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B:RAYMUND DANIEL
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‘lnvinuch As— ’
.4 rte Year Dawns.
Cfijry'Tree Tales.
Th Invisible Line.
Sla> Should Help.
('as of a Man.
B'oe of a Columnist.
"IN.3MUCH AS—”
Hiwas "home from the wars,”
just “GL”
Bu he had gone away a boy
and >me back a man broad
shoulers, deep lungs, as the re
sult military training. His ad
ini'e. all gathered around him,
waitig for some little token or
favoi
He talked into the store and
caipcback with an all-wrapped
up ddie that had been the at
tentio of a poorly dressed little
girl.
“Inasiuch as ye have done it
unto theleast of these, ye have
done it uto me.”
We kntv he made happy and
broughtpeace to the heart of a
C little g'l.
Thejsaid his name is “Bud
dy!”
A NEW YEAR DAWNS
An oluveaf has gone and a
New Year! med. What are you
and I gpii to make of it? God
is wat"* as never before. It
is not a season for just
wishes. It s to be a period of
good doinf
CHERRY TEE TALE
H. L. Abrnjs Jr., now a student
with a fine ecord at Emory Uni
versity at Alanta. a former Ly
erly boy, th son of H. L. Ab
rams, bring home the story of
the talk, o the Christmas holi
days. He hd a friend—an ex
service ma, who, during the
war. bought 100 acres of cherry
trees. Businss was slack until
the man went over
seas and hi. wife took charge.
She told the story over about
George Washigton s cherry tree ■
and that the trees of the ex- j
service man. descendant from
the ones that had been spent.
Finally all th service man’s
trees were sold iy the wife.
THE INVISIBLE LINE
There is an old hymn, obso
lete now, that tins:
"There is a tine, we know not
when,
A place we knw not where,
That marks tie destiny of man,
’Twixt glory md despair.”
We seldom f/er hear the song
or another hynn these days—
but it is just is true as in the
olden days. Tie time and place
are just as sue that defines an
honorable sucess or a despair
ing failure. Vhat a wonderful
opportunity is given to help the
“other fellow' differentiate be
tween “glory .nd despair,” In
every man’s lie, there are the
bitter disappohtments and de
spairs. He car take them and
make of them gddeposts for oth
er people. He cm tell them of
the “line” that marks the des
tiny or glory. It if a good thought
for the new year
STATE SHOULD IELP
More and more is it a fact that
the state, as the state, should
help in the reclama ion of unfor
tunate individual Citizens. “The
Invisible' Line” shoud be point
ed out to them. Ever; man, wo
man and child should be given
access to clinics and hospitali
zation should be as cheap in
America as in New Ycrk. You
will never get full ability from
a citizen until he is giv’n free
public health, free public schools
and free good roads.
COST OF A MAN
Time Copy recently overheard
a conversation in which one per
son was arguing over the cost of
a tubercular unit, stating it
would' be too expensive. ‘lt. will
cost too high,” the citizen said.
When in God’s name did it be
come too expensive to save the
life of a man or lives of women
and children in Georgia?
WOES OF A COLUMNIST
The columnist who can make
' a column between Dec. 1 and
Jan. 1, and still be sweet and
sane is a genius. He has to at
tend parses, church meetings
and all manners of functions
and write a column, and get it
into the print shop. Even the
Rendezvousers of Lyerly cease to
rendezvous.
But the happiest New Year!
Snnmtrnnllr Xmi
VOL. 61 NO. 1
Legion Auxiliary Has
Christmas Party
The American Legion Auxili
ary Christmas party was held
last Tuesday in the home of Mrs.
Fred Elrod, with Mrs. Henson
Bynum and Mrs. W. E. Dunaway
at co-hostesses. Attractive dec
orations were used, carrying out
the holiday motif. The president,
Mrs. Charles Harlow, presided.
Members opened the meeting
by singing “America,” followed
with pledges to the flag and pre
amble to the constituion.
Reports from rehabilitation,
poppy and Americanism chair
men were heard. Plans were
completed for the Merry Christ
mas remembrance.
Mrs. Dunaway conducted a
program of carol singing, and
Mrs. Clyde Harlow gave a hu
morous reading.
The hostesses, assisted by
Misses Charlotte and Antoinette
Elrod, served a delicious red and
green salad with cake and punch.
Members of the auxiliary com
mended the Dickeville Gazette
in giving a scholarship and other
prizes, offered all high school
seniors in the county, in the re
cent contest conducted by that
paper. The members also voted
to give each high school library
in the county a year’s subscrip
tion to the Gazette.
Tarver Retires
After 20 Years
Judge Malcolmn C. Tarver, of
Dalton, is winding up his con
gressional duties and accepting
employment as an attorney in
the state and Federal courts and
before Federal bureaus and de
partments in Washinton.
The judge seems quite happy
over his prospects. Santa Claus
brought him a new granddaugh
ter Christmas Eve which he re
gards as an additional token of
good luck.
“I wish my friends to know I
am not out of public life,” he
says. “I shall aways be their
debtor and always working for
them in every possible way.”
Congressman Tarver retires
from service as chairman of the
agricultural appropriations com
mittee where he has for many
years handled all appropriations
for agriculture, the R. E. A. for
estry and the AAA. It is hoped
that Georgia may be able to re
place him on the appropriations
committee with Judge John S.
Wood, of the Ninth District, al
though in view of reduced Dem
ocratic representation on the
appropriations committee and
rights of members holding sen
iority this may not be possible.
ARTHUR S. KING HAS PART
IN OPERATION DUCK’
Arthur S. King, seaman second
class, U. S. Navy, son of Arthur
F. King, of Route 2, Summerville,
has participated in “Operation
Duck,” the joint army and navy
amphibious training exercises
held off the southern coast of
California, while serving aboard
the high-speed transport Hor
ace A. Bass.
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AIDS SISTER KENNY ... Da
kota Oglesby, 16, Los Angeles, who,
thanks to Sister Kenny methods,
is almost completely cured from
polio attack. She now plans to
I come a Sister Kenny technician
to aid in healing others.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1947
New Furniture Firm
Is Incorporated
The Hair Motor Company fur
niture department has reorganiz
ed and incorporated under the
name of the Loop Furniture Co.
The present oificers and person
nel of the old company will
have charge of the new cor
poration.
The new company will be
moved to the new quarters in
the “Loop” on the south end of
the business section of the city
as soon as the building is com
pleted. Jack Bryant, who is in
;charge of construction of the
new building, says that it will
be ready by Feb. 1.
The personnel in charge of the
company is: J. C. Lewis, mana
ger; Miss Jimmie Alexander, sec
retary-treasurer; Oscar Wood,
manager of the purchasing de
partment; Charlie Greene, man
ager of the electric appliance
department.
Thompson Has
Edge in Unique
Governor Race
Who will be Georgia’s next
governor?
That question is being asked
by more Georgians than perhaps
any other public question in
many years. To attempt to an
swer it correctly would be folly.
Competent legal minds are di
vided in their opinions. Politi
cians are choosing sides and is
suing statements designed to
mold public opinion. The new
state constitution is ambiguous.
Any prediction at this time
would be merely guess work.
However, one thing is certain.
When the general assembly con
venes Jan. 13 there w r ill be a bat
tle royal, the like of which has
not been seen since the guberna
torial succession amendment
fight in the legislature in June,
1945, and again in January
1946. The present political sit
uation, unique in Georgia’s his
tory, was brought about by the
death of Governor-elect Eugene
Talmadge on Dec. 21. just three
weeks before he was 'to have
been inaugurated. Here’s how
the picture shapes up on the eve
of the impending legislative me
lee:
Gov. Ellis Arnall, who was
scheduled to retire from office
I Jan. 14, has said that under the
| constitutional provisions he is
: entitled to hold over as governor
I for four more years, but he feels
I that Lieutenant-Governor-elect
!M. E. Thompson has a moral
I right to the office and will re
sign in his favor. The governor
said he did not desire to extend
his tenure of office through a
technical legal argument. He
made it plain, however, that he
! will not resign until Thompson
is sworn in as lieutenant-gover
nor and his right to the succes
sion is uncontested.
Thompson, who was elected to
the newly created post of lieu
tenant-governor over five oppo
nents, takes the position that the
voters knew that their choice for
this office would succeed to the
; vacancy in the event of death
or disability of their choice for
governor, and that the voters
“expect me” as lieutenant-gov
ernor to take the place of Eu
gene Talmadge. Thompson, who
says he is standing on his own
and not affiliated with any par
tisan group, would serve for'two
years as chief executive.
Talmadge supporters, contend
ing that the general assembly
has the right to elect a gover
nor under these peculiar circum
stances, will attempt to elect
Herman Talmadge for a four
year term on the grounds that
he had some “write-in” votes in
the general election. Arnall and
Thompson supporters in the leg
islature will attempt to block
this move and have Thompson
inaugurated as lieutenant-gov
ernor, paving the way for an or
derly succession to the governor
ship.
Should the Talmadge forces
succeed in this legislative ma
neuver to elect a governor, the
act would be contested, the case
undoubtedly going to the Geor
gia Supreme Court, and possibly
to the U. S. Supreme Court, with
Governor Arnall holding over in
office until it is finally settled.
The governor is protested by
law from any form of court ac
tion to remove him, and can
not be removed except through
impeachment proceedings by the
general assembly for some form
of criminal action in office. Im
peachment also requires a two
thirds vote.
Meanwhile, both sides are joc-
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TIMBER SUITS . . . Give the modern girl an inch—of lumber—and
she’ll make a bathing suit out of it. The belles in this bevy are all
wearing bathing suits made from water resistant plywood. Left to
right, Dorothy Iroala, Mary Viduchich, Gloria Byrnes, Betty Poust.
Lois Hart, Edith Sandberg, Doris Lucas. Arline Lukes and Marilyn
Coleman. All are Hoquiam, Wash., high school girls.
Georgia Indicated as next
Oil State, Says Furcron
It is the opinion of Dr. A. S.
Furcron, assistant state geolo
gist, that Georgia may be the
next state to strike oil. Indica
tions of this include:
1. New fields have been open
ed in Mississippi and, more re
cently, Alabama and Florida, and
Georgia’s turn should be next.
2. The Sun Oil Company will
start drilling a test well some
where in South Georgia sp.on —
the state's 28th in nine years.
3. More than 8,000,000 acres
have been leased by a dozen ma
jor oil companies, independent
producers, syndicates or groups
of individuals.
At present, the only test now
under way in the state is in
Brantley County. However, Dr.
Furcron pointed out that few
leaves are being allowed to lapse,
and that annual rental prices
ranging from 5 to 15 cents an
acre four years ago have dou
bled and in some cases jumped
to 50 cents.
“You can’t tell me the big oil
companies would keep sending
Funeral Services Held
For James J. Becker
Funeral services for James,
Jim” Becker, 39, who died from
injuries received in an auto
mobile accident in Savannah
Dec. 23, were conducted from the
Mountain View Baptist Church
Thursday, Dec. 27, with the Rev.
John Kellett, of Trion, officiat
ing.
Mr. Beckex - is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mamie Floyd Beck
er; one son, James Jr.; one
daughter, Miss Jo Ann Becker, all
of Savannah, formerly of Trion;
two sisters, Mrs. Louise Itson, of
Atlanta; Mrs. Faye Alexander, of
Trion. Interment was in the
Trion Cemetery. Hill-Weems Fu
neral Home in charge.
MUSIC CLUB NEWS
Mrs. O. L. Cleckler will pre
sent a program on “Church Mu
sic” at the January meeting of
the Summerville Music Study
Club, which will be held in the
home of Mrs. H. D. Brown on
Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 8, at
3:30 o’clock. Miss Annie Pitts will
be co-hostess. Guest artists for
the afternoon will be Mrs. Frank
Cheek, of Chattanooga, who is
national chairman of hymnology
and church music, and Mrs. J.
Ethridge Lawrence, who will play
as a violin solo "Jesus Bambino,”
by Pietro Yon.
In accordance with their an
nual custom, members and
friends of the Summerville Mu
sic Study Club met at the court
house on the Monday evening
before Christmas at 6:30 o’clock.
After singing a few carols there,
they went to a number of homes
in Summerville where there was
illness and sang Christmas songs.
Many people enjoyed hearing
them sing and seeing their
lighted candles.
keying for positions. Unofficial
polls are being taken among leg
islators to determine the
strength of each side. Newspa
pers are expressing themselves
editorially. The man in the street
is talking. When you add all
these things up you still don’t
get the answer, but they indi
cate strong that Thompson
apparently has an edge in the
unprecedented contest to deter
mine who will succeed Ellis Gibbs
Arnall as governor of Georgia.
trained men—geologists, geophy
sicists and crews—into the state
just for show. They're in busi
ness to make money,” he assert
ed.
Leases are more prevalent in
the lower third of Georgia, well
within the Coastal Plain, and it
is in this section that geologists
consider production of oil most*
likely. Present leasing is not ac
tive, but a considerable trading
in royalties exists.
Although in Pierce County two,
tests in 1938 showed no oil, a
wave of leasing and drilling re
sulted, with only one other test
out of the 28 hitting granite.
Many of the tests are still incom
plete.
Dr. Furcron considers these 28
tests "only a very meager start” (
in the quest for oil, and explain
ed that, even if they should
meet with no success in its dis
covery, the state will still have
gained a good deal of valuable
geological data. “You get plenty
of that sort of dope from even
a dry hole,” he declared.
Representative
Os IRS to Be
Here Jan. 13
A representative of the office
oi the collector of internal rev
enue in Atlanta will be in Sum
merville on Monday, Jan. 13, to
assist farmers in the preparation
oi 1946 income tax returns.
Every farmer who has gross
income of SSOO or more is requir
ed to file an income tax return.
Gross income from farming is
held to be the difference be
tween the total amount of farm
products produced for sale and
the cost of production of such
farm products.
In order that assistance may
be given to the greatest number
of farmers, it is imperative that
every farmer requesting assist
ance have his information as
sembled in the following man
ner:
Each farmer should have a
statement prepared showing his
total income from each class of
farm product and/or other sour
ces, for the entire year 1946. He
should also have a statement
prepared showing the total
amount of each class of expense
and deductions, such as fertili
zer, labor, seed, feed, etc. Each
class of expense should be item
ized but should show the total
amount of such expense for the
entire year.
The itinerary for the period
from Jan. 2-15, 1947, is arranged
primarily for assisting farmers
and at a later date deputy col
lectors will visit the towns for
the purpose of assisting taxpay
ers in general in the prepara
tion of returns which may be
filed on or before March 15, 1947.
Performance Reports
Are Still Lagging
Out of approximately 700 farm
ers who will receive soil-building
assistance for 1946, only 500 have
made their reports, according to
C. C. Brooks, county adminis
trative officer.
“If you are one of the 200 who
have not yet made a report,
please come by as early as con
venient for you and make your
report,” stated Mr. Brooks, “as
Jan. 15 is the last day to make
this report and receive payment
for your 1946 soil-building prac
tices.
Deer Hunting
Season to End
White-tails who can survive
another two weeks will have a
year’s breather, as the end of
the last deer-hunting season in
Georgia comes to a close Jan. 15.
Jan. 15 also closes the squir
rel hunting, and Jan. 31 the
coons and possums will have
some rest. Jan. 6, ducks, geese,
mudhens and mergansers will no
longer be legal prey.
Due to the unprecedented
pressure on wildlife this year,
Charles N. Elliott, director oi
che state game and fish com
mission, called on all sportsmen
to obey the regulations and give
the fur and feathered friends
a rest.
“Otherwise,” Elliott warned,
“the efforts we have made to
bring back our game will be lost.
This year has seen more hunt
ers afield than ever before in
the history of the state, more
than we had estimated in lib
eral pre - season predictions.
Treat your wildlife as a crop.
If you ‘harvest’ wildlife rather
than ‘mine’ it, there will always
be game for our pleasure and
sport in the years to come.”
NOTICE
Evangelist Jack McElroy, of
Nashville, Tenn., will speak at
the Church of Christ Sunday at
11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. You are
cordially invited to attend both
Oi these services.
BASKETBALL
Lyerly Independents will play
the Cleveland, Tenn., Independ
ent team in .Lyerly Saturday
night, Jan. 4. This promises to
be a good game and all you bas
ketball fans come down Satur
day night.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 4,088
bales of cotton were ginned in,
Chattooga County from the crop
Ox 1946 prior to Dec. 13, as com
pared with 5,912 bales for the
crop of 1945, according to Rosa
N. Shumate, special agent.
NOTICE
Rev. George Harris will preach
at Spring Creek Baptist Church
Sunday morning, Jan. 5. Every
one is invited to attend this
service.—Committee.
NOTICE
The Spring Creek Baptist
Church will call a pastor Jan. 5.
All members are urged to be
present.—S. G. Palmour. Clerk.
NOTICE
Rev. Sam Marshall will be
preaching at Dry Valley Baptist
Church Wednesday, Jan. 1. On
Friday. Jan. 3, Rev. Jeff Moore
will be preaching. Services on
both nights begin at 7 o’clock.
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend.
ATTENTION!
There will be a Youth-for-
Christ rally at the Church of
God, one mile east of Trion, at
7 o’clock New Year’s night. Rev.
Hoyt Odum and his singers from
Rossville will be here; also sing
ers from LaFayette will be here.
The Chattooga County Melody
Boys will also sing. Everyone is
invited to attend. —Reporter.
SINGING AT PENNVILLE
Everyone is invited to come to
Pennville Sunday evening, Jan.
5. We are expecting lots of good
singers. The R. P. C. suartet
from WRGA, Rome, will be with
us. Come and let’s have a good
time.
FIRST GERMAN GI FIANCEES ARRIVE . . . The first group of Ger
man fiancees of American Gl’s are shown as they arrived at New York
City by air from Berlin. They were enroute to the hometowns of their
respective husbands-to-be where the marriages will take place. Left
to right: Martha Lehmann, 20; Hildegarde Eichler, 19; Ellen Krause,
21; Ursula Jablonski, 23; Ursula Greunke, 21; Heide Von Strosch, 20.
and Edith Quabeck, 21.
We Have a Modernly
Equipped Job Printing
Department.
$1.50 A YEAR
Thrasher Warns
State Officials
Anent Budgets
Calling for care, caution and
economy, State Auditor B. E.
Thrasher Jr. has notified the
officials of Georgia’s state gov
ernment that the law requires
their departmental budget re
quests for the quarter ending
March 31, 1947, to be filed with
the state auditor not later than
Jan. 5, 1947.
“You are requested to be as
cautious as possible in filing this
budget request inasmuch as a
change in administration takes
place during the quarter and it
is not desirable to have any ex
penditures proposed other than
the normal, economical items
necessary to carry on the work
of your agency during the quar
ter.
“The financial operations of
the state government must go
. on at an even tempo irrespective
of change in administration that
will take place; therefore, your
budget request must include a
compete outline of the proposed
expenditures for the full quar
ter, and if any changes are nec
essary, they can be taken care
of by budget amendment at the
proper time.
“It is highly important that
all state agencies submit the fi
nancial statement as of the close
of business Dec. 31. and also im
portant under the ‘responsibili
ty laws’ that no agency shall
have any commitments author
ized or accounts payable in ex
cess of the funds approved for
the quarter.
“It is also essential that you
transmit the statement of fi
nancial condition to us not la
ter than Jan. 5 so that we can
prepare the consolidated state
ment of the financial condition
of Georgia promptly.
“The State of Georgia on Dec.
31 will close a very successful
financial year, and it is due to
your complete cooperation and
understanding that this has beer
accomplished, and your contir
ued efforts are appreciated.”
I . T > ■ L
1. How many U. S. workers are
organized?
2. Where was John L. Lewis
born?
3. When did the first Hague
Conference convene?
4. How many disarmament
conferences were held between
World Wars I and II?
5. What office will take over
the OP A?
6. What is a “pre-fab?”
7. What is the origin of the
name Santa Claus?
8. What is the area of the con
tinent Antarctica?
9. Is Russia a member of the
International Court of Justice?
10. Has Great Britain experi
enced a general strike?
(See the Answers Inside)
Sugar Stamps
Spare Stamp 53 in family ra
' tion books will be good for five
, pounds of sugar from Jan. 1,
1947, through April 30, 1947, E.
Burns Brooks, director, Georgia
branch sugar office, said this
week in Atlanta.