Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, May 08, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text_ Houston Home Journal \QI. LXX. No - 19 - * PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, MAY 8. 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870 my COUPLE DIE OF WRECK INJURIES Mr and Mrs. Guy Eugene Matthews of Perry were killed n a motorcyle on which they le nding and a car driven by 5 B Zellner, Forsyth, side lined two miles south of For ; h Sunday night s) q he died shortly after t h e crash and he died in a Macon private hospital Monday at 11:15 * Ss Matthews, the former Rebecca Lee, was a daughter of ? \V Lee and Pearl Avery Lee, perry and had lived here ail her |jf e Mrs. Matthews is survived by her parents; four brothers, Jack and George, Gadsden, Ala.; Avery, Perry, and Sgt. Warren Lee, tamp Claiborne, La.; five sisters, Mrs. John Satterfield and Mrs. Price Satterfield, Perry; Mrs' W. L. Virden, Marshall ville; Mrs. J. F. Roper, Macon, and Miss Agnes Lee, Perry. Mr. Mattnews is survived by his father, J. C. Matthews, and three sisters, Mrs. Eva Spencer and Mrs. J. R. Fudge of Perry and Mrs. C. 0. Davis, Claxton, Double funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Matthews were held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Perry Baptist church. The Rev. James Ivey, the Rev. Robert Boyd and the Rev. Roy Gardner officiated. The funeral was attended by un merous friends and relatives in Perry and from surrounding towns. The whole community was shocked and saddened by the un timely death of this young couple. Mr. Matthews was employed at the Penn-Dixic Cement plant at Clinchfield. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews had taken a number of long trips on their motorcycle without having an accident. They were mem bers of the state motorcycle club and were returning home Sunday night from a tour they had made with a group of club members. RED CROSS OFFERS FIRST AID COURSE E. P. Newhard, vice-chairman of the Macon Chapter, American Red Cross, announces that the Red Cross is offering two schol arships to the National Red Cross Aquatic School at Camp Carolina, Brevard, N. C., from June 11 to 21. One scholarship is to be for Life Saving work and and the other for First Aid, In order to be eligible applicants! should be at least 18 years of age, in good health, and either Senior Life Saving certificate, or Stand ard First Aid certificate, accord •ng to the training they desire to take. , Upon completion of this traili ng, applicants will be qualified as Life Saving or First Aid In structors. This work is sponsor od by the Macon chapter of the Red Cross in line with the Na tional Red Cross policy of saving p Ves through Life Saving and t|rst Aid instruction: the Natio nal Red Cross is more desirous man ever now to spread the! Knowledge of First Aid in view I ' ! the National Defense Pro gram. Anyone wishing further in ormation about the Aquatic \i Cn °xT ma - v communicate with ‘ r - Newhard as he has informa °n leaflets and enrollment Ll anks for the school. j flower show set FOR FRIDAY IN PERRY qj F e annual spring Flower i-J' sponsored by the Perry Wen club will be held Friday - tne Legion Home. Visiting Jours are from 2:30 to 8 p. m. p, ry h ° urs a re from 9 to 11 a.m. Lor the show have been jnade by Mrs. G. C. Nunn, presi- may be made by any °L Houston county cImK era mem ber of the Garden tionir° r n i ot ‘ Entries in the hor hv r u ra . sec tion must be grown exhibitor. _ 1 Public is invited to attend. J FLINT ELECTRIC CORP. I HAS NEW PRESIDENT li „ j The directors of the Flint Elec tric Membership Corp. held a meeting Friday at the home of fice at Reynolds, Ga. Floyd H. Tabor of Perry, president of the corporation, presided. The new superintendent, Lloyd C. Woolard, was inducted into office. Mr. Woolard comes high ly recommended from the Flori da Power company with which he was connected for several years, J. L. Calloway, former super intendent, will remain as opera tion engineer. A number of new consumers has been added during the past quarter. Houston county with over 400 consumers is the lead ing county in the use of electrci ity. Walter W. Gray, Houston’s other representative with Mr. T abor on the board of directors, at tended the meeting. PERRY HIGH MeT Kid’s Day Visitors at Perry High Monday probably doubted the sanity of; certain seniors who wandered i around the campus carrying dolls and eating all day suckers. Those doubters may rest easy, for Mon day was Kids’ Day for the sen iors. For one day only the sen iors dropped their “dignity” and again became grammar school; kids. J Ninth Grade Party The ninth grade had a picnic party at Houston Lake Thursday, May 1. Members of the class went swimming, after which a delicious picnic lunch was serv-! ed. Chaperones were Miss War-1 ren, Mr. Staples, and Missj Powell. Tri-Hi-Y-Ciub The Tri-Hi-Y presented the; chapel program Friday, May 2. J Mr. F. M. Greene was the prin-j cipal speaker on the occasion.; The subject of his address was “Our Attitude Toward Our Com munity.” Marvin Greene, in be half of the senior class, gave a talk on “Citizenship in Our School.” This program was the last of a series of programs bas ed on “Attitudes of Youth”spon sored by the Perry Tri-Hi-Y club. Future Home Maker* The Future Home-Makers met in the Home Economics Depart ment Friday, with Jean Evans presiding. Miss Powell made a talk,discus sing the next and last meeting of the year. A prize is to be awarded for the best program | during the year. The meeting • was turned over to the program committee. They presented a play named “Mar No Name.” This play carried the idea of ex aggerating gossip. Those tak ing part were Sarah McElhenny, Ruth Smith, Lois Woodruff, and Jean Evans. After that, th e club enjoyed playing “Cross 'Questions and Crooked An swers.” The program committee was Sarah McElhenny, Mary Jones, and Montine Harrison. TEACHERS’ MEETING I The Houston County Teachers’ Association held its monthly meeting Monday afternoon. Miss Johnnie Cox, county su pervisor of Pulaski county, made an instructive talk on the wise use of state textbooks and sup plementary material in the school irOOm. , TV , I Miss Watson and Miss Pmks jton of the Hawkinsville school were visitors. It was decided to have a bar ibecue on Monday afternoon, May 1 26, instead of having the next regular meeting. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Wesleyan Service Guild ! will meet Thursday, May 15, at |Bp. m. at the home of Miss 1 Dorothy Jones. The Methodist W. S. C. S. will 'meet Monday at 3:30 p. m. a t the church. Mrs. C. R. Ayera, Roberta, zone leader, will be present. The Baptist W.M.S. will meet at the church at 4 p. m. Monday., Legal Suits Brought Against County I School Board By Bonaire Trusteesj A mandamus suit and an in junction suit were filed Friday against the Houston County Board of Education, except C. B. Watson, by the trustees of the Bonaire Consolidated School dis trict in the first instance and by citizens of the Bonaire School District in the injunction suit. Hearing on the mandamus will be heard on May 16 in Macon be fore Judge Malcolm D. Jones. The hearing on the injunction has been set for May 23 in Ma con by Judge Jones. County Board members in volved are R. F. Scarborough, president. F. H. Tabor. J. N. Buff, S. L. Norwood, and F. M. Greene, ex officio secretary of the board by reason of his office of county school superintendent. Trustees of the Bonaire school are C. L. Kersey, C. B. Watson, J. W. Perdue, H C. Talton and Mrs. Geo. Collins. Both the mandamus and in junction state that the Bonaire trustees borrowed $B6O to pay salaries due teachers of Bonaire school on March 22, 1939 and that the county board of Educa tion has refused to pay this 'amount of money, $B6O, due on a note endorsed by the Bonaire trustees at the Perry Loan and Savings Bank. In the mandamus, citizens of the Bonaire School district seek to force the County Board of Ed ucation by law to pay this sum Jof $B6O mentioned above, claim ing that the state of Georgia on March 1, 1941 paid in full to Houston and other counties ap propriations for teachers’ sal aries for 1938-39, and that “the county board has failed and re | fused to pay the Bonaire trustees [any part of said fund to be used i for the purpose of paying the $B6O note, taking tne position j that said salaries of said teachers ;are already paid.” The Bonaire | trustees further claim that the j board “paid out of money re ceived March 2,1941 all teachers’ salaries due for fiscal year 1938- 39, save ami except only the; claim for salaries represented bs* said note.” They demand that $B6O be paid to Bonaire trustees out of $5,000 the board has re maining from the funds received from the state. The injunction suit seeks to re quire the defendants to hold the sum of $B6O in trust and apart from other funds, to be paid over to the Bonaire trustees to pay the bank note of $B6O. County Board Replies For the purpose of acquainting the trustees of all the school dis tricts in the county with the na ture of the mandamus and in junction suits filed against them by the Bonaire trustees, the county board of Education called a meeting Tuesday night at the Perry school. All districts were represented except Henderson and Bonaire. The county board stated to the district trustees that they were acting upon advice from the i state department of Education in this matter and seeking to tract the school laws. The following complete state ment was made by the county board: “During the school term of 1938-1939, the State of Georgia failed to carry out its obligation to run the schools for a seven months term. During the term funds were supplied by the State for three and one-half months. The County Board was strug gling to keep the schools open in spite of the failure of the State to pay the teachers as it had promised to do. The County Board of Education, at the be ginning of this term, had set up a budget providing for payment of the teachers of the County for seven months and providing transportation for all of the schools for seven months. The local school districts were to take care of the teachers’ salaries for ] the extra two months and also I were to pay for the transporta tion for the extra two months. This was in accordance with the| state law which undertook to guarantee a seven-months term I to all schools in Georgia. The budget depended upon the fur nishing by the State of Georgia l of the salaries for the teachers for the seven months period. I “When the state of Georgia] failed to furnish money for thej teachers and it looked as if alli the schools of the County would have to close at the end of three and one half months, the Hous ton County Board of Education made a definite agreement with the Trustees of each school dis trict in Houston county which provided that the local board of trustees would pay one month’s teachers’ salaries for their schools out of their local funds arising from tax levies in their school districts. The County School Board, in consideration for this payment by the local school boards, agreed to pay for the transportation of the pupils in all of the schools for the eighth and ninth months. The agreement further provided that if any of the local schools paid out for the one month’s teachers’ salaries more money than the two month’s transportation for such school amounted to, the County Board would reimburse such school for its loss thereby sus tained. “Every school district in the County agreed to this arrange ment and carried it out. The County Board of Education carried out its part of the con tract or agreement and paid an extra two month’s transportation charges for each of the schools. “Although every other school in the County carried out this agreement in full, in the present litigation the Bonaire School Board is trying to repudiate this agreement and recover the one month’s teachers’ salaries paid in March, 1939, amounting, as claimed by the Bonaire School I Board, to $B6O. If the Bonaire School Board should be permitted to repudiate the agreement and recover the month’s teachers’ salaries paid by the Bonaire 1 Board in consideration for two month’s transportation furnished by the County Board, that every ocher school district in the Coun ty would be entitled to likewise repudiate and get back the Month’s teachers’ salaries paid by it.” A full discussion of the mat ters involved in the litigation was held and at: the conclusion a motion was. offered by one of the local trustees urging that the County Board fight the efforts ui me Bonaire School Board to repudiate the agreement and re cover the month’s teachers’ sal aries, to the highest Court, if necessary. When the motion was put, every trustee of every district present, by standing vote, voted for the motion. The County Board stated that it took the position that the con troversies between the Bonaire local board and the County Board are really controversies between the Bonaire Board and the whole school system of the coun ty; that the County Board is en deavoring to deal fairly with all of the scnools; tnat its budget is made up and submitted to the Btate Department of Education for approval before the begin ning of each school term; that these budgets are approved, and j that it handles the funds of the County in accordance with these budgets; that any gift of money to the Bonaire School Board over and above its fair share of the funds would merely mean that the other schools of the county would be deprived of these funds. It was further explained by the County Board that they tried to get the Bonaire School Board to vote bonds for the financing of the school building at Bonaire, as j the Berry district did and that] the Bonaire Board refused to doj this. The County Board, out of | its school funds,gave to the Bon-1 aire Board a total of $5,3U0.00 toj help in building its scnool build- ' ing, it was stated. After the unanimous adoption I of the motion by the local trus-! : tees of all the districts represent-1 led, the County Board members] present stated that they would! follow the recommendation of the Trustees of the school dis tricts in the County to fight the efforts of the Bonaire School Board to repudiate the agree ment made in 1939 and get back the month’s teachers’ salaries while still retaining the two month’s transportation expenses NO ILLITERATES TO BE DRAFTED INTO ARMY i Effective May 15, 1941, no [registrant will be inducted who [does not have the capacity of ireading and writing the English language as commonly prescrib ed for the fourth grade in gram mar schools. Local draft boards have been urged by state and na tional Selective Service head quarters to comply with these provisions in selecting regis trants to fill calls on and after May 15. 1941. Registrants already classified who do not have the capacity of i reading and writing the English language as commonly prescribed for the fourth grade in grammar school will be reclassified and placed in Class IV-F. This change in classification regulations, together with the plan to classify all registrants by June 30, 1941, will necessitate the appointment of additional members of Advisory Boards for registrants. BONAIRE HIGH SCHOOL NEWS i Messrs Louie and Harold New berry spent the weekend at their home in Wellston. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Watson and “Sonny” visited her sister in Charleston, S. C. the past Wppl/pnr] Mr. Croff Howard of Fort Jackson, S. C. spent the week end with his family in Wellston. Members of the grammar school presented a health nlay and May pageant on Thursday afternoon in the school auditori um. Vera Ann Woodard was crowned May Queen, Her at tendants were Naomi Kersey, Betty Edwards, Frances Kovac, Dot Pratt, Ann Elizabeth Griffin, Lucile Kovac and Charles Ben nett. Miss Lillian Perdue, vo calist for the occasion, and Miss Helen Marshall rendered a duet. Miss Rebecca Hunt gave a read ing. Friends of little Miss Elsie Bennett, who gave an excellent performance as Mother Goose in the program Thursday, are wish ing her a speedy recovery from the measles. The P, T. A. met Thursday af ternoon in the school library. Mrs. Geo. Hunt continues ill at her home near Kathleen. Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. Bryan spent Thursday in Cuthbert. Miss Clara Howard returned with them after a visit with her sister there. Miss Dorothy How ird c f Da rien spent Sunday at her home near Kathleen. Mrs. J. H, Watson and Mrs. Chester Edwards and children spent Saturday in Hawkinsville with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ihomp son. Members of the senior class have started practicing their class play, “For Pete’s Sake. Mr and Mrs. Everett Edwards and Mr. Cleveland Edwards of Macon visited Mr. and Mrs. Jim Edwards Sunday. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Church School-10:15 a. m Morning Worship 11:30 a. m. Mother’s Day sermon by pastor, subject. “Three Women at the Cross.” We shall take a few moments in this service to elect four delegates to the Macon Dis trict Conference which meets in Sandersville the latter part of May. Epworth League for Inter i mediate and Senior ages meets at i 6:30 p. m. Evening Worship 8:00 p, m, 1 The pastor will preach on the {subject, “The Path to Pente {cost.” I The Board of Stewards will I meet Tuesday night 8 o’clock. Prayer Service Wednesday I night. 8:00 o’clock. The Second Quarterly Confer i ence will be held Friday night, ]8 o’clock, Rev. Silas Johnson, ! district Superintendent, presid- I ing. The public is cordially invited : to all services. Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor. i ’ i ’ paid by the County Board for iThe Bonaire District. FARMERS TO BENEFIT FROM COTTON PLAN The new supplementary cotton program gives Georgia farmers a timely opportunity to convert many more thousands of acres of eroding land from cotton to soil protecting crops, says T. L. As bury, state SCS coordinator. More than 10 percent of the cultivated land in the Cotton Belt has become unfit for row-crop production because of erosion,ac cording to Mr. Asbury. Much has been accomplished already; and the supplementary cotton plan gives cotton farmers a chance to take even more of this land out of cultivation and put it into permanent, soil-conserving vegetation, such as trees, grass es, kudzu, and lespedeza. It is estimated the program will effect a further reduction of some 2,000,000 acres, or about a million bales, in cotton produc tion this year. Some of the land taken out of cotton production will be used for gardens and some for pastures to produce more milk and butter for home use, he declared. But thousands of acres now in cotton are erod ing so rapidly or have already lost so much topsoil that they should be retired to the protec tion of permanent vegetation, he said. Of the 110 million acres of cropland in the 10 leading cotton producing states of the South, fully 10 million should be retired from cultivation. About 10 mil lion acres are relatively safe from erosion, but 90 million acres must from now on be cultivated under a system of conservation farming that will safeguard it from erosion. The live-at-home feature of the cotton stamp plan has a direct re lation to erosion control work, the coordinator said. PERRY TO HAVE NEW STORE TO OPEN MAY 10 Car owners and householders of Perry, Ga. should find many advantages in trading at the new Western Auto Associate Store on Carroll Street. This new store is locally owned and operated by Horace E. Evans Jr. Western Auto Supply Com pany, the largest organization of its kind in the world, is whole saling this widely accepted na tionally advertised meachandise to more than 1,400 independent merchants such as Mr. Evans. This locally owned store offers a general line of merchandise,in cluding auto supplies,accessories, tires, radios, tools, bicycles,sport ing goods, electrical supplies and appliances, etc. Among the many features of fered by Mr. Evans at his West ern Auto Associate Store is his guarantee policy of “Satisfaction or Money Back”, whereby any item you buy in this store which proves to be unsatisfactory will be promptly adjusted by him or in any Western Auto Associate Store or Company owned store anywhere in the United States where these stores are located. In addition to this, Mr. Evans is offering a liberal time payment plan on certain lines of merchan dise. On another page of this news paper Mr. Evans is advertising a number of popular items at special prices for his Opening Sale. Catalogs are also being distributed to choppers in this vicinity. Mr, Evans has stated that he plans to run similar sales during the year, offering com parable savings to his customers. Mr. Evans cordially invites the shoppers in Perry, Ga. and vi cinity to visit his store during its opening and inspect the line of merchandise he is offering for sale. The store will open Satur day, May 10. BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Revival services in progress at the Baptist church will continue through Sunday. Attendance at all services has been very good and the response in other ways ■ has been fine, also. Bible School each Sunday morn ing 10:15. Morning Worship Service 11:30. Evening Worship Service 8:00. Baptist Training Union 6:45. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.