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Try Our Job $ Printing J VOL. 65; NO. 14 Record-Breaking Revival Series Planned by IS Baptist Churches For the first time in the his tory of the Chattooga Baptist Association 15 churches will be conducting a revival series at the Sime itme, beginning April 3. The following churches are cooperating: Sardis, D. B. Maf fett, pastor; Menlo, J. Pat Brock, pastor; New Antioch, J. R. Bailey, Pastor; South Summer ville, W. M. Steele, pastor; First Summerville, Ira C. Frazier, pas tor; Mountain View, G. H. God frey, pastor; First Trion, S. L. Walker, pastor; Perennial Springs, Oliver Pledger, pastor; West Summerville, E. H. Car son, pastor; Lyerly, B. L. Cald well, pastor; Four Mile, W. H. Dean, pastor; New Bethel, A. N. White pastor; Berryton, Ho ward Finister, pastor; Spring Creek, Frank D. Lewis, pastor; Chelsea, Virgil Blaylock, pastor. Several churches already had plans made for their revival, and could not begin on this date. Leaders of the southern Bap tist Convention ar? laying long range plans for simultaneous revivals in 1950 and 1951. It is in the plan that every Baptist Church west of the Mississippi river conduct a revival meeting at the same time In 1950. These plans also call for the same thing in all the Baptist Churches east of the Mississippi river in 1951. FINAL RITES FOR TOM RILEY HELD Tom Riley, 59, of Summerville, died at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. Fun eral services were conducted at 4 p. m. Monday at the Perrenial Springs Church with Rev. Frank Craton officiating Mr. Riley is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Charles Byars, of Berryton, and Miss Ruth Riley and Mrs. Wallace Hurley, both of Summerville; two sons, Albert and James Riley, both of Summerville; two brothers, Hugh, of Summerville, and M. F. Riley of Cloudland; four sisters, Mrs. George Marshall, of Trion, Mrs. Tom Parham, of Cloudland, Mrs. Maude Beavers, of LaFay ette, and Mrs. Bertie Centell, of Birmingham. Interment was in the Per renial Springs Cemetery with the J. D. Hill Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. S' • tr Z 4 rZ4.Z44 4 *-»Z**S- : $ THERE : HERE 'N J * A county-wide youth meeting will be held at the First Baptist Church in Summerville, at 7:30 Thursday evening, March 31. Sneakers will be Miss Sara Stephens, State Young People’s Leader, and Miss Catherine Bryan, Missionary. The Stamps Quartet, of Dal las, Texas will appear in a con cert at 8 p. m. Friday at the courthouse, it was announced this week by Miss Mae Earl Strange, President of the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, sponsor of the concert. The Rev. Charles W. Crowe, formerly of Mentone Ala., will speak at the Pennville Gospel Tabernacle at 8 p. m. Saturday and at 11 a. m and 8 p. m. Sun day. Mothers and prospective mothers of Chattooga County have been invited by C. Parker Persons, regional director of the U. S. Department of Commerce in Atlanta, to communicate with that office should they wish a copy of the Federal Govern ment’s “best seller” book en titled “Infant Care.” To date, some 5,000,000 copies of the book have been distribut ed. It is the work of the Chil dren’s Bureau of the Federal Security Agency, and it sells for 15 cents. It represents the experiences of doctors, nurses, nutritionists, psychologists! and parents on the care of infants. The regular meeting of Trion Lodge 160 F. and A. M. will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday, March 28. All qualified Masons are in vited. A revival is in progress at the Chesterfield Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. W. K. Cash. Services are held at 6:30 p. m. (CST) each evening. (Tin' €mmnu'nnllr Nms BETTY JO SHELTON WINS FIRST PLACE IN SPELLING CONTEST Betty Jo Shelton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Shelton, of Trion, was first place winner in the annual Atlanta Journal spelling contest, which was held at Summerville High School Fri day. Miss Shelton was the re cipient of a $25 savings bond. Second place winner was Carolyn Swofford of Summer ville, and third place was won by Peggy Jean Palmer, of Penn ville. Other contestants were: Betty Sue ackson, Subligna; Maxine Cochran, Lyerly; Frances Mas sey, Menlo, and Lois Kiker, of Gore. MRSrANNIE TEAGUE SUCCUMBS HERE Mrs. Annie Evane Teague, 68, died at the residence of her ! son on Summerville, Route 1, i at 8 a. m. Tuesday after a short 1 illness. • She 1 s survived b y three daughters, Mrs. George Barlow, i Mrs. Otto Kendrick and Mrs. ' William E. Scoggins, all of Sum merville; five sons, Chrlie. and Wesley, both of Winder; Walter, John L. Jr. and Jessie, all of Summerville Route 1: four sis ters Mrs. Lexie Garrett, of Springfield, Mo., Mrs. Maude Smith, of Noover, Ohio, Mrs. Charlie Turpin and Mrs. Estes Turpin, both of Rome; eight i brothers, Jack, Jessie, Lonnie. Hershel, Gordon and Rush, all of Calhoun, Ben and Joe of Gastonia, N. C. Twenty-seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren also survive. Funeral services are to be con ducted at the Poplar Springs Baptist Church at 2 o’clock this afternoon (Thursday? with the i Rev. John Kellett, pastor and j the Rev. Henry G. Walker, of i ficiating. Interment is to be I in South Carolina Camp Ground ' near Holland. J. D. Hill Fundal Home in charge. ESSAY CONTEST SUBJECT CHOSEN The subject for the annual ' Americanism contest, sponsored throughout the country by the American Legion Auxiliary, has I been announced by Mrs. W. D. Birdsong, of Lindale, State , Americanism Chairman. “Communismt’s Challenge to Our American Way of Life,” is ; the subject chosen for high I schoolers to write an essay on, Mrs. Birdsong said, and further details will be announced at a J later date. Mrs. James Hawkins, of Sum i merville, is the Seventh District Americanism Chairman, while j Mrs. A. N. Trimble is the local ' Americanism Chariman. 'Foundation' Discussed at Community Meeting “The Mimimum Foundation Progam” was discussed- in a community meeting at the Pennville School Monday night, C. B. Akin, County School Sup erintendent leading the discus sion. A large representative group of the community was present, Mrs. Charles Rudicil, Principal of the Pennville School said. “The most important point brought out at the meeting was that the Minimum Foundation program is not only a school program but a public program,” Mrs. Rudicil said. Mr. Akin said that passage of the program would eliminate the j need for all future bond issues ; for schools; provide safer and better roads; prevent over ! crowded school busses; give higher average grants to old people, dependent children, crippled children and blind per sons; should mean well qualified and professionally trained ’ teachers for every child; provide a well designed and thoroughly equipped classroom; provide an adequate supply of textbooks ; and other instructional mater ial; •eliminate the need for en ' trance fees in Chattooga County schools; make available 700 beds j at Battey; provide better facili ties for the hospital for the in sane; will expand public health services; and avoid dangers now threatening the accrediting standing of the University Sys tem. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1949 SPECIALIST ADVISES FARMERS TO ENTER FICE-ACRE CONTEST With planting already under way in south Georgia, E. C. Westbrooks, State Evtension Service cotton specialist, advised farmers this week to consider increasing per acre cotton yields this year by participating in the state’s five-acre cotton contest. Purpose of the five-acre con test is to teach Georgia farmers on a small acreage what can be done on every cotton acre, Mr. Westbrook said. As participants in the contest they follow the best recommended practices as to variety, fertilization, disease and insect control, spacing and all other phases of cotton pro duction. Fourteen hundred farmers took part in contests in 1947 and 1948. with a top yield of two and one-half bales per acre in 1947 and two and two-thirds bales per acre in 1948. Goal for the 1949 contest has been set at three bales per acre. Average yield of cotton in the state in recent years has been less than a bale to the acre, the cotton specialist pointed out. Unless farmers increase this yield substantially and lower production costs, cotton produc tion may soon shift to other areas. According to Mr. Westbrook, the five-acre cotton contest is open to every cotton farmer in the state. Farmers who are in terested in entering can get complete information from their county Extension agent. Entries will be accepted from now until June 15. He also advised farmers to ob tain information from their county agent about free soil analyses, the best adapted vari eties of seed for planting, proper treatment o f seed, planting, proper treatment of seed, plant ing methods and insect control. Mrs. Mollie Parker Passes Away Sunday Mrs. Mollie Whitfield Parker. 73, of Trion Route 1, died Sun day afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Jacobs in Chattanooga. Funeral services were con ducted at the Trion Church of Christ at 11 a. m. Tuesday with Farris Baird and the Rev. A. M. Stancel officiating. Besides her husband, Elijah C. Parker, of Trion, Route 1, she is survived by four daughters, Mrs. H. H. Jacobs and Mrs. Ruth Johnson, both of Chattanooga; Mrs J. B. Willingham and Mrs. Bill Willingham, both of Menlo; five sons, Jess, of Trion Route 1, Neeley C., of Summerville, Clyde, Frank and Carl of Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. Charlie Tay lor, Mrs. Ola Mabray and Mrs. Sophie McCormick, all of Atlan ta; three brothers, Tom, Ben, and Ed Whitfield, all of Atlanta. Sixteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also sur vive. The following grandsons ser ved as pallbearers; Billy Willing ham, Charles Parker, Stanford Parker, Lamar Bazier, Roy Lee Johnson and Jimmy Willing ham. Large Group Attends Gore FHA-FFA Banquet Bob Blalock, President of the State Association of the Future Farmers of America, told those at the Gore F. H. A.-F. F. A. ban quet Thursday night that farm ers are slowly but surely becom ing sufficiently organized to ask for and receive a few benefits that are long overdue. He pointed out that the farm ers must organize sufficiently to speak the same language and to carry on a program of co-opera tion before all their demands can be granted. Louise McCollum, former F.H. A. member, and Frank Hendrix, former F. F. A. member, spoke briefly to the group on “What the Organizations Mean to a High School Student.” Misses Rachel Cooper and Maxine Tucker entertained with a duet and Lamar Rosser and Sidney Cooper kept the group in high spirits with their jokes. The welcome addresses were given by Miss Tucker, F. H. A. Local Youngsters Win Prizes in Fal Callie Show Jean Duff’s entry in the Coosa I Valley Fat Cattle Show in Rome i last week was selected reserve i champion and sold to Colonial | Stores at 32 cents a pound. The Summerville girls’ earnings and 1 prizes reached $299. The entry copped top honors in the medi- I um weight class. The 10th annual show and | sale attracted 130 entrants from i six Northwest Georgia counties, ■ including 73 adult and 57 4-H and Future Farmers of America | boys and girls. 5 Four members of the Gore FFA i Chapter exhibited steers. Kelly Owens won $8 as a price, ! his steer having weighed 745 | pounds and selling for $28.50 per ■ hundred, making a total of I $212.33. Ray Owens won $8 prize, his calf weighing 745 pounds and selling for $26.75 per hundred, bringing him $199.29. Billy Joe Pinion received $6, 1 having sold his 635 pound steer | for $24.50 per hundred, totaling i $155.58. Huston Cargle, Jr., received a $6 prize after selling his 890 poured steer for $27 per hundred, bringing him $240.00. This makes a total of $835.50 in prizes and receipts for the steers. Ray Owens showed a calf for the third year. The first year he borrowed money to buy the calf and now he has $267.20 as a result of his work. The other boys have had simi lar experiences and are to be commended for their work, ■ leaders said. The show was climaxed with I a banquet Wednesday night at the Forrest Hotel. Bob Stiles, ! Bartow County farmer and cat tleman, spoke to the group tell j ing of the growing importance and need for livestock produc i tion in the south. Jimmy Jarrett, Rome Route 3, presided at the meeting and J. J. McDonough, president of th? Coosa Valley Livestock Associa tion, gave the welcoming ad dress. W. T. wt 6J, DIES WEDNESDAY William Thomas Smith, 63, I died suddenly at his residence. I Summerville Route 4, at 4:15 a. m. Wednesday. i He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Maudie Roberts Smith; one ! daughter, Mrs. Robert Siffles. of i Summerville; four sons, Russell, of Gadsden. Ala., Jessie, of Sum merville, Route 4, Willie L., of Trion, and Jack, of Summerville Route 3; two sisters, Mrs. Albert Holcolm, of Cedar Bluff, Ala., , and Mrs. Jeff McGuire, o Sum merville. Twenty-one grandchil dren and one great-grandchild also survive. Funeral arrangements were j incomplete Wednesday after i noon but services will be held at the Pennville Gospel Taber | nacle and interment in Penn ville Cemetery. J. D. Hill Funeral Home in charge of arrange ments. Menlo Juniors Io Present Comedy i The Junior Class of Menlo High School will present the ’ three-act comedy, “Look Me in ! the Eye,” at 8 p. m. Friday at i the Menlo gymnasium. President, and Harold Cargle F. F. A. President. In giving the response. C. B. Akin, County School Superin tendent, expressed belief that through such organizations and occasions the educational pro gram is highly benefited. George Schroeder led the group in singing “America,” which opened the program, after which he offered prayer. The meal was served by the i F. H. A. girls under the super-i vision of Miss Martha Jo Cal loway, F. H. A. advisor and Home : Economics teacher. Approximately 80 persons at tended the banquet, which was described by many as the best they had ever attended. Special guests were: Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Cleckler, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. White, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Akin. Mr. and Mrs Hendrix, T. D. Brown, Jr., Mr. Blalock and Miss Mc- Collum. Hospital Bond Election To Be Called by County Food Ordinance Passed By Conn ty Commissioners An ordinance calling for the grading and inspection of all eating establishments in Chat tooga County has been passed by the Chattooga County Board of Commissioners. The ordinance will be effec tive immediately following legal advertisement, however estab lishments serving food or drink will be given 12 months to meet requirements before being pen alized, the County Board said. At least every six months the health officer, R. E. Davis, of Rome, Northwest Regional Of fice, will inspect every restau rant located within the County. Grade A restaurants shall ; meet with the following items of i sanitation: Floors, walls and ceilings, doors and windows, lighting, ventilation, toilet facilites, water supply, lavatory faciltities, con stuction of utensils and equpi ment, cleaning and bactericidal treatment of utensils and equip ment. Storage and handling of STOLEN AUTO IS RECOVERED HERE An automobile stolen in Tri on from Frank Watts, of La- Fayette, last week was recover ed Saturday night two miles south of Subligna. Junior Mc- Whorter, 21, of Summerville, is being held in jail in connection with the offense. Following a preliminarj 7 hear i mg Tuesday afternoon, the case was bound over to the Grand Jury. McWhorter remains in jail, j his bond having been set at i SI,OOO. 7lh Dairid l&C To HoM Conveuflen The Seventh District PAC will i hold their annual convention, I ■ Sunday, March 27, in the Rome Labor Temple, 5341? North Broad Street, Rome, at which ; time Bobby Lee Cook, Chattooga County Representative, will one of the speakers Registration of delegates will istart at 9:30 a. m. for an all day session. Delegates for this convention will be from all 26 CIO locals of j the district. There will be dele i gates from LaFayette and Ross ville, of Walker County; Dalton, of Whitfield; Cedartown and Aragon, of Polk County; Bremen and Buchanan, of Haralson: Berry ton,of Chattooga; Rome, of Floyd, and Douglasville, o f Douglas County. An election will be held for officers and members of the ex ecutive board for the coming year. The morning speaker will be Kenneth Douty, Georgia State Director of TWUA, from Atlan ta. Charles Smith, Jr., State House Representative, of Haral son County, will be an afternoon speaker. A movie will be shown and refreshments will be served. H. L. ABRAMS, JR. RECEIVES DEGREE H. Leon Abrams, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Abrams, Sr. of Lyerly, received his B. A. de gree from Emory University, At lanta, March I’6. He majored in history and political science and is a mem ber of the Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity and the International Relations Club. He served as rush captain o r his fraternity this year and for the past year has been Vice President and program chairman of the In ternational Relations Club. Trion Faculty to Give Two Performances The plav, “Professor, How Could You?” will be presented at 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Friday by the Trion School faculty at the Trion High School auditorium. Volunteers needed Men as well as women are needed by local Red Cross chapters in providing services to veterans, the armed forces, and civilians. Especially needed are men for Motor Service. En tertainment and Instruction Service, and for disaster emer gency work. utensils and equipment, disposal of wastes, refrigeration, whole someness of food and drink, storage, display and serving of i food and drink and cleanliness I of employees. Grade B restaurants are those ! which fail to comply in regard to floors, walls and ceilings, lighting, ventilation and mis cellaneous items such as pro viding lockers. Grade C restaurants are those which fail to comply with neither the Grade A or the Grade B requriements. Itinerant restaurants, those operating for a temporary per iod in connection with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibi tion, or other similiar gathering, shall be constructed and operat ed in an approved manner. Twelve months from the date on which this ordinance takes effect no restaurant shall be j operated within Chattooga County unless it conforms with the Grade A or Grade B or ap proved itinerant restaurant re quirments. DRIVE FOR CABIN ROOF CONTINUES The drive to raise funds to put a new roof on the Gore F. F. A. cabin is still in progress A goal of sllO was set, and through March 22 $73.50 has been donated. Those making contributions since March 8 are as ollows: Arthur Cummings $1; H. G. ! Baker, $5: Huston Cargle Jr. $5; C. C. Brooks, 50 cents; D. T. ! Connell, of Rome, 50 cents; M. ' A. Balf, of Rome, $2; Roy Ford, I of Rome, 50 cents; Caper Stock. oi Rome. $2.50; James Gentry. ! $1: C. E. Akni $?: Milton Ros ; ser, $3; Mrs. Mattie Young. sl. The drive will continue until April I. Oliver Paul Walers, 59, Passes Away Oliver Paul Waters, 59, died l at his residence Summerville, at 6:05 p. m. Monday after a lingering illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sallie Mae Waters; four daughters, Mrs. A. B. Robinson i of Lupton City, Tenn., Mrs. H. E. Owens and Mrs, L. W. Hall, both of Summerville, and Miss Glenna Waters, of Chattanooga., Tenn.; four sons, Paul Waters, of Knoxville, Tenn., Lloyd. Don ald and Jerry Waters, all of ; Summerville; seven sisters, Mrs. ! Minnie Davis, Mrs. Mary Fowler, Mrs. Fannie Rinehart, Mrs. Mat i tie Dooley, Mrs. Walt Allmon, ; Mrs. Hush Kellett and Miss I Daisy Waters; four brothers, ■ John Waters, of West Texas, I Robert P. and W. D. Waters Sr., j both of Summerville, and Rev. I Frank Waters, of Danridge, I Tenn. Funeral services were to be | conducted at the South Sum- I merville Baptist Church at 2 Ip. m. Wednesday with the Rev. i Floyd Higgins the Rev. Ray mond Bailey and the Rev. Earley Carson officiating. Interment in Pennville Cemetery, with J. D. Hill Funeral Home, of Summer ville. in charge of arrangements. P.-T. A. Group to Meet April 1 At Lakeview Mrs. Fred Knight, of Carters ville. President of the Georgia Congress of Parents and Teach ers, and Miss Martha McAlpine, Home and Family Life Exuert from the University of Georgia,' will appear on the program of j the Spring Conference of the ■ Fifteenth District Parents and j Teachers, April 1 at Lakeview j School in Rossville. Mrs. Walter Slaughter, of' Cartersville, District Director' will preside and give her report; of the past year’s work. District j officials and local unit dele- I gates will give highlights of' the year’s activities. The opening session of the I Conference which will begin at I 10:30 a. m. and the Rossville P. T A. will be in charge with Mrs. Robert Thomas, president. This opening session will in clude musical numbers by the School Band and Glee Club. District officers will be elect ed and installed. Growing With Chattooga $1.50 A YEAR The Board of Commissioners of Chattooga County Monday morning agreed to call a bond election to let the people decide whether or not they want a new hospital for the county. The decision was reached aft er Fred Aldred, President of the Chattooga County Chamber of Commerce, together with sev eral C. of C. directors, had pre sented the plan to the Commis sioners. At their annual dinner meet ing last November, the Chamber of Commerce set up the project of securing a hospital and has been steadfastly at work on it since that time. Mr. Aldred told the Commis sioners that Chattooga County had a high B priority on a por tion of the three million dollars set aside by the state for hospi tals and that that meant only the ‘As” were ahead of this I county. “We have been surveyed by ' the State and they have approv ! ed us for a 25-bed hospital at a i cost of $225,000,” Mr. Aldred said. “The money will be avail able July 1. Mr. Aldred said he had made a special trip to Atlanta and thor oughly discussed the matter : with Hospital Service authorities at the State Board of Health. The Directors of the C. of C. requested that they be named on the Hospital Authority, which must be organized before the hospital is built, however the Board failed to act on this meas ure. The amount of the bonds and ; the date of election also will be set later. Mr. Aldred pointed out the Chamber had found that many newly-constructed hospitals op erated at a deficit during the first year or two and he sug gested that the Board set a suf ficient amount for the bonds to take care of this. It was suggested that perhaps a larger hospital than a 25-bed would be needed and Mr. Aldred stated that if the county provides SIOO,OOI- and, the state and fed eral governments feach SIOO,OOO a 30-bed hospital could be built and perhaps there would be suf ficient funds to take care of any deficit. County Attorney Mose Brinson stated that three mills, over a period of 20 years, should take care of the bonds. Mrs. Ellis Harris, of the Floyd I Hospital Authority, was present ■at the meeting and urged that Chattooga County build an ade quate hospital in the beginning. “Our recent addition to the Floyd Hospital cost as much as the entire hospital when it was I built,” she said. Dr. William Gist, the only doc- I tor present, told of the pressing | need for another hospital in the I county, stating that he knew of seven lives that have been lost since the closing of the Sum merville Hospital last Novem ber. because hospital care was not available. Building Site The Board had previously agreed to provide the building site, that being approximately two acres near the county home north of Summerville. Chamber of Commerce offi cials pointed out that this is a most desirable location in that it is centrally located as well as be ing an attractive spot. Directors of the C. of C. meet ing with the Commissioners were: Mr. Aldred, O. L. Cleckler, J. T. Morgan, E. C. Pesterfield, J. B. Butler, B. W. Farrar and J. Leo Baker. Whisky Found in Mania Truck Here Two cases of bonded whiskey were found in a 1946 Interna tional panel truck driven by Ed ward L. Stephenson, 25, of At lanta. Monday night. Stephenson who has been re leased on a SI,OOO bnod, was ap prehended near the top of Tay lor’s Ridge as he was proceeding southward, along U. S. Highway 27. Two Arrested for Possessing Whisky Albert Smith, 30, colored, and Abe Bramlett, 50, were arrested Monday at Bramlett’s place of business two miles east of Trion, for possessing white whiskey it was disclosed this week by Dep uty Sheriff Edmond Kerce. Several pints were found in the establishment. Deputy Kerce said. Both men were released after posting bond.