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Circulates in the BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA! 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