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VOL. 57; NO. 7.
Home-Canning Quota
For Georgia Totals
312,372,300 Quarts
Georgia’s essential wartime
home-canning goal for 1943 totals
312,372,300 quarts, a leading food
distributor estimated today.
This huge job facing the state’s
743,743 housewives represents an
average of 100 quarts of home
pi-cked food per person, the amount
,l;e United States Department of
Agriculture has recommended for
rural families and which it consid
ers desirable also for urban fami
li s, explained Harvey A. Baum.
Any housewife who meets this goal
will assure each member of her
family two cups of home-canned
bod daily for about seven months.
‘The need for housewives to meet
the goal was emphasized when
Price Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown reported that only 13,000,-
000 cases of commercially-canned
fruits and vegetables would be
available to civilians each month
this year as compared to 30,000,000
cases a month last year,” Baum
said. “This means a reduction of
47 per cent, but civilians will get
alcng on it so our armed forces
and allies can get the food they
need to whip the axis.”
Baum believes many housewives
will fill this gap by purchasing
fresh fruits and vegetables for both
immediate use and for home can
ning inasmuch as these perishable
foods require no ration points. The
War Production Board has prom
ised adequate supplies of covers
and rubber rings fr home canning.
Lespedeza Helps
Boost Crop Yield
Experiments Show
“Even on moderately sloping
land, it won’t do to keep on grow
ing row crops without returning the
land to small grain and lespedeza,”
fe. H. Hendrickson, superintendent
of the Southern Piedmont Experi
ment Station at Watkinsville, Ga.,
said this week. These crops not
only protect and build up the soil,
but furnish grain, seed, hay or
grazing.
Using lespedeza in crop rotations
not only increases yields of follow
ing crops, but also reduces soil
losses when row crops are grown
on the land following lespedeza,
according to experiments at the
station.
On slopes up to 10 per cent, sta
tion results indicate that a good
degree of erosion control can be
obtained on terraced cropland, even
in the cotton year, if cotton is
grown in a 3-year rotation in which
lespedeza occupies the land two
out of the three years.
The after-effect of lespedeza,
which loosens up the soil, making
it both more absorptive and more
productive, accounts for the reduc
tion in soil losses as well as the in
crease in crop yields following les
pedeza, Hendrickson explained.
Production of small grain and les
pedeza is one of the best land use
practices that has been devised for
the Southern Piedmont and fits in
well with the expanding livestock
program in the southeast, he
added.
LEGION AUXILIARY URGED
TO CO-OPERATE WITH
NAVY RECRUITING SERVICE
At the request of Commander
Stanley A. Jones, U. S. navy, offi
cer in charge of navy recruiting for
Georgia, Mrs. Charles Harlow,
president of the local American
Legion auxiliary has requested
members of the unit to co-operate
with the navy recruiting service in
bringing the advantages and op
portunities of service in the WAVES
to the attention of young ladies of
Chattooga county who are anxius
to serve their country.
Lee Martin Kills
Self at Menlo
Lee A. Martin, 45, well known
druggist at Menlo, died Saturday
afternoon from gunshot wounds
said to have been self-inflicted,
according to Coroner I. M. Hender
son.
Mr. Martin is said to have been
in poor health for some time and
had worried over his condition. He
had planned to go to an Atlanta
hospital Sunday for treatment.
Mr. Martin is survived by his
wife, one sister, Mrs. Ethel Hol
linsworth, of Gadsden, Ala.
Funeral services were held Sun
day, March 28 at 4 p.m. at the
Menlo Presbyterian church, con
ducted by Revs. J. C. Plexico, El
mer Enloe, Henry Norris and Jim
my Parker. Interment was in Al
pine cemetery. Paul Weems Fu
neral Home in charge,
The Summerville News
List of Selectees
To Leave April 5
For Fort Benning
The Chattooga county local
board has selected the following
named white selectees to be sent
to Fort Benning, Ga., for induc
tion on April 5:
Morris Norton Dalton (volun
teer), Summerville.
Cec.l Horace Williams (volun
teer), Route 1, Trion.
William Donald Berry (volun
teer), Berryton.
Jess D. Hardy (volunteer), Trion,
Route 1.
James Chester Cheek (volunteer),
355 Walnut street, Trion.
Robert Horton Akins (volun
teer), A-53 First street, Trion.
Claude Collins (volunteer), 186
Second street, Trion.
Jahugh Kindell Barfield (volun
teer), C-l Ninth street, Trion.
Ralph William Hale (volunteer)
B-63 Seventh street, Trion.
Marcue Lamar Lloyd, 1206 Dun
can avenue, Chattanooga.
Charlie Edward Johnson, 968
Howell Mill road, Atlanta.
LaFayette Lancaster, 63 Park
avenue, Trion.
James Alfred Johnson, (Transfer
red to Rome).
Samuel Lee Ingle, Eleventh
street, Trion.
Roy Walter Booker, Route 2,
Summerville.
Robert LaForce Lewis, Trion.
Marshall Richard McCollum, 153
Marsh avenue, Trion.
Otto Earl Bradley, Wildwood,
Ga.
Kenneth Edwyn Blessing, Chat
tanooga.
Ralph Lee Haggard, Lyerly.
Claude Albert Dawson, Atlanta.
James Clifford Gilreath, Sum
merville.
Robert Young Cline, Box 118,
Summerville.
Thomas Glenn Westbrook, Box 9
Trion.
Raymond David Clowdis, Route 2,
Lyerly.
James Walter Gills, Route 3,
Summerville.
William Wesley Peck, 16 Park
avenue, Trion.
Harold Wallace Scoggins, Sub
ligna.
Fred Lee Butler, Trion.
Charles Pinkston Dawson, Route
3, Summerville.
Rowland Andrew Deßerry, Route
4, Summerville.
Paul Edgar King, Menlo.
Ralph Eugene Young, Summer
ville.
Andrew Myers Williams, Sum
merville.
Benjamin Harold Powell, Route
1, Lyerly.
Charles Wilson Hamby, Summer
ville.
James Calvin Sims, Route 2,
Lyerly.
Robert Foye Blackmon, A-175
Georgia street, Trion.
George Hardy Copeland, Route
2, Summerville.
John Edward Tinnie, Jr., Berry
ton.
Lloyd C. Williams, Route 4, Sum
merville.
Millard Clarence Jones, Route 2,
Summerville.
Hubert Kay Tucker, Route 2,
Summerville.
James Hoyt Rhinehart, Route 1,
Summerville.
Homer Bryant McCollum, Route
1, Summerville.
Hobert Franklin Dooley, Route
4, Summerville.
Hershall Lee Flood, Summerville.
Erick Cleveland Baker, Route 2,
Summerville.
James Oneil Elrod, 386 Park ave
nue, Trion.
Joel Bethel Thomas, Route 1,
Trion.
Hoyt Dewitt Mitchell, Route 2,
Summerville.
Leonard Tanner, D-66 Eleventh
street, Trion.
James Clifford Lively, Trion.
Samuel Joseph Hamilton, Route
4, Summerville.
Raymond Reuben Ivey, Berryton.
John Lidell Dawson, Route 1,
Trion.
Thomas Carlton McCollum, Route
4, Summerville.
Billy Willingham, Menlo.
Dewel Charles Wright, Box 116
Trion.
Lee Pinkey Rice, 34 Pine street,
Trion.
Ernest Porter Kimbell, 261
Church street, Mobile, Ala.
William Odell Nixon, Route,
Summerville.
Junior Woods Reynolds, genera]
delivery, Summerville.
John Calvin Morgan, Summer
ville.
William Culberson Bryant, Ly
erly.
James Clay Bell, A-2 Park ave
nue, Trion.
Winston Cicero Pledger, Box 34,
Summerville.
Leonard Edward Cordle, 153
Marsh avenue, Trion.
Frederick Hall Westbrook, A-12
4 SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1948.
Glass Houses For Air Corps Personnel
No, it’s not a grounded trailer, but a new type of portable shelter
for Air Corps personnel in Arctic climates. Blankets of glass fiber in
sulation in the walls and flooring cut by more than 20,000 pounds tht
weight of the fuel required to maintain a comfortable temperature in
each shelter during the heating season. The shelters can be trans
ported by air.
Spread Vacations
And We’ll All Get
A Ride—Eastman
Atlanta, March 31. (GPS).—The
spring sap is rising and that means
vacation-time is approaching. Mr.
and Mrs. John Citizen in Georgia
and throughout the country prob
ably are asking themselves if it is
wrong to be thinking about a vaca
tion this year. The Office of De
fense Transportation not only says
it is not wrong to think about it
but it is perfectly all right to plan
and take a vacation—with certain
reservations.
For instance, you should not plan
as long a journey as perhaps you
have made in the past and above
all you should not begin or end
your vacation trip over week-ends,
when travel is at a peak. You nat
urally will have to take your chances
on getting accommodations on pub
lic transportation systems.
“We’re not going to discourage
people from taking vacations,’
said ODT Director Joseph B. East
man, who admitted he hoped to
take one himself. He did recom
mend, however, that employers
spread vacations over several
months so too many people will not
be traveling at the same time, and
said no particular resort area could
expect any special privileges.
Third street, Trion.
James Walter Sherman, Route 1
Trion.
Joseph Myerhart Hall, Jr., Route
1, Trion.
Grady Elmer Winters, Route 2,
Lyerly.
Howell Frank Palmer, Route 2
Summerville.
James Sidney Gordon, Route 4,
Summerville.
William Homer Floyd, Jr., Route
1, Trion.
Joseph Van Gilreath, Route 3,
Summerville.
Henry F. Crow, Route 2, Sum
merville.
Calvin Virgil Hughes, Route 2
Summerville.
Robert Luke Murphy, Route 2
Summerville.
Dary Fay Stowe, Route 2, Sum
merville.
Clifford Lee Allman, 2 17 First
street, Trion.
William Roy Clark, Summerville.
Leroy Acrey, B-52 Seventh street
Trion.
Calvin Richard Johnson, Route
2, Lyerly.
Claude Maxseen Rickett, Route
2, Summerville.
Charles William White, Route 3,
Summerville.
Glenn Lewis Rush, 20 First street
Trion.
Lee Jackson Hickey, Summer
ville.
James Harvey Stephens, Jr., B-29
Tenth street, Trion.
Hiram Wesley Copeland, Trion.
John Hugh Mills, Route 2, Sum
merville.
Emmett Jackson Lively, Jr., 76
Oak street, Trion.
Junior Boss Lowery, A-55 First
street, Trion.
Glenn Earl Keith, Summerville
Robert Hoyt Blackburn, Summer
ville.
Grady Morton' Swanson, Route
3, Summerville.
Lewis Hoyt Wilson, Lyerly.
Dewey Hammond, Jr., Summer
ville.
Troy Lation Griffith, Box 21,
Summerville.
Lewis Burrage, transferred from
Fairbum, Ga.
A. V. Taylor, transferred from
Scottsboro, Ala.
B.W.M.U. to Hold
Annual Meeting
On April 16th
The 50th annual meeting of B.
W. M. U. auxiliary to Chattooga
Association will meet with Lyerly
Baptist church on April 16th at
10 a.m., C.W.T.
Theme: In Jesus Name
10:00—Hymn, “Take the Name of
Jesus With You.”
Devotional—“ Gathered Together
in My Name.” —Mrs. Nettie McCon
nell.
10:20—Welcome, Mrs. R. N. Craw
ford. Response, Trion W. M. S.
Roll call and recognition of pastors
and visitors. Reports of district
secretaries. Recognition of a full
graded W. M. U. and awards. Mes
sage of superintendent.
11:00 —Serving in His Name—
Mrs. Henry Day.
Giving in His Name—Mrs. H. D.
Brown.
Praying in His Name—Mrs. M. D.
Short.
11:30—Our Chief Aims Miss
Francis Turner. Announcements,
naming committees. Special mu
sic, Subligna W. M. S.
11:45 Missionary Message,
“Crown Him Lord of All,” by Miss
Pearl Todd.
12:30—Prayer. Lunch.
I:3o—Hymn, “All Hail the Power
of Jesus Name.”
Devotional—Mrs. S. L. Walker.
Literature by Mrs J. W. Parris. 50
Years of Service, Mrs . Charles
Baker, Margaret Ford, Miss Maggie
Leath.
White Cross, Mrs. Nettie Sitton
Stewardship, Mrs. Russell Baker.
Mission Study, Miss Kathryn Henry
2:3o—Recommendations Mrs.
Robert Harlow.
Report of committees.
2:4o—lnstallation Service—Miss
Francis Turner.
3:00 —Consecration Service, Miss
Pearl Todd.
Effie Leath, Supt.
Minnie Justice, Sec.
Pvt. Guy H. Toles, Jr.
To Visit Homefolks
Friends of Pvt. Guy H. Toles, Jr.,
of the marine corps, will be inter
ested to know that he will arrive
in a few days on a leave, which he
will spend with his parents, friends
and relatives.
Pvt. Toles was wounded on
Guadalcanal early in September,
and was admitted to the U. S. Naval
hospital at Mare Island, California,
on Nov. 13, 1942.
On Jan. 6 he was transferred to
a naval hospital in Seattle, Wash.,
where he underwent special treat
ment for the shrapnel wound in his
right shoulder and arm.
He was among the marines who
landed on Guadalcanal Aug. 7 and
was under Commander Vander
grift
Miss Majors On
Dean’s List at
West Georgia College
Hughie Majors, has been named
to the Dean’s List at West Georgia
college, Carrollton, for the winter
quarter, according to an announce
ment made this week by Dean W.
Fred Gunn.
To make the Dean’s List at West
Georgia, a student must make an
average of 87 or above. Only 32
students received this honor for
the winter quarter.
Hughie Majors is the daughter of
Mrs. James Majors, of Menlo, Ga,
Red Cross War Fund
Drive Has Most
Successful Campaign
The war fund drive sponsored by
the Chattooga county chapter of
the American Red Cross has just
closed. Officials in the local chap
ter proudly term it the most suc
cessful campaign ever conducted in
the annals of the Red Cross in this
county.
The quota of the local chapter
had been set at $1,300 and it has
been announced by the chapter
that this has been exceeded by a
large majority. The spirit shown
by every one approached was the
finest ever exhibited by any group
of people at any time and the of
ficials want to take this means of
thanking each and every person
who contributed for their help and
co-operation. At no time in the
history of our country has help
been needed more than at this time
when we are faced with the job of
fighting for everything that we
hold dear—for the things that we
have loved and for which we
stand. Every one has helped in
some manner and that help is ap
preciated.
Particularly is the work of the
officials of the chapter and their
associates appreciated. Their ef
forts have been untiring. Mr.
Frank S. Pittman, Jr., the county
chairman, has done a noble work
in organizing this campaign and
much credit is due him. Also, the
Rev. Herbert Morgan has given of
his time and talents without ceas
ing and through his efforts much
money was realized on the streets
of Summerville and through the
sale of scrap iron raised under his
supervision.
The schools of the county have
been active and their efforts are
deeply appreciated because they
have come through with the tasks
assigned them.
Particularly do they wish to
thank and commend the Menlo
Public schools who contributed 100
per cent to the drive. The mills
of the county have shown a splen
did spirit and have exceeded their
quotas in_ every instance. Again
we wish to say, thank you, Chat
tooga county, for your patriotic
help in this drive for the existence
of humanity, right and truth.
Conservation News
BY JOHN K. THOMAS, JR.
Mr. Albert Partin, Route 1, Sum
merville, Ga.; Mr. William A.
Broom, Route 2, Summerville, and
Mr. Cleve McCollum, Route 1, Sum
merville, Ga., have just recently
decided to begin conservation farm
ing on their farms.
To begin with, they requested the
assistance of the local technician
to help them develop a complete
conservation plan on their farms.
These men will not have a complete
plan to follow until some time
later, but a partial plan has been
developed. This partial plan only
includes terracing and rotations,
both of which will be applied this
spring. On these three farms a
total of 85 acres of land will be
terraced in the very near future,
and rotations set up when they
plant their crops this spring.
These men are of the opinion the
terraces and rotations will increase
the yield per acre of cotton, corn
and small grain considerably this
year, and more in the years to
come.
Mr. B. F. Edwards, a co-operator
of the Coosa River soil conserva
tion district, has just recently fin
ished setting out 5,000 loblolly pine
seedlings on his farm in the Lyerly
community. Mr. Edwards set these
seedlings on poor, steep and badly
eroded land, that was not contrib
uting anything to his farm in
come. Mr. Edwards estimates these
seedlings will grow so that he will
be able to cut an average of a cord
of fuel wood per acre per year until
the time he selects his ultimate
crop trees. Then he will be able to
cut many thousand feet of select
saw timber.
Pvt. Austin L. Mahan
Corporal Technician
Camp Robinson, Ark., March 30.
—Pvt. Austin L. Mahan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ollie C. Mahan, Route 3,
Summerville, has been promoted to
the grade of corporal technician
in the 16th training regiment of
the branch immaterial replacement
center, Camp Joseph T. Robinson,
Ark.
Corporal Technician Mahan has
been at Camp Robinson since Jan.
15, 1942 and is a member of the
BIRTC’s permanent cadre.
Prior to his induction at Fort
McPherson, Ga., on Sept. 8, 1941, j
Corporal Technician Mahan was
employed by the Trion company,!
Trion, Ga., In the dye plant. i
John A. Collins, U. S.
Employment Service,
At Courthouse April 8
John A. Collins, Sr., interviewer
of the United States Employment
Service, Rome, Ga., which is a place
ment office for the War Manpower
Commission, will be at the court
house in Summerville, Ga., on
April 8, and every other Thursday
thereafter, for the purpose of tak
ing applications for unemployment
compensation and to refer qualified
persons to various job openings in
defense work.
The United States Employment
Service has literally thousands of
openings such as stenographers in
Atlanta paying from $135.86 to
$151.08; typists in Anniston, Ala.,
that pay from $118.68 to $135.20;
traineers for the shipyards m
Brunswick and Savannah that pays
68c an hour for 40 hours a week for
the first three weeks, the next three
weeks they work 48 hours a week
and are paid for 52 which work is
time and half time for all over 40
hours worked. After satisfactorily
completing their six weeks train
ing they start serving as an ap
prentice for 86c per hour, work 48
hours and receive pay for 52
hours; in other words they get
$44.72 a week. Persons are being
trained as arc-welders, burners,
chippers, caulkers and shipfitters.
The fuse-loading plant in Ma
con is in need of 2,000 women be
tween the ages of 18 and 45 years.
They receive training up to three
weeks and when they have com
pleted their training their wages
are from S2B to S3O a week.
In addition to these orders they
have job openings for all types of
engineers—safety, time study, in
dustrial, mechanical and chemical;
production manager, radio an
nouncers, machinists, welders, loom
fixers, sheet metal workers, mold
ers and almost every type of skilled
labor.
No one will be considered without
a release from their employer if he
is working for an industry engaged
in war work. Persons that are in
terested and available on any other
days are requested to contact the
U. S. E. S., 522 Broad street, Rome.
CHATTOOGAVILLE W. H. D.
The Woman’s Home Demonstra
tion club of Chattoogaville met
March 19th at the home of Mrs.
M. J. Rowlls.
The president presided over the
business meeting. Miss Parish had
to be back in Summerville soon
and we omitted devotional and the
social program.
Cream cheese was the demon
stration. Miss Parish carefully ex
plained each step in making cream
cheese. We are interested in mak
ing cheese because we have milk
at home and the cheese could be
used in lunches for school or work
where it had to be carried from
home.
Receipts for cream cheese and a
leaflet on “Share the Meat for Vic
tory” was given to each member.
The leaflet has several recipes of
home raised products that has the
same food value as meat that can
be used when there is a shortage of
meat in the home.
A market to sell over products to
was discussed.
The hostess served delicious re
freshments.
Miss Tee Ragland has invited the
club to meet with her in April.
First Sunday Service
At Walnut Grove
The Walnut Grove Presbyterian
church will have a preaching serv
ice next Sunday, due to the fact
that a previous service had to be
called off. Sunday school will
meet at 2:00 and Mr. Enlow will
preach at 3:00 on some phase of
the work of the Holy Spirit. There
will be an important meeting of
the elders and deacons after the
service. “I was glad when they said
unto me, Let us go into the house
of the Lord.”
Harold B. Hood Taking
Advanced Instruction
Strother Army Air Field, Kan.,
March 31.—Class 43-G of Uncle
Sams aviation cadets arrived at
Strother army air field a few days
ago from primary training at Ok
lahoma City and Tulsa to begin
basic flying training.
Nine and one-half weeks’ forma
tion and night flying in the heav
ier, faster Vultee Valiants here
will precede advanced instruction
and the awarding of silver pilot’s
wings in the final stage of training
at another field.
Members of Class 43-G at Stroth
er field from Summerville are:
Harold B. Hood, 22, son of Mr. and
Mrs, Henry B. Hood, of Route 3,
$1.50 A YEAR