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5I.50.S2 A year, in ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
92 Seniors Will
Graduate Here
Jo Ann McNair Gets
Top Honor Place;
Ten Others Named
of £ the Cairo _ .
i j h. House, Supt.
Public Schools, today announced
Che Lender school calendar ,including for the the re
of the term
Lrnmencement events, and
i j that 92 seniors will ra
.
I | C i vp diplomas in graduating
Ked rises on Tuesday night, May
lx***- on the theme “Our
Lfwerated T'the tice
Cairo
school last year, and which prov
|ed quite popular, the senior class
will be in charge of the graduat
lug exercises, with Shirley Lyons
Living as student chairman. subjects Stu¬
dent speakers and their
Le L" as follows: “People of Geor
by Billy Barton; “Educa
Eon L In Georgia” by Jo Ann Me
a ir; "Agriculture in Georgia”
lb Billy Stringer; and “Industry
In Georgia” by Beth Stanfill.
I The following eleven students,
■with Ireceived their respective everages,
the coveted titles of
[Honor Graduates of the Class of
E949: Lyons Jo Ann McNair 96.3 Shirley
96.1, Lucile Pharis 95.3,
Beth Stanfill 93.5, Brunell Kin
then |carolyn 93.3, Love Rehberg 93.0,
Johnson 91.5, Bobby
Barlow 91.1, Billy Stringer 90.9,
Kane Whigham 90.7, and Mittie
Kean Pitts 90.0.
The _ Lcuity , committee ,, work- ,
L U ' ‘ Roh U W^ht g P r?r
bn Jiss Evelyn p Pope and , Miss
dolyn Arhne. Mr Mdtad
™ 0f faculty will be in
L by A, I, and 1 Mrs. Helen ' ‘ ,y ’ TT Holloway n n ay
Fill Lu coach the senior play, which
L be presented L Friday night ’
‘ ‘
[ I The Baccalaureate sermon will
be Lie preached by the Rev.
1, Rainey ; ^ Pastor of 0 the 1 e First :
Methodist Church, according to
Ihe rotation plan. These services
fre to be Sunday night May 30, at
1:30 Calp’nHa'r p, m.
I Calendar fn for the remainder of .
heschoclyear is listed below:
lr Friday, May 13. . . Junior Seni
Banquet
I TuesHav Mb., 17 t>’ ,3
nts.
May 18, 19, 20, Senior exams.
Friday, May 20, Senior Play.
May 25, 26, 27, Exams, all
fades except seniors.
Friday, May 27 . . .Last day of
chool.
s ®day, May 29 Raccalaur
. . .
ate Service (8:30 p. m.)
Monday, May 30 . . . Class day, ’
eport cards given out.
Tuesday, May 31 . . . Gradua-
1011 exercises.
May 30-June 3 Post School
. . .
feek for teachers.
June 6-11 Senior Trip.
. . .
fo connectinn with graduation
Supt. House made public
‘ ;9tter he had received from the
2 ,“ n 15trar § high a t praise Emory at Oxford,
to the students
w® ^ T!ie com e letter from Cairo High
low. is reprinted
" ar Mr. House:
In ehe ck;ng over adml
. our
.-A we fmd that seven
d Uates of Cairo High School
a '’ e entered Emory
CV*** at Oxford
We five years.
° re h a PPy to report that
h.S Aas an exceptionally
;■? of fine
boys, all of whom re-
1 L = Cld“b be hi?h ex Pected sch001 of <"W»I one of
L 1 adm § high
P‘ gla w schools in South
P express - e demm it a privlege
L quality ity 01 U J students ap P reciatl °n
r rod ucing and you are
the trust that we may
L7 Vlce opportunity to l ° be 06 of 01
r to raw* ,hers. We ill are send
>8 a copy 0 f
Parate cover our catalog under
les. for your reference
M’ith eV ; ry g00d wish,
I am
A /fi.neerely yours,
“ THORNE .Registrar,
Airport Runways
Work Finished
Under the supervisibn of Dick i
S'
airport, now under construction
were planted in Bermuda grass
seed this week—another step to
ward the completion of the air
port, which is expected to be |
ready for uge in tWQ Qr three
mon ths, now. Sod runways will 1
i accomodate all except the larger
t y pes 0 f a j rcra ft
. .
| ° mi ® liag ™ ov
nee s 0 ^ on ® an * en * ^ Te
; ]S e naa er 0 atl a nai ni ® ra -
building . of some kind . to
zsszzlts.
j | the CAA, the P®« along ‘° be with ^cognized fuel sup¬ by
! plies. At least one hangar is to j
j be built shortly in the admini¬
stration area. I j
CAA a few days ago revealed
tentative plans to seek Federal
funds to raise the airport from
j a Class the 1 1949-50 to a Class fiscal 2 status dur
j year.
Cairo Schools I
Get New Coach
1 J. P. Miller Will
J Assume Duties
j Here June 1
I „ Cairo . High , School _ , . , has a new
three coach - yea J - R rs Miler of varsity ’ 28 | veteraR football f
:U of f^ Georgia, r WS ^ as well u S ’ as an V6rS out f
stand i. ng record as Assistant
coach at Waycross, Manchester
■ and Pensacola schools, was hired
; as Cairo’s coach last week, Lloyd
Conn ei]. County Supt. of Educa
' Hon has ’ announced.
! Mr. Miller-a native of South c ,,
'Carolina comes here highly re
| commende d b y th e authorities of
^ ree cf.hr.ola " ’. where he held as
sistant coaching positions, ... and ,
1h& begt o{ reco mmendation S
f Coach Wallace Butts at tht
T I niversity . of f Geo g f rrvm whirh
,
he holds a master s degree, and
d ag captain f of the team in
hig sen or year , playing the
position of guard.
Other college honors include
Gridiron Club, G-Club, and me
ber of Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities in 1945.
Supt. J. D. Salter, of the Way
cross Public schools, where Mil¬
ler was assistant coach last year,
said they were very reluctant to
let him leave; but that he was
definitely ready for a head
I coaching position. Salter also
stated that Miller played a very
prominent part in developing the
YTaycross powerhouse in 1948,
v/hich was regarded by many
South Georgia fans as the best
all-around football team in the
conference, having lost to the
! Fitzgerald state champions by
I only two points. of the
j J. T. McCord, Principal
-
Pensacola high school said that
it he had a vacancy as head coach,
J- P- Miller would be his firs
| j choice. of the Manchester
Supt. Acree,
Public schools stated that Mr.
Miller was a- very successful
I coach there, and turned out a
splendid team, despite the fact
(that his materia, was very limit Mi
j ed. He said further that when
1 st resigned at Manchester to
' go to Waycross, the school auth
and tens did everythmg
i possible to keep him m Manches
ter.
J- H. House, Supt. of the Cairo
Schools, said. We feel w p e
have a good man as our new
coach, and think we are fort
unate in securing his services.
'
I Catch - , , Miller, A/riier a a mem m p m ber of
i
1 the Christian Church, is marriea
! and has two small sons. He will
I take up his duties here June 1,
and will assist Ralph Studebaker
in the recreation program for tne
city of Cairo during the summer.
Slip CEatrn U’HHPll
"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
TWELVE PAGES
State Treasurer
v ■■ T To Rotary
5 Georqe ! B. w" Hamilton 5
Ca,,S ,, On Voters To
Let Majority Rule
George B. Hamilton, state I
Treasurer * delivered a chaUeng- j
address at the Rotary lunch- j
eon Wednesday in which he call- j
ed on every voter to recognize
his responsibility of citizenship,
and said the present administra
t ; on represented only 26 percent
of the registered voters of the
^ - **«•
“transcends politics, and reaches
into the vital domain of good
citizenship”.
Arthur Bell, club president,
presided, and the speaker was in
troduced by W. E. Young, one of j
the directors.
The tall, greying state treasur¬
er, the man who has been elected
four times and served the last
sixteen years in this state office,
handling in that time over a bil
lion dollars in Georgia funds,
spoke in a concerned and sincere
about the future welfare
of Georgia.
“At the last session, the Gen¬
eral Assembly,” he said, “passed
a law which is one of the most
foolish pieces of legislation ever
to he put on the books. By it I
every citizen in the state has been
disfranchised, and must now reg¬
ister again in order to cast a bal¬
lot.
“The only reason Mr Talmadge
that it’wilfstoo’bloc"voting, 3 or in
other words, will stop large num
bers 0 f Negroes from voting. It
wiil not accomplish this at all
S^a^bfS £ir ll e oll he
that can be lead to to the the polls p and and
voted voted in in blocs. blocs. The The only only bloc bloc
voting voting we we ever ever had had was was
dead dead people peg* in Telfare County
when ^n they^voted they voted in m blocs b ^ be
cou jd vote.
“I do not think you can ever
! bring the two races together, he:
1 continued, “without destroying
j be pu rit y Q f both, and thereby
ultimately destroying this na
b°h.
" We must > h °wever, Mr.
Hamilton emphasized, “offer the 1
Negr0 an opportunity to make a
living. We must comply with the
Federal constitution and grant
every citizen the right to vote. \
“For myself, I am not afraid of
jj egr0 domination. I do not need
anyone to save me from the Ne
gro race. It. is the individual
citizen conscienciously . doing his
d at t he polls who will save
the state of Georgia.
Rotarians, “you will have more
Negroes on the lists than ever
before. They are now holding
schools over the state teaching
their own race the answers ver
batem to the questions in the vot¬
er examinations.
“The real reason behind this
new law, he pointed out, is this:
there have been for many years
in this state two schools of poli¬
tical thought. One of these be¬
lieve in and work for minority
rule, as few people posisble. taking_part While
in elections as
the other school believes that the
voice of the mapority should
speak on election day.
“The presend; administration,”
lie said, “represents 26 percent of
the voters in the state. We do not
have any better government be
cause so many people will not
even vote, This new law will
cost the counties two million dol
: lars, at a time when we need to
j save money. ^ ^ ^
I , b i ess i ng; a sound piece of legis
lation—.if every qualified citizen
w ill see that nothing stops him
votergj instead of the 700,000 the
presen t administration hopes for.
* I went into office in 1933,
When
JSW was
000,000. I want you to remember
^ b j g j ncr ease did not come from
additional taxes, but from new
| workmg JJJI « potential- ^
presen t taxes. There is
j ly millions of dollars in capital
looking toward our state. But
these new concerns with addition
^ capital are no t coming in as
j Qn g ag we perm it factional poli
tics to rule us. These new con
cerns demand stability; political they want
to locate where the pow
tr is j n tbe hands of the majority:
. ..y ou —Hie individual 1 voter—
are t h e answer to this problem,” I
the state treasurer concluded,
p ^ ad V t^ lit it be
ig g lec 1950 ,
by a ma jority of the people of
Georgia.”
The Official Organ of Grady County.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949.
Kiwanians See Movie
On Wildlife Studies
At Tuesday Meeting
;:s
interesting program for Cairo
Kiwamans at their weekly lunch '
eon meeting Tuesday held at the
Triple-G Community Club on
the hl S hway between Cairo and
Thomasville. Norwood Clark, the
club president, presided. Salter
Wight was program chairman.
Mrs. Harris Jefferson was pianist
for the club singing.
The movies were shown by
Harry Beadle, owner of Tall Tim
hers plantation in adjoining Leon
county, Fla., about 20 miles
— *** - ■—
wildlife studies for some time as
a hobby and most of the movies
were made by him over consid
erable periods of time to enable
him to get pictures of wild game
in their natural habitat,
One long reel is devoted al¬
most entirely to wild turkeys on
his own plantation and he es¬
tablished himself in a “blind” to
take the pictures at remarkably
close range. Some shots showed
as many as 14 wild turkey hens
in a group while others show
o"l , d?v« h “Ibirf d and' b
S studi™
togetherSome hir’kev of the
wild cobblers are
ally interesting. Others show
doves aliKhtmg feed in slow
motion. Still other reels nc e
studies of wildlife at Wakulla
Springs and at the U. S. Wild
Fla.
leresting mo5ii sidelights R as he shows
the % TTp^ous
A sumptuous meal meal was was served served
bythe by the ladies Mies of of the the Triple-G Triple-G club,
a a 4-H 4-H Club Club group, group, which which was was es
pecially pecially enjoyed. enjoyed. Kiwanians Kiwanians
made ^he a used''for’ contribution Sub to P
pavement ^ dub - hou h ° USe S e im- “
provements. included Leroy Collins.
Guests
superintendent: at Tall
Thomasville Kiwanians J. -
Faulk, Sr., and a Ernest Spence- Spence;
Gan d v a n d Albert
Triple-G advisers; Key Clubbers
David Elkins and Ben Methvin;
Ken Leddick, Cairo: and Noah
Stanfill and Preston Ward, of the
Triple-G club community, along
with several ladies of t*he com
m U mtv. Kiwanis:Club attendance
was almost perfect. Tifton
ham-Bandwin College,
tural committee, announced
dub speaker for next Tuesday
will be the president of
Newtberry and Robert Sellers.
with entertainment by a girls’
trio from the college.
--
Mrs . H j. Zealand , of Cleve
land ° hl ° 13 sending spending some some time time
here as the guest of relatives.
*
For A More Attractive Cairo _ 1
A PROCLAMATION !
GEORGIA, Grady County, City of Cairo.
TO THE PEOPLE OF CAIRO:
It is more urgent than ever that our city be made and kept
clean and attractive—and the new spring season with all of na¬ .
ture’s beauty commands to be and doinjJ if we would keep :
us up
pace! Nearly all progressive communities now set aside periods
each year for a clean-up, paint-up, fix-up, beautification and
sanitation improvement crusade. Competition in the attraction
of new residents and enterprises to maintain or continue growth- |
and development simply demand it—and then, too, it pays real
dividends when viewed from our own selfish interests and the
general welfare. j
Rubbish needs to be cleared from the back alleys as well as
the front spots. Vacant lots need to be put in order. Fire haz¬ I !
ards in and around all buildings need to be eliminated because 1
fire losses continue to mount—we Simply cannot afford to let
accumulate around property. It is also a time to paint I
trash our |
up and fix up everything that needs it. Parks should be put in
condition for summer attractiveness. We may well seek to get
a glimpse of ourselves as others see us so we can eliminate all
unsightly spots, along with all insect breeding places! These
goals cannot be accomplished without the active and whole¬
hearted co-operation of EVERY RESIDENT.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me
as Mayor of the City of Cairo, and upon specific approval of the
City Council, I hereby proclaim the four weeks beginning, Mon¬
day, Aprd 25, 1949, for the annual Clean-up, Beautification and
Sanitation Improvement crusade in the city; and hereby respect¬ |
fully call upon and urge every man, woman and child residing
within the city to lend their fullest support and co-operation |
needed to make the crusade the best ever. The resources of the i
city government are hereby pledged fully to that end.
The Chamber of Commerce through its Beautification and j |
Civic Betterment committee, the Cairo Woman’s Club and vari
ous other civic and service groups are especially asked to arouse
active support of their agencies so that when the crusade ends
May 21 Cairo may have rightfully earned the compliment, “a
clean and attractive city.
This April 19, 1949.
CITY OF CAIRO,
By Walter Williams, Mayor.
1
TWELVE PAGES
Piano Concert
Grand Success
Mrs. Siegling Here
Aclaimed By Many |
Music Lovers
Marguerite Inman Siegling.
widely-known Charleston (S. C.)
pianist, was most impressively
laracelaimed in a brilliant concert
here at the high school audi
toium Tuesday evening and oth
torium Tuesday evening by a
large and appreciative audience
which included a number of
piano instructors and other mu¬
sicians and music-lovers from
Albany, Pelham, Thomasville and
ether places.
Mrs. Harris Jefferson, concert
committee chairman of the spon¬
soring Cairo Woman’s Club, pre¬
sented Mrs. Siegling as one of
the outstanding concert pianists
of the southeast “and Southwest
Georgia’s very own” because she
is a native of Albany and began j
her concert work there at the i
age of 12 under Helen A. Rixey.
Her Mr ' md if 1 ' 5 ' Jar T
Inman ’ now llve at Thomasville,
cnd Mrs. Thurston Brown, of
Cairo, is her sister. While here,
j fhe Brown. was She the guest rather ofMr. frequently and Mrs.
re
| turns to Southwest Georgia for |
and old i
, presentation, „ resentation won won applause, a p pi ause , also, also,; < '
when when 5 ?he ho revealed revealed plans plans thatt! and and j
hopes hopes of of the the Woman’s Woman's Club Club that !
‘ t be be concert concert will will be be beginning beginning of of :
j serieg of appea rances here by
outstanding , , artists. ,. ,
| Mrs. Sieglmgs’s program open
e( j w ith ccarlatti’s Three Sonatas
minor: Presto, D
-inor; and Moderate, E
and continued with Chaconne
' IBach-Busoni). Her next series
! sonata ^ f on n a t™ b Oo '-'Pus S us C °^Alltg 00 Aiiegio r ? h Maes- lyiaes
i to sp> Scheizo, Largo, and Fina •
I Following intermission she te
sumed_ with J occoto (Kha c a u -1
aia £ jn ^ a jut Sr ^ a J°, irhnnini ^ H i
‘
. applause had steadily •
The m
creased and became so enthusias
be that Mrs. Siegling respond
| with three encores. The audience j
wanted more but she was
1 a below normal strength an
I could not ^Tu ply - He L f '
r™
(KuIty) ’ a SOTt ot novelty noveity - Th Inen i
(Continued on last page)
Cattle Higher
Hogs Steady
Calves Hit Top Of
$24.05 Per Cwt.
Cattle prices moved still high
er at Tuesday’s auction sale here,
Cairo, Livestock Auction Co. re¬
ported—and the hog market was
steady with little price change.
Edward Harrison sold the top
calf at $24.05 per cwt. and Ben
Harrison was second with a price
of $24 per cwt One entire load
of fat cattle sold for $18.60 per
cwt. Stocker cattle continued in
strong demand.
No. 1 hogs sold for 17.45c a
pound, about the same as last
week.
Baptists Exphasize
Christian Home Week
Coordinating, unifying, and
magnifying the two oldest insti¬
tutions in the world—the home
and the church, is the theme be
j ng especially emphasized at the
First Baptist Church during the
oays , of the next week , in . the .,___„ pro
ThTpStor^seZon loTsSay
, wiU be along the sa me line of
thought, the subject for Sunday
R P r naR f ? being “Mobilization for
S£lUay . e^eSsYt aJoSIheJe
w |ll be conferences for various
groups on family life. On Wed
nesday evening at 7,00 there will
, ba“et . Imm?di- n n
bring ^elyMe? bring a a pimic picnic bas ket.
ately after supper, supper, a a picture picture,,“Cru “Cru
^ sade ^ for Ctastum Christian homes, Homes, mil
^ shown m the aduitormm. Sat
as^ImUyb converLtioS stey-at-home Nigh?
whh the the home
based on some genera! interest
1 ^ m^withMoth?r’?Day 1C w r p e f ^ ttd Tb !p h M'anf' S n1 seV
cb vSon M^y Th^meSrfof
8
the church are urged to partici
pate and all others are cordially
services d h ‘
services.
Miss Alice Lee McCall, stud
cnt a |. g. S. W. C., Valdosta, spent
with homefolks;
while here she had as her guest
her c i ass - ma de. Miss Patsy Bra
ther, of Fort Valley.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS.
NUMBER 16.
Strawberries As Major Crop,
Industry Here Visualized
Official Of Big Ice Cream Concern
Comes Here, Offers To Bring Plant
ket. An abundance of locally
grown strawberries served at the
dinner won Mr. Webster’s praise,
Mr. Webster clearly presented
all important phases of the pro
position of which he has know
ledge—the advantages and the
hazards—.but left little doubt as
to his earnest desire to establish
here a dependable outlet for vir
tually unlimited quantities of
strawberries. He said his concern
produced 25 million gallons of
ice bream last year and that it
now uses 5,000,000 pounds of
j strawberries, or more, each year.
He said only a few years ago
his concern began processing its
own strawberries insofar as pos
sible but that it is now able to
buy for its own processing only
about two-fifths of its require
ments. The Florida crop this
j season was cut short by drouth,
he added, and his company was
i able to obtain only about half
! its needs there. He will move
| next week to Tennessee to oper
ate his company’s plant there
during the short Tennessee sea
son of about three weeks. He
reiterated that he likes his work
and his company, which has been
in busines since 1866, that he is
anxious to arrange to buy good
quality strawberries wherever
they are available and that his
empany will gladly establish a
plant here when 250 r 300 farmers
arrange to plant about an acre
each. The plant, he strongly in¬
timated, might also be used to
process pecans, which the Breyer
company used in large quantities,
and now processes mostly at
(Continued on last page)
Strawberries as a major crop
end industry in this area, center
ing here, are definitely visualized
as a result of two meetings last
Friday at which the special guest
end speaker was W. O. Webster,
Plant City, Fla., an official of
the Breyer Ice Creafn Co., which
operates quite extensively in
Philadelphia, New York City and
Washington as an affiliate of Nat
ional Dairy Products Crop., and
v/hich operates a plant in Plant
City to process strawberries and
other fruits and nuts used in ice
cream.
Mr. Webster interestingly out
lined his concern’s offer to pro
vide a plant here first at a din
ner meeting attended by all di
T ectors of the Grady Farm Bureau
Market and a few of their leaders
and later at a meeting of the mar
ket stockholders at the Court
house where the stockholders also
elected four new directors of the
market.
All of the many phases of the
oroposed development of straw
berries as a major crop and in
dustry here were gone into thor
at the meetings and on a
show of hands at the stockholders’
nearly every farmer pre
sent said the tentative plans
should be promoted and the in
vestigation should be continued,
Mr. Webster agreed to return here
for further discussions at a gen
eral Farm Bureau meeting on
June 10th. A rainstorm cut atten
dance at the stockholders’
ing to about 45. It was revealed
that 25 or more farmers in the
county already have more than
garden acreages in strawberries,
which are now on the local mar-
Clean up Off To
Splendid Start
Forsyth's Group,
City Workers
Get Busy
The annual Clean-up, Beauti¬
fication and Sanitation Improve¬
ment crusade here, which opened
last Monday to continue for four
rweeks by proclamation of Mayor
Walter Williams, got off splendid¬
ly this week, with indications
that it will be one of the most
far-reaching in years, if not in
the community’s entire history.
The Chamber of Commerce
Beautification and Civic Better¬
ment committee, headed by J. E.
Forsyth as chairman, is function¬
ing effectively with personal con¬
tacts and appeals to property
owners to make ugly spots more
attractive, with a most gratify¬
ing response. A special city crew
under Street Supt. Elmer King
is at work and a number of prop¬
erty owners responded gracious¬
ly and are removing dilapidated
buildings and rubbish. Cairo Fire
Department is making special
checks to eliminate trash accumu¬
lations and other fire hazards.
Notices -were mailed to property
owners from the City of Cairo
and civic groups calling special
attention to conditions reported
in a special clean-up survey.
This week is being devoted to
Ward 1, the southeastern part of
c a j ro . Next week the emphasis
will shift to Ward 2, tha south
western part, and thence to Ward
3 and Ward 4 in succession, un
txl the crusade euds M ay 21st.
Additionalstorefrontimprove
ments and restoration of small
park areas in the business sec
tion are included in the plans.
Emphasis is being placed upon
a the crusade cano
be made a success unless EVERY
ONE does his or her full part.
-
Sgt. Lloyd Herring, of Keesler
Field, Miss., spent the week-end
with homefolks.