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VOLUME 47
Crop Report Shows !
Success Os Feed
Grain Program
Today’s harvest-time crop re
port has nailed a success sign
on the 1961 Feed Grain Program,
according to Acting Secretary of]
Agriculture Charles S. Murphy, p
It is now clear, he said, that;
feed grains consumption during i
the coming year will exceed 1961
prcduction, reversing a long-time
trend.
He put the cost of the new i
program considerably below the I
savings which will result for tax
payers.
Other benefits listed by the ■
Acting Secretary include: j'
1. A sharp rise, probably a bil- i
lion dollars or more, in 1961 farm ।
income over that of 1960 as a re- j'
suit of feed grains production ad-1
justment and other price support [
actions, as in the case of soy- j
beans.
2. Supply and price stability
for feed grain buyers and the J'
consumers of livestock, dairy, j
poultry and cereal products pro-1
cessed from these grains.
3. An impressive start in the i
reduction of government-owned i 1
feed grain stocks, leading to a1 1
slash in the acquisition, trans-; 1
portation, storage and interest |
costs which have been troubling ; 1
taxpayers and their government. [
Mr. Murphy said the farm in
come jump is already being re- j ‘
fleeted in the economy of rural [
areas through a pickup in sales j'
of farm implements, cars and |'
trucks, household furnishings [.
and appliances. Industrial dis-1 (
tricts 'will share this benefit, he 1
added.
He pointed out that while con- 1
servation payments for the 1961 '
Feed Grains Program will ap- ■
proximate $768 million, these ’
payments to growers for adjust
ing production are being made i
largely in kind — with grains ।
presently owned by the govern
ment.
“However, if we did not have I
the 1961 Feed Grain Program, the | *
gross cost to the government j 1
■would have been some $1,700,-;
000,000. Therefore, the ultimate,
savings to the taxpayers, by rea-I'
son of the 1961 Feed Grain Pro- , ‘
gram, will be well over SSOO mil-1 !
lion and possibly as much as one |
billion dollars,” the Acting Sec-: 1
retary said.
The October crop report puts [)
1961 feed grains production at:'
4,008 million bushels as compared [ j
with an estimated 4,900 million. ‘
bushels without the program, a |
downward adjustment of 8921 1
million bushels.
GFBF Insurance
Division Reports
Record Growth
John R. Batts, General Mana- i'
ger, Georgia Farm Bureau Mu-1
tual Insurance Company Tuesday 11
reported to Farm Bureau fami-!
lies “a record growth of the mem-',
ber owned company.”
In an annual report delivered i
at Jekyll Island to Georgia Farm j
Bureau Convention delegates • ]
from throughout the state, Batts | <
reported, “The Farm Bureau In-!;
surance Company assets would )
total $1,500,000 by year’s end.” (
The firm began operation less ]
than three years ago. ]
Other firm growth statistics re
ported by Batts disclosed the ;
company had added 35,000 poli-1 ।
cies in Georgia in the first 33 j ]
months of operation, with prem- '
iums written exceeding the pre- ]
vious year by 50 percent.
Farm Bureau members 33 ■ j
years ago took action to form the [ ,
company to render insurance [ ;
services to Georgia’s Farm Bu- j (
reau families at the lowest pos- j j
sible cost. In addition to paying j
loss claims totaling $1,194,895.01 j
to member families, the firm has <
paid $36,745 in interest to certi- <
ficate holding members. Profits <
from the member insurance op- ]
eration will go to participating i
members. Profits from the mem
ber insurance operation will go i
to participating members in the j
form cf dividends or pro-rata re- i
duction in rates. The firm began •
operation at below board rates, j
and subsequently reports rates i
below most firm rates filed with ’
the Georgia Insurance Commis- I
sion. The insurance service is <
limited to Farm Bureau member ;
families. I
Wheeler County Eagle
"Landscaping And
Ornamental Plants"
Short Course, Nov. 9
A “Landscaping and Ornamen
tal Plants” short course will be
held Thursday, November 9 at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College in Tifton, with Dean T.
M. Cordell in charge.
Registration will begin at 9:30
a.m. in the Rural Life Building,
and the program at 10:00.
Dr. Glenn W. Burton, princi
pal geneticist at the Georgia
Coastal Plain Experiment Station
in Tifton will speak on “Gcod
Lawns — The Foundation of
Landscaping”, followed by a talk
on “Kinds and Arrangement of
Plants in Proper Landscaping” by
Robert Hill, Assistant in Land
scape Architecture to the Insti
tute of Community and Area De
velopment, in Athens.
Dr. W. T. Brightwell, associate
horticulturist and Dr. D. L Gill,
plant pathologists, respectively,
at the Coastal Plain Experiment
Station, will speak on “Varie
ties of Camellias” and “Keeping
Camellias Healthy”.
Dr. J. Wilson Comer, president
of Abraham Baldwin, will con
clude the program by monitoring
a question-and-answer period.
A tour of the camellia test gar
den at Georgia Coastal Plain Ex
periment Station has been ar
ranged for all those interested.
Dr. Brightwell will have charge
cf this tour.
Retail Florist
Business Course
Set For Nov. 5-6
Business side of the florist in
dustry will be the primary topic
of a short course for retail florist
at the University of Georgia No
vember 5-6.
The short course will be the
initial attempt by the Univer
sity's horticulture division and
the Georgia Florist Association
to work with florists on their
business problems, according to
Gerald E. Smith, 'Extension hor
ticulturist.
All Georgia florists are invited
to participate in the short course.
Membership in a florist organi
zation is not required, Mr. Smith
said.
Registration will begin at the
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education on the University cam
pus at 5 p.m. Sunday, November
5. The first session will be at 8
p.m. The course is to adjourn at
about 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Participants are encouraged to
arrive in time Sunday for open
house at the horticulture depart
ment’s recent additions to teach
ing and research facilities, Mr.
Smith said. This is to be from
4 to 6 p.m.
Nearly two million persons
own the Southern Pine forests.
Georgia Power Requests Permit For
Development Study Os Flint River
The Georgia Power Company
has applied to the Federal Pow
er Commission for a preliminary
permit to study the feasibility of
hydroelectric power development
of the Flint River, John J. Mc-
Donough, company president, an
nounced today.
The proposed study will center
about the Flint River areas of
Crawford, Taylor, Upson, Talbot,
Pike, and Meriwether counties.
The study area comprises a 40-
mile stretch of river.
Because of the meager data
now available on the river, the
company will request enough
time to make an intensive study
cf the section. Such work will
include surveys and geological
investigations as well as river
flow studies, and the results will
determine the actual feasibility
of the project. Sites the power
company would include are the
Lower Auchumpkee and Liza
creeks and Spewrell Bluff.
Georgia Power Company engi
neers stated that the firm serves
its customers efficiently and eco
nomically through a coordinated
steam-electric and hydroelectric
generating system. They estimate
that approximately 300,000 kilo
watts of generating capacity could
be installed on the specified reach
of the Flint River. This addition
al capacity would nearly double
the company’s present hydroelec-
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1961
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HAYDEN PLANETARIUM recently accepted a visual study'
entitled. “The Chemistry of the Stars” from Allied Chemical Corp.
’ Dr. Glenn A. Nesty, Allied vice president for research (left) dis
cusses one of four units in three-dimensional study with Joseph M.
. Chamberlain, chairman of the astronomy department of the Ameri-1
can Museum of Natural History. Hayden astronomers teamed up[
■ with Allied scientists in creating the study on “The Origin of a,
‘ Star” that will be placed on permanent display at the planetarium, j
Veteran's Day Parade To Be
Held In Mcßae - Helena Nov. Il [
Tentative plans have been com
' pleted for a mammoth parade mH
Mcßae and Helena on Veteran’s!'
Day, Saturday, November 11. |'
Included in the colorful event:
will be 35 piece high school bands I
। from Soperton, Hazlehurst and'
[ Fitzgerald; a ten-piece band from [
' Eastman, and tne possibility of.
, other bands taking part.
The Mcßae Reserve Unit of
100 men will participate, and 1
1 Fort Stewart will send several I
military vehicles including a
light and medium tank. Numer-!
,ous flcats will be entered in the'
[parade by local business firms [
. land civic clubs, as well as a num-1
ber of beautiful horses.
' 1 [
Miss lanet Sikes
Honored At
Georgia Southern
Miss Janet Sikes, an Alamo)
senior at Georgia Southern Col-11
lege, was recently elected secre-;
tary-treasurer of the senior class!;
at the college.
> Janet graduated from Wheeler !
County High School in 1958. She i
; is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ['
,M. B. Sikes, of Alamo.
tric production, and the engineers
said the new hydroelectric out
put is needed to balance the util
ity’s fast-growing steam-electric
generation. The company uses
electric pcwer generated at its
dams principally to meet peak
hour demands of its customers,
while its steam-electric generat
ing stations, not dependent upon
water reservoirs, can operate
around the clock.
Mr. McDonough said that many
| years ago the company, realizing
I the power potential of the Flint
River, purchased several sites
along the stream with prospects
for hydroelectric development.
Other sites, as well as the large
acreage owned by the company,
would be studied for feasibility
of development.
“It is our hope,” said Mr. Mc-
Donough, “that this proposed
study will result in our finding
suitable sites for the develop
ment cf this important Georgia
waterway. The 21 hydroelectric
installations we now "operate
have played a large part in Geor
gia’s economic growth. A Flint
River development would stim
ulate this growth even more.”
Mr. McDonough said such a
development would benefit local
communities and counties through
payment by the power company
of many thousands of tax dol
lars annually.
Others taking part will include j
Tankersley-Fletcher Ford, Inc.; j
Griffith Motor Co., Vaughn’s [
Chevrolet, local Forestry Unit, 1
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., i
Container Corporation of Amer- I
ica, American Legion, Veterans ol [
Foreign Wars, Elks Club, Lions [
Club, Rotary Club, Boyd op. .Wear, i
Inc., American Bakery, Mcßae'
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., James L. 1
Brown & Co., Inc., local Civil [
Defense Units, Boy Scouts, Girl [
Scouts, Brownie Scouts, Cub
Scouts, Biddy Football Teams,
and A. W. Hinson.
Floats will be entered from
Lumber City, Jacksonville and 1
Milan, and Veterans organize- [
tions from surrounding towns J
have been invited to participate, j
The parade will leave Helena [
at 2:30 p.m. and continue down [
Oak St. to the court house in,
Mcßae.
The reviewing stand will be [
set up across the street from Me-1
Rae’s Pharmacy. On the stand |
will be Mayor George E. Calli- [
han, of Mcßae, and Mayor Oscar [
Smith, of Helena; Stuart Evans, '
Spanish American War Veteran, [
Guy O. Stone, of Glenwood, Past [
State Department Commander of
' । the American. Legion, also a ;
I member of the National Execu- i
’ five Committee, and veteran ol;
■ World War I, three Gold Star '
| Mothers.
i A refreshment stand will be
I placed on the old Piggly Wiggly ,
’ parking lot by the Mcßae Coca- I
Cola Bottling Co. where drinks,
and cookies, furnished by the
: American Bakery, will be served
’ to parade members only.
’: The American Flag will fly in
front of all business places. This
' is the biggest celebration of Vet- i
eran’s Day ever held in this vi-
' cinity, and people from all parts■
‘ of the county and surrounding
' area are expected to attend.
J. B. O’Connor will be Parade
Marshal.
1( Fall Festival
To Be Held
■
,; The Annual Fall Festival will [
be held tonight, November 3, at j
Graham Community House at i
7:30 p.m. with cake walk, bingo, ,
etc. for your entertainment. Your ; ।
; whole family and friends are in- '.
vited to attend this event regard- ’
less of whether you belong to .
the Home Demonstration Club or :
not.
The Festival is sponsored by
The Graham Home Demonstra
tion Club as a means of keeping 1
up the community house.
So remember to come out and '
enjoy the evening of fun with;
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An advertisement in the Eagle j
j brings desired results. j'
Little Hope For
West Berlin As
Free City—Cocke
West Berlin cannot exist as a
' free city economically, in the
| opinion of Georgia-born Erle
I Cocke Jr., alternate executive di
! rector of the International Bank
। for Reconstruction and Develop
: ment (World Bank).
i Cocke made this comment in
an interview during a recent
I brief visit to Atlanta immediate
■ ly following a three-wek trip to.
; Europe, including a four-day stay
in. Berlin. Said he:
“I don’t believe West Berlin
can exist as a free city economi
cally. The solution is for the Al
lied forces to remain there. As
[ long as the Russians are there.
j we’re all right. It’s the Germans
who will force things. East Ger
mans resent us. Ten years ago
all the people were Germans, but
now the East Germans are dedi
cated Communists. Only in West
Berlin is there a free election to
day.”
The dividing wall erected by
| East Berliners contains enough
i bricks to build 16,000 houses, de
! spite the fact a great housing
; shortage exists,, said the Geor
gian who talked with West Ber
lin Mayor Willy Brandt while
there,
i
| Cocke, who served as aU. S.
I delegate to the United Nations
jin 1959 and is a past national
j commander of the American Le
i gion went to Europe primarily to
j attend the annual meeting of the
I World Bank in Vienna. Other
j major cities he visited were
[Home, Paris and London.
“I was amazed at the prosper
। ity of the foreign countries, and
the comeback they have made in
[ the last ten years,” he said.
Battle For Freedom
[ls Fight For Truth
Says Rep. Iris Blitch
I “Freedom would be greatly
missed should it suddenly be
! taken from us,” said Rep. Iris F.
: Blitch in a Waycross speech on
[ October 24th. “We don’t fully
appreciate that which we have
until someone threatens to take
it away from us.”
The Congresswoman said, “The
[ battle for freedom in the world
; today is also a battle for truth.
I Russian bosses know that truth
[ and knowledge would be their
[ undoing. Truths such as the en
i slavement of Poland and Hun
[ gary and the subjugation of East-
I ern Europe are examples of ty
[ ranny practiced from the Krem
| lin.”
She told members of the Pilot
jClub of Waycross that she did
want to sound like an alarmist,
but she said she did speak with
a degree of concern. “We are liv
ing in a dangerous age and I
think we should realize it.”
“Russians are ahead of. us in
the game of exploding bombs,
but for the United States to equal
the Russians in business and;
home life we would have to re
vert to our economic status of a
half century ago when our pop
ulation was much less than it is
today. To equal the Russians our
basic freedoms would have to
go.”
Mrs. Blitch concluded, “I thank ]
God we don’t have to equal the
Russians—l am glad to live in a
land of freedom which far excells
anything the Russians have ever
known.”
'Keep Wheeler County Green’
Georgia Baalist Convention To
Open In Columbus November 13
Georgia Baptist pastors, their
wives, directors of religious edu
cation programs and Brotherhood
leaders will be in the vanguard
of Georgia Baptists arriving in
Columbus Nov. 13 for the annual
session of the Georgia Baptist
Convention as they come early to
attend a series of pre-convention
meetings on Nov. 13.
Meetings of the Georgia Baptist
Pastors’ Conference; Brotherhood;
Religious Education Association
and the Conference of Ministers’
Wives are scheduled for the aft
ernoon of Nov. 13.
Additionally, the Convention’s
Executive Committee will meet
on the 13ith in the chapel of the
First Baptist Church, Columbus,
beginning at 2:30 p.m.
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Georgia Farm Bureau Federation
23rd Annual Meeting Held Al Jekyll
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! The concept of Georgia agricul
-1 ture as ’4O acres and a mule’ no
longer holds truth, J. W. Fan
; ning told Georgia Farm Bureau
■ Convention delegates: “Capital
investment in American agricul-
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Furman Bisher
Chairman Georgia’s
1961 Seal Campaign
Furman Bisher, sports editor of
the Atlanta Journal, has been
named chairman of Georgia’s 1961
Christmas Seal Campaign, it was
, announced today by J. Roy Will
banks, Macon, president of the
Georgia Tuberculosis Association.
An outstanding sports writer
and analyist, Mr. Bisher will be
working with the national chair
man, Charles O. Finley, owner of
the Kansas City Athletics, and
other sports figures throughout
the country 'to alert every citi
zen of “the urgency to conquer
a disease that takes an American
life every 50 minutes,” Mr. Will
banks said.
Long interested in the disease
. which strikes athletes and weak
lings alike, Mr. Bisher accepted
the appointment by saying, “The
Christmas Seal has been sym
bolic of the fight against tuber
culosis for more than fifty years.
I know of no better way to seal
a message of good wishes at such
a happy season.”
Foreign Aid Hit
America’s foreign aid program
is one of the most expensive, dis
mal flops in the history, in the
opinion of Fifth District Rep.
James C. Davis. He told Masonic
Lodge 151 in Atlanta the other
day that since the program was [
established in 1947 the U.S. has '
given almost SIOO-billion to
“friendly and not-so-friendly” [
countries. The result: Commun- '
ism has experienced its greatest 1
growth; the U.S. its greatest de- 1
feat, with eight countries com- 1
ing under Red rule. The program '
should be cut and aid given only :
to 'countries which stand with us, [
the congressman emphasized. j
Alumni Basketball
The Alumni Basketball Game, !
sponsored by the Beta Club, will ;
begin tonight (Friday) at 7:30 [
o’clock, and is expected to attract j
1 a large crowd of interested spec- '
tators.
This is the Beta Club project,
for the year to raise money to
be used to benefit the school, j
and everyone is urged to attend. ;
Admission will be 40c for
adults and 25c for school stu-'
dents.
The Pastors’ Conference, which
will be held in the sanctuary of
the Columbus First Baptist
Church, will begin at 2:30 p.m.,
as will the Brotherhood Confer
ence, scheduled at St. Luke’s
Methodist Church, Columbus. At
4:30 p.m., the two groups will
hold a joint conference at the
First Baptist Church.
The Religious Education Asso
ciation will meet at the First Bap
tist Church. The Ministers’ Wives
will meet in the Civic Room of
the Ralston Hotel.
The 140th session of the con
vention gets under way Monday
evening, Nov. 13th 'at 7:15 p.m.
in the Columbus Municipal Aud
itorium.
NUMBER 29
i ture equals four-fifths the value
1 of all United States Corpora-
. tions”, he declared.
Farming, Director, Institute of
Community and Area Develop
ment, University of Georgia Col
' lege of Agriculture, in an ad
vance copy of his address — said
“today one American farmer
feeds himself and 26 others”.
“One hour of farm labor today
produces four times as much as
it did in 1920-21, and this in
creased efficiency in agriculture
permitted 19 million persons to
work in other industries and bus
inesses in 1960”, he added.
Fanning, addressing delegates
I in general session for the 23rd
! Annual Georgia Farm Bureau
i Federation Convention, said the
! old images in agriculture are fad
! ing with the sharp line between
city and country going fast. “The
one-room school is no longer here,
and the backward and unprogres
! sive farmer is on the way out. A
pecple poorly housed, fed and
clothed is a pattern of yester
day.”
The new image emerging in.
Georgia is that farming is a busi
ness, machinery big and small is
j being substituted for labor, and’
that rural people constitute cap-
I able, self-reliant and intelligent
’ people. Arrivals on the scene are
“consolidalted schools, rural-uil
- cooperation, and interdepen
dency between city and coun
try”, he said.
“Agriculture is often accused
of solicitor of subsidy, but the
truth is that subsidy cuts across
the American economy”, Fanning
added. The speaker added, “Ag
riculture believes in a govern
ment that is fair with equal op
' portunity. Farm Bureau has th®
role of fighting for equality for
all groups.”
Fanning declared “agriculture
। seeks a prosperous American
, economy, a high level of employ
ment with purchasing power, and
a balanced agriculture and indus
try.”
“Agriculture possesses deep
convictions about the moral and
spiritual values upon which so
ciety is based, and Farm Bureau
must forever protect the basic
structure of our society,” he ex
pressed.
“Agricultural policy must en
! courage greater efficiency, and
! the American farmer must con
i tinue to be the basic business
; stimulator of the U. S. economy."
[ Fanning said Farm Bureau must
[ provide the leadership for com
। munity development, and carry
[ the torch of basic understanding.
[ “Farm Bureau represents a busi
’ ness of great magnitude and pow
er in the American economy”.
“The Farm Bureau must hold
high the true image of a great
\ industry striving to carry forward
man’s eternal dream for peace”,
. Fanning declared.
Training School
To Celebrate
Education Week
The Wheeler County Training
[ School will celebrate Education
Week, November 5-11. The theme
for the week: “Time For A Pro
' gress Report”.
j The outline for the week is as
[ follows:
Sunday, November 5 — Rev.
■ A. Goram, paster of Alamo Bap
! tist Church will speak at his
church at 3:00 p.m. Subject: Time
To Test Our Convictions.
Monday, at 10:00 a.m. — Mr.
■ R. F. Jackson, Principal of Cen
j tral High, Mcßae will speak at
I the Wheeler County Training
School. Subject: Time To Decide
On Essentials.
Tuesday, November 7— Par
ent Visitation Day, 10:00 am
The teachers will present a pro
gram (G.T.E.A.) Subject: Timer
To Work Together.
Wednesday night, November 8,
The P.T.A. will present a discus
sion. The subject: Time To Ex
plore New Ideas.
Thursday, November 9 — The
Student Body will express them
selves. Subject: Time To Salute
Good Teachers.
Friday, November 11 — The
11th Grade will present a Chapel
Program: Time To Pay The Price
For Excellence.
Won’t you make it a point to
please come and visit your school
during this week?