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VOL. 62—No. 9
1934 MARCH 1934
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GEORGIA LIVE STOCK
INCREASED IN VALUE
GAINS SCORED BY MULES, MILK
COWS AND CATTLE. TOTAL
VALUE OF LIVESTOCK ESTI
MATED AT $63,000,000.
The annual livestock report of the
Georgia Crop Reporting Service, as
of January 1, shows an increased
number of mules, milk cows and to
tal cattle on Georgia farms. The
gain were 2 per cent for mules, 5
cent for milk cows and 5 per
cent for total cattle. Sheep are the
same as January 1, 1933, and swine
1 per cent less.
►' Total value of all livestock (not
including poultry) on farms January
1, 1934, is $63,906,000, compared
with $46,071,000 one year ago, or
an increase of 39 per cent during the
twelve months period. Th gain in
value came both by increased value
per head and numbers. Workstock
showed the greatest of livestock ad
vance, with a net gain of $42 per
head, other clases of liveestock show
ed only slight increases.
- Estimated number of cattle is
894,000, compared with 852,000 last
year. Milk cows and heifers being
kept for milk equal 375,000, or 42
per cent of total cattle.
Number of hogs on farms is given
as 1,362,000 as against 1,376,000 on
January 1, 1933, or a decrease of 1
per cent. However, an increased
valuation per head raised the total
value to $4,873,000 or $249,000
.above one year ago.
- Mules and horses have increased
2 per cent from last year, the cur
rent estimated being 365,000 com
pared with 359,000 head on January
8#7,000 or an average of $15,728,-
000 above the previous year’s figure
of $24,1119,000.
$
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR BE
INSPECTED ON FRIDAY
MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE
BE HELD FOR MR. D. G. Me-
MICHAEL FOLLOWING INSPEC
TION. FLETCHER TO SPEAK.
Alexius Commandery No. 22,
Knights Templar, will have its an
nual inspection Friday night. Sir
Knight J. P. Stephens, of Augusta,
grand sword bearer of the grand
commandery of Georgia, will be the
officer to conduct the inspection.
Following the inspection there will
Jbo memorial service jn honor of
Mr. D. G. Michael, charter member
of the commandery and prelate for
1 a great many years. He was also a
past commander. Mr. McMichael
£wved as prelate since the comman
dery was instituted, with the excep
tion of a year as eminent comman
der. As prelate he was without a
in the state.
All members of the commandery
are invited to be present for the
’ inspection and memorial service.
Judge H. M. Fletcher, past com
mander of Alexious commandery and
*ione of the best informed Masons in
k the state, will conduct the memorial
service for Mr. McMichael and will
an oration on his life and ca
reer as a Mason.
The Walrps attains a weight of
Itons.
One-third of the earth’s popula
tion of 1,732,000,000 people are
Christians.
MILLIONS UNPAID
BY STATE GEORGIA
DIVERSION ROAd FUNDS SUG-j
GESTED BY STATE AUDITOR
WHO FILES REPORT WITH
GOVERNOR TALMADGE.
Atlanta, Ga. —State Auditor Tom
Wisdom Saturday reported to Gover
nor that the only perma
nent cure for the current deficit in
the general fund of Georgia is diver
sion of highway funds.
Wisdom filed an audit of the state
treasury showing the state finished
1933 with a current deficit of sl,-
316,232 and a total deficit in cash
for all demands of $5,384,355. Wis
dom said diversion of the $1,316,232
from highway funds by legisaltive
enactment* would end the amount
carried over from year to year since
1927.
At the close of 1933 there was
$1,360,825.04 to the credit of the
state highway department on the
books of the treasury.
The audit of the treasury lists the
current demands of the state at $2,-
254,231 reserve for allocated balanc
es, $623,175 reserve for current ap
propriations and $2,000,000 loans
payable, making total current obli
gations of $4,880,406 with cash and
bank balance of only $3,564,174 to
meet them.
Unpaid appropriations not includ
ed in the above obligations: Confed
erate pensions, $531,600; due com
mon schools, $2,256,193; due elee
mosynary institutions, $145,715; $4,-
443 due the state prison farm, mak
ing a totalof $4,068,123 in unpaid
appropriations for the years 1928-
1931, despite the legislature having
written off over $1,000,000 of obli
gations due these agencies and insti
tutions.
The $1,316,232 due on current de
mands and $4,068,123 on unpaid ap
propriations for previous years bring
the total debts of the state to $5,-
384,355 in addition to the bonded
indebtedness of $4,477,202.17. To*
tal receipts from state sources alone
in 1933 were $13,004,480 in the gen
eral fund and $16,766,470 in allo
cated funds, including the balance
carried forward from the previous
year.
The general property tax brought
in $3,900,619; the income tax $937,-
G 01; the agriculturl department
$185,023; the public service corpora
tion tax $702,339; the insurance pre
mium tax $741,726; the poll tax
$257,146; the domestic corporation
tax $258,566 and the business li
cense tax $309,079 for the general
fund.
The motor fuel tax brought in
$12,352,748; the automobile tag tax
$981,390 and the cigar and cigarette
tax $924,661 for allocated funds.
MR. PRESTON DELIGHTED
WITH BUSINESS OUTLOOK
Following a trip to Macon, Perry
and Vienna, Mr. W. W. Preston, of
Flovilla, reports that he is impressed
with preparations in that section for
the 1934 crop. Much plowing has
been done and grain is looking well,
he reports. The business situation is
greatly improved, in the opinion of
Mr. Preston, who found the citizens
in that section optimistic and ready
to go forward. Altogether he is
much encouraged over the outlook
and is confident that the country is
ready to make progress throughout
the year.
ELDER STEPHENS TO PREACH
AT OLD BETHEL ON SUNDAY
Elder J. P. S. Stephens, of Atlan
ta, will preach at Old Bethel church
at the 11 o’clock hour Sunday' morn
ing, March 4, it is announced by the
pastor, Elder Homer M. Vaughn. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1944
LaGrange And
Woodland Win
In Fourth District
LaGrange high scohol, winner in
the western division B class, defeat
ed Griffin high Monday night for
the Fourth District basketball cham
pionship, and Woodland, eastern B
class, defeated Centralhatchee, west
ern C class. The score in the La-
Grange-Griffin game was 35 to 29
in favor oi LaGrange, while Wood
land defeated Centralhatchee 53 to
26.
Griffin won the right to contest
for the eastern championship by de
feating Spalding high Saturday night
by a score of 43 to 16. Spalding
high eliminated Jackson in the open
ing game of the tourney by a score
of 35 to 19.
LaGrange in the western division
defeated Newnan Saturday night 47
to 27.
LaGrange high as the fourth dis
trict winner will compete in the
state meet to be held in Athens.
PITTMAN QUOTES
LAW FOR VOTING
GEORGIA JURIST CALLS ATTEN
TION TO REQUIREMENTS FOR
SUFFRAGE. SIMPLE ARE THE
RULES ENUMERATED.
A timely statement has just been
issued by Judge Claude Pittman, of
the Cherokee Circuit, who writes
from his home at Cartersville, as fol
lows:
This is general Election year. A
number of contests are certain —leg-
islative, congressional, judicial and
governor. It is the duty of every
good citizen to qualify for the elec
tion of public officials. Registration
is a necessary qualification. All
'women and men, regstering for the
the first time, do not have to pay a
poll tax until after the elections are
held. Those who have become quali
fied voters heretofore must pay poll
taxes, assessed against them, and see
that their names are still on the
voters* book. Heretofore a failure
to pay property taxes required a re
moval of the name from the regis
tration book, but past-due property
tax is no longer a bar to voting.
The law now says: “To enable a
person to register and vote at any
election by the people he shall have
resided in the state one year and in
tli county, in which he offers to vote,
six months next preceding the elec
tion and shall have paid all POLL
TAXES that he may have had an op
portunity of paying agreeably to
law.” The voter must be at least
twenty-one years of age on Tuesday
following the first Monday in No
vember, in order to register, and
may vote in primaries to nominate
candidates for the General Election,
although not yet 21 years old, pro
vided he will be 21 at the Genera!
Election.
All poll taxes go to the public
school children of the state.
The ballot is our only means for
selecting public servants. It is more
powerful than money, more conquer
ing than armies and yet easily avail
able to all.
G. P. SAUNDERS ACQUIRES
THE TYLER BUSINESS LOT
Announcement is made by O. E.
Smith, Butts county real estate
agent, of the sale by Paul Tyler, as
administrator of the estate of W. F.
Tyler, of the brick building corner
Second and Oak streets to G. P.
Saunders. The consideration, a cash
one, involved $1,700, and a paving
assessment of S4OO. Paul Tyler &
Company will continue to occupy the
building, considered a desirable and
conveniently located one.
STORM TAKES TOLL
17 LIVES IN SOUTH
MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND
GEORGIA HIT BY TORNADOES
HAMPTON AND McDONOUGH
IN PATH OF STORM SUNDAY.
Seventeen were dead and scores
injured as the result of tornadoes
and wind storms that swept over thi
South Sunday.
Mississippi’s death list reached ter.,
Alabama reported three, Georgia
two and Louisiana one.
Twin tornadoes tore into rural
sections of Lauderdale county, Miss.,
leaving ten dead- and more than 30
injured were in hospitals.
Clay county, in eastern Alabama,
was the hardest hit in that state. At
least 80 residences were reported
blown down.
Will Phillips and his wife, both
about 60, of the Bethel Camp Ground
community, near Carrollton, Ga.,
were killed when the storm blew
down their house- Thirteen persons
were reported injured in that sec
tion.
The tornado struck in the section
between Hampton and McDonough
and several houses were blown down
and trees uprooted. Many of the
residents were attending a singing
convention and probably escaped
death or injury.
At Bowdon in Carroll county 200
persons were made homeelss by the
storm and property damage was es
timated at $250,000.
In Henry county, where the storm
Miss Lucile Morgan of the
state headquarters of the CWA, was
in charge of relief work. Miss Flora
Pittman, CWA administrator for
Henry county, was instructed to use
CWA workers in clearing wreckage
in that section.
Stone J. Crane, special represen
tative of the American Red Cross,
was instructed by his headquarters
(o take immediate charge in the
storm-stricken areas in Georgia.
Fortunately Butts county escaped
the full fury of the storm. The coun
ty was visited by a severe hail, rain
and wind storm but no serious dam
age was reported.
FIRE PROTECTION FOR
55 P.C. FOREST LAND
TOTAL OF 223,000,000 ACRES
UNDER SOME FORM OF CON
TROL IN THE SEVERAL
STATES OF UNION.
Approximately 223,000,000 acres
of State and private forest or poten
tial forest lands were reported by
the States as being under some form
of organized protection from fire
last year, according to the United
States Forest Service. The acreage
protected is 55 per cent of the total
forest area classed as needing pro
tcetion.
Thirty-eight States co-operated
with the Federal Government in fire
protection under the Clarke-MeNary
Act during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1933. A total of $3,141,-
445 State and private funds were
spent in co-operative forest-fire pro
tection in the fiscal year.
The total area of protected State
and private lands reported as burned
over by forest fires in the calendar
year 1932 was 2,904,350 acres (of
which 598,970 acres are classed as
not having a productive value), as
against 5,854,270 acres in 1931. Of
unprotected forest lands 38,410,000
acres were burned over in 1932 as
against 45,200,000 acres in 1931.
Within protected units the 2,405,-
380 acres classed as productive for
est land which were reported as
burned over constitute 1.1 per cent
of the forest area protected. It is
Butts CWA Cut
To 134 Men By
Recent Orders
In pursuance of its policy of ta
pering off the Civil Works Adminis
tration by spring and finally liquidat
ing this service by May, the govern
ment has put into effect here anoth
er cut in CWA workers.
A total of 85 men was stricken
from the rolls several days ago and
last week 53 more were deleted. This
now leaves 134 men on the CWA. At
cne time there was about 270 men
engaged in work in the county.
Annouriceemnt was made from
Washington Sunday that Georgia
would stand a reduction of 15,000
men this week. Other states are cut
in proportion.
No new projects are announced for
Butts county and efforts are being
directed to complete those already
under construction.
FELTON TO SEEK
HIGH COURT JOB
MONTEZUMA EDITOR AND FOR
MER MEMBER PUBLIC SERV
ICE COMMISSION TO OPPOSE
JUDGE HUTCHESQN.
Hon. Jule W. Felton, of Montezu
ma, editor of The Montezuma Geor
gian, former mayor of his city for
several terms and a former member
of the Georgia Public Service Com
mission, announced Saturday that he
•would be a candidate against Judge
John B. Hutcheson, of Jonesboro, for
a seat on the supreme court bench,
llis formal announcement, he said,
would be made following a meeting
ol the state Democratic executive
committee.
Judge Hutcheson, formerly presid
ing jurist of the Stone Mountain Cir
cuit, was appointed to a place on the
supreme court by Governor Tal
madge to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge Warner Hill.
The declaration of Col. Felton that
he will be a candidate for this post
is regarded as the opening gun in
the state political campaign.
Mr. Felton was appointed by for
mer Governor Dick Russell to a place
on the public service commission
and in the election two years ago
was elected for a full term. Last
year he, along with other members
of the commission, was removed
from office by Governor Talmadge.
A. court fight followed, but the gov
ernor was sustained. Since his re
moval from office Col. Felton
through his newspaper has been ac
tive in criticising Governor Tal
madge.
Regarded as an able attorney and
member of a well-known middle
Georgia family, Col. Felton has a
large personal and political following
in Georgia. He is particularly well
known in Butts county, having mar
ried Miss Mary Julia Sasnett, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Sasnett, of
Jackson.
LOSES HIS POCKETBQOK
WITH $2,250 IN CASH
Thomaston, Ga.—Tom Hall, resi
dent of Silvertown, lost Friday morn
ing his poeketbook containing about
$2,250, according to reports. It is
understood that several weeks ago
Mr. Hall exchanged $2,250 in gold to
the local bank for currency, which
he had been carrying on his person
since that time.
significant that 93 per cent of the
State and private land burned over
was “outside of protected units, the
Forest Service said.
The number of fires reported for
protected units of State and private
land for the calendar year 1932 was
55,575, as against 56,443 in 1931.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
i nitM OBJECTIVES
toll COUNTY GIVEN
COUNTY AGENT TOLD OF RE.
CENT CONFERENCE IN ATH
ENS. CLUB WORK, SOIL BUILD
ING, MARKETING STRESSED.
County Agent B. M. Drake in a
talk to members of the Kiwanis db
Tuesday night outlined in an inter
esting way objectives planned for the
year in Butts county. Mr. Drake,
who attended a conference of farm
leaders in Athens last week, stated
the main points agreed on at that
meeting.
Development of community centers
and the building of an agressive farm
leadership are things planned by th t
Lniversity System of Georgia to re
store agriculture to its former place.
He mentioned the fact that Chancel
lor Weltner is greatly concerned
about building up of community
centers in Georgia and the farm col
onization project in Jasper and Put
nam counties was cited as an exam
ple of what it is hoped to do in oth
er parts of the state.
Explaining the fact that he has
been closely confined in his officu
for the last six motnhs by emergen
cy work with the cotton campaign,
Mr. Drake stated he hopes to get out
in the field and stress for the year
as main points the following:
Soil improvement through the
planting of summer and winter leg
umes and the building of a better
system of terraces. Conservation of
the soil is one of the great problems
facing the county, Mr. Drake de
clared.
Development of boys club work
through organization of various agri
cultural clubs in the school and com
munity centers. There is an acute
need for training the boys for lead
ership in their communities and re
tain them in the country as captains
of agriculture.
Organization of marketing associ
ations and co-operatives in the sev
eral communities. The case of the
Elgin community in handling poul
try in a highly successful way was
cited. The county needs especially,
Mr. Drake said, an association to as
sist in marketing poultry. Truck,
crops and other farm commodities'
can likewise be handled to better ad
vantage by aid of an association.
Development of additional cash
crops. Mr. Drake gave it as hi3
opinion that truck crops can be made
to supply a considerable cash income
tr- farmers of the county. The car
rot project, which dry weather seri
ously crippled last season, was cited
as an example. He stated that ef
forts are being worked out to have a
truck haul county vegetables to
Florfda in the late summer and early
fall, and stressed the need of a de
pot where this truck could be assem
bled.
Mr. Drake spoke with a thorough
grasp of his subject and asked for
the continued co-operation of the Ki
wanis club in his work, boys club
work in particular. His talk was
heard with interest and profit.
Joe Morris, member of the firm of
Morris & Standard, was cordially
welcomed as anew member.
Dinner was served by the U. D. C,,
Mrs. L. M. Crawford chairman.
Directors of the club will meet at
Jackson National Bank March 8 at 1
o’clock to plan activities for the next
few months.
BUTTS CITIZENS PURCHASE
112 ACRES FOR INVESTMENT
J. W. Terrell, of Flovilla, has sold
to O. F. Smith, J. A. Dodson and
Mrs. Agnes Dodson 112 acres of
land in the 609th district. This
acreage, known as the B. F. Watson
place, was bought for investment
purposes. The consideration was not
given.