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Couthern Critics
(f Fair Deal
By ERNEST B. VACCARO..
BULL SHOALS DAM, Ark. July
92 — (AP) — President Truman,
in a sharp reply to Southern cri
tics of his administration, declared
today “the New Deal and the Fair
Deal have done more for the
South” than any other administra
tions in history.
The President dedicated two
hvdro electric dams as “symbols
of the progress that has come to
the South” mnder his administra
tion, which he calls the ‘“Fair
Deal”, and that of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s “New Deal”,
Remember Progress
Truman asked his hearers to
keep this progress in mind in this
election year. He said:
“Remember these things in this
year when you see and hear the
storm of political propaganda that
will be put out to try and turn
back the clock.”
Truman omitted any direct ref
erence in his prepared speech to
the bitterly controversial civil
richt proposals which split the
Democratic party in 1948 and cost
him four Southern states in the
election that year.
Put he said the South’s “whole
economic and social pattern has
changed=—rapidly and permanently }
—or the better” and that this was
no accident. He added: |
“We took action to bring about
fair incomes and equality of op
portunity for everyone,
“We took action to put natural
vesources to work for the good of
all the people.”
Rumblings Of Revolt
As in 1948, there are again‘
rumblings this year of revolt in |
the South against the Democratic
leadership. This stems partly from
Truman’s repeated assertions that,
even though he isn’t running for
re-election, he will guarantee that
the whole “Fair Deal,” including
his civil rights proposals, will be
a part of this year’s Democratiic
plaiform,
Truman’s speech was reminis
cent of his “give ‘em hell” cam
paign of 1948, He ridiculed “pull
backs” and “reactionaries” and
ascailed the *“special interests.”
Among “special interests” he
named the private power compan
ies, the American Medical Associa
tion and the “real estate lobby.” He
declared they have adopted the
“lying slogan” of Socialism in
fi-hting every “Fair Deal” sugges-'
tion.
4 Special Interest Groups
Truman went on to say that
“special interests” fighting against
flood control and power develop
ment are teamed up with “special
interests” fighting price supports
for farmers, minimum wages for
workers and advances in housing,
health and education.
“They keep yapping about ‘So
cialism’ and a lot of other silly
slogans to try to stop every meas
ure for the good of the people,”
Truman said.
“Well, we have been fighting—
and Heking—that kind of opposi
tion far 20 years. And I don’t think
we are going to stop mow.
“My friends, I say to you that
the progressive policies of the last
20 years have been-the salvation
of this country. They have brought
us out of the depression. They have
enabled us to fight and win the
second World War. And they are
making up able now to be the
strong leaders of the fight for free
'umlda,gainst Communism in the
wor, .'
First Stop
From the platform of his special
train at Newport, Ark., last night,
the President told several hundred
persons; “This is the number one
whistle stop of 1952—there will be
a lot more of them.”
Here’'s a note to the parents of
Athens. Just around the corner is
the opening day for the Day Camp
out at Memorial Park. The Rec
reation Department urges you to
put a spark under your children
and get 'em ready to go. All you
have to do is call 797 and make a
reservation—it’'s as easy as that!
The camp program will start
next Monday, July 7, and continue
through the rest of the month. The
daily periods will last from 10:00
@ m. until 4:00 p. m. All the
voungsters have to bring is a little
dmner and the Recreation depart
ment will furnish the milk.
First and second grade girls at
tend the first week session; boys
in those same two grades go the
next (second) week; the third
week, 3rd and 4th grade girls;
and the final session, 3rd and 4th
grade boys.
A bus will stop at the East Ath
ens Baptist Church at about 9:{30
cach morning; from there it will
£0 to the Lyndon House, City Hall,
up Prince to the General Hos
pital, down Cobb street to Mill
edee avenue, and straight out Mil
ledge to the ParK. It will make
lops anywhere along the desig
nated route to pick up passengers.
The Day Camp activities will be
centered around nature study, with
Thomas Harvill and Elsa Parrott
as director and assistant director.
The program has been well plan
ned by the Recreation and Parks
Board to give the Woys and girls
maximum instruction and onjoy;
ment during their participation
the activities. .
There are still plenty of vacancies
and amFlo time to put in your
application go call the Recreation
office, Phone 797, and rcghter for
fun-filled week at Day Camp.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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TEXAS FLAG WAVES AMID GOP ARGUMENTS ;
James Stickter of Corpus Christi, camerss as it met to decide contests be-
Texas, waves the Lone Star State’s flag tween rival delegations. Stickter is GOP
amid confusion that prevailed at Chicago chairman in Neuches county, but is not a
as the Republican National Committee delegate. Part of TV camera crews can be
convened, then walked out on television seen in the balcony.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Council Hears Plans For Application
Of New School Plant Facilities Here
Senate Committee Says
Lattimore Is Communist
Four Americans
Are Arrested
By Berlin Reds
BERLIN July 2—(AP)—Com
munist police arrested four Am
erican tourists today and forced
them to cross into the Soviet oc
cupation zone. The U. S. Army de
manded their immediate release.
The four—three men and a wo
man—were taken into custody in
the area where the U. S. sector
of Berlin-touches the Soviet occu
pation zone. One of the men was
believed to be a chaplain. Their
names were not available.
Eyewitness Account
West German police and eye
witnesses gave this account:
The Americans were sightseeing
in Zehlendorf, a residential dis
trict in the Western sector of Ber=
lin.
The Americans had stopped
their car at the border and were
taking photographs. A Russian of
ficer and several East zone ‘“peo
ple’s police,” armed with carbines,
rushed up to the car.
The police entered the car and
forced it across the Prggs. The
Americans were held for about 20
minutes at the Soviet check point
on the border, then were taken to
the Scviet military post at nerby
Machnow.
Iron spikes in the road mark the
approach to the boundry between
the American sector of Berlin and
Germany’s Soviet zone. The Am
ericans drove past these spikes
and right up to the red and white
barrier pole at the Soviet check
point.
Unfamiliar With Situation
Their car had American license
plates. These are registered in
Western Germany and not in Ber
lin, This indicated the four were
visitors to the city and possibly
not familiar with the border situa
tion.
BANK STATEMENT ASKED
WASHINGTON, July 2.—(AP)
—The Comptroller of the Cur
rency today issued a call for a
statement cf the condition of all
national banks at the close of bus
iness Monday, June 30.
Vacation Bible School Is
Held For Negro Children
At the request of the workers
of Dorsey Tabernacle Baptist
Church, located in “Newtown,”
the Georgia Bible Institute, and
volunteer workers are conducting
a Daily Vacation Bible School this
week for the Negro children con
nected with the Tabernacle and in
that area.
The general directer of the
Bible School is Mrs. W. Truman
Logan. The school, which is in its
third vear ¢f operation, is doing &
commendable job of focusing the
children’s attention on the teach
ings of Christ. The school is staff
ed by a group of women who are
very interested in their work and
are giving the boys and girls many
useful projects to occupy their
time.
Other than Mrs. Logan, the
staff includes Mrs. Agnes C.
Mackey, Primery Depgment;
Report Reveals
False Testimony
WASHINGTON July 2—(AP)—
A Senate committee charged today
that Owen Lattimore has been “a
conscious articulate instrument of
the Soviet conspiracy” and recom
.mondga“ ~~.P°l'}l"‘W _ procecdings
‘against him and John P. Davies
jr., a state Department official.
A formal report of the Senate In
ternal Security Subcommittee said
both Lattimore and Davies had
testified falsely during its recently
concluded inquiry into the Insti
tute of Pacific Relations (IRP).
The subcommittee, under the
chairmanship of Sen. MeCarran
(-Nev.), spent more than a year
investigating the IPR in a search
for any Communist influence on
United States policy in the Far
East.
The IPR describes itself as a
private research organization for
study of the Pacific area.
Lattimore is a Johns Hopkins
University professor and a Far-
Eastern affairs specialist who has
served as an occasional consul
tant to the State Department. Da
vies, formerly on the State De
partment’s policy planning staff,
now is deputy political adviser to
U. S. occupation authorities in
West Germany.
The State Department briefly
suspended Davies last year pend
ing a loyalty and security inquiry.
It later announced he had been
cleared and restored his to active
duty.
Lattimore has never been the
subject of a similar inquiry by fthe
State Department since he is not
a government employee.
But Lattimore intestimony before
the subcommlittee, swore he never
had been a Comunist, a Commun
ist sympathizer or a Soviet agent.
He accused the senators of allow
ing “stacked” evidence to be used
against him and of contributing to
what he called hysteria whipped
up by the Nationalist China lob
by.
The report of the Internal Se
curity Subcommittee, in accusing
Lattimore and Davies of giving
false testimony, recommended that
the Justice Department submit to
a grand jury the question of
whether they had committed per
jury.
The subcommittee said that
throughout its hearing Lattimore’s
“connections and association with
the Communist international or
ganization” were shown to be pro
nounced.
Mrs. Gerald Waters, Junior De
partment; and Mrs. Ed Spinks,
Intermediate Department.
The school will close on Friday
at 11 o’clock, with a special pro
gram, in which the different de
partnmrents will have an opportu
nity to demonstrate the work that
has been carried on during the
week. One of the special features
of the program will be the sing
ing of the choruses being taught to
the whole school during the week
long activities. There will also be
a test showing the number of
scripture verses that have been
committed to memory.
The parents are invited and a
special section will be reserved for
them. The church extends a cor
dial invitation for all interested
persons to be present at the clos
“:fi program from 11 to 12 on
July 4th.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
i DrlmTe el SRRy VEURGIA UVER A GENIVAY
ATHENS, GA., WEBNESDAY, JULY 2, 1952,
Mayor Suggests
Women As Police
Mayor Jack R. Wells told City
Council at the regular July meet
ing of Masor and Council held in
City Hall last night that the Ath
ens Board of Educatior has re
ceived authorization to prepare
applications for new school plant
facilities to be constructed by the
State Building Authority with
capital outlay funds provided un
der the Minimum Foundation Law.
Included in the new schoel plant
facilities needed were: three addi
tional classrooms at Chase Street
School,la liurixtyte and ;omlg
assembly; a cafeteria-assemb t
th'iidé Strfet School; three ¢ldss
rooms and a library at Barrow; a
cafeteria - assembly at Oconee
Street; seven additional class
rooms at the new Athens High
School Building; the construection
of a new Negro Elementary School
of eighteen instructional units for
grades one through seven; the
construction of an Athens-Clarke
County Negro High School to
house approximately 550 pupils;
four additiocnal classrooms at West
Broad Elementary School. :
Mayor Wells continued: “At a
recent meeting of the Board of
Education a resolution was passed
asking the Mayor and Council to
give consideration to providing the
necessary funds for the following
work: adequate drives, sidewalks,
and landscaping at the new high
school plant; adequate drives,
sidewalks and landscaping at the
East Athens Elementary School.”
Council Committee
Mayor Wells further stated,
“Realizing the need to protect the
investment made by the Citizens
of Athens (considerably more than
one million dollars for new school
plant facilities in the past four
years), I refer this matter to the
Council, acting as a committee of
the whole, o meet with the Board
of Education in an attempt to find
some meaas of financing these
prqjfigtg.”
Also inciuded in action of Coun
cil at last night’s meeting was the
election by Council of city offi
cials nominated by the Mayor to
serve from July 1, 1952, through
July 1, 19562,
Present ot Council meeting were
Mayor Wells, Councilmen C. 8.
Denney, Luther Bond, O. M. Rob
erts, jr., Albert Wier, jr., Merritt
B. Pound, Walter N. Danner, Cur
tis Lovern, R. W. Phillips, John
Bondurant and Dick Thompson, .
Nominated by the Mayor and
unanimously elected by Council to
succeed themselves for the ensu
ing year were: City Engineer, J.
G. Beacham; Clerk and Treasurer,
A. G. Smith; Marshal, Doyle
Howell; and City Assessors, James
1. Aiken, Newman Corker and F.
H. Mendenhall,
The meeting, opened by prayer
by Dr. E. L. Hill, Chaplain of
Council, was one of the shortest of
the year, lasting only an hour.
Reading of minutes was - heard
and upon correction, the minutes
were approved. Correspondence
was received from the occupant of
850 Prince avenue requesting a
business license for the sale of
fruits and vegetables in the front
yard of that address, and from L.
M. Leathers requesting a S3O re
fund on his electrician’s license
since he neither sells nor plans to
sell electrical appliances. Both re
quests were referred to proper
committee for study and recom
mendation to Council.
Howell Erwin, jr., appeared be
fore Council representing Grandi
son Caskey, who said he is incon
venienced and put to considerable
expense by a storm water situation
on properly on Thomas street.
Mr. Caskey’s request for study and
correction of the situation was re
ferred to the streets and parks
committee,
Mayor Wells told the assembled
City Councilmen of conversations
which he held with the Police and
Fire Chiefs in regard to the prac
ticality and advisahility of put
(Continued On Page Three)
Governors Fear
Demo Walkout
On Civil Righfs
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
HOUSTON, Tex. July 2—(AP)w=
Southern governors looked cau=
tiously today on talk of a possible
party walkout against a Democra=
tic presidential nominee pledged
to complusory civil rights laws.
There was general silence on the
assertion by Gov. James F. Byrnes
of South Carolina that his state’s
eight electorial votes may swing to
the Republicans or a third-party
candidate in November. It de~
pends said Byrnes, on who the
Democratic choice is and what he
stands for.
Threaten Walkout
The former secretary of state
and Supreme Court justice yester
day also advocated “running or
walking out” in the event the De=
mocratic National Convention re
fused to seat contested conserva
tive delegates from Texas and
other Southern states.
Political affairs at the National
Governors Conference over-shade
owed the discussion of state prob
lems. .
Gov. Charles H. Russell of Ne=~
vada removed himself from the
uncommitted ranks and said he
will support Gen, Dwight D. Eis
enhower for the Republican presi
dential nomination.
Stevenson—Russell
Gov. Johnson Murray of Okla
homa, while declining comment on
Byrnes’ statement on a possible
Democratic bolt, said a Stevenson-
Russell ticket would go well in
Oklahoma for the presidential
nomination,
Byrnes is supporting Sen. Rich-~
ard Russell of Georgia. Indirectly,
he said Adlai Stevenson would be
unacceptable because the Illinois
governor advocated compulsory
civil rights legislation if the
states themselves failed to act.
Masonic Grouns
Plan Convention
Athens Masons and those in sur
roundingticounties have napped in:
very active program start
Thursday night. :
Mount Vernon Lodge will con
fer the Felloweraft Degree at
the Masonic Temple on Meigs
?Sltreet attul BMp. tm. E(;n thg& night,
WO Lud & er Raymond Year~
Saturday night at 7 o'clock the
Four-County Masonic Convention
will be held with the Bogart
Lodge. Counties in the convention
are Clarke, Madison, Jackson and
Oconee and it is expected that
some 100 or more members will
attend.
Thursday night of next week
Mount Vernon Lodge will hold a
regular business session and re
hearse conferring the Master’s
Degree. 4
On Saturday night, July 12,
Mount Vernon members will go
to Gainesville to confer the Mas
ter’s Degree for the lodge there.
Burke Services
Are Held Today
Mrs. Edna Mae Burke, a resident
of Mathis Apartments, died in a
local hospital this morning at 3 o’-
clock after an illness of several
“igeks. Mrs. Burke was 26 years
old.
Services were conducted this
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock from the
chapel of Jennings Funeral Home
in Rome, Ga., with Rev. Allen
Phillips, officiating. Burial will
follow in East View Cemetery,
Bernstein Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Mrs. Burke is survived by her
husband, Dan H. Burke; parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin D. Todd,
Sarah, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. O’
Nell Holliday, Atlanta, and Misses
Elsie Irene and Thelma Ruth
Todd, both of Sarah; two brothers,
Marion D. Todd, Atlanta, and
George Todd, Camp Gordon, Ga.;
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Gooch, Blue Ridge, Ga.
Mrs. Burke was.a native of Un
ion County, Ga., and taught school
in Rome, Commerce and Rock
mart, Ga. She and Mr. Burke had
taken up their residence here
while he was completing his
studies for his Masters Degree at
the University. During their stay
here they had made many friends
who deeply regretted to learn of
her death.
WEATHER
| ATHENS AND VICINITY
i Partly cloudy and cool today
| and tonight. Thursday, partly
i cloudy and a little warmer, Fri
day cutlook, partly cloudy and
mild. Low tonight 68, high to
| morrow 85. The sun sets this
| evening at 7:48 and rises tomoiv
i row at 5:26.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and cool this afternoon and to
| night; scmewhat lower temper
| atures in the southwest portion;
Thursday partly cloudy and
slightly warmer,
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| Total since January 1 .. . 26.72
) Deficit since January 1 ... .36
Taft Forces Bring Georgia's
17-Delegate Bloc In Contest
National Committee Rules Against
Admitting TV Coverage Of Fight
CHICAGD, July 2. — (AP) — Taft forces knocked 14
Georgia delegates from General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
voting strength today and put 17 of their own men into
nominating convention seats.
Texas Regulars
Favor Russell
As Demo Choice
AUSTIN, Tex. July 2 (AP) —‘
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sen.
Richard Russell (D-GA) look like ‘
the first-ballot favorites of Texas’
two rival delegations to the De-(
mocratic National Convention.
An Associated Press poll estab- ‘
lished Rayburn, Gov. Adlai Stev-‘
enson of Illinois and Sen. Estes Ke- |
fauver (D-Tenn) as the favorites
of the liberal or “Loyal Democrat”
delegates who responded.
Regular Choice
The competing conservative or
“regular” delegation headed by
Gov. Allan Shivers showed highest
regard for Russell, Shivers, and
then split toward Sen. Robert S.
Kerr (D-Okla), Stevenson, Ray
burn, Kefauver, Sen. Harry F.
Byrd (D-Va) and others as later
choices.
Actually it was more than a poll
of the big 52-vote delegation, sixth
largest headed for the floor of the
} Chicago convention July 21. It was
~a personal letter check of 124 in
| dividual district or delegates-at
large selected by two separate con
- ventions.
‘} Replies were received from de
legates representing 36 votes of the
conservative camp headed by Gov.
Shivers. From the liberal side,
whose chief strategist at Chicago
is expected to be former New
Deal Congressman Maury Mave
(Continued On Page Three)
Clarke Native
Dies Tuesday
News was received this morning
of the death in Jackson, Miss., last
night of Mrs. Ruth Tuck Franklin,
wife of Bisnop Marvin Franklin
of the Methodist Church, after a
lengthy illenss.
Mrs. Franklin was a native of
Clarke county and a member of
one of its most prominent fami
lies. She was the daughter of the
late William R. Tuck and is sur
vived by her husband, two sons,
Rev. Marvin Franklin, jr.,, Lin
coln, Neb.; Robert Franklin, Bir
mingham, Ala.; two daughters,
Mrs. W. W, Jeffries, Annapolis,
Md.; Mrs. L. L. Wade, Nashville,
Tenn.; a brother, J. R. Tuck, and
three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Morton,
Miss Lilla Tuck, and Mrs. Stella
Bedell, of Baltimore. Another bro
ther was thie late Claude Tuck,
Mrs. Franklin was raised in this
community and completed her ed
ucation at Georgia State College
for Women in Milledgeville. She
was married to Bishop Franklin in
1915 and they had been living in
Jackson since 1948.
Funeral services will be con
ducted in Jackson Thursday morn
ing at 10:30 o’clock and a grave
sife service and interment will be
in Birmingham, Ala, Friday
morning at the same hour.
The many friends of Mrs.
Franklin and her family were
greatly saddened by the news of
her death.
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LOTUS BLCC!:i3 FRCM ANCIENT SEEDT—XIeth Pol
hemus, plant pathologist of the National Capitol Parks
in Washington, measures a bloom on a lotus plant from
seeds that were tens of thousands of years old. The
seeds were found in geologic deposits in Manchuria two
vears ago and planted in a test tube. Tne pink blossom,
first from the plant, opened after a period of extreme
hot weather. It is six inches across.— (AP Wirephotbd.)
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade A%
This was by far the greatest
victory for Senator Robert A. Taft,
and the biggest defeat for Eisen
hower, in this week’s battle over
organization of next week’s nat
ional convention,
It established beyond any doubt
that Taft at the moment is run
ning the show — with five more
disputes between Taft and Eisen
hower delegates to come,
By a vote of 69 to 39, the Re
publican National Committee toss
ed out of the convention Georgia’s
self-described “regular” delega
tion which has been representing
the state siace 1944, and ordered a
solidly pro-Taft delegation seated
in its stead. |
Set the Pattern
The committee’s decision in the
Georgia contest’ could set a pat
tern for settling disputes in five
other states with 50 delegates at
stake,
In the vre-convention maneuv
erings which began here Monday,
the Taft forces have clearly es
tablished their control of the con
vention laachinery. Eisenhower
backers say grimly it will be a
different story when the conven
tion delegates themselves start
streaming into town.
- Taft led Eisenhower with 474
delegates to 410 as today’s con
itests started. That was based on
the Associated Press listing of
delegates pledged, instructed or
willing to express a preference, or
on candidate concessions. Needed
to win: 604.
Here's how the rival Georgia
delegations shaped up:
One is solid—would cast all of
Georgia’s 17 votes for Taft.
The other numbers 14 support
ers for Eisenhower, two for Taft,
one uncommitted to either.
Supposediy, only four of the 17
delegates are in question. The
National Conmittee tossed the
other 13 disputed yotes back to
the state for decision.
Court Ruling
But the head of the pro Taft
delegation, Roscoe Pickett, jr., told
a reporter he would try to get all
17 of his people sea.ed in view of
a Georgia Superior Court decision
last Monday ruling his organiza
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Bar Group Aids
Traffic Control
The full eooperation of the
Georgia Bar Association In miti
gating the high traffic accident
rate in Georgia was pledged here
this week by the association’s pre=
sident in an address at the Uni
versity of Georgia Law School.
President William Butt, in his
first address since taking office,
iold law students and faculty that
“traffic deaths are increasing by
leaps and bounds.”
The Blue Ridge attorney said
that a committee of the associa
tion would work with the Legis
lature in making every effort to
strengthen traffic laws. He further
the association’s cooperation with
all law enforcement agencies.
Law School Dean J. Alton
Hosch expressed pleasure that Mr.
#Butt's first address shouid be
made before Georgia law students,
since about ‘“one-third of the
members of the Georgia Bar Asso
ciation are University of Georgia
HOME
EDITION
Houston Tries
Plan To Prevent
Polio Paralysis
HOUSTON, July 2—(AP)—The
tiny children of a city plagued
with polio today lined up for an
experiment medical scientists WRe
lieve can prevent paralysis.
Half of 35,000 children im the
one to six age bracket were to re=
ceive an injection of gamma glo
bulin, a blood fraction containing
disease fighting anti-bodies. The
others will get a non-effective
stibstitute. 0
Expert Success
Dr, -William Hammon, Univer
sity of Pittsburgh professor who
is in charge of the experiment, be~
lieved the gamma globulin ean
prevent paralysis from polio and
expected this first mass experi=
ment with humans to prove it.
As the test began, Texas’ -
gest city was gripped by a
epidemic:fl63 hciity caselso9 six
deaths so far this year;
cases and four deaths, m
out-of-county cases and six deaths.
The State Health Department
said the 206 cases of polio reported
for the state as & whole last week
set a new record for one week,
The total for the state this year
was given as 1,123 cases, corcd
to 298 for the same period last
year and 948 for the prévious peak
year, 1950.
Prevents Paralysis
The University of Pittsburgh re
searchers who are conducting the
experiment here under the spon
sorship of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis emfidled
one point: gamma globu can't
prevent polio, but they expected
it to prevent paralysis.
Hammon said tests with mice
and monkeys had proven this con
clusively, but that a test on 5,768
children at Prove, Utah, last lreatr
'was not on a big enough seale to
tell whether it was effective on
humans.
Success of the experiment won’s
be known for months, probably
early in 1953. A team of experts
will remain until after the polio
season—in the fall—to check on
the inoculated children, - - 4
Comer Receives .
REA Assistance
The Rural Electrification Ade
ministration announced Tuesday
that the Danielsville and Come®
Telegraph Company of Comer had
been granted a supplemental loan
» of $89,000.
John Birchmore, owner of the
Danielsville and Comer Telephone
Company stated Tuesday aftere
noon that this company was the
first in Georgia and fifth in the
nation to be granted REA aid.
Mr. Birchmore disclosed that hig
company has entered into a $395,«
000 expansion program that wilk
affect all the towns in Madison
County and some towns in Ogle=
thorpe County.
The entire system is being cone
verted into a modern, fully au=
tomatic dial system,
The expansion program began
in March and is expected te be
completed by November, Already
new lines are being constructed
Mr. Birchmore says his company
will maintain dial exch in
Ila, Comer, Danielsville,mwn
and Colbert. The home office wilk
be maintained in Comer and the
exchanges will operate threugh
the Athens telephone office.
All the new lines will be ene
cased in ecables says Mr. Birch
more, and while the company will
switch over exclusively to the
dial gystem in November, eon
struction of new lines will ht at
least a year and a half,- -
The Comer owner estimates
that his line maintainence erews
will be doubled in personnel un
der the new system.
The independent Danielsville
and Comer Telephone Company
was established by Mr. arch
more’s father 53 years ago,
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Two More Cities
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Want TV Rights
WASHINGTON, July 2—(AP)
—New television station lica
tions on file with the meral
Communications Commission elim=-
bed toward the 450-mark teday as
hide far local channels comtinued
to pile in.
" ae comumission announced re
ceipt of these additional new and
amended applications fer the
promised July processing:
Radio Augusta, Ga., Ine., for
VHF channel 12.
WIIV-TV. Inc., Savannah, Ga.,
for VHF chonnel 3.
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