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I Try Our Job j Printing VOL. 65; NO. 36 Baby Contest, Play To be Held Here A great deal of interest is be- , ing shown in the Baby Contest j which is being held here under the sponsorship of the American Legion Auxiliary. Winners will be awarded prizes ; and crowned “King and Queen I of Toyland,” Friday night at the Auxiliary’s presentation of “Lass It Off,” a play featuring local talent. The play will be shown at the Summerville High School Auditorium at 8:13 o’clock to night and at the same time Fri day night. Gordon Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Allen, leads in the baby contest, with Kathy Scog- I gins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | Billy Scoggins as follow-up. The play is a newspaper show in which local people bring the headlines to life by imperson ating names behind the news. The “Jewel Tea Boys,” con sisting of Joe Laws, Jim Nelson, Junior Packer and Fred Wat kins, will provide the musio for square dances. Other specialities will include । the Harmony Boys, Don Rober to Jeanseau’s ballet students, Lee Smith and Judie Meadows in a tap dance, Bill Stephenson, 11- year-old singer and Dot Brogdon at the marimba. The cast includes Mr. and Mrs. Hinton Logan as Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public; Fred Watkins as Gene Autry; Leslie Turner as Rochester; Mrs. Carroll Espy as Hedda Hopper; Mary Jo Logan as Judy Canova; Bobby Lee Cook as Pappy Chislefinger; Carlton Strange as Dorothy Dix. Comic characters include Charlie Brooks as Baby Sparkle; ! Tom Cook as Blondie; C. M. Fletcher as Daisy; O. R. Fletcher; as Popeye; and Johnny Argo as Little Orphan Annie. Other babies in the contest are: Gary Watson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Watson; Boling Farmer, daughter of Mr? and Mrs. Hoyt Farmer; Rickey Kel lett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jud Kellett: and Jimmy Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hill. Mary Ann Clarkson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Clark son: Eddie Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hawkins, David Massey, son of Mrs. Florence Brooks Massey: Bill Gist, son of Dr. and Mrs. William Gist; James Aired Peacock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Peacock. Nancy Lynn Davison, daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Davi son: Vann and Joe Pullen, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pullen; Claudia McConkey, daughter of, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. McConkey: ' Jessie Towers Brinson, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Mose Brinson; Bobby Flovd, ‘■on of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Floyd: Mike Wood ard, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Woodard: Cheryl Tyler, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hall Tyler; Jeannie Morris, daughter of Mrs. Betty Morris; Marcia Lowry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mar shall Lowrv; Harold Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrv Wallace: Rebecca McGinnis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Judson McGinnis, and Mike McGinnis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGinnis. Receptacles for voting are lo cated in downtown Summerville stores. Pictures are on exhibit in a window of a local drug store. Proceeds will be used to fur nish the auxiliary home, which will be available to other civic groups. BOYS CONFESS STEALING HERE Two local teen-age boys are; free under SSOO bond each this I week after confessing to bur glary and larceny. The cases will be heard in the i September term of Superior Court. The two youngsters confessed ! to stealing two bicycles, a motor- j bike and approximately SSOO in jewelry and cosh, within recent weeks -HERE ’N THERE- John Stubbs, James (Sloppy) Floyd and Hugh Henderson have returned from the Veter-j ans of Foreign Wars Convention In Miami. Pleasant Green Cemetery will be cleaned Saturday. Aug. 27. J Those Interested are asked to 1 either come and bring tools,; send someone or send a donation for the cleaning to Miss Annie Gamble. Summerville. Hair Farms, of Summerville, recently purchased three pure- ^nmnwruillp News Socialized Medicine Discussed by Dr. Bibb Wednesday Dr. J. L. Bibb, of Chattanooga, was speaker at the Rotary Club Wednesday at Riegeldale Tav ern. His subject was “Health in America.” Dr. W. M. Hyden was in charge of program and the speaker was presented by Dr. W. T. Gist. Dr. Bibb opened his remarks j with the statement ’that “phy sicians of America are not op posed to President Truman’s plan of a better health program for the population, but are op posed to his methods of accom plishing his purpose. The speak er gave numerous reasons why the Truman plan would not work 5 to the best interest of the popu lation of the United States. Some of these follow: 1. Entire program is envoived in politics; 2. Another tax burden; 3. Waste ful; 4. Would add million ad ditional government employees; 5. Plan has failed everywhere it has been tried; 6. Invades the privacy of our home; 7. Kills initiative in research and medi cine. Dr. Bibb reminded his audi ence of the great advances made in medicine and research in the past 30 years in America under free medicine. He reminded Rotarians also I that life expectency of an infant has been doubled in the past . generation due to research and medicine made in America. According to the speaker, America is the only country hav ing done any research for the past 30 years due to the fact that other countries are finan cially unable to do so. “Why then,” he said, “should we im port from six nations a method which has failed and for which we are still paying as in the case with England. The physician offered as a substitute plan a volunteer free payment insurance plan man aged bj’ competent insurance men on the one hand and doctors on the other, instead of political management. VETERANS REMINDED TO VALIDATE FREE DRIVER'S LICENSE The Georgia State Depart ment of Veterans Service today reminded all veterans that their free driver’s license must be validated by the Department of Public Safety before it is a legal license. * Director William K. (Billy* Barrett said that has come to his attention that several cases have been made against veteran for driving without a license where the ex-serviceman had filled out an application blank but had failed to have it validated by the State Patrol. Barrett said that the Depart ment is instructing all field of fices to remind veterans to have their license validated and to render all possible service to the veterans in filling out the ap plications. INFANT THOMPSON The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Thompson, of Menlo. Routs 1. passed away Tuesday morning at Trion. Besides his parents, he is sur vived by one brother. Charles Edward Thompson. Graveside services were con ducted-at 5 p. m. Tuesday at Chelsea. The J. D. Hill Funeral Home ; was in charge of arrangements. bred Aberdeen-Angus cows from the Hickory Grove Farms, of Rogersville. Tenn. The regular communication of Trion Lodge 160, F. and A. M.. will be held at 7:30 p. m. Mon day. August 29. All qualified Masons are in vited. The Ami Cemetery, near Menlo, will be cleaned Saturday morning. All interested persons are ask ed to go or send someone SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1949 65-YEAR-OLDS NOT GETTING FULL BENEFITS-RAY Welch Ray, Manager of the j Social Security Aaminstration j Field Office located in Rome,! which serves this area, said to day while in Summerville that [ it has come to his attenion that : many people are losing bene- J fits by not filing claims prompt- ' ly at age 65 or when the family breadwinner dies. Mrs. Ray said that all workers who are now 65 or older and who I have been employed on jobs covered by the Social Security i Act should contact the Social ; Security Administration office at once; further, that if a mem ber of a family dies who had been employed on jobs covered .by the Social Security Act, one |of the survivors should get in ! touch with the Social Security ' Administration Field Office im- ! mediately. Some people have the mis [ taken idea that social security I benefits are paid automatically, but they are not. Claim must be filed in order for benefits to be | I payable. Mr. Ray said that the! | cooperation of the Funeral Di- ! rectors in this locality has been instrumental in reducing what may well have been a high per centage of losses; however, pub lic understanding of the Old-Age ; and Survivors Insurance pro visions of the Social Security l Act can help reduce benefit losses still further. A representative of the Social Security Adminstration will be at the Post Office the second and fourth Tuesday of each । month at 10 a. m. for the con venience of the residents of . Summerville and surrounding area. Anyone having any ques tions pertaining to the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance pro visions of the Social Security Act should meet this representa tive at the above ime and place.l — Diseases Deeming But Still a Threat, ! Health Figures Show Only two other states in the country had a lower rate of deaths from infantile paralysis than Georgia last year. Only one state, Alabama, had a higher rate of murders! These were among recently published figures compiled by the Central Statistical Unit of the State Department of Public Health. A check of the mortality tables revealed a total of seven polio deaths, and 529 deaths from homicide in 1948 Heart disease again led the list of killers in Georgia last year, with 7,264 victims Next in line were circulatory diseases, (apo plexy, embolism and thrombo sis! 3,383 deaths; cancer, 2,892; nephritis 2,484; and accidents, 2,107. The decline in cases of many , communicable diseases in Geor gia has been phenominal, ac cording to state health depart ment statisics. In 1939, a total of 1,131 Georgians were stricken with typhus fever, caused by a germ carried by the tiny rat flea. Last year, only 218 persons came down with the disease. Likewise, within a ten-year period, ma laria cases dropped from 2,996 to 53; smallpox from 47 cases to only one case, and diphtheria from 1,112 to 467. Most encouraging to public health workers in Georg^ has been the reduction of 65 per cent |;n maternal deaths within a decade, with a corresponding de crease of 49 percent in infant deaths. Prenatal and well-child clinics at local health centers are believed to have been a major factor in this saving of I Ilves. “Despite dechning rates of communicable diseases, we must be eternally vigilant in our Im- > munizallon, sanitation, and ed ucation program.' warned State Health Director T. F. Sellers He added that there would be no guarantee against* an outbreak | of diphtheria, small pox. typhoid ; fever, or other diseases in the state if vaccinations were stop ped or if water and sewage sys-1 terns were not Inspected rcgular py- BAPTISTS TO HEAR L. B. THOMASON L. B, Thomason, ministerial student, will speak at the 11 a. । tn. services Sunday at the First Baptist Church Mr. Thomasdn, son of Mrs. Frank Thomason, of Summer ville. is a student at Gardner Webb Junior College. Boiling Springs, N. C. BOARD EDUCATION CLARIFIES FEES AT MEET HERE The Chattooga County Board lof Education, in a meeting at 1 10 a. m. yesterday, clarified it’s position relative to a collection Jof registration or entrance fees. No such fee can be collected i from parents or school children !as a preresquisite for attending public schools, it was disclosed. ! However, due to the grave lack of funds to operate the schools ! in Chattooga County, the Board of Education has requested the various school principals to ask ithe fathers and mothers to help defray the local expenses of each i school by contributing the sum lof $2 for each grammar school child, and $3 for each high school student. “These amounts are purely j voluntary contributions to aid ; our schools in providing the nec i essary incidentals t o insure pleasant working conditions in .each school.” it was stated. “No I parent or child is compelled to. pay these suggested contribu itions and there can not be any ! discrimination between those I who make the contributions and those who do not.” Following is the County Board of Education’s resolution : “WHEREAS, it has been called ! to the attention of the Board of Education that some parents! ! understand the requests o f school principals for contribu tions toward local maintenance of each school is a fee required by the school before admission or promotion; WHEREAS, in order to make the Board of Education’s posi tion clear, it is hereby resolved: That no fee of any nature is collectible by the State, County, or local schools from any school child or parent as a prerequisite to entrance or for any other pur pose; That at present our schools I are not receiving enough income to provide for adequate educa tion of each child, and we be lieve that the parents would be I willing to contribute toward pro viding lights, sanitary facilities, and janitorial supples. THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Chattooga County Board of Education, and same is hereby resolved, that the principals of each school request the parents to contribute the sum of $2 for each grammar school pupil, in 1 1 h e fourth through seventh grades; $3 (including work books* for students in first through third grades; and the sum of $3 for each high school pupil to be used by each local school to pay for lights, sanitary supplies, and janitorial sup plies. No person is to be com pelled in any way or be in any manner discriminated against for the failure to contribute any of the suggested amounts. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution be transmit ted to each school principal of Chattooga County, Georgia.” CAUTION IN DRIVING URGED AS SCHOOL BEGINS MONDAY Drivers of motor vehicles were urgde to drive with extreme cau tion through any and all school zones, since school begins Mon day. Police Chief W. M. Whaley said this week. “Each year the traffic hazard becomes more acute," he de clared. "and we want to protect the lives of our children.” All driving regulations in the City of Sutnmcrville will be strictly enforced, he asserted. i As a final note of caution. Chief Whaley urged drivers to remember that “it could be you or your child." Brown to be in Outfield At Engel, August 24-27 Two native North Georgians will be in the outfield for the Atlanta Crackers when they make their final appearance of ! the season at Engel Stadium. Chattanooga. August 24-27 The pair are Ralph ißnbc* Ellis, of Flintstone, a former Lookout, and Ralph iCountry* Brown, of Summerville. Chat tanooga recently signed pitcher Bill Padgett, of Calhoun, young right-hander. Atlanta's scries starts Wednes day night, continuing through Saturday Birmingham moves in Sunday. August 28. through Tuesday. August 30 County Schools to Open Monday With Full Corps of Teachers MENLO FACULTY IS COMPLETED; SCHOOL OPENS MON. The Menlo School will open for the Fall term at 9 a. m. Mon day Aug. 29, it was announced this week by T. W. Jones, Prin ■ cipal. i The faculty has just been completed with the election of Miss Delene Buffington as Home| Economics instructor and E. N. ■ i Bailey as basketball coach and teacher of mathematics in the high school. According to a ruling of the County Board of Education, all children in the first grade must i have reached their sixth birth- I day on or before Dec. 1, 1949. The Menlo School Board will again collect an incidental fee. This year the fee for grammar! school students will be $1 per! । semester, and the high school fee will be $1.50. Patrons are re । quested to pay this fee on the day of registration. The school lunchroom will open on Thursday morning,! Sept. 1. Mrs. Bill Chappelear wlil serve as lunchroom supervisor Have Chi’dren Vaccinated, Says Health Department This is the diptheria season, and the Chattooga County Health Department advises all parents having children under six years old to have them im munized immediately, if they have not already done so. All children entering school for the first time this year should also be vaccinated for, small pox. Play safe, and give your child these protections. See your private physician or contact your Health Department. This Is important. Do not de lay. CID YOU HELP I Did you give that they might go to school and be warm this winter? . Eleven little Chattooga county children appealed through our columns last week for clothing. Tuberculosis has run riot in their homes and there’s no one able to work. If you haven’t already help ed and want to, here’s a list of the most sorely needed things.: Boys shoes, sizes—7. 6^, SD, 4»iD. 3C, and 2C. Girls shoes. s*zes—4. 7. 3. Dresses, sizes—lo, 5. 5, 3. ; 14. Shirts, sizes—l 6. 12. 14, 12. 10. and 8 Pants, sizes--16, 14. 12, 16, and 12. Overalls, size--10. A little two-year boy also needs clothing. If you can help, call or write Mrs. Emmett Clarkson, chair man County TB Association; Mrs Agnes Hammond. Treas urer: or Mrs. B W. Farrar Rehabilitation Chairman. NO MORE SQUARE DANCES AT "HOME" There will be no more square dances held at the Chattooga County Memorial Home until further notice. It has been an nounced by the House Com mittee. “Bobo Newsom Day" will be ' observed in Chattanooga the 28. when the Lookouts and Barona clash in a double-head er. The colorful, veteran right hander will be honored by fans of Chattanooga and the sur rounding territory for his fine mound work this year Pitching with numerous Injuries and lit tle rest. Newsom has been one of the biggest winners In South ern Association this season. Bo bo. who still wants another shot In the major leagues, has won over 300 games In his 20- yrar career, more than any oth-! er active pitcher In baseball to day. CORRECTION Katie Grimes was not ar- ! rested for possessing whis’ ey | as was stated in last wr ’s News. The story should have i ad Kattie McGuire. The News regrets this er ror and apoligizes to those to whom it may have caused embarrassment. GORE SCHOOL TO j OPEN MOND/ The Gore School wi gin its 1949-50 school year a a. m. Monday, August 27. Again this year, sc >ols are j short of funds and mu. c depend on incidental fees. Thi fees will be 50 cents per semester, or $1 for the year. Each child is re-1 quested to pay fees on the first! day of school. The patrons of the school are invited to attend opening ex jercises at 11 a. m. Men and bovs of the com j munity are asked to meet at the ! school on Friday morning, Aug l ust 26, to clean off the grounds. Everyone should bring tools such as hoes and rakes. All persons who will be 6 years i old by December i will be eligi i bie to enter seb 1 this fall. Children Mus Be 6 by December 1 To Enter County Schools In a story in last week’s News, it was seated that chil dren should be six years old by Nov. 1 in order to enter school this year. The information given us was incorrect, the County Board having ruled they should be six by Dec. 1, in stead. Miss Wile/ Elected Record’ng Secretary Miss Omie H Wiley. Chat tooga County Home Demonstra tion Agent, has been elected Recording Secretary’ of the Georgia Home Demonstration Agents Association for the year 1949-50. Miss Wiley was elected at the annual meeting of the State 4-H Club Council in Milledgeville last week. She has been in Chattooga County since January of this year. Miss Wiley has been in Ex tension work for two years and is a native of Toccoa. Formerly she w’as connected with the Farm Security Adminstration. Brunswick Stew to Be SoM al New "Homa" Brunswick stew will be sold at , the Chattooga County Memorial Home at 4 p. m. Saturday. Aug i7. it was disclosed this week. Proceeds will go to the Ameri can Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars who are sponsor ing the affair. Persons wishing to pj ac e orders so that it will be reserved should contact Mac Arden, Douglas Baker, or Glee Bryant, at Trion, or Raymond Gaylor, j Charles Green or Wilson Bul man at Summerville. Mr Arden will make the stew NEWTON OWENS RITES TODAY Funeral services for Newton E. Owens, 67. of Summerville, w’ho died unexpectedly at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday. will be held at 3 c'clock this afternoon at the South Summerville Baptist Church. The Rev. W. M Steele and the Rev. Wilburn Dooley will officiate and Interment will be In the Summerville Cemetery. Mr Owens died at the home of his son, Otis B Owens on Walnut Street. Survivors Include tw’o sons, Otis 8.. of Summerville, nnd D. I C. Owens. Os Fort Pavne; one daughter. Mrs Leonard Cody, of Trion; two sisters. Mrs Waiter Dooley, of Armuchee. Route 1. and Mrs. Minnie Lee Nicholson, of Summerville, Route 4: two brothers. Arthur Owens, of Look | out. and Henry Owens, of Chat tanooga Six grandchildren also .survive The J. D Hill Funeral Home Is In charge nt arrangements Growing With Chattooga $1.50 PER YEAR Pre-planning week for the schools of Chattooga County i opened Monday morning with | enthusiasm seldom seen in pre j planning conferences, it was dis closed this week by C. B. Akin, County School Superintendent. I All county teachers met in the new Summerville school audi torium for the purpose of or ganizing themselves into groups lor studying the twelve-year school program. These groups met in the classrooms of the high school where their prob lems were discussed with every one eligible to take part in the discussion, after which various groups came together for re ports on the discussions. The teachers will spend the remainder of this week getting their classrooms in readiness for the opening date. The new local Superinten dents of the high schools are E. M. Blue, Summerville; T W. Jones. Menlo; and Harvey Stew art, Subligna. “These men have already proven that their interest is in cooperating to help build a be ter educational system through out the county.” Mr. Akin said. R. W. Williams remains at Lyerly and Grover Smith con tinues at Gore. The faculties for the various schools are as follows: Berryton: Mrs. B. E. Neal, Prncipal; Mrs. Jack Cash. Mrs’ Catherine C. Allen and Miss Mamie Smith. Cloudland: Mrs. Robye Green, Principal. Gore: Grover Smith. Princi pal; Mrs Mable Wells Whitlow, Home Economics; George C. Schroeder, Miss Lula Weesner^ Mrs. John Scott and Miss Frank ie Dawson. Lyerly: R. w Williams, Prin cipal; Miss Juanita Rodgers, Mrs. Mark Strawn. Edward L. Fitch, Miss Mildred Center, Miss Joyce Hamby, Miss Mary L Hol land, Mrs. B B. Bmgdon, Mrs. Theo Kendrick. Mrs. Frances C Jackson. Mrs. H H. Elrod, Mrs. Sarah H Jackson and Mrs. Jim Hollis. Menlo: T. W. Jones, Principal; J. A. Harris. Miss Delene Buffing ton. Miss Edna Pern’. Edward N. Bailey, Mrs Robert King. Mrs. Lester Edwards. Miss Helen Wyatt. Miss Blanche Toles, Miss Jimmie Pless, Miss Mildred Mc- Whorter and Mrs. Ernest Ken nedy. Pennville: Mrs Ross Arden, Principal; Mrs. J. A. Broome. Miss Mary Housch, Miss Dorothy Stanfield and Miss Anne Wil liams. Subligna: Harvey T. Stewart, Principal; Mrs. T. J. White. Miss Eunice White, Mrs. Christine Johnson, Mrs. Georgia Hunt and Mrs. Annie Ruth Tate. Summerville: E. M. Blue. Su perintendent; Brooke Pierce, Principal; Garland Pinholster, Mrs. Harry McGinnis. Mrs. Brooke Pierce, Miss Emily Kil len. Mrs. Charles Rudicil. Robert J. Dobbs, Mrs. Irvin Thomas, Miss Jo Maret. Mrs. C. O. Walker, John Davitte. Miss Carolyn Hen drix. Mrs. John T. Stubbs. Prin cipal Grammar , School: Mrs Dwight Henderson. Mrs. Bernice Hearon. Miss Maude Sewell. Mrs. Robert Trimble. Mrs. D. P. Hend ley. Miss Mary Meadow's, Mrs. R. N Little. Miss Dorothy Jane Wimpy. Mrs Robert Cox. Miss Bertha Holland. Miss Helen Dobbs Mrs. James Adams. Mrs. Alice Wright. Mrs Glenn Pless. Mrs. Mack Agnew. Mrs Harry Wallace. Mrs Faye Busbin. Mrs Clara Belle Williams. Mrs Rob ert Guffin. Mrs Lucy Doster. Miss Mable Aldred. Mrs. Max White. Mrs. Graves Myers. Prln cfnal South Summerville: Mrs. Marnell Weems and Mrs Lam bert Jones. Summerville Department of Music: Sam F Dennard. Jr., and Miss Margaret Pone Telorn: Miss Kate Hemphill, Prfnelnnl. Wclmver: J A Smith. Prlncl oaj; Miss Margaret L Scoggins, Mfs« Annie Dellenver. Miss Har lev Bnndv and Mrs Margaret Bailey Holiness Group Plans Special Service Sunday A sneciai service will be held nt the Congregational Holiness Church, one mile south of Lver- Iv. at fi pm Sunday. August 28. This will be the last sendee for the pastor, the Rev. Paul Fnwler. who has accented the nastornte of the Congregational Holiness Church. Thomaston. Sunday night’s service win feature sneclal singing The public is invited