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DEVOTED. TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY.*
Volume 31
JUDGES ANNOUNCED
111 EM CONTEST
Judges for Wheeler County in the
$5,200 Georgia Better Home Towns
contest were announced by the Geor
gia Power Company as follows:
W. H. Kent, Chairman, Wheeler
county school superintendant, Alamo;
H. G. Harrell, teacher, Lumber City;
Miss Annie Laurie Fowler, teacher,
Glenwood; Mrs. Lee Evans, teacher,
Alamo; and E. C. Mathew, teacher,
Alamo.
The purpose of the contest is to
bring out as many ideas as possible
for the progress of individual com
munities and the state. A SI,OOO War
Bond will be awarded to the Georgia
man or woman who writes the best
letter of not more than 1,000 words
on “5 Ways to Make My Community
Better” and another SI,OOO War Bond
for the best letter by a boy or girl
under 18 years. In all, 60 prizes, total
ing $5,200 in War Bonds, will be
awarded, with identical prizes for
adules and young people.
County judges will select the best
letters submitted in their counties
and the final state-wide winners will
be chosen from the county winners. In
addition to the state prizes, special
county prizes contributed by local
citizens will be offered in many
counties.
Tt was pointed out that all letters
submitted in the contest should be
mailed to the Georgia Power Com
pany in Atlanta, rather than to the
county judges. In Atlanta, the entries
will be identified by serial numbers
and returned to the county judges.
Contestants can obtain complete in
formation about the Better Home
Towns program and the contest at
any Georgia Power Company office or
by writing to the company in Atlanta.
Since the closing day of the con
test is October 31, participants in the
contest are urged to request the in
formation as quickly as possible.
ALAMO P. T. A. FIRST MEETING
The whole-hearted cooperation of
all members was urged by Mrs. J. D.
Peebles, president of the Alamo
P. T. A., at the first meeting of the
year held on Thursday, Sept. 7th.
Mr. J. F. Nicholson gave the De
votional after the meeting was opened.
Mrs. W. H. Kent, whom the P. T. A.
had the honor of having with them,
gave an address, “Community Life in
a Democracy.” She brought out the
fact that we urge all teen-age boys
and girls to return to their schooling
and that parents would be more
patriotic to see that their children has
an education while it was available.
Mr. C. A. Estes, our school Super
intendent, stresses that we try to in
crease our membership and have a
greater attendance at our meetings.
He introduced the faculty, among
whom were several new faces.
Before closing the meeting a grade
count was taken at which time three
grades, third, eighth and tenth tied,
after reballoting the tenth grade was
adjudged the winner.
Mrs. M. Kusnitz, Reporter
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
September—Mrs. J. D. Peebles,
Mrs. Lee Evans.
October — Mrs. C. E. Wrye, Mrs.
C. A. Estes, Mrs. Julian Tanner, Mrs.
R. C. James.
November—Mrs. H. S. Hurwitz,
Mr. W. H. Barnes.
December—Mrs. M. Kusnitz, Mrs.
M. K. Jackson.
January — Mrs. J. R. Chambless,
Mrs. Bell Dunaway.
February— Mrs. Clem Riddle, Mrs.
L. H. Pope.
March *-M is. Z. 0. Thomas, Mrs.
M. L. Beach.
April —Mrs. Ruby White, Mrs.
Earl Ryals.
May—Mrs. M. C. Hartley, Miss
Dorothy McCrimmon.
FINANCIAL COMMITTEE
Mr. J. F. Nicholson, Mrs. Lee
Evans, Mrs. Robert Peeples, Mrs.
John H. Sears. <
HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE
Mrs. Roy Braswell, Mrs. J. F.
Nicholson, Mrs. Bell Dunaway.
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Mrs. Frances Harrison, Mrs. James
L. Sears, Mrs. R. L. Harris.
WELFARE COMMITTEE
Mrs., L. M. Pope, Mrs. H. S.
Wimbley, Mrs. Daniel Achord.
LUNCHEON COMMITTEE
Mrs.vß. C. James, Mrs. Candler
Hogan, Mrs. M. C. White, Mrs. Lonnie
Achord, Miss Esther Godbee.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Mrs. Frances Harrison, Mrs. C. E.
Hinson, Mrs. Hobson Walker.
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Earl Ryals, Mrs. M. Kusnitz.
BY-LAWS
Mr. J. F. Nicholson.
PARLIMENTARIAN
Mr. C. A. Estes.
STUDY GROUP
Mrs. J. H. Dorsey, Mrs. W. E.
Curiric
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Superintendent —-C. A. Estes
President -Mrs. J. D. Peebles
Vice-President - - Mrs. C. E. Wrye
Secretary Mrs. M. L. Beach
Treasurer Mrs. Bell Dunaway
Reporter Mrs. M. Kusnitz
FOR SALE—One hora^ and
one mare““Alßo nice clean seed
oats. J. T. Heath, Alamo, Ga.
GLENWOOD MAN BACK
FROM GERMAN PRISON
Cambridge, Ohio, Oct. 3 —
; Eleven former prisoners of war
of Germany have arrived at the
Army’s Fletcher General hosx
pital, the hospital's public relax
bions office has announced.
The patients had been exx
changed for a like number of
of German prisoners and brought
home on the exchange ship
Gripsholm.
First Lt. Davis H. Campbell,!
public relations officer at the
hospital, said ml had been "se*
riously wounded” and seemedI
“deeply grateful’’ to be on Am^
erican soil again.
The 11 were among a consign
ment of 35 patients from the
European area. The former
prisoners included:
Plc. Stanley J. Rodgers, infan
try, Route 2, Gleuwood, Ga.
CPL. J. C. JACKSON Made d?
AN EIGHTH AIR FORCB LIBER-
ATOR STATION, ENGLAMi.—The
B-24 Liberator Bomber squadron in
.vhich Cpl. Jeffersou C. Jackson of
Alamo, is a light truck driver, recently
was cited “for distinguished and out
standing performance of duty from
May 12 to July 18” by Major General
William E. Kcpner, 2nd Bombarment
Division commander.
During this period without loss of
aircraft or crew the squadron com-'
manded by Major Herman A. Lau
brich of Green Bay, Wisconsin, “in
. ~ ,
I die face of intense anti-air?raft fire
and formidable enehiy fighter oppo
sition” bombed 20 targets in Germany
and 34 targets in enemy occupied
Europe. The squadron was further
cited for ■ its “tenacity of purpose,
efficiency, determination and devotion
co duty.”
In addition to nuking up the ex
ceptional record of 54 missions with
out loss, the squadron during this
period led all other squadrons of its
Liberator group in the number of
heavy bombers dispatched into battle.
The Group, commanded by Colonel
Luther J. Fairbanks, of Burt, lowa,
has itself been praised for combat per
formance. After its first mission, an
attack against Berlin, the group was
officially commended by Lieutenant
General James H. Doolittle, command
ing Eighth Air Force, for bombing
achievement. It was the longest initial
mission ever flown by any unit in the
history of the European Theater and
one of the heaviest deyljght bombard
ments of the German capital on
record.
THOMPSON-JOINER
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A marriage of unusual interest was
that of Miss Everylea Thompson to
Hubert Joiner last Saturday evening
here at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Talmadge Morrison. The ceremony
being performed by Judge D. N.
Achord,-Ordniary, in the presence of
a few close friends.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Thompson, of this
nlace, and is very attractive and she
has many womanly traits. She held a
>osition here with the Peebles
Pharmacy.
The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Joiner, of Stuckey, and is en
gaged with his father in farming at
Stuckey.
The Eagle with their legion of
friends extends congratulations
through life.
Claudia At The Alamo
Theatre Monday-Tuesday
CLAUDIA' HAILED As Some— ...
Laughable, lovable Claudia, the
young wife whose domestic ups and
downs delighted Broadway audiences
for two years, is brought to the screen
by 20th Century-Fox under the origi
nal title of “Claudia” in the person of
. Dorothy McGuire, who portrayed the
, heroine on the stage. The film which
also features Robert Young as David,
Claudia’s husband, and Ina Claire as
Mrs. Brown, Claudia’s mother, will
begin its run Monday at the Alamo
Theatre.
Claudia is the young wife who lives
with her husband in a rambling
Connecticut farm house. Her sense of
budget is submlime —and the general
ease with which she meets domestic
difficulties by simply ignoring them
has become as classic as a June-bride.
Claudia is the American girl—the girl
who saunters about her home in low
-3 heeled shoes, girlish dresses and col
-3 legate cardigans.
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J STRAYED—From Gum Tar.
z pentine Farmers Co-operative
Association, Black Setter on
1 September 14th. Liberal reward
3 for information leading to bis
recovery.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1944
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENS MONDAY
, The October term of Wheeler Coun
i ty Superior Court will convene here
next Monday morning, with Judge
, Eschol Graham presiding and So
licitor General M. H. Bowyer will be
’ on hand in the interest of the State.
Mrs. Minnie Gray the newly ap
pointed court stenographer will also
be on hand.
It is not learned yet how long court |
will run, but the officials will have
every thing in readiness Monday
morning. The Grand Jurors and
Traverse Jurors have been published
in the Eagle.
SGT. HOWARD WILLIAMS HAS
FIFTH AIR FORCE, SOUTH-
I WEST PACIFIC.—Sgt. Howard F.
I Williams, an aerial gunner with the
: “Roarin’ 20’s,” and A-20 of the Fifth
I Air Force in the Southwest Pacific,
has been awarded the Air Medal. He
is the son of Mrs. A. E. Williams of
Helena.
A graduate of Alamo High School,
! Sgt. Williams was inducted in the Air
Force in September 1942. He has been
overseas 9 months and has 38 combat
missions to his credit.
The citation^ accompanying the
award reads: “For meritorious
achievement while participating in
sustained operational flight missions
in the Southwest Pacific,area, during
which hostile contact was probable
and expected. These operations con
sisted of bombing missions against
enemy airdromes and installations and
attacks on enemy vessels and ship
ping. The courage and devotion to
duty displayed during these flights are
worthy of commendation.”
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Local War Price
And Rationing
Board Commended
High commendation of W. M
Bridges, chairman of the local
War Price and Rationing Board,
the other members of the board
and staff personnel!, was expt ea
sed in a letter from R. E. Tburpe,
district director OBA at Sa
vannah, received here within the
past few days.
Mention was made by Mr.
i'norpe of the splendid and con
structive work done in this coun
ty by such citizens as:
G. C. Barnhill, L W. Kent, J,
R. Chambless, W. R. McDaniel,
John E. Bomar, James F. Nichol
son, H. J. Whitefield and K. L.
Harris, who as board members,
nave served the people faithfully
xnd whose patriotic efforts de
serve the appreciation of all
people.
Tribute was also paid to staff
employees whose work has re
jected credit on organizations
and vastly assisted io bolding
the line against dread inllauon.
US PEOPLE
By G. C. Barnhill
We are having all sorts of trouble
with the dish washing in this coun
try. In ome places they have been
counting the germs in the cups
after they have been washed, and
have found as many as four thous
and eight hundred in one cup. Now
with this help shortage a good many
honest, well meaning husbands arc
trying to help .their wives out some
by washing the dishes. This is a
very dangerous thing for a husband
to do, because if this thing is nos
done right, the whole family may get
sick and not be able to vote in the
election. So the husbands better do
some other kind of work around the
house and not risk so much on this
dangerous type.
ALAMO SIXTH GRADE NEWS
By Eugene McGee
The Alamo Sixth Grade of the
Wheeler County school met and elected
class officers for the years 1944-1945.
They are as follows:
President — Harrison Sears.
Vice President —Betty Wright.
Secretary and Treasurer — Charles
Webster. , _
Librarians —Oretta Clark and Fred
Chambless.
Nurse — Maudelle Clarke.
. Doctor — Robert McAlum.
Class Reporter — Eugene McGhee.
' There were also various other com
l mittees chosen to aid in improving our
I classroom activities. New committees
are'selected at the beginning of each
s month; therefore, due to this, we
will not list their names here.
Teacher — Mr*. Dunaway- %
HER FARM HEAD
URGES HOPLE ID VOTE
• Pointing to the fact that only 62
! per cent of the eligible voters actually
voted in the 1910 presidential election,
L. B. Chambers, president of the
■ Wheeler County Farm Bureau, today
issued a -statement urging a heavy
turnout at the polls on November 7.
“It is our duty, not only as rural
and small-town citizens, but as Ameri
cans,” said Mr. Chambers. “Voting is
a right—a privilege—for which our
sons and brothers are fighting in
many parts of the world today. It is
our duty to them and to ourselves to
vote in this national election when so
manycruci.il issues are at stake.”
Mr.• Chamber’s statement came in
response to an appeal from the Ameri
can Farm Bureau Federation which
was sent by Mr. H. L. Wingate, presi
dent of the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation to presidents of all County
organizations. The Farm Bureau Fed
eration is now carrying on a nation
wide campaign, strictly nonpartisan,
urging rural America to vote in the
November election.
Farmers and citizens of small towns
can have a powerful voice in govern
mental affairs through their repre
sentatives if they will get out and
vote for the men of their choice, ac
cording to Mr. Chambers. He added
that rural people have the power to
influence national palitics if they will
only use it. He called attention to the
fact that 77 per cent of the senators
and 62 per cent of the congressmen
come from districts which have no
cities of more than 10,000 population
and hence are predominantly rural.
He said, however, that if rural
America stayed at home on election
day and the big city vote turned out
full strength, rural people would have
an even harder time from then on
making their wishes heard.
Mr. Chambers said that an appeal
for farmers to vote in the comingl
olnrfinn wnci* irrintrlv mmln hv
election wa* stirringly made by Ed
ward A. O’Neal, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
in a recent address. Mr. O’Neal said:
“I know the farmer has an obliga
tion to get his crops in at the proper
time, but. I also know that he has a
duty that transcends even the obli
gation to produce, arid that is to con
tribute to good government by exer
cising his right to vote. Leave your
plow, leave your cow, leave your saw,
and go to the polls in what is one of
the most precious rights and privileges
that we enjoy under our democratic
form of government. In my opinion
farm people carry a greater responsi;
bility for the preservation of our
great tradition of democracy than any
other group.”
In his statement, Mr. Chambers
said the although Farm Bureau mem
bers, like every one else, are busy at
this time, they and all other rural citi
zens can take off the necessary hour
or two that voting requires. “We
should remember,” he said, “that our
boys in the armed services are giving
the best years of their lives in defense
of this country. They were not too
busy when the call came. We can
not and we will not be too busy to
vote. We should, everyone of us, go
to the polls November 7 and thereby
act as share-holders in America.”
October 15 Is Deadline
For Overseas Gifts
Washington, Oct. 2—Octobe
14 will be the last day for mailing
Christmas packages to men and
women overseas. The deadline
had been announced as October
15, but that date falls on Sunday
and the Post Office Department
said today that post offices will
not be open.
SGT. WALTER C. RIDDLE HAS
BEEN AWARDED A BRONZE Star
T/Sgt. Walter C. Riddle, Jr.,
34681520, Alamo, Georgia, was
recently promoted to his present rank
while serving as crew chief with a
night fighter squadron in Italy.
Sergeant Riddle has been overseas
for 16 months and has been awarded
a Bronze Star for participation in the
Italian campaign. His squadron was
the first night fighter squadron to be
stationed on the European continent,
arriving in Italy with the British
Eighth Army in September, 1943. It
: is part of the 12th Fighter Command,
ths AAF component of the Mediter
• rohean Allied Coastal Air Force. It is
engaged in the protection of Allied
convoys, shipping, and the intercep
tion and destruction of enemy air
-5 craft, installations, and shipping in
, Italy.
1 Sergeant Riddle was employed by
the Georgia Aero-Tech., Bush Field,
Augusta, Georgia, prior to his enter
ing the service.
r England was the birthplace of
s
h modern shorthand.
e The equator is about 24,902 miles
long.
WHEELER COUNTY
CHAPTER OF RED
CROSS TO MEET
A meeting of the Wheeler
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross will be held at the
Glenwood Methodist Church on
Wednesday evening, October 11,
at 8:30 o’clock. Miss Livingston
with the Southeastern Area.
Headquarters in Atlanta, will be
the guest speaker. This is a
worthwhile meeting, and every
one is invited to attsud, and we
especially want the ones helping
to carry on this work in Wheeler
County to be there.
Our boys on the battle front
nee? our help. The Red Cross is
Always ready and willing to leno
all assistance possible. Let’s
nt Ip the Red Cross so tlyy in
turn can help our boys. We will
oe expecting you and you at the
meeting.
television will promote
BETTER INTER-AMERICAN
UNDERSTANDING
Sclmectady, N. Y. —Oct. 2.—Tele
vision is a medium which bridges
the barriers of language and thus
should be an important contribution
to the growing friendship between
the countries of North and South
America, Dr. E. F. W. Alexander-
son, radio pioneer and consulting en
gineer of General Electric, told a
delegation Os Mexican government
officials here to witness a special
' performance of television at WRGB.
1 “Here in Schenectady we look
upon television not just as local en
. tertainment, but as a new medium of
■ communication, which will eventually
, extend over the continent and the
two continents of North and South
’ America,” Dr. Alexanderson said.
' “The chain of television, which in
. eludes Schenectady, New York, and
Philadelphia, is a beginr.ing of this.
We foresee the development of a
jhain of relay stations touching
every large community, and there
is every reason why these relay
chains should be extended into Latin
America. Television is a medium
.7hich bridges the barriers of lan
guage, and when we in not too dis
tant future are enabled to see on
, our television screen what is hap
pening in the countries of o> r 1 south
-1 ern neighbors, and vice versa, we feel
1 sure that this will contribute to our
growing friendship.”
WFA TO BUY COTTON AT
PARITY
I
The War Food Administration will
purchase from farmers at parity
orices all cotton of the 1944 crop for
! vhich a loan schedule has been an
[ lounced and which may be placed in
icceptable storage and tendered to it,
5 Mr. W. H. Gilder, Chairman of the
f Wheeler County AAA Committee, an
nounced this week.
' Mr. Gilder said the purchase pro
t gram is being undertaken in an effort
। to assure producers parity prices, and
1 that it will start as soon as arrange
ments can be made and will extend
through June 30, 1945 with the Coin
noidtv Credit Corporation handling
actual purchases.
The parity price for middling seven
eigqht-inch cotton average was 21.08
cents a pound on August 15. The
, parity price for Wheeler County on
s seven-eight-inch middling is 21.43
i and fifteen sixteen-inch middling cot
a ton is 22.48 cents a pound, the chair-
1J nnlmilnfA/1 inn
man said. These are calculated on the
^■sis cf CCC 1944 loan rates. The
September, 15 parity prices have not
been announced.
Mr. Gilder stated that all farmers
will be notified as soon as the AAA
office receives information on how
storage arrangements will be made
and the manner in which the pur
chases will be handled.
DE LOACH-GRIMES
A marriage that was quite a sur
prise here was that of Miss Dorothy
Lorenc De Loach of Savannah to
Julius Grimes, of near Alamo. The
ceremony was performed here Iff
Judge D. N. Achord, Ordinary, in the
presence of a few friends Sunday.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
> Mrs. J. M. De Loach, of Savannah,
and the groom is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Grimes, of near Alamo.
. They will engage in farming.
The Eagle, with their friends, «■
tmdi congratttlßtkrtie.
Sample Copy 5c Number 22
tOGAI M LARGE
r GHMN HMD
Recent enactment by Congress of
r the Pace bill, modifying the terms
( under which the Rural Electrifica
tion Adminstration may make loans
to qualified borrowers, has paved
1 the way for construction of power
, lines to reach less densely populated
sections of Laurens, Telfair and
Wheeler counties, R. F. Jordan,
president of the Little Ocmulgee
Electric Membership Corporation
said today. The new legislation
fixes the interest rate on all REA
loans at a flat 2 percent, and pro
vides that borrowers may be given
up to 35 years to amortize their
loans where necessary to accomplish
complete area electrification on a
self-liquidating basis.
Mr. Jordan pointed out that the
lower interest rate will apply to the
Cooparatfive’s outstanding " REA
loan, on which it is now paying up
to 2.88 percent as well as to future
loans, and will thereby make possi
ble an immediate reduction in loan
carrying charge.
The bill also extends indefinitely
the life of the REA lending pro
gram subject to future Congression
al loan fund authorizations, where
as the REA Act of 1936 provided
for only a 10-year program. The
effect on future loans and on the
long-range program of the Coopera
tive, he said, is described in the fol
lowing statement released by Wil
liam J. Neal, REA Deputy Admin
istrator :
The provisions of the Pace bill,
1 Lw. YY J — — -lr
just signed by President Roosevelt,
provide one of the greatest forward
steps in rural electrification since
the basic REA Act of 1936. Its re
duction in interest rates, and the
new possibility of longer amortiza
tion periods wherq necessary, gives
promise that eicctrie lines can be
built on a self-liquidating basis into
thinner and thinner territories. It
brings much closer the attainment
of our goal of electricity for every
farm, every rural home, every rural
establishment in America.
“I have just been advised by Sec
retary Wickard that the President, in
signing the Pace bill, recognized
that the attainment of this goal of
complete electrification of rlirar
America on an area coverage basis
requires further legislation. „ ,
"The President urged that ‘pro- '
vision should be made for immediate
comprehensive surveys of unelectrifi
ed areas and for preparation of plans
for rural electrification projects
which can be placed in construction
as soon as manpower and materials
are available.’ He added, 'Funds
required for the construction of
such projects should be made im
mediately available’ and expressed
the hope that as soon as its legisla
tive program will pennit, Congress
will give consideration to pending
legislation making such provis
ion.’”
“Area coverage,” Mr. Jordan said.
' “will continue to be the principal
objective of the Cooperative’s rural
electrificaton program. Under this
plan the Cooperative will endeavor
i to make electric service available to
• every unserved farm and rural con
l sumer in this area. Less densely
’ populated sections will be served
* along with those having a greater
. population. Such a program makes
1 it possible to build a well-balanced
! rural electric system which can ope
’ rate economically and provide am
. pie service to all consumers at the
- lowest possible cost”
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The cooperative is now accepting
applications in order that every
thing will be ready to let a contract
to build the lines when restrictions
are released. Anyone in the terri
tory served by this cooperative de
siring an electric extension, should
write REA Alamo, Georgia, for
blank forms,
recommended. ‘
Some six million tons of water are
poured daily into the Dead Sea by
the River Jordan.
Today almost 26 per cent of the
world’s silver output goes into pro
duction of the airplane engine bear
ings.
Sea water can be made drinkable
; by adding tiltar oxide, and tartarte
