Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CLEVELAND COURIER
“COVERS THE MOUNTAINS UKE
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\OL LXl No. 17
4 In Holdup of
Mrs. Ollie McGee’s Store
ueiweeti Between 9 u and .tttu 10 a. <t. in. m. Wed- ^
nesday two women ttnd two men
entered the store t>f Mrs. Ollie
McGee ie .Shoal Creek districtand
purchased over $15 of groceries,
giving her a $20 bill
As Mrs. McGee reached under
the counter to get them the
change one of the women grabbed
her and said, “We’re taking
charge here ” The woman held
Mrsi McGee while tho other three
took the money and loaded the
red station wagon with white top
with groceries,
No weapons were showed.
The quartet is described by Mis
McGee as ranging from 3O to 40
years.
Mrs. McGee’s loss is $535 in
cash and $130 in gtoceries. The
group left her stole on the Cler¬
mont road.
Georgia Power Co. Pays
Cleveland $1,784.26
A check for $1,784.26 was de¬
livered to the City of Cleveland
Feb, 28 by T. R. Hall, local man¬
ager of the Georgia Power Co.
This payment represent three
per cent of the gross receipts in
1958 from the sale of electric
power to commercial and residen
tial customers of the company uu
der the Municipal Flan. The
three per cent tax is paid by the
company in place of occupation
and franchise taxes and is in ad¬
dition to the company’s property
taxes.
Mrs. Clyde Dixon’s Father
Passes Monday
The father of Mrs.Clyde Dixon,
Harvey Clea Kinney, 69, died in
Habersham County HospitaiMon
day afternoon following a long
period of declining health and a
week of serious illness.
He was a native of Habersham
County and a retired farmer. He
was a charter member of Hill’s
Crossing Baptist Church and was
the oldest member of the church
He had served as a deacon fbr
many years. During World War
II he served as a guard for theLe
Tourneau Co at Toceoa for three
years,
Funeral services were conduct¬
ed Wednesday at 11 a. nu from
Hill’s Crossing Baptist Church)
The Revs. J. C. Elliott andFrank
Allen officiated. Interment was
III the church cemetery.
lie ie survived by his wile, Cornelia;
three daughters, Mrs, Elmer Ellison, At¬
lanta; Mrs. Pub Elrod, l ornelia; andMre.
Clyde Dixon, Cleveland; one eon,Herbert
E Kinney, Liarkeeville; out, sister, Mrs
Alley Jan aid, Clayton; five brothers,
Howell Kinney, Cornelia; Gordon Kinney
Ml Airy; W, A. Kinney, Easley, 8. c>>
Clyde Kinney, Mt. Airy; Emory KinDey,
Toccoa; nine grandchildren.
Acree-Davie had charge.
The directore of the National Trigg
ox hound Association will hold a meet
lg in the City Hall Feb 28 at 6 p. m,
oberl Hefner is president.
mart Money In U. S. Sees
ses loo Much Overconfidence
By Lmi Schneider
New York- I - be over all bueiness ettu
ion looks good, according to economic
atietice, *, but but there there are are iwo two sides sices to ,0 the toe
ory. All ien’t as favorable as appears
, tit fit glance
■w.. ™r™ .i b.,
Ig going on, in all lines, because of
t ike a ud pi ice booet fear s. It's a tore
of a drop in factoiy ordeie later
i the Hit* JWI. year. And , despite ---- ■. _ high 0 propuc- r
n figures, unemployment is increasing.
fashil gospel singing win •11 he
Au.;ld n Saturday
«td atSall Mountain Cuapei
jght atTatk p. m, Evsryens invited
How beautiful upon the mountains are
the feet of him that bringtb good tidings,
that published) peace; that biingetb good
tidings of good, that published) salva¬
tion; that eaith unto Zion, Thy Goo
reigneth'.-lsaiah 52:7.
In the view of Publisher Tom Ander¬
son of Farm and Ranch Magazine: “Ever
since there’s been a farm progtan the
rich have g itten tile gravy—because
when the government gravy bowl runs
over the rich have spoons and the poor
have forks. The farm program is for
everybody except the little family farmer
it ought to be for. - '
From 1955 to IgoSl. the publication
Economic Intelligence reports, national
security and foreign aid spending in.
creased 18%. In the same period, by con
tinet, non-defense federal ‘-pending in
creased by 41%—more titan three times as
much.
Mors than one and one-third billi »u
dollars was spent for chair-store con¬
struction ami modernization in 1958, an
all lime high, according to a Chain Store
Age survey The expected figure for the
current year is larger still—one and one
half billions.
No hlea has ever been silenced by a
shotgun.
Tp be able lo read is not the same as to
know what to read.
Even a new broom won't sweep cleaD
unless somebody uses it
The ethics of advertising depend upon
the ethics of advertisers.
Example is the school of mankind, and
they wiil learn at mt other. Edmund
Burke,
Cosmetics are a womau'e way of kerp
tDg a man from reading between the lints
‘•Hollywood males are tired, bored, old
men.’’—Beley Palmer,
Marriage is au impossible artangemenl
lhal sometimes works.
To truly appreciate the flower of wo¬
manhood a man most see their stems.
John Stringer observers that ladies
slacks seldom have much slack
Virgil Glover avers that a hueband
certainly should tell his wife everything
..that is, everything that he is sui e she'll
■find ott*.
Bill Jenkins mnses that tho trouble with
greeting the new day with a smile is it ha
to be done in the morning,
By the time the current fiscal ytar ends
next June 30, lh« Tax Foundation finds,
total spending for all units of govern
ment many reach $145 billion. This will
represent a new high of $ 2,700 per family
By comparison, as recently as 1948, the
burden per family was $ 1 , 250 .
In a spate!) in Athens last week J. J.
McDonough, president of the Georgia
Power Company, saiti by I 97 O one third
of all Georgia workers will be in the fac¬
tory, aud less loan 10 per cent on the
farm.
Geochemists are now able read what
efteci glaei-rs and clouds have on the
weather with a new sensitive iustiuinent
called spectrometer.
One prolessor slates that with this in¬
strument and research they “may induce
a big ice mass to disclose the history of
the weather in an area for many bun.
dreds of years
Properly developed recreation and tour
is u will pour barrels of crisp, fold ug
money into White County,
Whea a contract ie let on the ultra¬
modern highway from Cleveland to
Gainesville then you will see people with
big money begin looking for suitable
locatione to construct luxury establish¬
ments for vacationists.
Ford announced Feb. 19 that they wiU
mass produce a small Ford to sell for lesf
than $2,00 in the fall. General Motors
and Chryeljr aie expected to announce
their small car plans very soon.
The moment we feel angry in contro¬
versy, we have already ceased striving
for truth, and hegnD striving for our¬
selves,—Thomas Carlyle
I heard a man say that brigands de¬
mand your money or your life, whereas
women require both.—Samuel Butler
The most daDgeroue of wild beasts is a
slanderer. The most dangerous of tame
blasts is a flatterer/—Greek Proverb
Only choose in marriage a woman
whom you would choose as a friend if
she were a man.—Joseph Joubert
Despotism can no more exist in a na
tion until the liberty of tbe press be de
slroyed than the night can happen before
me sun is set.-Chailes set,—Cbaiisa Gale. Calei Colton Colton
“There sre a billion germe on the
„ Tb| „ informatioD
doesn’t ftighten us, as a dollar bill hi „ pass¬ „„„.
es through our hands so last a germ
would break bis neck if be were to jump
off it,— Bristol (Va,) Herald-Courier
Just learued that an attractive woman has
e*. fitiger in . . splints. .. i:_ U,, Broke b u U ii while while try- li e.
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j n g to remove her girdle.
'Cleveland merchants can make our
uttie ^ a trading center if they will
^vertiaeg ffi Th* CourlaT
WW7 CLEVELAND. GA~ M
Local rsex s
s«a u. th. NEWS .. «»t It -ill
appear in The Courier. We will ap
precite your cooperation.
H„w much TAX do out of
town printers pay Cleveland ana
1
White County?
A veteran with 10% or more disability .. .....
can receive a certificate •- - * from - the ‘ u ~ btnte
Revenue Commissiontioner exempting
him fiom payment of a business license.
Notice how tbe days are getting longer ?
March 1 is the kickoff for . the . — Red . Chibs ..
annual fond raising campaign
The Red Cross has been very hard hit
this winter for vaiious disasters and you
are strongly urged to mske your contri¬
bution just a little larger this year
Rev. and Mrs C. A. Johnson were re¬
cent visitors to their daughter in Atlanta
and their son, John, in Montgomery, Ala
John is with the C'Vi' Aeronauts 8 Ad¬
ministration.
Mrs. J. F Ivie and son, Mike, of At
lanta visited parents, Editor and M r s Jas.
P Davidson, last week.
Spring oleaniag will soon be in order
Before you start burning brush, grass
and trash you should talk with the City
Fire Department,
Mr. and Mrs. JftS P. Davidson Jr of
Doravslle spent Sunday with patents.
Editor and Mrs Jas. P. Davidson
!'ha Cleveland Baptist Church will hold
an Evangelism rally April 6 .
Mrs. Glen Ho;au is employed by the
(-orneli, Garment Co.
Editor and Mrs, Milton Fleetwood of
the c*rt‘T 8 ville Trjbuttt spent the week¬
end with Mre. Fleetwood’s sister, Mre.
Fred Hicks.
Mr. and Mrs. ]', R. Ha 1 ! attended a
farewell party given for C. D. Young in
the Dixie Hunt Hotel, Gainesville, last
night. Mr, Young is retiring March 1
aftei around 50 years service with the
Power Co. He and one. Young will now
be found at their home near MosBy ( reek
t ampground,
Easier is March 29 . 80 look for spring
to burst forth early this year.
Neal Ash visited the Purina Fatm near
St, Louis last week.
Vernal equinox ie March 21 Look for
some violent weatner around that period
Those few cold mornings last week
may hold back the fruit trees from burst¬
ing their buds for a few days.
Red Cross flag will be Jvtused
on the law it of the City Hall Feb
27 at 10 a. m., which will be the
kickoff for White County’s Red
Cross Drive. A field .represenla
live wtll be present.
Starling Evans of Atlanta [died
last week . He was a native of
White County.
Mr, and Mrs. Gerald Cook of
Atlanta spent the {weekend with
parents, Mr, and Mrs. ]-A. Cook
Mrs. L. «. Neal purchased the
office building and tho home of
the late Col. C. H. Edwards last
Saturday for $625. She will move
the office building to a vacant lot
next to Mrs. T. J. McDonald’s
home and add two rooms and
rent it.
Dr. W. O. Griffin went to
Augusta Monday for [medical ex¬
amination,
MissGladys Ruth (Judy)David
son spent the weekend with hot
sister, Miss Nelda Jo Davidson,
in Atlanta- „ tlllllta .
Virgil ft Autry underwent Mr
-erv Ga. B.pti.t Hospital Feh
26 for an obstruction os the blad
der.
All the pickup trucks used by
the local highway engineering
employees are now parked on the
County Lot at night
Marlin Palmer’s many friends were
happy ts see him in Cleveland Feb, 19
A (dty prisoner from Ky., working ou
a iip culvert in the colored section Tuesday
iook took the me car oar *Dd Buu aolil Bum it 11 in loccoa an<l
VHn'iBhe<].Moe • x . *« . 8 may have « t^irbla trouble t»«rxlairw explain
When I get time lo sit and Ihink
I’ll solve this old world’s troubles
Each wile and sweetheart will wear mink
For money we’ll uee bubbles
Every pel will have a home, every child,
a dad.
And kindness will be more populor thaD
tbe hula bcoping fad.
THE HOME TOWN PAPER
When the evenin' shade is iaiiin
at the endin’ of the day.
And a feller rests from labor,
smokin’ at his pipe o clay;
There’^ nothin^does
As the little country paper, town!
from his ol’ home
^ ft thing of beaut y, an>
its 1 VB print pr i nt ain’t ...» ------«- always clean,
„ But, , it *.___Vito straightens out his temr temper .
when a feller’s feeltn’ mean,
takes the wrinkles off his face
a n’ brushes off the frown—
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That little country paper 101
the ol’ home town!
j t te p g 0 f a p the parties an’ the
“balls” <iu„ilo” on m rmrtkin’ punkin’ row. row,,
’Bout who spent Sunday with his
girl an’ how the crop’ll posted grow, bout
An’ it keeps a feller
who is up an’ down—
That little country paper from his
ol’ home town!
Now, I like to i-ead the dailies an’
the picture papers, too.
An’ at times the latest novels art
some other trash, don’t you !
But, when I want some readin
that’ll brush away a frown—
I want the little paper from my
ol’ home town! (N. M.)
—Tucumcan
American-Leader.
The fire depa tment got a frenzied call
■i'om a girl the other day.
"(mine quickly.” she said. “I wo
vrungmen arelrjing to ret iuto my
room through the window!”
“I’ll have you transf rred right sway,”
tie fireman replied. “You want the
police This is the fire department.”
•q know that,” cams Die impatient
,.ppiy, “It’s tile lira department I’m
ificr. They need a longer ladder.”
“The Total Selling Medium”
How valuable is newspaper advertising
10 the retail ineiubanl 1
Hi re's what the president of a Montana
department store has to sav; “If I were
suddenly restricted to one and only one
idvertising medium. I would board up
he display windows, discontinue sit in¬
terior and departmental selling displays,
u'iminato all inlorraative show cards, dm
continue all sales meetings and sales in
'enlives, stop a'l telephone selling— and
continue «o aggressive business building
olyertising in the newspapers,”
This merchant also terms newspapers
‘the total selling medium”. What ad
r , rtiser cpuld ask for more?
The regular communication of Yonah
Lodge No H83, F. tk A. M will be held
1 ,might, Fib. 27, at 7:30 p. in.
The Felloworaft degree will be rnn
teried. AU members are urged to be
present and visitors are cordially invited
•o meet with us,
C, A Stanley, W. M.
Ma< k Watkins, 8 ec'y.
Nathan McCarty Passes
Funeral services were held Irom the
Cleveland Methodist Church Monday for
Nathan McCarty, 7'i, who died of a eud
len illness in Atlanta Saturday,
He was the father of Miss Miry Me
r;aity, a high school teacher here. He
was a letired railroad woikmari and bad
lived in t levelaud since last September,
tie was a member of the Christian Chhrcb
most of his life.
Rev. H H. Sheets officiated at ihe eer
vice I-terment was in Stephens County
Memorial Park at Toccoa.
He is survived by bis wife, City; seven
daughters, Mts Cmer Hartgiove, Owens,
ville, Ky.; Mrs. C. C. Knicksrbacker,
Lexington, Ky ; Mrs. J, D. Durden, loc
coa; Mrs. W. D. Kincaid, Tusoilocsa, Ala.;
Miss Mary McCarty, City;Mre, J E. Mudd,
St. Angelo, Tex.; and Mis. William H.
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Congressman Fbil Landrum Lalldrum
recently urued tge Jrestoration to
the budget $1 12 million for rec
rea tion and public use funds to
the Forest Service in the U. S.
WEATHER
mmm should
,» He He said eaia me the United umiea 8.a o.a ee e« euumu
JjaV0 a . substantial reBearch , program" in
weather control.
Clarence Cagle, 25, Gainesville
R2, died m Hall County Hospital
Wednesday shortly after arrival
from injuries received when he
wrecked his car at Mrs. Ollie Me
Gee’s Store iuShoalCveek district
Established 1899
Selling One’s Character
Conscience is Risky and
Often Fatal Thing to Do
“Still as of old, men by themselves
are priced;
For thirty pieces Judas sold him¬
self—not Christ.”
In these tangled and trying times
men should be extremely careful
about their price tags.
At a great conference I heard a
subject battled back and forth. I
knew for certain which was my
side. It was what I honestly thought
was the right side.
In the committee that was to pre¬
sent the final matter to the confer¬
ence I had a friend. In the final
hour of decision he voted for son|e
thing he really didn’t stand for.
When I asked him why he gave this
disappointing answer. “The man
who led the fight agaiust you is a
lifelong friend. I simply could not
afford to vote against him,”
Every time I see the man's name
in print I think of the time he put
a price tag on his conscience and
in doing so lost to some degree the
friendship he paid so much trying
to preserve.
There is a growing school that be¬
lieves a conscience is excess bag¬
gage. They should think on these
lines. “I said goodbye to my con¬
science, goodby forever and aye.
My conscience forthwith departed,
and returned no more from that
day." will
“Good riddance," someone
say. But was it? Or Is it? Then lis¬
ten further. “I said return to my
conscience, for I long to see thy
face. But my conscience replied I
cannot—-remorse sits in my place.”
Dr. George Stuart use to wring
the hearts of his hearers with a
story out of the Chattanooga flood
where a man dared the swirling
waters to capture a frightened rab¬
bit that had found refuge on a pile
of lumber floating down the river.
He mafle it safely to the lumber
pile, twisted the neqk of the rabbit
and stuhk his prize in his pocket.
He failed to make it safely back.
Ten days later, they found his body
washed up against a willow bush
down the river —with a dead rabbit
stil stuck in his jacket pocket.
No man would agree to sell his
life for one small rabbit. But many
men do—and even cheaper. Selling
a life is a serious matter. But bar¬
tering one’s character and con
sicence is even more serious.
We careless people say, “Money
is the root of all evil” Actually the
quotation is “The Love of money.”
Some people love money so much
they sell their souls for it. Others
love it just as much but never get
what they bargained for. Thus they
become bankrupt—pocket and soul.
John Wannamaker once said, “I
never saw a man who was made
happy by money alone. If he was
not happy without it—then he would
not be happy If he had it.”
Let me call attention to a popular
price tag—“Everybody else does.”
That one phrase has paved the way
for more pagan living than any
other foolish philosophy I know.
There is a great cry in the mar¬
ket place. Price tags are waving
in the air. If you must “sell your¬
self” — then sell to a Master who
will make the sale worth while.
Atlanta Journal
A new psyohi&tri t at ft mental asylum
was appi'iiftched by a patient, ‘Dr.Junes,”
be sail, “we like yuu much better Ilian
tht last doctor.’’
“Well, thank you," beamed llie doctor.
“But why ia that?’
“Oh, I don’t know," replied Ihe patient
‘‘You just seem more like one of ue "
Mars Hililp in Two Bells,
Funeral services weie held Feb. 20 for
An Irew Jackson Vandiver, Santee, who
die 1 Feb 18 in Hall County Hospital
following au extended illness. The Rev.
Asa Dorsey conducted lbs service from
the Chattahoochee Methodist ) buich and
Interment was in the chnrcb cemetery.
He was a member ... —..... of ... Union ------- Baptist —
Church most of hie life. He was a native
of of White White County County and and spent spent his Die life life be,* beie.
He is survived by three sons, Oakliy
Vandiver, Robertstown; Odell Vandiver,
Santee; Dandy Vandivei. Robertstown;
one daughter, Mrs Orvil 8 ime, Sautes;
one brother, John Vandiver, H len; four
sisters mmm Mrsi Kate Sailors, Gainesville;
grandchildieu.
WrI Watd's (l’s h*l(i had charge.
Cleveland Girl’s Basketball
team won every game in tbetour
nament played here this. Feb 28
Lumpkin County 21 Cleveland 37
Feb. 24 Tallulah Falls 29 49;Feb.
25 Clayton 31 4?. They now go
to the Regional Tournament
§ 3.00 Per Year ip Adva?
ORIENTAL VIEWPOINT on
fashions is displayed by Hong
Kong during actress Helen Lee Met
York. recent visit to Neiv
(upi photo)
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Readers Rank
Local Papers
High in Survey
Results obtained from a survey
of readers of the Mankato Free
Press indicate that the local daily
newspaper scores highly in the area
of advertising truthfulness and be
lievability.
The survey was conducted for
the Free Press and the Northwest
Daily Press Assn, by Mid-Continent
Surveys Inc. of Minneapolis, an in¬
dependent market research organi¬
zation.
Respondents were asked their
opinion on the following: “Some
people say that the advertising you
read or hear is full of exageration,
while others say that most adver¬
tising is truthful. Now which one
of these do you think carries the
Most Truthful advertising?”
Respondents rated media as fol¬
lows: Mankato Free Press 53.7 per¬
cent; Radio Stations 5.7 percent;
Television Stations 7.6 percent; all
others 23.3 percent; don’t know 9.7
percent. Sources of “least truthful
advertising., were: Mankato Free
Press 4.3 percent; Radio Stations
9.3 percent; Television Stations 25
percent; all others 29.7 percent;
don’t know 31.7 percent.
According to Ray Rode, manager
of the Northwest Daily Press Assn,
this particular area of the study
revealed not only the local daily’s
enviable position as a local adver¬
tising medium, but pointed out a
rather significant attitude toward
advertising in general.” We think
the negatve side of the question—
(which medium carries the least
truthful advertising) revealed an
attitude people have toward all ad¬
vertising. That is, since a large
percentage didn’t express a parti¬
cular position here, we fell they
tend to believe there is little deli¬
berately misleading advertising.”
The study is of a pilot nature and
represents a major step forward in
media analysis by small dailies.
the Free Press, a non-metropolitan
daily with 20,000 circulation, is the
first of the Northwest Daily Press
group to undertake the research
program. The association hopes to
conduct a similar series in 1959 to
cover the entire marketing area of
the group. Forty-one newspapers
from the Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota, western Wisconsin
and northern Iowa comprise the
membership.
The complete study covered read¬
ing, viewing and listening habits;
attitude toward major advertising
media; brand share data; advertis¬
ing readership and demographic
characteristics of respondents.
The study, designed in part by
Dr. Robert J. Jones, director of
the journalism school at the Univer¬
sity of Minnesota, included Free
Press readers within the ABC City
and Retail Trading Zones.
Futher tabulations uncovered the
fact that while the Free Press has
a circulation of approximately 20,
000, it has nearly 42,000 adult read¬
ers (18 years and older) each day,
and a total audience of 50,000 read¬
ers daily. The area is covered by
all major television networks and
several radio stations.
Main source of local and regional
news for respondents was again
the Free Press. 67 percent indicated
it was their chief source of local
news and 56 percent indicated it
was the chief source of area news.
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