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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 Bp I IE! I - j Me | I I p wwOtlßl H Hi dtp ( I* Si # . lISSS! 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. SPECIAL OFFER—Subscribe to The News for SI.OO a year (luring the Fair. $1.50 A YEAR