The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 25

Textile Jobs Decline VALUES YOU CAN STAND Mae Landers Tends to One of Her Many Vegetable Crops PICK YOURS OP TODAY! THE NEW 1978 79 Woman Is 106 Today 3 teacher and choir Ladies' 57a 10 Smaller decreases occurred in South Carolina and Tennessee Men's 7 12 Mrs Isom Celebrates Birthday Price good through Monday September 18 Sarah Isom is celebrat ing her 106th birthday today at Providence Health Care in Sparta i SUNDA and MONDAY DOORBUSTER! She was bom Sarah Ste phens in Washington County in 1872 and is the widow of the Rev Lee Isom pastor of Springfield Baptist Church who died in 1917 shoeClliw MACON STORE 2475 PIO NONO AVENUE Corner Eisenhower Parkway next to Mart Open 10 10 daily 1 6 Sunday ATLANTA (AP) Employment in tex tile plants in the Southeast declined in July after two months of expansion the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced The current employment level of 649300 reflects declines of 9100 over the month and 6200 for the year the announcement said The dormitories for freshmen and upper classmen were filled by the first week in September and the admissions office has been seeking housing in the community for the overflow The freshman class will exceed 500 stu dents about the same as last year and there is an increase in transfer students in upper classes Because registration has not yet taken place enrollment figures are not available However it is expected that the 1978 79 ac ademic year will have an enrollment of more than 3500 students on three campuses in Macon and Atlanta Jhe largest cutback was 6200 in North Caroline with a decline of 2300 reported from Alabama bers okra and rutabaga A turnip patch waits for the first touch of frost to give it just the right flavor A huge 36 year old grape arbor measuring 24 by 50 feet supported by telephone poles holds ripening bunch es of bronze and black scuppemong grapes just over the head for easy picking Pear trees their limbs nearly touching the ground with stillgreen fruit are located at one end of the garden Pecan trees are off to one side of the house Landers pointed to what looked like a pile of black soil when asked the se cret of his thriving garden he said haul it in from the treatment plant One application of that and I need anything he said ex plaining that the waste material has a very high nitrogen content Landers has an elaborate sprin kling system that helped his garden survive a drought early this summer His crops also are heavily mulched do a lot of it (mulching) and it pays he said Landers saves the leaves from his trees every fall and piles them up then puts down a heavy layer around his vegetable rows in the spring and summer The leaves many of them coming from five water oaks the planted in 1946 help conserve the moisture in the soil and keep down the weeds Landers rotates his crops so that he has vegetables coming in from early spring on into the winter when he picks his turnips and collards textile employment was up 1300 for the year while both lorida and Georgia moved upward 1200 The level in Mississippi was up slightly Textile plant production workers aver aged 402 hours a week in July down 08 of an hour from June and 01 of an hour from that of a year ago Gross average hourly earnings of $428 were up 14 cents over the month and 27 cents over the year Gross average weekly earnings at $17206 were up $232 from a month earlier and $1046 from July 1977 the bureau reported North Carolina lost 3700 textile employ ees over the month while South Carolina lost 1700 the bureau said Georgia and Tennessee reported de clines of 1300 while smaller losses were reported from Alabama lorida and Mis sissippi Compared with figures a year earlier Southeastern textile plant employment de creased 6200 as losses in four states offset upswings in the others Mrs Isom joined her church at age 11 and re mained active as Sunday School teacher and choir member until her health forced her retirement Her only known relatives are two distant cousins liv ing in Brooklyn Macon Ttfegraph News Sun Sept 1 7 1 978 1 1 NEWNAN Ga (UPI) In the last days of summer John Landers looks with contentment across his acre plus of vegetables crops grapes fruit and nut trees He and his wife Mae have three freezers full of produce In the smokehouse behind their modest home hangs a side of bacon A freez er in the same small weather beaten structure contains packages of streak of lean cured pork shoulders and more bacon On the shelves are jars and jars of canned fruit jellies jams and pickles to supply most of their food needs this winter buy a little sugar and says the 66 year old Landers who re tired the first of the year from his job with the Newnan Water and Light Commission efforts to grow his own food supply appears to have paid off in a spectacular way String bean and lima bean vines run up at least eight or nine feet on bamboo poles tied to a horizontal wire He and his wife reach in and pick the beans by the handfuls Rows of tomato plants growing in side round cages of heavy wire have already been mostly picked and are beginning to die Still there are doz ens of red fruit smaller than the ear lier ones hanging on the vines The com has been harvested some of it canned much given away with other overabundant vegetables to neigh bors and their children Landers said There are other rows of black eye peas that have not yet started to pro duce eggplant watermelon cucum saves you more on every item every day! 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