The Cairo messenger. (Cairo, Thomas County, Ga.) 1904-current, February 24, 1950, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextCAIRO, GEORGIA The Best City of Its Size In the Entire United States A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XLVII. 240 BOYS ENROLLED FOR 1950 CORN CONTEST IN COUNTY (950 Set Aug. 22 Record Interest Seen For Both Programs The Chamber of Commerce committee sponsoring the Fat Calf Show and Corn Contest in Grady county each year, of which John B. Hinson is chairman, made plans for these programs for 1950 at a meeting last Saturday at the office of County Agent S. E. George at the Courthouse here. County Agents and Vocational Ag Teachers reported an enroll ment of 240 FFA and 4-H Club boys for the 1950 Corn Contest— an all-time record. Seed corn for the boys will be available through the agents and teachers in a few days. Last year 175 boys entered the contest and the 150 who com pleted it averaged approximately 66 bushels of corn per acre, with top winners in excess of 100 bu shels per acre. The Fat Calf Show this year was set for Tuesday, Aug. 22nd, and will again provide cash prizes chiefly for 4-H Club and FFA members but with the adult class continued as last year also to in clude cash prizes. All of the reg ulations and other information will be announced in detail in an ad in The Messenger shortly. Youths interested are urged to make arrangements for their calves immediately and several members of the committee—the agents and teachers, E. B. Ham brick, of Cairo Livestock Auction Co., Ralph Gainey and B. W. West—were urged to assist them in securing entries. Alvin B. Wight has offered to finance a limited number of boys with their calves or with bred mothers. The pasture demonstration at the show and sale last year which was studied with interest by several hunderd farmers attend ing will be expanded this year and sponsored jointly by the Cairo Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. The big Corn Contest will be conducted largely on the same regulations as last year with cash Prizes again offered by Whigham Community Club and various local business concerns for the Production contest. Cairo Kiwanis Club again offers two pure-bred S'lts, also. The Corn Show, which will be the climax of the produc tion contest, will again provide additional cash prizes by the Cairo Rotary Club, with the show a feature' of the Grady County Fair it is revived by Rotary sponsor ship this year. Corn Contest regulations were strengthened to require rather (Continued on page 4) ms. "I will be glad in the Lor d." (Ps. 1 0 4, xxxiv). ^ ea i joy and inspiriation have but one source— and that is the source all things. Experience ^‘ s true happiness by getting close to God, Attend the church of l° ur choice regularly. y OUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU—YOU NEED YOUR CHURCH V 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 Friday Is World Day Of Prayer How great is your faith in pray er? There are many today who believe it is “the mightiest force in the world.” The World Day of Prayer gives expression to such a faith. It is observed annually and sponsored nationally by the United Council of Church Wo men. The day will be observed at the Presbyterian Church here this Friday, afternoon, Feb. 24, at 4 o’clock, sponsored by all the churches of the community. The World Day of Prayer last year was observed in eighty-six countries and the program trans lated in more than sixty lan guages. The offerings received on that one day suppored six great missionary projects at home and abroad. Last year the of ferings totaled over $250,000. “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” Today unceasing prayer will span the earth, beginning as the sun rises on the Fiji Islands near the international date line, and continuing westward until the “Amen” is sung in the cold Arc tic more than twenty-four hours later. Everybody is invited to attehd the service at the Presbyterian church and spend a part of the day in this universal service of prayer and worship. Fires Increase Here This Week Colored Resident Burns To Death Wednesday Noon The number of fire alarms have increased considerably during the last week, possibly due to the cooler weather and high winds, with five fires over the last five days, one of which brought firey death to Johnny Bell, a colored man about 60 years old, when the shack he was living in at the old Thomas-Robinson Lumber Co. quarters burned Wednesday noon. An inquest was held by Coron er H. F. Bearden Wednesday aft ernoon at 4:00 p. m. where evi dence from nearby residents were heard. The verdict of the Coron er’s jury was as follows: “We the jury find that the decased came to his death by a fire from an oil heater which circumstantial evidence indicates was accidental ly turned over by deceased.” According to evidence brought out at the inquest the deceased was ill and very feeble. Reese Roe and Ola McDuffie, colored residents, had been looking after (Continue from page one) i Bernard King Is Kiwanis Speaker On Last Tuesday Bernard King, of Atlanta, a state Baptist worker who led a laymen’s revival at the First Bap tist Church here early this week, was the interesting speaker at the Kiwanis luncheon Tuesday, his theme being the elements of civic endeavor. He was presented by the Rev. R. C. Perry, Jr., pastor of the church. Sam A. Pierce, the club president, guided the meeting. Mr. King pointed out that peo ple associated in community ser vice activities cannot predicate their efforts on how much they can get out of an organization but that service must be based alto gether on how much they can get out of an organization but that service must be based altogether on how much each is willing to give thereto for the betterment of the community. This giving, he said, calls for thinking, plan ning and work. He paid tribute to J. Belmont Mosser, immediate past president of Kiwanis International, whose unexptected death in Pennsylvalia last week was announced to the club in a letter read by Norwood Clark. Many Cairo Kiwanians met Mr. Mosser in Thomasville last year. Pres. Pierce reminded everyone of the joint Kiwanis-Rotary meet ing next week at Spence. It will be a supper meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. Guests also included Kiwanians Odis Johnson, Thomasville, and Fort S. Cannon, Hendersonville, N. C.; and Wayne Stephens and Charles Ward, local FFA mem bers, who emphasized National FFA Week. Cage Tournaments Close Wednesday; More Saturday The 7th and 8th grade county basketball tournament continued here Tuesday night, with scores as follows: 7th Grade Girls Elpino 25 - Midway 12. 7th Grade Boys Cairo Northside 21 - Midway 17. 8th Grade Girls Union 10 - Cairo Reds 29. 8th Grade Boys Cairo Black 39 - Union 4. Finals and County Champions 7th Grade Girls Elpino 25 - Midway 12. 7th Grade Boys Elpino 26 - Cairo Northside 24. 8th Grade Girls Cairo Reds 17 - Spence 15. 8th Grade Boys Cairo Black 23 - Elpino 16. Finals The finals in this Tournament were played Wednesday night. All were closly contested. A PROCLAMATION GEORGIA, Grady County, City of Cairo. TO THE PEOPLE OF CAIRO: It is more urgent than ever that our city be made and kept dean and attractive—and the new spring season with all of nature’s beauty commands us to be up and doing if we would keep pace! Nearly all progressive communities now set aside periods each year for a clean-up, paint-up, fix-up, beautification and sanitation improvement crusade. Competition in the attrac tion of new residents and enterprises to maintain or continue growth and development simply demand it—and then too, it pays real dividends when viewed from our own selfish interests and the general welfare. Rubbish needs to be cleared from the back alleys as well as the front spots. Vacant lots need to be put in order. Fire hazards in and around all buildings need to be eliminated be cause fire losses continue to mount—we simply cannot afford to let trash accumulate around our property. It is also a time to paint up and fix up everything that needs it. Parks should be put in condition for summer attractiveness. We may well seek to get a glimpse of ourselves as others see us so we can elimi nate all unsightly spots, along with all insect breeding places! These goals cannot be accomplished without the active and whole hearted co-operation of EVERY RESIDENT. Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Cairo, and upon specific approval of the City Council, I hereby proclaim the four weeks beginning Monday, February 27th, 1950, for the annual Clean-up, Beautification and Sanitation Improvement crusade in the city; and hereby respect fully call upon and urge every man, woman and child residing within the city to lend their fullest support and co-operation needed to make the crusade the best ever. The resources of the city government are hereby pledged fully to that end. The new “Plant Cairo Council”, the Chamber of Commerce through its Beautification and Civic Betterment committee, the Cairo Woman’s Club and various other civic and service groups are specifically asked to arouse active support of their agencies so that when the crusade ends March 25 Cairo may have rightfully earned the compliment, “a clean and attractive city.” CITY OF CAIRO By Walter Williams, Mayor. The game between Elpino and Midway was 7-7 at the end of the first half and in the second half Elpino pulled away with the cup. The 7th grade boys’ game be tween Elpino and Cairo Northside was a thriller. At the end of the first half Elpino was leading 12-3 and beginning second half they seemed to hit the stride and at the end of the official game the score was 22-all, requiring an overtime period. Elpino immediately took the lead with a field goal, Cairo evened up the score with two foul goals which spelled defeat for Northside. between the The third game grade Cairo Reds which is an 8th team and Spence was a thriller with a half time score 10-6 in favor of Cairo. In the second half Spence put on a lot of speed and pulled the score up to 15-all. The Cairo girls tossed a field goal in the last few minutes of play to take the 8th grade girls cham panionship. last of the evening The game boys of between the 8th grade final Cairo and Elpino with a score of 23-16 in favor of the Caroites; the half time score being 8-all. The Cairo boys began to hit their stride and gradually (Continued on last page) CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1950. Courf Convenes Here March 6 Civil Cases First; Criminal Docket Unusually Light The Grady Superior Court will meet Monday, March 6, with Judge Carl E. Crow of Camilla presiding. The Grady County Grand Jury will convene at 9:00 a. m. on the same date to take up criminal investigations and study the affairs of the county. No court calendar has been made yet, but the first week will be devoted to civil business, the first day probably being taken up with divorce cases. The most time-consuming civil business will be the damage suits of E. F. Groover and J. P. Andrews against the County Commission ers and the highway Department in connection with the automo bile accident North of town at the Bailey bridge, where their wives were injured in 1948. Criminal business is scheduled to be taken up the second week, beginning Monday, March 13, and according to Court Clerk Lelfend Harrison, indications are that it will be an unusually light ses sion. There are only eight crim inal warrants to be considered b ythe Grand Jury, and most of these are minor assault cases or domestic difficulties. Two cases of larceny are scheduled for in vestigation. Housing Agency Is Organized 250 Units Public Rental Housing Requested The new Housing Authority of the City of Cairo, recently creat ed by the Mayor & Council, whose five commissioners were subsequently confirmed by the Georgia State Housing Authority as required by law, was fully or ganized at a meeting Wednesday afternoon. Mayor Walter Wil liams spoke briefly as the organi zation meeting opened to thank the commissioners for their ac ceptance of their important pub-1 lie duties. . R. A. Bell was named chairman of the Authority, with Troy Bar rett as vice-chairman and Mrs. Henry Hester, Jr. as secretary. The other commissioners are Guy NichoLon and J. L. Oliver. Monthly meetings were set on the second Tuesday in each S0 mont U 1 ° nS at a. m. umerous re | quired, m additmn to + by-iaws h 1 for f r ! the Authority. After considerable discussion, in conference with C. W. Smed berg, of John J. Harte Co., At- Youth Rotary Speaker FFA Leader Stirs Club Billy [Howard, of Plains, Ga., state Future Farmers of America president, stirred Cairo Rotarians and guests at their Wednesday luncheon meeting with a brilliant talk on FFA accomplishments and goals. Speaking with the poise and ability of a mature speaker, the youthful leader thrilled his hear ers with a magnificient exposi tion of the great progress made by FFA up to its 23rd anniver sary being observed this week. He was introduced by his chapter adviser, L. L. Spence, of plains, who was presented by Roger Madison, adviser of the Cairo chapter. Fred Roddenbery, the club president, presided. Billy pointed out that FFA aims basically to build character and leadership among farm youths to better enable these leaders of to morrow to meet the problems of farming that steadily become more complex. He said these basic goals are being achieved by practical training for intelligent solutions of the varied problems that arise; by increasing appre ciation of rural life, by emphasiz ing that it is pleasant as well as challenging; and by promotion of thrift and a whole-heartedly co operative spirit. He said more than 300,000 boys on the farms are now enrolled in the group, with 13,700 in Georgia to give this state a 'fourth place position be hind only Texas, Illinois and North Carolina. Club Secretary Bobby Van Landingham read a letter from the Rotary Club in Cairo, Egypt, revealing the make-up and acti vities of that club and relating how that club drank a toast to the local club last December. Ap propriate acknowledgement of the appreciated letter and action was authorized. Other guests included Thomas ville Rotarians Howard Arnold and John Dixon; Bernard King, Atlanta; Mrs. Harris Jefferson as pianist in place of Mrs. A. B. Winters; Jack Norman, local FFA president; Harris Jefferson and Louis Powell. Mrs. W. H. Vanlandingham, of Donalsonville, spent Sunday here and attended the reunion of the family of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Van landingham at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vanlandingham. Alvin B. Wight and Ralph Brown are spending this week in Chicago, Ill., where they are at tending the National Home Build ers Show. lanta architectural and engineer ing concern, the Authority voted to file immediately with the Pub lie Housing Administrator! a re quest for the ear-marking of Fed eral funds for the construction here of 250 units of public low ent housing in a two-year pro gram-115 units for white real dents and 135 units for non-white residents. For this an advance of $85,000 for surveys and pre liminary planning was requested. The units, if authorized, would be built 125 the first year and 125 the second year. Mr. Smedberg, who will prosecute the project before PHA, said the allocations •for the current year authorized j in the public housing legislation j adopted last July may be ex hausted, in which event start of the program would be defered for about one year. John J. Harte Co. was given a letter of intent requesting its architectural and engineering ser vices conditioned upon PHA ap prpval of the program. GRADY COUNTY Greatest Diversified Farming Section In America SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENT! SIXTEEN PAGES C. Of C. Directors To Meet Monday President John H. Faulk, Jr., announced this week the Feb ruary meeting of the board of di rectors of the Chamber of Com merce will be held next Monday night, Feb. 27th, at 7:30 o’clock, at Citizens Cafe. It will not be a supper meeting but those who desire may order a meal of des sert. The meeting was moved up from Tuesday night, the regular meeting time for 25 years, be cause a joint Kiwanis-Rotary meet at Spence was scheduled for Tues day night. President Faulk said the necessity for the change is deeply regretted but urged a full attendance Monday night. F. F. A. Banquet Enjoyed Here Father-Son Meet Wednesday Night For Sixth Year The sixth annual Father-Son banquet of the Grady County Chapter, Future Farmers of America, was held last Wednes day night at the Citizens Cafe with more than one-hundred pres ent, representing the local chapt er alon S with a number of guests Present. Citizens Bank was the host for this meet. The meeting opened with one verse of America by the entire group. Rev. A. B. Thomas rend ered the invocation, followed by Charles Ward, who welcomed the fathers and guests. Ivy Elkins, a father and Grady County farmer, responded. All guests were then recognized by H. R. Madison, ad visor to the local chapter and Vo cational Agriculture teacher at the Cairo High School. Ira Godwin, former agrciulture student in the Cairo Schools and at the present time a farmer, made a number of remarks to what the F. F. A. had done for him by putting to practise what he had learned as a student. John Hester reviewed the ac complishments of the local F. F. A. chapter. He stated that last year the Cairo Chapter had a total of 82 members. This year, a total of 106 members had been enroll ed from the 9th, 10th and 11th grades. Along with winning the chapter acheivement contest for district one, this chapter was de c j ared one 0 f t Q p f our j n the entire state. For this achieve ment, H. R. Madison received a trip to the National F. F. A. Con vention in Kansas City, Missouri. Other contests entered were Rome i m p rovemen t Permanent Rural Electrification> p ubRc Speaking, Quartet, Area Livestock show, Essays on con se rvation Work, local corn pro duction contest and Fat Calf show. He also told the group the num ber of projects they had par ticipated in, number of boys in- Red Cross Drive Begins Mar. 6 Major Gifts To Be Sought Next Week; Quota $1,999 A group of Red Cross leaders, at a meeting here last Monday, made plans to begin the Red Cross 1950 Fund drive, generally, for this county, on Monday week, March 6th. However, the special major gifts advance solicitation will start next Monday and ef forts will be made to complete it next week. The Grady county quota this year is $1,999, the same as for last year. W. M. Tyson, local lumberman, led the successful drive in 1949. This county has the enviable record of never Raving failed to meet a Red Cross quota. * C. Lloyd Connell, Co. School Supt., is general drive chairman for the county this year. At the meeting Monday with Miss Louise Johnson, Red Cross general field representative, he enlisted the following to head up the cam paign: Major gift chairman, H. T. Le Gette, wit£ Howell McKinnon, Jake Poller and Alvin Wight as his assistants; Cairo business area chairman, Frank Proctor, with his assistants to be named; Cairo residential areas co-chairman, Mrs. E. H. Coleman and Mrs. J. T. Batten; Cairo -industrial areas chairman, John W. King; Grady county rural areas chairman, Le land Harrison, Clerk of the courts; and Negro co-chairmen, Green Johnson and Lottie Jordan. Co-ordinating all of the efforts will be Mrs. Clower White, the chapter home service officers, and Marshall L. Mayes, the chapter chairman. The plans call for the most thorough canvass possible to spread the membership sign-up throughout the county. The gen eral goal is to enlist as many as eight percent of the people of the county, if possible, whereas less than five percent were enlisted last year, even though the quota was exceeded. Workers in the campaign will be urged to remind everyone ap proached that the Red Cross is an active and worthwhile force in this county continuously and that its services are a constant bene fit, well beyond the county’s pro portionate share of the cost, aside from its readiness to respond in the event of emergencies. The local Junior’ Red Cross chapter, of which Mrs. Walter Williams is chairman, carries on a continuous program. Mrs. White as home service officer serves countless people in need on a day-to-day basis. The water safety program in the county last summer was declared to have been of incalculable value to many people. The Red. Cross re cently made possible the training here of a number of instructors in safety and first aid and these volved, amount, yield made and the net profit made from these pro j e cts. Roger H master of cere _ monies then presented Mr H R . Madison> who in trun intro duced BiUy Howard( state F . F A . pres ident> who made a most inspiring address to all present in regards tQ tbe cbanges that had been made j n f arm i n g during the last fjj ty y ears jje a i so stated how important education was now to be successfu i in farming along w jth the improvements that had come j n to existence such as inoc u f a tj on e t c . Honrary memberships were be s t owed upon A. B. Winters, J. H. jf ouse) Agnew Smith, Ralph G. a j ne y and Lloyd Connell for the outstanding contributions to t he F. F. A. This week which has been de dared National F. F. A. week marked the 23rd year of existence the Future Farmers of America, The State of Georgia has nearly 14,000 active members. instructors, now qualified, in turn will spread the benefits of their training to many others. Many other benefts may be recount ^ Two years ago this county had a flood and two tornadoes that developed emergencies involving a number of families. In one case, the Red Cross provided quite substantial assistance to a number of families driven from their homes. In the other oases it was found ready to do so. The Red Cross is financed en tirely by the contributions of the people through its 3,- 745 chapters such as the Grady chapter. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Mills, of Athens, announce the of a daughter, Mary Ellen, St. Mary’s Hospital, Athens. baby weighs seven pounds five ounces. Mr. Mills mother, Mrs. W. E. is spending several days the family in Athens. NUMBER 7.

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The Cairo messenger. (Cairo, Thomas County, Ga.) 1904-current, February 24, 1950, Image 1