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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
United States
50-52 A year, in advance.
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volume XLVII.
March Of Dimes
Opens Monday .. ,
J. H. House Named
Chairman; Grady's
Quota Is $1#500
The 1950 March of Dimes gets
under way in Grady County and
throughout the nation, Monday,
January 16, and will continue un¬
til the end of the month, with a
quota of $1,500 for the County
this year. period,
■During that two-week
/citizens of Grady County, like
their fellow Americans in all
parts of the country, will help
write the answer to the threat
of polio 1 epidemics next summer
■by providing for continued care
and treatment of polio patients of
1949 and prior years.
Terming the 1950 March of
Dimes the most critical in the
history of the National Founda¬
tion far Infantile Paralysis, Supt.
of Cairo Schools J. H. House,
County campaign Director, said
that the fund-raising machinery
is all set to launch the greatest
March of Dimes ever undertaken.
The Public Schools of the Coun¬
ty will serve as clearing houses
for the collections, Mr. House
said, and contributions may be
given to any school teacher, white
or colored, or may be placed in
an envelope and addressed sim¬
ply to “March of Dimes, Cairo.”
Assisting in the drive this year
will be the Hi-Y Club, Hood
Powell, President; the Tri-Hi-Y,
Mary Hall, President; the Key
Club, Walter Lundy, President;
and t]ie Beta Club, Marjorie May
field, President.
Coin collectors, made this year
in the form of a miniature iron
lung or resperator, are at con¬
venient places in business houses
over the county. “This year,”
Chairman House emphasized, “we
are more interested in a march
of dollars rather than dimes, be¬
cause 1949 was the worst epidem¬
ic of polio in the history of the
disease.”
Six cases of Polio from Grady
County received aid from the
Foundation last year, while the
funds raised here would not have
horn the expense of one case.
Average expense of treating one
patient is $2,000.
"ft is imperative,” Mr. House
said, “that all know the serious¬
ness of today’s polio situation.
More than 40,000 cases were re
Ported last year, the worst polio
onslaught in the history of the
disease in this country.
Thanks to public support of
Previous annual appeals of the
National Foundation, prompt and
effective aid was rendered the
stricken. But as case after case
oeveloped, chapter after chapter
found itself without funds. Fi
nancial aid was rushed to them
rom the organization’s epidemic
■feeive fund. So great was the
ram tha t millions of dollars ear
j/‘k a ‘V^ndled fc d for to emergency the assistance
vanishing point.”
consequently, Chairman House
jilted ® continue out, providing if the Foundation is
services to
110 patie nts in this and other
./"‘^unities, 6 ine hard” everyone must “hit
paign January during the cam
C;t 16-31.
M - r. House /g disclosed high cost of polio,
that during
e height of the recent epidemic
Seasor > the National Foundation
,/ Iu nds S , Ending at the March of Dimes
day rate of $100,000 per
to pay Patient bids alone! He
s •, .
l! tlS e9timated 17 000 of those
Stri C m 1949 -
will require con
v j / ms a ‘ d h 1 1950, in addition to
from prior years who also
St Z need help.
'0.bviou s j v ” the chairman
Said - “there’s a tremendous job
ail ead of us. I
0u f“ that am confident,
P 0r£ dy all the people in
most to County will do their ut
the m eet the challenge during
c °ming March of Dimes.
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The 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
Big Grady Day
Program Aim
Local Leaders
Approve Plans
A somewhat more extensive ob¬
servance of Henry W. Grady Day
this year in this County and
throughout the state was tenta¬
tively planned by a group of local
library, school and civic leaders
at a meeting a few days ago.
Cairo Public Library, which has
sponsored observance of the day
for the past few years, will lead
the observance for this year, ac
oorning to plans. May 24th will
be the 100th anniversary of Mr.
Grady’s birth.
The observance will likely be¬
gin soon on a state-wide basis
with a school essay contest on the
life and service of Mr. Grady
sponsored jointly by the local
■agencies and the, office of Secre¬
tary of State Ben W. Fortson, Jr.,
through his historical assistant,
Gus Bernd, the tentative plans
provide.
The program would include ac¬
tivities climaxed with a big pub¬
lic rally here on May 24th, wth
Editor Ralph McGill, of the At¬
lanta Constitutiin, or some'other,
noted leader, as guest speaker.
An early afternoon time for the
rally has been recommended.
Rep. Paul Brown (D.-Ga.) has
already introduced a bill in Con¬
gress authorizing the issuance of
a Henry W. Grady commemora¬
tive postage stamp and local agen¬
cies will seek to have the stamps
authorized and isued simultane¬
ously here and in Athens, and
possibly Atlanta, on March 24th,
as a feature of the local rally.
The state-wide essay contest
feature, with prizes provided by
the local agencies and Mr. Bernd,
would impressively bring to the
attention of countless school stud¬
ents not only facts about Mr.
Grady’s life and service but also
the fact that this county was
named for him. The local libra¬
ry would distribute information
over the state, under this plan,
which would also help to pub¬
licize this county and the library.
Working with the local library
on the plans will be Cairo Wo¬
man’s Club, Legion Auxiliary,
Grady county schools, Chamber
of Commerce, Cairo Rotary Club
and Cairo Kiwanis Club.
Legion Launches 1950
Membership Drive
Here Wednesday
In an effort to make the Grady
County Post of the American
Legion the largest in this district,
■the local drive for 1950 members
begin Wednesday, Jan. 11, and is
scheduled to run through Feb.
7th., with a special county-wide
effort 'being made to contact
every eligible veteran. i
The regular monthly meeting
Tuesday night, Feb. 7, will fea¬
ture a big barbecue supper for
all members, and a total of $125.,
including door anc^ membership
prizes will be given away at that
time. Only members with 1950
cards will be admitted, since 1949
cards expired Jan. 1st.
The membership committee met
Tuesday night, Jan. 10, at the
Legion Home, where they map¬
ped plans for an extensive drive
■to bring in 1000 members this
year for Post No. 122.
Another meeting of the mem¬
bership committee will be held
at 9:00 a. m. Sunday, Jan. 22,
where details of the county-'Dvide
drive will be worked out. Any
volunteers who would like to
join at that meeting are urged to
be present, and help in the cam¬
paign to make the Grady County
Post the largest in the second
district.
Mrc. Billy Story left Thursday
night for her home in Louisville,
Ky., after spending the holidays
here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. P. Whidden; her children,
Martha and Bill, remained here
with their grandparents.
CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. 1950
Fire Dept. Answers
60 Alarms In 1949;
$24,600 In Damages
Fire damage* to buildings in
Cairo and vicinity during 1949
totaled an estimated $24,600, to
almost double the 1948 damages
of $13,700, according to the au
nual fire report submitted to the
City Council Tuesday night by
Aulden Hawthorn, City Fire
Chief.
Other figures revealed at that
time show the department an¬
swered 60 alarms during the
year, twelve of which were out
of the city limits. 25 calls were
to private resdiences and five to
busniess houses. A breakdown
of the estimated damage shows
residence damage of $15,000, and
damage to business establish¬
ments of $9,600.
'Building permits were issued
during the year for 33 new resi¬
dences involving an estimated
construction cost of $88,500; five
business structures estimated at
$73,400; and additions and re¬
pair permits amounting to $13,-
500. This brings the estimated
cost of new construction and re¬
pairs in the city during 1949 to
$175,450.
Over the last four years—’46,
’47, ’48, ’49—'permits were issued
for 314 new residences and 97
new business buildings, all of
which indicate considerable
growth the end and of the expansion here since |
war.
Fire Chief Hawthorn this week
asked the public’s cooperation in
following the fire trucks to fires.
A lot of people, he said, speed
into town when they hear the
fire alarm, and then follow the
trucks. “Quite often,” he pointed
out “they get in the way of the
volunteer firemen and prevent
them from getting to the station.”
We have to depend on volunteer
firemen getting to their post in
a hurry,” the Chief said, “and
when others get in their way, it
slows us down in getting to a
fire.”
“We would appreciate it if
other people would not speed in¬
to town and follow the trucks”
he said.
New Loan Service
Here For Grady
County Farmers
Representatives of the Bain
bridge Production Credit Asso
ciation will be at J. E. Forsyth’s i
office here next Wednesday
Jan. 18, and every Wednesday
thereafter, fos the purpose of
■serving the farmers of Grady
County with low-interest agri¬
cultural loans. The announce¬
ment was made this week by
George N. Guest, Secretary
Treasurer, while in Cairo mak¬
ing arrangements to serve this
area,
This credit co-op, owned by its
members, has operated in Grady,
Decatur, Seminole, and Miller
Counties, with the home office in
Bainbridge, for the past sixteen
years; but until now has never
maintained an office in Cairo.
“We lend money only to farm¬
ers,” Mr. Guest said, “We do not
lend Government capital or mon¬
ey. We lend farmers money to
farmers, at an interest rate of
5 1-2 per cent per annum, and
charge interest only on the out
■standing principal balance of a
loan.”
“We make loans for $100. or a
$100,000”, said Mr. Guest. “The
money is ready—for the farm
era who can qualify.”
All farmers are invited to visit
Mr. Forsyth’s office on
days to discuss this loan service
, said. I
and make applications, he I
Mr. Guest or his assistant, Roy
W. Wheeler, Jr. will be there all I
day on Wednesdays.
BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
Hampton, of Albany, announce
the arrival of a daughter, Virginia
Sharroll, at the Phoebe Putney
Hospital, Albany, on Sunday,
Jan. 8; weight is 8 lbs. 5 3-4 oz.
Mrs. Hampton is the former Miss
Hazel Laing.
$4,399,019 Now
In Grady Banks
$4,745,658 Assets
Show Leveling Off
Stable Economy
Statements of the three Grady
County banking institutions, as
of December 31, 1949, published
elsewhere in this issue, show that
they have on deposit a total of
$4,399,019.03, which is a slight de¬
crease from the report for the
year 1948, indicating a leveling
off from the war-time boom
period which probably reached
its highest point sometimes dur¬
ing the 1948 period.
The bank statements one year
ago showed a total of $4,897,397.89
in deposits at the three Grady
banks, or $498,378.86 more than
is shown in the 1949 report.
Deposits at the close of busi¬
ness on December 31, 1949, are
lasted as follows: Citizens Bank
$1,886,141.89; Cairo Banking
Company $2,436,764.01; Whigham
Banking Company $76,113.13.
The deposits ol the Citizens
Bank show a decrease of $222,-
611.06 from the 1948 report. Cairo
Banking Company deposits de¬
creased $263,173.52; and the Whig
ham Banking Company shows a
decrease of $12,594.28.
The statements of the three
banks reveal a total in assets of
$4,745,658.98, or a leveling off
from the 1948 figures of $490,-
702.00 less than the assets one
year ago. The Citizens Bank has
assets of $2,054,981.31; the Cairo
Banking Company $2,604,519.79;
and the Whigham Banking Com¬
pany $86,157.88.
While deposits and assets of
all three banks have declined
slightly since the report one year
ago for 1948, which was to be ex¬
pected, they are leveling off into
a more stable and prosperous
economy which indicates a very
healthy financial condition of the
Grady institutions.
Condensed statements of the
three banks will be found else¬
where in this issue, and will be
read with much interest by all.
City Court In Light
Session This Week
Adjournment Due
The City Court >f Cairo con
vened for the January session last
Monday morning, with Judge G.
L. Worthy presiding and Ira
Carlisle acting Solicitor Pro-Tem
in the absence of Edwin Carlisle,
is ill with flu.
Civil cases were the first order
of business Monday, and the frist
case was that of J. D. McKown
vs. R. A. Harrell, in a damage
suit which resulted from an ac¬
cident in which Mrs. J. D. Mc
Kown was injured. The Jury re¬
turned a verdict in favor of the
plaintiff in the sum of $140.
The next case tried Monday
was W. F. Spring vs. G. C. Outzs,
involving a damage suit for $1,000.
The verdict was in favor of the
defendant.
On Tuesday morning the case
of La Fara vs. Joseph Campbell
Co., a suit about a produce con¬
tract, involving approximately
$16,000. The Jury returned a
verdict in favor of the defendent,
Joseph Campbell Co. This trial
took up most of Tuesday and
Wednesday, with many witnesses
being called on both sides. The
jury was out five hours before
coming to a decision.
A few minor criminal cases
scheduled for Thursday,
and these were expected to be
finished during the afternoon
at which time this term of the
City Court would adjourn.
Other minor cases were settled,
or were not ready for trial due to
the absence of witnesses or ill¬
ness and other reasons.
BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Craps, formerly of Cairo, now of
Sanford, Fla., announce the birth
of a 6 pound boy at the Sanford
Hospital Thursday, Jan. 12.
SIXTEEN PAGES
Kenneth Hand Killed
By Truck In Whigham
Wednesday Jan. 4th.
The Whigham community was
saddened last week at the acci¬
dental death Wednesday evening
Jan. 4th., of Kenneth Lamar
(Budsie) Hand, five-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hand,
when the town truck, which Ken¬
neth was playing around, started
off and ran over the boy, report¬
edly crushing his lungs.
He was rushed to the Grady
County Hospital at 5:20 p. m.,
Wednesday evening and died at
10:20 a. m. Thursday morning.
It was reported Kenneth was
playing around the town truck
on the street in Whigham, when
the driver, not knowing anyone
was around, started the truck off
and one wheel 'passed over the
boy’s back.
Funeral services were held at
Flat Creek Church in Miller
County, the former home of the
Hands, Thursday, Jan. 5, with
the Rev. Carlton Houston officiat¬
ing.
Pallbearers were Earl Davis,
Charles Houston, Calvin Houston
and Clarence Houston.
In addition to his parents, sur¬
vivors include one eight-year-old
brother, Ronnie. The death was
a source of deep grief to the mem¬
bers of the family and to many
friends, who had known and
loved this gifted and delightful
child.
Arrangements were handled
by Evans Funeral Home, Donal
sonville.
Hospital Group
Will Meet
Aufhority Will
Gather Monday
The trustees of the Grady Coun¬
ty Hospital Authority have been
called to meet at the Courthouse
here next Monday at 3 p. m. for
some important duties, chiefly
the election of a chairman to suc¬
ceed B. W. Mauldin, who resign¬
ed as a trustee some weeks ago.
Mr. Mauldin served as business
administrator of the hospital,
without pay and at a consider¬
able sacrifice of time, from the
time the Authority was establish¬
ed and the Grady County Hospital
was acquired and put on a public
operation basis.
It is understood the County
Commissioners have elected W.
G. Mizell, local druggist, as a
trustee to succeed Mr. Mauldin,
and that three other trustees
whose terms expired Dec. 31st—
W. C. Lane, Whigham, S. M. Mc
Kown, Cairo, and J. Slater
Wight, Cairo—hav^been re-elect¬
ed for three-year terms. Other
trustees are R. E. Stringer, Jr.,
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT of
the County Board of Commission¬
ers, covering the month of De¬
cember and the year 1949, will be
found on page sveen, second sec¬
tion.
BANK STATEMENTS of the
three banks in the county will be
found on page one, second sec¬
tion.
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NUMBER 1.
Eye Clinic Is
Meet - Topic
Kiwanis Club's
Project Begun
The Cairo Kiwanis Club’s eye
clinic for Grady county school
children which has gotton under¬
way so successfully in the Cairo
south side grammar school was
the topic for the club’s luncheon
meeting Tuesday. The clinic is
a mojar project of the underpriv¬
ileged children’s work committee
of the club with Max Sanders as
chairman and he was program
chairman Tuesday.
Chairman Sanders reviewed
the committee’s extensive work
last year which carried invalu¬
able aid to many needy children
throughout the county at a cost
of some $900, emphasis being put
upon services not available, other¬
wise. Miss Marion Smith, county
visiting teacher, also responded in
praise of the work and declared
many worthwhile things that were
done last year could not have
been done without the Kiwanis
aid.
Ohairman Sanders then pre¬
sented others associated in the
eye clinic project: Dr. J. W.
Sumner, local optometrist; Miss
Jewel Durrence, county instruc¬
tional supervisor, Mrs. Onselow
Prince and Mrs. Lucile Reynolds,
health department nurse; and
Mesdames Bruce Courtney, Nor¬
wood Clark, Ira Higdon, Jr. and
Edward Forsyth.
Dr. Sumner told of this clinic
staff, including several lay vol¬
unteers, and the equipment for
it, being set up, as a Kiwanis pro¬
ject, to discover visual defects
and needs among the school child¬
ren, so that the parents of those
children with defects might have
them corrected early; and that
means might be found for cor¬
rection of defects among children
where parents are not able to do
so. He stressed that children (or
parents) are free to go to the op¬
tometrist of their choice.
He also stressed that many
children, as well as adults, might
continue until too late without
knowledge of their visual defects
unless tests such as those pro¬
vided by the clinic are available
He discussed interestingly the
nature and operaiton of the human
eye.
(President Sam A. Pierce, who
presided, distributed lists of the
club’s standing committees for
1950, which are printed elsewhere
in The Messenger as public in¬
formation.
Other guesits included Tallahas
see Kiwanian E. G. Shelar; B. W.
West and A. B. Winters, Cairo,
Annual Camellia Show Here Is
T omorrow, Sa tu rday, 2 To 10
Woman's Club's Fourth Event Is
Open To All; Many Expected
Cairo Woman’s Club’s fourth
annual Camellia Show will be
presented at the club-house to
morrow, Saturday, Jan. 14th,
from 2 to 10 p. m. Florwer-lovers
from far and near are invited to
see it—and a large crowd is ex
pected.
Entries, which are open to all,
will be received at the club¬
house from 9:30 to 11 a. m. Ca
mellia growers from all parts
this county, particularly, are
ed to make entries to help to
the show an outstanding one. Rib
■bons will be awarded in all class
ifications—'blue for first, red for
second, and white for third. Blue
ribbons count five points red
three points and white one point,
■Last year’s show included
hundreds of entries and attract¬
a throng of spectators estimat¬
ed at two to three thousand.
The assignments have already
made for arrangements of
camellias with breakfast, lunch-;
eon, dinner and tea tables.
The classsifications follows:
Section 1. (Simple): Class 1,
John Faulk New
C. of C. Head
Elected President
To Succeed W. E.
Young
John H. Faulk, Jr., local Chev¬
rolet dealer, was elected presi¬
dent of the Grady County Chant¬
er of Commerce for 1950 at a
meeting last Friday of the direct¬
ors as reconstituted for the new
year.
Also chosen in balloting by the
directors were: J. Norwood Clark,
hardware merchant, first vice
president; Howell E. McKinnon,
banker, second vice-president;
and J. Carl Minter, banker, treas¬
urer. John B. Wight continues
as national councillor.
Louis A. Powell, the Chamber
manager, who is engaged by the
directors without term was given
a unanimous pledge of hearty
support for 1950, with praise for
his outstandisg service. He told
the directors he would continue
only with a unanimous expression
of support from the board as re¬
constituted.
The newly-elected officers will
be installed at the annual dinner
meeting of the Chamber member¬
ship to be held hoon. A special
committee was named to arrange
for this meeting, it being compos¬
ed of Edwin A. Carlisle, chair¬
man, Carl Brown, Harris Jeffer¬
son, Howard Thrower and Hamil¬
ton Wind.
Mr. Faulk will succeed W. E.
Young, local banker, who has
served with credit during the
past year. Accomplishments of
his administration will be re¬
counted in the annual report to
be distributed soon, probably at
the dinner meeting. One out¬
standing feature of the past
year’s activities was the launch¬
ing of a comprehensive and con¬
tinuing effort to obtain new in¬
dustries for the county, along
the lines found most effective by
certain Chambers of Commerce
that have been quite successful
in this work over a long period,
and in close co-operation with
some of these successful agencies.
The directors authorized the use
of the Chamber reserve funds
accumulated during the war for
this effort since the regular bud¬
get does not provide sufficient
finances. The Chamber has also
during the past year rendered
extensive service toward pro¬
moting existing industries and
keeping them successful and at
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single; class 2, semi-double—best
red-, 'best pink, best white, best
variegated.
'Section 2: Incomplete double—
best red, best pink, best white,
‘best variegated.
■Section 3: Complete double
(regular, no stamens showing)—
best red, best pink, best white,
■best variegated.
(Standard of excellence for
above: Color, 16; form, 16; sub
and texture, 25; size, ac
cording to variety, 25; condition,
10; and foliage, 10).
Section 4: Labelled Collections
of five and 10 varieties. (Stand
ard of excellence judged as whole:
size and color, 25; general quality,
25; condition, 25; appropriate to
schedule, 25).
■Section 5: Artistic Arrange¬
ments of camellias only and
camellias with other flowers.
(Standard of excellence: arrange¬
ment, 25; color harmony, 20;
quality of blooms, 20; relation to
container, 16; distinctiveness, 10;
and approprite to schedule, 10).
Section 6: Exhibits of oamell
ias by professionals.