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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
Official Organ of Chattooga County
Summerville, Georgia
O. J. ESPY Editor-Manager (1911-38'
D T. ESPY Editor and Manager
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL—
ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE
MENT CIRCULATION, ETC. REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912,
AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH <>,
193?, AND JULY 2, 1946,
of The Summerville News, published at Summer
ville, Ga., for September 26, 1946.
State of Georgia I
jss.
County of Chattooga J
Before me, a notary public in and for the State
and county aforesaid, personally appeared D. T.
Esnv who, having been duly sworn according to
law, deposes and says that he is the editor of The
Summerville News and that the following is to
the best of his knowledge and belief, a true state
ment of the ownership, management (and if a
daily weekly, semi-weekly or triweekly newspa
per the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid pub
lication for the date shown in the above caption,
required by the act of August 24, 1912 as amend
ed by the acts of March 3, 1933, and Jul V
(section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations), print
ed on the reserve of this form, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses of tjie pub
lisher, editor, managing editor, and business man
agers are:
Editor: D. T. Espy, Summerville, Ga.
2 That the owner is: (If owned by a corpora
tion, its name and address must be stated and
also immediately thereunder the names and ad
dresses of stockholders owning or holding one per
cent or more of total amount of stock. If not
owned by a corporation, the names and addresses
of the individual owners must be given. It owned
by a firm, company or or other unincorporated
concern, its name and address, as well as tho.e
of each individual member must be given.)
News Publishing Co., Summerville, Ga.
D T Espy, Summerville, Ga.
Mrs. O. J. Espy, Summerville, Ga.
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and other security holders owning or holding 1
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ity holders if any, contain not only the list oi
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curity holders who do not appear upon the books
of the company as trustees, hold stock and secun
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that any other person, association, or corpora
tion has any interest direct or indirect in the said
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ers during the 12 months preceding the date
shohvn above is 1,203. q
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th
day of September, 1946. „ „ „
y IRA M. HENDERSON, N. P.
(My commission expires Sept. 27, 1947.)
WHEN TO REDUCE THE DEBT
The United States, as a whole, is enjoying un
precedented prosperity, with the income of indi
viduals extremely high. Despite the increased cost
of living, the average American is in a position
to pay high taxes if they are desirable for the
welfare of the nation.
While we are not alarmed at the size of the
national debt, we do think it advisable for the
Federal Government to make sizable reductions
in the load it must carry as early as possible.
There is no better time for debt-reduction than
during an era of prosperity when the people oi
the country, including the corporations, have
the money to pay the necessary taxation.
We are cognizant of the fact that this is elec
tion year and that both political parties will at
tempt to woo votes by promising tax revision.
Representative Harold Knutson, of Minnesota,
who would be the chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee in the event that the Republi
cans acquire control of the House, proposes a
20 per cent cut in individual income levies.
Somewhat countering the Republican pledge is
the statement of Representative Robert Dough
ton, present chairman of the powerful commit
tee, who expresses the opinion that a second post
war tax revision bill will be written but holds
out no hope of a 20 per cent reduction in taxa
tion.
We have no idea how the matter will work out,
but we feel sure that there will be tremendous
pressure exerted against congressmen in the
effort to have taxes reduced. This pressure will
* come from big business and individuals and it
is likely to have considerable force. When it
comes to getting a reduction in taxes, nobody will
talk about the size of the national debt, but it
will be a good thing for average Americans to
keepin mind.
IN NAME ONLY
The Polish Ambassador to the United States,
Oscar Lange, has just completed his 30-day job
as president of the Security Council of the Unit
ed Nations.
It is interesting to observe that Lange is a
Socialist, representing a Communist-led govern
ment, but is a former citizen of the United States.
He has lived in this country almost continuously
since 1934, studying and teaching at seven Ameri
can universities. In 1943, he became a citizen, but
two years later he returned to Warsaw, relin
quished his American citizen to become a Polish
citizen and was appointed ambassador to the
United States.
We would not be unjust to the Polish diplomat,
but it is apparent that, despite his activity in
American universities, and his decision to become
a citizen of this country, he was not in reality
an American. He was politically active in support
of Polish-Russian friendship, making a trip to
Moscow in 1944, during which he was granted a
long interview with Stalin.
The question naturally arises, “How many so
called American citizens are in reality like Mr.
Lange, taking advantage of our liberality in the
matter of citizenship, but continuing to serve the
interests of their native lands?’’ How many of the
hyphenated Americans are using the vote in this
country and their citizenship in an attempt to
influence American policy, not in the interest of
the United States, but in the interest of their
own land?
HOW TO GET TEACHERS
With more Americans going to school arid col
lege this year than ever before, educational au
thorities call attention to the serious shortage of
trained teachers which, they say, runs into the
hundreds of thousands.
The average salary for teachers is only $1,950,
with many teachers being employed at a salary
that is much less than the average. Educators
say that the Federal Government pays a mini
mum of $2,654 for workers in professional posi
tions and L. Frazer Banks, of Birmingham, Ala.,
says it is not a question of whether teachers are
receiving as much as they deserve, but “whether
the American people are going to pay high enough
salaries to get qualified people to teach their
children.’’
EXPECTED WAR WITH U. S.
There may be a few Americans who still cling
to the idea that the Axis powers were friendly
to the United States. They should take cogni
zance of the facts revealed in the latest volume
of the “Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression’’ series,
which has been released by the United States
Government.
This shows that in May, 1941, the German
Military attache in Toyko discussed with the
Japanese overseas minister “the forms in which
Japan would start hostilities in case of a war
between the United States and Germany.”
The Japanese minister explained that Japan
would stand by her treaty obligations but “would
not open hostilities immediately.” He said that
“preparations for attack on Singapore and Ma
nila stand” and that Japan would consider at
tacks upon Russian ports.
Earlier, in March, in Berlin, at a conference
between the Nazi foreign minister, Ribbentrop,
and the Japanese foreign minister, Matsuoka,
the Germans said that maps of Singapore had
been ordered so that Hitler could advise Japan
on “the best method of attack against Singapore.”
Later, the Japanese minister discussed the topic
with Hitler himself.
HOW TO START FIRES
With the approach of cold weather, the nation
will witness an increase in the number of fires,
in homes, in business places and in the forests,
and, consequently, the public is being offered
plenty of free advice on the methods they should
adopt in order to prevent fires.
This is interesting. By reversing a series of
“dont’s,” sent out by the Fire Protection Insti
tute, we are able to balance the propaganda and
to give our readers the latest expert suggestions
on the beth methods of starting incendiary blazes
at this time of he year. Here they are:
1. Smoke in bed.
2. the electric iron turned on while you
gossip over the back fence with a neighbor.
3. Hang your fire extinguisher in a dark cor
ner, behind boxes, brooms and ironing board.
Never inspect or refill it.
4. Use a wastebasket for cigarette ashes—nev
er use an ash tray.
5. Hang flimsy curtains on kitchen windows,
with sufiicient length to blow over any open
flame on the range.
6. Store cans of gasoline, oil and grease in the
garage and be sure that there is no fire extin
guisher near your automobile.
7. Forget the Fire Department’s telephone
number and, if possible, misplace the telephone
directory.
8. Always use inflammable fluids to clean
clothing, especially if working near an open
flame. It is a helpful idea to smoke a cigarette
while doing this work.
9. Never put a firescreen in front of your open
hearth fires, regardless of how high the fuel is
piled.
10. Do not bother to inspect electric wiring,
or replace 1 rayed wires on electrical appliances.
11. Keep a large pile of oil-soaked rags and
mops in a remote corner of the house. Spontane
ous combustion will provide a good fire and it
wi l be especially dangerous if it begins under
the stairs.
12. When cooking on a gas stove, leave pots
boiling. Sometimes the liquid will overflow and
extinguish the flame, thus permitting the gas
to fill the room. The pilot light will eventually
provide the fireworks.
13. By following the above suggestions, you
and your family will shortly be living in a tent.
This is not so bad because outdoor life is healthy,
but if you do not correct your habits, It won’t be
long before you will also bum down the tent.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA
It . - that li >
ley M. Kilgore (Dem, W. Va.) is
heir apparent to the chairman
ship of the Senate war investi
gating committee, which has al
ready provided the springboard
for two senators into better jobs.
Senator Harry S. Truman, of
Missouri, was chairman of the
committee until he jumped into
the presidency, and Senator
James M. Meade, of New York,
succeeded him as chairman and
now has become the Democratic
nominee for governor of New
York and has tendered his res
ignation as the committee chair
man.
Senator Kilgore already has
had some experience as an in
vestigator, having been chairman
of the committee on war mobili
zation investigating monopolies
and international cartels.
♦ ♦ *
There was a light far into the
night in the offices of the wage
stabilization board. Will they ca
pitulate or will they stand pat?
There was a victorious gleam in
the eyes of many Washingtonians
and self-conscious squaring of
the shoulders when the board
stood pat and refused to take
dictation from the bosses of the
maritime unions. At least here
is one governmental agency
which has some intestinal forti
tude . . . they held the line in
the face of overwhelming pres
sure from the labor front, strike
or no strike . . . they preserved
the wage stabilization structure.
And within a few hours the
worst maritime strike in history
was settled with a new wage la
bor policy ruling handed down
by reconversion director John
Steelman with White House ap
proval. Whether this ruling pre
serves wage stabilization remains
to be seen, but the net effect is
that the ship owners can pay any
increased wages they desire to
workers so long as they absorb
the increase and do not pass it
along to consumers or the pub
lic in increased rates. And this
ruling may set a new pattern
where private industry can deal
directly with labor without going
before the wage stabilization
board. The workers got their in
crease, ship owners approved,
and absorbed the increase. So far,
so good.
* * ♦
On the heels of these paralyz
ing strikes comes the announce
ment by Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, re
cently named chairman of Pres
ident Truman’s advisory commit
tee under the new lull employ
dent bill, that he is “apprehen
sive” of a depression. Dr. Nourse
is not one of those optimisms
that believes things will work
themselves out if left alone. With
present tendency toward higher
prices and higher wages being
upped toward inflation; with the
recent gyrations of the stock mar
ket giving a foretaste of what
may happen to commodity prices
if existing inflationary pressures
are not controlled . . . things are
following the pattern which re
sulted in the boom and bust eras
after the last war. Dr. Nourse
and his committee are working
on plans, obviously, which seek
to prevent inflation and the bust
period which usually follows and
instead, provide for continued
full employment and full produc
tion which is the intent of the
so-called full-employment bill.
FARM NOTES
By J. B. BUTLER
The use of winter legumes in
proper places in the crop rota
tions is one of the best methods
of adding fertility to the soil.
When winter cover crops are
properly established, they reduce
erosion and conserve much of the
plant food that becomes avail
able during the winter and early
spring months.
Permanent pastures are stress
ed in the feed program for dairy
cows because pasturage is na
ture’s best- roughage for dairy
cows, and the cows do the har
vesting and hauling. More feed
can be grown at less cost with
less labor in permanent pasture
than in any other way. A mix
ture of grasses and legumes, well
fertilized and managed/ pays off
in feeding dairy cows.
Recommending that Chattoo
ga County farmers plant their
small grain crops early, because
early planting is one of the most
important steps in obtaining
high yields of small grains.
Tests made at experiment sta
tions in the state and the experi
ence of practical farmers show
that oats seeded Oct. 15 produce
about twice as much as oats seed
ed Nov. 15. Early-seeded oats pro
duce stronger plants with dense
root systems that enable them
to stand cold better and give
more complete coverage to the
soil than those seeded late.
While earliness of seeding does
not produce such large increases
in yields of wheat, rye and bar
ley, good increases and better re
sults are obtained when they are
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Other important factors in ob-
; taining best yields from small
: grain crops include use of best
adapted soils, proper preparation
of soil before seeding, use of seed
of adapted varieties, good rates
of seeding, control of smut, pro
per sowing of seed and liberal
use of fertilizer.
TAX LEVY 1947
' GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
1 It appearing to the Board of
Commissioners of Roads and
1 Revenues of said county that the
’ taxable value of the real and per
sonal property of said county, as
same appears on the digest for
the year 1946, aside from the cor
porations which make returns di
' rect to the comptroller-general,
' is $5,216,360.00, including home
' stead exemptions, and after de
ducting homestead exemptions
’ the taxable value is $4,029,445.00,
! and it further appearing to the
j Board of Commissioners of Roads
‘ and Revenues of said county that
1 it will require, in addition to the
taxes received from said corpo
' rations the sum of $92,505.24, to
- pay the accrued and the neces
sary expenses and the obligations
' of the county for the year 1947,
’ aside from the tax levy for edu
-1 cational purposes, it is therefore
! ordered that a tax levy of twen
’ ty-two mills or $22.00 on the one
1 thousand dollars be, and the
! same is hereby levied on every
; species of taxable property, both
‘ real and personal, to pay the nec
' essary running expenses and the
1 accrued expenses, and obliga
-1 lions of the County to acciue for
the year 1947.
! It is hereby ordered by the
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues of said County that
‘ the tax levied as aforesaid be, and
the same is hereby levied for the
following specified purposes: To
; pay the legal bonded indebted-
- ness of the county due or to be
; come due during the year or to
. become due during the year 1947
i three and one-fourth mills or
! $3.25 of taxable property, esti
! mated to raise $16,953.17.
To build and repair the pub
’ lie buildings and bridges of the
county, six mills or six and no/-
• 100 dolars on the one thousand
' dollars of taxable property, esti
■ mated to raise $24,176.67.
’ To pay the expenses of courts
• the maintenance and support of
I prisoners and to pay sheriffs and
i coroners and for litigation one
> and three-fourths mills or one
- and 75/100 dolars on the one
I thousand dollars of taxable prop
s erty, estimated to raise $7,051.53.
To pay expenses of adminis-
- tration of the County Govern
r ment, one-half mill or fifty cents
» on the one thousand dollars of
t taxable property, estimated to
! raise $2,014.72.
To pay expenses incurred m
- supporting the poor of the Coun-
- ty and as otherwise prescribed
by the Code, one and one-fourth
! mills or $1.25 on the one thou-
- sand dollars of taxable property,
- estimated to raise $5,036.81.
j To build and maintain a sys
i tern of county roads and for the
? working and improvements of
i the public roads of said county,
same together with the commu
s tation tax, to be known as the
s “Public Road Fund,” and to be
- used and expended for the pur-
- pose of paying the salaries and
s wages of employees engaged in
i working, repairing and improv
! ing the public roads, and the
| support of the chaingang while
! engaged in working upon the
public road, of said County, four
mills or four and no/100 dollars
on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to
raise $16,107.78.
To pay 10 per centum of the
cost of administration, and the
cost of paying the assistant and
benefits provided for under the
terms of the act of the general
assembly of 1937 of the State of
Georgia, entitled “Public Assist
ant to Aged,” same to be paid to
the County Department of Pub
lic Welfare upon the request of
the Director thereof, Two Mills,
or Two and no/100 Dollars on
the one thousand dollars of tax
able property, estimated to raise
$8,058.89.
To pay expenses of quarantine
and necessary sanitation, One
fourth Mill or Twenty-five cents
on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to
raise $1,007.36.
To pay for collection and pres
entation of records of birth,
death, disease and health, One
fourth Mill or Twenty-five cents
on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to
raise $1,007.36.
To pay agricultural and/or
home demonstration agents,
Three-fourths Mill or Seventy
five cent son the one thousand
dolars of taxable property, esti
mated to raise $3,022.08.
To provide medical or other
care and hospitalization for the
indigent sick people of the coun
ty, Two Mills or Two and no/100
dollars on the one thousand dol
lars of taxabple property, esti
mated to raise $8,058.89.
It is further ordered by the
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues of said county,
that in addition to the taxes
hereinbefore levied and assessed,
a tax of fifteen mills or Fifteen
and no/100 dollars on the one
thousand dollars of taxable prop
erty is hereby levied and assess
ed in accordance with Article
VIII, Cection XII, Chapter I of
the new Constitution of the State
of Georgia adopted and ratified
August 7, 1945, on every species
of taxable property, both real
and personal, in said county ex
cept within the corporate limits
of the town of Trion, for support
and maintenance of education in
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from where I sit... //Joe Marsh,
Are Returning Veterans
"Different"?
During the war you heard a lot
about how hard it was going to be
for returning veterans to get ad
justed to civilian life ... how
they’d be “different.”
Well, plenty of them have re
turned to our town, and a finer,
steadier bunch you couldn’t ask
for. Most of them are back at the
same jobs . . . going with the
same nice home-town girls (get
ting married, some of them, and
setting up families) ... renewing
the same old friendships.
Even their amusements are the
Cafyrigki, 1946, Vnitod Statt» Brtwcn bevaiatin
Thursday, October 3, 1946
said County. Said levy for such
purpose is made in accordance
with and upon recommendation
of the Board of Education of said
County to be distributed equit
ably according to the school pop
ulation, tax values, number of
teachers, and grade of liense,
among the public schools of said
county, outside of the independ
ent system now excepted in
town of Trion.
Be it further ordered by the
Board of Commissions of Roads
and Revenues of said County,
that in addition to the taxes
hereinbefore levied and assessed,
the following taxes are hereby
levied and assessed in accord
ancewith Section 32-1403 of the
Code of Georgia, as amended, for
educational purposes . . . the
County Board of Education de
termined the amount necessary
to be raised, to-wit: On all tax
able property, both real and per
sonal,in the County for school
purposes for the year 1947, ex
cept in the independent school
district, and all lawful commis
sions.
It is also ordered that the fol
lowing tax rate fixed by the
Chattooga County Board of Ed
ucation be and it is hereby levi
ed and ordered collected:
Gore Consolidated School Dis
trict, for bonds, two mills.
Lyerly School District, for
bonds, two mills.
Menlo School District, for
bonds, three mills.
Summerville Cons o1 i d ated
School District, for bonds, six
mills.
Subligna School District, for
bonds, five mills.
It is hereby ordered that the
Tax Collector of said County col
lect the taxes herein levied in
and for the above named School
Districts heretofore specified,
and pay over said taxes to the
proper authorities of the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion.
Passed at a called meeting held
for the purpose of passing this
resolution, this 28th day of Sep
tember, 1946.
COMMISSIONERS OF BOARD
OF ROADS AND REVENUES
OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY,
GEORGIA.
F. A. Justice
H. B. Hix
George Agnew
Claude Floyd
Clyde Harlow.
same. Nothing more exciting than
fishing Seward’s creek or pitch
ing horseshoes . . . enjoying an
outdoor barbecue with friendly
wholesome beer and pleasant talk.
If they’ve changed at all it’s in
the direction of maturity and tol- |
erance... tolerance for everything
except dictators, and those who
would destroy our democratic
principles of live and let live. And
from where I sit, that’s another
reason to be proud of them.