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CIRCULATE IN (BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 42
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUTSTATE EVENTS
(By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
ATLANTA, Jan. 3. —Georgians will
keep more money in their pockets when
the state’s producers properly sort,
grade, package and present their prod
ucts in the most, attractive manner and
inform the rest of the nation about the
existence and quality of their goods says
a report by the Citizens’ Fact-Finding
movementt.
Dr. J. Edward Hedges and Harold G.
Murphy, of Emory university’s econo
mics department, made this report. They
found four distinct ways in which
Georgia’s net income—the sums re
maining in Georgians’ pockets in any
given periods—may be increased. These
were:
(1) Initiating production or increas
ing the output of those goods in which
the people of Georgia have a cost ad
vantage over other producers. (2) In
creasing the quality or marketabiity of
those goods which Georgians offer for
sale. (3) Carrying production through
more advanced stages. (4) Financing and
managing our own enterprises.”
Teamwork —“Thanks to the inherent
efficiency of railroads, the progressive
ness and courage of railroad men, and
the co-operation of shippers and re
ceivers of freight, the American railroads
have successfully met a sudden and un
precedented demand for mass transpor
tation.” declares the Association of
American Railroads. “Thus, again, the
railroads have demonstrated that they
are absolutely necessary to the nation’s
commerce and agriculture. Thus, again
they have emphasized the need for a
square deal in transportation regulation,
taxation and subsidy.”
Gist of the News —Sales of independ
ent retailers in Georgia totaled $5,573.-
312 during November, an increase of
14.3 per cent over the same month of
1938. An increase of 13.1 per cent dur
ing the first eleven months is reported
over the corresponding period last year.
“Gone With the Wind” was chosen by
the Associated Press as the “movie of
the month’ in December. . . Then, too,
the GWTW celebration in Atlanta re
cently was ranked as the No. 1 state
news story of 1939 by editors of Geor
gia’s AP newspapers. . . . Although the
Atlanta Crackers finished in fourth place
last season, oAy two games separated
them from the pennant-winning Chat
tanooga Lookouts. With the hope of
climbing hack into first place in 1940.
President Earl Mann asked Santa Claus
for a pitcher, an outfielder and a second
baseman, to be delivered by next spring.
. . . Abit Nix, of Athens, is the new
chairman of the managing committee of
the state council of the Y.M.C.A. of
Georgia.
MANY QUAIL FOUND
BURNED TO CRISP
SYLVANIA, Ga. —Fires have wrought
a heavy damage to wooded and hunting
areas along the Ogeechee river and in the
Briar creek area of Screven ounty, ac
cording to Ranger A. B. Briscoe.
The wild-life ranger reporter here this
week that he had found quail and other
birds “burned to a crisp” in parts of the
county.
Farmers were aided in their fire con
trol by last week’s rainfall, but this came
too late to save many tnousanus of acres
from blazes, which were made uncontrol
lable by the severe drought.
BOYS TRAINING SCHOOL
RAISE BOBWKITE QUAIL
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—Boys at the
State Training school here will add quail
raising to their list of projects this
spring, it was learned here this week.
Beginning with a brood stock of 100
to 150 pairs of birds, the training school
will raise birds for restocking purposes
in collaboration with the state wild-life
division.
•Under direction of C. E. Laßoy 100 of
150 laying pens already have been con
structed Laßoy is an experienced man,
having had several years experience at
the state game farm near Atlanta.
A brooder likewise is being built. The
brooder will have a sun parlor, ventila
tion system, concrete floor, 113 windows,
a heater and fifty-six brooder pens.
“Laying period for birds generally
runs for twenty weeks.” Laßoy explain
ed. “They start around April 1 and lay
until September. After they are hatched,
they are placed in brooders until they
become 10 or 12 weeks old. Then they
may be released.”
Supt. Bill Ireland expects to make the
game project a “pay-as-you-go” arrange
ment, hoping to sell enough quail to clubs
and individuals over the state to defray
the costs of production and maintenance.
Doves may be hunted until Jan. 31 in
both the northern and southern zones of
Georgia.
he season on ducks and geese closed
Georgia and the south Dec. 29.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940
OLD-AGE PAYMENTS
BEGIN WITH 1040
Social security payments to retired
workers, their aged wives, widows and
orphans will begin with the new year, ac
cording to Joseph R. Murphy, manager
j of the Atlanta field office of the social
: security board. The federal insurance pro
gram got under way on Jan. 1, and the
first monthly checks will be given to el
igible workers and their dependents on
Feb. 1 for the month of January.
Mr. Murphy explained that a wage
earner who is 65 may file a claim for
monthly benefits, provided he has earned
SSO or more in each of six calendar quar
ters since Jan. 1, 1937, when the sys-
I tem went into operation, and payments
will start when he retires from work.
The old-age and survivors insurance
program under the social security act
provides for payment of monthly benefits
oeginning*in 1940, not only to the wage
earner who retires after the age of 65,
out under certain conditions, to the mem
bers of his family. The three groups oi
persons who may be entitled to benefits
are:
1. Wage-earners 65 or more years old
who decide to retire or who receive less
hail sls per month in covered employ
ment and who have sufficient wage cred
its from jobs covered by the act; the
wives of such workers if or when they
are 65, or any children under 16, or 18
if attending school.
2. Widows at age 65 of wage-earners
who died after Jan. 1, 1940; widows, re
gardless of age, if there are young chil
dren ; and dependent children themselves
until age 16, or 18 if they are regularly
attending sc-hool, may be entitled to ben
efits.
„ 3. Surviving parents of the wage-earn
er, at age 65, if they were dependent on
him at the time of his death and if he
leaves no widow or child, may be entitled
to benefits.
Claims may be filed without charge at
Mr. Murphy’s office at 321 Ten Forsyth
Street building, Atlanta.
farmToanmembers
TO HOLD ANNUAL MEET
Members of the Lookout National Farm
Loan association will hold their annual
meeting on Jan. 18, 1940, at the Farm
ers & Merchants bank in Summerville,
it is announced by J. A. Scoggins, presi
dent.
At this meeting complete and detailed
reports of the association’s operations
for the past year will be made by the sec
retary-treasurer, T. W. Price, and the
other officers.
The meeting will also provide the mem
bers with an opportunity to elect direc
tors for the ensuing year.
Presiding at the meeting will be J. A.
Scoggins, president, who is also a mem
ber of the board of directors. Other mem
bers of the board are J. P. Agnew, T. P.
Johnston, 11. M. Hawkins, and M. M,
Allen.
The Lookout National Farm Loan as
sociation is a co-operative organization
through which farmers obtain long-term
arm loans from the Federal Land Bank
of Columbia.
Mr. Scoggins said that it was hoped
that every member of the association
would be present at the annual meeting.
GASOLINE TAXHiTS
A m HIGH MASH
ATLANTppJfan. 3 (ONS) .—Georgia
motorists jjisbd 354.850 151 gallons of gas
in 1939 and paid $21,192,009.10 into the
state treasury in that period. The figures
represented an increase of $1,431,107.90
above the preceding year.
The money was divided between the
highway department, the counties and the
schools of the state.
Rag Request Result
Runs Writers Ragged
EASTMAN. The Eastman Times-
Journal is making a frantic plea through
its columns for Eastmanites to “please
do not bring any more rags” to the news
paper plant. Since inserting a small ad
recently seeking old rags to wipe ma
•hinery, the Journal offices have been de
luged with enough cloths to “wipe the
greater part of ‘Uncle Sam’s’ navy.”
“Who said the people do not read adver
tisements?” the Journal editor wants to
know.
BUSINESS.
Reviewing the trend of business in the
last twelve months. Secretary Hopkins,
of the department of commerce, reports
substantial gains in all branches of the
national economy. He warns that while
foreign trade might prove a stimulus in
1940. the prospects remain uncertatin and
the outlook must be judged largely in the
light of domestic conditions.
The navy, it is said, has ordered fifty
>r more giant, long-range, four-motored
flying boats to patrol the Pacific and as
sist the neutrality patrol in the Atlantic.
The craft will have a range of five thou
sand mies.
GOVERNORS LAUNCH
TEN-YEAR PROGRAM
FOR GREATER DIXIE
ATLANTA. —Participation of Georgia
in the “Ten-Year Program” for a great
er and richer Southland during the Nine
teen Forties was proclaimed on New
Year’s day by Gov. E. D. Rivers as
southern governors joined in a concerted
effort to advance the section’s standing
among the states.
The South-wide program will be direct
ed by Clarence Poe, president and editor
of the Progressive Farmer, as general
chairman, under the southern governors’
conference, and a state chairman will be
named by each of the chief executives.
Gov. Rivers, assisted by Walter R. Mc-
Donald, chairman of the Georgia Public
Service commission, in launching the dec
ide of progress in Georgia, is taking a
leading part in promoting the presenta
tion to the people of the South.
Gov. Rivers, in his proclamation for
Georgia, which is similar to those bein'
issued in other southern states, pointed
>ut “Georgia, in history, resources, needs
and opportunities should play a basic and
creative part in help! , to fulfill the
abundant hopes of the Ten-Year Program
for a balanced prosperity and the enrich
ment of the life of all our people.”
He said : “I, E. D. Rivers, governor of
Georgia, in grateful recognition of the re
mit victory for more equal transporta
tion rates freighted with new hopes foi
the South, and on this, the threshold of
the new- day, the new year and the new
decade of the Nineteen Forties, do here
by proclaim for our people the participa
tion of Georgia in the Ten-Year Program
for a more intelligently poductive, more
soundly balanced, more broadly humane
and more deeply spiritual civilization in
the state, the South, and the nation
through our high adventure in creative
co-operation toward the realization of
the American dream ant the Kingdom of
God.”
Ten Points for Progress.
The program will seek to balance the
following points:
1. Money crops, including forestry,
with food, feed and fertility crops;
2. All crops with live stock consistent
with sound land use;
3. Production progress with marketing
and transportation opportunity free of
trade barriers;
4. Farms with factories ;
5. Laud, water and mineral resources
with population needs;
6. Work with thrift and local invest
ments ;
7. Owner prosperity w-ith w-orker pros
perity ;
8. Increasing income with increasing
iorne ownership;
9. Wealth with beauty and culture;
10. Economic gains with advances in
uoral values and human welfare.
Participants in the program will seek
he conservation and development of the
-outh’s natural, agricultural, industrial,
ivic, cultural and spiritual resources
iirough the voluntary co-ordination of al
gencies of progress, private and public,
local, state and regional.
Gov. Rivers and his fellow executives
.f southern states warned "that the pres
ent crisis in southern ’money crops’ it
legiected and ignored may bring us t>
isaster.”
CARELESS MOTORIST
FORGETS THE WIFI
ELBERTON. —One Elberton motorist
is probably still explaining to his w-ife an
incident that happened during the recent
pre-Christmas shopping panic.
His thoughts undoubtedly centered on
things Yuletide, the man drove into a ser
vice station with his wife and his mother
and drove away some few minutes later
with his mother and minus his mate, who
had stepped into the rest room. It was
only after he had driven through several
blocks of heavy traffic that he realized
he had forgotten his spouse, and the poor
husband was seen, according to an ob
server, getting an earful as he drove
away, again, this time quite sure that
the little woman was along.
PAYMENTS BEGIN
Millions of elderly wage-earners, in ev
ery economic strata from ditch-digging to
corporation executives, covered by the
social security act, will be eligible for
monthly payments this year if 65 or over
and retired. The social security board
has more than $47,500,000 old-age in
surance accounts. During 1939, about 4.-
500.000 unemployed workers received un
employment benefits amounting to over
$425,000,000. In addition, more than 2,-
500.000 men, women and children receiv
ed benefits under the provisions of the
act to assist needy old people, needy bjin
and dependent children.
AIRCRAFT.
American aircraft industries have re
ceived contracts for four thousand or
more airplanes in the last eighteen months
and the expectation is that the British
and French will double their order. Ap
parently, the Allies expect considerable
action in the air.
POLIO FOUNDATION
REPORTS ON AID
FOR STATE CASES
(By Georgia News Service.)
Georgia’s share of the proceeds of last
year’s celebration of the president’s birth
day has enabled the Georgia state chap
ter of the National Foundation of Infan
tile Paralysis to aid eighty-six infantile
paralysis cases in forty-seven counties,
it was revealed Saturday as preparations
for the 1940 birthday celebration neared
completion.
Georgia received half of the 1939 pro
ceeds of the campaign in this state and
will share similarly in the 1940 receipts ;
the other half going to the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be
used for research and emergency aid in
pidemics of the malady that strikes thou
sands of persons every year.
The organization of Georgia counties
for the 1940 celebration has almost beei
ompleted, county and district commit
tees having been set up in all parts of thi
state. Other committees will be com
pleted this week, headquarters of the
Georgia committee announced.
During 1939 the national foundation
granted $130,219 for virus research to
hirty-four hospitals, medical centers, and
iniversities throughout the United States
in an effort to find the cause of infantile
paralysis (polio meyelitis) and $284,880
for research for the prevention and treat
ment of after effects of infantile paraly
sis. The foundation disbursed $40,483 for
education and $8,389 for use in epidem
ics. An additional $179,701 was granted
out not disbursed in 19119.
In combating epidemics, the foundation
expended $7,650 in Georgia’s neighbor
ing state, South Carolina illustrating how
closely the work of the institution is re
lated to this state.
The national foundation was organized
in January, 1938, and received all of the
net proceeds from the committee for the
celebration of the president’s birthday
from celebrations held that year. Tremen
dous demand for assistance for direct lo
cal relief lead to the decision by the com
mittee to leave in the various states a
part of the money annually raised.
“The jump in infantile paralysis cases
for the first forty-nine weeks of 1939 to
a total of 7,130 as against 1,705 for all
of 1938, should convince us that no one
can say what the demands in the future
will be for local relief in communities
such as your own, or for necessary and
proper research and education,” Basil
O’Connor, president of the national foun
dation, said.
Georgias celebration of the president’s
birthday on Jan. 30 will include parties
4’ all types in every community in the
state. Interest in the celebration has been
growing from year to year as the message
from the infantile paralysis drive has
taken firm hold on Georgia and the 1940
celebrations are expected to be the most
brilliant since the campaign began.
Considerable attention has been drawn
to infantile paralysis within the last sev
eral years as the dreaded epidemic dis
ease has blighted communities all over the
mtion, and people have come to realize
more and more the danger attendant upon
the malady’s presence, as there is no
known preventive or cure. Through the
good work enabled by the proceeds of the
elebrations, sponsors of the campaign are
lopeful that some day in the near future
hey will be able to check and control \he
pread of the disease.
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FDR GEORGIA FARMER!
ATLANTA, Jan. 3 (CNS).— Despite
ihe fact that crop values in Georgia will
be off slightly for 1939. due to unfavor
able weather in the spring and summer
last year, the basic outlook for agricul
ture in this state is better than in many
years, believes Columbus Roberts, state
commisioner of agricuture.
Expressing confidence that the chang
ed methods of farming that came in the
wake of the Roosevet administration’s
farm aid policies will result in increased
returns to the farmers of Georgia, Mr.
Roberts predicted a better return for 1940
and succeeding years.
“I definitely believe the turning point
has been reached in Georgia farming and
that from now on during the succeeding
years better crops will be grown and the
income of the farmer will gradually in
crease,” he said.
“This will be brought about by the
changed method of farming being follow
ed in Georgia and the South,” he contin
ued. “I believe that if the soil saving
methods adopted by the Roosevelt admin
irtration are followed for the next ten
years as they have been for the last four
or five years, the Georgia and the South
ern farming area will be completely re
made.”
Mr. Roberts, one of the most progres
sive farmers in west Georgia, is an out
standing authority on the relationship of
dairying and live stock production to soil
conservation.
With the close of the waterfowl season
only doves are left in the migTatory game
bird list open to gunfire. The season on
jaeksnipe went with that on ducks and
geese.
MRS. PERRY COUNTY
WINNER ON GARDENS
Mrs. .7. W. Perry, Silver Hill Home
Demonstration club member, is chosen
county winner of the “Best Year-Round
Garden” contest. This contest was spon
sored by the Summerville Lions club for
the home demonstration club members as
an incentive for more and better year
round gardens.
There were twenty-five club members
who made plans for a year-round garden,
and kept a garden record including veg
etables planted, cost, production, and val
ue of garden. Each realizing not less than
$111.50 per family. Most of the vege
tables produced are a source of the fam
ily’s year-round food supply. Mrs. Perry’s
net profit received from her garden total
ed $228.05.
Miss Annie Ruth Housch, Pennville
Home Demonstration club member, plac
'd second with a net profit of $116.84, and
Miss Cora Jackson, Chattoogaville Home
Demonstration club member, third, with
a net profit of $111.95.
UNEMPLOYEDWORKERB
GET $16.38 FOR WEEK
Unemployed workers in Chattooga
county were paid $16.38 in benefits by
the bureau of unemployment compensa
tion during the week ending Dee. 23, 1939.
't was announced today. Number of pay
ments was reported at four.
Total payments to Georgia workers
that week amounted to $57,332.10, rep
resented by 8,987 checks which went into
115 counties of the state.
Five hundred three payments for $4,-
198.85 to workers in other states who
previously had established wage credits
in Georgia, brought the total to $61,-
530.95.
Number and amount of checks mailed
by the bureau ranged from one cheek for
$5 in Oglethorpe county to 2,389 checks
for $18,016.67 in the Atlanta area (Ful
ton and DeKalb counties).
GOREW.HD. UIJB
MET DECEMBER 12
The Gore Woman’s Home Demonstra
tion club met Tuesday afternoon, Dec.
12, in the home economics room. Beauti
ful Christmas decorations were tasteful
ly arranged, and the meeting was in the
form of a Christmas party. We had as
our guests the Subligna W. H. D. club.
After a business meeting, a Christmas
program was conducted by Mrs. R. 11. |
Baker. Games were played and refresh
ments were served. Miss Henry gave some
interesting helps on Christmas decora
tions for the home ; also on the most at
tractive ways to wrap packages. There
were twenty-two ladies present.
MRS. GEO. D. MORTON, Rep.
CHATIOOGAVILI.E W.H.D.
CLUB MET DECEMBER 21
The Chattoogaville Woman’s Home
Demonstration club met Thursday, Dec.
21, at the home of Mrs. Henry Floyd. |
Fourteen members were present.
The meeting was called to order by j
tire new president, Mrs. Henry Floyd, j
Hie secretary, Mrs. Smith Floyd, read
the minutes of the last meeting. Each
member answered the roll call by naming
her favorite dish of food for Christmas,
and giving the recipe for it. The devo
tional was read by Mrs. Will Gaylor, and
prayer by Mrs. L. A. Ragland. Christ
mas carols were sung by the group.
Miss Henry gave an interesting talk on
Christmas decorations. There were sev
eral demonstrations of decorations for
tables, mantels, windows, doors, fruit
baskets, bouquets, etc., which could be
made at home.
Refreshments were served by the host
ess and Mrs. Smith Floyd.
The next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Jim Fleming.
WHO KNOWS?
1. When did the days begin to get
longer?
2. Did the treaty of Versailes limit
the size of German warships?
3. Was President Roosevelt a candi
date for the vice-presidency?
4. How old is Connie Mack, manager
of the Philadelphia Athletics?
5. When did Russia and Germany sign
their mutual assistance pact?
6. Who wrote the song, “Jeanie With
the Light Brown Hair?”
7. When will the twenty-one Ameri
can nations set up a permanent neutral
ity committee?
8. Who commanded the French armies
during the World war?
9. What island is inhabited by de
scendants of the mutineers on S
Bounty? *;
10. Where did the Wright brothers
make their first airplane flight?
’ (See “The Answers” on Another Page.)
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPFENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAK
COUNTY LEADERS FOR
POLIO DRIVE NAMED
Gov. Rivers, who is state chairman of
the Committee for the Celebration of the
President’s Birthday, has announced ap
! pointed of M. E. Brinson to act as chair
j man of the Chattooga county organiza
tion to help raise funds to fight infantile
paralysis.
The appointment has been accepted
and active work in the county for the
staging of parties, athletic events, sales
of buttons and othgr events, is actually
under way.
These leaders will organize each com
munity so that every person in the coun
ty may participate in the fight against
infantile paralysis.
"The state organization is shaping up
rapidly,” said the governor, “and we ex
pect this to be the greatest drive ever in
the history of the cause.”
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE W.M.U. TO MEET
The first meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Chattooga Baptist associa
tion W. M, U. will convene at the First
Baptist church in Summerville Jan. 9, at
10 a.m. The devotional will be conducted
by Mrs. James Jackson. The year-book
will be taught in the morning hours, and
we have secured a very efficient person
to teach the book. Miss Maude Sewell,
>f Summerville. The afternoon will be
used for the executive session of the W.
M. U.
The meeting is for all the members of
the Woman’s Missionary union, and their
auxiliaries of the entire association. The
officers of the association will submit
their annual report for last year.
All the pastors in the association are
most cordially invited to attend.
The custom is for each lady to bring
a dish to help out with the lunch.
MISS MINNIE JUSTICE, Sec.
MRS. THOS. J. ESPY, Supt.
WITH THECHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH.
(Chas. C. Cliett, Pastor.)
Sunday school at 10 a.m.; Dr. E. R.
Buskin, superintendent.
Holy communion at 11 a.m. Sermon by
the pastor.
Epworth league at 6:30 p.m.; Jose
phine Crouch, president.
Sermon by the pastor at 7 p.m.; sub
ject, “Killing Preachers.”
BASKET BALL.
Lyerly will play the Dixie Spinners on
Saturday, Jan. 6, at 7 :30.
Lyerly has won eight out of ten games
and are expecting to give the Spinners
a good game.
Probable Lyerly line-up:
G. Jackson, forward; Borders, for
ward ; Millican, center; J. Jackson,
guard; Baker or Morrison, guard.
DEATHS
Harvey Clarence Copeland.
Harvey C. Copeland, 42, prominent
citizen of Menlo, died at his home Sun
day at 6 a.m., after a brief illness. He had
been employed by the T. A. G. railroad
for a number of years.
Mr. Copeland is survived by his wife,
one daughter, Miss Mildred Copeland, of
Menlo; two sons, J. T. and Earl, of
Menlo; three brothers and three sisters
also survive.
Funeral services were conducted from
Menlo Baptist church Monday at 2:30
p.m. by the Rev. Jimmy Parker and the
Rev. D. A. Boozer. Interment in James
town cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
John W. Manning.
John W. Manning, 81, died at his home
near Summerville Thursday, Dec. 28,
after a lingering illness. Mr. Manning is
survived by three cousins, Lawson War
ren, Deed Warren and Mrs. Charlie Gor
die. Burial was in Bethel cemetery Fri
day at 12 a.m. Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
Nathaniel Marion Kinsey.
Nathaniel Marion Kinsey, 81, of Ber
ryton, died at a Trion hospital Thurs
day at 3 :30 a.m. Mr. Kinsey was a life
long citizen of Chattooga county and has
l>een employed by Berryton mills for many
years. He is survived by his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Alexander, of
Chattanooga; Mrs. Sallie Bishop and
Mrs. Grady Marbut, of Berryton ; three
sons, W. F., of La Fayette; Jesse, of
Prescott, Ariz., and Walter, of Berryton.
Funeral services were conducted from
Berryton Church of God Friday at 2:30
p.m. by the Rev. Theodore Wallace. In
terment in Berryton cemetery. Paul
Weems Funeral home in charge.
Walter F. Clemmons.
M’alter F. Clemmons. 47, 'World war
veteran, formerly of Chattooga county,
died at Port Arthur. Tex., Dec. 25. Mr.
Clemmons is survived by two sisters. Mrs.
D. P. Henley, of Summerville, and Mrs.
Dabney Hardy, of Rome; one brother,
Tom Clemmons, of Rome.
Funeral services were conducted from
the Summerville Presbyterian church
Friday at 10 a.m. by the Rev. C. CL Cli
ett. Interment in Summerville cemetery.
Paul Weems Funeral home in charge.