About North Georgia tribune. (Canton, Ga.) 1934-1973 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1947)
Dedicated to the Upbuilding of Cherokee County VoJL XIV. No. 1 Canton, Cherokee County, Ga., Friday, January 3, 1947 Published Every Friday Forty-Eight Polio Victims Treated From Ninth District During 1946 Death Claims G. W. Thompson At the Age of 77 Mr. George W. Thompson, of Canton, died December 25, at 1:25 a, m. at the local hospital follow ing an illness of seventeen days. A native of Union county, he was bom July 31, 1869 near Blairs- ville. Funeral services were conduct ed from Bethany Baptist Church, of which he was a member, De cember 27 by the Revs. Sam All- red and D. J. Wood, Interment was irt Union county with Jones Fu neral Home in charge of burial arrangements. Surviving are his wife, Armivi- da Davenport Thompson, of Can ton; nine children, John Thomp son, of BJairsville, Mrs. Belvia Loudermilk and Wade Thompson, of Copperhill, Tenn., Taskle Thompson, of Epworth, Reid Thompson, Luther Thompson, Mrs. Cassie Cantrell, Mrs. Faye Doss, all of Canton, Mrs. Hazel Wood, of Atlanta; Four brothers: S. W., J. L. ( W. T. Thompson, all of Blairsville; and J. W. Thompson of Califor nia; a sister, Mrs. Mitch Pope, of ( Blue Ridge; 35 grand children, and 9 great grand children. Five Victims From Cousin Albert Canton. R, F, D. Dear Mr. Editer, I have made an exhaustive study of this question of who will be Georgia’s next governor and my conclusion is one which I be lieve to be in strict accord with the new State Constitution. The Constitution states that the election returns will be open ed and published in the presence and under the direction of the General Assembly; and the per son having the majority of the whole number of votes shall be declared duly elected Gdvemor; but if no person shall have a ma jority, then from the two persons laving the highest number of votes, who shall be in life, and shall not decline an election at the time appointed for the Gen eral Assembly shall immediately elect a governor viva voce. Now from the above, let’s study the facts . . but, if no person shall have a majority, then from the two persons having the highest number of votes . . This quotation forms the grounds on which Herman Talmadge claims the office of governor, but are the grounds firm? The Constitu tion says “If no person shall have a majority.” Now if no per son had a majority, Herman Ta>l- madge would have a claim to the office, but a person does have a majority, or at least we can as sume this since Eugene Talmadge carried every county in the state. As far as the General Assem bly as law making bodies are concerned, Eugene Talmadge is still alive for the ballots plainly state that he is alive by his name being on them. . It is true that a dead man cannot take oath of of fice, but he can be duly ejected by the General Assembly. Then if the newly elected official cannot as sume the duties of office, wheth er it be for illness, death, miss- in or any other reason, the en cumbent officer will continue to serve until the encumbent’s suc cessor is qualified. Herman Talmadge cannot be elected governor because his fath er got a majority of the votes. The same rule upplies to ‘TaJ- madge Bowers or any other write-in candidate. As I see it, < iovernor Arnall will continue to serve until his successor is qual ified. Receive Treatment At a recent meeting of the State District, and County directors of the Georgia State Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it was revealed that ap proximately 20 percent of the peo ple treated at Warm Springs were Georgians. Georgia has been very active and alert in setting up fa cilities in Atlanta and Savannah for preliminary and. emergency treatment. The State Chapter has done a wonderful job, under the direction of such responsible busi ness men as Mr. Lobert F. Mad dox, Mr. William K. Jenkins, and Mr. Jesse Draper, in building and organizing facilities to sush a point that every polio victim in the State of Georgia can atfid will get treatment. Mr. Jesse Draper who is chair man of the 1947 March of Dimes said to the county directors, “Make sure that your community has an equal share in _ the opportunity that the Georgia Chapter offers to ail Georgia children; That is, adequate care for any Georgian who contracts polio regardless of inability to pay.” Hundreds of Georgians are now benefitting from this annual fund raising campaign as it was reveal ed by If. L, Garrett, chairman of Cherokee county that 48 people were treated out of the Ninth Dis trict alone. Of thest 5 were from Cherokee county. At the meeting emphasis was put on getting the laymen and the local doctors to report to the county chairman any cases of po lio new or old in all of Georgia so that help could be given. Much was said about the fact that too few know what the Georgia State Chapter was doing and would do for polio victims. It was brought out that although 41 states and 19 foreign countries had patients that Georgia had a high percent age of the patients there in ad dition to over one hundred pa tients in Atlanta and Savannah. All attending were impressed with the wonderful work being done at Warm Springs by surgery and careful handling. Also the high spirit and cheerfulness of the patients impressed the visitors. Methodist Pastor Thanks Members And Friends Dear Editor of the North Georgia Tribune: Will you please give me space to say a word of thanks to my friends who remembered this pas tor and family so generously throughout the Christmas holi days. Our people and friends did so much for us till we now feel that we had the best Christmas we have ever had, and we have never lived in any place where our people did as much as you all have done to make us have si good Christmfas. Surely there is no better place to live than Canton, and I am lead to be lieve no Methodist preacher has been better cared for than your humble servant. We are unworthy, and feel so humble, but we are grateful for all you have done,and promise to do our best to make you a good pastor as long as we have the privilege of serving right here in Canton. All I ask as your pastor is that you remember me in your prayers, and come to hear me preach. Best wishes, and & good New Year D. S. PATTERSON. 1 Killed, 1 Hurt In Plane Crash V Christmas Day Esmond Hampton. 22, of Jas per, died Thursday morning, De cember 26, at a local hospital, o: injuries received in a Christmas day plane crash in Nelson. Anoth er occupant of the plane, J^anier Smith, 15, of Canton, sustained a fractured leg as well as other cuts and bruises and was dismiss ed from the hospital this week. According to 'J. 0. Garrett, op erator of the Cherokee Flying Service from whom the plane was rented, neither of the youths were student pilots. Hampton had a private pilot’s license. Reports that both were students of the Cherokee Flying Service are ero- neous. Flying too low. the plane struck a tall oak tree near the water tower in Nelson, crashed under another tree and bounced to a halt in the front yard of a resi dent on the street leading to the depot. All but the motor of the plane was completely wrecked. Mr. Hampton is survived by his father and mother, Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Hampton, and a sis ter, Miss June Hampton of Jas per. Funeral T-5 Frank To Be Held Baptist Leader To Conduct Series Of Meetings Here Dr, H. C. Whitener, secretary of the department of Evangelism of the Georgia Baptist Convention, will conduct a series of meetings at the First Baptist Church in Canton beginning next 'Sunday, January 5, at 7:30 p. m. He will also deliver a sermon at the 11 o’clock morning worship service at the First Baptist Church next Sunday. This series of meetings will be of special interest to the men of the churches of the Noonday As sociation, and the deacons of the churches throughout the associa tion are being invited and urged to attend. A cordial invitation is also extended to the general pub lic to attend these meetings. Dr. Whitener has spoken at Can ton on many occasions and is well known as a forceful and interest ing speaker. S,team Distillery, 1220 Gals. Liquor Seized In Raid Sheriff Lee Spears and County Policeman Lee Strickland destroy ed a large steam distillery near Burris Cross roads last Friday, 7000 gallons of beer, 660 gallons of syrup, 30 gallons of liquor, and a mercury coupe were seized at the still as well as an operator, Gordon Nichols. Two other opera tors escaped. 1190 gallons of li quor were seized at the home of Grady Little, a short distance from the still. T/5 Gilbert W. Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H, Dunn, who arrived home December 27 to spend a« 38-day furlough with his parents. He has been with the army in Italy for the past year. AC A Office Urges Farmers to Report Farm Practices Cherokee County Farmers Be sure to call at the ACA Of- Frank was born on January 15, fice in Hotel Canton and make a 3927, at Waleska, the son of Sol T/5 Frank Atkins, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol. W. At kins of Lebanon, Ga., died Sun day, December 29, from injuries he received when struck by an automobile on the highway at Lebanon. Atkins was a Tehnieian Fifth Grade with the U. S. Army who was in the process of being separated from the armed forces. His separation papers disclosed that he was to be discharged on the day of his death—December 29. Atkins was struck by an auto mobile driven by Everett Hopkins, of Hickory Flat, who stopped and rendered every assistance to the victim of the accident which wit nesses state was unavoidable. The accident occurred about 6 p. m. when the pedestrian was crossing the highway at the Lebanon bridge and while he was on his way to attend church services. He died at a Canton hospital at 11:55, just five minutes prior to his official termination with the armed for ces. T/6 Atkins entered thc^ army on April 4, 1945. He received his ba sic training in infantry at Camp Blanding, Fla., after which time he served with the 383d Station Hospital in Ascom, Korea, for 14 months. Before entering the ar my, he was employed as a cabi net maker at Marietta. He was not married. Chamber of Officers and Directors for 1947 Friends of Miss Opal Harbin will be glad to learn that she is now at home following an opera tion at Coker's Hospital and she is doin fine. STOP PUSHING It’s ten to one that a bumper- to-bumper line of traffic will not stay intact over the crest of a hill. That’s a safe bet because impa tience reaches the boiling point when you dwadle along behind some pokey Joe who thinks peo ple “go too fast anyhow." Even though the crest of a hill is with in throwing distance, somebody will probably cut out of line and swing into the left hand lane. Want to know the best way to avoid cutting out of line? Just be sure that you are not the one who does it! And remember, there may be a bumper-to-bumper line on the other side of the hill. So, be pre pared! report of conservation practices carried out in the fall of 1945 and during the year 1946. This report must be filed by January 15, 1947. Please include the following prac tices: ACRES OF; (Turn in sales re ceipts for purchased material). J. Good growth annual lespede- za seeded in 1946 and not cut for hay. 2. Good growth cortalaria seeded solid in 1946. 3. Good growth small grain seeded in fall of 1945 not cut for hay or not harvested for grain. 4. Good growth cowpeas, vel vet beans, or soybeans, planted solid and left on land or turned under. 5. Good growth kudzu or lespe deza sericea established in 1946. 6. Legume or grass seed har vested. 7. Permanent pasture cleared, mowed, or sodded to bermuda grass. 8. Forest trees planted POUNDS OF: (Turn in sales receipts for purchased material). 1. Blue Lupine, Austrian WirVtfer peas, vetches, crimson clover, or bur clover seeded in fall of 1945. 2. Lespedeza, clover or other grasses and legumes seeded in per manent pasture. 3. Phosphate, lime potash, or mixed fertilizer applied to perma nent pasture, winter legumes, an nual lespedeza, crotalaria, kudzu, lespedezia sericea, new seedings of summer legumes not followed by another summer growing crop and small grains seeded in fall of 1945 and overseeded to annual les pedeza in spring of 1946. NOTE Where prior approval of terrac ing, ditching, and dams for live stock water or irrigation was re ceived report completion of the E ractice so that it can be checked y your county office. Asbury L. Bevis, Adm. Officer A.C.A. W. Atkins and Mrs. Mamie E. Carr Atkins, both formerly of Pickens county. Funeral services will be held at 1 p, m. today at the Toonigh Church of God. Officiating minis ters will be the Revs. Jesse Mil- wood and Paul Fowler. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Sosebee Funeral Home in charge. Besides his parents, the de ceased is survived by four broth ers: Hugh Atkins, of Atlanta, Herman, of Atco, Spart E., of Lebannon, and Pvt. Morris N., stationed at Kelley Field, Tex. Four sisters: Mrs. Nell Reece, of Mairietfh, Mrs. Paul Saye, of Leb annon, Mrs. Leon Blackwell, of Tate, and Miss Doris Atkins, of Lebannon. f Miss Norma Foung had as her guest this week Miss Rosemary Hinton, of Thomason. Boi' Bridges, of Atlanta, spent several days this week with Carl Edge Jr. Examinations For Contact Jobs Announced By VA Competitive examinations to se lect a permanent staff of contact representatives for Veterans Ad ministration offices in five south eastern states will be held early in 1947, the VA announced today. The examination is open to all veterans. VA personnel who are now holding contact representa tive jobs on a temporary or war service basis will be required to compete with other veterans. Long known as the link between VA and the veteran, the contact representative interviews former servicemen to assist them in ob taining benefits to which they are entitled. Entrance salaries for contact representative, tCAF-7, begin (at $3397.20 with automatic periodic increases to a maximum of $4449.- 60. Applications must be forwarded by January 15 to the Executive Secretary, U. S. Board of Civil Service Examiners, Veterans Ad ministration Branch Office 5, At lanta 3, Georgia. Eligibility of ap plicants will be determined by a review of their experience and training, a written test and an oral examination. Applicants should submit the standard Civil Service Form 57, application for federal employ ment, as well as a request for written examination, Form 6000- AB. Disabled veterans claiming ten point preference should also en close a Form 14. Necessary forms may be obtained from the Board of Civil Service Examiners at the VA, from the Civil Service Com mission or from any first or sec ond class post office. ■ Fain Mashburn, who underwent a serious spinal operation at Law- son General Hospital last week, is doing fine and will return home soon. Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Duncan and son, Ronnie,, of Marietta, were the guests of Mrs. W. H. Duncan and Mkdge during the holidays. RAMBLIN’ 'ROUND By J. B. Parham BALL GROUND MASONS SELECT NEW OFFICERS Redwine Lodge of Masons, No. 174, has elected and installed the following officers for 1947: Dr. R. H. Bramlett, worshipful master; Clyde Bannister, senior warden; Ira Bottoms, junior war den; E. H. Sherrill, treasurer; H. L. Ridings, tyler; Dr. R. H. Bram- Iett Jr., chirplain; J. M. Byers, senior deacon; A. Truel Moore, Moore, junior deacon; W. I. Me- Gehee, senior stewart; J. E. Heard, junior steward; W. J. Jones, sec retary. BASE CAMP OF TASK FORCE WILUAWAW IN THE ALEUTIANS—In these bleak surroundings members of a training unit will spend six months testing Army Ground Force equipment and tactics under wet and cold winter conditions existing in that area. From down near Woodstock comes another story of a big hog. W. V. Chandler reports his neigh bor, M. L. Chapman, mail carrier and good farmer, killed a hog last week that beats anything seen in them parts in a long time. The hog pen was four feet high, the hog could stand flat footed and look over the fence. It took six men to handle him, even the hangers re quired two men to carry them. Af ter the hog was shot and stuck the killers left the hog to tend the fire and make ready for scalding. When they returned for the hog was gone. Of course they found him pretty soon behind the pen just nosing around. The gun was brought out again and the job done over. The report does not state the weight of the porker, but it seems there were no scales big enough to weigh him. We saw an object go over Canton Thursday that at first looked like a balloon. It is just possible that some of the boys down there blew up the bladder and released it. This must have been a tremendous hog. —O— A former Cherokee county citi zen, George Washington Flanigan, was up from Marietta a few Sun days ago. Wash is doing nicely in his new home in Marietta, he is working at the carpenter’s trade, makng $1.50 an hour and puts in as much time and does as much work as younger men. His sons-in-laws, Hubert Whitmore and Cecil Payne, had arranged for a celebration for him and Mrs. Flanigan on the Sunday he was in Canton. It was their 35th anniver sary of their marriage. They were taken by surprise, not thinking it was their anniversary. —O— We were glad to see Bob White- side and Evelyn while here on a visit back home to the Melvin Youngs. The Whitesides are now citizens of Hartford, Connecticut, and are doing nicely in business among them Connecticut Yankees. —O— We all are on our way through a new year which we hope will he kind to us and we won’t pull too many boners during the year. We spent a pleasant Christmas down in Macon, the prettiest town, at least during the Christmas season, in Georgia. We have never before seen such a display of yuletide dec orations. We spent the day with the little 16-months old grandba- by. He took to the drum, the banjo, the little wagon, etc. he received, and after playing with them awhile he went to the closet and dragged out his old standby, a. worn out ■shoe that he pushes around as if it were a train. The trip en route was pleasant, not crowded, with the sun shining bright and people out in the open threatening to start planting, —O— As we were catching out of Ma con Thursday morning we spied two young girls perched up in front of an air conditioned bus headed South. One of them waved a “hi, there.” Then we recognized Evelyn Whitmire and Alice Dean of Wood- stock en route to Del .and, Florida,' to visit Sara Robertson . —O— Enroute back all the negroes in Jackson, Locust Grove and Mc Donough seemed to be going pla ces. They packed the bus stand ing from front to back. But they were orderly, talked loud and laughed louder. —O— A few Sunday ago Roy Smith came by in a new Ford and asked if we wanted to go for a ride up Sharptop way. Might as well ask a duck if it wanted to swim. It was a fine day and we traipsed out over Loy’s mountain farm where he had just sold the timber which had been sawed into lumber. He has a pile of slabs and slivers that would make any man rich, at prevailing prices of sawed wood. Roy’s mother lives in this sec tion and we visited at her home. We stopped at Dennis Worley’s and saw some fine chickens ten weeks old. The Worleys have a beauti ful place on Sharptop. —O — Regarding the big turnip rais ed by Arthur Gray, little John Bishop and his boy, Fred, came in last Friday to report a big turnip. They didn’t have turnip with them but John had his hands apart and asked us to measure the distance, which was the distance around the turnip. If little John measured cor rectly the turnip is 28 inches around, and he proved it by Fred. He didn’t want to dig the turnip up just yet, arguing that it would grow on until spring and might get to be the biggest turnip ever read about in these parts. We doubt if the State Highway Department would allow John and his boy, Fred, to grow root crops within a mile of the paved roads. These big turnips and potatoes might prize the concrete out of place. 114 Members Close of Year A membership meeting of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Wap held at Canton on last Monday, December 30, and it was decided at that time by unanimous vote for the organization not to cease functioning under its present charter but to continue to oper ate as a county-wide civic organi zation. The first business taken up at the Monday meeting was that of amending the by-laws whereby di rectors and officers of the organ ization may continue to serve until their successors are elected and qualified. Before this section of the by-laws was changed, the terms of officers and directors au tomatically expired at the end of each year. With the enactment of this amendment, the members pro ceeded to elect a board of direc tors to serve during the year, 1947, and all eight directors elect ed in 1943, were reelected to suc ceed themselves. Directors elected at this time were J. H. Bagwell, J, D. Foster, L, L. Jones Sr., C. K. Cobb, N. A. Thomason, E. A. MeCanless, H. G. Vandiviere, and G. N. Coker. Immediately following the close of the membership meeting, the newly elected board of directors called themselves into session fov electing officers and appointing four other directors to serve for the year, 1947. C. K. Cobb, who served as vice president during 1946, was elevated to president, succeeding Grady N. Coker, and H. G, Vandiviere was named vice president. N. A. Thomason and E. O, Me Father were reelected treas urer and secretary, respectively. Those chosen for directors were E. O. McFather, B. R. Jones, Joe Johnston, and D. S. Pressly, The directors agreed to hold a meeting at an early date for the purpose of determining member ship dues for 1947 and to dispose of other business relative to county-wide projects. A report of the treasurer re vealed that the Chamber of Com merce has in its treasury the amount of $1373,60 even though the organization has had no in come during 1946. Expend tures for the year included a contribu tion of one thousand dollars to Reinhardt College and $399.00 to incidental expenses. The Chamber of Commerce now has a total of 114 members. At one time soon after its charter was granted, its membership reached 124. The organization has Continued on page 8 New Bus Station Put In Operation/ Here Yesterday , Smoky Mountain Stages, north and south bound busses began ar riving and departing from Can ton's new bus station yesterday. An official of the National Trail- ways Bus System checked out the records and equipment of their old station located at Canton Drug Co. and moved them to the new station owned by H. S. Pitts. The new station is located back of the postoffice in the building where Mr. Pitts now operates a restau rant. The Canton Drug Co. has serv ed as a bus station ever since the first buses began to operate through here some 15 years ago- Beginning with passenger cars the buses have now grown to lounge-type coaches like those used by long cross-country trips. Yets Reminded Of Farm Training Program Meeting Cherokee County veterans are reminded that a meeting is to be held at Canton High School on next Monday, January 6, at 3 p. m. for the purpose of organizing the county's first class in a Farm Tuaining Program. John Keith, who has been chos en instructor for this class, stated that all veterans interested in this program should attend the meet ing whether they have previously made application or not. The mem bers of the Advisory Committee will also attend the meeting to gether with the county agent and others. Members of this Advisory Com mittee are ag follows: M, E. Wil banks, D. M. Worley, A. B. Bobo, Tom Smith, and H. F. Cook.
