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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money, Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin
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By Quiniby Melton
The Louisville (Ky.) Courier
Journal - m discussing a pro
posal that the University of
Louisville buy part of a city
park, build on it and rent the
property, calls attention to the
/act that income from such
property would go untaxed.
And the Louisville paper
very properly headlines the art
icle with “All Income-Bearing
Property Ought to Pay Taxes.”
In this samp article the paper
calls attention to the fact that
in the ct’v of Louisville alone
there Is much income-bearing
property that goes tax free be
cause it is owned b” an institut
ion or a church.
Among the income-bearing
property that is tax free are
buildings owned by Union Col
lege, Baptist and Presbyterian
Seminaries, the Public Library,
the Home of the Innocent and.
the paper adds, " many others."
Now no one wants a church
or a school to pay taxes on the
property that is actually used
in church and educational work.
A church building should not
be taxed, neither should the
buildings on the college cam
pus.
But for a church ox a college
to own, say an office building,
and not have the bn'ding taxed
is all wrong.
Unless this practice is stop
ped we'll graduaHv see more
and more buildings bought up
by colleges and churches and
removed from the tax lists.
We wonder how much in
eome-bearing. tax free property
Is owned in Georgia by churches
and colleges.
We suggest to the Tax Equal
ization Committee that they
look into this matter.
And while they are invest
igating this they might also look
into the number of "co-ops”
that are going tax free.
With the tax burden becom
ing heavier and heavier its time
to begin looking for “tax dod
gers” rather than new ways to
tax the already badly taxed
John Q. Public.
Satira Back
In Spotlight
CLEVELAND —i/P)— Dancing
Patricia “Satira” Schmidt of Tole
do is in the limelight again.
The 14-year-old creator of exotic
dances was named correspondent
in a separate maintence suit filed
by a Cleveland housewife Monday.
Mrs. Louise Ann Salupo, 34. mo
ther of three children, said in a pet
ition that her husband, Sebastian,
*6, spent this last weekend with
Miss Schmidt in Calumet City, Ill.
Last October, Miss Schmidt was
released on a presidential pardon
from the Guanabacoa Women's
prison in Cuba after serving more
than a year for killing her married
lover, John Mee, Chicago attorney.
The slaying occurred aboard Mee’s
yacht, "Satira,” as it lay in Hav
ana harbor.
Byrd’s Leadership Is
At Stake In Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — </P)— United
States Senator Harry F. Byrd's
leadership of the Democratic par
ty in Virginia for 25 years was at
stake today in the state’s primary
$o nominate a governor.
More than 300.000 Virginia Dem
ocrats were predicted, to cast their
vote today in a gubernatorial pri
mary contest that has not been .to
heated in this state for a quarter
of a century.
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA
I" Considerable
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—j/ T-j/" - /£ storm* tonight
wf and Wednesday.
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^nin j temperature,
Local Weather
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today 81, maximum Monday 84,
minimum Monday 70.
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vice. All the local news that happens. Telephotos and Wirephotos.
Hawkes Library here will become
headquaters for a regional library
Sept. 1.
The library will contine to serve
Griffin. In addition it will expand
its service to Spaldii.g County and
will begin serving Pike County.
The regional setup will bring new
state and federal funds and Will
mean a larger assortment of books
available to more people.
Mrs. Logn Wallace, librarian of
Hawkes Library, will continue in
that capacity and in addition will
serve as business manager of the
regional library. Marie Slade, for
the past few years a teacher at
Griffin High, will become regional
library director. She ts spending the
summer at Emory University’s Lib
rary School increasing her skill in
library w(|rk.
At present Hawkes Library has
a collection of cover 22,000 books.
Mrs. Wallace said today that the
regional setup will add additional
hundreds of titles.
Pinal plans have rot. been com
pleted, but they call for depositing
books In all communities In Spal
ding and Pike Counties and at all
schools In the two counties. There
are all schools In Spalding and
six in Pike. The schools, and com
munities will be visited regularlv
to and operate. the Bookmobile will continue |
The two conutles and the city
will swap books, making more of
thpm available to all three.
The regional library will be
known as the Flint River Regional
Library. It is the 14th regional Lib
rary in the state. Mrs Wallace said.
GriffinitesVote
On CIO Union
Griffin employes of Southern Bell
Telephone Co. have voted by mail
on whether or not they wish to be
represented by the CIO-affiliated
Communications Workers of A
merlca.
Meantime some 45,000 other:
Southern Be l employes voted today
on the issue. Ballots were mailed
by the National Labor Relations
Board to the riffin employes.
Griffinite’s Father
Buried In Covington
Mr. C. L. Dawkins was buried at
Highpoint Baptist Church at Cov
ington last week. He died in an
Atlanta hospital. Suivlvors include
his daughter, Mrs. E T. Mask of
Griffin.
• Barbs ...
A couple was married in a cave
in Pennsylvania. In these days of
home shortages, it might be a good
idea for them to just stay there.
Bees, they tell us, don’t see red
What is it, then, that upsets them
so much that they upset us?
Lots of men are •.■Jhvineed that
■vhen a woman is at the wheel the
only good engine is a dead one.
Can She Cook?
If your wife can’t cook,
Don’t get that sour look,
Call the Want Ad nook,
Find a good cook book.
— Phone 3276-77 —
Asks Sales Tax
H. L. Wingate, president of the
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation,
told the Spalding County Farm
Bureau that “we should put on a
sales tax and abolish state adval
orum taxes here in Georgia.”
Wingate, speaking at the regu
lar Spalding County Farm Bureau
meeting Monday night, said that
“industry is definitely coming Sou
th. It can't be stopped, but it won't
come to Georgia because of the
high corporate tax that should be
put on a par with other states of
the South.
“Industries want to come to Geor
gia,” he said, “but when they find
out how high the corporate taxes
are they leave for other states, not
even trying to find out how they
got that way. We need to face the
tax situation squarely In the face.
We need to push the Tax Revision
Committee until they give us a
new tax program."
“There are many problems fac-
Police Over 1,500'Griffin Officers Safety Automobiles Check
Safety Week entered it* second day today with only two
accidents in the city and none reported in the county.
The volunteer checking station* were being swamped by
whose owners were eager to have them passed for safety.
Patrolmen at the Highway Patrol Station on the Atlanta
reported that Monday w.as a heavy day of checking
that quite a few cars were checked this morning. The
rush slackened about noon, they reported.
Rules
Important
Safety
INTOXICATION^^
“Wobbly” pedestrians don’t al
ways get home! Two out of five
pel j es trians killed had been drink
ing, according to coroner’s reports.
Stay out of traffic when you drink!
—AAA Safety Features.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This Is
one of a series of articles on the.
most fiag-rantly violated traffic
ordinances of the City of Grif
.. fin. The series is taken from
riffin Police Department and
the ordinances prepared by the
adopted by the Griffin Com
mission Jan. 27, 19481
PROHIBITED PARKING
Sec. 102. Stopping. *t“Tiding,
parking prohibited. No signs
quire". (a) No person shall stop,
stand, or park a vehicle,
when necessary to avoid
with other traffic in
with law or the directions of a po
lice officer or traffic-control device.
in any of the following places:
1. On a sidewalk:
2. In front of a public or
3. Within ar, intersection;
driveway;
4. Within 10 feet of a fire
rant;
5. On a crosswalk:
8 . Within 10 feet of a
at an intersection.
7. Within 30 feet upon the
roach to any flashing beacon,
sign, or traffic-contro’ signal
ed at the side of a roadway;
8. Between a safety zone and
adjacent curb or within 30 feet
points on the curb
opposite the ends of a safety
cness the city manager has
ated a different length by signs
T within 50 feet of the
rail of a railroad crossing:
10. Within 20 feet of a
entrance to any fire station and on
’he side of a street opposite
entrance of any fire station within
75 feet of said entrance (when pro
perly signposted);
11. Alongside or opposite any
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H. L. Wingate, powerful pre
sident of the Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation and Geor
gia political question mark, told
a News reporter Monday he does
not plan to run for governor.
“I would consider it (the gov
ernorship) an honor and would
like to tackle the job. But I
can't do two jobs at once and
the farmers need me,” he said.
ing us now more than ever before,”
he told farmers. "There has b«en a
split in our national asociation over
the Aiken Bill which is a long ran
ge, cheap farm program. Farmers
are getting $50 more per bale for
cotton now than they would have
if the Aiken Bill had passed. We
reached an agreement, with the
backers of the Aiken Bill four weeks
ago. Under the agreement at least
90 percent parity will be maintain
ed at all times."
“There were four things wrong
Griffin, Ga., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1949.
At the Griffin Police Department,
one of the two volunteer stations,
the checking was heavy on Mon
day and the morning hours today
the law enforcement officers
busy. Cars were lined up most of
the day "in a continuous stream on
Monday and this morning they
were being checked off in another
continuous stream. Patrolman
Woodrow Holcombe estimated some
1,200 were checked on Monday and
that some 300 had been checked
through 10:30 this morning.
All cars being found to have
some defect in the lights, steering,
brakes or horn were getting yellow
stickers pasted on their windshields.
When they have the defects cor
rected they can have their car re
checked within a week.
A white sticker denoting a safe
automobile is being put on the
windshields of cars that have no
defects in the steering, horn, bra
kes or lights.
A driver who gets a yellow stick
er will be told what is wrong with
the car and those who fail to have
the errors corrected will be liable
for arrest and fine.
The state patrolmen are punch
ing all licenses of drivers found
not complying with the laws.
The local Junior Chamber of
Commerce In cooperation with the
Griffin Police Department, the Saf
ety Education Division of the St
ate Patrol and the county Sheriff's
Office is sponsoring the week,
A gala parade beginning at the
Griffin High School at 1 o'clock
Friday afternoon will end Safety
Week here. A flight of jet fight
ers will begin flying cover over the
parade at 2 P. M.
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P A T ,ON in Germany is
i leaving its mark. Now the
Germans are getting the
beauty con , est craze Some
20>000 BerIiner , flocked , Q
Wannsee Uke Beach thc
(j. S- sector of the dty lo see
| ocal beauties, like this one,
strut their stuff (P ho to by
NEA-Acme staff corres
pondent Charles Chitham.)
with the Brannan Bill,” Wingate
said. “First, it gives us a new par
ity formula that is not just. Second,
it guarantees 100 percent parity,
which is about equal to 90 percent
today. Third, it regiments you. You
must carry out all regulations of
the bill. Fourth, It is just impos
sible to finance this program.
“A minimum wage and hour lav
was introduced into Congress, but
we have whipped it this year, h<>
said. However it will keep popping
until the backers see that we are
gfetttng stronger. Then they’ll for
it.”
retting to the Georgia schools,
he said they are in their present
shape because “we don’t have the
money to. pay teachers. We educate
them here in Georgia. Then they
move into other states to teach
where they get better pay.
“We are in a bad fix," he said,
“and we should get a sales tax to
get us out of the position we are
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MELLON CUTTING for GI
insurance dividend began
with elaborate microfilming
project. Here VA clerks
cut up filmed records.
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| Harriman Asks
Congress To
OK Arms Plan
WASHINGTON — UP)— W. Av
erell Harriman, the Marshall Plan’s
roving ambassador in Europe, today
urged Congress to approve the ad
ministration’s foreign arms pro
gram promptly “to protect the gr
owing generation from war.”
Harriman made the appeal In
testimony before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee.
As he testified, Secretary of State
Dean Acheson went into a huddle
behind closed doors with mem
bers of the Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations Committees.
; This combined group is expected
to open hearings soon—perhaps
Wednesday—on the arms aid pro
gram.
CLARK - McGRATH There
was little doubt that the Senate
would approve the appointments of
Tom Clark to be a Supreme Court
Justice and J. Howard McGrath to.
be U. S. Attorney General.
McGrath, a Democratic senator
from Rhode Island, announced his
willingness to take the post Mon
day. Clark’s acceptance had been
considered a sure thing right along.
FOREIGN AID APPROPRIA
TIONS — Senate Democratic lea
I der Lucas (D-Ill) said he planned
to try during the day to get, a $5,-
647,724,000 foreign aid money bill
back before the Senate.
! That's the measure the senators
sent back to the committee last
week after getting all tangled up
in rules. The Appropriations
Committee has rewritten the bill—
! but it has included three of the six
amendments which caused the dif
! ficulty last time.
| i at FIVE PERCENTERS looking — A Sen
« group into the reported
! use of influence in obtaining gov
eminent contracts was said to be
Itifrning its scrutiny toward the ha
ndllng of postwar steel and cement
priorities..
John Maragon,. who 'claims fri
endship with many Washington of
ficials, was reported to have sup
plied the tip on that matter while
talking a senator who isn't on the
investigating committee.
Alabama’s Tod Klansman
Ordered Back To Jail
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —(/Pi— 1 Ala
bama’s top Ku Klux Klan leader
was ordered back to Jail today for
refusal to produce records of the
white-robed order,
| William Hugh Morris, director
of the Federated Klan, was return
ed under a contempt of court elta
tion arising from his refusal to
|glv« the yeoords to a grand jury.
Issued Dally Except Sunday and entered as second class matter
at the postoffice at Griffin, Qa.. under act of March 3. 1879.
Forms on which Griffin veterans
can apply for their share of the
$2.8 billion GI Insurance dividend
will be available at the Post Office
and at the Veterans Clubhouse here
on Aug. 29.
Every World War II veteran who
had a GI insurance policy in force
for at least three months is eligible
for a share of this huge kitty.
This is the most important an
nouncement the VA has yet made
on the dividend payment.
Checks to veterans for their sh
are of the money will begin being
mailed out sometime in January,
1950, at the rate of 200,000 per day.
The sooner a veteran gets his ap
plication form in, the more likely
he is to be one of the first td re
ceive his check.
VA has done an excellent jojp s
making the form extremely simp A
There are only nine blanks for) the
vet to fill in. All he has to do is
to follow the very plainly written
instructions.
The form is in three parts. The
first part includes the instructions
for fulin 8 11 out- 11 is torn off and
kept by the veteran - The second
part includes the blanks. The third
part the VA tears off when it re
ceives the form. It is mailed back
to the veteran as his receipt that
his application has been received
and is being processed. All it costs
the veteran is a one cent stamp
for postage when he sends it in.
Blank No. 2 on the application
is the most important one of all.
It asks for the veteran's present
address, or where he can be sure
of being reached for the next six
months. On more than 10,000,000
policies the VA has only the address
of the man when he enlisted. They
are the vets who dropped their
policies when they got out of ser
vice.
The VA's insurance records have
been separated from its other re
cords. So, even vets who have had
other business with VA won’t nec
essarily have their present addresses
fixed for dividend purposes. VA does
NOT want the address of the man
when he enlisted. It already has
that.
Blank No. 7 asks for the number
of the insurance policy. Many vet-
Mrs. McKneely, Brown
For Ed Board
Pity Griffin's
Guard Recruits
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FT. JACKSON. S. C. the
poor Griffin recruits!
It's been hot as blazes all camp
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long and the recruits were sch
jeduled to spend the day on the
rifle range today along with other
I members of Griffin's National
j Guard company in training here.
| [ That wasn’t so bad except for
j I the heat. It gave them a chance
I I to show their stuff and to qualify
with their basic arms,
But pity the poor recruit!
After trudging in hot and tired
and with the sound of cracking
rifles still In his ears, he faces
real test tonight
The old members of the com
pany. Headquarters Company of
the 48th Division, have planned
Kangaroo Court for his special
benefit.
All the new men who haven't
drawn federal pay before are sub
ject to the court’s charges—and
actions.
*But next year it will be fun for
this year's recruits. They'll get to
take It out on 1950s recruits
enjoy Kangaroo Court as only a
veteran Who’s been through one
oan.
GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money , Your
Talent , Your Time, Your
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ESSENTIAL PART of dividend application form is repro
duced to show information you’ll need. Complete card*
erans will not have this. If they
don’t it doesn't make any differ
ence. Supplying that number mere
ly helps VA to make the payment
faster. VA asks that veterans do
not write in to ask their policy nu
mber before they fill in the applt
cation. That just gums the works
more than ever,
Blank No. 4 asks tor a man’s ser
ial number. That, too, is to make
VAs l° b efts * cr - M a man doesn't
remember it and can supply enou
gh of the other information reques
ted he will still get his dividend.
Blank No. 8 asks for a “claim nu
! mber.” This is s number assigned
to a man when he files for any
! claim with VA. Many veterans will
not have one. This also makes no
difference. If he does, it helps VA.
The rest of the blanks to be fill
p d in are self-explanatory. In the
first blank hp must P rinl or ty P e his
name. In the ninth blank he must
sign his name in his own handwri
ting,
1 The VA will not automatically ap
ply dividends as advance premiums
or i° r converting policies. If a vet
eran wants to use the dividend for
; this purpose he must cash the ch
and mail the money back to
VA in the form of a check or mon
' ey order. Future dividends, however
ce n be left with VA to accumulate
: with interest or be applied to in-
Mrs. Gwyn McKneely is the fir- |
qualify for the Griffin 1
person to
Board of Education election Sept.
14
She qualified for a post from the
Third Ward Monday afternoon at
i the city manager’s office in. City
Hall
Wilbur Brown qualified shortly j
j after she did. He qualified to seek j
reelection to the First Ward post j
which he has held for over l2
years. |
Mrs. McKneely, an active P-TA
mpmber fc, Wfts appolntPd l0 th „ ;
b 08rd andVserved w%s for six months.] |
, Then she elected from the Fo- ‘
urth Ward for a four-year term.
She has served, only two years, but
since she i.s mating from the Fourth
; to the Third Ward she must re
| sign her post She is seeking elect
ion as a member from the Third
Ward.
Two members of the board are
elected from each ward for four-
1 year terms. But the elections are
staggered so that one member from
each ward Is elected every two
years.
For this year's election Brown’s
term expires in the First Ward,
there is a vacancy in the Second
Ward/caused by the resignation of
j J. H. Stephenson, Bart Searcy's
j term expires in the Third Ward
anrt Dr Kenneth Hunt’s term ex
j plres ln the Pourth War d Dr. Hunt
chairman of the board.
The deadline for qualifying for
j the election has been set at 12 noon,
S«pt. 5,
Established 1871
suranoe.
Beneficiaries of deceased Peter
ans entitled to a share of this divi
dend kitty need not use this form.
A check for the amount or a diff
erent form, If necessary, will be
mailed to them by VA.
The reproduced form, which IS
printed today cannot be filled out
and used for application. The offl
cial form, printed on cardboard, is
the only one that can be used be
cause it will be processed by spec
ial machines.
First step In the enormous Job
of paying the dividend—microfilm
ing the master premium record
cards In branch offices so dividend
computations can be made In Wash
' ington—is mostly finished. It
was
second only to V-Mail as the btg
gest microfilming Job In history.
Approximately 17,000,000 men art
eligible for some of this money.
Checks will range from 50 cents
to about $300, depending upon ths
age of a man, how much insuranoe
jhe has and how long he has kept
it in force. Whether or not he has
i converted his policy from term ta
surance won’t make any difference
in the size of the dividend.
VA hasn't yet determined exact
ly what the rates of payment will
be. That is expected to be announ
ced just before the checks are sent
j out next January.
Norman McKneely Ig
Buried Here Today
Norman McKneely, Infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold McKneeljq
died Monday evening.
Graveside orvlce were conducted
this afternoon at Oak Hill cemetery
with the Rev. McLowery Elrod of
ficiaiing and Pittman Funeral
Home in charge.
Survivors include his parents!
two brother*:. Harold McKneely, Jr.,
and James Frnect McKneely, and
grandparent", Mr and Mrs. E L.
Pope. All survivors bv in Griffin,
l\ews
WASHINGTON OP) —An an
nual Irorease of $112,000,090 In
veterans’ pensions and disabi
lity payments was voted today
by the House.
The hill was passed without
opposition or debate and was
.vent to the Senate.
ATLANTA —</Pv— State Au
ditor B. K. Thrasher today as- .
signed sn accountant to asaist
Atty. Gen. Eugene Took In an
investigation Into alleged mis
appropriation of state property.