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THURSDAY. MARCH 15. 1945
NEWS AND VIEWS
—OF—
MARTIN INSTITUTE
Second Grade (Mrs. Moon)
Honor roll: Mary Cody, Tommy
Henderson, Barbara Fay White
head, Shelia Ann Yarbrough, Jack
son Anglin, and Elmer Motes.
Honorable mention: Mary Jim
Bell, Annie Lou Clark, Howard
Langford, Carolyn Lee Ward, Lou
Ann Wilson, and Robert Taylor.
Second Grade (Mrs. Spratlin)
Honor roll: Bucky Johnson, Annie
Mae Allen, Roberta Crumley, Caro
lyn Potter, James Wilhite, Agnes
Payne, Joyce Payne.
Honorable mention: Hale Duke,
Shelby Sheridan, Mildred Worley,
Buddy Hunt, Mildred Venable, Billie
Ann Hogan, Rufus Duffel.
Third Grade (Miss Rankin)
Honor roll: Elizabeth Bone, Jerry
Copas, Ernestine Carlyle, Carolyn
Storey, Clara Nell Williams.
Honorable mention: Pam Cutts.
We have ordered work books to
accompany our Elson-Gray Readers,
and are looking forward to using
them.
We have been making penny
banks during the past week. We are
to save for a month and then open
them and buy war stamps. Prizes
are offered for the two who save
the most.
Miss Ella Dickson of Atlanta sent
our room enough valentines for all
to color and cut out. For an Eng
lish lession we wrote letters to
thank her and selected the neatest
to mail to her. We appreciated her
kindness to us.
We have completed our booklets
which we made for February. We
put in pages for important people
whose birthdays are celebrated dur
ing this month.
Ones who were present every day
for this month were:
Elizabeth Bone, Pam Cutts, Jerry
Copas, Ernestine Carlyle, Richard
Potter, Carolyn Storey, Betty Tat
um, Clara Williams.
Third Grade (Mrs. Ash)
Honor roll: Edgar Edwards, Jim
my McMullan, Jimmy Sailors.
Honorable mention: Terrell Ben
ton. Jr., Billy Spratlin.
Fourth Grade (Mrs. Tonge)
Honorable mention: Frank Shep
pard, George Williams, Mary Alice
Anglin.
Fifth Grade (Miss Roberts)
Honor roll: Lillian Williams, Caro
lyn Phillips.
Fourth and Fifth Grades
The fifth grade finished six-weeks
tests last Friday. Many of us made
good grades on all our tests. We
welcome two new pupils to our
room, Jones Lavender from Bruns
wick, and Angie Reeves from Jack
son Trail. This brings our present
enrollment to forty-one.
Fourth honor roll: Susie Burke,
Sarah Louise Barnett, Hugh Black
stock, aJnette Shumake.
Honorable mention: Doris Allen,
Maire Smith.
Fifth honor roll: Raymond Adams,
Jan Anderson, Fannie Nell Jones,
Carrol Dadisman, Billy Sailors.
Honorable mention: Mary Pruitt,
Shirley Deaton, Tom Blackstock.
Sixth Grade
Honor roll: Martha Pern Fite, Vera
Davis, Beckie Garrison, Martha Jean
Freeman, Clarise Maddox.
The sixth grade has made maps
of the Colonies of America in his
tory. Our lessons are now about
our own country and are very in
teresting. Soon we shall begin the
.study of Georgia History.
In our health class we have made
booklets on personal grooming and
care of the body.
Seventh Grade
Honor roll: Mildred Hall, Thorpas
Meades, and Virginia Payne.
Honorable mention: Jimmie Van
diver, Betty Jane Duke, MaTtha
Ann Holmes, Daisy Clark, Betty
Beatty, Peggy Payne, J. R. Baird,
Jr.
Assembly Program
Mrs. Moon’s pupils delighted the
student body, and our visitors, with
a playlet entitled, “The Queen of
Months,” in chapel Friday after
noon. The boys and girls represent
ed the twelve months of the year,
and famous days and people of Feb
ruary.
Miss Jane Franseth, Director of
Education of Supervisors of the
University of Georgia, recently
spent a day visiting our school.
Later in a letter to Mrs. Havens,
Miss Franseth said, “I wish I had
time to enumerate the number of
nice experiences I had in the other
rooms, too. I was especially pleaded
"CONGRATULATIONS, GEORGE, ON YOUR THREE
YEARS WITH THE RATION BOARD. I CAN SEE
THAT YOU STILL PLAY NO FAVORITES." '*
with the many atractive reading
centers.”
Eighth Grade
Honor roll: Virginia Couch. Hon
orable mention: Hattie Reid Mad
dox.
Ninth Grade
Honor roll: Shirley Allen, Dean
Dadisman. Honorable mention: Bar
bara Johnson, Jane Adams, Allene
Watkins, Carol Jean Vandiver.
Tenth Grade
Honorable mention: Mary Mc-
Donald. '
Eleventh Grade
Honor roll: Sybil Elder.
Spelling Contest
An old fashioned spelling contest
was held at the high school assem
bly Monday morning in which 39
seniors and 56 freshmen participat
ed. Mrs. Isbell pronounced the
words, which were taken from the
words most often misspelled by the
beginning class in high school,
clearly and distinctly and each par
ticipant was given one trial for the
particular word which was directed
to him or her. Much interest and en
thusiasm were arouned. The seniors’
hopes fell when Sybil Elder had to
take her seat after the contest was
well near its end. The word which
proved to be the most difficult was
embarrassment. Seven seniors and
six freshmen found this knotty
word to be a bugaboo to them and
they had to take their seats. Chester
Varmint, president of the senior
class, spelled this hard word and re
lived the embarrassment some
what. Chester is a good student and
has made a good record. Jurelle Sat
terfield and Reba Fields were the
two seniors standing when the con
test had ended and Larry Venable
was the last freshman to sit down.
The juniors and sophomores will
take the floor nesct week and there
will be just another of those old
fashioned spelling bees.
DURWARD EDWARDS
AT MANILA
WITH THE FIRST CALVRY DI
VISION IN MANILA.—One of the
men in the famous First Calvry Di
vision’s ‘‘Flying Squadron” that
crashed through the Jap defenses
around the capitol city of the Phil
ippines and captured Santo Tomas
University, thus liberating more
than 3,700 Allied civilian internees,
was Pvt. Durward R. Edwards, son
of Mr. W. T. Edwards, Route 3, Jef
ferson, Ga.
This mechanized and motorized
squadron commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel Hasket L. Conner, Jr., a
West Pointer who lives in El Paso,
Tex., raced some 100 miles in 66
hoifrs to be the first unit to enter
Manila. This is a military feat un
equaled so far in the Pacific war.
Teach Home Nursing
Itinernat Red Cross home nursing
instructors are working full time
to meet the needs of sparsely settled
sections where the shortage of doc
tors is acute and where no other
nurses are available to teach home
nursing classes. During the past
year 83 of these itinerant Red Cross
nurse-instructors served far com
muniiies : n a valiant attempt to
THE JACKSON HERALD JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
keep the home front healthy. ,
Spending several months in a
community, these professional
nurses hold classes in, rural schools,
churches, community buildings or
homes, teaching simple care of the
sick and the essentials of family
health. Under their direction, class
members spend much time practic
ing nursing skills.
—rtEAD THE WANT ADS—
—THEY BRING RESULTS—
"IF I tooka m t off
a> GIT SHOT "
"T WANT to do some plain talking to
X you pulpwood workers back home.
“You know what would happen to me
if I decided I’d done enough fighting for this
week—if I lay down my gun and went to town
for a big Saturday night. I could be shot!
“You fellows are soldiers just as much
as we are. If you don’t get out the pulp
wood, we don’t get our ammunition, food
or medical supplies. A lot of you would
be here where I am now except that your
draft board decided you could serve your
“You haven’t any MP’s, or courts martial,
or firing squads to keep you from going
AWOL. All you have is your own conscience.
“We are on the job 168 hours a week—
summer and winter—rain or shine for 7?
an hour. We are going through hell for
you. We are counting on you to do all you
can to shorten the war for us.”
DON’T WASTE PRECIOUS TIME
Cut only quality pulpwood. Rotted, j
excessively crooked or thin logs slow
DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC SAFETY
During the month of January
there were 317 traffic accidents re
ported in Georgia with 39 deaths
and 235 persons injured. Atlanta re
porting 269 accidents with three
deaths and 102 persons injured. The
rural areas experienced a 10 per
cent decrease in traffic deaths as
compared with January, 1944, and
the urban traffic deaths show a 30
per cent decrease. The total of 39
fatalities for the state during the
month of Janyary was a reduction
of 10 deaths compared with January
a year ago.
One hundred twenty-nine of the
counties experienced a fatality free
month, while Baldwin*, Banks*,
Chattooga*, Clarke*, Clay*, Clay
ton*, Decatur*, DeKalk*, Dougher
ty*, Evans*, Henry*, Jackson*,
Johnson*, Liberty*, Morgan*, New
ton*, Richmond, Stewart*, Treut
len*, Ware, Warren, had only one
fatality, Bibb*, Gjynn, Haralson*,
Troup*, experienced two fatalities;
Chatham and Whitfield*, three fa
talities; Fulton, four.
Railroad crossing accidents, in
volving motor vehicles and railroad
trains, continue to lead all other
types for severity with an increase
of 33 per cent for January. Pedest
rian accidents were second with an
increase of eight per cent, a total
of 12 pedestrians killed in January,
1945. The pedestrian continues to be
one of the major traffic safety prob
lems, with no relief in sight. Traffic
laws and ordinances have been en
acted, traffic control devices have
been installed, and many publicity
and educational campaigns have
been conducted, all for the benefit
of the pedestrian. The pedestrian
blissfully ignoring everything that
is being done for hirn, and con
tinuing day after day to defy the
laws of inertia. These efforts ex
pended in his behalf have not been
effective.
Other accidents responsible for
J. J. Flanigan W. D. Holliday
J. N. Holder J. H. Kinney
R L. McElhannon
MAJOR LEGISLATION ADOPTED
A list of major legislation adopted
by the 1945 General Assembly is:
Distribution of highway mainte
nance funds to Georgia counties,
long described as inequitable, was
equalized in the final bill passed by
the General Assembly.
A state ports authority was set
up to develop the harbors at Savan
nah and Brunswick, with power to
issue revenue certificates up to 15
million dollars to finance its work.
Legislation was enacted to ex
empt members of the armed forces
from having to purchase a driver’s
license to operate an automobile
when home on furlough.
A judges’ retirement act was pass
ed to enable superior court judges
to retire at the age of 70, after 20
years’ service and receive two
thirds salary.
An oil apd gas commission was
authorized, to be composed of three
non-paid members to be appointed
by the Governor. They could name
an executive director at $4,000 a
year.
The Assembly eliminated the poll
fatalities in order of their severity
were: motor vehicle with motor ve
hicle, 12 lives; motor vehicle ran off
roadway, six lives; motor vehicle
with fixed object and other non
collision, three lives. The prime fac
tor in all of the accidents was ex
cessive speeds. This does not mean
50, 60 or 70 miles per hour, but
speeds too fast for existing condi
tions, or trying to save a second at
an intersection to spend a month in
the hospital.
The Department of Public Safety
and other agencies cooperating in
Traffic Safety take this opportunity
in appealing to the public using the
streets and highways of Georgia to
observe a safe speed, and stop, look
and listen at all railroad crossings.
It is your patriotic duty.
*These counties show an in
crease for January, 1945, com
pared with January, 1944.
PAGE THREE
tax as a requisite to voting in Geor
gia.
Measures looking to erection of a
war memorial building near the
State Capitol were enacted.
Two other Administration bills
authorized payment of a two-month
salary bonus, or $3,348,000 to pub
lic-school teachers, and appropria
tion of one million dollars annually
to inaugurate the teacher-retire
ment system.
A revised form of the State Con
stitution was approved and sent to
the people to be voted on next Au
gust. Other important legislation
was passed by a Legislature regard
ed as 'definitely historic.
EXAMINATION FOR
MAIL CARRIER
AT HOSCHTON
The United States Civil Service
Commission has anounced an e
aminaticn to fill the position at
rural carrier at Hoschton, Ga.
The examination will be held at
Winder, Ga.
Receipt of applications will close
on March 29, 1945.
The examination will be open
only to citizens who are actually
residing in the territory of the post
office where the vacancy exists,
who have been actually residing
there for six months next, preceding
the closing date for receipt of ap
plications, and who meet the other
requirements set forth in form 1977
of January, 1944. Both men and
women, if qualified, may enter this
examination, but appointing officers
have the legal right to specify the
sex desired in requesting certifica
tion of eligibles.
Form 1977 and application blanks
can be obtained from the vacancy
office mentioned above or from the
United States Civil Service Com
mission at Washington 25, D. CL
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