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"FARM CHATS"
By M. K. Jackson
Attention Cotton Producer:
You can protect your own in
terest and help the cotton econ
omy of Telfair County and Geor
gia by doing one of two things
4 Kis year.
1. Plant 75 per cent or more of
your 1961 allotment or
2. Release any acreage you will
not plant to the ASC County
Commiftee.
Cotton acreage history deter
mines future allotments. When
you release any acreage you will
.not plant, that acreage can be
given to other farms to plant this
year and your farm’s history and
future allotment base is protect
ed. It is therefore important that
you either plant or release youri
cotton acreage.
Let’s make it our responsibility
to encourage our neighbors .to
either plant or release their cot
ton acreage. This action will have
a great deal of influence, not only
upon the individual, but upon the
county and state economy in the
years to come. For further infor
mation- contact the ASC County
Office.
Importance of Agriculture
Agriculture has advanced more
in the past 50 years than in all
the prior years of man’s history,
it stands today vital to the eco
nomic well-being and strength of
free men everywhere.
Agriculture now produces about
two-thirds of the raw materils
used in industry. The investment
in the farming business exceeds
S2OB million.
The : agricultural industry em
ploys 7% million workers on the
farm, TO million workers to store,
transport, process and merchan
dise agricultural products, and 6
piillion to supply farmers. In fact,
two of every five employed per
sons are working in the agricul
tural industry.
A Self-Feeder for Plants
Keeping the soil fertile with a
plentiful supply of plant nutri
ents can well be compared with
LONG TERM FARM LOANS
Plans may be adjusted to meet your
individual needs. Moderate interest.
Prompt closing. Courteous and confiden
tial service.
For full details, see or write
J. C. BIVINS
Mount Vernon, Georgia
Amended Wheeler County Tax Levy For
The Year 1960.
GEORGIA, WHEELER COUNTY.
Office of the Commissioner of Roads and Revenues
in Regular Session —January 7, 1960
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF ROADS
AND REVENUES of Wheeler County, Georgia, pursuant to an order
of Wheeler Superior Court granted on January' 7, 1961; and by au
thority of said order, and by authority vested by law; it is hereby
ordered that the Advalorem Tax Levy for County purposes in and
for said County by and is hereby fixed at 30 MILLS, said taxes
to be levied for specific purposes in compliance with Ga. Ann Code
Sec. 92-3701, as amended, for the year 1960, as follows:
1. To pay the expenses of Administration of County
Government — 5 Mills
2. To pay the principal and interest of any debt of
the County and to provide a sinking fund therefor 5 Mills
3. To build and repair public buildings and bridges. 5 Mills
4. To pay the expenses of Court, to pay Sheriffs and
• Coroners and for litigation _ x 3 Mills
5. To build and maintain a system of County Roads 4% Mills
6. For public health purposes in said County, and for
the collection and preservation of records of vital
Statistics ... 1 Mill
7. To support Paupers - % Mill
8. To pay County Agricultural and Home Demonstration
Agents 1 Mills
9. To provide for the payment of old age, assistance to
aged persons, assistance for the needy, blind and
dependent children, and other welfare purposes. 4 Mills
10, To pay pensions and other benefits, and cost under
a Teachers Retirement System of Systems 14 Mill
11. To acquire and maintain a Public Library— % Mill
TOTAL 30 Mills
The levy heretofore made by the former County Commissioner
on August 3, 1960, is hereby amended to conform with the foregoing
as .ordered by the Superior Court of Wheeler County, Georgia, as
aforesaid.
BE IT FURTHER ORDERED THAT UPON RECOMMENDA
TION OF THE Board of Education of Wheeler County the Fol
lowing County wide levy be and is .hereby made for school purposes,
to-wit
Support and Maintenance of County Schools 15 Mills
SO ORDERED in open meeting this January 7, 1961.
, WALLACE ADAMS.
Commissioner of Roads & Revenues, Wheeler County, Georgia.
ATTEST:
Lucille L. Holmes, Clerk.
using a self-feeder for hogs or
chickens.
Such a soil self-feeder would
supply crops with fertilizer ele
ments they need when they need
them, much as animals select a
balanced diet when it’s readily
available.
To give top yields, crops de
mand adequate and constant sup
plies of linfe, phosphorus, potash,
and nitrogen. Many crops suffer
from the shortage of one or more
of these nutrients. The deficiency
cannot be correctly noted with the
eye..lt must be determined in a
scientific way, such as a soil test
before the crop is planted.
It’s not wise to wait and see if
enough fertilizer was added.
Yields are often reduced by short
age of some fertilizer elements
even before symptoms of the de
ficiency are noticeable.
• The soil test can detect the de
ficiency before you plant the
crop, giying you a chance to cor
rect poor soil conditions and to
increase yields and profits.
Fruit and Nut Trees
Many pecan, apple, fig, peach,
and other fruit trees are planted
each year around Georgia homes
for back yard shade and fruit.
It is reported that about one-half
of these trees die during the first
year after transplanting.
This high mortality rate is
caused by drying of roots before
planting, a poor job of transplant
ing, and improper care after
planting such as lack of pruning,
failure to water adequately, no
mulching, and lack of weed and
grass control.
Dr. George C. Paulk
Chiropractor
Mcßae, Ga.
Office Phone 6701
Residence Phone 6721
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
GENTLE CARE FOR COWS
To get all the milk a cow has
in storage, she must be given
kind and gentle treatment.
Improper milking or failure to
provide the milking-time condi
tions that stimulate the cow to
secrete Oxytocin (“Let-down hor
mone) is one of the factors that
cause cows to dry up early.
Excitement at milking time in
terferes with the secretion of
oxytocin. Normally it is secreted
by a small gland near the cow’s
brain in response to a “milking
stimulus,” such as a nursing calf,
milking machine, or a human
milker.
Mild excitement may partially
block this important secretion and ■
result in the cow giving far less
milk than normally. Handling the
cow roughly, rushing her, not
feeding her at a certain'time when :
she has been led to expect feed,
moving into a new stall or barn,
or anything exciting or over stim
ulating can cause the cow to hold
back some of her milk.
GRINDING HAY
Some Georgia dairymen have
been grinding hay for their cattle.
Does it pay? Research has shown
that hay that is not ground is
more completely digested in the
rumen of the cow than is ground
hay. In addition, cows fed finely
ground hay often have a lower
butterfat test than when fed the
same hay, not ground.
Grinding low-quality forages,
such as straw, stover, stemmy or
badly weathered hay and mixing
it with molasses, in the hopes of
improving the quality of the hay,
is doing the dairy cow an injus
tice. The molasses can more eas
ily be fed as concentrate with
grain or in self feeders. It doesn’t
improve the quality of the hay.
And since the cow has its own
excellent digester, grinding hay
adds mainly to your labor- costs.
New Law Sought
To Stop Deadly
Drag Race Game
Efforts are being made at this
session of the Legislature to break
up the deadly game of drag rac
ing. And, under a pending House
bill, those caught participating
would be in serious trouble.
The bill, introduced by Rep.
Thomas I. Sangster of Dooly
County, has teeth in it. It would
prohibit anyone from participat
ing “in any manner whatsoever”
in a drag race on a public road.
The rigid measure provides felony
offenses and lifetime revocation
of drivers’ licenses.
Anyone who is found guilty or
who pleads guilty or nolo conten
dre (no contest) to a charge of
driving in a drag race would be
sentenced to a term of two-to-five
years in prison. The offense could
not be reduced to a misdemeanor
by the court or the jury.
Passengers in racing vehicles,
often guilty of “egging” the driv
ers on, would be guilty of a mis
demeanor on the first offense.
Any subsequent conviction would
be a felony carrying a two-to-five
sentence. Also the bill would
make it a misdemeanor offense
for anyone “to aid or assist in
any manner whatsoever” in a
contest or test of speed on a pub
lic road.
During a six-month period last
year there were eleven document
ed drag race deaths on Georgia
roads. Public safety officials es
timated at least nine others were
killed in drag race accidents
where available evidence could
not positively document the
cause. Eight of the eleven docu
mented cases of fatalities involved
innocent parties, records show.
PECAN GROWERS! Attention!
PECANS BRING HIGHEST PRICES WHEN SOLD AT
GEORGIA PECAN AUCTIONS
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
First Sale Tuesday, November Ist
10:30 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.
Sales Every Tuesday and Saturday
10:30 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.
Ai Auction—Single Bag Sales And Lot Sales
We buy and sell pecans EVERY DAY at private sale—
a bag or a truck load. When you have large lots to offer,
call 4383 Vidalia and ask for Bill Warthen.
FOR HIGHEST PRICES BRING US YOUR PECANS
Georgia Pecan Auctions, Vidalia
The Market That Works For You
Conservation
By H. L. DAVIS
CONSERVATIONISTS TRYING
TO STOCK FISHPONDS
CORRECTLY
The number of fish stocked in
a new fishpond is far more im
portant than most fishermen real
ize. Soil Conservation District of
ficials and State hatcherymen are
concerned about the number of
ponds which are being over
stocked—too many fish. H. L.
Davis, Soil Conservationist, told
the Ohoopee River Soil Conser
i vation District Board last week
that the problem was serious.
“Most people want all the fish
they can get to stock their pond.
They don’t realize the danger of
getting too many,” Davis ex
plained. “Poor stocking — either
too many qr. too few —results in
i poor fishing after a year or two.”
“We use two rates of stocking
■ponds—loo bass and 1,000 bream
> for ponds to be managed with
adequate fertiliaztion, but only
50 and 500 for ponds which will
have only natural fertility. Os
I course we recommend full ferti
lization which protects a pond
: from submerged weeds and yields
;5 to 10 times as many pounds of
1 fish per acre by fishing. But some
folks still feel they cannot afford
to use fertilizer. They should
stock at a lower rate.
Overstocking results from any
one of three common errors.
Wherever a few fish happen to
be in the pond or are put there
before hatchery fish arrive, they
spawn and grossly overstock the
water almost over night. A pond
owner who fails to measure his
pond’s size carefully, usually
guesses its surface acreage to be
more than actual. Some owners
will take a double order or accept
any surplus fish available when
the fingerlings are delivered. The
fishpond owners, who understand
about fish, carefully avoid these
mistakes in stocking.
The Ohoopee River District of
ficials, Soil Conservationists,
County Agent and State Wildlife
officials agreed to urge new pond
owners to follow proper stocking
rates and avoid the waste and dis
appointment of overstocking.
Y. M. C. A. Week
Spangling the front pages of
newspapers across the nation in
recent months have been head
lines relating to the increase in
teen-age marriages, in crimes, and
traffic violations involving teen
agers, and in drinking and other
delinquent acts of the high school
and college set. In the face of
these alarming facts, however,
stands an organization dedicated
to the spiritual, intellectual, so
cial, and physical improvement bf
youth, regardless of age, creed or
color. This beacon light illumi
nating the darkness is the YMCA.
World fellowship, physical fit
ness, education, spiritual and so
cial development are some of the
activities of the YMCA. These
high standards are achieved
through the Y camp program
which emphasizes spiritual devel
opment, the provision of chapels
in all YMCA’s, cooperation with
local churches in many of their
religious and social welfare pro
grams, and the provision in the
Y program for educational activi
ties and personal counseling.
The first YMCA in North Amer
ica was founded in Montreal in
1851, and a few weeks later the
first Y in the United States was
started in Boston. Today there
are 1940 YMCAs in both coun
tries with a membership of 3,818,-
955.
The YMCA’s arm of service in
the local high schools is the Tri-
Hi-Y and Hi-¥ organizations.
These clubs have as their aim the
extension of high standards of
Christian character throughout
the local school and community.
In the accomplishment of this,
school service projects and com
munity service projects are en
gaged in each month, alcohol ed
ucation and Christian boy-girl re
lationships are emphasized, and
programs relating to the spiritual,
social, mental, and physical de
velopment of the students are
planned and executed.
This paper proudly salutes the
Telfair young men and women
who are members of the Y clubs
in the local high school, as well
as all the youth of the nation
who are members of the Tri-Hi-Y
and Hi-Y apd pledges its whole
hearted support of their program
and ideals.
Georgia 4-H'ers
Chosen To Visit
Denmark, Germany
Two Georgia 4-H Club mem
bers now attending the Univer
sity of Georgia will go to Ger
many and Denmark this year to
work, play and live with farm
families in those countries.
Caroline Nelson of Woodbine
and James B. Harris of Rouje 5,
Marietta, have been selected to
represent Georgia abroad this
year as Interantional Farm Youth
Exchange delegates, R. J. Rich
ardson, a state 4-H Club leader,
announced this week.
Caroline, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Nelson of Woodbine,
will go to Germany in March. ■
She is a third-year fine arts stu
dent at the University, wherel
she is studying interior design.
James, a junior forestry stu-1
dent, is tentatively assigned to go,
to Denmark in June. He is the j
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Harris !
of Marietta.
Caroline and James will be the j
25th and 26th Georgians to go
abroad as grassroots ambassadors j
under the IFYE program spon
sored by the National and State
4-H Club Foundations. Part of
the expense money for both trips'
is being raised in the delegates’.
home counties, Cobb and Cam-1
den.
The first Georgia delegate went I
abroad in 1950. During the last
ten years 48 foreign exchangees
have lived with Georgia families
and participated in the state’sj
4-H Club activities under the pro-.
gram.
“The judging committee did an
excellent job of selecting our
IFYE’s this year,” Director W. A.
Sutton of the Cooperative Exten-I
sion Service of the University of;
Georgia College of Agriculture
commented.
“The IFYE program is recog-!
nized as one of the greatest pro- i
grams available for building good
will among people of many coun- *
tries through our outstanding;
young people who go to live in ■
homes in other countries and the ;
ones who come to live for a while
in our homes. This exchange
makes it possible for them to:
learn how the people of other ;
countries live,” Mr. Sutton con
tinued.
He said that past Georgia IFYE
delegates have formed lifelong ■
friendships with families they vis- j
ited.
Before leaving for overseas, the
delegates will join those from
other states in Washington, D*. C.,
for orientation by representatives
of the National 4-H Club Founda
tion. and the U. S. Department of
State, Mr. Richardson said.
Caroline can “fit well into any
situation, and would represent
our state and nation creditably,”
said her home ’ demonstration
agent, Mrs. Johnnie R. Price.
She spent two summers as a
counselor and instructor at Rock
Eagle 4-H Club Center and served
as secretary of her District 4-H
Club Council. She has done out
standing work in home econom
ics and leadership projects in her
10 years of 4-H Club work.
Caroline has developed her in
terest in people of other countries
through contact with foreign ex
change students at school and
people from other countries in
her home community.
James has been an “exception
al’ 4-H Club member and “knows
the meaning of hard work,” Cobb
County Agent Ernest Wester said.
James has held every office in
his local 4-H Club and was presi
dent of his county 4-H Council
during 11 years of active mem
bership. He has been a National
Garden Achievement winner, a
। delegate to the National 4-H Con
ference and National 4-H Con-
I gress, state achievement .wiener
i and district leadership, poultry
and livestock conservation win •
I ner.
He is attending the University
a $4,000 4-H forestry scholar
sponsored by Union Bag-
C orpor= * :
, Praise Delegates'
Recommendations
On Aging
Recommendations in Georgia’s
Report to the White House Con
■ference on Aging have been
, praised by the President of the \
' Medical Association of Georgia,
i “These recommendations are
. practical, far-reaching and will
; prove of great benefit to the
; growing number of older pitizens i
■ j in our state,” Dr. Milford Hatcher■
; of Macon said.
The report is being presented at;
the Conference in Washington this '
week by forty delegates from ■
! Georgia representing Governor J
i Vandiver’s Commission on Aging. ।
I Among the 100 recommenda-.
; tions based on a year’s study by :
the Commission, one regarding
health and medical care for older .
; citizens was singled out for spec- I
; ial praise by Dr. Hatcher. This J
^particular recommendation—:
' “that health problems should be >
i solved first by the individual, and :
then by his family, the commun- ,
ity, the county, region, and the 1
state, in that order and only when ’
such problems are unsolvable on |
; these ‘grass roots’ levels do they ■
! address themselves to the federal >
government”—was ■ termed “fun
. damental to all good health pro-;
' grams” by Dr. Hatcher.
; Dr. Hatcher further praised a :
> recommendation by the Georgia i
: delegation that calls on the state
government to appropriate funds
|to put into operation a federal-;
: state hospitalization program for
public assistance recipients.
“This type program has been :
further enhanced by enactment of i
; the Kerr-Mills Bill during the re- ■
। cent session of Congress,” Dr. ।
i Hatcher said.
“There are approximately 100,- ;
! 000 indigent public assistance re-1
I cipients over age 65 in Georgia
| who would be eligible for care
;in a program of this type,” he j
' added.
i He pointed out that a federal- ■
' state matching program for Geor-!
: gia’s indigent aged would pro
vide help for the first time in
1 Georgia to every citizen over 65
। who needs help to pay for health;
I care.
| Such a program if enacted by}
| the General Assembly would be
’ voluntary and would be admin-!
istered on a local basis, Dr. Hat
i cher said. He stated that Gover
] nor Vandiver had appointed a|
: special study committee to rec-j
I ommend the necessary state en-.
I abling legislation to the 1961 Gen- ■
; eral Assembly.
I"Ten Weeks For
Christ" Campaign
To Be Conducted
i South Georgia Methodists Jan
‘ uray 22 launched a “Ten Weeks
i for Christ” campaign to bolster
' the Methodist Church’s evange
; lism program.
Sponsored by the South Geor
gia Boards of Evangelism and Lay ,
Activities, the project is designed i
:to give added emphasis to the;
। conference’s already existing;
I year-round program of evange- j
J lism. It will also be conducted,
as a part of the Methodist Gen- ’
I eral Conference’s “Decade of Dy- \ ‘
I namic Discipleship—l96o-1970.”
i Churches in South Georgia will
' attempt to augment all facets of ■
j the denomination’s evangelism'
i program suggested by the Gen-:
' eral Conference in Denver last
j May. The conference program will
be divided into three parts —
। “Tarry, Tell, Triumph”—and will
; center around the Methodist
Church’s 1960 -64 quadrennial
theme, “Jesus Christ is Lord.”
During the ten week period be- ■
i tween January 22 and Easter, no
,' Methodist pulpit will be without
' a preacher. Some Methodist cir
cuits, usually composed' of from
three to six churches, have only
one minister. The Board of Lay
Activities will make arrange
ments for lay speakers to fill all
■ pulpits every Sunday during the
emphasis.
’ j Four most frequent causes of
' farm fires are defective heating
equipment, faulty chimneys and
flue§, defective and overloaded
electrical wiring and matches and
smoking, says Willis E. Huston,
Extension engineer.
* - - .....
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
INTRODUCE LOCAL
LEGISLATION
Notice is hereby given that J
■; there will be introduced at the
. January 1961 Session of the Gen
. eral Assembly of Georgia, a bill
•• to provide for a change in the
annual compensation of the Coun
ty Treasurer of Wheeler County;*
to repeal conflicting -laws; and
! for other purposes.
This the 24th day of January
1961.
Mackie Simpson,
•; Representative Wheeler County i
I 41-3 t.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1961
CLASSIFIED ADS
I TOBACCO PLANTS FOR SALE.
50,000 yds. of Hicks and White
Gold. Call W. S. Bowen, Black
shear, Ga. Hickory 9-5825.
41-10tpd.
FULL OR PART TIME
Territory openings for women in
Wheeler County. Represent
Avon Cosmetics. Write to Mrs.
Rountree, Box 22, Wadley, Ga.
40-2 t.
WALTON — Pontiac — Buick-
Oldsmobile. We will sell or
trade. Contact W. L. Register,
salesman. Phone 4151, Vidalia,
Ga. 34-ts.
NEW WATKINS MAN
I'll be calling on you soon. Wait
for me and learn why it pays
to wait.
W. A. STEVENS
207 Marcus Si.
Ph. BR 2-4317—Dublin, Ga.
FOR SALE
PIANOS
GRINDLE ELECTRIC COM.
PANY is having a giant sale on
| all pianos. Just received a truck
ioad of Factory Rebuilt Pianos
going at rock bottom prices.
New Pianos at a big saving also
used pianos cheap. See us be.
fore you buy. Phone 2281.
FEDERAL LAND BANK LOANS
for farmers in Toombs, Tatt
nall, Montgomery, and Wheel
er Counties are available
through the Federal Land Bank
Association of Vidalia. Loans
run v.p to 40 years. Can be paid
any time without penalty. Pro
ceeds can be used io buy land,
pay debts, make improvements,
or to finance almost any need
of the farm or family. For de
tails, see or write, E. O. Mc-
Kinney, Manager, P. O. Box
510, 309 East First Street, Vi
dalia, Georgia, or at the Court
House in Alamo, Ga. each Tues
day morning.
MRS. ELDEN BRADLEY
VS.
ELDEN BRADLEY
■ GEORGIA, WHEELER COUNTY.
WHEELER SUPERIOR COURT.
I DIVORCE.
TO ELDEN BRADLEY, DE
FENDANT IN SAID MATTER:
You are hereby commanded to
be and appear in Wheeler Su
period Court any time within 60
days from the date of the order
•for publication, same being Jan
uary 10, 1961, and file your an
; swer to the plaintiff’s complaint
! in the caption, in her suit against
I you for a divorce.
Witness the Honorable J. K.
Whaley, judge of the Superior
Court of Wheeler County, Geor
gia, this January 10, 1961.
L. R. CLARK,
Clerk Superior Court, Wheeler
County, Georgia 39-4 t.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
APPLY FOR LOCAL
LEGISLATION
GEORGIA, WHEELER COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that lo
cal legislation will be applied for
by introduction of a local bill in
the 1961 regular session of the
General Assembly of Georgia,
which convenes in January 1961,
for the purpose of amending the
Act creating the Commissioner of
Roads and Revenues in and for
Wheeler County (Ga. Laws 1924,
pp. 378-388, as amended), so as
to change the compensation of the
Commissioner; to provide for a
County Clerk and a County At
torney; and for other purposes.
This 7th day of January, 1961:
MACKIE SIMPSON,
Representative of Wheeler
County, Georgia.
39-3 t.
Political
Announcement
To the people of Wheeler Coun
: ty, I hereby wish to use this
means of announcing my candi
dacy for re-election as a member
of the Wheeler County Board of
Education, representing the Eric
District, subject to the rules and
regulations governing this Special
; Election. If honored with re-elec
tion by the voters of Eric District,
I shall continue to concern my
j self with the educational welfare
of all the children of our county.
I feel that my many years of ac
: tive school, civic and community
■ services qualify me for the re
. sponsibilities which are evident
today and signs point to even
greater ones in the days ahead.
This election will be held at
the Eric Voting Place on the first
Tuesday of February 1961. Your
vote, influence and cooperation
will be appreciated.
MRS. W. C. BROWN.
NOTICE CF INTENTION TO
INTRODUCE LOCAL
LEGISLATION
’ Notice is hereby given that
। there will be introduced at the
■ January 1961 Session of the Gen
i eral Assembly of Georgia, a bill
’ to provide that the Ordinary of
Wheeler County shall receive a
monthly supplement in addition
'o said Ordinary’s other fees; to
re ">eal conflicting law’s; and for
oth<r purposes.
Thi. the 24th day of January
1961.
Mackie Simpson,
Representative Wheeler County
41-3 t.
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