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i EARLY COUNTY, GA.
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GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXIII > NO. 3
Prices Announced By
Secretary Wickard
On New Peanut Crop
Camilla, Ga. —'Prices on peanuts
for the new crop, as announced by
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard,
Were made public Monday as follows
by the Georgia-Florida-Alabama Pea
nut Association upon receipt of a
telegram:
Virginia Type, U. S. No. 3, Class
A, $l2B per ton.
Southeastern Spanish U. S. No. 1,
$133 per ton.
Southwestern Spanish, U. S. No.
1, sl3l per ton.
Runners, U. S. No. 1, $l2O per
ton.
Other grades proportionate for
quota peanuts.
Excess peanuts for oil less esti
mated cost of storing and selling with
adjustments where applicable for
quality and location in any event
must not be less than SB2 per ton
for No. 1 Spanish grade; S7B per
ton for No. 1 runners; S7O per ton
for Class A, Virginia type.
A GFA spokesman said a strong
effort is being made to raise the
price of “oil peanuts,” but that so
far no definite action had been taken.
POSTMASTER URGES
EARLY MAILING OF
GIFTS TO SERVICE MEN
Postmaster J. Emory Houston an
nounced today that Christmas pack
ages and presents to service men
overseas should be mailed at an
early date, and not later than No
vember 1. Best time to mail these
packages is between the dates Octo
ber 1 and November 1.
Packages must not weigh more
than eleven pounds and not be over
18 inches in length. All packages
must be strongly wrapped in durable
paper tied with strong cord, Mr.
Houston said. Clothing and food
are not to be sent in any of the
packages and all packages are to be
marked “Christmas package.”
SHOES for SCHOOL
AT
WEAVER’S
A complete stock of new FALL shoes for
every member of your family. Complete line
school shoes.
Air-Step and Velvet-Step $6.00
Slenderline and Miracle Arch $4.95
Beauty Tread and Tarsal Tread $3.95
Style Pace and Williams $2.95
Brown and White Saddle
Oxfords $2.95 to $3.95
White Moccasin, white
soles - $2.95 to $3.95
Moccasin Toe, all colors, brown, red,
tan and brown, flat heels $3.50 to $4.95
A complete stock of Peters famous
WEATHER-BIRD children’s shoes, sizes 0 to
5, widths Ato E. Raw cords, leather and rub
ber heels.
You bring us the kiddies —we will fit their
feet.
Wide assortment of school hose, anklets,
etc., for boys and girls.
T. K. Weaver & Co
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
■ (ConntD pVews
How Commodity
Distribution Program
Aids Underprivileged
How the commodity distribution
program helps Early county farmers
as well as underprivileged families
was pointed out in a report released
today by W. A. Adams, Albany,
Georgia, Area ‘Supervisor for the
Agricultural Marketing Administra
tion.
Over $1,835.59 worth of commod
ities which were distributed to an
average of 497 families in the
county during June, 1942, represent
additional farm markets created by
the program, the report showed.
“Farm products often come to
market during season in such heavy
supply prices would be ruinous to
the farmers if the Agricultural Mar
keting Administration did not step
in and ,buy part of the crop,” Mr.
Adams explained.
“The Department of Agriculture
feels that 'commodities thus obtained
could not be put to better use than
in helping build healh and morale
among our underprivileged and un
dernourished families.
“Foods issued to needy families in
the county are purchased by AMA
aud turned over to the State De
partment of Public Welfare for dis
tribution.”
CONGRESSMAN COX
VISITOR HERE MONDAY
‘ Congressman E. E. Cox, of Camil
la, spent Monday in Blakely visiting
among friends and shaking hands
with the voters. Judge Cox is a
candidate for re-election from the
Second Georgia district, which he has
represented since 1924.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our 'friends for
the many acts of kindness, for the
gifts, cards and flowers, sent to our
little girl during her recent illness.
We assure you all were appreciated.
MR. AND MRS. W. Y. HOLMES.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1942.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
(Released by News Bureau of War
Information.)
War Production Chairman Nelson
announced the War Production
Board is rerating every project in
the war program to secure the “max
imum impact on the enemy now.”
Combat planes, particularly bombers,
are at the top of this new list, Mr.
Nelson said.
Chairman Nelson reported the U.
S. is now producing munitions three
and a half times the rate in Novem
ber, 1941, the month before Pearl
Harbor. July production, he said,
was 16 per cent above June produc
tion, but 7 per cent short of produc
tion forecasts made at the beginning
of July. “The big job ahead of us
right now is to bring our program
into balance and make sure that
we use our materials and facilities
as wisely as possible,” he said. “This
means that we must redouble our
efforts, particularly on the low spots,
if we are to make our goals by the
year’s end.”
Craft production increased 11 per
cent in July over June output, Mr.
Nelson said. Although combat plane
production rose 6 per cent, it was
not up to expectations. He also re
ported: overall ordnance production
in July increased 26 per cent over
June output, and was very close to
schedules; production of medium
tanks was 35 per cent greater than
in the previous month and consider
ably ahead of schedules; light tanks
up 15 per cent also were ahead of
schedules; anti-aircraft guns exceed
ed schedules by “a wide margin;”
merchant ships were up 6 per cent
and “nearly on schedule for the
month;” deliveries of major naval
combat vessels were ahead of those
in June and “considerably ahead of
forecasts.”
THE WAR FRONT—
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters in
Australia reported allied fighter pi
lots using new battle tactics shot
down at least 13 Japanese planes,
and probably 15 or more, out of an
enemy fleet of 47 which attacked
Darwin. No allied planes were lost.
The Navy reported the Marines’ hold
on at least three of the Solomon Is
lands is now well established. When
700 Japanese counter-attacked on
one of the Islands, 670 were killed
and the other 30 taken prisoners,
Pacific Coast Fleet Commander Nim
itz reported. The Marine losses were
28 killed and 72 wounded. Admiral
Nimitz also announced a force of
Marines made a successful landing
on Makin Island, killed 80 Japanese,
wrecked various installations and
then withdrew.
U. S. Army Headquarters, Euro
pean Theatre, announced arrival in
Britain of the largest U. S. convoy
of the war, with more men and ma
terial for the American Air Forces
which had already begun precision
bombing by daylight of Nazi-occu
pied Europe. U. IS. flying fortress
es bombed the Nazi transportation
system at Amiens and Abbeville. In
a battle over the North Sea, four
flying fortresses shot down three
German fighters and damaged nine
others, while all the U. S. planes re
turned safely. A U. S. ranger bat
talion joined with Canadian and
British forces in a nine-hour raid on
Dieppe, France. The Navy reported
U. S. submarines in the Aleutians
and in the far East sank a cruiser
or destroyer and damaged a destroy
er, sank two cargo ships and a
transport, and damaged another car
go ship. The torpedoing of seven
more United Nations merchantmen
by enemy submarines was announced.
FOREIGN RELATIONS—
President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Hull sent messages of soli
darity to Brazil as that country be
came the first American nation to
declare war on Germany and Italy.
The President said Wendell L. Will
kie will tour Europe and the Near
East as his special representative in
order to correct the impression in
those places that U. S. production is
not all it should be. M r. Willkie will
carry messages from the President to
foreign leaders, including Premier
Stalin. The President issued a state
ment that the perpetrators of “bar
baric” acts in occupied coupries
“will have to stand in the courts of
law” in the same countries in which
barbarism now rages, and answer in
those courts for their crimes.
ARMY AND NAVY—
The War Department said it will
inaugurate this fall a voluntary pre
induction training program utilizing
existing facilities of schools and
colleges to meet present and future
needs for properly trained personnel
in the armed forces. Out of every
100 men inducted into the army,
about 63 are assigned to duties re
quiring specialized training, the De-'
partment said. The Army said it is
organizing and training port battal
ions (composed mostly of former
stevedores) for duty overseas to in
sure prompt handling of U. S. mili
tary equipment for forces stationed
throughout the world. The Depart
ment said checks in payment of al
lowances for dependents of enlisted
men of the army, covering the first
applications to be approved, will go
out shortly after September 1.
The Navy announced recruiting of j
A WEEK OF THE WAR
enlisted personnel of the Women’s
Naval Reserve will begin September
11, and training will start October
9 at the University of Wisconsin,
Indiana University and Oklahoma A.
& M. College.
SELECTIVE SERVICE—
Selective Service Director Hershey
| said draft boards will begin calling
men with dependents before Christ
mas. He said single men with “sec
ondary” dependents, such as aged or
crippled relatives, will be called
first; married men whose wives work,
next; then men with dependent
wives; and finally, men who have
wives and children. He said the res
ervoir of 1-A men throughout the
country is “practically exhausted.”
Selective Service headquarters said
Class 1-B (men fit for limited mili
tary service only) will be eliminated,
and beginning September 1, all reg
istrants who are not totally disqual
ified will be reclassified in 1-A, while
those not suited for any military
service will be placed in 4-F. In the
case of men reclassified in 1-A, the
army will determine after induction
whether they will be assigned to
full or limited service.
STABILIZATION OF
FARM PRICES—
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
said he would approve a plan of
livestock ceiling prices which “must
not permit abnormal profits to any
one in the industry at the expense
of the producers or consumers.” Mr.
Wickard also said he now favors re
peal of the provision of the price
control act “that prohibits ceilings on
processed farm products if the ceil
ing price reflects a farm price of
less than 110 per cent of parity.”
He said farm prices “have reached
parity on an average.” The WiPB
food requirements committee asked
the armed forces, the Lend-Lease
Administration, and the War Pro
iduction Board to colaborate in work
ing out a program for allocation of
all government meat purchases as
equitably as possible among federally
inspected packers. The Agricultural
Marketing Administration bought
$137,900,000 worth of foodstuffs
during July for the United Nations
and other requirements, including
80,000 pounds of dehydrated beef.
RATIONING—
Tire quotas will have to follow a
downward trend the rest of this year
to keep within the amount of rubber
earmarked by the WPB for the pur
pose, the office of Price Administra
tion said. The Office asked local
rationing boards for the “strictest
possible interpretation” of a recent
amendment to tire rationing regula
tions restricting truck eligibility to
vehicles essential to the war effort!
or public health and safety.
OIL AND GASOLINE—
WPB Chairman Nelson appointed
; Under Secretary of War Patterson,
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes and
Price Administrator Henderson as a
committee to determine whether fuel
oil should be rationed in the East
Coast Area this winter. Because of
the shortag’e of fuel oil in the area,
Mr. Ickes prohibited the hauling of
automotive gasoline by rail in 20
middle Western and Southwestern
States in order to divert enough
tank cars to carry 100,000 barrels
of fuel oil daily to the rationed
ara. If the withdrawal of these
5,000 to 7,000 tank cars creates a
shortage, rationing should be extend
ed, Mr. Ickes said.
INTERESTING MEETING
OF BLAKELY ROTARY
CLUB HELD FRIDAY
Members of the Blakely Rotary
Club, meeting at noon Friday at the
Early Hotel, heard an interesting
talk by Dr. Henry Wall, member of
the club, on the importance of keep
ing physically fit during the war
emergency. The speaker noted the
shortage of doctors for practice
among the civilian population now
that many of them have been called
into military service, and stated that
the shortage is likely to become more
acute as the war progresses. Civil
ians should bear this in mind and
make every effort to “keep fit” dur
ing the emergency, the speaker
added.
Rotarian Dick Rogers gave a re
port on the airport committee’s ac
tivities to date, and stated the com
mittee felt hopeful of achieving
results.
Henry A. Walton was a guest of
Rotarian J. B. Jones.
President James B. Murdock, Jr.,
presided over Friday’s meeting, and
Rotarian Dunbar Grist was program
chairman for the day.
Dick Russell invites his friends to
listen to him discuss national affairs
over Radio Station WSB on Satur
day, August 29, from 7:30 to 8:00 p.
m. — (advt.)
Recapping Urged As
Rubber Shortage
Becomes Critical
The following letter from OPA
State Rationing Officer Martin L.
Johnson to local rationing boards
is of great interest to auto and truck
operators in Early county:
Last week-end we had the pleas
ure of hearing Mr. Ernest Leach dis
cuss the importance of recapping.
Mr. Leach, who has had twenty-five
years’ experience in the tire busi
ness, is now a consultant for the
Office of Price Administration in
Washington
In the opinion of Washington, if es
sential vehicles (particularly trucks)
are to be kept in operation, recap
ping must and will become our most
important method of rubber conser
vation . Any new tires that have
given service for ANY PURPOSE
can be recapped if care is taken to
preserve the carcass. Don’t let any
one tell you that recapping can not
be used in their type of operations,
it can and is being done all over the
country, with excellent results. Os
course, an operator who deliberate
ly abuses his tires by excessive
speeds (in excess of 40 MPH), over
loading, improper inflation, etc.,
will not be able to use recapped
tires satisfactorily. The reason here
is that his tire carcasses will be
weakened or fatigued beyond repair
and will soon blow out. His abuse
or neglect will cause the blow-out—
not the recapping.
The regulations were amended ef
fective June 1, 1942 (see Section
401(d)(2) to stop abus§- of tires.
The War Price and Rationing Boards
have full authority to refuse new or
recapped tires to any operator, who
in their opinion has allowed his tires
to become unusable because of his
abuse or neglect. In many instances
we know that some tire inspectors
never indicate on the application
form that tires can be recapped.
These men should and must be re
placed promptly. Please call in
your tire inspectors and go over with
them the “Duties of Tire Inspectors
for Performing These Duties” sent
to you recently.
The rubber supply in this country
has become alarmingly depleted
within the past few months. It is
your job and our job to see that all
operators within our jurisdiction pre
serve their tire carcasses. TELL
THEM NOW that if they continue to
drive at excessive speeds, overload
their vehicles, fail to inflate their
tires properly, etc., they will not be
eligible for tires when their present
supply is exhausted.
We know you realize that quotas
must be cut next month and the fol
lowing months due to the rapid
Hate tires have been used so far
this year. Your Board can make a
further splendid contribution toward
the war effort by forcing tire care
and recapping in every possible
case. This will mean that vital tire
carcasses will give many more miles
of service, thus helping to keep our
most essential vehicles in operation.
The U. S. Army is recapping all
tires an average of twice on their
non-comlbat vehicles. If the Army
can do it. all other operators can
follow their good example.
We must apologize for the length
of this letter, but WE MUST RE
CAP TIRES TO WIN THIS WAR.
Senator Dick Russell will be on
WSB on Saturday night, August 29,
7:30 to 8:00 p. m. Hear his mes
sage.—(advt.)
May We Help?
We stand ready to assist you in any
way we can in regard to your bank
ing problems. Call on us for any
advice which we may be able to
offer during the busy season which
we are now entering.
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Georgia Justice-News
Poll Predicts 2-to-l
Arnall Victory
The Georgia Justice-News, official
publication of the Georgia Justice
and Constables Association, which
has correctly surveyed and predicted
the results of the last three guber
natorial races in this state, Saturday
forecast the election of Attorney
General Ellis Arnall as governor by
a two-to-one vote.
Not only does the association pre
dict Mr. Arnall’s election on Sep
tember 9, it shows the popular at
torney general as “gaining” since
its first survey.
This information is based on two
surveys made .by the association,
which reaches into every militia dis
trict in Georgia.
The first survey, for which ques
tionnaires were mailed August 1,
gave Mr. Arnall 2,873 votes and
Governor Talmadge 1,432. The sec
ond survey on August 12 and com
piled through Friday gave Mr. Ar
nall 2,946 and the Governor 1,348.
The questionnaire asked, the ques
tion: “What is your personal opin
ion as to who will be elected gover
nor on September 9, 1942?”
A total of 8,599 ballots and ques
tionnaires were returned and showed
Mr. Arnall leading Governor Tal
madge by two to one. The justices
and their officers gave the votes they
believed each candidate would re
ceive in their respective districts
and counties, according to the pub
lication. The second survey, it was
pointed out, brought returns which
were saturated with remarks, such
as: “Large numbers of strong*Tal
madge supporters and leaders have
left him and gone over to the Arnall
forces.”
“This trend is growing* each day,”
the publication added.
Completeness and reliability of
the poll won the praise of Governor
Talmadge and his son, Herman, in
1940, according to the publication.
Writing in his own newspaper, The
Statesman, on September 6, 1940,
the Governor declared:
“Probably the most far-reaching
poll from the standpoint of territory
covered is that of the Georgia Jus
tices and Constables Association,
which has representation in each of
the militia districts of the state.”
In the same issue of The States
man, Herman Talmadge, the Gover
nor’s son, wrote:
“On the front page of this issue
you will see a survey that was made
through the Georgia Justices of the
Peace Association. This is an inde
pendent organization and has no
connection whatever with our cam- (
paign headquarters. This organiza
tios has 'been in existence for six
years and has never failed to pre
dict the election of a governor.”
Shirley Temple in "Kathleen” at
the Blakely Theatre Thursday and
Friday.