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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXVII. No. 14
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938
ESTABLISHED 1870
PRIZES FOR 4-H CLUB I
WORK ARE ANNOUNCED j
HIGHLIGHTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
1 PUBLIC WELFARE FUND
j FOR COUNTY LARGE
formal opening of
LEGION HOME APR.14,
The executive committee of the ^ prizes forTitl club work" doneTn , ‘ ,ut experts figured j rat? fo“l937 over SmThe yea" j ta | H for'uubfic * ’T
rKt D. Collins Post No. 24,1937. , that little damage was done. 1937 was a post-epidemic year.! J a L ot * 2 ’ 397 ' 81 for P ublic , w . eU
Peach growers have worried In Georgia, Malaria showed a I
over possible damage from frost depreciable decrease in the death
HOUSTON INCLUDED
IN AAA PEANUT AREA
Robert D. Collins Post No. 24,
American Legion, at a meeting
held in the office of the Com
mander, C. C. Pierce, Tuesday
night, unanimously passed the
following resolution:
“Resolved, that our deep ap
preciation and sincere thanks be
given publicly to the many
friends of the ex-Service men of
Houston County, who, by their
generous donations have so great
ly aided us in completing the
new Legion Home. This build
ing is a credit to the entire com.
munity and would be a credit to
any community in America. Our
friends have been more than
generous and we deeply appre
ciate their splendid help and co
operation.” , _
The committee decided to have
a formal opening of the Legion
Home Thursday night, April 14,
at 8 o’clock. Appropriate exer
cises will be held.
Out-of-town speakers will be
on the program. Music will be
rendered. Refreshments will be
served during the social hour.
All ex-service men and their
wives are invited to be present.
1937.
Due to a
small number
1937 was a post-epidemic year,
com-' Tf io .. . .v , . i with only 231 deaths, a decrease
pleting their work in 1937, prizes fi C 0S ‘ ng of 62>1 P er cent - Malaria is
were small. As the work im- murv/™™ntnes in t.he state pri- recognized as a disease of cycles
r V T e L S 4 KJ? tSa'Ltarll: •«— *
^ ha " the fi “ aI Hmit tW “ ye3rS S t2e U &»LtUiv V e e ^!
slack. Our office stands read? Georgia had a total of 130,661 Zdgl regican-
to Offer any assistance. Call by , persons unemployed, exclusive of didate for Governor of Georgia—
lot any information. Start now j 36,549' “emergency workers,” as but without the support ot his
PERRY KIWANIS CLUB
PLANS LADIES NIGHT
Tuesday night, April 26, has
been decided upon as the date
for the formal installation of
officers and presentation of the
charter of the Perry Kiwanis
Club. This time was set by the
executive board of the Perry
club at a meeting Monday night
at the home of the president, E.
P. New hard.
Ladies Night will be observed
at this time. The affair will be
held in the new Legion Home.
The program will be in charge
of the Macon Kiwanis club,spon
sors of the Perry group.
The weekly luncheon meeting
of the Perry Kiwanis Club was
held Tuesday at the New Perry
hotel. Dr. Josiah Crudup, of
Mercer University, Macon, was
the guest speaker this week.
to keeping up with farming. The of last November, national cen-
4-H club offers this assistance. sus figures show.
The following prizes were
awarded: Payments to Georgia farmers
Poultry—William S.Giles, $3.00. [under the 1936 agricultural con-
Pigs—Levin A. Pearce, $1.00;|servation program up to Novem
ber 30, 1937, was $11,434,234, the
Lloyd Kersey, $1.00.
Cotton—henry Nobles, $3.00;
Duell Nobles, $1.50.
Corn—Walter Overton, $3.00;
John Overton, $1.50.
N. R. Fleming,
Asst. Co. Agent.
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
AAA revealed.
State highway patrols have
been ordered to stop all motorists
whose autos have improper
lights.
The official and final Georgia
vote on the proposal to establish
marketing quotas for cotton has
,been proclaimed by Secretary
| of Agriculture Henry A Wallace.
High School Patrol Unit M," the cotton referendum, 121,-
. 1272 Georgia farmers voted for
A patrol unit will be organized,quotas and 22,706 voted against.
SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST
in Perry High school by State
Patrolmen, this week. Four boys
will be furnished uniforms and
badges by the State Department.
Their duties will be to supervise
students crossing the streets,
leaving and entering busses, and
to promote the general safety of
the students of Perry High
School.
Latin Class Activities
Miss Hugh’s eighth grade
Latin class is studying Roman
architecture. Each member of
the class is designing a Roman
building. They are using soap,
cigar boxes, and paste board as
materials.
Social Activities
The F. F. A. club and the
Home Economics club are plan
ning a party for Friday night
The party will be in the Home
Economics Department with
sponsors of respective clubs as
chaperones. The seniors are
planning to have their first party
of the year Friday night at the
home of Mrs. H. D. Gordy.
Minstrel
The members of the junior
class are indeed grateful to those
who willingly gave their loyal
cooperation in making possible
Of the total of approximately
200,000 Georgia farmers eligible
to vote on cotton quotas, 143,978
actually voted ana 84.2 per cent
of those who voted favored the
quotas.
The time for applying for gov
ernment loans on 1937 produced
former political chieftain, ex-
Governor Eugene Talmadge.
Zach Cravy, former Fish and
Game Commissioner of Georgia,
will be a candidate this fall for
the post of State Treasurer, now
held by George B. Hamilton.
1,496 students in Georgia are
receiving federal aid for educa
tion from the National Youth
Administration at 51 institutions,
it was announced last week. The
monthly allotment for Georgia,
according to administration fig
ures, is $22,440 and the yearly
sum is $201,915.
Georgia farmers have more
money invested in horses and
mules than in any other kind of
livestock. There are now $55,-
005,000 worth of horses and
mules in ithe state. These fig
ures, compiled by the United
States Department of Agricul
ture, also showed that the value
of sheep in the state amounted to
$114,000 and the total value ot
swine was $9,729,000. There are
fare and relief purposes during
the month of February, a report
of the State Department of Pub
lic Welfare shows.
Of the sum received, $1,264.00
was for social security payments
to the needy aged, the needy
blind, and dependent children.
Surplus commodities valued at
$363.31 were distributed in the
county. Wages paid by the
Works Progress Administration
amounted to $169.31, while the
return to families having sons in
the Civilian Conservation Corps
was $600. 0Q.
The total expenditures for the
state as a whole during the
month were $1,922,789.70, dis
tributed as follows:
Social security payments,$336,-
143.50.
Surplus commodities, $233,-
681.32.
WPA wages, $1,120,043.00.
CCC, $193,750.00.
General relief (local funds)
$49,771.88.
BONAIRE SGKGGL DISTRICT
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
luailD DU -Li704 piUUUUUU ~ TT v/wvy. muiuai
cotton has been extended bv the 386,000 milk cows and 556
Cotton Commodity Credit c^. other cattle in the state. m
poration from March 31 to Jul.y 1.
HYBRID CORN IN GEORGIA
tion. This contest should create
more interest in aviation than
has ever been known in the na
tion, as every high school pupil J
in America has an even chance'
to win one of more than a hun-
cired valuable prizes.
Mr. King states that every
ngn school pupil in Houston
county is urged to enter this
contest. There will be two priz
es tor some boy or girl in every
state in the Union. The first
state prize to be an airplane trip
trom the winner’s nearest air-
port to Washington, D. C, and
u-'n ^’ ^ be secon( I state prize
i W be a trophy to be presented
oy the Georgia Air Mail Week
campaign Committee.
he essays of pupils winning a
win u° 'Ashington and return
wn be entered in a National con-
V, ln w hich the winner will be
fttrplane trip expenses
tf? .Hollywood, Calif., for
tnose living east of the Mississip-
Pi Kiver or to Miami, Fla., if the
toyes west of the Miss-
tiorfii 1 ^- lver * .The second na-
whiiJ fu nz< T • he a trophy,
to Kp third will be a plaque
AirMou e m nt ? d by the National
Mr v' Week Committee,
savs rr^'+*u states that the es-
th L \r USt be su bmitted not later
ble n, la , y 1938 > and all eligi-
lars^/tlf d ® siri ng full particu-
see ? ssay Contest should
their school
Postmaster at once.
Many farmers are asking the
Georgia Experiment Station
about the value of hybrid corn
for Georgia conditions. Farmers
reading of the excellent results
obtained from hybrid corn in the
corn belt, naturally wish to know
whether or not similar results
can be obtained in Georgia.
During the past three years
the Georgia Experiment Station
has tried a number of hybrid
corn varieties. In all eases
these hybrids were distinctly in
ferior to our native varieties.
Yields were either lower or no
better than from native corn,
shucks were generally poor, and
in some strains the stalks were
weak. Other nearby experiment
stations have reported similar
results with the hybrid corn now
available.
It is the writer’s opinion that
none of the hybrid corn produced
in the North is likely to be val
uable under Georgia conditions.
If we ever obtain a valuable hy
brid for this section, probably it
will be made from selfed native
varieties. Several experiment
stations have been working along
these lines for a number of years,
i but so far have not produced a
Mrs. George Nunn gave a very valuable hybrid. It is possible
fitting devotional on ‘‘The Mes- that our soil and climate condi
sage of the Cross” at the gen- tions are such that hybrid corns
eral meeting of the Methodist j will never give the results here
W. M. S. held Monday afternoon that they have in the corn belt,
at the church. The President,! While at the present time we
Mrs. L.M. Paul, J.,presided over J do not have available a hybrid
the meeting. I corn suitable for Georgia condi-
Mrs. N. W. II. Gilbert, as \ tions, we do have a number of
total value of
421,000.
all cattle is
The
$19,-
FERTILIZER FOR COTTON
'‘Wings Across America” is
the subject of a nation wide
school essay contest announced
by Postmaster Otis A. King who the successful presentation of a
has just received the Rules and I minstrel Friday night. This was
Regulations governing this con- 1 sponsored by the grade mothers
test. The essays are to be based
on the progress, dependability
and future possibilities of this
method of modern communica-
of the class. The juniors wish
to express Ttheir sincere appre
ciation to all who assisted in any
way.
Marjorie Walton and
Maurice White.
METHODIST W.M.S. MEETING
corn breeders in the state who
have produced excellent varieties
of corn. Hasting’s Prolific (H.
G. Hastings and Company, At
lanta, Ga.), Whatley’s Prolific
(Whatley Bros., Helena, Ga.),
and Piedmont Two Eared (Pied
mont Pedigreed Seed Co., Com
Fri-!merce, Ga.) have given high
w o Rev.’yields in the Station’s variety
L. C. Gray will be the speaker, j tests. Yellow corn varieties do
The circles will meet n e x tlnot usually yield as well as the
Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock [best white varieties, but are de-
as follows: No. 1, with Mrs. sirable because of their greater
Calvin McLendon; No. 2, with j feeding value. Good’s Golden
Mrs. B. H. Andrew, Jr.; No. 3j (Good’s Seed Co., Cordele, Ga.)
delegate, and Mrs. George Nunn,
conference officer, will attend
the South Georgia Missionary
conference at Tnomasville this
week.
Mrs. Cooper Jones and her
committee on Christian Social
Relations, will sponsor a temper
ance program at the school ~
day morning at 11 o’clock.
with Mrs Joe Mitchell.
principal
jand Mathewson’s Golden . (J. H.
jMathewson, Lexington, Ga.) are
! good varieties of yellow corn.
A hundred years after the in
vention of the steel plow and the
grain harvester finds 1,250,000
farm tractors in use, electric
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The best all-round fertilizer for
cotton is the one that is equiva
lent to from 400 to 600 pounds of
8-4-6 plus a side dressing of ni
trogen, County Agent W.T. Mid-
dlebrooks, advised this week.
He explained that this amount
would vary under actual condi
tions, but that generally it will
meet the needs of tne cotton
crop. This will supply 32 to 48
pounds of phosphoric acid, 36
pounds of nitrogen and 24 to 36
pounds of potash per acre.
‘‘There are a few soils in Geor
gia that do not need this much
nitrogen per acre, ” he pointed
out. ‘‘Some of the bottom land
soils grow a large weed and keep
a deep green color throughout
the season, and these do not re
quire so much nitrogen.
‘‘Another variation that should
be practiced is the application of
phosphate on newly cleared land.
If such land has not had phos
phate applied for a number of
years, more should be applied
when the land is planted in cot
ton. Also, more phosphoric acid
may be applied to soils that have
a tendency to grow a large weed,
and those that have an abundant
supply of moisture.” .
The amount of potash to be ap
plied per acre may be decreased
to 24 pounds per acre on some of
the heavier soils, he advised, and
added that on some of the sand
ier soils it will pay to use more
chan 36 pounds per acre.
The aerent said these practices
have been tested at the experi
ment stations in the state for the
past 18 years, and the results
have proved them profitable. He
said thousands of farmers ail
over the state are applying them
in planting their cotton crop this
year.
RURAL-URBAN MEET
ATLANTA, Ga.—“History is
being made in this rural-urban
setting, and I am glad I am hav
ing a part in it.”
Thus spoke Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the nation’s First La
dy, in an address before 5,000
persons attending the recent an
nual rural-urban women’s con
ference in Atlanta.
Mrs. Robin Wood, director of
that
All persons desiring to vote
. , this year must pay their 1937 poll the conference, announced
power available on 1,000,000 tax and prior years by May 8,
farms, 85,000,000 acres of land j 1938, to qualify to vote in the io.-nu.ns cmcj^nac, wiui
It Ruskin’s Belief in organized drainage districts. [ State Primary and in the Novem-j meetings in every Georgia
en if tl s Ruskin s belief that worn- 19,000,000 acres are under irri- ber election. - ...
to war 6y Wlshed > could put an end gation in the West, and 1,000,000 M. E. Akin, Tax Collector,
----- j under irrigation in the East. i Houston County, Ga.
Miss Mary Ellen Stafford, of
Centerville, speni the weekend
with Miss Evelyn Wheelus, of
Kathleen.
Misses Carolyn and Winnie
Howard, of Kathleen, were the
guests of Misses Jack and Polly
Bullard last weekend.
Mrs. Mag Miller, of Savannah,
is spending some time with Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Sasser and
daughter, Camilla, were spend-
the-day guests of Mr. and Mrs.
S. H. Sasser Sunday.
Mr. Lee Sasser, Mrs. A. L.
Sasser, Miss Grace Sasser, and
Miss Nell Watson spent Sunday
in Forsyth with Mrs. Ray Spang
ler.
Mr. Clint Watson,Sr. and Mrs.
W. H. Howard spent the week
end in Blakley with their sister,
Mrs. Tom Murray, and Mr. Mur
ray.
Miss Lucile Goss was the guest
of Miss Gertrude Hunt for the
weekend.
Mr. C. L. Williams motored tc
Lincolnton Saturday where he
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Williams. He was accom
panied home by his children,
Shirley Ann and Charles, whi
nave been spending sometimi
with their grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Middlebrookr
and children, Paul, Jr., a n u
Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Tommj
Hunt and children, Navelle and
Nelson, and Mrs. Gus Middle-
brooks and Miss Alma Middle
brooks were spend-the-day guesT
of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hunt Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Watson, of
Eufaula, Ala., spent the week
end with Mr. Watson’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Watson.
Miss Ann Athon,of Shadydale,
was the guest of Miss Joyce
Barnes for the weekend.
Thirty-two counties in Georgia
have been included in the 89
counties in seven southern States
as commercial peanut producing
areas for the purposes of the
1938 Agricultural Conservation
Program, it was announced last
week by the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration. Geor
gia received the highest number
of counties in the whole designa
tion. A national peanut acreage
goal of from 1,500,000 to 1,600,-
000 acres will be apportioned and
the counties designated are the
principal ones that have produc
ed peanuts for commercial pur
poses in recent years.
The counties named in Georgia
are Baker, Ben Hill, Brooks, Cal
houn, Clay, Colquitt, Crisp, De
catur, Dooly, Dougherty, Early,
Grady, Houston, Irwin, Lee, Ma
con, Miller, Mitchell, Pulaski,
Quitman,Randolph, Schley,Semi
nole, Stewart, Sumter, Terrell,
Thomas, Tift, Turner, Webster,
Wilcox, and Worth.
A maximum payment of 20
cents ,per hundred pounds for
the normal yield per acre in the
allotment may be earned by the
grovvers in these counties who
hold their acreages within the
allotment assigned them. For
example, a grower in a commer
cial county who has an allotment
of 12 acres of peanuts and a nor
mal yield of 800 pounds per acre,
and who plants no more than 12
acres of peanuts, would receive a
payment equal to 800 pounds per
acre times 20 cents per hundred
pounds times 12 acres, or $19.20.
$2.00 per hundred pounds will
be deducted for the normal yield
for the farm for each acre of
peanuts for market in excess of
the allotment.
LICENSE TAG SALES
LAG; REVENUE MORE
Marcus McWhorter, director of
the state motor vehicle division,
said Monday license tag sales for
the first quarter of 1938 had
lagged 45,624 behind the same
period a year ago, but that total
revenue had increased $65,283.94.
The 1938 tags are sold on a
sliding scale, based on weight.
The 1937 tags were placed at a
fiat rate of $3.
McWhorter’s figures showed
841,885 sets of tags had been sold
during January, February and
March, compared with 387,509 in
tnat period a year ago. Revenues
for the quarter were $1,238,140,-
72, compared with $1,172,856.78
in 1937.
McWhorter said registrations
for the first quarter showed 278,-
739 passenger cars, 51,618 trucks,
7,217 trailers, 1,935 busses, 1,-
687 dealers and 809 motorcycles.
SAFETY SLOGANS
MUSIC CONVENTION
MACON, Ga.,—Old time mu
sic lovers will have an opportu
nity to see and hear some of tht
best musicians in the slate Fri
day and Saturday, May 6 and 7,
when an old time musical con
vention will be held at the Ma
con Municipal Auditorium.
A grand prize and individual
prizes will be awarded to the
winners in the following con
tests: string Lands, swing
bands, fiddlers, guitars mando- by "carelessness
hns, singers of both hill billy and | ,., ee( j i t coli i,
popular music, tap and buck and 1^ J f your accid e^-if y0 „
ca, n a nd' i "ba^> 0 kas. e,r3 ’ harmon " ever careless or drive recklessly
The committee in charge of j fa h^ven-df l°o
musical convention are very an- j hav y bee ® jjJ in " y
xious for entrants to enter the a K •
affair from all over middle Geor
gia. It is believed that there
are many good musicians in
every town and hamlet and
through this medium a success
ful musician may have the op-
Friends of a woman w e r <
forced to stand by and watch hei
burn to death in her car on i
highway recently. A careless
driver collided with her c a 1
puncturing the gasoline tank ane
causing it to catch fire.A terriblt
. price to pay for some one else’s
carelessness.
You’re whole and healthy one
second and the next you are ly
ing in the dust beside the road
your leg broken with a compounc
fracture, and the jagged ends ol
white bone protruding through
the quivering flesh, and youi
warm life blood forming a dark
pool in the dust. This is the his
tory of many an accident caused
'essness and too much
It could easily be a his
the conference would become a j portunity to forge to the front,
far-flung enterprise, with month-j All who are interested have
_ | coun-ibeen requested to write the
ty, and with social, civic a n d, Chairman of the Musical Con-
church organizations t a k i n g| vention, Municipal Auditorium,
part. Macon, Ga.
METHODIST CHURCH NEWS
Worship Services—Sunday
11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m.
Church School—Sunday
10:15 a. m.
Young People’s Service—Sunda
7:00 p. m.
Mid-week Service
Wed. 8:00 p. m.
Rev. L. C. Gray, Pastor.