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Agreement With Powe-“Zompany
Over Light System s Reached
New Lighting Installations Are
Involved In Final Settlement
Mayor and Council last night unanimously approved an
agreement with the Georgia Power Company designed to
end litigation over the old city street lighting system. Final
settlement is subject to an order of the court.
On recommendation of a committee appointed to act for
Council-as-a-whole in negotiations with Power company,
it was voted that the city release all right of ownership and
rentals of the system to the Power company in considera
tion of $22,600 credit on new installations and $25,000 in
cash (a total of $47,500),
The city attorney was authorized
to prepare the necessary sgree
ment and the mayor was author
ized to sign the agreement with |
the Power company, on behalf of
the City.
Councilman Owen Roberts, jr.,
chairman of the committee, pre
gented the recommendation,
History of Case
As chairman of the special
Street Lighting committee, Coun-!
cilman Roberts recommended the:
conversion of 32 lights in the
downtown business area into the
sweep arm type lights.
Also it was recommended that.
15 residential-type street lights be;
installed. Both recommendations
were approved by Council.
Ownership by the city of that
part of the street lighting system
at issue goes back many years. A
little more than twenty years ago
the city and the Power company
went into a contract under the
terms of which the Power com
pany paid the city $3500 annual |l
rental for use of the system. |
After paying about $70,000 in
rentals the Power company served
notice in 1949, at the time the con
tract expired, it would not renew.
The eity billed the company for |
the rentals but the Power com
pany obtained an injunction re
straining the city from collecting
the rent and adjudication of the
issue by the cour was begun, the |
Power eompany Indicating a de
sire to purchase the system from
the eity. The city and the Power
company subsequently began ne
gotiations to settle the litigation
out o court and the recommenda
tion by the special Council com
mittee represents the final agree
ment between the negotiating par
ties. &
Some time ago the Mayor and
Council voted to install more than
one hundred -new lights in the
business and residential sections. |
Chairman Roberts said the new
installations and conversion of the |
White Way into a new type of
lighting should give the city a
much better street lighting system
than it has ever had. i
The Public Works. committeel
recommended the purchase by the
city of liability insurance for
streets and sidewalks and the
purchase of a truck for use of the
city water meter readers, both be
ing done on competitive bids and
the former with approval of the
city attorney. Both were adopted.
The report was presented by com- |
mittee Chairman Roberts. |
. Cab Franchise !
At the May meeting of Mayor
and Council the recall of the fran- |
chise held by Co-op Cab Com-l
pany was asked by Councilman .
Roger Hazen. ;
Last night the Streets and Parks
committee recommended the mo- |
tion for recall of the franchise be
tabled. This was approved after
Councilman Hazen agreed and-
Councilman R. W. Phillips voiced
his opinion that the franchise had
been violated and should be-re
called.
Councilman Hazen pointed out
that the motion could be brought
from the table at any time. He
said he would file with the clerk
of council all material which he
used in preparing the original res
olution asking for the recall for
further use.
Civil Defense
Mayor and Council voted ap
proval for the purchase of an
emergency trailer (mobile unit)
for use by the Athens Civil De
fense unit and by the local Civil'
Air Patrol. The unit will cost S3OO,
and was recommended by E. H.
lanne, loca] civil defense direc
or. ) ‘
Recommendation of the Streets
and Parks Committee, presented‘
by Chairman Dick Thompson: |
(1) Ordinance to regulate trains
at grade crossings within the city
not be passed in its present con
dition. Adopted.
(2) No change bé made in the
traffic regulations at Childs street
Hf;ar Junior High School. Adopt
ed,
(3) Stop sign be placed on Pine
crest Drive at its intersection with
South View Drive and on Tallulahi
avenue at its intersection with
West View Drive. Approved. |
Vacation Pay ‘
_A resolution, presented by Coun
cilman Cliff Denney, sr., called for
two weeks vacation with pay for
employees of the city street, sani
tary, water works departments,
and those employed in the city
hall ufif&“ asked for pay for
tie oyeés “6n holidays and
made stipulations for persons in
departments which cannot vgg&
because of bad weather. The res)-
lution was referred to the-Finance
cogmitt?e. i A
ouncilman Denney also asked
ggt» t‘rfi/nr)natter of placing eity
mployees under the social securi
ty act be considered. He said an
amendment to the social security
act allowed cities to do this. This
WlI: f:ufmd to the :;ty attorney.
Denney that Reid street, which
from llam-E:von e to
St sk o S
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Associated Press Service
Assess, Reserve
At Highest Mark
Judge Blanton Fortson yesterday
was re-elected president and
treasurer of the Southern Mutual
Insurance Company and E. E.
Lamkin was re-named secretary at
the annual meeting of the board of
directors.
The policyholders annual meet
ing was held at 11 ¢’clock at which
time the board of directors was
re-elected. The members are: |
Howell C. Erwin, Blanton Fort
son, Madison G. Nicholson, Eugene
L. Hill, Edgeworth E. Lamkin, Wil
liam L. Erwin, Robert V. Watter
son, Harvey Stovall, Hugh H. Gor
don, jr., Linton Gerdine, Athens;
Clark Howell, Atlanta; Charles H.
Phinizy, Augusta; D. Abbott Turn
er, Columbus; Broadus E. Willing
ham, Macon; W. Hugh Stephens,
Savannah. ‘
Directors also re-elected Roy T.
Scoggins, auditor; Carlton N. Mell,
assistant auditor; Mrs. Fredonia
H. Davis, office assistant; Miss
Martha Smith, office assistant and
Warren Pledger, building superin
tendent.
Largest Reserve
President Fortson reported the
company’s assets and reserve are
now larger than at any previous
time in its history.
Assets of the Company, organ-‘
ized in 1847, amount to $2,502,-
231.16 and the reserve is $2,230,
200.53: - >
In the President’s annual report,
it was pointed out that the finan
cial statement shows the company
has just ended another good year.
There was an increase in the
~amount insured but due to a fur
ther small reduction in fire in
‘ surance rates during the year and
'a substantial twenty percent re
*duction in the rates for extended
coverage, premium receipts were
| diminished.
~ Company losses were compara
‘ tively light and after declaring a
dividend of thirty-three and one
third percent to policyholders ap
proximately forty thousand dol
lars was added to the surplus, or
policyholders reserve for contin=-
gencies.
' ALBANY, Ga., June 6—(AP)—
' Fast-traveling Erle Cocke, jr,, of
Dawson, National American
' Legion Commander, breezed into
Albany today following a quick
world tour which carried him to
' Korea’s battlefields and said “the
| war is running our way now.”
Suid the young legion chief:
| “The boys in Korea get up each
| morning and start fighting under
| cover of complete air superiority,
and when the day’s done they en
joy a comparatively quiet night.”
But he issued a warning.
| “It won’t be such a snap when
the Soviet air force opens up,
{ however.”
| He had praise for Gen. Matthew
| B. Ridgway who, he said, has a
| thorough knowledge of the Ko
| rean terrain.
. He said Lt. Gen. James Van
| Fleet is the logical man to follow
| Ridgway. :
“This war,” he said, “is a fine
demonstrative example of uni
. fication of the armed services.”
| The legion chief admitted he
J didn’t think anyone knows when
| the Korean conflict will end.
| He said the next logical “trou=
' ble spot” might be Iran.
Georgia Power Company Awarded
Charles (offin Medal Tuesday
DENVER, Colo., June 6—For its |
encouragement of community im-}
provement through its Community |
Development Program, the Geor-l
gia Power Company was awarded
the Charles A. Coffin Medal here |
last night at the 19th Annual Con- |
vention of the Edison Electric In- l,
stitute. The Coffin Award ig the |
highest honor that can be besff)wed §
on any electric compdhy in the
United Stateg.‘ \
In accepting the award, Charles
Aft{flfler, vice president of the |
Georgia Power Company, credited{
the people of Georgia with the
achievements that browght the|
award to the company. ;
“In making this award, ‘ou have
recognized an activity of #he wholo"
state,” he said, “and I aceept it on
begalf of the oitizens of Georgia.”
he Charles A, Coffin Medal and
a cash award of &10,000 fs offered
annually by the General Electric
many toa gomber of the elec
. tb?xmyto r & d:lsunguished
n ; : advancement
of u«fm‘ w&:o 3‘3 cash
House Sefs Vote
On §1 Bill
BY FRANCIS J. KELLY
WASHINGTON, June 6—(AP)
| —The House Ways and Means
committee was summoned into
session today to begin final voting
on a proposed $7,100,000,000 tax
increase.
Members of the Democratic ma
jority predicted no fundamental
chances in the measure at the
closed-door session. Nevertheless
dozens of votes on individaul items
were anticipated, with ever-pres
ent chance of an upset.
Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R
--'Pa) said he would seek a second
’show-down on the excess profits
tax issue affecting earnings of
cgrporations. In a stomy session
two weeks ago, the Democrats
rode over Republican resistance
and tentatively voled to broaden
the base for the excess profits(
levy.
Simpson and a Republican col
league, Rep. Reed of New York,
complained that the Democrats
had violated an agreement reach
ed earlier this year to refrain from
changing that tax wuntil studies
could be made of its impact on
various concerns. An excess prof- ‘
its tax was in effect during World |
War 11, but was allowed to lapse
and was not revived until last
year.
Another Issue
.. Another-issue sure to be reopen
is the committee’s tentative decis
ion to levy a 3 1-3 per cent tax on
electric energy generated by mu
nicipal, state and federal power
plants and sold directly to con
sumers. The tax now applies to
current sold by privately owned
utilities. REA cooperatives would
remain exempt.
Plenty of complaints were com
ing from Nevada on the proposed
gambling tax, but few from any
other SMMembers reported.
This tax ~be 10 per cent on
the gross receipt of bookmakers,
lottery operators and wagering
pools, whether their business is
llegal or not. Staff experts have
been unable to estimate how much
revenue could be expected from
this levy. Residents of Nevada,
where gambling is legal, have ex
pressed fear it would deal a death
| blot to the enterprise and dry up
- a big source of state and local rev
enue.
A 12 1-2 per cent increase in
everybody’s income tax is reck
oned to bring in an additional $2,-
' 900,000,000. Corporate tax boosts
were figured at $2,800,000,000, and
increases and additions to the ex
cess taxes $1,000,000,000. A with
holding tax at the source on di
! vidends and interest is expected
| to yield $400,000,000 which other
| wise might escape taxation.
Members Hopeful
l Committee members were hope
i ful of reaching firm decisions on
| every phase of the tax bill this
| week. Another week probably will
be required to prepare the report
and print revised copies of the
| bill, with the measure probably
| reaching the House floor for de
| bate about June 18. -
| After the House acts, the Senate
| Finance Committee is slated to
| hold a menth or six weeks of
'hearings. Even in the absence of
1 a summer congressional recess, the
| increase could hardly go on the
‘lawbooks before fall. President
| Tuman has asked for an early tax
' hike $o bring in about $10,000,000-
| 000 8 yesr.
’ O’HARA SUPPORTED
ATANTA, June 6—(AP)—The
Atlanta Journal says that Rev.
}‘Gerald P. O’Hara, Archbishop of
| the Diocese of Savannah and At
| lanta, has every qualification to
| succeed the late Dennis Cardinal
| Daugherty as Archbishop of Phil
l adelphia.
| O'Hara was ordained to the
ipriesthood April, 1920. He was
| Papal Nuncio to Tomania from
| 1945 to 1950 and was expelled from
| Bucharest in July, 1950, on a
' trumped up spy charge,
award is for the employe benefit
fund of the company. The dward
is a tribute to the membfy of the
late Charles A. Coffin, founder and
first president 5f the General Elec
tric Compaty.
The Georgia Power Company
was one of five companies in the
entire electric industry invited to
compete for the 1951 award on
the basis of achievements in 1950,
In summarizing the company’s
award-winning achievements at
ceremonies accompanying the pre
sentation of the Medal, Louis V.
Sutton, president of the Edison
Electric Institute, noted that the
company, which serves 87 per cent
of the population of Georgia, rec
ognized an urgent need for eco
nomic and social improvement in
its territory, and evolved, through
its community development di
vision, successful improvement
programs which were conducted in
cooperation with groups of local
citizens and s&ate agencies.
_By encouraging commubity, self
help through such arcx;fift?es a?fts
ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1951.
With Distortion
WASHINGTON, June 6 — (AP)
Secretary of State Acheson began
today his fifth day of testimony
to Senate committees investigating
the ouster of Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur and Far Eastern policies.
It was the 28th day of the in
quiry by the Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees.
Injected into the hearing was a
charge from a Republican senator
'that Acheson distorted his account
of administration China policy.
The accusation came from Sen
ator Brewster (R.-Maine) who
said Acheson engaged in a “bare
faced distortion” in some of his
testimony.
Brewster applied that term to
Acheson’s statement that a report
of L. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer—
the committee’s next witness—had
only mentioned the “desirability”
of giving American military aid
to Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists
in the civ ilwar with the Chinese
Communists.
The Maine senator quoted to the
Senate parts of the Wedemeyer re
port which he sald called flatly for
military aid to the Nationalists,
and then added:
“It appears that no one in the
State Department is willing to
speak simply, directly and truth
fully—they will not come clean.”
Morse View
Senator Morse (R.-Ore.) said
Acheson “is laying out a cold, logi
cal case, but he ought to punch
harder.” |
“He ought to hit hard enough to!
show the American people clearly
that the issue is whether to put in
to effect immediately policy that
means a war before we are pre
pared for it, or to prepare our
selves and then give Russia the
opportunity to sit down and work
out an honorable and lasting set
tlement,” he said.
Morse said the first policy was
MacArthur’s, the second the ad
ministration’s.
MacArthur was ousted April 11
for publicly advocating an exten
sion of the Korean war: sanctions
of a blockade against Red China,
bombing of her bases in Man
churia, and use of Chiang’s forces
now on Formosa. The Truman ad
ministration, committed to a limit
ed war, contends those steps might
’ result in a world conflagration.
* Acheson testified near the end
of a short session yesterday that
last November MacArthur reject
ed an Allied proposal for a “de
militarized” safety zone along the
Korean - Manchurian border into
which United Nations troops would
not drive.
MacArthur did not think it was
'a good idea, Acheson said, and so
disapproved the plan to set up
'such a zone in an effort to con
vince the Chinese the U. N. forces
did not iftend to push on. That
was before Chinese intervention,
| Sen. Brewster
~ Brewster teed off on Acheson’s
assertion that no one in the State
Department had sympathy for the
Communists and none believed
' that the Chinese variety were
merely “Agrarian reformers.”
Brewster told his colleagues this
was “either an outright prevari
}cation or else the Secretary is ig
' norant of what State Department
Foreign Service officers were do
ing and saying in those years.”
All this discussion of events six
and seven years ago seemed to
some of the senators far away
from the committee’s central pur
pose of inquiring into the ouster of
MacArthur as Pacific commander.
~ And Senator Flanders (R.-Vt.)
' said he was for washing it all up
and ending the hearings quickly.
“T’'m far less interested in who
did what when and why than in
' what we should do next,” Flan
ders declared.
He added he has doubts about
Acheson’s assumption that “if we
just keep on fighting in XKorea,
the Communists will get tired and
quit.”
NEW ACCOUNTANTS HEAD
TULSA, Okla., June 6—(AP)—
The new president of the Southern
States Accountants Conference is
Henry F. Meyer of Savannah, Ga.
He was elected yesterday at a ses
sion that re-elected Brooks Georg=-
hegan of Macon, Ga., as secretary=
treasurer. .
Better Home Towns Program, Mr.
Sutton said, the company has been
instrumental in achieving a rever
sal of a previous trend of migra
tion of promising young people
from the state and in bringing
about clean and attractive towns.
Agricultural programs were con
ducted in cooperation with state
agencies; and a basic assumption
was proven — that new business
and industries would be attracted
to better towns.
In their citation, the judges
commended the Georgia Power
Company for its great contribution
to the progress and well-being of
the state of Georgia and for
achievement of unusual public ap
preciation and understanding of
the company and of the American
economic system,
The committee of judges who
determined the winning company
consisted of Dr. James R. Killian,
president of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology; C. W. Kel
m past, president of the Edison
tric Institute, and Mr. Sutton.
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ALLIES AIM AT “IRON TRIANGLE” — Allied troops
(black arrows) in Korea are advancing toward the Chor
won-Kumhwa-Pyongyang “Iron Triangle” area in which
the Reds have built up defensive positions (sawtooth
line). Some U. N. spearheads were only 10 miles away
from that objective Tuesday. Other front line fighting
was limited to delaying actions around Inje. There was
no news from South Korean troops above the 38th par
allel around Kansong on the east coat.— (AP Wirephoto
Map.)
#*
D - Day Anniversary
OMAHA BEACH, Normandy, June 6.—(AP)—General
“Ike” Eisenhower came back to Normandy’s beaches today
for the first time since his armies wrested them from Hit
ler’s Nazis seven years ago.
The occasion was the D-Day anniversary, celebrated on
the once blood-soaked sands where Allied troops blasted
open the German “Atlantic wall” to make possible the lib
eration of Europe. ;
Eisenhower, now supreme comse
mander of Atlantic pact forces be=
ing built up in Europe against any
new aggression, has never seen
these beaches in peacetime.
His first tour of the Normandy
coast was a few days after the D=
Day landings of June 6, 1944,
when he flew in a small plane
from his headquarters in England
to confer with his commanders on
the beaches and in the hedgerows
that line northern France.
Places Wreath
Here, where the bloodiest of the
D-Day battles were fought, the
general was to place a wreath
today on the grave of an unknown
soldier who fell in action.
Some 10,000 Gl's clambered out
of their landing barges at dawn
seven years ago today and swarm
ed over Omaha beach. They had
the ill luck to run into a German
division of defense troops out on
maneuvers, Of that {irst wave,
5,000 Americans fell dead ‘'or
wounded before the rest got in
land of the beach. They were
mostly memvers or the first and
29th divisions,
Most of the dead lie in clifftop
graves overlooking the beach and
the wreckage of landing craft that
brought them here.
The first ceremony was sche
duled for St. Mere Eglise, the lit
tle French town where U. S. para
troopers of the famed 82nd and
101st Airborne Divisions dropped
during the night before D-Day’s
dawn assault, They were the men
who slashed German communi
cation lines inland, then linked
up with the fourth infantry divi
sion which landed at daybreak
on “Utah beach,” about 25 miles
up the coast from there,
Heroism Honored
General Eisenhower was to-hons
or their heroism by placing a
wreath on “milestone zero,” which
is in front of St. Mere eglise City
Hall and marks the start of Gene
eral George S. Patton’s drive
across France to the Rhine.
* From that village, “Ike” and his
party were to drive here te the
American cemetery of St, Laurent,
where the white crosses of fallen
Gl’s look down on the sands that
once echoed to the shouting and
shellfire of the assault troops.
Later the senergl was to drive
to Bayeux, first French town to
be liberated fully by the advanc
ing Allied forces, for official “D-
Day” commemoration gervices,
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair with moderate tempera
tures today, tonight and Thurs
day. Low tonight 64. High to
morrow 86, The sun sets 7:42
and rises 5:21.
GEORGIA — Clear to partly
cloudy with moderate tempera~
tures today, tonight and Thurs«
day; a few widely scattered
thundershowers in the extreme
south portion this afternoon,
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ~ ... .04
Total since June 1 ~ ~ .. .70
Deficit since June 1 ~ ~ .05
Average June railfall ~ .. 4.13
Total since January 1 .....14.82
Deficit since January 1 ... 8.65
Bloodmobile At
Local Infirma
Citizens of Atheng and outlying
sections will have an opportunity
again today to donate blood for
the Red Cross Blood Bank,
The center will be open today
at Gilbert Memorial Infirmary
from 12 till § o’clock. It is espec~
ially important that the local cite
izeng turn out on this occasion
since the University students are
not being asked to contribute due
to the final examinations that are
being held this week.
All those @Gonors who contrib
uted at the last drive, which was
held eight weeks ago, are urged to
do so again as they will not have
any difficulty in giving the blood
since such a long period of time
has elapsed.
Mrs. Orr, of the local Red Cross,
asked that all Athenins wishing to
make a donation, who are under
21 years of age, must pick up a
special release blank to be signed
by their parents before they will
be allowed to give. The fact that
a letter from home will not serve
for this purpose was stressed,
TIMBERLAND FIRE
ATLANTA, June 6 — (AP) - A
slow-burning fire which began
Monday blackened about 60 acres
of dry timberland in southwest
Fulton county before it was
brought under control last mide
nigTht.
he fgxe broke out near Palmet
to late Monday. Director Guyton
DeLoach of the State Forestry
Commission said the greatest dam«
age was to stands of young timber.
EQ_UNTY COMMISSIOINE!R_E
New Printing Machine
For Hospital Pondered
Clarke County Commissioners
met yesterday at 3 o’clock im the
(E_O_urt House to discuss a full
agenda of business, including a
proposal by Oscar Hilliard, ad
ministrator of General Ho}?ital,
concerning the “Multigraph Multi=
lith,” a printing machine which is
used in all hospital printing.
One of the first topics for gen
eral discussion by the commission=
ers was a proposal by Oscar Hil»
liard, Clarke County Hospital Ad=
ministrator, concerning the “Mule
tigraph Multilith” printing ma
chine,
Mr. Hillard stated that he had
seen the machine in very luo({\m
ful eperation in other hospitals.
He reported further that some
labor costs would have 10 be met
by the county in addition to fit
initial cost of the machine whici
would be SBSO.
BBt o i
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rmlflud npm-tog to the Commis
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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Communists Confinue Refreat;
F
UN Troops Follow Cautiously
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, June 6. — (AP) — United Nations treops
smashed forward a mile or two today through Korean mud
and Red defenses.
Tight censorship blacked out just what happened. Or
how close Allies pressed to the vital Red Chorwon-Kumh
wa-Pyongyang triangle facing the central front.
Close censorship often screens important battlefront
actions.
Eighth Army troops gained one to nearly two miles
around Yonchon on the western approaches to Chorwon.
A tank patrol, stabbing out to
ward Chorwor, probed 2 1-2 miles I
in front of Allied lines. It ran a
gantlet of heavy fire from Com
munists dug in along ridges on
both sides of the road.
On the eastern approaches to
the troop and supply ‘triangle,
Reds pulled back as much as three
miles between Hwachon and
Kumhwa. They. withdrew to
stronger defenses under cover of
night, protected by small rear.
guard forces,
U. N. troops followed cautious
ly. They combed the wooded hills
as they moved up, taking no
chances of walking into a Red
trap.
The Eighth Army gave this pic
ture of the front Wednesday
West Front
‘West: Only patrol action on the |
dragging left flank south of the
38th parallel. Gains of up to two
miles near Yonchon, six miles
north of the border.
Center: U, N. forces gained a:
little more than a half mile in the
Yongpyong area; one to two miles
to the east and northeast. Limited
gains were made in the Hwachon
area,
East: Reds put up heavy resis
‘tance north and northeast of Yang
' gu at the eastern end of Hwachon
reservoir. This was the communi~
gue’s only reference to heavy re-
AP C George A,
McArthur said fierce fighting
flared all along the eastern sector
from Yanggu to Inje.
North Koreans, fighting stub
bornly from their dugouts in the
hills, held attacking Allies to slight
gains above Yanggu.
U. N. infantrymen attacked
through a mortar barrage north
and northeast of Inje. They hacked
out small gains.
“Despite mounting Red resis
tance,” McArthur reported, “there
were no indications that the Com~
munists were flghtinq anything
but a defensive action.’
He said no Chinese were en
countered in the area, only North
Koreans.
456 Air Strikes
The Fifth Air Force reported
that with a letup in the rains it
mounted 456 air strikes during
the day. Pilots complained a low |
haze hampered their effectiveness,
The Eighth Army described vir
tually all ground fighting as light
to moderate. But the headquar
ters’ view of what constitutes light !
or heavy fighting doesn’t neces
sarily agree with the viewpoint
of the doughboy actually in the
fight.
Field reports said Allies were
less than ten miles from Chor
won, western gateway to the wide |
and long Pyonggang valley. The |
flat lands, beyond the rugged
ridges over which the infantrymen
?:; tighting, 1§ ideal tank coun-i
The Yyonggang valley leads al
moest due north to the east coast
port of Wonsan, which Allies
naval guns have battered daily for
nearly four months,
Clearing weather opened the
way Wednesday for warplanes to
get at Red troops concentrated in
;l defense ARC around the trian
e.
Air Force and Navy planes got
through low clouds and rains
Tuesday for 843 sorties, mostly I
against Red supply areas to the |
north, i
sion that the local county hospital
had its best month }n its entire
history as far as collections are
concerned. The General Hospital
collected $29,800 during the pre
ceeding month.
It was decided by the board that
Mr. Hilliard should return to the
July meeting to make a further
report on the printing machine as
well as to discuss other matters
of importance. The decision abeut
the purehase of the printing ma
chine will be made at that meet
mgome discussion was devoted to
& mistaken right of way for road
construction on the Barret &nd
Cohen propertfi on the Nowhere
road, Clerk H. K. Mq?‘olson, stated
that fi:e righ-of-way had been ac
quired from the property owners
but that the path of right-of-w:%
cleared by the road men was n
that origlnal.l{ agreed on, due to &
change he felt necessary to greater
improvement in the condition of
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EDITION
Rises Conducted
Mrs. Gunnells
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella
Montgomery Gunnells, 80, who
died Monday afternoon in a local
hospital following an illness of
several months, were conducted
from Bernstein’s Chapel Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev, J, C.
Calloway, District Superintendent
of the Athens Elberton District of
the Methodist Church, and Rev.
Lamar Watkins, of Jefferson Meth
odist Church, officiating.
Interment followed in Jefferson,
Georgia, Cemetery, C. H. Mont=~
gomer, W. W, Scott, J. M, Storey,
Carter Daniel, Chappelle Matthews
and Broadus Coile serving as pall
bearers, Bernstein Funeral Home
~was in charge of all arrahgements.
Surviving Mrs. Gunnells are
four sisters, Mrs. Leta M. Tal
madge, Athens, Mrs. Velma M.
Appleby, Birmingham, Alabama,
Mrs, W. T. Nix, Commerce, and
| Miss Addie Montgomery, Athens;
three sons, G. W, Gunnells, Com
merce, L, H. Gunnells, Commerce,
and Rev. Paul Gunnells, Conyers,
A native of Rome, Georgia, Mrs,
Gunnells had resided in Athens
for several years. She was a faith~
ful member of the Methodist
Church and was very active in
church affairs until failing health
limited her activities. Since com=
ing to Athens to live Mrs. Gun~
nells had made many friends, and
' news of her death was a source of
great sadness to all those who had
‘ come to know and love her,
Former Governor
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y Not Be Paid
WASHINGTON, June B8—(AP).
A former Georgia governor who
quit a federal job here because,
he said, he had nothing to do, may
not get his last two paychicks—if
the government finds he did noth
ing to earn them.
M. E, Thompson resigned from
the office of price stabilization on
April 10 with a tirade against gov
ernment ‘“confusion, inefficiency,
waste and extravagance.”
The former governor was hired
as an OPS consultant, but said he
was never consulted about any
thing,
It was too much for him,
Thompson said, to be paid for do=
ing nothing.
“I refuse to be a parasite on the
American taxpayers,” he added.
Last night an OPS spokesman
who didn’t want his name pub
licized said the OPA was seeking
to determine if Thompson really
did anything to earn the two pay=
checks.
If the Georgian didn’t, the
checks would be canceled, said
the anonymous OPS spokesman,
If he did, they’d be sent to Thomp=
son at his home at Valdosta, Ga.
Thompson said he was carried
on the OPS payroll for 12 weeks
at $53.48 a day salary and ex
penses. During the 12 weeks,
Thompson declared, he just sat;
he did nothing. And tha! was too
much for him,
The amount of the last twe
checks was not disclosed,
Bibb Education
Board Praised
ATLANTA, June 6— (AP) —A
spokesman for Georgia school
teachers expressed confidence that
when all the facts are known Bibb
county will find a satisfactory so
lution to its school tax problem.
At the same time, J. Harold
Saxon, executive secretary of the
Georgia Education Association,
praised the Bibb school board for
its education record “dewn
through the years.”
“It has always taken the lead
in financing a progressive and
outstanding system of public
schools,” Saxon said.
The executive officer of the or
ganization of 17,000 teachers and
othea educators was aked what
the GEA plans to do about a $200,-
000 slash the county has made in
its a;hool tax, a drop from 1542
w%t 11%‘1? in the property levy.
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