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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 30
J. B. MURDOCK, JR.,
NAMED PRESIDENT
OF ROTARY CLUB
James B. Murdock, Jr., was named
president of the Blakely Rotary Club
for the Rotary year beginning July
I', at last week’s meeting held Fri
day at the Hotel Early. He will be
come the club’s seventeenth presi
dent. Now serving as vice-president,
Rotarian Murdock has been a mem
ber of the club for several years,
and has been active in the club’s
work during that time.
Other officers elected for the Ro
tary year include:
Charles E. Boyett, vice president.
Chipstead A. Grubbs, secretary
treasurer (re-elected).
Dunbar Grist, Sergeant-at-Arms
(re-elected).
Four members elected to the board
of directors are Robert H. Stuckey,
“Bo” Collins, Oscar Whitchard and
Bill Boyett. Other members of the
board are James B. Murdock, Jr.,
Henry Wall and Chipstead Grubbs.
The club welcomed Richard Grist
as a new member at Friday’s meet
ing.
Guests present included Dt. G. V.
Rice, of Albany, a guest of Rotarian
Price Holland, and Dr. R. D. Sleight,
of Battle Creek, Mich., a guest of
Rotarian Henry Moye.
The program for the day included
piano and solovox numbers by Mrs.
Ben Haisten and Miss Jane Haisten
and the reading of a brief story,
“Five Blocks Away,” and comment
thereon by Rotarian Alvan Fleming.
SPECIAL MEETING MAGNOLIA
LODGE FRIDAY NIGHT
There will be a special meeting of
Magnolia Lodge No. 86, F. & A. M.,
tomorrow (Friday) night, it was an
nounced this week. There will be
work in the M. M. degree and visi
tors are expected from several
neighboring lodges.
Weaver’s
kiz v proudly announces
as mana S er °f
jIIII WEAVER’S FOOD
MARKET
We extend our many friends and customers a
very cordial invitation to visit our store and
meet “the new manager.” Your orders will
have his personal supervision, and we solicit
your valued patronage at all times.
EXTRA SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK ONLY
Salad Dressing, full quart size _ 25c
My-Rose Flour, 24-lb. bag 90c
Tomato Catsup, 14-oz. bottle 10c
Pure Lard, gallon bucket 99c
Pan Sausage, 2 lbs. for 35c
VISIT OUR STORE TODAY. HUNDREDS
OF FOOD BARGAINS FOR YOUR AP
PROVAL. Free Delivery Service. Two tel
ephone lines, simply call No. 137
WEAVER’S FOOD MARKET
A Division of T. K. WEAVER & COMPANY
C. E. Boyett, Sole Owner C. D. Duke, Manager
(EWg (Eotrntg JXcws
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
Early County
Agricultural Council
Is Organized Here
On Tuesday afternoon, February
24, representatives of each of the
local county, state and federal agri
cultural agencies operating in this
county met at the County School Su
perintendent’s office for the purpose
of organizing the Early County
Agricultural Council. The aim of
the Council is that all agencies
should join hands in an all-out effort
in order to be of greatest possible
service to the farm people whom
they are expected to serve. In this
way, an outstanding contribution
can be made to the winning of the
war by producing the county’s share
of food and other farm products
needed in the present emergency.
The following officers and com
mittees were elected at the meeting:
Chairman: B. R. B. Davis.
Vice Chairmen: E. H. Cheek, W.
T. Clearman.
Secretary: Marjorie Roberts.
Production Committee: Leon H.
Baughman, H. B. Fulmer, G. G.
Siniard.
Processing Committee: E. H.
Cheek, C. 0. Brown, G. G. Siniard,
Norman Alexander.
Marketing Committee: J. F. Reid,
T. S. Chandler.
Planning and Finance Committee:
B. R. B. Davis, E. H. Cheek, W. T.
Clearman, Marjorie Roberts, Leon
H. Baughman, J. F. Reid, T. S.
Chandler, J. C. Balkcom, Sam
Moody, R. C. Howell, G. M. Sparks,
Grady Holman, Sr., R. C. Single
tary, Sr.
Farm Youth Committee: J. F.
Reid, E. H. Cheek, C. O. Brown, G.
G._ Siniard, Norman Alexander.
Public Relations Committee: T.
S. Chandler, Mary X. Brown, Sara
Brown, Ted Phelps.
Advisory Committee: J. C. Balk
com. Sam Moody, R. C. e Howell, G.
M. Sparks, Grady Holman, Sr., R.
C. Singletary, Sr.
LADIES, visit WEAVER’S SHOE
DEPARTMENT. Beige and tan
junior heel and Cuban heel pumps.
Prices begin at $2.95.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1942.
On Their Way to the Emerald Isle
>
Troops and army nurses of the first American Expeditionary force
of the second World war are shown watching the wild waves from the
deck of one of the transports that carried the force to Northern Ireland.
All are life-belted in respect to the menace of the U boat and the long
range Axis bombers. The navy saw the convoy safely across.
. THE HOME FRONT •
Atlanta, Ga., March 4.—Folks
who stocked up on sugar without
realizing they were hoarding perish
able goods may now unload. Many
grocers in the South this week began
to offer customers a chance to resell
or swap excess supplies before sugar
rationing begins. And there’s no
penalty now.
Sugar will cake hard as Stone
Mountain unless used right away,
and spring moistures are apt to ruin
large home supplies. In Atlanta,
people are laughing over the plight
of a family which hoarded sugar
during World War I. Their axe is
nicked from hacking lumps from the
old sugar stone. They only out
smarted themselves because they’re
barely down to the last chunks of
sweet stuff now that sugar rationing
begins again.
And if you’re in the grocery
business, don’t hesitate to help
customers by taking sugar back.
John B. Reeves, priorities authority
in Atlanta, says it won’t affect your
quota.
PRICES PUSHED BACK
Southern growers really have
been worried about advancing prices
in mixed fertilizers, superphosphate,
and potash. We got a break with
last week’s order which prohibited
price increases in these essential soil
boosters. To Southern farmers, fer
tilizer costs mean life or death.
If anybody tries to hold you up now,
tell them to look up the new govern
ment order.
Prices of used egg cases were
shoved back, too, by the OPA. Dry
cells, batteries and bulbs were
“frozen” at February Ist levels, and
things like rugs, women’s stockings,
and radios were added to the items
held down by governmental order.
SMALL-TOWN SHOPS BOOM
As more bad news rolled from bat-
Regular Meeting
Os Blakely Lions
Club Held Tuesday
Dr. Jack Standifer, a member of
the Lions Club, spoke before the
club’s noon-day meeting held at the
Early Hotel Tuesday. Lion Standi
fer gave an interesting account of
his recent visit to New Orleans.
Dr. W. H. Wall, a guest of Lion
Philip Sheffield, spoke briefly, and
related some of the more humorous
events which have occurred to him
in the medical profession.
C. L. Cook was welcomed into the
club as a new member.
Lion Sid Howell gave an account
of the telephone hearing in Atlanta
last week. The club passed a motion
by unanimous vote to send a letter
to the Commission reiterating its
stand on the telephone improvements,
and asking that all improvements be
made as soon as possible.
Lion Felix Davis anounced that
Saturday, March 7, has been desig
nated national “MacArthur Day”
and that everybody was asked to
bring in all their scrap iron, which
is to be turned l over for defense
purposes.
Tickets to the Lions’ Victory Din
ner to be held at the Woman’s Club
building on March 20, were distrib
uted to the ticket committee, which
will put them on sale this week.
President Philip Sheffield presided
over the meeting and Mrs. Ben
Haisten, pianist, rendered a program
of piano and solovox music.
tle fronts last week, urgent calls
were sent to owners of small factor
ies and shops. The Army and Navy
want every lathe and drill press to
work on war contracts.
How can Southern agricultural
towns produce guns and tanks and
ships?
They can’t turn them out whole,
but here’s what has been done in
some of our small towns:
A Georgia cabinet maker is now
producing tent pins for the Army.
Details are a military secret, but a
one-man hobby shop in another small
Georgia town is filling direct orders
for both Army and Navy. A machine
shop in Tennessee makes airplane
parts. A small plant , that made
knitting machinery for hosiery mills
now turns out shell-loading equip
ment. A town in Florida rounded
up all its machine tools, obtained a
government war contract, and staved
off community stagnation by pooling
everybody’s plant facilities.
OPERATED BY NEIGHBORS
We’ve heard a lot of talk about
Northern industrial centers getting
all the business. But millions of
dollars in contracts are now going
to our own neighbors’ little wood
working shops, two- and three-man
machine shops and similar establish
ments right here in the deep South.
They aren’t run by big-shot exec
utives. Operated by our own folks,
they bring dollars into our small
towns. ATid they are- doing their
part to supply our fighting men
with the tools of war.
The battle for production is in
I full swing not only in Detroit, Balti
more, and Pittsburgh, but right here
at home. The government is asking
everyone who wants a war contract
in this locality to write the Division
of Contracts Distribution, War Pro
duction Board, 150 Hurt Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
C. D. Duke, Sr., New
Manager of Weaver’s
Food Market
Cyrus D. Duke, Sr., has been
made manager of Weaver’s Food
Market, a division of T. K. Weaver
& Company, according to Charles E.
Boyett, sole owner of the concern.
For many years Mr. Duke was as
sociated with the retail grocery trade
in this vicinity, having operated a
business for himself for many years.
He sold his business in 1935 and
since that time has been actively
engaged in farming enterprises and
in the automobile business in Blake
ly. For the past several years he
was connected with the McKinney
Chevrolet Company.
In taking charge of Weaver’s
Food Market, Mr. Duke assumes
complete management of that de
partment. He will have personal
supervision of the orders and ac
counts, and cordially invites his
friends to visit him at his new loca
tion. He also extends a kind wel
come to all of the customers and
friends of Weaver’s to personally
visit the store and become acquaint
ed with “the new manager.”
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps.
Registrants Will Be
Inducted at Time
Os Examination
The War Department this week
advised national headquarters, Se
lective Service System, that all ac
ceptable registrants will be inducted
into the military forces at the time
of the Army physical examination,
thereby eliminating the present
pre-induction procedure.
National headquarters said that
the War Department has given as
surances that in cases where the
immediate induction, would cause ,
undue hardship to the registrant he
will be given an immediate furlough
to adjust his civilian affairs.
Although the final physical exam
ination by the Army will continue to
be the most thorough one given to
registrants, the local boards will
continue to give “screening” exami
nations, rejecting the obviously phy
sically unfit men.
Under the new procedure, regis
trants will have the same right of
appeal and right of personal appear
ance before their local boards as
they do at present.
Instead of receiving the notice to
report for physical examination by
the armed forces as they do now,
the registrants will be given a
notice of induction, national head u
quarters said.
TELEPHONE SERVICE
MUST BE IMPROVED,
says chm. McDonald
Answering a rule nisi order in At
lanta last week, Mrs. Mattie Powell,
owner of the Blakely Telephone Co.,
was told by Chairman Walter R. Mc-
Donald of the Public Service Com
mission that the local telephone
service must be improved or the
rates would be reduced.
The rule nisi, the second which
has been issued against the company
in recent weeks, was directed against
the company to show cause why the
rates shouldn’t be reduced. Failure
of Mrs. Powell to show concrete evi
dence as to what was being done to
improve the service prompted the
Commission to continue its investiga
tion of the serivce here in Blakely
to a later date.
Said Mr. McDonald, in issuing the
ruling: “I have been on this Com
mission a long time and there have
been complaints all these years as
to the character of your service. We
are going to continue this hearing,
pending further investigation, and if
the service isn’t improved, this rule
nisi will be enforced. I am getting
tired of you charging Blakely tele
phone users for something they are
not getting.”
Philip Sheffield, Sid Howell and
“Tige” Pickle the hearing
and represented the complaining
parties.
NOW is the time to buy early
spring SANDALS at WEAVER’S.
Biege, white, brown and white,
blue and white, prices from $1.95 up.
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LOCAL RATIONING
BOARD REPORTS
FOR FEBRUARY
The local rationing board reported
Monday that certificates were issued
for the purchase of 47 new auto
tires and 49 new tubes during the
month of February to the following
(with eligibility classification given):
Hollis Sawyer: 4 truck tires; elig
ible class E-9.
R. H. Westbrook: 1 passenger car
tire; eligible class C-5.
James Silas: 1 truck tire, 1 tube;
eligible class E-9.
Oldham Lumber Co.: 6 truck
tires, 6 tubes; eligible class E-9.
Hilton Jones: 1 truck tire; 1 tube;
eligible class E-9.
J. R. Puckett: 2 tractor tires, 2
tubes; eligible class F.
Hamp Martin: 2 tractor tires, 2
tubes; eligible class F.
Verdell Cawthorn: 1 passenger car
tube; eligible class Obsolete.
G. W. Griffin; 1 passenger car
tire, 1 tube; eligible class Obsolete.
James Temples: 3 passenger car
tires, 3 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
Alvin Day: 2 passenger car tires,
2 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
Earl Willis: 1 school bus tire, 1
tube; eligible class D-2.
W. G. Ingram: 1 passenger car
tire, 1 tube; eligible class C-5.
H. H. Sirmons: 2 truck tires, 2
tubes; eligible class E-9.
J. C. Williams: 2 passenger car
tires, 2 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
Silas Love: 2 passenger car tires,
2 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
A. L. English: 2 passenger car
tires, 2 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
Harry Ruber: 2 passenger car
tires, 2 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
Carl Rogers: 2 passenger car
tubes; eligible class, Obsolete.
W. W. Houson: 1 passenger car
tire, 1 tube; eliigble class Obsolete.
John Harper: 2 tractor tires, 2
tubes; eligible class F.
D. C. Patrick: 2 truck tires, 2
tubes; eligible class E-9.
Charlie Black: 2 passenger ear
tires, 2 tubes; eligible class Obsolete.
J. W. Oldham: 2 light truck tires,
2 tubes; eligible class Ei9.
Mayhaw Company: 2 truck tubes;
eligible class E-9.
Roscoe Rogers: 1 truck tire; eligi
ble class E-9.
Dr. R. A. Houston: 2 passenger
car tires, 2 tubes; eligible class A.
J. B. King: 1 passenger car tube;
eligible class Obsolete.
Peoples Warehouse: 1 truck tube;
eligible class E-9.
J. O. Oliver: 1 passenger car
tube; eligible class Obsolete.
Retreads
Certificates for retreaded tires
were issued to the following (eligi
bility classification given):
Pete Barrentine: 2 truck retread
ed tires; eligible class E-9.
Automobile* Delivered, Bought
Prior to January 1, 1942.
Newton Grocery Co.: Passenger
Car.
James Ivey Chambers: Passenger
Car.
CHILDREN’S SPRING SHOES
are now at WEAVER’S. Roman san
dals, white, brown and white ox
fords, patent straps, sizes 00 to
large 3.
Mary Martin and Don Ameche in
“Kiss the Boys Goodbye” at the
Blakely Theatre Thursday and Fri-
I day.