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HERE N
THERE
The Ami Cemetery, near Menlo,
will be cleaned on Saturday,
September 11, it has been dis
closed.
Those having relatives buried
at this cemetery are asked to
be at the cemetery early in
order to get it cleaned.
An ordination of deacons will
be conducted by the Rev. John
Crosby at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept.
12 at the New Hope South Bap
tist Church.
Everyone is cordially invited
to attend.
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 regular meeting of Trion
Lodge 160, F. and A. M. will be
held at 7:30 p. m. Saturday, Sept.
11, at the Lodge Hall Trion.
All qualified Masons are in
vited to attend.
The Coosa Valley Livestock
Sale, in Rome, totaled $32,547.16
on September 1. when 328 cat
tle, 41 hogs three sheep and one
mule were sold. Forty-four buy
ers and 129 sellers participated
in the sale.
Hogs were $20.75 to $27.70 cwt.;
Calves, $lO to $27 cwt.; bulls,
$15.20 to $18.70 cwt.; steers, sl9-
60 to $25.50 cwt.; slaughter cows,
$13.30 to $18.60 cwt.; dairy-type
heifers, sls to $21.25 cwt.; spri
ngers, $63 to $312 per hd.
/40THER, SON SUFFER
IN AUTO MISHAP
Mrs. D. W. Busby and herl2-
ycar-old son, Gordon, are in the
Summerville Hospital suffering
from cuts and bruises following
an automobile accident near Val
ley Head, Ala., Sunday.
Mr. Busby, an employe of Per
ry’s taxi, who was driving the
taxi at the tin .nd their other
son, age 14, escaped with slight
injuries.
A Mr. Kirk, said to be the son
of Will Kirk, of Ida, Ala., and a
Miss Hulgen occupied the other
automobile and it is thought the
young woman was considerably
injured. She was taken to the
Fort Payne, Ala., Clinic for treat
ment.
According lo Mrs. Busby, she
and her family were headed for
Sand Mountain in the taxi to
visit her husband’s father, when
the other automobile meeting
them, passed a slow-moving ve
hicle and crashed head-on into
’he taxi. It has been estimated,
she said, that approximately S7OO
worth of damage was caused the
taxi, and the other vehicle also
was severely damaged.
Farm Notes
The seed that farmers will sow
this fall such as crimson clover,
austin peas, vetch and small
grain seems to be getting scarce
ar.d higher. I would like to urge
farmers to buy their seed as
soon as possible while they can
find them.
Mr. Brooks and I would like to
urge all farmers to come in and
make their application for phos
phate and lime as soon as possi
ble so we can have it on hand
when they want it.
Last year a good many farmers
were somwhat disappointed be
cause they didn’t receive as
much from the Government for
carrying out their soil buliding
practices as they should. But
they say it will be better this
year and after all we don’t want
to stop sowing winter cover crops
and conserving our soil just be
cause the Government will not
pay us as much as we would like
to have. It is to the farmers
benefit if the government don’t
pay a cent. However, it looks like
this year will be better than last
year and the promise for another
year is still better than what is
is this year.
The date for our county fair
is not far away. I would like to
urge the farmers that are plann
ing on putting cattle and crop
exhibits in the fair to start mak
ing preperations now. Cattle that
have been giver some attention
will show much better than those
that have not. After all we are
proud of what we have to ex
hibit and that is the purpose of
having a fair to kindly show off
what we raise so that it might
stimulate the interest in getting
a better job done.
We are also trying to have
several exhibits in the Chatta
nooga Fair which will be held
September 20-25.
An application of 50 per cent
chlordane at the rate of two
pounds of the wettable powder
per 100 gallons of water makes
an effective post-harvest spray
for curculio-mfested Elberta
peaches.
VOL. 63, NO. 38
INDIANS OPEN FOOTBALL
SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT
BY BILLY ESPY
The Summerville Indians open
! the 1948 football season Friday
night at 8 O’clock EST on the
much-improved Sturdivant Field,
being host to the Gaylesville,
Ala., eleven.
The Indians have been working
out under the lights this week
and seem to be in excellent
snape for the boys from Alabam',
who comprise the first team to
come from Gaylesville since the
war.
Summerville has some good
looking prospects this year, and
they along with 11 returning let
termen will play a full 10-game
schedule, 5 of these being district
games. Some of the newcomers
that have shown up well are;
Billy Donovits, center, “Buck”
Helton, fullback, and Hubert
Strickland, end. Others who have
also shown well are backs Bobby
Bush and Jimmy Williams.
The field is in excellent shape
an.! bleachers have been added
on each end of the stands to
accommodate more fans.
When the Indians trot onto the
field they will be garbed differ
ently from any of the preceding
teams. The ’4B version of the
Indians will be outfitted in red
pants set off by a strip of white
elastic up the back of each leg,
Riegel Honors
Lou Brissie At
N» Y. Dinner
Leland V. (Lou) Brissie, war
time hero and now pitcher for
the Philadelphia Athletics, was
the guest, of honor Tuesday eve
ning at a dinner given him in
New York at the Waldorf-Astor
ia Hotel. His hosts were employ
ees and members of the baseball
teams of Riegel Textile Corpo
ration and Riegel Paper Corpo
ration. Brissie started his pro
fessional baseball career as a star
pitcher for the “Riegels,” Tex
tile Company team at Ware
Shoals, S. C., in the Central Car
olina League.
Approximately 60 guests, in
cluding a home-town committee,
hailed the local boy from Ware
Shoals who overcame tremen
dous handicaps to attain his am
bition of pitching for the Phila
delphia Athletics. S. L. Brissie,
grandfather of the pitcher, came
to New York from South Caro
lina, along with other guests, to
see the pride of the Piedmont
State honored.
John L. Riegel, president, said
that Lou Brissie is “the zenith of
oaseball achievement to his
friends at Riegel ” He represents
the epitome of character, persist
ence, faith, Mr. Riegel said.
Brissie was presented with a
matched set of handsome trav
eling bags as a token of esteem
from his friends and admirers
ir the Riegel Companies.
When Corporal Brissie’s squad
was hit directly with a shell in
the Appenine Mountains in fTaly
during the war, he was given up
for dead. Found by medical
corpsmen, he pleaded for leg sav
ing surgery in the hospital. Two
years and 23 operations later,
Lou was able to hobble again. He
took up his glove and went to the
mound. He has been pitching
more effectively ever since, last
year with Savannah where he
won 23 games and lost five, and
this year with the Philadelphia
Athletics.
Lou Brissies father, who was
an official of Riegel Textile Cor
poration’s Ware Shoals Division,
fostered the boy’s ambition to be
a big leaguer. Mr. Brissie met
Connie Mack and interested him
in the boy. Between them they
tutored, encouraged and helped
the young man toward his goal
—to win a spot in the big leagues,
preferably on the Philadelphia
Athletics. The goal of these three
men was in sight when Lou was
a student at Presbyterian Col
lege in Clinton, S. C., and a lad
with a baseball reputation al
ready. But that was when the
war intervened.
When his father died, Lou
Brissie felt all the more deter
mined to prove the faith that
had been placed in him. He be
lieved he was under obligation
to his late father, to Connie
Mack, and to himself to make the
grade with the A’s. That he suc
ceeded is said to be a particular
matter of pride with Mr. Mack. .
Lou, who is genuinely modest,
says: “I owe a vote of thanks to
so many people who have helped
me to get where I am today that
it if hard to pay credit to all cf
them, but my mother and fath-
Summer utile Nms
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THUREDAY, SEPT. 9, 1948
white jerseys with gigantic Car
dinal Red numerals and topped
off with shiny white helmets.
For the benefit of those who
wish to avoid standing in line to
purchase ducats, season tickets
may be purchased from any
member of the Lions Club. A
special section between the 30-
yard lines will be reserved for
season ticket holders. So, to be
assured of having a choice seat
see a member of the Lions Club
and get your season ticket before
they are all gone.
Probable starting line-up:
Left End—Davison.
Left Tackle—Flanagan.
Left Guard—Newsome.
Center—Bagley.
Right Guard —Stanley.
Right Tackle--Donovits.
Right End—Pettyjohn
Quarterback —J. Bush.
Fullback—Cash.
Left Half—Dacus.
Right Half—Nix.
Remainder of schedule:
Sept. 16—Central “B”, here.
Sept. 24—LaFayette, there.
Oct. I—Lakeview, here.
Oct. B—Carrollton, here.
Oct. 22—McHenry, here.
Oct. 29—Model, here.
Nov. s—Lee High, there.
Nov. 12—Sylvania, here.
Nov. 19—Trion, there. <
eand most of all, my wife, did a
lot to encourage me when things
looked pretty black. I’m certain
ly going to do the best I can to
see that the A’s win the pen
nant . . .”
The recipient of several awards
for his courage and proficiency,
Lou Brissie is especially proud of
two, according to his mother. One
ci these is the trophy presented
to him by the Philadelphia
Sports Writers’ Association and
I inscribed, “Most Courageous Ath
flete of 1947 Award to Lou Bris
sie.” The other is a citation from
the graduating class of Ardmore
Junior High School near Phila
delphia. This citation was ad
dressed to him as “Leland V.
Brissie—Veteran, Athlete, Hero
I of Youth.”
Connie Mack, who aumires his
‘ ward’ ’a great deal, told about
Lou’s first attempts to pitch aft
er being released from Army hos
pitals.
“I will never forget how Lou
looked that day,” Mr. Mack said.
“He’s a big boy, 6 feet, 5 inches
and 220 pounds, but he was cer
tainly a wreck then. He wore a
shinguard to protect the raw
nerves in one leg. His leg was
■ broomstick thin and he didn’t
, have the strength to pitch, out
ihe kept on trying to support
himself on a crutch and throw a
baseball. I have never seen any
thing like the pluck that boy had.
I remember the steel brace he
was wearing chafed his leg and
infection set in, and he had to
go back to the hospital.”
Around Ware Shoals. S. C., ev
e-yone knows Lou Brissie. His
friends in nearby Anderson, in
Greenville, in Greenwood and the
surrounding area follow Brissie’s
career with special interest. As
a “Company cousin,” Brissie has
another following among em
ployees of Riegel Textile Corpo
ration at Trion, Ga„ and of Rie
gel Paper Corporation in New
Jersey.
In the baseball-minded Riegel
organization, Lou Brissie’s old
team at Ware Shoals, the “Rie
gels,” is perhaps the best known.
A consistent contender for the
Central Carolina League pen
nant, the “Riegels” are in and
out of first place. William M.
Pittendreigh, Superintendent of
the Cotton Mill at Riegel’s Ware
Shoals Division, is President of
the Central Carolina League.
Virgil Stallcup. who is playing
I shortstop regularly for the Cin
| cinnati Reds, is another current
big league ball player who was a
star on the “R’egels.” Stallcup
comes from the neighboring town
of Honea Path, S. C.
The Trion Division of Riegel !
Textile Corporation in Trion, Ga,
has a ball team in the Textile
League and Riegel Paper Corpo
ration, with paper mills at Mil
ford, Warren Glen, Hughesville
and Riegelsville all in New Jer
sey has a team m the Tri-Coun
ty League. In addition junior and
other hardball teams represent
the Riegel organization in South
Carolina, Georgia and New Jer
sey, and softball leagues exist at
the Companies’ plant and offices.
CORRECTION
The Chattooga County Fair
will be held on October 13, 14
and 15, instead of September 13.
14 and 15, as stated on the back
page of last week’s News.
Cook in As Representative;
Talmadge Leads in State;
Maddox Leading Glower
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HERMAN TALMADGE
Annual Trek
Back to School
There s a touch oi fall in the
air as September arrives and
everybody swings into that back
to school rush, the members of
this years graduating class are
completing their plans for de
parture into new realms.
Yvonne Harmon will go to
Rinehart as does Maxine Pal
rr.our. Jean Morton will go io
West Georgia; Jack Reece, co
Georgia; Harry Foster will enroll
a i Presbyterian College at Clin
ton, S. C. and Doyle McCary will
enter the Junior College at Berry
Schools. Hilda Tyler is already
in attendance at Bible School in
Montgomery, as is Maidell Hemp
hill, member of last year’s gra
duating class.
James Hawkins will enter the
Senior Class at the Berry Schools
I while Bob Little, Will Hair and
. Darlington.
Most of the colleges and Uni-
I \ ersities begin their terms
i around September 20th.
Upper classmen will be gett
ing back to their campus acti
vities about the same time. Reese
Cleghorn and H. L. Abrams, Jr.
will return to Emory. Mary and
Margaret Meadows go to G. S.
C W., Opal Gass will return to
David Liscombe; Charles Turner
to Emory Dental School; Rose
Nell Weens will transfer from
G S. C. W. to the University of
Georgia and Ann Allen goes from
West Georgia to the University..
Fred McCurdy will return to
Presbyterian College; Mary Sue
Williams and Ada Margaret Duff
re - enter West Georgia and
Charles Farrar will return to the
University of Georgia where he
will receive his degree in journ
alism in March. Mary Ellen Sel
man will go to Chevy-Chase in
Washington, D. C. Sanford (Bub
ber) Dunson will be a junior at
Duke.
Martha Walker, who finished
high school at Porterdale, will
be a freshman at Weslyan this
fall. Frank Prince, Jr. will enter
the University of Chattanooga,
while George Gilbert and J. D.
Hemphill will return to the Uni
versity of Georgia. Frank Har
mon, Jr. will enter Rinehart, and
Barbara Crawford will re-enter ,
Mcntreat. Eugene Taylor will re
turn to Dartmouth.
The local school are a jump
ahead of higher education hav
ing swung into a full schedule
last Monday.
Using Georgia’s woodlands to
the fullest extent means keeping
them in a condition to produce
a maximum amount of wildlife
as well as trees.
A Bit of Praise
Goes Long Way
A common parental habit is
that of criticism. Yes, of course,
I know that parents mean well,
and I know, too. that criticism
and even severe discipline is nec
essary at times. But criticism and
discipline alone won’t make for
the successful training of your
children. A little deserved praise
will work like magic.
I know from experience how
helpful and heartening a little
praise can be, particularly if you
are trying to master some new
and difficult technique. I know,
for I have recently been trying
to improve my wretched ability
1 at fly-casting. I go trout fishing
not more than five or ten hours
a year. Sometimes I don’t wet a
line for a couple of years at a
time. My success is just what you
think. I wrap my lines around
trees and brush and get my hook
caught in my left ear.
Last summer I went trout fish
ing in the Canadian Rockies. My
casting was terrible, but occa
sionally I would surprise even
myself at how far I could cast.
Sometimes when I did this, my
guide would exclaim: “That’s
the way to do it; you are get
ting the knack of it now.” Did
that help? It certainly did.
But when he neglected to
praise me for the slightest im
provement, I felt a sense of dis
couragement, I was disappointed.
You see, I was hungry for praise
ever something I knew I was not
doing well. Poor as I was, I did
not want him always to recog
nize my faults. I wanted him to
snow me how to improve my per
formance. I wanted him to tell
me that fly-casting was easy to
learn, and that I would soon get
the hang of it, become a great
fisherman. How I thrived on that
praise! His words of encourage
ment made my confidence soar,
inspired me to do better, in
creased my efforts, made fishing
a great pleasure for me.
But what if he had given me
nothing but harsh criticism? I
would have been discouraged; I
would have been resentful, al
though I was paying him to
teach me what to do. And I would
not have shown anywhere near
as much improvement.
And so it is with your children!
POST-HARVEST SPRAY
Extension Service horticultur
ists recommend a post-harvest
application of spray three or four
weeks after the Elberta harvest
if there has been a heavy infes
tation of curculio during the har
vest season.
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS
FOR GOVERNOR
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CW O
Alpine 229 206
Coldwater 44 100
Dh’tseller 29 37
Dirttown 84 192
Haywood 21 7
Lyerly . 172 120
Seminole 121 36
Subligna 71 49
Summerville 1002 1040
Teloga 43 37
Trion 484 770
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
— Q~ T
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Aipine 209 252
Coldwater 104 53
Dircseller 31 36
Dirttown 141 136
Haywood 21 9
Lyerly 205 124
Seminole 141 20
Subligna 56 75
Summerville 1320 902
Teloga 36 48
Trion 383 961
Williams To
Address Local
Wildlife Club
Lou Williams, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., president of the Tennes
see Wildlife League, will be the
principal speaker at Monday
night’s monthly meeting of ‘he
Chattooga County Wildlife and
Conservation Club which will be
held at the courthouse on Sum
merville at 8 p.m.
Mr. Williams is an interesting
speaker and is familiar with
wildlife in all its phases: local
club leaders state. The court
house should be filled ot hear
him speak of his recent trip to
Africa and his experiences with
wild animals and game it was
stated.
In addition there will be a
movie of the Tennessee river
from its origin to the Ohio river
and this will be of unusual in
terest since it will show the TVA
lakes along the stream, includ
ing Chickamauga and Gunters
ville.
Everyone is invited to attend
this meeting, whether or not
they belong to the wildlife club.
URGENT MEET OF
MENLO PATRONS TOLD
Menlo school patrons are re
minded that the school lunch
room program which is of vital
interest to all, will be discussed
at the meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association at 7:45 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 13, at the gym
nasium.
In addition to this very im
portant phase of the meeting,
new officers will be elected, it
has been disclosed, and every
patron of the school is urged to
attend.
ROME COMPANY TO
BUILD ROADS HERE
A Rome construction company
was apparent low bidder on the
road paving jobs scheduled for
Chattooga County, it was dis
closed following the letting of
bids on Friday, Sept. 3.
Ledbetter - Johnson Construc
tion Company, of Rome, appar
ently low bidders, are expected to
be awarded the contracts today
(Thursday), because of the fact
that Monday was a holiday and
Wednesday was election day.
The Rome company will build
the 2.9 miles of grading and pav
ing from Menlo to the Alabama
line, via Alpine, as well as the re
construction of a section of the
Menlo-Alabama line, vio Cloud
land, which is caving away on
the mountain side. The cost for
these two projects will be $81,186.
$1.50 A YEAR
It was apparent early Wednes
; day night that Thompson would
i carry Chattooga County, tradi-
■ tionally anti-Talmadge, by a
! slight majority.
The two largest precincts,
Trion and Summerville, both
' went for Thompson.
In Trion, 770 votes were cast
; for Thompson and 484 for Tal
! madge.
In a closer contest, Summer
vijlians cast 1,040 votes for
Thompson and 1.002 for Tal
madge.
According to reports at mid
j night Talmadge was leading with
■ 296 county unit votes and
Thompson was trailing with 88,
! indicating that Georgians had
. again selected a Talmadge for
; governor of Georgia. The popular
i vote trend also was in favor <>f
Talmadge.
Talmadge, young son of the
late Eugene Talmadge, long a
I colorful figure in Georgia poli
i tics, based his gubernatorial
I campaign chiefly on the civil
; rights issue and the county unit
vote system. He occupied the
chair as governor for 67 days
following the death of his father,
■ who had been elected governor.
Former school teacher Thomp
; sen insisted that the real issue
of this gubernatorial race was
; the record during his admini
stration. Throughout his cam
paign the Acting Governor
pointed out that in spite of Tal
madge’s insistence that addi
tional taxes must be added, he
had raised $108,000,000, although
only $70,000,000 had been pre
dicted as possible.
Both Talmadge and Thompson
declared they were against a
sales tax, for maintaining the
county unit system and against
the civil rights program.
Hoke Willis, a minor candidate
far governor, called an Atlanta
rudio station last night at 3
o’clock stating that he wanted
“to congratulate Herman Tal
rcadge “as the next governor cf
Georgia”.
Willis had just learned that
Talmadge had carried his home
county of Fannin by a big ma
jority.
Bobby Lee Cook, young, ag
gressive law student, won the
race for Chattogoa County rep
resentative by a narrow margin,
defeating his only opponent,
James (Sloppy) Floyd by 31
votes.
The 21-year-old Cook received
2.647 votes, while Floyd received
2.616. Both men are veterans cf
World War 11.
Floyd carried five of the coun
ty's 11 precincts, including Trion,
his home town, one of the two
major precincts. Summerville
cast 1,320 votes for Cook and 902
i for Floyd.
With seven of Chattooga coun
ty s 11 precincts reporting on tne
I solicitor general’s race, indica
tions were that James Maddox,
Rome attorney, would carry this
county against E. J. Clower, in
cumbent.
Mr. Maddox had tallied 1,215
votes while Mr. Clower received
864.
The solicitor general serves
Chattooga, Walker and Floyd
countes and the results of the
voting in the other counties
were not known.
GOODS RECOVERED
AFTER BURGLARY
Police Chief W. M. Whaley dis
posed yesterday that a quantity
of the goods taken from the
Alexander’s Store in a break-in
on Monday. August 30. had been
recovered, although no arrests
have been made.
The goods, including canned
goods, gloves, socks, screw dri
vers and band-aids, were found
Friday under a warehouse near
the gin in North Summerville,
Chief Whaley said.
NOTICE
Subscribers, please allow two
weeks to receive your Summer
ville New’s after subscribing.
Many subscribers expect to re
ceive their paper the follow
ing week, however, at the pres
ent this is impossible.
You will be credited for one
year beginning with the date
on which you first receive your
paper.