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VOL. 64—NO. 1
WORST ICE STORM IN TEARS
HITS NORTH GEORGIA SECTION
TRAFFIC DEMORALIZED AND
POWER LINES SUFFER SE
VERE DAMAGE AS RESULT OF
FALLING TREES. BITTER COLD
Jackson, along with the rest of
i orth Georgia, is gradually digging
and fighting its way back to normal
conditions after one of the worst
sleet storms in years.
The damage suffered ly the city
to its light plant was one of the heav
iest on record. Scores of wires were
down in all portions of the city as
b result of falling limbs and trees,
broken under the weight of sleet.
The Georgia Power Company, the
Western Union and the Bell Tele
phone Company all suffered heavy
carnage from the sleet.
Highway traffic was inteirupteJ
as the result of trees falling. Emer
gncy crews worked Sunday and the
first of the week to clear the road
for traffic. Many trees were up
rooted and limbs broke and fell in
countless numbers.
Asa result of the st rni Jackson
was in partial darkivs Saturday
right and Sunday. Power lines went
down and street lights were off
from early Saturday night < > Sunday
right. Partial restoration of ser
vice was made Sunday bur parts of
the town were in darkness and cand
les and kerosene lamps nor3 hurled
up and pressed into service.
During most of Sun lay "Jackson
was cut off from communication with
the outside world. Late in the day
the Western Union was able to get
e line through to Atlanta but the
telephone company did not get
through long distance calls.
Emergency crews from the city,
the power company, the telephonc
(onuaany and the Western Union
worked all day Sunday trying to re
store service.
Damage to timber in the county
runs high. Many reports of pine
forests having been seriously dam
aged by the sleet have come in. Many
trees were blown down and others
were scarred and broken under the
weight of sleet.
In Jackson the elms suffered the
heaviest damage, though other trees
were damaged and twisted. Sev
eral streets were almost impassable
as the result of falling limbs and
trees.
The sleet storm, according to re
ports, was worse in the area from
Jackson, Griffin, Covington and Mc-
Donough to Atlanta. Further south
the sleet did no damage, Juliette and
Forsyth escaped without damage,
while up state a heavy snow storm
covered the earth. Atlanta and
Griffin, reports received here, bore
the full brunt of the storm. Cov
ington and McDonough and Stock
bridge were likewise hard hit.
Added to the general discomfort
was the bitter cold, which has pre
vailed in this section for ten days.
$3 AUTOMOBILE TAGS ARE
NOW ON SALE AT CAPITOL
Georgia automobile tags at the
price of $3 for all makes of cars
are now on sale at the state capito!
33 Atlanta. For the three years,
3 933 to 1935, the $3 tags were sold
on order of Governor Talmadge. but
.lie general assembly last year voted
to authorize the sale of tags at the
upular price.
Ordinarly a 30-day period is allow
ea for the purchase of tags, but in
.one instances the period of “grace”
is extended to March 1.
Autos kill 30 out of every 100,-
people in the United State®.
SUBSIDY PAYMENTS
ABOUT JANUARY 15
DELAY IN MAILING CHECKS
FROM WASHINGTON CAUSED
BY .“TECHNICAL AND CLERI
CAL” REASON IS CLAIMED.
In a statement from AAA offi
cials in Washington last week it war
indicated that subsidy payments to
cotton growers would be made aboiu
January 15. However, no definite
oate was fixed for mailing out
checks.
It had been originally planned to
send out checks about the middle
cf December. The delay was caus
ed by technical and clerical reasons,
the statement said.
The AAA had agreed to pay ad
jusment contract signers the differ
ence between 12 cents a pound an.!
the average piice for cotton on the
date of sale.
Butts county growers, it is esti
mated at the county agent’s office,
will receive approximately $20,000
in subsidy payments.
Payments will be made directly to
farmers from regional offices, it war.
said in Washington.
The total amount due cotton grow
ers of the south in subsidy payments
is expected to be from $30,000,00f
to $40,000,000.
$700,009 WILL GO FOR
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY AN
NOUNCES PROGRAM FOR
MAKING ELECTRICITY AVAIL
ABLE TO FARM HOMES.
Atlanta, Ga. —An expanded pro
gram of rural electricification dur
ing 1936 involving the expenditure
|of approximately $700,000 to extend
service to farms and small rural
communities not now supplied with
electricity has been announced here
by P. S. Arkwright, president of the
Georgia Power Company. Plans cal’
for the consti-uction of 100 miles of
extensions to existing rural lines and
350 "miles of lines into farm areas
now wholly without electric service.
The total of 450 miles of new rural
lines will make electricity available
to 2,600 additional rural users, an
average of approximately five cus
tomers to the mile of line.
The 1936 expansion of rural elec
tric service* will be the largest in
the state’s history in a single year,
with the exception of 1930, it was
stated. Recent studies made by the
company show that it is now serving
*23,637 rural consumers, and the
coming year’s program will increase
thm total to above 26,000. In ac
cordance with the policies in effect
in recent years, the new lines will
be built without extra costs on the
customers to be served and the rates
charged will be the same as those
elsewhere throughout the area serv
ed by the company.
Building of the new rural line
will feature the company’s 1936 pro
gram of expenditure of a total of
$16,428,452 for new construction,
operating expenses and taxes.
India contains one-sixth of all
the people on the gloi„ These are
divided among many accs, speak
ing 200 languaaes and of a dozen
different religions.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.
JACKSON TO SHARE
ARMORY PROGRAM
NATIONAL GUARD UNITS TO BE
GIVEN MILL ION DOLLAR
WPA FUNDS FOR BUILDING
NEW ARMORIES.
Jackson, Griffin and Barnesville,
all in the fourth congressional dis
trict, will be allotted $17,500 each
for new armories for use of national
guard units if the present WPA
building program is carried out.
Adjutant General Lindley Camp
stated last week thaat the National
Guard Association has presented to
WPA officials a p’an for immediate
action on a million dollar armory
program in Georgia.
Meembers of the State Military
Department said they understood the
program has received WPA approval
and awaits only availability of funds.
The standard armory unit under
the program would cost $17,500 and
twenty-two of these are contemplat
ed.
Total estimated cost of the pro
gram is $971,702, to be made up
of federal funds.
Armory units to cost $17,500 are
planned in the program at Hinesvillo,
Springfield, Statesboro and Waynes
boro in the First District; Albany
and Thomasville in the Second Dis
trict; Cordele and Hawkinsville in
the Third Distict.
The same type units are planned
for Barnesville, Griffin and Jackson
in the Fourth District; and in he
Fifth District one of the $17,500 is
scheduled for Atlanta in addition tc
i the larger one.
! In the Sixth District Dublin and
[Forsyth are slated for $17,500 unit.-
Milledgeville for a $1,349 allot
ment.
Calhoun, Cedartown and Marietta
i all are on the program for the $17,-
( 500 type armories in the Seventh
District.
Brunswick, Valdosta and Waycros,
!in the Eighth District are in the
same classification. Lawrenceville,
only Ninth District point innluded
is alloted $1,221.
In the Tenth District Athens is
l.sted for an $18,932 unit with $17,-
500 plant for Elberton aind Monroe.
36,000 WERE KILLED
| IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
NUMBER ABOUT THE SAME AS
FOR 1934. SIXTEEN THOU
I SAND PEDESTRAINS KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASHES.
Hartford, Conn. —Deaths from au
tomobile accidents in the United
i
States have numbered 36,000 to
date—about the same as last year—
the Travelers Insurance Company an
uounced Sunday, but the rate of
deaths per accident has increase !
nearly seven per cent.
Sixteen thousand pedestrains were
killed in automobile accidents, a
prliminary survey discloses, witih
9,000 persons having lost their lives
in collisions between automobiles.
Driving errors were involved ir
two-thirds of the 828,000 automo
tile accidents reported, indicating
great carelessness among drivers.
Only 23 per cent of the accidents
assigned to driving errors were due
to “exceeding the speed limit” but
deaths from this cause amounted to
81 per cent of all fatalities resulting
from improper motoring practices.
More than 7,400 others were kill
ed because operators exceeded the
speed limit and 7,400 others met
death when drivers drove on the
wrong side of the road.
Over 500,000 of the 868,000 per
rons injured non-fatally were victims
of accidents involving dangerous
driving practices. '
5,255 BALES ARE
GINNED IN BUTTS
TO DECEMBER 13 PRODUCTION
WAS OFF 434 BALES OVER
1934 FIGURES. CROP SMALL
ER THAN LAST YEAR.
To December 13 the number of
bales of cotton ginned in Butts coun
ty showed a decrease of 434 bales
compared with the same date in
1934. Prior to December 13 the
county had ginned 5,255 bales,
against 5,G89 bales to that date in
the previous year.
Total production from the crop
cf 1934 in Butts county was 5,768
bales. With final figures yet to be
announced, indications are the 1935
crop will be 300 or 400 bales under
the yield for 1934.
The state had ginned 1,036,593
bales prior to December 13, compar
ed with 963,600 bales to that date
the year previous.
Burke county holds first place ir
in cotton growing, with 30.889 tale,
to December 13, followed by Laurens
with 29,846 bales, Carroll with 26,-
510, Emanuel with 22,931 bales and
Bulloch with 20,192 bales.
Cotton ginned in counties in this
section, prior to December 13, and
comparisons for 1934 show the fol
lowing:
1935 1931
Butts 5,255 5,689
Clayton 3,399 3,590
Fkyette 6,940 6,113
Henry 14,077 14,713
Jasper 5,312 5,254
Lamar 4,337 4,464
Monroe 4,199 4,428
Newton 9,146 9,382
Spalding 5,926 5,706
Upson 2,691 2,707
LARGER INCOME FROM
GEORGIA FARM CROPS
INCOME FOR 1935 AMOUNTED
TO $159,038,000, THE LARGEST
SINCE 1930. COTTON, CORN
IN LEAD.
Athens, Ga. —Georgia’s chief farn.
crops in 1935 had a value of $159,
('38,000 —the greatest since 1930.
The Georgia Crop Reporting serv
ice, operated co-operatively by the
LI. S. Department of Agriculture and
the State College of Agriculture,
said the estimated 1935 valuation
of chief crops was greater than the
“greatest for any year since 1930,
when estimated value reached $179,-
422,000, and is 137 per cent above
the 1932 figure of $07,039,000.
which was the record low for recent
years.
“With few minor exceptions pro
duction of Georgia crops in 1935
showed increases over corresponding
outturn of 1934,” the report said.
“These increases ranged from .3
per cent with peaches to 113 per
cent above last year for tobacco,
v ith a, number of the other crops
above as follows:
“Cotton and cottonseed, 9.5 per
cent; corn, 13.3; small grans, 13.4;
sweet potatoes, 12.5; watermelons,
55.4; peanuts, 18.2; hay, 8.5; cow
peas, 22.4; pecans, 9.8; and sugaa
cane syrup, 41.1.”
Some of the “big money crops’
for 1935 includel:
Cotton, $58,035,000; corn, $26,-
697,000; tobacco, $12,923,000; corn,
$26,697,000; hay, $5,157,000; peach
es, $4,784,000; sugar cane syrup.
$2,199,000; sweet potatoes, $6,408,-
000; oats, $4,233,000.
Value of most major crops wa:
slightly under 1934 figures, but to
bacco leaped in value from *6,-
107,000 to *12,923,000.
THREE BUSINESS HOUSES BURN
IN SPECTACULAR FIRE SUNDAY
COUNTY SCHOOLS
RESUME SCHEDULE
SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY SYS
TEM OPENED MONDAY AND
JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TERM BEGIN MONDAY.
Folowing the Christmas holiday
period, the Butts county schools
opened Monday for the spring term.
The holidays lasted from December
20.
It was a bitter cold day for the
opening and busses had considerable
1 rouble in making their rounds due
to fallen trees on the highways.
The Jackson public schools, owing
to weather conditions, will not open
until Monday, it is announced.
The past fall proved a good one
for both school systems and splendid
work was done. The attendance and
enrollment held up well during the
fall and will doubtless score a gain
for the spring term.
The salaries of teachers in both
systems were paid in full for the fall
session.
924 MILES PAVED
DURING YEAR ’35
FOUR MILES OF BRIDGES BUILT
BY HIGHWAY BOARD IN 1935.
OCMULGEE RIVER BRIDGE
MOST IMPORTANT.
Georgia’s highway board during
1935 placed under construction and
partly completed 925.6 miles of
hard-surfaced pavement and 123.2
miles of earth and soil work, a state
ment from W. E. Wilburn, chairman
of the board, pointed out, according
to a story in The Atlanta Georgian.
In addition the highway depart
ment built four miles of bridges, the
luos important of which was a span
across the Ocmulgee river, near
Jackson.
The state will spend $8,204,250.52
of its own money on highway work
during the year and allotted $3,-
734,701.72 of federal funds.
State projects embraced in 1935
lettings of the highway board were
672 miles of paving, 111 miles of
top-soiling and construction of 2.9
miles of bridges.
20 PERSONS LYNCHED
BY MOBS DURING 1935
AN INCREASE REPORTED OVER
THE PRECEDING YEAR AC
CORDING TO STATISTICS COM
PLETED AT TUSKEGEE.
During the year 1935 twenty per
sons were lynched in the United
States, according to figures com
piled by Tuskegee Institute. This
is 5 more than the number 15 for
1934; 8 less than the number 28 for
1933 and 12 more than 8 for 1932.
Of the 20 persons lynched, 2 were
white and 18 negro. The offenses
charged were: Murder 7; attempted
jape 3; rape 3; altercation with man
1 ; activity in share cropper organiz
ing 1; attacking person 1; takin:
prisoner from officer of the law 1 •
killed by rnob in search of another
person 1; slapping woman I; com
inunhtic activity 1.
The states in which lynchings oc
curred and the number in each state
are as follows: California, 1; Flor
ida, 2; Georgia, 2; Louisiana, 4;
Mississippi, 7; North Carolina, 1;
Tennessee, 1; Texas, 2.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
ETHERIDGE SEED STORE, MOR.
RIS & STANDARD, EISEMAN
DEPARTMENT STORE BURNED
IN EARLY MORNING COLD
Fire of undertermined origindetect
<<l in the R. N. Etheridge Company
seed and feed store at an early hour
Sunday morning wiped out the Ether
idge store, Eiseman’s department
store and Morris & Standard, grocers.
Only by heroic work by the fire
department and volunteer (ire fight
ers was the Slaton Drug Company
and the Jackson Rifles armory saved.
The fire had gained considerable
headway when detected in the rear
of the Etheridge seed store. Owing
to the sleet storm which caused
trouble with the power lines, it was
impossible to sound the fire alarm,
and the ringing of the court house
clock gave the general alarm.
The fire department was hamper
ed in its work by a lack of water,
’the tank had u supply of water but
this was soon exhausted and the aux
iliary pump at the power house could
not be started promptly. Before
an adequate supply of water was
available the three business houses
were wiped out.
The two buildings housng the
three firms were gutted. The bare
walls were left standing, but the
walls were said to be in a damaged
condition.
The loss is estimated, all the way
from $30,000 to $50,000. There
was partial insurance on the stocks
n and buildings, it was stated.
The building housing the Eiseman
department store and the Etheridge
seed store was owned by Mrs. J. A.
Jarrell, while Mrs. Eaith Jarre’l
Jones, of Savannah, owned the
Morris and Standard building
These buildings were formerly
known as the Jackson Mercantile
Company comer and the old Jackson
Banking Company building. Both
pieces of property were acquired by
the late Dr. J. A. Jarrell and divided
among members of his family after
his death.
The fire department and th
scores of volunteer workers were
handicapped in fighting the flames
by the bitter cold weather.
At one time the armory caught
fire but this was put out before
much damage was done. A metal
roof and good walls in the Slaton
Drug Company building probably
saved that entire block from destruc
tion.
The fire was a spectacular one,
the flames, leaping high into the air
and contrasting with the blanket o r
sleet that covered surrounding build
ings and trees.
This fire was one of the most
severe that Jackson has had in a
number of years. The property
damage was greater than any fire
since the Commercial building was
burned in February, 1917.
EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF
CCC URGED BY PRESIDENT
Unquestionably, the CCC educa
tional program has resulted in the
social reorientation of thousand of
young chaps whose concepts of the
social order were becoming decidely
subversive. Equally certain, an
over-burdened labor market has been
relieved to the extent to which these
young men have been taken from the
ordinarily channels of employment.
When one considers the future econ
omic set-up in this country, he be
comes impressed with the desirability
of some organization like the CCC
which will be permanent in charac
ter.