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Established January ,15th, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter
January 14, 1904, at the Post Of
fice at Cairo, Ga., under the act
of March 3rd, 1879.
F. J. WIND, Editor from May
1st, 1904 to September, 1922.
H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager
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CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO *
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FEBRUARY 15TH. 1935
Rev. Wilburn S. Smith, the new
pastor of the Cairo Baptist Church,
arrived with his family as sche¬
duled this week, and a warm wel
come is being extended to them
by the people of the community.
Mr. J. T. Pelham was claimed
by death last Friday. He
been in ill health for several
months but was confined to his
bed for about four weeks.
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The $3 license fee for all motor
vehicles has become law in Geor¬
gia, at least for the next two
years.
Miss Emmie Spence of
and Mr. Murray Maxwell of
Cairo were quietly married in
Tallahassee last Sunday after¬
noon, Feb. 3.
PAWNEE NEWS
Miss Lucile Coble spent last
Thursday night as the guest of her
sister Mrs. Grady Davis. Mr. and
Mrs. G. R. Harrell and baby, and
Mr. and Mrs. Sam King, and chil¬
dren visited the latter’s sister,
Mr. and Mrs. Tifton Mills a short
time last Saturday.
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• CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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FEBRUARY 20TH. 1920
A crowd estimated at about 100
representative citizens met at the
court house Tuesday night and
spent more than three hours in
open discussion of school matters
connected with the drive that was
launched by the School Improve¬
ment Club to raise the debt that
had been overhanging the school
for some time.
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The Board of County Commis¬
sioners met during the week.
Those present were D. P. Ward,
Chairman, W. A. Shiver, J. A.
Wynn, T. W. Faircloth, Henry
Mitchell, and C. H. Mize.
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At the invitation of Mr. Harry
Copeland, of Meigs, Messrs. Jule
Forrester and J. A. Pope, have
been spending several days on a
hunting trip in Florida.
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Mrs. Ruth Seligman, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. Pincus, erf
Cairo, and her day-old infant,
died in Savannah last Sunday,
after an attack of influenza and
pneumonia.
BIBLE VERSE
—**A fool is also full of words: a
man cannot tell what shall be;
and what shall be after him, who
can tell him?"—Ecclesiastes 10:14.
LET'S HAVE SIGNS
ON WATER TANK
As one of our readers suggests
! in a letter to the editor, let us
have some large CAIRO signs on
two or three sides of the new
! water tank—painted signs for the
da y time - and neon si e ns which
can be seen for miles at night,
This subject has been discuss
ed at one or more meetings of the
council, and the council seemed
generally in favor of the proposal,
provided it did not cost too much.
We urge the council to go
ahead and place both day and
night signs on the water tank,
so that CAIRO may be seen, as
P«>P le approach the twon.
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NO OPPOSITION?
With the 1950 primary a short
four months away, it is begin¬
ning to look as if Herman may
retain his job without a serious
fight. It is a sad commentary on
the cit i zens of Georgia to admit
tbat tbey can ’t offer any serious
opposition .... to of . the most
one
| vulnerable candidates for public
office in the history of this state.
There is yet time for an out
, standing candidate to get a full
fledged campaign going; but time
will not wait for him. And who¬
ever he is and wherever he is,
if he intends to offer any
sition at all, he had better be
j erging on the horizon within the
' next few weeks.
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DRESS REHEARSAL
IS OVER
(Atlanta Constitution)
Georgia’s Legislature ended in
the usual flurry and the com
ment on the session is “About
j what was expected.” That is
true if you didn’t expect much.
If one figures up the cost to
the State, about $150,000, the re¬
sults will seem hardly worth it.
But that is true of most sessions.
! There were some few constructive
j measures, although most of them
i 'small: The State juvenile court
i bill, the antimolesting bill, the
legislation creating an authority to
I lease or extend leases on W. &
A. Railroad air right, the State
turnpike authority, and, Jbest «of
all, postponement of the inicfui
tious re-registration bill.
On the dubious side was the
$1,000,000 in pay increases to of¬
fice holders and in appropria¬
tions, and the statutory highway
reorgan ization.
On the bad side was failure of
House members to vote to put
the antimask bill on the floor for
vote.
But, after all, this session was
but a dress rehearsal for the next
one—which likely will be called
in August. The exact time de¬
pends on the primary, date for
which has not yet been set. The
Legislature already has been no¬
tified it must finance the Mini¬
mum Foundation for Georgia
schools at the next session . . .
most likely with a sales tax.
The dress rehearsal is over.
Ahead is the long hot Summer,
the primary and, once again, the
Legislature.
Next time it will have to shoot
or give up the gun, as they say.
This time it was afraid.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Editor The Messenger:
Many thanks to you for your
recent promptness on delivery of
my papers, and for your expres¬
sion of willingness to publish an
article that you know, will be in
opposition to your political views
and writing. I think this fair and
appreciate it I admire the Mes¬
senger and its staff very much,
even though we sometimes dis¬
agree in our politics.
We have an international cold
War with Russia, we have a
national War with John L. Lewis;
we have sectional War with Presi¬
dent Truman; we have a state war
with political factions. You are
lined up against the present ad¬
ministration and the Governor,
which is your privilege and no¬
body blames you. Since you are
so fair and almost invite a
challenge, I accept, and to cut it
short as possible I will just men¬
tion a few charges and state re¬
sults.
At first you criticised re-regis¬
tration. Said it was unconstitu¬
tional thereby causing indiffer¬
ence. Later you say register, so
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1950
you can vote, Talmadge wants a
small vote, he thinks he can man
age them easier. What happened
and Talmadge asked the legisla
ture to allow the use of the 1948
voters list. Was you right?
Then you say Talmadge is not
eligible. The attorney General
says he is. Who is right? You
advocate the sale of intoxicants in
Cairo. You say Talmadge is a
liquor man. O. K. for Cairo but
wrong for the state. Is this con¬
sistency? You say we need a bus¬
iness man for Governor, right
you are, it seems now that you
will have to choose between Mr.
Thompson and Herman and a 10
year old school child comparing
the purchase of Jekyll Island and
the Savannah quarter Master de¬
pot will decide in favor of Her¬
man.
You say all Herman’s acts are
mistakes. I guess that includes
being bom of the wrong parents
and bearing the name Talmadge.
Don’t shy at the name. If Her¬
man did inherit the name, he will
stand or fall on his own merits.
And just remember this, there
is a cause for every effect and
that’s what makes the name Tal¬
madge so disasterous to their op¬
ponents. You say that the Tax
on gas, cigarettes, Beer and whis¬
key has caused the state revenue
to decrease instead of increasing.
You say the ship is sinking and
caused the special session. Sink
or swim, If Herman’s Program
gets far enough advanced before
the election so that the people can
see the benefit of it for safety op
eration of school buses and farm
to market roads and schools; old
age pension, and health advant¬
ages, it will be hard to find a
man that can beat him.
How would you like to speak to
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an audience of those school pupils
and teachers and tell them
madge wanted to help them but
it? By encouraging out of state
purchases to cut state revenue?
Do you think the farmers, school
bus drivers, teachers, pupils or
parents would cheer you? :
Now lets talk local politics, I
am a democrat, if democracy j
means majority rule. If my mem
ory served me right, there has
not been a county democratic |
primary held in Grady County j
since 1932. I want to see the
names of the candidates for coun
ty executive committee placed on
the ballot in order that the voters ■
will know who is offering for
will be ,
Committeemen then it j
that we can get men on the com¬ !
mittee that will require a ma¬
jority vote to nominate. This
will spell democracy. Its a shame,
but true, the Primary in 1936 in
Grady County nominated a man
for a 4 year term for County
School Superintendent with .
per cent of the votes. And to- |
day we have an entire Board of i ,
County Commissioners that was
nominated with less than a ma
jority vote. Only one came near
it. Bill Hester only lacked a frac¬
tion of a per cent in the Cairo
district. There was between 900
and a 1000 votes silent. Who
knows what a run over would
have meant? Think this local
matter over and lets return to a
Democratic practice in Grady.
I am respectfully,
J. T. Sellars.
Editor, The Messenger:
Our new water tank is finished
—can be seen a long ways from
Cairo, in nearly every direction.
Tourists coming through town
could read letters on tank, if they
were large enough. Those travel
ing on trains can see and read
s j gn on tower from the depot
How many business men
have thought what a cheap, won
derful, advertising for the town
there would ^ if Cairo in large
letters is painted on side of tank,
on two or three sides. Some peo
,pj e will still ride on trains, and
mos tiy tourists, and people from
ou ^ Q f s t a t e An old man who
bas traveled all over the United
states, was here some years back,
and cabed Bubber’s attention to
p a j n t:n,g the name of the town on
wa t er tank—he told him the
years he traveled on trains, from
g an Francisco t 0 New York back
wards and forward, twice a year,
stopping only at largest cities,
and he watched through every
state, people would ask, what
mtle place ig this> and before he
- t traveling, number of
qu a
small towns began to paint name
of town on high towers, mostly
water tanks near railroad, could
be geen eas j er than name
on depot, and insisted on Bubber
putting Cairo on water tank, and
as you know, it was put on at
that time.
Some people all over United
States have heard of Cairo, Ga.,
as the syrup town, and if they
read the name Cairo on our tank,
the first thing they think—this
must be the syrup town.
CITIZEN.
Dear Mr. Wind:
We just received our Subscrip¬
tion Statement today as you used
our old address, we didn’t realize
that our subscription had expired.
I can assure you that we do not
want to be without the Messenger
because we gather some news
that the home folks forget to
write S
The pit* Lake street in
one of the papers just before
Christmas was very good just
wish you would have more pic¬
tures of Cairo.
I am enclosing a check for our
renewal. Wishing you each and
everyone a very happy and pros
perous New Year.
Sincerely,
JANET W. DAVIS,
New Gilching, Germany.
Editor, The Messenger:
Enclosed in this letter you will
find Two Dollars for another
year’s subscription to the Cairo
Messenger. I enjoy reading the
Messenger very much and since
I have been away from Cairo for
some Twenty months, I can al¬
ways depend on the Cairo Mes¬
senger every week to bring me
the latest news from Cairo.
CHARLES A. MORGAN,
Naval Air Station
Coco Solo, Canal Zone.
Editor, The Messenger:
Last year I carried a vase from
Miami to my father’s grave at
Pleasant Grove cemetery. At
Christmas when my sister car¬
ried flowers to place on his grave,
the vase was gone. The same
thing has happened to several of
my friends in Cairo.
I would not even break a flow¬
er in a cemetery and certainly
would never take a vase or any¬
thing from anyone’s grave. I
can’t understand how anyone
can do such a thing, and hope the
guilty ones will do better and not
be tempted to do such deeds
again.
MRS. L. W. RIGSBY,
Miami, Fla.
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$100,000 ROOKIE PITCHER; Los
Angeles, Calif.—Paul Bettit, 18- I
year-old Narbonne high school I
pitching star, has been signed to
a contract by the Pittsburgh Pi- I
rates, with a bonus of $100,000. i
The highest southpaw is to receive the j
sum ever paid to a rookie. 1
Paul is telling the good news to
his best girl, Shirley Jennings,
also 18.
MISS SHIVER, MR. LEE
HONORED AT DINNER.—
iMrs. A. L. Dollar and Mrs. De¬
leon Shiver entertained the mem¬
bers of the Shiver-Lee wedding
party at a buffet supper Satur¬
day evening before the rehearsal.
Chicken salad with ritz crack¬
ers, mints, and cookies were en
joyed.
(Miss Shiver looked quite girl¬
ish in a black crepe gown with
a lace yoke.
Land will render more rapidly
and completely if the fat is cut
into small pieces before being
put into the kettle.