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PALACE—~
Sun. - Mon, ~ Tues. — “Battle«
ground,” starring Van Johnson,
John Modiak, George Murphy,
Ricardo Montalban, News.
Wed,~Thurs.~Fri.-Sat, —“Fight-
Ing Man of the Plains,” starring
Randoxl‘?h‘ Scott, Bill Williams,
dune Nigh. Sports Oddities, Jer
ry’s Diary. News.
GEORGIA—
Tues~Wed. — “Pardon My Sa
rong,” starring Bud Abbott, Lou
Costello, Vixl-fiinin Bruce You Can
%ake a Million. Boobs in the
Woods.
Thurs.~Fri. — “Everybody Does
it,” starring Paul Douglas, Linda
Darnell, Celeste Holm. News.
Sat. — “Angels in Disguise,”
ltarrir;f Leo Gorecey, Huntz Hall,
CGabriel Dell. Puachy Cowpunch
ers. Diamond Showcase.
BTRAND—
Mon,.~Tues. — “Daughter of the
West,” starring Philip Reed, Don~
d Woods, Martha Vickers. So
sz, Want to be an Actor, Winter
apers.,
. Wed, — “I Was a Male War
ride,” starring Cary Grant, Ann
heridan, Great Adv, of Wild Bill
ickcock ~— Chapter 11.
Thurs. — “Thieve. Highway,”
rring Richard Conte, Valentina
ortesa. Sports New & Old. Ham
a Hole.
Fri.-Sat. — “Law of the Golden
est,” starring Monte Hal:, Paul
unt. Sunk by the Census. James
rlo%;u of Missouri — Chapter 5.
Tues.~Wed.~—“Trail of the Lone~
me Pine,” starring Fred Mac-
Eurray, Sylvia Sidney. Eow
Gireen is my Spinach.
Thurs, — Al Fuzzy St John—in
rson--on stage. “Hideout,” star-
EnzAdrhn Booth, Lloyd Brld_!u.
wo for the Money. Hands of Tal
ent.
Fri.-Sat. — “Borrowed Trou~
%1:," ztminfi' Wm. (Hopalong
ssidy) Boyd, Andy Clyde. His
Baiting, Beauty. Hurricane - Ex
gress ~— Chapter 6. i
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an,” starring Tom Drake, Wal
flce Beery, Dorothy Patrick, Un
usual Occufiations. Dumbelle of
the Yukon. News,
Wed. — “Shaggy,’ starring
Branda Joyce, George Nokes, Rob
ert Shayne, Each Dawn I Crow. ”
Thurs. - Fri. — “High Wall,
starring Robert Taylor, Audrey
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been mentioned as a possible cand
idate for the GOP presidential
nomination in 1852,
He said the Republicans should
not refuse to say yes to progress
); ive national proposals just be
\gailse they fear the “me too” la
bel.
~ On the other hand, he said, they
'shouldn’t let the Democratic ad
‘ministration get away with “the
false, disafppolntmg and dangerous
practice of promising everything to
everybody.”
Republicans looked to a Massa
chusetts congressionsl district spe
cial election today to bolster their
morale.
In the sixth district of that state
the GOP hoped that Lieut. Comdr,
William H. Bates would win the
seat left vacant by the death of his |
father, George J. Bates, killed in
an air crash here last November 1.
Under Navy regulations, Bates
li;:ls been barred from campaign
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geles, about 300 miles southeast of
the approximate position of the
disabled plane, dispatched a sea
plane with life rafts and .other
emergency rescue equipment.
Col, Cecil Scott, eighth air force
public relations officer at Fort
Worth, said the ship took off two
days ago for a training flight to
alaska. On the return from Alas
ka he said the plane intended to
consume about 25 hours flying
around the United States before
landing at Forth Worth.
Names of those aboard the plane
were not immediately released.
NOTICE *
Georgia Power Company has
made application to the Georgia
Public Service Commission for
authority to issue $15,000,000
Principal Amount of First Mort
gage Bonds of a series maturing
in not less than thirty years after
date and to be sold at the best
price obtainable but at not less
than the principal amount there
of, and bearing interest at such
rate as will result ir. the lowest
obtainable annual cost of money
to the Company. The proceeds to
be used for the acquisition of
property, construction of power
plants, and the completion, exten
sion and improvement of its fa
cilities or properties, or for the
improvement or maintenance of
its service, or to reimburse its
treasury for expenditures for one
or more of such purposes.
This application has been as
signed for hearing before the
Commission on Thursday, Febru
ary 23, 1950, at 10 o'clock A. M.,
Eastern Standard Time, in the
Senate Chamber of the State
Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia, at
which time any person interested
in the mratter will be given an
opportunity of being heard. Any
letters written to the Commission
with reference to this matter will
‘be given due consideration by the
Commission. This notice is pub
lished at the direction of the
sxG(-':orgia Public Service Commis
on.
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Juvenile Courts, 65 MPH Speed Law
ATLANTA, Feb. 14— (AP)—Georgia’s lawmakers to
day returned to the people, many in the hope the people
would return them in the 1950 elections,
The solons sent the 1949-50 session into history with a
whoop and a holler and hectic passage of bills yesterday
providing a juvenile court system and a 65, instead of 55,
mile per hour speed limit. s
In addition, the assemblymen
added nearly $1,000,000 to the cost
of state government by appropri
ating $310,000 for the Revenue De~
partment, $275,000 for farmers’
markets and $200,000 for the pri=
sons.
At the last gavel rap the state’s
leaders found they had rammed
through 50 bills—a busy day in
anybody's Legislature.
~ When the final gavel fell, the
Legislators let out a series of
shouts like schoolboys heading for
vacation, told a few jokes and gave
tokens of esteem.
The juvenile court bill, designed
originally to separate young erimi
nals from the hardened jailbirds,
hit rough going in the House.
Rep. Lawton Miller of Macon
attacked it as “extravagant” while
others shouted the courts would be
“political pawns.”
Under the bill Gov. Herman
Talmadge gets to make all the ap
pointments to the 46 top jobs—23
judges and 23 probation officers.
Sen. Walter Harrison of Millen,
rugged foe of Agriculture Commis
sioner Tom Linder, fought hard to
prevent the appropriations for
markets. ;
Peanut Politician
The fog-horn voiced senator as
sailed Linder as a “peanut poli
tician” and objected, “This will
give him just. more money for a
slush fund for reelection.”
Sponsors of the 65 mile law for
passenger cars held it would elim
#nate speed traps ofented by
peace officers, especially along the
coast.
Another major measure given
final approval was Senate passage
of a bill to make sex offenses
against children under 186 years old
a felony, instead of a misdemean
or as at fresent.
The bill provided prison senten
ces of up to tive years for any of
fender who took liberties with
children to “arouse or gratify lust
or sexual passion.”
The . last ditch effort to repeal
the cigarette pricing law, which
increased costs to consumers by
three cents a pack, died in the
House.
By failing to call them up, the
House killed Talmadge-endorsed
Field Left Open For Appointment
Of Atomic Commission Chairman
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—(AP)—The Atomic Energy
Commission may draw a temporary chairman from the
ranks of those who. urged President Truman to give the
full-speed-ahead signal for the AEC’s work on the hydro
gen bomb., . o e
Mr, Truman’s appointment of
Gordon Dean as acting chairman,
succeeding David E. Lilienthal,
expected in qualified circles,
would leave the field officially
open for a later choice of a per
‘manent AEC head.
Some of Dean’s friends think
that if the 44-year old California
lawyer and former college pro
fessor gets a chance to run the
commission for a few months the
President’s search for a perman
ent chairman will be over.
As a member of the commission
since last May, Dean has taken an
active part in shaping its policies.
He is said to have sided with
Commissioner Lewis L, Strauss in
an internal commission argument
over whether this country should
try to produce the H-bomb.
Lilienthal, who steps out as
chairman tomorrow following his
resignation, was described as ori
ginally having had grave doubts
whether the United States should
try to build the superbomb.
Announces Reésignation
Strauss, who often opposed
Lilienthal’'s views and got along
with some of the present chair
man’s crities, also has announced
he is quitting the commission.
These two withdrawals left
President Truman with a choice
among- Dean, Sumner Pike and
Henry D. Smyth if he wished to
name an acting chairman from the
commission.
Smyth is a scientist and thus
barred, in the opinion of some,
for a post that many members of
Ex-Athens
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111, where Dr. Stevens made a re
markable success in business and
became quite wealthy.
During her long residence here,
Mrs. Stevens attracte” a large
circle of devoted friends and these
friendships remained firm despite
her absence from thecity. She was
known for many sterling qualities,
a predominant one being her un
wavering loyalty and her kindly,
democratic nature.
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Funeral Notice ‘
PITTARD.—Mr. Redden W. Pit
tard of Hull, Ga., died in a local
hospital Monday mworning, Feb
ruary 13, 1950, following an ill
ness of several weeks., He is
survived by two daughters, Mrs,
Paul Foster and Miss Naddie
Lou Pittard, both of Athens;
one sister, Mrs. Clara Farmer,
Atlanta: to nieces, Mrs, Zella
Farmer and Mrs. Ness Farmer,
both of Atlanta. The funeral
was this, Tuesday afternoon,
February 14, 1950, from Gor
don's Chapel at four-thirty
~ o'clock. Rev. J. S. Strickland,
~ pastor of Gordon's Chapel, offi
clated. Mr. Homer Epps, Mr.
Charles W. Perry, Mr. J. M,
Realford, Mr. Hoyt Booth, Mr.
A ¥ Gordon and Mr, J. D.
Fields served as pallbearers. In
terment was in Gordon's Chapel
l cemetery, Bridges Funeral
Home,
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
bills to abolish $7,000,000 in pro
perty taxes and provide for a
turnpike authority to build toll
roads.
The Senate, in turn, smothered
a House bill repealing 19 nuisance
taxes and one to set up a commis~
sion to promote Georgia farm pro
ducts from taxes levied on cotton,
tobacco and peanuts
Other Bills
Other bills given final approval
and sent to the chief executive for
signature would:
Force schools to scrap buses
deemed unsafe by the State High
way Patrol now estimated roughly
at 20 per cent of all such vehicles.
Extend non-profit hospital in
surance assoclations, organized by
doctors, throughout the state.
These now are confined to opera
tions within a 50 mile radius of
the home office.
Reduce residence requirements
for divorce from 12 months to six.
Give SIOO,OOO to the first indivi
dual or company turning up a
commercial oil deposit capable of
turning out 250,000 gallons a day.
Let the state pay for mainten
ance of railroad overpasses with
the roads paying for ugkeep of
underpasses. Sen. Gus Starke of
Monroe estimated the cost to the
state at $1,000,000 annually.
Permit judges to place felony
offenders on probation, a right
hitherto restricted to those con
victed of misdemeanors.
Raise the salary of the state
purchasing director from $5,000 to
$7,500 annually.
Empower the state to negotiate
with the federal government to
obtain an area at Allatoona dam
for a state park, and appropriate
:i25.000 to build bathhouse facili
es.
Pay J. W. Bush, 105, of Fitz-«
gerald, the state’s only surviving
Confederate veteran, $2,000 to re
tire a mortgage.
Require use of Grade A milk in
all fruld milk ll;roducts such as
buttermilk and chocolate milk.
Require beege: wholesalers to
keep records of sales to help eities
and counties collect taxes.
Extend the merit system to the
State Military Department. ¢
Congress think ought to be filled
by a layman,
Pike has some opposition in
Congress, He might face a con
firmation fight when all of the
commissioners’ terms end next
June 30, under a law passed by
the Republican 80th Congress and
thus far left unchanged in the
81st.
In his nine months as a com
missioner, Dean has made a fav
orable impression on the Senate-
House Atomic Energy Committee.
He had a leg up from Chairman
McMahon (D-Conn.), who first
recommended the appointment of
Dean, his former law partner.
Canada has passed a law banning the sale of lurid crime
comie books to youngsters in a drive to curb juvenile de
linquenoy. ;
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them to entertain at home—it's easy to make sandwiches
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Optimist Party
Tomorrow; No
Meeting Tonight
There will be no meeting
of the Athens Optimist Club
tonight as the first anniversary
party will be held tomorrow
night at 8 o’'clock in the V.F.W.
Club house on Sunset Drive.
The party will be a supper
affair and a Ladies Night. Mem
bers of Atlanta Optimist Club,
which helped organized the lo
cal club, and presidents of lo
cal civic clubs are to be guests
at the party. 2
McConnell Rises
Held Tuesday
Affernoon, 3:30
Services for Mrs. Ada McCon
nell, 73, were conducted Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from
Prince Avenue Baptist Church
with burial following in Oconee
Hill cemetery.
Officiating was the pastor of
the church, Rev. T. R. Harvill,
and Dr. J. W, O, McKibkzn, pas
tor of First Methodist Church,
Pallbearers were Hubert Rylee,
Fred Orr, Dr. A, N. Bowers, Dean
Stith, Roy Scoggins and R. M.
Wilson, Bridges Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. McConnell is survived by
three daughters, Mrs, D. C. Rob=
ertson, Great Falls, 8, C.; Mrs. M,
R. Pope, Atlanta, and Mrs, Mil=-
dred Marshall, Athens; five sons,
J. C. McConnell, Baltimore, Md.;
Mack M. McConnell, San Fran
cisco, Calif.,; Lamar MecConnell,
Roswell, New Mexico; Edward R.
McConnell, Syracuse, N, Y.; and
Fugene S. McConnell, Winches
ter, Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Ben
Edwards, Miami, Fla., and Mrs.
Fred Pass, Hayesville, N. C.; three
brothers, Willlam Hogsed, Corne
la, Ga.; Lawrence Hogsed, Gain=
esville, Ga., and Thomas Hogsed,
Miami, Fla.
Mrs. McConnell died in a local
hospital Monday morning at 8
o’clock after an illness of several
days. She was a native of Frank
lin, N, C., and had lived here for
the past forty-nine years, Her
home was at 342 Dearing street.
Mrs. McConnell was a charter
member of Prince Avenue Bap
tist Church and was one of Ath
ens’ most beloved citizens,
Redden Pitfard
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Dies Monday;
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Services Today
Redden W, Pittard, well known
resident of Hull, died in a local
hospital Monday morning at 9:50
o’clock. Mr. Pittard was 69 years
old and had been ill for about two
months.
Services were set for Tuesday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock from
Gordon’s Chapel with the pastor,
Rey. J. 8. Strickland, officiating.
Burial was to follow in the cha
pel cemetery with Homer Epps,
Charles W. Perry, J. M. Realford,
Hoyt Booth, A. F. Gordon and J.
D. Fields serving as pallbearers.
Bridges Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Surviving Mr. Pittard are two
daughters, Mrs. Paul Foster, and
Miss Naddie Lou Pittard, both of
Athens; one sister, Mrs. Clara
Farmer, Atlanta, and two neices,
Mrs. Zella Farmer and Mrs, Ness
Farmer, also of Atlanta,
A native of Oglethorpg county,
Mr. Pittard had resided in Hull
all of his life. He was a member
of Gordon’s Chapel Church and
was widely known as a farmer.
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Blotter =~ &9% e
BY ED THILENIUS
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SWIMMING LESSON DIDN'T TAKE
City officers indirectly gave Willie Stevens, 26, colored,
a swimming lesson last night but the instructions didn’t
take. He insisted in Recorder’s Court today that ‘‘he can’t
swim a lick.”
Stevens was brought before Judge Olin Price charged
with disorderly comduct, speeding and reckless driving in
connection with a wild race with city officers. Although
slightly humorous, the affair almost had a tragic ending as
i{ stgpped at the burned-out bridge on the Newton Bridge
oad.
Officers Tom McGahee and Ed
Hansford told the court the fol
lowing story:
Shortly after 11 o’clock last
night, they noticed a 1835 Ford se
dan proceeding down Gray street
at a little better than the speed
limit. They followed the car with
the intention of a routine check.
They estimated his speed at the
‘time at 35 miles-per-hour.
However, when they pulled up
behind the car, the driver slam
med the vehicle in second gear
and started off on a wild chase,
The chase led out Cleveland ave
nue to Barber street, and onto the
Linton Springs road.
The officers said although they
used their siren frequently, plus
spotlights and red light the driver
refused to stop. Once on the Lin
ton Springs road, the driver had
trouble controlling his car. He
hit a bank once, damaging two
fenders and knocking out a head
light. On another curve he clip-~
ped a mail box and lost the hood
to the car.
Police Open Fire
At this point Officer McGahee
'said he opened fire on the car’s
Frear tires but this seemed to give
the driver an aded urge for speed.
'He realized just in the nick of
time that the Newton Bridge was
‘burned out and slammed on
brakes, sliding the last 50 yards
sideways. The officers said the
car stopped exactly 12 inches short
of the deep drop into the river.
Once the car was stopped the
driver leaped from the vehicle and.
plunged into the river and escaped
to the other side, with the officers|
firing at him.
Three negro teen-agers were
found huddled on the floor of the
car, admittedly scared to death. A
short time later the driver of the
car called to officers from across
the swollen river and asked to
surrender. When told to come
back across and give up, he said
he couldn’t swim.
Too Scared
When Judge Price asked him
how he made it across in the first
place, he said; “I was too scared to
think, Judge.”
When asked why he attempted
to escape the officers, Stevens said
he had heard the fine for speeding
was SSO and he didn’t have the
money. “I didn’t figure the city
police would chase me clean out
of town,” he said.
To back up the rumor Judge
Price fined him SSO for all three
charges.
The chase furnished a city wide
alert, as Officers Hansford and
McGahee radioed for road blocks.
Sheriff Tommy Huff took up his
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station on the Jefferson Road,
while County Car Number three
closed in from the Oid Atlanta
‘Road. Other city and county cars
were standing by awaiting further
instructions. Although completely
surrounded, Stevens was finally
picked by by County Car three,
who found him still on the other
side of the river.
Legal Cargo
Officers said they believed the
car to be a whiskey runner during
the chase. But when the three
‘teen-agers were asked what the
driver was hauling, one replied,
“Nothing but us.”
Seven other cases were heard
today. One concerned a disorder
1y conduct charge against a negro
minister’s son who caused a dis
turbance in a colored funeral home
by threatening the attendant on
duty with a knife. Judge Price
fined him $50.75.
Two youths arrested in bed and
charged with drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct were on the dock=-
et. The girl forfeited a $25.75
bond while the boy was fined a
similar amount. -
One person was fined $5.75 for
reckless driving in connection with
a minor collision at the intersec
tion of Hancock and Pope streets,
Two cases of drunkenness re
sulted in one defendant forfeiting
a $10.75 bond and the other draw
ing a suspended sentence.
— Friends of Mrs. H. Cutler will
be pleased to learn she is doing
nicely following a minor operation
at St. Mary’s Hospital.
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New Rain;
Increase
Flood Woes
By The Associated Press
-Rain'lpluh.od‘ ‘over the middle
and lower Mississippi Valley today,
rafsin _“i the threat of new flogds in
the.area already hard hit by ove:-
flows this winter,
A Iloavy. rainfalls: were reported
by the U, 'S, Weather Bureau ip
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississip
pi. More rain also fell in some
parts of Indiana, Illinois and is.
souri. v
The Mississippi and Ohio rivers,
the. two biggest streams which
have been the cause of most con
cern, as well as smaller streamc
were reported rising in many
areas. A new _ evacuation was
started by some 8,000 persons from
the New Madrid floodway helow
Charleston, in Southeast Missouri.
The rain belt extended from
Tennessee, Kentucky and linois
eastward to the Atlantic coast,
Ice storms and snow dealt dam
aging blows to wide areas over the
Midwest and in Southern New
York and Northern Pennsylvania,
Power and telephone service iy
hundreds of Midwest communities
was disrupted. Highway trave
was slowed by the glazed eondi
tions,
Temperatures, generally, over
the country were not severe, The
only sub-zero readings were in
parts of North Dakota and North.-
western Minnesota, Lows includ
ed ~-10 at Pembina, N. D, and -7 o
Fargo.
Meanwhile, the series of sma)
tornadoes that skipped across sou:
states over the weekend killing 47
persons, caused property damage
of more than 81,000,000, The
twisters hit 20 small communities
in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana ang
Tennessee. The latest at Hurri
cane Hill, Tenn., yesterday, killed
nine persons, including a family
of eight,
"~ A blanket of fresh snow cov
ered areas over Jowa, Southern
Minnesota, Northern and Central
Wisconsin and Lower Michigan.
The snow spread into much of
New York and the Southern New
England States. The fall at Des
Moines, la., measured 12 inches;
was 10 inches at Madison, Wis.,
and six inches at Milwaukee and
Buffalo, N. Y.