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SUMMERVILLE SENIORS AT CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON
Summerville Seniors left Ce
dartown, April 18, at 5:00 p.m. on
The Silver Comet, and arrived in
Richmond, Virginia Sunday
morning in time for breakfast at
The Richmond Hotel. From the
hotel they left to tour Richmond,
Jamestown, and Williamsburg, at
3:00. The class boarded a ferry
at New Port and crossed the
James River to Norfolk, a large
seaport. At Norfolk a streamer
was waiting to take them for an
over-night cruise up the Chesa
peake Bay. Upon arrival at Bal
timore, Maryland they boarded
two sight-seeing busses and
journeyed to Annapolis, the
Naval Academy. After an inter-
NATIONAL HOME
DEMONSTRATION
WEEK MAY 3-9
More than 47,775 women will
be hostess to Georgia during Na
tional Home Demonstration
Week which will be celebrated
May 3-9.
Accordihg to Miss Omie H.
Wiley, home demonstration
agent for Chattooga County, this
week is annually set aside for
club members to join with neigh
bors and friends in paying trib
ute to their efforts to make,
"Today’s Home Build Tomor
row’s World.” This is the theme
for the 3,000,000 members of
the clubs in the 48 states, Ha
waii, Puerto Rica and Alaska.
Georgia club members are plan
ning their observance around
the theme, “Building Home
Foundations For World Peace.”
Started by the National Home
Demonstration Council this is
the eighth annual observance.
Jennie Williams, of Wyoming,
president, says, “Some com
munities are aware of the work
ings of home demonstration
clubs, others not at all. Perhaps
members can spend a little more
time this spring and make 1953
the year when several million
more Americans find out what
Extension, through its program
for women, is doing for Ameri
ca.”
Miss Wiley asserted, “Home
Demonstration work starts with
the home, but world affairs have
a definite bearing these days on
better living for rural families."
American Legion
Meets 8 p.m. Friday
American Legion Post 6688 will
meet at 8 p.m. Friday. Note the
change In time from 7:30 p.m.
to 8 p.m. Furman Camp, ad
jutant, advises.
Seniors Present
'Tattletale'
Friday Night
"Tattletale,” a three act com
edy. will be presented by Sum
mcrviHe Senior Class on Friday.
May 8. at 8:00 p.m. at the Sum
merville High Auditorium.
Admission is 25c and 50c.
BEERSHEBA PRESBYTERIANS OBSERVE
CENTENNIAL SUNDAY. MAY 17TH
Members of the Beersheba
Presbyterian Church will observe
the 100th anniversary of their
church Sunday, May 17, with
special services.
Dr. Cecil Thompson. D D. of
Columbia Seminary. Decatur, a
former pastor of Beersheba, will
speak at the 11 o’clock service.
Rev. David E. Boozer, also a
(The Bimtntrrnilk Nms
esting tour of the grounds and
buildings, we again boarded the
busses and rode to our main
destination, Washington. Mon
day afternoon was spent in vis
iting the capitol, the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving and the
Washington Monument. That
night most of the class went to
the Capital Theatre and saw a
movie and a stage show.
Tuesday the class went on a
tour of Washington which in
cluded going through the F. 8.1.
Building and many other inter
esting sights. That afternoon the
tour included the Lincoln Me
morial, The Tomb of the Un
known Soldier and Mount Ver-
'Our Women Speak'
Column Use, Mrs. J.
C. Smith's Suggestion
A household idea submitted by
Mrs. J. C. Smith, Menlo, was ac
cepted for publication in the
May issue of The Progressive
Farmer, a farm magazine edited
by Southerners for Southern
farm families.
Her suggestion follows: “I keep
a large calendar on the wall to
use to jot down important dates
that I want to remember. By
keeping a last year’s calendar
hanging under it, I can compare
important dates of both years at
a glance.”
Mrs. Smith’s idea appears in
“Our Women Speak,” a monthly
column devoted to the exchange
of household hints among read
ers of The Progressive Farmer.
Dougherty Mallicoat
Buried in Trion
William Dougherty Mallicoat,
50, of LaFayette, died in a Bir
mingham hospital Sunday morn
ing at 6 o’clock.
Mr. Mallicoat was bom and
reared in Trion, the son of the
late Dr. L. A. Mallicoat and the
late Annie Routh, of Trion.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Thelma L. Mallicoat; one daugh
ter, Bettye Mallicoat of LaFa
yette; one brother, Jim Malli
coat, Jacksonville, Ala.; two sis
ters, Mrs. M. H. Kirkland, Bir
mingham, and Mrs. Bob Oliver,
Rome; stepmother, Mrs. Ger
trude Mallicoat, Rome, two
aunts, Mrs. Effie Schmidt, Sum
merville, and Mrs. Mary Smith,
Port Orange, Fla., and an uncle,
H. D. Mallicoat, Summervile.
Funeral services were at the
chapel of J. Avery Bryan Com
pany in LaFayette, at 3 o'clock
Tuesday, Minister Fred Moseley
officiating. Interment was in
the Trion Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Hayden
Ezell, Ray Underwood, Hall
Tyler, Robert Bridges, Freed
Hicks, Dewey Williams. Honor
ary: Ben Loughridge, Ross
Loughridge. Jim Loughridge. Ben
Quarles. Lee Crane, P. W. Baker
Sr.. R. H. Dyer, Dewey Penning
ton, Fred Gilreath, Ross Thoma?,
Fred Thomas. Sadd Dalton, E. L.
Gray, Hoyt Griffith and Truman
Ezell.
former pastor will speak at 2:30
p.m.
The membership of Beersheba
Church Is around 50. Elders are
W. M. Storey and W W. Stansell,
John Stubbs Jr. and E. E. Keen
serve as Deacons.
All members, former members
and friends are Invited to attend
these services and bring a picnic
lunch.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953
non, the home of George and
Martha Washington. That night
the students were free to do
what they wanted to and most
of them went to a movie or a
bailgame.
Wednesday morning was free
for shopping. That afternoon
they visited the Smithsonian In
stitute and left for home at 5:20.
They arrived in Cedartown
Thursday morning at 9:20.
The Seniors wish to thank
Miss Jo Maret and Mr. Kermit
Maupin for going with them and
being such good chaperons. Also
our thanks to the people of the
town who helped to make the
trip possible.
Representatives of
Summerville FHA
Attend Convention
Those from Summerville who
attended the State Future
Homemakers of America Con
vention in Augusta last Thurs
day through Saturday were:
Miss Frances Hill, president;
Miss Charlotte McGinnis, secre
tary; Miss Ina Foster, treasurer;
delegates Ann Eleam and Anita
Butler; teacher, Mrs. Harry Mc-
Ginnis; advisor, Miss Yvonne
McCullough; and chapter moth
er, Mrs. John Bankson.
Yard of Month
Won by Morgans
The “Yard of the month” for
May was awarded to the J. T.
Morgans, comer of Washington
Street and Highland Avenue.
Runners-up for the Chattooga
Garden Club’s monthly recogni
tion of homes was the Rufus
Pruitts of College Street.
The winning yard, according
to the judges, was not only neat
and well kept but the wide ex
panse of a rolling green lawn
backed by climbing red roses and
other shrubbery near the house
added points to the monthly
award.
The Rufus Pruitt home from
the standpoint of care and evi
dence of hand worl^ and the re
sults of effort to create a beauti
ful yard just barely missed the
plaque for May.
The Garden Club commends
these two winners for making
their yards not only places of
beauty for themselves but for
their neighborhoods and the
city of Summerville.
'Homeland Harmony'
Quartet Here Tuesday
The “Homeland Harmony”
Quartet from Atlanta will be in
concert at the courthouse Tues
day night at 8 o'clock.
Summerville Parent-Teacher
Association is sponsoring the
concert and everyone is invited
to attend.
Salmon Butane Gas Co.
Installs 2-Way Radio
Salmon Butane Gas Company
recently installed a 2 way radio
system in all their cars and
trucks. It is now possible with
this system to give quick service
to users of gns in this territory.
One instance of immediate
service—a long distance call
came from Rockmart, stating
they were out of gas. A truck in
that vicinity was alerted and in
eight minutes the truck was fill
ing the empty tank.
Adequate protein In the diet
of the school-age child increases
his resistance to Infection,
studies indicate. Protein in steak
costs $6 per pound, in fluid milk,
$3.
FARM AGENT URGES
EARLY CONTROL OF
COTTON INSECTS
County Agent M. H. Purcell
this week urged Chattooga cot
ton growers to begin now an
early-season program for con
trol of cotton damaging insects.
Community action will in
crease the value of an early-sea
son program, he declared.
He pointed out that recently
completed spring trash examina
tions, under the direction of Dr.
C. M. Beckham, entomologist at
the Georgia Experiment Station,
to determine the survival of
overwintering boll weevils show
an average of 78 per cent of the
weevils entering hibernation sur
vived the winter. This number is
enough to build up to dangerous
proportions if the weather is fa
vorable during June and July, he
warned.
Also the survey figures indi
cate quite a variation in the
number of weevils from farm to
! farm and from area to area, M.
H. Purcell continued. This fact
emphasizes the importance of in
spections of individual fields by
farmers.
Where cotton has been up for
a week or two it is time for early
season applications of poison,
the county agent declared. One
or two early applications for
thrips control and/or for the
control of cutworms, flea beetles
or fleahoppers will be beneficial
where these insects are causing
damage.
If boll weevils are present, a
weevil application should be
made just before the squares are
large enough to puncture, he
continued. Such an application
will often delay or even prevent
a heavy build-up of weevils later
in the season.
Purcell said that detailed in
formation on these applications
is contained in the circular,
“Cotton Insect Control,’’ which
is available at his office.
He pointed out that cotton
growers should buy at least some
insecticides now to insure a
plentiful supply of poison in
case of heavy infestations and
demand. Although the supply of
basic chemicals is considered
adequate, he said, serious short
ages of field strength materials
could occur if insecticides are
not bought and stored on the
farm to make room for addition
al supplies in warehouses. And
the price of cotton poisons has
never been cheaper, he added.
Carolyn Webster,
Menlo FHA, Elected
State Secretary
A member of the Menlo Future
Homemakers of America Chap
ter, Carolyn Webster, was elected
Secretary of the State Future
Homemakers Organization last
week-end at the Bth annual Con
vention in Augusta. She defeat
ed Marilyn Bledsoe of the Frank
lin Chapter.
Another highlight for the
Menlo Chapter was the winning
of one of ten certificates for the
best picture of the year. The pic
ture was of Menlo’s President,
Edith Garvin, playing her violin
in the Rome Symphony Orches
tra. It was chosen because it
showed how a farm girl can take
part in farm activities and also
develop the cultural side of life.
The theme of the convention
“Friendship Around the World"
was carried out in all the meet
ings.
A fashion show by Davison’s
featured clothes that could be
made by teen-agers.
Relaxers, singing and folk
games were led by Miss Cath
erine Allen of the University of
Tennessee.
The climax of the convention
came Saturday night when the
eight hundred delegates from
[ all over Georgia had their an
i nual banquet at the Bon Aire
; Hotel. Miss Edna Amidon, US
I Department of Education, spoke
lon “Homemaking Around the
i World". One of the outstanding
I points that she made was that
| if we expect to ever have world
, peace first, we must learn to get
i along at home with our own
I families.
Summerville F.H.A.
Chapter Wins Awards
Summerville High School's Fu
ture Homemaker Chapter has
won Honor Roll rating fortheir
outstanding FHA achievements
In school, home and community.
Awards were presented at
the Bth annual state convention
in Augusta Saturday.
Summerville Chapter also re
ceived states’ top news award.
Twenty-one chapters out of
382 In the state won Honor Roll
■ rating.
LYERLY F.F.A.S
PLACE SECOND IN
CATTLE JUDGING
The Lyerly dairy cattle judg
ing team placed second in FFA
competition at the University of
Georgia’s seventh annual Dairy
Day Saturday in Athens.
The team, coached by Vernon
Lidmore, also placed second in
judging jerseys, one of three
types of dairy cattle team mem
bers were called on to judge.
The Lyerly team won honors in
competition with FFA teams
from points throughout Georgia.
4-H Club teams also competed
in the contest, but their compe
tition was separate from that of
FFA.
Lamar Martin, a member of
the Lyerly team, was second
highest individual FFA scorer in
the contest.
Dairy Day is sponsored by the
University’s Dairy Science Club.
LAST RITES FOR
H. T. SMITH
Funeral services for Harrison
Teener Smith, 66, who died at his
home Route 2, Summerville
(Pennville community) Friday,
were conducted from the Penn
ville Gospel Tabernacle Sunday
at 11 a.m. with Rev. Frank Lewis
and Rev. Virgil Blaylock officiat
ing. Interment was in the Harris
Cemetery near Cedar Bluff, Ala.
Survivors are: his wife, Mrs.
Lora Livingston Smith; four
daughters, Mrs. Ola Cochran,
Mrs. Edna Beck, Miss Inez and
Miss Mattie Lee Smith, all of
Route 2; two sons, James Smith,
Route 2, and Milton Smith with
the U. S. Army stationed in At
lanta. Three grandchildren and
one nephew also survive.
J. D. Hill Funeral Home of
Summerville was in charge of
arrangements.
CHARLES H, WRIGHT
DIES IN MENLO
Funeral services for Charles
Henry Wright, 84, who died at
his home near Menlo, Saturday
at 9:30 were held from the New
Hope North Baptist Church Sun
day at 4:30 p.m. with Rev. Clyde
Chadwick and Rev. W. A. Ward
officiating. Interment was in the
Trinity Cemetery.
Survivors are: his wife, Mrs.
Martha Jane Little Wright; two
daughters, Mrs. H. A. Campbell
and Mrs. Annie Rape, of Menlo;
four sons, John Henry Wright,
Antioch, Tenn.; Grover (Bud>
Wright, Menlo; William L.
Wright, Chattanooga, and Tiney
Wright, of Summerville. Twenty
seven grandchildren and 22
great-grandchildren also survive.
Incomplete Returns
On Cancer Drive
Mrs. Kelley Jordan, Chattooga
County Cancer Fund Chairman,
announces an incomplete list
collected to help fight the killer,
cancer, our most dreaded dis
ease.
Mrs. Jordan thinks Chattooga
will meet this emergency as it
should, with “sleeves rolled up.”
From Lyerly, Mrs. Johnnie Bry
ant reports $34.24; Woman’s
Club, $35.00; Court House, Em
mett Clarkson, $26.00; Summer
ville Manufacturing Company,
$259.88; Chattooga County
Schools, Lowell Hix, $77 40:
Business District, $314.94. The
total from this incomplete list is
$787.99.
Approximately ten chairmen
have not reported.
C. B. Bricker, in charge of the
drive in Trion, will report the
last week in May.
Coosa River Group
Banquet Tonight
The annual Coosa River Soil
Conservation District's banquet
for businessmen will be held
Thursday at Riegeldale Tavern.
Speakers for the occasion have
not yet been announced. Some
100 businessmen to sponsor a
publicity program for the soil
conservation service work in the
eight counties of the district will
be guests.
District supervisors of the BCS
are W M. Storey of Chattooga
County, chairman; R M Stiles
of Bartow, secretary; Smiley
Johnson and Posey Dooley,
Floyd; Robert H. Witcher and
W F Gattis, Polk; Henry A.
Winn. Paulding; J. O. Davis,
Gordon; Louis Hunt, Walker,
and D. E Morrison. Dade.
RETAIL MERCHANTS ANNUAL BENEFIT
DINNER TO BE HELD MONDAY NIGHT
SI ' fw 1
TO CONDUCT REVIVAL — The
Rev. Herbert Morgan, pastor of
E. Thomaston Baptist Church
and former pastor of South
Summerville Church, will be
guest speaker at a revival be
ginning Sunday, May 10, at
Calvary Baptist Church. Bel
lah Addition. Services will be
gin each evening at 7:45 and
everyone is cordially invited to
attend. The Rev. Sidney Dooley
is pastor of the church.
Warning—How Safe
Is Your Milk?
Good clean milk can help
make our children strong and
healthy, but a low-grade un
clean milk can make them vio
lently ill and even completely
ruin their health. People die
every year from drinking milk
contaminated with disease
germs. Do you know that medi
cal authorities on preventive
medicine tell us that typhoid
fever, parathypoid, tuberculosis,
scarlet fever, infantile paralysis,
food infection, diphtheria, septic
sore throat, undulant fever,
food and mouth disease, diar
rhea, dysentery and many other
diseases may be transmitted
through milk?
Chattooga County’s milk needs
are continually increasing from
year to year, as any other pro
gressive country’s, but as the
need increases, so does the num
ber of local milk producers, espe
cially retail raw distributors
during the spring and summer I
months at which time many peo-1
pie have a milk surplus which is'
sold to their friends, neighbors'
or elsewhere. This is the milk
which we would like to talk
about.
First of all we think dairying
is a good business and secondly
we all know that milk is one of
the most wholesome foods In the '
world. We like to encourage the
business of dairying and the use i
of clean, safe milk, but at the'
same time we must insist that if j
milk is to be sold to the public,
it must be produced from
healthy cows as evidenced by ,
tests and examinations made by
a licensed vetemarian; by
healthy milkers as evidenced by
chest x-rays, blood tests and a
complete physical examination
by a medical doctor. Milk must
also be produced under what we
call Grade A conditions and so
handled until it reaches the
consuming public. If the dairy
from which we get our milk is
under these conditions, there is
little chance of our getting some
disease from it. We certainly i
need to commend those dairy- |
men who are doing everything in
their power to supply us with
safe Grade A milk.
What about your milk man?
Does he have a permit from the
Health Department to sell milk
in Chattooga County? If not,
why doesn’t he? Are his cow’s
tested for Bangs disease and
Tuberculosis? In what kind of
place are his cows milked and
how is that milk handled during
and after milking? Does he have
a health card?
The following dairies have
been given permits to retail
Grade A raw milk in Chattooga
County: J. B Butler, K A. Veach, [
Homer McKin. Ray Junkins and
B. F. Logan and Sons We know
these men have healthy cows
and are healthy themselves be
cause they have certificates to!
prove it. They have grade A fa-1
cilities and handle their milk in j
such away that the chances for
contamination are at an abso
lute minimum, which Is the pur
pose of the Health Department’s
activities in milk control.
The supervision of the local
dairies Is a public health tfbtivity
designed to minimise the spread
of communicable diseases
through milk This activity Is
vital both to the public and the
dairyman.
It is the purpose of this article
to make you think and to warn
$2.00 PER YEAR
The Summerville Retail Mer
chants Association will hold their
annual dinner meeting at the
Steak House Monday, May 11 at
7:30 p.m. All proceeds above the
actual cost of the dinner will go
to the Summerville Youth Pro
gram, Inc. The Merchants raised
$192.00 last year for the support
of the recreational activities of
the playground and other youth
programs.
D. P. “Don" McLaughlin, di
rector of the Rome Y. M. C. A.
will be the principle speaker at
the dinner and his address will
forecast the dividends of the fu
ture years of Summerville from
the program that dedicates itself
to properly training the youth of
today in sportsmanship, leader
ship and civic responsibility as
does the Youth Program.
A general meeting of the Re
tail Merchants will be held in
connection with the dinner at
which time a full report will be
given on the year’s accomplish
ments and projects. An outline
of future projects will also be
given along with other impor
tant matters of business.
Everyone who is interested in
the Youth Program, Inc. and its
development are urged to pur
chase tickets to the dinner.
Tickets can be obtained from the
following businessmen:
E. C. Pesterfield, Phil Foglia,
Hill Bohanan, J. L. Salmon, Bill
Jordan, Marshall Lowry, Loyce
Bell, Bob Guffin, L. A. Miller and
John Bankson.
NOTICE 0F1954
WHEAT ALLOTMENTS
On April 15, 1953, the Secre
tary of Agriculture anounced
that the Department is planning
to start immediately preliminary
work necessary for acreage al
lotment and marketing quota
programs on the 1954 crop of
wheat
Final decisions on whether
acreage allotments and market
ing quotas are to be in effect
must be made not later than
July 1, 1953 for marketing quotas
and July 15, 1953 for acreage
allotments. The county PMA of
fices are now in the process of
contacting farmers to obtain
wheat acreage figures for 1951,
1952, and 1953. T. P. Johnston,
Chairman of the Chattooga
County PMA Committee, urges
every farmer who planted wheat
for any of these three years to
be certain that his report is
taken within the next two weeks.
Mrs. S. L. Dempsey
Succumbs to Illness
■P
Funeral services for Mrs.
Samantha Lambert Dempsey, 74,
wife of the late J. H. Dempsey,
who died at the home of a son,
Gladston Dempsey in Menlo,
Saturday at 8:30 a.m. were con
ducted at the Oak Hill Methodist
Church Sunday at 3 p.m. with
Rev. Forrest Slater and Rev.
John Crowe officiating. Inter
ment was in the churchyard
cemetery.
Other survivors are three
daughters, Mrs. Ollie Webb and
Mrs. Ethridge Yarbrough, of
Route 1, Summerville; Mrs. El
mer Morrison, LaFayette; five
sons, W. P. Dempsey, Miami;
Bob and Jess Dempsey, of Sum
merville; Doyle Dempsey, Chat
tanooga; and Gladston Demp
of Menlo. Twenty-seven grand
children and 15 great-grandchil
dren and one brother, Samuel
Lambert, of Summerville, also
survive.
J. D. Hill Funeral Home of
Summerville was In charge of
the arrangements.
you of the dangers of unclean
milk. You may say that you have
never gotten sick from drinking
milk from an unapproved source,
but how do you know? What
about the time you or some
member of your family had a
sore throat for no apparent rea
son? The organisms causing that
may hgve come from a cow’s
udder infected with numtit is.
What about the time you had a
severe case of diarrhea'’ Your
milk man may have brought it
to you in a milk bottle or a jug.
Remember this—after you get
a disease, It is too late to start
being careful. The only way to
treat a disease is to prevent it
In the first place. Know the
quality of the milk you are using
and giving your children
Know the source of your milk
supply Make it your business to
know what kind of facilities your
dairyman has It is your right
and your duty to know for the
sake of our health—how safe
your milk is.