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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL.
LXVI. No. 34
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937
ESTABLISHED 1870
fa RATE OF SCHOOL c ^gre s sman pace p E RRY SCHOOL HAS ROUTE 7 COMPLETED; EROSION CONTROL [CONGRESS BRINGS
DISTRICTS VARIES “HOME, CA pm TV ruAwrrc: rmirDe dcihC DAvrn IN PROGRESS IN G A.! eropinw ta tia
FACULTY CHANGES OTHERS BEING PAVED!
I Congressman Stephen Pace, Approximately 240,000 acres
The tax rate in the eight school ias advised that he is now at hisj The Perry District school will! With the surfacing of the ten of Georgia farm iand are now
districts in Houston county va - pme in Americus, Ga. and will open Monday, Sept. 13, for its miles of road in Crawford coun- covered by cooperative agree-
,l. ..u^i is rmt Uio visit nisconstituents in Houston fall term. ty almost complete, State High- j merits with the Soil Conserva-
county during the tall. E. P. Staples, former principal xvay No. 7 from Perry to Atlanta! tion Service, providingforacom-
,ir£u^ aC !L~^L a j ^Presented, who succeeded J. M. Gooden as has been permanently opened to plete program of erosion control
county
rifs as the school tax is not
r me in each district. The
for 1937 includes in addition M I- Pace has ably represented
♦ n county-wide school tax of 51 the Third district during his first
the
tax
to a county- .
mills the following school dis
trict taxes: . ,
Perry, 9 mills including a 4
mill tax’for interest on and re
tirement of building bonds; Cen
terville, 5 mills;Bonaire 5;Hayre-
v jUe 3; Elko, 4; Henderson, 3;
Byron, 3, Grovania 5.
The total school tax including
the county-wide for each district
is*as follows: Perry, 14 mills;
Centerville, 10 mills; Bonaire, 10;
Hayneville, 8; Elko, 9; Hender
son 8; Byron, 8; Grovania, 10.
* The tax rate for county pur
poses including 4 mills for road
maintenance is 15 mills, an in
crease of 3 mills over 1936. The
state property tax rate has been
raised from three mills to five
mills by Governor Rivers.
Considering the 15 mills coun
ty tax and the 5 mills state tax
the property owners in the eight
school districts in Houston coun
ty will pay the following total
tax rate for for state, county,and
school purposes: Perry, 34 mills;
Centerville, 30 mills; Bonaire, 30;
Hayneville, 28; Elko, 29; Hen
derson, 28; Byron, 28; Grovania,
superintendent of Perry school traffic over the entire route.Only
teim in Congress. His ability in January when Mr. Gooden re- a short stretch on the fill of the
?l n l. a J.i® rsonallty .. h . ave F iv ? n ; signed to become a state school railroad overpass near Roberta
as su- remains unpaved and this will
him favorable recognition in the| supervisor, will continue
national iriousG ot Represents- pGrintGndcnt.
tives. He is a member of the I Jay Fleming, of Leah, Ga..will
important Military Affairs com-j be principal of the high school
m 'ttee. I again.
agricultural interests ofi Several changes have been
his district, state, and section j made in the faculty. Mrs. V/. B.
have deeply concerned Congress-1 Evans, high school instructor for
man 1 ace as evidenced by his [several years, resigned and Miss
efforts in their behalf. Opal Hughes, of Macon, has
At the present time, Mr. Pace
^impressed with the advocacy
of planting one variety cotton
with a longer staple. He thinks
this would be very helpful to the
farmers and points to the fact
been elected in her place. Miss
Elizabeth Edenfield, of Savan
nah, another high school teacher,
resigned last week to accept a
place at the state college at
Statesboro. The board of trus-
that C ongess has shown its readi- [ tees elected Tuesday night Miss
ness to co-operate with the far- Frankie Lu Warnock, of Brook-
mers in the planting of one va-'l e t, Ga., to take Miss Edenfield’s
riety, long staple cotton, by au-|pi ace .
thorizing the secretary of Agri- Miss Mattilu Smith, of Sasser,
culture to provide for the classi-iwho has taught the third grade
fication of cotton, to furnish in
formation on market supply, de
mand, location, condition, and
market prices for cotton, and
for other purposes.
Mr. Pace further states that
he would like to see the farmers
of the Third district organize one
variety and cotton improvement
associations so as to get all the
service available to them under
this law enacted April 13, 1937.
COUNTY WHITE SCHOOLS TO
OPEN FULL TERM SEPT. 13
This means that Perry proper
ty owners will pay $34 per $1,000
or $3.40 per $100 of property for
state and county taxes. In ad
dition to the above, Perry tax
payers are assessed a city tax of
12)4 mills, making a total of 46)4
mills or $46.50 per $1,000 of pro
perty.
The county rate is fixed by the
county commissioners; the school
tax, by the county board of edu
cation; and the state tax by the All the white schools of Hous-
governor under a law which lim- '+ on county will begin the fall
its the maximum to 5 mills. term on Monday, Sept. 13, Coun-
Property valuations in Hous-| ty Supt. W. B. Evans has ad-
ton county increased about $1, - j v i se d.
500.00 this year. All sixteen county busses
No exemptions in property | new> They will be operated
taxes will be made this year, j t he same drivers.
The tax exemption amendment! All text books are to be
ratified by the people of Georgia | nishe d free by the state,
in the June election will not be | High school pupils of the Cen-
effective until 1938. ! terviile school district will be
The increase of three mills in transported to the Perry High
for several years, will conduct
the business course. Miss Eve
lyn Hunt, of Perry, who has
taught at Unadilla tne past two
years, will have the third grade.
Mr.. Cohen Walker, of San-
dersville, is the new vocational
agricultural teacher.
Teachers returning to their
work are: Miss Catherine Law-
|son, first grade; Miss Mary Lee
[Greene, second; Miss Allene Ry-
jals, fourth; Miss Dorothy Jones,
fifth; Miss Eva Borom, sixth;
Miss Louise Houser and Miss
Mary Dillard, junior high; and
Mrs. J. O. Coleman, high school;
Miss Willie Ryals, piano; Miss
Clyde Tabor, expression; Miss
Louise Rainey, librarian.
are
by
fur-
county rate is to provide funds
for the county’s share of the old
age pensions and to help pay the
legal indebtedness of the county.
The last statement of the coun
ty’s finances showed the out
standing debt of the county to
be $76,217.51.
The county commissioners are
school. The grammar school
will be continued at Centerville
with Geo. R. Hunt as principal.
Miss Alice Duncan has resign
ed as home economics teacher at
Bonaire and her place is to be
filled. With this exception
faculty at Bonaire is to be
same with C. L. Williams as
the
the
su-
working on a plan to reduce this; perintendent.
indebtedness without a further; New teachers in the county
increase in taxes.
ROBERT HICKS NAMED
PASTOR ASSISTANT
Robert Hicks, a student at Em
ory University, has been ap
pointed assistant pastor of the
mgleside charge, Macon. Mr.
Hicks will conduct services at
rnorning and evening at Lizella
church each second Sunday, and
will hold afternoon services at
Uixon church, also on the Ingle-
side charge. He is the son
Nr. and Mrs. Greer Hicks
Berry.
REVIVAL SERVICES
system are: Mrs. Irene Gregory
of Ellaviile, who will teach the
primary grades at Hayneville;
Miss Jean Brown, of Perry, the
first and second grades at Elko;
and Miss Mary Houser Brown,of
Grovania. the third, fourth, and
fifth grades at Elko.
GA. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE OPENS
FEW POINTERS GIVEN ON
WOODS MANAGEMENT
not interfere with the free pas
sage of traffic.
The newly paved route is by
way of Fort Valley, Roberta, and
Barnesville. The distance from
Perry to Atlanta is 110 miles over
this route as compared to 121
miles by way of Macon, accord
ing to the highway signs at Car-
roll and Ball streets. A great
deal of the north and south traf
fic through Perry no doubt will
follow this route in the future.
Road building projects in the
vicinity include the paving on
Route 26, Henderson to Monte
zuma. Limerock, trucked from
Perry, is now being laid down by
the Manley Construction Co., on
a part of this road. Another sec
tion near Montezuma is now un
der construction and the entire
road to Montezuma is expected
to be paved within two months.
Work on the paving from
Houston Lake to Kathleen is
making rapid progress, the lime-
rock base being now almost com
pleted. This route recently tak-
ed over by the highway depart
ment and designated as State
Route No. 127, will be extended
to the Ocmulgee River and
thence to Jeffersonville in Twiggs
county. The grading of this road
by the highway department is
contemplated at an early date.
The grading of the Perry-Mar-
shallville road, also a part of
State Route No. 127, is expected
to get under way some time this
fall.
HOG PRICES EXPECTED
TO BE GOOD THIS FALL
Referring to the ever-present
danger of fire to forest lands,
County Agent W. T. Middle
brooks urged Houston county
farmers this week to give their
attention to management of their
forest lands, just as they do to
cultivated crop lands!
He deplored the voluntary
burning of millions of trees eacn
year. Farmers who persist in
burning over their woodlands
every year, he declared, are de
stroying many valuable seed and
seedlings.
“Not only does the farmer
lose from the destruction ox
small trees and retarding of the
growth of the larger ones,’’ the
agent asserted, “but his land
soon becomes badly eroded, as
the result of having these trees
removed.” He urged that the
farmer take these points into
consideration, before ne engages
in reckless burning of his forest
areas.
A second error made by far
mers, according to the county
. agent, is the inefficient manner
D. W. Lanier, district^ Field] j n w hi C h he re-stocks his wood-
Representative of the Georgia]j an( j And, too, he sometimes
State Employment Service, an-| cuts out the valuable trees, al-
nounces the official opening ol {lowing the undesirable species to
tehe new office, 419 Broadway, i rema i n>
ofiJaques Bldg., Macon, Tridayj After summarizing some of the
of;evening, Aug. 27, 7:30 to 10j most common mistakes made in
: o’clock. i the management of a farm wood-
| Georgia State Employment']^ iV j r . Middlebrooks again urg-
Office, officiated with the Unit-| ec j f ar mers to give careful
! ed States Employment Service, | cons id e rati 0 n to the cultivation
most cordially invites the citizens; 0 f f ores t lands, as well as to oth-
I of Houston county to attend. | e r sections of their farms.
Gov. Rivers, other state offi- For more details on the princi-
on more than 1,500 farms in
demonstration projects and CCC
camp areas assigned to the Soil
Conservation Service in the
state.
Contour strip cropping, vir
tually an unknown farming prac
tice in Georgia four years ago,
has been established on more
than 40,000 acres in these areas,
according to the annual report
of Jule G. Liddell, state coordi
nator, for the fiscal year which
ended June 30.
More than 3,500 miles of ap
proved broad-channel terraces
have been constructed, protect
ing 40,000 acres of cultivated
land, and proper rotations have
been established on more than
82.000 acres. Erosion-resisting
crops have been increased by
13.000 acres, reports from the
projects and camp areas show,
Liddell said.
Proper woodland management,
retiring of steep and badly erod
ed land to new forest and per
manent hay crops, improvement
of pastures and other erosion-
control methods are being estab
lished in cooperation with the
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service to provide a complete
program of soil and water con
servation on each individual farm
under agreement in these areas.
FACT FINDING MOVEMENT
DESIGNED TO BOOST STATE
Declaring that indications point
to Georgia farmers receiving the
highest prices in sever.il years
for their hogs this fall and win
ter, County Agent W. T. Mid
dlebrooks this week advised far
mers of the county to finish their
hogs for market as early as pos
sible.
He said producers will find it
profitable to get their hogs on
full feed early this year, par
ticularly since a large feed crop
is indicated in the state. By
getting their swine ready for
market early, fanners will reap
the benefit of good prices, before
heavy supplies later in the year
force prices downward.
The agent also suggested that
farmers work out in the future a
breeding program whereby hogs
will be ready for market during
the summer months, when sup
plies are reduced and prices are
highest.
Mr. Middlebrooks advised
swine producers to feed hogs a
protein supplement, along with
corn and other feeds produced on
the farm. For the protein, he
suggested tankage and peanut
meal, or a mixture of tankage,
cottonseed meal, and peanut
meal. He also recommended the
use of a mineral mixture, com
posed of equal parts of finely
ground limestone, salt and bone-
meal.
Best results are obtained, the
agent declared, when the pro
tein feed and mineral mixture
are put in a self-feeder and kept
Open discussions calculated to
acquaint Georgians with the
problems and possbilities which
face this state are being planned
by a citizens’ fact-finding move
ment to be launched September
1 and to continue over a twelve
months’ period. T h e purpose
will be to disseminate authorita
tive information on vital stati
topics through cooperation ol
fourteen other statewide organi
zations.
As a starter the state as a
whole will be considered, with a
view of developing the avenues
of subsequent inquiry. It is
hoped that a realistic picture ol
contemporary Georgia will be.
given.
Persons of recognized authori
ty in the field of each month’s
discussion will assemble materia!
to be distributed to local units ol
participating groups for use ii
round table discussions and in
the preparation of addresses.
Such data also will be available
to individuals and groups who de
sire to receive it.
Plans also call for newspaper
articles and radio addresses on
the monthly topics.
The project is the result of
several months of conferences
and committee meetings and lias
grown out of a recognition that
the people of Georgia want au
thoritative information about
their state. The sponsors of the
program express the hope that
the people of Georgia generally
will enter into the spirit of the
movement and that the thought
of the state will be focussed
consecutively upon the twelve
aspects of Georgia which are
scheduled for consideration dur
ing the year.
SESSION TO CLOSE
The seventy-fifth Congress ad
journed Saturday after an eight-
month session, notable principal
ly for the things that were not
done and for the rift in the Demo
cratic party brought about by
President Roosevelt’s proposal to
re-organize the Supreme Court
and the effort to pass the Black-
Connery wage-hour bill.
Two members of the Georgia
group, Senator Walter F. George
and Representative E. E. Cox,of
Camilla, opposed President
Roosevelt’s court ibill and began-
organized effort to block it.
After a bitter fight and weeks
of debate climaxed by the deach
of the majority leader, Senator
Joe E. Robinson, the bill was re-
committeed and in effect defeat
ed. The bill finally passed had
no reference to the Supreme
Court and concerned only the
lower courts.
The wage-hour labor bill was
smothered in the House rules
committee under the leadership
of Congressman Cox, a member
of the committee.
Tne last days of the session
were marked by the successful
efforts of Southern senators and
congressman to authorize the
administration to use $65,000,000
of tariff receipts for cotton sub
sidies, payable next year to pro
ducers who co-operate with the
proposed program.
The authorized subsidy may be
as much as three cents a pound—
as much of that maximum as is
necessary to provide a total re
turn of 12 cents.
Among the several important
pieces of legislation enacted
were: the revised housing bill,a
modified version of the Guffey
Coal Control Act, a defiency ap
propriation bill of over 9 billions,
a farm tenant bill, a bill to pre
vent tax evasions, and a neu
trality act requiring belligerent
customers of American industry
to transport their own purchases.
In addition, numerous meas
ures, embodying functions given
the executive branch in the early
days of the administration, were
enacted to carry those functions
into the future. These included,
continuation of the reciprocal
tariff policy, of the Civilian Con
servation Corps, of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation,
the Farm Credit Administration,
the export-import banks, of cer
tain nuisance taxes and 3-cent
postage.
The Army and Navy received
from Congress $931,521,962, the
oiggest national defense fund in
peacetime history.
The money will allow expan
sion of manpower and fighting
{equipment for air, land and sea.
In addition to granting the
outright appropriations, the
legislators pushed the defense
program past the billion dollar
mark by authorizing a $25,587,-
156 appropriation for improve
ment of Army posts and by giv
ing the Navy permission to start
construction of a $50,000,000,000
fieet of auxiliary vessels.
4-H CLUB BOYS' CAMP
at
cials, together with officials from | p ] es 0 f f ores t management, far- before the swine at all times. It
will speak over [^ ers should see the county agent [is also desirable to provide plen-
■ Revival servics will begin „ ,. ,
26) at 8-l C 5 h p P m ^ithlfev ^ U r' i WMAZ broadcasting station. i or write direct to the Extension
Stanford, pastor of SecondStreet ! Hois^^ountJ!fester, College of Agriculture
church, Macon Ga nrpanhino- committee ol Houston county Athens, Ga.
Services w1n°be held t£icTdaily' will also speak over radio direct,
F ndav m Sept d 3 8:15p ‘ m ' through j^Come, bring your families,
pc - ! friends and inspect our office.
D. W. Lanier.
CHAPMAN GROWS TALL
CORN ON COUNTY FARM
p ] r 'Rcrman Martin has locat-
Sebring, Fla. to practice
W 8try ' having gone there
u r .py• His office will be in the
Kin 1 of h is brother, Dr. L.W.
74 APPLICATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER
ty of clean, fresh water, he said,
along with the facilities for
green grazing, such as crab
other kinds of grasses.
The county agent stressed the
time element in hog production.
Swine which are fed and ready
for market when supplies are
normally heaviest, naturally are
not as profitable as those made
The 4-H boys of Houston county
were priviledged to attend camp
in Athens last week. They ar
rived in Athens Monday p. m.
and returned to Perry Friday.
The time in Athens was taken
up with benefitting talks, demon
strations of projects and some
fine swims.
I The boys making the trip were:
jjohn T. Lewis, Jr., and Billy
|Giles, Elko; Jackie Wynne, and
son,!p au i Hodge, Jr., Henderson;
Mrs. W. W. Martin and U1 ol ., uumci«; U ,
Dr. Herman Martin, and daugh-|[Scarborough Watson and Robert
ter,Miss Addie Lou Martin,spent jgdmondson, Grovania; Emmett
or Friday and Saturday in Atlanta [ L»avis, Clinchfield; C. L. Kersey,
Dr. Martin spent several days j ames Stubbs, J. O. Watson,
here last week. [Homer J. Walker, Alton Tucker,
r> i n/r u it Virgil Heard, and Glynn Heard,
Rhine,"spentTast week" Pith theiH Banaire ' Porter Shi P p3 ’ Elko -
daughter, Mrs. A. S. McCraven,
I and Mr. McCraven.
Notice Of Examination
surgeon.
the
For the month of .
p Miss Lucke .Maddox, of Z-! sSS of The S, o(
where she hV MaCon f - hospi f ta These applications in-this place grew 14 ft. high Mr
Wedicitis last Th°S\T She' Se an amount of?751.60, mak- Chapman states, and produced
Homer Chapman, warden of;ready for market when the sup-i
Houston county, brought a stalk plies are shortest. He pointed, Mrs. A. P. Whipple and sons,
September of corn 13 ft. high to town Tues-jout that packers are also favor- Allan and Deryle,and her sisters,
This corn was grown by able to the system of distributed Mrs.^J
production throughout the year.
county
i Perry,
corn on
recuperating nicely!
ing an average of $10.16 each.
fine ears of corn.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Akin
left Sunday on a trip to Florida.
An examination for county li-
L. McVay, of Cochran, | censes will be held in my office
and Mrs. Dozier Wynne, of Grif- Saturday, August, 28, at 10
fin, returned Saturday from a [o’clock. It will not be necessary
vacation trip to Miami, Fla. Miss for teachres that attended sum-
Leslie Jones,of Jacksonville,Fla., mer school to stand this exami-
accompanied Mrs. Whipple home nation.
for a ten days’ visit. | W. B. Evans, C. S. S.