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• Maysville School New* •
First Gratis
We are glad to have Lorine In
gram. Evelyn and Jessie Moalor
back in school again. They have
been out on account of illness.
Seventeen pupils in the first grade
won prises for perfect leaaoni in
Arithmetic this week. We learned
anew frame this week.
Second Grade
We have an Avocado pear seed in
our room. It ia very pretty branch
ing out. We enjoy looking at it
It looks like a green umbrella. Our
grade is going to give a program in
chapel on Wednesday before Thanks
giving. We arc going to have a play
called “Bobby’s Thanksgiving,” some
poems, and songs.
Third Grade
We have been working on a health
program for chapel. We are making
the costumes for our play. All of
us are looking forward to a happy
Thanksgiving.
Fourth Grade
We are making a wall hanging
with pictures of Italy, Spain and
Greece. In Language, we are study
ing the punctuation marks. For
Thursday’s reading lesson we read a
play from our Reader to the second
and third grades.
Fifth Grade
Sara Lou Crisler won the prize
for making the best Indian doll.
Johnnie Davidson made the best bow
and arrow. Lorene Miller, Lucille
Pittman and Mary Lou Lord made
the best pottery. We are making
decorations for Thanksgiving.
Sixth Grade
We have just about finished our
projects in Geography. We are go
ing to have a Thanksgiving program
and invite the fifth and seventh
grades to our room. We are making
some English note books. We are
putting different parts of speech in
them. We are glad to have anew
member in the sixth grade.
Seventh Grade
We stood tests this week. We
hope to have new members on the
Honor Roll for November. The
boys are making tie racks, what
nots, etc., out of wood. The girls
have finished their shoe bags. We
plan to use these as Christmas pres
ents.
Junior Audubon Club iNewi
The Junior Audubon Club elected
the following officers: Raymond
Ward, president; Smith Pounds, vice
president; Ruth Boone, secretary;
Annie Beth Tolbert, treasurer. The
President appointed Mary Reynolds
chairman of the program committee;
Myrlene Chandler, chairman of
social committee; Annie Mae and
Vivian Ariail are to keep the scrap
book. Miss Prince is leader of the
club.
High School
The girls and boys basketball
teams played an exciting game here
last Friday night with Baldwin. The
six weeks tests will be in full swing
next week. We are going to finish
them on Wednesday, due to the fact
that our Thanksgiving holidays come
on Thursday and Friday. The ninth
grade Home Ec girls are going to
finish their dresses by Thanksgiving.
The eleventh grade Biology Class is
studying birds. The Health Class is
studying the Habit Forming Drugs
and their effect on the body.
SPEED IN RAYON SPINNING
A new rayon plant, representing
an investment of almost 12 million
dollars, is reaching completion at
Painesville, 0., in which will be in
stalled 96 machines capable of spin
ning and finishing thread 800 times
faster Aan can be done by existing
methods.
It is expected that the new process
will do for rayon what the continu
ous strip has done for the steel in
dustry. At capacity the new plants
will add 12 million pounds to the 300
millions pounds now produced an
nually.
Hiram S. Rivitz, who came to the
rayon industry only 12 years ago
from the plumbing business, says
that each of the 96 new machines
will spin 100 threads at once, trans
forming molasses-like viscose into
yarn in 6 and a half minutes, as com
pared to the old process, with tedi
ous processing baths, which requir
ed 90 hours.
Mr. Revitz takes pains to note,
however, that rayon production is a
highly competitive business and
while his company has made certain
improvements, other concerns are
also using their ingenuity. He puts
the situation graphically by saying
that the industry is now in the Model
T stage and the next few years may
witness some transformations more
marvelous than anything that has
gone before.
Advertising Drive Designed
To Keep Cotton Mill*
In State
An educational advertising cam
paign based on the slogan, “Let’s
Keep the Cotton Mills in Georgia,”
was launched last week through
out the state by the Georgia Asso
ciation of Cotton Manufacturers.
The purpose of the movement, ac
cording to T. M. Forbes, executive
secretary of the organization, is to
acquaint the public with the part
played by the textile industry in
the economic development of Geor
gia.
Mr. Forbes pointed out Monday
that the growing, manufacturing
and marketing 'of cotton and its pro
ducts constitute the largest single
enterprise in Georgia.
"During the last cotton year,” he
said, "240,000 Georgia farmers cul
tivated 2,040,000 acres of cotton,
produced 1,490,000 bales of lint cot
ton with a value of approximately
$80,000,000.
"Fully one-sixth of the state’s
white population is directly depend
ent on the cotton textile industry
for a livnig. A substantial majority
of our people are dependent on cot
ton in one gyay or another. Thus
the prosperity of all our citizens is
strongly affected by the progress of
the cotton industry.
“There are now about 200 textile
mills in Georgia with a total of 3,-
243,000 spindles. These Georgia
mills consume about a million bales
of cotton annually.
"Sixty thousand people are nor
mally employed in these mills, earn
ing about $45,000,000 per year.
This huge sum of money is a tre
mendous factor in the commercial
life of the state. When the mill pay
roll stops the community is paralyz
ed.
"It is our aim to bring these facts
before the people through adver
tising to further the mutual inter
ests of the cotton textile industry
and the people of the state as a
whole.”
PERUVIAN FLIES 4,765 MILES
FOR OPERATION
A spectacular airplane race from
South America against death was
won by Manuel Carassa, vastly
wealthy South American mine owner
and one of Peru’s outstanding fig
ures.
When he left Peru every minute
counted, the doctor said. Every
time the clock ticked the Grim Reap
er was drawing closer to Manuel
Carassa, Peruvian (S. A.) miner, in
a crttical condition from gallstones.
They boarded a clipper at Lima,
roared off to Miami, took another
airliner there and sped on to Ro
chester, Minn., and a specialist’s
operating table. Making the drama
tic race with the rich man were Se
nora Carassa, Manuel Carassa, son;
Dr. James McCormick, the sick
man’s personal physician, and Mich
ael, another son. A record of 35
hours was made on the dash, which
cost the South American Croesus
approximately $7,000.
SPELLING BEES COMING BACK
The old-fashioned spelling bee is
coming back into popularity, particu
larly in the smaller communities.
Even in southwest Georgia one hears
of spelling bees in which the grown
ups take part, with the once-popular
(or unpopular) Blueback speller as
the authentic source. Rumor has it
that attics are being searched, old
trunks opened for the coverted blue
back speller of grandpa and grand
ma’s days.
These spelling bees are worth
while, and besides supplying an in
teresting form of amusement, they
serve to brush up one’s spelling.
Americans in recent years have hung
up a remarkable record for abuse of
King’s English, not only in manner
of speaking, but in spelling as well.
It is a sad commentary on the life
of the average high school and even
college graduate that his or her
spelling is not up to scratch, and
there are many old-timers who stand
amazed at their sires for failure to
spell correctly some of the most
simple words.—Dawson News.
FORD’S MEMPHIS PLANT
RECALLS 100 TO WORK
Memphis, Tenn.—The Ford Motor
Company’s Memphis plant announc
ed 100 men were being called to
work effective Monday running the
total of workers to about 800.
Manager J. K. Lester said this will
increase the daily output from the
present 117 units to 165, which is
70 units under capacity.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Getting The Farmer Fixed
(From Moultrie Observer)
An alibi that is offered for the
Republican gains in the mid-west is
that the farmers are dissatisfied with
the present crop control law. The
farmers out that way, like some in
Georgia, want to produce as much
as they can and get a good price for
it. The politicians will have to
scratch their heads and go to work
again on farm legislation. Maybe
they can work it out.
There is the possibility that some
of the turning back to Republican
ism was just old time Republicans
getting back home. Western farmers
have been traidtionally Republican.
One thing about it that is no un
mixed blessing is that the Republi
cans of the farm belt who have been
voted into power, will have to quit
criticising and do some thinking.
They are the ones who will have to
share in the explanation two years
hence. They will have to make a
record to get their party in line for
the big fight in 1940. It will be in
teresting to see the Republican pro
gram. Many will want to see if it
is an improvement on the Hoover
program that brought wheat to
twenty cents and hogs to two and
a half cents a pound.
It is easy enough to make a cam
paign speech full of promises to the
farmers, but it has proven a pretty
difficult job to work out a plan at
Washington that pleases the farmer.
The Republicans will probably come
forth with the proposal again of the
American allotment plan. This will
provide a bonus for the portion of
the farm products consumed in
America. It will require a process
ing tax to finance this, or a deep
annual dip intb the treasury. Re
publicans are on record as opposing
both “taxing and spending.”
Maybe the farm belt Republicans,
back in Washington after a good
vacation, will have something to of
fer. They better have something to
offer. They will not last long if
prices remain where they are today.
Two years will be a long term.
GEORGIA’S STATE PARKS
Five state parks now are in oper
ation in Georgia. They are the Vo
gel State Park in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, the Alex Stephens Me
morial Park near Crawfordville, the
Pine Mountain State Park near Chip
ley, the Indian Springs State Park
near Jackson, and Santo Domingo
Park near Brunswick, on the south
Georgia coast.
Development work is under way
on four additional parks, the Fort
Mountain State Park near Chats
worth, the Little Ocmulgee Park
near Mcßae, the Chehaw Park near
Albany, the Hard Labor Creek Park
near Madison.
Other areas have been acquired
and development will be started as
soon as possible on these areas,
which include Magnolia Springs near
Millen, Miona Springs near Monte
zuma, Black Rock Mountain near
Clayton, Sitton’s Gulch on Lookout
Mountain, Kolomoki Park near
Blakely, Treutlen County Park, the
St. Marys River Park in Charlton
County, the Wayne County Park
near Jesup.
RIDES 28,000 MILES
TO COMPLETE SCHOOL
Toccoa, Ga.—A mountain girl
senior took her mathematics in hand
to send the Stephens county board
of education a literal “thanks for
the bus ride” to high school educa
tion.
Figuring that by the time she
completes this school year, she will
have been carried 28,000 miles in a
school bus, Miss Frances Fricks, of
mountainous Ayersville, Ga., wrote:
“If it had not been for the means
of bus transportation provided by
the school officials of Stephens coun
ty, I would not have been able to at
tend high school and enjoy the
privileges which have been mine
during the four years of my high
school career.”
DIDN’T WORK AT STILL,
JUST PUT WOOD ON FIRE
Savannah, Ga.—lsaiah Brown, 21-
year-old colored youth, charged with
making illicit whisky, insisted in
Federal Court here Friday he did
not actually work at the distillery—
he simply put a little wood on the
fire.
Judge W. H. Barrett, learning
the defendant had no criminal re
cord, smiled and imposed a probated
sentence of one year.
“You can see he is industrious,”
Judge Barrett commented. “If he
just does a little work, he doesn’t
think that counts.”
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GEORGIA PECANS TO BRING
$2,000,000
Macon, Ga. —The pecan industry
is expected to bring nearly two mil
lion dollars to middle Georgia this
year, according to estimates by local
merchants.
The Georgia crop for 1938 will
amount to approximately eight mil
lion pounds and the local marketers
indicated they will handle a large
portion of the crop.
The national office will dispose of
about three million pounds, in ad
dition to a government subsidy or
der.
Prices paid for the nuts range
from 8 cents to 18 cents, with the
average running from 10 to 12
cents.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938.