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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
J1.50-S2 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
fate Of Milk Law Pending;
7-Hour Hearing Last Friday
final Decision
Hay Be Months
Milkshed Says
Ordinance Is
Violated Daily
The Superior Court hearing
held here last Friday June
17th., with Judge Carl Crow
presiding, on the milk ordi
nance controversy between
the City of Cairo and the
Moultrie Milkshed. lasted for
seven hours in which both
sides presented testimony and
arguments. The Milkshed was
seeking a temporary injunc¬
tion against the ordinance
which would permit them to
continue selling milk in Cairo,
until the case would be
brought before a jury at the
fall term of Court when they
would seek a permanent in¬
junction. Only a jury may
grant a permanent injunction.
Until the Superior court judge
renders a decision, the in¬
junction now in effect per¬
mits the Milkshed to continue
operating here.
At this hearing the City
was represented by George T.
Smith, city Attorney, and S. P.
Cain. Moultrie Milkshed was re¬
presented by Attorneys Waldo
DeLoach of Moultrie, Clayton R.
Baker, R. A. Bell, and Edwin
Carlisle of Cairo.
For Milkshed
In presenting its case the Moul¬
trie Milkshed called to the wit¬
ness stand three neighborhood
grocers; Mrs. C. E. Powell, S. E.
Rogers, and A. R. Weston, who
testified that since June 1, when
the milk ordinance went into ef¬
fect, that they had sold producs
made from pasteurized milk such
as cheese, butter and ice cream
which were not pasteurized in
Grady County, and that they had
not been prosecuted for violating
the ordinance and had not heard
of any other retailer who had
beefi prosecuted except the Moul¬
trie Milkshed.
Mr. Olive, sanitary Engineer for
Thomas, Colquit, and Brooks
counties and Mr. Duncan, Advis¬
ory Sanitary examiner for the
state and brother of the state
Milk Control Board chairman,
both testified that the Moultrie
nblk met all government state
“"d l°cal sanitary and health regu
ajons, Walter M. Moore, former
Sanitarian for Grady County and
now Sanitarian for Thomas coun
j Testified that Grady County
did not now have the services
facilities of an organized
“ ealth unit, no Health Commis
';; oneT or Sanitarian, and that so
* ar as he knew
there had been
no a PProved inspections in this
“unty since Health officials re
s Sned some two months ago.
For The City
The City called to the stand
three witnesses, S. E. George,
L° Unt y Agent. E. A, Gandy, and
t T! n That p aschael all of whom tes
“ e Sam Dugan, principal
ner of th e Moultrie Milkshed,
, ,
ment^! de a “gentleman’s agree
to withdraw from thi is area
•.
and when enough milk was
l needs °^ SSed There here to take care of the
- was never
written any
anH agreem ent to this effect
vr r Dugan
stan/ a '. d he on the witness
Ve i „, bal / agreement. ‘ had made no such
contend ** tha City t the ’ s ar Moultrie S umen t, they
shed 1 Milk
/ J i '' ness W A1 not be irrepar
^inan^on ay,.
aa claimed - this
ipart^f say thei-\° the 3 here COntrary iS they
P f 3 Very
sti 0n their ov er-all oper
- and ,
shed ’ 11131 in £act the Milk
\ 3 not making profit at
all ° in nit ( sales any
* in Cairo.
As br ought opt in testimony
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She torn lib’ssntnrr
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
City Wins In
Land Dispute
Loser Appeals To
Supreme Court
A hearing was held here in
Superior Court Monday June 13,
with Judge Carl Crow presiding,
on the case in which C. W.
Thomas was seeking an injuction
to prevent the City of Cairo from
condemning a 27 acre tract of his
land on 'the East side of town
for the purpose of using it as an
industrial 9ewage disposal place.
Judge Crow has now handed
down a decision denying this in¬
juction, which if upheld in higher
court would permit the City to
proceed with its project. However,
Mr. Thomas plans to appeal now
to the Supreme Court of Georgia.
When the case may be heard by
this court, and a decision reached
can not be ascertained.
Lasit fall the City authorized
this condemnation suit against
the tract of low, marshy land,
belonging to Thomas, in order to
construct thereon an impounding
legume, and divert therein indus¬
trial sewage which now runs in¬
to Tired Creek and has in the past
brought many complaints from
farmers whose land the creek runs
through.
The impounding legume would
be a kind of dam and spillway
where the industrial sewage could
be held during dry weather, treat
ed as necessary to keep down
odor, and then let off at favorable
times when there would be
complaints from farmers.
Observers say that during rainy
or wet weather when there is
sufficient dilution of the sewage
ithere are no complaints of odor
or ill effects.
But in times of dry weather it
is not good to drain this sewage
into Tired Creek. The purpose
of the impounding legume which
tthe City hopes to build, would
be to impound the sewage dur¬
ing periods of drought, treat it
properly, and then release it when
there was sufficient water dilut¬
ion so that no ill effects would
be felt from it.
High School Course
Now Open To Vets
Under G. I. Bill
Effective immediately the pres¬
ent Pre-Vocational program now
in operation will be extended to
include grades 9, 10, 11 and 12.
Formerly only Veterans with less
than an eighth grade education
could enter the program. In con¬
formity with this plan to include
all Veterans not having completed
High School the title of the pro¬
gram is changed to read “Adult
Elementary and Secondary Edu¬
cation” rather than “General Con¬
tinuation Pre-Vocational Educa¬
tion.”
Veterans wishing to enter the
program are asked to meet Tues¬
day night, June 28, at the local
high school. A representatives of
the State Department of Educa¬
tion will meet those at the white
high school who are inerested at
8:00 and those colored veterans
who are interested at the colored
high school at 9:00. Those who
wish to make application should
bring a certified copy of their
service discharge.
Mrs. Johnnie W. Strickland and
Miss Fannie Strickland, of Troy,
Ala., spent the week here as
guests of the former’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Bryant and
family and Mrs. Gwin Walden.
John Wight returned home
Monday after attending a meet¬
ing of the Nurserymen of South
Carolina; he appeared on the
program discussing the subject
“Now You Have to Sell It.”
CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1949.
Local Bridge
To Be Rebuilt
Bids Are Accepted
Today, June 24th.
Today, June 24th., is the last
day on which bids will be accept¬
ed by the Highway Department
for the rebuilding of Big Tired
Creek bridge in this area which
was badly damaged last Spring
in the flash floods. On the basis of
these bids received today the
Highway Department will award
a contract and the construction
will be under way in the very
near future.
The largest of the three bridges
to be reconstructed and the only
one open for bids today is at Big
Tired Creek four miles southwest
of Cairo on State Rt. Ill, linking
Cairo, Calvary and Havana. The
specifications for this bridge indi¬
cate that the level of the fill will
be raised several feet which will
necessitate reconstruction of both
bridges there. Plans call for con¬
struction of a temproary detour
bridge at the point to make un¬
necessary a long detour.
The other contract to be open
for bids later, will be for
two bridges, one at Gin Branch
near Jones’ Dairy farm a few
miles north of Cairo on State Rt.
93 linking this city and Pelham,
and the other at Barnet’s creek
on the same highway link just
north of the Grady-Mitchell coun¬
ty line in Mitchell county. It is un¬
derstood that short detours will
be provided at both points while
construction work is in progress.
At both of the bridges in this
county serious accidents have oc
curred because of the condition of
the temporary repairs, and darn¬
age suits against the Highway
Department are now in the
courts amounting to some $60,
000 .
Funds for this construction, it
is understood, will not come
from regular allocations to this
county for highway work, but
from flood disaster emergency
funds set aside by the state and
Federal government last year.
4-H Club Camp To
Be At Camp Laura
July 11-15th.
A 4-H Club Camp, for both
boys and girls, will be held July
11, to 15th. at Camp Laura Walk¬
er near Way cross, the County
Home Demonstration office an¬
nounced this week.
All 4-H members who are in¬
terested in going to this camp are
asked to send in record books to
County Agent S. E. George, or
Miss Walters not later than Sat¬
urday July 2nd.
Livestock Market
Steady This Week
With More Supply
' Cattle prices at the local Live¬
stock Market remained good this
week, ranging form $14.00 to $24.
00, with the supply increased over
last week, and the Feeder mark¬
et was steady continuing a strong
demand.
No. 1 hogs Sold for from $20.20
to $20.70, No. 2’s and 3’s and
butcher hogs ranged up to $20.50.
NEW PASTOR TO BE
AT CENTENNIAL SUNDAY.—
The Rev. W. A. Ellenwood, the
new minister for the Cairo Cir
cuit of the Methodist Church,
will fill the regular appointment
at Centennial Church next Sun¬
day, June 26. He and his wife
and two children arrived here
Wednesday.
Friends of Mr. W. E. Mitchell,
of Wachula, Fla., will be inter¬
ested to know that he recently
underwent an operation at a local
hospital in Tampa, Fla. He has
recuperated sufficiently to be
removed to his home in Wachula.
His son, Dan, spent a few days
with 'him immediately following
the operator! n Tampa.
Ben Harrison Is
Winner Of Calf
At the big hill-billy jamboree
at Mixon Milling Company last
Saturday afternoon, Ben Harrison
out on the Camilla Highway won
the beautiful calf, Beautena,
which has been fed and raised
ait the store.
She was a beautiful blond, five
months old weighing 295 pounds.
Refreshments for the occasion,
where several hundred people
gathered, were furnished by
Grady County Ice and Cold Stor¬
age, without the previous knowl¬
edge of Mr. Mixon.
Marvin Griffin
Rotary Guest
Public Servant's
Easiest Course Is
To Follow Crowd
Lt.-Governor Marvin Griffin
was the guest speaker ait the Ro¬
tary luncheon in the Citizens
Cafe Wednesday, where he told
the Rtttarians and visitors that
counties and towns must take
the responsibility for solving
some of their problems and not
depend on the Federal Govern¬
ment to do everything.
Arthur Bell, President of Ro¬
tary, presided and introduced the
speaker, who came as the guest
of Hamilton Wind. In his intro
duction, Mr. Bell said the Lt
Governor was one of the bright
stars, if not the brightest, on the
present political horizon, and that
Grady County and South Georgia
would do well to stay close to
bim -
Mr. Griffin in his opening re¬
marks said ne appreciated these
kind words of the President, and
that what made them more of
an honor Mr. Bell actually be¬
lieved these things he had said
about him.
“I am proud to be a Georgia
Craker,” the Lt.-Governor said,
“and I resent these people who
are always pointing up our faults,
and never say anything about the
good thongs we have in Georgia.”
Along this line, he painted out
that the State is not in debt. “We
realize something must be done
about our schools, and other pres¬
sing problems, and we are going
to do something. The people did
not like the way the tax referen¬
dum was presented, therefore
they voted it down.”
Mr. Griffin said the easiest
course for a man in public life
to pursue was to follow the crowd.
Some leaders, he said, firsit found
out the way the majority wanted
to go and then led them in that
direction. But the hard way, he
emphasized, is for a public offi¬
cial to try to determine what is
best in the long run for most of
the people and then pursue and
lead*in that course even though
at times he encounters much op¬
position. mind number of
He called to a
examples along this line of
thought, notably that of Pontius
Pilate, who the Lt.-Governor
said, pleased his crowd, kept his
governor’s seat, but crucified the
master of all men.
Visitors to the luncheon includ¬
ed Cliff Owsely, Associate Editor,
The Messenger; Dick Bracey, Don
Ferguson and Dr. John T. King
from Thomasville Frank Hazel
ton of Tallahassee, T. S. Roote
from Calvary, Douglas Welch, H.
K. Rickenlbacker, and J. D. Rogers
from Pelham.
Red Cross Offers
Water Instruction
The Red Cross here announced
this week that a water Safety
instructors’ training course would
foe offered in Camilla next week,
beginning Monday, and training anyone
interested in taking this
may attend free of charge.
The training will last only
three hours a day all next week,
and transportation will be pro¬
vided. Anyone interested is
asked to call the Red Cross Of¬
fice in Cairo for further *infor
mation.
$130 JACKPOT AT
SHOW NEXT WEEK
$120 went begging at the Zebu
Ion Theater Wednesday night be¬
cause Donald Kelly, whose name
was drawn was not there. This
moves the jackpot up to $130 next
Wednesday night.
The question asked this week
was: “Name two kinds of metal.”
Friends of William Prince re¬
gret to know that he is in a hos¬
pital in Aitlanta recuperating
from an operation.
SIXTEEN PAGES
Grady REA Gets
$120,000 Loan
For Construction
Of Headquarters
Facilities •
A loan in the amount of $120,
000 has been approved for the
Grady R. E. A., it was learned
this week through a letter from
the Rural Electrification Admini
stration of the Department of
Agriculture to B. M. Lee, Presi¬
dent of the Grady County Elec¬
tric Membership corporation.
“This loan,” the letter said,
“will provide funds for, the con¬
struction of headquarters facili¬
ties, for completion of “E” and
“M” sections, and for miscelane
ous items.”
The Grady County coopera¬
tive, it Was revealed, has received
loans from the Government total¬
ing $1,521,000 to finance the con¬
struction of 1,068 miles of electric
lines. These lines now serve 3,
923 members, 100 of these having
| bee fl added this monfbh .
The letter addressed to Mr. Lee,
and signed by Arthur W. Gerth,
Chief of the Applications and
Loan Division, further stated:
“Your cooperative is making
S pi end j d progress in bringing
electrification to rural
members. This is due, in part, to
J the benefits of the Pace Act,
wd i c h were extended to your co¬
operative on January 29, 1947.
i -^r e are confident that many ad
d jtional members will be connect
ed as a result of the Pace Act, who
perhaps otherwise could never
have had the convenience of elec
tricity.”
Officials of the local R. E. A.
could not say definitely when
construction for the headquarters
facilities would begin, but said
Richard B. Richards, architect of
Albany, would build it.
491 Children Are
Registered In
Reading Club
The Cairo library’s Vacation
Reading Clulb has actively enroll¬
ed 491 members. 239 children
have registered in town with 252
members registered living out¬
side the city limits. This number
does not include those children
reading from branch deposit sta¬
tions.
The following children have
read ten books and have earned
the rank of Forty Niner. This is
a recognition made because each
member was encouraged to read
books on America and his pri
gress was marked on a chart of
the United States. Ten books en¬
titled him to reach California,
having moved his little wagon
after completing each book.
Cairo Northside School: Car
roll Akridge, Eugene Barlow,
Frank Barlow, Carolyn Chapman,
Mary Ellen Cox, Wallis Carroll,
Shirley Jean Cox, Peggy Ann Dol¬
lar, Cawthorn Hester, Shirley
Hardwick, Ed Horton, Alice
James, Sara Helen Lane, Randall
Levar, Charles Murphy, Lucretia
Martin, Mary Jo Miller, Jackie
Miller, Jerleen Mathis, E. L. Mc¬
Daniel, Jr., Bonnie McDaniel,
Carey Smith, Tommie Stanfill,
Carolyn Sellers, Billy Walden.
Cairo Southside School: Har¬
riet Bell, Carl Brown, Peggy
Crew, Gene Ferguson, J. W.
French, Ediwina Godwin, Barbara
Hester, Vera Hester, Ellen Lee,
Aris Mixon Jr., Barbara Miller,
Thomas Pritchett Roger Ponder,
Mary, Turner, Betty Ann Willis,
Nanette Williams, Laverne Wil¬
liams, Mary Ellen Willis, William
Wilkes.
Midway: Johnny Crawford.
Wayside: Lee Ann Goolsby.
iWhigham: Melda Jean Strick¬
land, Mary Jo Strickland, Virgil
Wilson.
Mrs. W. E. Drew returned to
her home in Bainbridge Sunday
after spending several days with
her daughter, Mrs. John Fewell,
and sister, Mrs. J. W. Lilley.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES. S CENTS
Hi-Schoo! Canning
Plant- Is Now Open
Three Days Week
The Cairo High School can¬
ning plant is now open three days
a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Friday, H. R. Madison, Vocational
Agriculture teacher and Manager
announced this week.
Canning is accepted from 8:00
a. m. to 3:00 p. m., and cans and
processing are 6 cents for numlber
2’s and 7 cents for number 3’s.
Mi'. Madison also announced
that the School canning plant at
Spence is now open on Wednes¬
days and Fridays. Canning proce
edure, hours, and prices are the
same as in Cairo.
Rev. Rainey To
Remain in Cairo
Other Methodist
Appointments
Made Known
Rev. Granville Rainey, Pastor
of the Cairo First Methodist
Church has been appointed past¬
or of this church for the coming
year, Rev. William E. McTier
District Supt of Thomasville, an¬
nounced last week, along with
other appointments for this area.
Other assignments for this dis¬
trict are: Cairo Mission: Rev.
William J. Hinson. Cairo Cir¬
cuit: Rev. William A. Ellenwood.
Wihiigham-Climax: Rev. M. M.
Pierce. Attapulgus-Calvary: Rev.
J. Arthur Cook. Metcalf Charge:
Rev. H. A. Raines, Jr.
In these appointments there
are only two new pastors. They
are Rev. Ellenwood on the Cairo
Circuit, and Rev. Hinson, who
will work with the First Metho¬
dist Church and serve some mis¬
sion work toward the organiza
tion of another Methodist Church
in Cairo.
Rev. Hinson is unmarried, a
native of Hazelhurst, who fin¬
ished his A. B. and B. D. degrees
and is especially prepared for
the type of work he is to do
here.
Rev. Ellenwood is a native of
Savannah. He studied at the
University of Georgia and the
Southern College, Lakeland, Fla.
He and his wife have two small
children, the oldest being three
years of age. They are expected
to arrive this week, and Rev.
Ellenwood will preach at Centen¬
nial Sunday at both services.
Mrs Fred Bell
In Best Dress
Wins First Place
In State Revue
Mrs. Fred Bell of the Wayside
Home Demonstration Club took
first place in the dress classifi¬
cation of the Style Revue at the
state-wide Home Demonstration
Council meeting in Athens last
week. She won top honors with
a dress that cost a total of $5.29.
Her entry, of chatruse-irredeseent
chambray, judged in the Causal
Group, was designed and made
by Mrs. Bell.
Previously Mrs. Bell had won
first place in the Grady County
Style Revue held here May 27,
in which 36 women representing
'all the Home Demonstration
Cluibs in this County entered crea¬
tions of their own design and
make.
As a result of winning out in
the County Reviw, Mrs. Bell went
to the state meet representing
Grady, and came away with
first prize. This is a significant
honor for Mrs Bell, Grady Coun¬
ty, and the work of the Home
Demonstration clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay G. Haynes,
Kenneth and Charles, have re¬
turned to their home in Gallatin,
Term., after spending some time
in Whigham as guests of Mrs.
Jessie L. Clark.
NUMBER 24.
Natural Gas Is
Expected Here
Area Meeting Will
Be Held In Cairo
Next Wednesday
Leaders of this section see good
possibilities for natural gas be¬
ing made available by 1952, if the
application now being planned
and drawn up by the officials of
the Southeastern Association of
Municipalities for Natural Gas is
acted favorably on by the Fed¬
eral Power Commission which be¬
gin hearings on it August 22, in
Washington.
ovnotner meeting of the South¬
eastern Association of Municipali¬
ties will be held in the Citizens
Cafe at 1:30 next Wednesday,
June 29, at which municipal offi¬
cials and Chamber of Commerce
leaders from 60 odd towns will be
told how to proceed to build sup¬
port of the application to author¬
ize construction of a natural gas
pipeline from Louisiana to serve
South Georgia, Northwestern
Florida and Southeast Alabama.
M. N. Yancy, city manager at
Tallahassee, is president of the
Association, and called the meet¬
ing in Tallahassee Monday, June
6. Louis A. Powell, Chamber
Manager here, is vice-president,
and Walter Brown, Chamber
Manager at Albany, is secretary.
They attended the meeting in
Tallahassee, in addition to John
Arnold, Albany utilities superin¬
tendent, and various Tallahassee
officials. • Also present at that
meeting were R. O. Wilhelmi,
Shreveport, La., president of the
Atlantic Gulf Gas Corp., a sub¬
sidiary of United Gas Pipelines
Co., and his attorney, Scott Wil¬
kinson, of Shreveport; and Ray
R. Littrell, a natural gas pipe
line engineer, who has agree
j ments with a number of munici
I palities in this area.
Mr. Wilhelmi, reversing his
pesimistic attitude of last August
at the association organization
meeting, here, told the group in
Tallahassee that his concern is
now in position to proceed with
the construction of pipelines, at
a cost of some $125,000,000, to
bring natural gas from the Louis
iana fields to this area, if the Fed
eral Power Commission permit is
granted, natural gas should be
made available to this area by
1852.
All municipalties of this area
have been invited to send repres¬
entatives here to learn from asso¬
ciation officials how to prepare
briefs supporting the permit ap¬
plication for each community to
be served. This must be done as
promptly as possible so that the
association may prepare an area
brief therefrom to use in its plead¬
ings for the area before FPC.
Each municipality interested will
foe required to designate some of¬
ficial who can assemble technical
information needed for the briefs.
Making natural gas available
to this three-state region, leaders
emphasize, will spur industrial
development more than any other
one possible factor, because of
the cheapness and desirability of
natural gas as fuel.
The meeting here last August,
with its meal which was provid¬
ed at city expense was termed by
local officials one of the best ever
arranged here, from a communi¬
ty publicity angle alone. Associa¬
tion officials and others at the
Tallahassee meeting Monday
strongly urged Cairo as the logi¬
cal meeting place June 29th not
only because of its central loca¬
tion but also because of the out¬
standing cafe facilities here for
such a meeting.
Rev. William J. Hinson, of
Hazelhurst, arrived here Wednes¬
day to assume his work as pastor
of a new Methodist Church; he
holds an A. B. degree from Em¬
ory University and B. D. degree
from Union Theological Semi¬
nary. He will be the gue6t of
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bowen until
he is permanently located.