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SEMINOLE COUNTY Georgia’s Peanut Center she richest and best farming section of the world, the home of the in* dustrious farmer. SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOLUME XXV. Government Levies New Tax Which Includes Most Every Item Os Public Purchases Uncle Sam Started dipping deeper into the pockets of taxpayers October Ist. These new levies were authorized by congress in the tax bill which re duced exemptions and increased rates on incomes. These last go into opera tion with the tax returns to be made March 15. The so-called nuisance taxes, pro vided under the record-breaking $3,- 553,400,000 revenue bill, include al most every item of public and busi ness purchases which are not absolute essentials. In many cases, the excise taxes, which are paid by the manufacturer or retailer but are, naturally, passed on to the consumer, are simply increased. However, not a few new items have been listed and taxes must be paid on them starting October Ist. In the group of articles now taxed in which the rate has been increased are tires and tubes, automobiles, radio receiv ing sets and mechanical refrigerators. Other items in this category on which the tax remains the same are firearms shells and cartridges, matches, electri cal energy, gasoline and lubricating oils. Toilet preparations are removed from the manufacturers’ excise tax Category and a retailer’s excise tax is substituted. Toiler preparations are removed from the manufacturers’ excise tax categroy and a retailers’ excise tax is substituted. Generally speaking, this is how the pew tax bill will affect Atlantans: Telephone Service Taxed Teknhone —Long distance calls — .ive cents lax * >r eceh 50 <•<. " part thereof of the charge. In other words, if the call charge is $2.75, the tax is 30 cents. Local telephone service is taxed 6 per cent, but pay stations are not included. Telegraph or Cable Messages—lo per cent of the charge, or 5 per cent for special services such as stock quotations wires or burglar or fire alarm services. Admissions —New tax is one cent for each 10 cents of the charge. This tax now has been broadened to in clude admissions where proceeds go to religious, educational oi - charitable institutions, admissions to agricultur al institutions, admissions to agri- (Turn To No. Two On Back Page.) 2* WV INSURANCE W © j| ii SW7 FOR EACH Aw/ 1 v DtP° S,TOR 3)] I AFTER * HIGH PRICES WHAT Begin saving now and you will be ready for whatever comes. We invite your business. We Are A Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Commercial State Bank Donalsonville, Georgia Snnalsnntiilb NrM FILM BROUGHT BACK The local theatre management an- L nounces that the picture “The Bride ! | Came C. O. D. which could not be shown here Tuesday night for lack of J electrical current will be shown one night only at the Midget Theatre I next Thursday night. The picture is brought back due toI an avalanche of requests from patrons I who failed to see it last Monday. Navy Now Taking ’ Men Up To Fifty Years Os Age The big campaign in Seminole coun ty and other parts of the southeast to stimulate enlistments in the U. S. Navy is now in its third week—and in this issue of The News will be found the third of a series of ads outlining | the splendid opportunities offered | therein for young men to obtain valu able training estimated to be worth lat least $1,500 with a choice of nearly 50 trades and vocations. Moreover, it is emphasized, this ! training is received while the men ‘earn good pay and receive their cloth es and lodging with cost, in addition |to health protection and physical i training. The campaign is attracting much interest here among young men —and even those up to fifty are now aceep- I table, although the age limits usually start at 17 to 31. Selective Service re gistrants not yet actually called for Army duty are eligible for enlistment in the navy. A coupon in the Navy advertise ment in this issue carries a coupon for interested young men to procure an i information booklet at The News of fice in Donalsonville ,and Ellison Dunn, Navy editor will be glad to as sist young men in getting additional' information. Be sure to read the ad in this issue. Defense Corps Entertained At Supper Monday The State Defense Corps Unit en tertained the Headquarters Offic ers at a chicken supper on Monday night, Guests of the organizations were Lieut. Col. Hoyt Wimpy, Major J. M. Clark, Captain Gainey of I Thomasville, Captain M. G. Clark, I Jr., of Atlanta, the board of County Commissioners, Major Minter and ! the City Council, Joe Johnson, Jr., Miss Billie Cannington, and mem ' bers of the Inactive reserve. , After drill, those assembled were addressed by Major Clark on the or- I ganization and purpose of the State j Defense Corps, and by Col. Wimpy | on the need of the Corps in the pre ; sent emergency. Forty-one men re ported for drill and the evening was declared to be a huge success. The Supper was prepared and served un ' der th? direction of Sgt. Frank Spooner and First Cook Sidney I Shingler. ! A committee from the local Unit appeared before the Board of Com | missioners and City Council on Tuesday and asked for appropria tions from each for providing uni forms. Each board very graciously I ggye a check for $l5O. and their . commendation of the program un dertaken by the Corps. Uniforms will be ummediateiy provided and the Local Unit will participate in district maneouvers and a perade to be held at Thomasville on Nov. 11. STAPLETON I.’ NAMED CITY ATTORNEY Attorney E. P. Stapleton was nam ed City Attorney for Donalsonville at the regular monthly meeting of coun cil on Wednesday njght of this week. Mr. Stapleton succeeds R. L. Cox who resigned after serving in this ■ capacity for more than 20 years to ac icept the position of Postmaster here. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUN TY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CIT Y OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA Crops Badly Damaged By Tropical Storm I Seminole County suffered consider- ! i able damage from the tropical storm ' that swept this section early Tuesday! i morning damaging peanuts, pecans ! ( and timber extensively. I A deluge of rain accompanied the! high winds that overturned peanut I ‘ stacks, littered streets with limbs and debris, and damaged pecans ex- ; !tensively by blowing the immature | i nuts from the trees. » # I ( Power service was interrupted from , ' early Tuesday morning until shortly I ! after midnight Wednesday and the ■ i city water supply which is dependent ; on electrically driven pumps was soon i exhausted and no water was available-' able throughout the day and far into the night. The power line between here and Spring Creek was not damaged, but the Spring Creek plant is not suffi cient to pull the Donalsonville load, hence power - line damage near Bain bridge, Cairo and Thomasville was 1 necessarily repaired before the power could be restored. Damage in Bainbridge, Cairo, Thomasville, Camilla, Pelham and Al-j bany was reported as extensive to i crops. Dwellings were unroofed and j plate glass window in business hous- | es were smashed. A college student at | Norman Junior College was electrocu ted by a falling electric wire. Minutes Os Board County Commissioners The Board of County Commission ers of Seminole county met in regular session on Tuesday, October 7th, Chairman L. R. Robinson presiding, with members present as follows: D. H. Miller, E. J. Greene and Fred Childree. Minutes of previous meeting were ’read and approved. Chairman Robinson reported that he and Attorney Stapleton and L. C. Hay had checked the unpaid fi fas in the inlands of the sheriff and that only a small per cent of them were collectible and that these were being collected. Mr. C. W. Bardsley and a committee from the State Defense Corps appear ed before the commissioners and out lined their work and requested a do nation for uniforms. The board ap proved an aappropriation of $l5O which will be matched by a similar do nation from the City of Donalsonville. A resolution concerning the Feder al Housing Authority in this county was passed and committees were ap pointed. A bid for furnishing gasoline for the county was dispusseri and action deferred until the next meeting on the matter. There being no further business, the ‘ board adjourned subject to call by the chairman. s L. R. ROBINSON, Chairman, L. C. HAY, Clerk. ; Pecan Buying Station To Be Located Here Announcement Is made in thjs issue 1 of The News that R. L. Forrester, of ■ Cairo, will locate in Donalsonville -| next Monday for the purpose of buy ' ■ ing pecans for S. A. Pierce, of Cairo. ‘I In a letter to The News this week • Mr. Forrester urges pecan owners to ’ ! pick up all pecans blown off the trees ’by the storm at once and spread t! them, otherwise they will begin mold tl ing if they remain WCI or on the | ground. He also advises to keep the pecans that have not opened separate from the ones that have, as the mixed nuts - j will lower the price that can be paid t I for good pecans. He advises against forcing open the green hulls and states that if spread :; jn a dry place and left to mature be ’ tore taking the hull off it is possible - that a good portion of these nuts can . be saved. DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1941. Committee Calls [For Election Os City Officials The Donalsonville Democratic Ex ecutive Committee this week issued a ! call for a primary to be held on Wed nesday, November 19th to name party ! nominees for two city aidermen ■ and three members of the Democratic ; Executive Committee of the city for two year terms beginning January list, 1942. | The committee set the time limit jfor candidates to qualify at noon, i 12 o’clock, Wednesday, October 22nd, ’ and fixed entry fees for candidates for I aidermen at $5.00. ( Candidate must qualify in their own ! handwriting and pay the required en |try fee to T. E. Roberts, clerk and treasurer of the committee, prior to the deadline for candidates to enter. The terms of office of Aidermen R. I. Evans and L. W. Martin and Committeemen L. R. Robinson, T. E. Roberts and Ellison Dunn will expire on January Ist, 1942 and the primary is called for the purpose of filling these offices. The call for a primary as drafted by the committee is as follows: NOTICE OF PRIMARY ; Notice is hereby given that a pri imary election will be held on Wednes day, November 19th between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 3 p. m. at the office of the city clerk of the city of Donalsonville for the purpose of naming two city aidermen, and three members of the Democratic ex ecutive committee for the city of Donalsonville for two-year terms be ginning January Ist, 1942. Candidates for.the various offices ' must , ‘tallfv and nay io the clerk of i this committee required entrance fees not later than 12 o’clock noon, eastern standard time Wednesday, October 22nd. Entrance fees for candidates for 1 Aidermen are hereby fixed at $5.00. : Candidates must qualify in their ,own handwriting. No fees are requir ed of candidates for executive com mitteemen but candidates must apply in their own handwriting. In the race for the two positions of aidermen the two candidates receiv ing the highest number of votes will be declared the nominees, and in the races for executive committeemen the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be declared the nominees. All rules and regulations governing general elections for said city are a idopted and declared the rules that shall govern said primary. Done and ordered, this Bth day of October, 1941. L. R. ROBINSON, Chairman, ELLISON DUNN, T. E. ROBERTS, Clerk & Treas. Donalsonville Democratic Exe cutive connnjttep. Lester Mathis Badly Hurt In Oil Tank Crash His many friends here will learn : with with regret that Lester Mathis, of Bainbridge, formerly of Donalson ville, suffered serious injuries in an auto accident near Columbus this i week. He was driving a large gasoline i truck heavily laden with gasoline ! when he swerved into « ditph tq save ', striking a passenger car in front of ■ I him that stopped suddenly, the car i being driven by two Columbus ladies. . ■ • Mathis was pinned in the cab of the truck and it was necessary to cut a- Hway part of the cab to extricate him. At a hospital it was said he suffered a compound fracture of the left leg, compound fracture of the right knee ■ cap, a fractured left fooj, multiple fractures of the ribs and internal in juries. His condition was regarded as i serious. ; Three years ago on the same date I, he suffered a broken back here when ■ an elevator fell on him at a local pea nut mill. He remained in a local hospi- I tai for several months as a result o,f I this accident. i Proper food habits constitute the foundation of good nutrition. P. S. C. Official Report Regarding Telephone Service A rule nisi has been issued against : the Seminole Telephone Company here ! by the Georgia Public Service Com- I mission to show cause why the tele ■ phone service here should not be im proved. The citation set October 29th as the date for the hearing before the public service commission. The rule was issued following an investigation by R. B. Alford, field engineer who recommended certain changes to improve the service. Mr. Alford’s report to the Public Service Commission is as follows: “Upon my arrival in Donalsonville, I intei viewed several citizens who pro claim that Donalsonville telephone service been gradually getting worse until it was absolutely neces sary to report this Company to the Commission for investigation. They claim that both the local and the long distance service is very poor. Some times it is necessary to wait two or three hours before a long distance call; can be completed. In the morning dur-; ing rush business hours it takes from j one to three minutes and sometimes; longer to get the operator to answer and once you get your connection it is ! very difficult to get disconnected in order to ring another number. “The service was tested during my; visit and when calls were made from different stations in town it required from five to fifty-six seconds to get the operator to answer the signal. This time was checked by an accurate stop-watch. The audilitity was very good on various test calls that were made and no complaint is made to this, “The outside plant was inspected and found to be in very good condi tion. There are two streets in the city that still have open wire circuits but the service man informed me that the company is planning to replace these circuits with cable at an early date. The condition of these circuits are such that a wind storm might cross out various circuits or cause them to be noisy in bad weather since the cir cuits are in trees in many places. “I visited the control office and | talked with the chief operator and ob served that the equipment was in very good condition. The operator was extremely efficient and courteous so no complaint is made as to the opera-! tors. However, these operators can| only work one at a time because of l only one position at the switchboard. This operator must handle both local | and long distance calls and it is not! unreasonable to expect some local calls to be delayed especially if a long distance call is being placed at the! same time. There has been added to the present Western Electric 175 line magneto switchhoard, an extension of 40 drops. These were necessary in or-1 der to provide additional telephones in Donalsonville, However, no addi tional cord circuits were provided for these drops making It necessary to use the existing cord circuits for the i main switchboard. In other words, ‘ there are times when there are in- I sufficient cord circuits to answer sig- I nals from the subscribers. In order toj I render satisfactory and reasonable service in Donalsonville ;t appears; that it is going to ho necessary to add an additional switchboard in order that additional cord circuits and arb other position so that two operators l can work at the sgmy. time, it may be 1 necessary to. p><W|ile an additional toll circuit lu Donalsonville but it will be necessary to make certain studies to determine whether or not this is necessary. The bottleneck on long distance calls may be in Bain bridge. This condition of poor long distance service is prevalent through out most of the exchanges in Ggw-gia. “The citizens of |)°haUoiiville re ! spectfully reyueat that the Connnis- I sion take steps to correct the above I defects and if this cannot be done through reasonable channels they re -1 quest a rule nisi be issued against thv Company to show cause why ade quate telephone service cannot be rendered and they will have a good re presentation on hand when the case is called.” ■ «'■« 11 11 . -ja Today more Georgia farm families ! have gardens than ever before. Yet ' there is still need for more gardens. DONALSONVILLE Capitol of Seminole County The home of progressive people, pret ty homes, good churches, splendid schools and the best of climate. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS DR. CHASON’S CONDITION IS SERIOUS His hundreds of friends throughout this section will deeply regret to learn that Dr. Thomas Chason is in a criti | cal condition at an Atlanta hospital, with very little hope being held for i his recovery. A blood stream infection with other complications caused physicians to express the opinion that his condition was critical, it is said. Lion’s Club Enjoy Interesting Guests In Meeting < The regular weekly meeting of the Donalsonville Lions Club was held Tuesday noon at the Minter house with eighteen members and two guests present. The guests were Wil liam F. Cummings who has been con nected with the British Government flying planes to England. The other Guest being Mr. W. P. Riley of the Albany Herald. President Jenkins presided and read a letter from the Georgia Publie Ser vice Commission regarding telephone service in Donalsonville. Lion D. F. Wurst presented Mr. W. P. Riley of the Albany Herald who ad dressed the club in the interest of the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Al bany Herald. Lion P. E. Shingler al so urged the Citizens of Donalsonville to cooperate with the Herald in put ting out this Anniversary Edition as the Herald was really doing its part in furthering the best interests of Southwest Georgia. William F. Cummings related some of his experiences in England which were enjoyed by all present. Lion E. C. Smith, Jr., gave an in teresting resume of his trip to New York where he witnessed the fight be tween Joe Lewis and Lou Nova, also the first game of the World Series be tween Brooklyn and New York. The following Lions were pi-esent: Dr. H. B. Jenkins, P. E. Shingler D. F. Wurst, M. M. Minter, Jr„ Henry Van Landingham, Dr. M. M. Minter, J. Hammond Harrell, C. S. Forrester, O. 11. Lewis, E. W. Mosely, W. E. Brigham, J. L. Barber, Jr., E. C. Smith, Jr., John J, Cummings, Jno. I. Spooner, Jr., C. W. Long, Rev. Jno, S, Lough and E. T. Kelley. Visitors: W. P. Riley and William F. Cum mings. OLIVE THEATRE Saturday Only The Three Mesquiteers, In SADDLE MATES” - - Monday And Tuesday Dick Powell and The Andrews Sisters In “IN THE NAVY” Wednesday I Robert Sterling and Marsha Hunt, In “I LL W AIT FOR YOU” Thursday And Friady l Marlene Dietrich, In ‘The FLAME Os NEW ORLEANS’ ■ ■■■■'■« BJB MIDGET THEATRE SATURDAY Donnis Morgan and Wayne Morns, In BAD MEN OF MISSOI Rl’ ■ ■■■■■■■■ 888 I NUMBER 37.