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FIFTH GRADERS Gail Newsome and Mary Gaylor, who nad
left their classmates on the playground on a special mission,
discovered the fire in their own empty fifth grade room at Sum
merville Grammar School. Their warning probably averted heavy
damage. Picture below is scene of children who evacuated the
building in a minute and a half. (See story).
2 GIRLS REPORT BLAZE
Fire al Grammer School
Is Quickly Extinguished
When the whole state of Georgia blazed up on the
bulletin board in Mrs. Katherine tattle’s empty fifth grade
room at Summerville grammar school Tuesday afternoon,
the blaze was detected in the nick of time by Gail Newsome
and Mary Gaylor, who had left their classmates on the
playground because “we just had to go to the restroom.”
Literature about Georgia,
paintings and drawings were
ablaze when the girls looked in
their room. They quickly told
Miss Mabel Aldred, in a neigh
boring fifth grade room, and
then prompt action. resulted in
the fire being put out before the
fire department arrived.
Value of fire drills, carried out
in a calm and orderly manner,
was emphasized. The building
emptied in a minute and a half
as children on both floors moved
quickly to the playground area
and stood in line.
Fifth grade fire monitor Danny
Floyd took down a heavy fire
extinguisher as a janitor was
summoned, and the janitor put
out the fire before the wall be
gan burning. The fact that it
was detected so quickly by the
two fifth grade girls probably
averted a serious blaze in the old
building. It was described as an
“Act of Providence” that they
were on the scene.
Youngsters who serve as moni
tors and inspectors moved the
younger children down the fire ,
escapes, and closed windows.
They included Mark Dawson, Joe
Reynolds, Marshall Rucker and
Rodney Reynolds, of Miss
Aldreds class; and Larry Hol
brooks, David Houston, Bud
Jackson and Danny Joe Ham
mond of Mrs. Little’s class.
Inspectors who cheeked to see .
that everyone was out of the 1
building were Larry Kellett and
Joe Pullen. All of the teachers
and Mrs. John Stubbs, Sr., prin
cipal. supervised the evacuation L
of the youngsters to the play
ground in about as short a pe
riod as would be possible.
About 375 children moved or
derly to the playground.
Origin of the fire was shrouded
in mystery as the room was com
pletely empty. It was conjured
that someone might have been, 1
as has been said about the late
Gen. Sherman, "careless with a
match." But fortunately, little
damage was done, and officials,
and teachers may be sure that
their previous fire drills have not
been in vain. Il is a remarkable
thing that so many children
could be moved outside the
building in a minute and a half
so precisely and orderly.
All concerned arc to be con
gratulated.
DOG POUND STUDIED
County Board of Health
Endorses Fluoridation
At Tuesday’s meeting of the County Board of Health
principal subjects under consideration were the dog piund.
fluoridation of drinking waler,
center.
organizational work In under j
way on the dog pound, with '
many details to be worked out. •
Somebody has to be responsible •
and somebody has to look after i 1
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Airman Kitchens
Ending Basic
At Lackland
Airman Carlton L. Kitchens,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kitch
ens, 1000 South Commerce St.,
Summerville, Ga., is completing
the first phase of his basic mili
tary training at the "Gateway
to the Air Force,” Lackland Air
Force Base, San Antonio. Texas.
Upon completion of this train
ing, he will be assigned to an
Air Force technical training
course or an advanced basic
training course leading to a spe
cialized Air Force Job.
While at Lackland the new
enlistee undergoes the transition
from civilian to airman through
a program which includes pro
cessing. aptitude testing, physi
cal conditioning, survival and
weapons training, and classroom
studies ranging from citizenship
to military customs and cour
tesies.
Like the USAF Officer Candi
date and Pre-Flight Schools, also
located at Lackland, basic mili
tary training lays the ground
work for either an on-the-job
assignment or vocational school
ing in Um- with capability of the
individual.
•, and the Hill-Burton Health
Commissioner John Jones and
Mayor E. U Pestcrficld will get
together with city and county
attorneys. Pete Boney and Earl
Self, and work out ways and
means of building and operation.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA. APRIL 4, 1957
ANOTHER MILLION
HOUSE SETS SUM
AT 5 MILLION
FOR LIBRARIES
Congressman Henderson Lan
ham has done even more for the
regional library services program
than was reported last week, ac
cording to a wire received by Mrs.
Janet Farrar, Cherokee Region
al Library Board.
“HOUSE TODAY APPROPRI
ATED 5 MILLION DOLLARS
FOR LIBRARY SERVICES PRO
GRAM. HENDERSON LANHAM".
Originally, the bill had been
cut to 2 million, raised by Rep.
Lanham’s efforts to 4 million,
and now finally passed at 5 mil
lion for the 48 states.
Georgia’s share will now be
about SIOO,OOO, instead of $40,000,
if the 4 million bill had passed.
The funds will be used, Mrs.
Farrar said, for bookmobile work,
supplies, audio visual material,
films and records. Fifteen regions
and some county libraries will
participate.
In June reading clubs begin all
over the three counties of the
Cherokee Board for white and
colored children. They get cert
ificates for completing the
course.
Walker, Chattooga and Dade
counties work in complete har
mony in the fine regional library
program because of the high
ideals sponsors are aiming for.
Principal of the colored school
at Trion, Mrs. Virginia Shrop
shire, “sold” the children on
making full use of the book
mobile by citing the example of
Abraham Lincoln educating him
self by reading.
i LADIES NIGHT
JAYCEES MARK
IST ANNIVERSARY
AT TAVERN DINNER
Summerville Jaycees, marking
their first anniversary, will ob
serve ladies’ night tonight at
Riegeldale Tavern. Chartered
with 36 members and with a
! present membership of 55, the
local Jaycees were a year old
April 2.
Members, wives, guests and
state officers will attend to
night’s anniversary dinner.
Friday night local Jaycees will
attend charter night ceremonies
at the Trenton School cafeteria,
chartering the Dade County
Junior Chamber, as sponsors of
the club. The local club is proud
1 of the fact that in the first year
they extended one new club.
Aubry Dyer, Jr., is president of
the Trenton Club. Officers will
। be installed by State President
; Albert Massey, of Decatur.
Billie Grimes
In Korea
। Army Specialist Third Class
Billie L Grimes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dan T. Grimes, Summer-
' ville, is a member of the 24th In
fantry Division in Korea.
Grimes, a squad leader in
Company K of the division's 19th
Regiment, entered the Army in
February 1955 and completed
basic training at Fort Bragg,
N. C.
The 19-ycar-old soldier at
i tended Summerville High School.
Disability Payments
Begin At Age 50
Social Security benefit pay
ments to qualified disabled work
ers, age 50 or over, will begin
July. 1957.
Originally designed to provide
protection against loss of income
due to the twin risks of retire
ment or death. Social Security
will now provide protection
against the risk of total and pcr-
I manent disability.
The disability payments will be
made to persons who are unable
to work because of a severe dls
. ability, which has existed for at
' least six months and is expected
( to continue indefinitely. The ap
, plicants must have worked al
I least five years out of the ten
years before the disability be
gan and one and a half years out
of the three before that date.
The Rome Social Security of
fice is located at 517 Broad
Street, with Glen Porter, District
Manager.
SERGI IN i st inn I I
CHANGES DAYS
Master Sergeant Schmitt, Army
Recruiting representative, wishes
to inform the public that lie will
be at Summerville Courthouse
each Tuesday and Friday morn
ings and Trion each Tuesday
afternoon. He will no longer be
in Summerville or Trion on Mon
daya.
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IN CHARGE of the annual cancer drive in Chattooga County
are Mrs. Sanford Dunson and Mrs. Claude Bagley, Jr., co-chair
men, and Mrs. Fete Boney, shown, left to right. The goal is
$2,522.
SEEK $2,522 GOAL
American Cancer Society
Crusade Begins in County
The American Cancer Society’s 1957 education funds
crusade in Chattooga County was launched by a planning
' meeting here Tuesday.
The annual campaign, spon
sored here by the Summerville
Women’s Club, will last through- I
I out April, national “Cancer Con- ;
trol Month.”
The volunteer workers here
I seek $2,522, as part of the Geor
gia goal of $550,000 and the na
tional goal of $30,000,000.
Mrs. Sanford Dunson, co
chairman of the campaign here,
I said that in addition people will
। be urged to have regular health
examinations as protection
against death from cancer.
This week’s planning meeting
। was held at the home of Mrs.
| Dunson. Other key leaders pres-
I ent were Mrs. Claude Bagley, Jr.,
■ co-chairman, and Mrs. Pete
| Boney.
Mrs. Dunson pointed out that
plans were discussed for a one
night house-to-house crusade on
the evening of April 30. Another
part of the campaign will be
conducted in local businesses and
। industries.
Mrs. Dunson said, “For this
campaign to be a real success,
I the help of each person is
I needed.
“The fight against cancer is
important to each of us. This
disease strikes in two of every
three homes and claims an
other every two minutes. Such
a killer must be stopped. And it
can be if we all work together
I against it.”
Traverse Jurors
For April Court
Traverse Jurors drawn for the |
April Term, 1957 of Chattooga i
Superior Court, to report at 9:00
a. m. Monday, April 22, 1957.
Lee Holbrooks, Frank Stan-1
field. Alfred Hall, C. E. Rampley. I
J. M. Richardson, Mrs. Mary J.
Fowler, H. P. Whitley, Ralph
Parris, Carlos Buice, Milton Wil- !
| son, W. A. Stanfield, George S. '
Kirby, Robert Lee Starr.
Romine Bowman, C. W. Scog- >
gins, Ross P. Smith, Loyd B.
I Hayes, Henry Rider. R. M Reece,'
i Grace M. Haygood, James Ander
son. W. A. Gobel, Mont Maddux.
James D. Millican. G. W. Camer
on, Clyde Walker, Guy Rinehart. I
Roy L. Hardin, W. W Whitley,
Paul Silvers, Mrs. Jessie Boyles,
Carl Bumgarner, Alvin Tudor, [
John Campbell, Clayton Howell, j
J. E. Thomas. J. F. Weems, R. A
Tucker, Clay A. Humphries.
Jim Deberry, Malcolm E.
Powell, Joe A. Ragland, Hoyt W
Parker, Charles Morgan. Milton i
। Jones, Paul Crouch, ’Jam es j
Braziel, Robert Gamble, W R
I Chapplear. Homer Mundy. Mrs
Janet L. Farrar. W. C. Busbin.
Ex p I <>rers Organ i ze
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Explorer crew of Boy Seoul
troop No. 7 held their organiza
tional meeting with Scoutmaster
Evans Scoggins at the State Case.
Twelve boys were present.
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EXPLORERS organisational meeting of Boy Scout Troop No.
7. Reading around the table from the left arc Maurice Smith,
Robert Patterson, Boh Maban. Petie Dunoon, Billy Johnson,
Scoutmaster Evans Scoggins, Ronald Crouch, Billy Mitchell,
William biuilU. C. D. Lung and bttpbcn McKenzie.
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MENLO SENIORS
HAVE STEW SALE
There will be a brunswick
stew sale sponsored by Menlo i
senior class Saturday, April 6,
from 10:30 a. m. to 2:30 p. m.
in the Menlo park, or in case
of rain, at Menlo High School.
The stew is made by Mack
Arden.
For delivery in Menlo, Sum
merville and Trion phone
Menlo 391. Price SI per quart.
7TH DISTRICT VETS
EXCEED THEIR MARK
BY 40 MEMBERS
I On Friday, March 29, the 7th
। District Veterans o f Foreign
Wars exceeded the 100% mark
by forty members. The total
membership in 1956 was 1861;
for 1957 already it is 1901.
The district is also 100% in the
5 following programs: Community
service, youth activities, post in
spection.
; .The Buddy Poppy sale will,be
; in May and it is hoped that every
'' post in the district will sell these
poppies to make the district
; 100% in all its programs.
—D. P. Henley, Commander
7th District V. F. W.
Roberta Dobbs Will
Graduate At Med School
A Summerville girl, Roberta
Dobbs, will graduate from the
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Army
Medical Service School for phy
| sical therapy students this
; month, according to word re
i ceived here by her parents, Mr.
| and Mrs. R. J. Dobbs.
She is learning professional
procedures vital to the rehabili-
I tation of many patients who had
had accidents, illnesses, or with
j congenital deformities. At Brooke
Army Medical Center students I
■ learn their procedures in a back
ground which has been outstand
ing in pioneering and develop
mental work in physical therapy.
HOMER G. ALEXANDER
PLEDGES KAPPA ALPHA
Homer G. Alexander, of 203
Georgia Avenue, Summerville,
was among 70 male students at
Florida Southern College re
cently pledged to one of seven i
national fraternities or two fra- I
' terna! colonies on the Frank
Lloyd Wright campus at Lake
land, Fla.
Alexander, a freshman at
Florida Southern, was pledged to
Kappa Alpha, one of the fra
ternal colonies, and will be
initiated in the latter part of the
j current semester.
'to HI, and they meet once a
week at the Scout Hut A 3 day
and night camping trip is plan
ned on Lookout mountain for the
near future. The service project
IS grmnd observer corps
SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 PER YEAR
SPELLING CHAMPION
PAULA ALLEN, 12,
GOES TO ROME
DISTRICT MEET
Paula Allen, 12, seventh grade
student of the Summerville Ele
mentary School, goes to Rome
Friday to try for district honors
after winning the Chattooga
County spelling bee at the court
house last Thursday.
If successful at Rome, Paula
will go to Atlanta for the state
finals.
The Summerville miss spelled
only one word incorrectly—
prejudice—in winning the coun
ty-wide contest. Sharon Bailey,
sixth grade student at Pennville,
placed second.
Others participating in the
spelling bee were Willis Dover,
Welmyer; Margaret Bailey,
Trion; Charles Smith, Lyerly,
and Maxine Wofford, Menlo.
Each county winner is presented
a $25 savings bond by the spon
soring Atlanta Journal. Miss
Frances Johnston. Instructional
Supervisor for Chattooga County,
conducted the contest.
Paula is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Grady Allen, of Sum
merville. A natural speller, this
was her first contest.
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PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH LAUNCHES
BOND PROGRAM
The Summerville Presbyterian
Church is conducting a drive
this week to sell bonds totaling
; $41,000 to finance the construc
tion of an educational building.
This program is being con
ducted by the Trinity Church
Plan Foundation which is a non
profit organization designed to
help churches initiate and carry
out a successful bond issue.
Plans call for the construction
of a split level building which
will give an additional space of
6.000 feet and will include Sun
day School rooms, a new fellow
ship room and kitchen. The av
erage attendance of the Sunday
School has grown from 47 in 1945
। to better than 125 in 1956. With
' an enrollment of 215 currently in
Sunday School additional space
is urgently needed.
The bond drive is being con
ducted by the following chair
men, leaders and captains: D. L.
McWhorter, general chairman;
William B Farrar, co-chairman:
leaders: Dr. and Mrs. William
P Martin, Frank Agnew. Leath
Miller; captains: Mrs. Howard
Bohanan, Mrs. B. W Farrar. H.
I L. McGinnis, Andrew Williams,
John Bankson, Joe Pitts, David
Houston, D P Henley. Stuart
Marks. O. H. Elgin, C. C. Fink,
John Black Whisnant, Jr.
I These bonds are not limited to
members of the Summerville
Presbyterian Church but will be
offered to other investors in
terested in furthering the work
of the Master.
Final reports on the progress
of the program will be presented
April 7th.
Subligna H D Club
Has March Meeting
The Subligna Home Demon
stration Chib met with Mrs. Les
ter Dawson March 26. with 12
members present and one visitor
The meeting was called to or
der by the president, Mrs A P
Neal Mrs. Ina Scoggins gave the
devotional.
The project chairman on
health. Mrs. T. H. Cordle, gave a
talk
Mrs. Marie Plunkett gave a
1 demonstration on "Uses of Hon
ey" Hn the absence of Miss
Wiley)
Delicious refreshments were
. rived by Ihe hostess
MISSION STUDY HELD
AT WELCOME HILL
The book on Home Missions. •
by Courts Rcdloid wa tauubt
last Thursday evening at the
Welcome Hill Baptist Church.
Miss Mary Broom and Mrs. Oliver
Pledger were teachers for the
; eluates.
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lt.KK£ AND EDDIE Eilenburg, aged 3 and 5, typify the
expressions of baseball fans at this time of the year. Parents are
Mr. and Mrs. William Eilenburg, and grandparents Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Eilenburg and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Geice, Summerville.
OUTSTANDING RECORD
City oi Suiniiierville Ilas
No Major Crime in 3 Months
So far this year in Summerville, covering the first
three months of 1957, there has been no major crime no
killings, no stabbings, no really bad assaults.
Law enforcement officers, who
are doing a good job, are highly
pleased that Summerville seems
rapidly becoming a model city
for law and order. Last week, the
NEWS pointed out that the first
three months also have been
free of traffic fatalities. It is a
most commendable record in al!
respects.
There are no cases warranting
a jury for Superior Court crim-
I inal cases. All non-contested di
vorce cases will be heard on
Saturday, April 13, before Judge
John Davis.
Usually, the second week in
April is criminal court week. This
time traverse jurors have been
drawn for a week of civil court
for suits, damages, divorces,
alimony, etc.
No Grand Jury has been
drawn this time, as there are no
cases for their consideration.
The last Grand Jury was the
January term.
The first Grand Jury em
paneled by the fall term of Su
' perior Court in July will take ac
tion on the act of the legislature
1 in raising pay of jurors from $6
to $lO. which will make it more
i attractive for citizens to serve.
EDITORIAL
Do We Want a Depression?
h's Squarely Up to Us
There is a vague fear gnawing at the vitals of many people,
i and you can see it in their strained expressions, some of them
I consumers, others people in business.
They FEAR there is going to be a depression.
Enough people can bring any condition about, and the un
healthiest of all attitudes is fear. People can think themselves
into serious illness, mental and physical; they can also think
business into the doldrums. They can do it through fear.
Why should many people regard a slow down in business, in
some areas, as anything like a depression, or the prospects of one,
when economists think otherwise and numerous factors bear them
out. There have to be seasonal slowdowns, now and then.
But. as one of America’s great watch companies has just
advised a Summerville dealer. Phil Foglia: “Economic conditions
are sound."
Attending a Georgia-South Carolina jewelers' convention in
Atlanta last week. Foglia heard spokesmen blame retailers if busi
ness is slow for not advertising the products enough.
The manufacturers spend millions on their products, advertis
ing in all media, but if the retailers don't back them up with local
advertising, they have hurt both themselves and the company
whose products they use
Selling is based on promotion and advertising, as the major
companies see it. They must sec it right, because they sell their
goods.
Before you die of fear that there is going to b< a depression,
and before you think all around you into a blue funk of maniac
depression, just consider a few factors
Banks have more money, and it's all insured
The assets of insurance companies are at an all-time high,
because they're selling more insurance than ever in history.
Manufacturers have orders stacked for later billing
People are buying more high priced merchandise Investment
companies are selling more common stock. The stock market Is
stable. More people arc traveling More new products are on the
market. People are so lazy they must have power lawn mowers.
We re for that However .
There can't be a depression, really; but you CAN have a
depression if you want one. Just sit on your money and don't buy.
When enough people do that, afraid that there is not going to be
a tomorrow, then you can have a realization of your worst fears.
And that's not living.
You can have a depression if fear is your stix'k in trade, but
if you're a realist and an optimist, you can TH IT HOME,
and trade enough, to make business normal, or great. It's up to
you. It largely depends on your fear complex On the other hand,
wc cun wake up and live.
Better wc do it as our forebears did Take fear by the horns
and shake it to death They saw it through when times "
really lough. They'd view conditions today as prosperity with
wings, which conditions actually arc if we will them so. America
is 100 strong, too progressive, for panic or fear
Glee Club Concert Tonight
There will be a Glee Chili con
eert directed by Mis John d
Taylor, at 730 tonight at the
Methodist Church in Bummer
vine.
Program
Patriotic — "I Pledge Alle
giance." "America the Beauti
ful." descant, Martha Green. Sue
Hughes. Sandra Smithson; "Bat
tle Hymn of the Republic
Folk Songs—"On Top of Old
‘ Smoky," "Down In Ilie Valley,"
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COUNTRY BROWN
AWAITING WORD
ON HIS CONTRACT
Country Brown is awaiting
word from General Manager Bill
McCarthy, of Nashville, on his
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chorus; "1 I’ream of Jennie" iby
Stephen Fostert, solo, Sandra
Smilhson; “The Dying Cowboy,"
chorus: "Shenandoah,” FHA
Quartet and chorus
Popular — Marianne," FFA
Quartet; "Will You Remember?",
Sandra Smithson, Jerry Bridges;
"Cindy," FHA Quartet.
Spirituals—" Steal Away," "Set
Down Servant," chorus: "Lone
some Valley," solo. Billy Murdock
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