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TOWERS IN MICRCWAVE SYSTEM — Here are two
types of relay towers used in the $40,000,000 Micro
wave radio beam system spanning the continent which
went into operation Friday for long distance telephone
service. There are 107 towers between New York and
San Francisco. The system is owned and operated by
the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. In ad
dition to telephone service, it is due to carry network
television from coast to coast, starting September 30.
The steel tower at left is near Salt Lake City, Utah. The
concrete tower at right is between Chicago and Des
Moines.— (AP Wirephoto.)
125 - Mile Winds Leave
Damage In Carribean
MIAMI, Aug. 18.— (AP) —A tropical hurricane con
taining 125-mile winds swirled across the Caribbean Sea
toward the Gulf of Mexico tonight after striking heavy
blows at Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
Several ships were reported sunk at Kingston, capital of
Jamaica. Considerable damage was reported in the city,
especially along the waterfront. "
Linda Darnell of the movies was
on the island, but a mountain
range protected her from the
worst of the blow. She was on
location at Ocho Rios, on the
north coast, across the island from
hard-hit Kingston. ;
With the actress is her daugh
ter, Lola, 4, and about 23 other
motion picture personnel.
Kingston was knocked out of
commrunication with the outside
world for 18 hours,
Western Cuba and the north
coast of the Yucafan Peninsula
appeared next on the itinerary for
the violent storm.
An emergency alert was sound
ed in Havana by President Carlos
Prios Socarras. The alert was pre
cautionary for the Cuban capital,
but it included the threatened
western tip of the island.
Once in the Gulf of Mexico—
and it appeared certain tonight
the storm was bound for the Gulf
—a huge coastline will lie under
the hurricane’s threat, stretching
;‘criom Mexico all the way to Flor
-laa.
The first eyewitness account of
damage at Kingston, Jamaica’s
capital city of 120,000, came from
Captain Wilford W. Salter, pilot
of a Pan-American Airways cargo
plane. He circled the city at 2,000
feet beginning at 12:13 p. m.
(EST), and reported:
“Extensive damage at Kingston.
Waterfront has a great deal of
damage.
“Shipping is scattered out in the
bay and several ships are over
turned, The airport is extensively
damaged and airpert facilities
practically demrolished.”
He continued on to Barranuuil
la, Colombia, where he was due at
3:20 p. m. (EST). He carried 2
general cargo, mostly medical
supplies being routinely imported
by Colombia,
Oil Situation
Better In Iran
TEHRAN, Iran, Aug. 18—(AP)
Iran presented counter-proposals
tonight in an attempt to settle her
oil feud with the British and a
somewhat more optimistic almos
phere settled over the two-week
old negotiations. o
Richard Stokes, the British ne
gotiator, told reporters after the
three-hour meeting: “I'm quite
sure the Iranians want to come to
a settlement.” e
Ali Shayégan, a member of the
Iranian delegation, said there had
bE&H an “informal and friendly
exchange of views.” :
The two delegations agreed to
meet agaln tomorrow.
W. Averell Harriman, President
Truman’s special envoy, was re
perted to have played a key role
in the talks tonight.
The “Iranians had announced
earlier they were rejecting the
Stokes plan. Stokes had declared
it was “the best offer I can make”
and added that remaining British
oil technicians would be leaving
the country soon unless Iran
agreed to a speedy settlement.
Walter J. Levy, Harriman’s
technical oil advisor, closeted him
self with Mossadegh and went
thoroughly into hard facts facing
Iran if ghe cuts loose from British
lon s S ff w 22
as on recruiting othe
foreign or Iranian technicians.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
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Fight For Hero’s
Grave Continues
As General Enters
WINCHESTER, Va., Aug. 18.
(AP)—A new clarion call—
“ Hold On To General Morgan”—
was sounded today in behalf of
Winchester’s fight to retain the
grave of revolutionary war hero
Daniel Morgan.
The cry’ came from retired
Brig. Gen. Bryan Conrad,a na
tive of this Shenandoah valey
city.
He advised his home towners
to stand firm and yield not an
inch in their fierce struggle with
Cowpens, S. C., over the remains
of Morgan, reposing these 150
years at Winchester's Mt.
Hebron cemetery.
In a telegram from his pres
ent home at Highland Falls, N.
Y., Conrad declared:
“Hold on to General Morgan.
Don’t give in. As far as I know
Winchester has only produced
two brigadier generals in 200
years.
“I don’t want to feel lonesome
when I reach Mt. Nebron. Cow
pens was only one of Morgan’s
battles. Suppose Montreal asks
for the corpse.”
The Winchesterites think they
have some pretty solid -u?ort
themselves, headed by a fellow
named Byrd—Senator Harry
Byrd, who lives at nearby Ber
ryville. Rep. Burr Harrison, who
lives in Winchester, was brought
in as a reinforcement this week.
Several descendants of Mor
gan have joined the fray, too—
some favoring transferral, oth
ers bitterly opposed.
HOT CHECK TAX PAYERS
TO BE REVEALED
ATLANTA, Aug, 18—(AP)—
Georgians who pay state taxes
with hot checks not only will have
their names published but will be
subject to prosecution.
In a double-barreled action, At
torney General Eugene Cook today
told State Auditor B. E. Thrasher,
jr., that he can publish names of
persons who have paid state in
come and sales taxes with worth
less checks.
Man On Foot Has Rights, Too
Chief Roberts Warns
Motorists In Athens
Chief of Police Clarence Ro
berts yesterday warned Athens
motorists that they are supposed
to give the right of way to pe
destrians.
Chief Roberts said he has re
ceived several reports of the dif
ficulty citizens are having crossing
the street at intersections because
of the fact that motorists seem {0
think that persons on foot must
give way to the motorists. “It’s
the other way around”, the Chief
said, “motorists are supposed to
give way to pedestrians and each
is mpggsed to obey “the traffic
lights whérevér there are traffic
mun.
Cfil;i;fwf\‘.obertl ys;iti r:i citizen r:;
ported to him yesterday that
‘was almost knocked down by an
50 Students To
Receive Degrees
Here Wednesday
More than 500 seniors and
graduate students will receive
degrees here Wednesday when
the University of (Georgia
holds its annual August gradua=
tion exercises.
Aamong them wil be George
Peters, South Hero, Vt., the Uni
versity’s only candidate this sum
mer for the Ph. D degree. Peters
will be granted his degree in
mathematics. ’
Nearly 150 students will receive
master’s degrees while the rest
will be granted degrees on the
bachelor’s ievel. The graduation
class includes many Georgia
school teachers who have earned
their degrees by attending sum=-
mer school sessions over a period
of years.
Dr. Russell Poor, chairman of
the Relations Division of the Oak
Ridge Institute of Nuclear Stu
dies, will be the graduation
speaker. A former dean of the
graduate school of Alabama Poly=
technic Institute, Dr. Poor is ex
pected to discuss the relationship
of government aid to educational
trends. et e
His address will be followed by
that of class valedictorian Clifford
Mordecai, Jr., Charleston, S. C.
Mordecai, a forestry student, was
named to give the valedictory in
a recent class election. - s
5 Béé;geg ~ will be awarded by
University president O. C. Alder
hold.
Graduating students will be
honored Tuesday night with a
reception at the University Presi
dent’'s home on Prince Avenue.
The reception is a traditional part
of graduation exercises. Invita
tion have been issued to all gra
duating students and their fami
lies.
Full Time Crime
Investigating
Group Proposed
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—(AP),
A permanent Senate Crime Invest
igating Committee was proposed
today by Senator Wiley (R-Wis.),
a member of the Special Crime
?ommittee that expires Septe.nber
“The crusade against crime has
only begun; it cannot be allowed
to die,” Wiley said.
He proposed that the Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee or
a sub-group take over and carry
on the sensational investigation
handled for 16 months by the spe
cial committee under leadership
of senators Kefauver (D-Tenn)
and O’Conor (D-Md).
Such a group could hunt down
criminals and key witnesses who
have been hiding out to avoid
testimony before the expiring
committee, Wiley said. -
In a letter to Chairman Edwin
C. Johnson (D-Colo.) of the Com
merce Committee, Wiley suggested
these three “assignments” for fu
ture crime inquiries: ]
3 “Assignments” s
1. “The incredibly ordorous sit
uation along the New York—New
Jersey waterfront where organized
piracy exists on a scale that would
make Captain Kidd green with
envy, where all the evils of nar
cotics traffic, labor union violence,
policy rackets, and other crimes
abound.” - i
2. “The current gangster effort
being made to invade the teamsters
union in Chicago. There have been
a series of outrageous bombings,
beatings and murders in Chicago
teamster circles which have indi
cated that there is being attempted
a repetition of the Capone mob
muscling into unions of the 1920’5.”
8. “A complete probe of inter
state angles of crime in the Dis
trict of Columbia” including testi
mony about high profitable “num
bers operations.”
Wiley pointed out that in a rela
tive brief time, the Senate crime
investigators have turned up much
that state and local officials had
failed to find or act upon.
Gambling Exposed
He said the field of organized
interstate gambling had been pret
ty well exposed, but the special
crime committee’s files contain
“literally treasures of information
which can be used down through
the years in supplementing the
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Athens City Lines bus, driver of
which speeded around a corner at
the City Hall, almost hitting the
pedestrian who had to rush back
to the corner from whence he
started in order to escape being
hit by the speeding bus. The bus
was going so fast it had to make
a wide sweep into the middle of
the intersection in order to make
&3 }um, it was reported to the
es.
_ One resident of Athens who
recently returned from & trip west
says that in California motorists
know that the pedestrian has
gflgflty and that if there is one
thing that a policemen will arrest
a motorist for quicker than any
thing else it is for the offense of
crowding a citizen walking across
the street. * Hlssessseseiaisn
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY.,
UN And Reds Continue Buffer
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FRANK A. WOODS
« « - To Give Demonstration
Radio Miracles
Demonstrafion
Set Tomorrow
Some of the miracles of radio
micro-waves will be demonstrat
ed in Athens, Monday, August 20.
Frank A. Woods, on the staff of
the Georgia Manager, of the
Southern Bell Telephone Com-~
pany, will conduct the fascinating
lecture-demonstration program to
be presented to the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce at 7 p. m.
Widely Used S
Micro-waves are now being
used in many parts of the nation
to transmit long distance telephone
calls and network television pro
grams.
A development of the Bell Tel
ephone Laboratories, micro-waves
are the same type of radio waves
used in radar during the war. In
the transmission of television and
long distance telephone calls, mi~
cro-waves are beamed aerially
along a route of radio towers,
spaced approximately 25 miles
apart. Although network tele
vision is transmitted to the south
by coaxial cable, radio relay is
widely used in other parts of the
nation where it is more adapta
ble.
Mr. Woods, who will bring an
interesting set of demonstration
equipment from Atlanta for the
occasion, will also illustrate some
of the peculiaw qualities of micro
waves. In addition, he will dis
cuss other developments. of the
Bell Laboratories which are the
results of the Telephone Com
pany’s continuing research pro
gram to further improve service.
Houseparty Sef
For Aug. 20-1
Plans for the annual DeMolay
houseparty have recently been
completed by the committee in
charge of that event and the mem
bers of the organization and their
dates are looking forward to a suc~
cessful and enjoyable time at scen
ic Athens “Y” Camp.
According to officers of the
Frank Hardeman DeMolays there
are twenty couples from Athens
that are planning to leave Mon
day for the several days’ stay in
the mountains. The houseparty is
one of the annual social events
that is greatly looked forward to
by the chapter members.
Highlights of the houseparty are
the gorge hike through Talullah
Falls Gorge, the moonlight hike,
swimming and boating in the “Y”
camp lake, and the trip to the boat
house on beautiful Lake Rabun.
Many amusements and recreation
al activities are being planned for
the enjoyment of all of those who
attend the houseparty.
The tentative schedule for the
activities sets 3:30 Monday after
noon as the first activity meeting
of the houseparty group. A softball
game has been planned for that
time.
Included on the chaperone list
for the houseparty which is to last
from Monday through Wednesday
are: Mr. and Mrs, Jimmy Lay,
“Dad” and Mrs, Weaver Bridges,
and Mr. and Mrs. O. M, Spears.
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Price are also
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and .continued
hot Sunday.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy.
with little change in tempera
ture Sunday.
TEMPERATURE
T e SRR |
TOWRSE. iiv ciinisere noeil
MBI 1104 soes sess sovs 40088
MO s s brin pventl
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since August 1 .. ... .23
Deficit since August 1 .., .. 2.72
Average August rainfall ... 4.62
Total since January 1 .. ..30.04
. Deticit sinee January:l- ... 490
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, AUCUST 19, 1951,
Yilustrations
Third Talk Set
BY DON HUTH
MUNSAN, Korea, Sunday,
Aug. 19. — (AP) — United
Nations and Communist ne
gotiators studied military
maps spread over a small
Korean tea table Saturday
in an effort to solve the
problem of a cease-fire buf
fer zone.
Muffled words and occas
ional laughter drifting
through the hot, muggy air
from the Kaesong confer
ence room indicated that the
four-man armistice subcom
mittee had met again in a
gpirit of friendly informal
ity.
There was no official report on
the second session of the buffer
zone delegates, whose deliberations
are closely guarded secrets. The
meeting lasted three hours and 28
minutes.
A third session was scheduled
for 11 a. m., today (8 p. m,, E. S.
T., Saturday)—again at Kaesong,
15 miles northwest of this U, N.
base camp,
U. N. Statement On Buffer Zone
In Munsan, the U. N. command
released a statement re-defining
the Allied position on a buffer
zone. It was a summary of points
raised by Vice Adm. C. Turner
Joy, chief of the main five-mem
ber U. N. armistice delegation, at
one of the fulldress truce talks.
Joy firmly rejected the Red de
mand for a military dividing line
along parallel 38—the old political
boundary—and added:
“International law specifically
defines an armistice as a tempor
ary suspension of hostilities, and
just as*specifically points out that
hostilities may be resumed by
ether side if proper prior notici
cation is given. It can be seen that
it would definitely be foolhearty,
and perhaps disastrous, for either
commander to expose his forces
along a political demarcation line
rather than to place them in a
sound militarily defensible posi~
tion where they can protect them
selves in the unfortunate event
hostilities should be resumed.”
Joy demanded a cease-fire
“based on military realities”—
along the present battlefront. Most
of the frontline is in North Korea.
The Peiping radio 'quoted North
Korean Premier Kim Il Sung as
warning:
“If the American aggressors
venture to break up the armistice
talks at Kaesong and extend the
war, they will not only be an
nihilated on the ground but will
ago»be dealt heavy blows in the
air.
The broadcast—official voice of
Red China—said Kim made the
threat in a speech at Pyongyang,
the Korean Communist capital,
last Wednesday—sixth anniversary
of the liberation of Korea from
Japan.
U. N. Eighth Army Lauded
Top Allied commanders have
pronounced the U. N. Eighth Army
as the world’s finest fighting team,
ready for any eventuality,
Gen. James A, Van Fleet, com
mander of the Eighth, said Tues
day his force would “clobber”—
badly maul—the Reds if fullscale
fighting were resumed.
The Allied truce delegates have
reminded the Reds repeatedly that
U. N. forces are vitually unchal
lenged on the sea and in the air.
While the buffer zone subcom
mittee met Saturday, liaison of
ficers from both sides huddled to
iron out problems in guaranteeing
the neutrality of the Kaesong area.
The liaison groups slated another
meeting for Monday.
On the Allied subcommittee,
Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie of the U.
S. Air Force replaced Rear Adm.
?,tleigh Burke, Maj. Gen, Henry
. Hodes, Eighth Army Deputy
Chief of Staff, is the other member.
The Red delegates are Chinese
Maj. Gen, Hsieh Fang and Korean
Maj. Gen. Lee Song Cho.
Grid Practice
To Begin Monday
Athens High School’s initial fall
football practice session will get
underway tomorrow afternoon at
the practice field off Hancock
avenue. According to head coach
Earl Wheby, the grid prospects
will draw their uniforms on Mon~
day and he urges all boys who
are eligible to come out for the
practice at 2 p. m.
The Trojans will play a stiff ten
game schedule with Druid Hills
and Roosevelt of Atlanta, Lanier
of Macon, and Andrew Jackson of
Jacksonville, Fla., supplying op
position heretofore unencountered
by the Athens 5:1(1318:‘!. An add
ed feature of the Trojan football
program this year will be the
forming of a frosh eleven for ninth
grade boys. The Jayvees - will
play a game with the strong David
Miller junior high squad of Ashe
ville, N. C. in Asheville on Sep-
Morse Terms GOP Report
On MacArthur As Baised
HARLLEE BRANCH, JR.
. « «» Institute Speaker
Edifors To Hear
Harllee Branch,
Power President
Harllee Branch, jr., president of
the Georgia Power Company, will
be one of the featured speakers at
the fifth annual industrial Edi
tors’ Institute at the University of
Georgia Nov, 8-10.
Announcement of the Power
Company head as an Institute
speaker is made jointly by Ed
Gambrell, Bradley and Sons, At
lanta, Institute chairman, and
Dean John E. Drewry of the Hen
ry Grady School of Journalism.
Co-Sponsors
The Institute, attracting editors
of industrial publications through
out the Southeast, is sponsored by
the Southern Industrial Editors
Association and the Grady School.
Branch will be one of a num=
ber of prominent Southern busi
nessmen who will address the edi
tors during their three-day meet.
Branch was named president of
the Georgia Power Company last
January after having served for a
year and a half as vice president
and general manager,
Lawyer
Before joining the power com
pany he was a member of the law
firm of MacDougald, Troutman,
Sams, and Branch, general counsel
for the company.
A native Atlantan, Branch is a
graduate of Davidson College and
the law school at Emory Universi
ty. He has served as an instruc
tor in law at that institution as
well as at the University of Geor
gia Evening College and the At
lanta Law School.
Long interested in public wel
fare activities, Mr. Branch is a
trustee of the Greater Atlanta
Community Chest and was gen
eral chairman of its 1950 fund
raising campaign. He is a direc
tor of the Atlanta Chapier of the
American Red Cross and co-chair
man of its Blood Bank Speakers
Bureau, vice president of the At
lanta Crime Prevention Commis~
sion and a director of the Y. M.
C. A. Council of Georgia and of
.llunior Achievement of Georgia,
ne.
Branch is the second Institute
speaker to be announced, The
other is Milton E. Mumblow, di
rector of employee publications of
the General Motors Corporation.
Other speakers will be announced
later.
Home Building Here Is
Permitted By Rulings
..Home building can continue in
Athens without interruption as a
result of recent rulings by defense
agencieg in Washington, according
to John P. Bondurant, local lum
ber and building materials dealer
and member of the Public Affairs
Committee of the National Retail
Lumber Dealers Association.
“The new regulations insure a
minimum but adequate supply of
critical materials for use in new
heousing, although it will be dif
ficult to build large homes after
Seiptember 80,” Mr., Bondurant
said.
“Builders will be obliged to
economize greatly on steel and
copper and no aluminum can be
used, except for certain fabricated
Kouse parts, but quality homeg of
moderate size can be constructed
‘without difficulty by using lumber
“and other plentiful materials in
place of the critical metals.
" «If kitchens and bathrooms are
Read Daily by?S.OOOfio‘ploiln Athens Trade Area
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.— (AP)—Senator Morse =
Ore.) today accused fellow Republican senators of “highly
biased and partisan” criticism of the firing of General
Douglas MacArthur.
Morse directed his attack at a report on the MacArthur
issue, to be released tomorrow, signed by eight GOP sena
tors.
One of the eight, Senator Wiley
of Wisconsin, promptly retorted:
The report will speak for itself.
I don’t th.nk it's as biased as Sen~
ator Morse.”
Wiley insisted in an interview
there was an “historic interval”
during which United Nations
forces could have followed Mac-
Arthur’s proposals and won all
of Korea, leaving that entire coun=-
try free and united.
Beating eight GOP colleagues to
the gun, Morse issued a statement
asserting that President Truman
not only was justified in firing
MacArthur but would have been
“derelict in his duty” if he had not
relieved the Pacific Commander.
Eight colleagues, headed by
Senator Bridges (fi.-N.H.), have
signed a report on the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign Re
lations Committees inquiry into
the ouster.. The report condemns
the methods used by the President
in discharging MacArthur and
criticizes the administration’s Far
Eastern policies. The group with
held release of their report until
tomorrow.
Morse said that MacArthur in
speeches since his recall, “clearly
convicted himself of having been
so out of sympathy with the mil
itary and foreign policy of his
government that any President of
the United States, be he Democrat
or Republican, would have been
derelict In his duty had he not re
moved such a commander from
the field.”
Wesleyan Guild
Sponsors "Cue
Tickets are selling rapidly for
the big barbecue to be given at
Oconee Street Methodist Church
Wednesday, August 22, and 6 to
8 p. m.
Giving the ’cue is the Wesleyan
Service Guild of the church and
while tickets will still be on sale
Tuesday, a check will be made
Monday night in order to begin
making final preparations for ac
comodating the i_x_x_dica‘ted number.
*Cue Tickets
It is not planned to sell tickets
at the site of the ’cue in order to
make certain that all who buy
tickets in advance will be taken
care of and that there will be no
shortage of any of the items on
:he menu, which will be as fol
ows:
Barbecued ?ork and lamb, bar
becue hash, platters of potato sal
ad, cole slaw, pickles, iced tea and
pies baked by the ladies of the
church.
Tickets are selling at $1.50 for
adults and seventy-five cents for
children and you eat as much of
the delicious barbecue as you de
sire. In charge of cooking the
'‘cue will be Charlie Bridges,
known as one of the best in this
section.
Haste Urged
In addition to having tickets for
sale at Warren J. Smith’s, Hor
ton’s Drug Store and Gunn’s
Men’s Store, they may be pur
chased from any member of the
Wesleyan Service Guild, either in
person or by telephone. Officers
of the Guild are Mrs. C. S. Den
ney, president; Mrs. Carlton
James, vice-president; Mrs. W. J.
(Bill) Evans, recording secretary,
and Mrs. F. C. Thompson, treas
urer.
Better be smiart and get those
tickets Monday while they last!
placed near each other in one part
of the house, the government’s
steel and copper allowances
should be ample. In addition, the
number of electrical outlets will
have to be held to a minimum
to come within the copper wire
restrictions.
“Through a self-certifying pro
cedure, builders and contractors
will be permitted to obtain allot
ments of steel and copper without
having to apply for special per
mits, thus eliminating the delays
which would arise if priority ap
plications had to be filed.
“Prior to October 1, homes of
any size can be started, regardless
of the amount of metals required,
but no priority assistance will be
available to help get those mater
dals until after September 30, and
only minimum amounts can be
obtained then through the self
‘uoment pmceWF-". FEUYPRETANR
HOME
EDITION ™
Commerce Dept.
WASHINGTON, Aug 18—(AP)
—American averaged an income
of $1,436 for each man, woman
and child in 1950, the Commerce
Department reported today. This
was a gain of sll6, or 9 per cent,
over 1949 and was the highest dol
lar total in history.
The nine percent rise in average
income outstripped the 6.5 percent
advance in the cost of living re
corded by the bureau of labor
statistics for 1950, but a rise in
the tax burden cut down the net
gain.
Tax Average
The burden of federal, state and
local taxes averaged $360 during
the 12 months ended June 30, 1950,
lastest period for which officiak
data is available. The rate boosts
made it heavier for calendar 1950.
The Commerce Department said
average incomes ranged from
$698 in Mississippi to $1,909 in
Delaware and $1,986 in the Dis
trict of Columbia, stronghold of the
federal government. :
Near the bottom were Arkanufi
$825; South Carolina $B3l, an
Alabama SB3B. Near the top were
Nevada $1,875; New York $1,864,
and Connecticut $1,766.
The total flow on income to in=
dividuals over the nation was a
record $217,000,000,000,000. That
was a gain of 11 percent over 1949,
The increase in the average ine
come was less because of the gain
in the population.
Taking the aggregate of ine
dividual incomes of their resid
ents, the largest increases during
1950 were registered by Montana
(23 percent), Nebraska and South
Dakota (18 percent each), North
percent each), and Delaware,
Florida and Mississippl (15 per
cent each.) %
Regional Gains
By regions, the largest relative
gains were scored by the agricule
tural northwest and southeast, 14
and 12 percent, respectively, The
central and far west regions mat
ched the national average with an
11 percent rise. New England and
the middle east scored a ten per
cent gain. 'The southwest, top
gainer of 1949, had the smallest
gain in 1950, eight percent.
The average income for states
in 1950, besides those previously
shown, included:
Florida $1,210; Georgia $969;
Leuisiana $1,045; North Carolina
;9515;8 Tennessee $962; Virginia
1,158.
Brooks Services
Funeral services for Austin C.
Brooks, 28, who died unexpect
edly at his residence om Pound
avenue Saturday afternoem, will
ibe conducted from Bernstein's
Funeral Chapel tomorrow after
noon at 8:30 o‘clock, Rev. A. E.
Logan officiating.
Interment will follow in Kidd
Cemetery, Bernstein Funeral
Home in charge of all arrange
ments.
Surviving Mr. Brooks are his
wife, Mrs. Thelma Lester Brooks;
three daughters, Rita Jean , Laura
Evelyn and Barbara Allen Brooks,
all of Athens; parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. S. Brooks, Colbert; four
sisters, Mys. Garnett MecCurley,
and Misses Lola Mae, Rebecca and
}Erances Brooks, nIL of Colbert;
one brother, Carlton Brooks, Col
bert; and grandmother, Mrs. Tom
Brooks, Athens.
A native of Madison county
Georgia, Mr. Brooks had resideti
in Athens for the past 25 years.
News of his death was a source
of sadness to his many friends.
Jekyll Island
Scene Of Movie
BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. 18 —
(AP)—A major Hollywod full
length motion picture is to be
made on either Jekyll Island or
Sapelo Island starting in” October
for Paramount. ;
The film will be photographed
in technicolor and will ml{lfli |
Payne, Arlene Dahl, and ;
Fleming. Members of the Bruns
wick Little Theatre will be used -
for some supporting roles. ]