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3 'li; ()?fleial Organ
Baker County
Established 1912 |
VOLUME 238. NUMBER 9.
Record Crowd Attends Annual
GFA Grower Meeting Tuesday
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN MEMBERS PRES
ENT. HEAR MANAGER ROY PARRISH REPORT ON
OPERATIONS DURING PAST YEAR.
More than two hundred and fifty
peanut growers from Georgia, Florida
and Alabama, gathered at the court
house in Camilla Tuesday afternoon
for the annual membership meeting of
the GFA Peanut Association.
' Two hundred and twenty-seven
signed registration cards and the
court room was filled to capacity.
Principal business of the afternoon
session was the ratification of the
election of directors from the three
states, in district meetings recently
held. :
In the meeting held in Enterprise,
Ala. September 12, directors elected
were Mr. T. M .Borland, of Pinckard,
Ala.; Mr. W. B. Crawley, of Banks,
Ala., and Mr. J. P. Wise, of Opp, Ala.
In the meeting held in Albany on
September 11, directors elected were
Mr. J. D. McGee, of Morgan, Ga.; Mr.
J. L. Trammell, of Sumner, Ga., and
Mr. J. W. Kieve, of Albany, Ga.
In the meeting held at Mariana,
Fla., Mr. W. B. Anderson, of Green
wood, Fla., was elected.
The election of directors was rati
fied unanimously by the group Tues
day and Mr. W. B. Crawley, president
of the Association, presided over the
meeting. .
President Crawley opened the busi
ness session with a few remarks. He
said that they anticipated another
good yvear for the association and
that the Secretary of Agriculture had
already signed the new program.
Directors, who were all present
were presented to the growers, along
with association officials, J. D. Gard
ner, of this city, Attorney, and Mrs.
Lucile Shirley, of Pelham, secretary.
President Crawley then turned the
meeting over to Manager Roy E. Par
rish for the annual report of activi
ties and transaetion of business,
Manager Parrish stated that the
GFA had a very suceessful year. The
association now has more ‘than 23,000
grower members and was operating
80 warehouses in five states. Opera
tion had extended into South Caro
lina and Mississippi in addition to
Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
During the past year, Mr, Parrish
continued, the GFA purchased 112,707
tons of peanuts. This amounted to
18 percent of the entire United States
crop. The three other peanut asso
ciations in the United States pur
chased a combined tonnage of about
18,000 tons.
Mr. Parrish stated that operations
were sufficient to maintain pegged
prices on every marketing place
throughout the country. .
Total payments to growers amount
ed to $6,444,907.61 and it was esti
mated that benefits which = were
brought all peanut growers by ‘the.
Association amounted to more than
-$10,000,000. e
Through the surplus removal pro
‘gram, the GFA 'sold to the Oil Mills
109,000 tons of peanuts at-an average
m of $37.70 per ton. The average
loss to the government was s34:per
ton for Spanish and $24 per ton on}
runners. Total of all AAA payments
to the GFA were $2,772,162.70. - -
Mr. Parrish told growers that their
Association was_big ‘business. The
assets of the assoeiation were fixed
at $202,360.10, with a net operating
profit for the past year of $139,563.36.
Although the assdeiation did a gross
business last year of $6,444,907.51 the
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Prescription Shops
208 Pine Ave.
and
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,total administrative was only $42,000,
or less than one per cent.
{ Growers gave Manager Roy Parrish
a rising vote of thanks for his splen
ldid report and also for services ren
ldered to the association.
- After discussion, membership fee
in the association was reduced from
$2 to $1 per year.
| The by-laws were amended to pro
vide & county unit system of election
{of directors in each district, each
county being allowed a definite num
ber of votes.
Growers passed a resolution to be
forwarded Secretary Wallace, and all
congressmen and senators in the
southeastern area, thanking them for
making possible one of the most
beneficial programs for farmers in
lthis section.
‘Hot Lunches Served
!School Children
s .
[ During July the Commodity Di
vision of the State Department of
}Public Welfare served 163 needy
Ifamilies in Baker county with Sur
plus Commodities having a total value
|of $163.80. v
] With schools opening, school chil
'dren in many counties will again
Ireceive hot noon day lunches prepared
‘largely from surplus commodities.
!Last year 20,000 Georgia school chil
ldren, 5,000 of whom were located in
Chatham (Savannah) County alone,
|ate nutritional lunches every school
[ day. School superintendents, teach
ers, school bus drivers, local health
officers, the children themselves and
‘their parents have written many let
!ters telling of benefits derived from
'the hot.lunches. They vouch for in
!cmsed wweight, better attendance,
‘improvements in studies, health and
dispositions of the children. . _
Some school lunch projeets are con
ducted in cafeteria fashion, while with
others the children are served at their
desks or at tables covered attractively
with oil eloth. Usually school lunch
projects are conducted as WPA pro
jects sponsored by city or county gov
ernments or by loeal civic. organiza-.
tions. Some projects are of purely
local administration and not operated
.as WPA projects. ' Lunch projects,
when certified by the County Welfare
Department, receive all available sur
plus foods from the Commodity Di
vision. TR DL e
There are many counties in Georgia
'that do not have school lunch projects.
Although there were 20,000 children
'participating last year, by compari
son with neighboring states there
.should be 125,000 school children in
Georgia served with daily hot lunches.
lThis is more than six times the num
ber actually being benefitted.
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!Amy Will Receive
Many New Recruits =
’ FORT BENNING, Ga., Sept 21—
(Special)—Authorization to recruit
176 colored men for the 24th Infantry
and for Quartermaster units, a num
‘ber of whom will be eligible to qualify
as truck 'drivers, was received here
today from headquarters of the
Fourth Corps Area, in Atlanta. .
In making the announcement, Cap
tain C.-Z. Shugart, Fort Benning re
cruiting officer, stated that this is
the largest number of openings for
colored men that the post has had in
many months.
Organizations at Fort Benning have
the latest type equipment, ‘including
motor transportation. The latter is
used constantly in transporting troops
and supplies to various parts of the
97,000 acre reservation, which as the
home of the Infantry School and the
testing center of the Infanh'y. has
!man'y activities. : ¥
Lame Cat Walks
On Front Legs 4
~ Washington.—E. L. (Mike) Galla
l’v"vayof this city has a lame cat that
is capitalizing upon its duton&ty—;
[; pair of paralyzed hind legs. ;The
feline. uses its front paws for walk
ing purposes and gets around on fllese‘
two pins as well as most four-legged
animals. Tabby has become q‘u,ite{
plump due to the many delicacies she
receives as a reward for her per
formance for visitors. b
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1939.
Miss Miller Reports
Visit In Montevideo
\ (Fourth Letter In Series On
- South America Written For THE
~ BAKER COUNTY NEWS).
Aboard the Motor Ship
| Astri 5:15 P. M. Sunday,
July 23, 1939.
~ Just now somebody is calling to
‘come and see the sunset in Uruguay.
It is beautiful—no denying that. This
morning I spent the entire morning in
vain attempt to get all the Buenos
Aires atmosphere dispelled—not un
til noon did I get dressed. It’s so cold
‘today that nothing seemed adequate.
il have on the chief mate’s sweater,
‘one of the passenger’s shirts and a
ileather jacket belonging to the second
steward.
~ We've all just been to tea upstairs
iand nobody wanted it—and tonight
being Sunday night, we’ll have that
awful “smorgasbord” again with doz
ens of kinds of meats, cheeses, salads,
plus all the regular food. I say it's
'awful because we're never hungry
enough to do it justice, but we eat it
anyway then suffer from overeating.
; The last time I wrote I believe 1
‘was nearing Montevideo, capital of
Uruguay. Naturally, that was the
high light of the trip because ’'twas
there began the romantic friendship
iof several years ago.. We arrived
‘about 3:00 o’clock and as the boat
‘neared the dock, you might have seen
'me scanning it in the hope that a
!familiar face in the form of my friend
'Don Jose could be found among the
crowd awaiting our arrival. Just when
I had given it up as a lost cause, his
'face did stand out like that figure on
the top of the mountain at Rio! I
lthink I have never had a bigger
’thrill in my life. Os all the gesticu
lating, that Spaniard was doing it!
’When we were near enough to eall
to each other, you should have heard
the conversation between us. All of
the natives were moving closer to
hear what was going on. I was so
excited that I fear my Spanish was
attracting a lot of unnecessary at
tention—the gentleman knows ne En
’glish at all! It took 45 minutes to
get docked so that he could come
aboard the boat. By this time all of
the passengers were hanging over the
trail commenting on his appearance
'and expressing approval, I must say.
'He has a most gracious manner and
’everybody liked him at once. He
told me that he had been in Monte
video five days awaiting the boat. He
hxas a publishing house there too, so
!I guess he didn’t lose too much time.
He took me and my traveling com
panion ashore where he had a car and
chauffeur awaiting us and away we
went to see. Montevideo. Can you
imagine what it’s like to have, some
one you know to meet you at a port
seven thousand miles from home?
Aside from the fact that I like the
gentleman very much, it WAS rather
a sensation. Well, we did ride and
ride, and I found Montevideo a most
modern city. - You know it is said that
about four centuries ago a Portuguese
sailor observed a mountain and cried
out, “Monte .video”—a mountain I
see—and that is how the city got it's
name. This city is the center about
which little Uruguay moves and has
its being. Being . strictly modern,
with interesting architecture, parks,
boulevards, its public buildings look
important and dignified. I was im
pressed with the people at the very
first. 'Until this summer, I had seen
only Colombia and Brazil of the South
American countries and those people
are not, to be compared with the citi
zens of Uruguay, who seem sturdy and
reliable, quite business-like and quite
superior. I understand that they don’t
even claim to be Spanish—they are
“Uruguayans,” if you please, and they
find a great difference in the two
peoples, and I saw it too. These peo
ple had a great struggle for their
independence which was established
early in the 19th century. Monte
video, the city, has about 500,000 in
habitants. : The country is one of the
most progressive. . The working con
ditions there are rather like ours and
their educational 'system is superior
to that of many countries. Its unit
of currency is based on the gold stand
ard. The peso 'is the monetary unit.
Qur dollar is worth $2.80 in their
money. B g Vs
Montevideo' is: called “la. ciudad de
las rosas”—the city of roses—and the
roses grow the whole year round. 'l‘h‘
climate was délightful, and is always,
their winters being not at all severe.
I saw people in bathing last Sunday.
It amused me to sée the women all’
ldolled up in their heavy winter coats
and furs and the men with overcoats
’while I was parading around with a
| spring suit and very comfortable.
: Everybody looked so contented, in
| dustrious, and prosperous. Monte
| video is a seat of culture. On Sunday
| afternoon, Don Jose and I wandered
'into one of the parks, and it was a
thing of beauty. We would land there
ifor Sunday! A band was playing all
| the afternoon and the music was of
:the best. Everybody, rich and poor,
| was standing rapt, appreciating every
{note. 1 appreciated it too, but not
i enough to stand for hours. We hired
ia boat and “parked” to listen and
ilook. The young boy who was “pad
‘dling our canoe” was about 21 and I
lthought it was a good time to learn
i something about Montevideo so I
{urged Don Jose to get him started!
{He did and we soon were going round
{and round that lake while an heated
{argument was taking place between
}Don Jose and the boy. The boy had
ia distinctly student’s viewpoint—
{ rather communistic—l thought. He
; was a medical student and maybe that
! accounted for it. I was interested in
‘the way he spoke Spanish—altogether
Idifferent from Don Jose who is a
| Spaniard and speaks the pure Castil-
Ilian. I soon was lost so far as the
conversation was concerned, of course.
They spoke as though everything had
to be said in five minutes.
i Anyway, the city is 100 miles from
‘Buenos Aires on the outlet of La
'Plata River. One of the boulevards
{ which extends eight miles along the
!ocean is named for President Wilson.
ißoth the Argentines and Uruguayans
think the United States is a great
’country and that Roosevelt is a great
man, which of course, is because of his
'foreign policy. He seems to have re
'assui'ed them. They used to be afraid
lof us, but no longer. The good neigh
‘bor_ policy did wonders evidently.
| ‘Puring our stay, which to my de
lligrht, was from Saturday afternoon
at 3 until Sunday night at 11 o’cloek,
I managed to see much of the city.
I loved it. It was our tough luck to
be there Saturday afternoon and all
the stores were closed—and I mean
lALL of them—of course, Sunday,
Itoo. Not a souvenir did we get from
Montevideo! That broke my heart,
of couse. Don Jose did buy us some
postcard pictures, I believe. Such
parks, such bathing beaches, such
magnificent boulevards, paved like
ours (I'm sick of cobble stones, by
;the way. My feet hurt yet from San
tos!). I really did not feel like I was
iin a foreign country. Even their street
cars look better than ours!
i On Sunday morning my friend was
| there bright and early for the day’s
sight seeing. We took a trip to “El
Cerro” (The Hill), the famous Spanish
fort on the hill and there we bribed
a guard to let us go in and inspect
all the ancient firearms of every des
cription, dating back to goodness
knows. .when. The things I saw are
too numerous ‘to mention. From
that hill I had a good view of Swift’s
| packing plant ‘around which were
quite up-to-date houses for the work
ers. There is, lest I forget, a lot of
gambling done in Montevideo, licensed
by the city, and the excess profits go
|to charitable institutions. However,
I did not see any of it. ;
: 'And the food—Oh my! Such heavy
food at that but so good. A little ap
!petizer to begin with is cold meat, a
'whole plate full of about eight kinds
of it—several meals that would be
'for us—and after a lot of courses
comes that inevitable black coffee,
|strong enough to walk, No wonder
lthe people look so healthy!
[ Sunday afternoon I brought Don
i Jose to the boat to have dinner with
us. I never enjoyed anything so
hugely. Everybody tried to see how
ridiculous -we could. all be, none of
which he understood very clearly, but
ihe laughed at the proper time and
jevidently had a big time. We bade
' him “goodbye” and got ready to
stake off” on the last hop—to Buenos
Aiyes, our destination, ‘Don Jose had
to'take the ferry over. It's an over
night *trip to Buenos Aires from
‘Montevideo. The boats run each day
and night. I left Montevideo with a
feeling of sadness, knowing full well
I'd probably never see it again. My
'respect for. South. America grows by
leaps and bounds. i
- . Monday morning we found that win
ter was upon us. Just in that 100
miles the weather had changed! We
.~ Continued on Page 4
'W. M. S. To Meet
tMonday Afternoon
. The Woman’s Missionary Society of
theßaptist Church will meet Monday
afternoon at three o’clock. Mrs. J. R.
‘Rhodes will have charge of the Mis
'sion Study program. All members are
?askcd to be present at this time.
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BAKER SCHOOLS
OPENED MONDAY
- Record Enrollment In County
~ Schools As They Open For
- New Term. |
i The schools in the county opcned‘
Monday morning with a record en
irollment. Even though the State De-‘
partment recommended that the Coun
'ty system cut 10 teachers from the
‘number employed, it is beleived that§
‘these teachers will be replaced, or
lat least a part of them anyway. The
‘two senior high schools have morei
‘than the required number of students.
~ The Elmodel High School opened|
with 239 students on roll. A short}
' program was given Monday morning,‘
lin which the faculty members and
patrons of the school were given a!
Iwelcome. The only new teachers add
ed to the faculty are the music 'oeacherj
land vocational agriculture teacher,
taking the place of Miss Lois Wiley'
land Mr, Cheek, who resigned. These
ivacancies will be filled at on early
' date. The faculty is composed of
' Miss Ruth Craft, Primary teacher;
;Mrs. J. C. Odom, Miss Delora Rooks,
'Mrs. C. O. Hall, Mrs, W. C. Twitty,
'Grammar School; Mrs. Eugene Hall,
' Home Economics; Miss Frances Rob
erts, Mrs. W. G. Tolbert, Mrs. J. M.
!Garrett, High School; J. O. Fort, Su
perintendent. |
The Newton High School, also op
ened with a record enrollment of 174
students. The opening exereise Mon
‘day morning consisted of devotional
‘exercises led by Rev. J. W. M. Stipes
'and Miss Agnes Preston, Mr. V., T.
' Akridge, Chairman Board of Trus-.
itees, gave the welcome address and
introduced the teachers, who gave a
short talk.. The faculty is composed
of Miss Alma Ellis, Primary; Mrs.
J. H. Jernigan, Miss Msr@ret Hud
son, Miss Ellen Hall, Home Econom-'
ies; Mrs. Virginia Bowen, Miss Agnes
Preston, Mr. Goodfin Hulme, Voca
tional Agriculture; Mr. Emory Leon
ard, Superintendent.
The two Junior High Schools, Pat
mos and Bethany, reported a record
‘enrollment and a complete faculty,
'and a very enthusiastic attitude for
work of the coming year. The gram
mar schools, Pine Hill, Providence
and Stevens also opened. The Jack
ison school has been consolidated with
‘the other schools.
It is expected that a number of."
new students will be added to each of
the schools at an early date.
Junior-Adult Bible
Class To Meet
The Junior-Adult Bible Class of the
Newton Baptist church will hold its
regular monthly meeting Monday
evening at seven o’clock at the home
of Mrs. R. L. Hall. Itis very import
ant' that every member of the class
‘be present at this time,
Big Rattler
Killed Friday ‘
- Mr. R. A. Barnett killed a huge
rattlesnake in 'his yard 'Friday of
last week. The snake was about seven
feet long and had thirteen rattles.
It was discovered in the chicken yard
where a colored man was working. |
| . .
Lightning Kills Mules '
As Owner Looks On '
. 'Elberton.—Two mules were killed
by lightning near here recently im
mediately after their owner, Ray De-
Witt, had tied them to a tree. DeWitt
who had returned to the wagon from
‘which he had unhitched the animals,
wis unscathed. The lightning dam- |
aged seven pine trees in addition to
killing the mules. Bt . |
CARD OF THANKS ' I
We wish to express our thanks and’
appreciation to the people of Newtonl
for the many lovely and useful gifts
received at the shower given for us
by Mrs. Dan Miller and The Junior-
Adult Bible Class on Tuesday night,
and we hope that every one will ac
cept this as a personal note of our
appreciation. < :
Mr, and Mrs. J. R. Swann and Fam- :
ily, Walter Swann. SHEERECRRL
A County of Good |
Farms, Good Schooh.'
Good Churches and !
Good People. |
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
{ Scheduled For Saturday,
| Hearing Expected To Be Held
| Next Week.
! Announcement was made Wednes
day, that the hearing on the injunc
‘tion which is being brought by Mr.
C. B. Galloway against the Mitchell
ICounty Electric Membership Corpo
ration has been postponed until some
' date next week.
E The hearing was originally set for
this Saturday.
' A new date for the hearing had not
been set Wednesday, but was ex
pected to be sometime during the week
lof September 25.
Mr. C. B. Galloway filed an injunc
ltion against the Mitchell County
Electric Membership Corporation, as
'a member of the corporation, to re
)strain them from lending $25,000 to
the Community Cold Storage Associa
'tion to construct a freezer-locker type
cold storage plant in Mitchell county.
A temporary restraining order was
signed by Judge W. M. Harper, of
Americus, until a hearing can be held
on the injunction.
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iNewton P.:T. A
lHolds Meeting
‘ The Newton P. T. A. held a short
'meeting Monday morning. Mrs. R.
L. Hall, Sr. was elected President of
.the association. Mrs. C. T. Williford
iwas elected to hold her same position
as Treasurer. The meeting adjourned
ito reconvene Wednesday afternoon.
'The president, Mrs. Hall, took charge
lof the program and Miss Alma Ellis
was elected as secretary and the chair
| men of the different committees were
named as follows:
' Library Committee—Mrs. C. T.
Williford.
I Membership Committee—Mrs, J, W.
iPne, 3
| Hu:.,.‘tm ;ommittee—Mrs. J. H.
R T S egt e
“Publicify Chairman — Miss * Alma
Ellis. B el
This meeting was a regular busi
ness ':{neeflnz, and it was voted that
the regular monthly meeting would be
held on the first Wednee:f} in each
month,
The lunch room project was discuss
ed and the P.-T. A. voted to sponsor
this project. Mrs. Elma Andrews,
Welfare Worker of the county, dis
cussed ways to carry on this project
through the Welfare Department.
Mrs. Robert B. Short was asked to
serve as chairman of this project,
Mrs. Price Hall was named Chairman
of the Budget-Financing Committee.
All parents are asked and urged
to attend the regular P.-T. A. meet
ings and help to inake this one of the
best school years Newton has ever
had. And that we carry this Lunch
Room project.
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