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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 xlvl Christmas Trade Volume High Santa Due Friday; Store Holidays Plans Given Christmas trade volume hit the seasonal peak this week with in¬ dications it will equal if not ex¬ ceed last year’s, a survey reveal¬ ed. Beginning with a rainy Monday morning it was plain the final week before the “day of days” would develop good busi ness in most lines. The post office has been bust¬ ling with activity and congested as Christmas mail and parcel post appeared to edge ahead of last year’s record volume here. Bus and rail passenger travel, and express shipments, showed a sharp uptrend. Everywhere there has been this week the usual appearances of a bright, joyous holiday season, with many former residents and visitors here on visits. Santa's Final Visit Santa Claus, who has been quite generous in co-operating with Cairo merchants in their 1949 Cairo Trade Festival, will make his final visit here in per, son today, Friday, shortly after 2 p. m.; and the children of the area are again invited to be here to greet him. For his Friday tour of the business areas he may ride in a shiny new convertible rather than the big red city fire truck that he has been using. His tour will again include all busi¬ ness area streets, weather permit ting. Santa,' on his second and third visits last Saturday afternoon and the Saturday before, distributed nearly 6,000 packages of candy and other gifts to children, with the assistance of the majorettes and the cheer leaders of the Cairo School Band. The Dec. 10th throng here to greet him set a new all-time record—and nearly as many people braved threatening weather last Satur¬ day to jam the business area streets for his tour. The band paraded for him on his first visit Dec. 3rd and Turner Radio Ser¬ vice supplied Christmas music for the Dec. 10th tour. Santa also acknowledged over Radio Station WKTG hundreds of let¬ ters sent to him at the request of the Cairo merchants. Stores Open Later Cairo stores, generally, will remain open later than usual to¬ night, Friday, and tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, to serve shoppers to the fullest. The sug¬ gested closing hour tonight is 7, or as business justifies, and that Saturday night is 9 instead of 8, °r as business justifies. These changes in the usual schedules apply, of course, to Places of business carrying holi d ay merchandise and related items. Store Holiday Schedule Christmas will be observed here as a business holiday next Monday, Dec. 26th, giving nearly everyone a double holiday. There were reports earlier some offices, and - possibly some businesses, Planned to remain closed Tues¬ day, also, but it appears busi n ess operations will be resumed, generally, next Tuesday. Banks and offices, generally will join easiness concerns in suspending Monday. (Continued on page three) rzm ?-' Ml y ' llll m A 1 K Im M M ! M 1111 IBM ■*-—n 1 L'd in ; 11 I:!! l m map I m-: ii! Vh f, *32Tfl949 ii'-sp i A \ % N 2 £3 Wh •thKv s fflmrn Th* Official Organ of Grady County. "The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead." SIXTEEN PAGES MAKE YOUR GIFT MORE PERSONAL This is the time of year when we lose some of our usual sel¬ fishness and concern over our own problems to remember others and think of those less fortunate. For many families right here in our midst, Christmas will not be merry, and the new year will not be happy—un¬ less those who are more fortu¬ nate decide to help. For those who wish to make their holi¬ day giving a little more per¬ sonal than mere donations to agencies—although worthwhile and necessary—there is a list of families at Mizell’s Drug Store who may have trouble providing their own Christmas cheer. You may choose a fam¬ ily, and your contribution will go to them. Here a little gift can mean so much to someone who might otherwise find Christmas lonely and empty. 1100,000 Loan For REA Here For Additional Lines To Serve 180 Consumers The Grady County Electric Memebrship Corp. received word Tuesday that approval had been obtained on a $100,000 loan for five miles of new distribution line to serve 180 rural consumers, and to assist in improvements and two way radio communication facilities, B. M. Lee, President of the local REA announced. Construction of these new lines will begin immediately, Mr. Lee said, but are not to exceed 5000 feet from the existing lines. At present the REA co-op has 1,144 miles of line, serving 4,193 consumers. During the last year 59 additional miles of line was put up through membership ser¬ vice extensions to serve 429 con sumers. The site for the proposed $85, 000 headquarters building for the REA has already been approved, and is to be constructed North of Cairo near the present tern porary offices on the Cairo Bainbridge highway. Construc¬ tion will begin on this new build¬ ing probably early in the Spring, it was stated by B. M. Lee. Kiwanians Honor 3 4-H Clubbers, 2 Hi-Y Croups Here Cairo Kiwanians their efforts to promote groups and their activities at luncheon meeting last Tuesday when they honored three new Grady county Master 4-H Club¬ bers and presented “honor club” placques to presidents of the Tri Hi-Y and Hi-Y clubs of Cairo High School. Norwood Clark, the club president, presided. The meeting opened with the singing of several Christmas carols, led by W. G. Mizell. County Agent S. E. George, his assistant, Harold Daniels, and Miss Myrtle Walters, home dem¬ onstration agent, presented the three new Master 4-H Club mem¬ bers who recently had free trips by reason of winning state cham¬ pionships. Love Rehberg, poul¬ try achievement champion, and (Continue on page seven) CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1949. Milk Co-Op Is Planned Here Would Offer Many Advantages Over Present Set-Up Dairymen and milk producers of Grady County have decided among themselves, with the sup¬ port of some local business men, to form a co-op here to process and sell milk and milk products on a cooperative basis, according to plans formulated at a joint meeting last Friday morning of the producers, the Chamber of Commerce, and Judson Mayfield, operator of the local milk pro¬ cessing plant. Under the new set-up, May field’s Creamery would be pur¬ chased by the co-op, and owned jointly by the dairymen and other stockholders. Under the coop¬ erative system, which has proved very satisfactory* and successful in other places, all are agreed that the milk producers stand a chance to realize a better profit from their milk and at the same time are in a better position to meet competition from outside areas. At the meeting last Friday a committee, composed of Alvin Wight, Chairman, Johnny Faulk, and Howard LeGette, was ap¬ pointed to contact local business men in the interest of the co¬ operative, which is now schedul¬ ed to begin operation early in the new year, not later than February 1st. (Present plans are to sell pre¬ ferred stock in the co-op, while the milk producers would own the common stock. No stock¬ holder will be allowed to own a majority of the stock. The or¬ ganization will be controlled *by a five-member board of elected by the stockholders, operated similar to the REA op. At present there are only milk producers in the Talbot Jones, Edwin E. A. Gandy, Floyd Childs, Hinson, and Pratt Carter. But is believed that as more are developed, and other drastically reduced by the ernment, more and more ers will be turning to and will be able to enter the op. Under the new system, ers plan to use as much grade milk as possible, using the B in manufacturing purposes as ice cream, cheese, butter, The co-operative plan many ad’ antages over the set-up. Among these is the portant element of financing system. The Bank of atives, located in South will finance up to 60 per cent the necessary capital, based the appraised value of the. plant. Such capital can be at a lower rate of interest the banks charge. , Another advantage is that ops are exempt from income and from certain license franchise taxes, Other ations are that the ‘ middle man is eliminated, and whatever it or income is realized from undertaking goes back to producers and the The most important of all probably is the fact the public, or at least many (Continued on page three) Grady4-H club Youth Winnfir Fairclot-h Gains National Honors Wayne Faircloth, the Whigham 4-H Club member who was re cenly declared Georgia’s 1949 champion in vegetable grading and marketing, County Agent S. E. George here, returned home Sunday from spending last week in Washington, D. C., where the former won national honors in competition at the National Juni¬ or Vegetable Growers Ass’n con¬ vention in session there with 500 4-H Club, FFA and other farm youth group members from over the nation attending. Mr. George reported Wayne won first place, nationally, in grading and marketing of vege (Continued on page 8) , County Delegates Choose Committee For PMA Tuesday The Grady County PMA con¬ vention was held in the county office Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. where ten of the twelve re¬ cently elected community dele¬ gates gathered to elect the Coun¬ ty PMA committee, who are re¬ sponsible for administering the farm price, marketing, and quota program on the county level. The present county committeemen were all re-elected, and Roy Per¬ kins was reinstalled as county ad¬ ministrative officer for the com¬ mittee. The committee is composed of Chairman H. L. Davis, Vice chairman Lester B. Golden, regu¬ lar member J. J. Collins. First alternate is Vasco Butler, and second alternate is Ira L. Godwin. All members were elected u nanimously, with no opposition, which came as a surprise to some, since these committeemen have had to set acreage quotas on cot¬ ton, peanuts, and deal in other matters which sometimes prove unpopular with farmers. The fact that there was no opposition to the re-election of these officers reflect the apparent general ap¬ proval which farmers feel for the committee in recognition of the fair and impartial way in which they have discharged their duties. The committeemen have given their time and service diligently, the unanimous vote of the dele¬ gates reflect this general approval of their efforts. Roy Perkins, County Adminis¬ trative officer, said all office per¬ sonnel will continue in the same capacity so far as is known at the present time. LITTLE TOWNS There is a peace that comes on Sabbath Day To Little towns where men are wont to pray. To villages that look upon the sea And hills, where men have learned humility. I thank God has a special care for them For Christ was born in humble Bethlehem, And dwelt in Nazareth, a lowly place Made sweet by simple folk of single grace; In manhood years He loved each stone and tree That marked the quiet walks of Galilee! There is a Peace that comes on Sabbath Day To little towns where men are wont to pray I think God has a special care for them $$ For Christ was born in humble Bethlehem. % ¥ —Mary Lavelle Kelley. SIXTEEN PAGES FederalSpending Attack Object < Local Group Also Opposes Brannan, Medical Plans The United States Chamber of Commerce a few days ago re¬ newed a nation-wide attack on certain prospective legislation be¬ fore the forthcoming Congress— and the local Chamber of Com¬ merce has joined the fight by reiterating its strong opposition to certain of the major pending proposals—it developed this week. The U. S. Chamber is centering its broad attack on Federal budget proposals with a view of reducing deficit spending for all causes, particularly calling for reduction in the 2,000,000 civilian employees in the Executive branch of the Federal government now drawing some six billion dollars a year in salaries. Its attack also in¬ cludes continued strong opposi¬ tion to legislation for socialized medicine and it has also joined the Farm Bureau Federation and other agencies in unqualified op¬ position to the Brannan farm plan. The U. S. Chamber has declared several billion dollars should be lopped from the Feder¬ al budget—which for the current fiscal year calls for 43 and one half billion dollars—so that Fed¬ eral taxes can be reduced, rather than increased as high Federal officials have recently proposed. The local Chamber of Com¬ merce, through its National Af¬ fairs committee, of which W. J. McClenny, has reiterated its widely-publicized opposition ear¬ lier this ear to present Federal spending and to socialized medi¬ cine legislation. The committee urges individaul citizens to write Georgia members of Congress be¬ fore their return to Washington expressing their opposition views on these two points—and also plans to distribute pamphlets re¬ vealing the U. S. Chamber’s de¬ tailed opposition reason on “the iniquitous Brannan farm plan” which Georgia Farm Bureau President H. L. Wingate, in an address here recently, and other southern farm leaders, so definite¬ ly condemned. Most of the more than 2,000 local Chamber groups throughout the .nation will be instrumental in arousing local citizens in the dif¬ ferent communities to a fuller knowledge of the facts and the need for action against certain legislative proposals. On Federal spending, the local (Continued on page three) GRADY COUNTY Greatest Diversified Farming Section In America SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENTS NUMBER 50. This Vu es w Wggk ck , Up Sales Volume Increases Livestock prices and sales volume were up this week at the Tuesday auction sale of Cairo Livestock Auction Co., E. B. Ham brick, the manager, reported. No. 1 hogs were back to 16c a pound, 100 points above board quotations for the day. No. 2 hogs were 15.25c a pound and feeder pigs continued to sell well, with demand good. Cattle prices ranged $1.50 per cwt. higher, with virtually all grades reflecting the higher trend, it was reported. , The increased offerings on both cattle and hogs made it one of the best auctions in several wekes, generally. C. of C. Election Here Finished 8 Directors Named In Membership Balloting The election committee of the local Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning counted the final or general election ballots of the Chamber membership and declared elected for three-year terms the following eight new directors: Carl M. Brown, Earl U. Brin¬ son, Curtis I. Gandy, J. Carl Mint er, Henry Hester, Sr., Ira Higdon, Jr., Harris Jefferson and H. M. Sumner. To assume office Jan 1st, they will succeed the following eight whose terms will expire on that date under the rotation plan (Continue on page seven) Okra Sales Here Bring 1220,957 Biggest Day In Sales Brought $11,630.66 .• According to figures compiled by the Georgia Experiment sta¬ tion at Griffin, Snd released this week by County Agent George, okra sales at the Cairo Farmers’ Market through Sept. 30, brought a grand total of $220,957.81 to Grady County farmers. From May 10th., through Sept. 30, 27,221 separate sales were made in which 77,651 hampers were sold at an average price per hamper of $2.85. On an av¬ erage each sale consisted of near¬ ly three hampers which brought $ 8 . 12 . The average price per hamper ranged from a high of $6.45 on June 16th., to 97 cents on July 28th. The best month of the season was June, when a total number of 27,146 hampers brought $120,721.99, with an average price per hamper of $4.45. The slack month of the season was July when 29,000 hampers sold $44,572.17, averaging only $1.49 per hamper. The biggest day in the season in volume was June 6, when 1, 978 hamper's brought averaging $5.88 per hamper. Grady ^ armers Favor Quotas By Vote Of 58-8; 330 Cast Ballots On Committeemen Cotton growers in Georgia were favoring the use of marketing quotas for the 1950 crop* by a substantial majority on the basis of incomplete returns from 151 cotton growing counties the State Production and Marketing Ad¬ ministration Committee said this week. Unofficial and incomplete re¬ turns from last Thursday’s refer¬ endum reported by phone to the State PMA office show a total of 42,427 growers appi'ove quotas and 5,770 are opposed. This is a majority of 88.0 per cent in favor of quotas, safely in excess of the required 66-2/3 per cent. “Since the use of marketing quotas is determined on a nation¬ al basis, the actual result of yes¬ terday's referendum will not be known until the national tabula¬ tion is completed,” Mr. Breed¬ love, State PMA Commtitee ohairman, explains. The chairman is satisfied with the size of the turnout of last week’s referendum. Interest has been running high among cotton producers for several weeks, he explained, since one result of the vote will be the determination of the price support level for the 1950 crop. If quotas are approved nationally, cooperators will be eligible for price supporting CCC loans at 90 per cent of parity—the same level as this year. If quotas are not approved, the price sup¬ port level to cooperators drops to 50 per cent of parity. Cooperators are those farmers who plant with¬ in their cotton acreage allotment. In Grady County 66 farmers, out of approximately 175 who were eligible, voted on the cotton quotas. Of these 66, 58 voted for 1950 quotas, and 8 against. 330 farmers in Grady voted on community PMA committeemen and delegates to the county con¬ vention, held in Cairo Tuesday afternoon. At this convention the delegates from the twelve com¬ munities elected the County PMA committee, which is responsible for administering the price-mark¬ eting program at the county level. In this election Pawnee polled 45 votes, Wayside 30, Whigham, 24, Beachton 15, Pine Park 14, Union 14, Spence 47, Elpino 26, Cairo 27, Reno 32, Calvary 19, and Central 37. Those elected were as follows: (PAWNEE: Chairman Ralph Kelly, Vice-chairman O. F. Logue, Regular member Judson Harrell, 1st Alternate J. M. Stalling, 2nd Alternate T. D. Davis, delegate Coy Mills. WAYSIDE: Chairman P. H. Newberry, Vice- Chairman Mar¬ shall Martin, Regular Member J. J. Newberry 1st Alternate Bill Gainous, 2nd Alternate Judson Ponder, delegate Graham Mob¬ ley. WHIGHAM: Chairman Ed¬ ward Brock, Vice Chairman John Hullender, Regular Member J. R. Walden, 1st Alternate Luther Powe, 2nd Alternate Emory Stone, Jr., delegate Jim T. Harri¬ son. CENTRAL: Chairman G. E. Morrison, Vice Chairman Jack Bell, regular member E. L. Moore, (Continued on page three)