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V’ CAIRO, GEORGIA The Best City of Its Size In the Entire United States --- - IN ADVANCE. 11 50-52 A YEAR. . VOLUME XLVII. C OF C. SPEAKER IMPRESSIVE; WARNS AGAINST SOCIALISM Unirman Sensing Moves Group Said England May Have Missed The Boat Already In a brilliant address interspers¬ ed with appropriate and enter¬ taining humor, Thurman Sensing, before a packed. Citizens Cafe audience at the annual Grady County Chamber of Commerce meeting and dinner Tuesday night, issued a timely and elo¬ quent warning for this country to stir clear of socialism and avoid the tragic error made by Eng¬ land during the past five years. Having recently made and in¬ tensive eight-week study in Bri¬ tain of that country’s socialistic experiment, Mr. Sensing, who is Director of Research, Southern States Industrial Council, declar¬ ed: "The experience of Great Britain during the past five years convinces me quite thoroughly that it makes no difference wheth¬ er you believe in socialism or not —it just won’t work. It violates some fundamental laws of both economics and morals that make it possible to work.” Introduced by Edwin Carlisle, Program Chairman, Mr. Sensing told of his study abroad: “I was sent to Great Britain,” he said, "this past year by the Board of Directors of the Southern States Industrial Council to bring back to them a first-hand report of a socialist government in op¬ eration, and its effects upon a people’s freedom and upon, a peo¬ ple’s economy. “For eight solid weeks, I de¬ voted my full time and attention to getting the best I could the story I was sent over there to get. I contacted all sorts of peo¬ ple and all sorts of organizations all over England, Scotland, and Wales. Sympathy v vs#T “I have tremendous sympathy for the people of Great Britain,” he continued, “but that sympathy is based on their long and honor¬ able career as a nation, it is not for their present socialist govern¬ ment. I reached the k conclusion at the end of my eight weeks’ study that if Great Britain re¬ mains under its present form of socialist government another five years—and they have set the election for February 23rd—they are headed for a very low rung on the ladder of nations. May Be Too Late "Even if they change govern¬ ments now,” the speaker pointed ou t “I don’t know but what they have already missed the boat. The last five years have been (Continued on page 4) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trou¬ ble.' (Ps. 46, i) For true understanding and consolation there is but one place to tu rn. To not only re ceix’e, but to attain your understanding church attend regularly. y our church needs YOU— you NEED YOUR CHURCH €atrn 4^4 Th* Official Organ at Grady County "The man who wandereth out ol the way of advertising shall remain in th* congregation of th* dead." EIGHTEEN PAGES Prominent Visitors Among Guests At C. Of C. Dinner A number of prominent out-of town guest attended the annual Chamber of Commerce meeting and dinner Monday night. Among these were John Humphress, well known Tallahassee banker, presi¬ dent of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. Hump¬ hress; also from Tallahassee Bill Meigs, assistant Chamber mana¬ ger, and Miss Jane Wooten. Guests from Thomasville were C. E. Bauldry, manager of the Clark Thread plant there and vice-president of the Thomasville Chamber of Commerce; John Faulk, Lee Kelley of the Thomas¬ ville Times Enterprise and form¬ er president of the Chamber of Commerce. Attending from Pelham were J. B. Newhouser and J. C. Cal¬ houn, members of a committee who are organizing a Chamber of Commerce in Pelham, a commit tte with which the local Chamber of Commerce is working closely to that end. S. K. Simon, pecan dealer of Albany and new owner of the Grady Hotel made a brief talk about the many improvements now being made at the local hotel, and invited the cooperation of all the people in Cairo in making the Grady a hotel which residents and visitors might be ^’•ou rl of Accompanying Mr. Simon were Mrs. Simon, Mr. and Mrs. D’en glare of Albany, and Mrs. W. F. O’Neal, manager of the Grady Hotel. Honorary members present from Cairo were Rev. W. O. Hand, Rev. Robert C. Perry, Jr., and Rev. G. N. Rainey. Recent new members of the Chamber of Commerce were in¬ troduced by vice-president Nor¬ wood Clark. They included Jim Honey and Royce Jones of Radio station WGRA, Sam A. Pierce, Grady C. Burgess of the B. & B. Seafood Market, Edwin Maxwell, and James Mercer of Faulk Chev¬ rolet Sales Co., W. David Reddick, as new manager of Roddenbery Hardware Co., and Dr. J. L. Mar¬ tin, Chiropractor. Kiwanians Enjoy Garden Movie At Weekly Luncheon The Kiwanians enjoyed a movie program at their weekly meeting Wednesday under the direction of Program chairman Agnew Smith. Johnny Faulk was in charge of the movie, which dealt with gar¬ den clubs, and was shown in the interest of the “Plant Cairo” council and beautification drive now under way here. .President Sam Pierce presided. Visitors included Mrs. Roscoe Van Landingham and Mrs. Slater Wight who appeared on the pro¬ gram to encourage and promote interest in improving the appear¬ ance of Cairo. Mrs. Van Landing ham made a short talk on this subject, in which she urged full cooperation of every citizen, be¬ cause eventually the. program would benefit every resident by making their town a more pleas¬ ant place in which to live. Charles Jones, Kiwanian from Albany, was present, and had as his guest Jack Jones of Cairo. Other guests were two Key-Club¬ bers from Cairo High School, Bil¬ ly Mitchell .and Tom LeGette. The Kiwanians agreed to have a joint meeting with the Cairo Rotary Club at Spence Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the invitation of Spence. . ™ a. SnUh?wS-e° U d e h^wi«h hb parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Strickland. CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. QJL. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1950 Calf Show, Corn Committee Meets Here Saturday The Fat Calf Show and Corn Contest committee of the Cham¬ ber of Commerce, of which John B. Hinson is chairman, will meet at the office of County Agent S. E. George at the Courthouse at 10 a. m. tomorrow, Saturday, to adopt rules for these programs for 1950. Anyone interested is invited to meet with the committee. The exact date for the Fat Calf Show is expected to be decided upon, along with any changes in the rules for it and the Corn Con¬ test. FFA Banquet Next Week Annual Father-Son Affair Held Next Wednesday Night Highlight for the Grady County Future Farmers next week will be the annual Father-Son banquet to be held Wednesday night at 7:30 in the Citizens Cafe. Billy Howard, State FFA president, will be guest speaker. Cairo and Whigham F. F. A. chapters will join with other member of the Future Farmers of America in the annual observance j of F. F. A. week February 18-25. A proclamation officially setting aside that period as “Georgia Future Farmer Week” has been signed by Governor Herman Tal madge. In early 14,000 Georgians are members of this national or¬ ganization for farm boys who are studying vocational agriculture in high school. Billy Howard of Plains is state president. Howard says that Future Farm¬ ers annually observe the week of George Washington’s birthday as national F. F. A. week. At Mt. Vernon, Washington practiced good farming methods which are today an example and an inspira¬ tion for boys studying agriculture, Howard explained. F. F. A. members in this state now actually cultivate more than 50,000 acres of land and have nearly a million dollars invested in livestock, crops and equipment, according to Howard. Among their more outstanding activities he listed the planting of around two million pine seedlings this winter, many" of them given to the boys by Junior Chamber of Commerce through a joint pine planting project; and the develop¬ ment of permanent and tempo¬ rary pastures. More than 7,500 acres are now green with grasses, clovers and small grains planted by 2,682 boys j for winter grazing. f 1 Howard also pointed up the j ! outstanding livestock programs of Future Farmers who own near¬ ly 12,000 hogs, 2,300 dairy cattle and 1,930 beef animals. He says that approximately 725 different boys annually receive without cash outlay purebred gilts through a statewide pig chain sponsored by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. This chain reaches into 145 rural communities and in the last five has been big factor in get¬ 1 years a ting better breeding hogs on the state’s farms. To encourage F. F. A. members to carry on better supervised farming programs at home, Howard revealed that about twenty statewide cbntests for in¬ dividuals and chapters will - be conducted during 1950. Among these are home improvement, for¬ estry, ’painting, farm mechanics, soil find water management, farm and home electrification, cotton, j winter grazing, public speaking and quartet. Cash prizes to the winners of these events will total about $6,000, he said., - . .wo years this org^izaUon^.of (Continued on page 5) Superior Court Meets March 6 Light Session Is Expected; Jurors Listed Below The March term of the Superior Court will convene here Monday, March 6, in what is expected at this time to be an unusually light session. No murder charge is pending for this term of Court. While no court calendar has been drawn up yet, two damage suits will probably take up con¬ siderable time at this session. These suits, brought by E. F. Groover and J. P. Andrews of Camilla, involve an auto acci¬ dent at the bailey bridge just North of Cairo on the Pelham Highway last year, in which their wives were injured. In previous court action Mrs. Rena Andrews and Mrs. Groover have brought separate damage suits. In the October, 1949 term of Superior Court, the jury found in favor of the plaintiff, J. P. and Mrs. Rena Andrews in the sum of $5, 000. This case is still in process of being carried to higher court. Now the husbands of both wo¬ men, who were riding in the same car when the accident oc¬ curred, are bringing separate suits for damages resulting from the loss of their wives services * n the home and for hospital and medical expense. Here is the list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn to serve in the March term of Superior Court, which convenes Monday, March 6 . Grand Jurors: Ralph McBroom, Albert Collins, L. L. Draffin, Martin Harrell, James S. Mason, Jr., Carl M. Brown, B. W. West, R. C. Hollingsworth, W. F. Wells, R. A. Harrell, J. E. Stephens, E. A. Gandy, M. J. Perkins, George Harvey, M. J. Johnson, Judson Ponder, C. T. Williams, C. I. Gandy, W. J. Boyett, W. B. McCall, N. I. Maxwell, W. C. Crew, A. M. Gainey, Sr., J. D. Strickland, Al¬ ton B. Cooper, L. C. Wilder, W. G. Maxwell, J. T. Stephens, F. O. Oates, and S. W. Gainous. List of Petit Jurors drawn to serve the first week of the March Term of Grady Superior Court 1950. John Thompson, H. G. Maxwell, Miles Harrison, Charles E. Beal, W. C. Voyles, Coy Miller, J. D. Harrell, Douglas Harrison, Carlos Cone, T. H. Gainey, W. M. Jones, Aultman Palmer, J. R. Gandy, Horace Gainey, Ira Lee, Alto Sellars. R. L. VanLandingham, Eugene Miller, Earl U. Brinson, H. K. Barrineau, J. O. Herring, Coy Gainous, G. D. Garland, Harry McCall, J. W. Lee, Roy Cassells, W. H. Reddick, Walter Graham, Frederick L. Perkins, W. G. Bui loch. E. B. Stone, Jr., W. M. Stringer, Elmer Muggrideg, Dewey A. Thompson, A. L. Rawls, John W. King, A. T. Johnson, J. W. Don alson, L. O. Maxwell, Wesley Baggett, H. F. Smith, Alton Bon¬ ner, L. R. Maddox, Wendel Dol¬ lar, J. T. Mayfield, Judson Har¬ rell. Julian Maxwell, Wesley Collins, H. E. Mckinnon, N. M. Brinson, H. A. Walker, Rupert B. Gainous, P. B. Butler, Hansel Humphries, T. L. Hester, J. R. Garland, Ray¬ mond Johnson, J. A. Aldridge, M. L. Ponder, and J. L. Oliver. List of Petit Jurors drawn to serve March Term Superior Court for Second Week. Ellis Maxwell, R. C. Hogan, Dan N. Mitchell, Dan Harrell, Perry Miller, Curry Powell, R. , A. A „ B. Collins, _ J. T Cs _ E. Thomas, Cox, Roscoe I. Cliett, Joe*McNarr, Frank C. White, W. B. Bell, W. H. Carroll, Jimmy E. Sellars, Milliard, Emory Barrett,, "o'wSb: Chamb.iss, B. F. Br»k.ey, And (Continued on page 5) EIGHTEEN PAGES Grady Contract Advertised Whigham-Hopeful Road To Be Paved This issue of The Messenger carries the legal ad for bids to be submitted on the construction of a little over six miles (6.250) of grading and paving to be done in Grady County on what is known as the Whigham-Hopeful road, which begins 3.3 miles North of Whigham and extends to Hope¬ ful. The sealed bids will be accept¬ ed at the State Highway Depart¬ ment office in Atlanta until 11:00 a. m. Friday, March 3. The work will begin within ten days after the formal execution of the contract, and is to be com¬ pleted within 140 working days. Gas Hearing Is Now Complete Would Pipe Natural Gas From Louisiana To 55 Communities According to an Associated Press dispatch from Washington Wed¬ nesday, the hearing on an appli¬ cation by Atlantic Gulf Gas Co. of Shreveport, La., to serve 55 communities in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, including Cairo, was completed Wednesday. Examiner George Liddell of the Federal Power Commission called for briefs within d0 dt vs after which he will submit his report to the commission. In ending the hearing, Liddell denied a continuance of the case for 90 days which the company said it would need to obtain the additional evidence requested yes¬ terday by commission counsel. The counsel said unless it had more information about gas sales contracts and reserves it would have to oppose the application. Liddell Wednesday made it plain to attorneys that he was “not making any request for fur¬ ther evidence.” He said he had not known of the * commission counsel’s desire for additional data until the request was made. Scott Wilkinson, Atlantic attor¬ ney, estimated it would take three months to obtain the sales con (.Continued on last page) City Council Met Tuesday; Beer Has Brought In $4,000 The Mayor and Council met in regular session Tuesday evening at 6:30 in what was a compara¬ tively short meeting. The beer ordinance was amend¬ ed to permit a policeman to ride the beer truclf and collect the city tax from retailers as they receive the beer. L. A. Prince was as¬ signed this duty. * > A representative from the Ro¬ tary Club appeared before the council requesting permission to hold a Grady County Fair next fall. While the Council seemed generally in favor of th§ proposal, actioft on the matter was defer¬ red. until next meeting. It was brought out at this meet¬ ing that new street lights had re¬ cently been placed in Southern Terrace Estates, as wgll as the new ones on First Ave., N. E. Several delegations from other towns have come over to inspect the new and modern lights on First Avenue, it is said, and senti¬ ment seems to be growing to have similar lights installed on Broad Street. City Clerk Ralph Carlisle re¬ ported Thursday that beer reve¬ nue tlje City had received since the resumption of sales here Nov. 20, would amount to approximate¬ ly $4,000. Receipts in the City office-showed $3,985.60 early Thursday morning. GRADY COUNTY Greatest Diversified Farming Section In America SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENT! Valdosta Glee Club Enjoyed By Large Audience Tuesday A packed auditorium here Tues¬ day night, including many from Thomasville and other towns, gave their resounding approval to the Emory-Valdosta Glee Club concert sponsored by the Cairo Rotary Club. Under the direction of James A. Dasher, the visiting choral group provided two hours of exceptional entertainment. The group included several boys from this area. Among them were three Cairoites, William Oliver, Lloyd Herring and John LeGette; Oris Blackburn of Quit man and Jack Kelly of Thomas¬ ville were also members of the club. The quartet including the Cairo boys won outstanding praise from the audience. Mrs. Mary Burnett, formerly of Thomasville, but now with her husband Mr. Carey Burnett, City Manager of Valdosta, was guest soprano, and was another audience favorite. Miss Lily Howell was accompanist for the singers. The program was divided into three parts. The first part con¬ sisted of group singing; the second part was made up of individual acts; and the third was perform¬ ed in the similated setting of a night club. This last section of the program was especially well received, and Lloyd Herring of Cairo sang “In The Garden of My Heart” in a very creditable manner. The other numbers in this act, as well as the entire pro¬ gram, was especially enjoyed by the large and attentive audience, who responded with generous ap plause, and left with the feeling that they had been privileged to vee and hear an outstanding per¬ formance by a group of talented young people. Jerry Kohler At Legion Plays For Dance Saturday Night For the first time in several weeks, the local American Le¬ gion is sponsoring a popular band in this area Saturday night, Feb. 18th. for a dance at the clubhouse here. Jerry Kohler will bring his orchestra from Tallahassee to provide the music. Mr. Kohler has played at the Legion before, and was quite popular with those attending. It is expected that a large crowd will attend this dance to enjoy the excellent music of Jerry Koh¬ ler. The Legion’s regular Friday night square dances are still be¬ ing held, and for the most par: are well attended. Curtis Gor den and his Hill Billies are fea¬ tured on the Friday night pro¬ grams, and usually draw large crowds.' The public has a cordial invita¬ tion to either the Friday night square dances or to the Saturday night dance where good orches¬ tras are always provided. Laymen's Revival At First Baptist Here Begins Sunday A laymen’s revival will be held at the First Baptist Church in Cairo beginning Sunday and run¬ ning . through next Wednesday, Feb. 22, it was announced this week. This revival will empha¬ size the role the layman should play in his church. In connection with the meeting a Church supper is being planned for Monday night at the Womans’ Club for the men and boys. All men and boys, from 9 to 90 are jnvited to come out and enjoy the supper. The supper will be car¬ ried to all those over 90. Miss Mary Spear left Wednes day for Atlanta where she will spend ten days as the guest of Mrs. Cecil Spear and Tommy. NUMBER 6. Audience Lauds Cairo's Band Attendance Small At 4th. Annual Concert Here The Cairo High School Band presented its best performance last Thursday night in its fourth annual Concert, before a smaller crowd than should have attended a performance of this type. After the National Anthem the Program got under way with the playing of “Doxology” by Leidz en. This number is one which has been satisfactorily performed by the Famous Goldman Band of New York City. It was not the best number played by the Cairo High Band partly because of the cornet section, but was neverthe¬ less done in a workmanlike man¬ ner, and well received by the audience. Next was heard, Mr. Elmer Ziegler in clarinet solo. Mr. Ziegler is an accomplished musici¬ an and performer. Although his major instrument is violin, he performed creditably on the elarient. For his first number Mr. Ziegler chose the “Interlude” by John J. Morrissey, which is rep¬ resentative of modern American works. For encore Mr. Ziegler played the popular tune by Hoagy Carmichael “Stardust”. This number was so well received that it was necessary for him to play another chorus as an additional encore. Mr. Ziegler’s playing of this number brought to mind the playing of Ted Lewis, a perform¬ er of some years ago. The high point of the program came in tht presentation of the “Suite Atlantic”. This is the story in music of the mythical island j of Atlantis that was supposed to have been somewhere in the At¬ lantic Ocean. All of this was well done with special honors going to David Elkins on Baritone t -*Ct Tommy Roote on cornet. This is a good production number and is also a fairly difficult one for a high school band. It was sur¬ prisingly well done. By way of a novelty was heard “In a Chinese Temple Garden” by Ketelbey. This was well done and certainly different. Proko fieff’s “Love for Three Organes March” was well played, al¬ though some of this modern Rus¬ sian music is not too well re¬ ceived. Not any political impli¬ cations, but because of the some¬ times radical departures from the accepted in music. It is well, however to explore these fields to see what contemporary com¬ posers are doing. The program ended with two novelty numbers which were well presented and showed that the band also can count showmanship as one of its qualities, along with all pf the others. Throughout the prograin sev¬ eral Marches were played as en¬ cores, all well done although on Storm King and Colonel Bogey the tempo was a little ‘up’. Man¬ hattan Beach and the three Fill¬ more marches were played well and made the program really a complete one. The chief comment that might be made about the program was, first, there were not enough peo¬ ple to hear it. Second the band needs to be larger. Although Miss Arline performs well on the French horn, there is no doubt that three more horns would help the overall sound of the band immeasurably. There is still need for tympanii in the band as well as bass and also elarient. In short, with what there is to work with Mr. Verran has done a surperb job. With more equipment and more willing personnel there is no limit to the things that could be accom¬ plished with the Cairo High School Band. Miss Jewell Dvrrence expects to spend the week-end with re¬ latives in Claxton.