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The Official Organ
Baker County
Established 1912
VOLUME 27. NUMBER 50.
RECORD CROWD AT
CAMILLA RACES
Judge B. C. Gardner Dedicates
Track. Rain Slows Morning
Program.
A crowd estimated at nearly five
thousand jammed the rails and filled
the grand stand at the Camilla Race
Track on the Fourth, Tuesday, to
witness the many running and harness
races and to take part in the formal
opening of the new track.
Cloudy skies Tuesday morning held
down the attendance in the morning
and a wet track caused a change of
: program, but the blazing sun in the
afternoon brought out hundreds from
all parts of southwest Georgia, and
taxed to the limits the facilities of
the new track.
Shortly after nine o’clock two Boy
Scouts, Parks Westbrook and Wil
liam Adams, raised the flag on the
newly erected pole. The local band
played The Star Spangled Banner
while the crowd stood at attention.
Mr. Brady Beasley, president of
the Camilla Racing Association, in
troduced Judge B. C. Gardner after
the flag raising exercises.
Judge Gardner, in his brief dedi
catory address, pointed out how the
love of horses had followed in the
wake of people through the ages.
“When we think of Stonewall Jack
son, we think of his horse. When
we think of Lee, we think of his
horse, Traveler,” said Judge Gardner.
“When we view statuary we see men
pictured with their horses. Horses
build character in young boys and
girls. It is fitting today that we dedi
cate this ancient and honorable in
stitution to the patriotism of our
country.”
Mr. L. V. Mitchell, of Thomasville,
served as announcer during the day
and Mr. Dermott Shemwell, of Al
bany ,and Mr. Tom Mardre, of Bos
ton, were the judges. Mr. Vernon
Twitty was official timer.
Heavy rains Monday night soft
ened the new track and officials post^
poned all running and harness races'
scheduled for the morning until Af
ternoon.
During the morning the show
horses were shown in the center ring
and several trick events were held.
The musical chair program created
a riot of laughter and was won by
Lacy Clark, of Nashville.
In the show horses, Bourbon Buddy,
owned by J. Bennett Butler, won both
the three gaited and five gaited
events. Bourbon Buddie was ridden
by H. P. Butler.
Buck, owned by Mrs. T. G. Brooks,
was ridden by Miss Betty Henderson
of Nashville, won second place in the
three gaited class. Barney Blue,
owned by L. V. Stewart, and ridden
by Lacy Clark, of Nashville, won
third place.
The mule race on the morning pro
gram also created a great deal of
excitement. Colored riders were used
and they all rode bare back. Winner
was Dilitory, owned by Virgil Hol
ton.
Homer Lanier, Jr. of Pavo, starred
in a roman riding event. Young La
nier trained the ponies and went
through a routine of several tricks,
then he raced the ponies around the
show ring, later around the full track,
riding the pair Roman style.
Senator Kaywood, owned by E. "S.
Wiggins, and ridden by Robert Wig
gins won the pleasure class.
The program was adjourned at
eleven thirty and scheduled to start
again at one o’clock. During the in
termission, the track was scraped
several times and along with the hot
sun which finally broke through a
haze of clouds, the track was in fair
shape for the main races by starting
time. A few soft spots interfered,
but dust was flying high before the
afternoon program was completed.
Beverly B, owned by E. J. Vann,
Jr. and driven by E. J. Vann, 111, was
winner in the three year old trotters.
Beverly took two heats easily.
Amos Crow, owed by Dan Palmer
and driven in the races by Dan Pal
mer, who won the class A trotters.
Beverly 8., owned by E. J. Vann,
Jr. and ridden by E. J. Vann, 111,
won the class B. trotters.
Maeuma, owned and driven by L.
P. Skinner, was winner in the pacers.
In the main running races, Got J Em,
owned by L. P. Skinner and ridden
by Alford Manry, was the winner af
ter several elimination races.
In the pony races, Lady, owned
by H. Gay, and ridden by Dan Pal
mer, Jr. was the winner.
Several other races were run and
an exhibition harness race was also
held.
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Vacation
In Print
The Baker County News is proud
to offer you a new feature which
will begin some time in July.
Watch for the first issue contain
ing the Travelogue On South
America. This interesting serial
will be mailed to us for publication
each week by a fellow Georgian as
she travels and lives with the peo
ple about whom she writes.
The News feels that we are in
deed fortunate to have so new and
interesting a column —one that will
make us all feel that we are broad
ening and _educating ourselves
right here in Baker County—this
is truly a vacation in print.
Watch for it!
TOBACCO MARKETS
OPEN ON JULY 25
Tuesday, Os The Twenty-fifth,
Date Set By Association Fok
Opening Auction Markets.
Announcement was made early this
week by the Tobacco Association of
the United States that the opening
date for the Georgia markets had
been set for Tuesday, July 25. The
Georgia markets always open first.
Other dates selected by the Asso
ciation were South Carolina, August
3; eastern Carolina, August 22; mid
dle best, September 7, and old best,
September 14; the latter with re
stricted sales if necessary. The Vir
ginia markets will open November 27.
News of the opening of the Georgia
markets was welcomed by
planters who have been busy
for the past few weeks cooking out
and grading the local crop. Heavy
rains slowed down growth and when
the weather finally came around in
shape, barns were taxed to capacity to
handle the ripe wead.
Vacation Bible
Class Entertained
Mr. Allen Johnson, of Emory Uni
versity, who has conducted a Bible
School here for the past two weeks,
entertained his class with a marsh
mellow roast at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Jones last Thursday even
ing. Lights were arranged in the
large yard, games were played and
then everybody enjoyed toasting
marshmellows. Before going home
every one gathered on the porch and
sang songs.
About forty were present, among
those present were: Carrie Lou, Mary
Ellen and Jim Mae Swann, Adonis
and Tipp Gamble, Mary Paul Salter,
Mary Ann Sauls, Carlton Williford,
Jr., Hopson and Ben Hill—Flournoy,
Dock and Jack Price, Rollie Jones,
Janie and Vernon Keown, Silas and
Bubber Duncan, Charles McConnell,
Lindbergh and Elaine Ozmore, Velda
Phillips, Mamie Toy West, Emma
Kate and Carl Jones, Joyce and How
ard Worthy and others.
Chaperones were Mr. Johnson, Mrs.
Jones, Misses Alma Ellis and Cather
ine Adams.
Methodist Revival
Begins July 16
Revival services sponsored by the
Newton Methodist Church will begin
July 16th and continue through Fri
day night, July 21st
The Rev. J. E. Fain, pastor of First
Methodist Church, Albany, is to assist
in the preaching. He has preached in
a meeting at Newton in other days.
We are sure many will be glad to
renew their acquaintance and every
one will enjoy and be helped by his
forceful preaching.
Two-In-One Egg
Is Laid By Hen
Gainesville.—A hen in this vicinity
has really been putting all her eggs
in one basket! Recently, Mrs. Rad N.
Garrison, wife of a Lula mail-carrier,
discovered a large egg, 3% inches in
length and 614 inches in circumfer
ence, in the nest of one of her chick
ens. Upon cracking the shell, Mrs.
Garrison discovered another, perfect
ly formed egg, inside. The Gaines
ville Eagle has issued a challenge for
any chicken owner to match this
strange feat.
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939.
NEWS IN REVIEW
STATE
GEORGIA’S SUPERINTENDENTS AND
BOARD MEMBERS MEET IN ATLANTA
The problem of unpaid school teachers and of schools, which may not
be able to open in September because of the state’s financial condition, was
considered in Atlanta at 11 o’clock Thursday morning by the members Os the
state Superintendents and Board Members’ Association ,of which Dr. E. G.
Kirby, of Bowden, is president.
Meeting in the state senate chamber, the superintendents, board mem
bers and school trustees are to consider this three-point program:
1. To provide for paying the teachers salaries due for actual services
rendered; 2, to plan for opening schools despite the financial plight of the
state, and 3, to determine what can be done about assuring teachers of
1939-1940 pay when making contracts for the coming year.
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SORGHUM ADVISED TO REPLACE CORN
Atlanta, Ga.—Substitution of grain sorghum for com on Georgia farms
to combat the rapidly declining yield, of I the latter crop is advocated by
George D. Thornton of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture.
Pointing out that in the past 25 years the average acre yield of corn in
Georgia has decreased approximately 25 per cent, Thornton said this was
due partly to soil deterioration as a result of erosion, partly to prolonged
summer droughts of recent years.
Grain sorghum, he said, “is comparable to com in feeding value, in years
of sufficient moisture its yields are equal to those of com and in dry years
it will give favorable yields where corn is a complete failure.”
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NATIONAL
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President Roosevelt has signed a bill giving the War Department $293,-
895,547 in cash contract authorizations to spend primarily on new fighting
planes.
The measure completes a $552,000,000 emergency defense program
which Mr. Roosevelt outlined to congress early in the session, and raises the
outlay for defense, in the fiscal year which began yesterday, to the un
precedented peace-time total of $1,783,187,847.
REPUBLICANS PREPARE FOR BATTLE-
MONETARY BILL ALSO ON WEEK’S SLATE
Congress, already in the throes of bitter controversy over monetary
and neutrality legislation, expects to get this week another highly provoca
tive issue—President Roosevelt’s proposed $3,860,000,000 lending program.
Miss Elizabeth Marvin, San Antonio school teacher, announced today
she would wed Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way flyer, here July 17, the
anniversary of his famous hop to Ireland.
The wedding will culminate a friendship dating from their childhood
days in Galveston, Tex. t ,
AUTOMOBILE WRECKS NOW TAKE LEAD IN ' ,
NATION, AND DROWNINGS COME SECOND
With the homeward-bound traffic rush, the total of accidental deaths in
the four-day celebration of the nation’s birth anniversary edged near the
400 mark today.
Automobile accidents accounted for 189 of the 396 deaths tabulated by
the Associated Press in a survey of the 48 states. Drowning stood second
in the list with 113 lives claimed, while shootings, airplane wrecks, fist fights,
stabbings, falls and railroad accidents also contributed to the toll.
Doctors’ reports revealed Lou Gehrig was suffering from a form of
infantile paralysis, but Lou musters a smile as he tells New York Yankees he
is out of baseball for some time at least.
Jack Dempsey, former world’s heavyweight champion who underwent an
operation for appendicitis last week, is improving rapidly. The doctors in
charge said his condition ie so good now that it will not be necessary to
issue further bulletins, I^ile yet in the hospital, he seems cheerful at all
times and called home and talked to his children one day this week. Mrs.
Dempsey was with him at the hospital.
INTERNATIONAL ,
WAR OR NO WAR, CHINA STILL MAKES FIRECRAC||fes
Though harried by war, China has managed to continue supplying
American youth with fire-crackers for the fourth of July.
A commerce department report showed today that $532,000 worth of
small firecrackers were imported from China in 1938, as compared to $596,-
000 in 1937.
Some 50 plants in the United States produced $3,166,000 worth of fire
works in 1937, latest year for which domestic statistics are available. This
figure compared with $2,716,000 in 1935.
LONDON.—Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, whose name has
been mentioned anew as a possible cabinet member, declared last night he
believed there would be no war “if the true firmness of will and purpose of
Britain can once be understood abroad.”
Eden spoke at one of a series of political rallies while there was specu
lation over cabinet revisioj to emphasize Britain’s warnings to Germany.
“The outlook for the immediate future is admittedly grave, even danger
ous," he said. “It is not yet desperate. I, for one, certainly do not hold the
view that war is inevitable.
Authorities of the Free City reiterated that reunion with Germany was
the only acceptable solution of the Danzig question.
A Nazi newspaper went so far as to declare that “the return of Danzig
to the Reich has been decided. The time of such return is to be decided by
Adolf Hitler.”
France and Britain went on tuning up their war machines—just in case.
HITLER ATTENDS FUNERAL
Adolf Hitler, possibly the man who knows best what the future holds,
attended a state funeral at Hamburg for General Wilhelm Knockenuauer.
State Press Group
Planning Session
ATLANTA, Ga.—“An Idea A Min
ute” will be the theme of the 1939
Georgia Press Association’s annual
convention which will be held at Cal
houn August 23-26.
Plans are going forward and indi
cations are that it will be one of the
most interesting and instructive pro
grams ever arranged, according to
those in charge. Prominent speakers
in other fields are being sought, and
these speakers will be supplemented
by talks and round-table discussions
by the Georgia editors themselves.
Advertising, circulation and job
printing work will be the principal
points stressed, it is said, with pos
sibly one entire morning or afternoon
being devoted to each of these sub
jects. Much delightful entertainment
also is being arranged on the pro
gram.
Co. Commissioners
Have Meeting
The Board of County Commission
ers held their regular July meeting
on Monday, July 3.
After the usual routine of business
before the Board, the bills presented
and approved and warrants issued for
same. According to advertisement,
bids were received for purchase of a
new tractor, which was purchased
from H. W. Clark & Co., their bid be
ing the only one submitted.
Col. Leonard Farkas was employed
to assist Col. Benton Odom in defend
ing the Board and Baker County in
the suits filed by the Local School
Districts recently. All business com
ing before the Board was disposed of
before adjournment.
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES JULY 17
Thirty-six Criminal Warrants
Will Be Investigated By
Grand Jury. .
The regular July Term of Baker
Superior Court will convene next
Monday, July 17, with Hon. B. C.
Gardner, Judge and Carl E. Crow,
Solicitor General, presiding. The
Court will open on Monday morning
at 9 o’clock with only the grand
jury, while the trial jury meets Tues
day.
The Sheriff has turned over thirty
six Criminal Warrants for investiga
tion by the Grand Jury.
The Civil Docket will be taken up
Tuesday, while the Criminal docket
will .probably be taken up Thursday.
Some of the important cases for trial
on the Civil docket are:
The Whitmer Company vs. J. L.
Bush.
P. R. Rich vs. H. E. Hines et. al.
H. H. Radford vs. R. D. Morgan.
E. A. Moore et al vs. Byron Rentz.
Mrs. Maude Williams vs. Mrs. Lila
Sheffield.
Bertha Dykes vs. Mattie Dykes.
Mrs. Annie Lee Guess vs. H. H.
Radford.
Jacob F. Guess vs. H. H. Radford.
J. C. & W. C. Holman vs. R. J.
Griffin.
Mrs. Bertha D. Terry vs. Mrs. Mar
ion D. Terry.
J. R. Bramlett vs. J. F. Guess.
W. E. Hickey vs. Dan Miller.
Miss Louise Morgan vs. Edgar Hud
gins.
Farmers Warehouse vs. P. H.
Thompson, Sr.
Divorce cases on docket for trial
this term are:
Earl E. Black vs. Evelyn Rentz
Black.
Virginia Hall Bowen vs. Raymond
J. Bowen.
Rubye L. Jones vs. W. Robert Jones.
Aubyn L. Addison vs. B. L. Addi
son.
Viola Foster Jones vs. Oliver Jones.
Ava Dell Parr Kelley vs. J. B. Kel
ley.
There were nine new cases filed re
turnable to this term of Superior
Court:
Yellow Manufacturing Company vs.
J. B. Newberry.
Columbus Winq Company vs. Mrs.
Dan Miller and Dan Miller.
Newton Consolidated School Dis
trict vs. Baker County, Georgia.
Patmos Consolidated School Dis
trict vs. Baker County, Georgia.
Elmodel Consolidated School Dis
trict vs. Baker County, Georgia.
Stevens School District vs. Baker
County, Georgia.
Pine Hill School District vs. Baker
County, Georgia.
Jackson School District vs. Baker
County, Georgia.
C. O. Hall vs. A. B. Ledbetter.
Seven motions for new trial are
pending to be heard on Motion Docket,
with one Mandamus suit, Board of
Education vs. Board of County Com
missioners.
If the dockets are cleared there
will probably be several days of
Court.
Burglar Gets Socks
From Hosiery Mill
Mr. A. I. Bennett, manager of the
Camilla Hosiery Mills, stated this
Week that a burglar had entered the
local mill on Monday night and had
stolen approximately 200 dozen pairs
of socks.
No tract of the thief could be found,
but efforts were being made this week
to locate him in several states. No
tice has been sent to all police in the
surrounding territories.
Mr. Bennett estimated the loss to
the mill at S2OO.
A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
GOVERNOR ORDERS
SCHOOL PAYMENT
“Scrapes Bottom of Treasury”
For $1,348,510 Payment On
Last Year Salaries.
Governor Rivers yesterday issued
orders to transfer to the state depart
ment of education, for immediate dis
tribution, $1,348,510 as a part pay
ment on 1938-39 salaries for the
21,000 Georgia school teachers, whom
the state owes at the present approxi
mately $5,200,000.
The order came on the eve of the
convention of school superintendents,
County and local boards of trustees
and other school officials, who are in
session today, Thursday, at the state
capitol with Governor Rivers and
State Superintendent M. D. Collins.
The meeting is being held in Atlan
ta to inform schpol officials what may
be expected from the state next year
and what may be expected if a spe
cial session of the legislature is con
vened.
The payment made by the Governor
was made possible by a 60 percent
collection of anticipated revenue to
the general fund, after the state bud
get had been reduced to operate on
the expected 56 percent. The four
percent difference, plus a few savings
in several departments, made the pay
ment possible, state auditor Zach Ar
nold, stated. j
Ice Cream Party
Saturday Night
Miss Emma Kate Jones entertained
with an ice cream party Saturday
night, in honor of Miss Mary Smith
of Americus, Ga., who is the guest of
Miss Jones.
Those present were Kieth Wilson
and Joe Hicks of Moultrie, Janie
Jones of Thomasville, W. C. Archers,
Jr., Robert Archers, John Archers and
Frances Archers of Atlanta, Frank:
Adams of Eufaula, Ala., Mary Ann
Sauls of Georgetown, Harry Johnson
of AiieKcus,-Pauline Davis of Cairo,
Jim Mae Swann, Mary Ellen Swann,
Carrie Lou Swann and Carl Jones,
Jr. and Emma Kate Jones.
Jones Family
Has Reunion
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johes entertained
with a family reunion at their home
hore Monday, July 3rd.
Those attending were Mrs. R. M.
Adams and daughter, Addie Mae, of
Bainbridge, Beulah Adams of New
Orleans, La., Mary Ruth Stewart of
Bainbridge, Mrs. N. H. Pritchett of
Camilla, Archie Adams, Jr. of Recov
ery, Ga., little Billy Swann, Betty
Swann of Elmodel, Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Archers and family of Atlanta,
and Carrie Lou Swann.
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