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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 3
EARLY COUNTIANS
LISTEN TO RADIO
SALUTE TO COUNTY
PRESENTED BY RADIO STATION
wsb Last Saturday night
AT 7:30 O’CLOCK
Hundreds of Early eountians
flocked around their radios here last
Saturday night to listen to WSB’s
salute to Early county, which was
transcribed here at the Woman’s Club
last Thursday night, and put on the
air from the Atlanta Journal’s 50,-
000 watt station the following Satur
day night.
Opening the program wa’s Marcus
Bartlett, WSB staff announcer, who
came down to Blakely to personally
supervise the broadcast. The open
ing musical number was by Mrs. Ben
Haisten and daughter, Miss Jane
Haisten, who rendered a delightful
piano and solovox number entitled
“Where the Mountains Meet the
Moon.”
These numbers were followed by
a “battle of quartettes,” Mr. D. C.
(Babe) Morgan and his Blakely
Four, Mr. Horace Killebrew and his
Cotton Choppers and an ac
cordion quartette comprised of Miss
Evelyn Dußose and three of her
young pupils, Misses Ann Jean Jones,
Dorothy Leger and Meade Maddox.
Hal Middleton delivered an ac
cordion solo and Perry (Bam) Bridg
es delivered a vocal number, “Drink
To Me Only With Thine Eyes.”
Misses Dorothy and Martha Clem
ents rendered a yodeling and singing
number, “Echoes from the Hills.” A
sparkling and musical arrangement
of Sewanee River in swingtime was
given by Misses Cena Loback and
Carolyn Middleton on the piano.
Three very informative talks
- VISIT
WEAVER’S UPSTAIRS
RARGAIN ANNEX
Here you will find thousands of dollars
worth of first-class merchandise at very
low prices ... It is your golden opportunity
to buy merchandise cheap.
One table, Chambray materials, solid
colors and stripes, limit 20 yds. to a
customer, per yard 5c
Men’s Overalls, a $1.39 value, discon
continued brands only, pr. 99c
Ladies’ Silk Dresses, new styles, mate
rials and quality, easily worth $2.95
each, special price $1.98
Ladies’ Print Cotton Dresses, new
stock, a bargain at 69c
Men’s Work Shoes, plain toe only, all
sizes ___sl.47
Prints, eighty-squares, wide selection
patterns and colors, bought cheap,
selling cheap, yard 19c
Men’s Straw Hats, a clean up, you
pick thfem 39c
Ladies’ Dress Shoes, one table to se
lect from, values to $395, odd
sizes, many super values, pair SI.OO
School Oxfords, misses’ and ladies’,
two tones, all sizes, priced at only„ $1.95
BE WISE—TRADE AT WEAVER’S NOW
Wi Upstairs Bargain Annex
Chas. E. Boyett Blakely, Ga.
(Sniip €wntj) JNews
FACULTIES NAMED
FOR SCHOOLS OF
EARLY COUNTY
FALL TERM TO OPEN SEPT. 15,
SUPERINTENDENT DAVIS
ANNOUNCES
Early county schools will open
Monday morning, September 15,
Supt. B. R. B. Davis announced yes
terday. All schools have completed
their faculty lists except for a va
cany in the Colomokee, Damascus,
Blakely, Jakin, Cedar Springs and
Hilton schools, he said.
Due to the loss by fire of the
Blakely school building, school will
be held in various public buildings,
he said. Proposed sites, Mr. Davis
said, include the Methodist and Bap
tist churches, American Legion hall,
city hall, county courthouse, Masonic
Hall and the school gymnasium. All
of these places are being fitted with
every means to bring about conven
ience for the students. Adequate
heating, lights, water and sanitation
are being installed. Modern green
blacliboards with yellow crayon, said
to be most restful to the eyes, are
being installed. Modern movable
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eugolizing Early county from an ag
ricultural, historical, civic and relig
ious viewpoint were delivered by Mr.
G. M. Sparks, Mr. O. F. Morton and
the Rev. E. M. Overby.
Much favorable comment has come
in concerning the program and list
eners think it was a well balanced
program, having all types of musical
numbers, classical, swing, rural and
semi-classical and gospel songs, the
latter being sung very delightfully
by the two quarettes.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1941.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
In a radio address to the Army
on the reasons for extension of se
lective service, War Secretary Stim
son said the Government realized the
personal sacrifice of additional serv
ice but was also conscious of the
danger to the U. S. He said “some
of the most significant symptoms. . .
which invariably forecast the coming
of a new Axis attack. . . are occur
ring in South America. . . the most
dangerous avenue of attack against
us.”
The War Department announced
that unless the international situa
tion becomes more serious it intends
to release by December 10 approxi
mately 150,000 National Guardsmen
inducted last fall, 20,000 selectees in
ducted last November and December,
and 10,000 Reserve officers. The re
leases will be made upon application
in accordance with the following pri
orities: dependency and hardship,
age of more than 28 on July 1, 1940.
and marriage for those who have
served 12 months. Men completing
enlistments will also be released on
request.
AID TO BRITAIN, RUSSIA, CHINA
The President announced aircraft
ferry and air transport services to
West Africa and the Middle-Eastern
war zone to provide direct and
speedy delivery to “a critical point
in the front against aggression.” The
route w’ill be so arranged that it will
not pass through the zone of actual
warfare, Mr. Roosevelt said.
The President told his press con
ference Russian needs fall into two
categories: 1. materials immediately
available to help them in their sum
mer campaign; 2. materials which
will be available for the spring cam
paign next year. Russia will not get
lend-lease aid, the President' said,
because the Soviets have the neces
sary cash for materials.
The Public Health Service an
nounced a 16-memiber U. S. medical
commission will go to China to direct
health measures for 250,000 Chinese
building the 1,700 mile railroad along
the Burma road.
PRODUCTION —
President Roosevelt told his press
conference that on the average de
fense production is up to estimates
and in some cases actually exceeds
estimates. He said, however, he still
is not satisfied with armament pro
duction. He said several hundred
tanks manufactured this year have
gone to the British; the quota of 61
anti-aircraft guns monthly is being
more than met; 160 37-mm. anti
tank guns will be delivered in Au
gust, 260 in September and 320 in
October; 340 81-imm. mortars will be
made in August.
OPM Director Knudsen told a
press conference the rate of defense
progress is sufficient to provide ade
quate equipment for the Army within
six or seven months. He predicted
again the U. S. can out-produce any
other nation but said that the nation
is still not showing the correct spirit.
Production rather than shipping, he
said, is the greatest bottleneck in
U. S. aid to Britain.
War Under Secretary Patterson,
speaking at Syracuse, said the Army
will not have to resort to broom
sticks instead of weapons for train
ing because “America is at last push
ing toward peak production. Tool
ing up w’ill soon be over. Guns, tanks
and planes are coming in daily in
creasing numbers.” He cited pi>udui>-
tion increases in the past six months:
tanks, 800 per cent; other vehicles,
600 per cent; machine guns, 225 per
cent; anti aircraft guns, 400 per cent
and smokeless porwjder, 400 per cent.
CIVILIAN SUPPLY—
OPM and the Office of Price Ad
ministration ordered anto production
for the 1942 model year cut to 817,-
000 cars during the four months be
ginning August 1, compared with 1,-
560,000 during the four months end
ed July 31. General Motors, Chrys
ler and Ford were asked to make
27.6 per cent cut from last year’s
levels; Studebaker, Hudson, Nash,
Packard, Willys and Crosley, 20.2.
OPM Associate Director Hillman said
unemployment in the industry would
be headed off by transfer of workers
to defense plants and other defense
THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL
D-E-F-E-N-S-E
industries and the conversion of
auto production machinery to de
fense work along the same lines as
similar moves in the silk industry.
DEFENSE CONTRACTING—
The OPM announced changes in
Army and Navy purchasing policies
to combat unemployment in plants
and communities threatened with
shortages of materials because of
priority action and to utilize more of
the nation’s productive capacities
through subcontracting. The Govern
ment can negotiate contracts at
prices up to 15 per cent above cur
rent quotations, deal with joint
groups of small contractors, elimi
nate bids and performance bonds
when necessary, inspect products at
the plant to, facilitate prompt pay
ment and call for bids to be broken
down into optional units to permit
smaller firms to bid.
AGRICULTURE—
Price Administrator Henderson set
ceiling prices of burlap, used at and
in the packaging of feed fertilizer
and agricultural products, at approxi
mately 20 per cent below recent New
York quotations.
OPM announced 35 to 40 new egg
drying plants w’ill be built by private
interests at a cost of from $50,000
to SIOO,OOO each in Illinois, lowa,
Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, New
York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and
Ohio, increasing capacity from 12,-
000,000 to more than 100,000,000
pounds annually to provide dried
eggs to Great Britain. Similar
projects are under consideration to
expand milk drying, cheese and other
concentrated food production for
American and British requirements.
CIVILIAN DEFENSE—
Civilian Defense Director, La-
Guardia arranged for the first State
wide “blackout” to be held the night
of September 12 in New Mexico.
Twelve towns will be “bombed,”
fires will be started in vacant lots
and other emergencies will be re
hearsed.
Mr. LaGuardia also announced a
training program for 100,000 volun
teer nurses’ aides with the collabora
tion of the Red Cross and local hos
pitals. The Public Health Service
called for 50,000 young women to
begin professional nursing training
this fall to meet a future shortage.
At present, the Service said, there
are 10,000 vacant positions for reg
istered nurses in the nation’s hospi
tals.
CREDIT CONTROL—
The Federal Reserve Board issued
tentative regulations which it said
will probably be placed in effect in
September to increase the required
size of down payments on install
ment buying (they will be from 15
to 33 per cent) and to shorten to 18
months the time for payments on
autos, airplanes, power boats, motor
cycles, refgrigerators, washing ma
chines, stoves, air-conditioners, radio
sets and similar household appliances.
OIL—
Deputy Petroleum Coordinator
Davis reported only a 10-d<ay supply
of gasoline reserves on the Atlantic
seaboard and Price Administrator
Hendersen ordered a 10 per cent cut
in deliveries to filling stations in
East coast States. Filling station
operators were told to reduce gas
sales to their customers “equitably”
but to allow necessary fuel to com
mercial public and health vehicles.
SHIPS—
Maritime Commission Chairman
Land, speaking in California, said
the immediate goal in ship produc
tion is more than 1200 merchant
ships by the end of 1943 and the
U. S. would be producing an average
of two ships a day until then.
The Navy launched the sixth sub
marine since January 1 and announc
ed that during the first half of Aug
ust two minesweepers, two torpedo
boats and two district craft were
launched and 1-8 keels laid.
BANKS TO CLOSE
MONDAY, LABOR DAY
The banks of Early county will be
closed next Monday, September 1, in
observance of Labor Day.
THE BANK OF EARLY,
FIRST STATE BANK.
NYA TRAINS YOUTH
FORNATIONAL
DEFENSE WORK
PROGRAM EXPLAINED BY MISS
LOUIS FORT IN INTERVIEW
HERE TUESDAY
Today in this mechanized, war
wrecked world, the man on the pro
duction line as is vital as the man on
the firing line. And America, for
her own defense, needs both work
ers in overalls and soldiers in khaki.
To this new American army of
production Early county may soon
be contributing boys and girl who,
through the National Youth Admin
istration’s expanding Youth Work
Defense Program, will have a chance
to become these urgently-needed in
dustrial soldiers, according to Miss
Louis Fort, local youth personnel
representative for NYA in Albany.
In lune with America’s prepared
ness effort, the N. Y. A. now is di
recting its resources toward prepar
ing youths for specific jobs in de
fense industries.
“Under a special appropriation
from Congress,” Miss Fort explained
in an interview yesterday, “the
agency plans to send 3680,00 young
people a yeai' into defense work do
ing vitally necessary jobs in ship
yards, radio, the country’s machine
shops, and in similar industries. In
Georgia alone during the next year
about 8,000 will leave N. Y. A. proj
ects to help keep the production
line moving.”
Miss Fort, who serves this area in
selecting boys and girls for assign
ment to work projects, interviews
youth applicants every Tuesday in
the County Sscshool Superintend
ent’s office at Blakely. Youths inter
ested in employment may also regis
ter with Miss Marjorie Roberts and
Miss Grace Weaver at this same of
fice at any time.
Early county youths who qualify
for the N. Y. A.’s out-of-school work
program will be assigned to one of
the 17 resident centers in Georgia,
operated to provide boys and girls
between 16 and 24 with work expe
rience which will help them secure
private employment, according to
Miss Fort.
At ’.he resident centers throughout
the state, youths live 24 hours a day
from periods ranging from three
months to a year, most of them leav
ing to accept jobs in private indus
try, she pointed out. Boys receive
work experience in agriculture and
in a variety of shops, including ma
chine, sheet metal, wood, auto me
chanics, foundry, forging, welding,
radio repair, electricity, and others.
Girls are offered “on the job” expe
rience in sewing, crafts, homemaking,
canning, gardening, radio, and light
shop work.
N. Y. A. workers get no hand
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Let Us Be of
Assistance to You---
Now that the busy fall season is ap
proaching, there are many ways in
which a bank can be of service to
you. We invite you to call to see
us and discuss your banking mat
ters with us.
FIRST STATE BANK
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for'each depositor
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
NEED SHOWN FOR
INCREASED USE OF
COTTON PRODUCTS
EFFORT IS MADE BY VARIOUS
AGENCIES TO STIMULATE
HOME CONSUMPTION
Acting in cooperation with the
Cotton Prodding Industry and the
Surplus Marketing Administration,
U. S. Department of Agriculture in
an effort to increase our home con
sumption of 100 per cent American
grown, processed, and manufactured
cotton products, Mr. H. A. Walton,
Chairman of the Early County Cot
ton Industry Committee, revealed to
day that existing personal inventories
of cotton goods are barely sufficient
to permit one change of wearing ap
parel and household cottons per week.
Mr. Walton said that although the
United States is regarded as the
cleanest nation in the world, this
country could better its record sub
stantially by increased purchases of
cotton articles.
The wardrobe of the average man
is estimated to include 2.62 dress
shirts, 2.46 suits of underwear and
2 pairs of pajamas. The average
laborer posesses 1.50 pairs of over
alls, 1.50 pairs of work pants, and
1.25 work shirts. In the average
family there are 4 sheets, 4 pillow
cases and 8 towels.
“Naturally these figures are for
the average man and family, and
cannot be taken to hold good in every
case”, Mr. Walton said. “We must
remember that some families have
substantially higher cotton inven
tories than the national average. By
the same token some families’ in
ventories are very much under the
average.
“With such a vast quantity of cob
ton articles readily available to the
American consumer at reasonable
prices, we should all take advantage
of the opportunity to increase our
supplies of cotton goods, not only to
aid the eleven million Americans di
rectly dependent upon cotton for a
livelihood, but to benefit ourselves
as well.
“I do not think that there is any
one who will not agree that the best
pick-up for a good day’s work is a
refreshing bath and a change to cool,
clean cotton garments,” Mr. Walton
continued. “Everyone can take ad
vantage of this number one pick-up
if he will increase his wardrobe of
cotton shirts, trousers, underwear,
socks and work clothes.”
NOTICE TO CITY
TAX DELINQUENTS
This is to notify you that all city
taxes must be paid. Please call and
take care of same and save addition
al costs.
This August 19, 1941.
C. C. LANE, Clerk.