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Vol. CXIX, No. 243,
| ocal Jehovah's
Vitnesses Will
| ttend Meefing
approximately 25 delegates from
Athens and vicinity will attend
the semi-annual circuit assembly
of Jehovah’s Witnesses to be held
at {he County Hall in Charleston,
g (. this weekend, it was an
pounced today. More than 500
Jelesates from 25 congregations
in South Carolina and Georgia are
expected to attend.
Jchovah’s Witnesses are a so
cety of ministers devoted to the
¢udv of the Bible and teaching it
{o others. Their work is non-sec
tarian, and they welcome the pub
lic to attend the sessions of their
convention.
The- program Wwill consist of
practical demonstrations and in
ctructions on how Christians
chould live and how to teach oth
es the Bible. The speakers will
ctress the need for mere home Bi
ble study among persons of all be-
Jiet=, and then endeavoring to live
up to the Lible's high principles in
their ¢~ lives,
“iree-Day Session
\iore than 20 different minis
sers will have a part on the three
qav program, Approximately 300
<uch semi-annual ecircuit assem
plics are held throughout the
United States yearly for the pur
poce of furhtering the work of
preaching the Gospel, and creating
more interest in the Bible in these
critical times.
Their convention will open at
7 v. m. Friday at the County Hall
with a variety program giving
practical suggestions on how to
study the Bible privately at home,
as well as how to teach it to
others.
At 9 a. m. Saturday morning at
the County Hall the program will
besin with suggestions on how to
discuss the Bible with others, after
which the iWtnesses will call from
house to house upon residents of
Charleston and vicinity with a
friendly invitation for persons of
2!l heliefs to her the public talk
Sunday.
The main event of their conven
tion will be the public Bible dis
course at 3 p. m. Sunday, to be de
livered at the County Hall. The
subject, “Security in a Troubled
world,”* will be delivered by G.
D. Miller, graduate of the Watch
tower School of Gilead, South
Lansing, N. Y.
Increase Cited |
During the past few years Je
-1 ’s Witnesses have shown a
phenomenal growth. There are
now more than 135,000 active wit
nesses in the United States. Their
work is now carried on in 115
countries and islands by more
than 425,000 active workers, So
rapidly is the organization grow
ing that since 1900 the Witnesses
have multiplied by 6983 percent.
The most recent convention was
held in Washington, D. C., Octo
ber 12-14, overflowing Griffith
Stadium with 57,500, This cli
maxed a series of conventions in
the major world’ capitols,
Jehovah's Witnesses are non
sectarian, and they carry on their
Bible study activity among all
people. They believe that if all
persons studied their Bibles more
and followed its teachings closer
there would be no more wars or
trouble of any kind, and this world
would be much better and safer in
which to live, They believe that
the “Battle of Armageddon” will
soon destroy all wickedness frorm
the earth, and that Christ Jesus
will then establish a new govern
ment of peace and restore the
earth to paradise.
tdifors To Hear
ilbert L. Furth
Albert L. Furth, executive edi
tor of Fortune Magazine, will be
In Athens November 9 to address
the fifth annual Industrial Edi
tors” Institute at the University of
Georgia,
The three-day conference which
ns November 8 is expected to
diract editors and employees of
trial publications throughout
tie Southeast. Sponsors of the
teling are the Southern Indus
"ol Editors Association and the
v W. Grady School of Jour-
Furth is one of a dozen promi
nent editors and writers who will
dutress the Institute. His address
1§ sheduled for 12:05 p. n.
A typographical variety show
Wil be given by a well-known
Atlanta typographer at the Insti
tule that afternoon. Richard N.
Arthur, president and treasurer of
¢ Higgins-MecArthur Company
Ob Atlanta and a lecturer on ty~
Pocraphy at Emory University,
Wil present the show.
, VlcArthur is an expert on type
(4% and advertising layouts. He
“%0 owns an extensive collection
‘!f.' e books and type specimens,
0t United States and foreign,
fich will be on display through-
Out the day,
Furth will pe introduced at the
Institute by 1, George Harris of
the Atlanta Bureau of Time, Life,
“nd Fortune,
Furth has been om the editorial
;}d” of Fortuae since 1936 and
w‘(’)_"‘fl' years has served as its
].au,utl\’l editor. Previously he
7.0 been an associate editor of
m‘"‘e magazine, and a reporter on
lnii New York Evening #’mfl,
~ the Oakland, Calif., Tribune.
m‘-' is a fuduntc of the Univer
v of Calitornia,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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L TR
For all of the people who have
not as yet gotten out to the fair
grounds on Sunset Drive to the
Athens Agricultural Fair which is
even bigger and better than ever
this year, here are a few of the
highlights of the fair.
Despite rain which hampered
attendance a little, Fair officials
report record large turn-outs with
last year’s attendance already sur
passed. F.H. Williams, Fair Com
missioner, reported that since the
rain interrupted and spoiled the
white school childrens’ day Sat
urday would again be observed as
School Day.
During the hours between one
and six school children will be
admitted to the grounds free and
will be able to ride all rides for
only nine cents.
Last night the first of two tele
vision sets was given away at a
special drawing. The drawing took
place at 10 o’clock and the TV set
went to Ellis Garrett of 1560 S.
Lumpkin. Mr. Garrett attended
the drawing with his three little
daughters who were “thrilled to
death over daddy’s winning.”
Exhibit Winners
Among those entrants in the
various exhibits at the Athens
Agricultural Fair this week who
carried home honors and prize
money for their efforts were five
youngsters who entered their hob
bies in the Civitan Youth Hobby
Exhibit.
The hokby exhibit is located
centrally in the Community
Building and is composed of a
multitude of displays of hobby
projects by boys and girls under
sixteen years of age. First prize
was awarded to Bobby Marbut for
his model of Mount Vernon, home
of George Washington, while sec~
ond place went te young David
Robinson for his house of buitons.
Third place winner was Rhett
Tanner who entered several mo
del airplanes. A battery propelled
boat model won fourth place for
Allen Johnson while a large paint
ing of a dog was the fifth place
winner and was entered by Mac
Arnold.
Impartial judges deliberated at
length before choosing the five
winners from the twenty-five en
tries, Chairman of the Hobby Ex
hibit was Jule P. Gaines who was
assisted by Jack R. Brown and
John Powers.
Bingo Play
Athenians and many other of
‘the attendants at’ ffié"%fiéfib“fig’
Fair have been playing Bingo each
evening at the Exchange Club
booth in the front-center of the
fairgsrounds. Prizes are given
Forget -Me - Not Day
Set Here Tomorrow
Savannah To Be
Host To Rosary
The Annual District Conference
of the 241st District of Rotary In
ternational will be held April
20th, 21st and 22nd at the Gen
eral Oglethorpe Hotel in Savan
nah.
Selection of Savannah for this
year’s Rotary Conference was re
vealed today in a joint announce
ment by M. Monroe Kimbrel, Dis
trict Governor, and Harben Dan
jel, President 6f the Rotary Club
of Savaunah, which will be host
to the convention.
Coincident with this announce
ment, it was revealed that Joseph
A. Mendel, a Past-President of the
Savannah Rotary Club, has been
appointed as General Conference
Chairman, and that Porter Cars
well of Waynesboro, Ga, Past
District Governor of Rotary Inter
national, has been appointed Pro
gram Chairman for the confer
ence.
It is expected that more than
600 delegates and their wives
from the 34 Rotary Clubs in the
‘94lst District will attend the
‘three-day conference in Savan
‘nah.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy or fair and
continued mild today, tonight
and Saturday. Low tonight 56;
high tomorrow 75. Sun sets to
day 546 and rises tomorrow
6:48.
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GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and mild this afternoon, tonight
and Saturday.
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EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for Geor
gia tonight through Wednesday:
Temperatures will average six
to eight degrees above normal.
A slow rising trend over the
week-end and cooler Tuesday
night or Wednesday. No rainfall
up to Tuesday but light showers
of a fourth of an inch or less
jate Tuesday.
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TEMPERATURE
Highest .... .... «: - .
TOWERY ... sroe are e
WORE . voo woins caud wors sOB
Normal .... .... s aon T
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .-« .00
Total since Oclober e
Deficit since October §
Average October rainfall .. 3.96
Total since January 1 .. ~32.85
Deficit since January .. B 0
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
away on each game of bingo and
the folks seem to love it. The
prizes themselves vary from lamps
to big dolls.
Proceeds of the Bingo booth will
be devoted to the expansion of the
local club’s sponsorship of young
boys at Boy's State in Brunswick,
it was announced today. At the
present time Athens Exchange
Club supports two brothers at
Boys’ State and plans have been
under way for some time to ex
pand this support program by
“adopting” other boys, an ex
change club official avers.
Near the Exchange Club booth
is one of the Eastern Star .booths
which dispenses excellent food to
the hungry patrons of the fair.
There are two OES booths in op
eration at the Fair this year —
one supported by the Athens and
one by the Salonia Chapter. For
that tasty bite to eat at the fair, a
great number of fairgoers have
been stopping at one or both of
the Eastern Star booths.
Library Exhibit
A portion of the American heri-~
tage of history has been re-created
by members of the staff of the
Athens Regional Library in their
exhibit at the Fair. Some of the
highlights of that exhibit include
—Daniel Boone scouting the wil
derness, the founding fathers gath
ering around the conference table,
and Columbus sailing the ocean
blue.
All of the scenes which are de
picted by the Library staff were
taken from the great storehouse of
American books and can be seen
at the commercial tent of the fair.
Also in the Commercial tent and
quite near the library exhibit is
the interesting exhibit prepared
by the Georgia Bible Institute.
Those who have viewed the ex
hibit have been impressed by sev
eral of the fascinating features
which it has.
The Bible Institute space has
been arranged in such a way as to
make the showing of educational
movies possible.
On Saturday afternoon and
evening a delegation of students
from Bob Jones University are
coming to Athens and will be at
the Fair to present a musical pro
gram including trombone, trum
pet, and accordion selections
Still on display at the Commu
nity Building are the seven win
ning exhibits as well as the wo
men’s and girl's divisions.
““Flower- arrangements. anfl .dis-.
plays which are seen by everyone
going into the Community Build
ing are sponsored each day by
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Tomorrow ig Forget-Me-Not |
Day.
It is the day proclaimed by
Mayor Jack R. Wells when mem
bers of the Disabled American
Veterans and volunteer workers
representing the Joe Brown Con
ally Chapter No. 2 will sell blue
flowers of remembrance in be
half of the wartime handicapped.
‘With the slogan “Now is the
Time When Gratitude Means
So_mething,” the workers will
raise funds which are to be used
during the coming year in behalf
of disabled veterans and their de
pendents.
“Every cent contributed in the
campaign will be used right in|
ti#s community,” said Comman
der Courtney Spratlin. “Every
cent will be used in welfare work
for disabled veterans and their |
tamilies. . .
Aid Often Asked |
“Our chapter is repeatedlyl
called upon to aid the disabled
veteran. Some may be in need
because of temporary financial
distress in not having been suc
cessful in receiving benefits which l
he might ultimately receive from |
his government.
~ “We must be prepared also to
‘meet other emergencies which
‘arise when the veteran is part
ially disabled and, although he
receives a small compensation
award from the government, is
taken seriously ill and is unable
to continue his employment.”
. Commander Spratlin said the
iDAV maintains a free service to
' all veteans in their efforts to ob
tain adequate compensation and
| pension. It assists in the proper
' presentation of claims for ‘govern
'ment benefits and aids in job and
' hospital problems.
|~ Mayor Wells’ Proclamation reads
' as follows:
| Proclamation
| “WHERAS, It is the moral duty
| of everyone of us to feel gratitude
' for those men and women who
returned to civilian life in our
community with wartime injuries
' and handicaps; and
| “WHEREAS, There not infre
zquently comes into the lives of
| these persons periods of want and
| temporary financial distress, many
| times because disabled veterans
have not yet had their iovem
-Iment benefits approved by the
| Veterans Administration, or be=
| cause partial disablement or ill
| ness bars them from fulltime em
| ployment; and
| ¥ “WHEREAS, The Disabled Am~
|erican Veterans, chartered by
| Congress as the official voice of
lthc nation’s wartime disabled, is
|to be eommended for providix‘as
welfare assistance to disabl
‘veteranl and their families; free
services in assisting veterans in
their clalms, employment and hos
pital problems, and has further
ledged itself to protect cxhtln{
Beneflu and obtain additiong
neodcg penefits for the disabled
defenders of the American way
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ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1951.
BRITISH ELECTION
Victory Clinched
For Churchill's
Conservafives
LONDON, Oct. 26—(AP)—Late
returns from the British national
election clinched the victory of
Winston Churchill and his Con
servatives over the Socialist gov
ernment today.
With 29 of the nation’s 625 elec
tion districts to be heard from,
the Conservatives held 308 seats
in the House of Commons. Sev
eral of the districts still out were
impregnable Conservative strong
holds, insuring Churchill of vic
tory. At this point Labor had 282
seats, the Liberals four, others two.
This means Churchill will be
the next prime minister of Britain,
ending the Socialist regime of
Prime Minister Clement Attlee,
which began six years and two
months ago.
Attlee and his government had
staggered along since the naticnal
election of February, 1950, with a
Commons majority of only six
over all other parties.
Apparently the new Conserva
tive government would be in little
better shape, The British elec
torate had no more laid down a
mandate for Churchill and Con
servatism this time than they did
for Attlee and Socialism in 1950.
The nation thus had shown it
self to be still cracked right down
the middle between state control
and a greater measure of free en
terprise. Pl o U
Churchill
Churchill, just turning 77, rode
back toward the prime minister
ship of Great Britain today on a
tory tide which overtook the early
Labor lead shortly after the half
way mark in the counting of votes
in yesterday's general election.
A tory party spokesman said
that as soon as Churchill is de
clared the winner, he will go to
-Bufkingham Palace tonight to
receive the King’s request to form
a new government, ;
The early Labor margin from
the cities, which had put Prime
Minister Clement Attlee’s Labor
ites 30 seats ahead at the close of
counting last night was not enough
to offset the heavy Conservative
advantage in the rural areas, bas
tions of Tory strength,
' Labor Gloom
‘ The Tories crept up steadily
' throughout the day as the “down
| country” ~count poured in, and
W‘ 75 "L" d ¥
quarters, Lon‘g"%%@a‘i‘e”fie %onm«-
,vatives*oiiertook the Labor vote,
Attlee’s party appeared to have
!resigned itself to changing places
with the Tories and starting out in
the new Parliament as “His Maj
esty’s loyal opposition.”
Churchill was winning despite a
vigorous Labor campaign which
had been capped by frequent op
position charges that the World
War II coalition Prime Minister
was more likely than Attlee to
lead the country into a new world
‘, confiict.
| For a time good voting weather
' keyed up Labor hopes, but at the
close of counting last night, the
mass circulation Daily Mirror,
most widely read of the pro-Labor
newspapers, gloomily conceded
that “bar miracles, it's a Tory vie
tory.”
The trend that began to show
up in the first-day counting be
came more and more marked as
districts began tallying their votes
early today. It appeared that
about two-thirds of the Liberals
were supporting Tories in districts
where the Liberal party had no
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Loning Heari
In compliance with the request
of chairman of the Special Zoning
Committee, Mayor Jack R. Wells
has vetoed the resolution calling
for a public hearing on October
29, 1951, to allow the necessary
time for advertisement so as to
comply with the state law, it was
announced today.
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CHURCHILL, ATTLEE — Winston Churchill (left),
Jeader of Britain’s Conservative Party (winners of the
election), and Clement Attlee (right), present Prime
Minister of Great Britain and leader of the Labor Party,
met for the second time in the polls since World War 11,
a tight Tory-Labor battle resulting and Churchill win
ning out.
UN Planes Blast Red Jets;
Red Buffer Lone Rejected
Commies Want
15-Mile U. N.
Withdrawal
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 26.
— (AP) —The Allies today
quickly rejected a Commu
nist buffer zone proposal
that the U. N, give up such
bitterly won Korean areas
as Heartbreak Ridge . . .
Plunchbowl « « o Iron Trian
gle.
_The Reds wanted the
Uplted Nations forces to
wx.thdraw as much as 15
miles. Their proposal coun
tered yesterday’'s U. N. sug
gestion for a buffer 2zone
zenerally along present bat
le lines.
Maj, Gen. Henry I. Hodes told
the Reds their proposal bore “no
relationship to the military line
of contact and did not offer truce
protections.”
The Red offer and U. N. rejec
tion came at the second meeting
of subcommittees trying to agree
on a cease-fire line. The meetings
are held in Panmunjom.
Red Proposal
Under the Red proposal, they
would keep Kaesong, former site
of truce talks two miles south
of the 38th parallel. They would
withdraw from part of Ongjin
peninsula on the west coast, an
area the Allies describe as mili--
tary unimportant. |
~ The subcommittees meet again‘
at 11 a. m. Saturday (9 p. m., Fri
day, EST). |
It appeared the two delegations
were entering a period of horse
trading. |
But the U. N. spokesman, Brig.
Gen. William P. Nuckols, dis~
counted the idea there would be
any large-scale bargaining.
; “Waiwl,lnot,mg:flmm
ply to be trading,” Nuckols said.
“Military considerations and the |
security of United Nations troops |
will be the sole governing factor
in any minor refinements or modi
fications of our specific proposal
of yesterday.”
He said the Communist offer was |
“the first departure from thel
Hitherto adamant stand (by the
Reds) on the 38th paraliel and on- |
ly the 38th parallel.” f‘
Truce talks bogged down at Kae- |
song 65 days ago because the Reds |
insisted on a demarcation line
straddling the old political boun
dary between North and South
Korea. E
UN Suggestion i
The U. N.-proposed line is vir- |
tually all north of 38. The Allies
offer to withdraw from about 200
square miles of territery in the
east, |
All of Friday’s meeting was tak- |
en up with the Communistl
proposal and a brief discussion.
Nuckols implied that the Red
proposal still had some politlcall
considerations behind it. But hel
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PROPOSES COMPROMISE BUFFER ZONE — Shaded
line is the buffer zone across the Korean peninsula pro
posed by the United Nations in a give-and-take compro
mise. The line, which criss-crosses the current battleline
(heavy black line) calls on the Allies to yield about 200
square miles of North Korea in the east, and for the Reds
to give up a similar area in the west. The buffer zone
would be about 214 miles wide, running from the mouth
of the Yesong river in west Korea to 1114 miles south
east of Kosong on the Korean east coast. It follows gen
erally the present battle lines.— (AP Wirephoto Map.)
Early Decision By lke
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—(AP)—Senator Murray (D.-
Mont.) said today General Dwight D. Eisenhower had bet
ter make up his mind fast if he wants the Republican presi
dential nemination. :
Otherwise, Murray predicted to a reporter, Senator
Robert A, Taft of Dhio will walk away with the GOP prize.
Murray’s comment came after
President Truman told a White
House news conference iesterday
he thinks the New York Herald
Tribune certainly picked a fine
man in editorially supporting
Eisenhower as a candidate for the
Republician nomination.
In other political developments:
Other Developments
1. Taft backers arranged to open
national headquarters here today
in charge of Victor A. Johnston,
once a supporter of Harold E.
Stassen and sometime Republican
“shadow” of the President in the
1950 whistle stop tour.
Johnston turned up along the
route of Mr. Truman’s €ross-coun
try speaking tour in early May,
1950. He said he was checking |
audience reactions, and on several
occasions made comments on
them. The Truman party dubbed
him “the shadow.” |
2. Mr. Truman divulged he has
n't yet- picked a man from a list
of about 30 being considered to
succeed William M. Boyle, jr., re
signing Democratic National
Chairman.
3. The President spoke out
against a reported plan of Wis
consin Democratis to invade the
Republican Prlmary in that state
in an effort to defeat Senator
Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis). He
believes in the two party system
and the Democrats should vote
in their own primary. Mr. Truman
said, R 4 o
f 4, Tom Coleman, a member of
‘Taft's campaign strategy board,
told reporters he doubts Eisen
‘hower can be represented in the
April 1 Wisconsin primary unless
the general consents publicy to
become a candidate.
Truman Views
Mr. Truman indicated pretty
clearly, as he has done before, that
he doesn’t regard Eisenhower as a
Democratic Presidential possibility.
Reminded that Jake Arvey,
Tllinois National Committeeman,
had commented favorably on the
Herald Tribune endorsement of
Eisenhower, the President said
Jake was in the same frame of
mind in 1948. Arvey supported
Eisenhower for the Democratic
Nomination that year but backed
‘Mr. Truman when the General
wasn’t available.
Mr. Truman staved off questions
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LIQUOR LEADER FOUND
John R. (Fat) Hardy, former l
convict, was found in a Pied- |
mont Hospital bed, was placed
under arrest, and chargcd with
manslaughter in connection with |
the wave of poison-liquor deaths !
in Atlanta, Ga. Since Sunday, |
October 21, 264 persons have '
been admitted to or treated at |
hospitals as the result of wide- |
spread consumption of a known
28 gallons of bootleg whiskey.
31 have died. Hardy was injur- |
ed in an auto wreck near Ath- |
ens early this week, and it was |
through local police officers that |
Atlanta police learned of his
whereabouts.— (AP Pheto.)
Hardy "Mixed
Poison Liquor
ATLANTA, Oct. 26 —(AP)— A
former copvict charged with mur
der in the death of 31 persons who
died here after drinking poisoned
liquor was identified last night as
a mixer of deadly moonshine.
Solicitor Paul Webb of Fulton
county said a North Georgia farm
er told him he saw John R, (Fat)
Hardy blend wood alcohol and
well water at an abandoned farm
house about 25 miles northeast of
Atlanta.
The brew was made a few days
before a wave of moonshine li
quor deaths began sweeping At
lanta, Webb said the farmer re
lated,
Webb said the farmer—>s2-year
old Luke Turner—told him last
night that Hardy was aided by an
unidentified negro in mixing the
deadly stuff,
A few hours earlier the solicitor
had filed murder charges against
Hardy, a 360-pounder.
The huge one-time convict ad
mitted he had peddled 99 gallons
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BY MILO FARNETI ¢
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY
{EADQUARTERS, Korea,
Jet. 26— (AP)—Allied jet
silots today shot down two
Russian made MIGs and
damaged three others in the
sixth straight day of aerial
dog-fights over Korea. On
the ground U, N. infantry
men advanced in hand te
hand combat. -
The Navy reported a U. 8.
eruiser and destroyer were
hit last week by Red shore
fire and one man was killed
and giz wounded.
The Fifth Air Force said all its
jets returned safely from three
separate air battles in which 68
Allied planes tangled with 121
MIGs.
All told, U. N, fighters sighted
between 150 and 160 jets in MIG
alley over northwest Korea and
near the North Korean capital of
gygngyang. But some of the Reds
ed, X
United Nations infantrymen at
tacked against stiffening resist
ance Northwest of Yonchon in the
West and in the area southeast
of Kumsong on the central front,
an Eighth Army communique said,
It was quiet on the eastern front,
Attacking Allies
Attacking units threw Commun
ist defenders off high ground in
minor gains in both the west and
center.
The two enemy MIGs were shot
down in a five minute battle in
the Sinanju area Friday afternoon.
Twenty-eight F-86 sabre jets took
on 80 MIGS in the scrap that
;\%réed from 38,000 feet down to
~ Three enemy jets were damaged
.in a noon battle between 24 F-84
!thunderjetl and 18 MIGs. The
' Reds were engaged when they
jumped fighter-bombers return
ing from a rail cutting mission,
Thig fight thundered as far south
at Pyongyang.
Sixteen Sabre Jets tangled with
25 MIGs for 30 minutes in the
day’s longest battle. But neither
side inflicted #any damage, the Air
Force said.
The Fifth Air Force said its
Korean war kill of MIGS now
stands at 98 with 20 probables
and 227 damaged.
. In Tokyo, Far East Naval head
quarters announced two American
washrips suffered battle damage
from Red shore batteries but beth
remained at their stations.
~ Destroyer Hit
The destroyer escort Ulvert M.
Moore was hit by one shell Oct.
17 off Hung;‘am of the Korean
east coast. e man was killed
and two injured. The heavy crui
ser Helena’s superstructure was
hit Oct. 22 and four erew mem
bers were wounded superficially.
In the air Thursday, Allied
fighters and bombers dealt a
smashing blow to Communist rail
transport.
The Fifth Air Force said a new
record 36 locomotives and 289 rail
cars were destroyed or damaged
in a series of raids centered in the
northwest. The old mark wag 20
locomotives and 272 rail cars de
stroyed or damaged Sept. 19.
In new ground fighting north
west of Younchon, the Eighth
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Elk Official
Visits Ath
J. Campbell Jones, of Macon,
Ga., the District Deputy, Grand
Exalted Ruler of the gouthentern
Division of the B. P. O. E., made
his official visit to the Athens
Lodge 790 on Thursday evening.
Mr. Jones witnessed the instal
lation of nine candidates (this
group is to be know as the J.
Campbell Jones Class in honor of
Mr. Jones) and in his address to
the members he was high in his
praise of the B. P. O. g., which
was organized on February 186,
1896, and today has over one mil
lion and sixty-thousand members
with fifteen hundred and eighty
nine lodges located in every state,
Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico, Canal
Zone and in the Philippines.
While the Elks are known for
their good fellowship, their phi
lanthropic activities have made
the name Elk outstanding. The
charity goal for the last year was
over seven million dollars, which
was spent on this activity, which
is widely diversified and partly
meets every human need. An out
standing example in this state was
the establishment of the Aidmore
Crippled Children’s Hospital, At
lanta, Ga., which was founded
some fourteen years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Camgt:rell Jones
and daughter, Mrs. Robert Train,
the former Jerry Jones, made their
home in Athens from 1938 te 1943
on Milledge Circle. ,
Mr. Jones comphmented mt
Classic City, the fine climate, the
fine people, and fine new lodge
home which i located on Seouth
Milledge. <