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FOUR
Whigham
News
LOCAL ITEMS AND OF INTEREST PERSONAL I
Everyone connected with the
Whigham School Lunchroom wishes
to thank each and everyone who con¬
tributed so liberally toward buying
the new gas range. Th ; s stove was
installed several days ago and is
serving the cooking needs in a won¬
derful way.
The lunchroom this year is under
the efficient management of Mrs.
Jack Crew. Over 350 pupils ate at
school last year under the fine ser¬
vice of Mrs. Lucibel Reed, home ec¬
onomics teacher, who is now teach¬
ing at Spence.
This year’s number of pupils eat¬
ing in the lunchroom is gradually
increasing up toward the 350 and
practically all of the faculty eat
there. They seem to enjoy the time
spent around the lunchroom tables
as a period of relaxation and fellow¬
ship. enjoy
The student group seem to
their meals with their teachers at
their service.
The building committee and school
officials want to express their ap¬
preciation to those people who have
contributed and are contributing
so freely of their money and time
toward a building program for the
school. Any who have not contribut¬
ed and wish to do so please contact
one of the following men: Alphonso
Harrell, J. D. Lewis or W. C. Lane.
Rev. J. Gorham Garrison, Supt. of
the Ochlocknee Public School, was
guest speaker at a meeting of the
community planning group last
week. Supt. Garrison very forci¬
bly brought light to the importance
or the necessity for bringing the
school to the people. Other inter¬
esting speeches were made by
County School Superintendent Wh.
Muggridge and Mr. Henry Hester,
chairman of the Grady County
Board of Education.
A number of patrons and teach¬
ers met at the school library last
Friday night and laid some specific
plans for organizing a Parent-Teach¬
er Association. All who are inter¬
ested ir the welfare of the school
are urged to attend this organiza¬
tional meeting Monday night, Sept.
30th, at 8 o’clock in the school libra¬
ry.
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WHIGHAM F. F. A. NEWS.
Thursday night, Sept. 19th, the
Whigham Chapter of the Future
Farmers of America, held its first
regular night meeting for the new
fiscal year.
The purpose of the meeting was
to raise any new students in the
department to the green land de¬
gree. The meeting was called to
order by the president, Wendell
Mobley, and all officers were at
their stations during the opening
closing ceremony.
During the business session re¬
ports on different standing commit¬
tees were given by the chairmen of
the committees and details worked
out for the initiation ceremony.
Among visitors present were form¬
er students and chapter members,
Madison Brock, Wayne Ulmer, and
Edsel Harrell, Mr. Frank Harrell and
Mr. M. J. Perkins were present also.
During the initiation ceremony
the following students were given
the green land degree, Lamon
Adams, Larry Arline, Wayne Ben¬
nett, Lenard Brock, Lynwood Brock,
Bill Brinkley, Millard Collins, A. J.
Cox, Vernon Dixon, Billy Foster,
John V. Frieson, Alton Harris, Jr.,
Billy Jowers, Buryi Logue, Benny
Mobley, Lloyd Robinson, Clayton
Ulmer, II, William Vickers, and
Charles Williams.
The present chapter enrollment of
68 members is the largest enroll¬
ment in the history of the Whigham
Chapter and Chaster Reporter Jos¬
eph Robinson wishes to state that
all preparations are well under way
for the best Future Farmer program
and supervised project program in
the history of the Chapter and De¬
partment.
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Ffiends of Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Hand are pleased to learn Mrs.
Hand was able to return home last
week after a lengthy illness at the
Archbold Hospital in Thomasville.
She is steadily improving.
Mrs. Clyde Howard has returned
to her home in Moultrie, after a visit
of several days with Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Howard here.
Miss Christine Collins spent last
week-end in Bainbridge as the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Coker and
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Brown.
Mrs. J. E. Harden and her moth
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INTERIOR of Bob’s Grocery on reopening day. Left to right: Bob Gandy,
Edward Harrell, Mrs. Bob Gandy, E. A. Gandy, Mrs. Fred Bell, Mrs.
Bill Gainous, Jimmy Long and Mrs. Audrey Gandy. Photo Courtesy of
Flowers Bakery.
MISS BROWN BETROTHED
TO MR. WILLIAMS.—
Of sincere interest is the an,
nouncement recentfy by Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Brown of Dawson of the
engagement of- their daughter, Caro¬
lyn, to Albert -Thomas Williams of
Waynesboro and Atlanta, the mar¬
riage to take place October 5th at the
Dawson Methodist Church.
The bride-elect’s mother is the
former Miss Bertha Brim, daughter
of Mr. Ernest Brim and the late
Freddie McRee Brim of Dawson.
Her paternal grandparents are the
late Claude Maxwell and William
B. Brown of Cairo.
Miss Brown graduated from the
Dawson High School and later at¬
tended Wesleyan Conservatory at
Macon. At the present time she is
employed by the Mitchell and Gaines
Insurance Company in Atlanta.
Mr. Williams is the son of Mrs.
Amy Lou Oliver of Waynesboro. A
graduate of the Waynesboro High
School, he served 44 months in the
Army Air Force, part of which time
was spent in the Aleutians. Follow¬
ing his discharge he was connected
with H. M. Patterson & Son in At¬
lanta. At the present time he is
attending Georgia School of Tech¬
nology.
COUNTY HOSPITAL IS
TO BE SOUGHT
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ability will not come here unless
hospital facilities are provided on
such a basis. Various communities
in this area are cited as proof, both
of the advantages to be derived from
a community hospital and the tragic
setbacks from failure to provide
such facilities. Moreover, it is em¬
phasized that five to 10 years will
be required for the building up of an
adequate hospital personnel and that
the Cairo Hospital should be acquir¬
ed at least as a nucleus so that no
more time should be lost in start¬
ing the building of a personnel suf¬
ficient to meet the future demands
of a growing community.
At Monday’s conference, it was re¬
ported that a decided upsurge of
approval of the county or com¬
munity hospital plan had been
voiced from all parts of the county
since the proposal was first advanc¬
ed by the Chamber of Commerce
seevral weeks ago. Moreover, it
was reported, people, generally, are
becoming more conscious all the
time of the revolution that has taken
place in the last 10 to 20 years as to
the feeling that adequate public
hospital facilities are essential to
any community’s welfare. None of
the modern methods of medical diag¬
nosis and treatment are available
outside hospitals, it is said, a fact of
which more and more people are be¬
coming aware all the time.
W. H. Robinson is chairman of the
central citizens hospital committee,
with Henry Hester, Jr., Julien B.
Roddenbery, Mayor R. R. Van Land
ingham and W. E. Young as the
other members. The larger group,
and other interested citizens, are
invited to join the committee in ap¬
pearing before the County Commis¬
sioners at their regular monthly
meeting here next Tuesday.
W. C. T. U. HOLDS DISTRICT
INSTITUTE HERE THURSDAY.—
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union held a district institute at the
First Methodist Church here Thurs¬
day with the district president, Mrs.
J. W. Parham, of Albany, presidin§.
The most active Unions in the dis¬
trict are Albany, Boston, Bainbridge,
Cairo, Moultrie, Ochlocknee, Pel¬
ham and Thomasville.
The opening devotional was given
by Rev. Paul Barrett, minister of
the Cairo circuit, followed by a vocal
duet by Miss Mary Dyson and Mrs.
Olen Dekle accompanied by Mrs. C.
A. Curry.
The president of the hostess un¬
ion, Mrs. J. E. Forsyth, in her unique
manner, extended the words of wel¬
come.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1946
SYRUP DECONTROL
TO BE SOUGHT
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chief user of syrup is the housewife,
who wants it as a table delicacy. Toj
safeguard this market, the mainstay
of the syrup industry, Roddenbery
and other large packers are packing
syrup in small containers to insure
its reaching this legitimate channel.
When put up in large packages of
gallon and half-gallon sizes, it all
too easily finds its way to these war¬
time markets as a sugar substitute.
Mr. Roddenbery further emphasized
that syrup is a difficult commodity
to sell and that when sugar is
again plentiful, the housewife is the
only one who will buy syrup, hence
the necessity of continuing to sup¬
ply the domestic market.
Mr. Wingate then expressed hope
that the Grady County Farm Bu¬
reau would reach its quota of 1,126
members this year, stressing that a
large membership provides greater
authority and will carry much great¬
er influence in the effort to secure
decontrol of syrup. The state Farm
Bureau goal this year is 50,000
members and prospects indicate that
this number will be attained. An
interesting fact brought out by Mr.
Wingate is that 45 percent of the na¬
tion’s farmers are in the 13 south¬
ern states. Thus farmers are poten¬
tially the most powerful group in
America.
With the disquieting statement
that “Unless the farmers become
highly organized, we will not have
private enterprise in this country
ten years from now—that means
that YOU won’t own your farms!”
Mr. Wingate urged that the farmers
organize in order to combat this
threat, warning concurrently that
the nation is in the most critical state
in its history. He considers this
threat to the farmers and to private
enterprise centered in the CIO and
other organizations which he regards
as the spearhead of Communism in
this country.
With strong comment and a chal¬
lenge to anyone to deny the truth of
his words, the forceful speaker went
on to explain the Communist infilt¬
ration into American labor through
CIO-PAC and correlated this with
the Henry Wallace debacle in Wash¬
ington last week, Mr. Wingate hav¬
ing been in the capital at the time.
“The time is near when we, the
Solid South, will have to take stock
and choose between our country and
our party,” he said, clarifying this
statement by declaring that “our ad¬
ministration has coddled labor until
labor is right now telling them what
to do.” The most forceful way to
combat this threat by labor, in Mr.
Wingate’s opinion, is for the na¬
tion’s farmers to become strongly
organized against it and then the
business people and lovers of the
American way of life will follow
suit. “Farmers, if properly organiz¬
ed, are the strongest group in the
country, and they can do the job.”
Capt. H. Maxwell Reynolds arrived
in New York Saturday from duty
overseas. He was discharged Wed¬
nesday and is now on his way home,
his friends will be glad to learn.
Miss Valda Ragan, formerly of
Cairo, now residing in Tampa is
at home with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Ragan convalescing from
a serious apendectomy operation she
underwent at the Municipal Hospital
in Tampa. Hope is expressed that
she will soon be able to resume her
duties.
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The foMowing members of the
Womans Society of Christian Service
of the Methodist Church attended
the Training Saminae for the Thom
asville District in Albany on Wed¬
nesday, September 18th: Mesdames
J. W. Hitch, R. P. Wight, J. S. Wight,
R. S. Jones, R. R. Van Landingham
and Wayne Walker. Mrs. Hitch was
in charge of the entire program; in¬
teresting suggestions and helps fob
the study course on India were ably
presented by Mrs. R. P. Wight.
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LET'S ALL GET BEHIND
THE CAIRO
BOND ISSUE
The Future Progress Of Our Grow¬
ing City Is At Stake On This Big Issue.
All Local Civic Organizations are Sup¬
porting It and We Suggest We All Join
Together and Actively Seek An Over¬
whelming Endorsement On Election
Day.
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