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State —County
And Local
Happenings
VOL. 52; NO. 9
HIGHWAY PATROL
RECOVERS 65 STOLEN
CARS IN 6 MONTHS
Also Renders First Aid to 172
Accident Victims During
This Period.
DALTON, Ga.—Georgia’s state
troopers recovered fifty-five stolen
cars during the first six months of
the state patrol and rendered first
aid treatment to 172 accident vic
tims, according to a report given by
L. E. Sullivan, director of safety ed
ucation at a meeting of the Dalton
Junior Chamber of Commerce last
week.
The valuation of the cars was es
timated at $31,370, Sullivan said,
which was nearly half the value of
all property saved from destruction
or recovered by state troopers dur
ing the six months period.
“The educational work of the pa
trol through a system of warnings
seems to be having an effect at least
on those who get warning tickets be
cause in spite of over 15,990 warn
ings tickets given, only 103 persons
have gotten second warnings and
only four have made more severe ac
tion necessary by getting third warn
ings,” the director of safety educa
tion said.
Speed continues to be the predom
inant cause of fatal accidents in Geor
gia and elsewhere, according to sta
tistics submitted by Sullivan. Pass
ing on curve or hills comes second.
“We have had 104 less persons
killed during the past six months in
auto accidents than were killed dur
ing the six months before that,” Sul
livan said. He explained that the
death rate has been reduced all over
the nation by more “mobilization
against fatal accident causes.”
“Georgia’s average death rate,”
the speaker said, “has been reduced
from twenty-one a week during 1933,
1934, 1936 and 1936 to seventeen per
week or four less each week for the
past six months period.”
Reunion Planned By 7th
District A. & M. Students
Alumni of the former Seventh Dis
trict A. & M. school, now the John
McEachern school, near Powder
Springs are making plans for the re
union to be held there at 8 o’clock
(CTS) Saturday night, May 21.
Members of the program committee
are issuing an invitation to all form
er teachers and to every former stu
dent to attend the gathering. Every
one able to attend is urged to com
municate with Mrs. 0. C. (Mabie
Hardage) Kemp, of Route 4, Mari
etta, or Mrs. Corene Alexander
Gaines of the same address.
Thus far only tentative plans have
been made as to the program, but
it will probably be in the nature of
a banquet with other parts to be ar
ranged later.
Committee members hope to make
the reunion an annual affair.
Everyone may feel free to bring
their husband or wife or children.
FOR SALE—Two fine young cows,
in fresh with heifer calves. Priced
reasonable.—R. H. Cavin, Menlo.
FOR SALE —One carbide lighting
plant with fixtures; also one three
burner gas range, one Champion
wood burner range, one 2 1-2-horse
power Stover gasoline engine. All
in good condition. Will sell cheap
for cash. —Robert Harlow, Sum
merville, Ga.
NO SINGING AT BERRYTON.
On account of the all-day singing
at Cloudland next Sunday, May 8,
there will not be a singing at Berry
ton.
150,000,000 TREES.
AMARILLO, Tex.—More than 150,-
000,000 trees and shrubs are to be
planted this year by the United
States soil conservation service in
the greatest tree-planting program
in the history of the nation. The
trees are useful as windbreaks in the
government’s fight against dust
storms.
LEAVE TO SELL.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
To All Whom It May Concern:
Mrs. J. B. Bean having filed her
petition seeking leave to sell (con
vey) real estate set aside to herself
and her minor children out of the
estate of James B. Bean, deceased,
as a year’s support, this is to cite
all and singular the persons who may
be interested therein, to be and ap
pear before me on the 17th day of
May, 1938, at 10 a.m., and show
cause, if any they can, why the pray
ers of said petition should not be
granted. Witness my official signa
ture, this 2nd day of May, 1938.
H. A. ROSS, Ordinary.
It-Mays
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Brnnmerntlh 5 Nms
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY ,5 1938
Weather Forecast
For May, 1938
(By Georgia News Service.)
“The coming month of May has
few features as to temperature, but
rainfall should be plentiful in all
places,” according to R. D. Paschall,
prominent prognosticator. Mr. Pas
chall’s report follows in full:
“The first two or three days of the
month should be warm and mostly
fair, but around May 3 and 4 there
should be general rains followed by
somewhat cooler on the sth or 6th.
Precipitation should begin again
about May 8, and all sections should
receive good rains between the Bth
and lith.
Decidedly cooler weather is expect
ed to follow on May 11 or 12.
A quick change to warmer should
occur on May 14, followed by rather
stormy weather and much precipita
tion generally between the 14th and
17th, followed by somewhat cooler
on the 17th or 18th.
Mostly fair and pleasant weather
is expected between May 18 and 22.
Warm weather should begin on
May 22 or 23, probably becoming
rather sultry with warm precipita
tion culminating in general and hea
vy rains on May 24 and 25, with
probably some rather severe thunder
storms.
A change to cooler is expected
about May 26, followed by two or
three days of mostly fair becoming
warmer.
Rather warm weather for the sea
son is expected about May 29, fol
lowed by heavy warm rains during
;he last two days of the month, and*
slightly cooler on June 1 or 2.”
Duckworth First Veteran
To Run For High Court
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA, Ga.—W. H. Duckworth
assistant attorney general of Geor
gia, is the first veteran of the World
war to announce for the office of
associate justice of the state supreme
court.
Mr. Duckworth is an active mem
ber of the Cairo, Ga., post of the
American Legion.
At the beginning of the World war
e enlisted as a volunteer in the U.
S. Navy.
All-day singing at Cloudland Sun
day, May 8, beginning at 10 o’clock.
All singers and lovers of good sing
ing invited.
Farm Program To Aid
State To Live At Home
The 1938 farm program can be
used by Georgia farmers as a “lev
er” to help them lift their farms to
i live-at-home basis, in the opinion
of Director Walter S. Brown, of the
Georgia agricultural extension ser
vice.
“I feel that the new agricultural
program gives us the greatest oppor
tunity we have ever had to go for
ward with our balanced farm pro
gram,” Brown said.
“The provision allowing a farmer
to sell, penalty free, all the cotton
re can produce on his allotted acres
should go far toward encouraging
farmers to follow approved practices
of seed selection, seed treatment, soil
preparation, adequate use of high
grade fertilizers, thorough and sys
tematic cultivation and boll weevil
control.
“In other words, the new program
coincides directly with our long-time
program of economy production thru
higher yields per acre. It also pro
vides a very effective lever with whiel
we may raise our soil conserving
acreage and increase our production
of food and feed crops.
“So long as we have around 72,000
farm families in Georgia without a
milk cow of any kind; 75,000 without
a hog of any kind; and so long as
we import around forty million dol
lars worth of live stock and live stock
products annually, I do not think we
can over-do our efforts to increase
the production of our live stock to a
point where we can come somewhat
nearer supplying our home needs.
“The 1938 farm program, with its
system of payments for adopting soil
conserving and soil building prac
tices, can be used to lift our agricul
tural activities to a live-at-home ba
sis if its provisions are properly
utilized by each individual farmer in
Georgia.”
Final Drivers’ License
Exams Here May 10
John H. Lott, captain of the Geor
gia state patrol, announced this week
that troopers will be in Summerville
on Tuesday, May 10, for the purpose
of giving drivers’ licenses examina
tion. This examination will be held
at the county courthouse.
Mr. Lott stated that this will prob
ably be the last time the patrol will
be here for the purpose of giving
drivers’ licenses examination.
ENDS “SPRING-FEVER”
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—As a means
of combatting “spring-fever” and
that “tired feeling,” Dr. A. C. Bax
ter, health officer, recommends the
eating of plenty of fruits, vegetables.
•ggi> end dairy produce.
STATE CAR OWNERS
PLEDGE SELVES IN
SAFETY CAMPAIGN
Give Co-Operation to Woco-
Pep Drive Safely
Crusade.
Red, white and blue “Pledged To
Drive Safely” emblems are now ap
oearing on thousands of automobiles
in Georgia, indicating that their
owners have pledged themselves to
drive safely and are co-operating in
the Woco-Pep Drive Safely Crusade.
A total of 75,900 of the attractive
metal emblems have already been
distributed in. Georgia, and the de
mand still continues. In the four
states of Georgia, Tennessee, North
Carolina and South Carolina, nearly
a quarter of a million of these safety
emblems have been distributed. The
demand for them was so great that
at times during April the supply at
some stations was temporarily ex
hausted.
To get an emblem, the motorist
signs a pledge to drive his automo
bile in accordance with common sense
rules of highway safety. He is then
jigible for a series of monthly con
.ests, in which SI,OOO is being given
away each month to promote safety
mindedness.
Prize winners in the April contest
are expected to be announced within
a few days. Seventy-five persons will
be awarded cash sums ranging from
$250 to $5. A new safety contest was
launched May 1, and motorists of this
.ommunity are invited to take part,
t flood of entries was received in
„he April contest.
A large percentage of motorists
in this section have signed the pledge
o drive safely, and new names are
being added to the list of Safety Cru
saders every day. The drive safely
rusaae, tne most extensive safe
driving campaign ever launched in
this state, was begun April 1 as a
movement to do some- I
ning about the terrible toll of deaths |
and injuries on the highways and
streets.
Police traffic squads in various ci
ties have not only endorsed the cru
sade, but in many cases, have signed
.ip IGO per cent.
FOR SALE—COTTON SEED.
About sixty-five bushels D. & P.L.
inproved No. 11-A, $1 bushel.—B. W.
Farrar, Pless Building.
?lanning Division
Engineers Finish
Chattooga Survey
A complete survey of every road in
hattooga county, started about the
iddle of March by the division of
ighway planning of the State High
ay Board, was completed April 27,
; was announced yesterday at At
'anta by O. T. Ray, state director.
Drafting of the Chattooga county
map will be started at once, it was
announced, and it is expected to be
eady in a few months. Upon its
ompletion, it is planned to have it
approved at a meeting of the Chat
joga county commission and to have
t. designated as the official road map
of the county.
h. C. r osier is chief of the party
vhich has been making the Chat
tooga county survey.
Mrs. A. J. Gaylor and Misses Lu
cile anii Clara Gaylor, of Lyerly,
spent Tuesday in Rome.
BAN JAP SUPPLIES.
SYDNEY, Australia. Australian
longshoremen have refused to load
materials for shipment to Japan
which they consider were to be used
for war purposes. The materials re
jected included scrap tin, which could
be used for munitions, tallow which
could be used to manufacture glyce
rine and scrap iron which would also
be used to make munitions.
One of the South’s Big Industries
ffeF . .Jr W -
American Nitrate of Soda a Southern Product At Baton Rouge,
Louisiana (picture above) and Hopewell, Virginia, are the two great
industrial plants which, together, make America independent of foreign
supplies of this valuable fertilizer. Establishment of a domestic nitrate
industry has brought many benefits to Southern farmers in the form
of iwiu'oved quality standards and lower nitrate costs.
LOCAL MERCHANTS
WILL AGAIN OBSERVE
EARLY CLOSING HOUR
Beginning May 11, Stores Will
Close at 12 Noon on Wed
nesdays Until Sept. 1.
Beginning May 11, the undersign
ed merchants of Summerville will
close their places of business at 12
noon until Sept. 1. This is an annual
custom for the merchants of the city,
giving employes a half-holiday every
week.
Below is the agreement and signa
tures of each participating merchant:
“We, the undersigned merchants of
Summerville hereby agree to close
our places of business at 12 o’clock
noon each Wednesday for the months
of May, June, July and August, 1938.
“Taylor Mercantile company, C. G.
Gilreath, the Home Store, the Berry
ton store, A. F. Williams & Sons,
Wright Wheeler, Shackleford’s 5 &
10c store, Summerville Cash store,
G. H. Crawford, Hale store, Tutton’s,
Rowland Henry.
TO CLEAN GARRETT CEMETERY
Saturday, May 7, has been selected
as the day to clean the Garrett cem
etery. All interested persons please
meet there on that date.
THE PENALTY FOR ARSON.
There are a number of old sayings
in everyday use, such as “Your sins
will find you out,” etc., which express
the thought of a penalty to be paid
for the infraction of certain laws,
and Scripture tells us that “Whatso
ever you sow, that shall ye also
reap.” These sayings have evolved
from the observance of causes and
effects over a long period of years,
and like all such expressions born of
harsh experience they hold much
truth.
Perhaps nowhere could this be bet
ter illustrated than in the experience
i of the automobile owner of today, in
respect to the rates which he is call
jed upon to pay ofr the fire insur
ance on his car. For a number of
years he has seen these rates stead
ily increase until today in Georgia
the average car owner pays a rate
which is 357 per cent, higher than in
many states in other parts of the
country.
The increase in rates is caused by
the substantial increase in losses
from fire, which losses in turn have
been traceable to a large extent to
deliberate destruction of cars by fire;
'hat is, the owner setting fire to his
car and collecting the insurance.
Such destruction is currently dub
bed “Selling out to the Yankees,” but
the law terms it arson, and places a
severe prison sentence as the penalty
for proven guilt. Such destruction,
undetected, is considered a joking
matter and the perpetrator runs
small risk of condemnation among
lis friends and neighbors, who, if
hey do not actually condone the
ractice, at least wink at it and
rear the offender no ill will.
If these same friends and neigh
bors, however, stopped to realize that
.hey are the ones who are actually
>aying the bill for these burned cars
through higher fire insurance rates,
here is small doubt but that they
•ould soon make it their personal
msiness to report and bring to jus
ice the offenders, or at least admon
ish them and cease to smile at the
poor “Yankees.” For they have actu
ally sold out to themselves.
The courts of the land have recent
ly meted out severe sentences for the
burning of automobiles: A Texas
judge last month giving out the
maximum term to a convicted offend
, er. There were also five arrests in a
I northern county of Georgia, indicat
i :ng the seriousness which the condi
tion is considered.
I FOR SALE—COTTON SEED.
About sixty-five bushels D. & P.L.
Improved No. 11-A, $1 bushel.—B. W.
Farrar, Pless Building.
Entries For State
Primary Close June 1
The state democratic executive
committee meeting in Atlanta recent
ly fixed June 1 as the closing date
for all entries in the primary of Sept.
14. The general election comes in
November.
Candidates for governor and United
States senator will be required to pay
entrance fees of $350, an increase of
SIOO over two years ago. Candidates
for state house offices, justices of
the supreme court and court of ap
peals will pay $250.
Candidates for congress will pay
a fee of $250. The fees will be paid
to the district committee and the
funds divided among the counties in
each district.
Judges of the superior court and
solicitors general were assessed $250,
to be divided among the counties in
the circuit. No other assessments
may be levied. In the Flint circuit,
composed of four counties, each
county will reeive $62.50 from each
candidate for judge, the only office
to be filled this year.
Candidates for the legislature and
state senate will be assessed by lo
cal committees. Entry dates will also
be fixed by local committees but must
not be later than June 1.
Chattooga county will elect a rep
resentative in the general assembly
and will furnish the senator from
the Forty-Second district under the
rotation system. It is understood
that Ross Thomas, incumbent, will
seek re-election to the lower house
and Moses E. Brinson has announced
for the state senate.
Five members of the board of
county commissioners of Chattooga
county will be nominated in the Sep
tember primary. It is understood
that all five of the present members
of the board will stand for re-elec
tion.
Zack D. Cravey In Race
For State Treasurer
ATLANTA, May 3.—Zack D. Cra
vey, former game and fish commis
sioner, has qualified for his race for
state treasurer by paying the en
trance fee and filing a former letter
of entry with the democratic execu
tive committee.
In addition to his Atlanta head
quarters, Cravey intends visiting in
each congressional district for a week
or ten days and setting up a tempo
rary headquarters in some centrally
located town.
In announcing this innovation, Cra
vey said: “It is an original idea, but
1 believe the people are entitled to
see the candidate they are going to
vote for and this offers an excellent
way for me to meet and mingle with
the citizens of each district.
“I owe the people of Georgia a
visit anyway, and, in soliciting their
votes, I want to thank them person
ally for the support they gave me as
their game commissioner.”
P.-T. A. OFFICERS ELECTED.
The following officers for the Sum
merville P.-T. A. were selected by
the nominating committee, Mrs. J.
O. Meadows, chairman; Miss Cathe
rine Eubanks and Mr. Gardner:
For president, Mrs. Leon Gamble;
for vice-president, Miss Maude Sew
ell; second vice-president, J. C. Jack
son; treasurer, Homer Woods; as
sistant treasurer, Mrs. Homer Woods;
secretary, Mrs. F. W. Broome.
The above officers were formally
elected at the May meeting of the
P. A. Tuesday night.
Mrs. A. B. Cordle’s, the retiring
president, faithful services for last
year are greatly appreciated. It is
felt that we will do splendid work
under the new president, Mrs. Leon
Gamble’s, efficient leadership. It is
hoped that we will have a very ac
tive and beneficial P.-T. A. in Sum
merville next year.
Mr. Perry Speaker.
Tuesday evening at 7:30 the Sum
merville P.-T. A. held their regular
monthly meeting, Mrs. A. B. Cordle
presiding.
Miss Elizabeth Jackson led the de
votional.
The sixth grade room won the at
tendance reward.
Mrs. Cordle gave a report from the
state P.-T. A. convention at Albany.
Mrs. Roland Barze was in charge of
the program.
Mr. Perry, assistant state superin
tendent of schools, gave a very in
teresting and instructive address.
PLANES DROP SUPPLIES.
WASHINGTON. An experiment
in feeding an isolated cavalry pla
toon by means of airplanes was de
clared a success ast + er M reeCn +
the war department. More than 1,000
pounds of supplies for men and
horses were dropped without damage.
PROTEST LIVE WIRE FENCE.
v.nurpTH Pa*. —Using a live
Burns declares he is within his right..
t„ prote“ hi. property Iron, ne.glv
borLod doge. Citizen, .re pr«Mt
in? however, because they feared
thTt children in the neighborhood
mjht be injured by the. hve wire.
A Premier
Medium For
North Georgia
J
WHISKERS BROWN
TO MEET PLOWBOY
STECKER IN MAT GO
Tate Arena Offers Wrestling
and Boxing Matches For
Saturday Night.
A big-time wrestling and boxing
card will be held here next Saturday
night at the Tate arena, located on
Summerville-Trion road. One of the
best boxers in the south has been
signed up for the ten-round main go.
This mitt-slinger is none other than
Max Maxwell, the Carrollton storm
trooper. His opponent, an Atlanta
ace who has stopped some of the
best boys in the game during the
past five years, is Chester Conklin.
The Atlanta boy has been going
great and getting over big lately; he
is really taking his boxing serious
and bids for a chance in Madison
Square Garden soon. Jim Downing,
the Florida and Garden promoter,
saw Conklin in action in Atlanta re
cently and stated he was one of the
best prospects in the south. At this
time Conklin defeated Dummy Nix,
of Columbus, in short order. The At
anta boxer also holds wins over such
stars as Young Allen, of Macon;
Frankie Wheeler and Battling Gus
tav, of New Orleans. He can punch
with either fist and the advice to
Mr. Maxwell is that he had better
watch out or he will be looking at
the moon.
Maxwell stated he was raring to
go, in better condition than ever be
fore. He is training daily at his river
camp located just outside of Carroll
ton. This fight should be one of the
best seen here in a long time. Both
boxers are willing mixers and a K. O.
for either fighter should not surprise
the fans.
Whiskers Brown, the former Ca
nadian boxer and trainer for the Ca
nadian Olympic teams, will be seen
here in action. Brown quit the box
ing business five years ago and
started wrestling. He stated he could
make more money in this manner
during hard times than slinging
gloves. He sports a flowing black
beard eighteen inches long, and he is
one of the toughest matmen in the
game. There is no underhand meth
od he will not do in order to win a
contest. Brown has been matched
against the Carolina plowlboy, Eddie
Stecker, for the ninety-minute wrest
ling match, best two out of three
falls.
Stecker is a scientific matman, but
if necessary will get rough with an
opponent if forced to. He has been
wrestling for the past three years in
Ohio and New York. There is not a
better grappler in this section of the
country than the Carolina Plowboy.
This bout should be crammed full of
action.
There will also be two amateur
boxing matches on this program.
COLORED SCHOOL NEWS.
At 12:30 p.m. this Friday, May
,6. the Summerville Colored school
will begin its annual field-day exer
cises at the school. There will be a
play hour for the children of the
first, second and third grades of the
Summerville Colored school. At 1:30
p.m. competition featuring dashes,
jumps, ball throwing, chinning, races,
a volley ball game and at least one
basket "ball game, will begin for those
of higher grade level. There will also
be other tangible exhibitions by the
brick-masonry and home economics
departments and the school in gen
eral. The colored schools at Menlo,
Oak Hill, Holland and La Fayette
will be represented in the competi
tion. Admission is free and there will
be plenty of refreshments for sale.
The general public is invited, and
parents are especially invited to wit
ness some of the splendid accomplish
ments being made by their children.
The brick-masonry boys are now
earning additional credit in building
rock columns and a wall at the Sum
merville White High school.
There are a few more copies of the
last edition of the school paper for
sale. They are only 5 cents per copy.
At the close of the field-day exercis
es, Friday, May 6, a prize will be
awarded the holder of the school pa
per prize number corresponding with
the one to be drawn from a contain
er of all the numbers appearing in
the last edition.
New Georgia Road Map Is
Ready For Distribution
A new road map of Georgia has
been designed and completed by the
State Highway Board of Georgia and
will be distributed free of charge
throughout Georgia. Anyone wishing
to secure a copy of the new map can
get same at The News office.
The new map is printed in colors
and also includes some historical
scenic spots in Georgia, and gives
complete information of the state
highway system of Georgia.
Call at The News office for your
eopy>
$1.50 A YEAH