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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE
PUBLISHED FRIDAYS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHEELER COUNTY
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Georgia, under Act of March 3, 1879
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NATI ONA L EDITORIAL
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
Georgia Department of Education
Hiking On The Mountain: A
summer experience for your child
□could be hiking a few miles along
the Appalachian Trail. Starting
in North Georgia near Fort Ogle
thorpe, it runs more than 2,000
miles through 13 states. It ends
rat Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its
idea: “To enjoy nature in its
primeval beauty, unspoiled by
man’s greed; to leave civilization
behind with its cares, worries,
and annoyances; to rest tired
minds and souls and nerves that
-are jangled and out of tune; to
gain fresh strength for the battles
of life by contact with wind and
trees, earth and sky, the firma
ment that showeth God’s handi
work.”
Changed Ambition: A seventh
grade child told his teacher he
had always wanted to be a doctor,
■but had decided to become a
teacher instead. She asked him
•why. “Because you always look
like you are having so much
fun,” he said.
His Most Important Letter:
This is the time of year when
your school superintendent gets
his most important letter from us.
It is the “Allotment Letter”. It
comes to him from Dr. Claude
Purcell, our assistant state super
intendent of schools, and director
of finance and administration. It
tells your superintendent what
he can count on from the State,
New Collection Boasts Beauty of Teak
Teak — exotic in beauty, but
no longer in price — is an orien
tal wood being used ever more
widely to fashion furniture for
American homes.
Because of its great strength
and toughness as ^ell as its high
ly distinctive grain pattern, it
has always been a principal fur
niture wood in Burma, Java.
East India and French Indo-
China where the teak tree grows.
It can never be as generally avail
able as mahogany which must
also be imported, for the true
mahoganies come only from
tropical America and Africa
where there are considerable
stands of large trees. In con
trast to mahogany’s pink-tinged
brown luster and medium pores,
teak is tawny yellow with a tex
ture almost as “masculine” as
oak.
The cedar lined storage pieces
illustrated above are part of a co
ordinated group of bedroom and
dining room furniture and living
room tables with a Danish feel
ing to them.
Thanks to matching dimen
sions, two pieces placed side by
side, as above, provide a single,
smooth surface. And the fronts
are exceptionally interesting to
the eye. Note the direction of the
dark streaks, so characteristic of
teak, and you’ll see that the grain
in one runs horizontally, in
t’other, vertically. Further, in the
cabinet, the teak is “book-
how much money your schools
will get this year for teachers’
salaries, for transportation, and
for maintenance and operation.
More Free Food: Lunchrooms
will get about ten million dollars
in free food from the government
this year. And here’s something
that will interest you: every ounce
and box and stick and scrap of
it has to be signed for, accounted
for, and checked out. H. D. Hatch
ett, our free food man—a person
of great integrity—does a won
derful job of this.
Here Comes Fifty Dollars:
There’s state money going down
to your county for something new
this year. It is to pay that sub
stitute when your child’s teach
er is sick. She has a right to 11 %
days of sick leave this year. This
fifty dolars is sick leave money
to hire a substitute. If your
school does not need this money
for sick leave, they can use it to
supplement teachers’ salareis if
they want to.
Well, Could You? If you were
on a quiz show and were asked to
name in three minutes your local
board of educators, would you
win that money? (Do you know
who appoints or elects your
board?”)
TV: What will television do in
your child’s classroom? It won’t
replace his teacher. But it may
matched”—that is the grain pat
tern is so joined that it forms a
complete, delightfully abstract
“figure” on each door. In the
chest, the grain pattern is used
"at random” (slip-matched), but
great verve is attained because
the swoop of the grain is reversed
on the bottom drawer.
Wood beauty like this is possi
ble in volume today because of
"bonded wood” construction. This
revolutionary method ol the
ancient art of veneering gives flat
wood areas great stability and
strength. These bonded surfaces
permanently retain their place
and their beauty. The pulls are
as romantic in sound and history
as teak. Easily grasped shafts,
they are carved out of rosewood.
Used as an accent, their darker
wood contributes to the harmony
of the total design — in which
metal pulls, for instance, could
look garish.
Casually tapered hardwood legs
are firmly braced with support
ing stretchers, fashioned in a
favored modern manner that
adds a feeling of lightness as
well as strength to substantial
pieces such as these. In accord
with the best in modern design,
nowhere here is there a hint of
superfluous ornamentation. In
stead, factors of function and
convenience are amply provided
—and. express in lines of greatest
simplicity and in the enduring
beauty of natural hardwoods.
WHEE^HR COUNTY EAGLE ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY. GEORGIA
bring into his classroom the great
est in science, in literature, in
drama. The State Department of
Education is doing a $35,000 ex
periment in closed circuit tele
vision. They are trying out the
new ideas at Conley Hills School
in Fulton County. We’ll let you
know what we learn about it.
F. B. President
Charges Benson With
Violating Section 406
H. L. Wingate, Georgia Farm
Bureau President, today charged
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
with “flagrantly violating Sec
tion 406 of the Agriculture Act of
1949 by reducing the support
price on peanuts below the mini
mum level announced on Feb
ruary 25”.
In a letter to Georgia Congress
men and Senators and all Con
gressional leaders in the nation’s
peanut producing areas, Wingate
urged that the Secretary be called
before the Agricultural Commit
tee “immediately to explain why
he disregarded the law.”
Under the Agricultural Act, the
Secretary is authorized to an
nounce a minimum support price
in advance of crop planting. Hie
Secretary under existing law may
increase the support rate in ad
vance of harvest but cannot re
duce the support below the rate
announced at pre-planting.
Secretary Benson on February
25 announced the minimum sup
port price on 1957 crop peanuts at
$221.40 per ton. The support rate
reflected 82 percent of parity.
Parity on peanuts on February 25
was $270.00 per ton.
Adjusted parity on July 15 had
increased parity price on peanuts
to $272.00 per ton. The Secre
tary disregarded the earlier 82%
support announcement and on
July 15 announced a support rate
reflecting 81.4 percent of parity—
a decrease of $1.64 per ton for the
farmer.
The Secretary of Agriculture
has taken advantage of every op
portunity even to the extent of
disregarding the law to drag the
farmers’ prices down”, Wingate
charged.
Wingate said, “it is most dis
turbing that the Secretary of Ag
riculture is doing everything he
can to down prices for people he
represents while the Secretary of
Labor and other Secretaries work
to raise prices for those groups
they represent.”
“I am requesting that a hear
ing be called immeditely”, the
Farm Bureau official concluded.
SCIENCE IN
YOUR LIFE
No Flu Scar*
The influenza epidemic which
raged in the Far East early this
summer claimed 185 lives, in the
Philippines, 21’in Bombay and 10
in Calcutta. Since between 35,000
and 45,000 persons arrive on the
V. S. West Coast from the Far East
every week, public health authori
ties believe that the epidemic will
soon reach our shores.
There’s no great cause for alarm,
however, this wave
of the flu is going
to be entirely un
, like the epidemic
’of 1918, which
claimed thousands
of lives. Influenza,
the U. S. Public
Health Service
jia ED points out, is al-
most never fatal in itself. What kills
many flu patients is pneumonia, a
frequent “secondary infection” fol
lowing the flu.
In 1918, the USPHS notes, we had
no effective way of treating pneu
monia. Today, with the advent of
such potent antibiotics as Terramy
cin and Tetracyn, pneumonia can
be cured in a matter of days. In ad
dition, the virus responsible for the
current epidemic has already been
identified, and vaccines are in prep
aration.
Great Britain and Continental
Europe are also bracing themselves
for a wave of influenza from the
Far East. The network of flu virus
research stations maintained and
operated by the World Health Or
ganization also stands ready to alert
physicians against, it the moment it
arrives. This time, medical workers
are resolved, we are going to stop
the flu in its tracks.
When You're Sick
See Your Doctor
When You Need
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See Your Lawyer
When You Need
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SCOTLAND
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. McDonald
had as week end guests Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Roberts and children
Michael and Libby, of Albany,
and Miss Betty Jo McDonald and
Gene Haywood, of Atlanta.
Lon Harbin and his sister Mrs.
Veda Rowland of Atlanta visited
their sister, Mrs. Frank Pitts nn
Jesup Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Crapps had
as week end guests, their son Sam
C. Crapps and children Cindy and
Stevie, of Marietta.
Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Sturdivant
of Atlanta were week end guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Cook and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clements.
Miss Roy Jane McDonald is
visiting her sister Mrs. Ralph
Roberts and Mr. Roberts in Al
bany.
Frankie Johnson of Warner
Robins spent the past week as the
guest of Willard and Don Calla
way.
Mr. and Mrs. I. Y. Tucker of
Macon were week end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clements.
Friends of Mirs. Cecil Cook
will be sorry to learn that she is
ill.
ELDER - CRAPPS
In an early evening ceremony
at New Hope Methodist Church
Miss Louise Elder, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Elder, was
married to Edwin Crapps of Mari
etta, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Crapps, of Scotland.
The Rev. B. L. Barton offi
ciated in a nuptial setting lighted
by myriads of white tapers in
branched floor standards. The
chancel rail was outlined with
balls of woodwardia fern and
the pulpit was centered with an
open Bible showered with satin
streamers, placed before a mass
arrangement of white gladioli,
chrysanthemums and blush pink
asters.
Traditional wedding music was
played at the organ by Miss Joy
Spinks. Sam S. Crapps served
as his brother’s best man, and
ushers were Bill Elder, brother of
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the bride, and Luther Elder, of At
lanta, her cousin.
Mrs. Hugh Pearson was matron
of honor, and the bride’s only at
tendant. She wore a ballerina
length dress of blush pink nylon
chiffon designed with round neck
line, tucked bodice and bouffant
skirt. Her satin slippers matched
her gown as did a bandeau of
pink feathers worn in her hair
She carried an arm spray of
rubrum lilies.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a lovely waltz
length gown of nylon lace over
taffeta fashioned by her mother.
The dress was designed Princess
style with scalloped necki-Jine
and cap sleeves, and she wore el
bow-length gloves of lace. Her
only ornament was a strand of
pearls, a gift of the groom, Her
flowers were pink-throated white
orchids mounted on a white Bible
and showered with ribbon stream
ers. The veil of illusion fell from
a pearl tiara.
Mrs. Elder, mother of the bride,
chose a becoming sheath caress of
Copenhangen blue nylon lace over
taffeta, with which she wore
white accessories and a white
carnation corsage. Mrs. Crapps,
the groom’s mother, wore navy
blue lace with white accessories,
and a corsage of white carnations.
The couple left immediately fol
lowing the ceremony for a wed
ding trip to Florida, the bride
traveling in a two-piece dress of
navy blue shantung with acces
sories of white, and a corsage of
white orchids.
Branches that are cut when
pruning trees should be moved
away from around the tree to
prevent damage by fire and in.
sects. That information is from
T. G. Williams, landscape special
ist, Agricultural Extension Serv
ice.
According to Agricultural Ex
tension Service Foresters, prun
ing generally is done on pines
when they are eight to 12 feet in
height and again when they are
six to eight inches in diameter
breast height.
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Arson Detection and
Investigation Seminar
Held in Gainesville
Some 100 fire and law enforce
ment officials attended the third
annual arson detection and inves
tigation seminar in Gainesville,
Fla. sponsored by the General
Extension Division of Florida and
the Florida State College of
Ocala August 5-9. Among those
at the conference held at the Uni
versity of Florida were the follow
ing men from the state of Georgia,
Lt. M. L. Kambarn, U. S. Coast
Guard, Savannah; W. E. Lee, In
vestigator, Georgia Forestry Com
mission, Newnan; Frank Osborne,
Investigator, Georgia Forestry
Commission, Waycross; Fred T.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957
Smith, Investigator, Georgia For
estry Commission, Milledgeville;
and Charlie D. Tillman, Investi
gator, Georgia Forestry Commis
sion, Helena.
Family Life Specialist Miss Au
drey Morgan, Agricultural Exten
sion Service, believes that a well
managed kindergarten provides
the child under six with a favor
able emotional and educational
experience. It serves to strength
en future generations against an
age of violence and helps prevent
mental illness.
Dr. C. R. Jordan, entomologist,
Agricultural Extension Service,
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture, says an insect—the
periodical cicada—lives under
ground for 17 years.