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A Prize-Winning
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1954
S^Onatv^F Better Contests Newspajer
Volume XLVI, Number 28
feackland
Journal
By Daniel K. Grahl
WE CHANGED OUR MIND
Last week we wrote a column
about the trial of the Rev. Blakp
Craft by the North Georgia Con
ference of the Methodist Church.
We still feel that the column is
as good as any we have ever writ¬
ten (if that means anything) but
after deliberating about it we have
almost regretfully put it aside.
We decided that
the Methodist
[ | Church has meant
' too much to us
I and to the gener
■. al public to be
critisizing it with
||s o u t knowing
H more than we
B know about the
entire situation.
Suffice it to say, we feel at the
present time that the trial judges
and other officials erred when they
refused to let the Rev. Craft’s
family and the press and radio
attend the trial. As to his guilt,
well, that’s another question. We
don’t know and don’t profess to
know but we do feel that some of
the basic freedoms of an American
citizen were violated when entr
ance was denied to the accused’s
family and to the press and radio.
Those things don’t help the cause
of freedom, religion, or democracy.
It may have been a “family” af
fair within the church but at the
same time the Methodist Church
stands before two bars of judg
ment-one Heavenly bar and one
human bar. The human bar, of
course, is far less right than the
Heavenly one but whether or not
they want it or like it the human
bar has a great deal to do wjh
the success of the Church, and that
goes for all denominations under
like conditions.
We hope with all our heart that
the church did not err in its judg¬
ment and sentence of the Rev.
Craft - and we sincerely hope that
such a situation does not ever arise
again.
THE POLITICAL POT BOILS
I-ast Saturday four of the major
candidates for governor fired their
opening guns at rallies held in four
South Georgia cities.
Lt. Gov. Marvin Griffin opened
with what he called the largest
crowd he had ever seen at a poli¬
tical rally. M. E. Thompson claim¬
ed just as many or more came to
hear him open and Fred Hand
added his claim to crowd
ff
■d up hii a
eeae< , l( “nail hides tc
homo*
■e. A CDS lOOi
,
e oth * ait ert ■eauv
o beat him. Fred Hand
had Roy Harris.
Charlie Go wen opened in b* s
home town with the kind of speech
expected from him except that he
tore into Thompson.
The refrain from practically all
of them is the same as in past
years. They argue with each other
about segregation and the county
unit system. Actually, there’s not
a tremendous amount any of them
can do about either of the sub
jects.
The barbecue and the brunswick
stew was plentiful at the rally we
attended and we presume it was
the same at the others. They are
trademarks of Georgia politics.
The pot begins to boil and we
are sure that the men will be
separated from the boys within the
next 45 days.
BLOSSOMS FROM THE
MAIN STEM
Ole, Peachtree Pete told us this
week that he has gone into mourn
mg* . . . . For Doc Weinberg' r,
because he’s leaving the Peach
Capitol of the world . . . . Tne
peach growers will probably join
in the mourning .... Eddie Mer
ritt dropped by the other day to
tell us that Coach Bill Murray and
his family dropped by to see him
last Sunda-y . . . Murray is the
head knocker of the Duke Uni
ver Blue Devils football team ....
Eddie is scheduled to enter the
North Carolina school in Septem
ber to study and play football for
them, . _ We’re still trying to
figure out why the present city
administration changed back and
authorizes U-turns at the depot
(Continued on page 8)
geabetr ®rttmne
Peanut Remains -
Farm Bureau
Georgia Farm Bureau leaders
have won a tantamount victory in
*be House when that body by an
unrecorded vote of 159 to 121, re
i ected an amendment of Represen
tative Varsell. Republican of Illi¬
nois, to strike peanuts from the
basic commodity list. The a-mend
ment, had it been successful, would
have placed peanuts in the design
ated non-basic commodity group,
and the Secretary of Agriculture
would have automatically set the
support price at a level ranging
from 75 to 90 ■ of parity in lieu
of the present 90% mandatary
level.
H. L. Wingate in Washington at
tending an important strategy ses _
sion to kill the amendment, re¬
ported. “The problem that the conV
mittee was worried about was trv
ing to get somehing into the agri
cultural bill that could block the
peanut users in their fight to take
peanuts off the basic commodity
list.” The farm leader reported
later, “We have agreed in our
strategy meeting of producers
from the peanut producing areas,
and our friends to recommend to
the House Agricultural Committee
that they write into the Commodity
Committee bill provisions to low
er the minimum acreage by 5% in
1955, and if that’s not sufficient
4o lower 4 to 5% the following
y ear t0 balance supply with de
mand and maintain supports at a
minimum of 90 % of parity.”
Wingate added, “Supplies have
been running above demand for
“bout two years. We have lost
some money. Farmers have voted
by 94%, in favor of quotas with
90'% supports for two years (last
It's nothing but right that
peanuts continue to be supported
at tbe 90% level. Rather than
l° ose the program we preferred to
take a gradual reduction in acre
age until we reach the point that
the supply will be in line with
demand.”
Present national allotment is 1,-
610,000 acreas. Losses in the pea¬
nut program since 1942 has am
mounted to approximately $120,
000,000, the 1953 in Georgia was
in value in excess of $60,000,000.
Wingate commended the action
taken by the American Farm
Bureau Federation urging all „
Congressmen to maintain peanuts
as a basic commodity, ‘We really
needed this support”, W ingate
said. “We also appreciate the full
support given us by our entire
Co ional delegation.”
\ Con •O CtlOIl
The June 10 issue of the Leade
Tribune erroneously reported
baby daughter born to Mr. ar
icis Williams on May 1
as be’ the daughter of M . Hoi
en Houser Woodall of Griffin.
, The Leader-Tribune regrets the
mechanical room error and is hap¬
py to get little Miss Williams into
y, e! . pl0 per family circle,
A Brief Of Dr. 18 Years Of Peach Work
WM J. WILSON
In January 1937 a young m»n
came to Fort Valley. He was what
locals called a queer duck, because
if he had nothing to say, he said
That is not typical of
Georgians> they flap the ir gums
eyen they have nothing
j n p ar t; cu ] ar to talk about. This
Pennsylvania Dutchman” came on
wFl «t has turned out to be an
ep j c m j ss j oni to breed and select
new p,ig-h colored, good-eating vari
ties of peaches. Up to the time of
his coming, we shipped Mayflow
er, Uneeda and other such pea<ches
into markets, gave everyone a
good bellyache who ate them, then
wondertd why the market would
drop as much as fifty cents a day
for three or four days, while the
victims were recuperating and
never reach starting prices again
for the whole season.
Dr. M. A. Blake, wa“s doing
some breeding work at the New
Jersey Experiment Station at this
time, but when these Jersey vari
eties came south they grew long
tips anddeveloped other undesir
qualities. Dr. Weinberger brought
to Fort Valley seeds from crosses
he had made at Beltsville. From
these seeds came Dixired and
Dixie Gem. These two varieties
quickly made it unprofitable to
Fort Valley, Georgia, July IS, 1954
Jr
dasic Crop As
Of Hard Fight
No 11 a. in.
At Presbvterian
Next Sunday, July IS there will
n °f be a worship service at
A.M. at the Fort Valley
terian Church. The minister
be oa vacation and there will be
no services during his vacation
because the sanctuary is being re
modeled. However Sunday School
will begin at 10:00 A. M. next
Sunday and will be held each Sun¬
day during the ministers vacation.
Our next regular worship ser
v ' ce wdl be held on August 22 at
11:00 A. M. At which time it is
hoped that the sanctuary will be
completely remodeled.
Fuller'll A Held For
|ollll G. Pctldcr .
^ ' une! * aI services were held last
Saturday , afternoon at f °ur o’clock
the For t 'alley Baptist Church
p 1 ° r <)n cn er ’ **’ w 0
5 ‘
A native of Bibb County, Mr.
has been living in Fort Val"
V a ' nd Peach County for a mini
y eals - He was employed by
®* ue ®’ rd ® ody Company.
Elder B. T. Young and Elder
Darity officiated at the ser
and interment was in Oak
cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, the
Miss Clara Parker; two
Mrs. Carl Collier and
Curtis Williams of Fort Val
three sons, Clyde, Grady and
all of Fort Valley; two
Mrs. Lilia Sandefur, Rich
and Mrs. Winona Crawley,
Valley: one brother, Horace
of Fort Valley; and seve
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Graham Lowe,
Ya-nghn, J. C. Parker, Bill
Sol Vining, and Milton Bo
Rooks Funeral Home of Fort
was in charge of arrange¬
Merchants
“ r' Sales Now
Three of Fort Valley’s leading
stores are featuring sales
the next few days.
Khoury’s Department Store and
Fashion Shoppe are winding
a great summer sale on Satvlr
ight. T1 ; ale has been run
vs ral weeks and Wil
Khoiir y says this week will
it no.
v Depa tment Store
ie middle of s u m m er c 1 ea i'a*n ce
ale of dress s, shoes, hats, etc.
A u strong': Department Store
featuring a summer clearance
cl Iren’s dresses.
AJI of these stores are carrying
listing their sale
in this issue of the Leadcf-
grow Uneeda, Early Rose and Red
Bird. The release of these two
varieties aroused the ire of the
growers who still had producing
orchards of these old standard
varieties. Some were even heard
to suggest that "this fellow Wcin
berger is messing up the peach
business”. As orchards of Dixired
and Dixie Gem took over, several
warm winters came and growers
turned back in their thoughts to
1932, and began to become “hour”
conscious. Hileys went in, in great
numbers, because “themWeinberg
er peaches wont bear”. Those of
us who had forsaken Hileys fof
several years previously, has no
Hiley orchards any good and our
“Weinberger peaches” mad e for
hard sleeding. In fact, it was the
considera opinion of those who
had struck with Hileys that those
who followed off after these new
fangled peaches were a bit touch
in the dome anyway, and had got
their comeuppance.
The winters of ’48-49 and ’49-50
were “Docs” first run-in with win
ters so warm that trees would not
bloom right and set fruit. He got
a preview of it in ’46-47 but noth
ing like these two winers. He had
read about and heard about 1932,
but seeing it was an eye-opener,
The indicated line of breeding
Revival Services
At Local Church
Revival services are now in
press at the Assembly of
Church on East Main Street
Fort Valley according to an
nouncement made by the
of the church, the Rev.
W. Chapman.
Service* are being held each
evening at 7:45, except
and they will continue through all
of next week.
The Rev. Raymond Parker,
Atlanta, is the evangelist for the
meeting.
Sunday services at the local
church will include Sunday School
services at 10 a. m. and the morn¬
ing worship service at 11 a', m.
The Rev. Chapman issued an invi¬
tation to the general public to join
the church in the various worship
periods.
Baptist ‘ * “' School k ' To
IVpvt c 1 VI T ppL c
The Vacation Bible School for
the Fort Va lley Baptist Church
will begin on Monday, July 19,
at 8:30 A. M. Sessions will be
held each day of that week through
Friday, with Commencement Ex
e rcises on Friday evening, July
23, at eight o’clock,
Classes will be provided for Jun
lors, ; Primaries, Beginners, and
f or three-year olds of the Nur
sery group. All children are re
quested to be present on Friday ’
July 16, at nine u. m. for regis
tralion. The group will stay only
a short time on this registration
day.
Dismissal time during the week
of the school will be 11 o’clock.
The faculty of the school is as
follows:
Principal, Rev. Norman Hodges .
secretary, Sylvia Scarborough; Mu
sic Leaders, Mrs. Fred Fagan &
Mrs. Elton Luckie.
Nursery superintendent, Mrs.
Fred Andel; Nursery helpers, Mrs.
J. V. Duke, Mrs. A. C. Bryant, Mrs.
H. V. Williams, Jr. Miss Holly
Dupree.
Beginners Superintendent, Mrs.
Jack Lee; Beginners helpers, Mrs.
Charles Evans, Mrs. W. H. David
son, Jr., Miss Nan Fagan, and Mrs.
James Dupree.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs.
John Lee; Primary helpers, Mrs.
B. C. Godwin, Mrs. Nick Strick
land, Mrs. R. C. Joyner, Miss Syl
via Scarborough, and Mrs. Otis
Allen,
Junior Superintendent, Mrs. E.
B, Adams; Junior helpers, Mrs.
G ac ddock. Mrs. E. I). Lever
of. Mrs, N. E. Hodges, Mrs. Hen
rv Oifth ■, and Mrs. E. L. Duke,
Jr.
Ref: will bo served each
day by b s of the Womans
Miss onary 8 iety. under the di
rection of Mrs. Claude Houser,
president.
USE THE CLASSIFIEDS
THEY GET RESULTS
now was “low hour” varieties,
Southland had been released but
with the growers all striving to
get in on the first peach money,
not too many Southland were
planted, even though it was a low
hour peach, “we got Hiley for the
season” was the prevailing thought
Through thes e years the early
peaches brought the higher prices,
not many wanted later peaches,
In 1951 Cardinal was named and
released for general planting,
About time the first commercial
orchards came into production it
was found that they “buttoned”
warm winters, so that slowed down
the planting of this variety. In
1952, Hiland and Redcap were re
leased. Hiland being a cross be
tween Hiley and Southland and
Redcap a cross of Southland by
Southland. Both being “low hour”
peaches, they were planted exten
sively to take the places of Cardi
nal and Dixired. These two did
away with “buttons” in the first
two seasons. Dixie Gems were not
putting on as many “buttons” as
Dixired, a few less. Coronet, a
cross of Dixie Gem by a Hale
haven seedling ripened in Dixie
Gem season, carrying a high red
Evidently it will replace the Dixie
color and requiring less dormacy.
Gem in this area. Along with Cor-
Best Peach Season Since 1945
Ends , Dinner Planned Thurs .
80 Counties Reach
Quota on 4-H
LottclffC O
Eighty county Farm Bureau
chapters have either reached or
surpassed their quota for the
Farm Bureau 4-H Club cottage to
be erected at Rock Eagle Lake,
Troy Barton, GFBF Field Repre
sentative reports. The report eov
ers period through July 2.
Voting delegates attending the
Annual State Farm Bureau Con
vention in Savannah in 1952
adopted a resolution requesting
that the Georgia Farm Bureau
participate in the development of
the Slate 4 ' H Club renter and con
tiibute funds lor the erecting of
a Farm Bureau Cottage. Upon
recommendation of County Farm
Bureau leaders attending area
meetings, each counity chapter was
tfiven m quota based upon 25 cents
P er membership or minimum of
$ 25 00 whichever the larger. This
P |an was announced during Spring
of 1953. County Farm Bureau
chapters have since responded, an a j
the Farm Bureau cottage is as
sured. Deadline of October 15 has
been set for the remaining coun¬
ties to reach their quotas. A
special scroll listing each quota
county will be prepared and this
scroll will be erected permanently
in the Farm Bureau cottage. On
Novembed 20 plans call for the
dedication of the entire 4-H Club
Center. A number of county Farm
Bureau chapters are near their
quota, and the leadership will no
doubt want their county’s quota
complete, and included upon the
permanent scroll.
Quota counties as of July 2 by
districts are:
First District-Bryan Bulloch,
Candler, Chatham, Screven, Tatt¬
nall, Treutlen, and Wheeler.
Second District Colquitt,
Dougherty, Seminole, Tift, and
Worth.
Third District - Ben Hill, Clay,
Dooly, Hardis, Houston, Lee,
Muscogee, Peach, Quitman Ran
dolph Schley, Taylor, Terrell,
Turner, .-end Webster.
Fourth District - Butts, Carroll,
Coweta, Heard, Lamar, Pike, Spald
ing Talbot, Troup, and Upson
($3,600.00),
Fifth Dirt ict-DeKalb, North Fi^ 1
1 , Rockdale.
Sixth District - Baldwin Block-
1 , Glasscock, Jasper, Jones, Mon¬
roe, Twiggs, Washington, and
Wilkinson.
Seventh District - Bartow, Chat
tooga, Cobb, Floyd, Gordon, Harol
son, Paulding, Walker and Whit
field.
Eighth District - Appling Atk
inson, Berrien, Clinch, Irwin,
Lanied, Talfair, and Ware.
onet was released, Maygold, ripen
ing with Hiland and requiring only
six hundred hours of dormacy.
This can be grown on the south
em extremity of the peach belt,
Our neighbors to the south have
considerably more dormacy trouble
tham we do and this variety will
fruit for them.
To celebrate the eighteenth year
of his service to the growers of
Georgia and the southeast, John,
np longer dignified by the title of
Dr. by the growers, released Key
stone. This high colored, yellow
free-stone comes between Coronet
and Southland and it was not re
leased too soon. Madam houseitfife,
who goes down to the super mark
et to see before she buys, is be
ginning to turn up her nose at
>ur Hiley. It hurts our collective
feeling to have her do this because
Hiley has been the backbone of
the peach industry for many, maniy
years. It has broken more growers,
along with Elbertas and occassion
[y put a few in the ‘investing”
class, than any other variety,
Madam housewife, the ultimate
judge, knows what she wants and
if she spends her money for peach
es they must be good to look at as
well as good to eat. She is not
going to buy high colored peaches
for most of the season and then
$3.00 Per Year— In Advance
Capt. Murray Given
New Du tv Post
FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS
Capt. William R. Murray, newly
arrived on Fort Sam Houston from
Fort Belvoir, Va-., was designated
Post S-2 (Intelligence) officer last
week by Col. Earl R. Chase, acting
deputy post commander.
The 46-year old native of Fort
Valley, Ga., entered the Army as
an enlisted man in 1942 and wai
oommissionel in 1048. He has ser
ve d overseas in the European The
ater Operations from 1943 thru
494b > a ’ n d in the Far East Com
mand from 1947 through 1951.
A graduate of Fort Valley High
School, he attended Mercer Uni
versity at Macon, and at the time
of entering the service, he was
serving as a manager of a produce
warehouse in his home town,
Capt. Murray was the Intelli
gence officer for the Engineer
School a-t Fort Belvoir.
Dairy . QlieCIl w;<11 Will
Observe Birthday #
"
Wednesday, July 21, is the 14th
birth day of the National Dairy
Q ueen organization and the local
store wil1 Participate in the cel
ebration.
The local store will feature a
birthday cake and favors for its
friends and customers on Wednes
day and Thursday of next week,
The first Dairy Queen store was
opened in Joliet, Illinois, in 1940.
Today there are approximately 2,
400 of these stores throughout the
United States and seven foreign
countries,
There are 64 of the Dairy Queen
stores in Georgia.
“Dairy Queen was the first pro¬
duct of its kind to be sold nation
ally under a brand name,” Mr.
James C. Cruikshank, president of
Dairy-Queen of Georgia, said, “and
we’re proud to be a part of thi);
great petwork of Dairy Queen
Stores. We are looking forward
to many more stores over the
state of Georgia in the years to
come.
Sgt. James W. Sparks and fam¬
ily, of Bartlesville, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Sparks and Mr. and
Mrs. Clove Johnson, Jr., last Sun
day.
In 1950 the United States used
almost twice as much oil a\s s all
the rest of the non-Communist
world. Today we use 10 times as
much petroleum per capita as the
European Recovery Plan nations;
eight times as much as South A
merica; and more than 55 times
as much as Asia and Africa.
accept poorly colored Hileys and
Elbertas. So John came through
in the nick of time with another
“Weinberger peach”. In growers’
lingo today, a “Weinberger peach”
no longer means a variety that
bears only following cold winters,
but it means a? highly colored,
yellow-flashed peach that is good
to eat.
There are hundreds of crosses
growing on the Experiment Sta
tion grounds to be fruited and
tested. Varieties of tomorrow
may be among them. John has
gone far in modernizing the peach
variety list and his work is not
yet complete. The growers of Geor’
gia and the southeast in particular,
owe this consciencious public serv
a-nt a great debt of gratitude,
Through the years he came to be
known as John instead of Doctor
Weinberger to the growers and the
entire industry.
Sometime next month John and
his family will pack up their duds
and set out for California. He^ is
promoted to work on peaches and
grapes in that state. When he
gets through out there, California
peaches and grapes will harve a
new look from having their chro
mosomes shaken up and recom
bined. It wont be, I am sure, many
years before you can go into a lo-
■v.
Peach growers in the Fort '^al¬
ley area this week were putting
the cap on the best financial sea¬
son since 1945 as the peach sheds
were “battened” down for the win¬
ter.
The quantity of peaches fell a
little under last year’s production
an( i a little under the pre-season
estimates but the quality of the
fru >t was the best in recent years
and the prices remained strong
during the entire season,
Authorities stated that the dry
weather probably had a great deal
to do with the crop being a little
short of estimates.
Dealers and shippers of the fruit
f ro m Fort Valley said that over
600 cars were shipped this year
by rail but pointed out that only
about one fourth of the crop was
shipped in this manner. Most of
the fruit traveled by trucks, they
said,
In the meantime, peach growers
j n this area have laid plans to
honor Dr. J. H. Weinberger and
his family with a dinner at the
New Perry Hotel next Thursday
night.
Gifts will be presented to the
horticulturist at the meeting in
appreciation for his woik in peach
development over the past 18 years
Dr. Weinberger and his family
are moving to California next
month where he will be assigned
to the U. S. Field Grape Station
at Fresno. He will work there in
botb P eac ‘hes and grapes,
During his 18 yea'rs at the Fort
Valley station Dr. Weinberger de
veb ’P ed n ' ne commercially profit
able varieties of peaches,
Series of Sermons
At Baptist Church
At the Fort Valley Baptist
Church for the evening worship
services, the pastor, Rev. Norman
E. Hodges, will preach a series of
sermons on “Couples in the Bible.
This series of messages will be
gin next Sunday evening, July 18,
at the 8 o’clock hour.
Subjects ami corresponding dates
are as follows:
July 18, “Adam & Eve—Satan’s
First Victims”
July 25, “Abraham & Sar
Partners with God”
August 8, “Isaac & Rebecca—
Choosing A Mate”
August 22, “Ahab & Jezebel
Dangers of Idolatry”
August 29, “Samson & Delilah—
The Peril of Forsaking God”
September 5, “Aquila & Prijcii
la—Committed to the Task”
The publ ic is cordially invited ;o
attend these services.
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ADVERTISING PAYS — TRY IT
USE THE CLASSIFIEDS
cal store in the winter and buy
California grapes with the new
‘Weinberger” look, and you will
keep eating these grapes as long
as they arre available,
Were it not considered a prot
motion for John the growers of
peaches in the Southeast would
shake the very foundations of the
Republican Party for bringing a
bout this change,
President Ike might deny the
responsibility but their slogan, as
I remember it, was, “its time for
a change.”
The writer has been personally
acquainted with John’s succesor for
several years. He is a- prince of
a fellow by the name of Prinee. He
comes to us with experience and
should be able to carry on JehnV
work after becoming acquainted
with Southern conditions through
his eyes.
On Thursday evening, July 22,
some of the growers of this and
surrounding area will give a sup
per at the Perry Hotel, honoring
and his family. After enjoy
ing a good meal and a period d£
the hemoree will be preH
with gifts by the growers
a means of expressing their
to him for his fine
for the industry.