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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. ^ ' Tkfton here, w ay cross there. i 0v ^-Moultrie Bai abridge here. ( 0v „ here. lev' ' 18 r^° Americus lquitt here there. - •inni ■§ side last by year a score fflhr (fiatrn Iflrssrnnrr 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 ^ rm B jj gX. reau moois 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. - 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: Cairo © © o 6 — CC Valdosta CO l— I- I- 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 £* ™" "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 (Continued on last page) 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. (Continued on page four) 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 (Continued on page four) GRADY COUNTY Greatest Diversified Farming Section In A erica t * ■*6 *•’ w COPIES, 5 CENTS » for Mrs. 1 NUMBER 38. 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 (Continued on last page) 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 (Continue on page one Sec. two)