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CIRCULATES IN THE
BEST SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA!
VOL. 52; NO. 30
J. L. Alexander, of Menlo,
Withdraws As Commissioner
Declines Nomination
to Hold Government
Position.
New Board Member to Be
Elected in General Election
November Bth.
A peculiar situation has arisen in
Road District No. 3, which is com
posed of Alpine, Dirtseller and Teloga
militia districts, since the primary
election was held on Sept. 14, at
which time J. L. Alexander, of
Menlo, was nominated as commis
sioner from that district.
Since Mr. Alexander is employed
by the postoffice department as a
substitute rural mail carrier he must
under the rules of the postoffice de
partment, resign as substitute car
rier or decline the nomination for
commissioner, and he has decided to
retain his government position,!
therefore, according to the statement
of Mr. W. C. Sturdivant, chairman of
the Chattooga County Democratic
Executive committee, a commission
er in that district will have to be
elected in the general election to be
held on Nov. 8, there being insuffi
cient time to hold a primary elec
tion for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for the place.
Mr. Sturdivant states that any
person desiring to qualify as a can
didate for member of the board of
commissioners in District No. 3
should qualify before H. A. Ross,
ordinary, at the courthouse in Sum
merville fifteen days prior to the
date of the general election.
Both Mr. Alexander’s and Mr.
Sturdivant’s notices regarding the
situation follow:
“Menlo, Ga., Oct. 14, 1938.
“Hon. W. C. Sturdivant, Chairman,
“Democratic Executive Committee oi
Chattooga County, Georgia,
“Summerville, Ga.
“Dear Sir:
“At the Democratic primary elec
tion held on September 14 last I was
nominated as the party candidate for
membership on the Board of Com
missioners of Roads and Revenues
from Road District No. 3, composed
of Teloga, Alpine and Dirtseller
militia districts. I have been ad
vised, however, of a ruling by the
federal postoffice authorities that if
I am elected as a County Commis
sioner that I must resign as substi
tute rural mail carrier. In justice to
myself and my family I cannot af
ford to resign that position.
“This is to advise you, therefore,
that I must and do hereby decline
to accept the nomination as a can
didate for County Commissioner from
the district aforesaid. At the time
of my candidacy in the primary I
did not know of any such rule or
regulation by the postoffice authori
ties or I would not have been a can
didate in the primary, and it is need
less to say that I regret the situa
tion which has developed.
“I am advising you of my declina
tion of the nomination in order that
the Democratic Executive committee
can take whatever steps that may be
necessary.
“Very truly yours,
“J. L. ALEXANDER.”
NOTICE
The attention of voters in Road
District No. 3, composed of Teloga,
Alpine and Dirtseller militia districts
is direted to the above letter re
ceived from Mr. J. L. Alexander. Due
to postal regulations Mr. Alexander
cannot accept the nomination of the
democratic primary held September
14th, 1938. The postal regulations
covering a substitute mail carrier
were not known to Mr. Alexander at
that time as otherwise he would not
have been a candidate.
Since there is insufficient time to
hold a primary, the election of a
member of the Chattooga County
Board of Roads and Revenues must
be held in the general election called
for November Bth, 1938. Any per
son desiring to qualify as a candi
date for member of the Chattooga
County Board of Roads and Reve
nues in the above districts should
qualify before the ordinary, H. A.
Ross, at the courthouse in Summer
ville, Georgia, fifteen days prior to
said general election to be held on
November Bth, 1938.
W. C. STURDIVANT,
Chairman, Chattooga County Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
Berryton 4-H Club
The Berryton 4-H club held its
meeting at the Berryton schoolhouse.
Miss Henry showed us how to make
candy, then we went home.—Sue
Pegg, Reporter; Dixie Nelson, Presi
dent. i
Oi' Summer uilk Nms
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938.
U. S. Allots $3,000,000
To Buy Peanuts
(By Georgia News Service.)
CAMILLA, Ga.—According to
announcement by Roy Parrish, 3
million dollars has been made avail
able for the purchase of peanuts
through the Georgia-Florida-Ala
bama Peanut association by the
United States department of agri
culture.
“Additional funds will be avail
able if needed,” Mr. Parrish, man
ager of the association, stated.
High Taxes Apparently
Changing Travel Habits
Are high automotive taxes, combin
ed with unsettled economic conditions,
changing the nation’s travel habit to
the extent of transforming vacation
motorists into “grasshopper tour
ists?”
That is one explanation of the in
crease in intrastate highway travel
and of the seeming decline in inter
state touring reported to the Georgia
Petroleum Industries committee and
released by Neil W. Printup, secre
tary. Local traffic has shown sub
stantial gains in some sections. Re
sorts adjacent to cities appear to be
enjoying reasonably good, in some
cases heavy, patronage.
Yet other reports indicate that
business at tourist camps and at rec
reation resorts catering largely to
long-distance motor travel is off 1C
to 30 per cent., in some cases 40 per
cent, and above. The volume of tour
ist buying seems to be diminished as
compared with previous years, with
an observable curtailment in inter
state touring.
“The Texas Weekly” reports that
a recent survey indicated a gain of
22 per cent, in the number of motor
ing visitors to state parks. Gasoline
consumption is revealed by authentic
records'for the first seven months of
1938 to be not far below the corre
sponding period of 1937. Bat then
again there appears to be a decline
in commercial vehicle operation.
Evidently automotive tax costs are
beginning to take effect, especially
in view of unsatisfactory economic
conditions. In normal years motor
touring expenditures run around $5,-
000,000,000. That is a per capita av
erage of just under S4O. But that
per capita expenditure now is actu
ally less than the average automotive
tax bill, now larger than SSO annu
ally.
Since the 1929 depression automo
tive taxes have steadily increased,
chiefly through increases in gasoline
taxes. Fifteen years ago the average
annual gasoline tax per motor vehicle
was about $5; now it is more than
$30.00.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
OF GORE HIGH SCHOOL
The Home Economics club of Gore
High school held its first meeting
Oct. 13 in the home economics de
partment.
The following officers were elected:
President, Sara Scoggins; vice-presi
dent, Shirley Bartlett; secretary,
Mary McGuire; treasurer, Betty Jim
Owings; reporter, Venice Cordle;
cheer leader, Doris Williams; social
committee, Annie Hendrix, chairman;
Sara Baker, Dorothy Hendrix, Vir
ginia Ramsey; program committee,
Mattie Beth Cordle, chairman; Lou
ise Perry, Mozelle Anderson,, Lesline
Young; refreshment committee, Eve
lyn Hendrix, chairman; Lola Mae
Cargle, Pauline Christian, Tinnie Wil
lingham; decoration committee, Vel
ma Hix, chairman; Lydia Jean Wil
lingham, Alice Johns, Margaret
Aired.
With the help of our instructor,
Miss Hines, we hope to have a very
successful year in home economics.
VENICE CORDLE, Reporter.
R. D. Davison Awarded
Oldsmobile Dealership
The Atlanta office of General Mo
tors announced today that R. D. Da
vison had been awarded a contract
for Oldsmobile sales and service in
this section to become effective im
mediately.
The 1939 line of Oldsmobile is
complete with lowest prices for a
car of this class in history.
Mr. Davison advises that he will
have one of the new models on dis
play at Bob’s new service station
Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the
public in general is invited to see this
big new car with economaster motor
and individual coil springing on all
four wheels.
The local Olasmobile agency will
be the only Oldsmobile dealer this
side of Atlanta offering the extra
low G,M-A‘C, financing plan
News At a Glance
About People,
Things In State
Five Hundred Thousand Peo
ple Visited Southeastern Fair
In Atlanta During Oct. 1-8.
ATLANTA, Oct. 17 (GPS).—The
most successful fair Atlanta has put
on in five years has passed into his
tory. The carnival train and the low
ing herds and grunting pigs, making
up the Southeastern fair and Nation
al Live Stock show, have moved out
of Lakewood park. Those who attend
ed the eight-day attraction, however,
still are talking about the big event.
And there were some 500,000 per
sons who passed through the turn
stiles while the “Open For Business’
sign was out. Both President Mike
Benton and Live Stock Director Tap
Bennett were gratified at the suc
cess of the first showing of the Live
Stock show, the feature attraction of
this year’s fair, and announced plans
.or still greater emphasis in this de
partment next year.
Still Dropping: During the first
seven months of 1938 railway pur
chases of material, fuel and equip
ment totaled approximately $355,-
328,000, compared with approximate
ly $761,428,000 in the corresponding
period in 1937, a reduction of $406,-
100,000, or 53 per cent., figures of
the Railway Age revealed. The total
was less than in any corresponding
seven-month period since 1933. Pur
chases of materials, exclusive of fuel,
from manufacturers during the sev
en-month period of 1938 totaled
$191,196,000, compared with $435,-
790,000 in the same period last year.
As compared with the corresponding
period of 1929, railway buying of
equipment and materials during the
first seven months of this year show
ed a decline of $595,143,000.
Gist Os the News: Corn pone and
biscuits are no longer a tradition in
the southerner’s diet if the tastes of
Emory university men are indicative,
according to the observation of Mrs.
S. S. Haynie, Emory cafeterian diet
itian. They take the prosaic roll ev
ery time, she said .. . Fulton Su
perior Court Judge John D. Humph
ries, in deciding whether a liquor
store is too near a church, said the
nrescribed mimium distance of 100
yards is to be measured, not “as the
erow flies,” but by the nearest trav
eled route . . . For the first time in
ixty-six years there will be dancing
n Atlanta high schools. The board
i education, by a vote of four to
;wo, abrogated its venerable rule
igainst social dancing, acting on rec
mmendation of Dr. Willis A. Sutton,
uperintendent.
New Church To Be
3uilt at Summerville
The members of the Church of
God, of the union assembly, held a
meeting here Monday for the pur
pose of making plans for the erec
tion of a new ch.urch building
The new building will be erected
on the lot located on Highland ave
nue, where the old building now
stands.
The new building will be
34x45 feet and will be constructed
of cement blocks. Rev. C. T. Pratt,
of Dalton, assembly moderator, pre
sided over the meeting. Work on
the new building is expected to be
gin very soon.
Jones Named Head
Veterans of Georgia
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA.—The forty-fifth an
nual reunion of the Georgia division
of the United Confederate Veterans
ended here Friday after two days of
colorful entertainment for the old
soldiers who left vowing that they
expect another reunion next year.
General J. R. Jones, of Atlanta,
was elected commanding general of
the Georgia division. L. Thomas
(Pat) Gillen, director of the Confed
erate division of the state of Geor
gia, and who acted as host on behalf
of the retiring commander general,
A. J. Harris, of McDonough, was el
evated from lieutenant-colonel to ad
jutant-general and chief of staff. A.
J. Kerry was re-elected secretary
treasurer.
So carefully were arrangements
made by Mr. Gillen that the reunion
ended without a single mishap. He
was aided in making plans by U.D.C.
chapters and others.
American Legion
To Meet Tonight
The regular meeting of the Amer
ican Legion will be held at the Hair
cabin Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m.
Judge Maddox will speak. AH legion
naires and their wives are invited
Refreshments will b~ served.
Farm Prosperity
Associations
Being Formed
Enlarged Incomes for Farm
Families to Establish Self-
Sufficiency Is Objective.
ATLANTA, Oct. 17 (GPS)—Coun
ty farm prosperity building associa
tions are being formed in twenty-six
counties in the immediate Atlanta
trade area, as a part in a determined
move of important Atlanta business
and financial interests to advance the
state’s agriculture.
Meetings already have been held at
Cummings, Forsyth, Covington, Con
yers, McDonough, Gainesville, Dah
lonega, Blairsville and Cleveland.
They will continue in other counties
until the program is completed.
Enlarged incomes for farm fami
lies, to establish greater self-suffi
ciency are the objectives of the drive.
The program calls for aiding the
farmer:
(1) To raise and improve the qual
ity of live stock. (2) To diversify
crops. (3) To halt soil erosion and
build up land. (4) To “live at home,”
in respect to foodstuff and stock
feed. (5) Generally to develop new
sources of farm income.
This is in line with the program
that has been advanced for some
time by agricultural agents of rail
roads operating in Georgia. A survey
made recently by the A., B. & C.
railroad, showed that farmers in eight
counties in the heart of south Geor
gia’s agricultural section, who have
adopted modern methods, in carrying
out modern ideas of farming and live
stock raising, are meeting with suc
cess.
The plan of forming farm pros
perity building associations is under
the general diretion of Cully A. Cobb,
chairman of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce live stock committee.
Manv private enterprises are co-op
erating.
General Meeting Os
Chattooga Association
The first general meeting of the
Chattooga association will meet with
Poplar Springs churh Sunday, Oct.
30, at 1:30 p.m.
Devotional will be led by D. B.
Maffett, of Trion.
“The Church: As It Is Related to
Social Condition,” by J. C. Jackson,
of Summerville.
“The Church: As It Is Related to
the State,” by T. J. Espy, Sr., of
Summerville.
A general discussion of the above
questions.
It is the desire of the executive
committee that every church possible
will be represented. These are Bap
tist meetings and it is hoped that if
you are a Baptist that you will give
your support and influence to these
meetings.
I We hope to meet every member of
: the local church in which the sev
! eral meetings of the year shall con
vene. All good singers who will come
can lend much help to the success of
i these meetings.
COMMITTEE.
Indians to Play
Dallas High Friday
The Summerville Indians will play
Dallas High Friday afternoon on the
local high school field, beginning at
3 o’clock. Admission 15 and 25 cents.
Summerville traveled to Dalton last
Friday night to lose a hard-fought
I battle, but Dalton was the superior
! team.
| By the way, we have a treat for
all you fans who haven’t seen us play
this year. On Thursday night, Nov.
i 3, we are going to play Rockmart
under the lights at the Trion stadium.
Admission 10 and 25 cents. All you
I football fans come on out and see this
J game.
WHO KNOWS?
1. How many countries have had
wars or revolts in the last twenty
years ?
2. What is the cost of the raw cot
ton in a $2 shirt?
3. How old is Secretary Hull?
4. Who is the “White House
spokesman”?
5. Does the wage-hour law, which
goes into effect Oct. 24, affect ag
ricultural workers?
6. Did the British and French par
i liaments approve the Munich agree
, ment ?
7. Has the American labor party
announced candidates in New York?
8. Have the taxable profits of cor
, porations declined?
9. How does the price of wheat
compare with the price in the spring
of 1937?
10. What are the resources of the
i Chase National bank, of New York?
: See “Th? Answers” on another page.
Chattooga County Fair To
Open Next Thursday Morning
Farmers Urged to Exhibit
Live Stock, Etc., at Fair
Fair time is most here again.
Let’s keep our slogan of “Bigger
and Better Each Year.” To do this
requires the co-operation of all.
If you have some good cattle or
live stock of any kind, bring them
and let the people see what you
have.
We have plenty of good agricul
tural products in the county, and
should have a good individual ex
hibit. Look the premium list over,
bring a good stalk of cotton, bale
of hay, exhibit of corn, wheat, po
tatoes, ham, eggs or any other
product you may have.
O. P. DAWSON,
President, Chattooga
County Fair.
Gain of South Cited
By Power Executive
ATLANTA, Oct. 17 (GPS)—De
claring that the south is not “the na
tion’s No. 1 economic problem,” Pres
ton S. Arkwright, president of the
Georgia Power company, in a recent
speech before the Atlanta Kiwanis
club, said this section has made more
economic progress since 1960 than
any other section of the country.
Mr. Arkwright attacked the desig
nation, made in a recent report of a
committee appointed by President
Roosevelt, and charged that it was
damaging “not because of facts it
contained but because it is present
ed as typical of the south’s own best
thought.”
“The report was turned in twenty
days after the committee was ap
pointed,” he said. “I doubt that it
was prepared by southerners, and I
am sure it is not representative of
the thinking of the southern business
man. There is much in the report
that is true, but the picture it paints
of southerners —incompetents living
in a land of plenty—is not true. The
picture also is false in that it tells
all the bad things about the south
and fails to mention the enormous
progress we have made in improving
them.
“There is another obstacle, how
ever, which we can do something
about. That is the growth of the
strange southern doctrine that we
don’t want outside capital brought in.
If this idea spreads it can do more
to check our progress than most any
thing else.
“We all recognize that something
must be done about the conditions de
scribed in the report. The best thing
we can do is to get more capital, get
more industries into the south, wel
come them into the south because of
the new wealth they bring and treat
them fairly after they get here.”
Luell McGinnis To
Manage New Station
Bob’s new service station opens to
morrow under the management of
Luell McGinnis, formerly connected
with Garvin’s Texaco station. Mr.
McGinnis states that he will handle
only first grade gasoline direct from
the refinery of one of the major oil
companies and always of the same
high quality at saving prices.
The new station is located just
nortn of town and is both convenient
and modern, affording complete serv
ice with ample parking space and
sanitary rest rooms.
Mr. McGinnis is well known in
Summerville and Chattooga county
and will welcome his friends with the
assurance that he will never betray
their confidence by offering for sale
any inferior product.
It is generally reported that the
new station will have the distributor
ship for Cities Service gas and oils.
COFFEE TO SPAIN.
WASHINGTON. The American
Red Cross announced its acceptance
of the offer of more than 1,000,000
pounds of coffee by the Brazilian
government for starving Spanish ci
vilians. The coffee will be transport
ed to Havre by the Maritime commis
sion, where it will be sent overland
to Spain to be distributed behind both
insurgent and loyalist lines.
DOCTOR DIES DURING OPERA
TION.
ERIE, Pa. —Stricken while operat
ing on a woman patient, Dr. Frank
B. Krimmel, .well known Erie sur
geon, motioned to a colleague to take
charge, staggered from the operating
table and collapsed. He died a few
minutes later while the operation
coptinped
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THE NEWS.
$1.50 A YEAR
Home-Coming & Cen
tennial Day Set For
Friday, October 28.
Large Premium List Offered
—Cumberland Valley Shows
(To Furnish Amusements.
The annual Chattooga Coun
ty fair will open next Thurs
day morning at 9 o’clock at the
fair grounds, and will run thru
Saturday night.
County Agent O. P. Dawson
has given much of his time and
effort to make a creditable
showing in the farm and live stock
departments and promise to be the
best ever shown in this section of
the state. The live stock industry in
this county has made wonderful
progress during the last few years
and the fair officials are giving ev
ery encouragement to the growth of
this important industry by offering
liberal premiums in these depart
ments.
Exhibits in all other depaitments
promise to be as good or better than
heretofore.
The school programs promise to
be even more interesting than last
year and you are urged to attend both
Thursday and Friday nights.
The Cumberland Valley shows, as
in the past several years, will furnish
the amusements for the fair, with a
larger and better show. Several new
features have been added to the car
nival, which consists of several dif
ferent rides, shows, doll racks and
many other clean concessions.
Home-Coming Day.
Home-Coming and Centennial day
has been set for Friday, Oct. 28,
which promises to be the biggest day
of the fair.
On this day, all former Chattoo
gans are especially invited to attend
the fair, and hundreds of former res
ioents are expected to be present on
Friday, Oct. 28.
The school events will be held on
Friday, Oct. 28, at 10 o’clock with
the schools of Chattooga county par
ticipating. This will be an interesting
feature of the fair.
Don’t miss this opportunity of see
ing the wonderful progress being
made by the people of Chattooga
county as shown by the exhibits in
all departments. You can’t afford to
miss the fun. Be sure to attend all
three days of the fair.
Duckworth Takes
Seat On Bench
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Georgia supreme
court convened Monday with Asso
ciate Justie W. H. Dukworth sitting
for the first time. Justice Duckworth
succeeded Associate Justice John B.
Hutcheson, who resigned two months
prior to expiration of his term.
Among cases heard Monday was
appeal for a new trial by Harvey
Nelson, Waycross inkeeper, under
death sentence for slaying his son in
an alleged insurance plot.
LYERLY P.-T. A. HOLDS
MONTHLY MEETING
The Lyerly Parent-Teacher asso
ciation had its first monthly execu
tive meeting at the home of Mrs.
Tom Hardy Tuesday evening at 7:30
o’clock. Mrs. H. L. Abrams, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Hollis, Mr. and Mrs. Burt
Brodgen, Mrs. Little and the faculty
of Lyerly High school were present.
After the business session, Mrs.
Hardy treated the body with tasty
tidbits and coffee. In the interim the
new faculty was properly initiated to
the hospitality of their co-operative
patrons.
The next executive meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Burt Brog
den.
SIO,OOO TO CEMETERY.
BERLIN, Md.—After bequeathing
SIOO to a former housekeeper, Phillip
A. Timmons, 86-year-old farmer, left
the remainder of a SIO,OOO estate in
trust for the upkeep of the Oak Hill
Riverside cemetery. The interest is
to be used for the “perpetual care,
upkeep and improvement” of the
grounds.
TRUCK PAINTS BRIDGE.
NEW YORK.—A sharp skid by a
paint-loaded one-ton truck trailer
caused it to overturn and gave the
Manhattan end of the old Manhattan
bridge a bright new coat of paint.
Traffic was delayed for three hours
while the trailer was being put back
on its wheels and the bridge road
way sanded