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VOLLME 56
8,000,000 Tree
Seedlings Now
Ready For Sale
The Georgia Forestry Com
mission has approximately eight
million tree seedlings left for
sale to Georgia landowners. The
initial crop was 44.5 million
trees excluding contract seed
lings.
Ray Shirley, director, Georgia
Forestry Commission, stated
that slash and improved loblolly
pine constitute 64 percent of
the remaining trees. The cost
per thousand is $6 for the im
proved loblolly and $5 for the
slash pine.
Shirley also announced an
abundance of red cedar and dog
wood species. Red cedar make
excellent Christmas trees, fence
posts, windbreaks and hedge
rows. Beside its ornamental use,
dogwood, as a specialty wood,
brings a good market price. The
red cedar is priced at $lO per
thousand and the dogwood at $25
per thousand.
Other available species and
cost per thousand are longleaf,
shortleaf and Virginia pines, $5;
bicolor lespedeza, $6; and eas
tern white pine, $9.
Priced at $lO are Arizona
cypress, black walnut, catalpa,
chestnut oak, sawtooth oak and
yellow poplar.
A transportation charge of 50
cents per thousand trees most
be added to above costs if trees
are delivered by State truck to
county ranger headquarters.
James C. Wynens, chief, Re
forestation D'vision, emphasizes
that payment must accompany
all orders before shipment can
be mads. No refunds will be
made o.i orders cancelled after
February 1, 1971.
Wynens pointed out that seed
ling application forms can be
obtained from theForestryCom
mission county rangers, county
agents, soil conservation service
technicians and agricultural con
servation program officers. AU
orders must be submitted on a
Forestry Commission appli
cation form.
For assistance in determining
your reforestation needs, contact
your local county forest ranger.
Peanut Lease
Transfer Passes
Senate And House
The House of Representatives
has approved a bill introduced
by Congressman Mas ton O’Neal
®-Ga.) giving peanut farmers
permanent authority to transfer
acreage allotments by sale or
lease.
Growers would be permitted
to transfer peanut allotments to
each other within their own coun
ty on a continuing basis under
the bill. A companion measure
introduced by Senator Herman
Talmadge (D-Ga.) also passed
the Senate.
The original allotment transfer
legislation was authored three
years ago by O’Neal who serves
as Chairman of the Agriculture
Subcommittee of Oilseeds and
Rice and whose Congressional
District leads the nation in pea
nut production. The transfer au
thority was extended for one
year in 1969 and expired with
the planting of the current peanut
crop.
The proposal, according to in
formed sources, is awaiting
President Nixon’s signature. The
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation
had backed such legislation.
Mother Os Five
Becomes Mayor
City Os Jesup
A mother of five children
Thursday became the first woman
mayor in the history erf the City
of Jesup.
Mrs. Mary Hitt, 34, out-polled
councilman Billy J. Thompson
in the runoff election, 763-732.
Mrs. Hitt, the wife of a local
physician, served as Wayne
County campaign manager for
Gov.-elect Jimmy Carter.
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STONE MOUNTAIN. Ga Governer Lester Maddox (L) presents V.l P. passes to Stone Mountain
Park to Mr and Mrs HI. Macrae (C) and Mr and Mrs. W.W Ferguson Park General Manager Thomas
Elliott is at Maddox' right. The Macrae's, from Long Island, N.Y.. and the Fergusons, from British
Columbia, pushed Stone Mountain s 1970 attendance past the three million mark. 1970 visitors are
running about 22 per cent ahead of 1969, the previous record year The Stone Mountain Memorial
Carving, draped in a giant, lighted Christmas wreath, is in background. (PRN)
Four Maconites Arrested
In Glenwood Burglary
Macon Telegraph —
Four Maconites surrendered
to police after their automobile
was hit by three bullets during
a high speed chase near Glen
wood, early Saturday, Wheeler
County Sheriff Maurice Johnson
said.
Bulldog Classic
First Game Played
Last Saturday
The first Bulldog Classic gat
underway last Saturday night with
the Montgomery County girls de
feating the Wheeler girls 53-33.
Outstanding players in this game
was Vanessa Kinsey for Mont
gomery County, and Celestine
King and Jacquelyn Simmons for
Wheeler.
In the second game Appling
County boys defeated Treutlen
Co. 51-47. In the final game of
the night, N.W. Laurens boys
defeated S.W. Laurens, 78-68.
Monday night N.W. Laurens
girls defeated S.W'. Laurens, 41-
37 and Baldwin County defeated
Reidsville 84-63. In the final
Monday game, Wheeler County
boys tripped Montgomery County
59-51.
At this point Montgomery Co.
girls are the favorite now owning
a perfect 7-0 record and favorite
in the boys are Baldwin County
who owns 7-1 and Wheeler Co.
who owns 7-0.
NOTICE
The Wheeler County State Bank
will be closed December 25 and
December 26. The Bank will be
open on December 28.
The Directors and Employees
wish everyone a Safe Happy
Holiday.
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"OH. MAN, NO SURF TODAY: but down hate in tropical Naples,
Florida we go skin-diving every day at the Jungle Larry’s Safari in
beautiful Caribbean Gardens -200 exotic acres of tun”, says
Rudy, the TV chimp. (PRN)
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
Each was charged with five
counts of burglary.
Merchandise and cash taken
from five businesses in Glen
wood, totaling about $2,000 and
including color television sets
and shotguns were recovered,
Sheriff Johnson said.
The four arrested include two
brothers, Thomas Henry Gilman,
Jr. 24, and Charles Fleming
Gilman, 25, of Oglethorpe Homes.
The other two were identified
as Patricia Burns, 21, and Cecil
Melvin Smallwood. No street ad
dresses for them were given.
Sheriff Johnson said Ernest
Carey, Glenwood night police
man, saw the four inside one
of the stores about 5 a.m., and
telephoned him. He arrived at
the scene five minutes later,
the sheriff said, and Carey told
Alamo Garden Club
Announces Winners
The winners of theAlamoGar
den Club Christmas decorations'
for 1970 are:
Homes - Ist, Mrs. James
Adams; 2nd, Mrs. Jimmy James;
3rd, Mrs. Herbert Webster.
Honorable mention - Mrs. Ray
mond Johnson, Mrs. Jimmy
Powell, Mrs. Vernon Hartley and
Mrs. W. C. Brownson.
Trees - Mrs. Julian Purvis
and Mrs. Clara Montford.
Bu-messes - Ist, Hinson Ap
pliance; 2nd, U. S. Post Office;
3rd, Curl’s Pharmacy.
Have you seen the tallest out
door tree in Alamo?
The thanks of the club go to
all who decorated for the holi
days and helped make the town
attractive at this season of the
year.
him the four had just sped away.
Carey got into the sheriff’s
automobile with him and they
soon caught the fleeing suspects,
“but we had to shoot to get
them to stop,” Sheriff Johnson
said. They paid no attention to
the siren or warning lights, he
said.
During the eight to 10-mile
chase, the suspects reached
speeds up to 120 miles per hour,
the Sheriff said.
Carey shot four times while
the cars were going 110 miles
per hour and hit the fleeing
car three times — the tail light
once and the bumper twice —
and “that’s pretty good shoot
ing,” Sheriff Johnson said.
The suspects were lodged in
the Laurens County Jail,
Some Glenwood merchants had
to go to Johnson’s office to pick
up their merchandise before they
could conduct business, the
sheriff said.
Governor Gives
Sound Advice To
Average Driver
For their own sake, Georgia
motorists would do well to re
flect on the message that Gov.
Lester G. Maddox left with those
attending the recent Governor’s
Conference on Traffic Safety in
Atlanta. This is what the gover
nor said:
“Down deep inside, the average
American driver today harbors
the feeling that he will never be
the one to become an accident
victim. He sees the death, the
tragedy and the horror, and he
knows what metal hurtling at
high speeds can do.
"But still, he tells himself,
‘it wait happen to me’ ...I am
convinced that if we are ever to
make genuine progress in traffic
safety and significantly reduce
highway fatalities, then we must
overcome this apathetic trait of
the average man behind the
wheel.”
Local Students
Fly To Holy Land
With College Choir
Jean Browning, Debra Mc-
Daniel, Steve Montford and Jerry
McDaniel, students at Brewton
Parker College, and members
erf the College choir, joined other
members of the choir in Atlanta
Monday where they flew to the
Holy Land and cither points of
interest.
The choir will sing at several
different places and can be seen
on Channel 6 Augusta, Christmas
Day.
Brewton Parker Choir was one
erf four College choirs in the
United States invited to visit
and conduct concerts. They will
also visit Athens Greece. Gover
nor Lester Maddox appointed the
choir as Good Will Ambassadors.
FRIDAY, DEC. 25, 1970
Mae Products Co. To Close Down,
Prospects Good for Dew Take Over
It was announced at a meeting
in Mcßae last Thursday, Dec. 17,
that Mcßae Products Co. would
close down operations by April 1,
1971. The announcement was
made by Ed Russell, Chairman
of the BoardofNorthernElectric,
a subsidiary of Sunbeam Corp.
Mr. Russell said that when
the plant closed for Christmas,
about half of the employees would
Union Camp Plants
300 Millionth
Tree Seedling
The Savannah Woodlands Di
vision of Union Camo Corpora
tion has planted the Company’s
300 millionth pine seedling as
part of a ceremony celebrating
the 103rd anniversary of the
birth of Dr. Charles H. Herty.
The seedling was put into the
ground December 4, at the
Charles H. Herty Elementary
School.
Dr. Herty, a native Georgian
and distinguished scientist, is
credited with pioneering the sou
thern paper industry. He did
this through his research with
pulp from the Southern slash
pine trees.
Union Camp’s 300 millionth
seedling was grown at the Com
pany’s nursery at Bellville, a
facility which has been in opera
tion since 1958. Annually, over
25 million seedlings are raised
at this nursery for planting on
Union Camp land as well as
for use by private landowners
without charge.
Union Camp, whose huge
Savannah Plant began operations
in 1936, started planting seed
lings in 1938 with 300,000 going
into the ground that year. In
1960 the 100 millionth tree was
planted and five years later the
200 millionth was set out.
In addition to the 300 million
trees which have been planted
on Company land, over 92 million
have been given to private land
owners.
Former Helena Man
Killed In Vidalia
Joe Milton Fletcher, 59, night
attendant at Thompson’s Standard
Station on Highway 280, in Vi
dalia, was shot and killed early
Sunday in a robbery which netted
the killer $75 to SBO, police
chief T. R. Vaughn said.
Fletcher was killed with a
bullet wound in the left temple,
fired by a .38 calibergun, Vaughn
said.
Two patrolmen, Albert Mc-
I.andon and Alvie Holon, talked
with Fletcher about 20 minutes
before the shooting at about 3:40
a.m. Then, when the two police
officers came back to the sta
tion, they were summoned by
two customers, Jack Tyson and
Drew Phillips, who had just dis-
Warner Robins Air Materiel Area motor pool employee Donna Humphry of Warner Robins inspects
new van being used by the depot to enlist potential contractors into bidding for Air Force business.
be released. Os the approx. 190
workers presently employed,
oily about 100 would return to
work when the plant opens again
after New Years.
Phase-out of the manufacturing
operations at the plant is expected
to be completed by April 1 and.
the facility will be closed by
that date.
Mr. Russell stated that the
reason for closing was lack of a
market for the various products
they had been producing and that
it was impossible to keep the
plant open without an ample
market.
Ray Laskowske, plant man
ager, will be transferred to a
plant near Chicago.
It was learned this week that
a very good prospect (a reliable
company) is interested in the
Mcßae plant and employees, and
steps are now being taken to
further this move. It is possible
that the new company will move
$41,000,000 Grant
Awarded To Georgia
For Deprived Children
Approximately 250,000 Geor
gia school children will benefit
from a $41,476,119 U. S. Office
of Education grant made this
week to the Georgia Department
of Education, reports Jack P.
Nix, state superintendent of
schools.
Nix was notified of the avail
ability of the federal money from
the Health, Education and Wel
fare office by a telegram from
Senators Richard B. Russell and
Herman E. Talmadge.
The Department of Education
will administer the funds, which
have been designated as assis
tance for educationally deprived
children under Title I of Public
law 89-10.
Scheduled to be allocated will
be $39,947,788 for local educa
tional agencies under Title I;
$394,353 for handicapped stu
dents; $325,889 for juvenile de
linquents in state institutions,
and $397,434 for migratory chil
dren.
covered the body.
Funeral services for Mr.
Fletcher were held at 2:30 p.m.,
Monday in Murchison Funeral
Home Chapel in Vidalia. Burial
was in Oak Grove Cemetery in
Mcßae.
A native of Helena, he had
lived in Vidalia for 35 years.
He was a member of the First
Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife,
Dorothy Phillips Fletcher; two
sons, Joe Phillips Fletcher of
Vidalia, and Jerry Roger
Fletcher of Swainsboro; two sis
ters, Mrs. Ronald RoweandMrs.
Paul Grubb of Vidalia, and five
grandchildren.
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in before the April 1 deadline.
More will be released on this
at a later date.
It will be remembered, several
years ago, that before Mcßae
Products Co. came to this area,
another Sunbeam plant was ex
pected to be built here. It was
finally located at Ahoskie, N. C.
That plant lias also closed, but
has been re-opened by another
company and reported doing very
well.
As for the Mcßae Plant, Nor
thern Electric is responsible for
payments on the building, etc.,
and no liability is held by the
county, local people, or the
Industrial Development Corp.
Eggs contain the B vitamins;
the ones that help you be less
nervous.
Major Provisions Os
1971 Feed Grain
Program Announced
Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin today an
nounced major provisions of the
1971 Feed Gram Program. “At
this time, however,” the Secre-.
tary explained, “there are many
unknowns in the feed grain situa
tion.
“Consequently, we are not an
nouncing the final set-aside per
centage until we have additional
information on factors affecting
the 1971 crops. For the purpose
of the January Farmers ’ Plant -
ing Intentions Report, the De
partment will tentatively plan
for a 20 percent set-aside for
feed grain. The decision on the
actual percentage will be made
prior to the program signup
period, March 1 through April 9,
1971. The preliminary payment
associated with a 20 percent
diversion requirement would be
32 cents per bushel for corn
and 29 cents per bushel for sor
ghum times the yield established
for the farm times one-half the
com and grain sorghum base.
We are announcing otherprogram
decisions in order to provide
farmers with the broadest in
formation possible for planning
spring seedings,” the Secretary
said.
“The set-aside program will
give producers more options in
the uncertain situation for corn
than previous programs since
it places no limits on the plant
ings of crops except those for
which marketing quotas are ap
proved by farmers. These crops
are peanuts, rice, tobacco, extra
long staple cotton andsugarcane.
I have great faith in farmers to
make the right decisions when
they are provided the opportunity
to do so. The set-aside program
frees them of specific acreage
limitations on all non-quota
crops.”
In 1971, participants in the
set-aside program will be
guaranteed a national average
of $1.35 a bushel on the pro
duction from half their corn base,
and $1.24 a bushel ($2.21 a hun-
NUMBER 38
Students Conduct
Drive On Campus
Christmas will be a little mer
rier for needy children in the
Douglas and Coffee County area
[this year, thanks to the work
of students at South Georgia Col
lege who conducted a “Toys for
Tots” drive on campus. The
drive, which started when
students left for the Thanksgiving
holidays and ended with the con
clusion of the fall quarter, re
sulted in the collection of 300
or more toys, many of which
were found by students tucked
away in long forgotten comers
of dusty attics and dark closets
in their homes.
dredweight) on half their sor
ghum base. This compares with
total support in 1970 of $1.35 a
bushel for com, and $1.20 a
bushel ($2.14 a hundredweight)
for sorghum.
Set-aside payments for divert
ing the specified percentage of
the base will be equal to the
difference between the national
average price received by farm
ers during the first five months
of the marketing year and the
guarantee.
The method of calculating set
aside payments for a farm will
be like that of the 1970 program:
Half the feed grain base times
the farm yield times the payment
per bushel. Unlike the 1970 pro-'
gram—when participants were
paid on the actual acreage of
feed grain planted up to 50 per
cent of the farm base—partici
pants in the set-aside program
will receive the full payment
regardless of what they plant
on their acreage.
Preliminary payments to par
ticipants will be made as soon
as practicable after July 1,1971.
Regardless of the size the total
payment turns out to be, the
participant will not be required
to refund any of the preliminary
payment.
The 1971 loan rate for corn
will be SI.OB per bushel for No. 2
which is equivalent to $1.05 a
bushel for corn of average qual
ity, the same level as in 1970.
In setting the loan rates for
other feed grain, the Agricultural
Act of 1970 places heavy
emphasis on feeding values in
relation to com. In contrast,
the Food and Agricultural Act
of 1965, which authorized recent
feed grain programs, required
consideration of this factor in
setting total support, but left
loan rates largely to the dis
cretion of the Secretary. As a
result of the emphasis of the
new Act, 1971 sorghum rates
are higher than in 1970, while
ithose for the other grains are
[lower. The 1971 loan levels for
[the other grains are as follows:
[Grain Sorghum, $1.73 per hun
dredweight; barley, 81 cents per
I bushel; oats, 54 cents per bushel;
and rye, 89 cents per brjshel.
The Agricultural Act of 1970
tmakes provisions for the shifting
: of bases from farms which do
not plant feed grain to those
which do. The law provides that
farms which plant less than 45
percent of their feed grain base
in 1971 will have their 1972
base reduced for the amount of
underplanting, up to 20 percent
of the base. If no feed grain or
authorized substitute crops are
planted for three consecutive
years, the entire base is removed
from the farm. All base lost
by farms will be placed in a
national pool for re-allocation
to other farms.
Acreage which is not planted
due to a drought, flood, or other
natural disaster or a condition
beyond the control of the producer
will be considered planted to
feed grain to preserve bases,
and any producer who makes a
set-aside but elects to receive
no payment will not suffer loss
of base.
Other program details, such
as production or alternate crops
on diverted acreage, will be an
nounced prior to signup.