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VOL. 62—No. 21.
1934 JUNE 1934
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KIWANIS CLUB HAS
SPIRITtD MEETING
LADIES’ NIGHT AND “ALL KI
WANIS NIGHT” OBSERVED IN
CONNECTION WITH INTERNA
TIONAL CONVENTION.
For the thirteenth year the Kiwan
is club of Jackson observed “All
Kiwanis” night Monday, the meeting
being similar to that held by the
1,868 clubs in the United States and
Canada. It was also Ladies’ Night,
and the presence of the wives of the
members added interest and pleasure
to the occasion.
The eighteenth annual convention
of Kiwanis International is being
held in Toronto, Canada, during the
week. The Georgia delegation is
headed by Mark A. Smith, of Thom
aston, governor of the Georgia Ki
wanis district.
Kiwanis International now has a
membership of 81,000.
Monday night’s meeting proved an
interesting and enjoyable one.. The
program was in charge of past presi
dents of the club —J. L. Lyons, chair
man, R. P. Newton, J. W. O’Neal, W.
W. Wright and J. D. Jones. Several
games, contests and stunts were put
on for the entertainment of the
company. These included indoor
track meets, marathon races and
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other stunts, all of which were new
and interesting.
The Jackson Club Corporation,
with Mrs. L. M. Crawford 'chairman,
served an elegant dinner.
In addition to the program, there
was a fellowship moment of silence,
carried out by all clubs at the same
president’s message and singing of
“America” and “God Save hte King,”
national anthems of the United
and Canado.
The meeting was well attended and
the entire company enjoyed the
snappy program and good fellow
ship.
SURVEY MADE TO THE
HENRY COUNTY PAVING
UNCERTAINTY EXISTS AS TO
REASON FOR RUNNING NEW
LINZ. WOULD CONNECT
WITH STATE ROUTE NO. 16.
A survey between the paving in
Henry county and the city of Jackson
has been in progress for the past sev
eral days. The survey i sin charge of
state highway engineers.
The route between Jackson and
the Henry county line was located
three or four years ago. The road
has been graded, bridges and culverts
built and is now ready for paving.
It was thought to be an accepted fact
that the line of the present highway
would be followed when the paving
was started.
The present survey was ordered
by federal engineers, it is stated.
The survey, as made, would con
nect with the paving in Henry coun.
tv near the Pullin place and follow
a line between the J. B. Childs home
and County Line church and con
nect with route 16 at the W. H.
Watkins place.
A delegation of Middle Georgia
citizens appeared before Governor
Talmadge and the Highway Board
last week and urged early paving of
the 5-mile link between Jackson and
the Henry county line.
COUNTY FAILLES
BE PLACED ON FEET
THREE FAMILIES SELECTED FOR
REHABILITATE AND OTHER
APPLICATIONS ARE PENDING
BEFORE BOARD.
The state Rural Rehabilitation Ad
visory Committee has approved three
Eutts county families for aid under
the government’s far-flung plan for
enabling families who have lost their
homes—through no fault of theirs —
to carry on. *■
Eight applications have been re
ceived here and the state committee
has up to the present approved three
of these. There undoubtedly will be
a large number later on, it was stated
at the FERA office in the court
house.
The government is engaged in
plans to put thousands of farmers
back on the farms and make them
sustaining. Only those who have
owned farms and lost them 'by some
misfortunate will be included in the
rural rehabilitation work, it is de
clared.
Substantial help in the way of
livestock, food and other necessities
will be furnished and the families will
be expected to pay this back later.
This work is entirely separate
from the relief work in which food
and clothing are donated.
This is regarded as a constructive
movement and one that holds much
of promise for the future.
KYLE McMICHAEL WITH
SIGNAL UNIT OF MARINES
Butts County Boy Enlisted in Marines
In Macon Office
Macon, Ga.—Kyle S. McMichael, of
the U. S. Marines, formerly of Cork,
is now serving in the First Signal
Company, at Quantico, Va., the East
Coast Expeditionary Base of the
Marine Corps, near the national cap
ital at Washington, D. C., according
to inforamtion recently received at
the district headquarters, mnuicipal
auditorium, Macon, where he was ac
cepted for service. He completed
the basic training course at Parris
Island, S. C., and served in several
other posts before assuming his pres
ent duties.
A signal company, as the name im
plies, is charged with the important
function of maintaining communica
tions, both in peace and war. The
personnel of such an organization is
composed of highly trained techni
cians, principally the radio and tele
phone units, which can install and
operate their instruments under al
most any conditions. By his atten
tion to his duties, McMichael has
proven the trust placed in him by
assignment to this organization.
A high school education is the
minimum educational requirement
for acceptance in the Marines. Mc-
Michael, who prior to his entrance
into service resided with his paretns,
Mr. and Mrs. Terrell McMichael, was
graduated from Jackson high school.
California, if placed with one end
ii: New York city, would extend to a
point near Jacksonville. Fla.
EMERGENCY DRIVES GEORGIA FARMERS TO HARVEST FIELDS ON SABBATH
Face to face with an emergency
as grave as any that ever confronted
the state, farmers of Georgia went
to the fields last Sunday and harwest
ed grain. Others worked desperate
ly to rescue crops from a wilderness
of grass.
That Sunday labor was general
over a wide area is the information
reported by motorists.
The occurence is a most unusual
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1934.
COTTON DAMAGE
PUT 20 PER CENT
THIS IS ESTIMATE OF G. C.
ADAMS, COMMISSIONER OF
AGRICULTURE. OTHER CROPS
SUFFER RAIN, GRASS DAMAGE
Atlanta, Ga.—Approximately 20
per cent of Georgia’s cotton crop has
been destroyed and damaged to other
crop has been serious as a result of
excessive rains this spring, Commis
sioner of Agriculture G. C. Adams
said Saturday.
Commissioner Adams said that all
crops are greatly damaged, the land
badly washed, and that there is
more grass in the crops than he has
seen in years.
“I am sure that the cotton crop
has been materially damaged,” he
said. “Much of the cotton has been
washed up in many places and in
other places the plants have been
covered by silt washed down fee-in
higher land.
“Of course we are inclined to
speak of such things in super'atives
and to over estimate the damage,
but I am certain that at least 20
per cent of the cotton crop in this
state has been destroyed.
Mr. Adams said also (bat the boll
weevil has already begun an infesta
t on of the cotton crop, aggravated
by the heavy rains.
“The damage to tiii small grain
crop has been very serious,” he con
tinued. “Much of the wheat and
oats have fallen from the wind and
rains and because of the wet ground
that hindered harvesting.
“If the rains continue for a few
more days I think nature will entire
ly nullify the government reduction
program and the Bankhead bill.”
BOYS WILL BE GUESTS
AT BIG BROTHER MEET
FROF. HASKEW OF MONROE TO
DELIVER ADDRESS ON JUNE
19. .MEMBERS WILL HAVE
BOYS AS THEIR GUESTS.
Prof. Haskew, of the Georgia Vo
cational and Trades School at Mon
roe,’ will be the guest speaker at the
meeting of the Kiwanis club on
June 19. He is doing outstanding
work at the Monroe school and mem
bers of the Jackson club who heard
him speak at an inter-club meeting
in Newnan were delighted with the
maner in which he handled his sub
ject.
Members of the club will have as
guests at that meeting boys of the
community. The club is sponsoring
the “Big Brother” movement and
each member has selected a boy as
his buddy for the year.
Kiwanis is giving particular em
phasis to vocational guidance and
placement and is trying to train boys
for occupations best suited to their
skill and ability. The movement is
regarded as one of great importance
in the educational world.
The program is being arranged by
J. L. Lyons, chairman of the Under
privileged Child committee.
The meeting will be held June 19
ar 6:30 p. m.
one and has not happened before in
years, so far as information is ob
tainable.
The farm situation, to put it con
servatively, is alarming. Much grain
has rotted in the fields. Farmers,
unable to get in but a day or two of
work in weeks, find their crops lit
erally covered with grass.
May and the first part of June have
been wet and but little opportunity
PAVING BE OPENED
DURING THE WEEK
TRAFFIC WILL BE TURNED ON
PAVING BETWEEN FORSYTH
AND INDIAN -SPRINGS THE
LAST OF THE PRESENT WEEK.
The nfcw paving recently completed
between Indian Springs and Forsyth
will be ppened to traffic the last of
this probably Friday, it is
stated.
The 11.822 miles, coneeting Indian
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Springs with the paving previously
done ou of Forsyth, was completed
the first of last week by the Whit
ley Cons truction Company. It is re
called the paving was laid in 45
working*days, whereas 120 working
days was the limit fixed in the con
tract.
When this paving is opened to traf
fic it will connect Jackson and Ma
con with an all paved highway. The
five miles Jackson to Indian Springs
was paved in 1928. Forsyth has
had a paved highway to Macon for
several years.
Asa result of this paving Indian
Springs is looking forward to its best
season in a number of years. The
noted htalth resort and recreation
center will be accessible from Florida
and soutjh Georgia points, and the
improvements carried on by the Jack
son CCG camp has attVacted wide
attention.
Despite the fact that the new paved
road was closed to traffic, Sunday
drew a large crowd of visitors. Res
idents of Indian Springs said the
crowd was the largest since 1930.
The hotels, swimming pool and
amusemetn centers are open and a
banner season is confidently pre
dicted.
GRIFFIN OFFICERS MAKE
RAIDS ON BEER DEALERS
BEER DEALERS FACE PROBE
WHEN GRAND JUURY CONVEN
ES. RAIDS MADE ON ORDER
OF SOLICITOR CONNOR.
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Griffin, Ga., June 11.—With beer
confiscations having already been
made in 18 places, Spalding officers
today declared they intended to con
tinue to make seizures of the bever
age wherever it is sold in the city
and county.
j In two of the 18 places other bev
! erages were seized besides beer. At
| Hughes filling station at Sunny Side,
J Spalding officers said they seized 40
pints and five quarts of whiskey,
four dozen bottles of home brew and
a case of beer. At T. O. Shaw’s fill
ing station on the Zebulon Road, of
ficers reported they confiscated 400
bottles of home brew.
The evidence secured in the 18
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places will be presented to the June
term Spalding county grand jury,
which meets next Monday, June 18.
i The beer seizures were made on
1 orders of Solicitor General W. H.
Connor.
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Firecrackers in China are used not
only on holidays, but during wed
dings, funerals, anniversaries and
similar occasions.
has been afforded for farm work.
This in addition to a late start in the
spring has produced a bad situation.
Trains are operated on Sunday,
there is Sunday 'baseball and motion
picture shows. With more justifi
cation than any of these, farmers
deemed it necessary last Sunday to
try to save their grain and rescue
their crops from threatened destruc
tion by grass.
HISTORICAL PAGEANT WILL BE
PRESENTED AT INDIAN SPRINGS
THE BOLL WEEVIL
IS COTTON MENACE
COTTON PEST SHOWING UP IN
LARGE NUMBERS. WEATHER
BEEN FAVORABLE FOR DAM
AGE TO COTTON CROP.
The boll weevil is becoming a real
menace to the cotton crop in Butts
county, according to information com
piled by County Agent M. L. Powell
after a visit to many farms in the
county.
The weevil is here in large num
bers and is doing considerable dam
age already. The weather for the
past several weeks has been favor
able to the spread of the cotton bug.
As yet there has not been any con
certed effort to fight the cotton pest.
Farmers, however, are' preparing to
I begin a serious fighlj on the weevil.
The approved method of applying
calcium arsenate will be used.
Cotton is late and grassy and now
that the boll weevil has appeared in
large numbers the outlook is not en
couraging iot the 1934 crop.
25,000 HEAD CATTLE
BE SHIPPED STATE
COWS WILL BE PLACED WITH
THOSE ON FERA ROLLS. NO
DAIRY PRODUCTS TO BE SOLD.
CATTLE DISEASE FREE.
Atlanta, Ga.—Washington relief
officials have been notified that
Georgia at this time could not absorb
more than 25,000 of the 140,000 cat
tle which they had proposed to ship
here fram drought stricken middle
western states.
Miss Gay B. Shepperson, state re
lief administrator, wired that esti
mate to Lawrence Westbrook, as
sistant FERA administrator, on the
basis of information assembled
through county administrators.
The state director said 15,000
dairy cattle could be used here
“provided the shipment consists of
Jesreys or Guernseys and dual pur
pose cattle,” and that they be free
of tuberculosis and bangs disease. In
addition, she said, 10,000 yearlings
can be handled. She estimated a
similar number of both cattle and
yearlings might be absorbed later in
the summer.
W. B. Hutchinson, of Albany, pres
ident of the Georgia Beef Cattle
Raisers Association, said recently he
considered it impossible for the
farmers of Georgia to take care of
the proposed shipment of 140,000
head, and estimated that the num
ber would reduce to around 25,000.
No Demand For Cattle Here
There have been no demands for
dairy cattle for distribution among
families on relief rolls in Butts coun
ty, it was announced at the office of
the FERA in the court house Mon
day.
The cattle distributed by the gov
ernment are to be used solely to sup
ply family needs for milk and butter
and no dairy products are to be sold,
it has been announced.
Problems of how the cattle are to
be fed and wintered remain to be
worked out, it was stated by Miss
O’Delle Moore, of the Butts County
FERA office.
In Persia, the price of a hat is
determined by the amount of grain
it will hold.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
COMMITTEE AT MEETING FRI
DAY FIXED DATE FOR THE
PAGEANT FOR JUNE 27. CAMP
MEMBERS TAKE PART.
Plans for a pageant at Indian
Springs, depicting the historical
events connected with the coming of
the white man, portraying the many
important treaties signed there and
sketching the history of the springs
from 1790 to the present time, are
being completed.
At a meeting of the Welfare Com
mittee on Friday afternoon, at hte
Jackson CCC camp, it was decided
to stage the pageant on June 27.
Members of the CCC camp are
enthusiastic about the plans as out
lined and voted one hundred per
cent approval and participation.
The idea of staging a pageant
originated with a group study at the
camp of song and dramatics, con
ducted 'by Mrs. J. C. Newton. The
Citizens Social and Welfare com-
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mittee of Jackson is co-operating with
this group and Mrs. Newton and
broadened the scope of the pageant
to include all the men of the camp
and others where needed.
Freeman Land, president of the
Jackson Kiwanis club and chairman
of the Social committee, at the meet
ing Friday, said to the men, ni sub
stance: “We want the people of
Georgia to see what a splendid piece
of work you have accomplished at
Indian Springs, and we are going to
stage the pageant in your honor.
Members of the committee are: N.
F. Land, J. L. Lyons, P. H. Weaver,
J. D. Jones, Mrs. J. C. Newton, Mrs.
W. E. Watkins, Mrs. D. P. Settle.
Mrs. W. F. Watkins will prepare
the pageant.
REV. MR. DANIELL WILL
PREACH HERE ON SUNDAY
The Rev. Mr. Daniel, student in
Columbia Theological Seminary, will
preach at the Jackson Presbyterian
dhurdh Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
and 7:30 at night. He wlil fill
the pulpit at Fellowship church at
3:30 p. m. People of the entire
community are invited to hear Mr.
Daniel.
The Jackson and Fellowship
churches are now without a pastor,
and it is likely a call will be extend
ed within the near future.
LAMAR STUDENTS SPONSOR
HOME COMING ON JUNE 24
Lamar coulny students of the
former Sixth District A. & M. School
are sponsoring a reunion and home
coming to be held at the Legion Pool
in Barnesville June 24.
Butts county students, a large
number of whom formerly attended
the Sixth District school, will be in
terested in this announcement. Ef
forts are being made, the announce
ment said, to have all former stud
ents and teachers present. A picnic
lunch will be served. Those attend
ing the meeting are requested to
notify Opal Bevil Oakes, Milner, Ga.
RE-EMPLOYMENT SERVICE IS
HANDLED THROUGH GRIFFIN
Butts county citizens desiring to
register for employment may do so
by seeing J. L. Lyons v at his office in
the express building. All re-employ
ment for this immediate area is now
handled through the district office
in Griffin, and Mr. Lyons has beeh.
placed in chrarge of registration for
Butts county. All applications for
employment will be referred to the
Griffin office.