Newspaper Page Text
Drive Under Way
For USO Fund in
Early County
Mrs. W. R. McKinney, Early coun
ty chairman, announced Wednesday
that plans had been perfected for
the U. S. 0. (United Service Organ
ization) drive in Early county, and
that the campaign would officially
open Friday. Early county has been
asked to raise $900.00 for this fund,
which is used largely for wholesome
recreation activities in the camps
of the armed forces.
The USO’s main objective is to
help build and maintain the strong
est fighting spirit among our men in
uniform by showing them how much
their friends back home appreciate
what they are doing, said Mrs. Mc-
Kinney, “and to make this apprecia
tion tangible in the form of friendly
hospitality and service in the sol
diers’ and sailors’ off-duty hours.”
The nation-wide quota for the
USO fund is $32,000,000 and Early
county is asked to contribute $900.00
of this amount.
Mrs. McKinney announced the
appointment of the following com
mittee to make the canvass for the
quota assessed this county: James
B. Murdock, Jr., Bert Tarver, Earl
“Tige” Pickle, Julius E. Beckham,
S. G. Maddox, Robert Stuckey, Char
lie Dunning, Henry Walton, Oscar
Whitchard, J. H. Williams, W. L.
Rhodes, H. C. Fort, W. C. Cook, Miss
Mayme Perry, Miss Ina Claire God
win, Miss Lillian Fryer, Miss Beth
Fryer, Mrs. Grady Holman, Mrs.
Grady Smith, Mrs. Ray Houston,
Mrs. Raymond Singletary, Jr., Mrs.
W. M. Barksdale, Mrs. Collier Gay,
Mrs. Sam Stein.
Blakely Telephone Co.
Is Warned By Public
Service Commission
Mrs. Mattie Powell, owner of the
Blakely Telephone Company, has
been notified by a Public Service
Commission engineer that she Is lia
ble to a $5,000 fine for failure to
abide by the Commission’s ruling of
recent date when the Commission
ordered the services of the Blakely
Telephone Company improved.
O. S. Vogel, the engineer, was
writing upon instructions from Al
lan Chappell, a member of the Com
mission. Mr. Vogel pointed out in
his letter that the Commission real
ized the priorities that had been
placed upon telephone equipment and
how difficult it was to secure neces
sary replacement parts, but the Com
mission also believed that no real
effort had been made to improve the
system and service in Blakely.
They also ordered Mrs. Powell to <
show that she had filed a priority rat- ■
ing in an effort to get the new i
switchboard which she said she had
ordered. Unless the service is im
proved or she can show that she is .
making an effort to follow the Com
mission’s order, Mrs. Powell was :
told the Blakely Telephone Company <
may be assessed the maximum fine |
of $5,000. Recent complaints from ;
local subscribes about the service
caused Mr. Chappell to direct the t
engineer to write the letter.
ONLY ONE LYNCHING DURING
FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1942 '
Only one lynching occurred in the
United States during the first six
months of 1942, it is reported by F.
D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee
Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., where
records are compiled each year on |
lynchings. The person lynched was
a Negro, who was suspected of crim
inal assault in the state of Missouri.
No. 1 Saboteur
*
f '■ aKE w
Edward John Kerling, alias Ed
ward John Kelly, who was the ring
leader of the fonr Nazi saboteurs
who landed with a quantity of ex
plosives from an enemy submarine
near Jacksonville. Fla. All four of
the wreckers were arrested, as
were the four who landed at Ama
gansett, L. I. c-
Report of Local
Rationing Board
June 22 Thru June 30
The local Rationing Board reports
certificates were issued for the pur
chase of tires and tubes to the fol
lowing for the period June 22
through June 30 (eligibility classi
fication given):
L. A. Smith: 1 truck tire, 1 tube;
classification, E-9.
S. Simmons: 1 trailer tire, 1 tube;
■ classification, Obsolete.
J. J. King: 1 trailer tire, 1 tube;
classification, Obsolete.
Paul Brown: 2 truck tires, 1 tube;
classification, E-9.
W. C. Harris: 1 truck tire, 1 tube;
classification, E-9.
W. F. Turner: 1 truck retread;
classification, E-9.
■G. Taliaferro: 1 truck tire, 2
tubes; classification, E-9.
Early County: 1 truck tire; classi
fication, E-2.
C. B. Reese: 2 truck retreads;
classification, E-9.
Oree Thompson: 2 passenger car
retreads; classification, B.
R. McClellan: 2 trailer retreads;
classification, B.
J. B. MeMath: 1 truck tube, 2
truck retreads; classification, E-9.
R. C. Singletary: 1 truck retread;
classification, E-9.
R. L. Thompson: 1 passenger cat
retread; classification, B.
A. 0. Chandler: 2 truck tubes;
classification, E-9.
J. B. Hasty: 1 truck tube; classi
fication, E-9.
•C. H. Baughman: 1 truck tube;
classification, E-9.
Albert Temples: 2 truck tubes;
classification, E-9.
Damascus Lumber Co:- 2 truck
tubes; classification, E-9.
J. G. Collins: 2 truck tubes; clas
sification, E-9.
Charlie Mulkey: 2 truck tubes;
classification, E-9.
M. D. Sasser; 2 truck tire; classi
fication, E-9.
Homer Reddick: 1 truck tire; clas
sification, E-9.
R. Grist: 1 truck tire; classifica
tion, E-9.
T. C. Hunt: 1 truck tube; classi
fication, E-9.
O. H. King: 1 truck tire, 1 tube;
classification, E-9.
S. P. Holland: 1 passenger car
tire, 1 tube; classification, A.
W. V. Miller: 1 truck tire, 1 tube;
classification, E-9.
NEW MEMBERS OF
CLUB ARE PRESENTED
ROTARY OBJECTS
Five members of the Blakely Ro
tary Club who have recently been
received into the club were present
ed framed copies of the Objects of
Rotary at the regular meeting of the
club held Friday at noon at the
Early Hotel. The new members are
Richard Grist, Ben Godwin, J. B.
Murdock, Sr., H. Alfred Felder and
W. F. Burford. The presentation was
made by Rotarian Marvin Sparks, a
charter member of the club, who
gave an enlightening talk on the
aims and objects of Rotary.
Wayne Walker, of the gasoline
tax collection unit of the state de
partment of revenue, was a guest of
Rotarian Dick Rogers and gave a
short talk on the work in which his
department is engaged. Other guests
included Gene Clark, of Atlanta, a
guest of Rotarian Robert Stuckey,
and —. —. Tutwiler, also of Atlan
ta, a guest of Rotarian Dunbar Grist.
Friday’s meeting was presided ov
|er by President James B. Murdock,
Jr., with Mrs. Ben Haisten in charge
of the musical part of the program.
DAMASCUS METHODISTS
TO HAVE REVIVAL
Revival services are to begin at
the Damascus Methodist church Sun
day night, July 21, and continue un
til the following Sunday night.
The first service will be a layman’s
service, with a visiting speaker.
There will be no day service Mon
day, but services will be held ‘Mon
day night. All who enjoy a good
revival, or need one, are invited and
urged to attend. Good singers have
a special invitation.
Cemetery Cleaning
Wednesday, July 22, 1942, has
been set for the day to meet and
clean off the cemetery and church
grounds at Mt. Zion church, Clay
county.
Home coming day will be the first
Sunday in August.
—Cemetery Committee.
FOR SALE— One bicycle, in good
condition; 2 good tires, SIO.OO cash.
O. R. BROOKS.
FOR SALE—Good Jersey milch
cow. See C. W. PULLEN.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Extend U. S.-Brazilian Agreement
f wi as f - , ■>» —1
I? » J ' K ~
"ggyX I w I 11 *
IL- > X.W’ImL ’W
F / T/ 1 t? : J
The United States has extended its stabilization agreement with Bra
zil. This sonndphoto, taken in Washington, shows, left to right: Dr.
F. D. Santos, director of exchange, Bank of Brazil (seated); Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Minister Fernando Lobo, charge
d’affaires of Brazil; (standing) Harry D. White, director of monetary
research of the U. S. treasury, and Enrico Penteado, financial attache
of the Brazilian embassy.
-Jtri 1
z JMlr
Brig. Gen. James Doolittle, on his first official visit to New York
since he led the bombing raid on Tokyo, was the guest of honor at a
reception and dinner. General Doolittle is pictured here (center) with
a flowered replica of the plane he flew when he bombed Tokyo. Eddie
Rickenbacker (left) and Paul V. McNutt, head of the war manpower
commission, look on. ..
Twenty-four ‘Critical
Occupations’ Stressed
In Letter to Board
Stressing the urgent need in the
war program for skilled manpower as
well as on the battle lines, Brig.
Gen. Sinn B. Hawkins, State Direc
tor of Selective Service, has advised
local boards of twenty-four “critical
occupations” in scientific and special
ized fields to guide them in the clas
sification of registrants in those pro
fessions.
These “critical occupations” are
listed in a bulletin sent to all State
Directors by National Headquarters,
Selective Service System, which also
specifically outlines the conditions
under which students in such fields
may be classified or deferred from
military service as “necessary men.”,
The list includes: Accountants;!
Chemists; Economists; Engineers—
Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical,
Civil, Electrical, Heating, Ventilat
ing, Refrigerating and Air Condition
ing, Marine, Mechanical, Mining and
Metallurgical (including Mineral
Technologists), Radio, Safety, and
Transportation—Air, Highway, Rail
road, Water; Geophysicists; Indus
trial Managers; Mathematicians; Me
teorologists; Naval Architects; Per
sonnel Administrators; Physicists (in
cluding Astronomers); Psychologists,
and Statisticians.
FARMERS SAVE MORE PIGS
THIS YEAR THAN IN 1941
According to figures just made
public by the Georgia crop reporting
service at Athens, farmers of the
state saved 16 per cent more pigs
this spring than during the same pe
riod in 1941.
For the six months from Decem
ber, 1941, to June, 1942, the esti
mated pig crop was 1,137,000 com
pared to 980,000 to June last year
and 950,000 for the 10-year average
from 1931 to 1941.
The estimated number of sows
farrowed in Georgia during the
spring was 196,000, or 16 per cent
above the 169,000 farrowing in the
spring of last year. The total was
also 16 per cent above the 10-year
average.
Pigs saved per litter this year was
5.8, the same as last year.
Breeding intentions on Georgia
farms indicate about 185,000 sows
will be farrowed next fall. This
would be 17 per cent above the
158,000 farrowed during the fall of
1941.
FOR RENT Three apartments,
I recently remodeled and repainted,
[for rent. See MRS. W. A. FUQUA.
lUOlfi
BY JAIMtT CUPLEH-
WOMAN of the Week: Mary An
derson has a right to be pleased by
the report that there are now about
20,000 women employed in the air
craft industry and some 80,000 more
in munitions plants. As director of
the Women’s Bureau of the U. ,S. de
partment of labor she began a year
or so ago, through training and sur
veys, to create important “woman
I power” resources for war production.
Now over 100,000 women through
out the nation are making practical
ly everything from sleeping bags to
machine guns. And it seems likely
that before long 100,000 women will
be employed in the aircraft industry
alone.
* • *
CLIPPER CREW: As chief stew
ardess of the American Export lines
plane which late last month com
pleted its initial commercial flight
from England, Dorothy C. Bohanna
was the first woman member of the
trans-Atlantic flight crew. A native
of Brooklyn, she was formerly as
signed to regular commercial flights.
1 SIGNS OF THE TIMES: A for
mer nail polish factory is now mak
ling bomber fittings . . . Actress Hel
en Hayes revealed another talent
when she reported for war work as
a volunteer switchboard operator.
'. . . Adeline Gray offered to make a
jump to test a parachute made of
nylon.
» * ♦
SH-H! CAMPAIGN: So well were
the plans to raid Japan guarded
that Mrs. James H. Doolittle knew
nothing of her husband’s flight to
Tokyo until she accompanied him to
I Wasnington, where he received the
; Congressional Medal . . . And the
other day she urged delegates from
33 national women’s organizations to
campaign against loose talk, idle ru
mors and what she called “a whale
of a lot of chatter.”
• » »
SUNNY SIDE UP: That job you
have to drag yourself to on a Mon
day morning could be a whole lot
worse . . . Emil Davies, chairman of
the London county council, told a
group of American lawyers that the
average London stenographer consid
ers herself lucky if, after an air
raid, she can still get running wa
ter!
Not everybody with a dollar
to spare can shoot a gun
straight—but everybody can
Wl shoot straight to the bank and
War Bonds. Buy your
10% every pay day.
FARM FOR SALE
192 acres of land, four mule-farm
in cultivation. Good land, good
community, located seven miles from
Blakely. Priced cheap for cash. W.
L. RHODES, Blakely, Ga.
EAR CORN for sale. See H. H.
WILLIS.
EVERY PENNY—
You put in War Bonds and Stamps
helps to drive a nail in Hitler’s
coffin. It’s a job we all want to have
a part in.
A A A
Bank of Early
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All
Deposits Insured up to $5,000
Friends I
In spite of priorities on many im
portant items, we are making
every effort to take care of your
HARDWARE
NEEDS
Come to see us—it is a
pleasure to serve
you.
FARMERS HARDWARE CO.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
f JIIY| j 11111
PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU SATURDAY, JULY 18th
BLUE PLATE MAYONNAISE—Pt. jar 30c
WATER MAID RICE—2-lb. pkg 20c
VANILLA WAFERS —Full half lb. box 9c
TOMATO CATSUP—I4-oz. bottle 10c
DIXIE LYE i. 2 cans 15c
GRAPE JUICE—Pint, Royal Purple 18c
VINEGAR—GaIIon jug, distilled 29c
MUSTARD—Quart jar 10c
COOKING OlL—Gallon can $1.35
MY ROSE FLOUR—24-lb. bag 89c
RED GRAVY HOG FEED—IOO-lb. bag 2.85
FULL CREAM CHEESE—Pound 29c
SALAD DRESSlNG—Boyett’s Best, qt. __ 28c
LIPTON’S TEA—% lb. and glass free __ 28c
ALL 5c CANDY BARS 3 for 10c
F %™ roß ’l Weaver’s Food
11l Market
STAMPS
Jkß C. D. Duke, Mgr. Blakely, Ga.
I BLAKELY CHAPTER NO. 282
: ORDER EASTERN STAR
: Holds regular meeting nights ev-
1 ery second and fourth Thuisday
nights, 7:30 o’clock p. m.
MRS. SALLY GOOCHER,
Worthy Matron.
Mrs. Nora Scarborough,
Secretary.