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SEMINOLE COUNTY
Georgia’s Peanut Center
/he richest and best farming section
of the world, the home of the in
dustrious farmer.
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VOLUME XXV.
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One Os The World’s Largest
Rodeos To Perform Here -
Friday And Saturday, Nov. 21 - 22.
Direct From Worlds
t Championship Rodeo
Held In Atlanta
Friday night will be the opening
of the big “J Lazy J” Ranch rodeo
at Seminole Stock Yards here in Don
alsonville. The rodeo comes here di
rect from the big world championship
rodeo which was in Atlanta all last
week for Tallulah Falls School
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vileges enjoyed by the aver
age citizen in this country is,
that of paying bills by check,
safely, conveniently and at
low cost. It is the American
way.
Open a checking account
with us today.
Commercial State
Bank
Donalsonville, Georgia
This Bank Is A Member Os The
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
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of North Georgia and played to over
thirty seven thousand people.
Managers C. L. Morris and C. L.
McLaughlin stated the rodeo was on
its way south where they are to hold
the big Major rodeos in Florida and
Havana Cuba this winter and was
breaking the jump into Florida. Due
to this fact people of Donalsonville
will have an opportunity to see one of
the major rodeos of the States with
all the champion cowboys and cow
girls as well as all the high class acts
for a very small price.
All rodeo events are on schedule
for the big rodeo such as cowboys
saddle bronc riding, bare back bronc
riding, trick riding, trick roping, bull
dogging Brahma bulls, riding wild
horses, roping, and all the major ro-
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FBI WILL CONDUCT DEFENSE SCHOOLS FOR POLICE IN 250 CITIES
Due to the farsighted efforts of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
there shall be protection for our civi
lians and cities if America is ever the
object of enemy air raids. American
law enforcement has not been leeping
at its post of duty. For more than a
year the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation has been quietly planning a
thorough program in civilian protec
tion. It is an educational project to in
struct local, county, metropolitian and
state police agencies in the problems
of Civilian Defense.
Civilian defense must include every
one, because modern conflict is not
limiteQ to battles between soldiers
and tanks and guns. It js a warfare
of attrition, grinding down the
strength of an enemy nation. Powerful
long range bombers release their le
thal loads from high in the skies, let
destruction occur where it may. No
town or city of a besieged nation can
be considered out of range and the
civilians often suffer much more than
do the soldiers. All the resources that
contribute to our national strength
would be potential targets to enemy
aircraft. These would include the huge
manufacturing areas of the northeast,
the “bread basket” of the nation
though the midwest, the oil fields of
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
Red Cross Roll
Call Is Being
Made This Week
I
The annuel Red Cross roll call is
'r ing hel l here this week with Edgar
W. Moselv, as roll chairman, and the
following volunteer workers have been ;
; assigned to the territory indicated.
Mrs. Ellison Dunn and Mrs. C. S. I
of the railroad.
Forrestetr—All business houses south I
Mrs. Hugh D. Broome and Mrs. E.!
P. Trulock—All streets running |
north and south on south side of rail- ‘
read. i
Mrs. Norman Hatcher and Mrs. j
Hardwick Etheridge—All streets run-j
ning east and west on south side of j
railroad.
Mrs. Ruth Spooner and Mrs. C. N.
Berkley—All business houses and re
sidences north of the railroad.
Chairman Mosely has issued the
following plea to the public:
“Please be ready to make your con
tribution to the Red Cross when the
committee calls on you. The need is
great—you can do your bit for huma
nity by joining.
“If you are not called on to join,
you may do so at Seminole P v ug
Company, where Miss Lois Ward . nd
j Miss Vera Ausley are serving as
j volunteer workers.
[ “Seminole county schools have de
' signated Friday as Red Cross day.
i Let all children contribute their
| nickles and dimes to this worthy
i cause.”
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Next Thursday
Is Thanksgiving
Next Thursday, November 27th,
will be observed as Thanksgiving Day
in Georgia, and merchants of Donal
sonville will observe the day by clos
ing their places of business.
The President of the United States
officially designated Nov. 20th as
■ Thanksgiving Day, but several states
have not seen fit to follow the Presi
dent’s proclamation and are observ
ing the old date—the last Thursday
in November. The Georgia Legislature
passed a law at last session fixing
the date in Georgia, as the last
Thursday in the month.
Next year the date will not be |
j changed and the entire nation will |
observe the old date as Thanksgiving, •
it is announced.
TRIAL POSTPONED
Trial of Wash Palmore, charged .
I with murder of A. C. Warren, local!
i oil dealer, has been postponed until.
; February, it was learned this week.
Palmore is still incarcerated in the
i Houston county jail on an indictment
i for murder. Details as to why the ■
j trial was postponed could not be |
. learned.
the southwest, the sources of electric.
power in the south and in the north-1
west, as well as the harbor facilities i
as on both coasts. In addition, the vast,
transportation and communication;
lines that cover every state in the I
union would be targets of attack.
Asa result, in 52 cities throughout j
’ the United States during October and '
1 early November there have been held 1
administrative training schools for ■
police executives of a two-day dura
tion at t|ie various Field Division'
, headquarters of the Federal Bureau ;
j ■
of Investigation. These schools, known
as the FBI Civilian Defense Courses i
for Police, are conducted with the ap
proval of Mayor FIORELLI H. La- '
GUARDIA, director of the U. S. Civi- ■
' 1 Defense, •
Special Agent in Charge F. R. j'
I HAMMOCK of the Atlanta Field Os- j !
fice of the Federal Bureau of Invest!- 1
‘ gation has announced that another
I series of trainnig schools is presently 1
being, planned, schools that will last
for a period of six days each and ‘ 1
which are to be attended by selected :
officers of local and state police agen-/j
cies, for the purpose of discussing in i
detail the problems of civilian defense ’
and wartime duties of police. Present ■ 1
plans call for holding the Six-day
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST, 1941.
Local Men Urge
Roosevelt To Stick
By Mediation Board!
Several letters are being dispatch
ed by local business men to Presiden t
Roosevelt this week urging him to
i stick by the decision of the mediation'
! board in the controversy with the
| railroads and their employees.
I Union officials have called for r.!
j strike to require the railroads to!
■ meet their demands for increased
I wages. The mediation board approved I
I '
: a nice increase, but not in the amount
i demanded, resulting in the call for a j
j strike. i
Leon’s Cleaners I
Move To New
Modem Building
Leon’s Cleaners, owned and opera
ted by Leon Barber, has just moved
into its new quarters here on Wool
folk avenue in a new building con
structed for the plant.
In addition to providing additional
! space for the expanding business, Mr.
' Barber has also added some additional
machinery and provided additional
facilities for better serving the public.
The new place is quite a credit to
the community, and Mr. Barber in
vites the public to come in and inspect
his new home.
Railroads To
Go On Eastern
; Time Sunday ,
Effective Sunday of this week the
local railroad office will go on East
s ern Standard time in compliance with
; an order of the Interstate Commerce
i Commission.
In January of this year when the
entire state was put on eastern time,
railroads and busses in the western
part of the state continued to post
I their schedules on central standard
! time. The ruling requires all sections
lof the state to operate on eastern
; time and the railroad here begins this
| on Sunday.
According to sun time, the trains
will arrive and depart at the same
time, the officials merely moving up
their watches an hour and moving
j back the time for train arrivals on
I the bulletin board.
CONDITIONED UNCHANGED
i His many friends will.regret to
j learn that the condition of Dr. Thom
ias Chason remains unchanged, very
I little hope being held for his recovery.
Schools in more than 250 cities and
I towns throughout the nation.
These civilian defense courses for
i police cover the entire field of police
i emergency duties in wartime from en
i forcing blackouts to stacking sand
bags. The aim is purely one of educa
tion. It is a program to teach Ameri-
I can policemen how to function more
efficiently if enemy bombers were to
ever cross our shores. Instruction will
be given to law enforcement officers
in every state in the union and in
every section in each state. To
thoroughly prepare for the civilian
defense training program. Director
JOHN EDGAR HOOVER sent FBI
officials to London more than a year
ago for several months in 1940 and
1941. These men studied and observ
ed the protective and preventive mea-!
sures used by policemen, firemen and
air raid personnel of London and other
English cities. The FBI representa
tives returned from England early In
1941 laden with voluminous notes,
facts, figures and ideas, and their'
studies were correlated and a definite
plan of education for police was for
mulated and the courses of instruction
were organized. From his staff, Direc
tor HOOVER has selected Special
Agents with previous experince in
Banks Take
Thanksgiving
Two Times
Banks of Donalsonville and through i
out the state were forced to observe,
( both Thursday of this week and that i
' of next week as holidays as the re-,
suit of the conflicting Thanksgiving;
dav dates.
It was officially pointed out that'
I both days were legal holidays as a re-1
; suit of the President’s proclamation
I and the state legislature having fixed
; the date later, and that any trans- ;
i actions on legal holidays were illegal,,
i or without the law.
Tax Collectors
Books Now Open
W. H. Roberts, local tax collector,
states that the tax books for pay
ment of state and county taxes for
1941 are now open and anyone desir
ing to pay their taxes may call aV
his store where the tax books are a-,
vailable.
Payments this year are showing an
increase over last year, though only
a small per cent have availed them
selves of the privilege of paying as
yet.
The books close December 20th, af
ter which fi. fas. will be issued.
Bar Association
Meets In Cuthbert
The Semi-annual meeting of the
Pataula Bar Association will be held
in Cuthbert on Tueadayjught of next
week, Secretary W. ft. VanLahding
ham announced this week.
Local attorneys who are members
of the association are W. 11. VanLand
ingham, E. P. Stapleton, E. C. Smith,
Jr., R. L. Cox and R. E. Wheeler.
Funeral For Jack
Louis Is Held
Funeral services for Jack Lewis, |
age 69, were held at the Corinth |
Church, Tuesday, November 18, Rev.
Press Norris officiating. Mr. Lewis
had been Ml for more than a year
when he passed away early Monday
morning.
Pallbearers were: Bill Roberts, Bud
die Roberts, Ralph Dyers, Will H.
Hagler, Tom Cox, and Obie Kimbel.
Those surviving Mr. Lewis are his
two daughtetrs, Bertha Lavalfer, and
Ethel B. Sims; and four sons, Walter,;
Jake, Dan, and Roy Lewis.
Evans and Son, funeral directors, |
had charge of the funeral.
, police training work and they have
i been given an extensive training
course in civilian defense problems
,to prepare them for conducting the
training school.
Mr. HAMMACK announced that
Six-Day Civilian Defense Courses for
police will be held within the Atlanta
j Field Office territory of the Federal
I Bureau of Investigatiton at Atlanta,
1 Georgia from December 1 to Decem
ber 6,194 J, at Athens, Georgia, from
January 19 to January' 24, 1942, at
Columbus, Georgia, from January 2G
to anuary 31, 1942, and at Albany,
i Georgia, Rome, Georgia, Macon, Geor
gia from April 13 to April 18, 1942.
j The course of instruction for these
i schools will include the following war
time and emergency duties i
Convoy work, Guarding Projected
Places and Areas and Utility Surveys,
Black-out Enforcement, Cooperation
with Other Emergency Agencies, Ac
i tlon In Case of Grounded Enemy Air
craft and Barrage Balloons, Gas De
contamination, Prevention of Mali
• cious Acts, Internal Security Investi
gation, Evacuation Problems, Looting
Problems, Maintenance of Maps and
Charts, Traffic Problems, Police Com
munication Problems, Police Person
nel and Property, Air Raid Precau
tion Work.
DONALSONVILLE
Capitol of Seminole County
The home of progressive people, pret
ty homes, good churches, splend’d
schools and the best of climate.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
TO BE PUBLISHED ONE
DAY EARLIER
Next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day
in Donalsonville, being a holiday, The
News will be published one day ear
lier to allow the News office force to
observe the holiday.
Copy for ne-1 week’s publication
must be in the haitds of the printer*
not later than Tuesday afternoon.
Lions Club Holds
Regular Meeting
At the regular monthly meeting
of the Donalsonville Lions Club on
Tuesday, Rev. John S. Lough, paster
of the local Methodist Church was
presented with a nice gift, a Waltham
wrist watch, as a token of the esteem
in which he is held by the member
ship and his loyalty and service as a
club member. Rev. Lough leaves this
week to take up his new appointment
ment to the pastorate of the Claxton
Methodist Church.
The presentation was made by Pre
sident H. B. Jenkins, who expressed
the keen regret of the club over los
ing him as a member and a citizen
of the town.
Rev. Lough responded with a short
talk expressing his sincere regrets
over leaving and wishing the club
continued success in its endeavors.
The committee appointed to secure
a deed for the location of the high
way patrol office here reported that
the deed had been secured and pay
ment made for the property and that
the deed was being forwarded to the
Department of Public Safety. The
deed recites that the property shall
be vested in Seminole county if it
should be abandoned or cease to be
used as a patrol office.
W’. E. Brigham made a report " to
the receipts of the carnival Jre
recently, showing a net return toAna
club of '
Rev. C. L. Nease, recently appointed
us pastor. He comes to the local
ist Church for the coming year, arriv
ed here this week to take up his duties
as pastor. He come to the local church
church from Sardis, Ga., and is said
to be one of the ablest ministers of
the Conference.
He and his wife are being cordially
received into the community.
At the regular Sunday evening
hour, other churches of the city have
called in their services and will extend
a welcome to the new pastor in a un
ion service.
Last Sunday evening a similar ser
vice was held as a farewell to the
former pastor, Rev. John S. Lough.
OLIVE
THEATRE
Saturday Only
Roy Ropers, In
“BAD MAN OF DEADWOOD”
Monday And Tuesday
Dorothy Lantour and Jon Hall, In
“ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS”
Wednesday
THE BAD MAN”
With Wallace Beery
Thursday And Friady
Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay
Holden and Judy Garland, lu
LIFE BEGINS for ANDY HARDY
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MIDGET THEATRE
SATURDAY
Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, In
“WHISTLING IN THE DARK”
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