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City’s ‘49 Quota Set At $16,000 - |
Breakfast Opens Campaign March 1
Tesms of workers who will canvass the city and county
in the annual Red Cross finance campaign to be ovened
Tuesdav, March 1, were announced yesterday. The quota
s $16,000.
The campaign gets officially
under way at a breakfast March 1
at 8:30 o‘clock in the Georgian Ho
tel for all workers who are to
participate in the drive. Final
instructions will be given at the
preakfast to the campaigners.
Officials for the campaign will
pe Howell C. Erwin, jr., chairman
with B. R. Bloodworth, jr., as co
chairman, while the woman’s di
vision will be headed by Mrs.
Frank Dudley with Mrs. D. D.
Quillian as co-chairman. Dean
William Tate of fthe University of
Georgia will head that institution’s
division. Ernest C. Crymes is
chairman of the advance gift com
mittee.
Advance Gifts
The Advance Gift Committee is
headed by Ernest C. Crymes and
other committee members are J.
Swanton Ivy, Ralph M. Snow, Ed
sen Benson, J. Smiley Wolf, A. D.
Soar, Walker Word, Durward Wat
son, Morton S. Hodgson, T. M.
Tillman, Cuyler Trussell, G. A.
Booth, Marion Conolly, Warren C.
Thurmond, Dr. Walker Matthews,
John Bondurant and J. W. Mat
thews.
To canvass the county is a team
headed by Mrs. D. L. Branyon,
other members being, Mrs. Robert
D. Hamilton, Mrs. Cofer, Mrs. B.
F. Daniel, Mrs. Jimmie Cole, Mrs.
J. L. Dawson, Mrs. Clara Winter,
Mrs. Harold Kicklighter, Mrs. J.
W. Martin, Derrell Hancock, Mrs.
A. F. Pledger, Mrs. A. M. Logan,
Mrs. J. P. Nicholson, Mrs. R. T.
Brown, Mrs. Bates and ‘Mrs Edgar
Fowler.
Covering the city proper will be
twenty-four teams of business men
and woman’s division of eighty
volunteers.
Men’s Teams
Business men’s teams are:
Team No. I—C. W. Fitzgerald,
captain; John Hunnicutt 111, Jim
mie Stephenson, Bob Kimbréll and
John F. Moon.
Team No. 2—W. H. Simpson,
captain; O. W. Russom.
Team No. 3—Marion Dubose, ir.,
captain; Upshaw = DBentley, Uly
dQunn, Jimmy Hardy, Tom Ger
mne,
Team No. 4—James L. Whitaker,
captain; Nolan Richardson, Jack
Farrar, Millard Seagraves, L. P.
Suddath.
Team No. 5—R. H. Maupin, jr.,
captain; Emmett Bishop, W. B.
Moss, R. L. Stone, jr.
Team No. 6—Paul Brown, cap
tain; Joe Foster, George Crane.
Team No. 7—Robert L. Eberhart,
captain; J. B. Tanner, Paul Hodg
son, Howard Pope, D. H. Wilkes.
Team No. B—Earle Roberts, cap
tain; Alex McCaskill, Sam Smith.
Team No. 9—Fred Griffeth, cap
fain; Roy E. Cooper, Thomas E.
Wier,
g Team No. 10—~Guy Smith, cap
tain; George Dean, Dick Wansley,
Howard Sanders, Phil Durden.
Team No. 11—J. E. Griffin, cap
tain; Bobby Noel, Frank P. Simp
son, L. Dennis Penny, jr., Henry
Craswell, jr. '
Team No. 12—E. C. Cavett, cap
tain; Frank Pinkston,: Jack Thorn
ton, M. J. Costa, Lee Hoge.
Team No. 13—Claud Williams,
tatain; O. M. Roberts, jr., Ed
Stith, Lloyd Florence, Elrod Sims. |
ts .Tf?am No. 14—Dan Dupree, cap
an; Fred Butler, Heyward Alien.
Team No, 15—Troutman Wilson,
M,r%tam: Horace Bell, Tom Fickett.
: eam N'o. 16—Henry W, Perker-t
o, captain; T. H., Milner, jr., J. M.
Mgrßae. y 3
2eam No. 17—Frank Crane, cap
tain; Alwyn B, Stiles 1€ Lamgr
Pe’?dley, .
—€am No. 18—Ed ‘Downs, cap
tain; H !
Ellis G:rr;)é?t'SG)’e, J. F. Hadaway,
irTeam No. 19 — Russell Daniel,
'y captain; J. O. Wilfong,
soéf“{;‘pt’;"-. 20—Frank Hodkin-
Sam B, Werllc‘h Herschel Carithers,
Team No, 21-
Cagtain; e Mcllx‘]xt'ieri . Birchmore,
- tea.m- No. 22—Harry Stevens,
%am‘ George Head.
minf.fa;/[n No. 23—Dan Silvey, cap--
lie Uper oL. Gilbert, jr., Char
bchurch, Doyle Terry.
tagfiag’il}vgf'i—mck Harris, cap-
Fred Robbirllse S’J'C.Ffo Riglehll;beßr,
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(i Sharee ot iy, Gy aid
Police é‘;“i’egnment buildings are
Mrs, Ryp es Clarence Roberts,
Dan Ene: lartman, J. R, Myers,
ering, erick and W, W. Deßeau-
Woman's Division
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-.\r(} Olm,“ee,“,ng for work in the
I\rflnran § division were:
Mrs, S’i‘_ G}gor%: HDudley Thomas,
Roy Hii Mc atton, Mrs. Ise-
Mrs. Artge o Hunter Harris,
Firor, Mre, Jon BUrlia S
J. B, AlexandernMrgn%umnt' i
le] Mrg, "l"auac'e B . amfit Dan
utts, Mrs. L. W.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Eberhardt, Mrs. Dave Sanders. !
Mrs. Ralph Tolbert, Mrs. J. W.
Fanning, Mrs. B. R. Bloodworth,
sr., Mrs. Roswell David, Mrs. Ben
Mcßee, Mrs. Kenneth Eberhart,
Mrs. Clarence Berryman, Mrs. F.
E. McHugh, Mrs. F. H. Menden
(Continued on Page Two.)
Long Range Airport Improvement Plan Set
Officials See
New lixpansion
Of Facilities
BY ED THILENIUS
City Editor
The Athens Municipal
Airport 1s taking a new
lease on life — both from
the standpoint of manage
ment and future planning.
A long-range improve
ment plan —to keep pace
with flying interests and
'demand in this city — was
announced yesterday by
the Clarke County Commis
sioners.
' Under the nmew management of
'Eddie Beardon and Lloyd Flor
ence, such activities as a daily
airline passenger service, a voca
tional maintence school, and stu
dent flying courses, are listed in
the future plans.
The commissioners said that the
improvement plan was already
tunderway to some extent. |
Immediate improvements in
clude the installation of new han- |
gar doors, painting sections of |
some of the airport buildings, and
the resurfacing of the runways
| when the weather is permissable.
Cooperation Cited
| On the 15th of this month, the
‘commlssiovners leased the airport
to Beardon and Florence. Yester
day they promised to give the
new manageers their fullest co
operation on expanding and ex
tending facilities.
At the present, the two main
objectives of the new program is
the maintenance school and the
new airline service.
The maintenance school will be
housed for its purposes. Officials '
of the school have voiced an opin- |
ion that the present facilities and |
hangar space are ideal for the |
school.
Officials of Southern Airways,
which was recently granted the
right for the passenger line ser
vice here, as yet have not contac
ted airport officials on their plans.
Passenger Facilities
The commissioners said that
they would gladly work with
Beardon and Florence on the in- |
stallation of any facilities that the
airline will need here. Such fa
cilities are expected to include a
moderr. reception room for pas
sengers, a ticket office, and other
office space for airline officials,
and possible radio controls. ’
Mr. Florence said yesterday
that he and Mr. Beardon plan to
put in a restaurant at the field |
which will serve both airline’
transits and students at the main
tenance school.
Other local air officials report
that there is a possibility of a Na
tional Guard unit basing some of
of its planes here, which would
bring added business to the local
airport. Since the majority of the
Guard’s flying is done at night,
this entails the installation of
landing strip lights, these officials
said. This matter will also be tak
en under consideration by local
officials at the proper time. .
French Ease Spy
Charges On Reds
PARIS, Feb. 26 — (AP) — The
French Army changed its mind to
night and charged four alleged
Communist sympathizers with
relatively minor offenses, after
first accusing them of espionage
punishable by death.
The reduced charges were filed
after the military court conferred
with War Minister Paul Ramadier.
They allege a threat to the securi
ty of the state, punishable by im
prisonment of one to five years.
&ANG BEACH,
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LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb.
26— (AP)—A hundred Kkids
and a hundred dogs today
helped Eduardo J. Buckner
ceiebrate his 53rd birthday.
Happy because his own 11-
year-old Cocker Spaniel re
covered from a recent serious
ear operation, Buckner paid
the liberation fees on very
dog in the city pound and
presented thein 0 thke excited
youngsters.
“I never had any dogs
when I was a xid,” said
Buckner. “I'm glad I can
make these boys — and the
dogs — happy.”
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SLAIN! — Ernest Winstead
(top), 24; his wife, Frances
(bottom), 22, and their neigh
bor, Wiilis Pugh, 70, were
found Thursday in a field near
Winstead’s ranch home on the
ouiskirts of Needles, Calif. All
had been chot. Police have or
ganized a vast man-hunt for
two ex-convicts and a woman
wno were in the neigivborhood
recently.—(AP Wirephotos.)
"OPEN HOUSE"* CEREMONIES
March 13 Opening Date
For Regional Library
Official cpening date for the mew Athens Regional
Librarv has been set for Sunday, March 13, accordirg to
Mrs. John J. Wilkins, jr., chairman of the Library board
of directors.
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DON’'T' FORGET!
Don’t forget to send a check
to Gordon Dudley to help
fight disease, The money. will .
be used in waging a research
campaign against those dis
eases of the heart that have
up to now baffled medical
science. A donation by you
will help speed the day when
heart diseases will not be the
principal cause, among all
diseases, of death in the Uni
ted States. Don’t forget. Send
as much as you can — but
send something!
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‘ Filibuster Set
In Senate Mon.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—(AP)
—A filibuster, possibly the rough
est and longest in years, is set to
start in the Senate Monday.
It shapes up as a filibuster to
l save the right to filibuster.
The 20 or more Southern Sena
tors who want to retain the right
‘ of unlimited debate are delerm
;ined to go the limit. There is no
! reliable way to estimate how long
! the debate may last.
SERVINGC ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1949,
University Fees Hiked;
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uUniversity rees kiked;
Big Personnel Cut $
BY CHARLES BARRETT
ATLANTA, Feb. 26.—(AP’) Tuition charges to students
at all state-supported colleges were hiked today as the
Georgia Board of Regents ordered a “‘cut to the bone” in
University budgets. -
Regents warned that the worst financial crisis in years
would bring large-scale cuts in personnel and elimination
of non-essential but very desirable services.”’
Setting out on a budget for the next schood year, the
Board estimated a $1,773,171 drop in funds, caused mostly
by a sharp decline in fees for GI students.
The Board raised tuition fees S4O a year for white
senior colleges, and S2O a year for white junjor colleges
and all negro colleges. It estimated this would bring in
$363,390 and reduce the loss to $1.409,781.
The drastic budget cuts, the first in more than 16 years,
were distributed to each unit of the University System.
They would become effective, along with increased tuition
charges, the next school year. (Continued On Page Two)
Main Defendant Pleads
Guilty In Church Trial
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 26.— (AP) —The Rev. Vassil
Ziapkov, No. 1 defendant in the treason trial of 15 Pro
testant churchmen, rieaded guilty today.
He is accused of being the prin
cipal conspirator in a purported
spy plot involving high political
and religious figures of the Uni
ter States and Britain.
Ziapkov was the third defend
ant called to the witness stand
and the third to make an extend
ed oral confession.
Preceding him were two fellow
members of the Supreme Council
es of Bulgaria, the Rev. : Yanke
Ivanov and the Rev. Nikola Nau
mov. Ziapkov was .the councils
political representative in dealings
with the Communist-led govern
ment. Naumov is a Baptist.
The arrest of the 15 removed
ATHENS AND VICINITY -
Cloudy and ccol Sunday.
GEORGIA — Mostly cloudy
with a few light showers Sun
day and Sunday night. Monday
partly cloudy, not much change
in temperature.
TEMPERATURE
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¥ SRR RO R RR TS
Nafehal i s 5 8
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. «.. 00
Total since Febrvary 1 ... 6.81
Excess since February 1 .. 1.63
Average February rainfall 5.09
Total since January 1 ....10.37
Excess since January 1 ... 1.25
Open house will be held on that‘
date on the first floor of the new
building, with the library trustees‘
and staff as official hosts. Details
of the program and time of the‘
open house will be announced in\
the near future. ‘
It is expected that many citizens'
from Athens, Clarke/ Occnee and
Oglethorpe counties will want to.
call during the open house or the
following week to see the new
library and use its improved facil
ities, Mrs. Wilkins states.
oOld Library Closes
During the week of March 7-
12 the library will be closed in
order to transfer books and furni
ture from the old quarters in the
Y. M. C. A. and the Court House
to the new building.
No library books will be re
turned during moving week, but
will be due the week following the
opening of the new building, states
Miss Mary Townes, librarian. Reg
ular seven-day books will be
due the week following the open
ing of the new building, states
Miss Mary Townes, librarian. Reg
ular seven-day books will be
checked out for an additional
week as well as those loaned for
the usual two-week period.
Miss Townes urged library pa
trons tc borrew sndcugh icading
‘material during this week for the
followini week when the library
will be closed,
from circulation more than 10 per
cent of the 138 Evangelical cler
bymen in Bulgaria. Most Bulgari
ans belong to the Greek Orthodax
faith.
Naumov testified yesterday he
had spied for.the United States,
that he was sorry and “the time
of Communist has come.” Ivanov
said: “I am not pleading for mer
cy. I cannot find any extenuating
, gim%gmgtancgs.}‘, Each said police
dreated him. well @ad that he was
not forced to confess.
(Dr. W. Earle Smith, execu
tive secretary of the San Francis
co-Bay Cities Baptist Union, said
in San Francisc he was a per
sonal friend of Naumov and that
Naumov’s statements “are not in
keeping with the man of staunch
conviction I know him to be.”
Smith declared coercion was
evident. He said he had asked
President Truman to take ste?s to
prevent “further prosecution” of
religious leaders behind the iron
curtain. A Washington report
Friday, from a source diplomatic
officials termed credible said
Ivanov was forced to stand with
out his canes during pre-trial
questioning). 1
Ivanov was on the witness stand
seven hours. l
He said he spied for years for‘
Britons and Americans and
named a half dozen. He said the'
United States and Britain paid
him for the political, economic
and military information he turn
ed in. He said his instruction from
Americans were to oppose Com
munism and Communist regime.
“I committed everything know
ingly,” he said. “What I did was
planned beforehand. The main
reason which inspired me to com
mit all this was fear — fear and
faulty orientation regarding Com
munism.
“For me the fatherland front
(the Communist-led coalition
which governs Bulgaria) was
nothing- but Communism. From
the very beginning I was abso
lutely against Communism and
the government. I did not believe
the declarations of the fatherland
front leaders. I was my conviction
that the commist leaders must be
suffocated and paralyzed.”
Athens DeMolays
Back From Macon
More than 30 members of the
Frank Hardeman Chapter, Order
of DeMolay are home today after
a trip to Macon yesterday where
they installed a Macon Chapter of
DeMolay on Saturday night.
Bill Simpson, recently made
master councillor of the Athens
chapter, along with the other two
principal officers, John Spratlin
and J. Y. Nash, jr., headed the lo
cal delegation.
Both degrees were conferred by
the members of the Athens de
gree teams on 22 Macon candi
dates. The delegation, composed
of degree team members and
other DeMolays, was accompan
ied by D. Weaver Bridges, advisor,
JASPER, Ga.. Feb. 26— (AP)
—Two youths confessed tonight
to a “thousand dollar” hammer
killing of a young taxi driver to
seal his lips against liguor run
ning disclosures, Sheriff How
ard Cagle announced.
The sheriff listed them as
Weldon Sullivan, 18, a sawmill
WOTREI, @il Diyen lasum, 21,
formerly a dairy farmer and
more recently a roadhouse op
erator. Both of Pickens County.
Read Daily by 35,000 People in Athens Trade Area
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb, 26—
(AP)—Cat fur made no kit
ten britches for a car owner
on Indian: polis’ North side—
it just put his car out of
whac. :
Pip, a Persian cat owned by
Mrs. Howard M. 3arker, de
cided on a cat nap under the
hood of the car. When the
owner of the car started its
engine a lour whine rose from
Pip as he flipped around;
once with the fan belt.
The fan was beni, the ra
diator dented and the spak
plugs were covered with cat
hairs. The cat ran off, and a
few stiches put him in shape.
But the car still is in a gar
rage being repaired.
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BLOOMING BEAUTY — The
Queen of the Urchids, Denna
Stallings, wears a bathing suit
decked out in — guess what
kind of flowers. She, was
crowned at Fort Lauderdale,
Fia.
HIGHWAY BILL DISPUTE
Gholston Says Talmadge
Pulled 'Double-Cross’”
COMER, Ga., Feb. 26.— (AP)—State Senator J. Knox
Gholston said today Governor Herman Talmadge “dou
ble-crossed” him by opposing the Gholston highway re
organization bill in the Legislature.
The Comer Senator said he told
the governor personally that “be
fore I would double-cross any
man and treat him as I have been
treated, I would take a knife and
cut my throat from ear to ear.”
- Gholston, who has offered his
highway re-organization proposal
several times, issued a statement
saying his aim was to “remove
the politics, discrimination, cor
ruption and graft that have existed
in the highway department under
all administrations for the past 20
years.”
Gholston’s bill called for a ten
man highway board to be appoint
ed by the legislature. It was de
feated in the Senate and a substi
tute bill, calling for a three man
board, was adopted. The House
sidetracked the measure but an
other bill, calling for a three-man
highway board to be named by
the governor, was left pending at
adjournment.
The Comer Senator said Tal
madge had urged him to introduce
the Gholston reorganization pro
posal, had assured him he would
not fight it and would not have his
leagislative leaders oppose it.
Talmadge declined comment on
the senator’s charge of “double
cross.”
Gholston said he told Talmadge
he would not introduce the bill if
Talmadge was going to fight it or
have his supporters fight it.
“He toid me o g 0 anead and he
would sign any bill the General
lAssembly enacted into law,”
Gholston said.
New Case Of Cold
War Nerves Looms
Frech Red Propaganda Issued
As Atlantic Pact Nears Draft
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— (AP) —A final round of
controversy wag at hand today over creation oi a North
Atlantic security treaty and a new case of cold war nerves
for the world appeared certain,
Fresh waves of Communist
propaganda billowed over Eu
rope, speculation arose over pos
sible Russian pressures on Fin
land and Norway. These adaed
to tensions which may Dbriefly
sharpen the debate within the
western colintries over the secu
House Group
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Minimum Pay
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—(AP)
—~Chairman Lesinski (D-Mich),
said today that his House Labor
Committee is “sure” to approve a
75-cent minimum wage bill. The
administration has been driving
hard for this figure with the out
look in doubt.
Several members on the Dem
ocratic side of the committee table
agreed with Lesinski’s prediction.
Others said the bill might provide
only for a gradual rise to 75 cents
an hour from the present 40,
Republicans, and a few Demo
crats, on the committee . were
sharpening their penecils hopeful
ly over a scheme for tying the Na
tional minimum wage to living
costs so it would rise and fall au
tomatically.
The law sets the minimum fig
ure for industries in interstate
commerce, |
There seemed to be very little
possibility that the committee will
vote to broaden the federal wage
hour law as much as the adminis
tration and labor unions have
asked.
There was a good chance, in
fact, that the law’s coverage will
not be expanded at all,
The committee has completed
hearings. Lesinski has called a
closed meeting Tuesday to start
writing a minimum wage bill.
WAR PRISONERS
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
Feb. 26—(AP)~—The Dutch gov
ernment promised today to release
captive leaders of the Indonesian
Republic at once and grant self
rule to all Indonesia, perhaps by
mid=-sumimer.
' He gave the following account
of his iast taik wiin Talmadge on
the subject:
- “I found him alone in his office.
I reminded him of each time we
'we had talked of this bill during
‘the previous year and of my fair
ness in putting the cards on the
table and asking his approval be
fore making any move.
“I reminded him he had prom
ised me he would not right this
bill and he told he was not fight
ing my bill.
“Then I told him of five sena
tors who had been tc me the day
before telling me that he had sent
for them and asked them to vote
against the bill.
“Then I told the governor that
before I would double-cross any
man and treat him as I had been
treated, I would take a knife and
cut my throat from ear to ear.
“1 felt it distinctly understood
that I am not fighting and have
never fought the Talmadge ad
ministration. I supported the ad
ministration in the campaign and
in all legislative matters where
1 could. i
“However I have been working
for the past nine years on the
principles of right, equity and jus
tice to remove the high depart
ment from the political fangs of
past and future governors.”
CHINA'S STRUGGLE
WMANRING, Feh. 26 — (AP
China’s acting President Li Tsung-
Jen pushed his peace efforts with
a strengthened hand today.
Home
Ecitscu
rity project itself. :
| Communist leaders in Western
Europe are expected to intensify
ithe purging of their followers
and te try to implant in the
iminds of Western European pec=
ple generally a [ear of being
overrun by the Red army if they
line up their forces in the alli
ance. The latest statements of
Communist leaders Maurin Tho=
rez in ,Froance and Palmirc Tog=
Jiaito in Italy are being studied
here for evidences of Communist
developments along these two
lines. o
‘ Meanwhile, the State Depart~
ment is bracing itself for the i
pact of public decbate here at
home when the treaty text is
made public in about two weeks.
End in Sight
’ ‘ Secretary of State Acheson will
meet with ambagsadors of tihe
’otk:er six nations again Monday
or Tuesday, and hopes to wind
up. drafting work ky the end of
the week. After that the otker
governments will have to give
their final approval or suggest
last minuf® changes. Those gov=
ernments are (Canada, Britain,
France, Italy, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Both in this country and abroad
arguments and potential opposi=
tion are building up. It is these
which the negotiating govern
ments must be prepared to meet
as the time for full pubiic dis
cussion draws near.
Two Points
~ In dhis country indications
veaching the State Depariment
are that major arguments will
focus on two points: (1) that the
vrojected alliance may weaken
the United Nations (whereas sup
porters say it will be strengthen
ed), and (2) that the United
States may be involving itszlf
too deeply in European affairs.
In Europe the argument takes
different form. Reports reaching
here indicate that people will be
concerned elmost exclucively with
the question whether the ftreaty
in fact offers them the real secu
rity they want against the dangsr
of a Russian attack,
~ Because this is the great issue
it fixes the line on. which the
\Commumsts are trying to fight
out their oppesition to the treaty,
branded by Moscow as an aggres
sive move by the West against
Russia. :
On the one hand. as diplomats
see it, the Communist arguments
hold that the Western Fowers
strive to start a new war while
Russia works only for peace and
thé people who want piNce
should therefore 'line up with
her,
Christian Science
Lecture Tuesday
~ John S. Sammons, C. S., of Chi
cago, will be presented in Athens
in a free, public lecture on Chris~
tian Science Tuesday evening, at
8 o'clock, in the Chapel of the
University of Georgia. The sub
ject of his address will be “Chris
'tian Science: The Revelation of
God’s Infinite Goodness.”
Mr| Sammons will be introduc
ed by J. W. Zuber of Atlanta, who
served as a Chaplain in the Uni
ted States Army during the war,
The speaker is a member of the
Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston
Massachusetts. He is being
brought to Athens by the local
Christian Science Church group,
Christian Science Society, Athe'ns.
Light Rains
=
Blanket Nation
By The Associated Press
Widespread gray clouds gave
much of the nation light rain or
snow Saturday. Temperatures
ranged from cl'ggo‘tlo Hg}.‘)%d e
Uneasiness _about pros
pects from show melting in the
Missouri River Basin was relaxed
by arrival in the North Plains re
gion of a new near zero cold mass.
The Rio Grande Valley, subject
ed to unusually heavy rains dur
ing the past few days, had more
of the same. A thunderstorm
brought an inch of rain to Browns
ville, Tex., and Corpus Christi,
Tex., had one half inch.
Los Angeles, Calif., after a fog
gy spell, received a substantial
rain in the afternoon. i
There wag an extensive eloud
deck over much of the Gulf Coast
area and in the Ohio Valley. Scat
tered light rain fell in these areas.