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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXVIX. No. 13. SUPERIOR com TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK Houston Superior Court will convene next Monday, April 1, for one day of civil court to be followed by criminal court on Tuesday. The Grand Jury will meet Monday but Traverse Ju rors will not be called until Tues day 75 warrants will he pre sented the Grand Jury for con sideration. Judge Malcolm D. Jones will preside over the civil court Mon day and Judge A. M. Anderson over the criminal court begin ning Tuesday. . The list of jurors is as follows: Grand Jurors—E. P. New hard, W. A. Curtis, W. B. Roberts, Houser Gilbert, J. T. Overton, J. Lawrence Hunt, J. C. Ward, T. C. Rogers, G. E. Perdue. B. H. Andrew, L. M. Paul, J. W. Gray. Jas. A. Grubb, Joe A.Bed dingfield, J. B. Calhoun, C. L. Holt, E. P. Kezar, Geo. B.Wells, W, V. Tuggle, J.W. Kersey,Geo. C. Nunn. John L. Beavers, J. T. Miller, Jr., S. T. Bryan, 0. A. King, J. S. Jones, J. W. McLen don, Luther B. Spears, R. E. Ty ner, W. W. Ferguson. Traverse Jurors—E. C. Lever ette, W. H. Lewis, J. R. Akin, L. 0. Rogers, W. W. Yates. B. W. Bozeman, D. M. Ryle, J. E. Garvin, Lewis Tabor, W. D.Hin son, J. S. Childs, R. E L, Sas ser, Moreland Daniel, W. E. An drews, Henry Rose, W. G. Riley, C. F. Cooper, Herman Watson, George Mills, W. S. Gray, A. W. Pratt, A. J. Cannon, U. H. Dan iel, A. W. Davis, C. E. McLen don, H. E. (Gordon, I. M. Langs ton, 10th dist.; J. Frank Hunt, L. M. Houser. Doyle McElhenny, D. M. Clark, G. E. Matthews, Moody B. Logue, J. H. Peyton, E. P. Griffin, L. A. Andel, M. J. Daniel, W, K. Whipple, R. A. Anderson, C. W. Jackson, J. W, Perdue, J. R. Fudge, Jr., Frank Moody, W. H. Harper, Sr., J. J. Jackson, col.; V. L. Jenkins,Fel ton Norwood, C. E. Blackman, C. A. McCraven, H. W. Huff, Geo. W. Lee, L. B. Lacy, H. J. Walker, J. P. Duggan, J, I Davidson, G. C. Watson, Jno. W, Carney, W. B. Warren, G. W. Rhodes, Ralph Fuller, E.C. Log gias, J. C. Odum, C. H. Kersey, N. 13th; Soloman Bernstein, G. P. Hardy, R. M. Logue, T. J. Nipper, Wm, C. Massee, G. E. Rape, W. F. McLendon, E. E. Peed, J. W. Cheek, P. B, Hor ton, L. M. Harrison, C. K. Coop er, Gordon Scarborough, N. D. Parker, Elmer Wolfe, W. W. Bo ler, and Roy L. Blood worth. LOYALTY CAMPAIGN We ran across this apt quota tion on Church Attendance re cently which we give as our Campaign thought lor this week. MORBUS SABBATICUS “Morbus Sabbaticus, or Sun day sickness, is a disease pecu liar to church members. The at tack comes suddenly on Sunday about church time and continues until services are over. Then the patient feels easy and eats a hearty dinner. In the afternoon he is able to go about, talk poli tics, and read the Sunday papers. On Monday morning he goes to his work as usual and there are no more symptoms of the disease until the next Sunday. “What are some of the fea tures of this disease: 1. It attacks church members only. 2. The symptoms vary, but it never interferes with sleep or appetite. 3. It never lasts more than 24 hours. 4. It always proves fatal in the end---to the soul. 5. It is becoming almost an epidemic and is sweeping thous ands every year to destruction.” Rev. Roy Gardner. FARMERS’ DAY AT G. C. NUNN & SON Today (Thursday) is annual a l™ ers ’ Day for Geo. C. Nunn and Son. 400 farmers have been invited to a barbecue dinner, ma chinery and tractor demonstra- and moving pictures of in terest, by this firm at their place ot business in Perry. Houston Home Journal GEN. WINSHIP SPEAKS HERE TOKIWANISCLUB Gen. Blanton Winship, former governor general of Porto Rica and retired U. S. Army general, was the speaker at Tuesday’s luncheon meeting of the Perry Kiwanis club. G. W. Rhodes introduced General Winship,who spoke on the natural resources of Porto Rica and the importance of this U. S. island possession to the United States, from military and economic standpoints. As a naval and air base. Porta Rica is more important to the United States than ever since the beginning of war in Europe. The U. S. must be prepared to protect her posessions in order to protect her own shores when a peace treaty is made in Europe; for the outcome of the present war is unknown and may not be favorable for this country, Gen. Winship stated. This little island, 100 miles long and 35 miles wide, has cheap water power and irriga tion because of its 1,300 rivers and marvelous reservoirs. Its chief agricultural products are sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cit rus fruits, and potatoes, the speaker said. Porto Rica is the sixth best customer of the United States and its 1,800,000 inhabitants would starve to death if the island were independent of the U. S., the general stated. CROWDS ATTEND REVIVAL Revival services began last Sunday morning at the Perry Methodist church to continue into next week. Rev. Roy Gard ner, pastor, is bringing earnest, helpful messages based on the Scriptures, twice daily at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. Willard Rustin of Colum bus is leading the song services and directing a junior choir. Large congregations have at tended every service and much interest is being shown in the meeting. Children’s services are to be held every afternoon this week at 3:30, having begun on Tues day, The preacher’s subject at 11:30 a. m, Sunday will be “Christ’s Place in the Home.” The choir will render an anthem. The public is invited to attend all services of the Revival. An Easter cantata, Redemp tion’s Song, was beautifully ren dered Sunday evening by the choir with G. F. Nunn as direc tor and Miss Willie Ryals as pi anist. AUXILIARY MEETING Mrs. J. Pat Kelley, Georgia president of the Legion Auxili ary, was the speaker at t h e meeting of the local unit last Thursday p. m. at the Legion Home, She discussed all phases of Auxiliary work, stressing community service. Mrs. J. B. Calnoun presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. Hollis Kezar. The hostesses were Mrs. L. M. Paul, Jr., Mrs. G.W. Rhodes,and Mrs. Geo. B. Wells. A delight ful salad course was served. Mrs. Kelley was entertained that night by the auxiliary at the New Perry Hotel. FARM FORESTRY Taylor county has been select ed as the location of the first farm forestry project to be es tablished in Georgia under the Department of Agriculture’s new farm forestry program. This project, authorized by the Nor ris-Doxey Act, is being carried forward cooperatively by State and Federal agencies, including the Georgia Division of Forestry, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, and the Soil Conserva tion Service. Plans o n these farms will include needed re forestation, cutting plans for the existing woodland,and assistance to farmers in marketing wood land products as well as protec- j tion of the woodland areas from i damage by fire, grazing, and disease. ' PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1940 SOIL BUILDING PRACTICES & PAYMENTS AVAILABLE TO HOUSTON FARMERS Houston county farmers this year are offered greater opportu nity for soil conservation than in 1939 because there will be avail able approximately $50,697.24 as assistance for carrying out ap proved soil-building practices un der the 1940 Agricultural Con servation Program. The county’s soil-building goal, according to C. B. Watson, chair man of the County AAA Com mittee, has been approved by the State AAA committee at 38,998 units. 5,944 units were not earn ed last year which amounted to $8,916.00. The soil-building practices and the rates of assistance have been approved by the state committee to be included in the county’s soil building goal. Assistance will be made available for those practices when carried out ac cording to specifications contain ed in the 1940 AAA Georgia Handbook, a copy of which has been furnished each farm opera tor. The approved practices for Houston county are as follows: Application of Materials 1. Application of (a) 300 lbs. of 16 percent superphosphate (or its equivalent), (b) 500 lbs. of basic slag, or (c) 750 lbs. of rock or colloidal phosphate to, or with the seeding of, perennial or bi ennial legumes, perennial grass es, winter legumes, lespedeza, crotalaria, annual ryegrass, or permanent pasture-o n e unit ($1.50). 2. Application of 1,000 lbs. of ground limestone or its equiva lent-one unit ($1.50). Seedings 3. Establishing a permanent vegetative cover by planting crowns of kudzu-four units ($6) an acre. 4. Seeding winter legumes one unit ($1.50) an acre. 5. Seeding lespedeza-t w o thirds unit ($1) an acre. Pasture 6. Establishment of a perma nent vegetative cover by sodding —three units ($4,50) an acre. 7. Establishing a permanent pasture by seeding--two units ($3) an acre. 8. Contour ridging of non crop open pasture land—l,ooo linear feet of ridge, one unit ($1.50). 9. Contour listing of furrow ed non-crop pasture land-four acres, one unit ($1,50). Erosion Control 10. Construction of standard terraces for which proper outlets are provided-200 linear feet of terrace, one unit ($1.50). 11. Stripcropping with alter nate strips of close grown crops and intertilled crops-four acres, one unit ($1.50). Green Manure & Cover Crops 12. Green manure and cover crops-one unit ($1.50 an acre. 13. Cowpeas, velvetbeans, crotalaria, or soybeans, inter planted or grown in combination with soil-depleting crop-f our acres, one unit ($1.50), Forestry 14. Planting forest trees-five units ($7.50) an acre. 15. Cultivating, protecting, and maintaining, by replanting if necessary, a good stand of for est trees, planted between Jan. 1, 1937 and Jan. 1. 1940-two units ($3) an acre. Miscellaneous 16. Growing of a home gard en for a landlord, tenant or share-cropper family on a farm one unit ($1.50) a garden. The closing date for carrying soil-building practices with AAA assistance under the 1940 Agri cultural Conservation Program has been set for Nov. 30, 1940. A farmer can get soil-building assistance at the rate of $1.50 per unit up to a given amount or maximum, for his farm. This maximum is figured as the sum of four items, as follows: (1) 70 cents per acre for the cropland in excess of the sum of the allotments for cotton, tobac co, peanuts, wheat, and in Chatham and Effingham counties, potatoes: (2) $1.50 per acre for the commercial orchards on the farm Jan. 1, 1940; (3) 25 cents per acre for the fenced non-crop open pasture land having a specified capacity in excess of half the cropland; (4) $7.50 for each acre plant ed to forest trees up to $3O. To show how this maximum as sistance for soil-building practic es is calculated, Mr. Watson took the case of a farm with 100 acres of cropland, a cotton allotment of 20 acres, a peanut allotment of 5 acres, 4 acres of commercial or chards, and 56 acres of fenced non-crop pasture land. The rate of 70 cents per acre of cropland applies to 75 acres (acreage of cropland in excess of cotton and peanut allotments); the rate of $1.50 per acre for commercial orchards applies to 4 acres; and the rate of 25 cents per acre for fenced non-crop pas ture land applies to 6 acres (acreage of pasture in excess of half the cropland). To get the maximum regular soil-building assistance payment for the farm, the three items are added, as follows: Cropland(7s x 70 cents),ss2.so; commercial orchards (4 x $1.50), $6, and pasture land (6 x 25 cents), $1.50, or a total of $6O. “In this example,” he said, “the sum of $6O is the largest amount available to assist the farmer in carrying out regular soil-building practices. However, there is an additional allowance of $3O which can be earned by setting out forest trees. Should the farm earn the full amount of 1 the regular allowance of $6O and set out four acres or more of for est trees, then the maximum soil-building assistance available for this farm would be $90.” Here is a specified example, showing how this farm may earn the full $9O soil-building assis tance: Growing of a home garden, $1.50; Planting two acres of for est trees, $15.00; Seeding s i x acres of Austrian Winter peas, $9.00; Applying 900 pounds of 16 percent superphosphate to Aus trian Winter peas, $4 50; Estab lishing two acres of permanent pasture by seeding. $6 00; Ap plying 6,500 lbs. of ground lime stone to old and new pasture, $9; Seeding six acres of lespedeza, $6.00; Constructing 1,200 feet of standard terraces, $9.00. Regu lar soil-building assistance total, $60.00. Planting four additional acres of forest trees, $30.00. Maximum soil-building assistance total, $90.00. Mr. Watson said all of the soil-building practices should be carried out in accordance with specifications set out in SR-401- Georgia, a copy of which is avail able for every farm operator in the county. Mr. Watson said that if the farmer, in the specific example pointed out, fails to carry all of the practices mentioned in the example, he will only get the as sistance for the practices he does carry out No farmer will re ceive assistance for practices not properly carried out. The County AAA Chairman also said the farmers should re member that no conservation payments of any kind will be made when the cotton allotment is knowingly overplanted, and that provision has been made for deductions from the conservation payments on other crops, as well as from the soil-building pay ment, when the allotments of such crops are overplanted. ELKO CHARGE NO FES Schedule of services for the Methodist churches of the Elko charge is as follows: First Sunday---Grovania, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Second Sunday--Andrew Chap el, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p, m. Third Sunday—Bonaire, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Fourth Sunday—Elko, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Rev. W. J. Erwin, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE Perry Church Sunday School-10:15 a, m. Worship Service-11:30 a. m. Clinchfield Sunday School-3:00 p. m. Worship Service-8:00 p. m. Rev. R. F. Boyd, Pastor. The 1940 census marks the centennial of the first agricultu ral census since 1840. HOUSTON FARM GROUP HAS LOCAL SPEAKERS W. C. Huggins, district soil conservationist, and W. V. Bass, technical adviser were speakers at a meeting of the Houston County Chapter of the United Georgia Farmers, held in Perry Friday night. Increased pro ductivity of the soil in the coun ty as a whole is the aim of the chapter and the program outlin ed for the year has this aim in view. Mr, Huggins stressed the need for the program, pointing out the low average yield per acre over the county. Mr. Bass explained the method of obtaining this aid, and told what had already been accom plished. Use of pure seed, treat ment of seed to prevent disease, retiring sub-marginal and badly eroded land from cultivation and reclaiming it through planting of Kudzu or pine trees, improve ment of soil through crop rota tion and turning under summer and winter legumes he recom mended a§ practices. In order to encourage these methods the chapter is sponsor ing a five-acre cotton and corn contest. Prizes of $lOO, $5O and $25 are offered, based on yield per acre. Registration must be made with County Agent W, T. Middlebrooks by April 15. Twelve contestants have already filed their intention of entering. About 40 members attended the meeting. SOI BEANS US CASH CROP We are in receipt of a letter from The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. in which they advise that they will be in the market for soy beans of the varieties adaptable for crushing purposes. The yel low varieties are the only kind that can be used for this purpose. Since AAA has announced that soy beans harvested for crushing purposes will not be classified as a soil-depleting crop, the soy beans furnishes us a three-way cash crop-soil improving crop feed crop possibility. The average yield of adaptable varieties is about 20 bushels per acre and the price ranges from 44c to $l.OO per bushel in addi tion to vine, stem and leaves be ing left on land for soil improve ment. Anyone interested in adding the soy bean as an additional cash crop can contact county agent for recommended varieties and cultural practices. W. T. Middlebrooks, County Agent. BOOK CLUB MEETS The Wednesday Afternoon Book club met Wednesday,March 20, with Mrs. H. T. Gilbert with Miss Louise Rainey as co-hostess Mrs. T. D. Mason reviewed My Memoirs, by Edith Bolling Wilson. The Study in Practical English was conducted by Mrs. Carey B. Andrew. A resume of the report of the National Consumers Tax Com mission was presented by Mrs. A. P. Whipple, president of the club. Mrs. T. D. Mason, Mrs. J. L. Beavers, and Mrs. J. B Calhoun were appointed as a com mittee to select the books for the next year. the meeting a salad course was served by the hostess, carrying out the Easter idea. I BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS! j Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed-[ nesday, 7:30 p. rn. Sunday Preaching Services, | 11:30 a, m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. The church welcomes you to j its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McLendon spent Wednesday in Atlanta. Supplement your food supply this year by planting a home garden. And don’t forget now is the time to plant it. ESTABLISHED 1870 CLINCHFIELD PLANT MAKES BEST CEMENT I “The best cement in the Unit ed States is made at Clinchfield, Ga. at Plant No. 2of the Penn- Dixie Cement Corp.”, said a rep resentative of the government Bureau of Standards to President John A. Miller of the corpora tion, at a recent meeting of ce ment officials in New York City. Mr. Miller replied that this was no news to him. It is with pride and satisfac tion that the citizens of Perry and Clinchfield learn that the product of the Clinchfield plant is so highly regarded by such an eminent authority. The cement plant has had a large part in the growth and de velopment of this section. Its prosperity affects the welfare of Perry and Houston county ;there fore local people are pleased to know that the plant is running full capacity now and that fif teen new employees have been added recently. These have been local men, from Perry and Clin chfield, and include both white and colored workers. This is the first time since 1927 that the plant has operated at full capacity. The reason for this increased production is that the Plant has two large contracts which will be in process of filling for a year or more. During the past year, the plant has spent approximately $60,000 in improvements, which include storage facilities fo r special types of cement. The new contracts call for a special cement similar to that used by T. V. A. For six years, the plant has won the safety award offered by the Portland Cement Corp. of America for no lost time acci dents during a period of twelve months. The officials of the Clinchfield plant are also an asset to Perry. E.P. Newhard is superintendent, G. W. Rhodes, chief chemist, and J. A. Grubb, cashier, BONAIRE HIGH NEWS The ladies of the Baptist Wo man’s Missionary Society will sponsor a barbecue in the high school auditorium Friday night, March 29, at 7p. m, A program will follow. The school grounds have been greatly improved by shrubbery put out by the P. T. A. Don't forget to see “Treasure Farm” in the Bonaire High School Auditorium Friday night, April 5, at 8 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. D. 0. Andrews and son, Jimmy, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sisson, Mr and Mrs, C. L. Williams spent the weekend with relatives in Lincolnton, Ga. Miss Howard entertained the basketball boys and girls with a pound party at Mrs. Homer J. Walker’s Friday night. The P. T. A. sponsored a waist measuring party last Tuesday to get money to help pay for shrubbery. HOUSTON FACTORY W.M.S. HAS MEETING The Houston Factory Bap tist W. M, S. held their all day quarterly meeting Monday, March 18, at the home of Mrs. S. D. Harrison. Those taking part on the mis sion study program were Mrs. Phelan Andrews, Mrs. H. J. Knight, Mrs. Bob Batchelor,Mrs. W. C. Langston, and Mrs. Har rison, Mrs. Beulah Andrews and Mrs. Phelan Andrews sang two duets. Lunch was served at noon to the thirteen prerent. COTTON REPORT Census report shows that 5,334 bales of cotton were ginned in Houston county from the crop of 1939 prior to March 1, 1940 as compared with 3,994 bales for the crop of 1938. Over 46,000 Georgia farmers participated in measures to con trol boll weevils last year.