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Independence Day
July 4, 1960.
A time when the President of the United
States has just been told not to visit Japan
lest his safety be in doubt. A time when
Russia has slapped this nation by with
drawing an invitation for our President to
visit. A time when the governments of
Turkey and Korea, with which we had been
friendly, were replaced through popular
demand. A time when our little neighbor to
the South, Cuba, has become anti-Ameri
can and plans to host Russia’s dictator. A
time when we continue to lag behind in the
outer space and missile races.
—A time of grave concern for our nation.
The United States today, on the eve of
the celebration of her 184th birthday,
stands shorn of much of the respect she
attained in the world during and right after
World War 11.
We no longer have the friendship of the
peoples that we once had. Instead, com-
You
The head of a taxpayer research organi
zation warns that all the government
spending plans and programs now being
hatched in Washington will have to be fi
nanced from just one source—and that’s
the already tightly squeezed taxpayer.
The wonder is that such a warning is
needed. But it is—for, apparently, great
numbers of people still labor under the
delusion that government money comes
magically out of the blue, not out of their
Tri-State Firm Gets
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perior Court jury. The next
term of Superior Court here is
in October.
The receiver said he will con
sult with the personnel of the
business about once a week and
will not devote his full time to
the matter. He has been em
powered to handle all moneys
and property until further order
of the court and will be under
$5,000 bond.
Mr. Haynes has been a certi
fied public accountant in Rome
for 21 years and has his own
firm there. He is a member of
the Georgia Society of CPA's, the
American Institute of CPA’s, the
Rome Lions Club, Coosa Country
Club, Cherokee Masonic Lodge
and is a district layman in the
Rome First Baptist Church.
Farrar’s first appeal to the
Supreme Court concerns Judge
Hicks’ overruling his demurrer
asking for dismissal of the suit.
The demurrer was introduced on
the first day of the hearing,
May 18. The second appeal
planned is based on the court’s
decision to name a receiver, at
torneys said.
In his ruling Tuesday, Judge
Hicks said any party to the suit
could at any time ask for a
modification or termination of
the order “for good cause
shown”.
Pesterfield brought his suit in
early May, stating that Farrar
would not meet with him in an
attempt to elect a third director;
that he would not produce the
financial records of the com
pany; and that he had threat
ened to suspend publication of
The Democrat on May 4. Judge
Hicks immediately granted a
temporary injunction ordering
continuation of the weekly. His
hearing of the case began May
18 and was concluded June 18.
Last-minute attempts at a
settlement and on the election
of a third director failed.
Planning Staff
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last week recommended to the
directors that a permanent
technical staff be employed.
The area association is de
voted to the total development
of the entire 12-county area.
Trionite Charged
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intersection of the Mountain
View Road and Highway 27
where he lost control of his con
vertible and hit a field. White
then left afoot but was captured
about 30 minutes later, the pa
trol said.
Investigating were Troopers J.
P. Worthington and J. E. Bagbys
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Address All Mail to
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
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Summerville, Georgia
Vacation, Extra
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the public from 8:30 to 11:30
a.m. and from 2:15 to 7 p.m. No
activities are planned at the
Trion Community Center.
Cloudland is expected to be a
beehive of activity Monday as
owners of week-end cottages
move out for the long holiday
week-end. and boaters, picnick
ers and swimmers converge on
Lake LaHoosage.
A highlight of the week-end in
Summerville will be the giving
away at 4 p.m. Saturday of a
1960 automobile. The event is
a promotion of The Summerville
Retail Merchants Assn. Thous
ands of persons are expected to
be on hand for the event, be
cause, in order to win, the shop
per must be present when the
car is given away.
In excess of $600,000 will be
paid out by county industries
this week in vacation and regu
lar pay. The largest single pay
ment was from Riegel Textile
Corporation, which says its va
cation pay alone runs to $360,-
792.
Riegel will be closed Sunday
through the following Saturday.
Summerville Manufacturing
Company will close at 12 mid
night Friday and open at mid
night Sunday, July 10. Harriet
and Henderson will close at 7
a.m. Saturday and open at 7
a.m. Monday, July 11. Best Mfg.
Corp, will close at 4 p.m. Satur
day and open at 8 a.m. Monday,
July 11. Montgomery Knitting
Company began closing Wednes
day and will reopen at 7:30 a.m.
Monday, July 11.
Newsomes Win
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and Mr. Newsome had asked
$86,750 and was awarded $12,875.
Mrs. Newsome was the driver
of a vehicle which collided with
that of the Carpenters on Nov.
8, 1958 near Arab. Ala. Killed
were the Newsome’s four-year
old daughter, Renee; their niece,
14-year-old Brenda Wilson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ewart
Wilson of Summerville; and the
Carpenters, who were from
Michigan.
Auto to Be
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Shop, Bagley Oil Dist., Bagley
Service Station, Wilson Motor
Company, The Summerville
News, People’s Laundry.
Tri-State Broadcasting Corp.,
Duff Florist, Leonard Thomas
Ford, Jackson Chevrolet Co., Mc-
Ginnis Drug Co., Fuller Jewelry.
Georgia Rug Mill, Malcolm
Thomas, Dr. V. F. Shull, Fred
Aldred, Georgia Power Company,
Farmers and Merchants Bank.-
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
—KniHMia.'.ramy
munism seems to be winning minds on ev
ery side.
Are the scales tipping? Is the balance
which has prevailed for several years about
to be upset in favor of communism? Are we
seeing the beginning of the fall of our na
tion?
These are things we do not like to think
about, much less talk about. But history
proves we must if we are to survive.
Fortunately for the United States, it isn’t
too late to do something about the situa
tion.
There is no one answer, but many an
swers must be found. And it will take ex
tremely wise, and moral, men to find them.
Perhaps at no time during our 184 years
have we so important an election coming
up as that of this November. The men we
choose may well determine whether our
children and grandchildren will continue
to have “July Fourth.”
pockets.
Well, in the short span of three decades
government’s tax take has jumped from a
proportion of about one dollar out of ten
to about one dollar out of three of the
national income. If the big spenders have
their way, the proportion will soon become
one in two, or still more. And you, along
with the other 180 million or so people in
this country, will do the paying. No one
else can.
Summerville to
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in connection with my repre
sentative’s duties.”
Mr. Floyd first became inter
ested in VFW right after return
ing home from World War 11. He
helped organize the Mason-Mc-
Cauley Post here in 1946. He
served as post trustee, quarter
master and then as commander.
His relentless work on the
local level thrust him into the
district, state and area spot
lights where he has continued
his devotion to the organization.
Serving as acting district com
mander, he helped re-organize
the Seventh District VFW. Floyd
then became Georgia junior vice
commander, senior vice com
mander and in 1951-52 was
Georgia commander. He was the
first man in Georgia to hold all
three of these posts.
He has served as vice chair
man and chairman of the
Southern Conference of the
VFW and has headed many na
tional committees.
Floyd, who resides at Trion,
says he is sold on VFW because
of (1) its service to disabled vet
erans; (2) its youth activities
program; and (3) its community
service program.
“I have always felt that we
who are able to help ourselves
with nothing from the federal
government should help provide
for the fellows who can’t, the
disabled veterans,” he said.
“I also feel that if we can
serve our country in time of war
then we can be an asset in time
of peace by helping make our
communities a better place in
which to live.”
The adjutant - quartermaster
points out that for the eighth
year the national VFW has
been recognized by the Free
doms Foundation Corp, as doing
more community service than
any other civic or veterans or
ganization. Last year, for in
stance, he said, there were
864,000 separate VFW commu
nity projects in the nation.
Floyd served nearly five years
in the U.S. Army Air Corps dur
ing World War 11, entering as a
private and emerging as a ma
jor.
Thwarted by partial color
blindness in his efforts to become
a pilot, Floyd put his energies
into administrative work. Sev
eral months after entering serv
ice he was admitted to Officers’
Candidate School.
He served some 15 months on
Guam in the South Pacific, his
last duty being group executive
officer of an airservice group.
He was in the first wing of
B-29’s to go to the island.
“Golf is a lot like taxes—you
drive hard to get to the green
and then wind up in the hole.”
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TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE
GUESSED? — Where are the
largest and the smallest high
schools in Georgia? Do you have
any idea? Savannah High
School is the largest and Lu
thersville High School is the
smallest of the high schools for
white children. Os the Negro
high schools, the largest is the
Booker T. Washington High
School in Atlanta, and the
smallest is Herctoma in Echols
County. In fact, Herctoma has
an enrollment of only 18, and
an Average Daily Attendance of
12. (What interests me is that
name: Herctoma. Where do you
suppose it came from?)
MISS KATIE AND THE SIL
VER TRAY—WeII, what did you
give your Miss Katy this year
when she retired after her
years of teaching your town’s
children? A silver tray? She
can’t eat a silver tray, you
know. How well informed are
you about teacher retirement in
Georgia? Teachers can retire at
60 or after 35 years of teaching;
must retire at 70. In a few spe
cial cases, they can go on to 73:
emergency, can’t get a replace
ment, things like that. The
least they can get for 35 years
is SIOO. Who can live on $100?
Make a note to invite Miss Katie
to supper often, and to share
with her the vegetables in your
garden, the melons in your
patch, the cake you bake. She’s
done enough for you, goodness
knows!
* * ♦
READY FOR YOU IN SEP
TEMBER — Our new bulletin,
which explains to you how
Georgia operates its public
schools, will go to the printer
on July 20, and be ready for you
about September 15 or October
1. Title: SCHOOL.
* • *
NOVEL ABOUT SCHOOL—An
interesting new paper-back 35c
novel with a school setting is
MISS PYM DISPOSES by Jose
phine Tey. Has a murder in it,
too.
* * *
THIS WAS NEWS TO JAKE—
This is about something that a
fellow — call him Jake — didn’t
know about. It’s something we
have been doing in the Depart
ment of Education ever since
1946, and you may know some
body who needs it done for
them. It’s a service for those
who didn’t get to finish high
school. They take an examina
tion and get what we call an
“Equivalency Certificate”. (Isn’t
that a frightful name?) If the
fellow was in the war and
couldn’t finish high school, it
may be that his high school will
even give him a diploma when
he passes this examination.
Anyhow, if he can pass it he
gets this certificate, and some
times folks need it desperately
when some job they want re
quires that high school educa
tion. Os course there are cer
tain rules about this thing, but
we want every Tom, Dick, Harry
and Susie Mae in Georgia to
know that this service is avail
able. If you want information
about it, write to W. E. Pafford,
Director of Field Services, State
Department of Education, At
lanta.
* * ♦
HOW DO YOU GET A SECRE
TARIAL JOB IN THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF EDU C A
—— All stenographers and
secretaries that work in the
State Department of Education
come to us through the State
Merit System. If you know
somebody who wants this infor
mation, tell them. Our own per
sonnel director is a quiet, com
petent person named Mary
Richardsort. Write her about
getting a secretarial job here if
you want one. She will tell you
just what our procedure is.
Address: State Department of
Education.
* * *
WE’LL BE ON THE AIR —
About September 12, the State
Department of Education will
be on the air with its new tele
vision teaching programs in
math, science, and languages.
We are sharing Station WGTV
with the University of Georgia,
whose programs are already on
the air. Our new television
teachers are Miss Gwen Miles,
math; Mrs. Clara Howell, biol
ogy; Mrs. Sue Ormston, elemen
tary science; Mrs. Yvonne
Wright, Spanish; and Mrs. Lyn
da Moore, music.
* * *
FUTURE TEACHER — Miss
Georgia, who is a Future Teach
er, loves children and has the
bright mind we need in the
classroom. I sat in the pretty
green living room of her par
ents, on a golden sofa with
Sandy Tally down in Homerville
the other day. I had seen the
children snuggle up to her as if
they loved her. She has taught
them at Sunday School and
taken time to listen to them and
love them. Her home town is
pulling for her to win the Miss
America contest at Atlantic
City, but this beautiful girl has
already the great gift: an out
going personality, a warm heart,
and an illumined mind. The
best news about her is that she
plans to be a teacher! Her
mother is a teacher, too.
* * *
WE’VE GOT NEWS FOR THE
ADMIRAL — Admiral Hyman
Rickover, critic of the nation’s
schools who believes that Euro
pean and especially Russian
schools are better than ours,
said to a Congressional commit
tee that we should adopt the
European “internship” for
teachers and require them to do
practice teaching under an ex
pert before they are turned
loose with a class of their own.
Where has he been all the time,
do you suppose? That’s an old
custom in this country. Georgia
and many another state has
been practice teaching since
Buck was a pup.
ALOHA TO THE CLASSROOM
TEACHERS — They’ll be off to
Hawaii in the next few days.
America's classroom teachers
are holding their national con
vention in Hawaii. Some of
them will go to Los Angeles to
NEA and then on to our new
state. Board Chairman Jim Pet
ers will go from Hawaii to the
Philippines and the Orient. Mrs.
Herschel Davis, of Griffin, pres
ident of Georgia’s Classroom
Teachers, and Mrs. Jack Bur
dette of Washington, regional
director, will head Georgia’s
delegation to Hawaii. Dr. Claude
Purcell, state superintendent of
schools, left this week for Cali
fornia, heading the state’s dele
gation to the National Education
Association, of which he is state
director.
* • *
THEY NEVER LAID THEIR
PRETTY BLUE EYES ON THIS
THING—We were astonished to
find out that there are some
teachers in Georgia who have
never laid their two blue eyes on
a Salary schedule. That’s the
blue print of their own salary.
But nobody has ever showed
them one. You can take this
schedule, find out how many
years’ experience Miss Katy has
had, and what kind of profes
sional certificate she holds, and
tell —right down to a gnat’s toe
nail — just how much state
money she’s supposed to get.
Then if your school system pays
a supplement, you add that on
to it. Nothing mysterious about
that. All you have to do is
write me a postcard and say, “I
want to see a salary schedule.”
You know how you figure the
longitude and the latitude on a
map? Just run your finger
down to find one, and across to
find the other, and X marks the
spot. That’s exactly the way you
do with this salary schedule.
Just run your finger across the
years she has worked, and down
to the professional certificate
she holds, and presto, quick as
a rabbit, there’s X to mark the
spot of what Miss Katy’s state
salary is.
* * *
ONCE UPON A TlME—Funny
how you overlook things right
in your own back yard. Once,
years ago, a boy from Georgia
was bending over a watch re
pairing microscope, way up yon
der in Kentucky where he had
gone to take a course in watch
repairing. The fellow next to
him said “What on earth are
YOU doing up here? You’ve got
this nation’s best watch repair
ing course right in your own
state, tuition free, at your state
trade school.” And you know
that Georgia boy didn’t even
know it? You’d be surprised at
how many remarkable courses
are offered to Georgians at the
North Georgia Trade School at
Clarkesville and the South
Georgia Trade School at Ameri
cus. Just write for a list.
* * *
PUT THESE ON YOUR CAL
ENDAR — If you have any busi-
■
HERMAN TALMADGE
Reports From
WASHINGTON
IL' ” 774 ' SPEv I
WHILE IT MAY not attract as
much attention as the more color
ful issues of public welfare and
foreign policy, the farm issue is
certain to be one of the more
important factors influencing the
outcome of this year’s presiden
tial election.
The studied attempts of Repub
lican candidates to disassociate
the m s elves
from the Ben
son Farm Pro
gram shows
that Republi
can Party poli
ticians are
acutely aware
of this and the
increased tem-
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poof Department of Agriculture
propaganda seeking to transform
the farm mountain into only a
molehill is evidence gs Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson’s
concern. In the latter connection,
it is the obvious motivation of the
speeches in which the Secretary is
maintaining that the farm income
situation “has brightened” and
for the soothing literature being
turned out by his underlings fea
turing drawings of happy, relaxed
farmers and prosperous, profit
able farms.
THE EFFORTS OF Mr. Benson
to turn black into white would
qualify as the joke of the year
were it not for the fact that they
are no laughing matter to the
300,000 farmers and farm workers
who have been forced into un
employment by Benson policies
since the beginning of 1960 alone.
An example of how the Sec
retary and his associates in the
Department of Agriculture are
endeavoring to justify themselves
through using the truth to hide
the truth is found in the May
Agricultural Situation Bulletin
published by the Agricultural
- (not nrwarci orjuiulCLal juuuiuicui expense)
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Chattooga
Chit Chat
What does the Fourth of July
mean to you?
The beginning of vacation? A
day off from work? A picnic?
Enjoying the good way of life
that we have is certainly one of
the best ways of celebrating our
nation’s birthday.
But in recent years the patri
otic theme has taken more and
more of a back seat. It’s not that
we don’t want to honor our
country on this day. Most of us
would like to but we don’t know
quite how.
But there are innumerable
ways if we just stop to think.
One way would be to fly flags
— even small ones — at our
homes, businesses and in our
cars. We can get them at dime
stores in Summerville and per
haps in other stores.
And why not sing patriotic
songs as you ride along to picnic
or vacation? This would not only
provide the proper holiday at
mosphere but would also be re
laxing.
Maybe some older member of
the family could read the Dec
laration of Independence aloud
(see it on Page 1 of The News
this week) with the others
gathered around to listen. This
could be done right after lunch,
for instance.
You will probably be able to
think of other fitting ways to
mark the day.
So here’s to your having a
more patriotic—and hence a
more enjoyable — Independence
Day than ever before.
Heavy Showers
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ported.
Mrs. J. R. Burgess, rainfall ob
server for the U. S. Weather
Bureau, said 2.45 inches fell in
Summerville during the mid
afternoon storm.
Rain was rather general over
the area, although the section
between Oak Hill and Menlo re
portedly received only light
showers.
Fletcher Re-Elected
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arms; Dwight Mauney, Trion,
chaplain; Bob Gamble, Sum
merville, and Furman Camp,
Trion, house committee; John
Woods, Trion, and Willard Jack
son, Lyerly, trustees; and T. J.
Espy Jr., judge advocate.
They will be installed Aug. 12
by a district officer.
ness with the State Board of
Education, make a note of this.
Its July meeting will be on the
11. August meetings will be 29
and 30.
Marketing Service. Headed, “Pic
ture Looks Brighter For 1960,” it
predicts farm prices this year
“will probably average the same
or somewhat better’ than they did
in the same period of 1959” while
neglecting to mention that prices
dropped four per cent last year.
It projects cash receipts as “about
the same in 1960 as last year”
while failing to point out that
they declined two per cent in
1959. It even has the bald au
dacity to state that, because of
the “decline” in the number of
farm families, the “per capita net
income of farm people from all
sources could well equal the $960
□f 1959” while carefully avoiding
mentioning that it was the 16 per
cent drop in net farm income that
year—from $13.1 to sll billion—
which precipitated that so-called
“decline” in farm population.
* * *
THE SITUATION IS one which
presents the Democratic Party
with a golden opportunity not
only to obtain the electoral votes
of the usually-Republican key
farm states of the Midwest but
even more important to go into
office next January with a public
mandate to take the steps des
perately needed to rescue the na
tion’s farm economy.
The gravity of the issue de
mands that the Democrats go be
fore the electorate with a realistic
and meaningful farm program
which will appeal to both farmer
and consumer. I hope the Demo
cratic Platform Committee will
adopt the approach of the Tal
madge Farm Plan and I am
pleased that Georgia’s members
of that Committee are making
plans to present it for the Com
mittee’s consideration.
THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1960
'ON THE BEACH'
SET AT PENN
Love and violence are featured
in “The Crimson Kimono” which
will appear at The Tooga The
atre Friday and Saturday. This
stars Victoria Shaw, Glenn Cor- «
bett and James Shigeta.
Co-billed with this movie is
an adventure called ‘‘The Boy
and the Pirates”. This is the
yarn of a lad who is transported
backward a couple of hundred
years in time and finds himself
on a pirate ship as cabin boy to
Blackbeard himself. Charles
Herbert, Susan Gordon and
Murvyn Vye are starred.
A highlight during the coming
week at the Penn Drive-In will
be “On the Beach,” the filmed
version of the best seller about
the last days of humanity on
earth following hydrogen bomb
explosions.
The Moon-Lite
Drive-In Theatre
On Highway 27
TRION, GEORGIA
THURSDAY & FRIDAY,
JUNE 30 & JULY 1
“Because They're
Young"
With Dick Clark and Victoria
Shaw.
SATURDAY, JULY 2
“Road Racers'' 1
With Sally Fraser & Alan
Dinehart.
—2nd FEATURE—
“She Gods of
Shark Reef"
In Color. With Don Durant and
Lisa Montell. First showing in
the county. »
SUNDAY & MONDAY,
JULY 3 & 4
“Goliath and
The Barbarians"
In Cinemascope and Color. With
Steve Reeves and Chelo Alonso.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
“Tarzan and The
Ape Man'’
In Technicolor. With Denny
Miller and Joanna Barnes.
TOOGA
THEATRE
Phone 201 — Summerville
LAST TIMES THURSDAY *
“Five Branded
Women"
Starring Van Heflin and Silvana
Mangano. Also Cartoon.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY,
JULY 1-2
“The Boy and
The Pirates"
In color. Starring Murvyn Vye
and Charles Herbert.
AND—
“The Crimson
Kimona"
Starring Victoria Shaw and
Glenn Corbett. Also Cartoon.
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY,
JULY 3-4-5
“Wild River"
In Color-CinemaScope. Starring
Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick
and Jo Van Fleet. This BIG
MOVIE was filmed on the Ten
nessee River near Cleveland,
Tenn. You will want to see this
one. Also Cartoon.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY,
JULY 6-7
“A Touch of Larceny"
Starring James Mason and Vera
Miles. Also Cartoon.
PENN DRIVE-IN
THEATRE
Highway 27 at Pennville
THURSDAY & FRIDAY,
JUNE 30, JULY 1
“On The Beach"
Starring Gregory Peck and Ava
Gardner. Also Cartoon.
SATURDAY, JULY 2
“Bandido"
Color - Cinemascope. Starring
Robert Mitchum and Ursula
Theiss.
and
“Invisible Invaders"
Starring John Agar and Jean
Barron. Also Cartoon.
SUNDAY, JULY 3
Showing First Run in
Chattooga County!
“Man on a String"
Starring Ernest Borgnine and
Carole Matthews. Also Cartoon.
CLOSED MONDAY.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY,
JULY 5-6
“The Big Heat"
Starring Glenn Ford and Gloria
Grahame. Also Cartoon.
COMING THURSDAY &
FRIDAY, JULY 7-8
“Solomon and Sheba"
In Color-CinemaScope. Starring
Yul Brynner and Gina Lollo
brigida.