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Thursday, February 2, 1950
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
D. T. ESPY, Editor and Manager
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THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at the Post Office at Summerville,
Ga., as Seoond-Class Mail Matter.
Card of Thanks, In Memoriam or any
notice where there Is a charge will be
run at the rate of one cent a word.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Sir:
As my subscription is about
to expire, I am sending you a
money order to continue it.
I had about lost all trace of
all my boyhood friends there un
til I began taking the News. I
grew up in Coldwater District,
near Holland, and South Caro
lina Campground and see the
names of several people in the
Holland letter that I used to
know.
It has been 50 years since I
left Chattooga County.
Respectfully,
J. W. Champion
Woodland, Miss.
Baplisl 'Men's Rally’
To Be He’d Sunday
There will be a “Men’s Rally"
of all the men of the Baptist;
Churches in Chattooga County i
at the South Summerville Bap
tist Church at 2:30 p.m. Sun-j
clay, Feb. 5.
Special music will be furnished ;
by a a male quartet of Tennessee
Temple College.
Bernard King, state secretary
of the Brotherhood Department,
will be the main speaker, and
men of all ages are invited to
attend.
Pennville P.-T. A.
Meet Tuesday
The Pennville Parent-Teach
ers Association will hold its reg
ular meeting at the Pennville
School at 7 p. m. Tuesday. Feb.
7.
The theme for this month is
“Through the P.-T. A.” An in
teresting program has been
planned, leaders said. All par
ents and those interested in the
school are urged to attend.
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HIGHWAY SAFETY DEPENDS ON GOOD VISION—“I didn't see,”
Is one of the most common excuses given for automobile accidents.
*** * * *
ADVISE BETTER VISION TESTS TO
CUT DEATH TOLL ON HIGHWAY
Fifteen states Require no Sight
Test Before Issuing
Licenses
The highway death toll could
be cut drastically if higher visual
standards for automobile drivers
were enforced, is the conclusion
drawn by the American Optome
tric Association, which is working
with state driver license officials
throughout the country.
Fifteen states require no vision
tests before issuing driver’s li
censes, according to Dr. Kenneth
H. MacPherson, Stockton, Califor
nia, chairman of the Association’s
Committee on Motorists’ Vision.
Most of the tests in the other 33
states are admittedly unstandard
ized and inadequate, he said.
In a three-year project just
completed, the optometrists and
the American Association of Mo
tor Vehicle Administrators—state
driver license officials—have de
veloped recommended tests to dis
cover the drivers whose vision
may endanger highway safety.
Their findings have been jointly
published in a “Manual on Driv
er’s Vision Tests.”
The principal elements of good
vision for driving outlined in the
Manual are:
1. Clear distance vision. Can
you see clearly with each eye and
both together at distances of ten
yards or more?
2. Wide field of vision. Can
you see objects on the side of the
road out of the corner of either
eye? With normal vision you can
spot danger at right angles to your
car while looking straight ahead.
3. Depth perception. Can you
I gauge the speed of approaching
I vehicles and tell the distance be
> tween cars quickly and accur
i ately?
4. Light and dark adaptation.
: This refers to night blindness, one
; of the most serious causes of ac
cidents. In a series of night high-
i way accidents in Pennsylvania, 48
■ per cent of the drivers involved
i were found to be victims of night
• blindness.
; “Most dsivers are not aware of
. their visual shortcomings until
something hits them or vice versa,”
■ said Dr. MacPherson. “By better
screening tests the cases that need
attention will be discovered, and
. in most instances the problems
can be corrected.
> “In the recommended tests the
■ driver is compared to average
■ performance on each of several
i important visual requirements. If
. he falls below par on several es
• sentials we know that he is likely
■ to be prone to accidents, and he
will be referred for a more com
l plete examination and correction.”
> As evidence of the need for more
attention to vision, Dr. MacPher
i son cited a study of accidents made
I in Connecticut. More than 20,000
i out of 44,591 driver license appli
cants had impaired eyesight. Yet
i only 4,436 of them were volun
• tarily wearing glasses, and 2,779
■ were completely unaware that
11 their eyes were not up to par.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
Summerville Goes Ahead
During Post-War Era
The past fifty years have seen Summerville grow from a “wide
place” in a muddy road into a thriving little city of approximately
5.000 persons.
The progress has been steady throughout the 50 years, but
perhaps it has been more pronounced within the past five or six
years, a booming post-war era.
Many beautiful homes have
been added to the already
lovely dwellings of the residents
of this city. A number of sturdy,
prosperous - looking business
houses have been constructed
within the past few years and
many improvements have been
made on the streets, in the
churches and in the schools.
New organizations have sprung
up like wildfire amidst the other
improvements.
The Retail Merchants Assoc
iation has done much to bind
together the men who are in
business here. In 1948, for the
first time in its history, Sum
merville was gaily decorated with
Christmas lights. This was a ma
jor project of the R. M. A. Career
women have found the relatively
new Business and Professional
Women’s Club extremely inte
resting and most beneficial to
themselves as well to the city.
Headquarters of the County
Chamber of Commerce is located
in the city.
VAN ADAMS, 20, “
DIES SUDDENLY
Van Adams, 20, of Atlanta,
who had visited relatives here
on many occasions, died sud
denly Monday night in Savan
nah.
Mr. Adams was the nephew of
Mrs. Joe Pullen, Mrs. Kate Moore
land James Adams, all of Sum
merville.
He had gone from Atlanta to
Savannah to be with his par
ents, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Arthur
[Adams, who are stationed on
Puerto Rica, and his brothers,
Arthur Jr. and Dale Adams, whi)
| attend school in Savannah.
Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Adams had
flown from Puerto Rica to visit
theri sons.
I After suffering from strep
throat, and being apparently
much improved, Mr. Adams died
j suddenly Monday night.
Funeral services are to behld
'at 11 o’clock this morning in
Cedartown.
A 32-bed county hospital is to
be built on a beautiful plot of
land in North Summerville in
the near future and more tour
ist facilities are available now
than ever before.
And as Summerville was build
ing, the city has not been idle.
Sewerage extensions have been
laid, the streets have been named
and signs have been placed*on
each one. A few years ago the
city limits were extended from
a half-mile radius to a mile ra
dius of the depot.
At the same time the streets
in Summerville required paving
and modernization to accommo
date the automotive traffic of
a growing community. Only re
cently, Georgia Avenue and
Washington Street, two chief
business centers, were improved.
City postal delivery was insti
gated in 1949 through the co-op
eration of the city and federal
governments.
A modern fire truck with a
well-organized and well-trained
volunteer fire department re
placed the outmoded vehicles
previously used. The police force
has been increased to four men
and an automobile belongs ex
clusively to the force.
Perhaps the most notable im-
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SAUSAGE 33c
Fresh Beef Pound
RIB OR BRISKET STEW; 33c
Aged Pound
WISCONSIN CHEESE 59c
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ALL-MEAT HAMBURGER ..... 39c
Medder’s
Super Market
Phone 254-J We Deliver
provement of recent months was
the beautification of the school
grounds and the addition of the
modern, attractive auditorium.
The Sturdivant gymnasium also
was recently extended and re
decorated throughout. Walks
have been placed from building
to building and the grounds have
been leveled and sodded. The
neat high school building, with
its modern home economics de
partment, said to be one of the
best in the state, was completed
in 1945, after the previous build
ing was destroyed by fire in 1943.
Approximately $150,000 has been
spent on the local schools within
the past five years.
A modern public library lo
cated at the courthouse is one
unit of a tri-county set-up
through which any book is made
available for loan to the public
without cost. The present an
nual appropriation for the li
brary is $2,700.
Another phase of most im
portance to all Summervillians
as well as to all Chattooga Coun
tians was the addition in 1948
of the Chattooga County Health
Department, which is located in
a building across from the high
school. Although only one nurse
is available at the present, she
is assisted by a clerk, and the
fight against the spread of dis
eases is gradually progressing.
The county has set aside money
for expansion of the health de
partment when and if nurses be
come available. At least four
nurses are needed.
The Summerville Cemetery
Corporation, chartered May 5,
1948, is methodically getting the
long- neglected Summerville
i Cemetery in excellent shape.
I Members contribute an annual
sum toward the upkeep and
' beautification of the grounds.
A modern, much-needed bus
' station was completed in 'July
of 1948, and is today one of the
j most attractive and well-kept in
• North Georgia.
[ Plans are underway for a 1,000-
watt radio station which will
1 broadcast from Summerville.
. Too numerous to mention are
the many fine business buildings
. which have been constriucted or
remodeled during the past sev
eral years.
Much has been done on all
fronts in Summerville and res
idents are increasingly proud of
the city. However, much remains
( to be done.
The youth of Summerville are
sadly lacking in recreation.
Moves are underway by various
civic organizations however to
iill this vacancy in the life of
the young people of the city and
it is hoped that this step isn’t.
; too far from being a reality.
A park also is a widely dis
cussed project and it is expected
that some wide-awake organi
zation will be at work on this im
portant facility, so necessary to
any city, in the near future.
While far from being complete
this summary indicates that
Summerville is progressing and
gradually ironing out the dif
ficulties ^hich beset any city
whose population booms within
a few short years. It also indi
cates that many of those things
which are yet to be done in help
ing Summerville “grow up” by
the public and that in the not
too distant future these goals
should be realized.
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Cheese Chips
1 cisp sifted cake 1 cup grated Amencau
flour cheese
% teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons Pet Milk
’/^i cup soft 1 tablespoon water
shortening 4 teaspoons caraway
seeds*
Sift flour with salt. Work in shorten
ing with fork. When mixture looks
like small peas, fold in cheese. Stir in
gradually mixture of 2 tablespoons
milk and the water. Shape dough into a
roll about 114 in. thick. Wrap in
waxed paper. Chill several hours or
overnight. Turn on oven; set at mod
erately hot (400° F.). Cut chilled
dough in 14-in. slices. Put on well
greased and floured baking sheets.
Brush with remaining tablespoon milk.
Sprinkle with seeds. Bake on oven
shelf slightly above center about 12
min., or until light brown. Makes 4
dozen.
★Poppy or celery seed also can be
used.
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American lb.
CHEESE 49c
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CAKE FLOUR 45c
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APPLE JELLY ... 25c
2 Cans Mayfield White or
YELLOW CORN 19c
Pure 1-oz. Can
BLACK PEPPER. 19c
Bake-Rite 3-lb. Can
SHORTENNIG.. 65c
Van Comp's Can
CHILI 25c