Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, August 14, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHouston home Journal VQL. LXX. No. 3u. PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870 Strict ion s on i istallment buying! Board C Tue T s day id regulations restricting bailment purchases of auto |S: i es washing machines, vac- JjJ cleaners and other durable tident Rocsevelt ordered a Jon the $7,000 000 000-a-year it business to halt inflation trends and lessen the de- L for merchandise absorb- Jg materials needed for defense regulations, which involve restriction on bank loans to fi- Lcin? companies and tighter L s for time payments, will be Lussed when the board meets lith representatives of financial institutions here Thursday and Yiday■ Promulgation is ex ited shortly thereafter. Contracts for time-payment purchases signed prior to promul- L : ion of the regulations will not j« affected. Neither will the so iled open book accounts, such ithe housewife maintains at he grocery or department store, (or the present. Chairman Marriner Eccles, of he Board, said residential build ogand durable goods bought for reduction purposes, such as farm jiplements, will be exempt from |einitial regulation. Officials declined to reveal in Jvance of the discussions meth dsby which controls will be ex cised. Previous statements ave indicated, however, that ley would include a requirement ora larger down payment, a eduction in the time allowed for ayment, and restrictions on ank loans to financing compa ies, Officials indicated the regula rs will affect the automobile dness hardest because approx istely $2,500,000,000 of th e W 0,000,000 in outstanding in illment accounts represents au mobile sales. The executive order directing leboard to regulate consumer 'edit was signed by Mr. Roose elt Saturday on his vacation 'uise. He acted under the iwers given the executive in he Trading-With-The-Enemy ctof 1917 and under his nation emergency proclamation of st May 27. mployment service : 0R HOUSTON COUNTY The Georgia State Employment irvice, office at Macon, Ga., an lunces a change in the Employ ed Service for Houston county. There will be an expansion in. e service and change in per nnel. Effective Friday, Aug. and every other week on Fri- Branch Office headquarters hi be opened at the Court dse in Perry. Mr. W. N. Bal 'd trom the Macon Office will ■n charge. Ballard has had several! ars experience with the Em- Service and is well ahried to handle any part of ® Service. The people of Houston county e asked to contact Mr. Ballard an y employment or unem ’yment compensation prob-1 No cost to employer or! ‘Hoyee, eliminates expense of P to Macon. SPECIAL NOTICE rr ne Abraham Baldwin Agri lUl'al College, Tifton, Ga. is rin S a 3 day Adult Short) £ rs ® 1 August 25-26-27) on e ‘ Cattle and Hogs.” The! = two days will be spent in j V ln £ breeding, management, V n f disease and marketing) ‘, e ? e two enterprises. On the; ‘.day of this course ‘‘Live-| [;;• and Pasture Day” is being! i lle experiment station. county is allowed three; f nations to take this course. | C '■ v °uld be interested,please [ - Tour name in to me at once. co Urse j g £ ree (j nc juding l* san d lodging) except for , Ration, Farmers aitend- Ir’T de asked to bring their f to '?and bed linen. '' ■ T. Middlebrooks, County Agent. | FIRE DESTROYS TRUCK | | AND LOAD NEAR PERRY ) 1 i Fire destroyed a truck load of electric refrigerators and blocked traffic on U. S. 41 for a time about 9 o’clock Sunday night three miles north of Perry. The truck, an International semi-trailer type owned by War ren Refrigerator Company of At lanta and driven by Alton Parker King, caught from underneath, and the fire spread rapidly. Ex ploding gas tanks threw bits of burning debris over the highway and made passing impossible for some time. The $5,600 truck and load was a total loss. The driver escaped unhurt. Trooper R. L. Crawford of the state patrol investigated. FIRST COTTON BALE gTnNED The first bale of cotton to be ginned in Houston county this season was brought in Saturday from Sam A. Nunn’s farm near Perry for ginning at Etheridge’s Ginnery in Perry. The cotton was a good grade. The 605 lb. bale brought 20c per lb. at Ether idge’s Warehouse. Tuesday, Z. S. Turner of Bon aire had a 525 lb.bale ginned and Wednesday W. C. McDowell who lives on Tolleson’s place on the Elko road had a 595 lb. bale ginned at Etheridge’s Ginnery. These three bales are the only ones reported ginned this cotton season which is unusually early this year. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Church School--10:15 a. m Morning Worship 11:30 a. m. Sermon by the pastor Vesper Service, Sunday,? p.m. The Susannah Wesley class will have charge of the Vesper- Services next Sunday night. Mrs. G. C. Nunn is class teacher. The pastor will bring the clos ing message. New comers to our community) have a special invitation to our services. Everyone will be cor dially welcomed. Prayer Service Wednesday night, 8:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to all services. Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor. NOTICE The closing date for the Vaca tion Reading club has been ex tended from Aug. 15 to Aug. 25, Edna Heard, Librarian. Coolies in East Indies More than 101,000 coolies now work on rubber plantations in tha East Indies. Never Succeed When he began his study of voice, Mario Chamlee was told that he would never succeed as a singat. To Foil Bandits A chair for cashiers that includes a steel box into which money can { be slipped has been invented to foil bandits. Wood Engravings Engraving on plates and wood be gan in the middle of the Fifteenth century. Qualities of Hard-Rubber I Hard-rubber of first class quality can be drilled, tapped, turned, sawed, machined and polished. Basis lor Opera ‘Fauot’ The poetic and operatic character Faust is based on a real magician who lived in the Sixteenth century. j - Housewife’s Friend ( The modern housewife would ob j serve a 48-hour week if Roy W. : Cooley, president of the National Restaurant association, had his way. Speaking before the annual conven tion of the group recently, Cooley • suggested to the restaurateurs that I “most workers are now on a 40-hour j week and I think you should give j the housewife a break. While she j I can’t very well punch a time clock i j or ask time and a half for over- | j time when ‘hubby’ is late for dinner, j j she can expect to go out for dinner | once in a while,” Cooley said in , suggesting to the delegates that ] added advertising might help in putting this idea across. A 1 good housewife believes her food is j better than that in any restaurant, , but she can’t very well get around . the saving in time and energy,” be said. ' 'Farmers Urged To Get Legume Seed Three important essentials for success with winter legumes are early planting, inoculation and phosphate fertilizer, County Ex tension Agent W. T. Middle brooks said this week. In order to be ready when planting time comes, Mr. Middle brooks suggests to farmers that they arrange for their seed, in oculation and phosphate fertili zer as soon as possible so the winter legume crop can be plant- properly and at the right time. “The seed may be secured through the AAA or through ar rangements by them with local seedsmen as a soil conservation material or direct from seedsmen or cooperatives operating in the territory,” he said. ‘‘The phos phate or basic slag may be se cured through the AAA as a soil material or direct from dealers. The inoculation may be secured from seedsmen or by other ar rangements in the counties. In any case those who are to make arrangements for these materials should be given orders for, or | indications of, the amounts need ed as soon as possible. In so do ing better service can be given and assurance that high grade materials will be ready at the best planting date which is the latter part of September in north Georgia or the first part of Octo ber in south Georgia. Mr, Middlebrooks declared that due to the national defense pro gram delayed orders will be more difficult to get transported them in normal times, and declared that this is another reason for early arrangements for needed material. ‘‘Certain materials such as ba sic slag have certain amounts al lotted to each state and delay in orders may cause a shift to other states,” the county agent added. “We will be glad to help farmers and give information as to what plans have been made in their respective counties for these ma terials.” ) _ REVIVAL AT BONAIRE Revival meeting will begin at the Bonaire Baptist church Sun day, Aug. 24. Rev. H. B. An derson of Kennedy Memorial Baptist church, Fitzgerald, Ga. will do the preaching. Services will be held at 11 o’clock in the morning and at 8:30 o’clock at night. The public is invited to attend. Salt in Sea Water Each gallon ot sea water contains about one-fourth pound of salt. 180 Degree Camera A camera which registers the 180 degrees from horizon to horizon has been developed. Large Ears Heredity expert claims that if one parent has large ears, all of the children will have large ears. Texas Hide Production Texas produces more hides than any state in the Union but the state has comparatively few tan neries. Glass Walls Complete outside walls of a house or other building can be built with glass blocks, a new building materi al. Made in various sizes, the blocks are sealed, hollow and patterned so that they pass light but are not transparent. Their enclosed hollow centers insulate much more effec tively than do ordinary windows. “Mississippi River The Mississippi river proper rises in the lake and swamp region of northern Minnesota, 1,472 feet above sea level, in Lake Hermando de Soto, Becker county. It empties into the Gulf of Mexico, the gulf having a mean elevation of 500 feet. Mosquito Bit*' How does a mosquito bite? First 1 he lights on the victim, places his j mouth, which is a hollow tube about J three-eighths of an inch long, on the ( i skin. The stinger, a raspy drill | I partly covering the outside of the j mouth, sinks swiftly, penetrating the 1 1 skin. The mosquito starts his feast )of blood. The irritation of a bite i j is caused by the mosquito’s saliva, ! deposited in the wound to prevent j the blood clotting in the insect’s 1 tubelike mouth. Wheat Growers To Vote On Quota In ’42; I i Commercial wheat growers] wiil vote again next spring on a I marketing quota program for I their 1942 crop, VV. T. Middle- j brooks, Houston county agent, announced this week. The county agent’s statement followed Secretary of Agricul ture Claude R. Wickard's action in proclaiming a 1942 wheat mar keting quota for 1942. The sec retary previously had set a 55,- 000,000-acre wheat allotment for 1 next year. The early announcement of the quota, Middlebrooks said, will give growers an opportunity to plan their 1942 wheat plant ings before seeding time. The proclamation, under law, is re quired whenever, prior to May 15 of any marketing year, it ap pears the wheat supply will ex ceed a normal year’s domestic consumption and exports by more than 35 per cent. Commercial wheat growers of the nation approved a 1941 wheat quota program by an 81 percent vote May 31. Under 1942 regulations, no de duction will be made from agri cultural conservation program : payments with respect to wheat if the acreage harvested for grain or any other purpose, after reaching maturity, is “not in ex cess of the largest of (a) the wheat acreage allotment, (b) 15 ; acres, or (c) if no wheat is mar keted from the farm, three acres ; per family on the farm.’’ i Kates of payment and penalty , have not yet been announced for • 1942. In connection with the secre tary’s proclamation, R. M. Evans, • national AAA administrator, pointed out that the wheat carry over on July 1, 1942, is expected • to be the largest on record in the United States—64o,ooo,oo6 bu ! shels, plus an anticipated, 1942 : crop of about 660,000,000 bu ■ shels. “The purpose of the marketing quota program,’’ County Agent Middlebrooks said, “is to divide a limited market equitably among all growers and to protect all wheat prices and income by keep ; ing part of the surplus olf the market until needed.” BAPTIST W.M.S. MEETS ; The August general meeting ; of the Baptist W. M. S. was held at the church Monday with Mrs. C. E. Brunson, the president, presiding. Mrs. G. S. Riley presented an informative program on “An Urgent Gospel Demands Train ed Workers.” Miss Emma Curtis talked on “The Training School at South ern Baptist Thological Seminary at Louisville, Ky.,” and Mrs. Emmit Akin on "Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.” Mrs. Alton Hardy discussed “The Baptist Bible Institute in New Orleans, La.” and Miss Martha Cooper “Foreign Mission Work of the Southern Baptist Conven tion.” Mrs. Akin was in charge of the devotional period. i Contrary to popular beiiet, George Washington did not w<Mr wig. Koman Empire Postal (System The Roman empire brought its of ficial postal system to a high degre* of efficiency. Sweet Pea saia».' In oriental countries flowers are often added to salads for decor%» tion. " 11 ■ i. , What’s Wrong? j In a hall seating 2,000, Taft at To- i peka had an audience of 700. Over j in another hall to hear a hillbilly i concert were packed 1,500 with thou- j sands outside unable to enter. Down , at Lawrence the other night Gannett j had an audience of 300. Maybe that | is what is the matter with the Amer- j ican people. Odd Monuments At Enterprise, Ala., there is a monument to the boll weevil; in , I New York city one is erected to an | amiable child, and at Mont St. I Michel, Brittany, there is one com memorating an omelet. At Little i Compton, R. 1., there is a monu ment to a hen; at Winnipeg there is a monolith to wheat, and at Llan dudno, Wales, there ia a statue of the famous white rabbit. (state pecan crop j AGAIN FIRST IN U. S- I I j Georgia’s pecan crop will again lead the nation with an estirnat |ed 9,472,000 pounds compared i with 8,526,000 pounds last year, I the Federal Crop Reporting Board revealed Tuesday. The nation’s crop will total more than 87,000,000 pounds, the board added, compared with a yield of more than 88,000,000 last year. Other states expected to pro duce larger pecan crops this year include Alabama with an antici pated crop of 3,876,000 compared i with 2,219,000 last year; Florida with 1,586,000 compared to 1,- 462,000; South Carolina, 1,462,- 000 compared with 1,355,000 last season, and North Carolina, 1,- 349,000 and 993,000. SIX FARM FAMILIES NAMED AT FARM-HOME MEET Six families—the Richard G. Garrards, Wilkes county; the John Foster Hesters, Walton;the Russell 11. Bakers, Chatooga; the W. C. Hodges, Bulloch; the J. J. Harris, Mitchell; and the U. C. Stewarts, Thomas are Georgia’s 1941 Master Farm Families. Wednesday these families were honored at a Farm and Home Week program at the University of Georgia College of Agricul ture in Athens. It was the first time since Master Farmers were selected that awards were made in the name of farm families. Heretofore, the honors went to individual farmers. In addition to the farmers and 1 their wives, each family’s chil dren were seated on the stage of the new auditorium where the program was held. The six outstanding families were chosen for their achieve ments in farm and home living. The movement is sponsored joint ly by the Progressive Farmer, a southern agricultural publication, the Georgia Agricultural Exten sion Service, and the College of Agriculture. MEETING CLOSES Christ’s Sanctified Church, lo cated on the Macon highway nine miles from Perry, complet ed a ten days’ meeting Sunday night. Hundreds of the church members from fifteen states at tended the meeting which was declared a success from every standpoint. The vilest-smelling compound known to man is mercaptan. Grand Slain Golfer Bobby Jones, the “grand slam’’ golfer, won his first tournament when he was eight years old. Gerontocracy Gerontocracy, government by old men, prevails very widely in primi tive society. International Post Ollices There are six international money | order post offices in the U. S., locat ed at El Paso and Laredo, Texas, New York, San Francisco, New Or leans and Seattle. I Greek Training Table Candidates for athletic games in ancient Greece lived on new cheese, dried figs, boiled grain with warm water and no meat. Sunday School Sentence court sentences you to at tend Sunday School regularly for the next three years,’’ said City Judge A. H. Borland, of Durh-im, N. C.. • to a 17-year-old youth convicted of { hitting a woman in the face with a j mud pie. Adverse Advertising Some Columbia, S. C., merchants I believe in adverse advertising. A | downtown restaurant has a sign on the wall which reads “The Only Sec- I ond-Class Cafe in the World,’’ while I a peanut vender advertises his com i modity as “guaranteed worst in ! town.” Bat Diet for Eyes Long life and good eyesight were insured by the eating of bats, ac cording to a Sixteenth century Chi nese materia medica. The Chinese also believed, says Natural History Magazine, that bats fly with their head downward because their brains •re so heavy. FALL GARDENS CAN HELP DEFENSE WORK All Georgia farmers who are participating in the United States Department o f Agriculture's “Food for Defense” program could make a substantial contri bution both toward the defense food campaign and feeding them selves this winter by planting fall gardens now, according to R.F. VVhelchel.farm management specialist of the FSA. In this day of rising prices, Whelchel explained, the farmer has a never before equaled op portunity to prove his value to his country by living at home the year round. This cannot be accomplished fully without fall gardens, which, the specialist points out, have been woefully neglected all over the state for the past 30 years. ‘Trices are rising,” Whelchel said, ‘‘and the farmer that can’t tied himself from his farm this winter will be in a bad way. The country is faced with the danger of inflation with food prices sky rocketing. From July 1, 1940 to July i, 1941, the retail price of fat back meat went from nine to 15c, bacon from 20 to 30 cents, eggs from 19 to 33 cents, lard from seven to 11 cents, and but ter from 28 to 38 cents. The farmer should produce these and other foodstuffs for himself and every time he fails to do so, but goes into the market to buy them, he penalizes himself and his fam ily and adds to the demand which in the end will force the prices still higher. ‘ ‘There is no need to elaborate on the value of fall gardens both as a money-saver to the family and as a tremendous factor in improved family health through better diets. With every Geor gia county organizing a nutrition committee, each chairman could i make no better recommendation toward solving the nutrition problem than to ask every farm family to plant a fall garden,and tend it carefully. Check your planting calendar for things to plant in Augustand September.” LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS Approximately 40 per cent of all the livestock and livestock products raised in Georgia is marketed, while the remaining GO per cent is used at home. That interesting bit of information is contained in compiled tabula tions of the Agricultural Exten sion Service. Over a 15-year pe riod, 1925-1939, the gross income of livestock and products in Georgia amounted to $1,037,045,- 000, of which only $421,526,000 was marketed. On the average annual basis, the gross income was $69,469,667, of which mar ketings included $28,101,733. Income from livestock and ; products include milk, hogs, cat tle and calves, eggs and chick ens. Farmers received the greatest average cash income from milk compared with other livestock commodities, the 15- year statistics show. Average annual value of milk marketed was $9,786,000, while the total annual value of milk sold and used at home was $28,412,000. Gross income from hogs per year was $19,502,000; cattle and calves, $4,806,000; eggs, $8;891,- 000, and chickens, $7,525,000. White House Design The design of the White House and the terraces is said to have been suggested by that of the duke of Leinster’s palace at Dublin. Stars Visible to Eye Under the best conditions, not more than 6,000 stars are visible to the human eye. Earliest Song One of the earliest songs known was composed on the death of Char lemagne in 813. It is still preserved in the national library at Paris. National Forest Acreage There are now approximately 172,000,000 acres of national forest! in the United States. ‘Uninhabited’ Island Resort The only island resort in Europe which is uninhabited is the Scottish island of Staffa. Thousands visit it every year but no one lives thei».