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CIRCULATES IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
WEST GEORGIA
VOL. 58; NO. 43.
Sixth War Loan
Drive to Begin
On November 20
The sixth war loan drive, pro
moted by the United States Treas
ury, will begin Nov. 20 and con
tinue through Dec. 16, 1944. All
Americans are urged to give their
utmost co-operation to this na
tional effort.
The Bth district of the War Fi
nance drive is composed of Bar
tow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cobb,
Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Polk,
Paulding, Walker and Whitfield
counties. The quota for the Bth
district in this fifth war loan drive
is $8,070,000 in war bond sales, of
which $3,150,000 are “E” bonds.
Mr. Roy Lytle, chairman of the
War Finance Committee of the Bth
district of Georgia, has “pointed
out that the total quota for the dis
trict must not only be met but ma
terially exceeded if the Bth district
is to carry its proportionate share
of bond sales as compared to the
state and to the country as a whole.
In explaining the objectives to
be accomplished through the sale
of bonds during the 6th War Loan
drive, Mr. Lytle and his associates
laid stress on the importance of ev
ery citizen with an income buying
at least one extra SIOO “E” bond
during the coming campaign. “It
is the bonds of the smaller denomi
nations from $25.00 up in the hands
of the largest possible number of
people that do the most good in
providing our government with
funds to produce essential ma
terials of wdr, in holding prices
down and in providing purchasing
power for the masses of our people
when peace time merchandise is
available.”
All purchases of E, F and G bonds
and series C tax certificates made
between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31 will be
credited on the 6th War Loan
drive.
The bond quota in this drive for
Chattooga county, according t to
County Bond Drive Chairman Har
ry McGinnis, is as follows: “E”
bonds, $141,000.00 and “Corporation
bonds, $128,000.00. These figures
refer to net costs.
“Back the attack” by buying now,
by buying all the bonds you can,
and by holding to them after you
buy them.
STATIONARY FIREMEN,
TRUCK DRIVERS. ETC
NEEDED BY GOVERNMENT
Until further notice, the United
States Civil Service Commission
will accept applications for office
appliance repairman positions in
Washington, D. C. Salaries range
from $1,824 to $2,482 a year, in
cluding overtime pay. From 3 to
12 months’ experience is required,
but no written test. Typewriter re
pairmen are especially needed. Ap
plicants must have reached their
eighteenth birthday, unless they re
side in Washington, D. C., and vi
cinity. There is no maximum age
limit.
The commission is also accepting
applications for stationary firemen,
both low pressure and high pres
sure, at annual salaries of $1,500
and $1,620, respectively, including
overtime pay. No written test is re
quired, but applicants must have
had, for the former position, 3
months’ experience, and for the
latter, 6 months’ in the firing, main
tenance and repair of steam boil
ers. To qualify, applicants must
have reached their eighteenth
birthday; there is no maximum age
limit. Applications for stationary
fireman positions must be filed not
later than Jan. 16, 1945.
The Civil Service Commission has
announced that it will accept ap
plication for motor truck driver
(light and heavy-duty trucks) un
til Nov. 30, 1944. The salary for these
positions is $1,620 a year, including
overtime pay. Six months’ expe
rience in the driving and minor re
pair of'trucks are required, but no
written test. Applicants must have
reached their eighteenth birthday.
There is no maximum age limit.
The commission has also an
nounced that applications for the
following. positions must be filed
not later than Nov. 20, 1944: Staff
dietitian (Announcement 325 of
19441 and apprentice dietitian (An
nouncement 317 of 1943).
Appointments to these positions
will be War Service Appointments
and will be made in accordance
with War Manpower Commission
policies and employment stabiliza
tion programs. Applications are not
desired from persons now using
their highest skills in war work.
Further information and applica
tion forms may be obtained from
the postoffice in Summerville.
The regular communication Ly
erly lodge 338 F. & A. M., will be
held Saturday night, Nov. 4, at 8
p.m.
Probably apprentice degree will
be conferred. All members urged
to attend.
J. P. ROSE. W. M.
H. L. ABRAMS, Sec.
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Work Advancing On
High School Building
The roof is now on the Summer
ville High School building. The
plasterers have finished their work
on three rooms and have started
on a fourth. The electric wiring is
in and the plastered rooms are now
ready for the electric fixtures. The
plumbing pipes have been installed.
The windows are being placed in
the rooms where the plastering is
done. It will probably require two
more weeks after this for the plas
terers to fimsh their job. In the
meantime the laying of the floors
will be in progress and other fin
ishing touches will have been start
ed. It appears now that the build
ing will be ready for use early in
December.
It is interesting and pleasing to
note that the new high budding
will be spacious, attractive and sub
stantial. The community is rejoic
ing already over this new accom
plishment, and it will rejoice still
more when the building is ready
for use.
The fullest co-operation should
be given by the whole community
toward making the school itself all
that it should be. To this end the
loyalty of the students and parents
is necessary, along with that of
the trustees and the administra
ative and teaching forces.
Georgia Has Enough
Lumber for Nation’s
Entire War Effort
If it should become necessary,
Georgia alone could furnish the
nation’s tremendous lumber re
quirements for the war needs for
an entire year, it was declared by
Dean D. J. Weddell of the Peabody
School of Forestry, University of
Georgia, who based his statement
on results of a careful survey of
the state.
After supplying such war needs,
Georgia would still have eleven bil
lion board feet of timber left, he
said, and added:
Every soldier in training in this
country requires three hundred
board feet of lumber, and even
more when overseas. It took 2 000
carloads of lumber to rebuild the
docks at Naples. The parts of one
fighter plane require as much tim
ber as a five-room house for their
crates.
Os course, other states also are
doing their share and Georgia does
not have to carry the entire lumber
burden of the war effort. The point
is that Georgia is “a millionaire
among the southern states” when it
comes to timber resources. Three
fiiths of its area is in forest land,
and no other eastern state has as
great a volume of saw timber.
However, Dean Weddell warned,
Georgia must not drain her lum
ber resources without replacing
them or it would go “bankrupt” as
to forestry. He added:
“Woodlands can and must be
handled to assure a perpetual crop
of timber. The same areas which
have produced vitally needed lum
ber for the war can still serve the
nation in the peacetime building
boom if thought is given to the
proper cutting and care of the
stands.”
CPL JAMES C. VAN PELT
WRITES SONG IN NEW GUINEA
Fifth Air Force Southwest Pa
cific Area.—Cpl. James C. Van
Pelt, son of Mr. William E. Van
Pelt, Summerville, received word
his song has been heard over NBC
Broadcasting company. Cpl. Van
Pelt wrote “I Leaned Across Ten
Thousand Miles Last Night” which
has been featured on special serv
ice program “Sound Off” and on
Australia’s “Victory Show” in Mel
bourne, Australia. Cpl. Van Pelt
wrote this song while stationed in
New Guinea with the famed “Grim
Reapers,” an A-20 Boston attack
unit of the Fifth air force. Cpl.
Van Pelt was born March, 1916, in
Gaylesville, Ala., and graduated
from Broomtown High school in
1935. His wife is the former Inez
Harris, of Round Mountain, Ala.,
whom he married in December,
1941. He was employed by the
Thatcher Mfg. Co., Chattanooga,
Tenn., until joining the army in
January, 1942. Cpl. Van Pelt came
overseas March, 1942, and has the
Good Conduct Ribbon, the Asiatic
Campaign Ribbon and is autho
rized to wear the Presidential Cita
tion Ribbon of his organization.
Singing Notice
Next Sunday afternoon is our
regular singing day at Pennville.
We are expecting several good sing
ers to be with us. Pat Barton, of
Alabama, will be with.- us and we
have invited several quartets. Come
up and help us have a good sing
ing.—J. A. Scoggins.
Mrs. Charlie Teague was guest of
Mrs. J. L. Bennette last Thursday.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1944.
General Election
To Be Held Next
Tuesday, Nov. 7th
The general election will be held
next Tuesday, Nov. 7, throughout
the nation. Officers to be chosen
range from president of the United
States to the county officers. Ev
ery registered citizen is urged to
go to the polls and vote. The places
of voting wi’l be the usual ones
throughout the county.
The hours for the opening and
closing of the polls at all of the
precincts throughout the county
will be 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The polls throughout the county
will be in charge of the Justices of
the Peace. If the Justices of the
Peace will call at the Ordinary’s
office in Summerville on Saturday,
Nov. 4, Mrs. Chandler will deliver
to them then the election supplies.
Small-Farm Groups
Near Georgia Quota
Atlanta, Nov. 1 (GPS).—Have
citizens in your community formed
a small farm corporation under the
Callaway farm plan! If not, they
had better get busy.
Already seventy such corpora
tions have been formed, leaving
only 30 to be organized before the
plan is ready to operate on a state
wide scale, according to the latest
report from those in charge.
Cason J. Callaway, owner of Blue
Springs Farms, near Hamilton, who
originated the plan, said twenty
ive more corporations are in the
process of being formed. No more
than 100 will be admitted to the
plan.
Numbers are assigned to groups
when their seven members have
paid in SI,OOO each for purchase of
and and initial steps towards it
improvement. Underlying purpose
of the plan is to rehabilitate Geor
gia’s farm lands and to put farm
ing on a business-like basis.
The plan is attracting wide at
tention not only in Georgia but
throughout the nation.
MORE INCOME FOR
GEORGIANS NEED,
ASSERTS ARNALL
Program to Strive for More Indus
trial Development Would Help
Gov. Ellis Arnall told the teach
ers of the Eighth Congressional
district at their Waycross meeting
that “we can have a more fully de
veloped Georgia only by having a
richer Georgia; and to have a
richer Georgia, we must increase
the income and the standard of
living of every person in Georgia.
All Georgians must be included in
this program of development.”
The governor asserted that the
State Agricultural and Industrial
Development Board is now study
ing the matter of prompting de
velopment in Georgia as to educa
tion, agriculture, industry, health,
public works, commerce and gov
ernment.
“If this war is to mean anything,
we here at home must do our
work,” Arnall declared. “We must
do our part for a finer Georgia
and a finer United States. While
Georgia is predominantly an agri
cultural state, we need industrial
development. That means that in
addition to providing the raw ma
terials, we must build processing
and manufacturing plants for these
raw materials that processing and
manufacturing no longer must be
conducted in eleven eastern states.
The profit lies in this processing
and manufacturing, and it is the
profits from such plans right here
in Georgia that will help increase
the incomes of Georgians.
“In addition, in education we
must have federal aid. I am not
one of those who are suspicious of
the federal government. It is our
government and I love it. It is our
federal government we are asking
to equalize educational opportuni
ties for all children.
“Os all I have been able to do as
governor, I am proudest of the
part I have had in setting up a
teacher-retirement fund. That
fund will assist in making the old
age of everyone who teaches in
Georgia more comfortable and
more enjoyable.
“May we dedicate ourselves to a
policy of abundance; more for
wages, more for profits, more for
everyone. Let’s have done with any
doctrine of scarcity. Let’s seek
the best and secure the best for
Georgians. Let’s produce more,
create more, to the end that each
day may have more. That is the
way to a greater, finer, richer
Georgia, in which to rear our chil
dren and their children.”
Ollie E. Webb, MOMM 3/c, and
family; Miss Mary Webb and Mrs.
O. L. Webb spent last Monday in
Chattanooga. While there they vis
ited in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Price.
Chattooga United
War Fund Quota
Is Oversubscribed
The United War Fund quota for
Chattooga County was $6,000.00.
This sum has been considerably
oversubscribed. A more detailed
report of the results of this can
vass will be made later. However,
it is fitting now to congratulate all
who had a part in making this
drive a success. The Summerville
News salutes each who has had a
part in thus “Backing the Attack.”
Free Meals Ended
At State’s Prison
Visitors at the State Prison at
Reidsville will no longer be taken
to the dinner table. F. R. Ham
mack, director of the State De
partment of Corrections, has issued
the following directive:
“In line with the policy of the
State Department of Corrections to
cut every unnecessary expense at
the Georgia State Prison, Reids
ville, Ga., and to conserve as much
as possible the monies which have
been appropriated thereto, by the
General Assembly of Georgia, ef
fective Nov. 1, 1944, the practice of
serving meals to visitors shall be
discontinued.
21 Counties of 50
Have Lost Right
Os Free Elections
Twenty-one countries of the 50
that had free elections before the
present global war started in 1939
have lost the right to use the bal
lot, said J. P. Agnew, president of
the Chattooga County Farm Bu
reau, in commenting on the impor
tance of all persons voting in the
national election Nov. 7.
“The first step in losing democ
racy has been the abolishment of
free elections as we know them,”
declared Mr. Agnew, who disclosed
figures contained in a letter sent
him by H. L. Wingate, president of
the Georgia Farm Bureau Federa
tion. The letter from the state pres
ident to all county farm bureau or
ganizations is a part of the cam
paign now being waged on a strict
ly non-partisan basis by the Amer
ican Farm Bureau Federation to
get all rural and small-town citi
zens to express their opinions at
the polls.
The figures released by Mr. Win
gate show that 72 countries are
listed in the “Political Handbook of
the World.” This list includes such
self-governing units as Vatican
City, Newfoundland and Monaco,
which are not generally thought of
as countries. Os the 72 countries,
21 have not held a free election
since the start of the war. Thirty
countries, including the United
States, have been able to preserve
this precious right of free people.
There are 21 other countries in the
total of 72 that have monarchies
and other forms of government that
deny a free ballot.
Germany, of course, has had no
free election during the war be
cause its powers have been, and
still are, in the grasp of Hitler and
other Nazis who took over what had
been a republican form of govern
ment some years previously. Under
Mussolini’s rule, the Italian people
in recent years have had no elec
tions that Americans would con
sider free. France lost her rights
of free government when overrun
by the Germans in 1939, as did Bel
gium, Poland, The Netherlands,
Norway, Denmark and other coun
tries. Poland, the first country to
be subjugated by Germany after
the formal declaration of war in
1939 by the Allies, has probably suf
ered the most of all occupied coun
tries.
With the liberation of France,
Italy, Greece and other European
countries by the Allies, it is prob
able that governments will soon be
organized in them that will allow
a free expression of the wills of
their peoples at the polls, it was
pointed out.
“Our boys are fighting overseas
now for a free America, and this
means the right to vote,” said Mr.
Agnew. “They are in daily contact
with people who have been denied
the right to vote. They have seen
what dictatorships and the misrule
bf a few men in power can do to
countries that once were free.
“If the American people refuse
to value their ballot and do not
exercise it, unscrupulous men and
parties that wish to destroy our
form of government could gain a
foothold in our country and gain
untold power. We can best guard
against this by exercising our right
to vote and voting for the men
who will carry out our wishes. All
of us—and that means every man
and woman eligible to vote—should
go to the polls and vote Nov. 7. It
is the most important job for any
of us that day.”
Fuller-Perry Filling
Station Bums Monday
The Fuller-Perry Filling Station
in South Summerville caught fire
about 5 o’clock Monday morning
and in a short while had burned
to the ground. The loss from the
stock of goods and equipment
amounts to about $1,200, and there
was no insurance.
Jim McSpadden and his family
occupied the living quarters in the
building and their loss of furniture
and clothing was total, there being
no insurance on it, either.
Pennville Gospel
Tabernacle Services
Evangelistic singers, Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Keith, will be singing in the
morning and evening services Sun
day, Nov. 5.
We invite every one to come and
be with us in these services.
These singers will also be present
for the singing in the afternoon,
so all you singers be present.
We cordially invite you to attend
our services, as the Lord is bless
ing in an unusual way. With souls
being saved and Christians being
revived.
In this dark, bloody age as never
before we need to find our places
of worship.
God is calling for your help. The
church is calling you. And our
dying boys are calling on you. So
surely we will answer this needy
call. —Committee.
Details of Cotton
Purchase Program
Available Soon
Full parity price to farmers for
their 1944 crop of upland cotton is
assured under the new Commodity
Credit Corporation purchase pro
gram regardless of whether or not
it is under a government loan, T.
P. Johnston, chairman of the Chat
tooga County AAA Committee, said
today.
The CCC will purchase all upland
cotton for which a loan rate sched
ule has been announced, offered to
it up to June 30, 1945. The cotton
will be purchased at the following
prices (1944 crop middling 15/16-
inch, basis gross weight flat cot
ton at Memphis, Tenn.) October,
21.90 cents per pound; November,
21.95 c; December, 22.00 c; January,
22.05 c; February, 22.10 c; March,
22.15; April, 22.20 c; May, 22.25 c,
and June, 22.25 c.
The five-point increase per
month has been added to the price
as allowance to the farmer for stor
age and carrying charges.
Other highlights for the purchase
program are:
1. Premiums and discounts are
rhe same as those of 1944 loan pro
gram, based on middling 15/16 pur
chasing rates, gross weight.
2. Location differentials for ware
house points will be based on
freight rates to the Group B mill
area of the Carolinas except in
eastern Mississippi, eastern Tennes
see, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida and Ala
bama, where a zone system will be
tn effect as under the loan pro
gram.
3. Purchasing agents, mostly lo
cal banks and warehousemen, will
be approved by CCC.
4. Purchasing agents will buy at
CCC prices if warehouse receipts
and sales agreement are turned
over to them within 10 days after
issuance. Agent’s fee of 50 cents
per bale will be paid by CCC.
5. Purchases will be made only
from farmers who produced cotton
in 1944. Cotton must be stored in
CCC-approved warehouses.
6. Farmers with cotton in loan
may sell it to CCC by repaying
their loan.
The CCC is making these pur
chases to carry out provisions of
legislation enacted by congress di
recting the president to take “all i
lawful action” to assure producers
parity prices for their cotton.
BERRYTON SCHOOL CHILDREN
PICK 15 BALES OF COTTON
The Berryton Elementary school
supervised by R. R. Harris, voca
tional agriculture teacher, of Men
lo, has just finished a cotton-pick
ing project that was a real success.
This school did not dismiss for
cotton picking, but the need for
cotton pickers was so urgent around
the Berryton school until the teach
ers and pupils agreed to assist the
farmers.
For 24 afternoons Mrs. Catharine
Allen and Miss Hayes, teachers in
the school, took 25 pupils and went
out and helped eight different
farmers to pick cotton. They picked
over 15 bales of cotton, working
four hours an afternoon. Both pu
pils and teachers are to be com
mended for such splendid co-op
eration.
SPEED VICTORY—BUY
WAR BONDS AND
STAMPS OFTEN
Penn Selman
Named State
Democratic Chairman
Ryburn G. Clay, state finance
chairman for the Democratic na
tional campaign in Georgia, has ap
pointed Penn Selman, of Summer
ville, as finance chairman for Chat
tooga county, and announced the
quota for the county to be $740.
Chairman Clay said remittances
should be made direct either to
the county chairman or to head
quarters of the State Democratic
Executive Finance Committee, No.
2 Capitol Square, Atlanta.
Gov. Ellis Arnall is honorary state
finance chairman for the cam
paign, and joined Mr. Clay in urg
ing that each county in Georgia
raise its quota for the party battle,
the expenditures to be made in the
doubtful states.
They pointed out that, as a re
cent commentator has expressed it,
“more than any other one man, the
next President of the United States
will set the pattern of our next gen
eration’s life and the shape of the
world of tomorrow,” and added:
“It is vitally important that we
have in the White House during the
next four years a chief executive
friendly to Georgia and the South.”
Miss Winters Visits
Subligna Community
The Subligna charge was very
fortunate last week in having Miss
Bert Winters, Methodist field work
er, with us. She spent the week
end and every night in classes in
church and Bible school leadership
at the Pleasant Hill church. This
was a much-needed course and
proved very beneficial to the
church and community.
On Tuesday she had a leading
part in making the day of prayer
at the Methodist church in Sum
merville a success. Missionary so
cieties of two counties were repre
sented.
On Wednesday she spoke at the
chapel hour to the students of the
Subligna school.
Thursday afternoon at the Sub
ligna Methodist church Miss Win
ters conducted a study course,
“West of the Date Line,” with la
dies of the Bethel and Subligna
Missionary societies participating.
She was very graciously enter
lained while in our midst by Rev.
and Mrs. G. D. Erwin, pastor in
charge.
THE FOURTH QUARTERLY
CONFERENCE OF SUMMERVILLE
METHODIST CHURCH HELD
The fourth quarterly conference
iof the Summervi’le Methodist
I church was held at 3 o’clock on
Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 1. Aft
er conducting a devotional service,
the district superintendent, the
Rev. C. M. Lipham, called the con
ference to order. Reports were re
ceived from the pastor and from
the various departments of church
activity. These reports showed
general progress in the work of the
church. Officers were elected for
the ensuing conference year.
The North Georgia annual con
ference will convene in Atlanta on
Nov. 21. The delegate from the
Summerville church to that confer
ence is Mrs. Paul Weems. The al
ternate delegate is Fred Aldred.
The present pastor, Rev. Wilson J.
Culpepper, has served the Summer
ville church for three years. This
is also the third year of the Rev.
C. M. Lipham in the capacity as
superintendent of the Dalton dis
trict.
LUTTRELL RETURNS
FROM OVERSEAS
San Diego, Calif., Oct. 31.—Ma
rine Platoon Sergeant Robert Lan
don Luttrell, 22-year-old son of
William C. Luttrell, Route 1, Sum
merville, Ga., is among the latest
group of Leatherneck veterans to
be returned to the States for rest
and reassignment after long tours
of duty overseas.
Platoon Sergeant Luttrell, who
joined the corps June 20, 1940, was
a member of an amphibious anti
aircraft group. He participated in
the campaign for Bougainville,
British Solomon Islands.
Upon completion of a 30-day fur
lough, Platoon Sergeant Luttrell,
who has been overseas 25 months,
will be assigned to duty in the
States.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 3,423
bales of cotton were ginned in
Chattooga County from the crop of
1944 prior to Oct. 18, as compared
with 5.166 bales for the crop of
1943.
NOTlCE—Saturday night. Nov. 4,
the Church of God Y. P. E. at Ber
ryton will sponsor a good program.
Title of the play will be, “Wake Up
Dad.” Every one is invited to at
tend. Time, 7:30 o’clock.
$1.50 A YEAR