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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
State Routes 11 And 15
Two State highway routes tra
verse this county, which extend from
North Carolina to Florida, the en
tire length of the State north to
south, namely, Eleven and Fifteen.
These are two very important routes,
and in the course of time will have
heavy traffic, largely that of tourists.
Route Eleven traverses the central
portion of the State, while Fifteen
is located in the eastern section of
Georgia. The former connects with
a North Carolina route some eigh
teen miles from Murphy, while the
latter starts on the Georgia-North
Carolina State line some twenty
miles south of Franklin, North Caro
lina.
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After Eleven leaves the North
Carolina line the first town it touch
es is Blairsville, thence to Cleveland,
Gainesville, Jefferson, Winder, Mon
roe, Social Circle, Monticello, Gray,
Macon, Perry, Hawkinsville, Abbe
ville, Fitzgerald, Ocilla, Alapaha,
Nashville, Ray City, Lakeland, Sta
tenville, Jasper, Fla., and Lake City,
Fla. Little of this road is unpaved,
one link of which is in Jackson
county, from Jefferson to Talmo.
Both W. L. Miller, Chairman, and
Herman Watson, a member of the
State Highway Board, have stated
publicly that this being a Federal
Aid Project on a primary Federal
Aid Road, that both State and Fed
eral funds have been allotted to it.
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This being true, the project should
be advertised to contract in the very
near future Since Governor E. D.
Rivers has issued an executive order
that no project can be built without
his approval, the only thing needed
is his consent, and this little section
of Route Eleven will go under con
struction. The extreme southern
part of this route is also unpaved,
but portions of it are now being
built, especially from Lakeland, the
home of Governor Rivers, to the
Florida line. This is the proper and
correct thing to do. Every link of
this Route Eleven should be paved,
so as to furnirsh the traveling
one great continuous highway with
the same route number that travers
es the central portion of Georgia,
from North Carolina to Florida.
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Route Fifteen begins at the Geor
gia-North Carolina line, south of
Franklin, and from thence to Clay
ton, Tallulah Falls, Clarkesville, Cor
nelia, Homer, Commerce, Jefferson,
Athens, Watkinsville, Greensboro,
Sparta, Sandersville, Tennille,
Wrightsville, Dublin, Lumber City,
Hazlehurst, Alma, Waycross, Folk
ston, and Jacksonville, Fla. Paving
on the link between Commerce and
Homer is progressing satisfactorily,
and when completed this highway
will be hard surfaced from the North
Carolina line to Watkinsville. Por
tion of Fifteen, from Watkinsville
to Sanderville, is dirt road, but by
going from Watkinsville by Madison,
Eatonton, Milledgeville and Sanders
ville, one can travel on paving all
the way from North Carolina to
Tennille.
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Only recently contract has been let
for hard surfacing highway between
Tennille and Wrightsville. The
road is paved from Wrightsville to
Dublin. Little of Route Fifteen
from Dublin to the Florida line is
unpaved. This highway traverses a
fine farming section, and touches
some splendid towns and cities, one
of the most unique of which is
Tennille. It is not only located on
a trunk line of the State highway
system, but is on the main line of
the Central Railway from Savannah
to Macon, and in one of the best
farming sections of Georgia.
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It has a Rotary Club, cotton mill,
bank, and up-todate merchants.
Other towns have these enterprises,
but here is a unique characteristic of
Tennille, and that is the unanimity
and aggressiveness of the people of
this little city. They stand together
in business, politics and progressive
efforts almost as one man. Not long
since they held a Rotary Convention,
and had Rotarians there from all
that section, but no member of this
order was allowed to spend one
dime for any purpose while there.
Guests were entertained in various
ways, and then a great feast was
served. Then Tennille said that the
town had waited long and patiently
for the paving from Tennille to
Wrightsville. A big delegation, by
the unanimous voice of her people,
■was sent to Atlanta to the proper
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authorities and asked for the road
to be let to contract, and this re
quest was granted a few days
after. Not only these matters, but
other efforts have been crowned with
success, because of the people stand
ing together and working in perfect
harmony. Here is another exempli
fication of that verity, “In union
there is strength.”
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Pardon this little disgression
about Tennille. The writer has a
very warm personal feeling for this
little city. Three years in college
he roomed with a young man from
here. In the legislature he served
six years with one of the finest
characters he has ever met in public
life, Hon. H. M. Franklin, and this
is the home of a son-in-law, a daugh
ter and three grandsons—W. B.
Smith and his family. Again, in all
his aspirations, this little city has
been alrrtbst a unit in giving the
writer support. But above this,
Tennille certainly is a city whose
people all pull together, and who
are aggressive and enthusiastic in
all their efforts.
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The writer wishes that every read
er had anew Georgia State Highway
map before him, and trace these two
great routes, Eleven and Fifteen,
from North Carolina to Florida. In
this way, one wili realize the great
ness of these highways better than by
any description that may be made of
them. In the early history of the
State Highway Department, counties
furnished much of the money to
match Federal Aid, and these Feder
al funds had to be allotted to coun
ties that would co-operate with the
State Highway Board in providing
money for construction. The result
was somewhat a patch work system
of paving. Now since counties
furnish no funds to match Federal
funds, but all road building funds
are now provided by the State and
the United States Government, links
can be built .and the entire route
completed. This State Highway
Board has been very active in filling
in the unpaved sections, and in the
course of a few months both Eleven
and Fifteen should be paved roads
from end to end, from the mountains
to the sea.
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Besides the two above mentioned
routes, another highway that Fifteen
makes connection with at Athens is
State Route Ten, which passes
through Lexington, Washington and
Thomson, to Augusta, all of which is
paved. At Thomson it connects
with a link between Thomson and
Wrens, which is improved, but not
hard surfaced. Here it intersects
with State Route Four, which is al
so United States Route One. This
great highway United States No.
One traverses territory through
Louisville, Wadley, Swainsboro, Ly
ons, crossing the Altamaha river at
Piney Bluff, over one of the longest
and most expensive bridges on the
State Aid System. From thence it
passes through Alma, Waycross,
Folkston, and to Jacksonville, Fla.,
the entire length paved. At Swains
boro it connects with State Route
Twenty-Six, which goes through
Statesboro and Pembroke, to Savan
nah. This is all hard surfaced. At
Baxley it connects with State Route
Thirty-Four, which goes through
Jesup, to Brunswick. This is also
paved. •
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Near Commerce, State Route Fif
teen connects with State Route Fif
ty-Nine, which goes through Cames
ville, Lavonia, and. to Anderson, S.
C. At Commerce connection is also
made with a State Highway that
passes through Ila, Danielsville, Roy
ston, to Hartwell. These highways
are all mentioned, because when all
have been paved the traffic through
Jefferson will be multiplied two to
three fold. Since Jefferson is an im
portant historic spot, because of Dr.
Crawford W. Long’s world renowned
discovery, this place should, and no
doubt will, attract sight seeing par
ties who wish to visit places of note
and history in Georgia. This
thought in this connection, there
shoud be a bus line from Hartwell,
via of Royston, Danielsville, Ila,
Commerce, Jefferson, Hoschton,
Braselton, Lawrenceville and Stone
Mountain, into Atlanta. As soon as
the paving on this road is complete
ed, a line should be established. This
is a great scenic highway,
Bert Kizer spent Sunday at the
A. A. Frost country home, the guest
of Herbert Frost, ,
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Many Counties Are
Forced To Give
Up Convict Camps
Atlanta.—Nearly one-eighth of
Georgia’s county convict camps have
been abolished in the last year, the
State Board of Penal Correction dis
closed.
Where 114 county work camps
were in operation in June, 1938,
only 100 exist today. Five of these
have been discontinued since Jan
uary 1, 1939.
Action ef Bibb county (Macon)
Sunday in returning 133 convicts to
the state prison system brought to
approximately 400 the number trans
ferred recently from county to state
supervision.
Phil Anderson, executive secre
tary of the penal board, said Ben
Hill, Miller and Early counties had
surrendered all prisoners, and part
of the convict load had been taken
from Effingham. Previously county
camps had been discontinued in
Gilmer, Lincoln, Montgomery,
Toombs, Walker, Grady, Dodge, Tal
bot and Wilkinson.
Most of the counties, Anderson
explained, turned back their con
victs for financial reasons. Gover
nor E. D. Rivers recently banned re
newal of county highway contracts
for convict labor pending solution of
the state’s fiscal proßtem. Highway
department sources said the execu
tive Indicated there would be no re
newals until the legislature met and
made special appropriarton for that
purpose.
MISS MELBA WHITE
MARRIED FRIDAY TO
W. RUSSELL KAY
Miss Melba White and W. Russell
Kay were married Friday afternoon
at six o’clock in First Christian
church, Athens, the lovely double
ring ceremony being performed by
the pastor, the Rev. Perry Swann.
The church was artistically decor
ated with palms and ferns, white
candles being effectively used to
outline the altar which was centered
with a basket of white dahlias and
gladioli.
A lovely musical program by
Mrs. Cleve Poss preceded the cere
mony, with Mr. Elmer Kirk singing
“Because” and “I Love You Truly.”
The matron of honor and the best
man were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bul
lock. Mr. Storey Ellington and Mr.
Kenneth Kay served as ushers.
The bride, given in marriage by
her uncle, Mr. H. S. Fite, of Jeffer
son, was becomingly dressed in a
powder blue sheer dress with a large
picture hat of white braid. Her
corsage was of pink roses and lilies
of the valley.
Mrs. Kay is the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Robert White of
Jefferson. Mr. Kay is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. Kay.
After a short wedding trip, Mr.
and Mrs. Kay will make their home
in Athens. '
MISS MYRTIS STOREY,ENGAGED
TO MR. PERCY E. CLARK, JR.
Mr. and Mrs. James Maxwell
Storey of Athens announce the en
gagement of their daughter, Myrtis,
to Percy Edwin Clark, Jr., of Louis
ville and Darien, the marriage to
take place in the late summer.
The above announcement is of
very cordial and statewide interest
owing to the popularity of the young
couple. Miss Storey is the sister of
Mrs. B. D. McDonad of Quitman,
and Miss Frances Storey and James
Maxwell Storey, Jr.’, of Athens.. She
is the granddaughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. T. Stordy, Sr., of Jefferson,
and her mother was Miss Belle Pir
kle of Hoschton.
She was educated at Athens High
School, and received her A. B. de
gree at the University of Georgia.
Since her graduation she has been
a member of the faculty of the high
school at Darien, and is now princi
pal.
Mr. Clark is the eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. E. Clark of Louisville,
and a brother of Mrs. Hartley Stone
of Richmond, Va. He received his
education in Richmond, and now
holds a responsible position with the
bank in Darien.
E. S. Briley, construction fore
man for the North Georgia Con
struction Cos., died suddenly in La
vonia last week. He was working on
a road project on the Toccoa-Elber
ton highway.
COUNTY AGENTS
COLUMN
OTrplanl*4 Cotton Formor* Given
Wook To Coin Compliance
Jackson county cotton farmers
who have unknowingly overplanted
their cotton acreage will be given
one week’s time to dispose of the
excess after the 1939 acreage has
been determined.
The Georgia AAA headquarters
in Athens has advised the county of
fice to be sure that the farms are
measured before bolls are mature, so
that notices may be mailed promptly
to every overplanted farms.
Producers who wish to do so, may
dispose of the excess cotton acreage
prior to the time at which bolls are
first formed, or may make such dis
position promtply after being ad
vised of the amount of the excess.
Under the provisions of the 1939
Agricultural Conservation program,
acreage planted to cotton means the
acreage of land seeded to cotton,
staple of which is normally less than
1H inches in length, which reaches
a stage of growth at which bolls are
first formed.
In any case, where the county
committee finds that a producer
made an effort to stay within his
acreage allotment, but an excess
acreage of cotton was planted be
cause of lack of knowledge of the
fields, the producers on such farms
will be considered as having disposed
of the excess acreage prior to the
stage of growth at which bolls are
first formed, if such disposition is
made within one week after notice
of the amount of the excess cotton
acreage is mailed to or made avail
able to the operator of the farm.
New Treatment Found For Screw
Worm*
Anew treatment for screw worms
has been developed by the U. S.
Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine.
The screw worm, an insect para
site that each year kills livestock
worth several million dollars in the
South and Southwest, can be ef
fectively and economically controll
ed. ,
The new treatment consists in ap
plying finely ground diphenylamine,
a crystalline chemical long used in
the dairy industry—to any break in
the skin of cattle, sheep, horses, or
hogs, which may be exposed to
screw worm flies that lay the eggs
from the destructive worms hatch.
Diphenylamine, the test shows,
poisons young screw worms hatch
ing out in wounds on animals.
Enough of this powdered chemical
to kill any worms that may hatch
for several days stick to the animal
tissues.
The Bureau recommends applica
tions every three days until all in
juries have entirely healed. Other
screw worm treatments recommend
ed by the Department of Agriculture
must be used every day for satis
factory results.
Diphenylamine will not kill large
screw worms. Benzol still is pre
scribed for the first treatment of
wounds that have become infested.
Once the large worms have been
killed by benzol, however, applica
tions of diphenylamine every three
days will prevent the development of
others.
Diphenylamine has the advantage
of being non-poisonous to animals,
as well as easy to apply and low in
cost. Methods of using this material
against screw worms and informa
tion as to where it may be obtained,
ig available from the Bureau of En
tomology and Plant Quarantine, U.
S. Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. C.
J. W. Jackson, County Agt.
HALL COUNTY MAY
CUT SCHOOL TERM
Gainesville, Ga.—Possibility of a
Hall County school term of five
months or less, instead of the usual
seven and nine months, i seen in
an announcement from Supt. W. L.
Walker that he has received official
notice from the State Board of Edu
cation that the state will be able to
pay for only three and one-half
months unless more money is ap
propriated by the Legislature.
County funds, Mr. Walker point
ed out, are ample to defray the cost
of about two months of a term but
for the schools to operate the full
scholastic year the majority of the
money must come from the state.
Some of the schools are in session
nine months, but the majority oper
ate only seven months.
Thursday, July 6, 1939.
FINANCIERS CAUSE
OF WAR SCARES,
HENRY FORD SAYS
Detroit.—Henry Ford, who holds
“international financiers” responsi
ble for most of the world’s ills,
said in an interview that such
interests are promoting “war scares"
at present because “they know no
other way of making money.”
“These Interests alone,” he said,
“profit from war, and if they can
not bring about war they promote
war threats to make money out of
heavy investments in munitions pro
duction.”
The automobile manufacturer
made the statement as he surveyed a
back-to-the-land project of his own
in a boys camp he has established
near Ypsilanti, Mich., where about
three score youths from city and
farm, are cultivating some 400
acres of land under a profit sharing
arrangement with the motor mag
nate.
“There is a job for the inter
national financiers,” Ford said, “if
they really want to help relieve un
employment. They can enable the
country banker to finance the farm
er and a real step toward the restor
ation of prosperity will have been
taken."
Ford reiterated his conviction
that there will not be another ma
jor war,” because he said, “The
people of the world know that war
is not only futile but unnecessary.
Moreover, none of the heads of the
governments of the world want
war.”
The automobile manufacturer,
who will be 76 years old a month
hence, is absorbed at the moment in
the production of his new “mechan
ized farming unit,” a 1,700 pound,
four-cylinder, four wheeled tractor
with a hydraulically operated “lift”
which he said will simplify the task
of the farmer and bring about a
return to the land. The vehicles
already are in production on a vol
ume basis.
Ford, apparently in excellent phy
sical condition, said he has not fol
lowed any prescribed diet. “I just
don’t eat too much,” he said.
New President Presides At
Rotary Luncheon Monday
President John C. Turner of Jef
ferson Rotary presided for his first
time over the club at the last lunch
eon in the Harrison Hotel on Mon
day. He presided with ease, dignity
and grace. He announced his com
mittees for next year. In a beauti
ful speech he presented a birthday
cake to the secretary and treasurer,
George Washington Westmoreland,
who was born on July 4. A happy
response was made by the recipient
of the cake.
The treasurer, George W. West
moreland, made his report, and rec
commended budget for next year,
which was approved by the club.
Committee to audit books of
treasurer made their report, which
showed the treasurer’s books o. k.
He was commended by the commit
tee for faithful and efficient ser
vice.
Visitors present: H. I. Mobley,
.Tr., Miss Mabeth Storey, Dickson
Storey and wife, and Mrs. J. N. Hol
der.
The Fourth of July address to the
Rotarians was made by John N. Hol
der.
The meeting was held Monday,
instead of Tuesday, as the last nam
ed date was July 4.
Commerce School Board
Commerce, Ga.—The city board
of education has elected the follow
ing officers for the coming school
year: H. F. Mosher, chairman; Dr.
O. C. Pittman, vice-chairman; R. L.
Sanders, secretary. Verne L. Davis
and Mrs. L. G. Hardman, Sr., are
the other two members of the board.
JUDGE McMILLAN DIES AT AGE
OF 68
Clarksville, Ga.—Judge Robert
McMillan, 68, of the northeastern
circuit, died at his home here Friday
night.
A past grand master of Georgia
Masons, he served as solicitor of this
circuit from 1910 to January of this
year, when he went on the bench as
a judge of the superior court.
Vol. 64. No. 3.
HUGE STAKE
FOR FARMER IN
LENDING PROGRAM
Washington.—The farmer
wants to swap his landlord foar ■
mortgage or his kerosene lamjs for
an incandescent bulb has a
000,000 lending proposat.
Besides the $40,000,001>-i-ywr
now loaned by the Rural Electi
tion Administration, he suggr>.iU-e4
lending $460,000,000 more it
next seven years, of which
000,000 would be for the fiscal grar
beginning July 1. Thus the w*t
year’s program for building power
lines to farm homes would be ex
panded to $60,000,000.
Also, in addition to the $25,800,-
000 annual appropriation for Uwau*
to tenant farmers wanting tt> buy
land, the President advocated lend
ing $500,000,000 extra in the nrxt
two years. This would make th
next year’s program for the Flxrm
Security Administration program i
excess of $275,000,000.
For social as well as potiLicmF
reasons, the farm has taken a frwnt
row among national problems.
If the farmer is broke, he caan’t
buy the city worker’s goods. And*
if the farmer is discontented, he
not only endangers the city worter’a
supply but competes with him
for work and room in the cities.
Thus, administration officials Mr
plain. the lending program is'aimed
at giving the farmer a better ebamee
to make good and to enjoy staying
on the farm.
Census figures show that in 1880
only 25 per cent of the farms were
worked by tenants or renters or
sharecroppers, as they are vanva*-
ly called. Next year’s census i* ex
pected to move the figure close to 56
per cent, with the number of teiwnts
increasing 40,000 families a year.
The problem is most acute in
Southern states, where the tenancy
rate has reached 70 per cent in
Mississippi and 66 per cent in Gesor-j
gia. But it is also prominent in the
Middle West, where 50 per cent of
the rich soil of lowa, for instAace,
is worked by renters.
The solution being attempted by
the administration now is to take
farmers whose ability and frugality
is attested by their neighbors: and
lend them cheap money for the par
chase of land of their own—land in
whose conservation and proapwrity
able farmers can take a permanent
interest.
In pbout a year and a half the-
FSA has made 7,000 such lewtn*,
totaling $35,000,000, on terms* of
40 years. Interest is 3 per cezrt-
But can these supposedly “por
risk” farmers pay it back?
The books show that $103,000 af
interest and principal payments axnm
due and $138,000 was paid iii the
last year and a half; that not n!y
were current debts met but $35,088
was paid in advance.
Federal experts say there fc a
"good management” reason for this
record. They explain that a fxrm
er can’t get such a loan unless', h**
shows that the farm he wants to tmy
will support him and his family, that
he is willing to grow hi: own fami
ly’s food as well as cash crops, xnd
that he will conserve hi:; soil with
crop rotation.
Besides money to buy farms, ’’hr*
FSA also lends money to buy a cow,
anew plow or seed, and part of the;
new .loan money may also be w> "and
for this. Even expensive tra
planting and harvesting niarhim-ry
may be rrjpde available if group of
farmers band together.
CANDLER IS NAMED JUDGE BY
RIVERS
Lakeland, Ga.—Governor Rj* nra
Monday announced the appointment
of Tom Candler, of Blairsville., to
be judge of the Northeastern so<■ -r
--ior court circuit.
Candler, a well known Union
county lawyer, formerly served in
the general assembly. He has- bean
practicing law in Blairsville nearly
25 years and is widely known over
the circuit.
The Blairsville lawyer was named
to succeed the late Judge Robert
McMillan who died uqexpeetjedly
Friday night at his home at GJariaes—
ville.
Governor Rivers announced the
appointment from Lakeland where
he and his family spent the holidatys-
District Superintendent H. CL
Holland of the Rome district lleSbo
dists was in the city vio£bu£
Rev. A. B. Elizer. 1 ■.