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TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
Georgia Department of Education
Your Teachers Will Get Sick
Leave: For the first time, Geor
gia teachers will get State pay
for sick leave this year—sso each.
That means that SSO per teacher
will be set up in each school budg
et from State funds for the pay
ment of a substitute if the teach
er should get sick during the year.
The teachers are allowed 1114
days per year for sick leave.
There are 26 systems in the state
that already have local sick leave
plans, but this is the first State
paid one. The SSO is being added
to the Maintenance and Opera
tion fund, which now amounts to
$4lB per teacher in Georgia.
Your Superintendent Will Be
Going: The State Department of
Education is calling four “drive
in” meetings for school superin
tendents during August. Here are
the places and dates:
Albany—August 20 (adminis
tration building); Baxley — Au
gust 21 (cafeteria); Athens—Au
gust 22 (library), and Atlanta-
August 23 (State Health confer
ence room).
They will discuss sick leave, cur
riculum changes, and other things
that have to de with running the
schools for your boys and girls.
Pitiful Pearl: Educators visit
ing a toy show in New York
found out that next year’s most
popular toy with the small fry
will be a forlorn doll named Piti
ful Pearl. She appeals to the
maternal in a little girl. The
trick is to turn Pitiful Pearl into
glamorous Girtie. The toy mak
ers, like the schoolfolks, have also'
consulted psychologists.)
Does Your Child’s Teacher
Have One: 70% of Georgia’s
teachers are now eligible for Life
Certificates. This means that
they do not have to go back to
summer school. It also makes it
very desirable for your local
school system to have some plan
of “in-service” training to keep
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1951 Chevy 2-Door
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the teachers in fresh ideas.
After this, Life Certificates will
be given on this basis: a teacher
who has a degree and five years
of experience can get ope if her
superintendent recommends her
for one.
What Do Your Teachers Make?
Do you have any idea what the
figures are in the right hand cor
ner of that check that your child’s
teacher takes home every month?
She starts at $2900 a year in Geor
gia, and can go as high as S3BOO
with nine years experience. There
she stops. Dr. M. D. Collins,
state school superintendent, has
named a committee to study a
possible revision in the teacher’s
salary schedule. They expect to
come up with a new pattern by
the time GEA meets in Atlanta
next March.
Don’t Sell the PTA Short: Edi
tor of a famous magazine told
educators this recently: “I’m tired
of people being smart and snob
bish and superior toward the
PTA. They’re a wonderful help
to the schools and the most pow
erful and unselfish organization
in America.
Highway Division
Building Opened
The State Highway Depart
ment’s new $186,366 Division
Headquarters at Thomaston, fi
nanced entirely by the depart
ment, has been officially dedi
cated by Gov. Marvin Griffin. It
will serve 40 counties in the West
Central Georgia area.
Gov. Griffin said this building
is one of six such headquarters
which will be located in the six
highway divisions throughout the
state. He also reviewed the
state’s participation in the SSO
- 13-year federal highway
construction and Georgia’s own
SIOO-million rural roads program j
slated for completion in 1958. I
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
? CONSERVATION J
i[ By H. L. Davis £
NEV/ TERRACES
REDUCE SHORT ROWS
Terraces on sloping lands plant
ed to crops are becoming increas
ingly important to farmers who
want to conserve their soil and
water and increase their yields
and income. Properly run and
constructed terraces give protec
tion to land and growing crops
against erosion damage resulting
from heavy rains that frequently
occur during the cropping season.
The protection and benefits of
good terrace and water disposal
systems without the incovenience
of short rows is something that
has long been desired. With the
increased use of farm machinery
and the resulting increased out
put of one man there has de
veloped a need for terraces which
more ideally fit mechanized farm
ing.
For several years the Soil Con
servation Service has been ex
perimenting with what is now
called parallel terraces. That is,
adjoining terraces that are the
same distance apart from end to
end and that require no short
rows in the interval between ter
races. The advantages of such a
terrace system are apparent. Sav
ings are realized in time, fuel,
wear and tear on machinery, less
crops are destroyed in turning
equipment, and a terrace system
THE SUPREME COURT, during
the course of its recently-concluded
1957 session, confirmed the worst
fears of Thomas Jefferson who
warned upon the founding of
this Republic that “the Judiciary
branch is the instrument which,
working like gravity, without in
termission, is to press us at last
into one consolidated mass.”
After more
than three years
of pursuing a
calculated de
sign to destroy
the last vestige
of state sover
eignty in this
nation, the
Court turned its
judicial chisel on the other two
branches of the Federal Govern
ment, the Executive and the Legis
lative. Not only did it seek to
nullify the constitutional powers
and prerogatives of the Congress
but also it endeavored to hamstring
the enforcement of the laws by the
Executive Branch.
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THROUGH ITS DECISIONS
this year, if they are allowed to
land, the Court endeavored to put
crippling restraints upon the power
of Congress to investigate and the
authority of the Executive Branch
to prosecute law violators. Even
worse, through seizing upon flimsy
technicalities, it afforded a judicial
refuge for communist conspirators
in which those who would subvert
this nation to communism can enjoy
almost complete immunity from
prosecution.
The Court held that witnesses
may refuse to testify before Con
gressional Committees on the
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better adapted to mechanized
farming will be appreciated and
maintained by the farmer.
iWth varying degrees and pat
terns of slopes the ideal arrange
ment whereby all terraces in the
field are parallel will be possible
on only a small percentage of our
fields. However, groups of para
lells, two, three, four or more
terraces which parallel each
other, with an interval that is
not parallel and then another
group of several parallel ter
races should be practical on a
great percentage of the fields in
this area. The interval that is
not parallel, called a corrective
strip, may be entirely or partly
established to grass thereby elimi
nating all short rows in systems
of this type.
Fields that have eroded and
now contain a series of shallow
depressions or washes present a;
problem in establishing either
parallel or conventional terraces.
Lands that have reached this
stage should be diverted from
crops to permanent vegetation
such as grass or trees. This con
dition should give us 1 warning as
to what can and will happen to
our productive cropland without
protection from erosion.
Other problems encountered in
applying improved terracing sys
tems are turn rows, ridges, old
terraces and guide lines that have j
been built up by plowing and i
which distort the natural slope!
pattern of the land. These ridges
and accompanying depressions!
grounds that their consciences will
not permit them to talk, that the
various departments of the Federal
Government must open their secret
files to fishing expeditions on the
part of lawyers defending persons
on trial for violating federal laws,
that confessions cannot be sought
from arrested rape suspects and
that membership in the Communist
Party is not necessarily proof of
conspiring to overthrow the gov
ernment of the United States.
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THESE RULINGS, AND many
others of equally-alarming impli
cations which can be cited, were
handed down under the guise of
“protecting the rights” of the in
dividuals so accused. The fallacy
of that contention is that—granted
that even subverters, rapists and
all manner of law violators are
entitled to due process of law—the
protection of the rights of the vast
majority of law-abiding citizens
from abuse by such individuals is
a far more vital consideration.
Too, it must be born in mind,
that the theory of the Supreme
Court that the rights of the indi
vidual are superior to the restraints
of organized society is just another
definition for “anarchy.”
The Justices would do well to
recall the admonition of Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the
greatest jurists ever to sit on that
bench, that the possession of indi
vidual liberties does not give any
person the right to shout fire in a
crowded theater.
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must be leveled to permit the
most ideal terrace alignment.
Experience shows that the most
practical method of establising
parallel terraces to be the loca
tion of vegetated waterways and
key terraces prior to planting the
crop. The waterways are seeded
and rows laid off on the contour
using the key terraces as guides.
i After the crop is harvested the
terraces are located and construct
ed. This allows the vegetation in
the waterway to become establish
;ed before concentrated water is
i discharged from the terraces and
l the contour rows aid in complet
ing the location of other terraces.
; Your Soil Conservation Dis
' trict has as one of its major ob
i jectives the application of conser
vation measures to cropland. To
obtain assistance from the District
in planning and applying conser
vation measures to your land con
tact the Soil Conservation Service
personnel in your county.
STRTECHING THE LIFE
OF A TRACTOR
To make sure a tractor lasts
a long time, it is important to
make a habit of filling the gas
tank while the engine still is
warm after each day’s use, states
H. B. Goolsby, engineer, Agri
cultural Extension Service. He
points out that condensation and
moisture on the inside of the
tank can be cut down if the trac
tor is filled each evening before
it is stored for the night.
FERTILIZING WINTER
GRAZING
Advice from Agronomist-Proj
ect Leader J. R. Johnson, Agri
cultural Extension Service, about
planting winter grazing includes
these suggestions: use 400 to 600
pounds of 4.12-12 fertilizer per
acre at planting; if anhydrous
amonia is used, apply 100 pounds
of nitrogen at planting, if solid
sources of nitrogen are used, ap
ply one-half of total nitrogen at
planting.
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In this darkened day this portrait can speak to
men and give them renewed hope and courage.
This masterpiece is the greatest religious painting
of our day. Not only is this picture a work of
art but, in our homes will become an inspiration
for a more abundant life.
You can render a Christian service to yourself,
your family and friends by hanging this master
piece in your home. >
This conception of the Christ was the outgrowth
of a desire on the part of the artist to portray
the Savior in a manner that would embrace more
of the qualities of perfection that the Son of God
must possess.
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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE
ALAMO, GEORGIA
Subscription—ln Wheeler County $2.06
Outside Wheeler County $2.55
PROMOTED NATION-WIDE IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNITY
Edwin L. Varnadoe
To Visit Sea Fair
SEATTLE, Wash. (FHTNC)—
Edwin L. Varnadoe, metalsmith
second Glas's, USN. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh M. Varnadoe, and
husband of the former Miss Eliza
beth J. Ward, all of Lumber City,
Ga., aboard the heavy cruiser
USS St. Paul, will visit Seattle,
Washington August 7-12, during
the annual Sea Fair.
Twenty-two U. S. Navy ships
will visit the Northwestern port
for the event and will take part
in a Sea Parade in Elliott Bay.
All ships will be open to the
public during their stay.
The Sea Fair is a 10-day pag
eant of spectator and participa
tion entertainment designed to
point out the Puget Sound area as
one of the boating capitals of the
world.
Maritime features will include
a sailboat regatta, salmon fishing
derbies, crew and outboard races,
water-ski shows, a decorated
yacht parade and the U. S. cham
pionship race for unlimited hy
droplane speedboats on Lake
Washington.
CARD OF THANKS
The greatest asset to man is
friends, and especially Christian
friends. To our friends who
proved themselves so worthy dur
ing the recent loss of our hus
band and father, we extend our
heartfelt thanks apd apprecia
tion.
Mrs. C. A. Stewart
And Children
Agricultural Extension Service
records show that high yields of
corn reduce cost of production.
Grow 80-100 bushels of corn per
acre and total production costs
will not be over 60 to 70 cents
per bushel, say Extension agrOno
omists.
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This painting of Christ is by the famous
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1957
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SALE ON PIANOS
CHICK PIANO COMPANY in
Athens is conducting a sale on
the World's finest quality pi
anos. Also going at sale prices
are practice pianos, small fac
tory rebu il i s and popular
priced new spinets and- con
soles.
CHICK PIANO COMPANY
279 N. Lumpkin Street
Athens, Georgia
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BETWEEN Alamo and Shiloh
last Tuesday night an inner
spring mattress was lost. Find
er please contact J. W. Nash,
Alamo, Ga. 15-2tpd.
CITATION
GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
To Whom It May Concern:
W. Jerry Dennis, of said State
having applied for permanen|t
letters of administration of the Es
tate of H. Roscoe Dennis Sr., late
of said county, deceased, this is
to cite all creditors and heirs of
said deceased to show cause at
the next September term, 1957,
of the court of Ordinary of said
county, why letters' of administra
tion should not be granted as
prayed.
Witness the hand and seal of
the ordinary of said county, this
the Bth day of August, 1957.
16-4 t. D. N. ACHORD. Ordinary
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