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PAGE EIGHT.
NEWSPAPERS HAVE
BIRTHDAYS
The Oglethorpe Echo is seventy
years old and the present Editor,
W. A. Shackelford, has been with it
since it was a year and two months
old, except for two periods of one
and two years. "There is not now
living," said Mr. Shackelford, "a
single subscription patron who gave
the paper the support that war
ranted its establishment. An al
most entire new population has
come upon the stage of life since
the Echo first began to serve the
public.” People are standing by
the Echo as they did during the
first years of its existence. This is
not surprising. This paper is one
of the newsiest and best edited
publications which comes from
the press. It's Editor is versatile,
sincere, courageous and honest. He
has a contempt for hypocracy and
sham, but loves truth and virtue.
His people have confidence in every
statement he makes and implicitly
believe in him.
Another paper that has celebrat
ed its anniversary recently is the
Dawson County Advertiser, which
is 55 years old. Mrs. B. H. Howard
has been on the paper's staff for
thirty one years and khe has weath
ered storms that come upon nearly
all country weeklies. She is a
splendid newspaper woman and
publishes a paper highly appreciat
ed by the citizens of bawson Coun
ty. '
Hbr father, J. B. Thomas, was
Editor of the paper for 21 years, be
ing succeeded by his daughter.
One of the first Georgia Editors
with whom we becdtne acquainted
soon after entering the newspaper
business more than Illty one years
ago was J. B. Thomas. He and his
daughter, Mrs. Howard, have been
our consistent friends.
A FRIEND REMEMBERS I7TI
EDITOR
An excellent farmer and good
friend who sent us some of the
most perfect sweet potatoes that
ever came from the ground was J.
V. Alexander. Although eighty
three years old he has worked faith
fully in the field this year because
the war exempt “Will work at home
while the young men are fighting
our battles for us.”
Mr. Alexander, a descendant of
one of Jackson counties pioneer
families, lives just beyond the city
limits and believes in producing
everything that grows on a well
managed farm. We appreciate his
remembering us with such nice po
tatoes.
PENTECOSTAL FIRE BAPTIZED
HOLINESS CONFERENCE
The annual State Convention of
the Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holi
ness church was held the past week
end in Griffin. Those attending
from the Jefferson church were
Miss Bernice Moon, Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Couch, Rev. J. H. Kesler and
Rev. A. O. Hood.
In the placement of ministers for
the new year. Rev. Kesler was as
signed to the Jefferson church and
Rev. Hood to the churches at Lula
and Toceoa.
Rev. Hood was honored by be
ing elected secretary and treasurer
of the conference for the twenty
fifth consecutive year.
RIVERS. EVANS TRIALS ARE
SLATED BY JUDGE
Atlanta.—Solicitor General John
A. Boykin Thursday announced that
the trial of former Governor E. D.
Rivers on charges of embezzlement
and conspiracy to defraud the state
has been scheduled to start in Ful
ton superior court Monday, Novem
ber 2.
A re-trial of Dr. Hiram Wesley
Evans on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the state in the sale t of
“sand asphalt” has been set for
Wednesday, October 21 before
Judge Virlyn B. Moore, he added.
COUNTY 4-H CLUB
MEMBERS TO JOIN
IN CELEBRATION
Four-H Club members in Jackson
County will join with the 100,000
others in Georgia during the week
of November 7-14 for the celebra
tion of National 4-H Club Achieve
ment Week when they will show
the people of their community,
county, and state what has been ac
complished by the 4-H organization
during the past year.
Purposes of the 4-H Club week
are:
To provide 4-H members an op
portunity to report to the nation
their accomplishments in helping
win the war and what they have
Idone as their contribution to the
, National 4-H Seven Point Victory
I Program.
| To acquaint the rural families of
every community with what has
been accomplished by their own
i boys and girls through 4-H Club
work in helping win the war.
> To give recognition to individual
i and group achievement through 4-H
jClub work.
To develop 4-H plans for next
year so as to bring best results in
the war effort.
To encourage rural young people
not yet enrolled in a 4-H Club to
join.
State Board Paid Out
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$17,795,675 To Its Common
Schools Last Year
The State of Georgia spent $17,-
975,675.31 on its common schools
last year, according to a report filed
with Governor Talmadge Saturday
by State Auditor B. E. Thrasher,
Jr.
The largest expenditures were
$296,532 for administration and su
pervision, $518,433 for textbooks,
$147,092 for library books, $9,466,777
for teachers salaries, $935,759 for
county administration and super
vision, $551,226 for Federal voca
tional education, $262,328 for state
vocational education, $1,714,784 for
Federal vocational defense training,
and $118,663 for vocational rehabili
tation trainees.
The department finished the fis
cal year with balances of $560,733 in
Federal funds and $267,632 in state
funds, making a total of $828,365.
Liabilities were $1,482 in accounts
payable and $681,203 in reserves,
leaving an unencumbered surplus of
$145,680.
STATE COLLECTS
6 MILLION MORE
IN FISCAL YEAR
The State Department of Revenue
ut anuaAaj 3-ioui iio‘oW.‘9s papapoD
the last fiscal year than it did in
the previous year and spent $100,889
less to do it, the state auditor re
ported.
The department collected and
had accounting control of $58,088,-
390.02 in the fiscal period ending
June 30, largest source of income
being taxes based on sales, which
amounted to $36,356,962.67, most
of which derived from the six
cents-per-gallon gasoline levy.
Income taxes brought $11,287,-
169.32, the property tax $5,020,958.-
19, motor vehicle license tax $2,-
312,017.34 and miscellaneous busi
ness taxes $3,108,282.50.
Largest items of sales levies were:
Motor fuel, $25,666,105; cigar and
cigaret, $3,958,110; liquor, $2,851,008;
beer, $1,839,880; insurance prem
ium tax, $1,109,969; wine, $495,310;
kerosene, $303,994; carbonic acid
gas, $107,867.
Biggest increases in revenue this
year over last came from income
tax, which was up $3,899,604. liq
uor, $606,844; motor fuel, $844,505;
beer, $561,986; cigar and cigaret,
$578,318.
Men are dying for the Four
Freedoms. The least we can
ng do here at home is to buy
ML- War Bonds —lO% for War
jjSL Bonds, every pay day.
THE JACKSON HERALD. JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
FSA FAMILIES IN
GEORGIA TO GROW
MORE FOOD, FEED
Under plans announced by the
Farm Security Administration, pro
duction of virtually all types of
food and feed that can be efficient
ly produced in Georgia will be
speeded up.
Five areas have been set up in
the state to help speed up the pro
duction program.
The five areas include the lime
stone valley area, upper piedmont,
lower piedmont, upper coastal plain,
and lower coastal plain.
Jackson county is in the upper
Piedmont area, which is composed
of 23 counties.
Special food goals in this area
are being written into the farm and
home plans of every FSA family.
These include an increase in the
acreage planting of Irish and sweet
potatoes, truck patches, wheat, oats,
barley, grain sorghum and lespede
za.
Families in this area expect to
keep their heifer calves and can
their yearlings. Special emphasis
is to be placed on growing out
three broods of broilers. Addition
al pigs are being saved to be killed
in March.''
.Charged With Emblezzle
ment
Charged with embezzlement of
$66,119.60 in state funds, Downing
Musgrove, Homerville, Ga., lawer
who was executive secretary to
Governor Rivers from 1937 to 1940,
was indicted Saturday by the Ful
ton county grand jury.
The sum mentioned in the indict
ment was the same as that with
which Rivers himself is accused of
embezzling, and, it was understood,
involved the same allegedly un
lawful expenditures from the Gov
ernor’s contingent fund. Rivers,
charged with embezzlement and
conspiracy, goes on trial on the
former charge November 2 in Ful
ton superior court.
Musgrove issued a statement at
his home Saturday denying any
wrongdoing while he was executive
secretary to former Governor E. D.
Rivers.
Women’s Hats To Be
Standardized
War’s crudest blow—the neces
sity of wearing a hat like her neigh
bor’s—soon will fall on the Ameri
can woman, a home economics au
thority predicts.
“Yes, it’s too bad,” said Miss
Jennie Harris, Knoxville, Tenn.,
president of the American Home
Economics Association, “but we wo
men will be pretty well standard
ized—as far as fashion goes.”
Two years hence, or before, Miss
Harris told a state Home Econo
mists’ convention, women will be
forced to fight back blushes upon
encourtering friends wearing hats
identical to their own.
With silk and nylon earmarked
for parachutes, with wool, rayon
and cotton needed to clothe soldiers
and sailors, the individuality of the
American female will become a war
casualty.
Manufacturers, in order to con
serve materials, will be forced to
standardize their models and one
dress will be like another, much to
the discomfiture, the speaker said,
of women who long have shunned
uniformity.
"We still have a stockpile of
clothes, but it is being exhausted,”
Miss Harris added. “With rubber
and leather needed for the armed
forces, soon, I believe, such items
as cloth shoes will become the
fashion.
“For civilian use, we have one
third less cotton and three-fourths
less wool right now than normally.”
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Beard of
Commerce announce the birth of a
son on September 30 whom they
have named Larry Holden. Mrs.
Beard will be remembered as Miss
Dovena Venable, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Venable.
Tree That Owns Itself Is No
More
Athens, Ga., Oct. 10.—The tree
that owned itself is no more. The
handsome old oak, surrounded by
a brick wall inclosing the eight feet
of property, which by all the laws
of the land belonged to the tree,
and almost blocked Finley street,
ceased to be shortly before 10
o’clock Friday night.
Without warning, and without
witnesses, the trunk of the tree
collapsed and the strong limbs
which had majestically waved for
years crumbled to the ground.
The tree, over a century and a
half old, became famous in 1820
when Wm. J. Jackson, pioneer
Georgian gave eight feet of land
around it to the tree. Years later
the late George Foster Peabody,
New York Philanthropist, enclosed
the tree with an iron chain and
cement posts.
Although the tree handicapped
traffic on Finley street, no one
would consider legal steps to con
demn the tree and the property.
Legal authorities questioned by the
curious who sought an interpreta
tion on the point of law brought up
by the tree being in the street, ex
pressed the opinion that ho court
in the land had the right to order
the tree, destroyed. t-
How Cool Is a Cucumber?
(Milwaukee Journal)
The oft-repeated phrase, “cool as
a cucumber,” challenged a group of
scientific minded Omahans, swelter
ing under the torrid Nebraska heat,
to discover if that crisp piece of
vegetation is actually as uncon
cerned about the rising tempera
tures as it appears to be.
With the mercury playing hop
scotch above the 90’s, this damp but
determined group trudged out ito
Edward Bailey’s green cucumber
patch. Genevieve Albers, a surgi
cal nurse, noted the official temper
ature, 96 degrees; she found the
ground temperature 98 degrees;
then, after choosing a large, well
formed cucumber, she inserted into
it the probing nose of the thermo
meter. And in less than 60 seconds,
the mercury raced down to 78 de
grees!
There seems to be little doubt
that “cool as a cucumber,” is really
cool.
CARD FROM PASTOR JEFFERSON
A. M. E. CHURCH
Mr. Editor:
Will you allow me space in your
paper to say that the North Georgia
Conference will convene at Para
dise A. M. E. Church November
4-8, 1942, Bishop W. A. 'Fountain
presiding.
The North Georgia Conference
consists of four Districts, namely,
Marietta, Rome, Athens and Wash
ington. The Presiding Elders are
Revs. J. F. Moses, W. Boyd Law
rence, D. W. Wiggs, and W. L.
Brown.
We will be honored with the
presence of Bishop Griggs, several
general officers, and other Bishops.
As pastor of the above named
church, I am appealing to all of my
members and friends to cooperate
with me. I joined the North Geor
gia Conference 40 years ago at El
berton, under the late Bishop H. M.
Turner. All of my pastorates have
been in Georgia. I have never
pastored a place that the white
friends have been nicer than here.
I am sure that they will help us in
entertaining and making this ses
sion the best ever held within the
bounds of the North Georgia Con
ferences.
Thanks,
REV. J. G. BROWN.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 7,614
bales of cotton were ginned in Jack
son County, Georgia from the crop
of 1942 prior to October Ist as com
pared with 6,340 bales for the crop
of 1941.
Estimate Puts ’42 Cotton
Crop at 13,818,002 Bales
Washington.—The Agriculture De
partment estimated this year’s cot
ton crop at 13,818,000 bales of 500
pounds gross- weight each, based on
Oct. 1 conditions.
The estimate compares with 14,-
028,000 bales forecast a month ago.
Last year's production was 10,774,-
000 bales. The 1931-40 ten-year
average production was 13,109,000
bales.
The condition of the crop on Oct.
1 was 80 percent of a normal, com
pared with 79 a month ago, 65 a
year ago, and the 1931-40 ten-year
Oct. 1 average of 65.
The indicated acre yield is 285.0
pounds of lint cotton to the acre,
compared with 289.3 pounds indi
cated a month ago, 231.9 pounds
produced last year, and 215.0
pounds, the ten-year average yield.
The Census Bureau reported that
cotton of this year’s growth ginned
to October 1 totaled 5,009,180 bales,
counting round as half bales and ex
cluding linters, compared with 4,-
713,059 bales a year ago, and 3,-
923,172 bales two years ago.
MANY TEMPTING DISHES CAN
TAKE PLACE OF MEAT
A beefsteak may be tempting, but
ounce for ounce, there’s just as
much nourishment in a cheese
souffle.
This is only one of many appetiz
ing dishes which housewives can set
on the table dnd still give their
families a proper diet.
Actually, the proposed rationing
program, calling for the allotment
of two and one-half pounds of meat
per week for each person, is equiv
alent to the average consumption
per person in the United States for
the past 10 years.
There is no cause for complaint.
We have only to look at rations
abroad to realize how lucky we are.
In England, the meat ration is one
pound per week for each person; in
Holland it is nine ounces, and in
Italy three to four ounces.
True, meat is important in the
diet for its protein, an aid to growth
and health, and an excellent source
of vitamin B. But there are poul
try, fish, milk, cheese, eggs and
dried peas, beans, lentils and soya
beans, all of which have equal food
value. Cheese especially is very
nutritious. It may be made into
souffles, or combined with spaghet
ti, or potatoes.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
ROMANCE OF ELDERLY
COUPLES
Jacksonville, Fla.—Getting mar
ried around Jacksonville has been
confined primarily to the younger
generation lately, but clerks at the
Marriage License Bureau here Sat
urday still were marveling, at the
romance of two elderly couples.
First M. L. Bailey, a finely-beard
ed 70-year-old Miamian, and Mrs.
Maria Crosby, 68, of Graham, Ga.,
appeared for a marriage permit. Be
fore startled clerks could regain
their composure, in walked James
P. Webb, 70, of Birmingham, Ala.,
and his bride-to-be, Mrs. Donna
Evelyn Welsh, 53, of Youngstown,
Ohio.
COTTON AND TRUCK DESTROY
ED BY FIRE
Lawrenceville, Ga.—Mr. J. T.
Smith, of Lawrenceville and Snell
ville, had the misfortune to lose
nine bales of cotton and the truck
on which they were being transport
ed to Lawrenceville.
While on the road several miles
out, the cotton was found to be on
fire, and the flames quickly cover
ed it and before anything could be
done to put out the blaze the entire
load and truck were practically
destroyed.
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C. W. O'REAR ON COMMITTEE
Georgia will answer the plea of
the Army and Navy for more
thorough mathematics and physics
courses in the state’s schools. A
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1942
CLASSIFIED ADS
FARMS FOR SALE
I am offering for tala six farms, all
located either on. or near a public
highway. The acreage is 43. 62,
72. 58, 100. and 157. Prices and
terms reasonable. W. H. Smith.
Jefferson. Ga.
GRAIN FOR SALE
Seed Wheat and Oats for Sale. See
G. H. Martin Jefferson Motor Cos„
Jefferson. Ga.
SEED FOR SALE
Rye Grass. Austrain Peas. Harry
Vetch, Crimson Clover.—Farmers
Warehouse, Jefferson. Ga.
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REDUCTION PLAN
Consult Us Before
BUILDING, BUYING,
REFINANCING, REPAIRING.
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Obligation
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Commerce Building And Loan
Association
Jefferson Insurance Agency,
General Insurance,
Jefferson, Georgia.
Private Jonef
HB Bis
Tf s only a movie ... Pvt. Jones for a
minute thought it was his Mom's
Spice Cake I All the boys to for cakes
and cookies made with RUMFORD
—the only baking powder with an 80-
year record for starring in kitchens
whera good cooks play leading roles.
rRCC: Victory booklet of eugarlass
recipost Help conserve. Write today.
Romford Baking Powder, Box BS,
Rumford, Rhode Island.
To relieve l" 1 A I H C
Misery of t U L 1/ J
man Liquid. Tablets. Salve.
U D 0 Nose Drope. Cough Drops
Try Wonderful
Liniment
IFYOUR NOSE
"CLOSES UP*
TONIGHT
Q-PURPOSE ?c£d e new?!* h l?
V MEDICINE your nose “closes
' ■■■— up” tonight and
makes breathing difficult, put 3-pur
pose Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril.
Va-tro-nol does 3 important things.
It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2)
soothes irritation, (3) relieves tran
sient nasal congestion. It brings more
comfort, makes breathing easier, thus
invites sleep... And remember, it helps
prevent many
colds developing if / J}
used in time. FoU VICKS
low directions in -mm aasas
folder. VS'ThO'NOL
committee to draw up a war-time
curriculum on these subjects was
appointed by State School Superin
tendent M. D. Collins Friday.
On this committee is Charles W.
O’Rear of Commerce, who teaches
in the North Fulton High School,
Atlanta.
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GEORGIA APPLE CROP RE
DUCTION IS SEEN
Washington. lncreased com
mercial apple production in all
south Atlantic states except Georgia
and North Carolina was forecast by
the Agriculture Department.
A 24 per cent drop was predicted
for North Carolina and a 19 per
cent reduction was foreseen for
Georgia.
Over the nation a crop of 128,386,-
000 bushels was predicted.
President Roosevelt completed a
tour of the nation last week which
carried him into 24 of the 48 states
on a secret inspection of war ac
tivities from border to border and
from coast to coast. He expressed
a firm conviction that production
was going along extremely well and
that the national capital was lag
ging far behind the rest of the
''ountry in war spirit.