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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 13
WINGATE SPEAKS
TO FARM BUREAU
HERE TONIGHT
E. L. Wingate, President of the
Georgia Farm Bureau, will address
the Early County Farm Bureau As
sociation members and all other in
terested farmers and Early county
business men at the court house
tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock,
R. C. Singletary, president of the
local bureau, announced today.
Mr. Wingate is leading the fight
in Georgia for Georgia farmers to
receive parity prices for their prod
ucts, and every business man in
Early county should avail himself
of the opportunity of hearing Mr.
Wingate, Mr. Singletary said.
Chief matters to be discussed to
night are the farm legislation for
the next year and the prices for oil
stock peanuts for next year’s crops.
Another equally important matter to
be discussed is the Parity Loan leg
islation. This loan now extends to
farmers an 85 per cent parity price
for their products, but this loan ex
pires this year and unless immediate
action is taken to extend the loan,
farmers’ products will automatically
drop back to the 52 per cent, Mr.
Singletary said.
“These subjects are of vital im
portance to everybody and I hope
every farmer and business man in
Early county will come to. the
courthouse tonight to hear this in
formed and helpful speaker,” Mr.
Singletary said.
WEEKLY MEETING OF
ROTARY CLUB HELD
AT NOON FRIDAY
The weekly meeting of the Blake
ly Rotary Club was held at noon
Friday at the Hotel Early, with Vice
President James B. Murdock, Jr.,
presiding in the absence of President
Henry Wall.
Mt. Jimmy Rankin, of Atlanta,
was a guest of Rotarian Jim Bonner
and spoke briefly to the club mem
bers. Sheriff C. E. Martin was a
guest of Rotarian Ed Chancy.
Weaver’s Upstairs
Bargain Annex
TAKE THE STAIRS AT WEAVER’S
AND SAVE
Now is the ideal time to buy your Winter
dry goods needs
Men’s Heavy Ribbed Unions,
SI.OO value 69c
Men’s Plain Toe Work Shoes,
$2.00 value $1.49
27-inch Solid Color Outing, 15c
value, yard 10c
60 x 76 Single Cotton Blankets,
SI.OO value— 59c
66 x 80 Double Part-Wool Blankets,
$2.95 value sl.9s
Fast Color 28-inch Play Cloth,
15c value, yard 12y 2 c
Men’s Bell Cord Overalls, all sizes,
$1.65 value sl.39
56 x 60 Best LL Sheeting, 15c value,
yard l2%c
Use Weaver’s Lay-Away Plan for Christ
mas purchases. Buy now ~. . and save.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store"
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
Countn JKcws
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
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members of the Early County
Farm Bureau Association at the
court house tonight (Thursday).
LOCAL DRAFT BOARD
CHANGES METHOD OF
PHYSICAL EXAMS.
Alex Carswell, local draft board
clerk, announced today that the lo
cal draft board, according to orders
from national headquarters, had
changed its method of giving physi
cal examinations to selective service
registrants.
Heretofore all physical examina
tions have been given by local phy
sicians, but now draftees will have
to go to Fort Benning. Mr. Cars
well said that next Monday, Novem
ber 10, twelve white men will report
at Fort Benning for examination. On
the following Thursday twelve Ne
groes will go for the same purpose.
These men are to be gone one day
only, being carried to Fort Benning
by bus and returned home the same
day.
Vivien Leigh and Lawrence Oliv
ier in “That Hamilton Woman” at
the Blakely Theatre Thursday and
Friday.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1941.
EARLY COUNTY
BOY LIKES LIFE
IN U. S. NAVY
U. S. Naval Air Station,
Jacksonville, Fla.,
October 25, 1941.
Early County News,
Blakely, Georgia,
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have been reading the Navy Re
cruiting ads appearing in various pa
pers with a great deal of interest.
If you feel that the following would
be interesting to your readers, please
feel free to publish it. It may result
in great benefit to some worthy
young men in our community.
Just about three months ago, on
July 9th, to be exact, I made a de
cision to offer my services to Uncle
Sam. At the same time, I was equal
ly determined to get into a branch
of the service where I might benefit
myself.
You guessed it ... I joined the
Navy!
Chief Kingery, Navy Recruiter at
Albany, Ga., gave me some good ad
vice and I followed it. lam now at
the Naval Air Station in Jackson
ville, Fla., under instruction for
duty with Aviation Ground Crews.
No, I had no previous experience.
Hundreds of Georgia boys, inexpe
rienced like myself, are here with
me. The studies I am following may
not take me into the air, but I’ll be
on the ground, “KEEPING THEM
FLYING.”
Some of these days I’ll be com
paring notes with my friends I left
behind in Early county, and have
a hunch many of them will be say
ing, “I wish I had joined the Navy
when you did.”
Naturally, a few months from now,
special schooling such as I am get
ting may not be so easy to get in
the Navy.
If this communication should re
sult in just one more recruit for
THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL
D-E-F-E-N-S-E
AID TO BRTAIN AND
RUSSIA—
-OPM Materials Director Batt said
in a radio speech from Washington
he had returned from the aid con
ference in Moscow with the thought
that the “sensible, sane and selfish”
course for the U. S. “is to deliver
the goods—everything we can possi
bly provide—into the hands of peo
ple who can use them . . . against the
enemy while he is still thousands of
miles from our shores . . .”
The Martime Commission an
nounced delivery of the first sixty
emergency cargo boats being built
for the British. The President sign
ed the $5,985,000,000 second lend
lease appropriation and created in
the Office of Emergency Manage
ment a Lend-Lease Administration
with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., as
Administrator.
PAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS—
The Export-Import Bank author
ized a $6,000,000 credit to the Ban
co Obrero, Venezuela, and announced
special credit arrangements with
banks in Latin America will be
made to facilitate trade among the
nations of the Western Hemisphere
to enable the American Republics to
procure essential requiremnts for de
velopment of their resources and
stabilization of their economies.
PRICES—
The Labor Department reported
its daily price index of 28 basic com
modities rose 1.3 per cent during
the week of October 17 to 24,
bringing prices in the index to more
than 34 per cent higher than a
year ago.
Price Administrator Henderson
announced a comprehensive program
to stabilize prices of all products
made of copper, brass, or their al
loys. He also issued a price sched
ule on glycerine and bed sheets.
Sheet prices will be approximately
15 per cent below current market
levels, Mr. Henderson said.
FACTS AND FIGURES—
Archibald McLeish, Librarian of
Congress, was appointed by the
President to direct a new Office of
Facts and Figures to “formulate
programs designed to facilitate a
widespread and accurate understand
ing of the status and progress of
the national defense effort.” The
new office will advise Government
agencies how they can best present
information and data on national
defense to keep the public fully in
formed.
EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES—
Secretary of Labor Perkins re
ported average hourly earnings of
factory wage earners were 74.5 cents
during August. Federal Security
Administrator McNutt announced
545,700 jobs were filled through the
State employment services during
September—ss per cent more than
last year. Wage-Hour Administra
tor Fleming said he favored a pro
gram of wage stabilization which
would not freeze wages at present
levels, but would first adjust exist
ing differences between one plant
and another doing the same work
LIONS CLUB SEEKS
IMPROVEMENT IN
’PHONE SYSTEM
■With twenty of its twenty-one
members present at Tuesday’s meet
ing, the Blakely Lions Club, after a
lengthy discussion, voted unanimous
ly to direct a letter to the Georgia
Public Service Commission asking
for an improved telephone system in
Blakely. The letter is to bear the
personal signature of each member
of the Lions Cluib. The club voted
to also insert a paid advertisement
in the local paper asking cooperation
of the public toward improving the
local telephone situation. Members
present at Tuesday’s meeting and
voting for an improved telephone
situation are as follows: C. G. Brew
er, Herman Cheek, Felix Davis, B.
R. B. Davis, Wilson Davenport, Otis
Deal, Fred Godwin, Woodrow Grims
ley, Robert Hall, Sid Howell, C. C.
Lane, Bill Loyless, Lewis Fryer, Jr.,
Leonard Houston, Lewie Stein, Phil
ip Sheffield, J. G. Standifer, Earl
“Tige” Pickle. Bert Tarver, Thomas
Felder. Only absentee at Tuesday’s
meeting was Lion William Cox.
Lion Jack Standifer was welcomed
back into the club and gave a short
inspirational talk on “national uni
ty.” Thomas Felder was welcomed
into the club as a new member. His
classification is real estate dealer.
Guests attending were Frank Full
er, of Jakin, a guest of Lion Felix
Davis, and J. E. Widener, a guest of
Lion Pickle.
this Great Navy of Ours, I shall feel
that I have done just a little more
than having offered my services.
From one Early County Cracker,
who knows a good thing when he
sees it, I am
Very sincerely yours,
HIRAM ASTOR LOFTON,
Seaman 2nd Class, U. S. Navy.
Home Address: Blakely, Ga.
and make provisions for adjust
ments to increases in the cost of
living. *
LABOR DISPUTES—
The President directed Secretary
of War Stimson to take possession
of and operate the Bendix, N. J.,
plant of Air Associates, Inc., after
a dispute developed at the plant
over the reinstatement of strikers on
the recommendation of the Defense
Mediation Board. Colonel Roy M.
Jones, in charge of 2,100 soldiers
who took over the plant, said, “em
ployees desiring to return to their
jobs will be given all necessary pro
tection . . .”
The Defense Mediation Board be
gan hearings on the labor dispute
involving captive coal mines in the
Appalachian area after the United
Mine Workers voted to accept the
President’s request to return to
work in the interest of defense
pending settlement of the dispute.
The U. S. Conciliation Service re
ported settlement of 30 other labor
disputes.
DEFENSE HOUSING—
Defense Housing Coordinator
Palmer reported 1,285 publicly-fi
nanced defense homes were com
pleted during the week ended Octo
ber 2,5, bringing the total ready for
occupancy to 46,572. Homes being
built or already completed under the
defense program now number 101,-
785.
DENTAL CARE FOR
SELECTEES—
Lt. Commander C. R. Wells, chief
dental officer of the Selective Serv
ice System, said in a speech in Texas
that the program to rehabilitate se
lective service registrants with phy
sical defects that can be remedied
will begin with the treatment of
100,000 men for dental defects. The
men will be treated by dentists in
their own communities at the ex
pense of the federal government.
CIVILIAN MORALE—
The Office of Education announced
that in cooperation with the Office
of Civilian Defense it will develop a
School and College Civilian Morale
Service through which “hundreds of
thousands of teachers, educational
leaders and citizen volunteers” can
participate in the defense program
by organizing “Freedom’s Forums”
in schools, colleges, clubs, churches
and libraries to discuss national
problems “with respect to facts and
without hysteria.”
CIVILIAN SUPPLY—
Priorities Director Nelson ordered
a 35 per cent reduction in the use
of steel by non-mechanical ice re
frigerator manufacturers and a 17
per cent cut in production of domes
tic washers and ironers. Mr. Nelson
[said that in one year 32,000 tons of
steel would be saved by the latter
cut.
ARMY —
Secretary of War Stimson an
nounced that specially selected Sig
nal Corps reserve officers are in
England , studying air-raid defense
prior to assignment with the U. S.
(Continued on page 5)
IN GOVERNOR’S RACE
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ELLIS ARNALL
Attorney General of Georgia, who
has announced his candidacy for
Governor in next summer’s pri
mary.
REV. E. M. OVERBY
ATTENDING SOUTH
GEORGIA CONFERENCE
Rev. E. M. Overby, pastor of the
Blakely Methodist church, acompan
ied by Mrs. Overby, is attending the
annual session of the South Georgia
Conference of the Methodist Episco
pal church, which opened its ses
sions in Valdosta Wednesday.
Pastor Overby carried an excellent
report from the local church, show
ing all obligations met in full, and
a substantial growth in the church
membership.
Rev. Mr. Overby has been pastor
of the local Methodist church for
six years, and has thereby establish
ed a record, if The News is not mis
taken. During these six years he
and Mrs. Overby have endeared
themselves to the people of Blakely
and many have expressed the hope
that the conference will return them
to the local church for another year.
COMMISSIONERS IN
SESSION HERE TUESDAY
Only business transacted by the
Board of County Commissioners at
their regular monthly meeting Tues
day was to establish a chaingang in
Early county. Convicts to be used
are those convicted of misdemeanors
and felonies. The chaingang is to
be conducted according to the rules
and regulations as set up by the
state of Georgia. Road Superin
tendent Joe F. Grimsley was employ
ed as warden. He was employed by
the month and can be “dismissed at
the pleasure of the board,” the reso
lution read.
All Commissioners were present
except C. B. Miller, who was recent
ly appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late J. C. McFather. Mr.
Miller is ill at his home near Lucile.
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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
ELLIS ARNALL
TO MAKE RACE
FOR GOVERNOR
Declaring that the time had come
“for Georgians to insist that political
dictatorship shall no longer throttle
and hamstring the operations of our
state,” Ellis Arnall, the state’s at
torney general, in a radio address
Saturday night, announced his can
didacy for Governor of Georgia.
“We Georgians need to start a
crusade at home to dethrone dicta
torship here and to redeem the rep
utation and honor of our state,” Ar
nall went on, and stated that the
main issue in the campaign would be
“efficient, honest, democratic admin
istration of public affairs vs. tyran
nical political domination of the
state government.
“It is ‘Democracy vs. Dictator
ship’,” Arnall explained. “As a rel
atively young man, I have the ener
gy, the enthusiasm, and the willing
ness to fight ,for these democratic
principles. I am going to take this
fight directly to the people,” he de
clared, and got off to running start
by opening his campaign at an un
precedented early date, with the
1942 democratic primary still ten
months away.
A native of Newnan, Ga., Ellis
Arnall had a typical “small-town”
boyhood, working after school and
through the summers in his father’s
grocery store. He studied law at
Mercer and the University of Geor
gia, and graduated with honors. He
practiced law at Newnan, served as
speaker pro tern of the House of
Representatives, became attorney
general in 198 9, and was unopposed
for reelection last year.
Although Arnall, in the course of
directing the activities of the state’s
law department, has been called upon
to render more opinions than any
attorney general in history, he has
still found time for outside work. ,
He has carried on a vigorous
speaking campaign throughout the
state against Communism and has
cooperated with the FBI in its drive
against un-American activities. He
headed the Georgia Roosevelt Clubs
in 1940, directed the President’s
Birthday Celebration in 1941 which
raised a record sum to fight infan
tile paralysis, and several years ago
served as President of the State Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce and of
the Young Democrats.
Arnall still lives in his native
Coweta county, and despite the pres
sure of his work, spends a good part
of his time as a “family man,” with
his wife and young son. An effective
and forceful speaker, he is frequent
ly called upon to teach Sunday
School classes and to speak to young
people’s groups.
With an outstanding record of ef
ficiency in the Attorney General’s
office. Ellis Arnall has established
himself as a persistent advocate of
honest, economical and serviceable
government. He can be counted
on to run a colorful, spirited, out
spoken race for the governorship.
TAX BOOKS NOW OPEN
The Early county tax books are
now open for payment of 1941 state
and county taxes. Pay promptly
and avoid extra costs.
J. L. HOUSTON,
Tax Commissioner.