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VOL. 60; NO. 12.
U. S. Civil Service
Announces Exams
For Federal Jobs
For the first time since March
16, 1942, opportunities for perma
nent positions in federal employ
ment were announced by the Unit
ed States Civil Seryice Commission
through O. E. Myers, Atlanta, di
rector of the Fifth region, which
comprises the states of Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. The first announce
ment of examinations are for ste
nographic and typist positions and
invites the filing of applications
from residents of the Fifth region,
both male and female, veterans and
non-veterans, for positions in only
one area, either in the Fifth region
or in the metropolitan area of
Washington, D. C. Applications
from persons residing in Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands will be
accepted for appointment in Wash
ington, D. C., only. The steno
graphic positions (CAF-2 grade)
pay $1,704 a year, and the typist
positions (CAF-1 grade) pay $1,506
per year. Some appointments may,
however, be made at higher grades.
The standard federal work week is
40 hours and required overtime is
paid for at the rate of l’/ 2 times
the basic hourly rate. For rate of
dictation, transcription, typing and
other important information, see
examination announcement No. 5-
28 which is posted in all first and
second-class postoffices and most
federal agencies in the above states
and territories. Preference to vet
erans in appointment will be given
as specified in the Veterans’ Pres
ence Act of 1944. HOW TO APPLY
—get Card Form 5000-AB at any
first or second-class postoffice or
at the information window, first
floor of the new postoffice building.
Atlanta. Fill it out completely and
state the title of the examination
for which you are applying. Send
Card Form 5000-AB to the Fifth
Civil Service Regional Office, At
lanta A, Ga., regardless of where
you want to work. Card Form 5000-
AB must be received at the Fifth
Civil Service Regional Office, At
lanta, Ga., not later than March 26,
1946, to be accepted; however, per
sons residing in Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands may file appli
cations to be received not later
than April 10, 1946. Appplicants
admitted to the above examina
tions will be notified of the exact
time and place to report for the
test.
University System
Board Increases
College Pay
The state board of regents has
approved issuance of $2,400,000 in
self-liquidating revenue certificates
by the University of Georgia for
two new dormitories.
The bonds will be used to build
a men’s dormitory for 460 students,
a women’s dormitory for 546 co-eds,
a student union building with din
ing hall and assembly facilities for
1.400 students, and a 50-unit ef
ficiency apartment building for
married students.
The board also allocated $175,000
for additions and repairs to build
ings at various state colleges. An
increase in salaries of from 8 to 10
per cent was given all college heads.
The presidents of Georgia Tech and
the University of Georgia headed
the list with an increase from $8 -
500 to SIO,OOO.
Singing at South
Summerville Baptist
There will be a singing at the
S. Summerville Baptist church Sun
day, March 24. We are expecting
Rev. Theodore Wallace and his
quartet from Dalton; also Herbert
D. Morgan and his quartet from
Calhoun. We have a promise of a
good quartet from Mentone, Ala.,
and other good singers. Every one
invited to come.—Committee.
HEADS VASSAR COLLEGE
Academic news was made recent
ly when Sarah Gibson B'anding, an
aunt of William Blanding Young,
of 2000 East 12th street, Chatta
nooga, and Menlo, Ga., was named
the first woman president of Vassar
college.
The new president is a native of
Fayette County, Kentucky. She
was for 18 years dean of women
at the University of Kentucky and
for the past five years has been
dean of the College of Economics
at Cornell University.
The educator’s nephew, Young,
has only recently returned from the
army, where he served as private,
first class. At present he and Mrs.
Young are residing in Menlo.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2
Cancer Society’s
$12,000,000 Drive
Vitally Important
“Cancer is our greatest home
wrecker and, therefore, the success
of the American Cancer Society’s
drive for $12,000,000 during April
should be the vital concern of ev
ery parent,” Mrs. Stewart Colley, of
Grantville, state commander for the
Field Army, said this week.
“For our children’s sake, we must
continue our vigilance against such
diseases as diphtheria, infantile
paralysis, measles, whooping cough,
scarlet fever and typhoid fever, but
we must keep in mind that cancer
kills children as well as the middle
aged and elderly,” she reminded.
National figures for 1944 show
that the cancer death rate is in
creasing among all age groups.
“For all ages, one person is dying
from cancer every three minutes in
the United States, and unless some
thing is done about it, one out of
every eight living Americans will
die sooner or later from cancer.”
She reminded that cancer can be
cured if diagnosed early enough.
The Field Army’s funds are direct
ed toward research and treatment.
Vote Registration
By July 5 Will Be
Legal, States Cook
Attorney General Eugene Cook
has ruled that under the 1946 act,
persons may continue to register
for state elections through July 5
of this year. Persons whose names
appeared on the 1944 voters’ list or
who have registered since its filing
will automatically appear on the
voters’ list for all general and pri
mary elections to be held during
1946.
This provision applies to Geor
gians whose names were stricken
from the voters’ list in the past for
nonpayment of poll tax. Under the
new ruling, such persons must re
register to be eligible for voting in
1946 elections, even though the poll
tax is no longer a requisite for vot
ing in Georgia.
Cook observed also that there is
a law requiring registrars to com
plete their lists of registered voters
by June 1 each year. If the regis
trars do this, then it is also their
duty to prepare a supplemental list
of persons who register between
June 1 and July 5.
Cook’s interpretation of the new
Act appeared in a letter to J. Lon
Duckworth, chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
Farm Bureau Holds
Meeting Tuesday Night
In a meeting of the Farm Bureau
Tuesday night, W. M. Storey intro
duced the speaker of the evening.
Mr. Wingate, of the Atlanta office
of the Farm Bureau. Following are
notes taken by an interested lis
tener:
The purpose of these meetings
is to organize all farm owners in
the county in farm bureau. A small
South Georgia county bureau of 76
members in one week secured 502
members. Our biggest problem is
reaching 100,000 members in the
shortest possible time.
The gas tax fight finally we won
this gas refund for all farm bureau
members used in cultivation of
farms. Organized labor is the most
unpaid organized group in the U.
S. today, so we must become highly
organized to get our just price.
We grow around 8,000 bales of
cotton a year. The Farm Bureau
led the fight for the 85% parity
over the 52% law and passed it, now
it has passed the 92C parity.
As to cattle raising—get a good
pasture first, then get your cows,
let’s get back on a sound basis. We
will get a price on pulpwood down
here equal to the northern pulp if
we don’t let the manufacturers cut
the prices.
Our school situation is critical—
low pay for teachers must be in
creased.
Be sure we know what we want,
members, election next fall.
The following men were elected
as chairman in their community
for the membership drive of the
Farm Bureau in Chattooga county:
Alpine—J. P. Agnew.
Teloga—W. M. Storey.
Dirttown—Howard Baker.
Subligna—Tom Warnock.
Haywood—Tom Warnock.
Holland —Clyde Bennett, R. P.
Brison and J. B. Vaughn.
Lyerly—Will Cook.
Seminole—Paul Mount.
Dirtseller—Elmer Morrison.
Trion—Montie Maddux.
Summerville J. B. Whisnant,
Roy Baker and W. D. Warren.
YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
WHAT’S IT WORTH TO YOU?
(Article 4)
BY N. FARRIS VADEN, Manager
Social Security Board
Rome, Ga.
You remember that old fellow up
the block—you know, the old man
that lost his job.
That was a pretty sad case,
wasn’t it? Remember how he wan
dered around town looking for an
other job? His savings were used
up, and he just had to earn money
to keep him and his elderly wife
going. But who’s going to give an
old man a job? Yes, that was too
bad —he found nothing—he became
destitute —sent away to a poor
house finally, wasn’t he?
Will we be old men up the block?
Will you and I be forced to abandon
our homes one day because we lose
our jobs?
That’s a very important and
down to earth question, isn’t it?
And it applies to most every man,
woman and child in our country!
Congress attempted to solve this
problem in 1935 by passing the So
cial Security Act. How will this
program affect you and me when
we reach old age?
To better acquaint people of this
community with the insurance pro
visions of the Social Security Act,
The News, in co-operation with the
Rome office of the Social Security
Board, is presenting this series of
articles. Questions relative to this
program should be addressed to the
Social Security Board, Rome, Ga.
“When is a worker said to be
‘fully insured’?”
If a person has worked in a job,
covered by the law in at least half
as many calendar quarters as those
that elapsed between 1936, and the
quarter of death or attainment of
age 65, and has been paid at least
SSO in each of such calendar quar
ters he is said to be “fully insured.”
For instance’, a man who had work
ed in a mill most of the time dur
ing the past four years died last
January. If the man’s wage rec
ord shows that he had worked at
least part of the time in 14 of these
quarters, and received in wages at
least SSO in each of those 14 quar
ters, he would be “fully insured” as
long as he lives, whether or not he
has worked half of the elapsed
quarters.
“When is a wage earner said to
be ‘currently insured’?”
The term “currently insured” ap
plies to a worker who dies leaving
children under age 18 or one who
dies leaving a widow with children
under 18 in her care. In such case
Homer D. Jackson
Dies Last Thursday
Mr. Homer D. Jackson, known
by his many friends in Summer
ville and Berryton, died at a Savan
nah hospital Thursday at 3:20 p.m.,
after a brief illness. The husband
of Mrs. Ruth Arp Jackson and
only son of Mr. K. D. Jackson, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., also survived
by three sisters.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Berryton Methodist church
Sunday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. T.
J. Smith, of Alton Park, Chatta
nooga, officiating. Interment in
the Summerville cemetery.
First Baptist Church
Returns to Schedule
After several months interrup
tion in their services the First Bap
tist church will return to its usual
schedule of services on Sunday,
March 24.
Sunday School—10:00 A.M.
Morning Worship Hour—11:00
A. M.
Training Union —6:30 P.M.
Evening Worship—7:3o P.M.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all services.
SILVER HILL WHD f LUB
The Silver Hill WHD Club met
Wednesday afternoon, March 13, in
the home of Mrs. B. B. Baggett,
with a large .attendance present.
Mrs. W. B. High, president, had
charge of the meeting. Mrs. J. W.
Perry, program chairman, was in
charge of the program. Each mem
ber had a very interesting part on
the program.
Each member answered to roll
call with a new garden hint. Miss
Parish was in charge of the busi
ness program. She gave a lesson
chart on correct posture in doing
all the different lines of home work
and different ways to save energy.
During the social hour games
were played. The hostess served a
very delicious refreshment, carry
ing out a color scheme of green
and yellow. Mrs. E. E. High and
Mrs. J. W. Perry assisted in serving.
—Reporter.
the worker would be considered
currently insured, if he had worked
six quarters in covered employment
during the 12 quarters just before
his death. In other words, if he
had worked half the time during
the three years immediately pre
ceding his death, and had received
during that time as much as SSO in
any six of the 12 previous quarters
he would be “currently insured.”
The widow and children would then
be eligible for survivors benefits.
“Where should the widow of an
in, ured wage earner go to file her
claim for survivors insurance? Who
files the claim for her children?
How is the payment made?”
When a widow wishes to file
claim for old-age and survivors in
surance benefits she should go or
write to the Rome field office of
the Social Security Board. The ad
dress of the field office for Chat
tooga County is Social Security
Board, Post Office Building, Rome,
Ga. The widow also files the
claims for her children’s benefits.
The Social Security Board will fur
nish the forms and will give any
help the claimant may need in fill
ing out the papers. If the claim
is a proper one, under the law, it
will be approved and certified by
the Social Security Board for pay
ment, and then the U. S. Treasury
will send '.he benefit checks direct
to the claimant.
“In case a widow is awarded old
age and survivors insurance bene
fits, will the monthly benefits con
tinue for the rest of her life?”
Not in every case. A middle aged
widow’s benefits are discontinued
when her youngest child reaches 18,
but her benefits if her husband was
fully insured will begin again when
she reaches the age of 65, if she is
still unmarried. Her benefits will
be suspended if she holds a job in
covered employment where she
earns as much as sls per month.
But when she quits such work, her
benefits may begin again.
Next issue the answers to the fol
lowing questions will appear in The
News.
“Who gets the lump sum death
ppvment. provided in the Social Se
curity Act; and what is the amount
of this payment?”
“What is meant by the term
‘quarters of coverage’?”
“What does it cost?” “Who pays
for it?”
“What is the difference between
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
and Old-Age Assistance as provided
in the Social Security Act?”
Four Jackson Day
Dinners to Be Held
ATLANTA, March 19.—Plans for
four Jackson Day dinners were
completed today in Rome, Cedar
town, Gainesville and Atlanta,
Jackson P. Dick, state chairman,
said in announcing that two mem
bers of President Truman’s cabinet
will come to Georgia for the din
ners March 23.
“Julius A. Krug, recently appoint
ed secretary of the interior, and
U. S. Atty.-Gen. Tom Clark will
both speak to the Atlanta dinner
Saturday night,” > Mr. Dick said.
Judge Tom Candler, of the state
supreme court, will speak to the
Rome dinner, and Congressman
John Wood has accepted the invi
tation to speak to the Gainesville
dinner, according to County Chair
man James E. Palmer, who said he
expects 250 democrats to attend.
“From the response we have re
ceived throughout the state, I be
lieve Georgia will far exceed her
quota in this effort to raise funds
for the democratic national com
mittee to use in the congressional
elections to preserve the democratic
majority in the house and senate,”
Mr. Dick said.
Mr. Krug, who President Truman
appointed to replace Harold Ickes,
was formerly head of the War Pro
duction Board. This will be his
first out-of-Washington speech
since he was sworn in as secretary
of the interior.
“If the democrats should lose
their slight majority in the house
and the senate, it would mean also
the loss of all important commit
tee chairmanships now held by the
southern senators and congress
men,” Mr. Dick said, in calling for
the co-operation of all loyal demo
crats.
Contributions should be sent to
Mr. Dick at the Jackson Day head
quarters, 306 Henry Grade Hotel in
Atlanta, but checks should be made
payable to Hon. George Killion,
chairman of the democratic na
tional committee.
Pfc. Charles F. Toles has returned
from overseas after 37 months and
17 days of service for Uncle Sam.
, 1946.
Community School
Planning Group
Continues to Meet
The citizens of the Lyerly com
munity came together Tuesday
night to discuss the progress that
had been made in the school and
community improvements planned
at the last meeting and to make
plans for more improvements.
The committee appointed last
week to prepare a first aid room
in the school reported that they
had already painted the room and
had many of the articles needed to
go in the room. They asked for
donations from the community to
assist them in completing this work
before the next regular meeting.
The committee working on a
County Health Unit turned in one
hundred cards signed by the citi
zens of the community stating
that they were in favor of a full
health unit for the county.
In thinking further of the health
needs of the community the ques
tion of nutrition arose. Everyone
present agreed that Lyerly can and
must have a school lunch room be
fore another school year. A com
mittee was appointed to see what
would be needed to have an ade
quate lunch room and report back
at the next meeting.
It was announced that Mr. Mes
ser, who is with the Educational
Panel of the State Department of
Education, will be with the group
next Tuesday night to lead the dis
cussion and help with the continu
ation of plans already begun. It is
hoped that a large number of peo
ple of the Lyerly community will be
present.
County Unit Act
Cited by Jurist in
Vote Decision
Circuit Court’s Opinion on Negro
Voting Poses Dilemma Over Pri
mary Regulations
Georgia legal experts and politi
cal leaders pondered this week over
whether to follow the opinion of the
U. S. circuit court of appeals and
permit all qualified negroes to vote
in the state democratic primary,
or whether to abolish Georgia’s tra
ditional “county unit system” in an
effort to bar negroes from the par
ty ballot boxes, thereby not only
risking another court test, but plac
ing control of party affairs in the
hands of a few urban counties with
tightly controlled political organi
gations.
The complete text of the court’s
opinion, which became available
this week, contained the following
language:
“By the act of 1917, code sections
34-3212 to 3218 (the county unit
system of the Neill primary law)
the state has undertaken to control
the method of determining who has
been nominated in a primary for
United States senator, governor,
state house officers and justices of
the supreme court and court of ap
peals, there being state-wide elec
tions, by saying that neither a ma
jority nor a plurality of all votes
cast shall nominate, but that a
plurality of the votes in each coun
ty shall carry that county, and a
majority of “county units” carried,
as therein defined, shall determine
the nominee; and if no candidate
carried a majority of the county
units stnd there are but two candi
dates, the one who received a ma
jority of the popular votes shall be
the nominee; but if there are more
than two candidates and neither
carried a majority of the county
unit votes, there shall be a second
primary between the two leading
candidates whose result is to be de
termined on the same basis; with
other elaborate provisions on fur
ther contingencies. This act ap
pears in large measure to take such
primaries out of the control of the
parties initiating them, and to sub
stitute the state’s will in determin
ing the mode of choice of the party
nominee. These provisions show
that the state collaborates in the
conduct of the primary and puts
its power behind the rules of the
party. It adopts the primary as a
part of the public election machin
ery. The exclusion of voters made
by the party by the primary rules
become exclusions enforced by the
state. The persons making them
effective violate under color of
state law a right secured by the
constitution and laws of the United
States.”
This paragraph is the heart of
the decision by the U. S. circuit
court of appeals in the Muscogee
election case. It makes it obvious
that it is impossible to avoid the
results of the decision unless the
entire county unit system of nomi
nating state officers were abol
ished. Rural legislators and offi
cials of the smaller Georgia coun
ties would protest any move that
Governor Calls On
Vets to Lead in
Public Affairs
Gov. Ellis Amall told veterans of
World War II that “Georgia pre
sents this challenge to you: To stay
here in Georgia, to work here in
Georgia, to give to Georgia the best
that is in you, so that all of us
working together can be great and
strong and free.”
Addressing a large group of mid
dle Georgia ex-soldiers in the mu
nicipal auditorium in Macon, the
governor called upon the veterans
to exercise an active and definite
leadership in the affairs of the
state and nation.
“The political affairs of this na
tion and of our state,” he declared,
“rely heavily upon you. You are
the young men and women who
must govern this country and state.
You will have to set your faces
firmly against the corrupt who seek
to steal the people’s money; against
the inefficient who fritter it away;
against the demigods who seek by
dividing our people into discord
ant groups and classes to obtain
for themselves and their hench
men control over public affairs.”
He urged the veterans to inter
est themselves in the affairs and
progress of their local communities,
in the development of Georgia’s in
dustries, the upbuilding of its
farms, and in bringing about bet
ter schools and colleges, for in do
ing so they could contribute as
much to their state and nation as
they contributed by defending it.
“As I came down to Macon to
day,” Amall continued, “the green
buds already were unfolding the
mystery of spring. The peach trees
were in bloom. And men were talk
ing of new weapons of war more
horrible than any imaginings of
any conclave of devils. They were
speaking of weapons that in a sin
gle night could reduce every popu
lace and state in America to ruins
and slaughter a score of millions
of our people between sunlight and
sunrise.
“Unless we can build in this coun
try a democratic way of life, strong
enough physically and economical
ly to command respect and strong
enough morally to secure admira
tion, there will come a time when
the beauty of some other spring
will be marred by explosion of
bombs. The responsibility rests
upon all of our men, but in a pe
culiar sense it rests upon you be
cause yours must be the leadership
that will provide us with such
strength that we shall be able to
build so enduringly that peace can
become a permanent condition for
all mankind.
Mrs. Rebecca Morrows
Dies in Rome Hospital
Mrs. Rebecca Janie Morrows, of
Menlo, died in a Rome hospital
Tuesday at 11:55 a.m. after a brief
illness. Survived by her husband,
Oliver Berry Morrows, one son,
James; one daughter, Hildred, all
of Menlo; one sister, Mrs. Mary
Pledger, of Menlo; Melvin Deering,
of LaFayette, and George Deering,
of Cloudland, are her brothers. Fu
neral services will be conducted
from the Rosedale Presbyterian
church at Cloudland Thursday aft
ernoon at 2 p.m., with the Revs.
Floyd Higgins and Herbert Morgan
officiating. Interment in the Mt.
Union cemetery. Nephews of Mrs.
Morrows will serve as pallbearers.
County TB Association
Wants 6 Pairs Pa jamas
The Chattooga County TB Asso
ciation needs six pairs of outing
pajamas, size B, C. D, for a man
who has developed TB recently and
is going to Alto. Since there are
no pajamas for sale in the stores
we are asking the people of the
county to give us some old ones
that are in good shape. Please call
Mrs. Baker Farrar or Mrs. Agnes
Hammond.
would enable the “big city” coun
ties, several of which have strong
political organizations, to control
Georgia political affairs completely.
Suggestions that party' primaries
be abandoned in the state in favor
of some other method of selecting
democratic party nominees, have
found no support from the party
leadership or from state leaders.
A further appeal to the United
States supreme court may be taken,
to clarify the matter further, but
in view of the decision in the Texas
case and the voluntary action in
Alabama opening the primaries to
negro voters, no change in the le
gal position of the primary is an
ticipated.
1.50 A YEAR