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LEAD
[LEADERS ARE
IN AT MEETING
ImVILL U. BE CHAIRMAN; BE
DYKES TO
Lce-chairman.
Attorney R. Arthur Bell, a
of Cairo and a former
(or Legislature, was
uj of the
patient chairman of the
m Civilian Defense Age
jjr’jl. W. Dykes, permanent Mayor of
m elected
n, at an organization ral
M last Tues
Courthouse here
Seeretary M. L. Mayes, of
:r of Commerce, who was
chairman and who presid
rally, agreed to serve as the
betary. Lately citi-
125 patriotic
e oounty, most of whom are
[leaders [he in various groups,
rally, at which consid¬
usiasm er the support of
n defense program was de
[ talks pointing to the urg
jor immediate establishment
ilian defense set-up here as
L- President Roosevelt and
i government officials were
pr. Dykes, Capt. W. J. Mc
[fthe local unit of the Warnell, State
Corps, Mayor J. B.
to, Sr., and others.
Ld, the nominating commit¬
ted of Mr. Hester, Mayor
County Commissioner Ben F.
Postmaster J. S. Weathers
I, Roddenbery, Jr., submit
jninations which were heart
e
loe 1-up disci’.sion of pians
as outlined by national
llunteer enlistments for the
■ere called for, and almost
■present volunteered except
llready enrolled in the State
lorps, the Aircraft Warning
Id other such groups which
Iractioning in the general
Ifense work.
•pie of the county, general
I included, were called upon
lor training in some phase
Ilian defense activities, to
lor service if or when war
leneral emergency should
I workers will serve purely
■otic and voluntary basis.
P®i the permanent leaders
footed to set about immedi
ftain L from the Federal gov
possible, fire-fighting
pr Information use anywhere in the
was that such
I might be made available
pst to the county,
pnounced that J. C. Minter
p Ue in charge of the Air
[ n:n £ Service, which receiv
r test last Friday, and that
Rogers had already been
r °f the medical aid group,
f |r are needed at once to be
nursing aid; traffic con
■°nvoy work; general polic
Dte <h vital utility. and com
plants to serve in con-
1th . constituted law enforce¬
rs and the State Defense
Agency food distribution;
1 fire s; and a number of
’ices.
'trition Council
Today, Whigham
u ' ar November meeting of
County Nutrition Council
le be held this after
■ “R’b at 4 o’clock, at the
%h School auditorium.
" Afford, chairman, will
Opting r Pe rkins, here of the a month Whigham ago,
[ j^mber enae d an urgent invitation
[!"’ meeting to be held
aTI( ^ ’t was accepted. Dr.
P es ’ Mayor of M’higham,
Principal speaker at the
Lfi ’ ^ a ^ e > has been con
L fly with establishment of
. in
L of the county’s
L/; !t '‘t progress on the
'eported at the October
®S)e Cairo
TEN PAGES
WSB Radio Broadcast
Planned Here Dec. 4;
Entries Close Nov. 25
A special broadcast honoring Grady
county will be presented at the high
school auditorium here on Thursday
night, Dec. 4th, when Station WSB,
Atlanta, puts on a radio show in its
new series of “Salute To Georgia
Counties” programs.
All musicians and other performers
will be selected from Grady countians
(Continued on Page Four).
15 RURAL HOMES TO
BE BUILT IN COUNTY
BIDS FINALLY APPROVED FOR j
STRUCTURES; WORK MILL
BEGIN IN DECEMBER.
County Agent J. A. Freeman here
received definite news this week from
the Southwest Georgia Rural Housing
Authority Group headquarters at
Thomasville to the effect that bids
the construction of 15 homes in Grady
county in the. new rural housing pro¬
gram had been finally approved in
Washington and that actual construc¬
tion will likely be started in Decem¬
ber.
Mr. Freeman’s news included the
information that E. C. Mann, execu¬
tive director for the group, has been
in Washington this week to expedite
the beginning of construction.
Mr, Freeman said Knox Brothers
Lumber Co. was the successful bidder
for the units in this county and that
final contract documents are now
being executed in Washington with
this concern, but added that feet did
not know where the successful bidder
i3 located.
Bid were received ime time ago on
145 units in 11 counties in Southwest
Georgia but they were all rejected in'
Washington as being too high. Those
first low bids on the first 15 units in
this county totalled $36,905. They
were submitted by Leo Barber, of
Moultrie.
Then on Sept. 18th new bids were
received on 105 units, 15 of them in
this county, and the remainder in
eight other counties: Brooks, Calhoun,
Crisp, Decatur, Lowndes, Mitchell and
Worth. It had been announced that
the first low bids were 24 per cent
higher than estimates, and, while the
last low bids were lower than the
first bids, it has not been announced
just what the last ones were. The
bids on the Baker county units, the
lowest, were $1,865 each.
Only about fifty applications have
been filed in the local County Ag¬
ent’s office to date by Grady coun¬
tians, it is said, although Federal
funds have been allotted to this coun
ty sufficient to finance construction
of approximately sixty units—and
150 applications had been antici
some fifty r
pated to assure as many as °
sixty approvals. for replace¬
The program provides with
ment of outmoded farm homes
modem structures in the $2,000 price
to be paid for at the rate oi
range As actual begin
about $50 a year, approaches and
ning of construction , units
as the work on the first fifty
gets underway, interest in the pro¬
gram is expected to be stimulated ap¬
preciably, at least sufficiently for this
county to utilize the funds already
allocated for 50 to 60 homes.
Mr. Freeman said he had no mfor
mation to where the first units,
as started next
work on which will be
month will be built. He said that ac
^ only nine deeds had cleared
y but that others
ft Thomasville office
being investigated for anticipa e
are
early approval. of LlerK .
Records at the office
Courts P. M. Baggett here s ou
the Authority from
deeds to the Housing
the following 14 grantors have nee
1G Tl. Brunson, J. W. Chester, A U j
and Mrs. Charrty Hove , and I
and A. W. Lane, Milon ’ kland j
Bertie Mills Martin, • Am d>
_
Edgar Stringer, Mrs.
F. L. and A. C. Forest,.', E”™*
Johnson, Elvie Killins, C. H. Ho U,
T. W. Nelson and Mrs. Mattie u
1 he Official Organ of Grady County
The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, NOV. 21ST, 1941.
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The Cairo Hospital (ABOVE),
which was recently acquired by Dr. A.
W. Rehberg from Dr. and Mrs. W. A.
Walker, has just undergone a thor
ough modernization and renovation
GRADY COUNTY FAIR
ATTENDANCE 30,000
/
EXPOSITION MILL LIKELY JIAVE
GENERAL EXHIBITS AGAIN
NEXT YEAR.
The 1941 Grady County Fair closed
last Saturday night and officials said
the attendance totalled approximately
30,000 only slightly less than the high
record of 35,000 set in 1938, 1939 and
1940.
The officials attributed the de¬
creased attendance to the rather se¬
vere cold weather during the first
part of the week and said they had
made careful observations to estab¬
lish the fact that from 50 to 75 per
cent <x» those attending were from
outside Grady county. The attend¬
ance Saturday was 4,200 paid admis¬
sions, in addition to many others,
while the county’s several thousand
white school children attended en
masse on Friday.
A neat sum was netted by the spon
sor, the American Legion, for the Le
gion’s E'mpty. Stocking Fund which
is used, and otherwise supplemented,
to spread Yuletide cheer to thous¬
ands in this area at Christmas time.
The exhibits this year emphasized
the steadily developing livestock in¬
dustry in the county and were de¬
_
clared to have been most creditable.
Next year, however, barring too many
restrictions imposed by war or the
defense program, officials said there
would likely be a return to general
exhibits. Everyone got a late start
on the fair this year due to some in¬
decision as to whether or not it would
be held, but officials say they are al¬
ready resolving to make next year’s
attraction really “bigger and better
than ever,” unless unforeseen hin¬
drances arise.
The prize winners for the livestock
exhibits are listed elsewhere in this
issue of The Messenger. In addition
to that listing, however, officials said
the Midway School won the award for
the largest number of exhibits from
that community, most of them prize
winners b;y James S. Mason. The
Cairo and Spence FFA chapters tied
in livestock judging to win full
awards after defeating the Elpino
FFA stock judging team by a nur
row margin.
CAIRO PLAYS CORDELE NEXT THURSDAY
Syrup Makers To Go To Cordele For Last Game
Defeat Pelham, 38-0.
The Cairo High School football
has been contenting itself with
prac tices this week, since it has
,
no game scheduled, before resuming
drills for its fina i contest of the
with the hea vier Cordele Bull
in , Corde le, next Thursday after
Thanksgiving Day, beginning at
2 * |
q{ ar(jent Cairo fans and
students are planning to take advan
tage 0 f the holiday opportunity to
j 0U rney to Cordele to support the
_ ,Makers in their final bid. The
were sobteJ here last
Da} . in , thriller, 21 to .
program costing thousands of dol
lars, and, to enable everyone to see
how attractive the structure has been
made, and how modernly it is equip
ped, Dr. Rehberg is extending by this
B "» 3 ■ o
The Grady County Fifth Sunday
Associational Meeting will be held
with the Whigham Baptist Church on
Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 29th and
30th.
Full announcement of the program
will appear in next week's issue of
The Messenger.
PEANUT PRODUCERS
TO MEET SATURDAY
FARM BUREAU HEAD COMING TO
SPEAK, AGAIN; PRICES FOR
1942 TOPIC,
;
County Agent J. A. Freeman an¬
nounced this week that there will be
an important meeting of all the pea¬
nut farmers of Grady county at the
Courthouse in Cairo tomorrow, Satur¬
day, Nov. 22nd, beginning at 3 o’¬
clock. He said the meeting will not
be lengthy.
H. L. Wingate, of Pelham, presi¬
dent of the American Farm Bureau,
is expected to come here again to
speak to those at Saturday’s meeting.
He came here recently to speak at a
meeting at which the local unit of
the bureau was organized.
The Federal government has recom¬
mended an increase of about 70 per¬
cent in the peanut crop for 1942 in
Grady and other counties in this sec¬
tion. An area meeting of peanut
growers of a number of Southwest
Georgia counties was held last Friday
at Albany and those at that meeting,
including several from Grady county,
unanimously asked the government to
fix next year’s prices on a basis of
of Spanish number ones at $100 a
ton, at least. (See item elsewhere).
This week, the two Georgia Sena¬ |
tors and Cong. E. E. Cox have re¬
ported that government officials are
considering $60 a ton as a basis but
that they are making every effort to
obtain approval of an $80-a-ton basis.
It is the purpose of this meeting to¬
morrow to obtain further grower en¬
dorsements for the $100-a-ton basis.
Mr. Freeman urges all peanut produc
ers to attend.
THE 1941 RECORD.
Cottonwood 0; Cairo 41.
Cairo 0; Thomasville 25.
Jesup 6; Cairo 7.
Cairo 0; Albany 44.
Cairo 33; Fitzgerald 12.
Cairo 0; Moultrie 20.
Bainbridge 0; Cairo 6.
Pelham 0; Cairo 38.
Nov. 27th (Thanksgiving): Cordele,
Cordele, 2 p. m.
18, and thev have made somewhat of
-
(Continued on page eight).
GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County
the hub of its okra, sugar cane, col
lard seed and tung oil industries, the
original diversified farming section.
TEN
(Photo by Woody),
an invitation to the people of
entire area, generally, a cordial
to visit and go through the
(Continued on Page 3).
BUSINESS, MARKETS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
DAY, THURSDAY
MILL BE A FULL HOLIDAY
LOCALLY.
Messenger Will Be
One Day Earlier.
Because of the full holiday
next Thursday, Nov. 27th, which
is Thanksgiving Day, the next
issue of The Miessenger will be
printed on Wednesday, one day
earlier than usual, following a
custom of long standing.
News correspondents are here¬
by instructed and urgently re¬
quested to send their items in ia
day earlier than usual. Adver¬
tisers are advised, also, that ad
copy for the next issue MUST
BE IN THIS OFFICE NOT LAT¬
ER THAN TUESDAY MORN¬
ING!
The full co-operation of every¬
one is respectfully sought.
Next Thursday, Nov. 27th, which
be Thanksgiving Day in Cairo
most Georgia cities, will be ob¬
as a full business holiday here,
a custom of long standing.
The special feature of the Thanks¬
observance locally will be the
thanksgiving service, which,
the regular rotation plan adopt¬
some years ago, will be held this
at the First Baptist Church with
Claude G. Pepper, Jr., pastor of
Cairo Presbyterian Church, de¬
the sermon, The service
be held at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday,
eve, since it has been
that this time is satisfactory
more people. Everyone is urged
bear in mind the time and place
this meeting and join in this im¬
community-wide expression
thanks for the blessings enjoyed
the year.
The only other special feature of
Thanksgiving program will be
Cairo-Cordele football game, the
of the season for the Syrup Mak¬
in Cordele, beginning at 2 p. m.
Many ardent fans are ex¬
to journey to Cordele to sup¬
the Cairoites in their final bid
a better than .500 percentage in
ranks.
Generally, however, the people of
county are expected. Jo spend
day in family gatherings or trips
gulf coastal points.
The post office and certain other
agencies observed yesterday,
20th, as Thanksgiving Day, in
with the President’s proc¬
and will not observe next
although the post office
will close next Thursday at noon,
usual. However, the state holiday
be Nov. 27th and the banks and
generally, will observe that
Banks observed Ncv. 20 and will
business again next Thurs¬
Beginning next year, the nation
unite again in observing the last
(Continued on page five).
SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENTS
NUMBER 39.
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
TO DRAW SHOPPERS
IN HOLIDAY SEASON
CAIRO MERCHANTS PREPARING
FOR HEAVY CHRISTMAS
TRADE.
Busy and alert Cairo merchants
took time off Wednesday afternoon to
attend a Chamber of Commerce mer¬
chants’ division meeting and co-ordi¬
nate their efforts toward assuring the
people of this entire trade territory
the utmost in shopping opportuni¬
ties for the Christmas season now ap¬
proaching.
The urge to shop earlier for Christ,
mas, which has become general, will
not find the Cairo merchants napping,
for it was agreed that Christmas
stocks will be placed on display im¬
mediately after Thanksgiving Day,
Nov. 27th.
A committee composed of B. W.
Mauldin, chairman, J. A. Collins, W.
B. Roddenbery, Jr., and J. N. Harvey,
was named to handle all the general
Christmas lighting activities, The
committee will appear before the
Mayor and Council Monday night to
work out a plan to assure the Christ¬
mas street lighting and other general
lighting—and will handle the annual
Christmas home and yard lighting
contest in which cash and shrubbery
awards will be made to winners.
Another committee, composed of
W. L. Oliver, chairman, Jake Poller,
Walter Williams and Aris Mixon, was
named to arrange the necessary fi*
nances for the merchants’ trade pro
motion program, including trade tick¬
ets for the Cairo Christmas Trade
Cash Dividend Days.
To handle the Cairo Christmas
Trade Cash Dividend Days awards
themselves, on Dec. 13th, 20tb and
23rd, the following committee was
named: W. J. McClenney, chairman,
Henry Hester, Jr., Walter Dodson and
H. P. Cook.
On the advertising committee, Ivl. L.
Mayes is chairman, and the follow¬
ing others were named to assist
him: J. L. Oliver, Curtis Gandy and
L. A. Powell.
The merchants also voted to extend
Santa Claus immediately an invita¬
tion to appear here again in person
as often as possible during the Christ¬
mas trade ,season,
Cairo Christmas Trade Cash Divi¬
dend Days tickets will be made avail
ble for participating merchants to
give to their customers on cash pur¬
chases of a stipulated amount and
above. Persons employed by local
retail mercantile fidms, or members
of their families, will not be elig¬
ible for such tickets, however, accord¬
ing to the plan.
‘Quality Syrup’ Urged
Upon Local Producers
Syrup buyers here this week urg¬
ed upon all farmer producers to exer¬
cise every precaution possible to make
syrup of the best quality. They point
out that the early freeze last year,
and the resuting larger percentage of
•poor quality syrup, hurt the splendid
reputation enjoyed by pure Georgia
cane syrup somewhat, and that the
industry in this section will suffer
permanent injury unless an excellent
quality of syrup is produced this year,
Aside from the storm damage, the
sugar cane this season is said to be
in excellent condition, with a good
yield of excellent juice generally re¬
ported. However, some growers, it is
said, are carelessly producing syrup
too thin or scorched, while others are
not stripping it well and not topping
it low enough to eliminate the unma
turde portion of the stalks from which
comes only juice that hurts the qual¬
ity of the syrup. Since a freeze or
killing frost is now expected at any
time, growers are cautioned, also, to
work hard to fully protect their cane
against possible cold damage souring.
Pure Georgia cane syrup commands
premium prices, as a rule, but high
quality greatly needs to be main¬
tained.
Pvt. Buford Brock, of this county,
has been transferred from the Recep¬
tion Center at Ft. McPherson, Atlan¬
ta, to the Engineers Replacement
Training Center at Ft. Belvoir, Va,,
The Messenger was advised this
week.