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VOL. 52; NO. 31
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
RO AO USE SURVEY
STARTS NEXT WEEK
Survey Will Determine What Use
Is Made of State Highways, County
Roads, City Streets By Georgians.
(Special to The Summerville News.)
The Road Use survey, a new phase
of the comprehensive highway and
traffic study being conducted in the
state by the Division of Highway
Planning of the State Highway board,
will be launched next week in Chat
toogo county, it was announced today
at Atlanta by 0. T. Ray, state di
rector.
The Road Use survey, which will
determine what use is made oi state
highways, county roaus and city
streets by the residents of Georgia,
will be conducted through the iogn
schools of the state, it w«s announc
ed. The plan evolved calls for train
ed instructors to appear oetore indi
vidual classes and to iniorm the stu
dents how to assist the driver of the
family car or truck m filling out, a
questionnaire which will be distribut
ed to them. Highway maps will be
handed out with the questionnaire as
an aid in filling out tne forms,
tendent of schools, has endorsed this
Dr. M. D. Collins, state superin
method of obtaining the required
data.
“There is a very definite place in
which "the high school stuuents, teach
ers and superintendents can lit into
this highway program and, thereby,
bring to the attention oi the cnu
dren some very definite and concrete
civic lessons, as well as tying up the
interested of the community witn the
educational program,” sain Dr. Col
lins. “We want Georgia to lead in the
contribution which the school can
make to the highway program.”
Many other states, which also are
conducting highway planning surveys
in co-operation with the United States
Bureau of Public Roads, have em
ployed the pupil-interview method of
obtaining road use data with great
success, Mr. Ray stated in his an
nouncement of the start of operations
in Chattooga county. Each student is
instructed to interview his or her
parents and to bring in one filled-cut
questionnaire form. Students whose
family is without a car or truck are
requested to interview a neighbor
who owns an automobile and who has
no child in high school.
“This is a very important phase
of the work of the division of high
way planning,” said. State Director
Ray, “and we are counting on the
complete co-operation of school sup
erintendents and teachers, as well as
of the high school students of the
state. Through this survey the Geor
gia youth is given an opportunity to
serve his government in supplying es
sential information on one of the
foremost problems of the day—scien
tific highway planning and traffic
control —and I am certain that they
mill take full advontage of it.
“To the school in each county which
returns the largest percentage of
properly filled out questionaires the
division of highway planning will
present a large and complete county
map, which will show all roads,
churches, schools and dwelling
houses.”
The road use survey, by learning
from car owners what portion of
their total travel is on each class of
road, will be enabled to determine
the amount of driving performed by
the various population and geograph
ical groups in the state on each class
of road. An analysis of these findings
will reveal whether those contribut
ing funds for highways, roads and
streets are deriving benefits propor
tionate to their expenditures in texes.
PLASTIC GLASS.
ROCHESTER, N. Y. Plastic
“glass” produced from the mysteri
ous big molecules resulting from res
ins created through a combination
of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, was
recently described by chemists, who
forecasted a multitude of uses for the
compound, among them being non
shatterable eye-glasses which would
meet optical requirements.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What radio station uses the
greatest power?
2. How is national advertising di
vided between newspapers, maga
zines and radio?
3. How many workers are there in
the United States?
4. Is a crippled child, over 18 years
of age, a dependent under income tax
rulings?
5. Is the U.S. doing anything tc
encourage American painters and
sculptors ?
6. Has the president power to de
value the dollar?
7. Are relief workers finding pri
vate employment?
8. How much is the government
spending for farmers this year.
9. When will the “monopoly in
quiry” make its report?
10. What per cent, of the cost of
a PWA project is paid by the feder
al government?
See 'The Answers’ On Another Page)
Just to Top Off.
City Visitor—-You’re quite wrong
in considering the birds a nuisance;
they devour insects and caterpillars.
Farmer—Thanks for telling me.
It’s a great consolation to know that
they eut my fruit merely frr desiert.
She Bninmvrnilh' Nrtns
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938.
Prize Sugar Cane,
Potato Vine Grown
TOCCOA. —Georgia is coming out
of the fog, at least she shows ten
dencies in that direction agricul
turally. Charlie Roberts, of Ocilla,
was proudly displaying a giant
stalk of cane that measured over
seven feet and was large in size
the other day. He says he raised
this cane, which was of the red va
riety, in a small patch at his home.
And Cawthon Davis had a giant
potato vine measuring eighteen
'feet in length which is the longest
ever to be reported in the section
around Toccoa. Whether these un
usual growths were due to the ex
‘pert agricultural advice in these
sections or just luck has not yet
been learned.
Old-Age Insurance
Claims At $42.20
Average In State
Social Security Officials At Atlan
ta Announces Month’s Totals.
During September 237 old-age in
surance claims, averaging $42.20
were paid in Georgia, it was announc
ed by Joseph R. Murphy, manager
of the social security board’s Atlan
ta field office. In the same period
the national total of of claims paid
was 17,133 and an average of $59.05.
“Since the old-age insurance sys
tem went into effect Jan. 1, 1937,
more than 216,500 claims, represent
ing a total of $8,539,739.44, have
been certified fcr payment,” Mr.
Murphy said. “Each single cash pay
total taxable wages paid to the in
ment is equal to 3 1-2 per cent, of the
dividual for work in industry and
commerce.”
State Wage-Hour
Layoffs Spread;
Idle Set At 3,000
Tobacco Firm Releases 1.000 By
Installation of Machinery—Lumber
Companies Shut Mills.
Developments Tuesday in the sit
uation following effectiveness of the
federal wage-hour act were:
1. Georgia’s total of persons made
workless stood at an estimated 3,0(0
the layoffs having spread into the
picturesque hand-made candlewick
bedspread industry of North Georgia
The Douglas' Tobacco company an
nounced it had discontinued jobs for
about 1,000 hand-stemmers, having
r-sorted to machines.
2. In Washington, President Roose
velt in a press conference caustically
assailed raising of the question of the
law’s workability two weeks before
the national elections.
3. A lumber edmnany at Swains
boro was closed, releasing 400 work
ers. At Vidalia two lumber concerns
had ceased operation, affecting 600
men, while at Milledgeville scattered
shutdowns in sawmills and lumber
camps put at least 190 persons out
of work.
4. At LaGrange ten sawmills, em
uloying about 150 men, had shut
down, at least temporarily, pending
orification of the situation.
5. Expressing a different view
point, J. C. Hill, official of the Syl
vania Veneer company, declared from
Sylvania: “De have always co-operat
ed with the federal programs and
found it profitable. The NRA in
creased our business and we believe
the wage-hour bill will, by increas
ing purchasing power.”
6. From Albany, J. B. Latimer,
secretary of the Southeastern Peanut
association, announced pay raises for
more than 3,000 workers in Georgia,
Alabama and Florida, mainly wom
en to comply with the law’s require
ments.
President Roosevelt appealed to
the nation’s industrialists and busi
nessmen to work with the govern
ment’s newest attempt to increase
purchasing power and inspire re
covery.
17,000 Tenants
Apply For Farm
Purchase Loans
Two Hundred Twenty Chattooga
Tenants Have Applied For Loans.
More than 17,0(0 Georgia ten
ants, sharecroppers and farm labor
ers have applied for loans to pur
chase farms through the federal gov
ernment’s tenant purchase loan pro
gram.
R. L. Vansant, state director of
the farm security administration,
said in Athens last week that 17,106
applications had been filed with farm
supervisors in the seventy counties
made eligible for the program during
the current fiscal year.
Chattooga county has 220 applica
tions on file.
Approximately 450 loans will be
made with the $1,587,507 allotted
this state for the current fiscal year,
the FSA director said. Only 186 farm
purchase loans were made during the
past year.
Federal meat inspection now cov
ers 70.00Cj,000 animals annually, or
about two-thirds of the country’s
meat supply.
Small amounts of iron, copper and
zinc may 6e necessary for crop pro
duction in awn*
COUNTY OIL MEN TO
MEET HERE NIGHT
OF NOVEMBER 2ND
Some Prominent Georgia Oil Men
Will Attend and Address the Local
Group On Matters of Importance.
“Wholesale and retail oil dealers
and their employes of Chattooga
county are meeting at 7:30 p.m., C.
S. T., Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the
courthouse in Summerville,” accord
ing to G. J. Boling, local wholesale
oil man.
Mi. Boling stated: “Neil W. Print
up, Atlanta, secretary of the Geor
gia Petroleum Industries committee,
and other prominent Georgia oil men
will attend and address the local
group; and that matters of vital im
portance and unusual interest to all
oil men and their employes will be
thoroughly discussed.”
Mr. Boling stated: “Secretary
Printup emphasized the necessity of
oil men from all parts of the county
beihg present, and that the county
organizations were strictly non-po
litical co-operative groups of oil men,
irrespective of small or large compa
ny affiliations. No dues, fees or other
assessments are required for mem
bership or activity in connection with
the work. It is largely of a protec
tive nature for motorists the same as
those engaged in the oil business.”
The meeting will be open to the
public. Not only oil men, but all per
sons engaged in automotive work
and other interested parties are urg
ed to be present.
State Lacks Funds To
Match Federal Money
Auditor Says It May Be Impossible
To Use Highway Authorizations.
The apparent paucity of state funds
to match federal road-building allot
ments was contained in a report on
the state highway board by State
Auditor Zach Arnold.
Arnold, in his audit for the last
fiscal year, estimated revenue accru
ing to the highway department next
year would approximate $14,000,000.
Added to funds now on hand, he said,
this would give the department $15,-
216,000.
This figure, he added —after de
ducting the amounts necessary for
administration, maintenance of high
ways, operation of post roads and
planning projects divisions, payment
on county refunding certificates and
commitments maturing in the next
year—would leave only about half
the amount necessary to match the
present federal fund balance.
The auditor estimated this would
make it impossible to use new fis
cal year authorizations by congress
The annual report showed the
date highway board had a gross
revenue of $41,549,000 from all sour
ces and expenditures of $37,683,000
luring the fiscal year ending June
30. Funds available included $20,604,-
;00 in state funds, $19,973,000 in fed
eral money, and $972,000 in post
roads funds.
Expenditures included $24,757,0C0
.or administration, construction and
maintenance out of state funds; sll,-
953,000 for construction from federal
unds, and $972,000 from post road
funds.
7 armers To Vote
December Tenth
On Cotton Quotas
More Than Two Million Growers El
igble tO'Vote In Referendum.
Saturday, Dec. 10, is the date set
by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
.or the 2,225,000 cotton growers to
east ballots on the crop control pro
gram.
On that date a referendum on es
tablishing marketing quotas on next
year’s cotton crop will be held. The
vote the past March was 9 to 1 in
favor of the 1938 crop plan.
Two-thirds of the farmers voting
must approve quotas in order to
make them effective. Their purpose
is to restrict production and sale of
farm products when excessive sup
plies exist. Growers who produce
more than their quotas are _ denied
government subsidies and are assess
ed tax penalties if they market in ex
cess of their quotas.
Because of the wide interest and
recent agitation, the December ref
erendum will be followed with close
attention.
U. S. Trade Balance
During Past Month
Is Very Favorable
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.--Led by
a rise in agricultural shipments,
American exports for September ex
ceeded imports by $78,710,000 and
gave the United States a favorable |
balance of trade of $860,234,000 for
the nine months of 1938, the com
merce department reported today.
September exports were valued at
$246,361,C00 while imports aggregat
ed $167,651,000. For the nine months
period shipments abroad of Ameri
can goods had a value of $2,295,196,-
000 while imports totfll p d $1,434--
»62 ( QOt) f
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
State School Board Voted to Add
Audio-Visual Education to Regular
Curriculum in Common Schools.
ATLANTA, Oct. 24 (GPS)—The
common school teaching system is
going streamline. The state school
board, in session last week at the
capitol, voted to add audio-visual ed
ucation to the regular curriculum in
the common schools of the state. The
board’s executive committee was di
rected to work out details of the plan
at a meeting to be held this week.
Local school authorities must provide
their own motion picture machines
and radios or phonographs to run
pictures and furnish sound effects
for the audio-visual classes, but the
state school department will provide
the films and slides. A circulating
library of films and slides, covering
many phases of the teaching of his
tory and science, will be set up at
the state capitol, to provide the lo
cal schools with the pictures they
require. State Superintendent of
Schools M. D. Collins hailed the ad
dition of this course as a great step
forward in the common school teach
ing system.
Pay As High: Railway employes,
on the average, receive higher annual
pay than that of employes in any
other industry, except finance, de
clared Dr. Willford I. King, profes
sor cf economics at New York uni
versity.
Gist Os the News: The “yam” may
j be a dance to the jitterbugs, but to
a South African planter it is a Geor
gia product he wants to see. E. Dav
idson, of Johannesburg, has asked
an Augusta nursery to ship him ten
pounds of sweet potatoes . . . The
Atlanta Crackers won the pennant,
the post-season play-off and the Dix
ie series, and now, through a mathe
matical error, it is discovered their
third baseman, Johnny Hill, of Doug
lasville, is the official Southern
League batting champion. A recheck
of the records places Hill’s average
at .382, one point above Haas, of
Nashville, who was first claimed the
hitting champ Atlanta High
school youngsters recently enjoyed
the first dance given in the school
system in the past sixty-six years.
The dance followed dedicatory exer
cises in the new Henry Grady audi
torium at Tech High.
Southern Highlands
Region Has Vast
Vacation Pleasures
Fall vacationists will not have far
to go to find a diversity of attrac
tions, both natural and man-made, in
.he Southern Highlands region, ac
cording to accounts noted by the fed
eral writers’ project, WPA, which is
co-operating with the Southern High
lands Recreation committee in assem
bling information on the varied scen
ic and recreational resources of the
.erritory.
Nearly 7,500,000 acres of national
and state forests are to be found in
the area, which embraces a large part
of Tennessee and adjoining sections
of Alabama, Georgia, North and
South Carolina, Virginia and Ken
tucky. In addition, the region has
more than 540,000 acres of federal
and state parks, another 3,500,000
acres in approved and projected na
tional forest purchase units, and ov
er 400,000 acres in TV A reservoirs
and parks.
State conservation agencies and
planning boards, the national park
service, the United States 1 forest
service, and TV A are successfully
geared to the common task of estab
lishing and developing new recrea
tional sites. Equally important are
the* co-ordinated activities of such lo
cal organizations as tourist bureaus,
chambers of commerce, citizens com
mittees and motor clubs.
Besides these public areas, exten
sive recreational facilities are pro
vided by seenically located resorts,
ranches, hotels and lodges in the
Southern Highlands.
U. S. MAY RUN PLANTS.
WASHINGTON.—If the textile in- :
dustry declines to cut costs to the |
bone on products made for sale at '■
bargain prices to low-income fami
lies, officials of the department of
agriculture declare it might be nec
essary for the government to lease
closed plants, or build its own plants
to provide an outlet for the vast
stores of surplus cotton and other
farm products. ‘
Os the sixty-four elements known
to be present in the soil, fifty-eight
have been found in plants.
Cull trees, crooked, unsound, short,
bushy topped, slow-growing trees,
should be cut for the winter fuel
supply.
Watermelon Parties
Still In Season
KlNGSLAND.—Watermelon sea
son may be over in most places,
but not in Kingsland. Last week,
Mrs. Tommie Sterling, St. Mary’s
correspondent for the Kingsland
Georgian, reported a watermelon
cutting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Mcßae. The melons, late
hut none the less edible, were
■ grown in th« Mcßa* eardm
Chattooga County Fair Opens
This Morning at 9 O’Clock
Interesting Exhibits to Be Displayed— Cum
berland Valley Shows to Furnish Amuse
ments—Home-Coming Day Friday.
The thirty-second annual Chattooga County Fair opens this
(Thursday) morning with a very interesting display of exhibits
and amusements for all.
1 The exhibits have been very interestingly and artistically ar
ranged and any one will be well repaid by seeing them.
Freak Pigs Are
Born In Quitman
QUITMAN. —A Duroc Jersey gilt
on the farm of Pete Bulloch, Col
quitt county farmer, gave birth to
seven pigs—but these offsprings
were far from normal. One of the
little pigs possesses arms that seem
to be almost human and have fin
gernails on them. And three of the
others have screw tails similar to
those on Boston bulldogs.
Emergency Cotton
Loan Is of Benefit
To Entire Country
How mderate cotton loans, espe-
I cially in an emergency, are benefi
cial not only to the Cotton Belt but
to the entire country, was explained
by Henry A. Wallace, secretary of
agriculture, in a recent address at
Fort Worth, Tex.
“The excess cotton produced in the
1937 season alone was enough to sup
ply the usual consumption of cotton
in the United States for all purposes
for a whole year,” Secretary Wallace
said. “In the face of super-abundance
like that, those who have been ac
cusing cotton farmers of practicing
scarcity ought to hang their heads
in shame.
“This big crop was partly due to
exceptional growing weather. But it
was due also to the fact that the
supreme court decision of 1936 has
destroyed the cotton-production con
trol program, and farmers had plant
ed seven million acres more than they
had been planting under th<- . old
i riple-A.
“In that emergency, the 9-cent cot
| ton loan was of real importance. It
| sustained the price of cotton and sup
ported other prices with it.
“Cotton loans at too high a level
could be very harmful indeed, but in
that emergency( a moderate cotton
loan benefitted the Cototn Belt and
the entire country.
“The present carry-over of more
than thirteen million bales is even a
little larger than the carry-over of
1932. Doubtless, without the cotton
loan and the cotton-acreage program,
the price of cotton would be down to
4 or 5 cents a pound. As it is, the
price is around 8 cents, slightly be
low the present loan level of 8.3
cents.
“I believe the cotton loan should
be continued to assist producers to
hold their cototn and permit them to
sell it when they choose, and as a
stop-loss measure in times of emer
gency.”
Mystery Shrouds
Ft. Mountain Ruins
Early Cherokee legends ascribe the
origin of the old stone ruins at Fort
Mountain state park, on U. S. High
b-ay 76, near Dalton, to a “white
skinned race of moon-eyed people,”
the federal writers’ project, WPA,
has learned in the course of assemb
ling material on the scenic and rec
reational resources of the Southern
Highlands region, with the co-onera
tion of the Southern Highland Rec
reation committee.
A number of versions are held con
cerning the origin of this primitive
fort, however. Various historians have
attributed is construction to De Soto,
deVelasco, or the Cherokee Indians.
The ruins now survive in the form
of a low stone wall, 855 feet long,
made up of scattered flat rocks be
lieved to have been once piled sev
eral feet high as a defensive breast
work.
Fort Mountain State park comprises
an area of about 700 acres of beauti
ful woodlands overlooking the sur-
■ rounding valleys. The mountain from
; .vhich the park derives its name rises
| to an elevation 2,832 feet above sea
i level, and is one of the peaks of the
' Cohutta range .Trails and paths lead
i up past the ruins of the fort to a
! stone observation tower on the sum
-1 mit.
Upon the acquisition of additional
'ands, the state plans to develop the
park for more extensive recreational
■ use. A fifty-acre lake, a combined
I bath and boathouse, picnic and camp
' ing grounds, and other such improve
ments are among the new facilities
I contemplated.
CONFISCATE OLD IRON.
BERLIN. —Acting on instructions
of Field Marshall Hermann Goering,
storm troopers are collecting old
sewing machines, engine parts, iron
pipes and every sort of old iron avail
able, even removing iron failings
from garden walls. The iron will be
■ sent tn Tpynit|op? and other factories.
8 PAGES THIS
WEEK OF
THE NEWS.
$1.50 A YEAR
' Liberal premiums are being offer
ed in the farm and live stock exhibits
so as to promote greater interest in
this important industry.
Mrs. Edmond Baker, Mrs. J. L.
McGinnis and Mrs. Henry McWhor
ter, as managers of the ladies’ de
partment of the fair, have spared no
effort to make displays in this de
partment better than ever before.
Home-Coming and Centennial day
has been set for Friday, Oct. 28, and
every former Chattoogan, especially,
is invited to be here for the fair so
as to make this a really big home
coming.
The school program this year
promises to be an interesting feature
of the fair. These events will be held
at the high school auditorium Thurs
day and Friday nights. The athletic
events will be held on the fair
grounds Friday afternoon.
The Cumberland Valley shows are
here again with more and thrilling
rides, clean concessions. This makes
quite a number of years these shows
have been here, and that alone is
enough to assure you of the many
attractions that they offer.
This is a wonderful opportunity of
seeing the progress made by the peo
ple of Chattooga county and we feel
sure, after seeing the exhibits in the
different departments, you will agree
on the progressiveness of our county.
Be sure to attend all three days of
the fair because you don’t want to
miss the fun.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
ANNOUNCED.
The United States Civil Service
commission has announced open com
petitive examinations for the posi
tions named below.
Junior E<Jinev, $2,000 a year.-
Certain optional ‘subjects are given.
Applicants must have completed a
full four-year recognized college
course leading to a bachelor’s degree
in engineering. They must not have
passed their thirty-fifth birthday.
The closing dates for this examina
tion are Nov. 14, if applications are
received from states east of Colorado,
and Nov.. 17 if received from Colo
rado and states westward.
Dairyman-Farmer, $1,860 a year;
junior dairyman-farmer, $1,500 a
year, bureau of Indian affairs, de
partment of the interior. Recognized
college training, with major study in
agriculture, is required; and certain
dairyman and farming experience,
except for the partial substitution of
agricultural teaching experience,
dairy herd improvement work, or ag
ricultural college graduation. Appli
cants must not have passed their
forty-eighth birthday. The closing
dates for receipt of applications are
Nov. 22, if received from states east
of Colorado and Nov. 25 if received
from Colorado and states westward.
Full information may be obtained
from the secretary of the United
States Civil Service Board of Exam
iners at the postoffice or custom
house in any city which has a post
office of the first or second class, or
from the United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C.
$3,000,000 CONTRACT.
LOS ANGELES. —The British air
ministry has awarded a contract to
the Lockheed Aircraft corporation
for $3,000,000 worth of spare parts
for airplanes. This is the largest or
der for extra equipment that this
company has ever received. This or
der complements that received by the
company last June from the British
government for 200 reconnaissance
bombers costing approximately $lB,-
000,000.
NEW AIRSHIP ABOUT READY.
LAKEHURST, N. J.—Delivery of
the largest non-rigid airship ever
built in the United States is expected
sometime next month. The craft is
under construction at the Goodyear
plant in Akron. It will carry a crew
cf eight, has a gas capacity of 400,-
<,OO cubic feet and a cruising range
of sixty hours at an average speed
of fifty knots. It will be used in coast
al patrol service.
TAKES CHANCE. LOSES.
LONG BEACH, Calif. —When a
would-be patron offered her $1 for
all the breakfast he could eat, Mabel
Kollery, case operator, decided to
take a chance. It will be the last
time, because the man ate a dozen
doughnuts, two bowls of beef stew,
several steaks and eight cups of cof
fee. By that time, the police were
called.
You Never Can Tell.
Girl- —Why didn’t you tell me I had
a dab of rouge on the tip of my nose ?
Escort—-How should * man know
how you girls w-atp tn wear your
' complexion f