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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVIII NO. 40
CALL MEETING
OF CITY COUNCIL
HELD LAST WEEK
CITY HALL AND OTHER PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENTS DISCUSSED
AT SPECIAL SESSION
At a call meeting of the Mayor
and Council, held on Wednesday
night of last week, the city made an
agreement with the J. B. McCrary
Co., of Atlanta, to make a survey
of the city’s needs in regard to
extension of water mains, re
working of the sanitary sewer
age system and rebuilding the elec
tric distributing system, and to
furnish blue-prints of this survey with
an estimate of the cost of the work.
No definite action was taken in
regard to a city hall building and
plans toward this project were de
ferred until the Mayor and Council
can determine and agree upon the
size and type of building needed.
When this is done, an architect will
be called in and plans drawn and
estimates of cost submitted.
In the meantime Council has filed
formal application for a PWA grant
of 45 per cent of the cost of these
two projects and is hopeful the
grant will be available as soon as the
city completes its plans for these im
provements.
Council voted to give the Mayor
power to employ, suspend or dis
charge at his discretion members
of the city police force.
Present at last Wednesday night's
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POSTMASTER REPORTS
LIBERAL OBSERVANCE
OF AIR MAIL WEEK
Postmaster John G. Butler report
ed Wednesday a rather liberal ob
servance on the part of patrons of
the local office of Air Mail Week.
This week is being observed
throughout the nation as Air Mail
Week and marks the twentieth an
niversary of regular air mail service
in the United States.
Governor Rivers, in a proclama
tion last week urged Georgians to
have a part in the observance of the
Week and Mayor T. B. McDowell, is
suing an official proclamation, called
on the citizens of Blakely to use air
mail in forwarding their postal mat
ter.
All out-going air mail from the
local office this week will bear a
special stamp prepared by Postmaster
Butler advertising Blakely, Early
county and the new state park, in
cluding the Indian Mounds.
NEW YORK PAYS
GOOD PRICES FOR
FIRST GA. PEACHES
Macon, Ga.—The first two cars of
Georgia peaches to arrive in New
York this season brought $1.50 to
$2.00 per half bushel, according to
reports received here.
The peaches were shipped from
Byron and Fort Valley. Additional
shipments were planned from Thom
aston, Fort Valley, Byron and other
middle Georgia points this week.
meeting were Mayor T. B. McDowell,
and Councilmen Howell, Maddox,
Singletary and Whitchard.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1938.
PLANNING DIVISION
COMPLETES SURVEY
OF 36,000 MILES
STATE-WIDE ROAD AND TRAF
FIC SURVEY IS WELL
ADVANCED
Beginning of the eighth month of
Highway Planning of the State High
way Board finds the statewide road
and traffic very well advanced, with
36,000 miles of roads surveyed and
inventoried and more than 40,000
trucks and busses weighed, W. L. Mil
ler, chairman, announced in Atlanta
today.
Planning division engineers, who
are surveying and mapping every
public road in Georgia, have complet
ed their work in 52 counties of the
state and are surveying and inven
torying an average of 20 miles of
road each day, it was announced.
Their work will result in the prep
aration of new and comprehensive
county maps, which not only will be
more complete than any heretofore
drawn but which will reveal any dis
crepancy that might exist between
the actual mileage of all roads in the
state and the current estimated total
of 103,612 miles. These maps will
be used in the future planning of
highways in the state, Mr. Miller
said.
“Origin and destination studies,
which have been carried on at the
planning division’s 54 truck and bus
weighing stations since March 21,
have shown unusually good results,”
Mr. Miller asserted. “Os the vehicles
passing the various points of opera
tion since this phase was launched,
origin and destination returns have
been received from 10,951, represent
ing 25 per cent of the total. This
is a very satisfactory average and
one that indicates that the Georgia
motorist is anxious to co-operate in
any movement designed to improve
the highway over which he rides.”
Another phase of the highway sur
vey, known as the Blanket Count, is
being conducted at 14,000 intersec
tions of main and county roads—un
paved as well as paved—in the state.
This survey supplements the origin
and destination investigation, and
involves not only a careful census
of traffic from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.
each day for one year, but also
gathers information as to the ve
hicle’s place of ownership, the origin
and destination of the trip and the
purpose of the journey. Aid in mak
ing a fair distribution of the cost of
highways in the future between ur
ban and rural taxpayers will be one
direct result of the correlated origin
and destination studies, Mr. Miller
said.
The third major division, the fi
nancial surveys, is determining,
through a painstaking study of the
receipts and expenditures of the
various units of government within
the state, whether the present sour
ces of income are sufficient to main
tain properly Georgia’s present sys
tem of highways and build new high
ways in keeping with increasing traf
fic demands. The financial survey,
whose accountants are visiting every
county and every municipality in the
state, also will ascertain the regis
tration fees and fuel taxes paid by
each type of motor vehicle and what
proportion of these are paid by urban
and rural residents; the annual road
way costs for the several types of
surfaces and the average life of each
type, and the relative use of the va
rious highways of the state by its
residents.
Since going into operation on April
3, the 12 Automatic Traffic Re
corders, the “electric eyes” of the
Division of Highway Planning, scat
tered throughout the state, have re
corded the passing of 326,873 ve
hicles. Seven of these recorders are
located on main highways and five
on unpaved “farm-to-market” roads
and give complete pictures of the
traffic patterns at their particular
types of locations.
The “eye” located at Red Oak, a
few miles below Atlanta, is leading
the recorders in the total number
of vehicles registered, with 91,609,
and the others located on paved high
ways follow in this order: Carters
ville, 72,048; Midway, 54,000; States
boro, 28,371; Perry, 28,000; Coving-
APRIL WELFARE
COSTS IN GEORGIA
REACH $2,341,081
PAYMENTS TO PENSIONERS TO
GO UP $5,018 MORE IN
MONTH OF MAY
Public welfare and relief expen
ditures in Georgia hit a new high
of $2,341,081 in April, increasing
more than $300,000 over March ex
penditures.
These figures were made public
by the State Department of Public
Welfare, which also announced that
the payments to pensioners will in
crease another $5,018 in May, reach
ing another new peak.
Expenditures by the Works Prog
ress Administration topped the April
list, with $1,480,305 compared to
$1,207,247 in March.
Os the April totals $729,709 was
spent in Fulton Countj The WPA
spent $599,613. Fulton County pen
sioners received $48,480, while $47,-
891 in surplus commodities were dis
tributed, CCC boys drew $10,325
and general relief drew $23,588.
May pension payments will amount
to $373,196 and will reach 41,752
persons, it was stated. The aged will
draw $276,652, dependent children,
$84,820 and blind persons, $11,723.
These figures are for the state as a
whole.
A statement issued by the state
Welfare Department Saturday an
alyzed the April payments as follows:
“Social Security payments to the
aged, the dependent children, and the
blind increased from $357,166.00 in
March to $365,551.50 in April.
“A significant decrease was shown
in general relief costs, which drop
ped from $50,365.04 to $44,724.94.
This figure represents the amount
counties spent outside of other relief
and welfare provisions for special
assistance.
“Surplus commodities distributed
through the department showed a
sharp rise in value from $222,821.52
to $267,251.62.
“A decline was shown in CCC pay
ments, which dropped from S2OO,
750.00 to $183,250.00.
“While the only funds expended
directly through the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare are
those for Social Security payments,
the department is responsible for the
distribution of surplus commodities,
and likewise for the certification of
persons receiving the various types of
assistance under the federal works
program.”
GEORGIA EXPORTS
INCREASE IN MARCH
(By Georgia News Service)
March exports from the Georgia
customs districts were valued at sl,-
582,490 as compared with February
figures of $882,638.
Imports for March 1938 dropped
to $1,087,791 as compared with sl,-
192,923 last year.
Among the leading exported ar
ticles from Georgia were textile fi
bers and manufactures, with a value
of $611,791, according to W. H.
Schroder, district manager of the
Atlanta office of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
ton, 14,536; and Naylor, 11,000.
Totals for the five recorders placed
on rural roads include Hazlehurst,
6,300; Sale City, 6,000; Davisboro,
5,620; Thomaston, 4,496 and Brook
ton 4,441.
The weighing of trucks and busses
at 54 “loadmeter” stations scattered
throughout the state was started last
September and the quota of 60,000
vehicles recorded is expected to be
filled well in advance of the “dead
line” on the same date this year.
Trucks and busses not only are weigh
ed and measured, but the character of
the load is determined and the ve
hicle’s starting point and destination
ascertained.
Every state in the union now is
co-operating with the federal govern
ment in the highway planning sur
veys, with about 80 per cent of the
cost being borne by the U. S. Bu
reau of Public Roads.
BLAKELY P.-T. A.
WILL MEET NEXT
TUESDAY AT 3:00 P. M.
The Blakely P.-T. A. will meet
Tuesday afternoon, May 24th, at 3
o’clock, at the school auditorium.
Mrs. Holt Darden will have
charge of the program and discuss
plans for the Summer Round-up of
children entering school this fall.
Every mother who has children of
pre-school age is urged to attend
this meeting in order that her child
may enter school as free as possible
of remedial defects.
The following ladies are request
ed to act as grade mothers:
First: Mrs. Oscar Whitchard.
Second: Mrs. C. L. Gibson.
Third: Mrs. L. D. Patterson.
Fourth: Mrs. David Martin.
Fifth: Mrs. Julius Beckham.
Sixth: Mrs. R. O. Waters.
Seventh: Mrs. W. R. Stewart.
Eighth: Mrs. Earl George.
Ninth: Mrs. Grady Holman.
Tenth: Mrs. Frank Gilbert.
Eleventh: Mrs. Jack Standifer.
JUDGE CARLISLE,
OF CAIRO, IS IN
RACE FOR CONGRESS
Cairo, Ga.—Judge Ira Carlisle of
the City Court Tuesday qualified as
a candidate Tuesday fom men emm
a candidate for Congress from the
Second District.
E. E. Cox is the incumbent. W.
J. Crowe, of Sylvester, announced
he had qualified for the race April
25.
In his announcement, Carlisle
said Cox had “continued to oppose
President Roosevelt’s recovery pro
gram and to ignore his campaign
pledges of loyalty to the President.”
“If elected, I promise to support
the President’s recovery program.”
Born and reared on a farm, Car
lisle has been practicing law in Cairo
25 years. He served as solicitor for
eight years and has been representa
tive and senator in the state Legisla
ture.
BIG PAPER MILLS
ARE COMING INLAND
DECLARES DR. HERTY
(By Georgia News Service)
Athens, Ga.—“ Negligence” is to
blame for the annual loss by fire
of $300,000,000 in timber, Dr. C.
H. Herty,, Savannah chemist, told
Georgians attending a state planning
conference in Athens.
Dr. Herty, long interested in pine
pulp paper development in the south,
said that much is taken away from
the pine pulp market.
The noted chemist painted a bright
future for the pulp industry in the
south and declared he expects to
see the big mills moving inland.
“They do not have to stay at tide
water,” he said.
The conference was sponsored by
the State Planning Board and the
University of Georgia.
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TALMADGE IN
RACE AGAINST
SENATOR GEORGE
GOVERNOR RIVERS’ PLANS NOT
TO BE ANNOUNCED UNTIL
MAY 28
Interest in the state primary to be
held on September 14 was enlivened
the past week by the entry of former
governor Eugene Talmadge into the
race for United States Senator
against Georgia’s senior Senator
Walter F. George. The Talmadge
announcement came Friday, accom
panied by the declaration that since
the Senate race would require ail
of his time, he (Talmadge) would
have no part in any of the other
contests to be settled in the primary.
Political observers interperted the
ex-governor’s statement to mean that
he would endorse no candiate for
any office.
Governor River’s plans are still un
known to his friends, and will re
main so until May 28, at which time
the Governor will make known his
intentions in an address to be de
livered over radio. A majority of
the Governor’s friends are of the
opinion that he will at that time an
nounce his candiuacy for re-election
as governor, although some observers,
attaching political significance to a
visit to Washington this week by the
Governor, believe Rivers will enter
the race against Senator George.
Should Rivers enter the Senate
race, it is predicted there will be
several candidates for the governor
ship. The only candidate who has
thus far paid the entry fee for the
governor’s race is Hugh Howell, At
lanta lawyer, who was chairman of
the state democratic executive com
mittee under the Talmadge adminis
tration and a former close friend
of Mr. Talmadge.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE
IN WADE PROPERTY ON
SOUTH MAIN STREET
The Wade property on the west
side of South Main street now pre
sents an attractive appearance since
its renovation under the supervision
of Mayor T. B. McDowell, who is
the representative of the Wade in
terests in this county.
The exterior of the old Wade
home has been repainted and re
paired where needed and an attrac
tive picket fence has replaced the
one which was in a state of deteri
oration. The new fence runs the
full length of the property facing
South Main street and runs to some
depth on both north and south mar
gins of the lot.
The repair and paint job was un
der direction of Mr. Jere Shaw, who
did an excellent piece of work and
is justly proud of it.