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Vol. €XX, Neo. 146,
Solons Urge Law Giving
Voters Candjdate Choice
Civilian Workers
Take Up Posts
For Plane Watch
WASHINGTON July 14 (AP)—
Civilian eyes and ears today plug
ged to the gaps in America’s radar
gcreen in a round-the-clock sky
watch to guard the United States
from sneak air attacks.
More than 150,000 volunteers
began going on shifts at about 6,-
000 stations in 27 states stretched
acrosses the northern rim of the
country. But the Air Force said it
urgently needs another 350,000
civilians to do the job properly.
President Truman backed up
the air watcher recruiting drive
during the week end with the
statement that every citizen who
cooperates “is helping to pre
vent the war none of us wants to
happen.”
Common Sense
The President said it was com=-
mon sense precaution “in this new
age in which hostile forces are
known to possess long-range
pombers and atomic weapens.”
Pointing out that every possible
eccond of warning before an attack
would save lives and vitalgfacili
ties, Truman said:
“We cannot risk being caught
unprepared to defend ourselves.
We must have a trained force of
skywatchers.
“Our greatest hope of peace lies
in being so strong and well pre
pared that our enemies will not
dare attack us.”
Greatly Needed
The human lookouts are needed,
the Air Force explained, to make
up for the scientific weakness of
radar: For one thing its tentacles
cannot reach beyond the earth’s
curvature, For another, radar can
not detect planes sneaking in un
der 5,000 feet in mountainous or
hilly country. ;
The Air Force had wanted to
start the eivilian watch in May
because experts said the most fa
vorable time for long-distance at
tack over the top of the world was
from May through September. But
the start was postponed until to
day because the ‘Federal Air De
fense - organization said..it. didnt
have enough people to man the
stations of a 24-hour basis.
In eonjunction with this pro
gram, the Army last month dis
closed it had moved anti-aircraft
batteries intp positions of readi
ness arownd strategic targets.
Locations Undisclosed
Exact locations were not dis
closed but generally the guns were
placed around vulnerable indus
trial plants, big cities and Air
Force centers.
The Army said this precaution
had no special significance other
than “an increased state of op
erational readiness.”
larfin _Services
[.re Set Tuesday
Oness Franklin Martin 58, died in
a local hospital Sunday morning
at 7:40 o'clock after an illness of
several months. Mr. Martin re
sided at 184 Vine Street.
Services will be held Tuesday
morning at 11 o’clock from East
Athens Baptist Church with the
pastor, Rev. H. R. Burnley, and
Rev. John Kesler, officiating.
Burial will be in Oconee Hill
Cementery, Bernstein Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers will be Doyle Mar
tin, Guy Martin, Ovin Martin,
Eugene Martin, Alvin Martin and
Clarence Bowers,
Mr. Martin is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Maude Ingram Martin;
daughter, Mrs. Frank Griffeth,
Athens; four sons, James C. Mar
tin, W. G. Martin, Otis Martin and
Richard Gearing, all of Athens;
three sisters, Mrs. Harvey Bowen,
Ila Strickland and Miss Minnie
Martin, all of Athens, and three
grandchildren.
A native of Banks County, Ga.,
Mr. Martin had been a resident
here for the past twelve years,
being a member of Bast Athens
Baptist Church.
BEES SWARM IN CHURCH
WESTMINSTER, Md. July 14—
(AP) — Hundreds of honeybees,
holding their own after two bomb
attacks, forced the congregation of
the Ascension Episcopal Church
to move service into the parish
house yesterday.
The bees were found in the
sacristy of the historic church last
Friday. Two insecticide bombs
were set off and dead bees rained
down on the pews.
But swarms of the insects sur
vived and the Rev. Austin F.
Schildwaehter moveéd his Sunday
sc.'vices, An exterminator is sche
duled to oust the bees today.
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Associated Press Service
’Plan Is Backed 1
By Sen. Russell
| By JOHN CHADWI) = -
WASHINGTON July 1 8¢ AP)
— Fifth-three Democfi-i con=
gressmen today urged ag’ nk in
their party’s platform & “ ng for
‘a law to require thats, & olitical
parties hold nation-wg& " residen
tial primories. &
The recommendss o that the
people be given v, f a say in
the nomination of ¥ lidates was
made by both ser & s and House
members.
Legislation propusing such. a
change was introduced this year,
but Congress did not act on it.
Candidate Backing
Among those recommending
such a plank in the party platform
were Sen, Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee, a candidate for the party’s
presidential nomination, and the
campaign managers of three other
candidates—Vice President Alben-
W. Barkley, Sen. Richard B. Rus
sell and Mutual Security Adminis
trator Averell Harriman.
The proposal was made in a
?etition to the Platform Commit
ee.
In a statement announcing this,
Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) . and Sen.
Smathers (D-Fla) and Rep. Ben
nett (D-Fla) said ‘“disgraceful
events” disclosed at the Republi
can National Convention last week
emphasized the need for changing
the method of picking presidential
candidates.
Under the plan offered by Doug
las and Bennett, the attorney gen
eral would be directed to work
out agreements with states to con
duct presidential preferential pri
maries, with the federal govern
mer.{ sharing the cost.
The government would pay
states up to 20 cents for each vote
cast. The states would provide
election personnel, registration
books and other facilities.
Although the outcome of the
grimaries would not necessarily
ind convention delegates, Doug=
las and Bennett said they probably
would exert a ‘‘strong persuasive
influence” on their decisions,
Require Amendment
Such a change would not require
a constitutional amendment and
could be voted into law by con
gress.
Smathers, on the other hand,
proposed a constitutional amend
ment that would replace the con
vention system entirely with direct
primaries. el b
The reform recommended in to
day’s petition apparently refers to
the Douglas-Bennett plan.
“We believe that the inclusion of
a nation-wide presidential prim
ary plant in the Democratic party
platforny will serve as an answer
to the back-room dealing and bar
gainhunting of a small group of
political leaders and to the other
glaring imperfections in the pre
sent nominating procedure,” Doug
las, Smathers and Bennett said.
Signers of the petition, in addi
tion to Kefauver, included Sen.,
Clements (Ky), campaign mana
ger for Barkley; Sen. Edwin C.
Johnson (Colo) Russell’s campai~
gn manager, and Rep. Franklin D,
Roosevelt Jr. (NY), campaign
manager for Harriman.
House members who signed it,
besides Roosevelt, included Battle
(Ala), Bryson (SC), Chatham
(NC), Dorn (SC), Durham (NC),
Lanham GA.).
Georgia GOP
Doctsr Wounds
ATLANTA, July 14 — (AP) —
Georgia rival Republican factions
returned from the Chicago con
vention ready to bury the hatchet
i,
. The group led by W. R. Tucker
of Dawsonville, backers of Gen
eral Dwight Eisenhower, will for
give and forget if and when the
court records are cleared. Tuck
er's faction was seated by vote
of the conevntion after the rival
group led by Roy Foster of Wad-~
ley had been given the nod by
both the National Committee and
credentials committee. ¢
e Fight Is Over
~ Foster, head of a pro-Taft fac
tion, declared “the fight is over.”
He urged the Tucker group to ac
cept his support and “unite in a
common effort to establish a twe
party system in Georgia.”
Before the Chicago convention,
the Foster group obtained a state
court ruling that itewas the legal
Republican party in Georgia. The
Tucker group appealed the ruling
by Superior Court Judge Chester:
A. Byars. A hearing on the ap
peal motion has been set for Aug.
9.
Foster said he was recommend
ing the dropping of litigation.
Clarify Record
Elbert Tuttle, of Atlanta, 2
leader in the Tucker group, said
it would be necessary that the
record be clarified by a consent
judgment in Judge Byars' court,
He also said it would be neces
sary for the Foster faction to
withdraw a list of electors “which
Mr. Foster sald he had filed with
the Georgia secretary of state
several months ago, so that no
dissident persons can create any
eonfusion gmreafter."
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a Navy plane crash in Lake Washington
near Seattle stand on wing of the par
tially- submerged eraft as they await
Industrsy Tosses Strike Decision
Into Lap Of Steelworkers’ Union
Russell Thanks
Clarke Citizens -
For Dinner Meet
“Thank you, thank you, thank
you”, were the words of Senator
Richard B. Russell, Georgia can
didate for the Democratic Presi
dential nomination, to the people
of Athens and Clarke county when
he heard of plans for a Russell
Appreciation Dinner at Country
Club tomorrow night at 7 o’clock.
The Senator telephoned Athens
on learning of the dinner and ex
pressed his deep appreciation for
the gesture of faith from the peo
ple of this county,
Latest tabulation of tickets sold
for the dinner mounted above
two-hundred agd fifty this morn
ing, according to Paul Williams,
permanent chairman of the din
ner committee.
The tickets are being sold for
$25 each and the proceeds will be
used for Senator Russell's cams
paign for the nomination. L
Inception of the dinner came
when Erle Cocke of Atlanta called
Athens friends to learn what was
being done on the local scene to=
ward the furtherance of Senator
Russell’s campaign. Some forty
Athenians had purchased tickets
and attended an Appreciation Din
ner for the Winder Senator held
in Atlanta, and with Paul Williams
taking the helm here a similar
dinner was instigated.
Some half-hundred Athens and
Clarke county friends of the
Georgia Presidential candidate at
tended a meeting at Civic Audi
torium on Friday night to com
plete dinner plans. Ticket sales
began immediately and attendants
at that meeting left with more
tickets to sell to their friends and
families.
Thus, Clarke county ticket sales
began rolling.
Incentive to attend Tuesday’s
Dinner is great with featured
speaker Jimmy Carmichael on the
program. Mr, Carmichael will be
introduced by Superior Court
Judge Henry West, a life-long and
intimate associate of Senator Rus
sell. Treasurer for the Dinner is
R. C. Gilmer and Paul Williams,
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Savannah Man
Is Amvet Head
ATLANTA, July 14— (AP) —
Georgia’s American Veterans of
World War II have chosen John
C. Crowder of Savannah as their
new state commander.
In a spirited race, Crowder yes
terday defeated Hugh Brown of
Atlanta, department finance offi
cer. Brown was elected to the
judge advocate post.
Amvet Post No. 8 of Atlanta,
host to the department conven=-
tion, decided to send a resolution
to Atlanta Mayor William B.
Hartsfield, apologizinf for the
“had publicity” attending the sat
urday session.
Harisfield eriticized the state’s
county unit system in an address
and drew a sharp retort from Pete
Wheeler, assistant State Veterans’
Service director,
Declaring that prospects for a
two party system in Georgia were
“bright,” Mayor Hartsfield
warned: ‘lf we put the county
unit vote into our general elec~
tion, the death knell will have
been sounded for any two party
system.”
Wheeler sought a eonvention
expression eondemning the mayor.
J. D. Muse of Atlanta, outgoing
state commander, said he thought
the Hartsfield remarks were in
“bad taste,” but opposed any for
'mal condemnation.
The Amvets named these other
officers: 5
John Dempsey of Augusta, first
vige commander; Frank Kramer
Jr.,, Savannah, finance officer;
Muse, national executive com
mitteeman, and T. F. Raburn,
Savannah, Inspector general, ..
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
Leaders Conduct
Fruitless Meects
PITTSBURGH, July 14—(AP)
—lndustry tossed the 43-day-old
steel strike into the lap of the CIO
United Steelworkers today. .
The latest negotiations hit a
snag after industry reportedly
proposed a watered-down version
of the union shop compulsory un
ion membership and other undis
closed suggestions for ending the
defense-crippling strike.
Nothing Definite
An industry statement said:
“Those suggestions are still un
der consideration by the wunion.
There are no definite arrange
ments for further meetings.”
Top steel executives left this
steel capital yesterday after an
apparently fruitless meeting with
Philip Murray, head of the steel
workers union, :
Murray had nothing to say about
the industry statement. The last
word from the silvery-thatched
union chieftain was that future
negotiations are “contingent upon
developments.” He did not ela
borate.
U. 8. Steel Corp., bellweather
of the industry, asked the govern
ment “for a steel price increase
Saturday. This immediately set
off the week-end talks between
Murray and the industry.
Crux Of Dispute
This is the erux of the dispute:
Murray wants a union shop. In
dustry is willing to go along on a
modified plan if the government
grants a price increase.
It was learned the government
has agreed to a price increase of |
at least $5 a ton to compensate
the industry for wage increases it
may grant striking steelworkers.
Steel now sells for about sllO a
ton. |
Powell Services
Set For Today
Mrs. R. H. Powell, widow of Dr.
Richard Holmes Powell, for many
years Dean of Coordinate College
of the University of Georgia, died
in a local hospital Sunday morn
ing after a short illness.
Graveside services were ar
ranged for this afternoon at 5
o'clock with Dr. Harmon Ramsey,
pastor of First Presbyterian
Church, officiating, Bridges Fun
eral Home is in charge of ar
rangements,
Pall-bearers selected were J. R.
Stokes, Miiledgeville, G. H. Boyd,
R. G. Stephens, §. J. Singleton,
H. A. Birchmore, William Tate,
E. A. Lowe.
Mrs. Powell is survived by a
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Powell,
Athens; two sons, David Powell,
Gainesville, Fla., and Richard B.
Powell, Georgetown, S. C.; two
brothers, Helmet H. Berens, Elm
hurst, 111, and Robert Berens,
Spokane, Washington, and five
grandchildren.
For many years before coming
to Athens, the Powells had re
sided in Valdosta, where he had
opened and guided the developing
years of Valdosta State College
there,
Mrs. Powell was born DNreida
Berens, daughter of August Berens
and Clara Reiger Berens, of Wash=
ington, Mo. She recently observed
her seventieth birthday. Educated
at the University of Chicago, Mrs.
Powell taught in colleges in Oma
ha and Wisconsin prior to her
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.
Deadline Is Past
In General Vote
Clarke County Board of Regls=
trars this morning asked the Ban
ner-Herald to point out that May
3, this year, was the deadline for
registering to vote in the Novem
ber General Election.
This is not a local rule, or a
party rule, the Registrars pointed
out, but is contained in the Con
stitution of the State of Georgia,
saying that a person must be reg
istered six months in advance in
order to vote in the General Elec
tion.
The Registrars office is still
registering voters for future elec
tions, but they will not be eligible
to vote in the Presidential election
in November. . ‘
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JULY 14, 1952.
rescue boat. Three other crewmen were
killed in the crash. — (U, S. Navy photo
via AP Wirephoto.)
Secref Sessions .
Are Recessed #
At Red Request *
MUNSAN, July 14—(AP)—Se
cret Korean armistice talks were
recessed today at Communist re
‘quest, raising speculation that the
)deadlock over prisoner exchange
'was nearing a climax.
The Red request for a two-day
recess was made 214 hours before
the truce delegates were to meet
at Panmunjom for their 11th con
secutive secret session. 3
No reason for the recess was
announced.
~ The Communists last asked for
} a recess July 2 after listening to a
lengthy review of the U. N. com=~
mand position. The next day the
Reds proposed a new plan for
settling the prisoner controversy
and asked that it be discussed in
the secret sessions which began
July 4.
Two Communist letters were
delivered to the U. N, command
by Red liaison officers. One pro
tested the killing of one Red pris
oner and wounding of seven oth
ers in a POW camp in South Ko~
reat last week.
The second letter demanded an
accounting of 4,391 captured Reds
listed by the international com
mittee for the Red Cross, but
which did not appear on the U. N.
command Dee. 18 list of prisoners.
2 U. N. spokesman said it will
take considerable time to deter
mine whether the 4,391 were cap
tured since prisoner lists were
exchanged last December.
Athenians Are
At Elk Confab
Two Athens Elks, Henry Hill
and Dr. M. T. Summerlin, are in
New York City this week for the
national convention of the Benev
olent and Protective Order of
Elks. Another Athenian, J. Bush
went up two weeks ago.
Mr. Hill, elected to serve the
Athens Club as Exalted Ruler in
April, left Saturday night for the
convention, while Dr, Summerlin
left earlier. The convention,
which was called to order Sunday
night, will end on Thursday and
the two Athens delegates will re
turn home either Thursday night
or Yriday morning.
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GOVERNOR WARREN VISITS GOP NOMINEES
Governor Earl Warren (right) of Cali
fornia pays a visit to General Dwight D.
Eisenhower (center) and Senator Richard
Nixon, also of California, Republican
Stevenson Provides Biggest
Question Of Demo Conclave
Russell Is Avowed Best Candidate
To Beat Strength Of GOP Choice
BY RELMAN MORIN
CHICAGO, July 14, — (AP) — The Democrats are
streaming into Chicago today to nominate a presidential
candidate in a convention they forecast will be rough, rug
ged and wide open. They open full sessions next Monday.
Before tnen, they hope a large
and perplexing question will be
settled—whnat will Adlai Steven
son do, and what will the conven
tion do about Stevenson? The long
shadow of the governor of Illinois
hangs heavily over the whole
party right now.
Truman’s Choice
For months, his name has been
bandied about as the probable
Democratic candidate. HMe is re
ported to be—or to have been—
President Truman's personal
choice for that role,
Stevenson repeatedly has insist
ed he doesn’t want it, and that all
‘he does wans is another term in
the governor’s office in Spring
field.
Yesterday, at Camp Ripley,
Minn., he told a Minnesota dele
gate to the Democratic -national
convention: “Ne politician can say
:hc would refuse a draft.”
But until the propability of a
draft action by the convention has
been settled finally, he will con
tinue to be the great X-factor in
the Democratic equation.
Meanwhile the avowed and an
nounced candidates are due here
within the next few days.
They are Senators Estes Kefau
ver of Tennessee, Richard B. Rus
sell of Georgia, Robert Kerr of
Oklahoma, Brien McMahon of
Connecticut, Vice President Alben
Barkley, and Averell Harrinran of
New York, director of the Mutual
Security Administration.
Party Bankruptey
Kefauver's campaign manager,
Gael Sullivan, took up the ques
tion of a draft yesterday and said
he saw little possibility of one. “A
draft would imply the bankruptcy
of the party,” Sullivan said. “We
have a lot of fine candidates.”
The backers of Senatgr Russell
were here first and they were
quick to seize the advantage. They
set up headquarters, called a news
conference Sunday afternoon, and
had Senator John Sparkman of
Alabama as the spokesman.
Sparkman said, among other
things:
1. Russell’s chances of winning
the candidacy are stronger now
that the Republicans have picked
Dwight D. Eisenhower. There has
long been a belief that Stevenson
‘ would not run against Eisenhower,
but might accept a draft if Senator
Robert A. Taft had been the nom
inee.
2. Russell will not lose “a single
electoral vote” from among the
Southern states if he is nonrinated.
3. “However, we would be blind
if we failed to recognize the extent
of Eisenhower’s popularity in the
South.”
Greatest Handicap
4. Russell’s greatest handicap
lies in the popular belief—totally
unfounded, Sparkman insisted—
that he is a “sectional candidate.”
Sparkman said the senator’s whole
record belies any evidence of sec
tionalism in his thinking or action.
All of which brought up the
issue of a civil rights plank in the
Democratic platform.
Sparkman said the Republican
plank was vague and formiess,
and predicted the Democrats
would write one ‘“far more fair
and frank.”
The President has demanded an
FEPC backed by federal law,
Large sections of the party go
with him. Russell and the South
ern senators do not.
Byt there won’t be a walkout,
as there wos in 1948, Sparkman
predicted.
Nevertheless, a free - swinging
fight is expected to develop over
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nominees for president and vice-president,
respectively, in the general’s suite at Chi
cago’s Blackstone Hotel, — (AP Wire
photo.)
Read Dafly by 35,000 People In Athens Trade A
President Cifes
Allied Danger
In Trade Curbs
WASHINGTON, July 14—(AP)
—President Truman says recent
U. S. curbs on foreign trade are
hurting this country’s efforts to
build up the strength of her Allies
in the free world.
Truman directed a 12-man pub
lie advisory board on mutual se=
curity to recommend to the White
House and Congress ways of meet
ing the problem. He also suggest
ed that a new study be made of
America’s policy of barring her
friends from trading with Com
munist countries.
Cites Expense
In letters to the board members,
the President pointed out that the
U. 8. is spending substantial sums
of money to build up the military
;nd economic strength of her al
es.
“This is why,” TFruman said,
“we have urged upon them pro
grams of increased production,
trade expansion and tariff reduc
tion so that through world trade
they can expand their dollar
earnings and progressively reduce
their dependence of our aid.”
Restrictive Laws |
At the same time, he said, there
has sprung up more restrictive
laws which reduce the number of
foreign goods which can be offer
ed in the competitive American
markets. These protective moves
by American industry, the Pres
ident suggested, are sometimes
out-weighed by counter—restrie~
tions against U, 8. exports.
Truman said the United States
has not thoroughly thought
through its insistence that the free
world not trade with Iron Curtain
countries.
“What can we suggest to replace
it?” he asked. ,
Kiwanis To Hear
Opera Highlights
Highlights of Stephen Vincent
Benet's “The Devil and Daniel
Webster”, featuring Kiwanian
Louis Griffith, will be presented
at the regular meeting of Kiwanis
Club at Georgian Hotel Tuesday
at one o’clock,
Directing the program will be
Byron Warner, University Musie
faculty member, who revealed to
day that he plans to take several
members of the opera’s cast to the
Kiwanis meet. He plans to outline
the story and background of the
opera and to highlight the meet
ing with selections from the work
itself.
“The Devil and Daniel Webster”
will be presented in full at Uni
versity Chapel on Thursday eve
ning as the regularly scheduled
Music Appreciation Hour,
Kiwanians are in for a treat
with the performance of their own
popular member, Louis Griffith,
at tomorrow’s meeting.
HOME .
EDITION
Tito Guaranteed
Stepped Up Aid
From Americans .
BLED, Yugoslavia, July 14 —
(AP)—Communist Yugoslavia to=
day looked forward to stepped up
American miitary aid—inecluding
jet planes, tanks and heavy are
tillery—after a ranking U. 8. mile
itary team found Premier Mare
shal Tito’s fighting forces In exe
cellent shape.
The decision to greatly strengthe
en the American aid program te
this anti-Soviet ally was an
nounced last night at a fermal
dinner given by Tito at his sume
mer palace here for the U. S
mission headed by Frank C. Nashy
special assistant to Defense Sec«
retary Robert Lovett.
Four U. 8. generals present gave
a highly favorable report of theig
first-hand inspection of Y:la'.
forces and their use of the limited
American aid already reeeivedy
The American officers are Maj,
Gen. George Almstéd, direstor fop
military assistance, Maj. Gen,
€lyde D. Eddelman, deputy dn!
of staff; Maj. Gen. George
Richards, ehief of the military ase
sistance group in Paris, and hiz
Gen. john W. Harmony, head
the military assistance program in
Yugoslavia. i
The generals reported that the
Yugoslavs’ greatest needs are
planes and heavy armor, Thei?
supply of small arms was yeport«
ed as adequate, and the traiming,
conditions and morale of troope
was described as excellent.
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ooney Jervices
]
William Bazlug Looney, Sr., 79,
died unexpectedly at his home on
the Lexington Road Sunday meorn
ing at 7:30 o'clock.
Services were conducted thi
afternoon at 2 o’clock from Lbertl;
Hill Baptist Church at Eanouollee}
Ga., with Rev. A. T. Kline, pasto
of Toccoa First Baptist Chureh, ofe
ficiating.
Burial followed in Liberty Hil)
Cemetery, Bernstein Fumera
Home in charge of arrangements,
Pall-bearers were Floyd Leeney,
Julian Looney, Rufus Pulliam,
Frank Harrison, Cohen Harrison
and Elmer Walters.
Mr. Looney is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mildred Locney; daughe
ter, Mrs. W. R. Moseley, Eastonols
lee; son W, B. Looney, .fr., Athens}
three brother, John Henry Looney,
Toccoa, Jim Looney, Atlanta, and
Belton Looney, Athens; six grands
children, Miss Angeline Meseley.
John and James Moseley, all 0‘
Eastonollee, Miss Jacqueline YLoe
oney, Bill f_.ocmey and Mrs. Eobe
by Coile, all of Athens.
Mr. Looney was a native of Toce
coa and had lived in Athens and
Winterville for the past tweleve
years, where he had made a large
unmber of friends.
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lFll‘Sl’ Polio Case
.
Found In City
E Dr. W. W. Brown, Commission=
er of Health, has reported the
first case of Poliomyelitis in
Clarke County for 1952. The case
was discovered Saturday merning
! and the patient was in Grady Hos
pital, Atlanta, within a short
time,
It is the policy of the Athens-
Clarke County Health Center to
keep the citizens informed at all
times as to the presence of pelic
in the community and Commis
sioner Brown said that all regula
tions of the Board of Health to
prevent the spread of the disease
are being carried out with the
full cooperation of all parties con=
cerned.
FIRE HITS TOULOUSE
TOULCUSE, France July 14 —
(AP) — Fire levelled a huge sec~
tor of this city in southwestern
France today, causing 500 million
francs $1,400,000 damage.
A grass fire spread to a shoe
factory and the ensuing blaze de
stroyed 50 houses, several ether
factaries and a garage.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINFFY
Mostly fair and little semsper
ature change today, tonight and
Tuesday with chance of after
noon thundershowers teday.
Low tonight 70, high tomerrew
93. The sun sets this evening at
7:46 and rises tomorrow at 5:32.
GEORG!A—Fair and contin
ued hot this afternoon, temight
and Tuesday, except for widely
scattered afternoon thumder
showers. §
TEMPERATURE g
Highest ......... 00000000 82
LOWeSt +.icvoovsnsevarine 80 1
Mean «.ivin.cisiarvinnince T
Nowmal ii i dnias
RAINFALL i
Inches last 24 hours ~ eees .80
Total since July 1 ...cevee #2408
Deficit since July 1 ..... 181/
Average July rainfall ... &” i
Total since January 1 .. 2897 |
Deticit since January 1 .. 2.07