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“COASTAL GEORGIA’S LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER"
4-H Champs Visit,
Talk Farm With
Herman and Betty
ATLANTA,—(GPS) If you had
happened by the Governor’s Man
sion in Atlanta the.other night you
would have thought it was head
quarters for Georgia’s teen-age
farmers and farmeretes. Actually,
for several hours it was just that
for Georgia’s national 4-H Club
champions, who were entertained
a an informal buffet supper by
Gov. and Mrs. Herman Talmadge.
The Governor, himself a former
4 H Club member, and his wife,
Betty, talked at length with the
youngsters about farming, cattle
raising canning and many other
things of common interest to ill
present. The young guests were ail
over the place, even tinkering
around in the kitchen.
“This is one dinner where we
want no program and no speak
ers,” the fanner-governor said.
However, he did address the four
teen 4-H champions long enough
to congratulate them “personally
and officially” and to say the
state is proud of their accomplish
ments.
“Georgia has had many honors,
but this group has brought one of
the greatest by being tops in na
tional awards,” he told them. “1
know what it means to a com
munity to have you young folks
working within it. You are pion
eering a new way of life for rural
people. I am proud to say that
I was a 4-H member.”
To this Betty Talmadge added:
“I’ve never made a speech in my
life, but I want you to know that
we are proud of you boys and
girls.”
The 13 national champions and
one sectional champion, who made
Georgia the nation’s No. 1, 4-H
state at the recent national 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago were
accompanied to Atlanta by 4-H
leader W. A. Sutton, county and
home demonstration agents and
o hers who help them achieve na
tional recognition. The champions
and honor guests were:
Billy Davis (Lowndes County),
leadership; Adrian Short (Harris),
citizenship; Billy Linder (Laur
ens), community relations; Roger
Hagan (Bulloch), field crop; Eddie
Folds (Hancock), soil conserva
tion; Grace Warren (Laurens),
clothing achievement; Eleanor In
man (Wage), rural arts; Shirley
Jean Skinner (Emanuel), canning;
Faye Heard (Decatur), grounds
beautification; Mary Davis, (Han
cock), poultry; Chappell Collins,
Jr., (Mitchell), forestry; Allison
Wade (Crisp), health; Eva Jo
Dunahoo (Barrow), health; Bee- |
man Keen, entomology.
Bryan Boy Gets
A Promotion
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C.—Ma
rine Private First Class Roose
velt L. Blair, 17, son of Mr. Wil
lie O. Blair, Ellebell, Ga. Rt. 2,
was promoted to his present rank
when he graduated from “Boot
Camp” at this East Coast Marine
Corps Recruit Depot.
During the past eight weeks of
intensive training and as a result
of field experience and classroom
lectures, the new Marine has be
*. come well versed in such military
subjects as precision drill, first aid,
hygiene, and field tactics.
He climaxed his recruit training
by 4 winning the sharpshooter medal
on the rifle range when he fired
a score of 215 out of a possible
250 during his weapons training.
In addition to firing the famed
Garand Rifle for qualification he
fired other infantry weapons such
as the .45 calibre pistol, carbine,
and Browning Automatic Rifle. He
also witnessed demonstration fir
ing of the machine gun, mortar
and flame thrower.
Before entering the Marines, he
was employed as a pasturer by
Milk Dairy. He attended Black
Creek School from which he was
graduated.
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house for one of my mechanics,
I will pay years rent in advance
and guarantee rent.
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ROBERT M. HOSKINS
Robert N. Hoskins, industrial
forester for the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad Company, will be the fea
tured speaker in an assembly pro
gram at Pembroke High School on
Thursday, January 23, it was an
nounced today by Charles McGee,
vocational agriculture instructor.
McGee stated that this is one
in a series of programs planned
in advance of the forthcoming for
estry demonstration to be held on
the John A. Varnedoe property
near Claxton. Ellis D. Sikes, vo
ag. instructor from Claxton, is
serving as general program chair
man in this tri-county meeting.
Mr. Hoskins received his Bache
lor of Science Degree in forestry
from lowa State College and is
the holder of six honorary state
farmer degrees and the American
Farmer Degree. During the past
year he was voted Norfolk’s out
standing young man of the year.
MORGAN CLANTON
IS SICK AT HOME
The many friends of Morgan
Clanton, one of Bryan County's
oldest and best loved citizens will
regret to learn that he is ill at
the home of his daughter, Mrs.
J. G. Bacon, with whom he has
made his home for several years.
Due to his advanced age the fam
ily and friends are concerned about
his illness.
There is no better known or more
respected citizen than Uncle Mor-'
gan, who numbers his friends by
the number of his acquaintances.
The Journal joins his many friends
in wishing for him a speedy re
covery and an early return to his
usual good health.
Hit Inflation
Not Its Shadow
An association made up of food
chains* suggests that it is time
the real causes of inflation be
recognized, and that government
deal with them. It proposed tjrat
the budget be balanced: that gov
ernment spending be reduced; that
the interest rates on government
bonds and loans be permitted to
seek higher levels; that the flow
>f government credit be checked,
and that direct price controls be
applied only when supplies are so
short as to require simultatneous
allocation or rationing.
There, in capsule form, is an
anti-inflatiton program that can
get results. It can not be repeated
too often that direct controls deal
only with symptoms, not with the
disease itself. The situation is very
much as if a doctor prescribed a
gargle for a sore throat without
making any effort to find and
correct the cause of the ailment.
Moreover, the control philosophy
has confused and deluded many
people. It is clear that powerful
groups in government yearn for
a system of permanent controls—
which would mean a politically
dictated economy. They have gone
to great lengths to sell the public
on the idea that prices are out
rageously high and that arbitrary
controls are the only solution.
Food prices are an excellent ex
ample of how fallacious that is.
Today food accounts for 19 per
cent of the consumers’ income
after taxes; in the 1935-39 period
the figure was 23 per cent. And
the food industry’s margins and
profits are far lower than in the
former time.
Bryan County
PMA News
According to M.r. W. C. Payne,
1 Chairman of the Bryan County
PMA Committee all farmers re
questing assistance under the 1953
Agricultural Conservation Program
are now being mailed notices of
| the minimum and maximum ap
proved assistance for all practices
that have been requested. He
states that the total amount re
quested was over $27,000.00 against
18,420.00, total county allocation
j for ACP. Therefore resulting in
I adjusting the amount of $9,000.00
to come within the allocation.
Mr. Payne is requesting all
farmers in Bryan County to take
fullest advantage of this assistance
in 1953 in order that, a greater
production may be met. It is there
fore very important, he says, to
strat planning now to use all the
assistance that has been set up
for the farm.
The Program Year began Jan
uary 1, 1953 and ends December
31, 1953, which enables everyone
of us to be more able to carry
out all practices that have been
approved so therefore, lets all put
our shoulders to the wheel and
make 1953 a banner year for the
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram.
D. E. Medders To
Be Congratulated
Birmingham, Ala.—ln the Jan
uary issue, The Progressive Far
mer congratulates Bryan County
Agent I). E. Medders for his re
cent Distinguished Service award
presented to him by the national
association.
To qualify for this award, an
agent must have had at least 10
years of outstanding .'service as
county extension worker; must
have hepled the county or coun
ties which he had served to see
their problems and find away of
solving these problems through a
planned program of work; must
have taken an active interest in
the improvement of the profession;
and must have participated in the
affairs of his state association.
The Progressive Farmer is a
South-wide farm publication.
The Trend Os
"Real Prices"
As everybody knows the prices
of goods have increased heavily
in recent years. What most of us
apparently don’t know is that wag
es have increased much more per
centage wise.
From 1939 through September,
1952, the consumer’s price index,
which is periodically released by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in
creased 92 per cent. In the same
period, average hourly earnings
n manufacutring increased more
than 167 per cent.
Going back farther, the differ
ence liecomes spectacular. From
1914 to 1952 the price index rose
165 per cent, while average hourly
earnings in manufacturing jumped
a thumping 660 per cent.
Various influences have contri
buted to holding down prices. One
is competitive retailing. Mass dis
tributirm, which was pioneered by
the chains long ago, has been as
important an influence in Ameri
can life as mass production—in
deed, neither could work efficiently
without the other. The hasic idea
behind both is to do business at a
small unit profit—and to earn a
fair total profit through big vol
ume. Competition forces all retail
ers to continually seek ways to
reduce their overhead and pass
the savings on to the consumer.
The result is that “real prices”
which are prices measured in the
light of earnings—have tended to
go down, rather than up. Every
segment of American enterprise
can take pride in this achievement
at a time when inflation and over
growing taxes have cut deeply into
incomes.
Uncle Jake Bacon has been on
the puny list again, but we are
glad to report that he has been
able to be out and about during
the past week,
PEMBROKE, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY, 15, 1953
Garden Club Notes
The January meeting of the
Pembroke Garden Club will be held
on next Wednesday afternoon,
January 21st at 4:00 o’clock. The
change from the regular Thurs
day afternoon date was made on
account of a Baptist Brotherhood
super on Thursday evening, which
is to be served by a committee
from the garden dub.
Mi'S. L. M. Anderson, president
of the Garden Club, Mrs. Ora C.
Payne, home demonstration agent,
with Mrs. Gordon Bacon and Mrs.
Ulysses Bacon attended the flow
e rshow clinic give minder the
auspices of the Garden Club of
Georgia and presented by the Uni
versity of Georgia held on St.
Simons Island on Monday of this
week. Tme importance of the flow
er show, called the grand opera of
horticulture, was stressed by each
program speaker and those attend
ing were assured that they were
really letting their communities
down if they failed to put on a
standard flower show at least once
each year.
The annual shrubbery sale put
on by the Pembroke Garden Club
will be held on January 28th. A
variety of shrubbery suitable for
this locality will be on sale, but
any one desiring any special plants
is directed to contact Mrs. L. M.
Anderson or Mrs. Dalton Griner
in advance, so that the particular
order can be included in those
brought out for the sale.
Forestry News
Ranger G., B. Williams of the
Bryan Cpuntym/orestry Unit is
sued a special warning this week
on the importance of knowing and
observing Georgia’s Forest Fire
Laws, now th; the county is in
the midst of serve forest fire
season^
Stressing A.he that law en
forcement is> being stressed more
tha never ip. the work of the Geor
gia Forestry Commission, Williams
cited a recent occurrence in one
area in the stat in which an in
cendiarist was sighted setting a
fire, was tracked by ground and
air forces of the Commission, was
quickly apprehended, and the same
day was placed on trial, convicted
and sentenced to 12 months im
prisonment plus 6 months addi
tional or court cost.
“This particular instance,” said
Williams, serves to show the in
creased intensity of law enforce
ment throughout the state’s wood
lands. No longer does the ruthless
or irresponsible woods burner go
without answering for his actions.
The public—and that means every
body here in Bryan County and
throughout the stae—now realize
the tremendous economic and so
cial values inherent in our for
ests and this public opinion is
assorting itself in the all-out bat
tle against the timber arsonists.”
Williams also emphasized the
fact that in ways other than by
incendiarism landowners and oth
er citizens can make infractions
of the forest laws. “Any person
who sets fire to his own land and
allows that fire to cross onto a
teighbor’s land without the neigh
jor’s consent is guilty’ of a mis
lemeanor, —and he is guilty wheth
er or not he intended for the fire
to cross the land lines,” continued
Williams. “The landowners who al
lowed the fire to cross over is still
responsible even if the fire crossed
to another person’s land by acci
dent.”
GIRL FOR A
BIRTHDAY GIFT
Our good friend Hawley T. Baze
more got a nice birthday gift on
Wednesday. His wife presented
him with a fine baby girl. The
litle lady arrived at the Telfair
Hospital in Savannah early Wed
nesday morning, and that was the
date of Mr. Bazemore’s birthday.
Sure was a nice gift. The mother
and little lady as well as friend
Hawley are •11 doing nicely.
The regular meeting of Pem
broke Chapter No. 401, Order of
the Eastern Star, will hold the
regular meeting at 8:00 p. m., Mon
day, January 19, 1953 in the Chap
ter Room. All members are urged
to be present.
Many Diversified
Industries Making
Ga. Great —Gaines
ATLANTA — (GPS) Georgia’s
industrial picture—and a bright
one it is—is reviewed by Secre
tary Clark Gaines, of the Georgia
Department of Commerce. Writing
I
in the Department’s current News
letter, just released, Mr. Gaines
said:
“The year just ended wrote a
new and very bright chapter in
the industrial life of Georgia,
lifting it to a higher status in the
economic world, putting far be
hind those years when Georgia
was a state dominated mercilessly
by a cotton crop often made ruin
ous to its prosperity and welfare
than other-wise, with little industry
to help balance the state’s eco
nomic scales.”
The value of manufactured prod
ucts turned out by Georgia mills
in 1952, he pointed out, was in
the neighborhood of $4-billion,
which compares with little more
than half a billion in 1940—just
12 years ago.. But even more sig
nificant, he added, was the fact
that 1952 saw a number of the
nation’s big industries rooting
down in Georgia; corporations
great in the manufacturing world
building large plants here to avail
themselves of the major advan
tages that that industry is find
ing in locating in our state.
“Added to this is the vitally
important fact that a highly
healthful diversification of indus
try is reflected in the new plants
being located in the state.” the
secretary said. “All in all, Georgia
stands on the threshold of a year
and an era so promising that it is
unpredictable as to scope; the first
months of 1953 behold Georgia on
its way to becoming pne of the
great manufacturing areas of the
world.”
Mr. Gaines listed many of the
diversified industries that located
in Georgia during the past year;
praised local communities, their
governments, chambers of com
merce, civic clubs and others for
giving more thought and effort
than ever before to ways and
means of attracting new indus
tries.
Then he discusses in much de
tail formulas which should be used
by communities for best results
in seeking new industries, and re
minded Georgians that the Geor
gia Department of Commerce
stands ready, as it always has, to
cooperate actively and construc
tively with local leaders through
out the state in bidding for new
plants. Concluding Mr. Gaines
said:
“It should never be forgotten
that the testimony of industries
already located in the community
is most effective. Industries en
tirely satisfied with their operat
ing conditions are in reality the
very best advertisement.”
3 Bryan Boys
On Merit List
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. — Ca
dets Joseph T. Stubbs, Clinton N.
Sims and William G. Sims have
been placed on the Fall Quarter
Merit List for outstanding scho
lastic; achievement at Georgia Mili
tary College, according to an an
nouncement by Major J. L. Fer
guson, Dean.
Cadets Stubbs, C. N. Sims and
W. G. Sims are the sons of Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Stubbs and Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Sims.
Students must make an aver
age of B or higher, with no grade
below a C to be placed on the
Merit List.
This quarter there was a total
of sixty cadets to be so honored,
fifteen from the Junior College
Division and forty-five from the
High School.
A Certificate of Merit and a
special Decoration is awarded each
Merit List cadet.
The High School course at Geor
gia Military College covers one
pre-high school grade and four
years of regular high school work.
The Junior College embraces two
years of college work leading to
| several types of diplomas,
Black Creek News
The Black Creek P. T. A. will
meet Wednesday night, January
21st at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Dewey Hendrix has been
in the Telfair Hospital in Savan
nah for two weeks. She had an
i operation last week and is not get
ting along very well.
Toledo Summerford is back home
after spending several days in the
St. Joseph Hospital. Toledo is get
ting along fine but will not be
able to return to school for sev
eral days:
Several families have moved in
to, the community since Christmas.
Mr. Tommy Scott and family from
Pembroke, who have two children
in school; Mr. Couey and family
from Nevils community, with one
child in school; Mr. Mack Shuman
and family from Pembroke with
two children in school; Mr. and
Mrs. Swails has moved to Ella
belle, and have four in school;
and Sgt. Hughes and family have
moved to Ellabelle and have two
in school. We welcome these new
families to Black Creek.
Mr. Truman Stubbs and family
spent: the weekend in Jacksonville,
Fla.
Relatives from Dublin visited tjie
home of Mr. Dan Smith over the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker of Savan
nah spent the weekend with Mrs.
Parker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Lewis.
A birthday dinner was given at
the home of M,r. Don Miller Sun
day in honor of Mrs. Miller’s moth
er.
Mrs. Barbara Elmore visited the
school Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
Elmore will be visiting teacher for
Bryan and Evans counties. The
schools have not had a visiting
teacher since Mrs. Emily Woods
resigned several weeks before
Christmas. We welcome Mrs. El
more to the county as our visit
ing teacher.
The seventh grade from here
and the physics class from Bryan
County High combined and made
a trip to Savannah to see the ex
hibition given by the Savannah
Power and Electric Company. Mrs.
Hussey accompanied the group
from Pembroke and Mr. and Mrs.
Hurkt, Mrs. Nugent Griffin, Mrs.
Dan Smith, and Mrs. Carlos Burn
sed went with the seventh grade.
Mr. Frank Hendry drove the bus.
Mrs. Nugent Griffin is now serv
ing as librarian for the school
each afternoon. Mrs. Summerford
was serving but has been out since
Christmas due to the illness of
her daughter. It is very helpful
to have a librarian in the after
noon to check out books and con
duct a library period.
Bryan Boy On
Heavy Cruiser
AT SEA Jan 6 (FHTNC)—Par
ticipating in the largest training
exercise held by the Pacific Fleet
since World War 11, aboard the
heavy cruiser USS St. Paul, is
Richard L. Hodges, seaman, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hodges
of Pembroke, Ga.
The vessel is a unit of the 26-
ship task force, composed of
cruisers, destroyers, destroyer es
corts, submarines and service sup
port ships. They are shooting at
surface and air targets; repelling
simulated enemy submarine and
air attacks; exercising at replen
ishing and refueling underway;
and executing intricate battle
maneuvers.
The ships left from West Coast
ports yesterday. The two-week op
eration will be broken by a visit
to San Francisco, Calif., Jan 10
and 11.
Rear Admiral Herbert G. Hop
wood, USN, is in command of the
exercise.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all the good
people for their many acts of
kindness and expressions of sym
pathy to us in the loss of our
daughter Kathryn. All of which
helped us to bear our burden and
we pray God’s richest blessings
upon each and everyone who were
so kind to us during our hour of
trouble.
Sincerely,
THE T. L. WATERS FAMILY
THE REX L WATERS FAMILY I
NUMBER 13
Paul Roberts
Pleads Guilty
Gets 26 Years
On Tuesday afternoon Paul
(Nuky) Roberts entered guilty
pleas on three charges, one of
burglary, one of staling an auto
and another of pointing a pistol
at another, and was given a
sentence of 20 years on the burg
lary charge, 5 years on the auto
theft charge and 1 year on the
charge of pointing a pistol at an
other.
Judge Price and Solicitor Gen
eral Bruce Dubberly came to Pem
broke and accepted the pleas and
meted out the punishment.
Due to the fact that Roberts is
considered a dangerous man, and
also that he has escaped on three
other occasions a letter was sent
along with the sentence to the
prison authorities asking t^at Rob
erts be sent to another gang to
serve his time and that he be
placed where his excape would be
unlikely.
Roberts was serving a 20 year
sentence for entering the Warnell
home some two or three years ago,
and was assigned the Bryan Coun
ty gang. He got away and im
mediately returned to the War
nell home, where there was no
one at home, he entered, made him
self at home, packed him a suit
case, stole a pistol anil left, after
spending the night in the home,
and returned in the afternoon, pre
sumably to get his loot and was
met at the door by one of the
Warnell girls, who he pointed a
pistol at, but who fell to the floor
a screaming, scaring Roberts
away.
After leaving the Warnell home
he went tot^ie Abbot home about
two miles south of Pembroke and
stole a Ford car, and headed for
Florida. He stopped and burglar
ized two places on the way, one
of them the C. B. Jones store at
Riceboro, and was finally caught in
Brunswick by the State Patrol.
Roberts has been a source of
trouble for years in Pembroke,
having been convicted of stealing
a bicycle when only a boy, and
from that on he has been in one
trouble or another.
If he fails to get away, it is
safe to say that he will be gone
for a long long time.
PRESTON TO KEEP
STATESBORO OFFICE
OPEN DURING 1953
Representative Prince H. Pres
ton announced today that his Ad
mnistrative Assistant, J. Brantley
Johnson, will keep his Congres
sional Office open in Statesboro
while Congress is in session dur
ing 1953.
Representative Preston stated
that because of the large volume
of matters pertaining to World
War veterans and especially of
trict available to veterans and peo
ple generally. Mr. Johnson is cap
able of handling matters of all
the veterans of the Korean War
that it would be most helpful to
have his able assistant in the dis
types and Mr. Preston expressed
the hope that thet people would
use this service freely.
LOSES HOME BY
FIRE SATURDAY
The many friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Leonas Bunkly will regret
to learn that their home was de
stroyed by fire early Saturday
night, and the home and every
thing in it was a total loss. The
Bunkleys were in Pembroke at the
show when a neighbor telephoned
in for friends to look them up
and tell them that their home had
gone up in flames.
They live on the old Starling
home place in the Bay District of
Bulloch County a few miles north
of Pembroke. It was on this very
same spot that our good friend
M. N. Starling lost his home sev
eral years ago.
The friends and neighbors have
raillied to the Bunkly family, and
have helped provide some of their
loss. For which the Bunkly family
and relatives are truly grateful.
For after all there is nothing like
sharing with folks their loss when
misfortune comes along. That is
what makes it great to live in this
| section of the country.