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Volume LXV, Number Nineteen
Retail Sales For
Peach County A.e
Listed By C of C
Peach County’s cash registers
rang up a total of $1,076,202 in
retail sales during December, 1952
according to the first in a new
series of business reports released
today by the Georgia State Cham¬
ber of Commerce. Based on offic¬
ial Georgia Department of Reve¬
nue sales tax figuies, the report
shows Georgia’s total December
retail sales were $346,839,418.
Revenue Commissioner Charles
Redwine was praised by State
Chamber officials for inaugurating
methods in the Department of
Revenue which make it possible
to compile monthly retail sales
volume by county. “These regular
reports can provide merchants and
other businessmen in each county
with a reliable yardstick to meas¬
ure sales trends and to draw cm
parisons for guidance in inventory
and sales decisions," says Walter
Cates, executive officer for the
Georgia Chamber.
Tabulation of retail sales for
each of the 169 counties is being
distributed to the state’s more
than 100 local Chambers of Com
merce, to trade associations, the
press and to other groups interest
ed in charting business progress.
The State Chamber plans to make
this new business feature a moil
thly service in conjunction with
the State Department of Revenue,
County retail sales reflected by
the report range from $30,352 for
a small rural county to $89,352,
077 for Fulton County.
Local Girl Will Be
On Graduate List
Lloyd A. Moll, president of Geor
gia Southwestern College, has an
nounced the plans for the school’s
lommencement ceremonies.
On Saturday, June 6 , at 8:30
P.M. there will be an aumni grad
uation dance in the college gym
nssium.
Rev. Russell J. Crouse, pastor of
the Plains Lutheran Parish, wili
preach the baccalaureate sermon
in the First Methodist Church of
Americus Sunday, June 7 at the
morning hour.
Jody Monts, president of the i
Georgia Southwestern Alumni As- j
sociation, will direct a luncheon
meeting of that organization at
12:30 P.M., Sunday, June 7, in
the college dining hall.
The commencement address will
be delivered by Dr. Henry King
Stanford, Assistant Chancellor of
the Board of Regents, University
System of Georgia, at 3:00 P.M.,
Sunday, June 7 in the college gym¬
nasium.
Nancy Catherine McLane, daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Mc¬
Lane of Fort Valley, is a mem¬
ber of the graduating class.
Writer To Speak
At Bessie Tift
FORSYTH — Doris Lockerman
.popular coumnist and feature
writer for the Atlanta Constitu
tion, ’ will be the featured f speaker
at the annual , Alumnae Day pro
gram to , < be held , on Saturday, c , May
30, at Bessie Tift College. |
Fourteen classes will hold re
unions on Alumnae Day, but all
alumnae are urged to attend the
aetivties, according to Mrs. S. A.
McCosh, president of the Alumnae
Association. Classes that will re- j
unite include 1948 through 1953,
1928 through 1931, and 1908-1911.
The expense of the luncheon, to
be hed at 1:00 P.M., is $1.25. Those j
who plan to remain overnight will
please bring their own linen an
notify t e ean o omen,
F lora W alraven, in a vance, er.
will be no c large or e roo ,
but a nonnna c aige or m
other than the luncheon.
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HORTON J. GREENE j
PROMOTED BY MARINES
Horton J. Greene, local business- |
man and civic leader, received no
tification last Friday that he has
been promoted by the Marine
Corps Reserve to the grade of
Lt. Colonel. i
The promotion was dated at
date of discharge, November 11,
1952, and with rank to date from
July 1, 1952.
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WREAKING HAVOC—Here is the boiling black tornado that ripped through Warner Robins
and Rooms AFB dealing a heavy death toll, injur ng more than 350 persons, and inflicting damage
in e'^ess of ten million dollars. Over a thousand people were left homeless. This ususual photograph
is believed to be the best shot made bv any photographer on hand when the twister did its damage.
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this car from its driveway and hurled it against a once stately
Georgia pine. (USAF photo by Mantelli).
ReLef Funds Go
To Tornado A ea
The Peach County Disaster Re¬
lief Campaign, through one of its
this week issued a
of thanks to those con¬
to the fund for the re¬
of victims of the recent tor¬
which hit Fort Valey and
Robins.
The statement of Mrs. Earl Ad¬
co-chairman, follows:
YOU FROM TORNADO
We take this method of saying
to Mayor T. A. McCord, Sr.
, or arranging , for . the .. Peach „ . Co. r ,
Relief Campaign „ . and , also ,
Radio Station W. F. P. M., and
s personnel for the superb job
did in keeping the people of
area informed as to the needs
f c, e Tornado victims. They were
generous in giving their time
0 cds worthy cause,
The Police and Firemen were
heip f u j j n picking up, listing
gtorj contributions,
^ ? organization or individ _
^ contributed time> money
goodg through t he efforts of
cam p a jg nj W e wish that it
possible to relay to you all
kj n( j things that we heard
jj e f workers and victims say,
it all adds up to this, thank you
neighbor, you have truly
one another’s burdens”.
We feel that everyone who con
n any way should feel very
knowing that they had a
j n rehabilitating some family
earthly possessions had
swept away. May God bess
everyone. I
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Fort Valley, Georgia, Thursday, May 14, 1953
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Lt. Col. Crocker
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Lt. Col. William Fleetwood
Crocker, 38, affectionately known
to relatives and friends here as
Billy Crocker, died after a brief
illness, on May 6 , at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Maryland.
At the time of his death, he
was Officer of Finance at West
Point Military Academy N. Y.
Col. Crocker as the son of Har¬
mon Crocker and the late Mrs.
Ethel Fleetwood Crocker, of Mar
shaliville Methodist Church.
funeral „ . . ... held at
services were
w West Point, N. Y., on Friday, with
interment on Monday 3 afternoon,
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^ is survivors are: his wife, the
f' ,rmer Miss Dorothy Berley of
Columbia; two children, Patricia
an< ^ William Thomas; his father,
a s ‘ ster » Mrs. Doyle Bedingfield,
of Dudley, Georgia and his pater
nal grandmother, Mrs. Eula Mc¬
Kinney Crocker of Dudley.
WATER TRAFFIC COPS
ARE COMING! CAREFUL!
ATLANTA — (GPS) — Those
pleasant weekends at the lake
may not be so pleasant this sum
mer unless you behave yourself
Reason: The last General Assem
bly passed a law prohibiting
drunk “boat driving”, use of in
decent or vulgar language and
U boisterousness and steps al
ready are being taken to enforce
it.
Enforcement will come under the
State Game and Fish Department,
and Director Fulton Lovell said
his department is adding 25 to 40
large boats to its patrol force to
enable rangers to crack down o«
boisterous conduct in boats. They
are fast boats, too, he warned.
AeiroJelicg Sale
let by Christopher
Paul Janney, manager of Chris
copher’s Furniture Company in
Fort Valley, announced this week
hat the store will begin a huge
re-modeling sale tomorrow.
“We are going to renew our
store into one of the finest and
most modern buildings in middle
Georgia for the display of furni¬
ture,” Janney said. “We’ve got
.o have room for the work and
as a result we have some of the
finest bargains available anywhere
,n fine furniture. »•
According to the plans now
on hand for te furniture company
tne store win put in aspnalt tiie
floors throughout, re-paint all of
the walls and ceilings, make mod¬
ification for the use of natural
gas heat, and the installation of
air conditioning.
The furniture company has ta
ken over the building formerly
occupied by Wright and Solomon
and will use it in the future to I
help display and store furniture.
The addition of this building will
double the floor space formerly j
in use by the business.
Actual re-modeling work will be
gin in approximately two weeks,
Janney said. He expressed the ap- i
predation of Ihe management for
the business given the company ]
in the past and^ urged the pubic to
take advantage of the fine bar -1
gains being offered in the coming
sale.
It is not the fact that a man
has riches which keeps him from
the kingdom of heaven, but the |
fact that riches have him.
HISTORY OF FORT VALLEY
As / Remember
BY J. DAWSON KENDRICK
Continued From Last Week
By tact, skill, energy and per
severance he added from year to
y Ca r to his possessions and at his
dea th in 1852 he had become one
0 f c,e wealthiest and largest land
owners in the state.
Historians have used the word
“connection in connecting Mr.
Everett with the Barnard family
of half-breeds which has confused
some history readers. Mr. Everett
was never connected with the In
dian tribe only in a business way
and never married a squaw, as
some readers have circulated in
their noisy, broad, false reports.
His first Indian store or trading
post is said to have been located
on the west side of the Atlanta
highway on the farm now owned
and lived on by Russ Pearson and
his first home was back of this
and adjacent to the Southern rail
road track. This home is said to
have been well built of timber
seasoned by being ringed and per¬
mitted to stand until cut and used
and for that reason, or for the
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reason * at 1 was oca e w ere
there had been an Indian stockade,
soon decayed and he then moved
Carnival Plans Announced;
Proceeds For Swimming Fund
Soil Stewardship
Sunday, May 17th
Ministers of all denominations
throughout the South and South¬
west have been invited to take part
in the observance of Soil Steward¬
ship Sunday. Reverend J. Seaborn
W’inn, pastor of the Roberta Bap¬
tist Church, extends a cordial in¬
vitation to members and friends of
his church to be present at the 11
o’clock service next Sunday, May
17, to hear his sermon which will
be in keeping with the occasion.
An inspiring program has been ar¬
ranged or that date.
The setting aside of one Sunday
each year as a special day of re
mejnbering our God-given respon
! sibility as stewards of the soil was
first observed in many sections of
the Southwest several years ago,
FARM and RANCH, in
tion with local pastors and soil con
servation district supervisors, has
been instrumental in establishing
this observance, both through its
editorial support and personal
work done by members of its edi
torial staff.
This year a more widespread ob¬
servance of Soil Stewardship Sun¬
day has been planned, and Sunday,
May 17, has been designated as the
Sunday when pastors of churches
will devote at least one sermon to
the relation of our soil to the peo
j pie and the church.
Through work of the Soil Con¬
servation Service, thousands of
acres of worn-out farm land has
reclaimed and made to produce a
I bundantly again. Good soil produc
I es good crops, and good food mean
a healthy, prosperous people. It
is the doty of every person to en¬
I courage soil conservation. The very
future of our country depends on
how the soil is handled. Food crops
produced on rich soil have more
nutritive value in minerals and vit¬
amins than do crops produced on
worn-out land.
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Tharpe Memorial WMU met at
the home of Mrs. W. H. Brown on
Monday night with Mrs. Faye
Tharpe as co-hostess.
Fourteen members and three vis
jtors were present,
Mrs. Jane Napier presided and
Mrs. Maggie Ruth Dorsett gave
the devotional.
The complete program was given
by Mrs. Ruth Todd with the aid
of Miss Frances Davis, G. A., and
Ralph Dorsett, R. A. The program
was on the young peopes’ auxili¬
ary.
Delicious refreshments were ser
ved by the hostesses.
to a home on the south side of
the old road in a grove to Oak
lawn cemetery. The site was
known as the C. E. Knight place
and his store at the west end of
what is now Fincher Memorial
Park in the down town business
section of Fort Valley. A part of
i his old home on the cemetery road
was still standing until about thir
ty years ago and Mrs. Ella Bras
well, a granddaughter of Mr. Ev
erett, states that until a few years
ago one of the doors to the old
store in town was stored in one
j of the down town buildings,
! This store in the heart of the
town was a two-room building with
a front porch, one room of which
was used for fur and hide and
storage and the other for merchan¬
dise which Mr. Everett brought at
intervals by wagon train, accom¬
panied by himself on horseback
from Charleston, S. C. It was mov¬
ed from the original location after
the death of Mr. Everett in 1852
by O . H. Miller to the present
location of the Georgia Grocery
Company and was later torn dowu
by O. H. Miller to the present
way for the present block of brick
buildings now standing from the
A & P to the Colonial Stores.
Membership Drive
Underway Now
The Fort Valley and Peach Coun¬
ty Chamber of Commerce this
week began a drive for new mem¬
bers according to W. Ed Wilson,
president.
The action followed a Board of
Directors meeting held in the city
hall early this week.
Persiden Wilson pointed out that
there are several business organi¬
zations in the county which are
not now members and stated that
members of the group are plan¬
ning to visit with these merchants
and point out the value of mem¬
bership in the organization.
He issued a specific plea to all
of these merchants to join the lo
cal group and help the Chamber
in its efforts to improve the city
and the county,
Members of the board attending
the meeting included Wilson, L.
s. Armstrong, H. J. Avera, W.
g. Brisendine, J. M. Lacy, E D.
Leverett, A B. Young, P. C. Jan
ney, H. H. Hafer, Bennett Rig
don, and A. E. Young.
Cub Scout Leaders
To Hold PowWow
Trained Cub Scout leaders mean
better Cub Scouts in each of the
towns throughout central Georgia.
Council and we are planning the
greatest event of the year for each
of you to get this training. To
help you get more fun and better
results from your efforts with
Cub ,Scouts the Central Georgia
Council is providing the Annual
Cub Leades’ Pow Wow. It is sched
uled for Saturday and Sunday ,
May 23-24. at Camp Benjamin
Hawkins, near Byron, beginning at
2:30 2:30 P.M. P.M. Saturday Sunday. and closing J
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Who can come ? All Cub leaders
afe eligible to attend which means
Cubmasters, Assistant Cubmasters,
Pack Committeemen, Den Mothers,
or prospects for these places This
program will be for adults only.
What will we do? There will be
four sections of the Pow Wow.
They are as follows: Pack admin¬
istration and Summer Program;
Ceremonies and Entertainment;
Games, and Handicraft.
Each person will follow through
for the entire period with one of
these groups and on Saturday ev
ening the entire group will join
in an evening of fun centered
aroud a blue and gold banquet, j
An opportunity for a swim will
be afforded. There will be a big :
Cubbers night for square all leaders dance on with Saturday j
a spe- j
band present.
the camp will be set aside for
the ladies and each person will
bring two blankets or bedroll,
sheets, pillow, toilet kit, towels,
swim suit, clothing suited for the
out-of-doors, flashlight, note book,
pencil, pocket knife and your best
disposition.
What will it cost? Registration
fee of $2.00 for each person cov
ers cost of three meals and ma
terials for all sections except hand
icraft. An additional 50c for each
person in the Handicraft Section
will cover cost of added materials.
„ How . to register? . *> Send o a U bring •
or
your names with the registration
fee to Boy Scout Headquarters, I
540 Third Street, Macon. We can
only accommodate 100 volunteers,
so please get your registration in
right away. We will have to make
it a first come, first serve regis
tration procedure for with over 50 j
packs in the coucil you can see
that it is necessary to get your
name in the pot for this splendid
opportunity and believe me it will
really pay off in dividends to the
boys Cub Scout age and you will
enjoy this program of training
from beginning to end.
Who will instruct? A staff of;
experienced Cub Scouters and oth
er Boy Scout Leaders will be on
hand to give leadership to each
phase of the program. Let’s make
the Peach Belt District 100 per
cent!
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$3.00 Per Year—In Advance
The Amercan Legion sponsored
drive for funds to construct a mu¬
nicipal swimming pool will get an¬
other “shot in the arm” on May
22 iyhen a mammoth carnival is
planned for the business area of
Fort Valley,
Local civic and fraternal or¬
ganizations will participate in the
carnival by sponsoring various
booths and games to raise money.
Proceeds of the entire carnival will
go into the swimming pool fund,
it was stated.
William Khoury, commander of
the local American Legion post,
told the Leader-Tilbune that the
carnival will include such items
as an auction, a bingo game, a
cakewalk, etc. These items will be
sponsored by different clubs and
organizations.
It was also stated that plans
include the presence of the local
high school band, although offi
|cials stated that the band has not
yet signified whether or not they
will be able to be present.
Local merchants have donated
a large variety of valuable mer
chandise to be auctioned off during
the carnival. The local Lions Cub
is sponsoring the auction.
Officials of the Lions Club point¬
ed out that all of the large me
chandise, such as a pick-up truck,
television, etc., will not be sold
for less than wholesale price. The
merchants making these donations
are donating their profit only to
the fund.
Merchants participating in the
auction are as follows:
Fort Valley Motors, 2 Lifesaver
tires; Amoco Service Station, 2
fi ve dollar tickets for gas; Wil
Hams Motor Co. Firestone tire;
Greene Motor Co., 1 Delco bat
Khoury’s Dept. Store, One
pa ;r City Club shoes for men and
one pa i r Velvet Step shoes for
wo men. Also one baby Air Nurse;
Pepper’s Grocery, 10 five dollar
baskets of groceries; J. F. Duke
and Sons, 1 Emerson 17” television
se t; Cleve’s Dept. Store, choice of
any dress in the house regardless
of price, and one sport shirt for
men, choose your own.
Edwards Clothing Co., 1 Palm
Beach suit, best in the house;
Crutchfield’s Service Station, 2 oil
changes; Suzanne’s Dress Shop, 2
dollar merchandise certificate on
any dress in the house; Carithers
Furniture Co., One telephone
stand; Lester’s Barber Shop, 6
haircuts and shaves; Jordan Elec
trie Co., 1 large electric fan; Gra
ham Motor Parts, 1 tool box;
Strickland Grocery and Hdwe. Go.,
\ Burtes pressure cooker, 1 Pres
sure coo ker, I Presto Meat Mas
ter.
Sheppard’s Auto Store, one air
fi e; The Wheel, at five points,
mea i for five people; Avera’s Drug
store, twenty dollars merchandise;
. N. Herbert’s Jewelry, 1 17-jew
Elgin Deluxe man’s wrist watch;
5 & 10 one
Reddick Hardware Co., Tuffy
electric mower; Walter R. Thomas
Jewelers, 1 Harvel white gold 17
jewel ladies watch; Harris
H H afer, 1953 Dodge one-half ton
pickup truck, red cab, fluid drive,
g 50 x tires
Wheeler’s Pharmacy, $30 mer
chandise; Tommy’s Cleaners, 10
$5 certificate for cleaning- Foun
tains Dry cleaners and Laundry
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10 f5 certificates for cleaning or
laundry . Christopher’s Furniture
Co > wasMng machine . Adams Qro
cery and Market, $20 in merchan
dige; Carter , s Food ’ g . m
merchandise; Rush Lumber and
Supply Co., 5 gal. of Lucas outside
house paint.
T. C. JOHNSON, SR, TO
HEAD TRAVELERS IN ‘53
T. C. Johnson, Sr., Fort Valley
merchant, last week was elected
president of the Travelers Protec
tive Association of Georgia. He
will serve during the next year.
The election was held in Rome
on May 8 and 8 and Mrs. John
son accompanied the new presi
dent to the convention.
The association is composed of
business men, bankers, and travel¬
ing men.
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