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NUMBER 15.—VOLUME 44.
DAIRYMEN WILL
BENEFIT FROM
TARVER BILL
Georgia dairymen will be sav¬
ed some fifty thousand dollars a
years and those of the nation
over two million by the state’s
successful activities in combat¬
ing the War Food Administra¬
tion’s levy on milk distributors,
according to State Milk Control
Director Alton Cogdel following
unanimous passage of Congress¬
man Tarver’s appropriation bill
which would have the federal
treasury instead of the milk pro¬
ducers pay for administration of
the WFA milk conservation pro¬
gram.
Cogdell praised not only Con¬
gressman Tarver but the entire
Georgia delegation and the state
legislative committee for their
fight against the “unjust” WFA
levy of one and one-half cent
per hundredweight of milk dis¬
tributed. He predicted Senate
passage of the Tarver legislation.
This was the second victory
Georgians have won in connec¬
tion with aid from Washington.
The same groups headed the
movement that recently doubled
the feed subsidy to producers in
Georgia and other states.
Although WFA so-called effi¬
ciency experts charged Georgia
with being the only state to op¬
pose the new tax, Cogdell point¬
ed to the fact that the House
unanimously passed the Tarver
Bill, and said he was proud that
Georgia could save the dairymen
of the whole nation from pay¬
ment of this “unjust levy.”
x Thanking Marvin Jones, head
of the WFA, whom he said was
unaware of the “unjust assess¬
ment,” the milk control director
asserted:
“I am advising dairymen to
mail their reports to the WFA
and keep their money in their
pockets until we hear further
from the Georgia delegation.”
Cogdell said that since the sub¬
sidy has been raised from forty
to eighty cents per hundred¬
weight he has received applica¬
tions for six or eight licenses for
dairymen to enter the business.
He added that reports received
from throughout the state are
highly encouraging, in that
dairymen are adding from one
to six cows to their herds.
“I am of the opinion,” he said,
“that if we cai have the subsidy
extended, we can get the dairy¬
men back on their feet and can
increase milk production in
Georgia.”
State Purchasing
Agent Highly Praised
The State Department of Pur¬
chases, under Superintendent W|.
N. Pate, has been commended
highly by Governor Amall for
the “finely efficient” basis on
which it is being operated.
“There has been no rumor or
scandal or corruption,” the Gov¬
ernor asserted, “and this is a
great source of gratification and
comfort to me. Supt. Pate is the
soul of courtesy, honor, fairness
and good business ethics.”
Furthermore, he has reduced
the annual cost of operating his
department by $7,000.00 without
impairing its efficiency, Amall
added.
State Faces Crisis-
In Meeting Expenses
Following conference with
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher,
Jr., and other officials, Gover¬
nor Arnall asserted that “it will
^ be nothing short of a miracle if
we get by in meeting state ex¬
penses.”
Recent flood damage to roads
and bridges, as well as heavy
- roadway repairs, postponed dur¬
ing the second and third quar-
ers because of bad weather, has
just compelled an increase in
the State highway budget of a-
bout a million and a quarter
dollars for the fourth quarter of
the current fiscal year.
Furthermore, the Governor
said the recent estimates on in¬
come tax revenue were most
probably too optimistic, and that
the decline may be nine million
dollars below the 1943 figure in-
State Budget Bureau
Will Not Approve
Raises For Employees
Announcing a possible loss of
more than nine million dollars
in state income taxes during the
present year, State Auditor B.
E. Thrasher, Jr., has notified all
department heads that “the
members of the budget bureau
will not entertain in any manner
any raises for state employees.”
“The members of the budget
bureau,” he advised, “cannot be
placed in a position of blowing
hot and cold with reference to
this matter; that is, telling one
group that the state is not in a
financial position to raise sal¬
aries and then in turn, approve
salary raises for other groups of
employees.”
“The state,” the auditor as¬
serted, “is really taking a beat¬
ing in income tax collections.
The deposits of income tax to
date from the March 15 returns
have been $99,158.94 as compar¬
ed to $2,380,456.49 up to the same
date last year. It is hoped that
the collections will pick up but
the trend at present is not
pleasing."
The state’s big loss in income
tax is caused by the increase in
federal income tax payments and
the provision in the state law
which permits deductions of
federal income taxes in figur¬
ing income tax returns.
All heads of state departments
and institutions were called up¬
on by Auditor Thrasher to liqui¬
date all current accounts pay¬
able by March 31st. He declared
that the accounts payable of
$2,251,841.80 at the end of the
last quarter “were entirely too
high.” He directed department
heads to trim their budget re¬
quests to as law as possible, with
explanations of any unusual ex¬
penditures contemplated.
Volunteers Again
Needed To Harvest
Crops In Georgia
If volunteers are not found to
aid farmers in harvesting, mil¬
lions of dollars in Georgia crops
may be lost this year, according
to Governor Ellis Arnall.
In a recent speech to a war
services council, the Governor
added that “in the case of some
crops, the harvesting and pick¬
ing must be completed in a five-
day period.”
Warden Selected
To Head Forest
Fire Patrol
The appointment in the State
Forestry department of Paul W.
Groom as State Forest Fire War¬
den to head up a state-wide
system of forest fire patrol has
been announced by Director J.
M. Tinker.
Mr. Groom’s duties will be to
develop the State Forest Fire
Patrol so as to eventually give
the whole state adequate forest
fire protection. Warden,
As State Forest Fire
Mr. Groom will be responsible
also for forest fire law enforce¬
ment, and is expected to develop
adequate state forest fire laws.
The appointment of a State
Forest Fire Warden is hailed as
a progressive step in forest fire
protection in Georgia and a
recognition of the popular de¬
mand for something to be done
about the promiscuous setting of
woods fires.
Mr Groom is a native of Geor¬
gia, graduate of the George Fos¬
ter Peabody School of Forestry
at Athens, and until his recent
assignment was District Forester
at Macon, having charge of the
Forestry department’s activities
in the Sixth Congressional dis¬
trict. _—
stead oTlTpreviously estimate
four million. from
In addition, revenues
taxes on gasoline, liquor, beer
and wine show a downward
trend, it was announced by the
Auditor. The looss on gasoline
taxes alone for the 1943-44 fis¬
cal year ending June 30 will, he
estimated, be in the neighbor¬
hood of eight million dollars.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1944.
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DESTITUTE RUSSIANS APPEAL TO GEORGIA CHIL¬
DREN:—Another “Share Your Clothes With Russians” col¬
lections begins April 17 through Georgia schools under the
sponsorship of the State Department of Education, Georgia
Education Association and Congress of Parents and Teach¬
ers. Millions of families, like the one pictured above, were
left homeless and almost naked by the Nazi invader. Geor¬
gia’s goal this year is four pounds of clothing and a pair of
shoes per pupil. Let’s do it for the Russians who have done
so much for us on the fighting fronts.
ODT Says Broken
Down Trucks Can
Be Put In Repair
CHATTANOOGA, April 13.—
Hundreds of broken down trucks
and buses are lying idle through¬
out the southeast because their
owners and many small garage-
men have not yet learned how
to go about getting the critical
parts needed for their repair, the
Office of Defense Transportation
and the War Production Board
reported yesterday.
In a joint statement, district
offices of the two federal agen¬
cies pointed out that despite war
time scarcities, parts are now
available to keep essential ve¬
hicles in operation.
However, the two agencies
pointed out, many small truck
operators, including a large
number of farmers, have not yet
learned how to go about getting
the needed parts.
Here are the rules listed by E.
A. Bettes, ODT District Manager
in Chattanooga, for the guidance
of garagemen, parts dealers, and
owners of essential vehicles:
1. Do not attempt to get a
needed part if the old part can
be repaired or reconditioned by
local or nearby facilities.
2. If the old part cannot easly
be reconditioned or repaired,
contact all local or nearby
part distribution jobbers, deal¬
ers and used parts dealers.
3. If the part cannot be lo¬
cated, then have a dealer, job¬
ber, or parts distributor fill out
a WPB “Certificate for Emer¬
gency Repair Order” and for¬
ward it along with his order to
the manufacturer of the part.
This WPB order will receive a
factory priority over all stock
orders and delivery will usually
be made within two weeks,
Sometimes, however, the needed
part has gone out of production
or other circumstances prevent
the order being immediately fill¬
ed. In this event, operators of
commercial motor equipment
may then:
4. Appeal to the Mainten¬
ance Specialist at the nearest
District Office of the Office of
Defense Transportation. Through
an elaborate system set up for
searching for critically needed
parts, the ODT can usually lo¬
cate the wanted part within
several days. If the district of¬
fice is unable to locate the part,
it will forward the request to the
ODT regional office, which will,
in cooperation with the War
Production Board, take steps to
Special Committee
Set Up To Aid AH
Returning Veterans
Georgia servicemen returning
to civilian employment will be
aided in this through special
machinery set up in the form of
a Veteran’s Advisory Committee,
with Jackson P. Dick of Atlanta,
as chairman. At a recent meet¬
ing the committee was address¬
ed by Governor Ellis Arnall and
Colonel J. N. Keelin, Jr., state
selective service director, both
urging the necessity for such
organization and pointing to the
large scope of the work before it.
The Governor said that “noth¬
ing can contribute more to the
welfare of the state and nation
than to care for these returning
servicemen and find employment
for them.”
“This is the biggest job,” con¬
tinued the Governor, “yet taken
over by the selective service. It
is an easy task to take a man
from his job and put him in the
Army, but it is much more diffi¬
cult to take him from the Army
and put him back in his civilian
job.”
Although it is now compara¬
tively easy to find employment
for a discharged veteran, Gov¬
ernor Arnall pointed out that the
problem will become increasing¬
ly difficult, and that there will
also be the problem of placing
some veterans in better positions
than they held on entering the
service. This will rise from men
maturing through experience
and developing ability that will
fit them for better jobs, as re¬
sult of Army training.
Colonel Keelin asserted that
apparently a million and a half
servicemen already have been
discharged for disability and in¬
adaptability to military service.
Also, he said, an estimated two
million more will be demobilized
within a year after Germany is
defeated. Furthermore, twenty
million war workers will have to
be relocated.
Thirty-four offices of the Unit¬
ed States Employment Service
are located in Georgia, with a
veterans’ employment represen¬
tative in each. A veterans’ di¬
vision is maintained in the five
largest offices, in Atlanta, Aug¬
usta, Columbus, Macon and Sa¬
vannah, and returning veterans
are referred to them directly.
The veteran receives preferential
treatment, acording to Pay Kel¬
ly, state veterans’ employment
service director of the USES.
FISHING LICENSES
PLACED ON SALE
Fising licenses for 1944-45
have been placed on sale by
dealers in all of Georgia’s 159
counties, according to the Game
and Fish Commission, which an¬
nounced that 1943-44 licenses
expired March 31.
The Commission said that the
Department of Revenue is in
charge of sale and distribution
of both fishing and hunting lic¬
enses through legally appointed
and bonded agents.
Charlie Elliott, director of the
Commission, reported that re¬
ceipts from 1943-44 licenses ex¬
ceeded those of the previous
year by over $1,000. He express¬
ed hope that there would be a
greater increase this year, in¬
asmuch as increased revenue
would go a long way toward fi¬
nancing the expanded hatchery
program designed to produce 10
million fish for liberation this
fall.
Elliott explained that licenses
are required of all fishermen,
with the following exceptions:
Persons under 16 years old,
and persons fishing in their
county of legal residence with
worms.
Use of live bait, minnows, or
artificial lures requires a license
of all citizens over 16.
The general season on fishing
will be closed April 15-May 31,
inclusive, but fishing in the wat¬
ers of 18 North Georgia counties
will be legal during this time.
These trout waters opened April
1, and will remain in use until
November 15th.
Elliott announced that Rock
Eagle Lake will be open through¬
out the year, as will Jackson
Lake and all North Georgia
power lakes except Nottely and
Chatuge, commonly called Hia-
wassee Lake.
Wildlife rangers will rigidly
enforce the new size and creel
limit regulations on game fish,
according to the Commission,
which listed the following limits
as a reminder:
Rainbow and brook trout, 10
daily; 7-inch minimum; red-
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Trenton Drug Store
Installs Modern
Refrigerator
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Wil¬
liams, who recently assumed the
management of the Trenton
Drug Sundries last week install¬
ed a modern and uptodate re¬
frigerator. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
are operating a restaurant in
connection with the business
and this addition enables them
to keep fresh meats, vegetables,
fruits, etc., for their customers.
The installation of new equip¬
ment was a considerable ex¬
pense, however, the manage¬
ment is making every effort to
accomodate the public in the
best possible manner. Mr. Wil¬
liams says that nothing but the
best available meats and vege¬
tables will be kept. He also stat¬
ed that as soon as war condi¬
tions will permit, the dining
room will be enlarged to better
take care of the ever increasing
number of patrons.
Head Rules 17-Year
Olds Eligible To Vote
Any person who will be 18
years old November 7, is eligible
to register and vote in the gen¬
eral election on that date, ac¬
cording to ruling by T. Grady
Head, the state’s attorney gen¬
eral.
This means also, he ruled, that
a person, although still 17, may
register and vote In the Demo¬
cratic primary to be held in July,
if such person reaches the age
of election. 18 before the next general
expedite delivery from the fac¬
tory.
“However, the ODT points out,
ODT service is strictly an emer¬
gency measure and will be made
available only after other at¬
tempts to locate the part have
failed. The service is for essen¬
tial commercial vehicles only
and not for privately owned
passenger automobiles.”
$1.50 PER YEAR.
Old Time Mountain
Music Show At Rising
Fawn Saturday Night
Everything is all set for the
“Old Time Mountain Music”
show to be put on at the Rising
Fawn School Saturday night.
J. Laurel John and his Moun¬
taineers will be here and ready
to go with about two hours of the
best entertainment of its kind
in the entire country. This will
be a show you can’t afford to
miss.
As you recall, Mr. Johnson and
J. L. Jr., are the ones who have
given their time and effort in
making the last several Fiddlers’
Conventions held here great
successes. He is bringing along
Charley Bowman, one of the
outstanding musicians and
comedians of the south, and a
complete line up for a clean and
uptodate entertainment. “Check”
the Alabama Kid, with all his
clever stunts and guitar will be
there to go his part in keeping
you in an uproar. You’ve seen
these fellows perform, but you
haven’t seen ’em go all out. Now
you have a chance to see some
real entertainers “open up” and
go to town. Grady Bradford and
Elbert Forester will be there
helping out.
Charley Bowman will get more
out of a “fiddle”, banjo, guitar,
“french harp”, boxes and what
not, than you ever thought was
possible to come out; to say
nothing of his stunts and come¬
dy acts. You may rest assured
that the entertainment will be
the best.
This will be one of the best
entertainments of its kind ever
put on in Dade County and a
packed house is expected. The
event is being sponsored by the
school. Be there . . . Your money
will be cheerfully refunded if
you are not entirely satisfied
with what these fellows have to
offer you.
Fats Salvage Rises,
Quota Still Far Short
The collection of used kitchen
fats during January set a new
record of 690,200 pounds for Re¬
gion VIII of War Production
board, L. E. Walters, regional
salvage chief, announced yester¬
day, but revealed simultaneously
that the collections were still
the lowest percentage of its
quota yet attained. The figures
were released in a new effort to
increase the household salvage
of this vital war need.
The collection of fats in Janu¬
ary of this year was nearly 200,-
000 pounds greater than in any
previous month. The total col¬
lection in this region, however,
was only 690,200 pounds as com¬
pared with a quota of 2,245,000
pounds.
Fats and greases, he said,
probably play as great a part in
the war effort as a 11 other
known chemicals put together.
Fats are needed to produce
high-powered explosives and for
use in the compounding of vac¬
cines, sulfa drug ointments and
the like.
Glycerine, a by-product of
soap which is made from fats,
is used in the manufacture of
cellophane, a grease-proof pap¬
er, synthetic rubber, synthetic
resins and lacquers.
Oleic acid, a basic ingredient
of fats and greases, is essential
as a combining agent for the
many ingredients that go into
the manufacture of synthetic
rubber. It is also used in the
manufacture of textile fabrics
and the fabrication of synthetic
fibers now in demand for mili¬
tary uses and for a number of
other purposes.
Stearic acid, a by-product of
oleic acid, is the ingredient used
in candies to make them drip¬
less and is used in making syn¬
thetic rubber, highly specialized
lubricants and metallic soaps.
“Both tin cans and waste fats
are urgently needed and will
continue to be needed for at
least the duration of the war,”
Mr. Walters said. “By cooperat¬
ing in this program, housewives
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