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VOL. 56; NO. 43
Drive Under Way
To Explain Meat
Sharing Program
More than 25,000 neighborhood
farm leaders and thousands of
Civilian Defense block leaders are
now making a house-to-house can
vass to acquaint people with the
government’s voluntary share-the
meat plan, according to the Geor
gia Agricultural Extension Service.
Miss Lurline Collier, Extension
state home demonstration agent,
said these block and neighborhood
farm leaders are explaining why
adult civilians are requested to
limit themselves to 2 1-2 pounds
weekly of beef, mutton, lamb, pork
and veal; why children from 6 to
12 should not eat more than 1 1-2
pounds weekly; and why children
under 6 years should be restricted
to 3-4 of a pound.
The leaders are giving the house
wife information on how to stay
within this limit, including meals
eaten both in homes and in res
taurants, and at the same time
maintain a well balanced diet by
using other foods rich in proteins,
minerals and vitamins.
The women’s division of the
Citizen’s Defense Committee is
mobilizing the block leaders to con
tact householders in towns and
cities over 2,500. The Agricultural
Extension Service is contacting
rural families through the neigh
borhood leaders.
Important to Plan
Family’s Part in
Sharing the Meat
Mapping out the family’s part in
the Share-the-Meat campaign is
an important wartime assignment
for every homemaker, according to
Miss Nell Parish, county home dem
onstration agent for the Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service. She
said today, “To get in step with
meat sharing is patriotic, fair and
helps in the effort for victory.’’
The sharing allowance each week
is 3-4 pound of beef, pork, veal or
lamb for the child under 6 years
of age, 11-2 pounds for each child
from 6 to 12, and 2 1-2 pounds for
a person over 12. This allowance
is figured "bone in.”
“How to help share the meat is
mainly a matter of planning with
care, and using imagination as you
cook and serve meats,” Miss Parish
advised. She made several sugges
tions on planning.
“First of all,” the home agent
pointed out, “buy meat with an
open mind. The store may be out
of a certain cut so either buy your
meat first and build your meal
around it, or plan a menu so that
any one of several kinds of meat
will fit.
“Make sure no meat goes to waste
in storage and cooking. Meat and
poultry, too, need to be stored in
the coldest part of the ice box or
other cold storage space—4s de
grees Fahrenheit or lower is best.
Ground meat requires extra cold
and should not be held too long.”
The home agent advised the use
of recipes that make the most of
meat, both in food value and fla
vor. Remember to cook meat with
moderate heat until done and no
longer. This way, meat is more
tender, tastes better and losses in
cooking are lower.
DISTRICT RANGER MILLS
TRANSFERRED TO CALHOUN
Early this week, Orrie W. Han
son, who has been assigned as the
new District Ranger of the Armu
chee Ranger district, succeeding H.
O. Mills, moved to LaFayette. where
he and his family will reside. The
Hansons have a small girl, 2 years
old, Sigrid Broen Hanson 11.
The Hansons came to LaFayette
from Suches, Ga., where Mr. Han
son worked on the Blue Ridge dis
trict of the Chattahoochee National
Forest, having previously worked
on the national Forests in North
and South Carolina.
The Mills moved to Calhoun,
where Mr. Mills will be engaged in
activities of the forest service divi
sion of state and private forestry,
co-operating with the state of
Georgia.
NOTICE
The Summerville P.-T. A. will
meet Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 3:45.
All members and friends of the
school are urged to be present. Mrs.
J. C. Morgan will have charge of
an interesting program.
W. M. U. MET DEC. 3
Last Thursday, Dec. 3 the ladies
of the Lottie Moon Circle, First
Baptist church, were guests of
Mrs. J. V. Wheeler and Mrs. Duke
Espy. An interesting and inspiring
Christmas program was fven.
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Tennessee Station
To Salute Georgia
WLAC, 50,000 Watt Nashville Sta
tion, Sets Program for Dec. 14
As a part of an extensive cam
paign to familiarize radio listeners
throughout the southern states
with its increase in power to 50,000
watts, radio station WLAC, in
Nashville, Tenn., is arranging two
special programs as a “Salute to
the State of Georgia.”
These programs are scheduled for
broadcast on Monday, Dec. 14, from
6:30 to 7 a.m. and from 10:30 to
11 p.m. Both will be replete with
interesting facts, abopt Georgia,
information which has been se
cured by the station from the state
department of conservation.
WLAC advises that this broad
cast will be strictly non-commer
cial, the station’s principle desire
being to determine just how well its
programs are being heard in va
rious sections of this state. WLAC
may be tuned in at 1510 on the
radio dial.
Officials of the station are go
ing to make an attractive offer as
a means of inducing Georgians who
hear the programs to write them
a letter about the reception of
either of the broadcasts. A 1943
calendar with a large color-print
of the “Hermitage,” home of Presi
dent Andrew Jackson will be the
gift offered.
LATIMER FELTON BALLARD
DIED AT HOME IN MENLO
Mr. Latimer F. Ballard, 61, died
at his home in Menlo early Friday
morning from a heart attack. He
is survived by his wife, two sons,
Arnold and Eugene, of Chattanoo
ga; two daughters, Mrs. Ben Hix,
of Chattanooga, and Miss Mamie
Ballard, of Menlo; three sisters,
Mrs. I. V. Hucks, of N. C.; Mrs. Ben
Vanderhaust, Norwood, O.; Mrs. J.
D. Logan, of Indianapolis, Ind.;
two brothers, M. C., of LaFayette,
and Staton, of Berryton. Twelve
grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were held from
the Menlo Baptist church Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock, conducted
by Rev. Henry Norris. Interment
in Alpine cemetery. Paul Weems
Funeral Home in charge of ar
rangements.
MRS. MINERVA E. FORD
DIED TUESDAY MORNING
Mrs. Minerva Ford, 81, died at
the home of her niece, Mrs. C. H.
McCullough, in Trion early Tues
day morning after a lengthy ill
ness. She is survived by two sis
ters, Mrs. Mary Conner, of Atlan
ta; Mrs. Mattie Gentry, of Sum
merville.
Funeral services were held from
Lookout Hall Church of Christ
Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock.
Conducted by Rev. Andrew Pil
grim. Interment in Macedonia
cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
AMERICAN LEGION
AUXILIARY TO MEET
The American Legion aux
iliary will have their regular
monthly meeting and a Christmas
party next Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7
o’clock at the Legion Hall. Miss'
Florence Powell is program chair
man, Mrs. R. N. Trimble hostess.
All members are urged to be pres
ent, as plans for Christmas baskets
will be completed.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS
AT THE HOME OF MRS. SHORT
The executive committee of the
W. M. U. was held in the home of
Mrs. M. D. Short.
Song—“ The Solid Rock.”
Prayer—Miss Effie Leath.
Devotional —Mrs. J. T. Woods,
Psalm 34.
No divisional leader elected.
Miss Maggie Leath made a very
good report.
No one from central or eastern
division.
Margaret Fund —Trion has three
people named Margaret and money
has been sent for the enrollment in
the book at Louisville.
Personal Service has been chang
ed to Community Service or Mis
sions.
The next executive meeting will
be held Feb. 5, 1943.
M. D. Short.
NOTICE
Saturday, Dec. 19, has been set
by the County Board of Education
for the annual trustee election for
the school districts who did not
hold their election Nov. 28. The fol
lowing districts did not hold this
election: Cloudland, Hanson, Penn
ville, Myers, Teloga and Welcome
HUI.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942.
Cotton Situation As Growers Prepare
To Vote in Marketing Quota Referendum
Here are the facts regarding the
cotton situation as growers pre
pare to vote Saturday, Dec. 12, in
the sixth cotton marketing quota
referendum:
1. The present world supply of
American cotton is 24.2 million
running bales. The present supply
of 23.5 million bales in the United
. States is the second largest on
record, and is sufficient to meet
our needs for almost two years.
2. During the marketing year
1941-42, we used 11 million running
bales of American cotton—a new
high record. Lack of sufficient
manpower and plant facilities in
textile mills is expected to hold our
consumption next season to about
11.4 million bales.
3. We had a carry-over of Ameri
can cotton on Aug. 1, 1942, of 10.5
million running bales. With do
mestic consumption reaching a new
high and exports remaining low,
total disappearance will probably
be less than 1942’s indicated pro
duction on hand Aug. 1, 1943, than
there was on Aug. 1, 1942.
4. Despite large supplies, cotton
prices, supported by government
loans, are higher for the current
crop than they have been in a num
ber of years.
5. There is plenty of cotton.
However, longer staples and better
grades are needed. Farmers gen
erally should plant varieties of cot
ton in 1943 with longer staple than
heretofore.
If cotton marketing quotas are
in effect in 1943:
LOANS B. C.
1. Producers who plant within, or
unknowingly overplant, their cot
ton acreage allotments will be
eligible for government loans on
their entire cotton crop at the rate
of 90 per cent of parity.
2. Producers who knowingly ov
erplant their cotton acreage allot
ments will not be eligible for gov
ernment cotton loans except on
1943 cotton in excess of their mar
keting quotas, and then only at 60
per cent of the rate for other pro
ducers.
PENALTIES B. C.
3. Producers who plant within
their cotton acreage allotments
can market without penalty all
cotton produced in 1943.
4. Producers who overplant their
cotton acreage allotments will pay
the marketing quota penalty on
cotton marketed in excess of their
marketing quotas.
If cotton marketing quotas are
not in effect in 1943:
1. No restrictions will be imposed
on the amount of cotton which
may be marketed by any producer,
News at a Glance
About People and
Things in Georgia
ATLANTA, Dec. 9. (GPS).—
Termed “A Blow Aimed at Private
Enterprise,” the Charlotte (N.C.)
Observer does a bit of timely writ
ing in which the public is warned
to be on guard against a new “un
derground” movement to overthrow
private enterprice. Said the Ob
server:
“It is not surprising that agita
i tion should start in behalf of gov
ernmental control and operation of
the railroads. The motive behind
such a discussion is not that the
roads are falling down on their
huge jobs. The major inspiration
for such a proposal is from social
istic minds and groups that would
like to see the whole system and
principle of private enterprise de
stroyed in this country. They con
cede that, while a nation is at war,
and, therefore, in many other es
sential cases, forced to step in and
transcend private business, is a
happy and opportune moment for
them to strike for the kill. No in- j
dustry has done a better job in
meeting war demands than the
railroads. Incredible quantities of
freight are being moved without se
rious delay or congestion. Shipper
railroad co-operation has produced
miracles of efficiency. Every so
called ‘transportation crisis’ has
been met with great success.
“The American people should be
on guard against any effort to ex
tend arbitrary bureaucratic control
over any of our vital industries.
This new ‘underground’ campaign
against the railroads in part and
parcel of a determined effort be
ing made by individuals in this
country who desire political con
centration of power over individ
ual free enterprise in order to bring
about widespread socialism under
the guise of war exigencies.”
Gist of the News—Based on an
ticipated receipts, a 1943 budget o
$733,207.67 was adopted by the
Southern Baptist Home Mission
I Board at its annual meeting in At
regardless of the number of acres
he plants.
2. No government cotton loans
will be available on the 1943 crop.
3. It will be difficult to achieve
a balance between cotton and the
crops which are vital to the war
effort.
The 1943 marketing quota for a
farm will be the cotton acreage al
lotment multiplied by the actual or
normal yield, whichever is the
larger, plus any carry-over cotton
which could have been marketed
without penalty in 1942.
Marketing quotas have no effect
on the cotton acreage allotment or
normal yield for any farm, nor on
the rates of conservation payments
or parity payments, if available.
Marketing quotas can be used
only when supplies are excessive
Excessive cotton marketings bur
den transportation and storage
facilities, and result in lower in
come for all cotton farmers, espe
cially those who are trying to pro
duce and sell only the amount that
the market will take at reasonable
prices.
All available land, labor, farm
machinery and fertilizer must be
put to uses in 1943 which will best
serve the nation’s war needs. Ex
cessive cotton production would
mean an inefficient use of those
things, all of which are important
in the production of those war
crops for which increases are urg
ently needed.
Marketing quotas will be in ef
fect only if approved by at least
two-thirds of the cotton produc
ers voting in the referendum Sat
urday, Dec. 12.
Senator John H. Bankhead, of
Alabama, speaking in Orangeburg,
S. C., last week, said: “In my opin
ion, the best contribution that cot
ton farmers can make toward
winning the war is to grow less
cotton and more food. With sons
on the fighting fronts all over the
world, cotton farmers have a per
sonal interest as well as a national
Interest in doing this.
“The only practical method for
insuring that the cotton surplus
will not be further increased and
labor and materials will not be
poured into the production of such
a surplus is through the use of the
marketing quota system. I urge
farmers to cast a favorable vote.
“We know the plan has helped
the south through a difficult situa
tion . . . Those who would tell you
to vote against quotas should also
be able to guarantee you a price
for your cotton in 1943. In my
opinion, quotas are good business,
sound in principle and effective in
practice.”
All State Debts
Ordered Paid by
Eugene Talmadge
ATLANTA, Dec. 9. (GPS).—AiI
state department heads are in re
ceipt of a letter from Gov. Tal
mcdge ordering them to liquidate
all outstanding bills by Dec. 31, or
have them repudiated. He also no
tified all creditors of the state to
go after their collections.
Gov. Talmadge said the state of
Georgia is in position to pay all
debts except the fixed public debt,
outstanding highway contracts and
current bills for telephone, heat,
light and water services for the
month of December, on which bills
are not yet available. His admin
istration goes out of office in Jan
uary. The governor’s letter said:
“If you have not sufficient funds
approved on budgets to liquidate
every bill you have incurred against I
the state, you have violated the
budget regulations and approvals
of the budget bureau, and any item
of indebtedness caused by such in
fraction of the law will be classi
fied as illegal and unauthorized
expenditures, and you will be held
personally responsible for same.
“The press of the state is being
requested to carry this notice as a
public service, and any person,
firm or corporation to which ahy
state agency is indebted is most
urgently requested to see that their
accounts are paid in full by Decem
ber 31, 1942.”
lanta last week. Included is a
total of $442,207.67 for the board’s
operations in 18 southern states,
the District of Columbia, Cuba and
Panama. . . . Three prominent At
lantians were awarded the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce annual
award for public achievement. They
are W. A. Alexander, Georgia
Tech’s head footbal coach and ath
letic director; William E. Mitchell,
vice-president of the Georgia Pow
er company, and Charles A. Stair,
vice-president of the Soutehrn Bell
Telephone and Telegraph company.
How They Voted
On Beer and Wine
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til 111
Alpine 8 114 8 115
Coldwater 0 24 0 24
Dirtseller 0 17 0 17
Dirttown 5 44 8 46
Haywood 2 4 2 4
Lyerly 5 92 5 92
Seminole 1 27 1 27
Subligna 1 29 1 29
Summerville 39 422 60 421
Teloga 0 25 0 25
Trion 52 187 53 185
Total 113 985 138 985
APPRECIATION EXPRESSED
Words are but feeble when we
attempt to express the gratitude
which is in our hearts to those who
gave of their time, their talents
and their means in making pos
sible the splendid victory achieved
at the polls on last Saturday, Dec.
5, in making our town and our
county citadels of righteousness.
“He whose cause is just is thrice j
armed.” That our cause was a just
and righteous cause is attested by
the more than seven to one vote
of the people in voting out wine
and beer from the confines of our
county. To those who differed
from us in the views and opinions
entertained and expressed, we have
no rancor or bitterness in our
hearts towards them, but we hope
that the views expressed by the
voters in the casting of their bal
lots will only cause our opponents
to realize that our citizens want a
clean county, and we trust that all
citizens of our county may join
hands in an earnest effort to keep
our county clean.
REV. HERBERT MORGAN
Mrs. A. F. McCurdy
Elected President
Os Garden Club
The Chattooga County Garden
club met at the home of Mrs. Ber
lon Lovingood Friday afternoon,
Dec. 4, with Mrs. J. T. Morgan co
hostess. Officers elected for the
coming year are Mrs. McCurdy,
president; Mrs. Henry McWhorter,
vice-president, and Mrs. J. T. Mor
gan, secretary and treasurer.
The club voted to send a dona
tion to the state treasury of the
Garden Clubs of Georgia to help
buy an ambulance for the Red
Cross to be used in one of our in
sular possessions.
After the business meeting de
licious refreshments were served by
Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Lovingood.
Advertising Has a
Necessary War Job
“Advertise all through the war
and on into the peace,” is the
sound advice contained in a recent
bulletin, “Domestic Commerce” of
ficial organ of the United States
Chamber of Commerse.
The full text of the message, of
great interest to manufacturers and
retail distributors, is as follows:
Advertisers can help win the war.
Help by spurring the people on the
home front to help. Help by in
forming them of what they can do,
what they must not do, how to pro
long the life of articles, how to
save. Help by continually remind
ing the public of what we are fight
ing for, why we must win.
And at the same time, advertisers
can continue to build good-will,
keep their brand names before the
public. Whether they have any
products to sell or not, they can
be stimulating demand for them
right now. And a stimulated de
mand will be the current that will
set the productive wheels whirring
on consumer goods when the need
for war goods is over. . . . There
will be customers for the new prod
ucts that are bound to appear on
the market when American skill
ingenuity are let loose on peace
time production. It is one too
soon to begin thinking of these
customers of tomorrow. ... It is
none too soon to let them be think
ing of your company, your name
brand.
The reasonable way—in fact, the
only logical way—to do this is to
advertise. Advertise as much and
as often as you judge is necessary
to do your share in winning the
war and in winning the place you
deserve m peacetune. Advertise all
through the war and on into the
peace.”
Business Men’s
And Women’s
Evangelistic Club
“Ye Shall Be Witness Unto Me.”
Acts 1:8.
Every man or woman has some
kind of business to transact, but
the biggest, greatest and most
profitable business in the whole
wide world is the Master’s busi
ness. The men and women listed
below banded themselves together
last Sunday afternoon in the First
Baptist church. Officers were elect
ed as follows:
President —Homer Wood.
Vice-President—Jno. D. Taylor.
Vice-President—Willie Whitley.
Vice-President—W. L. Crouch.
Vice-President—Mrs. H. S. Burg
ner.
Vice-President—Elmer Hankins.
Secretary—Mrs. Paul Weems.
Treasurer—Roland Henry.
Members as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Culpepper,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Glass, Mr. and
Mrs. M. D. Short, Mr. and Mrs. Her
bert Morgan, Mrs. Louise Holland
er, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Crouch, Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Reece, Miss Mar
garet McDermott, Miss Bernice
Bailey, Jno. D. Taylor, Miss Helen
A. Chandler, H. M. Woods, Dennis
Cox, Mrs. N. S. Rich, Miss Kathryn
A. Henry, Miss Martha Parker,
Mrs. M. M. Allen, Jr., Miss Allie
Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A.
Harlow, W. H. Clarke, R. S. Thom
as, V. W. Smith, Mrs. Paul Weems,
Rice M. Morgan.
Mrs. O. L. Reese, Mrs. D. M. Hill,
J. L. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mitch
ell, Blair Mahan, R. A. Humph
reys, Mrs. C. S. Fowler, Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Whitley, Mr. and Mrs.
H. S. Burgner, Mrs. O. L. Gilmer,
Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Shaw Ros
ser, Wheeler Edwards.
All weekly meetings will be held
in the four churches, rotating
weekly. First meeting will be held
at 2 p.m. First Methodist church
next Sunday, the 13th. All mem
bers urged to be present and bring
other Christians with you. If you
were not able to attend the initial
meeting come next Sunday and you
will be included as a charter mem
ber.
NOTICE
Merchants who have not receiv
ed a copy of Retailer’s Bulletin No.
2 affecting eleven groups of foods,
and Bulletin No. 7 which applies to
fourteen seasonal food products,
may obtain a copy of same by ap
plying to the office of Local War
Price and Rationing Board.
ODT OFFICIALS ASKS
OFFICIALS TO CUT
HOLIDAY TRAVELING
ATLANTA, Dec. 9. (GPS)—Guy
Kelcey is regional manager of the
Atlanta transport division of the
Office of Defense Transportation.
Mr. Kelcey’s job deals with people
—with getting them from one place
to another. Having jurisdiction
over local transportation systems
and interstate and intrastate
trains and buses as well, he must
see that those who must do war
traveling are provided for.
But with all his efficiency in su
pervising the essential travel of
wartime, the executive has a spot
of real sentimentality which he
hopes will make a real difference
in travel by the middle of Decem
ber. He is thinking of Christmas,
and the enormous increase in
travel which the holiday season
usually brings. Thus he speaks to
the people of Georgia and others
who might hear his plea. Said he:
“I am going on the stump, if
necessary, and ask people to stay
put this Christmas. There are
many families that will have no op
portunity to see their boys in serv
ice, because they are across an
ocean somewhere. There are many
other boys still in this country who
will be overseas soon. The least
civilians can do is give up their
Christmas traveling and let the
boys in uniform go home for
Christmas. It probably will be the
last opportunity for lots of those
boys to go home for a long, long
time.
“It’s the least civilians can do to
give up their travel for the sol
diers. Any civilian who manages
i to get a place on a train or bus can
think about the fact that some
soldier is staying in camp over
Christmas because he wasn’t lucky
enough to get accommodations.”
ALL WORTHY NAMES
ATLANTA. Dec. 9. (GPS)—Names
of three outstanding Georgians
have been submitted to the Mari
time Commission as suggestions for
the naming of a Liberty ship hon
oring our state. The names are
Henry W. Grady, former editor of
he Atlanta Constitution; aLwson
B. Evans, who served as Augusta
school superintendent of schools -
*or more than half a century, and
Miss Martha Berry, founder of
Berry Schools at Rome,
$1.50 A YEAR