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HERE N
THERE
The Gore Boy’s Independent
Basketball team and the Marine
Reserve team, of Rome, will play
at 8 p. m. Friday, December 17,
at Gore.
The Lyerly Masonic Lodge will i
have an election of officers at
7:30 o’clock tonight (Thursday)
and all members are urged to be
present.
The Georgia Baptist Children’s
Home announces approximately
90 railroad carloads of contribut
ed produce delivered to Hape
ville and Baxley during the past
four weeks in addition to scores
of automobiles, .small truck loads
and large truck loads, delivered
by individual churches.
The great bulk of materials de
liver'ed consists of corn and hay,
but many thousands of dollars
worth of farm and garden pro
duce, including peanuts and pe
cans, as well as many thousands
of jars of fruits and vegetables,
are included.
The Georgia Baptist Children’s
Home is unique among institu
tions of its kind in the nation in
the amount of produce and
canned goods received. The
Home, according to J. L. Fortney.
Manager, cares for one child out
of every four in Georgia provided
for by institutional life. The
Home this year has cared for
more than 500 children. A plan
of enlargement, no win process,
will enable the Home to care for
50 or 100 more children during
the year 1949.
The Trion Schools will close
for Christmas holidays on Fri
day, December 17, and will be
gin the after Christmas session
on Monday, January 3.
GEORGIA ECONOMY
PROVEN SOUND,
HUIET SAYS HERE
The sound condition of Georg
ias economy is indicated by the
rapidity with which civilian pro
duction absorbed war workers
and returning veterans, accord
ing to State Commissioner of
Labor Ben T. Huiet.
Speaking Wednesday, Decem
ber 8, sit the regular luncheon
meeting of «,n<_ Trion Rotary
Club. Mr. Huiet said employment
in the state is at its highest level
on record. Covered payrolls, those
of concerns employing eight or
more persons, have continued an
upward trend and last year
totalled more than one billion
40 million dollars for the first
time in the state’s history, the
commissioner added.
Outlining the work of the
Georgia State Employment Ser
vice and its related agencies, Mr.
Huit said over 164 thousand
Georgia Veterans have received
one or more payments of read
justment allowances to unem
ployed and self-employed veter
ans. Only 31 thousand, however,
have drawn total allowances, he
said.
The commissioner said about
86 per cent of the 5,700 covered
workers in Chattooga county are
employed in manufacturing
plants. The number of employers
covered by the Georgia Unem
ployment Compensation Law has
doubled since 1940 and the num
ber of covered workers is 30 per
cent higher.
Mr. Huiet said the principal
duty of the GSES is to match un
employed men and women with
job openings and he asked the
cooperation of employers in list
ing job openings with the servi
ces.
Infant Langston
Master Henry Gilreath Lang
ston, Jr., infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Gilreath, of Trion,
passed away at 10 a. m. Friday.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the graveside in Trion
Cemetery at 11 a. m. with the
Rev. Oliver Pledger officiating.
J. D. Hill Funeral Home in
charge.
C. Ben Fulton in
Sigma Della Chi
C. Ben Fulton, of Summerville,
is one of nine students of the
Henry W. Grady School of Jour
nalism at the University of
Georgia who were initiated by
Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalistic fraternity, in cere
monies held Thursday night, De
cember 9.
Burns Bennett, new profession
al member associated with The
Alabama Journal, Montgomery,
was principal speaker at a ban
quet following the ceremonies.
| Sigma Delta Chi is a national
’ fraternity for professional jour
nalists and for journalism stu
dents who have made outstand
jng records in scholarship and
'shave obtained professional ex
perience.
Mr. Fulton is the son of, Mr.
and Mrs. C. 88. Fulton, of Sum
merville.
Nms
VOL 63; NO. 52
TRION TROOP 38 WINS FIRST PLACE
IN CHATTOOGA COUNTY SCOUT RALLY
Troop 38. of Trion, won the i
Chattooga Cour ty Scout Rally on
Saturday afternoon by gaining aI
total ors 36 points.
The Rally, which was held in
the Trion High School Audito
rium, saw 29 Scouts participating
under the direction of Chief Ex
ecutive C. H. Westin.
Troops 38 scored first place in
four events: Inspection, Songs,
and Yells, Rope Spinning, and
Fire by Friction.
Troop 7, of Summerville, won
first place in Patrol Equipment,
Merit Badge Demonstration, and
the Skit.
Troop 71, of Summerville, is a
new troop just getting started,
but they won 4 points in two
events in which they entered.
The score by troops was: Troop
38 —36 points; Troop 734
points; Troop 71 —4 points.
The judges for the Rally were:
Mr. Billy Betts, Rome; Mr.
Charles Forsyth Rome; and Mr.
Rayford Brooks, Brimingham.
Troop 38 will participate in the
Northwest Georgia Council Rally
to be held in Rome sometime
during the early Spring of 1949.
30 Scholarships
For Nursing Are
Now Available
Thirty tuition - free nursing
scholarships are available to qua
lified applicants for the spring
term beginning February 1
at St. Joseph’s Infirmary School
of Nursing, Atlanta, according to
Sister Mary Mildred, Director of
the school.
Unmarried girls between the
age of 17 to 35 who are graduates
from an accredited high school
may qualify for the scholarships.
Georgia newspapers broadcast
the hospital’s first call for nurses
for St. Joseph’s during the sum
mer, and although the response
successfully filled the momentary
need, replacements are needed
for the graduating classes, Sister
Mildred said.
“The need for nurses is becom
ing increasingly critical and ur
gent. Our aim is to draw girls
and young women from as many
different areas of Georgia as
possible, rather than concentart
ing on one specific locality. A
general recruitment would re
sult in many graduate nurses’
returning to their own neighbor
hoods to conduct their careers
and thus the shortage of nurses
would be offset,” announced the
Director.
Students in the spring term
class will receive the School’s
new “Charm Therapy” training
which teaches them, among oth
er subjects, personality develop
ment, personal appearance im
provement and speech training
to increase their self-confidence
and for the beneficial effects
such training will have on pa
tients.
Applications for enrollment are
being accepted now for enroll
ment in the spring term. Appli
cation deadline is January 15.
Business Principles
Os Farming Given
In Calloway Book
Civic and business organiza
tions and public-spirited citizens
of Chattooga County are being
urged to assist in placing copies
of The Business of Farming, a
book just released by the Ida
Cason Callaway Foundation, in
the hands of every farm youth
in the county.
The book was prepared for
Cason Callaway as a textbook on
budgetary controls, business
principles and methods of farm
ing for Georgia farmers and
farm youths. The publication is
sponsored by the Ida Cason Call
away Foundation, a non-profit
organization.
If there is a profit in the sale
of the book, the profit will be
used to further the goal of plac
ing a copy in the hands of every
person interested in agriculture
in the state. If there is a loss, the
Foundation will absorb the loss.
Study materials in this book
are uniquely prepared in that
they consist of more than 100
practical farm business problems
which the student must solve for
himself. The book contains a
large amount of practical infor
mation on farming and will
serve, in addition to its worth as
a textbook, as a valuable refer
ence book for agricultural work
ers, bankers farmers and others
interested in farming.
Full information can be ob
tained from C. L. Jones. Distri
buting Director of the Founda
tion, 20 Ivy Street, S. E., Atlanta
3, Georgia.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948
AitempLed Robbery
Ends in Balh
A 15-year old Summerville lad
learned the hard way that
crime doesn’t pay.
After entering McWhorter -
Selman Chevrolet Company early
Friday night, the lad was severe
ly frightened when Howard
Weems, mechanic, entered a
short time later to do some night
work.
He was so scared in fact, that
he jumped out of the window
on the east side into a creek.
Policeman found several clues
and trailed the boy to his home,
where he was found in bed—
dressed in wet clothes.
Some of the wet clothing was
shoved under the bed.
Food Consumption
Above Prewar Levels
Farmers racked up a near rec
ord in food production during
! the fiscal year 1947-48, and on a
i quantity basis, U. S. civilians got
: 84.7 per cent of the total amount
, distributed, the U. S. Department
of Agriculture has reported.
Os a few specific commodities,
civilians ate virtually the total
supply, with only small amount
exported or used by military
agencies. In this class are meat
and eggs. During the period Julv
1, 1947, to June 30, 1948, civilians
received 76.9 per cent of the na
tion’s meat and 94 per cent of the
eggs.
As for other important com
modities, civilians received near
ly 90 per cent of the cheese dis
tributed, 80 per cent of the con
densed and evaporated milk, 98
per cent of the vegetables, and
more than 90 per cent of the
fruits.
Even with the high per capita
food consumption rate—l 4 per
cent greater than the 1935-39
average—food exports during the
fiscal year period totaled 19.3
million tons to top, by a slim
margin, the record high exports
of the previous year.
Foods consumed in greater
quantities during the year in
cluded evaporated and dried
milk .sugar, eggs, lard, marga
rine, shortening, and other edible
fats and oils. Decreases were
chalked up for wheat and corn
products, rice, butter, cheese,
fluid milk and cream, meat, Irish
and sweet potatoes, dry beans
and peas, vegetables, and pea
nuts.
FEDERAL LABOR LAW INVOLVED IN
DEATH OF THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. The
second case within a year in
which a young boy was killed
while engaged in a hazardous
logging occupation in Washing
ton County, Alabama in violation
of the child labor provisions of
the Federal Wage and Hour Law
was brought to light with the
filing of two injunction suits by
the Wage and Hour and Public
Contracts Divisions, U. S. De
partment of Labor, in the U. S.
District Court at Mobile.
While at work in the woods
near Chatom, Alabama, last June
22, J. W. Beech, 13 years of age,
was struck on the head by a
limb of a falling tree and died
four hours later in a Mobile hos
pital. His 12 year old brother,
Robert J. Beech, Jr., who was
also employed contrary to the
Wage-Hour Law, it is claimed,
was struck by the same falling
tree but escaped with slight in
jury. Both boys had been at work
only three weeks.
The Federal law bans the em
ployment of minors under 18
years of age in most logging and
sawmilling occupations, includ
ing any job at the place where
trees are being felled, according
to Joseph C. Noah, Regional Di
rector of the Divisions, whose in- |
spectors investigated both fatali
ties.
The latest investigation. Mr.
Noah saad. disclosed that the
Beech boys and four other min
ors had been illegally employed
by the Beech boys’ uncles, Edgar
L. Beech, owner, and Wister
Beech, supervisor of the logging
operations. Both were named de
fendants in the court actions
filed by Regional Attorney Bev
erley R. Worrell. The investiga
tion further disclosed that the
defendants had failed to pay
some of their employees at least
40 cents an hour and time and
one-half their regular rate of pay
for hours worked beyond 40 in
a workweek and had failed to
keep proper employment records,
all of which are required by the
Griffin, Cleveland.
Win Champion
Town Conies!
Griffin and Cleveland are the
►first prize winners in the
Champion Home Town Contest
sponsored by the Georgia Power
Company and will receive SI,OOO
each in recognition of their out
standing community progress
during the period from March 1
to October 31 of this year.
Camilla won second place and
a SSOO prize among towns with
from 1,000 to 20,000 population in
the 1940 census. Third prize of
$250 in this group went to Wash
ington.
In the group of towns with less
than 1,000 population Lessburg
was second to Cleveland and will
receive SSOO. The third prize of
j $250 was won by Woodbine.
Special honorable mention
plaques will be awarded to 12
other towns whose enteries were
regarded by the judges as being
of exceptional merit. Honorable
' mention winners in the larger
I population group include Butler,
■ Carrollton, Cedartown, Grant
ville, Jefferson and Smyrna.
Those in the smaller population
group are Clarkston, Forest Park,
Ludowici, Newborn, Nicholls and
Norcross.
The winners were selected
from entries submitted by 159
Georgia towns, 88 in the larger
classification and 71 in the
smaller. These enteries described
local community development
activities during the contest per
iod in such fields as business, in
dustry, agriculture, recreation,
health, education, religious life,
beautification, municipal ser
vices and building. The judges
paid particular attention to the
extent to which the citizens gen
erally took part in community
projects.
C. A. Collier, vice president of
the power company and founder
of the Better Home Towns Pro
gram, announced that the prize
money will be awarded at a series
of dinners to be held next month
in the six winning towns.
“We are delighted with the
success of this contest,” he said,
because it is a revelation of the
splendid progress being made by
many Georgia communities
through their own initiative and
self-reliance. The judges were
greatly impressed by the forward
strides being taken by towns
throughout the state, and they
, added the honorable mention
| citations to the other awards be
cause of this fact. For the Geor
gia Power Company I heartily
congratulate the winners and
every other community which
bettered itself throug participa
tion in the contost.”
I Wage-Hour Law Mr. Noah said.
Under consent judgments en-
I tered by Federal Judge John
i McDuffie, the defendants were
permanently enjoined from any
further voilations of this nature.
In November, 1947 ( Jerry Webb
14 years of age, had been on the
job in a Washington County saw
mill only a week when he was
struck by a piece of timber that
pierced his body. He died the
next morning in a Jackson, Ala
i bama, hospital. This accident
occurred near St. Stephens, Ala
j bama, a short distance from the
! scene of the latest reported acci
dent. Mr. Noah said his investi
l gation of the Webb case showed
j that the boy had been employed
lin a hazardous occupation in
violation of the child labor pro
i visions of the Wage - Hour Law.
i The employer in that case was
placed under a permanent in
junction by the same court.
Mrs. Daisy Donovan, Chief La
bor Inspector of the Alabama
State Department of Labor, co
operated in both investigations.
“This latest tragedy very
pointedly supports my recent
statement to the press that em
ployment of minors In logging
and sawmill operations, with all
its attendant dangers and perils,
is still prevalent in Alabama,”
the Wage-Hour Director declared
“Violations of s he child labor
sections of this law and of the
Walsh-Healey Public Contracts
Act, which we also enforce, were
uncovered in 33 per cent of the
sawmills and logging operations
inspected in Alabama during the
year ended July 1. A total of 88
such establishments were in
spected and child labor viola
tions were found in 29 of them
In Tennessee, 21 per cent of the
sawmills and logging operations
inspected during the same period
were 'in violat’on of the child
labor provisions. In Mississippi,
the record was more than 12 per
cent. In Georgia, 11 per cent.
“Department reports show that
many children have been injured
wt % a
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Pvt. John E. Rickett, whose
final rites were held Saturday,
Nov. 20, in Rome. He was killed
in action Oct. 10, 1944.
Menlo School Io Be
Ready by January 3
The new Menlo School building
has been completed with the ex
ception of the heat installations,
according to A. M. Bryant, of
Brayant and Sons, contractors.
Mr. Bryant said the heating
system will be installed in the
near future and students will be
able to move in when classes re
sume on Jan. 3.
The pump for the well is being
installed this week it was dis
closed.
The old school building has
been sold to Lester Edwards and
Hugh Hogg.
Gore School Play
Is Postponed
The play whi-h was scheduled
for Friday night, December 17,
at Gore High School has been
postponed until a later date.
School officials announced
that the play has been postponed
' because of unavoidable circum
stances.
RECENT TRAGEDY
SHOWS DIPHTHERIA
STILL DANGEROUS
“The recent tragic death of
three children in one Georgia
! family within a ten hour period
1 reminds us that diphtheria is as
dangerous now as it was 25 years
ago,” according to a statement
from Dr. T. F. Sellers, director of
the State Health Department.
Dr. Stellers stated that all in
fants, pre-school, and school
children should be given the tox
| oid vaccination against diphth
eria. He explained that the in
' cidence of the disease begins to
increase with the first cold
weather in November.
Parents may take children to
their private physician for im
munization, or, if they prefer,
may visit their local health de
partment, he explained. The
state health department will
furnish the diphtheria vaccine
free of charge to any licensed
physician or any health depart
ment.
The state health director
pointed out that great strides
have been made in controlling
the insidious disease. Number of
cases has dropped from 1.232 in
1938 to only 437 last year. “We
' in public health can only go so
far,” Dr. Stellers said. “It is up
to parents to take advantage of
the opportunity for protecting
their child through immuniza
tion.”
Dr. Stellers stated that wait
ing too late to obtain treatment
for the patient is the greatest
cause of death from diphtheria.
“The disease is difficult to di
agnose in its early stages,” he
stated. “Therefore it is much the:
wiser to prevent the disease by
having your child immunized.”
permanently crippled or killed
v.’hile illegally employed in haz
ardous occupations around saw
mills, logging operations or in
other places where machinerv is
being operated It is the firm j
purpose of the Divisions to clean |
up this situation as rapidly as
our enforcement facilities will
permit.’
Mr. Noah offered immediate |
help to those employers who
want to escape unintentional I
violation of the law. He cited the I
Divisions’ newest publication, “A i
Guide to Child tabor Provisions!
of the Fair Labor Standards
Act.” He said this may be obtain
ed—without cost—from the wage
and hour and Public Contracts
Divisions, U. S. Department of
Labor, 10 0 7 Comer Buliding,
Birmingham, 3, Alabama.
Seal Sale Drive Here
Still $1,528 Short
Georgia Cotton
Growers Gel Only
Two-Thirds Crop
Value of Georgia’s 1948 cotton
crop will be approximately $142,-
500,000, yet farmers in this state
actually make only two-thirds of
a cotton crop, according to E. C.
Westbrook, State Extension Ser
vice agronomist.
Average yield of lint cotton in
the state this year is 286 pounds
per acre, the second highest per
acre yield in history, while the
average yield in an adjoining
state, South Carolina, is exactly
100 pounds more per acre, Mr.
Westbrook said. Despite available
information and good seed,
Georgia growers still produce one
j third less cotton than is possibe
I through a good one-variety pro
gram.
Average gross sales of lint
i cotton and seed this year will be
approximately $lO7 per acre.
Average price for the 1948 season
to December 1 for lint was 31.3
i cents per pound and $65 a ton
; for cotton seed.
Mr. Westbrook pointed out that
the state can put cotton on its
most profitable basis by adopt
ing the one-variety plan for
I every gin community, with all
farmers planting pure seed of
| the variety best adapted to the
■ community. Planting early, spac
! ing thickly, fertilizing liberally,
controlling insects and diseases
making full use of all labor-sav
ing equipment, doing the best job
of harvesting and ginning, fitting
i cotton into a balanced system of
farming and practicing a soil
building program are other fea
| tures of the program needed to
increase production.
He also explained that the one
| variety program, if practiced in
|t.he entire state, not only would
! increase yield and reduce pro
duction costs, but would help
cotton compete with rayon and
other synthetic fibers.
Approximately half of Georg
ia’s cotton is now grown in one
variety communities, the cotton
specialist said. The average yield
of lint cotton in these communi-
I ties last year was 285 pounds per
acre, as compared to an average
of 246 pounds for the rest of the
j state.
The ginner is the key man in
any good one-variety setup. If
he will work closely with his
1 county Extension Service agent
i and leading farmers, one-variety
I programs can be set up during
i the next two months while ample
| supplies of seed are available, Mr.
Westbrook suggested.
Robert Hartline,
73, Passes Away
Robert Reed Hartline, 73. died
| in Trion at 1 p. m. Sunday after
a lingering illness.
He is survived by his wife. Mrs.
Julia R. Lissie Hartline, of Sum
merville, Route 2: five daughters,
I Mrs. J. R. Roberts, Mrs. Hugh
: Mitchell and Mrs. Carl Wilson,
al! of Jamestown. Ala.: Mrs. T. P.
McCullough, of Gadsden, Ala.
and Mrs. J. D. Lloyd, of Lyerly
! four sons. M. C . of Summerville.
I Route 2, O. A., of Trion, Hugh,
] of Chattanooga. Tenn, and Sgt.
Frank Hartline of U. S. Army,
[ stationed at Fori Benning; three
brothers, Arnold and H. D„ both
jof Jamestown, Ala. and Virgil
Hartline, of Summerville; one
sister, Mrs. J. E. Akins, of Ft.
Payne, Ala. Twenty one grand
children and four great grand
children also survive.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from Pleasant Valley Baptist
Church, near Jamestown, Ala.,
of which he was a member at 2
p. m. Tuesday with the Rev.
Virgil Blaylock, of Summerville,
officiating. Interment was in the
Mosley Cemetery. J. D. Hill Fun
eral Home of Summerville, in
charge.
B CHOPPING
r WEEK LEFT
■ buy
CHRISTMAf Jf ALf
GROWING
WITH
CHATTOOGA
$1.50 A YEAR
Returns so far from the 1948
Christmas Seal Sale total $472,
with nine days remaining until
the official close of the sale on
Christmas Day, Mrs. O. L. Cleck
ler, campaign chairman, an
nounced today. This includes
only the seals and no bonds.
The sum represents 23 per cent
of the quota of $2,000, which is
the minimum necessary to carry
out the 1949 tuberculosis pre
vention and control program of
the Chattooga Tuberculosis As
sociation, Mrs. Cleckler explain
ed.
“We hope to reach our quota
by Christmas,” he added. “We
know that many county residents
have delayed answering their
Seal Sale letters because they
have been busy with other
Christmas preparations. But we
urge all who have not yet re
sponded to get their checks In
the mail at their earliest con
venience.
“We are sincerely grateful to
everyone who has answered our
appeal. Their prompt response
means that they want the acti
vities of the tuberculosis associa
tion to continue, since the as
sociation receives its sole support
from the sale of Christmas
| Seals.”
Mrs. Cleckler added that she
I wished also to express her ap
| preciation to the many volun
teers and to community groups
I who had helped her and her
committee during the Seal Sale.
Guernsey Cows
Set Records
PETERBOROUGH, N, H.—Seven
registered Guernsey cows, owned
by Reigel Textile Corp., Trion
Division, Riegeldale Farm, Trion
have completed official Advanced
Registry records that were su
pervised by the University of
Georgia and reported to The
American Guernsey Cattle Club
for approval and publication.
Starting her record as a junior
2-year-old Riegeldale Ben’s Me
lodious produced 13,227 pounds
of milk and 639 pounds of butter
fat in the 365 day division. Me
lodious is the daughter of the
famous Guernsey sire, Riegel
dale Illustrious Benjamin that
has thirty-nine daughters and
one son in the Performance Reg
ister of the American Guernsey
Cattle Club.
Lotus Lilac Rouge produced
11,662 pounds of milk and 561
pounds of butterfat in the 365 C
day division starting her record
as a five-year-old; in the 365 day
division Riegeldale Majesty’s
Consuela produced 11,588 pounds
of milk and 535 pounds of butter
fat starting her record as a
seven-year-old; starting her re
cord as a junior two-year-old
Riegeldale Ben’s Maypop produc
ed 9,537 pounds of milk and 493
pounds of butterfat in the 365 C
day division; Riegeldale Ben’s
Virginia produced 11,601 pounds
of milk and 585 pounds of butter
fat in the 365 C day division
starting her record as a junior
two-year-old; Also in the 365 C
day division Riegeldale Emory’s
Beverly produced 9,826 pounds
of milk and 525 pounds of but
terfat starting her record as a
junior two-year-old: Riegeldale
Emory’s Jewel produced in the
365 day division 6,989 pounds of
milk and 418 pounds of butterfat
starting her record as a junior
two-year-old.
Mrs. Bridgeman. SO,
Dies in Summerville
Mrs. Susie Lee Bridgman, 60,
passed away in Summerville at
7:15 p. m. Thursday December
9, after a lingering illness.
Mrs. Bridgman had been a well
known resident of Summerville
for a number of years and a
member of the Methodist
Church.
She is survived by two sons,
Andrew and Earnest Bridgman;
two grand daughters and one
grand son, all of Summerville.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at South Summerville Baptist
Church at 3 p. m. Friday, with
the Rev. W. M. Steel officiating.
Interment was in Summerville
Cemetery. J. D. Hill Funeral
Home in charge.
SCHOOLS CLOSE
All schools in the county,
with the exception of Subligna,
Gore and Lyerly, will close
Friday for a two weeks holiday
vacation.
Subligna and Lyerly will
close Wednesday, December
22, while, Gore will close
Thursday, December 23.
Schools will resume schedule
on January 3.