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The Summerville News
VOL. 54; NO. 50
WSB’S 'SALUTE
TO CHATTOOGA’
TO BE MARCH 22
A special broadcast honoring
Chattooga county will be presented
here in Summerville on March 20,
when station WSB, Atlanta, puts
on an actual radio show in its new
series of “Salute to Georgia Coun
ties” programs.
All musicians and other perform
ers appearing on the show will be
selected from the citizens of this
county. Before the radio program
is presented, auditions will be held
by a special committee to pick those
talented entertainers who are to be
on the air. And the night of the
show, WSB will bring its equipment
to transcribe the entire program.
Then on Saturday night, March 22,
at 7:30 (central standard time) the
show will be aired over WSB.
\ Persons desiring to appear on
this all-star broadcast can procure
application blanks at The News of
fice. Musicians, singers, dancers or
other entertainers are urged to
come by and fill out an applica
tion blank. Marcus Bartlett, pro
duction manager of WSB, is to be
here before the show to supervise
the selection of performers.
Preparations are going forward
to make this one of the county’s
biggest entertainments. Hundreds
of persons are expected to attend
the show, which will include good
music, singing and brief talks by
prominent citizens of the county.
Highlights of importance about the
county and its chief towns will also
be mentioned.
Citizens throughout the county
are co-operating to make this one
of the finest shows ever put on
here. This occasion will allow
many persons, who have never seen
a radio program, to watch the
south’s oldest station put on an air
show with all of the latest broad
casting equipment.
Everybody attending WSB’s radio
entertainment here will get to take
, part in the broadcast, since the pro
gram is to include mass singing
by all those present.
More details about this gala ra
dio presentation will be given in
next week’s issue of The News.
Meanwhile, all interested persons
are urged to apply for an audition
to appear on the show.
REPORT SHOWS MANY
HOMES IMPROVED BY
GEORGIANS IN 1940
H. W. Harvey, horticulture-land
scape specialist for the agricultural
extension service, reports that
Georgia farm families devoted in
creased interest to improvement of
their homes and grounds in 1940.
Home improvement projects call
ed for the planting of some 31,000
trees and shrubs, together with
numbers of annual and perennial
plants, Mr. Harvey said. Plans were
made for 233 homes and assistance
was rendered 386 additional homes,
fifty-seven school and seventy-sev
en miscellaneous projects.
The extension landscape special
ist estimated the improvement of
farm homes in 1940 increased the
value of such homes approximate
ly $62,000, not to mention the in
fluence in better community feel
ing and a greater interest of people
stimulated by improvement activi
ties.
LOCAL BOARD, SELECTIVE
SERVICE, DRAFTS BLACKWELL
John Robert Blackwell, order No.
289, has been selected to report to
the local board at Summerville at
8:30 a.m. on March 11, 1941, where
he will be inducted in the army
station at Fort McPherson, Atlanta.
Emmett Bridge, order No. 298,
has been selected as a replacement
for Blackwell.
“Hearkeners seldom hear good of them
selves.”
MARCH
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6 Gen. Philip H. Sheridan
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7 Bell was granted first
/fl telephone patent, 1876.
< ■ B— Spanish rebels seized an
American cargo, 1937.
9 First post office west of
Rockies opened, Astoria,
Ore., 1847.
10— Leon Blum became
T® Iff French premier, 1938.
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0 11—Hitler's army invaded
. Austria. 1838.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941
BARLOW BOUND
OVER TO GRAND
JURY IN KILLING
At a preliminary hearing Wed
, nesday morning, George Barlow,
, local painter, was bound over to the
; grand jury and is being held with
' out bond for the fatal shooting of
Hense Bynum, 45, Sunday after
noon. The shooting took place near
. the cotton mill in South Summer
. ville. Bynum was shot four times
. with a small revolver and death
was thought to have been instan
taneous. Those who witnessed the
’ shooting claimed to be too far away
, to hear the conversation between
the two men preceding th£\shoot
ing.
At the preliminary hearing Wed
nesday morning, attorneys for Bar
low entered a plea of self-defense.
However, Barlow was bound over to
the May grand jury and is being
held without bond.
William Henson Bynum
Funeral services for Henson By
num were held Tuesday at 1:30 p.
m. from the First Baptist church in
Summerville by the Revs. Madison
D. Short, Herbert Morgan and
Wrathburn Cash. Mr. Bynum is
survived by his wife; mother, Mrs.
W. E. Bynum; one brother, Charles,
of Oklahoma; seven sisters, Mrs. A.
J. Eilenburg, Mrs. L. R. McConkey,
Mrs. Fred Elrod, Mrs Clarence Hol
lander, all of Summerville; Mrs. R.
W. Willis, of Trion; Mrs. Frank
Waters, of Cleveland, Tenn., and
Mrs. Ray Allison, of Michigan.
Interment was in Summerville
cemetery with Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
ROTARIANS HEAR KENDALL
WEISIGER WEDNESDAY
The guest speaker at the meet
ing of the Summerville-Trion Ro
tary club at the Riegeldale tavern
Wednesday was Kendall Weisiger,
general information manager of
the Southern Telephone & Tele
graph company, of Atlanta. Mr.
Weisiger’s subject was “Wake Up,
America!”
The speaker stressed the import
ance of universal preparedness in
order that the people of the United
States may become ready to meet
the new and vastly changed world
situation, v&ich is now resulting
from the world conflict.
Since the last war, Mr. Weisiger
has been a member of the officers’
reserve corps, in which he holds
the rank of lieutenant-colonel, in
the adjutant-general’s department.
He has been a member of the At
lanta Rotary club for twenty-eight
years.
The club enjoyed Mr. Weisiger’s
talk and each member hopes to
hear him again in the near future
United States Navy
Seeking Eligible Men
If you are a citizen of the United
States, not less than 17 and under
31 years of age, unmarried, and
physically sound, an excellent op
portunity for you to embark on an
interesting career is available thru
enlistment in the United States
Navy.
Recruits for the navy are select
ed after a careful analysis of their
physical and mental rating, school,
occupational and character refer
ences.
The physical examination is very
thorough. To meet our require
ments, the applicant must have the
required chest measurement and be
of sound physique. His entire anat
omy is closely examined.
Young men desiring to join the
United States Navy are not requir
ed to have a high school education.
Those choosing service in the navy!
may now be enlisted at the age of
17, to serve until their 21st birth
day.
With regards to the mental ex
amination any applicant who has
had one or more years in high
school and was a good student
should be able to pass the test. It|
consists of written answers to 100
questions.
Applicants found to be physical
ly qualified, and who pass the men
tal test must furnish the recruiter
with the names and addresses of
four reputable citizens in his com
munity, in order that we may ob
tain character and occupational
references. The applicant must fur
nish proof of his date of birth.
Birth certificates may be obtained
from the bureau of vital statistics,
state health department.
The recruiting office is located in
Room 320, new Post Office building,
Atlanta, Ga.
The crop that stops erosion is
thick-growing lespedeza.
A couple of good cows will keep
the small Georgia farm family in
milk and butter throughout the
year.
Cows that come into production,
in poor flesh and with little or no
rest period, do not produce as well.
FSA FAMILIES CAN OVER FOUR
FSA FAMILIES CAN OVER FOUR
MILLION QUARTS LAST YEAR
Georgia’s 19,787 active FSA families last year canned 4,594,224
quarts of fruits, vegetables and meats, or an average of 216 quarts
per family, Miss Ruby Thompson, associate state director of the
Farm Security Administration in charge of home management, an
nounces from Athens.
The 1940 figure represents an
increase of 1,335,376 quarts over
the 1939 total of 3,258,848, Miss
Thompson pointed out, and at
tributes the gain in food pres
ervation to purchase of more
pressure cookers by FSA bor
rowers and increased garden
and truck crop acreage.
In addition to canning, the
FSA families turned their at
tention to the drying of fruits
and vegetables with 1,843,806
pounds of vegetables and 134,-
832 pounds of fruits being dried
and stored away for future use.
According to Miss Thompson,
7,371 families reached the fam
ily canning plan last year, and
3,275 families reached the
standard canning plan of 85
quarts per person, the number
arbitrarily set by the agricul
tural extension service.
Also, the associate director
County Teachers To
Meet Friday, Mar. 14
The Chattooga County Teachers’
association will meet Friday, March
14, at 1:30 p.m. in the Summerville
High school auditorium. The speak
er of the evening will be Dr. J. C.
Rogers, president of North Geor
gia college. The public is cordially
invited to attend this meeting.
N. V. DYER, President,
County Teacners’ Association.
HOME ORCHARD FOR
EVERY GEORGIA FSA
FAMILY IS PLANNED
A home orchard for every FSA
family in Georgia is one of the cur
rent objectives of the Farm Secur
ity administration, it was announc
ed this week by R. F. WhelcheL
state farm management specialist.
“There has been a statewide neg
lect of home orchards since 1900,”
Mr. Whelchel said, “and to me the
situation is deplorable for I con
sider a good orchard the equal in
importance to garden and truck
patches. Too many Georgia fami
lies are buying canned fruits and
vegetables which aren’t as nutri
tious and are expensive when they
have to be bought.
“Every farmer in this state, both
FSA and others, who attempts to
ive at home would profit from a
’ome orchard, well cared for, and
it. should be the aim of every Geor
gia agricultural agency to see that
this is brought about.”
.RAND JURY URGES
COUNTY AUTHORITIES
CO BACK BEER DRIVE
ATLANTA, March s.—Taking of
ficial cognizance of the “clean-up
or-close-up” movement being car
ried on by the Brewers and Beer
Distributors Committee of Georgia,
the Walker county grand jury for
the February term has returned
presentments urging that law en
forcement authorities give their
full co-operation to the campaien
In line with letters sent recently
to mayors and county commission
ers by Judge John S. Wood, state
director of the committee, asking
that caution be exercised in the
granting of retail beer licenses and
that they be withheld from law
breakers and disreputable charac
ters, the presentments urged “that
before licenses to sell beer are is
sued, a careful examination of the
record of each applicant be made
and that each applicant be requir
ed to abide by whatever regulations
the county commissioner sees fit
to make.”
“We also recommend,” the pre
. sentments continued, “that all our
law enforcement officers co-oper
ate fully with the committee set up
by the beer industry for the reg
ulation of such places.”
“Local authorities all other the
state have been most co-operative
in our movement to eliminate the
small minority of retail places
where law violations and offenses
against the rules of public decency
are permitted,” said Director Wood
today, “and we want again to offer
them our complete support in their
efforts to clean up objectionable
conditions in their own communi
ties.”
The committee, which has con
ducted 2,000 investigations of retail
places and has initiated the revo
cation of thirty-nine licenses by
the state revenue department, re
cently launched its second year of
operation at a meeting in Atlanta.
Yield of crops have been doubled
and tripled due to the use of crim
son clover as a green manure.
said, there were 8,082 pressure
cookers purchased by FSA bor
rowers last year which, togeth
er with the 6,136 families who
already own one, brings to 14,-
218 the numbers of cookers
among FSA families. During
1940 FSA borrowers purchased
$100,443 worth of canning
equipment such as jars, lids,
pots, pans, and rubbers that
were used directly in their food
preservation program.
Os the 1941 outlook, Miss
Thompson said, “Farm and
home plans reveal additional
canning equipment is being
purchased this year and fami
lies are buying garden seed co
operatively. I hope that FSA
families will qualify for the
AAA benefits in the gardening
program. Encouraging to me is
the increased wheat acreage
FSA borrowers are planting.”
Last Link Completed
Os Taft Highway
CARROLLTON, Ga.—Last links
of the Taft Memorial highway,
(Georgia 1, Federal 27) which tra
verses the entire length of the
United States from the Canadian
border to Fort Myers, Fla., will be
forged in this immediate section,
Thursday, March 13.
Bridges across the Chattahoochee
and Little Tallapoosa rivers will be
formally opened to traffic, and cli
maxing a day of celebration which
will include ceremonies at the ac
tual spans will be a gala fellowship
banquet at West Georgia college
here at 6 p.m.
Thus a new north-south high
way, directly benefiting the citizens
of Chattooga county, will be open
ed to through traffic, eliminating
all dirt roads and detours in the
1,700-mile stretch of the traffic ar
tery.
Taft Memorial highway officials,
county and municipal leaders, civic
clubs and other organizations,
newspaper men and other citizens
of Chattooga county have been in
vited to take part in the exercises
which will assemble leaders from
all towns and counties between
Chattanooga and Columbus.
Preceding the main celebration
at Carrollton, the newly-construct
ed SIOB,OOO bridge across the Chat
tahoochee river at Franklin in
Hard county will be dedicated at 2
■.’clock Thursday afternoon. At 4
p.m. the Carrollton bridge, widen
ed at a cost of $20,000, will be dedi
cated, opening the Carrollton-Bre
men stretch of the road. A dinner
at West Georgia college at 6 o’clock
will follow the dedication.
NO. 13 IMPORTANT
TO DOUGLAS MAN
DOUGLAS.—County Commission
er Noah E. Holton isn’t supersti
tious about the number 13. Only
good things happen to him on the
thirteenth of the month.
To begin with, Mr. Holton’s birth
date is Sept. 13. The date of his
wedding anniversary is the thir
teenth of the following month.
He has a son whose birth date
is also Sept. 13. He qualified to en
ter the race for county commis
sioner on Dec. 13. On last Feb. 13,
he signed the contract for the state
convict camp in Coffee county; and
recently, under Mr. Holton’s au
thority, work was begun on a thir
teen-mile stretch of road between
Douglas and Axson.
MUSIC CLUB ENTERTAINED
BY MISSES HARWELL
AND ELLENBURG
Miss Virginia Harwell and Miss
Alma Zada Eilenburg were host
esses to the Summervile Music club
at the Riegeldale tavern in Trion
on Wednesday afterndon at 3:30
o’clock. Miss Zerilda Peck directed
an interesting program on the sub
ject of “Contemporary Composers.”
RUMFORD BAKING POWDER
USES NEWSPAPER ADS
Another proof of the better times
ahead for our country:
If you will just think a bit you
can easily see that we are getting
into one of the best eras of our
history, and our food industries are
the first to help make this true.
Recently the Rumford Baking
Powder company announced its ad
vertising program for 1941.
In 1940 this company advertised
in 726 newspapers for thirteen
weeks. This new program calls for
forty-four weeks in 812 newspa
pers.
Over 99 per cent, of the Rumford
advertising will be carried in the
newspapers of America. Rumford
I was founded in 1859.
AN APPEAL
To the Local Relief Board:
Please investigate the pitiful
condition of the Hardigree
family—a deserted mother with
several children, including a
16-month-old baby, and other
small children. The mother is
paralyzed.
The local Presbyterians have
been helping but something
must be done NOW.
RETIRED WORKERS
RETURNING TO
EMPLOYMENT
Information received by the so
cial security board indicates that
about 2,500 retired workers are re
turning to covered employment
each month because of the na
tional defense program and are re
questing, as required by law, that
their old-age and survivors insur
ance monthly benefit checks be
suspended during such employ
ment, Knox Smartt, manager of
the social security board’s field of
fice in Rome, stated today.
“During the first year of opera
tion under the federal old-age and
survivors insurance system,” Mr.
Smartt said, “the social security
board’s reports show that a total
of 330,079 awards were made, and
of this total 254,984 were for
monthly benefit payinents.” In ad
dition to monthly benefit awards
there were over seventy-five thou
sand lump-sum death claims ap
proved for a total of more than
nine million dollars.
More than 250 claims, totaling
over $3,500 monthly originated in
the social security board field of
five serving this territory, accord
ing to Mr. Smartt. These payments
range from $lO to $82.40 a month.
A free booklet explaining the
protection afforded workers and
their families by the social securi
ty act will be mailed free of charge
to any individual on request. Write
a letter or postal card to the Social
Security Board, West building,
Jtome, Ga., and ask for booklet No.
35.
Demand Exists For,
Young Teachers
The teacher placement service, a
unit of the Georgia state employ
ment service, today announced that
a demand exists for young teach
ers with degrees and that several
jobs are open, especially for teach
ers of mathematics. The services
and facilities of the unit are en
tirely free.
Application forms for these jobs,
officials said, may be obtained from
the nearest Georgia state employ
ment service office or by writing
L. C. Butcher, supervisor of the
teacher placement service, 191 Ma
rietta street, N.W., Atlanta.
Recently established by the em
ployment service division of the
state department of labor, the
teacher placement service endea
vors to place qualified teachers in
touch with openings suitable for
their training, experience and edu
cation and to provide employing
school officials with an opportuni
ty to select teachers upon the ba
sis of their individual merits.
A teacher does not have to be
unemployed in order to register
with the service for a job. Any
teacher, employed or unemployed,
experienced or inexperienced, who
is eligible for a valid certificate
and resides in Georgia, may use the
free employment facilities of the
division.
Pointing out that the employ
ment service is in no sense a relief
agency, officials said that qualifi
cations of teachers are carefully
verified and that referrals are made
wholly on a basis of qualificiations
and suitability to specifications of
a job opening order without regard
to need.
Living in Chicken
House at College
ATHENS. Ga.—Two University of
Georgia students have combined
completed economy with what they
term “complete comfort” in an un
. usual campus residence—a chicken
house.
The boys Loyd Yeargin, of Hart
. well, and Jack Tumlin, of Pine
Mountain Valley, claim their new
home on the agricultural campus
is “as cozy as a hotel” since they
brought in two desks and two cots
and made other interior improve
ments.
[ ‘We hated to do it,” Yeargin com-
mented, “but we just moved right
. in one of the houses with some
. I chickens. It wasn’t so bad, through,
because in a day or two the chick
i ens moved.”
k . - •'
I Lespedeza enriches the land as it
prevents erosion.
$1.50 A YEAR
RED CROSS ROOM
COMPLETES ITS
MONTH’S QUOTA
Mrs. Rice Morgan and her assist
ants have sent the following arti
cles to the American Red Cross
warehouse in Jersey City to be put
on a mercy ship to Great Britain:
Twenty hospital shirts; thirty
women’s, misses’ and girls’ dresses;
twenty layettes, each layette con
taining the following: Two outing
flannel gowns, two outing flannel
dresses, two knitted shirts, two
pairs of stockings, two outing flan
nel bands, two wrapping blankets,
one outing flannel kimona, 1 outing
flannel cap, twelve blankets, twelve
safety pins.
Mrs. Joe Beavers, chairman of the
sewing committee, has given skilled
and faithful service in making and
directing the making of these gar
ments. If the ladies of our county
realized the sacrifices and untiring
labor of Mrs. Beavers they would
respond to the call and help bear
the responsibility.
All of the garments shipped were
neatly made, especially the layettes,
they were very dainty, showing the
lovely handiwork of the ladies.
The following ladies gave volun
teer work in making these gar
ments:
Mesdames J. A. Beavers, Rice
Morgan, Marshall Lowry, Chas. Tut
ton, Bill Henry, James Allen, Roy
Hemphill, R. D. Jones, Homer Edge,
Henry McWhorter, Chas. Fink, Jno.
D. Taylor, Rube Beavers, M. M. Al
len, Sr., Dan Smith, J. A. Allen,
Henry Bradford, Jno. Whisnant, J.
L. McGinnis, Paul Weems, C. D.
Wood, Don Copeman, Eldon Wright,
Dennis Cox, G. J. Boling, W. G. El
der, E. E. Price, C. C. Cliett, Claude
Turner, Mac Graham, Charlie Fow
ler, Edmond Baker, C. A. Allen, R.
R. Garrett, W. E. Dunaway, Frank
Kellett, Anna Bolling, Misses Patsy
Oliver. Queenie Johnson.
Many of the ladies have express
ed delight in being able to have a
part in the defense program. It is
not only our duty but our self-in
terest to help send supplies to Eng
land. If Great Britain goes down,
then bloodshed, destruction and
death will begin on our soil. Nazi
slavery and nihilism will blot out
liberalism and democracy.
KATHRYN HENRY,
Assistant to Production Chair
man.
Roll Call At The
Methodist Church
Next Sunday morning there will
be a roll call at the Methodist
church. Every member is urged to
be present to answer to his or her
name. A small gift will be made to
each family present, to the visitors
as well as to the members of the
church. This is in preparation of
the church loyalty program that
begins at this church March 16,
when the pastor will preach on
“The Most Horrible Sin in the
World.”
The pastor will preach next Sun
day morning and night and invites
the public to attend.
10:00 A. M.—Sunday school; M.
L. Fisher, superintendent.
11 A. M.—Roll call and sermon
by the pastor.
6:15 P. M.—Epworth league.
7 P. M.—Preaching by the pastor.
Baby Chick and Egg
Show For 4-H’ers
Four-H club boys and girls thru
out the state will have an oppor
tunity to learn something about
egg quality by selecting eggs to be
entered in the 4-H club class of
the ninth annual Georgia Baby
Chick and Egg show to be held in
Albany March 20, 21, 22.
The high scoring entries will re
ceive valuable loving cups. In the
4-H club class and the 4-H club egg
marketing class three of these cups
will be offered.
Those boys and girls interested
in entering this show should get in
touch with their county agent,
home demonstration agent or vo
cational teacher.
For further information write
Harmon Panter, poultry depart
ment, the University of Georgia,
Athens.
DOBSON-THOMAS
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Thomas, of
Armuchee, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Emile
Frances, formerly of Lyerly, to Wil
liam J. (“Billy”) Dobson, of At
lanta, formerly of Calhoun.
UPHOLSTERING FIRM
LOCATES HERE
If you have furniture in need of
repairing or upholstering, see Mr.
Murray in the old Alexander build
ing across the street from the jail.
. Kudzu is a perennial and has to
be planted only once.