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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVI > NO. 18
Final 1936 Meeting
Tri-County Medical
Society Held Here
The Tri-County Medical Society
held its last quarterly meeting of
the year in Blakely last week.
Clinical cases were offered by
Drs. Shepard, Gunter, Beard and
Standifer.
Officers for 1937 were elected as
follows:
President: Dr. R. R. Bridges,
Leary.
Vice President: Dr. J. S. Beard,
Edison.
Sec.-Treasurer: Dr. J. G. Standi
fer, Blakely.
Board of Censors: 1937, Dr. G.
0. Gunter, Blakely; 1938, Dr. E. B.
Baughn, Colquitt; 1939, Dr. W. O.
Shepard, Bluffton.
Delegate to the State Association:
Dr. Holt Darden, Blakely; alternate
delegate, Dr. J. G. Standifer,
Blakely.
Public Health Committee: Dr. C.
K. Sharp, Arlington; Dr. W. C. Hays,
Colquitt; Dr. C. W. Twitty, Newton;
Dr. J. S. Beard, Edison; Dr. W. O.
Shepard, Bluffton.
The next meeting of the Society
will be held in Arlington in March.
CHANCELLOR SANFORD
NOTES PROGRESS
IN EDUCATION
(Georgia News Service)
Dahlonega, Ga.—At the dedication
of a $42,800 girls’ dormitory at
North Georgia College here last
week, Chancellor S. V. Sanford, of
the Georgia University System, said
that the new federal aid building at
various institutions have “changed
the attitude of our people towards
higher education.”
“Progress is now evident in all
sides,” he said, citing that fact that
for a long time “nothing was done
for higher education and stagnation
was evident.”
“The dedication was one of 18
buildings at 14 institutions being
erected with PWA assistance.
“All of the buildings were sore
ly needed,” Chancellor Sanford said,
“and more buildings must be erect
ed to care for the increasing at-,
tendance.”
He called attention to an in
crease from 8,035 to 10,543 students
in the University system between
1933 and 1936. “The University
System is now 7 the fifth largest state
university in the United States,” the
Chancellor added.
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holidays, beginning Monday, Dec. 21st.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
(Lonnti) JCewo
COUNTY TAX BOOKS
WILL CLOSE ON
DECEMBER 20TH
Tax Commissioner J. L. Houston
announces in The News this week
that his tax books will close on De
cember 20th. After that date exe
cutions will be issued, and interest
begins on the amount of taxes due.
Early county tax payers may save
these additional costs by paying their
taxes this week.
Musgrove Named
Executive Secretary
By Governor Rivers
(Georgia News Service)
Atlanta, Ga.—Appointment of
two well-known Georgians, Down
ing Musgrove, of Homerville, to be
his executive secretary, and Miss
Gertrude Liles, of Willacoochee, to
be his private secretary, was an
nounced the past week by Governor
elect E. D. Rivers.
Both are now in charge of offices
of Mr. Rivers and the Democratic
Executive Committee in the Hotel
Ansley.
In announcing the appointment of
his secretaries, Mr. Rivers expressed
the confidence that he was choosing
“young people of marked ability
who will reflect credit not only on
themselves but also on my adminis
tration.”
Mr. Musgrove, who will succeed
W. Carlton Mobley, is a native of
Clinch county. He studied law at
the University of Georgia, following
his graduation from Riverside Mili
tary Academy, practiced law with Mr.
Rivers and had charge of the govern
nor-elect’s offices in Homerville. He
has served nearly four years as
solititor of the city court of Homer
ville.
He is a son of Representative W.
V. Musgrove, of Clinch county, one
of south Georgia’s most prominent
naval stores operators.
Miss Liles, a gifted young woman
of gracious and prepossessing per
sonality, joined Mr. Rivers staff dur
ing his 1928 campaign and at its con
clusion remained as his private
secretary and has handled his private
correspondence ever since.
Visit our shop and see the flow
ers, blooming plants add Yule
tide novelties. MRS. MURDOCK’S
FLOWER SHOP.
Success to AH Who Pap Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1936.
Hope to Solve
Southern Farm
Tenant Problem
Hoping to solve the south’s farm
tenant problem, the federal resettle
ment administration has purchased
land in ten southern states to provide
farms for 917 tenant farmers under
its demonstration program.
Resettlement administration is de
voting most of its energy now to
completion of suburban rural and re
settlement projects and to caring for
farm families in need of direct relief.
The administration is faced with
the immediate problem of aiding
250,000 drought-improverished farm
families in the midwest, being trans
ferred to RA rolls from WPA.
The administration has undertaken
immediate investigations of all these
relief cases.
In connection with the farm ten
ancy program, 76,925 acres of land
has been purchased for the 917 farms
and distributed as follows:
North Carolina, 100; Tennessee,
64; South Carolina, 60; Georgia
113; Alabama, 104; Arkansas, 110;
Oklahoma, 59; Texas, 105.
Tenancy program proposals at the
present are directed chiefly toward
eradication of the worst tenancy
evils in the south. Efforts will be
made to relieve the situation in the
other areas as soon as possible.
Farms in RA’s demonstration ten
ancy program cost approximately $5,-
000 each, including cost of necessary
equipment and supplies.
The tenants will live on the land
during a five-year preliminary period
and pay rent amounting to 3 per
cent annually of the total invest
ment. Then, if the tenant wishes
to plrchase the farm, he will begin
payments designed to amortize the
full cost over a forty-year period.
The farm resettlement work has, it
is believed by many, solved one of
the problems of unemployment to a
measurable extent.
Official Figures
Presidential Race
Are Announced
The final official count of the
total vote in the November 3 presi
dential election is 45,814,377, ac
cording to tabulations of the Asso
ciated Press announced this week.
The record-breaking total was cast
as follows:
Roosevelt 27,752,309
Landon . 16,682,524
Others 1,379,565
Roosevelt’s Plurality .. 11,069,785
The figures certified by election
officials in every state included the
following minor party votes:
Lemke (Union party) . 892,793
Thomas (Socialist) 187,342
Browder (Communist) 80,096
Colvin (Prohibitionist) .... 38,609
Aiken (Social-Laborite) .... 12,793
Scattering void .... 168,911
Say it with Flowers; say it with
ours! It isn’t too early to order
Christmas flowers. Visit or ’phone
now. MRS. MURDOCK’S FLOWER
SHOP.
J. A. (Butch) Hammack, history
professor and football coach: “We
have just had a seat on the 50-yard
line of a nice bit of history making’.
As you remember, George Washing
ton was first in war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts of his coun
trymen, and yet he married a wid
ow. It looks to me as if history
again has repeated itself.”
Spencer King, pastor: “There was
a woman once who asked the king
for the head of another man and
she got it, but Mrs. Simpson is very
modest, she only asked the king
for the king.”
Lowrey Stone, attorney: “At the
rate Mrs. Simpson is obtaining di
vorces and the price she is paying
for them, she is just the kind of a
client every lawyer dreams of hav
ing.”
A. T. Fleming, newspaperman:
“History keeps records; the public
soon forgets. I rather imagine in
years to come that the average per
son will remember the King as the
THE KING AND
THE COMMONER
33 United States
Citizens Have Income
Os Million or More
The U. S. treasury reports that
33 of the nation’s 4,000,000 income
tax payers had incomes of $1,000,-
000 or more for the year 1934.
The millionaire group compared
with 50 in 1933, 20 in 1932 and 513
in 1929.
With 4,094,420 persons filing in
come tax returns, the treasury re
ported in its first complete analysis
for 1934 that their income totaled
$12,796,802,000, of which the gov
ernment claimed $511,400,000.
Largest contributors to the feder
al till were the 102,892 persons in
the SIO,OOO to $25,000 income
group. Millionaires paid the least.
Next to the top flight of incomes
of $1,000,000,0000 and upwards,
incomes of $5,000 or less accounted
for the smallest tax payment.
Taxpayers in the latter category
numbered 3,670,000, or 89 per cent
of all persons filing returns. Their
tax payments were set at $34,600,-
000, or 6.7 per cent of the total
collections.
The identity of those who chalked
up the big incomes was not disclosed.
The gross 1934 income aggre
gated $15,092,960,000, but reduc
tions brought the net figure down.
Os the gross income, salaries, wages,
commissioners and fees accounted
for $8,600,455,000, or 57 per cent.
Stock dividends were the next most
important source, at $1,965,670,000,
or 13 per cent, and business profits
third at $1,716,842,000, or 11 per
cent.
No Georgians in Million
Dollar Class
There were no Georgians listed as
having incomes of a million dollars
in 1934. Twenty-five of them were
reported as having incomes of $50,-
000 or more.
Mayor-Minister
In Road Safety
Talk at Funeral
Rev. M. B. Brown, of Richland, the
only minister in Georgia who is also
a mayor, recently devoted a part of
a funeral sermon to advocating en
actment of the state highway patrol
and drivers license law. The minister
mayor was called to preach the fun
eral of three school children and an
adult who were killed when a truck
side-swiped a school bus. Having
already written several articles in
suppost of the Dixie Motor Club’s
campaign for a driver’s license and
highway patrol, he said in his funeral
sermon that if Georgia had such a
law, accidents like the one which
sent those four innocent persons to
their deaths, would be far less num
erous. He urged support of the
movement to provide such a law
through the next legislature. Rev.
Brown is not only the only minister
mayor in Georgia, but Richland folks
say he is the state’s “biggest” mayor,
as he stands six feet five inches tall
and weighs almost exactly 300
pounds.
(Excerpts from imaginary inter
views with Blakely people con
cerning the King Edward-Wally
Simpson affair—written purely in
the spirit of fun):
■; man who married Ernest Simpson’s
, : widow.”
■ Grady Holman, mule dealer: “I
; have always contended and this only
makes my belief more concrete that
1 a persistent woman was closely re-
I lated to a kicking mule, only the
■ mule will stop kicking long before
i the woman stops persisting.”
C. L. Middleton, insurance agent:
“It looks is if the king took the
Lloyd’s Insurance firm for a snipe
hunting and they have definitely
been left holding the bag.”
J. C. Peters, theatre owner: “It
seems now that the title of the play,
‘The King and the Commoner,’ will
have to be changed to ‘The Common
er and the Commoner’.”
When J. R. Puckett, gas dealer
and newlywed, was informed that
I King Edward had just renounced
his throne for the love of a woman,
! his eyes became brighter and his
face took on an iridescent glow and
jhe exclaimed: “Who was this guy
i Baldwin to keep them from marry
: ing? He is the first gas pump I ev
, er heard of who wore pants.”
10,379 BALES COTTON
GINNED IN EARLY UP
TO DEC. 1 OF 1936 CROP
The cotton ginners census report
for December Ist shows that there
had been ginned from the 1936 crop
in Early county 10,379 bales of
cotton, as compared to 9,347 to
the same date in 1935—a gain of
1,032 bales. These figures were
given to The News by Jesse E. Wid
ener, special agent for the depart
ment of commerce.
Jan. 10 Time Limit
For Buying Tickets
On Rivers Special
(Georgia News Service)
Atlanta, Ga.—Announcement has
been made by H. E. Pleasants, As
sistant General Passenger Agent of
the Seaboard Air Railway, that the
time limit for purchase of space on
the “Governor Rivers Special” to
the inauguration of President Roose
velt has been moved up to January
10 th.
“This has become necessary”, said
Mr. Pleasants, “because we must
know by January 10 just how many
passengers there will be in order to
secure adequate Pullman accommo
dations.”
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
has been named official route for
the “Governor Rivers Special” and it
is expected that in addition to Mr.
Rivers and other state officials and
members of the General Assembly
numerous other Georgias will accept
the invitation to join the party.
At the direction of Governor-elect
Rivers, his executive secretary,
Downing Musgrove, has issued a
statement urging as many Georgians
as possible to make the trip and to
buy tickets through Mr. Pleasants
at the earliest possible moment at
his offices, 22 Marietta Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
The exceptionally low rates for
the round trip cover occupancy of
Pullman space while in Washington,
thus saving the expense of a hotel
bill.
OFFICERS ELECTED BY
BOARD OF STEWARDS
OF METHODIST CHURCH
At its regular monthly meeting the
Board of Stewards of the Blakely
Methodist church elected the follow
ing officers: R. C. Singletary, re
elected Chairman; M. T. Chipstead,
Vice Chairman, succeeding H. B.
Ainsworth; C. L. Tabb, Secretary,
succeeding C. A. Grubbs, who has
been Secretary for the past seven
years; and Miss Evelyn Dußose,
pianist. The Board voted to accept
the same amount of benevolences for
the coming church year.
James J. Braddock, world heavy
weight champion, has signed to meet
Max Schmeling at the Long Island
Bowl on June 3rd.
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B 3. Traveling Bags.
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U 5. Shaving Sets.
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M 10. Christmas Cards and Seals.
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| PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
12,0000 Left CCC
For Outside Jobs
Each Month In ’36
Washington, D. C.—Reporting that
12,000 young men left the Civilian
Conservation Corps for outside jobs
each month in 1936, Robert Fechner
recommended Monday the program
be made permanent.
His annual report as director of
emergency conservation work showed
a CCC enrollment of 378,467 for the
year.
“As long as there are young men,
eager to work, yet idle through no
fault of their own,” he said, “the
CCC can continue to be an effective
part of our national policy, because
the work of conservation which needs
doing is so great as to be able to
use for many years, the services of
many men.
“The average boy who has served
a few months in the corps is much
more likely to get and hold a job
than he would have been without
his training in the corps.”
If CCC is made permanent, Fech
ner added, “it is strongly urged and
recommended that all positions save
enrollees and intermittent workers
should be placed under the classified
civil service.”
WEEKLY MEETING OF
ROTARY CLUB HELD
AT NOON THURSDAY
The regular weekly meeting of
the Blakely Rotary Club, held at
noon last Thursday, with President
Bill Grist presiding, was given over
to a discussion of matters pertain
ing to the Club. The President re
ports that he attended a recent in
ter-city meeting of the Albany and
Cuthbert clubs, held in Cuthbert.
Rotarian Barnett Solomon had as
his guest Mr. Osborne, of Atlanta.
UNION F. F. A. NEWS
The Union F. F. A. Chapter has
organized a thrift bank for the
purpose of saving money to make a
trip to Washington this summer.
These officers have been elected on
the Board of Directors: Jesse
Woolf, Ralph Balkcom, and Ben
White. Mark Peterson was elected
chairman of the board and cashier.
The boys have taken the money
that has been deposited and pur
chased seven feeder pigs. These
pigs are going to be fattened and
sold.
On December 8 those boys having
beef calves, as a part of their
project, attended a barbecue given
by the Cudahy Packing Company in
Albany. The officials of the com
pany had arranged an inspection
tour through the plant for them.
The purpose of this tour was to
show the boys how butchering and
packing are carried on under mod
ern sanitary conditions. This tour
proved entertaining as well as edu
cational.
—JAMES CHANCY, Reporter.