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Inventory WPA
Work Done In
County Since’3s
(By W. J. Greene, District Manager,
Georgia Work '*rejects Administra
tion.)
The Georgia Work Projects admin
istration has just completed an inven
tory of all work accomplished in Chat
tooga county by the WPA and local
sponsors since the beginning of oper
ations on July 1, 1935.
This invetory is an accounting to
the people of Chattooga county on
how the WPA has carried out its re
sponsibility to assist in putting unem
ployed people to work on the most
constructive public projects that can
be found.
The WPA operates entirely through
local sponsorship, which initiates
projects and provides part of the
cost. All these projects that have been
completed are property of the county
or other local government units. In
addition to these county and local
projects, Chattooga county has bene
fitted from district and state-wide
projects.
In the matter of employment, WPA
rolls during one typical recent week
included 252 men and women. This
figure has varied up and down over a
period of years, according to local con
ditions, amount of need, and federal
and local funds
But all through the years the money
paid for wages of these people has
been spent with Chattooga county
merchants and farmers for food,
clothing and shelter; for fuel, and
for medical services. It has helped
create purchasing power in this coun
ty and contributed to better condi
tions.
The WPA payroll, in most cases,
has been the largest payroll in each
county. WPA wages have flown in a
steady stream into the economic life
of the state.
Among the tangible benefits from
WPA projects in Chattooga county
have been improved roads and streets.
With the sponsorship of local govern
ment units, which intiated and plan
ned the projects and paid part of the
cost, WPA labor has been used to
build 40,128 linear feet of paved high
ways, to improve 78,888 linear feet of
existing paved highways, and build or
improve 111,115 linear feet of unpav
ed highways in the rural sections of
the county.
This work shows the emphasis the
WPA is putting on the development of
the secondary road system. Most of
the construction has been on vital
“farm to market” roads. Improved
and made passable the year round,
these roads are carryiny a steady flow
of traffic, including farmers’ trucks,
school buses, and automobiles of doc
tors visiting the sick and improving
health conditions.
Other work on the roads includes
the building of eleven steel bridges
totaling 530 feet in length, and im
provement to ten wooden bridges 148
feet in length.
WPA labor was used also to build
283 culverts covering a total of 6,408
feet and improvement,, and repair of
seventeen other culverts covering 332
feet.
Within the limits of municipalities
and sponsored by the local govern
ments, crews of workers built 2,115
linear feet of sidewalks and laid 20,-
150 feet of curbs.
A school gymnasium was built at
Lyerly.
Other improvements included exten
sion of sewer systems by more than .
3,000 feet.
These manual projects, however, are
only part of the picture. The WPA has
assisted local sponsors in bringing
many other benefits to the county.
For instance, adult education teach
ers, paid by the WPA, have taught 163
Chattooga county grownups to read
and write. This is part of the great
campaign to stamp out illiteracy in
Georgia.
The sewing room project, which em
ploys women having families to sup
port, has turned out 28,312 garments.
These have been distributed by wel
fare agencies to homes of needy peo
ple.
The school lunch program has been
in operation in Chattooga county.
This project, through local Sponsor
ship, provides’ nourishing meals to
school children who otherwise might
be deprived of food during school
hours. Since the |ork started, 11,950
meals have been served.
The book repair project has reno-1
vated 1,942 books for general circu
lation in libraries, and 541 books for
use in the schools. The WPA has also
assisted in starting two libraries in
the county. Circulation in the libraries
during December was 954 books.
The WPA paid for the labor that
went into these projects, but they
were planned and initiated withir
Chattooga county by the sponsors
and the completed work belongs tr
x the county and the municipalities, for
the us of all the peonle.
In Georgia the WPA belongs to
Georgia and is part of Georgia, op
erated by Georgia people for the ben
efit of Georgia people. Our only aim
is to be of service and to carry out
our responsibility to bring together
the people who need jobs, and the jobs
that need to be done.
ANOTHER NEW HOUSE GOING
UP IN BELLAH SUBDIVISION
\ -
Mr. Cecil Herring is building an at
tractive new home out in the Bellah
sub-division this week.
The Summerville News
VOL. 54; NO. 4
Gore Pupils To Give
1-Act Plays April 12
The pupils of Gore High school will
present a varied program of one-act
plays, declamations and readings on
Friday night, April 12, at the school
house. The proceeds of this entertain
ment will send participants to the
Seventh district meet at Chickamauga.
The two one-act plays offer both
laughs and shivers. “Rats” is an
amusing comedy that deals with an
inventor’s problems in selling a strong
rat poison that has an objectionable
odor. The love interest is amply fur
nished by the bachelor unde and an
indignant landlady.
“The Ghost Walks Fast” will make
you hold your breath while shivers
run down your spine. The setting and
characters include a lonely country
inn, an escaped convict, an actress, a
ghost hunter and a GHOST.
This play, under the direction of
Miss Buford, wil be carried to the
district meet on April 19.
Final selection of a first-choice and
an alternate in the boys’ declamation
and the girls’ reading will be made
Friday night.
Mr. Entrekin and Miss Rush are
in charge of the declamations and
readings.
The program will start promptly
at 7:30 p.m. and admission charges
are 10 and 15 cents. Everyone is cor
dially invited to attend.
C. E. Bell To Preach
At Methodist Church
C. E. Bell, superintendent of Trion
schools, will preach at the Methodist
church here at 11 a.m. Sunday in the
absence of the pastor, Rev. Chas. C.
Cliett, who will preach at the Chick
amauga Methodist church the same
hour. Mr. Cliett will preach in his own
pulpit at 7:30 p.m.
Annual W.M.U. Meet
Great Success Tuesday
JJns. H. D. Brown, assistant asso
ciations! superintendent, presided at
the Chattooga associational meeting
of the W. M. U. at the First Baptist
church here Tuesday, April 9. Dr.
Clark, a returned missionary from
Japan, gave a very inspiring message
in the morning.
Talks were made by Miss Dollie
Hiett, a state worker, and Mrs. James
Clegg, of Dalton, divisional vice-pres
ident, and Mrs. Atkinson, divisional
young people’s leader.
Mrs. John League was chairman of
the lunch committee; a lovely lunch
was served at noon in the church din
ing room.
The following officers were elected
for this county:
Mrs. E. Price was elected superin
tended to succeed Mrs. T. J. Espy, Sr.,
who recently moved away; Mrs. M.
Strawn, assistant superintendent;
Miss Minnie Justice, secretary. The
district secretaries were Mesdames
FUrchel Gass, Rob King and Brad
High
Mrs. Howard Ragland, of Trion,
was elected young people’s leader,
with Mrs. James Matthews, assistant
young people’s leader.
One of the most impressive parts
of this meeting was the young
service Monday evening. Mrs. Claude
Adams, of Trion, presided. A choir of
twenty-two Trion Junior G. A. girls
sang very impressively.
Miss Dollie Hiett spoke to the young
people.
MRS. ANNIE SCOTT BREAKS
WRIST IN FALL SUNDAY
Mrs. Hattie Shropshire, Miss Beu
lah Shropshire, Mrs. R. N. Little and
Mrs. Annie Scott motored to Carroll
ton Sunday to attend the funeral of I
Mrs. Carrie Hill Davis. When Mrs. !
Scott was getting out of the car she i
fell and broke her wrist. Her many
friends will be verj glad to know that
she is improving fast at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Ben Edmondson.
WHO KNOWS?
1. How long was M. Daladier pre
mier of France?
2. When did Germany secure the
Sudeten lands of Czechoslovakia?
3. What is the name of the famous
mountain pass which divides Italy and
the Austrian part of Germany?
4. What is meant by “parity” for
farmers ?
5. the submarine Squalus, which
sank last May, be recommissioned?
6. How long did the Spanish Civil
war last?
7. When did the present war be
tween Japan and China begin?
8. How can a citizen secure fish
from the government bureau of fish
eries for stocking a stream or lake?
9. How many agents are employed
by the federal bureau of investiga
tion? »
10. How much money did the two
major parties spend in the 1936 elec
tion?
(See ‘The Answers’ on Another Page)
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940
Rural-School Aid
Planned For State
Rome Meeting Will Be Held on April
23 at 2:30 P. M.
The state department of education
is sponsoring a series of district
meetings for educators and laymen
for the purpose of devising ways of
improving rural education. Meetings
at seven points in the state, scheduled
April 15-23, are to deal with the rural
education problems with informal
panel discussions in which laymen as
well as educators will carry on a kind
of public round-table discussion with
the audience privileged to ask ques
tions and participate.
The schedule of meetings is Gaines
ville, April 15; Statesboro, April 16;
Blackshear, April 17; Moultrie, April
18; Perry, April 19; Griffin, April 22;
Rome, April 23, at 2:30 p.m.
An impetus to hold these meetings,
it is stated, grew out of a largely at
tended and enthusiastic conference on
rural education recently held in con
nection with the Georgia Education
association at Macon.
Enlarged Community Service.
The panel at each meeting will be
called upon to discuss an enlarged
program of public service by rural
schools. Among the questions that
will be discussed will be: “What re
sponsibility should the school assume
in dealing with the farm problems
with which people are confronted ?
What adjustments in our present
school program must be made in or-'
der for them to best service our farm
people?” Other questions deal with
impov-ement and beautification of
homes, health, recreation, the advis
ability of developing school communi
ty canning plants and shops for re
pairs of farm equipment, and finally
the training of rural teachers for
these services.
Setting up a program to deal with
rural problems not only for boys and
girls in the schools, but for out-of
school youth, and for adult men and
women will be discussed.
Georgia Schools Go To the Farm.
A moving picture, “Georgia Schools
Go To the Farm,” is to be presented
> show how teachers of vocation?/
ulture and home economics arc
ealing with rural problems. This pic
ture was filmed in Georgia and re
’-ased as a production of the state
board of education as a contributior
to the Georgia Programmer Lmprove
nent of Instruction, and was made
by the division of vocational educa
tion.
Members of the Panels.
As a member of each panel, M. E.
hompson, assistant state superin
■’ent of schools and director of th
gia Program for Improvement of
s ruction, will explain the purposes
! general scope of the discussions
another member of each panel, Dr.
D Collins, state superintendent o f
I 1 lie schools, will summarize and
i ress important points developed by
'’ I panel.
District Supervisor J. H. Cook will
’irect the panel discussion at Rome.
Announcements state that the pan
els will be composed of persons from
various parts of each district and will
include a representative of the coun
ty school superintendents, principals
or superintendents of rural schools,
leadl'.ers of vocational agriculture and
home economics, county board mem
bers and local trustees, parent-teach
er associations, laymen, administra
tors of vocational education, clergy
men, and classroom teachers.
MR., MRS. F. SHROPSHIRE
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Shropshire
and four children, of Gore, were hurt
when their car hit the rear end of a
freight train Saturday night at the
crossing just above town. They were
rushed to a local hospital. It was re
ported that Mr. Shropshire was injur
ed more seriously than the others.
Unemployed Workers
Get 034 During Week
Unemployed workers in Chattooga
county were paid $34.94 in benefits
by the bureau of unemployment com
pensation of the state department of
labor during the week ending March
30, 1940, it was announced today.
Number of payments was reported
at 6.
Total payments to Georgia workers
that week amounted to $67,863.44.
represented by 11,038 checks which
went into 118 counties of the state.
Six hundred eighty-eight payments
for $5,826.54 to workers in other
states who previously had establish
ed wage credits in Georgia, brought
the total to $73,689.98.
Number and amount of checks mail
ed by the bureau ranged from one
check for $1.65 in Brantley county to
2,308 checks for $17,694.61 in the At
lanta area (Fulton and DeKalb coun
ties).
Clean-Up Week
Begins April 15
Clean-Up week, sponsored by the
Chattooga Garden club, will begin
Monday, April 15, and continue thru
Friday, April 20.
Clean up your own property and
and have all rubbish ready for dis
posal by Wednesday, April 17. A truck
will pick up all trash Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. Please bum all
brush, paper, etc.
Several of the business places have
already started improvement and we
hope to have 100 per cent, co-opera
tion from all property owners in town.
With the effort of every citizen in
Summerville we can accomplish the
one big thing which this campaign
stands for—the health of our com
munity.
Don’t stand by and watch your
neighbor make improvements; do
something about your own property.
Plant flowers, grass and beautify
your own place and make it an envi
ous site for all passersby.
Let’s clean up Summerville 100 per
cent!
Boy Scout Drive.
A county-wide drive is on to obtain
as many members of Boy Scouts over
the entire county as possible.
There are two Scout troops in Sum
merville, one in Trion, one at Sublig
na and one in Menlo.
If you are a boy between 12 and 16
years of age, and wish to be a Scout,
look up one of these troops. Other
troops are being formed.
The weiner roast for Chattooga
Scouts and Scouters will be held at
the Boy Scout cabin, out from Sum
merville, Friday at 5:45 p.m.
Come to the Summerville court
house and the local Scouts will escort
you out to the cabin.
Fun and frankfurters Friday for
Scouts and Scouters.
Mrs. Carrie H. Davis
Dies In Carrollton
‘he many friends here of Mrs.
Carrie Hill Davis regretted to learn
jf her death at Carrollton.
She resided here when a young girl
and lived at the present Presbyterian
manse. She was such a charming per
•'.onality, and had many friends here
and in La Fayette where she had
also resided. She married Jeff Davis,
a beloved Methodist minister, who
survives. She was greatly beloved by
many upon the different charges that
’? r husband had served.
She was a devoted aunt of Archie
’ill, a former very popular resident
! this county.
The funeral services were conduct
'd in Carrollton Sunday. Several from
here attended.
MR. AND MRS. CAMERON
CELEBRATE TWENTY-FIFTH
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
On April 4, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
W. Cameron celebrated their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary at their
home. A three-course dinner was
served and the house was beautifully
decorated with bridal wreaths, hya
cinths and buttercups.
Gordon Cameron was the second
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cameron
and was reared in Walker county, en
tering business in that county where
he met and married Josie Anderson,
who was the fourth daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Anderson,
Both Mr. and Mrs. Cameron were
students of Martha Berry schools,
Rome. They have lived at Welcome
Hill for about fifteen years. Three
daughters were born: Nellie B. Cam
eron, who is now Mrs. M. D. Williams;
Annie Lee Cameron, who is now Mrs.
Fred Cordle, and Miss Jeannette Cam
eron. They have one grandson, Rob
ert T. Cordle.
The News wishes to congratulate
Mr. and Mrs. Cameron on their silver
anniversary and wishes for them con
tinued marital happiness.
Bossy Gets Boost
With An Egg Nog
CARROLLTON.—Got a cow with
that whipped-down feeling? Beat her
up an egg nog.
If your cow has the same ailment
that C. C. Richards’, Whitesburg
farmer, prize milk cow had, the egg
nog will snap her out of it.
Mr. Richards’ Bossy fell ill last
week. Tonics were administered. No
good. Death was on her tail. Then, as
a last resort, Mr Richards prepared
a gross dose. He whipped up a dozen
eggs, added the appropriate nog. Bos
sy took it lying down. But after the
first dose, she got up. Mr. Richards
repeated the treatment. Now Bossy
is loping along the road to health.
News At a Glance
On State Events
(By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
ATLANTA, April 9.—The memory
of the late Dr. Crawford W. Long
literally has been stamped on the
present generation. In honor of the
famous Georgian, credited with being
the first surgeon to use ether anaes
thesia nearly 100 years ago, a memor
ial stamp bearing his likeness was put
on sale Monday. The first sale was
made at Jefferson with Postmaster-
General James A. Farley and other
notables taking part.
Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper, of Col
lege Park, Ga., the only surviving
daughter of Dr. Long, received the
first stamp. She is now 80 years old.
Going to New York prior to the Jef
ferson celebration, Mrs. Harper ap
peared on the “We the People” radio
program and described how her fath
er conducted some of his early experi
ments on her when she was a child.
In New York she also said there was
one flaw in her happiness at the rec
ognition of her father as the first t
use ether anaesthesia —the picture r
him which appears on the postage
stamp. Said she:
“Postmaster Farley picked the very
last picture ever taken of my father,
when he was an old man. I wanted
him to look like a young man, just as
he graduated from college.”
$32 PER SECOND: Purchases of
fuel, esuipment and materials by
Class I railroads in the United States
totaled $1,014,000 in 1939, according
to the Railway Age. These purchases I
again were made in every state in the
Union. In spite of the figures we read
daily, a billion dollars still is too large
for our complete comprehension, so
let’s break this total down to more
understandable units. Railroad buy-.
ing in 1939 averaged more than $2,-
779,000 for each day in the year; al
most $116,000 for ever hour, day and
night; $1,930 for every minute of
every hour, and more than $32 for
each second of each minute. In the
time you have taken to read this par
agraph, the purchases of the railroad
industry averaged around $2,500u
GIST OF THE NEWS: Gov. Rivers
has proclaimed May 1 as Child Health
day in Georgia and urged a special
»ampaign to eradicate diphtheria in
he state .. . Summer unofficially
arrived in Atlanta last week when the
mercury hit 88 degrees, breaking !
61-year record .. . Further proof'
that summer is just about on us is the
fact that baseball season is getting j
under way. The Atlanta Crackers op- ;
on at Ponce de Leon park Friday with
the Nashville Vols . . . Fertilizer tag!
sales for the first three months of 1
1940 were for 478,883 tons, a gain of
24,098 tons over the same period last
year . . . Georgia’s income tax co’
lections, totaling $2,487,459 for the
"irst three months of 1940, are $558,-
140 ahead of the same quarter last
year . . . The state purchasing de
partment bought $4,144,665 worth of
supplies and materials for the vari
ous departments of the state govern
ment during the first quarter of 1940
The total savings for the quai*ter
were estimated at $706,059 . . . Al
though the census-takers are still tak
ing, Georgia’s 1940 population is es
timated at 3,146,111, a gain of 23,180
ove r the 1939 estimate. These figures
come from the state department of
public health.
Public Library
(At Court House)
Books overdue in March:
Black Knight (705); Tobacco Road
(707); At the Foot of the Rainbow;
(988); Among Those Irtesent (1037);
Interpreter’s Souse (863); Ararat
(1084); Johnny Got His Gun (1088);
Night Rider (1089).
New Books (Easy)
The Postman (Kuh); Humbo the;
Hippo (Berry); Daniel Boone (Trou- j
sey); The Fireman (Kur); Fairy Tales:
from Grimm (Grimm); Tommy Grows
Wise (Gay); Stories About Henry
(Tibbett); The Book of Houses
(Pease); Lil’l Hannibal (Bailey);
Book of Meat and Light (Pease).
New Books (Adult)
The Danger Trail (Curwood); Pri
vate Duty (Baldwin); Ammorelle
(Hill); Betty Zane (Grey); The Case
of the Sulky Girl (Gardner); Cards
On the Table (Christie); Jonathan’s
Daughter (Christie); Murder in Mes
opotamia (Christie); Code of the
West (Grey); Hotel Hostess (Bald
win).
We thank each of you for returning
so many January and February over
due books. There are still more due,
the return of which will be greatly
appreciated.
Remember prompt returning is the
life of a library upon which its cir
culation depends—a weak or strong
I bookshelf. Let’s try to make April a
I 100 per cent, circulation. We ean do
| it. So please, dear readers, come to
see us, get books and return prompt
j ly. This is your library.
MARY H. ADAMS, Librarian.
Mrs. Buskin Made
District Major Os
Cancer Campaign
Mrs. E. R. Buskin has been appoint
; ed Seventh district major of the Wom
■ en’s Field Army in the annual cam
paign to aid the movement for con
; trol and cure of cancer in Georgia.
Mrs. Buskin was appointed by Mrs.
H. B. Ritchie, of Athens, state com-
I mander, and the campaign in Chat
tooga, Floyd, Walker and Dade coun
ties will be under her leadership.
Georgia has made great progress ir
creating an effective public sentiment
in support of eradicating cancer and
ranks with the foremost states in this
phase of public health, according to
Mrs. Ritchie.
Mrs. Ritchie, in announcing the ap
pointment of Mrs. Buskin for Seventh
district major, declard the people of
Chattooga county have shown much
interest in the movement to control
and cure cancer and the co-operotion
of the entire community is assured.
Nation-wide interest in the cam
paign against cancer is indicated by
the support given by leading persons
in all fields of human activity.
Spencer Tracy, distinguished star
of the motion pictures, urges “intelli
gent and constant support” of “the
brave men and women who have dedi
cated their lives to relieving the suf
fering from cancer.”
“It is human nature,” he said, “to
instinctively turn away from that
which is horrible and distasteful. The
very word, cancer, is repulsive. Yet
like every evil, it can - be conquered
only when brought out into the open.
Cancer recognizes neither cast nor
creed. It is not a problem to be faced
by a selected few, because it cannot
help but affect us all, fortunate and
unfortunate alike. I have just had the
privilege of reading the courageous
reports of the American Society for
the Control of Cancer, Inc., the results
of their good fight over a period of
twenty-five years.”
“I found in them not fear and de
spair, but hope and confidence of
eventually destroying a terrible haz
ard to the health and happiness of
every American home. Cancer can
and is being controlled. It is an enemy
in retreat. The brave men and women
who have dedicated their lives to re
lieving the suffering caused by can
cer, so much of it unnecessary, merit
our intelligent and constant support.
By familiarizing ourselves with the
danger, and with prevention as our
watchword, we best can be prepared
to make the fight against cancer a
winning one.”
Calling on all citizens who have the
public interest at heart and all agen
cies and organizations to give whole
hearted co-operation in the war being
waged against cancer, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gov. E. D.
Rivers, of Georgia, have issued offi
cial proclamations setting aside the
month of April as Cancer Control
month.
The proclamations point out that
cancer is second among the “killer”
diseases, a place it should not right
fully occupy since cancer is curable
if treatment is started early.
•OPERETTA AT MENLO.
The Music department and a sup
porting cast of high school students
will present a Spanish operetta, “The
Toreadors,” in the Menlo school audi
torium, April 19, at 8 o’clock.
This is a light musical comedy with
a mixture of romance, music and danc
ing that will furnish an evening of
splendid entertainment.
Further announcement will appear
next week.
WITH THECHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH
(Chas. C. Cliett, Pastor.)
Sunday school at 10 a.m.; Dr. E.
j R. Buskin, superintendent.
Preaching by C. E. Bell at 11 a.m.
Epworth league at 6:45 pm.
Sermon by the pastor at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, prayer service, 7 p.m.
PLEASANT GROVE BAPTIST
Rev. Steve Cloud, of Millport, Ala.,
will preach at Pleasant Grove Baptist
church Sunday, April 14, at 11 a.m.
Every one, especially the members,
are urged to come out and hear him.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
(J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.)
Sunday Services:
9:45 A. M.—Sunday school; D. L.
I McWhorter, superintendent.
11 A. M. —Worship.
2 P. M.—Wayside Sunday school.
5:45 P. M.—Fellowship hour for
; leagues.
6:15 P. M.—Junior and Pioneer
: league meet.
7:15 P. M.—Preaching service.
The young people, that is the older
| group, will attend the young people’s
rally at Rome Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Transportation is provided for all and
I we will leave from the church at 2
o’clock p.m.
$1.50 A YEAR