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TORNADO—The carcass of a big Hereford steer
lies in debris on Albert Heffron’s farm near Dex
ter, Kas., after a devastating tornado struck the
community. The board protruding from the
40 - Unit Apartment
Tops Building Here
Local Building Hits 3 Month
Peak During Month Of March
, BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Building activity in Athens during the past three
months hit its peak in March with a permit for a $150,000
40-unit apartment project being issued.
City Engineer J. G. Beacham reported today that build
ing permits for new structures costing $357,725 have
been taken out during the first quarter of 1949 while per
mits for repairs. costing $90,505 were issued.
The largest permit was issued to
the University Court Apartments,
Inc., which plans to begin con
struction on ten apartment build
ings in about two weeks. The
apartments. will be located off
Lumpkin street, directly across
from the University of Georgia’s
Agriculture College. An exten
sion of Cedar street will he made,
‘arid “this street, which will run
directly to the apartment avea,
will be called University Court.
The large area where the apart
ments, which will be called the
University Court Apartments, will
be located is west of the Co-Ed.
Each apartment building will have
four apartments in it. There will
be 10 one-bedroom and 30 two
bedroom apartments. The one
bedroom apartments will rent for
SSO and the two-bedroom apart
ments will rent for S6O.
Federal Insured
The project is Federal Housing
Administration insured one. It is
estimated that the project will be
completed in the early fall.
Stock in the corporation is held
locally with W. A. Mathis as spon
sor. The buildings will be con
structed of light weight concrete
blocks manufactured by a local
concern.
~ During January there were 19
building permits issued, with 11
being for new structures. Permits
for new structures costing $107,675
were issued while repair permits
amounted to $8,075.
~ln February the City Engineer
issued 29 permits and 10 were for
new structures. Money spent for
new buildings totaled $44,000 while
the repair total was $19,605.
‘ For March the new structure
é’“fll_lnt totaled $206,050 while the
repair total ran to $62,825. There
were 24 permits issued during the
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steer’s back was driven through its body by the
violent wind. Other livestock escaped injury and
are grazing in the cluttered field. Heffron and
his wife narrowly cscaped death in destruction
of their home.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Livestock Feeds
Too Powerful
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 1 —
(AP)—Some new livestock feeds
are so powerful animals burst their
seams if fed too much of it.
Dr. H. J. Prebluda, nutritionist,
told the National Farm Chemurgic
Council today that scientists will
have to breed new animals with
greater capacities to handle food.
Farmers are demanding animals
that grow faster on less food so
they can increase their profits.
New high energy feeds are rich
in vitamins, especially the new
vitamin, 812, found in what is
called the “animal protein factor.”
They are low in materials, such as
fiber, that do not generate energy
in animals: This causes rapid
growth.
Dr. Prebluda said when these
feeds are fed to poultry it is like
pouring rich coal into a furnace.
Rich coal needs a good draft to
burn efficiently. But the birds are
not capable of burning rich feeds
under draft. They burst the limits
of the capacity to handle food.
They have a physical breakdown.
Carnival Opens Here Todays;
Fleming Post Sponsors Show
Opening here toamorrow will be
the Shan Brothers Carnival, which
is being sponsored during its
week’s run here by the Allen R.
Fleming, jr. American Legion Post
No. 20.
The carnival, which is located on
the Legion grounds on Lumpkin
street, will be open through Sat
urday, April 9.
W. L. Prickett, commander of
the Fleming Post, said that the
Post uses the proceeds from a car
nival each year to carry on their
Junior Legion Baseball program,
to contribute to the Tenth District
Legion Hospital Fund and the
State Legion Hospital Fund.
The Post has carried on a'Junior
TWO-DAY NURSING EDUCATION
WORKSHOP CLOSES HERE TODAY
Georgia nurses heard Dr.
Goodrich €. White, president of
Emory University, insist here
yesterday that neither of what
he termed *“false alternatives”—
practical training as opposed to
formal education—must be chosen
by those interested in furthering
the cause of health and nursing
education in Georgia.
Dr. White- was-one of over 20
doctors, nurses and educators
who appeared on the program of
the Nursing Education Workshop
being held at, the University of
Georgia Thursday and Friday.
The meeting was arranged for
a discussion of the controversial
Brown Report which calls for
higher standards of nursing edu
cation. Those present are con
corning themselves with what
Georgia should plan in the way
of recommendations on nursing
Rotary Head;
4 °
By SAM WOODS
Alton Hosch, dean of the Uni
versity of Georgia Law School,
has been named president of the
Athens Rotary Club, succeeding
Clarence D. Chandler, former se
cretary-treasurer, who returns to
that office.
Mr. Chandler served as secre
tary-treasurer for many years
prior to his elevation to the pre
sidency and during his term as
head of local Rotarians Joe Wick
liffe served as secretary-treasurer.
Sergeant-at-arms named were
Dink Martin and Edsel Benson.
New directors selected are
Clarence D. Chandler, Richard
Bloodworth, Moon Corker, Billy
Daniel, Howell C. Erwin, jr., Alton
Hosch, Joe Wickliffe, Dr. Harvey
Cabiness, Paul W. Chapman and
Lamar Dodd.
New officers and directors will
assume their duties on July 1.
At the regular weekly luncheon
meeting Wednesday, Abit Nix pre
sented silver spoons to two proud
fathers. They were Dr. C. O. Tur
ner, whose daughter. Cathy Lane,
was born March 24, and to Bill
Rumph, celebrating the birth of a
son, Bill, on the same date. The
papas passed cigars to celebrate
the occasion.
Blood Bank
On behalf of Red Cross Blood
Bank, Abit Nix requested members
to make blood donations.
The speaker for the occasion, Dr.
Frank Boland, widely known At
lanta physician and authority on
the life of Dr. Crawford W. Long,
was introduced by Dr. Marion Hu-~
bert. Dr. Boland, president of the
Crawford W. Long Association,
told of the life of this remarkable
Georgian and of his great contri
bution to humanity by his discov
(Continued on Page Six.)
baseball program in cooperation
with the Ford Motor Company and
the company’s local dealer, C. A.
Trussell Motor Co., for the past
two years, and have a committee
functioning in order to have the
program again this summer.
Over 30 boys have participated
in the baseball program in the last
two years. Some played both
years, and Commander Prickett
said that two boys have been of
fered a chance to play semi-pro
ball. In the junior baseball pro
gram teen-age boys learn about
the fundamentals of the game as
well as practice and play actual
games under the leadership of a
coach.
.1 education in the future.
(|- “All we can do on the college
| level,” Dr. White said, “is lay a
t | foundation. Formal education
- i should supplement practical train
)| ing; there is a danger of ‘mis-ed
\’ucating‘ a person away frqm a
1 | job.”
;J The Emory president suggested
as a compromise program one
)Iwhich would include two years
;| of general college education foi
fllowed by desirable practical
| training. Then, he said, opportu
f | nity for future graduate training
along lines of special interest and
- | competence should be given.
|| Friday's program, devoted to
-| discussion, will close with group
.| reports late in the afternoon.
-?General recommendations by the
| entire group will be made.
| Prominent speakers have in
| cluded, in addition to Dr. White,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949,
J. S. Expected To Reject
New Soviet Pact Protests
/. * -
Wartime British, French
.
Treaties May Be Canceled
WASHINGTON, April I.—(AP)—Diplomatic authori
ties predicted today that the United States and other At
lantic powers will reject outright Russia’s protest against
their security treaty.
The only question that occurred to them was: shall the
turn-down be by an official diplomatic note or by a public
statement?
Russia’s protest was delivered
late yesterday, having been seint
around to the State Department
by the Russian embassy. Transla
tors were set to work to have it
ready for Secretary of State Ache
son.
The text as released in London
by the Russian News Agency
complained that the Atlantic De
fense pact, due to be signed here
Monday by 12 nations, is aggres
sive in character and is directed
against the Soviet Union. Russia
had previously taken this stand in
a less formal way.
There was no immediate offi
cial comment here, but there ap
peared no slightest chance that
the protest would affect the treaty
signing schedule.
Secretary Acheson scheduled a
high pressure round of confer
ences with western European for
eign ministers today. They inclu
ded a talk on Germany with Rob
ert Schuman of France.
Acheson arranged talks later in
the day with the Foreign Minis
ters of Belgium, Luxembourg and
Portugal.
They all fit into the pattern of
a determined effort by the At
lantic powers to iron out all their
major differences. The unity ef
fort will be formalized in the At
lantic treaty to be signed here
Monday.
The vast range of problems was
dramatically demonstrated yester
day. Acheson discussed then the
German and Greek situations as
well as other Européan questions
in a two hour talk with British
Foreign Secretary Bevin, then
S e e
ence with Dirk : o the
Netherlands foreign minister. w‘ilg
whom he talked mostly about In
donesia. P :
In connection with Indonesia—
which has been a sore point in
Netherlands-American relations—
Acheson urged Stikker to take
quick steps to call a “peace” con
ference with the leaders of the
Indonesian republic.
When the Soviet foreign minis
try originally denounced the At
lantic alliance eariy this year,
year, diplomats took the view
that the 20-year treaties signed by
France and Britain with Russia
during the war were in jeopardy.
Main Point
The Russians now have raised
just this point: that clauses in
both treaties stipulate that neith
er party shall join alliances direc
tel against the other.
Russia says specifically that the
Atlantic Alliance is directed
against the Soviet Union. If this
is considered by Russia to be the
case, she would deem it as a vio
| lation of the clauses in the two
| 20-year treaties.
At the time of the first Soviet
declaration against the Atlantic
Alliance, both the French and
British embassies here massaged
their capitals that the treaties
might be regarded as invalid.
The Russians may not denounce
the treaties with France and Brit
ain. One interpretation of the
treaties contends this cannot be
done until after z 0 years.. Thus,
the Russians may just say the
’treaties do not exist any more. In
this case, no formai denunciation
is necessary, and for all practical
purposes, the two treaties would
be dead.
The Soviet note to the origina
| tors of the Atlantic Pact said it is
| “directed against the Soviet Unl
}ion” is “openly aggressive” in
| chacter.
Dr. G. Lombard Kelly, dean,
bUniversity of Georgia School of
Medicine; Dean of Faculties Al
vin Biscoe of the University;
Miss Caroline Hauenstein, educa
tional director, indiana’ State
Board of Examination and Regis
tration of Nurses; Dr. Edgar
Greene, president, Medical Asso
ciation of Georgia; Dr. T. F. Sel
lers, director, State Department
IS¢ Public Health: Dr. J. R.
Thrash, administrator, Columbus
City Hospital;
Dr. J. Dewey Lutes, adminis
trator, University Hospital, Au
gusta; Miss Dana Hudson, presi
dent, Georgia State Nurses Asso
ciation; Dr. J. Thomas Askew,
assistant to the president, Uni
versity of Georgia; Dr. Ralph
’Thaxtpn, president, Georgia State
| Woman's College, Valdosta, and
others,
More Talks
RADIO PROGRAM
ON REFERENDUM
Informational programs con
cerning the April sth Tax Ref
erendum were announced to
day as follows:
WGAU—Friday night, 7:30.
WGAU—Monday night, 7:30.
WRFC—Sunday, 1:15-1:30,
BOSTON, April I.—(AP)—Doughty old Winston Churchill thrust out his bulldog
jaw, and teld the world that: ,
“Europe would have been communized—like Czechoslovakia—and London under
bombardment some time ago but for the deterrent of the atom bomb in the hands of
the United States.”
But, he said, ‘“war is not inevitable.”
Speaking of the “war of
nerves” he advised the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
mid-century convocation last
night:
“If we persevere steadfastly
together, and allow no appease
ment of tyranny and wrong-doing
in any form, it may not be our
nerve or the structure of our civ
ilization which will break—some
thing else will break, and peace
may yet be preserved.”
Reaction from abroad was slow,i
but the first British newspapers
to vc,o‘mngm 1t called the speech a
“recipe for peace”’ and “remark
able.”
In a letter expressing his re
gret at being unable to fulfill his
own engagement to speak io
night at the convocation, PRresi
dent Truman said: :
“Mr. Churchill, I'm sure, will
give vou something that will be
historical for this period.”
Churchill rolled out in sonorous
tones a blunt accusation that
“thirteen men in the Kremlin
aiming at the rule of the world”
had ‘“self-preservation” as the
root of their “sinister and malig
nant policy.”
13 Men |
I Repeating the phrase, "thesel
thirteen men in the Kremlin,”
Churchill said their “missionar
ies are in every country as a fifth
column, awaiting the day when
they hope to be the absolute nvas
ters of their fellow-countrymen
|and pay off old scores.” |
“The largest army in thei
Iworld." Churchill said, “is in the]
hands of a government pursuing‘
| imperiaiist expansion, as no Czar
or Kaiser had ever done.” |
The 74-year-old former Prime
Minister of Britain repeatedly‘
asserted that “we have no hos
tility to the Russian people,”
adding: \
“We seek nothing from Russia
but good will and fair play.” 1
He hailed the Marshall Plan,
the “new unity in Western Eu
rope, and the Atlantic Pact as
demonstrating a “tremendous
change in our outlook and policy
toward the future of the world.”
“Three years ago,” Churchill
said, “1 spoke at Fulton, Missouri,
under the auspices of President
Truman.
1246 Warning
| “Many people here and in my
| own country were startled and
leven shocked by what I said.
“But events have vindicated
and fulfilled in much detail the
warnings which 1 deemed it my
duty to give at that time.”
(At Fulton, in March, 1946,
Churchill lamented the lowering
,of an ‘“iron curtain” across Eu
rope, assailed Soviet Russian ex
%pansion, and called for the fra
| ternal association of the British
‘commonwealth of nations and the
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair ‘and cooler tonight.
Partly cloudy and warmer
Saturday.
GEORGIA — Continued cool
this afternoon, =nt cooler to
nicht Saturday partly cloudy
and wiarmer,
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for the
period April 1-April 6
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TRADE - DAY SHOPPERS
JAM ATHENS' STORES
Trade Days began with a bang in Athens today. o et
Out-of-town shoppers and visitors began pouring into the city early today as Athens
put on a Sunday dress display of its multitude of advantages. :
Big welcome Danners lined the downtown streets issuing a hearty “hello” to the out
ofstown visitors and the local stores had their shelves lined with fresh, modernistic
merchandise, all carrying rock bottom prices.
The two-day trade event has a
two-fold purpose. First, to offer
bargains to buyers and second to
introduce the city to out-of-town
visitors. The Merchants Commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce |
is sponsoring the event which has‘
~ United States.)
“Today,” Churchill said, “there’
|is a very different climate of
opinion.
“No one could, however, have
brought about these immense
changes in the feeling of the
United States, Great Britain and
Europe but for the astounding
policy of the Russian Soviet gov
ernment.
“We may well ask: ‘Why have
they deliberately acted for three
ilong years so as to unite the free
world against them’'?
“I offer you my own answer 10
this strange conundrum.
“It is because they fear the
friendship of the West more than
its hostility.
i “They canont alford to allow
free and friendly intercourse to
grow up between the vast areas
they control and the ecivilization
of the West.
“The Russian people must not
see what goes on outside, and the
world must not see what goes on
inside the Soviet domain.”
Churchill said that because of
the Kremlin policies, relations
between Soviet Russia and thet
rost of the world were “without
! precedent in history.” X
State Farm
Income Rises
ATLANTA, April 1 — (AP)—
The increase in farm income re
ceived by Southern farmers last
year was double that for the na
tion as a whole, the Federal Re
serve Bank of Atlanta reported.
Farmers in the Sixth Federal
Reserve District, which includes
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana,
received a record income of 2.7
billion dollars — a gain of $183,-
000,000 over 1947 for a 7 per cent
increase. The increase for the na
tion as a whole was 3 per cent.
All staies :n the disirict shared
in the general total increase, how
ever. The greatest increases were
in Mississippi with an inecrease of
12 per cent, and Alabama with an
increase of 11 per cent. This was
partially credited to the cotton
yields, the highest on record, and
prices, high compared with pre
vious vears.
Only one state showed a de
cline — Florida. Here was seen a
reflection of the low citrus prices
which prevailed in 1946.
The report showed that live
stock are becoming an increasing
ly important factor in southern
farm income. Relatively larger re
turns were made in livestock than
in crop returns. Although crop re
turns still are the major sources of
income, money coming in from
livestock in 1948 accounted for 32
per cent of the totai. It made up
for only 25 per cent in the 1935-
oY period. .
While farm income was high, so
were production costs. This was
true for both the nation and the
Sixth District. In fact, the cash
cost of producing last year’s crops
and livestock was higher than the
total farm income for any prewar
year. ¢
Mechanization of farms was
seen as a probable source of the
increased cost of production.
Tractors which have replaced
work animals on may farms re
quire grease, oil, fuel, and repairs
which the farmer must pay for.
But this mechanization should en
able the farmer to produce more
efficiently and have a greater net
income.
Southern farmers also were on
the long end of the deal when it
came to decrease in prices the
farmers received for his crops,
livestock. and livestock products.
’.Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Areo
By ED THILENIUS City Editer
proved an outlet for community
| interest.
| Every item of convenience has
been well planned for the visi
tors. Even the prospect of over
flow traffic has been prepared for
in advance. Chief of Police Clar-
Bank Board
tewed
Is Viewe
As Unlawful
ATLANTA, April 1 — (AP) —
State Treasurer George Hamilton
decsared today a recent legislative
act creating a. new board to regu
late stote b its is !
titutional. Mfi"*‘m;
Hamilton announced he is mak
ing a direct request to Atty. Gen,
Eugene Cook for a ruling on the
coniroversiai iaw.
The act took away from the
treasurer the right to determine
how state money shall be deposit
ed in any single bank.
It vested this power in a stfgte
depository board of the treasuter,
Gov. Herman Talmadge and State
Comptroller Zach Cravey.
Both Cravey and Talmadge,
long-time political allies, are foes
of Hamilton.
Opponents of the measure in the
legislature charged it was a puni
tive political move against Hamil
ton designed to give the govwernor
power over many millions in state
deposits.
The deposits can be used for
political influence, it was charged,
and for profitable investment by
the banks.
Hamilton declared the act is in
valid, after the first official meet
ing of the board today in which
several new banks were added so
the list of depositories and maxi
mum amounts were fixed for some
banks.
The treasurer said the law is il
legal because it also empowers the
board to fix minimum amounts
that can be kept in a particular
bank.
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LOVEBIRDS OUT AMID WASHINGTON CHERRY BLOSSOMS
—The Jefferson Memorial is the backdrop for this night-time
snapshot of Washington’s famed cherry blossoms arcund the Tidal
Basin. The warm spring weather brought out couples such as this
in force.~(NEA Telephoto.)
HOME
EDITION
\'ence Roberts has instructed all
members of the police force to be
lespecially helpful to the visitors
and shoppers so that adequate
parking space will be available
at all times.
Free Rides
The Athens Bus Lines also
joined in the spirit of the event
by offering free transportation in
the mornings katween the hours of
9:30 and 11:30 to the shopping
district from all sections of town.
The first wave of shoppers to
reach town this morning were
quite astonished by the big values
to be seen in the stores. The buy
ing space quickened as the day
‘progressed and the shoppers
moved quickly from one store:to
another trying to blanket the mul
titude of opportunities. (TR
Compiete Stock -
Merchants have laid away a
complete stock of goods for these
two days, and even though shop
pers and visitors were not able to
make a tour of all local stores fo
day, there will be plenty of values
on hand tomorrow. ;
Athens stores offer aimost every
item a shopper could want, and
quality has not been sacrificed for
quantity,
Although the downtown business
district is the main drawing eard
to the visitors and shoppers, other
sections of the city were also be-+
ing covered by sightseers.
Athens beautiful residential sec
-43 g with outlying indus-
Arigl areas also will come under
she probing eyes of visitors today
and tomorrow.
Athens has long been known as
the Classic City of the South. The
city is proudly proving this point
today and tomorrow.
Retail Sales
Soar In South
ATLANTA, April | — (AP)—
Retail sales in February showed
gains in most southern cities
where surveys were made, the De
partment of Commerce said to
day.
C. Parker Persons, regional di
rector, said gains compared with
February a year ago included:
Birmingham, one per cent; At
lanta, two per cent; Augusta, Ga.,
eight per cent, Columbus afid Ma
can, Ga., four per cent.
Four cities reported declines,
including Savannah, five per cent,
There were sharp fluctuations in
comparing February sales with
those of January this year. There
was no change in Birmingham,
Gains included Atlanta, two per
cent; Columbus, seven per cent;
and Macon, one per cent. The
other eight of the 14 cities report
ed declines ranging from one per
cent in Savannah to 17 per cent
in Johnson City, Tenn.