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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
5jze In the Entire
United States
' s2 A year, in advance.
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r. H. D. Mobley
Speak Here
Nationally Known
Educator Making
Four Appearances
m. D- Mobley, state direct
f Vocational Education,- will
0 engagements
four speaking
nex t Tuesday and Wednes
re and 28th.
Sept. 27
Mobley, nationally known
icator, will be the guest speak
at the Kiwanis Club luncheon
esday, Sept. 27th. He will
>ak to the Grady County unit
the G. E. A. Tuesday afternoon
4:30, and to members, guests,
I visitors of Whigham Com¬
ity club Tuesday evening
0 in the Community Center,
e noted speaker will also de
:r the guest address at the
m Rotary luncheon Wednes
fi Swt Mobley 28th. will . drxive in
)r.
liro |]ate Mohd^y afternoon to
the guest : v Mr. and Mrs. H.
Madison. Tuesday everting
Whigham, i . will.be the guest
Mr. and Mrs. J. xV. .Lewis.
('Human erosion”, is the sublet
| Dr. Mobley’s addresses; aid
11 deal with population trends.
Dr. Mobley is known in educa
|n circles throughout the na
n, as one of the foremost and
bgressive educational leaders
modern times. He is a past
(esident of the American Voca
pi Association, In recent
jars, he has spent much time in
her states, assisting in setting
vocational programs.
fluae o7 the exc dlent and ef
Kent program he has helped to
pet here in Georgia, he was
lected to go to the American
p in Germany to assist in set
tg up the vocational training
pgram there.
Having just returned from a
pond s’ trip to Germany, Dr. Mob¬
sports much porgress in the
gbi direction has been made
pre. As a teacher, leader, dip
pt, beves and practical educator, he
in teaching young peo
P how to make a living. His
al is an educational program
Wiich will make a major contri¬
ve ' toward training the 80
Brent of Georgia's youth whose
B'Jcmon virtually ends when
B)' leave high school.
Bl Mobley believes efficient
B’-- - through the various de
Btnents of vocational training
B n high schools, State Vo
B' Bges, :onai trade schools and col
will solve many of our
B'e’s educational ills.
«ady Baptists To
At Pine Hill
pie Thirty-Ninth Annual Ses
r ( he Grady County Baptist
[Seciation will meet with Pine
r ^ p a Ptist dnesday, Church on Tuesday
j, e October 4th and
P' ^verend R. C. Perry or his
ernate Rev. A. B. Thomas, will
,, IVer the Introductoi'y
i Sermon,
r J G. Garrison or his alter
r p rev. Robert Bowen, will do¬
1 Missionary Sermon.
U ji Ports
of the work that has
P S*ven uljne in in this Association will
• detail. There
*n has
a Steady § rowt h in all
Has f es f f the denominational
pro
plans will be offered
F even a greater advance during
le n ®xt twelve
he Sta months.
te Convention will be
Presented , by several Depaxt
* ntal Secretaries
e and these will
a Picture of the accomplish
ents of the Baptists the
late. over
** Clerks of the 18 churches
®plete Association are urged to
Hi their Church Letters
to nd t ^ em to the Associ
tionai o Clerk Rev.
! Ph . - N. G. Chris
L, Lj° :. as Soon a s is possible that
ns m ’ght be made for
[ hon to the Association.
John UGette left Wednesday
ir i. u < Sta
liriorv " 0r * Junior r° v, College. ’^ iere he entered
Ufe (Cairo m O P
"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
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DR. M. D. MOBLEY: state Di
rector of Vocational Education,
and nationally known educator,
will fill a number of speaking
engagements at Cairo and Whig
ham next Tuesday and Wednes
day.
C. of C. Directors
To Hear ACL Group
On Tuesday Night
The monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the local
Chamber of Commerec will be
held next Tuesday night at 7:30
o’clock in the Council Room at
the City Hall.
A delegation of Atlantic Coast
Line railroad officials is expected
to attend to discuss a Chamber
request for at least partial restor¬
ation of Saturday express and
freight service here. A Chamber
representative discussed such
plans with some of the railroad
officials at length here last Mon¬
day afternoon.
A full* attendance of Chamber
directors is urged far this and
other business slated for consid
eration.
Legion Member
Drive Underway
Goal Is 1,000 For
Local Post; 2,500
Eligible In County
The annual membership drive
for 1950 has just begun with
Grady County oPst No. 122 of the
American Legion according to
Robert P. (Bob) Wight, Com¬
mander. Last year the local post
of the legion had a total of more
than 465 members which was a
record for the organization here.
The goal for the 1950 member¬
ship drive has been set at 1,000
membei’s. Commander Wight
stated there were mox-e than 2,500
eligible in the county to join the
legion and that every effort
would be made to contact each
and every veteran in the county.
He also stated there would not be
any change in the amount of the
dues which are $4.00 per year.
After October first, an additional
25c will have to be sent to the
state headquarters and all who
will renew or join this post are
urged to do so before the first of
the month, in order to save the
local post this additional expense.
Grady County Post No. 122
was the second lax-gest post in
the second district last year and
the membership committee has
very strong hopes of making it
first this year, Membership
blanks ai'e available at the fol¬
lowing places: Caix*o Banking
Co., Jake Pollers’ Gilmores’
Wight and Browne, Cairo Mes¬
senger, Faulk Chevrolet Sales
Co., Bob’s Grocey, and Dave
Singletary, post adjutant.
The regular monthly meeting
of the local post will be held
Tuesday night, October 4th, at
8:00 p. m. with suppef promised
to be on time. A business meet¬
ing will be held immediately fol¬
lowing the meal. Further details
to be announced next week.
It will be very important that
all members attend this meeting
as the local post has a number of
projects in view and would like
to have as many present as pos¬
sible when these projects are
presented.
Th® Official Organ of Grady County.
CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1949.
Gas Hearing Is
. In Proaress
Cairo Officials
At Tallahassee
This Week
A special regional hearing of
the Federal Power Commission
on plans for bringing natural gas
to this area has been in progress
at Tallahassee this week with
Cairo officials in attendance. Lo
cal support is for specific ap¬
proval of the Atlantic Gulf Gas
Co. application for an FPC cer¬
tificate to build a $92 million
pipeline distribution system to
bring natural gas from the Louis
hxna fields to a large area of the
Southeast, including Cairo ahd
some 40-odd other municipalities
—which leaders say will greatly
spur industrial and other de¬
velopments in the area to be
served.
The hearing opened in Wash¬
ington Aug. 22nd and in prelimin¬
ary appearances there were
strong arguments for the hear¬
ing to be continued at Tallahassee
or some other point in this area
to better enable the municipali¬
ties to submit their arguments for
approval of the pipeline certifi¬
cate. The Tallahassee regional
hearing was subsequently order¬
ed and opened in the old Su¬
preme Court building there at
10 a. m. Tuesday to continue
through Friday.
Preliminaries Tuesday includ¬
ed appearances in behalf of Gov.
Fuller Warren, of Florida, and by
Cong. Robert Sikes, of the North¬
west Florida district; Mayor
Robert Parker, of Tallahassee;
a representative of the Florida
Railroad and Utilities Commiss
ion, and others.
The hearing proper opened
a preliminary statement by
City Manager Malcolm N. Yancey,
of Tallahassee, as president of
the Southeastern Ass’n of Muni¬
cipalities For Natural Gas, form¬
ed in Cairo last year, which is
credited with redeveloping inter¬
est in the project on the part of
one of the two original pipeline
applicants, Atlantic Gulf Gas Co.
Walter Brown, Chamber manag¬
er at Albany, and the association
secretary, also spoke briefly, after
which the association brief was
submitted by A. E. Runnels, man¬
ager of the Moultrie Chamber.
Other personal appearances
Tuesday included those by Cairo’s
Mayor Walter Williams; B. V/.
Mauldin, mayor protem and
councilman-at-large; City At¬
torney George T. Smith; and City
Utilities Supt. John W. Walker.
They were presented by local
Chamber Mgr. Louis A. Powell,
who is the association vice-presi
dent.
City Attorney Smith on Thurs¬
day reappeai'ed to present Messrs, j
Powell and Walker, who offered
the formal testimony on behalf
of the City of Cairo, including 10
copies of a special brief and a
supplemental exhibit containing
information on the cost and an
ticipated returns on a proposed
distribution system for natural
gas in Cairo.
There were numerous other ap¬
pearances at the hearing, with
Alabama cities testifying Wed¬
nesday, Georgia cities Thursday
and the Florida cities slated to
testify today.
A short session of the hearing
is scheduled at Savannah next
week after which it will be re¬
sumed in Washington, A de¬
cision on the Atlantic Gulf Gas
Co. application is now foreseen
by next January. If the certifi¬
cate is granted this company has
indicated plans to make natural
gas available in this area by the
spring of 1952.
Opposition to the granting of
the pipeline certificate has been
evidenced almost entirely by a
nationally-known attorney rep¬
resenting CIO and numerous
labor unions, the Nation Coal As¬
sociation and other agencies. He
has been cross-examining many
of the intervenors testifying this
week.
Red Cr ° s s Has
Annual Meet
By-Laws Adopted;
Officers Named
The Grady county chapter of
the American Red Cross held its
annual meeting at the City Hall
Wednesday afternoon with Miss
Louise Johnson, a general field
representative, in attendance.
First item of business Was the
adoption of chapter by-laws
establishing a new fiscal year to
begin July 1st. Officers were
then elected for 1949-50 on nomi¬
nations by a special committee
composed of Leland Harrison,
chairman, Mrs. Harold McGahee
and Jake Poller.
A board of directors of nine
was named with one, two and
three-year terms designated, and
with three to be elected each year
hereafter. They are: Mrs. E. H.
Coleman, M. L. Mayes and Jake
Poller, one year; Mrs. J. T. Hat
ten, John A. Powell, 2nd, and T.
W. White, Jr., two years; and J.
H. Alderman, H. E. McKinnon
and Louis A Powell, three years.
The following officers were
M. L. Jayes, chairman;
H. E. McKin i, vice-chairman;
John A. Po v «, x, 2nd, treasurer;
T. W. White, Jr., disaster chair¬
man; and Louis A. Powell, pub¬
licity chairman. A secretary will
be named later. Mrs. E. C. White
continues as home service officer,
the part-time worker.
Tentative plans were made for
a first-aid course during the win¬
ter and for another water safety
program next summer with the
assistance of Recreation Director
Ralph Studebaker.
Radio Station's
Permit Issued
FCC Grants 1,000
Watts Station,
1,300 KC.
The Federal Combmunications
Commission in Washington, D. C.
last Friday approved and issued
a permit for the construction of
a L000-watts standard radio sta¬
tion, daytime only, in Cairo.
Grady-Mitchell Broadcasting Co.
chartered here last year, filed an
application for the pex-mit for this
station last December. It will
broadcast on 1,300 kilocycles.
Immediately following approval
of the permit last Friday, Wash
ington attorneys for the Grady
Mitchell Broadcasting Co. filed
application for approval of the
site it selected for the studios and
transmitter which is located
alongside the Cairo-Bainbridge
highway (US 84) just north of the
city. Jhe company has held an
option on the property since last
summer. Prompt action is ex
pected Qn this application and
w hen approval of the site is ob
tained construction will start im
mediately.
Officials of Gx-ady-Mitchell
Broadcasting Co. point out that
contracts have been placed with
broadcast equipment manufac¬
turers and that there will be no
delay in getting shipment.
Building specifications will be
turned over to local contractors
for bids in a few days. The sta¬
tion, altogether, will represent an
investment of nearly $75,000, ac¬
cording to estimates last year.
Call letters for the new station
have not been selected but an of¬
ficial request for them will go to
the Federal Communications Com¬
mission shortly. The letters
WKRO have been suggested but
it has been found they.are the
call letters of a station in Cairo,
111 .
Miss Barbara Barineau left
Sunday for Americus where she
entered Georgia Southwestern
College; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Olin B. Barineau, and sister,
Dorothy, accompanied her to
Americus and spent the day.
EIGHTEEN PAGES
2,610 Students
In White Schools
28 Busses In Use,
With 24 For White;
4 For Colored
Grady County’s two white
high schools and twelve white
elementary schools have a total
enrollment of 2,610 students to
date, according to figures releas¬
ed this week by County School
Superintendent Lloyd Connell
Of the two high schools, Cairo
has 535 high school students,
while Whigham has a total of
173
The total grammar school en¬
rollment in the county is 1,920. Of
this number, Cairo has 696 en¬
rolled with Whigham next with
317 grammar school students.
There was approximately a four
per cent increase in grammar
school enrollment over last year.
The total increase in high
school students this year is in
round figures seventy, Cairo in¬
crease being 50, and Whigham,
20 students.
School busses reach practically
every students home in the coun¬
ty, there 'being 28 busses serving
the system. The white schools
use 24 busses with an average of
54 students to the bus. Four
busses are used for colored stud¬
ents with an average of 50 stud¬
ents to the bus.
BIRTH.—Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy
Ulmer announce the arrival of a
I son a t the Grady County Hos
pital on Friday, September 9th;
his name is William David Ulmer,
weight 10 lbs. Mrs. Ulmer is the
former Miss Esther Perkins.
Cairo Syrupmakers Defeat
Pelham Hornets Here 18-0
Will Play Valdosta Wildcats There
Tonight; Large Crowd Of Fans To Go
The Cairo Syrupmakers will
travel to Valdosta to meet Coach
Wright Bazemore’s Wildcats- to
try and take revenge on them for
the defeat handed the local team
last season. The odds are a lit¬
tle in favor of Valdosta but the
Cairo team has the fighting spirit,
any anything is liable to hap¬
pen.. A large crowd of local fans
are planning to accompany the
Cairo team over to Valdosta to
night. The opening whistle is
expected to signal the beginning
of the affray at eight o’clock.
The Pelham Hornets went down
in defeat at the hands of the
Syrupmakers last Friday night
by a score of 18-0. This was one
of the best teams that Pelham has
ever brought here so not to much
The Schedule
Sept. 16—Pelham 0, Cairo 18.
Sept. 23—Valdosta there.
Sept. 30—Thomasville there
Oct. 7—Quincy, Fla. here.
Oct. 14—Tifton here.
Oet. 21—Waycross there. |
Oct. 28—'Moultrie here.
Nov. 4—Bainbridge here. j
Nov. 11—Colquitt here.
Nov. 18—Americus there.
could be told of Cairo strength.
The Syrupmakers looked better
last week than they did last sea¬
son and seem to be improving in
their daily practice sessions.
Grady Rogers proved himself
along with Sholar who also play¬
ed a good game as far as gaining
yards were concerned, Curies
was the outstanding linesman for
Pelham with Alridge taking the
honors in the backfield.
Cairo made eight first downs to J
four for their opponents. The
Syrupmakers threw six passes
an d completed three while the
Hornets failed to complete any
0 f the three thrown. Cairo
was penalized 20 yards to 35
yards for Pelham. Sholar, Rog
ers and Hopkins scored the three
I touchdowns.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES. 5 CFNTi.
NUMBER 37.
SUP. COURT UPHOLDS VOTER
ACT; ALL MUST RE-REGISTER
City FPC Electric
Rate Hearing Rest
For October 24th
The Federal Power Commission
in Washington has postponed un¬
til Oct. 24th the hearing previous¬
ly scheduled for Oct. 10th in the
rate investigation proceeding in¬
volving Florida Power Corp. and
Georgia Power & Light Co., the
local Chamber of Commerce was
advised in a special FPC order
news release received this week.
The official news release said
the postponement was requested
by Florida Power Corp. and it
came as no surprise here because
local officials learned last week
of the possibility of either a post¬
ponement or an agreement which
may obviate the necessity for the
hearing.
The 26 South Georgia munici¬
palities, including Cairo and
Whigham, who have been seeking
lower electric rates through FPC
intervention by the Georgia
Public Service Commission for
some time, are represented by
J. B. Copeland, a Valdosta at¬
torney, who was associated to as¬
sist in prosecuting the matter last
year.
They are all hopeful the FPC
findings, either in the hearing or
in some special agreement, will
justify a rate reduction to bring
Georgia!Power & Light wholesale
rates in line with those enjoyed
in other adjacent areas. The local
Chamber has been active in this
effort.
First Quarter
Pelham won the toss and elect¬
ed to receive. Harper kicked off
to McClain who received the ball
on Pelham’s 21 and returned to
the 27 yard line. Alridge hit the
left side of the line for two yards.
Warren fumbled but recovered
on the next play with a one yard
loss. Alridge failed to make a
first down so Curies kicked to
Rogers who took the ball on
Cairo’s 31 yard line and return¬
ed it 30 yards to Pelham’s 41 yard
line.
Rogers made three yards over
left tackle and Sholar picked up
three more around right end.
Rogers completed a pass to Hop¬
kins for 34 yards placing the ball
in scoring position and also for a
first down. Sholar hit the center
of the line to score the touch¬
down. Hopkins failed to kick
the extra point. Score: Cairo 6,
Pelham 0.
Harper kicked off to Alridge
who returned the ball to Cairo’s
49 yard line before being stopped.
Warren hit center but failed to
gain. Warren and Alridge both
tried center again but failed to
make a first down. Curies punt
ed to Rogers.
Rogers gained five yards around
right end and Sholar picked up
five more around left end to
make it a first down. Rogers hit ■
center for seven yards but Hop- j
kins failed to gain in the same
place. Sholar broke away around
left end for 18 yards for another
first down. McCorkle picked up
22 yards around left end for a
first down after failing to gain on
the play before in the last play
of the first quarter.
Second Quarter
McCorkle handed the ball to
Sholar which was good for five
yar ds over right guard. Mc
Corkle completed a pass to Shol
ar f ar s j x yards to make a first
down. Sholar picked up five
yards over the left side of the line
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Probably 6,000
Affected Here
Judge Is Expected
To Name Registrars
Today or Saturday
In a conversation over the
phone with Judge Carl Crow,
in Camilla, he staled to The
Messenger that it was his in¬
tention to appoint three reg¬
istrars for Grady county
either today or Saturday. He
also indicated that he would
come down to make the ap¬
pointments. at which time he
would be in position to talk
over the question of ex¬
penses with the appointees..
Judge Crow did not give any
indication as to whom he ex¬
pected to offer the three
places.
As The Messenger understands
the law, it is the duty of the
Grand Jury to suggest six names
to the Judge to pick the three
appointees. The Judge also has
the power of naming the com¬
pensation each registrar shall re¬
ceive for his services, but can¬
not set the salary to 'be paid any
clerk or other help for assisting
them. The last Grand Jury sug¬
gested six names to the Judge.
It is also understood that reg¬
istrars have not been appointed
in 44 of the state’s 159 counties.
Indications are that a drive will
be immediately launched over the
state to re-register those desiring
to vote.
Georgians are going to have to
re-register to vote.
This was decided last Friday by
the State Supreme Court, which
unanimously upheld constitution¬
ality of the Voter Registration
Act of 1949.
The Court pointed out that no
one claimed he was illegally pro¬
hibited from registering under the
new law.
Negro leaders have announced
they plan Federal Court action
when they find registrars dis¬
criminating against Negro voter
applicants.
Without plainly commenting on
the charges that the new law car¬
ries out Gov. Talmadge’s cam¬
paign promises to eliminate “Ne¬
gro bloc voting” and provide “as
white a primary as we can get,”
the Supreme Court said that the
purpose of the act, as a whole,
is to require all persons who are
qualified to vote under hte Con¬
stitution to register before voting.
If the Legislature had other or
additional purposes, which con¬
sidered apart it had not constitu¬
tional power to make effective,
that would not have the result
of making the Act invalid.
The Court, in an opinion writ¬
ten by Justice Bond Almand, said
it found nothing in the Act that
indicates the law denies any
qualified voter the right to regis- t
ter on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
The mere pssibility that the regis¬
trars might act arbitrarily in ad¬
ministering the law and violate
constitutional rights is not a
ground for declaring the Act un¬
constitutional, the Court said,
First effect of the Court ruling
w ill be a rush by counties to set
up registration offices and start
registering voters. Only 30 coun
ties had begun re-registering. Few
of the 1,200,000 voters have re
registered,
Excerpts from the Supreme
Court’s decision follow:
“Though no contention is made
that this act or any section there¬
of contravenes the provisions of
the Constitution relative to the
qualification of votex*s, Reference
to those provisions indicate that %
the legislative puxpose is to pro
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