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Vol. CXVII, No. 105.
(itizens & Southern Bank
(ompletes Modernization
Public invited To Open House At
Bank Saturday From 4 Until 9 P. M.
Marking completion of remodelling and modernization
which has been in progress for the past several months,
an Open House for its patrons and the general public
will be held by the Citizens and Southern National Bank
Saturday from 4 to 9 p. m., Robert V. Watterson, execu
tive vice-president, announced today.
" Citizens and Southern officials
attending the Open House will in
clude William Murphey, of Savan
nah, chairman of the board of the
Citizens and Southern system;
Mills B. Lane, jr., Atlanta, presi
dent; James Sartor, formerly head
of the Athens bank, and now first
vice-president, Atlanta, and their
wives. Also attending will be the
executive vice-presidents of the
branches in Macon, Savannah,
Augusta and Valdosta, and the
presidents of affiliated »anks in
~ LaGrange, Dublin, Thomaston and
Albany.
The staff of the local bank will
greet visitors and conduct them
through the greatly expanded and
modernized facilities of the insti
tution.
The bank has been completely
remodeled from top to bottom,
much space has been added and
many improvements for the con
venience and comfort of patrons
and members of the bank staff in
stalled.
All of the woodwork and furni
ture in the bank is of mahogony
and a color scheme of gray-green
and white is used throughout.
Three Floors
On the main floor are the de
partments handling loans, savings,
safety deposit boxes, storage of
valuables such as household silver
when a family is out of town, the
commercial department and vari
ous other services too numerous to
list.
The main floor is the banking
floor, on which are located the of
ficials and tellers and the office
of the executive vice-president,
which is also used as a directors
room.
The main floor provides space
for eight tellers and the floor
space since remodeling is now
m?re than twice. what it.was form
erly.
The more ample space and
grouping of the various services
provides greater convenience for
patrons with minimum loss ‘of
time. All of the services provided
for by the bank, as well as con
tact with officials, are made more
accessible under the new set-up.
Beneath the main floor is the
sub-fleor—the interior department
¢! the bank, where all bookkeep
ing and internal work of the in
stitution is carried on.
The balcony floor is occupied by
the personal loan department.
Fire doors have been installed
between the various divisions, giv
ing greater protection against pos
Little International
Livestock Show Tonight
The twenty-sixth annual Little
International, the University of
Georgia’s top livestock show of the
vear, will be held in the Universi
ty’'s Hardman Hall tonight, and
participating students in the Col
lege of Agriculture are already
spending long -hours readying
their animals for the judging.
The contest, which is an annual
presentation of the Saddle and
Sirloin club, an organization for
animal husbandry majors, will
feature showing and judging of
the major classes of livestock, in
tluding beef and dairy cattle,
2 Mishaps Here
At Same Place
Condition of Agnew Peacock,
Atlanta Journal carrier boy who
was injured when his bicycle
collided with an automobile on
Lumpkin street at Baxter yester
fday afternoon, was reported- in
2ood condition this morning at
St. Mary's Hospital, where he
was taken in a Bridges:-ambu
lance,
_ The carrier was reported rid-
Ing south on Lumpkin gnd struck
the rear end of an automobile as
It turned from Lumpkin into
Baxter, '
The accident occurred at 4:10
o'clock and exactly three hours
later Bridges’ ambulance was
called to the same intersection
where a motoreycle and an auto
mobile had collided. None was
hurt in this mishap and a hos
bital trip was unnecessary.
.
Simmons Loses
Court Appeal
ATLANTA, May 13 —(AP)—
Roger Simmons will have to be
£ln a two-year prison sentence for
¢mbezzlement of cash and footbail
lickets at the University of Georgia
unless a new appeal is successful.
The Georgia Court of Appeals
vesterday affirmed the former
University student’s conviction on
the charges in Superior court. Le
2al experts said‘?heere is a possi
bility of a further appeal to the
Su_p.reme Court. > .
. Slmmons was a clerk in the of
fice of the University Athletic
Association, 5 e
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
sible fire. Also added are rest
lounges for both men and women
of the staff, attractively decorated
and comfortably furnished.
Thanks Public
" Commenting on the many im
provements that have been made,
Mr. Watterson said he wished to
thank the people of Athens and
this section for their confidence in
the bank as evidenced by the in
creasing business given it. It was
this increased business that so
taxed the capacities of the bank
that its enlargement and modern
ization became a necessity in order
to continue to provide suitable
facilities for its patrons, he said.
“In appreciation of the wonder
ful spirit of cooperation and
friendliness the people of Athens
and this section have extended the
bank ever since its establishment
here, we are holding an Open
House Saturday from 4 p. m. to 9
p.- m. and cordially invite the pub
lic to visit us, meet our staff and
the visiting high officials, and in
spect the improved quarters in
which we will serve our patrons in
the future,” Mr. Watterson said.
The bank opened in its present
location August 1, 1925 with five
employes on the staff. It occupied
one floor of its present quarters.
Today the bank occupies three
floors and gives empioyment to
thirty-three persons.
Bank Officers
Officers of the bank, in addition
to Mr. Watterson, are J. S. Wolfe,
jr., assistant vice-president; J. E.
Wickliffe, cashier; Warren Lanier
and W. H. Harris, jr., assistant
cashiers, and Wade C. Cooper,
auditor.
Members of the Board of Di
rectors, in addition to the officers,
include Chancellor Harmon W.
Caldwell, O. D. Grimes, Abit Nix,
L. M. SahadgettvCJ Ashusseuv E.
E. Lamkin, Morton S. Hodgson, W.
A. Mathis, Frank Dudley and Dur
ward Watson.
The bank staff, together with
the officers, includes Harold Bell,
Beverly Beusse, Louis B. Broach,
Barbara A. Carson, Kathryn Cren
shaw, Mary Alice Crowe, Helen L.
Dawson, Elizabeth Doolittle, Eliza
beth Edwards, Ethel Mae Epps,
William Fincher, George W. Fos
ter, Enid Hastings, Dean Kennedy,
William King, Mary Ann Luke,
Stella R. Luke, Jerry M. Mcßae,
Louise H. Noel, Elberton Norton,
jr., Lillie Paine, Saradelie T. Paul,
Betty J. Thompson, Donald Turn
er, Jean R. Wedlake, Joe Andrews
and Robert’L. Clark.
horses, sheep and wine — all se
lected from University stock.
The champion in each category
of animal will be awarded a tro
phy, and the grand champion,
winner in the run-off among the
category champions, will receive
an additional trophy.
Judges will be livestock experts
‘from the University’s experiment
division, and will also be taken
from the faculty of the depart
ment of animal husbandry.
Awards will be made on the ba
sis of showmanship, training, and
‘preparation of animals.
Athens Couple
Seeks Damages
ATLANTA, May 13—(AP)—Mr.
and Mes. George M. Stephens of
Athens, each filed suit against
Southeastern Stages Inc. for SIOO,-
000 damages today in Fulton Sup
erior. Court.
The suits charge that Mrs.
Stephens, then 33, was permanent
1y “injured ™earcn 11, 1948, while
a passenger in a Southeastern
Stages bus between Monroe and
Atlanta. ;
Mrs. Stephens said the bus
stopped abruptly at a narrow
bridge over the Alcove river, caus
ing a car to crash into the rear of
the bus. She said her neck and
head have been in a cast since the
accident, and that she is a perma
nent invalid.
Registration
Hours Cited
‘[ Announcement was made today
|by the chairman, Mrs. Annie E.
| Griffith, that the Clarke County
!Registrars office will remain open
| each week from 9 a. m. until 5:30
p. m., for registering citizens to
vote. The office will remain open
during the lunch hour.
| The offices are ‘located on the
| second flooi of the courthouse and
| all registration in the county must
| be made there, :
Talmadge
Addresses
Radio Meet
Referring to Georgia’s radio ‘in
dustry as “The Voice of Georgia,”
Gov. Herman Talmadge told the
fourth annual Georgia Radio In
stitute here Thursday night that
radio, just as the press, has a sol
emn obligation to dedicate its tal
ents to public service.
The Governor spoke at the
opening dinner meeting of the
three-day session sponsored by
the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism and the Georgia Asso
ciation of Broadcasters. He was
introduced by John Fulton, WGST,
Atlanta.
“Let us hope,” he said, “that you
continue to exercise the same im
partiality on public questions
which you have established in the
past. Continue to preseny the news
unbiased and accurate and con
tinue to give all sides fair repre
sentation over your means of
communication.”
The Governor extended his
“heartiest congratulations to Dean
John E. Drewry on his amazing
success as head of the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism,
which recently has' developed a
radio department which is among
the outstanding in the nation.”
The Institute program will in
clude speeches by numerous out
standing radio executives. The
University’s Glee Club, and Radio
Station WAGA, Atlanta, will pool
their talents Friday night to pre
sent Athens’ first televions de
monstration. B
Elmer Davis, war-time director
of OWI, will give the final address
in the University Chapel Saturday
at noon.
Crow Services
Are Set For
Saturday At 3
Mrs. R. D. Crow, native of Ogle
thorpe county and resident of
Montgomery, Ala.,, for the past
four years, died in a hospital there
Wednesday morning at 1:30
o'clock. Mrs. Crow was 40 years
old and had been ill for seven
months.
Services are to be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from Collier’s Baptist Church with
Rev. W. D. Gray officiating. Burial
will follow in Collier’s cemetery,
Clyde McDorman Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements Pall
bearers will be nephews of Mrs.
Crow.
She is survived by her husband,
who is with the United States Ar
my in Japan; three daughters,
Mrs. C. M. Hammonds, jr., Mrs.
W. A. Cripple and Miss Doloris
Winn, all of Montgomery; one son,
Jack Winn, Montgomery; mother,
Mrs. J. P. Golquitt, Comer; seven
brothers, J. R. Colquitt and C. B.
Colquitt, both of Athens, D. 8. Col
quitt, O. L. Colguitt and W. C.
Colquitt, all of Crawford, P. R.
Colquitt, Monrge and J. E. Col
quitt, Comer; sister, Mrs. C. O.
Malcom, Monroe, two grandchil
dren and several nieces and. neph
ews.
Mrs. Crow was a member of the
Methodist church and had a large
number of friends who will deeply
regret to learn of her death.
DeMolay Dance
Tomorrow
.
Evening, 8-12
The Frank Hardeman Chap
ter, Order of DeMolay, will pre
sent its annual spring semi-for
mal dance Saturday night, from
8 until 12 p. m., at the Athens
Country Club.
Music for members, guests and
their dates will be furnished by
Ben Worthy and his seven-piece
orchestra from Atlanta. Chaper=
ons for the occasion will include
Chapter Adviser D. Weaver (Dad)
and Mrs. Bridges,, C. O. (Fat)
Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Heckman, and Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Sudderth.
A large represéntation from
the Gainesville chapter is expect
ed. The latter chapter was re
cently installed by ‘the Frank
Hardeman team.
| .
'Blast, Fire In
Holland Tunnel
NEW YORK, May 13—(AP)—
Thirty persons were overcome
when drums of chemicals exploded
on a truck in the Holland tunnel
today, filling the two-mile long
[underwater highway with carbon
disulphide fumes.
! The series of explosions, touch
ed off when the big trailer truck
caught fire, halted all traffic in
the heavily traveled tunnel under
the Hudson river.
Vital communication lines were
disrupted. Other vehicles, stalled
!behind the truck, caught fire.
]Walls and ceiling of the tunnei
"-s:cre dnmag}ed badly,
SERVING ATHENS AND NCATHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS CA. FRIDAY MAY 13, 1949,
East - West Berlin Export
Dispute Is Believed Settled
CAA Checks On
Mysterious
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Flying Cigar
ATLANTA, May 13— (AP)—
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration wants to know more
about that cigar-like object some
people say they have seen
shooting eastward through the
sky, followed by a blue flame.
An Atlanta spokesman said
last night all CAA stations in
East Tennessee and Southwest
Virginia had been asked to for
ward their reporis on the
strange object.
He added that nothing authen
tic had been received. He also
declined to conjecture what
m’~“t he behind the reports.
There are plenty of people in
the Tennessee-Virginia area who
say they have talked to persons
~ha hava heard from others that
they saw the phenomenaon,
ome hazaraed a guess that
the blue-flamed object was sail
ing along about 30,000 feet above
the earth.
MATTHEWS
NEW NAVY
SECRETARY
WASHINGTON., May 13.—(AP)
—Francis - Patrgk Matthews,
Omaha lawyer, was named Sec
retary of the Navy today.
The White House announced
that Matthews, 62, widely known
Catholic layman, has been pick
ed to succeed John L. Sullivan.
- laSsullivan quit recently with a
it at X of sense
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Navy’s super aireraft carrier.
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles- G. Ross said Matthews’
nomination probably would go to
the Senate during the day.
Matthews is a Democrat and
was a member of the President’s
Committee on Civil Rights in
1946. He is a graduate of Creigh
ton University and a native ol
Albion, Nebr.
Ross said that the President is
not yet ready to name a new
Secretary of the Army to succeed
Kenneth C. Royall, who also re
signed.
The Presidsnt fold 3 recent
news conference he still hoped
Curtis C. Calder, New York util
ities executive, would accept the
Army post.
Selection of Matthews followed
the refusal of Jonathan Daniels,
Raleigh, N. C., editor, to accept
the Navy Job. £
Former Athenian
With Hamburg
Foreign Service
John Mosby Perry. former Ath
enian now living in Newton, Mass.,
has been transferred from Bilboa,
where he was vice-consul, to
Hamburg, Germany, as vice-con
sul of the Displaced Persons Pro
gram there, it was announced re
cently by the Foreign Service of
the United States Department of
State. 3
Mr. Perry was assigned to Bil
bao soon after being commission
ed in the Foreign Service in July
1947. He is a veteran of World
War 11, serving with the U. S.
Army from 1942 until 1946, and
reaching the rank of first lieuten
ant. He participated in the Oki
nawa campaign.
After the war he was a research
analyst with the War Department
until- he joined the Foreign Ser
vice. He was born in Athens and
is a graduate of Newton (Mass)
High School, the University of
Virginia and Harvard. He also at
tended the Universidad de San
Marcos in Lima during the sum
mer of 1941.
- WEATHER
ATHENS AND VCINITY
Fair and warmer today and
tonight. Saturday fair and con
tinued warm,
GEORGIA—Fair weather, a
little warmer this afternoon
and tonight, and continued
warm Saturday.
|
TEMPERATURE
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| TS s L vae 02
[ AVORMRE: oy i van e s riTY
RAINFALL
| Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
{ Total since May 1 ... ... 1.56
| Excess since May 1 .. ... .59
| Average May rainfall ... 3.54
Total since January i ....22.53
l Excess since January 1 .. 2.06
Allies Ok
ay
German Draft
Constitution
By The Associated Press
Russia and the western powers
still argued today over whether
all the barriers in the Berlin
« blockade have been lifted.
The Russians charged the west
with “evading the lifting of their
restrictions under invalid pre
texts.” A western spokesman
promptly labelled the charge a
“lot of nonsense.”
However, one source .of friction
—a dispute over exports from
Berlin to the western zones—
seemed tc have been removed.
The Russians incurred western
wrath yesterday by refusing to
allow trucks from west Berlin to
travel to the western occupation
zones without obtaining permits
from the Soviet military &r the
Russian-backed German economic
commission.
Early today, however, west
Berlin police said they under
lstood such trucks now need only
.an order from the west Berlin
government.
Western observers saw a veiled
Soviet threat to renew the block
ade in a Russian press statement
that “the (blockade) agreement
cannot be fulfilled by the Soviet
‘side alone.”
~ Any ‘such step, however, would
be a matter of policy for higher
authorities than the Russians in
Germany to decide.
Fresh Food
Meantime, fresh food shipments
from the western zone were pour- |
ing into west Berlin without in
terference from the Russians. Rail |
shipments of food and coal also
were moving smoothly. |
_The western allies approved
with reservations last night the
new west German federal repub
lic's draft constitution. This gives
them a trump card for use in the
May 23 Paris talks with Russia
seeking a solution to the entire
;fierman situation.
3 The Americans, British and
Mh also ordered .an interim
‘peace treaty for the western occu- |
pation zones’ 45,000,000 Germans
to come into force the day the
west German government takes
office.
In London, Labor and Conser
vation members of the House of
Commons joined last night to rat
ify the North, Atlantic treaty by
333 to 6. Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin and opposition leader Win
ston Churchill joined in hailing
the pact.
China War
China’s Communist forces crept
closer to the great city of Shang
hai today, despite stout Nation
alist resistance.
One battle raged about 25 miles
southwest of the city, centering
around the village of Sungkiang,
on the Shanghai-Hanchow rail
road. Another developed to the
northwest, around the village of
Tainsang, near the banks of the
Yangtze River. The nearest Red
lines appeared to be about 20 miles
from Shanghai.
Inside Shanghai, soldiers were
busy piling sandbags at street cor
ners and building entrances. Traf
fic was light, as hundreds of civil
ian and military vehicles already
have evacuated.
At Lake Success, Russia accused
the United States and Britain of
making a ‘“deal” to keep controi
of strategic parts of Italy’s one
time African empire. The charge
came from Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromyko as
the U. N. Assembly’s politicali
committee neared a showdown on
disposal of the colonies after six
weeks of bitter debate. |
CONGRESSIONAL ROUNDUP
Ex - Soviet Says Red Secret Police
Using Washington As Headquarters
WASHINGTON, May 13—(AP)
—A Russian who split with the
Kremlin claims that Communist
secret police are operating in this
country.
Kirill Alexeev, former commer
cial attache at the Russian Embas
sy in Mexico, said their headquar
ters is the Russian embassy in
Washington.
Their main job, he told the Sen
ate Judiciary subcommittee, is to
direct spy activities, and as for
spies, he charged that all soviet
diplomatic officials have “a spy
responsibility.”
Many of the diplomats from
Russia’s satellite countries also
have this same “spy responsibili
ty,” he said.
Most of this testimony came out
yesterday in a public hearing,
which Alexeev said cramped his
style. Today he was called back
to tell all he knows and name
names behind closed doors.
The committee is studying a bill
designed to bar immigration gates
‘to subversive aliens, and to get rid
of those already here. One wit
ness yesterday — behind closed
doors—was a mystery man called
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COTTON MAIDS AT COTTON LUNCHEON-—Three Maids of
Cotton compared notes as thay met in Memphis Tenn., wheie
several hundred persons attended the Maid of Cotton Luncheon
and Style Show. The Maids are (left to right): Gwin Barnweil,
1946 Maid; Sue Howell, 1949 Maid; and Hilma Seay, 1947 Maid.
(NEA Telephoto).
GERMAN - JAPANESE
WASHINGTON, May 13.—(AP)—The State Depart
ment appears headed for a new debate on whether it is
moving too far and too fast in shifting American policies
on Germany and Japan. The shift is from postwar ‘“‘tough
ness’”’ to peacetime reconstruction.
Officials are admittedly aware
that every move they make to put
the former enemy countries back
on a self-sustaining basis and give
them increasing self-government
is subject to criticism. The criti
cism is sounded both here and
abroad, frequently on the issue of
a “tough” versus ‘“soft” policy.
The latest of such moves came
yesterday when the State Depart
ment aniguncea iat reparation
removals of industrial equipment
from Japan had been halted in
the interest: of rebuilding that
country’s peacetime economy.
The announcement paralleled
a joint move last month by the
United States, Britain and France
—a move which this country ini
tiated — in striking 159 plants
from the last of those earmarked
for removal from Germany as rep
arations.
That action also was explained
by the determination of the west
ern powers, at American urging,
to get the German economy on a
paying basis again and enable it
to contribute needed goods to Eu
ropean recovery under the Mar
shall Plan.
Award Sought
The action with respect to Ja
pan was taken without prior con
sultation with the 10 other na
tions which make up the policy
forming far eastern commisssion.
The commission members have
The Senate itself continued its
debate on a District of Columbia
sales tax, already passed by the
House. And the House was ad
journed until Monday.
But committees in both bodies
were active:
Top Witness
A former army lieutenant de
scribed by earlier witnesses as a
near-genius and sadistic was top
witness before the Armed Services
Subcommittee investigating the
Malmedy Massacre trials.
He was Williamn R. Perl, former
Vienna attorney, later an Amer
ican citizen. Witnesses said he
originated a mock trial procedure
that forced confessions from Storm
Troopers being tried for kililng U.
S. prisoners of war.
Also, they said, he was a ring
leader in using ‘“third degree”
methods to get confessions from
Nazis.
The committee is trying to find
out if the Germans, guilty or not,
got fair triald. S
- Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign
Relations Commitiee gave veterans
of the two world wars their chance
to say what they think about the
North Atlantie Pact' About 50
persons remain to be heard be
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
thus far been unable to agree on
a common Japanese reparations
policy.
The State Department said this
disagreement made it necessary
for the United States to act alone
in this instance. Diplomats said
it was certain the action would be
bitterly attacked by some of the
other countries on the commis
sion. R
The attack is e¢xpecied &n ‘the
grounds that (1) the American de
cisiop shuts off reparations which
those countries need for their own
reconstructions and (2) this coun
try is pushing Japanese recon
struction too iust.
World Review :
The German policies of the
western powers will come up for
review in the council of foreign
ministers in Paris, opening May
23. It is expected they will ther
be assailed as usual by Russia and
will again be subject to world re
view against the background of
the council discussion.
Present American policies to
ward Germany and Japan, say
diplomatic officials, stem from
two facts. The first is the break
down of copperation between Rus
sia and the west in dealing with
the defeated states. The second is
the cost to the American taxpayers
of maintaiging the economics of
the two countries.
tween now and the next Tuesday
deadline. Today’s list included
spokesmen for the American Le
gion, American Veterans Commit
tee, the Amvets and the Jewish
War Veterans,
GI Pay Bill
The bill would boost the pay of
men in service an average of 14
percent. Biggest increases would
go to Admirals and Generals, and
taper off to about three percent
for the next to lowest enlisted
grade. The bottom enlisted grade
would not get a raise.
House members who have been
loud in their demands for govern
ment economy, but who votéd to
boost their own expense funds, to
day pondered the possibility they
might have to vote again, and this
time have their names on record.
The President’'s Housing and La
bor programs, high on his list of
must bills, figured in the news.
Administration leaders predicted
President Truman will win an im
pressive victory in the House with
his long-range housing program.
Republican opponents promised a
fight, but some conceded next
week’s decigion vota may he in the
President’s favor, i e B
HOME
EDITION
More Citizens
Urge Approval
Of Bond Issue
Mrs. Rollin Chamblise, speaking
over Radio Station WRFC yester
day on the need for issuance of
$1,000,000 in bonds to bring the
Athens school facilities up-to-date
emphasized the importance of good
surroundings and equipment in
productive teaching.
Mrs. Chambliss declared ‘“our
Athens schools today lack certain
essential facilities. Our business,
which is that of rearing boys and
girls, ig increasing. Voting school
bonds on May 24th is the first step
needed in our expansion.”
Councilman Clyde Basham
spoke over Radio Station WGAU
last night, stressing the importance
of approval of the-bond issue on
May 24th.
Comment of several citizens, in
behalf of bonds, is contained ir
statements released today by the
P. T. A. Bond Campaign Commit«
tee. Their statements follow:
I give my wholehearted support
to the coming bond issue. It is
definite assurance that my four
children, as well as all other chil
dren of Athens, will have every
possible educational advantage,
that will prepare them for being
good citizens of tomorrow.
Mrs. Jimmy Williams
I am going to vote for bonds on:
May 24 because it is my earnest
desire to have a decent building
for my son and daughter. I would
like them to have equal opportuni
ties that children in more pro
gressive communities have. They
will have to compete with these
boys and girls who have received
more advantages in later life for
jobs and community leadership.
Are we going to leave them want
ing these things forever? I think
it is about time we did some
thing about it and we can by
voting for bonds on May 24. lam
‘going to vote forthem, =.~
Mrs, Lloyd Messer
Approval Imperative .
I think it is absolutely impera
tive that the new bond issue goes
through. We can’t afford to de
prive our children of a chance to
get a good education. We have
been asleep too long and our chil
dren have suffered from our apa
thy. This is one chance to make
educational advantages for our fu
ture citizens, We must not let it
fail. .
Mrs. Warren Thurmond
I am going to vote for the bond
issue because—
Being a graduate of Athens
High School I know the conditions
of the school. I want my child to
have better conditions for her
schooling than I had. I am sure
all who have been through the
school will vote for the bond.
Harry C. Moseman jr.
It it is true that Athens has
never built a high school for its
children and that for years our
children Bave been Stlehidiag a 8
school not good enough for a court
house, then I think it is high time
we realized the vital need facing
us. We need repairs in our gram
mar schools, we need more rooms
in our buildings and we need a
new high school building desper
ately.
Our children will become lead
ers in this community and they
deserve more than a worn out
structure in which to prepare
themselves for the future. We
want to send forth children strong
in body and mind to meet the pub
lic to make a place for themselves
in the world of today. But how
can we accomplish this if we neg
lect the fact that we are starving
our children with lack of learn
ing, due to lack of facilities in our
schools.
How can our children compete
with children from communities
more progressive than ours, chil
dren who have new safe buildings.
Equipment which is necessary to
well rounded learning. Space in
which to carry on activities such
as assembly meetings dramatics,
musical programs and many other
things. We can not let this apathy
hold us longer. We must wake up
and face facts. This is our chance
to build for the future.
We must net fail our children
now. It is our duty, yours and
mine to see that this bond issue
goes through.
We can do this by going to the
polls on May 24 and voting for
bong:. We must do this for our
children and for the future of our
community.
Mrs. Henry Compton
There’s no doubt but that we
need a new high school and I am
certainiy going to vote for bonds
and I feel confident that the issue
will pass.
C. O. Baker
: Better Facilities
. In her radio talk Mrs. Cham
bliss said: Sl B
“In a series of talks such as
these there is danger of l%;
tion. Thus far. fortunately. that