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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
;alf Show
)rawing Near
Many Entries Seen
For Aug. 30th
Show, Sale
County Agents and Vocational
feachers said this week indica
jons point to a creditable entry
st of about 50 4-H Club and FFA
ees, m addition to those of
Iher producers, including vet on
he-farm trainees, for the 1949
- t Calf Show and Sale here
a 30th. Rules and
jr uesday, Aug
iz e lists as revised for this year
ppear in an ad elsewhere in The
lessenger this week.
The show and sale had been
nnounced earlier for Aug. 22nd
iut a postponement of one week
‘ecame necessary because the
Eounty [lubbers Agents and some contests 4-H
will be in state
11 the week before the earlier
ate.
Both the show and sale are
)p en to all. livestock producers in
his and adjoining counties but
leparate prize lists are provided
br entries of 4-H Club and FFA
nembers as well as for the adult
'lass. Cash prizes, as heretofore,
sill be contributed from funds
lonated by Cairo business con
:erns. It will be the ninth annual
(traction of the kind and will
e a part of a continuing program
io stimulate interest in produc
lon of more and better beef calves,
In more and better pastures,
throughout this county.
I Is Sponsoring group, as heretofore,
the Grady Co. Chamber of Corp
Inerce Fat Calf Show and Corn
Contest committee, in co-opera¬
tion with County Agents and
[Vocation Teachers, Cairo Ki
nranis Club, Whigham Community
Club, Cairo Livestock Auction
Co., and others. Early Gandy is
chairman of the committee, which
also sponsors the big 4-H Club
FFA Corn Content. Cairo Rotary
Club also participates in spon¬
soring the Corn Show which
climaxes the Corn Contest.
All producers who have calves
for the show are urged to list
them with the committee as soon
as possible in accordance with
the rules announced elsewhere.
Special attention is called to the
new requirement for 4-H Club
and FFA contestants to have their
eligibility certified to the com
mitee through their County
%nts and Vocation Teachers at
least 30 days prior to the show
date. This program has been
widely credited with having
greatly increased production of
better beef calves during recent
years.
Chief Warns You:
Don't Trespass
locked Streets
Chief of Police Boyd VanLand
■ n ®ham said this week that quite
d ‘ few People were ignoring signs
5nd blocks and driving onto
streets that are being prepared
l0r paving.
Fnis must stop at once”, the
'■'bief said, “It's not that we want
to an est anybody fine them.
But or
when these streets are ready
For paving and someone drives
Ae ‘ ^ em >t costs the city money
, >
g0 ^ack and fix them again.
hope people will cooperate
; Us > an d not force us to take
itr °ng measures to stop this.”
[If* L| l>rary Branch Opens Of
Library books are not hard to
iad -just go to the A. E. New
b rys is halfway
w ' between
• cunonia Church and the Coun
v Line. r This deposit will serve
^ Pence community and child
r ““d adults
• invited
the are to use
services often.
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"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
SIXTEEN PAGES
Cattle Steady;
Hogs Strong
No. 1 Hogs Sell
At 21.10c Lb.
The hog market continued very
strong with prices slightly higher
and cattle prices remained steady
at Tuesday’s auction sale at Cairo
Livestock Auction Co., J. E. Ham
brick, the manager, reported.
No. 1 hogs sold for 21.10c a
pound, 10 points above last week.
Butcher hogs ranged from 20c
to 22c a pound. Feeder pigs con¬
tinued to sell high but choice lit¬
ters were not as plentiful.
Cattle prices were little chang¬
ed from last week with offerings
mostly of the medium grades.
Wine Ordinace
Passes Council
No $2,000 License
Issued To-Date;
May Come Later
At the regular meeting Tues¬
day night, the City Council pas¬
sed, for the second and final time,
the ordinance permitting the sale
of wine in Cairo, fixing a $2,000
a year license fee.
In addition, the applicant to
sell wine here must also find a
$3,000 bond as security to pay any
fine or fines that might be levied
against the operator of a wine
store for not complying with other
requirments of the law.
Since it is legal to sell wine
anywhere in the state of Georgia,
the Council in reality had no
alternative. The law merely
stipulates that a city or munici¬
pality is not to set an unreason¬
able license. What an unreason¬
able or prohibitive license is,
probably would have to be settled
in court.
The Council wrote into the
•ordinance the fact that they con¬
sidered the sale of wine within
the city a nuisance, and incorpor¬
ated strict requirements, which
would tend to keep it as much
under control as possible, provid¬
ed anyone cared to pay the $2,000
license fee.
These regulations would make
it simply a package store. The
seller must keep a decent and
orderly house not sell any mer¬
chandise except wine, provide no
tables, have no female employees,
nor allow anyone to loiter or loaf
in the place.
The legal hours of sale will be
from 7:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m., and
it shall not remain open on Sun¬
days or election days. Seals are
not to be broken on bottles in
the place of business, and none
is to be sold in quantities of less
I than a pint. It shall be unlaw
i full to sell wine to minors.
If any of these regulations are
violated by the seller of wine,
he may be fined and his license
revoked immediately.
City Clerk Ralph Carlisle said
Wednesday that no license had
been applied for under this new
ordinance, and he did not know
of anyone who planned to buy
them.
Dr. W. L. Belcher and Marshall
Neff appeared before the Council
bringing a petition signed by
twenty-five residents of South
Broad Street, asking that the
street be paved on out to the city
limits. This was refered to the
Street Committee, and it was not
known whether or not this paving
could be gotten around to before
the “paving weather” gives out.
CLARK HARDWARE IS
NEW HOTPOINT DEALER.—
The Clark Hardware Company
has been appointed dealers for
the popular line of Hotpoint el¬
ectric ranges, refrigerators, and
hot water heaters. You 11 find
a half-page ad in this issue show¬
ing new models of these products.
Clark Hardware invites one and
all to come in and see the new
line.
The Official Organ of Grady County.
CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 15. 1949.
£ 0 f £ Supper
Set July 26
To Celebrate 24
Years Of Work
In County
The annual Grady Co. Chamber
of Commerce summer fish supper
meeting, which will celebrate the
completion of 24 years of service
to the county, will be at Davis
Park here Tuesday, July 26th,
at 7 p. m., the committee in
charge announced following a
meeing Wednesday afternoon.
The committee is arranging to
serve fresh water fish and all of
200, or more, members of the
organization will be urged to at
tend. Notices will go out to
members early next week along
with cards on which members
will be urged to indicate their
plans by tomorrow week, July
23rd.
The meeting will be strictly
informal and will be largely
social although one 20-minute
talk, for entertainment, by a
guest speaker is planned. Presi¬
dent W. E. Young will preside,
In addition to the meal and the
short talk there will be a few
brief responses but no business,
Some of those who founded the
organization back on July 25th,
1920, may be specia’ly recognized,
The short program will be an
nounced next week.
The committee in charge con¬
sists of Robert Dyson, chairman;
T. J. Williams, vice-chairman;
F. P. (Buddy) Suiter, R. S. Jones,
C. D. Nicholson, John A. Powell,
2nd, C. H. Strickland, Tom
er, G. W. West and T. W. White,
Jr.
The Chamber membership and
finance committee plans a can
vass next week to enlist pros¬
pective new members, who will
be privileged to attend the sup
per meeting.
Baptists To Meet
At Capel Next
Thursday Nite
The Baptist Brotherhoods of
the Grady County Association
will have their regular quarterly
meeting with the Capel Baptist
Church Thursday night July 21st.
at eight o’clock. Supper will be
served by the Capel Church.
Brotherhood delegations from all
the Baptist Churches of the coun¬
ty are cordially invited and urged
to attend.
This will be the third county
wide meeting of the Baptist Bro¬
therhoods. Previous meetings at
the East Side and First Baptist
Churches at Cairo have been well
attended and much interest shown
in organizing the men for active
church work. A fine program is
promised by those in charge of
the meeting and a full attendance
is expected.
Capel Church is located about
8 miles north of Cairo near the
Cairo-Pelham highway.
Sunday Dispatches
Of Mail At P. O. On
Temporary Basis
Heretofore, Cairo post office
has dispatched outgoing mail only
early Sunday morning, but Act¬
ing Postmaster C. L. Browne re¬
vealed this week that noon and
afternoon dispatches on Sundays
are now being provided on an
experimental basis.
The aded dispatches are at 12
and 3 for westbound ACL train
189 at 12:45 p. m. for 180 at 3:45
p. m. They forego the necessity
of placing such mail directly on
the trains and if they are used
sufficiently by the patrons of the
office they will be continued.
If you desire this additional ser¬
vice at the post office you can aid
in maintaining it by using it as
much as possible. The service also
includes added post officq lock
box service on incoming Sunday !
mail, which will also be advan
tageous to many patrons.
Kiwanians Enjoy
Novel Program; To
Meet- At Whigham
Cairo Kiwanians Tuesday en¬
joyed one of the most novel and
most impressive programs in its
history—and voted to meet next
Monday night at 8 for supper
with the Whigham Community
Club at Whigham. fhe meeting
at Whigham will replace the regu¬
lar meeting here next Tuesday at
noon. The meal money will go
to some Whigham community
project.
The program Tuesday was a
dramatization on race relation¬
ships emphasizing the needs of
the Negro schools in this county
—and the club voted to sponsor,
under the direction of a special
committee, rehabilitation of the
Rochester school for Negroes, the
building of which was pictured
* n recent state school needs fea
ture stories in the Atlanta Journ
al.
Five black-face characters, one
a Kiwaian and two ladies and
t wo children, emphasized funda
mentals of racial understanding,
j based on a Bible lesson from
I Proverbs, and then recounted in
detail the situation at each of the
county’s Negro schools. Wash
' n gf° n High School here, the
Negro School at Beachton and
some others were praised but
conditions at most of the rural
schools were pictured as deplor
able. Several of these schools
are housed in church buildings
with almost no equipment, it was
revealed. Education as a basis
for better racial understanding
was strongly emphasized. Pic
j tures of the Rochester school
| from the Atlanta paper were pas- and
sed among the club members
| the program was climaxed with
j : a special plea for it, a challenge
j that Norwood Clark, the club
president, accepted, for the club.
One of the characters also read
a letter from Lonnie Clark, a lo¬
cal Negro youth who recently was
j awa 2 'ded his master’s degree from
Columbia University, in which he
outlined his earnest desire to de
vote his talents to the promotion
of sound race relationships and
understanding in the south. J. E.
Forsyth was the kiwanian who
developed the unique program,
which President Clark praised
highly. ,
Gupsts at the meeting included
Georgia Assistants Attorney- Gen¬
eral Sam Dorsey and Vicent Rice,
here on official business; Mrs.
Mabel Townsend, of Albany, a
court reporter engaged at the
City Court session here; Rev. Wm.
Hinson, Cairo' and Thomasville
Kiwanians H R. Mahler, Dr. W.
H. Terry, Tom Harrison and W.
S. Stewart.
Rotarians See Movie
Of Ga.-N. C. Game
At Wed. Luncheon
At the regular luncheon meet¬
ing in the Citizens Cafe Wednes¬
day, the local Rotarians enjoyed a
program consisting of a movie
showing the 1948 football game
between North Carolina and
Georgia, one of the best game of
that year, when N. C. took Geor¬
gia 21-14. Harry Spires, guest
of the club, operated the movie
projector.
In the absence of President
Fred Roddenbery, Howell Mc¬
Kinnon presided, and Dr. J. W.
Sumner was the program chair
man.
At the meeting last week, Fred
Roddenbery took office as the
new president of the club, suc
ceeding R. A. Bell,
Visitors Wednesday included
Dr. John T. King, J. M. Edwards,
R. J. Hawthorn, W. J. Hinson,
and John R Roth, all from
Thomasville; Howard Bridges,
Valdosta, Stewart Watson, Al¬
bany; from Cairo, Huddie Cheney,
Howell McKinnon, Jr., J. S.
Wight, and Jimmie Collins.
Mr. and Mrs. George McKin¬
non and Frank, of Atlanta, were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
McKinnon and Howell, Jr., for
the week-end.
Civil Pocket Of
City Court End
Mrs. Cole Gets
$1,500 Damages
The civil docket of the July
term City Court was finished
Thursday, and the court adjourn¬
ed until Monday, when the crimi¬
nal cases will come up.
The first case Monday, was the
damage suit of Mrs. E. D. Cole
of Atlanta against Grady County,
and the state highway depart
ment in connection with
injuries suffered by her in an auto
mishap at the Bailey bridge on
state route 93, North of Cairo,
June 11, 1948 Mrs. Cole’s suit,
along with a companion suit filed
by her husband, who was driv¬
ing the car, asked a total in dam¬
ages of $19,530.
Mr. Cole’s case was not tried
at this term of court. The jury
awarded Mrs Cole damages in
the sum of $1,500.
In a suit Mrs. Alma
brought against R. A. Harrell, as
a result of her being allegedly
struck by his car near the S. S.
Drive-In on May 4, 1947, the ver¬
dict was for the defendant. She
collected no damages, Other
minor civil cases were disposed
of.
The Criminal docket is sche¬
duled to begin Monday, July 18,
and expected to be very light. No
specific schedule of cases has
been made yet, due to the Court’s
not knowing which ones may
come up for Duke’s w hcih ones
may be se* MAY
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LQITO
Open Market Is
About Finished
The Grady County Okra grow¬
ers were converging on Cairo in
mass this week, when approxi¬
mately 150 tons of contract okra
was weighed in at the Campbell
Company here on Monday. In
the meantime, the open market
was down so low that most farm¬
ers said they would not pick it
for the price.
This reporter talked to several
of the farmers and picked one as
probably a typical grower.
Farmer A, we’ll call him, lives
north of Cairo, and has ten acres
in okra. He has a contract with
Campbell Company to buy three
tons per acre, or a total of 30 tons,
which he can sell at the current
price of $57.00 a ton.
Grower A said he sold on the
open market, before it fell
through, about $1,000 worth.
Within another week, he will
have delivered his quota to the
plant here. After that he will
have a field of okra still bearing,
but no market or anything to do
with it. There is a possibility
that Campbell Company might
take a few more tons from him
over his quota, provided they
need it.
Monday, Grower A was offered
$1.50 per hamper for fancy okra
here on the open market, but
could not sell at any price the
“choice” okra. At such price,
Mr. A said he would leave his in
the field. It would cost almost
that to cut it.
R. O. Corbett, Field man for
the company said the new type
okra, BC-22, used for the first
time this year, was producing
considerably more to the acre
than the old kind.
DR. SUMNER AT
MOULTRIE MEET.—
Dr. J. W. Sumner, local eye
doctor attended a meeting of the
Georgia Optometre society in
Moultrie Thursday. He will be in
on the discussions of the latest
developments in the field of op¬
tometry.
Dr. Archie McNeill and Miss
Peggy Smythe, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., are spending the week here
as guests of the former’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs A. A. McNeill.
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4-H Club Camp
Attracts 68
Youths Enjoying
Outing Of Week
The annual camp for Grady
county’s 4-!H Club boys and girls
this week attracted 68 clubbers
and a number of adults. The un¬
expectedly large group left Mon¬
day in two busses and will re¬
turn home late Friday.
The week is being spent at
Laura Walker State Park, a few
miles south of Waycross, where
adequate facilities for recreation
and various kinds of club train¬
ing are offered.
In charge are Miss Myrtle Wal¬
ters, home demonstration agent,
County Agent S. E. George and
his assistant. Harold Daniels.
The trip was financed largely
through funds: raised by the
Grady Co. Community Chest.
1949 Farm lour
Se! July 28
300 Expected On
Big 2nd Annual
Grady Tour
The agricultural commit¬
tee of Ca'ro Kiwanis Club,
of which Agnew Smith is
chairman, late Wednesday
’ announced plans for the big
second annual Grady Farm
Tour to be carried out Thurs¬
day. July 28th, beginning
here promptly at 7:30 a. m.
The tour th*s yea.'hioh will
be in co-operation witn the coun¬
ty’s agricultural workers and
other agencies, is expected to be
the greatest event of its kind in
the .history of this section. The
first tour last year attrarted 150
Grady farmers and proved, such
a great revelaton that it was
termed by the farmers themselves
a sensational success. This year
30 farmers are expected on the
tour.
Details of rhe demonstrations
and crops to be visited will be an¬
nounced next week but the tour
will include studies of temporary
and permanent pastures, various
hybrid corn demonstrations and
crops,- peanut crop demonstra
tions, demonstrations of corn be¬
hind lupine and various types of
fertilization, etc. A public ad¬
dress system will carry explana¬
tions to the group as the studies
progress at the various stops.
The tour will consume most of
the day and transportation will
be aranged in busses.
Th Kiwanis committee, to ar¬
range for transportation, must
know by Saturday, July 23rd,
how many to count on—so Grady
county farmers who desire to
make the tour are urged to advise
at once. The following form may
be written or clipped and posted
on a postal card and mailed to
Agnew Smith, chairman, Agri¬
cultural Committee, Cairo Ki¬
wanis Club, Cairo, Ga.:
I will attend 1949 Grady Farm
Tour, starting from rear of Court¬
house in Cairo promptly at 7:30
a. m. Thursday, July 28th.
Signed:
Address:
I will also have with me:
SPRING HILL CEMETERY
CLEANING JULY 21st.—
The Spring Hill Methodist
cemetery six miles North of
Whigham will be cleaned off
Thursday, July 21st. All inter¬
ested are asked to come early,
and bring own tools to work with.
The cleaning will last all day, or
until the work is completed.
Miss Betty Kennedy left Mon¬
day to spend the week in Macon
with friends.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENTL
NUMBER 27.
Girl Swimmers
■
Local Water Show
Friday Success * •
Many Attend
The water exhibition, arranged
as a free attraction of the local
recreation program, at the swim¬
ming pool here last Friday night,
attracted and thrilled an over¬
flow crowd— and resulted in the
Synchronized Swimming Class of
12 girls appearing therein being
invited 'to appear as a special
added attraction at the Southwest
Tobacco Festival at Moultrie at
4:30 p. m. today (Friday).
The water exhibition here Fri¬
day night, the first attraction of
its kind in this area, was arranged
by Coach J. P. Miller, who, as
assisant recreation director for
the summer, is in charge of swim¬
ming activities. The exhibition
included a snappy and well
rounded program but featured the
Synchronized Swimming Class of
Miss Helen Wight.
Moultrie promoters of the To¬
bacco Festival. hearing 6f the
beauty and other merits pf the
class, Saturday morning invited
and later insisted that the class
appear there. Recreation Direc¬
tor Ralph Studebaker Monday
worked out details for the ap¬
pearance, scheduled at the Moul¬
trie pool at 4:30 p. m. today. Moul¬
trie will provide expense funds
and free entertainment for the
local group.
At the water exhibiton here,
Miss Barbara Sauls waz crowned
‘ Miss Grady County” for »mp»
t.tior. in the, Tstivi. beauty 1 page¬
ant at Moultrie Thursday night
at which time “Miss Southeast To¬
bacco Queen” was chosen. Miss
Wight was her chaperone. Miss
Sauls and Miss Wight will also
ride in celebrities’ cars in the fes¬
tival parade in Moultrie Friday
morning.
A number of local people plan¬
ned to boost the local participants
in the Moultrie fete.
Theater Jackpot
Up To $160 Now
Annie Lee Green, of 35 8th.
Ave., went to the show Wednes¬
day night about 30 miuntes too
late—to get the $150 jackpot.
Hers was the lucky name drawn
at the Zebulon Theater, and the
question that would have been
asked, was: “Name one kind of
garden tool.”
Miss Green arrived at the show
about 20 minutes after the draw¬
ing, which was too lat to get the
prize. One must either be in the
theater or have been there in the
afternoon. -The jackpot fills up
to $160. next week.
The preliminary prize, $10
worth of groceries, was won by
Carson Miller. He was not there
either, but had been to the mati¬
nee; so the groceries were sent to
him with the compliments of Bob’s
Grocery, who contributes this
consolation prize each week.
Glenn Sumner Heads
Rural Carriers Qf
Georgia Now
Glenn Sumner, local mail car¬
ries, was elected President of the
Georgia Rural Carriers as the
46th. annual state convention
closed in Savannah Tuesday.
Other officers elected were:
Warren B. Bledsoe, vice-president,
Georgetown; C. B. Cranford was
re-elected, secretary-tresurer; and
two new memebers were elected
to the erecutive commite: C. W.
Graham, of Washington, and G. C.
Barnhill, of Glenwood.
Machinery was set up for or¬
ganization the substitute and
temporary carriers during the
coming year. Macon was selected
as the place of meeting for 1950.
Seaman Alonzo Robertson, of
Newport News, Va,, spent the
week-end here with his mother,
Mrs. Roy Robertson, and family.