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THE LEVELAND COURIER
"COVERS THE MOUNTAINS LIKE MOONSHINE
Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Interests of White Count?
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THE CLEVELAND COURIER.
PLATFORM
For White County and
Cl6V6!s>nd 0 Beautiful
A Cleaner and More
City
Swimming Pool
A11 Highways Graded and
Paved
To Make White County the
Mecca for Tourists
Development of Winter
Sports in Mountain Area
Ultra-Modern Highway from
Cleveland to Gainesville
Former While Countian To
Head World Methodist
From Jackson, Miss , comes an
AP news story that Bishop Mar¬
vin Franklin of the Methodist
Church in Mississippi is slated to
become titler head of more than
10 million Methodists in50 nations
Later this month BishopFrunk
lui will succeed Bishop Oxnam of
Washington, D. C , as president
of the Council of Bishops of the
Methodist Church, which includ¬
es 37 active bishops and 50 retir
ed bishops.
On July 1 he and Mrs. franklin
begin a tour of Europe and Africa
He was born near Dukes Creek
School House. He lived in Cleve¬
land for a few years in an old
bouse where Mrs John White’s
residence now sits. Later his
father was manager of the Ashes
tos Mine at Sal Mountain and all
of the Franklin ehildien went to
Nacoochee Institute He dedi¬
cated the Loud8villeCampground
Arbor in 1948 .
He is 65 and was licensed to
preach in l£» 10 , ordained a deacon
in I 9 I 5 , and an elder in 1917, and
was elected bishop of the North
Miss, and Mississippi Confer¬
ences in I 948 .
He is an uncle of Dr.Charles L
Allen, pastor of Grace Methodist
Church, Atlanta.
Airplane Spots No. Georgia Stills
Ao airplane was used to direct a moon
shine crackdown in three mountainous
Ueoigia counties late last week, Revenue
Commissioner Dixon Oxford announced
Monday,
'I he drive was conducted in Rabun.
Habersham and White Counties on Apiit
9 and 10 — The Atlanta Constitution
Deputy Sheriff Rufus Allison reports
that be was along with the State Agents
in White County and no stills were found
Heavy Frost luesday Night
We bad a heavy frost Tuesday
night, which wrought havoc with
vegetables that were not covered
Fruit may not be seriously affect
ed.
Henry Warwick stated that ice
was solid Wednesday morning in
chicken fueders on the outside at
his home.
From Sunday night through
Tuesday we had cold windy
weather, which no doubt Killed a
lot of fruit.
Remember Blackberry Winter
before we can expect summer to
be here to stay.
Britain reduced their income
tax 8 % this year and are now
ready for a summit meeting and a
natioual election.
The City of JCleveiand’s Audit
has been cotnpled and the public
js asked to inspect it at the City
Clerk’s office.
Heaven never helps the man who
II not ac t.—Sophocles.
Society note: “The most lavishly
egged wormn at the reception waaMies
jneB S. S-—who wore a lovely black
Ivet drees cut so low in tho back that
>u could see her initials.
rp ^PTXTK THE COURIER!
Take heed that ye despise not, one of
these little onee; for I pay uto you.that n
heaven their angels do always behold the
face of my Falto r who i» in heaven —
The Gospel According to St. Matthew,
18 = 10 .
As long as a man is ta'king to you of
youtself and your wisdom and success you
think him just about the most companion¬
able person you ever met But when he
begins to talk about himself, yoa some¬
how commence at once tnd .uH his veloc¬
ity. Now isn’t that true’/
■‘The teacher, like the preacher, should
awaken ns from ouv indolence so th«t w<
become conscious of the great spark
within us and the possibilities of culture
and society."—Kierterick Mayer in “The
Will to Think” (Farrar, Sliae and
(Mjdbav) , dited by Robert C. usins.
“You can leII what kind of community
you live in by looking at your newspaper
so says an executive of the United Slates
Chambet of Commerce, How can he do
this?. . .He answers ,imply that Ibe
newspaper is the mitrow of community
life, its personality,
T. 8 , Buroelt, president, Ca'ifornia
Taxpayers' Assn,, warns that govern,
merit hasn’t the intention or the will to
return to sound money and that the threal
of a enowbatling inflation presents the
most serious economic problem in toe
United Slatee today.
‘‘The ability to make things happen is
one of the prime essentials to any person’s
sui-cess and progress,”—Robert R Upde
graff in “Ad the time You Need” (then.
tice-Hall)
Charles B, Shuman, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation wri cb ;
“The aucceBs of onr public school system 1
is largely doe to the responsrbilily placed
upon local citizans and the school boards
they elect. Any plan which further re¬
duces their authority and responsibility
will inevitably result in weakening our
schools. Yes, there are rnauy needed
improvements in our educational system
We need a broadened base of support to
relieve tax inequities. We need to return
to a merit system for teacher advance
mi nt so that salaries will become more
adequate, for the best qualified instruc
tors We need to place gr eater emphasis
on fundamentals and be less concerned
with educational ‘frills.’ These needs
will be met m >re certainly by local peo¬
ple than by a vast federal bureaucracy,”
Labor and management wi l go on
endlessly arguing wages and profits.
Government will mire itself as always in
debate and sheer blather. But in the ball
park you’ll get action—and a result.
Not a bad antidote for ilia uncertainties
we live with in so many other realms
Mother’s Day is May 10
Manufacturers of nylon boss will find
business ‘‘gone with the heat” until after
Labor Day—the women areo.t going to
w ar any hose and not much of anything
else during the sultry weather Come to
think of it, we kindly agree with them
Gov. Vandiver has stated that it the
4.lane Atlant Greenville. 8 C , interstate
highway takes the middle route, thru a
4 -lane highway will be built from the
Gainesville area and the Athene area into
it.
We are depending upon congressman
Landrum and Senator Richard B. Russel)
to get an appropriation at this Congress
for at least starting some construction on
winter sports developments in our moun¬
before snow falls next winter
Probably jeans can be justified by some
Proper advertising will often sell a poor
product, it will invariably sell a good one
If you know a human who is a better
friend.than your dog, we would suggest
you keep in touch with him,
Tour’s! will be coming to White Coun¬
ty on the weekends to nee the wildflow ere
and the majestic ueauty of the mountains
as they rapidly put on their green coat
Most people take better care of their
automobiles than their brains—they sel
dotu put cheap fuel in their cars.,—Roecoe
Biown Fishar.
Hindsight may be better than foresight
but not at a bathing beach, Clifford
Campbell observes.
Blue laws were passed to keep the old
timers from painting the town red,
One of our coeds reports that she is
giving up studying because it is taking
too much of her valuable lime.
Another nice thing about echoes—you
don’t have to take them with you.
WritiDg in The New York Times Maga¬
zine. Kingsley Davis describes the in¬
crease in the earth’s population as ao“ex
plosion". Sixteen years from now, it ie
estimnted, the earth will contain a billion
more people—and in 41 years nearly four
billion more.
Freshman: “That girl over there shows
distinctly in her clothes
Settlor: ‘‘You mean distinction, don’t
y< u?”
Freshman: ‘‘Ob, yeah, juet wait
the sun comes out from behind that clond,
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How much TAX do out of
town printers pay Cleveland and
White County?
The congregation of the hypocrites
shall be desolate, and fire shall consume
the tabernacles ot bribery —Job lfi:34
Old Farmer’s Almanac really
hit the weather prognostication
squarely on the head up to now.
You just can’t bury news iuTlie
Courier. The people rend every
item and Ad closely.
The Seaboard Airline Railroad
plan to takeover the Gainesville
Midland Railroad June £3
Habersham County Ordinary
Lamar B. Foster resigned Satur¬
day, effective then.
Senator and Mrs. Herman Tal
madge have sold their Virginia
home and have purchased one in
Northwest Washington’s exclu¬
sive section.
Charlie Maloof stales that con
structiou on the road to Annie
Ruby Falls is now underway from
the cabins at Unicoi State Park
Oct. 25, 1957 we carried a long
! aiige weather foiecast by 1 .
Hurd Ci Willett, professor of
meteorology at Mass. Institute of
Technology, wherein he prognos¬
ticated colder and wetter weath¬
er for the next 50 years. Thus
far his forecasts are coming true,
The following gentlemen from
the Talon, Inc , Meadville, Pa.,
plant were here last week : Keith
fin, Chet Spiers, and DickThomp
son.
George Jarrard will return Ma
1 as Plant Manager of theClarkes
ville Mill. He is a native of
Cleveland and the sou of Mr. and
Mrs. Allan J. Jarrard.
The rain last Friday night was
a great boon for the gardens.
A revival will be conducted
from Friendship Church April 19-
24. Ilev. Ralph Crosby will do
the preaching.
U. S. Foics 8 , OermsTiy (AHTNt,) —
Ar my PFC William M. Allison recently
arrived in Germany and is now a member
of the 12q'h Ordnance Company ia Stutt¬
gart.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles returned Sunday to Walter
Reed Army Hospital in Wash¬
ington. D. C., after a short stay
in Florida. The spread of stom¬
ach cancer will force him to soon
hand the President his resigna
tion.
_
Mrs. Jas O, Lunsford ofDetroit
is visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. C. Henderson.
Bill Bowen of North Georgia
College spent the weekend with
parents, Prof, and Mrs. W. L.
Bowen.
Chas- W, Henderson and fam¬
ily of Harriman, Penn., visited
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C,
Henderson over the weekend.
Mrs. C. Henderson, Mrs. Jas.
O. Lunsford and Mrsi W. L,
Bowen attended the fuueial of
their cousin, Guy Staton, in
Gainesville April 9.
The following White County
men are now at Fort Jackson, S.
C., for eight weeks of basic Army
cambai training; McKenly D.
Taylor, Robertstown; John G.
Cantrell, Griffin E. Thomas Janies
H. Mize, Charles T. Westniore
land, Ray E. Satterfield; Vaughn
Garrett, Sautee; Charles N Sose
bee, Sautee.
Editor and Mrs. Jas. P. David
son now have two new grand
daughteis. One bout April 8
to Mr and Mrs. J. F. Ivie Atlan
ta, and named Pamclia Auu ana
the other to Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Hildebrand, Washington, D. C.,
born April 10 , named Jeamce
Willie Palmer of Shoal Creek
district is in jail for hitting W
Powers of Brookton in the head
tviqh a claw hammer Tuesday
iii”lit tit the home of Frank Pal¬
mer. Powers is in Hall County
Hospital with his skull terribly
crushed and is not expected to
live. It devrloped from an argu
ment Powers made no lesistancj
of any nature
R. L Alexander Passes April 11
Fun irI eervirPH w< re b' I 1 4 n “ay for
Robert Af bury Alexander. 92* *»f White
Creek di*tricL who died April 10 at hi
reeidenep.
Ser vices weie conducted fr in Uni‘»n
Grove Holiness (’hurcb with the R v As>
Dorsey* L. Howard and Harry Ragan
officiating. Interment wa« in ynh nHrov
cemetery.
He was boi n in While County and vpetH
his long; ai d useful life here.
He ie survived by bis wife, two feons
Robert L. Alexander, WeUerfofd, 1 * x ;
and Lake O, Alexander, F'-rt Worh.Tex;
eight daughters, Mrs, M. L Todd and
Mis. F A, Owenby, both of Asheville*
N, i’.; and Mrs, NewtHulsey, Mrs Flossie
Hulbt-y. Mrs. Annie West, Mrs. Carl Free¬
man, Mrs, John Foster, and Mrs. Z. E
Noma, all of White County j one ftiele.r*
VJiss Dora Alexander, White Greek ; th e«
brothers, C. L), Alexander, Aledl, Texas;
W, H and A E, Alexander, both of White
Li;ft*k;39 grandchildren, 54 great,grand
children, and one great, great grandchild
Robert Conklin Passes
Grave-bin services for Robert McKee
Conklin, 64 , were field at- the Cleveland
, emrlery Monday, who died April )1 at a
aaniiorium iri Milledgeville. Elder Hoi
land M Kotfi officiated
Survivors include hie wife. City; one
on, Robert Conklin Jr., A-heville,N, » ;
one step-son, Lonis flersch, Liverpool,
V Y.; one nephew, Donald Hope, N. Y ,
V, Y; and one grandchild.
Johnson Knight Passes
Funeral services were held Monday
from the Nacoochee Valley Methodist
Church for Robert Jonnson Knight, 7 1, of
Sautee, v. ho died Sunday at hiB home
f dlowiog a long illness.
Revs. Roy P. Etheridge, Don Wilson
and Hoy Godwin officiated Interment
was in the church cemetery.
Survivors are his wise! fou- sons, John
Perry Knight, Clarkesvill-; Eugene anil
Henry Knight, both of Sautee; and Bill
Knight, Jefferson; four daughter, M'S
Ray Kinsey. Jefferson; Mrs. ilomer Davis,
mis John Nis, both of Gainesville; Mrs.
Alt in Bentley, College Park; one brother
Smart Knight, El Reno, Okla ; two sis
ters, Mis. Lizzie Stover, Mexico; and mis
Wdi Thomas, Gain- svilb; 18 grandchild
ren, and two great grandchildren.
Court closed Tuesday afternoon
Some 84 cases were settled Satur
day afternoon by pleas of guilt
The principal criminal case was
against )esse lames Nation, 80 ,
who was found guilty of molest
ins a nd attempting to rape his
eight year old daughter Dec. 26 ,
1958 • He was sentenced from 5
to 10 years in the chain gang.
Nations and his wife arc divorced
and she has remarried. The child
paid her father a Christmas visit
Other criminal cases disposed
of were minor. Some were post
poned. This is one of (he short
est courts in the history of the
county.
The Grand Jury returned 56
true bills and 20 no bills
“Were it left to me to decide
whether we should have a govern¬
ment without newspapers, or news¬
papers without government, I should
no; hesitate a moment to prefer the
latter.”—Thomas Jefferson.
An American, a Frenchman arid a
Mohammedan had been lost in the desert
for several weeks when th ty came upon a
beautiful but naked woman,
The American noliced an American flag
taiooed on her arm, so he snid, ‘‘By the
great American fiag, 1 claim her.”
Tfie Frenchman pointed to a French
flag that was taiooed on her breast and
shouted, “By the sign of the Tri color, I
ciai u her .”
The Mohammedan concluded all argu¬
ments with, “ By the beard ot tbeProphet,
she’s mine.”
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TOO FANTASTIC TO BELIEVE!
One of our columns published the fan¬ sev
eral weeks ago reported on
tastic fact that known Communists
for years have been working in posi¬
tions that permit them going to from intercept the
top-secret messages and oth¬
Pentagon, State Department far-flung de¬
er vital agencies to our and
fense installations to govern¬
ments of friendly nations throughout
the world. The column has created
widespread interest. Many protested citizens
who read the report have
the situation to their Congressmen, I
and this is the most effective citizen
ship action that could be taken! Some
readers of the column, however, have
expressed to me the feeling that the
report was “too fantasti ■ to believe.”
. But the report is true! A subcom¬
mittee of the U. S. Senate Judiciary
Committee and a subcommi'tee of the
House Un-American Activities Com¬
mittee, although hamstrung every
step of the way by the Supreme Court,
Communist-serving lawyers and the
legion of dupes whom the Commu¬
nists are constantly mobilizing to have pro¬
test exposure of their apparatus,
dug up and exposed enough facts in
the situation to bring shivers of fright
to any citizen. i
Shocking Situation
Our nation has reached an absurd
and shocking state of vulnerability insignificant
when defective laws or
legal technicalities can expose the
whole heart of our national defense
and security structure to known
agents of the international Communist
conspiracy! That is precisely what is
happening. The whole fantastic it story of
is told — a large part of out
the mouths of the Communists them
selves — in these official documents:
Investigation of Communist Pcnetra
tion of Communication Facilities —
Parts 1 and 2, published by the U. S.
Government Printing Office for the
Committee on Un-American Activi
ties; Subversive Infiltration in the
Telegraph Industry, published by the
U. S. Government Printing Judiciary, Office U. for
the Committee on the S.
Senate; Defense Facilities Protection
Act, Hearings before the Committee
on the Judiciary, published by the
Government Printing Office; and
House Report No. 1360, Annual Re
port 1957, Committee on Un-American
Activities, published Office. by the Govern
ment Printing
Cold Facts
These documents show beyond any
challenge, The American the following Communications facts:
As¬
sociation, whose top officers have been
identified as Communists in sworn
testimony, has for years been the cer¬
tified bargaining agent for companies
operating domestic and overseas ca¬
bles and radio facilities used by the
Defense State Department, and other the Department
of vital agencies.
Many Communists Communists are in its member¬
ship. admission These in testimony) (by their own
have access
to and from our vital defense estab¬
lishments.
They can intercept messages; they
can do the key work necessarv to
breaking our most secret codes; they
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COL. WM. P. TROTTER
Ga. Safety Director
can p- b messages or change their
caning: ney can substitute mes
. ages t. t ir own. There are approxi
mately .’300 members in ACA. They
control most of the vital facilities—
the North Atlantic Cable, the tie
lines and lease lines—in and out
of the Pentagon and the State De¬
partment. They are certified by the
National Labor Relations Board and
under present lavs their Communist
members cannot be fired from these
strategic positions permitting espio
nage and sabotage.
Challenge to Citizens
A former Communist official of
ACA, Michael Mignon, testified: “The
importance of obtaining control of the
communications industry in times of
stress or in revolutionary times, was
efforts a primary factor, and therefore the
of the Communist Party in
whatever subsidizing the union and offering
assistance they could in
building the union . . . was so that if
(the United States) should ever be at
war with the Soviet Union, to be able
to more effectively control the com¬
munications system of the country."
And in times of war two or three of
these Communist agents could wreck
these vital communications facilities.
Defense Department officials have
testified that they know Communists
who are handling Pentagon messages
and that messages have been inter¬
cepted. Secretary of the Army Bruck
er has testified that “We are dis¬
turbed . . . the situation is nothing
last short Congress, of deplorable.” And yet in the
when legislation was
introduced to permit the military to
disassociate Communist saboteurs
from these vital defense communica¬
tions facilities, it failed! Every Amer¬
ican citizen who cares about his fam¬
ily’s future security should ask his
Senators and Congressman what part
they played in this failure and what
they are now doing to clean up this
situation.