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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 /Jr / . .A><l 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.