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VALDOSTA’S MISS DOROTHY TAYLOR was crowned Princess at the Georgia Poultry Federation’s
Coronation Banquet held recently in Atlanta. Shown with her above are runners-up Miss Carol Jean
Johnson of Calhoun and Miss Josephine Kennimer of Greensboro. Farm income from poultry products
in Georgia rose to a quarter-billion dollars in 1958, according to Federation President Hulan Hall. Di
rector Abit Massey of the Georgia Department of Commerce recently cited the Poultry Federation for
its contribution to the industry and the state during the past year.
Walton Announces '
Plans For State
4-H Club Congress
Some of the 4-H Club mem
bers who attended the annual!
State 4-H Council meeting last!
week in Athens, wil^bajely have]
time to get home and report on|
that trip before time to start pack
ing for another big 4-H event —
State 4-H Congress.
Tommy Walton, state 4-H Club
leader. Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, said plans
are complete for the 17th annual
State Congress to be held Sept.
8-11 in Atlanta. Registration be
gins at 11 a.m., Sept 8 and the
Piedmont hotel will be official
headquarters.
An informal supper will bring
together all the delegates, county
and home demonstration agents,
Extension specialists, district
agents, and other guests on Sept.
8 at 6. p.m. in the Dinkier Plaza
hotel. Members of the Georgia
Bankers Association will be hosts
for this get-acquainted party.
Miss Georgianne Brown, Clay-'
ton county, Councli president, will
preside at the first assembly at
7 p.m. Extension Director W. A.
Sutton will officially open the !
meeting. After introduction by
Walton, Jim L. Gillis, Jr., vice
president of the Bank of Soperton,
will bring greetings to the 4-H’ers.:
Special numbers by winners in
the talent contests for 4-H’ers will
conclude the program.
Wednesday and Thursday will
be busy days for boys and girls
vieing for state honors in the
numerous farming and homemak
ing projects with which they have
been working. From tractor driv
ing, to wiring, to making corn
meal muffins, club members will
run the gamut of farm and home
activities—giving demonstrations
before panels of judges. They also
will be judged on quality of re
cords they have kept concerning
their projects.
The Atlanta Journal-Atlanta
Constitution banquet—another an
nual event—will be givdn at 6:30
Wednesday night. The following
night the entire Congress delega
tion will be guests of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce.
“One of the best things about
Congress is that it provides an
excellent opportunity and a won
derful ‘climate’ for club members
and project donors to get to know
each other better,” Walton ex
plained. He added that donors—
industries, businessmen, individ
uals—provide trips, scholarships,
and other valuable prizes, as well
as moral* support for club mem
bers.
Many special activities are
planned by these groups to honor
participants in various projects.
These will include: all delegates—
breakfast Wednesday morning,
host, Savannah Sugar Refining
Wheeler County Eagle
I Corp.; garden project district win
! ners—visit to Hastings Feed
Store; marketing—tour of Colo
nial Stores offices; leadership
winners and their agents—tour of
Atlanta Journal building; dress
I revue winners and agents—tea at
i Rich’s Inc.; health and heme im
| proyement winners and agents—
I breakfast as guests of Sears Roe
buck & Company; forestry—tour
of Southern Bell Building and
luncheon; tractor—luncheon at
East Lake Country Club, guests
of American Oil Company; auto
motive care and safety and crop
and weed study winners—lunch
eon at Dinkier Plaza, guests of
Standard Oil Company of Ken
tucky.
State 4-H Council officers will
assist leaders in conducting the
meeting. In addition to Miss
Brown, they are: Ned Hamil, Car
roll county, and Roxie Mangham,
Butts, vice presidents; Jo Anna
Parker, Camden, secretary; Bobby
Whitaker, Henry, treasurer, and
Melvin Davis, Floyd, reporter.
Bill Young Is
Buried Sunday
Fn Coffee County
Funeral services were held Sun
: day at 4 p.m. in the Lumber City
Baptist Church for Bill Young, 60,
who died Friday at his home in
Lumber City. The Rev. Bobby
Moye, the Rev. Clarence Weeks
and the Rev. G. S. Snider offi
ciated, and burial was in the
Reedy Branch Cemetery in Coffee
County.
Pallbearers were Wilson Varna
doe, Max Brown, Edward Brown,
Ernest Ray, E. B. Brown and
Virgil Jones.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Jewell Smith; two
daughters, Mrs. Carol Griffin and
Miss Leola Young, of Lumber
City; three sons, John Young, of
Toit; Bob Young, of Palatka,
Fla. and George Young, of Bruns
wick; a step-son, Jesse Lee Bar
field. of Jacksonville, Fla.; eight
grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs.
Tony Skeades, of Savannah.
Homecoming Sept. 6
At Cedar Grove
Methodist Church
The Cedar Grove Methodist
Church in Laurens County will
observe homecoming Sunday,
September 6.
The services will start at 10:30
a.m., and all former members
and friends are invited to attend.
Basket dinner will be served at
noon on the church grounds.
The revival will begin Sunday
evening at 8:00 o’clock.
Dewey McNiece, poultryman,
Agricultural Extension Service,
recommends cooling eggs imme
diately after washing them. The
quicker they are cooled, the better
quality they will have.
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA,FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959
J Georgia Adds
New Tree Farms
> i To Hold 2nd Spot
3 Georgia is holding onto its No.
t 2 spot in Tree Farm acreage.
. j After certification of 68 new
. j Tree Farms by the Georgia Tree
. I Farm 1 Committee during the first
r seven months of 1959, the state
I is still close behind Florida, the
t Nation’s acreage leader.
. Erle T. Newsome, Jr., director
of woodlands for Rome Kraft Co.
) | and chairman of the Georgia Tree
. | Farm group, reports Georgia’s 544
f Tree Farms have enrolled a total
of 4,726,985 acres of timberland.
Florida is leading with 4,916,459.
। j acres.
, j “According to the latest figures
; ! released by American Forest Pro-
I ducts Industries, Inc., national
' sponsors of the Tree Farm move-
i: ment, Said Newsom, “the South
, has more than half of the Tree
I Farms and Tree Farm acres in
the country.”
I Records of AFPI show 8,275 of
I the 15,204 Tree Farms are south of
> the Mason-Dixon line. These
. southern landowners hold 32,641,-
1 682 acres of the nation’s total
49,874,002 Tree Farm acres.
Most recent Georgians to en
'! roll in the program of growing
1 trees as a continuing crop to help
1 meet the nation’s increasing need
for wood are:
B. Scott Johnson of Folkston,
397 acres in Charlton County.
Joe Higgins and T. B. Harrison
! of Thomasville, joint owners of an
81-acre tract in Thomas County.
Jesse Newsom, Sandersville,
’ 3,100 acres in Washington and
1 Jefferson County.
W. J. Sullivan, Camilla, 600
‘ acres in Mitchell County.
’ Postmaster H. D. Carlisle of
1 Camilla, 730 acres in Mitchell
County.
And Melvin Lewis Davis of
1 Pearson, with 1,507 acres in At
kinson County.
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Rich's Offers
Award For State
Beautification
i New interest in state beautifi
: cation is created with the an
nouncement of the Annual An
niversary Award Competition by
Rich’s of Atlanta. The competi-
I tion is now open to any non-profit
organization or any business or
industrial organization within the
i state. The first award competition
- closes on March 1. 1960, and all
entries must be submitted by that
I date. Awards will be announced
i and presented in April, 1960.
One thousand dollars in cash
■ and two inscribed crystal urns
1 are being offered as prizes for
- civic beautification projects in the
■ State. These projects must “foster
and encourage the preservation
and improvement of outdoor
beauty throughout the slate of
: Georgia.” Awards will be made
! on the basis of competition en
tries which may be submitted in
I scrapbook, notebook or portfolio
- form.
The panel of judges who will
■ make the awards include Proses-
I sor Hubert Owens, Head of the
Department of Landscape Archi
! tecture of the University of Geor-
I gia as Chairman; Mrs. Granger
; Hansell, President, Atlanta Art
Association; Thomas G. Williams,
Jr., Landscape Specialist, Agricul
tural Extension Service; Mrs. Me
dora Field Perkerson, author and
| columnist; and Mrs. Edwin Fulch
• er, president of the Garden Club
' of Georgia.
The Class I Award of an in
' scribed crystal urn and $750 in
■ cash for first place, and an in
। scribed crystal urn and $250 in
' jcash for second place, is open to
! any non-profit organization, in
i' eluding garden clubs, women’s
j clubs, civic and community clubs,
home demonstration and 4-H
I clubs, Future Farmers of America,
' ‘ school or youth groups, Parent
, Teacher Associations, churches,
, charitable and fraternal organiza
; tions, neighbor hood groups, and
, groups of associations of clubs.
, The Class II Award of an in
; scribed crystal urn and a certifi
. cate of civic achievement is open
to any business or industrial or
, ganization in the state which has,;
. through beautifying its grounds,
added to the beauty of the com
munity.
11 Entry blanks and rules and
। regulations may be secured by
writing or calling the Public Re
lations Department of Rich’s or
the Atlanta Garden Center, Rich’s,
Inc., Atlanta 2, Georgia.
FEEDING BROOD SOWS
Work done in Kentucky, and re.
ported by Georgia Agricultural
Extension animal husbandmen,
shows that the feed required by a
brood sow during gestation can ba
reduced by half if good pasture is
available. In addition, these sows
farrowed more and larger pigs
and raised an average of two more
pigs per litter as compared to
sows that were confined to dry
lot feeding during gestation.
WEEDS IN CORN
Weeds compete with corn for
plant nutrients and moisture so
the main purpose of cultivating
. corn is to control weeds, say
agronomists, Agricultural Exten
sion Service. The cultivating
should be done without injury to
the corn root system, the agron
omists add.
For more food value insist on
enriched rice, suggests John No
land, nutritionist—corn meal en
richment, Agricultural Extension
Service.
over with earth as shown here. Materials
would cost about S7OO. A contractor prob
ably would be required to help build it.
“The Family Fallout Shelter,” published by
| Benson Announces
Producer Referendum
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson today announced a
referendum among wool and lamb
producers during the entire month
of September to determine their
approval or disapproval of an
agreement with the American
Sheep Producers Council, Inc.
The agreement would continue
the financing of the Council’s
advertising, promotional, and re
lated market development activi
ties on lamb and wool through de
ductions from wool payments for
three more years, as authorized in
last summer’s extension of the
National Wool Act.
Secretary Benson announced
that upon determination of pro
ducer approval as determined in
Section 708 of the Act, he will
sign the agreement with the
Council. A similar referendum
was held in 1955 in which pro
ducers approved the original
agreement with the Council, pro
viding for deductions from wool
payments for the 1955 through
1958 marketing years.
The new agreement provides
for a continuation of deductions
from incentive payments on shorn
wool and from payments on un
shorn lambs (pulled wool compen
sating payments) made to pro
ducers under the National Wool
Act for the 1959, 1960, and 1961
marketing years.
Under the original agreement,
, deductions have been made from
payments at the rate of 1 cent
per pound for shorn wool and 5
cents per hundredweight for
1 lambs. Under the new agreement,
the deductions cannot exceed
1 these rates. The funds obtained
1 from the deductions from wool
program payments will be used as
’ in the past to finance activities of
I the Council to enlarge or improve
the market for products of the in
’ dustry.
If voting in the referendum in
' dicates that producers do not
favor the agreement, no deduc
tions will be made from payments
for the 1959, 1960 and 1961 mar
keting years. In that event, what
ever funds remain from the de
ductions under the agreement of
March 17, 1955 will be used by the
i Council until expended.
Outcome of the referendum will
not affect the continuation of the
payment program under the
three-year extension last summer
of the wool act to producers on
marketing of shorn wool and un
shorn lambs during the 1959
through 1961 marketing years.
What Does Sept. 28
Mean To You?
Ocmulgee Fair Time.
Ocmulgee Fair opens the 1959
season on Monday, Sept. 28—Oct.
3.
Is your community or group
booth planned?
Is your Garden Club ready to
exhibit?
Do you have an unusual product
you’ve grown this year?
Are you ladies ready with
handicraft articles, canned food,
baked foods, unusual pot plants?
4-H’ers, F.F.A, F.H.A., are you
ready to display some res-ults of
your years work?
Are the schools ready with their
interesting exhibits?
May we expect all of you?
September 28—October 3.
It is the responsibility of the
milker to keep a close watch on
the cow and especially the udder
while the cow is being milked, say
dairymen, Agricultural Extension
Service.
W. C. H. S. Junior
Class To Present Play
i The Junior Class of the Wheeler
i County High School are to present
i the play: “Meet Uncle Sally” a
11 three act comedy by Jay Tobias.
• on Friday evening, Sept. 11th at
। 8:00 p.m. in the cafetarium. Ad
i mission will be Grammar School.
30c, and High School and Adults.
: j 60c.
; I The play is full of fun and
. surprises. It is an evening of en
tertainment that you cannot af
ford to miss. The Juniors plan to
■ । use the proceeds in the Spring to
entertain the Seniors with a ban-
. quet. Support a good cause, for
get your troubles and enjoy your
l self.
The play is under the direction
। of the home room sponsor, Mrs.
; A. P. Hopkins.
. The cast of characters is:
t Ben Blayne, a young lawyer,
. Mickey Nelson.
[ Betty Blayne, his sister, Gwen
. Clark.
Jenny, a Swede cook, Cindy
[ Gilder.
Sally Sherwood, a college stu
; dent, Elizabeth Ann Hopkins.
; j Bob Durant, Betty’s fiance, Ted
!! Morrison.
Snorkins, a Cocknew butler,
1 Fred Ussery.
Elaine Durant, Ben’s fiancee,
Glenda Hartley.
Aunt Dorinda, Bob and Elaine’s
Aunt, Nancy Hinson.
, Dr. Jimmy Snodgrass, an Os
i teopath, Jimmy Fields.
- Miss Muggs, Dean of Ketchum
’ college, Bobbie Sikes.
Rev. Wright, a preacher, Jerry
j Webster.
। William Hawkins, Ben and Bet
[ ty’s uncle, Wesley Hartley.
. Newsboy, Jimmy White.
r CO-OPERATIVE PROTECTION
Engineers, Agricultural Exten
sion Service, say every farm fam
. ily stands to benefit when neigh
; bors join to rid their community
. of accident hazards. They sug
; gest getting rid of these hazards
before accidents happen: Open
. wells, unprotected pools of water,
. washed-out ditches, trees o r
> shrubs that cause blind corners at
driveway entrances, unprotected
sand or gravel pits, refuse heaps,;
and discarded refrigerators or:
closed chests.
HOSPTIAL PATIENTS
The following were admitted to
the Telfair County Hospital dur
ing the past week: Mrs. D. J.
Burch, Woodrow Breedlove, Mrs.
J. T. Yawn, Mrs. C. D. Zeigler,
Frank B. Barlow,. Mrs. John R.
Bradfield Jr. and Harry Smith,
of Mcßae; Mrs. Vada Sellars, of
Mcßae R-l; Mrs. Maggie Gore
and Paul Smith, of Mcßae R-2;
Fran Smith and Mrs. James Lee
Davis, of Helena; Mrs. L. L.
O’Neal of Bellview, Fla.; J. H.
Clark, Mrs. R. C. Spires and
Janet Strom, of Milan; Mrs. J. D.
Carpenter, of Milan R-2; Charles
Roberts, of Chauncey; Mrs. Thel
ma O’Quinn, Mrs. Billy Purvis, of
Alamo; Reubin Oliver, of Alamo
R-2; Joe Frazier and Miss Elaine
Bailey, of Hazlehurst; Mrs. Louise
Lewis, of Hazlehurst R-l; Mrs.
Adra Harrington, of Hazlehurst
R-2; Mrs. S. E. Holland, Mrs. L.
Tyner and Mrs. Hassie Weeks, of
Lumber City; Mrs. Bobby Dixon,
of Glenwood R-l; Debbie Boney
and Gale Boney, of Jacksonville;
Becky Lumley, of Scotland; Gwin
, Walker, of Hazlehurst; Bessis
• Lee Mcßae and baby son The-
I odore, Rose Mae Cates and baby
J son Donell and Willie Mae Davis,
of Lumber City.
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the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization,
contains building plans for five basic fallout
shelters. Copies may be obtained by writ
ing: Box Home Shelter, Battle Creek, Mieh.
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NUMBER 20.
15 Road Deaths
Set As Minimum
Over Labor Day
The stage is set in Georgia for
the most intensified and perhaps
“toughest” highway traffic en
forcement drive in the State De
partment of Public Safety’s 22-
' year history, according to Col.
’ | William P. Trotter, director.
| It will be carried out during
i the prolonged Labor Day week
i end, beginning at 6 p.m. Friday,.
' Sept. 4, and continuing through
' - midnight, Monday, Sept. 7.
' Based on Georgia’s experience
। in the past five Labor Day hali
■ day periods and on this year’s -
' I upward trend in the death rate..
| the State Patrol predicts that at
1 i least 15 persons will die and. 172
I others will be injured in approx
j imately 355 accidents occuring
j this year.
1 “We’ll be out on the roads in
i full force doing everything hu
j manly possible to prevent this
I from happening,” declared CoL
। Trotter. “Our troopers will per
i form their duties courteously but
। they have orders to be firm and,
|if necessary, to get tough with
i the foolhardy, reckless drivers.
|We are determined to make
'; traveling over our roads as safe
I as possible.”
1 In its effort to do that, the
I Safety Department is using
' several innovations in the current
i enforcement program. For ex
ample, GBI agents in plain-clothes
: will be in unmarked cars spot
i! ting for uniformed troopers in
' regular patrol cars. They will
. ■ communicate over two-way radiw
i hookups.
Overhead State Defense De
■ partment helicopters and planes
I also will serve as spotters for the?
I ground units, relaying information
; via radio.
: Not only that, chronic violators,
■ । especially those who specialize in
• । speeding, passing on hills and
■ I curves and weaving in and out
' । of traffic lanes, will find it harder
■ I to recognize patrol cars at a dis
!, tance.
Reason: They won’t all look
j alike as heretofore. Supplement
■ ing the long-familiar grey-colored
। patrol car will be new ones paint
'ed tan, green, blue and black.
■ Some of them even will be with
। out fender spotlights, which
partol officials say are dead give
aways to eagle-eyed speeders and
others who make a game of vio
lating traffic laws.
“Yes, we are making drastic
changes to cope with the problem
and we’ll use every trick the
law allows in our effort to main
tain safety on the roads,” asserted
Col. Trotter. “We’re out to get
those maniacs of the highways
any way we can.”
In setting up plans for the 78-
hour enforcement drive, which
will be personally directed by CoL
Trotter and Lieut. Col. H. L.
Conner, deputy director, troopers
from the 34 patrol posts through
out the state, as well as head
quarters personnel and GB£
agents, have been ordered to duty.
All vacations and week-end
passes for patrolmen have
been cancelled for the period. AH
available equipment, including
new and old patrol cars and
speed-timing devices, will be
pressed into service for the mas?
si v e enforcement movement.
Roadblocks will be set up at un
announced stratigic points ovef
the state.
In announcing his own depart
ment’s plans, Col. Trotter called
on all drivers, local and county
law enforcement officers, the
press, radio and television sta
tions and other s'afety organiza
tions for full cooperation in mak
ing this safety campaign a success.
Last year nine persons were
killed in Georgia accidents over
the Labor Day week-end. In 1957
there were seven; in 1956, four
teen; in 1955, ten, and in 195^
eleven.
In hog production good sanita
tion is a must—there is no substi
tute, declare animal husbandmen*
Agricultural Extension Service.
One recommended step to prop
er milking is to clean the milking 1
area and remove any source at
odors that may flavor the milk*
say dairymen, Agricultural Ex
tension Service.
Cash income from the sale of
milk and cream in Georgia in
1958 was about 48 million dollars;
report dairymen. Agricultural Ex
tension Service. This is almost
double what it was in the last ten
years. (