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BLAKELY HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
BLAKELY F. F. A. NEWS
This week will be an unusually
busy one for the F. F, A. members.
Friday, May 26, at 7:30 p. m., there
will be divisional quartet and pub
lic-speaking contests held at the
high school auditorium. Everyone is
urged to be with us; there will be
no admission charges.
Ten schools will participate in
these contests. They are: Albany,
Newton, Elmodel, Fort Gaines, Bluff
ton, Damascus, Hilton, Jakin, Mor
gan, and Blakely. Blakely will be
represented in the public speaking
by Herman Collier. Members of the
quartet are Herman Collier, Mack
Jarrett, Wilson Fryer, and William
Mosely.
Preparations are being made to
send a shop team to the state meet
May 2 and 3. Contestants will be
chosen this week.
—REPORTER.
INTERESTING CHAPEL
PROGRAM GIVEN
A very impressive and informative
program was presented in chapel
Monday morning by the fifth grade,
under the direction of Miss May.
The theme was “Science and Inven
tion.” Men and women who have
contributed much to the comfort and
well-being of the world today—
among them Robert Fulton, James
Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, Mad
ame Curie, the Wright brothers, Cy
rus McCormick, Gutenberg, Samuel
F. B. Morse, and Eli Whitney, were
portrayed by members of the class,
and posters showing drawings of
their inventions were exhibited. A
short sketch of each man’s life was
also given.
After this part of the program,
the entire fifth grade sang several
songs, which were very pleasing to
t'he audience because of the sweet
ness of tone and the harmony of
their voices.
—REPORTER.
DESTINY
The time will come —it won’t be long,
When Seniors chant their farewell
song;
The bell no more will call us
hither,
The year’ll be gone, and we’ll go
,t with her!
1941
The building stands as ’er before,
While voices drift through every
door;
And Seniors, breathless, wait for
May,
(As we do now, day after day.)
These things will be as they’ve al
ways been, —
A year will start; that year will end:
Yet every class that graduates
Must find their harbors —learn their
fates.
Will each of them get the sought
for prize
The undeserving? the weak? the
wise?
Will fortune come to everyone?—
Or just to him whose work is done?
We’ll find the answer soon enough,
While traveling paths, oft rutted and
rough.
A thorough training our teachers
gave us,
From Failure then—Oh Knowledge—
save us!
SOFT-BALL CONTINUES
After a week of no games, the
softball teams resumed play last
week. On Wednesday night, April
17, the boys played the Blakely
men’s team, but, because of a bit of
stiff competition, the high school
team came out slightly on the losing
side, with a score of 14-3. Thurs
day and Friday nights both the boys
and the girls had scheduled games
with Colquitt and Arlington, re
spectively; however, these were call
ed off on account of bad weather.
—REPORTER.
COTTON DEMONSTRATION
TO BE CONDUCTED BY
BLAKELY F. F. A. CHAPTER
Thomas Hatcher, a member of
the Blakely F. F. A. Chapter, will
carry out on his home farm a 2 1-2
acre cotton demonstration on the
use of Chilean Nitrate of Soda. All
of the 2 1-2 acres is fertilized with
400 lbs. of 2-8-5 per acre. The
same variety of cotton is planted on
the entire plot. The soil is the same
type and fertility. The difference
will lie in the fact that 2 acres will
be side-dressed with 200 lbs. of
Chilean per acre, and 1-2 acre will
not be side-dressed. This 1-2 acre
plot will solve as a check and a
basis for comparison with the 2
acres side-dressed with Chilean.
Last year, on a similar demonstra
tion conducted by J. D. Willis, there
was a yield of 954 lbs. per acre on
the 2 acres side-dressed with Chilean.
On the 1-2 acre there was a yield of
568 lbs. per acre. There was a dif
ference of 386 lbs. more to the
acre for Chilean-treated. At a price
of 4c per lb. for seed cotton and
$35 per ton for soda, there was an
increased income of $11.94 per acre.
This demonstration proved under
adverse weather conditions that it is
wise to use Chilean Nitrate of Soda.
This year’s demonstration will be
compared with last year’s.
Everyone is invited to watch this
demonstration, which is located on
the Freeman Chapel road at Mr.
Wesley Hatcher’s, about 2 miles
from Blakely.
—REPORTER.
THE DAY HAS COME!
Yes, the day has come at last.
The Blakely Band is going to Mil
ledgeville. Oh, don’t get worried.
They aren’t that crazy—yet! The
Band is going to a contest there.
Since the Band won at the District
Festival in Albany the twenty-ninth
of March, it will now compete with
bands from all over the state.
It’s a hopeful, happy group that
sets out Monday morning around 9
o’clock. The concert band will per
form Tuesday morning; the drill
band, Tuesday night. In addition to
these, several solos and quartettes
will be presented. Incidentally, the
highlight of the trip will be the
dance on Monday night, to which all
band members will be admitted—
free!
The band has worked hard. The
proof of this is the “bam-bom-bom
ing” you have heard at the school
house every afternoon. (In case you
don’t know, this is the drill band
SLAVING.) Let’s wish ’em lots of
luck, because the big day has come
at last!
—REPORTER.
moral sayings
Thomas Jefferson, third President
of the United States, compiled for
his own use a book in which the say
ings and precepts of Jesus Christ
were arranged for easy reference
and study. The book was entitled
“The Morals of Jesus.” In 1904 an
edition was ordered published by the
fifty-seventh congress and 9,000
copies were printed. There have
been later editions issued.
BLAKELY CHAPTER NO. 282
ORDER EASTERN STAR
Holds regular meeting nights ev
ery second and fourth Thursday
nights, 7:30 o’clock p. m.
MRS. CLEO GRUBBS,
Worthy Matron.
MRS. WILLING HALL,
Secretary.
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P. O. Box 306 - - - BLAKELY, GA.
COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Manget Explains
Compensation and
Old Age Insurance
Many confuse State unemployment
compensation with Federal old-age
and survivors insurance, according
to Victor Manget, Manager of the
Social Security Board Field Office
at Albany. A man who recently
applied for unemployment compen
i sation insisted that he had been pay
ing the one percent wage tax for
more than two years. Now that he
had lost his job, he felt that he was
entitled to unemployment compensa-
I tion.
The employment service official
explained to him that the wage tax
which he had been paying was re
lated to the Federal system old-age
and survivors insurance and was not
an unemployment compensation tax,
since employees in Georgia do not
pay unemployment compensation
taxes. Only employers contribute to
the Georgia state unemployment com
pensation fund. He was, therefore,
not entitled to benefits under the
State unemployment compensation
law.
To illustrate the difference be
tween these two social insurance
systems established by the Social
Security Act, the employment serv
ice official pointed out that a man
who buys an ordinary life insurance
policy but carries no fire insurance
does not expect to collect fire insur
ance when his house burns down.
Neither should a worker who is in
sured under one of the programs of
the Social Security Act expect ben
efits under the other and entirely
different system.
Many workers, of course, are
covered by both programs—job in
surance and old-age and survivors
insurance. Old-age and survivors
insurance is a Federal system and
includes wage or salary earners in
business and industrial -establish
ments employing one or more per
sons. It provides monthly payments
for insured workers when they re
tire at age 65 or later, and also pro
vides insurance protection for the
families of insured workers. That is
one kind of insurance.
Unemployment compensation, or
job insurance, is an entirely differ
ent system. It is administered by
the State government, with Federal
aid and cooperation. It provides
weekly payments to workers covered
under the State law who are tem
porarily without jobs through no
fault of their own.
Industrial and business concerns
which employ 8 or more workers
pay all the unemployment compen
sation tax that is paid in Georgia.
Consequently, only employees of
these covered concerns are entitled
to claim unemployment compensa
tion when they lose *their jobs.
The purpose of unemployment
compensation is to furnish some in
come to insured workers during pe
riods when they cannot get employ
ment because of lack of work. In
sured wage earners with sufficient
previous employment will receive
payments under certain conditions
and for a certain number of weeks.
These payments are not equal to the
worker’s regulars, but they will help
tide him over until he can get back
to work.
Man-Hater Weds
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. . . . Mrs. Einai
R. Almdale, 20, the former Mariar
Phillips, University of Michigan co
ed, who last Fall was much publi
cized when she listed “81 Reasons
for Hating Men,” pictured after it
was learned that she had become a
bride of a fellow college student
She said he was an exception.
Thousands to Attend
The Rose Show at
Thomasville Friday
Thomasville, Ga.—This city will
be host to thousands of visitors Fri
day for the nineteenth annual Thom
asville rose show, the city’s outstand
ing event of the spring season.
Flower lovers from all parts of the
southeast and from distant states
are expected to attend.
The show, to be held in the hangar
at the municipal airport, will be
opened to the public at 11 o’clock in
the morning and will remain open
until 11 that night. Following the
plan of last year, for the special
benefit of visitors from distant cit
ies who wish to see the show at
their leisure and with ample time
for inspection of displays and exhib
its, a preview period of four hours,
starting at 11 a. m. and ending at
3 p. m., will be provided, during
which time a nominal admission
charge will be made. The show will
be free to the public the remaining
hours.
It is indicated one of the greatest
arrays of roses ever assembled in
this section will be on display. In
addition, there will be many beauti
ful exhibits featuring annuals, pe
rennials and all varieties of flower
ing plants and shrubs.
In addition to individual entries,
local civic organizations, schools,
business establishments and many
of the large plantation estates will
have exhibits.
FOR SALE—-A small improved
farm cheap. Inquire at Early
County News office.
THERE NEVER WAS A
BIGGER RUTABAGA
Alma.—When bigger turnips turn
up, or root up, they will be ruta
baga. Until then, here’s one that
would break a rake. When W. H.
King, of near Sessoms, planted his
rutabagas last fell, he didn’t expect
a winner. But he dug one up last
week. The turnip weighed 5 pounds,
10 ounces.
Read the ads in The News.
Danish Training Ship Waiting Instructions
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. . . . The Danish training ship Danmark, carry
ing 120 cadets, which is in port here awaiting instructions from the
Danish Ministry at Washington. Capt. Knud L. Hansen said after the
German invasion of Denmark, “Obviously we could not leave port with
out knowing what our status would be while at sea.”
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your group is to be commended I / . ,
ie and determination to put down 1/ - ?
s that exists at some of the beer 1/
tate. I
mich impressed with what you did f '''
it you did at Augusta, and what< f '
ilished in Bibb County.
jw a question of whether we are I J
s or anti-prohibitionists—beer’
ized. But the need for self- «" psMa
apparent, and your Committee*
hat it takes.
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The people are approving the a Real Clean Up,” the Crisp Coun~
movement to eliminate law-vio- ty News declares editorially .. .
lating retail beer outlets in Legitimate beer retailers approve
Georgia—the above letter is only —they are law-abiding, they re
one outstanding citizen’s expres- spect public sentiment. Their
sion.. .The press approves—“lt’s cooperation is highly valued.
Law-violating outlets know we mean business—eight licenses have been revoked by
the authorities, who welcome this new shoulder to the wheel. It IS "A Real Clean Up”
BREWERS&BEER DISTRIBUTORS
JUDGE JOHN S. WOOD, State Director
529 Hurt Building • Atlanta, Georgia
MASONIC NOTICE
Magnolia Lodge No.
86 Free and Accept
ed Masons bolds reg
ular commun cationa
on the first and third
Monday nights in
each month. The
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time is 8 p. m. in the summer, 7:30
p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p.
m. during the winter. Visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to attend.
J. D. HALL,
Worshipful Master.
J. E. HOUSTON, Secretary.
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