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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV }> NO. 23
HOME LOANS ARE
MADE TO LARGE
LIST APPLICANTS
MORE THAN HUNDRED MILLION
DOLLARS GRANTED WITHIN
SIX MONTHS
During the first six months of its
existence the home owners loan cor
poration has made loans totaling
$103,257,858 to 36,310 home owners
through out the United States. The
aid was granted to home owners who
were in danger of losing their proper
ties as a .result of mortgage fore
closures.
In addition, the corporation dur
ing the six-month period received
234,976 individual applications for
mortgage loans or for loans to pay
taxes or assessments on unmortgaged
homes. Applications tentatively ap
proved totaled $662,547,599.
All except less than a million dol
lars of the loans made to date have
been made through exchange of the
four per cent bonds of the corpora
tion. Cash loans up to 50 per cent
of valuation have amounted to less
than half a million dollars, and an
even smaller amount has been made
in the form of cash loans up to 40
per cent of valuation, authorized in
urgent cases where the mortgagee
does not accept bonds of the cor
poration.
Incidentally, the corporation has
found difficulty in disposing of its
four per cent bonds, on which the
government guarantees the interest
to maturity. An effort now is being
made in congress to have the govern
ment also guarantee the principal of
the bonds, it being felt that this
additional action will aid the cor
poration in disposing of the bonds
and thus making easier the granting
of home loans.
Records of the corporation reveal
that the average of all classes of
loans to date is $2,844.
Corporation Is
Formed to Loan
To Industry
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Atlanta, Ga. —Organization of one
of the first corporations which will
act as intermediary for Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation loans to
commerce and industry has been com
pleted here and the corporation is
in a position to accept and complete
applications within a week or ten
days.
With a capital structure sufficient
to handle loans up to $1,250,000 the
corporation will be on a non-profit
basis.
The new firm is the Mortgage Fi
nance Corporation and has head
quarters in the Healey building. P.
Bayfield Gibson, promient invest
ment banker is president, A. W.
Falkinburg and Walter A. Richards
of Columbus, vice presidents; D. C.
Owens, secretary and Barnaby
Hill managing director.
We Have Moved
into our new “home” on the west side of
South Main street. We invite the public
to call to see us in our new location. We
are modernly equipped and conveniently
arranged to take care of our customers.
We appreciate your past patronage and
anticipate with pleasure a continuance
of same.
FULTON BEAUTY SHOPPE
Blakely, Georgia
Early County News
Weekly Meeting
Os Rotary Club
Held Thursday
The Rotary Club, in its regular
weekly luncheon meeting last Thurs
day, had as its guests two members
of the Blakely public school faculty,
Mrs. T. H. Phinazee and Miss An
toinette Bonner, the former speak
ing briefly to the Rotarians and the
latter furnishing the musical pro
gram.
Other guests included Rotarians
Eck Patterson and Granby Owen of
the Cuthbert club, both of whom
accepted President Hall’s invitation
to say a few words to the Blakely
Rotarians.
The remainder of the hour was
given over to a discussion of local
CWA projects and other matters in
which the Club is vitally interested.
Rotarian Sparks reported that
because of illness one of the Central
railway’s officials who had been in
vited to the Club meeting was una
ble to attend.
Rotarian’ Jim Grist displayed a
blue print of the airport and golf
course being built as a CWA proj
ect in Enterprise, Ala., and it was
decided that should Blakely’s air
port project be approved to seek to
have added to the project a golf
course similar to the one at Enter
prise.
Ventress Admitted
To Practice Before
U. S. Supreme Court
It will be of interest tp readers of
The News to learn that Mr. Miles
Ventress, prominent Miami, Fla., at
torney, was recently admitted to
the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court,
and also admitted to practice in the
Court of Customs and in the Court
of Claims and Patent Appeals, all
of the Federal court. Attorney Ven
tress is a brother of Mrs. J. Lester
Camp, of Blakely, and a son of Mrs.
J. C. Ventress, of Clayton, Ala.
Mr. Ventress was in Washington
recently as a delegate of the P. O.
employes of Miami, representing the
Sixth district of the U. S. National
Federation of the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. He
was two years ago elected to repre
sent the district as vice president.
He holds a degree of honor in law
from Miami University, also from
the University of Alabama, and has
won honors in oratory for Alabama
over Mississippi twice, for Alabama
over Louisiana twice, for Alabama
over Tennessee, and for University
of Miami over University of Flori
da. He holds honored positions in
several fraternities won by merit.
TUESDAY’S HOG SALE
The co-operative hog sale held
j here Tuesday resulted in the sale of
126 head to Swift & Co., Moultrie
packers, the price paid being 3c per
I pound for number ones.
County Agent Fuqua announces
the next sale will be held on the
second Tuesday in February.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1934.
WILL NOT OPPOSE
SALE OF BEER
IN CITY LIMITS
COUNCIL DOES NOT LICENSE
SAME, BUT WILL NOT OP
POSE ORDERLY SALE
The Mayor and Council are not
going to oppose the sale of 3.2 per
cent beer in Blakely, it was learned
following a special session of that
body last Thursday night. The
question was discussed at length, and
it was decided that there was no
legal way of licensing the sale of
the beverage so long as the State
laws prohibited its sale. The con
clusion reached was that, although
not encouraging same, no effort
would be made to prevent its sale
in connection with other businesses
so long as there is no violation of
other city ordinances such as oper
ating a public nuisance, disorderly
conduct, etc. Beer has been sold
outside the city limits for the past
several months.
Council also adopted the annual
business license ordinance at Thurs
day night’s session. There was a
general hike in the license fees
which brought back to approx
imately the same as were levied in
1932. The ordinance is published in
this issue of The News.
Representatives of the Georgia
Power Company met with the body
and a contract for 1934 was signed
whereby the city will continue to
buy electric energy from that com
pany. The auxiliary emergency
plant here will be retained under
conditions incorporated in the new
ly closed contract.
Mr. W. J. Grist was re-elected a
member of the City Board of Edu
cation for another five-year term.
He is at present Chairman of the
Board.
Councilman R. C. Singletary was
elected Mayor pro tern for the' year
1934.
Damascus High
School Has Father
And Son Banquet
The agriculture department of the
school at Damascus, under the di
rection of J. E. Leger as instructor,
gave a banquet for the fathers on
Friday, January 19th, at the agri
culture building. This was given by
the future farmers of the county
for their fathers.
The first unique feature of this
banquet was the place cards, whu’i
were prepared by the class of boys.
They were folded sheets with the pro
gram written inside and a picture of
some domestic animal cut from farm
journals pasted on the outside with
the guest’s name underneath.
The program was as follows:
President, Jesse Widener, age 24,
called the meeting to order and in
troduced the Master of Ceremonies,
Billie Pullen, age 17, who proved to
be quite a novice in that position,
bringing laughter throughout the
program.
The welcome address was deliv
ered by Willett McDowell, age 18,
responded to by W. R. Pullen, one
of the fathers.
Speeches given included: “How I
Expect to Grow a Litter of Pigs,”
by Lonnie Tabb, age 14; “Farm
Meat Curing Made Easy,” by Ma
rion Pullen, age 15; “Training for
Leadership,” by Jesse Widener; “Val
ue of Vocational Agriculture,” by
Voyd Mullinax, age 18.
At this point members of the
Board of Education and visitors were
introduced, each rendering a short
version of the importance of voca
tional training, there being 58 pres
ent.
Miss Melba Sparks, Home Dem
onstration Agent, gave a talk on co
operation between father and son,
which closed the evening’s entertain,
me nt.
Mr. Leger was added to the fac
ulty of Damascus high school by the
Federal and State governments last
August, and already his work is
showing great results, as his adult
class consists of approximately 80
farmers of this section. All are in
vited to take advantage of this
training.
The Fulton Beauty Shoppe has
moved into its new location on South
Main street. Announcement to this
effect will be found in the columns
of The News this week.
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT TO BE
HELD IN BLAKELY
COMMITTEE SUCCESSFUL IN
BRINGING COVETED PRIZE
TO THIS CITY
Blakely Hi’s new basketball shell
will be christened with the Second
district Class B high school boys’
basketball tournament.
A “Go-Getters Committee,” con
sisting of Messrs. Wade Woodward,
Jr., superintendent of the Blakely
public schools, W. A. Hall and S. G.
Maddox, attended a meeting in Moul
trie Saturday of representatives of
schools holding membership in the
Southwest Georgia Athletic Associa
tion, and succeeded in landing the
coveted honor for Blakely. Class B
comprises the larger schools of the
district, and includes Albany, Tifton,
Moultrie, and others. The commit
tee met with stiff opposition from
some of the larger cities in the
district and had to do some excellent
work prior to the’meeting of the
conference in order to land the
tournament. They are to be con
gratulated for their successful ef
forts.
The tournament will be held the
last week in February, by which
time it is expected the handsome
new shell being erected as a CWA
project on the campus of Blakely
Hi will have been completed. The
new building will have ample seat
ing capacity to handle the large
crowd expected to attend.
It is estimated that two hundred
or more boys will participate in the
tournament, here, and all Blakely
looks forward with pleasure to hav
ing these visitors in the city.
South Leading Nation
Out of Depression,
Banker Declares
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Atlanta, Ga.—High praise was ac
corded bankers of the South by Pres
ton E. Reed of Chicago, Executive
Secretary of the Financial Adver
tisers Association and well known
authority on banking and economic
subjects. “The people of the South,”
said Mr. Reed, “can be proud of its
banking leadership and record. The
strong position which the banks of
this section showed in their state
ments of condition at the end of
1933 bears evidence of sound manage
ment, which, in the last analysis, is
the best guarantee of protection to
depositors. Reports multiply that
the South is leading the nation out
of the depression, and southern banks
appear to be in excellent position to
finance business recovery.”
Mr. Reed gave it as his opinion
that deposit insurance to the extent
provided in the Banking Act would
appear to be no longer needed.
“Sound banks do not need deposit
insurance,” said Mr. Reed, “and de
positors of sound banks—and the
American public as a whole—should
not be penalized by having the re
sources of their institutions assessed
to pay deposits of less well managed
banks. Since ninety-seven per cent
of the depositors of the banks of the
country are insured under the Tem
porary Insurance Fund, which pro
vides insurance for deposits up to
$2,500, a great many economic
authorities are questioning the ad
visability of putting into effect the
permanent insurance of deposit plan
providing insurance in higher brack
ets, on account of the additional tax
on sound banking and the depositors
of sound banks which will be insti
tuted thereby.”
King Comedy Co. In
Free Show Here
The King Comedy Co. will give a
free show on the public square in
Blakely on Friday night and Satur
day of this week, January 26th and
27th. The Friday show will be at
7:15 p. m. and the one on Saturday
at 3:00 p. m.
Some of the merchants of Blake
ly are sponsoring the show and a
contest for school children in con
nection therewith. The public is
cordially invited. It’s all free.
B. H. S. Girls Buy
Uniforms for Basket
Ball Tournament
Since Blakely is assured of the
District basketball tournament which
is to be held a little over a month
hence, and since the shell is actually
going up, the girls of B. H. S. have
contracted to pay for twelve uni
forms and are doing all in their
power to raise the funds necessary
for conducting a department of
athletics for women that will com
mand the attention and support of
the entire community.
The girls of Blakely High School
have shown an admirable spirit of
courage and co-operation in their
organization of a Community Wom
an’s Athletic Association. At the
beginning of the 1934 term they
formed a very loose organization—
leaving all the officers except a busi
ness manager to be elected when
the entire membership material shall
have been canvassed—and, with their
dues of fifteen cents each, bought a
ball with which to begin practice.
Rain last Saturday spoiled the
plans the girls had made to solicit
contributions to the fund for buying
suitable but inexpensive uniforms.
On Saturday of this week and during
next week attempts will be made to
call upon those who might be inter
ested in girls’ athletics. Blakely girls
must, of course, have uniforms when
they play in the forthcoming tourna
ment; and a subscription list seems
to be the quickest way of raising
funds. Contributors will in next
week’s paper find their names listed
as “Sponsors of Girls’ Athletics in
Blakely High School.”
Another movement that has been
initiated by the high school girls is
the organization of a town team.
Maggie Daniels is captain, and some
of the players are: Edna Boyett,
Lucile Fuqua, Maude McCabe, and
Katherine Tarver. Since the cap
tain of this team has had no less
than eight years of experience on
the basketball court, the town team
can expect good leadership; and
with the available material Captain
Daniels can expect to assemble a
strong team, one that will probably
trim the Bob Cats.
Blakely High girls have already
enrolled all their mothers and fifteen
or twenty young matrons of the
town as associate members of their
association and next week will can
vass for other members. The ob
ject of this organization is to get
moral support and encouragement,
sponsorship for benefit parties, and
friends who will always be ready to
stand by the girls of Blakely High
School. A roll of membership will
be published when the organization
is complete.
The high school membership of
the Blakely Community Woman’s
Athletic Association includes:
Eunice Weaver, Hilda Maloy, Myr
tie Mae Thompson, Olivia Weaver,
Madeline Gilbert, Willie Ree Black,
Vivian Maddox, Mattie Mae Brunson,
Lucy Maddox, Josephine Grimsley,
Emma Frances Gay, Marjorie Spence,
Sadie Standifer, Marjorie Standifer,
Evelyn Hayes, Virginia Williamson,
Janet Mann, Sarah King, Annie
Claire Hamil, Pauline Eubanks,
Annie Nell Collins, Martha Davis,
Nellie Strickland, Winifred Davis.
STATIONERY
New—modern, attractive and inex
pensive correspondence cards.
—ALSO—
nice paper and envelopes in
10c packages
Balkcom’s Drug Store
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
COTTON REDUCTION
COMMITTEE FOR
EARLY IS NAMED
WORK OF ENLISTING GROWERS
TO REDUCE STAPLE
IS BEGUN
County Agent W. A. Fuqua an
nounces that the committee for Ear
ly county for the 1934 cotton re
duction campaign has been appoint
ed and has begun its work.
The government’s program pro
vides for leasing up to 40 per cent
of the acreage planted in cotton ov
er a five-year period and will pay
to the owner 3 l-2c plus lc parity
payment per pound for the five
year average yield on the land
taken from production. The
County Agent states that the com
mittee is asking for the co-operation
of the farmers of Early county, and
the hope is expressed that in sign
ing the reduction pledge cards the
per acre yield will not be returned
in excess of the 5-year average; if
such should be the case, the Early
county program might be rejected
by the government authorities.
The committee has mailed cards
to the growers who participated in
last year’s program, but in the event
the grower has failed to receive one,
they may be obtained from the of
fice of the County Chairman, or
from any of the committeemen. It
is urged that these cards be filled
in immediately, as the time is rap
idly drawing to a close for signing
up for the program.
County Chairman Waters, in dis
cussing the program, said:
“It is my honest opinion that it
will be to the interest of every
cotton farmer in Early county to
undertake to enter into a govern
ment 1934-’35 rental contract. The
Agricultural Administration states
frankly that it is its purpose to
1 make it to the advantage of those
who do co-operate. There may be
those who are not eligible; there
are those whose acreage would be
reduced to such an extent as to de
stroy a balanced farming unit. In
each case it is desired that survey
cards be filled, staring reason for
not entering into the program.”
The committee, as announced by
Dr. Fuqua, is composed of the fol
lowing:
County Committee—R. O. Waters,
chairman, C. M. Deal, T. B. McDow
ell, J. E. Freeman.
Damascus-Cuba—W. R. Pullen.
Lucile-Cedar Springs—W. T. Clear
man.
Jakin—T. G. Harvey, Jr.
Rock Hill—John B. Still.
Freeman-Urquhart—/Theo White.
Colomokee—K. J. Hodges.
Arlington—J. M. Garrett.