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The Jackson Herald
By John N. Holder.
MRS. J. H. BARTON
SPEAKS TO WOMEN OF
METHODIST CHURCH
The Society of Christian Service
was called to order at 4 p. m. Mon
day, April 6. at the Howell home on
Washington street, with Mrs. How
ell, Mrs. Westmoreland, Mrs. G. H.
Fite hostesses.
Mrs. Howell, the presiding officer,
presented Miss Ethel Moore, Spirit
ual Life Chairman, who introduced
Mrs. J. Hamby Barton of Athens,
the guest speaker.
Mrs. Barton opened the service
with prayer and announced her
subject, “Teach Me.” She spoke
most interestingly and with deep
impressiveness on Christ as a teach
er. God sent him into the world
to show us the way of life and if
we follow his teachings, we will not
lose the way of life. Christ taught
us how to love, gave us an example
of perfect love; taught us how to
pray, gave us a perfect prayer. A
teacher has marvelous influence
with children, either for good or
evil. We are teachers of Christ’s
way of life—are we doing a good
job? Have we sat at the feet of the
Master and learned His way of life?
If so, we know how to live; how to
walk as He walked; how to love as
He loved; how to pray as He pray
ed and should be about the Father’s
business teaching others whom we
contact along life’s journey.
Circle No. 1 had charge of the
program, the theme of which was,
“Our Highest Joy, Our Father’s
Work to Do.” Comments on the
subject were given by Mesdames
J. A. Wills, C. H. Legg. W. T. Bry
an, Guy Strickland and Miss Ethel
Moore.
A Spiritual' Life group was an
nounced by Miss Moore, the chair
man, as follows: Mesdames A. E.
Barton, H. R. Howell, J. N. Holder,
J. A. Wills, Stanley Kesler, G. H.
Fite, J. L. Anderson, C. H. Legg, H.
I. Mobley, Miss Sarah Wills.
Minutes were read and approved.
The corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Kesler, announced the following re
port for the quarter ending March
31:
Amount sent Conference treasur
er, $25.00; number of members, 47;
number of subscribers to World
Outlook and Methodist Women, 11;
amount spent locally, $19.66.
The Social Service report for the
quarter was $17.28. The chairman
of Children’s work, Mrs. Billy Wall,
announced 29 enrolled in Primary
and 11 in Junior departments. In
January, the children studied,
“Children of the United States.”
Their study for the next quarter
will be “Around the World."
The Circles reported 32 members
attending the March meetings with
a collection of $18.63. April meet
ings will be held with Mrs. J. A.
Wills, Mrs. A. H. Mcßee and Mrs.
J. B. Tompkins.
The miscellaneous treasurer re
ported receipts $18.72 and disburse
ments, $7.32.
Mrs. E. H. Crooks was appointed
to supply for Mrs. H. J. W. Kizer.
During the social hour, the hos
tesses, assisted by Miss Imogene
Westmoreland, served an ice course
and cake.
Presbyterians Seek
$1,250,000 for Expansion
Atlanta, Ga.—A proposal to raise
$1,250,000 for church expansion in
the South will be presented to the
General Assembly of the Pi esby
terian Church in the United States
at the annual meeting in May.
The proposal, leaders said, has
been favorably received throughout
the 88 presbyteries in the 17 South
ern states, and they believe that it
will be accepted by the assembly,
which will be held in Knoxville this
year. . , ,
The five-year campaign is to oe
designated as “the home missions
emergency advance. '
Dr. Homer McMillan, executive
secretary, of the Home Mission Com
mittee, declared that wartime popu
lation shifts make establishment of
new churches imperative.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEETS THURSDAY
The Chamber of Commerce will
hold the monthly meeting at the
Harrison Hotel at 8:30 o’clock
Thursday evening, April 9.
J. L. McMULLAN, Pres.
C L LEGG, Sec’y.
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JACKSON COUNTY
SALVAGE COMMITTEE
ISSUES STATEMENT
The Herald is requested to make
the following statement concerning
the salvaging of waste materials that
are so necessary for Defense:
“The people of Jackson county
are called upon, through the County
Chairman of the Salvage Commit
tee, L. J. Lyle, Jefferson, Ga., to co
operate with your government, the
War Department, and your county
committee in getting together and
into the proper channel, items of
salvage listed below.
Clean waste paper, corrugated
boxes, magazines, books, old rags,
old rubber of all kinds, scrap iron
and scrap metals of all kinds—ex
cept old tin cans.
Clean out the attic, the basement,
the garage and the premises. You
will be surprised at the pile of sal
vage you will find that can be used
for defense.
If you operate a store, or an of
fice, clean out your files, and turn
those old papers into the proper
channel to be used for defense.
We can understand something of
the importance of this co-operation
'when we say that we are advised
by government officials that 54 per
cent of defense production MUST
COME FROM SALVAGE.
For prices, and further informa
tion see L. J. Lyle, County Chair
man, or any of the following county
committeemen: Jefferson District,
Carl Legg; Minish, (Commerce),
Jimmie Jarrell; Hoschton, Dean
Lott; Braselton, Lewis Braselton;
Talmo, Mrs. Jack Murphy; Cun
ningham, (Pendergrass), R. D.
Brooks; Miller’s, W. R. Langford;
Wilson's, John Strange; Harrisburg,
Bob Griffeth; Newtown, David
Freeman; Center, Clarence Brooks;
Red Stone, R. P. Cooper; Attica, Le-
Roy Lavender; Randolph, L. F.
Sell.
Hundreds of tons of needed sal
vage can be accumulated if YOU
will co-operate. This is just anoth
er way YOU can help win this war
for Freedom.”
JUDGE L. B. MOON
AND COMMITTEES
TO PUSH CAMPAIGN
Judge L. B. Moon, Chairman of
Stamp and Defense Bond Campaign
for Jackson county, beginning next
week will intensify efforts to induce
the public to buy these securities.
Already Jackson county has not
been a laggard in purchasing Stamps
and Bonds, as the P. O. in Jeffer
son has sold more of them, so it is
stated, than any other post office
of its size in Georgia. Judge Moon
is very much gratified with the re
sults thus far in Jackson county.
he proposes now that ef
forts to sell these securities shall be
doubled.
Through December, Georgians
bought about $12,339,000 worth of
$25 bonds alone. It is reported the
January sales were $5,000,000. De
fense Stamp sales in January were
$438,000, bought mostly by children,
especially school children.
Judge Moon’s desire is that every
family in Jackson county shall own
either a stamp, or bond.
Judge Moon said, “We earnestly
ask and we expect to receive the
active co-operation of the people in
this patriotic service, because the
money invested in them is safe
and it will be put to work to carry
out the national defense program
to protect the freedom and safety
of the United States.”
FAYETTE M. McELHANNON
GRADUATES AND ENLISTS
Fayette M. McElhannon, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Steward McElhannon
of Winder and a grandson of Mrs.
Tiney Shields McElhannon and the
late John M. McElhannon, graduat
ed from University of Georgia
March 21. He was granted the
privilege of taking an extra amount
of work and therefore finished one
quarter ahead of schedule.
He enlisted in the U. S. Army Air
Corps as a flying cadet last week.
A 90 day furlough, subject to call
at any time, was granted him at the
time of his volunteer enlistment.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mobley of
Beaufort, S. C., were guests the past
week-end of Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
Mobley at their home on Sycamore
street.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
HOME ECONOMICS
DISCUSSED BY
M. I. TEACHERS
Jefferson Rotary Club members
were privileged Tuesday at then
weekly luncheon to hear talks by
Miss Dorothy Howard, Martin In
stitute’s teacher of Home Economics,
and Misses Marion Ward and Mary
Swayne, apprentice teachers from
G. S. C. W., who are in Jefferson
to do practical teaching at Martin
Instiute.
Miss Howard told of the estab
lishment of this work in the schools
by the Smith-Hughes Act and its
support by Federal Funds. Two of
Georgia's educational institutions,
the University of Georgiq and the
Georgia State College for Women
at Milledgeville, are the only schools
authorized to give degrees in this
branch of study. This work is
taught in other colleges but they
do not give degrees.
She told of training given by
this department of Martin Institute
in giving instructions to 73 young
ladies. Some young men, she said,
are very anxious to include this
work as a part of this educational
course, but up to this time only
young ladies are taught Home
Economcis in Martin Institute.
This work means much more than
teaching young ladies to cook and
sew, although these are taught and
emphasized, but health, nutrition,
budgetihg, making homes pleasant,
attractive and happy and the de
velopment of the personality of the
individual, are all a part of this
educational program.
Miss Howard introduced Misses
Marion Ward and Mary Swayne,
and each made a very interesting,
though brief, resume of their work.
They emphasized visual education
by presenting posters covering the
subjects to be learned. These pos
ter pictured fruits, so necessary in
menus; combinations of food and
recreation, essential for health;
food for victory, styles for victory
and time schedule. One poster car
ried the pledge for 1942:
“I will buy carefully.
I will care of the things I have.
I will waste nothing.”
Misses Ward and Swayne are
serving as assistant teachers of
Home Economics in Martin Institute
which is a required part of their
education before they receive their
degrees.
A letter was read from Rotarian
Rev. James T. Burrell in which he
thanked the club for a Rotary badge
presented to him.
Dr. J. E. Coker also expressed his
appreciation to the Jefferson Club
for a similar gift.
There were six members absent.
The program next Tuesday will
be on Stamps and Defense Bonds.
Judge L. B. Moon will be the guest
speaker.
GROWERS SEE
FINE PEACH
CROP IN STATE
Macon, Ga.—Georgia’s peach crop
will be bigger and finer than ever,
growers say with every peach go
ing beyond the state line being in
spected for quality, maturity, size
and color for the first time in the
state’s history.
A marketing program, made pos
sible when more than 90 per cent
of the growers gave their approval
in a recent referendum, has been
authorized for the entire industry.
The Department of Agriculture said
more than 450 growers voted in the
referendum.
The program will mean a crop of
limited size, because of the new
regulations calling for “quality
only,” growers said. It will be ad
ministered by an industry commit
tee of eight members and eight al
ternates each of them a Georgia
peach grower. There will be an
advisory committee, however, com
posed of seven representatives of
marketing agencies. These will be
selected by the scretary of agricul
ture at an early date.
The following growers, represent
ing North Georgia have been rec
ommended by the marketing agree
ment committee for membership
and alternate membership on' the
administrative board: W. C. Shore,
of Baldwin, and C. W. Hood, Jr., of
Commerce, as members, and C.
Cornwall, of Alto, and J. B. Whis
nant, of Summerville, as alternates.
PAVED HIGHWAY IS
COMPLETE JEFFER
SON TO GAINESVILLE
The Pittman Construction Com
pany, contractors on the concrete
paving between the South Oconee
river and the Hall county line be
yond Talmo on the Jefferson and
Gainesville road, a distance of 5.6
miles will complete pouring con
crete this week. H. L. Chamberlain,
Engineer on this project, as well as
all the paving on this highway in
Jackson county,, says the work of
building shoulders and finishing the
project will require about thirty
days.
"Then," said he, “the road will be
open for traffic.
“This project will cost $173,000.
The paving is twenty two feet wide,
except in the City of Pendergrass
where it is forty feet. This is one
of the best sections of concrete pav
ing I ever supervised. It is the
very latest design and has been built
with the most modern equipment
and by careful and painstaking
contractors.”
Mr. Chamberlain is one of the
most experienced and successful en
gineers in the employ of the State
Highway Department of Georgia.
For some twelve years he has been
a member of this department and
his services are characterized es
pecially for efficiency in all kinds!
of paving. Jackson county was for
tunate in having his services in
concrete paving on the Gainesville
and Jefferson Highway which has
one of smoothest and most beauti
ful roads in the state system.
This highway has long been
needed. This completes the link on
the primary Federal road, between
Jefferson and Gainesville and fur
nishes the traveling public a hard
surface road through Georgia via
Jefferson to the Florida line, or from
Florida to North Carolina. It will
provide a paved highway for inter
state traffic as well as for the
benefit of Georgia people. It is
freely predicted that in the future
there will pass through Jefferson
many cars with tags of other sta
tes.
The United States Bureau of Pub
lic Roads, recognizing that this
would be one of the main traffic
roads on the State system, had
built a “Class A" road of concrete
and twenty two feet in width.
An important job has been well
done by the contractors, Pittman
Construction Company, under the
supervision of one of the most com
petent of engineers, H. L. Chamber
lain.
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RANDALL EVANS, JR.
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA:
I am a candidate for Attorney
General in the primary election of
Septmber, 1942.
I was born in Thomson, McDuffie
County, Georgia, and I have prac
ticed law here for the past seven
teen years. I have represented
McDuffie County in the General As
sembly continuously since 1930,
serving in both the House and Sen
ate. In 1941 I was elected Speaker
of the House, and finished the ses
sion without a single appeal from
any ruling that I made.
1 feel that I am well qualified to
fill the office. I pledge to serve all
of the people honestly and fairly.
I will appreciate your support.
RANDALL EVANS, JR.
The farm will prosper as a busi
ness when the standard of manage
ment in the home increases along
with the standard of management on
the farm.
Thursday, April 9, 1942.
GEORGIA SHOWS
REVENUE GAIN
OF $14,760,333
An increase of $14,760,333 in
revenue receipts of the state gov
ernment in the last fiscal year was
reported Saturday by State Audi
tor B. E. Thrasher, Jr.
His annual statement, contained
in two volumes of nearly 1,000
pages, listed the total receipts as
$78,835,496.
The gain was accounted for pri
marily by an increase of more than
$6,000,000 in state tax collections
and of more than $9,000,000 in
grants from the federal government.
These were offset somewhat by
slight decreases in returns from
some other revenue sources.
Taxes Yield 51 Million
Of the total, taxes yielded $51,-
697,402, or 65.6 per cent. The fed
eral government gave the state
$19,641,366, or 24.9 per cent of its
revenue receipts. Operating earn
ings ran a poor third as a source of
income, providing $5,501,484, or 7
per cent. The balance was derived
from county grants, private dona
tions and rents and interest.
In the 1940 fiscal yedr taxes re
turned $45,688,691, grants from the
federal government totaled $lO,-
629.273 and operating earnings
amounted to $5,003,846.
The highway department receiv
ed more than any other state agency
in the last fiscal year, $26,961,212.
I The federal government supplied
I $11,638,902 of this. Next were the
I common schools. They got
U 48,921, including $1,829,545 from
the federal government.
University Receipts
Revenue receipts of the Univer
sity System totaled $6,804,656, with
$1,743,443 coming from taxes, sl,-
153,334 from the federal govern
ment, $3,605,297 from earnings and
$302,581 from donations. Expendi
tures for public welfare activities
amounted to $5,598,753. Of this the
federal government provided $3,-
052,697.
In relation to Georgia’s popula
tion of 3,123,723, expenditures per
capita were $8.63 for highways,
$7.09 for common schools, $2.18 for
the University System and $1.79
for public welfare.
Personal Services
Personal services cost $15,098,787
in the last fiscal year compared to
$13,611,647 in the previous year.
The number of employes on June
30, 1941, was 8,664, or 113 less than
on the same date in 1940. The
highway department had 502 fewer
employes and the University Sys
tem 232 more and the agricultural
department 51 more.
Travel expenses increased from
$1,098,770 in the 1940 fiscal year to
$1,153,461 in the last fiscal year.
The audit showed that the Gov
ernor, using the fiscal powers vest
ed in him by the last legislature,
transferred $2,936,972 from general
fund appropriations of $20,970,300
for budget balancing adjustments.
Of this, $1,699,518 was shifted to
allocated funds of various agencies,
while the balance of $1,237,453 was
charged off under the “grandfather
clause” restricting expenditures to
income.
The state closed the fiscal year
with an unexpected balance of
$101,374 compared to $196,730 at
the start of the period.
EDITOR W. T. BACON SEEKS
SENATE POST
Madison, Ga.—W. T. Bacon, edi
tor of the Madisonian, local weekly
newspaper, announces in his paper
that he is a candidate for the state
senate from the 28th district, com
posed of Morgan, Jasper and Put
nam counties.
In his announcement, Mr. Bacon
says, “We have no platform. We
have no legislation in mind to pro
pose. We are not being ‘drafted.’
We’re not even urged by the prover
bial ‘many friends.’
“We like politics. In a quiet way
we have been in Morgan county
politics almost half a century. We
have asked thousands of people,
perhaps, to vote for someone else—
some friend, but it is left to this
good day for us to ask for the first j
time that you vote for us.”
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pinson of De
catur, announce the birth of a
daughter, Janice Louise, April Ist,
1942, at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta.
Mrs. Pinson is the former Miss
Louise Nesbit of Decatur, and Mr.
Pinson is the son of C. N. Pinson
of Jefferson.
Vol. 68. No. 42.
WALTER T. HOWARD
CALLED BY DEATH
THURSDAYJORNING
Walter T. Howard is dead.
After an illness of several months,
he passed away Thursday at his
home near Jackson Trail School.
Funeral services were conducted
the First Baptist church of this city
by the pastor, Rev. James T. Bur
rell, after which his body was in
terred in the family burial grounds
near his home.
The pall bearers were A. J. Flan
igan, Hubert Martin. J. A. O’Dillon,
C. E. Fleeman, Jr., G. H. Fite and
Frank Gooch.
He is survived by his wife, Mr*.
Ruth Terry Howard, and two chil
dren, Walter, Jr., and Mrs. Ed Mc-
Neal; also, one brother, J. O. How
ard, and a sister, Mrs. R. M. Sell.
Mr. Howard was 72 years of age
and was a son of the late Captain
and Mrs. Homer R. Howard.
Born in Jackson county,, he spent
most of his life in the vicinity at
his birth. He was known for‘his
sincerity, loyalty and integrity.
Duplicity was foreign to his nature
and his word was accepted by every
one who knew him without doubt or
question.
His death was a distinct loss to
Jackson county.
DR. MASSEY TO BE HONORED
AT BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY
Dr. Milo Hatch Massey this week
celebrates his Golden Anniversary
in the ministry. It was pn April 9,
1892 that Dr. Massey preached his
first sermon at Bethany Church in
Washington County, Georgia. He
was then a mere lad. Since Ural
time much has transpired in the
life of this servant of God and al
so in the world. During the course
of his ministry he has held a num
ber of outstanding pastorates in
Georgia and Florida, each of which
has reaped much fruit from his
labor. He looks back this week
over those fifty years of fruitful
services and rejoices that God has
led him and blessed his efforts m
the Kingdom endeavors.
About eighteen months ago Dr.
Massey resigned the pastorate of
the First Baptist Church of Marian
na, Fla., which position he had oc
cupied for thirteen years, and mov
ed to Jefferson. He is a former
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of this city, having been in that
place of leadership when the pres
ent church building was erected.
Mrs. Massey, the former Miss Kate
Roberts, was born and reared in
Jefferson. Since the time of Dr.
Massey’s retirement from the active
ministery, he and Mrs. Massey have
lived in our town, holding member
ship in the First Baptist Church.
The subject of that first sermon
at Bethany was: “The Christian
Race”. He used as a text the .pas
sage found in Hebrews 12:1. As
pastor of the church of which Dr.
Massey is now a member, I have
asked that at the 11:30 worship
service on Sunday April 12, that he
shall bring the congregation a mes
sage on that same subject and text
which he used for his first sermon.
You are invited to attend this ser
vice.
JAMES T. BURRELL,
Pastor First Baptist Church.
WILMA ANN BUTLER IS
MARRIED TO MR.
JAMES F. BRIDGES, JR.
Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Butler an
nounce the marriage of their daugh
ter, Wilma Ann, to James Franklin
Eridges, Jr., on Wednesday even
ing, April 1, at the East Athens Bap
tist church. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Cruce, with only a
few close friends being present.
Mrs. Bridges received her edu
cation at Martin Institute in Jeffer
' son.
Mr. Bridges is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Bridges, Sr., of Athens,
! and attended Athens High School.
For the past two years he has been
in the U. S. Navy and is now sta
tioned at the Navy yards in Phila
delphia, Pa.
Mr. Bridges leaves Tuesday to
take up his naval duties in Phila
delphia, where Mrs. Bridges will
join him later.
Mr. Lewis Bailey, who has a
position in Atlanta and Mr. Byron
Moreland, a student from Emory
University spent the week-end with
the former’s grandmother, Mrs. C.
L. Bailey.