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YCL.62— No. 25.
1934 JULY 1934
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ERECT CANNERIES
WITH U. S. FUNDS
PLAN SEVERAL PLANTS TO
HANDLE MEATS FOR DISTRI
BUTION. TEXAS PLANTS BE
ING STUDIED AS MODELS-
Washington, D. C.—The federal
government was disclosed Sunday as
planning to take a direct hand in the
meat caninng business as a relief
measure.
The plan contemplates wide use
of federal funds to assist states and
counties in setting up meat canning
plants over the country—with sug
gestions also for plants to can vege
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tables, fruits and fish on a sizeable
scale.
Lawrence Westbrook, assistant
Federal Relief administrator, has
drafted the program into a booklet.
Its distribution to state emergency
relief administrators already has
begun.
Word of the new relief plan close
ly followed a report that a corpora
tion empowered to establish factories
for the relief of the unemployed was
to be formed for the District of Col
umbia.
The relief administration has had
under consideration for months the
leasing of idle factories to produce
or process both goods and food for
distribution to the needy.
Some private business interests
have manifested concern , objecting
to government entry into such
fields. The reply has been that none
of the products would go into com
mercial channels; that any such ar
rangements were of an emergency
character and were temporary; that
government buying from private
sources for relief needs would not
be materially curtailed but that
many on relief rolls would be fur
w
nished employment and thereby
would aid in their own rehabilita
tion.
Emergency livestock 'buying oper
ations in the drought sections of the
west are expected to furnish most of
the cattle to be processed.
A precedent for the federally-aid
ed meat canning chain has been set in
Texas where 19 such plants have
been operated in that state’s relief
work.
Based on Texas relief commission
figures, Westbrook, .estimated that
the cost of equipment in a small
plant would be SI,OOO to $1,500; in
a medium sized plant, 2,000 to $2,-
500 and in a large plant $2,500 to
$4,500. He said that the small fac
tories probably would employ 14
workers; the medium 35, and large,
68.
Hawkes Library
Gets New Books
The Hawkes Library for Children
announces the addition of several
new books within the past few days.
The committee placed an order Tor
these volumes and part of the ship
ment was received last week and the
others will follow shortly.
*The new volumes consist of chil
dren’s books, current fiction, refer
ence work and history.
of these books will be
hailed with delight by children of the
community, who have considerable
time for reading during the summer
Vacation.
i The Hawkes Library for Children
Ls following the policy of adding new
books at stated periods.
BEEF TYPE CATTLE
BROUGHT TO BUTTS
SEVERAL FARMERS RECENTLY
PURRCHASED HEREFORD CAT
TLE TO IMPROVE NATIVE
BREEDS OF LIVESTOCK.
Farmers of Butts county are be
coming interested in beef cattle ot
improved breeds. Within the past
few weeks there have been purchas
ed by several individuals of Here
ford bulls and heifers.
Dr. R. A. Franklin unloaded sixty
head of Herefords last week for his
pasture at Indian Springs. The cat
tle, shipped fiom Teras were 'brought
in Atlanta and were unloaded at
Flovilla. In the lot were twenty
heifers and forty Dr. Frank
lin plans to feed out and sell the
steers in the fall and keep the heif
ers for breeding.
The Hereford bulls, most of which
are purebred animals, will be bred to
native cows and in this way the strain
of native stock will, be improved.
i Just at this time there is state
wide interest in the beef cattle in
dustry. Authorities agree that the
native stock must be improved 'by
bleeding before the state can make
any decided progress with beef cat
tle.
The county has many fine pastur
es, resulting from a pasture improv
ment capmaign started a dozen years
ago. This is an advantage that will
make itself felt i nthe work of in
troducing beef cattle.
Efforts of those now engaged in
the beef cattle industry will 'be wath
ed with interest.
100,000 Students
To Get U. S. Aid
Washigton, D. C. —The emergency
relief administration decided Sunday
to spend $13,500,000 of government,
money to help 100,000 needy young
men and women through college next
year.
Aubrey W’ililams, acting relief ad
ministrator, announced that $1,500,-
00 would be set aside for nine monts
to pay tuition for pupils. He said the
students would earn their pay by
working at part-time jobs.
Under a noriginal student aid
prorgam, 75,000 men and women
were able to remain in college last
year with the help of relief money..
The program was gratifying to Ad
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins. He
determined to enlarge it this year.
Students attending college with
relief money will be permitted to
earn up to S2O a month. Relief funds
will be allocated through various state
emergency relief oragnizations to
Rcn-profit-making institutions.
Georgia Is Winner
In Two-Year Old
Suit For $500,000
(By Georgia Newspaper Allaience)
Ending a law suit that was begun
in 1932 when Lawrence Camp was
attorney general and enriching the
state treasury by $500,000, the state
supreme court has handed down a
ruling that income taxes paid the
federal governemnt by corporations
are not deductible from income tax
es due the state.
The litigation on which the court
gave its decision was a suit with the
the National Biscuit Company in
volving $1,475 but its effect on
similar suits made the decision suffi
ciently far-reaching to involve about
a half million dqllars, some of which
has 'been collected.
Attorney General Yeomans who
successfully concluded the case,
stated that about half of the money
in question will go to common schools
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934.
JUDGE PITTMAN TO
SPEAK IN GRIFFIN
CARTERSVILLE CANDIDATE TO
ADDRESS VOTERS OF SEVER
AL MIDDLE GEORGIA COUNT
IES ON JULY 27.
The campaign of Claude Pittman
for governorship of Georgia, which
is sweeping the state with increasing
force, will be carried to Griffin on
Friday, July 27, when Judge Pittman
.will speak at 7:30 o’clock.
Judge Pittman’s address in Grif
fin will be the feature of next week’s
itinerary of the Cartersville jurist,
and is expected to draw a large crowd
of voters from Spalding and sur
rounding counties.
The Griffin meeting- will be pre
ceded on July 25 at a gigantic
“Home Coming” rally in Newton
county, where Judge Pittman will be
speaker before a crowd which promi
ses to exceed in numbers any gather
ing yet assembled in the Governor’s
race.
Delegations are expected to go to
'both meetings from -all the counties
in this section of the state.
Judge Pittman, who has made ser
! ious charges of graft and corruption
against the Talmadge administration,
has been making a state wide appeal
for a return of honesty and decency
in the Government of Georgia. He
has charged that Governor Talmadge
has “pleaded guilty” to every charge
he has made, and that the Governor
is conducting a campaign of decep
tion and evasion of the issues he has
brought into the light.
“My opponents in a frantic effort
to becloud the issues, has dismissed
my charges with the assertion that I
am dealing in muck and filth” Judge
Pittman said.
!
“My role is that of proseceutor in
this case of the people of Georgia
against the House of Talmadge, and
lam dealing in facts and truths. If
this is mud, it is real mud and the
House of Talmadge is responsible for
it.
“The people must have the facts
in this case in order to arrive at a
just verdict lam telling facts and
letting the people, as jurors, draw
| their o(vn conclusions.'”
Three Local Boys
In Marine Corps
preliminary training he served for a
time at Portsmouth, Va., and Nor
folk, Va., where he joined the U. S.
S. Chaumont and later joined Marine
Barracks, San Diego, Calif. In Oct
ober he joined the U. S. S. Vega and
is now a member of Ist Signal Com
pany, Quantico, Va.
Thomas J. Carter graduated 1929
and was accepted at Macon Septem
ber 5, 1933.
James E. Andrews, son of Mr. Wil
liam M. Andrews of Jackson, was ac
cepted at Macon March 10, 1933.
Stations at which he has served in
clude Portsmouth, Va., and New
York, N. Y. July 19, 1933 he join
ed the new cruiser Indianapolis from
which President Roosevelt recently
reviewed the combined Atlantic and
Pacific fleets at New York. The
Indianopolis is flagship of Admiral
F. H. Brumby, commander of the
Scouting Force in Atlantic waters.
Jackson High School is represent
ed in the Marine Corps by three
graduates who were able to meet the
rigid requirements for soldiers of
the sea. All completed preliminary
training at Marine Corps Schools,
Parris Island, S. C., which receive
applicants from states east of the
Rocky Mountaiss.
Kyle S. McMichael, son of Terrell
McMichael of Cork, was accepted at
Macon, September 21, 1932. After
PROCESSING TAXES OF
U. S. REACH HIGH TOTAL
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS HAD
BEEN COLLECTED FROM LEV
IES AT END OF MAY.
The farm administration reports
an ever-mounting total of rental and
benefit payments which on June 20
reached $210,000,000. To the end
ol May $328,379,000 had been col
lected in processing taxes.
Payments to wheat growers, ex
clusive of adminstrative costs of
country production control associa
tions, totaled $06,945,373 as of June
20; corn and hog payments $5,713,-
£63; tobacco $11,751,982.
Rental and benefit payments or,
cotton, on old and new reduction
contiaets, amounted to $131,822,949,
of which $112,631,125 was on 1933-
34 contracts to May 12, and $19,191,-
824 on 1934-35 contracts to June 15.
Additionally, growers had been paid
$38,990,928 on cotton options exer
cised through producer’s pools and
$11,785,408 through direct sales of
cotton.
COMMITTEE READY TO
MEASURE COTTON LAND
SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTIONS WAS
HELD THE PAST WEEK. COUN
TY COMMITTEE TO HAVE
GENERAL CHARGE OF WORK.
The cotton committe in Butts
county is ready to begin work of
measuring land rented the govern
ment in its acreage reduction cam
paign.
A. school of instruction was held
two days last week to acquaint the
members of the committee with the
details of measuring land. One day
was spent in the school house, where
County Agent M. L. Powell illustra
ted on the blackboard methods of
measuring land of different shapes.
The other day was spent in the field.
The county committe, consisting
of J. L. Bailey, Sr., J. C. Jones, and
Fletcher Compton, will have general
charge of the work. The land will
be measured by the district commit
tees.
It is estimated that at least two
weeks will be required to measure
the land rented in the county. The
time will depend on the nature o£
the work and the co-operation ex
tended.
Before allotments are made it is
necessary to have the land measured.
As soon as this information is com
piled individual allotments will be
announced. Butts county has been
given a quota of 3,677 bales for 1934.
As soon as chains arrive the act
j ual work will be started, it is an
nounced by M. L. Powell, county
agent.
NINE CANDIDATES IN RACE
FOR HENRY COUNTY BOARD
McDonough, Ga.—Nine candidates
from five districts of Henry county
announced on Friday, the closing day
for entrants for the post of Commis
sioner of roads and revenues. W.
M. Berry incumbent and chairman of
the board, is opposed by J. A. Mc-
Garity.
Leon Carmichqel, incumbent in the
Second district, s opposed by J. P.
Pullin. There are three candidates
in the Third, the incumbent, C. C.
White, W. O. Evans and E. M. Bond.
Homer Bryans from the Fourth and
A. O. Sowell fro mthe Fifth have no
opposition.
Qualified voters in the county
number 1,518.
It s said that Benjamin Franklin at
tended school only two years—be
tween the ages of 8 and 10.
PROGRAM MAPPED
FOR MASONIC MEET
MASONS OF SIXTH DISTRICT
WILL GATHER AT INDIAN
SPRINGS NEXT TUESDAY. BAR
BECUE WILL BE SERVED.
A good program has been arrang
ed for the annual meeting of the
Sixth District Masonic Convention
to be held at Indian Springs on July
24. Grand Master Lunsford, of Mil
len, and deputy grand master F. D.
Thomas, of Atlanta, will be among
the prominent visitors to appear on
the program. \,
A barbecue will be served at 50
cents per plate. The meal will be
prepared by O. A. Tor'bet.
St. Johns lodge No. 45 will be of
ficial host to the conventon.
The following program is an
nounced by J. C. Newton, district
worshipful master.
Meeting called to order at 10 a. m.
central standard time, with J. C.
Newton, D. W. M. presiding.
Address of welcome, P. 11. Weaver,
mayor of Jackson.
Response to address of welcome, T.
J. Brown, McDonough.
Music, Jackson Club Chorus.
Address, Grand Master Lunsford.
Music or song, Jackson Club
Chorus.
Session close for dinner.
Regular order of business in after
noon, to be featured 'by address by
Deputy Grand Master, E. D. Thomas.
The public is invited to the morn
ing session, Mr. Newton states.
CAMP MEETING BE
HELD AUGUST 9-19
DR. H. C. MORRISON AND REV.
JOHN F. OWEN WILL BE LEAD
ERS THIS SEASON. JENKINS
TO DIRECT MUSIC.
Active plans are now being made
for the annual session of the Indian
Springs Holiness camp meeting, to
be held this year from August 9 to
19, inclusive.
The buildings and grounds are be
ing placed in frst class condition
for the coming session. Since the
last meeting the camp ground has
'been placed in reach of all Florida
and South Georgia points by means
of a paved highway. This probably
will add to the motor travel to this
well known assembly grounds.
Leaders for the 1934 assembly in
clude Dr. H. C. Morrison, of Louis
ville, Ky., and Rev. John F. Owen,
of Columbus, Ohio. Homer Jenkins,
of East Point, will again direct the
music.
Rev. J. M. Glenn, Rev. Henry Ben
nett an dßev. Leonard Cochran will
have charge of the meetings at the
j children’s tabernacle.
Mrs. T. H. Clark, of Tampa, Fla.,
is in charge of hotel reservatons; F.
C. Benson, of Macon, is in charge of
light housekeeping; Mrs. Laura S.
Osborn, of Atlanta, has charge of
reservations in the Dodge and Math
ews memorials for pastors and their
families, and Rev. J. M. Glenn, Daw
son, is in charge of camp ground lit
erature and work with young people.
Mr. R. F. Burden, of Macon is
chairman of the board of trustees;
Rev. J. M. Glenn, of Dawson, is vice
president and secretary, and Mr. R.
P. Sasnett, of Jackson, is treasurer.
FIRST HALF MAY PENSIONS
WERE RECEIVED LAST WEEK
Judge G. D. Head, ordinary, re
ceived and disbursed last week the
first half of May Confederate pen
sions, amounting to $315 for the
four veterans and 21 widows on the
roll in Butts county.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
BUTTS CROPS RANK
AMONG THE BEST
DECIDED IMPROVEMENT NOTED
IN PAST FE WWEEKS. HARD
FIGHT BY FARMERS TURN
GLOOM INTO OPTIMISM.
Farmers of Butts county may well
feel proud of their crops, which im
partial opinions declare to 'be among
the best in the state.
This is information brought here
by traveling salesman and others who
have occasion to travel over dif
ferent sections of Georgia.
This condition has been brought
about by a hard and herioc fight on
the part of the farmers. Getting
away to a late start on account of
cold weather and excessive rains in.
the late spring, crops were 'backward
and at one time looked as if grass
would conquer whole fields. It re
quired hard licks to overcome the
grass. But that has been done in a
thorough manner and to good ad
vantage.
According to those in close touch
with the farming situation, early
corn was damaged considerably by
too much rain and grass. Late corn,
looks promising.
With some exceptions, the cotton
crop looks good. One large grower
declared Sunday that his cotton crop
was the best since 1919. He declar
ed that “it looks like a cotton year.”
The pimento pepper crop is gen
erally good. There has been some
complaint of wilt. The pepper crop
was helped by favorable seasons.
Some pepper is nearing maturity. If
there is enough ripe pepper on band
the local canning- factory plans to
bcign operation in August. Farmers
of Butts county are growing COO
acres for the Pomona Products Com
pany.
Forage crops are generally good,
having been helped by generous
rains. There is an increased acre
age planted to peas, beans and other
hay mixtures. Local pea and bean
dealers report a satisfactory season.
Altogetheh the farm outlook in.
Butts county is brighter than in many
parts of the state. .
COL. MOORE ENTERED
FOR ASSEMBLY POST
ENTRY OF WELL KNOWN JACK
SON ATTORNEY INSURES HOT
RACE FOR REPRESENTATIVE
IN THE SEPTEMBER PRIMARY.
Hon. J. Threatt Moore, well known
Jackson attorney and former repre
sentative for two tenhs, qualified on
Saturday as a candidate for Repre
sentative from Butts county in the
September primary.
Captain E. S. Settle, present rep
resentatve, had previously qualified.
Entries closed Saturday, July, 14,
at 12 o’clock noon.
The formal entry of Col. Moore,
who is a well known political figure,
insures a hot race for the assembly
seat from Butts county.
Mr. Moore has represented Butts
county in the lower house on two
occasions, serving in the 1910-11
session and several years later again
represented the county. While a
member of the state legislature he
took a prominent part in shaping
legislation and was the author of
several bills of state wide interest.
Col. Moore is one of the best
known orators in the state and has
delivered addresses on many patriotic
occasions. A graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia' law school, hn
was during his college days one of
the greatest athletes ever developed
in the South, being 'both a football
and .baseball player of recognized
ability.
Enjoying a wide popularity, Col.
Moore is assured of a liberal support
in the present campaign.