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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
50 .$2 a year, in advance.
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qLUME xlvi.
ise In Grady
lanufaduring
Sharp Increase In
Last Eight Years
Report Reveals
The value added by manufac
of goods produced in manu
acturing establishments of Grady
j unty has increased ‘by approxi
ately $ 1 , 012,000 since before the
far, according to information re
eived here from C. Parker Per
ons, regional director of the U.
js. Department of Commerce in
Manta.
I A Census Bureau report from
Sts 1947 Census of Manufactur¬
ers shows, Mr. Person said, that
L 1939 the value added by manu¬
facture of goods produced by
manufacturers of Grady County
?was $510,000 and that in 1947 it
'was $1,522,000. The term “value
added by manufacture” means
the value of manufactured goods
lin excess of the cost of materi
[als and supplies, official hte explained. Commerce
[Department Grady
Other branches of coun
[ty’s manufacturing industries
have grown correspondingly in
the eight year period it was stat¬
ed. The number of employees
in establishments engaged in
manufacturing operations has in
| creased from 284 in 1939 to 602
in 1947, and salaries and wages
: paid from $123,463 to $860,000.
The Census Bureau report,
copies of which are available at
the United States Department of
Commerce office in Atlanta and
Savannah at 15 cents a copy, also
reflects the rapid strides made
by Georgia industrially sirfee be¬
fore the war. For example, the
value added by manufacture of
goods produced in the State as
a whole increased by more than
$735,967,000 since 1939, going
from a valuaton of $280,032,000
in that year to $1,015,999,000 in
1947. Also, the number of es¬
tablishments engaged in manu¬
facturing operations has grown
from 3,055 in 1939 to 4,754 in
1947, the number of employees
from 155,870 to 249,926, and sal¬
aries and wages paid from $132,-
188,496 to $484,246,000.
Syrupmakers End Season With
13-0 Victory Over Americus
Season Record Of 5 Wins, 4 Losses
And 13-13 Tie With Thomasville
Playing heads-up football,
Cairo’s Syrupmakers made their
season somewhat more successful
with an impressive 13-0 victory
over an improved but rather er
ratic Americus Panther eleven in
Amerieus last Friday night. The
Cairoites were without Billy Mc
Corgle, their regular quarterback,
who was injured in late practice,
but they left no doubt about
their mastery of the hapless
Panthers.
Capt. ~ Grady (Red) Rogers,
Playing quarterback for Me
Corkle, connected with John
Hester, end. for a pass in the
second quarter that set up the
first Cairo score. The aerial was
good for nearly 60 yards. J On the
second r,v, nn , play, , „ Hester , caught . ..
er Rogers 12 yard heave in the
end zone for a touchdown.
A sustained third period drive
enabled j -p.. Dickie , . Gaya ~ to , plunge ■, .
through from the 12 for the
Syrupmakers’ second touchdown.
«.»Crw The extra noint was added on a
L mrper
The Panthers threatened twice
but the Cairoites recovered a
mmble to stop one threat and
tightened to hold them for downs
the other 4 •
The victory gave Cairo a record
of f i v e wins, four losses and the
13 -f3 tie with Thomasville for the
season and assured the Panthers
‘he Region 1-A cellar position in
t ; '*e final standings.
R °gers, Gaya, Sholar, Hopkins,
and Hester were outstanding for
®he data . ilteii
Th« Official Organ ol Grady County
"The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
twelve pages
Final Approval
Made On Beer
$1,102 Income
To-Date From
Legal Sales
The Mayor and Council of Cairo
met in special session last Friday
at 2:00 p. m., and passed for the
second and final reading the beer
ordinance and amendments which
brought legal beer back into the
city of Cairo.
At this meeting the Council ap¬
proved ten retail and four whole¬
sale applications for beer li¬
censes within the city. Licenses
were isued and the sale of legal
beer began in most of the places
immediately upon the adjourning
of the Council. Wednesday morn¬
ing, City Clerk Ralph Carlisle
said the city had received $462.80
in beer revenue since last Friday.
This was the revenue which came
from purchases of retailers for
last week-end. In addition $640
.00 had come in from beer license
fees, making the total income to
date from this source $ 1 , 102 .
The Council at this meeting also
amended the ordinance to permit
the wine store, operated by Bob
Miller, to sell half-pints, and no
quantity less, and also to remain
open until 10:00 p. m. on Saturday
nights.
Two Grady Youths
Leaving For Club
Congress, Chicago
Love Rehberg and Walter
Lundy, two Grady county youths,
will leave Saturday morning for
Chicago to spend next week at¬
tending the National 4-H Club
Congress there with all expenses
paid. They are Georgia state 4-H
Club champions—she in poultry
achievement and he in livestock
pest control. The free trip is
their reward.
Miss Myrtle Walters, home
demonstration agent, said record¬
ings from the Congress will be
flown to Atlanta next week to be
broadcast over WSB at 6 a. m.
each morning. These recordings
may include parts by the Grady
countians.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Mauldin
had as their guests during the
Thanksgiving season: Mr. and
Mrs. W. Webb Wells, of Ashford,
Ala., Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Croxton
and Mary, of Montezuma, and
Mr. and Mrs. James Mauldin, of
Atlanta.
the Syrupmakers as they kept
ahead in the ball game.
Americus won the toss and Burt
Bridges elected to receive. Gaya’s
kick was taken on the 18 by J.
£ stripling, who returned it to
Hhe A. H. S. 42 yard line. Hollo
way lost two yards, Bass threw
two incomplete passes and Stripl¬
ing punted out of bounds on the
Cairo 40.
Sholar picked • , j up three y a ,
Fulford gained three and Sholar
added two more. Strickland
punted on fourth Hnwn down
Americus bail, first ana 1
their own 28; Cooley added one;
respectively, Stripling got one^ L x 5™*
two; Bass to Slappey mcomp ,
Slappey lost four yards and
lings punt D unt was was downed on the
Cairo 18. ic
First and ten on their own ,
the Syrupmakers fumbled and
Tv/Tnrcfan rGcovGrGci- re(:o
15 yards from nav p . dirt an d
.
made it yarn c i nser
Cooner a •
Stripling lost seven; Striplings
'° Bass was incomplete and
Bass missed Slappej on
down, of the ball
After an exchange
on downs, Cairo took over on
their own 22 and with J. W. Har
Fulford, and Sholar caiTymft
the Sjrupma ei
yards, uninterrupted for a tally,
Rogers passing o
T. D. for
Rogers passed to Harper
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CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1949
Christmas Trade
Festival Plans
Program To Start
Dec. 3rd; Santa
Is Coming
Cairo merchants ,at a general
{the meeting last week sponsored by
Chamber of Commerce Mer
chants committee, of which Albert
Collins is chairman, worked out
details for the 1949 Cairo Christ¬
mas Trade Festival which is
scheduled to open Saturday, Dec. I !
3rd. The meeting voted unanim
ouly to adopt the program plans
submitted by the committee.
A number of concerns are al
ready displaying their Christmas
stocks of merchandise, which will
be supplemented from time to
time to encouraee shonDine earlv '
in the season However the
Trade Festival opening on Satur
day, Dec. 3rd, is expected to find
all holiday merchandise on dis
play. Stocks here are said to be
larger and more varied this sea
son than ever before—and Cairo
concerns are cordially inviting
everyone throughout the trade
territory to shop Cairo throughly
before looking elsewhere because
of the extensive stocks and gener
ally better prices " to be found
h ere
Loral merchants ' had tentatively
planned to give away several
thousand dolars in major gifts
to winners among those patroniz
ing participating concerns but be
cause'of the possibility of a tech
nical violation of the Georgia
“gift enterprise” law this plan
was abandoned However the
Trndp Festival nlans call for pin
boration of the program last sea
son when three hnffp crowds were
attracted to Cairo as Santa Claus
in person gave children thous
sands of packages of candy, bal
loons etc
The Saturday, program of events follows:
Dec. 3rd. Christmas
Trade Festival formally opens,
with complete displays 6 of stocks
and completion of st re decora
tioris.etc. Christmas street lights
will burn. Santa Claus will make
his initial personal in apearance
shortly after 2 p. m. a parade
through the main business area
B 75L,
m as
S”?’with'TS "SlS
service concert by Cairo School
Band at First Methodist Church
in afternoon.
Saturday, Dec. 10th: Santa
Claus will make second personal
appearance shortly after 2 p. m.
with tour through the business
area and majorettes of the Cairo
School Band distributing gifts to
children-along the streets for him,
including candy and or balloons,
etc.
Saturday, Dec. 17th: Santa
Claus will make third visit in
person shortly after <2 p. m. with
band majorettes again assisting other
him in distributing candy or
igifts to children lining streets of
the business areas.
Friday, Dec. 23rd: Santa Claus
will make final visit in person be¬
fore his regular rounds the night
of Dec. 24th. He will arrive
shortly after 2 p. m. and will prob¬
ably haye gifts for the children,
again. features be added—
Other may
but the above schedule is definite
and people throughout the trade
area are asked to acquaint them
selves with it and plan to have
their children here for the festi¬
vities.
Meanwhile, all Cairo concerns
i wiU suspe nd the regular Thursday
a ft erno on half-holidays for Dec.
( 15 th and Dec. 22nd. Most of them
will also remain open Thursday
afternoons. Dec. 1st and Dec. 8th,
as each j n dividaul concern de
cideS) since these afternoon half
s h °“ a J? X Sr® plac’eTin th“
section until after Christmas and
Cairo concerns are anxious to ren
der the fullest ser vice possible to
j the ^ people throughout this area.
^ fuU busingss hoIiday
the year will be Monday, Dec.
26th> for Christmas Day, which
falls Sunday Some concerns
rn&y 3.1so observe Tuesday, Dec.
27th, Jan. 1st, 1950, New Year’s
Day, will be a legal holiday but
it will not be observed as a gen
eral business holiday locally as
i, is in m a„y piacas.
Train Hearing Is
Postponed, Again
Unofficial information was re¬
ceived here Teusday afternoon
that the Georgia Public Service
Commission has postponed until
Jan. 26th the hearing of the A. C.
L. Railroad on the proposed cur¬
tailment of the Montgomery- train
Savannah night passenger
service. for
The hearing had been set
Dec. 15th.
Kiwanians Hear
School Leader At
Tuesday Meeting
Cairo Kiwanians at their lunch¬
eon meeting Tuesday heard Paul
G. Sewell, director of the Thomas
County Vocation School, tell in¬
terestingly of the operation of the
school, which, he stated, now has
22 Grady countians enrolled. Mr.
Sewell was presented by chairman. Richard
Porter as program
Norwood Clark, the club presi¬
dent, presided. Sewell said the school,
Mr.
which now has an enrollment of
193, is preforming an invaluable
service in giving special vocation
al training to the GI’s of this area,
Other guests were Key
bers Billy Dixon and Bobby O’
Neal; Jim Honey, who is to be
stationmaster of Radio Station
WGRA here, now a full-fledged
resident of Cairo; and several
Thomasville Kiwanians.
President Clark emphasized the
performance by Layne, the magi
for the club benefit purposes,
at the high school auditorium next
Monday night.
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Large ^ Shipment 1 Of
_ Produce Went . To —
1101*6111 # S M**.**#* FiOItiw
Two large cars of produce
were loaded this week for the
GeA'gia Baptist trailer Children’s of Home
and a large truck corn
was loaded several days ago for
the homes. ’
The cars w«re loaded at Cairo
ar ^ Whigham by Grady toe seve.ai
cl urches of the County
Baptist Association, the laige
shipment of corn was sent by the
Calvary Church. This was the
largest shipment of produce ever
sent to the homes from the Grady
County Association. The ship
ments consisted oi generous do
nations of our fine Grady County
Cane Syrup and other food pro
ducts with quantities of hay and
corn. Mr. B. M. Lee of the Pme
Level Church was general chair
man of the committee getting up
the donations
appeal for the childrens
, home is made only once each
year, about the Thanksgiving
season - Liberal contributions in
money will go forward from many
° f the churches.
Electric Rate l«ue
OH A Th,rd T,me
Federal Power Commission at
Washington late last week an
nounced postponement for a third
time the South Georgia electric
rate hearing scheduled to be
gin in Washington last Monday,
FPC said its own counsel and
counsel for Florida Power Corp.
requested the additional time.
The hearing is now set for Dec.
nth.
J. B. Copeland, Valdosta at
torney, represents Cairo and a
group of 20 -odd other South Geor
gia municipalities seeking a
downward adjustment J of electric
rn+AQ
Mary Scoff Russell
Stafe Pres., WCTU
Coming Here
Mrs. Mary Scott Russell, of At¬
lanta, State President of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, will speak at the East
Side Baptist Church here next
Wednesday evening, November
30, at 7:30 o’clock.
Many here have heard this
talented speaker on several oc¬
casions and will be delighted to
hear her again. She has a keen
and bright mind; in the words of
another “Mrs. Russell is a beauti¬
ful, attractive and magnetic
speaker. public is cordially invited
The
to hear her.
FINE LEMONS BROUGHT
BY MRS. JOHN NORMAN.—
Two very fine lemons, grown
by Mrs. John Norman of the
Bold Springs Community, were
brought to the Messenger office
last Saturday. These home¬
grown lemons are of an unusu¬
ally large variety, about the size
of an orange, and seem matur¬
ed and ripened perfectly.
If these lemons are samples of
what con be grown here in Grady
County, it is safe to say no finer
ones can be produced in Flori¬
da or any other place.
Rev. and Mrs. G. N. Rainey and
Buddy spent Thanksgiving in
Columbus with relatives; Misses
Martha and Sue Rainey, of La
Grange, joined them there and
accompanied them home to be at
home the remainder of the week.
TWELVE PAGES
C. of C. Meeting
Topic Varied
Rural Telephones,
Highways, Parks
Among Others
Rather an unusual variety of
topics claimed the attention of the
Chamber of Commerce directors
at their monthly meeting here
Tuesday night. President W. E.
Young presided with 17 of the 24
directors present. The vast rural
telephone system now in prospect,
state highway modernization
work, Cairo beautificiation, a pro
posed school needs survey, A. C.
L. train curtailment proposal, fight the
fight for natural gas, the
for lower electric rates, efforts to
aid in building a stronger I 1 arm
Bureau locally and revelation
that the annual Chamber direc
tors’ election will get underway
Friday, were among numerous
other matters considered.
A special committee, composed
® Roddenbery, Sr chair
man, n. l. ireuette ana rt. it.
VanLandingham reported on con
ferences with REA officials in
which it offered assistance to REA.
in working out plans for the rural
telephone network, now authoriz
| gd by Congress, and for the pro
I posed REA office and warehouse
| building. The committee was
named to offer assistance to the
REA on the phone project making and to
aid in determining and
available the most, desirable site
for the proposed REA building if
the present site is not utilized,
The phone system will be built
by the local phone company, if
it elects to do so within one year,
or otherwise by a new corporation
affiliated with REA whose lines
and or poles would be building used. REA site
might consider a
closer in if a suitable tract of
three acres is found,
Splendid highway progress modernization was reported
0 n state
work m the county, for which
Rep. F. t . Baggett*. chairman o
the Chamber highways comrnit
tee, has been especially active. The
Dunn contract.oni the Hawthorne
Trail (State Rt. 12) near Cairo is
now near completion, with only
the final top surfacing to be ad
ded next spring. This link of
, d compt,od %
Srf have SUr „ r X
f ina * survey on the remain
J}% l un £? V ^i °* the "aw
th ,°™ e Trail, nearly , seven miles,
which it now appears wi be
contracted for early next sp ing,
thus opening the entire Cain>
Camilla link as a paved road. A
state maintenance crew is expect
e d here shortly to prepare for
surfacing early next spring a oui
™ lle hnk £ f xP a i, P °| t Road * 1 ’
known as \ V 1 Hadley Ferry road,
southward fro™ Cairo, a link that
was graded for surfacing early
in last war. Work was re I
progressing slowly on most
of the four state highway bridge
jobs in the county. The grading
and surfacing job on State Rt.
179 in and northward from Whig
ham was discussd, with an ex¬
tension of this work northward
in propect and the final survey
for it finished. The Chamber en¬
thusiastically pledged its active
support of plans for another ex¬
tension of this work southward
in and from Whigham, for which
a final survey is now sought.
Adjustment of all differences as
to the grading and surfacing northern of
State Rt. 262 across the
adge of the county was reported,
with grading to move forward
this winter steadily.
President Young and R. R. Van¬
Landingham agreed to appear be¬
fore the Mayor & Council here
to urge improvement of all of the
city parks, and other city beauti¬
fication projects, after needs were
discussed. The Chamber also re¬
ferred to Cairo Woman’s Club, for
joint action if the club does not
asume full sponsorship, a project
to beautify this winter plots at
all highway entrances into Cairo.
The proposed school needs sur¬
vey, tentatively approved at two
previous meetings, came up for
consideration, again, and it was
decided President Young will
name a special committee to
choose the survey committee and
report its recommendations next
month. A special committee will
be named to secure a speaker and
make plans for the annual Cham¬
ber dinner meeting the latter part
of January.
and Chamber Edwin Mgr. Carlisle, Louis engaged A, Powellj
as
counsel for the Chamber and the
Cairo and Whigham communities
in the fight to retain A. C. L.
night passenger trains on daily
schedules, revealed unofficially a
new postponement in the Geor¬
gia Public Service Commission
hearing on this matter from Dec.
15th to Jan. 24th. Attorney Car
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STRONG BUREAU GREATEST NEED
OF FARMERS, WINGATE PLEADS
Reregistration
Begins Monday
Deputy Clerk To
Be At Courthouse
The re-registration of all voters
of Grady County is scheduled to
begin here next Monday, No¬
vember 28th., according to an an¬
nouncement made by M. G. three-1 Pat
terson, Chairman of the
man board members of Registrars. W. The L. j
other two are
Prince, of Spence, and E. A. !
Gandy, of Cairo.
A deputy clerk \yill be employ- \
ed by the Board and will be on
duty each day from 9:00 a. m. to
5:00 p. m. at an office in the
Courthouse. The exact location
of the office has not been decided,
but will be announced later. | j
“There is nothing complicated
about re-registering”, Mr. Patter-!
son said, “It is simple enough, and
nothing for anyone to hesitate
about Wo urtio overvono How^ to
come in and re register I
ever,” the chairman pointed out, j
“We don’t think there is any great i
need for rushing about it just yet, |
since there is plenty of time.” I
Those who can not read or write
will be required to give the right
answer to ten out of 30 questions,
These questions are' not hard to
answer. They are quite simple. |
The 30 questions will be publish- !
ed in The Messenger next week
along with the answer to each
one.
Housewives Urged
To Be Careful On
Solicitations
Several Cairo housewives are
reported to have 6 een troubled
with house-to-house solicitors,
particularly magazine salesmen
using various clever frauds, dur¬
ing the past several days. They
are warned anew to use extreme
caution in dealing with solicitors— all visit¬
ing house-to-house
and the best policy, doubtless, is
to invite them to move on prompt¬
ly. Better still, call Chief of Po¬
lice Boyd Vanlandingham.
City of Cairo and the Chamber
of Commerce Better Business
committee co-operate to control
local solicitations by outsiders.
They issue a “green card” verify¬
ing some of them, without en¬
dorsement, but most of those ap¬
plying are not even verified. Ask
to see a “green card” when an out¬
side solicitor calls. Chamber
members may then remind them
of the provision on their member¬
ship card which foregoes their
patronage of unverified proposals.
Magazine salesmen may also be
told that high school students
here receive subscriptions for all
magazines and receive their com¬
mission thereon for school bene¬
fit purposes.
At any rate, beware of all
house-to-house solictors who are
not well-known to you.
Rev. and Mrs. Fred C. Mayer
of Poulan, spent the Thanksgiv¬
ing season here as guests of Miss
Amy Brown, Mr. Ralph Brown
and other relatives.
E. S. Lyons Elected President
Of Tounchdown Club For 1950
J. M. Kennedy Vice-President; David
Hester Sec.-Treas.; Jamboree, Plan
Cairo Touchdown Club, at its
final regular meeting of the year
Monday night, elected Eugene
S. Lyons president of the organ¬
ization for 1950, with James M.
Kennedy as vice-president and
David Hester as secretary-treas¬
urer. Mr. Lyons will succeeed
John W. King, who has served
with credit during this year.
The club also voted to have a
jomboree early in January, with
members of the Syrupmakers
football squar as guests, and with
some well-known grid mentor or
official as speaker.
The club also voted to draw on
its treasury for the cost of the
jersies for the Cairo Midget foot¬
ball team which will enter the
new Okefenokee Midget Tourna¬
ment at Way cross early next
month. This is one of many such
projects the club has carried out
this year to promote football lo¬
cally.
Coach J. P. Miller, at the meet¬
ing, led an interesting discussion
of the new eight-semester rule
as a worthwhile regulation for
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENT*
NUMBER 46.
Corn Show Talk
Is Stirring
Immediate Sign-up
Essential; Show
Winners Given
H. L. Wingate, of Pelham, presi¬
dent of the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation, plead earnestly for a
stronger Farm Bueau tnan ever
as the greatest need of farmers m
a stirring address at the conclu
slon of the third annual Grady
County Corn Show at Grady
Farm Buearu Market late Thurs
day of last week.
Carl Ponder, president of Grady
County Farm Bureau, and his
membership sign-up workers, re¬
doubled their efforts, following
Mr. Wingates plea, to assure at
tainment or surpassing of the
Quota for the county organization
before next Thursday, Dec. 1 st,
whon the 1949'-50 membership en
rollement ends. Local Farm Bu
rea u leaders said if every farmer
in Gray county could have heard
Mr. Wingate’s plea a record mem
bership for the coming year
would quickly result. .
Mr. Wingate based his plea on
the fact that other groups are now
so powerfully organized that
“farmers will simply be left out
in the cold’ if they do not like
wise maintain a powerful orgam
nation capable of fully and most
effectively asserting the interests
and demands of the farmers,
particularly those of the South,
in Washington and elsewhere.
He reviewd recent happenigs
in Washington, as they affect the
farmers, and expresed keen regret
at the news of Cong. Steve Pace’s
decision not to seek re-election
next yearn He declared Cong.
Pace “one of the few most pow¬
erful friends the farmer have in
Washington” and added that his
absence alone after next year will
itself make a stronger Farm Bu¬
reau organization more impera¬
tive. Grady should have at least
2,000 farmers enrolled and active
in the Farm Bureau to assure ful¬
lest protection of the interests of
the farmers, he declared further,
adding that “if our farmers sit
back and do not enlist, and there¬
by leave everything to the other
fellow, we shall continue to have
unworkable programs and other
disadvantages.”
Mr. Wingate explained that the
“pernicious and unworkalble
Brannan farm program”—which
was written in secret by econo¬
mists of the CIO and AFL with¬
out any help of farmers or farm
organizations whatsoever—would
cost from five to 10 billion dollars
a year and then not substantially
aid farmers of the nation, gener¬
ally, despite the fact that it gained
introduction into the Congress
and might become law without
powerful opposition.
He maintained that the present
Anderson plan, recently enacted,
is acceptable but not desirable,
and referred to it as “just a little
better than the Aiken plan.”
But he insisted that only through
the most powerful farm group
organization possible, particularly
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high schools but that it might bet¬
ter have been made effective with
the tweleve-grade set-up in such
a manner that it would not be
operative next season for foot¬
ball, although he said there is
little chance that it will be su¬
spended. The rule, he stated,
along with graduation, will likely
make ineligible for football next
season all except nine of the pre¬
sent Syrupmakers squad; and that
it will likely affect other Georgia
major football schools similarly.
He praised the Syrpmakers for
their splendid game against
Americus last Friday night, which
they won, 13-0, to conclude the
1949 season with five victories,
four defeats and one tie.
He stressed the importance of
the football camp next summer
and urged suport of Coach Nun
nally’s plan for a real track team
here next spring. The coaches
won special praise for keeping the
Cairo griders in remarkably good
physical condition during the past
season. Almost no illness' and
very few injuries were noted.