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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. —Buy Defense Bonds— DR. R. A. HOUSTON VETERINARIAN Day Phone 232; Night 157 Located: Under Telephone Exchange 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 Wr V FT*? ll Bi IM y? IfM 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 FARMING TIME IS HERE \ Keep Up With the Times With Avery Plows, Planters, Cultivators,-JDistrib- < utors. < Lilliston Stalk Cutters, Cultivators, Weeders. } Cole Planters, Distributors. J Allis-Chalmers, Tractors and Implements. < < ■■■■ " ■■■■■■ Pee Gee Paints WE ARE EXCLUSIVE DEALERS FOR i ALL THE LEADERS i ♦♦♦♦♦♦ FARMERS HARDWARE CO. 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