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VOLUME 69; NO. 15
Summerville Seniors
Tour Washington
And Other Points
Fifty members of the Senior
Class of Summerville High left
last Saturday for Washington,
D. C. Enroute they visited points
of interest in Richmond, and
Williamsburg, Va. In Jamestown
they visited Mariner Museum,
toured Hampton Roads and Old
Point Comfort.
Then on up Chesapeake Bay by
boat, they arrived at Baltimore,
and made a tour of the city, and
on to Annapolis, Naval Acamedy.
They spent 2y 2 days touring
Washington’s many educational
and interesting points.
Coach Maupin and Miss Jo
Maret accompanied the group of
boys and girls. They left Wash
ington Wednesday and arrived in
Cedartown today (Thursday) at
9:15 a.m.
Agent Announces
Membership Rules
In 1953 Corn Club
Announcing rules for member
ship in the Georgia 100-Bushel
Corn Club this year, Chattooga'
County Agent M. H. Purcell said
any farmer who produces an av
erage of 100 or more bushels of
corn per acre is eligible for the
award.
Purcell stated that the area
must be one acre or more in size,
and the yield determination
must be on the entire acreage in
the field.
The rules call for listing the
area with the county agent. A
complete record — including
statement of yield, yield deter
mination and crop record—also
must be furnished.
The county agent pointed out
that the cost per bushel must not
exceed the average market value
for the first ten months of the
year the corn is produced.
Yield determination must be
made by the county agent, as
sistant county agent, or a com
mittee trained by ti^em and
made up of persons other than
the producer.
Purcell said that yields of more
than 150 bushels will be checked
by agronomists of the University
of Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
The county agent explained
that the producer must either do
the major portion of the work
or furnish capital, management
and personal supervision in
volved in producing the crop.
Records are due in the Agri
cultural Extension Service office
by December 15. The Georgia
100-Bushel Corn Club state
committee will check and ap
prove all records.
Awards for each 100-Bushel
Corn Club member were listed as
a certificate of recognition, a
key and dinner on the College
of Agriculture campus. This 100-
bushel corn program is sponsor
ed by the Cotton Producers Asso
ciation.
Chattoogans Buy
$19,594 in Bonds
In March 53
Chattooga Countians bought
$19,594 bonds in March, accord
ing to Joseph G. Woodruff, State
Director of Georgia. Mr. Wood
ruff continues:
"We have attained 22.7 per
cent of our original goal in Geor
gia—this is not enough. We
should sell at least $5,000,000.00
next month. Let’s hope that
April sales will show an In
crease.
Miss Mary Pickford has helped
wonderfully with her visit to the
State and all who heard her say
that “America must be kept
strong and that the purchase ot
Defense Bonds is one way the
average American can help,”
were convinced of her sincerity
The fact that she is making thia
tour 35 years after selling Bonds
In the first World War is an ex
ample to us that we do have a
job to perform In helping Geor
gia achieve the goal for 1953.
Lockheed Aircraft Corpora
tion, Marietta, Georgia, has
reached 92 per cent, almost 11,-
000 out of 11.800 employees are
now buying Bonds. This Com
pany has been awarded the
Treasury Minute Man Flag,
awarded only to Companies em
ploying 1.000 or more employees
reaching 90 per cent. Miss Pick
ford presented this to Lockheed
on her recent visit.”
American Legion
Meets Friday Night
The American Legion will meet
Friday. April 24. at 7:30 p.m. at
the Memorial Home.
She Nms
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ZiW ui. Paul l. uaiull, wno
has just completed gunnery
training in F-84 Thunder Jets at
Pinecastle AFB, Orlando, Fla.
Paul is at home with his parents
for a few days before leaving for
overseas duty.
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FAR EAST (FHTNO—Serving
aboard the destroyer USS Wiltsie
on her third overseas campaign
since the outbreak of hostilities
in Korea is JOSEPHE. HOW
ARD, seasman, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph P. Howard, of
Route 2, Summerville.
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CAMP DESERT ROCK. NEV,
APRIL 20—MARINE PRIVATE
FIRST CLASS ROY W FORT
NER, of Summerville, is one of
over 2,000 Marines now at the
Atomic Energy Commission
Proving Grounds for the latest
series of atomic tests.
While here he will witness an
atomic explosion and then join
in a mock ground-air assault on
an objective near the center of
the impact. Unlike many of the
others. Pfc. Fortner is a veteran
of last year’s atomic tests in
which Marines participated for
the first time on such a large
scale.
Under simulated combat con
ditions, the Marines will receive
training in assault tactics relat
ing to atomic warfare, including
the recently developed art of
vertical envelopment by heli
copter. Training in physical pro
tection measures and indoctrina
tion in the effects of atomic ex
plosions on equipment are other
important phases of the exer
cises.
Pfc. Fortner is a member of a
battalion of Marines from Camp
Lejeune. N. C. which, along with
another battalion from Camp
Pendleton. Calif, was flown to
this desert site for the atomic
exercises.
Pfc. - Fortner enlisted in the
Marine Corps in April 1952. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willy L.
Fortner, live at Chattanooga,
Tenn., and his wife, Mrs. Nadine
G. Fortner, resides at 11 Univer
sity Circle, Summerville.
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CPL. AMON E. COOTS, of
Trion, arrived April 15 at the
San Francisco Port of Embarka
tion from Korea aboard the
USNS A. W. Brewster.
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SGT. WILLIAM T. BEAN, of
Trion, recently arrived home
after service in Korea.
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WITH THE 25TH INFANTRY
DIV. IN KOREA- PVT. MARLIN
S RUSSELL, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Russell, Route 1. Trion, is
now serving in Korea with the
25th Infantry Division.
Now the senior American di-
OFFICIAL 1953 SCHEDULE SUMMERVILLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE
MENLO TRION GA. RUO MILL STILLE MFC.
May 5. 15. 26 • May 12.22 May^. 18. 28
June 5, 16. 26 June 2. 12, 23 June 8. 18
MENLO ... I READ July 14. 24 July 10. 21. 31 July 6. 16. 27
August 4,14 August 11,11 A ust6. 17
Mav 5. iv 26 May 8, 19. 19 May 11.21
June 5. 16. 26 June 9, 19 June 1. 11. 22
TRION . | July 14. 24 THE July 7. 17. 28 July 9. 20. 30
AuRUKt 4. 14 August 7. 18 uigu.t io 20
May 12,22 May « 19. 29 Mav 4 14 25
June 2. 12. 23 June 9, 19 June -1. 15 25
GA. Rl’G MILL July 10. 21. 31 July 7. 17. 28 SUMMERVILLE 1 July 13. 23
August 11. 21 August 7, 18 August 3. 13
M v ", 1H 28 May 11.21 May 4. 14. 25
Juno 8. 18 June 1, 11, 22 June 4. 15. 25
STILUS MFG. i July 6. 16. 27 July 9. 20. 30 July 13. 23 NEWS
' 17 ' > t io. 20 August 3. 13 •
First half of .-.eason to end June 23. second half of season to begin June 25. Playoffs to begin August
24. best throe out of five games. Games to begin at, 8:30 p tn. Teams not ready to begin play five min
utes after umpire calls "Play ball" will forfeit game. No games week of June 29. All rained-out games
to be made up by double-header the next time the rained-out team meet, or if preferred, on Wednes
day nights.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1953
Dr. Cecil Thompson
Speaker at Rotary
Club Meet April 29
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Dr. Cecil Thompson, D.D. of
Columbia Seminary, Decatur,
Georgia will speak at the meet
ing of the Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club on Wednesday, April
29. Dr. Thompson is a former
pastor of the Alpine group of
Presbyterian Churches in this
county which include Beersheba,
Cloudland and Menlo. He later
was the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Valdosta,
Georgia. He is now Director of
Field Work and Professor of
Evangelism and Church Exten
sion, Columbia Theological Sem
inary.
Dr. Thompson was named
Rural Minister of the Year in
Georgia in 1952. He has just re
turned from a trip of 30,000 miles
through Puerto Rico, Brazil, Bel
gian Congo, Portugal, Italy,
France, Belgium, and England.
His talk to the Rotary Club will
be centered chiefly upon this
trip.
SOFTBALL PLAY
TO BEGIN MAY 4
The Summerville Softball
League, composed of Trion,
Menlo, Georgia Rug Mill and
Summer vi 11 e Manufacturing
Company will open on May 4
with a game between Georgia
Rug Mill and Summerville
Manufacturing Company.
The schedule will be divided
into two halves, the winner of
the first half to meet the winner
of the second half for the cham
pionship.
Ernest Bridgman was elected
President of the League and in
such capacity he will rule on all
procedure.
'Our Miss Brooks,'
Trion Junior Class
Play, Set April 28
Trion Junior Class will pre
sent a three-act comedy, “Our
Miss Brooks” Tuesday, April 28,
at Community Center Theatre,
Trion. Two performances will
be given, at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Admission is matinee, 35c and
50c. Evening, 50c and 75c,
Tillman Newsome is director.
Three Local Men Enrolled
Chicago Training School
Two Summerville men, James
R. Haygood and James A. Ogles
by, and Leo C. Lively, of Trion,
have enrolled in Greer Shop
Training School in Chicago, II).
vision on the Peninsula, the 25th
landed in July 1950, shortly after
the Communists attacked the
Republic of Korea.
Russell, a medical aidman, en
tered the Army last July and re
ceived basic training at Fort
Jackson. S. C.
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CPL. JAMES H. ELSBERRY, of
Summerville, arrived April 14 at
the Seattle Port'of Embarkation
from the Far East Command.
Cherokee Presbytery
To Meet in Menlo
April 24 and 25
The 46th annual meeting of
the Women of the Church, Pres
bytery of Cherokee, Synod of
Georgia will meet in the Presby
terian Church at Menlo, Ga.
April 24th and 25th.
The opening session will begin
Friday afternoon, April 24th.
Mrs. James U. Jackson, of Cedar
town, will be the presiding offi
cer. The guest speakers will in
clude,Mrs. J. K. Orr, the Synodi
cal president; Mrs. J. K. Fancher
and Mrs. W. L. Ulrich, all of At
lanta; Miss Lillian Medlin, of
Dalton; Mrs. J. D. Mosheim, of
Chickamauga, and Mrs. E. S.
Brannon, of Rome.
The principal speaker at the
evening session will be the Rev.
A. Hoyt Miller, missionary to
Africa. Other ministers to be
present are the Rev. R. E. Smith,
of Cedartown; the Rev. J. F.
Merrin, of Rockmart, Superin
tendent of Home Missions, and
the Rev. H. K. Holland, of Mari
etta.
Mrs. O. L. Cleckler is the
president of the Menlo Women
of the Church.
Approximately 200 delegates
are expected to attend.
Last Rites. Held
For C. P. Cargal
Funeral services for C. P. Car
gal, 74, who diet Sunday night
at his home, fioute 1, Tionr,
were held at Welcome Hill Bap
tist Church at a o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, conducted by the Rev.
Buddy Brown, (he Rev. J. F.
Scott,the Rev. A. N. White and
the Rev. Tommy Waits.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Walters Cargal; foster
daughter, Miss Virginia Gale
Ray; two sisters. Mrs. Maggie
Purcell, LaFayette, and Mrs.
Mary Walker, LaDonia, Tex.; two
brothers, D. F. Cargal, Sherman,
Tex., and Guss Cargal, Blair,
Okla., and several nieces and
nephews.
Interment was in the Trion
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Clar
ence Brown, Wheeler Thomas, G.
H. Teems, J. W. Pettyjohn, Har
ley Bandy and Cliff Trammell.
Honorary pallbearers were mem
bers of the Men’s Bible class of
Welcome Hill Church, and Allen
Justice, Henry Hickman, Arthur
Justice, Grady Ramey, Wallace
Henderson, Berry Henderson and
Hugh Henderson.
Georgia Exhibit’ Wins
Award at National
Heart Association Meet
An exhibit prepared by the
Georgia Heart Association was
awarded one of the top three
awards by the American Associa
tion in a meeting today in At
lantic City, New Jersey.
The exhibit dealing with the
Georgia Rheumatic Fever Pro
gram gives the complete pro
gram by word and picture step
by step from referral to the
clinic to recovery and rehabili
tation—and depicts referral pro
cedures in outline form.
The two other top awards were
won by the Essex County, N. J.
! Heart Chapter and the Con
necticut Heart Association.
Among the Georgians attend
ing the Annual Meeting of the
American Heart Association were
—Drs. John L. Elliott, Ellison R
Cook and Thomas A. McGoldrick
of Savannah, Drs. Joseph A.
Massee. Bruce Logue, and Gor
don Barrow, Carter Smith of At
lanta, also Dr. Thomas L. Ross,
of Macon, President of the Geor
gia Heart Association; Mrs. Hen
rietta F. Mason. Executive Sec
retary of the Savannah Chap
ter; Mr. Linwod Beck, Executive
Director and Mr Malcolm Lock
hart, Director of Education and
Community Service, of the
Georgia Heart Association, both
of Atlanta.
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SUMMERVILLE FHA CHAPTER recently presented the Summer
ville School Library with three books as one of their school proj
ects. The books were: Betty Betz’ “Careers,” Elizabeth Landsber
ry’s “Let’s Set the Table” and Arthur Depew’s “Cokesberry Party
Book.” Reading, left to right, are Barbara Chandler, Mrs. Ellis
Echols, librarian, Patsy Eleam and Jo Ann Morgan.
LAST RITES FOR
MRS. R. A. HARLOW
TO BE HELD TODAY
Mrs. Robert A. Harlow died
Tuesday at 5:25 p.m., in Chat
tooga Hospital where she had
been for two weeks resting, with
a heart ailment.
Mrs. Harlow was active in civic
and church work in the county
for many years, until her health
failed.
Survivors include one daugh
ter, Mrs. Everett Lunsford, Sum
merville; one son, Sgt. Robert A.
Harlow, of Camp Rucker, Ala.;
three grandchildren, Everett
Lunsford Jr., Miriam Lunsford,
Dorothy Harlow and Grace Har
low; two sisters, Mrs. George
Smith, Rome, and Mrs. Ray
Henderson, Lyerly, and a number
of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday (today) at 3 p.m. at
the First Baptist Church with
Rev. Bob Mowrey, Rev. W. F.
Lunsford and Rev. Rathburn
Cash officiating. Interment will
follow in the family plot in
Summerville Cemetery. The body
will remain at the J. D. Hill Fu
neral Home until the hour of
service.
Rev. Ashenlelder
Al Presbyterian
Church Sunday
The Rev. John Ashenfelder, of
Baton Rouge, La., will preach at
the Presbyterian Church Sun
day at both morning and eve
ning services.
Menlo H. D. Club
Holds Meeting
Menlo Home Demonstration
Club met April 20 at 3 p.m. in
the Home Ec building, with Mrs.
Jim Edd Cavin hostess. Fifteen
members and three visitors were
present.
Miss Carolyn Webster gave the
devotional with scripture reading
and prayer.
Mrs. Zane Ham called the roll
and read the minutes.
The demonstration for the
meeting by Miss Wiley was table
setting and serving the family
meal.
Table courtesy was discussed
with many good points brought
out.
During the social hour Mrs.
Cavin assisted by Misses Liby
Ansly. Carolyn Webster and Dora
Burnett served refreshments.
—Reporter
Mrs. Einar Maynor
Dies in Trion
Mrs Etnar Henry (Pruitt)
Maynor. 69. died suddenly at her
home on 9th Street in Trion.
Tuesday at 1:20 p.m.
She is survived by two daugh
ters. Miss Gladys Maynor and
Mrs. Jamie Mayes, of Trion; a
son. Otto Maynor, of Subligna;
four sisters, Mrs. Hattie Grigsby.
West Armuchee; Mrs. Jessie
Broome. Trion; Mrs. Elin May
nor. Rock Springs; Mrs. Jennie
Lively. Rome.
Pallbearers were Turner Cor
dle, Hnrold Scoggins, Lee White,
Tom White. L. C Scoggins. Jr.
and Harold Broome.
Funeral services were held
from the Subligna Baptist
Church Wednesday at 3 pm.
with Rev. Ben Howard and Rev.
James G. McCune officiating.
Interment was In the Subligna
Cemetery. J. D. Hill Funeral
Home In Summerville was In
charge of the arrangements.
CANCER KILLS
MORE CHILDREN
THAN ANY DISEASE
Scientists in cancer research
are working on a thousand and
one different problems.
The hardest of all is cancer in
children.
Cure rates for most kinds of
children’s cancers—as those of
the bone, muscle or nerve, eye,
kidney and genitoruinary system
—are such that parents should
not despair on learning that a
child has cancer. Dismal as the
prospects are, enough of these
cancers are being cured by sur
gery and x-ray to justify some
hope.
With some other kinds of can
cer, mortality rates are dreadful.
There is no cure for acute
leukemia—a cancer of the white
blood cells and blood-forming
organs — and leukemia consti
tutes more than 30 per cent of
all childhood cancers.
Even in leukemia, however,
new’ medicines and new methods
of delivering x-rays are length
ening the lives of youngsters.
Some medicines have given chil
dren a reprieve from disease and
death, sent them out to play
again, granted them a few more
precious weks or months in the
bosom of their families.
It is in this curious fact—that
the disease can be made almost
to disappear for a time—that
science takes its greatest hope
that some day children's cancers
can be cured.
Scientists—aided by American
Cancer Society research grants—
laboriously are tracing the effect
of decoy nucleic acids, false vita
mins, compounds with radiation
like activity and recently iso
lated hormones on the chemistry
of the normal system and on the
chemistry of cancer. They are
finding out how these drugs
sometimes act to forestall death,
and from these findings are
coming hints as to what may set
cancer on its rampage.
Tantalizing as these studies
are to patients ill with cancer,
they give pediatricians and other
medical men hope that cancer
some day may be cured with
chemicals.
The fact is little appreciated,
even by many physicians, but
cancer is not rare in children. A
few years ago. it was the third
most common cause of death in
younger age groups. Today, with
new control of infectious disease,
it is even more common—higher
than the combined fatalities of
polio, measles, scarlet fever,
whooping cough and several oth
er childhood ailments.
The speed of most cancers car.
be correlated with age — the
younger the patient, the faster
It destroys. The disease usually
spreads like wildfire through a
child. Parents and sometimes
doctors fail to suspect cancer in
children, and diagnosis and
treatment are delayed. Cancer in
children is curable only in the
earliest stage
Annie L. Colton
Buried Here
Mrs. Annie L. Cotton, (color
ed), formerly of Summerville,
died at her home in Chicago
Tuesday. April 14.
Funeral services were conduct
ed In Chicago Saturday. April
18. and graveside services were
conducted at the family lot of
the Summerville Cemetery Mon
day at 3 p.m. with Rev. A. P
Mitchell officiating.
Survivors are: husband. Her
man Cotton. Chicago; mother,
Mrs. Morel Waters Smith, and a
sister, Mrs Minnie Waters Smith,
both of Summerville.
$2.00 PER YEAR
135 Entries Expected
At Trion Horse
Show Saturday Night
The horse show to be held Sat
urday night at 7:30, at Trion
stadium, will have about 135 en
tries, Miss Dora Bankey, secre
tary, says.
The annual horse show is
sponsored by the Summerville
and Trion Lions Clubs and bene
fits will be used for Club proj
ects.
Marvin C. Moore, of Atlanta, is
General Manager and will act as
master of ceremonies; L. C. Dal
ton, Trion, is ring master. Judges
include Honorable Leonard
Hooke, Mexico, Mo., gaited
horses; Honorable J. T. Tanner,
of Franklin, Tenn., walking
horses and Dale Stone, of Rome,
is organist for the occasion.
Ribbon secretaries for the show
will be Misses Nancy Williams
and Martha Ray Bankey, of
Trion; Misses Judy Burges, Ina
Foster and Gladys Ann Lyons, of
Summerville.
A record breaking crowd is ex
pected for the show.
Lion Presidents Hoyte Farmer,
Summerville, and J. C. Cavin,
Trion, are co-chairmen of the
show.
Summerville FFA
Participates in
Speaking Contest
The Summerville FFA Chapter
was represented in the public
speaking and quartet contest
which was held at Lindale School
for the area made up of Floyd,
Gordon, and Chattooga counties
on Friday, April 17.
Raymond Elliott, representa
tive of the Summerville Chapter,
met with keen competition from
Sonoraville, Menlo and Berry
Schools whose representatives
were placed in the order in
which the schools are listed. The
judges spent several moments
before the winner was decided
upon, and they made the state
ment that the points for all four
speakers were very close.
The Summerville quartet was
composed of Billy Stephenson,
Bobby Groce, Eugene Suits and
Johnny Green. These boys did a
fine job but lost to the Berry
Quartet, first place, and the
quartet from Sonoraville. second
place. Nevertheless, the Sum
merville chapter feels proud of
all the boys who participated in
the contest and wishes to express
its appreciation to Mr. Ken
Keese, accompanist and director
of the quartet, for his interest
and time devoted to this task.
We shall strive harder next
year to make a better showing
in this very important contest.
—Reporter
FINAL RITES HELD
FOR R. L. BEASON;
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Funeral services for Robert
Lee Beason. 32, of Jamestown,
Ala., were held Tuesday morn
ing at 11 o’clock at the Congre
gational Holiness Church in
Lyerly Revs. W A. Manning and
Homer Floyd officiated, with in
terment following in Mt. Zion
Cemetery near Jamestown.
Mr. Beason died Saturday at
5:20 p.m. at a local hospital from
injuries reecived a'oout an hour
earlier in the afternoon in a
' head on collision” with another
car driven by Henry Keown.
Georgia Highway patrol said
Beason was driving alone, north
on Highway 27 above Summer
ville when the left front spring
shackle broke, causing the spring
to fall and dig into the pavement
and swing his car into the path
of the southbound car driven by
Keown.
Keown, his daughter, Wanda
Fnye, father-in-law. Tom Adair,
and son, Lewis Adair, all of Sum
merville, Route 2. were treated
for cuts and bruises and released.
Roth vehicles were reported to be
completely demolished
Chattooga Hospital said Bea
son was suffering from head in-
Juries and possible internal in
juries, and in an attempt to save
his life, blood was rushed from
Rome by the patrol When the
accident happened, Beason was
driving to Trion to work
Beason Is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Vera Bynum Benson: moth
er. Mrs. Caldona Peace Beason
of Jamestown. Ala.; two daugh
ters, Linda and Kathy; a son,
Ronald, all of Lyerly: five broth
ers. Jim and Joe Beason, James
town: Emmett Beason. Lyerly;
Rgt. Relma Reason. Holloman
Air Force Base. N M.; John
Benson of Chicago: three sisters,
Mrs. Jack Rhinehart. Lyerly;
Miss pearl Benson. Anniston,
Ala.; Miss Dora Beason. James
town: grandmother, Mrs Laura
। Peace, Jamestown.