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CIRCULATE IN iBEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53; NO. 36 4-H ACHIEVEMENT DAY SATURDAY The Chattooga county 4-H Achievement day will be held Saturday, Nov. 25, at 10 a.m. at the Summerville High school auditorium. This will be 4-H club day for Chattooga county. The following program will be presented by the club girls of the county: Song—Club girls. Devotional—Mildred Johnson, Byerly 4 H club. Welcome Address —Sara Baker, Gor< 4-H club. \ ‘‘Molly Goes To a Boarding School Club girls. Guest Speaker—G. V. Cunningham, state leader of 4-H club boys and girls. Awarding of medals, certificates of honor and promotion cards by Miss Lula Edwards, Northwest Georgia district agent. Song. Club pledge. Lunch. Picture ihow. The county winners of outstanding achievements were announced in last week’s issue of The News. The public is cordially invited to at tend this program. We are indeed fortunate to have Mr. Cunningham, who is the state leader of 4-H club boys and girls as our guest speaker. He has spent the greater por tion of his life working with club boys and girls and knows just what boys and girls like. UNEMPLOYED RECEIVE $82.07 WEEK NOV. 6 Unemployed workers in Chattooga county were paid $82.07 in benefits by tin bureau of unemployment compensation during the week ending Nov. 11, 1939, it was announced today. Number of pay ments was reported at thirteen. Total payments to Georgia workers that week amonted to $48,491.54, repre sented by 7,745 checks which went into 110 counties of the state. Five hundred twenty-five payments for $4,460.85 to workers in other states who previously had established wage credits in Georgia, brought the total to $52,- 952.39. Number and amount of cheeks mailed by the bureau ranged from one check foi $2.01 in Dawson county to 1,834 checks for $13,592.98 in the Atlanta area which is composed of Fjijton and DeKalb coun ties. INDIANfOEFEAm FAYETTE, 38 TO 13 The Summerville Indians claimed an other victim last Thursday night when they ran wild against the La Fayette Ramblers. The Indians scored in the first quarter when Headrick carried the ball over right tackle, also making the extra point good. In the second quarter, Tallent broke loose around left end for 54 yards before he was downed by Martin, of La Fayette, inches from the goal line. On the next play’ Tallent carried the ball over right tackle for the score. He made the extra point when he went over left tackle. The half ended with the Indians leading the Ramblers by the score of 14 to 0. In the third quarter, two touchdowns were made, one by Bohannon, of the In dians, and one by Martin, of the La Fay ette Ramblers. Bohannon made his touchdown by go ing over right tackle for four yards. Tai lent made the extra point good. Harold Martin Scored for the Ram blers after they had marched down to the Indians’ one-yard line. He carried the ball off right, tackle for the touchdown He then went over left tackle for the ex tra point. The last quarter ended with neither team scoring, although both teams threat ened more than once. TOO MANY SWEENEYS. LEXINGTON, Ky.—When Prof. Geo. Skinner, of the University of Kentucky- College of Law, met his class for the vrst time, he called on “Mr. Sweeney. Two students answered. He amended the call to “Mr. Robert Sweeney,” and still two answered. Trying again, he asked “Mr. Robert T. Sweeney” to stand. The two students arose. Their names are Robert Thompson Sweeney, from Glen coe, 111., and Robert Todd Sweeney, from Owensboro, Ky. Cadet Examination Announced For U.S. Maritime Commission The United States Martime commission has announced an open competitive ex amination for deck and engineer cadets in the merchant marine of the United States. Applications must be mailed to the supervisor of cadet training, U. S. Maritime commission, Washington, D. Ch and postmarked not later than midnight Dec. 21, 1939. The eligible register will be maintained by the martime commis sion. | Unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25 who can produce evidence of good moral character, and who have com pleted certain studies in accredited school will be eligible to compete for examation. Rigid physical requirements must be met. Further information regarding the ex amination is contained in the formal an nouncement, posted in most first- and second-class post offices. Persons desiring copies of the announcement and applica tion forms may obtain them from the supervisor of cadey’raining, U. S. Mari time Commission, Washington, D. C. ©hr Snmntrrinllr Nma SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939 LOCAL P.-T. A. SPONSORS LUNCH ROOM AT SCHOOL One of the most important organiza tions in Summerville is our Parent-Teach er association where parents and teach ers meet together to build up the school for our children. This year we are spon soring a lunch room for under-privileged children and are giving to about seventy of these children every day a well-balanced hot lunch. The WPA furnishes workers to pre pare these meals and we also get surplus commodities, but the P.-T. A. has to add many things.to these to make a balanced meal, and for for the current to cook these meals. Don’t you want to have a part in this fine work? If your child would like to get meals at the lunch room and will bring a dona tion, either cash or commodities that can be used in the lunch room, they will b< given a ticket along with the under-priv ileged children. No certain price is to be paid for these lunches. Please send us a donation whether you have children in school or not and it wil be greatly appreciated. MENLO STUDENT IN SHAKESPEARE PLAY (Special to The Summerville News.) •CLEVELAND, Tenn., Nov. 20. —Hol land Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Thomas, of Menlo, Ga., and student at Bob Jones college, Cleveland, will play the role of Jaques de Boys in Shake speare’s famous comedy, “As You Like It,” to be presented by the Bob Jones college Classic Players on the opening night of the pre-Christmas Festival week at the eollebe. Pre-Christmas Festival week is an in novation this year in connection with the Bob Jones college artist and celebrity series which brings a select number of the nation’s outstanding lyeeum artist, musi cians, and speakers to the campus each season. Festival week, to begin Dec. 12. will consist of one week of such high typ< cultural entertainment. Young Thomas is a freshman at college this year, having graduated from Menlo High school last spring. As a ministerial student he plans to major in religion at the beginning of his junior year. 80l Jones college, a four-year. interdenomina tional, eo-educational institution, found ed by Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., ii/ernationally known evangelist and educator, enrolls around five hundred students annual!? from all sections of the United States, Canada, and several foreign countries. I is one of the few institutions of learning in America to offer the bachelor of arts degree with a major in religion. HOLIDAY NOTICE. The undersigned banks will observe Thanksgiving day (Thursday, Nov. 23,) and will transact no banking business on that date: Farmers & Merchants Bank, Bank of Trion. ARMY ENLISTMENTS HIT PEACETIME HISH In connection with the current re cruiting activity for the Regular Army. Colonel Daniel D. Tomkins, Cavalry, Re cruiting Officer for Georgia and Florida announced today that information pub lished by the War Department indicated that the number of Army enlistments i> recent, months had hit a peacetime high Between July’ 1, 1939, and November 9, 1939, there have been 50,836 men ac cepted for enlistment in recruiting sta tion over the United States. Os the nine corps areas in the nation, the Eighth corps area leads in number with 8,322 enlisted from its territory of Ttxas, Ok lahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and part of Arizona. The Fourth corps area of which Georgia and Florida aie a part, is running a close second with a total of 7,728. South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennesee, Alabama, Mississippi and Lou isiana comprises the remainder of the Fourth corps area. The Rome station now has vacancies for the following branches of service: In fantry, cavalry, quartermasi ?r corps, air corps, medical department, field artillery and engineers. autolegistrations LISTED AT 481,498 Motor vehicle registrations in Georgia reached an all-time high of 481.489 on Nov. 1. when the last compilations were made. This compared with 444,498 for the entire year of 1938. The state motor vehicle division esti mated that total registrations will be al most 500'000 by the year's end. Passenger car registrations of 376,628 are already more than 26,500 ahead of the total for last year. Trucks not for hir» have increased from 67,616 last year to 75,356 so far this year. Trucks for hire have increased 300, state, county, city trucks have gained 550, trailers not for hire have increased 500, trailers for hire 170. house trailers 200. dealers’ tags 407, motorcycles 230. and ambulances 73. The only drop shown ’s in hearses, ■which fell from 467 to 451. Farm income in the United States for the first eight months of 1939 amounted ed to more than four and a half billion dollars. Summerville Indians Lose Hard-Fought Battle, 14-12 2ND-QUARTEK DRIVE BY iKlUix DEFEATS INDIANS THERE ON WEDNESDAY NHjrHT. In the annaul Thanksgiving football classic between the two ancient rivals Summerville and Trion —the Trion Bull dogs defeated the Summerville Indians, 14 to 12, in one of the hardest-fought bat tles seen between the two teams. The attendance was estimated at around 1,500. Trion's second-quarter drive for two touchdowns was sufficient to win from a fighting Summerville team. Tallent, Bohannon and Headrick were outstanding for Summerville. Logan was outstanding for Trion, making nice gains through the center of the line. The breaks of the game came in the second quarter on a bad kica by Headrick, which was almost straight up. The highlights of the game follow: The Indians started off in the first quarter by’ making the first touchdown. They scored when Bohannon recovered a kick blocked by Marks, of the Indians, across the goal line. This touchdown was made possible when Headrick kicked the ball out of bounds on Trion 2-yard line. Tallent tried for extra point over tackle but was stopped by Cecil Drummond, of Trion. In the second quarter, Trion went on a scoring spree when they made two touchdowns in succession, both being made by Logan, Trion’s right end; he made one extra point and Ragland, of Trion, made the other point when he plac ed kicked the ball betw’een the goal posts for the extra point. The half ended with Trion leading, 14 to 6. In the third quarter, Tallent made an other touchdown for Summerville when he carried the ball over right tackle foi the score; he failed to make the extra point. His spectacular running making one first down after another, made this score possible. Trion then received the kickoff from Summerville and gained ev ery turn they ran. They carried the ball from the 30-yard line down to the In dians’ 10-yard line. In the fourth quarter, Headrick charg ed in and recovered a fumble on their own ‘ 20-yard line; they carried the ball up to the' 20-yard line, making one first down after another, before Trion finally’ gain ed possession of the ball, giving Trion possession of the ball on their own 20- yard line. They ran it back to the 38- yard line before Summerville finally gain ed possession of the ball on Trion s 38 yard line; they ran it down to Trion's 8-yard line at the final gun. STATE COLLECTS OVER 49 MILLION IN TAXES Georgia’s tax collections in the fisca' year ending June 30 totaled $49,470,000 it was reported to the census bureau. The bureau said the total collections reported by forty-three states whose sis cal years ended between Dec. 31. 1938 and Aug. 31. 1939, showed an 18.5 in crease over 1937. This, the bureau said, excluded unem ployment compensation taxes, licenses and fees except those on business and motor vehicles, alcoholic beverage system profits and a few minor unspecified taxes Using the unemployment compensation collections for both years, the increase was slightly more than 32 per cent. In the forty-three reporting states, tax collections including unemployment com pensation amounted to $3,169,972,000 the year, compared with $2,398,900,000 ir 1937 ; and excluding unemployment com pensation, $2,517,800.00 this year com pared with 32.124.900.000. The 1937 figures for the various states were not reported by the bureau in the survey’ which disclosed these collections by types of taxes in Georgia : Motor fuel, $20,557,000; alcoholic bev erage sales tax, $1,670.000; tobacco prod ucts sales tax, $2,502,000; insurance (gross receipts) companies, $1,162,000- alcoholic beverage licenses, $1,330,000: chain store licenses, $181,000; other li censes on specific businesses. $1,259,000' motor vehicle licenses. $2,178,000; cor porate income. $2,701,000; individual in come $2.283.000; inheritance, estate and gift, $236,000; poll. $258,000; real prop erty, $3,382,000: personal property, sl,- 317,000; unemployment compensation. $454,000. onlyhWederate VETS ALIVE IN GEORGIA The proud' gray hosts that marched away from Georgia to take part in the War Between the States has dwindled to only 112—less than one for each thou sand that marched away in the sixties It is estimated that 125000 went from Georgia in that war. Miss Lillian Henderson, director of the pension department, reported that 106 of the old soldiers are at homes of their own or of relatives receiving SSO a month pension and six are in the Confederate Soldiers home at Atlanta. The latter re ceive $5 a month spending money in ad dition to the food and accommodations at the home. METHODIST CHURCH GOES ON FULL TIME The local Methodist church has just closed the conference year with every ob ligation paid in full and its members have just cause to be proud of the year’s financial record. Rev. G. G. Ramsey, who has been pastor for the past two years, has been transferred to the South Geor gia conference for the coming year, and has been assigned to the Shellman church The local church has been associated with the Menlo charge for a number of years and has been a half station, but will go to a station at the conference which convened at Wesley Memorial church in Atlanta Wednesday. This means that there will be preaching serv ices every Sunday beginning with the first Sunday in December and of course will be by a new pastor Which will b< assigned to the Summerville church a' the close of the present conference. The new’ set-up with the Menlo and Bethel church will be known as the Men lo circuit and will be composed of Menlo, Bethel and Macedonia churches, with a resident pastor at Menlo. This means that the county will have an additional Meth odist pastor with the new set-up. J. E. Kennedy, of Menlo, is the lay delegate to the annual conference. He left Wednes day afternoon for Atlanta and will be there through Sunday in attendance at the North Georgia conference. PRESBYTERIAN CHOIR IN VESPER SERVICE The choir of the Summerville Presby terian church, under the direction of Mrs. John D. Taylor, will present a Thanks giving Vesper service at the church on Sunday afternoon. Nov. 26. at 5 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend The program is as follows: Instrumental prelude. Processional —Choir. Anthem, “He Crowns the Year,” Hol ton —the Choir. Solo. “My Saviour Leads Me All the Way.” Woolcott—Miss Eloise Cheek. Prayer—Rev. J. G. Kirckhoff. Duet, “O Love Divine,” Nevin—Miss Eloise Cheek and Mrs. J. D. Taylor. Solo. “The King of Love My Shepherd Is." Gounod —-Rev. J. G. Kirckhoff. Anthem, “God Faileth Not,” Nolte — the Choir. Solo, “Bring Now Your Gifts,” Baines —Mrs. J. D. Taylor. Anthem, Offer Unto God Thanksgiving. Lorenz- —the Choir. Benediction. figures and Tacts OF WILD LIFE RANGERS ATLANTA, Nov. 22.-—. Figures and facts released Saturday by Charlie Elli ott reveal the merits of the merit system of wild life rangers. Praising the work of his sixty-six rangers, the new’ wild life director said that his men had combined both educa tional work and enforcement and estab lished a fine record during their first two months in the fields. With the hunting season opening full blast this week, Elliott said that he ex pected a general upturn in results in spite of the already creditable showing. Elliott, who has some sort of a record himself for public appearances before sportsmen's clubs all over the state, pointed to the nearly four thousand li censes checked, cases made against vio lators, game clubs organized with the aid of rangers, juvenile clubs visited, etc., and expressed himself satisfied with the ac complishments. “We have been keeping a box score, baseball style, on individual rangers and on the four districts in the state,” he re vealed. “General orientation w’ork and collection of license fees preparatory to turning this latter task over to the rev enue department in October, slowed ac tivity in the field our first month of op eration, but last jnonth the boys steppet out with a par performance. However we expect to increase the tempo as the season progresses.” He also indicated that his division rec ognizes the co-operation and genera! sen timent that has grown toward ranger, and the conservation program of the di vision. Rangers in the four districts checked licenses of 3,686 fishermen and hunters in September and October, the tabula tion showed. Cases for violations were fil ed against 145 persons and twenty of these were convicted. Otiers are facing trials and some were freed, the figures show. Proving that they worn inside as well as out, rangers visited 169 game and fish clubs and on top of this appeared before or helped organize 175 junior clubs. Twen ty eight senior clubs were organized at the suggestion of, or with the assistance of the rangers. Some rangers are writing weekly col umns, Elliott’s statistics proved, and on top of these oyer 200 news stories were uncovered and printed at the instigation of the press-minded group of wild life workers. Working as district chiefs, in charge of the rangers are Dan Rainey, mountain district; Fred Brewer, plains district: J. F. Spooner. Flint River district, and Martine D. Mcßae. Piedmont district Your ranger will assist you in any way in which he can. FAREWELL SERMON FOR REV. JACKSON SUNDAY The Rev. J. C. Jackson will preach his last sermon in the Summerville First Baptist church Sunday morning. Mr. Jackson has been the pastor of the church since March. 1935. During his pastorate much progress has been made in the work of the church. The church has gone from half to full time work. The W. M. U. is one of the few A-l full-graded It . M. U.'s in the state of Georgia. The at tendance has grown and many new mem bers have been received into the fellow ship of the church. In 1937. the church lost its beautiful, well equipped building by fire. Today, where the old church stood, there now stands a beautiful colonial structure built of the finest materials and planned to suit the needs of this community as a work shop for the Kingdom work. This build ing is one of the most beautiful churches in the state of Georgia. The order has al ready been placed for seats for the audi torium. Most of this work is paid for and the church is paying in on the remainder at a rapid rate. Many other advances have marked the pastorate of Mr. Jackson in the First Baptist 'church of Summerville. He re signs, effective Nov. 30. to accept the pastorate of the New Harrison (Tenn.) Baptist church. GEORGIA ffIOUT SEASON CLOSED ATLANTA, Nov. 22. —The trout sea son in Georgia is closed and no more trouh may be taken in the streams of the state until April 1 when the North Geor gia streams will be reopened, it was an nounced by the wild life division. The past season was one of the most successful in the history of the sport, fishing observers point out. Several anglers took rainbow trout from the North Georgia streams and lakes that exceeded twenty inches. 5 CHmOOGA STUDENTS AT WEST GA. COLLEGE CARROLLTON, Ga. Five students from Chattooga county are among those registered at West Georgia college for the fall quarter, according to a statement by the college registrar. The Chattooga students include: Sam mie Nelle Hammond, Jean Wyatt, Netsie Lee Wyatt, W. K. Cleghorn and Henry Owings. West Georgia college, Carrollton, is a branch of the University System of Geor gia. The present total enrollment exceeds that of any previous year and includes approximately 450 students from seventy counties. wildlifeTicturFs TO BE AT LA FAYETTE A series of wild life motion pictures will be shown at the La Fayette High school auditorium on the evening of Mon day, Nov. 27, at 7 o’clock. These pictures are ’sponsored by the wild life division of Georgia, and are being used to convey the purpose and methods of the wild life program as it is now being carried on. The pictures are educational as well as entertaining. It is the opinion of authori ties that the pictures will prove benefi cial to all persons interested in conserva tion work of any type. The pictures deal with such subjects as farm planning for birds and animals, forest fire damage ami control, propaga tion and restocking methods, hunting and fishing scenes, as well as many other sub jects of general interest. Let’s all attend and see what the new set-up of the wild life division is trying to do for the state in the way of conser vation. No admission charge. GORE W. H. D. CLUB MEETS The Gore Woman's Home Demonstra tion club met Tuesday afternoon. Nov 14, in the home economics room. An in teresting program on Thanksgiving was carried out. Officers elected for the com ing year were: President. Mirs. John King; vice-presi dent, Mrs. Dill Ballenger; secretary, Be atrice Patrick. Plans were made for a Christmas par ty to be held at the December meeting. Miss Henry gave a very interesting dis cussion on the proper arrangement of shrubbery and trees around the home. MRS. GEO. D. MORTON. Rep. WHO KNOWS? 1. How many Americans are anglers? 2. What is M-day? 3. Who is King of the Belgians? 4. When did Hitler participate in the unsuccessful Munich “beer hall putsch ? 5. Can an American ship, after shift ing its registry to a foreign country, car ry cargoes to belligerent ports ? 6. Are the relief expenditures for this year larger than defense expenditures? 7 What is the world's population? Were Holland and Belgium ever one country? 9. Were there any unemployed in 1929? 10. How many agents of foreign gov ernments have registered under the act I passed in 1938? i (See “The Answers” on Another Page.) STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. $1.50 A YEAJR OS AT A GLANCE ABOUT STATE EVENTS (By Gilreath Press Syndicate.) ATLANTA, Nov. 22. —It is sad but true. Out of the great host of 125,000 sol diers in gray that Georgia sent to the War Between the States, there are only 112 now living—less than one for each thousand that marched away in the sixties. Os those living 106 are at homes of their own or of relatives receiving SSO a month pension and six are in the Con federate Soldier’s home in Atlanta, ac cording to Miss Lillian Henderson, di rector of the pension department. The latter receive $5 a month spending mon ey in addition to the food and accommo dations at the home. In addition to the veterans, there are 2,162 widows of veterans living in the state, who receive S3O a month pensions. Since Georgia Confederate pensions be gan, the state has paid old soldiers and their dependents $50,307,443, Miss Hen derson’s records reveal. The peak year 1912, when $1,193,310 was paid to 19,- 972 pensions. Last year’s total was $922,321. DON’T LOSE THIS TAX : “Railroads have always been one of the nations most prolific tax sources.” declares the Ala meda (Cal.) Times-Star. “To permit them to crumble and to pass into federal con trol would mean the stoppage of vast sums depended upon to keep rural schools, particularly in many of the less popu lated regions, open ; to supplement coun ty, city and township tax funds, thereby lessening extreme financial burdens.” GIST OF THE NEWS: The state school board has voted to restore its school library program at an estimated cost of $150,000 per year, effective for the new scholastic year. It was abandoned at the suggestions of the house economy committee . . . The average passenger vehicle owner in Georgia paid a registra tion fee of $2.74 in 1938, compared with the national average of $9.25 . . . Dr. M. L Brittain, president of Georgia Tech, recently celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday . . . Settlers of Pine Mountain Valley recently held their fifth annual harvest festival. It was their answer to the adversity which beset them when they went there to build shattered lives anew on land the government made available to them. MENLO 4-H CLUB. The Menlo 4-H club held its regular meeting in the gym. There were fifteen girls present. We discussed how to ar range the furniture in a room and how to make over old things and make them look Aew.—lLytiie Pickle, Reporter. 4 BISON ARE FOUND LISTED IN GEORGIA ATLANTA. Nov. 21. —There are four bison in Georgia, it was revealed by the state division of wild life. A recent inventory of big game shows that this state also has approximately 16,000 whitetail deer and 407 black bear. There are other species of deer found in lesser numbers. DIONNE RECORD TIED; GOAT HAS QUINTS QUITMAN, G. —A mamma goat of this vicinity proved recently that it doesn’t necessarily take a Dionne to have five kids. And these kid-quints are not being denied their share of popularity, but have been showered with gifts such as goat fodder, patented goat pens, col lars and bells, and feeding bottles. And Ma Goat is the chief attraction at the Brooks County fair, along with L. W. Beatty's twin donkeys, and Dr. R. C. Fuller's twin colts. FATALITIES DECREASE AT GRADE CROSSINGS ATLANTA. Nov. 21 (GPS).—An en couraging note in the nation-wide move ment for more public safety is found in statistics on highway-railroad accidents, just made public in Atlanta. Fatalities resulting from such accidents in the first seven months of 1939 totaled 774, compared with 801 in the same pe riod last year, a decrease of twenty-seven, according to the safety section of the As sociation of American Railroads. During the seven-month period this year 2.068 persons_were injured in this type of accident, compared with 2,188 in the corresponding period of 1938, a de urease of 120. The number of accidents at highway railroad grade crossings in the January through-July period was 1.805. compared with 1.866 in the same period last year, a decrease of sixty-one. KILLED ANYWAY. SUPERIOR. La. —When his automo bile stalled in the path of a swiftly ap proaching train, John D. Wilson jump ed out of it and ran several feet m the clear. He was killed, however, when the train hurled the automobile after him, smashed him against a switch. NO “HERO” CLAYTON, N. J. —After being feted bv the town for two days as a hero who rescued five children from a burning house, Stanton Chessman, 17. confessed that he had set the house on fire and pulled the “rescue” in order to impress the oldest daughter of the family. Ber nice Gorman, also 17. He has been sen tenced to a reformatory.