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VOLUME 56
Ref ors Given
On Floriculture
Projects In Area
“Why man, it means I count
for something. I feel good. I
know I can do it. I know I can
get help when I need it.”
This heartwarming decla
ration, recorded in a special
feature in the current issue of
Georgia Progress magazine,
comes from a Georgian who is
participating in erne of the most
unique government self-helppro
jects to ever come Out of the
South.
Called the Floriculture Pro
ject, the new program selects
adults from low income groups
and trains them to raise quality
flowers and pot plants.
When the trainees have mas
tered their 17-week, in-house
course, they are equipped with
a greenhouse erf their own and a
co-op through which to sell their
products.
The Floriculture Project,
which is being sponsored by the
Heart of Georgia Area Planning
and Development Commission
(APDC), seven state agencies,
and seven federal agencies, be
gan to bloom this spring when
26 pilot trainees arrived at the
site of an abandoned 4-H Camp
in Dublin for their first training
session.
The trainees came from coun
ties in the Heart of Georgia
area — Bleckley, Dodge, Lau
rens (Dublin), Montgomery, Pu
laski, Telfair, Treutlen, Whee
ler and Wilcox. Some could nei
ther read nor write, some were
jobless, and otters were under
employed.
Their first task was to build
the greenhouses which were to
be their classrooms and adjacent
buildings which were necessary
to carry out the program.
After construction of five
greenhouses was completed, the
trainees began to learn their
trade, starting with the sterili
zation of the soil and following
through with planting seed, and
later, potting plants.
Instruction tags indicating the
amounts of fertilizer, water, and
other elements needed for each
plant were used as visual aids
during the training process.
Trainees who could not read
were supplied with color-coded
instruction tags.
Within the required 17-week
period, 21 of the original 26
finished their floriculture train
ing and were in the process of
setting up their own greenhouse
operations.
According to larry Barnett,
one of the staff members of the
Heart of Georgia APDC, grad
uates of this floriculture course
can make as much as SIO,OOO a
year, before taxes.
“This, of course, is for a
'Mama-Papa’ operation, but it
sure beats being on welfare, as
some of our trainees were before
training,” Barnett declared.
Graduates of the Floriculture
Project will be able to sell their
products through an organization,
or co-op which they will form
under APDC supervision.
Some 200 Georgians will be
trained under the present flori
culture program. At the end of
this training period, which will
last approximately two years,
the Dublin Floriculture Center
will be maintainedby local people
under the auspices of the Heart
cf Georgia APDC.
Federal agencies participating
Georgia Assoc. Jr.
Colleges To Meet
Brewton Parker College stu
dents are typically happy,
especially when they find that
Friday, October 23 will be a
holiday from classes while the
faculty attend the meeting of the
Georgia Association of Junior
Colleges.
The annual meeting of the as
sociation will be on October 23-
24, at Andrew College in Cuth
bert. Theme of this year’s meet
ing will be “Outreach to The
Unreacted.”
General meetings will be held
on Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning. A banquet meeting will
feature Dean William Tate of
the University of Georgia as he
speaks on the topic: “Me And
Mama Was Teachers.”
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PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER AT FAIR
Tricia Nixon (C) was the hit of the show during a visit this month to the Southeastern Fair in
Atlanta, Miss Nixon, eldest daughter of the President, presented the first prize in open Jersey
livestock competition to Miss Ann Jarrett of Athens Miss Nixon, on a whirlwind hour-and-a-half
visit to the fair, expressed a specific interest in 4-H exhibits. She was told that a Georgia 4-H or
FFA member who starts with two registered heifers today can own a registered herd of 12 milking
cows and 10 heifers or more and be well on the road to success and independence in just 10 years.
Ray Warns Against
Deficit Spending
VALDOSTA, Ga. (PRN)
State Treasurer Jack B. Ray
says state government is in
danger of falling into “the
deficit spending trap” and has
called for a constitutional
amendment to prevent it.
Speaking recently to the
Valdosta Kiwanis Club, the
veteran official said Georgia is
currently spending more than
it is taking in and “as long as
you do that you’re going
broke.”
He proposed a
constitutional amendment
that would limit budget
appropriations to an amount
equal to revenue collected in
each previous fiscal year.
Current law allows the General
Assembly to appropriate an
amount up to anticipated
revenue and accumulated
surplus.
“By basing appropriations
on expected revenue,” Ray
said, “we run the risk of
having to curtail vital state
services when income fails to
come up to expectations.
Surpluses, when they occur,
should be left in the Treasury
to provide a working reserve
or should be spent only for
non-recurring items.”
He said Georgia’s budget
surplus, which was built over a
number of years, now has
been virtually depleted.
Ray, who is running for his
third full term as Treasurer, is
a long-time advocate of fiscal
responsibility in state
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Above is an artist’s conception of the Georgia Power
Company’s new Etowah steam plant upon completion
of all four generating units. The plant, now under con
struction on the Etowah River between Cartersville
: and Rockmart, will have a generating capacity of
: 3,100,000 kilowatts and will be the largest generating
I station on Georgia Power Company lines. The plant’s
fourth unit is scheduled for completion in 1975.
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JACK B RAY
government. Before becoming
Treasurer, he served in the
legislature for 19 years, and
was chairman of both the
Ways and Means Committee
and the Appropriations
Committee.
FALL GARDEN
Planted your fall garden?
Horticulturists with the Univer
sity of Georgia Cooperative Ex
tension Service say you can
plant the following anytime
during August: collards, cab
bage, broccoli, cauliflower, car
rots, squash, turnips, beets, ru
tabagas, pole and bush snap
beans, Irish potatoes and let
tuce.
1971 Crop Wheal
Marketing Quotas
Referendum Set
A mail referendum on 1971
crop Wheat Marketing Quotas
will be conducted Oct. 12 - 15,
Secretary of Agriculture Clifford
M. Hardin announced Oct. 2.
In the absence of new legislation
for the 1971 wheat crop, current
law requires that the referendum
be held. However, a second con
gressional resolution like one
initiated July 24, could result
in a further postponement of the
referendum. This congressional
action could take place at any
time prior to the start of a
referendum on October 12.
Individual allotment notices
will be mailed to about 1.6 mil
lion persons holding an interest
in established farm wheat allot
ments.
Gene Harris, Wheeler County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation (ASC) Committee
Chairman, said that signed
ballots need to be mailed or
delivered to the county office by
October 15. Preliminary results
of the referendum will be com
piled and announced on or short
ly after October 20.
Secretary Hardin announced on
April 14, a national wheat
marketing quota of 1,210 million
bushels and a national allotment
of 43.5 million acres.
Chairman Gene Harris, said
that a two-thirds or more “yes”
vote for marketing quotas would
bring a domestic marketing cer
tificate, valued at $1.39 per bu
shel. The total price support
on that portion of the crop then
would be $2.54 per bushel. This
is 90 percent erf parity as of
July 1.
Domestic certificates would be
issued subject to penalty.
If the referendum fails to car
ry, the price-support loan rate
would be mandatory at 50 per
cent of July 1971 parity. This
would be $1.41 per bushel based
on current parity. Loans only
would be available to producers
remaining withintheir 1971 allot
ment acreages.
Program details necessary for
producer participation in the mail
referendum on marketing quotas
were announced July 9. The ref
erendum on marketing quotas
erendum, originally scheduled
for July 27-31, was postponed
July 24 by a joint congressional
resolution. The resolution pro
vided that the referendum could
be postponed to not later than
Oct. 15 or 30 days after Congress
adjourned, whichever was earl
ier, Mr. Harris said.
A new bulletin announced
by the University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension Service
gives details on growing musca
dine grapes for profit. Prepared
by Extension Horticulturist C.
D. Spivey, the bulletin is avail
able at your local county Ex
tension office.
FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1970
Fall Youth Rally Os United Methodist
To Be Held At Swainsboro October 25
A Fall Youth Rally for the a
Dublin District United Methodist (
Church will be held at Swains- g
boro Sunday, October 25th in the I
Swainsboro United Methodist t
Church. The rally will begin at f
3:00 p.m. and will continue until
8:30 p.m. In cooperation with
the rally, many churches are
calling off their evening services
so members can attend the rally.
Over 300 youths are expected
to attend.
The theme of the rally will
be ‘‘Drugs, Their Use, Abuse
and Alternatives.” One of the
featured speakers will be John
Benton who is a Director of
the Walter Hoving Home For
Girls in Garrison, N. Y. He is
5 50,000 Available
For Scholarships
Woodward Academy in College
Park, is launching OPERATION
TALENT SEARCH for the pur
pose of identifying and enrolling
well qualified high school board
ing boys for the 1971-72 school
year. A total of $50,000 for
scholarship assistance is being
set aside to assure the success
of OPERATION TALENT
SEARCH.
Any high school boy who de
sires to attend a boarding school
is encouraged to apply if he
meets the following criteria:
1. He must be entering grade
9, 10, or 11 during the 1971-72
school year.
2. He must have outstanding
academic potential.
3. He must possess an excel
lent previous school record in a
college preparatory course —
B-plus and above.
4. He must be of excellent
character with an exemplary rec
ord of conduct.
A SIOOO scholarship will be
awarded to each of the first
fifty fully qualified candidates
who apply for admission to Wood
ward Academy as boarding stu
dents for the next school year.
After the scholarship is awarded,
it will continue in effect each
year until the candidate grad
uates from Woodward Academy,
providing that he maintains a
good conduct record and an aca
demic average of B.
OPERATION TALENT
SEARCH will terminate April 1,
1971.
Interested high school boys
are encouraged to write the Di
rector of Admissions, Woodward
Academy, P. O. Box 87190, Col
lege Park, Georgia 30337 for
further information anda catalog.
Peace Proposal
Is Act Os Good
Faith, Talmadge
U. S. Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge, commenting on Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon’s mess
age on Southeast Asia, said “the
President’s peace initiative is an
act of good faith and hope on
the part of the United States.”
The senator’s statement con
tinued:
“All Americans want an end
to the fighting and killing and
to get our troops out of Indo
china at the earliest possible
moment. The President’s pro
posal, if accepted by the Com
munists, offers a sound basis
for breaking the impasse at Paris
and for bringing us closer to
the goal of disengagement.
“Realistically, however, I find
it difficult to be optimistic about
acceptance by the Vietcong and
the Hanoi regime.
“Regrettable as it is, I do not
believe the Communists will be
willing to bargain and weaken
their military position so long
as they know our country is
greatly divided over the war and
that it is oily a matter of time
before our combat soldiers are
withdrawn.
“I do hope that the Communists
will in the name of humanity
honor the President’s proposal
for releasing prisoners of war.”
also associate director of Teen
Challenge, Inc., a non-profit
group organized by the Rev. David
R. Wilkerson, author of several
books dealing with the lives and
problems of teenagers.
The Rev. M. Benton is also
Four Colleges
To Share Grant
Os $107,000
Washington (PRN) —
Officials of the four colleges in
the First District have been
notified by Congressman G.
Elliott Hagan that their
institutions will share almost
$107,000 through 332 grants
from the Office of Education.
The money, for continuation
of the College Work-Study
Program, is under the Higher
Education Act of 1965.
158 awards totalling
$50,458 go to Georgia
Southern College; 78 awards
totalling $24,918 is earmarked
for Armstrong State College;
52 awards totalling $16,700 is
slated for Savannah State
College, and Brewton Parker
College will receive $14,000 in
44 awards.
Hagan said the Federal
funds will provide 80 percent,
of student payrolls, and
matching institution, or
off-campus agency
contribution will provide the
remaining 20 percent.
The Spurrlows To
Perform Oct 21
At Middle Georgia
A new group on the campus
scene —a group that has risen
rapidly in popularity — will per
form for the first event of the
1970-71 Fine Arts Series at Mid
dle Georgia College on Wednes
day, October 21.
The 15-member group, The
Spurrlows, will present the con
cert in Walker Auditorium at
8:00 p.m.
When The Spurrlows perform,
it is both a concert and a show.
Their music includes all the
popular sounds--rock, ballads,
soul, pop and message. To make
it happen, they utilize stereo
sound, staging and costume ef
fects, and a massive five-screen,
multi-media backdrop.
Although a relatively new
group, The Spurrlows traveled
some 50,000 miles to give 300
concerts last year. They have
also appeared on the Bob Hope
television show.
MGC students, faculty, and
.staff will be admitted on their
ID cards. Admission price for
otters will be SI.OO.
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A helicopter, aiding the Georgia Power Company in trans
mission line construction near Clayton, picks up a tower from
the staging area and prepares to fly it across rugged mountains
to the construction site. The transmission towers —some as tall
as 100 feet—are assembled at the staging area. At the con
struction site, workmen secure each tower to its base and attach
guy wires while the helicopter hovers. As the ground crew com
pletes anchoring the structure, the helicopter flies back to the
staging area. Some towers are set in as little as a minute and a
half.
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the author of two books, “Debs,
Dolls and Dope,"and“Carmen.”
Both books deal with problems
encountered by youth.
Rev. Benton will be the main
speaker at the worship service
that will conclude the daylong
rally.
Others who will be on the
program for the rally include a
panel made up of Dr. W.T. Smith,
clinical director of Psychiatry
at Central State Hospital; State
Court Judge W. M. Towson of.
Dublin; and J. E. Seymour, nar
cotic detective of Macon.
A full program for the after
noon and evening meeting will
Irvin Urges
USDA Boost
Peanut Sales
ATLANTA (PRN)-Com
missioner of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin has called on the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture to initiate a
nation-wide promotion effort
for peanuts and peanut food
products to help dispose of
this year’s bumper peanut
crop.
In a letter to the Fruit and
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IRVIN
Vegetable
Division of
the USDA,
Irvin point
ed out that
this year’s
peanut
production
indicates a
substantial
increase
ranging
from five percent in the
Southwest to as much as 12
percent in the Southeast.
Pointing out the nutritional
value of peanuts and peanut
foods, Irvin urged more
emphasis on research to
develop new peanut food
products and an immediate
promotion effort to help
dispose of this year’s peanut
crop.
Two Ga. Cities
Get U.S. Grants
Gov. Lester G. Maddox an
nounced the Appalachian Regional
Commission in Washington has
approved grants totaling $320,
900 for sewage tre'. .ment facili-
I ties in Commerce and Ringgold.
A $175,000 grant toCommerce
supplements a basic grant of
$243,000 provided underthe Fed
eral Water Pollution Control Act,
I and a grant of $145,900 goes to
■ Ringgold. This grant also will
receive $149,000 in funds under
the Water Pollution Control Act.
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be centered around the use and
abuse of drugs and the spiritual
answers to the drug problem.
A sack supper will be from
6:00 to 6:30 p.m. for those at
tending the rally.
The Rev. Don Proctor of Soper
ton is the District Director of
Youth and will direct the program
for the rally.
Talmadge Moves
About On State,
National Scene
U. S. Sen. HermanE. Talmadge
truly has been a man on the
go lately, both in official Wash
ington and in his native state.
For instance, the Georgia
junior senator made an appear
ance at the state Democratic
convention in Macon where he
endorsed the Jimmy Carter-Les
ter Maddox Democratic ticket,
and predicted the Democrats
would win the election in
November.
Wearing a Carter peanut button
in his lapel, Sen. Talmadge posed
for pictures with both Carter,
the gubernatorial nominee, and
Maddox, the party nominee for
lieutenant governor.
From Macon, the senator hur
ried off to Savannah to address
the Savannah Area Chamber of
Commerce’s annual banquet that
evening. Talmadge, a ranking
member of the Senate Finance
Committee, told the gathering
that enactment of the Nixon ad
ministration’s welfare reform
legislation would be “a grievous
error and an affront to the hard
working taxpayers of this coun
try.”
"Welfare reform is not the
chief characteristic of the bill, ”
he said. “It is in fact welfare
expansion legislation tliat would
extend welfare payments to at
least 15 million additional people,
an increase of 140 per over the
present program.”
Talmadge predicted such a
program would cost twice the
administration’s $4.1-billion es
timate. He said he knows of no
member of the Finance Com
mittee who favors the bill in
its present form and that he
thinks it has “rightfully been
delayed.”
Contending that no incentive
or job training program could
be successful without the co
operation and participation of
private business and industry,
the senator noted he had offered
in amendment to the bill which
would allow private industry tax
credits for hiring and training
people under the welfare work
incentive program.
Immediately following his
Savannah address, Sen. Talmadge
flew back to Washington to at
tend the Finance Committee’s
meeting the next day. And well
he did, for the committee re
jected President Nixon’s welfare
reform bill, adopting instead a
proposal from the Georgian that
would leave the plan up in the
air until it is tested.
The reform bill, listed as the
President’s No. 1 domestic pro
posal of this Congress, will now
go to the Senate floor where
Nixon forces are expected to
try and get it restored to its
original form.
Talmadge’s alternative wel
fare proposal would have the
broad new welfare plan tested
in select areas of the nation
with the results being reported
to the Congress at an unspecified
time in the future. His proposal
was adopted by the committee
by a 10-3 vote after the original
Nixon package was voted down.
C ALORIES PER CUP
Home economists with the
University of Georgia Coopera
tive Extension Service say veg
etables are for everyone. For
weight-watchers, one-half cup
of most boiled vegetables con
tains less than 50 calories.
Starchy vegetables like lima
beans, peas, corn and plain
boiled potatoes supply from 50
to 100 calories per half-cup
serving.