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The Jackson herald
By John N. Holder.
JOE BRUCE SOSEBEE
FIRST NAME DRAWN
FOR SERVICE DRAFT
The more than 2000 Jackson coun
ty men, who registered for the mili
tary service draft, have been drawn
by the local board and were num
bered consecutively as each name
was drawn. These draftees now
await the national lottery in Wash
ington.
Joe Bruce Sosebee, Rt. 2, Jeffer
son, was the first name drawn and
is therefore No. 1. The next nine
are Gordon Angus McDonald, Com
merce, No. 2; Harris Russell De-
Long, Pendergrass, No. 3; George
Hampton Owen, Commerce, No. 4;
J. B. Haggard, Commerce, No. 5;
Vincent Henderson, Commerce, No.
6; Robert Daniel Mathews, Nichol
son, No. 7; Hoyt Jerome Wiley,
Hoschton, No. 8; James Hardy Griz
zle, Jefferson, No. 9; Bennett Canada
Murray, Commerce, No. 10.
Loucious Murray was the first
colored name drawn and is No. 23.
Following the drawing of the initial
card subsequent cards were drawn
and numbered until all those regis
tered were numbered.
The drawing in Washington Tues
day was conducted by Secretary of
War Stimson.
Within three weeks after Stimson
lifts the first blue number capsule
from a big goldfish bowl, the initial
contingent of 30,000 draftees will
be on their way to training camps.
Men will be called to training—-
800,000 by next June 15 —in the
order in which their numbers are
drawn from the bowl, unless they
volunteer without waiting to be
called or unless they are deferred
from service.
Following the national lottery in
Washington, the serial number will
be the key to the assignment of or
der or “call” numbers. For instance,
if the Selective Service officials draw
out of the “fish bowl” in Washington
a capsule with Number 10 inside it.
all registrants throughout the coun
try assigned that serial number by
local boards, will be given the first
order number. . Of course, whethei
or not they are eventually accepted j
for service in their country’s defense j
program depends upon the classifica
tion to which they are entitled under
the Selective Service law.
Six thousand, four hundred and
eighty-nine young Georgians will be
drafted into the army between No
vember 18 and next July 1 as a total
of 50,984 are called to the color?
from the army fourth corps area in
the eight southern states during that
period, the war department an
nounced in tentative draft quotas.
The quota for the corps area was
surprisingly high to many since
army officers had estimated unusua
ally heavy volunteer enlistments
would cut deeply into the draft
quota.
Georgia’s quota was set at 12,792,
and the state was given credit for
0,303 voluntary enlistments, leaving
6,489 to be drawn in the war de
partment lottery. Of this number,
4,336 are to be white and 2,153
negroes.
Jackson . county’s board is con
scious of the responsibility placed
upon them by the President of the
United States and the Governor of
Georgia in appointing them to this
sei-vice, and the board is anxious to
make the administration of the law
so efficient and impartial that it will
be a contribution to the success of
the national defense program, which
is designed to preserve the nation’s
life.
DR. RALPH N. JOHNSON,
HONORED BY MEDICAL
FRATERNITY IN CHICAGO
Dr. Ralph N. Johnson, of Rome,
was inducted as a Fellow into The
American Colleges of Surgeons in
Chicago Monday night. He is the son
of Rev. A. J. Johnson, the pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Cornelia,
and Mrs. Johnson, former citizens of
Jefferson.
Dr. Johnson took his pre-medical
course at Mercer University and his
Medical Course at Emory University
where he received his M. D. degree
in 1929. After spending a while
as house doctor in Harbin Hospital
in Rome, he interned for two years
in the Lankenau Hospital in Phila
delphia, Pa., and then settled in
Rome where he now ranks as one
of the leading physicians of that
city. He has been city fihysician in
Rome for the past four years.
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HIGHWAY DEPT.
DEEPLY IN RED
AUDITOR CRITICISES
Atlanta.—The Georgia highway
department ended the fiscal year
June 30 with a deficit of $13,843,-
407,89, biggest incurred in the
agency’s 21-year history. State Audi
tor Zach Arnold reported Saturday.
If the board completely shut down
contract letting for the next 12
months, the revenue anticipated dur
ing that period still would not pay
off present obligations and maintain
normal applications, the auditor said.
“Already there is acute lack of
funds promptly to meet obligations,
and the accounting department is
jammed and many creditors are un
paid,” Arnold wrote Gov. E. D.
Rivers in the department audit.
Declaying “resolute action is ne
cessary” in the financial dilemma,
Arnold recommended “a determin
ed ‘no’ to pleas (for roads) for a
while, perhaps seven or eight months,
until the financial condition of the
board clears up.”
He added “there must be exercis
ed real economy; sacrifice that hurts,
on the part of groups ancj of all
Georgians, to wait with patience for
the grading, paving and bridges they
clamor for.”
The auditor was vigorous in his
denunciation of the department’s
purchasing practices, explaining that
“Whether or not the supervisor of
purchases is at fault, or the Highway
Board, or anyone else” an examin
ation disclosed:
1. Had competitive bids been re
quired in certain cases, instead of
emergency purchases by the High
way Department, money would have
been saved.
2. Had the Highway Board in
some cases drawn up specifications
so there would have been a wider
field of competition* “it is very
probable money could have been
saved.”
3. Had the Highway Board an
ticipated its need,‘say, of equip
ment or of tons of sand asphalt,
requisitioned the number or amount
needed instead of specifying “one
or more” or smaller amounts than
actually used, lower prices would
have been obtained and considerable
money saved to the board.
The audit disclosed that pur
chases from one firm, the Blalock
Mahinery & Equipment Company
totalled $1,387,645.24. This inclu
ded 872,902.78 for trucks, $5Ol,
955.27 for tractors, $102,900 for
power graders, $708,539.56 for “oth
er road machinery” and $1,347.63
for shop equipment.
Continuing his criticism of pur
chases, the state auditor said the
following practices (‘admittedly”
existed in the Highway Department:
1. Splitting needs of more than
SI,OOO into several requisitions of
under that amount, “thus avoiding
the delay incident to advertising
for bids.”
2i Making purchases cailled
“emergency” that were in no sense
emergency, “contrary to the provis
ions of the spirit, if not the letter,
of the law.”
3. Purchasing on “local” pur
chase orders, “for which there is no
authority in the purchasing act.”
4. “Confirmation” purchases,
which the auditor explained meant
getting a purchase order after a
purchase has been made. He des
cribed this as contrary to the spirit,
of the law except in rare cases.
Going further into the $13,843,-
407.89 deficit, the auditor said that
since the first of July and until the
filing of his report, additional con
tracts and commitments had been
made, /thus increasing the dleficit.
He added this comment:
“I have not gone into the field
of alleged violations by persons or
corporations of ciyil( or Criminal
laws of the state or federal govern
ment. Having audited the highway
department within my duties and
limitations, for all financial trans
actions, it seems there must be some
place where the auditor’s duties end,
and the law agencies take up and
pursue outside investigation for de
tection of alleged illegalities or
crimes, and assist in assembling and
production of witnesses and evidence
for grand juries and prosecutors in
the judicial branch.’.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ed L.
Kelly will regret to konw that their
little 10-day-old daughter, Peggy
Jane, is seriously ill at the hospital
in Commerce.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
NO SECRET PACTS,
ROOSEVELT STATES
IN CAMPAIGN TALK
In an address in Independence
Hall in Philadelphia, as an old cam
paigner who loves “a good fight,”
President Roosevelt swung into the
last stages of his re-election drive
with the “most solemn assurance”
thßt America has no secret pacts
with any nation.
In “repeating, and repeating, and
repeating falsehoods,” he said his
opposition has imported “certain
techniques of propaganda, created
and developed in dictator countries.”
But among the “outrageous” and
“unpardonable” falsifications which
he attributed to partisans and Re
publican leaders were charges that:
His administration “wishes to
lead this country into war;”
That it has failed to make a job
for even a single man;
That the industrial system is
prostrate; \
And that business is stifled and
unable to make a profit.
Truthful campaign discussion of
public issues is essential to the
American form of government, Mr.
Roosevelt asserted.
“But it is entirely a different
thing.” he added, “for any party or
any candidate to state, for example,
that the president of the United
States telephoned to Mussolini and
Hitler to sell Czechoslovakia down
the river; or that the unfortunate
unemployed of the nation are going
to be driven into concentration
camps; or that the social security
funds of the nation will not be in
existence when the workers of today
become old enough to apply for
them; or that the election of the
present government means the end
of American democracy within four
years.
“I think they know, and I know
we know, that all of these state
ments are false.”
He spoke to a throng that took
every one of the 14,500 seats in the
auditorium, cheered him for six and
a half minutes before he could be
gin his address, and interrupted 91
times with applause, laughter, and
occasional boos when he struck
heavily at his opposition.
The ovation accorded the chief
executive at the hall was a climax
to a day in which he had appeared
before tens of thousands of people
at Wilmington, Del., and on a 40-
mile" motor tour to national defense
plants in Philadelphia and Camden,
N. J.
An “outrageously false charge”
that the administration wants to
bring the nation into war, he said
at Philadelphia, had been “made to
strike terror into the hearts of our
citizens.”
Jefferson Defeats Buford
Twice; Plays Airline
Here Friday Night
Martin Institute took both ends
of a double header last Friday night,
from Buford High School in the
local shell by opening the season
with victories for both boys and
girls. The M. I. lassies trounced
the Buford girls to the tune of 44
to 5, while the boys were doubling
the score to take the night cap 22
to 11.
Avery large number of fans were
out to see the teams and, give ther
their support. Both teams looked
ragged but promise to improve in
the future. The girls displayed
some very fine shooting and passing,
while the boys did some very good
passing. Their score does not indi
cate their ability to play ball. All
were off in their shooting, and show
ed much need of hard practice.
The cake walk which followed
proved to be a success and the
Athletic Department wishes to thank
the supporters of the teams for
their contribution in making such a
success. We hope to see and have
large crowds at all our games this
year.
Next Friday night, November 1,
in the local gym, the M. I. teams
will meet Airline High School. Air
line was a big threat in the district
last year so this promises to be one
of the big games of the season for
the Jefferson teams. The first game,
that of the girls, will begin at 7:30
o’clock.
SERIAL NO. 158 FIRST
DRAWN IN LOTTERY
SELECTIVE SERVICE
CURTIS NEWTON STEPHENS
HOLDS NUMBER IN JACK
SON COUNTY
At noon Tuesday in the nation’s
capitol, Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson dipped his hand into a huge
glass gold-fish bowl and took out a
little capsule. Inside thut capsule'
was a number and in the thousands
of Selective Service Board areas
throughout the country were men
holding numbers identical with thut
drawn.
The first number drawn was serial
No. 158, which now becomes order
No. 1; and that number in Jacks in
county is held by Curtis Newton
Stephens, Rt. 2, Pendergrass.
The second number drawn was
192, whieh now is known as No. 2
and is held by Roy Nathaniel Kitch
en, Commerce.
The Herald could not get a full
list this week, but in the first 1000
names drawn, 38 from Jackson
County were on the list as follows:
Order Serial
No. No.
1— 158—Curtis Newton Stephens,
Pendergrass.
2 192—Roy Nathaniel Kitchens,
Commerce.
3 105—Jesse Pierce, Commerce
4 188—Chalmas Parson Vaughn,
Commerce.
5 120—Ernest Willie Highfield,
Maysville.
6 161—Horace Franklin Thomas,
Pendergrass.
7 14—Ralph Wood, Maysville.
8— 57—Johnnie W’oodrow Kent,
Talmo.
9 19—Charles Grady Miller,
Commerce.
10— 766—James Henry Thornton,
Commerce.
11— 554—Paul Eugene Cronic,
Hoschton.
12^-172 —Marvin Benton, Com
merce.
13— 126—James Guy Elliott,
Maysville.
14— 187—J. B. Standridge, Com
merce. *
15— 1854—Jesse Clifford Coving
ton, Jefferson.
16— 167—John Thomas Toole,
Commerce.
17— 1369—Newnan Watsoh, Col.,
Jefferson.
18— 162—Edgar Leroy Eberhart,
Talmo.
19— 147 —John Cornelius Rylee,
Col., Jefferson.
20— 1300—Bynam Carson, Com
merce.
21— 1355-—Nathaniel Thomas,
Col., Nicholson.
22 689—Charlie Edgar Stancil,
Hoschton.
23 1295—Allen Jackson Smith,
Commerce.
24 1234 —John A. Hardy, Col..
Jefferson.
.25 —31—Burrell Jackson Yar
brough, Jeffex - son.
26 156—Roy Ernest Murphy,
Pendergrass.
27 676—01 in Shankle White
head, Nicholson.
28— 112—Samuel Sheridan, Mays
ville.
29 185—George Daniel Small
wood, Commerce.
30— 1362—Garth L. Bryant,
Hoschton.
31— 108—Paul Pressly, Jefferson.
32 109—Ned Clarence Stringer,
Jefferson.
33 1443—John Maxie Brown,
Maysville.
34 184—Jesse Boyd Elrod, Jr.,
Commerce.
35 116—Henry Odell Chambers,
Maysville.
36 — 174—Hinton Groves Paul
Commerce.
37 1801—John Eldridge Lang
ford, Braselton.
38— 131—Latimer Rudolph Smith,
Jefferson.
President Roosevelt has designat
ed November 21 for Thanksgiving.
This will permit 28 selling days for
pre-Christmas merchandising season
instead of only 22 days a later
Thanksgiving would permit (people
won’t start Christmas shopping until
after Thanksgiving.) Last year the
earlier Thanksgiving date resulted
in an increase of business of 9.5%
in states which observed the earlier
date, contrasted with a 3.1% in
crease in states where the later date
was observed.
Thursday, October 31, 1940.
WOMANS CLUB
HAS FLOWER SHOW
GREAT SUCCESS
On last Friday afternoon at the
Vocational building the semi-annual
flower show sponsored by the Gar
den Division of Jefferson Woman's
Club was held and proved to be one
of the loveliest and most enjoyable
events of the season.
The large room of the building
and an adjoining small room were
filled with a riot of beauty and col
ors, colors that Dame nature spreads
so generously at this season of the
year.
There were displayed dahlias,
chrysanthemums, roses, nasturtiums,
ziennias, marigolds, snap dragons and
many other beautiful plants in in
numerable combinations of exquisite
beauty and what ever the visitors
taste might have been it was sure
ly gratified at the profusion of
beauty.
Especially beautiful were the
Thanksgiving table and Christmas
table and coffee table, all 3 being
greatly admired by the large num
ber of visitors who called during
the afternoon.
A larger number of entrants than
ever before participated attesting to
the fact that flower growing is be
coming a hobby with more and more
people each year.
Ribbons were awarded by the
judges as follows:
Dahlias, .3 Jane Cowl, Blue Rib
bon, Mrs. Hal Moore.
Bowl Yellow Dahlias, Red Ribbon,
Mrs. A. B. Elizer.
Miniature Dahlias, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. M. M. Bryan.
Roses, 3 in Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. C. D. Cox.
Roses, 3 in Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mr. R. B. Maxwell.
Roses, 1 in Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. Stanley Kesler.
Rose arrangement, Sweetheart
Roses in Blue Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. Bill Bryan.
Roses, 5 in Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. C, T. Storey, Jr.
Rose, 1 in Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. M. M. Bryan.
Roses, 2 in Vase, Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. H. G. Johnson. .
Mixed Bowl Arrangement, Blue
Ribbon, Mrs. Carl Legg.
Mixed Bowl Arrangement, Red
Ribbon, Mrs. I. W. Wheeless.
2 Tube Roses in Crystal Vase,
Blue Ribbon, Mrs. J. C. Turner.
Chrysanthemums in Crystal Bowl,
Blue Ribbon, Mrs. H. S. Johnson.
Dried Flower Arrangement, Blue
Ribbon, Mrs. W. D. Holliday.
Dried Flower Arrangement, Red
Ribbon, Miss Frances Smith.
Miniature Arrangement, Sweet
heart Roses, Miss .Sara Dadisman.
Miniature Arrangement, Mixed
Flowers, Mrs. J. C. Alexander.
Prince Feather Arrangement in
Bowl, Blue Ribbon, Virginia Moore.
Chrysanthemums and Bachelor But
ton Arrangement, Red Ribbon,
Grace Hanson.
The Thanksgiving table and co f
fee table won blue ribbons and the
Christmas table received a red rib
bon.
Mrs. J. C. Alexander, chairman of
the Garden Division of the W’oman’s
Club displayed a number of varie
ties of the beautiful dahlias she
grew, but these were not entered
for prizes.
The judges gave honorable men
tion to a number of other entries
which did not receive blue or red
ribbons, as there was no competition
in this particular arrangement.
Among these were an arrangement
of Gallardias in a brass bowl entered
by Mrs. J. C. Turner; and a vase of
'mixed Chrysanthemums grown from
seed, shown by Mrs. J. C. Hanson
and Mrs. Stanley Kesler shared a
copper pitcher of bronze Chrysan
themums.
All the entries showed tasteful
arrangement, and each in its own
way helped to make the flower show
a success.
TUESDAY’S ROTARY
MEETING
Col. George W. Westmoreland ad
dressed the Rotary Club Tuesday at
the regular weekly luncheon. Mr.
Westmoreland spoke on the subjec:.
“Erosion in Private Fields,” making
an interesting speech that was en
joyed. Eight members were absent.
Vol. 66. No. 21.
7 QUITS STATE
FOR JOBS ON
DRAFT BOARD
Governor Rivers used draft boards
to build life rafts for h a torpedoed
official family.
Seven employes of state executive
departments quit their jobs to be
come clerks of Fulton County draft
hoards at salaries of $l5O per month.
Some of them were making larger
salaries than this, but they figured
their present jobs would end any
how on January 10 and the new ones
probably will last five years.
It was understood that the Gover
nor insisted upon naming the clerks
of some of the boards before ap
pointing the chairmen.
L. L. (Pat) Gillen, the Governor's
aide, resigned to become assistant
fitate director of selective service.
Mrs. Gertrude Liles Kilpatrick,
private secretary to the. Governor in
his Lakeland law offices and during
his entire career as Governor, re
signed to become clerk of Fulton
Draft Board No. 6.
N. T. McElroy, secretary to Gov
ernor Rivers, clerk of Fulton Board
No. 5.
Morris W. Gorman, stenographer
in the governor’s office, i -signed to
become clerk of Fulton Hoard Nq.
5.
Mrs. Dorothy Rivers, daughter
in-law of the governor, resigned a
position with the Department of Pub
lic Safety to become clerk of Fulton
Board No. 8.
Mrs. Kathleen Hogan, hostess at
the Capitol, whose job stirred a con
troversy in the last Legislature, re
signed to become clerk of Fulton
Board No. 11.
Will Riley, former aide to the
governor but more recently with the
State Highway Department’s division
of traffic and safety, resigned to be
come clerk of Fulton Board No. 9.
Mrs. Cellar Stark Dies
Following Brief Illness
Mrs. Thelma Stark, wife of Cel
lar L. Stark, died October 21 at the
home of her parents, Col. and Mrs.
E. C. Stark, on Jefferson Road in
Commerce. ’She had been in declin
ing health for several months but
became critically ill only two days
before her death. All that could
possibly be done for her, medical
and other-wise, was done but to no
avail.
Funeral services were conducted
at 4:00 o’clock Wednesday after
noon, from the residence of her par
ents, by the Dr. W. H. Wrighton of
Athens, assisted by the Rev. 11. R.
Foster of Commerce. Interment did
not take place until Thursday morn
ing at 10:00 o’clock due to the fact
that Mr. Stark’s parents from Tole
do, Ohio, did not arrive until after
the funeral services. A short ser
vice was held at the home on Thurs
day morning with a short service at
the graveside. Active pallbearers
were Lamartine G. Hardman, Hu
bert Franks, Clarence Chandler, Dr.
O. C. Pittman, Howell Little and W.
W. Foster. Honorary pallbearers
were C. W. Truitt, R. M. Davidson,
Dr. J. C. Verner, Willie Harber, H.
F. Bray and John Hood. Burial was
in Grey Hill Cemetery under the di- <
lection of Sanders Funeral Home.
Mrs. Sark was a member of a
prominent southern family. She was
born January 20, 1905, the daughter
of Early C. and Clara Freeman
Stark. She was educated in the
Commerce Public Schools, later at
tending Mary Baldwin College,
Staunton, Va., and the University of
Colorado, Denver, Colorado- On
November 30th, 1935 she was mar
ried to Cellar L. Stark of Toledo,
Ohio, but she and Mr. Stark had
made their home here for the past
three years.
Active in civic work, she was a
member of the Daughters of Ameri
can Revolution and the Garden Club
and was a member of the First Bap
tist Church of Commerce. Mrs.
Stark was gifted with a strong men
tality and a distinctive personality.
She attracted people by her bright
sunny nature and the entire com
munity is shocked and grieved at her
passing. Survivors include her hus
band, Cellar L. Stark, her parents,
Col. and Mrs. E. C. Stark, two sis
ters, Mrs. J. N. Rainey of Winder
and Mrs. John Brumby of Sanford,
Fla., and her grandmother, Mrs. Sue
Stark of Commerce;