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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 29
Red Cross To
Open Drive
Abit Nix, prominent lawyer
of Athens, Ga., has been ap
pointed Roll Call Chairman of
the state of Georgia. Mrs.
George D. Goodman, Fulton
County Representative and
Publicity Director of the At
lanta Chapter of the American
Red Cross, has been appointed
State Publicity Director.
The Annual Roll Call for the
state, exclusive of Atlanta and
Fulton County, will begin on
Nov. 11th and continue through
Nov. 30 (regardless of when
the nation observes Thanksgiv-,
'ing day).
Mr. Nix, who served as Roll
Call Chairman for the state of
Georgia in 1935, achieved mark
ed increase in membership that
year. He is a past director of
Rotary International, a member
of Athens Rotary Club and the
'Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of Georgia. In com
menting on his appointment,
Mr. Nix said, “I feel that a very
high honor has been conferred
upon me and deem it a privilege
to serve the American Red
Cross has grown by leaps and
bounds—no doubt its growth
can be attributed to the in
creasing demands unon the re
sources of the organization. It
is a well known fact that each,
year reveals an outstanding
record of achievement from
the standpoint of community
national and international Red
Cross service, Red Cross neigh
borliness must keep pace with
the expansion of human needs.”
Mr. Nix further stated that
more members must be enroll
ed during this Roll Call than
have ever before been enrolled
if the Red Cross is to continue
to answer the cries of human
ity..
Mr. Nix expressed the belief
that every Georgian would rally
to the invitation to enroll in
this great organization and con
tinue to render through the
Red Cross this service to thost
who need their help.
On Thursday, Oct. 12, at 1C
a. m. Macon, Ga„ will again be
host to the Georgia State Con
ference of Red Cross and chap
ter officials. Delegates from
Georgia’s 149 chapters will bt
represented at this meeting.
V A R AT A GLANCE
Churchill pledges war until
Germany rids self of Hitler.
German front-line strength
in the west was now estimated
by observers in Paris well over
1,000,000 men.
Churchill said “three irnpor
tant things” had occurred in
the first month of war: Poland
has been overrun but will rise
again; Russia has warned Hit
'er off his eastern dreams and
the U-Boats may be safely left
to the care and constant atten
tion of the British navy.
It has been reported that the
German radio at Hamburg
broadcast a threat aginst the
Mauretania, Great Britain’s
newest luxury liner which sail
ed from New York on Saturd
day.
AUTOMOBILES BADLY
DAMAGED IN WRECK
BERRYTON, Ga„ Oct. I.
L. A. Reynolds was slightly in-,
jjured in an automobile wreck
which happened here about
midnight.
Reynolds, driver of one of
the automobiles was returning
home accompanied by his two
daughters when the accident
occurred. Ralph Kellett, of
Summerville, driver of the oth
er vehicle, escaped injuries.
Both cars were badly dam
aged. x
COLT INS MAILING OUT
CHECKS FOR TEACHERS
ATLANTA. Oct s.—Prepar
ing and mailing $378,242.01 in
checks the first day, the staff
of the State Department of
Education, headed by Stat*
School Superintendent M. D.
Collins is rushing to the coun-
The Summerville News
National Fire Prevention Week Caution D. P. Henley
By H. O. MILLS, District Ranger, I the state needing work, there is every other sections of the United States the fire problem would he much more I
U. S. Forest Service. I reason to stop waste and to build up where a much smaller r o portion of the s j mp ] e if fewer fires g o t started. Nine- LUIVICI y
The week of Oct. Bto 14 has been set every source of income and employment, forest area is burned Already in Geor-' t - ne cent of the f orest f; res oc . /
By H. O. MILLS, District Ranger, i
U. S. Forest Service.
The week of Oct. 8 to 14 has been set
aside as National Fire Prevention Week.
While most attention will be centered on
danger and damage from fire in towns
and cities, it is also a good time to
think of the ravages of fire away from
towns and cities —out in our forest land,
which is about 62 per cent, of the total
area of the state.
According to surveys made by the U.
S. Forest Service about one-fourth of
all the forest land in Georgia is burned
over each year. From 1934 through 1938
the average area burned each year was
5,510.000 acres.
In earlier years when there were plen
ty of timgerlands for every purpose, peo
ple were little corncerned over forest
'ires. Nowadays, with many people in
News From
Gore, Vicinity
Louise McCollum snent Sunday with
Dorothy and Dukie Lee Hendrix.
Betty Jane Johns was the dinner guest
of Era and Mamie Bradford.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Moore were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Packer Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hix were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fulton Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hendrix and fam
ily and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hendrix
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.
A. Hendricks, of La Fayette. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Ballenger and sons
were guests in La Fayette Sunday.
Beth Bradford spent Sunday with
Henrietta and Evelyn Hendrix.
ties the funds made available
this week for teachers salaries.
All the checks will be in the
hands of local officials by the
end of the week, officials de
lare, although their prepara
tion requires about days.
The Saga of a Home-Made Trailer;
Texas to the New York World’s Fair
A Texas journalist built himself a
trailer, loaded in his wife and 11-
year-old son and started on a 2,000
mile trek for the New York World’s
Fair with $50.00 in his pockets. His
experiences are recounted in the fol
lowing story:
By TOM CAUFIELD
(who covers police, fire alarms, boll
weevils and all news in and about the
Brazos Bottoms of Central Texas for
the Waco Times-Herald).
WORLD’S FAIR, New York—Fran
ces and the eleven-year-old and I
have seen the Fair and all the folks
back in Waco told us it couldn’t be
done on the Caufield bankroll. The
speedometer on Ancient History II
reads 2,000 miles from Fifth and Aus
tin; the wallet is out SSO. and we’ve
got $lO left. I’ve just wired the boss
for the $25 he promised me to get
home on, and if the chewing gum and
oailing wire on the trailer and jalop
py don’t relax their holds during the
homeward 2,000 miles, we shall have
made the whole junket on SBS.
We spent a little over $1.50 each per
day on the Fair itself, counting admis
sion at the gates. Thomas, the eleven
year-old and Frances, the woman
who tells me how to drive, and I
walked and walked and looked and
stared, finally becoming convinced
that the best parts of the Fair are free.
We could while away two weeks here
looking at the free shows, and never
repeat and never suffer from what the
slick paper writers call ennui. We are
leaving only because a wolf is howl
ing at a door bearing the coat of arms
of a certain small town newspaper
man in Texas.
Nothing Like the Brazos
We stood and gulped when we saw
the illumination at the lagoon of na
tions last night. Nothing like that
along the Brazos, nor anywhere else.
A lightning bolt hit a telephone post
as our car-trailer combination passed
it on the road to Knoxville, coming
up. It smashed the post, splattered our
car with splinters, made an outra
geous noise, scared us stiff. We saw it
all over again, free, at the General
Electric show here. They made 10 mil
lion volts for us BANG! and we
thought we were back on the Tennes
see highway in the storm.
We fought good roads and bad com
ing up. General Motors showed us all
good in a panorama that 27.000 people
a day look at. GM parked us in up
holstered chairs, started a public ad
dress explanation from the chair
arms, and showed us the highway
system of 1960.
If it hadn’t been for that roads
system display, we might have
thought, in the aviation building, that
mas, was fixing to leave the ground
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1939
I the state needing work, there is every
| reason to stop waste and to build up
every source of income and employment.
Forest fires are esbonsible for a tremen
i dons waste. They kill little trees, and
; kill or injure big trees and retard their
i growth. Game animals and young birds
i and their food are destroyed. Forest
, fires increase the danger of ‘washing’ of
I the soil, destroy the natural beauty of
the countryside, reduce the fertility of
the forest soil, and create idle land that
' is a tax burden. The damage from for
! est fires in Georgia is estimated at close
;to $6,000,000 each year, but thei are
some Iqsscs from injury to woodwi.rdr
cents.
It would not be any insuperable task
to practically eliminate forest fires in
Georgia. Our forests are not nearly as
inflammable as the forests of certain
Wildlife Division Will
Seek Hunting Licenses
ATLANTA, Ga.—Charles N. Elliott,
Director of the State Wild Life Division,
will ecommend a reduction in hunting
and fishing licenses at the next session
of the General Assembly, he announced
here this week.
Elliott said that he hoped to give
“hack to the hunters and fishermen’” the
difference in saving made possible b.v the
new license plan which turns over the
handling of fees to the State Revenue
Department.
"T will recommend a new set of laws,”
he declared, “which I hope will be ac
ceptable. We have conferred with wild
life leaders and outstanding conserva
tionists and clubs over the state and
shaped a new set of laws which we be
lievev will contribute in the long run to
restoration as well as a workable plan of
enforcements
Elliott would cut hunting licenses
from $3.25 to an even $3.00. He would
take 25 cents from the fishing license
! fee, making it an even dollar. County
; is no county fishing license.
i hunting licenses would remain sl. There
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Here is Tom Caufiehl’s homemade trailer in which he, his wife and son
traveled all the way from Waco, Texas, to see the New York World’s Fair.
for good; but GM gave us hope for the
highways. We could hardly get the
boy away from the aviation display.
Instead of wanting to ride on the car
nival gadgets, he wanted to go back
and look at the model wind tunnels,
the cross section of the Yankee clip
per, and things like that.
Need for Adjectives
We heard the Voder. That’s a con
traption we had read about, a sort
of talking typewriter. Pretty girl
punches keys and make a combina
tion of hisses and grunts that sounds
like Charlie McCarthy at his worst,
but is understandable.
I never was much on adjectives.
The one adjective needed around here
is “marvelous.” Give me enough syn
onyms for that, insert them as needed,
and that’s the Fair.
There’s a moving mural in the Ford
building. Pistons, cogs, things like
that fixed in the wall, all moving.
Time for one of the synonyms. In the
same building, walls hung all round
with a one-piece yellow curtain made
of spun and woven glass.
More free stuff; the City of Light,
with 100.000 individual bulbs; the
Forward March of America, showing
how lighting has changed. They’ve
got a fountain running over the exit
of that building, and when I lost
Frances and Thomas, by getting
mixed up on a rendezvous, they wait
ed an hour for me there, perfectly
satisfied, while the fountain : plashed
outside.
They’ve got a real ship parked in a
pond by the New England building.
other sections of the United States
where a much smaller rpportion of the
forest area is burned Already in Geor
ia some of the forest land is receiving
organized fire protection, and the results
have been very encouraging. The State
Horest Service, working with timber
protection associations throughout the
state, has managed to keep the burned
area down to a small figure on the pro
tected lands. The Chattahoochee Na
tional Forest gives fire protection to
566,000 acres in the mountain part of
the state. In 1938 only 109 acres was
burned on this large National Forest
area. During the same period in Walk
er Chattooga, Floyd. Gordon and Whit
field counties. 39 fires destroyed 1.955
acres of unprotected lands.
Some kind of fire projection is needed
for all of the forest land in Georgia, but
♦
In an effort to stimulate out-of-state
hunters and fishermen, Elliott has plan
ned a staggered trip license. A non-resi
dent of the state would be entitled to
hunt in one county for seven days upon
payment of a fee of $2.50, and for the
or for 30 days anywhere in the state
same period anywhere in the state for
for $7.50 $7.50. The fee for a year
around license remains at $1p.50.
Non-residents may fish 15 days for $2
under the now scale provided in Elliott's
plan. A year's permit would cost $5.50.
or 25 cents more than the present rate.
“I believe this reduction will meet
with widespread approval all over the
slate.” Elliott declared. “It will mean
that hunters and fishermen of the state
around $25,000 as a whole.’ ’
I
FOR RENT —My home at Pennville; 5
large, nicely furnished rooms; will be
vacant about Oct. 15th. See Mrs.
Housch McAbee or write me at Carroll
ton. Ga.-—E. L. Worsham.
They’ve got life-sized toy monkeys
climbing trees in a toy exhibit and
real monkeys climbing on a rock in
side the Frank Buck enclosure. The
rock is higher than the bamboo walls,
so you can see the monkeys without
going in.
Escalators and Ramps
About transportation; this fair is
great on saving shoe leather. It has to
be, it is so big that unless there were
a lot of escalators and moving belts
the cobblers would have a field day
at every exit. You go up into the Per
isphere on an escalator, and ride
around it on a moving belt; and
there’s the moving belt at the GM
building. Everywhere you find ramps
instead of steps, and the ramps are
exactly calculated to ease your legs as
you go up or down. Streets and walks
are asphalt, and the buildings gener
ally have rubber composition flooring.
And if you want to ride, it costs a dime
for a bus from any point on the
grounds to any other point.
If your feet do get tired (and they
oughtn’t to often if you’ve got the
right kind of shoes, which is impor
tant, especially to the women) you
can stop in at any of the first aid sta
tions and get a free foot treatment to
ease them.
Now for the Tariff
Let’s count the cost, after you get
to New- York. Figure you’re in a trail
er—that’s $1 to get over the George
Washington Bridge, which is the best
way for a trailer; 75 cents a night at
the fire problem would be much more
simple if fewer fires g(jt started. Nine
ty-nine per cent of the forest fires oc
curring in the state result from the activ
ities of people, and inoi-e than 50 per
cent, ae incendiary firees set inten
tionally because of a desire to burn the
woods.
It can thus be seen that the biggest
obstacle in protecting eGorgia forests
from fire is the attitude of a large body
gs our citizens. Many people see no
harm in “burning off the woods.” Many
others are indifferent to this serious
evil. When we have developed a strong
public opinion against woods buning,
it should not be difficult to practically
do away witr the red-tongued enemy of
our woodlands.
Children Club
Will Meet
There will be a meeting for the work
ers in the children's department Sunday
afternoon at 2:30. This conference is
one of a series being held over the Dal
ton district. The meeting will be pre
sided over by Mrs. J. K. Brown, who is
district superintendent of the children's
workers’ department. All working in
this group are urged to be present.
BERRYTON 4-H CU B MEETS
The Berryton 4-H club held its regu
lar meeting Oct. 2 at the Berryton school
house. A program was given, after which
Miss Henry gave a demonstration, show
ing the many things she had made out
of cornshucks and discussed the feasibil
ity of exhibiting them at the fair.
The next meeting, which will be held
Monday, Oct. 16. we are to make some
pins to put on dresses. —Betty' J. Berry,
Reporter.
Revival at South Summerville Baptist.
Revival services will start Sunday at
South Summerville Baptist church. The
services will be conducted by the pastor,
Rev. Herbert Morgan.
the trailer camp; a few cents for milk
and whatever other groceries you
need for eating at the camp; 25 cents
toll over Whitestone Bridge for your
car (leave the trailer at camp) and
25 cents toll back again (or ride a bus,
fare ten cents each); 50 cents to park
in the parking grounds at the Fair;
75 cents admission for adults, 25 cents
for children; 25 cents each for the
Perisphere, which is a must because
it is the Fair’s symbol; 10 cents for
the Town of Tomorrow, which also
ought to be a must for any house
holder, and gas and oil.
We ate dinner at one of many res
taurants in the Fair grounds. My wife
had chicken and mushrooms with cof
fee for 60 cents. I ate a Salisbury steak
with coffee for 60 cents, and lamb
chops for the boy cost 75 cents. For
lunch we had hamburgers and pie.
which ran us 20 cents each. It costs a
nickel for pop or root beer at any of a
dozen stands. We got to the Fair for
lunch one day and had dinner there
that night. We had breakfast in camp
next day, lunch at the Fair and pulled
out late that afternoon for home.
Seeing New York
You can see something of New York
while you’re at the Fair, for the mere
cost of gasoline. The night we arrived,
we took a 50-mile drive across town,
along the Hendrik Hudson Parkway
and back from the Battery up Broad
way to Times Square, then back to
camp. We had a volunteer guide—one
of the officials at the camp.
The policemen go out of their way
to help a visitor. One of them talked
to us for a half hour about things in
general while we waited for an open
top bus next morning for a sightsee
ing trip in Manhattan. In fact, any
New Yorker goes out of his way to
help a Fair visitor.
We felt so much at home that when
we parked our car to catch a bus to
the Fair on our first day’s visit, we
forgot to make a note of where we left
it; just walked away from it like we
would have done in our own home
town. And believe it or not, we found
it when we came back in the rain—
with the help of some of the passen
gers on the bus.
Bear in mind that the cost of coming
to New York depends on how you are
willing to come. We had a camp trail
er, slept in it, using a trailer camp
once, a cabin one night during a pour
ing rain, using school grounds twice
with the permission of rural neigh
bors, and parking three times at fill
ing stations. It took us six days to get
here.
That SBS is an education worth
thousands,-for a boy of 11, and worth
nlenty more for his father and
mother. Reprinted from the New York
Herald-Tribune.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
Funeral services for David P.
Henley, 76, one of the most
prominent citizens of Summer
ville and Chattooga county,
who died at his home here Sun
day afternoon were held from
the First Presbyterian church
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. J. G. Kirkhoff. Inter
ment was in the Summerville
. Cemetery.
Mr. Henley was born and.
reared in Chattooga County
and had served several terms
as sheriff and tax collector of
the county, and at different
times has been affiliated with
the city government.
Besides his wife, the deceased
is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Preston .Britton and Mrs.
D. D. Manor, of Chattanooga,
and Miss Kathryn Henley, who
is county school superintendent
of Chattooga county, and two
sons, John and D. P., Jr., of this
place.
MR. FARMER: INCREASE
THE YIELDS AND
QUALITY OF OATS
Farmers who plan to sow
oats this fall should prevent
smut appearing in their oats
next spring by treating seed
oats with a solution of one pint
Farmaldehyde (at all drug
stores) to 40 gallons of water.
Increase or decrease to meet
your needs. One gallon will
treat two bushels of oats. Place
the oats on a sheet and with a
pine top or broom, sprinkle the
solution on the oats with an oc
casional rolling or stirring of
the grain. When all the grains
are slightly wet, spread all
sacks to be used on the damp
oats and sprinkkle them.
Spread a thick covering on
sacks and grain and leave four
hours or over night. Sprinkle
some of the solution in the drill
and cover it too. The cost is
less than one cent a bushel. It
is also recommended that 200
pounds of 16 per cent, phos
phoric acid (Do not use com
plete fertilizer) be used at sow
ing time. In the spring throw
75 pounds of Sulphate of Am
monia or Nitrate of Soda over
the oats and 20 punds of les
pedesa followed by a drag har
row. The above practice should
raise your yields and quality
two or three times.
Call by and I shall be glad to
explain any questions you
■might have if I can.
GDIS R. MOSS,
Farm Supt., F. S. A
HAIR MOTOR CO. OFFICIAL
PRAISES NEW FORD LINE
W. F. Aldred, manager of
Hair Motor Company, has seen
and inspected the new line of
Ford cars and trucks for 1940
and states that in all the eight
een years he has been with the
Ford organization that this
year’s car is the most complete.
He is very enthusiastic in re
gard to the product and for its
possibilities from a sales angle.
He also believes that 1940 will
be a prosperous year to those
I who really work.
The Ford V-8 and the De
Luxe Ford cars for 1940,
present notable advances in
styling, comfort, convenience
and safety. The new cars are
big, substantial and powerful
in appearance. Front end de
signs are distinctively modern,
with low radiator grilles, long
hoods and deeply rounded
fenders.
An important new feature of
the cars is a finger-tip gear
shift mounted on the steering
column. This provides increas
ed room for the driver and pas
sengers in the front compart--
ment. There also is a new con
tolled ventilation system, new
i Sealec^-Bearn headlights and
many other features that make
the Ford for 1940 a truly great
car.
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