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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 52
Early County Youth
Rescues Three
From Drowning
The quick action of an Early coun
ty youth saved three girls from
drowning at Howard’s Mill Monday
afternoon. The youth is Pete
Smith, of Cedar Springs, who pull
ed all the girls to safety, one of
whom had already sunk to the bot
tom and was rendered unconscious.
The girls were Misses Guerrylu
Sheffield, of Blakely, and Claudia
Sheffield and Bertie Lou Smith, of
Cedar Springs. The young ladies
were swimming at Howard’s Mill.
None of them are good swimmers,
and they were pulled into the deep
water by the swift current.
Young Smith, standing nearby,
jumped into the water and pulled
two of the girls to safety. When he
‘went back to get the other she had
already sunk. (Smith dived and
brought her to the surface and found
that she was already unconscious.
After several minutes of artificial
respiration, she was restored to con
sciousness.
J. B. Murdock, Sr., of this city,
also played a part in rescuing the
young lady, as he was passing How
ard’s Mill at the time, and he helped
administer first aid which saved Miss
Sheffield’s life.
NAVY RECRUITERS TO
BE AT POST OFFICE IN
BLAKELY TODAY
Several recruiters from the U. S.
Navy Recruiting Station of Albany
Will be at the postoffice building in
Blakely today (Thursday), August
6, for the purpose of interviewing
young men who are interested in
the Navy or the Naval Reserve.
Those interested in any branch of
the Navy may call on these recruit
ers and obtain any information de
sired.
The recruiters will be here from
10:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
Just Received =
200 New Early
Fall
DRESSES
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Newest Styles and
Materials iron the
Style Market o£ the
South now Being
Received Daily.
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T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
Early County News
EMMETT WILLIAMS
GINS FIRST BALE
OF 1942 COTTON
Early county’s first bale honors
for 1942 go to Emmett Williams,
who won first bale honors in 1940
and tied for the same honor last
year. The bale was brought in Sat
urday and was ginned by the Plant
ers Gin Company and bought by H.
C. Fort of the People’s Warehouse.
The bale weighed 450 pounds.
Blakely Rotary
Club to Welcome
District Governor
The Rotary Club of Blakely will
on August 11, at 9:00 p. m., wel
come Dr. Boyce M. Grier, governor
of the 165th district of Rotary In
ternational, which includes 55 Rotary
clubs in Georgia. Dr. Grier is Su
perintendent of the City Schools of
Athens, Georgia, and is a member
of the Athens Rotary Club. He was
nominated as governor at the con
ference of the 165th district held
last March in Macon and was for
mally elected at the 1942 convention
of Rotary International in Toronto,
Canada, in June.
Dr. Grier will visit the Blakely
Rotay Club to advise and assist
President James B. Murdock, Jr.,
Secretary Chipstead Grubbs, and the
committeemen of the club on mat
ters pertaining to club administration
and Rotary service activities. The
meeting Tuesday night next will take
the place of the regularly scheduled
Friday meeting.
Governor Grier will hold office
until shortly following the 1943
convention of Rotary International
which is scheduled for Philadelphia,
Penn., next June.
Bing Crosby and Mary Martin in
“Birth of the Blues” at the Blakely
Theatre Thursday and Friday.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1942.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
Three Notch E. M. C.
Commended for Its
Excellent Record
The Three Notch Electric Mem
bership Corporation, Donalsonville,
has just been advised in a letter
from Rural Electrification Adminis
trator Harry Slattery, that it is one
of 23 Georgia REA systems that
made advance payments totaling
$140,012 during the fiscal year ended
June 30, Supt. C. Lamar Hatcher
announced today.
The Cooperative has been credited
with prepayments for the fiscal year
totaling $5,000, Mr. Slattery said.
This amount, together with prepay
ments made in previous years,
raised to $15,000 the total of all
advance payments credited to the
Cooperative.
Mr. Slattery stated that the Coop
erative also is among the 273 REA
systems in 34 states that made pay
ments during the fiscal year in ad
vance of the date due, amounting to
$3,075,6111. REA’S latest tabula
tion shows that all prepayments by
REA systems during past years to
taled $4,28,690. This was in addi
tion to regular principal and inter
est paid totaling $17,417,913.
The prepayments made by the
Three Notch Electric Membership
Corporation have been in addition to
the regular principal and interest
payments required under its loan
contract. REA has loaned the Co
operative $296,210, which has en
abled it to finance 425 miles of dis
tribution lines now furnishing elec
tricity to 1103 rural consumers in
Seminole, Early, Miller, Decatur and
Clay counties.
Mr. Slattery’s letter to the Co
operative follows
“It gives me great pleasure to ad
vise you that your Cooperative is
one of 23 REA-financed systems in
Georgia which made advance pay
ments totaling $140,012 for the
fiscal year ended June 30.
“Your Cooperative also is one of
273 REA-financed systems in 34
states which during the fiscal year
made payments ahead of the due
date under their REA loan con
tracts, amounting to $2,075,611
REA’S latest tabulation shows that
payments made before due by 350
of more than 800 REA-financed sys
tems totaled $4,428,690. This was ; n
addition to regular principal and in
terest payments totaling $17,417,913
which the systems had made when
due.
“You will appreciate the special
significance of advance payments at
this time, realizing the advantage of
building up a cushion now against
the day when your Cooperative might
temporarily find it less easy to meet
current payments falling due on its
debt. You also will appreciate the
fact that faster loan repayment
means moving up the time when the
consumers will enjoy full owner
ship of your system’s properties.
I might add that the Treasury De
partment has urged the reduction of
private debts as an imporant step in
the national effort to prevent infla
tion. Every advance payment made
by an REA cooperative strengthens
that effort.
“The Treasury, of course, also
wants all individual citizens to buy
as many War Savings Stamps and
Bonds as they can, as a further step
in preventing inflation and as a pa
triotic duty. I know that REA co-
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donia augment their regular rations with venison, which they kill them
selves. Deer are so plentiful here as to be almost a nuisance. This
party of hunters has just bagged and dressed a 225-pound deer, and are
about to return to camp with the “bacon” in their jeep car. >
To Register and Tag
All Georgia Children
Under 18 Years Old
Speedy action will be taken by a
committee headed by State School
Superintendent M. D. Collins to reg
ister and tag every child in Georgia
18 years of age and under for iden
tification in the event of an air raid
or other war emergency.
Dr. Collins announced that Gover
nor Talimadge will proclaim a spe
cial time for the registration as
soon as preliminary details can be
completed.
The executive committee is com
posed of the following: Dr. Collins,
Chairman; Mrs. R. A. Long, president
of the Georgia Congress of the
Parent-Teacher Association, and Mrs.
Charles D. Center, former president;
Mrs. Albert Hill, director of the
childen’s division of the State De
partment of Public Welfare; Colonel
Richard C. Job, director of field op
erations for the Citizens Defense
Committee; Mrs. Shelby Myrick, of
Savannah, head of the women’s di
vision of Civilian Defense; Dr. T. F.
Abercrombie, director of the State
Department of Public Health, and
Major John E. Goodwin, director of
the Department of Public Safety.
Under the plan approved at the
first meeting of the committee, all
children, including infants, will be
registered at central points in every
county in the state. The children
will then be issued tags to be worn
around their necks with numbers
corresponding to their registration
numbers. Files will be kept locally
and also in the state capitol, proba
bly in the Department of Public
Safety, where radio facilities could
be utilized in locating children who
might become separated from their
parents.
Colonel Job was authorized to in
vestigate the cost of the metal tags
and the possibility of getting priori
ties. Governor Talmadge has al
ready authorized the spending of
$25,000 for this program, but it was
emphasized all work will be on a
voluntary basis. P.-T. A. organiza
tions are volunteering to do the pa
triotic job.
An education campaign, also
headed by Dr. Collins, was directed
to wage a campaign to acquaint the
public with the need for the regis
tration.
FREAK GUINEA EGGS
Evidently affected by the world
wide war, guineas have begun lay
ing freakish eggs with queer mark
ings. Miss Nadine Wood left two
such eggs, sent in by Mr. R. W.
Woolf, the spotting on one giving
a fairly good outline of North Amer
ica, the other a similar map of Aus
tralia and New Zealand. These birds
evidently know their geography.
operatives are doing their best to
promote such purchases by their
members.
“The showing made by your Co
operative during the past fiscal year
has given me still another reason for
being pleased. Every advance pay
ment received provides additional
proof that the REA program is
sound and that the farmers can
learn to operate their electric dis
tribution systems successfully. You,
of course, realize that you have only
started to repay the principal loan
ed your Cooperative, but it is a
good start. I congratulate you, the
trustees, and your management who
are chiefly responsible for making
possible the fine showing by your
Cooperative.
“Sincerely,
“HARRY SLATTERY,
“Administrator.”
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
IN MONTHLY SESSION
HERE TUESDAY
The Board of County Commission
ers, meeting Tuesday, named A. J.
Reese a member of the Public Wel
fare Board of Early county to suc
ceed Arver H. Mosely, whose term
had expired. Mr. Reese’s appoint
ment is for a four-year term.
At the July meeting, the Board
named Mrs. W. R. McKinney as a
member of the Welfare Board to
suceed Rev. Spencer B. King, whbse
term had also expired.
A large delegation from the local
civic clubs, city government and oth
er interested citizens appeared be
fore the Commissioners at Tuesday’s
meeting to pledge their cooperation
in an effort to secure an airport for
Early county. It is hoped that the
efforts along this line may prove
fruitful.
1941-’42 Hunting
Season Ends, New
One Opens Up
Hunting licenses for the 1942-’43
season have been placed on sale and
cost the same as those for the past
season which ended July 31, Wildlife
Director Zack D. Cravey announced.
He said also that squirrel season
has opened in the following north
Georgia counties: Catoosa, Chattoo
ga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer,
Gordon, Habersham, Lumpkin, Mur
ray, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens,
Towns, Union, Walker, White and
Whitfield. The season will remain
open in that section until December
31 and will run from November 1 to
January 15 in south Georgia counties
and from October 1 to January 15
everywhere else in the state.
However, the Director said he is
not in favor of such an early open
ing on squirrels as the north Geor
gia counties have, since many young
ones will perish if their parents are
killed now. Moreover, he said squir
rel are not good to eat at this time.
Rabbit and fox hunting also are
legal now and hunters who go after
any quarry must obtain a new li
cense. Director Cravey said he does
not favor hunting rabbits with guns
now either and that if he were au
thorized, would put the bars down
on them until October or November.
The cost of licenses follows: Res
ident, county, $1; resident, state
wide, $3.25; non-resident, county,
$5; and non-resident, state-wide,
$12.50.
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Maddox Elected
Mayor, Barksdale and
Fryer Councilmen
In the annual city election, held
Tuesday, ,S. G. Maddox was chosen
Mayor of the City of Blakely for
a two-year term beginning January
1, 1943, and C. R. Barksdale and
L. B. Fryer were re-elected to the
City Council for the same two
year term.
Mr. Maddox, who is a former
Councilman and prominent in Blake
ly business circles, was elected
without opposition, polling 202 votes
out of 202 cast.
Dr. Barksdale led the voting in
the Council race, polling 159 votes.
Mr. Fryer, running second, defeated
Mr. L. C. Hobbs, the third candidate,
by only one vote, the official count
showing Mr. Fryer 118 and Mr.
Hobbs 117.
The voting was lighter than had
been expected, and the 202 voting
represented less than 50 per cent
of the qualified list of voters.
Both Dr. Barksdale and Mr. Fry
er have served as Councilmen for
several terms, and each has likewise
served as Mayor. Mr. Hobbs, a
former member of the city police
force and at present engaged in
farming, has never before been a
candidate for (Council.
The official vote:
For Mayor
iS. G. Maddox 202
For Councilman
C. R. Barksdale 159
L. B. Fryer 118
L. C. Hobbs ll7
LOCAL WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR THE
MONTH OF JULY, 1942
TEMPERATURE: Mean maxi
mum, 92.6; mean minimum, 70.8;
mean, 81.7; maximum, 100 on 20th
and 21st; minimum, 67 on the 7th;
greatest daily range, 27 degrees.
PRECIPITATION: Total, 5.11
inches; greatest amount in any 24-
hour period, 2.44 inches on the 25th.
MISCELLANEOUS: Number of
days with 0.01 inch or more of rain
fall, 11; clear, 10; partly cloudy, 17;
cloudy, 4; dense fog on the 24th;
thunderstorms on the 2nd, 3rd, 6th,
12th, 13th, 14th, 21st, 23ixi, 25th,
26th; light hail on 25th.
J. G. STANDIFER,
Local Observer, U. S. Weather
Bureau.
NEW BARBER SHOP
TO OPEN SATURDAY
A new two-chair barber shop will
open in Blakely Saturday, it is an
nounced in an advertisement appear
ing in this issue of The News. The
new shop, under the management of
Elzy L. Hartley, formerly with the
Godwin barber shop, will be located
next to Smith’s Bakery, on South
Main street.