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FOR MARCH 6TH
EXTENSIONS
;(IK A® COUNCIL
monthly session
SEWERAGE LINES j
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BIDS.
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L Lements C ity of Cairo this week released
for bids, to be received
L city Hall here until 2 p. m.
L T.) Monday, March 6th, for
[ructing sewerage extensions and
Lge Lrovement pumping project station, started to complete
some
Lin ago.
& Deermont, ciS Ghipley, Fla.,
|m, is now well a O r vanced in the
Iniction of a modern seWage dis
I plant here.
1 of these improvements: are being
ted by a city bond issue of $33,
Ind a PWA grant of $27,000.
e extent of the sewerage lines
l laid in the new contract cannot
(etermined [d, until the bids are re
it is said. The advertisement
>ids, which appears on page nine,
s no construction details.
Mayor And Council Hold
Monthly Meeting,
he Mayor and Council here met in
liar monthly session last Tuesday
t, with Dr. J. B, Warnell, Mayor,
bit, iding, and with Councilmen A. B.
A. A. McNeill, A. L. Thomp
and R. R. Van Landingham pres
peps were taken to effect an agree
t with the County Commissioners
point [ing participation in the work of
the electric line poles and pro
ng curbing and gutters where the
A-county and rural post road
rement project is underway just
lie and beyond the southern limits
he city. The improvements are
South Broad street and 3% miles ;
e Hadley Ferry road. j
. R. Galt, resident engineer of the!
ge disposal plant and sewerage)
nsion project, conferred with the
i°r and Council relative to some
i emoval work near the cemetery,
layor Warned appointed Council
| tan Landingham, Wight and
pill t ouncilman as the license committee,
r k Thompson could not
theieon.
r Motion, the slaughter fee for
I s at the abbatoir here was fxied
ia!fl a cent per pound.
■ of Grady County Motor Co.
a Chevrolet police car, to replace
• oid that has been in service for
M years, was accepted. Police
Howard Elkins went to Jackson
Wednesday to get the new car.
■ num ber of other matters came up
■consideration but action Was defer
I P en ^ n 8' further investigation.
ive Books February 22-25
« for Library
n
e committee in charge of the
r ° L,brar >’> which serves all
d y county, this week announced
t0 a
° btain books for the library
egltl next Wednesday, Feb. 22nd,
I 2 ;r nUe library trough Saturday,
| p. 1 y ' was opened at
several weeks ago thru
Operation of the WPA, the City
lro ’ the Cairo Woman’s Club,
p v.
tmkT imbe! ' 8 of ' 3 Commerce Librar y Commission, the
an and other local
'zations. Miss Wessie Connell is
arian.
Pi L " ayne Walker is chairman of
niltbee > w 'th Secretary M. L.
hi!!" fc hi"' of c ° mmetM are '
d .f' ?• A - Kennedy, M “> 1 H. T. Le
L* e11 with Dr. J.
’ Ma y°r Of Cairo, as an
r a ry member.
Lj; J 1 ? ' ^termine ur ged to investigate if im
;abl e | they have
y i£L . ’ n good condition, which
donate to the lib,ary
-
rj sp in SUc b books is urged to
•tthe the 'U KeGette at once so
k bo OKs be
sh> can collected.
k drive ^11 open George
, on
birthday anniversary,
f b : Gen designated as “Library
men’s cf Ge0rgia Kederation of
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TEN PAGES
U. S. Income Tax Man !
Coming Here March 7
Marion H. Allen, of Atlanta, Col
lector o,f Internal Revenue, 1ms ad
vised The Messenger that a field rep
rese ntative of the department will be
in Cairo on Tuesday, March 7th, for
the purpose of receiving and assisting
people in the preparation of U. S.
income tax returns. The field rep
resentatives sent here in the past
have assisted a number of local Fed
eral income tax-payers and they will
doubtless be interested in his visit
this year.
It was not made plain just where
he will be stationed while here, but
it is understood that he Will use some
office at the Courthouse, probably
the office of Clerk of the Courts P.
M. Baggett. Be will be here from
8 a. m. to 5 p. m., it was announced.
SCHOOLS’ FINANCIAL
CRISIS STILL EXISTS
TEACHERS ARE PAID UP THRU
JANUARY BUT NO MONEY
IS IN SIGHT.
Grady county’s 166 school teachers
this Week were given checks that paid
their salaries up to -Feb. 1st, but, with
no more money from the state in im
mediate prospect, the serious financial
crisis continues to exist and a com
lete school shut-down March 1st still
appears to be a strong probability.
The loan obtained by Governor E.
D. Rivers last week gave this county’s
Board of Education sufficient funds
to pay the teachers the balance due
•on their December salaries and all
their January salaries. The County
BoarcT had already advanced about
half of their December salaries. The
total amount sent to teachei’s here
this week was about $15,000.
However, the state school money
crisis has not been relieved, insofar
as it could be learned here Thursday,
and it was learned unofficially that
the County Board of Education still
plans to close the schools: about Maich
1st unless some financial relief not
now in sight is forthcoming.
The Messenger learned Thursday,
also, that a movement was gaining
headW r ay here to flood Rep. R. A. Bell,
of this county, Senator Harrell, of this
district, and other state officials, with
letters and telegrams urging some
kind of immediate relief to prevent
closing of the schools before the 1938-
39 term is completed.
NEW BUSINESS
Levy’s To Open On North Broad St.
Next Week.
Levy’s is the name of a new Cairo
business which will open on North
Broad street, next door to the A. &
P. store, late next week. The business
will offer to the people of this trade
territory an entirely new r and attract
ive line of men’s and ladies’ ready-to
wear.
Owner and manager of the business
will be Jake Levy, a former resident
of Cairo, who has been in business in
Thomasville for some time. Mr. Levy,
active in American Legion and other
work, already has a host of friends in
Cairo and Grady county who will
warmly welcome him upon his return
to Cairo to live and do business.
Detailed announcement of the open
ing will oppear in The Messenger next
week.
CHEVROLET AGENCY HAS A
USED CAR SALE.
Grady County Motor Co., the local
Chevrolet agency, on North Broad
street, announces in this issue of’ The
Messenger continuance of a special
sale on used cars, trucks and tractors
that began two weeks ago.
In an advertisement on the back
page of this issue, a number of
special values offered are listed.
Mi\ and Mrs. Guy „ vTonInr»dincham
were visitors to Jacksonville on Wed
nesday.
__________
,S j E .Ferrell, iuppIt of Jacksonville,
is spending r th wee* here ne with
mother, Mrs. J. J. Sapp.
The Official Organ of Grady County
I he man who wanderet) out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 1939.
LICENSE ‘WAR’ 1
STM NOT AVERTED
LEGISLATORS.
Efforts to avert a new Georgia
Florida license “war” last Friday mov
e d a step nearer a show-down which
will likely develoy before the Georgia
Legislature now in session and the
Florida Legislature which convenes
at Tallahassee in April.
Secretary M. L. Mayes, of the local
Chamber of Commerce, joined others
in a South Georgia delegation that
attended a conference in Atlanta last
Friday which laid the foundation for
possible satisfactory adjustment of the
differences that have developed be
tween the two states. He said that
while progress was made toward a
satisfactory adjustment, the threaten
ed license “war” is by no means avert
ed, as yet.
The new tangle developed some few
weeks ago as a result of enforced col
lection of Georgia’s $500 assessments
against Florida fish dealers selling in
Georgia, and Secretary Mayes, fear
ing imposition of retaliatory assess
ments against South Georgia farmers
selling produce in -Florida, has act
ively sought adjustment of the dif
ferences on as near a “free trade”
basis as possible,.
The Atlanta conferees were com
posed chiefly of committees from the
Georgia House and Senate now in
session and committees from the Flor
ida House and Senate Which convene
in April. G. Pierce Wood, of Port St.
Joe, Fla., speaker-nominee of the Flor
ida House, was spokesman for the
Florida group. These committees are
to recommend specific action in the
two states as early as possible.
Mr. Wood pledged himself to every
legal step possible to eliminate the
discrimination against Georgia eggs
sold in Florida and also assured the
conferees that -Florida stands ready
to do everything possible to maintain
the trade between the states on vir
tually a “free trade” basis if it is
shown conclusively that Georgia will
act in good faith in eliminating the
assessments against Florida seafood
dealers operating in Georgia, The
outlook for Georgia’s participation in
the final adjustments is still viewed
with some doubt.
Mr. Mayes said he was. much disap
pointed to learn at the Atlanta confer
ence Friday that certain officials of
the Georgia Department of Agricul
ture are arrayed on the side of the
large fish dealers of Georgia and
against the farmers of South Georgia
who will be the chief sufferers if the
license tangle is not adjusted.
In a letter to Commissioner of Ag
riculture Columbus Roberts this week,
Mr. Mayes cited the demands made by
a representative of the department at
Friday’s conference for a high license
fee against Florida seafood dealers,
and said he granted the representa
tive’s right to defend the need for
reasonable sanitary regulations, but
that his advocacy of a high license fee
“is letting down the farmers of South
Georgia.”
Continuing, Mr. Mayes said:
“We believe that your department
should be on the side of those who
have been trying so desperately to
bring about a peaceful settlement of
this license matter and to remove all
trade barriers We believe that
your enforcement officers should not
be permitted to make a plea for a high
license. That is a matter that should
be entirely out of their jurisdiction.”
Mr. Mayes sent copies of the letter
and tear-sheet of a recent Messenger
editorial to other Georgia officials
and members of the Georgia Legisla
ture.
NEW FRIGIDAIRES SHOWN
AT RODDENBERY’S.
On page four of The Messenger this
week is special announcement by Rod
denbery Hardware Co., here, of the
special presentation of two outstand
ing new models of Frigidaire electric
refrigerators for 1939.
The new models offer a number of
new features, probably the most im
portant of which is that providing for
muc ^ l° n £ er carry-over of’ foods With
improvement of quality in many
than deterioration
The public, generally, is cordially in- j
vited to see these new Frigidaires at
| Roddenbery’s with no obligation to
> Du y-
SATURDAY LIMIT ON
ENTRY OF TRUSTEES
ELECTIONS CALLED IN ALL 14
DISTRICTS FOR FRIDAY, I
FEB. 24TH.
Tomorrow is the, limit for the entry
of names of persons to be voted on as
school trustees in the fourteen school
districts of the county in the elections
called by the County Board of Educa
tion for Friday, Feb. 24th. There are
seventeen vacancies in the fourteen
districts to be filled.
Names of persons to be voted on
must be submitted to County School
Supt. W. R. Eskew at his office here
by Saturday noon, Feb. 18, in accord
ance with election rules promulgated
two years ago, and ballots will be pre
pared by Supt. EskeW, who will be in
charge of’ the elections.
The polls will be open between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 12, noon, ex
cept in the Cairo district, where the
polls will be open from 9 a. m. to
p. m. In most of the districts, the
voting will be at the school house, but
at Cairo the voting will be at the cus
tomary place in the Courthouse.
registered, qualified voters will be
titled to vote and those qualified
be determined by the committee in
charge of the election in each district,
BeloW is a list of the trustees
each district whose terms expire
ring this year, together with a list of
the other trustees in each district.
CAIRO: Terms expiring, H. T. Le
Gette and J. B. Roddenbery. Other
trustees, Dr. J. V. Rogers, chairman,
Dr. A. W. Rehberg and J. Slater
Wight.
CALVARY: Term expiring, E. P.
Jones. Other trustees, J. T. Steph
ens and E. T. Williams.
CENTRAL: Term expiring, T. E.
Miller. Other trustees, Eugene Moore
(Continued on back page.)
Kiwanis Club Meeting
At Calvary Enjoyable
With twenty-four citizens of the
Calvary and Reno school districts and
the principals of the two schools as
their guests at the Calvary High
School auditorium, the Kiwanis Club
of Cairo held its regular meeting
there last Tuesday night.
A delicious supper was prepared and
served by the young ladies of the
home economics departments of the
Reno and Calvary schools under di
rection of Miss Elizabeth Taylor who
has charge of’ both departments.
Maynard Smith, chairman of the
program committee, presented Vereen
Bell, a local writer of note, as the
guest speaker of the occasion. Mr.
Bell gave a very interesting account
of some experiences that come to a
writer and especially to those who in
terview people. His account of a trip
of his to California and his exprienc
es and contacts with some celebrities
there was most amusing and his
stories of wild animals that have been
tamed and are kept for use in the mo
tion pictures were very entertaining.
His talk was greatly enjoyed.
President John Wight thanked J. T.
Mayfield and Adrian Rosser, the
school principals, for having arranged
the meeting and extending the invita
tion and expressed the club’s apprecia
tion to the young ladies and
teacher for the delicious meal and the
fine service.
Walter Eskew and Marshall Mayes,
other members of the program com
mittee, expressed their pleasure and
that of the club at the opportunity of
having a meeting of the kind with the
fine citizens of the county. A feeling
of goodfellowship and interest in the
meeting was evidenced.
SINGING CONVENTION MEETS
MARCH 5TH.
Announeement has been made that
the Grady County Singing Convention
w ni hold its next regular meeting
Pleasant Grove church, eight miles
northeast of Cairo, on the first Sunday
j n March, the 5th. This church is sit
uated near Pope’s Store,
Everyone is cordially invited to at
|. en( j {- be convention and to bring a
pj cn j c i un ch to be spread at noon.
BIRTH.—Mr. and Mrs. Kyle A.
MaxWell, of Calvary, announce
birth of a son at Cairo Hospital on
Thursday, Feb. 16th. He has
named william Thomas Maxwell.
THE MESSENGER
Prints All The News It Can Get
that is of interest to the people of
Grady county, and choice bits of news
are often found in the advertisements.
TEN PAGES
LOCAL COUNTY LEGISLATION
AROUSES UNUSUAL INTEREST
NO DAMAGE HERE
MMA Brough,
A rainstorm that struck this sec
tion of the country early Wednesday
morning resulted in considerable prop
erty damage in Thomasville, Valdosta
and other places, but brought only a
heavy doWnpour of rain here, a check
up revealed.
At that, though, the rainfall record
ed i oca i voluntary weather ob
serv&v was slightly less than one inch,
far legg fchan the precipitation else
w here for the period of the storm,
The rainfaI i here at mid-February
wag a b 0 ut three-fourths of the normal
tota , for the mon th. The temperature
j drop a fter Wednesday’s storm brought
j f ros t; Thursday morning and the cool
Mt weather of the month to date,
j TAX PAYMENT DRIVE
j
IS GETTING RESULTS j
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j TAX COMMISSIONER IS TOLD TO
PRESS COLLECTIONS AT
ONCE.
The county’s tax collection drive,
which took on renewed emphasis last
week when the Board of County Com
missioners ordered immediate levies
on fi fas for 1938 and prior years, is
already getting results, it was said
this Week.
Tax Commissioner T. F. Proctor, in
a special message on page three of
The Messenger this week, confirms
the instructions issued to him to pro
ceed at once with levies and sales and
calls on all delinquents to make pay
ments by March 1st to prevent inser
tion of sales advertisements prepared
for next month. He said a number of
delinquents have already paid up since
the collection drive was given added
impetus last week. Several tax levies
are being advertised this month for
sale on the fifst Tuesday in March.
County officials, in explaining the
drive, say all the leniency possible has
been shown in the collection of' past
due taxes and that enforced collections
are now in order. They seek the co
operation of everyone concerned.
April 1st Deadline On 1939
Exemption Applications.
Tax Commissioner T. F. Proctor,
calling attention to the fact that the
tax books are now open for the return
of all propery for state, county and
school taxation, possession as of Jan.
1st, also reminds everyone that April
1st is the deadline for filing homestead
and personal property tax exemption
I applications. His special message ap
i P eais on P a £ e seven.
j Much time is required to prepare
the exemption applications and very
prompt action is recommended to
avoid delay and confusion as the dead-1
line nears.
GOLF TOURNEY NEXT WEEK
AT THOMASVILLE.
j
Local golf enthusiasts, and local
sportsmen in general, are displaying
much interest in the annual Thomas
ville Open golf tournament which will
open next Friday, -Feb. 24th, at the
Glen Arven club. It will continue
through Sunday, Feb. 26th.
A number of the nation’s leading
golf stars are entered in the compe
tition.
GRADY PHARMACY PLANNING
REMODELING.
Dave BoWen, owner and manager of
Grady Pharmacy here, this week said
plans have virtually been completed
for a thorough re-modeling of the in
terior of this store, on South Bi-oad
street.
He said the work would be
in a few days.
SING HERE NEXT SUNDAY
AFTERNOON.
i
J The Messenger has been requested
j to announce that there will be a sing
at the Cairo Second Baptist Church
next Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19th, be
| ginning at 2 o’clock.
1 Everyone has a cordial invitation to
attend,
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
NUMBER 6.
R £p gELL EXPLAINS
Of HIS BILLS
JUDGESHIP SALARY MEASURE
MADE LAW; NEW BILLS
OFFERED.
Unusual interest has been aroused
throughout Grady county in the local
legislation that is being offered in the
Legislature by Rep. R. A. Bell. Du
ing the past week, the various meas
ures, have been probably the foremost
topics of conversation, generally, and
Rep. Bell’s explanation of three of the
measures, which appears below, will
doubtless be read closely.
The City Court judgeship salary
measure, the complete text of which
appears on page nine of The Messen
ger this week, Was enacted into law
last Friday by the affixing of the sig
nature of Governor E. D. Rivers to
it. It passed the Senate on Tuesday of
last week, after having passed the
House previously. The measure re
duces the salary of the Judge of the
City Court to $1,500, from $2,400, but
gives the Co. Commissioners power
to revise the salary upward to $2,400.
The other two measures that are
now before the Legislature, and that
are covered in Rep. Bell’s explanatory
statement, are those re-creating the
Board of County Commissioners with
five instead of three members and
authorizing the clerk of the Board of
County Commisssioners to be ex-of
ficio treasurer of’ the county. The
text of these measures will be pub
lished next week.
Rep. Bell last Friday introduced two
neW general measures with local ap
plication affecting Grady county. One
would be a constitutional amendment
proposal authorizing the county, by
vote of the fiscal authority, to issue
certain bonds and the others would au
thorize the County Commissioners
of this county to vest the Tax
Commissioner with the powers of
the Sheriff and Constables for collec
tion and enforcement of tax fi fas.
He also offered, with others, a general
bill giving counties authority to make
a special tax levy of such part of the
state ad valorem levy that is not made
by the state.
Below is Rep. Bell’s statement ex
plaining three of his local measures:
“The first bill introduced (the City
Judge’s salary bill), Which passed the
Senate Feb. 7, nad recceived the Gov
ernor’s signature Feb. 10th, carries
out my campaign platform whereby I
.promised to sponsor legislation fixing
a minimum salary of the City Court
Judge at $1,500.00, and a maximum of
$2,400.00 and to give the Commission
ers the right to fix and determine the
salary between these two extremes.
Several good friends recently ex
pressed some doubts as to the wis
dom of having the Judge’s salary fix
ed in this way, but I had gone so far
in my pledge in the campaign that I
f e ,it the only thing I could honorably
do was to put the bill through. I ad
mit that this provision in the bill is
largely experimental. However, I
learned a few days ago for the first
time that Thomas county has had a
similar provision in its City Court
act since 1935 and that everyone
seems satisfied. By the act approved
March 7, 1935, the salary of the Judge
of the City Court of Thomasville was
fixed as between $2,000 and $3,000
with the right vested in the Thomas
County Board of Commissioners to
fix the salary between these limits.
This salary as last fixed by the Com
missioners is $2,400.00 per year as I
understand.
“My only other amendment to the
City Court act is to provide definitely
and without question that the county
will not have to pay the City Court
officers the $20.00 for each misde
meanor convict coming from the City
Court, in view of the fact that the
coun ty does not now employ convicts
in the county.
“My bill as to the County Treasur
er’s office makes only two changes in
the present set up as to the County
Treasury:
“(1) It is provided that the chairman
of the County Board must either sign
or countersign any kind of order,
check or Withdrawal on the County
Treasury or county depository. This
ili
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