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YEAH. IN advance
;E XXXIX.
HESS, MARKETS
IS OF INTEREST
POTATOES GET BOOST
X Up LUNCHEON OF
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IWANIANS TUESDAY.
story of the sweet potato was
ted in a most interesting
the weekly luncheon
f the Cairo Kiwanis Club
, 0 last Tuesday
Legion Home
Tifton, who .
. Wo odward, of is
of experimental work
pe Coastal Plains
: his line at the
ie nt Station there,
lcome guest of the club, also,
Maynard Smith, formerly of
' D. C.
now of Washington,
flith is a formei piesi en i
alclub and a former Kiwan- j
of Georgia. He was 1
ernor from
>r a short visit en route
rleans to Atlanta.
Woodward declared the
.
[widely potato is recognized coming to as be a much very | j
Be L food product and told his | J
including several farmer
[ that it is a crop that should this
'en more attention in
speaker illustrated his talk
iarts showing the factors that
ine production. Early plant
the first factor determining: 1
provided good seed, proper!
Iztion and proper selection !
eparation of the land are sup-;
first he said, ahd recommend
hting in this area as early af
iril 1st as possible for the
rop. He said best results have
obtained from planting in |
oot rows and spacing plants
nches apart, with the use of
800 pounds of fertilizer with
otash content. Persons desir
ormation on the results of ex
nts at the station may ad
the station at Tifton, Mr.
pard said.
U. S. government has be- j
po of convinced sweet potatoes of the superior food, j i
ps podward continued, as it is
that
lacing orders for millions of
p of dehydrated sweet pota
r the armed forces and “lend
lirely shipments. This will open up
[ral new market, he added,
farmers who attended the
Ig expressed keen interest in
Ik and the speaker’s emphasis
this crop. Local guests of the
pcluded brley, County H. J. Agent Parrish, S. Olin E. j
k FSA Supervisor W. J. Boy
phn V. Crine, Judge G. L. Wor- j
Hinson and John Wight.!
i Groover was the guest of
Forsyth. M. L. Mayes was in
| of the program and the !
• r w as introduced by Rev. M. j
bb, pastor of the First Metho
hurch here.
F SY BUSINESS, MARKETS
paragraphs.
Bushin's, a popular Cairo
an nounces on page three
'9 Tested Values" Sale be
l ‘ n 3 this, Friday morning. A
‘her of special values are
in the ad but many oth
ar e contained in four-page
alars.
Vaniandingh am announc
Page seven the installation of
outfit for shelling seed pea
Hls new outfit removes alii
ft is at his home five miles!
ast of Cairo near Woodland!
h.
Pupon No, 12 in War Ration
1 last Monday became good
Pounds of sugar until the j
’ May, ii weeks. Coffee cou- :
25 expires next Sunday;
w ’-ll be good for one
.
01 ft ye instead of six weeks.
, A .
Sunday. gasoline coupons expire
e canned food in
Mion coupons
Book 2 for the month
’ n ’ tfle P< E and F blue
cou-
1 become valid next Thurs
Mar ch 23th. The A, B and C
Co upons for March will
March _ ex-
31st. The April point
ls to be 48, the for
same as
arm spring weather has pre
this week but government
completed a survey of the
-k. aids and expressed fears
5 fteeze damaged tung tree
Uci ^ ft° ra 10 to 60 per cent.
, r the
ma - unusual set of bloom
>' offset this damage some
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!)c Cairo Jllcsocnacr.
The Official Organ of Grady County.
The nan who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remai n in the congregation of the dead."
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1943.
Pleasure Driving Ban !
To Be Lifted Mar. 22
OPA in Washington announced
Wednesday night that the jan on
pleasure driving in the 17 Atlantic
seaboard states, including Georgia,
will be lifted entirely, effective next
Monday, March 22nd. Simultaneous
ly, the value of the “A” gasoline
coupons will be cut from three to
1 1-2 gallons in the 17 states. The
No. 4 “A” coupons expire next Sun
day.
It is reported that the “B” and
“C” gasoline coupons will be in
creased in value to four gallons
each, effective Monday, but local
dealers had received no notifica
tion to this effect Thursday after
Further restrictions ard to be
placed upon issuance of “B” and
« c „ coup it is understoocL
M
GOAL OF RED CROSS
IS ALMOST REACHED
ALL WHO’VE NOT MADE THEIR
CONTRIBUTION ARE URGED
TO PAY AT ONCE.
The combined 1943 War Fund
Drive and Roll Call of the Red
Cross in Grady county neared the
$2,900 goal this week but leaders
renewe d , their . appeal to all who
^ ave no * contributed to do so at
once 80 that the campaign can be
successfully concluded this week
en< ^’ possible,
Henry Hester, Sr., general chair
man of the county campaign, strhng
ly praised the many who have made
liberal contributions and all who
have enthusiastically supported the
drive with their time and effort but
he added that many people who are
well able to contribute are appar
ently letting indifference to this
urgent appeal cause them not to
have a part. Those who have not
contributed are asked not to wait
to be contacted but to get their con
tribution at once to some commun
ity worker, to him, or to one of the
following: J. E. Forsyth, co-chair
man for Cairo; Mrs. J. B. Lea ton,
chairman of_ the Cairo ladies' com
mittees; Mrs. G. B. Trulock or W.
C. Lane at Whigham; or M. L.
Mayes, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce at Cairo.
Leaders said workers generally
throughout the county had gone
about their tasks more enthusias
tically than ever before and that
the response of all those contacted
has been splendid. However, aside
from the “major gifts” response in
Cairo, the bright spots have been
the work in the Central, Reno and
Whigham communities.
Those who have worked in Cairo
under Mrs. Leaton included Mes
dames C. A. Curry, W. L. Oliver,
W. G. Mizell, J. S. Wight, Vester
Stokes, Ira Higdon, Jr., Dwight
Brown, Clower White, H. T. Le
(Continued on page four).
U. S. Units In Africa
Served Cairo’s Pickles
United Stales armed forces in
Africa are being served Cairo
made pickles!
The proof is a letter received
this week addressed to W. B.
Roddenbery, c/o Cairo Pickle
Co. from J. D. Williams, son of
J. Oliver Williams, of Cairo and
Whigham, now with the Amer
ican Army units in Africa, in
which was enclosed a Capco
brand label of the local concern.
The letter stated:
"Please give this label to Mr.
Hatten. It came off a can of
your nickles we got here in
Africa.
"Mr. Hatten should remember
me as I worked under him for
one year (at Cairo Pickle Co.
plant). Give my regards to the
boys and girls at the plant. I
hope to see them when it's over,
over here."
For some months the local
pickle company has been man
ufacturing a very large part of
its entire output for America’s
armed forces and it is with
much pride and interest, local
ly, that it is known that the na
tion’s fighters in the dark
continent" are being served
such well-known delicacies.
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ABOVE, from an official Army
Air Forces photo, is a formation
AT-9’s over a Texas training
a rehearsal for a jaunt of Mitchells,
Maurauders, Liberators or
Fortresses to sock Osaka or splash
Cologne. Aviation cadets destined
become bomber pilots receive ad
vanced flight training in these twin
engine planes.
A special dispatch to The Mes
MEAT, BUTTER AND
CHEESE
RATIONING ON POINT
TO BEGIN MARCH 29TH:
PLANS REVEALED.
Beef, pork, lard and mutton will
be rationed at an average of about
two pounds a week for home con
sumption starting Monday, March
29th. Rationing of butter, cheese,
other edible fats and oils and can
ned fish will start at the same time.
Through this long-expected ac
been curtailed by huge
to the armed forces and
Local shortages are expected to
appear quickly.
Here’s the official list of what
meats, cheese, fats and fish will be
rationed beginning March 29th:
1. Meats, including all fresh, fro
zen, smoked and cured be£f,
lamb, and pork.
All meats and meat products m
containers of tin or glass.
All dried meats.
Variety meats, including;
Tongues, brains, hearts, liver, tn P e
sweetbreads, kidneys.
Bouillion cubes, beef extracts,
and similar concentrates.
All dry, semi-dry, and fresh
smoked, and cooked sausage, in
eluding: S&lami, pork ;sausage, baked
loaves, weiners, scrapple, souse,
head cheese, and others.
Suet and other fats.
2. Fish.
All fish, shellfish, and fish
ucts in hermetically sealed contain
ers.
3. Fats and oils.
Butter, margerine, lard,
ins, cooking, and salad oils.
4. Cheese.
Cheese of all kinds except those
expressly excluded.
The following foods are NOT ra
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Fresh fish, frozen fish, smoked
salt, pickled fish. Fish in contain
ers that are not hermetically sealed.
2. Poultry and game.
All poultry and game, whether
fresh, frozen, or in cans or glass,
3. Fats and oils.
Olive oil when not blended with
other ingredients; salad dressings,
and . mayonnaise.
4. Cheese.
Soft or perishable cheeses such as:
cream cheese, Neufchatel, cottage,
pot, baker’s, Camembert, Lieder
kranz, Brie, blue.
Cheese spreads made with a base
(Continued on page six).
senger this week brought the news
that two Grady countians, Lieut.
Norman H. Walsh, Jr., of Calvary,
and Lieut. Harvey L. Logue, Jr.,
of Route 2, Whigham, will be among
j hundreds graduate tomorrow, of new pilots Saturday, who at will the
i AAF Gulf Coast Training Center
j at Randolph Field, Texas. They
received their advanced training in
[ planes like those above.
LOCAL DRAFT BOARD
RECLASSIFIES GROUP
NAMES OF MEN LEAVING FOR
FINAL EXAMS TO BE HELD
UNTIL ACCEPTANCE.
The Local Draft Board this week
released for publication another list
j of Grady county Selective Service
registrants announced as having
! been reclassified, only the names of
the men and the new classifications
being listed.
The Local Draft Board also an
nounced this week receipt of new
departing for final examina
“™ s bc released for pubb
«“'»"■ Only names of those finally
[accepted will be released for pub
: lication and such release will not
1 be made until they are officially re
ported to the board by the induc
i tion station.
The purpose of this regulation,
apparentlyi j s to obviate confusion
that has resulted in the past. Older
j re g u j a ti oris prohibited release of
j such names until after men had de
parted and forbid mention of exact
| date Qf de p arture as well as the in
duct j on station to which they were
j sent, although these regulations
j have been violated by many news
j pa pers and boards elsewhere.
Names of those finally accepted and
re j ecded dave been appearing even
tuady j n reclassifications but the
I public has been unable to deter
j ! mine from and published rejected releases in particu- those
accepted a
| j ar de iivery list. It is usually 30 to
days a fter departure before in
duct j ons are reported to the board,
I it is understood.
Following are those announced as
having been reclassified during the
last several meetings of the board:
| Curtis C. Smith, 3-A. .
j Curtis C. Smith, 1-A.
j John A. Huntley, 1-A. 1-A.
Earnest Hunter,
Charlie C. Williams, 1-A.
Roy Smith, 1-A.
Hubert B. Parker, 1-A.
Willie J. Moses, 1-A.
Sandy Youmes, 1-A.
Oscar Smith, 1-A.
j Albert Myles, 1-A
Thomas w Waldrop , i. A .
j Gordon William B. P. Trulock, Forrest, Jr., III, 1-A. 1-A.
Louie Duncan, 1-A.
Yates, Jn, 1-C.
Jim Stanley, 1-C.
Eddie Franklin? i_c.
Justis c Gordon, 1-C.
Horace C. Chapman, 1-C.
James W. Castleberry, 1-C.
j Roseli Dixon, 1-C.
£££dVuSt }£
j a ui e s L Davis, 1-C
(Continued on page seven).
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NUMBER 10.
Nazarene Revival Will
Begin Here March 28th
Rev. C. N. Haisten, pastor of the
Church of the Nazarene here, an
nounced this week that the annual
spring revival of this church will
begin on Sunday, March 28th, with
two services daily, morning and
evening, at hours yet to be fixed.
The public is cordially invited by
Mr. Haisten to join in this series
of evangelistic services, which will
continue for a week or ten days.
This church has been exceeding
ly fortunate this year in securing
the services of unusually able lead
ers. Rev. Jesse Middendorf, pastor
of the Woodbine Nazarene Church
in Nashville, Tenn., will be the
guest evangelist, and Rev. Robert
Bush, a student at Trevecca Col
lege, at Nashville, will be the sing
er and song leader. ■
SCHOOL ONE SESSION
SCHEDULE APPROVED
COUNTY-WIDE PLAN ADOPTED
TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO
WORK ON FARMS.
Cairo and county school officials
this week adopted a one-session
schedule for all of the white schools
in the county which will go into
effect next Monday, March 22nd, to
enable hundreds of students from
the farms to have almost a half-day
each school day to aid in relieving
the farm labor shortage.
Supt. John S. Herndon first an
nounced the one-session pian for the
Cairo Schools and County School
Supt. Wh Muggridge followed suit
with plans to make the change
county-wide insofar as white schools
are concerned.
Supt. Herndon said beginning
next Monday the Cairo Schools will
open at 8:30 a. m. and close at 1:15
p. m., CWT. Here, he said, the new
schedule will enable more than 400
students who can help on the farms
to get back to the farms by 2 p. m.
This schedule, he added, does not
eliminate any essential class-room
activity—only the recesses will be
cut and only the frills will be elim
inated, he stated. The high school
will still have six regular periods.
Patrons in Cairo proper object to
the one-session plan, ordinarily, but
dfficials are said to have disre
garded the wishes of the patrons in
Cairo proper entirely to provide for
this valuable contribution to the
war effort. Bumper crops of war
essential farm products are called
an absolute necessity this year.
Supt. Muggridge said the Whig
ham School would go on substan
tially the same schedule as that of
the Cyiro Schools but that the 12
other white schools in the county
will, beginning Monday, open at
8:15 a. m. and close at 1:45 p. m.,
CWT. He emphasized that these
schools will continue to provide for
lunches to be served the students
from the lunchrooms at the noon
hour since supplies and lunchroom
staffs are available for such.
Washington High School, Cairo’s
Negro institution, has been opera
ting almost on a one-session plan
and will continue as heretofore,
gupt Herndon said All of the oth
er Negro schools in the county will
continue as heretofore, also, Supt.
Muggridge said, since they are near
ing the close of their school term.
REPRESENTATIVE JONES
AT HOME.
Representative P. A. Jones, of
Grady county, returned home from
the Legislature in Atlanta last Mon
day—ill with influenza. An epi
demic of influenza has gripped the
Legislature for two weeks. Rep.
Jones was much improved Thurs
day.
Senator Jeff A. Pope, much im
proved from an attack of influenza
recently, is expected to return
shortly, since the Legislature’s ses
sion was concluded Thursday at 6
p. m.
Mr. Marshall A. Perkins was a
visitor here this week, the guest of
his brother, Mr. Sam Perkins, and
other relatives and friends. A for
mer resident of this county, he has
been away for a number of years
and has not been here on a visit for
some time. He was en route to
South Florida to locate. ,
THOMAS NEGRO HELD
FOR 2 MEAT THEFTS
JESSE CROMARTIE IS JAILED:
MAY BE LINKED WITH
OTHER THEFTS.
Jesse Cromartie, a rather well-to
do Negro who has been living and
operating a store in Thomas county
on * the Tallahassee-Thomasville
highway just at the entrance to
Melrose plantation, changed his
place of abode to Sheriff C. H.
Strickland’s Grady county jail a
few days ago to face at least two
and possibly several other felony
charges in this county and two
charges in his own county.
Sheriff Strickland said Assistant
Chief of Police Stacey Williams
here is due the credit for connecting
Cromartie with at least two almost
wholesale thefts of -meats, cane
syrup and sweet potatoes from
Grady countians. Such raids on
smoke-houses of Hugh L. Davis
and Hiram White, well-known farm
ers residing north of Whigham,
have been definitely charged to him
and similar raids at the farms of
Sam and George Gainous and sev
eral other well-known farmers dur
ing recent weeks may be later es
tablished as his work. In the thefts
from Messrs. Davis and White most
of the meat and other stolen prop
erty has been recovered, it is under
stood, due to the vigilance of local
officers.
Cromartie’s large scale operations
are said to have included quite a
number of legitimate purchases of
farm pfoduce in this and Thomas
counties but after the thefts some
of those involved became suspicious
and Assistant Chief Williams exer
cised his detective ability to trace
some of the Negro’s operations by
means of his truck tracks. m
Since the two charges here are
felonies carrying possible long sen
tences, the cases must await action
in Grady Superior Court which is
not scheduled to convene again un
til next Oct. 25th. The Thomas
county charges concern liquor
sales and possession.
DEFENDANTS ARE FINED IN
LIQUOR CASES.
The announced determination o£
city and county law enforcement of
ficers to curb insofar as possible
sales of beer, wine and liquor,
which are now illegal here, was re
flected in the arrest late last week
of two Negroes charged with pos
session of two cases of liquor, which
is considerably more than the le
gal limit. Sheriff C. H. Strickland
made the arrests.
The defendants, Mary Smith and
Harold Durr, entered pleas of guil
ty to the charges in City Court be
fore Judge G, L. Worthy last Fri
day morning. Judge Worthy sen
tenced Mary Smith to pay a fine
of $150 or serve 12 months on the
public works. Durr was sentenced
to pay a fine of $200 or serve 12
months. The fines have been paid
but Durr lost his job as Negro vo
cational teacher here as a result of
the case against him.
BURNEY RETURNED HERE
ON BIGAMY CHARGE.
Armed with a bench warrant,
Sheriff C. H. Strickland went to
Macon Thursday afternoon to bring
to the Grady county jail Marshall
T. Burney, a white man, charged
with bigamy.
Judge Carl*E. Crow here last
week over-ruled a motion for a
continuance of the case and order
ed the defendant brought here and
placed in jail pending a hearing be
fore him.
FIRST NEGRO WAAC FROM
CAIRO ACCEPTED.
The first Negro WAAC from
Cairo is Barbara Louise Glenn, who
took the examinations of the Wo
men’s Army Auxiliary Corps with
16 other Negro girls in Albany a
few d^ys ago and was among four
who were accepted.
The Cairoite is a graduate of
Washington High School, is 19 years
old and was falutaltorian of her
graduating class. Her father, W. M.
Glenn, and his wife, operate a truck C.
farm north of Cairo.
She has been ordered to report
in Atlanta next week for active
duty.