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CAIRO, L GEORGIA The Best City of Its Size In the Entire United States A YEAR. IN advance. 0-S2 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 (Continued on last page) 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 (Continued on last page) 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.