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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV }> NO. 26
CRAVEY URGES
CITIZEN GAME
LAW COOPERATION
IMPOSSIBLE, WITH LIMITED
FUNDS, TO POLICE THE
ENTIRE STATE
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Pointing out the necessity for en
forcement of game and fish laws,
Commissioner Zack D. Cravey, in a
statement just issued, asked the co
operation of all citizens in prose
cuting and securing convictions of
violators of these laws. He pointed
out that it is impossible, due to
lack of funds for the department of
game and fish, to police the entire
state, but,, he added, with a few
convictions here and there, the
slaughter of game and fish by a
few unprincipled individuals can be
stopped.
“One of the great needs of the
Department of Game and Fish,”
said Mr. Cravey, “is the full co-op
eration of every citizen of the
State in enforcing game and fish
laws. The Department receives
many complaints that Mr. John Doe
is violating the law in some place,
and asking that we do something
about it. We can send wardens
and stop the violation, but when we
are ready to prosecute the guilty
party, the ones who report the vio
lation are not willing to appear as
witnesses and testify in the case.
“It is utterly impossible for this
department, with its lack of funds,
to police the entire state as it should
be done. For this reason the Depart
ment asks that every one of the
citizens who know of direct viola
tions be willing to help us stop
them. With your testimony we can
get convictions, and a few convic
tions here and there are all that we
need to stop the slaughter of game
and fish by a few unprincipled in
dividuals who are spoiling the sport
for us all.
“I pointed out once before that
we intend to see that vioators get
what is coming to them. Please do
not think we are encouraging ‘tale
bearing,’ but I want you to realize
that we are just asking you to help
us protect what belongs to you.
With a little help from you, we can
stop practically all violations, and
save for the public what is rightfully
theirs.”
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BLAKELY, GA.
Con nW
No Chance For
Vets Getting Back
Pay Until 1935
Georgia is $247 in arrears on
each pension account with Confed
erate veterans and their widows,
and there is no chance of the back
money being paid until after the
legislature meets in 19§5.
Attorney General M. J. Yeomans
ruled last week that no moneys col
lected in 1934 can be used in pay
ing 1933 pension accounts, leaving
$l2O due each of the pensioners
for that year. With $127 due on
1930 accounts, the amount is raised
to $247.
Even after the legislature meets
it is problematical whether action
will be taken to pay off the obliga
tions.
Examination For
Postmastership Here
To Be Held Saturday
Twenty citizens of Blakely aspire
to the postmastership of the local
office. That many have signified
their intention of taking the exami
nation to be held in the Federal
building in Albany next Saturday
morning at 9 o’clock.
The examination is being held
under the proclamation of President
Roosevelt and will be conducted by
the Civil Service. Under the pres
ent Democratic patronage custom,
the names of the three making the
highest marks will be submitted to
Postmaster General James. A. Far
ley, who will recommend one of
them to the President for appoint
ment. It is understood that the
Postmaster General will delegate to
Congressman Cox the privilege of
making the recommendation to the
President. Confirmation by the Sen
ate is then necessary.
The term of Mrs. L. M. Rambo,
present postmaster, expires the latter
part of April, and it is probable
that Congressman Cox will make
his recommendation to the President
prior to that time.
The salary of the Blakely postmas
ter is $2,300 per year, less 15
per cent.
There are probably some in the
list of twenty who signified their
intention of standing the examination
who will not do so, but it is believed
that a large majority of them will.
The News will publish the names of
those who do so next week.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1934.
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT HERE
CLASS B BOYS TO COMPETE IN
NEW SHELL HERE ON
FEB. 22-23-24
At a meeting in Moultrie
Saturday of the coaches of the
high schools of the Southwest
Georgia Athletic Association,
plans were completed and
pairings announced for the
holding of the annual basket
ball tournaments of this dis
trict.
The larger schools, classed
into Group B, will compete in
the new shell on the campus
of the Blakely high school,
which is under construction
and expected to be completed
in time for the games. In
cluded in Group B are the fol
lowing schools: Quitman, Ca
milla, Moultrie, Colquitt, Pel
ham, Albany, Sylvester, Thom
asville, Blakely and Donalson
ville.
The tournament will open
Thursday night and will be
concluded on Saturday night
when the finals are played.
Drawings for B boys are as
follows:
Thursday, Feb. 22
Quitman vs. Moultrie, 7 p. m.
Camilla vs. Colquitt, 8 p. m.
Pelham vs. Blakely, 9 p. m.
Friday, Feb. 23
Thomasville vs. winner of
Quitman-Moultrie game, 7 p.
m.
Albany vs. winner of Camil
la-Colquitt game, 8 p. m.
Sylvester vs. Cairo, 9 p. m.
Donalsonville vs. winner of
Pelham-Blakely game, 10 p. m.
Saturday, Feb. 24
Saturday morning the semi
finals will be played beginning
at 10 o’clock and Saturday
night the finals will be played
at 8 o’clock.
There will be some hundred
or more of these boys here
for the tournament and the
citizens of Blakely are going
to be asked to provide homes
for them during their stay
here and it is hoped they will
readily respond. Those who
will accommodate two or more
of the boys are asked to imme
diately notify Supt. Woodward
of Coach Hammack.
Famous Old Warm
Sorings Hotel Razed
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Warm Springs, Ga. —Famous old
Meriwether Inn, which was a favor
ite resort of Atlanta and Columbus
people when they came here by
stage coach, is being dismantled and
razed and in its place will be built
modern cottages for infantile paraly
sis patients.
Before the springs here came to
be widely used for treatment of
paralysis the inn was patronized by
many important persons whose names
ire by-words in southern history.
Later, the Warm Springs Founda
tion took over the old building
ind guests and patients were housed
there.
Many improvements were made
and about a year ago the name of
the structure was changed from
Meriwether Inn to the Administra
tion building. In late years, how
ever, it was a decided fire menace
and during the building of Georgia
Hall definite plans were made to re
place it with patients’ cottages.
Last week President Roosevelt
cancelled all domestic air mail
contracts.
BLAKELY COVERED
WITH MANTLE OF
WHITE SATURDAY
SLEET OR “HOMINY SNOW’” RE
MAINS ON GROUND
TILL SUNDAY
Sweeping down out of the
northeast, a cold wave which
enveloped the entire eastern
seaboard, laid its icy hand on
Blakely and Southwest Geor
gia early Saturday morning.
For the first time since 1912,
Blakely was blanketed with a
mantle of white, the result of
a sleet or “hominy snow” fall,
part of which fell Saturday
morning with another fall
coming in the afternoon.
To most of the children of
Blakely, it was a gala day.
Many of them had never seen
snow nor sleet. With the tem
perature dropping to 23 de
grees and playing around 25
degrees all day, and on the
wings of a stiff northeast wind,
the two flurries left a coat of
white. The young folks could
not resist the temptation to
venture out into it. No big
snow fell, but the “hominy
snow” was an unusual sight.
The sub-freezing tempera
ture with the rain and sleet
made driving dangerous, cars
skidded and windshields were
quickly coated with ice. As a
result automobiles were over
turned, although no serious
injuries were reported. Frozen
water pipes were generally re
ported and stalled cars with
frozen radiators were common
sights. Walking the ice-coat
ed paved walks caused many
a citizen to take a seat uncere
moniously and without prepa
ration.
The coating of ice and sleet
remained till Sunday, when
fog, rain and a slowly rising
temperature melted the first
white mantle Blakely has had
since 1912. The lowest tem
perature was 23 degrees, not
as low as the 19 of the past
January and by no means
reaching the low marks of
January, 1924, with 6, or Feb
ruary, 1899, with one below
zero.
50 Cent Cut Ordered
In Blakely Business
Telephone Rates
News dispatches in Tuesday’s dai
lies state that the Public Service
Commission has ordered a 50-cent
cut in the monthly rate of the
business individual lines served by
the Blakely Telephone Company. The
present rate is $3.50, and the cut
will reduce it to $3.00.
The residential rates were not
changed, it was stated.
City Street Tax
Rate $2.50 If Paid
By First of May
The monthly meeting of the May
or and Council, scheduled to have
been held on Tuesday night of last
week, was postponed until Friday
night. Outside of the rusual routine
matters, Council fixed the street tax
rate at $2.50 and set the time limit
for this rate as the first day of May.
Every male citizen of Blakely who
was 21 years of age by February Ist
is subject to the tax.
[First Aid School
Os Instruction for
Relief Workers
A school of instruction for first
aid treatment for relief workers
was completed here this week.
The movement, which was spon
sored by the American Red Cross,
included six workers in Early coun
ty, one for each CWA project under
course of construction, and three
from Clay county. The course of
instruction was given by Dr. W. W.
Evans, who was appointed by local
Red Cross officials. Each worker
taking the course was also presented
a kit of first aid remedies by the
Reel Cross. Dr. Evans announced
completion of the school the past
Monday.
New Members
Given Talk On
Rotary, Its Objects
The new members recently re
ceived into the Blakely Rotary
Club were given an interesting and
instructive talk on Rotary, its his
tory, aims and objects, at last Thurs
day’s luncheon hour. Rotarian Mar
vin Sparks delivered the message,
which was enjoyed by all the Club
members. At the conclusion of his
talk, Rotarian Sparks presented the
new members with a framed copy
of the Six Objects of Rotary.
Mr. J. D. Smith, district super
visor and appraiser for the Federal
Home Loan Owners Corporation, was
a guest of Rotarian Stone. The
Club members were treated to a
splendid talk on the purposes of the
Corporation by the visitor. His talk
included an eloquent tribute to
President Roosevelt.
The luncheon was presided over
by Rotarian Sparks in the absence
of President Hall.
James A. Farley
To Visit Savannah
On February 22
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
James A. Farley, chairman of the
Democratic national committee and
postmaster general of the United
States, will visit Savannah on Feb
ruary 22, it was revealed by Mayor
Thomas Gamble who invited Farley
to stop off in that city on his way
north from Jacksonville. This is the
postmaster general’s first visit to
Savannah and he wrote, “I am look
ing forward to my visit with a great
deal of anticipation.”
A full day’s program is being
arranged for the 22nd and Mayor
Gamble has indicated that a feature
of it will be a dinner, attended by
Savannahians and by two represent
atives from each of the counties in
the first district.
The low temperature and high winds
have made soft skins
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2 MILLION ACRES
OF STATE WOODS
ON CCC FIRE MAP
MAIN ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF
FORESTRY WORKERS IN
SIX MONTHS LISTED
Nearly 2,000,000 acres of Georgia
forest land have been accurately
mapped, greatly reducing the fire
hazard, through the services of the
Civilian Conservation Corps, State
Forester B. M. Lufburrow said in a
recently issued statement.
The reduction of fire hazard by
means of the mapping work is the
result of the aid which the maps will
provide in planning defense measures
against any blazes which may break
out, and the new ability to locate
fires accurately.
Lufburrow said that and the 13,-
236 man-days of fire fighting which
the CCC members contributed prob
ably were the outstanding results of
the work in Georgia, now six months
old.
Other accomplishments of the six
months were reported by the forester
as 158.3 miles of telephone lines
built, 1,490.4 miles of fire breaks
constructed, seven lookout towers
and three lookout houses built for
locating fires, 232.2 miles of truck
trail built in the forests, 253.2 miles
of such trails maintained, 108.3 miles
of foot and horse trails built, 82,-
169.6 miles of lineal surveys made,
and 515 bridges built.
The record covered only the twen
ty-six camps under the direction of
the forest service, and did not in
clude the work done on the national
forest in national parks. The twenty
six state camps were not all estab
lished at the same time, but their
age now averages six months.
The maps show not only the phy
sical features of the land but also
the types of trees, the location of
water supplies for fire fighting, and
other valuable information, such as
the most effective location for fire
breaks. They also show the varieties
of marketable timber present and
provide information on which the
owner of the land can base develop
ment plans.
The forester said the activities of
the CCC had added something like
1,000,000 acres to the Georgia forest
area under organized protection
bringing the total to more than 3,-
000,000 acres.
In that territory the CCC workers
have constructed the twenty-five and
thirty-foot primary firebreaks, the
lookout stations and telephone lines
for summoning fire fighters. The
owners have agreed to maintain those
improvements and to build their own
secondary breaks.