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CAIRO, L GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
A YEAR. IN advance.
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jlUME XLVI.
f IDENT PELHAM TO MEET
f 0 ELEVEN HERE TONIGHT
(rupmakers Say
M And See "
177 Pound Line In
first Test; Six
Letter Men Back
While Pelham huffs and
tuffs about how they are go
ng to crush Cairo in the
pening game of the grid
■ton here tonight, Friday,
; oa ch J. P. Miller and his
yrup-makers continue to
fork and pursue a “wait and
»" attitude.
llVith the team shaping up a
lle each day, Grady Rogers.
pack of last year and in the
jne week slot to this captain season, the was team, chosen and
p Kernate Captain is Raymond
par, guard last year, in the
pack position this time.
Into the game against Pelham
pi go six lettermen from last
Lon. They are Ted Dollar,
bley Cassels, Johnny Williams,
fady Rogers, J. W. Hopkins, and
iymond Sholar. Along with
ese will go four boys who ai’e
lying varsity football for the
st season, John Hester, Ver
n Stickland, W. L. Harper, and
Ilie McCorkle.
The probable starting line-up
| I lining r the at first leftend) game John will be Hestef, (be
_ 5 lbs., Ted Dollar, left tackle,
I 5 lbs , Julian Harrell left guard,
■ 8 lbs., Wesley Cassels, center,
■ 8 1bs„ Johnny Williams, right
■ lard. 188, Vernan Strickland,
pht tackle, 186 lbs., W. L. Harp
right end, 150 lbs., This gives
[i In average the backfield, line weight with of 177 lbs.
an aver
[ill e weight of 152 pounds, there
be quarterback Billie Me
W. 140 lbs left halfback
Wy Rogers, 155 lbs., fulback
W. Hopkins, 165 lbs., and right
pack Raymond Sholar, 145 lbs.
With 28 men out this year,
°ach Miller said the last two
ork-outs showed some improve
Ier >t, "But we still have a long
V to go.”
A large delegation of Pelham
ns are expected over to see how
eir confident eleven shows up
lainst the Cairo Syrup-makers.
Assistant Coaches
Coach Miller has two former
otball stars as assistants this
iar. Jerry Nunnally, backfield
8t 'h, is a native of Athens, who
a varsity football with Geor
a two years, ’41 and ’42 along
ith Coach Miller. Nunnally is
te a
ran of 45 months in the army
id has been coaching at Athens
? h School for the last three
Pars. He is married and has
aid. one
a 14 month-old eirl
Marion Wright, the Lther as
star ‘t coach, is a native of Wav
'0>S. who played varsity football
* South Georgia
f r one year Mer
on e year, and two at
“'"bine College, years
| havy Du West S C
led veteran, Wright is mar
a "d has two children, a boy
a girl. This is his first
baching. year
B Team
chLi team f bas several games
as °Hows: Albany here
' ,tn: Moultrie here Oct 6th.;
«> Oct 20th.; Albany
! 0v L ‘'fo-I Moultrie there
'"-'"ft. Th ° ma " ilk <?l
atnes There will be two other
fed. with someone, not yet de
I Major v Band Parade
of the
announced this
b-toiv foe band will parade
sanies £dcre ea ch of the home
the ha ' Cn tbe weather permits.
n a ^
p t Sale ^ eave Baulk Chevro
Broad'qf r 5:3 °
'wv n Street, P ‘ m ” march
o thp through town,
—
1 oliv e game are on sale
er > s
fllv on the day of the gome
” or at the gate.
The Official Organ of Grady County.
"The man who w&ndereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
SIXTEEN PAGES
Corn Plots To
Be Checked
Contest Nears An
End; John Hinson
Committee Head
The Chamber of Commerce
Fat Calf show committee, at
annual steak supper meeting here
last Saturday night, accepted a
proposal for veterans’ on-the-farm
trainee classes to make prelimin
ary checks on the 150 FFA-
4-H Club Corn Contest plots.
The preliminary checks will be-
1 gin Sept. 20th and
must be fin
j ished by Oct. 15th, according to
i the regulations. Members of the
j committee will then verify
sequent checks on plots. Final
checks of all apparent winners
will be made on yields of dried
corn with yield figured on mois
ture content lost during a 30-day
drying perio. The third annual
Corn Show, to be arranged as
soon as possible after the contest
closes Nov. 15th, will climax the
competition. Cairo Kiwanis Club
offers prizes in the contest and
Cairo Rotary Club sponsors the
show. Greenwood plantation
hybrid seed corn project and
j various local business concerns,
in addition to Whigham Com
, munity Club, also offer contest
prizes.
It is too early to estimate top
production in the contest but
some leaders be i ie ve the 115 bu.
per acre yield record set two
years ' ag0 may be threatened .
The CO mmittee steaks’ after enjoying
deliffh tful from winning
calv ^ s in the recent show trang .
t H this and nthpr husinnss ' Tt
th v o, H
Sa]e as weU as , he Corn Contest
• Va . r . •
, . fVi t - ,
8 „ P y
Ranked LL’L ,, , 5 , ail n the .. as pac business . . er uyei men s,
01 elr . sp en ‘ supp01 0 e
!e , , ow e PP rt cia 10n
^ tn a s “ ' ~
™ as also expressed to all mem-
61 * ° ' e com ™ ee °* elr
hard ^ ork m makmg the s ow
an dsale a success - Byi °^ W ® st
was glven a ” ew stetsin hat for
his s P ecial ef f° rt s in stimulating
sa ^ e ‘
Discussing , improvements . to
make nex ^ Y ea! s piogram still
be ^ er> B. Wight offeied
*° Bnance U P Club and
FFA boys with calves ° r Up t0
fi ve -boys in purchase of mothers
to P rovide calves for the new
P r °3 ram - Ral P h Gaine y also
P ro P<> sed to loan a limit ed num
ber of 4 " H Club and FFA mem '
h® 1 " 5 cows to become mothers of
show Program calves.
Xt was a e reed the b °y s should
be encouraged to acquire cows
to become mothers of show
S ram calves and thereby “grow
into ” the fat cal ? business on a
i 30u nd basis, rather than buy
j calves, ordinarily high-priced,
j | There vising was the regulations discussion, also, early of next re
year to place more emphasis upon
grass-fed calves to more nearly
assure profitable production. As
heretofore, some committee mem
bers feel a pasture program
should be tied in with the fat
calf program more closely
stress economical production,
There were also hints that when
the regulations are fixed for next
year there may be revisions to
more definitely separate adult
entries from those of the 4-H
Club and FFA members, possibly
with addition of an entirely sep
arate fat cattle class.
Ed Komarek, of the committee
led an interesting discussion of
general agricultural trends and
prospects in this county and sug
gested establishment of a Coun
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CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16- 1949.
Co. Line Road's
Paving Set
Meigs Link Open;
Barber Will Do
Bridge Jobs
The State Highway Department
this week released advertisements
for bids on the grading and pav
ing of what is known as the Coun
ty Line road, which extends across
■ the major
part of the Grady
j Mitchell and Decatur-Mitchell
county lines a distance of 14.0
i j miles.
The advertisements, one of
which appears in this issue of The
Messenger, reveals that bids will
be received Sept. 30th for this
work, which will extend from the
County Line road’s intersection
! with the Cairo-Pelham highway,
! State Rt. 93, westward to an in
! tersection with the Bainbridge
Camilla highway, State Rt. 97.
f Meanwhile, some progress was
noted this week on other state
j ! highway modernization projects
in this county. The Cairo-Meigs
* link of State Rt. Ill is now sur
faced and open to traffic in its
entirety, with only finishing
j touches to be added. This pro-
1 ject, started years ago, opens a
j new and shorter surfaced route
! between Cairo and Moultrie, and
I points beyond, via Meigs. The
I saving in distance between Cairo
i and Moultrie is said to be four to
j six It miles. has been learned that Leo T.
Barber, Moultrie contractor, has
been awarded contracts for the
Hawthorn Trail (State Rt. 112)
! bridges at Sapp Mill creek and for
I rebuilding of two bridges on the
| Cairo-Pelham link of State Rt.
1 93 that were damaged in the
floods last year. The latter bridges
will be enlarged considerably, ac
corcbn S to plans. Mr. Barber is
understood to have been making
j local arrangements to begin work
I on these three bridges shortly.
I Scott Construction Co., Thomas
v.lle .s proceeding according to
schedule on its contract for re
building and enlarging the bridge
at Big Tired creek, southwest of
Cairo , on state Rt . m , also dam .
aged j n the floods last year. Pre
liminary work has consisted chief
prov j d j ng a short temporary
detour at the sitCj which is near -
ing completion.
Work has been progressing
rather slowly on the grading and
paving j ob at whigham on,State
Rt w ith numerous delays
having been encountered.
Cecil H. Dunn Construction Co.
bas j nd i ca ted new plans to re
sume W ork on the regrading and
sur f ac j n g j ob on the Hawthorn
Trail (State Rt. 112) just north of
Cairo New grade stakes have
just been set there and this con
cern is now adding finishing
touches to the surfacing on the
Mitchell county part of this high
way) w hi c h is now open to traffic
as f ar sou th as the Grady-Mitchell
county line. Considerable heavy
i equipment has been used there
and it is understood this equip
| ment w jn be moved to the job
just north of Cairo. Numerous
de lays have held up this work but
f rom various sources assurances
bave come that it will be resumed
shortly. However, doubt is ex
: P ressed that the regrading can
now be finished in time to per
| m it surfacing to be done this
j f a n.
Assurances have also been re
ceived that the State Highway
Department will send a survey
crew here soon to bring up to
date engineering plans for the re
grading and surfacing of the re
maining link of the Hawthorn
Trail, now scheduled for a con
tract to be let very early next
year. This link extends seven
or eight miles northward from
the Dunn contract near Cairo to
Grady-Mitchell county line.
It is also understood that a pro
ject was initiated more than a
year ago and would greatly ex
pedite a considerable portion of
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Friedlander's New
Store Here Opens
Friday, Saturday
Doubtless of special interest to
people throughout this trade area
is the announcement in this issue
of the opening for business today
and tomorrow of Friedlander’s, a
new and attractive store on South
Broad St. here offering smart
ladies’ apparel and fashion shoes.
Ads in this issue and a news
feature on the front page of the
second section give the details.
The store, w’ill open at 9 a. m.
Friday (today).
Council Moves
I
| All Residential
Areas Will Gel
Modern Lights
The Mayor and Council, in reg
u i ar meeting Tuesday night, mov
ed to inaugerate a vast improved
j street lighting program for all of
Cairo, probablv beginning first
w jth the promised “white way”
down first avenue.
All the new residential areas
are included in these plans to
bring more street lights to Cairo,
and work will begin as soon as
the equipment can be purchased.
In order to take care of the ad
ditional expense involed in these
lights, the Council has decided to
discontinue for three or four
months the present 10 per cen dis
count on the light and water rates,
placing the rates back where they
were last June before the discount
became effective.
It is believed that within three
to four months the extra lights
can be paid for, and the 10 per
cent discount restored.
The type of lights to be instal
led are the new modern mereury
vapor lights, set on high metal
poles. These give a diffused light
over a large area, and have proved
most successful and more econom
,cal than the old type of lights in
towns where they have been tri
e d. They are said to give more
light and consume less electricity
than the other type. The plans
are to also extend this newer type
of light to all business sections as
SO on as possible.
A t the Mayor’s Court monday,
several came up for trial on
various charges, and for the first
time in recent years, some were
unable to pay the small fines. In
the past most have been able to
pay the fines, and get out. The
Council was in favor of adopting
some system of working prisoners
on the streets when they could
not pay I- their fines.
C afrurt J av C re ; a Uf
‘' d,uru ‘ l 7 ^
Express berYICe To
Soiiqllt 3 Here
The local Chamber of Com
merce has obtained from the
Georgia Public Service Commis
sion a rehearing on discontinu
ance of Saturday freight and ex
press service by the A. C. L. Rail
road and Railway Express Agency
here.
Chairman Matt L. McWhorter
advised the local agency the re
hearing would be assigned a date
as soon as the existing agenda
congestion clears.
Numerous loud protests have
resulted from local business peo
pie, particularly because of perish
able foodstuffs, flowers and
emergency medicines regularly
arriving Friday nights for the
week-end trade. Meanwhile, tern
porary arrangements have been
worked out for most of these items
to be put off here at owner’s risk,
to be picked up by the cosignees
Saturday morning. Special police
protection has been arranged for
such shipments.
Misses Martha and Sue Rainey
left during the week for La
Grange where Sue resumed her
studies at LaGrange College and
Martha will be employed in the
college library.
SIXTEEN PAGES
Chest's Reports
Point Needs
1950 Fund Drive,
Naming Officers
Planned
The annual meeting of the
Grady County Committy Chest,
held at the Courthouse here Wed
nesday afternoon, voted enthusias
tically to continue Chest opera
tions here, with the 1950 fund
drive to begin next month and the
election of officers as tasks im
mediately at hand.
President Charles Beale, presid
ing, after reports were submitted
by representatives of most of the
institutional members or causes
supported by the Chest, declared
the question at hand was to de
termine definitely if continued
Chest operations should be at
tempted without wider support
from able prospective! contribu
tors. There were immediate ex
pressions from several—all of one
go back to the old ways of
erous campaigns a year and a
multiplicity of welfare assistance
appeals, all inefficiently doubled
with much duplication of effort
and the burden always falling on
comparatively a few. On motion
by C. P. Whidden, seconded
prompty by several, the meeting
voted whole-heartedly to con
tinue.
President Beale named the
following nominating committee
to select officers, including a 1950
fund drive chairman: C. P. Whid
den, chairman, Alvin B. Wight
and Louis A. Powell. He then
called a ^meeting of all Chest of
ficers shortly to map plans for the
fund drive and other work inci
dent thereto. To stimulate wider
interest and support, publicity on
Chest funds uses and full infor
mation for all drive workers were
suggested as major needs.
Rev. Robert Bowen, chairman
of the executive committee of the
Emergency Welfare Council, the
largest Chest fund user, said he
did not know how the county
could go on without the Chest and
the emergency welfare funds it
raises. Also representing the
Council were Rev. Robert Perry
and Ben F. Harrison, other execu
tive committee members, and
Miss Louise Maxwell, county wel
fare director, who investigates
needs of most of the recipients of
these funds.
Miss Wessie Connell, librarian,
a PP ear ^d for the Public Library
and sa * d ^ could not even ap
P roac h its minimum financial
needs in serving 70,000 calls for
books this year without the funds
from the Chest.
Lester Coleman, chairman of
the Recreation Commission, said
the recreation Program would be
impossible without the funds it
receives from the Chest. Co. Agt.
S. E. George said Chest funds
greatly aided the 4-H Club pro
gram with its 900 boys and girls.
Bobby VanLandingham said the
same thing for the Boy Scouts and
others spoke for all these and
other Chest-supported causes.
Miss Marion Smith, county visit
ing teacher, said emergency re
lief appeals throughout the coun
ty are increasing and that she
would have spend most* of her
time begging for funds to meet
even minimum emergency needs
without the Chest and its funds to
coordinate and make more effici
ent the handling of these miscel
laneous cases, mostly among
school age children. The Salva
tion Army, Cancer Fund and USO
were institutional members not
represented at the meeting,
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Heisler will be interested to know
that they are now making their
home in Gainesville, Fla, where
he is employed with the South
ern Bell Telephone Company and
she is a techician in the Chem
istry department at the Univer
sity of Florida; she is the former
Miss Mary E. Rogers.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS:
Touchdown Club
Meets Monday
Sept. 19th.
The Touchdown Club of Cairo
will hold its first meeting in the
Citizens Cafe Monday, Sept.
19th, 7:30 p. m„ where all those
attending will have an opportuni
ty to hear from the new coach
in gstaff at Cairo, and the com
mittee in charge promises a good
program followng each of the
ten scheduled games.
Offieers elected last spring are
John King, President; Jimmy
Kennedy, vice-president; and
Gene Lyons, sec.-treasurer. Those
officers wish to emphasize that
membershp is open this year to
anyone interested in the advance
ment of athletics in the schools
of Cairo and Grady County. Any
one interested in joining should
contact one of the officers by
Saturday afternoon, so that re
servations may be made for the
proper number of guests at the
Monday night meeting.
Membership dues for the year
ending Sept. 1, 1950, will be $3.00.
Me ls will be $1.00 each. T en
may be paid w.00 at the
ftrst meeting, $5.00 on, Oct 3rd.,
and the remaining $3.00 on Nov.
7th. Or you may pay the full
amount in advance Monday
night at the meeting.
Cattle, Hogs
Are Higher
No. 1 Hogs Are
Back Up To 20c
Volume of offerings and prices
increased at Tuesday’s livestock
auction here, E. B. Ham-brick, of
Cairo Livestock Auction Co., re
ported.
No. 1 hogs, moving back up
ward from recent drops, sold for
20c a pound, one cent above last
I week, and 100 points above hoard
quotations for the day. Feeder pigs
sold up to 21c a pound, it was
stated, the highest for recent
weeks.
Cattle offerings continued rath
er light but prices advanced ac
cording to advances in the hog
market, it was stated.
.Increased hog movements are
anticipated for the next few
weeks, particularly in view of
the continued firm market.
Red Cross To
Meet Here
Annual Session
Next Wednesday
The Grady county chapter of
the American Red Cross will hold
its annual meeting at the Council
Room in the City Hall here next
Wednesday, Sept. 21st, promptly
at 3 o’clock, it was announced
this week.
Chapter officials said business
will include election of officers
and directors, appointment of
committee chairmen and the for
mulation of some general plans
for the coming year. All mem
bers of the Red Cross who possi
bly can are urged to attend the
meeting.
The local ARC chapter has
been one of the outstanding chap
ters of the district, both during
the war and in the postwar period.
In disaster relief and in assist
ance to families of men in ser
vice and war veterans notable
service has been rendered.
Second Polio Case
Is Much Improved
Leonard Richards, of Grady
County, said last week to be the
second case of polio in the coun
ty, is reported much improved at
the Grady Hospital in Atlanta.
Instead of being moved to
Warm Springs, he is expected to
return home within a few days,
and it is believe no permanent
injury will result from the mild
case of polio.
NUMBER 36.
Rotarians Hear
W. E. Still
Says A Greater
Farm Bureau Is
Most Important
Rotarians and their visitors
heard an interesting and thought
f u l address by W. E. Still, Edu
cation Director of the Georgia
Farm Bureau, Macon, at their
weekly luncheon in the Citizens
Cafe Wednesday,
Fred Roddenbery, Rotary presi
c j en t ) presided, and County Agent
s E George introduced the
spea ker. Mr. Still is a native of
Walton County, and graduated
from t h e University of Georgia in
the same class with Mr. George.
j Mr stm will be the principle
speaker at the Grady Farm Bu _
reau meeting in the courthouse
tonight, Friday, at 8:00 p. m.
Si £ ce \ hl , , f ls * _ arn \ „ Bureau
Week ’ and ‘ he or ^ nlzatlon 15 b T
i ginning a drive to increase the
s , „f th e Farm Bureau,
lo tarmers , but t0 „
groups.
He pointed out that all groups
in our society was inter-depen
: dent upon one another, that in
j dustry and labor, and other
j groups could not prosper if the
j farmer did not. He emphasized
that every time the farmer had
“gone down”, all the rest of our
economy suffered a seriou de
pression.
In connection with the program
to keep up farm income, Mr. Still
brought out a discussion of the
farm suport program by the gov
ernment, which has from time to
time been criticized. But instead
of the farm support program, op
erated by the Commodity Credit
Corporation, losing money, he ex
plained that this agency in its
fourteen years of operation had
actually shown a huge profit to
the government. This has been
done by the CCC’s buying surplus
products, and then selling them
at a time when they were in de
mand.
As an example of the way the
Farm Bureau helped farmers, Di
rector Stiii pointed out that had
the Farm Bureau not been able
to prevent the Achen bill from
going into effect this year, farm
ers would have gotten $70 a ton
less for peanuts than they will
get. “That will amount to a mil
lion dollars in Grady County
alone”, he said.
The Farm Bureau is now work
ing on a long range farm program
which will be designed to keep
the balance between agriculture
and industry, the speaker noted,
and will work to the good of the
farmers in general. Said he:
« Georgia now ranks fifth
among
the states in membership, and if
we can reach our goal of 90,000
this year, we will rank third. And
the more members we have, the
more weight it will add to our
proposals in Washington.”
The Farm Bureau was also able,
he said, to keep the present 75c
an hour wage law from including
farm labor. “Having to pay such
a wage would have wrecked our -
I farm economy. If we are going
to keep a sound economy, and the
kind of America we all want,
we must have some organization
that will balance off the influence
of the various isms’; and the
Farm Bureau does just that,” Mr.
Still concluded.
Visitors included Fred Hand,
Speaker of the ' Georgia House,
from Pelham; John Roth from
Thomasville; P. B. Ingram of
Bainbridge; Carl Ponder, Presi
dent of the Grady County Farm
Bureau; James McCollum of Al
bany; Samuel B. Parkman from
Tifton; from Cairo: Johnny Wight,
Cliff Owsley, and S. E. George.
Carol June Lane has returned
to her home in Bemiston, Ala.,
after spending a month here
her grandmother, Mrs. J. F.
Lane; her parents are the Rev.
and Mrs. W A. Lane.