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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LX\ I. No. 33
PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937
ESTABLISHED 1870
GEORGIA'S PATROL
TOWNS
Ten highway patrol districts
; nt0 which Georgia has been di
vided were announced Saturday
bv Robert G. M»yo, treasurer of
t be State Department of Public
Safety.
Mr- Mayo said that some of
the selections were tentative and
mi rht be changed later by the
board. He added that the head
quarters set up in Griffin, Car-
tersville, Gainesville, Madison,
Washington, Americus, Perry,
Swainsboro, Moultrie, and Way-
cross would be held responsible
for patrolling their sections and
on request of the local authori
ties will also aid in enforcement
of other laws as well as traffic
regulations.
State headquarters of the pa
trol will be maintained in Atlan
ta, at the Confederate Soldiers
Home.
The first class of 101 members
is now taking training at Georgia
Tech. From this class the first
eighty state patrolmen will be
chesen.
Perry is headquarters for the
seventh district, in the central
section of the state and com
prises fourteen counties, as fol
lows: Houston, Monroe, Jones,
Crawford, Bibb, Twigg.s Peach,
Bleckley, Dooly, Pulaski, Dodge,
Crisp, Wilcox, and Telfair.
MRS. IDA WOODARD | HIGHLIGHTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
PASSES AUGUST 13;
. j Private estimates in s o u t h ; did not appropriate funds for
j Georgia indicate a short syrup buying the flags Governor Rivers
Mrs. Ida Woodard, widow of crop with a very low carry over, jsaid that the American Legion,
W. A. Woodard,died at her home In fact, some reports show an the Junior Order and other pa
near Bonaire Friday night, Au- extremely low carry-over. CaneI tatriotic organizations would be
gust 13, after an illess of several syrup last season started at expected to supply them. If they
months. Funeral services were around 28 cents per gallon in bar- fail to do so the Parent Teacher
conducted at the home Saturday re ' s > an d then advanced to organizations will do so, he said,
afternoon at 4 o’clock with Rev. around 45 cents. ,The board instructed the State
Max 0 neal officiating. Burial m, „„„ . n , . , . school department to withhold
wa s ln *!?, e P° n aire cemetery. the pay of any principal
COUNTIES TO TAKE HIGHWAY SURVEY
C.C.C. APPLICATIONS
IN STATE PLANNED
itheir wives, and leading 4-H
'club members last week attend-
Mrs. Woodard was 76
old and had lived in Houston . t ,
county all her life, being a mem- il d one of , tbe mos \ xr successful
ber of a prominent family. She * a ,T, a " d Weeks ever
was Miss Ida Greene before her hel vY, the University of Geor-
marriage. She had been a mem- f' a College of Agriculture and
ber of Houston Factory Baptist S, e , Ext f ns f ^ Service The en-
church since youth and took a , r ®U men t at the State 4-H Leader
leading part in the affairs of her confer , enCe , t0t S d near y
church and community until she !^ boys and girls, while nearly
lost her eyesight several years farm wom l f, n were enr ° ded
ago J tor the week’s course. The
She is survived by one son, ? armers themselves came in vary-
Angus E. Woodard, with whom L"? ™ mbers on different days,
she made her home, and o n e! £ g ? od n , umb ^ ° n
daughter, Mrs. L. B. Sasser, of; four days ’ 1 ues '
Bonaire, and one sister, Mrs
day through Friday.
HEARD DISTRICT NEWS
Miss Bettie Parker, of Macon,
is visiting Miss Sadie Carney
this week.
Mrs. Dent Harrison, Mrs.
George Hunt, Mrs. J. B. Hunt,
Mrs. I.V. Heard were spend-the-
day guests of Mrs. Alma Story,
of Wellston, last Friday.
Paul Clark, Jr., of Elberta, is
visiting his grandparents,Mr.and
Mrs. J. E. Carney, this week.
Mr. Gene Hollis, of Atlanta,
spent the weekend at his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis and daugh
ter, Bobbie Jean, spent Sunday
in Roberta.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Mitchell, of
Cochran, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Edwards during the week
end.
Miss Helen Carney is visiting
her sister, Mrs.Clarence Buchan
an, in Woodland.
Miss Ruby Holland,of Cochran,
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Holland.
ALL-DAY SINGING
AT SOCIETY HILL
There is to be held on Sunday,
Aug. 22, a Home-Coming and
All-Day Singing at Society Hill,
near Byron. The old church is
about an hundred and twenty-
two years old and is said to be
the oldest church in Crawford
county, but has gone down in the
past number of years and ser
vices beginning to be held there
again by the pastor of the Con
gregational churches of the
county.
There will be no preaching ser
vices, but Rev. Gideon Horn, who
served the church for the past
h J ty years together with Col. W.
Auitman, state senator, and
ether notables will give short
talks during the day.
AH singing classes, former
r r s !f e 9 ts an d friends, are cor-
uially invited to come and help
us t° make this day one of the
greatest days wa ever had. This
1! ^° Ur invitation to come.
Sincerely,
Crawford Moncrief.
WALTON REUNION
Bettie Woodard, of Perry.
MARKERS TO TRACE
GEORGIA’S HISTORY
The history of Georgia will be
traced by erecting markers at
historic sites, beginning with the
early development of the state
along the coastal plains continu
ing through the present period,
R. F. Burch, Jr., commissioner
of the Department of Natural
Resources, has announced.
“Georgia is rich in the early
history of our nation and hun
dreds of visitors come into our
state each year to visit these
places where were enacted events
that contributed to the advance
ment of our nation. By mark
ing these sites we will not only
attract more visitors into Geor
gia, but will add to the interest
of our own people in the history
of our state,” Mr. Burch said.
The Commissioner pointed out
that of the four important arch
aeological developments east of
the Mississippi, three of them
were in Georgia. Our Indian
history is a broad chapter within
itself, Mr. Burch said, and we
plan to mark the places where
early treaties were held and im
portant events took place that
gave to our nation the lands east
of the Mississippi. The Revolu
tionary period also furnishes a
wealth of important history and
in marking the historic sites of
this period we hope to develop
more interest and bring to Geor
gia many more visitors to visit
these shrines.
“The War Between the States
is another era that brings our
state to the attention of the na
tion. Margaret Mitchell's Gone
With the Wind, developed a na
tion wide interest in this era of
our history and visitors have
flocked to the state to visit Tara,
the home of O’Hara’s. While
this home was fictitious there
are many homes in Georgia typi
cal of the one described and
made the center of events in
Miss Mitchell’s book, that should
be marked. These homes are
the birth places of many of our
great statesmen and should be
marked so that visitors and our
own people may know of the
contribution their owners made
to Georgia’s development.”
According to the plans that
have been announced, markers
will be placed on the highways
near the sites of all important
battles of the war of tha sixties,
camp sites of famous
e '£hth annual reunion of
e Walton family will be held
u e * our th Sunday in August at
Houston Lake.
nf ^ ab:o ns and descendants
Waltons are invited to attend,
ere will be a speaker from At-
i, nta . ar ?H a good day generally
A^Hoipated. A barbecue din-
ner will be served.
Oscar P. Walton, pres.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Airs. Mattie K. Smith,Sec.
Raymond, Ga.
Receipts of the State of Geor
gia during the year 1936 were
$30,700,056 compared to $30,919,-
975 in 1935, according to the an
nual report of Comptroller Gen
eral William B. Harrison. The
expenditures in 1936, under one
man control by Governor Tal-
madge, were $28,073,876 com
pared to $34,922,878 during the
previous year when there was a
legislative appropiiation. The
balance in the state treasury at
the end of the year was $2,694,-
957 on December 31, 1935, and
$5,321,137 at the close of 1936.
The American Flag must fly
from every school house in Geor
gia according to a rule adopted
in the form of a resolution by the
State Board of Education in ses
sion recently. While the board
ADDITIONAL PERSONALS
Miss Nettie Perdue,of Bonaire,
is spending this week with her
sister, Mrs. Henry Parker. Mrs.
Parker and children, June and
Billy, and Miss Perdue spent
Tuesday in Abbeville with Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Parker.
Mr. Vernon Wallace, of Mt.
Vernon, spent the weekend with
his grandmother, Mrs. N. C.
Wellons.
Mr. and Mrs. D C. Wright had
as their guests Sunday Mr. and
Mrs. Howell Rogers, Mr. William
Rogers, and Mrs. Charlie Hutch
inson, all of Thomaston.
Mrs. G. D. Harvey and chil
dren, Betty Jane and Addie K.,
are spending several days with
relatives in Waycross.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Mullis and
little son, Reed, are spending a
week with relatives in Soperton.
The Rev. Mr. Lam, pastor of
the Cochran Baptist church, is
conducting revival services at
the Hayneville Baptist church.
Mrs. B. C. Holtzclaw, of At
lanta, and her son, Dr. B. C.
Holtzclaw, of Richmond, Va.,are
spending several days here.
Mr. M, M. Hunter and daugh
ter, Miss Marie Hunter, who
were enroute to their home in
Cincinnati, Ohio, from Florida,
visited Mr. and Mrs. E. P. New-
hard Tuesday.
Miss Mary Holtzclaw under-
__ _ Generals! wen t an operation for appendi-
of both Confederate and Federal! citis Monday at the Crawford W.
armies will be marked and the j
route of march, tracing the bat- j
ties that were fought will be re-j
lated in the markers that will be 1
placed. “We hope to vividly
Long hospital, Atlanta. Her
friends will be glad to know that
her condition is satisfactory.
Miss Carolyn Coleman has as
portray the history of our state’her guest Miss Daisy Peterson, of
through these markers,” Mr. [Ailey.
B “d? A^Rand U. D. C. Chap-1 Mr. and Mrs M G Edwards
ters will be called on to supply spent several days last week in
information about the places to 1 Macon with their son, Mr. M-
be marked and their location. J Edwards, and Mrs. Edwards
Tne markers will be uniform in
size and construction, and will
be placed along the highways ot
the state. I
Mr Burch has discussed with
Miss Gay B. Sheperson, WPA
NOTICE
any
teacher in charge of either white
or negro school who fails to see
to it that the flag is flown. It
also directed the principals to in
struct pupils in the flag manual
and where possible to hold exer
cises in connection with the rais
ing and lowering of the flag.
Under a proclamation issued
Monday, J. D. Mitchell, director
of the Division of Wild Life of
the Department of Natural Re
sources, revised' Georgia game
laws to conform with those of the
federal government. Th e re
vision affects the season for
shooting dove and waterfowl in
Georgia, reducing the open sea
son and bag limit to comform
with federal regulations. South
Georgia will have a dove season
beginning November 20 and last
ing through January 31. Mid
dle and North Georgia counties
have two open seasons during
the year, September 15, and De
cember 20 to January 31.
In the state as a whole the re
port of Comptroller General Wil
liam B. Harrison shows the State
government in 1936 paid the
counties $7,250,000 more than
they sent in for property, poll,
occupational, professional and in
heritance taxes. Counties paid
in $3,849,415, but this does not
include gasoline taxes and tobac
co taxes for pensions.
PEANUT GROWERS IN CO-OP.
Georgia’s peanut growers have
joined with farmers of Florida
and Alabama to form the dicta
torship of the Co operative Pea
nut Corporation, recently set up
as an agency through which the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration plans to divert peanuts
this year.
C. G. Garner, marketing
specialist foi- the Georgia Agri
cultural Extension Service, an
nounced in Athens this week
that the plan is for the organiza
tion to determine sound mini
mum prices for Spanish and
North Carolina runner peanuts
Then, if the market drops below
that level, the corporation will
buy up enough tonnage at the
minimum price to hold the mar
ket up to the minimum.
The peanuts which the cor
poration is forced to buy will be
sold to oil mills for crushing, or
to the edible trade, if prices ad
vance enough to warrant the
latter. He said the cooperative
was established under an Ala
bama charter to avoid delay, and
that it is being domesticated in
Georgia and Florida. It will
nandle the buying, diverting and
selling for all three states.
Garner said the corporation
can deal direct with growers at
bonded warehouses, or may con
tract with existing farmer
agencies to buy and store the
peanuts in any given locality.
Almost simultaneously with
the announcement of the organi
zation of the peanut cooperative,
a report from the United States
Bureau of Agricultural Econo
mics indicated that heavy hogs
and good prices are in prospect
throughout the winter. Fre
quently the hog situation and the
peanut situation are closely asso
ciated.
The Bureau said fewer hogs
will be slaughtered during the
first half of the 1937-38 hog
marketing year whicn begins in
[October, but only a small de
crease is expected in the total
j live weight,since average weights
j of hogs marketed are expected
to be much heavier than during
I the same period last year.
Applicants for enrollment in
the Civilian Conservation Corps
to be organized in October must
make application through the di
rector of public welfare in their
own counties, it was announced
Saturday by Lamar Murdaugh,
director of the State Department
of Public Welfare.
Dr. Murdaugh has been in
formed by Washington officials
that the October enrollment in
the CCC is expected to be one
of the most extensive that has
taken place, because of the large
number of vacancies that will be
filled at that time.
The applications will be certi
fied to the State Welfare Depart
ment by the County Welfare
Boards, and then sent on to
Washington. The applicants
must live in the county where
they make application and must
be qualified for enlistment.
The number of vacancies in
the corps will be especially large
in view of the new law prohibit
ing the re-enrollmenc of mem
bers of the corps who have serv
ed a total of two years and low
ering the upper age limit to 23,
necessitating the discharge of
enrollees who are now 24 years
or over.
The new law provides that en-
rollees shall be unmarried male
citizens of the United States be
tween the ages of 17 and 23, both
inclusive, and shall be at the
time of enrollment unemployed
and in need of employment.
Enrollees with dependent mem
ber or members of their families
shall be required to make allot
ments of pay to such dependents.
Others may make deposits of
pay with the chief of finance,
War Department, to be repaid in
case of an emergency or upon
termination of their enrollment.
Enrollment shall be for a period
of not less than six months and
for not more than two years.
HOUSTON FACTORY
W.M.S.HOLDS MEETING
The Houston Factory W. M. S.
held their regular monthly meet
ing at the church Aug. lo, at 4
o’clock with all but one member
present.
A devotional reading was given
by Mrs. H. J. Knight and a
nymn, “Send the Light,” was
sung by the society, after wLiich
Mrs. J. A. Davis led in prayer.
The subject of the month be
ing “The Indian” Mrs. Norman
Lifsey gave a reading, “The In
dians, Our Host and the Red
Race.” A talk was given by
Mrs. Bob Batchelor, “Treaties highways and roads now in
Made and Broken and Early In
dian Mission.”
Miss Mary Alice Jones read
Indian Mission Today and Pres
ent Day Problems, followed by a
talk “Indian Baptists” by Miss
Edna Batchelor.
ATLANTA,Ga.—Chairman W.
L. Miller announced that a com
prehensive highway planning
survey of Georgia, embracing
not only the State highway sys
tem, but all public roads in the
counties, has been inaugurated
by the State Highway Board in
co-operation with the U. S. Bu
reau of Public Roads. Eighty
per cent of the cost will be paid
with Federal funds. Forty-three
other states are making similar
surveys, and the remaining four
states are expected to commence
their surveys in the near future.
The purpose of the survey is
to gather factual information
concerning every phase of high
way transportation in Georgia, to
be used as the basis of future
highway planning. Three main
studies will be made. First, an
inventory of all public roads in
Georgia, both state and county.
Second, a complete survey of
motor venicle traffic. Third, a
survey of highway and road fi
nancing.
In the road inventory, each
public road will be measured and
mapped and a survey made of
its surface, grades, curves, bridg
es, railroad crossings, etc. This
survey will show all houses,
churches, graveyards, schools,
stores, hotels, public institutions,
factories and mines adjacent to
each road. It will show also the
roads that carry mail, children’s
school buses, and buses and
trucks operated for hire. It will
show also the railroad lines and
stations, the navigated streams
and wharves, and the established
airlines and airports.
In the traffic survey, a count
will be made of the motor ve
hicle movement in the entire
state highway system and on the
principal county roads. It will
show the number and character
of vehicles, their weights and
sizes, the weights ond character
ot their loads, and the origins
and destinations of their loads.
The financial survey will cover
both highway finances and pub
lic finances in general. It will
show the expenditures of the
state, and of the counties and
municipalities, for highways,
roads and streets, and the pro
portion of such expenditures to
their whole expenditures. There
is a limit to the financial capaci
ty of the public to build and
maintain improved highways,
and a primary object of the fi
nancial survey will be to ascer
tain as nearly as possible what is
that limit. Another feature of
the financial survey will be a
comprehensive study of the life
span of the different types of
use
in Georgia.
In the State highway system
of Georgia, as it stands today,
are approximately 9,500 miles of
highway. In tne counties of
Georgia, according to the best
information available, there are
The minutes were read by the!approximately 105,500 miles of
secretary and a short business | public roads. A comprehensive
session was held after which
Mrs. Knight dismissed the so
ciety in prayer.
All members were urgjd to be
present at the meetings and co
operation in arranging the pro
grams was stressed by the presi
dent.
SAFETY SLOGANS
survey of this vast network is
truly an immerrse undertaking,
and the information obtained
will be invaluable to the high
way authorities, hoth Federal,
State, and local. Headquarters
of the survey are in Atlanta and
there are six survey districts
containing approximately equal
mileage, with district headquart
ers at Cartersville, Commerce,
Thomaston, Swainsboro, Albany,
and Waycross.
Oliver T. Ray, a highway en-
The Hindenburg explosion cost! ^ neer °1 many years service
40 lives and attracted world wide I with the State and Federal gov-
attention. The same day 140lernments, has charge of the sur-
persons were instantly killed in Jvey as State Director, and asso-
automobile accidents and no one ciated with him is William Al.
thought anything about it. Drive I Danielson, representing the U.S.
carefully. i Bureau of Public Roads.
In 1936 over 2,000 persons were |
killed in railroad crossing acci
dents. All couid have been pre-j
vented. Stop, Look, and Listen, ]
and Cross Crossings Cautiously.
CARD OF THANKS
Director the planned program
and has asked WRA assistance
1 in the erection of the markers.
The project will be under the di
rection of the Division of Parks,
Historic Sites and Monuments,
i Charlie Elliott, Director.
Revival services, conducted by
Rev. Max O’Neil, the pastor, are
i being held at the Houston Fac
tory Baptist church. Services are
at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. The
public is cordially invited to
i tend.
Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Cater are
in Greensboro, N. C. to be with
at- their son, Dr. R. L. Cater, Jr.,
'who is seriously ill.
Many drivers have accidents
i because they do not know how to
; drive. If you are learning to
drive, drive alone, and hold the
speed of the car down to the
level of your ability to control it.
Many accidents are caused be
cause drivers doze at the wheel.
I It is just as dangerous to drive
while drowsy as it is to drive
! while one is drunk, and just as
J inexcusable.
We thank the many friends
for their kindnesses and sympa
thy in our recent sorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bonner,
Mrs. Fred Bonner.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Gilbert
have as their guest this week
Mrs. Gilbert’s sister, Miss Caro
line Gower, of Cordele.