Newspaper Page Text
*i EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXIII > NO. 28
EARLY COUNTY
NAVY YOUTH DIES
IN CAR ACCIDENT
j Daniel Stacey Bailey, Early coun
ty youth, was killed in Hollywood,
Fla., last Friday morning, when the
Navy vehicle in which he was riding
turned over as he and a companion
were returning from duty. Hollywood
Young Bailey was in Na
Fla., where he was attending a
val Air Gunner’s School and held the
rank of seaman, second class. Born
in Early county in 1925, the seven
teen-year-old youth was the son of
Mrs. Stella Jenkins Bailey and the
late Mr. J. F. Bailey. Heeding the
call of his country, Daniel joined the
Navy five months ago and since then
had been at the gunnery school. He
was a graduate of Blakely High
I School, where he had the reputation
of being a studious pupil and was one the
of the most active members in
Blakely Future Farmer Chapter.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Eenterprise Free
Will Baptist church, of which he was
a member. Interment was in Enter
prise cemetery and the following
former schoolmates served as pall
bearers: Reuben Roberts, Fred Bost
wick, J. E. Balkcom, Joel McDowell,
Mack Jarrett, John Mosely, Vincent
I! Willis. The Minter Funeral Home
was in charge of the burial and Navy
men Thomas E. Durham, Carl As
kew and Wellborn Harrell served as
an escort. Legionnaires Shelly Sim
mons and W. C. Cook were in charge
of the ceremony of the flag, which
was interred with the body.
Survivors include his mother, a
half-brother, A. R. Bailey of Charles
ton, S. C., and a half-sister, Mrs.
Pearl Griffin, of Miami, Fla.
REPRESENTATIVES OF
PURINA MILLS VISIT
NEW STORE HERE
Two representatives of the Ral
ston Purina Company, makers of
Purina cattle and poultry feeds, paid
a visit to the new Howell Seed and
4 \ Thursday of
Feed Company stor% on
last week. They were C. Fred
Holle, assistant sales manager of the
Southeastern States, and H. W. Bry
: ant, district manager. Mr. Holle and the
Mr. Bryant were here to plan for
peMing \tcf,Hie,: new.
Mr. Howell announces that Mr. Holle
and Mr. Bryant will be frequent
visitors to Blakely and will discuss
with farmers the proper feed for
their livestock and poultry in order
to achieve maximum production.
Weaver’s i»
Manhattan
Headquarters
$2,000 WORTH OF BRAND NEW
MANHATTAN GOODS JUST ARRIVED
Manhattan Shirts, white and
colored__________________________________ $2.50 to $2.95
Manhattan Mansco Shorts, elastic or
tie sides______________________________________________ .65
Manhattan Mansco Under-shirts .65
Manhattan Mansco Union Suits,
leg opening________________________________ $1.50
Manhattan Pajamas, small sizes„ 2.50 to 2.95
Manhattan Slack Suits, newest
colors ___________ _________ _______________ 5.95 to 8.95
Manhattan Sport Shirts, long or
short sleeves__________________________________________— 2.25 to 2.95
Neckwear by Manhattan, Botany,
Wembley’s Nor-East
BUY BONDS... HELP WIN THE WAR
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
I
ULl
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1943.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
District Committee
Of Boy Scouts Holds
Court of Honor
Last Sunday night at the Meth
odist church, the first public Court
of Honor of the local Boy Scouts of
America, acting under authority of
Chehaw Council, was held. Mr. R.
H. Stuckey, chairman of the Early
District Court of Honor, presided,
assisted by Mr. R. C. Singletary, Jr.,
district chairman, and Dr. J. G. Stan
difer, district commissioner. Other
Scout officials present included Mr.
S. G. Maddox, vice chairman of Che
haw Council, Mr. H. A. Walton, dis
trict vice chairman, and the follow
ing district committee members:
Mr. James B. Murdock, Jr., Mr. T.
F. Debnam, Mr. Oscar Whitchard,
Mr. B. R. B. Davis and Mr. J. Les
ter Camp.
Boy Scout troops 90 and 91, spon
sored by the Blakely Rotary Club
and the Blakely Lions Clubs re
spectively, have been combined into
troop No. 91 and sponsored jointly
by the two clubs. Mr. G. B. Cooke
is the present Scoutmaster. The for
mer Scoutmasters are all in the
country’s armed services.
The following Scouts were award
ed certificates of rank and presented
their merit certificates: 2nd class
Scouts, Billy Peters and Fred Dar
den; 1st class Scouts, Billy Farris,
with 2 merit badges, Allan Grissett,
Tom Howard, with 1 merit badge,
Don Reed and Holt Darden; Star
Scouts, Hal Beckham, with 6 merit
badges; Robert Collier, with 17 merit
badges; and Sidney Strickland, with
7 merit badges. Troop 91’s only Ea
gle Scout, Borden Barry, was not
present, being away on defense
work, but his mother, Mrs. F. G.
Plowden, was present with 5 addi
tional merit badges that Eagle Scout
Barry can add to his already impos
ing list of badges.
In addition to many other mem
bers of the troop, there was present
a delegation from the Cub Scouts in
full regalia to see the Court of
Honor and to imbibe enthusiasm
from the service.
The Scouts marched in from both
aisles, with a Star Scout bearing the
American flag and the troop flag.
Rev. S. B. King gave the opening
prayer, Mrs. C. G. Brewer led in
singing “God Bless America,” and
Rev. W. F. Burford gave the bene
diction.
k 'tjassftt,
Ray Milland and Betty Field in
“Are Husbands Necessary?” at the
Blakely Theatre today (Thursday);
John Boles and Mona Barrie in “The
Road to Happiness” Friday only.
4
"Meet the People.. ■
(Each week in this s ace will be presented a picture
and word portrait someone w hose name is news.)
vsmrnm I
' '
I
: :
Henry
Morgenthau Jr.
77" W!
CHILEAN SPEAKS
TO MEMBERS OF
ROTARY CLUB
Agustin Turner, of Valparaiso,
Chile, native of the United States,
who has been on a four-week lecture
tour in this country for Rotary In
ternational, was the guest speaker at
last Friday’s meeting of the Blakely
Rotary Club.
Mr. Turner has lived in Chile
since May, 1915, when he went there
as a Y. JVI. C. A. secretary. He is
the founder and organizer of the first
Rotary Club in Chile (1923), which
today has 91 clubs with a member
ship of more than 2,500.
His talk to the Blakely Rotarians
( ■
* if
. . .
f
gig
-
_!
: m
!
l!
AGUSTIN TURNER
Of Valparaiso, Chile
touched many interesting topics, but
dealt chiefly with the work Rotary
is doing in Latin American countries
toward cementing friendships be
tween peoples and between nations.
Many differences of a delicate na
ture which have threatened serious i
consequences between several of the
South American countries have been
amicably settled largely through the
works of Rotary, Mr. Turner stated.
Many permanent improvements and
modern living methods have been
brought about through the same
agency, he added.
Mr. Turner lauded the efforts of
the State Department and Secretary
Hull toward the bringing about of
better relations beween the United
States and Latin America, and warn
ed that high tariffs often prove a
hindrance to friendly intercourse
between nations and occasionally re
sulted in war. Trade agreements
working to mutual advantage must
be worked out between nations, the
speaker stated, and monetary sys
tems need to be worked out on a
more equal scale.
The various natural resources of
the Republic of Chile were enumer
ated by the speaker, whose talk was
one of the most worth-while the Ro
tarians have had the pleasure of lis
tening to in some time.
Mr. Turner also spent Thursday
night in the city and was a guest in
the home of Rotarian Guy Maddox,
program chairman for the day. He
met with the club officers, board of
directors and international service
committee. Friday morning he ad
dressed the Blakely high school stu
dents and those of the sixth and sev
enth grades of the grammar school
in the court house auditorium, where
he received an enthusiastic reception
and spoke interestingly on Chile and
other South American countries.
(Presiding over Friday’s meeting
and introducing the speaker was
James B. Murdock, Jr., president of
the club, with the musical portion of
the program by Mrs. Ben Haisten.
Other guests at Friday’s meeting
included Ralph Brown, a guest of
• A baldish, 50-year-old gentleman farmer
with a broad view of his responsibilities
serves capably as treasurer not only to his
own, but to many other nations. As secretary
of the treasury of the United States, and thus
financial executor of lease-lend, Henry Mor
genthau Jr. is, in fact, “treasurer to the de
mocracies.”
•Secretary Morgenthau, in spite of the gi
gantic task of raising enough money to finance
our part in the war, regards as equally im
portant the task of preserving our essentially
capitalistic democratic system. By way of do
ing so, he has stabilized our dollar until it is
now the strongest currency in the world. And
he continues to advocate government economy
and to work toward what is probably his chief
goal—a balanced budget.
•He rises early (usually at 6:30), frequently
walks the two miles to work, lunches in the
Treasury building, and often takes work home
with him at night. He has been quoted as
saying that the treasury is his whole life.
And he gives his whole life to it.
INCOME TAX
RETURNS MUST BE
FILED BY MARCH 15
March 15 will be a big and busy
day in the United States, for on that
day income tax returns and pay
ments will be due from millions of,
American citizens, many of whom
will be facing Uncle Sam, as a tax
collector, for the first time.
It is particularly important to re
member that tax returns and pay
ments, in whole or in installment,
must be made by March 15, or, if
convenient, before. This fact has
been pretty much confused by all the
talk about putting income taxes fin
a pay-as-you-go, or weekly income
deduction, basis. No such law has
been passed and there are possibili
ties that, even if it is passed, it will
be passed in a different form.
But the fact is, no pay-as-you-go
law exists, and an income tax return
must be filed and whole or partial
payments made by March 15.
Lower exemptions and increased
employment will bring millions of
new taxpayers into the fold. Fig
ures, of course, are dry, but they are
interesting in that government agen
cies estimate that approximately 58
million people will have earned an
average of almost $1,600 in 1942.
Farmer’s Income Large
Farm income alone has been fig
ured at approximately 16 billion dol
lars, giving America’s 6 million farm
ers an average intake of $2,800. All
these figures are average, of course,
and do not specifically apply to in
dividual cases.
Besides renewed industrial activity
and higher wages, one of the main
reasons more people will pay an in
come tax for 1942 is because of the
lowered exemptions. A single person,
or a married person not living with
their spouse, do not have to pay any
tax on the first $500 of their income.
A married man and his wife are al
lowed to take off $1,200 for them
selves and $350 for each child under
18.
The “head” of any family support
ing one or more dependent individ
uals closely related to him by blood
relationship, or by adoption, is al
lowed the $1,200 exemption, plus
$350 for every’ dependent except
one.
The income tax payer is allowed
to deduct other sums, either as per
sonal or business expenses, from his
income. For every $1 that the tax
payer can legitimately take off his
income, he chops 18.4 cents from his
tax. On large incomes, such sav
ings can be impressive.
But what can the taxpayer de
duct? Below appears a formidable
list of exemptions:
Taxes:
Deductible federal taxes include
admissions, dues, telephone, tele
graph, transportation, auto use and
safety deposit boxes. State levies
deductible include gasoline, real es
tate and personal property, use tax
es. auto license fees, and unemploy
ment.
Interest:
All interest paid on personal debts
can be written off. Fo-r the farmer
these take in mortgages, notes and
other obligations incurred to finance
operations.
Expenses:
All expenses connected with con
duct of a business or farm are de
ductible. Business expenses include
office rent, light, heat and phone
(Continued on page 2)
Rotarian Robert Stuckey; S. K. Tan
ner, of Macon, a guest of Rotarian
Oscar Whitchard; Rev. Spencer B.
King, a guest of Rotarian James
Murdock; W. C. Cook, a guest of Ro
tarian Richard Grist; and County
Agent Reid, a guest of Rotarian
Claud Howell. Mr. Reid announced
the result of the corn club contest
sponsored by the Rotary Club the
past year.
$1.50 A YEAR
Worthy Grand Matron
Eastern Star Visits
Blakely Chapter
Mrs. Margaret Lane, of St. Simons
Island, Worthy Grand Matron of the
Grand Chapter of Georgia, Order of
the Eastern Star, was a distinguished
visitor to Blakely last Friday, when
she came to make an official visit
and inspection of Blakely Chapter
No. 282. Mrs. Lane was accompanied
by a delegation from Crape Myrtle
Chapter of Albany, including Mrs.
Virginia J. Hardee, Worthy Matron, Dr.
J. Hogue, Worthy Patron, Mrs.
Margaret Pryse, Associate Matron;
Mr. H. M. Pryse, Associate Patron,
and Mrs. Esther Huckaby, Past Ma
tron and Grand Historian of the
Grand Chapter of Georgia.
The Grand Matron and her party
were tendered an informal supper at
the Early Hotel. Those from the lo
cal chapter attending were Mrs.
Louise Thompson, Dr. J. G. Standi
fer, Mrs. Cyllene Dunn, Mrs. Velma
Smith, Mrs. Edna Mills, Mrs. Nora
Scarborough, Mrs. Mrs. Pearl Houston,
Sally Goocher, Mrs. Nellie Cos
tello, Mrs. Evelyn Beckham, Mrs. An
nie Laurie Oldham, Mrs. Ruth Jor
dan, Mrs. Kavis Ivey, Miss Bessie
Lewis, Mrs. Beth Duncan, Mi’s.
Louise Fulmer, Mrs. Cleo Grubbs,
Mrs. Sadie S. Davis, Mrs. J. G. Skin
ner, Mrs. Cordelle Hooten, Mr. R. E.
Mills. Mr. W. P. Smith, Mr. W. H.
Ivey and Mr. J. E. Houston.
After the supper, the chapter was
opened in full form and the dis
tinguished visitors were received. The
degree work was conferred and the
Grand Matron delivered her address.
In this address, Mrs. Lane brought
out most beautifully the theme of
the Eastern Star garden and the
many opportunities for service thus
afforded in this war-torn world. In
closing, the Grand Matron gave fur
ther recognition to Blakely Chapter
by appointing Mrs. Louise Thompson,
present Worthy Matron of the chap
ter, as a Grand Page for the coming
session of the Grand Chapter of
Georgia. Mrs. Lane complimented
the officers and members of Blakely
Chapter on the splendid showing and
on the excellence of the work.
Mrs. Huckaby, Past Matron of
Crape Myrtle Chapter of Albany,
spoke feelingly of the deep and
abiding interest that Crape Myrtle
Chapter continued to evince in the
Blakely Chapter, since it was largely
through the untiring efforts of the
Albany Chapter that the local chap
tetr was organized, and Mrs. Huck
aby said that the mother chapter
was very proud of its daughter.
Blakely Chapter, under the ad
ministration of Mrs. Louise Thomp
son, has brilliant prospects for a
very successful year.
TURNIP WEIGHS 5 3-8 POUNDS
A large purple-top turnip, which
tipped the scales at 5 3-8 pounds,
was left at The News office Satur
day by Mr. B. H. Thomas, of the
Pine View community. This sample
turnip is a forceful reminder that
we are urged to produced food for
victory, and this monster turnip is
evidence of a start in the right di
rection.
WILSON HARPE PROMOTED—
Friends will be interested to know
that Sergeant Wilson L. Harpe, son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Harpe, has
recently been promoted to the rank
of First Sergeant at Camp Benning.
♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
MR. FARMER—
Producing Food for Victory Is Your I
Job; Providing Credit Is Ours : :
♦
In 1943 you, and the other farmers of
America, face the biggest food-production t
job in history. This bank wants to help t
4
you meet and surpass your goals. To this l
end, we are ready with credit for every t
sound and invite to discuss 4
purpose, you ! 4
your credit needs with us. ♦
l
*
♦
FIRST STATE BANK ■
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member Maximum of the Insurance Federal of Deposit $5,000.00 Insurance for each Corporation. depositor I
■
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
REGISTRATION
FOR RATION BOOK
2 ON THIS WEEK
Early countians beg’an Wednesday
registering for War Ration Book 2,
when those whose surnames begin
with the letters A, B, C, D, E, F or
G were enrolled by the registrars
and received their books.
The registration will continue on
through Saturday, when it is expect
ed that the task of enrolling the
county’s 18 thousand or more citi
zens will have been completed.
Today (Thursday) those whose
surnames begin with the letters H,
I, J, K, L, M, or N will register; Fri
day is the date set for registration
of those whose surnames begin with
the letters O, P, Q, R, S, T or U, and
Saturday the alphabetical list will
be completed, when those whose sur
names begin with the letters V, W,
X, Y or Z are enrolled.
Ration Book Two will be used in
the purchase of canned and bottled
fruits and fruit juices, vegetables
and vegetable juices, soups, catsups,
chili sauce, baby foods, and certain
other food products. Each book con
tains a number of point coupons
which must be presented to the gro
cer for the purchase of the rationed
commodities. As announced Sunday
by the OPA, 48 points are allotted
each member of the family unit for
the month of March, which approx
imates three cans of average weight
canned fruits or vegetables, or fruit
juices. This is a drastic cut in the
average yearly per capita consump
tion, and will necessitate careful
study by the buyer of the family
groceries to make his “points” buy
as much food as possible. The gro
ceryman has in his store the point
chart showing the number of points
required for each article of the ra
tioned merchandise.
Pending the new rationing order,
which becomes effective next Mon
day, March 1, none of the rationed
articles may be purchased this week.
Meat rationing, “points” for which
are to be found in Ration Book 2,
will become effective the latter part
of March, it is announced.
VIVIAN CALHOUN
DIES AT VIENNA
Friends in Blakely, where he for
merly lived for many years, regret to
learn of the death of Vivian Earl
Calhoun, 38, at his home in Vienna
on Thursday afternoon of last week.
Funeral services for Mr. Calhoun
were held Saturday at the Vienna
Baptist church, with the Revs. Ray
mond L. Harvey and J. M. Yar
brough officiating. Survivors in
clude his mother, Mrs. Maggie Cal
houn; three sisters, Mrs. Charles
Babbington of Atlanta, Mrs. Mal
colm Verdery and Mrs. L. A. Wood
ruff, Jr., of Vienna; and a brother,
J. R. Calhoun, of the Marines, Parris
Island.