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Volume LXV, Number Twenty-Three
Church Standards
Is Sermon Subject
At the Methodist Church Sun¬
day, May 31, the message of the
pastor, the Rev. Granville N. Rai¬
ney, was on the subject, The Stan¬
dards of the Methodist Church.
The Scriptural basis of the mes¬
sage was ‘‘Be ye perfect as your
Father which art in Heaven is per¬
fect,” found in the Gospel of Mat¬
thew, the fifth chapter.
Mr. Rainey emphasized discip¬
line and he spoke of the meaning
of the word ‘perfect’ in the text
as that of supreme excellence,
without defect or lack, and that
of the highest degree.
“The love of one’s fellowmari
is predicated by his love for God.”
said the minister, and he noted
the inscribed requirements of reg¬
uar ehureh attendance and the ne¬
cessity of spiritual food as one
must essentially partake of phys¬
ical food.
A conference of church leaders
followed the morning worship.
Local Student Gets
Digest B Award
Sylvia Scarborough, valedictor¬
ian of the graduating class at Fort
Valley High School, has been giv¬
en the Annual Award of The Read¬
ers Digest Association for stu¬
dents who by their successful
school work give promise of at¬
taining leadership in the commun¬
ity, it was announced today by Mr.
James C. Stephens, principal.
Sylvia will receive an honorary
subscription to The Reader's Di¬
gest for one year and an engraved
certificate from the editors “in
recognition of past accomplish¬
ments ana in anticipation oi un¬
usual achievement to come.
The Reader’s Digest Association
has presented these awards yearly
in senior high schools throughout
the United States and Canada to
the highest honor student of the
graduating class.
The award to Miss Scarborough,
who is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Scarborough of 221 E.
Main Street, was made possible
through the cooperation of Mr.
Stephens and his teaching staff.
They selected Miss Scarborough
to stimulate receive scholarship, the award, designed citizenship, to j j
and continued contact with good
reading after graduation.
Removal Of Credit
Controls Helps Vet
The Veterans Administration has
explained what the recent removal
of credit controls on GI loans
means to the home-buying World
War II or Korean veteran, William
K. Barrett, Director of the State
Department of Veterans Service,
said this week.
The action, effective April 25,
1953, and authorized by the Hous¬
ing and Home Finance Agency, re¬
moves the last vestige o feredit
controls which were applied to
GI loans under the Defense Pro¬
duction Act.
In addition, Barrett said, the VA
has removed restrictions on how
the four per cent gratuity payment
made to veterans who obtain GI
loans may be applied.
The gratuity payment made by
the VA equals four per cent of j
the guaranteed portion of the GI
loan up to the maximum of $160.
Previously under credit controls,
the gratuity had to be applied to
reduce the principal amount of the
loan .
Now, the lender and the veteran
may also apply the gratuity in
other ways for example, to pay the
first two or three installments on
the loan, or to pay all or part of
the first year’s taxes and insur¬
ance.
The amount of down payment
and length of the repayment per
iod are matters to be agreed upon
between the veteran and the lend
ing institutions making the loan,
Prior to the action removing the j
controls, veterans least five were cent required down J j
to pay at per
in most cases, and the maximum
loan was usually restricter to 20
or 25 years.
Barrett invited interested
to by the nearest branch ‘
sons come
office of the State Department of
Veterans Service for further in- S
formation and assistance. j
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Fort Valley, Georgia, Thursday, June 4, 1953
Barrett Is Named
Association Head
William K. Barrett, Director
the Georgia State Department of
Veterans Service, has been named
president of the National Associ¬
ation of State Directors of Vet¬
Affairs.
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Barrett’s election took place or
at the national conven
of the Association : n Ok
City, Okla., at which 40
were represented.
Barrett was elevated from the
He bad previously
as Secretary-Treasurer.
Barrett has served four years
Direcor of the Georgia State
of Veterans Service
was recently re-elected to a
four-year term.
His election to this national of¬
is a high tribute to his record
Georgia Director and to his in
in natonal veterans affairs.
OF FORT VALLEY
I Remember
By J. DAWSON KENDRICK
MOORE M ATHEW
This is a tribute from a
to her sainted
Mrs. George H. Mathews k as
to say in her book, ‘Light
Darkness, ” dated Sept. 1,
“No one seeing this lady
her sheltered life in Georgia
the latter helf of the nine¬
century would have dream¬
of the cyclone of suffering that
had passed through in Texas
she, Tripbena Moore Crute
the wife of Dr. William
Mathews.
But that story of tragedy was
indelibly on her mind.
she heard her tell it, and
so impressed was she that
were made at the time,
“Early Days in Georgia Her
was Tryphena, a Bible name
by her parents from Ro¬
16:12 where Paul gives the
of those whom he saluted in
he church at Rome. I
There the original “Tryphena is
as one who “labored in
Lord.” It was a fitting selec¬
because this modern ‘Trvph
was to become one who la
much in the Lord. Tryphena
the first born of many chil¬
that came to the Moore home.
early developed a sense of re
ponsibility as she helped her mo
and father with their heavy
Her father, Mr.
Moore’s desire was to go
Texas and take his entire fam¬
The “Go West Fever” caught
entire family. So they planned
general exodus.
The large Moore party left
Ga., the latter part of
1854 traveling by eara
The party consisted of 15 white
and 72 Negro slaves.
With them they took a large
of Negroes, such as w r!
by every southern family,
were domestic servants,
cobblers, c.Vpenters,
bricklayers, fathers and
with their children, 72 in
On their journey cholera broke
among the Negroes.
Soon the cholera struck the fam
Death and destruction
on the Moore caravan like a
And then came the tragedy of
Typhena saw her strong s
Peach County Gets
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Business Growth
Peach County began 1953 with
a business volume of $680,110 in
January, $739,734 in February, and
$S71,023 in March.
The statistics, just released in
the latest Retail Sales Report of
the Georgia State Chamber of
Commerce, were based on official
Georgia Department of Revenue
sales tax figures. The report re¬
flects total state sales of $788,
'5:5,878 for the first quarter of
he year.
Much favorable comment ha
been received by the State Cham¬
ber upon the introduction of this
new business service, according to
its Executive Vice President, Wal¬
ter Cates.
"Businessmen are finding the
report a valuable indicator of
sales trends and a great help in
drawing comparisons for business
decisions,” Cates said.
He paid tribute to the coopera¬
tion of the State Department of
Revenue in this service and stated
that the report on April sales
would be released later this month
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j Cadet Carter Smisson, Fort Val
i ley, Ga., a student at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, will at¬
tend a four week Air Force ROTC
summer camp at Eglin Air Force
B aKe , Fla., beginning July 20.
The purpose of these summer
camps is to afford the Air Force
ROTC Cadets an opportunity to |
observe a wing base organization
>n operation, and to become fa¬
miliar with the primary weapon
on the Air Force—the airplane.
young husband Samuel Crute and
heir three young boys all stricken
the dreaded disease. The three
die# but their father rallied
and said he was all right. All the
nursing was the task of Typhena
who was fast becoming exhausted.
She saw her mother, father, bro¬
thers, sons and Negro slaves die
like rats.
One cannot visualize the suffer¬
ing and distress which must have
existed under an environment so
cruel and harrowing.
In July 1954, Tryphena and her
weakened husband with their only
daughter a child of one year old
left for Anderson, Texas, three
miles away.
The dangerous effect of cholera
was upon her husband and he died
that day, Feb. 19, 1854. Thus the
Crute family had died of Asiatic
Cholera in ten days.
But alas, measles was going the
and the nursing baby,
weakened by the ordeal through
what her mother had passed, took
the disease and died, This was
the last blow in the amazing chap¬
ter of calamities.
Life began anew for Triphena
Moore Trute after she returned
to Georgia.
In the course of time, Tryphena
Moore Crute changed her name
to Mrs. William Asbury Mathew:
own grandmother of Mrs, A. L
Luce. Sam and Henry Mathews
Author’s note: If you please al
low me the privilege as your an¬
cient scribe to pay this tribute to
my most unforgetable character
This grand old lady of the old
South. Mistress of the home of
Dr. William Asbury Mathews and
all degrees above them.
No relation, though, I affection¬
ately with all my love addressed
her as “Grandma Pheny. ■
Yes, we loved her for the many
spankings she gave me and her
grandson, Frank Mathews, which
we both so justly deserved; and
atfer each spanking she rewarded
us with a kiss. She was from the
old school—Save the rod, spoil the
child. Long ago the prophet Isaiah
recorded this gift of God:
a Beauty for ashes. The oil of
for mourning. The garment of
for the spirit of heaviness.”
was truly verified in Grand¬
Phoney’s life,
BARGAINS IN CLASSIFIEDS
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS
45 To Graduate Here Friday;
Byron Exercises Held Monday
Local Yotilli Is
Short Story
Jack Turner Swan, son of
and Mrs. R. P. Swan, 519
Street, Fort Valley, is a
utor to “Pursuit”, antho'ogv
prose and verse on sale this
at Vanderbilt University and
college book stores.
The 100-page volume was
piled by the Vanderbilt
Calumet. Club, literary sot-buy fo
men, under the guidance of
Davidson, professor of English
nationally known writer, and
ter Sullivan, also a member of
Vanderbilt English department.
The book contains a foreword to
Sulivan, with a chapter from hi;
new novel, and 12 prose
and 17 poems contributed by
derbilt students.
Swan is represented by a
story, “To the Land of Youth
Beauty."
Swan is a 1948 graduate of
Valley High School and
his B. A .degree from
last June. He is now completing
first year in the Vanderbilt
ical School.
As an undergraduate, he
“Chase” campus humor
and contributed a regular
“Present Active,” to the
bilt ALUMNUS A member of
ma Nu social fraternity, he
also president of the Men’s
mural Board, and was a
tor to the 1952 edition of
Funeral Held For
Mrs. G. W.
Funeral services were held a
St. Luke’s Metjaodist Church
Columbus last Monday for ’
G. W. Mathews of that city.
Mrs. Mathews has a son,
W., Jr., who is employed here
1he Blue Bird Body Company.
A. L. Luce, Sr., is a sister to
deceased’s husband and Sam
Henry Mathew's of this city
also related.
Mrs. Mathews was a native
Shellman, Ga., and was the
Miss Weeta Watts. She and
husband moved to Columbus
1928 and had lived there
that date.
She was a member of St.
Church and had been active in
fairs of the church for 25 years
Dr. Leonard Cochran
services for Mrs. Mathews
interment was in Parkhill
tery.
Survivors include her
one son, George W., Jr., one
ghter, Mrs. Porter G. Pease,
sister, Miss Mildred E.
two brothers, John Norman
of Shellman, and William H.
of Houston, Texas, and two
children, Kathleen G. and
W. Pease.
j. W. Murphy Sees
Atomic Explosion
DESERT ROCK, NEV. — Sgt
Joh W. Murphy, son of Mrs. D
J. Murphy, Anderson Ave., Fori
Valley, Georgia, witnessed the firs'
testfiring of an atomic shell from
the Army’s giant cannon at Cam;
Desert Rock, Nev., this week.
He was one of nearly 3,000 of¬
ficers and enlisted men, most of
them artillerymen, who crouched
behind revetments 4,500 yards
from ground zero as scientists fir¬
ed the huge 280 mm artillery piec¬
es by electrical control from a
tower ten miles away,
A guided missile specialist in
1st Guided Missile Brigade a f
B ass, Texas, Murphy enter¬
the Army in 1940. Among his
are the Good Conduct
European-African-Middle
Theater Ribbon with five
stars and the American
Service Ribbon.
Mrs. J. C. Champion is visiting
and relatives in Fort Val¬
She will return to her home
Charlotte, N. C., this week.
G. II. Butler Bites
Are Held Here
Funeral services were hold here
last week for G. H. Butler, 08, a
a lifelong resident of Peach County
Mr. Butler died on May 20 at
Emory University in Atlanta af
‘er an extended illness.
He was a farmer, a member of
he Peach County Board of Tax
Assessors, and chairman of the
Joard of PMA Commissioners.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. G. N. Rainey and the Rev.
David Cripps of Wayerpss at the
Tort Valley Methodist Church.
Toward Branan, of Macon, sang.
Survivors include his widow, one
laughter, Mrs. Martin E. Strick
len of Umatilla, Fla., three broters
Griffith and W. E. Butler of Fort
Valley and C. F. Butler of Junction
City, and several nieces and nep
lews.
Pallbearers were F. B. Little,
Randolph Walker Bass Vinson,
Paul Newell, R. P. Swan, and Her¬
bert Beeland. Interment was in
Oaklawn Cemetery.
Rooks Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Study Periods Set
By I .ocal Baptists
The '•'meree'ation of *he Fort
Valley Baptist Church will engage
upon a series of study periods at
the mid-week prayer services, be¬
ginning on Wednesday, June 10,
at 8 o'clock p. m. This series of
discussions will be concerned with
a detailed study of the “Ten Com
mahajpents.”
Th| pastor, the Rev. Norman E.
Hodges, who will conduct these
discussions^ encourages every
her of tiie church as well as visit
ing friends, to be in attendance
at each of these discussions.
“The way to get the most out
of such a study is to attend every
sevice and hear every discussion.'
suggests the Rev. Hodges. “The
Ten Commandments hava a rele¬
vance to every age and generation;
they are God’s word to God’s peo¬
ple. Many of them are prohibitive,
and are stated negatively, yet
they have postive implications in
every case. This is a day of indi¬
vidualism of various sorts. Our
generaton needs a profounder
sense of divine supremacy and
human obligation. This is express¬
ed in the Ten Commandmens.
On the first Wednesday evening
of this study, June 10, the discuss¬
ion will be an introductory one.
Then the ucceeding Wednesday
evenings will be used for the study
proper, taking ne commandment
each night.
Everyone is cordially invited to
participate in all of these dis
cussions.
Baptist Youth To
Organize Sunday
Next Sunday, June 7, will mark
the beginning of a Young Peoples
Department for the Sunday Schoo’
of the Fort Valley Baptist Church
4.t 9:45 a. m., the regular time
for Sunday School assembly, all
young persons, ages 17 through
24 (unmarried), will assemble in
the main auditorium for the for¬
mation of this department.
Following the departmental as -1
sembly, conducted by the pastor,
the young ladies will form a class
to be taught by Mrs. Norman E.
Hodges and the young men will
form a class to be taught by Mr.
Murray Anderson. These classes
will meet in the small rooms on
ither side of the vestibule at the
entrance to the auditorium.
Letters are being sent this week
to all young people now on the
records of the Baptist Church.
However, all others who are in¬
terested in this "'“Dartment are
invited to be present to be en¬
rolled.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hinton are
occupying their new home on Mon
trose Street.
$3.00 Per Year—In Advance
Members of the Byron High
School graduating class last Mon¬
day night received their diplomas
in exercises held in the Byron
school auditorium.
The Rev. J. Gorham Garrison,
Ochlochnee, delivered the main ad¬
dress to the graduating group.
Sarah Shelley delivered the val¬
edictory address w h il e other
awards were made during the ex¬
ercises.
James Hudson, Sylvia Smith and
Ramona Ross were other honor .
graduates while Martha Mills and
Gloria Vines were awarded certif¬
icates for outstanding work in
home economics. A best typist
award went to Sarah Shelley while
the current affairs medal was pre¬
sented to Eddie Cane .The Seniors
also gave $25 to Mrs. Williams,
lunchroom supervisor, in appre¬
ciation of her services and devo
tion to her work.
The graduate list included Sa¬
rah Shelley, James Hudson, Syl¬
via Smith, Ramona Ross, Grady
Bassett, Jr., Anthony Calhoun,
George Cline, Mary Crosby, Betty
Jean Davis, Jo Ann Goetz, William
Gatliff, Jr., Wilbur Griffin, Glen
Hardison, Betty Ruth Howard,
Louise Herndon, Rudolph Herndon,
Jeannie Tucker, Gloria Vines, and
Ed Vinson.
The Rev. Harry Smith, secretary
of the Mercer University Alumni
Association, gave the invocation
while the Rev. Reese Griffin, pas¬
tor of the Byron Methodist Chuheh,
gave, the benediction.
The Rev. E M. Clapp, pastor
of the Missionary Baptist Church
in the Avondale community, pre¬
sented each member of the class
with a Bible.
State College Plans
; Com
men cemen t
Dr. C. V. Troup, president of
the Fort Valley State oCllege, an
nounced last week that plans for
the Annual Commencement activ
ities at the college have been com
pleted. Saturday, June 6, at 5:30
P. M. th Annual Alumni Banquet
will be held during which time it
is expected to have some of the
graduates of ’03, ’13, ’23, ’33, and
’43 present. The Alumne Meeting
will get underway Sunday, June
7, in Room 21 of the Academic
Building with Stanley E. Rutland
President of the National Alumni
Association presiding.
The Baccalaureate Exercises will
be held Sunday, June 7, 4:30 P.M.
in the college auditorium. The
sermon will be delivered by Dr.
Joseph W. Nicholson, Minister of
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, St.
Louis, Missouj'i.
Dr. Robert P. Daniel, president
of Virginia State College at Pet
•rsburg, Virginia, will deliver the
Commencement Address on Mon¬
day, June 8, 10:30 A.M.‘Dr. Dan¬
iel received the AB degree from
Viriginia Union University; the
A. M. Degree from Columbia Uni¬
versity; the Ph. D from Columbia
University and the LL D from
Virginia Union University and
Morris Brown College.
Dr. W. W. E. Blanchet, Admin¬
istrative Dean of the college said
that approximately 95 would be
awarded degrees by the President.
Georgia P-TA Has
Large Membership
The Ninth District of the Geor¬
gia P-TA ended the year with
9,666 members in 52 units, ac¬
cording to the report of Mrs. H.
M. Kandel, state president. Mrs.
Roy Prosser qf Jackson is district
The district includes the
of Bibb. Butts, Crawford.
Henry, Jones, Lamar, Monroe,
Peach, Pike, Spalding, and up
Largest membership in the dis
was that of the Miller Jr. I
High P-TA, which has 705 mem- j
hers. Life memberships in this
listed for this year were
of Mrs. Roy Prosser, Dr.
Newton, and Mrs. Howard
Doyle. ;
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Forty-five seniors of the Fort
Valley High school will march
down the aisle tomorrow night
and receive their diplomas in ex¬
ercises to be held in the high
scohol auditorium at 8 o’clock.
Sylvia Scarborough will deliver
the valedictory address during the
exercises while Ethelyene Joyner
will give the salutatory.
Mary Mathews and Peggy Sul¬
livan will each give readings.
M. Felton Hatcher, Jr., will de¬
liver the diplomas to the members
of the graduating class.
The program for the evening
will be: Processional, “Pomp and
Circumsanee”; Invocation, Rev. G.
N. Rainey; Salutatory, Ethelyne
Joyner; Reading, from “The Pro¬
phet”, Mary Mathews; Reading,
“A Tuft of Flowers”, Peggy Sul¬
livan; Valedictory, Sylvia Scar¬
borough; Delivery of Diplomas, M.
Felton Hatcher, Jr.; Alma Mater,
Senior Class; Benediction, Rev.
N. E. Hodges; Recessional.
Members of the graduating class
include (girls):
Patricia Marie Anthoine, Mary
Faye Crowe, Wilma JoAnoe Crowe,
Ann Pearson Dasher, Nancy Jane
Doles, Joyce Virginia Dyer, Ger
adilne Louise Edwards, Ruth Eng¬
lish, Mary Katherine Fagan, Fran¬
ces Kay Fuller, Margaret Plant
Hatcher, Henrietta Hiley, Harriet
Jackson, Martha Ethelyne Joyner,
Zadie Catherine Lawhorn, Virginia
Leaptrot, Betty Jean Mason.
v,i zabeth Gibson Mathews, Mary
Evelyn Mathews, Doris Laverne
Middlebrooks, Patricia Anne Mid
dlebrooks, Frances Annette Patter¬
son, Reba Katherine Pritchett,
Jean Saunders, Sylvia Arlene Scar¬
borough, Shirly Allison Shipp,
Doris Elizabeth Smith, Martha
Elaine Smith, Helen LeAnn Spur
lock, Peggy Joyce Sullivan, Reba
Sutton. Georgia Walton, Nita
Claire Young.
Boys: Wesley Noble Barfield,
Freddie Eugene Barnes, Larry Na-.
thuniel Dyes, Daniel Ephraim Fen
neil, Sinclair Alfred Frederick, Jr.,.
Ralph Walter Fuller, Jr., Bobby
Gene Harper, Leroy Moody, Jr.,
Charles Leighton Shepard, III,
Robert Patterson Swan, Jr., Gale
Eugene Thomson, Dedrick Wat
kins, Jr.
Horton Greene On
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ram inir O our
reservist Horton J. Greene, 34, of
Fort Valley, Ga., reported here
for two weeks of training with the
Atlantic Fleet’s Troop Training
Unit.
Mr. Greene, a lieutenant colonel
in the Marine Corps Reserve, has
been enrolled in the amphibious
.staff planning course, He will
study all the steps necessary in
staging an amphibious landing.
A veteran Marine Corps officer,
Lieutenant Colonel Greene enter¬
'd the Marine Corps in May of
1941. During World War II he
in London, England and as
Commanding Officer of the Marine
Detachment aboard the USS Day
ton.
A graduate of the University of
class of ’36, he is a lum¬
berman for the W. F. Bradley
Colonel Greene is married to tha
Dorothy Douglas. They
six children, Lucille 7, Hugh
Stephen 4, Barbara 3, Mark
and Rebora 1.
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McLane Wins
May Contest.. ....
Birmingham, Ala.—A Peach Co¬
woman is a winner in the
“Our Women Speak” contest
the Progressive Farmer, the
favorite farm-and-home
She is Mrs. Robert B.
of Route 2, Fort Valley.
Her suggestion follows: “I use
350-degree oven when I brown
for a caramel cake. I find
it will not burn at that tem
nor do I have to stir it.”
“Our Women Speak” is a mon¬
column devoted to the ex
of household ideas among
of The Progressive Far-