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VOL. 59; NO. 50.
County Board of Education
Makes Plea for Adequate
Funds to Maintain School
At the regular meeting of the
Chattooga County Board of Edu
cation this week the board mem
bers discussed at length the serious
situation that has arisen in the
county schools as a result of an
insufiicient lack of funds on which
to operate. Their discussion was
based on facts, as shown on the
books of the County School Super
intendent, with regard to low pay
for teachers, inadequate housing
and transportation and the small
sums being spent yearly for main
tenance of schools.
They concluded that unless
something is done in the imme
diate future Chattooga County
Schools will be unable to operate
in a manner with any degree of
efficiency another year.
It is not to be concluded from
the above remarks that Chattooga
County School System is any worse
off than any other County System
in the state of Georgia, for after
making a check on other counties
we find that they are all in the
same shape. More money is needed
for all Georgia schools.
Since the counties are taxing
themselves to the limit the only
way for us to receive this addi
tional money that we need is
through help from the State and
Federal Governments. We know
that the people who represent our
county want to do everything in
their power for the school children,
consequently the following resolu
tion has been passed by the County
Board of Education:
Resolution by The Chattooga
County Board of Education
We, the members of the Chat
tooga County Board of Education,
after lengthy consideration of the
conditions of the schools in Chat
tooga County, find the following
facts to be true:
I. Pupils and Teachers:
1. In the County School System,
at present, we have a total, active
enrollment of 2,845 white and 426
colored children.
2. We are hiring as instructors
for these children, 90 white and 17
colored teachers.
3. Os the above group of 107
teachers we find that 15 have eith
er a high school education or less
and hold no type of certificate.
There are 13 others in the county
who have less than one year college.
4. There are 38 teachers in the
system making less than $75 per
month and 67 making less than
SIOO per month. In comparison we
find the average salary for weekly
labor in Chattooga County to run
from $25 to $35 per week.
5. At present we have three va
cancies in the county and numer
ous other places are filled by pa
triotic citizens who are only help
ing out until we can replace them.
6. One class of 40 children has
already had seven teachers this
year. Their present teacher is tem
porary.
11. Buildings:
1. We have 12 white schools in
the county, four of which are ac
credited high schools (one being
Southern Accredited), and one
non-accredited. There are seven
white elementary schools, one with
five teachers, two with three, two
with two, and two with one. There
are three colored high schools.
2. In the 12 white schools there
are 69 standard classrooms, in the
colored only 6. This leaves 32 teach
ers in either emergency or sub
standard classrooms.
3. One school in the county has a
modern heating system.
4. Os the entire group of 15
schools at least five should be con
demned.
5. A building programme is im
perative if Chattooga County chil
dren are to have the opportunities
that they deserve.
111. Busses:
1. There are 20 privately owned
school busses in the county. All of
these busses are heavily loaded and
making more mileage per day than
they should. At least five addi
tional busses should be added in
consideration of the health and
safety of our children.
Comments:
At present the school system is
SUMMERVILLE SCHOOLS WILL
NOT REOPEN THIS WEEK
There will not be any school for
the rest of this week. Reopening
on next Monday will depend on the
heating system being in condition
so furnish sufficient heat. Look
for notice in the window of Mc-
Ginnis Drug Store and also listen
for announcement Sunday over
radio station WRGA.
Bnuiirnrritillr Nms
operating on a deficit, having re
cently borrowed $5,000 from the
Farmers and Merchants Bank. An
application has been made to the
Federal government for $36,000
through the Lanham act. An ap
proval is expected on this applica
tion within a few days. Last year
$25,000 was received through the
same source. Next year this money
will not be available since it was
granted only as an emergency
measure during the war period. Al
though the war is over the emer
gency will still exist in this county.
Chattooga county citizens have al
ways taxed themselves to the limit
to try to give their children a good
education. Next year, because of
the new constitution, they may levy
an additional 5 mills which will
bring in approximately SIO,OOO.
However, a SIO,OOO increase will not
make up a $36,000 deficit. If we
are to operate on even the same
low scale that we are operating
this year we must get an addi
tional $25,000 from some source.
Because we have tried so hard
to pay our teachers, even the small
wages that they have made dur
ing the past few years, we have
had very little money left for
maintenance and operation of the
schools. As a result the principals
and teachers of the schools have
had to take the time, so badly need
ed for their teaching duties, to put
on entertainments to make money
to operate the schools. They are
to be congratulated for their ef
forts, but it is a shame and dis
grace to the State of Georgia when
we force our schools to be money
making machines instead of the
community centers that they
should be.
The individual school districts in
Chattooga county have a total
bonded indebtedness on school
buildings of approximately $85,000.
This indebtedness will be due over
a period of 30 years. Should the
bond issues of the various districts
be consolidated and the maximum
bond issue voted by the county
only an approximate additional
$85,000 could be raised. This
amount will not begin to erect the
essential buildings for school pur
poses in the county.
Taking all the above facts into
consideration and with the inter
est of our children at heart, there
fore be it resolved that we, the
members of the Chattooga County
Board of Education, do hereby go
on record as requesting the State
Board of Education to do every
thing in their power to see that:
1. All teachers are given a 50%
salary increase.
2. The County School Superin
tendent be placed on the same ba
sis with the teachers and paid ac
cording to qualifications.
3. Sufficient funds be allotted to
each county through the equaliza
tion fund to take care of the main
tenance and operation of the
schools.
4. Money be granted through the
state and Federal governments to
assist in financing an adequate
building programme.
Be it further resolved that a copy
of these resolutions be placed on
the minutes of the Chattooga
County Board of Education, a copy
be sent to Dr. M. D. Collins, State
School Superintendent, one each to
the senator and representative from
this county, and one copy to The
Summerville News.
KATHERINE M. CLARKSON
O. L. CLECKLER
Since the above resolution was
drawn up we have been notified by
our representatives and senators in
Washington that our application
for $36,713 through the Lanham act,
for maintenance and operation of
our schools for this school year, has
been approved. This amount will
enable us to pay our teachers and
bus drivers and keep us out of debt
during the present year. However,
as stated in the resolution, it will
not take care of next year.
You are interested in your chil
dren, your county, and your state.
Won’t you do everything you can
to help let our state leaders know
just how badly you want your chil
dren to have the opportunity of
getting a good education?
Helen Owings, of Summerville,
and June Wyatt, of Menlo, are
members of the West Georgia Col
lege a cappella choir, which will
present its annual Christmas ves
per concert on Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 9, at 4 o’clock, in the college
auditorium. A special feature of
this year’s program will be the sea
sonal message, which will be de
livered by Bishop John Moore Wal
ker, of Atlanta.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, liURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1945.
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Mollie Gilbert
Held Friday, Nov. 30
Funeral services were conducted
Friday, Nov. 30, at 11 o’clock from
the Lyerly M. E. church for Mrs.
Mollie Gilbert, 91, who died Wed
nesday night at the home of her
son, George M. Gilbert. She was
the widow of H. C. Gilbert, who
preceded her in death 16 years.
She was the daughter of the late
Dr. J. M. D. King and Mary Young
blood King, prominent Chattooga
county residents. She was a mem
ber of the Methodist church. Serv
ices were conducted by the Rev. B.
L. Betts. Interment was in the Al
pine cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. Ernest Montgomery, Mrs. Geo.
Alexander, of Summerville, and
Mrs. Mary Mosteller, Lyerly; one
son, George M. Gilbert; two grand
children and one niece, Miss Louise
Betterton, of Atlanta.
Mrs. W. A. Parker
Dies At Her Home
Mrs. William A. Parker died at
her home in Summerville early
Wednesday morning after a linger
ing illness. Besides her husband
she is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. W. G. Newsome; one son, Wal
ter Parker; two brothers and two
sisters.
Funeral services will be held at
the South Summerville Baptist
church Thursday at 2 p.m., con
ducted by Rev. Herbert Morgan. In
terment in Summerville cemetery.
U. S. Civil Service
Closes Field Offices
O. E. Myers, Atlanta, region di
rector of the U. S. Civil Service
Commission, advised today through
the local secretary, Mrs. Ruby L.
lyler, that effective immediately
ail field offices of the Fifth region
of the U. S. Civil Service Commis
sion were being closed.
This includes all of the commis
sion’s field ofiices now being op
erated in the five southeastern
states, which are Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina and Ten
nessee.
Mr. Myers emphasized that he
sincerely regretted having to close
all of the field offices, but it was
because of the reduction in force
which was necessitated by a drastic
cut in the appropriation of the
commission.
Local persons interested in se
curing employment with the federal
government should apply to the lo
cal secretary at the postoffice, who
has general information regarding
federal employment opportunities,
or write the regional office, U. S.
Civil Service Commission, Atlanta.
Manila.—Pfc. William B. Young,
manager of the Special Service Sec
tion boxing team of the sth Re
nlace depot near Manila, is being
returned to the United States for
discharge under the army average
discharge program.
Pfc. Young’s wife. Elizabeth, and
their two children, Margaret and
Blanding, reside at Menlo. His par
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Minor E.
Young, of Lexington, Ky.
Pfc. Young served three years in
'he army from 1923 to 1926 and
later played professional baseball
with Louisville. Ky., in the Ameri
can Association. After he is dis
charged, Pfc. Young plans to re
turn to professional baseball.
With the 32nd Infantry in Japan.
—Pfc. Arnold Wood, whose wife,
the former Ruby Sparks, lives on
Route 1, Lyerly, Ga., has arrived
(n Japan with the 32nd (Red Ar
row) Infantry division.
Wood’s arrival in Japan comes as
a climax to many months fighting
overseas with the 32nd division. For
the Red Arrow itself, the Kyushu
landing meant the end of a long
and bloody road studded with
smashing victories at Buna, Saidor,
Aitape, Morotai, Leyte and Luzon.
In the service since November,
1944, Wood trained at Camp Wol
ters, Tex., before departing for
overseas duty in May, 1945. Vet
eran of the Luzon campaign, he
holds the Combat Infantryman
badge, the Good Conduct medal,
the Asiatic Pacific ribbon and the
Philippine Liberation Medal JMB-S.
Sgt. and Mrs. James Matthews
and son, Judson; Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Barkley, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Parker and family and Oscar Par
ker were dinner guests Sunday eve
ning of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Parker
and family.
Returning Vets Need
Social Security Cards
“A veteran returning to a civilian
job in commerce or industry will
need a Social security card when
ne goes to work,” declared N. Far
ris Vaden, manager oi the Rome
social Security Board field oifice
vOday. If his card was lost or mis
placed whhe in service, a duplicate,
or an original card if he did not
nave one beiore going to war, may
oe secured at no cost by applying
at the Social Security Board field
office.
“If he had a card beiore going
to war,” Mr. Vaden said, “he should
not get a few number. The same
number he had before entering the
service is the number he should
now have if he and his family are
to get insurance benefits to which
they may be entitled in the future.”
The Social Security field oifice
which serves this county is located
in the Post Office building, Rome.
Miss Petty, 32, Dead
From Reported Suicide
Miiss Frances Petty, 32, regis
tered nurse, of 423 McCallie Ave
nue, died in Erlanger hospital
last Wednesday night at 9:15
o’clock from what a police report
said was an overdose of sleeping
powder. The official report made
by .Detective Roy Clinton listed Miss
Petty as a suicide.
Miss Petty was at one time head
nurse at the Summerville-Trion
hospital here.
The nurse was admitted to the
hospital as a private patient Mon
day. She was a gladuate of Mercy
hospital, Denver.
Surviving Miss Petty are two
sisters, Mrs. Steve Menichetti, of
Council Bluffs, lowa, and Mrs. F.
M. O’Rear, of Chattanooga. Burial
was in Chattanooga Memorial park.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Parker, Miss
Lena Mae Parker and Mrs. Mamie
Gilbreath were shopping in Rome
Wednesday.
TRION VET RETURNING FROM
ETO AFTER REJOINING ARMY
Reims, France. —Pfc. Charles F.
Walkei - , who wants nothing better
right now than to be home in Trion.
Ga., will soon realize his wish—but
not for long.
Pfc. Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hobert Walker, of Route 1, Trion,
has re-enlisted in the army for 18
months, but before he begins his
new hitch he will pass a 60-day
induction furlough at home.
A few minutes after Pfc. Walker
and other volunteers for the regu
lar army took the oath for their
new enlistment, they left by truck
for Antwerp, Belgium, where they
will board a ship sailing to the
United States. The group is expect
ed to be home before December.
Pfc. Walker, whose brother, Fay,
is serving in the infantry, saw ac
tion as a cannoneer with the 265th
Field Artillery Battalion in the bat
tles of the Rhineland and Central
Europe. He was originally induct
ed into the army in May of last
year and has been overseas for ten
months.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 5,197
bales of cotton were ginned in
Chattooga county from the crop of
1945 prior to Nov. 14, as compared
with 5,526 bales for the crop of
1944, according to Rosa Shumate,
special agent.
CHATTOOGA BOYS DISCHARGED
Public relations office. Fort Mc-
Pherson, Ga., has announced the
following named men returned to
civilian life after service in the
armed forces:
Lucian C. Turner, Jr., master ser
geant, 64 months in army, 7 months
overseas; son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
C. Turner, Sr., of Summerville.
John H. Pritchett, sergeant, 43
months in army, 21 months over
seas; father, R. E. Pritchett, Sum
merville, Ga.
Homer W. Martin, sergeant, 38
months in army, 24 months over
seas. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Martin, Sumerville.
Annie M. Wilkins, Phm. 3/c,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Mitchell, of Summerville, has been
returned to civilian life through
the Navy’s Personnel Separation
Center, Memphis, Tenn. Her hus
band is Capt. James M. Wilkins,
overseas.
Also from Camp Swift, Tex., Pvt.
Robert W. Allen, formerly of Men
lo, husband of Mrs. Louise Allen,
of Rome, was inactivated Nov. 15.
He served 6 months overseas, took
part in one campaign and received
the ETO ribbon with one battle
star, Victory medal, ATO ribbon.
Partial List Men and Women
Discharged Armed Forces
The following is a partial list of
men and women honorably dis
charged from the U. S. armed forces
in Chattooga county. Some of these
men are registered with other
boards but now live in the county.
Other lists will be furnished as
more veterans report to this office
upon discharge:
William David Floyd
Marion Clark Phillips
Robert Bayard McNutt, Jr.
William Winston Gamble
Clarence Cooper Lovelace
Irwin Goldsmith Thomas
Clovis Fisher
Boyd Clyde Williams
John Pershing Roberson
Edwin Laurence Head, Jr.
Rufus Wright
Victory Leon Espy
Michael Woodrow Christel
Jessie Van Wilson
John William Brooks
Grady Homer Kinsey
Robert Emmette Walters
Carl Franklin Hughes
Howard Kellett Weems
Joe David Henderson
Charles Benjamin Stowe
Gordon Lee Aired
Elgin Dewey Brown
John. D. Fountain
Leonard Henley Hutchins
Walter Lee Wilkinson
Harvey Medlin Hutchins
Clarence Andrew Brown
Robert Eli Burgess
Earl Roy Edwards
Ernest I. V. Wofford
Hoyt Clayton Berry
Bishop Blackman Koonce
Jessie Willard Mathews
Theodore Earl Compton
Herman Grady (Pat) Bryant
Roy George Crowe
William Wheeler Bruce
Columbus Mostiller
J. W. Tripp II
Bolling Hence Ratliffe
Perry Warren Pettett
Jess Frank Harris
Robert Lewis Martin
Johnny Thomas Fortune
James Vernon Anderson
Robert House
Joseph Hillman Hix
Clay Alfred Humphreys
Hollis Guinn Stanfield
Luther John Powell
Lee William Stephens
Glen Dean Pledger
Fayne Stephen Westbrooks
Tom Holder
Rayford Asbery Hamby
Nathaniel Joseph Goodwin
Leonard Wilson Sprayberry
Fred Griffin Padgett
Eugene Marlin Rackley
James Gordon Allen, Jr.
Grover Jackson Trammell, Jr.
John Oliver Anderson
Thomas William Elder
Thomas Cicero Scott
Carl Alexander McKenzie
Robert Bryan Evans
Herman Walker Frady
Charles Augustus Worsham
George Wright Mitchell
Willis Griffitt Martin
Cecil Earl Allman
Odis B. Owens
Wilburn Foster Rinehart
John Clemons Peace
Eugene Raymond Farmer
John Draton Hall
John Wesley Stansell, Jr.
Gordon Lee Hoskin
Arthur Eqeal Jenkins
Judson Luelle McGinnis
Tom Kerby
Charles Winston Freeman
Jessie Tillman Tucker
Ralph Taylor Willingham
Boyce Lee Arp
Henry Tyson Sparks
Robert Wesley Sparks
Howard Thomas Hatcher
Nestor Eugene Worthington
Fred Stone Burke
Deed Henry Eller
Melvin Thompson
James Henry Spraggins
J. C. Edgeworth
Ernest Spraggins
Robert Lee Byars
Charles William Carter
Vance Mahan Story
William Hubert McNair
Charley McGraw
Mabern Edwin Fowler
Guy Wilson Woods
Hadon Pierce McElreath
Grover Gladston Kiser
Jack Howell Hyatt
Henry Carter Everett
James Thomas McGuire
Roy William Knox
Lester T. Scott Pettyjohn
Edgar Allen Digby
Clyde William Baker
Mack Allen Shamblin
Abe Tarpey Cheek
James Roy Fleming
Robert Leigh
Howard Lee Eaton
Robert Clyde Patrick
Rex Claud Burnett
Amos A. White
James Cleveland Jackson
William Harvey Dover
Paul Lindsey Vaughn
Henry Grady Ballenger
Ben F. Chapman
Gordon William Chandler, Jr.
Sam Russell Hogue
Judson DeForrest Williams
Aaron G. Dunn
Deforrest Shropshire
George Russell Crouch
Clifford Franklin Pledger
John Cole Smith
Perry Wilson Phillips
Madison Henry Owings, Jr.
James Melvin Pettyjohn
William Leonard Bailey
Tommie Arnold Hicks
Hugh Abney Swords
Fred E. League
Ben Carl Bell
Grover Payton
Wilburn Owens Willingham
Charles Coker
Arthur Watkins
Ellis Hoyt Abbott
William Ellis Bridges
Jessie Lee Hicks
Ralph William Hale
James William Rutherford
Leroy Benjamin Thompson
William Thomas Adams, Jr.
John Thomas Lister
Walter Casey Willingham
Raymond Dewitt Hammonds
Alvin Hise
Roy Clinton Watson
Elgin Kimball Logan
William Jackson Stinnett
Hobert Beaman Howell
Clarence Arthur Patterson
Julian Russell Barnes
James Albert Deberry
Andrew Farrington
Henry Joseph Duncan
Sam Mills Grogan
Roy Ralph Kellett
James Horace Leath
Henry Horace Gibson
John Anderson Crawford
James Calvin Vanpelt
Ralph Eugene Glenn
James Henry Thomas
Vandell Monroe Mathis
William Francis Foster
Winfred Cornelius Wood, Jr.
J. W. Price •
Lenton Edward Drew
Alfred Templeton Alexander
Carl Clayton Wilson
J. P. Padgett
Jerome Brown
John Price Christian
William Everett Littlejohn
George William Sitton
Farris Mirl Wardlaw
Ben Richard Fuller
William Howard Farmer
Herbert Spencer Miller
Johnnie Andrew Jackson Barnes
Roy Bryant .Clayton
Carl Burton
Gordon Lee Russell
Carmon Ellis Wright
Leo Calvin Lively
Robert Glenn Tate
Thurman John Hogue
John William Pettyjohn
Will Thomas Jones
Lewis Allen Berry
Johnny Terrell Bryant
John Louis Anderson
Elbert Lee Hamby
William Scott Walters
Sam Hunter
Walter Hunter
Burl Harvey Walker
Joseph Jack Stoker
Grady Blackmon
Roy Lee Jones
Bun Kinsey
Thomas Franklin Floyd
Willie Freeman Smith
J. D. Spraggins
Roy Lee Bryson
Robert Russell Nelson
Raymond Clifford Flemming
Hugh Doss Burrage
Ralph Julius Bryson
Janies Thomas Steele
Henry Hunter
Calvin Clay Marshall
Lester Milan
Woodrow Wilson Espy
Archie Edward Guinn
James Lee Wilson
Earl Franklin Pettyjohn
James Arthur Thomas
Oscar Adams
J. L. Cooper
James William Webb
Ralph David Hawkins
Elgin Allison Moon
Morris Wilson Rice
James William Crowe
Sidney Littell Hall
James Everett Worsham
Jasper Brady Reece
James Frank Oliver
Charley Howard Hensley
Johnnie Clarence Witt
John William Pettyjohn
Guss Williams
Larry H. Lively
Julius Sturdivant
Herbert Lee Williams
Coy Smith Talley
William Garland Crowe
Edward Doasen Hammonds
Ted Roosevelt Caufield
Carl Edward Ragland
Charles Whitner Lowry
Carl Thomas Paradice
James Monroe Brown
Freddie Hill Howard
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