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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
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VOLUME LXXXIII } NO. 37
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
CITIZENS MUST
FILE STATE
TAX RETURNS
Atlanta, Ga.—Allen Darden, Di
rector of Income, Intangible and In
heritance Tax Units, states that
thousands of citizens of Georgia are
subject to pay income taxes to the
State who have never made a re
turn before. This is due primarily
to the high earnings paid in defense
work and increased income to
farmers.
Mr. Darden also states that al
though the State income tax law has
been in effect for over 12 years,
many Georgians claim they do not
know of its existence. The law re
quires that each single person earn
ing over $1000 per year file a re
turn, and each married person liv
ing with husband or wife who earns
over $2500 per year must file a re
turn. The income tax imposes heavy
penalties on persons who fail to
file their returns in, accordance with
the law. All agents of the Depart
ment have been instructed, and a
complete schedule set up, to seek
out all persons who have failed to
make returns, not only for this
year, but for the past years.
The intangible tax act requires
that all persons, regardless of the
amount of their income, who own
monies, stocks, bonds, real estate
mortgages, etc., which have acquired
a taxable status in Georgia must
make a return to the State.
Mr. Darden further states that if
the citizens in Georgia respond and
voluntarily file proper income and
intangible tax returns, it will save
them interest and personal embar
rassment as well as contribute their
pro rata share to the State govern
ment.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCar
thy and Fibber and Molly McGee in
“Here We Go Again” at the Blakely
. Theatre JVIonday. ami.Tuesday.
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON—3:00 P. M. TO 7:00 P. M.
— April 30th —
REMNANT SALE—Wide Selection of
Choice Materials at Great Savings
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1943.
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“They Give Their Lives—You Lend Your Money
U. S. Treasury Department
Revival Meeting
To Begin Sunday
At Baptist Church
An eight-day revival meeting will
begin at the Blakely Baptist church
next Sunday morning, May 2, and
continue through the following Sun
day, May 9, it has been announced
by the Rev. S. B. King, pastor of the
church.
The sermons on Sunday morning
and evening and Monday morning
will be by the pastor. Beginning
with the Monday evening service,
Dr. Arthur Jackson, pastor of the
Momingside Baptist church, Atlan
ta, will be the speaker for the re
mainder of the meeting. Dr. Jack
son is an outstanding member of the
Baptist denomination and his coming
here for the meeting is anticipated
with keen interest by members of
that denomination.
The hours of service, as an
nounced, are: Sundays, regular
hours (11 a. m. and 8 p. m.), and on
week-days, 8 a. m. and 8 p. m.
The public in general has a cor
dial invitation to attend all the
services of the meeting, and a spe
cial invitation is issued by the Bap
tists to their friends in the rural
sections to attend.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINER TO
BE HERE TODAY
William P. Reid, representative of
the Civil Service Commission, will
be at the school house today
(Thursday), beginning at 9 o’clock,
CWT, to give examinations for typ
ists and stenographers, according to
Evelyn Morgan, teacher of the
high school commercial classes.
Miss Morgan states that the gov
ernment is in need of typists and
stenographers and good jobs are
now’ open. Anyone wanting to take
the civil service examinations are
asked to meet at the school house
today, or see Miss Morgan for ap
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STATE FINANCES
ARE IMPROVING,
SAYS AUDITOR
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr.,
reports that state finances are im
proving, but Governor Ellis Arnall
foresees further necessity for paring
state expenses.
Thrasher, in his quarterly report,
recorded a current cash surplus of
$6,495,406.03, despite a drop of
state tax income of $2,721,034.61.
The income drop, Thrasher said,
was due entirely to lower yield of
the 6-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline
under the rationing program.
The state’s fixed debt—the biggest
worry of Governor Arnall in getting
state finances in the condition he
wants them—was reduced $2,938,-
891.01 during the quarter ending
March 31—to $19,994,784.03. The
sinking fund against this debt of
bonds and other obligations was $2,-
507,720 at the quarter’s end.
In citing reduction of expenses
during the quarter in order to place
the state in better financial shape,
Thrasher said:
“The net reduction of budget al
lotments for operating expenses for
the quarter, as compared with the
same quarter last year, was $237,
030.55. This reduction was made
in the allotments in face of $974,-
815.54 in the allotment to the com
mon schools to meet the salary raise
requirements and in the face of
$254,556.70 increase in the allot
ment to meet the needs of expand
ed welfare assistance rolls, thus
making a $1,466,402.79 reduction in
allotments to other agencies for the
quarter. Of this amount of reduc
tion, $714,290.93 was in highway
operations and $752,111.86 was di
vided among the numerous other
agencies.”
State income during the quarter
amounted to $14,629,992.09 and to
tal budget allotments for operating
expenses were $11,843,992.75. The
same figures for the same quarter of
the previous year were $17,351,
076.60 and $12,081,023.30.
Budgets for the current quarter,
the last of the fiscal year ending
June 30, are on a basis of $10,702,-
556.39, with income expected to be
$12,324,658.67—indicating a cur- the
rent cash surplus at the end of
period of $1,622,102.28 even over
all highway contracts.
This surplus, Thrasher said, “will
be of great benefit in the year to
come to offset tax losses.”
CHURCH OF CHRIST
BUYS BUILDING LOT
Local members of the Church of
Christ have purchased a building
lot on Fort Gaines street from Mr.
L. B. Fryer, it was announced this
week. It is planned to erect a
church building there later.
JOHN J. KING
PASSES AFTER
LONG ILLNESS
Succumbing to a heart attack, Mr.
John Jefferson King, 72, died Satur
day morning at eight o’clock at his
home northwest of Blakely. He had
been in declining health for several
years.
Mr. King was a native of Early
county, where he was born March
5, 1871. He had lived his entire
life here and had engaged success
fully in farming operations for
many years. He had many friends
who learned with sincere regret of
his passing. He was a member of
the Baptist church.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
Baptist church, with the Rev. S. E.
King, of Blakely, and Mr. Leonard
Johnson, of Montgomery, officiating.
Interment followed in the city cem
etery, with the Minter, Follows &
Forrester Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements, and Shelly Sim
mens, C. S. Chandler, G. W. White,
Emmett Craft, T. W. Jenkins and
Gary Loyless serving as pall-bearers.
Mr. King is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Gleenie R, King; four chil
dren, R. R. King, Mrs. H. H. Willis,
Mrs. M. T. Howard and J. B. King;
and. two brothers, H. T. King and
0. H. King, all residents of Early
county.
NAVY RECRUITER
KENNETH PRYSE
HERE AGAIN TODAY
Early county men wishing to join
the Navy, and women interested in
the WAVE or SPARS were afforded
another opportunity for enlistment
today, when Yeoman Kenneth Pryse,
of the Albany recruiting substation,
again set up temporary headquar
ters in the post office building here.
Yeoman Pryse, in his visit to
Blakely each Thursday, accepts ap
plications for the regular Navy and
the Naval Reserve, including the
Seabees, and the WAVES and
SPARS.
His one-day headquarters are set
up in Postmaster Emory Houston’s
office from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and
all interested persons are invited to
call on him during those hours.
SING AT FREE WILL
BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY
You are invited to attend a com
munity sing at the Free Will Baptist
church next Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock.
$1.50 A YEAR
Scott Strickland
Dies at Alachua, Fla.,
After Brief Illness
Scott Strickland, 41, a native and
former resident of Blakely, died
Sunday at Alachua, Fla., after a
week’s illness.
His body was returned to Blake
ly, where funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at
the Minter Funeral Home, with the
Revs. S. B. King and W. F. Burford
officiating. Interment was in the
city cemetery, with Minter, Fellows
& Forrester Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements. Serving as
pall-bearers were Carl Tolar, A. D.
Harriss, Hollis Siawyer, Chiphead
Grubbs, Earl Beasley and Robert
Stuckey.
Mr. Strickland was born in Blake
ly, the youngest son of the late Mr.
and Mas. J. W. (Scott) Strickland,
and made his home here until
1929, when he moved to Alachua,
where he had since resided. He
had many friends of former years
who learned with regret of his pass
ing. He was a member of the
Methodist church.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Horton H. Hobbs and Mrs.' Clyde J.
Ward, both of Alachua, and one
brother, Mr. Eugene H. Strickland,
of Miami, Fla.
ROTARIANS HEAR TALK
ON OPERATION OF LOCAL
RATION BOARD OFFICE
A talk on the work of the local
War Rationing Board office featured
last week’s meeting of the Blakely
Rotary Club, held Friday at noon at
the Early Hotel.
The speaker was Fred H. Brooks,
local chairman of the Office of Ci
vilian Defense, who was introduced
by Rotarian Chipstead Grubbs, pro
gram chairman for the day. Mr.
Brooks gave an interesting and in
formative talk on the rationing
gram from its inception up to the
present time, and some of the more
intricate details of the rationing pro
gram were fully explained in
talk.
President James Murdock, Jr.,
welcomed back into the club Henry
A. Walton, a former member.
Rotarian Bill Boyett urged the Ro
tarians to interest themselves in the
purchase and sale of war bonds dur
ing the remainder of April and re
port their progress at the next
meeting.
A guest at Friday’s meeting was
Mr. C. B. Miller, member of the
Early County Board of Commission
ers, who was a guest of Rotarian
Henry Wall.
PREACHING AT LANGSTON
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Rev. W. F. Burford will fill his
regular appointment at Langston
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock.
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SCHOOL BUSSES
ARE FROZEN TO
PRESENT USES
County School Superintendent B.
R. B. Davis this week called atten
tion to a recent order of the Office
of Defense Transportation freezing
school busses in service as of March
17, 1943.
The order provides that local pas
senger equipment can not be bought,
leased, requisitioned or used by an
agency or contractor without an
ODT approval. OuT officials of this
area have pointed out that the
freeze order does not prohibit the
sale of equiment as long as it is con
tinued in the same service and in the
same job it was performing at the
time of the freeze.
The order permits an operator to
take on additional serviee, such ab
using a school bat to transport war
workers, as long as he does not dis
continue the service in which the
equipment is frozen.
The immediate effect of this or
der will be to stop a developing
“black market” in school busses
which has in some instances already
deprived children of transportation
between their home and school. Re
ports received from a large number
of counties now using privately
owned busses indicated that a mas
exodus of equipment was in prospect
for the end of the present school
year, when about 2,000 bus con
tracts will expire.
Mr. Davis said under the order,
“no Federal department or contrac
tor shall hereafter complete arrange
ments for the purchase, lease, requi
sition, or use of local passenger
equipment without giving prior no
tice thereof to the Office of Defense
Transportation as required by Exec
utive Order 9294 and unless such
purchase, lease, requisition or and use
shall have been first reviewed
approved by the ODT.”
The order further stipulates that
“unless authorized by the ODT or
unless necessary as the result of an
emergency arising from an accident,
public calamity, or military necessi
ty, no person shall use or operate
any local passenger transportation
equipment, or permit equipment the use or op- of
eration of any such
which any such person is the owner
or operator, for such period of time
or in such service as will require the
removal of such local transportation
equipment from the sei-vice of sup
plying transportation to and from
the particular points, places, plants,
camps, schools, and locations to and
from which such local passenger
transportation equipment (a) was so
used and operated, or held for use
and operation, on the date of this
order, or (b) is used with the ap
proval of the Office of Defense
Transportation.” percentages al
Following are the
lowed for “as is” vehicles, constitut
ing the seller’s ceiling price: 24
Age: More than 18 months to
months, 66%; more than 24 months
to 30 months, 59%; more than 30
months to 36 months, 53 % ; more
than 36 months to 42 months, 48%;
more than 42 months to 48 months,
43%; more than 48 months to 54
months, 39%. • al
Following are the percentages
lowed for “reconditioned and guar
anteed” vehicles, , constituting the
seller’s ceiling price: months 24
Age: More than 18 to
months, 82%; more than 24 months
to 30 months, 78%; more than 30
months to 36 months, 75%; 73%; more
than 36 months to 42 months, months,
more than 42 months to 48
71%; more than 48 months to 54
months, 70%.