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VOLUME 56
New Food
Stamp Law
Includes Reforms
Steps are already being made
toward the implementation of
the new food stamp legislation
which was signed into law by
President Nixon, according to
Russell H. James, Southeast
regional director of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Food and Nutrition Service.
Quoting Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture Richard Lyng,
the Southeastern director said
the new legislation provided
the principal food stamp
reforms requested by the Ad
ministration, including uniform
national eligibility standards,
provisions for free food stamps
for the very poor, maximum
charge to other participants
not to exceed 30 per cent of
their income, and authorization
for eligible families to buy
less than their full stamp allot
ment.
In its major features, James
said the new food stamp law:
* Extends the authority for
program appropriations
through Fiscal Year 1973. A
maximum appropriation of
$1.75 billion is authorized for
the current Fiscal Year (ending
June 30, 1971), with no limita
tions set on amounts that may
be appropriated for Fiscal
Years 1972 and 1973.
* Provides for the establish
ment of national eligibility stan
dards, eliminating the inequit
able State-to-State variations
in eligibility rules.
* Provides a stamp allotment
sufficient to purchase a nu
tritionally adequate diet.
* Authorizes free stamps for
those with little or no income.
* Provides that all other
eligible families will receive
their stamp allotment for a
charge not exceeding 30 per
cent of their Income.
* Calls for revised defini
tions of "household” as a group
of “related” individuals.
* Requires able-bodied per
sons between 18 and 65 years
of age—excepting persons car
ing for dependent children,
"bona fide” students, and peo
ple working for at least 30
hours per week—to register
for and accept employment at
applicable federal and state
wage rates.
* Provides for the value of
the food stamp allotment to
be reviewed annually, to take
account of changes in retail
food prices.
♦ Permits eligible families
to buy less than their full stamp
allotment, thereby adding flexi
bility to the program.
» Permits elderly persons
to spend their food stamps to
purchase meals delivered to
their homes by nonprofit
agencies.
* Facilitates the partici
pation of welfare families by
permitting them to purchase
food stamps by a “check-off”
from their welfare grant.
* Requires the states to
undertake “Outreach” efforts
to acquaint eligible families
with the food stamp program,
and authorizes federal sharing
in the costs involved.
* Authorizes concurrent dis
tribution of food stamps and
donated commodities in areas
requesting both programs.
* Provides a “fair hearing”
procedure for aggrieved pro
gram participants.
Lyng was quoted as saying
that the USDA will publish pro
posed food stamp regulations
and invite comment on them.
The target date for publication
in the Federal Register is April
15. At the same time, the USDA
will issue new schedules es
tablishing the cost of food
stamps to participants, he
added.
Ocmulgee Academy
Y-Club Car Wash
The Ocmulgee Academy
Y-Club will sponsor a carwash
at Billie Owen’s Texaco Station
in Mcßae, on Saturday, Jan. 30.
It will be held from 8:00
a.m., to 5:00 p.m. The price
to have your car washed and
vacuumed will be $2.00.
Everyone bring your car and
support the Y-Club.
Atlanta market area food
stores sell 105,000 dozen eggs
every day of the week.
Wheeler County Eagle
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
Beauty And The Bass
Music-loving students at the University of Georgia can
take their pick of 17 instruments to study in the depart
ment of music. Susan Mansell, a senior from Roswell,
practices a bass member of the violin family—the cello.
While officials say “there’re more guys than girls” in the
university’s Dixie Redcoat Band, coed students in the de
partment as a whole slightly outnumber the males.
New Officers For Resource
Conservation And Development
Officers for 1971 were
elected and new staff and com
mittee members were intro
duced at the recent meeting
of the Resource Conservation
and Development steering com
mittee.
Mackie Simpson and Will
Peterson were re-elected as
chairman and secretary-treas
urer, respectively, and D. D.
McGregor was elected vice
chairman. Foster Rhodes, live
stock specialist, has recently
been assigned to the project
by the Cooperative Extension
Service to provide technical
assistance to livestock pro
ducers in the TriCounty area.
David Fountain was introduced
as the newly appointed com
mitteeman from Montgomery
County.
George Norris, project co
ordinator, presented a proposal
for a forestry demonstration
to be held in the Fall and spon
sored by the RC&D steering
committee. The proposal was
adopted by the group. It will
be open to all woodland owners
and other interested persons
and will have as its purpose
the making known of latest tech-
Farm Income In Ga.
Led By Broilers, Eggs
GAINESVILLE.
GEORGIA, JANUARY 25,
1971 - The traditional riddle
which came first, the chicken
or the egg, takes a new twist as
Georgians await final figures
on the state’s farm income for
1970, according to Georgia
Poultry Federation Executive
Director Abit Massey, of
Gainesville.
Broilers and eggs will lead
the way in cash income among
Georgia farm commodities,
but just which one of them
will come first is one of the
remaining unanswered
questions of the year just past.
Massey says.
The chicken house has
become as much a part of the
Georgia landscape as red clay
and slash pine, and in 1956, a
strutting Georgia broiler
moved to the head of the list
of Georgia agricultural
commodities.
But regardless of priority,
niques, methods and equipment
available to woodland owners
for improving production on
privately-owned woodland.
A report of the solid waste
disposal committee revealed
that the committee is presently
working with the Public Health
Department in an attempt to
study ways and means of solid
waste disposal for the three
counties.
Norris reported that he is
working with the Heart of Geor
gia Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission on a publi
cation that will outline in de
tail the potential for outdoor
recreation enterprises in the
nine county Heart of Georgia
area which includes the three
counties of the RC&D Project.
Ocmulgee Academy
Catfish Chowder
Supper
There will be a Catfish Chow
der supper at Ocmulgee
Academy on Saturday night,
January 30.
Serving will begin at 5:30.
All proceeds go to the school.
The public is invited to attend.
chickens and eggs just have to
go together; and eggs have
gone right along with the
broiler in poultry’s push to the
foreground on the Georgia
farm scene. In 1963, the egg
became Georgia’s number two
agricultural money maker
second only to broilers.
Together with turkeys and
other chickens, this “dynamic
duo” has made Georgia the
Poultry Capital of the world,
putting her ahead of all other
states in income from poultry
and poultry products.
Each day, Georgia
poultrymen produce over four
and one half million pounds of
chicken, over one million
dozen eggs and over 45 tons of
turkey. The output of the
Georgia poultry industry
amounts to some 20% of the
nation’s total chicken
consumption and eight
percent of its egg
consumption.
Conservation Cost
Sharing Program
To Improvement
Environment
Wheeler county farmers will
soon be participating in the
new Rural Environmental As
sistance Program (REAP) with
major emphasis on solving
those Environmental problems
which have been intensified by
agricultural operations.
Gene Harris, Chairman of the
county Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservation (ASC)
Committee, said the program
announcement of REAP hadbeen
made in Washington by Secre
tary of Agriculture, Clifford
M. Hardin.
“Farmers have known REAP
as ACP — the Agricultural
Conservation Program,” Mr.
Harris said. “The cost-sharing
principle will be the same —
that is, farmers andthe Federal
Government will share inpaying
for beneficial conservation
practices. The restructured
program will be in line with
modern day needs for a better •
environment both on and off
the farm.”
The Washington announce
ment by Secretary Hardin stated
that major considerations in
authorizing cost-storing of any
conservation practice will be
the resulting public benefits
such as Pollution Abatement,
Enduring Soil and Water Con
servation, Recreation, Wild
life, and open space as well
as the degree of permanency
achieved.
A major thrust will be to
reduce water pollution. Water
retaining and retarding meas
ures on farms — such as dams
and ponds, permanent grass
cover, waterways, buffer
strips, and tree plantings -A
will be encouraged. These will
be directed toward silt in
streams, rivers, lakes, and
other bodies of water and toward
reducing pollution from animal
wastes, fertilizers, and pesti
cides.
Wheeler county farmers
should be made aware that this
announcement means we will
be able to continue cost-sharing
on anti-pollution measures
which were approved last year
under ACP and also such long
standing conservation practices
as those just named,” the ASC
committee chairman said.
As in prior years, applica
tions for conservation cost
sharing will be made at the
county ASCS office and must be
approved by the county ASC
committee before work begins.
The farmer-elected commit
teemen will continue to select
practices best suited for meet
ing local needs, will determine
which farm lands need treat
ment, and will fix the amount
of cost-sharing to be provided
each approved applicant.
An allocation of REAP funds
for the county is expected to
be made soon.
Cost-storing applications by
farmers cannot be accepted at
their county ASCS office until
the 1971 REAP funds allocation
and the program for the county
is announced, Mr. Harris said.
“Signup dates for REAP will
be announced as soon as
possible. Meanwhile, farmers
should determine the practices
most needed and estimate total
costs so they will be ready
when the time comes.”
Graduate Degree
George Peabody College in
Nashville, Tennessee has an
nounced that Chip R. Bell has
successfully completed his
Master of Arts degree in In
dustrial Sociology.
He is a member of Phi Delta
Kappa, National honorary fra
ternity, the American Society
for Training and Development
and has been an officer in
the Graduate Leadership Club.
A graduate of the University
of Georgia, Mr. Bell spent three
years in the U. S. Army as
an infantry officer before com
pleting his graduate study.
He and his wife will be moving
to Charlotte, North Carolina
where he will be training direc
tor for the North Carolina Na
tional Bank. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray U. Beil of
Alamo.
FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1971
February Term Wheeler Co. Superior
Court To Convene Monday, Feb. 8
The February Term of
Wheeler Superior Court will
convene Monday, February 8.
The Grand Jury will meet
Monday morning, February 8,
at 10:00 A. M.; the Traverse
Jury will convene on Tuesday
morning, February 9, at 9:00
A. M.
GRAND JURY
Monday, February 8, 10:00
A. M.
Julian Price, S. Ashley Clark,
Leon B. Adams, C. H. Dixon,
Paul Hinson, M. L. Steward,
J. B. Clements, Marion B.
Crawford, C. R. Dixon, Sr.,
Leon A. McDaniel.
Thomas Avery, Wyman Phil
lips, Hymer Brooks, E. L.
Rhodes, Richard Wilson, Ralph
Daniel Home, T. K. Browning,
Fred L. Lord, John Walter
Clark, J. H. Mitchell.
Willard J. Grimes, Troy
Nelms, James E. Brown, John
P. Dennis, Samuel D. Clark,
Morris Jenkins and Emmett
Joyce.
SCS State Office
In New Building
The state headquarters of
the Soil Conservation Service
has been moved to the newly
constructed Heritage Building
located at 468 North Milledge
Avenue, Athens.
The Heritage Building is the
first property developed in Ath
ens by the Heritage Properties
of Athens, Robert M. Tillman,
president. Other officers are
R. E. Argo and L. L. Scruggs.
Athens Federal Savings and
Loan financed the development
of the building and grounds.
Tillman said of the building,
“It is a Williamsburg design
with a special hand-crafted
brick exterior. We wanted it
to have an identity of its own.”
The SCS State Office has been
headquartered in the Old Post
Office Building for the past
34 years.
SCS was established in the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
by the Congress in 1935 to plan
and carry out a national
program to conserve and
develop the nation’s soil and
water resources. This is done
largely through locally-organ
ized and controlled soil and
water conservation districts.
The SCS State Office is head
quarters for a technical staff
that provides services for SCS
offices and districts throughout
Georgia. These conservation
specialists diagnose resource
problems and prescribe safe
use and treatment.
Included on the technical staff
are soil scientists, economists,
engineers and specialists in
agronomy, biology, forestry,
plant materials, geology and
sedimentation.
Major conservation activities
in which SCS is involved in
Georgia include (a) assistance
to individual land owners in
planning and applying conser
vation programs, (b) work with
local sponsors on watershed
protection and flood prevention
projects and resource conser
vation and development pro
jects, (c) national cooperative
soil surveys, (d)encouragement
of private land owners to es
tablish income-producing
recreation enterprises, and (e)
the development of public
recreation areas in watershed
projects.
C. W. Chapman, state con
servationist for the SCS, stated
that “All our activities are
designed to help land owners
and users to conserve and de
velop their soil and water re
sources.”
“The benefits from this kind
of conservation are clean water,
better recreation, abundant and
more nutritious food, adequate
timber, more wildlife and open
space, and improved natural
beauty.”
Jimmy James is the local
Soil Conservationist and L. B.
Chambers is the Wheeler
County District Supervisor.
TRAVERSE JURY
Tuesday, February 9, 9:00
A. M.
Viola Woodard, Mrs. W. D.
Avery, Smith McDaniel, Lee
Evans, Viola Worthing, W. E.
Miller, Ruby Dixon, J. M.
Thomas, Mary C. Brownson,
Charles Griffin Mitchell.
J. R. Chambless, Beulah M.
Montford, Laura M. Worthen,
Bennie Lee Tillman, George
Irvin Fights Proposed
Agriculture Tax Hikes
ATLANTA (PRN)
Declaring that cigarette taxes
in Georgia today total $6
million more than Georgia’s
average farm income from
tobacco, the state’s second
most important farm crop,
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin has expressed
strong opposition to the
proposed two cent increase in
cigarette taxes and elimination
of sales tax
exemption
on farm
machinery
and equip
ment.
“Farm
ers, who
make up
the founda
tion of
Georgia’s
biggest industry, agribusiness,
are already operating on the
lowest profit margin of any
business 1 know,” Irvin said in
an appearance before the
House Ways & Means
Committee.
The Commissioner pointed
out that the present 8 cent
state tax on cigarettes plus
state sales taxes bring in
almost s4s'/2 million in tax
revenue while state
government is putting only
about sl2 million into
agricultural appropriations.
He cited the additional
federal tax of 8 cents per pack
on cigarettes which produces
s4o'/2 million in tax revenue
and emphasized that the some
SB6 million in taxes collected
on cigarettes in Georgia is
nearly $6 million more than
Georgia’s average annual
tobacco farm income of
$80,792,419 during the past
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^^^REG TAKES OVER
6U-year old Greg Beck of Atlanta is happy over the news of being
named 1971 Georgia Easter Seal Poster Child by Coach Vince
Dooley. Easter Seal State ( hairman, while last year’s poster girl,
Debby Krick, appears pensive over relinquishment of the title. In his
role as 1971 poster child, Greg will represent Georgia’s crippled chil
dren and adults during the annual Easter Seal Appeal in March.
One of two boys, Greg is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Beck of
Atlanta where his father is employed with the Coca-Cola Bottling
Company. Handicapped from cerebral palsy, he receives therapy at
the Atlanta Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center and was one of'
51 handicapped children attending Camp Easter Seal for two weeks
last August. Greg is a first-grader at the Thomas Jefferson Guice
Elementary School, Atlanta.
SINGLE COPY 5C
Guyton, Neal Powell, Hugh Har
ville, Mrs. J. P. Morrison, Jr.,
Ernie Pope.
Mrs. J. B.Clements, Mildred
B. Hall, Doris Harvey, Abbie
Steward, G. M. Joiner, Herbert
Webster, G. F. Clark, Anna
Woods, J. L. Pope, H. Edward
Robbins.
J. O. Perdue, Bryson Frost,
R. A. Hartley, Jr., Mrs. T. H.
Harden, Jr., Mrs. O.C.Adams,
five years.
An outspoken advocate for
the stimulation of economic
activity in rural communities,
Irvin said the state should be
seeking ways and means of
improving farm profits and
suggested that the legislature
seek other means for
increasing state income rather
than penalizing the farmer and
the rural communities
dependent upon farm income.
“Many of the problems
of urban areas are created by
the transition of people from
rural to urban areas,” the
Commissioner said, adding
“any legislation that would
further reduce farm profits
would also increase the
movement of untrained and
unskilled labor into urban
areas.”
“It seems to me that when
tax collections exceed the
average income from one of
our major farm products, they
are already too high,” Irvin
insisted.
Comparing Georgia with her
major sister tobacco producing
states, Irvin said North
Carolina only has a two cent
per package cigarette tax,
while South Carolina taxes
cigarettes at only 6c per
pacakage.
Commenting on the
elimination of the sales tax
exemption on farm
machinery, Irvin pointed out
that Georgia farmers are being
forced to mechanize with
larger and more expensive
equipment to overcome a
severe farm labor shortage and
that sales taxes on such costly
outlays would seriously effect
the average farm profit
potential.
NUMBER 43
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J. N. O’Quinn, Mrs. Raleigh
Joyce, Mrs. Maxine P. Rivers,
K. C. Lewis, Mrs. J. 0. Johnson.
Wiley Kinchen, Leon B.
Adams, Mrs. N. H. Clark, Mrs.
Joe E. Clark, Sam Nelms, L.
B. McGowan, Willie Nobles,
J. Troy Mimbs, Mrs. R. H.
Manley, J. C. Thigpen.
John A, Williams, Bobby
Home, Doretha Woodard,
James R. Atchison, Herschel
Selph, V. A. Brack, Camette
Wright, Bradley Sheppard,
Charlie Thigpen, Sally James.
Mrs. W. J. Futral, Jr., Leon
Graham, G. J. Peacock, Mrs.
Wade Anderson, Dezotra Car
ter, Thomas Robert Hartley,
Hazel Nobles and Jimmy Couey.
Foster Rhodes
Area Extension
Animal Scienist
Foster Rhodes has assumed
the position of Area Extension
Animal Scientist with head
quarters in the Resource Con
servation and Development
Project office in Soperton ac
cording to George Norris, pro
ject coordinator.
Rhodes will provide leader
ship in the technical assistance
program to livestockproducers
in the Tri-County area. Norris
stated that he is very pleased
that this type of assistance
is now available in the area.
“The Extension Service is
happy to be a part of the RC&D
Project and to assist the pro
ject by assigning a livestock
specialist here,” L. W. Eber
hardt, State Director of the
Georgia Extensionservice said.
Rhodes is originally from
Martinez. He eameda Bachelor
of Science degree in Animal
Science in 1967 and a Master
of Science degree in Animal
Breeding from the University
of Georgia in 1969.
Foster compiled an outstand
ing record with the University
of Georgia Livestock Judging
team. In 1966 to was the high
individual scorer in the South
eastern Conference Livestock
Judging Contest held at Auburn
University. Fourteen colleges
were represented with 201 par
ticipants.
In 1967, Foster was a mem
ber of the University of Georgia
team that had the highest score
ever to be scored by a Georgia
team at the International Live
stock Exposition in Chicago.
Also, in 1967, he was high
individual scorer in beef cattle
judging at the Pennsylvania
Livestock Exposition in Harris
burg, Penn., and in swine judg
ing at the Southeastern Con
ference Contest in Atlanta.
While a student at the Uni
versity, Rhodes was a member
of Omicron Delta Kappa, Blue
Key, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma
Delta and Sphinx Honorary So
ciety. He served as president
of Ag Hill Council and the
Block and Bridle Club.
After leaving school Rhodes
began his work with the Exten
sion Service as Assistant Coun
ty Agent in Houston County
LTC. James Lester
Serving In Korea
Ueutenant Colonel James D.
Lester, whose wife, Eloise,
lives at RFD 1, Glenwood, re
cently arrived in Korea and is
being assigned to 2nd Trans
portation Group, Korea Support
Command (KORSCOM) as the
Group S-3 Officer.
KORSCOM is the largest US
military command under Bth
US Army. The command is
responsible for providing
logistical support such as sup
ply, maintenance, transpor
tation and postal services for
all units in Korea. Units of
KORSCOM are located from
the DMZ in the north to Pusan
in the south and from the Sea
of Japan to the Yellow Sea.
KORSCOM plays a large role
in the defense of Freedoms
Frontier.