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The Rev. J. Milton Richardson,
rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church, Atlanta, will deliver the
University of Georgia Baccalau
reate Sermon at 11 a, m. in Fine
Arts Auditorium.
The academic procession consis
ting of members of the facutly
and graduating class will form at
10:45 in front of the Military
Building. Academic costume will
be worn.
Music has been arranged by
Hugh Hodgson and Miss Lucile
Kimble. Members of Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity will serve as ush
ers. Athenians are invited to at
tend these services. i
With the sermon today will be
sin Commencement Week, which
will see the University’s largest
graduating class, almost 1,500 re
ceive degrees on Saturday, June
11, at 5:30 p. m. in Sanford Sta
dium. Chancellor Harmon Cald
well will speak, and William
Bates will deliver the Valedictory
address.
pPresident and Mrs. Rogers will
honor seniors and visiting alumni
at a reception Friday night, June
10. on the Dawson Hall lawn.
Alumni Day
June 10 is also Alumni Day.
Formal reunions will be held for
the classes of 1894, 1899, 1901-
1904, 1909, 1911-1914, 1919-1924,
1929, 1939-1942, and 1944. All Uni
versity alumni are invited and
urged to attend.
The annual business meeting
will begin in the University
Chapel at 10:30 a. m., where Pres
ident Jonathan C. Rogers will be
the principal speaker. Judge F. M.
Bird of Atlanta, president of the
Georgia alumni, will preside. The
University of Georgia Band and
the band from Washington High
School will be on hand to play
before the meeting.
The session will include reports
of committees, presentation of the
University Service Award to a
member of the faculty, and elec
tion of new officers.
After class luncheons the alum
ni will be free to visit frignds, |’
traternities, sororities, and open ;
houses of various departments un- |
itl 4:30 p. M. Wheped barbecue |
will p& hdlds o all visitors on the
south side of Sanford Stadium. Al- |
umni planning to attend the bar- |
becue should notify the alumni
office at once.
Registration for the first sum
mer term will be held June 13-14, I
and classes will begin on Wed
nesday, June 15.
A total of 140 Athenians and 71
others from this immediate sec
tion are among 1,459 candidates
for degrees to be awarded by the
University of Georgia.
The list of candidates from
Athens and nearby towns in
cludes:
Bachelor of Arts—Vivian Ash
ford, Alice Erwin Chandler, Hu
bert Livingston Flanagan, ir.,
Robert Edward Gibson, Jack‘
Gober, jr., Alice Stone Johnson.‘
Margaret Paddock, Muriel Aus
lander Solomon, Wesley Daniel|
Stephens, Ann Thurmon, James|
Vernon Webb, and Lloyd Milton|
Center, Greensboro; Jane Frank
Chandler, Greensboro; Walter
FEugene Gunter, Winterville; Ola
Faye Healan, Winder.
Bachelor of Science — Ramon
Juan Allen, William Harvey
Cabaniss, jr., Harry Thornton
Clements, jr., Gloria Anne Dixon,
Audley Chandler Harrise Golden
Sanders Hinton, James Lambert
Holliday, Nat Tipton = McGehee,
jr, Charles Joseph Orr, Jewell
Callaway Paul, Luke Brundage
Smith, Charles Dean Stone, Win
ell Wickliffe, Oliver Melvin Wis
dahl, and Hewlett Edwin Ader
holt, jr., Jefferson; James Fred
Arnold,, jr., Statham; Mary Kelly
Bryant, Comer; Charles Wesley
Fruit, Commerce; Roscoe C.
Parks, Winder.
Bachelor of Fine Arts — R. L.
Brittain, Billy Jack Christian,
Richard Linton Dowdy, jr., Sarah
Elizabeth Fgor, Dagma Leak
Floyd, jr, Inman Weord Greene,i
Charles Blackburn Johnston,
Laura Rutherford Paddeck, An
tonio David Palmisano, Harold
Solomon, and Sara Florene Hat-
Hiela, vionroe. 2
Bachelor of Arts in Joumahsm‘
~—Hoyt Nelson Chick, jr., Helen
Marie Driftmier, .Robert Allen
Nicholes, Elizabeth Beatty Perry,
Lewis Lanier Seruggs, Henry
Neil Thomas, Vincent Cornelius
Watson, Marion Lampkin West,
Joline Bateman Williams, and
Elizabeth ~ Williams Etherldge,
Royston; Oscar Belvin Moore, jr.,
Greensboro.
Bachelor of Business Adminis
tration — Rober t Edw‘ard|
Adains, Benjamin Jordan Ander
son, Wililiam Louis Bartlett, Rob
ert Lester Blumberg, Charles
Barnett Burch, Lloyd Wesley
Campbell, Norman Reese Carnes,
Jeptha Rucker Carr, Floyd Tay
lor Chastain, John Mell Cheney,
William Leslie Cook, James Hugh
Davis, jr., Douglgs Flanigen Den
ney, Juddie Bernard Farr, Clar
ence Edward Flanagan, Hinton
Crady Fussell, William Morgan
Harvill, Llewellyn Heolt Hertwig, |
Jr., Alen Hampton Hudson, Oel
Barnes Ingram, jr., Quillian Ful
lilove Lester, Benjan#n Grady
Martin, Francis Abit Massey,
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DR. JOSIAH CRUDUP
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Eight W. Va.
Escaped Cons
Back In Jail
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. June
4—(AP)—Eight of the 14 long
term convicts who cut their way
out of West Virginia’s old state
genitentiary were recaptured to
ay.
Planes, jeeps and road blocks
were being employed by law en
forcement officials to flush the
six still at large.
The mass break was engineer
ed before dawn yesterday.
The latest two to fall into the
net tightening around this upper
Ohio River area were captured by
Police Chief Earl W. Walker of
Belfare, O.
They were Everett Leroy, 28,
and Elmer Tichnell, 28, holdup
men from Parkersburg, W. Va.,
who had escaped once before.
Walker picked them up as they
were walking along a Belfare
street. e L
One of those captured after
less than a day and a half of un
certain freedom was shot in the
shoulder by an Ohio State High
way patrolman after he was spot
ted walking along a highway in
nearby Powhattan, O. He was
identified as Mike Ables, 34-year
old lifer.
Holly Starcher, a kidnapper,
was captured with him.
Hunger Pangs
A combination of hunger pangs
and the alertness of a country
storekeeper sent the other four
back to the 83-year-old peniten
tiary.
They were Dennis P. Taylor,
27, Jack Heeney, 47; Donald Wur
ster, 23, and Charles P. Ross, 28.
They had made their way east
ward 10 miles tp the farming sec
tion near Glen Easton, W. Va.
Taylor, still in prison garb,
went to a small grocery operated
by Floyd Fritzman and his 22-
year-old wife, Twila.
The other three hid in the
woods nearby.
Grocery Order
The convict ordered “more gro
ceries than three men could eat,”
Fritzman related. When the gro
cer started to question him, Tay
lor made a break for the door.
Fritzman grabbed a pistol and
fired five shots. Taylor was not
hit, but he stopped dead in his
tracks
BIG FOUR PROGRESS IS SLOW;
EISLER ESCAPE SHIP PROBED
By The Associated Press
The Big Four Councii of Foreign Ministers,
meeting in Paris on the German question, made
a “little progress” at a four and a half hour
secret session last night, an American source
said.
A communique said the Foreign Ministers
continued “the discussion of the proposals of
the United States and the U. S. S. R. relative to
Berlin.” After the meeting U. S. Secretary Dean
Acheson and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei X
Vishinsky dined togeilier ai the American Em
bassy.
In New York harbor, U. S. government agents
swarmed aboard the Polish liner Batory, re
turning from Europe after a trip in which
Communist Gerhart Eisler had made his es
cape from the United States. However, im
migration authorities denied reports the fed
eral men would seize the vessel.
The Polish Embassy in Washington said it
would use “all legal means against any unjus=
tified or illegal action” with respect to the
Batory.
Rude Pravo, official Communist newspaper in
Dr. Josiah Crudup, President
Brenau College, Gainesville, will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon
to the graduating class of Athens
High . this afternoon, at 4:00
o’clock at the Fine Airts Audito
rium.
Dr, Crudup was born in Hot
Springs, N. C., on March 17, 1901,
of English and Welsh parentage.
His father, Dr. Josiah Crudup,
was a Baptist minister; his moth
er was Antonio Corelli Remfrey.
As a boy Josiah Crudup attended
the public schools of North and
South Carolina and later gradua
ted from high school in Dalton,
Georgia. He attended Mercer Uni
versity and received his A. B. de
gree there in 1923.
During the summers of 1923
through 1931 Dr. Crudup taught
and attended school at Peabody
College, receiving his M. A. degree
there in 1931. In 1923 Dr. Crudup
served as athletic coach at the
Athens (Alabama) Agricultural
School, taught at Georgia State
Woman's College in 1925, and was
professor of Physics at Bessie
Tift College during 1926.
Research Work
In 1927 he returned to Mercer
University as head of the physics
department and remained there
until 1934. In that year Dr. Crud
up was awarded a Rockefeller
Fellowship at the University of
Chicago. For three years he did
research work there in X-rays
and cosmic rays. After receiving
the Ph. D. degree from Chicago
in 1939, Dr. Crudup went again
to Mercer University as head of
the physics department. He re
mained there until June 1945,
when he accepted the presidency
of Brenau College in Gainesville.
Dr. Crudup is a member of
Kappa Alpha, social fraternity;
Kappa Phi Kappa, educational
fraternity; and Phi Delta Kappa,
honorary scholastic fraternity. He
has served as Lieutenant-Govern
or of Kiwanis in Georgia and is a
member of the Citizens Council
of the State of Georgia.
Dr, Crudup is one of the South’s
o&tstanding educators. He is very
‘%\‘mh in demand as a speaker.
e people of Attiens will wel
come the opportunity of hearing
him.
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Atomic Labor
Group Formed
WASHINGTON, June 4—(AP)
— President Truman completed es
tablishing an Atomic Energy La
bor Relations Panel today, just in
time for possible intervention
in a threatened strike at Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
On April 26 he appointed Wil
liam H. Davis as chairman. Today
he announced the other two mem
bers. They are:
Dr. Edwin E. Witte, economics
professor at the University of Wis
consin.
Aaron Horvitz, New York law
yer and labor relations consul
tant.
Davis, a New York lawyer,
served during the war as chair
man of the War Labor Board and
later as Economic Stabilization
director.
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" Athenian Injured
k W. O. Garrett, 450 Prince ave
nue, was slightly injured in an
automobile accident near Hull yes
terday morning. Ambulance at
| tenadnts said no other vehicle was
{involved in the hishap and Mr.
‘ Garrett was riding along when his
car ran off the road.
| Attendants at the local hospital
{ where he is being treated said he
| is in fair condition.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
CITY POLICE
MOVE INTO
NEW OFFICES
The Athens Police Depart
ment has moved into its new
offices on the ground floor of
the city hall, and Chief of Police
Clarence Roberts urges all Ath
enians to make a personal tour
of the department.
Every division of the depart
ment now has separate offices
with ample room for records
and files.
One office is for the traffic
division, headed by Capt. Jake
Porterfield; another for city de
tectives Hardy and McKinnon,
a third for the Captains in
charge of each eight-hour shift
A fourth for the Civil Service
commissioners and a fifth for
the Chief of Police.
A lounge room is also plan
ned for officers off duty. New
lockers have also ‘been install
ed in the office space.
The entire color scheme
throughout the offices is gray
and white, with ultra modern
lighting facilitiess. Two neon
signs will be placed at the Col
lege avenue street level en
trance signifying the location of
the police department,
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(ity Paving Growing
Department Continues To Shatter
Records; Far Ahead Of Schedules
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Paving progress in Athens is continuing at a rapid
pace, and today the 1949 program is ahead of last year’s
program, which was the largest in the city’s history.
This year more work has been completed in the con
struction of curbs and gutters and in asphalt work than
had been done by this time last year, the May progress
report of the Public Work Department decl_ares. .
In 1948 the first asphalt was
not applied until after the middle
of June, but the Department hopes
that at least two cars of asphalt
will be applied by that time this
year, the report stated.
Duing May paving was com
pleted on Harris street from Hen
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Wadde g ; street
to Milledge avenue, South Church
street from Baxter street to Dear
ing street, South Pope street from
Baxter street to Dearing street,
South Pope street from Baxter
street to Broad street, North Pope
street from Hancock avenue to
Hill street, North Pope street from
end of present paving to the north
ern property line of W. A. Aber
crombie, and Oglethorpe Ter
race.
Curbing Completed
Curbing was completed on Han
cock avenue from Milledge avenue
to Broad street and a cement sta
bilized base was constructed. Also
it has been primed, and it is
Univ. Students
Adopt Mother
Pooch, Family
A wayward mother pooch has
found a generous new home for
herself and five offspring.
She has taken up residence in
a hollowed-out portion of a
large tree in front of the main
library on the University cam
pus.
Her care is better than the
doctor ordered.
Georgia students hawve faken
it on iheir own to support the
mother and family, and their
diets consist of such items as
steaks, chops, milk, crackers etc.
Prague, Czechoslovakia, denounced the Ro
man Catholic hiérarchy and the Vatican. An
informed source at Vatican City compared
Czech Communist attacks on the Catholic
Church during recent weeks to a similar cam
paign in Hungary before the arrest of Josef
Cardinal Mindszenty.-
American authorities in Berlin announced
that Dr. Bedrich Bruegel, acting chief of the
Czech military mission and highest ranking
Czech representative in the German city, had
fled Germany for an undisclosed destination.
Bruegel left a letter saying his Communist
controlled country is under a “corrupt police
dictatorship.” He was the seventh member of
the 10-man mission to go into exile since the
Communist coup in Prague in February,
1948.
Two French industrialists were arrested on
charges of plotting to ‘“demoralize the army.”
Sixteen other persons were taken into custody
yesterday during the investigation of an al
leged anti:Communist band, but two of them
were released.
ATHENS, GA,, SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1949.
CASE OF MISSING Gi
CHECKS CRACKED HERE
T - Men. City Detectives Nab
2 Negroes On Forgery Charge
By ED THILENIUS, City Editor
The baffling case of the missing GI subsistance checks
has been cracked here by U, S. Treasury Department
Agents and City Detectives McKinnon and Hardy.
Two Athens negroes, Boston Edwards, 24, and Edwin
Pope, 26, were arrested late Friday and later signed con
fessions for stealing at least one of the missing checks,
police reported. e
Both negroes were arranged be
fore Federal Commissioner J. T.
Middlebrooks, and charged with
forgery and the cashing of forged
checks. Their bond was set at sl,-
000 each. :
The arrests followed a week
long investigation by the T-Men
and the two city detectives.
Numerous cases of missing
checks were reported by veterans
planned to have the asphalt arrive
by tomorrow to finish the project.
“A soil cement base was placed
on the street in lieu of the crusher
run stone on account of the extra
amount of traffic that the street
will probably be called upon to
carry,” stated the report. Also
#ifty pounds of crusher rin ma
terial %er square yard was added
to further fortify the base.
Curbing has been finished on
Best Drive from Holman avenue to
Holman avenue and on Millard
street from Best Drive to Holman
avenue. At present curbing work
is in process on Matthews avenue
from King avenue to its southeast
ern extremity. After that job is
completed the forces will begin
work on Hiawassee avenue be
tween Boulevard and Seaboard
railroad line.
The portion of Hiawassee ave
nue, south of Boulevard, is to be
paved, but a two-inch water pipe
must be installed before the work
can be completed. Orders for this
size pipe have been slow and
shipment has not been made. A
delay in the paving of that por
tion of Hiawassee will have to be
made, stated the report. Work
will begin on Pinecrest Drive and
Hope avenue soon.
Sanitary sewer construction has
been completed on a portion of
‘Milledge Terrace, Southview
Drive, and South Lumpkin street.
‘The job is being done by David
Simpson. City crews are con
structing a sewer, which will serve
a portion of Southview Drive.
New Sewer Line
Also city crews are in the pro
cess of ocnstructing a new sanitary
sewer pipe line in the culvert be
neath the University of Georgia
football stadium and the culvert of
the Central of Georgia Railroad.
The installation of the new pipe
line was made necessary because
trouble was incurred in the eigh
teen inch line sewer, which tra
verses the stadium. The original
installation of the sewer was made
beneath a wooden trestle that was
formerly the Macon and Northern
Railroad.
About 1915 the railroad filled in
the trestle with dirt and construct
ed a road east of the stadium,
stated the progress report. The
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Old Age Pension
Cuts Predicted
ATLANTA, June 4 — (AP) —
State Welfare Director Jack For
rester said today he’s going to cut
off about 13,000 Georgia old age
pensioners who should be cared
for by their children.
New and tighter regulations for
welfare rolls will go into effect
within a few weeks, he said.
Persons over 65 won’t continue
to receive state assistance if their
children are fully able to support
them. Forrester said he has found
some cases of parents on welfare
rolls whose children “live in man
sions and make a thousand dollars
a month.”
All those with children making
over a certain amount will.be
{ dropped. Forrester didn’'t an
[nounce the ‘exact amounts on
Iwhich action will be based.
! The new step, he said, will pave
ithe way for adaing another 13,000
| really needy cases to welfare rolls
| without additional expense.
The idea conforms with federal
requirements, Forrester said.
enrolled in school here. The treas
ury Department immediately or
dered a look at the situation. The
two city detectives joined in the
investigation.
The officers said that after a
thorough investigation of evi
dence here, the two negroes were
arrested and questioned. At first
both denied any knowledge of the
checks, but continued questioning
brought about a full confession in
one court.
The negroes admitted taking
the check from a fraternity house
here the officers said. The num
ber of other checks missing or
forged was not revealed by the
officers, as neither was their total
cash amount. o
Detective McKinnon said that a
full scale investigation is still un
derway in the case on the re
mainder of the checks.
Negro Family
Gets Threats
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 4—
(AP)—A negro family living in an
area zoned for whites reported re
ceipt of a threatening Iletter
through the mails late today.
It was the second threat received
by negroes in that area in less than
24 hours.
“If you do not move out, we will
send you somewhere, heaven or
hell,” part of the letter said. It
was received by the Rev. E. B. De
yanpert, a negro minister.
~ The first threat was in the form
of a telephone call to the wife of
another negro minister, the Rev.
Milton Curry, jr. The Curry fam
ily lives next door to Deyampert.
U. S. Strength
in Young Men
MOBILE, Ala., June 4—(AP)—
Gen. George C. Kenney said today
the United States had a ‘“secret
weapon” no other country could
match—its young men.
Gen. Kenney, commanding Gen
eral of the Air University at Mont
gomery, told Alabama Exchange
Clubs “our so-called drug store
cowboys surprised the rest of the
world by making such excellent
and aggressive soldiers in World
War I 11.”
“Such typical American youths
are the weapons that no other na
tion can possess,” he said.
ATHENS AND VICINITY l
Fair and not much change
in temperature todayv.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
Sunday and Monday with a few
widely scattered thunder show
ers in extreme north portion
Sunday afternoon or evening,
little temperature change except
warmer coastal area Sunday.
TEMPERATURE
TRt . s i 0B
YOOt vl e i D
W T Sl e TR
MOPAI b T
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Totel since - Jums 1 ~ .... 23
Deficit since June 1 .. .. .36
Average June rainfall .... 4.13
Total since January 1 ....25.50
Excess since January 1 .. 2.22
8:30 AT FINEARTS AUDITORIUM
Jaycees'’ YMCA Benefit Dance
Review Set Here Tuesday Night
The annual Dot Philpot Dance
Revue will be staged in the Fine
Arts Auditorium Thursday even
ing, June 9, at 8:30, it was an
nounced yesterday by Guy W.
Smith, chairman of the Jaycee
committee in charge of arranging
the review.
The Dance Revue is held each
year through the cooperation of
the Philpot School of Dancing and
the Athens Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Proceeds from the Re~
view go toward memberships to
the local Y. M. C. A. for under
privileged children of the city.
Dozens of local children partici
pate in the annual dance affair
each year, and a delightful pro
gram of dances has been arranged
for the review this year, according
to Chairman Smith of the Jaycees.
l.ast year's revue was one of the
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JUDGE OLIN PRICE
. . . seeks re-election
City Recorder
Election
Here Monday
With Judge Olin Price as the
only qualified candidate an elec
tion for City Recorder will be held
here tomorrow between the hours
of 9 and 4 o'clock. A
Judge Price is a candidate to
succeed himself for the four-year
term which begins Julyy 1.
Judge Price succeeded the late
Vincent Matthews as Recorder.
There will be only one polling
place, at the City Hall Council
Chamber. The election officials
will be: Mrs. W. J. Russell, Miss
Alma Hughes, Mrs. E. W. Carroll,
Mrs. W. D. Faulkner, Miss Amma
Wright, Mrs. Clifford Denney.
Judge Price is regarded as hav
ing made a fine record as Record
er. Recently a check-up of cases
he has tried showed that of gbout
twelve theusand cases and]e
only two had been R
higher court. : ’
Judge Price is a former mem
ber of the legislature from Clarke
county. He is a member of the
faculty of political science at the
University of Georgia and is a son
of Mr, and Mrs, L, O. Price.
Frogtown Gap
Gets New Name
.WASHINGTON, June 4 — (AP)
—Frogtown Gap, that dip in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Northk
Georgia, has had its name
changed—officially—to Neels Gap
The Board on Geographic names
approved the name of Frogtowr
Gap a number of years ago for use
on government maps and docu
ments. .
The gap’s in Lumpkin and Union
counties, on the boundary between
Vogel State Park and Chattahoo
chee National Forest.
It was once the site of an In
dian village—Frogtown, the old
timers called it.
Then the state built a fine new
highway through the cut, and
folks began calling it Neel Gap, or
Neel’'s Gap, after Warren Neel of
the State Highway Department.
The board on Geographic Names
long has had a policy against nam
ing places for living persons. But
it also is strong for names that are
in local usage.
EMORY GRADUATION
ATLANTA, June 4 — (AP) —
Vice President Alben W. Barkley
said today the United States must
protect the atomic bomb secret
until nations can trust one another.
Barkley gave the commence
ment address at Emory University.
He was graduated from Emory in
1900.
most successful of the series yet
held, a big audience being attract
ed to see the future belles— and
some beaux—of Athens and this
section, perform.
Packed Houses
Several years agc the Jaycees
asked Miss Philpot to stage an an
nual revue for that organization
with the proceeds being used tc
provide memberships in the YMCA
for boys who otherwise would not
be able to receive those benefits
The first revue was held in the
old High School Auditorium and
played to a packed house. Eact
vear the seating capacity was tax
ed until finally it became neces
sary to move the production to the
Fine Arts Auditorium.
Dance Diplomas
The Philpot Dance School opens
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Hospital
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Talmadge Rejects |
Doctors’ Protest;
Five-Day Wait Set
By CHARLES BARRETT
LOVEJOY, Ga., June 4—(AP)—
A peace parley faiied today, leav
ing the threat of a mass walkout
of doctors hanging heavy over
10,000 patients at Georgia’'s Mil
ledgeville mental hospital. I
But the protest strike was post
poned, at least for five days.
Gov. Herman Talmadge, after
conferring with disputed doctors
and administrators from the hos
pital at his farm here, said he was
unable to “resolve their differ
ences on an amicable basis.”
Thirteen staff doctors at the
hospital have delivered an ultima
tum to the Governor, protesting
administration of the hospital.
They said they will quit unless the
Governor fires State Welfare Di
rector Jack Forrester and Hospital
Superintendent Thomas A. Dech~
man.
Emergency Basis
Talmadge refused to fire the
two officials today, but the crisis
was -postponed. The doctors
agreed to remain at work on an
emergency basis pending a meet
ing in Milledgeville Wednesday of
the State Social Security Board.
The ten-man board acts as an
advisor to Welfare Director For
rester, who is chairman. It has
little legal power. It will seek to
mediate the dispute.
Talmadge said after his talks to«
day that the hottest issue in the
critical dispute is whether a doc«
W'mus -administrator
| "be the top executive at the
huge hospital.
Dechman was appointed super
intendent by Forrester after the
recent state legislature authorized
a business administrator as the
head man.
Doctor’s Charge
Dr. Thomas G. Peacock, former
superintendent and now medical
director and other doctors have
protested -that Dechman has been
“domineering, arbitrary and defi
nitely insulting.”
They said his administration has
brought turmoil and chaos, leaving
doctors “handcuffed, throttled.”
Dechman and Forrester, on the
other side, claim many improve
ments under their administration.
They say they have eliminated
“considerable petty grafts, includ
ing a scheme to spread liquor
among personnel and patients.
Stand Pat
Both sides apparently stood pat
in their closed conferences with
the Governor today. Talmadge
said he would continue his investi
gation into the controversy.
~ The 13 doctors who signed the
walkout ultimatum comprige the
entire staff except two, who are
over 70 years old.
Forrester and Dechman said to
day they believed they could hire
replacements for the 13 if they
quit. The doctors have indicated
they might be available for “emer
gency duties” for about two weeks
after they resign—if they ‘do.
Members of the board who will
hear the dispute are Norman Pea
cock of Barnesville, a brother of
Dr. Peacock, and Dr. W. K. Smith,
state representative from Pem
broke, State Representative R. E.
Chastain of Thomasville, W. J. Mc-
Garr of Cordele, James Mann of
Conyers, Dr. E. B. Claxton of Dub
lin, Grady Ramey of Summerville,
Dr. H. M. Edge of Blairsville and
Frank Lee of Washington.
in early September of each year
and the annual revue culminaates
the year’s work. It is similar in
nature to “graduation” at an edu
cational institution and work on
the revue starts weeks in advance.
The presentation dn oo ot on o e
talents and ability of the nearly
one hundred taking part, features
colorful costumes (new each
year), snappy musical numbers
nd several types ‘of dance rou
fines.
As for the past several years,
Miss Philpot is aided in conduct
ing the dance school by Mrs. Wed
Barber, who has direction of the
music and who will be the accom
panist for the revue again this
year,
Admission prices will be 35 cents
and 75 cents,