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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
J1.S0-S2 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
Bankers Meet
Here Monday
Charles Redwine,
To Make Address
At Annual Affair
The Honorable Charles D. Red
wipe, State Revenue Commis¬
sioner, will be one of the guest
speakers at the annual meeting
of the Second District Georgia
Bankers’ Association here at
Northside Grammar School next
Monday, Nov. 14th., it was an¬
nounced this week by J. Carl
Minter, Vice President of the Ci¬
tizens Bank, and Chairman of the
Second District Bankers’ Associ¬
ation. Between 150 and 200 peo¬
ple are expected to attend, said
Mr. Minter.
The meeting 'vi’l open at 4:00
p. m., and there will be a general
discussion on “Bank Control
Board and Private Bank Study”
by E. F. Vickers, President of
Georgia Bankers Association and
Pres, of Citizens Bank and Trust
Co., of Bainbridge.
Invocation will be by Rev.
Granville W. Rainey, Pastor, First
Methodist Church here. Later in
the program a report will be
heard from the nominating com¬
mittee, and the election of officers
to serve during the next year will
be held. After the selection of
the next meeting place, an inter¬
mission will be in order, and re¬
freshments served.
The Bankers will reconvene
for a banquet at the American
Legion Clubhouse at 7:00 p. m.,
where W. E. Young, President of
Citizens Bank of Cairo, will pre¬
side as master of ceremonies.
The invocation will be by
Henry Hester, Sr., President,
Cairo Banking Co., and the ad¬
dress of welcome will be deliver¬
ed by R. A. Bell, Director and
Attorney for Citizens Bank here.
The responding address will be
made by Hugh Gurley, Executive
Vice-President, Bank of Thomas
County, Thomasville.
The Executive committee of the
Second District, Georgia Bankers
Association, is composed of J.
Carl Minter, Chairman, Carl Cle¬
ments, Vice-Chairman, Arlington,
and Mrs. Russell Dasher, Pelham,
secretary.
Cairo Defeated By Bainbridge
8-0 In Thriller Last Friday
Will Play Colquitt Here Tonight
In Last Home Game of the Season
Coach J. P Miller’s Cairo
Syrupmakers will meet a strong
team from Colquitt at the local
Sytup Bowl here tonight at 8.00
P m. which should be another
victory in the Cairo ranks. Cairo
was refeated last Friday night by
a score of 8-0 by the Bearcats
from Bainbridge in not ONE % of
th ine P hardest fought f , . games of the +v _
season but THE HARDEST
game ever played bv the local
team here *The game last Fri
day should have ended in a 2-0
victory for the Bearcats but the
local boys suffered a penalty after
holding' Bainbridge to downs
which started the touchdown
march of the visitors
Bobbv Fiveash was outstand
mg in "the Bainbradee backfield
with Hopkins anH AnHersnn tak
mg the honors La in wl Cairo’s back
field Hester Wesley c w Tassels
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Sf Dlaveri “ . * e n! a ZjZ
made 11 li f r rst I T ' ? tried f nine L
and completed four. Cairo
m ade three first downs, tried six
Passes and completed one.
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Brooks scored Bainbridee’s T only
touchdown on a oTSer Da
rirsi F m quarter
Cairo won the toss and elected
0 kick off. Gaya kicked off to
own’\o Wh0 was tackled ° n hls
' 8 yard , bne Daniels was
t i -
. f l0SS
n 3 f ° Ur yard ° VeT
cen‘P v- Fiveash picked up nine
.
; ards around the right end and
klow hit right tackle but was
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Th® Official Organ of Grady County.
"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
SIXTEEN PAGES
Livestock Sale
Pnces S,e ° dy
Offerings Here
In Some Volume
Livestock market prices
steady with cattle some
at Tuesday’s auction sale
Cairo Livestock Auction Co.
ported.
Hog prices, which have slump¬
ed nationally in recent weeks,
showed strength, again, with No.
1 hogs selling for 16.25c a pound,
100 points above board quotations
for the day. The strength in the
hog market was also reflected
top price of 19.25c a pound for
feeder pigs. The recovery was
welcomed.
Cattle prices also rallied some¬
what with prices per grade 50c
to $1 per cwt. higher, it was re¬
ported.
Offerings here were again in
some volume.
Merchants To
Meet Tuesday
General Meeting
Is Called Here
All Cairo merchants have been
called to a general meeting at the
main courtroom at the Court¬
house to begin promptly at 2:30
p. m. next Tuesday, Nov. 15th,
Albert Collins, chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce Merchants
committee announced this week.
The committee has held several
meetings recently to draft plans
for the 1949 Cairo Christmas
Trade Festival and will submit
specific plans to the general
meeting Tuesday afternoon for
action thereon. Other important
business may come up but Chair¬
man Collins said that if every¬
one can be there on time the
meeting should not last more than
30 minutes.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A.
Wight, of Newark, N. J., came
Sautrday to spend ten days here
as guests of Mr. and Mrs. John
B. Wight and other relatives; Mrs.
John B. Wight, who had been
visting in Newark for two
weeks accompanied them home.
stoped at the line of scrimmage.
Hardage punted to Rogers who
returned the ball to Cairo’s 22
yard line. Sholar hit the left
side of the line for two yards
and Rogers two yards more
around right end. McCorkle
tried a pass only to have it in
tercepted by Brooks on Cairo’s
qc 3 d
.
Fiveash tried a pass which was
incomplete. Fiveash picked up
nine around right end and Hard
age made it a first down with a
two yard gain over center. Dan
iels broke away around right end
for five yards only to have Five
ash lose five yards on a try
around left end. Fiveash tried a
pass which was intercepted by
Anderson, Cairo back on Cairo’s
16 yard line. McCorkle tried a
pass which was incomplete and
an end run but failed to gain.
Tver „ to make a first down
center Harper punted to
DarneU Daniels who who returned the ball to
^
^ ^ ^ cen ter of the line
f r ii yeards for a first down.
picked five yards , over
Daniels up
left tackle and Fiveash three
more yards around right end. In
low fumbled nn on the tne next next P play y
and Hopkins recovered for the
frrtTyards^y e to have
R i° ger Un m hlA on the following
play__ and Daniels recovered for
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CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GA-. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1949
I Whigham Plans
525,000 Clinic
Health Facilities
An Accute Need
Say Planners
In an effort to bring necessary
medical and health facilities to
the community, the Whigham
Community Club has launched a
program to build a $25,000 medi¬
cal clinic and health center, and
along with it secure the services
of an additional doctor, which is
an urgent need at present, ac¬
cording to the survey made by
the planning committee.
To establish and build the
clinic, the Federal Government
will put up 60 per cent of the
total, the State will provide 20
percent, and the local communi¬
ty must raise 20 per cent. Plans
are now under way in Whigham
to raise this 20 per cent, and vari¬
ous means are being considered,
among which is the giving away
of an automobile.
The plans for the clinic call
for a private office and examin¬
ing room for the doctor, recep¬
tion rooms, one for white and
one for colored, two bedrooms,
and a room for the County
Health nurse. It is believed that
with a well-equipped clinic, an¬
other doctor could be induced to
locate in Whigham.
Contributions are now being
accepted, and anyone interested
in helping this much-needed and
worthy project should contact
the Whigham Community Club.
Kiwanis and Rotary
Dinner Set Tuesday
For Library Award
Cairo Kiwanis and Rotary clubs
will hold their meetings next
week jointly on Tuesday at 7:30
n rn at Pitmens Tafp for a din- I
ner at which Miss Wessie Con
neii and Cairo (County) Public
Library will be formally pre
sented the John Cotton Dana
national publicity contest award.
The meeting will also honor Ed- I
ward A nationally Wight a Cairo native
who is prominent in j
the library field. He is a librarian I
.
at the laree Newark (N J ) Citv i
Library and will officially rep¬ |
resent the American T.ibrarv As
sociation
The award is made by ALA in
co-operation with the Wilson Li
brary Bulletin, New York City.
A certificate of the award was
presented to Miss Connell at the
ALA regional conference at
Miami two wee ks ago. '
The dinner meeting wi n be re -
stricted to Kiwanians and Rotar
ians and wiU not be a “i ad i es ’
n jg b ^> affair. However, members ]
q{ thg Library Board and a few |
other guests will be invited . : I
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H. L. Lundsford, formerly with ;
the Georgia State Patrol has been
added to the Sheriff’s Force here
and is to be in charge of acci
dent investigations, according to 1
begin Sheriff his C. H. Strickland. duties Saturday, He will ] J
new on
November 12th. j
A former Post Commander of ■
the Thomasville branch of the
State Highway Patrol and a grad
uate of the F. B. I. National
Academy. Mr. Lundsford comes
to Grady County with over 10
years ex p er ience in law enforce,
ment, having been with the State
Highway Patrol since 1939.
At the present time, Mr. and
Mrs, Lundsford and two children
are making their home in South
ern Terrace Estates.
BIRTH.—Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Roddenbery, Jr., announce the ar
rival of a danghter at the Grady
County Hospital on Wednesday,
November 2; she has been named
Rebecca Rpbecca Roddenberv Koddenbery.
IT IS FOR US THE LIVING.
Thirty-one years ago today, Nov. 11, 1918, World War
I ended, and people all over the world rejoiced in the be¬
lief that permanent peace had been achieved at last. But
events proved that the world had not been saved for de¬
mocracy; instead, the way of freedom and democracy had
only gained a breathing spell. A little over four years
ago, another and bigger world war came to a close after
nearly five years of global fighting. Once again we have
an uneasy peace, in which another tyranny threatens,
where it has not already engulfed, freedom of action and
thought.
Our only hope for peace is to remain prepared for war,
and trust that those who would dominate the world one
day will give up the idea, either because it is wrong or
because it seems impossible of achievement.
We must work diligently to save our democracy at
home in order to save our prestige abroad. If we fail
here, the peoples of the world will say we do not believe
in the things we preach, and they will be more inclined
to fall into that insidious trap of slavery sometimes called
Communism.
Those whom we remember and honor today did not
die in vain. They paid the price for the freedom which
we now enjoy. If they had not fought and died, the Unit¬
ed States, along with all people who love liberty and the
democratic way of life, would now be under a yoke of
tyranny beyond our imagination. If nothing more, they
bought a few more years of peace; they bought another
chance for the democratic nations of the world. And if
this uneasy peace again erupts into war, surely it was
still worthwhile to have fought and won the battle against
the forces of hate and oppression.
On this day, we can do no less than rededicate our¬
selves to the principles for which so many gave “the last
full measure of devotion** that men and women through¬
out the world might look up and live in dignity and free¬
dom.
Council Passes
Beer Ordinance
To Resume Legal
Sales Under Old
Set-Up Soon
In compliance with the result
of the recent referendum, the
Mayor and Council - in re S ular
meeting Tuesday night, moved to
resume the legal sale of beer in
the City of Cairo - virtualy under
tbe old ordinance which was in
effect last April when the sale
of beer was stopped.
Applications for license are now
bein £ accepted by the City Clerk,
and within a few days the Coun '
cil will convene in a special meet
in S to P ass on the llcense apphea
tions. The sale of legal beer will
be resumed under the old set-up,
with the licenses increased to $60
P er year for retail. Previously
the licenses for retail sales were
$ 25 a year - and wholesale $100 a
year - The wholesale license re
mains * 100 a year - and the city
will again collect 5 cents on the
bottle or can on all retail sales.
Four retail applications and
one wholesale application had
been received by the City Clerk
Thursday morning. The money
for the license must accompany
the application. If the applica
tion should be rejected, the money
wil1 be returned to the depositor,
The ordinance in effect last
year was never repealed , , , by the
Council, therefore is still in effect.
The amendments changing the
license fee were read and passed
at the meeting Tuesday night,
but will require another reading
and vote before they become ef
fective. At the special meeting,
expected not later than Monday,
the license applications will be
considered, and the second read
ing of the amendments will be in
order.
It was predicted that some
places would begin the legal sale
of beer early next week.
Announcement was made that
the new 200,000 gallon water tank
for the city is expected here Mon
day, and is to be erected immedi
ately.
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Baggett had
as their guests Friday her broth
er and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Register, of Montgomery,
Ala., and their daughter and son
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James
Fitzgerald, of Birmingham, Ala.;
they were returning from a va
cation trip in Florida.
SIXTEEN PAGES
'50 Chest Drive
Opens Well
General Canvass
To Begin At 2
P. M. Monday
The 1950 Fund Campaign of
the Grady County Community
Chest opened splendidly this
week with “major gifts” contri
butions totalling in excess of
$2,500 after three days of work,
Chairman Robert Wight reported.
Nearly a11 of the invited 40 ” major
gifts” workers attended a kick
off breakfast at 7:30 a. m. Monday
and went to work immediately,
Workers reported increasing ap
preciation of the Chest and its
functions and said needed in¬
creases in many contributions
were accepted without question,
Some few still seem to think they
can get by with smaller amounts
to the Chest than they would give
to the 10 causes if 10 separate
campaigns were waged, however,
il was stated - but where contri *
butors tender smaller amounts
key workers will go back to urge
proportionate giving to assure at
tainment of the $13,960 goal for
the next calendar year.
Chairman Wight said it is en
couragaing to find that local con
cerns whose principal offices are
elsewhere, some of them out of
the state, have come in promptly
with “creditable contributions.”
These include A. & P. Tea Co.,
Colonial Stores, Joseph Camp
bell Co., Sing Oil Co. and Henry
Fox, it was stated. It these con
cerns are willing to do their part
promptly, it was emphasized, it
should behoove local concerns and
individuals to rally to the cause,
Chairman Wight said the gen
eral canvass will begin with a
rally of workers at the Court
house promptly at 2 p. m. next
Monday. He strongly urges all
workers invited to make every
sacrifice necessary to be at this
rally so that the general canvass
will begin enthusiastically. He
said J. E. Forsyth will be county
chairman for areas outside Cairo.
Mrs. Richard Porter at Wight &
Browne here is the drive treasur¬
er to receive funds but contribu
tions may be made at Cairo and
Whigham banks and to workers,
generally.
-
James Bryant student at South
western Business College, Atlan
ta, spent the week-end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl R.
Bryant. ^
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GRADY COUNTY
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Kiwanians Hear
Scout Talk, Reports
On Activities
Cairo Kiwanians at their
luncheon meeting Tuesday heard
an interesting report on Boy
Scout work in the Suwannee
River Council, comprising several
Southwest Georgia and North
Florida Counties—and reports on
several major club activities,
Norwood Clark, the president,
presided.
The speaker was Lloyd Turner,
chief executive of the Council at
Tallahassee, who was presented
by Grant Walling, the field exe¬
cutive. He explained various
features of the Council’s program
and emphasized the importance
of this youth work.
Announcement was made that
Layne, the magician, has been
booked for an appearance at the
I high school auditorium here Nov.
28th for the benefit of the club
underprivileged children’s com¬
mittee. In this connection, the
committee announced plans for
a county-wide Eye Clinic, which
it will sponsor, beginning at south
side grammar school next week,
to cover every school child in the
county. The clinic will be car¬
ried out in co-operation with the
County Health Department, Dr.
J. W. Sumner, local optometrist,
and various ladies of the com¬
munity. The clinic is proposed to
reveal visual defects and'ailments
of the children.
Ann 1 uneament was also made
that the Kiwanis Ciub will have
its meeting next week jointly
with members of Cairo Rotary
Club at Citizens Cafe Tuesday
night at whicK Miss Wessie Con¬
nell, librarian, and Cairo Public
Library, will be formally given
the John Cotton Dana national
publicity award of the American
Library Association and the Wil¬
son Library Bulletin, New York
City. The award will be made
by Edward A. Wight, a Cairo na¬
tive, and now a librarian at the
big Newark (N. J.) City Library.
He is prominent in the library
field, nationally, and will repre¬
sent ALA in the dinner program
here.
Perfect attendance tabs were
given nine Kiwanians. The one
to P. M. Baggett represented nine
years of perfect attendance and
those to the following others
represented lesser periods: Ralph
and Carl Brown, Norwood Clark,
W. J. McClenny, W. M. Tyson,
Tom Walker, James Wheeler and
Walter Williams.
Train Removal )
Hearing Now Set
For December \
Georgia Public Service Com¬
mission announced this week
postponement from Nov. 9th un
til Dec. 15th of the hearing on the
application of A. C. L. Railroad
Co. to curtail its Montgomery
Savannah night express, mail and
passenger train service. The ap
^plication, which would reduce
service to three trains a week •
each opposition way, has from precipitated business strong j
and in-.
dustrial concerns and civic
groups.
The Association For Renten
tion Of A. C. L. Trains 57 and 58
On Daily Schedules, formed at
Thomasville recently, requested
the postponement at a meeting
here last week to enable oppon- (
ents to better prepare their case.
Willis Conger, Bainbridge at- j
torney, has been retained to rep
resent the association, and will
also represent-Bainbridge. Edwin
Carlisle has been retained to rep
resent local interests. Mayor R.
A. Griffin at Bainbridge is the as¬
sociation president.
It is expected that the associa¬
tion will urge from 15 to 25 ship¬
pers from each point involved to
make personal appearances at the
hearing, in addition to argu-'
ments by each town and by the j
association itself.
Miss Mary Van Landingham,
student at the University of
Georgia, Athens, spent the week
end with homefolks.
* NUMBER 44.
1949 Corn Show
Set Thursday
Wingate To Speak
Farm Bureau To
Eat Fish
The 1949 Grady County Corn
Show, the third of these annual
attractions, is set next Thursday,
Nov. 17th, at the Grady Farm
Bureau Market here, with a num¬
ber of special added features that
are counted on to attract a big
crowd.
The show is the climax of the
Corn Contest among the 4-H Club
and FFA members of the county
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce committee, of which
Early Gandy is chairman, with
the co-operation of the county
agents, the vocational teachers,
Greenwood Plantation hybrid
seed corn project, the Whigham
Community Club and the Cairo
Kiwanis Club, along with various
Cairo' business concersn that of
fer large cash prizes. The show
prizes are sponsored by Cairo
Rotary Club. Kiwanians provide
two pure-bred gilts as contest
prizes. The top contest prize will
again be $1 a bushel in cash by»
Ed V. Komarek, of the Green¬
wood Plantation project. Final
checks are now being completed
on the contest plots and top yield
is exepeted to be around 100
bushels per acre, with a high ave
erage for the 130 4-H Club and
FFA boys who are completing the
contest. All participants in the
contest are eligible for displays
in the show, with corn from con¬
test plots.
Corn displays will be acomp lin¬
ed by charts showing kind of
corn, production methods, etc.
Ribbons and cash prizes will be
given for the five best displays
of yellow corn and the five best
displays of white corn, with a
sweepstakes winner if the judges
choose to name one.
The Kiwanis Club gilts will go
to the 4-H Club and FFA boys—
the one in each group—making
the greatest net profit per bushel
in the contest, labor included.
Next cash prizes, 50c a bushel,
will be by Whigham Community
Club for FFA and Wight &
Browne for 4-H. Next cash prizes,
30c a bushel, will be by Mixon
Milling Co. and R. R. Van Land
ingham, Inc. Next cash prizes,
20c a bushel, will be by W. Lannis
Nicholson Seed & Ferilizer and
Clark Hardware Co. Next cash
prizes, 10c a bushel, will be by
Belk-Hudson and Gandy Hard¬
ware Co.
The special added features this
year include a corn shucking con
test, with a cash prize to the win
ner by Greenwood Plantation pro¬
ject; and displays of the latest
corn equipment, including the
new corn harvester to picker,
specially revised to meet the
needs of this area,
However, the big added feature
will be the fish supper for Farm
Bureau members, including those
who join before or at the Corn
Show, which will be at the Grady
Farm Bureau Market, accompani¬
ed by an address by H. L. Win¬
gate, president of the Georgia
Farm Bureau Federation, a na¬
tionally prominent farm leader.
The Corn Show will open at 4
p. m. and the public, particularly
the parents and friends of the pa: -
tieipating 4-H Club and FFA boys,
is not only invited but urged to
attend. The Farm Burea fish
supper will be severd shortly after
6 p. m. with Mr. Wingate speak¬
ing immediately before the sup
per.
The committee is called to meet
at 10 a. m. Saturday at County
Agt. George’s office to complex
plans.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Senders left
Wednesday to spend a few days
in Miami, Fla. .having been called
there on account of the serious
illness of the former’s brother,
Charles, who is confined in a hos
pital there.