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HERE N
THERE
The Rev. Howard FinLster has
assumed his duties as full-time
pastor of the Berryton Baptist
Church.
The Rev. Mr. Finister was for
merly pastor of the Mount Car
mel Baptist Church.
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Trion Lodge No. 160, F. & A.
M., will meet at 7:30 p. m. Mon
day, Aug. 23, at the Lodge Hall,
according to J. A. Farmer, Wor
shipful Master.
All qualified Masons are invit
ed to attend.
The Rev. J. F. Merrin, of Rock
mart, will conduct a revival at
the Bethel Presbyterian Church,
beginning at 11 a. m., Sunday,
Aug. 22, it has been announced.
Everyone is cordially invited.
All interested patrons of 'he
Johnson Cemetery at Chattoo
ga ville, are reminded that it v.d’l
be cleaned on Saturday, Aug. 28
and they are sincerely urged to
come as their help is needed.
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All who wish to attend the
Church of God Assembly in Bir
mingham, Ala., Aug. 27-29, may
contact Joe White. The Church
of God bus at Berryton will car
ry all who will go.
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All persons who are interested
in the Pleasant Green (Gamble)
Cemetery, are asked to meet
there Saturday, Aug. 21, for the
purpose of cleaning it off.
Persons are asked to go early,
by 8 a. m., and take suitable tools
to use.
Those who cannot go in person,
are asked to send someone in
their place or send donation to
help have the work done.
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William Adams, Negro, of Hol
land, is in jail after having been
charged with trying to cut Lonzo
Williams, also Negro, with a razor
on Tuesday.
A warrant had been sworn out
Wednesday by Lonzo Williams’
wife charging him with hitting
ber with a heavy weapon, ac
cording to officers.
Church Rally
Here Sunday
An Inter-denominational Rally
will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday.
Aug. 22 at the Summerville Bap
tist Mission, it has been an
nounced by the Rev. F. Eugene
Giheath, pastor of the First
Evangelical Methodist Church.
LaFayette, who stated that this
is the first in a series of rallies
to be held at least quarterly in
various churches of Walker and
Chattooga Counties.
The Rev. A. L. Lorance, pastor
of the First Wesleyan Methodist
Church, Chattanooga, Tenn., will
bring the message, in addition
to the special singing, inspira
tional testimonies and fellowship
which are planned, according to
the Rev. Mr. Gilreath.
The program is now being
sponsored by the Summerville
Baptist Mission, Summerville;
the Church of the Nazarene, La-
Fayette, and the Evangelical
Methodist Church, LaFayette.
Other churches are expected
and invited to have representa
tives at this rally, it was stated.
The public is cordially invited
to attend, the LaFayette pastor
said.
Farmers Enjoy Outing;
Hear Wingate, McGill
Several hundred Chattooga
County farmers and their fam
ilies gathered at the roomy Fair
Grounds in North Summerville
last Wednesday afternoon for
the sixth annual barbecue of the
local Farm Bureau Chapter.
Principal speakers for the aft
ernoon were Ralph McGill, edi
tor of the Atlanta Constitution,
and H. L. Wingate, president of
the Georgia Farm Bureau Fed
eration. Congressman Henderson
Lanham, visiting the county,
spoke briefly.
A tremendous machinery dem
onstration launched the after
noon’s activities and created con
siderable interest in the occasion
Declaring it was unbelieveable,
Mr. McGill said that if all the
soil which is washed away each
year in the United States were |
loaded on ordinary freight cars, I
there would be enough freight
cars full to go around the earth
four times.
“We are beginning to stop
this,” he said, “and we’re going
to see what can be done.”
The noted editor and writer
said that on a trip to the East,
he was amazed to see that the
original “land of milk and hon-
VOL. 63; NO. 35
Thompson Heard
By 1,000 People
Governor M. E. Thompson’s
address in Summerville was
heard by approximately 1,000
persons who met Tuesday after
noon at the courthouse to hear
the gubernatorial candidate
speak.
Lashing out at the so-called
“civil rights issue,” the present
governor said that his oppon
ents were “ducking and dodging
the real issue, my record, and
saying that if M. E. is elected,
Negroes and whites will go to
school together.”
“Who is governor today?” he
asked, saying that under the
present administration there are
no Negroes in the white schools
and that “there won’t be.”
Georgia’s governor said that he
met with other southern gover
nors in Tallahassee, Fla., pro
testing the civil rights program,
and again at Washington, D. C.
He declared that since the spe
cial session of Congress has been
called, he has wired all Georgia
members, urging them to fight
this measure presented by the
President.
“My chief opponent, The Pre
tender, insulted the intelligence
of you people and the industries
of this county last week in Trion
when he told ycu that if I were
to remain in office, you’d havt?
white men and women working
under Negro foremen. In the first
place, such is against the consti
tution of Georgia. I am not in
favor of it and you know as well
as I that this could not be forced
upon you.”
The speaker contended that
his record speaks for itself, point
ing out that it had been said
by many that only $77,000,000
could be raised, and that with
out changing a single tax law he
has raised $108,000,000 by “mak
ing those pay who are able to
pay, those who had been dodg
ing their responsibility, the in
come tax.”
The governor said that the
“fruitless” General Assembly,
which met during his chief op
po:'ent’s stay in the capitol had
cost the state “almost as much
as Jekyll Island,” and they had
nothing to show for it, whereas
he had 11,000 acres of the finest
beach land in America for the
people of Georgia.”
The candidate declared that
the highway from Summerville
to Trion would be re-constructed
and widened as had been prom
ised ,and revealed that the road
from Menlo to the Alabama line
would be paved, the bid to be let
on Sept. 3, for the latter project.
Also on the afternoon’s pro
gram was Harvey Persons, candi
date for lieutenant - governor,
who declared he hoped his life
had been his record.
The candidate for lieutenant
governor briefly outlined his
platform, which included the
statement that he was not in fa
vor of extra taxes of any kind,
and “most especially a sales tax.”
The governor was introduced
iby Judge Claude H. Porter, of
the Rome Judicial Circuit, who
was the first judge to rule on
Thompson’s eligibility to the
governor’s chair. His ruling was
in favor of Thompson.
ey,” Palestine, was no longer such
a land, was not longer a land of
vineyards and grain, but was al
most a desert instead.
“Riding from Bethlehem to
Nazareth,” Mr. McGill said, “I
saw bare hills, the soil washed
almost completely away, the val
leys producing nothing. I stood
close to the place of Christ’s
birth and saw Boaz Valley, which
was once rich and plentiful, and
which was now a mass of tum
bled rocks.”
However, the speaker went on,
in some areas the Jewish farm
ers had been supplied with nec
essary machinery and it was
amazing to see what had been
accomplished. There was grass,
grain and vineyards, where there
had formerly been nothing.
“I’d wanted to see the famous
I Cedars of Lebanon,” Mr. McGill
said, “the great forests that had
supplied the lumber for many
things, among them the lumber
i for Solomon’s temple. But when
I got there, there was nothing
but nine old broken cedars.”
The editor said that “we’ve
waited mighty late,” but that
with modern machinery . and
methods we can even bring some
Nms
SUMMERVILLE,
CORRECTION
1 The child in the upper left
’ corner in last week’s “Citizens
of Tomorrow” pictures, is Rob-
? bie Norton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Norton, of Summer-
1 ville, and not Robbie, daugh-
- ter of Charles Romine, of Men
lo, as was stated.
This, and the error in the
1 preceding week’s issue, is due
> to incorrect information given
3 us by the studio who made the
pictures.
- Summerville
s i
School Plans
Are Announced
The Summerville Public Schools
- will open for the 1948-49 term on
i Monday, Aug. 30. Teachers will
i report for duty Monday, Aug. 23,
t for the week of pre-planning.
- Five faculty vacancies existed
as of Tuesday, Aug. 12, two in
- the grammar school and three in
s the high school Teachers who
s have signed their contracts are
3 as follows: Primary, Mrs. Robert
’ Guffin, Mrs. Clara B. Williams,
* Miss Fay Busbin, Mrs. Beatrice |
? Agnew and Mrs. Lyra O. Wallace.|
t South Summerville, Mrs. Graves . j
■ Myers, Mrs. Nellie T. Weems and 1
i Mrs. Vera H. Williams.
I Grammar school, Mrs. Alice K. j
1 Wright, Mrs. Margaret Pless, Miss !
Bertha Holland, Miss Helen i
t Dobbs, Mrs. Kathryn Little, Mrs. I
- Guye E. Wheeler, Mrs. Geneva:
1 S. Henley, Mrs. Frances M. Har- :
0 ris. Mrs. Marinelie W. Trimble,
- Mrs. Bernice Hearon, Miss Maude
e Sewell, Mrs. Dorothy Henderson
- and Mrs. J. T. Stubbs.
3 High school, Miss Mae Stover,
- Miss LaVerne Hall, M. C. Miller
- Robert J. Dobbs, Brooke Pierce,
Mrs. Brooke Pierce, John Davitte,
a Mrs. Harry McGinnis, Mrs. J.
, Frank Harmon and J. Frank Har-
- mon.
I Special teachers not under
i contract: Miss Annie Pitts, pi-
1 ano; C. B. Keim, band.
s Pupils in the high school de
t pa rtment will be registered at the
3 high school building during the
following hours: 10 a. m.-5 p. m.,
t Thursday, Aug. 26; 9a. m.-5 p.m.,
B Friday, Aug. 27. . .
i Pupils in the grammar school
- I department will be registered on
i Monday, Aug. 30. First grade pu- ■
e pils should be acoompanied by ,
t their parents.
Fees in both grammar school
- and high school will remain the
- same as last year. (
' LT. MITCHELL, WAR ;
: DEAD, TO ARRIVE :
The body of 2nd Lt. Lamar H. .
I, Mitchell, U. S. Army, son cf ’
” Lumpkin W. Mitchell. Summer- <
i ville, Route 4, will be among 61 ‘
f Georgia World War II dead, who J
□ lost their lives during the bitter (
i struggle for the Philippines, re- j
e turned to the United States
s aboard the U. S. Army transport ]
“Dalton Victory.” f
of the worst land into produc
tion.
Recalling the recent census
reports, Mr. McGill pointed out
that the population in Califor
nia had increased 41 per cent in
the past seven years, and the
population in her neighboring
states of Oregon and Washington
had increased in similar percent
ages.
“People are still going west,”
he said, “why?”
Answering the question, the
editor said it was because there
arc new frontiers of industry
there.
“Here in Chattooga County you
have seen your county become
somewhat industrialized and you
have seen the subsistence type
of farms, where the people work
in industries and farm also. The
average income Is up here and
people are attracted to this area.”
The speaker pointed out how
ever, that Georgia as a whole ac
tually has lost population since
1940. He said that increase of
births over deaths had caused a
majority of the 15,000 increase,
and that people are actually mi
grating from Georgia, although
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CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19,”1948
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HERMAN TALMADGE
Editorial—
AN IMPORTANT DECISION
Once in a while it becomes necessary for most of us to make
an important decision. This week The Summerville News makes
a very important decision.
Realizing that one of a newspaper’s prime duties is to weigh
the facts of an issue and then present to its readers its fair,
unbiased opinion. Also realizing the influence a newspaper may
have on public opinion, we nave studied long and hard before
making a decision as to the candidate best fitted—in our opin
ion—to be Georgia’s next governor.
The South today faces probably its greatest crisis since
shortly after the War Between the States. There are some
(even within our own State) who would destroy our long-es
tablished, southern traditions. That is why we must be sure
that our highest state offices are in the hands of our most
alert, efficient men—men whom we all know are 100 per cent
for Georgia and the Southland.
The Summerville News has endorsed other candidates in the
past, but never before as enthusiastically as we now endorse
Herman Talmadge for the governorship of Georgia.
Why are we supporting Talmadge? Why, because his platform
embodies the very principles we believe every true, southern
Democrat is striving for.
Driskill Wolfe
To Sing Here
The Summerville Music Study
Club will present Driskill Wolfe,
popular American tenor, in
“Songs You Like to Hear” at the
Courthouse Auditorium in Sum
merville at 8:15 p. m., Friday,
Aug. 20.
Mr. Wolfe is nationally known
and has toured the United States
as well as parts of Canada and
South America in musical shows
and comedies. He has done ex
tensive radio work with the larg
er networks out of Chicago and
New York.
Just before coming to Cloud
land for the summer, he gave a
concert in Miami, Fla. Mr. Wolfe
in personality, reminds one of
Nelson Eddy. He has played in
many shows Nelson Eddy has
made popular, such as May Time,
Naughty Marietta, Blossom Time
and others. He will include a
group of the best known songs
from these shows in his program
Friday night.
Tickets may be obtained from
any member of the Music Club
or at the door the night of the
program.
Elijah Cooper
Dies August 11
Phillips Elijah Cooper, 59, of
Summerville, Route 3, died in
Trion at 8 p. m., Wednesday.
He is survived by three sons,
James Elijah, of Menlo, Route 1;
Leonard, of Trion, and Carl Coo
per, of LaFayette, Route 1; five
sisters, Mrs. Kitty Scroggins, La-
Fayette; Mrs. Lucy Allman, Cen
tre, Ala.; Mrs. Emma Powell, of
Summerville; Mrs. Mary Sham
blin, Trion, and Mrs. Mamie
Dawson, Summerville, Route 3;
two brothers, Will C., of Sum
merville, and James A., of Sum
merville, Route 3.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Macedonia Methodist
Church at 2 p. m., Friday, with
the Rev. Virgil Blaylock officiat
ing, and interment in the Mace
donia Cemetery. J. D. Hill Fu
neral Home in charge.
Mr. Wolfe to
Appear in Menlo
Driskill Wolfe, of Miami, Fla.,
popular American tenor, will ap
pear in concert at the Menlo Au
ditorium at 8:15 p. m., Friday,
Aug. 27, under the auspices of
the Menlo P.-T. A.
Mr. Wolfe, a .native of Ala
bama, has had extensive train
ing in Atlanta, Miami, Fla., Chi
cago, Hi., and New York. He has
been singing professionally for
14 years, and has toured the U. S.
Canada and parts of South
America in musical shows, light
opera and concerts.
Mr. Wolfe is spending the
summer in his home at Cloud
land. ■»
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Local Baseball Hero To Be
Honored on September 1
Ralph (Country) Brown, local
boy, will be honored in pre-game
ceremonies at Engel Stadium, in
Chattanooga, Tenn., on Wednes
day night, Sept. 1, which has
been designated as “Ralph
(Country) Brown Day.” The
Chattooga County Chamber of
Commerce and the Summerville
Retail Merchants Association
have heartily endorsed And are
sponsoring the occasion.
Brown, a local boy, has made
quite a name f or himself in
baseball circles by his exploits as
a rookie.
Ralph was born and raised in
Trion, but has lived in Summer
ville for the past 10 years. He is
married to his school days sweet
heart, the former Curtiss Mae
Bush. He also attended school in
Summerville and was an out
standing football player.
Country broke into pro ball in
1946 when he was sent to the
Cleveland Indians’ spring train
ing camp. Cleveland officials
would not give him a bonus for
signing, so he signed with Au
gusta, a Yankee farm chain team
of the Sally League. He was sent
to the Tampa Smokers of the
International League, a Class C
Arthur Wilson Is
Shot Here; Robert
Barnes Is Sought
Robert Barnes, 30, was at large yesterday afternoon after hav
ing allegedly shot Arthur Wilson twice in the chest with a pistol
Tuesday night.
Wilson’s condition was described by a Riegel Community Hos
pital (Trion) doctor as “good,” stating that if no complications
arise, such as infection, he should be “all right.”
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Pennville Area
Speed Limit
Set at 35 MPH
Wayne Hinson, director, De- i
partment of Public Safety of;
Georgia, has announced that a ;
speed limit of 35 miles per hour
.vzill be imposed on a section of ,
the Summerville-Trion Highway !
as soon as proper signs are i
erested by the State Highway i
Department.
The reduction of speed to 35 .
miles was made following a traf
fic survey, it was stated.
It will start at a point “100
yards north of the north en
trance to Pennville Grade School >
and extend south in the direc- i
tion of Summerville through the I
community of Pennville on U. S.
Highway No. 27 for a distance of :
one mile be zoned at 35 miles per
hour.”
City Clerk's Office Is
Moved to Georgia Avenue
The city clerk’s office has ■
been moved from the American i
Legion Hall to offices on Georgia
Avenue in Miss Beulah Shrop- I
shire’s building, it has been dis- ;
closed.
FOUR ARE INJURED, TWO
SERiOUSLY, IN AUTO WRECK
Paul Waters, Sr., remained in
a serious condition at Erlanger
Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
and his wife was described as
“resting well” yesterday by hos
pital attaches, following an au
tomobile accident near Menlo
early Wednesday night, Aug. 11.
The Rev. Johnny Hutchins,
i also an occupant of the wrecked
I automobile, is a patient at Riegel
| Community Hospital, Trion, after
suffering a broken leg. Mrs. Hut
chins, who suffered slight in
juries, has been released.
The crash occurred as the two
couples were going to Chester-
I field (Ala.) Baptist Church to a
revival service, being conducted
i by the Rev. Mr. Hutchins, and
' the 1941 Ford driven by John
Hurley, Jr., crashed into the
| front left side of the 1937 Ford
driven by the Rev. Mr. Hutchins.
It took place just off the Menlo-
Cloudland Highway on the Men
lo-Chesterfield Road.
Neither Hurlej nor Guy Jen
nings, the only other occupant,
l league, where he finished the
season and won the league bat
ting crown with an average of
.381, also made the All-Star
team, in a game that was played
in Havana, Cuba, also was voted
j the most valuable player in the
| league.
In 1947 he was sent to the
’ Kansas City Blues, of the Amer
ican Association, a Triple A lea
gue. While he was there scouts
and managers named him as one
of the fastest men in baseball.
The Blues sent him to Augusta
j of the Sally League for more ex
j perience. While at Augusta he
j continued to amaze everyone
i with his swiftness and his bat
ting prowess. He tied the world’s
record with 13 consecutive hits
and again won the batting crown
with an average of .357, also was
i voted the team’s most valuable
I player and was named on the
i All-Star team, being presented
I with a watch from the prexy of
I the league.
In 1948. Country was sent to
Newark, an AAA Yankee farm
team of the International Lea
gue. While there “Country” led
the team in hitting.
$1.50 A YEAR
A warrant, charging Barnes
with assault with intent to mur
der has been issued, according to
Sheriff A. H. (Tiny) Glenn.
Hilda Jackson is in jail charg
ed with aiding a criminal to es
cape, and a warrant has been is
sued charging D W. Busby, taxi
driver, on the same count.
According to Sheriff Glenn,
the shooting occurred in the road
near Crow’s Nest, a small eating
establishment approximately one
half mile off the Summerville-
Rome Highway, one mile south
of Summerville.
Barnes, two men and two wo
men, whose names were not re
vealed, were on the hill at the
rear of the establishment, it was
reported, when Wilson and James
McCollum became involved in a
f : ght down in the road. When
i the group approached the scene
of the fight, one of the women
asked what the trouble was and
McCollum allegedly told her that
'Wilson had “jumped all over me
and beat me up,” whereupon
Barnes hailed a passing taxi.
He is supposed to have return
ed a short time later in a taxi
driven by Busby, carrying a pis
tol, at which time he shot Wilson.
Miss Jackson reportedly was with
Barnes when he returned.
According to officers, Wilson
declared later that Barnes was
his assailant.
After the shooting, Barnes
jumped in the taxi and was driv-
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suffered serious injuries. Hurley
was arrested for “reckless driving
and causing a wreck,” and has
been released under a SSOO bond.
Mr. and Mrs. Waters remained
at the Summerville Hospital un
til Friday when they were re
moved to the Chattanooga hos
pital for treatment. Mr. Waters’
left leg and hip were set Tuesday
night, and although he appar
: ently was no worse, nurses stated
I that he is “still in a serious con-
I dition.”
It was two accidents on one
night for the Rev. and Mrs. Hut
chins. They were being carried to
the Riegel Hospital in a J. D. Hill
ambulance when it crashed into
the rear of an automobile at the
foot of “Cotton Hill,” near the
Berry ton Road.
This accident occurred as the
result of a mix-up of hand sig
nals, and no charges were made.
The ambulance was badly dam
aged, however no one was in
jured.
Newark officials wanted to
farm him to Binghampton, of
a Class A league, but “Coun
try” didn’t like the idea of be
ing sent to Class A ball, so he
packed his bags and came home.
Earl Mann, prexy of the At
lanta Crackers, heard that ‘Coun
try’ was home and immediately
got in touch with him. After
much dickering the Crackers
bought his contract from the
Yankees for $7,500.
Since joining the Crackers he
has been one of their most con
sistent hitters and has continued
to run wild on the base paths,
and is now hitting at a .358 clip
The merchants of Summerville
are 100 per cent behind this move
and state that somebody should
have thought of it before now.
Brown served four years in the
U. S. Army and played service
baseball at Daniel Field, Ga.
Ralph is the son of Dovie Aus
tin Brown and the late Judge T.
C. Brown, of Summerville.
Anyone wishing to help make
preparations are asked to contact
either Mrs. Brock Daniel at the
Chamber us Commerce office or
see Fred Stewart at the Sheriff’s
office.