Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, January 23, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHouston Home Journal VOL. LXX. No. 4. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 23. 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870 CAMELLIA SHOW TO I BE HELD HERE JAH.3II ~ he Legion Home were made 3 L January meeting of the Perry Garden club, held Friday 0 mat the Legion Horne Six f' * ns including Marshallville. Montezuma, Fort Valley, Haw- SSunadilla. and Perry will unite in putting on this Ca mp lia Show. Committees for the Show were appointed by the president, Mrs. G C. Nunn, as follows: Registration— M is s Martha foonerand Mrs. Mayo Davis. Publicity—Mrs. J. A. Bed- Hingfiekl and Mrs. Wordna Gray. Schedule- Mrs. G.C.Nunn and Mrs. Emmett Barnes. Arrangement —Mrs. G. E. Jor dan, Mrs. W. C. Talton, Mrs. W. F. Norwood, and Mrs. C. E. Mc- Ll Awards and Favors—Mrs. Phil Anderson, Mrs. A. C. Pritchett, and Mrs. E. P. Staples. Selection of Judges—Mrs. H. T. Gilbert and Mrs. W. B. Roberts. .... , Everybody is invited to have entries whether a member of the Garden club or not. Friday’s Program Friday’s program was pre sented by Mrs. Mayo Davis. Mrs, W. C. Talton’s paper on Seed Sowing was read by Mrs. J. L. Gallemore. ‘ ‘Flowers on the Map” was the subject of Mrs. C. F. Cooper’s paper. The attendance contest was won by The Gardenia team of which Mrs. Gallemore is chair man. In the special feature arrange ment, Miss Martha Cooper won first and second places for a min iature of mixed flowers. In the general feature, Mrs. G. P. Hun nicutt was first with a display of pink camellias. The president announced that the blue print on the cemetery project had been approved by the city council and work would be gin soon. The Hawkinsville Garden club will present the April program of the Perry club.it was announced. Hostesses were Mesdames G. C. Nunn, J. B. Calhoun, A. H. Lawler, C. H. Tucker, and C. B. Andrew. New members present were Mrs. W. C Massee, Mrs. Drew Harris, Mrs. L. K. Thomason, Mrs. W. D. Kersey, Mrs. R. A. Anderson, and Mrs. Tom Mobley. Visitors were Mrs. L. C. Da vis Jr., Cleveland, Tenn.; Mrs. L C. Davis Sr., Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. F. M. Houser, and Miss Polly McLendon. MRS. L.E. McLESTER DIES Mrs. L. E. McLester, 78, died Saturday at 10 o’clock a. m. af ter being in bad health for some time. Mrs. McLester was born Feb. 24. 1862, the daughter of Lovett | and M. A. Persons of Monroe county. i Euneral services were held at 14:30 p. m. Sunday at the Perry Baptist church and burial follow ed in Evergreen cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Miss Hortense McLester of Ma con; a son, R. L. McLester of M»est Palm Beach, Fla., and lour grandchildren, Robert,Fred erick, Louise and Phyllis Mc- Lester, of West Palm Beach. Mrs. McLester was a devout Christian, a devoted member of the Perry Baptist church and a pgular attendant at services as aS er health permitted, khe had an interesting per sonality. CHECKS RECEIVED Houston county farmers re ceived $5,500 in soil conservation Payments last week, County W. T. Middlebrooks said Louay, More money is expected r 'ght away. Many farmers have not yet made their applications, Mr. Middlebrooks urged that d 1 farmers make these applica tlQns immediately. lound Bunch of Keys on 1 '-‘thodist church yard. Owner may obtain same by applying at fiome Journal office and paying for this notice* [PLANS FOR BIRTHDAY I PARTY. JAN. 30, MADE To raise Houston county’s quo ta for the Infantile Paralysis Fund which is carried on by con tributions made annually in cele bration of President Roosevelt’s birthday, Jan. 30, plans for sev eral affairs were made Monday night at a committee meeting, presided over by F. M. Houser, county chairman of this year’s drive. A benefit basket-ball game be tween Perry and some outstand ing team will be played in Perry Thursday, Jan. 30, at 8 p. m. The Girls’ Drill Squad of Perry High will perform and a pro gram of interest will be present ed. Sandwiches, weiners, hot and cold drinks will be sold throughout the evening. Tickets including the basket ball game and other entertain ment features will be sold. No season passes will be good at this ball game. To augment the fund, buttons will be sold on the streets and in the schools. F. M. Greene,coun ty school supt., is general chmn. of the school sales. The head of each school is in charge of sales for his or her school. The Union at Clinchfield will sponsor a benefit square dance on the night of Jan. 30 for this cause. Committees appointed by Mr. Houser are being notified this week. PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES Basket-ball News Perry High will tackle one of its toughest opponents Thursday night when the boys from the Masonic Home come here for a game. The Masonic Home holds victories over such teams as La nier, Bonaire, Fort Valley, For syth, Gordon, and Marietta. This game should prove to be an excellent game for the Masonic boys boast one of the fastest teams in Middle Georgia. Perry High defeated the By ron High school quintet 19 to 14 in a close game on the local court Tuesday night. Byron held the lead at the half •10to 8, but the Perry cagers pulled up from the low position before the third quarter. High scorer for Perry was Boswell, 15 points, and for Byron, Howard,B. Perry won two games last week after dropping a tough one to Lanier. Leslie was defeated by the score of 23 to 17, the 1 Freshmen from Middle Georgia College were defeated by the score of 33 to 20. Let’s all come out and support our team. Tri-Hi-Y-Club Mozelle Cawthon talked on “Good Grooming’’ at the Janu ary meeting of the Tri-Hi-Y club ■hast Thursday. Miss Ada An thony read the 101 Ps. Mi s s Sara Williams was a visitor,Supt. Staples will talk on Good Sports manship at the next meeting. ; DRAFTEES REJECTED ;j ; j Two of Houston county’s draf ■tees who were sent to Fort Ben fning last week failed to pass the | physical examination and were (rejected. I They were Lynwood Franklin | Leverett and Ralph Clinton Pet ! tett. Others to take their places ((have not been definitely deter ,l mined yet. 1 Three negroes left Wednesday, 1 ! Jan. 22, for Fort Penning. They : jwere Richard Hudson, B. Wil- I liams and Milton Smith. ; ANNOUNCEMENT ■ Miss Norine Swanson wi 11 i open her Kindergarten on Mon • day, Feb. 3, at her home. Chil ; dren between 4 and 6 years of : age will be enrolled. Phone 69, Perry, Ga. HOUSTON’S AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM RESULTS IN PROGRESSIVE METHODSi Houston county had an Agri cultural Program in 1940 formu lated to create constructive, co ordinated thinking and planning by local people along the lines of general agricultural improve- i ment. County Agent W.T. Mid- I dlebrooks was the director of the i program which was outlined by the County Program Planning < committee composed of leaders ! and interested individuals from each community in the county. < The advisory group assisting this county organization was 1 composed of the technical work ers located in the county repre senting the following agencies; Extension Work, Farm Security ( Adtnr., Soil Conservation Ser vice, State Welfare Dept., and County School Supt. The farm program outlined in 1940 met with such success it was decided to continue this work in 1941 to prevent overlap ping of agencies and to see that the field is adequately covered. The first meeting of the year was held Monday p. m. in the office of County Agent W. T. Middlebrooks by the advisory group to the County Planning Committee to make plans for the 1941 farm program and hear re sults of the 1940 program. 1940 Plan of Work The projects selected for em , phasis in the 1940 Houston Coun-| ty Plan of work were: Cotton, i Soil Conservation and Improve ment, Hogs, and Corn. The goals established by the 1 , County Program Planning Com mittee were as follows: COTTON —Treatment of plant ing seed, increase yield by 20 , lbs., pure seed on every farm, poison boll weevil, rotation of crops. SOIL CONSERVATION AND ’ IMPROVEMENT—IOO landown ers signed up and cooperating with Soil Conservation District Work, 20,000 acres summer le gumes for soil building, at least a two year rotation on every farm and three year rotation on one half of all farms, and four year rotation on 100 farms. Hogs—Of the 350 farms cen sus figures show do not raise any hogs at all for their own use, i get a minimum of 300 of these families to raise enough hogs for their own use and the remainder to raise a sufficient quantity for their own use and a surplus for ; sale, establish Swine Sanitation Projects in each of the eight communities. Secure pure bred boars all interested producers. CORN—lncrease county aver age yield from 10 up to 15 bush els per acre. Every farm pro duce enough corn for food and i feed requirements with a surplus for feeding out livestock for an additional cash crop. 1 Accomplishments for 1940 ; The accomplishments toward i these 1940 goals are: 1 The practice of treating plant i ing cotton seed has increased to t approximately 8,400 acres plant ed to cotton, 5,600 acres poisoned : for boll weevil. Due to unfavor able weather conditions yield was not improved and quite a large number of farms lost pure 1 seed due to having to plant over the second and third time.Practi * cally ail farms practice rotation ( of their cotton acreage with oth -5 er crops. The 1940 average yield was 198 lbs. compared with 227 lbs. for 1939. Soil Conservation Work Plans were written on 40 additional farms, making a total of 90 farms cooperating in Houston county. Seven thousand acres of land was planted to winter ’ cover crops. At least 18,000 ( acres of summer legumes were 1 planted, 430 tons of ground lime stone used, 147 tons of Acid ‘ Phosphate was used under win ’ ter legume crops, 450 acres of ’ Kudzu planted for water disposal areas and permanent strips and 1,800 acres of terraces construct , ed, 637 acres of pasture improv ed and 400 acres of pine|seedlings S6t» . Of the'3so farm families 1939 census figures show did not raise any pork for their own consump- I tion, it is estimated that during • j the past year 1940, there were -| 150 of these families who raised : from one to three hogs, leaving a total of 200 families yet to adopt this practice. Three producers I - I I have adopted the sanitation sys-j tem of raising hogs. The scarci-, ty of adequate fencing has re tarded this practice. As a result of general improve ment in land through AAA soil building practices, it is estimat ed the average yield of corn for Houston county this year was in creased from 10 to at least 12 or 13 bushels per acre. One of the local corn dealers reports more corn bought this year than ever before and every farmer who tried has enough for home use. County Agent’s Report Approximately 200,000 trees i w r ere planted in 1940 and 100,000 | ordered to be set out in 1941 The value of planting pines on erod ed waste land was discussed at all Soil Conservation meetings held in the county. Educational AAA meetings were held In every community. In November a series of meet ings on Marketing Quotas and Changes in 1941 Program were held to which 550 farmers at tended. A total of 1,105 farm families participated in Cotton Mattress Demonstration Project in 1940. There were three meetings held with program planning com mittee in 1940 with a total at tendance of 27. The sub-com mittee on land use held two meetings with a total attendance of 11. The Technical Advisory (Committee held five meetings I with a total attendance of 39. (There are fourteen farmer mem bers of County Program Plan ning Committee and ten mem bers of Technical Advisory Com mittee. An average of three to five meetings were held in each com munity during the year. There were 51 boys and girls enrolled in 4-H Club Work and 28 completed their projects. A total of 616 farm visits were made and 161 different farms visited by the County Agent. Office calls numbered 1,268, and telephone calls 2,000 at the agent’s office. News articles by county agent numbered forty-seven. Individual letters written were 535 and circular letters sent out were 28. One county tour was held with an attendance of 42. The most outstanding projects were the 4 H Baby Beef club; treating cotton planting seed and poisoning for boll weevil; adult 5 acre corn and cotton contest; and cotton mattress project. The projects with which the most outstanding results came about through the County Pro gram were the Cotton and corn projects, PERRY F.S.AND L.ASS’N. HAS ANNUAL MEETING C. E. Andrew and Max Moore were re-elected directors of the Perry Federal Savings and Loan Association at a stockhold ers meeting Wednesday, Jan. 15. Other officers are S. A. Nunn, president; C. E. Andrew, vice president: F. M. Houser, secre tary and treasurer: G. C. Nunn, F. M. Culler and W. K. Whipple, directors. The assets of the association have gone over $lOO,OOO during the past year. There are 125 members. A semi-annual divi dend of 2 per cent was recently paid to stockholders. NEW FORD AGENCY Moody Motor Company, new Ford agency for Houston county, is opening for business this week in the mew Muse Building on Commerce street. Cecil Moody is the proprietor. Wilson Moody is book-keeper. Joe Moody, War ren Leaptrot, and Homer Parks are the mechanics. Mr. Moody, the owner and operator, is familiar with the Ford business having been con nected with other Ford agencies. For the past two years he has operated Moody’s Garage which will be a department of the new agency. Miss Avarene Carlisle of Clinchfield is a new employee at Nick’s Cafe. | PERRY F.F.A. CHAPTER | COMPLETES PROJECTS I ! Thirty-four F. F. A. boys fin ished projects in Productive En terprise in 1940, according to L. IC. Walker, instructor and ad visor. The total value of these 17 projects was $5,575,58 with a total cost of $2,692.79, making a total income of $2,882.79 for Student labor. The average stu dent labor income was $84.78. Ralph Tabor was the highest moneymaker with $403.18 stu dent labor income from two acres potatoes, 2 acres corn fol lowing Austrian Winter Peas, i two sows and two litters. There are eleven F. F. A.mem jbers with thirteen beef calves. The boys are feeding these (calves for the Annual Fat Calf Show to be sponsored by the Perry Kiwanis club in March. Jack Eason has two Black Angus calves. Walter (fray Jr, has two Herefords. Those with one Here ford are: Durward. Wilson, Eu gene Lashley Jr., Cullen Talton, Billy Giles, Malcolm Rape, Alton Tucker. Kelley Hammock, Law ton Daniel, and Clarence Shur ling. The local chapter is planning to enter the F. F. A. Public Speaking contest to be held in March. Durward Wilson won the local <-cntest in 1940 and the first sectional contest at Haw kinsville, and was third in the second sectional contest at Tif ton. F. F. A. officers are Ralph Ta bor, president; Fred Johnson, vice president; Julian Cawthon, treasurer; John Overton, secty.; Alton Tucker, reporter. Th e chapter has thirty members with seven new ones. All of these have been initiated to the Green {Hand Degree and twelve have ! received the Junior Farmer Ini tiation, the highest degree that the local chapter can give. Ralph i Tabor is a Georgia Planter mem ber. During the fall months the club had its annual Father-Son and Mother-Daughter barbecue with the Home Economics girls. The club also sponsored with > the Girls Drill Squad a 3-act play. The F. F. A. basketball team has won all the games played this year. The boys have played Fort Valley “B” team, 3 games; Vienna Ag. Team, 2 games; Bon aire “B” team, 1 game; Byron “B” team, 1 game; Montezuma “B” team, 1 game, A full resume of Productive, Improvement, and Supplemen tary projects will be given next week. MORE EMPHASIS ON FOOD PRODUCTION A program for food production to be included in every county agricultural program in the state was recommended by the Geor gia Agricultural Extension Ser vice this week, in view of the pressing need for nutrition in na | tional defense. ; Director Walter S. Brown, of the Extension Service, pointed out that county Extension agents throughout Georgia are meeting with the agricultural program ! 1 planning committee for the pur pose of mapping out both current and long time farm programs. “There has never been a time when proper and adequate diet J was more necessary than it is : during these uncertain days,” he } said. “Since the national gov ’ ernment is assisting farm people through benefit payments to make adjustment in agriculture, a siza ble portion of these payments should be used to encourage greater production of food on the farm through purchase of ' jseed, fruit trees, family milk ! cows, poultry flocks and other ■ I crop and livestock products for 1 j home consumption.” The director declared that | many of the counties have al ' ready placed special emphasis on 1 food production in their agricul . tural programs for this year, and ' said that there was good reason i why such an important effort ’ | was necessary for the well be ; | ing of the farm people of Geor gia. *1 “Incomes of a large percent of farm people are low and diets are often so inadequate that it is very essential from a nation f al standpoint to improve these t conditions as a means of conserv ing human resources.” TABOR NAMED HEAD REA ORGANIZATION Floyd Tabor of Perry was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Flint Electric Membership Corporation, new name of the Taylor County Elec tric Membership Corp., at the annual membership meeting in Reynolds Friday. Walter W. Gray of Perry, B. B. Murph of Macon county, and Thurmond Whatley of Taylor county, were new members elected to the board. Mr. Whatley is the new ly elected secretary and treasur er, Members re-elected were Mrs. Charlie McKenzie of Macon county: B. L. McDaniel of Ma rion county: H. W. Sappington of Chattahoochee county; and George W. Garrett of Crawford county. Members voted to change the name of the corporation to Flint Electric Membership Corporation, which they said was a more ap propriate name since the corpora tion served ten counties along the Flint river. These are Tay lor, Marion, Chattachoochee, Muscogee, Talbot, Crawford, Peach, Houston, Bibb, and Ma con counties. A movement is under way to establish a sub-station of the corporation in Houston county near Perry. Reynolds is the headquarters. With 368 meters Houston coun ty has the largest number of any county in the corporation. Seventy-five people from Hous ton attended the annual meeting Friday. THIRD DIST. TOURNAMENT DATES UNO PLACES SLATED Places and dates of the Third District high school basketball : tournament were fixed Saturday afternoon at a meeting of the 1 district association in The class “B” school boys’ tournament will be played at Cordele the week of February 17. The “B” girls tournament will be played in Americus the week of March 3. “C” boys tournaments will be played the week of February 10, and girls the week of February 24, in the following locations: Western Section— Boys at Preston, girls at Shellman. Central—Boys at Leslie, girls at Bronwood. | Northern —Boys at Ideal, girls lat Pinehurst. Eastern—Boys at Rebecca, girls at Chester. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS i Church School--10:15 a. m. The pastor will speak to the . Men’s Bible Class. Morning Worship 11:30 a. m. Sermon by the pastor, subject. “The Stewardship of Life.” Epworth League--6:00 p. m. Sunday. Young people of Inter mediate and Senior ages are in • vited to attend. Evening Worship 7:30 p. m. Sermon by the pastor. Subject, ; “Recall to the Experience of the Warm Heart.” Children’s meeting Monday, 3 ■ p. m. at the church. : First Quarterly conference will ! be held Wednesday night, Jan. ‘ 29, 7:30 o’clock, with Rev. Silas ! Johnson, district superintendent, : presiding. All officials and mem , bers of the church are invited to be present. ; The public is cordially invited . to all services. Rev, Roy Gardner, Pastor. : „ i i CAFE RE-OPENS I i Harry Griggs re-opened hi s : cafe, The Southern, this week in - the corner of the new Muse • Bldg, on Ball and Commerce streets. The cafe was destroyed f by fire last fall. 1 The furnishings, fixtures, and t kitchen arrangement are modern - and attractive. The large plate i glass windows and neon lights - make the exterior as inviting as the interior.