Newspaper article mentioning Will: 1/31/1942
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An article in The Atlanta (Georgia) Constitution: Will is helping with the Atlanta World War II civilian defense, and he gets a plane ride.
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Papa Charles has been dead for 26 years, but wouldn't he have a had a field day making arithmetic problems with all the figures in this article!
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122,527 Signed For Service in Defense Setup
Registration of Volunteers To Continue Until Quotas are Filled.
Georgia's civilian defense registration swept on to a total of 122,527 from 93 counties yesterday as General E. G. Peyton, head of Atlanta's defense activities, and his aides prepared to take to the air in planes this afternoon and get a "bomb's-eye" view of the city.
Requests for more registration cards continued to pour into headquarters of the Civilian Defense Committee and Chairman Robert B. Troutman announced counties which have not reached their quotas will keep registration quarters open next week and probably one office in every county will stay open to accommodate tardy volunteers.
School Open.
Fulton county officials announced E. Rivers school will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:30 in the morning to 3 o"clock in the afternoon, although other schools in the city and county are scheduled to close their registration desks.
Volunteers flocked to schools and the downtown volunteer office at 246 Peachtree street in increasing numbers. It was estimated Fulton county is now registering approximately 1,000 persons a day and the total is between 15,000 and 20,000.
General Peyton said he and his aides would board two planes at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the airport and ride over the city, taking with them a map of the eight defense zones. The group will give particular attention to the industrial sites and "other attractive targets for an enemy" to have a better understanding of what problems confront the zone commanders, General Peyton said.
Meanwhile, individual reports on civilian defense registration from numerous counties over Georgia were described as "encouraging" by the committee.
The slogan of "Tie Ty Ty" was all but smothered by Cook county which has a total population of slightly more than 11,000 and has already registered more than 5,000 persons. Ty Ty is a small community in south Georgia which registered more than half its total population.
Troup county had a total registration so far of 4,229; Chatham, 10,072; Bibb, 12,000; Baldwin, 2,145, and Spalding, 3,862, according to reports from these sections. The State Department of Education, with 40 employees, registered 100 percent for civilian defense.
Requests Pour In.
Requests for more registration cards came from Troup, Long, Calhoun and Bleckley counties.
In Atlanta, Fulton county defense officials met and discussed plans for the air raid warning system through which every district in the county could be contacted when enemy planes were approaching.
Tentative plans call for the central fire station to be the principal warning center for Atlanta, with direct telephone lines going out to the eight zones which would have a man on duty 24 hours a day. Mike Benton, chief air raid warden for the county, and S. W. Graydon, chief air raid warden for the city, were named as a committee to work out specific recommendations and submit them at another meeting at 11 o'clock Monday at the Chamber of Commerce.
Accompanying General Peyton on the air tour will be Graydon; Colonel W. P. Stokey, executive assistant to General Peyton; Captain Enoch Graf, senior aide, and newspapermen.
"After this tour we may be in better position to point out the neglected areas and take steps to improve those areas," General Peyton said.
Registration of Volunteers To Continue Until Quotas are Filled.
Georgia's civilian defense registration swept on to a total of 122,527 from 93 counties yesterday as General E. G. Peyton, head of Atlanta's defense activities, and his aides prepared to take to the air in planes this afternoon and get a "bomb's-eye" view of the city.
Requests for more registration cards continued to pour into headquarters of the Civilian Defense Committee and Chairman Robert B. Troutman announced counties which have not reached their quotas will keep registration quarters open next week and probably one office in every county will stay open to accommodate tardy volunteers.
School Open.
Fulton county officials announced E. Rivers school will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:30 in the morning to 3 o"clock in the afternoon, although other schools in the city and county are scheduled to close their registration desks.
Volunteers flocked to schools and the downtown volunteer office at 246 Peachtree street in increasing numbers. It was estimated Fulton county is now registering approximately 1,000 persons a day and the total is between 15,000 and 20,000.
General Peyton said he and his aides would board two planes at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the airport and ride over the city, taking with them a map of the eight defense zones. The group will give particular attention to the industrial sites and "other attractive targets for an enemy" to have a better understanding of what problems confront the zone commanders, General Peyton said.
Meanwhile, individual reports on civilian defense registration from numerous counties over Georgia were described as "encouraging" by the committee.
The slogan of "Tie Ty Ty" was all but smothered by Cook county which has a total population of slightly more than 11,000 and has already registered more than 5,000 persons. Ty Ty is a small community in south Georgia which registered more than half its total population.
Troup county had a total registration so far of 4,229; Chatham, 10,072; Bibb, 12,000; Baldwin, 2,145, and Spalding, 3,862, according to reports from these sections. The State Department of Education, with 40 employees, registered 100 percent for civilian defense.
Requests Pour In.
Requests for more registration cards came from Troup, Long, Calhoun and Bleckley counties.
In Atlanta, Fulton county defense officials met and discussed plans for the air raid warning system through which every district in the county could be contacted when enemy planes were approaching.
Tentative plans call for the central fire station to be the principal warning center for Atlanta, with direct telephone lines going out to the eight zones which would have a man on duty 24 hours a day. Mike Benton, chief air raid warden for the county, and S. W. Graydon, chief air raid warden for the city, were named as a committee to work out specific recommendations and submit them at another meeting at 11 o'clock Monday at the Chamber of Commerce.
Accompanying General Peyton on the air tour will be Graydon; Colonel W. P. Stokey, executive assistant to General Peyton; Captain Enoch Graf, senior aide, and newspapermen.
"After this tour we may be in better position to point out the neglected areas and take steps to improve those areas," General Peyton said.
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1.
This is one of a series of newspaper and magazine items over the years about Will's work for the Army Corps of Engineers.
You can find the whole list here:
2.
Had Will ever been in an airplane before this? AG mentioned that when her Hosking grandparents came down to Atlanta to take her back to Canada, while they were in Atlanta, they went up in a plane, just to have that experience. I haven't come across instances of Will using planes for transportation, but maybe sometime he went up in a plane for fun the way the Hoskings did.
3.
With all those population numbers and percentages, I wonder: where did the black population come into it?
This is one of a series of newspaper and magazine items over the years about Will's work for the Army Corps of Engineers.
- The previous document in the series is: 1928-04-18 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT WILL'S RETIREMENT
- The next document in the series is: 1942-06-04 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FEATURING WILL
You can find the whole list here:
2.
Had Will ever been in an airplane before this? AG mentioned that when her Hosking grandparents came down to Atlanta to take her back to Canada, while they were in Atlanta, they went up in a plane, just to have that experience. I haven't come across instances of Will using planes for transportation, but maybe sometime he went up in a plane for fun the way the Hoskings did.
3.
With all those population numbers and percentages, I wonder: where did the black population come into it?
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