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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1944)
atto intnli imra Devoted to The Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. NUMBER 39.—VOLUME 44. Meat Prices Low To Producers And High To Consumers ATLANTA, Ga. ( Oct. 26.— "Ceiling prices without floors simply amount to a racket that robs the farmes without bene¬ fiting the consumer," Tom Lind¬ er, commissioner of agriculture, for the State of Georgia, said this week, citing the present situation in the meat packing industry as an example. Commissioner Linder said that despite the fact that the OPA had placed consumer ceil¬ ing prices on beef cattle'<md hogs, the farmer receives a minimum price, while the con¬ sumers pay top ceiling prices in a majority of cases. "The spread between the farmers price and the consum¬ ers price is greater than at any other time in the history of this country," Mr. Linder said. A survey of seven large At¬ lanta stores, handling meat, re¬ veals that the consumers are paying the ceiling price for more than 95 percent of all meats bought, Mr. Linder ex¬ plained. Despite this fact, he continued, the farmers are forc¬ ed to sell their meat for prices from one to five cents a pound under OPA ceilings, and in many instances cattle brings the farmer as little as three cents a pound on feeo, with hogs selling for as little as four and five cents a pound on foot. Commissioner Linder said that the OPA "has made it very clear that they are not in¬ terested in anything except to see that catle and hogs do not bring above the OPA ceiling prices." Food Administra¬ The War tion told Mr. Linder that no sup¬ port prices exist fWmeats, only a subsidy in certain cases. The meat packers are required to pay certain minimum prices to get this subsidy. Accordingly, they prefer to buy meat from the farmers at the lowest pos¬ sible price, being able to make more money off the farmer than they could with the govern¬ ment subsidy. said Commissioner Linder that he was told by meat pack¬ ers that their storage facilities wer overcrowded with commer¬ cial, utility, canners, and cut¬ ters grades of meats, the con¬ suming public desiring the choice and good cuts of meat, not the lower grades. The government requires the packers to set aside a large per centage of the better cuts, he explained, adding that this cre¬ ated a tremendous shortage in the better cus and resuled in a great over-supply of lower grades. tremendous "If there is such a supply of meat, that beef cattle and hogs should sell at star¬ vation prices, then why does the OPA maintain high ceiling prices to the consumer," Mr. Linder asked in conclusion. Market For B Milk Held One Big Need One of the state's great needs is a market for Grade B milk so small farmers can make money with a few cows, ac¬ cording to Alton Cogdell, di¬ rector of the State Milk Control Board. v "If we get that market," he asserted, "we will have pros¬ perous farmers and a prosper¬ ous state. Unless we get that market, we are still going to be short of milk and we will fail in our duty to the farmer." The solution to the problem, and he declared, will be cheese milk-condensing plants, which the milk Board is working to bring to Georgia. RISING FAWN WMS TO MEET WEDNESDAY NIGHT, NOV. 8 The Woman's Missionary So¬ ciety will meet at the home of Mrs. Ray Smith Wednesday night, November 8th, at 7:30 o'clock. TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1944. " r' _*** Lt Charles J. Woolbright, (a- bove), son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert Woolbright of Trenton, has been officially reported killed in action in France. Lt. Wool- j bright was home last April aft- er completing a tour of duty in the Pacific and later was sent to the European war area. Oth¬ er survivors are a brother, Rob¬ ert Woolbright Jr. of Trenton, and a half-brother, Gilbert Price of Chattanooga. Cp!. Walter C. Simpson Graduated From AAF Gunnery School FORT MYERS, Fla. Cpl. Walt¬ er C. Simpson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Simpson, of South Trenton, was graduated this week from the AAF Training Command's Flexible Gunnery School at Buckingham Field, near Fort Myers, Fla. Now qualified as an aerial gunner, he will soon become a member of the Army Air Forces bomber crews. He will receive his crew training at an opera¬ tional training field in the Unit¬ ed States then go overseas. Hundreds of gunners are gradu¬ ated each week from the huge gunnery school near Fort Myers where the shooting ranges from skeet with a shotgun to firing from a power operated turret in the huge bombers over the Gulf of Mexico. He was formerly a student of the Boys High School, Mt. Ber¬ Ga. £* . AIRMEN'S PALACE—Sgt. Kenneth D. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Brown, of New England, now serving in the engineering department of a Liberator heavy bomber group, fits a shutter into a window of his new winter home. Both air and groud crews of the 15th Air Force are busily engaged in building tufa brick homes, Italian-American style, to keep them snug and dry dur¬ ing cold, wet winter. These homes can now be seen at almost a airmen every big bomber airbase in Italy from where our are launching continuously on all Germany, heavy attacks are breaking down the Nazi's fighting power. . Sgt. Brown is a gradu¬ of McKenzie Business College, Chattanooga, and before en¬ al he of the tering the service in September of 1942, was co-owner D. T. Brown Lumber Company at New England. Published Weekly — Since 1901. Lt. Charles Woolbright Makes Supreme Sacrifice For Country We are able this week to present a picture of that fine young officer, First Lieutenant Charles J. Woolbright, intimate acquaintance of most of us, who lost his life on the field of battle in France on October 1. Deference to this exempliary young man, and to his family, w hi c h is one of the oldest and most respected in our county, occasioned our going to press without the picture service from <he government which was de¬ layed. After all, we cannot do too much to prove to the boys in service, and to their families, that they are honored and ap- preciated in a measure as near- ly as posible approaching what their faithfulness, labor and great sacrifices merit, This young man gave all— withholding nothing—to the cause. His sacrifices, and that of others like him, was meant to purchase for all men every¬ where a decent, secure and happy life. Woolbright Young Charles was always ready to devote his marked ability to the service of his country, come prosperity, depression or war. He stands perpetually honored, and we implore the consolation of Heav¬ en for his family, his many in¬ timates and friends, in compen¬ sation for their great loss. REV. F. M. BLEVINS TO PREACH AT RISING FAWN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH Rev. F. M. Blevins will preach at the Rising Fawn Baptist Church November 5th, at 11 o'clock A. M. Everyone is cor¬ dially invited to attend this ser¬ vice. LOST—Ladies' Purse in or near Trenton, containing all ra¬ tion books, insurance papers and other valuable papers, al¬ so, cash. Finder please return to The Dade County Times and receive $5.00 reward.—Mrs. Mamie C. Murray, Wildwood, Rt. 1, Ga. Renew Your Subscription! CHIEF BLASTS DEWEY—Characterizing Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as "Herbert Hoover the Second", and charging that he is "emulating Warren Harding's 1920 campaign" on inter¬ national issues,, Georgia's Gov. Ellis Arnall Monday night told a cheering audience of 2,500 at the Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, that President Roosevelt is "the only answer to the Ameican voter at the polls next Tuesday. Staff Sergeant John A. Murphy Awarded Second Oak Leaf Cluster to His Air Medal STATION, England—Staff Sgt. John A. Murphy, 21, nose gun¬ ner on the B-17 Flying Fortress, "Smokey", has won the second Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal for "meritorious achieve¬ . .coolness, and and skill" during Eighth Air Force bomb¬ ing attacks on targets in Ger¬ many and Nazi occupied Garden Residues Useful, County Agent L. C. Adams Says The garden clean-up should be a part of the fall program. County Agent L. C. Adams of the Agricultural Extension Ser¬ vice declared this week. What to do with the old plants and other apparent trash is some¬ thing that can't be avoided, he added. Mr. Adams recommended, however, that the garden clean¬ up take place all the time. As soon as vegetables in one part of the garden are used, that portion should be cleaned up and either planted to some other vegetable or to a winter cover crop, he said. He explained that a clean-up carried on through the year will go further toward controlling insect pests and diseases than a clean-up postpone until the late fall or winter months. Crop residues can be put on a compost pile, the county a- genl said. l Corn stalks, pea, bean, and tomato vines, and foliage from other vegetables will contribute organic matter to the garden soil, either when they are turned under dircetly or when first rotted in a com¬ post pile. Nearly all of these plant ma¬ terials can serve as a protec¬ tive mulch for the carrots the victory gardener plans to leave in the ground until used during the winter, Mr. Adams declar¬ ed. "This mulch should be sever¬ al inches deep and applied ov¬ er the carrots when the first freezing weather arrives," he asserted. "Such material on loan from the compost pile can be placed on the pile in the Dade County’s Only Newspaper. Sgt. Murphy is the son of Tohn W. Murphy, of Rising Fawn. The combat veteran is a member of the Third Bomb¬ ardment Division, cited by the President for its now historic England-Africa shuttle bombing of Nazi Messerschmitt aircraft plants at Regensburg, Germany in August of 1943. WFA Commends Work of 4-H Club Members of Nation ATHENS, GA., Nov. 2.—It would take one pearson work- in six 8-hour days a week 360 years to do as much work as Georgia 4-H boys and girls for thei*( Neighbors this year as they helped to relieve the farm labor shortage. W. A. Sutton, State 4-H club leader for the Extension Service, reported today that Georgia 4-H club boys and girls in 1944 de¬ voted mort than 900,0000 hours to helping neighbors on import¬ ant farm and home jobs. Na¬ tional 4-H Achievement Week, November 4-11 has been set a- side to give 4-H club members an opportunity to report their 1944 accomplishments to the State and Nation. These 4-H club members are also carrying projects involving the production and conservation of essential foods, Sutton ex¬ plained. The hours which these 4-H'ers reported, however, were in addition to time spent on their own projects and regular farm duties. Many of these hours were spent helping neighbors harvest crops in or¬ der to avoid losses dut to bad weather and other conditions. The 900,000 hours are equiva¬ lent to 90,000 ten-hour days. To obtain some idea as to the im¬ portance of this labor, Sutton said, it would have been e- nough to have picked 17,000 to 23.000 acres of cotton or it would have harvested 35,000 to 40.000 acres of peanuts. spring or it may be plowed or disked into the soil when the gardening days of 1945 arrive." $1.50 PER YEAR. ARNALL CALLS ON VOTERS TO RECALL YEARS OF 1920-29 Governor On Tour Of Many Cities For Democrats Governor Ellis Arnall, speak¬ ing this week in Chattanooga and points in the West for the Democratic national campaign, declared that "the election this year is a memory test." "Do we or do we not rememb¬ er 1920 and 1929?" Arnall ask¬ ed. "If our memories are good, we will not put back into office the crowd that slipped into of¬ fice under false pretense in 19- 20 and wrecked and smashed our economy so that everything in America blew up with a bang like an over-inflated circus ba- loon in 1929. "If we remember the looting of the oil reserves in 1921, while we are riding around on 'A' Republican. coupons today, we will not vote If we remember the Stock Exchange collapse and the morning that Insull stocks dropped so far down the well that they had ceased to have any value except to start a fire in the kitchen stove, we will not vote Republican. If we remem¬ ber six-dfent cotton, and the tear gas sprayed at the pitiful 'bonus marchers,' and the apple sell¬ ers that stood on every comer —the corner that prosperity was suppose to be just around—we are not going to vote Republi¬ can this year!" The governor asserted that here in the South, "where we are struggling to establish new industries to balance our agri¬ culture and give our citizens real and permanent prosperity, there are special reason for re¬ jecting Governor Dewey." He continued: "All of you are aware that one great barrier to Southern industrial progress is the freight rate discrimination, by which Southern manufactured pro¬ ducts are penalized in compet¬ ing on the national market. It is one of the few subjects upon which Governor Dewey has made a direct and unqualified statement.He said he knew nothing about the freight-rate situation; that he was wholly opposed to any Congressional action to correct discriminations against the South; and, I quote: 'I insist that the rate structure should not be changed.' "For narrow regionalism, for an arrogant statement that the Southern and Western states ought to remain colonies for¬ ever, for an open admission that he is a believer in the doc¬ trine of exploitation, and as an opendeclaration of war up¬ on Southern prosperity, his statement is unique in Ameri¬ can politics! "Let us of the South reply to Governor Dewey in the words of that fiery old Puritan, Richard Rumbold, who called from the gallows: 'None came into this world with saddles on their back, neither others booted and spurred to ride them.' "Just who are the people sup¬ porting Governor Dewey, any¬ way?" Arnall continued. "I want to let you in on a secret about their identity. They are the people whom Franklin Roosevelt saved in 1933, and they have never forgiven him for saving them. Roosevelt Hater Described "I know a fair sample of the Southern Deweyite personally. Back around harvest-time in 1932, when Herbert Hoover the First was in office, his waist¬ line had as many wrinkles in it as a hound dog's in coon-hunt¬ ing season. You could see the wrinkles, because the mortgage company had taken his shirt along with most of his property. The last time I saw him, he was riding around in a big car and grumbling because he couldn't get more gasoline and he was cussing 'that Man in the White House' because he (See ARNALL, Page 4)
