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VOLUME 76—NO. 24
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Chattooga Awaits
Vacations July 4
Chattooga County is on the eve of celebrating the
founding of this nation and marking the annual textile
vacation period.
Hundreds of textile workers in the county will begin
their annual vacations this
week-end. Close to half a mil
lion dollars in vacation pay will
be disbursed to the employes by
the textile firms before the
shut-down.
Many of the vacationers are
expected to take trips while
others will use the free time to
enjoy a rest at home, or to
catch up on some work around
the house. Some of the plants
will be closed only a few days
while others will remain shut
for two weeks.
Celebration of the founding of
this country on Tuesday will
highlight the period.
Although no formal observ
ance is planned by white citi
zens, most are expected to enjoy
a day of recreation to mark the
observance. Boating, picnicking,
swimming and visiting are ex
pected to be the order of the
day.
Negro citizens of the cbunty
are being invited to a day-long
celebration at the Summerville
Negro Recreation Center. Bar
becue, ball games, races and
swimming are planned.
Most business firms will be
closed on Tuesday throughout
the county and soipe will remain
closed on Wednesday.
In the meantime, highway
travelers are being warned to
drive with special care.
“If you plan to be on the
road,” the State Patrol has
Merchants Propose Change
In Summerville Parking
A set of proposals designed to
provide easier parking in Sum
merville was approved by the
Summerville Merchants Assn,
directors Monday afternoon.
The proposals will be pre
sented to the Summerville City
Council for consideration.
They are as follows: <1) Have
cars checked every two hours
and a new ticket given each
time if the meter is expired; (2)
Eliminate the practice of put
ting pennies on windshields for
policemen to drop in meters;
(3) Eliminate practice of
dropping money in meter while
policeman writes ticket; (4)
Have city provide off-the-street
parking for business people and
employes; (5) Encourage em-
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REV. ROY HUSTON
DIES IN FORSYTH
OF HEART ATTACK
Rev. Roy Edward Huston, 41,
pastor of the Trion First Bap
tist Church, died in a Forsyth,
Georgia hospital Thursday at
10 a.m. of a second heart attack.
He suffered the first attack one
hour earlier.
Rev. Huston was born in
Marion County, Lebanon, Ky.,
December 29, 1919, son of the
late George M. and Nellie
Burnett Huston.
Rev. Huston graduated from
Campbellsville College, Camp
bellsville, Ky., in 1947; graduated
from the Louisville Seminary in
Louisville, Ky., in 1949. He pas
tored the Salem and Friendship
Baptist Church. Salem, Ky., for
three years, and was pastor of
the Gethsemane Baptist Church
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warned, “you’d better make up
your mind here and now to hew
the line by driving carefully and
sensibly.”
Georgia is expected to have at
least 25 persons killed during
the long week-end in highway
accidents.
NEGRO COUNTIANS
PLAN JULY 4th
CELEBRATION HERE
Chattooga County Negroes are
being invited to join in an all
day celebration July 4 at the
, Summerville Negro Recreation
Center.
Thomas Scott, chairman of
: the advisory committee, has an
nounced plans for barbecue,
baseball games, swimming com
l petition and races.
The day will start at 10 a.m.
■ with four ball games by young
; sters and foot races, etc. The
i teams will be made up at the
time.
' After a barbecue at noon, adult
> baseball games will be played
during the afternoon. Swimming
• competition, compl et e with
; | prizes, also is planned.
ployes to park off the street.
The proposals are being made,
it was stressed, in an effort to
better serve Summerville cus
tomers—not to penalize them.
Jimmy Duff, chairman of
the committee which drew up
the recommendations, presented
them to the group. Others on
the committee were: Mrs. Frank
Prince, Jim Ritchie and Mrs.
Olio Tutton.
Don Stultz, president of the
Association, announced he felt
discussion on the plan to give
away SI,OOO this summer should
be deferred until the July meet
ing; but added that he felt this
original plan should be dis
pensed with in favor of putting
up good street lights at Chris
mas-time. Stultz said he felt the
plan to give SI,OOO away at
Christmas should be carried out.
The president suggested the di
rectors think the matter over
and come up with suggestions at
the July session.
In other action, the group sug
gested that merchants close on
July 4, but stressed that this is
an individual matter and should
be left to the discretion of the
individual firm. A poll of the
directors showed most would be
closed Tuesday and that some
would be closed both Tuesday
and Wednesday.
The July directors meeting
was pushed up to July 12.
Those attending were: Jim
Richie, Mr. Duff, John Bankson,
Mr. Stultz, S. A. (Bubba) Dun
son, Malcolm Thomas and Mrs.
Olio Tutton.
Board ol Registrars
Meet Second Week
Os Every Month
The Chattooga Board of Reg
istrars will be in session during
the second week of each month
instead of the fourth week, it
has been announced by Mrs.
John Shamblin, chief registrar.
Mrs. Shamblin, Mrs. Gorge
Sitton and Tommy Langston
comprise the new board of reg
istrars.
The office, located on the sec
ond floor of the courthouse, will
be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Mondays through Fridays, it was
stated.
Those desiring to register to
vote may do so during these
hours on the second week in
i every month.
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k people, for the people was new to the world on
July 4th, 1776. By the nation then born this idea
has since been tried, tested and proved the best
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.■ hope for all mankind.
Proudly we salute the founding fathers on this, the 185th
birthday of our country. Firmly we are resolved that our heritage
of freedom, dating back to that day, shall forever be maintained.
Will ‘July 4’ End by 1973?
How many more “Independence Days”
will we celebrate?
In 1960, Nikita Krushchev said:
“Life is short and I want to see the Red
flag over the whole world in my lifetime.”
In 1953, Stalin and Mao-Tse-Tung esti
mated 1973 as the date for world conquest.
They allowed themselves 10 years to con
solidate their strength in the Far East . . .
10 more to continue to encircle and de
moralize the United States.
Krushchev has repeated the dates and
may have even advanced them.
The Communists are well on their way
to achieving their first goal—consolidating
their strength in the Far East. And they
are hard at work on the second—encircle
ment of the United States. Witness Cuba.
Is our celebration of July 4 to be limited
to only a few more years? Will the nation
that was born because men were tired of
enslavement to become a thing of the past?
WHAT COMMUNISTS SAY
(EDITOR’S NOTE: As Hitler did, the Communists are
clearly warning the world of their intentions. As we observe
Independence Day next Tuesday, it would be well for us to
note once again what the Communists themselves say they
have in mind. Below are some quotes.)
“My trip to America has only confirmed what I thought of
this country before I arrived. I repeat the words of Mr. Krush
chev, who asserted that ‘the children of the present-day Ameri
cans will live in a Communist society.’"—KOZLOV.
“Promises are like pie-crusts—made to be broken.”—LENlN.
“The time for fireside politics is over. We are now in the
phase of permanent revolution. It will gd on, without interrup
tion, until one side or the other is lying conquered on the ground.”
—TROTSKY.
“We are sometimes accused of departing from our Communist
principles. What stupidity, what blindness! We should not be
Marxists and Leninist revolutionaries, not disciples of Marx, En
gels, Lenin and Stalin, if we were not capable of completely alter
ing our tactics and our mode of action as circumstances may dic
tate. But all the ins and outs of our tactics are directed to a
single end -the world revolution.” GEORGE DIMITROV.
“Communism will sooner or later rule the world. We live in
the epic of revolution.”- KRUSHCHEV.
“From the point of view of Communist morality, only those
acts are moral which contribute to the building up of a new Com
munist society."—RADlO MOSCOW.
“First we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia,
then we will encircle the United States, which will be the last
bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack. Il will fall like
an overripe fruit into our hands.”—LENlN.
Sandra and Mother Now
Visiting In Australia
Sandra Pritchett, of Summerville, and her Australian
| born mother are now in Australia.
They left New York Monday afternoon and were to ar-
rive Wednesday.
The 14-year-old student won
the trips in a national contest
held in connection with the ,
movie, "The Sundowners,” which i
was filmed in Australia.
Her mother , Mrs. M. L.
Pritchett, had never visited her
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961
family in the land "down
under” since coming here 15
years ago as a war bride.
In the contest, Sandra wrote
a letter telling why she would
like to visit Australia. She said
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Will the free enterprise system which pro
vides a people with the highest standards
of living ever known perish?
The United States, without a doubt, is
in one of the gravest periods in its entire
history. But the future is not hopeless.
On the contrary. Our free enterprise
way of life has something to sell that no
other system has — freedom and material
abundance. These are two things men ev
erywhere want.
Our job is to sell them.
But first, let’s renew our own pride and
faith in this way of life. Let’s display our
flag. Let’s teach our children to love our
country. Let’s quit looking for only the
bad things in our government and start
looking at the many wonderful things in it.
Let’s study our history.
If we are faithful to our task, then our
children, our grandchildren and our great
grandchildren can continue to celebrate
Independence Day.
FLOYD ASSESSORS
TOLD TO PRESENT
REVALUATION PLAN
The Floyd County Board of
Tax Assessors has been given
/ until July 25 to submit a “real
- istic formula” for fair, uniform
. and equitable tax assessments
in Floyd County.
The order was given by Floyd
„ Superior Judge Mack O. Hicks
Friday after a three-hour
„ hearing.
The judge did not restrain the
t county from continuing in the
meantime to assess, collect or
L levy taxes. In a similar ruling in
Bacon County recently, county
‘ finances were tied up by a re
* straining order until the reval
x uation plan is presented.
Judge Hicks said the plan to
i be submitted by the Floyd tax
assessors must be one that will
e fully comply with provisions of
- ] the law and that it could not
merely be an effort to get
, | around the suit.
t! Attorney Vaughn Terrell filed
e the suit on behalf of three Floyd
County taxpayers, charging that
tax assessments in the county
were unequal.
This is the second such suit to
have been filed so far in Geor
gia in connection with inequities,
the other having been in Bacon
I County.
The Chattooga County Board
I of Tax Assessors, in the mean
■ time, is continuing to study the
’' feasibility of a reappraisal here.
! The assessors took the matter
" I under advisement at its May
Q : meeting.
LIBRARY TO CLOSE
” The Chattooga Regional Li
? : brary in Summerville will be
J closed Monday and Tuesday, it
has been announced.
Lick On Head Caused Death,
Norton Death Inquest Shows
A coroner’s jury Wednesday afternoon declared that
Mrs. Helen Rickett Norton died of a blow on the head and
recommended that authorities investigate.
W. P. Selman was jury foreman and other members
were Edward Bush, Walt Wilkin
son, James W. McDonald and
Emmett Parker.
The jury, after hearing Dr.
Herman Jones of the State
Crime Laboratory, declared the
woman died of “massive cerebral
hemorrhage and we recommend
this case be turned over to the
investigating officers.”
Dr. Jones was the only witness
called although several others
were sworn. Dr. C. A. Clements
of Trion, county medical ex
aminer, was present as Dr.
Jones gave his testimony and
concurred in his statements.
Dr. JoneS made these points:
The 38-year-old woman died
of a massive blood clot which
had formed underneath her
skull on the upper right side.
The ear area was not involved
The clot had been caused by a
blow or blows of some kind. The
blow had failed to break the
skin on the outside, indicating
it had not been done with a
sharp object, a corner of a
table or any small object. The
blow had taken place from one
to six days before her death.
The woman had bruises about
the body, a degenerating liver
caused by alcohol consumption,
and was highly intoxicated at
the time of her death, but none
of these factors caused her
death. Her heart was all right.
She was not pregnant. She had
small interior “bruises” scattered
about the back of her head, in
attention to the one massive clot.
Her skull was not fractured.
Upon inquiry by Sol. Gen. Self,
Dr. Jones said he did not believe
the blow or blows had been made
more than six days before death
and that he felt sure they were
not made less than one day.
During further questioning by
Mr. Self and Agent Hillin, Dr.
Jones said Mrs. Norton appar
ently got “a pretty good blow”
in order to sustain the brain in
jury which she did. The brain
was jarred, he said.
On questioning by Sol. Self
about the woman’s heart, Dr.
Jones said it was “very good”
and noted that the swelling in
her body was caused by her liver
Three Get Sentences on
Recent Burglaries Here
Three men received sentences in Summerville Tuesday
on charges of burglary.
Varnell Padgett was given three years by Superior
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of Homer Gordon Service Sta
tion, Mahan’s Grocery and
Tidings Country Store.
Padgett pleaded guilty to
taking eight automobile tires,
one battery and four and one
half boxes of spark plugs from
the Gordon Station on June 14;
13 cartons of cigarettes, 75
pounds of sugar, one electric
fan, two-thirds of a hum roll
and one box of bacon from
Mahan’s Grocery at Berryton on
June 13; and the burglary of
Tidings Store on June 11.
Several of the persons earlier
reported as having been arrested
along with Padgett on the
charges were listed on the ac
cusations as state’s witnesses.
On another burglary case, Bill
Crider was sentenced to 12
months, the last two of which
may be served on probation, and
David Lively was sentenced to
two years. The two entered
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condition. Dr. Jones also noted
that some of the blood clots
were old and some were new.
Mrs. Norton was lound dead
May 29 at the home of Bishop
Koonce near Summerville. The
inquest was delayed, first be
cause the autopsy report did not
arrive until June 12. and sec
ondly because Agent Hillin’s
schedule would not permit his
appearance until this week.
Coroner Roosevelt Young pre
sided over the inquest, which
was delayed nearly an hour be
cause of difficulty in obtaining
a jury. Coroner Young noted
that several of the persons who
had earlier agreed to serve failed
to show up and that he had to
seek others. The coroner’s jury
is selected from among the Su
perior Court jurors called during
the last session.
Clean-Up Month Opens
In County On Saturday
Chattooga County’s “Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up
Month” starts Saturday.
Officials of Trion, Menlo, Lyerly and Summerville are
urging all citizens to look about their places to see what
they can do to improve appear
ances.
The Chattooga County-Mu
nicipal Pliuuuhh . -Commission
launched plans for the July-long
“clean-up” observance recently.
Mayors were asked to plan ob
servances in the various munici
palities.
Menlo citizens last Thursday
night made plans to clean up
the town throughout. Mayor J.
P. Smith will appoint commit
tees which will attack various
facets of the clean-up program.
The plans were made at a town
meeting.
Lyerly Mayor Bill Bishop said
Wednesday lie and his council
will get to work on the cam
paign sometime next week.
Mayor S. A. Dunson, of Sum
merville, tliis week urged every
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guilty pleas to burglarizing the
home of Mrs. Kate Watson on
May 10. Crider was charged with
taking an electric clock while
Lively was charged with taking
six bedspreads, two lamps, one
clock, one fur coat and two
men’s hats.
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PROJECTS TO
BE LET IN JULY
Two Chattooga County roads
will be resurfaced under the
July 27 contract letting of the
Vandiver Reconstruction Pro
gram.
The road from Cloualand
north to Walker County—
slightly over 18 miles—and the
toad from Summerville through
Lyerly to the Alabama state
line—some 12 miles—are in
volved.
This is the first letting under
the new program.
The projects in this letting
will total almost sls million
dollars, about half of the first
S3O million dollar bond incre
ment. Included are 73 projects
for widening and resurfacing of
1,168 miles of primary and sec
ondary highways in 86 counties.
person living in the city to do
. his part to make Summerville
! shine.
j “Few of us can fail to find
room for improvement around
. our places and this is the time
to do it. We’ll all be glad we
did, I’m sure, when the com-
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Ann Neal to Attend
National FHA Meet
Ann Neal, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Neal, of Summer
ville, is packing her bags for
one of the most exciting trips of
her life. She is to be an official
delegate to the National Con
vention of Future Homemakers
of America in St. Louis, July
3-6.
Twenty-seven Georgia girls
are planning to meet in Atlanta
on Sunday to board a train for
St. Louis. The theme is: "Youth
—Measure Your Values!”
In addition to talks, round
table discussions, small group
sessions- and even a test—the
1,150 delegates will have plenty
of fun, too. Opera outdoors will
be a thrilling “first” for many
of the girls. They will attend
1 the opera, "Great Waltz”, pre
sented in an amphitheater, go
on tours of the city, some of
them will be interviewed for
newspaper, radio, television,
they will attend a get-ac
quainted party and a banquet.
Ann, who is now secretary of
Georgia FHA, has a good back-
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