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—The Pembroke Journal, Thursday, August 15, 1968
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And BRYAN COUNTIAN
(Papers Merged December 29, 1967)
Published in The City of Pembroke Every Thursday
Frank ‘O. Mi11er..................Edit0r, Owner and Publisher
Mrs. Frank O, Miller. ... . ________..____Asst, Editor
Official Organ of Brgan County and The City of Pembroke
Jackson Announces
Support Os Labor
ATLANTA (PRN) - Three
key locals and chapters of
labor unions endorse the
campaign of Maynard Jackson
for U. S. Senator.
Maynard Jackson has
received the rank and file
membership endorsement of
these AFL CIO Unions; Local
722 of the International
Chemical Workers Union and
Local 438 Laborer’s
International Union of North
America; and of D.R.LV.E,;
the political action
organization of the Atlanta
Teamsters Union.
Mr. Jackson said, “I believe
the working man in this state is
entitled to representation in
Congress. Not opposition,
which the record clearly shows
Herman Talmadge has given
him. Talmadge is no friend of
the union movement and
anyone who doubts it should
look at the scores of
amendments he has supported
which would have hurt working
men and locked Progressive
Labor Legislation, including
the notorious right-to-work
law.”
L_At a rally this week of Tift
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ASCS
By Evelyn R. Strickland
County Office Manager
ASC Committee
Nominations Invited
ASCS community committees
should always be the farmers
who can best represent their
neighbors, according to H. L.
Page, Chairman, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
County Committee. Slates of
nominees for membership on
ASC community committees
elections will be held the third
week in September,
“The committee system is the
backbone of the farm pro
gram,” the Chairman declared,
“Its responsibilities include the
conservation of natural re
sources on farms, the stabiliza
tion of agricultural commodi
Schedule of
Governor's Traffic Safety
Program and Tour
AUGUST 12
3:00 p.m. Savannah - DeSoto Hilton Hotel
AUGUST 13
9:30 a.m. Dublin - City Auditorium
2:30 p.m. Valdosta Municipal Aud.
AUGUST 14
2:30 p.m. Jekyll Island - Aquarama
AUGUST 15
2:30 p.m. Albany - Shrine Tenple
AUGUST 19
3:00 p.m. Columbus - Municipal Aud.
AUGUST 20
9:30 a.m. Gainesville Civic Bldg.
2:30 p.m. Rome Civic Center
AUGUST 21
10:00 a.m. Atlanta House Chamber
State Capitol
AUGUST 22
9:30 a.m. Athens Georgia Center
2:30 p.m. Augusta - Bell Aud.
county citizens on the steps of
the Tift county courthouse,
Jackson recommended
agricultural legislative reform
to aid farmers. Among his
recommendations were social
security and unemployment
compensation to cover rural
people, and the creation of the
Small Farmers Administration
to support their needs and
interests which have been
neglected in the last twelve
years,
Jackson appeared Thursday
in Athens at the University of
Georgia Law School to present
his views to Georgia Law
makers. He said “Law
enforcement can further be
strengthened with Federal aid
... enforcers should have bette:
salaries; increased power, anc
the most modern equipmen!
qvailable.”
August 10, Mr. Jackson wil
be in Macon at the Dempsey
hotel. August 11, he speaks t«
the Polk county, Georgi
Voters League in Cedartown a
3 p.m. August 12, Mr. Jacksor
will appear at a rally at the The
Carroliton First Baptist
Church.
ties, and price-support activi
ties which protect and improve
farm income, We need the hest
possible cross-section of farm
ers to insure effective adminis
tration of the various meas
ures,”
In Bryan County, Mr. Page
explained, 150 farmers took
part last year in one or more
programs administered by the
ASC committees. Funds dis
bursed under the Committees’
supervision amounted to $116,-
70889, Os this amount, $5,-
101.00 was for price-support
loans aimed at increasing mar
ket returns above what farm
ers would receive on an unsup
ported market. Included in the
' price-support program in this
county are such major commo
dities as cotton and corn.
Last year, also, 1822 acres of
farmland were improved under
the Agricultural Conservation
Program cost-sharing arrange
ment., The total investment in
conservation was about $38,-
268.00, with about half coming
from the participating farmer
and the balance from ACP.
Gov. Lédter Maddox
Reportfi@@]} Tha People
ATLANTA (PRN) - This
year in Georgia, we will
register nearly two and a half
million vehicles.
Last year in Georgia, there
were 76,790 traffic accidents
reported--which killed 1,614
people and injured more than
25,000. It would appear that
too many people learn to drive
by acci
dent,
And if
that were
not horri
ble e
nough to
report,
look at
what we
are doing
in 1968.
We have already killed 46
more people this year than
last. Last month we registered
a whopping gain of 56% over
the like month of 1967.
If soldiers were asked to do
in battle what some motorists
do on weekends for fun, the
officer in charge would be
court martialed for brutality.
Let us examine some of the
record from the Department
of Public Safety:
14.3% of the drivers
involved in fatal accidents in
Georgia last year were teen
agers.
And that makes ope
wonder why children are too
young to work under 18, but
are permitted to drive a 3,000
pound machine at better than
a mile a minute.
Alcohol was a contributing
factor in more than 5,000
accidents. And science has
proved that alcohol deadens
the senses -- which really
means that last year thousands
of drivers put their powerful
cars in high while their minds
were in neutral and thus
endangered the lives of
everybody else on the road.
I do not know from
experience but they tell me
that most drinkers like a
chaser and I believe that every
drinking driver ought to have a
chaser -- like a patrol car, then
perhaps we can remove at least
the major part of that hazard.
It is going to take additional
staffing of the highway patrol
and it is going to take
additional funds and I am
going to need your help in
convincing the General
Assembly to provide them.
Have you every noticed
how a person’s driving
improves at the sight of a
police car?
e eAR 0 P AAP A et O
The Chairman pointed out
that lists of eligible voters in
each community are available |
in the ASCS county office. He
explained that any local resi- |
dent who is eligible to take f
part in an ASCS farm program
may vote in the community
committee elections, and he
may hold office as a commit
teeman regardless of sex, race,
color, religion, or national orig
in. Further information regard
ing qualifications of committee
men is available at the ASCS
county office.
Farmers who are eligible to
vote in the comrmunity commit
tee elections also have the right
to nominate by petition candi
dates for committee member
ship. A candidate can be any
farmer who is eligible and who
has indicated that he is willing
to serve. Such petitions, each
one nominating one farmer and
signed by six or more eligible
voters, may he filed at the
county office any time before
August 15, Eligible voters may
sign as many petitions as they
wish. Additional nominations
may be made by the incumbent
ASC community and county
committees, The nominating
procedure seeks to insure fair
and impartial elections by re
ducing vote splintering of mi
nority group candidates,
The election of ASC com
munity committees throughout
the Nation will be held this
vear during the third week in
September. In Bryan County,
the elections will be held by
eligible voters about September
mail. Ballots will be mailed to
6 and must be mailed or return
ed in person to Bryan ASCS
Office, Pembroke, Georgia. The
deadline tor returning the voted
ballots is September 18. Each
community election will choose
three community committeemen
and two alternates, The regular
members elected will serve as |
delegates to the county conven- ¢
tion, where farmers will be !
elected to fill vacancies on the ¢
ASC county committee. I
Speed was a factor in more
than 11,000 accidents last
year.
It is difficult to say
whether the greatest hazards
of the highways are those
under 21 driving 65 or those
over 65 driving under 21.
We intend to find out with
a major study just how
important this may be to
highway safety. We will know
whether the greatest hazard is
the driver with a tiger in his
tank or those with a turtle in
their tank.
Here are some more rather
startling statistics from the
Department of Public Safety.
More than 52,000 accidents
occurred during daylight
hours.
More than 56,000 accidents
occurred on dry roads.
82% of the drivers reported
in accidents last year in
Georgla were within 25 miles
of their home at the time of
the accident.
Records show that in the
state as a whole, 9.1% of all
traffic cases made by the state
patrol are either nol prossed --
that is, the charge was not
pressed in court - or the record
of the case simply vanished.
And if you think nearly 10%
of the Highway Patrol’s effort
in the state as a whole is
therefore to no avail look at
these percentages on the local
level.
In one county the
percentage of nol prosses or
lost records is 45.7.
In another it is 48.3 -- and
in another, where more than
1000 arrests were made by the
Highway Patrol last year,
50.6% of them never saw the
light of a courtroom.
There are a couple of
counties with even worse
records, one fails to prosecute
65.4% of the cases and
another holds the record high
of 79.2 which do not come to
justice. This awful situation in
our state must be corrected. |
am going to correct it. I will
not gain any popularity with
judges and prosecutors in
doing so, and that is why I am
calling upon you to voice your
full support of the objectives
of the Governor's Traffic
Safety Campaign.
I will be visiting and
meeting with interested
citizens in every district of this
state this week and next week
and I hope you will be among
those attending the conference
in your area.
Notices of community boun
daries and of the right to nom
inate by petition appear on
committee-election posters, dis
played at various locations
throughout the county.
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