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VOL. 52; NO. 42
JURORS DRAWN TO
SERVE AT FEBRUARY
SUPERIOR COURT
COURT WILL CONVENE ON MON
DAY, FEBRUARY 6, AND
RUN FOR 2 WEEKS.
Following are the names of grand
and petit jurors drawn to serve at
the February term, 1939, of Chattoo
ga superior court, to convene Feb.
6, 1939:
Grand Jury
John L. Yancey, W. E. Drummond,
Dewey Hamtmond, A. W. Vernon, J.
C. Bagley, D. L. McWhorter, George
E. Doster, C. N. Wilson, G. L. Rag
land, A. E. Strange, M. C. Chambers,
W. M. Story. E. E. Martin, Duke M.
Espy, I, N. Walters, C. J. Harlow,
C. M. Bailey.
Burr Polk, H. N. Rutherford, H. L.
McGinnis, C. C. Story, T. W. Gil
reath, J. F. McConnell, H. C. Brown,
E. E. High. Willie Alexander, R. G.
Gayler, G. W. Cordle, Sr., Zack Haw
kins. W. C. Sturdivant, M. A. Strawn,
J. T. Arden.
Petit Jury—First Week
John L. Scoggins, G. C. Floyd, A.
J. Thomas, J. R. Burgess, L. V. Daw
son, John T. Vernon, R. A. Jones, S.
H. Self, W. J. L. Mitchell, A. J.
Dempsey, O. D. Maddux, E. J. Alex
ander, Ralph R. Housch, S. W. Law
rence, E. H. Mathis, J. L. Henderson,
R. L. White, H. A. Powell, George W.
Hendrix, R. H. Baker, Ira Simmonds,
T. D. Lowery, G. G. Hartline, George
T. Kling, R. J. Price.
Joe Cook, M. A. MosMler, E. H.
Brewer, Chas. J. Powell, R. J. Beav
ers, D. M. Cargle, E. C. Hayes, F>-ank
Agnew, Duke M. Esp y, Tom Han
cock, J. F. McConnell, G. W. Stephen
son, P. A. Morgan, T. H. Cordle,
Frank Crowe, Roy Cook, O. H. Rod
gers, Lee Brown, D. F. Martin, R. L.
Holland.
Petit Jury—Second Week
C. D. Bulman, Wiley A. Scoggins,
R. L. Moore, Ernest Brown, Robert
W. King, Allen W. Justice, John R.
Ford, Sr., L. T. Henderson, A. D. El
liott, E. Y. Clements, W. H. Parson,
W. H. Spraggins Earl Williams, Eu
gene Ratliff, S. M. Stevens, F. H.
Crisp, T. H. Selman, E. H. Dalton, S.
G. Palmier, G. W. Cordle, Jr., H. L.
Hamby, W. P. McCollum, E. E. Mar
tin, Fay Green, A. M. Bryant, H. P.
Alexander, Lee Stowe, Sam Moon, S.
A. Hix, D. A. Elsberry, S. H. Gilke
son, C. C. Peppers. *
J. F. Norton, C. D. Smith, Sam S.
Barry, George E. Pless, P. A. Brooks,
Sidney H. Hawkins, E. W. Martin,
W. H. Dennis, C. N. Wilson, J. L. Mc-
Ginnis, Claude T. Hix, H. J. Garvin,
W. G. Cook, W. F. Loggins, J. A.
Puller. Grady Clifton, E. J. Hemp
hill. vV. P. Watson, J. L. Cox, J. P.
Ford, Fred B. Elrod, 0. A. Camp, L.
E. Howard, Harold Capers, H. C.
Jones, H. M. Woods, J. T. Stubbs,
Lyle Johnson.
COUNTY HOME DEMONSTRATION
COUNCIL.
The first county council meeting
of the year was held Jan. 4, in Miss
Mildred Henry’s office. Fourteen la
dies were present. Mrs. Jackson, our
president, presided over the meeting.
After the reading of the minutes
and roll call, the meeting was turned
over to Miss Henry.
She told us what other councils are
doing, and gave us an idea as to what
we can do in our counciland clubs.
We had a round-table discussion
in making plans for our year’s work.
Project chairmen were appointed
by our president.
During the social hour, delicious re
freshments were served by Miss
Henry.
Notice.
A representative of the Georgia
State Employment service will be in
Summerville each Wednesday begin
ning Jan. 11, to take claims for the
unemployed of Chattooga county for
unemployment compensation.
Anyone wanting to file claims, come
to the sheriff’s office in the court
house between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 4 p.m.
Ads is short for advertisements. |
Pronounce it aids and, believe it or
not, you’ll be right.
WHO KNOWS?
1. Who controls the giant Skoda
arms factory?
2. When did the Spanish civil war
begin?
3. When did Germany and Great
Britain sign a naval treaty?
4. Can glass be made invisible?
5. How many workers are on the
WPA rolls?
6. What was the highest national
income ?
7. Is there a wheat surplus in the
United States?
8. What is the work of the tem
porary national economic committee
9. Is the new Jefferson nickel to
be withdrawn from circulation?
10. When was Jesus Christ born?
(See ‘The Answers’ pn Another Page)
(Flip BmmntmnUp Nnus
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1939
Georgia Has Dozen
Holidays This Year
ATLANTA" Jan. 9 (GPS).—Twelve
public holidays will be observed by
Georgians in 1939. Following is the
list as announced by the governor’s
office:
Jan. I—New Year’s day.
Jan. 19—Birthday of Robt. E. Lee.
Feb. 12—Georgia day.
Feb. 22—Birthday of George Wash
ington.
April 26—Memorial day.
June 3—Birthday of Jefferson
Davis.
July 4—lndependence day.
Sept. 4—Labor day.
Oct. 12—Columbus day.
Nov. 11—Armistice day.
Nov. 30—Thanksgiving.
Dec. 25—'Christmas.
A BILLION DOLLARS
ANNUALLY WOULD BE
SPENT BY RAILROADS
ATLANTA, Jan. 7 (GPS)—Declar
ing that the railroads in the next five
years could profitably expend one
billion dollars annually for new
freight cars and locomotives, repair
of existing equipment and improve
ment to track and facilities, R. V.
Fletcher, general counsel of the As
sociation of American Railroads, re
cently discussed before the senate fi
nance committee the advisability of
amending the tax laws so as to per
mit such expenditures being taken
into consideration in computing taxes
to be paid by the railroads, it was
brought out this week by Atlanta
railway executives.
SuCh an expenditure for rehabili
tation purposes, Mr. Fletcher said in
appearing before a subcommittee
which is considering the question of
profit-sharing by industry and tax in
centive, would fee in the public inter
est for the reason that it not only
woifld bring about increased efficien
cy in railroad operation but would
provide employment for approximate
ly half a million employes in indus
try, as well as increase materially the
number of railroad employes.
“There is a need today for the ex
penditure of a large amount of money
for rehabilitation of the railroads,”
Mr. Fletcher said. “For the purchase
of new cars and locomotives, repair
of present equipment; new rail, ties
and ballast, and other improvements,
I think it is safe to say that the rail
roads could spend one billion dollars
annually. In order to make this pos
sible, there is need for the improve
ment of railroad credit so that the
rail lines can tap sources of credit
which are now not open to them. The
placing into effect of such a rehabili
tation program would do much to
stimulate industrial activity in this
country.”
If you’re so sure people don’t read
our ads how come you are reading
this ?
An Addition To the
National Forest
In the northwest corner of Geor
gia, including portions of Catoosa,
Walker, Whitfield, Gordon, Chattoo
ga and Floyd counties, lies a rugged,
largely non-agricultural territory,
draining north through Chickamauga
creek into the Tennessee river and
south‘through tributaries of the Coo
sa river. Most of the forests in this
section have been logged over, and
l'or years fires have raiged over most
of the area unchecked, so that today
the land is at a low stage of timber
productivity.
Realizing the importance of refor
esting these uplands for control of
watersheds and consequent lessening
of destructive floods, the U. S. for
est service, through the National
Forest Reservation commission, es
tablished the Armuehee purchase unit
of 250,000 acres, within which lands
were to be bought for forestry pur
poses. To date 32,315 acres have been
approved for purchase.
.Joseph C. Kircher, regional fores
ter for the U. S. forest service, an
nounces that lands acquired within
this purchase unit will be administer
ed as part of the Chattahoochee Na
tional forest, the supervisor’s head
quarters being at Gainesville and
headquarters for the district ranger i
at La Fayette.
Surveys and plans for fire protec- j
tion of this unit have been made and i
a CCC camp near Rome is starting
on the task of building forest roads
and telephone lines and constructing
lookout towers. With the support and j
co-operation of people living in and
near the forest, it is expected that
the present fire menace will soon be
so diminished that the denuded moun
tains can be reforested and the tim
berlands brought to maximum pro
ductivity.
Mr. Kircher points out that, in ad
dition to direct expenditures by the
government, the counties within
which the purchase unit lies will
eventually benefit by the fact that
25 per cent, of all receipt from the
forest will be turned over to them
and an additional 10 per cent, will be
used by the forest service to build
roads within the forest. Hunting and
fishing will also be improved and op
portunities for recreation developed.
W. C. STURDIVANT
RE ELECTED MAYOR
OVER A. B. TAYLOR
THREE NEW COUNCILMEN ARE
ELECTED IN “HOTTEST” MU
NICIPAL ELECTION HELD.
Mayor W. C. Sturdivant was re
elected mayor of Summerville Satur
day in one of the “hottest” munici
pal elections ever held in this city.
He won over his opponent, A. B.
Taylor, by a vote of 354 to 35. Mayor
Sturdivant has held the office for
the past three years. Taylor made
his race on a platform to reduce
taxes, furnish electric power for the
city by bringing in TVA power, and
place a high license fee on beer
dealers.
Only one of the four councilmen
who served in 1938 was re-eleced. C
L. Hale, councilman from the Third
ward, defeated his opponent, W. H.
Tallent, by a vote of 70 to 19. Eu
gene W. Cochran defeated Leon J,
Gamble for re-election in the First
ward by a vote of 45 to 33; Mid M.
Allen, Jr., won over Councilman Roy
Alexander in the Second ward by a
vote of 43 to 40, the third candidate,
John B. Cummings, received only 6
votes, and Dr. F. W. Hall defeated
W. F. Aldred for re-election by a
vote of 80 to 53.
At a meeting of the mayor and
council Monday morning, J. E. Baker
was appointed chief of police. E. H.
Dalton night man, with Andy Thom
as extra man.
City Recorder—T. J. Espy, Jr.
City Attorney—Moses E. Brinson.
C. L. Hale was appointed mayor
pro tern, and temporary city clerk.
This was the first time in several
years that the mayor and all the
members of the council had had op
position, and the campaign was hotly
contested for several weeks.
PTobably Summerville holds the
distinction of being the only city in
Georgia, or perhaps in the United j
States, having an election managed
exclusively by ministers. In Satur
day’s city election four local minis-1
ters, the Rev. J. C. Jackson, the Rev. j
G. G. Ramsey, the Rev. T. J. Espy j
and the Rev. J. G. Kirckhoff, were
the managers.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
ANNOUNCED
The United States civil service
commission has announced open com
petitive examinations for the posi
tions Os supervising inspector, $3,800
a year; senior inspector, $3,200 a
year, and inspector, $2,600 a year, in
in the wage and hour division, de- |
partment of labor.
Applicants must have had certain j
responsible experience in industry or j
business as an employer, ad<mini|S
trative official, or as a recognized
employe representive participating in
improvement of working conditions; [
or in a state or federal agency ad
ministering labor laws or investigat- j
ing employe-employe relationships or
economic conditions of wage-earners.
They must have reached their twen
ty-fifth but mbst not have passed
their fifty-third birthday.
Applications must be on file with
the U. S. civil service commission at
Washington, D. C., not later than!
Feb. 7, 1939, if received from states
east of Colorado, and not later than
Feb. 10, 1939, if received from- Colo
rado and states westward.
Full information may be obtained
from the secretary of the United
States civil service board of exami
ners at the post office or customhouse
in any city which has a post office
of the first or second class, or from
the United States Civil Service Com
mission, Washington, D. C.
Six-Day Program At
University of Georgia
ATHENS, Jan. 9.—Plans to bring
nationally known religious leaders to
the University of Georgia campus for
a six-day program Jan. 29-Feb. 3
were announced this week by E. L.
Secrest, director of the university’s
Voluntary Religious association.
Replacing the two-day religious
welfare conference, which annually
draws religious leaders from all over
Georgia to the university campus, the
January meeting will be made possi
ble by the co-operation of the Uni
versity Christian mission, a national
organization.
Co-operation with the university
mission, Mr. Secrest says, will permit
ten or twelve nationally known min
isters to take part in the meeting in
stead of the one outstanding leader
formerly brought to the campus by
the religious welfare conference.
Athens churches will co-operate
with university officials in making
the mission a success, and present
plans call for opening of the confer
ence wi t h meetings in Athens
churches Jan. 29. The visiting min
isters will take part in classroom
seminars, personal conferences and
informal fraternity and sorority
gatherings,
GEORGIA ACCEPTS
CHALLENGE IN THE
PARALYSIS FIGHT
QUOTAS PLEDGED BY COUNTY
CHAIRMEN—CELEBRATIONS
PLANNED OVER STATE.
ATLANTA, Jan. 10.—“ As Georgia
comes, so comes the nation ...”
With that battlecry given the state
by Keith Morgan, national chairman
of the Committee for the Celebration
of the President’s Birthday, nearly
every county chairman has pledged
to exceed his quota in the drive to
raise funds to fight infantile paral
ysis.
Mr. Morgan was a visitor in At
lanta last week, and said that the
national committee is expecting Geor
gia to live up to the record it set last
year in the drive—that of raising
mlore money to control the dread dis
ease than any other state in the Un
ion, per capita.
He said that Warm Springs is the
cradle of the great national move
ment, and that he feels sure that
Georgia’s pride in its orthopedic cen
ter will keep this state in the fore
front.
Plans for many varied types of
celebrations and parties on Jan. 30
were reported to Gov. Rivers, state
chairman, at a luncheon meeting of
section and district chairmen, held in
honor of Mr. Morgan.
The governor has asked each coun
ty chairman to see that the parties,
athletic events, sewing circles, bene
fits and celebrations of all kinds, are
held in every community, every mi
litia district so that every Georgian
will have the opportunity of joining
in the campaign.
The governor emphasized the ad
vantage to the state iq the new fi
nancial arrangement of the national
committee by which one-half of all
funds now raised will be retained in
the state to combat local emergencies
as they arise. He called attention to
the recent outbreak in Tattnall coun
ty as an illustration of the need for
a fund, which would be under the di
rection of trustees.
George V. Riley, national organiz
er, who accompanied Mr. Morgan to
Georgia, highly praised the state or
ganization. He said that the “Button
Week” plan, in which buttons are
sold in the schools, and in the busi
ness houses and on streets, has been
emulated by every other state this
year. This was originated last year
in Georgia.
Polio Drive Indorsed
By State Health Body
ATLANTA —Wholehearted indorse
ment of the campaign to raise funds
with which to fight infantile paraly
sis has been given by the state de
parment of health.
“Those engaged in seeking a cure
or prevention for this dread disease
need the loyal support of every
Georgian,” said a statement issued
by Dr. John M. Walton, assistant di
rector of the division of epidemiology.
Dr. Walton pointed to the 600,000
cases over the nation and stressed
the fact that many of them would
have been prevented had the cam
paign for funds to fight the disease
been started years before 1933.
“The work that is now being done
will prevent many thousands of cases
in the future,” he said.
“The campaign this year means
more to Georgia than it ever has be
fore, for under a new arrangement,
half of the money raised now is re
tained in the state to combat emer- :
gencies such as the recent outbreak
in Tattnall county.
“The other half goes, as usual, to
the national foundation, a large per
centage of which is sent to Warm
Springs for experimental work.”
GORE F. F. A. WINS.
(By Bill King.)
Thursday night, Jan. 5, the Gore
F. F. A. chapter went to La Fayette
to attend a meeting of the LaFayette
F.F.A. chapter and to play that chap
ter a basket ball game after the
meeting. The boys from Gore enjoy
ed the meeting very much and were
impressed by some of the articles in
the LaFayette chapter room.
In the near future the La Fayette
chapter will make a visit to the Gore
chapter for the purpose of holding
an interchapter meeting. At these
meetings all chapters participating
learn of the work of other fchapters. j
After the meeting was over came
the basket ball game. The Gore
chapter won by 2 points. The score
being Gore, 19; La Fayette, 17.
Both teams played good, clean bas
ket ball and everybody enjoyed the
game.
MENLO DEFEATS ROCK SPRINGS
Menlo’s iren men “wrecking crew”
defeated Rocks Springs, 48 to 44.
Menlo will play the fast-stepping
quint frois Dallas, Ga., Friday night
at Menlo,
Tampans Plan Pirate
Raid as Feature of
De Soto Exposition
A tough-looking customer, this Mth
century pirate, who, when he Isn’t
buccaneering, is just plain Dolph
Hanson, Tampa. Florida, business
executive and captain of the famed
Gasparilla Krewe which annually
re-enacts the exploits of she leg
endary sea robber. On Monday,
February 6, Gasparilla and his pi
rates will sail up old Tampa Bay,
raid the city and stage one of the
southland's greatest celebrations
a* one of the features of the Pan-
American Hernando DeSoto Expo
sition.
1,600 Ex-Service Men
Wanted For Reserve
Major General D. Embick, com
manding the Fourth corps area, with
headquarters at Atlanta, announces
that the army is desirous of securing
the enlistment in the eight south
eastern states comprising the fourth
corps area, of 1,600 men with prior
arnly service in the newest compon
ent of our national defense, the reg
ular army reserve.
This latest addition to our national
defense was authorized by Seventy-
Fifth congress with a view of main
taining a corps of trained men of
approximately 75,000, available for
immediate call to duty as reinforce- !
ments for the regular army, in the I
event of a national emergency.
Major General Enfbiok states that
approximately 1,000 southern lads
have been enlisted in the reserve
since the effective date of the fact,
July 1, 1938.
The reservist is not under military
jurisdiction and will not be called to
active service except in case of an
emergency declared by the presiden!
of the United States. The reservist
is not required to attend drills or
camps and is assured that his civil
ian occupation will not be interfered
with by training requirements or ex
aminations.
Each reservist is entitled to an en
listment allowance of $2 per month,
payable every four months. In addi
tion, when ordered to active duty,
each member of the reserve will, upon
reporting and when found physically
qualified and accepted for active duty,
receive an additional sum at the rate
of $3 per month for each month he
has been a member of the reserve,
but not to exceed a total of $150.00.
Membership in the reserve is lim
ited to ex-regulars, under 36 years of
age and physically fit, regardless of
the length of time they have been
separated from the service. In other
words, trained soldiers who have re
ceived their training as enlisted men
of the regular army, and whose
service has been honest and faithful
and terminated by honorable dis
charge after at least one year of
continuous service. Married or un
married former soldiers are eligible.
Detailed information with reference
to the reserve may be obtained from
the U. S. army recruiting station or
the army post nearest your home.
Should there be no recruiting station
or army post in your immediate vi
cinity, full information may be ob
tained by a card or letter addressed
to the Command General, Fourth
Corps Area, Post Office Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Reservists who desire to enlist
again in the regular army will be
discharged from the reserve upon ap
plication, provided they report to the
army post at which they desire to
serve, are found qualified, and a
vacancy exists. They will not be de
nied enlistment due to their being
members of the regular army re
serve.
Each reservist is requested to re
port change of address on a card
furnished for this purpose in order
that there may be no delay in mail
ing enlistment allowance vouchers
and checks.
All prior service men are urged to
avail themselves of this opportunity
of maintaining their army contacts!
B.T.U. RALLY.
The Chattooga associational B. T.
U. rally for this quarter will be held
at Subligna Baptist church next Sun
day afternoon, Jan. 15, at 2:30.
Rev. E. B. Shivers, pastor of Trion
Baptist church, will be the main
speaker. AIJ are invited and urged
to attend, ,
If you like knocking, knock a home
run—advertise.
$1.50 A YE Ait
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Jan. 9 (GPS).—Geor
gia, and particularly Atlanta, are
headed straight for better times dur
ing 1939, if Economist Roger W. Bab
son’s forecast of business conditions
for the new year comes true. And it
might be added that Mr. Babson is
one of the best in the business at
feeling the economic pulse of the na
tion. His forecast, in part, ran some
thing like this:
“In my opinion, the trend towards
a further industrialization of the
south will continue. Atlanta—strad
dling the old agricultural and new
industrial areas of Dixie—will bene
fit at the same time from new meth
ods in agriculture and industry. Look
at the potential leaders of 1939 and
you will find a cross-section of your
own important manufacturing estab
lishments—chemicals, railroad equip
ment, steel, building and household
equipments. The new and rapidly de
veloping southern paper industry will
continue to make rapid strides . . . .
Atlanta and all Georgia is currently
running well ahead of national re
covery. I feel that it will continue its
leadership in 1939.”
Interesting Facts: Taxes paid in
1937 by the railroads to federal,
state and local governments averaged
$620 per minute . . . One dollar now
pays for carrying a train passenger
fifty-four miles compared with thirty
two miles in 1921 . . . The average
speed in 1938 of both passenger and
freight trains was the highest on rec
ord .. . Railroads of the United
States had to work twenty-nine days
in 1937 in order to earn enough rev
enues to pay their taxes, compared
with nineteen days in 1917 ... In
only two years—l 933 and 1932—since
the compilation of carloading reports
started in 1918, has the volume of
freight traffic been less than it was
in 1938 ... New freight ears on or
der Dec. 1, 1938, totaled 4,335, the
smallest number on order on that
date in four years.
Gist Os the News: Twelve-year-old
Jean Cox, daughter of Representative
Eugene E. Cox, of Camilla, got the
thrill of a lifetime "recently when
congress opened. She was sworn in
as a “page-boy” of the house of rep
resentatives, the first girl to ever
hold such a position in the history of
congress. At $4 a day, she served only
four days as she goes to a private
school in Washington . . . Georgia’s
No. 1 auto license tag went to an
Atlantian who got up at 4 a.m. and
waited at the state capitol until the
windows opened at 8 a.m.. And, it
might be added, he deserved it. During
the first day auto tags were issued
5,200 were handled, compared with
3,412 handled the first day of the
1938 sale.
Methodist Campaign
Prominent workers in the Metho
dist church in its Dalton district, to
which the Summerville church be
longs, are among the more than 150
workers in the campaign to obtain
funds with which to repurchase the
physical properties of Wesleyan col
lege, Macon, who have been called to
the middle Georgia city on Jan. 12
for a special conference on the
work, which is now under way in
Macon and soon will be in progress
throughout the state.
The college lost its properties thru
a foreclosure sale last year, but a
bondholders’ committee which pur
chased them has granted an option
to four friends of Wesleyan which
must be exercised by March 16. The
college is seeking to raise $600,000,
an amount which it is said will cover
the purchase price asked for the
properties, appraised from $2,500,000
to $3,000,000, rental due on the prop
erties this year, interest charges and
camipaign costs. The campaign costs
will be small, it is said, as the work
is being done by men and women
within the college and among its
friends, no specialty organization be
ing employed.
The Dalton district committee will
be under the direction of Rev. J. S.
Thrailkill, Dalton. Miss Frances
Adair, Cartersville, will assist him.
PENNVILLE CLUB MEETING.
The Women’s Home Demonstration
club met Friday, Jan. 6, with Mrs.
Archie Housch. Sixteen ladies were
present. Mrs. Housch, being an in
valid, was given a fruit shower by
the members of the club.
Miss Henry discussed food produc
tion and preservation. She gave us
an outline to show us how to pro
vide food for our families during the
coming year.
Contests were enjoyed by all.
The losing side of a recent contest
served delicious refreshments to the
club.
Everyone reported a nice time.
Our club will meet with Mrs. Mathis
next month, having a Valentine and
''kid party,