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VOL. 60; NO. 2.
HOLIDAY FATALITIES
SHOW DECREASE OVER
PREVIOUS YEARS
Atlanta, Dec. 29.—The reports of
fatalities during the Christmas hol
idays show a marked decrease as
compared with the previous year.
Maj. C. A. Williams, director, De
partment of Public Safety, in com
mencing on this decrease is of the
opinion that the severe weather
during the holidays made the pub
lic extremely conscious of the driv
ing hazards and caused an amount
of caution not usually exercised.
This caution was exercised by both
drivers and pedestrians and they
deserve full credit for this decrease.
“Past experiences indicate we
can expect. traffic accidents to in
crease in the winter months from
10 to 25 per cent over the summer
level,” said Director Williams. “With
the release of tire rationing and
the average car about eight years
old, January and February acci
dents will soar higher than ever
unless motorists drive with more
than ordinary caution,” he con
tinued.
The principal causes of winter
traffic accidents are slippery roads
and poor visibility. Traction is re
duced on icy, wet or muddy road
surfaces and poor visibility results
from longer hours of darkness,;
fogged windshields and rain.
During January last year, 51 per
sons were killed in Georgia traffic
accidents. The greater number of
rural accidents occurred during the
hours of dusk or darkness. Reports
also indicate that one out of three
of the violations reported was for
driving at a speed too fast for ex
isting conditions.
To protect yourself against add
ed hazards of winter driving, Direc
tor Williams asks all motorists to
observe the following rules:
1. Be sure your car is safe to
drive. Know that your steering
mechanism, brakes, tires, wind
shield wipers, lights and exhaust
system are in the best possible con
dition.
2. Adapt your driving to prevail
ing road and weather conditions,
keeping in mind the condition of
your tires and age of the vehicle.
On icy or wet, muddy surfaces the
car is always near the skidding
point, even 20 miles per hour is
often too fast.
3. Follow other vehicles at a safe
distance. It takes three to eleven
times as far to stop on wet, muddy
pavements.
4. On slippery pavements apply
brakes with a light pressure until
point of skidding is impending,
then release and apply over in like
manner. If skid starts, turn the
wheels in the direction the rear is
skidding.
5. Slow down extra far in ad
vance of intersections, curves and
hills.
6. Give hand signals for intend
ed stops or turns even further in
advance than in other seasons. Os
course, these signals must be given
outside of the car.
7. Keep windshield and windows
clear and clean. Remember, you
must see danger to avoid it.
8. Slow down after sundown. Use
lower headlight beams in rain, fog,
meeting traffic and in the incor
porate limits of any city or town.
9. Remember the danger of car
bon-monoxide and always provide
some fresh air within the car.
10. Give pedestrians plenty of
room and be especially alert for the
unpredictable actions of children
and the handicaps of elderly per
sons. Hours of darkness greatly
increase pedestrian hazards.
11. When you are a pedestrian do
not forget the problems confront
ing the car driver. Before stepping
out in front of a car be sure the
car has stopped and the driver has
seen you.
Traffic Fatalities by Month.
. 1944
Ped. Urb. Rur Tot.
January . 15 19 30 49
February 16 13 48 61
March . 9 10 35 45
April - 20 15 34 49
May 7 9 25 34
June - 13 10 25 35
j uly JZII 18 41 59
August 1 7 12 40 52
September 13 21 32 53
October 19 19 58 77
November 20 25 37 62
• Total 160 171 405 576
December 24 20 51 71
Total 184 191 456 $7
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B Ped. Urb. Rur Tot.
January 14 22 29 51
February 19 22 23 45
I March 21 17 43 60
April 8 10 37 47
13 31 44
JuneZ 2 8 30 38
July 13 20 32 52
August 13 I 7 40 57
September 10 11 46 57
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1946.
ADDITIONAL MEN
DISCHARGED FROM
THE ARMED FORCES
Euclid Leon Mobbs
Jiiji Bean
T. J. Quinton Reed
Ralph Berry Shropshire
James Henry Dendy
Lester Fay Adams
Thomas Roy Stepps
Thomas Franklin Freeney
James Henry Brimer
Carl Ray Glenn
John Hasselton Bullard
Clarence Reynolds
Eugene Mack Williams
Thomas Jefferson Moore
Robert Silas Guinn
Fred Martin
William David McCoy
Clarence Lee Colvart
William Daniel Ratliffe
John Franklin Baggett
Joseph Griffett Brown
Archie Julius White
Agustus Andrew Dyer
Everett Milton Wilson
Widiam Ernest Cason
Earl Pinson Copeland
Thomas Newton Willingham, Jr.
Walter Keith Smith
Robert Johnson Elrod
William Knight Cleghorn
Thomas William Snow
Willie Ralph Cooper
Joe Deforest Eleam
James Fred Scoggins
Charles Howard McGinnis
Willis Simpson
Earl Jerome Smith
James Williams Hayes
Mahue Black
Glenn H. Hall
James William Morgan
Oliver Newton Brown
Raymond Haves Coleman
John William Presley
George A. Franklin
James Elijah Cooper
Robert Howard Williams
Ernest William Rich
William Max White
Harold Scott Blythe
Alfred Lee Bloodworth
Harold Ernest Pmmmer
Harland LaFayette Worsham
James Clifford Barfield
Benjamin Franklin Caldwell
fames Barry Alexander
Paul Pullen, Jr.
Troy Lewis Wesson
Marcus Ray Van Pelt
Charles David Lamb
Clyde Mitchell Lewis
William Richardson
Harold T. Phelps
Homer C. Dellinger
Mae Pursley Smith
Floyd H. McCowan
Thomas A. Byron
Lester Richard Smith
James Riley
Donald Ralph Wilson
Ray Franklin Ratliff
Fred Walter Ledford, Jr.
James Thomas Hogg
Leroy Acrey
Mark Blanford Eubanks, Jr.
John Reed Hartline
Ralph Walker McGraw
Joe Hill Hammond
Hosea Lee Kellett
John Franklin Ward
Claude Albert Dawson
Marvin John Mason
James T. Hale, Jr.
K. C. Madeline Brown
Robert Wiley Roper
Samuel Lanier Cordle
James Bryant Bailey
Ausburn Charles Elsberry
Ernest Jimmie Brown
Samuel Littell Cash
Henry Willis Gentry
Doyle Cochran
James Perry Young
Thomas Drury Martin
Tillmon Lonet Howard
Charles Richard Echols, Jr.
Paul Eugene Bailey
Archie Guy Walker, Jr.
Rodney Claude Hardeman
John Milton Copeland
James David Morris
Chfford Ray Brimer
Roy Carlton Berry
R. Q. Teal
Thomas E. Giles, Jr.
Arthur Lindsey Tyson
James Ray Duncan
Jack Snydor Scott
John Albert Franklin
Jack Argo
Roy Henry Newman
Henry Marlin Bryant
Horace Leon Abrams, Jr.
Daugherty Lee Chandler
Carrol Andrew Tucker
Romie Spencer Morton
John Baskin Padget
Herman Harrison Crider
John Henry Headrick
Adam Elbert Hicks
Julian Blanton Atkins
Leland Reno Barnes
James Donald Allen
Baxter Russell Moore, Jr.
Gordon Lee Brown
October 12 12 38 50
November 13 18 42 60
Total 138 170 391 561
•Figures subject to change upon
receipt of additional reports.
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patient at Children’s Hospital, Boston, concentrates
on exercises to build up muscles after an attack
of the disease. (At left,) Sheila tries hip flexion
exercises under the direction of physical therapist
Dehorah Kinsman. (At right,) she is shown try-
TWO LOCAL BOYS
BOUND OVER ON CHARGE
OF BURGLARY MONDAY
John Ben Taylor, 19, and Her
man Partain, about 20, entered
pleas 01 guilty to a charge of bur
glarizing the store of Rowland W.
Henry last Friday night when ar
raigned for preliminary hearing
before Judge C. D. Rivers in Chat
tooga County City Court Monday
morning. They were bound over to
the action of the next grand jury
under bonds of SI,OOO each.
The youths were apprehended by
Chief of Police J. C. Rogers Satur
day alter they had allegedly sold
two overcoats at Trion for $9 apiece.
According to Chief Rogers, the
boys admitted entering the store,
stating that they climbed a tree at
the rear of the store, got up on the
roof, opened the skylight and low
ered themselves into the store by
means of a rope, leaving the build
ing through a rear door.
It is said about SSO worth of
clothing was taken from the store.
William Asberry Hamby
John Orvile Pangle
Woodrow Willie Collins
Burley Dillard
Henry Thomas Crabtree
John Henry Agnew
Raymond Herbert Pearson
J. L. Hensley
P. A. Morgan
Robert Paul Chambers
Clarence Earl Farmer
Ralph Eugene Young
Roland Andrew Deberry
Lee Roy Green
Leroy Reynolds
Harold Hunter
Arthur Lamar Hegwood
J. T. McAteer
William Henry Headrick
Hoyt Harrison Humphreys
Charlie Lee Fowler
Roland D. Hall
Robert Johnson Mason
Denver Lee Johnson
J. B. Googe
Dewey Jones Sprayberry
George Samuel Price, Jr.
Hubert Washington Johnson
Deloid Con Greeson
Elbert Herman Clark
Robert Lewis Hendrix
Robert Andrew Pledger
Walter Henry Hughes
Ira Vaughn Townsend
John Hubert Johnson
Ralph Eugene Bankey
Robert William King
Joseph Hall Tyler
William Otha Rush
Eddie Crider
William Edward Majors
James Arville Lemmings
Ray Frederick Junkins
Hobart Donald Pickle
Thomas Farries Suber.
Drucie Lee Wofford.
Ernest Elem
Alfred Hill Clark
Judson Glenn Johnston
James Robert Dawson
Shirley Penn
Tom Taylor Cooper
Guy Austin Rinehart
Martin Morgan
Charlie Curtis Dean
Robert Eugene Bean
Hill Eugene Owens
Gordon Lee Payne
Harry Lee Parris
William Felix Hardin
George Washington Collett
John T. Allmon
Emmett Deforrest Purcell
Jesse Herman Freeman
Howard Storey Edwards
Luther Baugh
William Harper Jackson
ONLY TWO MEN IN
RACE FOR MAYOR
As we go to press the race for
mayor rests between two men, O.
H. (Oscar) Perry and Dr. Hall, there
was a third man qualified but the
.city clerk officially removed his
name late Wednesday p.m. The
• and i dates for council remain as
follows:
Ward 1, J. R. Burgess unopposed.
Ward 2. D. T. Espy, opposed by Clay
ton Peacock. Ward 3, Hinton Logan
opposed by Willis James. Ward 4,
Dennis Cox unopposed.
The polls will open at 9 a.m. and
close at 3 p.m.
GOVERNOR’S CHIME
TWER SUGGESTION
FOR PARK POPULAR
Gov. Amah's suggesion that Pine
Mountain State Park be converted
into a memorial to the late Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt is prov
ing highly popular with many
friends and admirers of the war
time president who called Georgia
“my other home” and referred to
Georgians as “my neighbors.”
The governor’s proposal in part
is that a tower with chimes be
erected in the Pine Mountain Park,
which is largely in Harris county
between Chipley and Hamilton and
about twenty-five miles north of
Columbus. Arnall wrote to former
State Senator Henry C. Kimbrough,
“father” of the park and close
'riend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
to the senators and representatives
of Harris and Meriwether counties
in the legislature, as follows:
“I think Pine Mountain State
Park should be set up as a memorial
to President Roosevelt. I believe a
tower should be erected there, with
chimes in it, something like Bok
tower in Florida. This could be
done as a joint state and private
subscription undertaking. I hope
that the legislators from Harris
and Meriwether county will spon
sor legislation making this project
possible.”
The park extends across the Har
ris county line into Meriwether, in
which Warm Springs, the late
president’s Georgia home, is lo
cated.
FUNERAL OF MRS. A. E. DOSTER
HELD FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21
Funeral services for Mrs. A. E.
Doster, formerly of Lyerly, who died
in a hospital in Greensboro, N. C.,
Friday, Dec. 21, were conducted at
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23, from the
Weems Funeral Home, with Dr.
Bunyan Stephens, of Rome, offi
ciating. Interment was in Lyerly
cemetery.
Survivors include three daugh
ters, Mrs. L. H. Strickland, Bristol,
Tenn.; Mrs. A. T. Neal, Greensboro,
N. C.; Mrs. W. T. Leggett, Rocky
Mount, N. C.; two sons, H. G. Dos
ter, Rome, and A. E. Doster, Jr., of
Seattle, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Maurer
announce the birth of a daughter,
Alice Dionne, on Monday, Dec. 31,
at the Summerville-Trion hospital.
Mrs. Maurer was formerly Ruby
Young, of Berryton, Ga. Mr. Mau
rer, who was recently discharged
from service, is from Gloucester
City, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wheeler
were guests of friends in Atlanta
last Friday.
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Your contributions to the March of Dimes can
help thousands of others like Sheila back to active
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JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES
JANUARY 14-31
“FOOD FOR PEACE”
DRIVE CONTINUED
THROUGH JANUARY
With 456,000 cans of food already
shipped from Georgia in the Food
for Peace campaign, and with even
greater quantities waiting pick-up
at collection centers, T. Guy Wool
ford, chairman of the Georgia Citi
zens Council’s committee in charge,
has announced that the campaign
will be extended through January.
“The need for food in the liber
ated countries is even more urgent
than at first reported, and General
Eisenhower has recently re-empha
sized the need,” Woolford said.
Reports from over the state in
dicate many counties were late in
organizing but are now in the pro
cess of collecting food donations.
Boy Scout, Girl Scout and other
youth agencies are urged to join
with the Future Farmers and Fu
ture Homemakers in helping to put
the campaign across.
“Our objective,” said the state
chairman, “is two cans per person
from the state of Georgia. We must
make that goal. Hungry people are
angry and desperate. Babies are be
ing born dead because mothers can
not obtain enough nutritious food
in Greece, Poland, Albania, Yugo
slavia, China and the Philippines.”
COUNTY HAS HUGEJOB
AHEAD ON HOME REPAIR
More than $468,096 is expected to
be spent during the next five years
by Chattooga County home owners
on remodeling and repair work.
The year 1946 promises to in
augurate one of the greatest eras
in American history for home re
pairs and modernization, according
to estimates released by the Tile
Council of America. “Few develop
ments will contribute more to em
ployment and general prosperity in
any community,” according to R. E.
Jordan, chairman of the council’s
residential construction committee.
Because of lack of materials and
manpower during the war, majority
of the county’s 4,416 dwelling units
are in need of some kind of repair
or remodeling work. Kitchen im
provements and modernization of
bathrooms, installation of tiled
showers and in some homes addi
tion of a second bath top the na
tion’s list of most wanted major im
provements, Jordan said.
Outside paint jobs are neededon
more than 50 per cent of homes,
and addition of rooms and con
struction of porches also rank high
in remodeling plans, according to
the report. New roofing and heat
ing plants are required by many
dwellings.
Home owners in Georgia will
spend an estimated $84,535,000 and
those of the nation more than $5,-
500,000,000 for major repairs alone
in the next five years, according to
Jordan. Ample funds, at low in
terest charges, are available for
such work through commercial
banks, savings and loan associa
tions, credit unions and mutual sav
ings banks, he painted out.
LYERLY HIGH, INDEPENDENTS
TO PLAY BERRY TEAMS
SATURDAY NIGHT, JAN. 5
The Lyerly High school basket
ball boys will play their first home
game Saturday, night, Jan. 5,
against Berry Junior college. The
Lyerly Independents will play the
Berry Senior team.
1.50 A YEAR
WALTER C. STURDIVANT
APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
POLIO DRIVE IN COUNTY
Plans for the 1946 March of
Dimes in the fight against infan
tile paralysis moved forward today
with the appointment of Walter
Sturdivant as chairman for the ap
peal in Chattooga county.
Mr. Sturdivant was chosen at a
meeting held in Rome recently.
The local campaign, which opens
Jan. 14 and closes Jan. 31, is part
of the nation-wide appeal of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis for funds to continue the
fight against poliomyelitis.
As in the past, March of Dimes
coin collection boxes will be placed
at convenient spots throughout the
county and coin cards will be dis
tributed. In the light of wide
spread public knowledge of the na
tional foundation’s tremendous
achievements in recent epidemic
years, Mr. Sturdivant said, the lo
cal appeal committee is expecting
a greater response this year than
ever before.
“Poliomyelitis,” he pointed out,
“is one of the most expensive dis
eases known to medicine. Hospi
talization for a single patient costs
more than $2,500 a year. Some
cases require continuing care for
several years. Not only must many
victims of past epidemics receive
continuing care, but each year’s
outbreaks add new names to the
steadily growing list. Few families
can meet the cost of extended polio
treatment. Through the annual
March of Dimes, treatment and
care can be assured for all polio
victims regardless of age, race,
creed or color.”
FORESTRY PRDfißAftr
GETS ADOPTION DY
STATE DEPARTMENT
Director J. M. Tinker, of the
Georgia Department of Forestry,
has announced that his depart
ment has indorsed the five-year,
eight-point forestry program drawn
up at Soperton recently by a group
representing all agencies and asso
ciations working in forestry in
Georgia.
H. D. Story, Jr., assistant direc
tor of the department and in
charge of co-operative relations,
who is working to co-ordinate the
forestry work in the state, served
as secretary for the group at the
meeting. The program agreed upon
at the session follows:
I. State-wide fire protection cov
ering 25,000,000 acres of forest land
at an estimated annual cost of sl,-
500,000 of state, federal, county and
private money.
2. An adequate planting program
for an estimated 2,000,000 acres of
land not suited to other crops or
pastures needing planting. A five
year program of planting 100,000
acres each year with 70,000,000
seedlings.
3. Provide management, market
ing and harvesting services through
public agencies to both timber
growers and producers where not
available through reliable private
sources.
4. A system of state forests for
demonstration and research pur
poses, with at least one in each
forest district.
5. An adequate research program,
including study of the problems of
timber growing, marketing, utili
zation and the taxation of forest ■
land.
6. A well-directed and expanded
informational and educational pro
gram.
7. Legislation which will provide
the means for carrying out this
program.
8. Encouragement of industries
which will carry the fabrication of
wood nearer to the finished prod
uct and the development of addi
tional forest industries.
WHOKNOWS?
1. What would universal military
training cost?
2. How do college enrollments
compare with pre-war years?
3. Will there be priorities for
home construction in 1946?
4. Who is Mark Etheredge?
5. What are our occupation costs
in Germany?
6. How many deaths in action
have been reported?
7. How do the U. S. birth and
death rates compare?
8. How much do veterans receive
while attending school?
9. What is Brazil’s leading crop?
10. When must income taxpay
ers pay final installment on esti
mated 1945 income?
(Answers on Inside Page)