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By RAYMUND DANIEL
Mrs. Lucy Doster
Her Work for L g.
The Gift of a Woman.
70 Years in Lyerly.
Pastor Asks ‘Kiddies’.
A Dog and a Reward.
12 Hours on Clock.
MRS. LUCY DOSTER
Even unto the third and per
haps to the fourth generation
is the benefit of Mrs. Lucy Dos
ter, of Lyerly, as an educator.
Behind her is the golden sun
light trail of helnfulness, good
ness of life, and generous serv
ice for the younger citizens of
America. Ahead are the sign
posts of the future that she has
so painstakingly erected. She
taught for years in Lyerly. When
so vitally needed, she went to
Atlanta. Then when the shortage
here became so acute, she felt
Lyerly needed her, particularly
since Atlanta had a retirement
system. Now in Lyerly, she is
valiantly carrying on. She has
perhaps educated more boys and
girls in Georgia than any other
teacher. She has taught several
generations and she has taught
them well. Those she has taught
and are teaching, love her. This
is the greatest reward that can
come to human beings—to be
loved—and she is loved
The poem, “Children,” by Mrs.
Doster in Nin’s Scrap Book, best
tells her high ideals and stand
ards. The verses follow:
I
“Year after year they come to
me.
These children with questioning
looks.
Year after year they leave me,
As they leave their out-grown
books.
II
And I wonder sometimes if I’ve
taught them,
Just some of the worthwhile
things.
Just some of the things they’ll
need in life,
Be they peasants, or poets or
kings.
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Os course, they have learned his
tory and civics,
And how to divide and add.
But have they learned that
these are not all
That will help make life sad or
glad.
IV
Have they learned respect to the
aged.
Protection for those who are
weak,
That silence is always golden
When gossip bids them speak.
V
Have they learned the value of
'service,
Friendship that character com
mands.
That courtesy ranks with cour
age.
In the heart of a true gentleman.
VI
Have they learned these things
an_d all others,
That will help make them brave,
strong, and true,
Then I care not, if they tell me,
That Irkutsk is the capital of
Peru.”
THE GIFT OF A WOMAN
Another woman has given her
much and her all in as great
away. She is Mrs. H. S. (Lassie)
Edwards. It lies not alone in her
splendidly operated farms, but in
the five sons and two daughters,
who, in turn, are bequeathing
grandchildren. The sons are Har
ris, Harper, Bill and Bob, all of
Lyerly, and Storey, who is in
Germany. The two daughters are
Mrs. Jack Gilland, of Rome, and
Mrs. C. R. Echols, of Lyerly. All
the children stand like Saul and
their mother has the regard, re
spect and affection of all.
70 YEARS IN LYERLY
“Seventy years in Lyerly” is
the slogan of I. J. Kimball, who
tersely opines that he was born
70 years ago in Lyerly—that he
has lived 70 years in Lyerly and
if he has 70 more years, they
will be spent in Lyerly. “It was
a pine thicket when I first saw
it,” says Mr. Kimball, who is an
uncle of Robert Kimball.
PASTOR ASKS “KIDDIES”
Laconically came the invita
tion of Rev. B. D. (Bill) Ricks, of
the Lyerly Baptist Church, to
the boys and girls to attend the
Church School. Torn from a
small fan, Time Copy was given
this notice: “Vacation Bible
School; all KIDS welcome, July
1 to 11—Time, 9 a. m. to 12 noon.”
And it was written, while the
automobile was running. The
-KIDS” came!
A DOG AND A REWARD
Dogs, which had been the tar
get of B. B. guns for sport,, sud
denly became the pets of all kids
of Lyerly. It was because a dog
had been lost in Lyerly and a re
ward of $5 was offered. Every
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VOL. 61 NO. 26
RECORD GEORGIA
ROAD JJUII DING
PROGRAM SEEN
Georgia faces the happy pros
pect of letting more than $2,000,-
000 a month in road-building
contracts during the remaining
year and a half of Acting Gov.
Thompson’s administration. All
of these contracts will be fi
nanced jointly by the state and
Federal Governments, and will
constitute a record for the state.
This was made possible when
President Truman signed a
measure extending the deadline
on the use of 1946 funds from
July 1, 1947, to July 1, 1948, and
thus provided about $3,000,000
more in Federal funds with
which' to match state highway
funds.
Highway Director John Beas
ley disclosed that 336 road proj
ects were already under way in
Georgia and that out-of-state
contractors are now beginning to
take a lively interest in bidding
on Georgia projects. This, he
said, will have a healthy effect
on the bid of contractors within
the state, some of whom, he has
charged, may have been guilty
of “collusion” in their bidding.
Tax Study Group
Starts to Work
William M. Lester, of Augus
ta, former state senator and rep
resentative, has been named full
time executive secretary of the
Georgia tax revision commis
sion, ordered by the general as
sembly to work out a new, simp
lified tax system for the state.
His appointment was an
nounced as the group met for
the second time and agreed on
methods of procedure. Naming
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher,
Jr., as chairman of a steering
committee to co-ordinate the
work of sub-committees, mem
bers agreed that one of their
primary objectives would be to
devise a new revenue code for
Georgia along with a new tax
structure. Both will be submit
ted to the legislature which will
meet in 1948 for passage into
law.
STATE'S LIBRARY
SERVICE EXPANDS
More than three-fourths of
Georgia’s entire population is
now provided with a public li
brary service, according to the
state department of education
which, at a fixed cost of $150,000
a year, provides state-aid for lo
cal and county free libraries.
Only 14 of Georgia’s 159 coun
ties are without any form of li
brary service, according to Dr
M. D. Collins, state school super
intendent, and local appropria
tions in participating areas are
steadily increasing.
Tentative Plans for Red
Cross Live-Saving
Courses Under Way
Tentative plans for American
Red Cross junior and senior life
saving courses at John’s Pool are
under way, Brooke Pierce, swim
ming instructor, announced this
week. The classes will probably
begin on Monday, July 14, he
stated. Those who wish to re
ceive instructions in these classes
should contact the swimming in
structor as soon as possible.
Children under 15 years of age
will be placed in the junior di
vision, while those who are more
than 15, or are seniors in high
school, will be in me senior di
vision.
County 4-H'ers to Attend
Camp at Wahsega
On Monday, July 7, about 60
boys and girls from Chattooga
County will leave for Camp
Wahsega, near Dahlonega, wher .
they will attend a 4-H Club camp
They will leave Summerville at
9 a. m. on a bus driven by Mr.
Grady Ramey. The group will re -
turn Friday, July 11.
Activities for club members at
camp include nature study, hor
ticulture, dairying, swimming,
recreation, soil conservation, for
estry, and rifle shooing. A well
planned program is prepared for
boys and girls attending this
camp.
boy gathered and tethered dogs,
claiming it was his recovery.
12 HOURS ON CLOCK
If clocks had any more hours,
Dr. Bert Brogdon would use them
all. As it is, he is working 18 out
of 12 hours, to be Irish. In ad
dition to other duties, he is tak
ing on the office of president of
Ruritan and he will fulfil is well
as he has the others.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947
Parks Director
Sees Attendance
Records Smashed
Inspired by Acting Gov. M. E.
Thompson’s lively interest in
public recreational facilities, the
state parks department has been
working overtime these days to
improve existing installations.
These efforts have borne fruit,
too. according to Parks Director
Charlie Morgan, Sr., who prophe
sies that all existing attendance
records will be shattered before
the summer season is over.
“One of our parks,” Maj. Mor
gan said, referring to Vogel State
Park at Blairsville, has had to
turn down more than 2,000 re
quests for cabin and inn reserva
tions, for the 4th of July week
end alone. We just didn’t have
the room.”
New swimming facilities, re
vision of visiting hours, lively
recreation programs which in
clude free square dancing and
free fishing are being planned
for all the parks, he declared,
just as fast as the limited fi
nances of the state permit.
Free fishing is already per
mitted at the following parks:
Alexander H. Stephens Memorial
Park at Crawfordville; Crooked
River State Park at Kingsland;
Fort Mountain State Park at
Chatsworth; Franklin Delano
Roosevelt State Park at Chipley,
and Vogel State Park at Blairs
ville.
Maj. Morgan invited inquiries
regarding the state’s parks to be
addressed to him at the state
capital in Atlanta.
Thompson to Attend
Governors’ Meeting
Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson
will journey to Salt Lake City on
July 13 to attend the annual gov
ernors’ conference on state and
national affairs. He has declared
he will take part in several of
the round-table discussions that
are slated to take place.
Secretary of State George
Marshall will be the principle
speaker at the meeting at. which
Utah’s Gov. Herbert B. Maw will
be official host.
Gov. Thompson will prepare
his regular Tuesday night broad
cast over the Georgia State Net
work in advance and it will go on
the air July 15 via an electrical
transcription.
FOWLER COMPARES
NATIONAL GUARD
TO BIG INDUSTRY
The National Guard of Geor
gia will bring about $7,000,000 of
Federal money into the state
each year, according to Adj.-Gen.
Alpha A. Fowler, Jr. The new
streamlined pay-scale for guard
members will account for $5,000,-
000 annually in pay alone, he
disclosed.
Addressing the state conven
tion of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars in Savannah last Monday,
Gen. Fowler referred to the new
guard as “a big industry,” and
intimated it should be welcomed
as such.
“However,” he told the veter
ans, “its primary value is the
vital part it plays in the master
defense plan of the United
States. The new National Guard
is one of the big planks in the
aggressive military platform of
this country and is thus a major
insurance policy against any
World War III.”
As in the state convention of
the American Legion this year,
the VFW members publicly went
on record as endorsing the Na
tional Guard recruiting cam
paign which officially gets under
way next week.
GEORGIA WINS
RAIL TAX SUIT
The United States Supreme
Court, by unanimous decision of
the nine justices, upheld the
claims of the state of Georgia
against the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad for income tax pay
ments. The ACL claimed exemp
tion of income under a state
charter granted the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, exempting
the line from all taxes except a
nominal one-half of one per cent
of the net earnings.
The case initiated more than
three years ago by Atty.-Gen.
Eugene Cook, when he was reve
nue commissioner, was argued 1
before the Supreme Court by
Cook and tw T o assistants, Victor
Davidson and Claude Shaw. The
result of the decision will be i
binding upon several other rail.
lines, with similar charters, and i
more than $1,000,000 in back j
taxes will be available to the I
state.
Denver Artist Makes
Gift to Local Church
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MRS. A. E. PERRY
Mrs. A. E. Perry, of Denver,
i Colo., is the artist who contrib
uted the painting which forms a
scenic background for the bap
; tistry in the new building of the
J Church of Christ in Summer
ville.
The scene is a copy of a post
; card picture of the River Jordan
■ with Mount Herman in the dis
tance. A dove is shown in a cloud.
Visitors wishing to see the pic
ture are welcome.
Paul Simon, visiting evangel
ist, will speak Sunday morning
on spiritual lessons contained in
the picture.
NOTICE, VETS
Veterans who plan to attend
college for the first time next
fall under the GI Bill were urged
today by the Veterans Adminis
tration to arrange immediately
for entrance into schools of their
choice.
Theodore G. Thress, officer in
charge. Veterans Administration,
contact office, second floor of
the West Building, Rome, point
ed out that VA officials forecast
another peak registration in in
stitutions of higher learning at
the beginning of the next school
year. Veterans who wait until the
last minute to apply for entrance
are running tne risk of being
“shut out,” Mr. Thress said.
The VA official also advised
j veterans who plan to start their
I educational training for the first
j time next fall to apply at once
J for their certificates of eligi-
I bility.
SHARE YOUR HOME
WITH A CHILD
Do you want to share your |
home for a few months with)
Sue? She is only a few weeks old; !
a tiny, cuddly mite of a baby.
Her mother loves her, but is
too sick to give her the care she
needs.
Mrs. M. M. Allen, Jr., the Chat
tooga County welfare director, i
says that the department of
public welfare urgently needs
boarding homes for Sue and oth
er Georgia children like her.
Some of these children have par
ents who are sick; some of them
are neglected, deserted or from
broken homes.
These children are not for
adoption. Most of them will
eventually return to their own
families. They are in need of a
family who can give them the
love and understanding care
which every child needs, espe
cially during the difficult time
in their lives.
A foster family must have both
parents who are in good health,
who love and understand chil
dren, and who in other ways
meet the foster home require
ments of the department of pub
lic welfare. Board is paid for a
child while he is in the home.
Medical care and incidentals are
provided and the welfare de
partment shares with the foster
parents the responsibility for the
child.
Families who want to give sos- j
ter care to children should get
i in touch at once with Mrs. M. M. 1
' Allen. Jr., director, Chattooga
! Couhty department of public
! welfare. The office is located at
I the Chattooga County court-
■ house.
Thomas Shop Sold To
Howard Bohanans
The Thomas Shop on Wash
ington Street, was recently pur
chased by Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Bohanan. Originally the Mary
Penn Shop, it will now be known
as Bohanan’s. Malcolm and Ir
win Thomas had owned the shop
for a little more than a year.
The new owners will have the
same lines of stock as did the
■previous operators.
Ten thousand persons were
routed by lowa floods for the
second time.
Three at a Time
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Evident
ly all tiring of bachelorhood at
one time, three brothers, Vin
cent, Samuel and Michael
Scuro took unto themselves
brides in a triple wedding cere
mony recently.
School Payments
Up 50 Per Cent
Although Acting Gov. Thomp
son’s administration is, of ne
cessity, one of economy, the state
of Georgia has made school pay
ments this year of some $30,693,-
600 —more than the entire state
budget of 1936. This was pointed
out by State Auditor Thrasher,
Jr., as he reported that school
expenditures are now 50 per cent
more than last year and climax
a steady increase in the amount
allocated to schools since 1924.
GWTW Print Given
To State Museum
A “commemorative print” of
the motion picture “Gone With
the Wind” is now in the state
museum' at the state capital. It
was presented to Acting Gov.
Thompson by Producer David O.
Selznick, of MGM as Margaret
Mitchell’s masterpiece was re
vived in Atlanta last week.
In accepting the four miles of
technicolor film for a permanent
exhibit, Gov. Thompson com
mented that the picture gave
Georgia more favorable publicity
than any other single factor in
history. He turned the film, and
accompanying enlarged still pic
tures over to Miss Annette Mc-
Lean, curator of tne state mu- I
seum.
History of First Baptist
Church of Sunnerville
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(This is the second of a se
ries of articles to be published
in The News. Each week an
attempt will be made to pre
sent the history and present
standing of some church in
the county.)
By REESE CLEGHORN
The early history of the First
Baptist Church of Summerville
is a fascinating story. Although
information about this period in
the life of the church is meager,
enough has been found to show
the struggle of Summerville
Baptists from a small beginning
in the early 19th Century to the
present membership of approxi
mately 400.
The first meeting house in
Summerville was a crude build
ing which was used by all local
denominations. It is recorded
that there was no bell, the peo
ple being called to worship as in
Biblical times, by a trumpet.
The Coosa Baptist Association,
of which this church was a
member until 1892, lists the Rev.
E. Dyer as a resident pastor as
early as 1839. No records of the
church at that time have been
found. However, on Aug. 7, 1848,
the inferior court of Chattooga
County granted unto William
Crook and John P. Henry, “dea
cons of the Summerville Baptist
Church,” Lots 1 and 2 of Block
19, in Summerville. The fact that
these two men, according to the
deed, were “deacons of the Sum
merville Baptist Church” indi
cated that there was an estab
lished church, although without
a private building, prior to 1848.-
This grant, which was on Con
gress Street, served as a place of
worship until Nov. 30, 1901, when
the church and lot were sold to
the Summerville Colored Baptist
Church for the infinitesimal sum
of S4OO. The Baptists then bought
Lots 1,2, 3 and 4 of Block 13.
The Hon. John Mattox, ordinary,
and a member of the church,
conveyed the property to the
Baptists for the small amount of
S3OO. The new land, which was
deeded to Deacons George W.
Sewell, J. W. Pitts, J. N. Rush
and Joseph S. Maxey, is situated
Revival in Progress
At Summerville
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A revival began Sunday, June
29, at the Summerville Church
of Christ and continues each
evening at 8 o’clock through
July 11.
| These services are sponsored
by the Summerville Church of
Christ with Paul Simon, of Chip
ley, Fla., as speaker.
He has held three revival
meetings in Lyerly; he has done
j extensive evangelistic work in
South Georgia, Alabama and
I Florida.
Song services are conducted by
J. A. Salmon, of Chattanooga.
We invite you to attend these
j services and bring your Bible
I and study with us.
at the corner of Georgia Avenue
and Union Street.
The second church building
was erected in 1902. Old records
reveal an interesting incident of
that period. The contractor who
built the church lost quite a sum
of money on the contract. The
Baptists, showing their Chris
tian spirit, voluntarily gave him
a house'and lot adjoining the
church.
On Oct. 14, 1892, the church
had withdrawn from the Coosa
Baptist Association and joined
the Chattooga Baptist Associa
tion, which then consisted of 12
Chattooga churches and one
Floyd County church. The Rev.
D. T. Espy was the first minister
of the church in the new asso
ciation. He served through the
year 1894.
The Rev. J G. Hunt was pas
tor from 1895 to 1908, when he
left to join the staff of the Chris
tian Index (official organ of
Georgia Baptists). Because of
the love of the congregatoin for
the Rev. Mr. Hunt, he was re
turned in 1925 to serve six more
years here. Thus, he was minis
ter here for 20 years, and during
eight of these he was moderator
of the Chattooga Baptist Asso
ciation.
Although the building in use
in the early part of the century
was huge, Deacon George W.
Sewell, envisioning an even
greater church, provided in his
will for the construction of a
Sunday School annex. Unfortu
nately, these funds could not be
obtained until several years aft
er his death. To forestall a de
lay in erecting the annex, Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Eastman, with
no guarantee from the congre
gation, advanced money for
building the addition until the
funds willed to the church could
be collected. The late N. S. Rich
supervised the construction of
the $4,000 addition.
On March 11, 1935, the Bap
tists became a full-time church.
The Rev. John C. Jackson was
the first regular minister.
On July 5. 1937. Dr. W. H.
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We Have a Modernly
! Equipped Job Printing
Department.
$1.50 A YEAR
APTITUDE TESTS
FOR ON-THE-JOB
TRAINEES URGED
Aptitude tests for veterans
taking on-the-job-training have
been urged by the Veterans Serv
ice Board of Georgia to obviate
an “unjustified waste of gov
ernment funds and years from
the lives of ex-servicemen in
volved.”
In a report which made public
a quarterly survey by the De
partment of Veterans Service of
the on -the-job training situation
in the state, Board chairman
Henry Persons, of Talbotton,
commented that “entirely too
many veterans are now training
for occupations to which they
are not really suited.” He stressed
I the fact that this cannot be
blamed on business or industry,
tut is “one of the awkward
I things about the Federal law
which set up on-the-job training
for ex-Gl’s.”
“During the last three months,”
Persons said, "Arthur Cheatham,
the State Veterans Service direc
tor, has been engrossed in re
checking and re-certifying the
job objectives of businesses and
I industries throughout Georgia
which, patriotically, have gone
into the on-the-job training pro
gram. It was a tremendous task
and, now completed, assures the
veteran of a competent training
program to go along with his job
and insure uninterrupted pay
ment by the Government of sub
sistence allowances.
“However, the veteran’s ability
i to absorb the training is some
thing else again. It appears to
the board that both the ex-serv
iceman and the taxpayer lose
substantially when a man trains
for several years for a job he can
never hope to fill Aptitude tests
to determine, scientifically, if
tne trainee can actually learn
the job appears to us to be the
only answer to one of the awk
ward things about the Federal
law. Entirely too many veterans
are now training for occupations
to which they are not really suit
: ed.”
Two Local Girls Struck
By Auto Saturday Night
Two 14-year-old Summerville
girls suffered bruises and lacera
tions Saturday night when they
were struck by a car on the Ly
erly-Menlo Road about one mile
south of town. They were Betty
Knowles and Ruth Hammett.
County officers reported that
the two girls were walking to
wards town when the south
bound car, driven by Frank Ros
ser, hit them. Carter Dean and
Hill Caldwell, driving behind the
car, stopped and took the girls
to the local hospital, where they
were treated. Injuries were not
serious.
Rosser, who left the scene of
the accident, but later reported
to county officials, was charged
with reckless driving and was
released under S3OO bond.
NOTICE
All former marines who are in
terested in joining the Marine
Organized Reserve, call by or
write to the Marine Recruiting
Office in the post office, Rome,
Georgia.
Members of the Reserve can
earn from $2.50 to $lO per night
for a two-hour drill period.
Purchasing agents’ survey sees
trade failing, competition rising.
Senate body to investigate the
shortage of box cars.
1. When does spring begin in
the ISouth Temperate Zone?
2. The U. S. statute mile con
tains 5.280 feet. What is the gen
eral length of the European mile
in feet?
3. What city is the capital of
California.
4. Which state was first set
tled, yet one of the last to enter
the Union?
5. With what does the first ar
ticle of the Constitution deal?"
6. There are more living per
sons in the U. S. today in what
five-year age span?
7. Within two years, when did
we purchase Alaska?
8. What college in the U. S.
has the largest endowment?
9. What is the standard Ar
gentine money unit?
10. The British Commonwealth
of Nations covers what fraction
of the world’s land surface?
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