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NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT STATE EVENTS
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ATLANTA, June 5. (GPS,.—Here
are the points decided on in a defi
nite program for Georgia’s develop
ment, set up recently at a conference
of more than 100 leaders under plans
of the southern governors’ confer
ence:
(1) Balance money crops including
forestry with food, feed and fertility
crops. (2) Balance crops with live
stock, consistent with land use. (3)
Balance farms with factories. (4)
Balance scientific production of high
quality products with scientific mar
keting, grading, processing and pack
ing, and the establishmen of ade
quate transportation methods with
out trade barriers. (5) Utilize ond
develop all natural resources in keep
ing with wise conservation policies.
(6) Provide adequate educational op
portunities at all levels and institute
educational programs designed to aid
in solving the persistent problems of
our people. (7) Encourage thrift,
home ownership and local develop
» ment. (8) Beautify homes, commu-
nities, highways, public groups, parks
and playgrounds. (9) Raise the pres
ent average of living standards by
improving housing, health and other
essentials of human welfare. (10)
Balance economic gains with gams in
culture and moral values.
Fifteen statewide committees were
established by the conference, whose
program embraces every field of the
state’s activity. Groups similar to
the Georgia committee will be set up
in the other ten southern states.
Going Ahead —“In the past few
weeks the railroads have vividly dem
onstrated their desire to go ahead,”
* declares the Hamlet (N. C.) News.
“In order to make certain that
there shall be no failure of transpor
tation in these days of world crisis,
they are putting tremendous quanti
ties of additional equipment into
service. They are spending money
for this purpose that they have not
yet earned, because of their strong
realization of their obligation to the
industries and people of the nation.
But progress of this kind cannot be
carried on indefinitely under an un
sound' transportation policy. It is
high time for business men in all
fields to think about their own stake
in a prosperous railroad industry.”
Gist of the News—First Georgia
peaches for the season arrived in At
lanta from Thomaston. They were of
the Mountain Rose variety and were
* sold, quickly at $1.50 per bushel. An
increase of 525 in the enrollment of
the University of Georgia system for
the scholastic year 1939-40 was an
nounced by the board of regents. The
* comparative figures were 15,118 and
14,593 for 1938-39. More than 2,000,-
000 persons in Georgia have been
given library service since the inau
guration of the WPA library program
in 1939. Georgia now has about 10,000
members of the schoolboy patrol.
Guest Preacher
At Methodist
Rev. J. L. Peck, formerly of Trion,
now' a member of a Pennsylvania
Methodist conference, will preach
next Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Sum-
* merville Methodist church.
WHO KNOWS?
1. When did Germany agree to re
spect the integrity of Belgium?
2. What position did Winston
Churchill hold with the British gov
ernment during the first World war?
3. How far is it from Honolulu to
Yokohama, Japan?
4 Who is the candidate of the
Prohibition party for the presidency?
5. Were Belgium and The Nether
lanls ever the same country?
6. What finally became of the sub
marine Squalus?
7. Does the British government own
the Suez Canal?
* 8. What country is ruled by the
House of Orange?
9. What was the Schlieffen plan
and when .was it used?
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“There is no jesting with edged tools.”
JUNE
, J* 4— Japanese bombing of
* f, Canton killed hundreds,
1938.
* iv. <e> s— Rockefeller left bulk of
estate to granddaughter,
fp ) ) 1937.
&—TexasCentennial opened
a* Dallas. 1936.
(7x Q 7— Baldwin succeeded Mc-
we/?\ Donald as British prime
minister, 1935.
8— W. J. Bryan resigned as
secretary of state. 1915.
9 First postal route. Boston 1
to Rhode Island, opened.
1693.
10— Mussolini mobilized big
army to aid Spanish reb-
* Ffr) _ 193 7 - ——
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VOLUME 54; NO. 12
J. H. Cook Makes
Excellent Address
To Graduating Class
Mr. J. H. Cook, who was superin
tendent of our high school for seven
years, made a very interesting ad
dress and stressed the importance of
changing the curricula of the public
schools to fit the times and the am
bition of the students and not to learn
facts only but how to do things, not
books alone but practical knowledge.
The two honor graduates, Jose
phine Crouch and Louise Brown, made
their valedictory and salutatory ad
dresses very impressively.
Eette Broome, as president of the
senior class of thirty memers, deliv
ered the very useful gift, an electric
saw to Supt. Sublette for his use
in the subjects that he will continue
to teach here. Besides giving the saw
to the school, this senior class also
gave $lO as a payment on the type
writer now being used in the com
mercial course here.
Prof. Sublette’s acceptance of this
gift was touching. He emphasized the
need of more such equipment to hold
the interest of the boys in school.
Medals were awarded to Josephine
Crouch for valedictorian and also
senior scholarship; to Louise Brown
for salutatorian, to Helen Espy for
good citizenship to Bette Broome for
best all-round senior, to Hill Bohan
non, for best all-round boy in high
school, for junior scholarship to three,
Ophelia Watkins, Willie Mae Jones
and Louise Tripp and best all-around
junior boy to Charles Garrett. For
sophomore scholarship, Marginell
Ashworth, Catherine Green and Joyce
Wofford, for freshman scholarship,
Helen Dobbs and Mary Tripp and
Leon Gamble, Jr.
Books, “I Dare You,’ ’ were pre
sented to Billy Whitley for good be
havior through high school; to Jose
phine Crouch for not missing a day
nor being tardy during high school
four years.
After the graduating exercises the
senior class, their dates, junior ush
ers and the members of the high
school faculty enjoyed a pfertyf at
the Rendezvous.
Unemployed Get sl6
Week Ending May 25
As a result of their unemployment,
insured workers in Chattooga county
under the state unemployment com
pensation law received sl6 in bene
fits during the week ending May 25,
1940, Commissioner of Labor Ben T
Huiet has announced. Number of pay
ments was reported at two.
Payments to insured workers thru
out the state amounted to $85,540.34,
represented by 14,U51 checks, while
$4,799.94 paid to workers in other
states who previously had established
wage credits in Georgia brought total
disbursements for the week te $90,-
740.28.
Claims for benefits may be filed at
the nearest employment service of
fice or with a representative of the
employment service who visits the
county every other week. He usual
ly may be located at the courthouse.
Outlook Gloomy For
Schools Next Fall
ATLANTA, June 5 (GPS).—Things
don’t look so bright for Georgia
schools for the 1940-41 term next fall.
At least not to J. I. Allman, presi
dent of the Georgia Education asso
ciation, and state supervisor of school
administration, who said the incom
ing governor and the Georgia legis
lature to convene next January would
face a situation calculated to give
them no little concern.
The state already is indebted to
school teachers in the sum of $4,-
000,000 —long past due—and funds in
sight are only for a term of four
and one-half months next year, Mr-
Allman said. Finances this year,
1939-40, ran almost $2,000,000 short
of needs, and only diversion of other
funds enabled the schools to operate
for six months and one week insofar
as state pay was concerned, he added.
ROBERTS CARRIED 126
COUNTIES IN FORMER RACE
In a statement appearing this week
in all Georgia newspapers, Columbus
Roberts, commissioner of agriculture
and candidate for governor in the
September democratic primary, re
minds voters that in his race for
commissioner four years ago he car
ried 126 counties against what was
regarded as “strong” opposition.
“I received 240,000 popular votes
—a majority of 96,000. My conduct
of the office, I believe, has justified
the faith of these voters and won
thousands of new friends in my cam-
I paign for governor.”
The popular vote recsived by Mr.
Roberts in that primary was probably
| the largest ever given a candidate
against an incumbent in a state
house office.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940
Grammar School
Graduation Exercises
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On Thursday morning at 10 o’clock
at local high school auditorium 55
seventh grade students were given
their certificates and will enter high
school next year.
Rev. J. G. Kirckhoff led the pray
er. “The Law of Loyalty” was given
by Serena Wepf.
Song, “God Bless America,” was
given by class.
“The American Creed” was given
by Avie Johnson.
Rev. C. C. Cliett gave a very in
teresting message on “The Good
American."
The certificates were awarded by
Miss Kathryn Henley, school super
intendent.
Seven students in grammar school
were presented certificates for per
fect attendance and no tardies during
the whole school year and were Imo
gene and Opal Gass, Garlin Hir, Mary
Jim Teddar, Morris Hunter, Hazel
Hughes, Frances and Charlotte
Moore.
Rev. M- D. Short pronounced the
benediction.
Rev. Dorough Accepts
Call to Lyerly
Baptist Church
The Rev. A. B. Dorough, of At
lanta, has accepted a call to the pas
torate of the Lyerly Baptist Church
and will preach on the first and
•bird Sundays in each month, morn
ing and evening. Rev. Dorough noti
fied the congregation Sunday morn
ing of his acceptance of the call and
the county is fortunate in having this
fine man of God in our association.
Mr. Dorough has been visiting his
kinspeople in Lyerly for more than
twenty years and has preached at
numerous times and is loved by all
who know him. He formerly served
as pastor in Macon for a number of
years but has been in Atlanta for the
past year doing evangelistic work.
Personal News
Os Interest Here
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Britton and
daughter, Martha Ann, of Chatta
nooga, were guests Sunday of Mrs.
D. P. Henley.
• • •
Hoyt and Andrew Williams, Billy
Allen, Bill Broome and Allen Broom
ittended the Chattanooga-Atlanta
ball game in Chattanooga Sunday.
• • •
Mrs. Sara Allen Van Horn and.
children and Mrs. Eugene Rackley
and children were dinner guest of
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Storey in Rome
Tuesday.
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Mrs. Mattie Kane, of Atlanta, is
spending this week with Mrs. D. P.
Henley.
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Miss Susie Grace Langston, a stu
dent at G. S. C. W.., will come Thurs
day (today) for a short visit with
her parents before returning to
summer school.
• • •
Mrs. Clara Bell Williams and Mrs.
James Hawkins spent Monday in At
lanta.
• • •
Miss Mary Rayford Broome will
leave Saturday to attend the gradu
ation exercises at G. S. C. W. at Mil
ledgeville. She will remain for a six
weeks stay at summer school.
Misses Eugenia Langston, Mary
Jane Yancey and Bette Broome at-
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tended the college dance and grad
uation exercises at' Carrollton at
West Georgia college Wednesday and
Thursday.
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Mr. and Mrs- Sam Bohannon have
just completed the renovation and
enlarging of their home on South
Union street.
Piedmont Rangers
Nail ’Game Hogs’
Six Piedmont district wildlife ran
gers led by Chief M. D. Mcßae swoop
ed down on “hot spots” of fish law
violations over the week-end and
brought to an abrupt end the work
of 13 “game hogs.” A sudden raid on
the Georgia Power dam at Ogle
thorpe, Ga, brought in 3 arrests and
11 nets. A smash on the Chatta
hoochee river between West Pbint
and Columbus netted 10 arrests, 10
traps, a seine and 150 pounds of fish,
which were promptly liberated.
Mcßae’s tactics are military in
style. His rangers camp near the
scene of action and send scouts to
watch the movements of violators. A
sudden attack by motor boat or foot
generally takes the violators by sur
prise and results in apprehension.*
Chattooga County
Boys and Girls
Eligible for N. Y. A.
Chattooga county boys and girls
who are out of school, unemployed,
and between the ages of 18 and 24
inclusive, are eligible to apply for the
225 openings which will exist on
July 15 ait the National Ycvth Ad
ministration’s resident work experi
ence center near Clarkesville, it was
announced today.
This Habersham project, operated
by the N. Y. A. under sponsorship of
the Habersham county board of edu
cation, is designed to offer nractical
work experience and related instruc
tion to boys and girls of this section
who desire to equip themselves for
lives as successful farmers or home
makers or to earn a livelihood in in
austry or trades.
Youths are assigned to the center
for a period of one year, during
which time they earn their subsist
ence and $lO per month in cash, in
addition to the actual work experi
e;i.-o offered in the fields of scientific
agriculture, all phases of homemak
ing, ceramics, welding, radio, wood
shop, crafts, metal work and similar
occupations.
Young people from this area who
are interested in this or any other of
the fourteen such resident centers
operated by the N. Y. A. in Georgia
should apply to Mr. Kelly Williams,
N. Y. A. area supervisor in Rome.
T. J. ESPY, JR.. ELECTED
PRESIDENT ROME CIRCUIT BAR
Members of the Rome Circuit Bar
association from Floyd, Chattooga
and Walker counties gathered at the
home of Judge Claude H. Porter,
near Rome, Saturday for their an
nual business session and barbecue.
T. J. Espy, Jr., was chosen presi
dent of the association for the coming
year, to succeed the late Charles
Robert Jones, of Rossville. Tom Wil
lingham, of Rome, was elected vice
president, succeeding Mr. Espy, and
Joseph Caldwell, of Rossville, was
named secretary-treasurer, succeed
ing Carl H. Griffin, of Rome. Frank
Gleason, of Rossville, was elected a
member of the board of governors of
the Georgia Bar Association to rep
resent the Rome circuit bar. The
Rome City Bar association, meeting
at the same time, elected Henderson
L. Lanham, Floyd county legislator,
as president to succeed Dean Owens.
C. N. WILSON DIES IN HOSPITAL
HERE LAST THURSDAY
Mr. C. N. Wilson, a prominent
farmer of near Menlo, died at a local
hospital last Thursday, May 30th, at
11 a.m. after only a day’s illness. He
fell on Wednesday and received in
ternal injuries which proved fatal on
Thursday. He was brought to the
hospital after his fall.
He was an active member of the
Church of Christ at Menlo, also of
the Alpine Masonic lodge. He was 71
years of age.
Mr. Wilson ‘came here from Ohio
twenty-five yealrs ago. Surviving
are his widow, one son, Warner, of
Chattanooga; one daughter, Miss
Mary Louise Wilson, and two grand
sons, John L. and Charles Halford,
sons of the late Mr. Lloyd Wilson,
who was drowned several years ago,
and Mrs. Lucile Knox Wilson.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev- Park, of Chattanooga, at
10:00 Friday morning. Interment in
Alpine cemetery.
The active pallbearers were Bert
Willingham, Norman Garvin, E. L.
Pless, Sell and Henry McWhorter and
Roy Alexander.
The honorary pallbearers were:
Messrs. Rex Wyatt, Frank, Ves and
Burr Polk, George Pless, W. J. and
Dud Hogg, H. J. Garvin, Clarence
Dodd, C. C. Storey. Paul Weems Fu
neral home in charge.
Albert Evans, Jr.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Evans died at a Trion hospi
tal at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning.
Surviving the little infant are his
parents. Burial was in Pennville
cemetery, with Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
HAMILTON RALLS CANDIDATE
COMMISSIONER AGRICULTURE
Hamilton Ralls, of Hogansville,
Troup county, Georgia, for many
years a dynamic factor in Georgia
farm life and farm betterment pro
grams, has today announced his en
try as a candidate for commissioner
of agriculture for the state of
Georgia.
Mr. Ralls is well qualified to ad
vance the interests of Georyia farm
ers, being himself a fanner and chief
figure of a number of activities to
bring the armer’s interests to a happy
conclusion in our state. He was a
pioneer in the development of Geor
gia’s livestock industry, having been
agent of the college of agriculture
during the depression years of 1921-
22, at which time he turned his at
tentions toward developing the cow,
hog and hep pfogram.
Georgia Pushes Attack
On Fifth Columns
ATLANTA, June 5 (GPS).—Geor
gia’s blitzkreig on fifth columnists is
moving with full force.
Gov. Rivers is continuing his drive
against aliens doing business in the
state and subversive activities of all
descriptions, despite protests from
other sections of the nation. The
chief executivte’s recent proclama-)
tion was issued in response to a re
port by the state patrol that its lead
indicate that some native Americans
are engaged in activities against the
federal government. The proclama
tion contained the following features:
(1) Urged all state employes and
private citizens to enlist in veterans’
organiations to which they are eligi
ble or other civic or patriotic enter
prises. (2) Asked private employers
similarly urge employes to join vet
erans’ organidations or civil, fraternal
or patriotic organiations known to be
patriotic. f 3) Urged public support
of patriotic and warning motion pic
ture shows which will be sponsored
by the American Legion.
An executive order also was issued
directing Joe Mitchell, superintendent
of state fisheries, immediately to
cancel the fishing licenses issued to
aliens who are fishing in Georgia
coastal waters. . The governor said
he was informed that entire fleets of
‘oreign fishing vessels now are li
censed by the state.
In response to a protest against his
anti-alien activities, Gov. Rivers sent
be following telegram to the Rev-
Owen A. Knox, president of the Civil |
Rights Federation in Detroit, Mich.:
“It is high time that we rid the
country of the gang that is trying to
bite the hand that feeds them. The
very fact that there is an outfit like
yours protesting against this proce
dure evidences the necessity for it. I
hope the Georgia brand of democ
racy becomes the national brand.
Your wire makes me more deter mined
than ever to do a complete job clean
ing out these subversive elements in
Georgia."
VIOLATORS PAY $3.75
AN HOUR FOR FISHING
Take a hint. It might cost you
$3.75 an hour to violate the fish
laws.
Wildlife Rangers A. C. Dunn and
Dan C. Royal in 80 minutes appre
hended two fishing violators, car
ried them to court 22 miles away and
saw them fined sls each.
The rangers, who picked up the
two violators in a south Georgia
county, found the sheriff at home,
swore out the warrants, got the judge
off the golf course, had court and
saw the clerk’s report recorded
within an hour and twenty minutes.
Returning from court to the same
spot, the rangers apprehended am- 1
other angler fishing without license
in a private pond.
185,000 More Acres
Pledged to Wildlife
Boys and girls of the FFA and 4-H
clubs in the mountain district are
making excellent headway in improv
ing the wildlife environment on their
marks as a result of the contest spon
sored by the division of wildlife.
Some of the work they are doing on
the farms to make them more attrac
tive to game birds and animals are:
Sowing grain on sub-marginal areas,
setting out hedges in open fields to
act as protective lanes when game
birds are forced into the open in
search of food, constructing fire
lanes, trapping predators, destroying
bird and fish traps and building fish
ponds.
Charles S. Davis, educational di
rector of the mountain district, re
ports that 120 FFA and 4-H clubs
with an enrollment of over 2,500 boys
and girls have signed up for the con
test, and that approximately 185,000
acres of farm land will be under game
management practice.
Some of the prizes offered by the
wildlife division for outstanding work
are: Trips to the state of Wisconsin,
SIOO in cash and settings of quail
eggs.
Rangers Rescue
Trapped Bream
SWAINSBORO, Ga. Ten more
wire fish traps were removed this
week from the Ogeechee river by
Rangers Harry B. Butner, of Eman
uel county and E. L- Scott, of Bulloch
county. They released more than 60
pounds of perch and bream.
Rangers of the wildlife division
are removing many fish traps from
th® streams here and elsewhere in the
state, and they say that if sportsmen
will report trapping and other illegal
fishing methods they will render a
to Georgia and its citizens.
Chattooga County
Farmers Obtain
Longer Loan Terms
The opportunity to reduce the an
nual principal payments on land bank
commissioner loans by reamortiding
them over a longer period of years
has been opened to many of the 139
Chattooga county farmers who have
commissioner loans, according to a
statement received from the Farm
Credit Administration of Columbia.
There were about SBB,OOOO of land
bank commissioner loans outstanding
in this county at the beginning of
1940 and in addition approximately
$206,000 of federal land bank loans.
Some of these loans have already
been reamortized. ,
Most of the federal land bank loans
are already written for long terms
up to 30-odd years, but the “commis
sioner’s” loans were originally made
on a 10-year basis, requiring consid
erably heavier principal payments.
In a recent statement from Wash
ington, A. G. Black, governor of the
farm credit administration, said many
of the “commissioner’s” loans were
being reamortized over a longer pe
riod of years in order to ease the
payments of farmers with the heav
iest mortgages. Spreading out the
payments over a longer period will
provide these farmers with the same
opportunity of working out of debt
as already provided for federal land
bank borrowers through long-term re
payment periods, Gov. Black said.
Federal land bank loans are all first
mortgage loans, whereas the commis
sioner’s loans are made on both first
and second mortgage security.
Buskin Day
At Methodist Church
In Dr- E. R. Buskin’s absence last
Sunday the Sunday school voted, at
the suggestion of Mr. Fred Aldred,
that the 10 o’clock service next Sun
day be observed as Dr. Buskin day in
appreciation of his faithful and effi
cient service as superintendent of our
Sunday school during the last five
years.
May every member of the Method
ist Sunday school and all friends of
Dr. Buskin, Who do not attend Sun
day school elsewhere, be present next
Sunday.
CCC Camps Study
Quail Raising In
Game Farm School
ATLANTA, Ga. June s.—Quail
raising is extending into 12 CCC
camps of Georgia under a plan su
pervised by educational advisors of
the CCC and representatives of the
state division of wildlife.
A training school will be conducted
at the quail farm on Briarcliff road
June 3-8 for one representative of
each of the 12 camps selected by the
educational advisors of the CCC
camps included in the program are
those located at Chatsworth, Soper
town, Millen, Fargo, Hornersville,
Baxley, LaFayette, Rutledge, Villa
Rica, Chipley, Gainesville and Rydal.
Purpose of the school is to train
the delegate enrollee from each camp
in the details of raising quail in cap
tivity, building incubators, brooding
houses, rearing pens and laying pens
and the type of feed to be used. Dur
ing this school the representatives
will be stationed at the camp in Ma
rietta and go back and forth from
there to the quail farm each day for
instruction. The division of wildlife
will furnish instructors, pictures and
results of activities of this kind that
are being developed by FFA and 4-H
clubs in the state.
Individuals who have been raising
quail in captivity for many years will
lecture to the students. After the
school the division of wildlife will fur
nish six-week-old quail to each camp.
These birds will be raised and kept
as brooding stock. The releasing of
the quail and the giving away of the
quail eggs will be supervised and
managed by each OCC camp.
This plan will not only help cer
tain areas in Georgia, but will teach
boys in the camps something of the
bob white quail and instill in them a
desire for the conservation of natural
resources, it is believed by outdoor
leaders.
All Day Meeting
At Church of God
The Church of God of the Union
Assembly will sponsor an all-day
meeting here Sunday. The meeting
will be held at the church on High
land avenue near the colored school.
We expect to have with us many
good singers and several preachers
among whom will be the Rev- C. T.
Pratt, the assembly moderator. Ev
erybody is Invited to come and bring
a well-filled basket of dinner.
$1.50 A YEAR