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THE CLEVELAND COURIER
"COVERS THE MOUNTAINS LIKE MOONSHINE
Devoted to the Agricultural , Commercial and Industrial Interests of White County
Vol LVIHI No. 27
THE CLEVELAND COURIER.
PLATFORM
For White County and
Cleveland:
A Cleaner and More Beautiful
City
All Highways Graded and
Paved
To Make White County the
Mecca for Tourists
Development of Chattahoo¬
chee River
Airport
4-Lane Highway from Atlanta
to S. C. Line
Two Mod Killed Monday
As Liquor Gar Overturns
Two Commerce men, Elias B)a
lock, 61, and Hoke Blalock, 46 ,
both of Rl Commerce, were in¬
stantly killed when their (“8 Ols
mobile motor in a Ford car over
turned at the old Jap Edwards
homeplace in Blue Creek district
Monday afternoon.
Sheriff Allison reports that as
best as he could estimate the car
was loaded with 20 cases of chick¬
en feed white lightning. He told
that the “stuff” was warm and
that the car was evidently going
at a terrific speed, which was
totally demolished.
Ward’s had charge.
Ten Cases Hade Id Lipr
Raids Here Last Week
Federal, state and local law en
forcement officers made7 state cas¬
es and three federal cases in raids
last week on White County peo
pie of possessing and selling illi¬
cit white moonshine.
Those that got Federal cases
are: Pete Roberts, one case;
Fred Roberts, one case; and Her
man Smith, one case. State cas¬
es are as follows: Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Etris, one case each; Mrs.
John Moss, colored, two cases;
Frank Allen, Sautee, two cases;
and Garnett Allen, Sautee, 1 case
Officers staged a series of raids
in 10 North Georgia counties last
week and rounded up HO persons
following a month of undercover
work •
It is leported that one state
agent spent more than $1,000 of
the State Revenue’s Department’s
“illegal liquor campaign” fund in
obtaining evidence during the 10
couuty raids.
It is stated that each arrest
cost about $20—$10 for “infor¬
mer’s fees,” and $10 for the con¬
traband hooch.
Woman's Club To Meet May 16
bursday, May 16, will be a full day of
ivity fov the members of the Cleve
d Woman's Club. Tbe members will
jt at Mary's Gift Shop at 9;45 a m.
I will go to Tallulah Falls 8choo! for
ch a d a tour oj the school. In tbe
unoon upon their return to Cleveland
Club will meet af the home of Mrs,
ink Kinnear at 3:30 p, m, for their
ular May meeting. Officers for tbe
will be installed at this
Mrs-Pierce Harris, wife of the
istor of the First Methodist
burch. Atlanta, was killed in
t automobile accident Monday
ight near Eatontou. Dr. Harris
as Hospitalized at Eatontqn and
table to attend the funeral in
tlanta Wednesday afternoon,
r. Harris is also a columnist of
te Atlanta Journal since 1943.
G, Hardman Jr. of Dukes Creek and
mmerce was in town Wednesday.
«rs. Creed Dyer of Roberletowu un
rweut surgery for cancer at EmoryHos
al Tuesday.
I. L. Nix purchased the Rufus Allison
siness building and lot Saturday for
Government can force law on poo
jtle, bat not morality.
A very little is sufficient for a man
well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his
wind short upon his bed. Sound sleep
cometh of moderate eating: he riseth
early, and his wits are with him: but
the pain of watching and choler, and
pangs of the belly are with an un¬
salable man. —Ecclesiasticus (the
Apocrypha), xxxi, 19-20.
A man never sees all that his mother
has been to him till it's too late to let her
know that he sees it.—E, H. Chapin
Cleveland’s most, urgent need is a
awimming pool properly supervised Some
public spirited citizen should start the
move NOW.
Polyandry is still practiced in some
sections of Africa. Some women there
have 10 or mote husbands. Not so many
years ago an African beauty named Efue
Kobi, known as “The Tiger Queen,” had
40 husbands!
September 19f>8 White County will
elect County Commissioners. How many
will run?
I)r. Albeit Schweitzer of Africa has
asked the nations of the world to cease
itomic-weaDon testing because "our own
health and that of our deseendents" is
threatened.
However, the Atomic Energy Commis¬
sion’s pre emineut authority on radioac¬
tive fallout, Dr Willard F. Libby, states
that eight to 40 times more radioactivity
comes to one from a wrist watch than
comes fiom radioactive fallout
liow can we stop the testing until we
have a definate agreement with Russia to
outlaw the use of the atom in war?
We recently asked a tourist slopping
at a local cafe for dinner why he was
traveling with fishing poles in his car
Why, he said, every car 1 meet has
them. Thinking it surely must be the
law I rusl.ed out and bought myself two”
—Butler Herald,
Evil is wrought by want of thought
As well as want of heart.
—Thomas Hood
Giass and weeds come along togethei
with spring fever.
Thousands of Georgians will soon be
getting itchy feet as the vacation bug be¬
gins to bite. So, it. is up to White^ouuty
to attract more motorists this yi ar than
ever before.
The scenic grandeur of our mountains
are unsurpassed and we should make the
vacationist feel welcome so as to make
them stay at least a day or so and drop
some ol their fresh crisp folding money.
The reason you sometimes hear more
•‘news” on the street corner than you see
iu the newspaper is because the news,
paper has to stand behind what it prints
for all to read.— Mantoi ville, Minn., Ex.
press.
Newspapers must be expedited and
handled as first class mail by the postal
roployees, according to the PiiBtal Laws
and Regulations.
If our government can give aid to the
Middle East and thereby maintain peace,
then isn’t it worth the try?
Seniority in the U S Senate is what
really counts. Isn’t it terrible that Geoi -
gia lost the venerable Walter F, George
at this most cruciable time, who was dean
and President pro tem ol the Senate?
Cleveland should have b real clean-up
very soon so as to make our little city at¬
tractive to tbe thousands of motorists
that will be coming our way this summer
It is elated unofficially that tbe new
fedeial 4-lane highway from Atlanta to
Greenville, S. C . will be located some
four miles south of Gainesville and prob.
ably 10 to 12 miles south of Cornelia.
It has also been staled that the Peach¬
tree Industrie 1 Boulevard will veei to
the west south of Buford and bear west
toward Cumming and thence toward
Dawson ville
If that is true, then White County
should put up a tight for a four lane high¬
way to Gainesville.
With Cleveland’s ispid growth the City
officials had better begin NOW to make
plans for early enlargement of the water
mains and sewer system,
A good portion of,the residential sec-
1 ion of Cleveland is served by only a 2
inch pipe. How can that serve a rapid
growing section and give only a sprink¬
ling of tiie protection?
Well, Cleveland will elect a Mayor ami
two counciimen in December, so maybe
the voters will begin to think about their
interest.
It’s easier for a girl to walk the straight
and narrow if she's built that way...
Mary Singleton in Snap Shots.
‘‘The evil that men do lives aflerthem;
the good is oft interred with their bones”
—Shakespeare.
He who never changes any of hie
opiniohs, never corrects any of hise rrors.
—Thompson.
White it may be true that practice
makes perfect, it doesn’t apply to folks
who talk too much
Don’t hurry—you’ll pass nioie than you
catch up with.
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CLEVELAND, GA„ MAY 10 1957
Local Nevrs
If yon would reform the woild from its
errors and vices, begin by enlisting the
mothers,—Charles Simmons.
Young O'Kelley says when blaek«
berries bloom wet you’ll pick them dry.
Congressman Phil M, Landrum wilt de>
liver the graduation address at Hiawas
see High School May 20 at 8 p, m.
Pete Wheeler, director of the State
Veterans Service office, will speak to the
t lermont Legion Post May I 3 at 8 p. m.
Ail veterans and their wives are invited to
attend
i, W. Lamlcaster reports that 30 peo¬
ple have been buried in White County
since Jan, 1st. 8 of that number were
Cleveland citizens.
l’here’s already some talk of a new
candidate for Mayor, which election will
be held in December. It seemB tnat the
people intend to take more interest this
time in tbe Mayor's race.
San Diego, Calif., (KHTNC)—Arthur
L. Palmer, sen of Mr and Mrs. Pern Pal¬
mer of Cleveland, Ga;, graduated fiom
recruit training April 27.
Blackberry winter this year really
made us sit up and take notice.
• Trout fishermen seem to be doing fairly
weil with their catch.
Ernest Loyd is having a Club Sale Sat¬
urday at 2 p. m,
The Argentine fire ant is predicted to
piay havoc to tbe vegetable ctop this year
'I he North Georgia Democratic (flub
will be held at Blairsville today. Lt, Gov
Vandiver will be the speaker.
‘‘Little Jimmy Dickens’’ will enteitain
during the noon hour May 18 at the Fittb
Georgia Poultry Festival in Gainesville
Entries for the ‘‘Miss Georgia Cluck"
are still being received. Judging will be
held in the Civic Building, Gainesville
May 17 at 8-45 p m.
Col. and Mrs Jack Davidson and child¬
ren of J efferson spent the weekend with
parents, Mr. and Mrs H. H. Davidson.
We had a good frost Monday and a
light frost Tuesday,
Methodist ministers and laymen will
meet «t Winder Methodist Church May
16 at 9:30 a. m. Bishop Moore will pre¬
side.
Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Cantrell returned
last Saturday after spending the winter in
Sanford, Fla. Mrs. Cantrell is doing tine
after a coronary thrombosis attack several
weeks ago.
Miss Mary ;Lou Sutton reports 27,73
inches of rainfall the fiist four months of
this year, as compared to 25 . 4 ,5 for the
period in 19f>6.
filial lie Thomas states that he recently
found katydids half grown, which he
never saw this early before
Mr. ami Mrs. Lester Harper spent Hun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Chat lie Thomas
The Weather Burrau’s long range pre
diction for this section: Temperature,
near normal; precipitation, below nor¬
mal.
Sir Eric Bo water s,ates that newsprint
prices will be advanced oefore too long
That means it will be much tougher on
the little newspaper to keep) its bead out
of the water.
Hubert Head is back in tbe real estati
business after a lull of several weeks
Tuesday Hubert sold 2 acres, across the
highway from his home, to Robert Free
man, who plans to build a home. Also he
sold HO acres in Blue Creek district, the
old Henderson place, to Frank C- Wiight
of Tampa, Fla. So with ail that good
business yon cau expect Hubert to Boon
be at Twin Lakes fishiDg.
The IN oi lh Georgia Fox Hunters Assn
will hold iheir annual spiring Bench Show
at Cleariake Lodge May 11 at 8 p m.-The
public is invited.
I he Sizemore’s of Florida have been
visaing in White county this week
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Underwood and
sons ol Atlanta visited parents, Col. and
Mrs, Thos. F. Underwood, Tuesday.
“Chief” W. R. Ledford was taken to
Hall County Hospital with prostate gland
trouble.
Ivan Boggs wrecked his car on a bdl
neat Iivin’e giu Sunday motuing, which
a total loss. Charles Barrett, occupant,re¬
ceived cuts and minor injuries.
Ceil Loyd McConnell, 45, wrecked h s
Chevrolet about a mile south of Cleve
land around Sunday noon. Fred Mc¬
Clure, occupant, is in Hall Couuty Hos¬
pital. Mis, McConnell, another occu
pant, received medical attention. 3 cases
are hooked against McConnell
W. If, Jeukins and Bob Sistrunk re¬
cently made a business trip to Montreal,
Canada Boston and Lowell, Mass,
Wi R Jenkiue attended the Georgia
Cotton Mfgrs. Assn, annual mee.iug in
Nassau last week
Miss Debbie Potts is ill.
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Miss Spring Arrives
By Earle J. Grant
Doraville, Georgia
When winter leaves his gray shroud,
Miss Spring arrives on a pink cloud.
She brings with her fresh tutquoiseskies;
\pp!a blossoms to tempit the eyes.
She Bpread her soft green tapestiies
Over hills and in the valleys
And edged brooks with willow-lace;
Drapes a dogwood ecart about her face,
She is entertained day by day
By the robin's jnbilant lay,
No one could ever wish for more
Than metry Miss Spring’s charms galore!
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of our Moth r, Mrs
W L, Pardue, who passed away May 9,
1944.
L'o those who love their M >ther,
Treat her with tender care.
For you never know her value
Until you see her vacant chair.
The Children
New Drive-In Opened
You will find an ad on page
announcing the opening of “The
Pines” Drive-In, located just
south of Mossy Creek Camp
ground.
Mr. Brown is a son of the late
Rev. George R. Brown. He is a
former White County citizen and
he and Mrs. Brown will appre¬
ciate your business.
Fernando Knight Passes
Fernando Knight, 92, died at the Davis
Home foi the Aged Tnesday after a long
Itness.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon from tbe Little & Davenpjort
Chapel, Gainesville, with the Rev, J. D.
8 ootn officiating. Interment was in Na_
cooctaee- cemetery
He is survived by one son,!’. M.Knight
Athens.
Below are additional names of White
County people born iu 1857:
Mrs, Sorab Josephine Hulsey, born Feb
5, 1857; Loy Jans ShubertFeb 22;.)oeeph
ft Sosebee March 28; John Turner April
12; Francis Marion Pilgrim May 8; Joseph
E. Glass July 15; Samuel Andrew Chas¬
tain July 31; A illiam N. Thomas Aug 9;
lohn Pinkney Cooley Sept, 25; Abbiegell
Allison Dec. 6 ; Oliver M. Lothridge May
I 7 ; Charles Ed Nix Sept. 8 ; James Nelms
Dec, 12 Early 1858: Mary C, Underwood
Jau. 14; Samuel Lee Brown June l2;\Iohn
Moody Allison--1858
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ture growth? Don’t you think
that The Courier is entitled to
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WANTED
To know the whereabouts of
Wiley Jackson Garrett, age 28
years, brown eyes, brown heir,
ruddy complexion, height 5 feet,
7 inches ;weight 128 pounds,white
Any information given will be
to the interest of said Garrett.
Mail all information to P. O.
Box 15, Cleveland, Ga,
DREAM OF A WEEKLY
“Every now and then the general
public likes to take an inside peek at
us newspapermen to see what makes
us tick,” says a Chicago Sun Times
writer. “To help satisfy that natural public
curiosity, we would dike to call
attention to a bill introduced in Con¬
gress the other day.
“It would permit small weekly news¬
to suspend publication two
weeks each year without losing their
mailing privileges. pub¬ At
the weeklies must be
regularly, each week of the
year, to retain the low-cost mailing
without which they could
operate. law is chain
“The effect of the to
of one and two-man papers
their jobs—allowing them no va¬
The pending bill would make
possible for such newspapermen to
vacations just as most people in
businesses do.
“We hope the bill passes. And yes,
it is true what you see in
movies about us newspapermen.
Most of of us someday (daily papermen) owning do small not
a
We like our vacations too
much.'
-Wink (Texas) Bulletin
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ATOM TESTS DOOMED 10,000
WITH LUKEMIA, PAULING SAYS
CHICAGO, April 30 — A Nobel
prize-winning scientist estimated to¬
day that 10,000 persons are dead or
dying of leukemia around the world
because of the atomic or hydrogen
bomb tests carried out to date.
Dr. Linus Pauling, a chemist at the
California Institute of Technology,
said that if Great Britian carries out
her scheduled H-Bomb tests on Christ¬
mas Island in the Pacific, another
1.000 will die of leukemia.
“For both political and humani¬
tarian reasons, I am strongly in favor
of an international agreement among
the United States, Russia and Great
Britian to stop testing nuclear interview. ex¬
plosives now,” he said in an
Pauling said, however, that the
damage caused by radioactive fallout
of tests to date is only about 1 per
cent of that caused by cosmic rays
which bombard the earth from outer
space. change the
“The nuclear tests won’t
nature of the human race,” he said.
If the bomb tests are carried on
at their present rate, he said, the
number of children born in each
generation with such serious defects
as feeble mindedness and deformities
will be increased by 1 per cent— or
by 200,000. scientists agreed that the
“All are
effects of the H-Bomb tests are very
small when compared with natural
radiation.” Pauling said, “But when
you convert these effects to many
people the number becomes large
enough to anyone interested in human
suffering to be concerned about it.”
He warned that the danger would
increase sharply as smaller nations
acquire atomic weapons. He said every
bit of additional radiation added to
the atmosphere means death or de¬
formity for someone now living or not
yet born.
Pauling, who came to Chicago to
address the Chicago section of the
American Chemical Society, based his
estimate of 10,000 man-caused leu¬
kemia deaths or expected deaths to
date on estimates that 50 megatons
(the equivalent of 50 million tons of
TNT) of fissionable material has been
exploded Pauling so far in the world.
said the radiation deaths
and deformities can be caused by
mutation or changes in the genes that
determine or govern such things as
the production of red blood cells and
the structure of bones.
Pauling said he has seen estimates
attributed to some British scientists
that the proposed H-Bomb tests on
Christmas Island could produce some
20.000 cases of bone cancer in the
world.
In Washington, a spokesman for the
Atomic Energy Commission called
attention to a letter made public last
week by Atomic Energy Commission
member W. F. Libby.
Libby said scientists agree there
is some risk in such tests but that
it is “extemely small compared with
other risks which persons everywhere
take as a normal part of their lives.”
Unpredictable Aggie
By Earle J. Grant,
Doraville, Ga.
Unpredictable Aggie!
One never knows what she’ll ;
She vows she‘11 meet you at one o’clock
But it’s usually half past two!
She says she’ll bake a coeanol cake
But it tui ns out a dried fruit pie
And there’s not a thing that you can do
But let ont a long, low sigh.
She plans a picnic at the lake
But it’s either too cold or too hot.
Uupreilictnble Aggi,! To cope with her
Takes all the grace a fellow’s got!
A Mrs. Staton’s home m-ar tbe County
line was burned Wednesday night.
Born to Mr. and j Mrs, Bennie Caudell
May 4 a son, Jonathan Keith
INFLATION HAS ROBBED US
OF MORE WEALTH THAN
GUNMEN OF ALL “AGES
By Walter Locke
THE PEOPLE are selling more of
their savings bonds, their “E” bonds,
than they are buying. That em¬
barrasses the government. It does
not pay its debts, but makes new
borrowings to repay old borrowings as
they fall due. It needs to sell as
many as it redeems. What is to be
done ?
Private interest rates, in an effort
to check inflation, have been increased.
The people are offered higher interest
from private borrowers than the
government has paid. To meet this
competition, Congress is asked to pro¬
vide a higher rate of interest on the
savings bonds the government must
sell.
The higher interest will encourage
the people to buy more “E” bonds.
But that will not assure the buyers
that the dollars to be repaid them by
the government will be worth as much
as the dollar they are now lending
the government. Here comes to view a
painful question. Are the people their to
have just complaint against them ?
government ? Has it cheated
To support their country in the
late World War, the people brought
their savings to the government. They
received in return its promises to pay.
Now they bring their bonds and get
back the number of dollars, loaned. plus a But low
rate of interest, that they
the dollar repaid them is not the It
dollar they loaned the government.
is worth but half as much.
Inflation, result of a war fought
on borrowed money, produces this
result. With its cheanpened dollar in¬
flation has taken one-half the savings
the people entrusted to the govern¬
ment.
people Inflation has thus despoiled the
of more wealth than all the
gunman robbers of all the ages have
gained.
The interest rate is now to be in¬
creased. The people are to buy more
savings bonds. They buy them with
today’s dollar, worth half the dollar
of 10 years ago. What will the dollar
they get back 10 years from now be
worth? Inflation continues. Will the
50-cent dollar of today be a 45-cent
dollar next Christmas time ? Will it
be a 25-cent dollar the people at last
get for the 50-cent dollar they lend?
Twice in half a century a part of
the people’s savings has thus been
snatched away from them.
The first World War, beginning in
1917, was financed by “liberty bonds.”
Like all wars fought by borrowing,
this one produced inflation. Prices
went swiftly up, the value of the
dollar down. The dollars the people
receive when they cashed their bonds
It had been the same with the war
would buy only half of what the
dollars they loaned would buy.
of 1861. We fight our wars with
borrowings. That makes inflation. The
inflation despoils the people, upsets
the economy, doubles the cost of war.
ESCAPE
A hundred experts in economics
came together in 1917, at the onset of
the First World War, and begged us
to pay, not in loans, but by taxes,
the cost of the war ahead. We could
do it one way as well as the other.
Do it the right way, they said, and
when the war is done, it will be
done—no inflation, no boom, no bust
We recoiled from the taxes. Loans
seemed less painful than taxes, the
alternative. We could not see that all
taxes, inflation is the most brutal, un¬
just, destructive. So we led on in 1917
to inflation and the depression in¬
flation a ways brings. Again the
Second World War upon us, we re¬
jected the taxes and clove to the
borrowing, with the sad results we
see.
So still we go borrowing— and then
sorrowing. Still we go saying sadly;
One honest dollar is the noblest work
of government—the dollar which, be¬
cause of our weakness of will or
mind, we have neveh yet achieved.
The Atlanta Journal
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