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March 4-12 4-H Club Week
SEMINOLE
A SMALL BUT
PROGRESSIVE
COUNTY
$2.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUME XXXIII
All-Day Sing At Salem
Church Sunday, Mar. 19
The Seminole County Sing
ing Convention will meet for
a all day sing at Salem Baptist
Church on Sunday, March 19,
..'lt, was announced this week.
Salem Church is located ap
proximately eight miles South
s os Donalsonville.
Vital PT A Meeting
Set For March 21
Mrs. L. C. MicElvy, president of
the Seminole County P. T. A., an
nounced this week that one of the
most important meetings of the
year would be held on Tuesday
night, March 21. The president
ur£ed all members to make definite
plans to attend the meet.
The principle speaker of the
night will be Mr. Stanley Booth,
of Hahira, Ga. Mr. Booth, over
jseiventy years old, is well known
in educational circles of the state.
‘He has developed an improvement
in methods of teaching students to
read. He appeared before the Geor
gia Legislature to demostrate his
unique -method.
Mr. Booth’s son was principal of
F. D. R. high school.
The March 21st meeting will be
held in the high school auditorium.
Farm Bureau To
Meet Tonight
Henry Love, local Farm Bureau
President, announces that a meet
ing will be held at the courthouse
tonight at 7:30. Mr. E. V. Komarek,
outstanding hybrid corn producer,
will discuss corn production and
other, phases of farming.
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The singing will begin at
10.00 A. M. and will recess for
dinner at noon, when lunch will
be spread. The singing will re
sume following the lunch.
All singers and lovers of
gospel singing are assured a
cordial welcome.
Cotton Acreage
Premeasurement
Seminole County cotton growers
can arrange for official measure
ment of their 1950 cotton acreage
allotments prior to planting time,
the County Production and Market
ing Administration announced this
week. To get the premeasurement
service, which is being provided on
a cost basis, a farmer must file a
written request with the County
PMA Office prior to March 25,
1950, says Mr. E. T. Kelly, com
mittee chairman.
At the time the request for pre
measurement is filed, the farmer
will be required to deposit $5.00
per farm or 50 cents per acre for
each acre to be premeasured,
whichever is the greater. An ac
curate record will be kept in the
County Office on the actual cost of
measurement. Where a farmer has
deposited an amount in excess of
the actual cost the difference will
be refunded to him.
“The premeasurement is purely
optional,” says Mr. Kelly, “and is
offered as a service to growers who
prefer to halve an official measure
ment to use as a planting guide.”
The chairman explains that all
cotton acreages in the county will
be measured as soon as possible
after the cotton “comes up” to de
ermine compliance with the acre
age allotment-marketing quota pro
gram. When compliance is check
ed, the farm will <be considered to
be within the farm acreage allot
ment if the crop is planted within
the premeasured area.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
You will find enlosed a check of
$2.00 for renewal subscription of a
year for your paper. If it will be
all right, I ask that you give the
“Seniors” credit for this renewal.
I cannot designate anyone especial
ly, as I do not know who the
“good old Seniors” are.
We enjoy the paper and dis
appointment is ours when it does
not reach us on Saturday.
I am so pleased to know “Our
Editor” is improving. I hope the
greater number of his days from
now will be sunny.
“Long Live The News.”
PEARL HEARD
Florence, S. C.
The Children of Old Mother
Goose with choruses Cock-a-doodle
do, Blowing Bubbles, The Picka
ninnies, Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon
will be presented by the first and
second grade children of the Don
alsonville school on Friday, March
17th, at the high school auditorium
at eight o’clock.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNT Y OF SEMINOLE AND CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA.
DONALSONVILLE, (GA.) NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH, 1950.
Five Men Jailed By Local
Authorities After Robbery
A. C. Boys Win Tourney
In Climax 66-44, 43-41
A crippled five from Donalson
ville won the Invitational Tourna
ment held at Climax, Ga., the first
-hree days of this week. The top
seeded Seminolians, playing sans
the presence of Joe Laney, banged
over the opposition, beating Mt.
Pleaseant 66-44 and winning Tues
day night the finale from the Riv
er Ra.s of West Bainbridge, 43-41.
Although the first game played
by the local A. C. resembled a mild
stampede, the way the locals surg
ed and toyed with their op
ponent, the final game was nip and
tuck from start to finish. The Rats
of West Bainbridge grabbed an
early and seemingly decisive lead,
but the victors plugged away until
they tied, passed and beat the De
catur county offering.
Drawing a bye in the open
ing contest, D’ville did not play
until Tuesday night. Then, af
ter beating Mt. Pleasant in
the semi-finals, the Sems
whipped runner-upper West
Bainbridge. There were but
six teams entered.
It was a story book comeback
for the champions on Wednesday
night. West Bainbridge took com
plete command of the play for the
first half. Adding to a lead of 22-11
at the end of the first quarter, the
eventual losers were on top at half
time, 26-17.
D’ville got off to a rugged and
ragged beginning. The WB defense
was tight but ‘.he failure of the
D’lvillians to hit the net on the few
shots they attempted, and the
“couldn’t miss” luck of the WB
shots, left D’ville a long way be
hind with a short time in which to
catch.
But a few points deficit
means little to some people, as
evidenced by the steady, tho
slow, advance of the winners.
At the end of the third quarter
the score was 33-32. At the auto
matic time out, the score was 41-
40 in favor of the Rats. At the re
sumation of play, Tom Averitt
sank a field goal to send his mates
ahead, 42-41; Marlin Cannington
sank a free throw for insurance
and the night’s point-making was
over.
Guard Tom Averitt led the win
ners with 12 tallies, followed close
ly by Frank Avinger with 11.
Smokey Gibbons contributed 10,
Marlin Cannington 8, and Charles
Willis 2. The starting quintet, as
named above, played the entire
game.
The gentlemen from Donalson
ville had earned a berth in the
finals by ripping Mt. Pleasant
Tuesday night, 66-44. The score
could easily have been more one
sided, but reserves played a large
part of the game.
Marlin Cannington took high
point honors Tuesday night, ac
counting for 19 points with nine
field goals and one free throw.
Charles Willis ran second with 14.
Others scoring for D’ville were:
Averitt, 10; Avinger, 8; Gibbons,
10; Bivings, 2.
The winners led the Mt. Pleas
ant boys 19-4 at the end of the
firs: period, stretched their ad
vantage to 33-8 at the half and 44-
16 at the end of the third quarter.
Davis Outlines
PMA Program
By W. L. Davis, Jr., Seminole
County PMA Administrator
All of the 150 million people liv
ing in the United States are co
operators in the Agricultural Con
servation Program and are collect
ing dividends. They share in the
responsibility of protecting the na
tion’s soil as they share in the cost
of carrying out conservation prac
tices to provide that protection.
Through taxes all the people pay
part of the cost of AGP practices.
About one-half is paid by the farm
er, the rest by the Government.
This places a responsibility on the
farmer to see that the practices
they carry out return value receiv
ed to the other partners in the pro
ject. The AGP Program is the
means through which farmers and
consumers join hands in doing what
has to be done to keep the land
productive.
We do not have enough farmers
in Seminole County participating
in this program. Out of over 600
farms in the county only 387 car
ried out any soil conservation
practices in 1949. 4-H Club mem
bers can.be a great help in increas
ing this number by carrying out
some ACP practice as their project
and showing farmers what can be
done.
Members can get aid through the
PMA Purchase Order program
from the allowance set up for their
Dad’s farm.
Notice!
Mrs. T. J. Shingler, promotion
chairman for the Bible Study, Wo
men of Scripture, announces a
joint meeting of all circles of the
Woman’s Society of Christian Ser
vice to be held at the home of Mrs.
Julian Webb next Monday after
noon at 4 o’clock.
A full at endance is urged.
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Five white from Ruskin,
Fla., have been arrested by Sheriff
C. L. Chandler and charged with
breaking into the store of R. H.
Dkmuke here last week.
County Sheriff Chand
ler said the men broke into the
store through the back door Tues
day night, and that when arrested
in Ruskin, were wearing some of
the clothes stolen from the store.
The men were identified as Ver
nice H. Miller, Luther Miller, J. D.
Miller, Alfred Anglin and Clarence
Anglin, ranging in age from 18 to
32 years.
The stolen good were brought
back to Donalsonville by Sheriff
Chandler. He was assisted in mak
ing the arrest Friday night by city
policeman Pryor Brooks and Cecil
Franklin of the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation.
The five men are in Seminole
County pail awaiting trial.
Wheeler Named
Census Chief
R. E. Wheeler, of Donalsonville,
has been appointed crew manager
for the district of Seminole and De
catur County census taking.
Mr. Wheeler states that Tues
day, Marh 7th, fourteen persons
took the examination for appli
cants as enumerators for Seminole.
The examination was held at Semi
nole County courthouse and of the
fourteen persons taking the exam
ination, two will be selected to do
the work in Seminole County.
There were two men and nine wo
men among those taking the exam
ination.
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