The Pembroke journal. (Pembroke, Ga.) 1969-1976, September 25, 1969, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPage 4 I—THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL, Thursday, September 25, 1969 MH f SM &HF Wv-A-Hu - "Z-*' : - ^-' " ■ Bl* — — < : ,* ■bg '" Stopping to sign an autograph album, Sidney Wright smiles among her striking paintings of flowers and fruit. (PRN) TOUR GEORGIA ATLANTA (PRN) Fora really different type art show, the Plum Nelly Clothesline Art Show has no equal. Held on the side of a mountain, this annual event attracts thousands of art and fun lovers. The show will be held on October -Ith and sth. At Plum Nelly (Plum out of Tennessee and Nelly out of Georgia), art works by hometown painters of the North Georgia area, and a few selected fine crafts from a wider area, are displayed on actual clotheslines in the open woodland. The display area is located on a high bluff overlooking a valley between Lookout Mountain and Sand Mountain. Paintings, pottery, laminated glass, baskets and wood carvings are only a few of the types of arts and crafts to be shown. The puppet show, aimed at mature audiences as well as the younsters, will play continuous performances both days. The original satirical revue, “Musical Madcaps”, is produced by Fred Arnold. The ladies of the New Salem Methodist Church will again operate the canteen in a tent on the grounds. The food will be served “nose-bag” style so the visitor can eat R Wlrf. ’ "4 ' ■ P ‘A y a Q •. * - . k EBBr ^B^ > ®? -y ; : ' i ? * ' wBL^ ^jE i ■kfv^i i j ' b Kl 'wßl I \waa5 1 If the slumber party includes shampoos, you need an electric water heater. Nobody s going to sleep, of course. They're all going to wash their hair. Again. At a time like this, lots of hot water is more important than the midnight snacks. A flameless electric quick-recovery water heater will supply all the hot water needed to wash their hair squeaky-clean. With plenty left for bubble baths and laundering wet towels. And even enough to run the dishwasher after the feast. Whatever your family’s needs for hot water, you'll like the efficiency and economy of an electric water heater. And it’s compact, fits almost anywhere. Costs less to buy, less to install and, if you buy it from us, there’s no maintenance cost for the 10-year guarantee period. Get a quick-recovery electric water heater for your home. Wake up to its low-cost luxury. Georgia Power Company picmc-iasnion to enjoy the view. Drinking water, benches and thirteen old-fashioned privies are located on the grounds for the comfort and convenience of the visiotrs. Newcomers will be wise to wear comfortable walking shoes and remember that Plum Nelly is on a mountaintop which is usually 10 degrees cooler than the valleys. A sweater or wrap is recommended. The Plum Nelly Clothesline Art Show is held at Rising Fawn, Georgia. Blue and white Plum Nelly signs will point the way from all valley intersections near the show and on the mountain. The Tourist Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade describes Plum Nelly as “a mountain happening with family appeal -a must-see”. In case of rain, enough to cause wet grounds in the parking lot, the show will be postponed ONE WEEK. All radio, television and newspapers will be contacted at daybreak Saturday October 4th, or the evening before, in time to warn the visitors, within a radius of a hundred miles of the show. High Food Cost Is No Fault Os F armer-Herman Atlanta—(GPS) In some quarters the American farm er is being blamed for rising .food prices in recent years. But nothing could be further from the truth, contends U. S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, a ranking member of the Sen ate Agriculture Committee. The Georgia senator took the Senate floor the other day to defend the farmer of these charges and put his role in the nation’s economy in prop er perspective. “The American farmer com prises only six per cent of the population of the United States,” Sen. Talmadge said. “He has been challenged to provide food and fiber for a growing, affluent nation, and his performance is unmatched anywhere else on the fact of the earth. “More than this, such is his efficiency and abundant pro duction, the American farmer is primarily responsible for feeding millions upon millions of other people throughout the world. “Yet, in spite of modern ef ficiency that costs the farmer billions, in spite of his hard work, in spite of his import ant role in the nation’s econ omy, the American farmer on the average still earns only about two-thirds of the in come of non-farm segments of our society.” The senator cited U. S. De partment of Agriculture stat istics to provide his point. Said he: “The fact is, the American farmer on the whole has been over the years and still is virtually relegated to second class citizenship. Os three mil lion independent farmers in 1968, some 54 per cent —about 1,707.000 — made sales before expenses of less than $4,999 I repeat, that was before ex penses. “When we take into account the high cost of production, that puts almost two million farmers and their families in the poverty level. Another 14 per cent of our farmers made up to SIO,OOO. Again, this is before expenses. “We can look at the situa tion in terms of gross versus net income over the past 20 years. The Department of Agriculture takes 1947-1949 as a ‘base period’ in compiling farm statistics. In 1947, gross farm income was $34.1 billion. Net income was $17.1 billion. In 1968, gross farm income was $50.7 billion. Net income was $14.8 billion. “This means that net farm income last year was 2.3 bil lion less than it was 20 years ago. The rising cost of pro duction, of feed and seed, machinery and labor has eaten away at the farmer’s income. This is an intolerable state of affairs. “Now we are seeing a great increase in the cost of food. And immediately people put the blame on the farmer. Cer tain people are getting a size able chunk of the food dollar, but it’s not the farmer.” County Agent News By D. E. Medders PLAN NOW FOR 1970 TOBACCO CROP Even though the 1969 season has just ended, it is! time to be gin making plans for 1970. All tobacco on stalks should be destroyed and roots turned to the sun to help reduce the insect problems. Turning the roots to the sun is one of the best means of re ducing the root knot nematode population. Treating the soil for root knot nematodes does not eliminate the nematodes: it merely supresses the nematodes for a given length of time and then the population begins to build up again. Sunning the roots of the stalks will help in the supression of the 1970 nem atodes. Rotate the 1970 tobacco crop so as not to follow tobacco. To bacco should not be planted in a field more than one time in four years. Small grain planted in the fall before a tobacco crop can be helpful in two ways. First it reduces the nematode popula tion, and second it will help to remove nitrogen left over from the previous crop. Tobacco growers should not apply lime to the soil where to bacco will be grown unless the soil PH is less than five. Soil test before applying lime to to bacco fields. ATLANTA (PRN) - Intensive efforts which began some twenty years ago to bring deer back to Georgia are paying off in a big way, now ... the fruits of labor are ripening, and harvest time is here. Each year, deer seem more and more plentiful just about everywhere in the state. And each year, more and more counties are opened to hunting, because there are now enough deer in them for hunting. There are T 26 of Georgia’s 159 counties now open. With this increase in the herd, it’s really no wonder at .all that more folks are interested in hunting deer. The number of hunters increases or decreases with the availability of game. Now, logically enough, the deer being a big game animal, requires more firepower in the weapons used to take them. This can create a hazard if too many hunters in the woods fail to take into account the potential danger in their hands. With the rapid increase in hunters, obviously there is a certain amount of persons going for the first time each year. Back in great-grandaddy's day, a youngster was taught how to shoot, and taught carefully. Ammunition was precious because of cost and availability, and man figured on putting needed meat on the table just about every time he pulled the trigger. But with the great change in times, many a hunter goes into the woods with mighty little training and experience in the use of firearms. Every once in a while you’ll run up on a fella with a shiny new rifle in his hands, and after short State Highway Dept. News JESUP, GEORGIA, Septem ber 21 — The opening of the ninth annual Highway Week in Georgia and nationwide finds a total of $54,222,285.07 in road construction and improvement projects underway throughout the 28 county Jesup Highway Field Division, according to Field Division Engineer Auver gne d’Antignac. Mr. d’Antignac spotlighted some of the active projects in the Jesup Division, as follows: 12.013 miles of grading, pav ing and bridges on Interstate 95 in Bryan-Chatham Counties between US 17 and 1-16 at a contract cost of $9,353,517.03. 4.011 miles of grading on In terstate 95 in Camden County between Kingsland and Geor gia-Florida Line at a contract cost of $2,357,035.51. 7.107 miles of paving on In terstate 16 in Bleckley-Laurens Counties between Dublin and Macon at a contract cost of $3,- 081,143.80. 6.035 miles of grading on Project FU-111-1 (5) Chatham County between Abercorn St. Extension and US 17 at a con tract cost of $2,777,533.13. 4.152 miles of grading and paving on FAS Route 1893 in Mclntosh County on Youngs man Road at a contract cost of $314,848.63. 6.478 miles of grading and paving on FAS Route 2410 in Bulloch, Emanuel and Jenkins Counties on the Portal-Friend ship Church Road at a contract cost of $248,479.48. In addition to work under commercial and county contract, State Highway Department maintenance forces have numer ous projects now underway, in cluding: 1.32 miles of resurfacing on State Route 4 in Ware County at an estimated cost of $37,- 350.00. 4.35 miles of resurfacing on Brooklet-Leefield Road in Bul loch County at an estimated cost of $19,509.00. 6.0 miles of resurfacing on the Odum to State Route 169 Road in Wayne County at an estimated cost of $26,670.00. 112 ft. concrete bridge over Red Bluff Creek in Treutlen County at an estimated cost of $18,375.22. The purpose of National Highway Week, Mr. d’Antignac said, is to give special emphasis BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH Georgia Game and Fish Commission MORE DEER, MORE HUNTERS; MORE TRAINING NEEDED discussion, you may team he’s never fired a shot through it... but he’s hunting with it. Youngsters raised nowadays in large cities and towns have little or no opportunity to learn proper use of firearms. There’s a great need for a good training program to help these neophytes learn something about the guns from which they hope to derive pleasure... but to often derive only misery. What’s the answer? Hard to say, but here’s a tip of the hat to the National Rifle Association, for it’s nationwide training programs, both for youth and adults. NRA has been accused in recent years of being anything but good, yet careful scrutiny fails to reveal anything but good coming from the organization. NRA trains folks of all ages to use their firearms properly and safely, teaches them to shoot better and helps them enjoy one of the finest sports God ever gave to man. If more youngsters were given the opportunity to learn proper use of firearms, and given an opportunity to enjoy the sport of hunting, a lot less of them would have those ‘‘Saturday Night Specials” . . . dangerous, cheap, shortbarrelled small caliber pistols which are good for absolutely nothing but to get someone in trouble. Youngsters must be taught to respect a weapon, and the purposes for which it was created. If they're taught this, and taught to be good sportsmen, they’ll leam to respect the rights of others, and to be good citizens. And it’s cost us less tax dollars to operate our penal systen. to what is being done to invest the motorist’s gas tax dollars in improvements that will offer more highway service, greater safety, lower per-mile driving costs, and decreased driving time in return for his invest ment in his road program. “We also hope to remind the citizen of the many ways in which he is directly or indirect ly dependent upon his highways in his day-to-day life” he con tinued. “For some of us — highway engineers, commercial contrac tors, truckers, auto dealers and repair men, and service station and motel owners — highways are our basic source of income. For everybody, they play some part—a way to work, school or market, a trip to visit relatives or see some of our country, a lifeline of goods or services provided by us to others or by others to us, and so on. “The dollars invested in Georgia’s highway program are economically important in themselves. The Jesup Division headquarters, for example, has an annual payroll of $789,- 148.20. Resident engineers of fices, maintenance units and road contractors and material suppliers all over the Division represent similar sources of dollars for area merchants and services,’ Mr. d’Antignac con cluded. In Memory of Ellie F. Denmark who died September 24, 1968 In our heart a memory is kept. Os one we love and will never forget. Without farewell, you fell asleep. With only memories for us to keep. Beautiful memories cherished forever, Os the years we shared to gether. Days of sadness still come over us. But memories keep your love near us. Secret tears do often flow. Though you died one year ago. Sadly missed Wife, Daughters, Son and Grandchildren For Sale Two 4-10 shot guns: If inter ested call 653-2284. Good condi tion $20.00. Maddox Seeks To Instill Epirit Os 1776 In Talk Atlanta—(GPS) Gov. Les ter G. Maddox broke away from the recent 35th annual Southern Governors Confer ence in Williamburg, Va., long enough to address the Lions Club Regional Conference on International Affairs in States ville, N. C., at a banquet given in his honor. Main theme of his speech: “The Spirit of 1776.” “You’re a lot like the peo ple who braved the stormy oceans to come to this land and who then fought, scratch ed, dug, chopped, built, sweat ed and died to turn a vast wilderness into a great nation, ‘under God, with liberty and justice for all,” the governor said to his audience. “There were no eye banks in those days, but the early settlers of this country were not lacking in sight. They had hindsight, foresight, in sight and rifle sight, and that's all they needed. “They know where they had been, where they were going, why they were going and what it took to get them there. I wonder how many people today can say the same thing. Not many.” Gov. Maddox asked: “Where are the offsprings of these first Americans today?” He answered his question this way: “I cannot find them among the howling mobs which de file our great halls of learn ing with their ignorant chants and unreasonable demands, their faces lighted by the ar sonist’s torch and their minds darkened by a hatred of all authority. I cannot find them among the young men who burn their draft cards, look ing for protection against the consequences of their deed from the very Constitution which they whinningly refuse to defend.” The governor told his listen ers when they go home to tell their friends, their neighbors and family that “you saw Les ter Maddox, who is not the last of an old breed, as some । claim, but who is one of the first of a new breed of Amer icans who can tract their spirit lines back to 1776.” India making farm gains, but problems remain. So much that brings us pleasure and conven ience is possible only because electricity makes it possible. And ingenious men continually find new and better ways for electricity to serve us. As the usefulness of electricity grows so does our determination as an Investor-Owned Electric Light and Power Company to keep your service low in price and high in reliability. For service please call John W. O berij, Springfield, Georgia, 754-3300 or phone 232-7171, extension 382. SAVANNAH ELECTRIC and POWER CO. Rep. Jones Points Out Rural Problems ATLANTA (PRN) - State Rep. Charles M. Jones of Hinesville says Georgians who live in rural areas face the danger of becoming “forgotten people.” He warns this must not be allowed to happen. “I recently called for creation of a State Department of Urban Affairs because I feel the State of Georgia must do more to help solve the problems of cities,” he said. “But we must also recognize that rural Georgians have problems too and that the state has an equal responsibility to these people.” Jones, House Majority Whip who is a potential candidate Gardner's Grocery BLITCHTON, GEORGIA Where 80 and 280 Join Hunts 14 Oz. Bottle Catsup 19c Hunts 2V2 Can Peaches 29c Pic Nic Pound HAMS 43c Red Top 3 For Tomatoes 39c Giant Size Breeze 69c Family Size Wesson Oil 79c "FINEST FOOD AT LOWEST PRICES" If You Can Find It Anywhere, We Have It for lieutenant governor next year, said that “contrary to what many people think, there is more poverty in rural America proportionately, than in our cities.” “In fact, one out of every four persons living in rural areas is poor,” he said. “While only 30 per cent of our total population lives in rural areas, 40 per cent of the nation’s poor lives there.” “When I speak of rural Georgians, I’m not speaking only of those who live on farms,” he said. “Only one in four people classified as among the rural poor live on farms. The others live in small towns and villages.” “1 want to see all of Georgia prosper, including the cities and rural areas,” he said. “Both have problems that need attention. We’re not acting in the state’s best interest if we don’t work towards solving the problems of both.” RENEW YOUR PAPER