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EARLY GOD’S GARDEN COUNTY, COUNTRY SPOT OF GA. (ffatlj) Counts JSttos ** PULL PULL FOR BLAKELY OUT
VOLUME LXXXIII > NO. 29
ROTARIANS HEAR
TALK ON ROTARY
IN S. AMERICA
Dr. R. C. Gresham, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Moultrie,
.was guest speaker at last week’s
meeting of the Blakely Rotary Club,
held Friday at noon at the Early
Hotel.
Introduced by Rotarian Price Hol
land, program chairman for the day,
Dr. Gresham took as his subject, “Ro
tary in South America.” He recent
ly made an extensive trip over that
continent, and told in an interesting
manner some of his observations on
that tour.
The speaker pictured the growth
of the countries of South America,
which he considers a vast reservoir
of undeveloped natural resources and
unequaled opportunities.
The part Rotary is playing in ce
menting friendships between the peo
ples of South America was discussed
t>y Dr. Gresham, who said the repub
lics of South America wanted to
look upon North Americans as good
“neighbors” rather than as “protec
tors.” The speaker’s descriptive ad
dress was listened to intently and
received warm applause at its con
clusion.
Kenneth Tabb, president of the
senior class of Blakely Hi, and hon
orary member of the club, was given
a round 'of applause when President
James B. Murdock, Jr., announced
that Kenneth had enlisted in the
army air corps.
President Murdock had as his guest
at Friday’s meeting Mr. Alex Cars
well.
A delightful program of music
■was given by Mr. Virgil Oswald, of
the local high school faculty.
NEW SERIAL STORY
BEGUN THIS WEEK
The News this week begins run
. ,
Marshbanka” This story by Ameri
ca’s greatest loved fiction writer is
one of mystery, struggle, love, and
even murder, and is highly recom
mended to News readers. The story
nineteen . , chapters, ,___. the ,, first- . *
is in o
which appears this week.
L-A-D-I-E-S !
LET YOUR SPRING
start at
W-E-A-V-E-R’S
VISIT our Ready-to-Wear department. You
will find just what you want for your Spring
wardrobe : : : : : : :
Man tailored suits in black and navy,
priced from $22.50 to $24.95
Butcher Linen Suits ranging
from $7.95 to $8.95
Georgianna Dresses in spun rayon and
Miami cloth materials, sizes 12 to 44,
including half sizes, from _ $5.00 to $8.95
Junior and regular size Chambray
and Gingham Dresses, from $3.95 to $7.95
Gage and Kutz hats in all new styles
and colors, from $2.95 to $6.00
Slack suits for sportwear, priced $7.95
It will be a pleasure to visit the NEW WEA
VER’S and shop for style and quality at
prices you can afford to pay.
Visit our store today.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
lHOtfTI*e.T Print
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1943.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
LT. SMITH SEEKS
ENLISTMENTS
FOR THE WAAC
Lieut. Jean 0. Smith, of the Wom
en’s Army Auxiliary Corps, was in
Blakely for a short time last Friday
in the interest of recruiting women
for the WAAC. Lieut. Smith hopes
to return to Blakely at a later date
to stay longer. She is stationed at
Albany, Ga., where the main re
cruiting and induction station for
this section of southern Georgia and
northern Florida is now located.
The Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps has been authorized by the
President to expand to six times its
original size. There are now places
in the WAAC for 150,000 women
between the ages of 21 and 45, who
have no dependents, and no children
under 14 years of age. Opportuni
ties for promotion are excellent at
this time in the WAAC due to this
new expansion of the Corps. There
are no formal educational require
ments in order to be eligible for Of
ficer’s Candidate School. Every wom
an has an equal chance.
Mrs. Roy McKinney Pas available
all the necessary information and ap
plication blanks for enrollment in
the WAAC. Application olanks and
information folders may also be ob
tained at the Post Office and the
Early County News office.
Lieut. Smith says, “ask yourself
what you are doing to help win the
war, and if you are not now engaged
in some essential war industry, see
about joining the WAAC. America
needs you, not tomorrow, hut NOW.”
RETAILERS MAY GET
COPY OF OFFICIAL POINT
VALUE AT POSTOFFICE
Retailers may get a free copy of
the official point value list to dis
play in their stores, as required by
OPA, by going to their local post
office and picking it up, the chair
man of the Early County War Price
and Rationing Board announced to
day.
Postoffices are prepared to supply
posting in stores. Merchants who
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uge ^ foom a ne spaper .
j n exceptional cases, when more
than one copy is needed, postoffices
be able to furnish a merchant
with more than one copy only when
additional supplies are available, it
said.
RED CROSS WAR FUND PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
WHEREAS The American National Red Cross during the first year
of our participation in the war has rendered vital humanitarian serv
ices to the members of our armed forces and to their families; and
WHEREAS The demands made upon the Red Cross are steadily
increasing from day to day as it is called upon to accompany our
Army and Navy into worldwide theaters of action, to provide blood
plasma for our wounded, to send relief to American and United Na
tions prisoners of war, and to expand its preparations to meet emerg
encies at home; and
WHEREAS The American National Red Cross is under the neces
sity of raising further funds in order that these essential services may
be continued and expanded:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President
of the United States of America, and President of The American Na
tional Red Cross, do hereby designate the month beginning March 1,
1943, as “Red Cross Month,” anj I request that during that month
our people rededicate themselves to the splendid aims and activities
of the Red Cross. I summon the men, women, and young people of
our country, in every city and town and village, in every county, and
state throughout the land, to enlist in the army of mercy mobilized
under the banner of the Red Cross and to contribute generously to
the Red Cross War Fund in order that the sum of One Hundred Twen
ty-five Million Dollars, every cent of which is needed, may be raised
promptly.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington, this twenty-third day of Feb
ruary, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred
and sixty-seventh. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
By the President:
CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State.
EARLY COUNTY
RED CROSS QUOTA
SET AT $1,600.00
DRIVE TO BEGIN TUESDAY
S. G. Maddox and Oscar Whitch
ard, co-chairmen of the Early County
Red Cross War Fund Drive, an
nounced Wednesday that the drive
in Early county would begin next
Tuesday morning and end when the
quota of $1600 had been raised or
exceeded. Mr. Maddox and Mr.
Maddox will personally conduct the
drive in the Blakely business dis
trict, while a number of ladies in the
city will work the residential district.
Committees will also be appointed to
solicit contributions all over the
gpunty, they .announced.
In issuing a joint statement, Mr.
Maddox and Mr. Whitchard said:
“The Red Cross needs this money in
order that our boys in the service
may get the proper attention, and
we must raise the money by all
means. Prepare to make a large do
nation.”
In its second War Fund Cam
paign, the American Red Cross is
asking the American people for con
tributions to the War Fund to en
able the organization to continue to
meet its wartime obligations, partic
ularly those to the armed forces of
the United States as prescribed in
its Congressional Charter and in
Army and Navy regulations. This
fund will be raised by the Chapters
throughout the country and part of
the fund will be remitted to the Na
tional Organization for the conduct
of national and international Red
Cross activities, and part will be re
tained and expended by the chapters
for the conduct of authorized Red
Cross activities in their several ju
risdictions.
The total sum to be raised by the
Early County Chapter in this cam
paign is $1600.00, of which $1000.00
will go to the National Organization
as this Chapter’s share of the sum
required for the national and inter
national activities and $600.00 will
be retained by this Chapter for au
thorized and essential Red Cross ac
tivities in its jurisdiction.
All funds contributed to the Early
County Chapter in this campaign
will be collected and handled subject
only to the authority of The Ameri
can National Red Cross and this
Chapter, and all such funds will be
divided between the national organi
zation and this Chapter in accordance
with the ratio which this Chapter’s
quota of the national fund and the
sum required for its local activities,
as stated above, bear to each other.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
INCREASE ALLOTMENT
TO COUNTY LIBRARY
The Mayor and Council, in regular
monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon,
voted to increase its allotment to the
county library from $25 to $35 per
month. This was necessary, it was
pointed out, to keep the library open,
as WiPA funds, which had been par
tially financing the operation of the
library, will he discontinued on
March 25. No other business ex
cept routinfe was transacted. Mayor
S. G. Maddox and all Councilmen
were present.
STATE BANK
DEPOSITS REACH
NEW HIGH LEVEL
Georgians are in a better financial
condition than at any time in the
past twenty years, according to an
announcement by State Superin
tendent of Banks John C. Beasley.
The people have increased their
deposits in the 250 state banks in
1942 to the tune of $86,443,944.14
over 1941.
Total resources of the banks soar
ed $92,103,306.07, Beasley reported.
“My report not only shows a pro
gressive situation from the banking
viewpoint,” he said, “but it demon
strates that business and industry as
well as agriculture is in sound and
healthy condition.
“The increased resources of the
banks probably marks the greatest
development record in any one year
of the state’s banking history and
the outlook for the current year in
dicates that additional progress will
be made for 1943.
“Taking into consideration the very
low yield of government securities
and the purchasing by the banks of
these securities in the amount of
$65,559,803.74 clearly demonstrates
the patriotism of the bankers of the
state.
.“Another encouraging feature is
contained in the decreased real es
tate holdings of the banks, showing
a decline of $565,787.49, the same
amount being returned to former
owners or other purchasers a,fter
having been relinquished for old
debts.
“A decrease in loans of $14,195,-
397.95 does not reflect a prosperous
future for the banks from an income
standpoint. It does, however, dem
onstrate the attitude of the people
with regard to economical prac
tices.”
COMMISSIONERS HOLD
MONTHLY MEETING
At their monthly meeting, held
Tuesday, the Early County Board of
Commissioners voted to contribute
$85 monthly to the upkeep of the
Early County Library.
The Commissioners appointed W.
R. Taylor, of Arlington, to the Coun
ty Public Welfare Board to succeed
E. L. Lewis, who resigned.
No other business except routine
matters was transacted.
Present at the meeting were H. C.
Fort, chairman, L. H. Baughman and
O. H. King.
H. WHITE IS 92
YEARS OLD TODAY
Mr. S. H. White is observing his
92nd birthday today at the home of
his son, Mr. Jim White, and a host
of his Early county friends will gath
er there for the festive dinner which
is given annually for Mr. White on
his birthday.
“Uncle Silas,” as he is affection
ately known to his many friends, is
well known throughout the county
and has many friends here in Blake
ly who are planning to attend his
birthday party today and wish for
this venerable gentleman “many hap
py returns of the day.”
$1.50 A YEAR
LIMITED GROUP
‘PLAY’ SHOES NOT
ON RATIONED LIST
A limited group of “play” shoes
and certain other types not ordinar
ily worn on the street, which are
already in the hands of shoe stores
and retailers or in the process of
manufacture have been released
from ration control as of February
25, it was announced by the Early
County War Price and Rationing
Board.
The following types of shoes are
now ration-free:
1. All infants’ shoes up to size 4,
whether made with hard or soft soles.
(All sizes above 4, both hard and
soft-soled, will be subject to ra
tioning. )
2. Certain types of play shoes:
rubber-soled shoes with fabric up
pers, bathing slippers, Mexican huar
aches, shoes that do not have rubber
or leather soles, play shoes with up
pers made of fabric, imitation leath
er, sheepskin or eapeskin, or a com
bination of these materials. (Rope
sole play shoes, bedroom slippers
and rubber footwear were, and con
tinue to be, exempt from rationing.)
“This is not the signal to buy large
stocks of exempted shoes,” the local
Ration Board said. “Consumers are
urged to buy these non-rationed
shoes only if they really need them,
and dealers are asked to limit sales
to one pair to a customer, to avoid
the stocking of idle shoes in consum
ers’ closets.”
LOCAL BOARD WANTS
TO LEARN ADDRESS
OF REGISTRANTS
The local Selective Service Board,
Alex Carswell, clerk, would like to
know the address of the folowing
Early county registrants, all colored:
Wilbur Vaughns, Johnnie Dowkins,
Amos Northern, Carey Reynolds,
W. C. Doster, Homer Thomas, R. W.
Hutchins, Walter Davenport, Willie
Howard.
Any information as to the present
whereabouts of any of the above
named will be appreciated by Mr.
Carswell.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO SUBSCRIBERS IN
U. S. ARMY OVERSEAS
A recent ruling by the postoffice
department prohibits the mailing
of newspapers to men in the army
outside the continental United
except upon written request of
the soldier himself, who must also
receive the approval of such re
quest from his commanding officer.
The newspaper must have such
written request in its files for pos
tal inspection.
No longer can a relative or
friend back home have the paper
sent to army men overseas—they
must subscribe for it themselves.
The News asks that those in the
overseas service who are now on
its mailing list watch the date on
the label on the paper and send in
renewal subscription (with written
approval of commanding officer)
before the date of expiration, for
the paper must be discontinued
promptly on expiration date.
♦
I MR. FARMER—
Producing Food for Victory Is You 1
♦ Job; Providing Credit Is Ours : • •
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; In 1943 you, and the other farmers of
: America, face the biggest food-production
♦ job in history. This bank wants to help
you meet and surpass your goals. To this 1
end, we are ready with credit for every ♦
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your credit needs with us.
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: FIRST STATE BANK
♦ BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for each depositor
MARCH 1 ENDED
HUNTING SEASON
IN GEORGIA
Hunting season officially came to
an end in Georgia March 1, W. H.
McNaughton, acting director for the
newly-created State Game and Fish
Commission, announced.
He said this applies to quail, wild
turkey, opossum, ’coon and bear.
The season already had been ended
for some time on duck, geese, doves
and deer. There is no closed season
on rabbits.
Mr. McNaughton said hunting in
Georgia, as elsewhere in the Atlan
tic Seaboard states, received a severe
blow when the strict ban against
pleasure driving became effective.
However, he pointed out that ulti
mately this will work to the benefit
of hunters who will find more game
in the woods and fields in seasons
to come.
In many sections where hunters
live within walking distance of good
shooting territory, however, the sport
has continued when shells are avail
able. Mr. McNaughton appealed to
all sportsmen to observeo the closed
season as a conservation measure so
that “when our boys return from the
service, there will be plenty of game
for them to enjoy.”
Trapping season also ended March
1 on fox, opossum, mink, muskrat,
raccoon, bear, otter, skunk and wild
cat.
Improved Telephone
Service for Blakely,
Says New Manager
Mrs. Glenn MciCabe, new manager
of the Blakely Telephone Company,
speaking before the Blakely Lions
Club at its noon-day meeting Tues
day, promised an improvement of
the telephone service and gave a
brief outline of the improvements to
be made. Mrs. McCabe announced
that she was taking complete charge
of the plant and its equipment. Mrs.
Mattie Powell, who is the mother of
Mrs. McCabe and owner of the com
pany, has been managing the com
pany for several years.
Following her brief talk, President
C. G. Brewer assured Mrs. McCabe
of the club’s co-operation in the
work to improve the service. The
Lions Club has had as a project for
the past eighteen months the im
provement of the telephone service
here.
Lieutenant A. J. Richards, a guest
of Lion B. R. B. Davis, spoke brief
ly. Lieut. Richards is stationed at
Bainbridge and is currently making
a series of talks to the high schools
in Early county on the subject of
“aviation.” Also a guest of Lion
Davis was Private Glenn Benoist, of
the Bainbridge Air Base.
Lou Costello and Bud Abbott in
“Pardon My Sarong” at the Blakely
Theatre Thursday and Friday.