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VOL. 54; NO. 51
PLANS SHAPING
FOR CHATTOOGA
SALUTE MAR. 20
This is the last week for talented
entertainers to make their appli
cations for an appearance on the
“Salute to Georgia Counties” broad
cast, which will be presented here
free for the public on Thursday
night, March 20, at 7 p.m. in the
Summerville High school audito
rium.
Persons who can sing, play a mu
sical instrument, tap dance or fur
nish any other type of entertain
ment are urged to go by The News
office to fill out an application
blank. Persons making such appli
cations will be given auditions be
fore a special committee, which
will in turn pick those to appear
on the air. Marcus Bartlett, pro
duction manager of WSB, will be
here to supervise the talent audi
tions for the show Wednesday,
March 19. '
On the night of the show WSB
will bring its latest radio equip
ment to transscribe the entire pro
gram. Then on Saturday night,
March 22, at 7:30 p.m., central
standard time, the show will be
broadcast over WSB.
Besides the various entertainers,
several prominent citizens of Chat
tooga county will speak on the
show. Highlights of importance
about the history of the county
and its principal towns will also be
recalled.
Citizens throughout the county
are co-operating to make this one
of the biggest shows ever put on
here. Hundreds of persons are ex
pected to attend, and all will get to
participate in the broadcast, since
the program will be concluded with
a mass singing. This occasion will
allow many persons who have nev
er seen a radio program to watch
“The Voice of the South” put on
an air show with the finest and
most modern broadcasting equip
ment.
All details of the radio program
will be carried out just as .they are
done in the studios of WSB, and
those taking part in the perform
ance will be heard by the thou
sands of listeners who keep tuned
to the south’s oldest radio station.
All persons are urged to promote
interested in the approaching
event so that it will be one of the
greatest entertainments ever stag
ed in Chattooga county.
People in and around Trion may
get further instructions from Miss
Ethel Simmons.
Mrs. Charlie Wyatt will assist any
interested parties in or near Menlo.
Mrs. J. R. Jackson, Jr., chairman,
has the help of Mrs. J. R. Burgess
here in Summerville.
Any one of the above named
committee members will be more
than glad to help you become a
part of this “Salute to Chattooga
County” over WSB on March 22.
If you want to take part in the
broadcast come to the Summerville
High school auditorium Wednesday
afternoon not later than 1:30.
We want everyone to come out
on Thursday evening at 7 o’clock to
see and take part in the tran
scribing of this program.
Then listen in on WSB Saturday
night, March 22, at 7:30 and hear
yourself on the air.
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.
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“Prosperity is not without many fears
and distastes.”
MARCH
f 12—Hitler proclaimed Ger
2S,m man-Austrian union,
(Wii 1938.
rap 13—General-Motors and
jfiHk United Auto Workers
agreed, 1937.
• 14—Mafia members lynched
yUf in New Orleans, 1891.
15—Tornadoes in seven states
killed 21. 1937.
& I®—France and Russia
Jk agreed to protect Czecho-
jurfei Slovakia, 1938.
17—St Patrick's Day.
"i' 18—Venizelos, Greek state* .
fl'l Ki 1 man,died, 193^■••■•e.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941
Are We Wise?
Once upon a time a citizen
ship spent much time and mon
ey building good roads. This
same citizenship neglected the
health of its citizens.
When war came, the enemy
used these good roads, as there
were not enough citizens physi
cally fit to defend their land.
Their citizenship was lost to the
enemy.
Is any citizenship wise in
building better roads than
bodies?
The Chattooga
Public Library
Attention, Readers!
I know of no better way to reach
you than through your paper—a
sure medium—so I’m calling your
attention to books out of the li
brary in February, 1941, file—eith
er overdue, lost or stolen. This very
much weakens our bookshelves. We
want you to come, get books, en
joy them and bring them back so
others can read them. This makes
our circulation report to Marietta
a report which we are so anxious to
make good. A good circulation is
the life of a library.
Books out and overdue in the
month of February, 1941:
Big Brother, by Beach (586), The
Little Small Red Hen (355), Indian
Fairy Tales, Sunny Bunny, by Put
nam; Along the Susquehanna, by
Carter (1093), Honey Ball Farm, by
Dell (2019); Finding Friends, by
Hahn (2241); Indoors and Out
(2233); The Mysterious Rider, by
Grey (2205); The Garden Murder
Case, by Van Dyne; Man’s Great
Adventure, by Pahlow (2165); The
Grade Allen Murder Case, by Van
Dyne (2298); Behind That Curtain,
by Biggers (986) Mr. Commission
er, by Wallace (337); Making Visits,
by Harris (2239); Silver Wings, by
Hill (992; Fifty Famous People, by
Baldwin (2078); Stories About Hen
ry, by Tippet (2050); Adventures in
Science, by Carpenter (2227); Story
of a Bad Boy, by Aldrick (79); The
Horsemen of the Plains, by Alt
sheler (2110); God’s Little Acre, by
Caldwell (2128); High Road, by
Baldwin (965) The First Hundred,
by lan Hay (2176); Thirteen at Din
ner, by Christie (1067); The Post
man, by Kuh (2049); Angels May
Weep, by Abbott (2291) Sunnycrest
Farm Yard, by Buchanan (936);
Charlie Chan, by Biggers (2211);
Through the Green Gate, by Hoop
er (2221).
Please search your homes and the
schoolhouse. I’ll still search the li
brary. Ask your neighbors.
Your librarian,
MARY H. ADAMS.
LIONS CLUB
HOLDS REGULAR
MEET TUESDAY
The Summerville Lions club held
its regular meeting at the Riegel
dale tavern last Tuesday night.
After dinner and a short business
meeting the speaker, the Hon. Hen
derson Lanham, solicitor-general
of the Rome judicial circuit, was
introduced by Lion T. J. Espy, Jr.
Judge Lanham chose as his sub
ject, “America’s Part in Rebuild
ing the World.” His talk being of
a patriotic nature, was thoroughly
enjoyed by all present. The club
deeply appreciates Judge Lanham’s
kindness.
The next meeting of the Lions
club will be held on Tuesday night,
March 18, and will be the regular
Ladies’ night. All Lions are request
ed to be present and bring their
wives or sweethearts. The program
will be under the direction of the
acting tail-twister, W. E. Turner,
and an enjoyable time is promised
all who attend.
One of the 4-H club objectives is
to afford rural boys and girls tech
nical instruction in farming and
home-making.
THE ECONOMICS OF OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM
PART 1
BY GEORGE PECK
All Americans are pretty well
agreed that the defense program is
essential and should be speeded
up. We may differ as to methods to
be used, as to the quantity of arm
aments that should be manufactur
ed and the amount of money that
should be spent; we may be divid
ed in our opinions as to just how
much aid should be given to Eng
land; we may have divergent views
as to just how great powers should
be given to the president, and we
may disagree as to the possibility
or probability of an actual inva
sion of our shores, but we are as
one in realizing that the world is
on fire and that we must provide
ourselves with adequate fire-fight-
RED CROSS ROOM
SHIPS SECOND
GARMENT QUOTA
Mrs. Rice Morgan, production
chairman, assisted by Miss Aline
Allen, our very efficient chairman
of knitted garments, packed for
shipment twenty-eight beautifully
knitted sweaters and two shawls.
The committee in charge of knit
ting and their workers has shown
a spirit of patriotic and loyal serv
ice, diligently and industriously.
■ Knitting needles have had to fly to
accomplish the work of this quota
so quickly.
Eleven of the sweaters shipped in
this quota were knitted by the
Menlo knitting class. These sweat
ers were very correctly knitted,
neatly block, labeled and sizes
marked, ready to be wrapped for
, shipment. The following Menlo la
dies assisted with this quota: Misses
Minnie and Effie Polk, Ada Wyatt,
Olene Watson, Anna Alexander,
Mesdames Henry Norris, M. C. Ag
new, Charlie Wyatt, Scott Cleckler,
F. H. McWhorter, Bell Ransom and
Hugh Hogg. The chapter wishes to
express thanks for their splendid
contribution to this quota.
William Carl Hunt, national
headquarters, Washington, D. C., in
a letter to us says: “Please accept
our sincerest thanks for the gar
ments which your chapter shipped
to our warehouse in Jersey City,
and which were received in good
condition. No doubt, by now these
garments are on their way to Great
Britain, where they are so sorely
needed. Will you express our thanks
to each of your volunteers.”
KATHARINE HENRY,
Asst, to Production Chairman.
State Parent-Teacher
Congress To Meet
Friday, March 21
The spring conference of the Fif
teenth district division of the Geor
gia Congress of Parents and Teach
ers wil be held at the Valley Point
school in Whitfield county Friday,
March 21, beginning at 10 o’clock.
Mrs. W. L. Garnett, of Rome, dis
, trict director, will preside over the
business session, and Mrs. A. C.
ers will be held at the Valley Point
unit, will have charge of the open-
■ ing session.
Mrs. R. A. Long, of Atlanta, state
parent-teacher president, will ad
dress the conference during the
afternoon.
Exhibits placed will be hand
made articles made by parent
teacher members, program year
books and publicity record books.
Highlights of the year’s work will
be given by local delegates. The
president, secretary and one rep
resentative for each fifty members
of each association will be the ac
credited delegates, but all members
and others interested in child wel
fare are invited to attend the con
l ference.
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE EXAM
: FOR MECHANIC-LEARNER
The United States Civil Service
; commission announces an open
competitive examination for filling
vacancies in the position of
Mechanic-Learner —$3.60 a Day
' in the War Department, Ordnance
- Service, Augusta arsental, Augus
» ta, Ga., for which the receipt of ap
; plications closes March 17, 1941.
Applications must be on file with
; the manager, Fifth U. S. Civil Serv
ice district, new Post Office build-
■ ing, Atlanta, Ga., on or before that
• date.
Applicants will be required to
i pass a written mechanical aptitude
> test and must have reached their
sixteenth but must not have passed
I their twenty-fifth birthday on the
closing date for receipt of applica
tions. These age limits will not be
; waived in any case.
Full further informaion and ap
l plication blanks may be obtained
from the secretary, Board of U. S.
ing equipment.
Now, in order to arm ourselves
to the teeth (for defense, not ag
gression), billions of dollars are be
ing and will be spent. What affect
is this going to have on the eco
nomic life of America? Can we
carry through this vast defense
program without extensive read
justment of our economic life?
On this point, there seems to be
three widely different schools of
thought. The first and pessimistic
schools feels that in order to shift
our energies from peace to war pro
duction, it will be necessary to dras
tically reorganize our entire eco
;! nomic system with a resultant low
ering of our standard of living.
The second school holds to the;
optimistic opinion that the defense
CAGE TOURNEY
AT LYERLY ON
MARCH 19-22
The Tri-State Independent bas
ket ball tournament will be held at
Lyerly beginning Wednesday night,
March 19, at 7 o’clock. There will
be three games Wednesday night
three games Thursday night, three
games Friday night, three games
Saturday afternoon and three
games Saturday night.
Rules governing the tournament
are:
1. Each team will be allowed ten
players including manager.
2. No player will be allowed to
play with more than one team.
3. 60 per cent, of net proceeds
will be divided among teams ac
cording to number of games played
and mileage.
4. Cash prizes will be given first
and second winners.
5. A neutral referee who is a pro
fessional will officiate all games.
6. Games will start at 7 o’clock
each night and at 2:30 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon.
7. Each team will furnish own
towels.
If you have not received an in
vitation and want to enter this
tournament, please write Jesse L.
Bain, superintendent, Lyerly Con
solidated school, giving name of
team. When drawings are made you
will receive a copy giving day and
hour your team plays.
NOTICE
It has been called to my atten
tion that quite a few air rifles have
been shot within the city limits
which is a violation of city ordi
nance, the same as the shooting of
a .22 rifle. Please observe this or
dinance or cases will have to be
made.
J. E. BAKER,
Chief of Police.
Experiments have shown that
well seeded pastures on good pas
ture land, liberally fertilized, and
properly managed, will give 275 to
350 pounds of beef per acre.
NOTE OF APPRECIATION
To you readers of The Summer
ville News who have been thought
ful of the Toccoa orphanage, we
wish to express our appreciation.
These kindnesses on your part make
you to share the privilege which is
ours of nuturing and training the
large family of orphans who look
to us daily to supply their needs.
We feel most grateful that our
children are well and happy. It
would inspire you, as it does us, to
see the energetic, “bubbling” joy
that radiates the faces of these
growing little ones who know only
the “big white house” as home and
the workers as big sisters and par
ents.
As you “cast your bread upon the
water, may it return to you after
many days.”
Gratefully yours,
A. C. CRAFT, Supt.
Toccoa Orphanage,
Toccoa, Ga.
NOTICE
Beginning March 17, 1941, drivers’
license examinations will be given
in Summerville the first and third
Thursdays of each month between
the hours of 1 to 5 p.m., and in
Trion the first and third Thursdays,
9 a.m. to 12 o’clock noon.
Examinations will also be given at
the patrol station at Dalton every
day except Sunday.
Practically all forest fires are
man-caused; therefore, if all peo
ple would practice preventive mea
sures, fires would be curbed to a
minimum.
Civil Service Examiners, at any
first- or second-class post office in
the state of Georgia; or from the
manager, Fifth U. S. Civil Service
: District, new Post Office building,
Atlanta, Ga.
program is a blessing—almost a
divine visitation of Providence—
that it will stimulate industry—
that we will once more begin to
utilize to the full our too-long dor
mant productive resources—that
for the first time in many years
there will be no unemployment—
and that we actually can increase
our standard of living while build
ing up our military defenses.
The third school takes a position
about half way between the first
two. It contends that for a while, it
will not be necessary to divert pro
duction from consumer goods to
war goods, but that ultimately lim
itations will have to be put on the
production and consumption of
j certain types of peace-time com
i modifies if we are not to impede
Trion Presbyterians
To Organize Church
TRION, Ga., March 12.—At 2:30
Sunday afternoon, March 30, the
Presbyterians of Trion and vicini
ty will meet at the Trion High
school building to organize them
selves into a Presbyterian church
of Trion, Ga. If you desire to be a
charter member, please have your
church letter with you. If you can
not get that, you can come in on
re-statement of your faith provid
ed you are already a member else
where.
Regular Sunday school and
preaching services will be held each
Sunday morning in the Trion High
school building beginning with
Sunday school at 10 o’clock April
6. Plans are on foot to erect a new
church building in the near fu
ture.
'THE MOST
HORRIBLE SIN
IN THE WORLD’
The loyalty campaign at the
Methodist church will begin next
Sunday, the pastor using for his
subject Sunday night “The Most
Horrible Sin In the World.”
If you could stop one sin and only
one sin in the world, what would it
be? When you think it out, send
the answer to the pastor of the
Methodist church, the Rev. Charles
C. Cliett, and if you are the first
one to guess, you will receive a gift
next Sunday night at the church.
Mr. Cliett states that he has re
ceived several answers, such as:
“The Finest Rejection of Jesus
Christ,” “The Sin Against the Holy
Ghost,” and others. Whatever you
think, send him the answer.
The night services have been
changed from 7 p.m. until 7:15
p.m. Services for Sunday are:
10 A. M.—Sunday school; M. L.
Fisher, Jr., superintendent.
11 A. M. —Preaching by the pas
tor.
6:45 P. M.—Epworth league.
7:15 P. M.—Sermon by the pas
tor, “The Most Horrible Sin In the
World.”
The study book each Wednesday
evening, in charge of C. C. Cleg
horn, but taught by a different one
each night, is a most interesting
book for all.
Terrace Repairing
Prevents Erosion
Repairing breaks in terraces is
just as important as reparing leaks
in a roof.
Damage resulting from a leaky
roof is not confined to the point
where the leak occurs. The same
is true of breaks in a trerrace. A
break in a terrace causes a concen
tration of water that may wash
across a field and start a serious
gully. When the top terrace breaks,
usually other terraces below it are
washed out.
A good terrace system requires
an investment of considerable
time and a certain amount of
money, and adds to the value of the
land only so long as it is kept in
good working order. Terraces are
constructed for conserving soil and
water and to accomplish this suc
cessfully must be kept free of
breaks.
If breaks have occured in ter
races during the fall and winter
they can often be repaired with
soil taken from the terrace chan
nel if the channel has been filled in
with silt. Do not dig out channel be
low its regular level. A team and
drag pan is best suited for making
repairs.
When breaks have been filled in,
the field may be broken so that
one plowing will build up the ter
races over their entire length. This
is necessary if the terraces are to
carry the run-off from heavy
spring and summer downpours.
Good results can be obtained by
using a two-horse turning plow
the progress of the defense pro
gram.
Our opinion is that no great dis
organization of our economic sys
tem or reduction of living stand
ards is necessary. It would be too
much to hope that some curtail
ment of production of consumer
goods may not have to be made.
This, we as patriotic Americans,
should take in stride without too
much grumbling. However, what
really concerns us is: Can we fi
nance this defense program with
out further increasing the nation
al debt, and do we face a terrific
ecenomic collapse when either the
war is ended or the defense pro
■ gram is completed? These questions
will be discussed in this column in
I subsequent issues of this newspa
-1 per. Watch for them!
$1.50 A YEAR
W. C. STURDIVANT
TO HEAD COUNTY
; FOR JACKSON DAY
ATLANTA. Walter Sturdivant,
i pf Summerville, this week was nam
. ed Chattooga county chairman for
i the annual Jackson day campaign
L I to raise funds for the democratic
. party.
Mr. Sturdivant’s appointment
was announced by Ryburn G. Clay,
of Atlanta, chairman of the state
committee for the campaign, who
declared.
“The troubled condition of the
world makes it imperative that the
democratic party keep its organiza
tion intact, and strengthen its
forces so that it can continue to
administer the affairs of the nation
through this troubled era. It is nec
essary that every county in Georgia
do its part, and that is why we feel
so fortunate in the acceptance of
Mr. Sturdivant to head the cam
paign in Chattooga county. We
know that the county under his di
rection will do a splendid job.”
Mr. Clay pointed out that any
Georgia democrat who contributes
$25 or more to the campaign will
be invited to attend a party dinner
in Atlanta March 29.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mrs. Earl Miller, of Lyerly, en
tertained her little granddaughter,
Etheline Miller, on her sixth birth
day on Saturday afternoon, March
1. Many games were played and
delicious refreshments were served.
The little guests were Melba Reece,
Annie Ruth Abernathy, Carolyn
Edwards, Ida York and Houston
Miller. Mrs. Franklin Miller assist
ed Mrs. Miller in entertaining the
little folks.
CHEVROLET DEALERS SHOWING
LATEST PASSENGER CARS
Chevrolet dealers throughout the
United States are now displaying
the latest addition to that division’s
passenger car line—the six-passen
ger sedan featuring the new fleet
line body by Fisher, presented as
setting a new high mark in lux
ury, comfort and style.
Mechanically, the new car is
identical with other 1941
Deluxe Chevrolets. It has the nine
ty-horsepower six-cylinder valve
in-head engine, knee action, and
the famous vacuum power shift at
no extra cost. The body, however,
is entirely new. Its roominess and
richness of appointment make the
fleetline the most luxurious car ever
offered by Chevrolet.
Length and lowness characterize
the new model as viewed from the
side. The body is of the landau
type, with four doors and a closed
rear quarter. Doors are extra wide,
a fact which contributes both to
utilitiy and to smart appearance.
Rear doors are hinged at the cen
ter pillar like those of other four
doors models in the Chevrolet line;
but reardoor windows, unlike other
4-door model windows, are equipped
with ventipanes. Hinges, both of
the doors and of the rear deck, are
of the concealed type.
Stainless steel moulding, along
the edge of the concealed safety
steps which replaced conventional
running boards in the 1941 Chevro
let, and also at the belt line, ac
centuate length and lowness and
add a pleasing decorative note. Full
chromium reveals are used around
door windows, rear window and
windshield.
The impression of beauty and
luxury conveyed by the new car’s
exterior is fully borne out in the
interior appointments and trim.
Specially-woven pin-stripe uphol
stery is employed throughout, and
the door panels and seat-backs are
plaited in a manner which adds
• beauty and luxury, chromium strips
being used to relieve the expanse of
; neutral-tinted fabric. Lavish use of
> wood-graining is made in interior
metal trim. Mouldings are walnut
grained, and the background of the
' new “Silverstyl” instrument panel
is combination maple and burl wal
nut grained. Plastics and chromi
um are employed as decorative ma
terial on the panel, where instru
ments and controls are grouped
for maximum driving ease.
A barrel or oil drum can be used
effectively in treating cottonseed
’ with ceresan.
r in the following way:
First, bed up the terrace ridge,
i, This land should be at least twelve
3 feet wide. Then start another land
t by back-furrowing from a point
-about sixteen feet above the ter-
- race channel. Plow this land wide
- enough to meet the land broken in
c bedding up the terrace ridge. The
e rest of the field can be plowed as
- best suited. These two steps will re
s suit uj a well-maintained terrace
i ridge and a clean, wide channel.
J. A. PHILLIPS,
County Conservationist.
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