Dedicated to the Upbuilding and Advancement of Clinch County .... "The Pine Center of the South"
|E 57, NUMBER 4.
HOMERVILLE," CLINCH COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950.
SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 PER YEAR
II
Election
Next Tuesday
IMPORTANT AMEND-
TO BE VOTED ON
CITIZENS OF GEORGIA.
election, usually a very
will be held all over
Tuesday next week, the
in November, which
set by federal law for the
of congressmen and
States follow the election
by electing their most impor-
Qflicials. In the South, where
primary elections are
to election, the general elec-
usually just a formality s~nce
nominees usually have
the General Election is
that Georgians vote on a-
to the State Const~:d-
This year, two important a-
have been submitted to
by the Legislature, in ad:
to a flock of amendments o£
nature in which there is no
One would allow county
of education to borrow money
same basis as cities and coun-
of commissioners.
~.other amendments, in which
Interest is centered, would if
extend the County Unit Sys-
voting to the General Elec-
unit system for many years
used in the primary elec-
Opponents claim it dis-fran-
voters in city counties, x~hile
of the county unit cla;.m
domination of the '.~tate
by city counties. In
gone by, several officials have
on the county trait sys-
receiving the majority
of votes cast.
county unit system is very
to popular voting, and is
tive on the influence that
counties have in
Each county receives
votes for each representa-
has in th~ Legislature. Thus,
such as Clinch, Echols, etc..
Sn~all populations have two unit
each. Counties such as Coffee,
Lowndes, etc.,have four unit
and' the eight largest count'(.s
six unit votes each. A candi.
Carrying a county receives all
votes. The State Constitu-
Sets the number of representa-
the dounties may have in the
although thls is not be-
on next Tuesday.
Clinch county with 6,000
2 unit votes has one-
the voting power of Fulton
however, has 75 times as
as Clinch. The County
is no different, however
representation. Clinch
~ne representative. Fulton has
The legislature is where laws
and taxes levied•
TED R.E.A. MANAGER
DANIEL M. HUGHES
been re-elected manager of
Slash Pine Electric Member-
Corporation, which serves
Counties, with headquarters in
He has been manager
eight years during which time
organization has grown from
tulles 1)f lines with 188 mere-
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Local Young Men Report
Inducted Into Army
Ulyess Corbitt and Eddie Stewart
have been accepted by the Navy af-
ter volunteering. They left Monday
for Great Lakes Naval Training Sta-
tion.
The following Clinch county young
men have reported for U. S. Army
induction, according to Mrs. Vida
S. Harris, Clerk of the local Selec-
Service Board:
Harvey D. Bennett.
Rudolph Candler Register.
George Edward Stalvey.
John Duncan Harper.
Colored
Calvin Williams.
Liquor Election
Called Nov. 16th
PETITION FILED WITH
ORDINARY FOR VOTE OF
PEOPLE ON LIQQUOR SALES.
A petition representing 35% of
the registered voters in the county
has been presented to Ordinary
Mrs. Agnes 'E. Smith for a special
election to be held on whether in
allow the sale of alcoholic liquors
in Clinch county. The Ordinary has
set the date of the special election
for November 16 (Thursday), the
date being within the 30 days period
required by law.
Clinch county is legally dry and
has been so since prohibition days.
Alcoholic liquors cannot be legally
sold in the county. When the pro-
hibition law was repealed in Geor-
gia, it was left to the. individual
counties to vote whether or not to
legalize liquor. Clinch county voted
dry. At various times, the sale of
beer has been licensed, which is
permitted under state law at the dis-
cretion of city and county officials.
Although it is illegal to sell liquor
in the county, it has been reported
in the past that one or two places
r~robably hold Federal tax licenses
to engage in its sale. The usual
l heavy amount of bootlegging goes
on here as it does in every county.
I state out of 159 counties now le~a-
t lize liquor, most of these being the
heavily-populated counties.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
thirty-five (35~;~) per cent of the
"registered voters of Clinch County,
qualified to vote at the general elec-
tion immediately preceding the pre-
sentation of said petition, request-
ing me, as Ordinary, to call a spe-
cial election as provided for in
Chapter 58-10 of the Code of Geor-
gia for 1933 (Georgia Laws, 1937-
38, Ex. Seq., pp 103, 105).
Pursuent to my duties as set forth
in Chapter 58-10 of the Code of
Georgia for 1933, I, as Ordinary DO
ttEREBY CALL A SPECIAL ELEC-
TION to be held in said County on
~he 16th day of November, 1950,
~aid date being within thirty (30)
days of the presentation of the pe-
tition referred to.
At said Special Election there
will be submitted to the voters of
the County who are qualified to vote
I City Election To Be
In December
VOTER'S REGISTRATION
BOOKS TO OPEN MONDAY
AT CiTY HALL OFFICE.
Registration books for citizens of
Homerville who wish to vote in this
year's City election will be open .the
first Monday in November, (next
week), according to City Clerk J. R.
Pittman. The law requires that the
registration books be kept open un-
til a week before the election, then
closed. All citizens who have been
a resident of the City, or will have
been, six months prior to election
date, and who have paid all taxes
"legally imposed and demanded" by
the City, are qualified to register to
vote.
The election, set by la~v, is the
first Wednesday in December. The
office of Mayor will be voted on for
a two-year term, and two of the four
Aldermen posts will be voted on for
four-year terms. There are four Al-
dermen, or Councilmen, two coming
up for election every two years.
Terms expiring this year, besides
Mayor J. F. Poppell, are Aldermen
John E. Gardner and B. W. Harper,
Sr. The terms of the other two Al-
dermen, Messrs. C. J. King, Sr., and
W. Earl Wheeler, expire in 1952•
By Rubye Bennett Carter
Miss Bobble Steedley spent the'
weekend in Atlanta. She was the
guest of Miss Benna Willa Harring-
ton of Fargo who is in Atlanta em-
ployed by Sears Roebuck and Co.
Miss Steedley was also the guest of
Perry Raymond Wooten at the Ga.
Tech-Kentucky football game Satur-
day..Perry Raymond is a student at
Georgia Tech.
Lieutenant Daniel J. Bennett of
the United States Navy arrived
Thursday to spend a short while
with his mother, Mrs. Rubye Carter,
who has been quite ill for several
weeks. Lt. Bennett and his wife have
been stationed on Guam for 24
months. They were enroute from
the island of Guam 25 days on ship
board and by auto from San Fran-
cisco to Argyle. He had orders to
report to the Jacksonville, Fla.,
Na-
val Air Station for duty, and l'.e
hopes to be there for 3 years, in or-
der to be near home.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo James and son,
Harry Leo, spent Sunday at Cogdell
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Barber in the interest of the AAA.
A number from here have atten-
ded the fair in Homerville this week.
The Home Demonstration Club of
Argyle also had quite a number of
articles in the fair that is thought
will be of interest.
United Nations Day was observed
here on Tuesday, the 24th, with all
of the school children taking part
in the program. A flag was made'by
the Home Demonstration Club mere
bers and presented to the school It
seems there are a lot of people who
do not know that the U. N. has a
flag. It is made on a background of
light blue, the whole earth is de-
picted in the center piece encircled
by a palm leaf cluster which de-
notes peace for the whole world.
The entire school paraded at eleven
o'clock carrying the flag of the U-
nited States and beside that was one
carrying the flag of the United N~-
tions. Tne march was made to the
Methodist church where there was
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Says Real Object of Opponents to Unit System Is
To Destroy 118 Small Counties in Georgia.
LAKELAND, Ga., Nov. 2--Former Gov. E. D. Rivers lashed out at
opposition to the county unit amendment today and said he was in
favor of its passage.
The amendment to Georgia's constitution would put the unit vote
plan into all state elections.
Rivers said: "I have been told that it is being circulated around
that I am against the county unit amendment. I am voting for the
amendment next Tuesday because it makes it impossible for stooge
politicians to do away with the county unit system in primaries.
"The real object of those sponsoring opposition to the amendment
is to finally abolish 118 counties in Georgia and Lanier (Rivers' home
county) would be one of them.
"If this (electoral) system was good enough for Jefferson, Jackson,
Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, it's good enough for us."
The former governor has been traditionally allied with the anti-
Talmadge group in Georgia's democratic party• Gov. Herman Tal-
madge is making an all-out fight for the county unit plan to be written
into the state's constitution next Tuesday by a popular vote of the
people.
Rsv. Grooms To I VOLUNTEER
Preach Sunday
A. Carroway Lee of DuPont en-
listed in the U• S. Air Force recently
Rev. J.-W. Grooms, a Baptist pastor !and is receiving basic training at
in Savannah, will preach here at lLackland Air Force Base, San An-
the Baptist church this Sunday, ini'~onio, Texas.
the ~.bsence of Pastor Edgar T. Da-I Arden Griffis of Fargo and Hilton
vis who is away in a revival cam-i Thomas of Homerville enlisted in
paign. Rev. Grooms is a former pas-ithe U. S. Air Force last week and
tor of the local church, and is well
and favorably known here. He and
his wife are exp.ected to arrive here
a day or two in advance to visit
friends and acquaintances.
Sunday is the first Sunday in the
month, the day set aside for empha-
sis on Sunday School contributions
to the building fund program. S. S.
Supt. F. M. Parker urges that the
biggest effort yet be made this Sun-
day so that completion on the Sun-
day School building can be made
without further delay. Considerable
work remains tt) be done on the in-I
terior of the new building, i
Re-painting of the church inter-i
]ior last week brought many favor-i
•
able comments on its appearance.
I This week the Dastormm exter.o': isI
being re-painted.
day here enroute to his home at
Mobile, Ala., after staying for a few
weeks in Tampa, Fla., where he. is
employed by the American Bitumu
lus Co. He was the guest of his pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. David Steedley.
left Monday for Lackland Air Force
Base for basic training.
": GIRL SC(~UT NEWS
The Homerville Girl Scouts have
sent bags, containing school sup-
plies, to Greece for the school chil-
dren there. The bags were sent in
October to the Greek War Assoeia-
their Schoolmates Overseas Badge.
The Girl Scouts were awarded the l
blue ribbon for their booth at the
County Fair. It ~as,, very attractive.
The Scouts expressed thanks for the
help of their leaders.
The regular meeting this week
was canceled because Wednesday
was school day at the Fair.
FARM BUREAU NOTICE
The County-wide Farm Bureau will
meet at the Homerville courthouse
on Monday, November 6th, 7:30 p.
m• Everyone please be present.
Halloween was observed here atI ---L. J. Hinson, Secretary.
the school Wednesday evening with1 .... - .
a weiner roast. Cold drinks, home-i ........
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mane canny an(] cakes were m pro-, _ ......
.... i guests ot ~r anu Ivlrs W E James
fusmn Little Wilhs Bennett was the ......
• ° ..... er madei Mr W E Morris was called to
winner "oi a cake nls morn I... ;" ..." .." ....
• • • ~laCKVllle, ~ ~, weanesuay on ac-
and sold hckets for Thin is the se- " "
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cona ume Willis Has wo a .... , ~. .
m,~th~,, msr1,~ fn~, lh,~ ~ohaal T-In wns lll in me urangeourg Hospital at
Orangeburg, C Mr Morns has
also crowned the king of the Hal- • • •
loween and Carole Johns was queen, visited here many times and made
Mrs. Linnie Corbett of Waycross a host of friends who will regret to
was the guest for the weekend of learn of his illness.
her sister, Mrs. W. H. James. Friends
of Mrs. James will be glad to know
that she is able at this writing to
sit up and to go to the dining room
:'.or her meals.
Mrs. T. D. James left Wednesday
for Albany after a few days visit
with her parents, My. and Mrs. J.
M. Evans. Friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Evans will be glad to hear they are
doing as well as could be expected
for members of the General As- a bell to be rung, and each oriel after the recent serious illness that
sembly, the question of whether the parsing for a minute of prayer. Miss I both have had. Mrs. Evans is able
manufacture, sale, and distribution O'Kelly, Miss Steedley, and Miss~to sit up in a chair and Mr. Evans
of Alcoholic Beverages and Liquors Riggins, the school faculty, arranged I is able to be up and around as
in said County of Clinch shall be ~he orogram. J dsual.
permitted or prohibited. Mrl Henry Steedley spent Wednes-l Mr! and Mrs. Francis (Scrap) Eat-
Said election will be held accor-
ding to the rules and regulations
governing election for members ofI
the General Assembly.
This 1st day of Nov., 1950.
AGNES E. SMITH, Ordinary,
(11-10x) Clinch County.
ber-eonsumers to the present to-
tal of 900 miles of lines with
2,900 members.
THE NEW
Beginning with this issue, the
NEWS henceforth will be using a
new body type, which you are now
reading. It is technically called 8 pt.
Corona with Erbar Bold. It is the
latest and most legible of body
types developed by the Mergenthaler
Linotype Company. The Savannah
Morning News recently started using
it in a 'slightly smaller size. This is
the bold face which you will be see-
ing henceforth. Each linotype letter
die, or matrix, has a light and a bold
letter. There are 1,200 of these in-I
dividual brass matrices using iq set-
ting the lead type from which your
paper is printed. It was necessary~
to replace the old matrices with the i
new ones.
THE OLD
This is the type face that the
NEWS has been using since 1927.
Our readers can readily see by com-
paring this ~with the type to the left
that the newer face is much more
legi, ble and easier to read. Techni-
cally, this old type is known as 8 pt.
Century with Cheltenham Bold. It is
still widely used over the nation,
mostly in commercial job printing
and trade publications. This is the
bold face of our old type. Compare
it with the new bold face to the left
that you will be seeing ~n the fu-
ture. The NEWS is happy to make
this change, believing that it will
add much to your reading comfort.
The Empire Banking Company will be closed on
November 11, in holid ay observance of
Day.
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(30-etaoin)
Mrs. Harley James and son and
Mrs. Lamartine Jzmes and son of
Live Oak, Fla., were recent-guests
of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. James.
Mrs. C. A. Wildes and children of
Albany and Mrs. Willie L. Smith,
also of Albany, were weekend guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith and
:~amily.
Mr. M. D. Colton and his mother
i from Tallahassee, Fla., were Sunday
HEADS DISTRICT PRINCIPALS
RALPtI E. GASKINS
was elected last Thursday as the
president of Eighth District High
School Principals' Association. The
district GEA meeting was held in
Waycross at the high school build-
ing, and was attended by local
county teachers.
Wm. Smith Grave
Marking Sunday
D.A.R. TO MARK REVOLU- ~':
TIONARY SOLDIER'S GRAVE ~i
AT ARABIA CHURCH. "I
An occasion which promises to*
draw a large attendance of people
from over several counties of south
Georgia is the marking of the grave
of William Smith, a Revolutionary
soldier at old Bethany (Arabia)
Church some eight or ten relies
north of here on Sunday, Nov. 5.
John Floyd Chapter, D. A. R., Mrs.
E. J. Smith, Regent, is sponsoring
the occasion, and has arranged an
interesting program which will be-
gin at 11:30 a. m. At 2 p. m., an
old-fashioned basket dinner will be
served on the grounds. Those living
in Clinch and nearby counties are
asked to bring well-filled boxes or
baskets with "them. : ..........
Judge W. C. H6dgbs 'of HiffdSviHe,
a descendant~ "will: make ~he princi-
pal address at the~ dedication. Sev-
eral other descendants are also on
, the program to speak extemporan-
eously. A short dedication cere-
mony at the grave will be participa-
ted in by several members of John
Floyd Chapter, D~A.R., who are des-
cendants.
William. Smith ~was born in 1765
and died in 1841 which was the year
the church was constituted. He is
said to have been one of the foun-
ders of the chdrch (the church's ear-
ly records have been lost througP~
fire). He was married twice and had
fifteen children, The oldest, William,
Jr., born 1789, lived and died ia
Liberty, now Long county, where
his descendants are very numerous.
All other children moved to this
county with their ~arents or soon
after. William Smith lived on Red
Bluff Creek in vresent Atkinson
county on a plantation now known
as the old S. A. Lastinger farm. Af-
ter his death the property passed to
his daughter and her husband, Nan-
cy who married John Williams. A-
mong the children of the old soldier
were John Smith, Manning Smitb,
Jesse Smith, James M. Smith, M~r-
tha who married Henry Dias, Nan-
who married John Williams, Elea-
nor who married James Jones, Re-
becca who married Josenh Sirmans,
Fannie who married Martin Cor-
bitt, Pollie who married Newsom
Corbitt, Elizabeth who married Ro-
wan Pafford and Naomi who mm~
ried Thaddeus Sears.
Descendants believe there are be-
tween eight and ten thousand living
deseendanL~, though the addresses of
many of them are unknown. The
Chapter officers in-Re a~l descen-
dants to attend. Descendants live
roo~tlv in I ibertv, Long, Clinch, La-
nier, Lowndes, Berrien, Cook and
Atkinson counties. Many are known
to be ~n W~orida.
Among the descendants are Judge
~r. c. Hod~es of Hine~.,,itle: Judge
H. M. Hodges of I,udo~rici: Ray..toeI
W. Smith of Ludowici; H. M. Pal-
ford of Wavcross; Rev. Tyler Rauls
of the Methodist Church: Judc.e g.
J. Smith of Homerville; C. 0. Smith,
Tax Commissioner of Cook county;
John M. Smith, former Commission-
er of Clinch and Lanier counties;
Mayor Francis Corbi~t of Pearson:
r)r..loe Corbett of Pear.~on: J. W,
Pafford. wostmaster at Statenville:
J. Levin Pafford, Lanier county ci-
vic leader; and others.
night guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wai-
ter G. Hughes and family.
A candle light service was held at
the Methodist church on Sunday e-
venih~ at 6:30 o'clock with Rev.
Freddie Wheeler in charge. The
guest speaker ~vas Rev. W. R. Key
of Winona Park, Waycross, who al-
so administered the Sacrament.
Mrs. Hiram O'Quinn of Valdosta
with her children are here for a vi-
sit with Mrs. T. O. O'Quinn.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Pickren, Ru-
byedora Pickren, and Benny Morris
attended the Theater Guild play,
"Night Must Fall," in Waycross on
Wednesday night. Miss Annette Pic-
kren who is on the faculty of the
Williams Heights School in Way-
cross portrayed the part of Dora
Parkoe in the play which ~was staged
at the high school auditorium.
Thought for the week: "Thouglt
we travel the world over to find
or we find it not."
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