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Try Our Job Printing VOL. 65; NO. 27 Red Cross Swimming Lessons Begin Monday Red Cross swimming lessons will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, June 27, at John’s Pool and will continue for 14 days, it was an nounced this week by Brooke Pierce, Instructor. This program is for beginners and intermediates, however plans for advanced swimmers and sen ior life savers will be announced later. Mr. Pierce said that arrange ments have been made for spe cial prices to prevail at the pool for those taking the course. “The only requirements are that each one must have a doc tor’s certificate and a Red Cross membership card,” Mr. Pierce stated. “The doctor’s certificate blanks may be obtained at the pool and I have Red Cross mem bership cards available.” During the past two years, 200 persons have learned to swim through the Red Cross Water Safety Program here. “Since 1914, when Red Cross established its Water Safety Service, the drowning rate in this county has been cut in half —from 10.4 to 5 per 100,000 de spite the fact that the number of persons who go ‘swimming’ each year has many times mul tiplied in these three decades,” Mr. Pierce said. 12-Pound Bass Caught At Cloudland Lake What is believed to be the largest bass ever caught in Chat- 11 tooga County was landed Sunday ~ by R. S. (Bob) McWhorter, of Summerville. 1 1 The 12-pound 2 ounce fish was i caught at Cloudland Lake, near । the old hotel, with only a cane, | red worms, a No. 6 bream hook' and an 8 pound nylon line. According to Mr. McWhorter, he caught a small bream on the hook and the 12-pounder caught । the bieam. He worked almost 25 minutes to bring the catch in because of the small line and ; pole. JULIAN MORRISON, BRIGHTON PRES. COMMITS SUICIDE The death of Julian K. Morri son, President of Brighton Mills, । Shannon, was attributed by Cor- ; oner J. W. Davis to “self inflict- I ed” gunshot wound. ; Sheriff D. G. Johnson reported Morrison’s life was snuffed out Monday by a single bullet through the temple. He quoted: a Deputy at the scene as saying;, a revolver was found near the , scene and that a note to the’ family was pinned to a door. ; Morrison. President and chief stockholder in the mill for 20 years, was found mortally wounded around 12:30 p. m. Monday at his home near Shan non. He died in a Rome hospital about 30 minutes later. In a formal statement, Com pany attorneys said the textile mill head had been in ill health for several weeks, but had plan ned to leave for New York in I the afternoon. The body of the World War 1| winner of the Distinguished i Service Cross was sent yesterday | to Statesville, N. C., for burial. Menlo Octogenarian Reads Entire Bible • I P. A. Brooks, of Menlo, al most 87 years young, disclosed this week that he has read the entire Bible since the first of । the year—a period of less than six months. Mr. Brooks wonders if there are any other young fellow's who have done likewise. If so, will you let him know about it? Negro Library Drive For $2,000 Under Way The Chattooga County Negro Library $2,000 Campaign has re cently begun and is now well un der way. Other solicitors with the origi nal committee are Richard Stur divant, Willie Ecans, Luther Shropshire, James Adams, Jr., Roscoe Steward, James Adams. ^ummeniilh Nms Board of Health Makes Sewer Disposal Inspection Under the ordinance passed by the City Counchil on June 13 which provides for the proper disposal of human excerta with in the city limits, R. E. Davis, of the Georgia Department of Pub lic Health, began inspection of all sewer disposal places with in the city limits that are not connected with the city sewer system. Beginning his inspection Mon day, Mr. Davis started at the north end of the city along North Commerce Street and North Highland Avenue. His findings will be turned over to the city authorities along with recommendations for bringing about complete city sewer cov erage. According to the ordinance, all property owners who have build ings within two hundred feet of sewer lines will be required to cut in to the city sewerage sys tem at their own expense. The anchor was lifted and the two men followed the fish about the lake until is was exhausted and came to the surface. Mr. McWhorter and Dr. H. A. Goodwin, also of Summerville, were in a boat at the time. In addition to the big bass, Mr. McWhorter, who frequently fishes at Cloudland, caught two bream, one a one-pounder, the other weighing three-fourths of a pound. They had only been fishing about 30 minutes when the rec ord-breaking catch was made. BEER QUESTION TO BE SETTLED HERE JULY 16 A referendum here on Satur day, July 16, will tell whether or not the residents of the City of Summerville wish to have beer sold within the city. The referendum was called at a regular Council meeting Mon day night, June 13, when an elec tion on the matter by the coun cil was tied. One councilman was absent because of illness. Mayor Willis James and Dennis Cox voted against issuing per mits to sell beer, while Leroy Alexander and Joe Gaines fa vored the move. James, Alexander and Gaines voted to call a referendum. The mayor urged the residents who wish to vote to check and be sure that their names are regis tered at the city hall. TRION FIRM PAY IN OPA CASE IS OKAYED BY HOUSE The House yesterday passed a bill to pay $130,000 to the Riegel Textile Corporation, of Trion, for claims maae against the Office of Price Administration. The bill was sent to thet Senate. The Riegel Corporation, then the Trion Company, paid the OPA $130,000 for alleged viola tions of price ceilings on gloves rather than take court action. Other manufacturers fought the price ceilings and Congress later passed a bill which caused the OPA to drop all pending cases. Sr., Coke Shropshire. Junior Mosely. Lellala Nichols, W. F. Boles and Mattie Sue Allgoods. The appeal is to every one, both white and negro, of Chat tooga County to help raise the $2,000. It is hoped each person will contribute sl. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1949 JAMES FLOYD NAMED STATE V. F. W. VICE COMMANDER James H. (Sloppy) Floyd, of Summerville, was electd Junior Vice Commander of the Georgia Department of Veterans of For eign Wars at the final business session of the 1949 convention in Brunswick Tuesday. Young Floyd, who is in the clothing store business at Trion, and who is prominent in civic affairs throughout the county, heads the Mason-McCauley Post 6688 of VFW. James L. Carmichael, 21-year old Swainsboro lawyer, was elected Commander of the State VFW, and David Price, of Jesup, was elected Senior Vice Com mander. Other officers elected are as follows: Kelso Hearn, of Monroe, Quartermaster-Adjutant; Grady Pittard, of Athens, Judge Ad vocate; Julian Lively, of Augus ta, Chaplain; and Dr. Henry Green, of Atlanta, surgeon. Albany was selected as the meeting city for the 1950 con vention. Others from here attending the meeting were: John Stubbs, James Abney, Douglas Baker and John C. Cavin. MENLO SCHOOL CANNERY TO OPEN TUESDAY, JULY 5 The Menlo Cannery will open Tuesday, July 5. It will be open each Tuesday and Thursday throughout the canning sea son. Rules and regulations for can ning plant are as follows: 1. Days of operation—Tuesday and Thursday. 2. Opening and closing time— open at 8:30. No product will be accepted after 2 p. m. E. S. T. 3. Plant will not be open un> less agriculture teacher or oper ator is present. 4. All patrons should bring sufficient labor to prepare and process products. 5. Local school accepts no re sponsibility of spoilage or loss of products. 6. Patrons must clean up utensils, equipment and work area immediately after using. 7. A service charge of 2c a can will be charged. Cans will be furnished at 4*/2C No. 2 cans and s^c No. 3 cans. 8. The cannery must operate on a cash basis. 9. School will not be responsi ble for products left in canning plant. 10. Meat will be canned by appointment only. Appointment should be made with ag. teach er. County Health Nurse Pace Heads Regional Discussion Miss Wilma Pace, Chattooga County Public Health Nurse, was the presiding officer at the monthly meeting of the North west Regional Conference held at the Regional offices, Battey State Hospital, in Rome Tues day. Public Health Nurses from the 26 counties that comprise the Northwest Regional Health of* fice of the State Department of Public Health discussed at length the Brown Report “Nurs ing for the Future.” Miss Pace, who presided over this discussion, gave in brief an outline of the Brown Report i which is a study of present edu ; cational training mthods of the nursing profession at the pro fessional level. The many at tendant problems, such as the present critical shortage of nurses, improvements which must be made within the pro fession if it is to attract enough young women for future nursing needs, and the use and training of practical and graduate bed side nurses, under suitable regu lation. In her resume Miss Pace said: “The Implications of the Brown Report are tremendous. Our pro fession is at the cross-roads of a new day—a new beginning. The fields of nursing have been multiplying at a rapid pace for the past twenty years. No long er is the graduate nurse faced with the choice of hospital, pri vate duty or public health serv 'ice, In which to practice. The field of nursing Is now unlimit ed—our field of endeavor is be coming specialized. We must learn to be diplomats as we take our place on International flights across the seas or on voyages. We must know how to OPEN HOUSE TO BE HELD AT NEW MEMORIAL HOME Open house will be held at the Memorial Home from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, it was announced this week by VFW and American Legion leaders. It is hoped a lot of Chattooga Countians, as well as persons from surrounding counties, will visit the beautiful new building at that time, it was declared. In the future, the veteran’s or ganizations hope to add a lounge, columns for the front and asbes tos tile flooring. A dedication of the building will be held during the summer, further .announcement of which will be made at a later date. 17 PERSONS ARRESTED HERE Records at the sheriff’s office this week revealed that 17 per sons had been arrested by the county officers during the past week. They are as follows: Charlie Evett, assault and battery; E. P. Jackson, passing worthless checks; George Reece, Jr., Tom Keith, Albert Carpenter, Leo Chastain and Loyd Teague, pub lic drunkenness; Emmett Jack son, Fannie Jackson and Lewis H. Helton, possessing non-tax paid whisky; Dozie Cavin, as saut with a knife; Russell Digs by and Burner Perdue, drunk on a highway; Allen H. Hix, driving without brakes; Russell R. Bow man and Walter Lee Adams, driving under the influence of alcohol. County Surpasses Savings Bond Goal by 3 Per Cent Chattooga County has reach ed 103.0 per. cent of it’s quota in the Opportunity Savings Loan now in progress throughout the United States, it was disclosed last week by Harry Lee McGin nis, County Chairman. The quota for this county was $63,000 in E sales, and $64,875 have been bought to date, it was stated. There are only 16 counties in Georgia who have reached their goal and the state as a whole has reached only 67.5 per cent, while the nation has reached approximately 73 per cent of it’s goal. The Seventh District has reached 52.4 per cent. The Covered Wagon will be in Rome tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, Mr. McGinnis said. become guardians of the wel fare and health of the individ ual workers in large industry or become executives in large life insurance companies. Federal, state and local health services are constantly expanding. The demand for nursing service is greater than the supply. The public is educatd to the services of nursing service. We as nurses must-know how to meet the de mands that society has a right to expect of us. We as nurses must put forth every effort for obtaining the highest of pro fessional and educational stan dards in order to not only carry on ourselves, but to attract a large number of women Into our profession." The full scope of the Brown Report "Nursing for the Future" was discussed by Miss Ethel Rhodes, nursing supervisor of the Cobb County Health Depart ment, Miss Elizabeth Hood, su perintendent of Nurses, Battey Hospital, and Miss Stella Opem, regional consultant nurse of the Northwest Regional Health of fice. SUBLIGNA PLANS BIBLE SCHOOL Plans have been made for a Vacation Bible School at the Subligna Baptist Church, begin ning at 9 a.m. Monday. July 4. The school will close at 11:30 a.m. The Rev. George C. Shroeder. pastor of the church, will be the director and he invites all chil dren between the ages of 4 and 6 to attend. This is for all de nominations, he said. Transportation will be fur nished to and from the church. C. OF C. SUBMITS NAMES FOR HOSPITAL AUTHORITY TO BOARD ■HERE ’N THERE- Miss Mae Earl Strange, of Summerville, President of the Seventh District American Le gion Auxiliary, installed officers of the Dalton and Cartersville Auxiliaries at a meeting in Dal ton Tuesday night. The regular communication of Trion Lodge No. 160 F. and A. M. will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday, June 27. All qualified Masons are in vited. There will be a home coming at the Congregational Holiness Church at Lyerly Sunday, June 26, it has been announced by the Rev. Paul Fowler, pastor. The Rev. Roy Merck, of Gainesville, will speak at 11 a. m. Special singing and music will be featured throughout the day. A revival will begin on this date with the Rev. Archie Gardner, of Exie, Ala., as the evanglist. R. W. Lively, seaman, USN, of Summerville, has been on a ten day visit to Naples, Italy, as a crew member of the attack car go ship USS Yellowstone en abling him to relax after in tensive training with the Sixth Tast Fleet in the Mediterranean. Visits to Rome plus tours of nearby Pompeii and the Isle of Capri were on the liberty sche dule. New Construction Under Way On Commerce Street Construction of a modern brick building below the Sum merville Hotel is expected to be completed by July 1, it w’as dis closed this week by Dr. W. B. Hair. The new' structure, 71 by 24, will replace a wooden building in which Roy Alexander oper ated an eating establishment. Mr. Alexander plans to operate a similar business in the new building. U.S. Business Census To Be Taken Here A United States census of busi ness got under way this week in Chattooga County and the Sev enth congressional district. The census is a nation-w'ide under taking in which facts will be collected about three million re tail, wholesale and service trade establishments. A Seventh district office has been set up in Room 217, West Building, Rome, under direction of Supervisor W. Elliott Camp, who announced today that Clar ence B. Bradford, of Rome, would be the enumerator in Chattooga County. Mr Camp said statistics to be published upon completion of the census will reveal changes and developments within the busi ness structure that have occur red during a decade of business expansion augmented to unprec edented dimensions by consum er spending. Business information will be available on a national scale, he said, and for those states, areas and county groups where busi ness concentration is sufficient to provide summaries that will not reveal the activities of in dividual establishments. Other data to be compiled In the census Include number of stores and total sales, number of proprietors of unincorporated businesses, pay roll and employ ment, sales analyzed by principal merchandise lines, and inven tories of merchandise on hand at the beginning and end of 1948: Preliminary census of business results relating to selected cities, geographic areas, and to special subjects will be released late in 1949. A continuing flow of sum maries will be published thru out 1950, Mr. Camp said. Early in 1951 final printed census vol umes will be available Roland D. Tinley, seaman, USN, husband of Mrs. R. D. Tinley, of Route 2, Summerville, and J. C. West, Fireman ap prentice, USN, son of Mrs. Lillie M. Miller, of Route 1, Trion are scheduled to visit Portsmouth, England, and Cherbourg, France this summer as members of the crew of the battleship USS Missouri, which will be a part of a ten ship Midshipmen Prac tice Cruise Squadron. Tours to both London and Paris also are being arranged. During the cruise, which is de signed to give practical ship board training to Naval Acade my and Reserve Midshipmen, the embryo Naval officers will stand watches and participate in training exercises alongside the regular ship’s companies. John W. Argo, Jr., fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Argo, Sr., of 15 Taylor Street, Summerville, as a crew member of the escort aircraft carrier USS Rendova, is engaged in training personnel of various aviation squadrons under Com mander, Air Force, Pacific Fleet in anti-submarine warfare. The Rendova recently return ed from a tour of duty in the Western Pacific. Last year she completed a 30,000 mile cruise around the world visiting. Turk ey, Egypt, Arabia. Ceylon, The Strait Settlements and the Phil ippines. WILLIAMSON TO PREACH AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH The Rev. J. C. Williamson, Superintendent of Missions for the Ocoee Baptist Association, Chattanooga, will preach at the First Baptist Church at both the morning and evening services Sunday. The morning service begins at 11 a.m. and the evening service at 8 p.m. The public is given a cordial invitation to attend both services. Dr. Goodwin Is Practicing Here Dr. H. A. Goodwin recently as sumed his duties here in prac tice with Dr. R N. Little at the Little Clinic on Commerce Street. Dr. Goodwin received his B.S. from the University of Ken tucky in 1939 and was graduated from Emory Medical School in 1945. Following his graduation there, he spent four years in the U. S. Navy as a doctqr and served in the Mediterranean theatre. Dr. Goodwin is married to the former Betty Little, sister of Dr. Little, and they are the parents of a seven-year-old daughter. Menlo to Have Clean-Up Saturday "Clean-Up Day” will be ob served in Menlo Saturday. June 25th. All residents of the town are urged to pick up all trash and have it deposited in a container whereby it can be picked up by a truck Officials of the town urge the residents to co-operate whole heartedly in this endeavor to beautify their town by clean ing up. $1,644 Raised Here To Fight Cancer The cancer drive in Chattooga County was a tremendous suc cess. it was disclosed this week by Mrs. J. R. Burgess, Chairman. The total amount raised was $1,644.07, although the quota was only S9BO Mrs. Burgess said that this Growing With Chattooga $ I 50 A YEAR The Chamber of Commerce Monday submitted a list of 11 names to the County Board of Commissioners with the request that they consider the names be fore appointing a Hospital Au thority. Ordinarily an Authority is ap pointed to handle affairs of county hospitals. Several promi nent persons however expressed the opinion this week that the county may refuse to appoint such a group, and instead may handle the hospital construction and affairs themselves. The county attorney, Mose Brinson, said the county merely did not appoint an Authority this week and that the names submitted were laid aside to be considered at a future date. Mr. Brinson stated Tuesday that an Albany architect had been hired to plan the hos | pital. The architect is now completing three county hos pitals, Mr. Brinson said, all of which are of a size in the vicinity of that planned for this county. Names submitted by the C. of C. to the Board were as follows: Miss Beulah Shropshire, Fred Aldred, A. B. Hammond. E. C. Pesterfield. T. J. Espy, O. L. ; Cleckler, Marshall Lowry, B. W. Farrar. Bert Brogden, Howard Baker and Benny Stowman. The Authority should be com posed of seven or nine persons, Mr. Aldred, Chamber president, told the group as he presented • the names. He declared that the C. of C. is opposed to having a member of the city, county, state or fed eral governments on the Auth ority, and stated that in the hospital bond campaign the Chamber promised the people that no one “involved in poli tics” would be on the Authority, which will have complete control of the hospital. “We hope you’ll see fit to con tinue with us on this matter of ! erecting a hospital here,” he de clared. “We want this thing to be so above-board that the next time the C. of C. puts a project before the people it will go over in a big way too. “We are in A priority to secure funds from the state, and in July this money will be made available. We should be able to build a 30 or 35-bed hospital I with the $270,000 we’ll have.” Mr. Aldred reviewed the drive for a hospital, which began last November when he assumed of fice as President of the Cham ' ber. The Summerville hospital had just closed and the one remain ing hospital in the county was not large enough to care for the patients. “A group of us appeared be fore your group some time ago,” he told the commissioners, “and you approved the plan to give us a site in north Summerville near the county home for the hospital. You also agreed to call a bond election for SIIO,OOO and it went over with a great ma jority." Appearing before the com missioners with the Chamber president were Miss Shropshire and Mr. Pesterfield. Mr. Cleck ler also was on the committee, however was unable to be pres ent because of sickness. Thursday Meet Monday’s action followed a call meeting Thursday of the C. of C. directors, at which time names were suggested for the committee to present the Board for consideration. Mr Aldred reminded the group that it Is the duty of the Cham ber of Commerce, who sponsored ) the drive, to strive to the best of ; their ability to carry out “the mandate of the people." Attending Thursday's meeting were: Miss Shropshire. Mr. Far rar. D L McWhorter. Mr. Lowry. J B Butler, Mr. Pesterfield, Mr. Cleckler, Rodman K Eubanks I and Mrs. Mary John Fowler. amount even surpassed that raised last year, the total then being $1,532. The goal last year also was S9BO. None of the money remains in the county because there is no cancer clinic here, she said, however, funds are available for local cancer patients.