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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 uiiir Xatui - : ; A>' XT 5Y (%1M i r%, sj 1 * * M j mi f ■ .v The Official Organ of Grady County. "The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation ol the dead." SIXTEEN PAGES 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 (Continue on page one Sec. two) 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. H lUIJIHf-i/ftljyif i 111 ft Ml 11^ IWIIll ¥ * g >i JUIlll MfiAlinfl 1*1 GCIII III 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 (Continued on last page) ! 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. SIXTEEN PAGES 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.