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VOL. 67—No. 4
Jackson Garden Club Sponsors Party
For Benefit Of Warm Springs Drive
LADIES TAKE ACTIVE MANAGE
MENT OF PLANS. EVENT BE
HELD AT CLUB HOUSE ON
MONDAY NIGHT AT 7:30
To the Jackson Garden Club, long
active in all forms of civic improve
ment, goes the credit for sponsoring
a party to raise funds for the Warm
Springs Foundation January 30.
President Roosevelt’s birthday will
be observed with a party at the
Jackson clubhouse Monday night at
7 :30 and arrangements are in chai’ge
of Mrs. E. S. Settle, Mrs. T. E. Rob
ison and Mrs. J. C. Newton.
There will be three forms of en
tertainment. Chinese Checker /Tour
nament, Bridge .Tournament and
Rook Tournament. “Pay your mon
ey and take your choice,” wilt be
the slogan for the evening.
An admission charge of 25 cents
per person will be made. This does
not mean, however, that contribu
tions are limited to 25 cents. Those
who desire to may contribute any
amount they see proper.
The entertainment begins at 7:30.
There will be prizes for ladies and
gentlemen in each of the tourna
ments. Other games and stunts will
be arranged for those not wanting
to play the games mentioned.
In addition to the entertainment
at the clubhouse, efforts will be
made to raise funds in the business
center and buttons will be offered
for sale to school children. Every
citizen of the county—realizing the
benefits Jackson and Butts county
have secured from the Roosevelt ad
ministration —are asked to have a
part in this worthy cause.
As is well known, the funds go
to the Warm Springs Foundation for
fighting infantile paralysis.
Members of the sponsoring agen
cy will appreciate the hearty sup
port of all the people of the county.
Make a date with yourself to be
at the clubhouse Monday night and
contribute to a cause that appeals
to the heart and conscience of every
public spirited citizen.
J. AVON GASTON
COUNTY CHAIRMAN
OF COTTON COUNCIL
J. Avon Gaston, Jackson aider
man and widely known business man,
has been notified of his appoint
ment as Butts county chairman for
the Georgia Cotton Council, a
branch of the National Cotton Coun
cil. The object of the organization
is to find new uses for cotton, to
relieve the burdensome surplus and
thereby raise the price of the South’s
staple money crop. The public is
invited to study these problems con
nected with cotton. An aggressive
advertising campaign to acquaint
people with the advantages of cotton
is one of the suggested remedies.
Butts Farmers Will Be Paid $52,000 In
Cotton And Soil Benefits Next Month
TOTAL OF $68,000 FOR COTTON
AND $14,000 FOR SOIL CON
SERVATION WILL BE DISTRIB
UTED IN FEBRUARY
Butts county farmers will share
in the distribution of $82,000 worth
of cotton benefits and soil conser
vation checks during the month of
February, according to announce
ment made at the county agent’s of
fice.
Of the total $68,000 will be cot
ton benefits on the crop of 1938
and $14,000 for soil conservation
checks. Out of a total of $26,000
farmers could have earned in soil
Conservation, only $14,000 was util
ized, it was explained.
One-Variety
Cotton Largely
Grown In State
NEARLY 24,000 FARMERS IN 79
COUNTIES TURN TO ONE-VA
RIETY COTTON FOR BETTER
STAPLE, PRICE
Further advancement in cotton
improvement was made during 1938,
as 23,350 farmers of 192 Georgia
communities in 79 counties followed
the one-variety plan of cotton pro
duction.
The previous year, Georgia had
18,752 one-variety farmers in 162
communities of 74 counties.
These figures were compiled from
a survey of county agents’ reports
by E. C. Westbrook, cotton special
ist for the Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Service.
Butts county had two one-variety
communities in 1938. The 475
farmer members had a total of 8,000
acres planted to the adopted varie
ty, from which they produced 2,500
bales. The variety adopted in this
county was Stoneville No. 2.
In his repoi't, Mr. Westbrook said
1938 figures for the cotton belt as
a whole are not yet available, but
that Georgia had 162 of the 814
one-variety communities in existence
at the end of 1937.
During the past year, the 23,350
farmers in Georgia’s one-variety
communities had a total of 342,000
acres in cotton of the adopted va
riety. They produced 154,450 bales,
or an average of 225 pounds per
acre. The average 1938 yield in
Georgia, including one-variety com
munities, was 199 pounds per acre.
Mr. Westbrook estimated that this
one-variety cotton brought the farm
er about $5 more per acre, as a re
sult of increased yield, better quali
ty, and longer staple length. He
said, also, that improved cotton
grown outside one-variety communi
ties brought an estimated one mil
lion dollars extra from premiums
and better yields.
One-variety cotton work is carried
on through county agricultural
agents. The campaign is sponsored
by the Extension Service, in co-op
eration with the Georgia Experi
ment Station and the United States
Bureau of Plant Industry.
JENKINSBURG WILL
HAVE RALLY DAY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29
A rally day program will be held
at the Jenkinsburg Methodist church
Sunday, January 29. Rev. G. H.
Stone, the pastor, will preach at the
11 o’clock hour.
Funds will be taken for covering
the church and the interest and sup
port of all members and friends will
be appreciated.
It was announced in Washington
recently that plans were being made
to send out checks for these pay
ments.
In Butts county the forms have
already been prepared. The appli
cations w r ill be taken in person to
the Athens office within a few days.
Payment will follow as soon as the
applications have been checked and
audited, it is stated.
Distribution of $82,000 to grow
ers of the county at this season will
prove of great benefit and will en
able farmers to go forward with
their cropping plans. Considerable
activity will result jn business chan
nels as a result of the distribution
of that amount.
JACKSON. GEfORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1939
Powell Heads
Butts Wild Life
Campaign Group
STATE PRESIDENT NAMES
CHAIRMEN FOR EACH OF
STATE’S 159 COUNTIES. WILD
LIFE WEEK MARCH 19-25
• M. L. Powell, Butts county farm
agent, has been named chairman for
Butts county in the Georgia Wild
life Restoration Week, March 19-25.
The appointment was made by Ben
F. Chatfield, Macon, president of
the Georgia Wildlife Federation.
Chairmen have been named for
each of the state’s 159 counties to
serve during National Wildlife Week
in March.
Leaders for each of the ten con
gressional districts will be announ
ced in a few days.
The wildlife chairman has sent
letters to each of the county chair
men explaining Wildlife Week and
telling them of Georgia’s poor
showing last year.
The county chairmen will stait
their campaigns on February 1.
Shortly after that date each chair
man will receive posters and Na
tional Wildlife Restoration Week
stamps from Washington.
The stamps will be sold in sheets
at $1 per hundred. Thirty-five cents
of each dollar will be used by the
Georgia Wildlife Federation for re
stocking, educational and reforesta
tion purposes in the counties where
stamps are sold.
County chairmen will solicit aid
of civic clubs, Boy Scouts, Campfire
Girls, garden clubs and other sim
ilar organizations.
Wildlife conservation is one of the
objectives of the Jackson Kiwanis
club for this year.
Members Will
Attend Credit
Group Meeting
BUTTS COUNTY WILL BE WELL
REPRESENTED AT ANNUAL
MEETING IN JONESBORO SAT
URDAY MORNING
Butts county members of the
Jonesboro Production Credit Asso
ciation are arranging to attend the
fifth annual meeting of stockholders
to be held at the courthouse in
Jonesboro Saturday, January 28, be
ginning at 10 o’clock. The asso
ciation serves Butts, Clayton, Ful
ton, DeKalb, Henry, Spalding and
Fayette counties.
Captain E. S. Settle, director from
Butts county and former president
of the association, will attend this
meeting. Several others also plan
to be present.
Reports from officers on the bus
iness of the past year will be among
the business to be considered. Two
directors will also be named.
The Jonesboro Production Credit
Association began operation in 1934
and has made loans totaling $1,045.-
000. It now has 793 members.
Speakers at the annual meeting
will include Glenn R. Miller, of the
Production Credit Corporation, Co
lumbia, S. C. Presenting reports
will be J. A. Burnett, president, E.
S. Settle, director, and B. H. Abbott,
Jr., secretary and treasurer.
Indications are the meeting will
be largely attended. Notices have
been sent all members of the asso
ciation.
MEMBERS FLOVILLA BAPTIST
CHURCH WILL MEET SUNDAY
Members of the Flovilla Baptist
church are asked to meet Sunday
morning following the Sunday school
hour for the pui'pose of calling a
pastor to serve the church.
Graefe Elected
Head Of National
Canners Group
PRESIDENT OF POMONA PROD
UCTS COMPANY NAMED AS
HEAD OF NATIONAL CANNERS
ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO
It is pleasing to his friends here
to know that Walter Graefe, presi
dent of the Pomona Products Com
pany, operating in Jackson a pimien
to canning plant and large plants
in Griffin, was elected president of
the National Canners Association at
the convention in Chicago Monday.
He succeeded Karl Kuner Mayer, of
Brighton, Colo.
Mr. Graefe served as vice presi
dent last year and has been a mem
ber of the national legislative com
mittee of the organization.
By reason of his interests here
Mr. Graefe is well known in Jack
son. He has spoken on several oc
casions to the Kiwanis club. Re
cently the company bought the
building in which the canning plant
is located, as well as other real es
tate in that section.
Graefe came to Georgia from
Maryland at the close of the World
War. He had trained at Camp Gor
don and “liked Georgia,” deciding
to locate in the state. He became
connected with the Pomona Prod
ucts Company here, finally becom
ing its president and general mana
ger. Since taking over these jobs
he has developed it into one of the
largest canners of pimiento peppers
in the world.
In addition to canning pimiento
peppers, the firm also packs peaches,
turnip greens, string beans and oth
er vegetables and fruits in several
Georgia plants. It also packs orange
and grapefruit juice in plants in
Florida. The company jfurnishes a
cash market for much of the pro
duce of farmers in Georgia, encour
aging the trend from all-cotton pro
grams.
The National Canners’ Associa
tion, which Graefe heads, is an or
ganization of food stuff firms whose
annual output exceeds in the aggre
gate $1,000,000,000 (wholesale pri
ces). It is one of the major indus
tries of the nation.
Covington Street
Extension Planned
By City Council
STREET WOULD BE OPENED
THROUGH MALLET PROPER
TY. WPA LABOR ASKED TO
MAKE THE IMPROVEMENT
Extension of Covington street
thi'ough the Mallet property to con
nect with College street near the
Jackson public school building was
considered by city council at its
meeting Monday night.
Request was made for WPA labor
to carry out this improvement and
it is thought likely the project will
be approved.
Mrs. Hugh Mallet, owner of the
property through which the street
would pass, has consented to give the
right-of-way for the extension, May
or W. M. Redman said.
Extension of the street would add
vastly to the property in that sec
tion, would also prove a convenience
to school children and others and is
considered desirable as a civic im
provement.
Definite announcement regarding
the extension is expected shortly, ac
cording to Mayor Redman.
REV. T. G. LINKOUS WILL
PREACH ANTIOCH SUNDAY
The Rev. T. G. Linkous, of Deca
tur, will preach at Antioch Christian
church Sunday night at 7 o’clock
CST. The public is cordially invit
ed to hear him.
Fortney Tells How Communities May
Provide Recreation At Small Cost
Tax Receiver
Will Open Books
In Court House
USUAL COUNTY ROUNDS NOT
TO BE MADE BECAUSE OF
COMPLICATED RECORDS. EX
EMPTION MUST BE ASKED
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Beginning February 1 Tax Re
ceiver J. Edward Carmichael will
open his books in the courthouse
for the receipt of 1939 county,
school and state tax returns.
Because of the complicated rec
ords now required to be kept under
the tax exemption law, Mr. Carmich
ael states it will be impossible to
make the usual county rounds. He
will have his office in front of the
Superior Court Clerk’s office and
may be found there daily from 8
a. m. to 4 p. m. and will be glad to
render any possible service to tax*-
payers in filing returns.
Under the tax exemption law,
which provides for S3OO personal
property exemption and $2,000 on
owner-occupied homes, it will be
necessary for taxpayers to apply for
this benefit. Unless exemption is
applied for it will not be granted.
This fact, Mr. Carmichael stresses,
should be known by all property
owners, as tax exemption cannot be
allowed after the books close.
The tax receiver will keep his
books open from February 1 to May
1. After that date the books are
turned over to the board of tax
■ equalizers for review.
Committees For
Year Announced
By Mayorßedman
NO CHANGES MADE IN PERSON
NEL. O’NEAL HEADS IMPOR
TANT FINANCE COMMITTEE
FOR THE YEAR
In announcing standing commit
tees for the year, Mayor W. M. Red
man appointed the same members of
council to serve for 1939. Without
change the members of these com
mittees are:
Water and Lights: Gaston, chair
man; Pace and O’Neal.
Cemetery: Pace, chairman; Gas
ton and Rooks.
Ordinances: Gaston, chairman;
O’Neal and Pace.
Police: Rooks, chairman; O’Neal
and Gaston.
Printing: O’Neal, chairman; Rooks
and Pace.
Schools: O’Neal, chairman; Rooks
and Gaston.
Streets: Pace, chairman; Gaston
and Rooks.
Sanitary: Rooks, chairman; O’Neal
and Pace.
Finance: O’Neal, chairman; Gas
ton and Pace.
Contract For Jackson Street Paving Be
Awarded Between Now And First April
SECOND AND MULBERRY BE
WIDENED NEAR BUS STA
TION. CURB AND GUTTER
PAVING TO GET ATTENTION
A contract for curb and gutter
paving on Routes 42 and 16 on
Third street will be awarded by the
state highway department between
now and April 1, it is learned.
It is also expected that paving
through Parkland on route 42 will
be awarded at the same time. A
link on route 16 through the Hen
drick property to connect with route
42 paving near the Pepperton Cot-
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
HOME MADE EQUIPMENT MAY
BE BUILT AT SMALL COST.
COMMUNITY CENTER VITAL
IN MOLDING CHARACTER
Definite recommendations were
suggested to members of the Jack
son Kiwanis club in meeting recrea
tion needs by J. L. Fortney, super
intendent of the Griffin schools, in
a talk Tuesday night. Mr. Fortney,
widely bnown educator, was pre
sented by P. H. Weaver, program
chairman for the meeting.
Speaking out of his personal ex
perience, as was explained, Mr.
Fortney sketched what he had been
able to accomplish at Douglas when
he headed the schools and later at
Griffin where he has been super
intendent for some years. Mr. Fort
ney resigned recently as head of the
Griffin schools to head the Georgia
Baptist Orphanage at Hapeville.
The important part that recrea
tion plays in molding character was
stressed by the speaker. In provid
i ing playgrounds and playground
| equipment it is not necessary to buy
expensive equipment. Home made
equipment, made out of odds and
ends and from material donated,
answers every purpose, it was shown.
The government will help in this
work Mr. Fortney said, and he gave
as his opinion the fact that the Na
tional Youth Administration will
continue after many of the present
relief organizations have passed on.
In Griffin, it was explained, the N.
Y. A. helps pay the salary of a fore
man and that much good work has
been done in constructing play
grounds and playground equiprrient.
Four definite recommendations
were outlined:
1. Summer activity program. Here
were listed things accomplished by
pupils during the vacation period.
2. Provide playground equipment
with home made materials.
3. Arrange handicraft center.
Here many things may be made by
pupils.
4. Community center where peo
ple may meet for recreation.
In building playgrounds, gymna
sium and athletic fields necessary
steps are to get all the money pos
sible from the city and county and
government and then collect from
the public and former residents.
Many former citizens, having a warm
affection for the home town, will
donate to such a cause, it was stated.
The committee in charge of recre
ation feels that it is making distinct,
progress and will soon be able to
report a definite plan. Mr. Fort
ney’s encouragement and concrete
suggestions contributed much to the
success of the campaign here for
proper recreational facilities.
New members welcomed at the
meeting were J. S. Ball and George
F. Gilmore. They were extended a
hearty welcome and formally in
ducted into the club by Past Presi
dent Eugene Daniel.
Dinner was served by the U. D. C.,
Mrs. L. M. Crawford chairman.
ton Mills may also have attention
at the same time.
Present plans of the highway de
partment call for the paving of
route 16 from Jackson to the Spald
ing county line during the year.
The contract will be awarded before
June 30, it is explained.
City council at its meeting Mon
day night moved :*or the widening
of Mulberry and Second streets near
the bus station. Parkways and
shrubbery will be removed, giving
more room in that crowded area, it
was stated.