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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence In Griffin.
Member Of The Associated Press
E By VENIN GOOD, Quimby Melton G|
Congratulations to Akin Com
munity for winning the Com
munity Improvement contest
sponsored by the Griffin-Spald
ing County Chamber of Com
merce. For in winning Akin
had to show mor&jmprovement
than three other wide-awake
communities in the county.
Mt. Zicr. Sunny Side and
Cherokee Communities were
winners of second, third and
fourth places. Mt. Zion was on
ly 35 points behind winning
Akin, which shows how close
the contest was.
The idea of the contest was to
reward efforts of the various
communities in Spalding Coun
ty to improve their communities.
And all of the four made
worthwhile improvements.
No county site is any better
than the surrounding country.
No city can prosper and enjoy
advantages unless the surround
ing country prospers and en
joys advantages.
City limits are only an Imagi
nary line drawn on a map for
taxation purposes. People who
live inside the city limits and
outside the city limits are the
same sort of people, ■{ire friends
and neighbors.
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Griffin has every reason to
have fin interest and pride in
the various communities that
surround it and make up, along
with Griffin, the county of
Spalding.
Thanks to rural electricity
and other conveniences now a
vallable to even the remotest
country hemes, living In the
country la little different from
living inside a city.
Life on a farm today is far
different from what it was a
few years ago. Kerosene lamps
have been replaced with electric
lights. Tractors and other farm
machinery has mechanized
many farms Automobiles make
it possible for those living in the
country to work Inside the city,
come to the city to trade or for
amusement’ and the like.
Excellent schools In the coun
ty give the boys and girls of the
■ county equal educational advan
tages as those living in town.
Many times more boys and
girls from the country are now
attending colleges and univer
sities than did a few years ago.
Much of the improvement In
living in the country is due to
the efforts of the women and
girls on the farms. And these
women and girls are the back
bone of every * community Im
provement club.
If It had been left to the men
in the family—Spalding County
would not be as fine a county
today as it is.
Hats off to the ladies.
CAROLYN WISE SINGS
AT GEORGIA BAPTIST
CONVENTION IN ATLANTA
Carolyn Wise, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Wise-of Griffin, a
member of the Mercer* University
rihapel Choir, sang with that group
under the direction of Dr. Arthur
Rich at the annual session of the
Oeoirla Baptist Convention, meet
ing in the First! Baptist Church of
Atlanta, Wednesday.
This ,s the third consecutive year
in which the Mercer University
Chapel Choir has been invited to
sins for the Georgia Baptist Con
vention.
FBPtF. DAMAGES TRUCK
HERE THIS MORNING
Flre caused slight damage to
Spalding Furniture Co. truck
morning, firemen stated. The
which was caused by a shortage
wiring, occurred at 221 East
street at 8 A. M„ fireman said.
* The Weather . • •
FORECAST FOR GEOR
GIA:—Fair and not much tem
-»*ature change tonight; scat
ter*-* fro't In extreme northern
section tonight; Friday, in
eiosrin cloudiness and mild.
— LOCAL WEATHER —
Me ximum Today: 55
''ii'nium Today: 41
af*r(nium Wednesday: 64
Minimum Wednesday: 37
GOP Fight Bumps
Truman Aid Plea
Cop Criticises
Sexy Picture
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—
(U.R)A discussion was raging ov
er the showing of the so-called
sexy film “The Outlaw” here
and Officer Bob O’Keefe decid
ed to drop In and see for him
self.
‘ See anything wrong with it?”
his superior asked.
“Well,” drawled O’Keefe, “I
think Walter Huston could have
been a bit faster on the draw in
a couple of those gun battles.”
Griffin Delegation
Protests Stepping
2 Passenger Trains
ATLANTA, (AD — The Central of
Georgia Railway today urged the
Public Service Commission to grant
authority for discontinuance of two
passenger trains between Macon
and Atlanta, but the move was pro
tested sharply by residents of towns
along the route.
H. L. Fulton, Jr., comptroller for
the railroad, testified tJ^at the
company was suffering a loss of
$67,740 annually on local trains 11
and 12 between Macon and Atlanta.
He reported average traffic on
train No. 11 was oniy 47 passengers
per day and on train No. 12 only
58 per day.
Estimating that the company
would lost $903,191 in overall oper
ations this year, he contended the
railroad could not continue to op
erate trains showing such a loss.
Residents of towns along the
route, however, declared the local
passenger trains are essential to
operations of businessmen and ne
cessary because of their mail and
express service.
Harvey Kennedy of Barnesville,
representing opposition to the rail
road request, said, “We’d rather
give up the Nancy Hanks than these
two trains,” He referred to a
streamliner between Savannah and
Atlanta which makes only two steps
from Macon northward.
Delegations also were present
from Griffin, Thomaston, Jones
boro, Macon, Forsyth, Bolinbrokc
and Morrow.
The citizens argued that local
service provided by the two trains
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Columbus Votes To
Soend $250,000 On
Memorial Stadium
COLUMBUS, Ga. — (/P) — The
City Commission unanimously ap
proved construction of an addi
tional 10,000 to 12,000 seats In Me
morial Stadium here at an esti
mated cost of $250,000. ‘
Construction of the additional
seats, proposed by a citizens com
mittee as a memorial to World
War II veterans, would be finan
ced by the sale of seating reserva
tions.
Spalding High School Elects Miss Conkle
Football Queen For Homecoming Feslivifes
Virginia Conkle was elected t
Football Queen of 1947 at Spalding
High school and will start her reign
with four attendants at the Spald
ing-Spaldlng Alumni game Friday
night.
Miss Conkle was selected from 18
candidates In a race that ran all
week. The contest closed Wednes-.
day attemonn. The four top girls
were selected as attendants to ac
company the queen during home
coming activities. They are Gay
nelle Hutson, Nena Jackson, Wy
nona Gardner and Maudie Morris.
The game and crowning of the
"ueen at the half will be the high
olnt cf a day of activity for Spald
*ng High students and alumni.
Things will get underway with a
varade Friday afternoon starting at
4:30 at the Telephone Building and
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRL ON BOYS'TEAM—Frankie Groves (right), 16
year-old high school girl of Stinnett, Tex., tackles a football carrier
during practice of the school team. Frankie begged to be allowed
to play right tackle on the team. She will get her wish in a game
with Groom High school Friday night.—(AP Wirephoto).
Figh! May Delay
Emergency Bill
For European Help
The Fight For Peace
WASHINGTON (/PD—’The Tru
man administration’s plea for a
i enient charter” for foreign aid
bumped into a determination a
mong some House Republicans to
day to make the program as “rigid
and inflexible” as possible.
The resultant tightening up job
in the Foreign Affairs Committee
thus may delay not only formal in- i
troduction but House action on the
$597,000,000 emergency bill the ad- I
ministration is plugging* It is de
signed to carry France,’ Italy and
Austria over the winter hump until
a long range European recovery
program can be put into operation.
Chairman Eaton t«.-N. J.) had
hoped to offer the stop-gap bill as
soon as Congress opens its special
session Monday and then rush the
measure to the House for debate
by next Wednesday.
But Rep. Vorys (R.-Ohio) and
Rep. Fulton ’(R.-Pa.l, both, mem
bers of the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, gave the tip-off that a
tightening up process is in the off
ing.
And it was learned that at least
one member has told a top State
Department offiotal hat wTTTTe'as’ any till j
written by the committee
‘rigid and inflexible” as possible. ,
The idea, this official was told, is
not to sabotage the program or
make it unworkable but to elimi
nate generalities and broad grants
of power. 1
Other developments in the fight
for peace: i
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LONDON Stanislaw Mikola
jezyk, Polish peasant party lead
er who fled last month from Po
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Boy Seoul Leader;
Will Elec! Officers
Grady Bradshaw, Boy Scout exe
cutive at West Point, Ga., will be
the guest speaker tonight at the
annual dinner meeting of Spalding
County Scput leaders, Jim Kink
kaed, district chairman, stated to
day.
Bradshaw Is well-known as an
outstanding speaker. The meeting
will be at the First Baptist Church
at 7 P. M. District officers for the
coming year will be elected.
Another feature of the meeting
will be vocal selections by George
Watkins and the showing of slides
of the World Jamboree to France
this summer % I
Present officers of the district are
Jim Kinkead, chairman; Robin
Wheaton, vice-chairman; George
Strain, commissioner. Wives of the
Scout ledaers will attend the meet
ing as guests.
Will Honor
War Dead
A memorial service honoring war
of Griffin and Spal^ng
will be held by the l4 ih
Barfield Post of the Jfbter||] ,of
Wars here Saturday af ■
Frank P. Lindsey, Jr., who is
charge announced of arranging today. the pro- j j
Services will be held at the Con
monument at the intersec- j
of Hill and Solomon streets at 1
o’clock. and Russell the Looney, Rev. Marshall post com El- _|
post chaplain, the Griffir. High
Chest
Within $560
Of $28,800 Goal
Less than $500 more and the
Chest will have reach
its 1948 goal, Herman Ham
office manager, stated today
noon. He announced that total
and cash payments
$28,302.57 at noon.
"We could have wound this
up several days ago If
had only made their re
said Hambrick. “There are
a dozen or more who have
no reports at all and several
reports are incomplete. May
urge these to make their reports
later than noon Friday so we
wind up the campaign?”
Rushton PTA Will
Discuss 12 Grades
In County Schools
The transition of Spalding Coun
ty schools from 11 grades to
will be discussed at a meeting of
the Rushton P.rT, A tonight
7:30. j The meeting will be held
the school and all parents-are
vited to attend
Vineyard To Observe
Education Week
Vineyard Grammar school will
hold open house Friday to celebrate
American Education Week, which
Is this week, lt was announced to
day.
All parents and others are
ed to visit the school and see It
operation.
• Bcrhs . .
Stingy gum chewers stick
their wads—and so do other
•
ple.
lets cl folks have finally
caught up with their work—and
need another vacation.
T Love at . first t sight often „ is .
foollsh M divorce at first fi|!bt.
proceeding up Hill street Features
of the parade will be the queen and
her attendants and the Spalding
High band.
At 8 o’clock a dinner will be held
for members of the Alumni Asso
ciation. The football game will
start at 8 o'clock and will be fol
lowed by a party given by the cheer,
leaders of Spalding High for both
teams, students and alumni.
The alumni team is well-organized
even down to cheerleaders. Named
es cheerleaders for the alumni dur
ing the 4amc are Edith Maddox,
Marie Rooks, Jackie Hudson, Gen
nit Spruce and Reba Goodson.
Over 20 former members of the
Wolfpack will make up the squad
for the alumni team. The ex-Wolf
packers will use the T formation a
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Storm
Whips At New England
With Winds, Ice, Snnw
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Hunter Bags Two
With Only 1 Shot
DUBOIS, Idaho (W — The
chances were about a million to
one against it happening—but It
did. (
A hunter In the Birch Creek
district fired at a moving ante
lope. When he got to the spot
he found he had killed two with
one bullet. So he hurried to the
checking station and told his
story. Game officers, believ
<ng him to be honest, cleared
him of exceeding his bag. Every
-t one in the area was amazed.
The next day another hunter
Inadvertently duplicated the
feat. He made his one shot on
Crooked Creek. He, too was
cleared of blame.
$6 Billion Tax Drop
Can Be Made In '48,
CED Tells Congress
WASHINGTON m — Congres
sional tax experts received today a
report from the Committee for
Economic Development saying the
u S. tax load can be lightened $8,
in 1948 without Jeopard
izing foreign aid or payments on
the national debt.
Chairman Knutson (R.-Minn.)
turned the findings of the busi
nesmen’s group over to staff con
sultants of the House Ways and
Means Committee, but said he still
plans to press for enactment of ,his
own proposal to cut Income taxes
by $4,000,000,000 at the regular ses
sion of Congress.
The Committee for Economic De
velopment Is headed by Paul C.
Hoffman, president of the 8tude
baker Corp.
Ita report called for a-new
era , budget p^y and increasing
ly sharp cuts lm Individual and
corporation taxes until these total
$15,000,000,000 below present levels
sometime In the 1950’s.
The recommendations were
qualified with the phrase
inflationary conditions make
'
The cmsaWtne present
system discourages new and In
dependent business and arrests
growth of established
the.ofore, it added, lt is “a
to a j'-ee economy and a free
ciety. ’
band and Raymond Kelley,
bugler, and Lindsey will take part
the program.
All traffic will come to a stand I
still during the services. Undxey
said the VFW would be available
for honor guards at the burial of 1
any serviceman of Griffin or Spald- |
lng County If the next-of-kin re
quested it.
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U. N. Assembly Is
Certain To Pass
American Proposals
NEW YORK (A 5 )—Secretary of
State Marshall’s last two major
proposals before the United Nations
come up for final vote in the Gen
eral Assembly today with assurance
of passage.
Russia, however, has announced
she will boycott both of the new U. |
N. organs which would be created
by the American resolutions.
One of the proposals sets up a
year-round "Little Assembly” to
Implement Marshall’s plan for ov
erhauling U. N. machinery and the
other establishes a U. N. commts
sion to supervise .... voting and^ erea
tion The third of a key government item in in Marshall's Korea. { ]
program—a watchdog commission j
for the Balkans—already has been !
approved and boycotted by the So- I
viet bloc. I
Before the 57-nation assembly I I
turns to these Issues in its first 1
plenary session since Nov. 1, dele
gates will elect a successor to Po
land on the Security Council. India
deadlocked with the Soviet Ukraine
i through a long series of ballots,
withdrew from the race Wednes
day to clear the way for election of
the Soviet state.
Man Is Injured,
<t;380 Damage Done
One person was Injured and $380
j damage done to four vehicles In two
\ accidents here Wednesday, police
reported today.
Jesse Bryan Maddox, Route D,
Griffin, suffered a back Injury
when his automobile turned over
after a collision with a vehicle dri
ven b£ Howard N. Preston, Experi
ment, police stated.'
The accident occurred at the in
tersection of Rpy and 14th
and was investigated by Officers W.
P. Hanners and C. H.
Damage to the two cars was $325.
A minor accMent at the
section of Wright and 13th
caused $55 damage. The cars
driven by William C. Moore,
fin, and W. C Brock, Griffin.
„„„ j E H ayes and H D.
( mas investigated the accident.
riff in Parade
This Tex! Book Tells A Girl How To Be
A Slick Chick And Not A Stuck Duck
BY ROBERTA BECK
A text book dealing with dates
and we don’t mean a history book
—is fast becoming a best reader
among Griffin High girls, because
il there Is one thing a gill is In
terested In it is the old boy-meets
girl—glrl-gets-boy routine
Sara Flournoy, whose originality
and charm make her home er
classes a bright snot in a girl’s
dav, found h e
self a gem wher
she came across*
the little book
-n.hov. Behave Vnur Your
relf,” a sort
down to
Emily Post for
young America by
Betty Allen and
tCh U
Briggs. ... . > with cartoons '
and Jingles, the book, which
nated as a student project ut Ex-
Storm Causes
Two Deaths,
Much Damage
BOSTON (/p)—Property loss es
timated at $1,000,000 and two
,c deaths were attributed today/) >
,i northeast storm that howl] t
:ross New England Wednesday
with velocities that at times reach
ed hurricane violence.
Much of New England was left
sheated today in ice and snow.
Hammering tides rolled over
wharves and seawalls, smashed at
ieast one fishing trawler, damaged
moored craft, wrecked seaside
dwellings and caused heavy loss tj
power facilities—-especially on Cftpe
Cod.
During tl^' height of the storm,
the weather station at Block Is
land, R. I., measured a sustained
average velocity for a one-minute
The mercury plunged to 7
below zero at Grand Forks, N.
D., today—the lowest mark in
the nation this season—as cold
weather spread over the east
ern half of the country and In
to the South.
Temperatures were near the
zero mark in several commun
ities in North and South Dako
ta and Minnesota and dipped
below freeing In eastern states
and as far south as North Car
olina.
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period of 78 miles an hour—three
miles above minimum hurricane
force,
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During that period, weather ob
servers said, gusts rose to consid
erably higher speeds. The weather
I station at Rhode Island's Hills
Grove airport clocked gusts up tc
81 miles per hour. Just outside Bos
Harvard University s Blue Hill
| observatory measured gusts be
tween 2 P. M.. and 2:20 P. M.. at 75,
74 and 79 miles per hour and re
corded average wind speed at 55
miles per hour at about 2:20 P. M.
The storm center passed over
southeastern New England and
swirled out to sea, losing violence
\ as lt wen t onshore but, bringing in
ltg wakp snow and hazardous ice
^ fw hl(?hway ,
] Many Cape Cod communities be-
1 low Buzzards Bay were
Power today. Approximately 10 P er
r ' >nt - °‘ ‘he areas telephones
out.
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Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence In Grfffifl.
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Cigar A Day Keeps
Roy, 11, Happy
MERCEDES, TeX. —W— Be-’
ven ycar-cld Ooerge Ruther
ford smoke- a cigar a day—and
Wen rtoln « 11 for s4x
Next 10 sh(x)tln « s P ltbftlla
with a rubberband, smoking
stogies Is his favorite hobby.
George says a fellow showed
him how to smoke.
"Showed me how to chew to
bacco too ” he adds, “but I on
ly chew when I can’t get *
cigar.”
Dumper Wheal Crop
Seen As 'Possible'
Despite Late Seeding
WASHINGTON —(AV- A V mper
crop still is possib’ newt
despite a serious seed u:t de
in the Great Plains, Agriculture
officials said today.
A department crop report Wed
said about 25 percent of the
Intended wheat acreage in Neb
raska, Kansas. Oklahoma, Texas,
and New Mexico remain
ed unseeded November 1 because of
critically dry weather.
These six states produced about
49 percent, of this year’s record
crop of 1,406,000,000 bushels.
The report said seeding has pro
gressed well, however, on what
now appears to be an Increased,
acreage In all other Important pro
ducing areas.
Officials said that assuming next
year's production in the six
drought affected states is only one
half times this year's, it still would
be possible, on the basis of present
prospects, to harvest a total crop
of at least 1,000,000,000 bushels.
The United States has produced
only four crops of a billion bushels
or more, and they were grown dur
ing the past four years. Wheat out
put averaged 890,000,000 bushel*
for the 1930-45 period.
Wh»e officials would like to see
another record crop because of the
world grain shortage they point
out ‘hat a billion-bushel yield still
* oud P ermlt this country to export
a much larger quantity of wheat in
th e 1948 crop year than it nor
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renort ei ized that
whcat pro8Dect8 ar tirulajly
^ ^ ^ p ac |f i( , vest. In
most Rocky Mountain :es aid
in the East.
SIJNNY SIDE CHURCH
TO HAVE FISH SUPPER
A fish supper sponsored by the
Sunny Side Methodist Church will
le held at the Sunny Side School
Saturday night sfarting^at 5 o'clock.
Seals B King, Atlanta, famous for
j Ii.*h frys and barbecue, Is furnish
ing everything for the supper.
1 • Briefs . .
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WASHING'/ON </pi- coi. wn
llr,m B. Nuckols told investigatin
.‘cnators today he hcatd rumor.
I ir early 191.1 that Air Force pur
, chasing officers had heavy ho’d
] ings of 'dock in companies with
j '*hich th?y were dealing.
MACON A plea for closer
j -fo' peration between agriculture
' nd loh ; r wa ^‘^Georgia
I Farm Bureau todav bv Congre-s
”~an Rend rrsen Lanham who mJ'd
tv "*|Hct**-| the federation’s atti
•ude towatd labor.
PFCATUR. Ga. — Defefi e at
'.wnevs «c>w.t today to saw vegi
'*w Fred M Phelps 'rnm «*w
Eha Victoria'"price, £
’"vm”' In hi* home, as tb» twic
„ rd r f a "waried life.'’, The cue
has gone io the Jury.
elrior Union High School at Nor
walk. Cali/., follows the popular
teen-age magazine style.
There {j an entire chapter de
voted to a fellow’s date-making
technique in which he is instruct
cd to plan hlc approach to get the
best results. He is, for instance.
advlsed against seeking the Peg of
his heart’s company by inquiring,
“What are you doing tonight?"
’Nothing” is an embarrassing ans
wer.
The girl who would be a slick
hick instead of a stuck duck is
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formed that mascara and a sad .
movie don’t mix and that a so
, histicated hair Style such as the
top-knot, whereby the hair is pull
back so severely that the face
beneath it assumes a perpetual ex
PreS8l ° n ° f 5UrpHse ' * n0t f ° r h ° r
Miss Hush may be doing all right
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