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VOL. LXVIX. No. 39.
SUPERIOR COURT TO
CONVENE MONDAY
The regular October term of
Houston Superior Court will con
vene next Monday, October 7,
with Judge Malcolm D. Jones
presiding.
Twenty-one civil cases are list
ed on the calendar and all are
se t for trial on Monday.
The Grand Jury will convene
on next Monday to consider the
warrants to be presented to
them.
The following are the grand
jurors and the traverse jurors
who have been summoned to
serve the court the first week:
Grand Jurors- -C. C. Wright,
J. N. Cosey, H. D. Palmer, Fe
lix Daniel, M. L, Woodruff, C, F.
Cooper Sr., J. F. Bonner, B. H.
Andrew, W.W. Gray, (Old 13th,)
D. C. Wright, Floyd H. Arm
strong, C. H. Gray, S. T. Bryan,
H. W. Huff, 0. B. Edmundson,
Woodrow Gilbert, R. A. Anderson,
P. M. Beckham, Luther Mostel
ler, A. R. Talton, Jr., D. E.
Corder, W. E. Beckham, John
S. Childs, J. C. Odum, C. K.
Cooper, John H. Williamson, W.
D. Henson, A. B, Ramage, Geo, |
R. Hunt, and B. H. Edwards.
Traverse Jurors—P. M. Wade,
Jas. A. Watson, C, B. Swearen
gen, J. C. Self, Hugh Braddock,
Sam Wilson, L. C. Walker, W.E.
Andrews, W. E. Vinson, Jr.,
Billie Talton, W. C. Huggins,
George Mills, H. J. Walker. E.
E. Loggins, J. D. Means, L. C.
Watson, (New 13th,) T. R. Car
ter, Cf. G. Davis, Ted Munson, S.
J. Ellis, H. C. Wheelus, T. D. Ma
son, Jr., Jack Borum, Roy Mil
ler, Lory Gunter, D. L. David
son, M. Lester Griffin, Eugene
Lashley, J. A. Grubb, and T. D.
Mason, Sr.
METHODISTS NEAR CLOSE
OF 1940 CONFERENCE YEAR
The Perry Methodist Church
will close in November another
year in its more than a century
of service to this community.
The Church, with its varied pro
gram, has sought to minister to
all ages.
Many things worthy of men
tion have been accomplished this
year. Week Day meetings with
children have been carried on.
A good Vacation school was held
in June. Recreation rooms have
been opened, and there have
been periods of directed recrea
tion for children and young peo
ple. The Epworth League has
had weekly meetings, and is now
growing in membership.
Attendance, both upon Church
School and Church services, has
increased this year. The thir
teen week Loyalty Campaign was
observed, and this produced
helpful results. A well organiz
ed Church School has given in
struction to all ages of life. The
Woman’s Missionary Society
was recently changed into the
Woman’s Society of Christian}
Service with a charter enroll
ment of one hundred members.
The Society has had a very suc
cessful year in its work.
Twenty two members have
been added to the membership
of the Church.
In November the Church will
Pay out iis budget of more thanj
$3,900. This figure does not in
clude |350 expanded in repair
and improvement of Church
Property, nor does it include the
regular amounts raised by the
woman’s Missionary Society aud
the Church School.
. Rev. Roy Gardner, now serv
es his first year as pastor of
the Church, will attend the An
ooal Conference, which convenes
ln Savannah on Nov. 6,
ANNOUNCEMENTS
, The circles of the Baptist W.
*'R «. will meet Monday at 4 p.
as follows: No. 1, with Mes
uames A. S. Gossett and D. H.
Jmith; No. 3, at the home of
lv - • U- M. Ryle with Mrs. Es-
Garrett as co-hostess.
Circles of the Methodist W. S.
o.'on w ‘U meet next Monday at
w ,?• m - as follows: No. 1, Mrs.
c £• Whipple No. 2, Mrs. G.
Gray rri3; No ’ 3 ’ Mrs ‘ C ‘ P *
I Perr y p - T. A. will meet
sSi ay at 3:30 p - at the
Houston Home Journal
Perry High Students
1 Have Many Activities
E. P. STAPLES
Supt, E. P. Staples of Perry
High school is greatly interested
in the observance of National
Newspaper Salute and is co-op
erating in plans for a program
[at the school Thursday at
eleven o’clock. Judge A. M, An
derson will he the speaker.
In commenting on plans for
the year’s work, Supt. Staples
said: “One of our primary ob
jectives this year is to teach
Americanism.
“The school is doing some
work along the Activity line
units of work devised to teach
all branches of subject matter in
such away that they will fit into
the child’s every-day life and
make school work more attrac
tive and interesting. We are:
striving to teach the boys and
girls how to study. We are not
putting so much emphasis on the
kind of home work that could be
prepared by someone else and
handed in by the student as his
own.
“There have been organized
this year nine clubs. Each club j
has one feature meeting a week
and two other meetings. Every
student in school is a member of
at least one club and no student
can be a member of more than
three clubs. Faculty advisors
are as follows: Glee Club, Miss
Williams; Dramatic Club, Mrs.
Coleman; Tri Hi Y Club, Miss
Anthony and Miss Warren; Li
brary Club, Miss Rainey and
Miss Pickens: F. F. A. Club, Mr.
Walker; Arts and Craft Club,
Miss Foster; Future Home-Mak
ers, Miss Powell; Drill Squad,
Miss Hughes: “P” Club, Mr. Sta
ples.”
The following is a short re
sume of each of these clubs.
“P” Club
The main objective of the “P”
Club is to develop character, to
teach boys how to live clean
wholesome lives and to play the
game of life fairly.
Library Club
The purpose of the Library
Club is that the members may
learn how to know and enjoy
good books, and that they may
learn the tools of the library and
how to use them. An important
function of the club will be the
study of current events. This
will be conducted with the pur
pose of making a better inform
ed and a more civic-minded stu
dent organization.
Arts and Craft Club
The arts and crafts club is or
ganized for the purpose of help
ing students learn to turn spare
moments into profitable ones, to
make useful objects of simple
land inexpensive materials and to
[enjoy work. Projects begun and
(proposed include basket weaving,
(wood carving, block linoleum
I printing, poster making and let
tering, pottery molding and nu
merous other handicrafts.
It is hoped that this work will
[develop useful hobbies and en
tourage thrift and at the same
! time enable energetic pupils to
imake spending money through
I their own resources. A sure re
[suit of attempting to make ob
jects by hand will be a more in-
I telligent appreciation of skill,
, genius and patient labor mani
fested in the masterpieces of
fine and useful art.
Glee Club
The Perry High Glee Club is a
comparatively new club, having
j (Continued To Editorial Page) ■
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940
PENN-DIXIE CEMENT CORP. PLANT
LARGEST INDUSTRY IN COUNTY
Editor’s Note: In observance
of National Newspaper Service
Salute, Oct. 1-8, the Home Jour
nal is featuring the various in
terests and organized groups of
Houston county. To represent
the industrial interests, Penn-
Dixie Cement Plant No. 2 was
selected. This newspaper is in
debted to E. Paul Newhard, su
perintendent of the Clinchfield
plant, for the information given
in this article.
Ages ago, probably four mil
lion years, according to geolo
gists a great part of the State of
Georgia formed the bed of an
ocean. The shore roughly fol
lowed a physiographic division
known as the “Fall Line”, run
ning through Columbus, Macon,
Milledgeville, and Augusta. At
various locations along this shore
were deposited accumulations of
shells which have been consoli
dated into massive limestone de
posits, At Clinchfield, Houston
County, seven miles south of
Perry, the Penn-Dixie plant
utilizes this limestone as the
principal raw material in manu
facture of Portland Cement. Ful
ler’s earth superimposed on the
limestone; together with kaolin
from the company’s pit near
Kathleen, constitute the other
ingredients for the “raw mix
ture.”
The approach to the plant
through “Miller Park” named
for John A. Miller, president, leads
from U, S. Highway 41, south
of the overpass over the G. S. &
F. Railway Co. From this van
tage point, the traveler catches
a glimpse of plant buildings, with
office in the foreground and the
half mile of quarry face nearby.
The Georgia plant is one of
,e i g h t cement manufacturing
plants operated by the Penn-Dix
ie Company in different states.
The so-called “wet process” is
employed at the local plant
which is one of the most modern
plants in the industry. It was
completed in 1925 by the Clinch
field Portland Cement Corpora
tion of Kingsport, Tennessee,
which became an affiliate of the
present corporation.
In June 1925, smoke rolling
from the tall concrete smoke
stack, signalized the beginning
of operations of Houston Coun
ty’s $2,000,000 industrial unit
and excepting for comparatively
brief periods of inactivity, manu
facturing operations have been
continuous. The product has
earned an enviable reputation
and has been used extensively in
construction projects in Georgia
and the Southeast
Upon entering the local plant,
the visitor sees two parallel lines
of buildings extending for
some distance. Mill buildings
proper are connected by convey
ors and traveling cranes to per
mit a continuous flow of material
from one stage of manufacture
to the next until the storage of
finished cement is reached, con
sisting of eighteen huge con
crete silos.
The manufacture of portland
cement is a complicated and ex
acting process of transforming
common inert materials into a
finely powdered, chemically ac
tive substance. Incidentally, the
name “portland” is not a trade
name but denotes the process
which is now universally em
ployed in the cement industry.
It was derived from the fact
that experimental cement pro
duced in 1824 by the basic prin
ciples of present-day manufac
ture, bore a favored resemblance
to stone quarried at Portland,
England.
There are about eighty differ
ent steps involved in the manu
facturing process at Clinchfield
beginning in the quarry, through
various stages of crushing, grind
ing, burning, storage and pack
ing. The heart of the plant is the
kiln room with its three revolv
ing kilns; each 10 feet in diame
ter by 175 feet long. In these
huge rotating cylinders, raw ma
i terials are heated to a tempera
jtureof about 2800 degrees Fah
renheit and a continuous stream
[of incandescent “clinker” dis
charges from the end of the
j kilns for cooling and final grind-
I ing into portland cement.
The plant generates its own
power from waste heat develop
ed in the burning process.
A modern laboratory complete
ly equipped for chemical analysis
of materials and physical tests of
the product, operates 24 hours a
day. Constant vigilance is main
tained in control of every step of
the manufacture from quarry to
finished product.
In keeping with the accident
prevention activities in the in
dustry, Penn-Dixie’s Georgia
plant has established a very com
mendable record. Winning the
coveted Portland Cement Asso
j elation Trophy, in 1933, for hav-
I ing gone through a calendar year
! without a loss time accident, em
ployees of the plant have won a
reaward of this trophy during
six subsequent years; minor ac
cidents in 1937 having prevented
a continuous record.
At present the plant is operat
' ing at full capacity with employ
ment of 165 men.
Increased activities during the
past twelve months have been
largely due to shipments to San
tee-Cooper Power and Naviga
tion project in South Carolina.
It is noteworthy that all of the
cement for this project has been
shipped from Clinchfield. The
concrete has drawn high praise
from Public Works Administra
tion engineers according to a re
cent news report in the Charles
ton, (S. C.) News & Courier and
declared by them to be as fine as
any in the world.
Thus, Houston County is con
tributing to progress of the
South in furnishing the principal
ingredient for construction of
highways—hydro-electric p r o
jects, bridges, buildings, ai r
ports and all of the many other
permanent improvements and
structures of modern day life.
Kilo CLUB OBSERVES
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK
The Perry Kiwanis club joined
with 2,000 other Kiwanis clubs
in the United States in the obser
vance of National Newspa
per Week, Oct. 1-8, with a pro
gram devoted to newspapers at
Tuesday’s luncheon meeting. W.
K. Whipple, vice-president, pre
sided.
Chas. J. Bayne, associate edi
tor of The Macon Telegraph,
spoke on “What a Free Press
Means to Democracy.” Mr. Bayne
said that freedom of the press in
this country was maintained by
self-discipline rather than cen
sorship and that this method of
restraint was much better than
a legal one.
Mrs. John L. Hodges, editor of
the Home Journal, arranged the
program.
Guests at the meeting includ
ed A. C. Riley of Fort Valley,
lieutenant governor of the Fifth
Kiwanis district; Reginald Trice
of Macon, lieutenant governor of
the Ninth district: Corporal
Dominey and Trooper Paul Ellis
of the Georgia state patrol; Mrs.
W. K. Whipple, Telegraph cor
respondent at Perry, and W. B.
Sims and J. W. Bloodworth, Per
ry merchants.
The club had an 100 per cent
attendance.
The menu featured Houston
county products with country
ham as the “piece de resis
tance.”
REGISTRAR! PLANS
County School Supt. S. W.
Hickson will be in charge of the
registration of all Houston coun
ty male citizens between the ages
of 21 and 35 on Oct, 16, the date
set by President Roosevelt to
launch the selective service part
of the national defense program.
The school houses in the county
will be places of registration.
The school teachers will assist
in handling this work. Further
details will be given next week.
3rd Dist. Committee
Judge A. M. Anderson and
Mrs. John L. Hodges were re
elected Houston county represen
tatives on the third district con
gressional committee, at the con
vention held in Americus Friday
night to declare Stephen Pace,
congressman, the Democratic
nominee to succeed himself.
! Agriculture Makes
I Progress In Houston
By W. T. MIDDLEBROOKS,
County Agent
Soil improvement was chosen
} by the “Houston County Plan
ning Committee” as one of the
projects needing immediate at
tention. In 1939, 42,275 acres of
soil building practices were ac
complished on farms in the coun
ty through planting of summer
and winter cover crops and turn
ing them back into the soil, es
tablishing and fertilizing perma
nent pastures, application of
limestone and application of acid
phosphate under winter cover
crops. Winter legume seed has
been made available this year
through Government Grant of
Aid, also ground limestone and
acid phosphate. Also one car of
winter cover crop seed has been
bought for cash.
As a result of this work coun
ty yields are showing consider
able improvement. Wheat last
season averaged fully 20 bushels
per acre as compared to 10 year
previous average of 9.9 bushels.
Cotton increased from 5 year
average of 190 to a 1939 produc
ition of 227 pounds per acre. Corn
shows only a slight improvement
but for 1940 it appears a notice
able increase is apparent.
Cooperating with local chapter
of U. G. F., a 5 acre corn and
cotton contest is being conducted
this year, some reports coming
in indicate that a large number
of producers are making very
nice yields. A county tour was
held in the summer and quite a
number of contest patches were
visited. They looked mighty
good at that time.
The cotton crop for the county
will be slightly less than last
I year, due mainly to excessive
rain at boiling time causing wee
vil damage. The corn crop is the
best the county has had in quite
a number of years.
The peanut crop in the upper
end of the county seems to be
very good, reports are that a
good many peanut farms in low
er end of county are securing
lower yields than usual. The crop
for the county as a whole will be
as good or better than last year
due to the increased acreage,
which is causing a number of
our farmers to lose out on AAA
payments on account of peanut
penalties.
The pecan crop is looking ex
cellent, some growers reporting
an extra heavy crop in spite of
an approximate loss of about
10% from a windstorm.
Soil Conservation Work
The Middle Western Ocmulgee
River Soil Conservation District
is assisted by the Soil Conserva
tion Service and other agricultu
ral agencies in working with the
farmers in developing a plan on
farms for controlling erosion and
utilizing the land for what it is
best suited. This consists of
contour cultivation, rotations,
strip cropping, terraces, pastures,
reforestation, perennial hay
crops, etc.
C)n more than 86 farms that
have been planned in Houston
county, nearly 1100 acres of laud
formerly in cultivation have
been retired to pine trees or
kudzu because the land was too
badly eroded, or too poor for
growing profitably.
Over 1600 acres of cropland
have been properly terraced and
the farmers are practicing strip
cropping on several hundred
acres of this amount.
Over 150 acres of idle, but
rich bottom land have been de
veloped into fine permanent pas
tures; 400 acres of old pastures
have been improved by fertilizer,
seeding, etc.
Approximately 200,000 kudzu
• seedlings have been planted on
1250 acres of land that will serve
j as disposal areas for terrace
water. The terraces are to be
built after the kudzu is estab
lished.
Over 150 acres have been
planted to kudzu on severely
eroded and gullied land; also, in
strips on critical portions of cul
tivated fields for hay and graz
ing. Kudzu is equivalent to al
falfa as a hay crop.
Farm Security Admr.
The Farm Security administra
tion has aided 141 clients in
Houston county this year. Twen
ty-three Tenant Purchase farm
deals have been closed and thir-
I teen more are to be consumated
1 this fall. $175 is the average
ESTABLISHED 1870
BAPTISTS COMPLETE
GOOD CHURCH YEAR
The Perry Baptist church com
pleted its church year Monday,
Sept. 30, with an increase along
all lines of its endeavor. In re
viewing the year’s work Mon
day, Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor, had
this to say:
“At the center of the program
has been a fine response to the
call to worship. Along with this
has come a definite increase in
the financial response of our peo
ple. The records show for the
year a total gift for all purposes
of $4,477.24. This is an increase
over gifts of last year of $797.24.
This is a definite indication of
progress in the work of the
church.
“The church sponsored one
Evangelic Revival with marked
results. It has been of perma
nent help and inspiration to our
people. During the year there
have been twenty seven additions
to the church by baptism, and fif
teen by letter, making forty-two
total additions. The church re
cently held a Stewardship Revi
val, serving as a forerunner of
Every Member Canvass in pro
gress at this time. The plan and
program of the church calls for
a definite response on the part
of every member of the church
to the financial support of its
work.
“The W. M. S. with its sixty
five members, has done a re
markable piece of work this
past year, showing a definite
increase in its financial sup
port of the work far and wide.
In addition to its active support
of local and outside work of the
denomination, it sponsors sever
al auxiliaries, some of these or
ganizations being active in our
church, namely, “The Sun
beams’’ taking in the younger
group of our boys and girls; “The
Girl Ambassadors” taking the
age group above the former, and
“The Royal Ambassadors” tak
ing in the boys, two groups of
these being active in the church.
To the leaders of all these groups,
we would express our sincere ap
preciations.
“Of the Bible School, we can
but repeat the above good things
as our leaders have given them
selves earnestly in the field of
endeavor.
“All along the line, we have
noted an earnestness and respon
siveness which can but bring
gladness and spiritual thrill to
our hearts as a church.
‘To say a word about the work
of the church in the year begin
ning Oct, I, now upon us, we
would hope for a repitetion of
the past year's record with a
plus mark added. Definitely, we
are looking forward and making
plans for a great year. This
week we are engaged in a Sun
day School Revival with Mrs. R.
K. Stovall of Valdosta, and Rev.
M. D. Reed of Fort Valley, lead
ing. We are expecting fine re
sults,
“On (let. 27, the church will
engage in a Church School of
Missions lasting one week, with
missionaries from all parts of the
Southern Baptist Mission work
speaking to the organizations.
Sometime in February a two-day
conference on Baptist Training
Union work will be held at the
church. These activities and
many others which we cannot
definitely announce at this time,
will make up a part of the pro
gram of worship and work of the
church for the next year. To a
year of successful spiritual en
deavor in the way of earnest
prayer, worship and service, we
would call our people.”
amount of money advanced to
aid clients in producing crops.
Families aided by the F. S.
A. have averaged canning ISS
quarts of food per family.
4-H Club Work
There are forty-six boys carry
ing on sixty different projects in
the 4H clubs of Houston county.
Twenty-two boys have corn for
their projects. All expect yields
of over 20 bu. per acre and some
as high as 50 bu. or more. One
boy in the cotton club made
nearly 500 lbs. of lint cotton on
his acre. The 4H boys have an
enrollment in these clubs: poul
try, swine, garden, and wild life.’
