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VOL. 60; NO. 7.
Important Bills
Given Signature
Os the Governor
The governor of Georgia last
week had a busy period of bill-sign
ing and among the most important
were the following measures:
To authorize hypothecation of
Western & Atlantic railroad rent
als for 19 years to guarante pay
ment of $12,500,000 in revenue cer
tificates to be issued by the Geor
gia port authority for develop
ment of state ports at Brunswick
and Savannah.
To authorize issuance of seven
million dollars worth of revenue
certificates by the Milledgeville
State Hospital Authority for new
buildings at the institution.
To permit the state highway pa
trol to increase number of its pa
trolmen and augment their sal
aries and allowances.
To allow superior court judges to
sign a divorce decree without trial
by jury at a hearing within not
more than twenty days after a pe
tition is filed, and to grant a sec
ond and final decree thirty days
after the first one is issued. A jury
trial must be held if either party
requests it.
To rebate five of the six cents
per gallon tax on gasoline used for
farming purposes.
To authorize the City of Colum
bus to acquire through condemna
tion proceedings properties of the
Georgia Power company in that
city.
To allot $200,000 for a national
shrine at Warm Springs as a me
morial to the late President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
To appropriate $500,000 for con
struction of National Guard arm
ories. To this bill, the governor
added: “This appropriation to be
made when and if the federal gov
ernment matches the state funds,
and when and if there is a surplus
in the state treasury.”
To authorize expenditure of $9,-
100,000 for expansion of state serv
ices.
To provide a twelfth months pay
for school teachers.
Music Study Club
Meets at Trion Tavern
The January meeting of the Sum
merville Music Study Club was held
at the Tavern in Trion on Wednes
day afternoon, Jan. 30, at 3:30. Mrs.
J. R. Jackson, Jr., and Miss Eliza
beth Jackson were hostesses.
After a reading of the collects,
Mrs. John D. Taylor asked Mrs. Tom
Elder to direct the program for the
afternoon. Mrs. Elder told the
story of Lili Eulenspiegel, discussed
this type of music from the works
of Richard Strauss, and by use of
an illustrated chart, explained the
various themes in the composition.
After her very clear and interest
ing discussion of the symphony,
Mrs. Elder played the entire re
cording by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, with Koussevitsky con
ducting.
Guests for the afternoon were
recognized at this time. These in
cluded Mrs. John Cleghorn, Mrs.
Cicero Cleghorn, Miss Mary Thomp
son, Mrs. Ben Scarborough and Mrs.
Lovebird Harrell.
Business matters of state and na
tional importance were discussed
briefly after the program. Note
was taken of the fact that, though
the Summerville Music Club is a
small one, it has always made con
tributions to national and state
causes. A publicity report of 10 1-8
inches for December was reported.
January’s hymn study was based
on Fannie Crosby’s Rescue the Per
ishing. Mrs. Harry Foster gave
some interesting comments on the
author’s life.
A tempting salad plate was
served during the social hour. Pink
snapdragons and gladioli were used
as attractive centerpieces for the
tables.—Publicity Chairman.
Lyerly Defeats Dade
County High School
In two fast games the Lyerly
High school teams defeated Dade
County High school, of Trenton.
The girls led the way through the
entire game and won by a good
margin.
The boys were behind at the half
by 8 points, but came out in the
second half and gave the oppo
nents only 6 points, winning by 7
points.
The teams travel to Gore Friday,
where they are expecting two hard
games. Both teams are hoping to
do well in the county tournament
next week.
BASKETBALL
Lyerly Independent boys and
girls’ teams will play the Summer
ville Independents teams in Lyerly
Tuesday night, Feb. 12 at 7:30.
Bnmmrruillr Nms
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1946.
6,197 Georgia Drivers
Lose Permits For
Reckless Driving
During the past year 6,197 Geor
gia drivers learned the hard way
that driving on the streets and
highways of the Empire State is
a privilege and not a God-given
right. This fact was revealed to
day in a report of driver license
revocations and suspensions dur
ing the past year, which was pre
pared by Sergt. W. P. Grinstead,
supervisor of the State Highway
Patrol’s revocation unit.
Os the 6,197 drivers who lost
their driving privilege in 1945, ac
cording to the sergeant’s report,
204 lost their licenses through re
vocations and 5,993 through sus
pensions. The principal difference
between a revocation and a sus
pension of a license, he explained,
is the fact that when a driver’s
license is revoked, it is gone for
ever. The driver must reapply and
take another examination before
he can acquire another and this
cannot be done for six months aft
er the date of revocation. A sus
pended license is taken away for
a definite period, at the end of
which time it is returned to the
driver.
A majority of drivers who lost
licenses through revocations were
convicted of driving while under
the influence of liquor, leaving the
scene of an accident, speeding and
carrying contraband. A total of
5,139 drivers licenses were sus
pended for driving while under the
influence of liquor, 318 for reck
less driving, 205 for failing to re
port accident, 111 for leaving scene
of accident, 58 for speeding, and
the balance distributed among a
dozeru or more offenses.
Drivers who are repeatedly run
ning afoul of the law learned dur
ing 1945 that there is much truth
to the old adage that “he who
dances must pay the fiddler.” Dur
ing the year, the report indicated
48 second offenders, 47 third of
fenders and 14 fourth, or more, of
fenders lost their driving privilege.
War Shows Importance
Os Birth Certificates
Seemingly it took a war to make
the citizens of the United States
realize the importance of birth
certificates. With most govern
mental agencies—federal, state and
municipal—requiring birth certifi
cates from prospective employees,
many adults have found it diffi
cult to produce necessary evidences
to establish proof of identity,
stated Richard Brewer, director of
state vital statistics.
This is why, in substance, Geor
gia Bureau of Vital Statistics offi
cials are urging parents to get in
touch with their local registrars
immediately when a child is born
and have the birth put on record.
Such a procedure will not only
be of benefit to the child in future
years, but will save the parents ad
ditional trouble and expense in
procuring a delayed birth certifi
cate at a later date. In addition,
the state legislature has passed a
law, whereby parents who are
negligent in having recent births
registered are liable to a $25 fine,
Mr. Brewer continued.
There is no fee involved in regis
tering a new-born child’s birth, and
state-appointed registrars are con
veniently located in each militia
district of every country. J. E.
Baker, Miss E. Hemphill, Mrs. G. G.
Christian and G. W. Jordon are in
charge of vital statistics registra
tions at Summerville; S. A. Cook,
Trion; R. W. Bagley, Lyerly; E. I.
Clements, Subligna; S. Cleckler,
Menlo, and O. T. House, Holland.
wholknows?
1. Have rent controls been abol
ished?
2. Does anybody know the total
debt in the United States, public
and private?
3. Is the United Nations Organi
zation a world government.
4. Who is the Democratic Whip
of the Senate?
5. How much synthetic rubber
can U. S. plants produce?
6. What has become of the pro
posed loan to Great Britain?
7. Who is the new counsel for
the Pearl Harbor Investigating
Committee?
8. What is the minimum wage
rate?
9. Who said: “1946 is our year of
decision?”
(Answers on Inside Page)
WITH ALPINE-MENLO
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Preaching service at the Alpine
church on Feb. 10 at 10 a.m., and
at the Menlo church at 11 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. Visitors are cordially wel
come to all of these services.—S.
K. Dodson, Pastor.
'SCOUTS OF THE WORLD
BUILDING TOGETHER"
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J| Boyscout;
E Week
Nearly 2,000,000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Senior Scouts
will mark the 36th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America durine
Boy Scout Week Feb. Bth to 14th. The theme of the celebration is
Scouts of the World—Building Together.” Members of the Move-
Th n l a «w he >^ in i brot , h l. r Scouts throughout the world to reorganize,
“«rh rtl d nff r n ndS R* P v F “ nd of 4 vo,untar y contributions and
their Shirts-Off-Our-Backs project of donating Scout Uniform
parts and equipment, will assist Scouting overseas and help develop
b< ”' s ,h '' Ab »” - *’«
Trion To Play
Lyerly, Summerville
BY T. EMMETT NUNN
Entering into the biggest week
of competition for the 1945-46 bas
ket ball season, the Trion Com
munity Center girls and boys’ teams
will play, in order, Lyerly and the
Summerville Independents.
On Thursday night, Feb. 7, Har
ris Edwards will bring the Lyerly
Athletic Club girls and boys’ teams
to Trion for a double-header, be
ginning at 7:30 p.m.
Then on Saturday night, Feb. 9,
the Trion girls and boys will play
the Summerville Independents in
Trion on the Community Center
floor.
So lar this season the TCFC
teams have had a very successful
season, the girls’ winning streak
going to 12 straight and the boys
have won 8 and lost 5 for a very
good average.
Game time Saturday night will
also be 7:30 o’clock.
Farm Shop Course
Shows Good Results
During the past two years the
farmers of the Gore Community
have built and repaired farm ma
chinery valued at $2,150. This pro
gram was made possible through
funds appropriated by the federal
government. Since this was a war
time appropriation, it has been cut
off now that victory has come.
Even though the funds for op
eration of the Vocational School
Shop are not available this year,
the farmers feel that the program
is worth carrying on. At a meet
ing Wednesday night, Jan. 30, they
voted to carry on this program this
year at their own expense. The
shop course will begin Tuesday,
Feb. 12, at 1 p.m. The shop will
be open on Tuesday and Friday
afternoons each week from 1 to
4:30 o’clock for a period of five
weeks or more if the group desires
to work longer than five weeks.
The farmers who were not able
to attend the meeting are urged
to come to the shop with us and
repair worn and broken-down ma
chinery. New farm equipment is
still not available in sufficient
quantities to satisfy the demand,
so bring whatever equipment you
can to the shop and make it last
another season.—G. W. Smith, Vo
cational Teacher.
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT
Pleasant Grove Baptist, Rev. E.
A. Piper, pastor: Lord’s Day serv
ices as follows: Sunday school at
10 a.m., George Doster, superin
tendent; morning worship at 11
o’clock; B. T. U. at 6:30 p.m.; eve
ning service at 7:15. The pastor
will preach at both morning and
evening services. All services open
to the public.
Tournament Begins
Monday at 5:30 P.M.
The Chattooga County basket
ball tournament begins Monday
evening at 5:30, when the girls
from Menlo battle it out with the
Lyerly girls in the Summerville
High school gymnasium.
The tournament will be com
pleted Thursday night after three
days of play. There will be no
games Tuesday in the tournament
except regular season games of
each team.
According to the report of the
coaches of each team who met
Monday evening to draw up plans,
this should be a closely contested
affair from beginning to end. The
dopesters are all picking the Lyerly
boys to take the honors away from
Trion, who came through victor
ious last year.
The Gore girls honors of last
year will be contested by three
strong teams from Menlo, Lyerly
and Trion.
Boys
Monday, B:3o—Menlo, vs. Trion.
Monday, 6:3o—Lyerly vs. Gore.
Girls
Monday, s:3o—Menlo vs. Lyerly.
Monday, 7:3o—Trion vs. Sum
merville.
Arnall Defends
Press of State
From Traducers
Gov. Arnall this week rose to the
defense of the press of the state in
no uncertain terms in the face of
what he characterized “a move
ment now on foot to undertake to
discredit the newspapers of Geor
gia before the people.”
The governors terse statement
follows:
“I have great confidence in the
integrity of the newspapers of the
state. We have a free- untram
meled and unshackled press in this
state. The newspapers of Georgia
protect the interest of the people.
They put fear in the hearts of the
professional politicians by turning
the spotlight of publicity on their
trickery.
“There is now a movement on
foot to undertake to discredit the
newspapers of Georgia before the
people. That is old stuff. That is
demagoguery. This group will find
during the campaigns of 1946 that
the people of Georgia have more
confidence in the newspapers of
the state than they do in the crowd
who would undertake to discredit
the integrity of the press.
“Georgia is fortunate in having
such fine newspapers. The press
must remain free. It must continue
its war on demagoguery, crooked
ness and corruption. I am sure
this will be done.
Scouts to Observe
Boy Scout Week
Week Os Feb. 8-14
Nearly two million Boy Scouts.
Cub Scouts, Senior Scouts and
their adult leaders throughout the
United States will commemorate
Boy Scout Week, which begins Fri
day,..Feb. 8, and continues through
Thursday,Feb . 14. The theme of
the observance, which marks the
36th anniversary of the founding
of the movement in America, is
“Scouts of the World—Building
Together.”
The Boy Scouts of America have
created a “World Friendship Fund”
and nearly two million members
have been invited and urged to
contribute voluntarily to it. Thru
the fund, Scout associations in :
lands ravaged during World War;
II are being helped to rebuild their
organizations. At the outbreak of i
the war in 1939 there were more
than three million scouts and lead
ers in 70 different lands.
Aid to Post-War World
Many Boy Scout troops, Cub
packs, and Senior Scout units will
mark Boy Scout Week by contribut
ing to the fund through local Boy
Scout councils. The national exec- i
utive board of the movement au- |
thorized the World Friendship ;
Fund, believing it can make a defi- !
nite contribution to the post-war I
world, since boys dedicated to the j
scout ideals of tolerance, friendli
ness and democracy, may be the
leaders of the world of tomorrow.
Many troops have contributed
from the money earned by salvag
ing waste paper, while others have
given the proceeds of special Scout
entertainments. To make certain
the greatest good is done with each
dollar spent, the Boy Scouts of
America secures the advice of the
International Scout Bureau in
London and has arranged with
agencies of the federal govern
ment at Washington to see that the
scout organizations actually get the
help in the manner intended. The,
fund will continue as long as scout- j
ing overseas needs aid for rebuild
ing.
The Boy Scouts of the Philip
pines, for many years a part of
the Boy Scouts of America, and
now an independent association,
has received a shipment of scout
supplies and $12,500. Ten thou
sand dollars of the fund, ear
marked for the Philippines, forms
a memorial to the late General
Theodore Roosevelt, a vice presi
dent of the Boy Scouts of America
at the time of his death in Nor
mandy, who took a deep personal
interest in the progress of Philip
pine scouting while governor gen
eral of the islands.
Nation-Wide Observance
Boy Scout Week will be observed
in every city and town and in
nearly every village and hamlet in
the nation. Since Feb. 8, 1910,
when the Boy Scouts of America
was incorporated at Washington,
D. C., more than 12,500,000 men
and boys have been in scouting.
The active membership today is
more than 1,950,000 Cub scouts. Boy
Scouts, Senior Scouts and adult vol
unteer leaders.
Hundreds of former members will
gather at troop reunions, which
this year, in many cases means re
turned scout leaders and senior
scouts mustered out of the armed
forces. It is estimated that one
quarter of the men in the armed
forces were once Boy Scouts.
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Menlo Basketball
Teams Divide Pair
With Lyerly
Menlo girls triumphed over the
Lyerly girls in a fast, hard and ex
citing game Feb. 1 at Lyerly, the
score being 38 to 34. Excitement
ran high during the entire game,
1 and both teams were at their best.
The Menlo boys played some of
their best ball of the season and
were leading at the half, but the
Lyerly boys won, 31 to 14.
The line-up for the girls’ game
was as follows:
Menlo Lyerly
Wofford (25) .. F ... (27) Kellett
Broome (3) F (5) White
Hall (6) F (2) Brady
Toles G Jackson
Sloan G Rogers
Thomas G. Brison
Substitutes Lyerly: Brewer.
Menlo: Hardwick (4), Hix, Payton.
The line-up for the boys’ game
was:
Menlo Lyerly
H. Jones (6) .... F (10) Bryant
Hutchins F (6) Gaylor
Chamblee (7)C (3) Bishop
B. Jones (1) G.... (12) Stalling
Powell -G Crawford
Substitutes —Menlo: Tucker, Mas
sey, Daniel.
Georgia Will Have
115,000 New Homes
In Next Five Years
Georgia will house its homeless
at the rate of 115,000 new homes
during the next five years, in the
judgment of an Atlanta economic
research consultant who has just
completed an exhaustive study of
the current demand for housing.
In a survey Joseph K. Heyman
predicts a bright outlook for Geor
gia building, despite rising costs
and shortages in both labor and
materials.
His study was undertaken in
connection with the nation-wide
architectural contest under the
joint sponsorship of Rich’s and
Pencil Points, progressive archi
tecture magazine, to select the
ideal small house design for Geor
gia. A jury of seven distinguished
architects will meet in Augusta on
Feb. 13, 14 and 15 to choose the
winners.
This small house design contest
nas been limited to houses suitable
for families with an average an
nual income of $3,000. That priced
home, according to Mr. Heyman’s
investigation, will be in greatest
demand with $2,500 of the proposed
new units to cost an average of
$3,750, and the balance, 32,500 farm
homes, to cost an average of
$2,000.
The housing report, which took
into consideration such factors as
population trends, within-state mi
gration, consumer purchasing pow
er and the pent-up accumulation
of housing deficits during the war
period, was based on data accu
mulated by housing authorities
and real estate leaders.
It disclosed that, contrary to
popular opinion, Georgia’s popula
tion appears likely to increase
during the 1940 decade by 300,000
or approximately ten per cent.
Mrs. Alice K. Hale
Dies At Her Home
Mrs. Alice K. Hale, age 65, died
at her home in Summerville Jan.
30 at 4:15 p.m. Survived by her
husband, J. T. Hale, of Summer
ville; 3 sons, Tom, J. T. and Lewis,
I all of Summerville; four daugh
i ters, Mrs. Joe Buttram, Mrs. Alfred
Pettijohn, Mrs. John Underwood
i and Mrs. Woodrow Collins, of
j Trion.
Funeral services were conducted
j from the Church of God in Sum
merville Friday afternoon at 2
! p.m., the Rev. Waits officiating.
Interment in the Summerville
cemetery.
Henry Reynolds, 63,
Passes At His Home
Henry Reynolds, age 63, died at
his home. Summerville Route No. 2,
at an early hour Sunday morning,
Feb. 3. Survived by his wife, Mag
gie Johnson Reynolds; four sons.
Carl, Willie, Albert, Clarence, all
of Summerville; two daughters,
Mrs. Pledger Parker, of Summer
ville, and Mrs. Roy Parker, of Trion.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Pennville Tabernacle
Tuesday at 11 a.m., with the Rev.
Gus Reed officiating. Interment
in the Pennville cemetery.
Mrs. C. G. Crumpton
Dies Tuesday Morning
Mrs. Cleora G. Crumpton. 63
years old and wife of Walter Scott
Crumpton, died Tuesday morning
at an early hour after a few
month’s illness. Survived by Mr.
; Crumpton, of Route 1, Summer-
I ville; two sons, Thad and Harlin,
of Knoxville. Tenn.; one daughter,
Mrs. Theo Kendrick, of Summer
ville. Route 1. where Mrs. Crump
ton made her home. Three sis
ters, Mrs. L. G. Miller, of Atlanta;
Mrs. P. A. Wynn, of Carrollton;
Miss Verdie Johnson, of Bridge
bero, Georgia; two brothers, Rev.
H. A. Johnson, of Winder. Ga.; S.
H. Johnson, Griffin, Ga. Funeral
services will be conducted Thurs
day at 2 p.m. from the Mt. Zion
i Nazarene church, with the Rev. D.
j E. Givens, pastor of the Nazarene
| church, of Maryville, Tenn., of
' which she was a member officiat
ing. Interment in the Mt. Zion
cemetery.
MACEDONIA METHODIST
CHURCH SERVICES SUNDAY
The following services are an
nounced by Rev. J. L. Caldwell,
pastor, for Macedonia Methodist
church Sunday:
10 A.M.—Sunday school.
11 A.M.—Preaching.
7:30 P.M.—Evening worship.
The door is always open for you.
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