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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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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
HOME NOTES
By Willie Leggiii
Smallpox Vaccination
Protection against smallpox
•among individuals in our state
.and nation has now reached a
“^dangerously low level,” accord
ang to health and medical author
ities. Health and medical authori
ties are urging everyone to ob
tain immunization against small
pox. You are a potential target
for smallpox unless you have .been
vaccinated within the past five
years.
A growing amount of interna
tional travel threatens to intro
duce the disease into the United
States. Recent outbreaks in other
■ western nations emphasize the
need for every individual to main,
tain protection against smallpox.
.Smallpox, one of the easiest dis
eases to prevent, is highly con
tagious. The virus can be spread
by ■direct contact, by objects the
victim has handled, by coughs
.and sneezes and even dust. It has
■been transmitted by letter. The
■disease often results in severe
.scarring of its victims and death
results in about one in five cases.
Another problem in connection
with smallpox arises from diffi
•culty in early diagnosis. With so
many individuals in our country
lacking immunity, it would take
only one case to start an epidemic
ui smallpox.
Smallpox usually begins with
a high temperature eight to 14
days after exposure. This lasts
Suppose you had
627 tax bills to pay!
You’d never make the April 15 deadline, that’s
for sure! It probably would take you every
waking hour for a month to do all the frantic
figuring and check-writing, and you still might
not get it all done.
The Georgia Power Company has quite a task
every year about this time. You see, in addition
to federal income, state income and state prop
erty taxes, the company pays taxes to 154 coun
ties, 445 cities and 25 school and fire districts
throughout the state. For the year 1962 alone,
Georgia Power’s 627 tax bills amounted to more
than s3o^ million.
These payments help to provide schools for
your children, police protection for your family,
fire protection for your home, streets and high
ways, health and welfare programs and many
other community services.
Our taxes last year amounted to almost
$84,000 a day. They exceeded our operating
payroll by nearly 43 per cent.
Yes, like you, we pay taxes — in full measure.
It’s part of being a good citizen.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
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t albout four or five days before the
I characteristic skin rash appears in
pustules or “pox”.
The pustules appear both on
the skin and the mucous mem
branes of the nose and the mouth.
They also appear in the intestines
and certain other internal organs,
leading to further complications.
Since vaccination .makes small
pox one of the easiest of all dis
eases to prevent, disfigurement or
death of one individual would be
tragically unnecessary.
Check with your doctor or your
local public health officials to
see whether all family members
are protected against smallpox.
Noises In The Home
Modern houses are smaller with
lower ceilings contributing to the
noise problem in a home. With
less space inside the house there
are more things to make noise
than in years past. There are
more cars, television sets, radios,
motored appliances, and just peo
ple. AH contribute to the noise
around the house. Os course noise
can cause fatigue and irritation
and it surely distracts, disturbs
and interferes with other activi
ties. What is perhaps pleasant to
you may ibe just noise to your
neighbor or family, and vice
versa.
The best place to start in do
ing something about the problem
is as close to the source of noise
as possible. Although the best
noise barriers are those built into
the house and in the placement
■ of the house on the lot, furnish-
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ings can help. Beginning with the
floor, carpeting can absorb noise
from the feet and help absorb
other noises such as music or
conversation. In rooms where car
peting is not desirable, appliances
that are noisy can be placed on
rubber or cork mountings to help
absorb the noise.
Many of the panelboard glass
or other hard surface finishes
make walls reflectors of sound.
To help absorb some of the noise,
draperies are in order. The softer
and thicker the fabric, the better
the sound absorption. For in
stance, lined and interlined drap
eries would do a better job than ■
just a single fabric thickness. Be
sides, they would last longer and ;
look prettier. Also, the more wall :
space covered with fabric, the ;
better. ;
Upholstered furniture is anoth- ‘
er good sound absorber. If the den
is the noise center, this would •
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furniture. The fabric is the thing
that absorbs much of the noise,
so avoid slick surfaces that reflect
noise.
Along with furnishings, if the
noise is particularly bad you may
consider using an acoustical fib
erboard ceiling 'tile along with
furnishings, this may absorb as
much as 70 percent of the noise
striking it. It is no good unless
usad correctly, and the correct
place on the ceilings and perhaps
ceilings of the room where the
noise originates, and in the halls
leading to the quiet areas of the
house. If you are in the process
of planning your house, just re
member that closets, bathrooms,
and hallways are good sound bar
riers between quiet bedroom and
active work and entertainment
areas of a house.
The human heart rests about
eight-tenths of a second between
each contraction.
TREE FARM
NEWS
By D. W. WOODMANSEE,
Conservation Forester
Union Bag-Camp Paper
Corporation
HIGH FIRE DANGER
TO CONTINUE
According to a recent report
from the Southern Forest Fire
Laboratory in Macon, most of the
South, except possibly South
Florida, will continue to be in
the high fire danger class dur
ing the next thirty days. Much
above normal temperatures are
forecast for the area east of Ala
bama and south of Pennsylvania
for the period. This will hasten
spring greening through the
South, but will bring large num
bers of people into the woods for
recreation and increase debris
burning in preparation for plant
ing. Rainfall will be sparse in
Florida and coastal areas, increas
ing in amounts toward the moun
tains. No appreciable rainfall is
expected before m:d-April; even
then it’s doubtful. Some isolated
thunderstorms will bring tempo
rary relief in the mountains, but
the coverage will be spotty with
considerable runoff in heavier
showers. Fire potential will re
main high. Extreme caution is
advised to all wood users.
SUPERIOR TREE PROGRAM
MOVES AHEAD
During the 1962-63 season 8,500
two-year-old grafted seedlings
were transferred to seed orchards
by the Georgia Forestry Commis
sion. This brings the total spaces
planted in seed orchards to 32,-
000, according to Forestry Com
mission Director Ray Shirley. The
seed orchards, when completed,
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1963
! will provide the Commission
seed that have specific characte.
। istics. This should provide an end
. product that will bring premia
prices to woodland owners and
; high quality products to manti'
i facturers. The Commission direc.
I tor pointed out that trees with
low specific gravity and long
: ers are being sought for the pu; p .
i ing industry, while trees with a
■ high specific gravity are being
sought for timber production. The
: naval stores industry is not being
overlooked, as high gum yielders
are being sought for their use
Other qualities being sought in-'
elude a straight bole without tap
er, good pruning ability, and re.
sistance to weather, insects and
! diseases. Stocking of the seed
’ orchards is expected to be coir,.
pie ted by 1965. (From Georgia
' Forestry, March 1963).
When a man finds no peace
• within himself, it is useless to
seek it elsewhere.—Anonymous
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