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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
J1.50-S2 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME XLVI.
Tung Nut Sales
Are Underway ,, ,
Market Based On
Support Price,
$60 Ton
The local market for tung
n U ts is open for the season,
purchases being made only each
Friday and Saturday, at the
usual place, the tung mill ware
house, formerly known as the to
bacco warehouse. Buying
will continue on these two
each week as long as marketing
continues in sufficient
but growers are urged to market
their nuts as soon as they are
ready.
The Federal support program
for tung oil was recently made
effective, in accordance with
legislation approved at the last
session of Congress, and a sup
port price of $60 a ton for top
grade nuts was established. Mar
ket prices have increased to the
level of the price support, it is
said.
The Federal support
has established grades similar to
those for other products and the
top price can be paid only for
nuts that are well-filled (with
a high percentage of kernel) and
thoroughly dry (free of moisture).
The new farm legislation went
into effect only Jan. 1st and there
had been fears the government
migh not provide a support pro
gram for tung oil nuts until next
fall. The Federal support price
is 60 percent of parity, the lowest
provided for in the legislation.
Parity for tung oil nuts is $100
a ton.
Tung oil prices have depressed,
particularly for the past two sea
sons, because other competing oils
have had support programs.
Local agencies and leaders in the
industry joined others through
out the domestic producing area
in urging upon Congress the
establishment of a support pro
gram, particularly because of the
existing discrimination. Special
legislation was proposed for sup
port programs for tung oil and
honey and after the House ap
proved it the legislation was in
corporated into the general farm
bill.
The practical result of the
legislation is that producers in
this area and elsewhere will re
ceive for the current marketing
season prices some $25 a ton
above what they were paid
the past two seasons, making the
outook for the future somewhat
brighter.
Cairo Library Marks
Tuesday Anniversary Jan.
3rd.
The Cairo Public
i? uesday, ar ed its eleventh
Jan. 3rd., with
concern for the intellectual
® the town and County which
‘t has served so well and
f % these eleven
Jhe years.
library, founded Jan.
began operations with only
volumes; today it boasts an
excess of 9,000 volumes, with
annual average of some
slices rendered Grady county
People. of its existence, During the eleven
the library
C j‘ the astounding
of ,7 ° 9 individual
, half services,
a million, to its
ens.
Integrated with the
11 serves, the Cairo Library has
thI°T ^hest e an institution citizen to which
n Pnd ■, refers with
e m its many accomplish
home ments, ed the lowliest feels at
A -h its friendly service.
Mr - and Mrs. D. H. Gainous had
their guests during the holi
ohildr their children and* grand
Tr Mr and Mrs Jack Car
nev MS ° f dacks °nville, -
Vin Fla., Mr. and
»nd n ' Gainou s, Margaret
and of Tallahassee, Fla.,
t ly Gainous,
City p of Lake
®lj£ Cttatni iH^BSFtwr
Th* Official Organ of Grady County. V
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The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
TWELVE PAGES
Kiwanis Aims
Stressed
mo offers
Inducted Here
The 1950 objectives of Kiwanis
international were emphasized by
Leonard Elliott, of Tifton, lieu
tenant-governor of this th ethird
division of the Georgia district,
in an impressive charge to the
new officers of the Cairo club
at the first meeting of the new
year Tuesday. The new division
leader was presented by Norwood
Clark, retiring president of the
local club.
Lt.-Gov. Elliott’s rather detail
ed induction ceremony brought
forcibly to the attention of the
new officers the responsibilities
and opportunities they have for
community leadership during the
coming year. He pointed out that
these responsibilities and oppor
tunities are largely local but he
stressed as a basic theme the 1950
Kiwanis aim to foster the teach
ing of the benefits of the Ameri
can free enterprise system.
Service to the community, ser
vice to others, continues as the
Kiwarjis fundamental, he stated,
in recounting the continuing Ki
wanis emphasis upon youth pro
grams, aid to underprivileged
children, stimulation of interest
in public and business affairs and
support of churches in their spirit
ual aims.
“This is the 35th anniversary of
Kiwanis International,” he point
ed out, further, in noting that the
organization is now composed of
some 200,000 community leaders
in more than 1,500 communities.
He praised the Cairo club for
its splendid record of accomplish
ments which made it outstanding
in 1949 and declared another year
of outstanding service is assured
under the leadership of the new
officers.
Officers inducted are: Sam A.
Pierce, president; Norwood Clark,
immediate past president; R. R.
VanLandingham and Agnew
Smith, vice-presidents; Carl
Brown, Earl Brinson, Harris Jef
ferson, Marshall Neff, Richard
Porter and John A. Powell, 2nd,
directors; W. F. (Billy) Wells,
secretary; and Walter Graham,
treasurer.
President Pierce said the stand
ing committees for 1950 have
been formulated and that an
nouncement of them would be
made next week, as soon as all
chairmen have accepted the var
ious responsibilities. He revealed,
however, that Jack Tyson will
be music chairman, with Mrs. W.
M. Tyson continuing as pianist.
The committees were drafted
and other plans for the coming
year were made at a joint sup
per meeting of the incoming and
retiring officers have Monday
night.
Other guests at the club meet
ing were Thomasville Kiwanians
Marcus Calhoun, Bob Dillon, Bob
Hiers and J. S. Upchurch; Dr. J.
L. Martin, who has just opened
offices here for practice as a
chiropractor; and W. G. Bullock,
a prominent Grady county farmer
and leader.
C. of C. Directors
To Have Luncheon At
Noon Today, Friday
Chamber of Commerce Presi
dent W. E. Young this week an
nounced a special luncheon meet
ing of the directors, both retiring
and incoming, at Citizens Cafe
at noon today, Friday, Jan. 6th.
He said the meeting will be con
fined to one hour.
As soon as the retiring eight
directors yield their positions to
the incoming eight, the board as
reconstituted will elect officers
for 1950, it is understood, and
make plans for the annual dinner
meeting to be held soon. Other
pending business will go over to
a later meeting, it is understood.
Rev. and Mrs. E. R. Lewis, of
Faceville, were guests of Mrs. W.
F. O’Neal Monday.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1950.
Whigham Club
Reaches Goal
Fund Drive For
Medical Clinic
Meets Success
With an average attendance of
40 people at each meeting,
the Whigham Community Club
ended its first year of ex
istence Monday night with a re
gular supper-meeting where
president Cecil Crew reviewed a
year of accomplishment which
was climaxed by the announce
ment that sufficient funds had
been raised to proceed with the
building of a $25,000 medical
clinic. Mrs. Willie Crew, who
‘had contributed freely toward
making the clinic drive a suc
cess, was the lucky winner of the
new automobile.
President Crew expressed ap
preciation for the fine coopera
tion given the fund drive by
Cairo and Grady County at
large, as well as Bainbridge and
Decatur county, and other places.
Members of -the club paid tribute
to retiring President Crew, Col.
Louis Foster, Corbette Rabon and
Jack Harrell, and all others who'
had helped to make the Whig
ham Community Club such a
success during its first year.
Plans for the proposed medi
cal clinic are now being drawn
up, but it is not known when
actual work on it might begin.
Train Ass'n To
Meet Here
Friday, 2 P. M.
Schedule Time
Mayor R. A. (Cheney) Griffin,
of Bainbridge, president of the
Association For Retention of A.
C. L. Trains 57 and 58 on Daily
Schedules, has called a meeting
of the association to be held at
the City Hall in Cairo at 2 p. m.
today, Friday, Jan. 6th.
Representatives from the fol
lowing places have been invited
to attend: Savannah, Jesup,
Way cross, Blackshear, Homerville,
Valdosta, Quitman, Moultrie, Tal
lahassee, Thomasville, Cairo
Bainbridge and Donalsonville,
and some Alabama centers. C.
Dewey Norwood, of Thomasville,
is secretary of the association.
Immediate business of the
meeting will be the Alabama
Public Service Commission hear
ing on the A. C. L. application
to curtail its night passenger train
service between Montgomery and
Savannah which has been set to
begin Tuesday week, Jan. 17th,
at 9 a. m. (CST), at the circuit
courtroom at the Courthouse in
Dothan. The association is in
sisting that this hearing be defer
red unitl after the Georgia hear
ing, now unofficially set for Feb.
15th, but Alabama officials have
indicated a postponement probab
ly cannot be arranged. The pos
sibility that the Alabama and
Georgia bodies will not act to
gether might pose a problem.
A. C. L. contends operation of
the trains is unprofitable, from
a passenger revenue standpoint.
The association, it has been of
ficialy indicated, plans to counter
with claims that the proposed cur
tailment will really amount to
removal of the trains; that mod
ernization of the trains might
reasonably be expected to in
crease passenger revenue to a
profitable level, as it has with
other railroads; and that disrup
tion of the service on the heavy
volume of express and mail han
dled will prove a major backset
to the general economy of the
area served in such a way that
the railroad will suffer, other
wise.
Mrs. W. F. O’Neal and Tom
my spent the holidays in La
Grange, and Roanoke, Ala.,
ing Mr. O’Neal and Dr. and Mrs.
J. B. Barrett.
Dairy Co-op Plan
Is Studied Here
Grady county dairy
and local civic leaders spent
of Wednesday conferring
Robt. H. McDougall, of the
of Co-operatives at Columbia,
C. on the proposal to establish
Grady County Dairy Co-op here.
Developments in the series
conferences were reported to
favorable to the proposal,
ally.
Sibley House
Shoots Self
12-Gauge Shotgun
Is Death Weapon
Silbey (Sib) House,
bachelor-farm hand, took his
life last Sunday about
o’clock near the home of R.
(Bob) Ferrell eight miles North
Cairo on the Pelham
by placing a 12-gauge
at or near his mouth and
the trigger with a short piece
sugar cane.
The deceased had been “in
out” of the neighborhood for
last twelve years, and bad
Mr. Ferrell make syrup
weeks ago. It is reported
he had been living recently
the home of Grady Maxwell.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell were
their way to Churrh
morning when they met
apparently on his way to the
rell home. They waved at
and he continued on to Mr.
rell’s house.
While the Ferrells were
at Church, E F. Williams,
neighbor, living only a short
tance away, came up to the
rell place to feed the mules
look after the stock. In the
yard, Mr. Williams said, he
House coming out of the
with a shotgun in his hand.
cording to Mr. Williams, the
told of his intentions, that he
preparing to kill himself.
edly, Mr. Williams tried to
son with him and persuade
to change his mind, But
knowing just what chances
be taken with a man bent
suicide, Mr. Williams left him,
and went for some help.
Mr. Williams had gone only
short ways across the road
he heard the gun fire. But
continued on to get Shack Shiver,
a neighbor, and both returned to
look for the man. The body was
discovered at the syrup mill about
75 yards back of Mr. Ferrell’s
house, with the gun lying nearby
as well as a short piece of cane,
which it was concluded he used
to push the trigger while holding
the gun to his face.
When the Ferrells returned
from Church, they found on the
dining table the man’s billfold
and a note written with a short
pencil. The note said, in sub
stance: Dear Bob, I hate to cause
you all this trouble, but I have
been in bad shape long enough.
Please notify my sisters (giving
the names of three sisters in
North Carolina and Florida) You
will find my body at the cane
mill, the note continued. The
Government will pay $150. on my
funeral. I want to be burned in
Dothan, Alia.
There was no signature on the
note. There was no money in his
billfold. In his pockets two let
ters were found from the Veter -
ans Administration dealing with
a non-service connected disability,
There was also a torn scrap of
newspaper, from the N. C. Legin
naire, saying the Government
would pay $150. on the burial ex
penses of any veteran, regardless
of financial status.
Acquaintances of the deceased
sa ^ that he had expressed m
tentions of committing suicide
about a year ago. It is said by
Known survivors include three
sisters: Mrs. Myrtle Gibson and
Mrs. Alex Russell of Rockingham,
N. C., and Mrs. Lula Menard
(Continued on page 6)
TWELVE PAGES
Census Takers
Will Be Here
To Count Heads
In Grady And 13
Other Counties
The Federal Government will
employ an estimated 345 South
west Georgians in the second
Congressional District, which in
cludes Grady and 13 other coun
ties, on a commission basis to take
the 17th. dicennial census. Head
quarters will be in Albany.
The rate of pay has not yet
been definitely set but the Census
iBureau said it probably would be
seven cents each for name cards,
housing information cards and
infant cards.
The name cards will carry indi
vidual names, relationship, race,
sex, birth dates, employment in
formation and the annual earn
ings of every fifth person queri
ed.
The bureau’s plan to question
every fifth person .14 years old
or older as to his exact earning
has been under heavy fire by
some Congressmen as being “un
American.”
Persons making $10,000 a year
will be exempt in answering the
questions but all others will be re
quired by law to reveal the infor
mation.
Census takers, who will be em
ployed in January and February,
will be given simple tests but
must answer 10 of 30 questions.
The nature of the questions has
not been disclosed.
The qualifications also call for
census takers to be between the
ages of 21 and 65, preferably be
tween 25 and 45. They should
have at least a high school edu
cation.
The last census taken, in 1940,
showed Grady County with a
population of about 19,300. It is
expected that the census this
year will place the population of
the county above the 20,000 mark.
If the population of Grady
County should reach 21,000, a
gain of only about 2,000 people
since 1940, it would give the
county two representatives in the
General Assembly, instead of one,
which it now has.
For this reason, it is highly im
portant that every person co
operate to the fullest extent with
the census takers, so that all may
be counted. If every person in
the county is counted, it is quite
possible that Grady will top the
21,000 mark, and gain another
representative, which would be
an advantage for the county in
many ways.
The Albany census office will
serve the counties of Baker,
Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decat
ur, Dougherty, Early, Grady,
Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Thom
as, Tift, and Worth.
Construction Begins
At Once On $68,500
First Baptist Annex
Culpepper & Edwards, con
tractors of Pelham, formally
signed the contract Thursday to
construct a $68,500 Sunday School
Annex at the First Baptist Church
in Cairo, with work to begin on it
within ten days, A. C. Rodden
bery, Chairman of the Building
Committee announced this week.
The Congregation voted last
Sunday to accept the bid by Cul
pepper & Edwards, and the for
mal signing of the contract was
done Thursday morning,
The new Sunday school addi
tion is being planned to meet
urgent needs incident to the
steady growth of the First Bap
tist organization here. ’ Time
estimated for the completion of
the addition is six months.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Whatley,
Charles and Mellie Lacy, return
ied to their home in Richmond
Hill Sunday after spending sev
eral days here with Dr. T. J.
Arline and family.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS:
Livestock Higher Here Some
No. 1 Hogs Up
To 16.15c Lb.
Cairo Livestock Auction Co. re
ported considerably larger offer
ings and higher prices on both
cattle and hogs at Tuesday’s
weekly sale here.
No. 1 hogs were back to 16.15c
a pound, with feeder pigs in
strong demand and prices for
them ranging even higher. There
was a good run of No. 2 hogs at
15.25c a pound. No. 2s were
14.50c a pound.
Cattle ranged 50c to 75c per
cwt. higher.
Cily Court To
Meet Monday
Civil Suits First;
Criminal Docket
Unusually Light
The City Court of Cairo, Janu
ary term, will meet Monday,
January 9th., with Judge G .L.
Worthy presiding. Civil busi
ness will be taken up first, and
the following cases are scheduled
for Monday: J. D. McKown vs.
R. A. Harrell, Miami Apparel Co.
vs. C. P. Whidden & Martha Shop,
W. S. Spring vs. G. C. Outz, Jo
Hill Brinkley vs. W. F. O’Neal,
Mrs. E. G. Bond vs. Weyman J.
Pearce, Standard Oil Co. vs. J. J.
Weathers, A. G. Strickland vs.
Green Rabon, Howell Bess vs.
Jack and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Thompson.
Tuesday, Jan. 11th.
William La Fara Trading as
Hoosier Plant Farm vs. Joseph
Campbell Co.
The criminal docket, expected
to be unusually light with only
minor cases, is scheduled for
Wednesday, Jan. 11th.
The list of Jurors drawn to
serve at this term of court fol
lows:
E. A. Singletary, J. A. Collins,
James A. Hudson, J. A. Gandy,
Woodrow Banks, Delmus Cooper,
W. T. Schafer, Wayne Single
tary, Ed. L. Childers, E. B. Stone,
Jr., Leroy Hopkins, Jr., Henry
Hullender, W. H. Carroll, J. H.
Pyles, O. L. Chester, Roy Cassels,
S. A. Sutton.
Louis A. Powell, George. W.
Bond, J. F. Oates, Leon Bryant,
George Harvey, J. V. Mullis, J.
E. King, David C. Hester, Ault
man Palmer, Eugene Powe, David
L. Perkins, H. H. Clay, Leroy
Mann, L. L. Draffin, H. A. Sing
letary, Alton Bonner, J. P. Ren
frew, J. K. Newberry, Jack B.
Bell, Ben F. Dixon, Earl Bell,
Edgar Stringer, Jr., Douglas Har
rell, Lloyd Connell.
J. F. Giddens, W. M. Tyson,
H. A. Morgan, G. C. Ferrell, Paul
Hand, Blanton Walker, Elton
Smith, R. E. Lee, Horace Gainey,
I. W. Coker, Frank C. Wight, G.
C. Connell, Jr., W. A. Lundy, G.
W. Rich, Gwen Walden, L. R.
Shores, James T. Hicks, H. L.
Davis, and L. A. Whittle.
Grady Stamp Plan
Is Approved Here
Library, educational and civic
leaders assembled here Thursday
morning at City Hall and voiced
strong approval of plans for the
issurance of a commemorative U.
S. Postage stamp honoring the
late Henry W. Grady, for whom
this county was named.
plans for an essay contest on a
state-wide basis and other fea
tures of a special observance of
the centennial next May of Mr.
Grady’s birth were approved at
the meeting, called by the Cham
ber of Commerce.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Wood and
Gene Blackman have returned to
Mobile, Ala., after spending the
holidays here with homefolks.
NUMBER 52
National Affairs
Rotary Theme
Club Begins 1950
With Much Work
In Prospect
Cairo Rotary Club opened the
new year Wednesday with atten
tion devoted to a number of major
activities, including a Grady
County Fair next fall as one pro
ject, indicating a lot of com
munity service in prospect. Presi
dent Fred Roddenbery, presiding,
urged several special committees
to continued action and to pre
pare progress reports for the next
two meetings. John B. Roberts
submitted an excellent attendance
report.
President Roddebery also im
pressively inducted and welcom
ed J. P. Miller, athletic director
and head coach of the Cairo
Schools, as a new Rotarian.
The program was on national
affairs with John B. Wight as
chairman. He presented Louis A.
Powell, manager of the local
Chamber of Commerce, who was
speaker.
Mgr. Powell opened with 'a
brief review of this nation’s 160
year history, during which, he
pointed out, with only one-sixth
of the world’s people, it has amass
ed the greater part of the world’s
wealth and production facilities.
“But,” he declared, “our greatest
possessions are not our farms and
our factories nor our material
wealth—our greatest possessions
are our government with its
God-inspired foundation and our
great American free enterprise
system.”
From that he turned directly
to national affairs with the declar
ation that a fully-informed and
aroused citizenry must be depend
ed upon to safeguard the govern
ment from dangerous trends. He
outlined the current Washington
situation in some detail, particu
larly with reference to the re
opening of Congress, President
Truman’s “state of the nation”
message Wednesday and the
major legislative proposals to be
considered during the coming
weeks.
If the Truman administration
has its way, he declared, a still
bigger government, with increas
ed Federal spending and still
higher taxes, is in definite pros
pect. With information from the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce as a
background he pointed out that
while the administration program
is certain to encounter serious dif
ficulties ,in Congress “our hope
for defeat of the iniquitous pend
ing legislative proposals—such as
the Brannan farm plan and that
for socialized medicine—lies al
most entirely in how extensively
the people, individually and col
lectively, assert themselves in
keeping members of Congress in
formed on how they feel toward
pending legislation and national
polices.
Reviewing briefly the major
pending proposals, he strongly
condemned the Brannan farm
plan and the scoalized medicine
proposals, both of which he said
will likely have administration
suport. But, even in stronger
terms, he urged strong support
and approval of the Hoover Com
mission recommendations to bring
about efficiency and economy in
the Federal government. He re
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ARE YOU HOLDING
UP THE SHOW?
If you haven't re-registered,
you are adding extra expense
to the county.
Lean Liberty is better than
fat slavery. Climbing those
stairs to register may cause
you to lose a little weight.
But that would be better than
losing the sacred right of a
free ballot. May we suggest
you re-register NOW.