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VOL. 55; NO. 19
Red Cross Holds
Institute For Workers
A four-day institute for American
Red Cross Workers was held for two
states, Alabama and Georgia, at
Auburn, Alabama. Approximately
three hundred and fifty delegates
attended the institute.
The fourfold purpose of the Red
Cross was outlined. The great need
for strong chapter organization and
cooperation was emphasized. The
chapter must organize along tne
lines of National Defense, Disaster
Preparedness, Volunteer 8p e c ia 1
Service, Home Defense, Military and
Naval Warfare, First Aid, Home
Nursing, Home and Farm Accident
Prevention, Junior Red Cross.
Courses in First Aid were stress'-
as absolutely essential for every
chapter reaching into the rural
communities. It is a program for
men and women, the speaker from
National Headquarters stated, "it
is a continual strengthening pro
gram for both men and women
that should be practiced during
these days of National Emergency
to avoia nation-wide panic in case
of disaster.” There has never been
a war or great encampments of
soldiers that was not followed by!
an epidemic. A scarcity oi doctors'
and nurses has always been exper-|
lencAi. The communities who have
taken courses in First Aid win oe
equipped to meet emergencies, save
many lives and alleviate suLcring.!
The Chattooga Red Cross chapter!
intends to give courses m First Ak>
and Home Nursing in the, near iu-[
ture. This will be your opportunity..
De certain to enroll.
There are many phases o I the
Red Cross that we hope to develop,
especially must we nave a strong
home Service committee. The Home
Service is that part of the Red Cross I
that is the connecting link be tween \
the Home and the Army. We iiav< !
drafted men from our county who ;
may need this service any da;
The Junior Red Cross needs fur
ther development. The young peo- ,
pie are accomplishing great deeds ;
of mercy and sending love arcane
the world to those who are desti
tute.
mere are a great many things'
for the Chattooga chapter to do..
Let’s not be too slow to grasp tnis.
opportunity while we yet have time.
KATHERINE HENRY
Georgia Banks
Make Many Loans
Seventeen per cent of the banks
in Georgia made more than 257,000
loans totaling $295,000,000 to busi
ness firms and individuals through
out the state during the second half
of 1940, according to the semi-an
nual survey of bank lending activity
made by the Research Council of
the American Bankers Association.
The A. B. A. loan survey was
participated in by 47 Georgia banks, I
or 17 per cent of the 283 banks in
the state.
These 17 banks reported that they
made between July 1 and December
31, 1940:
146,538 new loans
totaling $150,473,097
108,403 renewals of loans
totaling . $142,324,495
2,483 new mortgage loans
totaling $ 2,760,152
The survey showed that business
firms in the state used about one
third of the “confirmed open lines
of credit” maintained for their use
on the books of banks. A total of
8 banks in the larger centers of the
state reported that they carried on
their books $71,404,940 in “open
lines of credit” offered to and kept
available for regular borrowers for
use as needed by them. Ox G; s
amount $28,040,927 or 39.3 per'cent
was used. '
The average number of the -new
loans made per bank during tire
six months period under review .was
3,118 and the average size of loan
was $1,027.
The average number of loans “ -
newed per bank was 2,306 ano tire
average renewal was for $1,313,
The average number of new mort
gage loans made pe bank was 53
and the average new mod ge
made was for $1,112.
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STAMP FOODS
Blue food stamps added . •
000 worth of farm products in Ap ' 1
to the diets of 3,828,000 members T
families eligible to receive public
assistance, the Department of Agri
culture announces. During April
families taking part in the 1-od
Stamp Plan used blue stamps—
which increased their expend:- > es
for agricultural products app.
mately 50 per cent —as follow : 14
per cent for eggs; 31 per cen
pork products; 15 per cent for ilpm
and other cereals; 13 per cent for
fruit; 14 per cent for butter, and le
per cent for vegetables.
The average Georgia farm in 134
consisted of 110 acres, of which 47
acres were in woodland.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1941.
Director’s Election
Coosa River District
i As you see by the official notice
i in this issue of the paper, the elec
t tion for directors of the Coosa River
/ Soil Conservation District is to be,
5 held Saturday of this week. The
only voting place in this county will
I be in Summerville at the court
i house.
I; This organizatioin is doing a good
i! service in the county. At the pres- ;
?! ent time they have approximately
'■ 85 working agreements with farm-!
1 ers scattered over the county. These
I agreements, of course, are entirely
voluntary and every farm in the
• county is eligible as fast as the
agreements can be worked up.
This five-ydar plan is worked up
by a trained man in agriculture, en
gineering; etc., and {the farmer
himself. It is not for the purpose
! of dictating to anyone, but for the.
I sole purpose of helping you. plan
and putting it oh paper so you will
' have a plan and a goal to work to
each year. By following this plan
which you help make and which
oi’. can follow with very little, if
any, extra cost, (if any, it goes to!
the farm and not for services) at!
'the end of a five-year period you!
can rest assured you will have a!
! much better farm. There is no cost
to anyone for personal services. The!
district can furnish some free help
in any way of running terrace lines. I
a few seed, and plants,-etc.
If you are in Summerville Satur
day help show the county’s interest'
!by voting for supervisors. If you!
are interested in a five-year plan to |
build up your land, and at the same
time make a living, put in your
application either to me or the
Technician at the couurthouse.
O. P. DAWSON,
County Agent.
LAKEWOOK PARK !
CARNIVAL JULY 4
Motorhn-t. Motor-vde Races,
Fir ■’.'’'■’■ks On >*’?■ ?’ror’’’m
ATLANTA—Sports fans over the
Southeast are in for a treat on the
Fourth of July at Lakewood Park.
■ nominees Mike Benton, president
of the Lakewood Speedway Racing
f ssoqiat'r n. J'Qur Race Program in- 1
’'chides, Rai I ?*Cars. Stock tfn.rs. Mo-;
! tdroycles and Motorboats. It 1
I sounds like a big order, but you can,
be assured of many thrilling mo
ments and record breaking per
formances.”
This is the second program of its
kind ot be presented to Southern
Sports Fans. The first attempt re
ceived such splendiid public accept
ance that Race officials used no
hesitancy in arranging another
stellar program.
Race cars will compete in a five-;
mile event and another off : Teen !
miles. Stock cars will vie for high.;
honors in two thrilling races, a five-;
miler and a whirlwind race program!
finale of twenty-five miles. Motor
cycles and motorboats will furnish!
thrills for their followers in two
events each, of five and ten miles.!
Eighty miles of combined racing'
for a purse of SI,OOO.
Entries in all events include top
ranking drivers from the Southeast
and more distant no nts . . . such!
familiar names 'as Harley Taylor.;
Tip Lanthier. Bob Flock. Red Sin-j
gleton, Jap Brogdon, Carson Dyer,
recent winner of the one hun
dred Semi-Stock Car Race, Fontel
lio Flock, Ted Edwards, Louis Trot
’ zier. Claude Smith and Harry Gard
ner. and other drivers of equal skill
and daring.
Time Trials will start at 10 a. m.
on .the morning of the Fourth and
the races get underway at 3 p. m.
■ sharp.
The Fourth at Lakewood will be
■. ftqrrie comnlete bv the annual se
stand, followed by a colorful Fire
lection of “Miss Atlanta” for 1941;
at 8 p. m. in front of the grand
works spectacle at 9 p. m. Even
ing programs are free to the public.
GEORGIA 4-H’ER TO
U W CHICAGO TRIP
.Georgia’s 4-H boy or girl who
makes the best record in meat ani
mal projects and g- neral club activ
ities .this, year will he awarded funds
, for an educational trip to the 20th
■ National 4-H Club Congress in Chi
! cago, Nov. 28-Dec. 6: The state
club leader’s office will select the
■ winner, who will r--C"ive SBO from
■ the Cudahy Packing Company to
I defray trip expenses Last year’s
i winner was Douglas Evans of
- Greenville. ; ,
The Club Congress is. held in con-
■ junction with, th; International
! Live Stock ExpoSiti u,
Commercial acre qf important
: truck crops in in • 1940 was
‘ 51,000 acres.
The number of cattle on farms in
) the United States at the beginning
1 of 1941 was 8 per 'cent larger than
in 1938, and the largest since 1934.
THREE DAYS
LEFT TO WIN
EXTRA PRIZE
Three More Days Remain in Second
Period of News Big Subscription
Campaign
CON TESTA NTS M 4 KING
E\ ERY EFFORT NOW
100,000 Extra Votes Can Be Earned
This Week If Goal is
Reached
! The biggest subscription bonus
! vote offer of The Summerville News
big big prize campaign will be over
; promptly Saturday night and Bortus
! votes credited to candidates for new
■ and renewal subscriptions will take
a big drop after that date.
Everywhere candidates are work
ing fast gathering subscriptions
and collecting promises of subscrip
! tions—in an effort to poll as many
\ votes as possible before the Closing!
hour of this important period—9 o’- j
, clock Saturday night, June 28. This
i is the supreme voting opportunity
of the balance of the campaign.
Among the men and women who
-re striving to win the S4OO, S2OO,
SIOO, in cash, or one of the smaller
prizes which will be awarded in a|
very short time, the concensus is :
that getting all the votes possible!
under the present double offer is
the best way to achieve success.
The thousands of extra votes to
be gained on each subscription dur- I
ing the final hours of this import- ■
ant period may serve to make vic- I
t:>ry easy. Each subscription earns!
yeti; subscription credited at the!
more votes Saturday than it willj
Monday and you can’t tell, one five- ,
close of the period may be the de-!
ciding facto?' in the final count.
All subscriptions turned m count!
on $15.00 clubs and each club gives
i no,ooo votes in addition to the Reg
ular votes on each subscription.
Nearly every candidate expects to ■
have a big report Saturday night. '
BAPTIST TRAINING
UNION MEETING
he quarterly B. T. U. meeting of
the Chattooga Association will be
held at the Summerville First Bap
tist church Sunday alternoon, June
29th, at 2:30. The program will be,
as follows:
Hymn.
Special.
Devotional—Rev. Charles M. Mas
sey.
Business meeting (annual elec- 1
tion of officers, etc).
Special.
Address—Rev. S. T. Walker.
Hymn.
Benediction.
RELATIVE STANDING OF CONTESTANTS IN ‘
! i I
[ "GOODWILL CAMPAIGN”-
111 Will He An Honor To You And Your Community
To Win In This Contest j
Can You Pick the 0400 Winner? :
14
77ie Quitter gives an alibi,
Tiie Weak-Kneed ones get blue, i
The Fighter goes down fighting, *
The Thoroughbred comes through!
“A Winner Never Quits and a Quitter Never Wins”
Contestants Address Votes ;!
Miss Bette Broome, Summerville, Ga. 648,000 !;
Mrs. Marshall Cantrell, Summerville, Ga. 667,000 ;!
Rev. Chas. C. Cliett, Summerville, Ga 501,000 ;;
j Mrs. Henry Day. Menlo, Ga._ v . 681,000 !;
t Mrs. Harrison Elgin, Summerville, Ga. 653.000 ■!
| Mrs. Bill Henry, Summerville, Ga. 516,500
t Rev. Herbert D. Morgan, Summerville, Ga. 509,000 I
* Mrs. A. M. McMyers, Trion, Ga. 672,000 t
- Mrs. Rufus Pruitt, Summerville, Ga. 583,000
J Miss Lula Weesner, Summerville, Ga., Rt. 1 659,000
i Will First Honors Go so—
; Summerville or Menlo?
4 .. . ■<[
: Sumerville or Trion?
i Summerville or Lyerly?
■ Summerville or R. F. D. 1?
i> Summerville or R. F. D. 2?
illelp Your Favorite Today! Work Now and Win Double!
Don't get discouraged. The race is not yet won. All are on !;
£ even terms, ana effort is the governing lactor. All started even j
4 Mviiaaj lor the $25.00 EXTRA PRIZE which will be awarded for
2 turning in the most money for subscriptions between Monday, t
' June 16, and Saturday, June 28. The votes accumulated while
; -winning the extra prize count toward winning one of the Grand !|!
£ Frizes. You can win douuble this period. Never say “Die.” No ;!
j matter where you stand, no matter how many or how few votes !;
y< i have. YOU CAN WIN if you set your goal for SO MANY sub- ;!
5 scriptions each day and work until you get them. CLUB YOUR J
» WAY TO VICTORY WITH ONE OR TWO CLUB EACH DAY. t
* THAT’S THE WINNING WAY. »
3ft *** / V * -**-*-* **£*-* *
George E. Prince
Elected Secretary
COLUMBIA, S. C. George E.
Prince, who has been in charge of
extension marketing work in South
! Carolina since 1926, has been elect
! ed secretary of the Columbia Bank
’ for Cooperatives by the directors of
! that institution, it was announced
recently. He will enter upon his
duties on July 16.
Mr. Prince, who is a native of
Pickens county, graduated from
Clemson College in 1916, majoring!
in horticulture. He was extension
horticulturist at Clemson College j
1917-1820, except for the time he I
spent in the army, and was also!
in charge of war service garden!
work and victory garden work in
South Carolina at the same time.
From 1920 to 1926 Mr. Prince was,
| with the Bureau of Markets, now!
known as the Agricultural Market-;
mg Service, on marketing news:
I service work, mostly in the field.
Thfe last three years he was with
the bureau was spent largely in Cal- |
ifornia and the northwest. Since
-1926, in addition to being in charge
of extension marketing work in
i South Carolina, he has also been:
j state supervisor of the Federal-1
! State Shipping Point Inspection
Service.
Mr. Prince succeeds Dr. Marvin
A. Brooker, who resigned to be
come director of research of the
Farm Credit Administration of New
Orleans.
L. G. Foster is president of the
I Columbia Bank for Cooperatives.
PRESENT OPENINGS
IN CCC CAMPS
The Rome office of the Georgia
State Employment Service which
-Fredoa apjqs aqi Japun
ment of Labor has openings in the
CCC Camps at the present time.
The basic qualifications are as
follows: Age limit is 17 through
23 1-2; unmarried; physically fit,
and must not have had previous
service of over two years in CCC
Camp.
Anyone interested in CCC work
should contact the Rome Employ
ment office at 522 Broad street, as
soon as possible. The local Em
ployment office has been advised
tuax there are also several openings
for Negro boys in the CCC Camps.
Representatives of the Rome Em
ployment ofiiefe will be in the court
room at the court house in Sum
merville on Thursday morning,
July 3. People residing in Chat
tooga county may receive the nec
essary information by contacting:
the Rome office or the representa-1
tives here in Summerville on July
3rd.
Better Diets For
A Stronger People
Nutrition —or Better Diets for a
: Stronger People—has; become one
i of the most important sectors of
the “Food for Defense” campaign of
: the U. S. Department of Agricul
: ture, according to Winifred M. Mil
ler, Horne Supervisor of Chattooga
;, county for the Farm Security Ad
ministration.
With a Nutrition unit to be or
ganized in every county in the na
tion, the Farm Security Adminis
tration is pledging to take part in
I the program, and will work in Chat-
■ tooga county in cooperation with
I other agencies.
; Regional staff members of FSA in
j the Fifth Region (Alabama, Geor-
I gia, South Carolina and Florida);
i have outlined the special part of
| FSA in the program as including:
■ 1. To increase the consumption
!of “yellow” vegetables by 10 per
cent.
, 2. To change old and inherited
j food habits.
3. To induce the use of eggs,
milk and vegetables and other “pro-
I tective” foods.
4. To supplement diets with
foods to which farm families are!
accustomed but which are not used
with best effects.
5. To work not only for produc
tion but distribution, education and
bridging the gap between low in-
; comes and needs.
6. To link diet necessities with
fundamental needs like longer ten
ure of land which will develop pas
tures, soil enrichment and improve
ment of living conditions generally.
Farm Security families will be!
urged to grow wheat for home use,
where practicable, to learn the use
of handmimlls in some cases to
grind the whole grain and use it
in breads in place of refifned and
devitalized white flour. In most!
counties of the region, garden seed
hag been bought for the families (
through cooperative effort, and new!
emphasis will be placed on raising
and canning vegetables. Extension
of the school lunch program also
will be sought as a big factor in
better nutrition.
“Every effort will be made,” said
Miss Miller, “to enrich the diets of
the families on our program.
“Although this campaign ha be
come a national movement, we feel
that a special obligation rests upon
the Farm Security Administration.
“We shall work to see that diets
of FSA families measure up to the
nutritional ‘Gold Standard,’ which
includes: one pint milk a day for
an adult and more for a child;
serving of meat; one egg, two veg
etables, one of which should be
green or yellow; two fruits, one of
which shall be rich in Vitamin C,
found abundantly in citrus fruits
and tomatoes; some butter; breads,
flour and cereal, most preferabl.
all whole wheat grain or enriched.”
Annual Lamb and
Ram Show July 1
ROME. —The second annual Ram
and Lamb Show will be held at the
Coosa Valley sale barn on Tuesday,
July 1. Professor W. S. Rice, head
of the sheep and swine department!
at the University of Georgia, will
do the judging.
Schedule of Events
10:00 A. M.—Sheep judging contest.
Open to everybody excepting
county agents and agricultural
teachers.
10:30 A. M.—Judging of regular ex-'
hibits.
10:45 A. M.—Lamb grading demon-j
stration.
12:00 Noon —Lime spreading dem
onstration.
1:00 P. M.—Ram and lamb auction.
Valuable premiums will be award
ed to winners in each class.
Any exhibitor will be allowed only
one entry in each class.
A special effort is being made to
get some good buyers to the sale.
Al! farmers are urged to bring in
their fat lambs.
RIGHT FOODS NEEDED
“Whether it be children, whether
it be workers, whether it be soldiers,
the first step toward a happy, con
fident attitude is an abundant sup
ply of the right kind of food.” vice
president Henry A. Wallace said re
cently in an address before the na
tional nutrition conference for de
fense. “On a foundation of good
food we can build almost anything.
Without it we can build nothing.”
For the last three years the cash
farm income from livestock and
livestock products in Georgia has
averaged over 24 per cent of the to
tal cash farm income.
While income from the cotton
crop in Georgia has declined dras
tically during recent years, the in
come from this crop still makes up
about 40 per cent of the state’s cash
farm income.
$1.50 A YEAR
Chattooga County
To Aid Soldiers
1 Trion First
To Contribute
y Immediate launching of a $lO,-
.; 765,000 program of service to sol
• diers. sailors and defense personnel,
1 ! funds for which will be raised in a
'! nation-wide campaign, was an
! agencies which are cooperating as
i thhe United Service Organizations
! for National Defense, Inc. The
plans were made public by Walter
! Hoving, president. Local units of
the organizations will cooperate.
The agencies are the Y. M. C. A.,
the National Catholic Community
i Service, the Salvation Army, the Y.
W. C. A., the Jewish Welfare Board
; and the National Travelers Aid As-
I sociation. The solicitation of gifts
! among individuals will begin im
mediately.
The agencies are planning serv
ice club facilities in 339 places adja
cent to camps, naval stations and
defense centers throughout the
United States and its overseas
bases. The government will pro
vide buildings, it was explained, and
the U. S. O. will provide funds for
their operation and the accompa
nying program of welfare, educa
! tion and religious activities.
I “The problem we face,” said Mr.
Hoviing, “is this:
“More than 1,400.000 young Amer
icans are now in uniform. Many
of them are in huge training cen
ters, built in haste to meet a na
tional emergency. Soldiers some
times outnumber, by five or ten
times, the adult population of near
by towns and villages.
! “When the soldiers go into town
by the thousands evenings and week
ends, there is too often no place
for them to go, nothing to do, no
! good friend to meet the lonely, no
morale-building recreation. Boys
stand aimlessly on the sidewalk,
! wondering what to do, and those
who seek to exploit the boys, some
times viciously, are eager to supply
I the answer.
“The United Service Organiza
-1 tions plan to bring our soldiers,
1 sailors and youth in our defense in
dustries, a measure of the hospital
! ity, the spiritual influence and the
comfort which the people at home
want them to have.
“Fathers and mothers all over the
country are demanding that this be
done. We are acting also at the
request of the President of the
United States, the secretary of war,
1 the secretary of the navy, and the
federal social security administra
tor.
“As more thousands leave for
camp, the need grows daily more
acute. For that reason we need
! large advance gifts immediately to
help us get our program started, to
rent, furnish and staff temporary
huts for the soldiers and sailors.
“In the meantime, as fast as we
can, we will organize the nation
wide appeal to all citizens for the
! money needed for a full year’s op
i eration.”
Initial gifts to the United Service
Organizations for National Defense,
Inc. it was explained, should be sent
to its offices in the Empire State
Building in New York City.
Preliminary plans for the build
ings which the U. S. O. member
! agencies will operate provide for a
I central entertainment hall seating
! 500, reading and game rooms,
lunch counters, lockers, showers
and general service club facilities.
The agencies, it was explained,
I are also planning to use their ex
j isting facilities to the fullest possi
-1 ble extent in serving soldieirs and
1 sailors, an dalso in defense indusu
tries.
The Y. W. C. A. for example, is
workers, in places where local re
sources are inadequate. Typical of
these emergencies are great defense
industries, such as powder works,
which are being built far from the
cities and larger towns and are
' drawing thousands of young wo
i men workers away from their
homes.
The program of the agencies, it
was explained, is designed to meet
needs of serving soldiers, sailors and
, defense workers over and above
’ what local communities are already
< doing and are expected to continue
to do.
NOTICE TO ALL FARMERS
HAVING WHEAT IN 1941
[j Any farmer having wheat in 1941
i and expects to sell it must come
by the Triple-A office and get a
! marketing card. If you expect to
iI use it at home, yet you hire it com
i bined, ground, or cut, and pay toll,
; you must have a marketing card in
. order to pay toll, as that is market
ing wheat. Therefore, the person
i taking the wheat as toll is liable for
! the tax on it if he does not require
. the producer to show his market
. ing card.
W. W. JOHNSON.
i Administrative Assistant Chattooga
• County.