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Try Our Job Printing VOLUME 66 NUMBER 19 Bus Station, Mill Lead Softball League Here The Summerville bus station softball team, with three games and none lost, and the Summer ville Manufacturing Company, with two games won and none lost, lead the City Softball League. The two teams will meet at 8 o’clock tonight on the field in South Summerville. On the same field tomorrow evening, the Tonga Grill will play the Georgia Rug Mill, and Lyerly will meet Pennville. Lyerly and Summerville Man ufacturing Company will meet on Monday, May 15. Double header is sheduled for Tuesday, May 16, when the bus station and the Georgia Rug Mill clash, and Valley Head and Pennville battle it out. The Tooga Grill stands in third place in the League, hav ng won two and lost one. Penn vlle has won one and lost one. The balance hangs the other way for Lyerly, who has two losses to one victory. The Geor gia Rug Mill has suffered two defeats and no wins, while Val ley Head has lost all three games played. In a game here Monday the Summerville Manufacturing Company defeated the Rug Rug Mill, 17-14. On the follow ing evening, the bus station speeded haead the Tooga Grill, 11-8, and Lyerly defeated the Valley Headers, 9-7. Pennville s u c c umbed to the Summerville Manufacturing Company in a game last Wednesday, May 3. losing by three points, the score being 4-1. The bus station trampled the Valley Head group 25-6 Thurs day, and on the same day, Tooga Grill defeated Lyerly, 8-6. Pennville defeated the Rug Mill outfit 10-7 Friday evening. Voting Places Named By Democratic Chm. Specific voting places in Chat tooga County were announced this week by T. J. Espy, Chair man of the County Democratic Executive Committee. The announcement was made in preparation for the Demo cratic Primary to be held June 28 in Georgia. The voting places and pre cincts are as follows: Lyerly 1382nd District, Ebenezer Bap formerly owned by R W. Bagley; 1382nd District, Ebernezer Bap tist Church; Seminole, 961st Dis trict, Paul Cook’s Store; Gore, 940th District, Dill Ballenger's Store; Alpine, (Menlo) 968th District, City Hall. Menlo; Subligna, 962nd District, J. P. courthouse in Will White’s ware house; Dirtsellar, 1216th Dis trict. Hill Harris’ residence; Te loga, 927th District, Teloga School House; Trion, 870th Dis trict, Trion Department Store; Coldwater, 1083rd District, Rat liff Store Building; and Sum merville. 925th District, court house. Coro Will) Club Holds Mooting The Gore Home Demonstra tion Club met for their April meeting at the school with 11 members and one visitor pres ent. Miss Omie Wiley gave a dem onstration on matching and cut ting plaids and on pattern al terations. Miss Ann Welborn, As sistant Demonstration Agent, gave a demonstration on cover ing butons. After the meeting delicious re- I freshments were served by Mrs. George Schroeder and Mrs. How ard Baker. A demonstration on flower ar rangements is planned for the next meeting which will be held at the school on May 23. Several local club members plan to assist Miss Wiley in serv ing plate lunches at the demon stration at the far!' In Haywood Valley on May 17. MANY YOUNG PEOPLE PLAN IO ATTEND CHATTOOGA BAPTIST CAMP, JUNE 5-9 Many young persons In Chat t ooga County are planning to at tend the first annual camp of the Chattooga Baptist Associa tion to be held at Camp Desoto, atop Lookout Mountain, June 5-8. Churches in the county are new registering young people ages 11-24. The camp day will be divided into three main parts, with the morning being devoted to Bible Wlw BnmmFruilk Nos CHILDREN TO BE GUESTS FOR DAY OF FREE FISHING All white children under 16 are invited to be the guests of the Chattooga County Wildlife Club Wednesday, June 7, for a free day of fishing at Lake Chat tooga. ' There will be plenty of free lemonade for the youngsters, ’ and they are asked to bring their lunch. ’ Two barbecue pits are being built at the Lake and the public is cordially invited to use the pits at any time. The Club made plans for the big day of free fishing for the kiddies when they met Monday , night at Lyerly. Marshall Lowry had charge of the evening’s , program. "Wheel," Edited by Reese Cleghorn, Wins ACP Award Under the editorship of Reese Cleghorn, of Summerville, Emory i University’s weekly newspaper, “The Wheel,” has been awarded । an All-American rating by the Associate Collegiate Press. ’ It is the highest honor rating by ACP. Only eight other papers of schools in Emory's enrollment classification won the award. I The Emory paper was awarded All-American in 1942, and in four prveious years. On several . i occasions it has won “Pace ' maker.” an award that is no longer given, which honored “The Wheel” as one of the ten I best student papers. I Rating was based on the first 15 issues of this year’s paper. At that ime young Cleghorn, son .of Mrs. John Cleghorn, was edi tor, and Dick Hodges, of Charles hton, West, Va., was managing editor. “The Wheel” was classed with newspapers from colleges and universities having an enroll ment of 2,500 to 5,000 students, and was judged on a basis of mews values and sources, writing J and editing, special features and makeup. The Emory paper scored 965 points out of a pos sible 1,065. EXAMINATIONS FOR WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS TOLD The U. S. Civil Service Commis • sion will conduct a Congressional । examination for designation to the U. S. Military and Naval Academies on Monday. July 17. for the Seventh District of Geor ! gia. Candidates temporarily ab , sent from their ow n Congres sional District may be examined elsewhere, at such examination ! points as may be desired. The examination is open only to candidates designated by members of Congress. Therefore, any young man between the age of 17 and 22 years who wishes to take this examination should no tify Congressman Henderson Lanham. Suite 109, House Office building. Washington. D. C., be : fore June 1, 1950, so that he can । make arrangements for all in terested young men to take the examination. legion To Meet Friday At ‘Home’ Local delegates to the recent Seventh District American Legion Convention will make a report at 8 p.m. Friday when the local post meets at the Memorial Home. Delegates were: Mack Arden, Walt Dalton, Paul Arden and Furman Camp. Douglas Baker will have icharge of the entertainment for the evening. ■ classes. During the afternoon ■ there will be recreation under ' Christian supervision. An evan • gelistlc service, preceded by a , "slngspirational” will end the » day’s activities. The music will be under the direction of Gene ' Payne, and will play a big part in i camp life for the young people. Anyone interested in attend- I ing should contact any Baptist ■ i minister or the Rev. Tom Collins, 11 camp director, at Summerville. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1950 s’- ' * ' I i . ■■■■ En IB ■ fill!!! toll I MB igpgwl - ’I 1.„.. A I 1511 5 isg THE NEW SUMMERViIIE NEWs Building—xlunureus or persons visited the new News plant yesterday during the May Day festivities. Open house was held and guests saw their county weekly being printed. HUGE FARM DEMONSTRATION PLANNED HERE WE9NESBAY CLEAN-UP WEEK PLANNED BY CITY COUNCIL FOR JUNE At the meeting of the Sum , merville City Council Monday night, the group ruled that the t alley south of Union Street, run ning between O. H. Perry’s resi ;;dence and Howard Weems’ resi dence be a one-way lane. । The Council designated that the lane will be one way for traffic from the north. The group also yoted to plan a (clean-up week for the first week in June, the details to be worked out at a later meeting. Morgan Injured At Trion Thursday j. T Morgan, local managear ol the Georgia Power Company, :suffered bruises and fractured ribs Thursday when struck by a lumber truck at Trion. According to Mr. Morgan, he was standing on a railing at the bridge in South Trion when struck by the passing vehicle. SHANNON, TRION PLAY FRIDAY Shannon’s Brighton Mills (will play Trion’s two times win ners under the Trion arcs at 8:15 p.m. Friday. Again under Manager Claude Salterfield, Shannon has a three-one league standing and is tied with Atco for the second itime in two weeks. Last Sunday as Trion kept Atco out of the league lead by a 1 5 to 3 win, Cedartown beat Shannon 5 to 4, ot tie the two Sunday winners for third place in the league. Manager Roy Williams has named Johnny Nelson as prob able starting pitcher for Trion. Nelson joined Trion’s mound forces early last week. Thompson Io Speak In County May 18 The Thompson campaign for Governor will be brought to Chattooga County soon, as the candidates move across the state.' Thompson will speak in Trion at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 18. He will speak in Menlo at 12 noon and in Summerville at 2:30 p.m., on that same date. The Thompson platform, as it applies to Chattooga County, will । be discussed in detail by the can-' didate. "The campaign of 1950 will be a contest between decision and indecision, between efficiency and Inefficiency, between the people and the Machine,” Thomp son said in a recent statement. Hair Farms, of Summerville, recently sold a purebred Aber deen-Angus bull each to R H. Hammond, of Plainville, Ben Hyles Miller, of Plainville, and J. A. Scoggins, of Summerville. DORIS DAT APPEALS O\ POPPY BEHALF In appeal directed to the women of the nation, Doris Day, lovely singing singing star of screen and radio, urged that , " . . the women in every com , munity where V.F.W. Posts are located will help make this year’s Buduy Poppy campaign the big gest one in history by offering their assistance.” Buddy Poppies were sold in .Summerville * yesterday and Trionians will get a chance to (purchase the symbolic flowers J and aid veterans on May 26-27. FIRE SIRENS NOW IN USE BY VOLUNTEERS The fire sirens for the auto mobiles of volunteer firemen have arrived and are now in use in Summerville, thanks to the fine cooperation of the mercants and business people of Summer ville. The drive to secure funds for the purchase of the sirens was sponsored by the News and met (with great success, insofaras the city had to make up only $14.55. The city agreed to make up the remainder of the money needed for the purchase of the sirens. The total cost was $189.75 after the 11 sirens were bought at i special price of $17.25 each Those contributing were: Chattooga Mercantile. Allen Hardware, Lowry’s, Style Shop. State Restaurant, Farmers and Merchants Bank. Roland Henry. Summerville News. McGinnis Drug Company, John Jones. Rackley’s, Georgia Rug Mill. Tooga Theatre, Oscar Perry, Es serman's, Summerville Lumber Company, Farrar Real Estate (and Farmers Supply Store. MRS. HARPER, 85, DIES MONDAY Mrs. Uessie Hanson Harper, 85, widow of C M. Harper, of Route |3. Summerville, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Ham mond and Mt Hammond, in La- Fayette, at 6:10 am. Monday. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. C F Hensley, of Burleson. Texas, Mrs. D. F. decider and Mrs. J B Ham mond. of LaFayette; three .sons. Charlie and Oscar Harper, of Supmmerville, and R L. Harper, of Cleburne. Texas: one sister, Mrs. Eula Tapp, of Houston. (Texas: one brothre, J. E Han son. of Mercede, Calif. Six grand children and four great-grand (children also survive. Funeral services were held at 1 3 p.m Tuesday at Macedonia Methodist Church, the Rev. Mr. Purcell, pastor, and the Rev. E. B Coon officiating. Interment was in the Macedonia Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Lee Allmon, B. D. Bohanon. Willis Storey, Roland Richardson, Lee Burk Gilreath and John Frank Mc- Connell Arrangements bv J. Avery Bryan Co The first demonstration of its kind ever to be held in this county, and in this section of the state, will be staged in Haywood Valley Wednesday, May 17. A 100-acre farm, said to be one of the poorest in the county, will be remodeled by approximately 200 veterans who are in on-the farm training courses. The farm is that recently pur chased by Ralph Henry, young veteran of World War 11. and contains 60 acres under cultiva tion and 40 acres of scrub tim ber. H. H. Elrod, veteran s farm in structor, has charge of the dem onstration, which will be par ticipated in by eight white vet ( eran’s classes and two Negro vet , eran’s classes. Six thousand persons are ex pected to the event, Mr. Elrod said. Everyone is invited to at tend. Also co-operating in the huge project will be the Soil Conserva tion Service, Farmer’s Home Ad ministration. County Agent’s of fice and vocational teachers in all high schools. The “face-lifting” will include siding the house with asbestos siding, modernizing the kitchen, building a fish pond, fencing, ad ding kudzu, sericea, lespedeza, sorghum, ladino and fescue At the present Mr. Henry is principally a cotton and corn farmer, however his plans call for more diversified farming, in : chiding raising of cattle. According to Soil Conservation Service land use capabilities, the farm is class 7 land, Mr. Elrod said. • Local dealers and those from surrounding cities are furnishing equipment necessary for the demonstration and seed dealers from tliis section of Georgia and T nncssee are furnishing seed. Lumbermen, businessmen and the public in general has been most co-operative in this under taking, declared Mr Elrod this week. "Mr. Henry’s farm will be ad vanced from 15 to 20 years above what he would be able to do if dependent on his own resources and time,” declared Mr. Elrod. The veteran’s group will fur nish soft drinks and sandwiches, and the county Women’s Home Demonstration Clubs will pre pare plate lunches to be served Miss Omie Wiley, Home Demon stration Agent, and Miss Edna Fuller. Georgia Power Company Home Economist, will have (charge of the luncheon. BUSSES RESUME | OPERATIONS HERE Greyhound busses resumed operations through Summerville Tuesday night after being out sot almost a week on "wildcat” strike Service was disrupted at mid night last Wednesday when some 800 drivers went on an unan nounced strike. Service was dls ( rvpted from Cincinnati to Jack- j sonvllle. The full schedule is now In op-. oration, local bus station officials stated. Festival Termed Great Success Foursome Released Following Altercation Here Thursday In an apparently unprecedent-' I ed case, last week a Chattooga County Deputy Sheriff was held under custody and refused bond on a charge of assault with in- । tent to murder. Unless the crime is punishable by death it is un lawful for a person to be held without bond. A habeas corpus was immedi ately prepared by T. J. Espy, at- ( torney for Ira M. Henderson, the । deputy. Bond was then set at SI,OOO and the deputy posted bond and was released. Henderson was refused bond by Henry Floyd, Justice of the Peace. Floyd, however, did set bond of SSOO for Henderson, who , . also was charged with false; swearing. In the chain of startling events | over the past week two persons have declined to try a case in volving Leroy Alexander and Faye Cooper, who are both charg ed with disorderly conduct. Judge Rivers, City Court Judge, told the News Tuesday, after be ' ing appointed by the City Coun cil Monday night to hold the ’ case, that he would decline to ’ do so. It was necessary for the Coun cil and Mayor to appoint some- I one because Earl B Self, City Re corder, disqualified himself for the hearing Saturday morning. Mayor McGinnis said that the Council would meet again to se lect someone else for the duty. Alexander and Cooper were ar rested Thursday evening follow ing an alleged altercation be tween Alexander and Cooper and Sheriff Reuben Lyons and Dep uty Sheriff Ira M Henderson. । Alexander later took out war rants. issued through Henry Floyd, Justice of the Peace, charging Lyons with assault with intent to murder and pointing a weapon at another, and charg ing Henderson with assault with intent to murder and false swearing. Bobby Lee Cook, attorney for Alexander, filed a quo warranto proceeding this week against Henderson, stating that he should be removed from office as deputy because he is not “quali fied.” Judge H. E. Nichols will Continued on Back Page 24 TO GRADUATE AT MENLO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, MAY 22 I. S. Ingram, president of West Georgia College. Carrollton, will b? guest speaker at the gradua tion exercises at Menlo High S -hool at 8 p.m. Monday, May 22. Twenty-four high school sen iors will receive their diplomas from the Menlo school. They v ill be presented by C. B Akin, county school superintendent. A piano recital by Mrs C A , V.yatt’s pupils at 8:30 p.m. Fri- < day. May 19. will begin the week end’s graduation events. . The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by R. W Greene, professor of Religious Education. Reinhardt College, at 11 a.m. । Sunday. May 21. at the Metho dist Church. , Students to receive diplomas ; are as follows: N F Burnett, Jr.. Patsy Chappe'.ear, Alvis Clark. Tab • Dempsey, Audrey Dover, Frances Espy, Virginia Forrest. Jerry Galloway, Phyllis Gilley, , illll Hamby, Ann Hardwick. Jo- Ann Hogg, Jerry Hogg, Gene Hutchins. Ruby Jo Keen. Jo Ann ; King. Kathryn Martin. Allene Millican Bobby Parrish, Dorothy Vaughn. James Webb, Junior i Willingham. Virginia Wofford ; and Evelyn Wright SUMMER SCHOOL SESSION PLANNED; AKIN REVEALS GRADUATION PLANS Plans for a summer school in six Chattooga County schools were announced this week by C. B Akin, county school superin tendent The schools participating will ’pen on July 24 and remain cpen through October 13. They will tden re-open on November !27 and close on December 22 for ; Chlstmas holidays Schools under this plan are: Subllgna. Gore. Lyerly, Menlo, Clotidland and Teloga Growing With Chattooga $1.50 PER YEAR As a gentle breeze swished the | new green limbs above, thou i sands of persons from Chattooga ■ County and surrounding areas I joined together yesterday in a good old-fashioned get-together. The first annual May Day Fes tival was termed a huge success by Retail Merchant Association I leaders, who said they plan to I sponsor a similar event next : year. A great cheer went up from the crowd when the master of ceremonies asked if they were : having fun. Approximately 6,000 persons 1 gathered on Commerce Street within the roped off areas and I were entertained in a manner i not seen here in many years. Many persons said it reminded them of “the good old days.” There was a husband-calling contest, a greasy pole, a buck dance, and many, many other amusements to entertain young and old. Mrs. Minerva Richardson, age ' 102. of Armuchee Valley, was the ' eldest person present and was । the recipient of an easy chair, presented by a local furniture | dealer. People began to gather during the morning and witness the demonstrations and. displays along the streets. Many visited I the new Summerville New’s plant and saw the papers rolling off the presses. Sales were offered [ by most stores during the day. A warm reception was extended : the Rome High School Band and । the young Trion High School i band, both of whom delighted the thousands who crow'ded the j streets to witness their perform ances. Cheers went up from the crowd as the parade got under way at 2 p.m.. led by Police Chief W. M Whaley. As the saying goes, ev eryone loves a parade. A. A. Farrar and T. J. Espy, of the Lions Club. Summerville, led the goat which becomes the “pet” of some Lion member at each meeting. Mayor J. L McGinnis greeted the crowd from an open car, in which also rode Miss Chattooga County. Miss Betty Styles. The Rome High School Drum and Bugle Corps followed the mayor. Spectators were interested to see the volunteer fire depart ment members and the bright fire truck in the parade. Two jeeps from the local forest fire protection unit also were par ticipants. Parents and friends raised their voices in praise as the Boy Scouts from Troop 71 and the Cub Scouts marched in uniform A float urged veterans to join the Veterans of Foreign Wars local post. Attracting much attention was the Georgia Rug Mill float, See Page Five REPLICA OF BELL TO BE IN COUNTY FOR TOUR JUNE 20 The original liberty bell in Philadelphia will be tapped at noon May 15 by President Harry S. Truman and thus announce the opening of the Independence Savings Bonds Drive This sound from the actual liberty itself will be carried throughout America on four na tionwide hook-ups. All bells in churches and schools, farm bells and other bells hre supposed to ring for three minutes on Monday. May 15. Boy Scouts in Chattooga coun ty will see that bells in this county are topped. An exact replica of the Liberty Bell will tour Georgia beginning May 23, and will be in Trion and Summerville on June 20 A loud speaker system with two-speed turntables to play fast and slow records is a part of the truck equipment. The closing dates for this term also were announced by Mr, Akin, who said that the schools have varying dates for their exercises. The Subllgna School will close May 19. with the Menlo and Gore schools to follow by clos ing on May 22. The Summerville School will have exercises on May 23. and Lyerly will end Its term on May 29. All other schools will close on May 19