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EARLY COUNTY, GA. GARDEN SPOT OF GOD’S COUNTRY VOLUME LXXXI > NO. 46 Miss Willie Byrd Bush Passes After Lingering Illness Funeral services for Miss Willie Byrd Bush, -who died at her home on Lee street early Monday morning, were held Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist church. Death was not unexpected, as Miss Bush had been ili for several months. The Rev. E. M. Overby, a former pastor of the Blakely Methodist church, of which Miss Bush was a member, conducted the services, as sisted by the Rev. S. B. King. A large group of friends and relatives attended these last rites. Interment was in the Blakely cemetery, with the Minter, Fellows & Forreser Funeral Home in charge of arrangements and the following serving as pall-bear ers: R. L. Whitehurst, Sam Owen, H. A. Mobley, I. M. Bramblett, Os car Whitchard and Dunbar Grist. Honorary pall-bearers were Joe W. Allen, Lewis B. Fryer, Bryant Tur ner, R. C. Howell, W. L. Rhodes, R. C. Singletary, Dr. J. G. Standifer, F. A. Barham, Grady Holman, and J. B. Jones. 'Survivors include her stepmother, Mrs. Bessie Bush; five brothers, Ernest Bush of Columbus, Huey Lee Bush of Scottsboro, Ala., Bob, George and Gene Bush of Blakely; two sisters, Mrs. Joe Coggins of Blakely and Miss Louise Bush of Panama City, Fla.„ and the following nieces and nephews: Cona Ann Bush of Columbus, Dorothy Ann and Yvonne Bush of Scottsboro, Ala., and Barbara, Kenneth, David, and Charles Epp Bush of Blakely. Born in 1898 in Abbeville, Ala., the daughter of the late George R. (Epp) Bush and Cona Miller Bush, Miss Bush moved to Early county as a young girl and here grew into womanhood. She was well-known over south Georgia, as she was a prominent business woman, being en gaged in the market and grocery business, which she managed her self. Because of declining health, Miss Bush sold her business early this year. Her health failed to im prove and eight weeks ago she was Weaver’s = announces a paint department PAINTS— VARNISHES— ENAMELS— Complete stock of SOUTHPORT paint products. (Made by the Wesson oil people) Now in stock. Let us quote you our low prices before you buy. T. K. Weaver & Co. “Blakely’s Only Complete Store” C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA. Countn JXcws NEW V-MAIL SERVICE BEGINS OPERATION AT LOCAL POSTOFFICE To decrease the weight and bulk and to expedite delivery of mail to members of the armed forces outside the Continental United States, the new V-Mail Service will begin oper ation at the local postoffice, pending arrival of the stationery. Postmaster J. Emory Houston announced yes terday. V-Mail is the name given this new service by postal officials. It is to be used only by patrons who desire to communicate with members of the armed forces who are stationed in some foreign post. All letters which are to be carried by V-Mail Service must be written on this spe cial paper and envelope, which will arrive at the local postoffice at an early date, and no other written matter may be attached. This new stationery has been placed on sale at only a few of the larger postof fices as yet. It is of special make, made of light durable paper together with an envelope which, when fold ed, gives the appearance of an ordi nary letter. In some instances, Mr. Houston said, these letters will be photo graphed and placed on a micro-film and sent with many others to some foreign port, where they will be re-written and mailed on to soldiers just as they were originally written. When the stationery arrives the public will be advised through an other announcement, Mr. Houston stated. Blackberries—Rolling stores and country stores will accept them in trade. We pay highest cash price delivered in Blakely. CURTIS L. MIDDLETON. taken seriously ill and continued to grow worse until death came Monday morning. A token of the regard and esteem in which she was held was made man ifest by the large throng of friends who attended her last rites and by the profusion of lovely flowers which covered her last resting place. BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1942, Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’ DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ADOPTS REGULATIONS GOVERNING PRIMARY SEPT. 9 The Early County Democratic Ex ecutive Committee, meeting Satur day, elected E. S. Collins chair man and A, T. Fleming, secretary, fixed Saturday, July 4, 12 o’clock noon, E. W. T., as the closing date for candidates to qualify, adopted rules to govern the primary and named managers to hold the primary. The entry fee for candidates for Representative in the General As sembly was fixed at SIOO.OO, with the proviso that if there is more than one candidate, the assessment shall be reduced to $50.00. The assessment must be paid to the secretary of the committee not later than 12 o’clock, noon E. W. T., on July 4. The committee adopted the follow ing resolutions governing the pri mary: 1. Be it resolved by the Demo cratic Executive Committee of Ear ly County, That a primary election be held on the 9th day of Septem ber, 1942, for the nomination of a Governor and various state house of ficers, a United States Senator, a candidate for Congress from the Second district, a Judge of the Su perior Courts of the Pataula circuit, a Representative in the General As sembly from Early County, and a Democratic Executive Committee for Early county. 2. That said primary shall be held Under the rules and regulations laid down by the State Democratic Exec utive Committee, except as hereinaft er provided. 3. That for the purpose of defray ing the expenses of said primary election each candidate for Repre sentative in the General A.ssembly shall pay an assessment of SIOO.OO, but in the event there is more than one candidate for Rep resentative, said assessment shall be reduced to $50.00. Said assess ment shall be paid to the Secretary of the Early County Dem ocratic Executive Committee not later than 12 o’clock, noon, Eastern War Time, on Saturday, July 4, 1942, or in default thereof the name of the candidate so defaulting shall not be placed on the official ballot to be used in said primary. 4. Candidates for Representative shall file an itemized account of their campaign expenses by 10 o’clock a m., on the 10th day of September. 1942, in accordance with the state laws governing primary elections. 5. No candidate in said primary shall be declared the nominee of the party for any of the offices named, if it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to this committee that he has used money, liquor or other thing of value illegally for the purpose of securing votes in his race, and this provision shall apply where such im proper use of money, liquor or other thing of value is made by friends of such candidate with his knowledge. Nor shall any candidate receive the vote of the county who violates the provisions of this state regarding primary elections. 6. The Australian ballot system Planning Anti - Submarine Control » _________________________ 11 W - |F j iL.> t WH gl N uW a . Vc liri J f vs • Shown at Mitchell Field as they discussed the Atlantic anti-sub marine patrol with Brig. Gen. Jimmie Doolittle (center, seated) are, left to right, Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, commanding the First air force; Brig. Gen. Joe Cannon, commanding the First fighter command; Col. E. E. Glenn, chief of staff of the First air force; and Brig. Gen. Westside Larson, commanding the First bomber command. « shall be used in said primary elec tion, and managers are instructed to rigidly enforce provisions of this law. 7. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared the winner in each of the offices to be filled in said primary election. 8. The participation of any can didate in this primary shall consti tute a pledge on the part of that candidate to support the entire Dem ocratic ticket in the general elec tion. 9. The secretary of this committee is authorized to prepare and dis tribute the official ballot for said primary election. 10. The following managers are named to hold said primary in the several districts named: Arlington: W. R. Taylor, E. B. Davis, W. C. Bryan. Blakely: J. C. Loyless, R. O. Wat ers, John H. Williams. Cedar Springs: J. G. Brantley, L. H. Baughman, E. A. Reed. Colomokee: J. L. Bethea, E. S. Collins, F. L. Williams. Cuba: G. O. Lindsey, J. B. Bridges, W. T. Bates. Damascus: C. H. Lanier, E. L. Lewis, I. A. Walton. Freeman: G. H. Owen, Lewis Jones, George Nelson. Jakin: Branson Minter, E. C. Mosely, Marvin Cannon. Lucile: H. J. Cosby, W. C. Hous ton, W. B. Reagan, Jr. Rock Hill: G. M. Stephens, Em mett .McLendon, W. A. Smith. Urquhart: John Hudspeth, Theo White, Shelly Simmons. Driver’s License Must Be Secured by Next Tuesday, June 30 Have you renewed your driver’s license? With only about a week until the expiration of the present driver’s licenses, Major John E. Goodwin, of the Department of Public Safety, says applications for renewal of li censes are steadily increasing. The license bureau has adequate person nel to quickly handle renewals, but numerous applicants are failing to send in the renewal stub from the old licenses, says the Commissioner. They are applying on old license forms (1941-’42), and are failing to complete the applications and put correct mailing address, and they fail to make separate application for each member of the family, all of which delays the return of the li cense. Major Goodwin asks the public to bear in mind the above named fail ures and to read the instruction on the application. Do these things and renew before midnight of June 30. We pay highest cash price for blackberries, delivered in Blakely. CURTIS L. MIDDLETON, opposite postoffice. NATION-WIDE SCRAP RUBBER CAMPAIGN CONTINUES THRU WEEK The nation-wide campaign to gath er scrap rubber will continue through this week, and those who have not aided in the campaign are urged to gather and deliver any discarded rubber articles of any nature to the nearest gasoline filling station before the end of the week. The station operators are authorized to pay a cent a pound for all scrap rubber, and will in turn be reim bursed by the government for this expenditure. Gasoline rationing of a nation wide scope will depend largely upon the success of the scrap rubber drive, and the probability of some rubber for retreading of tires likewise may hinge on the amount of scrap rubber collected this week. Lions and Rotarians in Joint Meeting Hear Navy Officials In a joint meeting held at the Early Hotel last Friday, members of the Rotary and Lions Clubs heard two Navy officials of the recruiting station in Albany speak on life in the Navy and the part the Navy is doing in today’s war. The officers were Chief Specialist Tommy Hooks and Chief Petty Offi cer Hollis Stanford. Mr. Hooks spoke on the different branches of the Navy and told of some of the Navy’s modern day war equipment. He gave an interesting account of how some of the modern equipment was sup posedly used in the Battle of the Coral Sea and at Midway Island. Mr. Stanford elaborated on the different branches which Mr. Hooks had described and also told how a recruit went* about getting into the different branches and what the qualifications are. He closed his talk by telling his listeners how vital it is to victory that the United States have the best Navy in the world and how the Navy is making a special drive to gain more men. He charged his listeners to aid in every way possible in getting these new re cruits. “When this has been done,” he said, “our Navy will not only be second to none in the world, but will be twice as large as that of any other nation, Allied or Axis, in the universe.” The meeting was presided over by Rotarian Henry Wall and a program of piano music was rendered by Mrs. Ben Haisten. Guests included W. C. Cook, a guest of Rotarian Wall, Der rell Felder, a guest of Lion “Tige” Pickle, Felix Barham, Jr., a guest of his father, Rotarian Felix Bar ham, and R. E. Alexander, a guest of Rotarian Ben Godwin. NOTICE TO ALL AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK OWNERS If you do not have your Certifi cate of Registration that was sent you when you were sent your 1942 tag and have not obtained duplicate, it will be necessary for you to ob tain duplicate, as registrars will not be able to issue you gasoline coupon book in July without it. LOCAL RATIONING BOARD. BANKS AND THE WAR... IVTODERN wars are fought on many fronts, one of them is right at home. Life must go on. People must live, eat, have shelter and clothing, and carry on in many ways as they did before the war. '<• The regular services offered by banks to provide safety for money, expedite payments, facilitate thrift and so on, are still as import ant as ever. We continue to offer them, even though the stress is now on the special war time services. You are invited to use this bank. FIRST STATE BANK BLAKELY, 1 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 Young Men 18-20 To Register Next Tuesday, June 30 Alex Carswell, clerk of the local draft board, announced yesterday that plans have been made for Ear ly county’s participation in the national registration of youths in the 28-20 age group on next Tuesday, June 30th. The registration will be held under a proclamation issued by the President of the United States under authority contained in the Selective Training and Service Act of 1904 and the amendment of De cember, 1941. This (the fifth) reg istration under the Selective Train ing and Service Act will be nation wide and will take place between the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. The places of registration will be posted at the court house and in all the postoffices in the county. Under provisions of the act “every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person resid ing in the continental United States or in the Territory of Alaska or in the Territory of Hawaii or in Puerto Ric, other than persons excepted by Section s(a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and by Section 208 of the Coast Guard Artillery and Reserve Act of 1941, is required to and shall on June 30, 1942, present himself for and submit to registration be fore a duly designated registration official or selective service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which he has his permanent home or in which he may happen to be on that day if such male citizen or other male person has attained the eighteenth or the nineteenth an niversary of he day of his birth on or before June 30, 1942, or the twentieth anniversary of the day of his birth after December 31, 1941, and on or before June 30, 1942, and has not heretofore been registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and the,regulations prescribed there under.” The proclamation further states: “The duty of any person to present himself for and submit to registra tion in accordance with any previous proclamation issued under said Act shall not be affected by this proc lamation.” JAKIN TO HAVE REVIVAL MEETING Rev. Marvin Vincent, pastor of the Jakin Methodist church, announces that revival services will be held at that place beginning the first Sunday night in July and continuing until the second Sunday morning. Serv ices will be held twice daily, except no day service Monday and no serv ice at all on Saturday. The first service the first Sunday night will be in charge of the lay'men in the absence of the pastor, who will be closing a revival at Iron City. A vis iting lay speaker is expected for this service. The interest, attend ance, and cooperation of the public are solicited for these services. A very cordial welcome will be extended to all who come. The church, our country, and the world need nothing more right now than a revival of real religion, Pastor Vincent said. Blackberries—Rolling stores and country stores will accept them in trade. We pay highest cash price delivered in Blakely. CURTIS L. MIDDLETON.