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VOLUME 69; NO. 7
Summerville F.H.A.
Chapter News
By ALICE ELLISON
BOY OF THE MONTH
“A good deed is never lost. He
who sows courtesy reaps friend
ship, and he who plants kindness
gathers love.”—BASIL
The above quotation is self
explanatory to why Jim Culpep
per was elected as boy of the
month.
On August 24, 1933, Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Culpepper became the
proud parents of a boy who
they call Jim. Jim’s being voted
boy of the month is an honor
and his parents should be very
proud.
He was transferred from
Sylvania, Ala. in the fall of ’sl.
Since then he has made many
friends with his winning way.
He is a Senior in school this
year and plans to attend college
in Chattanooga.
From all the boys chosen each
month the FHA will give a cup
to the one chosen as boy of the
year.
FHA Purchases Machine
The FHA Club has purchased
the newest thing in machines
for the department. It is a table
with two electric machine heads.
It can be used as a cutting table
when machines aren’t in use.
The school cost was $289.00 or
45 per cent of the full cost.
FHA Club Monthly Meetings
A business meeting was held
Tuesday, Feb. 18, and plans
given to the club for Community
Night Feb. 26th. This date has
been set aside to honor the busi
ness man and women of the
community. Each club member
has a part in this event.
Mr. Harry Foster, minister of
the First Presbyterian Church,
was guest speaker of our meet
ing Feb. 20. His topic “Brother
hood” although a broad subject
was interesting to us. Our theme
for the year “My Family And
Me” was the beginning of his re
marks, reaching out to com
munity, state, and nations of
which we are a part. Leaving
with us ways in which we as stu
dents could improve our human
relations, and in return, be a
better citizen of home, com
munity and nation.
FHA Sponsors Essay Contest
BROTHERHOOD
Katherine Phillips
Winner of Essay Contest
Sponsored by F. H. A.
Brotherhood is a word, it’s
meaning a group of words, still,
in reality that word and group
of words means much to the
thoughtful person. If you haven’t
given much thought to the word
and see it, you might well have
supposed that it had to do with
your own flesh and blood—your
family. It can mean that too.
Really, you should treat every
one like a brother. The human
race should be, and could be, one
big happy family, friendly, help
ful and considerate.
Brotherhood world eliminates
serious or silly prejudices, jeal
ousy and hatred. If, and when,
Brotherhood has covered the
Earth, there will be no more
wars or conflicts. When nations
disagree they will talk it over
sensibly and compromise instead
of killing each other, destroying
homes and property and cities.
Brotherhood begins at home.
Here we should be taught how to
get along with others, to be con
siderate of others wishes, and to
live and be part of a group living
and loving together.
Next, the community is a place
where brotherhood becomes ex
tremely important, here families
learn to respect other families
and to consider their Ideals and
wishes. They learn how to be
good leaders and good followers.
Here we learn to live in a larger
group and develop lives and per
sonalities that are desirable to
other people.
A community is just one small
part of a city or town, where we
practice brotherhood every day
or should. This is still a larger
group. And, as most of us are
not leaders, we learn to handle
small responsibilities under com*
petent leadership. We are just as
active as the leaders and we
shouldn't be jealous of the lead
er's glory or criticize his deci
sions—thls is brotherhood.
So brotherhood is part of the
world which consists of nations,
cities, communities, which are
really groups of homes. So learn
ing to be neighborly whether as
citizens of this country or an
other. or your back door neigh
bor-brotherhood really begins
at home.
As future citizens we should
learn to treat everyone alike no
matter what color or race. For
after all a black or yelldw person
has as much feeling as you. And
as long as there is bickering, and
arguing among races, there will
not be brotherhood anywhere.
Another Important thing con
cerning brotherhood is religion.
For anyone to argue continually,
is terrible, and for different de-
tea
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To Chattooga
County Farmers
We have the following seed
and material approved on pur
chase order:
Korean lespedeza, Serica les
pedeza, Fescue (uncertified),
Ladino Clover (certified), Ladino
Clover (uncertified), Lime, Phos
phate, and Basic slag.
If you have any of the above
practices approved on your farm,
we are now ready to issue pur
chase orders for same.
If you do not understand whai
was approved for your farm
come by the PMA office and we
will be glad to explain it to you.
C. C. Brooks, Adm. Officer
Chattooga Co. PMA Com.
FARM BUREAU
NEWS COLUMN
By studying the recent flurry
of statements by high govern
ment officials, Georgia farmers
should have an inkling of some
problems ahead. The main dif
ference is that someone else is
doing the talking. It is the same
story told by Farm Bureau lead
ers many, many times but evi
dently not effectively.
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son, in a speech in St. Paul,
Minnesota, last week, said, “farm
price supports should be used
only as ‘disaster insurance’ ”.
Senator Russell, a long time sup
porter of farm supports, em
phasized that “there is an ap
parent desire to ‘free’ farmers
without making similar demands
or the rest of the economy.”
Congressman McCarthy, of Min
nesota, termed the thinking as
“like a man standing on the
bank of a river telling a drown
ing man that all he needs is a
deep breath of fresh aiv.”
The American Farm Bureau
Board of Directors last week met
with President Eisenhower in
Washington, D. C., to discuss
over-all farm problems. Allan B.
Kline, President of the American
Federation, termed the outcome
as “most satisfactory.” Your next
week’s News Column will carry
a report from GFBF President H.
L. Wingate, who was present at
the conference and had not re
turned at the time of writing
this column.
Indications are that lines are
being drawn, and I decisions
might come sooner than antici
pated.
The Agricultural Commodity
Authority Bill has passed House
Agricultural Committee Number
Two, according to a report from
the State GFBF office. The next
step will be placing the Bill on
the calendar.
Pittman Carter, GFBF As
sistant to H. L. Wingate, last
week attended a labor conference
in Washington. The labor com
mittee members, with Carter
representing the Georgia Farm
Bureau, discussed problems per
taining to domestic transit, and
foreign labor. The purpose of the
session was to map plans to as
sure having the needed labor
available at the right place at
the needed time. Secretary of
Labor Durkin was present.
nominations to argue with each
other is ridiculous. When
churches should really be one of
the most important places where
brotherhod should be taught,
some of them are just making
bad feeling among people in
communities, cities, and nations.
When some of us get too im
portant, we let it go to our heads,
and we keep climbing toward the
top sometimes dishonestly. This
is destroying brotherhood by try
ing to be better than your broth
er, or trying to keep up with your
neighbor, you are starting bad
feelings between families. This
may lead to what has been called
a feud between certain families.
For generation after generation
to argue when really they haven't
been hurt at all and not try to
patch up the quarrel, t Is de
stroying faith, friendship, and
love.
So by thinking we see that
brotherhood is nothing less than
faith, love, and friendship, con
sideration, understanding and
our ability to get along with oth
er people. There is one sure way
to spread brotherhood through
out the world; that is for every
person everywhere to treat oth
ers like they want to be treated
themselves. If we could accom
plish this, the world, nations,
cities, communities, and even
our homes would be a better
place to live, work and play.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1953
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Dr. Jesse M. Hendley, nation
ally known evangelist, comes to
First Baptist Church this Sun
day evening at 7:30. Services will
continue each evening at 7:30
through Sunday night, March
Bth. A Bible Study Hour will be
held each morning from 10:00
o’clock to 11:00 o’clock.
Dr. Hendley took his pre-high
school and high school education
in the schools of Atlanta, Ga. He
also trained in physical culture
work at the YMCA, but later
felt the call of God to preach. He
attended Columbia Theological
and Southern Baptist Seminary.
For 14 years he was the out
standing pastor of Colonial Hills
Baptist Church in Atlanta. Dur
ing his ministry hundreds were
won to Christ and great throngs
of from 1100 to 1200 people
crowded the auditorium each
Sunday morning and evening to
hear him. After years of receiv
ing a continuous stream of in
vitations to hold revivals in oth
er churches, he felt that God
was calling him into full time
evangelistic work. The blessing
of God upon his evangelistic
ministry has shown that he was
not mistaken in his call.
Macon, Ga. saw crowds as
Self - Employed
May Get Old-Age
Insurance Benefits
Many self-employed people in
Chattooga County will meet re
quirements to receive old-age in
surance benefits this year, ac
cording to Jack D. Brown, man
ager of the Rome social security
office.
Persons who have reached age
65, and have two years of self
employment income to their
credit, may now be eligible to
receive old-age benefits upon re
tirement.
Brown explained that the so
cial security law allows a self
employed person to earn as
much as S9OO during his taxable
year and still receive social se
curity payments for the year. A
special provision for persons
who have reached age 75 allows
them to receive payments re
gardless of any amount of earn
ings.
Self-employed people get year
ly credit on their social security
accounts by filing “Schedule C"
along with their Income tax re
turns. If they had net earnings
from self-employed of at least
S4OO. Farm operators and some
professional people do not con
tribute to this insurance plan.
Brown invites persons interest
ed in applying for social security
benefits or desiring additional
information to visit, phone or
write your Social Security office
located at Room 11. Post Office
Building. Rome. Ga, telephone
number, 2-4202.
Angus Cattle Sold
By Hair Farm Here
Hair Farms. Summerville, re
cently sold 10 purebred Aber
deen-Angus cows to Kenneth A.
Adams, Dalton. Ga.; and a bull
each to Floyd Addison, Fairburn,
Ga.; H. C. Arnold, Clinton. Ala.,
and Jennings Dobson, Mt. Juliet,
Tenn.
Wholesalers are urged to sup
port fair trade drive.
large as 3,000 fill the city audi
torium to hear Jesse Hendley
give God’s message. 1,100 peo
ple made decisions for Christ in
this meeting. Rome, Ga. saw
3,500 people pack a huge tent to
hear him. Over 650 souls made
their decision for Christ in this
meeting. Houston. Texas saw 50
churches unite behind this man
in a great city-wide campaign.
Not only is he an evangelist,
but he is one of the great
scholars of the active ministry.
He reads the Bible in Hebrew, in
Greek, and constantly illumnates
the Word of God with this know
ledge. The people of Atlanta
have come to love him through
his radio ministry “The Radio
Evangelistic Hour” which has
been on the air over 16 years.
The one impelling love and de
sire in the heart of Jesse Hendley
is to save people from their sins
and lead them to eternal life. In
these troubled times of con
fusion and doubt, to hear him, is
truly an opportunity to get right
with God.
Everyone is invited to hear
him this Sunday night at 7:30
at the First Baptist Church and
every morning and night through
Sunday night, March Bth.
JACK PURCELL, 49,
PASSES IN S’VILLE
Barney A. (Jack) Purcell, 49,
passed away at his home in
Summerville Sunday at 1:20 p.m.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs
Mary Middleton Purcell, Sum
mervllle; two daughters, Mrs.
Lucille Sims and Mrs. Pauline
Hardin, Summerville; three sons,
Harvey and Ernest Purcell. Sum
merville, and James D. Purcell
of the U. S. Army now stationed
at Sausalito Calif.; three sisters,
Mrs. Emmer Waldrop of Ross
ville, Ga., Mrs. Dessie Hendrix
of LaFayette and Mrs. Niece
Higginbothin of Gadsden, Ala.;
one brother. Robert (Bob) Pur
cell of Trion; four grandchil
dren. Dinkey, Janny, Bobby and
Teresa Purcell, all of Summer
ville.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the Bellmont Baptist
Temple Tuesday at 2 p.m. with
the Rev. W. H. Dean, pastor,
and Rev. Gus Reed officiating.
Active pallbearers, nephews of
the deceased, were Horace and
Paul McWhorter, Junior Purcell,
Hoyt Vines, Billy Floyd and Al
vin Hendrix. Deacons of the Bell
mont Baptist Temple served *8
honorary pallbearers. They were:
Paul Waltz, Claudia Howell, An
drew McCarther, O. L. Rosser
and Knutte Rogers. Interment
was in the Trion Cemetery with
J. D. Hili Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
TRUCK FIRES 7 HOMES
Little Falls. N Y. — Gasoline
from a wrecked tank truck
caught fire and the flames from
the over-turned truck swept
houses and drove approximately
39 persons Into the street in their
night clothes. Lons exceeded
$160,000. The truck skidded on an
icy hill, over-turned and ex
ploded at a street Intersection
just inside the city limits. Wind
evidently blew the flaming fuel
to the closely-clustered dwell
ings.
U. 8. steel capacity had its
greatest rise in 1952.
BIG TURNOUT FOR
LEGION, AUXILIARY
MEETING SUNDAY
Approximately 50 women at
tended the Seventh District Le
gion Auxiliary Convention held
at the Memorial Home last Sun
day.
Delegates answered roll call
from fifteen out of a possible 20
units.
The Seventh District went on
record as endorsing Miss Eunice
Brown, of Lindale, as State His
torian for 1953-54.
Mrs. Lloyd P. Moon, State
president, of Atlanta; Mrs. S. C.
Moon, first vice-president, of
Gainesville; Miss Eunice Brown,
7th District president, of Lin
dale, and Mrs. Dan M. Clower, of
Covington, a candidate for State
2nd vice-president, were present
for this meeting.
In the Legion meeting dele
gates were presnet from eighteen
units, representing one of the
largest turnouts ever held at a
district convention.
The group passed a resolution
commending Representative
James Floyd for his bill out
lawing Communism. Floyd made
the welcoming address from this
post at the meeting.
Distinguished guests included
R. F. Hallahand of Smyrna,
District commander; J. B. War
ren, of Monticello, Ga., State De
partment commander; George
Osburn, of Marietta, State junior
vice commander; Guy O. Stone,
of Glenwood, Ga., member of the
National Executive Committee,
and Jack Langford, of Griffin,
State junior vice-commander.
Baptist Preachers
Evangelistic Ass'n.
Convenes at Trion
The Baptist Preachers Evange
listic Association will convene at
the Trion Heights Baptist
Church, beginning Monday eve
ning, March 2, and ending Fri
day evening. March 6. Noted
preachers from all sections of
Georgia, also from Alabama and
Tenneasee, will be present for
this meeting with services three
times a day, 10 a.m, 2 p.m. ano
7; 15 p.m.
Good gospel preaching and
special singing will be featured
in each of the services, leaders
say. This Association has been
meeting twice a year for several
years and the people of North
west Georgia are counted for
tunate to have this spring ses
sion to meet in Chattooga Coun
ty.
The host church, Trion Heights
Baptist, will be celebrating their
first anniversary during this
week of fellowship, the church
being organized just one year
ago in March, 1952. The pastor,
Howard A. Crowe, the officers of
the church and entire member
ship extends a most cordial in
vitation to the general public to
attend any or all of these serv
ices. This new church Is located
four blocks west of the Stude
baker place, one mile south of
Trion. .
Fire Razes Berryion
School Building
Berryton Grammar School was
completely destroyed by fire
last Wednesday night. The one
story four-room brick veneer
building was valued at $15,060.
Summerville fire truck an
swered the call about 7 p.m.
Fireman Roy Alexander said the
fire was small when they arrived,
but not enough water was avail
able to extinguish it. Alexander
said firemen used the water In
the truck storage tank and then
pumped a nearby well dry. but
that the blaze left the school a
total loss. The building was In
sured. Alexander said he believes
the cause was a faulty furnace.
County School Supt. Lowell 8.
Hix said school is continuing in a
nearby church Pastor of Berry
ton Church of Ood, the Rev W.
H. Swift, has given the school
permission to use the building.
Hix said It will be up to the
school board to decide whether
to rebuild the school, adding the
possibility the 65 students will be
sent to another school in the
county and the school not re
built.
Mrs B E. Neal b principal of
the school.
GETS DIPLOMA AT 83
Pasadena. Calif.—Proving that
one never gets “too old to learn.”
John B Ely. 83. recently received
his diploma from John Muir Col
lege. Ely began his education nt
Hardin - Simmons in Abilene,
Tex.. 45 years ago. but after one
semester he set out to see the
world.
CHATTOOGA F.F.A. CHAPTERS JOIN IN
OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL F.F.A. WEEK
CHATTOOGA LODGE
MEETING SLATED
FOR MARCH 2
The regular meeting of Chat
tooga Lodge 704 will be held next
Monday night, March 2, at 7:30
p.m.
Work will be done on the Fel
lowcraft Degree.
Visitors are welcome.
Hubert Johnson
Worshipful Master
Arch Farrar, Secretary
Summervile Girls
Win Sportsmanship
Trophy as Rockmart
The Summerville Girls Basket
ball team won the honor of
bringing back a Sportsmanship
Trophy which was presented by
the “R” Club of Rockmart on
February 18.
The girls are very proud of
their Sportsmanship Trophy. To
them good sportsmanship means
more than just winning a game.
The coaches and the officials
! chose Summerville as the winner
of the Trophy.
Tuesday night Summerville
lassies over - scored Campbell
with a score of 59 to 46. Thurs
: day night Summerville lassies
took a loss by the score 31 to 57
| with Douglas County. They went
back Friday night to play Rock
mart in which the score for the
Summerville girls was 36 to 28.
The all regional tournament
team was chosen by the coaches
Friday night. Summerville had
two girls entered on this team,
Dora Ann Alexander as forward
and Shirley Moore as guard.
The Summerville boys opened
their tournament Tuesday, Feb.
24, with Sprayberry at the Rock
mart Gymnasium.
VALUE OF 1952
VEGETABLE CROP
UP 42 PER CENT
Georgia’s 1952 commercial
vegetable crop showed an in
. crease in value of 42 percent over
{1951 in spite of the prolonged
I drought and an acreage decrease
of more than 5,000 acres, accord
। ing to L. E. Farmer, marketing
J specialist for the University of
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service.
Commercial vegetables grown
in Georgia last year for fresh
market and processing were
: valued at $17,646,000 as com
| pared to $12,388,000 in 1951.
Farmer said. He attributed most,
i of this increase to improved pro
duction practices.
। “While prices for most of these
। crops were higher last year than
in 1951, improved production
j practices such as selecting
proper market varieties, proper
। fertilization, protection from dis
i ease insects, and careful prep
| aration for market had a great
I deal of influence upon these
' higher prices," declared Farmer
Watermelons led all other
1 crops last year with a value of
$6,188,000. This Is an Increase of
I $1,741,000 over 1951 on the same
I acreage of 45.000.
Tomatoes were second with a
value of $2,846,000 as compared
to $1,908,000 in 1951, an increase
of $938,000 on 600 acres.
Cabbage was third with a sl,-
847.000 value as compared to
$477,000 in 1951, an increase of
one and a half million on 1,250
। fewer acres.
Cantaloupes accounted for sl,-
155,000 from 6,000 acres as com
pared to $659,000 on 6,500 acres
in 1951.
Emphasizing the importance
of vegetables and fruits to the
economy of Georgia. Farmer said
that, “considered from the
standpoint of overall cash farm
Income, the $40,000,000 cosh in
come from mruits and vegetables
may not seem so significant, but
is quite significant considered
from the standpoint of high In
come per acre, suitability to
small farms, the time of year the
come from fruits and vegetables
tively short production period."
NORTHSIDE
CHURCH OF CHRIST
SUNDAY:
Bible study. 10 am.; preaching
and worship service. 11 am.;
preaching. 7:30 pm. Don Mc-
Whorter, minister.
Tuesday: Bible study. 7:30 p.m.,
James E. Laird, teacher.
Listen to "Herald of Truth"
each Sunday at 1 p.m. over sta
tion WLAQ. Rome.
$2.00 PER YEAR
The week of February 21-28
has been proclaimed National
FFA Week by the National As
sociation of Future Farmers of
America.
Future Farmers of the Sum
merville, Lyerly, and Menlo FFA
chapters here in Chattooga
County will join more than 360,-
. 000 FFA members in 8,500 local
t chapters throughout the nation
j in observance of National FFA
Week.
This year marks the 25th year
—the Silver Anniversary—of the
i Future Farmers of America.
Throughout Georgia the 16.447
' members in 297 local chapters
will hold special programs in ob
; servance of this week which
! marks the beginning of their
. Silver Anniversary year celebra
। tion.
“National FFA Week seeks to
focus attention on the work of
the Future Farmers today who
will be the successful farmers of
tomorrow,” points out state FFA
j president Wesley Patrick oi
Quitman. “The Week is cele
r brated each year during the
j week of the anniversary of the
birthday of George Washington.
E “Most people think of Wash
; ington as an engineer, a gen
. eral. the first president and the
father of our country, but he
■ ■ was also the first scientific
- farmer. He was one of the first
in the nation to practice contour
> planting, crop rotations, and
1 other soil conserving methods. It
. is out of our deep respect for
5 Washington, the farmer in whose
' I progressive ways we seek to fol
: low, that we Future Farmers of
America actually set aside the
1 week of his birthday as National
FFA Week.”
The FFA is a national organi
> zation of farm boys studying vo
-1 cational agriculture in high
school and was founded in 1928
I by a group of vocational agri
culture students meeting in
1 Kansas City, Missouri. Since
then it has grown to be the
■ world’s largest farm boy organi
zation with members extending
throughout the 48 states, Hawaii
and Puerto Rico. Its objective is
to help farm boys help them
selves.
“Through their organization,
FFA boys receive leadership
training, gain recognition for
outstanding farming accom
plishments, and are able to par
ticipate in recreational activi
ties.” points out T. G. Walters,
state FFA advisor. “Every Future
Farmer has on his home farm a
supervised farming project
which is the training ground
where he's learning to be the
successful farmer of tomorrow,"
he added.
The FFA is sponsored nation
ally by the agricultural educa
tion branch of the U. S. Office of
Education and maintains its na
tional headquarters in Washing
ton. D. C. Here in Georgia, the
FFA program is administered
through the State Department
‘। oi Education's division of* agri
cultural education.
Locol Men to Attend
GMC Truck Meet in
Atlanta March 4th
M. H Copeland and J. M.
Mitchell, of Summerville, owners
of the Copeland and Mitchell
' Pontiac Co., leave March 4 for
Atlanta for an important meet
ing with GMC Truck officials
! \ from Pontiac. Mich., to discuss
new model GMC trucks and sales
‘ ' plans for 1953.
J Accompanying them will be A.
‘ B Day, salesman.
Information on new product
’ I developments in OMC Truck,
* | new parts and service and other
‘ i subjects will be covered in the
' meeting, which will start with
. luncheon at the Henry Grady
‘ Hotel and carry on through the
’ afternoon.
s | Last month GMC announced It
has available the famed Hydra-
, Matic transmission In 19 models
’ । of the light truck line, and deal
j ers in this zone are expected to
"! hear about other sensational
1 product developments at the
‘ meeting.
’
I Menlo Parents Asked to
• Attend Pre-School Meet
> Parents in Menlo School Dis
» trlct who have children entering
! the First Grade next fall are
’ urged to eome Tuesday night,
Mareh 3. at 7 p.m. to the Menlo
School.
There will be a meeting to dis
cuss problems of children enter
[ ing school. Also other education
al officials will be present to an
■ swer your questions: Lowell Hix,
County School Superintendent;
, Miss Frances Johnson, Educa
tional Supervisor; Mrs. Anna F.
’ Doherty. Public Health Nurse;
• Mrs. Ernest Kennedy, First
Grade teacher