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VOLUME LXXXIII 1 NO* 25
University System
Restored to Full
Accredited Standing
Ten units of the University Sys
tem of Georgia, under suspension by
the Southern Associatibn of Col
leges and Secondary Schools for al
most a year on charges of political
interference with education, were
fip-'T restored Saturday to full accredited
standing. Dr. G. D. Humphrey, as
sociation .president, said full rein
BP statement was given “after Georgia
has done everything the Southern
Association had asked them to do.”
The reinstatement is retroactive to
September 1, 1942, the date the sus
pension had gone into effect.
Informed of the reinstatement,
.O'yemor Ellis Arnail said: “The
people of Georgia are very grateful
to the General Assembly for the
legislation that brought about the
restoration. It was one of the main
•issues of the campaign. It is now
my purpose, with the legislature’s
help, to carry out all other cam
paign pledges.”
The governor’s reference was to a
removing the governor from the
board of regents and making other
changes designed to make the board
non-political.
The University system was sus
pended from the accredited list fol
lowing the ouster of several Georgia
educators charged by former Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge with advocat
ing racial co-education.
One of the first acts of the new
board appointed by Governor Arnail
was to re-employ Dr. Marvin S. Pitt
man as head of the Georgia State
Teachers College at Statesboro. Dr,
Pittman was one of those ousted by
Mr. Talmadge.
LIONS CLUB HOLDS
REGULAR MEETING
The Blakely Lions Club held its
regular meeting at noon Tuesday at
the Early Hotel, with- President C.
fete -
a member of the Blakely school fac
' ulty, was welcomed into the club as
a new member. Lion J. G. Standifer
presented Lion Oswald with his la
pel button and read to him the
Lions code of ethics.
IT’S HERE, FOLKS!
The New Winner s
$ 35 , 000.00
STOCK OF BRAND NEW
MERCHANDISE
The manufacturers and wholesalers have
been very lenient with us in dividing*
their stock of quality merchandise, piece
goods, clothing, shoes, ready-to-wear,
men and women’s hats, furnishings and
accessories. You will find standard
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brands and makes priced at figures you
can afford to pay.
Visit our new location next door to Fry
er’s Pharmacy on the square.
We have the best in quality, always.
% T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1943*
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead."
On Sanananda Front
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When the first flour arrived on the
Sanananda front in New Guinea,
Private Louis Sherack of Crookston,
Minn., a former Minneapolis res
taurant chef, mixed up biscuits
which he baked in this makeshift
oven.
FOUR BLAKELY.
YOUNG. MEN CALLED
TO THE AIR CORPS
Four additional Early county men
have been called into Uncle Sam’s
armed forces. Collier Gay, Jr., E.
H. Cheek and Edward Balkcom left
Sunday for Miami, where they will
undergo, their first phase of training
to become members of the air force.
William S. (Bill) Duke left Tues
day for Nashville, where he will re
ceive his basic training.
All these young men volunteered
several months ago.
GROUND HOG SEES
HIS SHADOW, SIX WEEKS
MORE OF WINTER
Tuesday was Ground Hog Day—•
and it was clear and cold. So, ac
cording to tradition, when the little
animal came out of "his hole and the
bright sunshine made him see his
ofe became
quite frightened and ran back into
his hole, thus predicting six weeks
more of winter. In other words, if
Mr. G. H. knows his business, it will
be the 16th of March before winter
is going to he over.
taken for the defense of this coun
try and has been carried out in the
interests of the people of the United
States.” The cumulative value of
United States Lend-Lease aid from
March 11, 1941 (date of its incep
tion), to December 31, 1942, was
$8,253,000,000—79 per cent of this
for goods, 21 per cent for services.
And about 90 per cent of the goods
—valued at almost $6,000,000,000—
has been shipped.
One of tbe greatest achievements
of Lend-Lease has been its help in
making the British Isles an impreg
nable base far offensive operations,
A large part 'of the North African
campaign was launched from Britain
and so were the campaigns in the
Middle East, Italian Africa, Syria,
Madagascar.
A few facts on reciprocal Lend
Lease—The United Kingdom from
May to November supplied United
States forces in the United Kingdom
with materials (other than construe
tion materials) which would have
taken 1,200,000 ship tons if shipped
from this country. Australia and
New Zealand, under reciprocal Lend
Lease, are supplying practically all
of the food consumed by American
armed forces in the South Pacific
area, including more than 100,000,
000 pounds of food, and are provid
ing camps, airfields, repair depots,
and numerous other items; the Brit,
ish Navy furnished two-thirds of the
warships which convoyed the expedi
tion to North Africa; also for
North Africa, the British' supplied
such substantial qualities of military
equipment as four 1,000-bed field
hospitals, 168 spitfires, 600 ambu
lances, artillery, airfield runways,
bombs, ammunition.
Since the inception of the Soviet
aid program in October, 1941, the
United States has transferred to the
Soviet Union supplies, including
food, costing more than $1,250,000,
000. Lend-Lease food shipments to
Russia from now on are expected
to exceed by a considerable margin
Lend-Lease food shipments to all
other parts of the world combined,
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A WEEK OF THE WAR
COMPILED BY OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
'Shortly after the White House'an
nouncement of the President’s stop
over in Liberia on his way home
from the Casablanca conferences, an
official communique from Rio De
Janeiro disclosed that the President
had also stopped in Natal for a con
ference with President Vargas of
Brazil, and at Trinidad in the Brit
ish West Indies. The visit to Liberia
was made to pay respects to Presi
dent Edwin Barclay, to review a
large detachment of American Ne
gro troops, and to inspect the large
Firestone rubber plantation. The con
ference at Natal brought together
the presidents of the two largest
American republics, the United States,
and Brazil.
Although, according to White
House Secretary Early, the story of
the Casablanca Conference is com
plete, “so far as it can be told at
the present time,” subsequent chap
ters undoubtedy will be written as
including shipments to the United
Kingdom.
NORTH AFRICAN DRIVE—
In the conferences recently held
in North Africa—the Casablanca con
ference and the military conference
at General Eisenhower’s headquar
ters—the highest military authorities
of the United States and Great
Britain conferred on strategy for the
Mediterranean theatre, setting the
stage for a final offensive against
all Axis forces remaining in Africa.
That the Axis expects a gigantic Al
lied push is evident from the alarms
sounded by the Axis-controlled radio.
Meanwhile, things have been rela
tively quiet. There has been little
oliange in the ground situation since
Rommel’s retreating army abandon
ed Tripoli and ran for the Tunisian
frontier. The Middle Eastern com
mand on Friday, January 29, report
ed artillery exchanges between the
British and the Africa
Korps rear guard near Zuara, 64
miles west o Tripoli and 32 miles
from Tunisia on the road that leads
north to Gabes and Sfax, and Amer
ican troops have made lightning raids
in Southern Tunisia and have re
gained positions in the Ousseltia Val
ley of northeastern Tunisia. But
most of the activity in the battle
areas has taken place in the air,
and even that has been hampered
by bad weather.
Secretary of War Stimson re
leased figures on American casual
ties in Tunisia. Thus far, United
States casualties number 1,258, in
cluding 211 killed, 532 wounded and
515 missing. Of those missing, 226
have been reported prisoners of the
Axis.
AIRCRAFT LOSSES—
•Mr. Stimson also released figures
on plane-versus-plane losses suffered,
by the enemy and "the U. S. At my
Air Forces in all theatres of opera
tion. According to the War Depart
ment,' the enemy lost 1,349 planes in
1942, destroyed or probably destroy
ed, and the UlSAAF lost 309—a ra
tio of approximately four to one.
Even figuring only enemy “positives”
—planes known to have been de
stroyed—the ratio is three Axis
planes to one American plane.
FARM LABOR—
To Agriculture Secretary Wickard
has been given the unified responsi
bility of supplying labor for war
production on farms. A War Man
power Commission directive has
brought together in the agriculture
department the responsibility for re
cruiting and placing far pi labor,
the determination of needs and areas
of supply, the transportation of farm
workers to shortage areas, and the
determination of war-essential crops,
The Commission will continue to
control over-all mian,power policies
and standards, including those af
fecting agriculture, and to deter
mine Selective Service standards ap
plying to agriculture, and will con
tinue to be responsible for “review
appraisal of the Agriculture La
bor Program.”
In a joint press conference, Mr.
McNutt and Mr. Wickard said un
less 3,500,000 persons are placed on
farms by the time the seasonal peak
is reached this summer, agriculture
in general faces a breakdown. In De
cember, 1942, 8,900,000 persons were
engaged in farming. But, if produc
tion goals are to be met this year,
this figure must be increased to
more than 12,000,000.
Pointing out that during the past
two years Agriculture lost an aver
age of 1,500,000 workers a year,
Mr. Wickard said the agriculture de
partment field agencies might ar
range for the closing of schools dur
ing weeks when there was a critical
farm labor shortage. He stressed
the need for farm supplies to leave
subsistence farms for farms where
full production can be obtained, em
phasizing that the reduction in the
number of units required for Se
lective Service deferment did not
i mean that the standards of produe
tion for war goals bad been reduced
likewise.
FEDERAL SUBSIDY PROGRAM—
A Federal Subsidy Program of ap-
events unfold. Secretary of State
Hull told reporters that even the
State Department has not yet learn
ed all the details on what was said
about the political situation in North
Africa.
LEND-LEASE—
Testifying before the House For
eign Affairs Committee, Lend-Lease
Administrator Stettinius reaffirmed
the Lend-Lease principle—“the prin
ciple of total cooperation among
Nations in the waging of war”—as
the only one on which a war of al
liance can successfully be waged.
The question, he said, is not whether
we should continue to send supplies
to our allies, but why we have not
sent more. Lend-Lease supplies to
China, for example, are getting
through in pitifully small amounts in
terms of what China needs, not
nearly,-g.UL. that ,we would have liked
to have supplied.
“Lend-Lease,” Mr. Stettinius said,
“is not a loan of money. Nor has it
ever been an act of charity. The
Lend-Lease program of providing
goods and services to nations resist
ing the Axis aggressors was under-
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must be made from carefully se
lected crude oils. Here, at a large
New York refinery, many miles of
pipe lines segregate these special
crude oils, which have been shipped
from various U. S. oil fields, and
deliver them to refinery units
where 100-octane aviation gasoline
is manufactured.
FELDER FURNITURE &
HARDWARE STORE NOW
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The Felder Furniture and Hard
ware Company, with H. A. Felder,
owner, and Bill Houston, manager,
announces the opening of its store
in this week’s issue of The News.
The new store is located in a
newly renovated building on the
northeast corner df the square be
tween the Suwannee Store and the
Farmers Gin & Warehouse Company.
In the store’s announcement, Mr.
Felder and Mr. Houston state that
they will have a complete line of
farming, hardware and furniture
goods and will be pleased to have
the public call and inspect the new
enterprise.
SUGAR STAMP NO. 11,
GOOD FOR 2 LBS. MAY
BE USED TILL MARCH
Sugar stamp No. 11 in ration book
No. 1 became usable on February 1.
Good for the purchase of three lbs.,
the stamp is good to March 15.
Coffee stamp No. 27 expires Feb
ruary 7. Stamp No. 26 will become
usable February 9 and will be good
till March 15. This stamp allows the
purchase of 1 pound of coffee for
each adult ration book holder.
proximately $100,000,000 to encour
age increased production of war
foods and fibers in 1943 has been
announced. According to Mr. Wick
ard, the new payments are more a
subsidy to consumers than to farm
ers, as they will permit farmers to
increase production without imme
diately higher prices. To finance
the fund, Congress is being asked to
raise the appropriation for the Soil
Conservation and Domestic Allot
ment Act from $400,000,000 to
$500,000,000.
Early County
Polio Drive
Nets $328.46
J. Emory Houston, chairman for
the infantile paralysis fund drive
which was conducted in the county
the past Friday, announced that the
day’s campaign netted $328.46. .
Due to transportation difficulties,
the drive was not conducted on as
wide a scope as in previous years,
Mr. Houston said, but he stated that
he was gratified that so many con
tributed to the fund.
In the city of Blakely $288.31 was
contributed and the remainder came
from the schools, as follows:
Liberty Hill, $3.20; New Hope,
$4.40; Colomokee, $5.30; Hilton,
$12.45; Blakely, $14.80. The Jakin,
Damascus, Rowena and Cedar
Springs schools have not reported
their contributions yet, Mr. Houston
said.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
HOLD REGULAR
MONTHLY MEETING
A new man, J. C. Loyless, Jr., was
added to the Blakely fire department
Tuesday night, when the Mayor and
City Council met, making a total of
three full-time firemen now on the
city fire department. The Council
also instructed City Clerk C. C. Lane
to buy an additional 500 feet of fire
hose.
The annual business license ordi
nance was also adopted and is pub
lished in this week’s issue of The
News.
Present at Tuesday’s meeting were
Mayor S. G. Maddox and Council
men C. E. Boyett, C. R. Barksdale
and Oscar Whitehard. *
DEPUTY COLLECTOR
TO BE HERE TO ASSIST
TAXPAYERS FEB. 15-16-17
A representative of’the Bureau of
Internal Revenue will he at the post
office in Blakely on February 15, 16
and 17, to assist Early countians in
the preparation and filing of their
federal income tax reports,
j The office representative each of these, will days be at from the
! post
9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
Those requiring assistance in the
filing of their returns or doubt their
status in any way should consult the
deputy collector while he is here.
ROGERS EMPLOYEES
HELD ANNUAL DINNER
WEDNESDAY LAST
The employees of the Rogers 5 &
10c Stores were entertained at a
delightful bird supper at the Early
Hotel on Wednesday of last week by
J. D. Rogers, Jr., owner of the
stores. This dinner is an annual af
fair given by Mr. Rogers to his em
ployees.
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♦ BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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