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VOL. 60; NO. 9.
Chattooga County
War Fund Drive
To Start Soon
Soon your American Red Cross,
through the Chattooga County
Chapter, will again canvass for do
nations to help the organization
carry on its great program another
year. The local drive will take
place the first week in March. J.
R. Burgess, war fund chairman, and
his associates are making extensive
plans to make the drive for $3,800,
which is the quota for Chattooga
County for 1946, a success.
Emphasis in the 1946 campaign
is being placed on services to vet
erans and their families and in the
areas where disasters have struck,
and we are all agreed that these
are the primary activities for the
near future. But those of us who
have a practical quid pro quo turn
of mind have an inclination to look
back into the past and ask: What
has been done with the amount
that Chattooga County handed
over so generously last year? And
the year before?
To give the definite answers, the
Red Cross supplied us with the fig
ures on Red Cross expenditures in
its services to the armed forces and
its services to veterans in terms of
tangible items for the four years of
World War 11. Some of them are
impressive.
For example, 74,908,580 packages
of cigarettes and 31,062,060 pack
ages of chewing gum have been
distributed to men and women in
uniform at home and overseas. The
total of razor blades is 120,853,917,
and the chocolate bars add up to
14,298,730. Among the less astron
omical totals we find the figure
913, which doesn’t look much un
til we note that it represents pianos.
Another large one is 16,847,258, the
number of decks of playing cards.
The musically inclined members of
the armed forces enjoyed 992,132
phonograph records, from Bach to
boogie-woogie, and essayed Casey
Jones on 128,988 harmonicas.
Sportsmen got 797,372 fishhooks,
and chow-hounds consumed the
product of 52,430,200 pounds of
doughnut flour, 2,905,080 pounds of
coffee and 12,048,365 packages of
hard candy. This is in addition to
uncounted sandwiches and the
cholocate bars already mentioned.
The list runs on: Pocketbooks,
11,030,919; handkerchiefs, 2,283,-
412; hospital slippers, 1,316,156;
towels (face and bath), 2,291,723,
and so on, until it becomes obvious
that the Red Cross has done a good
job for us in thinking of everything
our boys could want and trying to
provide it with our money.
Os course, there are administra
tive costs to any such organization.
All businesses have overheads, but
the successful ones are glad to
charge off that entry because the
net profit is big enough to make it
worth while. In the case of the
Red Cross, our profit is the satis
faction of knowing that our men
were cared for, in every corner of
the globe, fighting our fight.
The statistical-minded reader can
figure how long it would take one
man to smoke up that many ciga
rettes. We are more inclined to
dismiss it with a WELL DONE and
dig down once again for the dol
lars that make all of this possible.
Music Study Club
Has Social Hour
The Summerville Music Study
Club enjoyed a delightful social
hour and program in the home of
Mrs. C. O. Walker, with Mrs. J. R.
Burgess as co-hostess, on Wednes
day afternoon, Feb. 20, at 3:30. As
refreshments were being served
Mrs. Walker asked the club mem
bers to make a list of the topics
they would like to study next year.
The afternoon’s program was
most enjoyable. After Mrs. Tay
lor, club president, lead in a read
ing of the collects, she called on
Mrs. Harry Foster to direct a very
entertaining discussion of Tschai
kowsky’s Symphony No. 4 and of the
Nutcracker Suite. As Mrs. Foster
explained the various movements
of the symphonies she played their
records.
Mrs. Freer, from Trion, and Mrs.
Treadaway, from Summerville, were
welcomed as guests for the after
noon.
During the business session, ex
cellent committee reports were
heard from Mrs. Cleckler, club rat
ing chairman; Mrs. Burgess, radio
chairman; Mrs. Walker, study
chairman; Mrs. Bankson, chairman
of the Guest Artists’ program; Mrs.
Elmer Smith, treasurer, and the
publicity chairman. Plans were out
lined for the Guest Artists’ pro
gram.—Publicity Chairman.
NOTICE
There will be a program at the
Church of God at Berryton Satur
day night, March 2. “Your Church
and Mine” is the title of the play.
Every one is invited to attend.
(Mu Brntrniennlle News
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1946.
Court of Honor
Chattooga Scouts
Held at Trion Gym
The Chattooga District Boy
Scouts of America Court of Honor
was held at the Trion Community
Center gymnasium on Thursday,
Feb. 21, A. G. Dunson, chairman of
advancement committee, presiding.
Members of the court present
were Rev. Harry Foster, J. T. Mor
gan, W. H. Clark, of Summerville;
Ralph Tribble, Harry Hardeman, of
Trion, and C. H. Westin, scout exec
utive, of Rome.
A total of 121 awards were made,
being divided as follows:
15 Tenderfoot
18 Second Class
9 First Class
6 Star Scouts
6 Life Scouts
67 Merit Badges,
Scout Carl Williams, Troop 38,
Trion; Scout Robert Neal, Troop 38,
Trion, and Scout Billy Dye, Troop
7, Summerville, won first, second
and third places respectively in an
inspection of scouts by Mr. Westin.
The attendance banner which is
presented at each court of honor
to the troop which has the great
est number of parents and visitors
present jvho are interested in their
troop, was won by Troop 9, Sum
merville.
The court was opened and closed
by Scout Herman Haygood, assisted
by Scout Bugler Reginald Boyles,
of Trion.
More Men Discharged
From the Armed Force
Additional list of men from
Chattooga County who have been
discharged from the armed forces:
Herman J. Eaton
Roscoe Parker McClung
Charles McClure Trimble
Albert Riley
Wilburn Housch McAbee
Robert William Little
Eugene Mcßae
William Myrion Dodd
James Harper Logan
James Deforest Bishop
Charles Ben Maxwell
William Ralph McWhorter
Robert Allmon
Leo" Ester Chastain
Willie Roy Scoggins
James McDaniel Bryson
William Henry Griffitt
James Dwight Abney
John William Edwards
Tony Reynolds
Samuel Lee Collette
Robert Houston Yarbrough, Jr.
Delmus Wentworth Simonds
James Davis Millican
Thomas Lee Ivey
John Dalphes Debord
Samuel Raymond Jackson
Dewey Andrew Bryant
Elmer Green
Dewey Columbus Ray
Earl William Jackson
Andrew Spraggins
Raymond Luther Styles
Sulee Hunter
James Howard Langston
Sigress Suttles
Roy Jackson Owings
Isaac Russell Berry
Johnnie Wesley Lancaster
Fred Douglas Rounsaville
Joseph Virbon Hawkins
Nichlos Jathro Pettyjohn, Jr.
James Ancel Vines
Robert Grant Comer
Elbert Lee Coley
Jesse Marvin Madden
Marvin Lee Holsonback
William Kellett Johnson
Ernest Lee Hurley
Vester Lee Burrage
Raymond David Clowdis
James Walter Gill
Robert Wicker Allen
Thomas Hoyt Tucker
Harley Bascum Bandy
James Carmon McNair
William Hansel Penland
Hoyt Lee Warren
Walter Lamar Allmon
Cleveland L. E. Davenport
Edwin Lee Lively
Harry L. Smithson
Paul Hughes
Houston F. Bynum
Jessie Lee Shuman
Clarence Nelson, Jr.
Napoleon Turner
Benny Edward Mills
Clyde W. Mahaffey
Otis Shiver
William B. Hickey
Howard J. Dawkins
Lawrence P. Blalock
Homer A. Copeland
Capt. Thomas Assigned
To Marine Reserves
Captain Malcolm Thomas has
been assigned to inactive duty with
the Marine Corps Reserves. Capt.
Thomas served overseas with the
6th and 2nd Marine Divisions and
took part in the battle of Okinawa
and the occupation of Japan, serv
ing 49 months on active duty. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Thomas.
YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD
WHAT’S IT WORTH TO YOU?
BY N. FARRIS VADEN, Manager
Social Security Board, Rome, Ga.
About this time of year it is the
custom in many American homes
to cast up the accounts in the do
mestic books, so to speak—to check
over the assets and the liabilities so
that sensible plans can be made
for the future.
Among the assets in many mil
lions of these homes is a simple lit
tle ticket printed in blue ink and
stamped with a rather formidable
looking red number. That, of course,
is your Social Security card. It is
a very important asset indeed. And
yet, curiously enough, there are not
very many people who understand
precisely what it means—how, and
under what circumstances, it may
be turned into cash money.
Much has been said and written
of late about social security; and
citizens of this section have evinced
increasing interest in this subject.
The News has reason to believe that
its readers have questions which
they would like answered about the
insurance provisions of the Social
Security Act. We believe also that
our readers are entitled to authen
tic information on any subject that
concerns the family pocket book.
Therefore, this paper, in co-opera
tion with the field office of the So
cial Security Board, presents a se
ries of articles on Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance —what it means to
you. Questions relative to this pro
gram should be addressed to the So
cial Security Board, Rome, Ga.
“What Is Its Purpose?”
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
is a government insurance system
for wage earners in business or in
dustry. As the name implies, it
protects both the aged worker and
the survivors of young as well as
old workers who die. It provides
benefits for workers after they
reach age 65 and stop work, and
benefits for widows and children
(in some cases parents) of insured
workers, both young and old—who
die. This plan makes it possible
for a worker through his social se
curity tax to lay away, every pay
day a little bit of his earnings to
make provision for the time when
he is too old to work or for the
support of his dependents in case
of his death. Under this plan the
money paid to the retired worker or
to his survivors is theirs by right,
just as any other insurance money
would be.
“Is Everybody Covered Under This
Law?”
No. Only employees of business or
individual concerns are covered
under Old-Age and Survivors In-
Mrs. Ida L. Graham
Dies in Trion Hospital
Mrs. Ida Lawrence, 62, wife of J.
H. Graham, of Summerville, and
member of a -prominent pioneer
family of Walker County, Georgia,
died in Trion Hospital last Wednes
day morning. She is survived by
her husband; one daughter, Mrs.
Ozell Maddux, Trion, Ga.; a son,
J. Lawrence Graham, Atlanta, Ga.;
one sister, Mrs. T. C. Miller, Gay
lesville, Ala., and one grandson,
Graham Maddux, Trion, Ga. Fu
neral services were held at 11
o’clock Friday morning at the Sum
merville Presbyterian Church, of
which she was an active member.
Rev. H. R. Foster, Rev. L. C. Obert
and Rev. H. C. Cochran officiat
ing. Interment in the LaFayette
cemetery. Active pallbearers: Geo.
Baker, Hall Baker, Hansel Baker,
Seaborn Baker, Carl Baker and Ba
ker Willingham. Honorary: O. L.
Cleckler, H. E. Wyatt, J. E. Ken
nedy, J. W. Murphy, Claude Baker,
Tom Baker, Roy Baker, P. B. Wil
lingham, Dr. H. D. Brown, D. L.
McWhorter, Edward Powell, T. A.
Cook, J. B. Woodard, B. W. Farrar,
Carl Wilson and J. L. McGinnis.
Arrangements by J. Avery Bryan
company.
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT
Pleasant Grove Baptist; Rev. E.
A. Piper, pastor; Lord’s Day serv
ices as follows: Sunday school, 10
a.m.; morning worship service at
11 o’clock. Sermon theme, “God’s
Ladder of Grace.” Baptist Train
ing Union service at 6:30 p.m.;
evangelistic service, 7:30. Sermon
theme, “Graves of Lust.” Midweek
service, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
You are invited to worship with
us in these services.—Reporter.
A CALL TO PRAYER
GOES OUT TO ALL PEOPLE
You are invited to join in a fel
lowship of prayer the world around
on the World Day of Prayer Fri
day, March 8. Time, 7:30 pm.;
place, the Summerville Methodist
church.
surance provisions. Farm work,
domestic service, government serv
ice, jobs in churches, public schools,
public libraries, charity hospitals
and other non-profit institutions
are not covered under the law. Per
sons employed by these organiza
tions do not have social insurance
protection and do not pay Social
Security taxes.
Every business or industrial es
tablishment comes under the law
regardless of the number of work
ers employed. A store or a ship
having only one employee is cov
ered just the same as a big plant
or business concern which has a
thousand employees.
“What Does a Person Have to Do to
Come Into This System?”
He must work in a job that comes
under the law; that is in a factory,
mill shop, mine, store, filling sta
tion, case, hotel, theatre laundry or
some other business or industry,
and he must get a Social Security
account number card to make cer
tain that his wages are properly
credited. After the worker obtains
an account number, the Social Se
curity Board sets up an individual
account for him. Every time his
employer reports a certain amount
of wage earnings for him, these
wages are credited to the worker’s
Social Security account. Later on
when the time comes for the pay
ment of benefits this account will
be used as the basis upon which
the insurance payments are calcu
lator.
Would it be possible for a farm
worker, or an employee of some or
ganization that is excluded from
provisions of the law to come un
der the system voluntarily, if he
paid the wage tax, and indicated
his desire for coverage
No. The only way such workers
may secure this protection is to
enter covered employment. Until
the present act is amended all
workers holding jobs that are ex
cluded under the existing law will
be deprived of the financial pro
tection provided by the law. There
are some 20 million workers in the
United States who are now exclud
ed from coverage.
The answers to the following
questions will appear in the next
issue of The News:
“Who gets monthly benefit pay
ments?”
“What recommendations has the
Social Security Board made with
respect to extending the coverage
of Old-Age and Survivors Insur
ance”?
“What good is Social Security to
young workers?”
George Henry Johnson
Dies at His Home Here
George Henry Johnson, 82 died
at his home in Summerville Sun
day at 6:55 p.m. after a two-day
illness. Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Mary Millican Johnson; five
sons, W. C. and Glenn, Summer
ville; A. W., Lyerly, Ga.; Clay,
Shannon: Ben, U. S. Navy; five
daughters, Miss Anna Johnson, Mrs.
John Donovits, Mrs. A. J. Nittka,
Summerville; Mrs. D. D. Elrod,
Mrs. S. L. Cox, Berryton, Ga. Fu
neral was conducted from Berry
ton Baptist Chuch, of which he was
a member, Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. by
Revs. Ed Smith and W. H. Dean,
of Rome. Pallbearers, active, Bill
and Tom Shores, Emory and Earl
Stowe, James Hudson, Carl Wil
liams; honorary, Billy Cox, Jr., W.
W. Shropshire, Will Scruggs, Will
Neal. Interment in Summerville
Cemetery. Hill-Weems Funeral
Home, Summerville, in charge.
Georgia Plans Banner
Year of Road Building
Georgia is going to be a safer
state in which to travel as a result
of funds provided by the State Bud
get Board for 76 railroad crossing
projects. The budget board is com
posed of Gov. Ellis Amall and State
Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr. With
the total cost being five and a half
million dollars, the federal govern
ment will pay $3,770,858 and the
state $1,769,281 of the expense.
Only recently, announcement was
made through State Highway Di
rector George T. McDonald that the
state highway department will im
prove 909 miles of state roads this
year, at a cost of over thirty mil
lion dollars.
One hundred and thirty-three
counties will benefit from 250 road
construction contracts, and for all
kinds of roads a total of 920 miles
will be improved. Bridges over
streams to be contracted for num
ber 155.
All in all, Georgia is planning a
banner year of highway building.
Miss Celia Cochran spent Sunday
with Miss Ann Williams.
Jurors Drawn to
Serve at March Term
City Court March 11
Following is a list of jurors drawn
to serve at the March term, 1946,
City Court of Chattooga County,
which convenes at 10 a.m. Monday,
March 11, 1946:
Millard Lewis
C. O. Walker
G. L. Pettyjohn
W. M. Jennings
Hugh Hogg
Millard Ward
L. C. Turner
D. A. Elsberry
J. P. Henry
W. R. Chappelear
D. J. Kellett
George J. Day
Edward Owens
Jim Norton
G. H. Jackson
R. C. Elsberry
E. E. Martin
O. W. Scott
R. G. Bulman
Hubbard Keen
J. E. Hawkins
E. E. Arp
Gordon Cook
S. J. Anderson
Henry J. Duncan
W. E. Glenn
Clyde Bennett
R. L. Dawson
Tom C. Baker
Tom Hancock
Oscar Dillard
Charlie Moon
W. W. Cook
Wiley Mitchell
Herman Simmons
M. M. Wike
C. S. Fowler
Sanders Ratliff
Hulett G. Harris
J. D. Kendrick
W. G. Rutherford
L. C. Wesson
W. D. Warren
C. W. Maxey
O. C. Green
T. H. Brewer
M. H. Barkley
Bob Stiles
B. R. Broom, 19,
Dies in Chattanooga
Saturday Night
Mr. B. R. Broom, for many years
a resident of this county, passed
away at a private sanitorium in
Chattanooga Saturday night at
9:45.
Mr. Broom was born and reared
in Floyd county, coming to Chat
tanooga when a young man. He
was 79 years old at the time of his
death. He was married to Miss
Mary Morton, who preceded him
in death seven years ago. Surviv
ing are three sons, Walton, of At
lanta, Ga.; Rufus, of Oklahoma
City, and Cicero, of Chattanooga.
Funeral services were held from
Page-Hancock Funeral Home in
Chattanooga Monday at 12:30 p.m.,
with interment in the family lot in
Floyd Springs, Ga., cemetery.
Joe Sweatman Dies
At Brother’s Home
Joe Sweatman, 60, died at the
home of his brother, Jim W. Sweat
man, Summerville, Route 4, at an
early hour Feb. 19 after a short ill
ness. Survived by one brother,
Jim W. Sweatman, a number of
nephews, and neices. Funeral serv
ices were conducted from the Trion
Church of Christ Wednesday morn
ing at 11 a.m. Rev. Kennemer, pas
tor of the church, officiating. In
terment in the Trion cemetery.
RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ON SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 7:30 P.M.
There will be a meeting in the
interest of the Red Cross War Fund
Drive at the Summerville Presby
terian church on Sunday evening,
March 3, at 7:30 o’clock.
Ralph L. Campbell, a Red Cross
field director, will be the main
speaker. Mr. Campbell is a para
trooper, having served in the Euro
pean theater for 2 l / 2 years in the
101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions.
His address promises to be most in
spiring and informative.
The public is urged to attend
this meeting and hear Mr. Camp
bell.
FIRST BAPTIST HOME *
MISSIONS WEEK OF PRAYER
WILL BE HELD NEXT MEEK
First Baptist Home Missions
Week of Prayer will be held next
Monday and Tuesday afternoon.
Program Monday, March 4 at 2:30
in the home of Mrs. J. C. Bagley,
Sr., and Tuesday, March 5, at 2:30
with Mrs. Ben Scarborough. A very
interesting program has been ar
ranged. All members are urged to
be present.
Parking Regulations
To Go Into Effect
Tuesday, March 12
Following are the tentatively new
traffic regulations for the City of
Summerville which will be offered
for adoption before the City Coun
cil meeting Monday, March 11:
SPEED LIMIT—It shall be un
lawful for any automobile or other
motor vehicle to be driven upon the
streets of the City of Summerville
at a speed greater than 25 miles
per hour.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS—It shall be
the duty of all persons going upon
or across Commerce Street in the
City of Summerville to observe the
traffic light signals thereon and
not to go upon or across said street
against a red light signal.
U-TURNS—A U-turn is defined
as being one by the driver of a
vehicle observing the law of the
road and making a left circular
turn, so that when said turn is
made the vehicle is headed in the
opposite direction from the direc
tion it was traveling before the
turn began.
U-TURNS WHERE ALLOWED—
It shall be unlawful for the driver
of any vehicle upon Commerce
Street in the City of Summerville
to make a U-turn except at the
intersection of Jefferson and Com
merce Streets; Washington and
Commerce Streets; Georgia Avenue
and Commerce Street, an& Henry
and Commerce Streets, and such
turns when made shall only be
made on a green light signal and
when traffic conditions permit.
PARKING—Cars parked at the
curb upon Commerce Street shall
be parked in a right angle of 45
degrees, and when driven from such
parked position from the west side
of Commerce Street the car shall
be driven south at least to the
first traffic light before turning
across Commerce Street, and cars
parked on the east side of Com
merce Street shall be driven north
to the first traffic light before
crossing Commerce Street.
NO CROSSING OF COMMERCE
STREET—It shall be unlawful for
any car to cross Commerce Street
either by U-turn or direct crossing,
except at traffic lights stated in
preceding ordinance.
RIGHT TURNS—The drivers of
vehicles making right turns upon
Commerce Street shall make such
turns at a speed not greater than
15 miles per hour and when the
conditions of traffic upon said
street permits.
DOUBLE PARKING—It shall be
unlawful for the driver of any ve
hicle to park the same upon Com
merce Street when another car or
cars are between such vehicle and
the curb of the sidewalk. It is per
missible for the driver of a car to
stop upon the street provided the
driver remains in the car and pro
vided that such stoppage is but for
a few minutes.
County Bookmobile
Here March 4 to 8
The County Bookmobile will trav
el in Chattooga County March 4-8.
Following is the schedule:
Monday, March 4
Teloga School
Cloudland School
Wood’s Store
Cloudland Postoffice
Menlo School
Menlo Community
Tuesday, March 5
Hicks’ Home
Subligna School
Gore School
Ballenger’s Store
Wednesday, March 6
Myers’ School
Welcome Hill School
Williams Store
Mountain View
Pennville School
Berryton School
Berryton Store
Thursday, March 7
Holland Community
Cook’s Store-Chattoogaville
Pine Grove School
Lyerly School
Lyerly Community
Friday, March 8—
Summerville Schools.
Rufus H. Blackmon
Dies in Chattanooga
Mr. Rufus Henry Blackmon, 75.
died at a Chattanooga hospital
Monday evening, Feb. 18 after a
short illness. Mr. Blackmon, a res
ident of Berryton, is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Fannie Chapman
Blackmon; three sons, Pete and
Harrison, of Berry ton; Hoyle, of
LaFayette; two daughters, Mrs. El
sie Johnson and Mrs. Alma Pur
ser, both of Berryton. Funeral
services were held from the Berry
ton Church of God Thursday aft
ernoon at 3:30, the Rev. Dale, pas
tor of the church, officiating. In
terment in the Trion cemetery.
1.50 A YEAR