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Red Cross Roll
Call Drive to
Begin Next Week
The annual Red Cross roll call
scheduled to begin on Tuesday of
this week has been delayed due to
the illness of James B. Murdock, Jr.,
Toll call chairman. Mr. Murdock has
been ill for the past several days,
but now is able to be out again, and
has announced that the drive will
begin early next week.
Various civic organizations and
individual citizens in the county
have been called on to help solicit
funds and they will be given their
instructions some time this week,
Mr. Murdock said.
Many Small Concerns
Are Hard Hit By
Defense Program
More than 20,000 small business
firms may have to close down under
pressure of the national defense
program, Floyd B. Odium, director
of the contract distribution of the
Office of Production Management,
hears.
There are about 184,000 plants
in the United States, Odium said,
and about 70 per cent of them are
small plants, as yet not benefiting
fully from the defense orders of
the government.
The OPM is trying to find means
of keeping these plants operating or
of assuring their employes steady
employment elsewhere, Odium de
clared. One method being tried is
to have the big airplane factories
absorb employes of companies whose
business has fallen off because of
the scarcity of material.
“By now it is apparent that de
fense work must be placed and
placed quickly in thousands of small
plants,” he said. “The defenders of
democracy need immediately all
weapons we can possibly give them.
“The defense job is simply so
enormous that there are not enough
of many materials for defense pro
duction and normal goods, too. To
save themselves as well as to safe
guard the nation, small industries
must divert their production wherev
er practicable.”
STATE’S COTTON
CROP IS SMALLEST
SINCE 1923
j
Athens, Ga, —The smallest cotton
crop harvested in Georgia since 1923 ,
was picked this season.
The Crop Reporting Service for ,
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
revealed here that the 1941 crop will
not exceed 615,000 bales, 39 per cent
under the 1,010,000 bales picked in
1940.
Buit at the same time the serv
ice reported farm price increases ' j
over last year as follows: Cotton
seed, 144 per cent; cotton, 82 per
cent; hogs, 60 per cent; eggs, 32 per
cent, and beef cattle, 28 per cent. ’
The service said this year’s cot
ton yield per acre would be 158 .
pounds of lint cotton compared to 1
1
250 pounds in 1940.
COTTON GINNING REPORT—
Census report shows that 10,459 ,
bales of cotton were ginned in Early |
County, from the crop of 1941 prior |
to November Ist as compared with
9,243 bales for the crop of 1940. i
FIDDLERS CONVENTION
AT SPRINGFIELD FRIDAY—
There will be a Fiddlers Conven
tion at Springfield school Thursday '
night, November 20. Everyone is
invited to attend and enjoy the good
music.
METHODIST WOMAN’S SOCIETY 1
OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE
The Woman’s Society of Christian
Service will meet at the Methodist
church next Monday afternoon at ■
3 o’clock.
FOR SALE—Two-horse farm, six
and one-half miles west of Blakely. |
See R. L. THOMPSON at Farmers ‘;
Hardware Go.
Ainsworth Coal Co.
(SUCCESSOR TO)
Middleton & Ainsworth
REGAL
CHUNK—
and EGG—
Office Phone 120
House Phone 69
Bethel Baptists to
Load Car for Orphans
Monday and Tuesday
l The annual orphans’ home car of
: farm produce will be loaded at
> Blakely next Monday and Tuesday,
, November 17th and 18th.
s All the churches in the Blakely
, (district of the Bethel Association—
I Colomokee, Providence, Hilton, Ce
-1 dar Springs, Sowhatehee, Mt. Ararat,
New Hope, Damascus and Pine View
1 —will take part in this noble work
z of helping feed our orphan children
t in our Home at Hapeville with the
• fruits of our farms.
, Please let the officers of these
churches or their Sunday Schools ap
point committees next Sunday, No
vember 16th, to look after the col
lection of syrup, corn, potatoes, pe
cans, hay, canned fruits and vegeta
bles, or anything that children and
cows will eat, that the members and
. friends of their respective churches
• will donate, and bring the collection
as usual to the Blakely depot Mon
day or Tuesday. A committee from
the Blakely church will load it.
Please put as much of the produce
as possible in pasteboard boxes, bar
rels or sacks, but if you haven’t
these, bring it on loose and it will
be packed at the depot.
JOHN UNDERWOOD,
Distrit Chairman.
MURRAY JONES,
Local Chairman.
CITY CLERK’S OFFICE TO BE
CLOSED ON THURSDAY P. M.
Notice is hereby given that begin
ning today (Thursday), November
13, the office of the City Clerk will
be closed each Thursday afternoon.
Please transact your business with
this office before noon on Thursday
of each week. -
By order of Mayor and Council.
C. C. LANE, Clerk.
ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATED
VERY QUIETLY HERE—
No official observance of Armis
tice Day was held here Tuesday,
the 23rd anniversary of the ending
of the World War. A few business
houses closed after 11 o’clock, the
hour of the signing of the armistice
23 years ago.
Hilton Highlights
Hilton played Morgan in a game
of basketball Friday night, Novem
ber 7th, at Morgan. Morgan teams
won both games. The boys’ score
was 17-6, the girls’ score 27-23. The
girls’ game was close, exciting and
fast.
Mrs. Julia Pickron, of Damascus,
is teaching home economics here
now. She will be the regular teach
er from now until school closes.
This column is going to run a se
ries of articles about each grade in
this school. We will begin with the
first grade this week.
The first grade is taught by Miss
Eurice Hay and Miss Mildred Mar
tin. They study reading, writing, 1
number work, art work and health.
They are enjoying working in their
new work books that go with num
ber working. In their free time
they have made Thanksgiving pic
tures and put them up in the room.
They are planning to make a Turkey
border for the blackboard this week.
They have two goldfish that they
take care of. They named the fish
Alice and Jerry. They have made a
little story about their fish. They
have also planted some bulbs. Miss
Hay has 35 students on roll and
Miss Martin has 13.
Next week an article about the
second grade will be in this column.
—EMMA BEATTY, Reporter.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Bombers Must Breathe
Today American-made bombers can fly at the unbelievable
height of six miles. Here is the story of the small but all
important device that helps make stratosphere flying possible.
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1. It started on Pike’s Peak in 2. This amazing feat was possible
1918, where Army Air Corps because a “turbosupercharger”—
engineers showed that an airplane developed by the Army Air Corps
engine could be made to run effi- and G-E engineers—pumps extra
ciently 2-Ji miles above sea level I oxygen into the carburetors.
3. For 22 years these engineers 4. Dr. S. A. Moss, G-E engineer
have worked constantly to im- who pioneered in this work, now
prove this vital device. As a result, at 69 has the thrill of watching
U.S., bombers can fly above the the supercharger help carry our
reach of anti-aircraft fire. fliers higher than any others!
General Electric believes that its first duty as a good
citizen is to be a good soldier. General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
IF IT’S FARM' IMPLEMENTS YOU
NEED, COME TO SEE US
WE HAVE THEM
Made By the Old Reliable
JOHN DEERE
Tractors, Combines, Disk Tillers and
Harrows —Tractor and Horse-Drawn
Stalk Cutters.
MULES! MULES!
Anything a Farmer Needs
I A. Fmma Livestock Co.
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Plymouth Mufflers and Tail Pipes.
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Heat Your Home This Year
The Best and Most
Economical Way
COOK STOVES and
HEATERS
We Have a Complete Line of
Cook Stoves—
Heaters, Ranges—
and Circulators—
Remember, we carry in stock everything a
first-class Hardware Store should have. A
visit to our store will convince you that we
have got just you want and need.
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COMPANY