VOL.LXX. No. 9.
BONAIRE WINS BIST.
BASKET-BAIL TITLE
Rnnaire High won the third
J-5 high school association
K&SU Tuesday night by
Sing Americas High, wm
-6 i the "H” class tournament,
“'lrt fought game. Th e
in v was 31 to 30. Perdue
Sd 16 points and Stafford 10.
toaire «'on the "C” tourna
ment last week. Both Bonaire
and Americas will goto Athens
next week for the state tourna
ment.
The boys’basketball team of
Bonaire High school won the
championship of the third dis
rict Class C tournament Friday
night at Byron by defeating Re
iecca 32-22 in the finals. This
first time Bonaire has won
i district “C” title
Preston won over Chester 40
to 17 for third place.
The all star team chosen in
cluded Childs, Perdue, and Staf
ford of Bonaire. Other Bonaire
players are Davidson, Holloway,
and Wheelus. Supt. C. L. Wil
liams is coach.
Bonaire defeated Richland 46
t 027 Wednesday and Chester, 34
t 029 Thursday night in order to
compete in the finals Friday
night.
Perry Loses “B” Title
The Americas High school
boy’s team defeated the Fort
Valley High school for the third
district basketball title in Cordele
Friday night, 29 to 26 in a thrill
ing finish for Americas after be
ing led at the half 15 to 9 by
Fort Valley.
In the consolation game Perry
High defeated the Chauncey
team 39 to 19, with Leroy Bos
well, ace forward of Perry, scor
ing 26 points alone.
ine surprise of the tourna
ment, Perry, favored to win the
title was eliminated from the
third district. Class- “B” meet in
Cordele Thursday night by a
fierce fighting Fort Valley five,
31 to 29.
Fort Valley led all the way un
til the fourth period, when the
Panthers grabbed a 27 to 26 lead.
This was dropped a moment lat
er and then regained by Perry
and held briefly. Fort Valley
shot a free goal and a field goal
to tie and win the game.
Americas defeated Chauncey
22-21 in the other thrilling game
of the semi-finals.
Perry defeated Hawkinsville
Wednesday night and Fort Val
ley won over Cordele.
Two of the Perry five received
outstanding honors. Julian Caw
thon and Leroy Boswell were se
lected as members of the all
district team. Leroy was the
wly member unanimously chos
en. He has been an all-district
Pick for three successive years,
a ||d last year was selected as an
all-state player.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School-10:15 a. m
Morning Worship 11:30 a. m.
ms is Methodism’s “Day of
on which all loyal
•*ethodists are asked to be in
mT p aces °f worship and to
ake a f ree w ju offering for War
‘. le T ln Europe and China, for
'distance to British Methodist
"Oi'k over the world, and for
,‘nstian service in and near our
V my . Camps. On this day
encan Methodism is seeking
t ui ,se one million dollars fori
| ca uses. The pastor will!
«f Chris" ” Th Th° Ut ?°- Win ui L ° Ve!
do, 1 n .• Phe choir will ren-
o nn Special music, and the Lord’s
pper will be observed.
viJi e ’ctory” series of ser
thP o continued through
suhifl ? un( j ay in March, the
v Jl ctfor The Sunday night ser
jwbemg Victory Over deal-
SnnSr rth „ League-6:30 p. m.
‘ Young people of Inter
ate and Senior ages are in
v, ted to attend.
‘cning Worship 7;30 p. m.
nichf'vi % rv ’ ce Wednesday
Prayer 7 ’ 30 0 clock - A talk »"
toa^Uervices. 8 cordially invited
P.ev. Roy Gardner, Pastor.
Houston Home Journal
{Fat Calf Show Set I
j For Saturday, Mar. 8 j
The Houston County Fat Calf
Show will be held in Perry Sat
urday, March 8, on Jernaghan
street on the vacant lot opposite
the Court Plouse. The display
and judging of animals will be
gin at 10:30 a m.
$lOO in prizes will be awarded
by the Perry Kiwanis club, spon
sors ot the show.
Nineteen calves will be enter
ed by thirteen F. F. A. boys
and six calves by six 4 H club
members. The animals will be
judged and prizes awarded ac
cording to the following classifi
cations:
Grand Champion, $l5,
Best Heavy Weight, (1) $lO,
(2) $7.50, (3) $5. (4) $2.50.
Best Light Weight, (1) $lO,
(2) $7.50, (3) $5, (4) $2.50.
Boys not winning prizes on
calves will be given a consola
tion award of $l.
After being displayed here the
calves will be carried to Macon
for the Fat Cattle Show there
March 10 and the Sale o n
March 11.
The Houston county show will
be under the direction of L. C.
Walker, F. F. A. adviser, and
W. T. Middlebrooks, county
agent.
Last year twenty-six calves
were fed out for the county
show as compared to nineteen
for this year. However, the
calves to be shown this spring
are better developed, it is said.
TWO COUNTY MEN
GET A. A. A. POSITIONS
Two Houston county young
men who received their training
in the office of W. T, Middle
brooks, county agent, have been
assigned to good positions in
other counties.
J. Lawrence Hunt has been
located by the state A. A. A. of
fice in Oglethorpe, Ga. as ad
ministrative assistant in charge
of A. A. A. for Macon county.
His cousin, B. J. Hunt Jr., has
been given a similar position in
Henry county with headquarters
at McDonough, Ga.
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
Dramatic Club
The Lewis Players, a group of
traveling actors, presented
“Peck’s Bad Boy’’in Chapel Fri
day. The play was well presented.
Now that basketball is over,
the Dramatic club will give full
attention to the practice of a
four-act comedy to be presented
in March. Those taking parts
are; Mary Ann Riley, Billy
Boone, Elizabeth Gibert, Ralph
Tabor, Julian Cawthon,Marianne
Nunn, Marvin Greene, Gwendo
lyn Irby, Marzelle Cawthon, and
Jack Wynne.
Chapel Program
Trooper Ellis of the local State
Highway Patrol gave a talk on
| “Safety” in Chapel Friday af
ternoon. He outlined the causes
of accidents and listed ways that
youth can help to prevent these
accidents.
Sixth Grade News
The sixth grade is making a
study of flower and vegetable
gardening. Each of the 37 pu
! pils has planted something. All
the plants, wnich range from
nasturtiums to onions, are either
rooted, transplanted, or come up
from seed.
The sixth grade also has an in
teresting collection of china dogs
jin their room.
j FIRE DESTROYS SHED
Fire of undetermined origin
j destroyed a storage house and
[machinery shed of S. W, Hick
son on his home place near Perry
'.Wednesday p. m. last week,
j A quantity of corn and hay
]and several pieces of machinery
| were burned. The loss was par
jtially covered by insurance.
KIWANIS CLUB MEETS
The Perry Kiwanis club heard
a speech on the Legal Aspects of
the Trial of Christ by W. A.
Bootle of Macon at Tuesday’s
luncheon meeting.
Visitors were J. W. Blood
worth, John Williamson, and
Mr. Sears of Macon.
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941
GEN. HODGES NAMED
CHIEF U.S. INFANTRY
Editor’s Note; Gen, Hodges is
the son of Mrs. John H. Hodges
of Perry. His late father was
owner and editor of The Home
Journal for 45 years. His broth
er, John L. Hodges, is the owner,
and publisher of this newspaper.'
The paper takes pride in pub
lishing this new honor which has
come to a member of the Hodges
family. The article below was
copied from the Atlanta Consti
tution.
Brigadier General Courtney H.
Hodges, native of Perry, Ga.,and
former commandant of the in
fantry school at Fort Benning,
the army’s largest, has been
named chief of infantry of the
United States army, it was an
nounced Saturday by the War
Department at Washington.
A Georgia youth who left West
Point after only a year to enlist
as a private and then win recog
nition as one of the service’s
outstanding infantry officers,
General Hodges has had one of
the most varied and colorful
careers of any man in the army.
His service includes action in
France in the first World War,
duty with General Pershing’s
punitive expedition into Mexico
and service at the United States
Military Academy as a batallion
commander of cadets.
Awarded Service Cross
He was awarded the Distin
guished Service Cross for ser
vices with the American Expe
ditionary Force and also holds
the Silver Star for gallantry in
action during the St. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne offensives.
The citation for his DSC states:
“He personally conducted a re
connaissance of the Meuse river
to determine the most advanta
geous location for a crossing
and for a bridge site. Having
organized a storming party, he
attacked the enemy not 100 pa
ices distant, and, although fail
ing, he managed to effect the
crossing of the canal, after 20
hours of ceaseless struggling.
His fearlessness and courage
were mainly responsible for the
advance of his brigade to the
heights east of the Meuse.”
He enlisted in the regular ar
my in November, 1906, and
served for three years as a pri
vate, corporal and sergeant of
the 17th Infantry at Fort Mc-
Pherson.
He was appointed second lieu
tenant of infantry November 13,
1909; promoted to first lieutenant
July 1, 1916; to captain May 15,
1917; to major (temporary) June
7, 1918, and to lieut colonel
(temporary) October 31, 1918.
He reverted to his permanent
rank of captain and was promot
ed to major July 1, 1920; to lieu
tenant colonel October 1, 1934; to
colonel October 1, 1938, and to
brigadier general April 1, 1940.
For two years beginning in
May, 1936, he was on duty at
the headquarters of the Philip
pine department, Manila, with
the general staff corps. In Au
gust, 1938, he reported for duty
at Fort. Benning as assistant com
mandant of the infantry school.
October 7, 1940, he was appoint
ed commandant of the infantry
school. .
Gen. Hodges succeeds Major
General George A. Lynch, whose
tenure as chief of infantry ex
pires on May 23. Gen. Hodges
will assume temporary rank of
major general in his new posi
tion, and will be succeeded in
command of the infantry school
at Benning by Lieutenant Colo
nel Omar N. Bradley who has
been nominated as a brigadier
general.
W.M.S.WEEK OF PRAYER
The Baptist W. M. S will ob
serve the Annie W. Armstrong
season of prayer and offering for
home missions next week as fol
lows: On Monday at 3:30 p. m.
iat the circle meetings; Wednes
day evening at 7:30 p. m and
'Thursday and Friday afternoons
! at 3:30 p. m. at the church.
Circle No. 1 will meet with
Mrs. G. P. Hunnicutt; No. 2,
i with Mrs. Mayo Davis; and No.
3 with Mrs. H. T. Gilbert.
Mr. Nathan Gilbert is employ
ed with the International Har
vester Co. Macon agency.
NATIONAL DEFENSE !
TOPIC OF auxiliary!
I
National Defense was the sub-j
ject of the program presented by
Mrs. L. M. Paul Jr., chairman,
at the February meeting of the
Auxiliary to the Robert D. Col-
Jins Post of the American Le
'gion, which was held last Thurs
day p. m. at the Legion Home.
For the third successive year,
G. W. Rhodes, asst, superinten
dent of the Clinchfleld plant of
the Penn Dixie Cement Corpora
tion and prominent legionnaire,
spoke on National Defense. The
Perry unit has won the silver
loving cup from the Auxiliary of
the Georgia Department, Ameri
can Legion, for the most out
standing work in National De
fense in the state for the past
two years. If they win the cup
again this year, it will become
the permanent property of the
Perry unit.
In his speech, Mr. Rhodes de
plored the laxity of the United
States in dealing with fifth col
umnists, which he derisively
called “filth columnists,” in this
country. He denounced careless
ness in allowing subversive doc
trines such as Nazism, Fascism,
Communism to be taught in our
public schools and called upon
the churches to lead the way to
permanent peace.
America is just now adopting
the policies of National De
fense that the Legion and Auxi
liary have been urging for twen
ty years, such as a two-ocean
navy, a large army, and fortifi
cations of our outposts and the
Panama Canal, Mr. Rhodes said.
Guests present included Mrs.
G. E. Jordan, regent of D.A.R ;
Mrs. H. T. Gilbert, president
U. D. C.; Mrs. G. C. Nunn, pres
ident Garden club; Mrs. R. L.
Cater, president Medical Auxili
ary: Mrs. W. K. Whipple and
Mrs. J. L, Hodges.
Hostesses were Mrs. Hollis
Kezar, president; Mrs. J. B. Cal
houn, secty.; Mrs. C. C. Pierce,
Mrs, Sam Wilson, and Mrs. H.
W. Huff.
MISS LIZZIE KUNZ DIES
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m.
for Miss Lizzie Mae Kunz, 79,
who died at her home here early
Wednesday morning after an ill
ness of about two weeks.
Her father, the late Marx
Kunz was born in Germany, and
her mother was Annie Connelly,
a native of Ireland, who came
here from Montreal, Canada.
She is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Ophelia Gurr of Perry.
Funeral services were held at
the Kunz home with Rev. J. A.
Ivey, pastor of the Perry Bap
tist church, officiating. Burial
was in Evergreen cemetery,
Perry.
Pallbearers were J. W. Blood
worth, W. A. Curtis, T. R. Sum
mers, Eby Holtzclaw, W. C.
Jones, W. G. Riley, and W. E.
Beckham.
BAPTIST GROUPS MEET
Baptist organizations have
been active this week.
The R. A. Junior Group met
at the church Monday p. m. The
R. A. are preparing a large as
sembly room in the church base
ment for their meetings.
The Clifford Hunter Bible
Class met Monday night at the
home of Mrs. W. E. Beckham.
The teachers and officers of
the Sunday School met at the
! church Tuesday night.
The mid-week prayer service
Wednesday evening was featur
ed by the attendance of the In
, termediate department of the
Sunday School. This group was
given a social at the home of
Mrs. J. P. Duggan following the
church services. Workers in the
Intermediate dept, were hosts.
They are: Mrs. Duggan, Mrs.
Hugh Lawson, Miss Martha
Cooper and V. B. Hay.
1 The Intermediate R. A. will
meet at the church Thursday,
1 7:30 p. m.
Lieut. Hunter Hurst of Parris
Island, S. C. and Mr, Sam Hurst
■ Jr. of Ga. Tech, visited their
■ grandmother, Mrs. Sam Hurst,
Sunday.
| Dist. A.A.A. Meeting
j To Be Here Friday
j A district meeting of county
agents, A. A. A, administrative
assistants, chairmen of county
A. A. A. committees, chmn. pro
gram planning committees, home
demonstration agents, negro '
county agents, and negro home
demonstration agents will be
held in Perry Friday at the Perry
school. The purpose of the
meeting is for these representa
tives of the government’s agri
cultural agencies to receive in
structions in carrying out the
new stamp plan and food conser
vation program under the 1941
A. A. A. program.
Local workers who will attend
are W. T. Middlebrooks, county
agent; F. R. Hobbs, A. A. A.
asst.; L, W. Tabor, chmn.county
committee; Flo y d H. Tabor,
chmn. program planning com
mittee: O. S. O’neal, negro agt.;
Margaret Toomer, negro home
agent.
Any Houston county farmers
interested are invited to attend
the meeting. Representatives
from twenty counties will be
present.
HOUSTON FARMERS
RECEIVE PAYMENTS
$lO,OOO in Soil Conservation
payment checks were distributed
Monday by County Agent W. T.
Middlebrooks to Houston county
farmers. These checks were de
layed due to illness in the state
A. A. A. office in Athens.
With this payment, Houston
farmers have received $15,000 to
date for soil conservation.s2s,ooo
more will be received by Houston
farmers in March.
Farmers in this county are not
earning as much as they could
for soil conservation practices
due to penalties imposed for over
planting of certain crops, es
pecially peanuts, the county
agent said.
AC MEET IN UNADILLA
The Middle Georgia Athletic
club league opened its basketball
tournament in Unadilla Monday
under sponsorship of the Unadil
la American Legion, continuing
through Thursday.
Participating teams are Vien
na, Cordele, Pinehurst, Perry,
Rebecca, Byromville, Fort Val
ley and Hawkinsville,
Trophies will be furnished by
the American Legion.
The Middle Georgia league ex
! perienced a succes.-uul season ini
its first year of organization,
playing some of the best ama
teur basketball in the state,
Vienna is favored on strength
of its season’s record of 24 wins
’ and only two losses.
1 Players on Perry’s AC team
are; A. Braddock, Hugh Brad
dock, Aldine Lasseter, Paul
Massey, Dot Roughton, Norman
Parker, Elmer Wolfe, Leroy
■ Gunter, and Donald Clark,
■ Perry was eliminated Monday
night, having been defeated by
HawkinsvilD by one point.
, PERRY BOXERS WIN
t ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 19—Per
: ry’s representatives in the South
• I eastern Golden Gloves tourna
• ment here did all right in to
night’s fighting as Lightweight
i James Gregory knocked out Al
; vin Dyke Jr. of Lakewood Ath
letic club, Atlanta, in the first
f round of a novice match and
J Dot Roughton, fighting under
colors of the Macon YMCA,
i! scored a decision over Sam Mc
■jFarlin of Piedmont College.
■ ■ Jack Gilchrist of Ellaville for
-21 felted his novice bantamweight
»j match to Ernest Stokes of At-
Hlanta Boys’ club.
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NOTICE
’ I Books are now open for receiv
ing 1941 Tax Returns,
j j Felton Norwood, City Clerk.
11 11 i——————»
ANNOUNCEMENT
| The circles of W. S. C. S. will
s, meet on Monday, March 3, at
113:30 p m. in the following homes:
r j Circle No. 1, Mrs. Vernon Tug
, jgle; No. 2, Mrs. Sam Nunn; No.
[3, Mrs. Carl Huggins.
ESTABLISHED 1870
HOUSTON CCC CAMP
NAMED FOR DR.EVANS
As a memorial to the lamented
Dr. Horace E. Evans, Practicing
physician of Houston county for
25 years, the local camp of the
Civilian Conservation Corps was
named last week the “H. E.
Evans Camp” by officers in
charge.
Captain T. M. Evans is the
camp commander and Lieut. My
rick is the assistant, H. H. Man
ley is the project superintendent
in charge of the soil conserva
tion work in which the enrolees
engage.
A memorial service was held
at the camp Sunday. Guests of
honor at the ceremonies were Dr.
Evans’ widow; his daughter,Mrs.
Lucius Schnell of Atlanta; and
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Evans Jr.
and Horace Evans 111.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller Edwards
and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Harper
were also guests for the occasion.
Mr. Edwards is chairman of the
Houston county draft board, and
Mrs. Harper is secretary of the
board. Dr. Evans was examin
ing physician of the board be
fore his death, which occurred
Dec. 15, 1940 in a train-auto
crash at Kathleen.
As a part of a nationwide
“Know Your CCC” program, a
group of local citizens was enter
tained by the officers of the H.
E. Evans Camp at a sumptuous
supper Wednesday night, Feb.
19, following an inspection tour
of the camp.
Camp Evans has been located
near Perry for the past year and
a half. It is a junior negro
camp, and is working under the
Middle Western Ocmulgee Soil
Conservation district, which is
composed of Houston, Dooly,
Crawford, Taylor, Peach, Bibb,
Pulaski, Wilcox, and Macon
counties.
200 colored men are housed in
five army type barracks. Voca
tional instruction is an impor
tant part of camp life, so one
building contains a work shop
and a reading room which has a
library. In the work shop the
men are taught how to make
furniture such as tables, chairs,
bookcases, settees, etc.
In addition to these six build
ings, there are a recreation hall,
a mess hall, a bath house, a sup
plies depot, headquarters build
ing, officers quarters, garage,
and repair shops.
The grounds of the camp are
beautifully laid off and well kept.
There are facilities for outdoor
sports such as basketball, base-
J ball, boxing, etc.
Large sheds at the camp are
housing millions of kudzu crowns
which are now ready for plant
ing in the district. Quantities of
crowns have already been set out
along roadsides, in gullies and
water disposal areas.
Planting of this year’s crop
will begin next week. Other
work of the camp includes build
ing of firebreaks, setting of pine
seedlings, terracing, seeding of
pastureland. In addition to field
work, woodwork, and education
al work the men are trained in
radio and mechanics.
To train the hands and head,
to maintain healthy bodies, and
to develp moral qualities through
good surroundings, team work,
and discipline is the purpose of
the C. C. C. Capt. Evans and
his assistants are doing a good
job for they are fitted by tem
perament, training, and experi
ence for such work.
To name the local camp after
the beloved Dr. Evans was an
appropriate and beautiful ges
ture, greatly appreciated by the
people of this section whom he
served unselfishly and faithfully.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship Service 7:30.
Bible School each Sunday morn
ing 10:15.
Baptist Training Union Ser
vice each Sunday evening 6:15.
To each and all of these ser
. vices the public is cordially in
vited, We are endeavoring to
make the church and its services
1 a place and occasions of hearty
t welcome, and spiritual commun
: ion for all who attend. May we
■ have the joy and blessing of
, your fellowship among us.
J. A, Ivey, Pastor,
