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THIS WEEK ON
THE HOME FRONT
JUKE-ORGANS TO GO
For shiny new nickelodians in the
“juke joint” at the cross-road, we’re
going to play, “I’ll Never Smilf
Again.” The War Production Boan
says the nation requires no more of
these musical roof-raisers.
Their manufacture was banned
along with the familiar cigarette
vending machine, weigh-yourself-for
a-penny scales, pinball games, and
contraptions for the automatic sale
of gum, candy, and peanuts.
Reason? The spring offensive in
production. One juke organ con
tains enough brass to make 750
cartridge shells plus enough steel for
five American machine guns.
The production drive opened in
the South this week with WPB
meetings in Atlanta and Birming
ham. Labor and management got
together in those cities for better
team-work. The War Production
has invited businessmen who are
having trouble with priorities to
meet in Atlanta next Monday to dis
cuss their problems with WPB ex
perts from Washington.
*42 CARS ARE NEW —
In a number of instances, owners
of 1042 cars have found themselves
in hot water when they sold their
autos to other private citizens, the
Southeastern OPA office reports. All
1942 cars are classed as “new,”
and selling them subjects the owner
to the same penalty as that meted
out to a dealer.
Exception: Owners who are called
to the armed services. Other folks
can sell only to government-approved
purchasers.
WPB has asked the states not to
make 1943 auto license plates from
sheet metal, so next year you’ll
probably get nothing more than a
tiny 1943 date tag to cover the
year on your present plate.
PARK UNDER TREES—
Gasoline deliveries to the eastern
seaboard have been cut one-fifth, ra
tioning of gas seems just around
the corner, and tires are precious.
Everyone knows that the hot sun
harms rubber, but not everyone
knows there’s another reason for
parking in the shade:
Not only will tires last longer if
they are not baked in the sun, but
gasoline evaporates quickly from
your tank when the sun’s rays hit it.
OPA warns motorists to keep
tires properly inflated. Nothing ruins
them quicker than under-inflation.
Also, soft tires strain the motor,
waste gasoline.
WATCH FOR SUGAR DAY—
Registration day is coming in May
—not for the army draft, but for
sugar quotas. Don’t overlook it.
Folks who fail to register on sugar
rationing day may not be able to
get any sugar at all.
School houses will be used for
registration. Everyone will have to
declare the amount of sugar in his
possession. If you have too much, it’s
best to sell it back to the grocer
right away so that there won’t be
any diffculty when you sign up with
your fellow townsmen.
AVERAGE PRICE OF
CATTLE 11.36 CENTS
AT TUESDAY’S SALE
One hundred and three head of
cattle, weighing 64,480 pounds, en
riched Early county cattle growers by
$7,326.65 at Tuesday’s fat cattle
show and sale. County Agent J. F.
Reid announced yesterday.
The average price per pound was
11.36 cents, he said, and the grand
champion steer brought 14 cents,
the reserve 13.75.
Banking is Important
Never before has commercial bank
ing been more important to the in
dividual as well as to the public.
We are trying to do our part, and
your sincere co-operation is greatly
appreciated.
Bank of Early
BLAKELY. GEORGIA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All
Deposits Insured up to $5,000
AMENDMENT AIDS
PEANUT GROWERS
FOR 1942 SEASON
Further encouragement was given
to Early county farmers to increase
nroduction of peanuts as a “war
•rop” when H. B. Fulmer, county
\AA administrative officer, an
nounced this week an amendment to
the AAA program for this specific
purpose.
In addition, he said, the announced
method of computing 1942 diverted
cotton acreage provides that a farm
can retain its cotton history if pea
nuts are planted in excess of the
peanut acreage allotment.
Mr. Fulmer said the 1942 agricul
tural conservation program has been
amended so that acreage from which
peanuts arc harvested for oil and
followed by an approved cover crop
next fall will count as a soil-con
serving or erosion-resisting crop.
The amendment applies to all
counties in Georgia except those in
which the minimum soil-building per
formance plan (generally known as
the Coweta County Plan) is in use
But, Mr. Fulmer, explained, pea
nut acreage in each instance will
count toward meeting the soil-con
serving requirements only to the ex
tent of one-half of the requirement.
For example, he said, if a farmer
had to have 10 acres planted to soil
conserving, erosion-resisting crops,
and he had five acres in peanuts,
the peanut acreage would count up
to one-half in meeting the require
ment for 10 acres. However, if the
grower, in th/is instance, had more
than five acres in peanuts, it would
not count for more than five acres
in meeting the requirement for soil
conserving acreage.
Marine Corps Offers
Radio Training to
Men 17 to 35
The United States Marine Corps
Recruiting Service has been author
ized to enlist men in the regular
Marine Corps or the Marine Corps
Reserve for special duty in commun
ications.
The men being accepted for this
duty must be between the ages of
17 and 35, hold or have held an Am
ateur Radio Operator’s License,
Class A or B, or a commercial radio
Telegraph or Radio Telephone Oper
ator’s License, Ist or 2nd class. In
the absence of these qualifications
they must have been engaged in ac
tual repair or service of radio equip
ment for a period of at least three
months or have had experience in
connection with design or construc
tion of high frequency or ultra-high
frequency transmitting or receiving
equipment.
The men with the above qualifica
tions and who have graduated from
high school will be appointed a spe
cial staff-sergeant in the Marine
Corps Reserve, and transferred to a
signal battalion for further assign
ment to a special course of training
in RADAR maintenance.
Men who are not high school
graduates, but have had 3 months
experience ir radio work will be
enlisted and given the regular re
cruit training at Parris Island, S. C.,
and will then be transferred to Ra
dio School at the Post Signal Bat
talion, Quantico, Viiginia, or the
Base Signal Battalion, San Diego,
California.
Major Robert S. Pendleton. Officer
in charge of the U. S. Marine Re
cruiting Station in Macon, pointed
■out that young men who have am
bitions to follow an active career in
radio and serve their country at the
.same time, are invited to investigate
the opportunities now existing in the
Marine Corps in this field. Major
Pendleton also pointed out that if
the same course of instruction were
taken at some private school, it
would cost the young man about
two thousand dollars.
Men who have any of the qualifi
cations listed above will advance
their training and serve their coun
try best by applying to the nearest
Marine Recruiting Station, or by
writing the Marine Recruiting Sta
tion, 453 Cherry street, Macon, Ga.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Mrs. W. B. Tolar
Passes at Home
In Springfield
Succumbing to an illness of sever
al weeks, Mrs. Hattie Viola Tolar,
58, wife of Mr. W. B. Tolar, of the
Springfield community, and mother
of Mr. Carl F. Tolar, of this city,
died Saturday night at 10 o’clock,
her death being attributed to a heart
ailment.
Funeral services were held at
Bethel church Sunday afternoon at
4:30 o’clock, with the Rev. Tolbert
Hegnie officiating. Interment was in
Bethel cemetery, with Evans & Son
Funeral Home, Donalsonville, in
charge of arrangements, and L. H.
Baughman, P. W. Evans, N. E. Ev
ans, Sibley Pyle, E. J. Houston and
Floyd Amos serving as pall-bearers.
Mrs. Tolar was born in Miller
county in 1883, but had been a res
ident of this county for 42 years.
She was well known and loved by a
large circles of friends, to whom
news of her death was received with
profound sorrow.
Surviving are her husband; one
sister, Mrs. J. G. Gaulden; four
brothers, C. R. Jones, J. B. Jones,
and W. W. Jones of this county, and
W. H. Jones of Green Cave Springs,
Fla., and the following children:
Mrs. D. G. Gruber, Miss Estelle
Tolar, Mrs. Byron Bruner, Miss Eula
Tolar, E. L. Tolar, W. G. Tolar, Carl
F. Tolar, and Ernest Tolar.
RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF
BLAKELY TO BE TAKEN
MONDAY AFTERNOON
Plans have been made for taking
a religious census in Blakely next
Monday afternoon. Forty ladies of
the local churches wil meet at the
Baptist church at 2 s3O and get blank
cards, have territory assigned and
go out to reach every every home in
Blakely where white people live.
The pastors of the local churches
plead for the fullest cooperation on
the part of the people to the end
that this may be a complete census
and mean the most to the religious
life of the town. Deepest apprecia
tion is expressed in advance for the
good work of the canvassers in this
effort.
NATIVE BLUFFTONIAN
INITIATED INTO DELTA
SIGMA PI FRATERNITY
Louis R. Greene, a native of
Bluffton, Ga., who is attending Geor
gia Evening College in Atlanta, was
initiated into Delta Sigma Pi frater
nity Sunday, March 23. Delta Sig
ma Pi is a professional commercial
fraternity with over fourteen thou
sand members. It has chapters in
Canada as well as the United States.
TEA KETTLE MAKES
GOOD MOUSETRAP
Clayton, Ga.—Mrs. C. B. Stock
ton is waiting for that path that the
world should be beating to her door.
She has made the proverbial “better
mousetrap.”
The invention happened by acci
dent. Mrs. Stockton had an old tea
kettle that had sprung a leak. She
laid the vessel aside for a day or
two and discovered later that a small
mouse had become fastened in the
spout. Now she places bait in the
kettle; the victim enters the top; he
eats the bait; gets caught trying
to get out via the narrow spout. Av
erage catch: three per night.
SINGING CONVENTION AT
SASSER NEXT SUNDAY
There will be an all-day sing at
Sasser, Ga., next Sunday, March 29.
All singers and lovers of music have
a cordial invitation to attend.
D. C. MORGAN.
STRAY MULE— Bay mare mule,
10 or 12 years old, weight about
1,000 lbs. Finder please notify J.
B. STILL, Blakely, Ga.
U. S. Approved Chicks—
BLOOD TESTED AND CULLED BY A
STATE INSPECTOR
Leghorns, New Hampshires, Barred Rocks, from U.
S. Certified Flocks, per hunered . • $10.95
Chicks from U. S. Approved Bloodtested
Flocks, per hundred.. • $ 9.95
fW~Book orders early and have chicks arrive on date you
want them.
Alabama State Hatchery
A. A. MIDDLETON, Manager
DOTHAN, : ALABAMA
PEANUTS FOR OIL
ASSURED OF FAIR
PRICE SUPPORT
The United States Department of
Agriculture, in setting a floor under
oil peanut prices, has given Georgia
farmers assurance of a fair return
for the record-breaking crop of pea
nuts called for under the Food for
Freedom program this year, accord
ing to Felix P. Davis, chaiman of
the Early county AAA committee.
Prices will be supported at 85 per
cent of the comparative price as of
the beginning of the marketing year,
August 1, 1941, but in no event
less than SB2 a ton for U. S. No. 1
white Spanish type peanuts, or S7B
a ton for U. S. No. 1 runner type
nuts, delivered to an approved local
receiving agency.
“Our government asked us to grow
more peanuts than we’ve ever grown
before. The Department of Agricul
ture is fully aware of the difficulties
confronting growers, and it has de
termined to smooth the way in every
way possible. By giving price sup
port, it has safeguarded growers
against unfair prices, and has made
it profitable for them to grow oil
peanuts.
“The matter of harvesting and
picking still remains to be solved,
but we may rest assured the gov
ernment isn’t going to let the pea
nut growers down.”
S. M. HARRISON DIES
AT HIS HOME IN THE
CUBA COMMUNITY
Samuel McDowell Harrison, 67,
died at his home in the Cuba com
munity early Monday morning after
a protracted illness.
Mr. Harrison was a native of
Miller county, where he was born
January 10, 1875. He was a mem
ber of the Baptist church. Funeral
services were held in Christ church
in Baker county Tuesday afternoon.
Interment followed in the church
cemetery, with the Minter, Fellows
& Forrester Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements and the following
serving as pall-bearers: Marvin Ted
der, George Harrison, Curtis War
ren, A. D. Houston, Silas H. Houston
and Will Hamil.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Nina Blanche Parr Harrison, one
daughter, Mrs. Annie Lou Harrison
Bridges, and one son, Samuel Albert
Harrison.
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VETERINARIAN
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WSM
GRAND OLD OPRY
IN PERSON
...Under Canvas...
—PLAYING—
COLQUITT, GA.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
MONDAY, MAR. 30
Admission 15c-35c
(Tax Paid)
Show Starts at 8:30
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From lonely hilltops . . . from city skylines and
farmhouse roofs ... air raid wardens and watchers
constantly scan the sky for first signs of approaching
enemy planes.
Danger from the air is not the only peril faced to
day by our nation, our state and our communities.
Equally threatening to our liberty and pursuit of
happiness are those irresponsible few whose law vio
lations would bring disrepute to entire groups.
When, in Georgia’s $10,000,000 beer industry, the
occasional “black sheep” retailer is discovered, he is
required immediately to clean up. Otherwise, he is
turned over to authorities to close up.
Only the reputable beer retailer deserves
reputable patronage. That’s bow YOU can help.
FOUNDATION
JUDGE JOHN S. WOOD, State Director
532 Hurt Building • Atlanta, Georgia
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SCRAP IRON—
IT’S VALUABLE
We Weigh and Pay Highest Market Price.
We Buy and Sell Used Tires
J. W. ALLEN
NEAR DEPOT
PEANUT SMELLER
Spanish and Runner
Located near depot in front of
mattress factory.
ALL BUSINESS APPRECIATED.
HERMAN SMITH