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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.
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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.
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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)
