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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
5i ze In the Entire
United States
U.50-S2 A YEAR- IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
! CO .Marital Law
logins Aug. 25
Requires Blood
Test By Both
Parties
Georgia’s new pieman . a i
•
ecuiring a blood tes y
arties, becomes effective August
5 1949 Mrs. E. F. 1 ia
. reminded
'ounty Ordinary peo
le this week.
ijhe law is not complicated, nor
unduly restrictive; there is
-it period, provided both
,0 waiting marriage have their
, t ies to the
lamination for venereal disease,
’XcepL in the case where the part
iesare under 21 years of age and
Ido not have the parent’s consent.
btr'sXa" In such cases, a notice of the ap
l '" »-r2£r
ever,
circimstances can
sued to a female under 14 or to
a male under 17 years”.
There is a simple form which
will be on hand at doctors’ of
[ices, Health departments, and
ordinarys. The examining physi¬
cian will fill out the form, certify¬
ing that the applicant has had
ia blood test, and that he is free
of venereal disease. This form,
when properly filled out by the
doctor, is presented any time
within thirty days to get your
marriage license. After having
the test, though, if you wait long¬
er than thirty days, another test
will be required.
The law goes on to say: “Every
resident of Georgia, who marries
outside the state and returns
within sixty days, shall within
@0 days after return to the state,
file with the Ordinary of the
county of residence, a certificate
showing that he or she has con
formed with the provisions of
the premarital law.”
In other words if you are a
resident of Georgia and marry
outside the state, you will still
be required to take the test, pro¬
vided you come back within sixty
days of your marriage.
Non-residents of the state may
secure a license by presenting to
tbe Ordinary a pre-martial cer
tificate signed by a physician in
any state, including a statement
from an approved laboratory
showing that a standard serologic
test has been performed,
ft is emphasized that there is
no waiting period, provided you
a ft ea( d and get your blood
test, which is then good for 30
days. To get a blood test it
' iKe three of four days.
There are certain exceptions,
“Ct out in the law, to these regu
nations in cases of emergency, un
usual, or extraordinary situations.
‘■“M mation about these may be
? a at the Ordinary’s office
y lnt 5 uir ing to any physician.
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SUNDAY.—
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TWENTY PAGES
Kiwanians Heard
Citizenship Talk,
Rector Shirley
Rector Geo. P. Shirley, of St.
Thomas Episcopal Church. Tho
masville, was the inspiring speak¬
er at the Cairo Kiwanis Club
Tuesday. His theme was the
basic responsibilities of citizen
s hip to build a stronger nation
and to better command Christian
ity and democracy to the world,
Hg wag presented by Harris Jef .
ferson, program chairman. R. R.
Van Landingham the c]ub vice _
president, presided.
other guests included Mrs.
• ghirley; J. V. Lewis, Jr. and John
St. George, Jacksonville; Thomas
ville Kiwanians Marcus Calhoun,
Bob Hiers and Ernest Spence; and
Mrs. Harris Jefferson and Rev.
T. A. Perkins, Cairo.
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j — Tobacco . Growers a
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Vole For Quotas
Grady Vote 420
. j For; 15 Against;
438 Cast Ballots
Out of 438 Grady County flue
cured tobacco growers who went
to the polls and voted in the mar¬
keting quota referendum last Sat¬
urday, 417 of them voted for three
more years of quotas. Three vot
ed for one-vear quotas, and fif¬
teen voted against all quotas.
In the six-state referendum, to¬
bacco growers voted overwhel
mingly for the three-year extern
! sion of marketing quotas.
j results from the Carolinas, Geor
< gia, Virginia, Florida, and Alaba
t ma, showed a 40-1 vote for the
I J quotas. for When the extension scattered bal
lots one-year were
counted, the majority was over
70 tol, for quotas aga|nst no
quotas.
Since the Carolinas and Geor
gia produce the bulk of this type
of leaf, last week’s tabulation left
no doubt that the three-year ex¬
tension received more than the
required two-thirds approval.
Carolina growers also voted
preponderantly for continuation
of a 10-cent-an-acre assessment
for Tobacco Associates, Inc., an
organization set up in these states
in 1947 to promote export sales.
Approval of the quotas mean
the government will support flue
cured prices at 90 per cent
parity Without quotas, the sup¬
port would have been 50 per
of parity.
The purpose of the quotas
to keep production within
bounds of demand for the leaf.
Secretary of Agriculture
nan has proclaimed a
quota for 1950 of
pound, a slight increase over
year.
The newly approved quota
tension will begin next year, and
last through 1952.
Roy Perkins, of the AAA
here, expressed satisfaction with
the turn-out of the growers in
in Grady County. “I believe
farmers were wise in voting over¬
whelmingly for the
quota,” he said, “And I am glad
they turned out in such
as to make the decision a clear
cut one.”
Major and Mrs. Paul Mize and
daughters, Gertrude and Mary
Pat, came Friday to spend a 30
day furlough here as guests
Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. McGahee
and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wight;
Major Mize has recently been sn
training for overseas service at
Fort Lavenworth, Kansas. At
end of his furlough he will leave
for Japan; his wife and daught¬
ers will remain here until arrange
ments can be made for them to
join their husband and father.
iMr. T. W. Aldridge and daught
er, Majorie, left Sunday for New
York, N. Y„ where they will he
! the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Koener and Karo Lee for two
weeks- Mrs. Koemer is the form¬
er Miss Belle Aldxedge.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY JULY 29, 1949
1949 Farm lour
Atlracfs 300
Free Fish Dinner
j Added; Big Corn
Crop Studied [
The second annual Grady Farm 1
Tour on Thursday attracted ap- j
proximately 300 farmers* and j
other interested agricultural | i
workers and civic leaders, the
group required seven large busses j
and numerous automobiles and
trucks. The tour was delayed in
starting from the Courthouse here
Thursday morning because of un
expected dificulties in fueling the
busses but good weather was seen
as a favorable factor to expedite
the visitors to various pastures
and crops of interest for study of
new trends in farming methods.
The tour was scheduled to ar¬
rive shortly after noon at the big
Greenwood hybrid seed corn pro¬
ject in adjoining Thomas county,
where, in addition to informative
studies on the development of
hybrid seed corn, the group found
a delightful fish 'dinner waiting,
with E. V. Komarek, the project
director, and his associates, as
hosts. The dinner was not an¬
nounced in advance as a feature
of the tour.
Pastures and a big corn crop,
said by observers to be the big¬
gest corn crop in the county’s
history, featured the tour—but
there were, also, studies of peanut
and okra demonstrations, winter
cover crop results and new fer¬
tilization methods. Some especi
ally „ fine herds , , of . , beef . and , , .
cattle and some fine hogs were
also seen. Many of the farmers
on the tour planned new per¬
manent pastures as they studied
various pasture crops.
There was general agreement
that probably more outstanding
crops of corn are being produced
in this county this year than ever
before as the steady increase in
the popularity of hybrid seed corn
continues. If the present trend
continues some leader visualize
that in the next two to four years
Grady might become the first
county in the nation to go “all
out” for use of hybrid seed corn.
The big crop now assured here
also raises speculation as to the
adequacy of local facilities for
receiving and storing the corn.
There are still many very poor
fields of corn in the county, it was
pointed out, some of which re¬
sulted from the fact that the May
drouth held back early crops.
When the big yields of many
other crops are considered, how
ever, some enthusiastic leaders
declared the average corn yield
in the county this year might run
as high as 40 bushels per acre.
More conservative estimates ran
from 25 to 35 bushels per acre
average, The state average is
below 20 bushels per acre.
The tour, as with the first one
last year that exceeded expecta¬
tions in interest, was arranged by
the Cairo Kiwanis Club, Agnew
Smith being the chairman of its
agricultural committee, but with
the full co-ooeration of the Coun¬
ty Agents and Vocational Teach
ers, the County Board of Educa¬
tion, the Greenwood project and
various civic groups, particularly
the Chamber of Commerce and
Cairo Rotary Club. George H.
King, director of the Coastal
Plain Experiment Station at Tif
ton, headed a group of experiment
station, extension service and Soil
Conservation Service leaders on
the tour.
Mrs. J. W. Nicholson, of Tal¬
lahassee, Fla., came Tuesday to
be the guests of Mrs. R. L. Nichol¬
son here for several days.
• * *
Mrs. Cecil Spear and Tommy
and Miss Mary Spear left Wed¬
nesday for a 10-day visit with
relatives in St. Petersburg, Fla.;
Raymond Williams, who has been
spending some time here with
his cousin, Miss Amy Brown, ac¬
companied them to his home :n
Bradenton, Fia.
Cairo Canning Plant
Announce Change
In Opening Dates
H. R. Madison, Teacher of Ag¬
riculture in the Cairo High School,
announced this week that effec¬
tive August 1st, the school can¬
ning plant will open on Tuesday
and Friday only, during the first
week in August, and open on FrN
day Qnly during the se cond week,
and w m be open only by appoint
men t after August 12th.
Canning {Matrons are requested
to keep these changes in mind,
so they will not come to the plant
and find it closed
Record Crowd At
C. of C. Supper
Joke Marathon Is
Laugh Fest For
150, Or More
The annual summer fish sup¬
per birthday party of the Grady
County Chamber of Commerce, at
Davis Park Tuesday night, was
the best attended and one of the
most delightfu 1 of the long series,
with 150, or more, members and
guests celebrating the completion
i of the 24th year of community
service by the organization.
Henry Cohen, well-konwn
Moultrie banker and humorist,
provided a 30-minute joke-tell¬
ing marathon that proved quite
a laugh-fest for the celebrants.
Presented by Carl Minter, Mr,
Cohen opened with the statement
^ he wag inyited by President
W. E. Young to “entertain rather
than inform.” He read a long
text on the complicated theories
of banking and high financing—
but it was never referred to,
again. Without notes—although
it appeared he made frequent
references to what finally devel¬
oped were only a batch of blank
letterheads—he spun yarns with¬
out pause for the full half-hour
period to keep the happy crowd
in a constant uproar. His amaz¬
ing feat made the gathering quite
unique in the series of such sum¬
mer get-togethers, one long to be
remembered.
Other distinguished guests
whose presence also contributed
tod^ success of the occasion in
cluBd E. F. Vickers, Bainbridge,
president of the Georgia Bankers
Association; Justice Emeritus R.
C. Bell, of the Georgia Supreme
Court, now of Thomasville, who
was paid a new tribute as one of
the organizers of the local Cham¬
ber back in 1925 responsible for
launching it on a sound, perman¬
ent basis; Bainbridge Chamber
President Robert Higdon and Mgr.
J. M. Hughes; Thomasville Cham¬
ber President Hugh Gurley, also
a banker, and Mgr. Dewey Nor¬
wood, along with Lee Kelley, of
the Thomasville Times-Enter
prise, and Jack Harris, of that
city; and A. E. (Runny) Runnels,
manager of the Moultrie Cham¬
ber. A number of members pres¬
ent also had guests. A number
of ladies attended, also.
The crowd consumed more than
100 pounds, dressed weight, of
delightful fresh-water fish, with
all of the usual et ceteras. The
supper was prepared under the
supervision of the standing com¬
mittee headed by Robert Dyson,
with T. W. White, Jr. as the in¬
spiration for accumulating the
fresh-water trout and bream.
Chamber Mgr. Louis A. Powell
welcomed seven new members:
Blue Gable and B. & B. Seafood
Market, Agnes and Emma Beauty
Shop, Citizens Insurance Co., C.
L. Browne, J. Arthur Harrell, J.
Elmer King and Planters Build¬
ing Supply Co. together with an
eighth, a ladies’ shoe concern
which will open here Sept. 1st.
He added that the finance and
membership committee, headed
by R. E. Johnson, would have
others to report later this week.
These new members, it was stat
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TWENTY PAGES
Cairo lo Have
New Postmaster
Robert- P. Wight- Is
Named Along With
Others In Area
Indications are now that Cairo
will have a new postmaster in
the near future, possibly within
thirty days—his name: Robert P.
Wight, well-known farmer, pe¬
can grower, and the present Com¬
mander of the Cairo Post No. 122,
American Legion.
According to an Associated
Press dispatch from Washington
Wednesday, Mr. Wight’s name
was on the list of postmaster
nominations sent to the Senate
Monday for confirmation. It is
a matter of routine for the Senate
to approve these names now, and
this approval is expected any day.
Other names on the list from
this vacinity were Claude Roun¬
tree, Postmaster for Thomasville,
and Jack Herring for the Oeh
locknee postoffice.
Mr. Wight is not now connected
with the postoffice here.
Jack Herring, who has 1 -en
named postmaster at Ochlockoee
is well known in that part of
the county and has been doing a
good job at that office for some
time. His appointment there will
be of interest to his many friends.
Claude Rountree, who has ser¬
ved as acting postmaster at
Thomasville since the death of
former Postmaster B. C. Blanton,
has been formally named for the
position, one he has held with
credit to himself and the Thomas¬
ville Postoffice.
It is not yet known when these
appointments will become affec¬
tive; but is expected in the near
future. Charles L. Browne has
been serving as acting Postmast¬
er here since the retirement of
Postmaster J. S. Weathers in
1947.
Rivers Guest
Here Monday
Former Governor
Addresses W. O. W.
Bi-Monthly Meet
Former Governor E. D. Rivers
delivered an interesting and en¬
tirely non-political address here
Monday night at the regular bi¬
monthly meeting of the Woodmen
of the World. Mr. Rivers is now
one of the National Directors of
the Woodmen, and has in the past
been national secretary and Com¬
mander.
Lester Coleman, Consul Com¬
mander of the local unit introdu
ed the speaker. Jack Hatcher is
the District manager for the Cairo
area. He and his wife, Lucile,
secretary to the City Recreation
Director, moved to Cairo from
Bainbridge last January.
Mr. River’s address dealt entire¬
ly with woodcraft, showing the
pui-pose of the Woodman organi¬
zation. In doing this he traced
the developement of the Ameri¬
can home, and pointed out means
of preserving home and family
life. The function of W. O. W.,
he emphasized, is principally the
preservation and protection of
family life.
This purpose is carried out
through four methods, which he
listed as (1) insurance (2) T. B.
Hospital in San Antonia, (3) civic
activities of local posts, and (4)
Uniform Ranks, (semi-military
training to better prepare men
for service if and when an emer¬
gency should arise.
National Director Rivers stat¬
ed that of all the organizations
he had been a member of W. O.
W. had claimed most of his time,
because it did more things for
more people.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert William¬
son and Sandra, of Birmingham,
Ala., were the guests of Mrs.
Glen Brown during the weekend.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENTi.
NUMBER 29.
SPECIAL SESSION OF ASSEMBLY
CLEAR SUCCESS FOR TALMADGE
Coif Champion
Sells Well
Negro Show Calf
Tops $34.75 Cwf-.
Entries in the second annual
Grady County Negro Fat Calf
Show featured the weekly live
st®ck auction here Tuesday with
the grand champion bringing
$34.75 per cwt. in addition to prize
money. The show was held just
before the weekly sale, with in¬
creased interest evidenced. Show
calves were especially good, it
was stated.
The grand champion was a
pretty white-face Hereford steer
weighing 570 pounds, and Alvin
Wight, hardware merchant and
livestock booster, was the high
bider. The champion was enter
el by William Glenn, Jr., a Ne
£ :o youth living near Cairo.
■Reserve champion, entered by
- •u’-ty Faulk, this county,
for $27.25 per cwt. in the
and other show calves sold well.
Third-place entry was by Allen
Faulk, the fourth prize winner
was by Johnnie Metcalf and the
fifth-place entry was by Jacob
Faulk.
The show was sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce Fat
Calf Show committee, Early
Gandy, chairman, which sponsors
the big shows here late each sum¬
mer, the committee at a meeting
changed the date for the 1949 at¬
traction back to Tuesday, Aug.
23rd., the original date set. De¬
tails will be revealed next week.
Cattle prices, generally, were
little changed Tuesday. Hogs
were steady to a bit weaker with
No. Is selling at 21 / ^50c a pound,
a few points under last week.
Feeder pigs were again surpris¬
ingly high, however, with a top
price of 30c a pound.
Cairo Cubs Whip
Moultrie In The
Triple-Header
The Cairo playground all stars
journeyed to Moultrie and took
all three games of a triple header
to even the standings with three
wins and three loses.
Cairo’s squad of forty players
left here Wednesday, the 20th., for
Moultrie determined to regain
their honor which was lost last
week when all three games were
easily won by Moultrie.
The cubs (under 10) started
things rolling by taking the lead
in the first inning and wasn’t
threatened until the fifth when
Moultrie tied the score with three
runs. After three extra innings
Cairo’s Cubs scored three runs
and smart fielding held this lead
to win 11 to 8.
The Cairo Midgets following
the Cubs example took an early
lead and went on to win 8 to 5.
The Midget’s game was follow¬
ed by a which tough c^ose-played Cairo Junior
game the juniors
won 3 to 2.
Local Games
In a game played at the Soft
ball Field here Monday, July 25th.
the Southside Juniors downed the
Northside Juniors with a 20 to
19 score. Green went the last
6 innings of the twelve inning
game to claim the victory. Bear¬
den was the losing pitcher. Bat¬
teries were Green and Bell,
Southside, Bearden and Weston,
Northside.
Jackstones
A large number of participants
entered the Jackstone Tourna¬
ment at the playground Friday.
The Northside winners were, Sara
Helen Lane, first place, Peggy
Williams, second place, and Pat¬
ricia King third place.
Rev. William J. Hinson return¬
ed Monday after spending sev¬
eral days with relatives in Hazel
hurst
S20,000,000 In
Added Taxes
Corporations, Gas,
Cigarettes, Beer
Get New Levies
With Governor Talmadge's
special tax-raising session of
the General Assembly ex¬
pected to adjourn Thursday
when the Messenger went to
press, it was apparent that
the administration had chalk¬
ed up a complete victory in
increasing taxes lo bring in
$20,500.00 which would take
care of what the Governor
had called an "emergency."
Corporation income taxes were
increased from five and one-half
to seven percent, one cent per
gallon was added tc che gasoline
tax, the two cent per can on beer
wa3 doubled W make it four
cents, and two cents per pack
was added to the cigarette tax.
A sales tax proposal was beat¬
en down by a considerable ma¬
jority, while a general appropria¬
tion bill practically gave the gov¬
ernor free reign to spend the ex¬
pected $20,500,000 any way he
saw fit.
Cochran Hurls Charges
Debate on the corporation tax
increase was heated and caused
a split in the ranks of habitual
administration supporters. It was
highlighted by a charge by Sen.
W. B. Cochran of this District
that Governor Talmadge promised
the 128 men who voted for him
in the general assembly elec¬
tion in 1947 that “they could have
anything they wanted.”
Sen. Cochran, of Thomasville,
made the accusation as he warn¬
ed senators not to depend on the
governor’s promises that he
would give them roads in return
for the support of the bill in¬
creasing corporation income taxes
from 5 1-2 to 7 percent.
‘The runners from the govern¬
ors office worked hard last night
and were still on the job at 4:00
o’clock this morning,” Sen. Coch¬
ran declared “I wonder wheth¬
er they can depend on the prom¬
ises they .are getting.
“In 1947, during the two-gov¬
ernors dispute, Sen. Garrett and
I cast the two deciding votes
which put Herman in the gov¬
ernor’s chair. He told us after
his election, at the joint meeting
of the House and Senate, that he
had no patience with a man who
plays politics.”
In spite of some outspoken op¬
position coming from former
Talmadge supporters, the govern¬
or mustered enough support to
get his whole program through,
while some representatives and
observers expressed the opinion
that Herman had merely hung
another mill-stone about his
neck which would be awfully
heavy to bear next summer.
Blount Attack
In the bluntest attack on the
administration yet, the state Sen¬
ate was roasted Monday as
“chicken livered” by Senator
Frank Lunsford of Leary County,
the man who had been dubbed
as “loveable Lunsford of Leary”.
No longer “lovable” the Sena¬
tor from Leary scoffed at the gov¬
ernor’s calling the special session
as an emergency. Talmadge
said in calling the session that
the money was needed desperate¬
ly to finance expanded services
in the fields of roads, health, ed¬
ucation and welfare.
“What were some of those un¬
predictable events,” Lunsford
asked.
“A series of drunken brawls in
Savannah and other places?
“Cutting off old people who
had as much as $300 burial mon¬
ey saved up?
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