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CAIRO/ GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
U.50-S2 A year, IN advance.
rnUJME XLVI.
egion Meeting
lext Tuesday
Big Crowd Expected
To Attend; Supper
At Eight P. M.
The regular monthly, meeting
^ Grady County Post No. 122
L the American Legion will be
ie ld next Tuesday Night, Oct.
|th with Commander R. P. (Bob)
Lht presiding. Supper with will the be
, rved at eight p. m.
lusiness meeting to follow im
nediately. An estimated crowd
f more than 200 is expected and
L feed committee will prepare
[or that will number. be important that
ill It very
members attend this meeting
[s [rejects the local view post has and a would number like of
[o in
have as many present as pos
jible when these projects are
bresented. f
The goal for the 1950 member
hip drive has been set at 1,000
bembers. Commander Wight
fated there were more than 2,500
Eligible in the county to join the
legion and that every effort
Luld be made to contact each
bid every veteran in the county.
He also stated there would not be
jny change in the amount of the
jues which are $4.00 per year,
lifter October first, an additional
|5c will have to be sent to the
Itate headquarters and all who
will renew or join this post are
irged to do so before the first of
ihe month, in order to save the
ocal post this additional expense.
Grady County Post No. 122
m the second largest post in
Ihe second district last year and
ihe membership committee has
ery strong hopes of making it
tat this year. Membership
Wanks are available at the fol
lowing places: Cairo Banking
Co., Jake Pollers’, Gilmores’
right and Browne, Cairo Mes
ienger, Faulk Chevrolet Sales
fo., Bob’s Grocery, and Dave
Singletary, post adjutant.
! Two ladies will be on hand to
toive new memberships and
llso renewals at the legion home
fuesday night. Anyone desir
ing to renew or join can do so
from seven p. m. until the close
P (he meeting.
werican Legion
takes Donations
Bob Wight, Commander of
American Legion, Post No.
122, disclosed this week that
the local post had made con
tributions to various civic
projects amounting to aproxi
ma ’ely $350 during the month
September.
These donations went to
Vflrious projects among which
Was c hild welfare. Youth
center, $100 to the Cairo
Public Library, and other
civic enterprises.
oiro Syrupmakers Will Meet
homasville Bulldogs Tonight
Valdosta Wildcats Beat Local Boys
Last Friday Night 27-6 In Thriller
J. P Miller’s Syrup
lakers will travel to Thomas
Nile tonight to meet Coach
ame J s Bulldogs in the annual
i -! playe d each year with
v !. r ' ,. ketwen
r 0 the two teams
Vasvm° Se t0 3 b0Uing P ° int
ma svili e came out the
on
The Schedule
m Pelham 0, Cairo 18.
e I' Pt. ' 3 -Valdosta 27. Cairo 6.
Jct Thomasville there
u ‘ Gainey, Fla. here.
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w ay cross there.
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The Official Organ of Grady County.
"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation ot the dead.”
SIXTEEN PAGES
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Goal This Year
The membership committee of
the Grady County Farm Bureau
met in the Citizens Cafe last Sat
urday afternoon, to map plans for
the membership drive, now in
progress, which they hope to
complete by November 1st.
The goal this year for the Coun
ty is 1000 members, with the pre
sent membership listing about 600
farmers. The goal for the entire
state is 90,000, and if reached it
will make Georgia one of the
strongest Farm Bureau states in
the union.
All farmers are urged to join,
and so strengthen the organiza
tion, so that it may represent the
farmer’s point of view more ef
fectively.
Four prizes will be given to
individuals who sign up the most
new members; and there will
probably be an additional prize
awarded to the community that
gets the highest percentage of
farmer-members enrolled.
Those interested in joining may
see any active F. B, member, or
S. E. George, County Agent, at
the Courthouse.
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f* ^Qiro • May Li £ 500n
Outshine State
c ... Lights T I
k)Tr€GT O
Be Installed
The Mayor and Council an
nounced plans this week for a
street lighting program which will
make Cairo the best lighted city
in Southwest Georgia, if not the
entire state.
From time to time since the
beginning of the year, spokesmen
for the city said, the present
Mayor and Council has been be
sieged by requests for street
lights from points all over the
city. We realize the necessity
for these additional lights, they
said, and we are going to provide
them just as soon as materials
can be obtained.
At the last meeting of the May
or and Council a resolution was
passed authorizing installation of
lights where necessary, to be fi
nanced by discontinuing the ten
percent discount on the monthly
light and water bills.
Among the sections to be light
ed are First Avenue, Northeast,
the Northwest section of town
above Northside School, New
Home and Park subdivisions,
Southern Terrace Estates, the
Southwest Section of town, and
all other sections that are not
now adequately lighted.
Bids are being received this
week on material and equipment,
and the new lighting program
will get under way in the near
future.
of 18-7.
Major Verran’s band will ac
company the team tonight. A
most excellent demonstration was
displayed last Friday night in Val
dosta with the playing and march
ing both being outstanding.
McCorkle, Syrupmakers back,
scored Cairo’s only touchdown
last week in the final quarter of
the game. The Valdosta touch
downs were made by Watson,
Fleming and Mote, who scored
two. Griffis made three extra
points, one on a recovered fumble,
another on a pass and the third
from placement. for
The first downs were 11
Valdosta with Cairo making five.
Score by quarters:
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CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1949.
Touchdown Club
In Grid Confab
Coach Miller Goes
Into Details On
T-Formation
The Cairo Touchdown Club,
with some 50 members present,
enjoyed a tasty supper of fried
chicken, and later an interesting
gridiron discussion, Monday night
at their second meeting of the
season in the Citizens Cafe.
The program committee had
| planned to have Coach E. O.
I (Bull) Garner, of Thomasville as
guest speaker, but Coach Garner
j had been called away Monday
j due to the sudden death of his
j brother in North Carolina.
Instead of a guest speaker, a
number of members gave reports
on high school and college games
which they saw last week-end.
Assistent Coach Marion Wright
reported on the Thomasville
Monticello game last Friday
night. In this game Coach
.
' Thomasville seemed
Wright said
to be outclassed altogether, so
it was difficult to say what they
would do against Cairo. Dr.
Rehberg gave a report and some
observations on the Tulane-Ala
bama game last Saturday.
Coach J. p. Miller commented
briefly on the game with VaL
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"but the first part of the game
was p re (ty poor. We weren’t
helped any by the use of a yellow
ball and the fact that the Val
,
dosta boys wore yellow pants,”
he added, “If we play ball
against Thomasville like we did
against Valdosta in the last half,
Coach Miller promised, “we will
win the game. But if we play as
we did during the first half in
Valdosta we are sure to lose the
game.” blackboard,
With the use of a
Coach Miller went into an exten
sive explanation of the T-format
ion type of football. He pointed
out that the day of the “big
dumb lineman” was over, and
that the present type of game
which Cairo is playing is often
complicated, and requires the
boys to think fast, concentrate on
what they are doing, and be on
the alert for instant changes in
plays at all times.
In conclusion, President John
King, commended the Syrupmak
ers for the good form and stay
, ing-power which they demon
strated against Valdosta. They
looked as fresh and powerful in
the last minutes as they did in
the beginning”, he said, "This
shows that our boys are in good
phvsical condition, ” he added,
“and this fact can mean the dif
ference in winning or losing a
sometimes. ’
game
Three of the team were present
for the meeting and supper. They
were Wesley Cassells, Raymond
Sholar, and “Red” Rogers.
Primitive Baptists
Hold Annual Meet
At Tired Creek
The Sixty-fourth Annual Ses
sion of the Flint River Primitive
Baptist Association will be held
at Tired Creek Primitive Baptist
Church, six miles south of Cairo,
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and 2.
Elder L. Z. Folmar, of Albany
moderator, will be in charge o
the session. Mr. Henry Hester,
Sr., is the clerk and Mr. M. J.
Perkins assistant clerk
Elder Earle Dailey, of Indi
napolis, Ind., a speaker of pow
er, will be among the prominent
visiting elders. Many elders and
other visitors from Virginia,
North Carolina and other states
are expected to attend the three
day session.
Picnic dinner will be enjoyed
every day.
Members of the Primitive Bap
tist Churches of Grady County
and friends are invited.
Commissioners To
Meet- Oct. 6f-h.
The regular meeting of the
County Board of Commis
sioners, which is ordinarily
the first Tuesday in each
month, will not be held next
Tuesday, but is being post
poned until Thursday, Oct.
6th.
The meeting is being de
layed because some of the
commissioners are members
and will be in attendance
there at Pine Hill on the 4th„
and 5th. All whom this
might affect are asked to take
notice of the change in dates.
Highway Jobs
Are Pressed
Mitchell Group Is
Heard Here On
Tuesday
Two state highway moderniza
tion projects were given emphasis
at a meeting here Tuesday that
continued slightly more than
three hours.
The Board of County Commis
sioners of this county met in
special session at the Courthouse
at 9. a. m. to hear from a delega
tion of Mitchell county citizens
headed by House Speaker Fred
Hand, of Pelham, which sought
full Grady county co-operation
toward the grading and surfacing
of State Route 262, commonly re
ferred to as the County Line road
—and a delegation of citizens
ifrom this county attended to sup
port the County Commissioners in
an effort to establish the regrad
ing and paving of the remainder
of the Cairo-Camilla Hawthorn
Trail (State Route 112) as a com
panion project. Chairman Albert
Walker, of the local Commission
ers, presided.
Chairman Walker stated the
position of the local Commission
ers as to the County line project,
in which he outlined that the
Grady officials had been given
no information about it, where
upon Speaker Hand and his
group reviewed in some de
tail how the project had been
developed t o the point where
bids will be received there
on by the State Highway De
partment today, Friday. As the
discussion progressed, Speaker
Hand said that he and others
interested in the project had se
cured signatures to the necessary
right-of-way deeds and had ar
ranged for all of the necessary
borrow pits, leaving Grady coun
ty’s responsibility to consist most
ly of moving fences and
some other right-of-way
work.
State Rt. 262, established
year, extends eastward from
along the County Line road to a
point just east of the Hawthorn
Trail crossing then northeastward
toward Pelham; and does not in
clude the remainder of the Coun
ty Line road between that point
and the Cairo-Pelham road
Rt/93) intersection.
Various speakers in the
meeting followed with pleas
this county’s co-operation in
Pelham-Vada project and
support by Speaker Hand and
group of efforts to assure an
contract for the regrading
surfacing of the remaining six
eight miles of the
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TICKETS ON SALE
FOR GAME TONIGHT
Tickets for the football
game Friday night between
Thomasville and the Cairo
Syrupmakers are on sale
at Oliver's. The price is
$1.10 for adults, and 50
cents for students.
Half of the concrete
stands are being reserved
for Cairo grid fans, on the
side nearest the Moultrie
highway or Jackson Street
SIXTEEN PAGES
Dr. Mobley In
4 Talks Here
"Human Erosion"
Topic At Three
Club Meets
Dr. M. D. Mobley, of Atlanta
state director of vocational educa
tion, and a nationally-known
speaker, carried out a marathon
speaking engagement series here
this week which included four ad
dresses in slightly more than 24
hours that thrilled and inspired
all of the groups.
He opened with the Cairo Ki
wanis Club Tuesday at noon, then
addresed the Grady county GEA
! unit that afternoon. He was the
featured speaker at the fine
“ladies’ night” supper meeting of
the Whigham Community Club in
Whigham Tuesday night and then
returned here to address Cairo
Rotary Club afrnoon Wednesday.
He was even able to find time, al
so ’ to make studies of the Caiio
and Whigham schools, which, he
declared, are doing an excellent
work - despite the great need for
additional facilities.
His ad dress to the teachers
Tuesday afternoon was on a
theme of Particular interest to
them but his other addresses were
generally on the topic, “Human
Erosion,” with which Dr. Mobley
has attai ned wide recognition in
tbe stat,e -
The speaker termed Georgia's
most cntxal ... , problem human
erosion, . „ the states , , , nit , , loss of , so
many people who are bornand
reared here. He used the 1940 U.
S. Census figures to show that at
that time more than 900,000 peo
ple born and reared in Georgia
were living in other states, and
that only slightly more than 300,
000 born and reared in other
states had located in Georgia,
leaving the state with a net loss
of nfore than 600,000. This, he
explained, is a monetary loss of
more than $600 million which the
people of the state had invested
in the education and rearing of
the people represented in the net
loss.
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C. of C. Meeting
Finds Progress
Saturday Express,
Freight Service
Restored
The directors of the Grady
Co. Chamber of Commerce,
at their monthly meeting
here Tuesday night, received
a delegation of A. C. L. rail
road officials and in a matter
of only a few minutes worked
out plans for almost full res
toration of normal Saturday
express and freight service
locally which had been elimi
nated in a general order of
the railroad company and
Railway Express Agency, ef
fective Sept. 1st., causing ex
tensive dissatisfaction, varied
losses and much concern
about prospective serious in
jury to local industries. The
restoration is effective this
week-end.
A. C. L. officials appearing at
the meeting were E. H. Cook,
trainmaster, Dothan; Jim Bolen,
commercial agent, Albany; L. F.
Brabham, roadmaster, Dothan,
and Richard Sawyer, local agent.
They were welcomed by Judson
T. Mayfield, elected chairman of
the meeting, after which Chamber
Mgr. Louis A. Powell reported in
some detail on the efforts of the
service curtailment and on sev
eral conferences with the express
and railroad company officials.
He said he had obtained, in the
name of the Chamber, a Georgia
Public Service Commission re
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GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In A erica
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Dr. Mobley Speak *
At- Whigham
Dr. M. D. Mobley, State Direc
tor of Vocational Education, visit
ed in Whigham this week for the
purpose of speaking to the Whig
ham Community Club, at their
“Ladies night” meeting, The
subject of his address was “Hu
man Erosion, or population trends
in Georgia.”
In his interesting talk, Dr. Mob
ley brought out the fact that
Georgia is losing one out of four
of the youth which she trains to
other states. Pointing up the
great economic loss to the state,
which such a condition creates, he
offered the suggestion that we
improve our “on the job train
ing” in order to provide better
work opportunities.
Club president Cecil Crew pre
sided, and Rev. J. Gorham Gar
rison, personal friend of the
speaker, introduced him with ap
propriate words to the group.
Special guests, including Supt.
and Mrs. Lloyd Connel, Mr. and
Mrs. H. R. Madison, Mr. Robert
P. Wight, and Miss Wessie Con
nell, of Cairo, were recognized by
the program chairman, Joe D.
Lewis.
About a hundred people at
tended, and enjoyed a delicious
meal, served by the council of
the Home Demonstration Clubs.
Dr. Mobley’s visit to the Whig
ham School was inspirational to
both teachers and pupils. While
here, he was a guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe D. Lewis.
CHOICE SPECIMAN OF
C-I.iV ~- T iNG CANE _ RVr _ F E.IL.—
One of the best specimens of
red chewing cane seen in several
years was left on display at The
Messenger office Wednesday by
William Forrest, colored, who re
sides on 8th Street,. S. W.
This fine stalk of cane measures
9 feet, with 18 matured joints.
It’s a choice speciman, and would
go mighty good on a cool day,
with a new barlow knife, at an
old-fashioned cane-chewing.
Fate Of New Voter Law Is Not
Certain Yet; May Be Illegal
New Test- On Way To State Supreme
Court From Augusta This Week
The State Supreme Court may
yet band Georgia’s voter re-regis
! tratiop law as illegal.
This surprising view came last
Saturday from highest legal
sources, considered especially
competent.
The experts said last week’s
Supreme Court opinion, reported
as upholding the act in a Rich
mond County case, has been mis
understood.
In fact, they quoted a little
noted part of the opinion to show
that the court itself pointed out
a possible successful attack on the
law.
The measure wiped out Geor
gia’s old list of 1,200,000 registered
A move to postpone the use
of Georgia’s new and controvers
ial voters list was started last
Tuesday by two of Talmadge’s
top-flight lieutenants.
This would set the stage for
the use of the old voters list of
more than 1,200,000 names for
next year’s gubernatorial pri
mary.
House speaker Pro Tern George
L. Smith and Rep. Frank S.
Twitty, Talmadge floor leader in
the House, said they would pro
pose the change to the General
Assembly in January because of
“confusion” over the long, tech
nical act.
Gov. Herman Talmadge de
clined comment §on the joint
! statement of his two lieutenants.
However, it was learned that
both Mr. Twitty and Mr. Smith
conferred for more than 30 minu
tes with the governor before mak
ing their announcement.
voters and required a new regis
tration, under tighter procedure.
Gov. Herman Talmadge said this
City Court To
Meet Oct. 10
Damage Suits Will
Be Main Business
Of Session
The regular October term of
the City Court of Cairo, which
will convene Monday morning,
Oct. 10th., at 9:00 a. m., is ex
pected to be one of the most out
standing sessions, in-so-far as
civil business is concerned, in the
past several years. Judge G. L.
Worthy will preside, with Solici
tor Edwin Carlisle representing
the state. Clerk of the Court Le
land Harrison and Sheriff C. H.
Strickland will be at their posts
of duty.
It is understood that Monday
and Tuesday will be taken up
with the trial and disposal of
criminal business, with very few
outstanding cases on the docket.
The trial of civil cases, of which
there are a number of important
damage suits scheduled for trial,
will begin Wednesday. Due to
the importance of these cases, 60
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Victor Lombardo's
Orchestra Coming
To Legion Here
In line with its usual policy of
bringing the best entertainment
to this section, the local Ameri
can Legion announced plans to
day to bring Victor Lombardo,
and his orchestra to the Club
house here Thursday night, Nov.
3rd.
Victor Lombardo is a brother
of Guy, and for many years play
ed the saxophone with him, help
ing to make the famous “sweet
est music this side of heaven.”
Victor’s orchestra plays similar
music to Guy, following in almost
exactly the same style.
was his answer to Negro “bloc
voting.”
The idea that the law is not
yet out of the Constitutional
woods goes like this:
Theory Cited
The lower court record in the
Richmond case, to which the Su
preme Court was confined, did
not single out any specific sect
ions of the act to support the
case against it. Attorneys merely
argued the entire law—all of it
—was arbitrary and provided for
discrimination against Negro vot
ers.
Thus, to have thrown out the
law in this particular case, the
Supreme Court would have had /
to hold that every section of the
act—56 of them—is invalid. That
is an unvarying rule of court pro
cedure.
Obivously, every single section
of hardly any act is illegal.
So the court upheld the law
only in the most general way, as
a whole. It could do little else.
It did not and could not consider
several specific sections of the act,
which are highly debatable.
Unitl these specific questions
are answered, another suit still
could be filed attacking these
points.
"Statute As Whole"
“This statement, however is not
to be taken as an intimation that
. . .separate portions may or may
not be unconstitutional. We are
here concerned only with the
validity of the voters’ registration
statute as a whole.
“In this case an omnibus attack
on the act will fail unless the
statute is invalid in every part
(section, . .”
The opinion went on to point
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