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The Official Organ
Baker County
Established 1912
VOLUME 28. NUMBER 3.
RIVERS WILL CALL
EXTRA SESSION
Announcement Made That
Session Will Be Called First
Week In September.
Governor E. D. Rivers issued an
announcement from his offices Satur
day that he would call a special ses
sion of the Legislature the first week
in September.
“Most of the schools will open the
first week in September” the gov
ernor is quoted as saying. “The Leg
islature will meet at the same time
to keep them open.”
“The formal call will be issued on
my return from a much needed vaca
tion.”
Governor* Rivers left Atlanta Sun
day for Washington where he will
tend to business concerning the new
state hospital and also get the rest
mentioned.
The call for the extra session will
be issued a little more than 10 days
in advance of the opening day, which
is tentatively set for Tuesday, Sep
tember 5. Scope of the call is the
source of much talk this week and
state politicians are busy trying to
get all the pet bills included in the
call. The law prevents action of the
legislature on any bills other than
those matters which are definitely in
cluded in the call for the extra session.
Administration leaders indicated
this week that as near as possible the
call would be restricted to revenue
measures, the principal purpose of
the extra session being the balanc
ing of the state budget and making
provisions for payment of teachers
salaries and continuation of the wel
fare program.
The state concluded the last fiscal
year, July Ist, with a paper deficit
of approximately $8,000,000 of which
amount $4,000,000 was unpaid teach
ers salaries. Under operation of the
new law, the grandfather clause, the
deficit of 8 million was wiped off the
books on June 30th, and only act of
legislature can revive the obligation.
Revenue measures to be proposed
.. We not known but talk of tlye sajps
taxes, cf various nature, again fills
the air and anti-administration men
have begun to shout economy.
The state school system is faced
with another year similar to last year.
Recently the State Board of Education
notified all county boards that under
present conditions they could antici
pate assistance from the state for
only four months of the regular term,
although the state has enacted a seven
months program.
Likewise the Welfare department
has received notice that funds will be
short for another year and there is a
possibility of loss of Federal funds.
The Welfare department said that
it had been notified by the federal
social security board that government
funds might be withheld unless Geor
gia arranged to provide “adequate”
payments for its old age pensioners,
dependent children and the blind. In
dividual payments now average about
$8.60, of which the state pays half.
There are more than 30,000 receiving
benefits while 60,000 applications are
pending.
Pres. Elmodel FFA
Wins Scholarship
James Nix, president of Elmodel
FFA Chapter for the past school year
won a SIOO Sears, Roebuck scholarship
to the University of Georgia for the
coming year. James is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nix of Leary,
Ga. He has taken Vocational Agri
culture for four . years and has
achieved great success. He has held
an office in the local FFA Chapter
every year except his first year. For
his first three years in Vocational Ag
riculture he had a labor income of
$575.00.
There were only 21 of these
scholarships awarded in the state. It
is an outstanding honor to have be
stowed on one so deserving and per
severing as James. The Elmodel FFA
Chapter, school and county is indeed
proud to see one of its members
achieve such an honor. He is the
first to have gained so greatly from
his efforts. We hope to see others
likewise honored.
E. H. CHEEK,
Voc. Agr. Teacher,
Elmodel High School.
Peat Soils Enriched
Addition of small quantities ot
copper and manganese to some of
the peat soils of the Florida Ever
glades causes bountiful crops to
grow on hitherto unproductive land
Bate bounty Nma
Special Meeting Os
Commissioners Friday
The Board of County Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues will hold a
special call meeting here on Friday,
August 18, for the purpose of com
pleting the tax levy for the year
1939.
REA TO ENERGIZE
NEW UNES TODAY
First Section Os New Calhoun
County Extension To Be
Turned On Friday.
The first section of the new Mit
chell County Electric Membership
Corporation lines in Calhoun county
will be energized this Friday, it was
announced by Project Superintendent
N. M. 'Keadle.
The section to be turned on for
the first time extends from Docker’s
Station, on the Gillionville road in
Dougherty county, beyond Caudrey’s
Mill in Calhoun county almost to the
Randolph county line. The section
includes approximately 35 miles of
rural power lines.
The remaining sections of the line
will be energized^ shortly. The con
tract is supposed to be completed by
the fifteenth of this month and work
has progressed according to schedule.
The Calhoun project includes 70 miles
of line.
No new developments were an
nounced at the company’s main office
here this week on the proposed 250
mile extensions all over the net work.
Work is going forward but no defi
nite allotments have been made. This
project includes the Baker County
lines.
Judge Cox Home
From Congress
Judge E. E. Cox was back in his
offices in Camilla this week after
final adjournment of Congress Satur
day of last week.
Congressman Cox said that they
had a long hard session and he was
glad to be back in his home district
after seven months at the national
Capitol. Congressman Cox said that
all the southern representatives had
worked together this past session to
bring about a better understanding
of this section of the country, and
to stop as much as possible the “po
litical use” that had been made of
the South by other sections of the
country. He said that the represent
atives were fighting against dis
criminations and were demanding a
better deal for the South. Fairly
satisfactory farm legislation was en
acted, said Judge Cox, and we have
continued our fight on the Wage-
Hour bill which is nothing more than
a protective interstate tariff for the
highly industrialized Eastern sections.
Judge Cox and his family plan to
take a short vacation before opening
his offices here in Camilla.
Birth Announcements
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Edwards an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
July 22. She has been named Dorothy
Jean.
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Boatwright an
nounce the birth of a son on August
4. He has been given the name Ben
jamin Franklin.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Preston an
nounce the arrival of a girl on Tues
day, August 8. She has been given
the name DeAnna.
Mrs. Milner Undergoes
Appendix Operation
Friends pf Mrs. Carl Milner, for
merly .Miss Myrtle Hay, will be glad
to learn that she is doing nicely After
an appendix operation at the Cuth
bert Hospital on Wednesday after
noon.
Cats Turn Tables;
Lead Gray Fox
A Merry Chase
Jeffersonville.—Living up to her
maternal instinct, a mother cat be
longing to Rob Smith of this vicinity,
gave chase to a hungry fox recently,
when the latter began licking his
chops over her bed of young kittens.
This mother feline was not fool
hardy, however, explains Smith, for
she enlisted the aid of another house
cat before striking out in hot pursuit
after the surprised fox. /
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939.
Miss Miller Sees Santos
And Sao Paulo
Reports Her Experiences to THE BAKER COUNTY NEWS
in the Third of a Series of Travel-Letters
BY MARY MILLER
On Board the Motor Ship ASTRI
July 12, 1939
(Air-Mailed from Buenos-Aires,
Argentina July 17, 1939)
It’s such a relief to be going again.
We got to Santos, 205 miles from Rio,
early Monday morning and had no
place to dock. We “parked” out in
the harbor to wait for a place, think
ing there would be a pier by night
anyway. The Brodin Line has no pier
in Santos—has only two boats and
the other companies have from 10 to
25, more or less. Anyway, we went
ashore in a motor boat with the agent
of the Line. After much arguing we
all decided to hire cars and go to Sao
Paulo, a distance of 45 miles—the
longest 45 miles I ever traveled.
Four of us had a Chevrolet, ancient
model but safe, and the other five
had a 7-passenger outfit of pre-war
vintage, or it looked it. I wish we
had gone on the train, but one of our
party came back that way and he
said the descent was terrific via cog
railway down the mountain. We paid
twenty dollars for the nine of us
and we had the cars ALL DAY! After
a few miles we started climbing a
mountain and my teeth fairly chat
tered. The view was magnificent, the
valley where lies Santos, the harbor
and the'scenes that developed as we
climbed—it was all breath-taking. If
only I hadn’t been so scared. The
road (to the top of the mountain only)
was paved but none too wide and on
each side a gutter from one to three
feet deep kept us aware of the pos
sibility of falling into it. When it
rains, all that gutter is necessary—
cloudbursts are common. Atop the
mountain we stopped for refresh
ments. Brazilians were having coffee
>»«>d more sweet stuff. The way they
drink their coffee is to fill the small
cup three-fourths full of sugar and
then pour in the black (and how
black!) coffee and stir it. The result
is syrup. I tried it once and to my
surprise it’s good, but I never did like
sweet coffee at home. At this place
tables were all set for coffee and on
each table was a variety of appetiz
ing looking pastry. I tried something
that turned out to be preserved co
coanut inside a sweeti pastry, made
into a roll. Everything is SO sweet.
The rest of the ride to Sao Paulo
was bad enough. The other car had
a blow-out and we waited for its pas
sengers in a queer looking little vil
lage. I got out and watched a woman
doing her washing in a dirty stream.
She rubbed soap on the clothes then
beat them up and down on a board,
। behind which she was kneeling. Then
she spread them on the burnt looking
grass roundabout—and the cows,
chickens and goats all walked over
them, I suppose—nothing to hinder
them.
We got to Sao Paulo about one
o’clock and I’ve never seen such
crowds on the streets. It was lunch
time and on the main streets people
were fairly pouring out. We had to
stop—l thought surely a revolution
had broken out. Sao Paulo is a huge
city—about 800,000 I should say, and
it looks quite modern. As we ap
proached the old city proper it'showed
plenty of signs of substantial con
struction of long standing, having the
appearance of the old cities of Spain.
The growth of the city has been rela
tively recent as well as rapid. I un
derstand that many of Santo’s inhabi
tants have migrated to Sao Paulo.
It’s next in size to Rio and I think
Santos is third, so we’ve seen the three
largest. Sao Paulo is the Chicago of
Brazil. It is about three-thousand
feet higher than Santos. Some of the
avenues of Sao Paulo are as modern
looking as Ponce de Leon in Atlanta,
there being evidences of much wealth
in the beautiful homes, and the wide
streets made me feel as though we
were at home again. The parks are
exceptionally beautiful. The business
center is more like a city in the Unit
ed States than any place I’ve seen in
South America. Rio is fairly mod
ern, but Sao Paulo must be a much
newer city.
We lunched at the Hotel Esplanda,
one of the most modern hotels and
very luxurious. The lunch cost only
75 cents and we had to have our cof
fee in the lounge; that’s where I tried
that three-fourths cup of sugar and
। the rest coffee. That coffee is strong
| enough to walk!
After lunch we rode out to the
| snake farm, about ten miles out of
j Sao Paulo. The farm is Government
। owned and is really a scientific ex
j perimental station where snakes are
I bred and serum is produced, furnish
ing revenue to the institution. Bra
zil exports this serum to all civilized
countries to save persons from the
fatal effects of bites by poisonous
snakes. Scientists are at work at all
times in the many imposing buildings
roundabout and these scientists teach
many students too. In fenced-in en
closures there is a great variety of
reptiles of all sizes, all shapes and all
dispositions, so far as I could tell.
The attendants who care for these
snakes wear thick shoes, leather leg
gins and gauntlets and use a stick
several feet long with a blunt hook
on the end. We stood outside of the
wall and looked on in safety while
the attendant plucked all kinds of
snakes from the branches of a cedar
tree and then he would tantalize the
creatures to make them show fight.
The snakes would fairly leap at him,
but of course they couldn’t hurt him.
The guard picked up one great, awful
looking monster and opened its mouth
to show where was the poison. One
man, with a queer idea of entertain
ment, wanted to hold one, so the at
tendant handed him over a nice, slick,
green one so he could have his picture
made! It was a creepy business and
by the time we left the place we were
nearly on the verge of delirium
tremens. I kept shaking my coat
sleeve—l felt as though snakes were
crawling all over me—ugh! The
laboratory people have to be mighty
intimate with those snakes, many of
which are kept in “hives” built of
something like concrete.
There’s a lot to see at Sao Paulo,
but by this time it was nearly five
o’clock and I was recalling that awful
mountain that had to be descended
after dark, so we headed for “home.”
The ride home seemed less terrible,
though, because we couldn’t see so
well the gullies into which we might
fall! You know it’s rare, or I always
thought it was, to have the ocean and
mountains too, but Rio and Santos
are blessed with both.
We recognized no growing crops ex
cept bananas and oranges. We did
see one coffee plant somewhere
around the snake farm. It had coffee
on it, but it was green, of course.
The season for it is summer and this
is winter—l keep forgetting it.
BACK TO SANTOS
When we returned to Santos at 6:45
we expected our boat to be docked,
but we couldn’t find it! The taxi
drivers asked all along the docks and
nobody knew anything about it. From
6:45 to 9:30 we rode up and down and
walked up and down looking for that
boat. The big ship, “Argentina” was
in dock and I looked it over while I
was away from the crowd, pretending
to be looking for the Astri. Santos
has a great number of piers, and ships
are there all the time. Well, we final
ly learned that the Astri hadn’t dock
ed; she still was out in the harbor
somewhere! Then we tried to find a
launch to take us out over the dark
waters and look for it. It was 9:30
before we rounded up one and we got
on board about 10:00 o’clock, tired and
hungry. Everybody on board won
dered why we wouldn’t have sense
enough to go to the customs house
and inquire for the Astri! One would
have thought that a native cab driver
would have known such things, but he
was dumber than we.
The Portuguese language (official
language in Brazil) is a cinch. I
shouldn’t be afraid to go anywhere
in Brazil. They can understand my
Spanish any time—never mind if I
can’t translate all their Portuguese!
But we get along in conversation.
Once when one of our party thought
he had found the Astri docked he came
running excitedly and dragged me
over to the man who had imparted the
information and I learned that there
was a Belgian “Astri” docked and not
our Swedish one! What a day!
Tuesday a friend and I went up
town shopping. We got on one of
those doubtful looking street cars for
Continued on Page 4.
First Bale Os Cotton
Ginned In Newton
Harrison Hawkins, colored, Who
lives on the Old Hawkins Place near
Barnett’s Bridge, ginned the first
bale of cotton in Newton in 1939. The
bale weighed 250 pounds and brought
9^2 cents.
Big Labor Day Races
At Camilla Track
Plans for the biggest event yet
at the Camilla Race Track were being
formulated this week by the Camilla
Racing Association. A special meet
ing was held Wednesday to work out
details and list entries in events.
Officials plan to make the Labor Day
races the biggest and best race staged
on the local track and a record crowd
is expected. Horses from all over
the state will be entered in the events.
By special invitation of the Camilla
Racing Association, Mr. J. M. West
brook, commander of the Mitchell
County Post No. 141 American Le
gion, and members of the Legion post
were present at the meeting Wednes
day evening. Through an agreement
between the two organizations, it was
decided that the Mitchell County Post
of the Legion will sponsor the Horse
Races to be held at the Camilla track
on Sept. 4, Labor Day. They will
also sponsor all other races to be
held at the Camilla track in the fu
ture.
The Racing Association at their
meeting Wednesday evening offered
the use of the grounds at the Camilla
track for the Mitchell County Fair
sponsored each fall by the Legionaires.
Plans are being made to hold races
on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
of the Fair week but the dates were
not definitely decided upon.
Mr. E. J. Vann, Jr., secretary of
the Association, stated there would
be more additions made to the local
track before the Labor Day races.
This includes two new grandstands
for spectators. When this improve
ment is made the present size of the
grandstands will be doubled.
Baby Skunks Foil
Ft. Valley Police
Ft. Valley.—The law-enforcement
officers of this city have abandoned
the idea of a pet kitten—especially
one of the “pole’ ’variety. It seems
that Sheriff John Lee, Chief of Police
G. W. Cochran, and two other men
stopped on the highway, when they
noticed a suspicious-looking scene,
consisting of a parked car and a man
poking a stick at a tree. Upon fur
ther investigation, the officers discov
ered that one Johnnie Jones had treed
a mama pole-cat and four pole-kittens,
in an attempt to secure one of the
kits for a pet. The officers, desiring
a pet also, joined in the ensuing
chase, which led the striked animals
into a sewer pipe, from which they
put up a “breath-taking” defense.
Sheriff Lee and Chief Cochran im
mediately gave up the chase and de
cided to adopt something more docile
next time—like a tiger or lion cub
Hitch-Hiker Gets Ride
In Own Stolen Auto
Gainesville.—One Jack Maier, of
Washington, claims that he possesses
the real technique of hitch-hiking.
His car having been stolen, Maier de
cided to thumb his way home from
work, and was duly amazed when a
thoughtful driver offered him a ride
in his own car! Maier directed the
driver to the local police station, and
secured the aid of officers in retriev
ing the auto.
Man Throws Away
Check For $1,550;
Finds It In Dump
Gainesville. —Although looking for
a check in a dump heap is hardly less
difficult than searching for the pro
verbial “needle in a haystack,” Carl
Stallworth, manager of a manufac
turing concern here, was elated re
cently to recover a check fcr $1,550
which he had carelessly chucked into
the waste basket. Upon realizing his
mistake, Stallworth sent out a crew
of negroes who discovered the missing
check in the mill dump.
George Washington as President
JJeorge Washington served two
terms as President, but his first
term began when he was inaugurat
ed April 30. 1789, and ended March
3, 1793. His second term extended
the full four years.
A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
TOBACCO SALES
NEAR COMPLETION
Over 70 Million Pounds Al
ready Sold. Price Average
Drops To 14.14 Cents Pound.
With the third week near a close
for the Georgia tobacco auction mar
kets, the majority of the Georgia crop
has already been placed on the mar
ket and only a few weeks of small
sales remain to clean up the remainder
of the crop.
The close of the second week
brought the total poundage sales up
to 62 million pounds. This volume
had brought a total of $8,943,471.12
to date at the average price of 14.L4
cents per pound.
Second week sales were larger than
the first, totaling 35 million pounds
as compared with the 27 million sold
the first week, but the price con
tinued downward. Second week price
average was only 13.67 as compared
with the first week of 14.75.
The Tifton market led in the largest
number of pounds sold the second
week, 4,131,848 pounds at an average
price of 13.94 cents per pound.
In other markets Adel sold 1,750,534
pounds at an average of 13.88, Moul
trie sold 3,083,058 at an average of
13.76, Nashville sold 3,616,804 at an
average of 13.03 and Pelham sold 1,-
256,728 pounds at an average of 11.78
cents per pound.
W. M. S. To Hold
Regular Meet Monday
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the Newton Baptist Church will
hold their regular meeting Monday
afternoon at 3:15 o’clock at the home
of Mrs. J. C. Odom, Jr. A very in
teresting program will be given. The
subject will be China and Japan and
what we are doing there. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
Sparrows Employed
To Catch Weevils
Dawson,—At last the lowly English
sparrow has redeemed himself! Jes
sie Kennedy, cotton farmer, has found
the bird an invaluable boll-weevil
catcher. Kennedy, who lives on the
edge of town, says that every even
ing at an appointed hour, hordes of
the so-called “pesky” fowls swarm
over his cotton fields, going from
bloom to bloom devouring the even
more pesky boll-weevil. “My respect
and admiration for the English spar
row has been greatly increased,” re
marked Kennedy.
The Sad Iron
The word sad used in connection
with iron means heavy or weighty.
It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon
saed, meaning full or sated, and
therefore implying weight.
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