy of the people of
Georgia. Lovely film star Susan Hayward is shown above as plans for war against mus
cular dystrophy were made with Governor Griffin and Adjutant General C. F. Camp.
Miss Hayward is state campaign chairman for the 1957 March Against Muscular Dystro
phy and Maj. Gen. Camp is National Guard March Chairman.
CONSERVATION
By H. L. Davis
FERTILIZER MUST BE
USED FOR PROFITABLE
FISH PRODUCTION
Many pond owners of Wheeler
County have complained to these
sympathetic ears in recent weeks
of poor fising in their ponds.
Their theory is all the fish have
been caught out. This is impos
sible. Let us take this example
to show that by common sense
that this could not happen.
We have a two acre pond. This
pond if stocked by and to SCS
specifications would receive 2000
Bluegill Bream and 200 Bass
(trout).
Let us assume that only 1000
bream and 100 bass lived which
is only half, we know this mortali
ty rate would never happen, for
sake of example lets let this
stand. You now have 1000 bream
and 100 bass. Then lets say no
eggs were laid you would have
to catch 1000 bream and 100 bass
to catch all the fish out. We know
this type of reasoning is crazy for
we know fish will lay eggs at
at the rate of 5000 to 50,000 per
season. This means that if only
one pair of bream or one pair
of bass layed even with all the
hazards of nature plus man that
in one season you would have
more fish than you started with.
So instead of the theory that
all fish are caught look at the
situation from common sense
angle. We know that there
will be 50% females and 50%
males of close to this. With
500 laying from 5000 to 50,000
eggs just imagine how many fish
you will have in your pond.
Dr. Roy Grizzle, Biologist with
Soil Conservation Service, visited
Wheeler County Thursday, July
18, to check some of our ponds.
We selected ponds that were said
to be fished out, instead of this we
found just the opposite, there
were too many fish. Just because
fish don’t bite, or we can’t see
them in the water don’t mean
they are not there. We found by
seining that there were many j
times more fish than the pond wlli
support. One acre of water will
support so many fish just the
way one acre will support stalks
of crops. You don’t over plant
crops, so don’t overstock ponds.
We also found ponds not prop
erly fertilized. This practice fol- ,
lowed correctly plus trying to;
catch all the fish in your pond ■
will result in a much better fish- j
ing pond. If you fertilize in early
Spring and as often as needed,
get your friend and try to catch
all the fish you/^an from your
waters, then see if your pond ।
doesn’t prove to you that it can
be successful.
You can get more information
free from your Local Soil Con
servation Service Technicians lo
cated in your county.
NOTICE
Anyone knowing the where
abouts of the following listed men
please notify Local Board 157,
Alamo Georgia:
Dewey S. Mercer Jr, or Junior
Dewey Mercer.
James Walter Henry
Wheeler County Eagle
Land Management
BY A. G .STEEDLEY
Area Forester
i Naval Stores Conservation
- Program
If you have idle land which is
[not growing anything, why not
plant it in pine trees thereby
making this “waste land” produce
a good income and add much to
i the value of your farm.
I Now is the time to look over
i your idle acres and make plans
i to put them to the profitable en
terprise of growing timber. Tim
ber is a crop that always grows
and increases in value regardless
■of the season. Timber doesn’t
have to be harvested at a specific
[time; when the market isn’t the
I best, you can continue to store it
1 on the stump and let it grow to a
; larger size and value when the
price will be much better. A
; stand of growing timber is like
I money in the bank, it is always
; earning interest and increasing
in value.
I Your 1957 County Agricultural
I Cdnservation Program - makes a
i payment of $8 per acre to help
bear the cost of planting pine
■ seedlings. To earn the payment
| in 1957 you will have to plant the
: seedlings between November 1
! and December 1 this year. Plant
[ ing from January 1 to March 15
I will earn a payment in the 1958
program year.
I The state nurseries are growing
; more seedlings this year than
i ever before and the demand for
' seedlings will also be greater.
To be sure that you get your
■ trees, put in your order now with
I the County Agent, County Rang
;er SCS Technician or the writer.
। The following shows the num
ber of trees that can be planted
per acre when using each of the
three spacings (in feet):
; 8 x 8, 680; 6 x 12; 605; 7 x 10„
620.
More trees per acre produce
[ the greatest volume of timber
'and the largest profit. ,
Make all your idle acres add l
ito the value of your place and
; increase your income by growing
timber.
Andrew J. Tootel
Dies At Home
Near Glenwood
Funeral services were held in
the Glenwood Methodist Church
, last Thursday for Andrew J.
I Tootle, 86, who died Tuesday at
! his home near Glenwood, and
[burial was in the Glenwood Ceme
tery with Sammons Funeral Home
of Soperton in charge of arrange
ments.
Mr. Tootle had been a resident
! of Wheeler County for 60 years,
and was engaged in farming. He
was a member of the Methodist
Church.
He is survived by four sons,
H G. Tootle, Short Tootle, Luke
Tootle, of Glenwood, and Ed
Tootle, of Orlando, Fla.; three
daughters, Mrs. J. A. Barfield, of
Glenwood; Mrs. Bracewell, of
Winter Garden, Fla. and Mrs. J.
B. Shuman, of Thomaston; 16
grandchildren; 14 great-grand
children; and two brothers, Daniel
H. Tootle, of Bainbridge, and C.
D. Tootle, of Savananh.
Subscribe to The Eagle.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1957
FARM NEWS
BY M. K. JACKSON
County Agent
I Cows that will freshen this fall
; should be dry now.
Give them a six to eight week
} “vacation” and they will repay
: you by giving much more milk
The following lactation if they have
1 this rest and proper feed. It’s
Just too much to hope for high
[ production this fall and winter if
! dry cows are on poor, dry pasture
, now. They won’t get into con
i dition for high production by fall,
i It is one mark of a good cow r
i that she is usually thin in flesh
at the end of her lactation. She
: should regain her normal weight
during the dry period, and it
I pays the dairyman to see to it
that feed is provided to enable
, her to make such a gain in weight.
H. K. Welch Jr., dairyman at
(the Agricultural Extension Serv
ice at the University of Georgia,
i quotes studies that show that for
[each pound of weight properly put
| back on the body l of a high-pro-
Iducing cow, she will produce 10
to 15 pounds more milk the fol
lowing lactation.
It isn’t hard to get agreement
on the idea that a cow needs to
gain weight during her dry peri
od, but there are often questions
about what is the best method of
putting the weight back on her.
The best and least expensive
way to put on weight and to con
dition a dry cow is to give her all
the good quality roughage she
| can eat and concentrates as need
led.
Sometimes dry cows will gain
■weight just on a good pasture —
(without grain. But if they fail
[ to show this gain on pasture, then
[concentrate should be fed at the
[rate of four to six pounds a day,
। depending upon the condition of
[ the cows.
The concentrate can be a home-
I mixture of corn, oats, and cotton
[ seed meal, or it can be a good
i commercial fitting ration. Usual
i ly, a grain mixture containing
[ about 12 percent plrotein will
; give satisfactory results.
Dry cows need salt and water
and it should be kept where they
can get all they want when they
want it. A mineral mix in a cov
ered box kept in the pasture is
another recommendation of dairy
i specialists that shouldn’t be ig
nored.
NOTICE
Effective immediately Local
Board 157, Alamo, Ga. will be
open only one and a half days a
week instead of two and a half
days as- in the past. Office hours
will be:
Mondays — 8:00 a. m. to 5:00
p. m.
Tuesdays — 8:00 a. m. to 12:00
Noon.
HOW TO PLACE A MULCH
Gerald Smith, horticulturist for
the Agricultural Extension Serv
ice, says mulches should be ar
ranged so they will not shed wa
ter away from the plant. This
is especially true of sawdust,
shavings, and tree leaves. As a
rule, slope the mulch slightly in
ward towards the trunk of the
tree or plant, Smith advises.
Billie Sue Winham
To Present Winning
Project at ABAC
Billie Sue Winham of Glen
wood will present her Wheeler
county championship Cotton and
Its Uses Project, junior division,
at Abraham Baldwin College,
Tifton, on August 19-21, it was
announced by the Cotton Manu
facturers Association of Georgia,
project sponsor.
The Association, which repre
sents 186 textile mills in 66 Geor
gia counties, is providing prize
funds in this project.
Awards' for district winners con
sist of cash prizes for the Hop
three junior girls and trips to the
State 4-H Club Congress, in At
lanta, September 10-12 for the
first place senior girls. Three ad
ditional cash prizes are given in
the senior division.. Subscrip
tions to the National 4-H Club
News are given to all county
winners.
In announcing the district com
petition line up, T. M. Forbes,
executive vice president of the
Association pointed out that the
textile mills of Georgia use an
nually three times as much cot
ton as is firown in Georgia and
are thus the biggest customer of
Georgia’s dotton farmers.
HOSPITALIZED — First District
Congressman Prince Preston,
who has been hospitalized in
Washington as the result of a
heart attack.
Cong. Preston
Suffers Mild
Heart Attack
Congressman Prince H. Pres
ton is a patient at the Naval Hos
pital in Bethesda, Md., following
a mild coronary attack, it was
reported yesterday. *
Physicians at the hospital de
scribed Preston’s condition as
“good” and said he is recuperat
ing satisfactorily.
However, they have ordered a
period of complete rest and con
valescence for the next three
weeks.
Extensive examinations and
complete medical tests have de
termined that Preston’s heart has
suffered no permanent damage
from the attack which he had
Saturday morning while under
going routine treatment at the
Naval Hospital.
Naval doctors stated Tuesday
that “Congressman Preston’s con
dition is entirely satisfactory. Ex
haustive tests and complete ex
amination over a period of days
show that the patient’s heart has
suffered no permanent damage.
A perod of complete rest has been
ordered to speed Mr. Preston’s
recovery.”
It is anticipated that he will
recover entirely within a period
of a few weeks.
The 49-year-old Statesboro law
yer has represented the First Dis
trict in Congress since 1947, and
has attained a position of con
siderable influence in Congress
since that time.
Charles E. Perdue
Departs For Cruise
Os Western Pacific
ALAMEDA, Calif. (FHTNC)—
Charles E. Perdue, interior com
nunications electrician third class,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Perdue of Route 1 Glenwood, Ga.
departed from Alameda, Calif.,
July 9, on a cruise of the West
ern Pacific aboard the attack air
craft carrier USS Bon Homme
Richard.
In addition to operating with
the Seventh Fleet “Bonnie Dick”
expects to visit ports at Japan
as well as at Okinawa, Hong
Kong and Subic Bay, P. I.
Some School Bus
Drivers May Get
Social Security
Whether a school bus driver us
ing his own equipment may be
classified as a governmental em
ployee so as to come under the
Social Security program depends
upon the terms of his individual
contract with the county, Atty.
Gen. Eugene Cook has ruled.
“Unfortunately the contracts
for school bus drivers in Georgia
are not uniform,” Mr. Cook wrote
in an official opinion for State
School Supt. M. D. Collins. “They
differ from county to county.”
He said “this means that each
county contract must be ex
amined” in the light of court au
thority which he cited “to as
certain whether the drivers of
privately owned school buses in
that county are governmental em
ployees under the Social Security
Act.”
The Attorney General said the
answer to whether the bus driver
using his own equipment may
come under Social Security
“would depend upon whether the
bus driver be classified as an em
employee or an independent con
tractor.
“If the former,” he wrote, “he
would come under the Social Se
curity Act as a governmental em
ployee (county board) of educa
tion - employer). If the latter,
he could come under the Social
Security Act as a self-employer.”
Lighter-Weight
Wheat Included In
'57 Price Support
Requirements are being relaxed
[to include lighter-weight wheat
' under the 1957 price-support pro
-1 gram, John F. Bradley, state ad
• ministrative officer of the Geor
gia Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee, an
nounced today. The program is
being revised because wet weath
er in the Southwest at harvest
time is resulting in a higher per
centage of light-test wheat than
usual.
The lighter-weight wheat in
cluded under the relaxed provis
ions of the 1957 program will be I
“Sample” grade on test weight ■
only, but no wheat testing less;
than 40 pounds per bushel will be;
eligible for support. Previously, [
Jprice support was limited to wheat I
grading No. 3 or better, on No.
4 or No. 5 on testweight only.
The light-weight wheat will be
discounted below the minimum
test weight for Grade No. 5 wheat
at the rate of four cents for each
pound through 45 pounds per I
bushel and six cents for each
pound thereafter for wheat hav
ing a test weight of 44 through.
40 pounds per bushel. This dis-1
count will be in addition to other
required discounts and will be
added to the discount of nine
cents per bushel for wheat grad
ing on No. 5 on test weight.
Broadening of the eligibility [
requirements under the 1957;
wheat price-support program is!
intended to make price support'
more generally available to farm- [
ers, to prevent a demoralized i
market price for this quality of i
wheat, and to encourage more or
derly marketing.
Former Alamo Man
Dies In Atlanta
Funeral services were held in [
Beulah Baptist Church Sunday I
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock for Carl
E .Johnson, 51, of Jesup, former
ly of Alamo, who died Saturday
in an Atlanta hospital, and burial
was in the church cemetery with
Harris & Smith Funeral Home of
Mcßae in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Johnson was born in Glen
wood, the son of the late Thad
and Lilia Barlow Johnson. He
was living in Jesup at the time of
his death.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Maude Wright, of
Jesup; his mother, of Brunswick;!
four brothers, Claude Johnson, of i
Glenwood; Curtis Johnson, of Jes
up; Lamar Johnson and Harry!
Johnson, of Brunswick; and two
sisters. Mrs. Bill Newton, of i
Brunswick, and Mrs. Don Vevlac
qua, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Grass stain is hard to remove
from clothing, but Miss Avola
Whitesell, clothing specialist, Ag
ricultural Extension Service, says
if the fabric is washable, try rub-'
bing soap or synthetic detergent
into the plant stain and washing.
the garment.
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REV. L. R. NORRIS
j Rev. Norris To Preach
At Glenwood
Baptist Church
The Rev. L. R. Norris, Pastor
iof the Bonsack Baptist Church,
ißoanoke Virginia, will preach at
j the Sunday morning and evening
■ services of the Glenwood Bap
! tist Church.
। Mr. Norris is a strong preacher,
; having formerly served Baptist
j churches in Georgia and Indiana.
! He is a graduate of Mercer Uni
versity and holds the Bachelor of
| Divinity and Mas'ter of Religious
I Education degrees from the
I Southern Baptist Tehological
| Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
I I
i The public is cordially invited
[ to attend the 11 a. m. and 8 p. m,
• services during which Mr. Nor- j
iris is to preach.
Truck Hits Police
Car During Chase
। A hectic chase sprinkled with
i gunfire ended in a collision be
! tween a truck and a police car
. near Lumber City. Monday night.
Woodrow Brantley of Lumber,
j City, driver of the truck, was I
i charged with driving while under ;
j the influence of intoxicants and
' causing an accident.
' Brantley was reported as re
. ceiving lacerations of the fore-'
head.
Officer E. S. McCann, who suf
fered minor "cuts, said he called
to Brantley to stop several times
during the chase but Brantley
drove on. The officer fired seve
ral warning shots and tried to
pass the truck but Brantley was
reported to have maneuvered his
truck in front of the officer’s ve
hicle.
The truck finally hit the police
car as McCann attempted to pass.
The truck plunged into a ditch
and the police car was turned
completely around. Both vehicles
were heavily damaged. Troopers
E. L. Shaffer and Harry Holland,
who investigated the accident, re
ported.
Farmer Faces
Charge For Biting
Off Man's Ear
An enraged farmer bit off the
ear of an agent for the Farmers
Home Administration, a federal
credit agency, Sheriff F. E. Jen
nings of Willcox County reported
Monday.
Jennings said Ray S. Stephens,
Wilcox County supervisor of the I
FHA, was attacked while making
an inspection of the farm of Ab
ner W. Wheeles. Wheeles was
jailed on a mayhem charge after i
the incident Thursday, Jennings
said and was released Sunday on
bond of SSOO.
Wheeles farm of 245 acres is
about eight miles from Abbeville,:
seat of Wilcox County.
Stephens was taken to a hos
pital in Hawkinsville. His ear
was not recovered and he un
derwent an operation for skin
grafting Monday. "The hospital
reported his condition as good. j
In Atlanta, F. F. Dowis, ad-1
ministrative officer for the FHA,;
said Stephens reported he visited'
the Wheeles farm on a routine :
inspection trip. He said Wheeles i
began cursing and making threats ■
without provocation, and struck!
him on the cheek. The two strug- I
gled and fell. While on the I
ground Wheeles caught Stephen’s
left ear with his teeth and ripped I
it off.
Dowis said Wheeles was a bor-!
rower of the FHA, which makes,
loans to farmers.
Sheriff Jennings said Wheeles
NUMBER 15-
Talmadge's Speech
On Foreign Aid
Termed "Best Yet"
It may be surprising to some
I people—but not to most of his
' fellow Georgians — that “fresh
man” U. S. Senator Herman Tal
madge is making a profound im
pression on objective observers
of official Washington.
' Latest evidence of the recogni
i tion he is receiving outside his
home state is seen in a recent
I editorial in the Fort Wayne (Ind.)
, News-Sentinel headed “Talmadge
. Debunks Inane Aid,” which In
i diana Sen. William E. Jenner
j has had inserted in the Congres
! sional Record. The editorial saict
. in part:
, “There have been many excel
, lent speeches delivered in Con
. gress on our endless and sense
i lessly squandering of our sub
i stance all over the world on in
ane foreign aid projects. How-
; ever, it has remained for Sen.
i (former Governor) Herman Tal-
I madge, of Georgia, to present
! perhaps the most damning de-
I tailed chapter and verse indict
' ment against this shocking fallacy
l of the Washington bureaucrats
and internationalists.
“After the fashion of the able
i trial lawyer he is, he launched
। his case against foreign aid with
a typical opening statement, in
. which he presented a general
• synopsis on U. S. expenditure of
! S4O-billion in economic aid and
! outright grants, relating how the
money has been used to subsidize
fax cuts in foreign lands, while as
। a result, tax cuts are denied our
I own people at home.
■ “Os how the billions went ta
i stabilize foreign currency while
I the resultant inflation further
। feeds the fires of devaluation of
। our dollar. Os how this misbe
j gotten aid builds hydro-electric
• projects, irrigation dams and
I flood-contrcl projects all over the
j world, while floods still ravage
j America and there is an insistent
i cry for more power to enable our
j industry to keep up with the rest
i of the world.”
The editorial quoted many pas
sanges from what it described as
detailed allegations in “Barrister”
Talmadge’s complaint. Then it
isaid:
“ ‘Hummon’,” as he is affection
ately known to many of his col
legues, introduced many other
similar exhibits in evidence and
then presented his summation ta
the congressional jury in which
he appealed to them to end all
economic aid as of now, and to
re-examine military aid with the
confirmed objective of seeing
that the American taxpayer gets
a dollar’s worth of national securi
ty for every dollars that is ex
pended.”
Continuing the editorial said:
“Talmadge emphasizes that it is
of utmost importance that we
‘stop this inane foreign-aid fool
ishness now, before we wrap our
selves up into a perpetual com
mitment of perpetual mostrous
waste.
“He soundly predicted this ap
peal on the demonstrable pre
mise that our many billions wast
ed on foreign aid have bought us
neither friends nor any promise
of national security.
“Talmadge speaks with the
conviction of first - hand experi
ence on the matter of national se
curity, for he served in the U. S.
Navy from 1941 to 1945, advanc
ing to the rank of commander in
which he participated in various
engagements with the Japanese
Fleet in the Battle of Okinawa.”
The News-Sentinel’s editorial
concluded with these words: “We
reiterate that no one has thus far
presented a more convincing
case for perpetuation of a strong
and free America than this dis
tinguished Senator, former Gov
ernor and son of a former Gover
nor of Georgia.”
had been in the Veterans Hospital
in Dublin for a nervous condition
and had made application after
his arrest to return to the hos
pital.
“He is more or less bitter with
the whole world ’’ the sheriff said.
The Wheeles farm is devoted tor
cotton, corn and peanuts. WheeT-
A tractor and self-propelled
farm equipment is relatively slow
compared with the speed of au
tomobiles and trucks points out
H. B. Goolsby, engineer, Agricul
tural Extension Service. This
adds greatly to the hazards in
volved both to the machinery ope
rator and the- motorist.