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Berlin and II hat Hr Can Do
Talks concerning Berlin are now under
way in New York.
We here in Chattooga County are far
from New York and even farther from the
point of focus Berlin.
But what happens in New York and Ber
lin is of vital concern to us. It may mean
life or death, freedom or slavery for Chat
tooga Countians.
Tense weeks lie ahead. We here in this
small Northwest Georgia County must
simply await the outcome.
But while we wait there are some things
we can do. We can prepare for the worst—
nuclear war. To prepare for this, we need
Times Change at Trion
An era will come to an end September 30
when the Trion Department Store closes its
doors.
Many Trionites and others who have pa
tronized “The Big Friendly” over the year’s
lament the passing. They feel that an old
friend will have gone.
But limes change and Riegel Textile Cor
poration has never been one to lag behind.
When it became apparent that more manu
facturing space would be needed, thoughts
naturally turned to the massive two-story
building located so handily.
Tales Ont of School
By BERNICE McCULLAR
Director of Information — State Department of Education
ONLY NINETEEN Mrs Viola
Brown, who issues the permits
for teachers in our certification
office, says that only nineteen
have so far been issued for this
school year There were 192 on
the state payroll in May. For
the first time now. so the State
Board of Education recently de-i
creed the local systems have to
pay half the salary of such
teachers. The public confuses
“permit teachers” with "emer
gency certificate" teachers. A
permit is issued to a teacher who
cannot get a certificate, if the
superintendent states that he
has tried and cannot find a I
teacher who docs have a cer
tificate An emergency certifi
cate is issued to a teacher who
once hold a valid certificate hut
has allowed it to lapse.
YOU CAN COMPARE ONLY
THE COMPARABLE What
would you think if somebody
compared your budget with your
neighbor's but left out the house
payment and the car payment
from one budget and included
them in the other" We've heard
our Department of Education
budget compared witH North
Carolina's But you should know
this; our budget included 20 mil
lion dollars that buy your school
buildings In North Carolina,
there is no building money in
the school budget It goes to a
separate agency when they have
a building program, which they
do not have at present We also
list a budget lit in ot $922,500 for
our schools lor the blind and
deaf which arc run there by
separate agencies, and $950,000
for our two state trade schools,
which North Carolina does not
operate at all We also have in
our budget $1,677,460 tor li
braries Their library program is
administered by the state library
commission and the costs do not
show in the education budget
They pay bu- drivers $27.50 a
month Bs state law our inis
drivers cannot vet less than SIOO
a month. Moreover, they are
getting a $49,979.782 50 a year
increase this year and next We
w ill g< t an increase of $8,837,838
each year for the 1961-63 bien
nium If we had got the increase
they got. all our teachers could
have had an increase of $1.090 65
instead of the S3OO pay raise
they did get Their buses oper
aje on gas that is bought by the
state and not locally, and on
which they have no state tax It
costs them 11 ’«c a gallon: ours
< sts from 18c to 32c. We fur
nish textbooks to ALL <>ur chil
dri n. They furnish only free
BASIC texts to elementary chil
dren and rent them the sup
p>n • : t&rjr Ixxiks TL« v don't
lurnish free textbooks at all to
tie high school students but
• re. each high school student
' 11 $4 25 per high school stu-
The Summerville News
Is The Official Organ
Os Chattooga County
Address AU Mail to
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dent to provide free their high
school textbooks, to our 300.679
high school iiupils.
GOOD DESCRIPTION I heard
a man say the other day. about I
an up-and-coming rural school
with good teachers and inter-|
osted parents and alert young
sters: “That school's simply alive
with learning"
THE BLIND CHILDREN READ
Jewell Dyer, who operates our
Library for the Blind, had some
thing new during the summer: a
vacation reading program for
blind children She will present
■them with their certificates in
Braille during National Book
Week in November It was a
warm and wise and kind thing
for her to do, and we are very
proud of it
DID MISS ELIZA TEACH IN
YOUR TOWN' 1 Ted Owens, who
supervises our teacher certifica
tion program, got a letter re
cently from Miss Adel Stewart
Sallee. 900 East Tulsa Street.
Sulphur. Oklahoma This was
what the letter said: "My great
grandmother. Eliza Ann Stokes
Tigner. taught in 1840 in the
vicinity ot Monroe County Could
you please tell me the exact
i details' 1 " We had to write her
that we do not have such rec
। ords Could you help' 1
i TEACHER GETS 11 DAYS
■ I SICK LEAVE Did you know
that Georgia teachers get 1' 4
> days of sick leave each month
: if they need it" That's ll 1 , days
I per year. The state pays a sub-
stitute At least it sends SSO per
l teacher to the 198 local systems
. to go into this sick leave fund It
I goes out with the $450 per teach
1 er Maintenance and Operation
money, making this item total
< SSOO per teacher Sonu- systems
' add to this money and give the
I teacher a cumulative 30 day sick
leave if she needs it It gives
1 them a feeling of security.
- (Speaking of "M A- O" money.
1 Dr Allen Smith, our assistant
’ state superintendent in charge
r of fiscal affairs, says that most
’ schools have to spend more than
< the state sends them in mainte
■ nance and operation money
Average is about $635 per
i teacher'
' EARLY BIRDS NBC's fourth
'! year of Continental Classroom
will start September 25 These
> early morning classes will be in
1 American Government, sched
-1 uled for 6 30 to 7 am Listen
• able 1
READABLE WRITING Don't
■ miss the article Who is Xircii
Fry? in the new NEA Journal
. . . Current Atlantic Monthly
• has two articles on education
I Some paragraphs may start ar
■ guments popping In your com
-1 munity, but they are highly
I readable . . . Elizabeth Stephen
' son’s new biography of that
• strange genius Lnfcadto Hearn is
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
properly-equipped fallout shelters. And
we need survival training. Soon, the Sum
merville civil defense corps will be offering
training courses of various types, first aid,
rescue, etc. Take as many of these courses
as you can so you will be better prepared to
save your life, that of your family and that
of your neighbor.
Another thing we can do while we wait
out these tense weeks is to pray. Pray that
men will somehow find an honorable way
to live together in peace.
These things we must do if Chattooga
County, and much of the world, is to sur
vive.
Trion will not be left without shopping
facilities, however.
On the contrary, the town will have the
most modern of facilities in this respect.
The Triangle Shopping Center, with plenty
of adjacent parking space, will open in
South Trion in early October. It will house
many familiar names to Chattooga Coun
t ians as well as some new names.
Any regret over the passing of “The Big
Friendly” will no doubt be easily erased
once tlie modern shopping facility is open.
absorbing ... A $2 booklet that
is beautifully written, printed,
and illustrated is titled QUES
TION: What’s a Good Teacher?
and is published by the NEA De
partment of Classroom Teach
ers, The Association of School
Administrators, and the Nation
al School Boards Association . . ■
September's ('hanging Times,
the Kiplinger Magazine, has a
thought-provoking article "Your
Money's Worth in School.”
THE LAST STORY "The first
storytellers came from the East,
and the last story teller of all
may be an old man on a Chinese
mountain, recounting to his
grandchildren, in the few mo
ments of life left to him, how he
saw a strange cloud in the sky
and the earth transformed into
a lake of fire." writes Roncrt
Payne in the Saturday Review.
IF WE GET IT. YOU'LL GET
IT We will have a penny less
per school lunch to send out to
your school this year as reim
bursement. because we ran out
of school lunch money last year,
and we are trying to spread next
year's allotment over the whole
year. But if more comes down
from Washington, your school
system will get its share. Miss
Eleanor Pryor, our able school
lunch director, has been ill in
the Sumter County Hospital at
Americus.
GEORGIA'S EXCELLENT
SAFETY RECORD IN SCHOOL
BUSES Joe DeFoor, our state
pupil transportation director, re
ports that we had fewer school
bus accidents during the last
school year, as compared with
the year before This may he due
in part to new and stricter laws
about bus drivers passing rigid
physical tests, and to the people
who have drawn up better
safety standards for mechanical
aspects of our school buses Our
school bus drivers got a S2OO
raise this year, bringing their an
nual salary to $1,200 (Average
in Georgia is $1456 1 North
Carolina bus drivers, who have
been getting $25 a month for 9
months, got a raise of $2 50 per
month.
SCHOOL SH E
• Continued From Page 11
slum, bus loading court, main
entrance road, bus parking area,
faculty parking area, student
parking area, football field, run
ning track, spectator parking
area, stadium seats, baseball and
softball field, playground and
tennis courts
LETTER TO EDITOR
Dear Sir.
In your news today was a
statement on a wreck where the
David Huskey car was involved
1 would like to have a correction
made on it
David Huskey s car was carry
ing Gordon and I>eonard Weath
ers to the hospital when Dr
Shull's car collided with them
DAVID HUSKEY.
Ckudiand Ga.
thf smnmvw new georgta
HERMAN TALMADGE
*
v Reports From
If WASHINGTON
(Editor’s Note: The following is Senator Talmadge’s final
column for 1661. He will resume writing these weekly reports
from Washington when the Second Session of the 87th Congress
convenes next January.)
ANY ASSESSMENT of the
First Session of the 87th Con
gress must give at least as
much weight to what it did not
do as to what it did.
Considering the plus side in
that light, it refused to sur-
| render the au
' thority of Con
j gress to appro
‘ priate funds
| for foreign aid
and it turned
I down all pro
■ posals for fed
eral aid to ed
| ucation which
V "]
would not have maintained sep
aration of church and state or
safeguarded state and local
school systems from federal con
trols. It also did not allow itself
to be stampeded, at least for the
time being, into passing further
force bills in the field of civil
rights. On the minus side it did
not come to realistic grips with
the overall farm problem by giv
ing due consideration to com
prehensive solutions proposed
for it and it failed to balance
the federal budget or put an end
to deficit spending.
* * *
THE SESSION did greatest
credit to itself in acting swiftly
and overwhelmingly to give the
President the money and au
thority he requested to build up
the armed forces to meet the
threat of Soviet aggression in
Perlin and elsewhere around the
world.
In another laudable action it
increased and expanded Social
Security benefits to bring them
more nearly in line with the in
flated state of the national econ-
(Not prepared or printed at. government expense).
OncHundrcdYcarsA^o
The Civil War
By William H. McHenry
It was midsummer in America
that August of one hundred
years ago. and the American
people were learning that one of
the first tragedies in any war|
was the loss of personal rights.
Lincoln had set aside the
rights of habeas corpus so that
he could jail those in the Union
who would hinder the northern
war effort. Lyon in Missouri had
captured the Missouri State
Guard camp and had used
bloodshed to keep himself in
power. As it could happen in
1961, it happened in 1861 that
the recognition of a war was the
signal for efforts to unite each
side, with a denial of many hu
man rights to those of the other
side.
Today it is easy to think of the
North and the South being sec
tions each with a single purpose,
with everyone on each side being
opposed to everyone on the other
side. It was not so. There were,
in each army, men from every
state in the Union. There were
many in the Union army who
believed in salvery, many in the
Southern army who hated
slavery Even in the Union Con
gress there were men who be
lieved in States Rights. The
summer of 1861 saw a consolida
tion of forces. Laws were de
liberately broken by each side,
and Constitutional rights were
set aside for the sake of ex
pediency.
Jefferson Davig, on August 14.
issued a proclamation giving or
ders tor all Unionists to leave
the South. The Unionists had
forty days to leave. And after
that time said Davis, the
Unionists would “be treated as
enemies " Any Unionist who did
not leave the South had to make
a declaration of intention to be
come a citizen of the Confeder
acy. with acknowledgement of
the authority of the Confederate
Government.
Lincoln, on August 16. ordered
all Northern men to stop any
and all commerce with the
South Lincoln's order had a
peculiar note in that it did not
mention West Virginia as such
but as "that part of Virginia
lying west of the Allegheny
Mountains" Had the proclama
tion been given a few days later,
it would probably have recog
nized the new state of West Vir
ginia. which was formed by the
Wheeling Convention August 20
The first name given to West
Virginia by this convention was
“The State of Kanawha "
Here is an odd note about the
final boundary between Virginia
and West Virginia When Stone
wall Jackson had been com
mander at Harper's Ferry, he
had seized some 35 locomotives
omy and my greatest personal
satisfaction came from the en
actment of my bill authorizing a
nationwide program for the
eradication of hog cholera.
All factors considered, the
Session’s outcome was wholly
satisfactory to no one. Depend
ing upon one’s political point of
view, its record was either too
liberal or too reactionary. In
balance it was just about what
might have been expected, fol
lowing as it did an election in
which the new National Admin
istration was chosen by a plu
rality of only 112,213 votes.
* * *
PERHAPS THE most disturb
ing aspect of the Session is the
further decline which it brought
about in the stature of the Sen
ate as an independent institution
of representative government.
Its repeated servile performance
in unquestioningly voting Ad
ministration dictates prompted
one columnist to liken Senators
to trained dogs.
It is ironic indeed that the
House of Representatives—the
body against whose anticipated
impetuousness the Senate was
created as a buffer—increasing
ly is having to assume the role
of guardian of state and public
interests in the Legislative
Branch. The failure of the Sen
ate to perform its assigned con
stitutional function at this crit
ical juncture in our national life
should he a cause of concern to
every citizen.
and a great many frieght cars
belonging to the B>& O Railroad.
■ When the officials were finally
j setting up the boundaries, the
j B & O Railroad officials wanted
to be certain that their road ran
through a Unionist State. At
their request, the new State of
West Virginia was given the
counties of Berkeley and Jef
ferson. Those counties, which
contained Martinsburg. Charles
town, and Harper s Ferry, were
almost totally Southern in sym
pathy. Residents of those coun
ties deeply resented the change
at the time (and some still do
to this day.)
On August 12, the ex-minister
to France, Hon. Charles J.
Faulkner, was arrested in his
’hotel room in Washington.
Faulkner was a resident of Mar
.| tinsburg. and was accused of
: having "aided and abetted the
' enemy.” Faulkner had resigned
. his post, and had made known
his intention to join the Con
-1 federate army.
' Newspapers of the times re
■ port much “removing" from sec-
I tions close to the borders of Vir
ginia and Maryland. A soldier
who was stationed at Harper's
' Ferry some time about the Ft.
Sumter affair, mentioned in a
letter that “There was much
. Union sentiment in the commu
‘ nity. We (the Southern soldiers)
are often made uncomfortable.”
It is evident that two things had
. happened a) The Unionists had
moved North, or b* they had
' changed sides In most cases the
I latter is more apt to be true
Down on the Virginia penin
■ sula close to Ft. Monroe a new
। name was becoming known.
I Major Gen. Ben Butler was to
1 become known as one of the
most controversial figures of the
Civil War. and probably the most
’ hated by the South And yet. as
• the general in command of the
Union troops in what is now
I Newport News. Butler, that sum
mer of 1861. was showing friend
■ ship for the local people. The
1 troops under Butler were in tht
habit of raiding the houses of
1 the people Butler issued "safe
-1 guards" to the farmers, and
• when the colonel of a regiment
allowed some soldiers to fire the
wheat fields of a farmer, the
colonel was promptly arrested by
Butler Said Butler: “In civilized
b warfare, the one who breaks a
safeguard is to be shot'" Safe
guards and safe-conducts were
issued for many purposes An
army on the move protected the
• people being evacuated, so a few
1 soldiers were left under "safe
guard" to protect the inhabit
ants The enemy would respect
• the guard, and send them back
1 to their own troops.
Veterans News
In order to assist Chattooga
County veterans and their de
pendents, the Rome Office of the
U. S. Veterans Administration
presents items of interest and
provides answers to questions
which have been asked recently
by residents of this area.
W. E. Jackson, Officer-in-
Charge, reported that within the
past few weeks, almost seven
million dollars has been made
available for making VA direct
loans in Georgia. The long
waiting list has been eliminated
and faster service may be ex
pected by Chattooga County vet
erans who apply.
—o—o—o—
Q —A Trion veteran asks . . .
“I am thinking of applying for a
loan on my converted NSLI in
surance policy. If I do, how long
will it be before the loan is
made?”
A—ls the policy is in good
order, payment is usually made
in about ten work days from the
date your loan application is re
ceived by the insurance center.
—o—o—o—
Q—This question is from Car
tersville ... “I have found an
error in my World War II serv
ice record. When can I get it
corrected?”
A—Submit proof that your
record is incorrect to the service
involved—Army. Navy, Air Force
or Coast Guard—immediately.
Generally, application must be
made within 3 years after dis
covery of the error or before
October 26. 1961, whichever is
later.
—o—b—o—
Q —Here is a question from
Cedartown ... ‘‘l am receiving
compensation for a 50% service
connected disability. I have an
other child who was born last
month. Will the VA increase my
payment because of the addi
tional dependent?”
A—Yes. You should furnish
the VA with a certified copy of
the public record of the child’s
birth. This is necessary before
the additional payment can be
made.
—o —o —o —
Veterans and their dependents
who wish further information
about their various benefits
should contact the U. S. Vet
erans Administration Office, 2
East 2nd Avenue in Rome.
JCC’s STRESS
(Continued From Page 1)
note. Ed Brodeur. Pony League
treasurer, discussed the finan
cial situation of the League with
the Jaycees. Other PL leaders on
hand were J. T. Morgan and E. C.
Pesterfield.
George Brooks was named cal
endar sales chairman.
Raffling of a gun was planned
with W. P. Selman as chairman
of the raffle committee and
Charles Copeland and Jimmy
Duff named to assist.
Plans for attending the Dis
trict Jaycee meeting this week
end in Cedartown were dis
cussed; S. A. Dunson and Duff
tied in the PL field sign-selling
contest and will split the $35
when funds are available; and
W. C. (Bill* Abernathy was pre
sented an expiration pin.
Will Hair, president, presided.
Local visitors included Norman
McClellan of Trion: King Dunn,
Frankie Phillips, Charles Hidle
and Billy Stephenson.
Members attending were! Rob
ert Bowman, Duff. O. G. More
head Jr.. Dunson, Hair, D. L.
Pettit. Selman. Joe Stephenson,
Copeland. Robert Floyd. Ralph
Stanley. Bob Little, Brooks.
Jerry Smith. Herman Buffing
ton. Charles Fowler. Harold
. Shavin. Charles Brooks. Hugh
Murdock.
MENLO STTDENT
(Continued From Page 1*
note that there was a delay in
the arrival of some textbooks.
The books have begun to arrive,
however, and are being dis
tributed. it was stated this week.
Menlo's high school and those
of Lyerly and Summerville were
i consolidated a month ago to
' become the Chattooga High
School.
Appeals by Menlo to the State
Board of Education and Chat
tooga Superior Court failed and
the consolidation took place as
scheduled.
The old Summerville campus
and buildings are being used
until a new structure can be
erected or an addition can be
made.
Plans call for the selection of
a site for the new school by
October 3 An architect has been
hired and plans are underway
for the holding of a bond vote
next spring. The school oc
cupancy date has been set for
January. 1963.
ROOF REPAIRS
(Continued From Page 1*
erected the buildings involved—
the high school addition, the
elementary school and Westside
Schools.
Leaks have been a problem
since the flat-top buildings were
erected
Supt Strickland looked over
the plans yesterday while in At
lanta attending a drive-in con
ference of Atlanta area school
superiuteiKients.
■ YOUR CONGRESSMAN j
JOHN W. DAVIS I
Without knowing for sure, I
would hazard a guess that the
Seventh District of Georgia is
the second largest poultry pro
ducer in the nation. Congress
man Phil Landrum’s Ninth Dis
trict is generally conceded to be
the largest producer.
Os late tne poultry producers
have suffered severely because of
low prices and many are on the
verge of bankruptcy. When the
farm bill was under debate in
the House I joined with my col
league, Mr. Landrum, in seeking
to make it possible for poultry
growers to come under the agri
culture program of controlled
production if they chose to do
so. The amendment which would
have made this possible was un
fortunately defeated by a small
margin.
This morning’s mail brings a
letter from Georgia’s Com
missioner of Agriculture, Phil
Campbell, asking my cooperation
in putting through an amend
ment to the 1961 farm bill pro
viding for quotas or “set asides”
in order to improve poultry
prices without price fixing or
government subsidies. I shall of
course be glad to lend my efforts
in this direction, although the
hour is so late I fear there is
small chance of its passage be
fore adjournment.
Mr. Campbell points out in his
letter that Georgia’s poultry
growers have been losing $145.-
000 per day for several months.
To illustrate the value of this
industry to Georgia, he mentions
that gross sales of broilers in
Georgia is equal to the total
sales of Georgia’s entire tobacco,
peanut and hog enterprises.
No doubt you noticed the news
stories of charges by the Agri
culture Department that certain
national food store chains have
POLICE BEAT
Carl Davis Martin, Fort Payne.
Ala., was released under bond
Sunday after being charged by
Summerville police with driving
under the influence and pos
sessing whiskey.
Off’/ers George Dean, David
Starkey and Bobby "Plunkett
made the case.
Driving under the influence
and possessing non - taxpaid
whiskey charges were made
Sunday against Hollard Ward,
Scoggins Street, Summerville.
He was released under bond at
city hall.
Emerson Branch. Summerville
Hotel, Summerville, has been
charged by Summerville police
with possessing non-taxpaid
whiskey.
Elgin Lee Norton of a Sum
merville address has been
booked by Summerville officers
on charges of driving under the
influence and possessing whis
key.
A Rossville man, H. L. Sweatt,
made cash bond after being ar
rested by Summerville officers
on charges of possessing Tennes
see taxpaid whiskey.
E H. Moon, of Rome, made
bond and was released after
Summerville officers booked him
I on charges of driving under the
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conspired with a few of the
largest meat packing concerns
and two large lamb dealers in
controlling prices of lamb and
restricting competition in lamb
buying. In substance, Agricul
ture Secretary Freeman is
I charging that the meat packers
agree to sell to these stores at
a certain low price at a future
date, long before the lambs are
purchased from the farmers,
j The theory is that the stores
would then run a big Saturday
special on lamb, sell at a price
lower than other grocery store
operators could meet and at the
same time run the smaller lamb
growers out of business.
One of my colleagues, whose
committee work affords him
wide knowledge of this subject,
has expressed to me the sus
picion that this same practice
underlies the present illness
from which the poultry industry
is suffering, and that it may ex
tend also to the beef and pork
growers. While it isn’t exactly
the same thing as larceny, the
fact remains that when the sup
pliers and distributors of a com
modity conspire to manipulate
and control its market price,
they have willfully and mali
ciously caused financial ruin to
come to their fellow men and
have unjustly enriched them
selves as effectually as though
they had taken his worldly goods
by force.
The small businessmen of the
United States have a hard
enough time making ends meet
on an open market where the
I price of goods freely follows the
law of supply and demand. It
| would be tragic indeed if it
should come to light that the
poultry growers of Georgia have
been the victims of price ma
' nipulation.
Search for
Screw Worm
Underway
A search is underway in
Chattooga County to deter
mine whether the screw worm
has invaded this Section.
County Agent M. H. Purcell
asked Wednesday that anyone
having a wounded animal in
which larvae has located con
tact either himself or Dr.
Eugene Hamner. They would
like to make a test, he said, to
determine whether the screw
worm is here.
The worms have been found
as close by as Franklin County,
Tenn., he said. This is only
some 30 miles to the north, he
noted.
influence.
Sidney Murphine Jr., Rome,
was charged with driving under
the influence and possessing
whiskey Saturday.
He was arrested by Summer
ville officers.
James Precise, Woodland Ave
nue, Summerville, was booked
under Section 182 Saturday by
Summerville officers. He made
bond and was released.
Driving under the influence
and speeding charges were
: placed against Samuel Stephen
Majors of Menlo Friday by Sum
। merville police.