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GRAND JURORS DRAWN TO
SERVE AT THE OCTOBER
TERM, 1944, WHEELER
SUPERIOR COURT
which convenes October 9, 1944:
1, C. M. Jordan
2. R. F. Jordan
3. N. H. Sears
4. W. E. Currie, Sr.
5. A. T. Rhodes
6. Max L Segall
7. L. B. Chambers
8. S. P. Reynolds
9. R. W. Windham
10. J. A. Mcßae
11. Tom Cherry
12. L. N. Harbin
13. A. V. Hartley
14. O. H. Burnett
15. F. B. Barker
16. K. N. Adams
17. G. C. Barnhill
18. Martin Johnson
19. G. M. Anderson
20. P. J. Towns
21. Guy Cox
22. C. M. Anderson
23. T. A. Irwin
24. Emmett Currie
25. J. N. McDaniel
26. N. A. Wynne.
27. W. D. Ussery
TRAVERSE JURORS DRAWN
TO SERVE OCTOBER
TERM, 1944, WHEELER
SUPERIOR COURT
to report Monday, October 9, 1944:
1. M. B. Sikes
2. J. J. Pope
3. S. Ashley Clarke
4. W. R. Browning
5. J. L. Morrison
6. L. W. Kent
7. Arthur Tarpley
8. Oscai- Brown
9. J. W. Harrelson
10. A. J. Grimes, Sr.
11. J. B. Clements
12. James L. Sears
13. W. S. Sumner
14. J. N. Wiggins
16. F. B. Elam
15. W. R. McDaniel
17. H. F. Williams
18. J. P. Morrison, Sr.
19. Alfred Collins
20. R. G. Jackson
21. N. A. White
22. W. H. Morris
23. William J. Clarice
24. G. F. Clarke
25. W. J. Ryals
26. Leßoy Clarke
27. J. L. Johnson
28. E. Bridges
29. I. E. Brooks
30. T. A. Morison
31. W. H. Gilder
32. R. L. Williams
33. W. P. Owens
34. H. E. Coleman
35. W. E. Crawford, Jr.
36. J. R. Chambless
37. John L. Gowan
38. W. R. Stewart
39. T. J. Joran
40. M. H. Keen
41. S. R. McMillan
42. C. A. Stewart
43. F. A. Irwin
44. Robert Hill
45. G. A. Heath
46. J. B. Monfort
47. M. C. Ryals
48. Bob Simpson
to report Tuesday, October 10, 1944:
49. H. J. Whitfield
50. Thad N. Gibbs
51. B: E. Hall
52. B. H. Purvis
53. J. A. Barlow
54. M. B. Adams
55. E. D. Clegg
56. D. J. Sears
57. J. J. Selph
58. O. B. Adams
59. A. T. Gillis
60. C. G. Josey
61. J. S. Crawford
62. K. N. Sears
63. C. I. Josey
64. W. A. Braswell
65. W. D. Avery
66. H. C. Harris
67. G. F. Johnson
68. J. T. Mimbs
69. Emmett Joyce
70. W. T. Cullen
71. B. A. Irwin
72. H. A. Monfort
GLENWOOD METHODIST
CHURCH SUN. SERVICE
(By: John H. Allen, Pastor)
Next Sunday, September 24, is
another special day in the calcn*
dor of Glenwood Methodist
Church. We will observe Lay*
men’s Day, with Mr. C. M,
Proctor, District Lay Leader,
a nd Mr. Will Rushton, associate,
as our guest speakers.
Also this is the day on which
we bring our special gifts for the
world service (Benevolences)
program of the church. We want
this to be a sort of “Home Com*
ing” service, when all our mem*
bers in reach of the church will
make special effort to be present
Our guests will bring especially
worthwhile ’^messages.
PVT. WADE HARTLEY
WEAR WINGS, BOOTS
Fort Benning, Ga., Sept. 14 —
Pvt. Wade Hartley," son of Mr
and Mrs. E.S. Hartley, of Alamo,
has won the right to wear Wings
and Boots of the United States
Army Paratroops. He has com*
pleted four weeks of jump train*
ing during which time he made
five jumps, the last a tacticat
jump at night involving a combat
problem on landing.
Jumping at the Parachute
School has been steadily deve
loped to a recognized war sei*
enoe. American Paratroopers
have been recognized througout.
the world for their meritorious
actions against the enemy.
In addition to producing jump
ers, Parachute Specialist Train
ing is given to qualified men in
Communications, Demolition,
Riggers and Parachute Mainten
ance, vital skills for Airbori e
troops.
LURLENE ROUNTREE WAR
WORKER AT WARNER ROBINS
ROBINS FIELD, GA.—Lurlene
Rountree, Alamo, Ga., has been ac
cepted for training as a war worker
with Warner Robins Air Service Com
mand here, a “Keep ’Em Flying’
branch of the Army Air Forces re
sponsible for the repair, maintenance
and supply of army aircraft in all
parts of the world.
Miss Rountree attended the Alamo
schools and before coming to Robins
Field she was associated with J. R.
Chambless. Her mother is Mrs. Essie
Joiner oßuntree, Alamo. Upon com
pletion of her training here she will
>e assigned as clerk-typist in the
maintenance division.
GEORGIA BANS SALE
OF ALL INTOXICANTS
ON VICTORY DAY
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No intoxicants of any kind will be
sold in Georgia on Victory Day and
for the two days following. Revenue
Commissioner Eugene Cook, who pre
viously had ordered all liquor stores
to close on V-Day and the next two
days, last week explained his order to
require that no beer or wine be sold
at that time either.
Establishments selling beer and
wine, but primarily engaged in other
business, will not be required to close,
but are prohibited from sales of alco
holic beverages. Enforcement of the
regulation will rest with the local law
enforcement officers in the communi
ties where Georgia’s three thousand
holders of beer and wine licenses are
located.
Commissioner Cook issued his ordei
after representatives of the Brewing
Industry Foundation, eGorgia Com
mittee, and various civic and religious
leaders had conferred with him and
advocated the order. Representatives
of the Brewing Industry expressed
their desire to co-operate with the
Revenue Commissioner’s determina
tion that Georgia’s celebration oi
V-Day shall be a sober one.
“Everyone has joined hands in the
determination that our celebration on
/-Day shall reflect nothing except the
oy occasioned by the release from all
'uture danger of millions of our men
and women and of millions of op
pressed people,” Cook said. “Such an
occasion, in its very nature, should
be a reverent one. I have every as
surance that dealers who hold state
licenses for the sale of any type of
alcoholic beverages will co-operate
with us, and that local officials
throughout Georgia will enforce this
regulation.”
GEORGIANS ACTIVE IN
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES
J. Sid Williams, executive director
of the Young Democratic Clubs of
Georgia, has been appointed director
of organization for the Young Demo
cratic Clubs of America.
Mr. Williams will direct organiza
tion work in the border states, and
have his headquarters In New York
City. He will leave Georgia for New
York about October 1 for the dura
tion of the campaign.
Only recently Williams was given
another high recognition in being ap
pointed a member of the national
committee of the organization. He
and James Evitt, Jr., of Ringgold,
vice-president of Georgia Democrats,
attended a conference of the Young
Democratic Clubs in Chicago last
week. Miss Grace Cannington, of
Donalsonville, national committee
woman from Georgia, also was in
vited to attend.
A meeting of senior party leaders
also was held in Chicago last week
to make plans for the November
election. Attending from Georgia
were State Chairman J. Lon Duck
worth, Vice-Chairman Alton Cordell
and Hamilton McWhorter, National
Committeeman E. D. Rivers and Na
tional Committeewoman Mrs. Virginia
Poihill Prise.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1944
By Making This Dress Yourself
You Save Money for JFhr Bonds
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Rain or shine, you will delight in this afternoon dress of a fetching
umbrella-splashed print. The wide, shallow V-ncckline, shoulder bows
and slender skirt are youthful and becoming. Remember that by sewing
for yourself, you can save for a rainy day, and the best possible invest
ment is War Bonds. A suitable pattern for this afternoon dress may be
obtained at your local store. Back the Attack—Buy More Than Before.
- U. S, Treasury Departn^nt
NEW CITY MARKET ERECTING
ANNEX TO BUILDING
Mr. L. M. Achord, owner and man
ager of the New City Market here,
has started the erection of an annex
of concrete blocks to the back of the
building to help take care of the vol
ume of business. This building will
be 150 feet long when completed. The
New City Market is one of the larg
est markets in this section of the
state, and since the New City Market
was established several years ago it
has specialized in all farm produce
that a farmer has to' sell.
The annex will be used mostly for
the farmers’ exchange, whereby a
farmer can sell his produce any time,
and in return the farmer can buy
anything that he uses.
GIBBS-MADDOX
A marriage of much interest to
their many friends was that of Miss
Ruth Gibbs, of Alamo, and Panama
City, Fla., and Pvt. Carrington Mad
dox, of the United States Army, sta
tioned at the present time in a Gov
ernment hospital in Rome, Ga. Pvt.
Maddox was wounded in France in
August and was brought back to the
States for treatment.
The ceremony was performed by
Judge D. N. Achord, ordinary, in the
presence of a few friends Monday
afternoon, September 11th.
The bride holds a responsible posi
tion in Panama City, Fla. Mrs. Mad
dox is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Howell Gibbs, of near Alamo, and she
has many womanly traits.
The groom is a son of the late Mrs.
R. M. Maddox and the late R. M.
Maddox of Sardis.
‘Heaven Can Wait*
Includes Top Actors
Monday-T uesday
Lovely Gene Tierney and Don
Ameche share top featured bill*
ing in Ernst Lubitsh saucy sur*
prising romantic comedy “Heav*
en Can Wait.” In addition a large
cast of screen favorites is in*
eluded in the technicolor hit
which 20th Century-Fex brings
to the screen of the Alame
Theatre Monday and Tuesday.
AUDITOR REPORTS ON I
STATE DEPARTMENTS
The cost of operating the State De
partment of Pardons and Paroles was
$88,104 for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1944, according to State Auditor
B. E. Thrasher.
Operating costs for the State De
partment of Mines, Mining and Geol
ogy were $39,039, as compared with
$39,079 for the previous year.
The Cave Spring School for the
Deaf, of the State Department of
Education, had a cash surplus at the
end of the year of $10,634, Thrasher
reported.
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ALAMO METHODIST CHARGE
TO BUILD PARSONAGF
The Methodists of the Alamo
charge will erect a parsonage on the
grounds of the Alamo Methodist
Church in the very near future, it
was announced here this week.
The building will cost approximate
ly $5,000, it is said, and will be con
structed of brick. When this parson
age is completed it will be one of the
most modern and up-to-date parson
ages in the Dublin district. All of
the committees have been selected
and already several hundrd dollar!
have been contributed to this parson
age.
The committee is composed of the
following: J. Hobson Walker, Alamo’
Miss Leila Jordan, Shiloh; Mrs. Mon
roe Clements, Spring Hill; O. B
Adams, Browning; R. S. McMillan,
Bay Springs, and Preston White, Oak
Grove.
Hobson Walker is the charge chair
man, and D. N. Achord is the secre
tary-treasurer of the finance commit
tee.
PET MILK EXECUTIVE
WILL VISIT GEORGIA
L. A. Ballew, an official of the Pet
Milk Company, will make a tour of
Georgia communities interested in se
curing milk-evaporation plants, ac
cording to State Milk Control Direc
tor Alton Cogdell.
On September 24 he will be in Car
tersville to meet with citizens from
15 communities in that area, Cogdell
said. Ballew will also visit Toccoa,
Madison and Newnan for conferences
at those, points.
Soil Conservation News
By G. R. PEEPLES
The Wheeler County AAA Commit
tee met last week and set up a plan
whereby farmers can get terraces
built on the purchase order plan.
Several applications have already
been received to get terrace built and
it is hoped that everyone needing ter
races and not having facilities for
running the lines or building the ter
races will take advantage of this
program and make application with
the local AAA office as soon as possi
ble so that they might have some
idea as to how much equipment will
be necessary to carry on a successful
program.
Farmers, now is a good time to be
getting your winter cover crop ready
for seeding. The rains we are having
will give ideal moisture conditions
and the earlier the crops are seeded
the more success you will have with
| them. The local AAA office reports
that they wil have plenty of blue lu
pine, austrian winter peas and Willa
mette vetch seed available. The late
harvest of peanuts will delay the
seeding of peanut land and a good
practice of seeding will be to seed
ahead of the digging and cover seed
with the digging operation.
If you have not already done so,
you should check with the AAA office
or an individual fertilizer dealer to
see if you can get all the phosphate
or basic slag needed for your winter
crops as the fertilizing is one of the
most important factors in securing a
successful growth. In some instances
blue lupine has shown a little better
results where basic alag was used
however, if basic slag is not available
juperphaaphata ihOlud Ml WWm
GLENWOOD GARDEN
CLUBSEPT.MEETING
The September moeting of the
Glenwood Garden club metal
the home of.Mrs. Edgar Stone,
with Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Robby
Murphey and Mrs. A. J Fowler
cohostesses.
The meeting was called to
order by Mrs. Wallace Adams,
vice president, who presided in
the absence of Mrs. Max L.
Segall, the president, and Mrs,
Delmas Sears acted as secretary.
After the business of the
meeting was attended to Mrs.
Adams presented to Mrs. Marui.
Sibley a beautiful pin which was
her award for her Poem, “Au
American is Born” that recently
won first place in a contest in
the women’s club of the 2nd
district of Georgia.
The club was happy to con
gradulate Mrs. Sibley on hei
good fortune, after which Mrs
Sibley read the poem, to the en
joyment of all present.
Mrs. J. I, Giddings gave a
must interesting talk on the
Mexican cacti and Succulents
and Mrs. Alma Crawford gave
‘The Legend of the Golden
Rod,”
Mrs. D. C. Colson won tirsi
place in the Hower arrangements
tor this meeting.
At the close of the meeting the
uostesses served templing its
freshments of chicken salad
Pine apple sandwiches and fruit
punch to the 23 members pie*
sent.
Preaching At Alamo And
Oak Grove Church Sunday
Rev. Leland Muo a, District
Superintendent of the Dublin
Charge will pieacli at the Alame
Methodist Chuicn Svodoy morn
ng at 12:00 u’oloek. He will alsi
jreach at Oak Grove Methodist
Church at 8:00 o’clock in the
afternoon. All preaching time
vill be on Eastern War Time
Every one invited to attend these
services as Rev. Moore has at
inspiring Gospel message in store
for that attend. Come.
WARTIME COURSES
WILL BE CONTINUED
IN STATE COLLEGES
Training courses for the armed
services will be conducted this fall
and winter by six colleges in the Uni
versity System of Georgia, in spite
of the fact that many colleges are
curtailing such courses, according to
the State Board of Regents.
War training will continue in the
following Georgia institutions, open
ing on dates given:
Georgia, Navy unit, September 25;
Georgia Tech, Navy Unit, November
1; University System Center, Atlanta
Student Nurses (Evening College,
September 15, and Junior Division,
September 25); University of Georgia
Medical School; Augusta, Army and
Navy, October 2; G. S. C. W., Mil
ledgeville, Waves, September 25;
North Georgia College, Dahlonega,
Army, 17-year-olds, September 25.
Georgia State Teachers’ College at
Statesboro will open September 22
and the State Women’s College at
Valdosta will open September 25;
Georgia Southwestern College, Amer
icus, September 2: West Georgia Col
lege, Carrollton, September 25; Mid
dle Georgia College, Cochran, Sep
tember 25; South Georgia College,
Douglas, September 21, and Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College at Tip
ton, September 22.
Albany State College, September
25; Fort Valley State College, Sep
tember 25, and Georgia State College
at Savannah, September 27. These
three schools are for Negroes.
England was the birthplace of
modem shorthand.
The equator is about 24,902 miles
long.
Some six million tons of water are
poured daily into the Dead Sea by
the River Jordan.
Sea water can be made drinkable
by adding silver oxide, and tartaric
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fUGS FOR FAMES
OF soun WHO
■ HAVE DIEO HF
FAMILIES TO RECEIVE
FLAG, SAYS RUSSELL
pTC™™, Sept. 16.—Senator
Kichard B. Russell has been advised
by the War Department that for each
member of our Armed Forcesfi re
gardless of his branch of service, who
mis died in service, the Government
provides an American Flag measur
ing 5 feet by 9 feet six inches, which
is presented to his family.
If the boy died in this country and
his body was returned to his home
for burial, the War Department pre
sumes that the Burial Flag that ac
companied the body was retained by
his family. . 1
Those boys, however, who died
overseas were buried for the dura
tion near where they died and in
those cases a flag is available to their
families upon simply filling out a
brief application and presenting
U7° of ^ath. The notice from the
War Department, Senator Russell
was told, received by the family is
ample proof.
Those familiese who have not re
ing out Form 2008, which can be pro
ceived a flag may obtain one by fill
cured from the nearest Veterans’ Ad
ministration Office or the local post
ofnee.
The form should be mailed or taken
tl ™ earcs . t Veterans’ Administra
tion Office, with Notice of Death, and
a statement that a flag has not been
received.
Senator Russell feels that those
who have not received flags will wish
to obtain one at the earliest moment
and will be glad to assist in that con
nection.
“I think it most fitting,” asserted
Senator Russell, “that the War De
partment should offer to the families
of those who have made the supreme
sacrifice this emblem which is sym
bolic of all for which we fight.”
GEORGIA PRODUCTS WEEK
SET FOR NOVEMBER 12-18;
COMMITTEE NAMED
Civic clubs, women’s organizations,
patriotic groups and others through
out the state will this year observe
Georgia Products Dinners Week”
during the peeriod of November 12-
result of a.movement initiated
m the State Division of Conservation.
About 75 of the state’s leaders, each
representative of some organization
or group, have been banded into an
executive committee for the observ
ance. In addition, a general commit
tee is composed of every editor, radio
executive, mayor, county commission
chairman, chamber of commerce and
civic club president, vocational agri
culture instructor, home economics
teacher, school superintendent and
principal, and head of every woman’s
club, FFA and 4-H group and every
other organization interested in the
states progress and welfare, espe
cially with regard to the vital and
critical post-war period.
Nelson M. Shipp, assistant state
commissioner of conservation, is ex
ecutive chairman of the “Cdmmittee
tor Georgia Products Dinners Week.”
Other officers are as follows:
General chairman, Charles J. Ha
den, Atlanta; general vice-chairman,
Lt - Col. M. R. Ashworth, Columbus
publisher and past district governor
for Georgia of Rotary International;
Mrs.. R. C. Fryer, Jr., of Manchester,
president of Georgia Federation of
Womens Clubs, and Superior Court
Judge Ogden Persons, of Forsyth;
secretary, J. C. MacAuliffe, of Atlan
ta; vice-chairman of executive com
mittee, Mrs. Belmont Dennis, of Cov
ington, state president of United
Daughters of Confederacy.
INCREASE IN DEATH
FROM TUBERCULOSIS
A slight increase in the death rate
from tuberculosis in Georgia during
1943 is shown in figures released by
the State Health Department. Deaths
from the disease were 41.7 per 100,-
000 population as compared with 40.5
in 1942. The total number of deaths
was 1,304 and 3,067 new cases of tu
berculosis were reported last year.
In announcing the figures, Dr. T. F.
Abercrombie, state health director,
state the downward trend in tuber
culosis had slowed up and warned
that war conditions would undoubt
edly bring a further increase in the
disease unless every precaution was
taken to prevent its spread.
“Resistance to the disease is low
ered under such wartime conditions
as undue physical and mental strain,
long hours of work, inadequate diet,
crowded housing and the unwise use
of leisure time,” Dr. Abercrombie
said.
Tuberculosis is reported to be epi
m?c m warring European- countries,
the health director added, and warned
that a sustained decline in this dis
ease cannot be expected to continue
unless all resources of both official
and voluntary health forces are mo
bilized to combat the disease.
Noticeable increases have been re
ported in the number of death from
tuberculosis in highly industrial areas
throughout the United States, Dr.
Abercrombie pointed out, and said
thia waa particularly significant in
Georgia among the white population
in Macon and Atlanta.
