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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON {-INCH MIDDLING .. .... 2%4e Vol, CXIX, No. 303, Maxim Lifvinoff axim LIVINoit, Friend Of West rie esl, By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Jan. 2—(AP)—An of ticial foreign office announcement dicclosed today the death of Vaxim Maximovich Litvinoff, who kevnoted his collective security yolicy as Soviet Foreign Commis & with the often-quoted declara tion, “Peace is indivisible,” He vay 15 Litvinoff died Dec. 31 and fu neral arrangements were complete when his death was announced today. His body lay in state in a Foreign Ministry conference hall where friends and colleagues passed by to pay their respects. The-funeral was scheduled this afternoon. Pravda, organ of the Central Committee of the Communist par tv. on which Litvinoff had been a member, called him an “Old Bol ghevik and outstanding Soviet dip lomat.” Pravda's obituary notice was eirht paragraphs long. It was nrinted on the back page. g V. S. Recognition The plump, fatherly - looking liplomat won United States rorognition for Bolshevist Russia ~1 fought without success for llective force to prevent World var 11. He was a wartime am b-srador to Washington. T.itvinoff was Foreign Commis et from 1930 to 1939 and had been acting head of the Foreign Minis trv for two years before he took over formal title to it. But his fortunes rose and fell vwith the Kremlin’s feelings about tho Western Democracies, and he was completely eclipsed after he was fired in the reduced rank of Deputy Foreign Minister on Aug. 923, 1946. His fall from office foreshadowed the cold war, for of all Soviet officials he was re carded as the one who truly want ed to get along with the West. News of his death was withheld for two days—for no stated reason. The Tass Agency account said only: *The newspapers carry a report from the U. S. S. R. Min istry of Foreign Affairs announc ing the death of Maxim Litvinoff, former Peoples Commissar of For eign Affairs of the U. S. S. R. who died Dec. 31, 1951, after a prolonged illness.” The nature of his illness was not described, Litvinoff long suf fered from a weak heart condi tion and an ailing stomach. | No Praise Neither was there any praise in the announcement for an old time Bolshevik revolutionary and exile who spent almost his whole life working for establishment and recognition of the Soviet Union. Litvinoff won fame at world councils in the 1920 s and 19305. He often embarrassed other diplo mats by putting startling proposals into short, plain words, stripped ¢f their diplomatic striped-pants type of verbosity. He coined the phrase “peace is indivisible” in a moving League of Nations speech arguing for sanctions against Mussolini’s at tack on Ethiopia. He negotiated U. S. recognition of Russia with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, and said he believed it might guarantee peace. Was Dismissed Litvinoff was dismissed, sur prisingly and suddenly, from his post as Foreign Minister on May 3, 1939. Vyacheslav M. Molotov took over. Litvinoff then was in the midst of negotiations with Bri tain and France for a mutual se curity pact. Two days before his dismissal he had mounted Lenin’s tomb in Red Square with other Soviet bigwigs for the annual May Day celebration. ~ The reason for his sudden sack- Ing was not discerned until three months later, with the announce ment of the Soviet-German pact. Litvinoff had fallen afoul of a sharp change in Kremlin policy. He returned to prestige in No vember, 1941, when he was ap pointed Russian ambassador to the United States. He came during congressional debates over modi fving the neutrality act to allow shipment of war goods to Russia and Britain. Rut. Moscow suddenly recalled ‘ m in '‘August, 1943, after the “'ucbec Conference between Pres -loent Roosevelt and Prime Min is'er Winston Churchill produced 1o pledge of an immediate second tront in Europe. His recall was widely interpre ted as a slap at the United States _ failing to produce the second 't and a crackdown on Litvi £ lfor failing to promote it CKly, r‘s ';? " 3 Killed In R ll a - ™ o . 7liday Mishaps By The Associated Press More than 1,350 persons lost ieir lives in the United States in violent accidents during the New ttars and Christmas holiday. The New Year’s holiday death ol was 571, compared to the rec ( 789 total for the four-day Lhrisimas holiday. ~_lraffic accidents during the two big holiday week-ends caused dbout 900 deaths, including 366 over the New Year's holiday. The National Safety Council had esti ated 350 persons would be killed 1 motor mishaps during the four day heliday, Nearly 200 persons perished in fires, including 68 from 6 p. m. Friday to last midnight (local time), The week<end s urvey. also showed 187 m&lﬂqd in mis cellaneous mishaps as compared (Continueq On Page Two) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service (" 3 P o ~ o Rt . sl ) e PR . A 2‘\* ’;\ﬁ« R ; - Y e U B "‘;,,n i SR R S ; e S ! L L L el ¥ ' o T s eSN e T BAT R TR N LLT TR Nk, bil S B .(R PR ﬁ%\\ R »“‘\ Gi ‘ G v W 3 W B B Bl g s e . e » Le L SRR LR | ',‘ dar o MRS ; e S ’f‘“ o N b >\} N3§ P % R A a’i B R 33“‘ - S L sy A o PN ' Tty ogt L e RO ol PR TR RIRP (e PR ReS TR bki 3 : Ly ot e RDY B T IR O -SR £ i ; R ) oRR TR N 1 4 . Ao M. - R P ﬁfé TR UeISN B sy 4"é sT R ifﬁr; Wl SR P RRS ERE R R A EnY, T, N M o S . 08l e w** . ; ,‘~ }j ¥ ol 7, o 8 S ¥ Lo 6& &y TR EReTT | A : RTN I 1 T CHREE ot S TR PR sl RLk ¥ e e L ‘jﬂu ~"_’;; e (Wt z*,‘»‘s{ &gé i L ‘rg T _‘*‘&-‘g 3£s3 § o \{g SR q: * % i R“, e of ¥ e 3 oot o & :,'* i % §‘ . w 1 B g '( 3 £ .-;;’\' gRI *?: Ly ﬁ& i3@ 3¢.B;"3Qh Pk% 5 L ¢ B o ®& AN TReR M o 4 LI 8 : 3 d R ~é ‘,. i g N,y oER LY. KSB W , sqpb I ‘”“':;4l\;‘;._:‘. — R S G e S R 1 RSeN;3*TI s y » 3 g 3 { J eke \ sl W* + B ’s; Téﬁ { ¢iPvR $ : 4 B £ : b T x«@“’&‘fg.* R T »2 7i el 5 § !’ %.v ? i # ‘;ﬁ» § & o g o;- \ ‘i«.“’; i‘ ™qu J;"v‘ ! e ~.;:;;;.:" \ % 5 % X S _;‘ W 75 s N 2 " SRI % VN * Zi 3 ¢ 3 ¥ w §~: % :255.::577‘21 3 e;%i‘ £# )\ ‘yv. »t&, MY O S »‘: £ ; ;5‘ Y g e _.;j‘ff' by MERE : R £ 3 o S v o P L R R AR 3 S | O " " ..’,::r:“.u % e 3 o B; )‘ N " ‘{ (:".‘ ¥:‘Ngßk % ; 5 i o ? ) .8v ' k - s e f CUeplhpath - S n ik = P M ¥ 3 3 *)« e ! f ‘ ~ | WINTER WONDERLAND — A thick blanket of snow covers this cabin in the high Sierra Mountains in California. A violent snow storm closed highways, tied up railroads and stranded skiiers. This scene is on the California side of Califor Motorists Straggle Homeward As Far Western Roads Are Re-Opened c . » A. P. Winston was elected chair man of the Clarke County Board of Commissioners at that body’s January meeting yesterday. Other members of the commission are Harry Elder and James H. Towns. Also elected were Homer K. Nicholson, clerk to the commission and County Engineer; Mrs. Janie Trousdale, commission secretary. All present county employes, in cluding county policemen, were re-elected to serve for 1952, George Farmer, who was on leave of absence from the county police to serve in the Army, has returned to his post. The beer tax and the wine and beer licenses will remain the same as last year and a tax of three cents a bottle will be placed on wine sometime during January, it was announced. It was brought out that the grand jury for the October term of Clarke Superior Court request ed something be done concerning the parking situation in the rear of the Courthouse. The commissioners have re quested the county police to make a survey of people parking their cars in the area in order that an intelligent study may be made to correct the existing situation. At present, it was brought out, people not parking in the lot on official business, are blocking cars of county police and other county officials. Arlington Rites For Mrs. Powers Mrs. Robert Boyd Powers, sis ter of Mrs. H. E. Mann of this city and widow of the late Col. Robert Boyd Powers, died in a local hos pital Tuesday night at 6 o’clock. Services will be conducted Fri day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, with a United States Army Chaplain officiating. Bridges Funeral Home is in charge of ar rangements, Mrs. Powers ‘was a native of Owensboro, Ky., and resided in Washington, D. C., until two years ago when she came to Athens to make her home with her sister and brother-in-law, Col. and Mrs. H, E. Mann, at 196 Hampton Court. Mrs. Powers was 79 years old and had been ill for the past sev eral weeks. She was a member of the Meth odist Church and during her resi dence here had made a Jarge num ber of friends who are saddened by her death. US ASKS UN AID PARIS, Jan. 2— (AP) —The United States called on all the United Nations today to “share the burden and sacrifice” of the Ko rean war. American Delegate Benjamin Cohen told the 60-nation Political Committee of the General Assem bly “we must all hope and pray” that an armistice will be reached soon. He warned that in case it is not, the U. N. military effort must be increased to beat down the Communist aggressors. Cohen spoke in support of the collective measurez ,g;ogrgm which would 3.\*&; the U. N. more power to fight aggression any where it breaks out, nia-Nevada line, about 7,150 feet above sea level, 170 miles east of San Francisco. Picture was made by Photographer J. F. Mecßride of the Oakland Tribune who was spending the week-end in the area.— (AP Wirephoto.) SALT LAKE CITY, Jan, 2. (AP)—Hundreds of stranded mo torists and skiers straggled home today as road crews gained in their three-day fight to open snow-blocked highways. The trek started late on New Year’s Day when a narrow one way passage was shoved through slide-blocked Daniels Canyon on U. S. Highway 40. That enabled crews to convoy through 150 autos which had been held in the eastern Utah towns of Duchesne, Roosevelt and Vernal since Saturday. U.’S. 40 is a main highWway link between Salt Lake City and Den ver, and the only lifeline to the Uintah Basin in eastern Utah, The State Highway Patrol also reported somre trucks carrying milk, bread and other supplies were escorted east, relieving threatened shortages in the snow locked Uintah Basin towns, 1,000 Marooned Estimates placed the number of marooned motorists in the towns as high as 1,000, They occupied all hotel and motel facilities and some sought lodging with resi dents. Also freed were several hun dred skiers marooned at Alta and Brighton in the rugged Wasatch Mountains near- Salt Lake City. Elsewhere in the mountainous west, an undetermined number of persons, including women and children, were at a road camp on the west side of 10,850-foot Wolf Creek Pass on the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado. They were isolated when a 1,000~ foot snowslide blocked U. S. 160 on the east side of the Pass Sun day night. The slide hit a truck gmd two men were reported miss ing. In California, traffic moved again over Donner Pass on U. S. Highway 40 between Reno, Nev.,, and Sacramento. Hundreds of sports fans had spent New Year’s in resorts when the highway was closed. Roads Cleared Joe DiMaggio, his 10-year-old son and his former wife, Dorothy Arnold, were among 70 persons stranded at Mount Rose, Nev., since Saturday. Highway crews cleared the road to the resort Monday but the DiMaggios stayed for the New Year's Eve celebra tion. They were taken to Reno yesterday and planned to drive to Los Angeles when his snow fouled Cadillac is dried out. Buses took out 125 teen-agers from Lake Tahoe where they had been marooned since Saturday. They had attended a Presbyterian conference.’ A. B. Madsen, district road su pervisor, measured 36 inches of snow in Duchesne and up to 48 inches in surrounding benchlands. He said deer on Avintinquin Pla teau, southwest of Duchesne, were buried as they stool on level ground. The loss of livestock in the re mote areas could not be ascer tained. Weather forecasters said no more storms were expected today, but they predicted continued be low-normal cold. . | Grand Jury Will Meet Monday AM ‘ Grand Jury for the October term of Clarke Superior Court has requested Judge Henry H. West to convene that body next Mon day morning at ten o’clock. Judge West, in compliance with the request, has called the grand jury into session at that time. The Grand Jury, at the last reg ular term, made certain recom mendations to the Board of Coun ty .Commissioners and it has re guested Judge Yest to reconvene in order to heatr what progress has been made In darrying out its recommendations. . SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY. ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1952, BT TrLe LI 5w |§ INcOME (g TAX : COMPUTED I . HERE P Sl /’ o i > 8 EAsy Va 4 N cH s D — The good old days were those when Uncle Sam lived within his income---and without most - of ours! ® NEA State Port Pays For ltself In Two Years Operation The Georgia State Ports Au thority has grossed approximately $1,250,000.00 during the past two and one-half years, thusly more than paying for itself. On December 15, 1948 Governor Herman Talmadge acquired the old Savannah Quartermaster De pot from the War Assets Adminis tration for SBOB,IOO. In March, 1949 the property was deeded to the Georgia Ports Authority. Earnings from the warehouse facilities operated by the Authori ty were such that it was possible to sell $5,500,000.00 worth of rev enue certificates with which to build modern dock facilities on the’ Savannah River frontage of this property. It is estimated that these facilities will be completed in November, 1952. Of the 2,000,000 square feet of warehouse space on the property approximately 1,200,000 feet is un der lease. Approximately 300,000 more square feet will be leased in the near future, leaving about the same amount to be used in kand ling eommodities of all types in storage. A promotional campaign has been directed to Georgia farmers, urging them to utilize the port’s facilities to the fullest degree for storing cotton, tobacco, peanuts, fertilizer, grain, etc. It is believed that this storage arrangement will help alleviate seasonal shortages of commodities vital te Georgia | farmers. j Traffic Lights Are Installed City Engineer J. G. Beacham reported today that “No Parking” signs have been placed on the right side of Milledge avenue from Prince avenue to Five Points. No person will be allowed to park an automobile on that side of the street at any time. “There is an exception to the rule at the Lucy Cobb Dormitory,” he continued, “Persons may park their car only in front of Lucy Cobb on that side of the street.” A partial shipment of “No Park ing” signs have been erected, but when the other signs are delivered, they will be erected, according to Mr. Beacham. Traffic lights on Baxter Street and Milledge Avenue, Jackson street and Washington street, and Jackson street and Hancock ave nue have been installed for the safety of citizens and visitors. A traffic light has been ordered for Broad street and Holman avenue and will be put up when it is de livered. The other three traffic lights are supposed 'to be turned on today, Mr. Beacham said. UN Trucemen Set Six-Point Plan To Release Prisoners Immediate Red Reaction To UN Proposal Reported Unfavorable MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 2.— (AP)—Allied truce negotia tors presented a six point plan today for releasing all pris oners of war and repatriating civilians in Korea. The plan starts out on a man-for-man basis and winds up as an all-for-all exchange, said Lt. Colonel Howard S. Levie, spokesman for the United Nations command. AF C-41 Found; r Believed Dead By JACK STEVENSON PHOENIX, Ariz.,, Jan. 2—(AP) Mounted on sure-footed cow po -nies, a rescue team will climb the face of a central Arizona mountain today to reach the wreckage of an Air Force C-4T7 plane and the bodies of its 28 passengers. »'The twin-engine plane smashed into the face of Armer mountain, 65 miles northeast of Phoenix, during a storm Sunday. Aboard were 19 West Point cadets, a crew of four and five other passengers. Aerial searchers sighted the shattered and burning plane yes terday afternoon. The ground party faced a cold and difficult task in ascending the 7,000-foot mountain. Rock and ice slides kept them from going up last night. And bringing down the bodies is expected to be even more difficult. Only one man has been to the crash scene. He is Arnold John son, 50-year-old foreman of the Jack Shoe Cattle Co., who made the ascent yesterday after viewing the wreckage through his field glasses, No Survivors Johnson said he -couldn't tell how many bodies there were, but iner¢ was nothing to show that there were any survivors. “The plane was in small pieces,” Johnson reported at the ground party’s base camp. “I didn't even see the engine.” Only the tail structure remained intact. “Some of the bodies were in two groups,” Johnson said. “Oth ers were scattered. I have never seen anything like it. It was aw- AL ~ The base camp is about five 'miles from the wreckage. ~ The C-47 crashed while flying ‘from Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif., to Goodfellow Air Force lßase, Texas. The cadets, return ing to the U. S. Military Academy ‘at West Point, N. Y. after spending Christmas vacation with their families in northern California, had hitch-hiked a ride on the ill fated plane. WAF Aboard One woman was aboard. She was WAF Sgt. Jeane Garafalo, 20, of Plainsfield, N. J.: bound for home on a surprise visit. : - Among others aboard the plane was 2nd Lt. George Ahlgren, a member of the University of Cali fornia crew thati»won the 1948 Olympics in London. Another passenger was Guy L. McNeil, jr.,, a West Point cadet whose father is Fourth Air Force inspector, The elder McNeil, a colonel, said he originally had planned to make the trip and pilot the plane but changed his mind. Sons of several othér high rank ing officers also were on the pass enger list. They included: Pfc. Robert L. Baseler, jr., son of Lt. Col. R. L. Baseler, director of operations of the 78th Fighter- Interceptor Wing. Cadet Robert W. Berry, jr., son of Brig. Gen. Robert W. Berry, commander of the Western Army Anti-Afrcraft Command. Cadet Noel S. Perrin of Palo | Alto, Calif., son of the late Brig.! Gen. Edwin Perrin, World War II officer. 1 Another cadet was Francis C.| Camilli. His uncle, Dolph Camil- | li, is a former Chicago Cubs and | Brooklyn Dodgers baseball star, } Bullefin WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.— (AP)—President Truman today announced plans for a sweeping shake-up of the scandal-ridden Internal Revenue Bureau. ATHENS AND VICINITY Mostly fair and continued warm today, tonight and Thurs day. Low tonight 55; high to morrow 72. Sun sets today 5:34 and rises tomorrow 7:39. GEORGIA—MostIy fair and continued warm today, tonight and Thursday except for some light rain and slightly lower temperatures in extreme north portion tonight and Thursday. TEMPERATURE TG . o ini i e iid® NOWOME -06 i wwon 0 BN S ooy ivnnind i dnnniniik B PRI s v e RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .., .. .00 Total since January 1 .. .. .00 Deficit since January 1 ..: .25 Average January rainfall .. 4.84 BY DON HUTH The Communists took one look at the proposal and then said in effect, “It stinks,” reported Rear Adm. R. E, Libby, Allied negotia tor. Libby expressed hope North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho, Red negotiator, would change his mind after he studies the complex plan and understands it. The proposal is intended to pro vide a compromise between the U, N. man-for-man exchange of pris oners proposal and the Reds all for-all demend, and at the same time provide for repatriation of all civilians who want to go home. Meet Tonight The negotiators on the prisoner question meet again at 11 a. m. Thursday (9 p. m. Wednesday EST). So will a second subcom= mittee on supervising a Korean truce which hung up again on whether the Reds may rebuild their air fields during an armis-‘ tice. A U. N. command communique said the key to its new proposal is the principle of voluntary repatri ~ation for all POWs and civilians.” Lee said the plan contained things “we politically cannot agree to.” He did not amplify. In Tokyo, Col. George Patrick Welch, official spokesman for Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s headquar ters, summed up the U. N. plan like this: “In principle, we are proposing an exchange of everyone who wants to be exchanged.” Anyone who did not want to be repatriated would not be sent back against his will, The Internation ‘al Red Cross would act as a super vising agent. ° » ; Levie said the exchange of pris oners would start on a man for man basis to make sure the U, N. would get back its full quota of prisoners of war. “When we have finished ex changing all prisoners of war left on either side,” Levie said, “then we will get to the point where we don’t count heads.” Actual Setup Here is how it would work: 1. Prisoners of war who want to be exchanged would be on a one-for-one basis. The U. N. holds about 120,000 prisoners to 11,000 held by the Reds. But all South Koreans now in Communist armies would be reclassified as prisoners of war, swelling the Communist held total. 2. When one side ran out of POWs the exchange would be con tinued: one POW for one civilian who wanted to be repatriated. Foreign civilians would come first. POWs released in this exchange would have to promise never to fight again against the side re leasing them. 3. Prisoners of war who do not want to be exchanged would be released, but must promise not to fight in the Korean war again. 4. After all POWs had been ex changed or released, all remaining civilians who wished it would be repatriated. " Interviews 8. The International Red Cross would interview all POWs at the exchange point to determine whether they did or did not want to be repatriated; the Red Cross would also talk to all civilians, 6. The nationality of civilians would be determined by which side of the 38th parallel he lived in when the war started. Levie laid great emphasis on freedom of choice of the individual as to whether he wanted to wind up on the Communist side of the line or the Republican side. Libby emphasized that the U. N. wanted the Reds to reclassify as prisoners of war: (1) former South Korean troops the Reds said they “re-educated and released at the front” and later appeared in the Red Army, (2) South Korean de serters who joined the Red Army, (3) South Koreans conscripted by the Reds. These could very well be amﬂ?‘ng the points Lee said the Commu nists could not accept politically. Libby also demanded an ac counting from the Reds of 345 more U. N. troops, believed to be prisoners. In the other subcommittee ses sion, both sides said the next move is up to the other fellow. BUS COLLISION DYERSBURG, Tenn., Jan. 2.— (AP)—Nineteen persons were in jured, only one believed seriously, in the collision of two Greyhound buses early today on rain-slick Highway 51 just outside the city limits, City Policeman Marvin Middle ton said most seriously injured was G. F. (Red) Wilkerson, about 35, of Memphis, who was trapped in the wreckage of his bus for an hour and a half. Deputy Sheriff John Cribbs said Wilkerson was driving an express which plowed into the rear of a local which had stopped to let out a passenger. Both buses were ~smixghbound, *traveling in a misty rain, Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area { . B TR S ; ; et 40 ; ‘G R : i N v i p T o wIRRETE S . & Y ; B . PR %\” ; o S ! W R W L B 0 o ;' Wi . | o AR Ry 3 ¢ % f » S £ S % & b g o - e } e e T . 3 3 N el iy gt 3 } 3. 11 R o k 1 { bR C OO § e o ! i) : 2. 90 L % Py LA P v e . 3 e LE O RN ' = £ p }g ';: S bAR o b L S § 8 : . 2 ‘3;?« ; AS34b = o SR B i ] & 1 G N RIS : e e S SR i ; 1 g ; B o . v L e o P G : e " v L i S R R £ owe SRR S SN e e L 7 30 5 s P ; @ i A SRR b o 3 o r M o D ’ PN L z’f‘ ST PR TR % Tn B G ST e (:7\” 0, ; R : it 5 A KOREAN PIG-A-BACK—A Korean Communist woman guerrilla prisoner of war is carried by another prisoner into the ROK Capital Division stockade. The woman, her feet badly frostbitten was unable to walk after being captured.—NEA Telephoto.) Athens’ 1952 Budget Unanimously Approved Meeting of Mayor and Council was held yvesterday at which time the 1952 city budget as proposed by Mayor Jack R. Wells was unanimously adopted, city officers elected in the December General Election were installed and the city liqense ordinance adopted. | In presenting his proposed bud get, Mayor Wells pointed out that it is stiputed the Mayor draft a budget and present it to Counecil for that body’s approval or dis approval. | In his budget address the Mayor pointed out that many were under the impression that under the Minimum Fountation for Educa tion program all schools problems v 2re solved. “But it has not worked out quite that way,” the Mayor said, point ing out that the city will still have to appropriate a sizeable sum from local city taxes to the general school program more than the city will receive from the state and that it will be necessary for the city to appropiate about three times as much for school buildings as it will receive from the state for school construction purposes. Concerning his proposed bud get, Mayor Wells told Council that the budget he had prepared can be financed by revenue antici pated at thig time. Voices Appreciation He voiced his appreciation to the citizens, to the Council, to de~ partment heads and to city em ployes for the cooperation extend ed him during the past year and said that cooperation, together with a program of strict economy will be necessary in the new year in order to live within the income. Mayor Wells said the city had lived within its income during the past year and attributed this state of well-being to the high degree of efficiency, and the use of mo dern business methods put into ef fect in the various departments. The Mayor said it was the aim of the city to have one of the best school system in the state and south and “we certainly should | have because since 1947 the schools have received an increase | of 62 per cent in appropriations | while the other departments have | received ' increased appropriations amounting to only 10 per cent.” All the departments have faced similar demands for expanded ser vices due te the increase in pop=- | | plation and he paid tribute to the departments which had been able | to provide such services while | receiving only the smaller pre- ‘ centage increase in appropriations. Cooperation, Economy In closing, he said, “While I real (Continued On Page Two) Why Buttons But No Suspenders? WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—(AP) —Rep. Norblad (R.-Ore.) asked the Army today why it puts sus pender buttons on uniforms and prohibits the wearing of suspen ders. The button complex, Norblad said, was called to his attention by an unidentified constituent who claimed it doesn’t make sense. The constituent said his son, an Arnmry man, told him about the buttons for and the ban against galluses. With an Army of around two million men, Norblad said, there are approximately 12 million sus pender buttons — six per pair of pants—going to waste. Norblad told newsmen he had called this to the attention of Army Segretar{ Pace in the hope that some small etonomy might be achieved. ; HOME EDITION [EId Services Graveside services will be con ducted Thursday affernoon at 4 o'clock in Oconee Hill Cemetery for Charles F, Elder, sr., who disd early Tuesday in an Orlando, Fla., hospital from injuries received Monday night in that city when his car was struck at a street in tersection by another automobile. Conducting the services will be Rev. Paul C. Howle, pastor of First Christian Church. Pall-bearers will be Tom Elder, sr., Ed Bishop, Al len H. Talmage, Harry Elder, An drew Jackson and Henry Marshall Fullilove. Bridges Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, Mr. Elder is survived by hie wife, Mrs. Mabel Irby Elder, Ath ens; daughter, Mrs. Kingsley Weatherly, Stone Mountain, Ga.: son, Dr. Charles F. Elder, jr., Ath fens; two sisters, Mrs. A. B. Cheney, Winter Haven, Fla., and ! Miss Laura Elder, Athens:; four -grandchildren, Kingsley Weather -Iy, jr., and Charles Weatherly, both of Stone Mountain, Charles F. Elder 111 and Joseph Wilson Elder, both of Athens. ; Native Athenian A native and lifelong resident of Athens, Mr. and Mrs. Elder re sided at 140 Greenwood Court. For many years he was connected with Talmadge Bros. Wholesale Com-~ pany and later with the Tennessee Grain Company, He was a member of one of the best known families in this section and was a member and a Trustee of First Christian Church. He de veted much of his time and re (Continued On Page Tww) | State Traffic Deaths Listed By The Associated Press Georgia came through the New Year’s holiday period with only four traffic deaths on record today as compared with 28 for the Christmas week-end. Three Georgians died in out of state wrecks. Auto collisions killed Redner D. Thompson of Atlanta near Tuscumbia, Ala., and Charles F. Elder, Athens, near Orlande, Fla. A truck on which Vinson A. Overstreet of Augusta was riding turned over and killed him at Jackson, O, ; Those killed in Georgia were: Troy Suggs, 85, victim of a hit and run driver on U. S. Highway 82 near Tifton, . Julia Atkins, 70, negro woman, who was struck by an automobile while walking along U. 8. High way 1T near Dublin, Mrs. J. E. Bagley, 77, of Route 1, Meadow, Ga., who met death in a collision of two automobikes™ on U. S. Highway 80 near States boro. g Curtis Childs, 27, of Athens, a passenier in an automobile that left the road and crashed into & garage grease rack at Jeifersonm,

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