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PRESS INSTITUTE LEADERS
These are the Jflared speakers and leaders of the 22nd annual
Georgia Press Institute, whig is-to be held at the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism, University of Georgia, this week
(February 22-25): (Top row) Albert S. Hardy, jr, Commerce
News, president, Georgia Press Association; Jack Tarver, asso
ciate editor, Atlanta Constitution; Edward Tomlinson, foreign
correspondent, radio commentator and author of “In the Other
Americas”’; Russell Janney, author of “The Miracle of the Bells”;
(second row) Miss Emily Woodward, Institute founder and direc
tor of forums, University of Georgia; Lee Rogers, managing
editor, Atlanta Constitution; Lawrence Laybourne, chief of Life
News Bureau; B. M. McKelway, editor, Washington Star, and
president, American Society of Newspaper Editors; (third row).
Jere N. Moore, Milledgeville Union-Recorder, Institute chairman;
Robert C. Ruark, syndicated columnist and author of “I Didn’t
Know It Was Loaded”; Robert Nixon, INS White House corres
pondent, and president, White House Correspondents’ Associa
tion; Edward Weeks, editor, Atlantic Monthly and author of “This
Trade of Writing”; (fourth row) Quimby Melton, jr., Griffin
News, Institute committee member; J. Leroy Thompson, Wall
Street Journal; Floyd Taylor, American Press Institute, Columbia
University; Robert Shelienberg, Saturday Evening Post; (fifth
row) Cooper C. Etheridge, Houston Home Journal, Perry, Insti
tute committee member; Don J. Reid, director, lowa Press Asso=
ciation; Guy Tiller, jr., Atlanta Journal assistant sports editor;
Robert P, Tristram Coffin, Pulitzer prize-winning poet and
author; (sixth row) John E. Drewry, dean, Henry W, Grady
School of Journalism; Howard XKing, Intertype Corporation;
Edgar S. Bayol, public relations counsel, Coca-Cola Company,
New Y9rk City; Ernest Rogers, Atlanta Journal Op. Ed. page
columnist, and author of “The Old Hokum Bucket”; (seventh
T o\{/) Robert Hazelrig, president, University chapter, Sigma Delta
Chi; Stanford Smith, secretary-manager, Georgia Press Associa=
tion; Dr Harmon W. Caldwell, chancellor, University System of
Georgia; and Dr. Jonathan C. Rogers, president, University of
Georgia. The Press Institute is sponsored jointly by the Georgia
Press Association and the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism.
Annual Press Institute
Opens Here Wednesday
Plans for the 22nd Georgia Press Institute which con
venes at the University of Georgia Wednesday were com
pleted today with the announcement of details for the
annual Savannah Morning News-Evening Press costume
party, : :
~ Traditionally the party is held on Friday night during
Press Institute and is the social highlight of the four-day
session. This year the editors will throw away their copy
pencils to turn into hobos for the evening. :
H. V. Jenkins, publisher of the Savannah papers who
play host to the affair, said that plans for this year’s
party promise to make it one of the most gala in years.
Miss Beverly Wolff, popular
young Atlanta contralto, will :-
‘enade the editors, and Miss Emi
v Woodward, founder of the
Georgia P ss Institute and direc
tor of the Division of Forums of
the University, will preside over
the festivities.
The Institute will begin Wednes
day night with a dinner given by
the University of Georgia and the
Athens Rotary Club. Edward Tom
linson, foremost authority on in
ler-American affairs will be the
obening speaker. Tomlinson will
address the editors on “Our New
Destiny in the Americas.” :
Other journalists and public
leaders who will speak during the
Institute are Robert P. Tristram
Coffin, Pulitzer prize-winning
boet; Benjamin M. McKelway,
editor of the Washington star and
President of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors; Robert Nix
on, president, White House Cor
' €spondents’ Association; W. C.
;f ucker, editor, Columbus Enquir
J. Zeroy Thompson, Wall Street
Journal; * Lawrence Laybourne,
thief of the mewsbureau of Life
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
magazine; Floyd Taylor, director,
American Press Institute; Edward
Weeks, editor, The . Atlantic
Monthly; Robert C. Ruark, sydi
cated columnist; Ernest Rogers,
Atlanta Journal columnist.
Robert Shellenberg, Saturday
Evening Post; Lee Rogers, man
aging editor, Atlanta Constitution;
Guy Tiller, Atlanta Journal sports
department; Russell Janey, author
of “The Miracle of the Bells,”
and Jack Tarver, associate editor,
The Atlanta Constitution.
e e it
Athens Jaycees
To Hear Gates
Dean James E. Gates, of the
University of Georgia School of
Business Administration, ~will
speak to members of Athens Jun
jor Chamber of Commerce at their
regular meeting tomorrow night
at 7 o’clock in the Georgian Hotel.
After his speech on tax revis
lion a discussion of the subjech
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- Members of executive committee of
Athens Chamber of Commerce’s Mer
chants’ Council for 1950 are shown
above, from. left to right: (seated)—
Mrs. Doris W. Porterfield, Harry H. Rob
inson, chairman; Millard Seagraves,
treasurer; Miss Evelyn Boley, John
Thurmond; (standing) — Dr. Lamar A.
Elder, J. Clide Anderson, C. T. Crowe,
Banquet
Tickets
Dwindle
Fewer than a hundred tickets to
the 44th Annual Dinner meeting
of the Athens Chamber of Com
merce remained to be sold yester
day it was announced by the Ar
rangements Committee when the
program for the event was com
pleted.
The remaining tickets will go
on sale to the public generally to
morrow morning and the dinner
will be held Thursday evening,
February 23, at 7 o'clock at the
YWCA, - when Hughes Spalding,
prominent attorney of Atlanta and
chairman of the University System
Board of Regents, will deliver the
principal address.
The dinner meeting this year
has been streamlined. The invoca
tion will be delivered by the Rev.
J. W. O. McKibben, Pastor of the
First Methodist Church, the visit
ing regents and other distinguished
guests will be introduced and short
talks will be Mmade by retiring
President,. Thos. M. Tillman and
the new president, R. M. Snow.
Abit Nix will introduce Mr. Spald
ing. While the meal is being served
dinner music will be played.
Members of the. Chamber of
Commerce and others who may be
interested in attending the dinner
were urged by the committee to
get their tickets immediately. All
of them, the committee believes,
will probably be gone within the
next 48 hours and the seating ca
pacity cannot be stretched.
In addition to Mr. and Mrs.
Spalding, Dr. and Mrs. Harmon
Caldwell, Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Rog
ers and John Sims; other regents
expected at the dinner are Mrs.
William T. Healey of Atlanta: Mr.
and Mrs. Rutherford L. Ellis of
Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. Carey Wil
liams, of Greensboro; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank N. Spratlin, of Atlanta, and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bloch of
Macon. Additional acceptances
from the regents are expected.
Ga. Senate
E. A. (Ras) King, 467 Boule
vard, yesterday announced his
ecandidacy for state senator from
Clarke County to fill the seat pre
sently occupied by George Brooks,
of Oglethorpescounty.
Under the rotation system the
senator from this district (50th
senatorial district) came from
Oglethorpe county for two terms;
the next two terms will be filled
by a Clarke countian; and the fol
lowing senator will come from
Wilkes county. ge
Mr. King, who resides with his
sister—MTrs. John P. Duncan, has
lived in Athens for ten years. He
served for four years in the 101st
Airborne Division during World
War 11, spending about three years
overseas in Europe. Mr. King held
the rank of corporal.
He is past adjutant of ‘American
Legion Allen R. Fleming, Post No.
20, secretary of Loyal Order of
Moose here, member of local post
of VFW and of Young Harris me
morial Methodist Church. He is
employed by the local VF'W Post.
Mr. King attended public school
in Arnoldsville.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mild and partly cloudy today
and tomorrow. Possible showers
tonight.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and mild, becoming colder in
north portion Sunday afternoon
and night. A few scattered
showers in north portion Mon
day.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .... ovos woee Vi
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since February 1 ... 1.47
Deficit since February 1 ... 1.94
Average February rainfall . 5.09
Total since January 1 .... 4.60
Deficit since Japuary 1 .. 3.37
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1950.
—— ————————————————————————— S SETRELT
17 INJURED AS TRAIN DERAILS
GULFPORT, Miss., Feb, 18.—(AP)—Twelve cars of the Louis=
ville and Nashville Railroad’s Pan-American left the rails six
miles west of here today, sending 17 persons to Memorial Hos
pital.
No one was killed.
B. H. Hardin, assistant L. & N, division superintendent at Mo
bile, Ala., said first reports indicated a broken rail caused the
wreck.
29 Killed, 105 Injured
As N. Y. Trains Collide
3 Hurt In Collision |
On Jefferson Highway
BY 808 OLIVER
A man and his wife from Chicopee, Ga., and a Univer
sity of Georgia student are in General Hospital this morn
ing suffering from injuries gustained in a head-on collis
jon of two automobiles on the Athens-Jefferson highway
yesterday afternoon.
Graduation
Speaker Is
Named Here
Bishop Marvin Franklin, Uni
versity of Georgia alumnus, has
been named speaker for the Uni
versity’s graduation exercises June
5, Pres. J. C. Rogers has announ
ced. The exercises will be held
at 5:30 p. m. in Sanford Stadium.
Bishop Franklin, a member of
the class of 1915, heads the Metho
dist Church in Mississippi.
Graduation, originally scheduled
for June 10, war moved up in or
der that more underclassmen
might attend the exercises. The
original date was also too close to
summer school registration, it
was pointed out.
Alumni Day will also be heid
June 5, according to M. W. H.
Collins, Cartersville, president of
the Alumni Society. A business
meeting in the Chapel and lunch
eons are scheduled.
It is hoped most class bangquets
will be held Sunday night, June
4, Collins said. Others will be held
Monday night.
Bishop Franklin is the second
University graduate ever to be el
ected Bishop in the Methodist
Church. The first to hold the po
sition was George Foster Pierce.
Before coming to the University
Bishop Franklin attended Nacoo
chee Institute, Young Harris Jun
ior College, and Emory Univer
sity. He has held several pastor
ates ir. Georgia including Park
Street Methodist Church, Atlan
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VOTE MARCH 29
Commissioners, Judge,
Solicitor Primary Set
In a meeting yesterday morning in the courthouse, the
Clarke County Democratic Executive Committee set
Wednesday, March 29, as thé date for a county primary
in which members of the Clarke County Board of Com
missioners and the Judge and Solicitor of Athens City
Court are to be nominated. :
Closing date for entries is noon
of March 15 and entries may be
filed with the Committee secretary
B. C. Lumpkin, or the chairman,
Ed D. Wier. Entg fees are $75 for
candidates for County Commiss
ioner, SIOO for Solicitor and sllO
for Judge. Registration is to close
on the afternoon of March 15
wher. the office of County Tax
Collector closes.
All citizens whose name a °
either the old registration list, or
Silas C. Read, Henry Rosenthal, R. L.
Pruitt, Leroy Michael. Also members of
the Executive Committee, but absent
when the picture was taken, are E. G,
Crymes, George Dean and F. E. McHugh.
Cooperative retail activities for 1950 are
now being planned by the committee and
will be announced as soon as a survey has
been completed.
J. L. Carpenter, age 34, was the
driver of one car in which his
wife, Edna Pearl Carpenter, 30,
and three children were riding, go
ing North toward Jefferson, Car
penter received chest iniuries, and
his wife received treatment for
knee and ankle injuries.
David H. Lane, 21, of 510 Mil
ledge Circle and Now York City,
suffered a possible broken hip and
curshed right arm. All injured
were brought to the General Hos
pital in a Bernstein ambulance.
The accident occurred around 5
o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Andrew H. Fischler, 18, also of
510 Milledge Circle and New York
City, was the driver of the vehi
cle going South toward Athens. He
was uninjured.
The three darpenter children
Tommie, eight; Phillip, six; and
Jerry, nine, escaped serious injury.
Tommie received face abrasions.
The two boys were uninjured.
Hospital officials reported that
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter and Lane
are in good condition. They re
mained in the hospital for further
observation.
Pairol Report &
Officers from the Athens State
Patrol station investigated the ac
cident, and patrolman D. S. Harris
made the following statement:
“Fischler, driver of a 1946 Ford,
going south, was under the wheel
learning to drive. He was the
possessor of a learner’s license.
Fischler was attempting to pass a
car and when it seemed as though
a head-on collision was unavoid
able, Lane grabbed the wheel in
order to get the vehicle back into
the right lane. In the process, the
car went out of control.”
The car in which Fischler was
driving, a U-Drive-It from the
Tolbert Motor Co. left marks
on the left shoulder for several
feet before striking the Carpenter
(Continued On Page Three)
the new one, will be eligible to
cast ballots. Attendiag the meeting
were Chairman Wier, who presid
ed, Vice Chairman D. D. Quillian,
Robert Hamilton, Jam- Lay, Al
len D. Wier, Reese Carnes and
B. C. Lumpkin.
Members of the Board of Com
missioners are James Towns, J.
F. Hammett and Harry Elder. Ar
thur S. Oldham is Judge of City
Court and Preston M. Almand is
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At least 29 persons were killed and
105 were injured in this wreckage of two
Long Island Railroad passenger trains
which collided at Rockville Centre, N. Y.
Some of the cars were sheared in half
THREE CIVIC
CLUBS BACK
PATROLTRIP
Three local civic groups have
voted to sponsor six Athens
school patrolmen on a trip so
Washington, D. C., as a reward
for their outstanding scholastic
and patrol work during the year,
Emory Sanders, city traffic offi
cer who has charge of the school
patrol work, announced yester
day.
The three groups whe will spon
sor two boys each, are Lions,
Rotary and Jaycees. It is hoped
that three more local groups
will take like- action so that
12 local boys can take the
trip May 11-14. Cost to sponsor
a boy is S4O. rairoimen will go
from the following schools: Jun
jor Hig! = College Avenue, Oc
onee Street, Barrow, Chase
Street and St. Joseph’s Catholic.
Bridge,
Road Work
Progresses
Twr new bridges and roads are
now under construction in Clarke
county.
The IN>wton Bridge, which
burned many months ago, is being
replaced with a steel bridge. The
steel bridge is the former Epps
Road bridge which is no longer
needed as a new road is being
cut from the bridge site to the
Atlanta highway. .
Foundation for the Newton
pridge has been poured and one
pier is complete and others will
be finished within ten days. Af
ter the piers are completed the
bridge will be moved to its new
side. Newton Bridge Road is the
former Commerce Road. This is a
Clarke county project.
Construction has been on the
new entrance to Athens from
Princeton and a new reinforced
concrete and steel bridge on that
new route. This is a federal and
state project.
The new bridge is located about
1-4 mile below the present bridge.
Construction of the new bridge
and road will give a straighter
and wider entrance to Athens from
Princeton.
About 1.3 miles of grading and
paving will be necessary between
the present Princeton Road and
‘the Whitehall Road for the new
entrance. .
Clarke County Commissioners’
office reported that studies are
being made to try and contin
ue the road down the Central
of Georgia Railroad right-of-way
back of ‘he University of Geor
gia campus. In the meantime no
changes are contemplated for
South Milledge avenue (White
hall Road), the commissioner’s of
fice reported.
City Court
City eourt will open Monday in
Clarke county courthouse, with
Judge Arthur S. Oldham presiding.
Approximately 50 cases are ready
for trial, Judge Oldham said.
-vflaguc,)fvg‘fifit'y have already been
entered in about 60 cases this
week, Judge Oldham reported.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
Motorman Is Held On
Manslaughter Charge
BY BEV YOUNG AND RICHARD FEEHAN
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y., Feb. 18.—(AP) —A Long
Island train, packed with a home-going theater erowd,
roared by a red signal light last night and ripped into an~
other passenger train, Twenty-nine persons were kilied
and 105 injured, many critically.
The accident occurred on a makeshift “gauntlet”—or
frog—siding thrown up during temporary repair work on
the line’s main roadbed.
Today Jacob Kiefer, 55, of Bald
win, N. Y., motorman of the east
bound train, was arrested on a
charge of second degree man
slaughter. About 800 persons were
aboard this train, headed home
after an evening in Manhattan.
Both the railroad and police said
Kiefer drove his 12-car train
through a red light at 10:36 p. m.
into the path of an oncoming west=
bound train.
For hours, police and wrecking
crews toiled frantically through
the twisted, blood - drenched
wreckage. Acetylene torches bit at
the crumpled mass of steel from
which came screams of the in
jured, trapped inside,
The dead, dying and injured
were piled five deep in the two
forward cars of the train. The
cars were sheared in half by the
terrific impact. e
Surgeons and internes wriggled
beneath the tons of erumpled
metal. They hacked and sawed off
mangled legs and arms of some
of the injured to free them.
Search Lights
Every available doctor and nurse
from nelghboring towns was called
to the scene over which garish
beams of powerful rescue flood
lights played through the long
hours of the night and early dawn.
" One eye-witness, 21-year-old
college student, Paul Back, said,
“there was a tremendous shock.
David Michael To Head
Cancer Unit In County
BY RICHARD ASHWORTH AND LAMAR CLIFTON
Athens and Clarke County civic and business leaders
today were preparing their 1950 program of public educa~
tion on the dangers and econtrol of cancer — a disease ex~
pected to kill several thousand Georgians this year.
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and many of the passengers were trapped
in the wreckage. Officials said the east
bound train ran through a red signal light
on & makeshift siding and sliced into the
westbound train—(AP Wirephoto.) i
My head hit the wall and the lights
went out in all the cars.
“T got up and walked toward the
exit door and I heard screams sos
help. One man was screaming ‘kill
me, please kill me." He thought hig
back was broken.”
The first two cars of the elec
tric trains were torn apart by.the
force of the impact, That of the
eastbound train was sliced in half,
It toppled over after the erash,
spewing broken bodies and wrecks
age into a grotesque heap along
the roadbed.
The wreckage blocked the tracks
of the commuter railroad for near
ly 12 hours. Traffic was !-flnz
at 10:15 a. m, Until the hem
cleared, passengers were
around the area in buses.
Temporary Track
The accident occurred on & teme
porary gauntlet track, linking the
railroad’s double-track main roade
bed. The gauntlet was placed into
temporary service over 8 narrew
causeway pending completion of
a grade - crossing elimination
project. ;
Although the connecting link
has two sets of {racks, the xails
are so close together only one train
can pass at a time at this peint.
The emergency track is ~#
by a red stop signal sbout
feet west of the crash scene. Po
lice said it was this light that Kiee
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David Michael, secretary-ireas
urer of Michael Brothers, has @c=
cepted the post of County Cems
mander anß will help coordinate
efforts of a 16-man executive
committee. Dr. John A. Simpsen,
local physician and member of
Athens Tumor Clinic staff, is
committee chairman. :
The Clarke county unit of the
Georgia Division, American Can=
cer Society, will lay out the ean
cer control program on & eounty=
wide basis with executive eons
mittee guiding the local wumit's
work.
Banish Ignorance
Basic aim of the society is to
bring to every person in the
country sufficient knowledge
about cancer so that he will not
lose his life needlessly, as &ap
proximately half of present can
cer patients do.
Ignorance, mhconccflu
superstitions about the
stand in th; way tfi: prompt, life
saving action, - society e«
(Continued On Page Three)
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