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TIME COPY
By RAYMUND DANIEL
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The Silvered River.
His Man Friday.
40 Years of Service.
Two Counties Linked.
No Clean Sweep.
May Want Georgia.
THE SILVERED RIVER
As one stands near the home
oi the late R. E. Echols, near Ly
erly, and looks across the river,
he not only thrills at the beauti
ful scene, but also wonders if
“Rad” Echols, as he was lov
ingly called, is not standing just
across a silvered river, where
the golden bells are ringing,
holding out his hands in love
and remembrance. There he
must know how we love and re
member him must know how
we never forget all his goodness
and sweetness of life. He would
have been near an hundred years
—IOO years of fullness of up
standing life. One never passes
by without thinking of him. His
lifelong hobby was gathering his
friends and playing setback. But
somehow we cannot get out of
ears the sounds of the splashing
of the silvered river and the
ringing of the golden bells.
HIS MAN FRIDAY
Almost inseparable especial
ly at “hog-killing time” —was Mr.
Echols and Si, “his man Friday.”
Si Shropshire was his name and
he was the best hog dresser and
sausage maker in the county.
Mr. Echols would have no one
but old Si who, at a ripe old age,
also has passed across the shin
ing river.
40 YEARS OF SERVICE
The banner of 40 years of serv
ice by his family in the post of
fice at Lyerly is proudly carried
by James P. (Jim) Rose, who
bears the title of “clerk,” but in
reality is assistant postmaster.
There is no title of assistant
postmaster in third class offices
but Mr. Rose is really assistant
with Postmaster J. C. Williams.
Mr. Rose has been in the office
since he was 16 years old. He has
served as postmaster. His fath
er, the late John M. Rose, was
postmaster for years.
TWO COUNTIES LINKED
Chattooga and Floyd counties
are not alone geographically
linked, but in heart and spirit.
When two Floyd citizens, such as
John W. Whitehead and Dewey
H. Wollstein, of Rome, came on
friendly missions to Chattooga
County. Mr. Whitehead is prom
inent in Masonic circles and Mr.
Wollstein is a past grand mas
ter. Between the two, they have
visited every lodge in the Sev
enth Masonic District.
NO CLEAN SWEEP
In its issue of Nov. 14, Time
Copy unintentionally extended
the jurisdiction of Georgia to
include Broomtown. Alabama.
The paragraph was extolling the
virtues of Broomtown folk, who
are so high-ranking and so cor
d.al they seem like Georgians.
MAY WANT GEORGIA
Anyhow, Broomtown citizens
are in Alabama notwithstand
ing they long to be Georgians.
Anyway, Broomtown is a good
and happy place in which to
live. The error also made it
possible for Broomtown to have
two stories in Time Copy, which
are gladly given.
BEYOND
THE LAW
by
Hilary Smtay ay for
Sgt. Michael O'Hara,
of the Mounted, a
born man hunter, fell
in love with the wom
an he had pursued
into Arctic wilds as a
murderess. Duty . . •
love . . . which way
should he go?
Enjoy this absorbing
story of the North ...
STARTING
NEXT WEEK
Siunnu'rnilk
VOL. 60 NO. 48
Cases Set to Be
Heard at City
Court Here
The following cases are set to
be heard at the December term
of the city court of Chattooga
county, to convene Monday, De
cember 2:
Albert Wigley, Grady Tallent
(two cases), Bill Lewallen, H. C.
Parker, Mack Adams, Loyd Ad
ams, Barney Pogue, W. J. Bryan,
Milburn Stansell (two cases),
R. W. Barr, Ernest H. Bowman
(three cases). Robert Barnes
(three cases), R. S. Brewer, John
Bailey. James Ballenger, Joe
Charles Buttram, D. B. Brown
ing, Howard Baker (two cases),
Wesley Bryant (2 cases), John
nie Bryant (two cases), J. C.
Buttrum (two cases), Gordon
Buttrum (two cases), J. E. Berry,
Howard Broom, J. C. Cherry,
Russell Cavin, Sam K. Edmond
son (two cases), Jamc| Evans.
Charlie Evett, Willie Gilreath,
Lon Freeman (two cases), Ray
mond Gentry, C. D. Gurley', Wil
liam Headrick, Jalph J. T. Har
ris, Lester A. Harris (six cases),
Madleane Hale, Robert F. King,
Tom Keith, Elgin Moon (two
cases), Ben Miller, Calvin C.
Marshall, Jeff McGuire, L. F.
McGraw, Junior McWhorter, Ka
tie McGuire (two cases), Glenn
W. Orr, Bob Peppers, L. D. Pless
(three cases), Thomas Riley Par
ham, Roy Searles.
Also, James H. Stephenson,
Grady Tallent (three cases),
Lewis Wilson, J. O. Williams, P.
A. Morgan, J. H. Presley, John
nie Lancaster, Milas Hawkins,
Edward Hawkins, Loyd Adams,
Frank Smith, Joe Sparks, D.
Richardson, Leonard Hutchins,
Jim Moore, Eugene McCollum,
Paul Hughes, Grady Hix (two
cases), William Headrick, Grady
Pitts, Kenneth Pelcher, Nathan
iel Shepherd, Mrs. C. B. Bowers.
Luther Bryson, W. A. Akins,
Robert McClendon, Smith Mc-
Cutchens, F. C. Swafford, Rob
ert Sifers, D. B. Browning (two
cases.
Henderson L. Lanham, solicitor
general, says all other cases not
specially listed may be called at
any time, and where the defend
ant does not appear, bond will
be forfeited.
Juvenile Training
Set Up at Battey
Juvenile law violators in Geor
gia are being given another
break in an effort to help them;
rehabilitate themselves. A new,
• institution, known as Juvenile
Training Institute, has begun
■operation at Battey State Hos
pital in Rome. This followed an
nouncement by Wiley Moore,
chairman of the state board of
corrections, that the board
voted to open a juvenile segre-,
gation and training camp for
youthful state prisoners.
Director C. A. Williams, of the
corrections department, said
that 25 white boys and 25 Negro
boys had been transferred from
Tattnall State Prison to the Bat
tey Hospital as the necleus of
the new juvenile camp. Others
will be sent to Battey as they
are needed. The boys, 18 years
old and younger, will be select
ed on the basis of their conduct
at Tattnall.
The juvenile inmates of the
i institution will not associate
i with tubercular patients. They
■ will look after the hospital
i grounds and farming activities,
the dairy herds and do mainten
ance work all over the hospital.
They also will be taught plumb
ing, carpentry and electrical
trades, and academic and recre
ation training will be provided.
Linder to Ask Four
Millions for Marts
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tom Linder has decided to ask
the 1947 legislature for $4,000.-
000 in four years to build farm
ers’ markets to sell Georgia
products.
Commissioner Linder based his
plans on proposals to build a
$2,000,000 transfer market at
Augusta, similar to the Atlanta
farmers’ market, and a million
dollar expansion of the Atlanta
market. Equipping all state mar
kets with cold storage facilities
and communication systems
would require the fourth million.
“If we could spend one mil
lion dollars per year for the
next four years on Georgia mar
kets, then we could begin con
struction a $2,500,000 market for
Georgia farm products in Wash
ington, D. C.,” Linder said.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1946
Farm Bureau
To Meet Here
Friday Night
Friday night, Nov. 29, at 7:30
o’clock, the Chattooga County
Farm Bureau chapter will hold
its regular monthly meeting at
the court house.
A good program has been
planned and it is believed that
every farmer who attends will
think that there should have
been more farm meetings of this
nature.
A report will be given on the
stare convention by the dele
gates who attended. A good pic
ture on livestock disease will be
shown and there will be speak
ers who will discuss the differ
ent livestock diseases and what
measures should be taken to
cpmbat th/se diseases on the
farm.
Every farmer and his family
are invited and it is hoped you
can attend.
Oak Hill Negro Chapter
Last Friday night, Nov. 22, at
the Oak Hill Church, the Negro
farmers in that community
adopted a charter in their com
munity. These farmers realize
the importance of the organiza
tion from what they have al
ready received through the ef
forts of the Farm Bureau.
They elected their officers as
follows: Walter Mosley, presi
dent; Will Barber, vice presi
dent, and Coker Shropshire, sec
retary-treasurer.
The Holland Negro farmers
are determined not to be out
done by the Oak Hill Negro
farmers. The local Farm Bureau
chapter met with them last
night at a meeting at the Hol
land school house and they now
have 22 members and plan to
get a charter and organize their
community chapter in the near
mture.
The county agent has been
with the chapter at all these
community meetings and has
’shown farm pictures and dis
cussed the progress that has
been made in farming in the
past several years and what
should be done in order to have
a better balanced farm program
in Chattooga County.
Below are the names of mem
bers who have joined the Farm
Bureau since the last list was
published:
James Berry, Jessie Mosley, M.
J. Wynn, C. R. Hollaway, Bob
McCluskey, Oliver E. Perry, Boz
zie Daniels, Hermon Miller, Geo.
H. Nichols, William Philpot, Em
ory Philpot, W. A. Hix, H. B. Hix
and James Dawson.
VETS SOON WILL BE
ABLE TO BORROW
AGAINST NSLI POLICY
Veterans who have converted
their National Service Lire In
surance to a permanent form of
protection will soon be able to
borrow against their policies
without delay, J. R. Duncan, VA
representative at Rome, report
ed yesterday.
A loan division, to speed the
handling of policy loans, is now
being set up at the Branch 5 in
surance service, Mr. Duncan
said.
Veterans wishing to make a
loan against their policies may
get the assistance of any VA
contact representative in filing
the necessary application, Mr.
Duncan explained. Processing of
an application by the loan di
vision in Atlanta will take ap
proximately a week.
NSLI policy holders who have
converted their wartime term
insurance to a permanent policy
may borrow up to 94 per cent of
the cash value of their policy.
Interest on loans is 4 per cent.
Leonard McGinnis
Dead at Birmingham
Relatives were notified Mon
day of the death of Leonard Mc-
Ginnis, who died of a heart at
tack at his home in Birming
ham.
Mr. McGinnis was bom and
reared in Chattooga County and
was a well-known contractor.
Several buildings here were built
by him.
He married Miss Mattie Ken
drick, of this county, and moved
to Birmingham about 30 years,
ago.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday in Birmingham.
Surviving are his wife, five
brothers, Jim and Luell, of Sum
merville; Howard and Frank, of
Birmingham, and Will, of Cedar
town, and several other relatives.
Georgia Banks Receive National
1000-Pt. Award for Sixteenth
Time for Service to Agriculture
For the 16th consecutive year, the banks of Georgia have
received the 1000-point award which is made annually by
the agricultural commission of the American Bankers As
sociation, according to D. L. McWhorter, president, Farm
ers & Merchants Bank, who represents the banks in Chat
tooga County as county key banker. Mr. McWhorter was
notified that the award was made last week at the A. B. A.
agricultural commission meeting, which is being held ata
agricultural commission meeting, which was held at Louis-
ville, Ky. ?
Each year tre A. B. A. commit-!
sion rates banks in all of the!
states on the basis of country
bank activities which benefit ag
riculture. In the numerical eval
ulation of these activities, the
commission considers work done
by individual banks and pro
grams which are carried out by
the agricultural committees of
the state bankers associations.
Points are given for “regular”
and “extra” services rendered by
the banks.
“Georgia banks received na
tional recognition,” Mr. Mc-
Whorter said, “for their work in
promoting activities of farm
youth clubs, particularly boys’
youth clubs and Future Farmers
of America. The Georgia Bank
ers Association has alone done
much constructive work in aid
ing the farmers of the state to
establish stock and dairy herds
and to increase agricultural in
comes through diversified pro
duction. One of the outstanding
statewide projects has been the
setting up of ‘yardsticks’ or
standard soil conservation prac
tices, and providing for the is
suing of certificates to farmers
who have been successful in this
Methodists List ’47
Appointments
Final adjournment of the
North Georgia Methodist annual
conference for 1946 was reached
at 1:30 Monday. Bishop Arthur
J. Moore, president of the con
ference, announced the pastoral
appointments for the coming
vear.
The Rev. F. E. Crutcher has
been appointed to the Summer
ville Church, succeeding the Rev.
Wilson J. Culpepper, who goes
to Lawrenceville. The Rev. H. L.
Cochran, of Trion, will go to La-
Grange Circuit and the Rev. J.
A. Langford will go to Trion.
The Rev. Mr. Culpepper will
preach his last two sermons at
the Methodist church here Sun
day morning and evening.
The Dalton District appoint
ments are as follows:
C. M. Lipham, district super
intendent. Adairsville, Eugene
Gilreath; Blue Ridge, J. Walker
Chisey; Boynton-Rock Springs,
E. P. Eubanks; Calhoun, Y. A.
Oliver; Calhoun Circuit, Adrian
Warwick; H. G. England, assist
ant supply; Cartersville, George
O, King; Atco, Eugene Barten
field; Douglas Street, J. D
Booth; Chatsworth, H. B. Free;
Chickamauga, R. B. Hawkins;
Dalton: First, H. H. Jones; Ham
ilton Street, Loran Parker; Mor
ris Street, A. D. Whittemore; Ep
worth, Julius Orr; Ellijay, C. B
Cochran; Fairmount, D. B. Shel
nutt; Five Springs-Belmont, H.
B Duling Jr.; Fuller’s Circuit, J.
W. Bradley; Kensington, Frank
Chastain; Kingston, Luther Por
ter; LaFayette, L. B. Linn; La-
Fayette Circuit, J. L. Caldwell;
Lyerly. Shelton E. Adams; Men
lo, G. D. Erwin; McCaysville, J.
B. Gresham; Morganton, John E
Cook, R. S.; Henry D. Helton, as
sistant supply; New Echota, C.
M. Rogers; Newnan Springs, H.
L. Mitcham; Pleasant Grove, J.
E. Brashear; Ringgold, George
W. Davis, S. D. Stone, assistant
supply; M. H. Ortwein, assistant
supply; Subligna, J. R. Thomp
son; Sugar Vajley, Frank Elli
son; Summerville, F. E. Crutch
er; Trion, J. A. Langford; Tun
nel Hill, Oscar R. Dyar; Varnel,
W. B. Hughes; Wallaceville, B. L.
Betts; White, W. P. Rowe; dis
trict secretary of mission, Y. A.
Oliver; district secretary of
evangelism, H. H. Jones.
GORE BASKETBALL
TEAM TO OPEN TS
SEASON FRIDAY
The Gore Independent basket
ball team will open its season
Friday night against Summer
ville at the Summerville gym.
The game will start at 8 o’clock.
Come out and enjoy a good
game.
• ——
I work.
“The ‘regular’ services in
which Georgia banks compare
well with banks in other states
include the extension of ade
quate credit for the production
of crops and the promotion of
cultivation of new crops to wid
en the sources of farm income.
“Another important part of
the 1000-point rating program is
the work being done in each
community to aid returning war
veterans who wish to establish
themselves in the farming busi
ness. Notable success has also
been achieved by banks in sup
porting farm youth activities
such as the 4-H Clubs and Fu
ture Farmers of America, and
the attempt which has been
made by the banks to encourage
every farm hoy and girl to un
dertake one project.
“Georgia banks have received
much favorable publicity for
their state through individual
bank projects which encourage
their farm customers to keep
debts at a safe level and, at the
same time, to build financial re
serves through the purchase of
United States Savings Bonds,”
Mr. McWhorter said.
Junior Red Cross
Enrollment Drive
The children in Chattooga
County have again responded to
the Junior Red Cross enrollment
campaign. The contributions
from the county schools are as
follows:
White schools: Berry ton, $8.02;
Menlo, $17,72; Myers, $1.92;
Pennville, $8.78; Subligna, $7.86;
South Summerville, $45,38; Sum-:
merville Primary, $7.16; Sum-|
mer ville Elementary, $25.57;
Summerville High School, $8.74;
Teloga, $4.56; Welcome Hill, $2;
total, $137.71.
Colored schools: Chattooga
County T. School, sl4; Summer
ville Colored, $3.50; total, $17.50;
grand total, $155.21.
The pupils are not content to
enroll only they are really
helping others. Some school
groups have bought clothes for
local needy children; others are
making articles for men in some
of our station hospitals; others
are improving health conditions
in the schools. The best way to
learn to serve others is by serv
ing others.
Rites for Mrs. Beavers
Held Last Monday
Mrs. J. A. Beavers, member of
a prominent pioneer family of
Summerville, died Sunday morn
ing in a Dalton hospital. Mrs.
Beavers, a citizen of Summer
ville for more than 50 years, was
often spoken of as the most be
loved woman in Chattooga
County. She recently sold her
home here and moved to Tun
nel Hill.
Mrs. Beavers, the former Miss
Jimmie Gramling, was a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Church:
here, an active member until her
health failed.
Her husband, Joe A. Beavers,
preceded her in death 15 years.
She is survived by four sisters.
Mrs. T. G. Mason and Mrs. Will,
Burns, of Thornton, Tex.; Mrs.j
Ed Moore and Mrs. Lerna Lanier,
of Tunnel Hill; on brother, Les
ter Gramling, of Mart, Tex., and:
several neices and nephews and;
great-nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at
the Presbyterian Church here
Monday at 11 o’clock with the
I Rev. H. R. Foster, assisted by the
Rev. J A. Smith. Interment was
in the Summerville Cemetery. A
large group of relatives and j
friends from Tunnel Hill accom
panied the body here Monday.
PRESBYTERIAN BUSINESS
WOMEN TO MEET
The Business Woman’s Circle
of the Presbyterian Church will
meet Monday night, Dec. 2, at
7 o’clock with Mrs. O. H. Elgin
in Berryton. Mrs. Osgood will
be co-hostess.
’46 County Seal
Sale Committee
Is Appointed
The 1946 Christmas Seal
sales will begin in Chattooga
County on Dec. 2 and last*
■ through December. An educa-|
I tional program on TB, conduct
ed in the schools of the county,
began on Nov. 25.
The Chattooga County Tuber
culosis Committee for the 1946
seal sale is as follows:
Chairman, Mrs. Baker Farrar;
secretary and treasurer, Mrs.
Agnes Hammond; Summerville,
Mrs. Emmett Clarkson, Mrs. O.
A. Seiman, Mrs. Tom Cook and 1
Mrs. J. H. Newman; Trion, Miss
Ethel Simmons; Menlo, Mrs. O.
L. Cleckler; Subligna, G. D. Er
win; Teloga, Mrs. John Stubbs,
and Lyerly, Miss Fay Busbin.
The committee has done ex
cellent case work during the past
few years and hope to reach
more people all the time. The
county is fortunate in being so
near Battey Hospital and if it
could get every case of active TB
in this hospital, it would not be
long in getting the upper hand :
of this unecessary disease.
Suppose you did go to such a
sanatorium. Left behind would
be your family, your friends and
others you lived and worked
among. That’s not pleasant, but
it has its good side. Because then
you couldn’t spread deadly TB
germs to healthy people. And
you could have visitors, safely,!
when the doctor allowed them.
Sometimes rest in bed is not;
enough. Your doctor might de
cide you needed surgical treat
ment as well. There are various
ways, many of them quite sim
ple, of giving the sick lung ex
tra rest, causing it to relax, do:
less work, heal more quickly. TB
hospitals and sanatoriums are
equipped to give expert surgical
help.
Like every sick person, you
would worry about your work.
But there are specially trained
people ready to help you reha
bilitate yourself. That long word
just means getting you strong
enough for your old job or pre
paring you for a new one better
suited to your strength and fu
ture safety. Private and Govern
me n t rehabilitation advisers
would aid you in finding and
holding that kind of job.
Well, how did it feel to make
believe you were a TB patient?
Not too comfortable—-yet a long
way from hopeless. For you were
lucky. Your TB was found early,
treated promptly and properly.
Let’s agree, then, that health is
something it doesn’t pay to guess
about or gamble on. Your family
doctor, the health department,
or your tuberculosis association
will tell you how and where to
get a thorough physical check
up. This includes an X-ray of
your lungs. Then you needn’t
suppose you’re O. K. You’ll know
for sure.
Every dollar you contribute to
buy Christmas Seals aids in the
fight against TB—makes you,
your family, your community
safer from tuberculosis.
Revival at the South
Summerville Baptist
A revival will begin at South
Summerville Baptist Church on
Sunday, December Ist, con
ducted by the pastor, the Rev.
Willis Moore Jr., and wife. Serv- j
ices will begin each evening at
7 p. m.
Special service for the young ■
people and children each eve-1
ning at 6 o’clock conducted by j
the Rev. and Mrs. Ernie Tobler,
Bible Commandoes of America.
Builders Warned
Os Beetle Menace
Are you building or doing any
construction work? If so, the
State Department of Forestry
cautions you not to place freshly ■
cut lumber or wood scrap near
your trees. This practice often
results in an attack on living
trees by beetles which are at-I
tracted by the scent of the sawn j
wood.
If of no value, scrap lumber
should be buried or burned a''d
lumber that you think you can
use should be properly stored
away, according to H. Dave
Story, assistant director of the
forestry department.
Beetle infestations are indi
cated when brown “sick” areas
appear here and there among
the green leaves or pine needles,
i Once a tree is infested it is a
: menace to others. It should be
! cut down and destroyed, Story
I advises.
Equipped Job Printing
We Have a Modernly
Department.
$1.50 A YEAR
City Organizes
Volunteer Fire
Dept. Monday
At a meeting Monday night
! held at the American Legion
| Hall the following men met for
: the purpose of organizing a vol
in conjunction with the city po
unteer fire department to work
lice and city council, fighting
anj' fire we may have in the city
i of Summerville:
Roy Alexander, James J. Mat
thews J. C. Lewis, C. M. Tutton,
R. S. McWhorter, Claude Bagley
Jr., Cordle Bagley, Howard
Weems. E. C. Pesterfield, Billy
Allen, Sid Brooks. Eugene Rack
; ley, James Dempsey, J. T. Mor
gan, Andrew Williams Jr., Joe
Frank Thomason and J. B.
Woodard.
It was decided that the above
named men will familiarize
themselves with the city fire
equipment. between now and
next Thursday afternoon, Dec.
5, at which time there will be
the first practice fire drill be
tween the hours of 3 and 4 p. m.
Do not get alarmed when you
hear the fire signal at this time.
Do not call the telephone opera
i tor as the telephone company is
cooperating in every way pos
i sible in helping organize this fire
department and using their
equipment to notify our volun
teer firemen. Your telephone will
not be answered as the opera
tor will be busy notifying the
volunteer firemen who have
been selected to serve with the
fire department and they have
asked that we notify you and
urge you not to call the opera
tors for information concerning
the fire.
It is sincerely noped that the
citizens will cooperation in mak
ing this an efficient fire depart
ment.
Mrs. Charity Parker
Died Here Nov. 20
Mrs. Charity Ann Parker, 83,
died Nov. 20 after a brief ill
ness. Funeral services were con
ducted from the South Summer
ville Baptist Church, Friday at
2:30, with the Rev. Willis Moore
and the Rev. Floyd Higgins of
ficiating. Interment in the Ber
ryton Cemetery with Hill-Weems
Funeral Home in Charge.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Etta Rogers, of El Paso,
Tex.; five sons, D. F., J. W. and
W. A., of Summerville; T. E. and
Horace Parker, of Kensington,
Ga.; one brother, J. E. Watkins,
of Barry, Tex.
County Schools Close
For Harvest Holidays
All schools in the Chattooga
County system will be closed
Thursday and Friday for the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Since the days are growing so
much shorter and a large part
of the cotton crop has been
gathered, the “cotton picking
short session” will end with the
Thanksgiving holidays and on
the following Monday the
schools will go back on full
schedule.
Beginning Monday morning,
Dec. 2, all schools will open at
19 o’clock and close at 3 o’clock.
1. How many Americans voted
in the November elections?
2. What party received the
1 most votes in the city of New
York?
3. Why are the Marshall, Caro
line and Mariana islands in the
: Pacific referred to as “man
dates?”
4. Why do the Russians cele
brate the October Revolution on
'Nov. 7?
5. What is the longest time
any aircraft has remained in
i the air?
6. When did Panama become
■ a nation?
7. What was the Treaty of
Portsmouth?
8. What is the Fabian Socie
ty?
9. How much has the dollar
declined in purchasing power
since January, 1941?
10. How many stars are visible
to the naked eye?
! (See Answers on Inside Page)