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Newspaper Page Text—THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL, Thursday, July 17, 1969 Page 8 I Gov. Lester Maddox Reporf|^|iit People ATLANTA (PRN)-There are some people in our State who cannot see beyond today. Some people in our big cities cannot see beyond their own city limits. Some people are so wrapped up in politics that they cannot see beyond the next election. And, since most of these near-sighted people are sought out by the influential Atlanta news media to tell their stories to Georgians looking for the truth, and Georg ians who have no other way to get the truth except from the news media, what we see, in many cases, is the blind leading the blind. During both the regular and the special session of the General Assembly this year, a lot of people failed to see the terrifying increase in the drug abuse problem with our young people which ten additional GBI personnel would have helped to lessen. Many could not see that we must continually provide more schoolrooms, more university classrooms and more dormitories to meet the ever-increasing needs presented by a ’ growing population which must be educated, and educated properly. Most of you are interested enough in your communities and in your State government that you already know what the Maddox Administration tried to get passed in the General Assembly this year; and you know, just as 1 know, that the needs were not exaggerated and that anybody willing to look beyond petty politics and personalities could have seen them. Even now, we hear a lot of myopic politicans still calling for a local option sales tax to take from the have nots and give to the haves. Now, I’m as much in sympathy with the big cities and their problems as anybody who has ever occupied the Governor’s Office, and for that very reason, I will not quietly stand by and let the citizens of our major metropolitan areas be sold a false bill of goods. Certainly we need to work to cure some of our big city ills, but, even more importantly, we need to work toward providing some preventive measures. Passing a local option sales tax to benefit a few of our cities and some of the people before you do something for all of our cities and all of our citizens is like drilling a hole in a leaky boat to let the water out. Your "cure” only adds to the problem. You may be sure that I will continue to oppose special revenue for special purposes and special people until state government faces up to its responsibility and provides needed help for all of Georgia’s cities, all of Georgia’s counties, all of Georgia’s school systems and /m Our Time \ -us /AfSECTS WERE ON THE —\ > SCENE LONG BEFORE MAN... 1 ^HELR CAPACITY FOR MULTIPLYING /S INCREDIBLY GREAT... THE U. S. 3UREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT ONE HIBERNATING FEMALE FLY COULD EASILY PROVIDE 5Mt TRILLION MORE FLIES FROM APRIL IS 70 TEE ENO OF SEPTEMBER. FLIES, LIRE HOST INSECTS, ARE BORN EDUCATED. NO ADULT NEE OS TO PEEP teem, when THE/R LIFE PURPOSE HAS BEEN accomplished, they die. [W//., MAN, AS THE INGENIOUS OBSERVER, ' I RESPECTS THE BEE AS A SOURCE / / 1 OF FOOD FOR ITS ROLE AS POLLINA TOR ' OF PLANTS. HE ABHORS THE FLY lilt ' FOR /TS ROLE AS SCAVENGER ANC> CONSIDERS IT A PEST. ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR P r A T^> CONTROL DEVICES ON THE II \ MARKET TODAY FOR SMALL f, H FLYING INSECTS IS SHELL'S W _Z ffrsL/ NO-PEST STRIP INSECTICIDE. fl Isl Pl ONE HANGING /N AN AVERAGE 41 I SITE ROOM OF I2'XIO'XB' fl [fl V ' KllL FU£S ANDMOSQU/- c „ TOES FOR UP TO A THREE f| Isl MONTH PERIOD. “ all of Georgia’s citizens. I consider myself to be everybody’s Governor, and, as, long as I am in office, I will direct my thinking, my planning and my efforts toward serving all of the people in this great State. Some people would have other citizens bring their dollars to the big cities and then go on home and starve. They are saying, “Help up to build more service stations, bigger banks and richer shopping centers . . .leave your tax dollars and your spending money with us . . .then go on home and watch your own community dry up .. .we don’t care about your children or your job opportunities or your schools ... we don’t care if you get better streets and recreational facilities.. .in fact, we don’t care about you at all . . .we just want your money . . Lester Maddox doesn’t go along with that kind of thinking, and 1 won’t go along with it as long as 1 am Governor of Georgia — and that will be until at least January, 1971, and it could be even longer. There are many small towns and communities throughout this State which are just like diamonds in the rough. All they need is a little polishing to make them shine, and to make them valuable partners in our overall economy. These communities are not just little run down stores and old-fashioned filling stations with a few houses swinging and swaying in the breeze; they arc made up of people — human beings — they are made up of our fellow Georgians. And these people, both white and black, have families that they love, little children to feed, dreams to fulfill and promises to keep. They are not looking for handouts. They are looking for opportunities. Opportunities that can come only from industrialization. And that industrialization can only come when local governments have the funds to provide sufficient water and sewerage facilities, adequate schools, fire and police protection, recreational facilities, and all the other things which industrial scouts look for when they go hunting a site for a plant. Now, we can do like one big city politicians suggested and just let most of Georgia's cities and counties dry up and blow away and pump all the money of these citizens into the major metropolitan areas, to help pay for more handout programs and bigger police departments. We can tell the thousands of fathers and mothers who have been displaced by the industrial revolution that, if they want to feed their children they will have to thumb a ride to Atlanta, move into a housing project and get on welfare. They won’t like it, but what can they do about it? They certainly are not going to walk five or ten miles to vote a politician out of office who doesn’t give a hoot about their future. Chronic Hunger Breaks Child's Spirit-Herman ATLANTA, (GPS)—“There is nothing more damaging to the spirit of a child than chronic hunger. And yet such hunger has become away of life to millions of American children whose parents are either unwilling or unable to provide them with adequate food.” Thus declared U. S. Sen. Her man E. Talmadge in a radio report to Georgians in which he discussed legislation which he had just introduced in the Senate to expand and improve the federal school lunch pro grams. In introducing his bill, the Georgia senator told his col leagues: “Last April I toured school lunchrooms of my state to in vestigate the breakfast and lunch programs. At that time I made a commitment to not only my people of Georgia, but of the entire nation. I promised that I would introduce legisla tion in an effort to insure that no child who came to school hungry would go home hungry.” The major portions of Tal madge’s bill would: Increase funding, especially for economically deprived areas, and require greater state parti cipation. Provide funds to poorly equipped schools for the pur chase of lunchroom facilities and equipment. Allow private food services to provide temporary assistance to schools where new equipment could not be installed immedi ately. Allow “the lunch t ofollow the child.” Thus, needy families living in a wealthy school dis trict would not be penalized be cause their neighbors could af ford to buy lunches and they could not. Establish a National Advis ory Council on Child Nutrition. Sen. Talmadge cited two maj or purposes behind his propos al. Eirst, he said, “We must use food as a tool of education. A child cannot learn if he is hun gry.” He said numerous school administrators note a marked improvement in school attend ance when free or reduced-price Ipnch programs are instituted. Second, Talmadge said his bill represented an attempt to help break the poverty-welfare cycle. He elaborated: "In far too many cases, lack of adequate food has already left its mark on poverty-strick en adults. The most tragic aspect of this problem is that many of these deprived adults are producing offsprings who must endure the same unfortu nate cycle of poverty.” A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Sen. Tal madge praised the present pro grams, but added, “The primary shortcoming of all of these is a shortage of funding.” He said that of 6-million school-age children in families earning less than $2,000 a year and—or receiving Aid to Fami lies with Dependent Children, fewer than 2-million partici pate in the program. County Agent News By D. E. Meddera SECRETARY HARDIN COM ING TO ATHENS FOK LIST- ENING CONFERENCE, JULY 24 Farmers and farm industry leaders from eight southeastern states will be on the University of Georgia campus Thursday, July 24, to tell Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin what’s on their minds. The occasion is the fourth in a series of “listening confer ences” which the Secretary is holding across the country. Ses sions have already been held in Pullman, Washington; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Fresno, Cali fornia. Some 2,000 persons are ex pected to attend the Georgia meeting at which 25 to 30 speakers will express their views on a broad range of agri cultural topics. States involved are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Tennessee and Virginia. Puerto Rico will also be rep resented. The conference will be held in the University of Georgia Coliseum beginning at 10 a.m. Speakers will begin registering at 9 o’clock. Significant policy issues—in cluding rural-urban relation ships, hunger and malnutrition, farm prices and programs, nat ural resources, conservation, the structure of agriculture and others—are expected to be dis cussed. Scheduled speakers, repre senting virtually every major farm organization and agricul tural commodity in the South east, will have an opportunity to make brief oral statements. The program also allows time during the morning and after noon for unscheduled speakers. Unscheduled speakers are re quested to register and bring copies of what they will say. Any person who does not have an opportunity to speak due to lack of time may file a written statement with the Secretary. Top members of Secretary Hardin’s staff, including Under Secretary of Agriculture J. Phil Campbell, will also attend the Athens conference. Secretary Hardin will make brief opening remarks and then turn the program over to Dr.' Henry W. Garren, dean and co ordinator of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, who will preside. Cooperating in the arrange ments for the meeting are deans of colleges of agriculture in the other participating states. There will be an hour's break in the program for lunch, and the conference will adjourn at 4:30 Thursday afternoon. State Troopers Commended For Holiday Effort ATLANTA, (GPS) — Al though Georgia’s traffic death toll over the long Fourth of July holiday week-end exceed ed the 24 fatalities predicted, the State Patrol did a credible job in holding down accidents which resulted in substantially fewer injuries than were ex pected. This is seen in an Accident Reporting Division report of the patrol's activity during the recent 78-hour holiday period. In releasing the statistical re port, Lt. Col. L. G. Bell, deputy director of the Georgia Depart ment of Public Safety, was high in his praise of the troopers’ performance. “If our troopers hadn’t done such a good job, there’s no tell ing how high the total might have gone,” Col. Bell said. “I have never seen our patrolmen work any harder or with more dedication to duty. The truth is, we just don’t have enough men to adequately patrol Geor gia’s vast network of roads.” The report showed that while there were 26 traffic deaths— two above the 24 predicted—the number of accidents was held to 835—293 below the 1,128 pre dicted. The result: 55 fewer in juries than the 360 forecast. The patrolmen, while working a total of 17,359 hours, covering 259,892 miles, issued 7,495 ar rests and warning tickets to motorists. Card Os Thanks I would like to take this op portunity to thank all those who were so kind to me during the recent death of my mother, for flowers, and food, visits and prayers 1 am forever grateful, May God bless each one of you that helped make my burden lighter. Thanks to my many good friends. James A. Stewart and Family. Panel finds Soviet drive for sea power. •TOS theatrC Pembroke, Georgia Show Time: Theatre Open Each Night Except Sunday. Only One Complete Show Each Night at 8:15 P.M. Saturday Continuous Showding from July 16-17 Wad., Thura. THE MAD ROOM (In Technicolor) Shelly Winters Stella Slevom July 18-19 Fri„ Sat. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (In Technicolor) Alan Arkin, Sandra Locke July 21-22 Mon , Tues. THE MINI-SKIRT MOB (In Pathe Color) Jerry Slate, Diane Mcßain July 23-24 Wed., Thurs. COOGAN'S BLUFF (In- Technicolor) Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark 4-H'ers Attend Camp At Rock Eagle Monday morning, July 14, a group of very excited boys and girls boarded a local school bus headed for the Rock Eagle 4-H Center near Eatonton, Georgia along with Mr. D. E. Medders, Country Agent; Mrs. Marjorie V. Jones, Extension Home Eco nomist; and Mrs. Jewel Owens, County Health Nurse. Twenty-one counties will car ry campers to Rock Eagle this week and Bryan County will contribute thirty-six campers. The counties are divided into three Indian tribes, the Chero keep, Shawnee, and Muskogee —Bryan will be classified as Shawnee. The campers will stay in cabins provided by the 4-H Club Center, and their week will be filled with lots of entertain ment and interest classes. Those attending from our county are: Debra Alford, Lynn Williamson, Joyce Stewart, Beth Hattaway, Virginia De- Loach, Lisa Williamson, JoAnn Robinson, Susan Ellis, Deloris Cowart, Leslie Curry, Diane Kennedy, Mary Ann Moreland, Patty Mock, Melanie Speir, Jo- Ann Speir, Ronnie Williamson, Dennis Hendry, Jimmy Saxon, Bob Williamson, Jack Gard ner, Joe Hill, Kenny Meekins, William Strickland, Russ Shu man, Wayne Purcell, Johnny Burnsed, Joey Burnsed, George Hagin, Tony Kicklighter, Don Owens, Hal Shuman, Steve Har vey, Benny Conley, Rad John son, Neal Bennett, and Grady Hughes. The campers will return Fri day afternoon after spending a week at Rock Eagle filled with fun and educational events. Ga. State Parks Set New Record For Fiscal Year ATLANTA, (GPS) — Geor gia’s state parks in the just ended fiscal year broke all pre vious records both in attend ance and revenue, according to a report released by State Parks Director John L. Gordon. Overall attendance in the far flung parks system was 7,455,- 340 for the fiscal year ended June 30. This compares with 6,777,335 in the previous year, an increase of 678,005 park visitors —a 10 per cent gain. Gross receipts at the parks during the past fiscal year brought in a record amount of $1,092,466, an increase of $214,- 038, or 24 per cent over the previous year. This increase was in all areas of revenue-pro ducing facilities at the parks. Commenting on what he termed “phenomenal increases” in the state parks’ operation, Gordon said, “This is the first time in the history of the Geor gia Department of State Parks that receipts have exceeded the sl-million mark.” Well aware of the ever-in creasing need for more outdoor recreation facilities throughout Georgia, the parks director said his department continues to acquire more land for park development and expansion in an effort to meet the demand and to establish Georgia’s parks system as the best in the na tion. Evidence of this is the fact that five new parks are sched uled to be opened this year, while the expansion of a num ber of existing parks current ly is under way. Georgia’s new est state parks include these: Hart State Park, two miles north of Hartwell; Mistletoe State Park in Columbia County, 10 miles north of Appling; Hamburg State Park, 16 miles north of Sandersville in Wash ington County; Richmond Hill State Park in Bryan County southwest of Savannah, and Watson Mill Bridge State Park in Oglethorpe County situated some 17 miles from Athens. d^SAVE THE CAN pCOV? AND KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL DECORATING CANS There are many new differ ent, and unusual uses to which you can put empty Canada Dry cans simply by decorating them. Thinking of new uses for empty cans and of ways to decorate them appropriately can be fun. With a little imagi nation and ingenuity you can cover them with just about anything. For example: You can coat can with plaster of paris and work in interesting designs be- Your Family Finance WHAT IS The truth-in-lending law, effective July 1, covers virtu ally all credit for personal, family or farm use up to $25,000, and even more in real estate transactions. It’s bound to affect you. How the new law will change America’s whole credit vocabulary was explained re- cently by Ken neth V. Larkin, senior vice presi dent of Bank of America and chairman of The American Bankers Associ ation Instalment r---j ; . r „ Credit Com- „„ , . ... ™ MR. LARKIN mittee. His com- ments should prove valuable to anyone shopping for bargains in credit. “Everyone should under stand that this law doesn't change credit rates,” he began. “Its primary purpose is to make sure that the customer is fully informed about all the costs and conditions of any credit contract. Among other things, it requires that all lenders use the same method of stating credit charges —either the annual percentage rate, or up to January 1, 1971, its dollar equivalent. This makes it much easier to comparison shop for credit.” “Before this law," he con tinued, “banks often quoted charges in terms of dollars per SIOO per year, either add-on or discount. Those latter terms refer to two different ways of writing instalment loan con tracts.” Mr. Larkin explained that “add-on” meant that the fi nance charge was added to the principal to arrive at the a mount to be repaid, while “dis count” indicated that the charge was deducted from the principal at the time the loan was made. “Under the new law,” he said, “a bank that used tc quote $6 per SIOO per year add-on on a one-year loan will now talk of an 11% annual rate, or sll per year per SIOO on the unpaid balance. The actual cost, of course, is the same.” When asked why this should be, he pointed out that the old dollar rate applied to the total amount borrowed, though the SPECTACULAR RELIGIOUS PAGEANT HAS CAST OF 500 Christ arrested by Roman Soldiers in Hill Cumorah Pageant (top left). The savage King A prophetic vision of the Na tivity in Bethlehem is granted to the people of an ancient American civilization as por trayed in the Mormon Pageant. The history of the Lord’s followers in ancient America and the ministry of Jesus among them following his ; death and resurrection in Jeru salem, as recounted in the Book of Mormon, will soon be portrayed by a spectacular Pageant with a cast of 500 in the Finger Lakes Region of , New York State. The spectacle, which has been referred to as “the most elaborate religious pageant in the world,” is the 32nd Hill Cumorah Pageant, and will take place near Palmyra, New York, Monday through Satur , day nights—July 28 through ; August 2. s It traces the Book of Mormon chronicle of a group । of Israelites who were in , structed by the Lord to flee . the destruction of Jerusalem in 600 B.C. and found a new J civilization in the New World. Plates of gold inscribed with fore it hardens. Or, you can soak cheesecloth on starch and apply to can surface when still wet. Here are some other uses, when decorating the can is not only appropriate but necessary. Pebble Can—(Fig. 3) Pfeb bles, aquarium stones or beads make an unusual covering. First, paint top and bottom TRUTH-IN-LENDING? borrower didn’t have the use of the entire amount for the whole year. After six months of a one-year loan, half of it had been repaid, so the average amount outstanding was only about half the original total. Since the annual percentage rate is determined by dividing the finance charge by the aver age amount outstanding, the figure would be almost double that of the old dollar rate. “Remember, only the lan guage has changed,” he cau tioned. “The cost to the cus tomer is the same. It isn’t just a simple conversion from dollar rate to annual rate, however. When figuring the new rate, some items not usually covered in the old dollar rate must be included—service charges and fees for credit reports, for ex ample, and credit life insurance when required by the lender. Still, the borrower has always had to pay these items, so there is no actual change in cost to him.” Mr. Larkin went on to dis cuss how the new law applies to bank credit cards and revolv ing credit accounts. Finance charges on these accounts have usually been expressed as a monthly rate—a percentage of the unpaid balance each month on the billing date. To arrive at the annual percentage rate re quired by the new law, this monthly rate is simply multi plied by twelve. Thus, a IW% monthly rate becomes an 18% annual rate. “You will note that the rates quoted on this type of account are quite a bit higher than those on simple instal ment loans," Mr. Larkin pointed out. “This is somewhat misleading. In the first place, the customer usually gets a grace period of at least 30 days— up to two months— during which he can pay his bill without any finance charge at all for the credit he uses. Since most people pay off this type of credit in six months or less, the interest-free grace period may amount to a third or half of the period when credit is extended, reducing the effective rate proportionately.” “Os course, the amounts in volved in bank credit card and revolving credit accounts are usually smaller and the monthly processing expenses i S ft BUaa.. Lamoni (top right) in long white robe is talking to missionary from the Nephites. ST ' Mvi HW® * The Bible, held on the left by Judah, is the record of God’s people in the Holy Land. The Book of Mormon, held on the right by Joseph is regarded by Mormons as the record of God’s people in the New World from 600 B.C. to about 400 A.D. this chronicle were buried on Hill Cumorah and were taken up 14 centuries later, according to Mormon belief, by Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, under the guidance of the Angel Moroni. The cast comprises young men and women missionaries, many of them from the Rocky Mountain states, who are as signed for two years to New York State; of members of Mormon congregations in the area; and of men and women students of western colleges. All performess pay their own travel and living expenses and consider it a high honor to be chosen to appear in the Pag eant. Among the special effects contributing to the spectacle are multicolored lights which play upon a curtain of water. One of the most impressive moments is the destruction of the city of Zarahemlah by earthquake and conflagration in which lightning flashes, thunder claps and smoke is so realistic that many spectators have claimed they actually felt rims with glossy enamel. Apply layer of self-hardening clay to entire surface, leaving rims ex posed. While clay is still soft, press in pebbles, stones or beads. 1 V ■< ii r* 1 News Montage—(Fig. 2) News paper clippings about favorite people or events, will turn a can into a cool holder of, odds and ends. First, paint top and bottom rims with glossy enamel. Overlap clippings. Apply with white paste. When are proportionately much higher,” he explained. “With an instalment loan, the only processing involved each month is recording your pay ment. With a credit card, the bank must record each indi vidual purchase, then total these charges at the end of the billing period, compute the in terest on any unpaid balance, make out your bill, mail it, and finally, record your payment.” Mr. Larkin noted that mort gage rates are lower than re gular instalment loan rates be cause the average cost to the bank per dollar loaned is lower. The amounts of the loans in volved are substantially larger, and the repayment periods are much longer. This helps to offset the monthly processing expenses, and the bank passes on the saving to the customer in lower cost per dollar borrowed. .The truth-in-lending law will have comparatively little effect on the description of mortgage rates, according to Mr. Larkin. “Mortgage rates have usu ally been described in terms of simple annual rates," he said. “Under the new law, however, if points, finder’s fees or other charges are required, these must be included in the finance charge. Although the effect of this requirement is to increase the rate quoted to the bor rower, the actual cost remains the same because the borrower has always paid these other charges." “The truth-in-lending law should foster the informed use of credit by consumers,” Mr. Larkin concluded. “The re sponsibility is still in the hands of the customer, though. Once he has all the information, it is up to him to make a reasonable decision, based on the quality of goods and the terms of the loan involved, as well as on the cost of credit. “Banks are solidly behind this new law, not only because it will aid their customers, but for purely selfish reasons as well. We know that bank rates are among the lowest available anywhere. With the new law making it so much easier to compare rates, banks can't help but benefit.” TH When a righteous prophet denounces him, the wicked King Noah has him burned at the stake. the earth trembling beneath them! Resplendent and deeply moving, the muscial score was especially written for the pag eant by Dr. Crawford Gates and was stereophonically re corded by the Utah State Symphony Orchestra of 90 pieces, the Mormon Tabernacle Organ and a chorus of 200. Soldiers in gleaming armor march and rally, kings in sumptuous raiment preside over courts, Old Testament and Book of Mormon prophets sagely counsel or sternly ad monish their followers, and garishly dressed savages per form pagan rituals. Located near the New York Thruway, just off Exit 43, the pageant can be seen free, with no charge for either seating or parking. Having thrilled the tens of thousands who have already seen it, the Hill Cumorah Pageant promises to be more exciting this year than ever. completely dry, apply coat of •clear varnish or shellac. IGXJwrm l jGHESj Take any number from one to 10. Double it. Add six. Divide the sum in half. Sub tract the number you started with. Your answer, no matter which number you started with, will always be three! * * * * If a 25-year-old gets a job at SIOO a week, and if he gets a raise of 5% each year so that he earns $lO5 at age 26, $110.25 at age 27, and so forth, his weekly earnings, by the time he is 65, will be $704.16!