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HERE N 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. —O— 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. —O— 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. Sumnirntillr Nma SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1948 * A- y f ■- ISO-' isl > ‘ Mg / • .. ... - “ Ralph "Country" Brown 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 4 '' w Mb L |k< r, >S;-. -■'■S':®-,:. 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.