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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53- NO. 20
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
SIDELIGHTS ON THE RECENT
BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE
HELD IN ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).—Side
lights on the recent Baptist World Alli
ance: Although 57,000 persons attended
the pageant at Ponce de Leon park, At
lanta hotel men said they had several
hundred rooms vacant during the recent
congress . . The scoreboard in deep cen
ter field read Atlanta 5, Nashville 4,
throughout the convention even though
the Crackers were on the road . . . The
Crackers’ president, Earl Mann, switch
ed four games on the regular schedule in
order to turn Poncey park over to the
Baptists . . . Tobe, an elderly Baptist
negro, took his first vacation in forty
three years last week to attend the con
vention ... It was on May 8, 1845, that
Baptists from eight states and the Dis
trict of Columbia gathered in Augusta,
Ga., to organize the Southern Baptist
conven ion, and today—ninety-four years
later —its organization is composed of
22,075 ministers, 24,932 churches and
4,770,185 members.
The temporary city of “Baptist World
Alliance” shows on Uncle Sain’s sched
ule. A special post office was set up in
the Atlanta City auditorium during the
congress . . . Someone removed the Ger
man flag from Peachtree where flags of
all nations hung during the convention.
When and by whom the flag was remov
ed could not be determined, nor could it
be replaced because there was not anoth
er German flag in town . . . Three-year
old Olive Haley Hewitt came all the way
from Jackson, Miss., with his parents to
attend the convention, only to swallow a
bobbie pin and go to the hospital ... A
heart attack cut short Rev. J. H. Mc-
Clelland’s attendance at the convention.
A few hours after registering he boarded
a train for his home in Avon Park,
Fla. . . . Tanimola Ayorinde. of Nigeria,
Africa, found Atlanta’s 83-degree weath
er extremely cool . . . Georgia barbecue
came in for high praise from the thou
sands of delegates to seven-day conven
tion.
SECONDARY FACTORS:
Dr. B. 11. Meyer, former of
the Interstate Commerce commission,
said: "All the railroads in the country
might be reorganized, consolidations
might be accelerated, co-ordinations might
be hastened, pooling might be greatly
extended, bankers who are thought to
exercise undesirable influence might, with
draw, holding companies might be elimi
nated from the railroad field, financial
reorganizations might be suppressed,
railroad executives might forget their
salaries, the fourth section might be re
pealed, every train might be streamlined,
and a host of other things done, yet all
of these things put together alone would
not put the railroads in a position to
maintain their properties and earn a
profit. They are distinctly secondary con
siderations, many are even minor or neg
ligible, compared with the decisive factor
of equality in competition.”
GIST OF THE NEWS:
What apparently was Georgia’s first
bale of new cotton was sold last week in
Savannah to H. G. Bruncke, cotton ex
porter. Grown by Sammy Mann, Toombs
county farmer, it weighed 305 pounds and
brought 16 cents a pound . . . The wa
ter pollution that killed thousands of fish
in the Chattahoochee river was traced to
Sweetwater creek, according to the state
division of wild life . . . Now that Mar
garet Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind”
has been published in Latvia, Japan and
Brazil, and negotiations in progress for
a Rumanian version, the total number of
foreign tongues in which the novel has
been issued moves up to sixteen.
REVIVAL AT UNITY BAPTIST.
Revival services will begin at Unity
Baptist church on next Sunday morning
and will continue throughout the week.
The pastor. Rev. Alex Shores, of Rome,
will do the preaching.
The public is invited to attend these
services.
Elephants live to an age of 150 to 200
years.
WHO KNOWS?
1. By what vote did the house pass
the Hatch bill?
2. What variation in WPA wages
actually existed?
3. Is the U. S. aiding Panama in con
nection with Canal defense?
4. In what state was Representative
Sol Bloom born?
5. What is the annual business of the
Post Office?
6. Are all WPA workers required to
work 130 hours a month?
7. Has automobile production ever ex
ceeded 5,000.000 units a year?
8. How many persons in this country
are over 65 years old?
9. Is the New York World’s fair a fi
nancial success?
10. Is residential building ahead of
last year?
(See “The Answers” on Another Page.)
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939
$577.96 Benefits Paid
County Unemployed
Unemployment benefits amounting to
$577.96 were paid to unemployed men
and women in Chattooga county by the
bureau of unemployment compensation
during the week ending July 22. it was
announced today. Payments for the state
as a whole totaled $75,804.27, an increase
of slightly more than $6,000 over the
week before.
Workers in other states who previous
ly had established wage credits in Geor
gia received 275 checks for $2,270.92 to
bring all payments for the week to $78,-
075.19.
Checks were again sent into 137 coun
ties of the state and ranged in number
and amount from one in Early county
for $4.40 to 2,631 for $19,215.06 in the
Atlanta area, which comprises Fulton
and DeKalb counties.
In Muscogee county, where several
hundred workers are temporarily idle
during a mass lay-off of a manufacturing
company, 2,061 checks amounting to $13.-
555.75 were mailed by the bureau. The
majority of payments were made to work
ers in that group and represented their
first benefits, it was stated.
GEORGIA FARMERS TO
RECEIVE 33 MILLIONS
FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL APPRO
PRIATIONS TO FARMERS THIS
YEAR ESTIMATED.
Federal appropriations directly affect
ing agriculture in Georgia may approxi
mate $33,000,000 in the current fiscal
year, it has been estimated.
Approximately $8,400,000 will be paid
Georgia cotton producers as parity pay
ments and the state’s share of the $40,-
000,000 tenant purchase fund will be
about, $2,530,000, while agricultural ex
tension funds will be $734,338.
The agricultural appropriation bill for
1940 also allows Georgia $16,000,000 for
soil conservation payments.
The bill provides $177,522 for experi
ment stations in Georgia.
Georgia also will benefit among other
things through provisions of the bill pro
viding funds for research and experimen
tation in the development of suitable
nursery stock and a study of soils for the
production of tung trees.
The state’s quota under the program
for the removal of agricultural surpluses
cannot be estimated because the surpluses
are not known, said a member of the
sub-committee on agriculture of the sen
ate appropriations committee.
American Legion To
Meet at Trion Tonight
All World war veterans of Chattooga
county are requested to meet with the
American Legion post, No. 129, Thurs
day night, Aug. 3, at the Recreation
hall in Trion at 8 o’clock.
All who will, please meet at court
house. Leave court house at 7 o'cock for
Trion.
Male kangaroos continue to grow un
til they die.
Forty-Eight Workers
Secure Employment
Jobs were found for forty-eight unem
ployed Chattooga county workers by the
Georgia State Employment service dur
ing the month of June, the bureau of un
employment compensation has announced.
Os the number, none were placed in pri
vate employment and forty-eight on pub
lic works projects.
The county is served by the Rome of
fice, which reported total placements of
562 during the month. Throughout the
state, local employment offices found
jobs for 9,312 unemployed men and
women.
The people of tire city and county are
cordially invited to avail themselves of
the service offered by the office.
Principal functions of the employment
service are to find jobs for unemployed
men and women, and to assist insured
workers under the Georgia unemployment
compensation act in filing their claims
for unemployment compensation benefits
if and when they lost their jobs through
no fault of their own and meet legal re
quirements.
Crossing Fatalities
Show'Slight Decline
ATLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).— Slowly
but surely they’re reducing deaths at
highway-railroad grade crossings. In the
first quarter of 1939 fatalities resulting
from accidents at grade crossings total
ed 355, a decrease of seven deaths com
pared with the same period last year, ac
cording to statistics of the safety section
of the Association of American Rail
roads, just made public in Atlanta.
In the three-month period this year.
1,079 persons were injured in such acci
dents, compared with 1.145 in the corre
sponding period in 1938. Accidents at
highway-railroad grade crossings in the
first quarter of 1939 totaled 992, a de
crease of eleven compared with the same
three months in the preceding year.
C. B. FULTON WINS
SIOO SCHOLARSHIP
SCHOLARSHIP GIVEN ON BASIS
OF SCHOLASTIC AND LIVE
STOCK ACTIVITIES.
(Special to The Summerville News.)
ATHENS, Ga.. July 31.—C. B. Ful
ton, Jr., of Summerville, has just been
awarded a SIOO scholarship to the Uni
versity of Georgia College of Agriculture.
One of the twenty-two Georgia youths
to receive this award, he was given the
scholarship on the basis of scholastic and
live stock activities. ,
This announcement is made today by
Paul W. Chapman, dean of the college
of agriculture. The scholarships were
made available by Sears, Roebuck and
company.
Fulton, a graduate of Gore High school,
did good work while enrolled in that in
stitution. His live stock project included
four hogs and one beef cattle. He has
studied vocational agriculture and is a
member of the 4-H club.
He will work toward a degree of
bachelor of science in agriculture at the
University of Georgia.
The following is the account of Ful
ton’s live stock project:
STORY OF MY PROJECT.
My live stock projects has consisted of
four hogs (one sow) and one beef calf
in my three years of agriculture work.
Each year I have purchased my hogs
through my father. Each year I have
helped supply the home with meat. Al
though it has not been any actual cash
profit to me, I feel that it has been a
great help in our home.
I purchased my 4-H club calf through
the Farmers & Merchants bank in Sum
merville, who loaned the boys the money
until the calves were sold before paying
for them. I entered my calf in the Fat
Catte show in Atlanta in the class weigh
ing under 700 pounds, placing second in
the 4-H club pen and fourth in open pen.
winning prizes of sls.
Upon my first year entering agriculture
work I made an experiment which was
very profitable and interesting. I sowed
crimson clover for my winter cover crop,
then the following spring I planted the
land in corn. That fall when the corn
was gathered there was an increase of
about one-third in the yield making for
ty-nine bushels on the two acres that had
been planted in clover, compared with
thirty-one bushels on the same amount
of land in the same field that had not
been sowed in cover crop.
Since, we have made it a habit to
plant cover crops each fall. It not only
increases yield but it also protects the
soil.
I now have a fine full-blooded Poland-
China sow with a litter of pigs. I plan
to go into hog raising on a small scale,
so as to have a small but steady income
all through the year.
I like agriculture fine and am inter
ested in agriculture as a future success.
Double-Header At
Menlo Saturday
The Dixie Spinners, of Chattanooga,
will play the Menlo team in a double
header at the Menlo park Saturday. Aug.
5. Everybody invited to come out and
witness two good games.
HOWELL CEMETERY.
All interested in the Howell cemetery
please meet there Friday, Aug. 11, with
tools for cleaning it off.
J. L. ALEXANDER.
HERE AND THERE
GROUNDHOG AND BULLDOG
BATTLE TO DRAW IN DEN
PITTSVILLE, Pa.—Robert Mitchell’s
Boston bulldog, “Fido,” emerged victor
ious from a tooth and nail battle with
a woodchuck —but he certainly was shorn
of glory.
“Fido” pounced on the chuck as he
scampered toward his den. The chuck
(groundhog if you prefer) grabbed “Fido”
by the nose, and “Fado” grabbed the
chuck by the jaw and both began to pull.
First thing Mitchell knew, the chuck
had dragged ‘Fido” right into his hole.
And he still was holding on when Mitch
ell dug them out an hour later.
Mitchell killed the chuck and releas
ed “Fido.”
29 PI PS IN EIGHT MONTHS
RECORD FOR CAROLINA DOG
WILSON, N. C. —A dog owned by
Ernest Lucas is doing her bit—and a bit
more —toward keeping up the canine pop
ulation. Last December she presented her
master with fifteen puppies. The score
dropped with another litter yesterday—
she had fourteen.
HIS DEAR POSSESSION
STOLEN, IT’S DEER HEAD
ATLANTA. —Theft of a deer head
was a dear loss to an Atlanta dentist,
he mournfully reported to police recently.
The dentist, Dr. Harold L. Holtzen
dorff, said the head was stolen from a
wall of his office at 291 Peachtree street.
“I shot the animal four years ago,
near Brunswick. Ga.,” he said. “It was a
fine eight-pointer, I valued it more than
money.”
NEW 1940 CENSUS TO
BARE TRENDS OF TIME
WILL BE MOST COMPLETE STATIS
TICAL INVENTORY OF POPULA
TION EVER ATTEMPTED.
The United States Census bureau, with
an appropriation of $45,000,000 in hand,
will begin soon to take the most com
plete statistical inventory of the national
population and resources ever attempted.
The count, which will begin in Alas
ka in October and in continental United
States next April, may furnish the key
to current social trends in the country
and be valuable in the formation of so
cial and economic legislation.
Advisory committees have helped select
the questions. The population schedule
will contain thirty-seven questions, with
a fifteen-question unemployment supple
ment. One family in each twenty-five
will be asked some additional questions.
These questions, many of them social
and economic in character, will be asked
by 140.000 enumerators who will make
a door-to-door canvass. Training of these
workers will begin long before the begin
ning of the actual count.
Every person will be asked if he was
at work for pay or profit during a spec
ified week, if he was seeking work, or if
he held a non-paying job. These questions
will give accurate unemployment figures.
A question on income will be included,
and to determine the rate of internal mi
gration the bureau will ask where every
person's place of residence was in 1935.
Rich’s to Present First
Television Program In
South Week of Aug. 7
Pioneers in progress always, Rich’s
now brings television to Atlanta and the
south, just four months after the launch
ing of the first regular American service
of television at the New York World’s
fair.
The telecasts will feature speakers of
note, famous personages, radio stars,
dancers, singers and dramatic fashion
presentations for 1940.
Twice daily between the hours of 9
and 11 a.in. and from 3 to 5 p.m., per
form: ices may be witnessed in the stu
dio, which will be located on Rich s
sixth floor.
On the selling floors of this great
southern institution will be specially con
structed rooms, where the public may sit
at ease and in comfort, watching pro
jected on the screen, with sound, the en
tertainment being given on the sixth floor.
Hundreds of visitors are expected to
attend this birth of a new industry. The
performances are without charge, and are
brought with television, to the south, by
Rich’s, in the interest of science and in
dustry.
POPLAR SPRINGS HOME-COMING.
Home-coming day at Poplar Springs
Sunday, Aug. 6, Rev. A. H. Mahan will
preach. Everybody come and bring well
filled baskets.
RIDING BULL TO FAIR.
ATLANTIC, lowa.—Averaging twelve
miles a day, Ted Terry, Sun Valley, Id
ano, cowboy, is en route to the New
York World’s fair astride a 1,600-pound
bull. Ted and “Hitler” started their
journey from Idaho on Sept. 15, 1937, and
expect to arrive in New York by next
year, sure.
100-YEAR LIFE PREDICTED
BLOOMFIELD. N. J.—George But
terworth. a retired contractor, is no man
to be afraid of the future despite his 70
years. Butterworth is so confident he'll
live to be 100 that he has paid in ad
vance for a Florida hotel room for the
next thirty years for his winter sojourns,
he revealed today.
PLUNGES 80 FEET, SURVIVES
NEW YORK. —A few cuts were all
the evidence Mrs. Edna Burdich. 28. had
to show today for her hair-raising plunge
in an automobile off an eighty-foot via
duct. “Where’s my purse,” Mrs. Burdich
calmly asked of horrified rescuers who
rushed to her car which landed right side
up. She was taken a a hospital against
her wishes.
A JOE SHE DIDN'T KNOW
BROKE UP HER MARRIAGE
INDIANAPOLIS.—A fellow named
Joe she didn’t know broke up Mrs. Beu
lah Cummings’ married life, she com
plained in a suit filed here.
She asked $5,000 damages for mental
anguish from an Indianapolis drug firm
and a San Francisco manufacturing com
pany because of a postcard sent her ad
vertising a medicine.
She said the card was signed “Joe”
and mailed from San Francisco. Joe said
he was having a great time at the Ex
position. and we have “lots to tell you
when I get back.” A plug for the medi
cine followed.
Her husband, Mrs. Cummings said,
read the card and left her.
Lions Club Holds
Interesting Meeting
The Summerville Lions club held an
interesting meeting Tuesday night at the
Riegeldalo tavern.
The meeting was called to order by
the president. Homer Woods, who ap
pointed the chairmen of the eight com
mittees which will serve during the next
year.
Tailtwister G. J. Boling was very busy
collecting fines for infractions of Lions
rules.
The club had as honorary speaker
Lion E. P. Hall, Jr., editor of the Walk
er County Messenger at La Fayette. He
made an interesting talk on his trip to
the Holy Land, which was greatly en
joyed by the members of the club.
Plans were made for a broiling party
for the ladies at the next regular meet
ing, which will be held at Hair’s lake
on Tuesday evening, Aug. 15.
JAMES MATTHEWS,
Publicity Chairman.
LYERLY CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOLS OPEN AUG, 14
SEVERAL NEW COURSES WILL BE
OFFERED FROM WHICH PUPILS
MAY SELECT SUBJECTS.
Lyerly had the largest enrollment last
year in the history of the school and we
are expecting a still larger enrollment
this year. The new high school building
which was completed a few weeks before
school was out last year will offer many
more accommodations and advantages to
the pupils of this area. We are offering
several new courses from which the pu
pils will be able to select the subject
that will best qualify them for life’s
work. One of these will be a commercial
course which will include typing, book
keeping, shorthand and general business
training. By taking this course and com
pleting it. a boy or girl will be quali- I
fled when he finishes high school, to go
out into the business world and hold a '
position that has in the past required ;
spending a large sum of money and many’ j
months of study in a school away from j
home.
We have a larger and better library
and are adding many new books this
year. Our new laboratory will be better
equipped Our ph ..deal education program
will offer better facilities in the way of
playground equipment.
We appreciate the interest and efforts
of the parents in keeping their children
in school last year and are expecting
you to do the same this year.
You are cordially invited to visit your
school at any time.
Program Shaping Up
For State Press Meet
OTLANTA, Aug. 1 (GPS).— Arrange
ments are being completed for the speak- [
ing program of the Georgia Press asso- |
ciation’s fifty-third annual convention, to
be held at Calhoun Aug. 23-26, it was
announced.
Floyd Hackenhull, editor of Circula
tion Management, will be one of the
speakers. Gov. Rivers will deliver an ad
dress, and Ralph McGill, executive edi- '
tor of the Atlanta Constitution, will de- |
liver the memorial address.
The convention program will include
as much work as entertainment, it was ,
stated. Thorough studies of job printing,
advertising and means of capitalizing
upon circulation are scheduled.
The association hopes to inaugurate
an annual custom by giving a dinner for
past presidents at the opening of the 1939
convention, it was pointed out. A ban
quet on Lookout mountain and a dance
also are scheduled.
Chattooga Chosen For
Tenant Purchase Plan
Chattooga county has been designated
by’ Secretary Wallace as one of the
ninety-nine Georgia counties in which the
tenant purchase program will operate
for the 1969-40 fiscal year.
As provided in the Bankhead-Jones
farm tenant act of 1937, the federal
government makes long-term loans to
worthy tenants, sharecroppers and farm
laborers for the purchase of family-sized
farms.
County Farm Supervisor Odis R. Moss
announced this week that he is prepared
to take applications for the tenant pur
chase program. Chattooga county farm
ers desiring to obtain a loan for the pur
chase of a farm may obtain application
blanks at the FSA office in the court
house.
He pointed out that limited funds will
make possible only a relatively small
number of loans this year. Loans are re
payable over a forty-year period at 3
per cent, interest.
The tenant purchase program has been
in operation in Chattooga county for the
past two years and. during that time,
loans have been made to eight tenant
farmers, who are now operating their
own farms.
Additional loans will be made here this
year. Farmers who already have appli
cations on file for a tenant purchase loan
will not be required to fill out new forms.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAB
BAPTIST EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE MET ON
TUESDAY, JULY 11
SOCIETIES ASKED TO ORGANIZE
UNIONS AT SEVERAL PLACES
IN THE COUNTY.
The executive committee meeting was
held at the First Baptist church in Sum
merville Tuesday afternoon of July 11.
Mrs. T. J. Espy, president, presided.
Song. “I Love To Tell the Story.”
Devotional, Mrs. Howard Ragland.
Prayer. Mrs. Jackson.
Voted to have speaker for association,
Rev. Jackson to see Mr. Smith, modera
tor and Rev. T. J. Espy.
Letter of appreciation for flowers
from Miiss Kathryn Henry’ was read.
Reading of letter from Georgia Baptist
Orphan home asking for coupons. A vote
to collect coupons was carried.
Mrs. Espy asked the following societies
to help in organizing unions at the fol
lowing places:
Menlo at Perennial Springs.
Summerville, at Berryton.
New Hope, South, at Poplar Springs.
Pleasant Grove, at Ebenezer.
Subligna, at Bethlehem.
Mrs. Bagley, at Welcome Hill.
Trion, at Mountain View’ and Spring
Creek.
New Hope, North, at New Antioch.
Lyerly, at South Summerville.
Reports from associational officers:
West, Mrs. I. Baker; personal service.
Miss Effie Leath, studied book on “Soul
Winning”; mission study, chairman ab
sent.
Have rally in September, all churches
co-operating.
Vote was taken to have Miss Dollie
Hight come for three days the last week
in September. She is to select the book
she is to teach.
Training School. Mrs. Jackson —She
asked to have canned goods to training
school during year and to give gener
ously to the “House Beautiful.”
All societies are asked to report
“Golden Jubilee” -collections to Mrs. J.
A. League or Mrs. Singleton. Those be
hind with collection, please sent in at
once.
White Cross —Mrs. Cordle, Summer
ville, gave towel.
Mrs. Pollock suggested seme one take
jellies and preserves to hospital. Each
White Cross chairman take up with
their societies.
Stewardship—Chairman absent.
Margaret Fund —Mrs. Pollock asked
all to remember students with “love
gifts.”
Press chairman absent; report by Mrs.
Espy.
Publications —Chairman absent.
Young People, Mrs. J. Parker—Miss
Ester Gray was elected young people's
leader instead of Mrs. J. T. Woods.
Mrs. Robert Harlow’ made a talk and
show’ed us how to use standard of excel
lence.
Talk by Rev. J. C. Jackson on Georgia
Baptist hospital.
Mrs. Espy suggested all who could go
to Rome to hear Baptist Alliance speaker.
ALMAZADA ELLENBURG.
Acting Secretary.
BUSINESS.
The general opinion of financial ex
perts is moderately optimistic about bus
iness conditions for the remainder of the
year, unless there is a war in Europe.
Inventories have been worked down and
consumption has outrun production and
the industrial production index is expect
ed to pick up during the next few weeks.
SLEEPS BETWEEN RAILS.
NEW YORK. —Tired of waiting for a
subway train, after a night spent in
Brooklyn, a sailor, Seaman Paul W.
Worshau. 22, low’ered himself from the
station platform and started to walk
down the track. After walking a short
distance, however, be became fatigued
and went to sleep in a depression be
tween the rails. At least two trains zip
ped over him before he was noticed and
awakened, unhurt.
Farm & Home Week
Will Open August 7
ATHENS. Ga.. Aug. 1 (GPS).—The
annual Farm and Home week ■will open
iin Athens next Monday, Aug. 7. Pro
grams on better farming, soil conserva-
I tion, live stock, rural electrification and
l home economics, together with plenty of
; entertainment, will be provided for the
hundreds of Georgia farmers, their wives
I and children who attend.
The week’s program, sponsored annual
j ly by the University of Georgia’s college
of agriculture and the Georgia Extension
service, will open Monday with registra
tion of various groups of farmers, home
demonstration club members and 4-H
club boys and girls.
Group meetings devoted to specialized
phases of agriculture, home economics
and 4-H activities will be held simultan
eously on the campus during the visitors’
five-day stay. The main program will
open Tuesday morning with the third an
nual community amateur entertainment
contest taking the feature spot, and an
extension service pageant scheduled for
the afternoon.