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CAIRO, GEORGIA The Best City of Its Size In the Entire United States 50 .$2 a year, in advance. . 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 (.Continued on last page) - 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. -- 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 (Continued on last page) 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 (Continued on last page) 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.