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SUMMERVILLE Vs. McHENRY, FRIDAY NIGHT, 8 O'CLOCK, STURDIVANT FIELD i HERE ’N ! | THERE I A revival series will begin at the Mt. Olive Methodist Church, Monday, October 25, conducted by the Rev. Wrathbum Cash. Services will begin at 7:30 o’clock each evening. Herman L. Copeland, fireman, U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Copeland of Lyerly, Route 2, is serving aboard the light cruiser USS Huntington, now crusing in the Mediterranean Sea as a part of the Sixth Task Fleet of Admiral Richard L. Conolly’s Eastern Atlantic and Mediterran ean Forces. Mediterranean duty offers op portunities to visit many of the southern countries of Europe and those of northern Africa. Horace L. Hamilton has recent ly been promoted to the rank of Private First Class. Pfc. Hamilton is the son of, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hamil ton, of Summerville, and is pres ently assigned to Company “A”, 562nd Engineer Special Brigade, the only Army amphibious unit not active. The regular meeting of Trion Lodge No. 160 will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday, October 25, at the Lodge Hall. The Rev. R. H. Brubaker, of Chattanooga, Tenn., conducts a tent service at 2:45 p. m. each Sunday on Highland Avenue, in Summerville. The Rev. Warren Beal, of Columbia Seminary and now pastor of the Bethel, Walnut Grove, and Sardis Presbyterian Churches will preach at 11 a. m. Sunday, at the Bethel Presby terian Church. Harvest Time Aids Bond Purchases Harry Lee McGinnis, County Chairman, says that Saving Bonds sales in this county were $18699 for September end have reached $201,884 for the first three quarters of 1948. Thus there remains $98,116 t obe pur chased by December 31st. Special efforts are being made to reach 30,00 new Bond buyers on the Payroll Savings Plan. Likewise, the goal is to get 6,000 in the professional, self employed and business groups to join up with the Bond-A-Month Plan. Farmers will increase Bond purchases as their crops reach the markets. Everybody who can is asked to help promote national security and personal security by buying and holding U. S. Savings Bonds. Warr Talks at Lions Program An explanation of the Mini mum Foundation Program by John Warr, veteran educator and now Superintendent of the Floyd County Schools, featured the program of the Summerville Lions Club at their semi-monthly session Tuesday evening at Riegeldale Tavern, Trion. Mr. Warr revealed statistics which showed that if the Legis lature passes the Program it will mean a big increase on the amount spent educationally on each child in Georgia. Mr. Warr laid particular stress on the fact that the Minimum Foundation Program for Educa tion in Georgia is not for the benefit of the teachers so much as for the 750,000 school children of the state, whom he called the most important people on earth. Mr. Warr also added that we are spending less than half the national average per child in Georgia for educational purposes. Much money is needed for addi tional busses so that children will not have to get up before daylight in order to ride the first, or the second or the third load. Much additional is needed to supply additional texts and other teaching aids, to make the buildings safer and more sani tary, and to buy suitable school furniture and other equipment. Mr. Warr, as every true teach er, places the child’s interest above all else. The school chil dren of today will be in nearly all the important jobs twenty or thirty years from now. How we train them now will determine what kind of isms we will have then. Attend The Mass Meeting For a Park at 8 o'clock Tonight ®lip iwiuwrmllr faa VOL. 63; NO. 44 R. D. DAVISON FILES INJUNCTION AGAINST CITY-ENGINEERING CO. [ Hearing of an injunction byj R. D. Davison, against the City , of Summerville and the J. B. Mc- Crary Engineering Company, , has been set for 10 a. m. Satur- j day, October 23. The injunction charges an “unjust act of favoritism toward , the property owners” along a section of Washington Avenue in i , Summerville, where the engi ’ neering company is installing cast iron sewer pipes. The peti-! | tion declares that this is “un- Ijust discrimination against the! | remaining property owners of ■ the City of Summerville, includ ing the plaintiff.” Terra Cotta I pipes are presently in use on ■ \ this street and other sections in : town where it is thickly popu lated. Cast iron pipe costs approxi ’ matly $2.31 per foot eight inch diameter, while the same size in terracotta costs approximately ’ 40 cents per foot, it was declared. Mr. Davison in his petition charges that there is no existing contract between the city and l the engineering, company but that instead, it’« “at the personal instance and request of Mayor 1 Willis James.” ,! It was further charged that : the work is not a part of the contract between the city and ! the McCrary firm for the present ■ extensive sewer installation in the city and that “in spite of this •; fact- the city expects and threat r j ens to unlawfully compensate” J B. McCrary Engineering Com- I pany as though this were a part . j of the sewer contract. Georgia Farmers Building Soil With Fertilizer j 1 The use of fertilizers has in- j | creased 50 per cent in Georgia in ! the past 10 years, according to j iL. I. Skinner, assistant director of the Agricultural Extension Sercvice. | In 1946, farmers used more ; than one million tons of ferti- | lizer, as compared to an average/ of little more than 750,000 tons] j in the four-year period from 1936! to 1940, Mr. Skinner said. In the four-year period from ] ! 1942 to 1946, they used 126 per j cent more lime than they had | ! used the preceding four years. He explained the increased use ! of fertilizer by calling attention | tc the higher yields and greater! efficiency in operation which it j makes possible and the valuable! minerals which it adds to the soil. To care for the growing live stock industry in Georgia, more j than one hundred thousand acres of permanent pastures j were planted and more than two | hundred thousand acres improv-1 ed last year with the help of j fertilizer and lime. More than a thousand farmers I conducted corn demonstrations j last year, following recommends- i tions was about 60 bushels per j acre. Indians To Play McHenry Friday After losing to a strong Carrollton team 2 weeks ago, the Summerville Indians will be after i their third win Friday night j when they meet the McHenry Cardinals, of Rome, at 8 o’clock, j here. The Indians have been going through extensive practice sess- i ions this week in preparation fori i this tilt. The McHenry aggregation coached by J. Battle Hall will be in top shape and will be battling ( for their victory. Admission will remain the ' same, SI.OO for adults and 40c for students. I. i MAKE THEM HAPPY In this county there’s a child j who would get great delight out | of playing with those old toysj your children are through with, i and in wearing those clothes j' your childern have outgrown. So make Christmas bright for seme local children by contri buting those old toys and old clothes. 1 Contact Riley Parham, phone i 11, and he will pick up the toys : and clothes and have them re- i SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 21, 1948 ~ Lyerly School to Reopen Monday The Lyerly school will reopen Monday, October 25, after being ! closed for one month for cotton picking. It is hoped that the patrons i will give their full co operation land send their children back to i school every day possble, school leaders said. “Since we get our teachers allotment from our average at tendance it it important that both the students and the com munity that the attendance is kept at its highest possible peak,” R. W. Williams, Principal, said. “We realize that there will be cotton to pick for some time yet but we also hope that the stu dents will be returned to school at every opportunity between times,” he declared. Mrs. T. M. Booth Succumbs Here Mrs. Sallie Mae Burnley Booth, 78, wife of T. M. Booth, of Sum merville, died at a local hospital at 4:55 Monday after a linger ing illness. Mrs. Booth was born at Wood stock, in Olgethorpe County, on October 25, 1870, daughter of the late Rev. J. T. Burnley of Lex ington, Olgethorpe County. Other than he* husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Hillman Jackson, of Lithon ia; Mrs. Clayton Peacock and Miss Mable Aldred, of Summer ville; two sons, W. F. Aldred, Summerville, and James A. Al jdred, of Atlanta; one sister, Mrs !H. H. Park, Eaton; one brother, / Dr. R. T. Burnley, of Decatur, i Eight grandchildren three great | grandchildren also survive. Funeral services were conduct ed at the Summerville Methodist iChurch, of which she was an ac tive member, at 3 p. m. Wednes ;day, with the Rev. W. J. Culpepp er and the Rev. Henry Walker J officiating. Interment was in the ! family lot of the Summerville /Cemetery. Arrangements are by | the J. D. Hill Funeral Home, of | Summerville. Marine Schools Are Offered 18-Year-Olds Approximately three out of ; every four one-year enlistees in | the Marine Corps will receive |four to nine months of formal specialist schooling after “boot” camp, under a new program re cently approved by General Clif ton B. Cates, Commandant of j the Marine Corps. School facilities and quotas, Iboth ground and aviation, will be rapidly expanded and reallo ! cated in order to reach the de | sired ration early in 1949, accord ing to Major Kenneth L. Reusser. {Officer in charge of Marine re ! cruiting in North Georgia. “The decision to concentrate on specialist training for the eighteen-year-olds,” Maj. Reu sser state, “was prompted in part just concluded.” All eighteen-year-olds enlisting for one year will undergo recruit training for ten weeks, then re i ceive a short leave. , Men selected for formal t.ech | nical training wili then com i mence study in one of the fol lowing schools: clerical, engineer, | ornance repair, automotive re pair, supply-clerical, photograp j bic, electronics, aviation and cooking and baking. Men not selected for formal schools will be assigned afteij recruit training to special units of artillery and infantry, com posite tank-amphibian tractor training units, or to regular avia tion units, all within the United States Thompson to Print Georgia Democrat Governor M. E. Thompson last week announced his plans for becoming a newspaper publisher when he retires from office. He will publish a weekly called the Georgia Democrat and he expects an initial circulation of at least 25,000. It will be mailed from Valdosta, but he will also maintain an office in Atlanta. WRITE A LETTER This is “National Letter Writing Week,” according to Summerville Postmaster John Stubbs. " The theme of this annual “Week” is “Write today— make somebody happy.” JUDGEPORTER RESIGNS; NICHOLS ; IS SUCCESSOR ) 11 Claude H. Porter, Superior j Court Judge of the Rome Circuit s I for the past 14 years, retired .: Monday, and H. E. Nichols, 1 1 formerly of the Attorney Gen- { -1 eral’s office, was named by Gov. s!m. E. Thompson to succeed him = Judge Nichols assumed his duties [, this week in Floyd Superior Court. j Seventy-year old former Judge t Porter declared that for the past . year he has been thinking of re ,l signing and that he never should ! have taken the judgeship, but that he was “drafted.” A native of Floyd County, he | has practiced law for the past 40 j years and during that time has served four years as a member of I the State Legislature from Floyd J County, four years as City Court 1 j Solicitor, four years as Assistant j Solicitor General of the Rome . | Circuit and four years as Solici j tor General. He stated that he plans to de -1 vote his time to his personal s business and private practice. Judge Nichols ,a native of Ala- j bama, served for a period as I 3 Assistant Solicitor General in th*> ' Cherokee Circuit. For a number j of years he served as Court Re-; 1 porter in Rome. The retiring judge describes him as “an able lawyer, a bright' ' intelligent young man, fearless in his conviction.” i -j: P.-T. A. LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR MINIMUM FOUNDATION PROGRAM l k I i BY MRS. RAYMUND DANIEL The 15th District of the Parent . Teacher Association meet in Cal , houn, Monday, and launched its ' campaign for informing the pub lie on the meaning of the Mini r mum Foundation Program of Ed ucation for the State of Georgia Declaring the program a “social security” plan for the schools i of the state, the organization ] brought to light the exact mean ; | ing of the Foundation in terms of l | dollars and cents to every county > in the state. 1 ; The District RTA, which had ’ | as special invited guests for this . j meeting, representatives from ail . | civic clubs, churches, newspapers : j and other organizations of the j 7th Congressional District, divid , | ed into four group*. 1 j One of the groups had as its . leader, Miss Jewel Pool, Chat .! tooga County Supervisor. Mrs. . j Raymund Daniel acted as Miss _ | Pool’s recorder, and Mrs. Tom . ! Elder, was recorder for one of the I other groups. Nineteen represen . | tatives from Chattooga County , | attended this meeting. .) The main objective of the , | group discussion was how best ! the Minimum Foundation Pro • j gram of Education could best bp Mrs. Lou Mosley Dies in Boynton Mrs. Lou Moseley, 76, of Boyn -1 ton ,died Tuesday morning Octo ber 12, at her residence. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. C. M. Crye, Men lo; Mrs. Robert McCrospey, Chat tanooga; Mrs. A. R. Leigh, Boyn ton; two sons, E. S. Moseley, Jamestown, Ala., and P. D. Mose ley. Canadian. Tex.; one sister. Mrs. J. M. Moseley, Fort Payne,; Ala.; one brother, Paul Barry, I Charley, Tex.; also 20 grandchil dren and 30 great-grandchildren. ! Funeral services were held at j 11:30 o’clock Wednesday morn-I ing from the Boynton Methodist j Church, with the Revs. D. F. Williams and Taylor Chandler:, conducting. Another service was j ’ held at 2:30 Wednesday after-j t noon from the Bethel Methodist i Church, Jamestown, Ala. Burial was in Moses Cemetery, James- j town. Active pallbearers were grandsons. Honorary pallbearers ■ were, Sam Dietz, Wallace Green • Alvin White, Jack Williams, W. C ■ Bowman and Roy Delay. * I Pope, Lanham To Head Armistice Day Program C. Flannery Pope, State V .F. !W. Commander, and Congress ; man Henderson Lanham, will j spark the program at the gala j Armistice Day celebration plann j ed for Sunday, afternoon Novem- | | ber 7, under the auspices of the local American Legion and V. F. W. Posts. Although final arrangements have not been made, it is be ! lieved that the Marine Reserve; | Band, of Rome, will be present j to render appropriate music. It is also understood that Erie' Cocke Jr., State Commander of | the American Legion, may be on the program. All veterans of the county and their guests are invited to attend the annual event, which features ; in addition to the always-ex-1 1 cellent program, a delicious bar- j | becue supper. Those planning t o attend | should purchase their tickets I j at once, according to Glee Bry j ant, chairman of the ticket sales. 1 They may be obtained at the j following places in Trion: Mr | Bryant, bus station; C. B. Brick j er, “Snake” Tate, Tip McCollum, 'department store; Carl Nix, bar- I ber shop; J. C. Cavin and Fred .Lancaster, Dye plant; Robetr ! Crawford, main office; Gene J Wilbanks, machine shop; Tip {Fleming, service station. James (Sloppy) and j John Hartline will be in charge Jof ticket sales in Pennville and | Dickeyville. j Those selling them in Sum j merville include Jim Teddar and ißaymond Gaylor, post office;'. Hinton Logan, Summerville i Grocery‘Store; and Rufus Pruitt. presented to the public at large. 1 In the last analysis it was de- ' cided that the full responsibility j of acquainting the public of the * aims and purposes of the pro- i gram would rest with County 1 PTA councilors, or the presidents of the local Parent-Teacher or- ] ganizations. There are three local ] S presidents in Chattooga Count.v , j ! These individuals were instruct- ! ed to return to their home coun- . ties and there form steering com mittees in the county. This com mittee to be composed of civic club leaders, ministers, editors and leaders of all other organized ; groups that were in constant ‘ contact with the public. In the general discussion of the proposed 83 million dollar j program of education, Parent- Teacher and Educational lead- | ers side-stepped any reference as j to how the General Assembly | would finance the program. It j was brought out that during the I last eighteen months educational j leaders had devoted much time j in developing the exact needs of j the state’s educational require- j ments and that it was now up to I the legislature to find the proper means for securing the revenues j See Page Five Rites Held for Irvin Gardner, 84 Funeral services for Irvin . Gardner, Sr., 84, father of Mrs. i A M. Bryant, of Lyerly were con- 1 ducted Saturday afternoon in 1 Chattanooga, Tenn. I Mr. Gardner was a veteran j printer and had been associated with the Chattanooga Times for ‘ 57 years before his retirement in j ! 1939. £ - j Ten Local Women i Attend Beauty Meet Ten Summerville beauty ope- t rators attended the annual i Southeastern Beauty Show in At- 1 lanta on Monday, Tuesday and s Wednesday of this week. Those attending all or part of t the session included Mrs. Holland 1 Ward, Mrs. R. F. Lambert, Mrs. ( W. E. Turner, Kathryn King, Mrs. r Johnny Ratliff, Mrs. Estelle c Davison, Mrs. Paul Crouch, Helen i Keown, Frances Dooley and Mrs. j Myrtle Sizemore. t TALLENT ENTERS RACE FOR SHERIFF JUDGES PRAISE PUBLIC SCHOOL ART EXHIBIT High acclaim was accorded the public school art exhibit at the Chattooga County Fair here last j week by the judges, Miss Royce j and Mrs. Griffin, of Shorter | College Art Department, Rome, j and Mr. Marshall, Rome sculptor. As a group of grammar school I teachers from all over the county viewed the judging, the three /Romans declared that it was ex [ tremely difficult to choose the ! best work, and that the improve i ment over last year’s exhibit was j tremendous. A greater part of the exhibit was taken to Shorter College ' this week, where members of the District Georgia Educa -1 tion Association were entertained with a tea and shown an art ex ; hibit yesterday afternoon, which included the Chattooga County work. Winners of ribbons at the Fair were as follows in the various groups: Primary pictures: blue ribbon, Preston Dodd, first grade student, Clara Bell Williams, teacher, Summerville; red rib bon, Jack Whisnant, first grade, Virginia Guffin, teacher, Sum merville; white ribbon, Patsv Smith, first grade, Mrs. J. E. Kennedy, teacher, Menlo. Elementary pictures: blue rib bon, Gene Holt Trion; red ribbon, Betty Joyce Ledbetter, fifth grade, Zerilda Peck, teacher Summerville; white ribbons, Billy Adams, Trion, and Jimmy Ham monds, Summerville. High school pictures: blue ribbon, Dorothy Gamer, eighth grade, Trion; red ribbon, and blue ribbon, Ozella Garrett. Clay modelling: blue ribbon, sixth grade, Trion; red and white ribbons, fourth grade, Menlo, Blanche Toles, teacher. Textiles: blue ribbon, Dewaine Bethune, Trion; red ribbon, Nor man Brigham, Trion; and white ribbon, sixth grade, Trion. Primary miscellaneous: blue j Summerville, Zerilda Peck, teacher; red ribbon, Leroy Alex- | ribbon, Olin Jones, fifth grade, under and Charles Brooks, Sum merville; white ribbon, fourth. grade, Trion. Mrs. Elder Presents Music Club Program j | The October meeting of the | Summerville Music Study Club 5 was held at Riegeldale Tavern, ! in Trion, with Mrs. O. L. Cleckler ! and Mrs. Charles Wyatt as host j esses. Upon arrival the guests were I invited into the private dining room where the club colors of blue and white were carried out in most attractive individual place cards and flower arrange ments. A delicious salad course ! was served. The meeting was called to order by the President in the reading of the collect. Mrs. Tom Elder was introduced as Program Chairman. She chose as he subject “Forms, Choreogra phy and Music,” in the study of the dance. Mrs. Elder gave most explicit ly and interestingly her program which was divided into two classes. The individual, with one ' person taking cart, and the j choral, with more than one per- ; son participating. Mrs. Harry Foster gave as her . hymn study, “My Faith Looks j j Up To Thee,” by Ray Palmer, a ;, Yale graduate. He wrote this | song, at the age of 22, not for ( the eyes of others but for his ' faith looking up to Christ. Mrs Wyatt accompanied the club in singing this hymn. Mrs. C. O. Walker conducted 1 the business meeting which fol- ■ lowed the program. Mrs. William { Gist was welcomed as a new ' member to the club. The study ■ of the “Ballet” was decided to be / used as next years study topic. The meeting adjourned after | the business meeting. GROWING WITH CHATTOOGA $1.50 A YEAR Announcement was made last week that W. G. Tallent, popular member of the city police force, has entered the race for sheriff of Chattooga County in the November 2nd General Election. Mr. Tallent qualified last Thurs iday before Ordinary John King, 1 several days before the deadline : i for qalifications for this office. • Mr. Tallent opposes Reuben ‘ 1 Lyons, Georgia State Patrolman, | who won nomination in the • iMarch 10th primary in a four cornered race. ! | Mr. Tallent, 27, is a native of ,! Chattooga County, the son off ’ j Mr. and Mrs. W P. Tallent, of , | Dry Valley. He attended Sum merville High School, graduating , ing 1940. While in high school, he ’j was outstanding both in footlball | and basketball, being offered a ’ scholarship in each. , In the March primary, ap | proximately 6700 votes were cast t for this the county’s highest office. Os these, Reuben Lyons received 3,588; F. M. Fisher, 1,- 506; A. H. Glenn, 1,467; and Martin, 137. It it not expected I that so heavy a vote will be regi stered in the General Election as jin the Primary. Mr. Tallent said Monday that before the election he will name his chief deputy. He is well quali fied in police duties, having been a member of the City of Sum merville Police Department for the past fifteen months. His rec ord, during this time, as far as (the NEWS has been able to de termine, has been excellent. This race seems crtain to hold more interest than any of the ballot, which, incidentally, is the largest ever printed in Chattooga County. It measures three feet long and nearly two feet wide. It will be interesting to see {what will happen now that this contest has been whittled down to a two-man affair. MASS MEETING HERE TONIGHT Another step on the acquisition of a playground and park for (Summerville will be made to i night when hundreds of inter ested citizens will meet at 8 (o’clock at the Summerville Pres byterian Church. At this mass meeting a Board of Directors will be chosen to direct the activities in the move | to procure this vital improvement for the city. One day, to be known as “Park i Day,” will be set aside during (which the drive to secure funds and to promote interest will be highly concentrated. It is most essential that per sons from every walk of life, in other words, ALL persons in Summerville attend this meeting and get the ball rolling for a park and recreational building. Ev eryone interested in the welfare of the children of the commu nity is especially invited. Soil Demonstration 'Public Interest Matter' The most exciting matter of public interest in Georgia today, according to J. L. Fortney, mana ger of the Georgia Baptist Chil dren’s Home, is the Soil Conser vation Demonstration scheduled for the Odum Branch, at Baxley, November 3. According to Fortney, every Soil Conservation Agency and worker in the state is in some manner involved in this project. The State Forestry Department, the State Fish and Game Com mission, Experiment Stations the College of Agriculture, and all agencies are engaged in the task of making this the biggest thing of its kind in the history of farm ing. Two thousand six hundred twenty-seven Baptist churches are participating in the program. Every farm and construction ma chinery. Many thousands of in dividuals are contributing money, services and materials. It is expected that November 3, the climatic point in the pro gram, will see 100,000 visitors at the Odum Branch.