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VOL. 61—No. 29
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NEW HIGHWAY IS
BEING PREPARED
NEW HIGHWAY PLACED IN CON
DITION T OBE TURNED OVER
TO STATE AS PART OF STATE
AID SYSTEM
The Butts county road force be
gan work last week on the highway
from Barnesville to Covington, and
when this road is placed in proper
condition it will be turned over to
the state highway department for
maintenance as part of the state aid
system.
Work is in progress on the road
between Jackson and the Towaliga
river. Grades are being cut down and
the road widened. A log of the route
was made by the highway depart
* ment some time ago.
Lamar county has placed its
stretch of this new highway in con
dition and it is understood that New
ton county is at work on its quota.
The road will exend from Thomas
ten to Barnesville and Jackson to
Covington and will be one of the
most important highways in this sec
tion.
The highway department, it is stat
ed, has agreed to take over and
maintain this highway when it has
been placed in proper condition. The
extra mileage will give the county
several thousand dollars more in
* gasoline tax when the state takes
over the road.
LOANS AVAILABLE
.TO HOME OWNERS
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ATLANTA OFFICE BEGINS TO
FUNCTION. THREE CLASSES
OF LOANS HAVE BEEN MADE
AVAILABLE
Atlanta, Ga. —£fter weeks of
preparatory work, the Georgia divi
sion of the Home Owners' Loan Cor*
poration has begun the task of re
lieving distressed home owners of
their mortgage burdens.
Offices have been opened at 58
Marietta Street, in the Western Un
ion Building, where state headquar
ters are maintained. Frank Holden is
state manager and John L. Conyers
chief appraiser. Branch offices are
in Macon and Savannah.
Three classes of loans will be
made according to Mr. Holden. They
are:
Loans to refinance mortgages
where the mortgage holder will ac
cept 5 per cent government bonds.
Included in loans of this kind may
bo advances in cash to pay taxes and
assessments and to make needed re
pairs and to meet incidental ex
penses of the transaction. The loan
may be 80 per cent of the appraised
valuation, but must not total more
than $14,000.
Loans in which the mortgagee will
not accept bonds. The corporation
can lend up to 40 per cent of the
app: aised valuation in cash where
loans cannot be obtained from any
other source.
Cash advances to pay taxes and
maxe repairs and incidental expenses
of the transaction where the house
*ir, not mortgaged. These loans may
total 50 per cent of the appraised
value.
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The broad scope of the loans will
take in virtually every case of dis
tress of owners of small loans.
COURT WILL HOLD
ONLY ONE WEEK
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NO CIVIL"CASES WILL BE TRIED
WEEK OF AUGUST 21. GRAND
f JURY TO HOLD ITS REGULAR
• SESSIONS
An abbreviated session of Butts su
perior court will be- held in August, j
according to information received by J
Clerk S. J. Foster from Judge G.
Ogden Persons of the Flint Circuit.
No civil cases will be tried the
week of August 21 and no traverse
jurors will be summoned for that
week.
The grand jury will meet on Mon
day, August 21, and proceed with
the usual work.
Trial jurors for the second week
will report on Monday, August 28.
One civil case has been assigned for
the w-eek of August 28. That is the
case of Buttrill against Buttrill, pro
ceedings in equity, and this case will
be heard by Judge W. E. H. Searcy,
Jr., of Griffin.
The coilnty commissioners here
petitioned Judge Persons to grant a
short session of court as a move
ment for economy. Criminal cases
ready for trial will be disposed of
during the week of August 28.
TOWALIGA ASSOCIATION
TO MEET AT BEERSHEBA
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCHES
IN FULTON, CLAYTON, HENRY,
LAMAR AND BUTTS TO HAVE
UNION MEETING JULY 28-30
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The Towaliga Association, compos
ed of Primitive Baptist churches in
Fulton, Clayton, Henry, Butts and
Lamar counties, will have a union
meeting at Beersheba church, near
Locust Grove, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, July 28-30. The session will
bring together influential leaders in
the church from the association and
from other parts of the state.
Elder Dan Henderson, of Atlanta,
pastor of the Beersheba church, is
moderator of the Towaliga Associa
tion, and Elder R. L. Barron, of
Zebulon, is clerk.
The Towaliga Association is one
of the largest and strongest in this
section of the state. Butts county
will be well represented at the union
meeting.
TBIR? MEMBER OF
ROAD BODY NAMED
W. E. WILBURN OF OGLETHORPE
GETS PLACE MADE VACANT
BY HRESIGNATION OF JUD P.
WILHOIT
Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Eugene
Talmadge Monday night announced
the appointment of W. E. Wilburn,
of Oglethorpe, as the third member
of the state’s new highway board.
Mr. Wilburn is a banker and far
mer of Macon county. He susceeds
Jud P. Wilhoit, who recently was
appointed a member of the public
service commission when Governor
Talmadge ousted the old members
of that body. Wilburn has never held
public office before, the governor
said.
The highway board is now com
posed of J. J. Mangham, Bremen,
chairman; Judge Max L. Mcßae, of
Mcßae, and Mr. Wilburn.
JACKSON RIFLES WILL
RETURN FROM MANEUVERS
The. Jackson Rifled, Company A
121st Infantry Georgia National
will t Sunday from
Camp. Foster, Jacksonville, Fla.,
where the past two weeks have been
spent attending summer maneuvers.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933
NEWTON IS HEAD
DISTRICT MASONS
ABIT NIX DELIVERED PRINCI
PAL ADDRESS NEXT SESSION
BE HELD AT INDIAN SPRINGS.
BARBECUE SERVED
The annual convention of the Sixth
District Masonic Association at In
dian Springs Tuesday was largely
attended by Masons in this section
and by prominent officers of the fra
ternity throughout the state.
A Jackson man, Mr. J. C. Newton,
was named district worshipful mas
ter for the ensuing year. Other offi
cers were advanced in the line. Mr.
Newton succeeds B. R. Turpin, of
Scockbridge, who held the office of
D. W. M. the past year.
Hon. Abit Nix, of Athens, deliver
on the principal'address. His talk
proved of much interest and bore out
his reputation as one of the most en
tertaining speakers in the state.
Other prominent visitors present
included W. J. Penn, Jr., of Albany,
secretary of the grand chapter of
Georgia; Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin, of At
lanta, past grand master of the state.
The 1934 meeting will be held a:
Indian Springs with St. Johns lodge
of Jackson as official host.
An elegant barbecue was served,
the meal being prepared by Mr,
Dock Torbet.
The officers named include: J. C.
Newton, Jackson, district worshipful
master; W. H. Connor, Griffin, depu
ty worshipful master; T. J. Brown,
Jr., McDonough, senior warden; J.
W. Barron, Thomaston, junior war
den; L. R. Washington, Jackson,
senior deacon; Claude Christopher,
Barnesville, junior deacon; R. H.
Hay, Fiovilla, senior steward; P. Y.
Luther, Griffin, secretary and treas
urer.
NO PLACES OPEN
IN FOREST CAMPS
LOCAL RELIEF COMMITTEE HAS
COMPLETED ITS WORK AND
NO LONGER FUNCTIONS. MAY
REGISTER AT CAMP
For the information of the scores
of white and colored citiens seeking
enlistment in the forestry camps, it
is stated officially that all quotas
have been filled and that no more
men are needed or can be accepted.
The local relief committee, press
ed into service to fill the county’s
original quota of 19 men and to se
lect certain men for specific work,
has performed its mission and is dis
solved. The positions, if any, to be
filled will be handled by the local
foresters in charge of- the various
camps. Persons in Butts county are
notified not to register with the local
committee, but to take the matter
up direct with Forester Clements.
Mr. Clements has been granted
authority from the state forester to
fill whatever vacancies may exist.
This information is obtained from
State Forester B. M. Lufburrow and
is for the benefit of the public.
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPED
FROM COUNTY CHAINGANG
Two negro convicts escaped from
the Butts county ehaingang Monday
morning while being carried to work.
The men, J. W. Dugger,-sent up from
Spalding county for two years, and
Wiley Davis, sent up from Bibb
county for twenty years, jumped
from a truck in which they were
being hauled from camp to work on
the roads. Officers took up the pur
suit immediately but the prisoners
bad not been apprehended at last
reports.
COTTON BEING PLOWED
UP BY BUTTS GROWERS
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EMERGENCY PERMITS IS
SUED PENDING ARRIVAL of
• FORMS FROM j WASHINGTON.
COTTON IS DESTROYED
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Several Butts county farmers be
gan this week the destruction of
cotton under the government allot
ment plan to take 10,000,000 acre®
out of production this season.
Emergency permits are being is
sued pending the arrival of the regu
lar from Washington. Growers
| who intend to plant some crop on
the la|id are being- issued the per-
mits. ,
The : regular forms are being ex
; pected daily from Washington. Other
[ counties in this section have received
the permits, it is stated.
Mr. C. M. Compton is assisting
; with the blanks during the absence
of County Agent Drake, who was
j called to Louisiana on account of the
■ illness of his brother.
NEW MEMBERS OF
UTILITIES GROUP
OLD MEMBERS PUBLIC SERVICE
COMMISSION REMOVED BY
GOVERNOR AND NEW BOARD
APPOINTED
Members of the Georgia Public
Service Commission were removed by
Governor Talmadge Friday and suc
cessors to the five-man board were
named. The suspension of the public
service board followed a hearing of
three Vr%£ks’ duration of charges
brought against the commission by
the Georgia Federation of Labor.
Members of the old commission,
suspended until the next session of
the legislature in 1935, included:
James A. Perry, of Lawreneeville,
chairman; A. J. Woodruff, of De
catur; Walter McDonald, of Augusta;
Perry T. Knight, of Valdosta, and
Jule W. Felton, of Montezuma.
Successors to the old board in
clude the following.
Jud P. Wilhoit, of Warrenton, who
resigned as a member of the high
way department, was made chair
man of the board in place of James
A. Perry.
J. B. “Tobe” Daniel, of LaGrange,
succeeds Walter McDonald.
Tom Davis, of Meigs, succeeds
Perry T. Knight.
George L. Goode, of Carnesville,
succeeds Albert J. Woodruff.
Ben T. Huiett,, of Atlanta, suc
ceeds Jule W. Felton.
The new members of the board
were sworn in immediately by the
governor and enteied upon the dis
charge of their duties.
All members of the commission
as named by the governor are well
known Georgians and have taken a
leading part in public affairs.
In issuing his order of suspension
Governor Talmadge declared the evi
dence produced at the hearing show
ed the commissioners had been dere
lict in duty, had failed to properly
safeguard the interest of the public
and had accepted favors, such as
railroad and bus passes, from the
utilities.
The hearing of charges against
members of the public service com
mission, with Governor Talmadge as
judge and jury, aroused the keen in
terest of all Georgians and the case
has been one of sensational develop
ments.
PREACHING AT PLEASANT
GROVE SUNDAY, JULY 30
There will be preacing services a*
Pleasant Grove church Sunday, July
30, with Rev. Mr. Fretwell filling the
pulpit. The public is cordially invited
to attend.
LIVE STOCK MEN RAP
DECREASE IN PRICES
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southwest Georgia growers
REMIND ADMINISTRATOR PRD
CES FOR CURED PRODUCT
OUT OF LINE JUST NOW
Charges that meat packers are en
deavoring to fill their storage rooms
with meat bought at low prices, to be
sold at great profit—at the expense
of the stock raisers—are contained
in a protest filed by a group of
Southwest Georgia cattle men with
General Hugh S. Johnson, federal
administrator of the industrial re
covery act.
In their protest J. T. and W. B.
Haley, W. B. Hutchinson, A. W. Bar
lett and C. F. Jarman call Johnson’s
attention to recent increases in meat
prices and a concurrent down trend
in prices paid for live stock on the
farm.
While prices paid for cattle on the
hoof are lower now than they were
90 days ago, they declare, feed costs
have “doubled, trebled and quadru
pled.”
They appeal for action by the fed
eral administrator to remedy the sit
uation.
The action taken by'this group of
livestock raisers,"lt is stated, proba
bly will result in a compact organiza
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tion of Georgia cattle men, with a
view to the protection of their inter
ests insofar as the regulation of live
stock prices is concerned.
“We wish to call your attention to
the prices of livestock in comparison
with other commodities,” said the
protest to General Johnson. “We are
inthe cattle business in a large way
and it is vitally important to us. The
price of cattle on the farm is actual
ly lower now than ninety days ago,
while feed costs have doubled, tre
bled and quadrupled. Hogs have ad
vanced only one and three-quarters
cents, while cured meats have dou
bled in price.
“Apparently the big packers are
holding down the price of livestock
until they can fill their storage
rooms to capacity, and then you can
watch prices jump. Bellies in Chicago
v/ent up 45 point? Monday, while
live hogs went down ten points.
800,000 PATIENTS IN
HOSPITALS OF NATION
THIS NUMBER IN SEVEN THOU
SAND HOSPITALS AT ALL
TIMES DR. CUMMINGS POINTS
OUT
In the 7,000 hospitals of the Uni
ted States approximately 800,000
patients are found at all times, says
Dr. H. S. Cumimngs, surgeon-general
of the U. S. Public Health Service.
About 400,000 of these, he ex
plains, are mental patients and ap
proximately 100,000 are suffering
from tuberculosis. In these hospitals
nearly 800,000 babies are born each
year.
Writing in the current issue of
The Modern Hospital, the surgeon
general describes the hospital as
“health center for the community,
r clearing house of scientific infor
mation, a factor in medical educa
tion, a place for clinical research
and a public health agency.
Just as monasteries during the
dark ages preserved knowledge that
would otherwise havg been lost, so
hospitals through evil times and good
preserve the practices that become
generally accepted by the medical
profession.”
During the present period of eco
nomic depression, Dr. Gumming say3
only one out of forty-five hospitals
las closed its doors, compared with
one out of six banks and one of
twenty-two business establishments.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
KIWANIS CLUB TO
BACK ROOSEVELT
NEW CODE WILL PROVE GOOD
THING FOR ENTIRE COUNTRY
AND START UPSWING, MR.
BALL DECLARES
Support of President Roosevelt’s
plea for industrial recovery through
j utting people to work was voiced
by the Kiwanis club of Jackson at
its meeting Tuesday night. Mr. H. O.
Ball, superintendent of the Pepper
ton Cotton Mills, said the plan was
working well in the textile industry
and he gave it as his opinion that
the plan would soon result in better
business throughout the nation.
Other matters discussed included
highways, the federal relief plan, the
reforestation camjiaign. The club
plans an aggressive campaign to en
roll new members.
Dinner was served by the U. D. C.
committee, Mrs. L. M. Crawford
chairman.
The next meeting of the club will
be held on August 8.
TAXABLE VALUES
SHOW A DECREASE
TAX DIGEST REVEALS DECLINE
IN PERSONAL PROPERTY
WITH REAL ESTATE HOLDING
FORMER LEVELS
Most of the decrease of $57,424
in the Butts county tax digest, as
compared with the previous year, is
in personal property, it is pointed
out by Mr. J. E. Carmicahel, tax
receiver, who has Just completed the
digest. Real estate values were held
to the level of the previous year, it
was stated.
*Total property on the digest this
year amounts to $1,461,605, as com
pared with $1,519,029 in 1932.
Of the total values white citizens
made returns of $1,405fi852, while
colored citizens showed returns of
$55,763.
A total of 1,397 polls were re
ported for 1933, as compared with
1,413 in 1932.
There was a considerable decrease
in the value of automobiles returned
for taxation. In 1932 the value of
automobiles was reported at $79,380,
while $66,611 was the value placed
on automobiles returned this year.
In 1932 banking institutions made
returns of $60,198, while only $36,-
COO was reported this year.
Mercantile establishments showed
a considerable decrease as compared
with the previous year. -
The returns show five doctors, six
lawyers, three dentists, one veterin
arian and one embalmer.
The digest will be submitted to
the Hon. Paul Doyal, chairman of
the state revenue commission, for
his approval.
QUARTERMASTER’S CORPS
LEFT WEDNESDAY FOR
CAMP JACKSON, S. C.
Lieutenant-Coloney G. E. Mallet
and the members of the Quartermas
ter’s Detachment of the Thirtieth
Division left Wednesday night for
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C.,
where the division will be in camp
for several days. The division is com
manded by Brigadier General H. D.
Russell, of Macon.
Members of the quartermaster’s
detachment under Col. Mallet are
W. M. Crawford, Dick O’Neal, F. C.
Rossey, Charles Redman, Jr., Robert
Mays, Olin Burford and W. D. Pope,
Jr.
Wheat, rye, oats and rice—Amer
ica’s most important crops, excepting
corn—all came from Europe.