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THURSDAY. JUNE 23. IMS
THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
ALONG THE WAY
When The Herald reaches our
readers this week we will probably
be in Atlanta attending the North
Georgia Conference or in Savannah
at the annual convention of the
Georgia Press Association. Wednes
day and Thursday we will be in At
lanta. Thursday night we will go
to Savannah on the Nancy Hanks
and attend the press meet on Fri
day. It will be our pleasure and
privilege to attend a press lunch
eon on Friday and a banquet on
Friday evening. A previous engage
ment will prevent Governor Tal
madge from addressing the Press
Convention, as is the custom for the
Governor of Georgia to be the guest
of the Association and make an ad
dress. From Savannah we will go
to St. Simons Island, where we will
visit our son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Aderhold. How
ever, we expect to return home
Sunday and be on the job again in
this office next Monday morning.
The Press Convention in Savannah
will be the 58th at which one or
both the Editors have been present.
We have been editors for a longer
period of time than any other per
son or persons of the Georgia Press
Association.
Our office had some very dis
tinguished visitors last week. On
Tuesday afternoon as the sun was
sinking low, the doors and windows
of our office wide open, electric
lights burning and the press was in
full operation, two gentlemen in
their shirt sleeves walked in and
spoke to us. One of these men is the
present Governor of Georgia, Her
man Talmadge. The other was his
traveling companion, Mr. Haralson.
They spent only a few moments
with us as the Governor was en
route to Commerce to make a
speech. On Tuesday afternoon about
2 o’clock we were at our desk when
someone came in and our Better
Half called out, “We have com
pany.” We arose and greeted Ex-
Governor M. E. Thompson, who was
on his way to Atlanta. He had been
on a visit to several North Georgia
counties. Governor Thompson’s
home is in Valdosta, where he
spends a part of his time editing
his newspaper, The Democrat, but
his other time is spent in Atlanta
and traveling over the State. He
was only a few minutes with us. It
was a pleasure to have such dis
tinguished gentlemen as above
named to honor us with a visit.
We have received the following
letter from Marshall Q. Whitehead,
bf Orlando, Fla.:
Dear John:
* Knowing you were interested in
church work I thought you might
be interested in some of our First
Methodist Church activities, so I
am sending you under separate
cover our last Sunday Bulletin and
a copy of the Florida Methodist, so
you may get some idea of our
church.
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Jefferson, Georgia
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
We are adding new Sunday
School rooms at a cost of $160,000,
which is almost completed. We will
get into the new annex this month.
We have a wonderful Men’s Bible
Class. We had 130 present a few
Sundays ago.
We were so glad to get our
preacher back for another year. We
have had him five years. He is a
fine preacher. He is just 44 years
old. We have an associate pastor,
too. He is a good preacher, too, but
is a younger man.
We have the best church in the
Florida Conference.
Give our regards to Mrs. Holder.
I enjoy your pieces in The Herald
so much I always look for them the
first thing when I get the paper.
M. Q. W.
The membership of the Orlando
church is 3021. The average Sunday
School attendance is 1089. The pas
tor is Dr. John Branscomb, who re
ceived a large vote for bishop at the
last Jurisdictional Conference.
William Cash, the Principal of the
Morris Bryan School of this city,
had this to say last week about the
school over which he presides: “We
appreciate our school building,
which is well equipped and modern
in every particular. Our school this
year is the most successful the Col
ored children of this city and com
munity ever enjoyed. This year we
have had one additional teacher
and we hope for one or maybe two
more teachers next year. We hope
the time is not far distant when we
will be privileged to give instruct
ions to all high school colored pupils
of Jackson County. We are striving
to have a school second to none of
its kind in any county. In our efforts
we are receiving the cooperation
and help of both colored and white
people, especially the Public School
officials of the city and county. We
will never cease to be grateful to
our benefactor, Mr. Morris Bryan,
Sr., deceased.” William Cash and
wife are two of Georgia’s very
capable educators and are good citi
zens.
Not long since Game Warden
Byrd Martin received information
that the law was being violated in
a community near a certain little
city in this county. In order to ap
prehend the reported malefactors,
it was necessary that he go to the
scene of action very early in the
morning, but when he reached the
place he saw no evidence of law
violation, so he went to the little
city not far distant for an early
morning cup of coffee. As he passed
an office he saw in it behind the
desk the person who occupied the
offices He walked in, the man look
ed sleepy, seemed tired and was a
little irritable. Mr. Martin said,
“Joe, you look all-in today. What’s
the' trouble?” The answer came,
"Well, I was out with the boys last
night and didn’t get home until just
I about day. As I was undressing my
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
wife woke up and said, “Aren’t you
' getting up pretty early?’ Rather
than start an argument I just put on
my clothes and came down to the
office.” Byrd replied: “Nuff said.”
The boll weevils are here and
they seem to be very hungry as well
as prolific. Farmers whom we con
tact say they have a hard fight to
prevent this evil doer from destroy
ing their cotton crop. Carl F. Porter,
one of our most observarft as well
as- successful farmers, says: “There
is no doubt about boll weevils being
here already. Other enemies of cot
ton are also making onslaught on
the cotton crop.” We have just re
ceived a letter from Braselton Bros.,
of Braselton, in which they say:
“We have been talking to a good
many of the farmers during the past
week, and they say that the boll
weevil and other insects are the
worst on cotton in this part of the
state than they have been since 1922
and 1923.
“We will appreciate your writing
an article in your paper which will
perhaps get the farmers to poison
their cotton before it causes too
much damage to their cotton crops.
We know by past experience that
if they wait too late to start poison
ing their cotton the farmers will
suffer a great loss.”
Our comment is poison now. As
the above letter states, delay may
cause this enemy of cotton to injure
if not destroy the cotton crop.
Quite often the Editors work at
night in The Herald office and some
times we do not leave for home un
til about midnight. If Night Mar
shall Marcus Bailey should be pa
trolling the Public Square and see
us he always carried us home in his
car. Since his illness Ed B. Phillips
is serving the city as the successor
to Marshall Bailey. Last week in
order to get The Herald to our
readers Thursday, we worked un
til after midnight. When we left our
office very tired and somewhat
sleepy, the new marshall was pa
trolling near our office and when he
saw us walking towards home he
drove up in his car and said to us
(the Editors) “Get in and’ 1 will
carry you home.” We certainly did
appreciate his kindness and we said
to him as we frequently expressed
ourselves to Marshall Bailey, “You
are a Good Samaritan.”
The Howington Reunion
To Be In Commerce
Sunday, July 3rd
To All Relatives and Friends
Of The Howingtons:
We will hold our 12th annual
reunion at Willoughby Park, Com
merce, on Sunday, July 3, 1949.
Please make plans to attend as
we have a grand program arranged,
and a wonderful place to enjoy the
fellowship together. Invite your
friends and relatives.
All the relatives are asked to
please bring a picnic basket. We
plan to have plenty of Brunswick
stew and cold drinks.
We are planning on plenty of good
singing, and a good speaker from
12:00 to 12:30. The lunch hour will
be from 1230 to 1:30. Then we will
re assemble for more singing and
discussions. We will also elect offi
cers for next year.
• Come and take part in your Re
union. Let’s get better asquainted!
Will see you July 3rd in Com
merce.
G. L. Howington, President
LONG SHOT BETS
Most people have a touch of the
gambler in their make-up. But only
a few go to extremes in wagering
on the horses, the dice, the wheel,
and other unbeatable games.
However, many millions do the
most dangerous gambling in the
world without knowing it. They
risk their.lives, their *avings, their
jobs, by taking unnecessary chan
ces.
Gambling with fire is a perfect
example. Do you pile up junk you
don’t know what to do with in
closets and attics? Do you put off
until tomorrow the repair of that
frayed electric cord? When you
lack anew fuse, do you put a pen
ny behind a burned out one to re
store the circuit? Do you luxuriate
in bed with a cigarette going? Do
you keep on using a heating system
that doesn’t seem quite as efficient
as it ought to be, without calling
in an expert to look it over? Do you
store paint and solvents and other
such flammables in any old open
container that comes to hand? When
you have a chance to learn about
fire safety—as during Fire Preven
tion Week—do you open your mind
to it or do you figure it’s a dull busi
ness and no concern of yours?
A list such as this could be' ex
tended for many pages. These are
just a few of the “long shot” bets
that can result in a fire—and do
exactly that on thousands upon
thousands of occasions in this coun
try each year. The result is more
than 10,000 horrible deaths and a
property loss of over $700,000,000.
Are these gambles worth it? z
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RISK OF DEATH
GOES UP WITH
RISE IN SPEED
When you spin the needle of an
automobile speedometer, you are
gambling with much higher stakes
than when you'spin a roulette wheel
because you bet your life!
The chances of death in a speed
ing automobile are being empha
sized by the National Safety Coun
cil in a nationwide program to re
duce traffic fatalities during .the
Fourth of July holiday and the en
tire month of July.
The adage that the faster you go
the harder you hit is proved by fig
ures of the Council which show
that deaths increase enormously as
speed increases.
If you have an injury accident at
45 m. p. h., the chances of someone
being killed are one in 16, accord
ing to the Council. At 55 m. p. h. the
chances are one in 12. And at 65
m. p. h. the odds are one in six that
'someone will be killed.
To drive 400 miles you can gain
a little more than one hour by in
creasing your constant speed from
55 to 65 miles per hour, the Coun
cil said. But to gain that one hour
you double the chance of'someone
being killed if you have an injury
accident!
A safe speed depends upon fouF
things, according to safety authori
ties.
The age, physical condition and
ability of the driver. An older driver
usually reacts more slowly to dan
ger than a young person, for ex
ample. Similarly, a person with
sub-normal eyesight must drive
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TEN KILLED IN
TEXAS STORMS
DALLAS, Texas. Storms and
floods in and near Dallas county
took at least ten lives Monday. One
other person was missing.
Four drowned at GarlAnd, north
east of Dallas, trapped by the swirl
ing waters of Duck Creek. Ten
inches of rain fell at Garland.
In northwest Dallas county, a
Frisoo freight train piled into a
washout near Farmers Branch. \
boy drowned during a storm in Den
ton County, in north Texas.
EIGHTH POLIO DEATH
OF ’49 IN TEXAS AREA
SAN ANGELO, Texas. Polio
killed its eighth child of the year
from the West Texas area yester
day. •
Tommy Yarbrough, 5, died even
as a team of out-of-state specialists
was on its way here by air.
Since January 1 there have been
147 cases treated in local hospitals.
slower than someone with good eye
sight.
The mechanical condition of the
car. Automobiles should be kept in
good condition, but if brakes, head
lights or tires are not in top con
dition, speed must be reduced.
Traffic congestion. Speed obvious
ly cannot be as high on a crowded
highway as it can be on a clear,
open stretch of highway.
Condition of the roaaway and
visibility conditions. Speed must be
reduced when it is raining, or when
driving on uneven pavement, stone
or gravel. At night, a safe speed is
one which permit you to stop in the
distance illuminated by your head
lights.
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