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|E XXXV.
C. DIRECTORS
ONTHLY SESSION
OTHER ITEMS
IsiDERED; COMMITTEES
[ A RE appointed.
ireetors of the local Chamber
jerce met in regular monthly
[uesday night, with President
oddenbery presiding.
ary M. L. Mayes reported on
;us of several civic projects
’ere discussed at several some length. letters
r ted receipt of
sction with his investigation
ects for improved mail ser
Cairo, the specific improve
ught being a late afternoon
m Cairo to Thomasville, such
3
maintained until a few years
provide direct over-night ser
Macon and Atlanta and
[delivery at those points. week that
was some hint last
nt Albany-Thomasville-Cairo
e service might be discontin
ss a fight is made to retain
jtaiy Mayes said he had been
y W. D. Martin, of Washing
ng general superintendent of
way Mail Service, that
ters issued several days ago
ita officials to the effect that
>nt contract for this route ex
st July 1st were in error and
oes not expire until July 1st,
,e late I. A. Baggett, of this
i carrier, and the contract is
ig carried out by a tempor
stitute. However, Secretary
lid Mr. Martin wrote that the
ar route set-up in Georgia is
ig investigated by field rep
,ves of this department and
sneral re-advertisement of bid
might be decided on for next
L Mr. Mayes will press Cairo’s
r the suggested improvement
fee for Cairo as well as for
l of the present star route
I to, it was stated,
ted bus terminal facilities
'squest for which was author
jthe ftter March that meeting, was an
was reported on and
I. and it will be followed up,
Mentally, correspondence with
bus lines serving Cairo in re
Ihe bus station facilities here
[that the Tamiami Trail Tours,
planning b service through via Cairo north-and
to be in
F just as soon as the Pelham
khton highway, now under
intinued on back page.)
cknee River Fish
Is Established;
peration Is Sought
n °f 'be Grady County Hunt
f ' s ' 1 ‘ n g Club announced this
r Hosed season fish patrol
e Ochloeknee river in this
P ^ een established and they
f fu etl1 " ' 'bat c o-operation the of every
r * supply of fish
I ' L lere for the benefit of
m ent by the officals said:
°«lance with action taken by
a ‘ the recent meeting of
Ochlocknee river closed
Patio] has been established
ow functioning and
" «k we re
s the full co-operation
l t0 the end that the
s h there sup
a nd elsewhere be
So that fish be made
ntlful can
for fishing by legal
len the fishing
season opens
N the purpose to deprive
fishi ng Privileges permitted
l effort* of the club are
but aie aimed solely to
h " mor « Plentiful
eve for legal
1 ryone.
fame "aiders of the planta
ai^lT lllg and better the P e °P le ’
3 ev vill ef co-joper
i* ° re toward bvatch
Ll ° ns es P e cially dur
,pj ’
* eason and this is
<
ft. .«i < ?" rewards er “ l sentiment
c Uo of $25
his Convict violators of the
* les Pect. Let’s
| e Hfort to everyone
by improve fishing
0 Plans !egal means.”
a to • '‘berate in the
Snt> S011 >e , 5,000
, nav e be bream and
lb en in a rearing pool
y the club members
ast several here
months.
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EIGHT PAGES
starting ot chain
Six pure bred registered sow pigs
will be given Grady county boys by
the Cairo Kiwanis Club, the Cairoi
Banking Co. and the Citizens Bank,
under an arrangement \vhereby th»
boys return a certain number of pigs"
from the first litter to be given in
turn to other boys.
The agricultural committee from
the Kiwanis Club, representatives
from the banks, members of the live
stock committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, the County Agent and the
teachers of vocational agriculture will
have charge of the distribution of the
pigs and the management of the plan.
A pure bred boar given by the Geor
gia Power and Light Co., will also
be handled by this committee.
At a meeting of the committee last
week plans were formed to start the
distribution of the pigs and the first
lot has already been bought. It was
decided at the meeting last week that
County Agent H. L. Trussell, Jr., T.
D. Brown, Jr. and H. R. Madison
make the selection of the boys
to receive the first lot of pigs. This
will be done by questionaire Which
i.s being sent boys of the 4-If clubs
and FFA. The ability to properly care
for the pig, the co-operation of par
ents in the undertaking, the boy’s
knowledge of livestock and his inter
est in the project will be determining
factors in the selections,
The distribution of the first lot of
pigs will be only the beginning of the
gifts of pigs to the boys under this
plan and should ultimately do much
to stimulate interest among the boys
and improve the stock in the county.
Members of the committee in charge
are Henry Hester, Sr., Carl Minter,
H. L. Trussell, Jr., Bascom Belcher,
J. E. Forsyth, T. D. Brown, Jr., H. R.
Madison, B. W. West and M. L.
Mayes.
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GRADY AMENDMENT
OPPOSITION STIRRED
MEETING PLANNED FOR THIS
AFTERNOON, FRIDAY, TO
DISCUSS MATTER.
The state constitutional amendment
proposal to authorize Grady county,
by vote of the Board of County Com
missioners, to issue bonds to retire the
county’s warrant or floating indebted
ness, which is said to amount fco ap
proximately $100,000, and providing
for the county to be operated on a
“cash basis,” thereafter, continued to
draw expressions of strong opposition
from various county and civic leaders
this week.
The opposition began to take defin
ite form as tentative plans were made
for a meeting to be held today, Fri
day afternoon, at the Chamber of Corn
merce office, beginning at 3 o’clock,
at which plans for an organized cam
paign of opposition are to be discussed,
The Messenger was advised Thursday.
The meeting will be a general gather
ing of civic leaders and will not be
sponsored by the Chamber of Com
merce, it is pointed out.
The amendment proposal is one of
thirty-three to be voted on in the gen
eral election on Tuesday, June 6th,
and approval or rejection of it will be
determined by the state-wide vote
and not alone by the vote thereon in
this county.
The proposal, which was published
in full in The Messenger three weeks
ago as a news item, and which will
be published in full again before the
election, Was drafted and sponsored
in the 1939 Legislature by Rep. R. A.
Bell, of this county. Rep. Bell, in a
lengthy explanation published in the
March 31st issue of The Messenger,
pointed to a potential saving to the
county of approximately $75,000 over
a 30-year period by the bond provi
sions of the measure, which would per
mit refinancing of the indebtedness on
a more economical basis and retire
ment of the outstanding indebtedness
in a systematic manner. the act
His explanation added that
provides for the county authorities
to budget the various departments of
the county, except the courts and the
expenses incident thereto, in establish
ing the “cash basis” operations.
Strong opposition to adoption of the
(Continued on Page Four.)
The Official Organ of Grady County
the man who wanderetf out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 28TH, 1939.
MAY 13 FINAL LIMIT |
FOR JUNE 6 VOTERS
ELIGIBILITY FOR VOTING IN
JUNE GENERAL ELECTION
EXPLAINED.
Tax Commissioner T. F. Proc
tor hene announced this week that
Saturday, May 13th, two weeks
from tomorrow, will be the final
limit for qualification of voters
for the state general election on
Tuesday, June 6th.
'It appears just now that only pro
posals. for amendments to the state
constitution will be submitted for ap
proval or rejection by the voters in
this election. Only two of the thirty
three amendment proposals are of
state-wide interest, but one of the
thirty-one proposals of local effect
directly affects Grady county and
there are indications that a local fight
for and against this proposal will
create interest here sufficient to bring
out a large vote. In this event, the
eligibility regulations, and the limit
a.s above-mentioned, may prove of
vital concern to this county’s voters,
generally.
At the request of Gov. E. D. Riv
ers, Attorney-General Ellis Arnall has
prepared the following ruling on elig
ibility of voters for the June 6th ele
tion which is being issued by Secre
tary of State John B. Wilson:
“Only those persons who paid their
poll taxes for 1937 and previous years
by Dec. 6th, 1938, and only those who
pay their 1938 taxes, in time to have
their names placed on the voters’ list
certified by the Board of 1 Registrars
will be eligible to vote in the June
6th constitutional amendment elec
tion.”
Tax Commissioner Proctor, 'who
must prepare the voters’ list for cer
tification by the local Board of Reg
istrars, said this week that at least
three weeks will be required to pre
pare the list and he, therefore, fixed
Saturday, May 13th, as the final
limit for qualification in accordance
with the above ruling.
The Board of Registrars is compos
ed of Thomas Wight, chairman: J. F.
•Forester and J. J. Hall. The latter has
been in -Florida for several months and
will not likely be available for ser
vice.
The ruling means that persons, who
were eligible to vote last year will
be eligible to vote June 6th if they
have already paid their 1938 poll tax
or if they pay their 1938 poll tax by
May 13th, since payment of poll tax
es for 1937 and prior years was re
quired for eligibility as voters in the
elections last year, but all who paid
their poll taxes for 1937 and previous
years (whether assess_ed or not, if
required by law) by last Dec. 6th,
may become eligible if they pay their
1938 poll tax by May 13th. Persons
■who owe poll taxes for 1937 or pre
vious years cannot now become elig
ible to vote June 6th.
Male citizens between the ages of 1
21 and 60 owe $1 per year poll taxes
whether they register or not, or wheth
er assessments are made, or not. Fe
male residents between the above ages
owe $1 a year if they register and
vote, except for years after which
they have had their names stricken
from the voters’ list.
The June 6th election in this coun
ty will be in charge of Mrs. Gussie
S. McManeus, Ordinary, who will like
ly name the various Justices of the
Peace as managers in their respec
tive- militia districts.
Mr. Freeman Wamble
Heart Attack Victim
Mr. Charles Freeman Wamble, 55,
Grady county bridge foreman, died al
most suddenly of a heart attack about
11 o’clock last Friday night at his
home just north of Cairo. The news
of his untimely death spread rapid
ly and proved a sad shock to his many
relatives and friends. He had attend
ed to his official duties as usual -Fri
day and "was apparently in normal
health until about an hour before the
end came.
Mr Wamble was «>jrn what .s
n0 w Grady county on June 27th, 1884.
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. I
L. Wamble. He resided roug out
h is life in this immediate section and j
was engaged as a farmer until he j
assumed the Potion of county bridge I
(Continued On Last Page.) |
GRADY MAY LOSE 3
OF JR. HIGH SCHOOLS
STATE ECONOMY COMMITTEE’S
ACTION JEOPARDIZES
3 OF 4 SCHOOLS.
Action of the Georgia House of
Representatives economy investigating
committee has jeopardized the future
status of three of Grady county’s four
junior high schools, it has developed
here during the past week.
The committee, seeking means to
relieve the state school financial dis
tress, has requested surveys by state
school supervisors to determine what
economies can be effected “through
the consolidation of the high school
grades in junior or two-year high
schools where the enrollment for such
schools will not justify the employ
ment of at least two teachers.” Bas
ing justification on .the State Board
of Education regulation of average
daily attendance of twenty students
per teacher, it appears that the Reno,
Elpino and Calvary junior high schools
might be eliminated and leave schools
at these points on a grammar school
basis. Spence, the other junior high
school in this county, has an average
daily attendance of more than fifty
students in the high school depart
ment, records show, and it would not
likely be affected by this action.
The committee, now in session,
adopted the above proposal, among
others, in its efforts to reduce school
expenses all over the state to a point
nearer the total of the available school
funds, and the State Board of Edu
cation has pledged its co-operation in
the efforts. Should the Board of Edu
cation see fit, it has the authority to
put the new regulations into effect
even before the committee’s economy
lecommendations are submitted to the
next session of the Legislature.
The three junior high schools thus
jeopardized have been approved and
accredited junior high schools for five
years, or more, and the committee ac
tion has naturally aroused trustees
and patrons of the three' districts con
siderably. The Reno and Calvary
schools have an average daily attend
ance of about twenty high school stu
dents each, it is said, and the Elpino
school is reported to have an average
daily attendance only slightly higher
in its high school department. They
are each understood to be rated as
having slightly less than two teachers
for high school work.
The County Board of Education,
which will meet in regular monthly
session here next Tuesday, will con
sider the matter with a view of de
termining how the junior high schools
can all be maintained, if possible, it
is understood. A state school super
visor is expected to confer with the
county officials at Tuesday’s meet
ing.
All But Three Schools
Suspend.
All but three of Grady county’s four
teen White schools will have ended
their 1938-39 session today.
The county’s two senior high schools
at Cairo and Whighhm, and the Mid
way grammar school, will continue an
other month to complete a full nine
months term.
New Home and Turkey Creek
schools closed a month ago with a
seven-months term, and the remain
ing nine schools, including the four
junior high schools, are closing today,
Friday, to finish an eight-months
term. Those closing today are Calvary,
Central, Elpino, Like Oak, Pawnee,
Reno, Spence, Union and Wayside.
Closing of all of the schools was
threatened several weeks ago because
of the state school financial distress,
but the two Cairo banks came to their
rescue with loans of approximately
$40,000 to keep them open and pay
the salaries of teachers on time.
METHODIST DELEGATES IN
KANSAS CITY. MO.
Rev. Leland Moore and J. Slater
Wight, of Cairo, two of fifteen del
egates from the South Georgia Meth
odist Conference to the big Methodist
conference in Kansas City,
Mo f left last Saturday and Sunday to
nd the conference) which opened
Wednesday . Mrs. Wight accompanied
^
^ conference is expected to con
^ ^ ^ tQ ^
of the denomination said.
THE MESSENGER
Prints All The News It Can Get
that is of interest to the people of
Grady county, and choice bits of news
are often found in the advertisements.
EIGHT PAGES
Demonstration Council
Plans Cooking School
In Cairo On May 3-4-5
Miss Dorris Nichols, County Home
Demonstration Agent, announced this
week that plans have virtually been
completed for the big Grady County
Home Demonstration Council cooking
school which is to be held at the Le
gion Home in Cairo next Wednesday,
Thursday and .Friday afternoons, May
3rd, 4th and 5th.
The school will begin promptly at
one o’clock next Wednesday afternoon
and 'will close the first session at 4:30
p. m. The same hours will apply
Thursday and Friday afternoons.
iMiss Katherine Lanier, of Athens,
the food preparation specialist of the
Georgia Extension Service, will give
all of the demonstrations each after
noon. Miss Lanier has a splendid rep
utation for making such schools prac
tical and very interesting. Miss Lanier
has been with the Extension Service
for 23 years and thoroughly under
stands the type of food cookery that
benefits the people most.
As previously announced, breakfast
foods will be demonstrated Wednes
day. On Thursday, supper foods will
be prepared and dinner foods will be
featured on Friday. Emphasis will be
laid on preparing breakfast and sup
per foods a variety of ways and on
Friday vegetable and meat cooking
will be emphasized.
Miss Nichols confidently states that
those who attend Wednesday after
noon will become interested sufficient
ly to return for the other demonstra
tions. On -Friday afternoon, the Home
Demonstration Club shoeing the best
average attendance for the three days
will be awarded a valuable prize.
Miss Lanier will talk over radio
station, WPAX, at Thomasville, from
7:45 to 8 a. m. Wednesday, and will
then come here early Wednesday after
noon to personally greet those who
attend the cooking school.
BUSINESS, MARKETS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FINE RAIN THIS WEEK HELPS
CROPS; RAINFALL ALMOST
THREE INCHES.
Farming activities in this section
have been spurred considerably by the
fine rains that fell, generally, last
Monday and Monday night. The pre
cipitation began with light shoVers
during Monday and the heavier rain
fall during Monday night came in
such a way as to do the most good,
without damage.
The local voluntary weather obser
ver reported 2.20 inches of rainfall
here for the 24-hour period ending at
5 p. m., Tuesday, and the light show
ers during the day Monday swelled
the total precipitation to approximate
ly three inches, it was said. The rain
fall of 2.20 inches for the 24-hour per
iod was the heaviest recorded here fior
a similar period since a cloudburst in
September, 1937. However, other
points in this section reported more
rainfall than was reported here.
Early plant and truck crops, and
vegetable gardens, are reported to be
flourishing as a result of the rainfall,
since there has been a marked defi
ciency here for the past eighteen
months. Only two months during the
period have sho*wn an excess.
Tomato Plant Packers Are
Called To Duty.
Concord Corporation, here, has an
ad on the back page of The Messenger
notifying all women who have been
employed by it in the past, and who
desire work now, to report at the
plant office for work by 7 o’clock to
morrow, Saturday morning. Other
women who might desire such work
are asked to make application by that
time, also.
This concern has been shipping a
number of tomato plants for the past
ten days and the shipping season is
expected to swing into full activity
Saturday and next 'week, if conditions
continue favorable. The rains early
this week are understood to have been
quite beneficial to the plant crop.
Concord Corporation, which recent
ly completed a modern plant in the
western part of the business section
here, recently finished a large pack
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NUMBER 16.
FARM CONSERVATION
APPROVAL IS VOTED
SOIL DISTRICT CREATION IS TO
BE COMPLETED, ASBURY
DECLARES.
Creation of the nine-county Flint
River Soil Conservation District in
Southwest Georgia was approved in
the referendum held April 15th and
establishment will be completed, ac
cording to a message received by The
Messenger from T. L. Asbury, of
Athens, state soil conservationist, and
secretary of the State Soil Conserva
tion Committee.
Mr. Asbury’s message to The Mes
senger follows:
“The results of the Flint River ref
erendum, 1,682 landowners voting in
favor to 58 against, would indicate
that the state committee will be fav
orable to completing the establish
ment of the district.”
The vote in the nine counties fol
lows:
County— For Against
Baker ..... 77 O^OOIHOOIHNI
Calhoun ... 135
Decatur ... 93
Dougherty 98
Early _______ 226
G'rady ..... 197
(Miller ..... 107
Mitchell 495
Seminole 254
.
Totals 1,682 58
As will be seen, practically all of
the opposition in the nine counties
was in Grady county, and one district
in this county, Wbigham, gave a ma
jority against creation of 1 the district.
County Agent H. L. Truss ell, Jr.,
here, commenting on the results, said
the opposition here might mean that
starting of the soil conservation work
afforded by creation of the district
would be deferred until the set-up is
completed in the other counties of the
area.
The Chattahoochee and Pine Moun
tain districts were approved by sim
ilar majorities in referenda on April
15th, the same date of the vote in
this area.
County Agent Trussell has explain
ed the purposes in creating the dis
trict as follows:
“The purpose in creating the dis
trict is to set up an organization which
under the law becomes an agency of
this state and as such is entitled to
act as an agency of the U. S. gov
ernment or any of its departments.
The object is. to enable the landowners
to obtain assistance in various ways
from the Soil Conservation Service of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
in carrying on soil erosion work on
their individual farms. Without such
an organization the government can
render the individual farmer no assis
tance in this way.
“Many districts in the state have
already been set up and many others
are in progress of formation. In the
districts now organized and at work
two technically trained men of the
Soil Conservation Service have been
assigned to each county in the dis
trict. These men ‘work with the in
dividual farmers in helping them sur
vey their lands to determine the slope,
degree of erosion, contour lines for
terracing, etc., and this assistance is
absolutely free, not casting the dis
trict, the county or the individual far
mer anything. Most farmers in Grady
county can perform the necessary
operations, whether terracing or oth
erwise, on their farms, necessary to
prevent erosion, if they know what
to do, but very few farmer's know how
to locate their terraces, where the
outlets should be, etc. Therefore, this
free service that can be secured from
the Soil Conservation Service of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture will
be invaluable.
“A Soil Conservation District can
not levy any taxes, issue any bonds
or other obligations against the prop
erty of the district. The supervisors
of the district are authorized to ex
tend additional service other than the
free service above mentioned to those
farmers desiring it under conditions
they prescribe, but no work is done
on any man’s land except upon ob
taining his consent or in co-operation
with or by agreement with such land
oWner. There are no compulsory reg
ulations. It is necessary to organ
ize a district in order to obtain help
from the government in soil conser
vation but no land-owner is compelled
to do anything except he wishes to
do it.”