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Sunbeam Band
For Colored
Is Organized
A Sunbeam Band for the color
ed children of the Winterville
community has been organized
with the following charter mem
bers: Charley Elder, George Phil
% Elder, Joe Latimer, Billy Gene
der, fna May Latimer, Pellie
May Latimer, Jimmie Latimer,
Millie Latimer, and Charlene La
timer. Mrs. L. A. Kirk, president
of the Woman’'s Missionary Socie
ty of the Winterville Baptist
Church conducted the meeting,
asisted by Mrs. C. Q. Norris from
the Winterville Method:ist Church.
On the rays of the sun pictur
ed on a wall chart each member
pasted a heart when hz answerea
roll calli, and a Bible when he re
peated a Bible verse fr.m memo
ry. The children sang the Sun
beam Watchword Hymn with mo
tions, and heard the story, “Indian
Brother.” Light refreshments
werr served.
Until repairs are mace on the
church building, mouthly meet
ings of the Sunbeam land will be
held in the Winterville Court
House. All colored children of the
community, from four through
eight years of age, will be wei
comed. The regular date for meet
ings will be Saturday following
fourth Sundav.
Georgia, Fla.
(Continued from Page One)
before them and they need and
deserve the help and support of
all persons interested in this new
industry in the southz2ast.
Georgia now has 44 artificial
breeding associations 1 operation
in Jasper, Taliaferro, Oconee,
Wilkes, DeKalb, Bibb, Morgan,
Columbia, Meriwether, Frankiin,
Catoosa, Jenkins, Walton and
Upson counties. In some of the
counties wkrere breeding work
was started more than a year ago,
75 to 100 artificially bred calves
have been dropped.
Other associations are being
planned in Dougherty, Butts, and
Hall eounties. Still other associa
tions will definitely start in Car
rollton and Moultrie this month.
Phil I. Higley, managing direc
tor of Southeastern Artificial
Breading Association, spoke at to
day's meeting. '
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New Effect
(Continued from Page One)
for taking over the pits.
Lewis' price of peace was term
ed “fantastic’ by operators.
At White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va., where the negotiations are
being held, George H. Love,
spokesman for northern and west
ern commercial operators, chal
lenged the Lewis figure He said
pit owners had their “backs to the
wall” in the race for markets
against competitive fuels like gas
and oil.”
Other Strikers
Other labor developments:
The 24-day work stcppage by
4,600 CIO United Farm Equip
ment Workers at International
Harvester’s tractor Works in Chi
cago ended. Some 12400 workers
at other Harvester plants were
made idle by the strike which
stemmed from the suspension of
25 men, mostly union shop stew
ards.
Harvester has announced 3,500
workers at its Chicago McCormick
works will be laid »if today be
cause of the steel snortage. In
ending the strike, the union said
the steel strike “has placed us in
a posit‘on where we are unable
at this time to bring economic
pressure on the company.”
New Church
(Continued from Page One)
worship, and
“Whereas, the members of
Young Harris Memorial Methodist
Church hold their first services in
the new church on Sunday, Oc
tober 16, and is holding an ‘Open
House’ from 4 p. m. until 6 p. m,,
and have graciously invited our
citizens to attend,
“Therefore, because of the great
esteem in which the people of
Athens hold Young Harris Me
morial Methodist Church, its fine
pastor and sterling membership, I,
Jack R. Wells, Mayor of the City
of Athens, byt the authority in me
vested, do hereby officially de
clare and proclaim Sunday, Octot
ber 16, as ‘Young Harris Memorial
ber 16, as ‘Young Harris Memorial
the people of our city to whole
heartedly respond to the warm in
vitation extended them by the
church to visit it and meet its
pastor and membership.”
The church faces on Prince Ave
nue on the property that was
formerly the home of the late Mr.
and Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin. It has
a historic background in that it
was in the parlor of the home
where the first Ladies Garden
Club in America was formed.
Russia
(Continued from Page One)
Interior, who won a reputation as
a “strong man” in curbing last
year’s Communist-directed strikes,
won by only a one-vote margin in
the National Assembly.
Now he faces the task of nam
ing a cabinet which can cope with
the nation’s mounting wage-price
crisis brought on by the devalua
tion of the franc. Moch replaces
Henri Queuille, whose coalition
cabinet split on the same issue
last week, forcing him to resign.
A Hungarian appeal court to
day upheld the death sentence for
Laszlo Rajk, former Communist
Foreign Minister and two others
convicted of plotting to make
Hungary a satellite of Premier
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. Pri
son sentences for others convicted
in the same plot were aiso con
firmed,
Funeral Notice
HUNT. — The friends and rela
tives of Mrs. Ula Fortson Hunt,
Winnetka, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Cook, Verdel Cook, Win
netka, Ill; Mr. and Mrs. Ste
phen Fortson Hunt, Anniston,
Ala; Mrs. L. H. Eberhart,
Cariton, Ga., are invited to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Ula
Fortson Hunt, Saturday after
noon, October 15th, at ‘two
o’clock from Bernstein's Cha
pel. Rev, Horace S. Smith, Dis
trict Suerintendent of the Ath
ens-Elberton District, will offi
ciate. Interment will be in Oco
nee Hill cemetery. Bernstein
Funeral Home.
7,000 Cows During ‘49 To Be
Bred Artificially In Georgia
Between 6,000 and 7,000 dairy
cows will be bred artificially in
Georgia in 1949 and the bulls used
will be among the top two percent
in the entire country from the
standpoint of proved production
of their daughters, officials of the
Southeastern Artificial Breeding
Association told approximately 50
northeast Georgia dairymen here
Thursday.
The meeting, which was held at
the Clarke County courthouse, was
a regular gathering of members of
the Oconee County Artificial
Breeding Association. This asso
ciation, according to Frank Stan
cil, Oconee County agent, has now
completed a year of operation.
George Miller, chairman of the
board of the association, presided
ai the meeting and L. C. West
brook, district agent for the Agri
Hunt Services
Are Set For
Saturday At 3
| Services for Mrs. Eula Fortson
lHunt, former resident of Athens,
but a resident of Winnetka, lIL,
for the past four years, will be
held Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock from Bernstein’s Chapel.
| Officiating will be Rev. Horace
|s. Smith, district superintendent
lof the Athens-Elberton district of
the Methodist church.
Burial will be in Oconee Hill
| cemetery, pall-bearers being Arch
| ibald Fortune and Selman For
tune, both of LaFayette, Archie
Langley, John Q. West, Atlanta,
Dr. James B. Allen and Jake Eber
hard.
Mrs. Hunt died at the home of a
| daughter, Mrs. Edgar Cook, in
Winnetka Wednesday morning at
2:30 o'clock. She was ill for three
| weeks prior {c death.
’ She is survived by her daughter,
Mrs. Cook; son, Stephen Fortson
;Hunt, Anniston, Ala.; sister, Mrs.
L. H. Eberhart, Carlton and a
granddaughter, Verdel Cook, Win
netka.
Mrs. Hunt was a native of El
lberton and resided in Athens for
eight years before moving to Win
| netka.
Farmer Tangles
.
With Hay Baler
OLUSTEE, Okla, Oct. 14—
(AP) — A farmer was alive today
because, his doctor said, he had
the courage to push his bleeding
and amputated legs ‘nto a fire.
Thirty three year old C. B.
Hughes lost both legs yesterday
when he tried to free his arm
pinned in a hay baler.
He attracted his wife's atten
tion two hours later by setting a
fire to a bale of hay.
Doctors described his condition
last nigtt at “fair.” They said his
arm will be amputated later.
Hughes’ wife said he pushed his
legs—severed below the knees—
into the flame to stop their bleed=-
ing and rlieve the pain.
Council
(Continued from Page One)
J. F. Hamnrett, Dr. Florene
Young, Mayor Jack® R. Wells,
Wayne R. Shields, Miss Vickey
Butler, Mrs. Louise Hinton, Mrs.
V.M Cane, v, My W, G
Owens, and Mrs. J. J. Lenoir.
Others who took part in the
program were Mrs. F. H. Menden
hall, Rev. J. Earl Gilbreath, Rev.
Charles Middlebrooks and Rev.
Robert H. Ayers.
After the coffee hour that fol
lowed the panel (iscussion; the
report of the findings committee
was given by Mrg, Alex Scudder,
Mrs. B. W, Stovall, Mrs. W. C,
Noell, Mrs. John C. Hart and Mrs.
Charles C. Wilson. “A Challenge
to the Church” was delivered by
Rev. Ayers to conclude the pro
gram.
ELECTRIC PIG BROODERS
Electric brooders are life savers
to little pigs. Simple plans for
building and operating the brood=
ers have been prepared by the
Rural Electrification Administra
tion and are free upon request, .
Driver—following auother car
too closely is one of the mos!
needless causes of accidents —
yet it's one of the commonest.
Hanging on the othor fellow's
bumper won't get you there any
quicker — and it can bring in
stant tragedy. Play it safe—keep
plenty of room betwzen you and
the car ahead is the advice of
the Safety Education Division of
the Georgia State Patrol.
FUNERAL NOTICE
(COLORED)
WATSON, MISS JESSIE G.—
40 Broad Acres, sister of Mrs.
Olivia Smith, passed Thursday,
October 13, 1949, at her resi
dence. Funeral to be announced
by McWhorter Funeral Homre,
MURFF, MISS LOUVENIA — of
Pensacola; Fla, daughter of
Mortician Lucile James, niece
of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hutch
ison, passed October 9, 1949, in
Florida. Funeral announce~-
ments will be made later. Mc-
Whorter Funeral Home.
THE BANNER-RERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
cultural Extension Service, intro
duced visitors. The meeting was
arranged by Neil Manley, Exten
sion representative for the South
eastern Artificial Breeding Asso
ciation. Among the guests at the
meeting were representatives from
the Northeast Georgia Artificial
Breeding Association, Royston.
Officers of the Oconee associa~-
tion and those in charge of the
meeting here are: George Miller,
Oconee County, president; J. L,
McMullin, Jackson County, vice
president; and H. E. Wood, Clarke
County, secretary and treasurer.
Directors of the assoclation are:
M. C. Southwell, Clarke County;
Wize Jennings, Oconee; Clay How
ard, Barrow, and J. S. Hicks, Mad
180n.
Technician for the association is
C. W. Lambert.
Mother Of Mrs.
A. Brooks
Dies Thursday
Mrs. Fannie Goldwasser, mother
of Mrs. A. Brooks of this city, died
at her residence in Atlanta Thurs
day.
Funeral services: were conduct
ed Friday afternoon at two o’clock
from the home with burial follow
ing in Greenwood cemetery in At
lanta.
In addition to Mrs. Brooks, Mrs,
Goldwasser is survived by two
other daughters, Mrs. Gussie Yeg
dal of New York, and Mrs. Leo
Cohn, Russia; four sons, Joe, Le
bins and Harry Goldwasser, all of
Atlanta, and Isadore Goldwasser
of Leesville, Ga., and several
grandchildren.
. .
Body Of Missing
.
Child is Found
COLESVILLE, Md., Oct. 14—
(AP)—A three-day search for
missing six-year-old Ofig T. Ma
son came to an end late yesterday
with the discovery of the boy’s
body in a creek less than a mile
from his home.
An overhanging bank had hid
den the body from previous
searchers. A fireman probing with
a stick finally found it.
Montgomery county medical
examiner Dr. Frank J. Broschart
said death appeared due to acci
dental drov'ning, probably on
Tuesday night, soon after he was
missed.
Some 500 searchers hud combed
the nearby woods for the boy af
ter his father, Leroy W. Mason,
expressed fear that Otis had met
with foul play.
The Masons had moved into the
relatively remote neighborhood
14 months ago to afford greater
protection to their son, who was
afflicted with thyroid gland
trouble.
. 7
Miss Truman’s
Concert Lauded
ATLANTA, Oct. 14— (AP)—A
sellout crowd of 5,500 attended
the opening of the Atlanta con
cert season last night by Marga
ret Truman.
Music lovers and just about
everybody who is anybody in the
top-flight social brackets of this
old time Confederate stronghold
were on hand to greet the Presi
dent's daughter with warm ap
plause.
It was Miss Truman's first
large scale appearance as a lyric
soprano.
Unfortunately for Miss Truman,
the night was warnmr and sticky
and the audience sought relief
from the oppressive heat in the
non-airconditioned auditorium by
fanning vigorously with pro
grams,
Though Miss Truman appeared
to be quite cool in her pink mar
quisette and black lace gown,
she reached quickly for a towel
each moment she was off stage.
Most of Miss Truman’s program
was well tailored for her voice—
simple and sedate drawing room
songs.
She was recalled for six en
cores.
MEALTIME VARIETY
Canned pears and pear pre
serves are old standbys with many
homemakers, but pear pickles,
relish and a pear marmalade will
add welcome variety to those
winter meals.
PRICE DECLINE
The general level of meat ani
mal prices declined two percent
during the period of July 15 to
August 15 this year and on Au
gust 15 was nearly 23 percent
lower than at this time last year.
INCREASED PASTURES
Permanent pastures in Georgia
have been increased by more
than 2,000,000 acres since 1925.
Winter legumes have increased
almost 600,000 acres in the same
period, and winter grazing crops
are up ~"0,000 acres from 1935.
WHEAT AND OATS
In the past 23 years, wheat
acreage in Georgia nas increased
from 81,000" acres to 221,000, and
yields are up from eight bushels
per acre to 13 1-2 »>ushels, Oats
show a 226,000-acre ge¢in and an
11-bushel per acre increase in
vields.
THE OLD GUARD BROUGHT YOUR CITY
TO THE BRINK OF FINANCIAL COLLAPSE
With Your Help We Pulled It Out Of The Hole
R A e k 8
The opposition to my candidacy has now taken
the campaign completely out of the hands of their
candidate.
They have even stopped him from signing the
statements made in his behalf to the Voters.
THEY ARE SIGNING THE STATEMENTS THEM
SELVES! The OLD CUARD has taken over.
I told you at the beginning of this campaign
that this is not merely a contest between two per
sons seeking the honor of being Mayor.
| declared then, and | repeat now, that this
campaign is a conflict between two different
ideas of how government should be onerated and
FOR WHOSE BENEFIT IT SHOULD BE OP
ERATED. | believe government should be op
erated for the benefit of the people as a whole.
The OLD GUARD first declared if you elect
their man Mavor they will hire a City Manazer to
do the work of the Mavor and that vou would pav
the salaries of both THEIR MAYOR AND THEIR
CITY MANAGER.
The OLD GUARD decided to soft pedal the City
Manger scheme when | showed the tax rate in the
City Manager cities is higher than the tax rate in
Athens, and that, furthermore, the schools in the
City Manager cities get less tax money than the
schools in Athens—where the tax rate is lower.
You will remember when the OLD GCUARD
was in the City Council the Mayor had no au
thority and it was not until his last term that for
mer Mayor Bob McWhorter was given any say-so
about the City Government. Then it was that the
people gave the Mayor more authority and made
the Mayor more responsible for the efficient op
eration of the City Government.
The people of Athens acted when the OLD
CUARD, now seeking to lay their hands back on
the City Government, became so slip-shod, so un
businesslike, and so cynically disdainful of the
people’s welfare that during the time they were
riding high, running the City government, they
piled up disaster which was only narrowly escaped
in 1948, when the present City Administration
took office.
During that time the OLD GUARD was in pow
er they increased City expenses $362,794.64—
more than a third of a million dollars.
Remember, those were the years other cities
were salting away money for a rainy day. Other
towns and cities were building up a huge surplus
fund to be used after the war. The money was
rolling in and prudent governments were build
ing up a surplus for public improvements after
the war.
But the OLD GUARD, running the City Govern
ment of Athens had no huge surplus for public
improvements after the war.
Look how the OLD GUARD neglected the
Street Paving Revolving Fund! The Street Paving
Revolving Fund was created in September, 1938.
The sum of $21,988.64, obtained from a bond
issue, was put into it. During the war years when
money was plentiful it should have been built up
to help finance street paving in Athens after the
war.
But during all those vears when money was
plentiful the OLD GUARD put into the Street
Paving Fund only $24,452.97.
The Auditor’s report of Januarv 1, 1948 shows
that the Street Pavine Revolving Fund at that time
contained $46.441.61.
The Auditor’s renort of January 1, 1949 shows
the Street Paving Revolving Fund amounted to
$101,921.59, or an increase of $55,479.98 for a
one year period.
In nine vears, with the help of a bond issue, the
OLD GUARD put only $46.441.61 in the Street
Paving Revolving Fund while we put into the
Street Paving Revolvine Fund the sum of $55.-
479.98 in only one year!
Citv finances is the last subiect the OLD
SEARE IRt have brouytt e
During the war years the OLD GUARD should
have made provision to buy phvsical equipment
when it became available after the war. Instead,
when the present Administration took office in
January, 1948, there was no monev available to
buy sorely needed eauipment for the Street De
partment, Sanitary Department, Sewer Depart
ment, Fire Department and Police Department.
The cupboard had been emptied by the OLD
GCUARD, but the present Administration faced
the situation. We bought the machinery needed
by City Departments. We bought and paid for
SIOO.OOO worth of machinery and equioment for
the above Departments—eauipment vitally need
ed to efficiently and properly carry on your public
services.
The OLD CUARD spent, and they spent, AND
THEY SPENT!
What did vou gef in she wav of incréaséd puo
lic services while the OLD CUARD was spending
your monev?
The OLD GUARD soent so recklesslv that in
one vear — in the short space of only twelve
months they ran up the City’s Budget more than
$200,000 over the previous year. That was in
1946.
During 1946 the OLD GUARD spent $174.
703.35 MORE than their budget authorized. How
did they spend it? Did they carry on a public pro
gram such as has been carried on during the pres
ent City Administration? If so, why don’t they
tell the people about it?
What else did these spendthrifts do with your
money?
They made a practice of spending more than
the budget authorized every year for seven con
secutive years before the present City Adminis
tration took office.
Over-spending got to be a habit.
In 1941 they OVERSPENT the budget sl7.
063.20.
In 1942 they flung aside all pretense. They
didn’t even adopt a budget that year.
They knew they were not going to follow the
budget anyhow, so they didn’t even set up a bud
get.
They didn’t adopt a budget for 1942. They
went all out that year. WHOOPEE, lets ride! And
ride they did. They rode you.
In 1943 they returned to the formality of
adopting a budget. They actually set wp a sign
post and then proceeded to ignore it.
In 1943 they OVERSPENT the budget to the
tune of $66,076.00.
In 1944 they again OVERSPENT the budget
this time to the tune of $25,764.66.
And all the while they were adding the previous
year’s deficit spending to your bill, running up
the total annual budget.
In 1945 they OVERSPENT the budget to the
tune of $72,939.66.
And in 1946—this was their prize year—they
really went wild, OVERSPENDING the budget
that year $174,703.35. They added the $174.-
703.35, of course, to the 1947 budget.
In two short years they overspent nearly 2
quarter of a million dollars.
By then they had brought your City Govern
ment to the brink of financial collapse.
That is where we found your City Government
when we took office.
Ignoring the pleas of former Mayor McWhes
ter, the OLD GUARD refused to face the music.
The OLD GUARD refused to set the CRy’s fi
nancial house in order. But in April of 1947
things looked so black they got scared and slipped
over a fifty percent increase in your water bill, in
a belated attempt to balance the budget. Through
out that year they made you pay a fifty percent in
crease in your water bill. When we took office
we reduced your water bill FORTY percent. We
did that despite the fact that the OLD GUARD’S
reckless spending, and slip-shod financial
methods, had brought your City Government to
the brink of financial collapse!
When the present City Administration took of
fice in January 1948 of course emergency
measures had to be taken. We faced up to the
situation. We met the emergency squarely. We
urged the citizens to help us and the citizens re
sponded.
With the help of the citizens we cleaned up
the financial mess the OLD GUARD had left and
in addition, we gave you the greatest municipal
program in the history of Athens.
We have paved eleven miles of streets since
taking office; installed eleven miles of sanitary
sewers; installed twelve miles of water mains.
We have provided the Police Department with
better facilities. We increased the police per
sonnel and the Department has been revitalixed.
The firemen, policemen, school teachers, and
all other City employes are getting better pay
tlu'a: they got when the OLD GUARD was running
wild.
We are getting ready to build a Fire Station in
the Five Points area. We have increased the funds
for the Recreation Department, Department of
Health, and Public Library. And with the help of
the County, the State and Federal Governments
we are going to construct 2 Health Center build
ing,
This administration has kept property assess
ments for taxation in Athens far below the 66 2-3
of market value used in some cities. And Athens
has one of the lowest tax rates of any City in
Georgia. We are going to keep it that way.
Compare the amount of your property tax as
sessment with the market vafue of vour property.
It will prove we are right and the OLD GUARD is
wrong,
We have been careful with your money. We
have not flung it so the winds! W operated with
in the budget last year and we are operating with
in the budget this year.
Your City Government has been placed upon 2
sound financial footing. It has recovered from
the reckless reign of the OLD CUARD.
RESPECTFULLY
JACK R. WELLS
MAYOR OF ATHENS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1949,