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Shop Early! Get Best Selections! 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 ianapolis News. €ninuiuTinllr Neuw 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 ' •' Christmastide- —When Dreams Come True L' JF JIHr /i 1 XX X • I I® M 1 X w . iMJfc • •fIL : / ''JWSiS ■ ’ X >/':.v 7 ' .-xw 'l.k, .1 feSiXI w Like many another child, they decided to wait up to see Santa come down the chimney, but the wait was too long and they fell asleep. But what a thrill when they awaken! 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, Shop Early! Get Best Selections! $1.50 A YEAR 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. L 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. 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