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VOL. 62—No. 10
11.822 Miles on Route 42 Will Be Paved Immediately
1934 MARCH 1934
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PROGRAM AT INDIAN
SPRINGS EXPLAINED
SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY
WORK TELLS OF WORK ON
NEW BRIDGE AND OUTLINES
PROJECTS FOR FUTURE.
Blanton Clement, superintendent
of the Jackson Civilian Conservation
Corps, outlined to members of the
Kiwanis club Tuesday night what
<\as been accomplished at Indian
Springs, told of construction work
on the new concrete bridge at the
entrance of the state park and
Sketched projetcs planned for early
attention.
Work on the new bridge is now
going on and this project must be
completed by April 1, it was explain
ed, when anew period in the CCC
will 'begin.
Ten thousand trees and shrubs
have been planted, largely on the
ten acres of the original reserve, Mr.
Clement pointed out. With the new
acreage made available it is planned
to outline this planting and the prop
erty will be otherwise improved.
Mr. Clement said it was planned
to replace the present wooden casino
and pavilion with stone structures,
These projects await final approval
in Washington. The work is under
<the direction of the department of
the Interior, it was explained.
It is planned to continue the work
for another year at least and in that
time much can be accomplished, Mr.
Clement explained. He lauded citi
zens of the county for their assist •
ance and support in providing more
land and in donating materials for
sie Indian museum.
R. J. Taylor, field representative
of the seed loans for Butts av.d Hen
counties, was a guest. Dinner was
served by the Woman’s Club, Mrs.
O. A. Pound chairman.
WILL RUSH WORK
ON NEW BRIDGE
AUTHORITY RECEIVED FOR
BUILDING NEW CONCRETE
BRIDGE AT INDIAN SPRINGS.
BE COMPLETED APRIL 1.
Orders have been received for the
building of anew stone bridge at
Indian Springs and work got under
way at once.
The bridge will be built over the
creek between th,e dance hall and
the Foy Hotel. It will be an arch
bridge of concrete reinforced with
stone. There will be room for two
vehicles and a partition for pedes-
trians.
The material has already been as
semble and upon the receipt of or
ders from Washington work started
immediately.
It is planned to complete the proj
ect by April 1. On that date an
other period of enlistment 'begins in
the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Three shifts will be employed in con
duction of the bridge, it is planned.
Other projects to receive attention
at Indian Springs this spring and
summer* include anew casino and
pavilion to be Constructed of stone.
Approval of these projects is ’being
awaited from Washington.
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There were 23,723,399 motor ve
hicles in use in the United States at
the close of 1933.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
HONORED PRELATE
HIGH TRIBUTES PAID TO LIFE
AND SERVICE OF THE LATE
MR. D. G. McMICHAEL BY
ALEXIUS COMMANDERY.
The memorial service planned by,
Alexius Comamndery No. 22, Knights
Templar, in honor of the late Mr.
D. G. McMichael, charter member
and a past commander and prelate
for almost the entire period of its
existence, held Friday night, proved
most impressive. Lofty tributes to
his worth as a man, his work as a
Mason, his unfaltering loyalty and
love for the order, were given by
Eminent Sir J. Paul Stephens, of Au
gusta, grand sword bearer of the
grand commandery of Georgia, who
came to Jackson to inspecte Alexius
Commandery, and by Judge H. M.
Fletcher, one of the best informed
Masons in the state.
Foliowing the inspection, conduct
ed by Sir Knight Stephens, the me
morial service was made the princi
pal order of the meeting. Alexius
Commandery was commended by the
visiting officer for its spirit and loy
alty and the attendance present at
the inspection. In his remarks Mr.
Stephens, who was not personally ac
quainted with Mr. McMichael but
knew much of him by reputation,
said that Mr. McMichael’s influence
would linger and grow until the end
of time. He was the kind of man
needed in these stirring days of un
certainty and unrest, the speaker de
clared.
Judge Fletcher was asked to make
the main address. He delivered a
beautiful and tender tribute to Mr.
McMichael. Sketching briefly the
deceased member’s Masonic career,
begun in 1881, and including a long
and active service in the blue lodge,
chapter, commandery and Shrine,
Judge Fletcher told of Mr. McMich
ael’s faith, loyalty, trust, sweetness
and simplicity. His untiring efforts in
all 'branches of Masonry brought high
commendation, and his honesty was
lauded. Judge Fletcher declared
Mr. McMichael went to his reward
unafraid, soothed by an unfaltering
trust and a firm belief in God. A
belief in the immortality of the soul
has ever been the mark of all true
Masons, Judge Fletcher declared,
and he quoted many of the great
writers and philosophers in support
of this argument.
J. D. Jones expressed the belief
that Mr. McMichael was not only a
good Mason but a noble Christian,
true and loyal to hjs church vows
and temperate in all his habits.
The entire service was most im
pressive and expressed in a feeble
manner the love and esteem in which
this good man was held by his as
sociates.
CiTY TO WAGE CAMPAIGN
AGAINST FAST DRIVING
Skating cn Streets Will Be Prohibit
ed in Future.
A campaign against speeding in
the city of Jackson will be waged by
policemen, acording to a resolution
passed by city council. Officers have
been instructed to make cases
against all persons driving cars in
excess of the speed limit fixed.
It is also announced that skating
on the streets will be prohibited. City
authorities plan to rope off a portion
of the streets and permit children to
skate certain days in the week. An
ordinance to that effect is being pre
pared.
There are 367 generals and 39,367
privates in the Mexican army.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1934
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Farmers’ Income
484 Million For
Month January
Washington.—The Bureau of Ag
ricultural Economics in the first of a
series of new monthly reports, said
Saturday the cash income during
January was $484,000,000.
Of this income, $424,000,000 was
from sale of farm products and $60,-
000,000 from rentals and benefit
payments under the crop reduction
program, the report said. The total
was 41 per cent greater than in Jan
uny, 1933.
The income from products mar
keted, not including benefit pay
ments, was 4 per cent higher than in
January, 1933.
The principal increases in January
came from fruits, vegetables and
meat animal, with declines shown
in dairy products, podltry and eggs.
GROWERS SIGNED
547gC0NTRACTS
COTTON REPORT SENT TO ATH
ENS FOR APPROVAL. FARM
ERS HERE RENT 6,500 ACRES
TO THE GOVERNMENT.
A total of 547 contracts have been
signed by <3utts county farmers to
reduce cotton acreage this season,
ar-d the report has been forwarded
to Athens for approval.
If the report is accepted there the
contracts will then be forwarded to
Washington for final approval.
Farmers here have agreed to rent
the government approximately 6,500
acres of cotton land. A total of 15,-
593 acres is represented by the con
tracts. The base acreage for the
county was given as 15,700 acres.
The average yield for the county
was approximately 190 pounds per
acre.
Last summer farmers of the coun
ty plowed up 3,700 acres under the
government’s acreage reduction pro
gram. Thus it will be seen that the
present campaign was more widely
accepted than the plow-up campaign.
The time checks will be received
depends upon the acceptance of the
report in Athens and final approval
in Washington of the 547 contracts,
B. M. Drake, county farm agent, re
ports.
COMPILE ORDERS FOR
PASTURE GRASS SEED
CO-OPERATIVE BUYING WILL
BE FOLLOWED IF SUFFICIENT
INTEREST IS MANIFESTED.
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED
Orders for pasture grass seed are
being compiled in the office of B.
M. Drake, Butts county farm agent.
If there is sufficient orders to war
rant it seed will be bought in large
quantities on a co-operative basis
and fanners may be able to save on
their requirements by this plan.
Immediate action is necessary, as
it is time to plant lespedeza on grain
land and to sow carpet and dallis
grass seed in pastures. Orders
should be left with Mr. Drake at
cnce, if co-operative buying is de
sired.
Those intending to plant pasture
grass seed will_ be able to obtain
their requirements from local deal
ers.
Considerable interest is being
shown in pasture improveemnt, Mr.
Drake reports, and the quality of
the pastures will be further improv
ed by planting this season.
UNCLE SAM SUED
FOR LARGE SUM
GEORGIA WHOLESALE COMPA
NY, FORMERLY OF JACKSON,
BEGINS ACTION FOR ALLEGED
BREACH OF CONTRACT.
Citizens of Butts county will be
| interested in the attached article
from Friday’s Macon Telegraph,
telling of the filing of a suit by the
Georgia Wholesale Company, for
merly of Jackson but now of Macon,
against the government for the al
leged breaking of a contract in con
nection with the sale of surplus
army shoes. Thse article is as fol
lows:
Seeking damages for alleged vio
lation of a contract, the Georgia
Wholesale company of Macon has
filed suit against the federal govern
ment in the court of claims, Wash
ington, for $517,316, it was learned
yere yesterday.
Frank S. Carmichael, of Macon, is
president of the company, which has
a large volume of business.
The company alleges breach of a
fiwe-year contract entered into in
1930 for the purchase of 1,107,634
pairs of army trench shoes left over
from the World war, which the war
department agreed to deliver in vary
ing sizes at a price of $1.55. Offi
cials of the department violated the
contract by releasing upward of 200,-
000 selected pairs of shoes to the
Civilian Conservation Corps without
consent of the company, it was con-
destroying the size range
of original stock and incapacitating
the government to perform its obli
gations fully.
Based on the testimony of Major
General DeWitt, quartermaster gen
eral of the army, that the sale value
of the shoes was at least $2 per pair,
the company has asked for damages
at the rate of 45 cents per pair, plus
$25,000 deposited with the govern
ment in cash in lieu of a perform
ance bond at the time the contract
was signed.
The charge also was made that
the government, contrary to the
terms of the contract, in addition to
giving shoes to the CCC, had adver
tised and sold trench shoes at as
much as $2.31 a pair. The quantity
sold was not stated as the govern
ment had refused the contractor that
information.
PLAN FEDERAL FUNDS
TO OPERATE SCHOOLS
NECESSARY PAPERS HAVE BEEN
FORWARDED TO ATLANTA
FOR APPROVAL. TO ELECT
SCHOOL TRUSTEES MARCH 31.
At the meeting of the Butts Coun
ty Board of Education Tuesday it
was decided to hold an election for
the naming of school trustees on
March 31.
The county hopes to obtain federal
funds to help operate the schools
here for the remainder of the term.
The necessary papers have been pre
pared and forwarded to Atlanta for
approval. Teachers will be paid the
salaries agreed on by members of
the board and checks will be mailed
monthly to the teachers from Atlan
ta, it was stated.
This is an emergency measure de
signed to keep the schools of the
state open.
A resolution was passed asking the
congressman to support the Walter
F. George bill, seeking federal funds
to operate Georgia schools for an
other year.
CONTRACT FOR PAVING INDIAN
SPRINGS TO FORSVTH BE LET
$250 LIMIT PLACED ON
1934 EMERGENCY LOANS
EMERGENCY LOANS OPEN TO
THOSE UNABLE TO OBTAIN
HELP ELSEWHERE. INTEREST
RATE IS 5 Jjj PER CENT.
Regulations for making emergen
cy crop loans from the $40,000,000
fund recently made available by
Congress indicate that a farmer may
obtain such a loan if he cannot qual
ify for credit elsewhere, if he has a
justified need for credit and if he is
co-operating with the production
control program of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, accord
ing to a statement made today by S.
M. Garwood, Production Credit
Comimssioner of the Farm Credit
Administration.
The maximum amount which will
be made available to any one farmer
this year is $250 and the minimum is
$25 according to the regulations.
The interest rate will be 5 per
cent per annum. Provisions for
taking crop liens have been worked
out under Mr. Garwood’s direction
and detailed regulations will be
placed in the hands of local emer
gency crop loan committees within
the near future. The time and place
where these committees will receive
applications will be made known lo
cally within a short time.
Before any farmer may secure a
loan, however, he must first obtain a
statement from the County Produc
tion Council where one exists, that
he does not intesd to increase his
acreage or production in opposition
to the Agricultural Adjustemnt Ad
ministration program. Where a
county production council has not
been set up, the applicant will have
to give satisfactory evidence that he
co-operating with the production
control program of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration before
his application for a loan will be
considered.
Applications for loans from $25
to $l5O may'be made directly to the
emergency crop loan offices provid
ed the applicants do not have securi
ty to obtain loans elsewhere.
A farmer applying for a loan of
$l5O or more must first make ap
plication for a loan to the Produc
tion Credit Association serving his
county. Rejection of his application
by the Production Credit Asoccia
tion will be considered sufficient ev
idence that other credit is not avail
able and the farmer may then make
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application to the emergency cron
loan office.
The emergency crop loans are en
tirely separate from, and are not to
be confused with production credit
association loans. The Emergency
Crop Loan Fund is an emergency re
lief measure for this year only, to
make available funds to those who
cannot qualify for credit through the
regular channels op a production
credit association.
In announcing the regulations Mr.
Carwood said he could not empha
size too strongly that the emergency
crop loans are to provide a means
of temporary relief for this year on
ly, and that this year’s loans prob
ably will be the last of their kind.
Farmers who have a source of in
come other than farming are not
eligible for emergency crop loans.
It has been estimated that 25 miles
underground the earth’s temperature
is 2,500 degrees Farenheit, more
than enough to melt metals or rocks.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
STATE HIGHWAY BOARD AD
VERTISING FOR BIDS FOR
11.822 MILES OF CONCRETE
PAVING. BE AWARDED SOON.
The gap between Indian Springs
and Forsyth on Route No. 42 will be
paved at an early date, as will be
seen by a notice from the State
Highway Board in which bids will be
received to March 28, for paving
11.822 miles. The paving will be
of concrete and the notice sets out
the quantities of material needed.
This paving will close the gap
from Jackson to Forsyth on this im
portant north and south highway.
Paving is already in progress from
Forsyth for four miles in the direc
tion of Indian Springs. The road
from Indian Springs to Jackson is
paved and the entire length in Hen
ry county is hard surfaced. This
leaves a gap from Jackson to the
Henry county line and a short link
in Clayton to 'be paved.
People of this section are greatly
encouraged over the announcement
that the Indian Springs-Forsyth road
is to be paved, as well as the prog
ress in Clayton county. Paving
from the Butts line to Locust Grove
was recently completed and will soon
be opened to traffic.
Governor Talmadge and members
of the State Highway Board are
showing much interest in completing
this important highway and this ac
tion is appreciated by citizens in this
section.
POULTRY LOADED
IN ATLANTA TRUCK
APPROXIMATELY TWO THOU
SAND POUNDS POULTRY NET
TED FARMERS AROUND S2OO.
TRUCK HERE THURSDAY.
The results of the first co-opera
tive poultry sale of the 1934 season,
held here Thursday of the past week,
proved pleasing to County Agent
Drake. Approximately 2,000 pounds
of chickens were loaded on a truck
and sent to Atlanta. The net pro
ceeds amounted to about $197.40.
Considering the fact the sale was
not as well advertised as some for
mer sales, the showing is considered
a good one. The weak before the
sale Mr. Drake was in Athens for
several days and /there was not an
opportunity for giving proper notice
through the press. Letters and cards
were mailed and these brought a
gratifying response.
This was the first sale conducted
heer where a truck handled the con
signment. The Atlanta market was
said to be in need of poultry and a
quick- run was made after the truck
was loaded.
Mr. Drake is working to perfect
an association to assist in marketing
poultry. With such an arrangement
to report the available poultry in the
county, and with ready truck service
the sales should grow in favor and
prove increasingly profitable to
farmers.
REV. G. L. RIDDLE WILL
FILL PULPIT ON SUNDAY
Rev. G. L. Riddle, of Atlanta, pas
tor of the Jackson Presbyterian
church, will fill the pulpit here Sun
day morning at the II o’clock hour.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend. There will be no services at
night.
A jellyfish is 98 per cent water.