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WE ARE
BUILDING
A CITY
HERE
Volume LV, Number 25
DRIVE TO RAISE
FUNDS FOR USO
GETS
E. C. Patterson, chairman of
drive to raise funds in Peach
for the United Service
states that the drive got under
yesterday with most satisfactory
sults.
A committee, composed of D.
Strother, J. E. Broadrick and C.
Almon, started to work yesterday
secured a large part of Peach
quota of $500.
Another committee, composed of
E. Young, John Vance and
Friedman, are working the
section 1 odav.
Mr, Patterson says that with
excellent beginning yesterday
two committees will very
come up to the quota today in
scriptions for this worthy work.
DON’T SAVE GAS AT
EXPENSE OF SAFETY
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If you don’t want to put your
in mothballs—don’t put mothballs
your car.
That, in a nutshell, is the
of motor vehicle experts to
who have resorted to the risky process
of “doping” their gasoline with
thing from mothballs to alcohol in
attempt to build a “super-fuel”
will stretch out precious mileage.
Widespread evidence that this and
many other dangerous practices arc
being followed by hundreds of thou
sands of motorists in states where
gasoline rationing is in effect is
ported by the safety education
partment of one of the leading casual
ty and surety insurance companies.
Among these dangerous
are the use of home-made super¬
chargers and amateur devices to pre
heat the fuel, "leaning out” mixtures
and widespread coasting on hills.
“Gasoiine saving must not be made
at the expense of safety,” motor ve
hide experts for the Aetna point
“There is a distinction between
ing waste and courting trouble.”
Here are some of the conditions re
ported in the Aetna’s timely survey:
“Far too many drivers have tam¬
pered with carburetor adjustments,
not realizing that this affects the
idling mixture only. Tests have shown
that. with an extremely lean mixture
there is more fuel waste during
starting, more frequent stalling more
engine ? trouble and less power 1
safety. A 4 mixture . that , is too ,
means trouble; ,. >t means dangerous ,
stailing in traffic, on railway
mgs and during gear shifting on
grades.
“Doping gasoline to give it more
pep and mileage is on the increase,
It has come to our attention that
motorists are putting everything from
alcohol to mothballs into the gas tank.
This can only lead to engine trouble
—and risk.
“On the theory that better vapori¬
zation of fuel can be obtained through
additional preheating some owners
are tampering with the fuel feed
system to utilize more of the ex¬
haust heat. This is resulting in
vapor lock- a dangerous condition
wherein fuel blocks its own flow by
going into vapor in the fuel line. This
means engine failure at critical mo¬
ments.
■‘Removing the air filter to lessen
drag on the intake air upsets en
gineers’ calculations and results in
power loss. Amateur efforts at super
charging net merely loss in reliabil
ity. Without the air cleaner in posi
tion there is no effective trapping of
a backfire.
“Mechanics know just how much
economy an engine will provide, and
to go beyond this point is merely to
tamper with safety. The object should
be to check waste, not to risk
A car that is tied up on the road be
cause of its own failure means that
someone must use up more fuel to
rescue it.
“Coasting, too, is to be avoided,
Even when not in violation of motor
vehicle regulations the practice of
coasting not only involves an ele¬
ment of danger but usually results in
more rapid clutch and brake wear.
“During fuel rationing, as a't any
other time, the best rule is to save
sensibly. Anything else may be the
most serious type of unwanted sacri¬
fice and a definite hindrance to the
war effort.”
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Read widely by the people of progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
SOIL SPECIALIST
HAS OFFICE
Farmers are urged to follow
proved soil conservation practices
order that the production of
commodities may be adequate to
our own needs and have
foods to send to our allies.
“Our _ sod . greatest
u. our
asset, says County Agent R.
Swan, and Jackson C. Miller,
ant soil conservationist for
county. ‘We should make all
sod. including our wood land
pasture produce crops adapted to
sod. All our land should be put.
work,’ they point out.
However, they \ caution that
land f , should t t not be in cultivated
crops. Much land in the past,
daily during the last war,
brought under cultivation that
have remained in grasses and
Our land already m cultivation
adequate to more than meet our
if farm operators ‘ will follow a 1
of soil building B that includes *
rotation, terracmg, contour
| tion, the establishment of
I and permanent pastures,
Mr. Miller, who has worked .
j Peach county for two and one
j years, through the CCC camp at
ry, has recently been transferred
j vationist Peach eounty with as the assistant locaf soil soil conser
conserva
H° n district. His office is with
,
J county agent in the post office build
mg.
| ,>eacl1 couny farmers are urged to
avad themselves of his services, which
{ ,
are av:il| ahle through applications
,hat may be flled wlth ( ° l,rity Agent
Swan.
i J rues Men Be More
I . . , ..
\ tOret III III V llllll , a
On I Quest ion no ires
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An urgent appeal to men in this
area to aid the war effort by using
more care in filling out their oceupa
tional questionnaires was issued
w'eek by Brig. Gen. Sion B. Hawkins,
j Director of Selective Service for the
State of Georgia,
j “Effective mobilization of our man
power for wartime industry and agri
j culture must be accomplished if we
i are to win the war,” Director Hawkins
j declai-ed. “For this purpose it is es
I sential that the occupational inventory
he completed speedily and accurately.”
“Preliminary reports indicate that
I many of the questionnaires coming
into . draft , hoards and United States
| _ Employment , offices ... faulty „ , .
are or m*
( ete, he added. This
comp occupa
tional inventory is a vital part of the
Nation s war program, and it is of
the greatest importance that regi
strants fill out then questionnaires
clearly, fully and accurately. ’
Director Hawkins urged all regi
strants who have any difficulty in
filling out the questionnaire to go to
their employer for help. Help in
filling out the questionnaire is also
available at any office of the United
States Employment Service, local
draft board office, and many Vet¬
erans’ posts and labor unions.
According to Director Hawkins’ re¬
port, incorrect or incomplete question¬
naires are running as high as 50 per
cent of the total number submitted.
“This is a very serious matter,” he
pointed out, “since it is necessary to
call in the registrant for an interview
j in such cases in order to correct the
j | errors or supply the missing
tion. This means not only inconven
ienee to the person called in, but in
creases the expense and the time re
quired for performance of this oc¬
cupational inventory.”
Questionnaires have been or are
being sent to all men who registered
with the Selective Service System, so
that eventually the government will
bave a complete inventory of all
manpower between the ages of 18 and
64. Specifically, the data collected
will be used for three principal pur
poses: First, to avoid the induction
into the armed forces of men who are
more urgently needed in war produc¬
tion; second, to replace workers now
deferred from military service on oc¬
cupational grounds whenever possi¬
ble with vocational trainees or other
qualified persons who because of age,
sex or other reason# are not suitable
for military service; third, to speed
up war production by promoting the
transfer of workers from non-essential
to essential work.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942
Shortage of Steel
Prowpts Sugestions
on New Canal Idea
WASHINGTON, I). C. The short
of steel for V" n ‘ hw instruction
today P rom P ted Geor ^ ,a con ^ rcssmen
to advance new suggestions for barge
canals across lower Georgia and up
per Klorjda t0 help off . set the sub .
marine -induced shortage on the Allan
sea ^ oar{ j
The congressmen would utilize riv .
erg by eonnecting thenl through a
serips of short cannla so that petrole .
um products barged from Texas and
other Gulf points t0 the Florida coast
cou ld continue nort ] 1W ard via the in
tracoastal waterway after ..r* reaching «•
B riinsw Representative j c ' K q, a
Vinson, Democrat,
Georgia> chairman of thy house naval
affairR conlmitteei already haa asked
the navy to survey a route which
wnuld , ink st Mary . s river in Georgia
with the Suwanye river jn Florida .
j rn,„ 1 lie i* lorida •. *, terminus • , ot this ... proposed ,
j...... route would . . ,, , be at . the ,, most practi-
1 cable point , ... along , the ,, Gulf ,, ... coast.
j Representative Gibson, Democrat,
j Georgia, sibilities: also has suggested these pos
|
{ From the Gulf up the Apalachicola
river to the Flint, and up the Flint
to a point near Albany, Ga., where
the distance is shortest between the
Flint and the Ocmulgee. At this point
the Flint and Ocmulgee would be con¬
nected by a canal to let barges pass
into the Ocmulgee, down to the AJ
j ( amabBf and on to Brunswick and the
, i n tracoastal waterway,
An a i tol nat( . prop0 sal: Up the Ap
| a ] acb j co i a and F ij nt rivers to Abra
, ham’s creek near Ashburn, Ga., and a
j connecting Brunswick. link with Turtle river into I
I
Gibson’s proposals were worked out,
the congressman said, with the assist-1
ance of W. C. Lankford of Douglas, I
Ga., a former member of congress who j I
made a special study of the potenti* j
[ alities of Georgia streams for water
borne commerce.
Vinson said he has taken his pro
; posed with the and
route up navy
asked for a survey to determine
j whether the depth would be sufficient
not only for barges but also for light
i naval craft. He said the survey may
j be started in “the shortest possible
time.”
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EIRE DESTROYS
MULLIS HOME
T Fire, ,. thought to u have started from __
defective , ,. electric , . • . destroyed , . , the
wiring,
farm homo of Mr . and M rs. J. Mul
L ]js a „ d M ,. and Mr „ Joe Mullis, locat
L. (>n ^ <)](j Cranda „ p]ace about
. , ,, . , r n
j ,
AbmJt ha]f the kitche „ and house .
hold furnishings were saved, but prac
tica , ly a „ dothe3 and linens were
LEGION AUXILIARY TO
SELL FLAGS FLAG DAY
Let’s fly our flag on Flag Day!
To every true American our flag is
the symbol of what we are and hope
to be. What we are Old Glory” is.
On Saturday morning tiny flags,
mounted on pins, will be sold by mem
bers 0 f the American Legion Auxil
j a ry. Wear this flag as evidence that
W( . t m i y value our citizenship and
thankfulness for the blessings we
bave and enjoy because we live in
America,
WILLIAM I). UPSHAW
RACK JN POLITICS
ATLANTA. — Georgia’s famous
“cyclone on crutches” is back in poli
tics. That is to say, William D. Up
who represented the fifth Geor
gia district in Congress for eight
years, has announced as a candidate
for the seat in the U. S. Senate now
held by Senator Richard B. Russell.
Mr. Upshaw’s announcement came
in a “letter of acceptance” he wrote
to a notification committee headed by
D. F. Black of Decatur, after the com¬
mittee had forwarded $250 to the
state Demoreratic committee.
Noted as a “dry” leader, Mr. Up¬
shaw was a strong supporter of the
18th amendment and also fought re¬
peal of the amendment on the lecture
platform. He was born near Doug
lasville on a farm.
SCRAP SALVAGE
CAMPAIGN SET
FOR NEXT WEEK
J. F. Lowe, chairman of the Peach
county salvage committee,
that the scrap collecting drive
had been set for this week has been
postponed until Wednesday ao'
Thursday of next week.
Boy Scouts and members of
Junior Chamber of Commerce
volunteered to assist in the collection
of scrap metal and rubber in the city.
Those having scrap material may
give it the Scouts or may sell it for
cash themselves, in either case it will
be transported to the place of sale
free of charge.
Old water hose, worn out hot water
bottles, worn out tires and tubes and
all kinds of scrap iron are of great
value in the war effort and everyone
having such materials are urged to
see that it is collected. “It is going
to require the cooperation of all the
people in this scrap collecting drive
in order to meet the quota that has
been set by the state committee for
Peach county, and is one drive that
will not cost you anything but will
actually make money for those who
have scrap materials around their
place that needs cleaning up anyway,”
says the chairman, A length of
water hose will make gas masks for
six men and 3 pounds of scrap iron
will make a grenade that might kill
eight Japs.”
Lt. Taylor Speaks
to Junior Chamber
The Junior Chamber of Commerce
enjoyed a talk on the program and
training of the Army Air Corps by
Lieut. Sidney Taylor, who is connected
with Cochran Field as an aviation in
structor. At the close of his talk
Lieut. Taylor answered questions
concerning the air service.
A new member, W. E. McConnell,
who is connected with the Woolfolk
Chemical Works, was introduced to
the club.
GEN. SUMMERALL TO
MAKE FLAG DAY TALK
Citizens are urged to listen to the
Flag Day address of Gen. Charles P.
Summerall, 33rd degree Mason, on
June 74th. Sponsored by the Supreme
Council, 33rd degree, Ancient and Ac¬
cepted Scottish Rite, Southern Juris¬
diction, U. S. A., the address will be
broadcast over the facilities of the
Mutual Broadcasting System from
3:45 to 4 p. m. E. W. T.
General Summerall will speak on
“Our Country’s Flag,” and it would he
hard to find a man better suited to
make a patriotic address. He was
chief of staff of the United States
Army from 1926 to 1931, served his
country with distinction in both the
Spanish-American War and World
War I, and is now president of The
South Carolina’s leading mili¬
college.
SLAP 4 JAP WITH SCRAP!
You can help put a gun into the hands of the
boy in the front lines with that old piece of metal
laying around your place.
Next Wednesday arid Thursday the Boy Scouts
ami members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce
will call at your house for ail the scrap materials you
can get up. It will do good in both ways as a dona
tion to the scouts and Jay Gees and to equip the army.
Let’s show the Japs a real scrap from our old
scrap material.
Have it ready next Wednesday and Thursday
for the patriotic men who have donated their time to
collecting this. They will be there,
PEACH COUNTY SALVAGE COMMITTEE
i New Gas
Plan Gives 4
Weekly to Motorists
WASHINGTON, D. C.—East
motorists will get an average basic
ration of nearly four gallons of gaso¬
line a week under the regular coupon
book system starting next month, Joel
Dean, OPA fuel rationing administra¬
tor, said Monday.
Under the present temporary pro¬
gram, nonessential drivers are allowed
about three gallons weekly.
Dean told reporters the additional
ration would be permitted because of
tighter controls made possible under
the i\cw plan. Considerably fewer
“B” coupons will be issued, Dean ex¬
plained, since motorists will be re¬
quired to prove Meed for supplemental
allowances.
They must show* to the satisfaction
of local rationing boards that use of
their cars is required in their busi¬
nesses, that they have formed trans¬
portation “pools” of not less than
four persons, or that no other means
j of transportation and from is available to get
them to work.
Based on Average
The East Coast plan, expected to
serve as a model if nation-wide ra¬
tioning is instituted, is based on an
allowance of 2,800 miles of driving
a year for the average “non-essental”
motorist.
Basic ‘‘A” books will be issued to
every passenger-car driver who reg¬
isters. These will contain 48 cou¬
pons, each good for four gallons of
gasoline.
The “B” books, contain ing Hi cou¬
pons, will be issued on evidence of
need and will be used in addition to
the basic “A” book. Each “B” book,
however, will be dated, depending up¬
on the local ration board’s estimate of
the applicant’s gasoline requirements.
Thus, one “B” book could be used
only for three months, while another
would be good for a year.
A third “O” book, containing 96
coupons, likewise will be “tailored”
to fit absolute requirements. On the
basis of the motorist’s proved mile¬
age requirements, the local board will
tear out coupons if necessary to cut,
the “C” books down to the driver’s
needs.
All commercial vehicles, including
trucks, taxicabs, busses and govern¬
ment- operated automobiles, will re¬
eeive “S” books—likewise “tailored”
to fit.
All “C” books will be reviewed and
reissued every three months; "S"
books will be reviewed and reissued
every four months.
RIG DON WINS PRIZE
FOR EXCELLENT TALK
LOGAN, West Va.- Hill Rigdon
recently took a 16-week night course
in effective speaking, personal de¬
velopment and human relations by
Dale Carnegie. On graduation night
ho was awarded a prize in a con¬
test with his class mates for making
an outstanding talk on a What, Wo
Got Out of This Course. ty
SECOND CR ASH
VICTIM
Death claimed the second victim
a plane-auto crash, which occurred
Harris Field near here last
when Maurice Jones died in a
hospital at 6 a. m. last Saturday.
He was injured at the same
Mrs. Avis McDonald was
killed when a training plane from
Cochran Field struck his
near the field.
Mr. Jones had lived here several
years, operating a farm about
miles out on the Perry road. He was
a member of the Bronwood
church.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. W.
A. Jones; four brothers, Ohney of
Harrisburg, Va., Henry G. Jones of
the U. S. Army, Roy Jones of Wash
ington, D. C., and Alfred Jones of
Fort Valley; and four sisters, Mrs.
Willie Mae Chapman of Bronwood,
Mrs. J. W. Scarborough of Rome,
Mrs. C. A. Angel of Cleveland, Ohio,
and Mrs. J. P. Grant of Americus.
Funeral services were held from
the Fort Valley Baptist church Sun¬
day afternoon at o’clock with the
Rev. M. D. Reed officiating.
Interment was in the Bronwood
cemetery.
Pallbearers were J. G. Gordon,
Bernard Ilunnicutt, Jr., Sanders Har¬
ris, John Fletcher Lowe of Fort Val¬
ley and Bernard Bradley and Alva
Grant of Americus.
Student Day” at
Methodist Church
Regular meeting of church school
at 10:15 o’clock.
At the morning hour the pastor will
bring a message on “The Student in
This Hour, Especially; the Young”.
Scriptural passages like the following
will be used: “Thou hast given him
domiaion over the works of thy
hands.” “I was not disobedient to the
heavenly vision.” “Keep that holy
thing committed unto you.” Sunday is
“student day” all over the Methodist
church. College students, high school
graduates and others invited.
Young people’s meeting at 7:30
o’clock followed by preaching at 8:30
o'clock. Special music by the young
people’s choir at the evening services.
Regular midweek services Wednes¬
day evening at 8:30 o’clock.
Public invited to all services.
Vacation Reading
Club Starts Monday
The vacation reading club will be¬
gin Monday, June 15, and will contin¬
ue for six weeks.
All of the boys and girls are invited
to join. Ten books must be read to
receive a certificate.
Gifts of $10.00 from the education
committee of the Woman’s Club and
$7.00 from the Fine Arts Ciuh to
the Thomas Library are appreciated.
New children’s books have been or¬
which will help the vacation
club to be a success.
The Peach county TB committee
the library a book of “1,000
and Answers ori T. B.” by
The Fort Valley chapter, American
Cross gave “Essentials of Nu¬
by Sherman.
About fifty new books have been
to the library recently.
A good slogan for the present is
Instead of Ride!”
All visitors are cordially invited to
the library.
on Weevil
Control to Be Sent Out
Continuing a fight against “Billy
Weevil”, the Agricultural Exten¬
Service this week released 150,
leaflets describing methods of
this pest.
Enough to supply a copy to each
farmer in Georgia, the single¬
leaflet outlines measures for
the boll weevil in 1942,
out recommended methods of
poisoning, spot dusting,
poisoning during heavy fruiting
Weevils made an unusually early
in Georgia cotton fields
year, even earlier than in 1941
weevil damage was severe in
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54 YEARS OF
SERVICE
Only newspaper in the heart
of one of America’s
rich agricultural
sections.
$1.50 I*er Year in Advanca
I JULY 4 IS SET
AS DEADLINE IN
FALL PRIMARY
ATLANTA.—A qualifying dpadlina
of 2 p. m., July 4, was set here last
Saturday by the Georgia State Dem -
era tic Executive Committee for the
September 9 Democratic primary.
The committee, meeting at the A
ley hotel to set rules and regulations
for the nomination of United States
senator, governor, statehouse officers
and congressmen, ordered an entranc :
fee of $500 for candidates for sena¬
tors and congressmen and for gov¬
ernor; $.150 for statehouse officers,
and $250 for solicitors general and
superior court judges.
The committee voted unanimously*
that no entry may be filed by proxy
and all must bear the personal signa¬
ture of the candidate. In event two
or more offices are to be filled the
candidate must designate his oppon
or tlll> specified office sought.
The committee also voted that no
present office holder may qualify to
seek another office unless his term
expires this year or unless he resigns
his present office to make the race.
This would affect Commissi ner of
Agriculture Tom Linder, in- ntioned
often as a possible candidate for the
United States senate, who has two
more years to serve on a four-year
term.
The Democratic state convention,
decided by results of the primary,
will meet in Macon, October 7. If a
second primary is required to settle
a runoff, the convention would be
held one week later.
Delacey Allen, of Albany, presided
in the absence of James S. Peters,
committee chairman, ill at his home
in Manchester.
Only one candidate for governor
stood officially in the race as the
committee gathered to set the qua¬
lifying deadline. He is Attorney Gen¬
eral Ellis Arnall, of Newnan, whose
campaign headquarters were opened
yesterday in the same hotel. The
Governor, expected to seek re-election
to a four-year term, hinted he would
make official announcement at Moul¬
trie July 4. Columbus Roberts, for¬
mer commissioner of agriculture and
unsuccessful candidate for governor
in 11140, also is expected to announce.
Richard B. Russell, of Winder, jun¬
ior United States senator, comes up
for re-election this year but has yet
to make formal announcement of can¬
didacy. Only one man thus far op¬
poses him—former Congressman Wil¬
liam D. Upshaw.
$5 Auto Tax Stamp
Will Be Necessary
For Neiv Gas Cards
WASHINGTON, June 6.—The $5
federal automobile tax stamps will
go on sale at post offices and internal
revenue collector offices on June 10.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy
7’. Helvering, announcing the date to¬
day, indicated that possession of the
stamp would be necessary for getting
new gasoline rationing cards in areas
where motor fuel is rationed.
He said be bad been advised by the
Office of Price Administration “that,
in the issuance and use of gasoline
books, an important identi¬
will be the serial number
on the use tax stamp. In
areas where gasoline is being
and in those areas where
will be rationed, possession
the stamp evidencing payment of
use tax on motor vehicles will
one of the necessary means
identifying the coupon book with
vehicle in the securing of gaso¬
The new stamp will cover the fiscal
beginning July 1 and will re¬
the existing stamp issued on
1 and for which owners paid
It will be serially numbered
have spaces on the back for re¬
the make, model, serial num¬
and state license number of the
The stamp will be gummed on the
and the announcement said that
is the desire of the Bureau of In¬
Revenue that the use tax
shall be placed on the wind¬
in a location that will not be
conflict with state requirements”.
bureau noted that one exception
New Jersey, where state laws
such stickers on rear windows.