Newspaper Page Text
OVER THE TOP
FOR VICTORY
WfA united states war
BONDS-STAMPS
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXVI.
Minutes Os Board
Co. Commissioners
IN REGULAR SESSION TUESDAY,
AUGUST 4T!i.
1942.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Seminole County met in regular
session on Tuesday, August 4th, with
Chairman L. R. Robinson presiding
and members present as follows: D.
H. Miller, R. L. Johnson and E. J.
Greene.
Minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
Attorney E. P. Stapleton reported
that the county road machinery had
been leased to J. B. Gibson and a con
tract drawn and signed. He also pre
sented war risk insurance policies on
the courthouse and its contents.
A copy of the report of the audit
of the county’s affairs was presented
by Chairman Robinson and reviewed
by the board.
A resolution was passed calling on
all officials in the courthouse to dis
continue burning lights in the court
house during the daytime in ordei’ to
reduce the current bill. The resolu
tion, as passed by the board is as fol
lows: “Resolved that the electric bill
for the courthouse is too high ar.d that
all office holders be notified and re
quested to turn off all nights unless
absolutely essential.”
Attorney Stapleton was requested
to contact the City of Albany in an
effort to locate a road bond due Janu
ary Ist, which the county wishes to
pay off.
The Supreme Court of Georgia hav
ing ruled that H. O. Cummings was
not duly appointed a commissioner,
the board discussed the matter and
gave consideration to two applications
for the office, these being from J. W.
Parker and E. P. Childree. Mr. Park
er lost the office by seven votes in an
election tw o yean* ago. A .’ter due de
liberation, the board decided to call
an election to be held on September
9th in the Steam Mill district, the
board agreeing to vote for the election
of the winning candidate. A resolu
tion concerning the primary was
passed as afolows:
“Whereas, due to the death of Fred
Childree, the Steam Mill District is
without a County Commissioner, and
“Whereas, the law provides that the
vacancy shall be filled by appointment
by the remaining members of the
(Turn To No. One On Page Three)
SAFETY
DEPOSIT
BOXES
For Rent
Fire Proof Burglar Proof
$1.20 Per Year
Including Federal Tax
Rent one of our safety deposit
boxes for safe keeping of valuable
papers, Jewelry, Insurance Policies,
Wills, Deeds, etc.
Let Us Show Them To You.
COMMERCIAL
STATE
BANK
I S FOREMH Al §
Bmtalsmwilli? Nmd
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
More Cooperation
Asked In Drive
RESPONSE OF PEOPLE IN SCRAP
DRIVE HAS BEEN VERY
SMALL.
H. M. Carter and Ellison Dunn, of
the Lions Club Committee sponsoring
the drive for scrap in this county, is
sued an urgent apeal this week for
the cooperation, of the public in the
drive for scrap metals, rags, manilla
rope, etc.
Chairman Carter stated Thursday
that the response thus far had been
most disappointing, very few people
having responded to the urgent call
of the War Production Board for the
scrap.
“We are in this war for freedom
and the need is most critical,, Mr.
Carter said. “May we urge that all
our people of the county become
fully cognizant of the seriousness of
the situation with which we are now
faced and to cooperate fully with the
drive,” he said.
The drive has been extended on in
to next week for the entire week. If
you have scrap metals, iron, steel,
aluminum, or other scrap, except tin
cans, call 176 or 97 and the scrap will
be picked up at your home.
For those residing out of town, it
is urged that you birng your scrap to
the Carter Mfg. Co. office, where the
highest prices will be paid for it.
Local REA Shows
Steady Progress
$5,000 ADVANCE PAYMENT OVER
REGULAR OBLIGATION
IS MADE.
The Three Notch Electric Member
ship Corporation, Donalsonville, a unit
of the REA, has just been advised in
a letter from Rural Electrification Ad
ministrator Harry Slattery, that it Is
one of 23 Georgia REA systems that
made advance payments totalling
$140,012 during the fiscal year ended
June 30, Supt. C. Lamar Hatcher an
nounced this week.
The local cooperative has been
credited with prepayments for the fis
cal year totalling $5,000, Mr. Slattery
said. This amount, together with pre
payments made in previous years,
raised to $15,000 the total of all ad
vance payments credited to the Co
operative.
Mr. Slattery stated that this co
operative is among the 273 systems
in 34 states that made payments dur
ing the fiscal year in advance of the
due date, amounting to $3,075,611,
REA’s latest tabulation shows that
all prepayments by REA systems dur
ing past years totaled $4,828,690. This
was in addition to regular principal
and interest paid totaling $17,417,913.
The prepayments made by the
Three Notch Electric Membership
Corporation have been in addition to ;
the regular principal and interest pay
' ments required under its Joan contract.!
■ REA has loaned the Cooperative $|96,-1
■ 210 which has enabled it to finance 425
. miles of distribution lines now furn= |
I ishing electricity to 1103 rural con-,
I sumers in Seminole, Early, Miller, De-i
| catur and Clay counties.
Carter Buys Local
Chair Factory
A deal of interest this week was
that in which Mr. H. M. Carter has.
acquired the Whittington Furniture
Manufacturing Company chair factory
here and has already taken over the
management of the business,
The deal was consummated on
Wednesday, the sale being effected by
the stockholders approval and the
transfer made,
Mr. Carter, who operates a manu
facturing plant here, manufacturing
peanut shelters, conveyors and other
farm equipment, Is well known to the
people of the county. Mr. Shelby Car
ter, his son. will actively manage thp
Chair factory. He has been associated'
with his father in business here,
The chair factory employees a large
force of workmen and has been in op
eration here for the past 15 months.
It was sponsored by the citizens pf
Donalsonville and is quite an asset to
the community,
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH, 1942.
A WEEK OF WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
Price Administrator Henderson an
nounced that maximum gasoline prices
in the rationed area of the 17 Eastern
States and the District of Columbia
will be reduced 2 1-2 cents a gallon
beginning August 5. He also announc
ed reduction of 0.9 cents for kersene,
1.1 cents on distillates and light heat
ing oils, and 15 cents a barrel on re
sidual fuel oils.
Mr. Henderson said the reductions
were made possible under the recent
agreement worked out by the Office
of Price Administrations, the Office
of Petroleum Coordinator and the Re
construction Finance Corporation, 1
whereby the Defense Supplies Corpor
ation will absorb the extra transporta
tion costs foi* moving petroleum into
the Atlantic Seaboard areas.
Commerce Secretary Jones reported
the Defense Plant Corporation will
finance a two-point program to con
vert existing steel dry-cargo barges
into tank barges to transport oil, and
to improve existing inland waterways.
The Bureau of Mines estimated the
National gasoline demand for July,
August and September will be about
17 per cent less than in the corre
sponding period last year, eliminating
the necessity for a large winter ac
cumulation of stocks.
Consumer Supply And
Maximum Prices
President Roosevelt issued a state
ment that every user of fuel and heat
ing oil on the East Coast “should face
realistically the fact that there can
be no guarantee that he will get en
ough oil even to meet his minimum
needs.”
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes asked
all sellers of fuel and heating oils in
the East to request thejr customers
to convert oil burners so the use pf
COftl or other available fuels. The Of
fice of Solid Fuels Coordinator report
ed bituminous coal stocks in storage
In thp U, S- increased an estimated
5,850,000 tons in June, to a near-all
time record. The office sajd consum
er stockpiles, however, continued In
sufficient to provide adequate pro
tection against possible shortages dur
ing the Fall and Winter.
The OPA established a wholesale
ceiling price on milk and cream, sold
in bottles or paper containers, at the
distributor’s highest March level. The
action was taken to prevent a price
“squeeze” on milk retailers by some
milk distributors. The Office set a
ceiling price of four cents a pound for
waste kitchen fats now being sold by
housewives in the salvage program,
and a ceiling price of five cents a
pound for the sale of the same fats
from meat dealers to renders.
Price Adminisrator Henderson es-
I tablished a 60-day temporary ceiling
; on wholesale and retail lamb prices,
! at the highest charged by each seller
i during the period July 27-31. The
| temporary ceiling on lamb prjees, es- I
fectjve August 10, places every major |
meat item except poultry under the |
government price regulations. The j
OPA said Armour and Company,l
, Swift and Company, and Wilson and.
| Company, Inc,, have agreed to submit,
for auditing the sales records of all
i their branch houses for the purpose j
of refunding to their customers,;
I (wholesalers and retailers) all charg
! es made In excess of the maximum
j prices for beef and pork,
President Roosevelt told h|s press
conference there are three reasons
for the current meat shortage in the
East and some Mid-Western States:
(1) It |s the off season for beef, i
(2) People have a good deal more '■
money with which to buy more and
better puts of meat,
(3) This Country hps around 4,*
OOfl.&Ofl men under arms for whom
meat supplies must be prepared
months in advance. Mr. Roosevelt said '
the people will have to expect new i
shortages from time to time because i
that Is part of the price of winning i
the war-
FARM INCOME
During the first half of 1942 cash J
income from farm marketings totaled
$5,773 million compared with $4,012
million in the same period last year, i
the Agriculture Department reported- i
Income from crops was up 36 percent
and inpome from livestock and Ijve-
stock products was 48 percent greater.
The Department said a record volume
of marketings is expected in the lat
ter half of 1942. Total cash income
from farm marketings during 1942,
including government payments, pro
bably will exceed $14,500 million, the
report said.
Rationing
The outlook for obtaining sugar
supplies from the Caribbean has “tak
en a turn for the worse” because of
submarine warfare and the amount
of shipping diverted to war purposes,
i the OPA said. The Office asked sugar
' refiners in Louisiana and Texas not
to ship to sugar markets in Indiana,
Illinois and Ohio until at least Sep
tember 1 because of a shortage in
their home States. OPA said these re
strictions will have to be continued if
receipts from Cuba and Puerto Rico
are below expectations.
’ Under rationing regulations persons
owning more than one type writer
may dispose of their machines only to
authorized dealers or to the procure
ment division of the Treasury. OPA
said. The Office ruled all new adult
. bicycles are subject to rationing “even
though they may have been disassem-
I bled or altered or the parts changed.”
War Bond Purchases
July sates of War Bonds totaled
$900,000,000 second highest month y
amount on record and $l5O million
i about June sales, Treasury Secretary
! Morgenthau said.
The highest monthly total was that
i of January when the amount was sl,-
060 million. Mr. Morgenthau said the
[ August quota has been placed at $Bl5
i million. “Because of seasonal varia
i tions in 'income distribution, it would
not be practicable to establish month
■ ly quotas at a uniform figure of sl,-
000,000,000,” he said.
Transportation
I The Office of Defense Transporta
tion took oyer allocation of all new
buses and froze all integral-type bus
es In the hands of manufacturers. Un
der the new plan, the ODT will grant
permission to buy new buses only
when purchasers sign an agreement
giving ODT authority to transfer the
buses for use elsewhere if transpor
tation difficulties develop. ODT Direc
tor Eastman asked public Service
Commissions the States to make a
nation-wide survey of local rail and
bus passenger services to eliminate
duplications. War Production Chair
man Nelson said the WPH is studying
the proposal of ship-builder Henry
Kaiser to build 5,000 large cargo plan
es in converted shipyards. The Mari
time Commission reported U. S. Ship
yards broke all records in July as 71
new merchant vessels were put into j
service, making a total of 299 cargo I
vessels and tapkers produced during
the first seven months of this year.
The War Front
| Lt. Gen. Stilwell's China headquart
j ers reported U. 8, Airmen have broken
I the back of an elite force of Japanese
, bombers and fighters assembled for
| the purpose of driving them out of
j China. The Climax was reached July,
130, the Communique said, when 17
Japanese bombers and new type Hero
fighters were shot down, Gen. MacAr
thur’s Australian headquarters an
nounced allied planes conducted raids
on Japanese positions from Amboina
Island in the Netherlands East Indies
to Guadal-Canal Island in the Solo
mons,
The Nayy announced the sinking of
four United Nations Merchant vessels
by enemy submarines.
Trial Os Nazi Saboteurs
The Supreme Court rules that the
charges preferred against the eight
Nazi Saboteurs allege an offense
“which the President is authorized to
order tried before a Military Com
mission," that the Commission is law
fully constituted, and that the Sabo
teurs are held in “Lawful Custody.”
The Saboteurs were brought again be
fore Military Commission.
The Armed Forces
The President signed a bill creating <
the Women’s Auxiliary Reserve in the
Navy, which will be made up at first
1
(Turn To No. Three On Page Three)
Commissioner To
Be Named In S. Mill
COMMISSIONERS DECIDE TO LET
VOTERS NAME THEIR
OFFICIAL.
i ■
The Board of County Commissioners
of Seminole County, in session here
Tuesday, passed a resolution calling
for an election to be held in the Steam
Mill District to name a county com
missioner from that district, the Su
preme Court of Georgia having ruled
that H. O. Cummings was not duly
elected.
While the apointment of a com
missioner is a duty of the board, the
members of the board preferred to let
the people of the district select their
commissioner by ballot.
The primary wil be held on the
same date as the State Primary and
will be under the supervision of Com
mitteeman Walter Atkinson.
The Commissioners have agreed to
appoint the candidate receiving the
highest number of votes to fill the va
cancy on the board from that district.
1 An entrance fee of $15.00 is re
quired and must be paid to E. P.
i Stapleton by 12 o’clock noon, war
• time August loth, 1942.
I „
AAA Officials Held
Meet Wednesday
FARMERS ARE TOLD HOW TO
EARN ADDITIONAL
PAYMENTS.
A number of important state AAA
officials met with the Seminole coun
ty and community ©ommitteemen on
Wednesday afternoon, 11. G. Woods,
chairman of the local committee, pre
siding.
1 Methods of obtaining more soil
building practices on Seminole coun-
I ty farms with the aid of the AAA
• program were discussed. It was re
ported that this county had $27,000
available for payment to farmers for
carrying out soil building practices
in 1941, but only $4,000 was earned.
A model farm was shown which
demonstrated the benefits of soil con
serving practices. All farmers who
desire conservation materials are
urged to place their orders with their
local committeeman or the county
AAA office.
Prominent officials attending the
meeting were T. R. Breedlove, state
administrative officer of the agricul
tural adjustment agency, S. E. Sta
tham, chairman of the State AAA
committee, George W. Rountree, Field
officer and L. W. England, district
soil conservationist.
Peanut Prices Are
Pegged At $132-$l2O
Peanuts were being taken up by
quite a few growers this week, but
the cotton <. "op is slow opening and
predictions are that it will be unusual
ly short in most sections of the coun
ty this year.
Peanut prices were pegged this
week, Mr. Shingler states, with No. 1
Spanish bringing $132 per ton, white
runners were pegged at $l2O per ton.
This is of course, for quota peanuts,
and the ceiling has been lifted so that
the market may even rise higher.
ADDRESSES OF MEN
IN SERVICE WANTED
The Missionary Societies of all the
Donalsonville Churches have a move
on foot, whereby, we may all get in
closer touch with the Seminole boys
who are in Service. They are asking
that the parents or wives of the in
ductees send a copy of the addresses
of the different boys to Mrs. M. P.
Stein, Donalsonville, Georgia, who will
have them published as soon as re
ceived.
This list is to be divided among the
four churches, and to each boy in th®
Service will be sent the local paper,
magazines, personal tetters and other
rcmemberaqt©*.
get these addresses in as
soon as possible.
Mr. J. W. Bush has returned home
after visiting reUuw* at Graceville,
Fla., far several days.
>lo* OF INCOME
IS OUR QUOTA
M WAR BONDS
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
Primary Tuesday
In Iron City Dist.
CORDELL AND ROBERTS IN RACE
FOR NOMINATION FOR
COMMISSIONER.
The Democratic Primary to name a
County Commissioner from the Iron
City District for a four-year term be
ginning January Ist, 1943 to succeed
E. J. Greene, wil be held next Tuesday
in the Iron City district only. Two
candidates are in the race for the of
fice, these being F. W. Cordell, form
er member of the Board and B. Wil
son Roberts, young farmer and lum
ber operator.
J. M. Cross, executive committe
man from the district will have charge
of the polls and will name the manag
ers for the primary. The polls will
open at 8 o’clock a. m. and will close
at 3 o’clock p. m. War Time, acording
to reports, although this could not be
verified. ,
Commissioner Greene, who has
been serving on the board for the past
three and one-half years, declined to
offer for re-election.
Primaries are supposed to be held
in the Rock Pond and Donalsonville
districts also next Tuesday, but due
to the fact that the present incum
bents, D. H. Milter and L. R. Robin
son, have no opposition, the primary,
if held, will be a mere formality.
Peanut Warehouse
Is Being Built Here
Morrison P. Shingler, of the Donal
sonville Warehouse, Inc., announced
this wek that construction had begun
on a large, modern storage warehouse
for peanuts near his office her®, to
give additional storage space for the
peanut crop to be harvested here this
fall.
Mr. Shingler states that the ware
house will be government bonded, and
will be equipped with modem loading
and unloading devices so that many
trucks will be able to unload at the
same time to prevent long waits by
the farmers, he says.
SCRIPT DANCE
There will be a script dance at the
Donalsonville Club house on next
Tuesday night, July 14. A large fan
will provide cool breezes for com
fort. Script 55c, Students 25c, all
ladies admitted free—Time 9:30.
OLIVE
THEATRE
*P . * t . , . «
Saturday Only
Johnny Mack Brown, In
“ARIZONA CYCLONE”
Monday and Tuesday
Kay Kyser and John Barrymore, In
“PLAYMATES”
Wednesday Only
Edward G. Robinson - Jane Wyman
In
“LARCENY, INC.
Thursday and Friday
Robert Preston - Nancy Kelly, In
“PARACHUTE BATTALION”
•■•■••■■•■■■■■•■••■•■■■a
Midget Theatre
Saturday Only
Preston Foster - Lynn Bari, In
“SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN”
NUMBER 28.