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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPEAKER — Reubenß. |
ertson, chairman of the Board of Champion Paper |
Fiber Company, will make the principal address at |
¢ (sth annual dinner meeting of Athens Chamber of |
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Tickets To Go
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On Public dale
Tickets for the Forty-Fifth An
nual Dinner meeting of the Athens
Chamber of Commerce next Fri
dav evening, will go on sale to the
general public Monday morning,
with only about 90 left for sale.”
Viore than 200 have already
heen sold and the seating capacity
i= only 300, it was announced by
L. H. Christian, general chairman
of the arrangements committee.
Besides the principal speaker,
Reuben B. Robertson, chairman of
the Board of The Champion Paper
and Fibre Company, seven top ex
ccutives and directors of Dairypak,
headed by Clarke Marion, Presi
dent and general manager, will be
present for the dinner.
They will also inspect the new
Dairypak plant on the Linton
Springs Road, which will be com
pleted and turned over to Dairy
pak early this week. Some of the
machinery has already been re-’
ceived and additional car loads are
being received daily, The plant is
expected to go into operation as
soon as machinery can ke in
stalled and tested.
Notes Expansion
Anincrease of 18.5 per cent was
€videnced in the sale of electricity
in the Athens area during 1950,
according to an annual summary
released by L. M, Shadgett, vice
rresident of the Georgia Power
Company and general manager of
the Atheng Division, -
He said the average home in this
@rea uses rhore electricity than in
@.v other section of the state.
There was an increase of seven
per cent In the number of elec~
e customers served in the Ath
ens area,
Construction Plans -
While most of the 34 million
dollars which the Power Com
pany spent on mew construction
during the year 1950 went into
€W steam-electric generating
plants necessary to serve and keep
‘reast of she new homes, busi
csses and Industries of Georgia,
the 1950 construction program in
~uded a number of projects in the
immediate vicinity of Athens.
Ahong the more important of
hese projects were the construc
ton of a new brick Service Build
e on Boulevard and the begin
-Ing of the construction of two
new 110,000 wvolt high tension
Uansmission lines into Athens to
lake care of the rapidly increasing
‘¢mands for electric power in this
it The two new transmission
Joes will be completed early in
‘he Georgia Power Company’s
Construction program for the year
Ul, originally estimated to in=
;¢ expenditures totaling $34,-
10,000, is already underway, but
the actual ecost will probably be
Uhsiderably higher than originally
Umated due 30 recent increases
1 Wage levels and costs of ma
“ral, also to additional excise
"0 sales taxes now under active
deration by the National
) 'ess and by the Legislature
Ol the State of Georgia.
2 Tax Check
' check for $25960.37 has been
baid the city for the gross receipts
tax due for 1950, The three per
cent tax is in addition to ad
Y 8 rem taxes and paving assess-
-~ “CKS In payment of gross -
C€ibts taxes go to all other muni
'balities in this area each year,
Including Bishop, Bogart, Comer,
Crawtord, Danielsville, Ila, Jeffer«
son, Lexington, Stathatn Watkins-
Ville, Winder, and Winterville,
The check to the City of Athens
Is higher than in 1949, this in
rease being evidence of develop~ |
ment in the city, 1
Mr. Shadgett said “if the use
Slectricity is any indication of the)
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
.Associated Press Sdrviu
Pogo Cartoonist
Draws Scout
te
Swamp” Enzblem
Walt Kelly, cartoonist who
draws the Pogo comie strip—
which is gyndicated to many
newspapers—has drawn a spe
cial emblem for Northeast Geor
gia Scouts attending the Spring
Okefenokee Swamp expedition,
The emblem includes Pogo,
Rackety Coon, and Albert the
Alligator. The coon and alliga
tor are wearing Boy Scout field
caps.
Four expeditions will be held
this year with the first begin
ning March § and the last on
April 5. All will be week-end
trips. Athens area Scouts will go
March 29-April 1,
Solons To Ac
On Taxes, Budges
ATLANTA, Feb. 10 — (AP) —
Final action on the all-time high
$206,893,703 budget bill and ma
jor tax measures—including the
sales tax—stand between Georgia
lawmakers and Friday’s scheduled
adjournment.
And Senator Williams of Craw
fordville predicted today that the
huge spendihg plan—which would
take S6O for every man, woman
and ehild in the state to finance—
will get a close going over in the
Senate.
Not only did he forecast strong
opposition to segregation guaran
tees written into the education ap
propriations, but he said he thinks
the allocation of funds to various
departments will receive sharp at
tention.
Williams said he particularly is
interested in the large grant to the
Welfare Department—22,7lo,ooo in
the regular section and $7,000,000
in the contingent secticn. The
senator sald he believes that is
“too much money.”
Welfare Report
Welfare Director Alan Kemper
this week released & report show
ing that at least 3] well-to-do per
sons in Georgia have close rela
tives on pension rolls.
Williams revealed that Senator
Coleman of Hephzibah, Senate
Appropriations Committee chair
man, had promised that his com
mittee will go through the spend
ing bill “with a fine toothed
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CITY RECEIVES POWER COMPANY CHECK-—Mayor
Jack R. Wells, right, accepts a tax check from L. M.
&‘.ett, vice-president of the Georgia Power Company.
check for $25,969.37 is in payment of the gross re
x due to the-eity by the Power Corapany,
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Food Products
Take 21 Cents
0f Dollar Here
Clarke countians are spending
approximately 21 per cent of the
dollar for food, according to infor
mation received here from Merrill
C. Lofton, regins .director of the
U. S. Depa»’ \‘;‘.s3 Commerce in
Atlanta "™ ,
T 4 Ldicated, Mr. Lofton
":,U‘ -0 returns from the 1948
o us of Business conducted in
«1e county by the Commerce De
partment's Bureau of the Census
final reports on which have just
been released.
The report for Georgia and
Clarké county showed that retail
sales in the county in 1948 totalled
$83,171,000 of which $7,138,000
went for*md and the remainder
Tor other necessities of life, as
well as some luxuries.
Rk Oilx:er Commodities
Following were the total sales
for other commodities bought in
stores and other retail establish
ments in the county:
Eating and drinking places, sl,-
954,000, apparrel, $2,412,000, fur
niture, furnishings and appliances,
$1,563,000, automotive, $7,007,000,
gasoline service stations, $2,171,-
000, lumber, building and hard
ware establishments, $2,475,000,
drug and propietary stores, $930,-
000 and other retail stores, $3,-
744.,000.
The Census Bureau listed 400
retail establishments as operating
in the county conducted by 350
active proprietors with 2,050 em
ployees drawing a total of $3,-
373,000 during the year.
Second Survey
In a second survey, the Com
merce Department found that
personal, business and repair ser
vice establishments in the county,
such as barber and beauty shops,
cleaning and dyeing plants, mor
tuaries, automobile repair places,
laundries, and so forth, numbered
114 establishments with receipts
totalling $1,800,000 and with 485
employees drawing a total of
$603,000 in wages and salaries.
Finally, the survey was conclu
ded with a count of the wholesale
establishments, their sales, num
ber of employees and payrolls, In
Clarke county, it was found that
there were 48 wholesale establish
mentsqwinth sa;les to!;alling1 $34,~
156,000 for e year employing
580 employees drawing a'ial of
$1,390, in wages and salaries.
Copies of the final reports are
available at the U. S. Department
of Commerce, 418 Atlanta Nation
al Building in Atlanta, Mr. Lofton
said, at nominal prices to defray
printing costs. The retail trade
publication is priced at 20 cents,
that for the wholesale trade at 15
cents, and the service trade docu
ment is being sold for 20 cents.
Engineer Claims
No Signal Given
PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Feb. 10
— (AP) — The engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad train which
crashed in Woodbridge, killing 83
persons and injuring another 500
persons, said today he was looking
for non-existent caution lights
whent the crash came.
Questioned at Perth Amboy
General Hospital by a battery of
officials investigating the disas
ter, Engineer Joseph M. Fitzsim
mons admitted he knew the rail
road customarily had no yellow
caution lights at places similar to
the temporary trestle where the
accident occurred, .
After John E. Boswell, president
of the New Jersey Public Utility
Commission, read a Pennsylvania
Railroad rule hook calling for such
a caution light in an area covered
by a slow order, the drawn, un
shaven engineer exclalmed:
“Yes, that’s the light I was look
ing for.” :
He told Boswell, Interstate
Commerce Commissioner William
J. Patterson and other probers of
the nation’s worst railwreck in 32
years that he had reduced speed
on the North. Jersey shore com
muter train before it hit the tres
tle in nearby Woodbridge.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1951,
Athens Scouts
To Observe
Special Sunday
Today will be observed by
Boy Scouits of Athens and
throughout the nation as “Boy
Scout Sunday.”
On this day, which comes in
Boy Scout Week, Scouts attend
Church, usually in a group.
Many will do this im Athens.
Scout Week this year marks the
41st anniversary of the Boy
Scouts of America.
Troop 22, sponsored by the
First Baptist Church, will pre
sent a special candle lighting
ceremony at the evening service
tonight, The ceremony will em
phasize the Scout Oath a 1 4 Law.
Wells Proclaims
Special Week
For Heart Fund
Mayor Jack Wells has declared
the week beginning tomorrow,
“Heart Fund Week” in Athens.
Uly Gunn and Upshaw Bentley
jr., co-chairmen of the drive for
funds to combat heart disease in
Athens and Clarke county, an
nounced that an intensive cam
paign will be launched during the
week to acquaint the community
with the effects of heart disease
and the steps that are being taken
to combat it,
The mayor’s proclamation points
out that while 12,000 Georgians
died last year of heart disease,
their deaths represent only a por
tion of the cost of heart and blood
vessel disorders. It further em-
phasizes that people of no parti
cular age limit are immune to the
ravages of such disorders.
Civie clubs, radio and press of
Athens are cooperating, Mr. Gunn
and Mr. Bentley announced, to
bring Heart Week home to every
citizen.
February Drive
A drive for funds to conduct re
search and to maintain heart cli
nics was launched several days
ago, and under the direction of Mr.
Gunn and Mr. Bentley the drive
will continue throughout the
month of February. A committee,
a women’s division group, and a
medical advisory board, named in
earlier editions of the paper, will
participate in the campaign to
raise funds. Members of the X
Club will assist on the University
campus. e o
Contributors to the Athens Heart
Fund will have the opportunity of
competing for a 1951 Plymouth
automobile to be given to the per
son who estimates correctly the
number of pennies received in the
Athens parking meters during the
f3our-week period, March 5-March
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The automobile from J. Swanton
Ivy, Ine., will be on display at
various points over town throigh
out the month of February, Con
tributions may be made at a num
ber of downtown business points
including Crowe’s Drug Store;
Moon Winn; Horton’s; Michael’s
and Gunn’s.
Red plastic hearts distributed
throughout the business section
will remind the community that
nickels and dimes can aid in the
fight on one of mankind’s dead
liest disorders.
Mayor's Proclamation
The following is a proclamation
by Mayor Jack. Wells in observ-~
ance of Georgia Heart Week from
February 12-17:
WHEREAS, heart disease, is the
leaéiing health problem in Georgia,
an
WHEREAS, children, people of
middle age, and people over fifty
are all affected by heart diseases,
and
WHEREAS, the Georgia Heart
Association has set aside the
month of February for the annual
Heart Fund Drive for public con
tributions,
NOW, THEREFORE, to com
memorate this February Heart
Fund Drive, I, Jack Wells, Mayor
of the City of Athens, do proclaim
February 12-17 as HEART FUND
WEEK in Athens.
In Witness Wherefore, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the City of Athens to
be affixed, the Bth day of Febru
ary, 19l
JACK R. WELLS, Mayor
Wells To Speak
At Exchange Club
Mayor Jack R. Wells will be
featured speaker at Monday’s reg
ular meeting of the Athens Ex
| change Club.
{ He will address the group on
Athens’ progress during past years
along commercial and industrial
lines.
“The meeting will be held at 1
} p. m. at the Georgian Hotel.
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| “y” DIRECTORS
A meeting of the Athens Y. M.
C. A. Board of Directors will be
held tomorrow night at the Hol
! man Hotel.. The dinner meeting
| will begin at 6 p. m., accorii%g to
U. N. Patrols Enter Seoul;
Artillery Sets City Ablaze
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Western Powers Consult
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On Yugoslavia Question
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Feb, 10.— (AP) —A survey of top-level
estimates on the danger of a new outbreak of war this
spring disclosed today the following highly authoritative
conclusions:
1. Yugoslavia is the peril point.
A Soviet-Communist attack there
would set off spreading hostilities
that would almost certeinly en
gulf other nations in World War
111.
2. The U. 8. should do what it
properly can to strengthen Yugo
slavia and discourage an attack
either this spring or later, The
problem of what to do is now un
der pressing consideration here
and in consultation with Britain,
France and Marshall Tito’s gov
ernment at Belgrade. One good
bet is that Tito eventually will get
military supplies from the western
powers.
3. The chances are that despite
the dangers in the Yugoslav sjt
uation general war will not break
out this spring because Russia is
not ready, Some high officials here
believe Russia will not take a
iggizous risk of war even during
4, Though the odds are in favor
of maintaining the present half
peace, there is still a danger of
war-by-incident. The Soviet block
countries have been stepping up
their propaganda against Yugo
slavia; evidently a new period of
nerve war is opening. Tensions
and tempers grow and these, with
the coming of spring, create an
explosive situation.
5. On the peace side of the ledger
are two developments, One is the
prospect for a Big Four Foreign
Ministers’ meeting this spring, in
dicating the great powers will
fight on the diplomatic rather than
military front. The other is grow
ing hope for a settlement in Korea
now that the Chinese Communists
have found out they probably
can’t win.
Modified Answer
These questions of war or peace
always get a cautiously modified
answer from Washington officials
in this vein, “I don’t think the
Russians will try anything very
big but you never can tell.” Nev
ertheless at the highest levels of
the government there appears to
be strong confidence that the U.
S. and its Allies will get the time
they need to rearm.
Marshall Tito’s Yugoslavia is an
important factor in the strategy
of the west as well as an extreme
ly dangerous thorn in Moscow’s
monolithic side. It is in the Krem
lin’s interest to eliminate Tito’s
regime, which broke with Moscow
more than two years ago. Similarly
it is regarded here as being in the
deepest interest of the free world
te bolster Tito and strengthen his
already considerable might.
Politically, Tito has proved the
possibility of national indepen
dence in eastern Europe and has
had a marked effect among west
ern Europe’s Communists. Recent
pudges in Czechoslovakia and de
fections of some Communist lead
ers in Italy are regarded as evi
dence of Titoism on both sides of
the iron curtain.
Tito Militarily -
. Militarily, Tito represents with
his 32 divisions the most power
ful anti-Soviet force in the Euro
pean area today. Moreover he is
guarding the highly strategic
southern flank of non-Communist
Europe, standing with Greece and
Turkey across Russia’s path to the
easternr Mediterranean and Mid
dle East.
Ever since his break with the
Kremlin, Tito has been -drawing
gradually closer to the western
powers, not out of ideological af
finity-~for he remains a Commu-~
nist—but out of necessity.
Though he has never asked
military aid from this country, he
has made it clear that he would
like the west to help build up his
strength now and to come quickly
to his assistance should he be at
tacked,
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and a little
warmer today with highest aft
ernoon temperatures expected to
be around 45. Sun sets at 6:12.
GEORGIIIA — Consider
able cloudiness with liftle tem
perature change Sunday morn
ing, becoming partly cloudy and
warmer Sunday afternoon,
TEMPERATURE
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WOt s T eOR
BRI i i i s i ileg
DRNRGL e e
RAINFALL
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Total since February 1 .... 115
Deficit since February 1 ... .74
Average February rainfall . 5.0&1
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MANPOWER CZAR — Dr. Ar
thur S. Flemming (above), pres
ident of Ohio Wesleyan Univer
sity, has been chosen to head a
manpower policy committee un
der Mobilization Director Char
les E. Wilson. Dr. Flemming
will be the country’s manpower
czar and will have authority
over controls and the allocation
of men between industry and the
armed services. — (AP Wire
photo.)
Rail Strikers
Beat Deadline
By The Associated Press
The Army’s “work or be fired”
deadline arrived Saturday but
striking switchmen already were
back on the job.
However, some industry still
was feeling the pinch of strike
caused shortages. Rail spokesmen
said it would take from two to
three weeks to clear away the
backleg of freight on sidings and
in yards.
The waning “sick call” strike
collapsed Thursday when the
Army announced that switchmen
who failed to report by 4 p. m.
EST Saturday would be discharged
and lose their seniority unless they
could prove they were ill.
The bulk of the striking crews
reported on the Thursday night
shift in Chicago—the most vital
rail hub still affected—and by
Friday conditions were virtually
normal throughout the country.
The Pittsburgh and West Vir
ginia railroad, the last line to re
port holdouts, said it was back toi
normal operations Saturday morn~ ‘
ing,
At the height of the 10-day
strike, some 12,000 switchmen
were out, 700,000 of the nation’s
2,000,000 freight cars were tied
up and 250,000 workers were laid
off in mines and industry. Some
120,000 automobile workers, most
of them in Michigan, still are idle,
With the strike ended, many in
dustrial layoffs scheduled, for
Monday were called off and a re
turn to normal was moving ahead,
The strikers, since their return,
have received a pay boost on or
ders of the Army. The Army has
been in technical control of the
carriers since the government
seized them Ang. 27 to halt a
threatened strike.
Letters Show Progress
On New City Schools
An exchange of letters between Howard H. McWhorter,
president of the Board of Education, and the contractors
for the new Athens High School and the school for negroes
in East Athens reveals that barring bad weather condi
tions and delay in the delivery of materials both buildings
will be completed within the time limit. y e
Replying to Mr. McWhorter’s
letter, inquiring into the progress
of the work on the two buildings,
the Stillwell Construction Compa
ny, contractors for the high school,
stated that they “have made ex
ceptional progress considering the
amount of bad weather” that they
have had since work began. The
company also stated that “we have
most of the slow work completed
and if we have good weather from
now on and are not held up on
delivery of materials, it looks as
if the job can be completed on
time.”
G. M. Caskey and Sons, con
tractors for the school for negroes
in East Athens, reported that “nor
mal progress” is being made on
i &3{ *we will be able
T mihdee . =
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
American, Turkish, South Korean ‘
Troops Awaiting Orders To Attack
BY ROBERT EUNSON
TOKYO, Sunday, Feb. 11.—(AP)—Allied artillery set
huge fires in Seoul last night and early today in a furious
artillery barrage across the Han River while a South Keo
rean patrol felt out Red resistance inside the old Koreg».
capita‘l. B o : :
American, Turkish and South
Korean troops of the U, S. Third
and 25th Divisions watched the
fireworks from the snowy south
banks of the Han. They awaited
orders they expected would send
thenr to attack the city they had
abandoned to the Chinese Com
munists January 4.
l‘géethree swift, sure blows Sat
urday, these weary, dirt-caked
veterans of the U. 8. Eighth Army
had captured Seoul’s industrial
suburb of Yongdungpo, Kimpo
Airfield, 15 miles northwest of the
capital, and Inchon port, 22 miles
southwest of Seoul,
A South Korean Republican pa
trol of the 25th Division entered
Seoul itself late Saturday and re
mained through g-ne night, but the
announced Allied objective still
was not the capture of Seoul or
any other point. Instead, it was
the slaughter of Chinese and North
Korean Red troops.
This was being accomplished,
the official estimate of Red dead
and wounded was above 65,000
from the start of the Allied offen
sive Jan. 25 through Friday, Feb.
9. Saturday’s toll was still to be
added.
Held All Points
Unlike the hit-skip killing at
tacks of the previous 16 days,
however, the Allies Saturday held
all points they had taken, without
retiring,
© An American intelligence offi
cer said it was believed the Chi
nese had fled northward, leaving
to the North Korean Communists
whatever defense they might
choose to make of Seoul’s ruins.
The decision to drive north to
Seoul apparently was made after
General Ridgwayv learned that all
Communist resistance south of the
Han in Western Korea had van-
Refugees who streamed south
five weeks ago were back on the
roads again, hopefully plodding
northward.
Engineers raced to get Kimpo
Airfield, once known as tne
world’s busiest airport, back in
operation.
AP Correspondent Tom Brad
shaw said Kimpo’s hangers and
buildings were bombed out. There
was no sign of life there, he said
bIUt a few Red mortar rounds fel.i
close,
Tank Force
Kimpo was taken by a tank
force commanded by Lt. Col. Tom
Dolvin, of Columbus, Ga.
At Inchon—pounded merciless~
ly for weeks by American and
British cruisers and recently by
the battleship Missouri ag well—
Naval parties landed and set to
work to restore the harbor, They
had abandoned it Jan. 5-6,
Intelligence reports varied on
the defenders. Some reports indi
cated that the Chinese had with
drawn to the north and nqrtheast,
leaving Seoul to the North Kore
ans to defend.
Other reports indicated at least
some Chinese still were there,
A few Chinese Communist
troops south of the Han were seen
trying to escape to the north at a
point southeast of Seoul, AP Cor-
Optimist Club
To Hear Cocutz
Dr. John T. Cocutz, philosophy
professor at the Atlanta Division,
University of Georgia, will ad
dress the Athens Optimist Club at
their second annual dinner to
morrow night at 7:30 in the Elks
Club home,
Born in Hungary, Dr. Cocutz
livedin numerous Russian
satellite countries until he came
to Atlanta ten years ago.
Dr. Cocutz holds a Phd degree
from Yale College.
| hundred work days, bad weather
| excluded, with no further delays
lin materials due to government
orders which are beyond our con
| trol.”
| The letters from Mr. McWhor
ter to the two contracting compan
ies and their replies follow:
On The High School
l January 31, 1951
Stillwell Construction Company,
Macon, Georgia.
Gentleman: ,
At the January meeting of the
Athens Board of Education I was
instructed by the Board to contact
' you and receive certain factual
iinformation concerning the pro
gress you are making on the con
l struction of High School building.
i Many of our citizens feel that
{Tentinued on Tage Two.)
HOME
EDITION
respondent Stan Swinton said.
No Contact
On the east coast no contaet
was reported with Reds who have
been sparring with South Koreans
near Kangnung, 17 miles south of
the 38th parallel, .
In the air war, Okinawa-based
B-29 bombers dropped 80 tons of
blockbusters on three railroad
bridges north of Pyongyang and
heavily damaged the Communist
rail center of Sunchon, Late in the
day Russian made jets made three
attacks on Fifth Air Force F-80
jets, but there was no damage te
either side, About 20 MIGs were
reported, ,
: -Summarizing its bombing mis
sions on Red supply routes since
Jan. 1, the Far East Air Forces an
nounced that raids have destroyed
or damaged 1,800 Red vehicles, 127
railroad and highway bridges, 45
tunnels, 47 locomotives and 700
railroad cars.
Boy Scout Troop
Stages Banquet
One of the highlights in the ob
servance of Boy Scout Week here
was a Father-Son banquet held
last week by Troop 22, sponsored
by the First Baptist Church.
In celebration of the 4lst an
niversary of the Boy Scouts of
America, the event climaxed ac
tivities of the troop during Seout
Week. At the banquet Dr, How=
ard P. Giddens, pastor, spoke on
“The Importance of the Family in
the Scout Troop.”
Professor Lahey of the Univers
ity of Georgia geology-geography
department spoke on his travels in
South America, and Fred Sneil,
assistant Scout executive of the
Northeast Georgia Couneil, alse
spoke briefly.
S Awards Made
After the conclusion of the ban
quet prepared by the Mother's
Auxiliary es troop 22, a program
was presented by the various pa
trols and Life awards were x
sented to Ben Brackett and
by Langley. Branson ¥ree m‘
made a First Class Secout
Tommy Walton and Charles Ed
wards became Second Class
Scouts. i
Marshall Smith was given a
one year perfect attendance award
for meetings, camps, and other ac
tivities of the troop. All' awards
were presented by Stacle L.
Bowen, troop committee chair~
man.
The banquet was concluded
with the rededication of all Scouts
to the Scout Oath.
Ernest Boland is scoutmaster
and assistants are Denny Snow
and Tom Allen.
Tax Agent To
Help Athenians
A Georgia income tax agent
will be at the tax collectors office,
Clarke County Court House, Ath
ens, on February 23 and 24, and
March 2 through March 15 to as
sist taxpayers in preparing re
turns. Those who desire this as
sistance should bring all informa
tion dealing with income and de
duction to the court house on the
dates listed.
All single persons with a tan
nual income of $1,000.00 or more
are required to make returng and
all married persons with an in
come of $,2,500.00 or more or
married couples with a combined
income of $2,500.00 or more are
required to file returns.
Persons who owe no taxes may
be required to file also.
~ The collector will be at the fol
lowing location in the Athens area
on the dates listed:
Barrow County, Winder, Feb.
19-20. <
Elbert County, Elberton, Mar.
6-8. _ VL
Franklin County, Lavonia, Feb.
14 and Royston, Feb. 12.
Greene County, Greensboro,
Feb. 19 and Union Point, Feb. 10.
Hart Count():', Hartwell, Feb. 13.
Jackson ounty, Commerce,
Feb. 15 and Jefferson, Feb. 16.
Morgan County, Madison, Feb.
15. -
Walton. County, Monroe, Feb.
12-13 and Social Circle, Feb. 14.
Wilkes County, Washington,
PR e 3
THIRD TALMADGE
ATLANTA, Feb. 10—(AP)—A
third member of the Talmadge
family—Herman Eugene—went on
the state payroll yesterday.
The son of the present governor
and grandson of the late C%w
elect Eugene Talmade worked
elect Eugene Talmadge worked as
vear-old second grade student al
so served as a page during the 1950
General Assembly session.