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VOt,LXX. No. 23,
ijSgraduation
PROGRAM FRIDAY
Hi f; Hinlomaa Horn Perry
«*t .l Friday night Honor
I* |S 5“ are- Marvin Greene,
?£h Gibert, Me r i a m m e
*5. Catherine Hickson,
jfeyMas°n. and Marzelle
Ssfofficers are: Marvin
,2 e president: Cat herme
Son vice-president; Anna
£ Debbins. secretary and
'jpec'ial awards were won by
|^me S K(u)des s7soschol
®hD for Essay The Impor
j of die Cotton Mills to Geor
!,, Voted “most studious’ in
Sabeth Gibert -$l,OOO schol
-1 toßrenau. Voted “most
liligent girl’’in senior class.
Ralnh Tabor Won schoolboy
jtrol trip to Washington, D C
Marzelle Cavvthon Elected to
ete ive citizenship medal for
; r | s in senior class.
'Marvin Greene -Elected to re
eive citizenship medal for boys.
: o ted “most intelligent boy” in
eniorclass. Won U. D. C. Es
sy contest on “Our Flags—Con
tderate, Georgia, and United
tales.” Pres. Dramatic club.
Graduation Program
The program for Friday night
ias follows:
Processional.
Invocation-Rev. J. A. Ivey.
God Bless America Congrega
ion.
Introduction of Speaker—Hon.
, P, Etheridge.
Commencement Address—
udge A. M, Anderson.
Awarding of Diplomas—J. P.
itheridge, Chairman Board
rustees.
Announcements.
Alma Mater.
Benediction,
The class roll is as follows:
Mary Ann Riley, Meriamme
Ikies, Catherine Hickson, Mari
one Nunn, Elizabeth Gibert,
ary Paul, Anna Ruth Debbins,
nnie Armstrong, Myrtice Ai
en, Elsie Andel, iMary Becham,
larzelle Cavvthon, Marjorie Du
ose, Gwendolyn Irby, Charlotte
Kingston, Helen McElhenny,
'ranees Parker, Agnes Pickard,
Virginia Pyles, Sara Williams,
lartine Yaughn.
Joe Andrews,Cecil Armstrong,
dwin Pierce, Alton Tucker,
jathan Gilbert, Julian Cawthon,
Boone, Carson Henderson,
swell hoggins, John Braswell,
™i Johnson, Marvin Greene,
-ourtney Mason, Ralph Tabor,
rod Jack Wynne.
Class colors are red and white.
Ineflower is Red Rose.
ine motto is “Do Right and
jo Forward.”
Sermon To Seniors
Ee sermon to the seniors was
J? u Sunday morning by
V. Roy Gardner at the Perry
ptistchurch. His subject was
ihebxperience 0 f the Christ
,|j. , ev - Mr. Gardner
nn j‘ ,*“ e . greatest need of
a personal experi
; of the Christ-like God. This
ir,n ?r e c glves a Proper defini
lorivnm f 6 and .broadens our
ns .°J appreciation of other
teaP people> This experi
l alone can give adequate
ife a > nr| o^ln^ 1V * (^ and kroup
eient *.. a * one ca n give suf
tainl? 7 e J JOVVer for the at *
ent °J these ideals.
Class Play
S%S‘ 0r . cla . ss play - “ When
*com«5 eBtoTown *” a three *
dayni, y V vv , as Presented Fri
iini toL at school auditori
es. J h apprec iative audience,
coach am! ei r»an was the
»er e rhp mem bers of the class
lidered nr acto . rs - It was con
fer f he best plays
-ach n ar t n^ed by the school.
lary Ann u'f vved a cted but
»Ci n „ g K,leys acti "s was
NOTICE
next Wednesday,
Ns, and pf, G , rocer y- Dry
err y will k! Ul , nitur e Stores in
If siay a p ® ° ° 3ed evei W Wed *
Sept. 1.
•JoStay-in m y to avo^d Simony
y 3ln^le . or stay married.
Houston Home Journal
| FOUR YEAR TERM
j APPROVED BY STATE
j Slowly growing returns early
Wednesday from the Georgia
, general election showed appar
, ent approval of the four-year
: term for governor and indicated
rejection of the proposed annual
sessions for the legislature.
All other amendments on the
31-inch long ballot appeared to
: have been approved by comfort
able majorities.
The vote on the plan to change
, the tenure of the governor and
other constitutional officials from
two to four years was 15,554 for
and 11,662 against on the basis
of incomplete Associated Press
reports.
A much smaller majority spell
ed the apparent rejection of the
annual sessions for the general
assembly, with 7,447 for and
7,668 against this amendment.
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
Miss Willie Ryals,music teach
er, presented her pupils in a re
cital Tuesday night. The pro
gram was as follows;
Part I
Duet--“ Fire Dance”, Cooke,
Bess Houser Nunn and Miss
Ryals.
Solo-“ The Grasshopper”, Bil
bro, Anne Ivey.
Song-“Do You Believe in
Fairy Tales?”, June Satterfield,
Duet--“ Playing Tag”, Margs
toin, Sara Ivey and Vivian Fain,
Solo--“ March of the Wee
Folks”, Gaynor, Barbara Tolle
son.
Solo--“ Mister Peacock”, Erb,
Kathryn Dubose.
Song-Nelly Kelly, I Love
You”, Billie Davis.
Solo--“ Waltzing in the Night”
Chopin-Rolfe, Vivian Fain.
Duet -“Military March”, Bu
cher, Malissa Giles and Miss
Ryals.
Solo-“ Singing Fingers”, Dan
iel, Helen Lewis.
Solo--“Baloons”, Arlen, Mar
garet Howard.
Song--“My Rubber Dolly”,
George Marilyn Hunnicutt.
Solo-“ Second Majurka”. God
ard, Elaine Moore.
Song-“ Little Sleepy Head”,
Rena Frances Marshall.
Solo-“ Sounds From The Vien
na Woods”, Strauss, Sarah Ivey.
Duet-“Amaryelis”, Ghy s,
Margaret Howard and Miss
Ryals.
Solo-“ Fur Elise”, Beethoven,
Bess Houser Nunn.
Duet-“ Flowers of The For
est”, Burns, Elaine Moore and
Miss Ryals.
Part II
Solo-“ Prelude”, Rachmani
noff, Marianne Nunn.
• Song- 1 Til See You Again,
Charlotte Livingston.
Solo-“ The Fountain”, Bohm,
Iris Smith.
Duet-“On The Beautiful Blue
Danube”, Strauss. Merryl Hun
nicutt and Carol Fain.
Song- (a) “Thank God For a
Garden” (b) “The Lilac Tree”,
Lillian Perdue.
Solo-“ Gliding”, Coney, Sue
Webb. , ,
Song- I ‘By the Bend of the
River”, Carlene Ogletree.
Solo-“Scctch Poem”, Mac-
Dowell. Barbara Whipple.
1 Duet-“lris”, Renard, Sue
1 Webb and Virginia Swearingen,
Song—“Amupola”, Charlotte
Livincrston.
Solo-“A Spring Garden , Mc-
Hale, Virginia Swearingen.
Song--“ Mister Sunshine”, Ca
rlene Ogletree,
Solo-'‘Quartette”, Fromßigo-
I letto-Verdi-Spindler, Lillian Per
idue. „ ~
j Song-“ Sleepy Hollow Tune ,
Charlotte Livingston,
ij Solo-“ Narcissus . Nev i n,
i i Merryll Huunicutt. .
I Duet-“Marche Hongroise ,
I I Kowalski, Barbara Whipple and
I Lillian Perdue.
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<\ Mrs W. C. Huggins and baby
(daughter. Caroline Lamar were
brought home from Middle La, |
Hospital, Macon, Tuesday. Mr.,
Huggins’ mother, Mrs. C. L.
Huggins, of Oliver, Ga. is here ;
II with the Huggins for awhile.
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■ Produces Most Wine
The province of Ontario produces
| approximately 90 per cent of Can
i ada’s wine, having 33 bottling plant#
! in operation. _ „„- s -
PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 5. 1941
Sen emblem raised ai
CLINGHFIELD CEMENT PLANT
Impressive ceremonies by em
ployees of the Penn-Dixie Ce
ment plant, at Clinchfield, mark
ed the beginning of “June No
Accident Month” as the Safety
Emblem was raised on the plant
flagstaff on Saturday. This pro
gram was in charge of a comit
tee composed of representatives
from each department of the
plant, selected on account of
their own individual records in
the prevention of accidents. The
observance of a “June No Acci
dent Month’Ts nation-wide with
in the industry. It is preceded
by departmental inspections and
a concerted drive to eliminate ac
cident hazards and dangerous
practices; the momentum of the
drive generally continuing
through the year.
A colorful feature of the flag
raising ceremonies, was the pres
ence of the Perry Boy Scout
Troop; the Scouts escorting the
plant committee as it marched
to the flagstaff, und standing at
salute while the National flag
was raised, followed by the Safe
ty Emblem. The latter has a
green and white background sur
mounted by a yellow cross. It
is the safety symbol of the en
tire cement industry and is dis
played so long as the accident
record of a plant is kept clear.
In case of a lost time accident;
that is, one involving more than
the Joss of the rest of the day on
which an accident occurs, the
flag must be taken down for the
remainder of the current month.
The local plant, at present, is
engaged in a novel but effective
plan of accident prevention
which was installed by the gen
eral safety committee —composed
of all foremen of the plant. This
plan has been named“ Employees
Safety Clinic” in which daily
classes of employees are instruct
ed in the principles of accident
prevention until every man in
the plant is thoroughly conver
sant with these principles. Men
learn that luck plays no part in
safe operation, but that acci
dents may be attributed to only
nine specific causes under two
general classifications—Fa u 1 t y
Environment and Faulty Pluman
Behavior.
The Clinchfield plant, as re
cently announced, won a re
award of the Portland Cement
Association trophy for outstand
ing accident prevention work;
having won the trophy in seven
of the past eight years —and has
also been honored by the coveted
membership in the “Thousand
Day Club” of the Association.
These accomplishments have
been made possible, it is stated,
by individual care of employees
and splendid team work.
Employees who participated in
the flag-raising ceremonies, as
representatives of their respec
tive departments, were: Sam
Wilson, chairman: C. A. Mc-
Craven, George Greager, A. L.
Woodard, Hugh Braddock, W. L.
Mclnvale, R. L. Barrett, J. M.
Satterfield, Edward Mason, Will
Brown, and Clyde Alexander.
FARM INCOME INCREASES
The gross income of farmers in
1940 is estimated by the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics at 10,-
352 million dollars, or 5 percent
more than the 9,896-million dol
lar total in 1939. With the ex
ception of 1937 when the total
was 10,606 million dollars, gross
farm income last year was the
largest since 1930. T h e gross
income estimates include: Cash
income from farm products sold
or placed under loan in the calen
dar year; the quantities of farm
products retained for human
consumption on farms where
grown, valued at average prices
received by farmers; and Gov
ernment payments to farmers.
NEW COTTON PROGRAM
The purpose of the supplemen
i tary cotton stamp program is a
i three-fold aid to surplus-ridden
cotton growers. The program:)
ll Will enable cotton growing (
1 families to get $25,000,000 worth
of cotton clothing and household (
'articles in the fall. 2. Will give
families a chance to more
health-giving foods, and 3. Will
I prevent further cotton surpluses.
NEW COTTON PUN OFFERS
MORE FOOD AND CLOTHING
He u’ton county growers who
cooperate in the 1941 Agricultu
ral Adjustment Administra
tion's supplementary cotton pro
gram will be better clothed and
better fed than heretofore, L.VV.
Tabor, county AAA committee
man, declared this week.
The program, he said, is de
signed to achieve a two-fold pur
pose: First, to divert acreage
from soil-depleting cotton to soil
protecting food and feed crops
and, second, to reduce a growing
cotton surplus.
Cotton growers who voluntari
ly underplanted their 1941 AAA
cotton allotments, and who signi
fy by June 15, that they have
done so, may earn stamps which
may be used to buy manufactur
ed cotton goods. They will also
become eligible to earn a $3 pay
ment for carrying out specified
food production practices.
The program, Mr. Tabor point
ed out, will in no way affect the
amount of an individual farmer's
1941 conservation on parity pay
meats. Likewise, it will not af
fect his 1942 allotment if he in
dicates his underplanting inten
tions by June 15. On the other
hand, he said, the grower who
fails to indicate his intention,and
then underplants, may run the
chance of having his allotment
substantially reduced next year.
Any cooperating cotton farmer
may earn up to $25 worth of cot
ton stamps, figured at the rate
1 of 10 cents a pound on the nor
mal yield of the acreage reduc
ed, and under certain conditions
1 may earn up to $5O worth.
The food production or “live
at-home” feature of the plan,the
committeeman pointed out, has a
1 direct relation to erosion work.
* The $3 payment, he said, will en
able many small farmers to grow
■ family gardens and set aside ad
• ditional acreage which hereto
-1 fore they could not spare from
■ cotton production.
1 “Throughout the South,” he
1 said, “there is a shortage of both
dairy products and garden sup
plies. Dairy cattle are few be
cause of the scarcity of pastures
and home-grown hay. Reduc
tion of cotton acreage will help
to remedy both deficiencies.”
COTTON PARITY PAYMENTS
Cotton parity payments this
year are expected to total be
tween $7,000,000 and $7,500,000
compared with slightly more
than $8,000,000 on the 1940 crop,
according to T. R. Breedlove, ad
ministrative officer in charge of
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration in Georgia.
“On the surface,” Breedlove
said, “it might seem the cotton
grower is receiving less for his
crop this year. It is true that
parity and conservation pay
ments have been reduced, but
legislation just enacted has rais
ed cotton loan rates from 58% to
85% of parity. Thus, cotton un
der loan, plus payments, will
bring the co-operating grower
about 16,% cents (for middling)
this year, compared with about
12-% cents last year.
“This means about $Bl a bale
this year, compared with $63.50
a bale last year, or $17,50 a bale
more. If this year's crop ap
proximates last year’s, Georgia
cotton growers will be $17,675,-
000 better off. ”
Last year’s loan rate on mid
dling was about 9.80 cents, the
parity payment 1.55 cents, and
conservation payment 1.44 cents.
The figures this year are about
13.50 cents loan, 1.38 cents par
ity, and 1.37 cents conservation
payment.
Parity payments will be made
in other Georgia counties as
rapidly as applications are re
ceived from the county offices,
Breedlove pointed out. They
represent but one phase of the
broad-scale program of the De
partment of Agriculture to aid
farm income.
I
1 The installment plan has
brought about financial difficulty
Ito many people, but no one ever
got into difficulty by building up
| a savings account by means of
1 the installment plan.
| COTTON FARMERS LOSE
J FROM WEEVIL DAMAGE
li ,
j Georgia cotton farmers are los
ing some $15,000,000 annually
’(through neglect to control the
i boll weevil, E.C. Westbrook, ex
tension agronomist, estimated
| this week, in pointing out the
necessity for growers to inaugu
rate weevil control measures on
their crop as a means of obtain
ing maximum yields this season.
Westbrook voiced the urgent
need for increased efforts to stop
! weevil damage this year, since
prospects point to better cotton
| prices this fall,especially in view
i of the fact that farmers will this
season receive 85 percent of par
ity for their crop.
Under normal conditions, the
Agricultural Extension Specialist
said systematic control of boll
weevils by poisoning will increase
the per-acre lint yield from 50 to
100 pounds, and even as much as
200 pounds during a bad weevil
year.
Westbrook called attention to
the fact that there is an abun
dance of weevils this year in
south Georgia and that farmers
must undertake intensive meas
ures to curb losses from the in
sect if good yields are to be ex
pected. A few weevils have
been reported in middle Georgia
and it is too early for their ap
pearance in the northern section,
he said.
Mopping of small cotton with a
mixture of one pound calcium
arsenate, one gallon of molasses,
and one gallon of water is recom
mended by the Extension Ser
vice, and dusting with, a calcium
arsenate dust is necessary for
1 further control, if needed, after
the plants begin to square, the
cotton specialist asserted.
1
! METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School-10:15 a. m
Morning Worship 11:30 a. m.
i Sermon by pastor, subject, “Am
IMy Brother’s Keeper?” The
: Lord’s Supper will be observed,
i Epworth League for inter
mediate and Senior ages meets at
6:30 p. m,
i Evening Worship 8:00 p. m.
The pastor will speak on “Evan
i gelism and Children.” All teach
ers of children in the Church
School and all workers in the
Vacation School are invited as
the special guests of this service.
Prayer Service Wednesday
night. 8:00 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
, to all services.
Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor,
i
1 MOVE TO bHOKTEN
GROCERY _ Id O U R S
A movement to shorten work
i ing hours in the retail food dis
tribution industry is under way
i according to a statement made
, by Scott W. Allen, executive
vice president of Colonial Stores
Incorporated, operators of Rog
ers and Big Star food stores.
Effective June 2 stores operated
by his firm go on a five and one
half day week with shorter daily
• | hours.
This statement was made fol
, lowing a meeting of 30U em
ployees of these stores at which
time service pins were awarded
i to 25 veteran employees in the
South Georgia district.
In making the statement pub
lic Mr. Allen said that he hoped
for complete cooperation of all
retail merchants in making this
effort a reality for the whole in
dustry.
“The movement to shorten
working hours in the grocery
| business is, in my opinion, the
)most important step taken in
I this industry in more than forty
(years I have been connected with
i it,” Mr. Allen said. “I sincere
ily hope that it will mark the be
ginning of a general movement
Ito shorten hours in all grocery
j stores.”
j
Insulating Old Houses
Already-built houses can be insu
lated just as effectively as new <
houses. Side walls can be insulated
I by drilling small holes through the
1 outer sheathing and installing min
eral wool insulation pneumatically.
’ Exposed attic floors or ceilings can
be insulated by the same method,
' or with prafabricated batts q f min
| cral wool. .....
ESTABLISHED 1870
'[HOUSTON VOTERS
FAVOR AMENDMENTS
Less than two hundred Hous
ton county voters went to the
polls Tuesday to vote in the
General Election on the adoption
of seventy amendments to the
state constitution. Houston vot
ers favored all these amend
ments,
■ The vote on Amendment 69
1 providing for annual sessions of
the legislature was close, being
80 to 78. The vote on No. 1 pro
viding for a four year term for
1 the governor and other constitu
tional officers was 105 to 81. The
vote on No. 2 providing for the
1 election of a Governor every four
: years was 109 for to G 9 against.
Of state-wide interest was No.
20 which increased the civil juris
' diction of Justices’ Courts. The
j vote was 91 for to 11 against in
I Houston.
No. 21, authorizing counties
and cities to contract for the
hospitalization of indigent sick,
carried 114-15.
1 No. 54, which exempts from
taxation all R. E. A. property,
carried 134-14.
No. 55 which fixed the term of
! office of the State School Supt.
■ carried 108-26.
No. 68 providing for the ad
vertising of the resources, etc.
of the state of Georgia carried
i 94-18.
All other amendments were of
a local nature.
The total vote by precinct was
■ as follows; Perry, 62; Hender
-1 son, 7; Elko, 21: Hayneville, 12;
Kathleen, 16; Heard, 11; Hattie,
30; Wellston, 14; Bonaire, 7.
; The vote is smaller on some
amendments than others because
some voters did not vote on all
j the amendments.
LIVESTOCK SUGGESTIONS
I
, The summer months, especial
. ly June and July, are very im
portant months to watch for
. parasitic and insect infestation
among the livestock. Flies,
screwworms, stomach worms
and all insects and parasites har
bor in cool moist places. During
these hot summer months, cattle
and other livestock like to lie
, around in these same cool, moist
i places during the heat of the day
and they invariably will pick up
any form of parasite or other
type of disease carrying insects
that may be around.
It is with this in view that I
call attention to the necessity of
being on the lookout for all types
of diseases and parasites and,
better still, to get ahead of these
pests by some of the practical
> control methods available.
Has your pasture been clipped?
This is probably the latest date
for the first clipping of the pas
ture to control bitterweed and
other obnoxious weeds the first
• time, giving them a chance to
grow enough for the second
1 clipping. This clipping is probab
ly the most effective method of
controlling bitterweed especially,
as well as other weeds by keep
: ing them from going to seed with
two clippings.
Usually the latter part of the
month there is a short drought
which affects the carrying capa
city of the pastures. This should
be watched and the cattle not
allowed to graze it so closely that
the stand of grass will be affect
ed. A patch of some temporary
grass or grazing crop could be
sown now and very effectively
used during the latter part of
June and July.—R. E. Davis,
Extension Beef Cattle and Sheep
Specialist.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Etheridge
announce the birth of a son,
Charles Cooper Etheridge Jr.,
Tuesday, June 3, at Middle Ga.
hospital, Macon. The baby is
the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Etheridge of Perry.
Mr. Cooper Etheridge, a form
er journalist, is in training in
Washington, D. C. for a position
with the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation. In two weeks he
will be sent to Houston, Texas.
Mrs. L. F. Cater and Mrs. T.
M. Christian will leave Saturday
to spend some time in Valdosta
and St. Marys, Ga.