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State----County
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Happenings
VOL. 51; NO. 14.
DRYS LEADING IN STATE BY LARGE MAJORITY
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on another attempt to fly around the world. The plane suffered a second
mishap recently when an engine overheated and caught fire causing
slight damage.
GEORGIA SCHOOL
STANDARD ADOPTED
DY STATE BOARD
Flexible Courses Designed to Meet
‘Persistent Problems of Living’
In Georgia Education.
A standard for high school instruc
tion on Georgia has been adopted for
Georgia by the state board of educa
tion.
The move was the first effect by
the state department of education to
standardize and co-ordinate the work
of various high schools throughout
Georgia.
Dr. M. D. Collins, superintendent of
schools, says the program of study as
adopted “allows for the necessary
flexibility in order to make it easily
adapted to local needs.”
He declares “it also provides vari
ations such as will meet the needs of
those who are preparing for college
and at the same time for those who
will never go beyond high school.”
For curriculum purposes, high
school studies are to 'be divided into
seven groups:
Maintaining physical, mental and
emotional health; earning a living;
performing the responsibilties of cit
izenship; utilizing and controlling the
natural environment for individual
and social needs; receiving and trans
mitting ideas, and transporting per
sons and commodities; expressing
aesthetic and spiritual impulses; and
utilizing education as a means of ac
quiring and transmitting the social
heritage, and as an agency for con
serving and improving human and
material resources.
The seven classifications are term
ed the “persistent problems of living”
and the courses suggested under each
case are designed to meet these
problems.
On the basis of 10 units of work
being required in the various field,
six will be elective to meet the de
mands of the student.
“The program deals with the per
sistent problems of contemporary life
in Georgia,” Dr. Collins says.
“While the basis requirements for
the high school program of study are
not radically different from that al
ready existing in the state, there are
some important changes.
“The teaching of health in the
high school is one of the new re
quirements.
“Also, it is required that during the
high school course each student be
given training in occupational guid
ance.”
AN OLD SOUTHERN
PLANTATION.
(From the Chattanooga News.)
We visited a Southern plantation
Sunday. They still exist and this one
—the Tom McWhorter plantation in
Chattooga County, Georgia—is a
model of what the Southern farm
should be today.
The McWhorters came into posses
sion of the land over 100 years ago.
And the plantation is operated today
very much on the same large scale
as in the pre-Civil War days. The
smokehouse still has the huge meat
trough, carved out of one tree. Its
shelves are adorned with fruit which
was preserved fifty years ago. And
its second floor is filled with coun
try hams of an incredible size. The
big manor house has its own water
works systems, and in one of the nu
merous outbuildings there is a plant
for manufacturing ice.
Across the highway, there is a
forest which has not been touched
with an ax. And consequently, it is
full of virgin timber —-huge, tower
ing tulip poplars and beech _ trees.
Near the famous old spring is one
beech tree which has initials and ro
mantic inscritions carved there a
half century ago.
Sherman missed this plantation.
And it remains unspoiled and pros
perous—a reminder of the Old South
which was rich and happy.
FOR SALE—Six-room house and two
city lots in Summerville. Good lo
cation. Plenty room to build anoth
er house. For further information
write P. 0. Box 278, Summerville,
Georgia.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937.
JEAN HARLOW DIED IN
HOLLYWOOD MONDAY
Jean Harlow, the screen’s most
popular feminine actress, died
Monday in Hollywood. Her death
came as a shock to Hollywood and
bo millions of fans who idolized
her screen work.
Miss Harlow was only 26 years
of agee, and at the height of her
screen career, at the time of her
death.
GEORGIA FARMERS
DIVERT MANY ACRES
Acting Director Walter S. Brown,
of the Georgia extension service, said
in Athens last week that farmers of
Georgia who participated in the ag
ricultural conservation program last
year diverted 980,000 acres of land
from soil-depleting to soil-conserving
crops, of which 910,000 acres were
taken from cotton.
In the entire southern region, com
posed of Alabama, Arkansas, Flori
da, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tex
as, the 1936 total of 21,500,000 acres
placed in soil-conserving crops was
the largest on record, according to
a report receieved from Cully A.
Cobb, southern division director of
the agricultural adjustment admin
istration.
In addition to this, Brown said, soil
building practices were carried out
on more than thirteen million acres
on one million farms in the southern
region. Practices classified as soil
building included leaving of summer
legumes on the land to add fertility
to the soil on approximately 5,900,-
000 acres; the plowing under of
green summer legumes on 1,250,000
acres; the turning under of small
grains as green manure on 1,760,000
acres, and the plowing under of sor
ghum, sudan grass or millet as green
manure on 1,800,000 acres.
The 1936 acreage of soil-conserving
crops was an 800 per cent, increase
over the 1929 acreage, the director
pointed out. Increased plantings of
cowpeas, velvet beans, and other
summer beans accounted for a large
portion of last year’s acreage, while
there was also a marked increase in
the acreage of vetch and Austrian
peas in the southern region in 1936.
As might be expected, the huge
state of Texas led the southern re
gion by diverting 4,400,000 acres, of
which 3,400,000 acres were from cot
ton.
Improvements Made
At Royal Theater
Improvements which make the lo
cal theater comparable to those of
the large cities, have just been com
pleted, and further improvements are
to be added i nthe next ten days or
two weeks.
A complete air-conditioning sys
tem, of which the patrons of any the
ater would be proud, has just been
installed to insure the theater-goers
of a cool, pleasant evening.
To further insure the comfort of
the patrons, new cushioned seats
have been added. New curtains, lights
and stage decorations also add to the
beauty of the theater.
A new screen, which incidentally is
very important in obtaining a good,
clear picture, has been installed.
New sound equipment is already
purchased and will be installed in the
next few days, and according to C.
W. Maxey, manager of the Royal
theater, it is the very latest and best
equipment obtainable.
The Royal theater is fast becoming
the most popular house of amusement
in this section, and the new air-con
ditioner, new seats, new sound equip
ment, together with the very latest
pictures, which are often shown here
before the larger cities, make it a
pleasure to attend the Royal theater.
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CHATTOOGA GIVES
ALMOST 2-TO-I VOTE
AGAINST REPEAL
ONLY 1,300 VOTES POLLED OUT
OF REGISTRATION OF 5.0.39
IN CHATTOOGA COUNTY.
A very light vote was polled in
Chattooga county in Tuesday’s elec
,’otes being polled out of a total reg
tion, only a lottie mere than 1,300
: str at io nos 5,039. The vote on the re
peal referendum was, for repeal;
against repeal, 830, giving a major
ity of 337 for the retention of the
prohibition law.
The vote on the twenty-six amend
ments was as follows:
Amendments:
No. 1, 1,268 for, 138 against; No.
2, 1,193 for, 136 against; No. 3, 1,138
for, 194 against; No. 4, 1,190 for, 169
against; No. 5, 1,020 for, 211 against;
No. 6, 1,006 for, 223 against; No. 7,
986 for, 201 against; No. 8, 825 for,
197 against; No. 9, 775 for, 207
aaginst No. 10, 752 for, 246 against;
No. 11, 631 for, 148 against No. 12,
626 for, 136 against; No. 13, 636 for,
132 against; No. 14, 602 for, 171
against No. 15, 604 for, 155 against;
No. 16, 622 for, 160 against; No. 17,
597 for, 150 against; No. 18, 620 for,
131 against; No. 19, 614 for; 126 -
gainst; No. 20, 603 for, 131 against;
No. 21, 620 for, 148 against; No. 22,
585 for, 133 against; No. 23, 600 for,
130 against; No. 24, 593 for, 132
against; No. 25, 594 for, 138 against;
No. 26, 595 for, 139 against.
Repeal of Prohibition Law:
For 493
Against . 830
DEATHS.
Thomas Loach Cavin, a well-known
farmer of Chesterfield, Ala., died
early Sunday morning after a short
illness, at the local hospital. Mr. Ca
vin was only 58 years of age. Sur
viving the deceased are two sons,
Elmei’ and William, and one daugh
ter, Gladys Lee, and three brothers,
John W. and J. C. Cavin, of Chester
field, and Ott Cavin, of Ringgold. The
funeral services were conducted at
Chesterfield, Ala., by the Rev. Mar
tin, Monday at 11 a.m. Interment in
Ami cemetery, with Paul Weems Fu
neral home in charge.
Stewart Rawls Peace, age 4 years,
7 months, died Thursday evening.
June 3, at an early hour, after a brief
illness. He is survived by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Rawls Peace; one
sister, Gladys Beatrice. Funeral serv
ices were conducted from the Trion
Church of God at 2 o’clock Saturday,
June 5, by the Rev. J. D. Kirkland.
Interment in Trion cemetery. Trion
Department store in charge.
Mary Earl Stroupe, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stroupe,
died at her home at Suibligna Wed
nesday, June 2. Funeral services were
conducted Thursday, at Subligna by
the Rev. Smith. Interment in Sublig
na cemetery. Trion Department store
in charge.
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, June 7 (GPS).—Traf
fic Deaths: Walter B. Pitkin, cele
brateed scientist, author of “Life Be
gins At Forty,” and other best-sell
ing non-fiction books, addressing a
group of Atlanta business men and
students of traffic safety, recently
expressed amazement at a recent re
port of the interstate commerce com
mission that of all train-auto acci
dents at grade crossings, 38 per cent,
occur when the automobile driver
drives his car directly into the side
of a moving train.
It is one of the traffic hazards, he
said, which cannot be explained—how
an automobile driver on the highway
approaching a grade crossing will
continue to drive his car at full tilt
into the side of a train. He expressed
belief that such drivers may be found
to be drinking, though not drunk, or
to be psychopathic cases, unable to
deliberately judge distances and
safety.
Dr. Pitkin, who has been making a
nationalwide survey of traffic acci
dents, declared that the safest high
way yet devised is one divided in the
middle with a fairly high curb and
with traffic moving in one direction
on one side and in the other on the
opposite side and with passing room
on each side so a speeding car may
swing around another without hitting
the curb. A road built that way in
New Jersey, he said, almost abolish
ed accidents in an area which had
achieved the reeutation of a death
trap.
Boy on Bicycle: “Nobody wants to
kill a boy on a bicycle,” remarks W.
C. Woodall, editor of the Clumbus
News-Record, in a recent forceful
editorial. “All of us feel like closing
our eyes at times when we see how
boys on bicycles dart in front of au
tomobiles in our streets and seem
almost to court death. We know they
are thoughtless and reckless, but they
should be made to realize, some way,
how very dangerous much of their
street riding is and how many unnec
essary chances they take, assuming
that they will be protected through
the vigilance of drivers and sheer
good luck!”
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Twenty-one flags have been made by the Guild for display on Flag Day,
June 14th.
BAPTIST EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE TO MEET
WITH SAND MOUNTAIN CHAPEL,
ON LITTLE SAND MOUNTAIN,
SUNDAY, JUNE 13.
The Baptist executive committee
will hold the regular monthly meet
ing with Sand Mountain chapel, on
Little Sand Mountain, next Sunday,
June 13. at 2:30 p.m. The committee
has arranged a splendid program fo r
this meeting, and they are anxious
that every church may announce this
meeting and that many will be able
to attend. The interest and the at
i tendance on these meetings have been
good throughout the year, and we
trust that this will continue. It will
not be long now before we will be
making plans for our association.
I have been told that the people on
this little mountain have built a nice
little churchhouse to worship in. I
have not been there. How many more
in the county that have never seen
this churchhouse ? If not Providen
tially hindered, I am going to be there
next Sunday afternoon. I am going to
see how many will meet me there.
Chairman, Executive Committe.
FIVE MONTHS TAXES
BRING $15,902,500
ATLANTA, June (GPS).—Stat
revenues for the first five months of
1937 were $15,9Gj2,500.50, an increase
of more than $4,000,000 over the
same period in 1936, State Auditor
Tom Wisdom announced recently.
Collections to June 1 last year were
$11,888,265.84.
Largest 1937 gain over the same
period last year was $1,500,000 in fuel
oil taxes, which have brought in $7,-
874,043.69 thus far this year. General
property tax increased more than
$200,000, motor vehicle license fees
$112,COO; occupation and franchise
taxes, $154,000; malt beverage and
wine taxes, $158,000; income taxes,
$773,000; cigar and cigarette taxes,
$326,000; inheritance taxes, $229,000,
and sundry taxes, $260,0C0. The mo
tor bus and truck road maintenance
tax, a new source of revenue, brought
in $108,941. A treasury surplus of
nearly a million dollars by July 1,
beginning of tne hew fiscal year, is
indicated, Mr. Wisdom said.
MOREHEAD-WILLIAMS IN
TEN-ROUND DRAW’ JUNE 5
Kid Morehead and Stiffy Williams
fought to a draw at the Tate Athletic
arena last Saturday night before a
large crowd. Both fighters put up a
good, clean fight.
In the semi-final, Joe Apperson
kayoed Johnny Norris in the fourth
round.
On a Rocky Road
“Dis world,” said Uncle Eben, “is
a place where you is supposed to
git ready foh heaven, but de con
ditions ’pears to make it harder
every year to qualify.”
CHAIN STORE THREAT
IS CALLED BUG A 800
ATLANTA, June B.—The often re
peated fear that chain stores are
crowding independent merchants out
of business was termed a bug-a-boo
by Atlanta grocery store executives
recently on. the publication of statis
, tics showing that independent stores
I are doing 72.8 per cent, of the retail
I business and that they have increas
ed their volumn since 1933 almost
i twice as much as the chains. This
report, declared the executives, shows
the soundness and fairness of our
American system of free competition.
CITY COUNCIL PASSES
TRAFFIC ORDINANCES
ONE-HOUR PARKING LIMIT TO
BE ENFORCED FRIDAYS
AND SATURDAYS.
At a meeting Monday, June 7, the
city council passed new traffic ordi
nances as follows:
No trucks, tractors, wagons, mocor
vehicle, motorcycle, or any other con
veyance shall park in the business
section on Commerce street and
Washington avenue unless said ve
hicle or other conveyance is parked
within said lines and no person shall
stop or leave any vehicle parked in
said streets unless within said jines.
That all streets within the corpor
ate limits of the city of Summerville
intersecting in or on Commerce street,
be and the same are hereby declared
to be “Stop Streets”; and all persons
driving into Commerce street, from
any intersecting street, shall bring
his or her wagon, motor vehicle, mo
torcycle, or conveyance to a complete
stop before entering said Commerce
street.
That all yellow lines with arrows
pointing in the direction that traffic
should go shall be complied with by
all drivers of motor vehicles or other
conveyances; said yellow lines with
arrows are made so as to indicate all
left turns and all “U” turns and said
places designated by arrows shall be
and are hereby declared to be the
point where such turns are to be
made; any person violating these
rules by making such turns at places
not designated by said arrow shall be
punished by a fine of $1 and cost or
ten days in the jail of Chattooga
county.
That no person shall park his mo
tor vehicle or other conveyance in
the business section in the zone
marked off by yellow lines of the city
of Summerville for a period of time
greater than one hour in any one
place or parking space from 12 noon
to 7 o’clock p.m. on Fridays and from
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays.
The speed limit inside the city lim
The speed limit inside the city lim
its of the city of Summerville shall
be fifteen miles per hour.
Any person violating any of the
above ordinances shall be punished as
said ordinance may direct.
These ordinances become effective
this date and any person caught vio
lating such ordinances will be given
a summons to appear before the city
recorder.
Please help us to make our city a
safer place to live.
FRANK THOMASON,
City Marshal.
Wore Prince Alberts
In the “nifty nineties,” most
United States senators wore Prince
Alberts. The frock coat was a sym
bol of statesmanship and a beard
was the mark of a man of maturity
and substance.
Benefits of social security act are
planned for 4,500,000 more.
Tigers Make Long Leap
Tigers, lying in ambush for prey,
have been known to leap as far as
fifty feet in savage attack upon their
victim.
CHEST CLINIC.
The division of tuberculosis control
of the state board of health will hold
a chest clinic on June 24, at ‘Y’ in
Trion. All interested in being x-rayed
please get in touch with your family
physician immediately. Miss Mabel
Wright, tuberculosis nurse, will be in
the county from June Bto June 14.
This service is free, but only a lim
ited number of persons can be ex
amined, so you are urged to get your
appointment early-
8P A G E S
THIS
WEEK
DRYS WIPE OUT BIG
WET MAJORITY AS
RETURNS POUR IN
LATE RETURNS SHOW DRYS
IN LEAD BY MAJORITY OF
5,556 VOTES.
According to radio bulletins from
Atlanta at 3:15, Atlanta time, Wed
nesday afternoon, on the repeal ref
erendum, the drys were leading by a
majority of 5,556. At that time the
vote from 1,000 precincts, out of 1,-
7CO, was for repeal, 91,765; against
repeal, 97,321, giving a majority of
5,556 against repeal.
Every indication is that the state
will retain its prohibition laws, as
returns from rural sections are ex
pected to increase the lead of the dry
forces.
CENTRAL TO ADD NEW CARS
AND IMPROVED R. R. SERVICE
The exenditure of one and three
quarter million dollars by the Cen
tral of Georgia railway for purchase
of new freight, passenger and ex
press cars is announced today by H.
D. Pollard, receiver for that rail
road. In his statement published else
where in this issue, Mr. Pollard says:
“The Central of Georgia is pur
chasing $1,700,000 of new freight and
passenger cars for the improvement
of its service to the shipping and
travelling public. Delivery of the new
equipment will start immediately and
will be competed during the summer.
“Included in the purchase are five
steel air-conditioned coaches, which
added to similarly equipped cars
ready in service, will give the bene
fit of this great modern improvement
to coach passengers on main line
trains.”
All Pullman sleeping cars operated
over the Central of Georgia are now
air-conditioned, says Mr. Pollard,
“and the famous through trains be
tween Florida and the west—the
Seminole, Dixie Flyer, Dixie Limited,
Flamingo and The Southland —are
air-conditioned throughout.”
Discussing bargains offered the
summer traveller by reason of iir
conditioning and reduced fares, Mr.
Pollard says:
“The lowest fares in railroad his
tory prevail both in coaches and in
sleeping cars. Travel by rail is eco
nomical, comfortable and above all
safe. Any representative of the Cen
tral of Georgia will he pleased to
quote rates and make reservations.
Employes bear continually in mind
the objective, ‘Safety First, Friend
liness Too’.”
Interesting is that of the $1,750,000
to be used for purchasing the new
cars, $1,400,000 has been borrowed
by the railroad—“with faith that the
future of this territory justifies the
action.” The total purchase will in
clude besides the five steel air-con
ditioned passenger coaches, 600
freight cars of the most modem type
and three express cars. In accord
ance with the Central of Georgia’s
policy of patronizing home industries
wherever possible, the majority of
the cars will be manufactured at
plants in the railroad’s own territory.
HIGH STANDAND MADE BY
GENE WOOD.
(From Baxley News-Banner.)
Gene Wood, Baxley High school
senior, was awarded a certificate of
excellence on his grading in an ex
amination conducted recently by Em
ory University Alumni association.
Young Wood was placed in the upper
10 per cent, of a group of 1,000 stu
dents from eight states taking the
examination. His average grade for
eight subjects was 65.11 per cent.
The average grade for all Geoergia
students was 42.56 per cent.
The examination was on govern
ment, history, English, mathematics,
geography, general information,
French and sciencee.
Carolyn Strozier was selected this
week as first-honor graduate of Bax
ley High school for 1937.
Second-honor for the class was
gained by Eugene Wood, Jr., who was
selected salutatorian. He earned 35
points and made A-grade in all sub
jects through high school.
Eugene Wood, Jr., is the only son
of Judge and Mrs. M. E. W’ood, of
Baxley, and the grandson of Dr. and
Mrs. M. N. Wood, of Menlo. His fa
ther is a graduate of Menlo High
school, later attending law school in
Mercer university.
LYERLY HIGH SCHOOL
GETS GEOLOGY MUSEUM
The Lyerly High school has re
ceived one of the school museums
distributed by the division of geolo
gy for the state of Georgia. This has
been sent to Lyerly school so that
the students and citizens might be
come better acquainted with our
mineral resources. It contains seven
ty-five of the common rocks and min
erals of Georgia. Each specimen is
accompanied by a printed label and
a wooden display block. At least one
set is placed in each county of Geor
gia.
A lockable glass case has been pro
vided to protect these specimens and
display them effectively. The mu
seum is available to the public and it
is hoped that many will take this
opportunity to inform themselves of
the many and various mineral re
sources of the state of Georgia.
$1.50 A YEAR