Newspaper Page Text
EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXX NO. 33
AUTO DRIVER’S
LICENSES TO BE
READY APRIL 15
Major Lon Sullivan, Department
of Public Safety Commissioner, an
nounced today the renewal of driv
ers licenses will begin April 15.
“Present licenses,” he said, “ex
pire in June, and applicants who
hold valid permits but fail to re
new before that time must stand the
safe driver examination before they
can obtain new ones.”
Major Sullivan said the renewal
process is much simpler than it was
last year and should speed up the
issuing process. Application blanks
will be available either the last of
this week or the first of next, at fill
ing stations, police and sheriff’s of
fices, garages, and district state
patrol and sub-district stations.
The license fee is the same as it
was last year: $1 for an operator’s
permit which most drivers hold, and
$2 for a chauffeur’s license which
all for-hire drivers, chauffeurs, bus
and truck operators, or anyone else
who makes. his living driving motor
vehicles must obtain.
Steps in the process are: (1) get
an application blank and fill it in
correctly; (2) attach the stub from
the top of the old license and a mon
ey order or cashier’s check; (3)
mail application, stub, and money
order or check to Department of
Public Safety, Box 1741, Atlanta.
The Commissioner said coopera
tion on the part of drivers who send
in early applications correctly made
out and signed will facilitate, the
work of the Department. “We can
prevent the delay experienced in
issuing licenses last summer if driv
ers will make application right
away,” he said.
“We have eliminated the slow and
expensive process of photographing,
and substituted a simple validating
plan which will enable us to give
much faster and more accurate serv
ice with less expense,” Major Lon
Sullivan said.
INTERIOR DECORATOR
TO SPEAK TO WOMAN’S
CLUB FRIDAY, APRIL 12
It is announced by Mrs. S. P. Hol
land, president, that the Blakely
Woman’s Club will meet on Friday,
April 12, at 3:00 o’clock, at the
American Legion hall.
The feature of the meeting will
be an address on interior decorating
by a representative of Rich’s, of At
lanta, and the meeting is open to all
the ladies of the town.
A' 1* \
OuR new Humming
Bird Davencrepes are
keyed to spring’s smart- buy
est fashions—with a cor- f\
rect color for every cos- / Mi/.jm.a <
tume. An abundance of -L/UV
HIDDEN VALUES makes -B-j« ’* * Y Cc B J
them ever so practical, too. UIH Fl Isl C| iJirCl
89c to $1.25
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
County JXcws
“BISCUIT EATER”
IS TO BE SHOWN
HERE APRIL 12
In keeping with the same excellent
policy he has maintained since he
has been in the motion picture busi
ness, Mr. J. C. Peters, owner and
manager of the Blakely Theatre,
announced today that he would show
“The Biscuit Eater” at his theatre
here on Friday, April 12, which is
the day following its world pre
miere in Albany, Ga.
Mr. Peters said the picture would
be shown for one day only, matinee
and night performances, at no in
crease in admission prices.
“The Biscuit Eater” is the story
of the love of two boys for a bird
dog, and was filmed in its entirety
in and around Albany. Many Al
bany people have small roles in the
picture and Mr. Peters said that it
might be possible for Blakely citi
zens to recognize some of their
friends on the screen.
The picture features little 9-year
old Billy Lee, one of Hollywood’s
best juvenile actors, and Cordell
Hickman, a dusky little Negro boy,
who has had many years of expe
rience in motion pictures.
Scenes from the Albany field
trials are also shown in the picture.
Mr. Peters had to interrupt the
regular schedule of pictures which
had already been booked for his
theatre in order that local patrons
might have the opportunity to see
the first full-length motion picture
ever filmed in Southwest Georgia.
The picture doesn’t have its nation
wide release until April 26, which
means that local theatre goers will
see the production two weeks be
fore the other millions of theatre
patrons over the nation have that
opportunity.
Remember, this picture will be
shown for one day only, and at no
increase in admission prices. It is a
Paramount production.
MONTHLY MEETING
OF COMMISSIONERS
HELD TUESDAY
The Early County Board of Com
missioners met in regular monthly
session Tuesday. Present: H. C.
Fort, chairman, L. H. Baughman, J.
C. Balkcom, W. R. Pullen, and C. E.
Martin.
Very little business other than
routine matters, was transacted.
The board voted to submit plans
to the W. P. A. for the rebuilding
of the court house at Jakin, which
is property of the county.
An account of the Georgia Power
Company for removing light poles
from the right-of-way on No. 62,
Blakely to. Arlington, was turned
over to Chairman Fort for investiga
tion, with a report of his findings to
be sumitted to the next meeting of
the Board.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1940.
BODENHAMER
SPEAKER AT FFA
AND 4-H BANQUET
Mr. W. T. Bodenhamer was the
principal speaker Wednesday night,
March 27th, when the Blakely chap
ter of the Future Farmers of Ameri
ca held their annual “Father-Son”
banquet at the Blakely high school.
Mr. Bodenhamer, who is district
supervisor of education in the state
school system, challenged the edu
cational leaders to “build person
ality and character and to teach boys
and girls to work with their hands as
well as brain and there would be no
worries as to the kind of citizens they
would develop.” He was introduced
by Superintendent Alex Carswell, of
the Blakely public schools.
After the meeting was called to
order by President G. W. White and
the officers of the chapter had been
introduced, E. H. Cheek, adviser for
the chapter and vocational teacher
at Blakely high school took charge
of the program and introduced the
guests of the evening.
Mr. Cheek introduced George I.
Martin, district supervisor of voca
tional training, Tifton, who spoke
briefly and lauded the work being
done by the Blakely chapter. Mr.
Martin was well pleased with the re
sults accomplished by the chapter,
despite the fact that the Blakely
chapter is less than a year old, hav
ing been organized last September
when Mr. Cheek became head of the
vocational department.
Two fine reports by members of
the chapter, William Mosely and J.
D. Willis, were given in which they
told of the work they had been en
gaged in since becoming Affiliated
with the F.F.A. Young Willis has
been doing this work for four years,
while Mosely has been a member for
only one year.
Joel McDowell, the youngest mem
ber and also the lad who showed the
largest amount of cash profit from
the individual projects, was intro
duced.
As for the entertainment of the
evening the F.F.A. boys showed that
they were a versatile group and
proved that they were skilled in
music as well as in farming and the
raising of pure bred beef cattle and
hogs.
James White gave an excellent
rendition on the piano of “Deep Pur
ple,” which was warmly applauded.
A quartette composed of William
Mosely, Wilson Fryer, Herman Col
lier and Mack Jarrett, accompanied
by James White at the piano, gave
a 20th century version of “Tenting
On The Old Camp Grounds.”
Herman Collier and Mack Jarrett
stole the show with a snappy rendi
tion of the popular “Beer Barrel
Polka”, played on their guitar and
mandolin. This number was good for
an encore.
The banquet which had delicious
pork barbecue and Brunswick stew
for the main dish was served by the
THE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS OF EARLY COUNTY
IRfc Sili < t
Kiftf S y OL-aF \ . I
I ft©
w ft? -f O&rA si * M 1
■ ■' ***
-• ! - •• a-
W ft.ftjrS.yJ WaK
.... -z<XM>y *S *' x ' '’S " V ’
s ... .... -,x.A- * V. ->
The Colomokee Boys’ and’ Girls Basketball Champions of the Grammar Schools of Early County.
They won a double victory in a county-wide tournament held at New Hope school Friday, March 22.
Front Row (kneeling): Ethel Kenney, Virginia Collins, Doris Ruggs, Dorothy Bostwick, Virginia Willi
ford, Jean Pipkin; Back Row (standing): Miss Frances Balkcom, principal and coach; Don Gentry,
Charles Roberts, Herbert Windsor, Ted Tedder, Floyd Smith, J. W. Baker, Don Reed, Mabel Gentry.
(Photo by Eubanks.)
BLAKELY RATES
HIGH AT ALBANY
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Sixty-four Blakely school children
represented this city and school in
the district music festival in Albany
last Friday, and came home with
four first ratings, six seconds and
one third. Inasmuch as this was
Blakely’s first participation in the
festival, this is, indeed, a fine record.
Those rating I were: Hugh Eu
banks, drum solo; Agnes Waters,
soprano solo; Arthur Sherman, Fran
ces George, Eugenia Thompson and
James White, brass quartet; Ray
Lindsey, Dynva Miller, Frances
George and Kenneth Tabb, trumpet
quartet. This rating is known as
superior honor.
Those events rating II were: Vir
ginia Holman, contralto solo; Arthur
Sherman, Mack Balkeom, Dynva
Miller and Ray Lindsey, brass quar
tet; Cena Loback, Bryan Respess
and Felix Barham, clarinet trio;
James Collier, Cona Ann Bush, Andy
Lanier and Bryan Respess, clarinet
quartet; the drill band and the con
cert band. This is known as an ex
cellent honor rating.
The choir rated 111, which is call
ed good honor rating and was the
highest rated choir in Blakely’s class.
Miss Holman’s solo rated one
above the Albany entry, which re
ceived third rating.
The local school was the only
Class D school band to enter any
of the special events and was the
only one of this class to enter
marching competition. Every event
which was entered rated highest in
its class. As a result of this con
test, the events rating I and the drill
and concert band will be eligible to
enter the state meet on April 19th
at Milledgeville.
Incidentally, the Blakely band
was the largest band in the festival
and the only one with a school ban
ner.
LOCAL WEATHER FOR
MONTH OF MARCH
Temperature: Mean maximum,
74.6; mean minimum, 45.3; mean,
59.9; maximum, 85 on the 29th;
minimum, 31 on the 9th; greatest
daily range, 37 degrees.
Precipitation: Total, 3.94 inches;
greatest amount in any 24-hour pe
riod, 1.59 inches on the 30th.
Miscellaneous: Number of days
with 0.01 inch or more of rainfall,
11; clear, 10; partly cloudy, 11;
cloudy, 10. Dense fog on the Ist,
2nd, 12th; thunderstorms on the
7th, 12th, 30th.
J. G. STANDIFER, Observer,
U. S. Weather Bureau.
senior girls of the home economics de
partment. Miss Lurlie Ham is teach
er of this department and the girls
who assisted her were Vivian Wil
liams, Jeanne Hartley, Cena Loback,
Pauline Haddock, Leta Knighton and
Sarah Singletary.
SUPERIOR COURT
HOLDS ONE DAY
ON CIVIL CASES
The April term of Early superior
court was convened Monday morn
ing, with Judge C. W. Worrill pre
siding.
Civil cases ready for trial were
disposed of during the day and the
first-week traverse jurors were dis
missed for the term.
The grand jury was organized
with Mr. J. O. Bridges foreman, Mr.
Gordon Hall clerk, and Mr. W. A.
Scott bailiff. After a strong charge
from the presiding judge, that body
began its deliberations and had not
completed its work up to noon Wed
nesday. That body on Tuesday
reappointed Mr. Duncan Sasser to
the county Board of Education, and
appointed Mr. W. V. Miller to suc
ceed Mr. F. M. Mosely on the Board.
The criminal docket will be taken
up next Monday morning, it was
announced by Judge Worrill.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
Notes held by the Farmers Ex
change Bank have been placed with
Mr. Henry Walton, at the Commer
cial Bank, for collection. Your
prompt attention will be appreciated.
MRS. P. D. DuBOSE.
“Geronimo,” Paramount picture,
with Preston Foster and Ellen Drew,
at the Blakely Theatre Thursday and
Friday.
LOOK i
♦
I
for our message each ♦ i
week in this space. |
I
FIRST STATE BANK I
BLAKELY, GEORGIA t
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. ♦
Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for each depositor t
... ————
| PULL FOR BLAKELY |
—OR— I
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
RURAL ROAD
INVENTORY IS
INAUGURATED
Georgia’s first rural road inven
tory, designed to locate and analyze
each hazard involving curves, hills
and other sight obstructions on the
highway, has been inaugurated by
the Division of Highway Planning of
the State Highway Department.
'The first project, U. S. Route 41
from the Atlanta city limits north
to the Tennessee state line, was
chosen at the request of the Di
vision of Traffic and Safety since
this section of road has been desig
nated the first major project of the
traffic and safety unit. Information
gathered in the inventory survey
will be used as a basis for determin
ing the character of treatment to
be applied in the department’s new
highway safety program.
The entire route from Atlanta
through Marietta, Cartersville, Cal
houn, Dalton and Ringgold to the
Tennessee line will be mapped in
detail as to the hazards found, so.
that the traffic and safety division’s
engineer can work intelligently tow
ard correctional measures.
Anyone not an engineer might
have the idea that such a procedure
would be a long and tedious propo
sition. But, to the contrary, the
crew of engineers conducting the
survey will cover approximately 25
miles of road per day, which means
they will finish this project by the
end of this week. Afterward, they
will continue on other state and
federal routes until all the principal
roads have been surveyed for “crit
ical features.”
The field work is handled by four
men and two automobiles of the
station-wagon type, each car equip
ped with a maze of gadgets, with
nothing left to the chance of human
error except the mere reading of
the instruments (not a sinecure,
however) and making a record of
the readings in field notes. I had
the novel experience of riding with
the engineers for a few miles and
seeing just how the miracle is
wrought.
The chief of the party drives the
rear the car and is accompanied by
another engineer, who makes the
notes as the chief calls the readings
to him, and an apprentice engineer,
who assists with the readings, takes
measurements when required, etc.
The lead car is operated by the
assistant chief, who rides alone, and
moves as directed by signals from
the chief. Each car has three sig
nal lights, red, amber and white.
Each color means some sort of in
structions and combinations are used
for certain other directions, such as
stop, move ahead slowly, all clear,
back up, etc.
Probably the most remarkable fea
ture of the whole process is that
the two ears maintain a distance
between them of almost exactly
1,000 feet, the minimum sight dis-
continued on back page)