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CAIRO, GEORGIA The Best City of Its Size In the Entire United States JJ.50-S2 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XLVI. CHRISTMAS TRADE FESTIVAL S OPENING SET HERE SATURDAY Band Parade To Greet Santa Merchants Finish Displays, Ready For Shoppers Santa Claus is scheduled to visit Cairo in person tomorrow, Saturday afternoon, shortly after 2 p. m., as guest of local merch¬ ants, to usher in their 1949 Christ mas Trade Festival—and parents of the entire trade area are in¬ vited and urged to have their children here to greet him. (See front page, second section, for de¬ tails). The crack Cairo School Band, directed by Major W. T. Verran, will parade through the main business area Saturday to wel¬ come Santa Claus, who will also tour other business areas follow¬ ing the band parade. Merchants have been urged to have their Christmas decorations and stocks of holiday merchandise complet¬ ed by Saturday to enable shop¬ pers to start their preparations for the “day of days.” Messenger ads already are emphasizing the Festival and offering trade op¬ portunities. The Christmas street lighting system is already add¬ ing a definite and colorful Christ¬ mas appearance. Both Thomasville radio sta¬ tions, WKTG and WUAX will join in booking the Festival, along with The Messenger, and WKTG will record band music and other features Saturday for broadcast at 4:30 p. m. Plans are not entirely complete but the band and Santa will likely pause near the Courthouse Saturday about 2:15 p. m. for this recording. WKTG has also arranged studio programs from 10:15 to 10:30 a. m. Saturday, Dec. 10th, and Sat¬ urday, Dec. 17th, when Santa Claus will read some of the let¬ ters from the children of the Cairo trade area. Children of the area are invited to write their letters to Santa immediately and mail them to him, care Radio Sta tion WKTG, Thomasville, with as many of them as possible to be read and commented upon by Santa on the Cairo Trade Festi val broadcast Dec. 10th and Dec. Nth, as listed above. Santa has also accepted the in¬ vitation of local merchants to make visits in person here on three additional days, at which time he expects to have candy and other gifts for the children who greet him. These appearanc es are shortly after 2 p. m. Satur D T i°?' S “ turd ,f j DM ' m nth, and Friday, Dec. 23rd. All local concerns plan to re¬ main open Thursday afternoons, Dec. 15th and 22nd, and remain mg open Dec. 1st and 8th been left to each concern, as con¬ ditions justify. Kiwanians Have ^orum Discussion Here Tuesday A forum discussion on various Phases of community based on the Kiwanis motto, “We Duild,” formed the unique pro gram at the luncheon meeting of Cairo Kiwanians Tuesday. Program was arranged by the Rev. Granville Rainey, Pastor. Norwood Clark, club President, presided. Leaflets were distributed out -:ning the various ways in which communities are built, or held back, and all included the ques Ron, “Are We Building This Cairo?" Business, buildings, banks, Paved streets and other such fac tors ■ were discussed by Walter ricClenny, who analyzed how ^Continued on last page) Sir y The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead." TWENTY 6. C. Hamrick Is Rotary Speaker Cairo Applicant Has "Good Chance" For Foreign Study Grover C. Hamrick, of Albany, Governor of the 240th., Rotary District which includes Cairo, was the interesting guest speaker at the local Rotary luncheon Wed¬ nesday in the Citizens Cafe. Mr. Hamrick discussed the three weeks he spent in the Rotary International Assembly at Lake Placid, New York last June. This Assembly was in the nature of a school which taught the principles of Rotary, and the three weeks there, the District Governor said, was more than equal to three months of any col¬ lege work. Every country in the world was represented at the as¬ sembly, he pointed out, with the exception of Russia, and all speeches were made in three dif¬ ferent languages—English, Span¬ ish, and French—by means of in terperters. “It was a most worth¬ while experience,” Mr. Hambrick said, “to have had this intense course in the fundamentals of Rotary”. The District Governor com¬ mended the Cairo Club for its outstanding record, pointing out that in July of this year the 240th. District was rated 34th. in service among all the districts in the U. S. and Canada, while this month the district has moved up to 11th. place, with the highest rating of any district East of the Rocky Mountians. . be held next at time | to year m the Faii Anyone aiMn^the interested - n participating or move nient for a fair here is ask gd tQ contact Robert Johnson at the Zebulon Theater, Chairman of the Fair Committee. It was announced at this meet ing that the Cairo club had sub mitted the application of a girl from this community for the Ro tary Foundation Fellowship in advanced study abroad. Gover nor Hamrick said the applicant from Cairo had a very good chance of being approved. This fellowship, for which Rotary pays all expenses, will mean a fine op portunity for some student to round out his or her education at some university abroad. Mr. Hamrick was recently re- 1 tired from the Income Tax Unit ' f the United States Treasury _ 0 Department after thirty years service, and is now a Tax Con¬ sultant in Albany. His various activities in Rotary are almost too numerous to mention. He was President of the Club in 1937-38 and while President had the dist tinction of having had five 100 percent meetings during his term of office, a record unequaled be¬ fore or since that time in Albany. Guests of the Club were Ralph | Studebaker, Recreation Director the City, and Rotarian Fritz Roberts of Thomasville. Mr. Studebaker showed the uniforms of the basketball teams which the Cairo Rotary Club is sponsoring. At a recent election, Miss Jean Van Landingham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Van Landing ham, of Route 2, Cairo was chos¬ en secretary of the Freshman Class at the Georgia State Wo mans College. An enthusiastic participant in the Sports Club, Miss Van Landingham has also recently been appointed fresh man representative to the Sports Council. Carroll Whitfield, student at Middle Georgia College, Coch¬ ran, spent the Thanksgiving sea son with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitfield. Among the students at home for the holidays were Misses June Sumner, Emojean Strick¬ land and Beth Stanfill, of Abra¬ ham Baldwin College Tifton. J. H. House Is Polio Chairman Heads 1950 Drive To Carry Fight Against Disease J. Harwell House of Cairo to¬ day was appointed Grady Coun¬ ty Director of the 1950 drive for funds to carry on the fight against infantile paralysis. The appointment of Mr. House, Superintendent of the Cairo Pub¬ lic Schools since 1943, was an¬ nounced by J. H. Gray of Albany, head of the campaign in the Second Congressional District. In appointing Mr. House Mr. Gray said “Never has the need for success in the polio drive been so great. The worst polio epi¬ demic in 35 years has just swept the country. I know that Mr. House will spare no effort and I believe that under his leadership Grady County will raise even more than its share of the money that is so urgently needed.” The Grady County Director has been active in public school life of the state since 1929. He was a teacher and coach at Valdosta High School and has been Sup¬ erintendent of Schools in both Lakeland and Calhoun. He is married and has two daughters, Ginger, 15, and Caro¬ line, 13. Mr. House deceived his B. A”. degree at Emory University and , his M. A. at Duke University. He has also studied at Columbia University and Florida State University. He is now a director for the Second District of the Georgia Educational Association, and is a former president for his district of the Georgia High School Asso¬ ciation. He is a member of the Cairo Kiwanis Club, and active in civic enterprises. \ /wq P # icfp V/IClj IV n Cy* /1 K ▼ \i V 6TV jlOWSy -*.1 100 n Had . Qualified Thursday Morning Re-registration of Grady Coun ty’s over 6000 voters got under way at the Court House in Cairo last. Monday morning, with a very light response, Thursday at noon, the Registration Board re ported that a few more than a hundred people had registered t0 ‘ a £ of M Patterson) chairman the Re-registration Board, urged all citizens of Grady County to come in and re-register. “There is nothing difficult about it,” he said, “but we do want to one point clear: that is that vot do not have a choice as to ers under the how they may qualify be new law, as some seem to lieve” All those who can read write, will be required to read and copy a paragraph from the Constitution, and those o not read 3n T3 w r D e Vl £ re can If an asked 30 que C s wer 10 of these correctly, tney are qualified to vote, The Re-registration office is in the Grand Jury room on the zna floor of the courthouse. The hours are from 9:00 until o.u each day, with the excep : ° n ° Thursday afternoon, when it w u close just as other court ou»e fices and business houses c Miss Margaret Tugg e is Deputy Registrar, an a one member of the Board present at all times to s re-registering voters. The ^-registration Board con sists of Chairman M. G. Patter son, W. A. Spence, and "• Gandy. The Official Organ of Grady County. CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1949. ?<;' ?: .V. j " I '*■< GROVER C. HAMRICK, of Al¬ bany, Rotary Governor of the 240th. District, with a long and distinguished record in the or¬ ganization, was the guest speaker at the local Rotary luncheon Wednesday in the Citizens Cafe. Legion Meet Tuesday Night All Members Urged To Pay 1950 Dues , The Grady County Legion, Post 122, will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night, with a spaghetti supper and all the trim¬ mings. Commander Bob Wight urged all members to be present, and come prepared to renew their 1950 membership, if they had not already done so. He emphasized that members would have to have their 1949 or 1950 membership - 001 ' Reporting on the membership "drive now under way, Command- 5C * Wight said it was progressing fairly well, particularly with new members, but he said the old members were lagging behind to some extent in renewing their membership. 1000 members for the Grady County post is the goal this year, This post is the second largest in the district now, and if we can get anywhere close to this goal, he said, we will retain the bal anee of power in the district, “But it is most important,” Com¬ mander Wight said, “that old members join in the drive and re¬ new their memberships at once, Farmers Hold Election Soon Vote On Delegates, Cotton Quotas, Committeemen Who will administer such na¬ tional farm programs as Agricul¬ tural Conservation, price sup¬ ports, acreage allotments, market¬ ing quotas, and Federal Crop In¬ surance in Grady, County in 1950? The ballot box, traditional bul¬ wark of democracy, will decide. On December 15, farmers in the county’s 12 agricultural com¬ munities will be choosing neigh¬ bors and friends to represent them as community Production and Marketing Administration farmer - committeemen for the coming year. They will also choose a delegate from each com¬ munity to a county convention which will name the three-man county PMA Committee for 1950. Also on December 15, every cot¬ ton grower will have the op¬ portunity to go to the polls at the same polling places to decide whether or not marketing quotas will be used for the 1950 cotton crop. Ballots will be mailed to each producer, and he may vote on community committeemen and the delegates to the County con¬ vention by mail. These ballots (Continued on last page) ! Drive For Chest Moves Ahead Workers Reshuffle Plans, Press On Toward Goal Chairman Robert P. Wight, of the 1950 Fund drive of the Grady County Community Chest, said Thursday that workers have re¬ shuffled their plans to continue the campaign, which slowly moves toward the goal of $13,960 for the various causes. One group of workers had a breakfast meeting Wednesday to plan the continued effort with increased determina¬ tion to reach the objective, he stated. Latest totals indicated some 65 per cent of the goal in hand, most¬ ly in cash bat with some bank orders and other pledges, it is un¬ derstood. Among the prospective contributors who have not been reported on are some from whom major contributions are expected and many of the group from whom smaller amounts are count¬ ed on, it was reported. J. E. Forsyth, chairman for the county outside Cairo and Whig¬ ham, reported a more general re¬ sponse than heretofore, mostly in smaller amounts, which, it is said, indicates a more general apprecia¬ tion throughout the county as a whole of the fact that the rural areas are the larger beneficiaries of the Chest causes, practically its largest institutional member claimant, the Grady Co. Emerg¬ ency Welfare Council, which meets countless emergency wel¬ fare needs that would otherwise go unheeded. Other causes supported by funds raised through the Chest are the library, the 4-H Clubs, the city county recreational program, the Boy Scouts, the Cancer Control Society, the Salvation Army and the USO. The Emergency Wel¬ fare Council uses about half of the funds raised by the Chest to alleviate suffering or hardship that would not normally 'be alle¬ viated by other established agen¬ cies. Workers in the campaign said a number of people well able to give substantial amounts seem to have the idea of putting off soli¬ citors, who are busy volunteer workers, enough times that they will not continue to come back, so that these people may ease by without doing their part in meeting this No. 1 welfare and character building obligation of the county. However, the reac tion is that the workers, as a rule, become more determined and they will likely continue the ef¬ forts until a response is gained, regardless of their own sacrifice of time and effort. Another disturbing thing to workers is that some people who, everything considered, should willingly contribute several hun¬ dred dollars, and probably would if several high-pressure drives were carried out during the year, try to get by on amounts far less. Workers will center efforts upon effecting increases to bring every¬ one possible in line, it is said. If the Chest fails to reach its goal, various important activities in which neirly everyone in the county has a stake will suffer greatly or have to be eliminated, workers emphasize. Other coun¬ ties have provided adequately for such activities for next year and there is no good reason why Grady countians should fail, they say. Every person is able to make some contribution and many are able to make large gifts. It will require increases from many and some aid from every¬ one able to achieve success and keep the eight Chest activities going next year, the leaders de¬ clare. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Pope re¬ turned to their home in Braden¬ ton, Fla., Sunday, after spending several days here as guests of homefolks. TWENTY PAGES Hogs Here Up This Week No. Is 15.50c Cattle Steady Hog prices eased back upward at the weekly livestock auction of the Cairo Livestock Auction Co. here, the management report¬ ed, with cattle prices firm and little changed. No. 1 hogs sold Tuesday for 15.50c a pound, 100 points above board quotations for the day. No. 2 hogs were 14.75c a pound. While the season for greatest normal demand for feeder pigs has passed, feeders continued in good demand Tuesday here with a top price of 17.50c a pound. There was no notable change in cattle prices but the firmness of recent months continued in evidence. FPC Hearings On Gas, Electricity Of Interest Here Federal Power Commission hearings in Washington schedul¬ ed for the next several days are of interest locally. FPC has scheduled resumption next Tuesday of its hearing on the application of Atlantic Gulf Gas Co., Shreveport, La., for a certificate of authority to build a vast $110 million pipeline dis¬ tribution system to serve this en¬ tire area with natural gas. The hearing was started last August in Washington and continued sub¬ sequently at Tallahassee and Sa¬ vannah. Cairo is on the proposed distribution system and City of Cairo has indicated plans to build a local distribution system if tK. certificate is granted. Officials of the Southeastern Ass’n of Municipalities For Nat¬ ural Gas, formed at a meeting here last year, will appear at the final phase of the hearing in Washington. FPC also now has set for Washington Dec. 15th a thrice postponed hearing on electric rates which is of vital concern to Cairo, Whigham and 24 other South Georgia municipalities. The hearing is on an investigation by FPC of Georgia Power & Light Co. and its parent concern, Florida Power Corp. Grady County Hospital Now Serves 125 People Monthly B. W. Mauldin Resigns Position On Authority; Meeting Is Held Trustees of the Grady County Hospital Authority, at a meeting held at the Courthouse last Satur day afternoon, received reports on the operations of the Grady Coun ty Hospital which showed, among other things, that the hospital is now serving an average of 125 persons monthly. These include an average of at least 50 “bed patients” and at least 75 “out patients” monthly, reports show ed. Resignation of B. W. Mauldin as a trustee of the Authority, of which he has been chairman since its creation, was reported to the meeting. His resignation is to the County Commissioners, who elect the trustees. His three-year term has another year to run. Terms of W. C. Lane, Whigham, S. M. McKown and J. Slater Wight also expire Jan. 1st. The trustees Saturday went on reeord as expressing “deep appre ciation” for the “outstanding ser vice” rendered by Mr. Mauldin and expressing strong hope he will reconsider and agree continue to serve at least for remainder of the term. As Au thority chairman he has devoted much of his time and effort, entirely gratis, to the general j j supervision of the hospital and its operations, and the other trustees j attributed the outstanding success ) largely to his generous and able ! GRADY COUNTY Greatest Diversified Farming Section In America SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENT! NUMBER 47. Top-Notch Band Appearing Here DeLand Musicians At- Auditorium Next Thursday Next Thursday night at 8:00 p. m. at the high school auditorium is the time, place, and date of one of the seasons high lights in en¬ tertainment. For the third straight year fun-loving, pleas¬ ure seeking, and serious-minded people of this section will be priviledged to hear a really fine musical treat by one of the na¬ tion’s top school bands. Forty-six members of the DeLand, Fla., High School band, all artists of high calibre, plus its famous and genial conductor, Mr. John Heney, will hold forth for about two hours of honest en¬ tertainment. Music at its best, whether it is an overture march, solo, novelty or what not, is the by-word of the DeLand Band. Known from coast to coast by musician and layman alike, this famous band has, in the past, played to hundreds of people from all walks of life. The ex¬ cellence of this band is known throughout the nation. The program is spiced with marches and novelties, solos and ensembles, modern and humor¬ ous, as well as serious numbers. There is something for everyone and everyone is invited to hear and see all of it. All numbers are exceptionally well selected and the DeLand Band has al¬ ways been noted for the enjoy¬ able concerts they present. The DeLand Band is making its sixth annual tour this year and will play in the following cities: Lake City, Fla.; Tallahas¬ see, Fla.; Douglas, Ga.; Cairo; and Pensacola, Fla., and will travel more than 11,000 miles be¬ fore returning home. Tickets will be sold in advance by members of the Cairo High School Band and at the door the night of the concert. Mrs. W. A. Knott, Jr., and small son, of Kinston, N. C., will arrive during the weekend to spend some time here as guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. VanLandingham, and family. support. Reviewing reports of operations, the trustees agreed that the hos pital as a project is quite out standing, particularly in view of the modern facilities available, he splendid services provided and the nominal overhead expenses, Counties where large and expen j sive hospitals are being buitl are j ! certain ation difficulties, to encounter it serious feared, oper was while such institutions render no j better service, fundamentally, than is being rendered here. This county is especially fortunate in this respect, it was pointed out. j A reduction in county suport j this year wil hamper operations I of the hospital, and may jeopar dize planned retirement of the certificates issued for the purchase of the hospital, the trustees said in authorizing a committee to discuss with the County Commis sioners the need for more funds, at least the same support that was given until this year, The trustees expressed aprecia tion for new equipment for some of the rooms provided by individ uals and groups and for the grat ifying assistance rendered by people, generally, in many ways to improve the hopsital, which is now shown to regularly employ 14 persons. The fine suport of the physicians and surgeons also pro voked expressions of appreciation.