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VOL. 60; NO. 22
Ten Qualify for
County Offices
At noon Wednesday, 10 candi- J
dates had qualified for the va
rious offices to be filled at the
election on July 17. The deadline
for qualifying is set for Saturday,
at noon, June 1. The following
candidates have officially enter
ed the race by paying their en
trance fees to H. M. McWhorter,
chairman of the county Demo
cratic committee:
For County Commissioner of
Board of Roads and Revenue:
First district, Bob Davison and
Dr. W. B. Hair; Third district,
Harold Toles, Jr., Lonnie H. Ward
and George A. Kling; Fourth dis
trict, R. C. Floyd; Fifth district,
H. B. Hix.
For Judge of City Court, Chat
tooga County: C. D. Rivers.
For Representative: L. B. Har
rell.
Superior Court
In Short Session
The May term of superior court
opened Monday morning with
Judge Claude H. Porter presiding.
The farmers being busily engag
ed with their crops, no jury was
drawn, and Judge Porter cleared
the docket of cases pending
which did not require a trial by<
jury. Divorce decrees were issued
in 20 cases under the new law,
which permits the judge to hear
and pass on uncontested divorce
petitions. Most of the week would
have been required under the old
system of trial by jury to dis
pose of these cases. In all of the
following cases, decrees of total
divorce were granted the peti
tioners:
Dennis E. Crane vs. Hazel B.
Crane, Nell Keef Cavin vs. Hall
Cavin, Katie Wilson vs. George
W. Wilson, Katherine Stowe Pet
ett vs. Berry Warren Petett, Delia
Wilson Roberts vs. William J
Roberts, Nola Woodall Wilson vs.
Lewis Wilson, Mary Adams Dil
lard vs. Burley A. Dillard, Robert
L. Lewis vs. Mildred G. Lewis,
Dorothy Lee Chandler vs. Nellie
Stephenson Chandler, Essie Lou
Mann Blackmon vs. J. R. Black
mon, Luther E. Devore vs. Nellie
Morrow Devore, Edna Inez Nor
ton vs. Sidney F. Norton, Gladys
M. Shatzer vs. Philip S. Shatzer,
Abbie Louise Barnes vs. Erby C.
Barnes
Also, Adell Boyd vs. Jack Boyd,
Charles D. Johnson vs. Mary M.
Johnson, Jeanette Cameron Ay
ers vs. DeForest Ayers, Betty Sisk
Bowlin vs. Robert F. Bowlin, Floy
A. Manns vs. Lester Manns and
Jesse Lewis Tucker vs. Katherine
Elders Tucker.
Traffic Check
Program is Now
In Progress
Major W. E. Spence, director of
the Georgia Department of Pub
lic Safety, this week announced
the nationwide traffic check pro
gram is in progress. The law en
forcement officers in Georgia are
adding their support to the pro
gram. The primary points of the
program are:
Check your driving, check your
car and check accidents.
The traffic safety check will be
applied to those motor vehicles,
passenger cars, trucks and buses,
stopped by officers for traffic vi
olations or those involved in ac
cidents. The motor vehicle op
erator is being asked to display
his driver’s license, and then his
vehicle will be checked for
brakes, lights, tires and wind
shield wipers. This enforcement
campaign will cover a period of
at least six weeks.
President Truman, who has
given this program his personal
endorsement, said in addressing
the Washington conference, “For
the most part, street and high
way accidents are produced by
carelessness and neglect. They
can be sharply curtailed through
a concerted effort.”
EARL C. ROSE FREED
AT PRELIMINARY TRIAL
At a preliminary hearing Tuesr
day morning before Squire Tom
Brown and Judge C. D. Rivers,
Earl C. Rose was freed on a
charge of statutory rape. His re
lease was ordered due to lack of
evidence. Two other cases charg
ing violation of probation are
to be heard Saturday by Judge
Rivers.
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Donations Are
Asked for Clean
Up of Cemetery
The News has been requested
to solicit donations to be used in
cleaning up the local cemetery.
Due to the long rainy season, the
worst we have ever experienced
according to many of our older
citizens, the whole cemetery is
overgrown with vegetation. In
fact, it might be aptly described
as a “wilderness of weeds.” It is
believed that those with loved
ones there will welcome the op
portunity offered to have their
graves cleaned up. A contract for
the work has been made, and all
donations received will be cred
ited on cost of same. Send all
donation to The Summerville
News and they will be acknowl
edged through the columns of
The News.
Tell your friends and neighbors
about this and let us all join to
gether and have a cemetery of
which we will be justly proud.
Bill Butler Arrested
Above Cloudland
Bill Butler, a white man, was
arrested on Lookout Mountain
last Thursday afternoon by Dep
uty Sheriffs Bloodworth and
Whitley. Butler has two cases
pending against him here, as
sault and battery and obtaining
goods under false pretenses. He
skipped his bonds six or eight
months ago and has continued at
large since that time. His bonds
man, Gurney Wells, accompanied
the officers when they rounded
him up and returned him to jail
here- Butler was located about
three miles above Cloudland, and
offered no resistance when ar
rested.
It is probable that Butler will
remain in the county jail until
his case is disposed of, no bonds
man having come forward to
make bail since his re-arrest.
West Summerville W.H.D.
Club Holds May Meeting
The West Summerville Wom
en’s Home Demonstration Club
meeting was held recently with
Mrs. J. C. Tims with 10 members
present. Miss Mittie Dodd, pres
ident, presided and Mrs. Claude
Bagley gave the devotion, using
as her scripture Romans 8:38-39.
Each one answered with her fa
vorite flower as the roll was call
ed.
May being the month on pre
paring for a canning season, this
subject was discussed as to the
proper sealing and sterilization
of the containers-
Mrs. Rice Morgan read a paper
about the starving children in
war-torn countries, and an offer
ing was taken for the famine
relief.
Miss Nell Parish, county home
demonstration agent, carried out
a flower contest which was of
much interest.
The coipmunity flower show,
which consisted of many beauti
ful flowers contributed by the
members of the club, was enjoyed
very much, and first place was
given to Mrs. W. L. Crouch. Dur
ing the social hour Mrs. Tims,
assisted by Mrs John R. Bur
gess, served refreshments.
McWhorter Charged With
Assault and Battery
W- L. McWhorter, Jr., of Moun
tain View, was arrested Satur
day by Deputy Sheriff Arthur
Bloodworth on a warrant charg
ing assault and battery. The war
rant was sworn out by the de
fendant’s father, W. L. (Hoover)
McWhorter, Sr., who charges the
alleged assault occurred on May
24. The case will be heard by
Squire Tom Brown at 10 a. m.
Saturday.
BAILEY HOME IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
The home of Sam Bailey, a col
ored man living in the northeast
section of the city on the river
road, was destroyed by fire about
noon Tuesday. The fire develop
ed from a defective flue while
Bailey’s wife was cooking din
ner, and resulted in a total loss
of all the household goods. Bail
ey is an employe of the Summer
ville Lumbp’ 1 Co.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1946
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man F6F) soars over the San Diego area in a dress rehearsal for
similar air data operations planned as part of the atomic bomb
tests at Bikini atoll this summer. The drone (foreground) is con
trolled by the “mother” Hellcat immediately in the rear while a
second plane serves as standby should the first one fail. During the
tests four drones, each with two control planes, will be launched
from the USS Shangri-la and will be controlled first from the car
rier’s deck, then from a mother plane in the air and finally from
the ground control operator on Roi Island where they will land.—
(Joint Army-Navy Task Force One Photo.)
Carmichael Given
Victory Pledge at
Series of Rallies
At enthusiastic rallies in west
and southwest Georgia, Jimmie
Carmichael emphasized the im
portance of good government to
the industrial expansion of the
state and to the prosperity of
Georgia farmers before large
crowds that heard him at Green
ville, Ellaville and Americus.
Target of a combined attack by
two former governors, Eugene
Talmadge and Eurith D. Rivers,
each seeking the office for the
fifth time, Carmichael warned
that a return to the waste, ex
travagance and graft that had
disgraced Georgia in the past
would result in a state debt even
larger than the $36,000,000 fig
ure left behind at the end of
1942.
Carmichael also lashed out at
the Ku-Klux Klan, whose su
preme wizard was involved in the
“asphalt monopoly scandal” of
the Rivers regime, and which is
divided in its support between
Talmadge and Rivers, its former
supreme lecturer.
Student voters, who have ex
pressed their preference for Car
michael by margins ranging from
12 to one and from 25 to one in
elections at Mercer, Emory, Tech,
Shorter, the University of Geor
gia and other colleges, will hear
their favorite this week. Carmi
chael will speak at a Georgia
Tech-Emory rally Thursday and
at the University of Georgia Fri
day. On Saturday, June 1, be
sides a speech over a radio net
work, he will deliver an address
at LaGrange, where an active
Carmichael for Governor Club
has enrolled a record number of
voters.
On Tuesday, June 3, Carmi
chael speaks in Fitzgerald in the
morning and Tifton in the aft
ernoon. On Wednesday, he will
return to southwest Georgia for
speeches at Cuthbert and Blake
ly.
Mrs. Earl Nix and son, Gar
land, and Mary Sue Williams at
tended the graduation exercises
in Bremen Friday night.
Joyce Mobbs left this week to
spend the summer months with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Marion
F. Mobbs, of Gaylesville, Ala.
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Voting Requirements
For 1946 Announced
By Attorney General
' State Officials and Leaders
! Urge Citizens to Register
And Then Vote.
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' Requirements for qualification
of voters in the July 17 primary
; have been given by Attorney |
General Eugene Cook, who cites j
the following constiutional stip-1
ulations:
‘ 1. A person must be 18 years
’ or older on or before Nov. 5.
' 2. A registrant must have been
a Georgia resident xor one year
and of the county where he in-
; .ends to vote “six months next
' preceding an election in which
1 ne offers to vote.”
3. A person must qualify under
one of these constitutional stip
ulations:
' 4. Be able to “correctly read
in the English language any par-
; agraph of the Constitution of the
United States or of this state
1 and correctly write the same in
the English language, when read
to them by any one of the regis
trars, or, if unable to comply
with this solely because of phys
ical disability, be able to ‘under
stand and give a reasonable in
terpretation of any paragraph’
of the Federal or state consti
tutions.”
Cook emphasized that a per
son not 18 years old but who will
attain that age on or before Nov.
5 of this year will be entitled to
register and vote in the 1946 pri
mary and general election.
The attorney general also de
clared that voters’ oaths “should
be actually made,” and assert
ed, “if the applicant can not read
or sign his name upon request,
the officers in charge should
read or repeat the oath and sign
the applicant’s name.”
While the above clarification
was being given, other state of
ficials and leaders were urging
the people to vote and register
to make democracy work at its
best in Georgia and obtain the
finest results from our political
system. “The way to get the best
governor or other officials,” they
said, “is to secure the heaviest
possible registration and then
get out the vote.”
July 5 is the last day for reg
istration.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene White, of Mobile, Ala., is
visiting his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs- Hugh White, of R.F.D. 2.
Job Openings in
Chattooga County
Reduced This Week
Due to the fact that Thursday,
May 30, is National Memorial
Day and a legal holiday, no rep
resentative from the United
States Employment Service will
be at the court house here today.
Job openings in Chattooga
County are reduced in number
this week because of some reduc
ed production, vacations and oth
er causes.
Workers are still needed on the
Summerville-Menlo-Valley Head
Highway job and transportation
is furnished free of charge from
Summerville to Menlo for those
who wish to work on this proj
ect. They leave from the court
house in Summerville in time to
reach Menlo by 7 a. m.
Laborers are needed on the
housing project near Trion and
in addition to these there are
openings for female knitting ma
chine operators and loopers, che
nille machine operators, cooks,
counter men and waitresses and
textile workers.
In Rome, there are openings
for shipping clerks, experienced
labor foreman, sawmill workers
and an opening for a complete
logging crew who must have log
ging equipment, mules and
truck; female operators for the
production of rayon yard, laun
dry workers; filling station por
ters, molders and foundry labor
ers: typists, stenographers, cooks,
salesmen, domestic servants,
pressers (machine and hand);
nurses, insurances salesmen; one
first-class sheetmetal worker, au
to painters and body and fender
men; chenille and power sewing
machine operators; laborers for
building and road construction,
and numerous openings at the
Battey State Hospital.
Wreck Demolishes
Two Automobiles
Above Trion May 21
About 2:30 a. m. on Tuesday,
May 21, one miles north of Trion
on the Dixie Highway, there oc
curred a remarkable wreck . . .
remarkable inasmuch as no one
was killed or seriously injured.
A 1937 Chevrolet coach, driven
by Woody Reed, of Centre, Ala.,
was standing on the highway,
headed south. A 1946 DeSoto
coach, traveling south at a speed
estimated by the driver at about
50 miles per hour, struck the
back of Reed’s car. The DeSoto
was driven by Don Kern, of Ak
ron, Ohio, who was delivering it
to a doctor in Columbus, Ga. On
the front seat of Reed’s car was
Miss Hazel Madden, and in the
rear another couple, Miss Peggy
Stephenson and Kenneth Robin
son, all from Centre, Ala.
The impact of Kern’s car cata
pulted the couple in the rear of
Reed’s car over into the front
seat, on top of Reed and Miss
Madden. Miss Stephenson suf
fered a gashed cheek and severe
bruises, while Robinson received
a painful head contusion and
bruises. Reed and Miss Madden
were severely jolted up and
bruised. Kern also suffered from
shock and bruises, and remained
in Trion Hospital until Tuesday
afternoon. The other two couples
were brought to Summerville hos
pital by Sheriff Glenn, and aft
er treatment returned to their
homes in Centre.
The Reed car was practically
demolished, and the front of the
DeSoto badly damaged. Both
drivers swore out attachments
for each other’s cars, each blam
ing the other for the accident.
Reed is quoted as stating that he
stopped when flagged by some
men using a flashlight, whom he
thought were officers of the law.
Kern stated that Reed had no
tail light burning on the rear of
his car, and that he (Kern) was
blinded momentarily by the
lights of a passing car and that
he never saw Reed’s car until he
struck it.
Lyerly Masons to
Confer 2nd Degree
Saturday night, June 1, the
Masons of Lyerly will hold their
regular communication. Two
candidates will be examined and
if found well prepared, the sec
ond degree will probably be con
ferred. If the degree is not con
ferred, a date will be announced
for the conferring of the degree
at an early date.
The master of the lodge will
be away with the Lyerly senior
class at St. Simons Island. Bro.
Jim Hollis will act for him.
Whitfield Killed
On Menlo Highway
City Has New
Police Auto
The city has purchased a brand
new 1946 model Ford for use of
the police department. Delivery
was made Thursday by W. F.
Aldred, manager of the Hair Mo
tor Co., local Ford dealers. The
car is a two-door coach model
and is equipped with a siren.
With this car, the police depart
ment will be able to render effi
cient serviec and afford protec
tion to our citizens in every part
of the city, and the police force
will no longer be forced to wait
for a taxi before they can answer
an emergency call.
Hon. Frank Gross
Delivers Address
To Lyerly Seniors
Monday evening, May 27, the
Hon- Frank Gross delivered a
challenging address to his home
town senior class. He challenged
(hem to be members of the upper
15 per cent and to raise their
moral standards rather than low
er them. It was a very inspiring
address and Mr. Gross received
the hearty congratulations of his
Lyerly friends.
The salutatory address was
well given by Robertine Jackson;
the valedictory was made by
Wallace Johnson; Mrs. Doster in
troduced the speaker, who was
one of her former pupils, and
Mr. Lovett delivered the awards
and diplomas. Mrs. Clarkson led
the procession.
Awards for perfect attendance
were given to Jean Love, Doris
Vaughn and Kathleen Brown.
Others who were cited for out
standing achievement during the
year were Robertine Jackson,
Wallace Johnson, Jack Bryant,
Jimmie Kellett and Barbara Kim
bell. In the elementary school,
Jean Comer and Dorothy Brog
don tied for first honor while
second honors went to Fred Ray
and Norman Bryant.
The seniors are basking on the
beach at St. Simons Island.
Mrs. Mary Hollis
Passes Away Sunday
Mrs. Mary Clementine Hollis,
76, died at her home in Hall’s
Valley, Trion, Route 1, Sunday
at 7 a. m. after a lingering ill
ness. She was a life-long resident
of Hall’s Valley and was a mem-
I ber of the Hall’s Valley Church
of Christ for 55 years.
Surviving are her husband, J.
V. Hollis; three daughters. Mrs.
H. A. Kirkland, of Trion; Mrs. C.
B. Trammell ,of LaFayette, and
Miss Mae Hollis, of Trion, Route
1; two sons, Charlie Hollis, of
Summerville, and Fletcher Hol
lis, of LaFayette; six grandchil
dren and one great-grandson.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the Hall’s Valley Church
of Christ Monday at 2:30 p. m.,
with Elders H. A. Kennamer, of<
Trion, and Paul Buchannon, of
Red Bank, Tenn., officiating. In
terment was in Howell Cemetery.
Nephews of Mrs. Hollis served as
pallbearers.
Tomorrow is Last Day to
Apply for Milk Subsidy
Payments on Whole Milk
Friday, May 31, is the last day
to make application for subsidy
payments on whole milk and on;
butter produced and sold in the
months of January, February
and March. 1946, according to C-
C. Brooks, county administrative
officer.
For information on this, con
tact any member of the county
committee or Mr. Brooks’ office.
CHER YLE MAE VAUGHN
Cheryle Mae Vaugh, 31-month
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul L. Vaughn, died at 8:30 p.
m. last Wednesday in Mobile,
Ala-, after a two months illness.
She is survived by her parents,
a sister. Mickie Lee Vaughn, and
a half-sister, Mrs. Albert Dalton,
of LaFayette.
The body arrived in Chatta
nooga last Thursday and funeral
services were conducted Friday
from Lyerly Methodist Church,
the Rev. W. P. Rowe and the Rev.
Adams officiating. Interment was
in the Lyerly Cemetery.
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* L. L. Whitfield, a young white
man employed on the Menlo
Highway project, was killed Fri
day afternoon when he was run
over by a tractor driven by T. J.
Baker. Whitfield was employed
by the Shepherd Construction
Co., of Atlanta, road contractors
who are handling the Menlo road
project, and was from Birming
ham, Ala. There were no eye-
■ witnesses to the accident, and
; Baker, the tractor driver, is quot
ed as stating that he did not see
’ Whitfield until the tractor struck
him. The tractor was backing up
’ at the time and Whitfield had
■ his back to it. Other pieces of
■ road-building machinery were
; being operated at the spot where
the accident occurred, and it is
believed that the noise they
made prevented young Whitfield
from hearing the tractor which
struck him.
Whitfield was rushed to the
hospital at Summerville, but doc
tors pronounced him dead on ar
rival. The remains w r ere removed
to the Hill-Weems Funeral Home
for embalming. An ambulance
from the LeQuire Funeral Home
of Birmingham, came for the
body Saturday morning for re
moval to that city for burial.
Veterans’ School
Aid Will Not Be
Delayed-Melton
There will be no delay or stop
page of services to veterans ap
plying for school benefits under
the GI bill of rights, as a result
of the resignation of the veter
ans’ educational council, accord
ing to Maj. Quimby Melton, of
Griffin, chairman of the veter
ans 1 service board.
The council members resigned,
effective June 15, and the board
will meet on the 12th or before to
arrange matters so there will be
no interruption in the services,
Melton declared.
“The council has done a good
job,” asserted the board chair
man. “There is no friction be
tween the council and the board;
the resignations were for the pur
pose of clarifying matters.
“The board had requested the
council to continue its work un
til a joint committee from the
board and council could make
out a complete program. This
joint committee reported at the
last board meeting that it was
not ready to make a final report,
and the council was asked by the
board to continue for another 30
days.”
Melton announced also the ap
pointment of a committee of 10
to expedite on-the-job farm
training for the state veterans.
These 10 men, he said, are all ac
tive as large farm operators or
otherwise in agricultural circles.
Their duty will be to certify some
10.000 Georgia farms to give
training to more than 50,000 ex
servicemen who have farm back
grounds.
They will also recommend the
nature of the training program
which will permit the Federal
veterans’ administration to pay
subsistence allowances to the vets
under the GI bill of rights.
Melton said if the committee
can get under way at once a
training program that will give
veterans opportunity to return
to the soil, it will both reduce the
present farm labor shortage and
train each veteran to operate
either his own farm or one be
longing to someone else later.
i WHO KNOWS?
1. Who flew the fastest trip
around the world and when was
! the trip made?
2. Who was the first secretary
of state in the U. S.?
3. What is the capital of Alas
ka?
4. What part of a U. S. statute
mile is the kilometer?
5. What is the approximate
population of the Philippine Is
lands?
6. Who was prime minister of
England when Mussolini invaded
Ethiopia?
7. What is the only star which
shines at noon?
8. What is the expected sched
ule of airlines to Europe (in the
next few months)?
9- Who won the world baseball
championship in 1944?
10- What is the average edu
cation of U. S. citizens 25 years
old or older?