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VOLUME 58
Report Os The
County Agent
By David H. Williams
Water Shrubs
Shrubs will need watering
during dry periods this sum
mer. Here are some tips on
how to do it.
First, water enough. Some
gardeners we know wet only
the soil surface. There are
very few roots in that vicinity.
So water six to eight inches
deep. That way, the moisture
will reach the root system.
And a heavy watering once a
week is better than a light
watering every day.
Use a hose? Sure, but be
sure the water moves down
ward into the root system.
Make a three- to four-inch
mound of soil some 18 inches
out from the shrub. This
serves as a reservoir and
makes sure the water moves
down to the root area.
Time of day matters little
when watering shrubs. How
ever, it’s not a good idea to
water roses with overhead ir
rigation in the late afternoon.
Might encourage foliage di
seases.
Early Death?
Chances are good — or bad
— that some gardeners will
lose some of their recently -
planted shrubs this summer.
One week without water can
easily kill plants that have not
established an extensive root
system into the surrounding
soil.
Some folks just don’t realize
that a left of the roots of a
ball and burlap shrub are left
in the ground when the plant
is dug. The nurseryman
doesn’t do it this way on
purpose; there’s just noway
he can dig all the roots. Any -
way, these plants are going to
be under a lot of stress.
Many container-grown
shrubs die during their first
growing season, too. And for
the same reason — neglect.
These plants need very care
ful watering, even though the
entire root system was
planted.
You see, the roots of con
tainer-grown shrubs occupy
an extremely small soil vol
ume. In other words, the roots
are restricted in their ability
to obtain water.
Mulching
There are hundreds of
gardening practices, but few
are more beneficial than mul
ching. This is one of the best
ways we know to conserve soil
moisture in the summer.
During dry periods, fre
quent watering is necessary
to keep the upper six inches
of the soil in flower beds
moist. A mulch on the sur
face will hold moisture and
greatly reduce the need for
watering. Will make your
shrub and flower beds look
better, too, not to mention a
lower water bill.
There are a lot of mulching
materials you can use — pine
straw, pine bark, slightly de
composed fall leaves, hay and
sawdust.
Cultivate?
Some people cultivate
around shrubs. Why, we don’t
know. There’s really no
advantage to it. In fact, digging
around some ornamentals —
azaleas, camellias and hollies
— can severely injure the root
system. Roots of these plants
are located within a few inches
of the soil surface.
Some gardeners “work in”
fertilizers. Most fertilizers
are water soluble, soworking
’em in isn’t necessary.
Others cultivate around
shrubs to control Bermuda
and other grasses. A better
approach is to place a sheet
of polyethylene plastic on the
ground underneath the plant.
Just cut the plastic into a
round shape, then make a cut
to the center so it fits up to"
the trunk of the shrub. Now
cover the plastic with an at
tractive mulch. Pine straw,
for example. The straw and
plastic can be left ’round the
shrub indefinitely.
John W. Young, Astronaut:
“The earth rise is just
beautiful. We can hardly
wait to get there.”
Wheeler County Eagle
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA 30411 - BOX 385
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Sylvania, Ga. - A bevy of beauties -- the “Hagan Girls” - beam approval at the signs of optimism
indicated by Elliott Hagan and W. Lee Mingledorff. The occasion was a Hagan Appreciation Dinner
in the Congressman's hometown, attended by between four and five hundred supporters in
Screven County. Mingledorff -a former mayor of Savannah -- is now a resident of Screven
County. (PRN)
Drug Abuse Information Available
Want drug abuse facts, in
formation?
A statewide, free WATS line
has been installed by the Geor
gia Narcotics Treatment Pro
gram. Any Georgian now can
call 1-800-282-0228 for infor
mation relating to drug abuse.
The statewide number is
a service of the program’s
new Drug Information Center,
directed by a pharmacist, Jo
anne B. Branson, and staffed
with drug information special-
Lanier Mercer
Announces For
Clerk Os Court
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the Office of
Clerk of the Superior Court
for Wheeler County in the
Democratic Primary to be held
August 8, 1972.
I promise, if elected, to
conduct the affairs of this
office openly, fairly and in the
interest of all the people, not
just a chosen few.
I will never allow this office
to be the den of money changers
for vote buying and destroy
the will of the people through
their ballots.
I will cooperate with other
officials of our County and
State in any program that will
benefit the people and make
our county a better place to
live.
I earnestly ask you to vote
for and support me for this
office and I will work everyday
to uphold your trust and
confidence.
Lanier Mercer
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Art Salutes Industry
Clean air is something everybody can celebrate,
according to Phyllis Allen Gillis of the Decatur-
DeKalb Civic Ballet. She’s inspired by a scale
model of an electrostatic precipitator, displayed
in Georgia Power Company’s general office. The
utility is installing the most modern clean-air
equipment at its steam-electric generating plants
and updating such equipment at older plants.
Modern precipitators remove up to 99 percent of
particulate matter from stack gases. In the next
three years the company will spend $126 million
for environmental protection and esthetics.
ists.
The information center is
located at 663 West Peachtree,
in a building housing treatment
facilities of the Georgia Nar
cotics Treatment Program.
Staff members will answer
telephone queries and also re
fer persons to treatment and
counseling help. After 5 p.m.,
an answering service will take
messages for the staff to re
turn.
In addition to building a
library for drug information
and educational materials such
as films and literature, plans
call for the center next fall
to have a computer hoolup
with the National Clearing
house for Drug Abuse Infor
mation in Rockville, Md., so
that all resources of the na
tion’s main center will be
available to Georgians.
The center also eventually
intends to include technical
data on new and old drugs
for physicians and other health
professionals.
David L. Dickens
Completes Aviation
Electronics School
Navy Airman David L.
Dickens, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herman T. Dickens of Lumber
City, has completed the
Aviation Electronics Tech
nician School at Memphis,
Tennessee.
Aviation Electronics tech
nicians maintain radar, radio
and other guidance systems
aboard naval aircraft.
Facts are very often stub
born tilings and well con
cealed-
Vacation Bible
School At Alamo
Baptist Church
Bible study and fun will be
featured at the Vacation Bible
School, which begins this Fri
day, June 23, in the air-con
ditioned buildings of Alamo
Baptist Church. The six-day
school for boys and girls,
ages 3 through 16, will be
held daily from 3:00 - 6:00
p.m.
Rev. Raymond G. Johnson,
principal of the school, states
that an unusually capable and
dedicated faculty has been se
cured to lead the school.
The workers include: prin
cipal, Raymond G. Johnson;
secretary, Mrs. Lewis Mer
cer; youth, Mrs. R. E. Tuten,
Mrs. Bill Ford, Mrs. Lomas
Hartley; children 2, Mrs.
Harry Brett, Mrs. DickTuten,
Mrs. W. H. Thomas, Mrs.
Raymond G. Johnson; children
1, Mrs. Bennie Sharpton, Mrs.
Jack Fulford, Mrs. John Hat
ten, Jennifer Fulford, Sandra
Thomas; pre-school 3, Mrs.
Jimmy Beasley, Mrs. Walter
Riddle, Mrs. Francis Purvis,
Mrs. Jack Thomas; nursery,
Mrs. Jimmy James, Mrs. Ro
land Harvill, Mrs. Mike Hin
son and Pam Cox. Mrs. Lena
Hartley, Mrs. C. C. Pickle
and Mrs. Pauline Lake will
be in charge of the refresh
ments.
The V.B.S. picnic for all
pupils and their parents will
be held Tuesday, June 27, at
Little Ocmulgee State Park,
from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The
Alamo Bible School has the
Park Pool reserved for swim
ming from 7:00 to 8:00, and
the picnic supper will be
served immediately following
the swim.
Diabetic And
Tuberculin
Test To Be Given
The Wheeler County Health
Department will hold a Dia
betic and Tuberculin skin test
ing clinic on June 26, 1:30 to
3:30 p.m.
Eat a hearty meal and come
to the clinic in two hours.
Frank C. Mathis
Completes Training
At Naval Center
Navy Seaman Recruit Frank
C. Mathis, son of Mrs. Myrtle
J. Mathis of Alamo, graduated
from recruit training at the
Naval Training Center in
Orlando, Florida.
Wheeler Co. High
Yearbooks Ready
Attention Wheeler County
High School students.
Your 1971-72 yearbooksare
here. Come by the Principal’s
Office between 9:00 a.m. and
2:00 p.m. and pick them up.
We also have some extra
books for sale.
Compliments cost little
and yet produce excellent
returns.
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1972
Farm Credit
Officials Return
From Meeting
Officials representing
Farm Credit Service of
Vidalia have just returned
from Atlanta, where they at
tended the annual conference
of PCA and FLBA directors
and executive officers, ac
cording to Raymond L.Evors,
president of Farm Credit Ser
vice.
The conference which was
. held at the Marriott Motor
Hotel June 11-13, was spon
sored by the Federal Inter
mediate Credit Bank of
Columbia, S.C., and the Fed
eral Land Bank of Columbia,
S.C., for directors and execu
tive officers of Production
Credit Associations and Fed
eral Land Bank Associations
in the Carolinas, Florida and
Georgia.
Program topics presented
during the conference in
cluded future plans for Pro
duction Credit Associations
and Federal Land Bank As
sociations; a panel discussion
by the commissioners of agri
culture representing the
Carolinas, Florida and Geor
gia, on service of the state
department of agriculture to
ftirmers; an address by E. A.
Jaenke, governor, Farm
Credit Administration in
Washington, D.C. on “The
New Era In Farm Credit”;
and a concluding address by
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of
New York, New York, on "Why
Positive Thinkers Get Posi
tive Results.”
The Credit Bank provides
leadership, supervision and
agricultural loan funds for
PCAs and The Land Bank
makes long-term loans
through Land Bank Associ
ations in the Carolinas, Flori
da and Georgia. The PCAs
and FLBAs are currently
serving nearly 90,000 farm
ers, growers and ranchers
throughout the four state area
with outstanding loans totaling
in excess of $1.6 billion.
Farm Credit Service of Vi
dalia is currently servingap
proximately 1500 members
with loans in excess of S2B
million in Wheeler, Toombs,
Montgomery, Tattnall, Cand
ler, Emanuel, Screven and
Jenkins Counties.
Officials attending the con
ference in addition to Mr.
Evors included Neill K. Al
ford, Executive Vice Presi
dent, Farm Credit Service;
Henry D. McArthur of Vidalia,
Chairman of the board PCA;
Hardwick Lanier of Metter,
Vice Chairman of the board
PCA; Durward Mosley of
Lyons, director PCA; D. H.
Callaway of Collins, director
PCA; Loy D. Cowart, Jr. of
Twin City, director PCA;
Gerald Hooks of Swainsboro,
director PCA; R. E. Mallard
of Metter, director PCA;
Emett Joyce of Alamo, direc
tor PCA; Segal Durrence of
Reidsville, director PCA; Do
lan E. Brown of Twin City,
Chairman of the board, FLBA;
Willis McLain of Lyons,
director FLBA; Fate DeLoach
of Metter, director FLBA;
and Elmo Rich ofSwainsboro,
director FLBA.
The Farm Credit Service
home office is located in Vi
dalia, and branch offices are
located in Alamo, Reidsville,
Metter and Swainsboro.
Regional Library
Bookmobile
Schedule
The Oconee Regional Li
brary Bookmobile Schedule for
Wednesday, June 28 is as fol
lows:
Harden’s Store - 8:40-9:00;
George Rowe’s Home - 9:15-
9:30; Lowery School - 9:40-
10:00; Bethel Church - 10:17-
10:30; Glenwood (Uptown) -
10:45-11:45; Shiloh (at church)
- 1:25-1:45; Springhill Com
munity House - 2:00-2:15;
Butler’s Store - 2:40-3:10.
VA officials noted on the
June 1, sixth anniversary of
the current G.I. Bill that en
rollments of 3.3 million
already exceed the 2.4 million
reached under 13 years of the
preceding Korean G.I. Bill.
Talmadge Gives Hardnosed
Views On School Busing
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge’s weekly radio report
to his fellow Georgians, long a
popular program carried by
more than 100 radio stations
throughout the state, has a new
format.
The Georgia senior senator
is now doing a question-and
answer type of program on
timely, controversial issues.
The new format is being widely
acclaimed because of his
straight - from - the - shoulder
Vietnam Vets
Can Get Pay To
Attend School
Where are the high school
drop-outs who are now
Vietnam Era veterans?
A. W. Tate, Director, At
lanta Veterans Administration
Regional Office, said that in
Georgia during April about
203 were completing high
school under the G.I. Bill, and
swelling the ranks of those
who have taken advantage of a
five year old Veterans Ad
ministration program that
pays them monthly allowances
while attending schools below
the college level.
For these veterans this
means enrollment in remedial
or refresher courses toenable
them to earn elementary or
high school diplomas or other
wise qualify for higher edu
cation. This “catch-up”train
ing is not charged against
eligibility. Thus these vet
erans are able to save their
full entitlement for higher edu
cation later on.
Veterans who are having
trouble with their studies may
receive special tutorial help
which VA will pay for.
So far, about 1,929 educa
tionally disadvantaged Georgia
veterans have taken advantage
of “catch-up” schooling or
training since it became avail
able in 1967.
However, Tate pointed out
that this figure does not in
clude all assistance provided.
For example, many educa
tionally disadvantaged vet
erans elect to enter on-job
training programs or attend
vocational and trade schools.
For further information
contact the nearest VA office
or your local veterans service
organization representative.
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Journalism Winner
Cathy Bowen, editor of the Statesboro High School
Hi-Owl, receives the Georgia Power Company’s
Jack McDonough Editorial Award from Dean
Warren K. Agee of the University of Georgia’s
Henry W. Grady School of Journalism. The
award, including a $750 scholarship to the uni
versity’s journalism school and a portable electric
typewriter, is presented each year in Athens at
the convention of the Georgia Scholastic Press
Assn. It is given to the high school junior or
senior who writes and has published in his school
newspaper the best editorial on free enterprise
in America. Entries are judged by a committee
from the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism.
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answers in dealing with these
hot issues.
For example, in his current
broadcast, recorded from an
interview in Washington, Sen.
Talmadge spoke out in no un
certain terms on the subject
of school busing. It went some
thing like this:
Asked if he thinks the 4th
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals’
recent rejection of a federal
district judge’s decision in
the Richmond, Va., busing case
is an encouraging sign, Tal
madge replied:
“I would hope so. But 1 was
greatly disappointed when the
Supreme Court last year in
the Swann case upheld massive
busing in the Mecklenburg
County case which originated
in Charlotte, N. C. In my
mind, it conflicts not only with
the Constitution, but a statute
passed by Congress which pro
hibits busing and the assign
ment of children to schools to
achieve a racial balance.
“It gets back to exactly
wtat the Supreme Court out
lawed in 1954, in the Brown
case, when they held that you
could no longer classify chil
dren by race for assignment
to public schools. We have
come full circle now inassign
ing children by race to public,
schools. In my judgment, this
violates not only the Constitu
tion, but also a clear mandate
of the Congress.”
Reminded that he voted for
anti-busing provisions as part
of the higher education act,
but complained that the legis
lation was too weak, Talmadge
was asked if he would care to
elaborate on how he feels about
those provisions. His re
sponse:
“Os course I think busing
ought to be outlawed in its
entirety. Schools ought to be
just schools and opened to any
child and any race — prefer
ably they ought to be assigned
to the school nearest their
home. The busing provisions
in the higher education bill
were not as strong as I would
have liked.
“But it has always been my
philosophy that if you can’t
get a full loaf, take half a loaf
— and hopefully get the rest
of the loaf at a later date.
That is the reason I voted for
it.”
Sen. Talmadge then was
asked what effect the George
Wallace candidacy for Presi
dent has had on anti-busing
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sentiment, especially on the
other candidates for Presi
dent. This was his answer:
“I think it has been very
helpful. When you take a Sou
thern governor from Alabama
carrying the State of Michigan
by more than half the vote,
against the total field of can
didates, it indicates that this
issue is not confined to the
South or any particular region
of the country — that it is
nationwide in scope.
Wheeler County
Schools Retiring
Personnel Honored
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Mrs. Annie Hopkins
Wheeler County High School
Cafetorium was the scene for
the retirement dinner held in
honor of three retiring teach
ers and two bus drivers; Mrs.
Annie Mary Hopkins, Mrs.
Hazel Joyce, Mrs. Rebecca
Solomon, J. O. Perdue and
Pratt Raffle Id.
Mrs. Ruth Humphrey was
in charge of the delicious
dinner.
Mrs. Joyce and Mrs. Hop
kins are both members of
Delta Kappa Gamma which is
a sorority for Outstanding Wo
men Educators. Mrs. Joyce
has 25 years experience and
Mrs. Hopkins has a total of
37 years.
Mrs. Annie Mary Hopkins
began teaching in Wheeler
County in 1932-34. Billy Owens
stated his memories of her
during these years as his
teacher. For the next 13 years,
she dedicated herself to Bax
ley, Maysville, Statesboro,
Tate and Kingsport and we
were fortunate when she re
turned to Wheeler County in
1948 - 72. She earned an AB
degree in Math Major and an
M.A. degree in Social Studies
and did Post-graduate work
in Mathematics; earned a Na
tional Foundation Scholarship
in Mathematics at Auburn Uni
versity in Auburn, Alabama
and a State Scholarship at the
University of Georgia in Math
ematics. Sponsored the Beta
Club for 26 years, coached
Debate several years; won re
gion several times and won
State Competition twice. Mrs.
Hopkins also coached plays,
basketball and cheerleaders.
Named Star Teacher eight
times and the sequence of her
Star Students are Elizabeth
Oliver, Gwen Clark, Sue Clark,
Ted Hartley, Russell Clark,
Ra Meguiar, Patricia Wright
and Jimmy Wooten. The School
Annual was dedicated to her
for the 1970-71 school year.
All her years of experience
have been in the field of Social
Studies and Mathematics.
Other speakers atthe dinner
who expressed their gratitude
to Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs.
Joyce were Joyce Powell,
Maria Pope and Betty Jen
kins Seabolt. W. S. Clark, Tim
Currie and Daniel Taylor ex
pressed the system’s appreci
ation for outstanding work to
Mrs. Solomon, Mr. Perdue
and Mr. Raffield.
William S. C lark presented
each teacher and bus driver
a gift as a token of the school
system’s gratitude for their
outstanding work and dedi
cation.