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Vol. CXVI, No. 36.
‘Spring A Long Way Off
Observes Sad Weatherman
Floods, Cold, Snows, Freezing Rains Harass
Parts Of Nation As Winter Strikes Again
CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—(AP)—Floods, cold, snows and
freezing rains harassed parts of the country today and a
weather forecaster observed dismally, “Spring is still a
long way off.” b :
An emergency proclamation to
save water brought the prospect
of a dimout and industrial cur
tailment for most of drought
browned California.
Floodwaters in ice - jammed
Powder River forced some low
land - farmers from their homes
in Montana. Mississippi’s flood
swollen Yazoo River kept Army
Last Respects Paid
Or. Henry A, Shinn
In Chapel Saturday
The memory of Henry Arthur
Shinn will be perpetuated by the
most lasting of memorials +— the
love, respect, and admiration of
hi;; fellowmen. None who witness
ed the stream of friends and
loved ones who came to pay
their final respelts Saturday af
ternoon could deny that.
It was fitting that hee memo
ral service for this respecteq ed
ucator — & scholar who unself
ishly devoted 13 years of his life
in service to the University ‘of
Georgia—be held in the historie
old Chapel. For there the spirits
of other departed Universily
greats — Toombs, Stephens, Long,
Cobb, Hill, Gordon, Herty, and
countless others — could add
their “Well Done” and say with
Chaplain B. D, Napier: ;
“He was loved. He was loved
as few are loved. He was loved
with tender and treasured affec
tion by wife and daughter and
kin. He was loveq with admira
tion by his students. He was lov
ed with deep respect by his col
leagues. He was loved—and who
will say it is the least—by the
janitors of the Law Building. He
was loved. Ang love; dear beloved;
is of God. :
«He loved. He loved as few
loved. He loved those who re
turned his love. He loveq some
who did not, and in loving
brought at last an answering love.
He loved his work. He loved his
life — not his life, but the life he
was given, with which, out of
which, through which, he loved
and in loving, served. 1t can and
must be said of one who so loved:
‘Greater love hath no man than.
this—that he lay down his life
for his friends'.” "
The service would have been
in keeping with Henry Shinn’s
wishes, simple, yet dignified; beau- |
tiful vet holy — it symbolized
the pattern of his life. Aand ne
would not have wished for more
than to be carried to his final
resting place by the men with]
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South's Largest Azalea Show Will
Be Held In Conner Hall Tomorrow
The largest azalea show ever
to be held in the south will be
opened to the public in Conner
Hall of the College of Agricul
ture. on Monday and Tuesday
from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
The Azalea Show, origion
ally scheduled te open tomonr
row morning will open this
afternoon at three and re
main open until 9 tonight.
It will remain open Monday
and Tuesday.
The public is invited and urged
to visit this exhibit of azelias
at which time there will be on
display several thousand azalea
plants with dozens of wvarieties
in bloom. There will be on hand
at all times members of the
Floricultural Club of the De
partment of Horticulture to act
as guides for the visitors. Those
interested in azaleas cannot af
ford to miss this opportunity as
its displays are in every way out
standing. i
GECRGIANS GATHER IN MACON TO FORM THIRD PARTY
IN GEORGIA:; WALLACE FORPRESIDENT ORGANIZATION
MACON, GA., Feb. 21—(AP)
-—Armed with an oversized, tat
tered portrait of Henry A. Wal
lace and boxes of Wallace-for-
President literature, delegates
from thiroughout Georgia;gathered
here today for a session aimed
at formation of a definite third
Party in Georgia. Well over half
of the delegates were negroes.
Don West, Oglethorpe Univer-
Sity professor and temporary
Georgia chairman of the Wal
ace-for President movement,
aidthe new party will be known
s the Peoples Progressive Party
nd will steer completely clear of
€ Democratic primauy.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
engineers on the alert, but they
said the levees should protect
Greenwood from any danger. The'
high waters previously floods
more than 400,000 acres of lfvj’;’;
Cold weather extended . "o
the Rockies to the Atlanti¥ -i
board. A moderate sno’ = stm
worked northward fr(%:t - Ken
tucky, Missouri, souther‘fi“’ 11li
nois and southern Indiana. Freez
ing rain glazed some highways in
Tennessee and northeast Arkan
sas. A belt of rain extended from
western Texas to northern Flori
da and Georgia.
Temperatures dipped below
zero in North Dakota, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Michigan, but a
gradual warmup was forecast for
much of the Midwest. However,
forecasters said another bulge of
cold Canadian air would stiat
down into the Midwest Mondqy‘
night, %
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Florist, Bulb Growers
.
Convention, School
.f.'fig second annual School of
the “Georgia Florists Association
and the Southern Bulb Growers
Association will get underway
here tomorrow, Also the annual
Convention aof the itwo groups
will be helé in conjunction with
the school. The convention will
get undeérway today. :
Over 400 florists and Bulb
Growers are expected to attend
these meetings.
Registration will begin this af
ternoon at the Georgian Hotel at
four and a get-together will be
held at six. A social hour wiil
follow from- 7-9 in the Julian
Price Room of the Georgian.
Dr. Kennith Post, Floriculture
Department, Cornell University
will be featured speaker on. the
Florists: program. J. Edgar Also
brok, Columbus President of The
Georgian Floral Association, will
also appear on the program..
U. L. Patterson, Shelby, N. C,,
and formerly of Gainesville wil'
be the Bulb Growers featured
speaker. Dr. H. D. Wilson, Alba
ry, President of The Southern
Dulb Growers Association will
also appear on this program.
The program for the remainder
of the meet is as follows: Mon
day morning: Growers School;
Monday afternoon a formal de
sign school; Monday night: Barn
Dance at Hardman Hall; Tuesday
morning: - Growers school; Tues
day afternoon, design school for
flowers to wear; Tuesday mnight,
Banquet .at Georgian Hotel; In
stallation of officers, and floor
show by sixty University of
Georgia students.
This ,exhibit is put on by T.
L. Patterson, a former Georgia
boy who hs his extensive azal
ea greenhouses and plantings at
Sheloy, N. C.
At this time the Georgia State
Florists and Ornamental Horti
culturists Association ag well as
the Southern Bulb Growers As
sociation will be in session on
the Agriculture campus. Mr.
Patterson is cooperating with
them in making this display of
azeleas as visitors from all sec
tions of the United States attend
this convention. He is also de
desirous that the people of Ath
ens have an opportunity to see
this exhibit. The same is offered
free ag there -are no admission
charges. As the Floricultural
Club is sponsoring this exhibit
there will be assurance of per
sonally conducted tours by mem
bers of this organization for all
visitors. :
Don’t forget the dates, Conner
Hall, campus of the College of
Agriculture, February 23-24,
nine a. m. to five p. m. and open
to the public.
Denying what he termed “press
implications” that the Wallace
element will endorse the Rev.
Joseph Rabun for Governor,
West said the party may nomi
nate its own slate of candidates
for next November’s general el
ection.
The conference barred report
ers. Preceding the session, how
ever, West talked with news
men outlining aims of the ses
sion. He said groundwork would
be laid today for a party conven
tion in April, at which candi
dates will be nominated.
The party chairman asserted
that the Wallace movement is
Full Associated Press Service
Citizens Show Favorable Response To
Appeal For Voluntary Accurate Returns
%4t Civilization
OutTo Sea Says
Nation Can Be Transferred Into Barren Waste
Unless Vital Soil Is Saved, Says Lawmaker
BY BILL BURSON
For those Georgians who will listen, Stephen Pace has
a message. So sincerely was he interested in presenting
that report, he postponed his multiplicity of Congres
sional duties in Washington and rode all night to deliver
it before the 20th Annual Georgia Press Institute Satur
day morning. ‘ ; :
Democratic Party
Dinner Response
Fine, Dean Report
18, uean heporis
ATLANTA, Feb. 21—(AP)—
Chairman James S. Peters of a
Talmadge-aligned State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee
promptly spurned a written invita
tion today to attend Georgia’s Jef
ferson-Jackson Day dinner.
Peters joined Herman Talmadge
in a boycott of the March 9 fund
raising affair. And he gave the
same reason. He said sponsors of
the dinner never have accounted
properly for funds they collected
last year. ¥
Whether Peters would be in
vited arose as an issue shortly aft
er the dinner was announced.
His invitation was extended to
day along with a bid to five liv
ing former governors and to past
chairmen of State Democratic
Committee.
- Jefferson-Jackson Day Chair
man Bill Dean wrote to each of the
Democratic committee chairmen:
“In view of the fact that you
have served the Democratic party
of Georgia most ably as chairman
of the State Democratic Commit
tee, I extend to you a most cor
dial invitation to*be our guest at
the dinner.”
Dean said the intra-party fight
with the Talmadge faction in
Georgia and dissension over Pres
ident Truman’s civil rights pro
gram are not interfering with suc
cess of the dinner.
More than 50 per cent of coun
ties already have met or exceeded
their quotas, he reported, and
“more Democrats than ever before
are making contributions.”
“The response is most gratifying
from the entire state,” he said.
“The dinner already is an assured
suceess.” ]
Former governors invited are
John M. Slaton, Ellis Arnall, Hugh
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PROPOSED ATHENS AGRICULTURAL
FAIR TO BE HELD OCTOBER 18
President, A. P. Winston, of the
Athens Agricultural Fair, Inc,
announced yesterday that the
proposed fair, for which he and
his group have been arduously
working since last year, will be
held on October 18 of this year.
Date for the presentation was
fixed after the last meeting of
the Directors of the Fair orga
nization on Februay 2.
Mr. Winston said that the co
operation in organization and
subscriptions for the fair has
been more than outstanding. He
pointed out that last year his
group was able to subscribe
$25,000. Now the total number
of dollars in the- subscription
fund has risen to $27,000 and
21,000 has been collected.
Land Purchased
The sponsors have already pur
chased 46 acres of good land,
gaining momentum and will show
“surprising” strength in the
state.
Delegates were welcomed by L.
Marshall, local negro leader. The
Rev. C. T. Pratt of Dalton, the
Rev. M. J. Sherrard of Macon,
William Stafford; Regional or
ganizer of the Public Worker’s
Union, CIO, and West were to
also speak at the session today.
West declared that he had heen
surprised at Rabun’s announce
ment for.governor. He said that
a certaip group of so-called “Red
Baiters” in At&nta are seeking to
form another %ird partyto off
set potential Wallace power,
Bt Y
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1948.
Washing
Rep. Pace
~ “We are letting our civilization
wash out to sea,” the veteran law
maker declared. “Our rich top
soil, that utmost essential of life
itself, is being taken away by our
streams, rivers, and seas. Our fore
fathers found it nine inches deep
upon their arrival here. Not we
have less than six inches of it
left,” :
Citing a recent Congressional
survey as the evidence, Pace went
on to point out that “in the cen
tury and one-half since people
have swept across this continent,
we have depleted our basic wealth
faster than any other nation in the
history of the world. Another cen
tury and one-half of the same pace
could transform the United States
into a barren waste, unable to feed
its own people.”
Maintaining that the greatest de
ficiency of Georgia was the lack of
purchasing power, the Third Dis
trict legislator set forth a program
for remedying the situation:
(1) Lift the South from discri
mination and freight differential
and as soon as that is comp!etedi
do something about wage discre
pancy; - 4
(2) Cash in on our climate re
sources; v ki
(3) Bring about industrial de-
velopment—not “Willow Runs”,
but the small plants at every
crossroad;
(4) Develop maximum. hydro
electric power—lack of adequate
power has prevented many indus
tries from locating in Georgia;
(5) Produce the things the citi
zens eat themselves—last year
Georgia purchased outside the
state 50-million quarts of ' milk,
8 1-2-million pounds of butter;
two million cases ofegg s; thou
sands of tons of hay; and 50 per
cent of beer consumed; 2
(6) Reduce the number of ten-
ants—the only way to preserve
the soil and accomplish capacity
agricultural production is to give
each farmer that “pride and will
to-work” which comes only
through personal ownership of the
soil he tills; and
(7) Stabilize agriculture—llabor
has its minimum wage and indus-
try, its tariffs; but the farmer has
no income protection.
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sodded in grass, on the old Atlan
ta highway, which will be used as
the site for the presentation.
F .H. Williams and Mr. Win
ston, members of the amusement
committee representing the Fair
group stated that the Fair would
not only present many interesting
agricultural and industrial ex
hibits, but would also feature
very fine entertainment. A well
known amusement company has
been contacted that promises a
keen and varied entertainmernit
for young and old alike.
The Athens Agricultural Fair,
Incorporated was founded by‘w
Mr. Winston last year in the in
terest of presenting a high typei
of Fair ground entertainment in
Athens. He and his Board of Di- 1
rectors, which includes L. O.
Price, J. Swanton Ivy, W. H.
Cabiniss, Morton Hodgson, Mal
com Rowe, F. H. Williams,
Walter Sams, Ralph Sams,
Howard Benson, D. L. Branyon,
and F. E. McHugh, have labored
for many months to have plans
drawn up and complete subscrip
gons and ' preparations for the
air.
“Future Plans
Plans have already been laid
not only out for the proposed
plan for the fair to be present
ed here in October, but for some
years to come. The directors are.
already considering the expan
sion that will be necessary in fu
ture years, and have made plans
accordingly. Completed grounds
will include permanent buildings
for animal and agricultural dis
plays and industrial exhibitions,
stationary amusements. and a
race track.
The Board of Directors will
meet again tomorrow at the Hol
man Hotel to make further plans
in the .organization and build
ing of the Fair. R
Many Revise Tax Figures So As To
Increase Revenue, Raise Bond Margin
A growing number of Athenians, moved by civic pat
riotism and the common sense knowledge that without
sufficient funds the municipal government cannot give
the people nficeésary services, are increasing their tax
returns at the City Hall. ’
Last week many citizens revised
their 1948 tax returns so as to in
crease the figure, thus voluntarily
paying the City more money, in
response to the plea of the Citi
zens Committee on Munieipal Rev
enue and the municipal govern
ment officials.
City tax returns must be filed
by March 15th and by that time,
judging by the response already
given by citizens to the plea for
them to assist in providing the City
with enough money to operate
public services, a large majority
will have increased their returns
on jewelry, personal property, au
tomobiles, office fixtures, business
inventories, machinery and equip
ment as well as notes and accounts,
thus assuring the City of more
revenue and, too, increasing the
property valuations in order that
bonds may be issued to build a
sorely needed High School.
Sentiment in support of this
citizens’ movement to put the
municipal government on a better
financial basis, is strong. Last week
after hearing talks by W. A,
Mathis, chairman and J. fimiley
Wolfe and Di‘n Hill, members of
the Citizens Revenue Committee,
the Kiwanis club voted unani
mously to support the recommen
dations, praising the Committee
for their service to the community
in doing the work its members
have done in the last several
weeks. € l
Revises Returns
'~ More than one member of the
Kiwanis club has gone to the City
Hall since then and increased his
tax returns. One citizen jumped
the returns for members of his
family in the amount of $1300.00.
He increased the returns for
jewelry as well as household furni
ture. Another citizen telephoned
the City Tax office and asked that
her personal property return be
increased $300.00 and another
citizen increased his returns from
$300.00 to SI2OO. These are a few
examples of how general and
wholehearted is the response of
the tax payers.
Returns Revised
Last week the City mailed a‘
plea to seven thousand citizens
asking that they voluntarily help ‘
their City and, incidentally them
selves, by making fair tax returns.
One citizen, enroute to the City
Hall yesterday stopped a Banner-{
Herald reporter to say that he wasi
on his way to revise his tax re
turns. He pointed out that “if we
all do the fair and square thing,l
all of us will pay less taxes in the
long run”, Most of the taxpayers
are yet to file their returns, in
dicating that many of them have
held back to see just how general
will be the cooperation that citi-!
zens give the movement to increase
the City’s revenue and thus paved
the way for operation of City Serv
ices upon a plane that the people
want them maintained.
It is an admitted faet that until
now citizens in Athens have not,
as a rule, made fair tax returns.
The Advisory Committee, in its
SO Pevee:
Congressional Leaders Agree On
30-Day Rent Controls Extension
Trip To Jekyll
ATLANTA, Feb. 21—(AP)—
Gov. M. E. Thompson turnec
thumbs down today on a proposed
debate with Herman Talmadge
over the state’s puchase of Jekyl
Island as a beach park.
Talmadge immediately charged
the governor’s refusal is “an ad
mission of his indefensible posi
tion.”
The Demosthenian Literary So
ciety at the University of Georgia
invited the political opponents to
argue the issue on the same stage
in Athens.
Talmadge was president of the
society as a student at Georgia.
Thompson is an honorary member.
Talmadge promptly accepted the
invitation to debate. He listed sev
eral open dates and offered to re
arrange his schedule if none of
the dates - was satisfactory to
Thompson. 3
Demosthenians today made pub
lic a letter from Thompson in
which the governor suggested that
a visit to Jekyll would be “more
enlightening and informative than
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report to the Mayor. and Council,
cited the returns and assessments
for 1947 as follows:
Real Property, $12,157,250.00;
Personal Property, $154,220.00;
Jewelry, $13,290.00; Automobiles,
$845,760.00; Office Fixtures, $78,-
250.00; Business Inventories, sl,-
136,430.00; Machinery and Equip
ment $640,370.00; Notes and Ac
counts, $754,870.00.
Athenians have not, of course, in
tentionally made unfair tax re
turns. It simply has been the cus
tom for citizens to refurn their
household goods, jewelry and oth
er property at a low figure. In do
ing so citizens have not realized
that they are thus jeopardizing the
proper functioning of their own
municipal services such as police,
health and fire protection, schools,
garbage disposal, good streets to
travel on and other services that
have become necessities to every
day life. But now that they are
being made aware of the fact that
“all of us” have been “holding out
against our own interests, be
cause it is certainly to the interest
of every citizen to have police and
fire protection, schools, health
facilities and other such services”.
Test Of Appeal |
The test of the appeal from the
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Northeast Georgia
Livestock Market
Assn. Meets Friday
Northeast Georgia Livestock
Market Association will hold its
annual ‘meeting at the Clarke
county court house on Friday,
February 27, 10 a. m.
County Agents from Clarke,
Oconee, Jackson and Franklin
counties will be present to award
prizes to the winners of the pas~
tures contests in their respective
counties.
The contest was sponsored by
the Northeast Georgia Livestock
Market Association.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Occasional rains and cloudy
Sunday, possibly freezing
rains.
GEORGIA — Rain and
slightly colder Sunday morn
ing, rain changing to light
freezing rain in extreme
north portion, followed by
cloudy and continued rather
cold Sunday afternoon.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .o 0 5. L 4
Lowest
Mean .
Normal
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours
Total since February i .. 5.38
Excess since February 1 . 1.59
Average February rainfall 5.08
Total since January 1 .... 9.61
Excess since January 1 .. 1.62
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—(AP)
—Republican leaders in Congress
\greed today on a 30-day exten
ion of rent controls to give time
or full consideration of a
‘onger range bill.
Present controis are due to run
yut February 29—a week from
Sunday.
The House will vote on the stop-
SAP measure Tuesday, with the
Senate acting later in the week.
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Parking Problem Improves:
NEW PARKING METERS TAKE IN TOTAL OF $2,711
DURING FIRST THREE WEEKS OF SERVICE HERE
According to figures released
by the City-Treasurer’s office,
Athens and visiting motorists
have paid a total of about $2,711
to parking meters since their in
stallation three weeks ago.
Receipts for the first week
amount to SBO3 rose to
$1,033 the second week,
and receded to SB7O in the past
week of service. : ‘
Fifty per cent of fundg derived
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“Washington’s is the mightiest name of §E&
! earth—long since mightiest in the cause of :
civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reforma
tion. On that name no eulogy is expected. :
It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun 8§
or glory to the name of Washineton is alike isas
. impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn §
awe we pronounce the name and in its JEEs
naked deathless splendorleave it shining on.”
—Abraham Lincoln.
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Commissioner Of Agriculture Will Meet ,
Wi ith Farmers, Others In Athens March 1
Commissioner of Agriculture Tom Linder will meet in
Athens, Monday, March 1, with representatives of sev
eral counties in this area as well a§ county agents and
extension division specialists on laying the groundwork
for locating a State Farmers Market here to serve the
farmers of this section. |
Local Groups Observe
Washington Birth, Ali
Banks Close Monday
Washington’s birthday is be
ing observed by Elijah Clarke
Chapter, Daughters of the Am
ericap Revolution, and in an ar
ticle on the first President, Mrs.
M. C.. Southwell, chairman of
Patriotic Anniversaries, pay tri
bute to the great American and
points out that “he made it pos
sible on this continent not mere
ly-a new nation but one "con
ceived in ideas dedicated to
ideals esential to freedom not
only in America but elsewhere!”
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce, is utilizing the anniver
sary to call for a “re-examina
tion of the meaning and signi
ficance of Americanism” and
urges each citizen to spend a mo
ment in serious contemplation of
his proud heritage of American
ism as handed down through
years of industry and vigilance.”
(Continued on Page Three.)
from the meters will be used
for payment to the meter com
pany for the machines and in
stallation, and the remaining
money will be set aside in a spe
cial fund for traffice contrel and
enforcement.
Since the installation and en
forcement of the parking meters,
the traffic and parking problems
in the city have been greatly
relieved, and, although there
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Mayor Jack Wells ang Maleom
Rowe, Athensand Madison county
Lusinessmarn and farmer, sawgfir.
Linder in Atlanta - several -days
ago as a committee representng
the Clarke County Farm Plan
ning Committee and Mr. Linder
repeated his interest.in locating a
Farmers Market in Athens to
help increase farm income in this
section; The- date ‘was = decided
upon ast week for the meeting
here March 1, + *!
At the 'meeting: next month
Commissioner ‘lfi'figer; will ge into
the possibility of farmers in this
arvea ‘raising sufficient crops to
supply a Farmers = Market in
Athens, He has aijready shown a
disposition to locate the Market
here, it is said, and the next step
is to determine whether the mar
ket can he sufficiently supplied
to make its establishment worth
while. .
Members of the Athens Junior
Chamber of Commerce, an or
gonization that sent a committee
into several counties last year to
meet with farmers on the Far
mers Market ptéposal will - also
atteng the meeting in March with
Mr. Linder. £ e
have been some minor complaints
during the first weeks. of meter
use in the city, the police depart
ment feels ‘that satisfaction to
the people and to the depart
ment will continue to grow from
their use. - s
Captain J, =H. Porterfieid
newly appoointed head of the Po
lice Traffic Division, with the as
sistance of afficers of the de
partment, has been making the
weekly collgefiags. . =