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I The Official Organ
Baker County
Established 1912
VOL. 31. NUMBER 47.
First Aid Certificates
Given, Newton Students
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The following members of the local
high school have received Junior First
Aid Certificates: Margie Allen, Ag
nes Collins, Freddie Metts Durham,
Mary Ellen Ellis, Lillian Griffin, Mar
garet Harris, Mary Alice Hatcher,
Mary Ethel Hines, Quinque Hines,
Alma Lucy Jernigan, Dorothy Jones!
Montine Kelly, Dorothy Mansfield,
Jim Mae Swann, Mary Ellen Swann,
Alice Vickers, and Mayo Watson.
Margaret Hudson received a Stand
ard First Aid Certificate. This course
was under the direction of Mrs. R. L.
Hall, Jr.
The following colored people re
ceived Standard Certificates: John
Williams, Frances Anderson, Candace
Walker, Elizabeth Miller, Willie King,
Ethel Carter, Catherine Beamer,
Ethel O. Carter, Walter M. Hall, La
onia Hammonds, Olivia Kegler, Le
ola Phipps, and Pearlie Roberts.
New Feature Is
Added To News
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An important new feature has been
added to The News this week and
this newspaper w’ill continue to carry
it each week for the duration of the
war.
The feature is called “Town And
Farm In Wartime.”
The new feature column will carry
all news about which ration stamps
are valid, what items you might ex
pect to be rationed in the future, ra
tioned items which will be released
from the ration lists and all other in
formation about any kind of rationed
items which citizens might want to
know.
The information used in the column
is sent us direct from the Office of
War Information and will contain the
latest news about all of the different
rationing programs. The news is
compiled each week by the OWI and
mailed to us to reach here at the
last minute before the paper goes to
press. .
Woodfin Mansfield
Receives Decree
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Woodfin Mansfield is at home with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Mans
field, after having received his de
gree from the University of Georgia
last week at Commencement exercis
es. Mansfield is awaiting orders from
the War Department to report to Of
ficer Candidate School.
Jernigan Family
Move To Brunswick
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Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jernigan and
daughters, Alma Lucy and Barbara
Rose, have moved to Brunswick, Geor
gia, where they will make their home.
Mr. Jernigan has accepted a govern
ment position there. Their many
friends here regret to see them leave.
Mrs. Jernigan has been a popular
member of the Newton School Facul
ty for the past ten years.
A CORRECTION
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As stated in last weeks paper Mayo
Watson won the tenth grade scholar
ship award, and this was the third
year he has won this medal. It
should have been: This was the third
year she has won this medal. Sasser
Watson’s name was omitted. He won
the ninth grade scholarship medal,
anl this was the second year he has
won this award.
eln Time
Os
WAR
It becomes the clear duty of
every American citizen to obtain
and preserve the best health
possible that he may, without
hindrance, shqulder his full
share of our nation’s burdens.
Let each strive to avoid placing
on himself and on others the
handicap of sickness due to care
lessness and neglect.
U - Save - It
Prescription Shops
Exchange Bank Bldg, and
208 Pine Ave.
ALBANY, - GEORGIA
“Save Here Every Day In
The Month”
Safe (tattiy Nms
Baptist W.M.S.
Met Monday
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The Womans Missionary Society of
the Newton Baptist Church met Mon
day afternoon at the home of Miss
Alma Ellis with Mrs. B. B. Edwards
as leader. Topic for the program was
“The Victorious Witness of Christian
Youth.” Members present included
Miss Mattie Lee Hall, Mrs. J. C.
Odom, Jr., Mrs. Earl Radford, Mrs.
B. B. Edwards, Mrs. Carey Adams,
Mrs. Ruth Rhodes and Miss Alma El
lis. After the program for the af
ternoon was given, the hostess served
delightful refreshments.
I PATMOS I
NEWS
—By—
MRS. B. A. PALMER
Correspondent (
Mrs. Mary Adams left Saturday
for a visit with her son, Sgt. M. G.
Adams and family of Army Air Base
Bainbridge.
Mrs. P. H. Thompson, Jr., visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shiver, of
Elmodel last week.
Those from here leaving for Sum
mer School Monday were Misses Lois
Wiley, to Valdosta, and Abbie Grif
fin to Statesboro.
Mrs. Edwin Twitty and children,
of Thomasville, are spending this
week with their parents and grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Duke.
Mrs. J. M. Emanuael, of Metter, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. R.
Griffin this week.
Mrs. Mary Adams had as guest last
Friday, Mesdames Alma McDonald
and Sylvester Collier, of Damascus.
Mrs. Woodrow Sasser, of Arlington,
spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Griffin.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Griffin, Mrs. B.
A. Palw«r and Mr. Leon Byrd Duke
attended to Business in Cuthbert last
Tuesday.
Mrs. L. E. Ingram left recently for
Pearl Harbor to join hes" husband,
who is engaged in Civil Service work
I there.
Recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. B.
A. Palmer were Mrs. L. E. Craft and
daughter, Miss Price Irvin, of Beth
any and Austin Craft, of Army Air
Base. Bainbridge; Mrs. Lawton
Thompson, of Orlando, Fla., is visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Hud
gens.
Mrs. W. J. Starr left Saturday A.
M., for a visit with relatives at Doug
las, Ga.
Mrs. A. Young, 11, and little daugh
ter, of Tampa, Fla., was recent guest
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Griffin.
Mr. E. C. Woodard and son, Bobby,
of Fitzgerald, spent a few days this
week with their mother and grand
mother, Mrs. Sallie Woodard.
Mrs. Hubert Davis, after a few
weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Palmer, left Thursday P. M.
for Columbia, S. C., to join her hus
band who is now stationed at Fort
Jackson, S. C.
Mrs. Austin McDonald and chil
dren, of Americus, is spending this
week with their mother and grand
mother, Mrs. Sallie Woodard.
Baker County
Soil Conservation News
By: E. P. Harrison
Mr. L. A. Ethredge, of the Bethany
Community reports that he has the
best prospects for a good crop that
he has had in several years. Mr.
Ethredge contributes this to the un
usual good weather conditions this
spring.
Mr. J. F. Griffin reports that his
crops are in fine shape and prospects
are good. He also reports that his
acre of lespedeza sericea is coming
along nicely. Mr. Griffin feels that
next season he will have some very
nice high quality hay. After the
stand gets well established Mr. Grif
fin can get two cutttings per season,
one in the spring then one in the late
summer.
Invasion Is
Costly fighting aKuM
Your Boy Gives
100 per cent;
How about your fuPyk
bond buying? —jfiESjk
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1943.
German Cargo Meets Its End
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OFF THE COAST OF SPAlN—Soundphoto—British seamen of
the H. M. S. Adventure watch the scuttled German cargo ship “Silva
plane" as she burns to a hurriel end. The 4,793 ton Naza ship was
carrying a valuable cargo of rubber and tin and was spotted about
200 miles off Cape Finisterre, off the northeast coast of Spain.
A Week Os War
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American land forces completed the
Attu campaign last week, as Allied
, air power rained new and increasing
■ ly severe blows at Italy, Germany
and Japan. Henry L. Stimson, Sec-
• retary of War, announced that the
> successful completion of the three
■ week Attu campaign had placed
American forces “within striking dis-
, tance of Japanese territory.”
1 The Navy announced that the At
■ tu campaign cost the U. S. forces
1,535 casualties including 342 killed.
> This compared with Japanese losses
■ of 1,791 dead counted by our forces
and eleven prisoners captured. The
: Japanese were reported to have buried
[ or cremated many additional mem
bers of their forces. The Tokio radio
, had placed Japanese losses at 3,000.
, Fifty-eight American soldiers are
missing in action, the Navy an-
. nounced.
s Earlier, the American forces ended
; organized Japanese resistance by
driving two deep wedges into the en
• emy ’lines, isolating the enemy into
, small pockets which were swiftly
: wiped up. The isolated “pockets”
were scattered all over the island.
At the end of the week it was report-
J। ed that a few isolated small units
I were still hiding in sections of the is-
. land.
| Heavy bombardment of Germany
and Nazi-occupied territory continued
all week, as the R.A.F. and American
Army Air Force flyers set new rec
ords in increasingly severe aerial war
fare. American air force headquar-
Old Familiar Sight Is Missing;
Was Another Casualty Os War
From The Camilla Enterprise
An old familiar sight is missing
these days in Mitchell County—you
ride along the main highways look
ing for it and then you cut off the
main highway down through the
woods and still you can’t find it. It
is just not to be found this year and
no one knows when you will find it
again. It was one of the casualties
of the war but it is not listed in the
large casualty lists you read in the
papers each day.
1 You stop at a cross roads store and
ask a group of men if they have seen
it. No, they haven’t.
Tha old familiar sight of which we
are speaking—that old familiar sight
which down through the years has
been a traditional part of the south
and especially Mitchell County and
surrounding counties of southwest
Georgia—is watermelons.
Corn and cotton are plentiful and
thousands of acres of peanuts are
planted but the watermelon crop is
missing from view as you drive mile
after mile through the county. Coun
ty Agent J. A. Maulden said this week
that this county’s watermelon crop
was about ten per cent of normal.
This small amount will more than
likely be consumed by the melon
planter’s family and it is doubtful
that any of them ever reach the
stores in the county for sale.
Ordinarily, Mitchell County would
begin shipping melons to the north
ern markets next week. June 15 is
usually the period for starting ship
ment by freight cars. But—there will
not be any this year. At least as far
as is known now judging from the
ters in London announced that Amer
ican flying fortresses and liebrators
reached a new high by shooting down
74 enemy aircraft in a single day’s
raids on May 21 in twin attacks on
the Nazi submarine bases at Wil
helmshaven and Emden.
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MEDITERRANEAN ACTION
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Action on the North African front
last week was seen by large units
of Major Gen James Doolittle’s strat
egic bombardment group which kept
up a steady bombardment of Italian
Island outposts and coastal areas.
Powerful forces of American four-en
( gine bombers loosed a powerful as
sault on Italy inflicting “great dam
, age” on the oil refinery and shipyards
at Leghorn, Italy’s third largest port.
Allied naval forces bombarded the
। hajrbor and battery area of Pantelleria
, in the Sicilian narrows twice in twelve
hours Wednesday night and Thursday
, morning. The Northwest African Air
, Forces dropped a total of 3,000,000
pounds of bombs on Italy proper and
Italian outposts during the week end
ing May 28.
Gen. Eisenhower summed up effects
of the drive which wiped the Axis out
of Africa last week, by declaring that
the enemy’s morale has been “jolted.”
The commander of Allied forces in
the African theater declared that his
armies are now ready to “undertake
any further task that our countries
may choose to assign us.”
; very small acreage planted,
i Watermelons were not regarded as
. an essential war crop so farmers de
> voted their acres to other crops. Then
i too, farmers who thought about taking
: a chance and planting some thought
[ there would very possibly be no
: freight cars in which to ship the mel
i ons. However, railroad agents say
. that cars will be available for ship
: ping melons to northern markets.
Whether the north will get any
considerable amount of melons from
the south this year is doubtful. With
the hundreds of thousands of soldiers
training in the southeast, the army
could consume all the melons grown
’ in the whole state of Georgia. Mel
ons have to be sold when they are
I ripe because they will not keep and
it has been the custom to feed over
ripe melons to the hogs. But it is
doubtful whether the porkers will get
I very many this year. Their pros
i pects are slim.
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Raymond Bowen
Promoted To Major I I
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Raymond J. Bowen, formerly of
Newton and Pelham, who is person- '
nel officer for a regiment at Camp
Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, has been
promoted from captain to major. Ma
jor Bowen is the brother of Mrs. J.
H. Jernigan, formerly of Newton and
now of Brunswick. He has many
friends here who are interested in the :
success he has made since being in
the United States Army. Major Bow
en was promoted last October from
First Lieutenant to captain.
State Guard Unit
Has Fish Fry
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Georgia State Guard Unit 110 met
Sunday at Simon’s Mill for a very en
joyable fish fry. Later in the after
noon the unit was inspected by of
ficers from State Headquarters, un
der the direction of Hoyt Wimpey of
Thomasville. About 20 members of
the unit were present. Cpt. Simmons
and Lt. Akridge have called a very
important meeting for Sunday, June
13, at 6P. M. All members are urged
to make a special effort to be present.
BETHANY
NEWS
—By—
MRS. W. Z. ROOKS
Correspondent
Mrs. W. E. Rooks and Mrs. Wyatt
Brooks went to Americus Friday and
brought Mr. Marion Rooks home from
the Georgia Southwestern College,
where he has been studying, to spend
the summer vacation with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rooks. Mrs.
Mittie McLendon and Mrs. W. Z.
Rooks were transacting business in
' Arlington Friday.
Mr. Joe Willie Lawrence is home
from the Douglas College to spend
the summer vacation with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Lawrence.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Killebrew have
returned from a visit with their son
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kil
lebrew, of Daytona Beach, Fla.
Mr. Austin Craft has returned to
his duties at the Bainbridge Army Air
Port, after a visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Craft.
Miss Elizabeth Ray, who is a stu
dent nurse in the Georgia Baptist
Hospital of Atlanta is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Ludie Ray and other
relatives.
• Mrsr F. G. Wilketwwi, Misses Eliz
abeth Wilkerson and Betty Jean
, Rooks, were shopping in Albany Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Ray and son,
Jarrell, Mrs. Ludie and Miss Dollie
Ray, Mrs. R. J. Lanier and Gail and
Bobby Lanier of Patmos, and Miss
Elizabeth Ray, of Atlanta, went to
Bainbridge Sunday for a visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Culbreth.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Rooks and
daughter, Betty Jean, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Westbrooks,
of Rowena.
Miss Myra Newton leaves this week
to attend Summer Schol at the Geor
gia Teachers College of Statesboro,
Georgia.
Mr. P. G. Wilkerson was transact
ing business in Camilla Monday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Charlie Ray, Miss Elizabeth
Ray and Mrs. Watson Craft and
daughter, Joyce were visitors in Col
quitt Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Rooks had as
their guest Monday, their sister, Aux.
F. C. Eunice Westbrooks, who is a
member of the WAACs, stationed at
Daytona Beach, Fla. She is in the
Motor Corps Dept.
Troup 4-H Active
In Grading Eggs
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Troup County 4-H club members
are doing outstanding work in egg
candling, grading and marketing,
Miss Ida Bell, Extension Service home
demonstration agent, declared this
week. (
Seven club members—five girls and
two boys—grade eggs twice each
week at the curb market for Troup
County farmers and poultry produc
ers. Last month these members grad
ed 13 cases, or 390 dozen eggs, with
their homemade equipment.
Ready market is found for all eggs
graded by the 4-H club members with
one large chain store asking for all
the eggs. Success of the project has
encouraged other Troup County 4-H
club members to carry out poultry
projects, and 144 girls are raising
chickens this year.
FAVORABLE PRICES
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Increasing demands for agricul
tural products resulting from expand
ing military and lend-lease require
ments as well as higher domestic de
mands assure favorable agricultural
prices for the duration, economists
for the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service say.
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A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
State Guard Head
Lauds Victory Corps
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Captain Jack Simmons, of the New
ton State Guard Corps, issued the
following congratulatory message to
■ the members of the Newton School
■ Victory Corps and their director,
Supt. Emory Leonard, upon the pa
rade and review they staged recently
before members of the Newton State
> Guard Corps: “To Mr. Emory Leon
’ ard and the students of the Newton
: High School and the students of the
I Grammar School: For the term end
• ing May 28, 1943, your parade and re
. view given in behalf of the Baker
County State Guard was highly suc
cessful. By this 1 mean the knowl
edge that the scholars and students
gained in citizenship and American
ism as well as being physically and
mentally trained in military opera
tions. It appeared to me that the au
ditorium should have been filled with
spectators for this particular event.
The probable reason was, that farm
operation business, shortages of gaso
line and tires had its weight.
“The boys that made up the Crack
t Military Squad were excellent. There
j were some errors made, caused from
, not being trained with actual fire
arms. These errors were, however,
[ at a minimum. The team work of
the physical exercise and military
drill of the girls and the small boys
was unusually good, which speaks well
, of the Non Commissioned Officers
and Officers having charge of the
drill period prior to the review.
“Speaking for the Home Defense
as a whole, I will state that we feel
like that the entire job was well done
by Mr. Leonard and all of the officers
wroking under him and the students
and scholars cooperating.”
Signed: Jack Simmons, Captain
Baker County State Guard
Lewis Retrial Motion
To Be Heard Saturday
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(From The Camilla Enterprise)
A motion for a new trial in the case
of J. Bennett Lewis, prominent Mitch
ell .County farmer convicted for the
slaying of C. F. Brimberry, Jr. and
1 sentenced to life imprisonment, will
be heard Saturday morning at ten
o’clock by Judge Carl E. Crow, Su
' perior Court Judge of the Albany Ju
! dicial Circuit.
Attorneys for the defense, E. T.
Hughes of Camilla and Robert B.
Short of Newton, made the following
statement to the press today concern
ing the motion for a new trial to be
heard Saturday; “Due to the fact that
the complete record of the trial of the
case was not available until today
(Thursday) we are of the opinion that
we cannot possibly be ready for the
hearing by Saturday •morning. In
the event that we are not ready it
is our intention to ask the court to
continue the hearing for a reasonable
time in order that we might fully pre
pare for the hearing and the motion
for a new trial.”
Saturday, June 12
Russell Hayden, in
“Tornado In The
Saddle”
Also Comedy and Serial.
Saturday Night—lo:3o P. M.
Michael Ames, in
“I WAS FRAMED”
Also Comedy.
Mon. and Tues., June 14-15
Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant, in
“Once Upon A
Honeymoon”
Also Comedy and News.
Wednesday, June 16
Irving Bacon and Mantan More
land, in
“Freckles Comes
Home”
Also Comedy and Serial.
Thursday and Friday—
Pat O’Brien and George Murphy, in
“The Navy Comes
Through”