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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXIX NO. 12
808 CATS WIN
GAME FROM FORT
GAINES, SCORE 18-0
The Bob Cats of Blakely Hi chalk
ed up another win last Friday night
in Blakely, when they defeated the
Wild Cat team from Fort Gaines Hi
by the score of 18-0.
Neither side was able to do much
in the first quarter, but in the next
three periods Blakely was able to
score a touchdown in each, but was
not successful in converting the
extra points.
It was a good game, clean and
hard-fought, and the Clay county
boys played hard and were good
losers.
The following was the starting
line-up of the two teams:
Blakely Pos. Fort Gaines
Gay E Bennett
Clarke C Hancock
Sherman, A. E Stanley, D.
Chandler QB Wilkins
Holder HB Crozier, R.
PiersonFßßoberts
Substitutes: Blakely, H. Sherman,
Mosely, Sirmons, Tedder, Collins;
Fort Gaines, D. Crozier, L. Stanley.
Score by quarters:
Fort Gaines 0 0 0 0— 0
Blakely 0 6 6 6—lß
Referee, Hammack; Umpire, Bea
son; Headlinesman, Holman; Time
keeper, Scriber.
The Blakely squad goes up to Cuth
bert Friday for a return game.
The schedule for the remaining
games in the Six-Man football As
sociation is as follows:
Nov. 4: Fort Gaines at Edison;
Blakely at Cuthbert; Colquitt open.
Nov. 11: Edison at Cuthbert; Col
quitt at Blakely; Fort Gaines open.
Nov. 19: Colquitt at Edison; Cuth
bert at Fort Gaines; Blakely open.
Nov. 23: Edison at Blakely; Fort
Gaines at Colquitt; Cuthbert open.
Dec. 2: Blakely at Fort Gaines;
Colquitt at Cuthbert; Edison open.
All of the games are on Friday,
with the exception of those on No
vember 19th, which are on Wednes
day before Thanksgiving Day.
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WORK STARTED
MONDAY ON CITY
HALL BUILDING
Work was started Monday on the
construction of Blakely’s new city
hall building, which will occupy the
lot on the northeast corner of the
public square, the site formerly oc
cupied by the Early Hotel which has
been removed to a lot fronting Arl
ington road just off the square.
The contractor is Leo T. Barber,
of Moultrie, who was the recent
successful bidder for the project on
a bid of $26,650.00.
The new edifice will contain a
city clerk’s office, a council chamber,
police quarters and barracks, and
quarters for the fire department. It
is to be a brick structure with front
stone columns.
The new building, which will fill a
long-felt want and will greatly en
hance the appearance of the business
section of the city, is being built with
funds derived from a recently-voted
bond issue of $16,500, representing
55 per cent of its cost, supplemented
by a 45 per cent grant from the
Federal government.
TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY
BEGUN LAST WEEK ON
COLOMOKEE STATE PARK
A corps of engineers from the
State Highway Department arrived
in Blakely last week and have begun
making a complete topographical
survey of the Colomokee State Park
property. It is believed the survey
is a forerunner of the work soon to
be started on improving the state
park property.
It is expected that a CCC camp
will be placed on the park site by
the beginning of the year to do the
work planned for the project by the
state authorities.
It is of interest to his friends to
know that Mr. R. O. Waters, Jr., is
one of the nine engineers now at
work on the park survey.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1938.
Georgia possesses the most valu
able conditions found in the United
States for the production of com
mercial forests, yet Georgia is the
least concerned about the damages
done by forest fires. Experts tell
us that over 90 per cent of all fires,
especially surface fires, are caused
by the carelessness of man. Through
the present educational program, the
youth of the state is learning the
value of fire prevention. No doubt
the future farmers will know how to
cope with the problem and will pro
tect their forests from fires, that is,
if the forests survive the present
ravages of fire. Thus we see that
the problems of fire prevention are
present ones. There is a class of
people whom the educational pro
gram cannot reach. These people
must be reached by other methods.
The countywide fire protection
seems to be the answer to the prob
lem.
Can you imagine the future of the
rural boys and girls of the state,
who will be residents of these erod
ed lands caused by destruction of
the present and future forests?
Burning not only injures the pro
ductive trees, but also retards and
destroys young trees. The ravages
of fire do not stop with the mere
destruction of the retarding of trees,
however. Some uninformed indi
viduals have the idea that if woods
are burned in the spring that bet
ter grazing for range cattle is
brought about. Experiments prove
that cattle which are allowed to run
on open range show great gain from
grazing on unburned range, rather
COMMISSIONERS
CALL ELECTION
ON JAIL BONDS
The November meeting of the
Early County Board of Commission
ers was held Tuesday, with the entire
membership of the Board present.
The Commissioners spent some
time discussing a resolution prepared
by County Attorney A. H. Gray call
ing for an election to determine
whether or not the county should
issue bonds in the amount of $15,000
to build a new county jail, the funds
raised by said bond issue to be sup
plemented by a grant of SIO,OOO
from the Federal government.
The Board voted to call the elec
tion and authorized the County At
torney to publish the official election
call for December 6th, which notice
appears elsewhere in The News.
The need for a new county jail
has long been recognized, and it is
believed the election will carry, but
it will require the effort of those in
terested to insure success of the
project.
Mrs. Jewel C. Cuinbie, County
Health Nurse, was given the use of
the office now occupied by City Court
Solicitor Bell, and the office room
at present occupied by Mrs. Cumbie
will be used by the County School
Superintendent as a storage room for
county school books.
CITY COUNCIL IN
MONTHLY SESSION
TUESDAY NIGHT
The November meeting of the
Mayor and Council was held Tuesday
night. Present: Mayor T. B. McDow
ell and Councilmen R. C. Howell, S.
G. Maddox and Oscar Whitchard.
Council authorized the renting of
a suitable building for a public li
brary.
Most of the session was devoted to
routine matters.
WEATHER SUMMARY
FOR MONTH OF OCTOBER
TEMPERATURE: Mean maximum,
81.2; mean minimum, 53.5; mean,
67.3. Maximum, 90 on the 18th;
minimum, 42 on the 22nd; greatest
daily range, 39 degrees.
PRECIPITATION: Total, 0.54
inches. Greatest amount in any 24-
hour period, 0.54 on the 24th.
MISCELLANEOUS: Number of
days with 0.01 inch er more of rain
fall, 1; clear, 22; partly cloudy, 5;
cloudy, 4.
J. G. STANDIFER,
Local Observer, U. S. Weather
Bureau.
Why Georgia Counties Should
Support Forest Fire Control
By Orion Hudson, Jakin High School, Early County, Ga.
than on burned range. Think of
the money lost, especially in the
southern part of the state where
most of the cattle run on the open
range.
Surveys„jhow that Georgia has ap
proximately 23,000,000 acres of
forest land; only 4 1-2 millions of
which are protected from this might
monster, fire. Where countywide
the protection os practiced and the
Timber Protective Organization is in
operation, the cost for fire protec
tion to the landowner is only a few
cents per acre annually.
Do you know why Georgia
and the southeast leads the
nation in the utilization of com
mercial fertilizer? Can this not be
attributed to the leaching of plant
food and washing away of top soil
caused by lack of tree protection?
There are other serious results of
erosion; namely, silting of reser
voirs, clogging of streams, muddying
the streams and thus causing the
fish to migrate to clearer waters.
Especially is this true of the trout
and the bass. The fishermen and
hunters of Georgia spend thousands
of dollars each year going out of
the state to hunt and fish. The
counties could retain this money
within the state by protecting the
forest from fires. For the forest
also provides a home for wild life.
One landowner alone cannot pro
tect his forest from fire as effective
ly as he could if his neighbors would
cooperate with him. Thus it seems
that the most efficient method of
forest fire prevention is through a
countywide organization, and enforc
ing fire laws.
ICKES APPROVES
P. W. A. GRANT
FOR BLAKELY
Secretary Ickes has approved the
grant to the City of Blakely for
the rebuilding of the city electrical
distribution system, it was learned
on last Saturday, when Mayor
T. B. McDowell received a telegram
from H. T. Cole, PWA Regional Di
rector, Region No. 3, stating that the
Secretary had approved the grant.
The Federal grant of 45 per cent
will supplement the recently-voted
bond issue of $6,000.
Early approval by Secretary Ickes
is expected on the grants for the
repair and extension of the sanitary
sewerage system and extension of the
water mains, bond issues in the sum
of $7,500 having been voted for
these projects.
CONTRACT WAS LET
FRIDAY ON EARLY
COUNTY POST ROAD
The contract was let Friday by the
State Highway Board for sand clay
base and surface treatment of 4.211
miles on the post road southwest of
the city from Sowhatchee creek to
the intersection of State Route No.
1 near the southern city limits.
The contract was awarded to the
Campbell Contracting Co., of Colum
bus, on a bid of $23,529.55.
MEETING OF PETER
EARLY CHAPTER, D. A. R.
The Peter Early Chapter D. A. R.
met at the home of Mrs. Tom Bynum
on Thursday afternoon, October 27.
The meeting was opened with the
Salute to the Flag, followed by the
Creed.
Mrs. John Williams and Mrs. Ray
mond Singletary gave interesting re
ports from the district conference
which met at Moultrie on October 14.
The following program was then
given:
Preamble to the Constitution: By
Polly Pullen.
The Philosophy of the Constitution
formed the topic for an interesting
and enlightening talk by the Rev.
Spencer B. King.
After a short business discussion,
the hostess, assisted by Mrs. J. W.
Bonner, served a delicious salad
course.
The next meeting will be held in
November at the home of Mrs. Ed
Chancy.
HAVE YOU BILL AGAINST
EARLY COUNTY FAIR?
This is to notify all who hold
unpaid bills against the Early County
Fair that they must be sent in by
November 10th. We ask that you
attend to this immediately.
O. F. MORTON.
CITY TO WAGE
WAR ON RATS
IN NOVEMBER
The City of Blakely is going to
awge war on its rat population.
The battle will begin on Novem
ber 16, it was decided the past week
by the Mayor and Council, following
a special meeting at which a repre
sentative of the typhus control di
vision of the Georgia Department of
Public Health discussed a rat con
trol program with the city authorities.
The city will employ an inspector
to supervise the program, which will
include a general clean up and do
ing away with rat harborages around
the premises, the installation of ap
proved type of garbage cans, rat
proofing of buildings—this to be fol
lowed by program of extermination
by poisoning.
Typhus fever, spread by the brown
wharf rat, has increased at an
alarming rate in recent years, and the
only effective means of fighting the
disease is to do away with the car
riers.
The citizens of Blakely will wel
come the news that the city au
thorities plan an active war on rats.
CARSWELL TO BE
GUEST OF AMERICAN
LEGION TONIGHT
Alex Carswell, Superintendent of
the Blakely Public School, will be
the guest of P. H. Fitzgerald Post
No. 11 The American Legion, at its
regular meeting on Thursday even
ing, November 3rd, at 7:30 o’clock.
Commander W. C. Cook urges that
all members be present to welcome
and hear Mr. Carswell. Armistice
Day is just around the corner and a
program for the proper observance
of this now national holiday will be
worked out at this meeting. Legion
naires will kindly heed.
Rotary District
Governor Is Guest
Os Blakely Club
On his official visitation, Porter
Carswell, of Waynesboro, governor of
the Georgia district of Rotary' Inter
national, was a guest of the Blakely
Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon
held at noon last Thursday. Prior
to the regular luncheon meeting, he
met on Wednesday night with the
Club assembly and discussed the Ro
tary program for the current year.
At the Thursday luncheon meet
ing he delighted the Blakely Ro
tarians with a talk on “The Four
Objects of Rotary,” a discussion that
proved both enlightening and enter
taining to the Club members. His
informative talk was interspersed
with a number of humorous stories.
Mr. Carswell is one of Georgia’s
most active and enthusiastic Ro
tarians. He was introduced by Presi
dent George Gunter, who presided
over the meeting, with Mrs. Ben
Haisten rendering a delightful pro
gram of music.
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ADVANCE IN COST
OF OPERATION OF
COMMON SCHOOLS
State support of common schools
for seven months this year, consider
ed a “must” in the administration
program, calls for approximately
$1,365,000 more than last year, or
$9,967,000.
Officials said this advance in cost,
disclosed when the first month’s
payments were sent to local schools,
was due to teachers moving into
higher salary brackets by virtue of
additional experience and training.
This rising cost, stacked against
dwindling reserves, freshened the
flow of speculation over whether
the January Legislature would re
plenish revenues by hiking existing
taxes or possibly enacting some high
yield measure such as a sales, gross
receipts or gross income levy.
Looking to the next assembly, ob
servers recalled what happened to
sales and gross receipts proposals in
the recent special session. One of
two general sales levies introduced
was recommended by the House Ways
and Means Committee, but recom
mitted after stormy debate near the
end of the session.
The gross receipts bill, titled the
“penny in the dollar educational act”
because part of its yield would have
been allocated to schools, failed to
emerge from the House committee.
Proponents of the sales tax meas
ure of 2 per cent claimed it would
return from $7,000,000 to $8,000,-
000 annually on the basis of current
retail sales.
After December 20, when property
taxes are due, the state will begin
to receive revenue from this source
for the general fund, from which the
bulk of educational money comes.
But fiscal officials estimate the state
will lose from $1,300,000 to $1,500,-
000 in property taxes due to person
alty exemptions. This would run
schools a month.
State funds for schools come from
a general fund appropriation and al
locations. One cent of the gasoline
tax, about $3,150,000 a year, is allo
cated to the equalization fund. This
cannot be reduced or tapped by the
stabilization fund, which draws 10
per cent of many tax yields.
Beer and wine taxes are allocated
to the free textbook fund. The beer
tax was almost doubled by act of
the special session and both levies
returned $1,762,330 to the book
fund the past fiscal year.
Revenue from the new liquor law,
which, under the constitution must go
for education, is averaging about
SIIO,OOO a month. At this rate a
year’s yield would pay the schools
for a month.
While state departments are feel
ing the restriction of a budget lim
itation of 65 per cent of appropria
tion, the school funds were paid
100 per cent for the first month this
year.
State Auditor Zach Arnold assert
ed recently it was felt that “nothing
short of funds sufficient to pay the
schools and old-age pensions in full
would be carrying out the (admin
istration) program.”
Arnold said present outlook indi
cated the Legislature would have to
raise an additional $3,000,000 to pay
the school bill in full. Observers in
terpreted this comment as an indica
tion administration forces in the As
sembly would propose means of rais
ing more cash for public education.
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” is the
outstanding attraction at the Blake
ly Theatre Thursday and Friday.—
advt.