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CIRCULATE IN BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 52; NO. 49 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS IN GEORGIA ATLANTA, Feb. 21 (GPS).— Georgia is a safer place to live in nowadays. Proof of this is found in the complete tabulations just released by the depart ment of public safety, which show there were 816 deaths in the state during 1938 as the result of traffic accidents, a de crease of 128 as compared with 1937. There were 28,560 persons injured in traffic accidents last year, compared to 33,040 injured 1937, and the economic loss caused by accidents in 1938 was es timated at $36,720,000. Eighty of those killed last year were en route to schools, and 128 were of school age. Not one of these deaths, however, were recorded at schools guarded by schoolboy patrolmen, the report pointed out. Further proof that the state-wide public safety move ment is gaining impetus was the A., B. & C. railroad’s recent report, which show ed that not a single death or serious in jury to persons resulted from accidents at highway-railroad grade crossings over its lines during 1938. The railroad oper ated a total of 1,350,045 train miles dur ing the year. Cheaper and Safer: “There never was a time when the railroad problem was of greater significance nor of more vital in terest than it is today,” declares William C. Dickerman, president of the American Locomotive company. “This railroad sys tem of ours gives the cheapest and safest transportation in the world. It gives em ployment to a millioin men and, in 1937, paid out in wages about five million dol lars a day. It pays in taxes nearly a mil lion dollars a day and, in normal times, buys annually more than a billion dollars worth of materials and supplies produc ed in every state of the land. And this purchasing power, as it fluctuates one way or the other, has a similar influence on the welfare of the country. If this country is to survive, then our great railroad system must survive. Given fair treatment under a real constructive na tional policy, then there are brighter days ahead for all of us.” Gist Os the News: A bill setting Jan. 1, instead of Feb. 1, as the deadline for ptirchasing automobile tags has been in troduced in the state senate . . . Geor gia's unemployment compensation bene fits have averaged slightly over $6 since payments were started late in January. .. . Georgians have received $122,564 in tax rebates from Uncle Sam during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938 . . . There are approximately 131,167 women voters registered in Georgia . . . The Georgia general assembly has been asked to adopt officially “The Georgian Waltz,” a song written by two Atlantians. Remus Harris, grandson of Joel Chandler Har ris, wrote the words and Irving Melsher, musician, composed the tune . . . Hape ville will hold a liquor referendum March 11th. Gore School News By LESLYN YOUNG. This is the week in which the “C” district tournament is to be held. Both boys’ and girls’ teams are determined to win. The boys team is to play Cohutta today at 3 o’clock. The girls are also to play Cohutta Monday, Feb. 27, at 8:30 p.m. Our basket ball game with Menlo has been postponed until next week. C. B. Fulton, one of our ambitious seniors, not only likes to excel in ath letics but is determined to increase his vocabulary. He carries a Webster’s dic tionary from class to class. Frankie Salmon and Violet Atkins have returned to school after a week’s vacation in Washington, D. C. Virginia Ramsey is back in school aft er a short illness. The home economics girls and the F.F. A. boys are going to present a play at the school auditorium March 10. The ti tle will be announced later. WHO KNOWS? 1. How much money was raised by the celebration of the president’s birthday for use in the fight against infantile paralysis? 2. What is the present strength of the army air corps? 3. What is the membership of the col lege of cardinals? 4. What proportion of Canadians are of French origin? 5. When did Great Britain adopt her non-intervention policy toward Spain? 6. How many Americans carry life insurance? 7. How many years has the federal government shown a deficit? 8. How does the public debt of the United States, including federal, state and local governments, compare with leading European countries? 9. How many persons received public aid in 1938? 10. Has any previous American con gress adjourned upon the death of a pope? (See "The Answers” on Another Page.) Naval reports put the United States sixth in submarines; Italy, Reich and Japan leading the Ifofc Biunnwrutlk Nnus SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939 DRIVE MADE FOR MORE COTTON CONSUMPTION The first step in an effort to join the five major divisions of the cotton indus try was launched Wednesday, Feb. 15, when representatives from nearly every county in Georgia met at the capitol in Atlanta. The county representatives heard Oscar Johnson, chairman of the National Cot ton council committee on organization, urge them to unite for the purposes of increasing the consumption of cotton. Mr. Johnson was introduced by Gov. Rivers, and talked to a joint session of the house and senate, with the county representatives in the gallery. His speech was broadcast over WSB. The National Cotton council, Mr. John son stated, hopes to attack the problem of consumption along five paths: adver tising, to get more people to use cotton in its various forms; improvement of cotton quality; research for new uses; tariff revisions, and opposition toward discriminative legislation. “For the first time in history there are assembled today for a common pur pose men representing the five primary raw cotton interests,” Mr. Johnson said. “In the National Cotton council are rep resented producers, ginners, warehouse men, cotton merchants, and cottonseed crushers from each of the major cotton producing states of the nation. “The problem which confronts our in dustry, the cotton industry, reduced to a simple form is the age-old problem of supply and demand. Without criticising the governmental efforts to deal with the situation, it can be said definitely, and without controversy, that in the main the government undertook to solve the problem from a single angle; namely, from the standpoint of supply or pro duction. “We are in complete accord through out the industry as to the desireability of increasing the consumption of American cotton and its by-products by inteDigent advertising of those products. We are also in accord on the desireability of im proving quality, scientific research for new uses, revision of tariffs, and opposi tion to discriminatory legislation. “Is there then any sort of reason why representatives of each of the five cot ton interests should not come together, perfect an organization, and fight for the advancement of the industry?” The plan of the National Cotton coun cil and the Georgia unit is to raise a func for the operation of the new organiza tion by making assessments on the va rious cotton interests, which will be used to advance the five phases of the work described by Mr. Johnson. LYERLY SCHOOL PROJECT 50 PER CENT COMPLETED Regional Director H. T. Cole today announced Lyerly’s sll,Blß PWA school was 50 per cent, completed. At this time Cole reported from At lanta that the regional office had receiv ed a requests for $1,181.80 publicworks administration funds as a grant payment on the project. Under PWA regulations this requisi tion —for one-tenth the total cost—can be paid when the improvement is 70 per cent, finished. The request was filed at the 50 per eent. stage so that PWA could examine the documents and have the funds ready by the time the project reached the 70 per cent, stage of com pletion, Cole said. Payment will bring PWA funds paid to the project to 35 per cent, of the total cost, and leave only 10 per cent, to be paid at the time of completion. With this payment, 90 per cent, of the total cost will be made available for the construction account. All of the owner's share—s6,so0 —will be deposited before PWA’s final 10 per cent, payment is made. Improved. Production Methods For State Irish Potato Crop ATHENS, Ga., Feb. 21.—Improved production methods for Georgia’s Irish potato crop will be the goal of the Irish potato short course to be offered at the University of Georgia college of agricul ture Feb. 27-March 3.. The course will include discussions of soils, planting, harvesting, potato disease and insects, grading and storing. It will be offered in co-operation with the Geor gia agricultural extension service. In announcing the short course, Dr. T. H. McHatton, head of the department of horticulture, noted the growing import ance of the potato crop in the state and mentioned the use of good seed and prop er methods to increase yields. Speakers at the meetings will include Dean Paul W. Chapman, of the college of agriculture; W. O. Collins, professor of agronomy; Elmo Ragsdale, extension horticulturist; J. E. Bailey, of the Moun tain experimient station staff; Dr. Mc- Hattan and R. L. Keener, of the horticul ture department; J. H. Miller, univer sity plant pathologist; Sam Gunn, of tne state board of entomology ; H. I. Borders, extension plant pathologist; L. E. Farm er and C. G. Garner, extension market ing specialists. Study finds farm labor displaced by tractors, etc., is offset by the work cre ated in auto factories. Grand Jury Presentments February Term of Court To the Hon. Claude H. Porter, Judge of' Superior Court: We, the Grand Jury drawn and sworn to serve as jurors of the February term, 1939, of the Superior Court of Chattoo ga county, make the following report of the duties that we, as jurors, have per formed. Our first duty was to pass on all the bills sent to us from the office of Hon. J. Ralph Rosesr, solicitor-general. We tinhk that we have given just considera tion to all of the bills. REPORT OF COMMITTEES. We, the committee appointed by our foreman to examine the books and rec ords of the Clerk of Superior Court, find the following: All of the books that we examined are kept up to date in every respect and are true and correct as far as we can find. We also find that the ballot of our elec tions are kept in tin boxes under lock and seal. C. N. WILSON, W. M. STOREY E. E. MARTIN We, the committee appointed by our foreman to examine the books and rec ords of the county school superintendent, find the following: That the books and records are nicely kept and are in good order and are correct as far as we can find. I. N. WALTERS BURR POLK H. N. RUTHERFORD We attach to this report a report from the county school superintendent on re ceipts and disbursements for the year ending Dec. 31, 1938. We, the committee appointed to exam ine and make investigations of the offices of the Ordinary and the Tax Collector as to books and records, find, to the best of our knowledge, that all records and books in both offices are in good shape, clean and neatly kept. DEWEY HAMMOND R. G. GAYLOR GEO. E. DOSTER We, the committee appointed to ex amine the books of the Justices of the Peace of the county, also the books of the Sheriff’s find the following: That only two justices 'of the peace's books have been turned in at this time, namely, Alpine and Seminole, which, on examination, we find them to be neatly kept and up to present date. We also find the books of the Sheriff’s office neat and correctly kept. W. E. DRUMMOND JOHN L. YANCEY A. W. VERNON We, the committee appointed to visit the County Farm and to inspect and re port on some, find the following: We find on hand at the county farm: One wagon, value sls; 1,000 bundles of fod der, 75 bushels of corn in shuck, 250 chestnut posts, value $25; one set of plow harness and check lines, value $6; 1 two barns and one corn crib, one set of farming tools, thirteen beds, one stove, one set of cooking utensils. We find that the county has seven houses on the farm and that three of the houses are badly in need of new roofs. We recommend that these three houses be covered. We found all of the other houses in good condition. The county also has at the county farm j one pair of mules which we value at S2OO. I All the grounds and buildings are neat and well kept and all the inmates are well I cared for. C. C. STOREY J. F. M’CONNELL T. W. GILREATH We, the committee appointed by our foreman to inspect the Jail and Court House, find the following: We recom mend that the ceiling in the upstairs part of the jail be repaired at once with steel, also the ceiling downstairs is in need of repair and this should be re paired at once. We recommend that the windows of the jail and of the court house be kept clean; also that the chim neys of the jail and the loose bricks over the door of the jail be fixed. We find several bad leaks in the roof of the court house which should be repaired at once to keep from ruining the walls. We find that the northwest corner of the court house is in bad condition and we recom mend that this be repaired. We recom mend that the signs in the court house, prohibiting spitting on the floors and steps, be strictly enforced. J. C. BAGLEY M. C. CHAMBERS C. J. HARLOW Hon. Grand Jury, Chattooga County. Georgia, Gentlemen: You will pleased be advised that we have on deposit for the credit of Chat tooga County $34,818.74, of which ap proximately $30,000.00 will be paid out within the next ten days for the pay ment of Chattooga county warrants, which have been called for payment. Yours truly truly, FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, County Depository, By : D. L. McWhorter, Cashier. We, the committee appointed to exam ine the books and records of the Board of Roads and Rev'enue, find that they are kept nice and up to date, and are correct as far as we can find. E. E. HIGH DUKE M. ESPY WILLIE ALEXANDER The Grand Jury, as a body, made a visit to the chain gang where we were served a very nice dinner by Capt. T. A. Mashburn. We find that at the present time they have forty-six prisoners, of which twenty are white and twenty-six are colored. We find that they have on hand an ample supply of machinery, food and clothing for present needs. We find that the grounds and buildings are kept in good condition and that the prisoners are well cared for and are apparently satisfied with living conditions. We recommend that Gordon Cameron be re-appointed as justice of the peace for Trion, district No. 870. J. H. Edge, the county commodity supervisor, came before us and gave us a report of the work that he is doing in the county. We recommend that the report of Mr. Edge be spread upon the minutes and that the same be published in The Summerville News. We recommend that W. P. Selman be appointed to the board of education for a term of four years. We recommend that the interest rate on our county warrants be reduced to 5 per cent. We, the Grand Jury, commend the Board of Roads and Revenue for ap pointing R. M. Crawford as purchasing agent, and for their trying to economize on the expenses of the county. We wish to thank His Honor, Judge Porter, for his able charge to this body. We also thank Hon. J. Ralph Rosser for his efficiency, and courtesy shown us. Also we want to thank our bailiff, J. G. Stephenson, serving us. We regret to hear of the serious ill ness of our assistant solicitor-general, Hon. Sante Crawford, and wish for him a speedy recovery. We recommend that these presentments be published in The Summerville News and the usual fee be paid for same. Respectfully submitted, this the Grand Jury of Chattooga County, February Term. 1939. A. E. STRANGE, Foreman . As. Fore. HARRY M’GBJNIS, Clerk DUKE M. ESpY, As.'Clerk. Report of State, County and School Tax For the Year 1938, Collected to Feb. 1, 1939: Value of property on digest subject to bond for court house $3,946,170.00 County levy for bonds, 1 mill, makes amount due county for bonds 3,946.17 Value of prop- erty on digest for regular tax $3,119,935.00 County rate, 21 mills, make amount due county .... -65,518.63 Value property from public service $ 482,183.00 Due county 10,608.02 Amount due county from interest collected to Feb. 1, 1939 12.70 Total amount due Chattoo- go county for year 1939 $ 80,085.52 Credits: Dec. 10. 1939 I paid F. M. 8..$ 413.32 Nov. 21, 1938 I paid F. M. 8.. 2,371.16 Dec. 21. 1938, I paid F. M. 8.. 3,835.70 Jan. 12, 1939, I paid F. M. 8.. 52,413.72 Feb. 4, 1939, I paid F. M. 8.. 1,170.11 Feb. 13, 1939, I paid F. M. 8.. 1,792.70 My commission. 1.650.20 Tax Receiver’s commission ... 1,699.58 Total credits .. $65,346.49 $ 65,346.49 Amount o f uncollected taxes for 1938 $ 14,739.03 Report For State Tax Value of prop- erty on digest $3,119,935.00 State tax rate, 5 mills; amount due state from digest $ 15,599.68 Due state from poll tax on digest 2,781.00 Interest collected for state 6.35 Total amount due state.... $18,387.03 Credits— Paid F. & M. B Nov. 21, 1938.$ 23.46 Paid F. & M. B Dec. 10, 1938 642.94 Paid F. & M. B Dec. 21. 1938 1,192.83 Paid F. & M. B Jan. 12, 1939 11,250.77 Paid F. & M. B Feb. 4, 1939 377.20 Paid F. & M. B Feb. 12, 1939 761.59 My commission 691.28 Paid tax receiver Total Credits. $15,709.58 $15,709.58 (Continued on Last Page) ~ CASES TRIED AT THE FED. TERM OF COURT Below is a list of the civil and crimi nal cases tried at the February term of Chattooga superior court: S. M. Baugh vs. A. S. Patterson. Ver dict in favor of plaintiff. Universal Credit company vs. Mitchell Bowman. Verdict in favor of plaintiff. Mrs. Jessie E. Black vs. H. D. Pollard, receiver of Central of Georgia railway. Verdict in favor of defendant. Frank Kellett against W. E. Dunaway, lunacy; appeal from ordinary court, in favor of W. E. Dunaway. Mrs. W. W. Foster vs. J. F. White. Verdict in favor of defendant. Dill Ballenger, propounder, vs. Mrs. Elsie Hix, et. al., caveators appeal from ordinary’s court. Verdict in favor of de fendants. Criminal cases: J. C. Browning—misdemeanor; plea of guilty. Probated. Albert Smith —Misdemeanor. Verdict not guilty. Ben Miller —Felony. Nolle pressed. Chauncey Thompson—Assault and bat tery. Verdict not guilty. Roy Searles —Felony. Verdict not guilty. Ralph Smith —Misdemeanor. Verdict not guilty. Lloyd Ritley—Felony. Verdict not guilty. Babe Mack —Assault with intent to murder; verdict guilty of stabbing. Sen tenced to twelve months. James Brock —Assault with intent to murder; verdict guilty. Sentenced from three to five years. Buck Pope—Burglary; plea of guilty. Sentenced to twelve months. Roy Lee Barr —Misdemeanor; plea of guilty. Sentenced to twelve months, aft er three months, balance on probation. L. D. Pless —Misdemeanor; plea of guilty. Sentenced to twelve months at state farm. Will Jones—Misdemeanor; plea of guilty. Fined costs. Eddie B. Jackson —Using obscene lang uage ; plea of guilty. Fined costs. A. J. Brady—Misdemeanor. Fined $lO and cost. Edward Bohanon —Misdemeanor. Fined S3O to include all costs. Walt Wilburn lnvoluntary man slaughter. Nolle pressed. Deed Crowe —Misdemeanor; plea of guilty. Fined costs only, twelve months probation. . Harry Willingham—-Misdemeanor. Ver dict not guilty. True bills returned at the February term of court: Lewis Gladden, misdemeanor; Ethel Adams, misdemeanor ; Doc Sain, felony ; Julius Watkins and W. R. Lively, alias “Dub” Lively, misdemeanor; Mrs. George Teems, misdemeanor, three cases; Paul Morrison, misdemeanor; Sam Favor, mis demeanor ; Randolph Moon and Bobby Watkins, burglary; Jud Lively, misde meanor ; Leonard Hutchins, felony; Har ry Terrell, assult with intent to murder; B. W. Farrar, felony, three cases; Syl vester Thompson, misdemeanor. The grand jury returned fourteen no bills. ‘Ready-Made Family’ On Friday evening, March 10, at 7:30 o'clock, a three-act comedy, “Ready-Made Family,” will be presented in the Menlo auditorium under the auspices of the Menlo P.-T. A. This is the third program in a series of entertainments sponsored by the or ganization this year. The cast includes members of the fac ulty, students and other talented aetors of the community. The cast of characters and other de tails will be published in next week’s is sue of The Summerville News. GORE H. D. A. CLUB MEETS. The Gore H. D. A. club met Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 14, in the home econom ics building. Eleven ladies were present and a most interesting discussion on poultry was given in round-table form. Miss Henry gave us some information on proper feeding of baby chicks, also right kind of food for the laying hens. Mrs. Entrekin w T as present and conducted sev eral interesting contests. Sandwiches and coffee were served. —Mrs. Geoerge D. Morton, Reporter. 4-H AND WOMANS H. D. COUNTY COUNCIL MEET A very interesting joint meeting of the 4-H and Woman’s Home Demonstration County council was held Feb. 18 in Miss Henry’s office. Mrs. Robert Jackson, W. H. D. president, presided. Plans were made for a county-wide clothing construc tion meeting to be held at the court house March 15. Miss Reba Adams, state home industry specialist, was speaker for the afternoon session. Many interesting handicraft projects made from native products rep resenting different sections of the state were shown. Plans for a handicraft short course to be held at the courthouse March 20 and 21 were made. The short course will include instructions of unholstery. basketry, pine needle work, light wood work, making of lamp shades and corn shuck projects. The meeting adjourned after which refreshments were served. STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAR POLIO FOUNDATION RECEIVES $20,000 FROM STATE DRIVE (By Georgia News Service.) ATLANTA.—L. Thomas (“Pat") Gil len, executive director of the Georgia Committee for the Celebration of the President’s Birthday, presented a $20,000 check to National Director Keith Mor gan, of New York, at the Victory Din ner held at the Henry Grady hotel here last week, which climaxed the state’s drive to raise funds to fight infantile paralysis. The check, which was signed by W. V. Crowley, vice-president of the Fulton Na tional bank, of Atlanta, and treasurer of the Georgia committee, and Mr. Gil len, and countersigned by the governor as state chairman of the drive, repre sents Georgia’s contribution to the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis. In making the treasurer’s report, Mr. Crowley announced that all funds were not in, and predicted the total amount raised would exceed $55,000. Gov. Rivers presided over the dinner which was held for section, district and county chairmen of the 1939 drive. Basil O’Connor, head of the national founda tion, was principal speaker. Mr. Gillen, in presenting the check, ex plained that half of the funds raised in this year’s drive will remain in the state of Georgia for the exclusive use of Geor gia’s crippled children and gave an out line of the set-up of the Georgia Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. Attorney-General Ellis Arnall present ed Charlton county, of which Ward Har rison was chairman, with the county trophy for the second consecutive year. Dr. M. D. Collins awarded the school system trophy for the second year to the same county. Mrs. Frank A. Dennis, of Eatonton, co-chairman of the women’s division, gave the individual school cup to Chico pee mills, and Mrs. Robin Wood, co chairman of the women’s division, pre sented the college cup to Piedmont col lege, of Demorest. Garden Club To Meet The Chattooga County Garden club will meet »t the hen ' °f Mrs. Paul Weems Thursday, Feb. 23, at 2:30 p.m. Anyone who wishes to join the garden club is cordially invited to attend. Singing at New Antioch There will be a singing Sunday, Feb. 26, in the afternoon at New Antioch Baptist church, two miles west of Sum merville, beginning promptly at 2 o’clock. Many good singers and quartets are expected to be there. Everyone invited to come and bring your books.—Committee. Georgia May Have Eastern Standard ATLANTA, Feb. 21 (GPS).—Georgia is a step nearer having eastern standard time throughout the state. The Georgia house of representativese, by a vote of 103 to 66, voted a bill to make eastern standard time the official time all over the state. The bill, which would change the time on June 1, 1939, has been trans mitted to the senate. Representatives said it would give a large part of Georgia an extra hour of daylight. Representative David S. Atkinson, of Savannah, was the author of the measure, which was sub stituted for one proposed by Represen tative Chappell, of Sumter, calling for a state-wide vote. Slums To Vanish In Georgia, Says Straus ATLANTA, Feb. 21 (GPS).—Slums, the breeding place for crime and disease, soon will be a thing of the past in Geor gia and the rest of the nation, in the opinion of Nathan Straus, administrator of the United States housing authority, who addressed the Georgia legislature during a recent two-day visit in Atlanta. , Atlanta and Georgia are leading the rest of America in slum clearance, Mr. Straus said. One-third of all federal housing funds are being spent in the few states of the southeast, he said. “This,” Mr. Straus added, “is not be cause Atlanta and Georgia need the money most, but bees use of the interest of such foresighted men as your governor and your C. Y. Palmer. It will not be long before they will be referred to as pioneers in one of America’s greatest un dertakings.” Mr. Palmer, chairman of the Atlanta Housing authority, which fostering a 1939 lowcost housing program involving more than $14,250,000 and seeking an addi tional $15,000,000, was host to Mr. Straus. The main objective of the federal program is to provide better homes at low rentals for those persons who hereto fore “barely existed in what is termed as slums.” Mr. Straus made it clear that the federal program is not just for larger , cities, but for any city or hamlet any- I where in Georgia or elsewhere.”