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CIRCULATE IN iBEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 24
REDUCE CASUALTIES
URGED AS NEW TERM
DE SCHOOL BEGINS
School bells early next month will call
800,000 young Georgians to classes and
8,000 stalwart schoolboy patrolmen to
protect them from death or injury as
they travel to and from their homes.
If the last January-May record is re
peated, motor mishaps will claim the
lives of forty-two of those children be
fore the Christmas holidays close, Com
missioner Lon Sullivan, of the depart
ment of public safety, said. And, worse
still, if the 1938-39 school death rate
prevails, a total of 122 school-age chil
dren will have been slaughtered by the
end of 1939.
Still if the balance of the 1938 record
is repeated, not one of those pupils will
be struck either on streets or while get
ting on or off school buses where school
boy patrolmen are on guard. Os the for
ty-two school-age traffic fatalities of this
year, only three were white pupils in
transit to or from school and none where
school patrols were in existence. The
American Automobile association, one of
the chief sponsors of the school patrols,
says nothing can beat the Georgia record.
The tragic part of the picture, how
ever, the commissioner said, is that in
many communities of the state there are
no patrol units.
Perhaps a little boy in a rural section
of Georgia never would have run blindly
across the highway in the path of a
tourist’s car last spring if there had
been a school patrolman to tell him when
al! was safe.
Up in North Georgia a 14-year-old girl
shouldn’t have had to sacrifice her life
to sweep her smaller brothers and sis
ters from the path of a huge truck if
there had been a patrol boy to wave them
to safety as they stepped off the bus.
These are just two of the 122 tragic
stories told briefly on records in the de
partment of public safety. Some wouldn't
have been prevented by school patrols
but others would.
In most communities, the American
Automobile association, the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, American Legion, Par
ent-Teacher association or civic clubs
work with the police officials and the
Georgia state patrol in organizing and
operating the school boy patrols. Forty
leaders from various places of the state
received certificates Friday from the
safety conference held by the department
of safety in Atlanta last week.
The school patrolmen, official with
their standard badges and white Sam
Brown belts, never try to direct motor
ists. Instead they hold their fellow
schoolmates on the sidewalk until there
is a lull in traffic then they give the
go-signal by calling "clear”. Or if they
are on buses, the patrolmen step down
and direct the boys and girls when to
board or leave the bus. Again the patrol
men do not direct traffic but they are an
excellent reminder, as they signal the
pupils with their gold and red banners,
that there is a law in Georgia which re
quires all drivers to stop behind a school
bus halted on the highway.
“If we continue to set up school pa
trols until all 6,000 of Georgia schools
are protected, it will continue to reduce
the number of school children killed or
maimed as well as build up the charac
ter of thousands of young men and wom
en the proper regard for law, order and
human life,” the commissioiner said.
Baptist Association
To Meet Sept. 6-7
The Chattooga Baptist association will
u.°et with the Menlo Baptist church
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 6 and 7.
Take notice that the day of meeting is
changed from Tuesday to Wednesday.
All chairman of the standing commit
tees are urged to have their reports draft
ed, ready to present to their committees
when completed. This is impotant to ex
pedite the business of the association.
MODERATOR.
MOTHER SAVES BABY
WAYNESBURG, Pa.—Finding her 4-
month-old daughter smothered under a
rubber sheet in her crib, Mrs. Thomas
McCullough. 20, breathed into the baby's
lungs until she revived.
WHO KNOWS?
1. Is there a paper mill in the south
manufacturing newsprint?
2. Does the Panama or Suez canal
handle the greatest tonnage?
3. What per cent, of the land in
Alaska is publicly owned?
4. Did Poland and Germany have a
treaty of non-aggression and friendship
between them?
5. What is the best safety record ever
made by American railroads?
6..H0w long has Great Britain been in
possession of Hongkong?
7. What is the total American invest
ment in the Panama canal?
8. What is the world’s speedboat rec
ord '!
9. Was Danzig ever a part of Poland
before the World war?
10. What percentage of electric energy
is produced by public power brojects?
(See "The Answers’’ on Another Page.)
Gfe Snmnu'nnlk Nms
126,000 GA. STUDENTS
TO GET FREE LUNCHES
ATLANTA, Aug. 29 (GPS).—When
the mid-day dinner bell rings this fall,
steaming hot lunches will be provided ’’n
the schools of Georgia for 126,000 chil
dren whose tables at home are deficient
in vitamin-bearing foods so necessary to
well-balanced development and good
health.
Braswell Dean, director of the state
department of welfare, estimated that
$9,620,000 of surplus commodities would
be allotted Georgia for the furtherance
nf the lunch program.
The lunches will serve a two-fold pur
pose. Th a will be an aid in correcting
malnutrition found in the homes of the
low-income families and at the same time
will furnish the Federal Surplus Com
modities corporation another outlet in
their effort to remove price-depressing
farm surpluses from the market. Only
those children from families in the low
income group will be permitted to par
ticipate in the program.
To insure the utmost purity and balance
of diet, the WPA will supply trained per
sons to prepare and serve the lunches,"
it was explained.
Here and There
WIFE TRADE
LAPEER, Mich.—Wife-traders George
Davis and Clarence June were under or
ders to appear for examination on sta
tutory charges preferred by neighbors
that they swapped wives, children and
a cow. ,
Brought before Justice of the Peace
Albert. 11. Perkins, both June and Davis
maintained the trading was proper, and
that until they are divorced and marry
each other’s wives the women are merely
acting as housekeepers.
The swap was made two months ago.
Mrs. Edith June, seven children and a
cow went to Davis. Mrs. Mildred Davis
and her four young daughters went to
June. The cow was given to Davis to
provide fresh milk for the seven traded
June children. June kept his three oldest
sons on his farm to maintain an even
balance of children and because he need
ed them to help with farm chores.
LOCATES JOB AFTER
12,000-MILE TRIP
PITTS! I ELD, Mass. —Robert Finch
went to a great deal of bother and ex
pense to find a job. He traveled 12,0dd
miles in search of employment and went
as far west as Honolulu to no avail. On
his return home, Finch obtained a job
with a gasoline filling station two blocks
from his house.
EXTRA 30 DAYS METED
FOR TEARING UP CELL
LONGVIEW, Wash.—Serving thirty
days on an intoxication charge, Mrs.
Susan Dennett was given an additional
thirty days for ripping up the padded
cell at the Longview jail. The padding
had just been installed and it was guar
anteed “to withstand the roughest sort
of treatment.”
INDIAN GRIST “MILL”
IS FOUND IN DIGGING
SWIMMING POOL SITE
ROME, Ga.—An ancient relic from
Floyd county’s past history was added
recently to the list of items turned up
in excavations for building purposes.
The relic is an old grist mill, apparently
used by some Indian family or pioneer
white settlers.
The simple outfit, consisting of two
stones, was found on the place of Dr.
Herman Gray, on Cave Spring road,
where a private swimming pool is being
built. Instead of the stream-lined modern
machines that grind flour and meal, the
Indian outfit consists of a flat stone
about 10 by 12 inches and a cone shaped
rock with flat base, which was used to
crush corn or wheat on the flat rock.
Evidently representing many a day's
work for some fat Indian squaw, the flat
stone is well worn in the center. The old
fashioned outfit was found in a sandy
place about three feet underground, Dr.
Gray said.
TEXAS TO HAVE
TWO HOLIDAYS
AUSTIN, Tex.—Texans will clean up
their turkey hash just about in time to
order the Christmas turkey this year.
The Lone Star state will observe two
Thanksgivings, the presidential and gub
ernatorial.
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel said today he
would proclaim both Nov. 23 and Nov.
30 as Thanksgiving day.
HURT BOY FEARS
PUNISHMENT
Baltimore, Md.—While physicians
worked for nearly twelve hours to save
him from injuries they described as criti
cal, a 9-year-old boy refused to tell his
name because he was afraid his mother
would punish him for tearing his clothes.
Finally, he admitted to a nurse that he
was Louis J. W. Nelson, Jr., and his
parents were notified. The boy, hurt in
a bicycle accident, suffered a brain con
cussion and possible skull fracture.
People who believe in building up Sum
merville are the ones who trade here.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA. Aug. 29 (GPS).—State
farmers' market, while the target of
criticism in the past, are performing a
more useful service from year to year,
declared the Atlanta Constitution in a
recent editorial. During the produce sea
son now’ closing, according to the report
of the Georgia Vegetable Growers’ as
sociation, much more trading was done
than in any previous year, the editorial
pointed out.
Prices received for practically every
type of produce were much higher than
in other years. Marketing facilities have
been greatly improved. In previous years
large quantities of produce was left on
hand to spoil. There Was no adequate
outlet. This year was different. An out
let, as a rule, always was available, the
editorial further said.
While some of the produce grown in
south Georgia was not up to the custo
mary standard of excellence, because of
excessive rainfall, nevertheless, produc
tion per acre was gratifying and prices
exceptionally good, said the editorial,
which concluded with this statement:
"The growing and marketing of vege
tables in Georgia, on a planned business
like basis, is gradually becoming a com
mon-place occurrence. And the state
farmers' markets are contributing much
o this end.”
INDISPENSABLE
“Because railroads are indispensable
to the national defense, is another rea
son why you should support every effort
to bring about a square deal in transpor
tation —to give your railroads a chance
to prepare for the peak loads of peace
—or of war,” declares the Association of
American Railroads. To this, Col. James
L. Fink, chief of the war plans and
training branch, office of the quarter
master general, war department, in 1936,
added : “The importance of the railroad
transportation system of the country in
its relation to the national defense can,
I think, be summed up in one word —-in-
dispensable.”
GU T OF THE NEWS
Cash on hand in the state department
of agriculture at the end of the fiscal
year June 30 totaled $92,632.63. Depart
ment collections amounted to $445,343.38,
approximately $30,000 above the $415.-
726.74 collected in 1937-38 .... Re
sources of state banks in Georgia in
creased $27,033,784 during the fiscal
year just closed. Total resources were
'179,420.368 on June 30, 1939, compar
ed with $152,385,584 the previous year
. . . . Atlanta's twentieth traffic fatal
ty of 1939 and the first since May 27
■centred last week when Lawton G. Hall.
•>f Atlanta, died at Grady hospital of
njuries received a week before. It broke
t record of seventy-nine days without a
traffic death .... Name of the Atlanta
Community Chest has been changed *o
he Atlanta Community Fund. In func
ion and scope, policies of the fund will
be unaltered .... Dogwood, recently
• signaled as the official flower of tin
<ity of Atlanta, will bloom profusely on
he city hall lawn next season, if pres
nt plans of the city council materialize.
600 Attend All-Day
Meeting At Trion
TRION, Ga. —A good time was enjoy
ed by those who attended the all-day
meeting held at the Church of God of
the Union Assembly here Sunday.
It was estimated that six hundred or
more people from various sections of the
state of Georgia, Alabama and Tennes
see were present, among whom were fif
,een ministers.
The speakers consisted of C. T. Pratt,
of Dalton ; G. E. Wiggs and L. L. Coker,
of Chattanooga; J. W. Burnett, of At
talla, Ala., and W. T. Howard of Ce
dartown.
The meeting was an outdoor affair, the
building being too small to seat the peo
ple A table 200 feet long was filled to
capacity with dainty food —everyone had
plenty to eat and there were boxes that
were not unpacked.
BATH CAUSES RIOT
KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Notified by
neighbors that two parents were “beat
ing their child to death,” police investi
gated, only to find a worn-out mother
who admitted that she was giving her
son a bath and he didn’t like it so much."
Presbyterian-M. E.
In Union Revival
On Sunday morning, Sept. 3, revival
services in which the Presbyterian and
Methodist churches are co-operating will
begin. Rev. J. S. Thrailkill, superintend
ent of the Dalton district, Methodist
church, will be the guest breacher.
The first service Sunday morning will
be held at the Methodist church at which
time Rev. G. G. Ramsey, the pastor, will
preach. Every service thereafter will be
held at the Presbyterian church, Rev.
Thrailkill doing the preaching.
The morning services will begin at
10:30 and the evening services at 7
o’clock. It is the desire and intention of
those promoting the meeting to begin
each service promptly on time.
Everyone is cordially invited tq attend
all or any of these services,
DIVERSION ATTEMPT
SEEN AS DOOMED AS
EDUCATION IS COLD
ATLANTA, Aug. 29 (ONS).—Des
perate efforts by a legislative group bent
upon seizing highway department and
county revenues destined for road work
and applying the funds to meet needs in
other departments seemed doomed this
week as the state board of education, aft
er listening to pleas by Representative
Wilmer Lanier and other diversion ad
vocates, failed to endorse their program,
but insisted that state teachers be paid
promptly and in full.
Exponents of the diversion plan were
shown to have grossly overstated the in
come of the highway department appli
cable to construction and maintenance.
Highway revenues for the fiscal year
1938, applicable to construction and
maintenance after paying refunding cer
tificates due the counties, were only $9.-
933,495.41. approximately $1,500,000 be
low the income for 1935, before the post
roads system became a responsibility of
the department.
In addition, the current financial po
sition of the department has been misrep
resented repeatedly, it was shown. Offi
cial figures show that the department
now owes $700,000 in past-due bills, due
to the fact that $929,000 of its funds
have been diverted to the stabilization
fund ’ In addition, its liabilities upon ex
istin contracts is approximately $5,000.-
'ioo, Enough to take up all revenues thru
January, 1940. This liability is chiefly
the s. ate’s share of contracts upon which
the federal government has allotted more
than $8,000,000 to Georgia.
Diversionists have concentrated their
effort* upon seeking a division between
the lucational forces of the state and
those!interested in completing the high
way program and refinancing the shat
tered county governments. This move ap
pears to have failed completed, when
Ral;‘h Ramsey, executive secretary of the
Georgia Education association, and other
leading spokesmen for the educational
forces of the state declined to be drawn
into the controversy.
Other developments:
1. Few replies were being received to
Gov. Rivers’ latest letter, requesting com
mittments to the economy committee's
plan l of increasing motor vehicle taxes,.-
diverting highway funds and increasing
the income tax drastically. Most of the
replies received were facetious in char
acter, indicating that less than forty
members of the house would co-operate
with the Harris-Carmichael clique.
2. It was revealed that the current fi
nancial plan advocated by Representative
James Carmichael, ehiief spokesman for
the diversion group, anticipated cuts of
T. 500.000 for schools or public welfare
pensions from the minimum figures urged
by the economy committee of which he
Was a member. Mr. Carmichael proposed
a twenty-million-dollar budget as ‘the
maximum', while the committee report
which he signed urged a minimum an
nual budget of $21,500,000.
3. Porter Carswell, past governor of
Georgia Rotary, publisher of the Waynes
boro True Citizen and executive secre
tary of the Citizens' Road League of
Georgia, joined Morris Tift, Albany lead
er and spokesman for the county com
missioners, and others in opposing the
diversion plan, especially in the light of
the uncompleted highway program and
the recent ‘mandate’ for increased high
way work given in the June general
election.
4. Capitol observers, believing that the
machinery for calling the session might
be dominated by Speaker Harris and his
diversion clique, expressed belief that in
View of their obvious defeat both in in
formal polls of the assembly and in their
failure to lure the educational leaders
into their group, there would be no early
session of the assembly.
Notice To Traverse
Jurors of the County
Notice to traverse jurors subpoenaed
for criminal week, Sept. 18, of the Su
perior court at the September 1939 term :
Judge C. H. Porter having advised the
sheriff of Chattooga county, Frank Kel
lett, that Dean Owens, of counsel for
B. W. Farrar, says that William Schley
Howard, leading counsel for the defend
ant, is sick and unable to attend the Sep
tember, 1939. term of Chattooga Superior
court and that the cases of the State vs.
B. W. Farrar will not be tried at that
term. This is to notify the traverse ju
rors that the sheriff, J. Frank Kellett,
will mail a postal card to the jurors ex
pected to be present on the 18th day of
September.
Those not receiving a card need not
report but might be subject to call if
needed.
Judge Porter has requested this notice
be published in The Summerville News.
SANT SAVES MAN
OCEAN CITY, Md.—A dive into a
nearby sandpile saved the life of Edwin
S. Cropper, oil company workman, whose
clothing was set afire when a short cir
cuit occurred while he was working on
a gas pump. The sand extinguished the
blaze and Cropper suffered only miipir
burns about the hands and arms.
SCHOOL TO OPEN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
Notice To Fourth
Graders of School
All fourth graders, who were in Miss
Fisher's room in South Summerville last
year, will report to the MAIN GRAM
MAR SCHOOL BUILDING on Friday,
Sept. 1. for registration, and on Mon
day, Sept. 4. will attend school at the
OLD Y.M.C.A.. connecting the milk
Through the kindness of Frank Pitt
man. the Summerville Manufacturing
company has donated the use of the “Y”,
rent free, to the Summerville public
school system, until another building can
be built on the main campus.
FRANK G. DILLARD, Supt.
Menlo School Opens
On August the 31st
The Menlo High school began its reg
ular session Thursday, Aug. 31.
The teaching staff follows:
Elementary’ School Miss Kathryn
Story. Miss Mildred McWhorter, Miss
Claire Dodd, Miss Charlotte E. Goblet,
Miss Martha Sue Davis.
High School—Miss Edna Perry, Miss
Mary Risk. R. R. Harris and John E.
Herndon. Mrs. C. A. Wyatt will teach
music in the schools.
The first meeting of the Menlo P.-T.
A. was held in the school auditorium
Thursday morning immediately after the
opening exercises.
FARM DEPARTMENT
AUDIT SHOWS MONEY
ON HAND FOR USE
ATLANTA. Aug. 29 (CNS).—The
current audit of the department of ag
riculture, recently completed by State
Auditor Zack Arnold, when the fiscal '
year ended July 1, 1939, shows that the
economies put into effect by Commission
er of Agriculture Columbus Roberts have
resulted in getting the department out of
debt and placing it on a sound financial
footing for the first time in many years.
The income .of the department increas
ed approximately $30,000 during the
past year, the report shows, due chiefly i
to the fact that the restaurant operated
at the farmers' market in Atlanta earned
a substantial profit. However, the income
remains far below the level granted
previous commissioners.
Nevertheless, the department had a
surplus of $89,432.63 at the end of the
fiscal year, sufficient for its operation
during the next three months, when there
are virtually no fees or other income ac
cruing. For once it will not be necessary
for the department either to borrow
money or to accumulate bills.
In addition, during the past two years,
the entire deficit left by his predecessor
has been paid by Commissioner Roberts,
so that the department of agriculture is
entirely debt free. A final payment of
$50,260.13. a little more than half of the
total deficit facing Mr. Roberts when he
took office, was made June 30. Despite
this expenditure, the department lived
within its decreased income and accumu
lated a surplus.
Sanitation Program
For Construction Os
Pit Privies at Lyerly
In an attempt to produce better sani
tary conditions in Chattooga county, the
county and state departments of health
have started a community sanitation
project. Under this project the WPA is
furnishing all labor necessary to con
struct and install sanitary pit privies for
all property owners who will agree to
furnish the materials required. These
privies are not to be installed on prop
erty which has a sewer line available.
The project is located at Lyerly, and
materials are being furnished by Lyerly
Lumber company at a very reasonable
price.
The pogram is so arranged that prop
erty owners have only to contact J. W.
Chapman, Lyerly, Ga., and make ar
rangements for securing materials. This
having been done, the material is ob
tained. unit constructed and installed on
•our property under supervision of the
state department of health without any
further attention being required of the
property owner.
This program has been in operation in
several adjoining counties for some time
and has proven to be very effective.
We sincerely hope that you will see
fit to take advantage of this unparalled
opportunity to obtain a satisfactory san
itary disposal unit on your premises, not
only for your benefit, but also for the
benefit of your neighbor and community.
Holiday Notice
We will observe Monday, Sept. 4. as a
holiday and no business will be trans;
acted—Ennucrji & Mercfegnta Bank
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAH
School will open on Friday, Sept. !,■
at 8:30 in the morning. All pupils will
report at that time. No pupil will be
permitted to enter school in the FIRST
grade, unless he is 6 years old or WILL’
BE 6 BEFORE JAN. 1,
Grammar school pupils will report to
their school in the room to which they
were promoted. High school pupils will
report to their respective rooms in the
high school building. Bring your promo
tion cards.
On Monday, Sept. 4, regular schedule
will begin. The hours will be from 8
o’clock in the morning until 3 in the aft
ernoon, with one hour for lunch, from 12
until 1 every day.
All high school FEES will be due and
payable on the first day of school, Fri
day, Sept. 1.
FRANK G. DILLARD. Supt-
Johnston Cemetery
All who are interested in the Johnston'
cemetery at Chattoogaville are requested
to meet there Saturday, Sept. 2. for the
purpose of cleaning it. off. Saturday,
Aug. 26, was the regular cleaning day
for the cemetery, but due to the fact
that so few came to work, a very small
portion of it was cleaned. If you can't
come, send someone to help in the work
of caring for the place where our dear
ones sleep.
Singers To Meet Here
Sunday, September 3
Singers and song lovers farm all parts
of Northwest Georgia, parts of Alabama
and Tennessee will gather here Sunday
for the regular September meeting of
the Chattooga County Singing conven
tion, which will convene at the court
house Sunday morning at 9 o'clock.
A. B. Day, of Menlo, president of the
convention, states that many well-known
quartets, singers and song leaders have
been invited to attend the meeting, and
one of the outstanding quartets in the
south —the Vaughan Radio quartet, of
Lawrenceburg, Tenn., —-will be here. This
quartet, will also appear in concert at
the courthouse Saturday night at 8 o’clock
and the public is invited to come out and
hear these famous singers. A small ad
mission will be charged for the concert
to help pay the expenses of the quartet.
Chattanooga Inter-
State Fair Sept. 18-23
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —With its
prize list increased and new entertain
ment features added, plans are under
way here for the second annual Chatta
nooga Inter-State fair, which will throw
open its gates at Warner park on Sept.
18th.
President Joe Engel and his corps of
assistants are planning to make the 1939
fair bigger and better than any exhibi
tion ever held here. The cash prizes have
been increased by hundreds of dollars
and many new departments added for the
fair this year. A midway, big grandstand
show, fireworks and numerous free at
tractions will provide entertainment for
the thousands who will file through the
gates at Warner park during fair week.
Agricultural agents in the Chattanoo
ga area report that entries this year
will be outstanding both from the stand
point. of quantity and quality. Every
county in this section of Tennessee, Ala
bama and Georgia will be represented at
this year’s fair with agricultural, live
stock, cooking and needlework exhibits.
Counties in the Chattanooga area, with
the exception of Hamilton, will be com
peting for the total of SSOO in cash
prizes that will be awarded for the best
county exhibits.
There will be a special department at
the fair in which 4-H club boys and
girls and Future Farmers will display
their products and handiwork.
In the woman's building will be the
cooking exhibits, canning displays, flow
er show and sewing exhibits. An art ex
hibit, photography department, rabbit
show, pigeon show and poultry show
will be other features that will attract
interest.
Much emphasis has been placed on the
cattle show this year which is expected
to be the biggest ever held at the Inter-
State fair. An outstanding array of cash
prizes are offered for both beef and dairy
cattle and already reservations are com
ing in fast. There is no charge for entry
in the cattle show and many growers of
the tri-states area are expected to enter
their herds.
On the midway the Johnny J. Jones
exposition with its half hundred shows
rides, free acts and other attractions has
again been booked by President Engel.
The Ernie Young revue will be the gran 1-
stand attraction and will bring to Chat
tanooga some of the most outstanding
singers, dancers, comedians and enter
tainers in the amusement world. A mam
moth fireworks display will be held each
night.
Entries for the 1939 fair are now be
ing made and the premium list can be
obtained by writing Mrs. A. T. Atwood.
I secretary, Inter-State Fair, CfoattanoO'
ga, Tenn.