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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVIII }> NO. 7
Game and Fish
Protective Club
Is Organized
The Early County Game and
Fish Protective Club was organized
the past week, officers elected, and
Constitution and By-Laws adopted.
Officers elected are:
President—Ralph Hobbs.
Vice President—Lester Camp.
Sec.-Treas.—Raymond Singletary,
Jr.
Board of Directors—R. C. Howell,
chairman, 0. F. Morton, Dunbar
Grist, Bert Tarver, C. M. Dunning.
Membership enrolled to date in
cludes: Bert Puckett, J. H. Williams,
C. M. Deal, Paul Bostwick, A. H.
Gray, R. C. Singletary, Sr., Harvey
Middleton, W. B. Martin, Dr. Ernest
Whitehead, Jack Giles, Carl Tolar,
Howard Davenport, Billy Lane, Oscar
Whitchard, Willie Jim Hammack, J.
E. Hathcock, Raymond Singletary,
Jr., Raymond Duke, Jack Fulton, Bill
Grist, Ralph Daniels, Cecil Hall, J.
W. Bonner, Ed Minter and Ollin
Hudspeth.
The object of the organization is
“to unite and bind together all who
are interested in the conservation
of game, fish, forests, soils and
streams; to advance the interest in
the same; to have a meeting place
to exchange views and solve prob
lems confronting the members and
to harmonize their ideas; to raise
the standards of sportsmanship among
fishermen and hunters; to aid the
State and Federal Department in
framing, passing and maintaining
proper laws for the protection, in
crease and conservation of fish, game,
forests, soils and streams; to observe
and assist in enforcing the laws re
lating to the same; to promote and
to protect the best interests of its
members,” and for other purposes.
The by-laws are approximately the
same as govern the operation of simi
lar clubs which are being organized
over the State and which have the ap
proval of the State Department of
Game and Fish.
The Club held a meeting and en
joyed a fish fry at the rural home of
Mr. R. C. Howell last Friday night.
To-Days “Over
The Counter"’ Tips
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
October 1 and 2, 1937
COOKING OlL—Bring your jug, gal. 85c
N. B. C. SHREDDED WHEAT—2 pkgs. 25c
GRAPE FRUIT JUICE—No. 2 can, 2 for 15c
GRITS —Arrowhead, 2-10 c pkgs. ... 15c
PORK & BEANS—I 6 oz. can, each 6c
SAUSAGE MEAT—Large 25c can 20c
MEAT —Streak-O’-Lean, lb. 18c
MILK—Pet or Carnation, 2 large cans 15c
COCOA —2-lb. can (extra) 15c
LYE (Hudson or Dixie) —2 cans 15c
HEINZ SPAGHETTI—Cooked, 2-17 oz. cans 25c
DRIED APPLES or PEACHES—2 lbs. 25c
PICKLES —Heinz Fresh Cucumber, large jar 21c
JELLY —Pure Apple, quart jar 23c
OCTAGON SOAP or POWDER—S for 11c
CABBAGE —Green and White, 3 lbs. 10c
STEAK—Best, lb. 25c
PAN SAUSAGE—Lb. 15c
STEW BEEF—Lb. _ r 15c
WIENER SAUSAGE—Lb. 19c
BACON —Sliced, rind off, lb. 33c
-WEAVER'S-
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RALPH SCARBOROUGH, Manager
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OCTOBER TERM
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES MONDAY
The October term of Early super
ior court will be convened next Mon
day, with Judge C. W. Worrill pre
siding and Solicitor R. A. Patterson
at his post of duty.
The first week will be given over
to the trial of civil cases. The calen
dar, as prepared by Clerk of Court
Bert Tarver, shows fifty cases on the
docket, thirty-three of them on the
trial and seventeen on the appear
ance docket. Solicitor Patterson will
assist the grand jury in its work the
first week.
The criminal docket will be called
the second week.
Jurors have been subpoenaed for
service. Their names were publish
ed in The News last week.
Motorists Warned
To Get Licenses
Before October 20
State highway patrolmen will
“crack down” on motorists who fail
to obtain their driver’s licenses by
October 20 is the warning issued
from headquarters of the newly
organized law enforcement agency
now patrolling the highways of
Georgia.
Judge Clement E. Sutton, legal
adviser of the patrol, said that if
motorists wait until the last minute
to send in their applications, it will
be physcally impossible to issue the
800,000 licenses before the “dead
line.”
Applications are pouring into
headquarters by the thousands and
the clerical force is working at top
speed mailing out licenses all over
the state.
Failure to secure a driver’s li
cense by October 20 makes the mo
torist liable to a fine of SSO, plus
a six months term in jail and six
months on the chain gang.
Judge Sutton urged motorists to
fill out their applications carefully,
since about 25 per cent of the ap
plications thus far received must be
returned on account of failure to
give vital information.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/'
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937.
State Welfare
Department Swamped
With Applications
Despite the fact that payments of
old age pensions and awards for de
pendent children and needy blind are
increasing each month, with a total
of $250,618 paid out in the first
quarter since the state social security
law went into effect, the state de
partment of public welfare is swamp
ed with applications.
This situation was noted by Lamar
Murdaugh, director of the depart
ment, with the announcement that
Georgia counties were authorized to
use their own social security appro
priations to speed up investigation of
old age pension, blind and dependent
children appeals. He announced that
the counties will not be required to
pay their 10 per cent of the pen
sions if they use an equivalent
amount to employ investigators on
pending pension applications.
The order is an attempt to speed
up investigation during the final
quarter of the year after a check
up revealed that more than 80,000
applications for old age pensions, aid
for the blind and aid for dependent
children had not yet been investigat
ed.
A total of 16,688 persons received
checks from the welfare depart
ment during July, August and Sep
tember. Old age pensions for the
first quarter totaled $17,305. Awards
to dependent children $64,674, and
awards to needy blind $7,638.
September old age pensions total
ed $128,036 compared with $94,901
for August; awards for dependent
children, $33,373 compared with
$22,720 for Argust; and awards to
the needy blind were $4,637, com
pared with $2,710 for last month.
SEPTEMBER GAS TAX
COLLECTIONS NEAR
ALL-TIME HIGH
Gasoline tax collections this
month fell only $12,000 short of the
record monthly intake from the 6
cent a gallon levy, Comptroller Wil
liam B. Harrison reported Saturday.
The yield was $1,744,291.30, com
pared to $1,756,525.94 for the month
ending August 25, the highest level
ever attained by the tax.
It was nearly SIOO,OOO over the
yield for September last year, when
$1,646,597.56 was taken in.
Mr. Harrison attributed the in
crease largely to better collection
methods provided in the “bootleg
gasoline tax” measure enacted this
year.
Two Arlington
Boys Are Killed
In Auto Crash
Arlington, Ga.—Two Arlington
youths were killed and another sus
tained a broken hip Sunday after
noon, in Quitman County, Georgia,
three miles east of Georgetown, when
the car in which they were riding
failed to negotiate a railroad over
pass. They had been to Eufaula,
Ala., just across the Chattahoochee
River from Georgetown, and were
returning home when the accident
occurred.
As the car plunged over the side
of the overpass and hit the tracks,
thirty-five feet below, a train struck
the vehicle, smashing it to bits.
Those killed were Jack Garrett,
and Billy Lumley. George Rogers
escaped with a broken hip and minor
injuries.
Jack Garrett, 16, was the son of
B. M. Garrett of this city, and Bil
ly Lumley, 16, was the son of Mrs.
J. G. Lumley, of Arlington. George
Rogers, 16, was brought here and
was reported in a satisfactory con
dition.
A double funeral was held Tuesday
morning at 10 o’clock in the Baptist
Church.
Justice Marcus W. Beck, of the
Georgia supreme court, has resign
ed and Governor Rivers has ap
pointed Warren Grice, of Macon, to
the vacancy.
Work Reviewed
Os Citizens Fact
Finding Movement
Five thousand civic groups through
out Georgia are at the end of its
first month participating in the Citi
zens’ Fact Finding Movement, which
was launched on September 1 by 14
state-wide organizations, according
to announcement made this week by
Jere N. Moore, president-elect of
the Georgia Press Association and
September chairman of the committee
for coordination, made up of the
state heads of the 14 organizations.
“The main asset of the program,”
Mr. Moore said “lies in the fact that
existing channels are being used for
making information which is already
known by various state authorities
available to the public. Selection of
authorities on the monthly subjects
rests with the organization heads who
also will each month forward the
information to their local units. “It
is hoped”, Mr. Moore continued, “that
other groups will also make use of
the material so that we Georgians
can together take an inventory of the
state.”
Factual information on the first
subject, “Georgia, Past and Present”,
was distributed early this month to
groups throughout the state. The
material which gives a bird’s eye
view of the state was furnished by
Emily Woodward and was drawn
largely from her recent book, “Em
pire”, and from “Contemporary
Georgia” by Malcom Bryan of the
University of Georgia. The data be
gins with the historic background of
Georgia and lists impressive events
which demonstrates the state’s po
sition as a pioneer in social, educa
tional, and humanitarian fields dur
ing her early history. It cites the
vast natural wealth of the state and
the present development of these
resources, at the same time, it calls
attention to certain discrepancies be
tween possibilities and realities in the
low ranking of the state in certain
social fields. A bibliography for
additional reading accompanies the
material.
Dr. Charles Herty, assisted by
Richard C. Job, director of the State
Planning Board, is preparing ma
terial on Natural Resources, the sub
ject scheduled for consideration dur
ing October.
Organizations in this movement
which are taking part in the program
are: Educational groups, Civitan,
Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, Woman’s
Club, Church Women, League of
Women Voters, Pilot Club, Parent-
Teacher Associations, Business and
Professional Women’s Club, Associa
tion of University Women, and
Home Demonstration Club.
Mr. T. E. Joiner,
Well Known Early
Countian, Passes
Following an illness of some dura
tion, Mr. T. E. Joiner, 47, passed
away at his home in the Pine View
Community at 11:30 o’clock Friday
night, September 17th.
He had been in ill health for the
past three years and his death was
not unexpected. Mr. Joiner, who
was highly esteemed by a large num
ber of friends, was a native of Ran
dolph County, Ga., having moved
here twenty-seven years ago. He was
a member of Pine View Baptist
Church and was active in religious
life until only a few months ago,
since when he had been confined to
his home. He had many friends who
will be grieved to learn of his death.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning aj eleven o’clock at Mt.
Hebron Church, eight miles south of
Cuthbert, with the Rev. E. S. Hunt,
of Shellman, officiating. Surviving
are his wife and one sister, Mrs. R.
S. Fellows, of Coleman, Ga., and two
nieces, Carol and Dorothy Fellows.
Mr. Joiner will be greatly missed
by the community in which he lived,
and by the many friends who attend
ed the last rites. The beautiful
floral offerings further attested the
esteem in which he was held.
Pall bearers were Jessie Scar
brough, Dewey Cannon, H. J. Cosby,
Bryant Turner, W. L. Martin, and
J. E. McEachern. Minter, Fellows
& Forrester, were in charge.
GEORGIANS URGED
TO GUARD AGAINST
FOREST FIRES
(By Georgia News Service)
Assisting Director Russell D.
Franklin, of the State Forestry Di
vision, last week urged Georgians to
have “increased watchfulness and
vigilance in guarding against tim
ber fires.”
Mr. Franklin gave two main rea
sons for added alertness against
forest fires this year:
A good seed year on long leaf and
slash pine.
The new importance pine timber
holds for the pulp industry.
He said that pulp mills, valued
in the South at SBO,OOOOOO, use
thinning, worked out turpentine tim
ber, salvage from sawmill operations,
and young timber, “and the utility
of all depends on protection from
fire.”
Mr. Franklin reported “progress”
in fire protection work in the state
in 1936.
Jack Chancy Passes
Following Illness Os
Several Months
After an illness of several months,
Jack B. Chancy, of this city, passed
away at the State Hospital on Fri
day afternoon, September 24.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the resi
dence of Mrs. T. H. Wiseman, with
the Revs. Ellis P. Miller, E. M.
Overby and S. B. King officiating.
Interment followed in the city ceme
tery with the Minter, Fellows & For
rester Funeral Home in charge, and
the following serving as pall-bearers:
C. M. Dunning, J. B. Duke, James
Chancy, W. L. Stone, C. D. Duke
and J. B. Murdock, Jr. The last rites
were attended by many of his friends.
He was a member of the Methodist
church.
The deceased was a descendant of
one of the oldest families of Blakely.
He was a son of the late Mr. Alpheus
Chancy and a grandson of the late
Judge James B. Chancy.
Born on October 24th, 1903, he
lacked only one month of being 34
years of age. He was of a kind and
thoughtful nature, and was ever true
to his friends. His passing has sad
dened the hearts of his family and
his many friends. The beautiful
floral offerings sent upon the occa
sion of his funeral were a testimony
of the love and esteem in which he
was held by those who knew him.
Surviving are his grandmother,
Mrs. J. B. Chancy, of Blakely; one
sister, Mrs. H. W. Smith, of Lynch,
Ky.; one uncle, Mr. L. E. Chancy,
of Blakely, and one aunt, Mrs. T. H.
Wiseman, also of Blakely.
Grenville T. Emmett, U. S. minis
ter to Austria, died in Vienna last
Monday.
WHEN SICKNESS
STRIKES HOME
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Physician requires the aid of a good drug
gist. New discoveries in medicine and
new ideas require the modern druggist to
be up-to-date. We invite you to visit our
modern, well equipped F
Prescription Department
Your prescriptions will be carefully com
pounded by a
Registered Druggist
Balkcom’s Drug Store
Blakely, Georgia
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
Efforts Are Being
Made to Assist
Rehab Farmers
Effort is now being made to aid
rehabilitation farmers to secure
longer leases on the land they farm,
said W. J. Boyett, Farm Security
Administration district supervisor of
the rural rehabilitation program in
Southwest Georgia counties.
County supervisors have been ad
vised that our program this year
will emphasize soil building and ero
sion control practices wherever satis
factory loans have been negotiated.
The practice of planting soil build
ing crops and proper care of soil
means much to the yield following
this activity, Mr. Boyett states. The
increase in yield and the quality of
production justifies more attention
to this sound farming practice.
Short term leases of one year or
by the season do not afford an op
portunity nor the incentive to devote
time and money to replenishing or
caring for soils. Knowing that he
will move at the end of the season
the farmer concentrates all labor and
resources to make the crop in hand
and ignores all obligations to the
land from whence the crops are
taken. This indifference is under
standable but it constitutes an evas
ion of responsibility as well as abuse
of land. The first wastes human re
sources and the second wastes nat
ural resources.
Our program so far in this region
has made possible remarkable gains
in net worth by formerly distressing
families who were aided with guid
ance and credit facilities of the re
habilitation program.
In 1935 a survey of 12,981 families
in Georgia disclosed a total net
worth of $454,335, or an average net
worth per family of $35.00. A re
cent report shows that 10,500 of
these families in 1937 increased their
net worth to $2,625,000 or an aver
age per family of $250.00.
In this district, said Mr. Boyett,
the net worth of our families in
1935 averaged $40.00. By hard
work and eagerness to better them
selves the net worth of familits
in this district now approximates
$311.00.
The better yields that follow soil
building practices have interested
both landowner and tenant and we
expect to negotiate satisfactory leas
es so that this work can be general
ly established.
The improved yield and quality of
crops will bring the farmer more
money and enable him to increase
net worth more rapidly. The ground
of the owner will be more valuable
after the care that is contemplated
in our program.
Many owners have indicated their
willingness to cooperate with longer
leases that will justify the soil build
ing and erosion work that we de
sire to establish.
The American Bar Association is
in session at Kansas City this week.