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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
5j ze In the Entire
United States
A YEAR- IN advance.
VOLUME XLVI.
1445 VOTERS ARE QUALIFIED
h SPECIAL BEER ELECTION
Tuesday
Within City
Polls Open At 7 ,
Close At 6 P. M.
In City Hall
The special City election or
■eferendum, ordered by the
flavor and Council at its regular
neeting Tuesday night Oct. 11th.,
f fll be held according to schedule
Tuesday, Oct. 25th., to determine
whether the majority of qualifi
d voters in the City of Cairo are
or the legal sale of beer or
igainst it. The polls will open
it 7:00 a. m., and close at 6:00 p.
a, with all voting done at the
iity hall, as required by the City
’barter.
Voting booths for white voters
nil be set up in the fire De
jartment, and Negroes will cast
heir votes upstairs, back of the
ibrary, in the Council room.
According to City Clerk Ralph
Carlisle, there will be approxi
nately 1445 qualified to cast
allots in this special election,
[his will include 999 white voters
ind about 446 colored voters.
This election applies only to
he voters registered within the
iity limits of Cairo, and does not
nclude those in the Cairo Dis
irict outside the City limits.
The law governing special
jeferendums |ie: of this nature speci
that those who are qualified
o vote are the ones whose names
ivero on the certified voter list
it the last general election, which
fas last November. No one regis
ered since then is qualified to
W a ballot in this election.
| At the last general election
here were 1576 voters on the
pt; but due to deaths and
pg away, the list was revised
pi' pte week, registrants and the names of 121
and ten colored
pe struck from the list, leaving
I total of 1445 people qualified to
[ 0!i in Tuesday’s election.
At the primany election last
pr. where most interest was
wn, only 914 people voted out
* a registration of 1576. It is
Sieved that at least this many
fill vote on the controversal is
r.- °f legal beer within the City.
It is understood the Mayor and
■ouncil realizes the results of the
ote will not be legally binding,
® members have in^prmally
8‘°ed to abide by the results in
‘^mining whether or not legal
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-Giro Syrupmakers Will Meet
Waycross Over There Tonight
Tifton Blue Devils Beat Local
43-14 Last Friday Night Here
‘ ne Syrupmakers will
c 'o Waycross tonight
to meet
he of ihp strongest teams . •
Nh p eor6la T ^e Waycross
-
will out weigh the
^ >is a ad also have
much more
ier ial to choose from in mak
\ ?er Up gives a tea m but the local team
ta U P a game until the
"hustle has blown, c: so "i no
', can tel! what the outcome
ill be. A large
0 $ crowd of Cairo
are planning on aceom
nyin « the team over there to
' Same which
ler should be
T : beginning to end.
per Tifton Blue Devils swept
' < ~ a ’ r ° Syrupmakers last
hd U^ ni ght by
a score of 43 to
t, 7 J uhnny Lipsey scoring
" Of \\
V, seven „ . , -
jafl , ' Tifton .
^ *' •lanes which and
5 f ‘ t!l3
; ked other two. Willis
0 % one extra point
seven ’ ie>\ Tifton scored
GJh? (torn
The Official Organ of Grady County.
"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation ot the dead."
EIGHTEEN PAGES
40 And 8 Wreck
To Be Staged
! Public To Enjoy
Parade And Fun,
Ends With Dance
j The long-looked-for 40 & 8
wreck will be staged in Cairo
next Wednesday, Oct. 26th., be
ginning about noon with a parade
j j led Included by the Cairo in the High Band,
parade will be
; engines and box cars of the 40 &
8 variety, along with PG’s (local
Legionairres to be initiated). Fol
lowing the parade the PG’s will
do street work, which shoud be
j interesting spectators. and The Wreck amusing will to the
j come
to a conclusion that night with
a dance at the Legion Home,
where the music is to be provided
by Nat Adderly and his Orches
tra, a well-known Negro band
from Tallahassee. A special
feature of this dance will be jit
ter-bug exhibitions by three or
four couples from the colored
Legion Post in Cairo. Those who
i have seen these couples dance,
say it is “out of this world”, and
certainly first-rate entertainment
for anybody,
The 40 & 3 is an honorary
society of the Legion, which
specializes in helping the Legion
to carry out its many programs,
especially child welfare, The
name 40 & 8 was selected be¬
cause men during the first world
war were transported through
France in box cars marked 40
men or 8 horses.
The local Post has nine 40 & 8
members, and at this Wreck four
j or five more are to be initiated,
To be eligible, a member must
| have done some- outstanding work
| in the Legion,
This is the first time such a
j Wreck has been held in Cairo,
although they are held in various
places about three times a year.
Representations and units will be
here from Albany, Columbus, Val¬
dosta, Pelham Camilla, Thomas
ville, and probably other towns.
The Wreck of the old 40 & 8
will be something to see—and re¬
member.
Norman Harrison, Jr., and
family have returned to their
home in Newnan after spending
a few days here at the bedside
of his grandfather Mr. Gordy
Tyrus, who has been seriously ill
but is now much improved.
touchdowns in the
half alon S Wlth making only
four first downs in the same
The three in the seC ond
were made by Lipsey go ing over
one time and completing passes
to Jones for the other two.
McCorkle was in on both of
Cairo’s touchdowns which were
The Schedule
Sept. 16—Pelham 0, Cairo 18.
Sept. 23—Valdosta 0, Cairo 1.
Sept. 30 —Thomasville 13, Cairo 13.
Oct 7—Quincy 7; Cairo 15
14—Tifton 43; Cairo 14.
21 —Waycross there.
Oct. 28—Moultrie here,
Nov. 4—Bainbridge here.
[Nov. 11 —Colquitt here,
Nov. 18 —Americus there.
made in the third and fourth
quarters. McCorkle completed
a pass to Hester for the first one
--
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CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1949.
Pecan Growers
Get Marl < ctAid
Agreement- Went In
Effect Yesterday
Georgia pecan growers and
those in four other Southeastern
States, yesterday (October 20)
began operation under the recent
pecan marketing agreement and
order which was approved by
growers in five states and by the
Secretary of Agriculture.
The. regulatory and inspection
provisions are in effect after to¬
day, County Agent S. E. George
said, and he listed the following
places in the state where pecan
inspectors will be stationed: Al¬
bany, Cairo, Valdosta, Macon,
Vidalia, Cordele, McRae and
Barnesville.
I He continued that other in¬
spection stations will be set up
if they are needed to adequately
handle the work.
Agent George explained that
any pecans moving outside the
states of Georgia, Alabama, Flori¬
da, Mississippi and South Caro¬
lina must be inspected. The nuts,
to be shipped outside this terri¬
tory, must meet grade and size
requirements. If growers sell
nuts to local handlers, it is not
the responsibility of the grower
to obtain the inspection service.
The handlers who buy the nuts
locally, however, must obtain
the inspection service before
shipping nuts outside the terri
tory in this instance.
To be shipped outside the ter¬
ritory unshelled nuts must be at
least U. S. Commercial Grade
and not exceed 91 nuts per
pound.
Auto Thieves
In Raid Here
One Car Stolen;
Three Others
Almost Taken
At the football game here last
Friday night Dave Bowen’s 1949
Ford was stolen, with no trace of
it reported yet, according to
of Police Vanlandingfiam, and two
other 1949 Fords had
“straight-wired”, apparently
the car-thieves being scared
in the attempt, and failed to
these other two.
Wilburn Maxwell’s ’49
was one of those wired to be
driven off without the key,
for some reason it was not taken;
and the other one was also a ’49
Ford belonging to St. Elmo
from Meigs. It was said that a
fourth one, parked out toward the
signal light on the
Highway, had been
with, but the Police did not have
t.he name of the owner.
Police had no way of knowing
who may have stolen the one
car, and attempted to get two
or three others, but they doubted
if it was any local person involv¬
ed. Instead, it appeared to have
been a band of professional car
thieves who made a planned raid,
and then for some reason were
disturbed in the attempt and
made off with only one.
It is possible that whoever took
the car had a van waiting near¬
by, and hauled it away; or the
tag could have been switched,
and the car driven out.
Mr. Bowen related that he
parked his car on 5th Ave., S. E.
near Merrit’s Garage about 8:00
m and went in to see the foot
p. Then coming out a
ball game,
little before the game was over,
in order to open his Drug Store,
he discovered his car was miss¬
ing He immediately reported it
to' the Cairo Police, but no His trace
of it has been found yet. car
was covered by theft insurance,
he said.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lawhorne,
of Columbus were week-end visi¬
tors here.
|950 Chest Fund
Campaign Soon
R. P. Wight To Be
Leader; Chest's
i Officers Named
Organization of the 1950 Fund
campaign of the Grady County
Community Chest will be per¬
fected next week under the di
j rection of Robert P. Wight, local
postmaster, as campaign chair¬
man. George T. Smith led the
drive last year and Waiter J. Mc
Clenny the year before.
New Chest officers were also
announced this week following a
series of membership, director
and committee meetings. Walter
J. McClenny has been elected
president with Charles R. Beale
as vice-president. Under the ro¬
tation plan, three directors—Mrs.
P. M. Baggett, Mrs. R. P. Wight
and G. B. Trulock—will retire
and elected to succeed them are
Mrs. Marshall Neff, Mrs. Chas.
P. Whidden and W. C. Lane. Di¬
rectors having another year to
serve are Charles R. Beale, Jake
Poller and Alvin B. Wight. Di¬
rectors elected last year and hav¬
ing two years to serve are Mrs.
Frank Maxwell, Calvary, Mrs. D.
P. Ward, Pine Park, and Henry
Hester, Jr. Miss Lillie Shores con¬
tinues as treasurer. Louis A.
Powell continues as secretary and
! ex-officio director.
R. S. Jones has been chairman
of a special committee, also in¬
cluding Lester Coleman, Harris
Jefferson, Jake Poller and George
T. Smith, that is waging a suc¬
cessful effort to collect unpaid
1949 Chest Fund pledges to en¬
able the agency to meet its fourth
quarter payments to institutional
members or causes in full.
The budget committee will
meet at the council Room at the
City Hail at 9:30 a. m. today, Fri¬
day, to approve or revise the 1950
askings of the various institution¬
al members, which will deter¬
mine the 1950 chest goal. The
committee recommendations are
then subject to approval by the
directors. The budget committee
is composed of Harris Jefferson,
chairman, Mrs. Clayton Baker,
Mrs. W. M. Tyson, Mrs. Chas P.
Whidden, Mrs. Thomas Wight,
Julius Gilmore, Howard Thrower,
Sr. John B. Wight.
All detailed plans for the cam
J paign are expected to be an
nounced by next week, officials
said.
Hogs Up Again
Slightly
: is 17.75 Cts.;
No.
' Volume Heavy
The weekly livestock auction
sale here Tuesday brought slight
ly higher prices for hogs, with
volume of sales again heavy.
No. 1 hogs sold for 17.75c a
pound, up 25 points from last
week and 75 points above board
quotations. No. 2 hogs were
16.80c a pound.
Feeder pigs continued in strong
demand, with prices therefor also
slightly higher, the .. market , . man
S „,C along With the h-ly move
ment of grade hogs.
The sale iticluded only a light
run of cattle, with price* steady.
CAA Officials In
Cairo On Tuesday
Jack Lynch and Die Lord, of
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion in Atlanta, visited here Tues
day afternoon to inspect progress
at the local airport.
The reported CAA funds now
available for participation on a
50-50 basis in construction of an
administration building and other
work to complete the airport and
open it to air traffic, now in pros¬
pect by next May.
EIGHTEEN PAGES
Superior Court
Meets Monday
Civil Cases Are
Scheduled For
First Week
The regular October term of
Grady Superior Court will con¬
vene next Monday morning, the
24th., for a two-weeks session.
Judge Carl E. Crow, of Camilla,
will preside with Solicitor Maston
O'Neal looking after the State’s
interest.
As customary, the first week
of Court will be consumed with
civil business, which will allow
the Solicitor to devote his time
with the Grand Jury. Criminal
business, which is expected to be
very light, will be taken up the
week of October 31st. It is un
derstood there are no murder
cases outstanding,, with one as
sault with intent to murder case
pending.
Indications are that all of next
week, through Friday will be con
sumed with civil business as there
is an unusually heavy docket,
The Court calendar of civil c ases,
in which they are scheduled to
come up for trial follows:
Monday, Oct. 24th.—All divorce
cases, contested and otherwise.
Sainity hearing appeal vs. Bas
com Norton. W. A. Walker, Jr.
et d. vs E. B. Harrison in a suit
for the condemnation of right of
way for a public road, state Rt.
179. Riches, Inc. vs E. B. Hard
son, a suit to collect an account.
Tuesday, Oct. 25th. — Carl
Spence vs. Mrs. W. G. Spence, a
suit for the petition of land. G.
L. Worthy is the attorney for
Mrs. W. G. Spence. The peti¬
tioner, Carl Spence, alleges that Dis¬
73 acres of land in the 17th.
trict of Grady County,, belongs in
part, to the first wife of W. G.
Spence, deceased. Cain and Smith
represents the plaintiff.
The second case Tuesday is that
James E. Rawls vs. Dr. Clayton
A. Adams. Ira Carslile is the at
torney fc5r the defendant. James
E. Raw is is sueing Dr. Adams f >r
the sum of $3,000 damages in con
nection with an auto accident on
(Continued on page 7)
Corn Show To Be
Big Feature
j Farm Bureau May
Give Members
Fish Supper
The Chamber of Commerce Fat
Calf Show and Corn Contest com
mittee, at a meeting at the Coun
ty Agent’s office at the Court
house Tuesday afternoon, map
ped plans to make the forthcom
ing third annual Grady County
Corn Show here an outstanding
J attraction. The show, as hereto
> f orej w j]| climax the big Corn
c on t es t among the county’s FFA
an d 4 _jj club members. Final
checks are now being made to
determine the contest winners
and all , of ... the boys who , complete , ,
the contest will be eligible to ex
I hibit corn in the show. A check
mee ting Tuesday showed
th t of the 160 who entered the
con t es t 130 will complete it, as
‘ uIS
they are annoU nced at the show
'
but they are expected to exceed
100 bushels „„ acl „ again.
President Carl Ponder, of the
Grady County Farm Bureau,
attended the meetnig and otter
ed full support of his organiza
tion in attracting more farmers
to the Corn Show to stir even
greater interest in increasing corn
yields in the county. A fish sup
per was suggested for Farm Bu
reau members as a feature of its
membership campaign, to be serv
ed in connection with the Corn
Show, and final action on this
proposal was to be taken at the
(Continued on page four)
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Sect on
In A me i ica
Pickle Waste
Disposal Set
Council Approves
Company's Plans
The Mayor & Council here at
a special meeting last Monday
night unanimously approved
plans of the local pickle company
to provide for disposal of its in¬
dustrial sewage. Court litigation
is pending which may lead to an
injunction prohibiting the com¬
pany from further disposing of its
untreated pickle waste in Little
Tired Creek, which f 1 o w e s
through the eastern edge of the
c *ty. in such a manner as to be
objectionable to land owners
a l° n g said stream,
The company plan is under¬
stood to embody dilution, as re
cently suggested by city officials,
or a deep well disposal, or a
combination of both. Water from
both local ice plants would be
used in the dilution plan. The
company has been stalled in its
efforts to procure land for either
of the methods, court litigation
having held up that phase of the
efforts, with a case now pending
'n the Georgia Supreme Court,
The company is understood to
been ready to proceed with
the most feasible plans for some
time, at a cost expected to run in
excess of $ 20 , 000 .
The city action Monday night
> s a development in connection
with recant court action and in
line with the generally expressed
desire of the people to keep exist
ing industries successful as a
means of attracting new indus
trial development; and it is gen
erally hoped that the approved
plan will satisfactorily solve the
waste disposal problem as a sat¬
isfactory solution is necessary to
enable the pickle plant to con¬
tinue to operate here.
J. F. Forrester
Passes Away
Beloved Citizen
Buried Sunday
Mr. Julian Franklin Forrester,
beloved life-lond resident of
Grady County, quietly passed
away at his home nine miles
North of Cairo at 1:20 a. m. Sat
urday, October 15, after an ill
ness of about three weeks; his
condition was not considered cri
tical until late Friday.
The funeral service was held at
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon
with the Rev. Tom Mashburn, of
Lake City, Fla., conducting. Rev.
Mashburn, a native of Grady
County and close friend of the
deceased, gave a loving tribute
to his life as he knew him. In
terment was in Pleasant Grove
cemetery.
The pallbearers selected were:
George C. Forrester, of Warner
Robins, Frank L. Forrester, of
Thomasville, Allen Ward, Cairo,
Pearce Belcher, of Pelham, Dr.
Beverly „ , __ W. _ Forrester . of „ New „ Or- _
leans, La., and Vernon Mize, of
Gainesville, Fla.
Mr. Forrester was a native of
this county, he was born Novem
jggg ^ be son 0 f j ate
“ura Pope"!
2 2 1914
until ^d a few beTnTuite^ve months ago the de- fn
ce ha d
the a £f a j rs G f the community and
b j s p ersona i business. In issues
afferting the civic ufe of his
mun jty an d county he was al
ways on t he side which in his
opinion would be for the common
good. Wherever truth and jus
bce were i n question he always
took h j s s t. an d. Truth to him was
etema i virtue which stood as his
SU p reme guide. He was interest
g d the activities of his church,
tbe Pleasant Grove Church,
wbere he had been a member
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SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENT!
NUMBER 41.
REA Meeting
Held Friday
4,200 Members Are
Invited; Valuable
Prizes Given Free
The annual membership meet
ing of the Grady County REA
co-op, serving Decatur, Grady,
and Thomas Counties, will con¬
vene at 2:30 p. m. today, Friday,
at the High School Gymnasium
here in Cairo, with 2000 or more
members expected to attend.
Registration of members for
more than $1,500 in valuable
prizes to be given away at the
meeting will begin at 2:00 p. m.
promptly. The meeting will be
| called to order and President B.
M. Lee will present the presiding
officer. The co-op now serves
4,200 members in the three coun¬
ties and all are urged to attend
this meeting and be on hand for
registration at 2:00 o’clock.
The valuable prizes include an
electric rofngerator, an electric
range and a deep freeze, among
numerous other electrical ap
Alices, all donated-or . , 4U the meet
i P
j mJ by the co-op, the appuance
dealers and Cairo business con
cerns. The prizes have been on
display on the ground floor of the
Telephon Building, North Broad
Street, in Cairo, and have been
viewed with much interest there.
Every member will have an equal
oportunity to win one of these
valuable prizes.
Program
The program for the 1949 an¬
nual meeting today is as follows:
2:00-2:30 p. m.—Registration.
2:30—Meeting called to order
and presentation of presiding of¬
ficer, B. M. Lee, President.
2:35—Invocation, Rev. T. S.
Roote.
2:40 — Welcome, Louis A.
Powell.
2:45—Reading of Notice of
Meeting and proof of mailing,
Reading of minutes of last An¬
nual meeting, George T. Smith.
2:55—Introduction of visitors,
S. P. Cain, Presiding Officer.
3:05 Report of Officers: Presi¬
dent—B. M. Lee; Sec.-Treasurer
S. P. Perkins. (Presiding officer
to direct members’ attention to
reports in program.)
3:10—Presentation of Director
nominees. Open for nominations
from the floor. Appointment of
inspectors of election. Election •
by secret ballot,
3:20—Introduction of Speaker,
George T. Smith.
3:25 — Guest Speaker, Dr.
George P. Donaldson.
3:50—Awarding of Gifts, Ag~
new Smith.
Adjournment.
Robbery Here
Last Monday
$700 Taken Off
Elderly Woman
Mrs. Emma Dekle, 68 , of 401
1st. Ave., S. W., was hypnotized
or drugged here Monday about
2:30 p. m. by a fashionably-dress
ed woman posing as a religious
worker and robbed of her life
savings of $700.
Sheriff C. H. Strickland said
an alert had been sounded to
SSSMTSAlS aljout I SSLW
* ng 35 pounds and driving
a late m ° de i La f Salle ’
-
in her room working on a quilt
^ en 'v. orT if n j e n 4 on‘Je°to e !L e d 7
and
pat or rub her about the neck
and body. The only thing Mrs.
a
“working for the Lord". This
flustered and unnerved Mrs.
Delcle to the point tl at sue could
j t °| s SibltTthaTeSer IrdUoro
form may have been rubbed on
the victim’s clothing which pro
duced a dazed condition; how¬
ever, Mrs. Dekle said she was
never unconscious or never whol
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