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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
11.50*52 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
First Baptist
Annex Planned
Bids Opened On
Dec. 7th. For
Construction
The First Baptist Church of
Cairo announced plans this week
to construct a Sunday school an
nex at the rear of the present
building at an estimated cost of
$50,000.00 to $75,000.00, according
to A. C. Roddenbery, Chairman of
the Building Committee.
T. F. Lockwood, the architect
of Columbus, said bids would be
opened Wednesday, December
7th. at 2:00 p. m. in the office of
the church. Plans, specifications,
and blueprint for the proposed
annex may be seen and examined
by any member of the church at
Roddenbery Hardware Company
or in the church office.
The new structure will be 50
by 90 feet, two stories high, with
outside brick walls, and the in
side of wood joist construction.
It will be built onto the church
at the rear, or Southeast corner,
and will face 5th Ave.
Plans have been under way for
several years to make this addi
tion to the Church, and funds are
already available for a part of the
construction cost. Work on the
building will probably begin
shortly after the contract has been
let Dec. 7th.
MESSENGER WILL BE
PUBLISHED ONE DAY
EARLY NEXT WEEK.—
Next Thusrday being a
holiday. The Messenger will
come out on Wednesday in
stead of Thursday. All ad
vertisers and those who have
news to go in the next
issue are especially re
minded to keep this in
mind and have their copy in
the office not later than Tues
day noon. All news that
comes in after that time will
have an excellent chance of
being published in the De-
Cairo Syrupmakers Defeat
Strong Colquitt Team 27-19
Will Travel To Americus Tonight
For the Last Game of the Season
Coach Miller’s Cairo Syrup
makers will travel to Americus
tonight to play the final game of
hie 1949 season. The kick-off is
scheduled for eight p. m. and a
large crowd of Cairo fans are
planning on accompanying the
team for their last game of the
year.
I’he Syrupmakei’s were behind
six points at half time last Fri
day night but turned on the pow
er to defeat the Colquitt Pirates
by a score of 27-19 in the last half.
Calhoun and Vines were out
standing in the Colquitt backfield
with J. t. Tabb taking the
honors on the line. Vines scored
all three Colquitt touchdowns and
Calhoun made their only extra
point.
Sholar and Hopkins scored one
each of Cairo’s touchdowns and
McCorkle made the other two,
ori e of them on a 35 yards run.
Harper, Rogers, and Anderson ac
counted for the three extra points,
Harper’s being on a pass.
First Quarter
Cairo won the toss and elected
J° kCorkle re ceive. who Vines returned kicked the off ball to
to Cairo 36 yard line. Anderson
hlt the center of the line for
three yards but Cairo was off
s ^ es the play and Cairo was
Penalized five yards. Rogers
'■ent through the center of the
hne for 14 yards to give Cairo a
Hrst down. Powell picked up
•'even yards over left tackle and
- cCorkle seven more over the
‘ ght side of the line for another
Hrst down. Sholar hit the center
^he line for two yards and then
toade it a first down with a nine
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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 ol the dead."
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Jimmy Mobley
Killed Sunday
Electric Shock
Fatal To Boy
Eleven-year-old Jimmy Rodney
Mobley was electrocuted near
his home, twelve miles North
west of Cairo on the old Cairo
Bainbridge highway, last Sun
day morning about 10:30 o’clock
when he tossed a stick, attached
to a copper wire, over a power
line.
He was playing with his broth
er at the time the fatal accident
occurred, and the electrical shock
having knocked him down his
brother first thought it was a
prank. tJpon closer examination
he saw that his brother didn’t
move, and called for help. It
was believed by some that the
boy probably could have been re
vived if artificial respiration had
been applied immediately, since
there was no visible marks of in
jury or burns on his body.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 4:00 p. m.
from the Spring Hill Methodist
Church with the Rev. M. M.
Pearce officiating. Interment
followed in Spring Hill cemetery.
Six classmates of the young
boy served as pallbearers.
He was born Oct. 2, 1938, a
son of Eugene and Anna Max
well Mobley.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mobley,
route 1, Whigham; four brothers,
James, Thomas, Kenneth, and
Ronney all of route 1, Whigham,
three sisters, Mrs. Robert Brin
son, Whigham, Mrs. Ruth Britt,
Thomasville, and Mrs. Irwin
Hurst, Cairo: and grandmother,
Mrs. Hattie Mobley, Grady coun
ty.
Many friends of Jimmy and his
family join in extending deep
heartfelt sympathy to the be
reaved survivors at the, news of
this tragic mishap.
Funeral arrangements were in
charge of Forsyth-Bearden Fun
eral Home, Cairo.
yard gain around right end. I, no ®‘ „
ers broke awav around left end
for 14 yards and another , Ii s t
down. McCorkle tried a pass
which fell incomplete. Sholar
hit the center of the line for 15
yards and a touchdown. Mc
Corkle completed a pass to W. L.
Harper for the extra point. Score:
Cairo 7, Colquitt 0.
nnva y kicked off to Calhoum
who , returned , , ., „ r* 0 i_
quitt’s 34 yard line. Calhoun
hit the center of the line for
yards for a first down. Vines
nicked picxea up up another cuiuwic first down
around right end with a zz yard
<*ain. Calhoum hit the right side
nf the line for two yards and then
picked up Tfi 16 varris yar more on an
end run for a first down, oat
houm tried the center of the line
but was topped at the line of
scrimmage. vmpc Vines scored scorea
touchdown with a nine yard gam
over left tackle. Calhoun went
over center for the extra point,
Score: Cairo 7, Colquitt 7.
Grimes kicked off to Rogers
who returned the ball to Cairo’s
30 yards . V line. Hopkins hit hit the i e
center of the line for two yards
and McCorkle picked up seven
yards yaras more u over left guard. Hop
kins made it a first d , ith a
two yard gain over right tacKie.
Fulford’s end run was good for
five pjron yards and McCorkle tried a
.he ™
it was incomplete. McCorKie
Dicked up six yards over left
y xinnkins wTl completed the
SfdowJ 12 yard gain
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CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1949.
Group ;.. Bankers
.. Meet Here
Redwine Speech Is
Feature; Nearly
200 Attend
Peopel must become more in
terested in government, their
biggest business, “if we are to
preserve, protect and hand down
pure democracy,” Ga. Tax Com
missioner Charles D. Redwine, of
Fayettville, told Southwest Geor
gia bankers at their annual meet
ing here last Monday. It was the
Group Two meeting of the Geor
gia Bankers Association, with
nearly 200 bankers, bank em
ployees and other guests attend
ing.
Tax Com. Redwine’s address
at the late afternoon session was
the bright feature of the gath
ering, which also included a bar
becue dinner at 7 p. m. The
afternoon ■session was at north
side grammar school auditorium.
The dinner was at the American
Legion club-house.
Group Two Chairman Carl
Minter, of Cairo, presided at the
afternoon session and presented
Com. Redwine with praise for his
fine contribution to the state as
a public servant. The speaker,
noting that the occasion was his
47th anniversary as a banker,
with many of these' years also
spent in public offices, including
the Legislature, praised Georgia
bankers for their great service to
the state, but his address dealt
mostly with extensive problems
of government, which, he declar
ed, defnand greater interest on
the part of bankers and people,
generally, to assure that people
of ability, character and integrity
are kept in high places to guide
government along sound courses.
He declared he has long been
a conservative but that he had
been forced to yield to modern
day trends calling for greatly
expanded government services of
all kinds, which he said people
are demanding in some instances
“without full consideration of
the burden of their cost.” He
called upon citizens everywhere
to face the problems of gov
ernment realistically and with
a full understanding of trends
that have increased the national
debt to some 255 billion dollars
and Georgia’s state government
costs to more than 13 times what
they were 40 years ago.
He predicted that taxes will
not become much lower than at
present, based on the history
of taxation, but warned that
democracies are usually destroy
ed by overburdened taxation and
that people must recognize that
there is a limit somewhere. He
\ said he is not advocating any
particular form of additional
tax£d j on but that if Georgia is
to raise more tax money it must
come either from a general re
tail sales tax or from disallow
ance of Federal taxes against
state income taxes.
E. F. Vickers, of Bainbridge,
nresident of the Georgia Bankers
Association, discussed “The Bank
Control Board Study” and other
association activities. Lonnie D.
Ferguson, of Thomasville, told in
terestingly of his recent trip to
g an p fanc j sco where he attended
the American Bankers Association
annual convention
dinner, W. E. Young, of
Cairo, was master of ceremonies.
Arthur Bell welcomed the visitors
an( j Hugh Gurley, of Thomasville,
responded. Miss Margaret Gar
rison, gifted Ochlocknee soprano,
gave several selections with Mrs.
p v .jpht Brown as accompanist,
Among the many guests present
<°d for brief responses were State
Treasurer George B. Hamilton;
Joe Woodruff, state U. S. Savings
g onc j director; William Hosch, the
new assistant executive secretary
of the state association*; Henry
Cohen, well - known % Moultrie
banker and jokester; and Reuben
Reynolds, a wall-known Bain
bridge lumberman and bank di
rector, a brother of Dr. A. B.
Reynolds here Mr Vickers, the
s ^ e assoc i a tion president, offi
c j a ily praising the local banks
and the committee of ladies for
the splendid meeting, declared
Cairo “is the envy of all South
Q eor gj a ” because of the com
mu nity’s civic alertness and pro
gressiveness. 1 « *3SS
ffl,
bankers to hold the 1950 Group
Two meeting at Radium Springs
I ; and elected the following officers:
Carl Clements, Arlington, chair
■ man; Lansing Mays, Albany, H.
vice-chairman; and George
Joiner, Albany, secretary.
L °y ne Com j"9
Here Nov. k , 28
famous Magic*..
At Auditorium
As you sit in the aduience of
the Cairo High School Auditori
um Monday night, Nov. 28 at
8:00 o’clock, and see “Layne” the
master Magician perform his in
credible assortment of wierd,
fantastic illusions, you will for
get you are in the land of the
living, and imagine you have
been transported to an unknown
land, where Nature’s 2aws are
set aside, and things that are ap
parently impossible are really
quite easy. Although we can’t
expect Mr. Layne to give away
the fundamental secrets in his
bag of tricks, he is quick to clear
up any notion you may have that
h e uses trapdoors, mirrors or
wires in his bafflng mysteries.
Each of his ilusions are made real
by clever details of equipment,
highly precise timing and prac
tices misdirecting of the audience.
In order to perform magic suc
cessfully, one must practice
many hours, days, months and
even years. One must also re
member that each trick must be
mastered separately. It must be
performed over and over again
until it is absolutely perfect, for
the more simple it is, consequent
ly the more difficult it is to per
form. Magic is an art, like
painting or music, and like them
rewards its loyal and talented
votaries with the same spiritual
satisfaction.
Layne, the Magician, has been
foolin’ 'em many many years in
practically every state in the
Union. Thousands have wit
nessed his prformances. To
spend an evening in his pres
ence is indeed a great pleasure.
You owe it to yourself to see this
gifted performer and his com
pany of trained artists.
This entertainment is sponsor
ed by the Kiwanis Club of Cairo
and the proceeds will be used
for underprivileged children.
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8
Dr. Edward Wight
Presents Award
To Miss Connell
At a joint meeting of the Cairo
Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs Tues
day night in the Citizens Cafe
Miss Wessie Connell, Librarian,
was formally presented with the
John Cotton Dana national pub
licity award of the American
Library Association and the
Wilson Library Bulletin. The
presentation was made by Dr.
Edward A. Wight, a Cairo native,
and now Assistant Librarian at
the big Newark, N. J. City Li
brary. Mr. Wight is prominent
in the library field nationally,
and came here as a representa
tive of the American Library
Association.
Fred Roddenbery, President of
Rotary, presided and introduced
Norwood Clark, Kiwanis Presi
dent, who in turn introduced the
visitors and guests, making com
ments about those who had made
particular contributions to the
work of the library. Arthur Bell,
recent past president of Rotary,
presented the guest speaker of
the evening, Dr. Wight.
Mr. Wight praised the Cairo
Library and Miss Connel for the
magnificient work which was be
ing done here, and said this li
brary actually carried out more
of the ideals of community ser
vice which John Cotton Dana
stood for than did the much larger
Newark Library with which he is
associated. He commented on the
fact that John Cotton Dana serv
ed the Newark Library for 25
years; but that the Cairo library
in the short span of 10 years had
achieved many of the ideals which
Mr. Dana worked for and pro
moted in his lifetime.
Seated at the speakers table
were Mayor Walter Williams,
Mrs. J. S. Wight, Chairman of the
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! Housing Loans
Available . .... Now
Farmers May Apply
For Aid To Build
Or Repair Houses
The Farmers Home Adminis
tration is now receiving applica
tions for Farm Housing Loans at
the local office of the Farmers
Home Administration, Cairo, ac
cording to Frederick L. Perkins,
County Supervisor.
'Loans may be made to farm
owners to construct, improve,
alter, repair or replace a dwell
ing or other farm buildings es
sential to the operations of the
farm. A farm owner who is un
able to get a loan elsewhere and
who lacks the necessary capital
to make the needed improvements
and who is able to repay such
loan from farm or other income
is eligible to make application
for Farm Housing assistance.
Loans are made for a period rang
ing from 5 to 33 years at 4 per
j cen ^ interest. Housing loans are
secured by a mortgage on the
I ^ arm subject to any existing
prior liens and such additional
security as may be necessary to
protect the Government’s in
vestment. Loans are made to
farm owners to build or repair
dwellings occupied by the owner
or by his tenants.
All dwellings built or repaired
with this assistance must be con
structed to meet minimum stand
ards so as to provide safe, sani
tary and decent living conditions
and to give the Government rea
sonable security for its invest
ment. In some cases loans may
be made to purchase additional
land or for such improvements
as clearing, fencing and terrac
ing land which will increase the
family income in a sufficient
amount to repay a Housing loan.
All applications will be re
ceived at the office of the Farm
ers Home Administration and
eligibility, the amount and type
of assistance to be made avail
able will be determined by the
local County FHA Committee
composed of three local citizens.
Frederick L. Perkins advises that
application blanks are now avail
able and he invites eligible farm
ers to make application or secure
any information desired at his
office.
Holiday Service At
'Methodist Church
I Next Wednesday
The annual Thonksgiving ser
vice for Cairo and community
will be .held at the First Metho
dist Church, Wednesday evening
at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Lee Long,
Pastor of the East Side Baptist
Church will be the speaker. The
special music will be furnished
by the host church, and all of the
local churches will participate.
The offering will be turned over
to the Emergency Committee of
the local Welfare Committee. The
tentative program is as follows:
Organ Prelude—Mrs. C. A.
Curry.
Hymn No. 56, “Sun of My Soul
Thou Saviour Dear.”
Responsive Reading, Page 600,
‘Thanksgiving”.
Prayer—Rev. Robert Perry.
Hymn No. 543, “Come Ye
Thankful People Come”.
Offertory.
Special, “Sing to the Lord of
Harvest”—Adams.
The Message—Rev. Lee Long.
Hymn No. 253, “Take the Name
of Jesus With You”.
Prayer and Benediction—Rev.
W. O. Hand.
Doxology.
Postlude.
This service will last about one
hour, and people from this com
munity and the surrounding area
are cordially invited to attend.
Editor and Mrs. Belmont Den
nis, of Covington, were visitors
here on Monday.
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ELZIE VICKERS WINNER OF CORN
CONTEST; YIELD 111 BU. ACRE
Drive For Chest
Near Half way
Steady Progress
Shown; Work To
Continue
Chairman Robert P. Wight re
ported Thursday the 1950 Fund
drive of the Grady County Com
munity Chest for $13,960 is near
ing the half-way point, with
steady progress reported during
the past week.
He stated, however, that only
the latter part of this week is
the drive actually getting under
way in the rural areas of the
county and in some of the Cairo
residential areas. J. E. Forsyth
is vice-chairman for the county
and is hopeful of a better re
sponse than previously from the
areas outside Cairo because of the
fact that the bulk of the money
raised benefits the areas outside
Cairo more extensive than Cairo
pror er.
Approximately half of the goal
3 allocated to emergency wel
fare assistance, mostly for resi
dents of the rural areas. Other
county-wide institutions, includ
ing the 4-H Clubs, are benefici
aries.
Chairman Wight emphasized
Thursday that the special or
major gifts solicitations have de
veloped many splendid responses
but that considerable follow-up
work remains to be done to en
list the support of all business
and industrial concerns and in
dividuals who are able to share.
in some instances, workers have
been askd to come back more
than once, which, of course, is re
quiring extra time and effort by
these volunteers. In spite of that,
however, plans call for every
concern and every individual to
be given every opportunity to do
its or their part in this import
ant county-wide undertaking.
The chairman emphasized anew
that the Chest is everybody’s
sponsibility, everybody’s obliga
tion, and that everyone should
not only be willing but anxious
to make not the smallest but the
largest contribution possible. At
tainment of the goal and mini
mum needs of institutional causes
will require everyone’s support
to the fullest—that is, with re
gular contributions to all causes
separately as a minimum basis—
it was stated.
Contributions may be left with
Cairo and Whigham banks and
with Mrs. Richard Porter at
Wight & Browne. Mrs. Porter
is drive treasurer.
Blackout Monday
Covered S. Ga.
And N. Florida
We had an unscheduled
blackout here Monday even
ing between 5:00 and 6:00 p.
m., when a series of power
failures knocked out main
feeder lines to this area,
plunging much of South
Georgia and some of North
Florida into darkness for
nearly an hour.
Darkness enveloped the
area from Tifton south to
well into Florida. John Last
inger, vice President of the
Georgia Power and Light
Company said he had no de
finite information as to the
exact territory covered by
the "blackout", but he indi
cated that it extended as far
south as St. Petersburg.
Joseph Poller student at the
University of Georgia, Athens,
spent the week-end here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake
Poller.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES. 5 CEnTt
NUMBER 45.
Competition
Wingate Speaker;
Band, Supper
Enjoyed
Winners of the 1949 Grady
County Corn Contest of the
Chamber of commerce among
some 160 FFA and 4-H Club boys
were announced here Thursday
afternoon at the third annual
Grady County Corn Show which
climaxed the competition.
A Whigham FFA youth was
again winner of the contest. He
is Elzie Vickers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Delmon Vickers, who live
south of Whigham. On his one
acre he produced 111.8 bushels
of Dixie 18 for which he receiv
ed a prize of $118.80 in cash from
Ed V. Komarek and the Green
wood Plantation hybrid seed
corn project. His top yield was
near the record of 115.4 bushels
per acre set by another Whig
nam FFA boy two years ago.
Other contest winners announc
ed at the show follow:
Greatest r.et profit per bushel
(pure-bred gilts given by Cairo
Kiwanis Club): FFA, Billy Jow
ers, Whigham, 4-H Club, Eugene
Boyett, Whigham.^ *
CASH PRICES:
1. 50c per bushel—FFA, Eu
gene Vickers, Whigham, 97.12 bu.
(Whigham Community Cub,
$48.56).
4-H, Julian Rawls Cairo, )2.2
bu. (Wight & Browne, $46.10.)
2. 30c per bushel—FFA, Le
land Rawls, Cairo, 92.02 bu.
j (Mixon Milling Co., $27.61).
4-H, Gerald Jordan, Cairo,
87.7 bu. (R. R. Van Landingham,
Inc., $26.31)..
3. 20c per bushel — FFA,
Wayne Barrett, Cairo, 90.75 bu.
(Clark Hdwe. Co., $18.15).
j 4-H, Ronnie Hall, Cairo, 83.0 bu.
I (W. Lannis Nicholson Seed &
Fert., $16.60).
4. 10c per bushel—FFA, Bon
i jal Vickers, Whigham, 84.77 bu.
(Belk-Hudson, Cairo, $8.48).
4-H, Earl Gandy, Cairo, 82.3
bu. (Gandy Hwde. Co., $8.23).
Cash prizes for the show, con
tributed by Cairo Rotary Club,
will be listed in The Messenger
next week as they were not avail
able at press time,
The show attracted hundreds
of interested farmers and others.
Other features included a con
cert by the Cairo School Band;
a corn-shucking contest; an in
spiring address by Hon. J. L.
Wingate, of Pelham, president of
the Georgia Farm Bureau Feder
ation; a display of corn produc
tion equipment, including the
new corn picker; and the big
i Grady Farm Bureau fish supper.
Thanksgiving
Holiday Here
Special Service
Arranged Locally
Next Thursday, which will be
Thanksgiving Day, will be a full
business holiday in Cairo, in ac
cordance with a custom of long
standing. Few business concerns
• plan to be open for any part of
the day.
The Thanksgiving feature here
will be the special union worship
service at the First Methods t
Church Wednesday evening at
which Rev. Lee Long, pastor of
the East Side Baptist Church, will
deliver the sermon. The public
is urged to attend this service.
Local concerns will have on ■
other full holiday this year—Mon
day, Dec. 26th, for Christmas
Day, which falls on Sunday.