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Volume LIV, Number 20
GOVERNOR TALMADGE
HERE FRIDAY
A number of prominent people in
educational and political circles are
expected to be present when Governor
Eugene Talmadge comes to the Fort
Valley State College to deliver the
principal address at a memorial serv
ice in honor of the late William Merida
Hubbard, founder and long-time pres
ident of the State Teachers and Ag
ricultural College at Forsyth, now j
merged with the Negro college here. I
The exercises will be held in the
college auditorium, and school Dr. H. states' M. j
Bond, president of the
that ample accommodations will be j
provided for all white people who
will come. The program will begin
at 2:30 o’clock.
The circumstances surrounding the
Governor’s visit are of interest. Early
in February, knowing that the vener¬
able educator was in feeble health, and
wishing to make a gesture to him in
recognition of long years of service
in Forsyth, Governor Talmadge
agreed to be the honor guest at the
services originally scheduled to be a
celebration. After the death of Pro
fessor Hubbard, who unfortunately
did not live to see this crowning rec¬
ognition, the program was made a
memorial service.
The deceased educator was ac¬
quainted with most of the men who
stood high in Georgia public life
during the past several decades, and
was well liked by them. Hoke Smtih,
Tom Watson and others were his
friends and recognized him as such.
The memorial service will be con¬
cluded with the dedication f ths ...
cently erected farm self-support units,
built by students, in honor of the
deceased educator.
Motorcade to Escort the Governor
A motorcade will form in the
center of town to accompany the Gov¬
ernor out to the school. All persons
with cars who desire to join the mo¬
torcade are requested to communicate
with Chief of Police G. W. Cochran,
who will have charge of these ar¬
rangements.
Governor Talmadge will be the
guest of A. J. Evans and Geo. B. Cul¬
pepper, Jr., while here, and will be 1
entertained at luncheon at the home
of Mr. Evans.
G. M. C. President
Is Kitvanis Speaker
By R. A. HALL
Colonel J. H. Jenkins, president of
Georgia Military College, assured Ki
wanians last Friday that whatever,
the present grave world conditions <
called for, the young men coming
through G. M. C. were, as far as hu¬
manly possible, preparing to meet
them.
He related the splendid work and
from this '
record of one young man 1
locality who is working his way
through G. M. C.
Colonel Jenkins was the guest of
Kiwanian M. D. Reed 1
C. P. Strong, a new member, was
officially welcomed into the club by
Leland Miller.
J. W. Robinson and George Wheat¬
on were chosen delegates and Harry
Pittman and Raymond Hall alternates 4
to represent the club at the interna¬
tional convention to be held in Atlanta
,
in June.
Red Saunders, secretary, Chas. Hall
president, Andrew Clark and Ben Neal
of the Montezuma Kiwanis Club were
visitors. I
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Sistar Called by j
Atlanta Church :
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ATLANTA, May 6.—The Rev. Wi I
liam C. Sistar, pastor of the ConyeA
Presbyterian Church since January,
1940, has accepted a call to the Geor- j
gia Avenue Presbyterian Church. He
will succeed the late Dr. Robert Ivey.
A graduate of Presbyterian College, j
Clinton, S. C., and Columbia Theologi
cal Seminary, Decatur, Mr. Sistar
was pastor of the Fort Valley church
for six years before going to Conyers.
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Ceafcer-Sxtbune
Read widely by the people of progressive PEACH , Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
BIG INCREASE
POSTAL SALES
Stamp stock sales at the Fort Val- j
i ey pos t office during the month of
April 1941 showed an increase of 31
per cent over the sales during Jones.j April
1940, states Postmaster John H.
Sales for the first three months
of the year had shown a minor frac
tional increase over the same period
j n 1940 . The total sales for 1940,
however, had broken all previous
reC0 rds for the local post office,
Thus, with the great increase in April,
the sales for 1941 are now giving
promise of again breaking all previous
records.
Stale to Sell Ha go
Surplus Etpi ipm ent
ATLANTA, May 7.—Used highway
machinery valued at between $4,000,
000 and $5,000,000 will be auctioned
off by the State Highway Depart- j
ment under orders issued yesterday
by Governor Talmadge.
W. E. Wilburn, chairman of the
State Highway Board, said no date
had been set for the auctions, but
that the highway equipment would be
sold to Georgia counties and to con¬
tractors or others who wished to buy
it. It will be sold at various points
throughout the state.
Wilburn said most of the machinery
was purchased during the Rivers ad¬
ministration and was more than the
state needed. He said some of the
machinery, consisting of trucks, trac¬
tors and other such equipment, was
in need of repair.
To Pay Off Debt
The Governor instructed the high¬
way chairman to round up the sur¬
plus and prepare to sell it to the
highest bidder.
Wilburn said the highway depart¬
ment would not purchase new ma¬
chinery in its place but would use the
money to pay off the equipment debts
accumulated during the Rivers admin¬
istration.
A sale of excess farm machinery,
most of (which was bought last year,
was set for May 10 at Reidsville by
C. C. McKnight, state superintendent
of farms.
More Hand Labor
The Governor’s plan is to get away
too much mechanized farming 011
tile P rison farms and return to hand
labor 80 as t0 keup the conv,cts busy -
Farm machinery advertised for the
May 10 sale follows:
Three riding cultivators, 16 walk
mg cultivators, three tillers, eight
10 complete sets of cultivat
ors and equipment, three complete'
sets of planters and equipment, two
Farmall tractors, two disc hanows
18 plows.
Former Resident
DlOS , Altiem'llS .
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Mrs. Willie Manning Dykes, who
lived here for a number of years,
passed away at the home of her
daughter Mrs. W. M. Sloan, in Amer
. 1CUS Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Dykes was born in Elko but
most of her life in Albany, to
which place the body was carried for
interment.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. M. D. Reed of the Fort Valley
Baptist church, and Dr. Lucius Pol
hill of the Amerieus Baptist church,
Mrs. Dykes is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. W. M. Sloan of
Amerieus and Mrs. Adrian Owens of
Birmingham, Ala. Her grandchildren
are Mrs. W. E. Lipsey of Albany,
Miss Helen Jean Sloan and Billy j
Sloan of Amerieus, and Doris and
Wesley Owens of Birmingham. Five
brothers also survive: Lawrence Man
ing and B. T. Manning of Leesburg,
Lester Manning of Tampa, Fla.,
Clayton Manning of Sylvester and
Clinton Manning of Moultrie.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941
URGE OWNERS TO
NUMBER HOUSES
After several weeks of working in
spare time, the city street depart*
ment has marked all streets, stencil
ing the names in black over a yellow
background on the street curb, and on
wooden signs where there is no curb.
The civic improvement committee
of the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
which has sponsored the street mark
ing, now urges each home owner or
resident to see that his house is nuni
bered so that numbers will be plainly
visible from the street.
Where the correct number is not
1 known the city clerk or the local in
| surance agenies are in position to
furnish the correct number.
Georgia’s Debt
hird . Lot vest
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Georgia ranks third from the
tom of the list in state and local
per capita, a table released this week
by the Bureau of the Census reveals,
Georgia’s combined state and local
debt is only $48.39 per capita as con¬
trasted with New York, with the
highest gross per capita debt set at
$391.91. Kentucky and Wisconsin are
the only states whose people bear less
burden of governmental debt.
Louisiana has the greatest state
debt alone—$81 per person—due, ac¬
cording to the survey, to a program
of road building construction. Ne¬
braska has the lowest state debt,
55, cents per capita. Georgia, with
a state debt of $8.70, ranks 35th in
this classification.
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$4,463,000 IN BENEFITS
LAID TO
Genr ..... llfe -durance .. , ,,
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them fan,.lies received an
* Kate of $4,41)3,000 in death benefits
from life . . the
c insurance companies ' in
first quarter of „ this ,, . year, the , _ Institute . ,
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of Life Insurance announced today, *
These payments made o,2du _
were on
‘
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1 P° lclts ’
| Of these benefit payments, the bulk
which went to workers and their
families, $3,386,000 was in settlement
of ordinary policies, $432,000 in pay
rnents on group insurance certificates
and $645,000 in claims on industrial
policies.
“The influence of these payments
goes beyond the immediate families
j who receive them,” Holgar J. Johnson,
president of the Institute, stated, “for
j ! a find lai'ge their part of these into channels funds eventually of local
way
trade and business. The flows of such
funds thus is a stabilizing influence
in the business life of every com
I munity, as well as a financial support
to the direct recipients of the bene
'
fits.”
For the nation as a whole, death
benefit payments during the
three months of this year amounted
to $266,393,000. In addition, living
policyholders received $402,380,000
from matured endowments, disability
payments, annuity payments, surren¬
der values, and policy dividends.
Payments on matured endowments,
marking the successful completion "1
savings-proteetion plans over periods
J ! in to 25 the majority amounted of cases to of $50,272,000 from 10
years,
on ordinary policies and $22,150,000 on
: industrial policies, a total of
; 000.
Indicating the continued improve
j murl t in family finances nationwide,
e emergency use of cash surrender
values showed a decline of
mately 12 per cent from the 1940 rate,
the March total being considerably
lower than in February.
Cakes for Mother's
Day
The senior class will sponsor a sale
of home baked cakes at the old pic¬
ture show Saturday, May 10. Make
your choice from dozens of fresh, at¬
tractive cakes of all kinds. Mothers
will appreciate the gift; the senior
class, your patronage and interest
in its class trip. 5-8-lt.
es if spending does not exceed his
1 estimate, however.
FAVORS
FOUR YEAR TERM
ATLANTA, Ga, •Support for the
proposed amendment to Georgias
Constitution establishing four-year
terms for the governor and other
state house officers will be rallied by
the Committee for Economy and Ef
ficiency in Government, it was an¬
nounced here by Judge Frank E. Ga
brels, ordinary of Habersham county,
who is serving as chairman of the
newly organized committee.
Judge Gabrels said the committee
will seek to enlighten the public on a
number of facts connected with the
length of terms of the governor and
other state house officers, in the be¬
lief that the best interests of the state
will be served by eliminating the bi¬
ennial political campaign that sadly
disrupts Georgia's affairs and tends
to retard business.
“Governor Talmadge already has
given excellent reasons for the adop¬
tion of the four-year term based prin¬
cipally on his own discovery that un¬
der the two-year term the governor
and other state house officers are
continually under pressure for re
election so that the business of the
state does not* get the full attention
it deserves,” Judge Gabrels pointed
out.
The Committee on Economy and Ef
ficiency in Government, believing that
the best interests of the state will be
served by eliminating the biennial po¬
litical campaigns that sadly disrupt
Georgia’s affairs and tend to retard
business, has made a study of the
four-year .. term amendment, , . and dur- , ln
mg the ,, remaining • • weeks , v,* before , the
election ,' . will seek , to , acquaint ,, • , the
people , with facts f connected i with , ;u, 41 the
, length ,, of terms of the governor and i
other state house officers.
One significant fact already noted
by the committee, by comparing
with Georgia’s sister southern states,
is that only one state in this region
retains the obsolete two-year gov
ernor’s term. This is Tennessee,
where exists much the same political
atmosphere and biennial uncertainty
as is found in Georgia.
Other southern states, many noted
for their progressive governments,
have exactly the same plan as is
proposed in the amendment to Gear
gia’s state constitution on which the
will vote on June 3. Southern
states with four-year terms with a
it of one term for the governor,
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, North Carolina
Virginia. Other states near
Georgia which have four-year terms,
without restriction as to the maxi¬
mum terms allowed by the constitu¬
are Maryland, South Carolina
West Virginia.
iy 0 Additional Taxes
Planned by Treasury
WASHINGTON, May 6. - Secretary
Morgenthau said yesterday the Treas
ury “at the present time” was
ning no additional tax requests above
the $3,500,000,000 Of new taxes recent
ly proposed to congress.
Morgenthau made his comment at
a press conference, in reply to
tions about whether the tax program
would be enlarged if federal expendi
tures in the next fiscal year substan
tially exceed the $19,000,000,000 he
forecasts. At the time Morgenthau
asked for the $3,500,000,000 new tax¬
es, he said that amount was needed
on top of present taxes so that federal
revenues would amount to two-thirds
of expenditures.
Referring to the fact that other
federal officials have estimated next
year’s expenditures as high as $24,
006,000,000, Morgenthau said:
“I hope I am wrong and that we
are able to spend much more, but I
still stand by my estimate of $19,000,
000 , 000 .”
He declined to answer a question
whether he would retain his two
thirds formula and ask additional tax-
COX PREDICTS
U. S. W ILL BEGIN
CONVOYS SOON
WASHINGTON, May 5.—. A flat
predict i on that the United States will
resort to convoys to get supplies to
; beleaguered Britain was heard in the
! house today.
“Of course we are going to convoy,
and convoy right away,” said Repre
j sentative Cox, Democrat, Georgia,
“We have voted billions of credit
j f ()| . Q rea t Britain, We have promised
j support to the limit of our capacity,
| if it happens that we can’t fulfill our
promises short of convoys what are
you going to do?
Willkie Assailed
Representative Fish, Republican,
New York, declared that convoys
! meant war. He assailed Wendell L.
Willkie because, he said, Willkie had
1 ! “come out for convoys and thus re
j pudiated every statement he made to
tho American people.”
Thu housc WHS debating at the time
a kill empowering the President to
j take formal possession of foreign
ships idle in American ports and put
them to use . When the convoy ques
tion was raised, Representative Sa
bath, Democrat, Illinois, supporter of
the bill, arose to remark that nothing
in it provided for convoys. Sabath
said the bill would help “keep us out
of war.
| But Fish said it would permit trans
fer of German and Italian vessels to
Great Britain and thereby ‘eonstitute
an act of war.”
“If we were in the war we would
have the right to seize German and
Italian ships in our ports and use
them to our best advantage,” he said.
Ahead of Congress
"The bill unamended would permit
us to take German and Italian vessels
| and transfer nation. them to This Great would Britain,
an enemy con
stitute the grossest breach of interna
tional law in history.”
Meanwhile Chairman Vinson, Demo
<’«**> Georgia, of the House Naval
j Committee, declared that if convoys
| were needed to get United States war
material to England, “Let’s have con
| voys.”
- p j lu Q eol .g] ari sa j d j„ an interview
th American people wanted to
whatevei . 8teps we ,. ( . necesgary
i make this country's aid to England
i ff 6C ( i
e ; ve
„ The people are far ahead of con
_
gress,” he asserted. “They have been
ahead of congress since 1939 on this
j world situation.”
He said Great Britain was not
I downed by any means and would not
I be if the United States took all neces
sa ry steps to get supplies across" the
Atlantic.
“The American people are
willing to spend seven billion dollars
to aid England,” he said, “but
don’t want to see this country’s
material go to Davy Jones’ locker,
11 say that if convoys are needed, let’s
have convoys.”
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Prizes A warded itl
TB Poster Contest
In order to enlighten children on
| dread disease of tuberculosis, a
|poster contest has been sponsored in
the p each county schools by the Tu
foerculosis Association of Peach coun
j y> which Mrs. E. J. Say well is
chairman. Cash prices were
ed (^,j s to pupils having the best
posters in the high school, junior
high and grammar grades.
In the high school, first prize was
j won by a pupil of the ninth grade of
Byron school. Margaret Bragg
of Fort Valley won second, and a pu
| pll of the Byron eighth grade won
honorable mention. In the junior ; llt ,j n „
high school, Doris Cadenhoad won
first; Ruby Joyner, second; and Bob¬
by Jones, third. These were Fort
Valley pupils.
In the grammar grades, first place
was won by Edward Mullis, of
Valley and second and third by By¬
ron students.
Notice to Voters
It will be necessary for those who
wish to vote in the election June 3
to have their 1940 poll tax paid
May 13.
5-8-lt. T. E. THARPE, T. C.
CRIMINAL WEEK
IS CALLED OFF
Judge A. M. Anderson has an¬
nounced that he has called off the
criminal session of Peach superior
court next week. He said that he
wag following this course because of
the fact that there are no indicted
cases to be tried and also farmers are
so busy with their work at this season
of the year.
Judge Malcolm D. Jones opened the
civil session Monday morning, hear
ln P several uncontested divorce cases
and the usual run of minor litigation,
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Harvest Lespedeza
Seed for Farm Use
With little extra expense, enough
lespedeza seed can usually be saved
for farm use, County
Agent R. P. Swan said this week.
J The seed of the common Kobe harvest- and
j Tennessee 76 varieties can be
( ed by cutting the plants when the
seeds are mature, with a regular mow
ing machine and a lespedeza seed pan
1 attached to the cutter bar, the county
j agent explained. He said a good
portion of the seed will shatter and be
caught in the seed pan. Those re
maining on the plants can be saved by
taking the plants up while damp and
threshing either with a regular grain
thresher or by beating out with forks
or sticks,
A good amount of lespedeza seed
can be saved by collecting shattered
| seed on a close floor from plants cut
late and stored for hay. Seed can also
be collected from hay jacks arranged
so as to catch the shattered seed,
Korean lespedeza seed, however, are
not harvested with a seed pan. The
plants should be cut when the seed are
mature and threshed as suggested for
the other varieties. The seed of all
varieties can be harvested with com
bines now on the market and this is
! proving to be a popular method of
harvesting lespedeza seed.
| cleaned, In using Mr. seed Swan that said, have should not been be
care
(aken that troublesome weeds are not
spread to other fields. Seed should
not be grazed, he asserted.
MUKL MORE tbW ECUS IH RY
GIVING HENS MORE
FEED, AGENT SAYS
Plenty of feed for farm poultry
flocks means more eggs, and more
help assure ample supplies for
this country, Great Britain, and other
1 countries resisting aggression, County
Agent R. P. Swan said this week.
Keeping the mash hoppers full, he
said, in one way farm men and farm
women can help in national defense,
Prices are good, and the Depart
of Agriculture will support the
market at an average of about 22
cents, Chicago basis, for the next
2 years, he pointed out. Feed supplies
are abundant. Commercial poultry
men already are feeding their flocks
to get the most possible eggs, so that
extra eggs must come from special
feeding of farm hens.
“Feed plenty of mash, either home
mixed or commercial, and all the grain
the hens will clean up at night,” he
said. “Keep fresh, clean water where
the hens can get it easily at all times.
Wet mash is an excellent appetizer.
It should be fed in a crumbly state,
once started, must be kept up.
Extra eggs will pay for the additional
work.
Eggs are an ideal means of turning
Ever-Normal Granary reserves of
corn and wheat into defense foods,
the agent pointed out. Production
can be maintained by better feeding.
Powdered or dried eggs keep well and
take little storage or shipping space
in proportion to their food value. A
case of 30 dozen eggs dries down to
about 10 pounds.
“Give the hens all they’ll eat this
Spring,” Mr. Swan said. “Don’t make
them rustle for their feed. Feeding
for more eggs in a real opportunity
for farm men and women to aid de¬
fense and add to their incomes.”
Success does not. consist of not
making blunders . . . but in not mlik
ing the same ones twice.
Is a musician made by his teacher?
makes himself a musician by
practicing what he was taught.—Mary
Baker Eddy.
53 YEARS OF
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FORT VALLEY
DEBATERS WIN
STATE TITLE
Fort Valley high school’s two de¬
bating teams are state champions,
winning favorable decisions at the
state literary contests held in Athens
last week, for which they received
individual medals.
The affirmative team, composed of
Betty Thames and Cornelia Morgan,
won two out three decisions. The
negative team, composed of Mary Lil
j Han Culpepper unanimous and decisions. Harry Singletary,
won
The subject of the debate was Re¬
solved: That the Power of the Federal
[Government Should Be Increased.
The golf team, composed of Jimmy
Duke, Everett Johnson, Russall Ed
’ wards and Levi Barfield won second
j place in the state contest.
Boys Wanted for
CCC Enrollment
The Georgia CCC selection service
announces an enrollment for all eli¬
gible junior white boys to be held
May 29. All Georg a youths between
the ages of 17 and 23%, in need of
employment, have been out of camp
three months of longer, and who have
not served in the CCC for over 18
months are urged to see their local
county welfare director in their re¬
spective counties and file their appli¬
cation for enrollment in the CCC.
To boys unable to attend college or
find immediate employment on grad¬
uating from high schools, the CCC
offers valuable training in many fields
of industry, such as mechanics, radio,
construction work, woodcraft and
office management. Such CCC gradu¬
ates are being taken in by industry as
fast as they can be turned out, with
the demand exceeding »‘i» supply in
instances,
! For boys from families of moder
ate 01 . we p to do circumstances, whose
parents are not in need of the mont h
j allotment checks, the CCC will de
th - g moncy to their personal ac
count> ] eav ing it until the end of
their enrollment. At the end of the
two-year maximum enrollment the
CCC graduate will find that he has
a tidy sum of $528.00 in which he
may start in business for himself ox
use in any manner he sees fit.
REGISTRANTS ASKED
TO MAKE SELVES FIT
Calling upon all registrants to
“make yourself fit for service,” Na¬
tional Headquarters, Selective Service
System, today announced it planned
general distribution of an educational
pamphlet concerning standard physi¬
cal requirements of the Army and
suggestions for correction of remedia¬
ble defects.
Distribution of the pamphlet will
be in connection with the Selective
Service System’s program for pre
habiJitation of registrants which sug¬
gests that registrants consult their
personal physicians and dentists prior
to their examination by local board
examiners and have remediable dis¬
orders corrected to fit them fox
military service.
The prehabilitation program is
being worked out at Selective Service
Headquarters in cooperation with its
Medical Advisory Council and officials
of the American Medical Association
and is expected to reduce the percent¬
ages of registrants now rejected by
local board examiners as physically
unfit for general training.
The pamphlet, which is being pre¬
pared for distribution by local boards
to the men registered for service,
contains the following foreword:
“Making yourself fit for service is
probably a very simple procedure.
At most it involves but three steps.
“(1) Learn the minimum physical
requirements as laid down by Selective
Service Regulations.
“(2) Consult your family doctor ox
dentist, one or both, if you discover
or suspect that you fall short of what
is demanded of you.
“(3) Follow their advice; let them
put you back into good condition if
arrangements can be made on a
mutually satisfactory basis—if not,
let them direct you to the nearest
clinic, hospital, or social service
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