Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, September 01, 1944, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDEVOTED, TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY. Volume 31 KKKM OF CM SUM * - The dedication of the new Brown ing Methodist Church, located on the Alamo-Spring Hill public road, will be held Sunday, according to an an nouncement by Rev. R. L. Harris, the pastor. The dedication sermon will be delivered by Rev. Leland Moore, district superintendent. At the noon hour a basket dinner will be spread on the church grounds. Rev. R. L. Harris will be master of ceremonies, of which the follow ing program will be given: Special music—— W. E. Currie The Church School . Mrs. C. M. Jordan “What I Think of a Country Church” Jeter Hurtz “Beautifying Church Grounds” Mrs. Johnny Clements “Cobperative Community” _ J. H. Walker Finance program —JR. F. Jordan Commitee Register Miss Pauline Heath The revival meeting will start on the same day, Sunday, September 3. Rev. Chester Gilbert, of Davisboro, will do the preaching throughout the week. Rev. Gilbert is a former resi dent of Alamo and has many warm friends here who will no doubt go and hear him at the Brownings new church. It is hoped by the citizens of the Browning community to make this one of the largest occasions in this section. All of the Methodist churches of the Alamo charge urged to bring well filled gaskets of dinner. PLANS BEING DISCUSSED FOR MILK PROCESSING PLANT IN GEORGIA With every southern state except Georgia now having at least one evaporation milk plant, although this state is one df the largest users of evaporated cream in the south, State Milk Control Director Alton Cogdell is making business-like plans to have such enterprises established in Geor gia. He is preparing to hold a series of meetings over the state to deter . mine whether its farmers want this new industry, which in other sections of the country “is providing an in come of six thousands dollars daily.” Atlanta, alone, Cogdell asserted, uses 25,000 cans daily, ami nationally known evaporation milk concerns art “ready and anxious” to set up plants in Georgia. Such enterprises have greatly bene fitted the districts in which located he said. Buying three-fourths of their milk from dairymen owning less than five cows, the plants are a real boon to the small farmer. In fact, said Cogdell, they do business with farmers owning only two cows Each plant buys from a fifty-mile territory, which in Georgia would cover about 25 counties. One plant began with a capacity of 10,000 pounds of milk 'and today averages 150,000 pounds, but still is short of supplying demands. When these private milk companies locate in a community, the State Control Director continued, all the farmers have to do is supply milk and receive a ready cash income in return. Carnation and Borden’s are ready now to come to this state, he said, and he is visiting the Pet Milk Company plant this week. The first meetings for discussion of the proposal are to be held soon at Toccoa and Newnan. Cogdell hopes three plants will be located in south Georgia, three in middle Georgia and three in the northern part of the state. '||f A NURSE IN THE U. S. MARINES I’m lonely tonight, and alone. My thoughts, they wander back home To mother and father; To sister and brother; To the army my sweetheart has gone I’m a nurse in the U. S. Marines. The ocean is far in between My loved ones and me, And the deep, deep sea Is tempting me just like a dream. Temptations must be overcome. There’s work “over here” to be done The airplanes are coming, And there will be bombing. No time now to think of my home. Chin up, my girl. Now a smile. This boy is only a child. "Oh, what can I do, Dear soldier, for you It won’t hurt so bad after ’while.” This hate, may it soon pass away. May victory be ours some day. ’ This war wil be won. And then we’ll be home, Back there in our old U. S. A. Though many are here to be seen, ’Tis of those at home I now dream. Dear loved ones, please write A letter tonight. To a nurse in the U. S. Marine. By MRS. LOUISE DURDEN. There will be preaching'at the Alamo Methodist church Sun* day night, at 9:15 o’clock by the paetor, Rev. R. L. Harris. You are invited. LOST—Gasoline C & A Ration book with the name of G A Hath* cook. If found return to Local Ration Board LITTLE ROCK HOLINESS MEETING BEGIN TODAY The fortieth annual session of the Little Rock Campmeeting, located about four miles west of Alamo, will convene on Friday, September 1, and will run through until September 10th, according to an announcement by Rev. J. A. Cowart, the pastor. Clean-up day will be August 29th, all that can come prepared for the clean ing up and any repair work that may be needed. September 3rd will be Homecofing Day; September 10th will be Memorial Day. Each Sunday, bring your basket with dinner. We have a table for spreading dinner. Services will be held daily at 7 a. m., 11:30 a. m., 7 p. m. and 8:15. Everybody invited to come for a spiritual feast. The singing will be done by local talent and visitors. The committee is composed of the following: H. F. Williams, H. E. Watson, O. L. Rawlins and J. A. Cowart. JSO STAGES “GONE WITH THE WIND” PARTY FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS Thirty war-wounded soldiers from .awson General Hospital, who read 'Gone With the Wind” when they vere boys, attended a “Gone With the Vind” party staged especially for hem by the U§O-Servieemen’s Center nd USO-JWB of Atlanta on the 'arroll McGaughey estate, Dunwoody, tugust 29. Called an “inspiration by Governor ollis Arnald in a letter he wrote to lark L. Entorf USO Regional ex cutive, the party began at 3 o’clock • hen several of Mrs. I. W. Curry’s JSO camp show girls in GWTW cos umes, did the old-fashioned waltz, the Virginia reel and other ante-bellum lances. Many of the boys back from Europe and the Pacific, many of whom ill never danee again, applauded so nuch the dances had to be repeated. Pat Waller, the accordion girl, gave ■ut with old familiar tunes that also ailed for encores. And the Patrick Brothers, both mungsters and local favorites, made a lit with their “harmonizing” to ac ■ompaniments played by Mrs. Viola Patrick. Mrs. Curry’s USO Camy show lingers, Barbara Cook, Shearer Stokes ind Margie Leres, locking dike belles >f the sixties in their hooped skirts tnd pant Hoons, did themselves proud vhen they sang Civil War songs such is “When Johnny Comes Marching Tome,” “Long, Long Ago” and others. This regular plantation program ■nded with community singing, in vhich the soldiers joined, before they valked or limped into the dining iim and sat down to a fried chicken linner with all the trimmin’s. One GI, speaking for himself and Jie other twenty-nine, before getting nto the bus to go back to Lawson mid: “I’ve heard about Southern hos litalitv and now after this “Gone Vifh dw Wind” party I know what it means.” Governor Arnall also realized what USO means to service men. For as he summed un in his letter to Mr. Entorf: “USO goes all out for the ioldiers over here with its clubs and 'ounges; over there with its camp shows and when they come back from overseas with such morale building entertainment as the 'Gone with the Wind’ party.” USO is financed by the American people through the National War Fund. US PEOPLE By G. C. Barnhill By G. C. Barnhill It is going to be the hardest thing tn the world to stir up much excite ment this year with our politics, just at the time our armies are finishing up part of our enemy fighting forces. We are bound to have some though, even if a new political strategy has been developed in this modern day, where candidates never mention each other, but talk about issues. After all this may be the best way, because it is a solution to the present day problems that is needed. There is another fact; Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln are dead, and all have monuments of marble and love—their contribution was great, they served well the problems of their Jay and generation. The problems of today will in no way compare to the ones they had. We must face the front as we are passing nito new attitudes that will be for the best of all man kind. All this blood is not being spilled in vain. By G. C. Barnhill Some of us have a time with our religion, trying to convince the world that we have the right type- Up in the part of the country where they have been letting the rattle snakes bite them to prove theirs, this band of believers have planned to go one step farther when they close one of their big meetings. Some of the members will take strychnine as a proof of their faith. Now if they take honest to goodness strychnine and do not die, lots of the rest of u» will lose faith in strychnine. It b * eurieM world af* tw all the things IBM ate tappen- ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1841 Telegraph Centennial Brings New Devices ' . % / a • 4 - ,' - “ . ■ ; "J -W fig I Hr w' ' • Miss Leila Livingston Morse, granddaughter of Samuel F. B. Morse, left, explains to Miss Mildred Crider, telegraph employee, the workings of the original instrument. It was used in re-enacting the sending of the first telegram, “What Hath God Wrought!” from the Capitol in Washington to Baltimore. New York (Special)—An aircraft de signer in New York has just finished an elaborate set of blueprints for a huge new trans-oceanic plane. The blueprints must be at the manufacturing plant in California tomorrow. How can it be done? By telegraph, of course. That is one of the things the com munications industry will be prepared to do not many years from now, when the war is over and the latest marvels stemming from an invention just a cen tury old will be used to tie the nation toother in building a hew era of peace-* time prosperity. It was in 1844 that the artist-inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse, sat down at his telegraph key in the Capitol at Wash ington and sent the first telegram— “ What Hath God Wrought!” The mes sage was received in Baltimore forty miles away. The nation is observing this year the centennial of Morse’s invention by spe cial Congressional exercise?, ineluding a re-enactment of the scene-in which the first telegram was sent: by unveil ing a plaque in honor of the scientist; by naming a Liberty ship for him and by issuing a telegraph centennial post age stamp. Civic, educational, scientific and other organizations are holding spe cial gatherings. On the threshold of its second century, the telegraph industry is ready to offer many new devices and services to Amer ican business as well as to the indi vidual. Only the war and the need for turning over much of this new equip ment to war-time tasks have kept these devices from more general use. The Telefax is one of the latest and most remarkable additions to the tele graph family. An electric eye rapidly GLENWOOD GARDEN CLUBHELDMEETING The August meeting of the Glenwood Garden club met at the home of Mis. R. T. Gilder with Mrs. N. A. Wynn and Mrs gilder as co-hosU-sses Mrs. Wallace Adams vice* president, presided at the busi ness session in the absence of Mrs. Segall, the president, who Was ill A very interesting program was carried out, with a talk on ‘ Summer porches and terraces’’ by Miss Esther Godbee and also a talk on “Bulbs’’ by Mi s. J. I. Giddings followed by a piano solo "Narcissus” played by Mrs W. A. Rivers. Then the hostesses served des lightful refreshments of chicken salad and permintu sandwiches, cake aud punch. The plates were especially beautilul with a lonely spray of geranium for each guest. Mrs. Andrew Fowler’s flower arrangement wa» voted to be the most beautiful. There was about 25 members present at this happy occasion and 2 guests. ing, but w folks are the curious part. The undertaker business seems to be one- of the best fields 01 business if we are going to have to compete with this poison taking sect to anchor our faith. I The first ibeotnotive ever oporat* M in the UnitU StMrt Wai bought fa KoglMia. scans a hand-written message, a picture, a blueprint or a maze of figures and the Telefax transmits it over the wire. ‘’Messages” of this kind arrive at their destinations as facsimiles of the origi nals. The service operatee simply as well as quickly and with 100 per cent accuracy. Progressive installation of the reper forator switching system is part of the Western Union Telegraph Company’s long-range modernization program. . One development which is helping us with our war business is carrier cur rent. Tins was discovered a number of years agb and engineers have been con stantly improving it. With carrier cur rent it is possible to send many mes sages at one time over a single pair of wires. Today a hundred telegrams may flash over telegraph wires simultaneous ly with never a mix-up. Curiously enough, the telegraph has passed through a complete cycle since Morse's day. The inventor's 'first instru ments were of .a semi-automatic type, but gave way to the hand-operated key until more recent times. Today auto matic equipment has virtually replaced the old-time telegrapher. Every year the Morso telegraph Key is used less and less. Most messages in telegraph offices are written on machines known as tele printers which have keyboards like typewriters. The printed telegrams you receive are from a teleprinter. Thousands of business firms, war plants and military centers throughout the country have their own teleprinters. With them, the offices can communicate with telegraph offices or with branch offices, suppliers and clients in distant cities. SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS By G. R. PEEPLES' A SOIL SURVEYOR was in the county last week making soil surveys on several farms. As to date soil sur vey maps have been received in thr county on 52 farms. Os these 52 farms complete conservation plans have been made on 33 and others will be made as soon as possible. The plans are made in order to bring about better land use practices so that more land may be used for what it is best suited, thus conserving the soil and at the same time producing more for victory. THE AAA OFFICE announces that they have plenty of blue lupine seed on band* and you should be making plans to get as much of your land seeded to winter cover crops as possi-, ble, especially harvested peanut land. Also phosphate will be available for fertilizing. Don’t forget our goal— “An acre of lupine for every acre of harvested peanuts.” A COMPLETE conservation plan was made on the farm of W. E. Currie this week. Mr. Currie plans to reter race about 50 acres of his farm and establish two water disposal areas to take care of excess terrace run off water. He also plans to put about 50 acres of cultivated land into per manent pasture. Mr. Currie is taking a step in the right direction for im proving livestock production on his farm by increasing his permanent WHITE MEN LEFT MONDAY FOR ARMY The following white men left here Monday morning for Bort'McPherson where they will be inducted into tho Army. They had previously been and received their physical examination and was accepted and were back home awaiting theircall. The list is as tallows: List of White Selectees for In duction, August 28, 1944: Nelson Causey, Alamos Ga; James Alton Evans, Lumber City, Ga., RL 2; Hollon Brady Walker, Alamo, Ga., Rt. 2; William Henry Mercer, Glenwood, Ga., Rt. 2; Andrew Jackson Peavey Alamo, Ga., Rt. 2; James David Bracewell, Glenwood, Ga., Rt. 2; Harvey. Edwards Evans, Lumber City, Ga., Rt. 2; John Ottwell McDaniel. Jr., Glenwood, Ga., Rt. 1; Russell Paul Vanh. Glenwood, Ga., Rt. 1; Brooke MeDahiil, Lumber City, Ga., YOUNG DEMOCRATS URGED BALLOTS BE SENT TO SOLDIERS Young Democratic Club of Georgia, through President Robert N. Fellows, this week urged relatives and friends of all service men and women from Georgia to turn their names and mil itary addresses over to the Ordinary of their home county so that they may be sent a ballot for the general election of November 7. "From the Young Democratic sol lier-vote campaign for the July 4 primary,” said Fellows, “we learned that the service man really, wants to cast his vote, but in many cases just doesn’t have the time to write for a ballot. Under Georgia law a ballot may be requested for him bv a rela tive or friend. We hope that everv Georgia citizen now in the armed lorces receives a ballot for the gen eral election, and the Young Demo rats are going to do everything in air power to see that they do.” Fellows said that 17,066 military allots were cast in the primary, anil hat there would be a large increase - 11 this number on November 7. “ There is no read tape to this sol dier voting,” be said. “Just, put his mine and address in the'hands of he ordinary of the service inan’£ lome county, with the request that he be mailed a ballot. It will lie sent it once by airmail to Hie military voter.” THE EAGLE MAY BE LATE NEXT WEEK; MAY NOT BE The Eagle may bo late next webk >n account of being away under the are of physician in Macon on Tues day, hut will be back on the job as soon as the physician will lot us leave. So get your copy in early as possible. Mr. C. B. Giner will keep it until 1 return. Many thanks. WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. By EMORY FIVASH. ELDRED W. CAUSEY COMMISSIONED ENSIGN Eldred W. Causey, 20, son of Mr. E. J. Causey, of Route 1, Alamo, won lis Navy "Wings of Gold” and was ommissioned an Ensign in the Nava] Reserve recently following completion >f the prescribed flight training ■ourse at the Naval Air Training .’enter, Pensacola, Fla., the "Annap-' dis of the Air.” Having been designated a Naval iviator. Ensign Causey will go on ictive duty at one of the Navy’s air iperational training centers before eing assigned to a combat zone. THE ORPHAN GOB Bv: Truitt H. Sears. S. 1 c fou’ve heard of the Air Corps \nd making paratroops. But think as hard as you can. Though you’ve heard of the \rmy and other forces, Have you heard of the Amphibious man? * This Amphibious Gob is a real ragged sort. • But unlike the fleet, He has no home port. Goes where he’s needed, Does what he can. I’his poor orphan sailor. The Amphibious Man., You might be a battleship sailor, From a cruiser or a tin can. Maybe fresh out of boo^ training. Or perhaps a second cruise man. They pick the men at random, flow else could they provide, A few might choose the duty. But they were mostly shanghied. ^You’-.e heard plenty of ^the Navy Os ships both fore and aft. But we’ll bet plenty, You’ve heard least of the landing craft. They’ve built a few already. And they are building many more, For they’ve got io have the landing craft, To win this doggone war. Thev’re loaded from the transports In the middle of night. Sail around to rendezvous, Can’t even show a light. Find their way in darkness, And land upon the shore. Through bombs discharge their cargo Then go back for more. Bringing in the first wave, Doesn’t end thg job. Fbr the troops upon the beach , Can't live without this gob. He brings in reinforcements. Any everything they use. His job is full of danger, But he never makes the news. For when the beach is taken And the radio starts to tell, You’ll hear of the marines and soldiers, And how they went through hell. You’ll thrill to front-page stories Os their heroic jobs— But you’ll never hear a word of The poor Amphibious Gob. And when this wor is over, And he’s back in civil life, No way in the hell will be explain To his kiddies and his wife— They know he’s in the nivy, But he’s the subject of a gob. | He’s just an’orphan sailor, A fob without a ship. Sample Copy 5c Number 17 amn num 20 prisoners or war PRISONERS op war for . HARVESTING PEANUTS By M. K. JACKSON, < County Agent Farmers having peanuts to harvest and wanting to use prisoners of war wi U need to ma k e application of Certification of Need for Employ- DubHn C ° Unty Age,,t t 0 the th - e time only twenty MU prisoners of war have been as agned to Wheeler county, and these an be divided into only two groups »f workers. 1 he task and wage scale as set for he counties served by the Dublin amp is as follows: / —Shiikinx and stacking >y hand, 23c per stack. .15 Stacks—Stacking with fork be- —1 le per stack. Stackß ~ S tacking with fork uom row, 15c per stack. Some of the rules and regulations oncermng pse of P/W labor are list ed below: 1. Farmers must-furnish transpor ation to and from Dublin. 2. Should plan to use 10 P/W in each group. 3. Have work outlined -Peanuts plowed up pitch fork for each work m on hand, stack holes in place (stack P-lcs nn> to be placed in every six menth row, B'Woot height above ~ Pieces and 14 to 18 steps apart 4 7 > 54 : f00t variation, according l<> stand of peanuts and width of P L Cea . 8,,0uM be approxi mately 30 inches long. 4. If necessary, prisoners of war J Ul 'l b “ '‘‘“trusted how to stack mended.’ Showing by doin «” recom- 5. Prisoners of war are to be paid ' according to what part of Yhe task ■ hey complete. 6. Prisoners of war are allowed 12 ’°urs from the time they leave camp until the time they return, or eight lours work, not including lunch pe- 7. Contractor for P/W must super • iso the work and keep the equip ment in order. The duty of the guard is to prevent escape of prisoners, and it is not his duty to make them work. Contractor shall report to Camp ommander any. P/W that fails to produce to the beSt of his ability. 8. Contractor must supervise or lire a foreman to supervise and sup ply the necessary equipment at all times. 9. P/W should not be worked with groups of civilian workers. 10. Contractors are cautioned to be sure and have all necessary equip ment on hand, stack poles set, etc., as any .delay in starting the work will oe charged against the contractor at he rate o? 4l»c per hour for each nan-hour lost. contractor is set up for P/W labor on certain date and it ains, thus making it impossible to ise them, it is necessary to notify Dublin Camp before 7 o’clock, E.W. f., on the morning he is to report to amp for them. (b) If contractor has P/W set for i certaind ate to harvest peanuts and t is decided that date should be •hanged, this should be done at least 12 hours before time to report for them Penalty that may be charged ay failuer to observe there regula tions is SI.OO per prisoner per day for the number included in the con tract. 12. Certification must be in at least one week in advance of the time |when P/W are needed. Any additional information may be secured from the County Agent’s uince. Ponder-Newkirk A marriage of much interest to their friends in this County was that of Mrs. Nanene Purvis Ponder, of Glenwood and Bruns wick to Bernard F. Newkirk, of Brunswick. The marriage took place in Brunswick Saturday afternoon August 19th. The quite cere mony was attended by-the brides small son, Purvis Ponder, her mother, Mrs. A. A. Purvis, of Glenwood; Mrs. J. S. Newkirk, mother-of the bride and a few friends. After a short wedding trip to Savannah the couple will make their home in Brunawick where they both are employed by the J. A. Jones Construction Co. FOR SALE—Seed oats. SI.OO per bushel; Seed wheat, $2.00 per bushel. See me or write, A. B. Grimes, Helena, Ga. Route 1. Birth statistics show that quadru phu occur ones In 658,408 births. Tbs ooUriag in auuMs io aauMd by IM MiMMtol fa H.