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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVI } NO. 21
1936 RAINFALL
ABOVE YEARLY
AVERAGE HERE
TOTAL FOR YEAR, 60.29 INCHES.
COLDEST DAY JANUARY 18,
HOTTEST JULY 11
Rainfall in Blakely in 1936 was
above the average yearly rainfall
for this section, although it was
considered a dry year. The total
rainfall for the year, as shown by
the records of Dr. J. G. Standifer,
local observer of the U. S. Weather
Bureau, was 60.29 inches.
Os the year’s total, 12.16
inches fell in January, which was
followed by very dry weather. De
cember, the last month of the year,
recorded a rainfall of 6.61 inches.
The coldest day in 1936 was on
January 18, when the mercury tum
bled to 18. The hottest day of the
year was July 11, when the tem
perature recorded was 106.
Other interesting data on the 1936
weather record will be found in the
summary for the year as given be
low, the summary for the month of
December also following:
Summary for Year 1936
TEMPERATURE: Mean, 67.4;
maximum, 106 on July 11; mini
mum, 18 on January 18.
PRECIPITATION: Total, 60.29
inches; greatest amount in any
month, 12.16 inches in January;
greatest in any 24-hour period,
5.57 inches on January 19.
MISCELLANEOUS: Last killing
frost in the spring, February 12;
first killing frost in the fall, Novem
ber 17; length of growing season,
278 days.
Summary for December
TEMPERATURE: Mean maxi
mum, 62.7; mean minimum, 45.0;
mean. 53.8; maximum, 78 on the
6th, 28th and 29th; minimum, 31
on the 20th; greatest daily range,
30 degrees.
PRECIPITATION: Total, 6.61
inches; greatest amount in any 24-
hour period, 2.78 inches on the 15th.
MISCELLANEOUS: Number of
days with 0.01 inch or more of
rainfall, 10; clear, 10; partly cloudy,
6; cloudy, 15; light fog on 29th;
killing frosts on 20th and 21st.
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SALT or MATCHES 3 for ... 10c
POST TOASTIES 2 15c
MEATS
Steak, best, lb. 20c Weiner Sausage, lb 18c
Stew Beef, lb. 12c Breakfast Sausage, lb.„ 25c
Beef Roast, lb. 14c Oleo, Good Luck, lb 20c
Sausage, smoked, lb. 18c Oleo, Standard 18c
Country Butter, lb. 30c Roast Pork, lb. 18c
Count}) JXcws
Tuberculosis Chest
Clinic Here On
Wednesday, Feb. 3
A chest clinic conducted jointly
by the local physicians, State Board
of Health, division of tuberculosis
control, and State Tuberculosis As
sociation, will be held in the Early
county court house on Wednesday,
February 3, 1937.
Any one living in the house with,
or visiting some one with tubercu
losis, also those with the following
symptoms—unusual fatigue (tired,
worn-out feeling), sudden or steady
loss of weight, night sweats, after
noon fevers, cough that continues
dry, productive of blood spitting,
pain in chest, shortness of breath—
should make application to their
physician or the county nurse at
once, as only a limited number can
be taken. Do not delay making ap
plication, as the District Tuberculo
sis Nurse, Mrs. Jewell Cumbie, will
only be in this county a few days
to perfect organization of the
clinic.
Increases Are
Shown In State’s
Income Taxes
State income tax collections in
creased 23 per cent during 1936,
growing from $2,096,739 in 1935
to $2,589,875 for the year just
closed, according to figures an
nounced by John Andy Smith, of
the income tax division of the State
Revenue Commission.
Os the 1936 collections the sum
of $1,402,942 was paid in corpora
tion taxes, $829,709 in individual
income taxes, $43,767 in interest on
oil taxes, and $13,165 in penalties.
There also was collected $165,594 in
delinquent individual taxes.
The department mailed out on
December 31 a total of 50,926 in
come tax returns on 1936 incomes
that will be collectible in 1937.
During the year 1936 a total of
10,771 individuals paid income tax
es to the state, and 13,128 filed non
taxable returns. Other returns in
cluded 5,059 domestic corporations,
958 foreign corporations and 2,041
partnerships made returns.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1937.
BROWN APPOINTED
ASST. SECRETARY
OF AGRICULTURE
CO-WORKER NAMED ACTING
DIRECTOR AGRICULTURAL
EXTENSION SERVICE
Harry L. Brown, widely known to
Georgians as the man who has di
rected the agricultural adjustment
and soil conservation programs in
the state as Director of the State
Agricultural Extension Service, was
last week appointed Assistant Secre
tary of Agriculture by President
Roosevelt, and Walter Brown, no
relation to Harry, has been desig
nated Acting Director of the Agri
cultural Extension Service.
Now 48, Harry Brown was born
and reared on a farm in Forsyth
county, Ga. He graduated from
the University of Georgia College of
Agriculture in 1916. His earlier
experiences include six months as
herdsman for a large hog farm in
lowa, 16 months in the navy, as well
as two co-operative appointments
from the United States Department
of Agriculture and the state Exten
sion Service.
He became County Agricultural
Agent of Fulton county in 1920,
held the position for 12 1-2 years,
and in July, 1932, became Assistant
Director of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service. He was made Acting
Director in’ October, 1933, and Di
rector in January, 1934.
The Extension Service has been
the one agency in the state to co
ordinate all the New Deal farm ac
tivities with the regular better
farming undertakings, and Dr. S.
V. Sanford, chancellor of the Uni
versity System of Georgia, credits
the fine co-operative spirit between
all these agencies to Harry Brown’s
rare ability as an administrator and
diplomat and his thorough apprecia
tion of farm life. Brown has di
rected the activities through a criti
cal period of reorganization and
farm adjustment.
The new Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture has been unusually a'?®’
tive in the religious and civic ac
tivities of his state and community.
At the time of his appointment he
was President of the Board of Dea
cons of the Athens First Baptist
church, President of the Athens Ki
wanis Club, Chairman of the Kiwan
is state agricultural committee, and
director for the Athens YMCA, the
Athens district of the Salvation Ar
my, and the Voluntary Religious As
sociation of the University of Geor
gia.
Walter Brown, whom Dr. Sanford
immediately designated as Acting
Director of the Etxension Service,
was highly recommended by Harry
Brown, his former boss. Walter was
reared on a farm in Towns county,
Ga., and graduated from the Uni
versity of Georgia College of Agri
culture a year later than Harry.
After two years as County Agent
of Towns county, he was named
district agent in charge of County
Agents in the Atlanta district with
headquarters in Monroe.
He was taken from that position
in 1921 to develop the Extension
Service program in the Southeast
Georgia district. He has held that
position since,, and instead of the
10 agents with which he started,
there are now 40 agents in the
district.
From his headquarters in Savan
nah, he was transferred to Tifton
in 1932 to help supervise the agri
cultural extension workers located
there, but the rush of agricultural
adjustment activities brought him
to Athens headquarters two years
later. Still remaining in charge of
the Southeast Georgia district, he
has also served as state agent in
charge of the tobacco adjustment
programs during the last two years.
Commenting on Walter, Harry
recently said: “Considering the fact
that Walter was raised on a farm
in Northern Georgia, and has super
vised county agent work in both
Central and South Georgia, he is
more familiar with the agricultural
situation in the state as a whole than
any other man in the organization.”
BOARD OF EDUCATION
REDUCES SALARY COUNTY
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
The Early County Board of Edu
cation met in monthly session Tues
day. They reduced the salary of
the County School Superintendent
from $175 to $125 per month. Oth
er business transacted was incident
to the operation of the county
schools for the spring term.
MONTHLY TERM ORDINARY’S
COURT HELD MONDAY
Ordinary D. C. Morgan held his
regular monthly term of court Mon
day. Two new citations emanating
from the court appear in this issue
of The News.
STATE SOLONS TO
CANVASS BALLOTS
AS FIRST BIG TASK
COMPLETION OF INDUCTION
INTO OFFICE OF THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION PLANNED
Atlanta, Ga.—Georgia’s 51 sena
tors and 205 representatives will
have as one of their duties next
Monday the induction into office of
the remainder of the new pro-Roose
velt administration.
Committees appointed from the
senate and house will canvass the
November 3 general election ballot
and then declare E. D, Rivers the
duly elected governor.
They also will declare George B.
Hamilton and W. B. Harrison, treas
urer and comptroller general ousted
by Gov. Eugene Talmadge, to have
been returned to office.
In addition, the commitees will
say, John B. Wilson has been elect
ed secretary of state to succeed
himself and M. J. Yeomans attorney
general following himself in office.
Commissioner of Agriculture Co
lumbus Roberts, another pro-Roose
velt and anti-Talmadge official, took
office January 1, as did Dr. M. D.
Collins, succeeding himself as su
perintendent of schools.
Inauguration of Rivers, Hamilton,
Harrison, Wilson and Yeomans will
probably take place January 12, aft
er which the legislature will turn
to other business for the 10-day or
ganization session.
Leaders expect many bills design
ed to put into operation the exten
sive Rivers program to be intro
duced during the short meeting. The
law, however, does not permit their
passage at the organization session.
Some leaders have predicted that
’riwsession will adjourn January 16,
after six days, in order to permit
members to attend the inauguration
of President Roosevelt in Washing
ton January 20.
They have also indicated the reg
ular 60-day session, scheduled to
begin the second Monday after the
Fourth of July, may be moved up
to January 25, the Monday after
the Washington ceremonies. This,
it was explained, would give legis
lators a week to go to Washington
and visit their homes in Georgia
between sessions.
Work on the Rivers program,
which is expected to begin in ear
nest with the opening of the regular
session, is expected to feature the
following:
1. Old age pensions.
2. Seven months’ state-supported
school terms.
3. Free school books.
4. Highway patrol and drivers’
license.
5. Investigation of the Talmadge
administration.
6. Tax exemption for personal ef
fects and small homes occupied by
owners.
7. Reorganization of the state
highway department and board of
control of eleemosynary institutions.
8. Incorporation of rural free de
livery routes in the state highway
system.
Another matter, not in the Rivers
program, will be a proposal to re
peal the state’s prohibition laws.
This, leaders predicted, may engen
der one of the most heated contro
versies of the session.
NEW YEAR’S DAY
FOOTBALL GAMES
In the various bowl football
games on New Year’s Day: Pitts
burgh defeated the University of
Washington 21-0 at the Rose Bowl
in Pasadena; Santa Clara defeated
Louisiana State University 21-14 at
the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans!;
Duquesne defeated Mississippi State
13-12 at the Orange Bowl in Mi
ami; Texas Christian defeated Mar
quette 16-6 at the Cotton Bowl in
Dallas; Villanova and Auburn tied
7-7 at the Bicardi Bowl at Havana,
Cuba; and, lastly, the All-East team
defeated the All-West term 3-0 at
San Francisco. This game was
: played for the benefit of the Shrine
I Hospitals for Crippled Children.
Two Changes Are
Made in List Os
City Officials
Only two changes were made in
the personnel of the city’s official
family at the meeting of the Mayor
and Council held Tuesday night.
Mack Strickland was elected Chief
of Police, succeeding H. E. Minter,
and A. H. Gray was made City At
torney, succeeding Lowrey Stone.
The list of officials in full in
cludes:
City Clerk and Treasurer: C. C.
Lane.
Chief of Police: Mack Strickland.
Marshal: G. F. Pickle.
Supt. Water, Light and Cold
Storage Plant: A. R. Killebrew.
Manager Ice and Cold Storage
Dept.: W. M. Barksdale.
Fire Chief: W. R. Alexander.
City Attorney: A. H. Gray.
Street Superintendent: J. J. Mc-
Lendon.
T. B. McDowell was sworn in as
Mayor, succeeding Grady Holman,
who retired after a two-year term
of office.
Councilman R. C. Howell was
elected Mayor Protem.
Mayor McDowell deferred an
nouncement of Council committee
appointments till a later meeting.
The adoption of the business
license ordinance was postponed till
the next meeting.
New Member
Received Into
Rotary Club
Mr. Don S. Bridges, a former
member, was welcomed back into
the Blakely Rotary Club at its
weekly meeting held at noon last
Thursday. The new member enter
tained the Rotarians with several
song numbers, which were thorough
ly enjoyed.
Mrs. J. G. Standifer, president of
the Blakely P.-T. A., was a guest of
the Club and discussed the feeding
of the undernourished children at
Blakely high school, a WPA project
with which the P.-T. A. is co-operat
ing. The Club voted to give financial
assistance to this project and con
tributed in addition $50.00 toward
a fund for repairing the lunch room
building on the school campus.
Other visitors at the luncheon
included Mr. Carlisle Bagwell, of
Spartanburg, S. C., a guest of Ro
tarian Spencer King, and Mr. Thom
as Debnam, of Chicago, a guest of
Rotarian Barnett Solomon.
President Bill Grist was in charge
of the meeting, with Mrs. Ben Hais
ten furnishing the program of
music.
Mrs. Iva Herring, Club hostess,
served a delightful turkey dinner.
The Chills and Ills of Winter
Are Upon Us!
Safeguard yourself from the dangers of
“flu” and grippe by letting—
BALKCOM’S
Supply you with atomizers, sprays, gargles,
nose drops and medicines to prevent or cure.
ASK US!
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NOTED LECTURER
COMING TO BLAKELY
ON JANUARY 19
DR. CHAS. BARKER WILL SPEAK
HERE UNDER AUSPICES OF
ROTARY CLUB
Four million adults, three million
high school students, and probably
a half million college students have
been inspired by the addresses of
Dr. Charles E. Barker, lecturer and
teacher of the principles of health
and right living, in the quarter cen
tury he has devoted to this work.
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DR. CHARLES E. BARKER
Dr. Barker is coming to Blakely
on Tuesday, January 19, to address
the high school students, parents
and members of the Rotary Club,
under the auspices of the Rotary
Club of Blakely. He is expected to
speak to the higyh school students of
the county in the morning, the Ro
tarians at noon, and to a mass meet
ing of parents at night. The hours
of the addresses will be announced
next week.
Dr. Barker holds university de
grees as doctor- of hygiene and
physical culture. While William
Howard Taft was president of the
United States, Dr. Barker spent an
hour a day with him, keeping him
fit for his job. Then began his lec
ture work devoted to the young
people of the United States and
Canada and their parents.
Millions of high school students
and their mothers and fathers have
listened to his addresses on the
problems of youth and parenthood.
Since going on the lecture plat
form he has delivered over 11,000
addresses. His most popular lecture,
“How to Make the Most Out of
Life” has bee ndelivered to 3,003,000
boys and girls of high school age.
One of the secrets of the success
of Dr. Barker as a lecturer to high
school youths is his understanding
of young people and his direct ap
peal to their mentality. He makes
his talks to youth appeal to the
idealism of youth, shows an appre
ciation of their problems, and from
a lifetime of experience he speaks
frankly without offending.
Dr. Barker has been a member
of the Rotary Club of Grand Rap
ids, Mich., since October 1921. He
comes to this city through the cour
tesy of the Rotary Club as a con
tribution of community service.