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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
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TWELVE COUNTIES
LOSE MEMBERSHIP
IN FARM BUREAU
SUMMERVILLE. Ga.—Dec. 29,
Twelve counties in the Seventh
and Ninth Districts lost member
ship in the Farm Bureau in 1948
compared to the total reported
at the end of the 1947 fiscal year,
declared W. M. Storey, new vice
president of the Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation.
“It is unthinkable,’’ the GFBF
official declared, “that our farm
people have thus failed to sup
port the organization that has
secured the enactment of legis
lation which has contributed
millions of dollars to cotton
farmers alone in the two dis
tricts.” He added that Farm Bu
reau leaders in Georgia and the
Nation have sponsored and sup
ported legislation placing a sup
port price of 90 per cent of parity
under all basic commodities, in
cluding cotton.
Mr. Storey reported total mem
bership in the Seventh District
represented a gain of 984 farm
families, with most of the in
crease coming from Polk, Gordon
and Cobb counties. Polk and
Gordon are the Lome counties of
the two new directors from the
district, W. W. Nix, Rockmart,
and Troy Knight, Ranger.
The counties showing a de
crease in membership in 1948 in
clude Bartow county with a loss
of 98; Chattooga, seven; Dade,
three; Haralson, 73, and Pauld
ing; 40.
Ninth District counties show
ing a loss as compared with the
membership in 1947 include
Barrow County, 69; Dawson, 26;
Gilmer, 68; Habersham, 38;
Lumpkin, 19; Pickens, 114, and
Rabun, 22.
The Ninth District, Mr. Storey
said, gained 278 family member
ships during 1948. Most of the
increase came from Jackson, Hall
and Fannin counties.
The potential membership of
the Seventh District, the GFBF
vice president reported, is 22,951
farm families, and the Ninth
District has a total of 26,916
farm families from which to se
cure its members in the farm or
ganization.
“We must increase our mem
bership in the state,” the Farm
Bureau official nointed out,” and
I am particularly interested in
seeing a substantial boost in the
Seventh and Ninth Districts dur
ing the current year.”
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Summerville, Georgia
In The News Office
(correspondent of the week)
Orchids of the week go to Mrs.
Z. M. Cooper, the fine, good
natured correspondent of Little
Sand Mountain.
(If you’ll remember, Mrs.
Cooper also » T as President of
that organization over there to
improve the community, and
they did too! So well, in fact,
that they won first prize in the
county contest.)
Mrs. Cooper has lived in Chat
tooga County since 1923, and on
the Mountain for all but seven
years of that time.
She is a native of Bartow
County though, having been Evie
Bohannon before her marriage to
Mr. Cooper in 1926.
“I have been correspondent
for the Summerville News before,
and of course our family, like
many others, look forward to the
coming of our paper,” she says
‘ We only wish it were a daily.”
A housewife and mother of
four children and one step-son,
Mrs. Cooper is continually busy
canning, sewing and is one of
the most faithful and active
church workers in the communi
ty. Three of her children are at
home, while two are married.
Her mother-in-law, who is 89
years old, has made her home
with the Coopers for the past
ten years, having been bed
ridden for three years.
“I’m very strong in my likes
and dislikes,” declares this win
some correspondent. “There is no
half way between. I love help
making a home for my loved
ones. There is another great love
in my heart, —church work.
“My happiest hours are when
I am teaching a Sunday School
Class. For a great many years I
wanted to be a missionary, but
because of a long spell of sick
ness, I couldn’t finish school and
didn’t have the health: but I
found God could use me at home
and I’m satisfied.
“I love to see my church and
I my community and county build
ing up toward better things,” she
says, “and my little feeble help
is so small, but I’m always ready
to do my best.”
A good motto for anybody, and
it’s a good one for me, says Mrs.
Cooper, is II Timothy, 2-15:
“Study to shew thyself approv
ed unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the Word of
Truth.”
The Summerville News has no
correspondent of which it is
prouder than it is of Mrs. Coop
er, who is indeed an asset to us
as well as to her community and
church.
Well, now that the holidays
are over we’re settling down into
the every-day routine again.
Holidays are always refreshing
but aren't we all sorta glad when
things get down to normal
again?
—o —O’-
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Comment on Sports
By Ed Sims
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A good
lesson for the nation’s youth can
be learned here in Washington
The lesson is for the boys and
girls, and for those who are
sports minded and those who
aren’t. It’s abmit a basketball
team in the professional basket
ball league the Washington
Caps.
The Caps have long been one
of the best basketball teams in
the country. They arrived with
greatness after the Boston Cel
tics, and after some of the others
but they have definitely arrived
in the last few vears. But about
the Washington Caps’ greatness
there lies a great story.
The Caps are the best in the
business today to begin with.
They won fifteen straight over
New York, Boston and everyone
in the western, citiels. They’re
walking off with pro honors this
year. But they have no league
high scorer, or anything like
that. The league’s high scorer is
usually not a Cap.
On paper a 'ot of other good
basketball teams should lick the
Caps. But they don’t, even if the
Caps have to come from behind
in the last minute or two of the
game. And when the Caps meet
a low scoring quintet, they win
by five or ten points. Sometimes
they run up a larger margin, but
winning margins aren’t the main
goals of the Caps. When they
play a high scoring team, they
win by five or ten points also.
In other words if it’s defense
the other team specializes in,
the Caps play defensive. If it’s ;
the high-scoring offensive game [
that the other teams play, th«
Caps outscore them. It’s true
that the Caps ’tmetimes reverse
their style to gain the temporary
advantage, but usually the?' just
cutplay their opponents at the
game their opponents choose to
play.
The great story in this team
isn’t that they win, or that I
they’re champions of the league.
The great story is that the Caps
I are a team. In some games four
i or five men get fifteen points, os
; approximately fifteen. The Caps
I are an ideal team.
While Philadelphia or Boston,
or some of the other such as St.
| Louis or Chicago may have the
' highest scoring player in the
| league, the Caps outscore him
I when they play his team.
And when some pro basketball
i rosters list more name players
i than the Caps have, the Caps
outplay the names when they
meet them. The Caps, you might
say, know that by pulling to
gether as a team, each man gets
I further in the long run.
When you ask who is the star
of the Washington Caps, the
Washingtonian will tell you the
Caps don’t have any one fancy
Dan; all the Caps are stars.
ONE MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ
| 1. What baseball team did
{ Cleveland beat in 1920 for the
championship?
2. Who did Washington defeat
in 1924 for the world champion
ship?
3. Who did Jack Sharkey win
the heavyweight title from in
1932?
4. Who beat Jess Willard to
become heavyweight champ?
5. What was the year he took
over the crown?
THE ANSWERS
1. Brooklyn.
2. New York Giants.
3. Max Schmeling.
4. Jack Dempsey.
5. 1919.
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Louisa's Letter
Dear Louisa:
What is an old maid? I
thought that appellation went
out of style about ten years ago,
but someone spoke of me- the
other day as an old maid.
UNMARRIED—THIRTY.
Tenn.
Answer:
An old maid is a prissy, nar
row-minded person of any age
from twelve to sixty, married
or unmarried. At least, that is
my private opinion. Some of the
worst old maids I have ever
known were married women
those holier-than-thou kind
who expect little children to be
angels and expect the worst of
other women and men.
But some of the unmarried
women of my acquaintance,
who are well on their way to
wards the half century mark,
could not, by any stretch of
imagination he termed old
maids. They are too amusing
and clever, they are too inter
ested in .thii gs and people, and
they are t>o broad-minded to
be called anything but attrac
tive women.
LOUISA.
Dear Louisa:
I am going with a very fine
boy but my parents refuse to
believe that he is anything but'
a rowdy because all of the men j
in his family have a bad name ;
about getting drunk and misbe- j
having.
This boy hates all that as
r:,uch as I do, and has always
oehaved like a perfect gentle
man. We are both old enough
to get married but my parents
are trying to break us up al
though the boy has a good job. !
They say that they are sure he)
will be just like all the rest of |
the family.
What must I do?
A B. L.— Kans.
Answer:
It is always well to look at a ;
1 boy or girl’s family before you
i marry into that family. As a |
usual thing, you can get a good
picture of the kind of wife or
husband you will get by look
ing at your intended’s father
! or mother, I say, as a usual
j thing, but this does not always
hold true. Occasionally in a
I family of no-goods, there will
be otie or two fine girls or boys
who, instead of following in
the footsteps of these erring
elders, bend every effort to be
different from them. Some of
the finest men and women have
come from apparently very poor
stock. Some of the people who
' have done the most for humani
|ty and for their own families
' were reared in poverty and had
. absolutely no background.
So we do wrong to condemn
I a young man because of the
behavior of his family. If, in
i spite of their example, he has
i behaved himself and done the
best he could, he should be ac
corded more nraise and con
sideration than the boy who
has no handicaps.
I don’t think you will be wrong
in sticking to such a young man.
Good luck to you,
LOUISA.
THANKS!
I wish to thank my many
friends, both white and colored,
for the many nice Christmas
presents given me, and for the
visit of Santa Claus to my home
with so many nice things. I
appreciate all these favors from
the depths of my heart. Again,
thank you. Wishing you a Happy
and Prosperous New Year.
GUS HORTON (Col.)
TREE PLANTING
About 30 million pine seedlings
will be shipped from nurseries
of the State Department of
Forestry this season. Foresters
warn that many of these trees
and much labor wil’.- be lost if
the trees are not proper
ly.
Safely Education I
Drive Started by
Ga. Highway Patrol
Atlanta (GPS). Georgia’s
State Patrol is going all-out to
make our highways safer. For
example, in launching an inten
sified campaign to reduce high
way deaths to a minimum, the
Patrol has more than trebled
the number of men in its Safety
Education Division.
Ten men will spend their full
time showing safety films and
speaking before school children,
civic clubs, and over the radio
in an all-out effort to prevent
accidents on Georgia’s high
ways, according to Lieut. E. S.
Burke, Supervisor of Safety Edu
cation of the Patrol.
“We will center our activities
on children,” he said, “so that
the next generation won’t be as
ignorant in driving cars as the
present generation is.”
The Patrol also will ask the
Legislature to help protect the
children by strengthening the
school bus inspection law. Lieut, j
Burke said the present law per- j
mits the Patrol to condemn un
safe busses, but does not pro
vide for the Patrol to eliminate I
these busses from service. He !
wants authority to knock all un- |
safe busses out of service.
In safety work practically ever
since the Patrol was established |
in 1937, Lieut. Burke, who is head
of the Georgia Peace Officers
Association, has just recently
been placed in o f
Safety Education Unit by Major
George Wilson, Director of Pub
lic Safety. The sta °
divided into seven districts and
a man assigned to work each
district, it was explained. The
Patrol is purchasing movie pro
jectors for each of these men to
use in showing safety nlrns.
Forestry Film Is
Now Available
SOPERTON, Ga.—A premiere
showing of a Georgia-made
forestry movie, “Lonnie’s New
Crop”, will be held here Tuesday,
January 11, at 3 p. m.
Practically all of the scenes in
the movie were photographed in
Treutlen County and many of
the local citizens who took part
in the filming will participate in
the Premiere in person. Arrange
ments for the occasion are being
made by the Georgia Depart
ment of forestry in cooperation
with local citizens, forestry lead
ers, and agricultural officials.
Treutlen County was selected
for shooting the movie because
this county has been a leader in
reforestration and all types of
forest conditions needed were
easily available. The lands of Mr.
James Fowler, of near Soperton,
are featured because he pioneer
ed in reforestration activities.
The Georgia Department of
Forestry sponsored production of
the film for the Southern Pulp
i wood Conservation Association,
i Photographed in natural color
I with sound, “Lonnie’s New Crop”,
deals with tree planting.
Made by the Southern Film
Production Service of Athens,
Georgia, the movie describes how
a young farmer puts unproduc
tive land to work at a profit by
planting and growing trees.
After the premiere, “Lonnie’s
New Crop” will be available for
showings to schools, farm and
civic groups. Tt may be booked
through the Department of
Forestry, State Capitol, Atlanta,
Georgia.
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Statement of the Condition of
FARMERS A MERCHANTS BANK
Summerville, Georgia
At the Close of Business December 31, 1948
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $1,103,034.54
Government Bonds 1,934,416.98
State and Municipal Bonds 283,501.03
Cash on Hand and Due From Ap-
proved Depositories 864,713.78
Banking House, Furniture and
Fixtures 7,000.00
Accrued Interest on Bonds Pur-
chased 341.77
$4,193,008.10
LIABILITIES
Capital $ 50,000.00
Surplus 50,000.00
Undivided Profits 28,985.01
Reserves 65,920.95
Deposits 3,995,102.14
Dividents Unpaid 3,000.00
$4,193,008.10
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