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Vol. CXVI, No. 240.
City Primary
Date Set For
November 17
wednesday, November 17, was
set as the date for the City Demo
cratic Primary in which five
members of City Council and one
member of the City Civil Service
Commission will be nominated,
at a meeting of the Clarke County
Democratic Executive Committee
held Saturday in the Courthouse.
The committee set noon of
Tuesday, Ov.ober 26, as the clos
ing date for entries in all races.
Registration for the primary will
close at 5 p. m. on October 26.
Entries with the committee are to
pe filed with the secretary, B. i
Lumpkin, and entry fees for can
didates for both City Council and
Civil Service Commission have
been set at SSO, the same entry
fees as prevailed last year. Reg
istration of voters is to be made
with the City Registrar in City
Hall.
The City General Election is set
py law as the first Wednesday in
December, this year falling on De
cember 1.
Draft of Laws
At its meeting the committee
received and accepted a complete
draft of the laws governing pri
mary elections, which was as
sembled by Attorney Robert G.
Stephens, retained by the commit
tee to bring its rules and regula
tions up-to-date since the Secret
Australian System of balloting has
been adopted and put into effect
by the committee.
Copies of the draft will be made
and provided each election man
ager prior to election day and the
committee will see that the man
agers are familiar with the regu
lations befcre the day of ballot
ing. In addition, copies will be
placed with the other election
supplies so that managers will
have the elections laws and rules
and regulations for quick refer
ence.
Copies of the draft will also be
placed in the hands of each mem
ber of the committee itself and
they will familiarize themselves
with it in order to render any
needed service to election officials
whenever necessary.
Attending the meeting was
Chairman Ed D. Wier, who pre
sided; Vice-Chairman D. D. Quil
lian, Secretary B. C. Lumpkin,
Treasurer Robert D, Hamilton, C.
M. Cartledge, James Lay, Reese
Carner, L. ‘P. Crawford, W. R.
Phillips and Allen D. Dier, :
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Miss M arguerite
Antley Wins
Beauty Review
Miss Marguerite Antley,
Athens, representing the Al
pha Delta Pi Sorority, was
chosen “Miss Lambda Chi Al
pha 1948-’49” = last night at
the Lambda Chi Alpha Fra
ternity Beauty Review held
in Fine Arts Auditorium.
Tying for second place
were Miss Ruth Fowler,
Athens, representing the Al
pha Delta Pi Sorority, and
Miss Carol Pyle, Moultrie,
li;presenting Mary Lyndon
all.
Two girls from each sor
ority and each girls’ dormi
tory at the University were
contestants in the review.
Miss Antley will be the
sweetheart of the Fraternity
during this school year, and
she will receive a trip to
Cuba this summer.
Roundup Of World News
Palestine War Flares:
UN. World-War Continues
By The Associated Press
An Israeli motorized column
Was reported unofficially last
(Sat.) night to have come within
a few miles of Gaza, principal
Egyptian army base in Palestine.
Informants in Tel Aviv said the
advance wasg' made with air sup-
Port as Israel pushed a coordina
ted land and air offensive aimed
at smashing a road open to Jew
ish settlements in the Negev,
Southern desert, area.
In Cario the Egyptian governl
ment said its troops Kkilled more
than 500 Jews in driving back an
Israeli force in southern Palestine.
They said Egyptian planes forced
down two Israeli planes in the El
Arish area,
Truce Order Out
Israel apparently rejected a
Uniteq Nations order to cease fir-
Mg on the southern front. While
observers speculated that the
truce between Israel and Egypt
had broken wide open, an Israeli
army spokesman said the believed
fighting had died down after
about 36 hours of -activity.
.Gaza is also the: provisional
Ciptal of the new Arab govern
ment for Palestue. It is on the
Coast only 20 miles from Egypt’s
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FLEETEST POSTMAN WINS A TROPHY — Ear! M.
Logan (left) of Staunton, Va., receives trophy from
Joyce Russo for winning the mail carriers’ race during
the national convention of letter carriers at Miami,
Fla. The contestants used regulation mail bags but
carried coccnuts in them.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Board Lauds Paty's
Service To State
Caldwell Notified At Airport As
He Was Leaving For New Orleans
Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell steps up to the Chancellor
ship of the University System of Georgia on, or béfore,
January 1, succdeding Dr. R. R. Paty who resigned to the
Board of Regents at a meeting in Atlanta Friday. b
. Chaneellor Paty will . 'becomei
Direetor of Public Relations for|
Rich’s, Inc., and Executive Direc—!
tor of the Rich Foundation, and
in both capacities will continue to!
have much influence in the devel
opment of Georgia, educationally
and economically. l
Chancellor Paty carries with!
him the heartiest commendations |
of the Board of Regents for his'
outstanding service as head of the!
University System. §
Dr. Caldwell, who was reached
at the Atlanta Airport Friday |
by Board Chairman Pope Brock,'
as the educator was boarding a!
plane for New Orleans to fill a!
speaking engagement, acceptedf
the unanimous election o f the
Board. The matter of a successor'
to Dr. Caldwell, as president of
the University of Georgia, was
not discussed.
Regents Chairman Pope Brock
said that Dr. Paty’s resignation |
will become effective Jan. 1, 1949, ;
or earlier if Dr. Caldwell and].
Paty desire.
President Since 1935
Dr. Caldwell has headed the
University of Georgia since 1935 |
Prior to that, he served as Dean
of the Law School. He received
his A. B. degree from the Uni-|!
versity of Georgia, and law de- |
grees from Harvard, Mercer, Em- |:
ory, and Tulane. A leading figure
in Georgia educational ecircles, he
The only official statement on
the attack from the Israeli army
said a motorized column ad stag
ed a ‘“punitive raids” on the Arab
Bastion of Iraq El Mashieh, 20
miles northeast of Gaza on the
Magdal-Hebron road.
Preliminary reports said the
Jews had attacked the Egyptian
supply line between Faluja and
Gdal, on an East-West line reach
ing alomst to the coast north of
Gaza.
Jewish Raids
For the second successive night
Jewish planes hit targets Friday
night in the area of the Negev
The dese:?ehg as assigned to
the Jews under‘t}% original U. N.
partition plan, but final report of
the slain U. N. mediator, Count
Folke Bernadotte, recommended
that the Nefev be ®iven to the
Arabs. Israel has served notice it
wants to keep the Negev.
The East-West war of hot
words continued in the United
Nations in Paris. Juliusz Katz-
Suchy of Poland charged that a
military clique sto(?ped President
Truman from sending a special
peace envoy to Moscow — an ap
parent reference to Mr. Truman’s
plan to send Chief Justice Vinson
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to the Kremiin for direct talks
about the stalemate over atomic
control.
The Pole said that the Presi
dent was “a prisoner of a military
clique.” While he spoke in the as
hembly’s disarmament committee,
Alexei Pavolov of Russia told the
social committee that Christopher
Mayhew of Britain was a liar and
a mouthpiece for Fascism in the
U. N. Friday Mayhew accused
Russia of holding its workers in
“a monstrous slave system with
out parellel in world history.”
Greek Situation
Secretary of State Marshall
flew from Paris to Athens for a
first hand report on the Greek sit
uation. Shortly before he arrived
Ambassdoar Henry F. Grady told
American Nessmen Greek milita
ry operations against the geurril
las were unsatisfactory and more
cooperation was needed between
the Greeks and the American Aid
Mission.
Italy’s newest strike wave be
came violent. At Piettia police us
ed tear gas and fired several shots
to disperse crowds protesting lay
off of 500 men at the Italian Met
talurgical Society works| « One
striker was killed and two other
persons wounded.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORCGCIA OVER A CENTURY
l Thousands Expected To Jam
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Scenic Site Opening Night
BY ED THILENIUS
The gigantic Athens Agricultural Fair, by far the larg
est and most modern attraction ever to be presented in
this vicinity, opens here tomorrow evening at 6:00 p. m.
Located on its scenie site of 50 acres, just outside the
western city limits, the fair will sponsor exhibits and ®on
test entries from 12 surrounding counties.
State W.C.T.U.
Convention
Sessions Here
Several hundred visitors are
expected to attend the State Con
vention of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union which meets
in Athens October 20, 21, and 22,
Mrs. H. W. Birdsong, state corres
ponding secretary, announced
Saturday.
Sessions of the convention will
be held in First Methodist church
with Mrs. Mary Scott Russell,
state president, presiding.
Dr. W. Earl Hotalen, Birming
ham, Ala., field director of the
National Temperance Movement,
who attended the World Congress
on Alcohol in Luzerne, Switzer
land, last July, will be the main
speaker on the opening night of
the convention, with Mrs. Russell
also speaking.
The convention will open at 2
p. m. on Wednesday and the only
full day of the sessions will be
the following day. Dr. D. B. Nich
olson, state student secretary for
the Georgia Baptist Convention,
will speak 6n “Youth and Alco
hol” and during the day pictures
will be shown and a report given
of the National WCTU Conven
tion held in Portland, Ore., in
September.
The bangquet Thursday evening
in the Geogeiani Hotel will be a
3 ‘of the ga{htfifi% “when
many young people will be pres
ent to sing and give readings. Dr.
Raymon Moore of the Thomaston,
Ga., Baptist church, will be the
main speaker at the banquet,
talking on “How Upson County
Went Dry.” Cost for the banquet
will be $1:50 per ticket,
A.D. Allen Probation Revoked;
Link Sought In Posey Wreck
Judge Arthur S. Oldham, of the
Athens City Court, yesterday re
voked the 18-month probation
sentence imposed on A. D. Allen,
jr. last July for possessing and
transporting tax paid whiskey.
Allen was released on a $5,000
supersedeas bond, pending ac
tion on the verdict in the Court
of Appeals.
The prosecution was handled
by Solicitor Preston M. Almand
and sought to conrect Allen with
a wreck on the Commerce-Homer
road recently in which George Po
sey, 19 of Athens was killed.
Two other men were seriously
injured in the accident and are
not expected to live, it was stated
during the hearing. The injured
are Gerald Nicholson, and James
Llewallen, both of Commerce.
A large number of witnesses
were introduced both by the de
fense and prosecution in a hear
ing that began Friday and was
concluded Saturday afternoon. Al
len had been fined SI,OOO and his
automobile confiscated and sold
when arrested in July. -
Cars Seen Racing
Solicitor Almand presented one
witness who testified that he saw
three cars, close together and
traveling at a moderate rate of
speed, pass through Homer, head
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all deaf since birth, register varying expressions of jov upon hearing the human
voice for the first time with the use of acoustic instruments at the Ephpheta
School for the Deaf in Chicago. Left to right: Janice Ohlson, 5; Dawn Boyson, 5,
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ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1948.
First Annual Agricultural
Fair Opens Here Tomorrow
Beginning tomorrow and last
ing through next Saturday, out
standing works in community,
commercial, farm, livestock, au
tomotive industrial fields will be
presented amid the colorful dis
play of fair buildings and enor
mous tents,
The fair, staged under the spon
sorship of the Athens Agricultural
Fair Association, Inc., is to be an
annual event for this area, to dis
play yearly progress in different
competitive fields and stressing
comunity life of all phases.
The gates to the fair grounds
will open daily, except Monday,
at 9:00 a. m. and remain open un
til midnight.
Admissicn charges to the fair
grounds are as follows: For each
person over 12 years old (day or
night), $.40; Children over 5 and
under 12, $.20.
Wednesday, Oct. 20 will be
Children’s Day for white school
children from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m,,
while Thursday, Oct. 21, will be
Children’s Day for colored chil
dren. On these days, and in the
prescribed times, all children will
be admitted to the grounds free.
* Parking fees are listed as twen
ty-five cents.
Livestock, poultry, community
exhibits contest will be judged
throughout the week, with a
wealth in cash prizes being
awarded to the winners.
Giant Midway
The Cetlin & Wilson Midway,
one of the world’s largest travel
ing carnivals, will be present, of
fering rides, shows and attractions
of all kinds for public entertain
ment.-The QCetlin & Wilson' com
pany shows are entitled “World
On Parade” and feature practi
cally every known carnival act.
The vastness and colorful pat
tern with which the fair grounds
and buildings have ‘been laid out
are astounding when first seen.
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ed toward Commerce, at about
6:50 on the morning of the acci
dent, stating that the front car,
a black Ford was being driven by
Posey, with Nicholson in the car
with him; the middle car, a ma
roon Ford was being driven by
Allen, with A. F. Jackson and Au
brey Wade in the car with him;
and the rear cui, a green Ford,
being driven by Aubrey Joe Al
len.
A number of witnesses testified
that they saw these three describ
ed cars racing between Homer and
the scene of the wreck, about
eight and one-half miles to the
south at a point within a mile and
half of Commerce, several wit
nesses estimating their speed up
to 100 miles an hour. Nicholson,
of course, did not appear at the
trial and Aubrey Joe Allen was
not called as a witness.
A. D. Allen, jr., Jackson and
Wade maintained that the maroon
Ford in which they were riding
did not speed at any time, that
they were not traveling in com
pany with either of the other cars,
and that A. D. Allen, Jr. did no
driving from just outside the town
of Homer to the scene of the
wreck where they admitted they
were among the first to arrive but
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GALAXY OF EXHIBITS
AT FAIR IS AMAZING
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When visitors throng through the entrance gates at the{%
first annual Athesn Agricultural Fair Monday night,!
they will be amazed at the huge display of exhibits — so
many and so varied that six huge tents or buildings are
required to house them.
The exhibits come not only
from local firms and organiza
tions but from twenty-four com
munities in more than twelve
Northeast Georgia counties, and
s 0 great was the enthusiasm cre
ated by tkis first annual Fair,
that all display space was quick
ly taken and numerous other
exhibits had to be turned down
until next year when the display
facilities will be considerably in
creased. . ‘
The exhibits fall into six gen
eral classifications and each is
housed in its own tent or ;build~
ing. The classilications artj‘Com-i
munity, Commercial, Educational.
Livestock, Poultry, Autorpotive,‘
and Farm Equipment, 6
County Agent D. L. Branyon
said the response in the matter
of Community Exhibits has been
splendid and indications are that
additional ones will be received,
taxing the display facilities ’to
the utmost with the chance that
there will not be enough room to]
house all exhibits if the entries
continue to arrive.
24 Communities (
Twenty - four communities in
seven counties have already ent
ered, Mr. Branyon said.
Mr. Branyon listed the Com~
munity Exhibits alregdy entered
as those of: Lok
L ClarL&e County (four) — Gaines
ville, Clarke County fim
‘Training Class. X
Jackson County (seven) Reds
tone, Bold * Springs, Brockton,
Pendergrass, - Nicholson, Attica
and Dry Pond. |
Oconee County (three) —Wat
kinsville, Bogart and Bishop. = ..
..Banks County {(one) — Davis
Academy. .
Oglethorpe County (four) —
Arnoldsville Woman’s Club, Sal
em, Oglethorpe County 4-H Club,
County Farm Bureau.
Hart County (one) — Reed
Creek.
Franklin County (three) Red
Hill, Sandy Cross and Line Com
munity.
Educational Exhibits
Ten educational exhibits will be !
on display, these being entered by |
the State Extension Service, Dairy|
Department of the University, Ai
hens-Clarke County Regional Li-l
brary, Georgia Crop Improvement
Association, Clarke County Farm
Bureau, Clarke County Future
Farmers of America chapters, Soil
Conservation Service, University
Agronomy Club, Southern Pulp
wood Company and the Boy's
Hobby Fair sponsored by the At
hens Civitan Club.
Livestock and poultry exhibits
MAKE THE MERCURY
Community Chest Drive
Past Half-Way Mark Here
The mercury on the Community
Chest thermometer stands .at
$20,649 today, with reports of -all
team captains and workers com
plete through last night. *
Only three moire days remain in
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have been entered from nine
counties, including Clarke, Mor - 4.
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Franklin, Madison, Jackson and e MR
Walton, Mr. Branyvon said A ! ; : :
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Awaits Visitors To Fair
~ With a Midway supplied by one of the nation’s largest
outdoor enteftainment ‘or?;fiifizationeil-ééf??ir & Wilson—
the thousands who will jam-pack the Athens Agricultural
Fiir starting Monday night wil! have the opportunity of
seeing some of the greatest thrill acts in existence.
y There will be dozens of rides
and shows, games of skill ani
concession stands galore. Cetl
lin and Wiison's claim is to the
“Longest Midway in America”
and it comes to Athens from a
season of playing the biggést
state fairs in the midwest and the
southwest.
However, there is one act that
stands supreme above all others,
literally as well as figuratively
—and this one is absolutely free
once you are inside the Fair
| grounds.
[ The act is that put on by Sel
den, “The Stratospbere Man.”
Selden, with many years of
star billing as an aerialist with
the world’s great circuses behind
him, presents something abso
lutely new and also breath-tak
ing.”
He climbs to the top of a 138-
foot slender ,shining steel pole and
there geoes through his rouses
(See accompanying picture). The
pole is the height of a ten-story
which to reach the goal of $36,200,
highest mrark ever set in the his
tory of the Athens Community
Chest. All workers are urged to
redouble their efforts from here
on out, said J. W. Matthews,
ichairman of the Chest drive in
Athens and Clarke county, be
cause the Community Chest needs
every dollar of that quota and has
yet failed to gain its goal.
Six community agencies will
Ibenefit by the funds raised in.the
Community Chest Drive in
Clarke county—The Boy Scouts,
the Girl Scouts, the Y. M. C. A,
the Y. W. C. A,, the Salvation Ar
my, and the Athens Cancer Clinic.
‘The goal of $36,200 was set after
compiling the budgets of each of
these six community agencies,
according to the budgets.
Citizens of Athens and Clarke
county are requested to make
their pledges or contributions to
the Chest just as soon as possible
in order to make the quota by
Wednesday, the last day of the
Drive. Headquarters of the Com
munity Chest in Athens are lo
cated in the Hutchins-Cox-Stroud
building on College avenue.
The big thermometer that indi
cates the amount given and pledg
ed by Clarke countians is located
at the intersection of College ave
nue and Washington street. It
shows that % 57.0 of the entire
goal has been raised. @~ =
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building and the slender steel pole
continually sways over an arc of
thirty feet as the verformer goes
through his cat, Selden also is a
photographer and takes pictures
of the kig crowds of spectators,
while hanging by his heels,
The “Stratosphere Man” per
forms twice daily, once in the
afternoon and one each night and
there is no addiiional charge made
for witnessing hisz act, once the
visitors passes the entrance gate.
Truman Attacks
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GOP 'Dirty Deal’
ABOARD TRUMAN CAM
PAIGN TRAIN, Oct. 16—(AP)—
President Truman said today the
Rebublicans pulled a “dirty deal”
in an attempt to “debauch the
country by buying the election.”
To back his charge, he shewed
a Clarksburg, W. Va., crowd a
copy of a leaflet he said is being
distributed by the West Virginia
Republican Finance committee,
In it, he said, the Republicans
are telling the wealthy about tax
cuts put through the G. O, P.-con
trolled Congress and drging them:
“use your tax savings to make a
substantial investment in a Re
publican victory.”
Mr. Truman predicted that “the
American people are going to rise
up as one man against this kind
of dirty deal,”
The President was windigg‘ up
a 3,500 mile campaign cireut of
the Middle West as his special
train twisted through the West
Virginia mountains.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Sunday partly cloudy and
cooler. ’
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and mild Sunday except
cloudy, scattered showers
and cooler in extreme north
portion. Ccoler in north por
tion, ‘scattered showers in
south portion Sunday night.
Monday partly cloudy and
cooler.
TEMPERATURE
SERRANE G e e
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since October 1 .. .89
Deficit since October 1 .. .87
Average October rainfall. 3.23
Total since January 1 ...48.09
Excess since January 1 .. 7.50