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(By Wellborn H. Fleming)
16 CANDIDATES GREET
COACHES HAMMACK AND
TARRE AT FIRST DRILL—
Sixteen candidates for this year s
high school football team greeted
Athletic Director Hammack and
Coach Earl F. Tarre Monday night
at the high school gymn for the
first drill of the season.
Only registration of players and
measurements for uniforms was tak
en care of at this meeting. The first
drill will probably take place next
week, or as soon as the new uniforms
arrive. Prospects for the team look
somewhat brighter than a few weeks
ago and the average weight of the
team is expected to be approximate
ly 150 pounds.
League officials met here last
night and arranged schedules which
will be announced next week. Two
of last year’s teams, Dawson and
Edison, dropped out. Attapulgus has
come into the league and probably
another school will come in before
the season opens. The league is now
composed of Blakely, Colquitt, Fort
Gaines, Cuthbert, Attapulgus and
West Bainbridge.
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DR. NED HOLLAND
CALLED TO ARMY—
Dr. Ned Holland, who is here on a
visit to his mother, Mrs. S. P. Hol
land, has been called for active
army duty and leaves soon for Fort
Jackson, S. C., where he will assume
his duties on September 20. His rank
will be that of First Lieutenant in
the Medical Corps. Dr. Holland has
been for the past several months in
New Orleans at one of the larger
hospitals.
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BLAKELY BOWLING TEAM
CONTINUES WINNING PACE—
The Blakely Bowling Team con
tinues its winning pace, now having
won a total of 7 out of 9 games. The
team has won 3 from Fort Gaines,
4 from Dothan, and has been de
feated twice by Fort Gaines. The
next game will be played here at the
Idll Hour alleys Tuesday night. Fort
Gaines will be the opponent.
• • •
J. O. SHEPARD, JR., IN CHARGE
OF IDLE HOUR AND SERVICE
STATION—
J. O. Shepard announces in The
News this week that he has taken ov
er the Idle Hour and Snyder Service
Station on Albany street. Mr. Snyder
will continue in charge of the body
works department.
• • •
CITY COURT ADJOURNED —
Judge J. W. Bonner announced
Wednesday that the August adjourn
ed term of the City Court of Blake
ly which was to have been convened
on the third Monday in September,
has been jKistponed to the regular
November. The postponement was
made because of the busy crop gath
ering season.
Mrs. Mary Alice
Garrett Dies at Home
Near Jakin
Mrs. Mary Alice Garrett, wife of
Mr. Frank Garrett, died at her home
near Jakin last Friday evening, fol
lowing an illness of several months’
duration. She was 45 years of age.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock at Cedar
Springs, with Rev. Mr. Faircloth of
ficiating. Interment was in Cedar
Springs cemetery, with the Minter,
Fellows & Forrester Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements and A. R.
Helms, Lanier Welsh, Charles Chand
ler, D. B. McGlamory, J. M. Lord
and Kenneth McGamory serving as
pall-lbearers.
Surviving Mrs. Garrett are her
mother, Mrs. Johnnie Mae Milner,
of Dadeville, Ala.; four sons, Jack,
Cecil, John L. and Frank Garrett,
Jr.; four daughters, Mrs. Margaret
McGlamory of Hilton, Ina Mae,
Elaine, Mary and Lucile Garrett;
and two brothers, R. C. Milner and
W. C. Milner of Sylacauga, Ala.
Mrs. Garrett was a native of Tal
lapoosa county, Ala., and had resided
in this county for seven years. She
was a member of the Church of God.
Friends sympathize with the mem
bers of the family in their bereave
ment.
TESTIMONIAL
I attended the Randolph Business I
College, Cuthbert, Ga., and for the i
benefit of those who choose as their
profession a place in the business
world, I advise them to attend Ran
dolph Business College of Cuthbert, I
Georgia.
MISS ELOISE HOLLINGSWORTH i
835 Piedmont Ave.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Thomas F. Debnam
Now Associated With
Blakely Peanut Co.
Thomas F. Debnam has become as
sociated with the Blakely Peanut
Company and has already assumed
his new duties. He and Mrs. Deb
nam and their two young sons,
Thomas, Jr., and George, have al
ready moved to Blakely to make
their home.
Mr. Debnam is already known to
a number of people in the county,
being the son-in-law of Mrs. N. B.
Solomon, who is part owner of the
company. Mr. Debnam comes here
from Charleston, S. C., where for the
past four years he has been a
member of The Citadel faculty, an
instructor in the accounting depart
ment of that institution. The Cita
del is the state military college of
South Carolina. Before going to
this college, Mr. Debnam taught ac
counting and corporate finance at
BirminghamlSouthern College, Birm
ingham, Ala. He was educated at
the University of Virginia, where he
graduated and received his Master’s
degree. For two years he did grad
uated study at the University of
Chicago and while at the University
of Virginia he was business manager
of the University hospital. His prac
tical experience in accounting was
received from the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad and Illinois Bell Tele
phone Company.
The peanut business isn’t anything
new to Mr. Debnam, for he was
born and reared at Suffold, Va., the
center of the peanut machinery man
ufacturing business. His grandfather
invented the first sucessful peanut
picker and sold the rights to a com
pany which now manufactures the
Benthall picker. His father has been
manufacturing peanut and other
agricultural machinery for many
years and retired last year at the
age of 82.
Mr. Debnam’s duties at the Blake
ly Peanut Company will be to head
the accounting department and as
sume part management of the mill.
“I like Blakely and Early county and
I like the people,” Mr. Debnam said,
“and I am glad of the opportunity to
do the kind of work I love and I am
anxious to meet as many of the
people of the county as I can, espe
cially the friends of my late father
in-law, Mr. N. B. Solomon.”
The Debnams will make their home
with Mrs. Solomon, on Cuthbert
street.
EARLY COUNTY
HOME DEFENSE UNIT
NOW UNIFORMED
(Continued from page 1)
Ralph Brown, Bill Belisle, Lloyd
George, W. C. Cook, B. H. Fulmer,
Bill Loyless, J. T. Jordan, E. H.
Cheek, R. C. Singletary, J;-., John
Holman, John Scarborough, Billy
Hall, Dunibar Grist. Other members
not present were Bruce Lindsey, V.
L. Collins, Emmett Williams, Jack
White, Fred Brooks.
We have installed the most modern
and up-to-date
ELECTRIC and ACETYLENE
WELDING EQUIPMENT
in our regular repair shop located in the
rear of our new hardware building and
will appreciate your giving us a trial on
your next welding or repair job.
OUR WORK GUARANTEED
SATISFACTORY
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MIDDLETON HARDWARE
COMPANY
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Registrants Must
Notify Board of
Change of Address
Registrants under the Selective
Training and Service Act must noti
fy their local boards of any change
of address or become liable to severe
penalties provided by the Act,, Brig.
Gen. Sion B. Hawkins, State Direc
tor of Selective Service, warned them
today.
Director Hawkins said he had
been advised by National Selective
Seivice Headquarters that many
cases of delinquencies investigated
by the Department of Justice have
been due to carelessness of reg
istrants concerning their duty to re
port changes of address, or ignor
ance of the law requiring them to do
so.
The Selective Service Act provides
that any registrant who violates the
law shall be liable to fine and im
prisonment, the Director pointed out.
This punishment, he also called to
attention, is specified as “by im
prisonment for not more than five
years or a fine of not more than
SIO,OOO or by such fine and imprison
ment.”
It is the policy of the Selective
Service System, Director Hawkins
said, and of the Department of Jus
tice which is charged with enforce
ment of the Act, to take action in
those cases where there is willful in
tent to violate the law. Nevertheless,
he stressed, investigation of border
line cases is taking up much valuable
time of local boards and of Depart
ment of Justice agents which should
be devoted to urgent work for Nation
al Defense.
To relieve this situation, and also
to protect registrants who do not
willfully try to violate the law, Di
rector Hawkins has asked local boards
to use all means of investigation at
their disposal before reporting ap
parent cases of delinquency to the
Department of Justice.
In this connection, the Director
also stated that there is no objection
to a local board using voluntary as
sistance of local or State police of
ficials to find a registrant who has
failed to respond to notification. He
said:
“If, after a reasonable effort on
the part of the local board and, when
volunteered, by the local or State
police, the whereabouts of the de
linquent registrant cannot be as
certained, and nothing has been heard
from him in response to notification,
the local board then should report
the delinquent to the United States
District Attorney.”
Doves at 70 M. P. H.
In recent speed tests, says Charles
E. Frily Jr., a Texas game man
ager, he clocked mourning doves
i Avina 70 miles an hour.
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LOST—Tiwo mules; one black mare
mule weighing 1200 pounds, and one
| red mare mule weighing 1200 pounds,
f inder please notify W. E. McDOW
ELL, Damascus, Ga. Will pay dam-
: ages.
CITIZENS TO
THE COLORS!
—By—
DOROTHY BALKCOM
I was reading about The Ring of
Freedom in Dorothy Thompson’s “A
Call to Action”—which I am lending
to those interested —that focused
my attention on individual respon
sibility, and crystallized growing im
pression of the importance of each
American.
What each American does for our
country, or leaves undone, not only
has its effect on that particular pro
gram, but also has its effect on some
other American.
You know, I’ve found it enlighten
ing and as interesting as a game, to
reconsider my friends, acquaintances
and people along the street from the
point of view of nationality—to re
gard them not as Miss Ella, or
Charles Boyett, or Mrs. R. C. Single
tary, of Babe Morgan, or Jalbbo, or
the ice-man or the washerwoman —to
regard them not by their names or
occupations, but as Americans. It
is somewhat surprising to realize
that one of the richest, most power
ful governments in the world nas
appealed to them and to you and to
me for help. The government of
the United States has asked that
every citizen take part in the defense
of the nation.
And local Americans are respond
ing.
The ice-man who delivers along
River Street, G. W. Fountain, is one
of the colored Americans who have
answered their country’s call for
aluminum. Some of the others are
Lilly Furlow, Rayfield Hodge who
also served in France during World
War I, and Sanders Winn.
Since our country broadcast its
need for increased manpower in the
Army and Navy, from Early County
one hundred and sixty-six young men
have volunteered for service—a serv
ice which they are told may call on
them to die, that the nation may live.
Sixty white Americans and sixty
six colored Americans volunteered
and are U. S. soldiers and sailors
now.
One phase of National Defense is
the Good Neighbor Program to in
crease acquaintance and friendliness
between North and South Americans.
To help their country in this way,
these young Americans are going to
correspond with South Americans
who are trying to learn our lang
uage: Jane Fuqua, Meade Maddox,
Nelda Davis, Billy Peters, Jessie
Mildred Balkcom, Zelda McDowell,
Joanna Sherman, Bill Waters, Lor
raine Pritchard, Ina Claire Godwin,
Carolyn Middleton and Cena Loback.
Are there others willing to serve in
this way?
Talking with Americans about
service to their country has taught
me a lot—not only that; it’s caused
me to break into verse!
TWO KINDS OF AMERICANS
SOME
Are doing their part;
And some of these
Are doing their part, plus.
OTHERS
Mean Well, but postpone;
They grumble and groan,
Pass the buck
And trust to luck,
Declaim, predict and discuss.
Which kind, of these two,
Are you?
Read the ads in The News.
THE PERNUT CROP
Is about to be harvested. Quota peanuts at minimum prices, as designated by
the Secretary of Agriculture, may be sold to any peanut mill, peanut crusher, or
peanut merchant, or delivered to any G. F. A. Warehouse at minimum prices for
the grades No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3. Peanuts from quota acreage, which fail to come
up to the three designated grades, will as we understand it, not be deliverable to
the GF A Peanut Association. It is therefore to the best interest of the grower to
take special care of his peanuts grown on his quota acreage, in order that the entire
production come within the three grades designated. •
EXCESS PEANUTS: Or what has come to be commonly termed oil peanuts,
that is peanuts harvested from excess acreage, must be graded and meet the require
ments of the Government Farmers’ Stock grades within the range of No. 1, No. 2,
and No. 3 grades, with the exception, we understand, that provisions are being work
ed out whereby those peanuts from excess acreage will be deliverable to the GFA
Peanut Association’s Warehouses or their designated Agents as UNCLASSIFIED
PEANUTS. All peanuts grown on excess acreage must be delivered to the GFA Pea
nut Association’s Warehouses or its designated Agents, whether No. 1, No. 2, No. 3,
or unclassified peanuts.
JT IS EXPECTED NOW, we are informed, that the GFA program will be ready
to function within the very next few days. We hope to be seeing you.
Arlington Oil Mills
Arlington, Georgia
START A CHECKING
ACCOUNT TODAY—
It’s an excellent way to keep up with
your business transactions and to
have a permanent and accurate rec
ord of your disbursements. Come in
and talk to us about it.
I
Bank of Early
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All
Deposits Insured up to $5,000
AT McKiNNEYT
USED CAR SAVINGS
Buy Now While Used Car Prices Are Low
We have the most dependable stock of
Used Cars ever known in Blakely. Our
prices are still the same as the summer low
prices were.
BUY NOW before the fall rush so you
can make your own selection and get the
car you want. Prices are likely to be
much higher later in the year.
If you look at our cars you will buy our
cars. They are better for less money.
MgKINNEY CHEVROLET CO.
Blakely, Georgia
AND IT WILL
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