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CAIRO, GEORGIA
The Best City of Its
Size In the Entire
~ United States
*1.50-52 A year, in advance.
VOLUME XLVII.
Polio Expenses
Jel New Mark
Grady's Quota Is
$1,500 This Year;
Give Dollars
Last year’s record infantile
paralysis epidemics virtually
drained the nation of its March
of Dimes epidemic aid resources,
j H House County Campaign
Director for the 1950 appeal, stat¬
ed this week.
Stressing the vital importance
of a record March of Dimes this
year, Mr. House said that expen¬
ds for patient care in 1949 soar¬
ed to $31,000,000 and by last Oc¬
tober had wiped out treasuries of
local chapters in 43 States and
Alaska. Six patients, from this
county received aid from the Na¬
tional Foundation.
“Appeals for emergency funds
poured into the National Founda¬
tion for Infantile Paralysis from
these chapters,”, he reported. “At
the height of the epidemic, $100,
000 was being spent every 24
hours for patient care alone.
“We all know that infantile
paralysis te one of the most ex¬
pensive diseases to fight both in
its acute and c uaeocent stages.
Continuing care for thousands
this year who were stricken in
1949 is estimated at $20,000,000.
Research Needed
“Added to this will be the un¬
known cost of caring for the
thousands unhappily destined to
be stricken in 1950. We do not
know how serious this epi¬
demic will be, but we must be
prepared for any eventuality.
And we must prepare now by giv¬
ing with increased genero tty to
the 1950 March of Dimes.”
California and Texas, both hit
heavily for the second successive
year, and Minnesota received the
top amount of epidemic aid: al¬
most $2,500,000, to these three
states alone. North Carolina,
which had a great number of
cases in 1948 but was relatively
spared last year, called for almost
$1,000,000 in 1949 —(primarily to
pay the heavy bills for after-care.
Mr. House explained that, al¬
though care of patients is im¬
perative, research .to find a means
of preventing infantile paralysis
also must be continued at an ever
increasing pace.
‘Turing the past 12 years,” he
continued, “the National Founda¬
tion has allocated more than ten
milion eight hundred thousand
dollars for reseach.”
Activities Listed
Eunds also must be allotted for
education of professional person¬
nel, he said. The disease seems to
have changed its pattern and
spread out to more areas, Mr.
House explained, so that more
medical experts were needed in
more places in 1949. March of
Himes funds provide scholarships
a nd fellowships for the training
01 these professional workers, he
said.
Chairman House also listed
“■ese activities of the National
oandation and its chapters:
fecial polio aid teams are sped
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Hog I Market
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^ 5.60c Lb. Here
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re E- auction sale
> H. Hambrick, of Cairo
^stock ^ Was Auction good Co,, reported.
a run of hogs
Pound 1S brin,ging 15 50c a
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No. 2s 14.55c a pound and
Pigs 13.75c a pound. Feeder
wHk Te m i ncr eased supply
demand j good, also.
Pricp P offerings were light but
tie ch~r° nt ' nUeb stead y with lit-
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SIXTEEN PAGES
First Aid Course
At Woman's Club
In Second Week
The First Aid Instructors’
Course is now in Its second week,
under the supervision of Harry
Kenning, First Aid and Water
Safety Instructor at the Woman’s
Club, 6:30-9:30 Monday through
Friday for a period of two weeks.
A good cross section of the
Grady County people are taking
this course, which is proving very
interesting and is receiving en
thusiastic response.
On completion of this course
the personnel will be in position
to give the First Aid Instructors’
course to the residents in Grady
County in beginners and advanc¬
ed First Aid.
Plains are being formulated to
conduct these courses in the
county for those interested at a
later date and the schedule will
be announced in advance.
The Grady County Chapter,
American Red Cross is very for¬
tunate in being able to secure the
services of Mr. Kenning who is
nationally known in the field of
first aid and water safety.
Whigham Club
Starts Year
G. B. Trulock Is
President’; New
Committees Set
Red Cross Leader
Is Kiwanis Speaker S •
Admiral Visitor
An interesting talk on first
aid Jk-iAU safety, with a practical
demonstration, provided the pro¬
gram for the Cairo Kiwanis Club
at its weekly luncheon meeting
Tuesday with Harry Kenning,
first aid and safety representa¬
tive of the regional headquarters
of the American Red Cross, as
speaker.
Mr. Kenning, who is conduct¬
ing an instructors’ course in first
aid and safety here for 10 days,
was presented by M. L. Mayes,
chairman of the local chapter of
the Red Cross, as program chair¬
man. Sam A. Pierce, the club
president, presided. The speaker
enlivened his talk with appro¬
priate human interest stories and
experiences.
He emphasized the practical
importance of proper knowledge
of fjjrst aid and water safety for
everyone and said the Red Cross
is broadening its program to bring
more people into a fuller knowl¬
edge of essential data. He de¬
clared 165,000 people, mostly
young people, were enrolled in
Red Cross water safety courses
in the southeastern area alone
last year, and urged even wider
instruction on swimming and
water safety for young people, es¬
pecially where good swimming
pools are provided, like at Cairo.
An especially pleasing feature
of the meeting was the presence
and brief response of Admiral
Frank C. Dunham, U. S. Navy,
who is the distinguished guest
here for several days of Alvin B.
Wight, the two having served to
gether in the Navy at Pensacola
during the last war. Admiral
Dunham has been stationed at the
Navy Department in Washing¬
ton and will go soon to a new
assignment, the Navy Field
Headquarters at Cleveland. His
“sea tale” was fresh from a re¬
cent dinner for ranking Navy of
ficers in Washington.
Other guests included visiting
Kiwanians Ben Jones, Tampa,
W. S. Brown, Athens, and John
H. Faulk, Sr. and Ralph Faulk,
Thomasville; Ralph Roddenbery,
Cairo; and Key Clubbers Walter
Lundy and Yates Peters.
Misses Ann Palmer and Alice
Lee McCall, students at G. S. W,
C., Valdosta, expect to spend tlie
weekend at Georgia Univ, Athens,
as guests of Miss Edith Russell
Bowen.
In its first meeting of the new
year, the Whigham Community
Club met Monday night, January
- <? at which lime the new Presi¬
dent, G. B. Trulock made his
acceptance speech, promising his
best efforts as president and ap¬
pealing for the cooperation and
help of all members. He com¬
pared the Community Club to a
wagon, which, he emphasized,
would stop “if we quit pushing.”
Other points of his talk stressed
the necessity of all members be¬
ing present at each meeting, and
urged each to pay his dues in ad¬
vance.
A report of the nominating
committee was heard, and the ap¬
pointment of all standing com¬
mittees were announced. Col.
Louis H. Foster who was already
serving as parlimentarian, was
made Secretary.
The Standing committees are as
follows:
Program: Emory Stone, Chair¬
man, D. P. Trulock, George Mc
Elvy, R. E. Cox, and Paul Foster.
Agriculture: Carl Ponder,
Chairman, Fred Collins, Earl
Wheeler, Joe D. Lewis, and Joe
Herring.
Business Standards: W. C.
Lane, Chairman, Elmer Crew,
Turner Harrell, Ralph McBroom, i
and W. H. Bell.
Youth Guidance: Earl Crew,
chairman, Cecil Jordan, Corbett
Rabon, Jack Kennemur, Cecil
Gibbs.
Budget and Finance: W. M.
Crew, Chairman, Martin Harrell,
Herman Taylor, Norwood Har
rell, and Ben Wright.
House Committee: Frank Jow
ers, chairman, Bill Connell, i
Wendell Larkin, Jim Fordam,
Ernest Drury.
Social: Luther Harden, Chair¬
man, Wendell Moore, Julius New¬
berry, Ed Stone, Frances Hester.
Public Relations: M. J. Per¬
kins, chairman, M. M. Jones, J.
H. Pyles, Jimmie T. Harrison, and
Bill Hester.
Advisory: L. H. Foster, Chair
man, Cecil Crew, Jack Harrell,
P. H. Newberry, R. H. Robinson.
Buford Wright was a visitor
for this meeting.
The Club unanimously endors¬
ed the March of Dimes drive, now
in progress in the county, and
contributions by the members ad¬
ded a nice sum to the collection.
Marion Smith, visiting teacher
for the county, will be the guest
speaker at the next meeting the
first week in February.
CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1950
Ala. Hearing
Put Off
A. C. L. Trains
Fight Delayed
Alabama Public Service Com¬
mission last Friday postponed
from Jan. 17th to Feb. 24th a
hearing at Dothan on the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad application
for curtailment of night passenger
train service between Savannah
and Montgomery. The defere
ment was requested by various
Alabama leaders in co-operation
with the association opposing the
curtailment.
Opponents of the curtailment
from Savannah to Montgomery
had planned to appear in Dothan
last Tuesday for the opening of
the hearing.
The Alabama postponement
means that the Georgia Public
Service Commission hearing on
the same application will come
first, after all. The Georgia
hearing is now set in Atlanta
Feb. 15th, after three postpone¬
ments, and association officials
say they expect the Atlanta
hearing to open as now scheduled.
The railroad claims the trains
are losing money as to passenger
revenue. Opponents claim mod¬
ernization of the service would
make it profitable. They also say
three-nights-a-week operation of
the trains each way as proposed
would mean heavier losses and
lead to removal entirely.
within the county and against
those with plants located outside
the county that it is unreasonable;
a denial of the equal protection
guaranteed by the State and Fed¬
eral Constitutions; and void.”
Chief Justice W. H. Duckworth
wrote a lengthy and detailed
opinion in this case, which he
said would become a precedent
for future courts. Excerpts from
his opinion follow:
“On the other hand, human
dignity and individual freedom
demand that one engaged in a
lawful business injurious to no
one must not be arbitrarily pre¬
vented from the legitimate prose¬
cution of his business by city or¬
dinances which set up trade bar¬
riers solely for the purpose of
protecting a resident against
proper competition. If free en¬
terprise is to mean more than
mere words it must not become
the victim of arbitrary and dis
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Minister Reports
Attack Here
Was Taken From
Colored Church
Near Legion
According to Associated Press
dispatches from Atlanta last Fri¬
day morning, Jan. 13, an Italian
minister, Michael Picardi, told a
harrowing story to reporters
there of being flogged by mask¬
ed men Thursday night, Jan. 12,
near Cairo, after being taken
from the “Jesus Only,” Holiness
Church, on the Southern edge of
the city limits near the colored
Legion Clubhouse.
The first news of the incident
came from Atlanta, where the
minister had gone after being
attacked. From residents near
the Church, it was established
that the man’s story was sub¬
stantially correct, in that he had
been conducting a revival there,
and apparently was taken from
the church shortly before the
services began Thursday night,
when only a few people were
present. But no eye-witnesses to
the incident could be found.
Michael Picardi, 58, of Colum¬
bus, Ohio, said he was seized by
“five or six masked men armed
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Supreme Court
Kicks Cairo
City Loses In Two
Cases Before Ga.
Court This Week
The City of Cairo fared rather
badly in the Georgia Supreme
Court this week when decisions
reached local attorneys showing
that the high State Court had
ruled against the City in the case
of ‘Moultrie Milkshed, Inc. vs.
City of Cairo et al. and the case
of Thomas vs. City of Cairo.
The Milkshed case, which
brought heated controversy here
last year when the City tried to
keep all milk and milk products
out except those processed in
Grady County, was decided in
favor of the Moultrie Milkshed
January 12, by the Georgia Su¬
preme Court. In effect, it means
Moultrie Milkshed may sell its
milk here as long as it wishes to
do so.
The Court ruled, in part:
“While the City of Cairo is given
charter power to protect the pub¬
lic health by ordinance, yet,
where an ordinance requires as
a condition precedent to the sale
of milk for consumption within
the city limits that such milk be
pasteurized in a plant located in
Grady County, the ordinance is
so obviously not a protection to
the public health and is dis
discriminatory in favor of those
with pasteurizing plants located
The annual Camellia Show of
the Cairo Woman’s Club at the
club-house here last Saturday af¬
ternoon and evening was declar¬
ed even more beautiful, although
some smaller, than last year’s
record-beaking atraction.
More widespead interest re¬
sulted from the fact that entries
were not confined to Grady
countians, as heretofore; and the
many hundreds who visited the
show included probably a greater
number of tourists than ever be¬
fore. Visitors included many
from South Georgia and North
Florida points. Displays were
doubtless arranged better, at
least in many respects—and Ca¬
mellia devotees found plenty to
inspire them. Officials said Sat¬
urday proved a good day of the
week for the show, generally.
The horticultural sweepstakes
winner of the show this year was
a gorgeohs double Mathotiana
Rubra with double stamen en¬
tered by Mrs. J. Albert Collins,
Cairo. Judges were from Blake¬
ly, Pelham and Thomasville.
Other winners included:
Section 1.
Simple, Class 1, Single: best red
(no first); and 2nd, Soca Vera,
Mrs. Jim Darsey; best pink, seedl¬
ing, Mrs. B. W. Mauldin; best
white, Amabelia, Mrs. John Mon¬
aghan, Pelham; best variegated,
no entries.
Class 2, Semi-Double: best red,
Flame, Mrs? John Monaghan, 2nd,
Flame, Clint Cooper, 3rd, Adolph
Anderson, Mrs. John Monaghan;
best pink, Rev. John Bennet, Mrs.
J. B. Roddenbery, Sr., 2nd, Ake
Boni, Mrs. John Monaghan, 3rd,
Rev. John Bennett, Mrs. J. B.
Roddenbery, Sr.; best white, Bes¬
sie Bellingrath, Clint Cooper, 2nd,
Lotus, Mrs. John Monaghan, 3rd,
Finlandia, Mrs. W. L. Oliver; best
variegated, Ville de Nantes, Clint
Cooper, 2nd, Ville de Nantes, Mrs.
J. A. Collins, 3rd Empress Varie¬
gated, Mrs. John Monaghan.
Section 2.
Icomplete Double: best red, St.
Andre, Mrs. John Monaghan, 2nd,
Jarvis Red, Mrs. Homer Allen,
3rd, Jarvis Red, Mrs. Bess Mast¬
ers; best pink, Pink Star, Mrs.
John Monaghan, 2nd, Pink Herme,
Mrs. R. A. Bell, 3rd, Pink Star,
Mrs. John Monaghan and Pink
Herme, Mrs. B. W. Mauldin;
best white, Finlandia, Mrs. R. A.
Bell, 2nd, Finlandia, Mrs. R. A.
Bell, 3rd, Alba Superba, Mrs. B. j
W. Mauldin; best variegated,
variety unknown, Mrs. Coy Cone,
2nd, Gigantia, Mrs. John Mon-
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Meth. Conferences
Are Announced By
Rev. McTier
The Eaceville Charge with Rev.
E. R. Lewis, pastor, will hold the
third quarterly conference Sun¬
day, Jan. 22, at Fowlstown with
a sermon at 11:30 a. m., with
(basket dinner and quarterly con¬
ference to follow.
The Attapulgus-Galvary Charge
will meet at Attapulgus at 7:30
p. m. on the same day for a ser¬
mon and quarterly conference.
Rev. J. Arthur Cook is the pastor.
In addition to regular reports
there will be reports made on the
success of the superannuate en¬
dowment campaign.
Dr. Gunn To Speak
Here Sunday Night
Dr. Fred Gunn, president of
Bessie Tift College, Forsyth, will
visit Cairo Sunday and will be
guest speaker at the evening ser¬
vice at the First Baptist Church
at 7:30 o’clock. His subject will
be “Christian Education.”
Jimmy LeGette and Wilson
Young, Emory University stud¬
ents, Atlanta, spent the week¬
end with homefolks.
Double Mathotiana Rubra Is
Tops At '50 Camellia Show
Show Smaller, More Beautiful ^ •
Visitors Include Tourists
aghan, 3rd, Chandleri Elegans,
Mrs. B. W. Mauldin.
Section 3.
Complete Double: best red,
Mathotiana Rubra, Mrs. J. A. Col¬
lins, also Prof. Sargeant Mrs. R.
A. Bell, 2nd, Glenn 40, Clint Coop¬
er, 3rd, Mathotiana Rubra, Mrs.
J. A. Norman; best pink, Rosea
Superba, Clint Cooper, 2nd Pink
Perfection, Mrs. Max Sanders,
3rd, II Tremento, Mrs. Bess Mast¬
ers; best white, K. fiawada, Clint
Cooper, 2nd, Alaba Plena, Clint
Cooper, 3rd, Alba Plena, Mrs. Jim
Darsey; best variegated, Matho¬
tiana Rubra, Clint Cooper, 2nd,
Rosea Superba, Mrs. John Mon¬
aghan, 3rd, C. M. Hovey, Mrs. W.
G. Mizell.
Section 4. •
Five of a Kind: best collection,
vaHety unknown, Mrs. Coy Cone,
also Martha Sanders Seeding,
Mrs. Chas. O. Maxwell; 2nd, Pink
Perfection, Mrs. Helen Coats; 3rd, I
Pink Perfection, Mrs. Jeff A.
Pope.
Three of a Kind: best collec¬
tion, Gigantia, Mrs. J. B. Rodden¬
bery, Sr.; 2nd, Herme, Mrs. J. B.
Roddenbery, Sr., 3rd, Alba Plena,
Mrs. J. H. Connell.
Five Varieties: best collection,
Mrs. Walter Williams; 2nd, Mrs.
R. A. Bell; 3rd, Mrs. J. B. Rodd¬
enbery, Sr.
Ten Varieties: best collection,
Mrs. John Monaghan; 2nd, Mrs.
Albert Collins; 3rd, no card.
Most Outstanding Specimen:
Mrs. J. H. Collins (Mathotiana
Rubra).
Section Sweepstakes: Clint
Cooper, variety not listed.
Section 5.
Artistic Arrangements, Ca¬
mellias Only: 1st, Enrico Betoni,
Mrs. oJhn Wight; 2nd, Dixie > i
Mrs. J. B. Roddenbery, Sr.; 3rd,
Chandleri Elegans, Mrs. B. W.
Mauldin.
Camellias With Other Flowers:
1st, Mrs. Frank Smith; 2nd, Mrs.
Fred Roddenbery; 3rd, Mrs.
Henry Hester, Sr. *
Tea Tables: 1, Mrs. J. B. Rodd¬
enbery, Sr. and Miss Wessie Con¬
nell; 2nd, Mrs. W. E. Young and
Mrs. Slater Wight.
Dinner Tables: 1st, Mrs. W. L.
Oliver; 2nd, Mrs. Ira Higdon,
and Mrs. Carl Minter.
Luncheon Tables: 1st, Mrs. Sam
Pierce and Mrs. Max Sanders;
2nd, Mrs. Max Tyson and Mrs.
Bob Van Landingham.
Terrace. Breakfast Table: 1st,
Mrs. J. H. House and Mrs R. E.
Johnson.
Indoor Breakfast Table: Mrs.
Bill Graham and Mrs. Jack Tyson.
GRADY COUNTY
Greatest Diversified
Farming Section
In America
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CFNTi
NUMBER 2.
Drive For Red
Cross Set
Lloyd Connell
1950 Chairman
Lloyd Connell, County School
Superintendent, has accepted the
chairmanship of this county’s Red
Cross 1950 fund campaign, offi¬
cials of the local chapter announc¬
ed this week.
The campaign, as usual, is set
to begin here and elsewhere
throughout the nation on March
■1st. This county’s quota for this
year will be announced later.
Grady county campaigns for the
Red Cross have been signally suc¬
cessful, without exception, be¬
cause the people have always ral¬
lied to its support.
Tentative plans for this year’s
campaign call for a complete
county-wide organization so that
the quota can be attained with¬
out burdening anyone too much.
The fact that the Red Cross
quickly came to the aid of strick¬
en people in this county twice
as recently as the year 1948 will
doubtless serve as a special im¬
petus for support of this year’s
campaign.
of the trustees draw any per diem
or pay or expense money what¬
soever, service being entirely on
a gratis or patriotic basis. Busi¬
ness administrators of other coun¬
ty hosp'i&H generally, draw good
salaries.
The trustees Monday re-named
the other Authority officers, as
flolows: R. Alfonso Harrell, vice
chairman; J. Slater Wight, treas¬
urer; and Louis A. Powell, secre¬
tary.. The other trustees, all pres¬
ent, are: W. C. Lane, Sam Mc
Kown, Lee O. Maxwell, Jr., R. E.
Stringer, Jr. and Preston Ward.
Full-time executive manage¬
ment of the hospital continues in
Miss Sara Nita Luke, the super¬
intendent, whom the trustees
praised for her “loyal and capable
service” in the operation of the
hospital.
- There was discussion, again,
by the trustees of the exceeding¬
ly fortunate situation which
Grady county enjoys with its
modem and splendidly-equipped
hospital at such a nominal cost
of operation and upkeep. The
Authority received from the coun¬
ty for 1949 only $6,975.18, which
included funds for retirement of
the revenue certificates issue by
which the property was purchas¬
ed and improved. New county
hospitals now being built will re¬
quire from four to eight times
this local annual support it was
found.
After retirement of revenue
certificates due and payment of
interest due on outstanding cer¬
tificates last year, only $3,570
was left from the county funds
to supplement the hospital in¬
come for operations. Due to a cut
in county support ordered by the
County Commissioners, curtail¬
ment of the hospital personnel
was necessary, and no money was
available for the 10 percent con¬
tingency fund (for emergencies
and improvements) as required
by the resolution and contract of
the County Commissioners creat¬
ing the Grady County Hospital
Authority on a permanent basis,
the trustees found. Because of
this, the offices of the Authority
were established as a special
committee therefrom to go before
the County Commissioners at
their February meeting to explain
that restoration of the cut is ab¬
solutely essential to the operation
of the hospital, as provided by
law, practicularlly in view of the
fact that the full hospital levy
for' 1948 was not paid, with the
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Mizell Hospital
Trustee Head
Druggist Succeeds
B. W. Mauldin As
Administrator
W. G. Mizell, local druggist,
last Monday afternoon was elect¬
ed chairman of the Grady Coun¬
ty Hospital Authority, with duties
as business administrator for
Grady County Hospital here, to
succeed B. W. Mauldin, resigned.
His election was at a meeting of
the trustees of the Authority,
with all attending. Mr. Mizell
was recently elected as an Au¬
thority trustee by the County
Commissioners to fill the vacancy
caused /by the resignation of Mr.
Mauldin.
The trustees, at a meeting last
November, in receiving a copy of
Mr. Mauldin’s resignation to the
County Commissioners, urged his
continuance and praised him
highly for giving so generous of
his time and abilities and for his
outstanding service as chairman
and business administrator since
the hospital was established on
a public basis back in February,
1947. Mr. Mauldin attended the
meeting Monday on special re¬
quest and conferred with the
trustees about hospital affairs. He
offered his continued active as¬
sistance in the successful opera¬
tion of the hospital and his offer
was gladly accepted.
Neither the chairman nor