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Newspaper Page TextVOL.LXX. No. 34. 0 HOMES, INC. 11ECTS OFFICERS; fhe stockholders of Perry ‘ eg inc. formed a permanent ionisation last Thursday morn fat the Court House in Perry. ? p Etheridge was elected iident: C. P- Gray, vice-pres nt; F. M. Houser, secretary id treasurer. nirpctors were named as fob 7c. E. McLendon, C. P. C. C. Pierce, J. A. Davis, \\' Bloodworth, J. P. Ether ‘and W. E. Beckham. njJ e stockholders named in the ,tinon for charter are as fol ;.s. j. P. Etheridge, F. M. ouser, T. S. Hunt, M. E. Akin, C. Moody, J. W. Bloodworth, iarles P- Gray, C. E. McLen (|l Luther Mos teller, John H. liiamson, J. L. Gallemore, A. Beddingfield, E. W. Mar ji' W. C. Talton, Lawrence osl'eller, Wm. E. Barfield, D. Stripling, B. W. Bozeman, jx Moore, VV. V. Tuggle, S. >rnstein, Mrs. Laura G. Ander ’Di C. C. Pierce, H. T. Gilbert, E, Beckham, B.T. Van Hart, F. Bellflower, J. M. Gooden, H, Davis &‘Son, Louis Harper, H. Andrew, James J. Rooney, M, Beckham, A. C. Pritchett, id Lee M. Paul, all of Perry; ,W. Piatt of Wellston; J, H. lompson of Hawkinsvi[le. The capital stock is $lO,OOO and I, is set as the figure with tiich the corporation will com ence to do business. J, W. Bloodworth is attorney ir the petitioners and Judge A. .Anderson signed the petition ir charter. The petition for charter is pub ihed on page four of this issue the Home Journal. EVV FUNERAL HOME OPENS FOR BUSINESS Whipple Funeral Home is Per 's newest business concern, i, K. Whipple re-entered the meral business Friday, August 1 after being in the drug busi ess for several years, Mr. Whipple was associated ilh his late brother, A P.Whip le, in the firm of Whipple Bros., meral directors, for several ears here. Before coming to erry he was connected with randon, Bond & Condon, fu eral directors, in Atlanta. Mr, Whipple has leased the omeof iVirs. Dwight H. Cooper n Main street and is adapting it ) use for his business. The Fu eral Home will be ready within week and the opening days have een set for Friday and Satur ay, next week, Aug. 29-30. The üblic is especially invited to isit the home on these days. Whipple Funeral Home has a 1 hour ambulance service with 3e latest Cadillac equipment and apable assistants. Mr. Whipple is prepared to ender all types of service in his ne. W. W. DRISKELL DIES Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Nunn,Mrs, *• L Houser, Mr. and Mrs. F. }• Houser, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. attended the funeral of !? r - W. W. Driskell in Sparta, ,a ' Tuesday p. m. Mr. Driskell was superinten lent of the Perry school many rears ago. He married Miss Lula douser of Perry who survives J®- Other survivors include heir four children; Mrs. John Laldwell, Baltimore, Md,; Mrs. Marion Smith, New York City; . • Morgan Driskell of Califor h>a; and Walter Driskell of Brunswick. rr Island Resort Tf only island resort in Europe ■ ■•ch is uninhabited is the Scottish ‘ 3 „ ar . ot Staffa. Thousands visit it ry yea r but no on? lives there. , To Foil Bandits a «t C i u * or . cas hiers that includes b„ f e h> ox into which money can band r e * as been invented to foil r Earliest Song 0I " ihe earliest songs known 7 Corn Posed on the death of Char , “3gne in 813. It is still preserved ule uational library at Paris. Houston Home Journal | DEFENSE CORPS HAS MEETING IN PERRY l i The twelfth district of th e State Defense Corps held a meet ing at the American Legion Home in Perry Sunday afternoon. Major S. A. Nunn, commander, presided and made the principal address. Twenty representatives of lo cal units of the twelfth district were present. F. M. Houser of Perry w’ a s commissioned Captain and ap pointed Adjutant of the 12th District, Eby Holtzclaw, captain of the Houston County Defense Corps Unit, appointed G. W. Rhodes, county organizer of the aircraft warning seirice which is the civilian component of the United States Air Corps. This service was organized by the Ga. State Defense Corps to be turned over to the Army Air Service when perfected, Mr. Rhodes will appoint a chief observer and one or two assis tants for each of the ten posts in the county, together with enough observer personnel to man the post for 24 hours active duty when necessary. This is a pre cautionary measure in connec tion with national defense. There is a possibility that the observers will be given practice at their posts when army maneuvers are held in Georgia. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Church School-10:15 a, m There will be no service at the church at the 11:30 hour Sunday morning, Aug. 24. The pastor is speaking to a group of young people in a Spiritual Life Retreat near Columbus Sunday morning. Our people are invited to worship with the Baptist congregation in the morning service. The Vesper Service series will be continued Sunday night at the 7 o’clock hour. The Men’s Bible class will have charge of the de votional. There will be special numbers in song and good con gregational singing. The pastor will bring the closing message. Prayer Service Wednesday night, 8:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to all services. Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor. Franklinton Busses, Inc. Now operating busses from PERRY TO WELLSTON to transfer passengers to Army Air Depot Site CITIZENS OIL CO. 1 Is Bus Stop Bus leaves every two hours during day beginning at 6 a.m. OVTlss’isslppl 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 l Soto, Becker county. It empties ; into the Gulf of Mexico, the gulf having a mean elevation of 500 feet. I - j Housewife’s Friend The modern housewife would ob | serve a 48-hour week if Roy W. j Cooley, president of the National I 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 I week and I think you should give j the housewife a break. While she I can’t very well punch a time clock j j or ask time and a half for over- I j time when ‘hubby’ is late for dinner, j I she can expect to go out for dinner once in a while,” Cooley said m suggesting to the delegates that added advertising might help m putting this idea across. A j good housewife believes her food is ( better than that in any restaurant, but she can’t very well get around | the saving in time and energy,” he , , said. _ ... ~. - PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 21. 1941 SEWERAGE SYSTEM NEEDED j (EDITORIAL) j The most urgent need of the City of Perry right now is an adequate sewerage system. Only two streets in the town j have any sewers. On the other streets, sewage is emptied into wells or in a few cases, septic tanks, on the individual pro- { perty. This method of sewage disposal is an outmoded and dangerous one as there is danger of pollution in the water stream. In fact, such a haphazard plan of sewage disposal is apt to cause an epidemic of typhoid fever. Since Perry is to grow into a much larger city, the need for a sewerage system is more urgent than ever. The State Board of Health is concerned over the situation and has urged city officials to do something to provide a sewerage system for Perry, The city has the best opportunity it has ever had to have a sewerage system; for now it is in a position to receive a large grant from the P. VV. A. for such public improvements. If the city will vote for the issuance of $30,000 in bonds for the pur pose of building a sewerage system, then the city will be eli gible tor aid from the P. VV. A. The total cost of building the sewerage and extending the water mains to take care of the sewage disposal is estimated at $130,000. It would be foolish for th’e people of Perry to pass up an opportunity like this to receive government aid on such a needed project. So far as we know there is no opposition to the bond is sue but the plan can be defeated by the failure of people to vote. Fifty-one percent of the qualified voters must vote in the bond election to be held Monday, September 1, at the City Hall. Two-thirds of those voting must favor bonds for the city to issue these bonds. This is one time that the need is so imperative that the question of taxes should not affect the voters. However, to satisfy those who may make taxes the primary consideration in this matter, we hasten to say that it will not be necessary to raise taxes to issue these bonds. The principal payments on this $30,000 issue, if favored, would not start until six years when the principal on an old bond issue for the water works system will be paid up. The principal payment will not exceed $2,000 any year and will begin in 1947. The Mayor and Council are of the opinion that the normal increase in building and the normal increase in population will provide ample funds for the payment of the interest on this bond issue of $30,000 without any increase in tax rate. A group of bond dealers has offered to purchase this pro posed issue of bonds for sewerage and waterworks extension at 3 Y\ per cent interest rate and the price of the bonds to be $lOl.OO making a total premium yield of $3OO on the $30,000 issue. From every standpoint, the issuance of these bonds by the city seems a good business proposition ana one the citizens can’t afford to pass up. Aside from the business view, these bonds should be voted for the sake of the health and future welfare of our citizens. How are we going to build a city here without one of the prime requisites from a health standpoint, a sanitary and adequate sewerage system? Think these things over and go to the polls September 1 and vote for Bonds. PEANUT GROWERS TO GET MORE FOR QUOTA j _____ j According to an annual report which has just been released by the U. S. Office of Education, Georgia ranks fifth in the nation in total enrollment in Vocational Education, and has a lower per i capita cost for this type of edu- j cation than any of the states of' the nation, except two. The re- [ port, which covers the fical yearj ending June 30, 1940, shows a tol! tal enrollment in Georgia in al- j phases of Vocational Education — which includes Agriculture, Home! Economics, Trades and Indus- j tries, and Distributive Educa tion —of 102,576. The only states i in the nation with a lower per capita cost for Vocational Educa tion than Georgia are South Car olina and Arkansas. The four states with a larger enrollment in Vocational Educa tion than Georgia are California, with 206,526 enrolled, New York, with 185,409; Texas, with 182,- 741; and Pennsylvania, with 107,621. The average per capita cost for Vocational Education in Geor gia according to the federal re port, was $14.26 ; while the aver age for the nation was $22.10. In the twelve southern states, comprising the Southern Region, the average per capita cost was $17.18. These figures show Georgia’s average per capita cost was $7.84 less than that of the [ nation and $2.92 less than thej average for the southern states, i Georgia ranks second in the J nation m enrollment in Vocation al Agriculture and third in en-j rollment in Vocational Home Economics. Texas is the only state in the nation with an en rollment in Vocational Agricul ture larger than Georgia. Cali fornia ranks first in enrollment in Vocational Home Economics and Texas ranks second. The total enrollment in all phases of the regular Vocational 'Education program in Georgia I for the fiscal year ending June ] 30, 1941 was 106,570. This is an increase of 3,994 over the pre vious year. In addition to the regular program, approximately 20,000 Georgia people were en- I rolled in various classes conduct, to train workers in occupa-, |tions essential to national de-’ i fense. 1941 COTTON ESTIMATE I SHOWS LOWER YIELD The Department of Agricul ture has forecast this year’s cot ton crop at 10,817,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight in its first official estimate this season i based on conditions existing Au jgust 1. ! The indicated production com pares with 12,566,000 bales pro duced last year, 11,817,000 two I years ago, and an average of ! 13,457,000 in the 10 years, 1929- 38. The condition of the cotton I crop on August 1 was 72 per I cent of a normal, compared with 172 a year ago, 74 two years ago, and 71 the average August 1 condition in the 10years, 1929-38. An average yield of 224.4 lbs. of lint cotton to the acre was forecast compared with 252.5 lbs. produced last year, 237.9 lbs. two years ago, and an average of 198 1 lbs, in the 10 years. The acreage of cotton in culti vation July 1 was 23,519,000 acres, or 5.4 per cent Jess than the 24,871,000 acres a year ago. The area in cultivation two years ago was 24,683,000 acres, and the July 1 10 year average was 32,922,000 acres. On the basis of present esti mates, Georgia’s cotton crop this year will be the second smallest since 1878. August 1 prospects indicated | that the crop this year would [ amount to 656,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. The con dition of the crop was reported |as 62 per cent normal, or 11 I points lower than a year ago, the Georgia Crop Reporting Service said. The Service reported: “The yield per acre is placed at 167 pounds, while a yield of 250 pounds was produced in 1940 and the 10-year (1930-39) average ! yield was 221 pounds. Froduc • tion of the 1940 cotton c r opi amounted to 1,010,000 bales* while the 10-year average pro duction was 1,132,000 bales.’’ Sunday School Sentence “The court sentences you to at : tend Sunday School regularly for the i next three years,” said City Judge A. H. Borland, of Durham, N. C.. t to a 17-year-old youth convicted of ’ hitting a woman in the face with a j mud pie. i |CIVIC BODY FORMED 1 TO OPERATE WELLSTON i j Organized recently, a civic committee swung into action at I Wellston Saturday morning lay jing plans for cataclysmic chang es looked for in the community almost overnight. The committee will seek a charter of incorporation from the state legislature. In the meantime it will direct affairs of the growing town in the best way possible. Committeemen named were C. B. Watson, chairman; S.W.New berry, A. VV. Pratt, and S. H. Ferguson. Construction on the army air corps’ $15,000,000 depot at Wells ton is expected to get under way within ten days, GEORGIA RANKS FIFTH IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Georgia peanut growers who market their crops within AAA farm marketing quotas establish ed for this year will receive sub stantially more.for their peanuts | than last year, according to de rails of the 1941 program just announced by the Department of Agriculture. The department, in announc ing partial details of the year’s program, set forth a schedule of prices for “quota peanuts” for use in connection with a propos ed plan to divert peanuts into the manufacture of oils and by products. While the schedule covers “quota peanuts,’’the department also made provision tor the marketing of non-quota peanuts j through designated agencies at market value for peanuts for oil, less estimated handling, storage, and selling charges. Non-quota or “excess peanuts”, it pointed out, are those marketed in ex cess of AAA farm marketing quotas. The program provisions re quire that both quota and excess peanuts be properly identified with marketing cards when sold. The program would authorize designated agencies to pay the following prices to producers for “quota” peanuis grown this year; Southeastern Spanish: U. S No. 1, $9O a ton; No. 2, $B4, and No. 3, $77. Runners: U. S. No. 1, $80; No ; 2, $74. and No. 3. $67. I These prices are approximate ly $25 a ton higher than similai prices under the diversion pro gram last year. Under the 1941 program, pro ducers’ cooperative associations which participated in the peanut diversion programs in past years will be designated todivertquota peanuts and to market excess peanuts this year. These in i elude: Fo r Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, the GFA Peanut Association, of Ca milla, Ga. The same association will serve a part of the producers in South Carolina. ’ ,l ’ ‘ Odd Monuments 'j At Enterprise, Ala., there is a monument to the boll weevil; in New York city one is erected to an amiable child, and at Mont St. Michel, Brittany, there is one com i memorating an omelet. At Little | Compton, R. 1., there is a monu ment to a hen; at Winnipeg mere is a monolith to wheat, and at Llan dudno, Wales, there a statue of the famous white rabbit. i Mosquito Hite How does a mosquito bite? First he lights on the victim, places his | mouth, which is a hollow tube about * three-eighths of an inch long, on the j skin. The stinger, a raspy drill i partly covering tire outside of the I I mouth, sinks swiftly, penetrating the skin. The mosquito starts his feast of blood. The irritation of a bite is caused by the mosquito’s saliva, deposited in the wound to prevent ♦he blood clotting in the insect’s tubelike mouth. What’s Wrong? In a hall seating 2,000, Taft at To- ' peka had an audience of 700. Over ! in another hall to hear a hillbilly concert were packed 1,500 with thou sands outside unable to enter. Down at Lawrence the other night Gannett had an audience of 300. Maybe that is what is the matter with the Amer ican people. ESTABLISHED 1870 (COUNTY SCHOOLS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 15 All the white schools of Hous ton county and the Perry Train ing School for colored will open Monday, Sept. 15. The other colored schools will open Oct. 13. There are only two changes in the faculty of the Perry school. The new teachers are Miss Louise Lumpkin of Atianta, home eco nomics, and Miss Frances Moore of Tifton, public school music. Other Perry teachers re-elect ed are: Supt. E. P. Staples, Principal L. C. Walker, Mrs. J. 0. Coleman, Miss Frances Fos ter, Miss Nell Warren, of Haw ‘ kinsville; Miss Opal Hughes, Ma con; Miss Elizabeth Anthony. Macon; Miss Ruby Pickens, Com merce; Miss Eva Borom, Miss Evelyn Hunt, Miss Dorothy Jones, Miss Allene Ryals, Miss Phoebe Harper, Miss Mary Lee Greene and Miss Frances Couey. Miss Louise Rainey will be libra rian again and Miss Willie Ryals, music teacher. The three Centerville teachers will return. They are Geo. R. Hunt, principal: Miss Camilla Sasser and Miss Inez Carpenter. Mrs, W. J. Boone will teach at Elko again. Miss Mary Houser Brown and Miss Hattie Lee Williams will re turn to Grovania. Henderson will have Miss Les sie Langston again for principal. Another teacher is to be elected at Henderson. A teacher for Hayneville has not been chosen yet. The Bonaire faculty is not com plete as there have been several , resignations. The Bonaire list will be published later. A. A. A. WORKERS TO MEET IN MACON AUG. 23 Dr. Robert Montgomery, head of the University of Texas de partment of economics, will ad dress the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration’s annual statewide conference, to be held in Macon Aug. 25 and 26, |T. R. Breedlove, Georgia AAA admin istrative officer, announced this week. Attendance at the conference is expected to include between 600 and 750 farmer-committee men, county administrative of ; ficers, secretaries of county Ag ricultural Conservation Associa tions, and other professional ag ricultural workers. Sessions will be held in the Wesleyan Conservatory auditori um. beginning at 10 o’clock each morning. Among subjects to be discuss ed will be the AAA winter le gume program, cotton crop in surance, cotton and tobacco loans, the peanut diversion program, 1942 allotments and yields,wheat allotments, and proposed changes in the 1942 program. 1 Dr. Montgomery is recognized : as one of the foremost men in his field in the South, and an ex pert in agricultural economics. Other speakers at the confer ence will include Ivy W. Dug gan, native Georgian and direc tor of the AAA’s southern di vision, and Thomas L. Ayers, principal agricultural economist and chief of program develop ment for the southern AAA di vision. PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE Perry Church Sunday School-10:15 a. m. Worship Service-ll:30 a. m. Clinchfield Sunday School--3:00 p. m. Worship Service—B:oo p. m. Rev. R. F. Boyd, Pastor, i BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS I Bible School each Sunday morn j ing 10:15. Morning Worship Service 11:30. Sermon by the pastor. Baptist Training Union 6:45. I Mid-Week Prayer Service Wed nesday Evening 8:00. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. Manchuria Kails Branch railway lines are being opened in Manchuria to encourage colonization.