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Reds Parry German Thrusts,
Forge Ahead In Nikopol Drive
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on Of Athenian Dies In England
A telegram has been received by Mrs. George
W. Thomas of Wetumpka, Ala, of the death of
her husband, Staff Sergeant George W. Thomas,
in Hurdwick, Norfold, England, on November 2.
Sergeant Thomas, gaed 24, was the son of the
late Mrs. George W. Williams of Athens. Mr.
Williams resides on Prince avenue.
Sergeant Thomas was a member of the air
force crew shown in "the above picture. He is
shown in the front row, fourth from the left. He
was a gunner.
Acording to the telegram, no details were given
concerning the death of Sergeant Thomas. The
messace follows: “The Secretary of War desires
that | tender his deep sympathy to you ‘in the
British Bth Lunges:Forward
For 5 Miles, Nears Adriatic
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JOSEPH E. WAGES HAS
ENDED BASIC TRAINING
Friends of Joseph E. Wages,
Firemah 1-c, and son of Mg and
Mrs. J. M. Wages, 340 Barber
street, has completed his- ~ basic
raining at the submarine school,
Submarine - Base, New London,
Conn,, for duty with the growing
fleet of underseas fighters,
The new submariner was grad
lated from Athens High Sechool
ind had ROTC instruction. After
lining the Navy ten months ago,
le went to Great Lakes, 111, for
Dreliminary naval instruction._
JOSEPH TOBIAS WINS
COMMISSION AS LIEUT,
Friends here of Joseph Tobias,
001030 South Lumpkin Street, will
% pleased by the announcement
at he has been commissioned a
Second Lieutenant in the Medical
Aministrative . Corps. at Camp,
Barkeley Officer Candidate School,
Texas, following a course ‘of four
Months training, . ; ; '
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YATKINSVILLE MAN -
“WMPLETES COURSE
Pfe. Morton Smith, son of
Wr. and Mrs. S, H. Smith, of
Watiinsville, who entered the
824 Liberator bomber . me
thanics school at Keesler Field,
Biloxi, Miss., seventeen weeks
390, has been graduated from
this unit of the Army Aip
Forces Training - Command.
.He will go either to active
line duty servicing -the four
®ngined airplane, to aerial
SUnnery school, or to a factory
Sthool for specialized training
N maintenance of big craft. -
Migs JACQUELINE-BETTERTON
%ORKING AT ROBINS FIELD
ROBINS FIELD, Ga.—Mrs. Jac-
Yeline Simg Betterton of Athens,
M een accepted for training as
& War worker with. Warner Robins
Al Service Command at 'Robins
Pielg (Ga), & “Keep ’‘em Flying”
Manch ¢ the Army Air Forces
resbunsil»lo for the repalr. main
lenanw and supply of army air
" in al parts of the worlds
Mllrs. Betterton is the dau!!\;if of*
T. and Mps. Ha H. ms,
Soute Athens, 's;:y attended the
2‘:’“o Scthools there and hefore
ing 1, Robins Field she ~was
Mociateq with mmm"
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service.
loss of your husband, Staff Sergeant George W.
Thomas. Report received he died on November 2,
1943, in Hurdwick, Norfolw, England. Letter fol
lows.” :
Sergeant Thomas joined the Army Air Corps in
Atlanta on October 3, 1940, and was sent to Max
well Field, Ala., where he was connected with the
military police for two years. In January, 1943, he
was sent to Denver, Colorade, where he started
his training as aerial gunner. He completed the
course in Harlingen, Texas, in April then was sent
to Pueblo, Colorado, where he last served in the
United States. He was overseas two months be
fore his death,
ing she will be assigned .to the
Supply division.
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CORPORAL CARL ALLGOOD
STATIONED IN MAINE
~ Friends- of Corparal Carl P.
‘Allgood will be interested to
~ know he is now stationed with
Headquarters North Atlantic
Wing, Presque lsle, Maine, the
War Department has announc
ed.
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ATHENIAN REPORTS
TO WAC FOR DUTY
Friends of Mrs. .Frances Hart
man Andrews will be Tinterested to
know she reported for active duty
in the WAC with the Army Air
Corps on November 18, at Fort
Oglethorpe,
She has been connected with
the Clarke County Welfare De
partment for the past four years
and is the daughter of Mrs. Ruby
Hartman, Clarke Ordinary.
Her ‘brother, Bob Hartman, is a
Midshipman at the United States
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Mr,
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FOUR ATHENS MEN AT
GREAT LAKES STATION
- New! recruits at the U. S. Naval
Training Station, Great Lakes, Illi
nois, aré four Athens men.
They are now receiving instruc
fion in seamanship, military drill,
and naval procedure. Soon, ' they
will be given a series of aptitude
tests for determining whetker they
will be assigned to one oft the
Navy's service schools, or to im
mediate active duty at sea.
Upon completing their recruit
training, these men will be home
on a nine day leave. They are
Rufus Rubbin Lester, 26, husband
of Mary Lester, 145. Park View
Homes: Warren T. Edwards, 17,
343 Hiadwassee - Avenue; Hoyt
Woodrow Carney, 25, husband of
Lottrelle W. Varney; and James
Monroe Kelley, 22, 1095 Boulevard.
JIMMIE T. HARDY
MADE CORPORAL
'Jimmie T, Hardy, youngest son,
of Mrs. Lois B. Hardy, Wwas re
cently promoted to the rank -of
corporal. Corporal Hardy is now
serving with the Army Anti-Air
reaft division at Camp Haan, Riv
erside, Calif.
Before entering the service in
July, he was employed by Citizens’
Pharmacy and his many friends
will be pleased to learn of his pro=
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Small Gains Scored
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Barrage Of Artillery
Keeps Front Ablaze;
Perano Is Captured
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers— —Breaking through Ger
man forward positions in the first
heavy fighting on thg ltalian front
in recent days, the British Eighth
Army lunged forward five miles
to capture Perano, it was an
nounced today, thereby threatgning
an important inland sector of the
Nazis’' heavily fortified line behind
the Sangro river.
Against* heavy artillery fire,
wretched weather and difficult
terrain, the Fifth Army alsoc made
some gains above Venafro along
the northern sector of its front.
The capture of the village if
Perano put the troops of general
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery within
less than a mile of the only bridge
crossing the Sangro river between
the coastal road and a point ten
milesg from the Adriatic.
From their new vantage point
in and near the village Eighth
Army units could look across the
river at a short section of an
extremely important lateral road
upon which the Germans are de
pendent for supplying large forces
entrenched in the hills overlooking
the Sangro.
Slap Opposition
All gains were made against
sharp opposition. Big guns on both
(Continud on Page Six)
George S. Mayne
Services To Be Held
Sunday At 2:30 P. M.
From The Residence
Friday night at his home on
Findley street, George Stovall
Mayne passed away after a long
illness. He was in the 77th year of
his life, having been born Macch
21, 1867.
For many wyears he had been
confined to his home from the
effects of a stroke of paralysis.
Wiith Christian fortitude he had
borne his - affiiction, compensated
as he was by the loving attention
of wife and children.
He was horn in Clarke county,
now Oconee, the son of James
Phillip Mayne and Emma Bolling
(Stovall) Maynes. in his boyhood
days he attended Martin Institute
at Jefferson, Ga., and after com-
Athens, Ga., Sunday, November 21, 1943.
NAZIS GAMBLE FRESH RESERVES
IN EFFORT TO STEM ADVANCE
By JAMES M. LONG
LONDON.— (AP) —Red Army troops crumbled a
massed German tank and infantry attack in bitter
fighting east of Zhitomir yesterday, slaughtering
1,000 Naxzis, overran German defense positions to
widen their newly-won bridgehead at Cherkasi, and
gained in their drive toward the manganese center of
Nikopol, Moscow announced Sunday.
Food Subsidy Fight
000 SUNSIAV HO
Is Being Lost
By Administration
Petition Ending OPA
Jurisdiction
On Coal, Qil Signed
WASHINGTON —(&)—The ad
ministration’s ~ price control ma
chinery collided with another cha,l-l
lenge today—a threat to remove
coal and oil from OPA jurisdiction
—as President Roosevelt's stal
warts gwvaged an apparently losing
battle to save the consumer sub
sidy program,
With the subsidy showdown due
Monday in ‘the House, a bloc of
lawmakers from coal and oil pro
ducing states announced that 209
signatures—just nine short of the
required 218—had Dbeen co]lectedl
on a petition to force action on
‘their proposal. ‘
Rapid Dgvelopments |
The move-—another in a series
of rapid fire developments on the
‘)nution's economic front—left the
administration confronting this
stuation as it strove desperately
to presérve the program it has
chosen for holding the line against
inflation:
I 1. Likelihood that the House,
probably by an overwhelming mar
gin, will approve legislation con
taining a prohibition aganst sub
sidy payments—a, device which the
adminstraton intends to use to
keep down retail food prices.
2, Refusal of the House Ways
(Continued on Page Five.)
Navy Chaplain To Speak
On Thanksgiving Day
A special Thanksgiving program,
arranged by the Voluntary Re
ligious Association in cooperation
with the music department and the
Religious Counecil, will be presented
Tuesday, November 23, in the Uni
versity Chapel at 7:30 p. m.
“Windy” Kimball, president of
VRA will preside, introducing the
speaker of the evening, Lieut. Gra
ham G. Lacy, the new chaplain of
the Naval Pre-flight School here,
Under direction of Miss Lucile
Kimble, special music selections
are to be rendered. Students from
the various city church choirs will
form a special choir for this pro
gram,
Sororities and dormitories are
assembling baskets of fruit, which
members of the VRA will collect
and donate to a charitable organi
zation. These will be distributed to
needy families. g
Three Huge Raids Blast
Nazi Chemical Works
[LONDON —()— British heavy
bombers, striking for the third
time in three nights at the sources
of vast quantities of Germany’s
war chemicals and poison gsases,
pounded Leverkusen, an industrial
suburb of Cologne lighter Allied
suburb oy Cologne. Fighter Allied
light foray against other targets.
The principal goal for the RAF
was a group of plants belonging
to the great I. G. Farbenindustrie
Chemical Trust, known to produce
ingredients used in the production
of poison gas although not the gas
itself. The town’s importance as
a source of explosive chemicals is
rated alongside of Ludwigshafen,
which the RAF had blasted heavily
on both the preceding nights,
Law Enforcement Meet
Will Be Held Here
Law enforcement officers at
tending the Fourth Quarterly Law
Enforcement Conference in Athens
December 8, will hear Dr. Pierce
Harris, pastor of the First Metho
dist church, Atianta, speak. Dr.
Harris, a former big league base
ball player. is an inspiring speaker
and will have a fine message for
the officers present. The subject
“Juvenile Delinquency—The Nat
ional Picture,” will be discussed
by Special Agent Marcus B. Cal
houn of the ¥BI, and Mr. F. R.
Hammack, special agent in charge
of the Atlanta Field Office of the
¥FBI, will offer some suggestions
for decreasing crime among youth.
Judge Henry H. West, Western
Circuit. will speak on the subject
“Dying Declarations ang Confes
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The Russian midnight bulletin
said a total of 4,000 Germans were
killed in fighting which saw Soviet
troops beat back German counter
attacks at two other main points
and gain ground in the Lower
Pripet river area west of Cherni
gov, and to the north in the Re
chitsa area region west of almost
encircled Gomel. In the Rechitsa
area alone 1,200 Geérmans were
killed as the Russgians went over
to the attack after blasting nine
consecutive. Nazi counter-attacks.
Assault Launched
Hoping to eapitalize to the full
est on the German capture Friday
of the strategic rail and highway
junction of Zhitomir( Marshal
Fritz von Mannstein launched an
assault in the area of Korosty
shev, 15 miles to the east.
In the “fierce engagement” that
followed the Russians burned out
82 enemy tanks, killed 800 Ger
mans and “forced the Hitlerites
to retreat,” the communique said,
indicating that the initiative in
the area had passed again to the
Red Army troops. i
In the drive toward Nikopol, on
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Russell Lord To Speak
At Journalism School
R ’
Students in the Henry W. Grady
iehool of Journalism will have an
opportunity to hear another diss
tinguished journalist Monday when
Pussell Lord speaks at 12:06 in
Room 101 of the Commerce-Jour
nalism Building.
During the past week, Univer
sity of Georgia journalism stu
dents heard addresses by Ralph
McGill, editor, Atlanta Constitu
tion; Medora Field Perkerson,
former associate editor, Atlanta
Journal Sunday Magazine, and
author of “Who Killed Aunt Mag
gie?” and “Blood on Her Shoe”;
and Robert P. Tristram Coffin, au
thor and Pulitzer prize-winning
poet.
Mr. Lord is at present editor of
The Land, quarterly magazine
published by Friends of The Land.
He has had a variety of journalis
tic experience. Once managing edi
tor of The New Yorker magagzine,
he has also been editor of Voila,
a weekly published in Bordeaux,
France; editor of The Hampden,
published in Springfield, Mass.;
contributingi editor of The Country
Home; extension news editor and
lecturer in journalism, Ohio State
University; and consultant to the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
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PN REAL PERSON|
| N BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK|
’ \ ;E_ |' We Want To Take Credit For Our '
. Successes, But Not Our Failures
lWhen one confronts the experi
ence of good fortune in biological
endowment and conditioning cir
cumstance, two propositions
emerge. First, good heredity alone
does not settle everything, because
the better the heredity the more
important is a good environment.
Second, good heredity and good
environment together do not de
cisively settle everything, because
the better the heritage and the
mor fortunate the circumstances,
the more important, not the less,
becomes the individual's conscious
personal response.
A priceless violin, made of the
hest wood, needs the more to be
cared for under good ' conditions;
and furthermore, such a violin, so
cared for, only makes more im
portant the playing of it. To be
sure, no analogy can adequately
represent the reciprocal intimacy
of body and spirit, but in some
such way the better our heredity,
the more important is our envi
ronment, and the better our he
redity and environment together,
the more important is our per
sonal response.
When this proposition is trans
lated into terms of biography it
rings true. Granted that great
personalities may have had a
promising hereditary start, and
that one can discern the powerful
effect of environing conditions on
their development, yet Beethoven
without Beethoven's personal re
sponse would: be - unimaginable..
Helen Keller jctorious spirit
certainly dosg Mot seem to be the
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Wilkinson's Leadership
Of Church Lauded;
Dr. Tribble To Speak
BY JACOLYN BUSH
© When the members of the First
Baptist church of Athens gatherl
on this Sunday morning, November
21, the service will carry a note
of rejoicing and the pride of an
admirable achievement. For, after
a period of more than two decades
the $169,000 building debt which
the church incurred in 1921 upon
erection of the new church build
ing - has been removed—a tribute
both to the leadership of the pas
tor, Dr. J. C., Wilkinson, and his
official family, and to the loyalty
and sense of responsibility of the
membership as a whole,
At the dedication ceremonies
this morning, Dr. Harold Tribble
will preach the first of a week-~
long series. of sermons. Professor
of Theology at Southern Baptist
Theolgical Seminary, at Louisville,
Ky., Dr. Tribble is a distinguish
southern Baptist minister, After
his dedicatory talk Sunday morn
ing, he will conduct services at 8
tonight, and twice a day during
the coming .week, ../ ‘... J
Morning services will be ‘held at
16:30 and. evening services at 3
o'clock. Everyone is invited to'the
dedication services and to hear
‘Dr. Tribble all through the week.
| Fourth Church Building
~ “The building which today is
being dedicated is the fourth home
of the Athens Firgt Baptist church”
read. the story in today's church
bulletin, written by .Dean John .E.
Drewry, of the Henry W. Grady
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Collapse Of Laval Expected
As Petain Voices Defiance
LONDON —(&)— Belief grew in
London Saturday that collabora
tionist Pierre Laval's bloc might
collapse in the face of the reported
defiant determination of the Vichy
chief of state Marshal Henri Phi
lippe Petain to lead conquered
France back to Democratic govern
ment. ! j
Lifting a week-long blackout of
all mention of' Petain, the Vichy
radio went to elaborate lengths—
willy-nilly 'result of heredity and
circumstance. Only an obsessing
a priori theory can lead . one to
brush aside as non-existent or in
effectual her conscious handling
of her life’s data, her highly dis
tinctive confrontation of life with
a personal rejoinder,
Moreover, the disastrqus. misuse
of fine heredity and environment
is too familiar a phenomenon to
be doubted. Children are not co
ercively destined to well-intergrat
ed personalities because they are
well born and wellbestead. Iden
tical twins, of like genes and simi
lar environment, - can’ travel dai
verse paths to noticeably different
personal results. The better the
heredity, the more good environ
ment matters; the bester the he
redity and the environment to
gether, the more personal response
counts. :
If, when hegflaze and .circum
stance are thus ‘fortunate, ' the in
dividual's distinctive handling of
life's data is an indispensable fac
tor in building personality, at
what stage in the descending scale
of such good fortune can one sup
pose that that factor disappears?
If personal response i& operative
in using a fortunate situation to
great ends, is it not aldo opsrative
when a deplorable situation is
‘mastreed, and some man, hard put
to it by handicaps and um‘lew
natal endowment, becomes, none
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A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—s¢ Sunday
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London ‘Mystery Blast”
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Renews Speculation __
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Of Nazi Secret Weapon
| By E. C. DANIEL
LONDON.— (AP) —A mystery explosion wrecked a
five-story building in wLondon’s nightclub belt of Soho
ilast night and for a while had Londoners discussing the
Ppossibility that the Germans had employed one of their
oft-threatened “secret weapons.”
During the day enough evi
dence was accumulated to dispel
the supposition that a noiseless in
visible projectile might have caus
ed the blast, or that it was due to
any kind of enemy action, but the
exact cause nevertheless still was
obscure tonight, and seemed likely
to remain so at least until Mon
day.
" Investigation Launched
Authorities made an investigation
of the blast soon after it oc
curred, but did not announce their
findings and today everybody con
cerned with the incient apparent
ly had gone week-ending. .
The explosion — London’s third
mysterious blast in a week —
knocked out the walls of a build
ing on a narrow street where the
sales rooms of most major film
companies are situated and shat
tered windows for a quarter of a
mile around.
~ One report was that film = had
| caught fire in the cutting room of
{ a company which makes documen
MAIN APPROACHES TO FIUME
ARE PERILED BY YUGOSLAVS
BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
LONDON — ‘(AP) — Yugoslav
partisans under Gen. Josip Broz
(Tito) grappled desperately with
the Germans Saturday for the is
lands of Krk -and Crew, which
command the approaches to Fiume
through which Hitler has been
pouring reinforcements in ‘the
long, costly effort to beat down
the ever-increasing menace to his
Southeastern Europe flank.
Nazi sea-borne .troops gained
initlal” lodgements on both islands
Lgnd heavy but as yet indecisive
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" Ths was the most important of
half a dozen Yugoslav fighting
fronts. In central Bosnia the
partisans were pushed back slight
ly, but in the Croatian coastal
area they threw back all Nazi at
tacks. .
The Germans’ fear of an Allied
Balkan invasion to complement
the Rusisan offensive appeared to
be rising hourly and reports from
Ankara told of Nazi troop and
apparently to quiet mounting
French home front unrest—to
create the impression that the 87-
year-old Marshal still was func
tioning. .
A Betlin foreign office spokes~
man was quoted in a Swiss dis+
patch &s having given guarded
confirmation of reports of a crisis
at Vichy. The spokesman added,
however, that “rumors” that Pe
tain had resigned, “so far as is
known at the Wilhelmstrasse, are
nonsensical.”
The Morocco radio in a broad
cast recorded by The Associated
Press “said that a woman’s voice
announcing that “Marshal Petain
has resigned” was heard on the
Vichy radio just before the 7:30
a. m., news bulletins.
Out of the conflicting welter of
rumors from unhappy Vichy, the
report of an open break between
Petain and Laval, his German
supported chief of government, ap
peared to be substantiated.
‘The Vichy radio sounded-a barst
of reports on the old Marshal. The
emphasis of every broadcast was
to try and give a rosy account of
what was happening in Vichy.
A, recording of a voice, purport
edly that of Petain himself, was
broadcast. This broadcast was de
signed to picture the Marshal as
laughing off reports that he was
in. i
Vichy allowed mention of new
pledges of loyalty to the chief of
state—possibly indicating that the
Germans and the Laval collabora
tors had squelched any move that
Petain might have tried to break
away on his own.
W-E-A-T-H-ER
GEORGIA: Continued cool in
north and central portions to
day and tonight. Slikhtly cold
er Sunday night. |
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since November 1 .., 1.87
Excess since November 1 .. .28
Average November rainfall 2.61
Total since January 1 .. ..46.21
Excess since January 1 ... 1.56
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tary movies for the Ministry of
Information. Another was that the |
‘blast might Live been caused by a
faulty gas main —the res son.
which has been attributed unoffi
cially for the two other recent e '{3
plosions. ol \t
Until it developed that the ex
plosion was probably due to some
such cause as these, the barber
shop quarterbacks of London’s
aerial warfare league kicked around
the idea that high trajectory
rocket shell whose propellant was
‘exhausted might have dropped
‘without warning eye or ear, or
‘that a silent glider bomb did the
damage. : .
The Germans had seemed to add
to the mystery today by announe
ing in their communique hat
“German aircraft bombed selected
targets in London last night,” but
this claim was disputed by Lon
don’s air raid and fire-fighting of
ficials. No bombs, guns or sirens
were heard. ; SR
supply trains moving down
Belgrade-Nis railroad at the rate
of 12 a day. A report from Cairo
said the Nazis already had begum
attempts to invade Allied-held '
Samps, less than a week after re
conquest of the companion Aegean
Island of Leros. : o
McWhorter Asks Citizens
To Join Fight On T. B.
Pointing out that tuberculfiia"i’s”&é
the first cause of death among
persons between 15 and 45 years ‘
oft age and that the great bulk of
our.fighting forces aro . bhetween
‘those ages, Mayor Bob McWhorter
vesterday urged Athenlans to par
ticipate in the annual afdfi-tuber
culogis campaignh through the gen
erous purchase of Christmas Seals,
opening on November 22. 3
Text of Mayor McWhorter's
proclamation is as follows:
“WHEREAS, tuberculosis has
increased during all past wars,
“WHEREAS, the Athens Tuber
culosis Association, an integral
part of the nationwide anti-tuber
culosis organization of the United
States, is facing, as is the entire
organization, a crucial year in its
so-far victorious campaign against
tuberculosis, due to wartime condi= ]
tions, i %
“WHEREAS, tuberculosis is the
first cause of death among per- %
sons between 16 and 45 years of
age, : . ‘:|
“WHEREAS, the Christmas
Seal Sale is the sole support of
the Athens Tuberculosis Associa
tion, one of our most worthy com=
munity institutions, F
“THEREFORE, I, Bob Me-
Whorter, Mayor of Athens,
hereby call upon our people to
contribute to the anti-tnberculosis
campaign through the generous
purchase of Christmas Seals dure
ing the annual sale, which opens |
on Monday, Nov. 22, to the end
that a wartime rise in tuberculo=
sis can be prevented in this com=
munity, as well as in the country 35
as a whole.” e
METHODIST PASTORS
a e
FOR TWO ATHENS
(HURCHES (HANGED
- Dr. Harvey ¢C. Holland, pastor
of First Methodist church for the
past four years, has been returned
to that churck by the annual North
Georgia Conference, while two
other Methodist ministers hmfi
have been assigned new pastorates.
After serving ‘Oconee Street
Methodist chureh as its pastor for é
the past four years, The Rev.
Paul Gunnells, has been assigned
to Candler Memorial church in At
lanta, He will be succeeded at
Oconee Street church by The Rev.
C. D. Read. ; :
The Rev. R. P. Etheridge, who
has been pastor of Young Harris |
Memorial Church for the last two
years, has been assigned to Sparta
Methodist church and will be sue
ceeded by The Rev. M. M. Whitte
more. 7
~ List of appointments made by
‘the Conferencé for the Athens=
Elberton District, of which The
‘Rev. J. Hamby Barton, Athens, is
district superintendent, includes:
Appalachee, Hollis D. Brigman;
Athens First church, Harvey €.
Holland; Athens Oconee Street, C.
D. Read; Athens, Young Harris,
Memorial, M. M., Wittemore; Ath- |
ens (Circuit, €. H. Wheelis (sup=
ply); Bishop, Loyd Jackson; Bow=
man, C. T. Gray; Buckhead, Bradly
Colquitt (supply); Canon, H. O.
Green; Carnesville, H. A. King;
Center, Edmond Perry (supply):
Comer - Colbert, Henry Walker;
. F. Hu ; Danielsville, H. G,
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