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The Summerville News. Thurs.. December 5. 1903
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Remember Pearl Harbor . . .
All during World War IT, there was
a cry to ‘‘Remember Pearl Harbor”.
This Saturday, we observe the 22nd
anniversary of that infamous day, and it
is well to again “Remember Pearl Har
bor”, to remember those who died there
and in the following years to save our
nation.
And to remember that weakness invites
not only probing but also, as it did in 1941,
attack.
It is well to investigate the possibilities
City Elections Important . . .
Voters in Chattooga County’s four mu
nicipalities will soon be electing officoals.
The Summerville and Menlo elections are
this month while the Trion and Lyerly
elections will be in January
These are important elections. Con
siderable thought should be given to the
type person we select to represent us in
city government. Good government can
91 Countians Known TB Victims . . .
Every day in Georgia TB strikes tour
new victims.
In Chattooga County, there are 91 new
cases now being carried on the TB ease
register at the health department who
have not been classified as inactive for at
least a three year period.
One out of every four people in this
community and in every community in
the United tSates now has TB germs in
their body. Most of these will never de
velop active tuberculosis, but at least five
per cent of them will. It is from this num
ber that the disease is spread.
Police Beat
Paul Hill lias been sentenced
by Judge Bobby Lee Cook to 12
months on probation lor pos-;
sessing liquor.
Gaming charges have recently
been placed against John Smith,
William I Hampton Jr . William
C. Keough. Virgil Bowman and ■
R W Guy,
County records show that
Eugene Dorsey has been arrested
on hit and run charges.
Charges of simple assault
have been charged against Wil
liam Rider and J L. Bowling.
Assault and battery charges
have been lodged against Louis
Rinehart, Marvin Collins, C. B.
Stowe and Ernest I Trammell.
Stabbing charges have been
placed against Jessie Blackmon,
county records show.
Wifebeating charges have been
placed against Eldon Anderson.
Ernest I Trammell, Willie Roy
Scoggins and Dewey Adams.
Possessing liquor charges have
been placed against Emma Sims.
Henry Suns. Willis Reed. James
Evans and James C Kinsey
DKAW STKEXGTH
(Continued From Page 1)
Mrs Ollie Dalton, age 91. pres
ident ol the club, was recog
nized She was seated next to
Mr Emory and wore an orchid
corsage for the occasion.
An interesting sideline to the
banquet was a clothesline fash
ion show presented in a corridor
at the school by Miss Mary Jo
Logan, editor of The Trion
Facts Its theme was a "Special
Edition” of The Facts and the
show featured fashion posters
with Riegel fabrics.
Some 400 persons attended
SCHOOL GKOI I’
'Continued From Page fi
was noted The board grant will
be made about the end of this
A report on the testing pro
gram in the schools was given
b\ the school superintendent
H, pointed out that students in
gradt s 2. 4. 7 and 10 are given
a ! -t 'ii aptitude and achieve
ment annually.
Application to the state for
: repiping of the Chat-
■M ed.
The Summerville News
Is the Official Organ
Os Chattooga County
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
P. O. Box 310
Summerville, Georgia
Promotions
Innoiinced By
Riegel rextile
Several promotions have been
announced by the Trion Divi
sion ol Riegel Textile Corpora
tion.
Norman S McClellan has been
promoted to Night Superintend
ent ol the Grey Mill according
to an announcement by Clyde C.
Cobb, Assistant General Man
ager Mr McClellan succeeds
McMillan Myers, recently ap
pointed to Superintendent of
Carding.
Mr McClellan joined Riegel in
July. 1961 as Technical Super
visor for the Division In Octo
ber. 1962 he was made Super
visor of Quality Control, a job he
held until this appointment.
Prior to joining Riegel, Mr
McClellan was employed by
Callaway Mills at 1 aGrange,
Georgia. He is a graduate of
Auburn University In Textile
Engineering. He is married to
the former Carolyn Dean and
they along with their three sons
reside at 5 Simmons Street in
Trion.
Charles F Eichelberger has
been promoted to Supervisor of
Quality Control succeeding Nor
man S McClellan The an
nouncement was made by Clyde
(' Cobb. Assistant General Man
ager. The effective date will be
November 25. 1963
Mr Eichelberger joined Riegel
in June. 1961 after graduating
from Auburn University in Tex
tile Engineering He was made
Waste Control Supervisor in
May. 1962. a job he held at the
time of his new assignment
The Eichelbergers reside at 8
Simmons Street. Trion
J Frank Kisor has been pro
moted to Waste Control Super
visor succeeding Charles Eichel
berger The appointment was
also announced by Clyde C
Cobb. Assistant General Man
ager Mr Kisor will assume his
new duties November 25. 1963
Mr Kisor joined Riegel in
January, 1955 as a Cloth Room
employee and has held various
jobs in the (“loth Room until this
appointment He attended the
I local schools in Trion and is
married to Connie Kisor. secre
tary in the Methods & Standards
Department at Riegel
The Kisors reside in the new-
Oak Hill Sub-Division in Trion.
Your local merchants keep the
economic wheels of your com
munity turning throughout the
year. See their advertising in
this newspaper.
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
of “easing tensions” in the world but at
the same time we must act from a position
of strength, never forgetting that com
munism’s ultimate goal is domination of
the United States and the rest of the
world.
eWhave just lost a leader who recog
nized these things. But, we believe, our
new president is a man who also realizes
that only through a position of strength
can we avoid another “Pearl Harbor”.
ensue only when good people comprise our
government.
Honesty, fairness, being well-informed,
stability, and courage are some of the
traits which are important for a person
who is to serve us.
Let’s think on these things when we
go to the polls and mark our ballots.
Contributions to Christmas Seals, sent
each year by your tuberculosis association,
are used to fight TB all year around. It
helps patients who need clothing and
transportation, it provides educational
programs for schools and community
groups and it supports medical ('ducation
and research.
Contributions in any amount are
gratefully received and carefully used.
Keep and use the Christmas Seals you re
ceived. They show your interest and con
cern in the fight to reduce suffering and
death from TB.
I ALMADGE SAYS
I B| ILL-ADVISED
OX CH II KIGHTS
After reflecting on President
Lyndon B. Johnson's first ad
dress to Congress in joint ses
sion, Georgia’s Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge issued the following
statement from his office in
Washington:
“Tlie day after President John
son assumed office. I wrote him
and offered my prayers, best
wishes and support for a suc-
I cessful administration.
"His message was an eloquent
J and forceful statement of the
j principles advocated by the late
President Kennedy which Presi
dent Johnson had supported
prior to assuming office as the
nation's chief executive and
which he now vigorously con
tinues to support.
"1 commend President Johnson
Jon his timely pledge to hold a
tight rein of government expen
ditures and I earnestly hope that
> his pledge will be translated in
, to a balanced budget and fiscal
l responsibility
; Those programs that are in
the nation’s and Georgia's in
terest. I will myself support
Those things that conflict with
the Constitution of the United
States, or are against the best
interests of all the people of the
■ United States and Georgia, I
. could not support in the past
and 1 cannot support now.
While I favor every citizen
I enjoying his constitutional
: rights. I cannot and will not vote
for coersive federal legislation
■ which would deprive the people
i of the right to select their own
- local officials, to choose their
own associates, to u ilize their
I own private property, or to de
cide their own employment con
ditions and labor union prac
tices relative to the operation of
private businesses
’I cannot support legislation
that would deprive whol“ states
or entire regions of federal ap
; propria turns at the caprice to
any federal official.
1 "I deeply regret that President
1 Johnson has chosen to pursue
’ this ill-advised course which
; goes against all that the Consti
tution stands for and which I
fear will continue to divide our
nation at a time when unity is
’ of tlie utmost importance "
The boll weevil has caused
heavy damage to cotton in Geor
> gia for more than 40 years, and
■ Dr C R Jordan, head of the Ex
‘ tension entomology department.
। says it is still the number one
pest of cotton m the state.
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Coffee Break
By HELEN BUFFINGTON
The thoughtful descendants of one of Chattooga
County’s pioneer citizens, William Hemphill Cleghorn,
have recently moved his remains to the side of those
of his wife at the Summerville Cemetery.
Mr. Cleghorn, who died 119 years ago, had been
buried on his riverside plantation south of Chattooga
ville and his wife had been interred here. Because his
was the lone grave at the Chattoogaville site, the
descendants were afraid that it would eventually be
lost and forgotten.
Mr. Cleghorn, who was born in 1798, was a U. S.
government agent to the Cherokee Indians in this
area, coming here from Franklin County. His wife
was the former Nancy Cantor Storey and they were a
striking family, both being red-haired and having
seven red-haired children.
Three of the children also are interred at Summer
ville—John Storey Cleghorn, Cicero C. Cleghorn and
Mrs. Warren (Mary) Henry. John Storey Cleghorn
built and was laid to rest in a mausoleum at the ceme
tery.
Fortunately, those having the elder Mr. Cleghorn’s
remains moved were able to almost exactly match the
marble which had been used in his wife’s grave marker.
The final resting place of the founders of the
Cleghorn line in this county is not only a source of
pride to the Cleghorn descendants, but, inasmuchas
Mr. Cleghorn was a pioneer Countian and government
agent to the Indians, his grave also is of interest to all
countians who treasure their heritage.
* * * *
An interesting picture was sent to The News office
recently by the Ira Hendersons of Summerville, but
unfortunately its condition is such that we cannot
reproduce it.
II is a photo of ice-covered trees in front of the old
courthouse. Since the present courthouse was built in
1909, it is safe to guess that the picture was made
before or shortly after the turn of the century.
Although the courthouse itself can't be clearly
seen, it appeared to be a wood frame building of about
two floors with at least three chimneys and surrounded
by a picket fence. Seven big trees in a row parallel to
the street, outside the fence, can be seen. One wagon
or < art and two men are standing in front of the fence
ami several men can be seen between the fence and the
courthouse itself.
The present building at the north corner of Com
merce and West Washington Streets can be seen in the
background.
* * * *
Surely there is nothing more fascinating than an
old newspaper.
And we at The News office are often treated to
this pleasure as readers generously lend us their old
editions. One of the most recent to lend us editions
was Miss Kate Allmon of Lyerly who brought several
papers from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Reading
them is like living for a few minutes in an era many of
us never knew.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some way to
preserve these old newspapers and, if the owners were
willing to part with them, to have them compiled in
some central place, such as the library, where they
would be available to future generations?
* » * ♦
Since this column seems to be devoted to historical
items, we ll pass along an interesting bit of information
which came our way following a recent News story
about an 1891 edition of The Walker County Messenger.
Mrs. B. E. Neal of Summerville notes that the Dr.
J. M. Fulmer referred to in a Trion column in that
edition was her mother s youngest brother. The item
noted that Dr. Fulmer was ill. possibly with typhoid
fever.
Mrs. Neal points out that he did indeed have
typhoid fever and died in November of that year with
the disease. She was three and one-half years old
at the time.
“He rode a gray horse and my mother told how
he used to come by and put me up on the horse with
him and take me to mv Grandfather Fulmer’s house,”
said the retired school teacher.
Social Notes
Mr. and Mrs. J B Clark were
week-end guests o f their son.
McCoy Clark, and Mrs. Clark in
Noble.
Otis Gorman entered Chat
tooga Hospital Monday for treat
ment .
Spending Sunday with Mrs
B E Neal at Summerville were
Mr and Mrs Robert Hourigan
and son. Tommy, of Lebanon.
Ky Mr and Mrs W J. Abbott,
of Acworth: Mrs Maxine Talton.
Sandy and Susan. Atlanta: Mr.
and Mrs Fred Neal. Cedartown:
and Mrs. Graves Myers. Sum
merville.
Mr and Mrs. Calvin Keller, of
Toledo. Ohio, spent the week
end with Mrs Kellers mother.
Mrs John Alexander, South
Commerce Street. Summerville.
Mrs. Keller will be remembered
here as Miss Betsy Alexander.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Funder
burk and Mrs. Jean Allmon
spent Thanksgiving with Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Skelton in Fair
View.
Mr and Mrs. Raymond Reyn
olds and Rita had as their guests
Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs.
Roscoe Steele and Mr and Mrs.
Grover Atkins, of Greenville.
Thanksgiving Day guests of
Mr. and Mrs Bob Jones were:
Mrs W M Jones, of Lyerly; Mr.
and Mrs Frank L Gardner, of
Chattanooga, and Bob Jones Jr .
a student at the University of
Georgia. Athens.
Robert Funderburk is spending
this week in Columbus with his
mother. Mrs. Alice Funderburk.
Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Underwood
Notes From 20
Years Ago . . .
The people of the United
States, deeply religious if not |
ostentatious, express their fun- J
damental belief in the goodness'
of Almighty God by observing, i
admidst war, their annual
Thanksgiving day ... No one
overlooks the stern struggle,
that confronts the nation or the |
grief that battle lesses will pre
sent . . . Despite these trials,
common to all people, the aver
age American thanks an omni- !
present God for the mercies and
blessings that, he knows, has
attended him, his people and his
nation . . .
An editorial
The war department today
made public the name of Pvt.
Howard A. Hampton, son of Mrs.
Nancy J. Hampton, of Trion, Ga.,:
as among those missing in action
in the Mediterranean area.
Roy and Ralph Bishop, twin
sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Bishop, of Lyerly, are in the
coast guard, stationed in Delray
Beach, Fla. They joined on June
24, 1943, after graduating from
Lyerly High School.
The Summerville churches ob
served Thanksgiving with a
union service at the Presby
terian church Thursday morning
at 7:30 . . .
At a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Chattooga
County Library, Mrs. J. H. Shu
mate was elected librarian.
285 men leave for induction at
Fort McPherson.
This week we salute Romie
Edwards . . . The Senior Spot
light, Summerville High School
News.
Union Thanksgiving service
will be held Thursday evening,
7:30 o'clock at the Methodist
church. Brothers Cochran, Hol
lis and Bryant are in charge of
the music . . . Howdy, Folks, (col
umn by the Rev. B. L. Betts)
pastor of the Lyerly Methodist
Church.
—
Mr. and Mrs. N B. Murphy left
Friday to go to New York to join
their son. Ensign Bernard Mur
phy Jr. who is in port there for
a few days.
Mrs D P. Henley left Wednes
day for a several days visit to
relatives in Chattanooga.
Miss Mamie Smith spent the
week-end with homefolks.
Mrs. White
Heads Church
Women
Mrs. W. M. White, Cloudland,
recently was elected president of
the Women of the Church of the
Cloudland Presbyterian Church,
the minister, the Rev. Donald A.
Hyde, has announced.
The vice president is Mrs.
Amos Green; secretary, Mrs.
Baker Willingham: and treas
urer, Mrs. Reuben Lyons.
Committee chairmen are:
Spiritual growth, Mrs. Jack For
rest; Christian education, Mrs.
L. P. Wood: stewardship, Mrs.
Clifford Green; church exten
sion, Mrs. W. M. Storey: world
missions. Mrs. Charles Shipman;
pastor’s aid and general fund
agencies, Mrs. Glover Green;
sunshine. Mrs. Reuben Lyons;
Columbia Friendship. Mrs. Clif
ford Green; and monthly Bible
study, Mrs. Forrest.
Preaching services are con
ducted at the Cloudland church
first Sunday evenings and third
Sunday mornings. “Family
Night" program is held the last
Tuesday in the month.
At a recent meeting of the
official boards of the Beersheba
Presbyterian Church with Cher
okee Presbyterian Church exten
sion leaders, plans were initiated
for additions to the church.
These include enlargement of
classrooms and adding a fully
equipped kitchen to the present
facilities, Mr. Hyde stated.
Worship services will be held
Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Alpine
Presbyterian Church, and at 11
I a m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Menlo
church, it was stated.
Educators
To Attend
Atlanta Meet
Several Chattooga Countians
have been invited to attend the
long-awaited report Tuesday in
Atlanta of the Governor’s Com
mission on Education.
Among those invited and
planning to attend are: County
School Supt. James Spence.
Chattooga Board of Education
Chairman W. P. (Bill) Selman,
State Senator Joseph E. iBo)
Loggins. Chattooga Rep. James
H Floyd. Trion School Supt.
A J. Strickland. Mrs. Henry
Duke, president of the Chat
tooga ‘ Parent-Teacher Council,
and James A. Hammond, chair
man of the Trion Board of Edu
cation.
and children. Ledon. Yvonne and
Jerry, of Henagar. Ala., were
guests Sunday afternoon of Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Wilson Sr.
and Joan. I
1 JOHN DAVIS
iSSU CONGRESS
NOW THAT THE sad and
tragic death of President Ken
nedy has been fully compre
hended and the leaders of the
world have paid their respects
to our former Chief of State, the
attention of all of us, Members
of Congress included, now nat
urally, and indeed necessarily,
turns to an examination and ap
praisal of our new President.
Perhaps the difference most
obvious to the people of Georgia
between former President Ken
nedy and our new President
Johnson is one of accent. The
former President’s clipped Bos
tonian accent never lost its
strangeness on Southern ears,
while the Texas drawl of Presi
dent Johnson sounds almost ex
actly the same as a person from
Georgia.
The first time I ever met
President Johnson, he told me
that one of his grandfathers
came from Macon. Ga., and that
he has always had a very warm
spot in his heart for the State
of Georgia.
The parents of Mrs. Johnson,
by the way, both came from the
State of Alabama, which means
that the President’s family
springs from a background that
is strongly Southern.
TO MY MIND it is significant
that on the occasion of President
Johnson’s first address, Mrs.
Johnson included the Governor
of Georgia as one of the few
guests to be invited to sit in the
family gallery with her.
President Johnson goes into
office with a degree of prepara
tion that has never been
matched by any other incoming-
President in the history of our
country. He brings with him
twelve years experience in the
House of Representatives, twelve
years in the United States Sen
ate, including two years as
Suit Filed
In Walker
Revaluation
A suit seeking to keep Walker
County from collecting taxes
under the new property revalua
tion program has been filed in
Walker Superior Court.
A hearing has been set for 10
a m. Wednesday. Judge Samuel
W. Farris, judge of the Look
out Judicial Circuit, disqualified
himself on the grounds that he
is a taxpayer and would be
affected by the decision. He
asked Judge J. H. Paschall, of
Calhoun, judge emeritus of the
Cherokee Judicial Circuit, to
hear the suit.
Bringing the petition was the
law firm of Shaw, Stolz and
Fletcher. One contention of the
suit is that tax officials accepted
the personal property returns as
given in by taxpayers and made
no effort to reappraise such
property. This was the point in
a similar suit brought in Floyd
County which resulted in a tem
porary injunction being issued.
Floyd officials are now re
appraising personal property.
HjOIAII TALMAOGi
Hk ■' v
is INDISTINCT ’HINT I J
II IltesHfWGrOAf l l
EVEN A NATION as strong
ami secure as the United States
is not safe from providential
crises, and one of the worst
tragedies that can befall any
country is the loss of its leader.
Such a dark moment of his
tory came to us on November 22
Ki®
with the das
tardly and de
praved assas
sin a t ion of
Piesident Ken
nedy in Dallas,
Texas.
However, as
Chaplain of
the Senate. Dr.
Frederick Brown Harris, said in
prayer on the floor of the Sen
ate when news first came to us
about the death of the Presi
dent: “God lives! And the Gov
ernment in Washington still
stands.”
We are fortunate indeed in
having a country such as ours
with its time-tested and proven
Constitutional system of gov
ernment, with its provisions for
automatic and swift ascension
to the highest office in the na
tion, without delay and without
confusion and turmoil.
This of course makes for a
strong government and binds
the people together in single
minded determination to carry
on in the face of adversity.
• ♦ •
THE LATE President was
struck down in the prime of life
and at the height of his political
career, and his death was a
great loss to all America and
the people of the Free World.
And to those of us who served
with him in the Senate and
worked with him as President,
I
Democratic Whip and eight
years as Democratic Leader,
and. finally, three years as Vice
President of the United States.
He has been the most active
Vice President in the history of
our country, thanks to the con
viction on the part of President
Kennedy that a Vice President
ought to be allowed to partici
pate in the decisions that are
made, especially in the field of
foreign policy.
* * *
' AS HE POINTED out in his
address to the joint session of
' Congress the day before Thanks
’ giving, he has been directly in
' volved in the workings of the
national government here on
( Capitol Hill for the past thirty
-1 one years.
Though he has espoused the
; cause of civil rights on the na
. tional level, he nevertheless
’। carries to the White House for
" the first time a personal knowl
, edge of that peculiar give and
take which has sprung up be
tween the white and colored
; people in the South through
. generations of experience—a
’ whole body of customs and folk
ways that has been completely
foreign to every occupant of the
White House over the past one
. hundred years.
President Johnson’s speech to
the joint session of Congress, in
• cidentally, was most reassuring
i in the main. His pledge to con
> tinue with military prepared
ness, to practice economy where
> j possible, to live up to our com
■ I mitments from Viet Nam to
i West Berlin and his pledge to
; respect Congress as an inde
: pendent branch of the govern
i ment—all of these needed very
1 much to be said, and all point
> toward the fact that Lyndon
। Johnson may well make a great
; President.
Mail Early,
Urges Stubbs
The advent of December
marked the start of one of the
■ biggest races in town —the an
nual race against time at the
■ Summerville post office as its
Christmas mail rush went into
hiah gear. Postmaster John
I Stubbs noted today.
I “Shopping and mailing early
■ benefits everyone,” the postmas-
I ter observed. “Customers who
• buy early get the pick of the
■ Christmas stocks; the local
> economy is aided by the business
activity thus created, and every
■ one—including the postal service
i —is happy about the additional
time that early mailing allows.
> “Early mailing also gives us
I time to get gifts and cards In
> the hands of addresses in good
[ condition with less chance of
; damage or delay due to human
> error.”
i _
The Walker suit also contends
I that use of the homestead tax
exemption was misapplied and
that this misapplication has
been made generally in many
Georgia counties.
it was a shocking and sad day-.
Our hearts go. out to Mrs (
Kennedy and her children and
other members of the family in
their bereavement.
And we ask Divine Guidance
in this very trying period in his
tory and pray for unity among
the people.
* ♦ ♦
ONLY TIME will tell what
kind of President Lyndon B.
Johnson will make, but I am
confident that he has the energy,
the intelligence, knowledge of
I government, and the overall ca
| parity to become one of the
| United States’ all-time great
i chief executives.
As Majority Leader of the
; Senate, he was without peer. A
master of parliamentary pro
cedure and unmatched in devo-
I tion to duty, he has always act
i ed in keeping with what he be
i lieved to be in the best interests
; of the country.
As the Vice President, he was
given many important assign
ments which he discharged with
i great ability. He has earned the
admiration and respect of lead
: ers the world over. In terms of
national security and foreign
i policy, he was the best informed
; Vice President in the history of
. the L nited States, and this of
■ course will be of immeasurable
value to him in his new and far
: reaching responsibilities.
; I wish President Johnson God
; speed as he assumes the most
1 ] difficult and important job in the
i Free World and pledge to him
I my support.