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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 32
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT STATE EVENTS
((By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
ATLANTA, Oct. 25.—Life on
Georgia highways is becoming
safer. A 53 per cent, decrease in
Georgia’s traffic fatalities was
shown in September this year,
■compared with the correspond
ing month in 1938, according
to statistics of the department
of public safety. This is the
.greatest monthly reduction
since the department was es
tablished two years ago, accord
ing to Safety Commissioner Lon
Sullivan,
During September, forty-two
persons were killed in traffic
accidents, compared with ninety
in the same month a year ago.
A reduction of 108 in the num
ber of deaths during the first
nine months of this year also
was reported, the comparative
figures being 488 and 596. In
the nine-month period in 1937,
565 persons were fatally in
jured on Georgia highways.
Interpreting the saving in
human life into terms of mon
ey, Commissioner Sullivan said
“the reduction meant a saving
to Georgia of $7,560,000 over
1937 and $4,860,000 over 1938.”
He said he based his estimate
on the National Safety council’s
method of computing. The com
missioner gave most of the cred
it for the saving of human life
and prevention of injuries to
the drivers and pedestrians.
STEPPING OUT: The sig
nal is a green light. The order
is to pull the speeding throttle
and continue straight ahead at
top speed. That is what Ameri
ca’s railroads are doing. They
are pouring more than SBO-,
000,000 into their property to
keep the nation’s trade and
travel moving. How much this
means in jobs is incalcuable.
Contracts are scattered over a
wide range of industries, much
of the repair work can be done
by crews maintained by individ
ual lines, and the steel mills,
sources of new rail, are rolling
at capacity. Contracts for sup
plies and work placed during
September amounted to SBO,-
000,000, according to the Rail
way Age. New building and
modernization programs, many
of which will not be completed
until next year, more than
equal that figure. That’s what
an upsurge in business can do;
it enables the railroads to take
their right place in leading
this country back to prosperity.
GIST OF THE NEWS: At
lanta has another month to her
credit without a traffic fatality.
More than thirty days have
passed without a fatal accident
being reported within the city
limits. During the summer
months city had 78 consecutive
-days without a traffic fatality
. . . The other day bank clear
ings in Atlanta set a new high
record with the day’s receipts
reaching $21,600,000 . . . Car
rollton now has the youngest
mayor the city has ever had.
He is Stewart Martin, 26.
icimin
Following is a list of cases
tried in the city court for week
of Oct. 23; T. J. Espy, Jr., city
judge:
Marvin Hunter Drunken
ness; plea of guilty. Fined $7
or twenty days.
Snowball Parker—Drunken
ness; plea of guilty. Fined $8
or twenty-five days.
Lon Ed Doster—Drunken
ness; plea of guilty. Fined $7
or twenty days.
Elgin Moon Drunkenness;
plea of guilty. Fined $8.50 or
twenty days.
John Martin —Drunkenness;
plea of guilty. Fined $7 of
twenty days.
Snowball Parker—Drunken
ness; plea of guilty. Fined sl2
or thirty days.
Ernest Wooten Drunken
ness; plea of guilty. Fined
$8.50 or thirty days.
She News
New Legion Home To Be
Dedicated On November 11
The American Legion home,
located on West Washington
avenue, near the county jail, is
nearing completion and will be
dedicated on Nov. 11.
J. R. Teddar, adjutant Amer
can Legion past, No. 129, wants
all legionnaires to get in touch
with him or mail their address
to him so they can have part in
the dedication arrangements.
Dr. W. B. Dillard Dies In
Atlanta Following Illness
Dr. W. B. Dillard, 74, retir
ed minister of the North Geor
gia conference, died at his home
in Atlanta on Saturday night,
Oct. 14, following an extended
illness. Dr. Dillard was the fai
thei’ of Supt. Frank Dillard
of the Summerville schools.
Funeral services were held at
First church, Athens, on Mon
day. Rev. H. C. Emory, Cov
ington, officiated and was as
sisted by Rev. George Acree,
Athens, and Rev. George L.
King, Monroe. Burial was in
Oconee Hill cemetery at Ath
ens.
A native of Oglethorpe coun
ty, Dr. Dillard joined the North
Georgia conference in 1887.
Durng a long career in the pas
torate he served churches in
Rome, Augusta, LaGrange, El
lijay. Young Harris, Dahlone
ga,, Rockmart, Norcross, Mon
roe, Monticello, Carrollton, Ox
ford, Elberton, Covipgton, and
he also served as presiding el
der of the Rome and Marietta
districts.
STATE PAniOLMHr
CITE 928 BRiVEiv
At least 928 drivers of this
state patrol district learned
through experience last month
that the department of public
safety’s ban against violating
rules of the road is no joke.
Troopers made 262 arrests
and issued warnings to 720
drivers by “clipping” holes in
their licenses for violations,
Sergt. H. B. Henderson, com
mander of the Cartersville
headquarters, Georgia state pa
trol, said:
Counties in this district in
clude Catoosa, Carroll, Whit
field, Murray, Walker, Chat
tooga, Gordon, Gilmer, Pickens
Floyd, Bartow, Polk, Cobb,
Harolson, Paulding, Douglas,
Cherokee and Dade.
In the previous month troop
ers made only 184 arrests and
issued 605 warnings.
“The stricter enforcement
speaks for itself,” the sergeant
declared.” Last month Georgia
had 42 traffic fatalities as com
pared to 90 for September 1938
or a 52 per cent reduction. The
saving of that many lives is
worth strict enforcement and
troopers are under order to
bear down on these speeders,
drinking drivers, road hogs ana
drivers who fail to stop for
school busses or who pass other
vehicles on hills and curves.’
Speed caused 118 arrests and
driving while under the influ
ence of intoxicating drinks was
responsible for 32. Drivers
without licenses also caused 63
arrests.
Throughout the state more
stringent enforcement was the
order of the day also and
troopers arrested a total of
1,684 drivers last month, as
compared to 1,152 in August
and 759 in July. They issued
6,338 warning tickets in Sep
tember, or twice as many as
they gave in August and three
times as many as in July.
The sergeant said the de
partment of public safety is
following up conviction of
drunk driving charges with
revocation of the driver’s li
cense for six months and that
two “clips” or warning tickets
for a similar offense result in
80-day-license susupension.
Persistent Cops
OMAHA, Neb. Seventeen
years ago H. F. Thornton told
police that his gold watch had
been stolen. Recently, the
watch was found in a pawn
shop. Now police are looking
for Thornton.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939
PROGRAM FOR FIFTH
SUNDAY MEET OCT. 29
Below is the program for the
Fifth Sunday meeting at Spring
Creek Baptist church on Oct.
29th:
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.;
lesson taught to whole school.
Announcements by pastor of
Spring Creek church.
Sermon at 11 a.m. by pastor.
Special music at 1 p.m. by
Summerville Fellowship club.
Announcements of Orphans’
home work by A. J. Eilenburg.
Address on Orphans’ home
at 1:30 by Rev. Rutland, of
Rome.
“What Is the Gospel; It’s Re
lation to Salvation; Its Rela
tion to the Church?” Ten min
ute talks, led by Rev. E. B.
Shivers.
“What is the Relation of the
Church to the Gospel-—-Its Place
In Salvation?” Ten minute
talks led by Rev. D. Maffett.
SEEKIFTDEirAID
FOR FARM MARKETING
ATLANTA, Oct. 25 (CNS).
—Columbus Roberts, state com
nissioner of agriculture, is
seeking a grant of $75,000 from
she United States department
of agriculture, to supplement
funds provided by the state for
the operations of the bureau of
markets. Grants of this nature,
discretionary w’ith Secretary
Henry Wallace, became avail
able recently.
• If the grant is obtained, the
funds will be used to provide
additional field men in the bu
reau of markets, to assist farm
ers in finding markets for their
crops. The effective work of the
bureau of markets during the
past melon season was an ex
ample of what can be accom
plished in this way, but state
funds have not been adequate
to maintain more than a skele
ton force in the field.
Commissioner Roberts is con
tinuing his efforts to obtain the
erection of an adequate state
farmers market in Atlanta, as
a nucleus for a real marke.
-ystem througnout Georgia, ana
v’ill confer again soon with ex
ecutives of the public works ad
ministration. If an extra session
jf the assembly is held this,
year, passage of the enabling
act for a market authority
vould permit an early begin
ning on the work of erecting
the market, a self-liquidating
project.
ELECTRIC SHOCK
BARBECUED COWS
CARTERSVILLE. lt isn’t
often that a farmer gets a big
aow barbecued free of charge,
but who wants his favorite
milk cows cooked I That is what
happened to Dee Bagwell’s
three prize Jersey milk cows
not long go when they came in
contact with a high-powered
electric line w’hich a falling
limb from a tree had caused to
fall on Bagwell’s property One
curious cow seeing the wire
fall strutted over to investigate,
and was quickly electrocuted.
The other two animals also
marveling at such a strange oc
curence, met their death in the
same manner. It was not until
after all three cows were killed
that Mrs. Bagwell finally got
in touch with a Cassville elec
trician who turned off the cur
rent.
CAFE’S CUSTOMERS
ARE ASKED TO DINE
WITH CAPITAL ‘W’
TOCCOA The typographi
cal error made in a story in last
week’s Record could have
caused a very tragic occurence
had the county officials not
been very broad-minded. It
seems that the story was an in
vitation intending to invite pa
trons,to dine at John’s Quick
Lunch while in Toccoa, but an
entirely different meaning was
gotten when dine was spelled
with a “W.”
NOTICE TO VOTERS OF
CHAnOOGA COUNTY
Due to the vacancy which has
recently occurred in the office
of tax receiver of said county
because of the death of the
Hon. Dempo Dalton, notice is
hereby given to the voters of
Chattooga county, Georgia, that
an election is hereby called to
be held on the 28th day of No
vember, 1939, for the purpose
of selecting the person to fill
the vacancy in the office of tax
recever for said county for the
unexpired terip of the sad Hon.
Dempo Dalton.
All candidates for said office
must qualify with the ordinary
at least five days before tne
date of the election.
Polls will be opened at the
courthouse promptly at 7 a.m.
and will be closed promptly at
6 p.m. At the precincts, polls
will be opened at 8 a.m. and
will be closed at 3 p.m.
This 25th day of Oct., 1939.
H. A. ROSS, Ordinary.
Chattooga County, Ga.
RAILWAY TAX BILL
MILLION PER DA'
ATLANTA, Oct. 25 (GPS).
—Suppose you had to pay a tax
bill of $1,000,000 a day? Well
that’s what Class I railroads of
the United States are doing
They paid in taxes to the va
rious federal, state and local
governments 40.41 cents out of
each dollar of net earnings in
1938, the highest ratio for any
year since 1920, according to
statistics of the Association of
American Railroads, just made
public in Atlanta. In 1937 they
paid 31.10 cents per dollar and
in 1936, 28.52 cents.
Out of each dollar of operat
ing revenue, the railroads in
1938 paid in taxes 9.5 cents, the
greatest amount for any year
on record. In 1937 they paid
7.8 cents and in 1936 it was
7.9 cents. Railway taxes now
average nearly $1,000,000 a day,
it was shown.
Total taxes paid in 1938 to
federal, state and local govern
ments by Class I railroads and
heir non-operating common
carrier subsidiaries amounted
to $343,193,790, the greatest
amount for any year since 1930
when their tax bill amounted
to $350,042,367. Railway taxes
in 1938 were an increase of
?13,782,836, compared with
1937 and an increase of $20,-
802,158 compared with 1936.
Os the total amount of taxes
paid in 1938, $264,934,917 or
77.2 per cent, went to state and
local governments and $77,422,-
886 was paid to the federal gov
ernment. The amount of taxes
paid to the state and local gov
ernments by these carriers in
1938 was an increase of $12,-
633,651, compared with 1937
and an increase of $37,668,455
compared with 1936.
WHO KNOWS?
1. How many residents of this
country were born in the Brit
ish Isles?
2. What is the population of
Finland ?
3. Did Greece and Turkey ex
change “minorities?”
4. What present U. S. senator
voted aganst war in 1917?
5. What rank does James
.Roosevelt hold in the Marine
corps?
6. How many copies of Hit
ler’s “Mein Kampf” have been
sold?
7. How many American na
tions speak Spanish?
8. What was the “Sick Man
of Europe?”
9. What is the average selling
price of automobiles?
10. When does the 30-cents
an-hour wage become effective
in interstate industry?
Costly Nap.
INDIANAPOLIS.— Falling
asleep while driving his car,
Henry Ferger was rudely awa’;
ened when the automobile
wrecked three cars and almost
demolished a tavern and a filL
ing station.
Fair Prize Winners Will
Be Published Next Week
- -
The News will publish in Our
next issue all prize winners of
the fair and also winners in the!
school and athletic events.
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BOUNTY FAIR CLOSES
A SUCCESSFUL YEAR
The thirty-third annual Chat
tooga County fair, which closed
Saturday night, was one of the
most successful ever held.
Rome day Friday drew a
good crowd. The Rome High
school band paraded through
town and to the fair grounds,
where they gave a concert.
The live stock and farm ex
hibits were exceptionally good
.his year.
No figures were available as
to attendance, but Thursday
night, Friday and Friday night
?nd Saturday nights the mid
way was thronged with fun
seekers.
SOUTHEAST LEADS IN
SLUM CLEARANCE J
ATLANTA, Ocf. 25 (GPS).
—The Southeast is taking the
ead in the federal government’s i
slum clearance and rehousing j
program, according to Jacob
Crane* assistant admisistrator i
of tne United States housing
authority, whd was one of the
speakers at the regional , con
ference of housing admiiiistra-,
tion and management, held re- i
cently in Atlanta.
Os the 107 USHA projects j
now under construction about
half are located in the South
east from Maryland to Florida,
he said. Mr. Crane declared 65,-
000 new homes for poor fami
lies are being constructed this
year through the USHA, but,
“measured against the great
need for low-income housing in
this country, this record repre
sents only a meagre start.”
The three-day conference, the
first of its kind ever held in the
United States, was opened by
Charles F. Palmer, chairman of
the Atlanta Housing authority,
which is supervising Atlanta’s
$18,000,000 slum clearance and
lowi-cost housing program.
Gov. .Rivers, another speaker
at the important conference,
said: “Over one-half of the ur
ban homes in the south are sub
standard, which means we have
1,500,000 dwelling units which
constitute threats to the health,
safety and morals of our citi
zens who are living in houses.
If we build 75,000 dwelling unf
its per year we will solve our
housing problem within twenty
years. Such a program will
mean steady employment for
130,000 men.”
STRAW STACK INCREASE
YIELD WINTER LEGUME-
Straw stacks which have been
■ retained rather than burned by
farmers can now be used to
protect and increase yields of
winter legumes, such as crim-
■ son and hop clover, according
to Arthur S. Booth, Chattooga
county work unit technician of
the soil conservation service.
; After being clean cultivated
‘ during the summer, many fields
that produced crops of crimson
- or hop clover and were harvest
i ed for seed last spring have re
seeded to clover from the spring
• crop. Mulching these fields with
straw’ or old hay will help to
I conserve moisture and protect
the young clovet seedlings from
> the cold.
Where farmers are planning
- to sow crimson or hop clover
- patches, Booth points out fur
ther, straw or old manure that
is fairly well rotted should be
disced into the seedbed. A small
r quantity of the manure should
be mixed with the inoculated
’ seed. This will add much need
e ed organic matter to the soil
II and will increase the effective-
- i ness of good inoculation wher
the seed is planted.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAR
LOCAL SCHOOL GRADES
TO BROADCAST FRIDAY
On Friday morning, Oct. 27,
fifty Summerville school chil
dren will present a thirty-min
ute radio program at station
WRGA. The program will begin
at 10:15 a.m. and continue until
10:45 a.m.
The chorus will include chil
dren from the third through
the seventh grades, under the
direction of Mrs. John D. Tay
lor, teacher of public school
music.
The program will be as fol
lows :
Georgia Official Song—Entire
group. .
“Little Sir Echo” Third
grade.
Grahm’s Lullaby Fourth
grade.
“Pickaninny Sandman’ • —-
June Hays and Hazel Hughes,
assisted by Sixth grade.
“Keep On Hopin’ ” —Fifth
grade. .
“Swing Low’, Sweet Chariot
—Entire group.
Lord’s Prayer—Sixth grade.
God Bless America —Entire
group.
> FALL OATS AND
AVOID CORN SHORTAGE
Farmers in this section w’ho
face a probable shortage of
i corn this season because of un
favorable weather, can sow fall
oats and thereby avoid having
to buy feed next spring, accord
ing to Arthur S. Booth, Chat
■ tooga county w’ork unit techni
cian of the* soil conservation.
service,
Irt the sowing of fall oats,-
maximum protection against
erosion can be secured by set
ting up a strip rotation, it is
pointed out. A desirable strip
rotation can be established by
sowing each third terrace in
terval to oats and following the
oats with lespedeza or some
other summer legume. The two
intervening terrace intervals
cans be planted to winter leg
umes, followed by row crops.
This will provide a two-year
rotation on terrace intervals de
voted to row crops.
Upon completion of the ro
tation, according to Booth, the
grain strip can be moved either
up or down hill, again using
each third terrace interval for
grain and summer legumes.
Where machinery is used for
harvesting grain, two or more
terrace intervals may be used
and the same rotation put into
effect. Such rotations provide
for maximum use of legumes
for soil building.
Steals From Prison Garden.
LINCOLN, Neb. Someone
with a guilty conscience recent
ly sent tw’o one-dollar bills to
Joseph O’Grady, warden of the
Nebraska penitentiary, with the
following note: “Please eccept
b he money for watermelons and
vegetables stolen,” from the
prison garden, of all places.
Fairfax, Okla. —Complaining
of his head hurting after he ran
into Coach Lynn Yarbrought at
a football practice. Frank Ha
mon, 13, died shortly thereaft-
• er at a local hospital.
HOT DOG OKEH.
ATLANTA, Oct. 25 (GPS).
1 —Uncle Sam’s experts have
> given the hot dog, that Ameri
l can delicacy consumed by mil-
- lions of people each year, a
- clean bill of health, according
r to a report by Dr. Morris Fish
i bein. At one time the frankfur
) ter was suspected of harboring
t trichinae, parasites which infest
i bad pork and cause serious in
testinal disorder in man. To
r check this, the U. S. depait
r ment of agriculture recently
- conducted a study of frankfur
t ters from 195 federally insnect
e ed meat-packing plants in thir
-1 ty cities. The study showed
d that 99 per cent, of the frank
d furters contained no trichinae
[- at all. In the remaining 1 per
il cent, a few parasites were
j- found, but all of these were
n dead and incapable of causing
! disease.