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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
S1.50-S2 A YEAR, in advance.
VOLUME XL VI.
CAIRO 10 HAVE SUNDAY MOVIES
CITY COUNCIL ISSUES PERMIT
Opposition May
Force Election
Recreation Program
ApPr AnnrnvuH- 2Xi« Poolroom r ? 0,r00m
Gets $300 License
The City Council in meeting
! Tuesday night voted to issue a
■ permit for the showing of Sunday
movies in Cairo, with the restric¬
tion that they not be shown dur¬
ing church hours.
This action by the Council came
after much interest in the issue
had been shown here and in near¬
by towns, and all indications were
that Cairo, without Sunday mov¬
ies, would have been surrounded
by shows on Sunday. Robert
Johnson, representing the theat¬
ers, presented their request for
a permit before the Council. Rev.
W. 0. Hand, Nazarene Minister
and Secretary of the Cairo Min¬
isterial Alliance appeared before
the body in protest of Sunday
shows.
It is reliably reported that the
opposition . . to , such , shows , are now
circulating a petition m a move to ;
„ecure the signature of 2 d percent
of the registered voters inCairo,
If this number is secured, then
the petition will be presented to
the Council at its next meeting.
The Council then must call a ref¬
erendum within 60 days, and in
such election the majority of votes
cast will decide the issue.
As a result of the recent change
:n the law r , and the council’s ac
tion in issueing the local theaters
a permit to operate on Sunday,
the Zebulon Theater has arrang¬
ed for a show
priately enough, the first movie
to be featured here will be “One
Sunday Afternoon.” This is a
technicolor musical, staring Den¬
nis Morgan, and Janet Paige. The
box office will open at 2:00 p. m.,
and be closed between the hours
of 6:00 and 9:00 p. m.
Robert Johnson, speaking for
the management of the local thea
ters, said operations" Thursday afternoon SundTs
continued on
here will likely adjacent depend upon op
erations in towns He
said if either of these places per
nuts Sunday movies continued op
erations here on Sundays would
be necessary from the standpoint
of protecting Cairo interests
In the event of continued Sun
day operations here it also ap
Peered the American Legion
uLding fund might bG offGrGd !
a share of the net proceeds did no7 on i
Sundays. Mr. Johnson
this phase but indicated
a v «y conciliatory attitude
War d all community interests in- :
rolved. I
He. d i d say that they
would not now or at any time
consider running the theater dur
in § church service hours.
Other important action taken
J h y the Council was the
'- 0 set license for pool in
'he city rooms
The at $300 a year
ci ty fathers also approved
'mal pl ans for a year-round
creation re
tnU-time program, employing a
Z director, and set aside
Pessary funds to operate
Pr °k gram The recreation di¬
'
rertA naS not
ed but K yet be en employ
. Wll] be in
’ the future.
near
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I t mgbam Mrs. J.
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[hay Miss \t%+- 7 SS Collins T earl left Belcher and
fV- Co ^ umbus where Wednes- they
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ence annua l confer
Chris:h Woman ’ s Society of
Ch^ c erv ^ °I
list ce t be Metho
ther “ Ur(:b which is convening
Und e P°a Wednesd Thursday
ay,
- ““ week, Mrs.
tary 33 conference secre
cietv ■csentatiS of f the Woman’s g ° 38 ^ So
ant , Wesleyan
Guii d Service
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Church a ^ ro Methodist
Kiwanians Hear
Music At Tuesday
Luncheon Meet
Cairo Kiwanians at their week
ly luncbeon meeting Tuesday
heard three musicians from the
local high sch ° o1 in a P r °g ram of
wbicb J - H - House, head of the
schools > was chairman. Norwood
CIark < the cIub President, presid
ed '
Miss Anne Halley, the piano in¬
structor, offered piano numbers
and was accompanist for vocal
numbers by Dorothy Brown and
David Elkins, students who will
f represent Cairo at the district
meet here next month. They were
all enthusiastically received.
j One-year awarded perfect by attendance Judge G.
tabs were
! L. Worthy to Rev. R. C. Perry, Jr.
and George Smith. Guests includ
ed Carolyn Johnson and Joan Mc
Nair from the Tri-Hi-Y; Thomas
ville Kiwanians Joe Ellington, C.
E. Layton, Dan Redd and Bob
Hiers, and the latter’s guest, Clif¬
ford Williams; Sol.-Gen. Maston
O’neal, Bainbridge; and A. T.
Johnson, B. M. Lee and Ford
Maxwell, this county.
I
Slip (Cairo
The Official Organ of Grady County.
The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
SIXTEEN PAGES
I Vance Custer of Bainbridge was
the guest speaker before the re
gular weekly Rotary luncheon
1 meeting at the Citizens Cafe Wed
nesday ’ where he delivered a sti
mulating talk on “ Rotary Ser
vice ’
Visitors at the luncheon were
Bab Yorke, of Valdosta; Parker
Poe, W. A. Walt, and W. E. Mc
Tier of Thomasville; W. C. Max¬
well, Cairo; Judge Carl E. Crowe
of Camilla; and Sol.-Gen. Maston
O’Neal of Bainbridge.
Grady Economy
Looks Favorable
Half LteS Million 0 * Annual
r P ayrOll II I l-asr #■ Y Tear
Most recent figures on the,,
economy of Grady county, pub
lished by the U. S.
Qf Commercej show that in 1948
there were 138 firms in the coun _
ty employing 1,235 persons with
taxable payrolls approximating
$476,000, according to C. Parker
Persons, Commerce Department
regional director in Atlanta. This |
amounted to an average taxable,
Establishments, Employment and;
Taxable Pay Rolls” and is based
upon data provided under the old
age and survivors insurance pro
^
from Florida and Louisiana, Off,
cials warn everyone against re¬
ceiving potatoes or plants from
■these two states, particularly.
ine regulations are quite tar
planting or sweet potatoes
in regulated areas, since the most
Ilmn 6 ic subs'st lx i
weevils which seldom '
weevns, which seldom subsist ex
cept on sweet potatoes. State
and Federal entomologists say
the menace can be eradicated this
F vear or next “ with the full co-od
e ° PVPrvnT1 y p
Several Fire Alarms
TIllS Week* # Buf Only !
'
amaii c n uamage — uone rv
The fire department has within
the last few days answered sev¬
eral alarms, but no great damage I
has resuhed. Last Sunday morn¬ !
ing at 8:Oh o’clock the fire trucks
were called out to a small grocery
store on Booker Hill. The dam
to the stock and
Other facts and figures supplied
for Grady county include the fol¬
lowing:
Contract construction, 60 per
j sons $lu2,000, employed, taxable payroll
8 firms.
| Manufacturing, 515 employed,
taxable payroll $135,000, 23
™'
PuWlC r ........ Utllltles 64 .. employed, . ,
’
Wholesale p trade 134 employed, 5 firms^
’
taxable payro11 $64 ’ 000 ’ 14 firmS ‘
^ , f tail $ I3 5,000, 55 firms, ^
f“ e ’ m f 7 ura f e ; a " d P3Y rea]
'
’
ril I $14 ’ 000 ’ 4 * rms ‘
.
Service industries 102 1AO employ- .
ed ’ taxable P a y ro11 $31,000, 27
Brms ‘
Similar information is given
f ° r aU ° ther counties in the State ’
and als ° for the State 35 3 whole
il ? the ^
1 16 at the U ' S Bepartipent pf
Commerc e m Atlanta & for 15
cents.
was perhaps $300, said Fire Chief
Auldin Hawtnorn. But this, he
said, was sufficiently covered by |
insurance i
A t 7.1 k Mondav moraine an
ilarm was sounded for a fire at
L he residence of Sarah Wooten,
colored on 6th Ave S W ’ bet- ■
ter known as Pine Tuck. This
house was burning all over when
the fire equipment arrived was’ it was
reported, and nothing saved,
It is understood that there was
$750 insurance on this houseJ
However Chief Hawthorn point
ed out that the fire department
saved two adjoining houses dne’to which the'
would have burned, |
high winds that morning. Other
alarms answered were brush
firec and a lumber stack
Rev. and Mrs. G. N. Rainey |
have as their guest for several
days Mrs. Rainey’s brother, Mr.
Dan Morris, of Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Isaacs, Jr.,
and daughters, Marilyn and Sand¬
ra, of Bainbridge, spent the
week-end here as guests of Mrs.
Isaacs parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.
W .Gainous.
CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949.
Quarantine For
A "‘
Local agencies last Friday re¬
ceived Grady county maps and
' copies of the full regulations
1 show ing the quarantine or regu
f 1&ted for 1949 in the con
j tinued fight on the serious sweet
potato weevil menace.
Officials said that in rural
areas every effort had been made
to personally advise every farm¬
er in the area under quarantine.
However, the entire Ci'ty of
Cairo, and an area extending a
mile from the city limits in all
directions, continues under ban,
and the under-manned staff has
found it impossible to contact
everyone involved in the Cairo
community.
The maps at the County Agent’s
office and Chamber of Commerce
office clearly define the quaran
tine aieas in the county and
signs have been posted on
antine areas r0U § b Iy speaking, ^
’
complises most of the northeastern
quarter of the county; an area of
a mile radius around a live in
festation southeast of Cairo; and
ia narea of a mile radius north of
Whigham in the Union Springs
community.
It is learned that progress is
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and in
Youth Center Is
To Be Open Soon
23 Merchants Donate
$3,600 To See YOUth
Dream Come True
The Cairo teen-ager’s dream of
i a Teen Canteen is now becoming
a reality!
i As a project first begun by the
i enterprising members of the Cairo
Woman’s C lub, the old Frank
Brawn residence at the corner of
Broad Street and Fifth Avenue,
S. W., was recently purchased and
is now being transformed into an
attractive building, which will
soon be humming with the whole
some activities of Cairo’s and
Grady County’s Youth.
A group of 23 business people
contributed $3,600 with which the
j property was bought, and deeded
to the Woman - s Club. Mrs. H. L.
j Cheneyt Preside nt of the Club,
sa i d; “We are most grateful to the
5usiness people for this
jsr jn and
g roups bere w cooperate
join with us in making this worth
j j while youth project a real success,
| j one which will pay rich dividends
by in building wholesome people. ’ character |
our young
The interior of the building has
been changed considerably to ac
comodate the various interest j
groups The present plans include
a large recreation room, a game
room, club room, a committee
room - and a kitchen - with an in -
viting snack bar.
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the old residence. Each of the j
various high sch ° o1 clubs ’ Key
Club ’ Hi Y ’ Tri Hi Y ’ Beta Club ’
H ' A ” and F ' F ’ A ' and D ‘ C '
new canteen, under the direction
of Mr. Wh Muggridge,
Arts Instructor.
A special committee, with Supt.
j H House as chairman>
studied and set up a tentative
plan for operation of the
Center A Bcard of Directors will
^ com Posed of 16 student mem
berS> tW ° fr ° m eaCh gr3de leWl
in high schoo l and one member
f each f the 8 clubs a t CHS
and 16 corresponding memb ers of
+u„ th WAm Woman „.L s pi,.h Club S ormm roup ThP Tbe
-
canteen will be operated by the
teen-agers, under the supervision
of adult advisors. Each of the
board members will serve as
chairman of one of the function- j
ing committees. More details
for the working plan of operation
wil1 ^ worked out soon - and
the canteen is expected to be
completed within a week or two,
with activities starting immedi
a t e ly
The committee appointed from
the Woman’s Club to work with
the students in remodeling the
building is: Mrs. R. R. Van
Landingham, Mrs. Earl Harrison,
Mrs. H. T. LeGette, Mrs. J. H.
House, Mrs. Albert Collins, Mrs.
Robert Johnson, Mrs. H. F. Beard
en, A Mrs. lar S e Slater number Wight. of High School j |
students have been very active ;
in helping to plan, and in parti- ;
cipating in the actual work of re
modeling and redecorating the
Those contributing to the pur
of the canteen follow:
Motor Co., Citizens Bank,
- B - Roddenbery Co., Cairo j
Co., Wight Hardware
-. J - T - Mayfield, Julius Gil
Jake Poller, I. Kramer, J. ;
Wight, H. L. Cheney, S. B. j
Bob Gandy, L. L. Davis,
Harrison, R. E. Johnson, C.
Strickland.
Faulk Chevrolet Sales Co., |
Williams, Farmers’ R. S. Jones, Fertilizer Ira j j
Jr.,
and R. R- Van Landingham.
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■Mrs. Guyton Singletary and ;
Neri and Frances, of j
spent the week-end |
as guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.
Gainous.
SIXTEEN PAGES
Li «^ k
Movel,pward
No. 1 Hogs 19c
Cattle Higher
Both cattle and hog prices
[ moved upward again at Tuesday’s
| auction sale here, Cairo Live¬
stock Auction Co. management re
j ported.
No. 1 hogs sold for 19c a pound,
1 more than 100 points above board
j quotations for the day. No. 2s i
| j were 17.70c a pound. Feeder pigs
again were in demand at good
prices.
Cattle were $1 to $2 per cwt.
higher with increased demand.
J Offerings in the sale were in less
volume than the week before.
Elsewhere in The Messenger
this week is an ad containing
facsimile reproductions of two of¬
ficial state reports on the scales
at Cairo Livestock Auction Co.
As the reports indicate, the scales
were given the highest rating in
official tests recently.
u. r. e. Beid..*
iveifiains Dgmajne Ta I O Mrnve Arrive
Saturday Morning
The remains of 2nd Lieut,
Bobe rt E. Belchei, son of the Rev.
S. A. Belcher, of Macon, and the
fote Mrs. Goldie Sasesr Belcher,
w ho was killed in a bomber
crasb i n Australia on March 2,
1943 while serving in the Army
Air Force> Wl]1 , arrive here S at
urday morning from the
tion center in Atlanta. Lieut,
Belcher was born in Brazil in
The funeral service will be
held at the chapel of Forsyth
Bearden Home at 4 o’clock Sun
day afternoon with the Rev. G.
W ‘‘ ^ th ^ Ci “™ “ '“T**' me ‘ er
Members of the Grady County
American Legion Post will serve
as pallbearers.
■ -phe deceased’s parents were
| and reared in Cairo; his
mother died in Macon Feb. 14,
1948< her rem ains were buried
! in tbe Cairo cem etery. His fath
e „ is making his home with his
da nghter, Mrs. R. L. Murray in
Arlington lved va Lieut Belcher is
also ^ s urv by another Hammond’ sister
T B Kelly of
Ind., and brother, „ Sammy
one
Be i c her, of Danville, Va. Mrs.
M ammie Matthews, of Cairo, is j
his mate rnal aunt.
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Milk Producers Ask
2 Cents Reduction .
(n Price Of Milk i
At a meeting last Thursday
night of the Milk Producers of
the Cairo Milk Shed, it was de¬
cided to request the State Milk
Control Board to reduce the price
of milk in Cairo and vicinity to
22 cents a quart, effective April
1st.
The reason for the
from the present 24 cents, accord
ing to Frank Garrett of the May
field Creamery, was the fact that
during the summer feed costs and
general care of the cattle are less
expensive for the milk producers.
Therefore they feel that they can
pass this small reduction along to
the consumer.
Tests made at the Mayfield
show that the (people
of Cairo are and have been get
exceptionally high grade
milk, which is unusually free of
State law says
milk must contain 4
ibutterfat. Recent tests
the local product contain-
4.4 percent butterfat. The
Public Health Code says past
milk is allowed 30,000 bac
(germs, etc.) per c.c., but not
than that. Latest test at the
Creamery and show these only tests 500 j
per c.c.,
consistently run below 5,000
per c.c. This means that
local milk is considerably
free from bacteria than the
says it must be.
O. C. Turner, of Ashburn, a
j businessman but a former teacher
of music and singing at Ashbury
College, Louisville, Ky., will ar
rive Saturday to be the song
leader. This team is expected to
bring a season of great spiritual
refreshment to the people of the
community, yarious groups, in
eluding the Kiwanis Club, plan
to attend some of the services en
masse.
In preparation for the revival,
First Methodist Church has had
special dedication services each
. this week with visiting .
evening
ministers as speakers. Rev. O.
C. Cooper, of Bainbridge, will ba
the speaker at 7:30. A visitation
campaign is in progress, also.
-
Mrs. Glenn Brown will have
as her guests for the week-end
her brother, Mr. R. H. William
son, his wife and daughter, of
Birmingham, Ala., and Mr.
George Draffin, Jr., of Hunting
ton, Ark.
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GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS
NUMBER 9.
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GUEST EVANGELIST: Above j
is shown Rev. Frank L. Rob
of Hawkinsville, said by I
to be the ablest of the
I young ministers of the South
j Georgia Methodist Conference,
who will be guest evangelist for
the Methodist revival here next
week. Week-day services Mon
day through Friday will be at
j 10 a. m. at the Zebulon theater
and at 7:30 p. m. at the First
■ Methodist Church. Song leader
will be O. C. Turner, of Ashburn,
a businessman who is a former
music teacher in Asbury Colllege.
Everyone is invited to attend
j these services.
-
Melodist Will
flfiffg K&VIYCll
Morning Week Services
Neitf- 6X1 YtccK jci Set '
At TheatGI*
;
First Methodist Church here
has completed plans and prepa
rations for its annual spring re
vival, which will open next Sun
da Y and continue through the fol
lowin S Sunday, March 20th, the
Pastor, Rev. G. N. Rainey, an
nounced.
Sunday Following 11 the opening and services 7:30 j
at a. m. p.
m. morning services Monday
through Friday next week will
b e at 10 a. m., for 45 minutes only,
at Zebulon theater, where large
crowds attended a similar series
a few years ago. Business con
cerns are being asked to co-op
erate by either closing for the
morning services or permitintg as
many of their employees evening as pos- j
sible to attend. The j
services will be at the church at j
7:30.
Frank Guest L. evangelist Robertson, will of Hawkins- be Rev. j j
ville, regarded by many as the :
ablest of the younger ministers
of the South Georgia Conference,
who will arrive Monday to re- 1
through the following Sun- !
into all matters coming to their
attention, and a “true presemt
ment” make, without discrimina
tion. He also called special at
tention to another part of the
oath requiring grand jurors to
keep secret all proceedings in
the grand jury room “unless
they are called upon to give testi
mony in some court of this state
thereon.”
Most of the charge dealt with
the new state voter re-registra
—
w voter registrations in
each county during the next sev
eral months > the lists to be for
in elections next year and
thereafter. Judge Crow briefly
“ J e oHijl had ,-"f cc^y reCC of : Ved the
and an declared , it . t quite far-reaching
and much importance. He
mentioned that the task imposed
b y the act likely will be a tedi
ous and expensive one, because
of the duties imposed upon the
the registrars to require every
voter to meet complicated quali
f ic ations prescribed.
Judge Crow called on the grand
jury to nominate six upright
citizens of the county, according
t 0 ^ ac i t which he is em
powered to name three to corn
pose the .board of registrars to
the re-registration, with
assistance of the Tax Corn
and other needed
i er ks. (The grand jury, in sub
its report Wednesday aft
moon, nominated Early Gandy,
Walter Gainey, Frank Mont
Sr., Edwin Paschel, W.
Prince and Marvin G. Patter
n.)
The grand jury had only nine
matters to investigate
completed most of these in
Monday, continuing
and until noon Wednes
j n its investigation of gener
\ cc>U nty affairs. True bills were
against only four per¬
Four were returned
Charlie Lewis, a Negro of the
Whigham community. One
charged murder in the traffic
dea th of Jesse A. MiHer, 56, a
well-known farmer of the Whig
community, last Christmas
eve) 0 n the highway (U. S. 84) in
t,he eastern edge of Whigham.
Lewis is alleged to have been the
dr i ve r of a car which collided
head-on with a car in which Mr.
Miller was a passenger. Lewis
, s a is 0 indicted for driving on the
wr0 ng side of the highway, driv
in g under the influence of an in
toxicant and leaving the scene of
an accident. He will go to trial
nex t Monday or Tuesday. He is
j n j a ;i bere _
Also named in a true bill is
Calvin Murry Dixon, a young
wb j te man, native of this com
rnunity, now a resident of Tal
lahassee, who is charged with as
S ault with attempt to rape, the
victim being a 13-year-old white
(Continued on page 5)
Cnmina! Cases
Next Monday
Few Matters Are
Brought Before The
March Grand Jury
The regular March term of
Grady Superior Court opened at
9 a. m. Monday and the grand
jury was organized with the elec
tion of R. A. (Alfonso) Harrell
as foreman, G. W. Cook as bailiff
and Louis A Powell as clerk.
Judge Carl E. Crow, of Camil¬
la, presiding, in a timely and
interesting 40-minute charge to
the grand jury, emphasized anew
the seriousness of the unusual re
sponsibilities imposed by law
upon those who serve as grand
He particularly stressed
part of their oath calling
upon them to “diligently inquire”