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VOL. 52- NO. 38
Georgia Joins South In
Approving Cotton Quotas
Georgia joined other cotton-pro
ducing states in approving marketing
quotas for cotton in the December 10
referendum, but, like other states in
the belt, turned down a proposal to
apply marketing quotas to flue-cured
tobacco.
The vote in Chattooga county was
776 for and 225 against the cotton
marketing quota.
In the belt as a whole, tabulations
show that 940*393 farmers balloted
for the program and 177,855 oppos
ed it.
A two-thirds favorable vote of all
cotton farmers voting was necessary,
under the law, to make quotas ef
fective for the 1939 crop. In Georgia,
87,767 votes were cast for cotton
quotas and 24,242 against. This was
a favorable majority of 78.4 per
cent. Nearly complete returns indi
cated that the belt-wide percentage
in favor of cotton quotas would be
approimately 84 per cent.
A two-thirds favorable vote of all
flue-cured tobacco farmers voting
also was necessary to make quotas
effective for the 1939 crop. Georgia
cast 15,778 votes for tobacco quotas
and 9,468 against. This was a fa
vorable majority of 62.5 per cent.'
belt-wide majority, however, was
only 57 per cent., whereas a belt
wide majority of 66 2-3 per cent,
would have been necessary to make i
quotas effective.
Approval of cotton quotas means
that the federal farm program for,
cotton in 1939 will be virtually the ;
same as that in 1938. Acreage allot- \
ments to individual farmers will be;
made under the agricultural conser
vation program and farmers who
plant within their acreage allotments
may market all the cotton they can
produce on their allotted acres with
out penalty. Payments will be made
under the conservation program to
those who co-operate in. 1939.
Rejection of the marketing quotas I
on flue-cured tobaccos means that 1
farmers have decided to depend en
tirely on voluntary compliance with
the agricultural conservation pro
gram as a means of adjusting supply
to demand.' The acreage allotments
made under the conservation program
will stand, but there wil] be no
poundage allotments. There will be
no penalties for selling tobacco, but
producers who plant more than their
allotted acres will have deductions
made from the conservation pay
ments.
Producers who plant both cotton
and tobacco will be counted as non
compliers in the conservation pro
gram if they plant more than their
allotted acreage to either crop. In
other words, a farmer who stays
within his cotton allotment but over
plants his tobacco allotment is count
ed as a non-complier, and the conser
vation payment earned by co-operat
ing in cotton may be offset by de
ductions for non-co-operation in to
bacco. , j
REV. W. P. ROWE TAKES
CHARGE OF LYERLY M. E.
The Rev. W. P. Rowe, for the past
2 years pastor of the M.E. church at
Griffin, Ga., who was appointed by '
the annual conference, held in Atlan- 1
ta in November, arrived at Lyerly
parsonage some two weeks ago with
his wife and son. And after a few :
days straightening up in the parson- ;
age, began his active work as pastor
of the Lyerly charge. On the first I
Sunday in this month he preached to
congregation at Oak Hill at
11 o’clock and also again at 7:30 at
night.
Last Sunday morning he went to |
Jones Chapel to Sunday school at 10 ’
o’clock. From Jones Chapel he went
to South Carolina Camp Ground and
preached at 11 o’clock, and at 2:30
he went to Prospect in Floyd county
and preached to a large congregation.
From Prospect, he returned to
Jones Chapel at 6 o’clock where he
was rendered -a reception and large
pantry shower by the good people of
Berryton mills.
NEW WOMAN’S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY. ;
The ladies of the New Hope (S.)
Baptist church met Sunday, Dec. 11
and organized a Woman’s Missionary
society in the church. The associa
tions! superintendent, Mrs. Thos. J.
Espy, was present and delivered a
message on “Teaching Through the
Woman’s Missionary Society.” The
message was informing and helpful.
The officers of the society are:
President, Mrs. Rufus Brison; vice
president, Mrs. Charlie White; sec
retary and treasurer, Mrs. Mack
Strong.
The ladies will meet each month
and the organization will be perfect
ed at the next meeting.
Permanent Work.
Ambitious students who want to be
sure of a durable profession* might
major in abolishing
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938
CITY PLANS TO TAKE
OVER WATERWORKS
I SYSTEM JANUARY I
The waterworks system here has
been purchased from the bondholders
of the old Summerville Cotton mills
by the City of Summerville, and it is
expected that all the preliminaries
will be completed by the first of
the year and that the city will be
ready to take over the system about
that time.
A well-known brokerage firm in
Atlanta has agreed to buy the certif
icates at 5 1-2 per cent, per annum.
The amount of revenue certificates
proposed to be issued is $50,000, th
certificates to be dated Jan. 1, 1939,
I and will be payable semi-annually,
on the, first day of January and the
first day of July each year until
Jan. 1, 1957.
i It is understood that the city will
improve and enlarge tht system of
waterworks in the territory within
the city limits. Additional fire plugs
will be installed and the mains will
be extended in the different parts of
the city.
It is said that Summerville enjoys
I the distinction of being the first mu
nicipality in Georgia to secure funds
for acquiring waterworks under the
act of the general assembly of Geor
gia as approved March 31, 1937.
Average Georgia
Family Will Spend
$42.43 on “Santa”
Georgia’s families will spend an
average of $42.43 apiece this year
for Christmas as their share of the
nation’s forecast two-billion-dollar
total, the national consumers tax
commission estimated today.
Os this amount, they will pay, most
of them unknowingly, $6.49 in hidden
taxes, according to the report an
nounced at national consumers tax
commission headquarters in Chicago
by Mrs. Kenneth C. Frazier, presi
dent. ,
The study indicated, she said, that
total national retail sales for 193 c
will “equal or surpass” the 1937 vol
ume of nearly forty billion dollars,
and the average Christmas expendi
ture of the nation’s families will be
$62.50, of which $9.57 will account
for hidden taxes.
In releasing the report, Mrs. Fraz
ier explained that while many fami
lies will spend less than the national
Yule estimate, expenditures of those
in the upper income group will bring
the average to that figure.
The “holiday business” volume, she
said, was based on reports from all
retail businesses including depart
ment, specialty, novelty, jewelry, va
riety and dry goods stores food, drug,
furniture, household furnishings anu
automotive lines.
“Indirect levies not only add to the
price of Christmas purchases, but to
the price of food, clothing, and othei
year-round necessities,” Mi’s. Frazier
said in commenting on the report’s
hidden tax figures.
She described the NCTC as a “non
partisan women’s organization with
more than 1,800 units throughout
the country analyzing all taxes, and
combating those which penalize the
consumer.”
County School Basket
Ball League Formed
The following schools in Chattoo
ga county have organized a basket
ball league for this season. A regular
schedule of games will be played by
these teams: Menlo, Lyerly, Gore,
Subligna and Summerville are the
schools represented in the league.
Each Tuesday night during the bas
ket ball season two games will be
played by some form of the above
named teams. Each week one team
will be idle in the league.
Some games have been played by
some of the teams and in next week’s
News the standing of the various
teams will be given.
The various coaches are hard at
work with the boys and there will be
many interesting games played in the
Menlo, Lyerly or Summerville gym
nasiums during this season.
Plan now to see several of these
games between the schools of the
county. The boys play hard, clean
basket ball and they deserve the sup
port of each and every basket ball
fan in the county.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Smith and chil
dren, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith and
children and Miss Aline Smith were
week-end quests of Ralph Smith, of
Atlanta ' •'
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Revenue Department
Appeals Decision Os
Tax On Intangibles
ATLANTA, Dec. 12 (CNS)—The
state department of revenue has ap
pealed to a Georgia superior court
j from a decision of the Georgia board
of tax appeal, which held that stock
' in ‘domesticated corporations’ was not
I subject to the state tax on intangi-
I bles. About $300,000 in 1938-39 rev
enue would be affected, it was learn
ed, if the adverse decision of the ap
.peals board were sustained.
A domesticated corporation is one
I organized in another state but which
has filed an application giving it the
status of a Georgia corporation.
Leading Atlanta department stores
and several manufacturing concerns
are among the chief corporations in
this class, it was understood.
School Honor Roll
For November
GRAMMER SCHOOL
1-A—Jean Cordle, Jacqueline Tay
or, Oscar Precise, Jr., Addie Jane
/right.
1- —Laquinta Young, Geraldine
Thomas.
2- —Dan Cordle, Sara Jo Cramer,
Frances Gibson.
3- —Vera Nell Bagley, Florence
’’lanigan, Bertha Kellett, Charlotte
ifoore, Margaret Meadows, Frances
Pailimour, Mary Jim Tedder, Juanita
roung, Monroe Mathis.
3-C—Dooley Fowler, Lewis Wig
ley, Wanda Fletcher, Frances Gilmer,
Maidell Hemphill.
5-A —Tom Story, Jack Cash, Ted
Burgess, Frances Moore, Mary R.
Fulmer, Sylvia Frady.
1- —Delo l es Mcßrayer, Lola Live
ly, Junior Gilmer, James Webb.
2- —Mozelle Hunter, Jack Reece,
j Jack Webb, Ernestine Wofford, Bar
i bara Bridgeman, Barbara Turner,
I Wallace Busby, Pauline Brewer.
3- —Jack Espy, Robert Hunter,
i Haney Barnes, Loretta Burgess,
| Opal Gass, Mary Housch, Mary Ellen
Selman.
4- —Betty Alexander.
4- —Bill Pledger.
5- —Eugene Taylor, Gilbert Ram-
I sey, David White, Charles Wright,
1 Hazel Hughes, June Hayes, Margaret
Kerr.
6- A— Jack Humphreys, Wayne
j Grace, Loray Byars.
6-B—Avie Johnson, Natalie Mar
ring, Catherine Reed, Joe Stephen
j son.
Seventh —Mary Tripp, Sara Joe
Manning, Jimmie Hudson, Clarice El
j lenburg, Jeanette Echols, Joe Dodd
' Cook, Jane Agnew.
Eighth—Dorothy Adams, Surel
‘Floyd, Catherine Green, Betty Hemp
hill, Ruth Hunter, Joyce Wofford,
Frances Thomas, Darty Stowe, Cor
dle Bagley, Bob Elrod, James Martin.
Ninth Lois Housch, Catherine
Johnson, Willie Mae Jones, Muriel
‘ Palmour, Mildred Tallent, Louise
Tripp, Ophelia Watkins.
Tenth—-Louise Brown, Josephine
Crouch, Mattie Lou Edwards, Ava Lee
Fulmer, Hazel Reavis, Adeline Tay
lor.
Eleventh —Claude Bagley, William
Cleghorn, Joe Charles Favor, Harold
Wilson, Essie Brown, Edna Rae Dobbg,
Martha Jo Hayes, Martha Mae Par
ker, Ovelle Tallent.
Afraid Not.
Somehow nobody seems to find out
who is going to psycho-analyte the
psychoanalysts to learn whether they
really are sane an 4 responsible.-
troit Free Press,
Weather Is Chilly—
But Talk Isn’t Silly
ATLANTA, Dec. 12. (GPS)—Al
though winter has not yet reached its
crest, they’re talking baseball—-a
strictly summer sport.
But that isn’t as silly as it appears,
for now is the season when the mo
guls lay their groundwork for next
year. For instance, most of the big
shot baseball men assembled last
week in New Orleans for an import
ant pow-wow. They attempted to
trade off the old timber for the new.
The guiding geniuses of the Atlan
ta Crackers, Southern league and
Dixie champions, were there in the
midst of the fray. President Earl
Mann and Manager Paul Richards
were on the job, seeking what they
believe the baseball fans of Atlanta
and Georgia want in 1939.
The annual schedule meeting of the
Southern association will be held in
Atlanta Jan. 16. The season will be
gin April 14 and close Sept. 10, with
154 games as usual. The Crackers
will open with Chattanooga as their
opponents at Ponce de Leon park.
Summerville Cotton
Mills Will Reopen
(Chattanooga News.)
A new company, the Summerville
Manufacturing company, is in proc
ess of formation to lease and operate
the Summerville (Ga.) Cotton mills
and it is hoped to -get the industry
back in production around Jan. 1,
Paul Mathes, trustee for the proper
ty, said here Friday.
Mathes explained that a holding
company for the property, the North
Georgia Properties company, is be
ing formed and that he will transfer
title to the property to this new cor
poration.
Bondholders of the old Summer
ville Cotton mills, who acquired the
property through foreclosure, will
own the stock in the new holding
company, their bonds in the old mill
company having been canceled. Math
es will be’ president, Morrow Cham
berlain, of Chattanooga, vice-presi
dent, and R. E. Evans, Chattanooga,
secretary-treasurer, of the holding
company.
Stock in the operating company
will be owned two-thirds by the hold
ing company and one-third by the
firm of Curran-Barry, New York,
which for years has been sales agent
for the Summerville mills, J. M. Cur
ran, Jr., New York, will be president
treasurer, Chamberlain and Mathes,
vice-presidents, and H,ugh Given,
secretary.
Application for a charter for the
operating company was filed in the
Chattooga (Ga.) Superior court
Thursday. Capital stock was set at
$75,000, with the privilege of in
creasing this amount not to exceed
$1,000,C00. Mathes said that in the
capital structure of the operating
company provision will be made for
SIOO,OOO in working capital. An esti
mated SIO,OOO will be spent in pre
paring the mill for operation.
The Summerville mill has been
closed since Aug. 1. About 300 are
normally employed. The mill’s equip
ment includes 17,000 spindles and 400
looms. The mill produces cotton duck
and suiting.
Harry L. Hopkins says that WPA
has made improvements to 169 of
the nation’s 191 airports.
Complex.
Life does seem sort of comnlicatcd
when four boys are arrested for rob
bing a policeman of his autopmbile,
containing a gun and a bottle of liq
uvr.=-Cl«vtla-4 News
Collins Will Seek
Federal Help For
Georgia Teachers
ATLANTA, Dec. 12 (CNS).—Dr.
M. D. Collins, state school superin
tendent, is seeking to secure federal j
assistance, probably through the
works progress administration, for
the teachers in Georgia schools. The I
WPA assisted materially in the cri
sis that developed in 1933-34.
Georgia school teachers, in general, .
have received their pay for Novem-j
ber, as a result of local borrowings |
by school boards. The state will meet
its December payment on the school
appropriation, but the fiscal crisis of
the state is still not solved, and
school executives are looking toward
the legislature for some prompt
action.
The state’s guarantee of seven
month school salaries was carried out!
last year only by transfers from the I
stabilization fund. School officials '
fear that, with reduced revenues, it
will be impossible to ‘catch up’ the |
missed November payment.
Lions Club Sponsors
The Crown of Thorus, a magnifi- I
cent picture of the life of Christ, ,*
with talking and music, will be pre
sented at the high school auditorium {
next Thursday night at 7:30. A sil- ’
ver offering will be taken. The pro
ceeds will be used to establish a lunch
room in the Summerville public
schools to feed undernourished chil
dren.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this picture which is well
worth while, and to support the splen
did cause for which it is being held.
GEORRGIA GROWERS ATTACK
THE AA.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The first
test case involving constitutionality
of marketing quota provisions of the
1938 agricultural adjustment act as
applied to tobacco was brought into
the supreme court today.
The action was filed by a group of
Georgia tobacco growers. They ask
ed the high court to take jurisdiction,
hear arguments, and render a final
devision.
While only tobacco marketing quo
tas are attacked, the case is regard
ed as test of marketing quota pro- j
visions affecting cotton, wheat, corn }
and rice.
The Georgia tobacco growers were
forced to appeal from a three-judge
federal court in Georgia, which de
nied their suit for injunction against
warehousemen in Valdosta to enjoin
them from paying over to the gov
ernment a penalty of 50 per cent, of
the purchase price of tobacco mar
keted in excess of quotas.
CURB SECURITIES UP SLIGHTLY
NEW YORK.—Stocks on the curb
exchange showed fractional gains to- I
day in listless trading. Leading util- ■
ities were barely changed. Industrials ;
put up the strongest front advancing I
a point or more in some cases, Avia
tions had a good tone.
ROME SHATTERS BUILDING
RECORD.
ROME, Ga. —Building permits is
sued here the first ten days of De
cember brought the total for the year
to date above the all-time high rec
ord set in 1928. Records show that]
the 1938 volume of permits now
stands at $643,371, and the .1928 to
tal was $635,185.
I Sixteen building permits amounting
to $15,800 were issued here during
the first t*n day s of December,
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NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE ANO
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Dec. 13 (GPS).—City
folk are beginning to realize that the
small towns have been ahead of the
times. For many years small towns
have enforced a speed limit within
; their corporate borders that resulted
| in safety to their citizens. The maxi-
I mum speed for motor vehicles may
I have seemed low to tourists, but it
was a speed limit that kept the cars
i under control of the drivers. As a re
sult, comparatively few fatal acci
dents occurred. Now the bigger cities
realize the common sense behind such
I ordinances. Atlanta is the latest city
; to change its maximum speed limit.
'lt has been reduced from 35 to 25
I miles per hour. A survey of ten prin
cipal cities in the southeast now
I have an average speed limit of 22.5
| miles an hour in the downtown busi-
I ness area and an average of 27.5 miles
an hour in the outlying residential
sections. It cost many lives for the
cities to find out what the small
towns have known for years.
Not A Solution: “Whether publici
!ty or privately owned, the roads
| would have to be supported by some
j group or class in the community if
I they were not self-sustaining,” de
! dares the Washington (D. C.) Post,
j “When privately owned roads incur
i losses, investors suffer. If the gov
ernment-owned roads are run at a
loss, taxpayers must supply the mon
ey with which to cover deficits. In
I short, government ownership would
- solve none of the finanicial problems
of the railways. It would merely
: change their character and add fresh
; complications due to intrusion of pol-
I itics into management of the nation’s
transportation system.”
Gist Os the News Hopes for a
I Christmas visit home by several hun
dred prisoners of the state of Georgia
were shattered when it was announc
ed that the Yuletide furlough plan
had been abandoned for this year. The
plan proved impractical because of
the inability of prison officials to in
vestgate the records of some 9,000
prisoners, it was pointed out
Christmas pageantry again will adorn
the lawm of the governor’s mansion
i in Ansley Park during the Yule sea
-1 son, beginning Dec. 16 ... A fa
ther’s desire to see his daughter’s
wedding led a young Atlanta couple
j to have their marriage ceremony per
formed at Emory hospital recently,
j The newlyweds are Miss Camille
Rogers and Harry O. Smith, who
said their vows before an improvised
| altar in the present of the bride’s
j father, Roy Rogers, of Newton, who
■ has been ill in the hospital for some
time.
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Local Postmaster
Gives Precautions
For Yule Mailing
With the post office department
now entering the heaviest rush of
the year, F. F. Chapman, local post
master, requests the co-operation of
the public in general to safeguard
the happiness of the millions who
give and receive both gifts and cards.
Mr. Chapman stresses four simple
rules:
(1) Pack carefully, (2) wrap se
curely, (3) address plainly and (4)
register or insure your gifts.
It is much better form to have
your gifts arrive early than late, and
gifts that have far to travel could
well be on their way at this time.
Only special deliveries will be deliv
ered Sunday and Monday, Dec. 25th
and 26th.
Mr. Chapman also suggests that a
card worth mailing is worthy of a 3-
cent stamp. This is true because of
the fact that only letters so stamp
ed may be forwarded and in many
cases with less postage face the
wastebasket after Christmas, failing
completely in their mission of bring
ing joy and happness for the lack of
an extra penny in postage.
On both first-class mail and pack
ages it is always requested that re
turn address be clearly written, and
again in conclusion, pack carefully,
address plainly and mail early, and
Merry Christmas to all.
BONDS CONTINUE ON UPGRADE
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Strength
in lower-priced and defaulted rails
was continued today in the bond mar
ket. The list was well supplied with
i point gains marked up in active trad
ing, which got under way at the
| opening.
*U. S. Treasury bonds were some
what quieter but prices held near
highs for the years. Firmness char
acterized the market for high-grade
! industrials and utilities, while for
eigns w r ere under pressure in a few
places.
Japanese prepare for full control
of China under a new government to
be established in Peiping.
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