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EARLY COUNTY, GA. GARDEN SPOT OF GOD’S COUNTRY VOLUME LXXXI NO. 40 BLAKELY TECH MAN RECEIVES HONOR CITATION Atlanta, Ga. —An ODK citation of honor—one of the finest tributes that can be paid to a Georgia Tech stu dent—Friday went to William Thom as Clearman, Jr., of Blakely, a senior in public health engineering, for out standing leadership in organizing a movement to restore the school’s ac credited rating. The citation was formally present ed to Bill Clearman at a banquet Friday night at Emory University. Mr. Clearman was elected last De cember by students of Georgia Tech to head a Student Council commit tee to investigate the dropping of the school from the accredited list by the Southern Association of Col leges and Schools because of “polit ical interference by Governor Tal madge.” Since then Mr. Clearman has tak en an active interest in the cam paign to restore Georgia Tech to the accredited rating and recently a Students’ Political League was form ed to fight “gubernatorial interfer ence with the state’s educational system.” The citation reads: “In accordance with their purpose to encourage and honor true leader ship, the members of Alpha Eta Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa have voted an expression of deep grati tude to William Thomas Clearman, Jr., to whom the students of Georgia Tech intrusted the guidance of a common effort to protect their school from the threatened destruc tion of its standing among educa tional institutions and the wasting away of its value to the state and to the nation; “Who, faithful to the trust placed in him. has worked modestly and with wise and creative imagination in organizing a state-wide program for saving the school, and, who, by his rare qualities of leadership, has given new heart to all those who love their school and to all men of understanding and integrity who have come within the wide range of his influence.” The Early County Library will be open each day from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m., except Thursday afternoon, when a half-holiday will be observed. G ii fl ii u mi o n Give a Gift from Weaver’s to the Graduate of the Class of ’42 FOR GIRLS: COSTUME JEWELRY HANDKERCHIEFS BAGS PANTIES SLIPS GOWNS PAJAMAS BRASSIERES HOSE BATISTE BLOUSES EVENING BAGS EVENING DRESSES * EVENING SHOES FOR BOYS: MANHATTAN SHIRTS CURLEE and MERIT SUITS SPORT COATS NUNN-BUSH SHOES TIES PAJAMAS HICKOK BELT SETS BILL FOLDS ' BATHING TRUNKS HANDKERCHIEFS UNDERWEAR SLACKS SLACK SUITS All Gift Packages Purchased at Weaver’s Attractively Wrapped at No Extra Charge “Buy Defense Stamps and Bonds Today” T. K. Weaver & Co. “Blakely’s Only Complete Store” C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA. (Eornrtg JXcws ROTARIANS SHOW WAR BONDS AT FRIDAY MEETING Entering into the nation-wide pro gram for purchase of war bonds, the members of the Blakely Rotary Club, at their weekly meeting last Friday at the Hotel Early, answer ed the roll call with a 100 per cent display of this form of government security, probably the first club in the state to give such a demonstra tion of loyalty to the bond and stamp purchase campaign. The day’s program was devoted to a discussion of the county-wide house-to-house canvass in the inter est of the bond and stamp pledge campaign. Rotarian Guy Maddox, executive chairman, for Early county, and Rotarian Emory Houston, “col onel” for the Blakely district, out lined plans for the canvass and told of the need for Early countians to respond to the government’s appeal for money with which to finance the war effort. Dr. .W. H. Wall, president,' pre sided over the meeting, with Mrs. Ben Haisten, club pianist, contrib uting a number of piano and solovox selections. MR. S. F. GAMMON DIES AT JACKSON, MISS. Friends in Blakely will learn with regret of the death of Mr. S. F. Gammon, Sr., which occurred in Jackson, Miss., last Sunday. Mr. Gammon was a native of Marianna, Fla., and was state manager for the Prudential Life Insurance Company for the State of Mississippi. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Bessie Standifer of Blakely, and one son, S. Franklin Gammon, Jr., of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Interment was in Marianna Tuesday. Deanna Durbin and Robert Cum mings in “It Started With Eve” at the Blakely Theatre Thursday and Friday. BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1942. Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’ Today Is Final Day for Gas Rationing Registration An estimated 600,000 Georgia owners of passenger cars began reg istering Tuesday for the govern ment’s little gasoline ration cards which will permit them to buy their three gallons of gas. The' three-day period for registra tion—May 12-13-14—closes today (Thursday). For the benefit of those who have not yet registered, the following in formation is given: Motor vehicle registration certifi cates must be presented by the ap plicant before rationing cards are issued. Driver’s licenses will not be taken instead and persons who do not have certificates must obtain them before they register. If it is after today (Thursday), they will have to obtain their ration card from their local rationing board. Three types of cards are being issued—Card A, for owners of pri vate passenger cars, allowing them seven squares or “units” of three gallons of gas each; Card B, issued to persons whose livelihood depends upon use of card, and Card X, issued to persons entitled to an unlimited supply of gasoline, such as doctors, nurses, ministers, ambulances and hearses, and public conveyances. All of the cards to be issued will STATE DEATH RATE DECREASES, BIRTH RATE IS UP Deaths of Georgians decreased 2.9 per cent during 1941 and births in creased 4.1 per cent, according to the annual report of Director T. F. Abercrombie of the Department of Public Health to the State Board of Health. Statistics disclose 67,785 births in the state for the year 1941. Just how favorable the mortality was in 1941 may be illustrated by comparing the figure with that re corded 23 years ago, when the Unit ed States was once before engaged in a world conflict. In 1918, the mortality in the registration area of the United States (figures for Geor gia are not available) was 18.1 per 1,000 population, or more than 40 per cent as high as in Georgia in 1941. An outstanding development in the mortality experience of the past year was the continued improvement in the death rates from malaria and typhoid fever. The present rate for typhoid fever has reached the low level of 1.8 per 100,000. This may be compared with a rate of 27.5 twenty years ago. The improvement in the malaria death rate is especial ly noteworthy because it dropped from 16.2 to 2.4 per 100,000 in the past twenty years. The tuberculosis deaths for 1941 decreased 10.3 per cent. The de cline in this disease from 87.4 twen ty years ago to 44.1 has been a strik ing feature of the mortality expe rience. Pneumonia mortality improved 17.2 per cent over 1940, establish ing a minimum rate of 54.5 per 100,- 000 population despite the influenza epidemic which prevailed during the winter of 1941. “While we have no specific means of determining the existence of mal nutrition in Georgia, the 1941 mor tality records do indicate that pella gra, the principal deficiency disease, has declined from 30.0 in 1929 to Their Seven Sons Fight for Uncle Sam • C' • ■ „ .-••z 8S SJCWMM jojaßMaSt > J * SR h , ■ -ofe 2ii fISi v i>' will Ik] > / pg KH Mln a r ghesM a!a R / illi • Standing proudly behind the photos of their seven sons are Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jenkins of Deatsville, Ala. Every one of the seven boys is in the armed services of the United States. Mr. Jenkins, who is 72, is a railroad employee. He was recently cited by President Roosevelt. Mrs. Jenkins is 61. •' resemble meal tickets, and on the “A” cards, to which all motorists are entitled, there will be seven spaces for punching out by filling station attendants. Each space will represent an allowance of three gal lons—or a total of 21 gallons which may be purchased between the start of rationing Friday and July 1. Motorists who show that they must drive more than six miles a day but less than 10 will be issued B-l cards, which will have 11 spaces; those who must drive 10 miles but less than 14, B-2 cards, which will have 15 spaces, and those who must drive 14 miles or more a day, B-3 cards, which will have 19 units. X cards will be issued for doctors, nurses, ministers, ambulances, taxi cabs, busses, persons engaged in of ficial business, hauling or messenger service or in the transportation of materials and construction equipment or work crews. These cards will en title the holders to unlimited pur chase of gasoline, but they will be subject to penalty if it is used for pleasure purposes. Others who believe they are en titled to more gasoline than either of the B cards allows may apply to their local war boards for supple mental cards, which, however, would limit them to the specific amount they show would be needed to carry out their work or to protect their life. GEORGIA LEADS THE NATION IN KAOLIN OUTPUT Georgia produced 72 per cent of kaolin mined in the United States last year, according to Captain Gar land Peyton, director of the State’s Division of Mines, Mining and Geol ogy. South Carolina ranked second, with 177,276 tons, or 16 per cent of the total, and Pennsylvania came third, with 44,277 tons, or four per cent. Other states came in the fol lowing order: Florida, California, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, Alabama, Maryland, Ver mont, Utah and Tennessee. The value of Georgia’s kaolin “crop” has risen steadily since 1939. In that year it brought $4,135,737; the next year, $4,826,826, and last year it rose to $6,573,605. Kaolin is used extensively in the manufacture of high-grade paper, pottery, sanitary wares, rubber, paint and other commodities. Uast year the paper industry alone con sumed 56 per cent of the total out put, 110,000 more tons than in 1940. 6.5 per 100,000 population in 1941,” Dr. Abercrombie said. Among the external causes of death, automobile accidents increased 17.2 per cent and homicides 4.6 per cent during 1941. “Georgians are entering this war with far better health conditions than obtained at the beginning of the last war. The advances in med ical science and public health prac tice have not only largely eliminated the mortality from malaria, typhoid fever, diarrhea and enteritis, and the principal communicable diseases of childhood, but have brought under control pneumonia and tuberculosis,” the health director added. REVIVAL MEETING IN PROGRESS AT BAPTIST CHURCH A series of revival meetings was begun at the Blakely Baptist church last Sunday morning, which will continue through next Sunday, May 10th. Assisting Pastor S. B. King in the meeting is the Rev. H. B. Shepherd, of New' Orleans, who is preaching twice daily. His forceful messages have been heard by goodly numbers at each of the services, ■which are at 9 o’clock in the morning and 8:30 in the evening. The morning serv ices last only forty-five minutes, allowing ample time for teachers and students to reach school classes by ten o’clock. The evening sermon is preceded by a twenty-minutes song service. (Services will continue through Sunday, although there will be no Saturday morning service. There will, however, be a service Saturday night at the regular 8:30 hour. The public is cordially invited to attend all the services. JURORS DRAWN FOR MAY TERM CITY COURT OF BLAKELY Following are those who have been drawn to serve at the May term of the City Court of Blakely to be convened by Judge J. W. Bon ner next Monday, May 18: J. W. Nix, D. G. Lisenby, J. S. Farr, J. P. Hudspeth, A. D. Smith, Sr., John C. Holman, B. H. Thomas, L. A. Wiley, J. E. Beckham, S. W. Howell, Jr., G. L. Singletary, L. B. Perry, J. G. Houston, K. J. Hodges, J. R. Donnan, J. H. Sheffield, Ralph B. Scarborough, H. H. Davenport, E. A. Reed, W. T. Mitchell, J. L. McArthur, W. C. Cook, S. A. Wright, Herman Smith, J. D. Rogers, Jr., M. L. Simmons, E. L. Lewis, J. L. Jones, J. Ed Chancy, H. R. Whitehurst, B. L. McNair, C. B. Reese, Gordon Jen kins, Boyd Whittington, Marvin Be lisle, W. M. Philmon, Cecil George, W. T. Bates, H. G. Hudson, J. H. J. Waller, Oscar Whitchard, Jr., W. J. Kenney, J. C. Balkcom, G. E. Red mond, R. O. Waters, J. S. White, T. S. Sawyer, J. E. Lomax, F. L. Will iams, Ike Newberry, J. W. Cannon, C. F. Helms, L. B. Burkett, Alto Warrick, C. E. Boyett, J. R. George, J. W. Taylor, J. N. Collier, John H. Williams, Sr., S. E. Williams. TYPHOID SHOT NOTICE To the Public: You can get your typhoid shots by calling at my office on Fridays and Saturdays during May and June. Will begin next Friday, May Bth. I will be in my office as much as possible on Fridays and Saturdays at the following hours: 9:30 to 12:30 in the morning and 2 to 5 in the afternoon. C. R. BARKSDALE, County Physician. We Should Like to Serve You ... You would benefit in many ways from a regular connec tion with this bank. Nothing would please us more than to have your name on our books as a depositor. 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 DEATH CLAIMS MRS. O. R. BROOKS OF THIS CITY Succumbing to an illness of ten days from appendicitis, Mrs. Leila Marks Brooks, 43, wife of Ohlan Robert Brooks, Jr., died Sunday morning at 1:30 o’clock at a Cuth bert hospital, where she was carried when stricken ill. Her death cast a pall of gloom over a wide circle of friends. Mrs. Brooks was a native of Li thonia, in DeKalb county, where she was born November 19, 1898. She was a daughter of Joel Patmos Marks and Sara Verne Marks. She had been a resident of Blakely since 1925, when her husband came here to accept the position of agent for the American Railway Express Co. During that time she had endeared herself to many friends. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Funeral services were held at the family home on Cuthbert road Mon day afternoon at 4:00 o’clock, with the Revs. William Turner Boden hamer, of Ty Ty, a brother-in-law, and S. B. King and W. F. Burford, of this city officiating. Interment followed in th? city cemetery, with the Minter, Fellows & Forrester Fu neral Home in charge of arrange ments, and the following members of the local unit of the State Guard serving as pall-bearers: Lieut. J. M. Coile, Sgt. William P. Smith, Lieut. John Holman, Sgt. C. M. z Dunning, Sgt. W. C. Cook, Sgt. W. C. Jordan, Guardsman Bert Tarver and Corporal Abe Berman. Many sympathizing friends attended the last sad rites. Surviving Mrs. Brooks are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Marks, of Stone Mountain; her husband; two sons, Ohlan.Robert Brooks, 111, and Harry Joe; and two brothers, William Lloyd Mai’ks and Charles Quillian Marks. These have the sym pathy of friends in the loss of their loved one. Out-of-town relatives and friends attending the funeral o's Mrs. Brooks included Mrs. Parks Moore, Mr. Will Marks, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Marks and Mrs. Clara Yates, of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Marks and Mr. C. 0. Marks of Stone Mountain; Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Marks, of Albany; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bodenhamer, of Ty Ty; and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ma loy, of Cuthbert. $5.00 WATCH HELPS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR COLORED CHURCH Elberton, Ga. Want to raise money at your church? Here’s how the congregation of a local colored church is doing it. Members are displaying printed cards to citizens, reading: “My pastor is giving away a $5.00 watch to the one raising the highest amount over $4.00. Please help me to win. I need one.”