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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 46
GEORGIA BANKS
MAKE MANY LOANS
LAST HALF OF 1940
257,000 LOANS TOTALING $295,-
000,000 MADE BY 17 PER
CENT OF BANKS
Seventeen per cent of the banks
in Georgia made more than 257,000
loans totaling $295,000,000 to busi
ness firms and individuals throughout
the state during the second half of
1940, according to the semi-annual
survey of bank lending activity
made by the Research Council of
the American Bankers Association.
The A. B. A. loan survey was
participated in by 47 Georgia banks,
or 17 per cent of the 283 banks in
the state.
These 17 banks reported that they
made between July 1 and December
31, 1940:
146,538 new loans total
ing $150,473,097
108,403 renewals of loans
totaling 142,324,495
2,483 new mortgage
loans total
ing 2,760,152
257,424 $295,557,744
The survey showed that business
firms in the state used about one
third of the “confirmed open lines
of credit” maintained for their use
on the books of banks. A total of 8
banks in the larger centers of the
state reported that they carried on
their books $71,404,940 in “open
lines of credit” offered to and kept
available for regular borrowers for
use as needed by them. Os this
amount, $28,040,927, or 39.3 per
cent, was used.
The average number of new loans
made per bank during the six
months period under review was
3,118 and the average size of loan
was $1,027.
The average number of loans re
newed per bank was 2,306 and the
average renewal was for $1,313.
The average number of new mort
gage loans made per bank was 53
and the average new mortgage made
was for $1,112.
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ALL SUMMER GOODS GREATLY
REDUCED NOW!
One lot Men’s “Gulf-Tone” suits, values to $22.50,
reduced now to $14.95
One lot Men’s CURLEE and MERIT sport coats,
values to $16.50, now $10.95
Men’s swim trunks, some by Manhattan, all re
duced, prices 98c to $1.95
One table TOM SAWYER boys’ slack suits, wide
assortment v 51.49 to $1.95
One lot Men’s white shoes, values to $4.00, re
duced to, pair $1.95
Women’s white shoes, kedettes and play shoes,
values to $2.95, now $1.49
Ladies’ brown and white Spectator pumps, all
whites, too, $3.50 value $2.49
Velvet-Step, whites and sport oxfords, $5.50
values, now only, pair: $3.50
Ladies’ silk dresses, solids and prints, values to
$7.95, now 0n1y 54.95
One lot silk and cotton dresses, pastels and prints,
all sizes, regular prices to $4.95, now 0n1y 52.95
One table ladies’ hats, summer styles, good as
sortment, regular SI.OO, now 79c
One table ladies’ hats, regular values to $1.95,
reduced to. $1.49
Ladies’ dotted swiss dresses, sizes 12 to 44,
prices $1.95 to $3.95
One table fashion sheers in solids and prints, 36
in. wide, regular 98c value, reduced to 79c
54 inch all silk jersey material, pastel shades,
black and navy, regular $1.49 value, for, per
yard SI.OO
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store’ 9
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
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New Board School
Trustees Named in
Tuesday’s Election
A board of trustees to serve the
recently consolidated Blakely and
Union school districts was named at
an election held in the two districts
Tuesday.
The new board is composed of
John Holman, J. D. Rogers and R.
C. Singletary, Jr., for the Blakely
district, and C. Stuart Chandler and
O. H. King for the Union district.
For the three Blakely members
there was no opposition, while in the
Union district three names were
submitted to the voters, Messrs.
Chandler and King, the winners,
and John P. Hudspeth.
The new board members succeed
Messrs. J. W. Bonner, C. E. Boyett,
C. D. Duke, L. B. Fryer and H. A.
Walton, none of whom were candi
dates for membership on the ' new
board.
It is expected that the new board,
working under and in cooperation
with the County Board of Education,
will take early action toward the
erection of a new school plant to
replace the one recently destroyed
by fire.
MR. G. N. ARMSTRONG
DIES IN CHICAGO
Friends here of Mr. G. N. Arm
strong will regret to learn of his
death on June 16 at Chicago, where
he passed in his sleep. Mr. Arm
strong was well known in Blakely,
where he often visited his son, Mr.
C. J. Armstrong, his last visit here
being three years ago. He was in
his 90 th year. Mr. Armstrong was
buried at Auburn, N. Y.
The FRIGIDATRE is the refriger
ator with the meter-miser. This
means economical operation. W. C.
COOK.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1941.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
NEXT TUESAY, JULY 1, IS SECOND
REGISTRATION DAY THROUGHOUT U. S. A
EARLY COUNTIANS BECOMING 21 YEARS OF AGE SINCE LAST
OCTOBER 20 WILL REGISTER AT OFFICE OF LOCAL DRAFT
BOARD BETWEEN HOURS OF 7 A. M. AND 9 P. M.
On July Ist, all young men who
have become 21 years of age since
October 16, 1940, will be required to
register for Selective Service, Offices
of the Local Selective Service Board
will be open from 7 A. M. to 9 P. M.
to take care of this registration.
The Early County Board is locat
ed in the court house.
If all young men who expect to
register on July Ist will bring with
them, written down, the answers to
the following questions, no time will
be wasted and the information on the
registration cards will be accurate
and complete.
NAME: This means your full
name. If you do not know what your
full name is, nor how to spell each
name, ask your mother or father,
your grandmother or some other
member of your family who knows
the full name given you when you
were born. If you are called by
initials, find out if those initials con
stitute your full name, or if they
stand for names and the initials just
used to shorten oi' a nickname. This
is very important for the Govern
ment does not recognize initials as
legal name, unless so stated on each
signature.
PLACE OF RESIDENCE: The in
formation given here will determine
the Local Board who will have juris
diction over your card and the class
ification of your questionnaire, so be
careful to name the city or county
in which you wish your file to re
main, for it cannot be changed after
the National Lottery is held. For in
stance, if you live in another State,
but work in Georgia and prefer that
the Board in your home town hold
your registration card, give the ad
dress of your home in that other
State.
MAILING ADDRESS: State here
the address at which you will receive
your mail. If you are boarding, or
living in the home of some one of
another name than your own, have
the mail sent in their care. If you
have a post office box, give the num
ber and the city in which it is locat
ed. If you live on a city street, be
sure the name is spelled correctly and
that you give the correct house num
ber. If you get your mail on an
R.F.D. route, state you box number
on that route. If you do not have
a box of your own, be prepared to
give the name of the person in whose
box you receive your mail. Notify
that person that you will probably
President Roosevelt, in a special
message to Congress, said that Ger
many had tried to drive the U. S.
off the high seas by the “ruthless”
sinking of the U. S. merchantman
Robin Moor in the South Atlantic
and proclaimed this country will
not yield to such “outrageous and in
defensible” acts of “an international
outlaw.” The President said if the
U. S. yielded on the issue, “we would
inevitably submit to world domina
tion . .
The President froze all funds and
other assets in the U. S. of Germany,
Italy and all invaded or occupied
European countries and the State
Department directed the German
government to close all its consular
establishments here not later than
July 10. The President said he froze
German facilities here to prevent
their use in ways harmful to nation
al defense. The State Department
said German consulates were order
ed closed because their activities had
become contrary to the welfare of
this country.
The Justice Department instruct
ed customs officials and immigration
officers to prevent Germans from
evading the order freezing German
assets by leaving the country. The
State Department ordered U. S.
diplomatic officials “in certain coun
tries in Europe” to deny American
entry permits to persons likely to
become agents here for foreign
powers.
SUB-CONTRACTING—
Donald M. Nelson, OPM Director
of Purchases, speaking in Pittsburgh,
said the problem of plants faced
with a shutdown because of short
ages of materials for civilian goods
can be met by the cooperation of lo
cal business, labor, government, civ
ic groups and banks in seeking de
fense work. “No manufacturer is
likely to get many defense contracts
unless he is willing to display the
same ingenuity, persistence and en
ergy in going after them that he
would seeking normal business,” Mr.
Nelson said.
PRIORITIES—
The OPM Priorities Division an
nounced establishment of regional
offices throughout the country to ad
vise businessmen on priority prob- I
THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL
D-E-F-E-N-S-E
get some mail in his box, so that it
will be delivered to you promptly.
TELEPHONE: Give the phone
number where you may be reached,
if any. If there is none, state that
fact.
AGE IN YEARS: Give your exact
age.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Find out from
your family where you were born.
White it down so you won’t forget.
DATE OF BIRTH: Give the month,
day and year of your birthday. If
you are not certain about this, find
out from some member of the family
who knows. Be sure you have this
information correct.
OCCUPATION: If you are employ
ed, tell what you do. If you are still
in school, state that fact and give
the name of the school. If you are
studying some special course, or are
in training for some specific trade
or profession, be sure to include that
in your answer to this question.
NAME AND ADDRESS OF PER
SONS WHO WILL ALWAYS KNOW
YOUR ADDRESS: Give the name of
a person who will not be apt to move
around with you. In the last regis
tration many men gave their wives
names in answer to this question,
forgetting that wives generally go
with their husbands—and this caused
many delays during the mailing of
questionnaires. Do not give your
employer’s name, as this information
is stated in another place on the
card. Give the name of your father,
your mother, or some other relative
with whom you will keep in touch.
EMPLOYER’S NAME AND AD
DRESS: If you work for a corpora
tion, give the name of that—not your
superintendent or foreman. Os course
if you work for an individual, his
name should be given.
PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT OR
BUSINESS: State where your place
of employment or business is located.
This is all the information you
will be asked to give on Registration
Day; it is all the information needed
at this time. Anything else you want
the Local Board to know about you
can be written into your question
naire when you receive it.
Study these questions carefully,
and be sure to write down the cor
rect answers and take them with you
when you report to the office of the
draft board on next Tuesday, July
1, 1941. The office will be the only
place of registration and will be
open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m.
lems. Offices in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago were open
ed this week and others will be
opened soon.
The rationing of rubber was an
nounced to cut down the amount
going into civilian consumption in
the form of auto tires, inner tubes,
boots, garden hose, shoes, and 30,000
other consumer items. The OPM said
there is a sufficient supply of rubber
on hand but it wished to build a
large reserve.
PRICES—
OPACS Administrator Henderson
announced he intends to hold bread
prices “to the absolute minimum re
flecting cost increases” and asked
bakeries to consult with his office
before raising prices. Mr. Hender
son also stated rumors of ceiling
prices for scrap iron and steel have
caused some hoarding and unless
this practice stops the OPACS will
take “vigorous action.” The Depart
ment. of Justice announced a Fed
eral Grand Jury in Chicago indicted
69 companies and individuals on
charges of fixing prices in the pea
canning industry. The Department
said the indictments were the first
in a nation-wide investigation of
food marketing and pricing.
LABOR—
The President, in a memorandum
to OPM Directors Knudsen and Hill
man, stated that “industry must take
the initiative in opening the doors
of employment to all loyal and
qualified workers regardless of race,
national origin, religion or color . . .
Our Government cannot countenance
continued discrimination in defense
production.”
The OPM Labor Division an
nounced a two-year agreement by
the Gulf shipbuilding industry to
provide wage increases, a standard
base rate of $1.07 an hour for skill
ed mechanics; time and a half for
overtime; double time on holidays;
adjustment of wages at specified
periods according to living costs;
and no strikes and no lockouts. The
OPM has also submitted a similar
agreement to 55 Atlantic shipyards.
LIVING COSTS—
Labor Secretary Perkins reported
average hourly earnings in manu-
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Monthly Meeting
Os Welfare Board
Held Monday
The Early County Welfare Board
held its regular monthly meeting
Monday, June 23. It. was stated that
six new cases were approved to re
ceive Old Age Assistance, money be
ing available through deaths and
cases closed for other reasons. Each
person receiving public assistance
has to be reinvestigated every 12
months, according to Federal and
State regulations. 38 of these were
visited this month and presented to
the Board.
Report of the Board meeting also
showed the following:
Four children were carried to Al
bany to the clinic for crippled chil
dren. These will receive treatment
at an early date.
N. Y. A. program is suspended
during June, but will be reorganized
and started again in July.
The following applications were
received during the month:
8 for Old Age Assistance; 1 for
A. D. C.; 10 for Surplus Commodi
ties, 4 of these approved; 6 for W.
P. A., 5 approved; 3 for C. C. C.; 1
for General Relief, which has been
approved; 2 out of town inquiries
received and answered, and one Se
lective Service Request received and
answered.
After a week’s delay, checks for
the three types of assistance were
received and delivered.
491 families received Surplus
Commodities through this departr
ment, and 109 through F. S. A.
MARVIN SPARKS IS
SPEAKER AT ROTARY
. CLUB’S MEETING
Last week’s meeting of the Blake
ly Rotary Club, held at noon Friday
at the Hotel Early, was featured by
a talk by one of the club members,
Rotarian Marvin Sparks, whose mes
sage on “The Challenge to Life,”
was thoroughly enjoyed. Many fine
points were brought out by the
speaker in the course of his talk.
Rotarian Felix Barham spoke
briefly on some of the club’s expe
riences in its earlier years. The
club is now fifteen years old.
Last Friday’s meeting was pre
sided over by President-elect Henry
Wall in the absence of President
Jim Bonner.
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SAM A. WILLIAMS
DIED THURSDAY
FOLLOWING STROKE
HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR
NUMBER OF YEARS. FUNERAL
HELD FRIDAY.
Sam A. Williams, 59, well-known.
Early county citizen, died at his
home last Thursday shortly after
noon. Mr. Williams had been in ill
health for several years. His death
was attributed to an apoplectic
stroke.
He was a member of the Sardis
Methodist church and was a life
time resident of this county. He
was widely related and had many
friends who received with regret the
news of his passing.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at his home, with the Rev,
J. O. Akin officiating. Funeral serv
ices followed in the Sardis cemetery
with the Minter, Fellows & Forrester
Funeral Home in charge of arrange
ments and the following serving as
pall-bearers: Foy Williams, Emmett
Williams, Homer Bush, Donald Wid
ner, Milton Bryant, Jr., Thurman
Williams, Emory Freeman.
Mr. Williams is survived by his
mother, Mrs. T. B. Williams; eight
children, Mrs. J. J. Loyless of Blake
ly, S. A. Williams of Panama City,
Fla., Miss Nell Williams, Mrs. Roy
Smith, James Williams, Kenneth Wil
liams, Jack Williams, Miss Lois Ann
Williams, all of Blakely; four broth
ers, Bill Williams, J. E. Williams,
and H. L. Williams, all of Blakely,
and P. W. Williams, of Louisville,
Ky.; and one sister, Mrs. 'Milton
Bryant, of Blakely.
LIBRARY HOURS
Effective Friday, June 13, the
Early County Library hours will be
as follows:
9 to 11 a. m.
3 to 6 p. m.