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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV } NO. 24
PROCESSING TAX ON
HOGS $1.50 PER 100
ON FEBRUARY IST
STATEMENT ISSUED BY W. E.
PAGE, COLLECTOR OF
INTERNAL REVENUE
W. E. Page, collector of internal
revenue, has issued the following
statement relative to the processing
tax on hogs:
“The Secretary of Agriculture in
Hog Regulations, Series 1, Revision
1, made by him and approved by
the President, dated December 21,
1933, has determined that in order
to effectuate the declared policy of
the Agricultural Adjustment Act,
an adjustment of the rate of the
processing tax on the first domestic
processing of hogs, as of January 1,
1934, February 1, 1934, and March
1, 1934, was necessary, and has de
termined that the rate of the pro
cessing tax on the first domestic
processing oi hogs, as of January
1, 1934, shall be SI.OO per hundred
weight, live weight; as of February
1, 1934, $1.50 per hundredweight,
live weight; and as of March 1,
1934, $2.25 per hundredweight, live
weight.
“In instances where the producer
sells only a part of a hog the pro
ducer shall furnish this office with
the weights of the different cuts
that were sold. A return will then
be prepared by this office and for
warded to such person who has
sold only part of hogs.
“The monthly processing returns
are required to be filed on or be
fore the last day of the month fol
lowing that in which the slaughter
ing was done. To illustrate, No
vember return was due to be filed
and the tax paid on or before De
cember 31, 1933.”
Returns should be made to W. E.
Page, collector internal revenue, At
lanta, Ga.
Important Baptist
Meeting at Buffton
Sunday Afternoon
A meeting of importance to mem
bers of the churches of the Bethel
Association is to be held at Bluffton
next Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock,
it is announced by leaders of the
denomination. Plans for work for
the current year will be discussed,
which includes a proposed “Plant a
Plot” movement. Members from
all churches in the Association are
expected to attend the meeting.
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1 pound Can Charmer Coffee . X*7C
2 Cans Mackerel ■ ISc
1 Can Eagle Brand Milk . . 20C
3 Packages Salt .... XOC
100 pound Sack Salt . . . 95C
100 pound Sack Seed Potatoes , s2*Bs
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January Collection
Os Oil Tax Yielded
$1,171,100 to State
Gasoline and kerosene oil tax col
lections by the state of Georgia dur
ing the month of January exceeded
the December collections by nearly
$50,000 and were more than $200,-
000 above the collections in January,
1933, it was reported by Comptroller
General William B. Harrison.
The total fuel oil tax collections
in January of this year for Decem
ber sales amounted to $1,171,100.14,
of which $1,153,164.12 was collected
off gasoline sales and $17,936.02
from kerosene oil.
The total collections last month
were $1,122,310.47 and those last
January amounted to $956,854.04.
Two-thirds of the gasoline tax goes
to the State Highway Department,
one-sixth to the common schools and
one sixth to the various counties. The
schools get the entire kerosene oil
tax.
Two New Members
Added to Roster of
Blakely Rotary Club
The Blakely Rotary Club, at its
weekly luncheon held at the noon
hour last Thursday, welcomed into
its fold two new members—Lowrey
Stone coming in under the classifi
cation of attorney-at-law, and Oscar
Whitchard as retail grocery dealer.
Both of them spoke briefly and as
sured the Club their best efforts.
The Club had as its guests Miss
Brown and Mr. Pritchett, two state
CWA officials, and Miss Mae Ains
worth, Early county relief adminis
trator. They discussed the CWA
projects under way in this county
and the probability of securing ad
ditional laborers when the contem
plated physical examinations are put
into effect. Miss Brown gave it as
her opinion that Miss Shepperson,
State CWA director, would probably
effect a more equitable distribution
of CWA jobs in the reallocation of
projects following the examinations
to be held at an early date. Mr.
Pritchett stressed the necessity for
completing the projects under way
before others are asked for.
The Club registered another hun
dred percent attendance as all Ro
tarians answered to the roll call.
The luncheon was presided over
by President Bill Hall, Mrs. Ben
Haisten furnishing the musical pro
gram.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1934.
GEORGIA BANKS IN
GOOD CONDITION
LAST HALF OF 1933
TWELVE MILLION DOLLAR GAIN
IN DEPOSITES REPORTED
BY GORMLEY
Deposits in the state banks of
Georgia increased more than $12,-
000,000 during the last six months
of 1933, according to R. E. Gormley,
state superintendent of banks. Super
intendent Gormley added that all
signs pointed toward an immediate
return to normal banking conditions
in the state.
Mr. Gormley’s report showed that
on June 30, 1933, shortly after the
banking holiday deposits totaled $65,-
750,000 and that they had increased
to $77,844,000 at the close of the
business day on December 30, the
last banking day of the year. The
superintendent showed that for the
entire year the deposits increased
about $6,000,000 having totaled $72,-
045,000 on December 31, 1932.
E. B. Douglass, assistant superin
tendent, in charge of a survey on the
condition of the department, asserted
that the banks are far more liquid
than they were on December 31,
1932, and for some time previous.
Cash reserves appeared to be con
siderably higher, Mr. Douglass said,
while the item of money owed by
the banks showed a sharp decline dur
ing the year, though exact figures
of this have not yet been compiled.
The observations were based on pre
liminary reports.
Both Mr. Gombley and Mr. Doug
lass said that the general improve
ment in banking conditions was par
ticularly noticeable in the cotton
growing sections of the state.
The report of the superintendent
showed that improvementls were
marked despite the fact that the total
number of institutions dropped from
232 banks and 11 branches on Janu
ary 1, 1933, to 226 banks and nine
branches on January 1, 1934.
Federal Land Bank
Sustains Fast Pace
For Making Loans
Sustaining the pace set in Decem
ber, The Federal Land Bank of Co
lumbia closed over $8,000,000 in
loans during the month of January.
Through Friday, January 26th, 4,927
loans totaling $7,813,084 were
closed. The average daily loans
number approximately 200 with the
amount per loan around $1,600.
According to President F. H.
Daniel of the Land Bank, appraisals
are now on a current basis and 48
hours after an application for a
loan is received by the Bank it is in
the appraisal division. The time
required for appraisal and to return
the papers to the Bank is from ten
to fifteen days.
Where the abstract is furnished
promptly and creditor agreements
secured in the case of compilation of
the debt, the time required to close
a loan is about four weeks. In many
instances at the present time it is
the borrower who delays the Bank
and not the Bank who delays the
borrower.
With loans being closed in appre
ciable amounts, tax receivers in
many counties report back taxes of
several years standing paid up.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
BUSY THIS WEEK
The fire department has answered
three alarms this week. The first,
early Monday morning, was to ex
tinguish a burning automobile on
Liberty street belonging to Mr. J.
V. Hutchison. Little damage re
sulted from the fire. Late Monday
afternoon a small roof blaze at the
home of Gene Nix, colored, in the
northern section of the city, sum
moned the fire truck. The blaze
was extinguished before any damage
was done. Tuesday at noon the de
partment was called to the home of
Mr. J. G. Craft, in the western part
of the city, where a roof blaze did
some little damage before it was
subdued with the chemical appara
tus.
AVIATION PROGRESS
IN 1933 IS TERMED
GREATEST SINCE WAR
AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT IN U.
S. ABREAST IF NOT SUPERIOR
OF ANY OTHER NATION
Developments in American avia
tion took their longest strides in
1933 since the World War, according
to a report submitted to Congress
the past week by the national ad
visory committee for aeronautics.
The principal experiments during
the year, the committee said in its
annual report, dealt with increasing
speed of planes, the most vital fac
tor for military and commercial
purposes. The speed of multi-mo
tored planes has been increased
from 40 to 60 per cent during 1933,
despite no increase in engine power,
the committee said.
Other experiments being conduct
ed by the committee in co-operation
with the war and navy departments
and the department of commerce
concern retractable landing gears,
increasing horsepower in motors
without augmentation of weight,
controllable - pitch propellers and
streamline developments.
The report, which recommended
continuation of funds to pursue avi
ation development, said “it is essen
tial to national defense and to Amer
ican air commerce that the United
States strive to keep abreast or ahead
of other nations.”
The committee said aircraft de
velopment in the United States is
abreast if not superior to that of
any other nation.
President Roosevelt, transmitting
the report to congress, wrote: “I
concur in the committee’s opinion
that continuous prosecution of fun
damental research in aeronautics is
essential to national defense and
to the future of air transportation
upon a sound economic basis.”
•
Cat Is Greatest
Menace to Georgia
Game Bird —Cravey
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
In the interest of more abundant
game birds in Georgia, the state
department of game and fish has
announced that it will encourage the
control of predatory animals with
the bulk of warfare directed against
the common house cat.
“It is a well-known fact that
birds of all kinds have no greater
enemies than stray cats,” according
to a statement made public by the
department. “It has been estimated
that there is a cat for almost every
person in the United States, and
that 65 per cent of them are strays.
These figures are furnished by the
International Cat Society. Careful
studies indicate that each such cat
accounts for at least fifty birds each
year, or more than are killed by all
hunters during the lawful seasons.
“A very serious side of the mat
ter is revealed when we consider
that cats hunt all the year, and that
during the breeding season, when
the quail are on the ground, the
death of the parent birds means the
death of a whole covey. And since
most of the hunting done by cats is
done at night, while quail are roost
ing on the ground, damage to the
quail crop is enormous.
“We do not want to cause pain
to any animal. We ask that control
methods be as humane as possible.
We are not going to advocate any
slow poisons or other methods that
will give pain. We will furnish di
rections for the construction of a
type of box trap that kills animals
by gas. Such a trap is humane and
inexpensive, and will do much to
reduce the number of cats now
ranging the fields and living on our
valuable birds.”
CITY TAX RETURN
BOOKS NOW OPEN
Miss Cora Saxon, city clerk and
treasurer, announces in The News
that the books are now open for
giving in tax returns for 1934.
15-Day Extension
For Purchase Auto
Tags Is Granted
A fifteen-day extension of time for
buying automobile license tags was
announced Monday by Governor
Talmadge.
The governor urged motorists to
speed up the purchase of the tags
“and avoid the penalty of $1.60
each.”
The time for buying tags would
have closed on Wednesday, and with
out the governor’s order each sale
after that time would have carried
a penalty of $1 for the sheriff of
the county where the motorist lives,
plus 20 per cent of the cost of the
tag. The 20 per cent in all cases
would be 60 cents, under Governor
Talmadge’s order reducing all tags
to a flat price of $3.
Marcus P. McWhorter, director of
the motor vehicle division of the
state revenue division, said a little
less than half of the tags for 1934
had been sold. Sales up to Monday
noon were estimated at 160,000
against a total registration in 1933
of 343,900.
New Chevrolet
Now on Display
In This City
The new 1934 Chevrolet is now
on display in the show rooms of the
McKinney Chevrolet Co., and the
public in large numbers has seen
this wonderful new car. Those who
have not seen it are invited by Mr.
McKinney to visit the show rooms.
There has been a great deal of
interest in this new car due to the
fact that it was the first low priced
car to announce knee-action wheels,
which means that cars will have no
front axle. Mr. McKinney informs
us that he has driven this new car
and that there is unusual comfort
due to the fact that the stiff front
axle has been eliminated.
This car also has a new 80-horse
power Blue Streak engine and is ca
pable of doing eighty miles per houi’
with a great deal faster accelera
tion. The car is longer and has in
creased room inside, giving the
comforts of a large automobile.
Increased smoothness and twelve
per cent greater gas economy are
among the many advantages of the
car. New all-weather braking pow
er adds to safety. Altogether there
are 193 changes in this new 1934
Chevrolet and the management and
sales force of the McKinney Chevro
let Company are anxious that the
public come in and have these new
features explained in detail.
Prices on the new line of cars are:
five window coupe, $565; sport
coupe with rumble seat, $605;
coach, $585; sedan, $645; town se
dan with built-in trunk, $615; sport
roadster with rumble seat, $545;
and cabriolet with rumble seat, $665.
STATIONERY
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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
BLAKELY JOINS
CELEBRATION OF
PRESIDENT’S BALL
TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS ADDED
TO WARM SPRINGS FUND
FROM EVENT HELD HERE
Blakely on Tuesday night joined
the nation-wide observance of the
52nd birthday anniversary of Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt, President of
the United States, when a President’s
Ball was staged at the American
Legion Hall. Mr. B. B. Godwin,
with little advance notice or adver
tising, planned the celebration and
made the arrangements for the oc
casion, and the net receipts of some
twenty-four dollars is proof that he
did a most excellent job.
The nation-wide celebration was
planned by friends of the President
for the Warm Springs Foundation
for infantile paralysis, with special
emphasis on crippled children. The
evening’s observance included a ra
dio address by the Chief Executive,
in which he lauded the movement
and expressed heartfelt thanks for
the work which was being done, add
ing that “it is the happiest birth
day of my life.” It was estimated
that 6,000 of these President’s Balls
were being held throughout the na
tion and that the receipts for the
Foundation fund would probably
run into the millions.
The music for the local celebration
was furnished by the Midnight Ram
blers, Mrs. Ben Haisten, Mr. Josh
Davis, Miss .Virginia Brooks and
Frank Gilbert, Jr. A- large crowd
attended the ball, which included
dancing and light refreshments.
In connection with the nation
wide observance, it is stated that
the President’s messages of congrat
ulations upon the occasion of his
birthday included 150,000 telegrams
in addition to cards, letters and
gifts—a testimony of the love and
esteem in which the nation’s leader
is held by his fellow-countrymen.
Half Dollar’s Worth
Os Food Keeps Jap
Well for Month
Half a dollar’s worth of food a
month will keep a brain worker well
and vigorous, says Dr. Kenzo Futaki,
of Tokyo, Japan.
This Japanese authority of diet,
practices what he preaches. “I eat
only uncleaned rice and bean soup,
and eat only once a day,” he said.
“You can see I am strong and well.
Most people eat far too much.”
His rice and beans, he asserted,
cost only about a yen and a half a
month, about 50 cents in American
money.