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Rotary District Assembly Opens In Marianna Today Record Crowd Is Expected To Attend Meet State And Hospital Officials Scheduled To Give Addresses MARIANNA. (Special) The 242nd district of Rotary International, which embraces the territory from Jacksonville to Pensacola, Will be represented in Marianna today and tomorrow by more than 200 Rotarians and their wives at the annual district assembly. Addresses will be heard by state and national Rotary officials, both past and present. The Marianna Rotary club, headed by President A. C.

Billingslea, will be hosts to the assembly, business sessions of which will be under the direction of District Governor Leland W. Hiatt. Hotel Chipola will be headquarters for the assembly, with registration from to 6 p. m. Sunday.

The afternoon will be spent in sightseeing, golf and general fellowship. At seven oclock the informal Fellowship Dinner will be held in the main dining room of the Florida Industrial School for Boys. PRESIDING OFFICER Marianna President A. C. Billingslea will preside.

After the invocation by the Rev. Forbes deTamble of Perry, and group singing led by Randolph Mai of Live Oak, the district secretary, J. C. Gissendaner, of Chattahoochee, will conduct the roll call. Dr.

D. A. McKinnon of the Marianna club will give the welcome address, to which A. V. (Swede) Benson of Apalachicola will respond.

The presentation of awards by immediate Past District Governor L. O. Gratz, and announcements by Governor Hiatt will be followed by program of entertainment, featur- talent from Florida Industrial School. The principal address will be given by Dr. Ray V.

Sowers, director of teacher education of Stetson University, DeLand, whose topic will be "The Global World." ASSEMBLY MONDAY At 8:30 Monday morning, the assembly will open at the Ritz theatre, when Governor Hiatt will speak on "Our Job Here." Francis R. Bridges, of Tallahassee, will discuss the Aims and Objects Plan of Rotary; Past District Governor Fred M. Bultman of Jacksonville will discuss club service, and J. W. Kelly of the Marianna club, vocational service.

Rev. Forbes de- Tamble of Perry will outline community service opportunities and methods, and George Tobi of Jacksonville will discuss "Our Growing Magazine Family." At 12 :30, the Rotary luncheon will be held at Fellowship Hall in the Methodist Educational building, with Marianna President A. C. Billingslea presiding. Supt.

Arthur Dozier Florida Industrial School will talk i "Service to Youth;" Billingslea will speak on the working tools of a Rotary president, while the work of DliP PANAMA CITY, FLA. 590 ON TOUR DIAL SUNDAY Green Orchestra. for Christ P. News Van Reads the Funnies Union Quartet Revival J. B.

Davis Bible Class of Prophecy Star to Vets Stand County Ministerial Assn. Noon--William Hillman News Eberly and John Garth Trio Hour by Dick Haymes Bloch Orchestra Cunningham News Bob Jones Varieties Knife Hartley Cassidy Morgan Orchestra Howard Orchestra Shadow Detective Mysteries Rogers Show of Nick Carter of Peter Salem Murray Show Board Family County Ministerial Assn. Cavallero Orch. Kildare Dance Orchestra News Dance Orchestra Reports the News off S. KENDBICK GUERNSEY of Jacksonville, president of Rotary International, 1948-49, will be among state and national Rotary officials attending and taking part in the Rotary district assembly in Marianna today and Monday.

DISTRICT GOVERNOR Leland W. Hiatt of Chattahoochee will preside at the business sessions of the District Assembly of Rotary Clubs of the 242nd District in Marianna today and Monday. A. C. BILLIXGSLEA is president Of the Marianna Rotary Club, which will be host today and Monday to the annual 242nd District Rotary Assembly.

Billingslea will preside at the Fellowship Dinner Sunday evening, and at the luncheon meeting Monday at noon. Chipley Guard Approaches End Of Summer Camp Firing Practice Is Major Item In Training PAST PRESIDENT of the Marianna Rotary Club, J. W. Kelly is now serving as chairman of the district committee on Vocational Service of the 242nd district. Kelly will speak on "Vocational Service" at a luncheon program of the assembly.

ROTARIAN--The Rev. Forbes Ross deTamble, Rector of St. James Episcopal church at Perry, will take part in Rotary District Assembly here today and Monday, speaking on "Community Service" at the Monday morning assembly. F. M.

BULTMAN, Jacksonville radio firm executive, will discuss "Club Service" during the Monday session of the fourth annual district assembly of the 242nd District, Rotary International, which will convene in Marianna today and Monday. Board Proposes Jackson Budget $40,000 Increase Noted Over 1949-50 MARIANNA. (Special) Tbj Jackson County Board of County Commissioners published the estimate of expenses for all county purposes for the fiscal year 1950-51 las week and indicated a total proposed expenditure of $340,486.25. This figure represents an increase of $40,113.75 over last year, when the figure was $300,372.50. The increase is represented by an item of $13,870 for forest fire control; an increase of $19,000 in the road and bridge fund, and smal increases in the Agricultural anc Livestock, Fine and Forfeiture, general and public health funds.

The estimated expenditures from all funds are as follows: General, Road and Bridge Fine and Forfeiture, Agricultural and Livestock, Public'Health, Retirement of jail certificates of indebtedness, Fire Control Outstanding Indebtedness Jackson Hospital, $12,000 The matter of a three-mill levy to provide matching funds for a Federal grant of $65,000 for improvement and enlargement of Jackson hospital is still under consideration, and a series of meeting were held throughout the county by the county board and hospital trustees, in order to acquaint the public with the proposal. If public sentiment favors the tax levy to match the Federal grant, giving the county more than $100,000 in hospital improvements for one-third of the cost, it is probable this amount will be added to the county estimate for 1950-51. The county board will consider the estimate at a meeting on Tuesday, August 8. ACT SIGNED WASHINGTON (ff) President Truman signed yesterday an act intended to simplify the handling of funds held by the Veterans Administration for the benefit of hospital patients. MONDAY Incorporated E.

F. Lewin River Boys Gray, News Tune Time P. News to the Record Quiz Farm Follies Revival J. B. Davis County Ministerial Assn.

Brown News Your Neighbor Harmonies Melodies Melodies Heatters Mailbag Report Theatre Time Smith Speaks 11: IS--Lanny Ross Show McMullen News Arnold Noon--Cedric Poster News Fair a secretary will, be outlined by Singleton E. McKay of Keystone Heights. Charles Evans of Chattahoochee will discuss "Rotary Foundation and Fellowship," and Garland Powell of Gainesville will tell of the aims and accomplishments of the Rotary Educational Loan Corporation. The luncheon will be followed by a business session and adjournment. SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING NEW MISSISSIPPI MARRIAGE LAW A MARRIAGE LICENSE cannot be obtained in Mississippi now between 6 P.

M. 8 A. M. But you CAN GET A MARRIAGE I at LEAKESVTLLE, MISS, every day in the week and on SUNDAYS between 8:00 A. M.

and 6:00 P. M. No waitnig no examination. On highway 63 24, 45 minutes from Mobile 30 minutes from Citronelle. B.

W. Beard, Circuit Clerk. Leakesville, Mississippi. Seek Better Community Jaycees Set Active Plan In Chipley CHIPLEY (Special) The new club year of Chipley's Junior Chamber of Commerce began last week with members voting to tell other civic clubs in town it is anxious to cooperate with them for a better community. President E.

O. Clark was in charge for the first time. Clark and Past President Sam Shoemaker were given pins of office by the club in a presentation cere-' mony led by Russell Simmons. The club's first board of directors meeting this year followed the reg- uplar meeting. Louie L.

Brackins was elected to fill a vacancy. Jim Sellers was named chairman. Clark indicated that a membership commtitee would be named in a few days to take over the annual task of adding "new blood" to the club's roster. Negro Boy Shot In Gun Scuffle Shotgun Goes Off As Brothers Wrangle 12-year- old colored boy met instant death last week when the shotgun over which he and his 14-year-old brother were scuffling went off and the load of shot entered his head. Events leading up to the fatal shooting were related by Sheriff Otho Edwards to have been as fol- IO The two brothers began scrapping about a dip of snuff which the older one had and the younger one wanted.

When the older began getting the best of the battle the younger one darted into the house and came out with the shotgun. In the scuffle which followed the un was discharged. Sheriff Edwards identified the dead boy at Walter Hitchman and said his brother's name is R. C. Hitchman.

The shooting occurred Friday afternoon in the St. Hebron community about four miles northeast of town. State Attorney W. D. Hopkins conducted an investigation Saturday afternoon and the conclusion was reached that the shooting was accidental and no charges were made in the case.

Neighbors said the two boys were frequently at odds with each other and often fought. When the larger would get the upper hand the other boy would go into the house and come out the gun. Up until Friday the older boy had managed to wrest the gun from his hands without serious consequences resulting. The gun is 16 gauge and was with number six shot, the sheriff said. CAMP STEWART, Ga.

(Special) Battery of Chipley a unit of the Florida National Guard's 265th AAA Gun Battalion, is nearing the end of two weeks of summer training at this sprawling camp. The 50 men of the battery, commanded by Capt. Wandell E. Brannan, moved in by motor convoy, pitched camp in a big tent city located in the center of Stewart" and began preparing their 90 mm. guns for firing the latter part of last week.

FIRING RANGES The firing ranges of Camp Stewart compare with the largest antiaircraft installations east of the Mississippi river. Battery joined other Florida units of the 227th AAA group here, totaling 1,000 men from 13 Florida cities. The battery has practiced on both towed targets and radio-controlled drone target planes. Targets were towed by planes of the Oklahoma Air National Guard, based at Chatham Field, Savannah. Pilotless drones launched from near the firing area and were guided from the ground by a special regular Army team.

The Florida units moved to camp by train, truck and, for the first time in Florida Guard history, by airplane. Six C-46 transport planes of the 76th Troop Carrier Squadron in Miami, airlifted 200 South Florida Guardsmen to Liberty Field, located on the Camp Stewart reservation. "WAR" SEEMS CLOSE In addition to the 90 mm. guns, 40 mm. and .50 calibre weapons are used by the Florida units.

"The war" seems very close for the 1,000 Floridians here, even though the shooting is half a world away. The leading topic of conversation for the men is not the weather or the food, as usual, but the Korean situation. The Guardsmen feel that they have a great stake in the fighting, because the' Guard is well-trained; when and if reservists are called up, the Guard will be among the i first to" go, as in World War II. Damage Estimated At $45,000 QUINCY--(Special)--Two barnes filled with shade tobacco were destroyed by fire last week causing an estimated total loss of $45,000. Edward Rudd, Providence community, lost' a 140 42 foot barn around sundown Friday.

Rudd reported that he had just left the bam where he had been checking drying fires. He had just gotten to his house and started to eat when he heard someone screaming outside. Rudd ran out on the back porch and discovered the end of the barn farthest from the house ablaze. Both green and dry tobacco was hanging in the barn. Rudd said that the fire broke out on the end containing the dryest leaf.

Overall loss as estimated at $25,000 by Rudd, which included the barn, built two years ago, the tobacco and the laths. Tuesday the 120 42 foot barn belonging to Carl Spooner, near Gretna, burned down. Filled with green and partially cured tobacco, Spooner reported the fire started where the dryest was hanging. Spooner stated that he had a man in the barn at the time drying the tobacco with fires. The worker said that he was on the far end from where the fire originated.

He was tending to ground fires there and happened to glance back to discover the dry tobacco burning furiously. Efforts to check the fire by throwing the burning tobacco to the ground by the worker only fanned the blaze, increasing its intensity and spreading. Out of control, the fire soon burned the barn to the ground for a loss which Spooner estimated around $20.000. Both barns and tobacco were covered by insurance, which will partially cover the losses. Eight members of Chipley's battalion, qualified with the carbine on the small arms range while at the National Guard's two-week encampment here." Three of the men qualified as sharpshooters and five as marksman.

Scoring high enough to be classed as a sharpshooter were Sgt. Marion C. Sizemore, Ret. Doyle Taylor and Ret. Robert E.

Watford. Marksmen were Cpl. Joseph W. Odom, Ret. Fenton E.

Dixon, Ret. Leo Joyner, Ret. Griffin H. Newsom and Ret. Dewey V.

West. In addition to firing the big 90 mm. guns, members of Battery were also instructed on the use of the carbine. Volumes once were sold according to their weight in Russian bookstores. Panama City News-Herald, Sunday, July 16,1950 Page 11 taptist Association Sets Meeting Tomorrow BONIFAY (Special) The executive committee of the Holmes bounty Baptist association will meet in Caryville tomorrow at 7:30 p.

W. E. Barentine, secretary of group, announced last week. The meeting will be held at the Baptist church there. All members of the committee are urged to attend.

Air Force Tells Of Life in fficer ens Korea BONIFAY fSpP.ciaH A vivid picture story of life in Korea, including a description of the terrain of the country was given to members of the Bonifay Kiwanis club Wednesday by Lieut. Colonel William T. Hood. TJSAF. who is stationed at Eglin Air Force Base.

The officer spent two years in that country in the military government and was well qualified to speak on his subject. Although he did not discuss in anyway the present Korean war, the pictures he showed indicated that fighting in that country is hard and the defending American forces are up against almost insurmountable odds. The picture slides Col. Hood displayed were taken by him while in that country and dwelled mainly upon the simple life these placid people live. He also displayed articles which showed the fine handicraft of the Korean people.

Prior to the program, the club decided to hold its annual picnic on Thursday afternoon, July 20, instead of Wednesday afternoon as previously planned. All members of the club, their families and friends are invited to attend the picnic, will be staged at the on the Gulf beach. The picnic supper be serve'd at 5 o'clock. Sound travels at the rate of 1087.13 feet a second. Mrs.

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They have cleaned one patch of clover of its foliage and have started on an acre of corn. For about 20 feet on one end of the corn strip the grasshoppers have denuded the blades and ears of its silks, leaving only the blade stems, corn stalk, ears and part of the tasselE. The grasshoppers, according to Rhoades, begin in the pasture grasses and other similar areas. When the grass has been devoured they move in on the corn or next nearby green spot and move on along as long as they can find something green. On a visit to Monticello last week Rhoades returned to Quincy with a stalk of denuded corn taken from a four acre area which had been destroyed entirely.

The four acres was part of an 80 acre plot. As many as 17 grasshoppers were counted per leaf busily devouring it, he said. When the tassel and silk on the ear -has been eaten away the ear cannot develop as the polinating feature has been destroyed, Rhoades explained. The blades feed the plant and when they have been destroyed the stalk fails to produce, he said. Rhoades named seasonal factors as the greatest asset for the thriving grasshoppers.

Conditions this year-dry, warm spring and the mild winter--have oeen ideal. At all stages of growth, from hatching to adults, the grasshoppers attack the plants. While in the nymphal stage they are worse, he said. From the time of hatching they pass through five nymphal stages--each nymph stage about one week long, requiring from five to six weeks to reach the adult stage, he informed. For control measures Rhoades listed 10 per cent toxaphene poison at the rate of 25 to 30 pounds per acre or 20 per cent toxaphene dust at the rate of 20 to 25 pounds to the acre.

Ten per cent chlordane 'is another poison that can be used at the rate of 20 pounds per acre. Either of the three insecticides are to be treated as a poison, Rhoades cautioned. If applied to pastures he said that livestock should be kept off for at least 21 days. As the insecticides are stomach poisons best results will be obtained if they are sprayed when the area is dry. Only about 50 per cent at best will be the result by contact, he said.

ire Control Holmes County Has One Tower Completed jtiONIFAY (Special) One fire control tower has been completed and construction on another begun since the forest fire control pro- gram got underway in Holmes county on July 1, Billy J. Howell, county forest ranger, announced this week. The first tower, known as the Wright's Creek tower, is constructed on Road 79, near Monk's store, and is already in operation with the necessary facilities, he said. The other tower in the county will be known as the Prosperity tower and is now under construction. Mack Thorn is contractor and all work is being handled under the direction of the Florida Forestry Service.

The Cowford tower, near Hinson Cross Roads in Washington county, is completed and in operation, he said. Howell said that the crews in Holmes county are in constant touch with forestry planes by two-way radio and are ready to combat any forest fires in the area. Only one fire has been started since the beginning of the fire control unit, he said, and that one originated northwest of Berry's store, near the Hog and Hominy highway. In case of fire, residents of the county are requested to contact Homell at telephone 2321 in Bonifay. He resides in the Willard Newsome home.

Howell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Howell of Bonifay and has been with the forestry service since his discharge from the U. S. Navy several years ago.

Mrs. Howell and their child moved with him recently from Milton, where he was stationed with the Santa Rosa fire control unit. JURIST WARNS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H.

Jackson warned yesterday "trial by publicity" and "mob atmosphere" threaten to destroy this nation's criminal trial process. Special Service Slated Tonight At Chipley Church CHIPLEY (Special) The Rev. T. O. Baldwin, pastor of the First Baptist church in Chipley announced last week that special services are planned tonight at the church.

Speaker for the evening will be Carlos Gruber of Barlow, who is well known here. He has been music director in several revivals at the Baptist church, the latest in 1949. Gruber is also an accomplished Holmes School Report Reveals Enrollments 3,586 Students Attend Holmes County Schools During Year annual report Holmes County schools filed this week with tbt State Department of Education showed that there were 3586 children and 132 colored children enrolled in the schools of the county during the term closed recently, County Superintendent Alex Shepherd revealed yesterday. This com- pares with a total enrollment of 13531 white and 149 colored children for the 1948-49 term, his show. The allocation of state school money is made on a basis of daily average attendance, Shepherd said, and Holmes county's average has shown a considerable increase for the past two years.

For the term just closed the average daily attendance was 2023 whites and 121 colored, and during 1948-48 the average was 2972 white and 131 colered. The 1948-49 figure was up more than 100 above the 1947-48 figure, Shepherd said. This increase in the average daily attendance has meant an increase in the number of school teachers for the county, inasmuch as each teacher unit is based on the average attendance of pupils, he said. Breaking down the enrollment figure for 1949-50, Bonifay had; the largest with 1352, Ponce de Leon second with 751 enrolled. Figures other schools were: Bethlehem 590, Poplar Springs 372, New Hope" 271, Westville 174, Noma 63 and Mt.

Zion West 14. Colored enrollment figures were: Bayview (Bonifay) 105, Bethlehem 16, and Noma 11. The average daily attendance by schools was as follows: Bonifay 1181, Ponce de Leon 636, Bethlehem 476, Poplar Springs 296, New Hope 222, Westville 160, Nofa 43, and Mt. Zion West 9. An Interesting breakdown of average daily attendance figures shows that at all the schools except Mt.

Zion West and Noma, a large percentage of the pupils were transported by bus. These figures are Bonifay 778 transported, 403 non- transported; Ponce de Leon, 564 and 72; Bethlehem, 462 and 14; Poplar Springs, 280 and 16; New Hope, 210 and 12; and Westville, 126 and 34. There were 32 county-owned buses operated during the year and there were no accidents, the report showed. In the total enrollment figures there were 2294 pupils in the grades 1-6 group, 891 in the grades 7-9 group and 401 in the grades 10-12 group. violinist, and will probably play his instrument tonight.

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