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SUMMERVILLE POST OFFICE MURAL FEATURED IN STATE GUIDE
“New Deal” Art Was Painted In 1939; Touched Up Since
Mural Featured In Guide
The mural at Summerville
Post Office is listed among the
art produced durinfiPresident
Roosevelt’s ‘“New Deal” for a
nation caught in the throes of
a deep economic Depression.
The guide, which is featured
at the Chattooga County
Library, lists the g.lmmerville
mural and a map shows the
location of other fiew Deal art
and sct;g)tures in Georgia. It
was produced by the Georgia
Museum of Art, University of
Georgia.
BACKGROUND
The post office mural in
S&mmervi(l:le, gntitled,
“Georgia Countryside,” was
gamtefil by Doris Lee in 1939.
he was born in Aledo, 111., the
guide stated. Ms. Lee studied
at the Kansas City Art In
stitute with Ernest Kawson. at
the San Francisco School of
Fine Arts with Arnold Blanch,
and in Paris with the painter
Andre Lhote, the brochure
indicated.
The deteriorating Summer
ville mural was:touched up a
few years ago.
She was born in 1905 and
died in 1983.
The New Deal art was spon
sored by a federal government
qujeqt called the Section of
ainting and Sculpture, later
called the Section of Fine Arts,
the guide states.
SET IN 1934
The explanation continues:
‘“Established in 1934 under
President Roosevelt’'s New
Deal administration, the art
Brogra.m was directed by the
nited States Treasury
Department, the division of
fovemment then responsible
or the construction and
decoration of federal buildings.
In existence until 1943, &e
Section commissioned art for
1,100 post offices throughout
America. Unlike the well
known Federal Art Project
under the Works Progress Ad
ministration (WPA), Section
art went to federal buildings,
usually post offices in small
cities and towns. In contrast,
most WPA-sponsored art went
to state and municipal
buildings in larger cities.
‘‘Artists were usually
MWe Give Thanks
. . . To President Bush For His
Stalwart Leadership
. . . To His Military Staff For Their
Outstanding Plan.
. . . To Our U.S. Troops in Operation
Desert Storm For Their Incredible
Patriotism and Willingness and Ability
To Do the Job.
. . . To the Families Of Our More Than
70 Troops From Chattooga County
For Their Sacrifice.
...dp God
Bictory!
DR. MARLIN PAYNE AND STAFF
FAMILY EYE CARE CENTER
8 Georgia Avenue
selected through competitions
where their color sketches,
entered anonymously, were
judged by a jurfir of prominent
town?eople_ The Section sup
gorpe the jury’s choices if the
esigns were of the standards
required. The Section also
organized national competi
tions which were advertised in
its ‘Bulletin.’ :
‘“Local artists were en
couraged to compete for the
commissions. Artists who won
were urged to visit the sites
and discuss possible themes
with local people. In general,
the Section, in welcoming opi
nions and suggestions, wished
18 Percent On
Food Stamps
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Associate News Editor
Almost 18 percent of Chat
tooga County’s population
receives food stamp genefits,
the board of the Chattooga
Department of Family and
Children Services (DFCS)
learned Monday.
A total of 982 food stamp
cases was reported in January,
an increase of 23 from
December’s caseload of 959.
Sara Jo Burt, eligibility
supervisor for the DFCS, told
the board that the number of
food stamp cases represents
the number of households
receiving benefits, with an
averafie of four people per
household. An estimated 3,928
individuals' receive benefits,
equal to 17.7 percent of the
county’s population.
Chattooga's population is
22,242, according to 1991 cen
sus figures.
Mrs. Burt added, however,
that the present caseload is
to please the townspeople.
SUBJECTS
“The themes presented in
the paintinfs ancf reliefs com
missioned for Georgia's post
offices fall into three general
categories which are represen
tative of Section art across the
nation: contemporary scenes of
workers; panoramas of the
town or countryside; and
historical scenes that reflect
local histories. Georgia,
because of its airicultural
heritage, is rich in the number
of murals and sculpture depic
ting farms and farm workers.
In contrast, only one scene of
smaller than that of six years
ago when she began working
with the DFCS. About 1,250
cases were reported then, but
the number later decreased to
about 750, and is now increas
ing ai%ain, she said.
“I¥’s getting higher. Unless
the economy makes a big
swing, I expect we'll have
1,200 again. We're in one of the
poorest and most rural coun
ties in the state, and that is evi
dent in our caseloads.”
An average of sl4l (fer
client in stamps was issued in
January, according to the mon
thly DFCS report. The amount
of genefits issued to each reci
pient depends on individual cir
cumstances, and are
sometimes abused by clients,
the supervisor said.
Board member Clemmie
Black asked if measures could
be taken to prevent food
stamps from being traded by
clients to others who do not
receive benefits. Mrs. Burt said
that although each food stamp
is labeled with a serial number
and clients should show iden
tification when using food
stamps, nothing can be done
industrial workers was created
— in Rockmart. Only two Sec
tion murals in the state depict
arailroad and railway workers
—the paintings produced for
the College ParE and Com
merce Post Offices. Scenes of
downtown Rome and the
Pelham and Cornelia coun
trysides are on public view in
the post offices of those com
munities. Historical scenes are
almost as numerous as contem
porary farmin scenes.
Treaties and battfes with In
dians and depictions of early
local postal service reappear as
?pbjegts in Georgia post of
ices.
unless the abuse is reported.
“Once food stamps are
mailed to a client, they are en
tirely in the client’'s hands,”’
she said. ‘‘lssuing a S6O book
of food stamps is like handing
S6O in c_aslllngo that person.”
Food stamp clients are
issued identification cards to
show when purchasing food
with the coupons, but ‘‘most
stores do not require the ID
card before they take the
stamps, and that’s the pro
blem,” said Mrs. Burt. “You
can't fault the stores, but I
would want to see ID
cards . . . It's internal business
with the stores.”
Stores should not accept
food stamps detached from tge
coupon books, and the stamps
should not be used to purchase
tobacco, alcohol, or paper pro
ducts. But clients “‘easily Find
a way around the system.”
DRUG TRADES?
A. B. Day, board vice
chairman, said he has heard of
incidents in which clients ma
be trading food stamps for i{
legal drugs. “It woulg be real
easy for someone to get into
the food stamp racket to trade
an amount of crack for so
meone’s food stamp allot
ment,” Mrs. Burt said.
Alternatives to issuing food
stamps have been instigated in
other states on an experimen
tal bases. Mrs. Burt told the
board that debit cards are
issued in certain Northern
states, in which the amount of
benefits is deposited into a
bank account, and clients are
issued a card to present when
purchasing food. The cor
resiondmg amount is then
withdrawn from the account by
the store.
An Alabama pilot project
allows departments to issue
cash to benefits to clients. “I'd
think they’'d be out of money in
gye _dfiyg," said Chairman
irginia Boney.
“The clients really like it,”
Mrs. Burt said. “It doesn’t
categorize them as poverty.”
INTERVIEWING
In other matters, Mrs. Burt
told the board that the
PARISOL client interviewing
system will begin at the DFC
next Monday, after several
delays. The project is a com
puterized system that allows
clients to be interviewed for
several DFCS programs at
once, without using paper ap
plications for each program.
“Qur first interviews will be
slow until we build up our
speed,” she said. ““It’s going to
be a gositive thing %or the
state, but it will take a year to
get it going.”
Director Sharon Pinion told
the board that Patsy Vineyard,
Trion, will begin at the depart
ment as a clerk senior on
March 25, and interviews will
be conducted late this month
to fill a food stamp caseworker
senior’s g‘ost vacated this
month by Tammy Ridley, who
resaifined to accept a post in
Walker County.
Sales Tax Funds Rise
Both school systems and the Chattooga
County government received a significant
gfi:rease in the amount of their sales tax
ocations at the end of February, com-
Bared with both January and last
ecember.
The amount of sales tax distributed to
the county government, Chattooga school
system ang the Town of Trion for its
gchoqls had fallen in January. That may
ave indicated that less money was spent
in Christmas shoppinf in December, when
the money was actually collected by local
merchants.
However, the amount of cash
distributed by the State Revenue Depart-
H}ent at the end of February seemed to in
icate an upturn in the local economy in
January. That could mean that Chattooga
County is being hit less hard, so far, than
some other Georgia communities.
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The coun?' government received
$166,938 in February, an increase of
%‘?‘9,799 over the January total of $127,139.
e December take was $147,066.
The county school s§stem received
$118,431 at the end of February, $29,043
more than the February total of $89,388,
The Chattooga schools received $105,183
in December.
The Town of Trion received $46,057 last
month, up $11,295 from the Jmuarfi' figure
of $34,762. It was also higher than the
December total of $40,904.
Both school systems combined receiv
ed $164,488 last month, an increase of
$40,338 from the January total of
2124,150. The December figure was
146,087.
Sales tax collections are a general in
dicator of local retail sales.
The Summerville News,
Thursday, March 14, 1991
SUPERFINE
Superfine or ultra-fine
sugar is a very fine-grained
granualated sugar. ‘&uhr
granulatfid sugar is u so;
normal ; an
table use%mrfine
franulated is ideal for extra
ine-textured cakes fl"l?ld merd
ingues, sweewm?' its an
iced drinks, say University of
Georgia Extension Service
home economists.
FROZEN HASHBROWNS
Potatoes usually have a
poor texture and darken after
they are frozen. There are no
recommendations for freezing
hash browns, say University of
Georgia Extension Service
food experts.
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