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VOL.LXX. No, 27.
■kihodists begin
IHEVIVAL ON JULY 9i
■ ' r. I
■ Revival services at the Perry
■ t s n( fi s t church will begin
|}Sne d sday night July 9 with
■ 1 John M. Outler of Young
■ Lis, Ga. doing the preaching
■ n n‘ Outlet- has served several
■ !! 'as Presiding Elder and
■ ! served many of the best ap
|gSS. in He e bnngs G to° r^
■ h fruits of wisdom and spint
■ I experience, gained through
■I nv years in the ministry. He
■ Tan able preacher and pastor
■id possesses a personality that
■ endears him to many people
■ The music and singing will be
■ under the direction of Francis
■Ln assisted by the choir and
■ other members of the church.
■ the pastor will lead the singing
■ ot - the children’s choir. Th e
■ will be well ventilated and
■ comfortable.
■ {t our s of service will be 10:30
■» m. and 8:30 p. m. daily with
■ the first day service Thursday.
■ The members of the other
■ churches and the entire public
■ are cordially invited to attend.
■revival services
8 at GROVANIA JULY 6
■ Revival Services of the Grova
■ r,ia Methodist church will begin
■ Sunday, July 6, and continue for
■ aweek. The visiting preacher
■ will be Rev. Hoke Hatcher of
■ Bridgeboro, Ga.
■ We extend an invitation to you
■ toattend all the services morn
■ ing and evening at 11 a. m. and
■ s:3op. m.
■ Rev. Gordon King, Pastor.
■BIBLE SCHOOL SET
9 FOR ANDREW CHAf J EL
■ The Vacation Church School of
■tie Andrew Chapel and Bonaire
Hifethodist churches will be held
Hat Andrew Chapel under the
H leadership of Miss Clara How-
Hard from Monday July 7 to 12.
H Hours are from 8:30 to 11 a m.
H There will be classes and in-
Hterest groups for all ages. As
Han added attraction Miss Sang
HSoon Kim of Korea will be pres-
Hent each day,
H Adults are invited to visit the
H school at any time and all chil-
H dren are urged to be present by
HHev. Gordon King, pastor,
I FEEDING LAND “HAY”
■ Most of the cultivated land on
H Georgia farms needs to be fed on.
H nay or other roughage in order
H h improve crop yields.
H lost farmers recognize that
H catae n eed hay along with the
H Con centrated feed in order to
H S a f e u the or Geef and
H T at burses and mules need hay
on S with the corn or oats if
. e -J a f e t° do continuous heavy 1
but many good farmers
l„Y n °t yet recognized that
*.hay“or other rough
o along with fertilizer in order
0 Produce good crops.
a ™. that ha s been fed large
dm.' les °* 'bay” in the form
p, ai | ure - compost, cover crops,
ttn ;i“b3°rbs and holds more rain!
r an d feeds both moisture
crons ant ood to tke roots of
lo h. 1 ? 016 Readily and evenly
thm a i Croi) y’Gds are better
Sup u ° n * aad vvhich has not had
and'ri 11 ro ? ts need air > rnoisturej
h i n * tood - Land that has!
oris hay : fed t 0 it settles,
beinc r,i tokr Q uic Lly after'
lessaifi-K Wed i° that it contains,
such in i' a ? Pi ant roots need and |
fain tvo'! T , 30 a bsorbs less of the
from Sr, 1 * a i 3 and cr ?P s suffer i
fains h' v Ught more uickl y after
naanurF- r J° r and ’ in the form of
*aysrJn COmp ?, st ’ is not al '
giaf/rL avai labl6 on Geor
is kern i b mi. B:re little livestock
CjJf h *r' in the form of,
velvet if’ cr °talaria, cowpeas,
vetof 3 ’ .Austrian winter.
grass et Cll, cnmson clover, rye
field anri C R can be grown on any
any i a u,,, njned under without
labor o f.i°* andk ng except the
the labor Tf n f tlng . the crO P and
°t turning the crop into
Houston home Journal
I PENN-DIXIE team I
I WINS ANO THER GAME
■ I
{ The Penn-Dixie boys did it
j agam Sunday afternoon on the
Clmchfield diamond, when they
defeated the undefeated Buena
Vista team by a 6 to 2 score
Walter Purcey again pitched for
the cement boys and only gave
up six hits, struck out" twelve
men and only walked one.
The crowd got a thrill out of
Purcey’s ability to pick runners
off at first base. He did this six
times during the game. Nipper
led the boys in hitting getting
four hits out of four trips to the
plate. “Lefty” Satterfield for
Buena Vista pitched a good game
but his team mates folded up in
the fourth inning when the Penn-
Dixie boys made live runs on
four hits and three errors.
Next Sunday afternoon the
strong Eastman team comes back
again and those that saw the
last Eastman game will surely
be back again to see this one.
The score by innings:
R.H.E.
Buena Vista 000 101 000 2 6 5
Penn-Dixie 001 500 OOx 6 9 2
Batt: Satterfield and Black.
Purcey and Hardy.
Umpires: Skeliie, Thompson,
and McCormick.
MANY BOLL WEEVILS
REPORTED IN STATE
Large numbers of boll weevils
are present in south Georgia, a
specialist of the Agricultural Ex
tension Service said this week,ini
pointing out that the hot dry
weather during May seems to
have had little effect on control
of the overwintered weevils that
the showery conditions prevail-;
ing in the state have been very
favorable to weevil activity.
K. K. Childs, Extension cotton
improvement specialist, reports
that cotton is blooming freely in
the southern part of Georgia and
that the first application of cal
cium arsenate dust should be ap
plied at once in order to destroy
the first brood of weevils which
have just hatched. This, accord
ing to Childs, will prevent the
first hatch from depositing many
eggs in the cotton squares.
The Extension agronomist says
that the cotton crop in north
Georgia is somewhat later and
weevil reports are not so numer
ous. However, he urges grow
ers to examine their fields care
fully for weevils and apply poi
son in accordance with recom
mendations.
“Picking up punctured squares
and burning them is an impor
tant supplemental means of con
trol when the crop is squaring
freely,” Childs points out. “This
will decrease the number of
•weevils emerging in the first
brood.
“On fields which have not re
ceived one or more applications
of pre-square poison, weevils are
not so numerous,” he continued.
“Where a thorough job of poison
ing was done, the few weevils
emerging from hibernation late
were the only ones noticed.”
Mr. Childs called attention to
the fact that county agents have
complete information as to the
best methods of control for boll
weevils and producers who are
in doubt as to the best procedure
would do well to contact their
county agent.
!
KIWANIS CLUB MEETS
J. P. Etheridge gave a report
of the recent convention of Ki
j vvanis International in Atlanta at
Tuesday’s luncheon meeting of
i the Perry Kiwanis club. Dr. J.
(L. Gallemore, vice-president,pre
[sided in the absence of W. K.
j Whipple, president.
Three and one-half million let
■ ters have been lost since the war
[began, but most of them were
iduns.
[the land. Close growing broad
cast “hay” crops also protect
i the land from erosion while such
j crops are being produced.
[ Farmers should plan now to
| feed back to the land some of
: the hay now growing on the land
[or to plant winter hay for the
land this fall.
Frank C. Ward, Extension
1 Soil Conservationist.
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941
WELLSTON ARMY AIR
DEPOT APPROVED
The war department approved
Saturday a $13,524,000 construc
tion program for the air corps
depot at Wellston, Ga., where
about 350 officers and enlisted
men eventually will be stationed.
The department said that at
its peak the Wellston construc
tion work would employ 5,400
civilians.
Facilities to be installed in
clude: Fourteen gasoline storage
tanks, 12 engine test cells, 10
non-commissioned officers’ quart
ers, seven field officers’ quarters,
seven sentry boxes, two ord
nance magazines, three runways,
three radio towers, two supply
depot buildings and two opera
tions hangars.
Also scheduled for installation
are a steam plant, airplane re
pair building, equipment repair
building, signal supply building,
sewage disposal plant, magazine,
water reservoir, quartermaster
shop, quartermaster warehouse,
night lighting facilities, radio
hut, engine repair building, ar
mament fire control building,
radio repair building, railroad
siding, fire and guard house, tele
phone and telegraph system,
paint - oil - dope building, chemi
cals storage building, quarter
master garage, bachelor officers’
quarters, officers’ mess, engine
storage building, cleaning unit,
post headquarters, salvage ware
house and yard, quartermaster
j maintenance unit, compass
swinging base, locomotive stor
age building, commissary, five
ton incinerator, oil and grease
storage unit.
I As contracts were let last week
•covering the original $15,000,000
•Army air corps repair depot pro
ject, The Macon Telegraph stat
i ed that it was informed by un
impeachable sources that plans
• already are being made for a
'510,000,000 expansion of the
| Wellston defense facility.
The expansion will make the
( depot the largest in the United
States, with a total construction
, cost of $25,000,000.
Contracts for construction of
the original units have been
, awarded Mion Construction Com
' pany, Griffin Construction Co.,
Inc., and the W.C. Shepard Con
struction Company, all of Atlan
ta, Ga.
Actual construction is expect
ed to start at Wellston within
the next 10 days. Army en
gineers were on the site during
, the past week, making final sur
[ veys, and work is reported to
have progressed to tne “final
, blue print” stages.
Predictions that the Wellston
• depot will be made the largest in
. the United States are borne out
by the fact that the army doubl
ed its acreage requirements at
, Wellston during the final stages
[ of negotiations in Washington,
prior to official announcement of
the selection of the Macon site.
, Original requests from Army
’ survey parties w-as for 1,25 U
acres, to provide for a $15,000,-
, 000 project. Later, the War
department called for doubling
, the acreage, to care for planned
expansion, and a total of 2,500
; acres finally was provided.
The Wellston depot will serve
a large area and a greater num
ber of Army airports than any
similar facility in the nation, it
is said. It will be the repair
center for the entire Southeast
ern Atlantic and Gulf coast, gen
erally regarded as the most im
portant defense section, from a
strategic viewpoint, in the Unit
ed States.
Construction of the original
$15,000,000 project will start on
schedule and be pushed forward
at the greatest possible speed,
and official announcement of the
$10,000,000 expansion plans
probably will not be made until
the original program .is well un
der way. This would be neces
! sary because of two facts:
First, that additional appro
priations must be made to finance
[the expansions now being plan
ned and, . 3
Second, that the entire $20,-
[OOO,OOO project would be too vastl
i a project to be undertaken at
once.
I It is expected that the expan
sion will be announced at a tim6|
•that will permit the transfer of
! workmen to the new construe- 1
SMALL FARMERS GET i
BENEFITS UNDER AAAI
i
l
The magnitude of the little j
farmer’s share in Agricultural!
Adjustment Administration pro-!
grams was forcefully illustrated
last week when Under Secretary
PaulH. Appleby reported to Con
gress that only 8-10 of one per
cent of the 5,756,240 agricultural
conservation payees in 1039 re
ceived $l,OOO or more.
Appleby, in transmitting the 1
report based his figure on total
individual payments. In addi
tion, he submitted a tabulation, I
based on individual checks, which
showed more than 92 percent of
the conservation payments were
for $2OO or less —5,300,669 pay
ees.
He also pointed out that of 5,-
475,000 farmers receiving parity,
or price adjustment checks, 5,-
372,455, or more than 98 percent,
received $2OO or less.
“Increasing attention,” h e
said, “has been given the small
farmer in the development of
the AAA program.” The Soil
Conservation and Domestic Al
lotment Act, as amended, h e
pointed out, provides for auto
matic increased in conservation
payments to farmers when the
amounts earned are less than
$2OO, with the smaller payments
being increased proportionately
more than the larger ones.
Under provisions of the act, it
was reported, payments of $lO,-
000 or more may be made to in
dividuals for participating in the
conservation programs, but this
limitation does not apply to pari
ty payments. During 1939, no
fanner received a conservation
payment of $lO,OOO or more, and
only 18 received parity payments!
of that much. However, when
parity and conservation payments
were combined, 457 individuals
received $lO,OOO or more,
IIHDOIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School-10:15 a. m.
Morning Worship 11:30 a. m.
Sermon by the pastor, subject,
“The Man in the Gap.” Th e
Lord’s Supper will be observed.
Epworth League for Inter
mediate and Senior ages meets at
G:3O p. m.
Evening Worship 8:30 p. m.
The pastor will bring the last in
a series of messages on Evange
lism. Theme, “Christ and Evan
gelism.”
Revival services in this church
begin Wednesday night, July 9,
8:30 o’clock, with Rev. John M.
Outler doing the preaching.
Prayer Service Wednesday
night, 8:30 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor.
BIBLE SCHOOL ENDS
WITH LAKE PICNIC
The Dally Vacation Bible
school at the Perry Methodist
church closed with a picnic at
Houston Lake. The enrollment
was about 50 children during the
10-day session.
Mrs. G. W. Hicks was super
intendent of the Beginners de
partment and helpers included
Miss Norine Swanson, Shirley
Wilkinson, Nelle Evans and
Barbara Whipple.
Mrs. Roy Gardner and Mrs.
Violet Gamel were in charge of
the Primary dypartment, assist
ed by Misses Helen Gray, Mary
Paul, Anna Lee Beavers and
Mrs. Lucius Schnell and Mrs.
Harvey Averett.
The Junior department work
ers headed by Mrs. W. E. Mar
shall, included Miss Dorothy
Jones. Miss Dorothy Newhard,
Miss Margaret Newhard, an d
Mrs. G. C. Nunn.
Rev. Roy Gardner was in
charge of Junior Recreation and
:Cohen Walker was in charge of
1 boys’ handwork. He was assist
ed by Marvin Greene.
|
! The modern young person
doesn’t seem to think the party a
success if he can remember any
thing about it next morning.
jtion as they complete units of
I the old.
I NEW DOCTOR COMES
I TO PERRY TO PRACTICE
I
i -■ .. —■
j Dr, A. G. Hendrick moved to
j Perry this week to locate for the
I practice of medicine. For sev
eral months he has considered
j Perry as a location for a future
home, Dr. Hendrick says.
Dr. Hendrick comes to Perry
from Sylvester, Ga. where he has
lived and practiced for a period
of five years. Being a native
Georgian, Dr. Hendrick was
reared and received his early ed
ucation in Newnan, Ga. in Cow
eta county and in Atlanta. His
graduate and professional train
ing was received at Emory Uni
versity School of Medicine with
interneship at the Henry Grady
Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
Dr. Hendrick is residing in thej
B. C. Holtzclaw home where he
will also have his offices. Dr.
Hendrick says that he and his
wife are glad of the opportunity
of becoming a part of the citi
zenry of this fine Georgia city
and will certainly do everything
they can to contribute to the
welfare of this community.
LIVESTOCK PROGRAM
SHOULD MEET NEEDS
The first essential of a live
stock program for Houston coun
ty, in the opinion of County Ex
tension Agent W. T. Middle
brooks, is to have enough live
stock on the farm to supply the
needs of the farm —an average
of two milk cows, one brood sow
and 30 laying hens.
The county agent pointed out
that beef cattle and sheep near
ly always will have to be con
sidered as a more or less surplus
livestock since the average farm
is not equipped for the produc
tion of sheep or beef cattle.
“More farms could handle a
few sheep more easily than beef
cattle. Six or seven sheep are
equivalent to one animal unit,
thus the average farm could
more nearly carry a unit of sheep
than beef cattle. Fifteen sheep
make a good practical unit for
an additional revenue.
“If enough milk cows are car
ried to furnish enough milk and
dairy products, and enough hogs
to furnish meat and products,
and hens to furnish eggs and
other products, usually there will
be a surplus and when this is
sold it will increase the income
considerably.
“After all this has been taken
care of, then and then only
should further efforts in live
stock be considered. Permanent
pasture sufficient for all livestock
and enough acreage to furnish]
temporary summer and winter]
grazing or equivalent is definite |
essential in successful production!
of livestock. Tn i s equivalent
may be in the form of silage or
dry roughage.”
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
SURVEY ordered;
Inventory of Georgia civilian
: organizations will be undertaken
by the Works Projects Adminis
, tration to facilitate development
, of a program for volunteer civil
i ian defense.
H. E. Harman Jr , state WPA
• administrator, said the survey
had been requested by Mayor
i Fiorello H LaGuardia, national
I director of civilian defense. It
1 will include every county seat
and all cities and towns of 2,500
population or more.
SAVE BY CANNING
Canning in season saves labor,
time, and energy out of season,
say Extension specialists. A good
j supply of home canned goods on
[the pantry shelf will enable the
I housewife to choose her menu
and get a meal with the minimum
amount of labor at the time of
serving. Briefly, canning is
“long-distance” cooking.
EXPANDING WILDLIFE
The significance of improving
conditions for wildlife on agri
cultural land is emphasized by
1 the fact that 85 percent of the!
Hand in the nation is used for ag
ricultural purposes. Also 85
' percent of all hunting takes place
' ( oh agricultural land, and 70 per
cent of the fur crop is caught
there, primarily by farm boys. |
ESTABLISHED 1870
i STATE’S TAX INCOME
SOARS TO NEW HIGH
Georgia’s tax income soared to
a record total of more than $50,-
000,000 in the fiscal year ending
Monday, while its debt has been
slashed more than $13,500,000 in
the last six months.
Taxes collected by the revenue
department in the 12-month pe
riod, Commissioner Jack Forrest
er announced aggregated $50,-
424,903.53, or a gain of $0,188,-
178.02 over the previous fiscal
year. He described the total as
the greatest in the history of the
state.
Forrester, pointing ou t no *
.change in tax rates had been
made during the year, attributed
the sharp increase to improved
business conditions.
By far the greatest revenue
producer was the state’s G-cent
gasoline tax. This accounted for
$24,847,019.55, or almost half of
Georgia’s tax income,
Forrester spoke with apprehen
sion about the possibility which
he said appeared rather remote
now -that the federal govern
ment might restrict the use of
gasoline as a part of the national
defense program. Rationing its
use, he asserted, would “play
havoc” with Georgia finances.
Next to the gasoline tax, the
income tax showed the greatest
gain in returns, jumping from
$5,720,187.81 in the 1940 fiscal
year to $7,408,359.73.
DRIVERS’ LICENSE
DEADLINE EXTENDED
The deadline for obtaining 1942
driver’s licenses was extended
ten days Monday night to July
10 by John E. Goodwin, comis
sioner of public safety.
A flood of applications during
the past few days made the ex
tension necessary, Goodwin said.
The deadline previously had been
set at midnight Monday.
Major John E. Goodwin, of the
Department of Public Safety, in
a statement said it would prob
ably be a week or ten days be
fore all of the Driver’s Licenses
on hand could be cleared up.
Some of the people who sent in
theirs the last few days will un
doubtedly be worried, however,
they should not try to communi
cate with the Commissioner un
til the announcement is made
that all of the licenses have been
worked up—then it may be pos
sible for them to get information
on their individual case.
For at least ten days after the
I dead-line of June 30, the License
| Bureau will still have problems
|to overcome in connection with
I the Family Driver's License,
such as checking them to see
that they are properly made out,
etc. Therefore, Commissioner
Goodwin urges everyone not to
become alarmed if their license
!is not returned to them immed
iately—but to go ahead and use
the old license until the announ
cement is made that all licenses
have been cleared through the
Department of Public Safety.
FIREWORKS INJURIES
‘‘This year, as in the previous
four years, the American Medi
cal Association is circularizing
hospitals, dispensaries and other
institutions in the United States
with a view to compiling a rec
ord of the deaths and injuries
received from celebration of the
Fourth of July with fireworks,”
The Journal of the American
Medical Association for June 14
says. “As a result in large part
of these annual summaries, sev
eral states have adopted effec
tive antifireworks legislation.
The number of deaths from this
cause has been reduced there
fore in 1940 to Bas compared to
20 in 1937. The total number of
injuries has been reduced from
7,205 in 1937 to 4,402 in 1940.
[Although the improvement is
considerable, it is still obvious
that there can be no relaxation
lof effort in the attempt to pre
jvent such unnecessary accidents.
' Hospitals throughout the coun
! try are again asked to cooperate
:in the careful filling out and
prompt return of questionnaires
which they will shortly receive in
1 order that a still further improve
ment in the situation may be
| brought about.”