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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947
/The Homestretch’
Heads Dixie’s Bill
For Week Aug. 18
The western Saturday is Charles
Starrett in “Heading West.”
Monday and Tuesday its “That
Way With Women” with Martha
Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet and
Dane Clark. Greenstreet, a retired
manufacturer, buys a filling station
and has Clark as partner. When
they run into trouble with a ‘protec
(^ ve association, Greenstreet works
it over, Dane marries Martha and
the capitalist goes back to work.
“The Verdict” with Peter Lorre,
Lorring and Sydney Green
street is the offering for Wednes
day. The scene is laid in England
where Lorre and Greenstreet solve
a near perfect crime.
“The Homestretch,” in technicolor,
with Cornel Wilde and Maureen
O’Hara as top actors, is on Thurs
day and Friday. Wilde as Jack Wal
lace plays a happy-go-lucky spend
thrift who makes his living from race
horses and either has a pocket full
of money or is flat broke. Wilde’s
love interest is titian-haired Maureen
O’Hara who plays the part of Leslie
Hale, member of a dignified, reser
ved Boston family, and finds herself
in the dizzy pace set by Joe kand his
cronies.
Patron Grateful
For Benefits REA
Brought Her Home
Mrs. R. Vail Smith of Flovilla, one
of the county’s beloved women, is
grateful for the comforts and con
veniences brought to her home by
REA. In a letter to the Central Geor
gia Electric Membership Corporation
Mrs. Smith expresses her apprecia
tion and also thanks the co-op for
the prizes awarded at the annual
meeting August 6. She writes:
Dear Friends: I still feel so for
tunate to have electricity in my
home, a thing I didn’t think possible
15 years ago. Now to have so many
modern conveniences and appliances
is great. lam fortunate enough to
have quite a few of these. My store
of these was greatly added to by at
tending the meeting arid being pre
sented with this grand electric blan
ket. That is wonderful. Words fail
me when I want to thank you people
for this nice, expensive gift. How
ever, rest assured I do value it high
ly. Then I was lucky in having my
name drawn for this nice coffee ma
ker. Truly that was a red letter day
in my life. Both of these gifts are
prized by me very highly. Let me say
in simple words —thank you.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express sincere thanks
to friends for cards, letters, flowers
and expressions of goodwill while I
was in the hospital.—Ray Cook.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for the kindness shown us
in the rfecent death of our husband
and father; also for the floral offer
ings. Mrs. Joel H. Harrison and
family .
Cm L. ## CCO 1
Repairs
on all makes radios and
electronic equipment.
Auto radios a specialty!
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CARR ELECTRIC CO.
Phone 4211
Tenant-Purchase
Program Making
Headway in State
The farm ownership program of
the Farmers Home Administration is
helping fight farm land inflation,
said Vernon P. Mitcham, FHA Coun
ty Supervisor of McDonough, point
ing out that the ten-year-old tenant
purchase plan provides loans only for
buying sound value farms.
Following a long-time policy, the
agency appraises farms considered
for purchase by its applicants, and
estimates their worth on the basis of
normal or long-time earning capac
ity. Instead of using present farm
Standard Oil Cos.
Coleman’s Garage
Wofford Oil CO., J- B. White, Agent
Moore’s Auto Parts & Service
P. H. Weaver
Shell Service Station, r- l. Brook., Mgr.
Carter Motor Cos.
T. P. Thurston’s Garage
prices as a gauge officials figure, for
example, cotton at 12c a pound,
wheat at 75c a bushel, and corn at
63c a bushel. At the same time, costs
for farm and home operation are
estimated over a similar long period,
to insure that the family’s income
will exceed their expenses and enable
them to repay their debt in the al
lotted time. This is done to assure
protection for both borrower and
government against an unwise invest
ment.
Where prices are not in line with
this estimate, the agency refuses to
make a loan. This turn-down often
results in the seller’s reduction to
meet the price set as reasonable by
the FHA County Supervisor, county
committee, and a qualified apprais
er. FHA appraisal standards are fre
WHERES HOW
' it happens!
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TThis advertisement is presented
jin the public interest by the
president’s .Highway Safety
{Conference and the daily and
weekly-)newspapers of the
their Press
nd; Associations.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
died>ndthousands~more l ye!?bte
j tired last year— because someonetookone or twodrinks.and.thehdroveW
suicide—or.murder. you’re drinking ajtoast Jo_DeathK
Statistics show thafone'oufof every'six drivers involved in'fatal>uto
mobile accidents had been drinking. Drinking drivers are three or four .times
more likely to be involved in accidents. Tests have proved time and agaiu
that a couple of drinks are sufficient to lower a driver’s reactions to the dan]
ger point. When quick action and alert judgment are demanded, the driver
fails.
If it were”bnly the drinking driver himself who~paid the penalty, that
would be bad enough. But when he cuts short the lives of other innocents
people—riders in his car, occupants of other, cars, or pedestrians I caught
by. hislerratic. driving—that’s, manslaughter!
Don’t smile when you read this, Mr. and Mrs. Citizen; The 1 law
operates with a heavy hand on drinking drivers..lt is going to beleveu
tougherJn :the future. It’s serious business!^
When you drink, don’t drive. When you drive,'don’t’drink!
quently used as a yardstick in com
munities to set prices on farms for
sale -and to judge prices already es
tablished.
“Congress and officials of the
Farmers Home Administration have
placed safeguards around our pro
gram,” Mr. Mitcham explained, “so
it can operate safely in good times
and bad, and be particularly useful
in a time of inflation. It’s a perma
nent source of sound credit and good
cuonsel, he said, for veterans and
others who want to farm but who
need our help to do it.”
Since the tenant purchase program
was authorized by Congress in 1937
under the Bankhead-Jones Farm
Tenant Act, about 46,000 loans have
been made throughout the country
to enable tenants, sharecropeprs and
farm laboreres to become farm own
ers. About 6,000 of these borrowers
have already paid out in full from
farm income alone, 30 or more years
ahead of time. In Butts county 38
loans have been made to buy farms.
Of those, 5 have been repaid in full
and 33 more are ahead of schedule
on repayments.
Many more loans could have been
made, Mitcham stated, but four out
of every five applications are rejec
ted because of the scarcity of sound
value farms.
Food locker plants are expanding
in service as well as in numbers.
Nearly 40 percent of the plants now
provide slaughter service as com
pared with 5 percent in 1940.
W. B. Thompso 0, Gulf Oil Products
Spencer-Buchanan, Inc.
Atlanta-Macon Motor Express, Inc.
Webb Service Station
Singley’s Service Station
T. A, Nutt
Jackson National Bank
S. H. Thornton
Grinstead Service Station (Texaco)
ALL TEACHERS WILL
REPORT FOR DUTY
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27
All teachers in the Butts county
school system are required to report
to their respective schools at 9 a.
m. August 27 to prepare for the
opening of the fall term September
1, it is announced by F. C. Hearn,
superintendent.
On August 29 at 2 p. m. there will
be a countywide meeting at the Jack
son high school and all teachers are
expected to be present and go over
plans for the 1947-48 school term.
It is likely that a final assignment
of teachers will be made at that
time.
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