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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXVI. No. 6
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1937
ESTABLISHED 1870
DIST. TOURNAMENT
IN PITTS FEB’Y. 17
Tournament In Pitts
The Boys’ thii d district tourn-
men t will be held in Pitts, start
ing on Tuesday, February 17, and
going until Saturday, February
20 The Saturday night game
will be the winners of the “B”
and “C” groups playing off to
see who will be the champion of
the district.
The upper bracket consists of
Pitts playing Americus, Buena
Vista playing Fort Valley, Hawk-
insville playing Vienna and East
man playing Ashburn,
In the lower bracket Perry
drew a bye, Sycamore plays Cor-
dele, Cuthbert plays Ellaville,
and Chauncey drew a bye.
Panthers Defeat Chauncey
Friday night the Panthers de
feated Charncey here to a score
of 28-14. This is the third time
that the Panthers have defeated
Chauncey having lost to them
only once. At the half the score
was 9-7 in favor of the Panthers.
The Panthers came back in the
last half and Chauncey never
threatened them again. The
Panthers played the finest de
fensive game that they have
played this year.
W. POOL PASSES AT
HIS HENDERSON HOME 1
HIGHLIGHTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
PLANE LANDING FIELD
BEING BUILT AT PERRY
1 The 200 Roosevelt Balls held
F. W. Pool, 63, died Saturday throughout Georgia were the
morning at the family residence mos t successful ever this year,
in Henderson. AJr. Pool had 'according to Harrison Jones,
been in declining health for the 1 chairman of the Birthday
past four years. j Dances. The campaigh to raise
He was born in Henderson and $100,000 for the Warm Springs
lived in this community all hi s | Foundation in Georgia, he said,
life. He had been a member of W -U1 he continued.
Henderson Methodist Church for
the past fifty years.
He is survived by his wife;
three daughters, Mrs. L. C.
Morphew, of Chattanooga: Mrs.
B. H. Newberry, of Henderson,
and Mrs. L. D. Hamilton, of
Unadilla.
Funeral services were held
Sunday morning at
Methodist Church at
Another reduction in long dis
tance telephone rates recently
was announced by the Southern
Bell in Atlanta. It is the ninth
reduction in ten years.
least
some
were
will now
the South
floods, no
Industries
followed by interment in the
churchyard cemetery.
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
The Atlanta Georgian recently
celebrated its twenty-fifth year
as a Hearst publication, many
Henderson | weekly and daily editors of Geor-
11 o’clock'gia were invited to come to At-
P.H.S. Defeats Hawkinsville
Perry Panthers trounced the
Hawkinsville High cagers, 39 to
16, here Tuesday night.
In a preliminary combat the
Perry Athletic ,club Bears con
quered the Hawkinsville Athletic
club. 62 to 10.
Norman Porker and Horace
Grimsley led the Panthers to vic
tory last night, collecting 12 and
13 markers, respectively.
Hill and Barrett were luminar
ies for the Hawkinsviile High
boys with four and five points,
respectively.
Perry to Play Cordele
Thursday night of this week
Perry plays Cordele on the local
court at 8 o’clock.
Cordele won the “B” tourna
ment that was held in Perry last
year and went to the State meet
and had a good showing. Cor
dele is the team that beat Perry
in the tournament last year.
Perry lost only four points. This
should be a good game and this
will be the last home game of
the season.
This will be the last home
game that John Arnold, Aldene
Lassiter, Norman Parker, Hor-
ace Grinmsley, Harris Rape, Eu
gene Smith will play. J i m
t handler would have been among
these but he suffered an attack
of appendicitis.
A large crowd is expected to
come out and see these boys
play their last home game.
Harris Rape.
Home Economics Department
At the present the Home Eco
nomics department is of wide
interest. Much progress has
been shown during the past four
months. A wood stove was
bought during the Christmas
holidays. The department is
now buying an electric refriger
ator.
Plate lunches are sold at lunch
Hour. They contain a meat,
bread, salad and vegetables.
They only cost ten cents. The
profit made by the department
comes through the sandwiches,
fruit and orange drinks that can
be bought at recess.
Much co-operation has been
shown. Miss Oliver seems deep
ly interested in it.
The Homemakers club (which
is a Home Economics club) is
now a national and state club.
Christine Young.
Valentine Queens
Monday morning the different
classes in school nominated one
girl from each class to be voted
on as the queen for the Valentine
carnival Friday night at the
gymnasium,
The Senior class nominated
Ruth Munson; Junior class, Mar
jorie Walton: Sophomore class,
Ruth Tabor: Freshman class,
Plelen Gray: Seventh grade, Ma
rianne Nunn: Sixth grade, Betty
Roland; Fifth grade, Anna Lee
Bewers; Fourth grade, Barbara
Whipple; Third grade, Babe
Hunnicutt; Second grade, Joyce
Andrews; First grade, Sarah
Ivey.
The queen of the high school
and grammar school chosen will
be named Miss Perry High.
Anne Ruth Harper.
lanta and join the Silver Anni
versary festivities.
DeWitt King, Atlanta finan
cier, drilling a well on his Black-
land Road estate near Atlanta
recently struck gold quartz, but
wasn’t very hopeful that it
would prove of sufficient value
to mine.
Edd A. Burch, formerly asso
ciate editor of the Bartow Her
ald, has been named editor of
the Dalton Citizen to succeed
Henry W. Nevin, on leave to
serve as assistant secretary to
BONAIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
HEARD DISTRICT NEWS
U. D. C. MEETING
The February meeting of the
*7 Clinton C. Duncan chapter
w the U. D. C. was held at the
home of Mrs. Eby Holtzclaw
tuesday afternoon last week.
‘i S ; L. S. Riley, the vice-presi
dent, presided.
, Was decided to plant trees
a shrubbery in Evergreen
ememetry as a memorial to the
onfederate Veterans. Each
* ember shall contribute a tree
nio s K ru ^- The date for the
® ntln ? °f these will be an
nounced later.
f*.;i^?- cba P ter v °t e d to send con-
ami U A! Jns , to Eaburn Gap School
ul , e Jefferson Davis and
Rhodes memorials. Mrs. C. E.
f L- U , rs ^ n > the treasurer, asked
Marta ^ UeS be Sent to ber by
nP r ? gram was arranged by
of ' ^ yc * e Gurr. It consisted
Si,* poem, ‘-My Spring,” by
p dn £ y Lanier, read by Mrs. H.
‘■p/; 0 u S ; ? r ’ an d a review of
b °Mrs J A th DavT s ! nd '” giVe "
sa l a d course was
the 2? b ‘T ^ he hostesses during
the bour at the close of
ue meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. I. V. Heard and
family spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Manuel Tucker near
Byron.
Mr. Grantland Kersey, of
Lakeland, Fla., visited h i s
brother, Mr. W. D. Kersey, last daughter, Laurice, left for Eliza-
Mrs. W. H. Talton is visiting
relatives and friends at Eliza
beth, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Walker,
Miss Fay Walker, Miss Susie
Daniel, and Miss Mary Talton
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Gillespie in Abbeville.
Miss Ada Anthony visited rela
tives in Macon during the week
end.
Miss Grace Sasser was the
guest for the weekend of Miss
Nell Watson.
Mr. Grant Kersey, of Florida,
spent the weekend with rela
tives.
Mrs. Eddie Allen, of Florida,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Young, and
Messrs. Billie and Tommy Hol
loway visited relatives in
Thomaston, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fergu
son and son, W. C., and Miss
Jessie Collins, of Carr’s Station,
were spend-the-day guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Sunday.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Wills regret the continued
illness of Mr. Wills at the Ogle
thorpe Infirmary in Macon.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Williams
and Miss Susie Williams of Lin-
colnton, and Mr. Zed Ivy, of
Augusta, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Williams and Miss
Carrie Mae Williams for the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. William Perdue,
Mr. Adrian Perdue, and Mrs
Annie Smith Douse, of Macon,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Perdue in Kathleen.
Mrs. Lawrence Eubanks and
the Senate.
“Hold your farms, at
don’t give them away for
of those Westerners who
advised to go west
want to buy lands in
where there are no
sub-zero weather,
already are headed this way and
farmers will follow,” advises
Editor Ben A. Neal, of the Mil
len News.
I)r. M. L. Brittain, president
of Georgia Tech, has been elect
ed Georgia president of Phi Beta
Kappa, honorary scholastic frat.
Andrew J. Kingery, clerk of
the legislature, is being con
gratulated on a fine seven pound
hoy and Mrs. Kingery’s recov
ery.
Colleen Moore, famous movie
actress, has bought a 2,000 acre
place near Conyers and expects
to build a home there.
Eugene O’Neill, playwright,
has sold his St. Simons Island
home to move to California.
The Market Bulletin of the
Department of Agriculture, now
headed by Columbus Roberts,
has resumed publication after a
lapse since middle December.
CHARLES R. CRISP
DIES IN AMERICUS
1500 GEORGIA GOG BOYS
TAUGHT EROSION CONTROL
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Carney,
Misses Helen and Sabie Carney
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Clark of Elberta.
Miss Gladys Johnson had as
her guest last weekend Misses
Lois Bradley, Mildred Johnson
and Valoula Young, of Wel’ston.
beth, N. J. Friday where they
will make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnette Hunt,
of Nashville, Tenn., «re visiting
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Hunt of
Kathleen.
The Bonaire Cagers made the
best showing of the season last
Saturday night against the Una
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kerseyjdilla teams. The girls game was
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I close throughout with the final
Charlie Walker. I score of 10 to 12 in favor of Bon-
iMr. J. E. Mosley and Mr. Mil- aire. The regular five started
ton Mosely, of Loraine, spent| off against the Unadilla boys
last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs.! but before the first quarter was
J. E. Carney.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
.L TbeSor °rM Club J n i 1 The su PP° rt °f their friends will
the home of Mrs. W. K. Wh \ p ^ appreciated. Thpv mppt Trip
j up the second team went in and
j finished the game. The final
| score was 41 to 23 in favor of
j Bonaire.
1 The Bonaire boys will go to
I Byron to enter the Basketball
Tournament tonight (Thursday)
More than 1,500 enrollees of
the Civilian Conservation Corps
are engaged in soil and water
conservation activities being car
ried on throughout Georgia, ac
cording to Jule G. Liddell, acting
state co ordinator of the Soil
Conservation service.
Pointing out that nine CCC
camps have been assigned to the
Conservation service under the
co-operative agreement, Mr.
Liddell said the CCC boys are
working on farms aggregating
ing 64,135 acres in the state.
Mr. Liddell said he believed
there would be a two-fold ad
vantage in using the CCC boys
on the conservation program.
“A large proportion of these
enrollees will return to farm
homes after their period of en
rollment is over, carrying with
them a new insight into the se
riousness of the erosion problem
and a practical knowledge of
how erosion can be controlled,”
he added.
During the present winter
planting season the enrollees are
engaged largely in reforestation
work in connection with the
planting of approximately 3,685,-
000 trees which will be set out
this winter on farms of co-oper
ators in the camp areas, Mr.
Liddell explained. The planting
is being done under the super
vision of trained foresters at
tached to the camps.
Other erosion-control methods
which the enrollees are “learn
ingbydoing;” he said, include
the proper laying out of terrac
ing systems, the construction of
modern terraces and water dis
posal systems and construction
of contour furrows in pastures,
under supervision of camp engi
neers.
“They are also learning how
close-growing crops can be used
for erosion control,’, he continu
ed, ' ‘and how crop rotations,
cover crops, strip crops and oth
er vegetative methods of erosion
control can build up as well as
conserve the fertility of the soil.
“The actual work these enroll
ees are doing on the 64,135 acres
under co-operative agreement in
these areas is only one benefit
of the program,” he added.
“The knowledge of good farm
ing which they are acquiring
and will carry through life will
be of far-reaching effect.”
An official landing field for air
planes is being constructed at
Perry by the U. S. government
through the co-operation of the
City of Perry, and the County of
Houston.
The field is located on land
leased ftom Blood worth & Beek-
ham, on the Marslialleville road
about one and one-half miles
from Perry.
Most of the work on the field
has already been Completed,
grading being done by the coun
ty. Grass has been sodded over
a 40-acre area and markers con
sisting of a large white circle
made of limerock. white post
markers and a wind guage put on
the field.
The Perry field is said to be on
a direct air line from points from
north to Tampa, and South Am
erican points. It is also on a di
rect air line between Fort Ben-
ning and Savannah.
For the present the field will
be equipped for day-time flying,
but later the necessary equip
ment for night flying also will be
furnished.
SOIL-BUILDING PRACTICES
Ho4oJc!^.l 0 r be Alness of Mrs.
* be Hodge-Podge column
issue 1 ap P ear i° this week’s
with Mrs. Paschal Muse as co
hostess, Tuesday at 3:45 p. m.
Tne Baptist W. M. S. Mission
study course has been changed
from Tuesday to Thursday, Feb.
18, at 2 p. m.
They meet Ideal'
in the first game of the tourna
ment. i
TAG LIMIT EXTENDED
A list of soil-building practices
for which farmers in Georgia can
receive Class II, or soil-building
payments, under the 1937 Agri
cultural Conservation program
has been received by County
Agent W.T. Middlebrooks.
Cully A. Cobb, director of the
southern region, AAA said this
list of soil-building practices
would apply uniformly through
out the southern region. All
of the practices approved were
recommended by state commit
tees.
The Class II conservation pay
ment is made for practices which
build and improve the soil. It is
in addition to the Class I, or soil
conserving payment, which is
made to farmers who divert part
of their soil-depleting base acre
age to soil-conserving crops.
Class II payments are limited
on any farm to the soil-building
allowannce that is built up for
the farm. The soil building al
lowance will be the sum equal to
$1 per acreage normally planted
to soil conserving crops plus the
the acreage diverted for pay
from soil depleting crops, with
an additional allowance for land
in commercial fruits and vege
tables.
Class II payments will be made
for carrying out any one or more
of the approved soil-building
practices at the rates and upon
the conditions listed below, pro
vided that the soil-building pay
ments shall not exceed the soil
building allowance for the farm:
Alfalfa or Kudzu planted on
cropland in 1937, $2 50 per acre.
Red, mammoth, sweet, alsike,
white, bur or crimson clover,
Lespedeza, Austrian winter peas,
vetch, or other locally adapted
winter legume, or legume
ture, seeded on crop land in 1937
$1.50.
Soybeans, velvet beans, cow-
peas, crotalaria, beggar weed or
other locally adapted summer
legume, excluding Lespedeza
grown on cropland in 1937 and
the leaves, stems and vines
plowed under, provided a rea
sonably good growth is attained
$2.00 per acre.
Green-manure crop, including
rye, oats, barley, wheat,
rye grass, or mixtures of two or
more cf these, plowed under as
green manure after making a
reasonable growth (not less than
2 months’ growth) in the
AMERICUS, Ga. — Charles R.
Crisp, former congressman and
Democratic member of the tariff
commission, died at his home
here Sunday. He was 66 years
old.
Crisp, son of the late Speaker
Charles F. Crisp of the national
house of represent itives. served
20 years in congress. Hj com
pleted the unexpired term of his
father in 1896 and subsequently
was elected to represent the
Third Georgia district 10 conse
cutive terms, from 1913 to 1933.
He was twice parliamentarian
of the house. After his defeat
by Richard B. Russell, Jr., for
the United States senate in 1932,
President Hoover named Crisp
to the tariff commission.
He practiced law in Washing
ton upon leaving the commission
and came to his Georgia home
a year ago after suffering a
stroke. He had shown marked
improvement, however, and only
recently enjoyed a hunting trip.
He was stricken at 10:30 a m.,
and died within a few minutes.
In 1932 he gained a national
reputation when acting as chair
man of the house ways and
means committee, he prepared a
hill which balanced the federal
budget at a critical financial pe
riod.
As a youth of 19 he went to
Washington with his father and
for many years was employed in
the interior department.
A keen student of parliament
ary procedure, Crisp at 21 was
named house parliamentarian
when his father became speaker.
That was at the December ses
sion of 1910.
In later years he played a ma
jor role in liberalizing rules of
the house. Many of the present
rules were drawn by him, His
Manual and Digest of the Rules
of the House of Representatives
became internationally known as
a statj^ard work.
Again house parliamentarian
in 1911, he served in that capac
ity under Speaker Champ Clark.
The next year he was parlia
mentarian of the Baltimore con
vention which nominated Presi
dent Wilson.
Crisp was twice married. His
first wife was Miss Lucy Shef
field and the second Mrs. Crisp
was Miss Jennie Hollis, both of
Americus. A son, Charles F.
Crisp, was born of the first union.
The son is married and the fath
er of two children.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
at the First Methodist church.
Rev. Joseph Cook, pastor, of
ficiated. Burial was in Oak
Grove cemetery.
acre.
Establishment of permanent
pasture of perennial grasses, or
any pasture grass or legume mix
ture, on cropland or non-crop
open pasture land in 1937, $3 00
mix- per acre.
Forest trees, including post-
producing species, planted on
cropland in 1937, $5.00 per acre,
Ground limestone or its equiv
alent applied on soil-conserving
crops or pastures in 1937, but
payment will not be made on an
amount in excess of 4,000 lbs.
per acre, or less than 500 lbs,
per acre if applied in rows, or
less than 1,000 lbs. per acre if
applied broadcast, 0.07 per 1,000
Itaiian lbs.
Sixteen percent superphos
phate or its equivalent applied in
1937 on soil-conserving crops or
pastures (excluding soy beans,
spring!cow peas, velvet beans, and pea-
not be
of 1937, provided that such cropjnuts). but payment will i, U i, uc
has not gone through the dough made on an amount less than 100
stage. $1.00 per acre. I lbs. or in excess of 400 pounds
Annual grasses, or a mixture j per acre, 0.50 per 100 lbs.
of one or more annual grasses I Basic slag applied in 1937 on
with one or more legumes, turn-1 soil-conserving crops or pastures
ed under in 1937 as green ma-! (excluding soy beans, cowpeas,
nure following truck or vege-ivelvet beans, and peanuts), but
table crops, or turned under in!payment will not be made on an
JOKES
Miss Hortense McLester, of
Macon, spent the weekend with
her mother, Mrs. L. E.
Lester.
“The boy who gets this job
must be fast.”
Me- “Mister. I’m so fast I
i drink water out of a sieve.”
can
1937 in orchards or vineyards: amount less than 100 pounds or
ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia’s provided such green-manure crop i in excess of 600 pounds per acre,
famous $3 tags will continue to attained a reasonablygood growth 10.35 per 100 lbs.
[be sold at that price without! (not less than 2 months’growth) Maganese sulphate applied in
1 penalty until March 1, it was an- $1,00 per acre. 11937 on soil-conserving crops,
nounced at the state capitol re-1 Any sorghum, Sudan grass, or [ but payment will not be made on
cently. Originally the closing'millet (or, in a cropping rotation, [an amount in excess of 50pounds
date was January 31. Don’t be mixtures of grasses or legumes), ,per acre, $2.00 per 100 lbs.
late, however, because it is prac-1 grown in 1937 and all the crop | Terracing land in 1937 in ac
tually certain that the penalty left on the land or plowed under, ( cordance with good terracing
of a dollar extra will be invoked provided a reasonably g o o d! practices for the land, 0.40 per
after midnight February 28. [growth is attained, $1.00 per 100 ft.