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MILLION TO ONE—R° y McCoy squats beside his all-white
kill in Ashland City, Tenn. At first he thought he had shot
• goat, discovered it was a seven-point albino deer. Gt-o
officials called it a one-in-a-million shot.
The Importance Os Higher Education
To A Growing State Os Georgia
By M. K. Jackson
Georgians traditionally have |
been believers in higher educa- |
tion. In 1785, the people of this
state chartered the country’s Ist
state-suupported university.
Our system of higher education
lurn.shes the state with the ma
jority of its teachers, scientists, I
agriculturalists, foresters, home
economists, engineers industrial
and business administrators and
scientific technicians.
The University System also
provides citizens of the state with
a number of services. Research
programs at the various institu
tions have created new products,
ne windustries, a better under
standing of the world in which
we live, and a higher per capita I
income for citizens of this state. I
Research programs by uiits of
the University System vary from
the development of an important
strain of bermuda grass for live- i
stock feeding to specialized pro
grams in the nation’s missile and ।
satellite programs; from import
ant advancements in animal nu
trition nd disease control to the
economical u/e of rad ocotopes in
industry; and from study of dis
eases f the heart to the develop
ment of a revolutionary ceramic
material useful to the entire ce
ramic industry.
RRsearch in the University
System has been largely respon
sible for Georgia becoming the
nation’s leading poultry producer
as well as one of the South’s
strongholdls of advancement in
the fields of electronics and com-
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puters.
How long will Georgia’s Uni-,
1 versity System be able to serve
1 the people of Georgia as it has
in the past? This will depend on
the people . Right now financial
support given to higher education
in Georgia is lower than in most
Ltates or th: south and nation.
Average per capita income
spent on higher education in
curing 1959-60 was $6.16.
For the south this average was
$6.88, and for the nation it was
$7.88.
... cuge salary for faculty
members in Georgia’s University
System is also lower than for
me rest of the South and consid
erably lower than for the rest
iof the nation.
The average salary for faculty.
in Georgia’s University System in
$5,973; for the South faculty sal
aries average $6,100; for the na
j tion $6,950.
The University system compet-
oilier institutions through
jut. the country as well as with
industry for faculty members. To
day the University System of
ui Georgia is losing this competi
t:ve battle for highly trained fac
ulty m mbers. Today the Univer-
Isity System of Georgia is losing
i this competitive battle for highly
' tiained faculty members.
With the persent financial sup
! port given higher education in
G oigia’.s University System, how
long in the future will this system
be able to provide the quality
<■ -ires it has in the past?
Pop Hines Sez
HARR S TABS DICK
AND HERMAN DESERTERS
Atlanta — Six hundred p. rsons
of of an anti-integration group,
.nown as GUTS, in Atlanta on
Monday, Nov. 14, were told by
Roy Harris to warn their two
^cnaton> and their congressmen,
xce;t Congressman James C.
Davis, in writing to stand up and
tight integration and tell them,
“if you don’t we are going to get
•o eon,, to taae your place."
This followed his charge that
‘our leadership has sold us down
the river.”
This was the first public ac
cusation b y arecognized segrega
tion lelader that Senators Richard
Russell and Herman Talmadge
re not standing firm for States
Rights and opposing Federal Or
el, rs to integrate public schools.
There has been underground ru
mors around the state of deflec
tions ahead of Harris’ open
charge.
Harris claimed, “our leadership
has courted favor with the Dem
ocratic Party and soldi out to the
Democratic party.
“They did it for their own self
ish reasons. They ignored the
welfare of the white people of
the South.”
Then, pointing an accusing
finger, Harris proclaimed,” I am
sick and tired of gutless wonders
in high places in our govern
ment.”
After exempting Congressman
James Davis from the charge of
desertion, Harris summed up his
opinion of Senators and Congress
men in these words’
“We have already elected our
Congressmen, Senators and Gov
ernors as the g.nerals of our Ar
.i y to conduct our fight for us.
But when the time came to fight,
the generals refused to fight.”
Inasmuch as Harris made his
pee>. at th hour Gov, Jimmy
Davis, of Louisiana, was giving
ttle to federal forces in New Or
leans, it was obvious he exclud
d the Pelican state governor
from the charge of desertion, as
veil as Governors John Patterson
m Roßss aßrnett of Mississippi,
who have resisted integration.
Neither Patterson nor Barnett ac
cepted Governor Vandiver’s invi
tation to attend the recent Jeffer
son-Jackson Day dinner in Atlan
ta. However, Harris did not
mention Gov. Vandiver by name
’ either.
Further referring to failure of
the state’s political leadership to
fight, Harris said:
“The privates have been ready
to fight all the time. The great
mass of the white people have
been ready to fight and they only
needed their generals to take
charge, plan the strategy and map
u.e campaign. This our generals
refused to do.
“We must begin now to plan to
elect generals who will have the
ability and the courage to lead
th: fight. No general selected by
must be afraid to fight. If he
fears for his own political life,
I Thus Roy Harris brought into
' then he won’t be a good general,
the open the smouldering com
ments that Senator Richard Rus
sell and Senator Herman Tal
madge, who hav elong claimed
leadership and generalship of
Georgia’s poltiical organization,
aie now retr ating in the fight to
maintain segregated public
schools.
It was further significant that,
at the meeting of the 600 citizens
io representative of state gov
mment was present,
Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd, who
wants to be a general of Georgia’s
segregation fight after 1962, in
the role of governor, was absent.
Peter Zack Geer, Gov. Vandiv
m’s executive secretary, who as
pires to be lieutenant-governor,
was also absnt. Heretofore Geer
has appeared with Harris at seg
-egation me tings and pledged
■taunch support.
Phil Campbell, Commissioner
ofAgriculture, and a rival of
Byrd for governor, was also no- ;
ticeably absent.
There was no members of the
' General Assembly in the audi- i
j ence.
Only some very young some'
very, very old and a good mix
ture of middle aged men and
worn: n were present. |
Aside from Roy Harris, who is
a state-wide leader, the only (
“general” the crowd was given
to follow was Lester Maddox,
; restaurant operator and one-time
candidate for mayor of Atlanta.
Maddox is trying to recruit an
army an dsaid he had 800 volun
jteers and expected 25,000 more
to sign up.
j While Harris charged that
Georgia’s g nerals are deserting,
William Simmons, of Jackson,
Miss., head of the Mississippi
Citizens Council was called upon
to rally the disorganized cadre of
Atlanta segregationists.
Simmons said five attempts to
integrate schools in Mississippi
bad been beaten back through or
ganization of white citizens alone.
He said the segregation line had
been broken in Little Rock, New
Orleans, Clinton, Turin., Norfolk,
Va. and Greensboro, N.C., only
through lack of organized white
opposition to a recognized pattern
-i. ployed by Negro leadres ana
’lute public officials.
Simmons said the pattern de
veloped in these areas is now
apparent in Atlanta. He describ
ed the seven elements which lead
up to integration to be:
1. A loca Ischool board predis
posed to integration.
2. A mayor and city officials
controlled by bloc voting and
“moderates.”
3. Local police, authorities un
der the same control.
4. Newspaper editors who favor
integration.
5. Creation of a softening up
period to bring about a climate
among the populace to resign it
elJ to integration.
7. Lack of organized resistance
vhich to be accomplished, must
nave direction and monye.
The crowd gave Simmons a
landing ovation but it was not
•oinparabh to that accorded Roy
Harris when he called for a letter
writing empaign to Senators ißus
ell and Talmadge under threat
>f pu:ge.
When- Harris asked that Con
ressman James C. Davis be ex
mpted from the letter-writing
hreat, he was appjaudued.
TAe official name of the group
n Atlanta to which Harris is
trying to give momentum is
known as “Georgians Unwilling
o Surrender.’ Its short name is
GUTS.
COTTON SECOND GROWTH
Second growth of cotton plants
furnishes abundant food supplies
and breeding places for cotton in
sects, warns Extension Agrono
mist W. H. Sell. He says that cot
ton stalks that continue to grow
after cotton is picked fatten and
increase the number of boll weev
ils and other insects. He recom
mends that all stalks be destroyed
immediately after last picking.
FARM EMPLOYMENT
The United States’ agricultural
industry employs six million peo
ple to supply farmers and anoth
er 10 million to store, transport,
process and merchandise agricul
tural products, in addition to the
seven and one-half million work
er.- on farms and ranches, accord
ing to United States Department
of Agriculture statistics.
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bikini goes convertibiciin this
new model for next,- year's
surf set. Sashed cuff can be
rolled down, u at left, for
Riviera bathing, or rolled u»
American style.
Hard Work Yields
Fine Tobacco Crop
’ er who produced 4.163 pounds per
acre has demonstrated the results
j! good management, points out
John B. Preston, agronomist of
..c University of Georgia Agri
cultural Extension Service.
The farm.r, M. J. Paulk, who
ives near Alapaha, is making
outstanding yields a habit, ac
cording to Preston. Last year he
produced 3,636 pounds per acre
Uis crop this year graded well
and sold for better than 60 cent. 1
per pound.
Edwin E. Brannen, his county
agent, believes that Mr. Paulk’s
uccess is due primarily to a lot
of hard work at the right time.
The tobacco was grown on high
Tifton soil in alternate rows with
peanuts. It was set between April
' and 8 wi.th the Hicks variety
Before settin, Mr. Paulk anplied
>n s pounds per acre of a 3-9-13
tobacco fertilizer. An additional
975 pounds of fertilizer was ap
plied as a side dressing.
The tobacco was grown in a
tour-year rotation following cot
on. It was irrigated three times.
The tobacco was topped and
nickered closely. There was an
overage of twenty leaves per
stalk.
^nator Russell
Gives Project Data
Senator Richard B. Russell has
disclosed that the Federal Gov
-nment plans to spend almost
“’47 million in Georgia this year
n soil and water development
•nd federal construction.
, The total includrs ssl million
o carry forward the program of
iver development in the state —
i.imarily for planning, construc
ion and operation of multi-pur
iose dams.
It. includes another $10.5 mil
.►n for construction and flood
introl work under the Depart-
•nt of Agricultur.. The largest
m n this category is $6.4 mii
■ on for the Agriculture Conser-
Aion Program which Russell
jng has championed.
Russell reported that other
. deraLyeendir.p p! ts in Gw :ia
during the present fiscal year in
clude:
Military construction — sll,-
173,000; federal highway con
uction including interstate, pri
nary, seconds: y, urban and forest
oads — $62,278,358; post offices
md other federal 'buildings —
. 051,176; Hill-Burton Hospital
nd health center grants — $6,-
'J,476; classroom construction in
reas of so-called federal impact
— $1,278,014; airport construction
— $967,851; and pollution grants
or waste treatment and plant
instruction — $1,126,950.
The survey of federal spending
luring fiscal IP6OI-666666 SO6
during fiscal 1960-61 for water
projects and various construction
programs was pr pared at Sen
tor Rupsell’s request by the Sen
<te Appropriations Committee. He
sranking Democratic member
of the Appropriations Committee,
and is Chairman of the Subcom
mittee on Agriculture.
The largest items for river de
velopment include $21,375,000 to
•ontinue constructio nos the Hart- ,
well Reservoir on the Savannah ।
liver and $20,178,000 for the Wal- ■
r George lock and dam on the ,
hattahoochee below Columbus. <
-The fiscrl 19S0-61 budget also -
. e’udes $75 000 to begin planning t
, >the $34 m:!l ; on Carters Dam
th''.CnAzew’Hee River in Gil
r v>d Murray counties in
orthwest G nrp-ia It al c o in- ‘
, ’tides £1.550.000 to carry forward
'm? work -of the Southeastern Riv
,■» sßain* Sfudv Commission. The
•rrmission is oreparing an over
-11; long-range plan for the com
reheediv* dev lopment of alii
nMor river basins in Georgia. i
Home important
if.weoii success
The home plavs an important j
pprf in » child’s school success. '
9VS MiSS Audrey Mcrir-n head '
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rnrenfs should be sure the.
-hild gets noci^eq’-v vaccinations, '
a denial examination and eve ex-1
•nination before entering school.
It takes about 90 days to finish
out a 75-pound shoat.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, (DECEMBER 8, 1960
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SLEEVE UNDER THE SLEEVE—TaIk of a tunnel under
the English Channel—called “The Sleeve” by the French —■
inspired British designer Sir Owen Williams to sugge-t a
triple-decker link to the Continent. Shown in cross sect,on,
it would have two enclosed sections lor one \.cj auto traffic,
while trains would run on tcp.
Wheeler Countians Attend Conventual
Cl bail Conservation Dist. Supervisor
The Ohopce River Soil Conser
vation Dsitrict was represented
it the 17th annual meeting of the
Gcoig a Anoc alien of Soil Con
;ervation District Supervisors in
\tlanta D.cen.ber 4-6 by L. B.
ihamlers, local superisor. From
County also attending were. Fel
der Black; Emanual County, L. L.
Phillips; Treutlen County, Jim L.
Gillis, Jr., chairman of Ohopee
liver District and chairman of
State Conservation Committee.
John S. Wilder, president of the
Tennessee State Association was
principal speaker at the opening
session Monday. Joe K. Hawkins
if LaGrange, president of the
Georgia group, presided.
Also on the program Monday
was four panel discussions deal
ng with watersheds, supervisors’
esponsibilities in soil and water
conervation, financing and proj
ects and activities for soil con
servaton districts.
Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor, First
Methodist Church, Atlanta, was
3ur Forests Today And Tomorrow
By A. G. STEEDLEY
U. S. Forest Service
We were told some 25 years ago
>y not d forestry enthusiasts that
•nd v as too cheap. Among these
erophets was Dr. Charles H. Her
‘y. one of our own native Geor
lians. Dr. Herty talked to thous
ands in group meeting telling
th r m about the growing demand
and extended use for wood. The
importance of the pulpwood in
u-try was stressed and groups
were told that large corporations
would drift southward. Like any
prophet dealing with the future,
some words fell on stony ground <
while others took root and today .
the evidence is all around us. ,
Those who listened and took ac
tion are independently rich. ,
The relationship between today 1
and tomorrow can be tremend I
ous’y important. Last year (1959) i
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the after dinner speaker at the
annual bnquet Monday ev ning.
J. Marvin Strickland, Waycross,
presided. Anual awards were pre
sented at the banquet.
Highlight of the Tuesday es
sion was talks by C. W. Chupman,
State Conservationist, Soil Con
servation Service; W. A. Sutton,
director, Georgia Extension Se-V
--ice; A. Ray Shirley, director,
Georgia Forestry Commission and
Marion Monk of aßtchelor, La.,
treasurer of the National Assoc
iation of Soil Conservation Dis
tricts.
Also on Tuesday, Russell Blan
chard, president, Georgia Bank
ers Association, presented an $390
college scholarship award to the
state winner of an essay contest
on soil and water conservation.
A Goodyear award for out
standing district work was pre
sented Monday afternoon at a
business meeting, at which offi
ficcrs for 1961 were elcted.
09 board feet of lumber per per
on was consumed. Annual con
umption of paper has now reach
ed 435 pounds per person. Should
hese figures remain constant due
o increase in population, these
will remain a great ne d for
:ow ; og more wood. We are told
by 1975 there will be 215 million
oeople in the United States. Ty
the year 2000 — only 40 years
away — there will be between
175 and 360 million. This means,
to meet timber needs, -we will
have to increase sawtimber
growth from the current 47 bil
lion board feet to 105 billion
board feet. This is a challenge to
all American people to-begin now
to intensify forest practices.
The necessity of initiating ac
tion on intensifying our efforts
to meet the demands of pur peo
ple on forest land is giydn in t! i
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