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Volume LXV, Number Twenty-Eight
Peachland
journal
By Daniel K. Grahl
ALL THE TIME I THOUGHT A
REDUCTION WAS COMING! .
All my god Republican friends
kept assuring me last fall that
taxes were coming down, govern¬
ment expenses were coming down,
etc., ad infinitum.
I didn’t argue with them too
for much for to tell the truth, I
kept hoping they were telling the
^ MPl | truth and that
^smy expenses,
■i I | along with theirs,
f. Iwere . going to
! f| come down.
} I When I paid
i 1 the post office
& 1 box rent the oth
K er day it had
I suddenly been in¬
creased another 75c per quarter!
I agree that something should be
done to get the P. 0. out of the
red but putting mail in boxes
doesn’t cost anymore today than
it did yesterday so far as I know.
AND THE RAINS CAME!
Farmers in this area as well as
others over Georgia are fast get¬
ting a sufficiency of rain. The boll
weevil is probably shouting with
glee and making great inroads on
all the cotton he can get his hands
on.
Drinking coffee the other morn¬
ing we had the rain under dis¬
cussion for a few minutes and
most of us agreed that it had
rained enough for awhile.
One of the commentators came
MS with this observation though,
and it is prohaly understandable.
“Everyone has enough rain ex¬
cept the boys who work at Wool
flok,” he said. “When they get
up in the morning and see it rain¬
ing in the summer time they have
g big smile on their face.”
He had reference, of course, to
the fact that the more inroads
the boll weevil made the mor in¬
secticide the company sold.
It was said all in fun, however.
THIS ONE IS A WINNER!
Way back in early May I went
fishing with my neighbor Frank
McDaniel and we carried some live
bait with us to use in trying to
entice the bass to bite.
I had some minnows I had caught
while Frank had a few Baltimore
minnows left over from a pre
vious trip. We did not use all of
the minnows and brought what
was left back with us.
There was only one Baltimore
left and Frank just left him in
the minnow bucket with the ones
I had left. I changed the water
they were in several times during
the next few days but by the end
of the week all of them had died
with the exception of the Balti
more.
New, being occupied with many
other things and having little time
for fishing, I put the minnow buck
et, with the one Baltimore in it, '
up on a shelf in the garage and
promptly forgot him.
Last Firday afternoon I sudden¬
ly for some reason thought about
the bucket and the lone fish. When
I looked in the water there was
the Baltimore swimming around
near the top, apparently hungry I
and thirsty.
Planning to change the water ■
when I went bac khome that night 1
I dropped a little piece of bread ,
in the water and went about my j
business. I didn’t get around to
looking at him again until Satur
day and when I loked there was
the fish dead on top of the water.
The thing that is puzzling me
now is whether the fish died of
overeating or of over-attention!
DOTS AND DASHES
Sooey, the ultra prolific cat next
door at Harrison’s Grocery, last
week gave birth to five more kit
tens . . . That is some eat! . ’ j
Most everybody on this end of I
Main Street go to three or four j
places when they get too hot . . j
They go to eithe Avera’s, Arm-1
strong’s Cleve’s, Taylor’s, or the j
pool room . . . All those places |
hae air conditioning ... We have)
air conditioning at our place, too
. . It’s conditioned to about 140
.
degrees in the breezy spots.
ADVERTISING’ PAYS—TRY ITU
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Rules For Polio
With newspapers carrying items about polio at¬
tacks in nearby states and the use of gamma globu¬
lin as a preventive in these areas in mind. Dr. Frank
Vinson brought to the Leader-Tribune a small bro¬
chure he had received from the National Infantile
Paralysis Foundation about this preventive.
On the back of the brochure is a list of rules to
use in case the gamma globin is not available. We be¬
lieve them of sufficient importance to reprint those
rules in this issue of the Leader-Tribune.
ti Pay attention to good health rules and precautions
as recommended by health autorities and the Na¬
tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis:
1. Don’t let children mix with new groups.
2. Or get overtired .3
3. Or get chilled
4. But DO keep them clean
And consult your doctor if these symptoms ap¬
pear: headache, fever, sore throat, upset stomach,
stiff neck or back. ff
Can Your Chicken Beat This?
Bill’s Hen Goes “Double or Nothing ft
Double or nothing!
That must be what one of
Bateman’s hens was thinking the
other day when she laid an
Whether she was thinking that
or not she certainly laid two eggs
at one time. The egg, in its orig
inal form, weighed a total of 5
and one half ounces and was near
ly two and one half inches in
diameter.
When it was bi’oken open, lo
and behold, there was another egg,
complete with shell, inside the
Theatre Employees
To Enjoy Picnic
Employees of the local Peach and
No. 7 Theatres and their families
will attend the fourth annual Mar¬
tin and Thompson Employees’ Pic¬
nic to be held at Ragan’s Park,
Macon, Georgia, on Thursday, July
16, according to John Harvard,
manager of the local theatres. All
the facilities of Ragan’s popular
'ummer amusement center of Mid
** Georgia, have bee* swerved
'or the entire day by Martin and
Thompson. Among the poular re
■reational sports at Ragan’s are
swimming, Dancing, Skating,
Rides, etc., providing activities for
he youngest to the oldest. A real
-outhern picnic dinner will be
served at the noon hour.
The regular afternoon matinees
in all Martin & Thompson Theatres
have been cancelled for the pic
nie, and the Management requests
that their patrons cooperate on
this one occasion during the en¬
tire year when the local theatres
will not be operating on schedule
in the afternoon only, so that the
empoyees and their families may
enjoy the good American custom
of holding a picnic. The theatres
will be open for the regular even
ing shows, so if you had planned
to .ttend the matinee at the Peach
Theatre on the picnic day, Manager
Harvard requests that you please
change it to the evening show
j„ order that the employees who
serve you every day during the
year may be able to enjoy an out
ing.
Fort Valley Awarded
National Traffic Honor
The city of Fort Valley was one
of only 10 over the entire state
which made the National Traffic
Safety Contest honor roll in 1952
according to information released
by the national group this week, j
j t waR tbe secon d consecutive
year that the city has officially
made the honor roll although rec- i
ords reveal that there has been
no traffic fatality within the cor
porate limits of the city during
the entire five and one half years
of the present administration and
the final two ycarg 0 f tbe j m _
jj ate j y preceding administra
tion.
Mayor T. A. McCord told the
Leader-Tribune that he is proud of
the record the people of this city
have made in traffic safety during
his two terms of office. He added
that the safety of the community
is of prime importance to the ad
ministration.
Fort Valley, Georgia, July 9, 1953
(first one! Both eggs had a yolk
and a white and appeared entire
ly normal except that one of them
was extra big and the other was
a little on the small size,
(
Bill, who has about 1,500 chiek
ens on his farm, said the same
thing happened once before to an
[other of his hens,
Junior, the printer’s devil, says
for sure that the hickens have
been laying eggs to the tune of
the radio program, “Double or
Nothing”.
j Forestry Winners
To Be Chosen
A special three-man committee
began a tour of the state July 7
to select winners of the co-opera¬
tive Future Farmers of America
forestry program, according to an
announcement by T G. Walters,
state supervisor of vocational ag¬
riculture.
Members of the committee will
be Robert N. Hoskins, industrial
forester for the Seaboard Airline
^•ilroad; M. E. Coleman, educa¬
tional director of the American
Turpentine Farmers Association,
| and T - E - Brown - executive secre
ter Y the Georgia Future Farm
ers of America. They will inspect
forestry programs undertaken in
the state by farm boys enrolled in
vocational agriculture training.
The winners of the program will
be presented recognition awards at
the state convention in Covington
on August 10, and the state win
er will represent Georgia at the
annual national convention of the
Future Farmers of America in
1 Kansas City, Mo., later in the
Y ear -
j Donors to the forestry program
j j n (] eorg ; a are the Elberta Box
an<} Crate Company ’ of Bainbridge- ’
‘ ea ’’ ar ir jln< ai roa ’ an
the St. Mary ^ s Kraft Corporation
of St. Mary’s. ^
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS
In fact,” Mayor McCord said,
“during the past five and one half
years there has been no motor
accidents within the city limits
with damage more than $200.”
Police Chief Grady Cochran,
proudly announcing that Fort Val-j
ley the honor roll, said 1
was on
that he wanted to thank all of :
the people of the community for!
making the fine record possible.)
“We want to make it three years ;
in a row,” Cochran said, “and the
.way we can do it is for the
to continue to cooperate by
safe driving and safe walking.”
The plaque given to the city by
National Group reads, ‘Na
Traffic Safety Contest Hon
Roll. In recognition of its (Fort
accomplishment in com-1
the year (1952) without a
motor vehicle accident within
municipal limits. National
Safety Council.”
■ Property Appraiser Begins Work As City
Opens Tax Equalization Drive In Fort Valley
THE SJX LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH » V
* ■■
UNITED STATES 1951
DISEASES OF THE HEART i
t BLOOD VESSELS 1WW .! 703,000
CANCER Hi 217,000
ACCIDENTS
PNEUMONIA DISEASES OF THE HEART ^
A BL000 VESSELS '
CAUSE
lOSERCULOSIS 30,000
DIABETES 23,000 ALL
OF U.S. DEATHS
uttil available Hprai from tut Hotioul OfSco of VI1M SUtlitiet
As this chart shows clearly, dis¬
eases of the heart and circulation
lead all others as a cause of death
In the United States. They are re¬
sponsible each year for more deaths
than the next five most Important
causes of death combined. One type
of blood vessel disease alone, hard¬
ening of the arteries, causes more
deaths annually than cancer.
1 Although these widespread dis¬
orders strike most often in the later
years of life, there is no age group
that is exempt. Of the approximately
HISTORY OF FORT VALLEY
As I Remember
By J. DAWSON KENDRICK
An Open Letter
We are having a hectic time try¬
ing to please everyone in writing
our columns on Fort Valley. Some
say the Indians gave it the name
of Fox Valley, while others claim
that the fox hun¬
ters within their
camp gave it the A
common name of
Fox Valley. We B
all agree that na¬
ture endowed it 1
with wonderful
fox huntingl %
grounds. *
History has given it a great and
rich heritage, and man has helped
to make it an ideal place in which
to live.
There are many so-called auth¬
orities in the Valley of Peach and
it is difficult to get any two of
them to agree completely on just
what constitutes Fort Valley prop
er.
There are the ones who are
scrupulously accurate, always cor¬
rect . who contend that true Fort
Va!le y centered at the old church)
pond. Then, there are the Valley
ans who insist that the Valley
proper centered only from the old
public well in the Fincher Memor¬
ial Park and therefore could not
have a starting point at any other
place. And then there are thosd
who say that the real Fort Valley
centered at Anthoine’s Machine
Shop. Tom Anthoine proper says
that he was not born until 1885
and Mr. Everett settled’ the town
in 1820, so he will let the self
appointed street committee which
emfbraces quite an organization
should be an authority. Geo
graphically speaking Fort Valley
lies in the central part of the state
of Georgia. The Atlantic Ocean
and South Carolina bounds Geor
gia on the east, Florida on the
south. Alabama and Florida on the
Best Peach Season In Many Years
Draws To A Close; Over 3,COO Cars
The 1953 peach season
week draws to a close in the Fort
Valley area and most of the plan- \
and brokers have intimated!
that it has been one of the best
all-around seasons in the history
of the peach business.
All during this final week the
market remained steady with El
bertas of two inches or better
$3.50-3.75 on the local
10,000,000 Americans who suffer
from some form of heart disease, an
estimated 500,000 are children of
school age.
The American Heart Association
and its affiliates are attacking the
heart diseases through research, ed¬
ucation and community heart pro¬
grams. A contribution to the Heart
Fund will help support this nation¬
wide fight against the most chal¬ i
lenging health problem confronting
the American .itople.
west, Tennessee and North Caro¬
lina on the north of Georgia.
In addition to the continuing
controversy on just how Fort Val¬
ley got its name and the discus¬
sion on where the real Fort Val¬
ley centered, the local experts dif¬
fer on just what is up the Val
ey and down the Valley. They
a do agree that traveling up you
are traveling north and that trav
eling in the opposite direction you
are going south. I
Their theory is based on the fact
on the map north is at the top
south is at the bottom. Fort Valley
is a land of natural wonders, gra¬
cious people and home, planta¬
tions and peach orchards and a
most beautiful spot to behold. It
is a place of historical significance
but with a difference.
Fort Valley and Peach County
was settled largely by the Carol¬
inians. The truth is North and
South Carolina lost a lot of mighty
good citizens when that crowd left
the Carolina states to settle in
the west part of old Houston Coun
ty. Now Peach County, since Jan.
1st 1925. Virginia, to a certain ex¬
tent, helped us out when they gath¬
ered a group of her fellow aristo¬
crats and set off on an expedition
to what afterwards became the
peach paradise of the world. Their
descendants today are with us and ;
seem to have retained the best 1
qualities of all their forebears.
The history or Fort Valley is
an interesting one. It is also a
volumnous one ,and not one to be
related in full here.
Distinguished Americans have
come from this land of ours, call¬
ed at one time Fox Valley, then
later Fort Valley — James A. Ew
erett was conceded to be the rich¬
est man in the state at the time
of his death in 1848.
This wealth he made here by
(Continued on page 8)
Markets in the north and
midwest practically all remained
steady,
7 hrough last , weekend the num- j
1
her of cars of peaches to roll by j
rail from Georgia orchards reach
ed 1,640 and the total earlots ship- !
ped by truck reached the figure
of 1,480. Either one of the two
methods of shipping far surpassed
the total of both methods in
m FREEDOM
$3.00 Per Year—In Advance
Wilson Latson has been retained by the mayor and
city council for the purpose of making a complete survey
of all the taxable property within the city limits. His ap¬
praisal of the property will be turned over to a three-man
committee for tax assessment purposes.
The three man committee, appointed several months
ago by Mayor McCord and city council, includes Lewis
Armstrong, T. F. Flournoy, and H. T. Wilder.
Bible
To Start
The Daily Vacation Bible School
be held at the Methodist Church
begin July 16 and will last
week through July 24th.
It has been announced by Mrs.
L. Luce, Jr., Director of the
that four-year-old children
be admitted. However, only
many as eighteen of that age
enter the school. For that
those parents of four-year
children who would like to
them enter the school will
as soon as possible register
names for entrance.
The parents and others of all
who are interested
invited to attend the Sound
color Motion Picture, entitled
Flame”, and which deals
Korea’s untold Story, which
he presented the evening of.
July 22, at the Metho-!
Church. j
"The Flame” is a sequel to “3*’th
which made motion pic- j
history, and shows Korea ac- i
at war and, in griping front
combat scenes and behind the 1
devastation reports, brings
war directly home where all
witness lying in the its suffering and trag- j j
wake.
Leading roles in “The Flame”,
that played by Pierce, nar
are those of Georgia Lee
Robert Clarke, stars of Hoi
screen and television. Eva
and Sylvia Ross have sup
roles.
The picture is fifty minutes in
and is shown free of charge,
j s shown in connection with
he Vacation Bible School because
theme of the 1953 Bible School
s “Korea”,
_
Buchaiman
Ordained
The Rev. Anderson Buchanan
.
ordained as minister and pas
of the Presbyterian Church
in a service Sunday evening
eight o’clack at the Church
was directed by Dr. Grady
pastor of the First Pres
Church, Macon.
The message of the service was
by the Rev. Leroy Se
of the Warner Robins Pres
rian Church. Ilis theme was
on the words of Paul, “I am
ashamed of the Gospel of
for it is power of God unto
The charge to the congregation
given by Elder N. D. Mal
Jr>> of Moultr i e Presbyterian
Macon, the Rev. R. L. For
Jr., of Moultrie Presbytreian
gave the charge to the
Congregational singing was a
of the program. Members
other denominations of the city
present.
The Rev. Mr. Buchanan has mov¬
to Fort Valley and is residing
the manse on Central Avenue.
is being accorded a cordial wel¬
into the religious life of the
and its other worthwhile in¬
News
Next Sunday morning, Sunday
will meet at 10:00 a. m.,
the Sunday morning worship
will begin at 11:00 a. m.
the regular worship service the
Supper will be observed af
a short Communion Meditation
the minister. The Presbyterian j
Fellowship will meet at 7
m.
The congregation is reminded to
themselves in mind and
during the week to receive
communion of the Lord’s Sup
. You are never » stranger in
House.
Latson, according to the pro¬
gram laid out by officials, will in¬
spect each dwelling and each busi¬
ness building personally and make
his appraisal from first hand in¬
Officials pointed out,
however, that the inspector would
not enter any dwelling or other
for inspection purposes
without first securing the approv¬
al of the owner or occupant.
“In cases where the occupants
not desire that Mr. Latson make
personal inspection,’ it was
out by Mayor McCord, the
inspector will have to use his own
as to the value of the
and the three tax asses¬
will have to use their judg¬
as to the actual value of the
The committee will of
have to assess the prop¬
at a value designed to in¬
adequate taxation.”
The mayor also pointed out that
procedure for appealing a tax
will be the same as in
past. The appeal can be made
to the three man committee
if the property owner is then
not satisfied he may appeal it to
mayor and city council. In
event this appeal does not
the owner he may then
to the arbitration board as
by law.
Plans are being completed for
property survey and the new
who will use generally
accepted methods of professional
appraisers, is already at work on
his new job.
in addition to appraising prop
erty, Latson has been sworn in as
a city marshal and will have the
duties of Building, Fire, Sanita
and Electrical inspector. He
is a regular employee of the city,
by the mayor and council,
In announcing Latson’s appoint¬
this week Mayor McCord rei¬
his statements of several
weeks ago when the three-man
was announced. His
are reprinted below.
“The mayor and city council are
to begin at once on a tax equiiiza
program for the city,” Mayor
said. “A committee of
men has been selected to
on the board. The purpose
this equalization is not to in
the tax income of our city
the purpose is to see that
piece of property is returned
a fair evaluation. To this end,
appraisal of each piece of prop¬
wil be made. A return of 35
shall be made on each ap¬
Our present rate of taxation
20 mills and has given a re
sufficient to operate the city.
council is only interested in
income for operations.
the purpose of the un
is to see that each per¬
returns his fair share for tax¬
“It is hoped that by a strict ap¬
of fair evluation we
be able to reduce our pres
miilage and yet receive the
amount of tax income.
“The taxpayer is not concerned
valuation but is concerned
the actual dollar of tax. We
that by fair evaluation the
who has been making a
return will not have
increase in taxes but possibly
reduction in actual dollars paid.’
<< The city requests the
coopera
of all property owners so that
council may feel that they are
doing an honest job in tax¬
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