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12-A, TIIF VTHVT. rOTin TIO. M.i.. 29. 1982 Illj Poultry industry editor to retire from crowing, clucking Lll TRIPLE LANOLIN LOTION 4 oz.

fWHYOAT OiSCOUMT i J' -ar" RVf i 430 4oz. $1.33 16 oz. $2.93 EVERYDAY DISCOUNT price everyday discount PRICE integrated agribusinesses in the worli Yarbrough has crowed when good things happened and clucked when he disapproved usually of something the federal government was doing. He has seen the industry mature and profit Every business day, the state's poultry industry produces 9.2 million pounds of chicken, 16.9 million eggs, and 63 tons of turkey, according to F. Abit Massey, executive director of the Georgia Poultry Federation.

Twenty-five years ago, a chicken was 16 weeks old when it went to the processing plant and had been fed four pounds of feed per pound of meat produced, Massey said. Today, because of better nutrition, disease control, and breeding, among other things, the chicken is ready for the plant at only six to seven weeks of age. And the feed-conversion ratio has been more than cut in half, the chicken requiring slightly under two pounds of feed for each pound of meat produced, Massey said. The poultry industry is relatively new in Georgia, according to Gene Younts, a vice president at the University of Georgia who oversees the extension service. When the boll weevil devastated cotton farms in the 1920s, people turned to poultry as a way to make a living in the 1930s and 1940s, he said.

"People worked in factories and tended chickens at home." Younts said. Since then, poultry has for the most part become the province of large-scale businesses, many of which have their own hatcheries, feed mills, contract farmers, processing plants, sales departments and distribution systems. The University of Georgia has its own poultry extension department with 65 to 70 Ph.D.s nutritionists, geneticists, and disease specialists, among other experts who devote themselves to practical research and teaching, Younts said. Over the years, Younts said, he has read The Poultry Times because "it's an informative thing to me about what's going on in the industry." The Poultry Times has about 25,000 subscribers, including large agribusiness concerns that attract lucrative advertising, Yarbrough said. Annual subscriptions to The Poultry Times cost $7.

Of the other tabloid rivals for the attention of poultry savants, he said, "We bought them all." The Poultry was a local weekly allied with the Georgia Poultry Federation when Yarbrough signed on in 1956. In the years since then, the weekly tabloid, headquartered in Gainesville, has become a nationally circulated source of news for the poultry industry, with three weekly editions and one bi-weekly edition to serve different regions of the country. "Egg Industry's War With Flies May Soon Be Won!" cried a recent headline in the trade publication. Last week, Yarbrough showed a couple of visitors around a chicken-processing plant White chicken feathers wafted through the air like fall leaves, several alighting in his hair as he held a complacent young chicken' with the ease of a mother holding a baby. A quiet little squawk escaped the bird, and her bright red comb and wattles quivered slightly as Yarbrough described how she would meet her end in the plant To Yarbrough, the chicken exemplified just how far the poultry industry has come in the last quarter of a century.

He has watched from his editorial perch in north Georgia as the industry has grown into one of the most highly By Celia W. Dagger GAINESVILLE -r Here in the incubator of the poultry industry, publisher John Yarbrough bis spent the past 26 years brooding over The Poultry Times like a mother hen, hatching editorials about chickens and turkeys like so many eggs. A plastic chicken on the wall above the typewriter where he has pounded out his conservative views has served as an emblem of his career. Less than a mile from Yarbrough's office in downtown Gainesville, a bronze rooster stands cockily atop a 25-foot-tall marble monument to Georgia's poultry industry. Chickens are important here.

In 1981, the state's poultry industry which produces eggs, broilers and turkeys brought in $994 million, or almost one-third of the state's agricultural cash receipts. Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producer, and poultry is far and away Georgia's predominant agribusiness. This month, the 59-year-old Yarbrough retired from writing about hens and roosters and pullets and eggs. He took the chicken off his wall and left his job as publisher of The Poultry Times. TRIPLE LANOLIN COCOA BUTTER CREME 1oz.

EVERY0AY DISCOUNT PRICE 430 4 oz. EVERY0AY 0ISC0UNT PRICE $1.79 i RETIRING EDITOR John Yarbrough Franzen remains in serious condition fparkling KHflSIMfl By United Preu International TORONTO Lung transplant recipient James Franzen was listed in serious but stable condition Sunday while recovering from surgery to stop bleeding in his chest, a Toronto General Hospital official said. ar sin i mini i it I1--, SALE STARTS TODAY (S IG DAYS Franzen, 31, was still unconscious and breathing with the aid of a ventilator, said Beverly Greenslade, intensive care co-ordinator. She said Thursday's operation was not due to problems with the transplanted lungs, but that Franzen's body was weak while recovering from two separate transplants. "James Franzen is a very sick man," Ms.

Greenslade said. "It (Thursday's operation) wasn't related to the transplants. It was a non-related breathing prob- PARAQUAT VICTIM James Franzen lem." His father, Ralph Franzen, said from his Marietta, home that he was "on pins and needles" waiting to see if his son had suffered permanent mental impairment because of loss of blood to his brain. The nursery owner from Marietta, whose lungs were destroyed after exposure to the herbicide paraquat, had his right lung replaced on Aug. 29 and underwent a second transplant on Sept.

20 after doctors discovered infection had left his left lung useless. Blackburn father wants ruling against ex-wife By United Presi International MILLEN, Ga. The father of a boy returned to his former wife after a bitter 18-month custody fight has asked a Jenkins County Superior Court to declare the woman in contempt of their divorce settlement "We have drafted a petition asking the court to hold Kathy (Blackburn) in contempt for violating the divorce agreement reached in 1979," Sims Lanier said Sunday. Lanier is a Statesboro public defender representing Mark Blackburn in his attempt to gain custody of his three-year-old son Nicholas. Blackburn could not visit his son Sunday because he does not know where his former wife is now living, according to the father's mother.

Eighteen months ago a Jenkins County Superior Court judge had awarded custody of Nicholas to his paternal grandmother, Nancy Blackburn! after his natural mother gave birth out of wedlock to a racially mixed daughter. The grandmother was successful in getting custody of the young boy after convincing the superior court judge that the boy's mother was not providing the child with adequate care. However, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled last June that Nicholas should be returned to his mother, Kathleen Blackburn. 1 1 I Iff All 60" wIDE famous PRINTS SOLIDS: QT VI PTOWMS NOT INTENDED FOR I I Ll. I run hpcmc ci ccdacao V1 Si I CONTENTS jf I ON BOLTS Jj SOLID AND jA FANCY 45" WIDE 1 50 POLYESTER 50 COTTONS BURUNGTONKLOPMAN HEATHER BASKET HERRINGBONE AND TIC 60" WIDE 100 POLYESTER "HEARTHSTONE" SUITINGS Slay 45" WIDE 100 COTTON OUTING FLANNEL PRINTED CHAMBRAY FALL SUITING 44 1 YD.

YD Continued From Page 10-A Mrs. Gillikin wondered if her husband tried to fight off the attackers and if that is why he got shot. She said they came up to visit the Greenes every chance they could but that it wasn't as often as they liked. "Chuck would always like to come up and take them around." That was characteristic of him, she said. "That was his whole life, to help people.

"He was such a nice fellow," Mrs. Gillikin said. "Always willing to lend a helping hand. And everybody can say that about him." He made speeches to Alcoholics Anonymous. He would leave home late at night to take charges sick from their booze habits to the hospital.

And he had a chance to take a new job in rehabilitation at a hospital in two weeks, she said. Mrs. Gillikin doesn't know what she will do now, but she said she won't move back to Atlanta, the city where she grew up. "I don't want no part of it. I'll never live here again," she said.

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HAWTHORNE PLAZA MARKET SQUARE CENTER SOUTH COBB PLAZA 25U1PndmontRd. Morrow. 6a. Bankhead Hwy Mablelon Canton Highway. Marnlta 2570 Cobb 0'ive, Smyrna 268-0517 961-0803 944-8258 428-1578 435-2340 HOURS: DAILY: 10-9 PM SAT: 10-6PM SUN: 1-6PM Continued From Page 10-A With six elected officials one for every 111.1 people residents of Bibb City say the personal attention from their government officials could, not be beat in a larger town.

And interest in local elections is strong. It's common for 80 percent to 90 percent of the town's registered voters to participate in a local election, Vance said. "Bibb City wants to stay a quiet, little sleepy town where everybody knows everybody, but minds their own business," he said. 6m it "fir is.