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VOL. 60 NO. 35
Long-Range List
Os State Public
Works Grows
ATLANTA, Aug. 28 (GPS).—
Taking advantage of services of
fered them by the state through
the Georgia Agricultural and In
dustrial Development Board’s
public works panel, 33 counties
throughout Georgia and 52 mu
nicipalities within them to date
have had long-range programs
of public improvements prepared
at an estimated total cost of $25,-
000,000, according to G. T. Papa
george, panel director.
In addition to these, public
works programs for 15 other
counties and 22 municipalities
have been prepared and will be
announced as soon as they are
received from the printers, Di
rector Papageorge said. The es
timated cost of these is $11,000,-
000, bringing the grand total of
planned improvements prepared
to $36,000,000.
Latest public worKs programs
to be announced were for seven
counties and the municipalities
within their boundaries. The
counties are Fannin, Gilmer,
Murray, Whitfield, Montgomery,
Tattnall and Toombs and the
municipalities are Blue Ridge,
McCaysville, Ellijay, Chatsworth,
Dalton, Mount Vernon and Reids
ville.
The improvements include
roads, public buildings, sewer
improvements, water systems,
airports, street and sidewalk pav
ing, swimming pools, tennis
courts, school buildings, fire sta
tions, hospitals and recreational
facilities. They are expected to
be built over a period of years at
a total estimated cost of $5,276.-
000, of which $2,078,000 is on im
provements for the counties and
$3,198,000 for the towns and ci
ties.
The improvement programs
have been based on ability to fi
nance as determined by a survey
of the county’s or municipality’s
resources. Federal aid would
speed up completion of the pro
grams. So far, Federal funds have
been appropriated on certain
types of roads and airports.
Funds also have been authorized
by Congress for aid in hospital
construction, but appropriations
have been made only for plan
ning. Construction appropria
tions are expected later, Papa
george pointed out.
The A. I. D. board’s public
panel is up its work
and finds that many of the im
provements planned in recent
months already are under con
struction; some completed. A list
of specific improvements already
built, or now under construction,
is being compiled by the panel
and will be released at an early
date, it was stated.
REVIVAL TO BEGIN
SUNDAY AT FISHER’S
CHAPEL METHODIST
Revival services will begin at
Fisher’s Chapel Methodist
Church the first Sunday night
in September. The Rev. H. I.
Bowdon, of Flowery Branch, will
be doing the preaching. Bro.
Bowdon is a former pastor of
this church and his many friends
are invited to hear him again.
The Rev. J. R. Baxter is the pas
tor at Fisher’s Chapel.
NOTICE
The Rev. Earl White will preach
at the Y. P. E. service at the
Church of God Saturday night,
Aug. 31, at 8 o’clock. Everyone is
invited to attend.
Georgia Increases Its Old-Age
Payments and Other Benefits
The maximum amount of pen- i
sion Georgia pays to its indigent
and needy aged has been in- ■
creased from 30 dollars a month
to $45, beginning with the month ‘
of October. ,
Judge A. J. Hartley, director of j
the state department of welfare, ;
also announced that the needy
blind will likewise receive an in- I
crease of sls, at the maximum, i
These also are now receiving S3O ;
at the most, and may in future i
be paid as high as $45.
Similarly, the director said,
welfare payments to dependent
children of families in need of
public aid will be increased from i
$lB to $24 for the first dependent
child. Other dependent children
in the family will get sls instead
of the sl2 formerly.
At present, old-age pensioners
number 71,287, needy blind 2,121
and dependent children 12,846.
Former stipulations permitted
as high as 75 per cent of a fam
ily’s budgetary requirements to
be paid by the state, but in fu-
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TRIPLETS HAVE TWIN SISTERS .. . Things are going to be crowd
ed at the Macates house; the triplets, Eileen, Betty Ann and Rosemary
now have twin sisters. Last year the triplets were born at the Ray
mond Macatees* Philadelphia home. Now two more girls have been
added. The father is a streetcar motorman.
Mason-McCauley Post, V. F. W.,
To Meet Thursday, September 5
All members of Mason-McCau
ley Post 6688, Veterans of For
eign Wars, are urged to attend
the next meeting, to be held
Thursday night, Sept. 5, at the
court house here, at 8 o’clock.
Members are urged to be on
time as it is a definite policv
that the meetings begin promptly
and end promptly.
The officers of the post held a
meeting Wednesday evening and
laid down definite plans for this
meeting, and a good program
has been arranged.
The V. F. W. has printed blanks
for filling of your terminal leave
pay. These blanks have been re
ceived by the Mason-McCauley
Post 6688 and will be passed out
at this meeting. Come to the
meeting and secure your blank.
Be sure and have a copy of
your discharge made, either a
photostatic copy or a certified
copy, which may be obtained at
the court house, recorder’s office,
for sl. A copy of your discharge
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Two Strikes
FORBE MEADE, Md. While
Pfc. Harold Kehne was sitting on
a steel chair and leaning on the
radiator, a bolt of lightning
knocked him off his chair. Re
membering the old adage that
lightning never strikes twice in
the same place, he sat down
aagin in the same location. Fif
teen minutes later he was bowl
ed over again by another bolt
more powerful than the first.
The Last Word
LOS ANGELES. —Mrs. Lazzare
vitch got quite a shock when, in
the midst of planning for her sil
ver anniversary celebration, she
discovered that her husband had
divorced her 12 years before. She
immediately started suit for S2O
-for services during the years
when she thought she was his
wife.
ture this will be raised to a max
imum of 85 per cent, Judge Hart
ley asserted.
The pension increases will be
applied to the entire pension rolls
of the state In proportion to
present amounts paid the various
individuals, instead of every pen
sioner receiving the full increase.
The new hikes are made possi
ble by enactment of a senate bill
drafted by Judge Hartley in 1945
authorizing the state to accept,
match and disburse the maxi
mum grant-in-aid funds for wel
fare purposes provided by the
Federal Government. Georgia’s
state law as it existed placed a
ceiling of S3O a month on old
age pensions even though Fed
eral provisions were greater.
Under the new statute, the
state is enabled to come in for
new Federal grants that became
effective Aug. 1. Under the new
provisions, the Federal Govern
ment would furnish two-thirds
of the first sls the state pays out
and over that, the national gov
ernment matches 50-50.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1946
must accompany the blank.
Members of .the post who will
assist those members and veter
ans-at-large with the filling in of
these blanks are: Glee Bryant,
bus station, Trion; James Floyd,
Pennville; T. J. Espy and Rufus
Pruitt, Summerville, and C. B.
Bricker, personnel department
Trion.
At this next meeting, the revis
ed insurance setup will be ex
plained in detail; on-the-job
training will be reviewed, and
terminal leave pay will be ex
plained
Make a special effort to attend
this meeting and get behind the
post in Chattooga County. Vari
ous other plans which the post is
undertaking will be explained at
the meeting.
Any veteran with foreign serv
ice desiring to become a member
and who meets the qualifications
of .membership, please contact a
member of the post and request
that he submit your name for
membership.
State Wildlife
Gets 029,800
Os U.S. Funds
The state game and fish com
mission will receive $29,800 of $2,-
260,000 as its share of Federal aid
for wildlife projects in accord
ance with the Pittman-Robert
son wildlife act, officials have
announced.
C. B. Pierle, Pittman-Robert
son coordinator for the commis
sion, said the funds would have
to be used for acquisition of land,
wildlife development or research,
but commission officials say they
have not yet decided how the
money will be spent.
The fund is on a basis in which
the Federal Government gives t 75
per cent, while Georgia must con
tribute 25 per cent. Allotments
are made to states on the basis
of the number of hunting licenses
sold and land area. Funds for the
allotment by the Federal Govern
ment are derived from the 11 per
cent excise tax on sporting arms
and ammunition.
Georgia has been eligible for
Pittman-Robertson money since
1943, when the state legislature
passed necessary legislation as
sent. The only state now ineligi
ble for the grants is Nevada.
Educational Exchange
SOUTHAMPTON, England.
Twenty-four American teachers
of a group of 74 have arrived to
teach a year in British schools. A
similar number of British teach
ers will spend a year in the Unit
ed States schools under an ex
change program developed by the
English-Speaking Union.
William B. Farrar, Jr., of Chi
cago, and Charles Farrar will ar
rive on Saturday to visit their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Baker Far
rar.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tillman, of
Statesboro, will arrive on Wed
nesday to visit Archie Farrar.
Greater Help for
Georgia’s 17,000
Invalid Children
More than two hundred phys
ically handicapped Georgia chil
dren moved closer to health and
normal living in the first six
months of this year at Aidmore,
home of the Crippled Children
League of Georgia maintained in
Atlanta.
Boys and girls with heart prob
lems, with limbs that need ortho
pedic attention, with the lack of
muscular control known as spas
tic paralysis—more of them than
ever in the history of the league
—were attended by a staff of
skilled specialists.
The crippled children’s clinics
at Augusta, Columbus and on the
grounds at Aidmore are equipped
and maintained by the Crippled
Children’s League of Georgia
which is sponsored by the state
wide Lodges of Elks. These clin
ics are staffed by the Crippled
Children’s division of the state
department of public welfare.
The statistics of the league,
which are the symbols of endless
weeks of traction splints, of bed
ridden months of youthful heart
patients, and pf laborious at
tempts at coordination for spas
tic sufferers, include 7,185 pa
tients at Aidmore, 667 patient
days at other hospitals and 1.913
patient visits.
Sixty-three surgical operations
were concluded at hospitals
throughout the state, the pa
tients traveled 58,945 miles to en
able them to receive the benefits
of the clinics and hospital serv
ices, these crippled youngsters
spent 62 days in hospitals other
than Aidmore.
Fifty-one patients received con
stant specialist treatments, 80
received dental card and 37 chil
dren were furnished with neces
sary appliances such as wheel
chairs. Four hundred and twen
ty X-ray pictures were taken in
Aidmore and other hospitals and
the clinics under the crippled
children’s program.
The extras of Aidmore, the
horizon-pushing extras that in
clude school training—by Atlan
ta public school teachers assign
ed by Miss Ira Jarrell —recreation
and physical therapy, were offer
ed in greater number than ever
before. Two thousand eight hun
dred and forty-two school days
were chalked up at the hospital,
4,083 days were spent in the rec
reational department and 1,887
physical therapy treatments were
given.
DRY VALLEY BAPTIST
REVIVAL TO BEGIN
SUNDA Y, SEPT. I
Revival serives will begin Sun
day, Sept. 1, at the Dry Valley
Baptist Church, the Rev. F. M.
Higgins, pastor, has announced.
Services will be held each eve
ning at 8 o’clock and everyone is
invited to attend these services.
“Also, on the second Sunday,
we will have our annual home
coming, and invite all preachers
and singers and everyone to at
tend this service,’’ the Rev. Mr
Higgins said.
GEORGIA EDITORS
RE-ELECT DENNIS TO
HEAD ASSOCIATION
The Georgia Press Association
did a good job of selecting new
officers at its recent convention
in Savannah. Belmont Dennis, of
Covington, publisher of a chain
of weeklies, was re-elected presi
dent, and those named to serve
with him were J. W. Norwood,
publisher of the Lowndes County
News. Valdosta, and the Hahira
Gold Leaf, vice president, and
Leodel Coleman, of the Bulloch
Herald, Statesboro, treasurer.
Congrats, gentlemen of the press.
1. What natural resource
abounds in Iran?
2. Name three bodies of water
connecting the Mediterranean
and Black seas
3. Where is “federalization” a
hot issue?
4. What is the Arab population
in the Middle East?
5. What have Rumania, Hun
gary and Bulgaria in common?
6. Can you name the four
“Black Sea” countries?
7. What was the V-2?
8. How close were U. S. troops
to Japan when the enemy sur
rendered?
9. What are inhabitants of Cy
prus called?
10. What senator, the son of a
former senator, recently suffered
defeat?
(See the Answers on Inside Page'
Job Openings
Feature Road,
Building Work
Job openings in Chattooga
County, in addition to a need for
a few experienced textile work
ers for manufacturing hosiery,
acording to M. A. N. Patton, man
ager of the Rome office of the
United States Employment Serv
ice, are principally for laborers
on road and building construc
tion. Waitresses and counter men
are also needed as well as an
opening for one first-class color
ed waiter who is well experienced
as such.
Orders on file in the Rome of
fice, Mr. Patton stated, are for
various types of laundry work
ers, typists, stenographers, cooks
and cook helpers, female trainees
for the manufacture of ravon
yarn, laborers, planer and mold
ing machine operators, spinners
and spoolers and a few openings
for GI trainees to learn molding
at some of the Rome stove foun
dries, and home economics in
structor.
Mr. Patton also stated that la
borers and jackhammer operators
are still needed at Cartersville
for work on the Allatoona Dam,
and at other points in the state
there are openings for vocation
al training teachers, dental tech
nicians, electricians, contact rep
resentative, radio engineer, reg
istered nurses, watchmakers,
pharmacists, social workers, in
strument repairmen, design en
gineers, mechanical, auto me
chanic, powerhouse engineer and
construction laborers. These jobs
usually call for persons well qual
ified by education and/or ex
perience. Qualified veterans are
given preference on all job open
ings whenever possible to do so.
A representative of the United
States Employment Service may
be contacted at the court house
every Thursday morning or in
terested persons may contact the
Rome office of the USES at 522
Broad St. Monday through Fri
day between 8:30 a. m. and 5
p. m.
Roy Roper Dies at
Atlanta Vet Hospital
Roy Fay Roper, 21, died in the
Veterans Hospital in Atlanta Aug.
17 at 11:45 p. m. Funeral serv
ices were conducted from Fish
ers’ Chapel with the Revs. W. T.
Waits and John B. Ward offici
ating. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Rose Noblett Roper; par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Roper,
and two sisters, Mrs. Martha Mc-
Collu mand Mamie Lee Roper.
Convicted
PARIS, France.—Three French
admirals were recently given sen
tences at hard labor and nation
al degradation for life. They were
accused of complicity in the self
destrutcion of the French fleet
at Toulon in 1942, shortly after
the American army invaded
North Africa.
Discovers Opal Mine
MELBOURNE. —An aborigine,
aided by a rabbit, has discovered
a rich opal field in central Aus
tralia. The native found a small
I piece of opal scratched out by
I the rabbit and now the field is
1 making fortunes for ten white
I men, a white woman and a small
I number of natives.
UNHOLY
BOND
Cameron aCochertf
A FINE NOVEL OF
LOVE AND INTRIGUE
This romantic novel is a thrill
ing revelation of life in a big
hospital. Janet Harris, the nurse
and heroine, is in love with her
career, but Cliff Bronson, the
interne, is in love with her.
What happens on the fatal night
when old Mr. Hartigan insists
upon making his will is part of
this suspense-filled story.
Look For It Next Week
Local Chapter of the Farm Bureau
Plans Campaign to Better Meet
Difficult Problems of Farmers
“We believe the farmers of Chattooga County should be
better organized to meet the many difficult problems which
face the food producers of our country,” said Howard G.
Baker, of Gore, president of the local chapter of the Geor
gia Farm Bureau, this week as he announced plans for an
intensive campaign for members.
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BIGGEST FLORIDA TARPON
. . . This 13414 pound tarpon was
caught off Jacksonville, Fla., after
a midnight battle of 45 minutes
by George Bull, Atlantic Beach,
Fla., shown with his proud son.
George Jr. It is believed to be the
largest tarpon booked and boated
in Florida water this year and is
entered in the SIO,OOO fishing
tournament.
James R. Hollis, 38,
Dies After Illness
James Roland Hollis, 38, died
at an early hour Saturday after
a lingering illness. Funeral serv
ices were conducted from the
First Baptist Church in Trion, of
whcih he was a member for aI
number of years. The Revs. S. L.
Walker, Leßoy Obert and H. L.
Cochran officiated. Interment,
was in the Pennville Cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Hollis, of Trion; six
sisters, Mrs. Rufus Wilson, of
Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. William Hen
derson. Mrs. Ernest Bryson, Mrs.
Clifford Pledger, Mrs. Drury
Martin and Mrs. Manuel Ellis, all |
of Trion. , |
Singers to Meet Here
Sunday, Sept. Ist
The Chattooga County Singing
Convention will convene at the|
court house here Sunday, Sept.
.1, with prospects of one of the
best singing conventions ever |
held in the county.
The Ranger Quartet will be |
here for the singing Sunday and
will also appear at the court
house Saturday night, Sept. 31.
All singers and listeners are
invited to attend this convention !
and make it the best one in the
history of the county.
Margaret Owings
Passes Away at Gore
Miss Margaret T. Owings. *7B,
died at her home at Gore Tues
day at 9 a. m.
Funeral services were conduct
ed rom the Pleasant Grove
Church Wednesday at 3 p. m.,
with the Rev. A. E. Piper offici
ating. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
South Crying Out for Industrial
Development, Says Gov. Arnall
ATLANTA, Aug. 28 (GPS).—
Speaking to a graduating class
at the Western State Teachers
College at Bowling Green, Ky.,
the other night, Gov. Ellis Ar
na’l blamed “poverty of our peo
ple” as the cause for the South’s
ills. Said he -
“The Southern frontier is cry
ng out for development, and we
look to the graduates of this col
lege and others like it to see
that the South becomes a great,
prosperous and happy region.”
En route to Kentucky, Geor
gia’s chief executive stopped
briefly In Nashville, Tenn.,
where he was interviewed by
newsmen. He inveighed the pro
posal to establish a national vet-
Circulates in Best
Section of Northwest
Georgia. ;•
$1.50 A YEAR
* Committees have been appoint
ed to conduct the membership
drive in the various communities
of the county, and they plan to
visit all sections of the county
in an eifort to enlist every farm
er in the battle for agriculture
to have a stronger voice in the
affairs of the state and nation.
“We realize chat one farmer by
himself can do very little to see
that the producers of our coun
try get a fair deal in the eco
nomic struggle in America,” de
clared Mr. Baker. “By banding
together, the farmers can get fair
prices and parity for agriculture,
guard against a post-war crash
and be heard on all proposals af
iecting farmers,” he said.
Below are some things the
farm bureau is trying to do, and
W. M. Storey, secretary and
treasurer of the Chattooga Coun
ty Farm Bureau, says “we can
do them with all of us cooperat
ing together as an organization.
We hope that every farmer, when
contacted on this membership
drive, will join and work with
us to make the farm a better
place to live”.
The farm bureau stands for'
(1) Fair prices for farm prod
ucts, (2) continued support of
the national farm program to
place farmers on a parity with
other groups and conserve soil
and other natural resources. (3‘
price and inllation control to
apply equally to labor, industry
and agriculture, protect princi
ple of parity and assure full pro
duction, (4) reducing unjustified
spreads between production and
consumers, (5) elimination of
overlapping and duplication and
establishing economy, efficiency
and decentralization in adminis
tration of farm programs, (6) op
position to subsidies to reduce
| farm prices in the market places,
(7) support of county agents, ex
periment stations, schools, health
i work, land-grant colleges, voca
i tional agriculture, rural electri
fication and other services to
farm people, (8) more and better
.arm-to-market roads, (9) sup
j port of 4-H Clubs and Future
Farmers of America, (10) ade
! quate farm credit at fair interest
> rates, (11) equitable freight rates
for Georgia and the South, (12)
more widespread private owner
ship and less Government own
ership of farm lands, (13) elim
ination of state tax on gasoline
used in tractors on farms and
(14) and other policies and ac
! tion to make rural life more at
' tractive.
Milk Price Increase
Would Result in
Ceiling—Stewart
George D. Stewart, director of
the milk control board, has an
nounced that ceiling prices would
be established if the retail price
| of milk advanced unreasonably.
This statement followed the re
cent announcement by the de
control board in Washington
that all dairy products were re
moved from OPA control. Stew
art said:
“The board has never set a
maximum price and I feel sure
that if producers, wholesalers
I and retailers are satis led with
a reasonable profit we will never
have to.
“However, in the event any
one tries to take advantage of
the situation, we will not hesi
tate to set maximum prices.”
erans' party, contending it would
be “harmful”.
The governor said he was op
posed to any movement “which
sets brother against brother and
friend against friend.” He sug
gested that “if the parties don't
suit the veterans, they should
work within the parties to change
them”.
Asked about teen-age voting,
Governor Arnall asserted that
the voting age should be reduced
on a national basis to 18 years.
He added:
“A part of those who are 18
had to fight for this country and
they should have the right to
help run it. This would make for
progressive states in citizenship.”