Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, August 07, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHouston Home Journal VQL. LXX. No. 32. PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870 august active for fERRV AND COUNTY; i n the month of August what here to write about except [lt hot weather and people go on vacation mps? Or per t|,at peaches and watermel !?acre plentiful but prices only fair or poor? Or that the boll , ‘eviJ is soing to get the cotton In which promises to be good the rains will give it a chance? Well here in Perry and Hous ton county this August there is considerable activity due to the anticipated army air depot at Wellston. Steps are being taken to house the workers who will be connected with this govern ment project. Options are be in* taken on building lots and and whole tracts of land by in dividuals and corporations who expect to build houses and busi ness establishments. At Wellston, land is bringing unheard of prices for this coun ty Things are moving so rapid ly’ that the “old timers” are dazed over so much activity. Supplementing the land activi ties is the almost constant roar of airplanes overhead. A cer tain man at Wellston said he was going to be compelled to quit farming because hi s mule couldn’t understand whether he said “Gee” or “Haw.” Tractor dealers could no doubt offer this farmer a solution to his problem. In Perry, there is a continued amount of home building. A du plex house for rent is being built on Ball street by Carey B. An drew for Mrs. M. M. Lowery of Hickory. N. C., a former resi dent of Perry. Home Builders, Inc. is building a house for rent or sale on Washington Ave. on a lot they purchased from Mrs. S. L Norwood Sr. Plome Builders, Inc. have bought the Boler home on Macon street, also, and re modeled it to rent. Several homes are nearing completion and oth ers will be started at an early date. Most important of all, perhaps, to the citizens of Perry is the prospect of a sewerage system, which has been the chief need of the city for a long time. Perry citizens will vote on issuing bonds for a sewerage system on September 1. It is a foregone conclusion that the vote will be favorable. In fact, August is a busy month in this section, this year, and in another year from now Perry and Houston county wont seem the same. Changes bring sadness as well as gladness and prosperity. Progress and pre paredness must go on and the citizens of Houston county are glad to do their part in this pro gram of advancement. NOTICE Only two pairs of Hose to a customer will be sold by us until the threat of a hose shortage is removed. Moore Dry Goods Co. Wrote in Bed Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain did much of their Writing while in bed. Leads World , The United States leads the world ln railroad trackage, with 38,500 miles. Soviet Russia holds second Place. Friend in Need Jacques Larches, four years old, ■ell out of a window from the third floor of his home. He probably Would have broken his neck except |er the fact he fell on a stray dog. Roth the dog and the boy are doing Well and neither was seriously hurt. Columbus’ Gold The cathedral at Toledo, Spain, 33 a sacramental shrine 12 feet 3 §n embellished with 260 statuettes c ‘ 3 °Rd gold. The largest of these ,' as made from the gold which Co- U mbus to °k to Spain after his first °Jage of discovery. Defrosting f To defrost your mechanical re “gerator quickly, turn the unit oft, '‘ n Pty the ice cubes out of the rj ys, fill the trays with boiling wa ■-r and replace trays in the super- You are able to defrost in u J °ut 25 to 35 minutes by using this Method. | RESEARCH FIN DING I I NEW USES FOR COTTON 1 “More new uses for cotton are being developed as a result of constant research and experi ment by the U. S. Department ot Agriculture,” E. C. West brook, cotton specialist for the Agricultural Extension Service, said this week. “Cotton for insulation, in bag ging for cotton bales, in high grade writing paper, in curing concrete roads, for fumigation purposes with tobacco seedlings— these are some of the new mar ket by-ways for cotton being ex plored and developed by the De partment to offset sharply cur tailed foreign markets,” West brook reported. “According to a recent report by the Surplus Marketing Ad ministration, cotton is also being used in covers for colonies or hives of bees, for bagging meats, as a reinforcing membrane for the sides and bottoms of irriga tion ditches and canals, for the shading and mulching of tree seedlings, in repair of metal flumes and water storage tanks, in airport runways, for protect ing drying fruits and tomato plants, in open-mesh consumer size bags for packaging fruits and vegetables, and for a wide variety of other uses. “Wise cotton farmers know that the present domestic up surge in cotton use is largely the result of buying for defense needs. For long-pull benefits, they look to efforts now being made to uncover commercially practicable uses which will as sure continuing new markets. While the volume of cotton go ing into these new use programs is not spectacular, cotton grow ers are encouraged by indications that their versatile product, mix ing in new company, is receiving wide public acceptance.” FARM WEEK VISITORS TO HEAR WICKARD Secretary of Agriculture Claud R. Wickard will come to Athens August 12 to address Georgians in one of the top-flight features of the College of Agriculture’s annual Farm and Home Week, Dean Paul W. Chapman, of the College of Agriculture, announc ed this week. The secretary’s address will highlight a program marking formal dedication of the Agricul tural Adjustment Administra tion’s new $50,000 state office building adjacent to the college campus. While Secretary Wickard’s subject has not yet been reveal ed, T. R. Breedlove, state ad ministrative officer of the AAA, .said the theme of the day will stress adjustments in agriculture to meet changing needs brought about by national defense. Secretary Wickard’s visit to Georgia will be his first, and one of the few he has made into the deep South since he succeeded the present vice president,Henry |A. Wallace, as head of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Two important meetings are scheduled for August 13 - the state nutrition program which is a part of national defense activi ties and six awards to be made to Master Farm Families in Georgia. On August 14, the highlight ot Farm and Home Week will be farm organization day, with pro grams devoted to county farm bureau organizations scheduled. On August 15, the Sixth Annual Horse Show will be held. Tentative plans for the AAA dedication call for brief state- Iments by AAA’s national admin istrator, R. M. Evans, Southern Regional AAA Director Ivy W. '•Duggan, Dean Chapman of the |College of Agriculture, and Sen ator Richard B. Russell. _ They I will precede Secretary Wickard, ; whose address is expected to be j broadcast at 11:30 a. m. 1 Formal presentation of the I new building has been set for 2-30 o’clock in the afternoon,pre ceded by a 1 o’clock barbecue. Guests and visitors will be con ducted on tours ot the building during the remainder of the af ternoon. Rookery of Pelicans Royal Shoals, in Pimlico Sound, N. C., is the northernmost rookery of pelicans. Perry F.F.A. Member Receives Honors • Ralph Tabor, a member of the Perry F, F. A. chapter, has once again received high honors as a Future Farmer. During the past few days he has been noti fied by Dean Paul W. Chapman, of the Agricultural College of the University of Georgia, that he was a winner of a Sears Roe buck Livestock Scholarship. This scholarship pays $lOO.OO on the expenses of the student during his first year there. Only twen ty-five boys in the state are en titled to receive this honor. Ralph won this through his outstand ing work with some enterprise, through his leadership in club activities and scholastic average, Ralph has also won a Junior Division Scholarship which will reduce his fees $52.50 per year for his freshman and sophomore years. This scholarship is given by the University of Georgia for boys who plan to study agricul ture. In the state there are nine boys who have been passed by the state board to receive the American Farm Degree. Ralph was one of the nine boys and we feel sure he has a good chance to win this high honor. This is the highest honor that a Future Farmer can attain. We are proud ot the outstand ing record that he has made and hope him success in the future. During the week of July 21-26 our chapter sent two delegates to the State F. F. A. convention which was held at Lake Jackson. Our delegates were Roy Johnson and John Overton. Roy won a Sears Roebuck Scholarship which paid his entire expenses while there. He won this because of outstanding work done in agri culture during the past year. John went as a chapter delegate so his entire expenses were paid by our chapter. Both boys re ported having a very enjoyable 1 week at Lake Jackson. Our chapter is planning its an -1 nual F. F. A. camping trip the , week of Aug. 11-16 at Houston ’ Lake. This will be our fourth ’ annual camping trip at Houston ! Lake. 1 L. C. Walker, F. F. A. Counselor. I Tchaikovsky Revealed Emotions in His Music Peter Rich Tchaikovsky, noted Russian composer, revealed his per ; sonal emotions in his music, full oi i depth and melody, somber and filled with unrealized longing. Critics see , in his compositions a reflection of ’ his unfortunate romances. Tchaikovsky fell in love with an opera star when he was 28. She refused his proposal, married a 1 baritone. At 37 he met and mar. ; ried Antonia Milioukov, but the marriage lasted only 13 days. The real woman in Tchaikovsky’s life was Nadejda von Meek, « wealthy widow, who became interested in the ! young composer, paid him a yearly ■ allowance so that he could devote I all of his time to music. Although ' they corresponded for 13 years, wrote more than 3,000 letters, they never met. , He visited the United States in ; 1891, played at the dedication of ‘ New York’s Carnegie hall. He died ’ two years later from cholera, after drinking unboiled water. i Catching Up on Coffee Substitutes for coffee have ap peared the world over. In France ! and Italy chicory is usually mixed with it. And when the supply of 1 coffee is very low, chicory is used exclusively. 1 Hera in the United States roasted rye has been used as a substitute. It is considered quite a good drink. We can thank Cortez for the dis covery of chocolate as a drink. When Cortez was sent out by the Spanish 1 government to explore this new world discovered by Columbus, he i went in search of gold. In Mexico, ■ he and his men were entertained i royally with strange food such as corn, and strange drinks such as ’ chocolate. The Spaniards loved it ' and took it back to Spain. The Roman Catholic church con ; demned chocolate as immoral. Peo ple were fascinated by this new vice, ■ and tried it on many occasions. When finally the Church relented, ’ the monks used to drink it before $ mass. Theoretically this did not - break their fast. Bananas Ripen Bananas should not be put in the refrigerator unless they are ripe, for they ripen only at room tempera ture. . Methodists Have Vesper Services] A Vesper Service was held at j the Methodist church last Sun-i day night with the Epworthl League conducting the devotion al. Mrs. Cohen Walker led the program and the pastor gave a short sermon. These services, 45 minutes in length, beginning at 7 o’clock will continue through the month of August. The seryice this coming Sun day night, Aug. 10, will be in charge of the Young Adult Class with Miss Jean Brown leading the program. Mr. G. W. Rhodes will bring the main talk. All members of the church and the people of the community are in vited to attend. There will be no preaching ser vice Sunday morning, as th e pastor is away on vacation. The church membership is invited to worship with the Baptist and Presbyterian churches. The Young People’s Union met at the Perry Methodist church Monday night. The devotional was in charge of the Foi t Valley young people and was led by Bobby March man. About forty were present from Fort Valley, Marshallville, and Perry. A committee was appointed to present a name for the organization at the next meeting which will be held in Fort Valley the first Monday night in September. The Perry young people en tertained with a social hour after the program. BAPTIST 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS Due to the fact that the pastor will be on his vacation, there will be no preaching services at the church Sunday, Aug. 10 or : Aug. 17. There will be no pray ! er service Wednesday night, either. Sunday School will be ; held as usual both Sunday morn ings at 10:15 o’clock. ; SCHOOL 80S INSPECTION i 1 The Georgia State Patrol is in specting all school busses,so that the inspection will be completed by the start of the coming school year. The reports coming in show that there are a few unsafe busses in the State of Georgia. A sticker is placed on the windshield of each bus that is in spected and found to be safe. School Superintendents and County Board of Commissioners are urged to see that their school busses are made available to the State Patrolmen, so that they may be inspected, and if found to be safe, approved before the school season starts. Commissio ner Goodwin states that there has been a large reduction in school child fatalities, owing to the ac , tivity of the Patrol in inspecting busses and organizing school boy : patrols to guide the children to i and from school and while at i school. ’ Major Goodwin stated that the Patrol is meeting with splendid 1 cooperation by all the school of [ ficials and by the bus drivers and - he urged the drivers to cooperate with the Patrolmen in correcting any defects found in the busses for the protection of the children. > Redbud Tree 1 The legend of the redbud tree is to f the effect that the redbud or Judas i tree once had white flowers, but that when Judas hanged himself upon the ] tree they turned pink with shame. • Change Temperature To change a plus centigrade tem -1 perature to Fahrenheit, multiply it 1 by nine-fifths and add 32. If it is J a minus centigrade temperature, 1 multiply it by nine-fifths and sub-, j tract 32. Arnold Homestead t Visitors who pass Vassie and com pany’s store in St. John, in the Cana dian province of New Brunswick, - may see where Benedict Arnold , lived from 1737 to 1791. After join * ing the British army in the Revolu tionary war Arnold served with the 2 rank of a general until December, t 1781, when he sailed for England. f Shortly after his arrival there he | decided to go to Canada and he settled in St. John, where he built j a store and sent a trading expedi i tion to the West Indies. Visitors i who go to Fredericton may see the Arnold homestead on Rose hill, as ! it is locally known. |DRIVER’S LICENSE | DEAD LINE IS AUG. 10 ! Commissioner John E. Good win has ordered the date of the (deadline on driver’s licenses ex i tended until August 10, at which ( time he states that all driver’s , license applications now on hand , will be completed and returned . to the applicant. ‘ Commissioner Goodwin order- j ed the State Patrol to start road , checks at one minute after mid- ; night on Aug. 15, as he says that j will give five days for the mail to clear out after the dead-line date, ( He stated further that the delay , i has been caused by quite a few ‘ of the applications being im- ! properly filled out, which neces- j sitated searching the records to , get the necessary information to ; put on them. He, also, stated j that all licenses should be back ‘ in the hands of the applicants by August 10 and that anyone ap- 1 plying for a license after that ( date would have to take a test before the Safe Driver Examin er, who gives tests in each Coun ty Seat once a month or that the test may be taken at any Geor gia State Patrol Station. ! ALL-TIME HIGH HAY ACREAGE HARVESTED Georgia farmers have this year made a great effort to insure adequate feedstuft’s by planting an estimated acreage of 1,214,- 000 to hay crops, an increase of more than double the 1930 cen sus figure of only 523,000 acres. E. D. Alexander, agronomist for the Agricultural Extension Service, calls attention to the fact that the 1941 acreage is 73,- 000 acres above the 1940 figure of ;! 1,141,000 acres and 328,000 acres jabove the last ten-year average of 886,000 acres. Sharp increas es during recent years in Geor gia peanut acreage was advanc ! ed as one main reason for hay acreage boosts. In view of the vast increase in hay acreage, Alexander believes that more extensive measures should be taken in order to in sure adequate harvesting and - storage of the crop. To make : these acres produce the maxi l mum feed, he said, the plants 1 should be cut at the proper time, i cured with the least damage > from rains and bleaching, and stored properly. ; in producing high-quality hay, - the Extension agronomist point , ed out that the stage of maturity I or time of cutting the plants is of i prime importance. Fo r most 1 hay crops, fie said, they should 3 be cut about the time the podsj r are half grown and before leaves 1 begin to fall. In all instances, 3 allow plants to make as much • growtn as possible, so long as s the quality of hay is not injured 1 by stems becoming woody and - tough. I Following cutting. Alexander / urged that farmers cure hay I ) crops with the least amount of t exposure to rains, dews, and sunshine as possible. I' ' ‘ . Prognosticator Uses Indian Method j William F. Hudson of Orange, L Mass., uses an old Indian “magic ' formula” in making his annual long » range winter forecast. He says of i 55 yearly predictions, 52 have been .j accurate. Here’s his system: 1 Find out when the first quarter of the October moon occurs. Counl the number of bright stars that ap pear located about 30 feet from all sides of the moon. Look for a dull star above six inches from a bright star. The brilliance of this extra star will determine whether ther* will be one storm more or less thar the number of bright stars. ! Hudson says that according to i the stars this year there will be ap ! proximately 26 storms in which ■ 1 enough snow will fall for dog or cat j tracks to show. Bad Teeth in Children j Dental care for children from the age of two on was urged recently by Dr. John C. Bauer of lowa City, at a dental convention in Los An geles. “Two out of three children have dental defects and the earlier they are cared for the better,” he said. Dr. Brauer’s recommendation for a child’s diet was as follows: I “An optimum of dietary regimen with a reduction of concentrated sweets. They should get a quart of milk, one or two eggs, two vege | tables, one tablespoon of codliver oil ! and three teaspoons of butter each ' day -” AAA MAKES CHANGES FOR SOIL-BUILDING Slight changes in the schedule of soil-building allowance rates, which will form the basis for de termining maximum payments a farmer may earn for carrying out soil-building practices under the 1942 AAA program were an nounced this week by S. Ernest Statham, chairman of the Geor gia AAA committee. The United States Department of Agriculture, Statham said,has announced no allotments will* be set up for commercial vegetables, as in the past, and that the soil building assistance for the farm will be increased at the rate of $1 an acre for the normal acre age of commercial vegetables next year. Under the AAA program, far mers may qualify for two types of payments: (1) for soil-build ing practices, and (2) for plant ing within their allotments for such soil-depleting crops as cot ton, tobacco, peanuts,and wheat. The changes in the rate sched ule for next year, Statham said, are designed to serve a three fold purpose: (1) to enable far mers to make more efficient use of their soil, (2) to enable them to release much-needed storage space for surplus crops, and (3) to help them to produce other crops more vitally needed for defense. Rates for next year, he said, will be as follows: For cropland exclusive o f special crop allotments, 70 cents an acre; fenced non-crop pasture land, 25 cents an acre, in excess of half the cropland, as at pres ent; commercial orchards, $2 an acre, except for orchard land in cluded in cropland, for which the rate will be $1.30 an acre; com mercial vegetables, $1 an acre for normal acreage. Included also in the 1942 pro gram will be a special allowance of $l5 which farmers may earn by planting forest trees, in addi tion to other allowances comput ed for the farm. Final provisions of the 1942 program, when drafted, will lay special stress upon conservation and soil-building, Statham said. BIRTH CERTIFICATE Can you prove you were born? It is not an easy task for the most of us who are past the age of 30. The keeping of vital sta tistics did not hold the attention lof the State and municipal gov ernments of the South until re cent times. Yet the ability to obtain a legally attested birth certificate is important to every citizen and is becoming increas ingly important, For example, contractors and subcontractors working on some types of de fense production are not per i mitted to employ any except na tive born Americans. The United States Census Bu reau estimates that at least 40 per cent of the Americans born in this country have no docu mentary proof of the date and place of their birth. Because of the situation, the Undersecre taries of War and the Navy and Commerce have sent letters to all Slates asking the immediate adoption of a new plan by which persons may obtain birth certifi cates. It is suggested that per sons without proof of their American birth submit such evi dence as doctors’ records, records from a State or Federal census, family Bibles, baptisimal or con firmation certificates, school rec ords, insurance policies, drivers’ licenses, marriage licenses and the like. The Census Bureau at Wash ington is being overwhelmed by applications for certification which can be obtained construc tively from its records. It an nounces that an average of 16,- 000 requests are received each week and a force of 500 is kept busy at the work.- Atlanta Jour nal. Temporary’ Job When her father, a freight agent, found himself short of help 51 years ago, Miss Edith M. Durham took a “temporary” job to help out. She liked the work so well she re mained in the office for more than half a century.