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VOL. 60; NO. 21
Commencement Exercises
Summerville High School
The commencement exercises,
beginning May 23 and ending
May* 28, when 29 seniors will re
ceive their diplomas, will mark
the end of another school year.
Much progress has been made,
even though an overcrowded con
dition existed throughout the
year.
Thursday evening, May 23, at 8
o’clock Miss Annie Pitts will pre
sent her pupils in a recital at
the First Baptist church.
Sunday morning, May 26 at 11
o’clock the Rev. Ben Scarborough
will deliver the baccalaureate
sermon at the First Baptist
church.
Monday evening, May 27 at 8
o’clock the seniors will present
their class night program at the
Sturdivant gym. Immediately
preceding this program, pupils
from the seventh grade will be
presented with their certificates.
Tuesday evening, May 28, at
8:30 graduation exercises will be
held in the Sturdivant gymna
sium with Imogene Scoggins as
valedictorian and Betty Earl
Lee, salutatorian. The Hon. John
Homer Cook, co-ordinator of
teacher education with the State
Department of Education and
former superintendent of the
Summerville school, will deliver
the literary address.
Patrons and friends of the
school are cordially invited to at
tend all of the exercises.
The program is as follows:
Processional, senior class; in
vocation, the Rev. Harry Foster;
salutatory, Bettye Earl Lee; ad
dress, the Hon. J. H. Cook, of the
state department of education;
class song, senior class; valedic
tory, Imogene Scoggins; delivery
of diplomas, A. F. McCurdy,
chairman of board; announce
ments and awards, Supt. C. B.
Akin; alma mater, audience, and
benediction, the Rev. S. E. Adams.
SENIOR CLASS NIGHT
High Scnool Gymnasium
May 27, 1946. 8 P. M.
Program
Prelude—Anchors Aweigh.
All Hands on Deck—Captain
Leo Hartline.
Ship’s Log—Navigating Offi
cer Imogene Scoggins.
The Crew—Skipper Irene Da
vis.
Dip, Class, Dip the Oar—Sen
ior Crew.
Motto of Crew—Purser Bobby
Housch.
Colors of Crew —First Mate
Bobbie Allison.
Flower of Crew —Second Mate
Bettye Earl Lee.
Life, Ahoy—Senior Crew.
Ode of Crew —Yeoman Faye
Thomas.
Reminiscences of Crew —Chief
Engineer Sue Thomason.
Sailors Chantey Captain
Hartline, Yeoman Thomas, Cus
todian Wilson.
Giftorian of Crew —Custodian
Madeline H. Wilson.
Grumbler of Crew—Radio Op
erator Bettye Gaylor.
Shipmates Forever Senior
Crew.
Tips to the Crew —Boatswain
Mate Goldie Thomas.
Prophecy of Crew—Lookouts
Louise Lawson and Vera Petitt.
Sailors’ Shag—Custodian Wil
son and Captain Hartline.
Last Will and Testament of
Crew —Machinist Mate James
Brown.
Captain’s Farewell Captain
Hartline.
Finale —Sailing.
Persons: The Senior Crew.
Scene: The Good Ship Senior.
Brownings Captured
In Chattanooga
D. B. and J. C. Browning es
caped from the local public
works camp Monday night, along
with two other white men, Clar
ence Payne and Arnold Wilson.
Warden Dewey Hammond
learned that two local girl friends
of the Brownings were to meet
them in Chattanooga, and sent
Guard A. S. Alexander to that
city in an effort to apprehend
them. •
When the Browning brothers
showed up at the Lookout Hotel
in Chattanooga, they were ar
rested by Police Officer R. L.
Parker and returned here by
Guard Alexander.
Still sought are Clarence
Payne, white, age 29, height 5/7,
weight 145, medium build, with
black hair and brown eyes. His
home address is listed as 1617
Polk St., Chattanooga. Also, Ar
nold Wilson, of Fort Payne, Ala.,
who is described as height 5/6,
weight 136 pounds, medium build,
with brown hair and eyes.
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ALL-DAY SERVICE AT
WEST SUMMERVILLE
RAPT IST SUNDAY
The Rev. F. M. Higgins, pastor
of the West Summerville Baptist
Church, announces that there
will be an all-day service at the
church Sunday. Lunch will be
served at noon. The public is cor
dially invited to come and enjoy
the services of the day.
Miss Allie Bryant
Passes Sunday Night
BY KATHARINE A. HENRY
The passing into the beyond of
Miss Allie Bryant, the last mem
ber of an old and prominent
family, occurred at her residence
at 11:30 Sunday night, May 19,
1946. Miss Bryant had been ill
several months, but her death
came suddenly and unexpected.
Miss Bryant was the sister of
the late Dr. W. J. Bryant, who
was the beloved physician of this
county for more than fifty
years. She is survived by two
nieces, Mrs. Anna Bolling, of
Summerville; Mrs. Sam Pollock,
of Gadsden; two nephews, Messrs
Eugene and Ed Lee, of Chatta
nooga.
The funeral services were con
ducted by the Rev. Wilson J. Cul
pepper at the First Baptist
church at 3 o’clock Tuesday aft
ernoon. Interment in the Bethel
cemetery.
Miss Bryant was a devoted and
loyal member of the Baptist
church, faithful in attendance to
church, Sunday school, to her
Missionary Society, where her
presence will be sadly missed, but
the memory of her pleasing per
sonality will never fade.
Miss Allie loved life and con
sidered it a wonderful gift. She
always drew from it enjoyment
and contentment. Her person
ality radiated happiness. She
had been given that, rare gift
called charm.
Her young womanhood was of
that period called the “gay 90’s”
when belles and beaux, romance
and gilded manners were prev
alent, ladies fashions were polo
naise dresses with long trains,
which women like her wore so
gracefully. Miss Allie was beau
tiful, the Lillian Russell type. Her
admirers often spoke of her strik
ing resemblance to the famed
beauty. Her beauty did not make
her vain. She remained unspoiled
and unspotted.
Her gifts were many. She
wrote with ease and beauty of
?xpression, her musical talents
were outstanding, and she proved
to be no poor business woman,
making sound investments. Hers
was a home life, a career was
never attractive to her. She
made home happy for her aged
parents to whom in their de
clining years she gave her ten
derest care. But her crowning
gift was her unfaltering faith in
Eternal Life. Her going was only
a change of homes, where her
savior and dear ones were on the
hreshold to welcome her. How
sweet the music, of the harps
must have been for her entrance.
Her charm will long be remem
bered by her friends. To the be
reaved, let us say rejoice with
her.
LAST PLANS MADE
FOR ‘POPPY’ SALE
Committee chairmen and
members of the Veterans of For
eign Wars announce plans for
the poppy sale on Friday, May
21. and Saturday, June 1.
Pretty high school girls will
sell the flowers made by dis
abled veterans. Chattooga Coun
ty will be thoroughly covered by
the pretty girls. Red Powell is
chairman of the Summerville,
Lyerly and Berryton area. J. C.
Cavin is chairman of the Menlo
area, and Bricker is chairman of
the Trion area.
SUBLIGNA BACCALAUREATE
HELD LAST SUNDAY
The baccalaureate service at
Subligna High school was held
last Sunday in the school audi
torium. After the processional
Rev. George Erwin gave the in
vocation. A congregational hymn
was followed by the scripture and
and a special vocal number, “The
Lord Is My Shepherd.’ Rev.
Leßoy Obert, pastor of the Trion
Presbyterian church, gave a most
interesting sermon on Christ as
the foundation of a good life. Mr.
J. D. White, Sr., pronounced the
benediction.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1946
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JIMMIE CARMICHAEL MEETS THE VOTERS. After the great meeting at Moultrie,
where the Carmichael platform of “Good government and honest government” was out
lined in detail, enthusiastic Georgians crowded about the candidate for Governor to pledge
their support in the July primary. Jimmie Carmichael is shown shaking hands with some
of the thousands of South Georgians who attended the meeting.
Increasing Need
For Workers on
Valley Head Road
The job opportunities in Chat
tooga County continue to be
principally for the textile and
hosiery industries. There is an
increasing need for construction
woikers on the Summerville-Val
ley Head Highway and the hous
ing construction near Trion.
Shepherd Construction Co. is
making arrangements to fur
nish transportation from Sum
merville to Menlo for workers on
the highway project. Workers are
requested to meet the truck at
the court house at 6 a. m. No
charge will be made for trans
portation. There also is a need
for cook, counter men and wait
resses for the eating establish
ments, and sewing and chenille
machine operators.
Applications are being receiv
ed for the job openings at the
Battey State Hospital in Rome
and may be made through the
U. S. E. S. representative at the
court house in Summerville on
each Thursday morning.
In Rome, a number of clerical
workers are needed. These in
clude typists, stenographers and
office clerks, both male and fe
male; sales clerks for 5 and 10-
cent stores and salesmen for in
surance debits. The stove foun
dries need moulders, mounters
and shakeouts and several of the
eating establishments need cooks
and waitresses Automobile me
chanics, painters and body and
fender men are on order as well
as female trainees for the Cela
nese Corp. Numerous laborers
are also needed
A representative of the United
States Employment Service may
be contacted at the Chattooga
County Court House in Summer
ville each Thursday morning or
applicants may apply directly to
the office in Rome at 522 Broad
St., Monday through Friday.
Vets Have Until
June 30 to Re-Enlist
Within 90-Day Limit
T/4 Buren Pertree, local rep
resentative of the U. S. Army Re
cruiting Service, this week warn
ed veterans that they have until
June 30 to re-enlist within the
90-day time limit and still retain
the same rank as that held at
the time of discharge.
T/4 Pertree stated that those
who re-enlist after June 30 must
do so within 20 days from date
of discharge in order to retain
their grade. However, men who
re-enlist within 90 days alter
June 30 will still draw the re-en
listment bonus of SSO for each
complete year served in the last
period of enlistment.
Anyone interested in obtain
ing information pertaining to the
enlistment program may con
tact T/4 Pertree in the lobby of
the post office in Summerville
on Wednesday of each week.
Howard Hawkins, of Trion, was
the week-end guest of the Um
phurs family at Berryton.
Miss Pitts Presents
Pupils in Recital
Miss Annie Pitts wall present
her pupils in a recital tonight
(Thursday* at 8 o’clock in the
First Baptist Church. The public
is invited to attend.
The program is as follows:
Chorus, Blossom Time (Ler
man).
Piano Solo, Poupee (Poldinic
Maxine Norton.
Fiona Solo, Brier Rose (Ha
mer) : Mary Louise Flanagan.
Piano Trio, Buy a Broom (arr.
Ellison): Cha A®; Sumner, Joann
Sumner, Doris Johnston.
Piano Solo, Sparkles (Ketter
er) : Elaine Hemphill.
Piano Solo, Verlassen (Alone)
(Cooper): Martha Tutton.
Piano Solo, On a Bright Blue
Sea (Stevens): Jane Lowry.
Piano Duet, Autumn Gold (Co
erne): Betty Jean Norton and
Dora Ann Alexander.
Piano Solo, Gypsy Rondo and
Minuet (Haydn, arr. Bampton):
Carolyn Palmer.
Reading: Joann Morgan.
Piano Solo, Dance of the Cob
blers (Williams): Joyce Groce.
Piano Solo, The Grasshopper’s
Frolic (Dority): Charlotte Mc-
Ginnis.
Piano Solo, Dance of the Mid
gets (Cadman): Martha Sue Gor
don.
Piano Duet, Merry Shipmates
(Valdemar): Thyra Calhoun and
Betty McCool.
Piano Solo, Leaves in the Wind
(MacDonald): Jean Conor.
Piano Solo, On a Glider (De-
Leone); Pauline Palmer.
Piano Duet, Twilight Song
(Shackley): Kathryn Weaver and
Barbara Cash.
Piano Solo, Country Gardens
(Grainger): Kathleen Logan.
Piano Duet, Dance of the June
Bugs (Spaulding): Mary Lina
Powell and Marilyn McCurdy.
Piano Solo, Hungarian Dance
(Brahms): Paul Daniel.
Reading: Hilda Tyler.
Piano Solo, Rapsodie Mignone
(Koelling): Ann Brogdon
Piano Solo, Grand Va’lse Bril
lante (Choppin Op. 18): Jane
Stephenson.
Piano Duet, Ballet Music from
Rcsamunde (Schubert): Pat Mc-
Curdy and Maidell Hemphill.
Piano Solo, Minuet a 1’ Antique
(Paderewski): Dot Brogdon.
Chorus, Noddin' (Galloway).
Lyerly Baccalaureate
Address May 26th
The annual baccalaureate ad
dress of Lyerly High School will
be given by the Rev. H. R. Fos
ter, of Summerville Presbyterian
Church, Sunday morning, May
26, at 11 o’clock.
The commencement address
and delivery of diplomas will be
made by the Hon. Frank Gross
at 8:15 Monday night, May 27.
The seniors are to take a trip
to St. Simons Island the follow
ing week.
Graves T. Myers, Jr., of Oak
Ridge. Tenn., spent the week-end
here with his wife. They were
dinner guests Sunday of Mrs. G.
T. Myers near LaFayette.
Attendance at
County Revival
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Is Still Growing
The county-wide revival being
conducted by Evangelist Pear
son at the court house is still
growing in attendance and in
terest. The men’s prayer meet
ing every morning at 10 o’clock
is growing in interest and at
endance. You are missing some
thing when you miss this service.
Many have accepted Christ;
many have dedicated their lives
to God. Come and hear these
soul-stirring messages.
The evangelist is asking all the
women who are interested in the
welfare of their town and coun
ty to meet each afternoon at 3
o’clock at the Methodist Church
for prayer.
The Rev. Ben Scarborough has
chaige of the singing at each
evening service at 7:30 o’clock at
the court house.
The evangelist is inviting all
the business men and women of
the town and county to be the
special guests at the Monday ev-
I ning service. This group is asked
! to sit in a special place arranged
for them.
On Tuesday evening, the town
and county officials are cordial
ly invited to come and sit togeth
er as our special guests. Wednes
day evening will be known as
family night. The various church
groups, who were our guests dur
ing the week, came in a great
way.
The evangelist is asking ev
erybody to come Saturday night
and Sunday night and bring your
neighbors and friends. Let’s all
make Sunday go-to-church day
all over the town and county.
Let’s fill the churches of the town
and county Sunday morning at
10 o’clock.
Farm Bureau to
Meet Saturday
As you noticed last week the
directors of the County "Farm
Bureau set this coming Saturday,
May 25, for their regular quar
terly meeting date, but due to the
bad weather that we have had
they have decided to postpone
he meeting to a later date which
will be announced.
It was felt that if we had a
few days without rain that the
farmers would almost have to be
in the lields at work, and would
not turn loose to come to a meet
ing. It is regretted that the
meeting was postponed because
we had two speakers from Ala
j bama scheduled for speeches, but
perhaps we will be able to get
them another date.
Freeman Enlists
In the U. S. Navy
ATLANTA. May 20. Alfred
■ Alonzo Freeman, of Summer
i ville, has enlisted in the navy
■ at the U. S. Navy Recriting Sta
i tion in the new post office build
| ing in Atlanta, and is now among
■ the 500,000 men to be retained
lon active duty by the navy in
i peacetime.
Four Candidates Qualify
In Commissioner’s Race
! E7 REPRESENTATIVE
IN SUMMERVILLE
EVERY THURSDAY
Beginning today, a represen
tative of the Rome division of
•of the Department of Veterans
Service will be in Summerville
Thursday of each week instead
of every second and fourth
Thursdays to assist veterans in
obtaining any benefits under
the GI bill of rights, claims for
pensions or problems confront
ing the veterans or their de
pendents.
Veterans of Chattooga Coun
ty may contact the represen
tative any Thursday at the
court house.
Riegel Companies
Planning New
Corporate Set-Up
The boards of directors of the
Trion Co. and Ware Shoals Man
ufacturing Co., of Ware Shoals,
S. C., have adopted resolutions
recommending to their stock
holders a plan of consolidation
of the two plants and Riegel
Textile Corp., which has been
their New York selling agency
for a number of years, into a
new corporation that will carry
on the name “Riegel Textile
Corp.” Stockholders’ meetings
have been called for the third
week in June and the plan will
be consummated about June 19.
if it is approved.
The new corporation will have
two plants, the Trion division
and the Ware Shoals division
These plants now have over 8,-
500 employees and contain 154,-
000 spindles and 4,000 looms.
Their net sales in 1945 totaled
in excess of 33 million dollars.
The sales division will continue
at 342 Madison Ave., New York,
and will have branch offices in
Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. Rie
gel Development Laboratories.
Inc., which now carries on de
velopment work for the two
plants, will continue as a wholly
owned subsidiary of the new cor 7
poration.
A 1 of the common stock of the
new corporation will be distrib
uted to the present common
stockholders of the Trion Co. and
Ware Shoals Mfg. Co. The plan
proposes that the holders of the
Trion Co. common stock will re- |
ceive two shares of common stock
of the new corporation for each
share they now hold and the
common stockholders of Ware
Shoals Mfg. Co. will receive 4.2
shares of common stock for each
share they now hold.'
The outstanding 5 per cent
preferred stocks of the two
plants will be redeemed, if the
plan is approved, and a new issue
of preferred stock will be sold
through underwriters.
There will be no change in the
executive, sales or operating per
sonnel and no change in poli
cies. The companies have been
operated as a group for a num
ber of years, all sales being
made through the New York
sales office since 1927. The pro
posed consolidation simplifies
the corporate structure of the
group and will facilitate the
merchandising of Riegel prod
ucts and the planning of pro
duction.
The directors of the new com
pany, elected on May 20, will in
clude J. E. Sirrine, Greenville, S.
C.; L. C. Adams, Greenwood, S.
C.; Andrew Cooper, Frederick F.
Cooper and Mark A. Cooper, of
Rome; N. Barnard Murphy, of
Trion: Georgianne C. Summers
by, of Ware Shoals, S. C.; Wil
liam Berry, of New York; John
L. Riegel, of New York, and Ger
man H. H. Emory, of Fairfield,
Conn.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO
SAVE A LIFE
Our hungry neighbors in Eu
rope are calling for bread. You
are urged to come to their aid,
states H. R. Foster, chairman of
the emergency food relief fund.
As early as possible, leave your
gift at the City Hall with Miss
Mary Thompson, or with some
one in your community who is
looking after this work. They are
looking to us, let us not fail
them, Mr. Foster said.
•
Miss Doris Umphurs is spend
ing several weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. William Maurer and daugh
ter in Gloucester City, N. J. Mrs.
Maurer is the former Miss Ruby
Young, of Berryton.
Circulates in Best
Section of Northwest
Georgia.
$1.50 A YEAR
• Politics are beginning to sim
mer in Chattooga, the Demo
cratic Executive Committee hav
ing fixed the date of the county
Democratic primary for July 17,
and noon on June 1 as the dead
line for qualifying. The positions
to be filled include judge of city
court, representative in the state
legislature and four members of
the board of county commission
ers of roads and revenue.
As we go to press, four candi
dates have qualified in the com
missioners' race. Guy Harold
Toles. Jr., a war veteran with an
outstanding record in World War
11. wants to represent Alpine, Te
loga and Dirtseller districts. He
is opposed. by Lonnie H. Ward.
Homer B. Hix, incumbent
from Dirttown, Subligna and
Hayw'ood district, is asking for
another term.
R. C. Floyd, incumbent from
Lyerly, Seminole and Coldwater
district, also wants to continue
in office.
It is expected that an unus
ually heavy vote will be cast in
the coming election. Most of our
soldiers have returned home and
• the age limit has been lowered
• to allow 18-year-olds to vote. The
■ poll tax has been abolished and
past-due poll taxes are no bar to
| registering and voting.
Candidates Must
Qualify by June 1
The Chattooga County Demo
[' cratic Executive Committee met
Thursday, May 16, and set dates
ior qualifying and the election.
All candidates must qualify
and pay entrance fees by Satur
day, June 1, at 12 o’clock noon.
The county primary will be
held on July 17th, the same date
as state primary.
Entrance fees were set as fol
lows: Representative in the Gen
eral Assembly, $100; judge city
court. SSO; Board of Road and
Revenue Commissioners S3O.
Horace M. Johnson
Killed Near Berryton
Horace M. Johnson, 66, who
was killed by a train near Ber
ryton Tuesday, May 14, has been
a resident of Chattooga County
for a few years. survived by
his wife, Mrs. Elsie Blackmon
Johnson; three daughters, Mrs.
Nell Lancaster, Mrs. Alvie Chand
. ler and Miss Jane Johnson, all of
near Clarksville, Tenn.; one son,
Sidney Johnson, of Bemis, Tenn.,
and one half-sister, Mrs. Myrtle
Tapley, of Jackson, Tenn.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the Berryton Church of
God Thursday at 3:30 by the
Rev. Dale and the Rev. W. T.
Waits. Interment was in the
Berryton Cemetery.
COMMUNION SERVICE
AT BETHEL PRESBYTERIAN
Bethel Presbyterian Church
will hold its regular service Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock, ac
cording to the pastor, the Rev.
H. R. Foster. Communion service
will be observed and the public
is cordially invited.
INFANT SIMMONS
Funeral services for the infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. James T.
Simmons were conducted from
the graveside of the Wooten
Cemetery, near Trion, Sunday
morning.
Surviving are his parents,
three sisters, Dorothy, Margaret
Joyce and Cynthia Ann, and one
brother, James Wesley, all of
Summerville.
I WHO KNOWS?
1. What is a “phonic wheel?”
2. By whom is Germany’s
Rhineland, Ruhr and Saar areas
now controlled?
3. How many doctors are there
in China?
4. For what purpose were ten
nis balls used during the war?
5. What is the Federal tax on
playing cards?
6. W hat are the two worst epi
demic diseases in Japan?
7. Are there more or fewer
banks in this country now than
in 1915?
8. How is the Territory of Alas
ka represented in the U. S. Con-
I gress?
9. What great sports event of
national interest will be revived
on Memorial Day, May 30?
10. What are the oldest works
j of art discovered to date?