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THERE
Madison D. Short, Jr., son of
the Rev. and Mrs. Madison D.
Short, Sr., former pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Gummer
ville, has been named music
teacher at Truett - McConnell
Junior College, Cleveland.
Mr. Short, a graduate of Geor
gia Teachers’ College with a
music major, will teach piano
and give private instruction in
band and orchestra instruments.
He will direct the college instru
mental organizations. He was a
student instructor in music at
Teachers’ College last year.
The annual homecoming at
the Dry Valley Baptist Church
will be held Sunday, Sept. 12.
All singers and preachers are
especially invited to attend.
Lunch will be spread at the noon
hour
The Business and Professional
Women’s Club will meet at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 8. at the State
Fish Hatchery.
All young people in this vicin
ity who are not in church else
where are invited to the Sum
merville Methodist Church at 8
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, for a spe
cial young people’s service.
The Rev. Henry A. Walker,
pastor, will deliver a message on
the subject, “He Was Only a
Lad.”
The contract will be awarded
Friday, Sept. 3, for the construc
tion of 2.9 miles of grading and
paving on the Menlo-Alabama
line road. The work begins at
State Route 48 in Menlo and ends
at the Georgia-Alabama state
line
Richard G. Bowman, 18, Sum
merville, Route 3, enlisted in the
United States Army last week,
according to an announcement
from the Rome United States
Army and United States Air
Force Recruiting Station, 406
West Building.
Bowman is the son of Mitchell
Bowman, of Summerville.
Anyone interested in contact
ing a recruiting representative
from the Rome office may do so
at the Summerville Post Office
each Wednesday.
Officials of the Livestock Com
mittee, Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, are rapidly complet
ing their advance plans for the
second annual Georgia Fat Cat-i
tie Show and Sale, which will be i
held in Atlanta next spring, April
19 and 20.
This state-wide show, which
had its beginning in 1948 and
was proclaimed by livestock ex
perts from throughout the south
east as the best ever held in
Georgia, is designed as a climax
event for the thousands of FFA
and 4-H Club members who each
year compete in the many coun
ty and nistrict shows in the
state.
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Benefits accorded paralyzed [
veterans under P. L. 702 are not |
automatic. Each eligible veteran ,
will hace to request the benefits I
by filing an applicaation form I
4555. Each field office should re
view the files on which there is
a possibility of benefits being
payable in order that no eiigible
veteran may be later denied
these benefits.
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The Ccout Rifle Team of the
Boy Scouts of America selected
to represent Camp Sidney Dew,
met Saturday. Aug. 21, to shoot
for the record in the National
Field Rifle Association.
Scouts from the Northwest
Georgia Council making un this
team were: Kendall Kenemer,
Troop 60, Dalton; Lloyd Lang
ston, Troop 60, Dalton; Robert
Campbell, Troop 38, Trion; C. W.
Nickles, Jr.. Troop* 33, Lindale;
James Parris, Troop 38, Trion,
and Tucker Boyette, Troop 60,
Dalton.
The American Forestry Asso
ciation will hold its 67th annual
meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn.j
Oct. 8,9, and 10. This will be the
first convention since the war.
Nationally known speakers
will be invited. Also planned are
on-the-ground demonstrations
and field trips.
O
Recruit Joe 11. Potter, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ragland, of'
Lyerly. Route 1, is now serving
with the 24th Infantry Division.
Tae famed 24th Division, popu
larly known as the “Victory” Di
vision, now occupies the entire
island of Kyushu, third largest
and southernmost of the Jap
anese home islands.
Recruit Patter enlisted in the
service in January, 1948, and
went to Camp Stoneman, Calif.,
Port of Embarkation for over
seas assignment. Arriving in Ja
pan in June, 1948, he joined the
24th Infantry Division and was
further assigned to the 24. h Di
vision Headquarters.
VOL 63, NO. 37
SSOO GIVEN LOCAL
BASEBALL HERO AT
‘DAY’ YESTERDAY
Several hundred persons from
Chattooga County motored to
Chattanooga, Tenn., last evening
to pay tribute to a local base
ball hero, Ralph (Country)
Brown, center fielder with the
Atlanta Crackers, who has been
described as the Atlanta team’s
outstanding player.
The occasion was "Ralph
(Country) Brown Day,” spon
sored by the Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce and the
Summerville Retail Merchants
Bureau. The Chattanooga Look
outs were playing host to the At
lanta team at Engel Stadium.
In addition to personally ap
pearing to congratulate the Sum
merville boy, the hundreds who
j attended presented Brown with
i approximately SSOO in gifts and
i gifi certificates.
A list of donors appeared in
i last week’s News, however,, a
I number more have made dona-
J tions and they are listed below,
I together with the name of the
solicitor:
Frank Sturdivant; Bob Davi
son sl, Frank Sturdivant $2, W.
B. Williams sl, Emmett Clark
son $5, H. L. Wooten sl, Bleel
Willingham sl, Archie Warren,
sl, Earl D. Nix $3, Eli Stephen
son sl, W. G. Rutherford sl, Joe
Ragland 50c. W. H. Hartline sl,
Joe Hix sl, W. G. Woods sl, Louis
McGraw sl, Jack Hartline $2, Bob
PPetPtyjohn sl. Carlton Allen
$2. Diamond Warren sl, James
Abney sl, James Alexander $2,
Buckle Selman sl, Mr. Baker 50c,
Bill Worsham sl, Howard Webb
sl.
Roy Peppers: Cash 50c, J. W.
Parker, Anniston Scrap Metal
$lO.
Fred Westbrooks: Tommy
Tommy Bean $2, C. R. Greer $2,
J P. Hammond $2, E. M. Lively
sl, Hubert Pilgrim sl, Clyde
Compton sl, John W. Davis $2,
W. T. Maddox $2, Friend sl, L. 1
D. Martin 75c, Robt. (Bud) Stew- i
art sl, M. H. King $2, Trion Base
ball Fans $30.23.
Gordon Cohen and James
Crouch: Dr. H. Holbrook sl, Tom ;
Parham sl, John S. Jones sl,
Buck Parker sl, Jack Ragland
. sl. Douglas Giles sl, Luther
Smith, Jr., sl, John Ashworth
50c, Paul White sl, George
Vernon sl, Mrs. Raymund Dan
iil $2.
J. R. Jackson & Son are giv
ing a $5.95 fountain Pen and the
Nancy Jim Clothing Store gave
one pair of Jarman shoes.
ROTARIANS HEAR
McCRAE OF GAME
The way to have fish in a pond
is to fish in it a lot, Rotarians of
the Summerville-Trion Rotary
Cub were told yesterday at their
weekly luncheon meeting when
M. D. McCrae, Assistant Director
■of the State Game and Fish
Commission, spoke.
It has been found, Mr. McCrae
said, that those ponds which pro
duce the most fish are those
which arc fished in most fre
quently.
Equally amazing was the state
ment of Mr. McCrae that Georgia
trappers total approximately one
million dollars annually on bea
ver hides.
A state game survey is now
being conducted for the first
time, it was disclosed, although
it has been needed for quite
some time.
It was disclosed by Mr. Mc-
Crae that Georgia has 900 rang
ers, all in uniform, whose pur
pose it is to try to bring back
•some of the game that was once
here.
Approximately SIOO,OOO is spent
annually by the federal govern
ment stocking deer in the areas
that will support them, the
speaker said
Rotarians were also told that ;
tn? Game and Fish Commission
operates on the fish and hunting
license fees and that almost one
half million dollars were taken
in during the past year.
THIEVES TAKE CASH
iN TWO BREAK-INS
More than SSO was taken in
two break-ins occurring in Sum- ;
merville during the past week.
Scoggins Motor and Implement I
Company was broken into and j
burglarized on Friday night,:
when approximately $35 was i
taken.
A burglar in, the Alexander’s
Store, on Rome Boulevard, got;
away with approximately S2O in
cash and a small amount of
cigars, candy and cigarettes in
a break-in Monday night.
No clues have been found, ac
cording to Sheriff A. H. (Tiny)
Glenn.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1948
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ADVANTAGE OF LOAN
PROGRAM FOR COTTON
FARMERS IS URGED
H. L. Wingate, president of the
Georgia Farm Bureau Federa
tion, is urging cotton farmers of
Georgia “to take advantage of
our government loan program
and market their cotton in an
orderly manner,” local Farm Bu-
I reau officers have announced.
;In following this procedure, the
GFBF president is quoted as say
| ing, “We can certainly receive
; full parity which is approximate-
I ly 3 cents per pound above what
■ cotton is bringing today.”
In making this observation,
Mr. Wingate stated from his
headquarters in Macon that the
present farm program “gives the
farmei an opportunity to sell his
cotton at full parity if he will
take advantage of the facilities
at his disposal.”
The Commodity Credit Corpor
ation which is financing the
price support program, will loan
the farmer 92*/ 2 per cent of pari
ty on this year’s production of
cotton, the Farm Bureau execu
tive announced. “The guaranteed
price in Georgia ranges from
31.09 cents per pound South of
Albany to as high as 31.34 in
Northeast Georgia on middling
15/16-inch staple,” he stated, ad
ding that “the government loan
on one-inch staple is 32.02 cents
per pound. Par’ty on middling
15/16 is 33.80 and on one-inch
staple is 34.50.”
“These loans,” he added, “are
available to all cotton produc
ers, either landlord, renter or
tenant.”
Georgia cotto” producers can
borrow the amount listed by Mr.
Wmgate with very low interest
and storage rates, Farm Bureau
officers are informing local pro
ducers, with the additional in
formation that the cotton on
which the loan is secured may 1
be sold at any time between now !
and July 31 of next year.
From state headquarters of the
Georgia Farm Bureau Federa
tion in Macon, Mr. Wingate stat
ed that “even with the big crop
of cotton in prospect for this
year, the world carryover will
be far below the average for the
past 12 years. Farmers have pro
duced the most expensive cotton
crop in history and they are en
titled to full parity and more.”
“The only way to be sure of
securing parity, ’ Mr. Wingate
concluded, “is by taking advan
tage of the government loan and
marketing the cotton in an or
derly manner.”
Raymond Alexander
Joins U. S. Army
Raymond M. Alexander, 19.
Trion, Route 1, enlisted lust week
in the U. S. Army, according to
an announcement by the U. S.
Army and U. S Air Force Re
cruiting Station, 406 West Build
ing. Rome.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Alexander, of Trion, Alexander
attended Trion High School,
from which he graduated in
1948.
Anyone interested in contact
ing a recruiting sergeant from
Rome may do so at the Summer
ville Post Office each Wednes
day.
FINAL TRIBUTE TH
LT. MITCHELL PAID
Funeral services for Second
j Lt. Lamar Herring Mitchell, 33,
World War II veteran, were con
i ducted at the Bethel Methodist
! Church Sunday afternoon, with
the Rev. Henry Norris and the
j Rev. George D. Erwin officiating
Lt. Mitchell is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
I Mitchell, Summerville, Route 4;
; four sisters, Mrs. D. W. Harper,
iof Douglas; Mrs. Paul Morgan,
j of Aragon; Mrs. E. A. PaPdgett,
of Atlanta, and Miss Ida Mitch
el:, of Summerville; two broth
ers, Howard, of Claiton, Ala., and
Bill, of Summerjdlle.
Furr military honors were giv
en at the graveside of the Sum
merville cemetery. J. D. Hill Fu-
• neral Home in charge.
COOK TO AIR LOCAL
POLITICS SATURDAY
In the excitement of the
gubernatorial race, little has
been said of politics on the local
scene.
The only race specifically con
fined to Chattooga County is
for a seat in the state legisla
ture. For this seat, two young
men are contesting: Bobby Lee
Cook and James Floyd.
In what is to be the first
speech on the legislative race,
Bobby Cook will address the
voters of Chattooga County at
the court house on Saturday at
3 p. m.
Mr. Cook, who is a veteran of
World War 11, is running on the
following platform:
1. To introduce a veteran’s
state-paid bonus bill to pay all
i veterans $400.00.
2. To increase and pay old age
compensation of $60.00.
3. To promote the best in
terests of farmers and laboring
people.
4. Better roads for Chattooga
County.
5. Better schools for Chattooga
County.
Local Keep Georgia Green
Council is Organized
At a meeting Saturday after
noon, August 28, in the County
Ranger’s office, Clayton Peacock, .
prominnt lumberman of Sum
merville, was elected chairman
of the Chattooga County Keep
Georgia Green Council.
The organizational meeting
was called to make plans for a
county-wide forestry meeting
and to plan other forestry edu- :
cational work.
Among those present were Mr. <
Peacock, J. L. Henderson, Will
Smith. County Agent J. B. But- :
ler. C. A. Brooks, Walter Neville
and George Bishop. Several oth
ers appointed on the organiza- (
tion committee could not attend.
It was brought out at the i
meeting that the purpose of the :
County Keep Gr°en Council is to
get all those interested in good :
forestry practices working to- (
gether to carry on educational (
C. Os C. Board
Officers Meet
The resignation of Mrs. Ray
mund Daniel as Office Secretary
of the Chattooga County Cham
ber of Commerce effective yes
terday, was accepted Friday at a
meeting of the officers and di
rectors held at the Chamber of
Commerce office in Summerville
Mrs. Daniel had been with the
group since May of this year.
Mrs. Mary John Fowler, for
mer secretary of the organiza
tion, who resigned last spring
to complete her business school
•raining, was named as new of
fice secretary and also to suc
ceed Mrs. Daniel as home service
secretary of the Red Cross.
E. C. Pesterfield was named
chairman of a committee to work
with the Summerville Retail Mer-
I chants Bureau to promote har
monious relationships between
the two organizations. Also ap
pointed on this committee were
J. L. Henderson, Marshall Low
rv, G. J. Bolling, A. B. Hammond,
T. J. Espy and Mose Brinson.
Discussed at length were plans
for the Chamber of Commerce
membership drive, which will be
launched in October Final plans
will be made at the next meet
ing on Friday. Oct. 1.
Chairman of this drive is J. L.
Henderson, with Mr. Bolling, Mr.
Lowry and Mr. Espy as members
Arrangements for a commer
cial booth at the County Fair in
mid-October were discussed and
the Business and Professoinal
Women’s Club will be asked to
participate in sponsoring it. The
followng were named on the
committee to arrange decorations
and exhibits: M. B. Eubanks, O.
G. Morehead, Harvey Phillips,
Mr. Hammond, A. G. Dunson,
John Davis. O. L. Cleckler and
J. B. Butler. This committee will
meet at 3 p. m. Friday, Sept. 3.
to further plan this booth which
will display local products.
The officers and directors ex
amined the scrapbook prepared
by the secretary over the past
few months, and expressed con
siderable pleasure at the fine
publicity the organization has
been given through the various
channels.
Mose Brinson, president, prais
ed the Retail Merchants Asso
ciation and their part toward
bettering and aiding in the
growth of Summerville and this
trade area.
A resolution was passed en
dorsing and commending the
newly - organized Summerville
Business and Professional Wom
en’s Club and asking them to
join the Chamber of Commerce
as a group and have a repre
sentative on the Board of Direc
tors.
SERVICES HELD TOR
MRS. HAMMOND
Mrs. Emmaline Maddox Ham
mond, age 87, passed away at
the residence of her daughter,
Mrs, H. L. Williams, on College
Street, Sunday, August Bth, fol
lowing a long illness. Mrs. Ham
mond is survived by two daugh
ters, Mrs. Minnie Fowler, of Sum
merville, Ga.. and Mrs. Pearl H.
Williams, of York.
Funeral services were held at
Siloam Church Tuesday, August
10, at 10:30 A. M., with Rev. Les
lie Ezell officiating, assisted by
Rev. O. D. Mason and Rev. R. J.
Mills. Interment followed in the
church cemetery
Pallbearers were H. L. Wil
liams, Jr., Alvin Gagwell, Joe
Hammond, Chas Fowler, Glenn
Pless and Horace Armstrong.
Causey Funeral Home, direct-;
ing.
work.
There is no definite member
ship list in the council, no dues
and no soliciting for money, the
idea being to hold two county
wide meetings each year to cre
ate more interest in forestry, to
pass out literature and posters,
to hold meetings in connection
with the Farm Bureau and Wild
life Club, and to urge members
to talk forestry in their daily
contacts, each person taking
part to consider themselves a
member.
It was decided at the meeting
to ask F. M. Williams, president
of the Tennessee Wildlife League,
who is to be the principal speak
er at the County Wildlife meet
ing at the Courthouse Sept. 13,
to speak briefly on the need for
a county council, and to hold a
county-wide meeting of the Keep
Green Council later in the year.
Chattooga County
Men Register for
Peacetime Draft
CONTROVERSY ON
DOVE SEASON
IS EXPLAINED
The State Game and Fish
Commission today released the
I following statement relative to
, the controversy on the coming
I dove season:
j On June 1, 1948, this Commis
i sion made its annual recommen
dations on migratory birds to the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
These recommendations, after
long and deliberate considera
tion, specified the dates between
Sept. 15-30 and Dec. 15 to Jan.
31 for all counties north of Chat
tahoochee, Maron, Schley, Ma
con. Peach, Houston, Twiggs,
Wilkinson. Washington, Glas
cock, Jefferson and Richmond
I Counties and Dec. 1 to Jan. 31
for all counties south of and in
| ending the above named coun
i ties. These recommendations
I were made to provide some
I shooting for all dove hunters in
| .the state, and at the same time
i give the doves the maximum pro
| tection during their migration
I and nesting seasons.
I The dove season for Georgia
| was arbitrarily set up by the U.
IS. Fish and Wildlife Service
: without due regard to the rec-
I ommendations of this commis-
I sion, between the dates of Dec.
18 and Jan. 31.
The commission protested
these seasons, and even agreed
to take one week in September
in addition to the dates proposed
by the Federal Agency. The Di
rector of the Commission was
informed that the season as es
tablished could not be changed
except possibly by the adoption
of a split season of two 20-day
periods for the entire state.
Because or the above, the
Georgia State Game and Fish |
; Commission finds it necessary to I
I establish its own season for doves .
this year, on the same dates as
• recommended to the Fish and ■
• Wildlife Service. It is to be re- ■
I gretted that these will be in con- ;
; flict with the Federal regulations, i
i and that anyone apprehended by ,
I the Federal agents for shooting |
; doves in September or outside
i the period specified by the Fed
! era Government, are liable to
prosecution in Federal court.
The Commission has instruct
ed the Director to enforce the
■ state regulations as set up. and
requests the co-operation of ail
dove hunters in remaining within
the regulations established by
the Commission.
In other words this year we
are changing the Federal regu
lations in Georgia to give our
hunters, especially those in the
northern part of the state, a
break on their dove shooting, and
we expect the sportsmen who will
benefit by this to shoot square
with the Commission and the I
rangers and remain within the
limitations set up by the Com- ,
mission. All Federal regulations,
pertaining to baited fields, plug- j
ged guns, licenses, noon shoot- j
ing, etc., will be enforced.
The North Georgia dove sea
son: Sept. 15-30; Dec. 15-Jan. 31:
dnly bag limit. 10; possession
mnit. 10: shooting hours, noon
to sunset.
TELEPHONE OPERATOR
POSITION OPEN
COMMISSION
Applications from the general
public are solicited in an exam
ination announcement made by
the Fifth U. S. Civil Service Re
gion. Atlanta, for probational
(leading to permanent classified)
apoointment in Federal agencies
in the five Southeastern states,
to the position of telephone op
erator and supervisor, grades
CAF-1 through CAF-6, with en
trance salaries ranging from $2.-
CS6 thruogh $3,351 a year
Veterans that qualify in this
examination will be given pref
erence in appointment as pro-;
vided in the Veterans’ Prefer-,
ence Act of 1944.
A practical written examina- j
tion is required to test the ap- [
plicants’ aptitude for the duties j
of the positions. In addition to i
passing the written test, appli- ;
cants must show that they have ;
had experience of the length and
type required, for the grade of
the position for which they are
applying.
$l5O A YEAR
I Chattooga County men who
l are in the 24 and 25-year-old
i age brackets poured into the
I local draft board on the first
three days of this week to regis
ter for the first peace-time
draft.
Two hundred and eighteen men
had registered by noon Wednes
day, according to Miss Mae
Earle Strange, clerk. Os this
■ number 140 were veterans.
I The first to register was Co
lumbus Benjamin Fulton, of
Summerville, Route 3, a veteran
’of four years. Now a full-time '
i student at the University of
’ Georgia, Mr. Fulton served in
i the Sixth Marine Division dur
j ing the war.
Sixty men registered on the
i first day, 118 on Tuesday and 40
; had been to the draft board of
i fice by noon yesterday.
According to the present set
! up, approximately one in 42 of
! those registering will be called.
Approximately 9,000.000 young
I men in America will register
during this registration period,
■ which began Monday and which
will extend through Sept. 18.
Miss Strange discloses that she
is in need of assistance at the
draft board, which is located at
I the courthouse, and urges those
; who can to volunteer to help.
Registration hours are from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
For the benefit of those who
have yet to register the follow
ing information is published:
; Born in 1924 (age 24) Sept. 2-3.
Born in 1925 (age 23) Sept. 4-7.
Born in 1926 (age 22) Sept. 8-9. «
Born in 1927 (age 21) Sept.
10-11.
Born in 1928 (age 20) Sept.
13-14.
Born in 1929 (age 19), Sept.
15-16.
Born in 1930, before Sept. 19,
1930 (age 18), Sept. 17-18.
CASH, ANOTHER LOCAL
BASEBALLER, NOW
AT HOME
j Another representative of Sum
: merville in the baseball world is
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JACK CASH
Jack Cash, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A A. Cash.
Now at home visiting relatives
and friends, young Cash has
completed a successful season
with the Geneva. Ala.. Baseball
Club.
He played with the Northwest
Georgia Textile League for two
years, after which'he was con
nected with the Tubize (now Cel
anese) team at Rome for several
months.
The local boy first signed a
contract with the Newnan base
ball club and was sent to the
Geneva Red Birds in the Ala
bama State League.
At the present time, he has a
batting average of .368.
While in high school here,.
Cash was one of the outstanding
players in football and basket
ball, having been captain of the
football team in 1946. At the
time of graduation, the young
athlete was one of two present
ed with the Athletic Award as
being one of the outstanding
players of the year.
LABOR DAY
The Post Office, the bank
and all stores in Summerville
with the exception of the drug
stores, will be closed Monday,
September 6, in observance of
Labor Day.
All the majof manufactur
ing plants in the County, with
the exception of the Summer
ville Manufacturing Company,
will also close on this day.