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■ yOL. LXX. No. 35. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870
Ml ON SEWERAGE
I|SNDS SEPTEMBER!
I local interest centers on the
■ , t j on for sewerage and water-
Krks extension bonds to be held
V the City of Perry on Monday,
i Legal notice of the
Bipct’ion has been published and
Kr requirements for the hold-
B , 0 f the election have been
BJLd out. Special committees
■“ m the Kiwanis club, which is
■fllidly behind the project, and
■om the City Council have been
■Led to get the voters to the
Bis to vote and to inform the
Biers on any question relative
■to the bond issue.
■ fhe election will be held at the
Bt, Hall. Foils will be open
■L Ba. m. to 6 p. m. The
■amount of the proposed bond is
le is $30,000. This amount is
■lobe supplemented with a grant
■fsloo,ooo from the P. W. A.,so
■that a total of $130,000 may be
■available for the project. Th e
■liberal grant from the P. W. A.
■is possible because Perry is now
■in the defense area, and must
■have an adequate sewerage sys
|tem to serve the homes of de-
Ifense workers who are coming
■into Perry. The bond issue is
■regarded generally as an unusual
■opportunity to secure a badly
■needed improvement at so small
lacost to the citizens. As a mat
■terof fact it is believed that the
■retirement of the new bonds can
■be scheduled in such away that
■higher taxes will not be ne ces-
Isary at all.
I The bonds have already been
■sold at $lOl.OO, a premium of
■5300.00 on the $30,000 issue, the
■sale conditional on the validation
of the bonds and the supplement
ing of a larger sum by the P. W.
A, It is pointed out also that
the $30, 000 could not be spent in
any event, unless it were sup
plemented by the larger amount
from the W. P. A.
204 citizens of Perry are quali
fied to vote in this election,
two-thirds of those voting must
vote for bonds, and tnis two
thirds must be a majority of the
qualified voters to carry the elec
tion for bonds.
The urgent necessity of an
adequate sewerage system for
Perry at this time is expressed
in a letter to Mayor Sam Nunn
from the State Department of
Health, which is published be
low:
Mr, Sam A. Nunn, Mayor
City of Perry
Perry, Georgia.
Dear Mr. Nunn:
It is necessary to call atten
tion to the need for a public sew
er system and sewage treatment
facilities lor the protection of
the public health of citizens of
ferry. This need is now par
ticularly urgent in view of the
population increase in your city,
which will occur because of large
national defense projects located
m the vicinity of your city.
This matter is being brought
to your attention at this time in
°rder that you may place the
matter before the governing
body of your city to the end that
persons residing in Perry may be
protected from diseases caused
Oy lack of sanitation which only
a modern sewer system and sew
age treatment can provide. You
may be assured that this Depart
ment will cooperate with you and
the other officials of Perry in
working out a satisfactory solu
tmn to the present unsatisfac
t°ry situation now existing.
Very truly yours,
W. H. Weir, Associate
Director of Public |
Health Engineering, l
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
i
Circles of the Baptist W. ]
b. will meet Monday after-;
Sept. 1, at 4;30 o’clock as
loHows: Circle No. 1 with Mrs.
nenry Matthews with Mrs. Price
kt : tterfield as co-hostess; No. 2
>th Mrs. T. L. Warren with
F. R. Hobbs as co hostess;
- o. 3 with Mrs. O. G. Boler with
1 r a- J. M. Taylor as co-hostess.
The Susannah Wesley Sunday
■-cnool class of Methodist church
J . hold its regular monthly
feting on Wednesday, Sept. 3,
p P; at the home of Mrs. A.
*• Tain.
| COUNTY TAX VALUES
$60,367 ABOVE 1940
I
; Houston county tax values for
1941 show a gain, of $60,567 over
1940 returns according to re
ports compiled in the office of E.
W. Marshall, county tax receiv
er. The aggregate value of pro
perty on the digest is $2,693,255
ascompared with $2,632,688 in
Upon this valuation, the coun
ty commissioners have levied the
following county tax; 4 mills
for road building, 5 mills for
schools, 13 for other county pur
poses, making a total of 22 mills,
two mills more than last year.
In addition to the above 22
mills tax levy the school districts
levy the following amounts: Per
ry 5 mills for school bonds and 5
mills for school maintenance;
Centerville, 5 mills; Bonaire, 5
mills; Hayneville, 5 mills, E1k0,5
mills; Henderson, 5 mills, Byron,
2 mills; Grovania, 5 mills.
Including the state tax of 5
mills, the districts in Houston
county will pay a total tax of 32
mills except Perry which will be
assessed 37 mills due to the ex
tra 5 mills school bond tax.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
In the Sunday morning ser-!
vice 11:30 o’clock the pastor wilL
begin a new series of messages
on the theme, “Overcoming
Faith.” The subject of the first
sermon is, “Faith must keep her
eyes on God.”
Rev, Gardner says: “There
has never been a time when the
faith of many people has been
more severely tried than now,
but the resources of faith in
many lives are very low. We
should seek a better understand
ing of faith in God, and should |
avail ourselves of every means of
building up our faith, such as
prayer, reading of God’s Word,
and regular attendance upon the
services of the church. Thus we
may fit ourselves into God’s
plan, and come to live steadfast,
victorious, useful, lives.”
In the Vesper service 7 o’clock
Sunday p. m. the Woman’s So
ciety of Christian Service will
conduct the devotional. The pas
tor will bring the closing mes
sage on "Barriers to Fellowship
with God.” These Vesper ser
vices are gaining increasing in
terest and will continue through
the second Sunday night in Sep
tember. In the service Sunday
night, Sept. 7, the young people
of the community who are going
away to college, to teach school
or engage in business life, will
be the honor guests.
Prayer Service Wednesday
night, 8:30 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor.
LT. E. HUNTER HURST
GETS PROMOTION
Second Lt. E. Hunter Hurst,
[formerly of Perry and for three
years a star lineman for the
Mercer Bears, has been promot
ed to the rank of first lieutenant
in the Marine Corps, Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox an
nounced Saturday,
Lieut. Hurst was one of four
Georgia young men receiving
'promotions in the corps.
He has been in the Marines
since his graduation from Mer
cer. While at the university he
was active in campus affairs,
playing on the football team and
maintaining an above average
I scholastic record.
Lieut. Hurst is the grandson of
Mrs. S. T. Hurst and nephew of
Mrs. Alva Davis and Miss Lula
I Hurst of Perry.
|ga. registrants
16 PER CT. ILLITERATE
■I
j Sixteen per cent of Georgia’s
;!402.636 draft registrants are il
' j literate, according to reports
'from local boards which have
: i classified 73 per cent of the men
‘'registered. The reports, com
! piled through July 15, show that (
. g 830 white men and 27,686 ne-1
i groes have signed their question-1
r naires with an “X”. Some 46.-
000 registrants could not write |
1 their names when they register- j
ed for selective service.
BOY SCOUTS MEET
IN PERRY SEPT. 5
The Peach belt district com
mittee, Boy Scouts of America,
will meet in Perry on Friday,
Sept. 5, at Bp. m. All members
of the district committee are
urged to attend this first meet
ing of the committee since June,
in order to work toward the com
pletion of the 1941 objectives for
the district.
Although the district commit
tees did not meet, there was a
great deal of Scouting done dur
ing the summer months. Camp
Benjamin Hawkins was open for
seven weeks. Organization of
new troops and recruiting of
Scouts received an impetus.
Eleven new troops were register
ed in July, bringing to date a to
tal of 22 new troops. 21 out of
36, the objective of new Scouts
for the year, have been register
ed.
Plans for October call for a se
ries of simultaneous camporees
to be held in different areas of
the council. Also, there will be
an orientation course in Scouting
for each district during the time
of the regular district meeting.
; Any adults connected with or in
terested in Scouting may attend.
I The introductory course will be
j presented in Perry on Oct. 3.
A second annual roll call of
Scouts and Scouters will take
place in November, checking the
strength of each Scout unit. In
December, the annual district
meetings will be held for the
election of officers for 1942.
START NOW
Have you thought about how
much acreage to devote to win
ter crops for next year? Right
now is the time to start thinking
about it. If seed is needed, they
need to be secured early. Also
best results will be abtained if a
good job of seeding is done.
I Then, too, every extra acre
planted in cover crops will be
doing that much more for the
land through increasing and
holding the fertility.
Grant of aid materials such as
Austrian winter peas, vetch, lime,
and acid phosphate, may be se
cured from county AAA office by
eligible farms. Place your order
now. Farmyard deliveries of
acid phosphate and lime may be
secured if order is placed at once.
W. T. Middlebrooks,
County Agent.
LOSE ON COTTON
ROUGH GINNED
The cotton producer loses any
where from $5 to $lO per bale
when cotton is rough ginned and
if badly gin cut around $5 per
bale additional, according to
County Agent W. T. Middle
brooks.
“Due to the probable high loan
for cotton the coming season, it
is possible the loss to the cotton
producer due to rough gin and
gin cut cotton might exceed these
figures,” Mr. Middlebrooks said.
He added that the amount of
rough gin cotton can be material
ly reduced if the cotton producer
will pick his cotton clean and
dry and deliver it to his gin in
such condition that a good gin
ning job can be done.
“The ginner can do his part,
too, by having his gin in first
class condition and ginning his
customer’s cotton with the loose
seed roll,” the county agent said.
“The percentage of rough gin
cotton in Georgia for 1940 was
nine per cent of the crop. You
can readily see, therefore, how
several hundred thousands of
dollars can be saved by cotton
producers by adhearing to these
simple practices.”
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Pickett
and daughter and Mrs. Clint
Rutledge of Florida is visiting
Mrs. J. A. Middlebrooks. i
j Mrs. Lorena Middlebrooks Lif
jseyhas returned from a two I
| weeks’visit in Avon Park and
Sebring, Fla.
Rev. and Mrs. Roy Gardner
|and daughter, Alice, were vis
itors in Columbus last Saturday
J and Sunday.
PERRY KIWANIS CLUB
ENDORSES SEWERAGE
The Perry Kiwanis club at a
recent meeting attended by thir-i
ty of the business and profes
sional men of Perry studied
thoroughly the proposed Bond
Issue that is before the people
this coming Monday. After care
fully discussing the Bond Issue
from every angle the club passed
a unanimous resolution favoring
the issue, and ask the public to
give its support by voting for
its passage.
One question raised was an
swered at the request of the club
by the following letter which
met with the clubs approval.
Mr. W. K. Whipple, Pres.
Perry Kiwanis Club,
Perry, Georgia,
Dear Wendell:
In regard to the proposed
bond issue for building a sewer
erage system and sewage dispo
sal plant, and extending the
water system in connection with
the sewerage system, 1 wish to
clarify the matter of the use of
the proceeds of the bond issue in
this respect: We believe we will
be able to get P.W.A. assistance
for which we have applied. We
may not be able to get from P.
W. A the full amount of $lOO,-
000.00 for which we have ap
plied, but we are very hopeful
that a substantial part of this
amount will be granted to us;
enough, with the proposed $30,-
000.00 of bond money, to provide i
an adequate sewerage system
and disposal plant.
If we fail to secure the P. W.
A. grant applied for or a suffi
cient grant to construct an ade
quate, city wide sewerage sys
tem, then it is the purpose of
City Council to withhold the
bonds from sale until such time
as sufficient additional funds can
be found which, with the bond
money will make it possible the
building of an adequate sewer
erage system for Perry.
1 trust this makes clear a mat
ter which may be confusing to
some people.
Yours very truly,
S. A, Nunn, Mayor,
City of Perry.
MRS.ROXY PHILLIPS DIES
Mrs. Roxy Della Phillips of
Anniston, Ala. died at the home
of her son, W. B. Phillips, at
Chnchfield Friday morning after
an illness of about a week. She
had been visiting here for a
month before she was taken ill.
She was born in Easta Boga,
Ala. and was 62 years old.
Funeral services were held in
Anniston Sunday afternoon, Aug.
24.
Besides her son she is surviv
ed by one daughter, Mrs. Joe
Sharp, of Anniston; two sisters,
Mrs. J. D. Hunnicuttof Glenco,
Ala., and Miss Mamie Stewart,
of Akron, Ohio; three brothers,
Will Stewart of Waco, Texas, E.
D. Stewart of Anniston, Ala.,
and O. L. Stewart of Gadsden,
Ala., and four grandchildren.
STEALINGS SOLVED
BY DEPUTY CHAPMAN
Robert Griffin, 17 year old ne
gro is in the county jail and the
mystery of a series of stealings
from homes in Perry has been
solved by Deputy Sheriff C. C.
Chapman,
The negro aroused the suspi
cion of the officer by spending
money and by his nightly bus
trips to Macon. He was arrested
in Macon Thursday. He con
fessed to the taking of money
from the homes of B. W. Boze
man, Max Moore and Mrs. Henry
Brown.
The homes were entered in the
day time when the families were
away and in most cases the mon
ey was taken from the coin sav
ings banks of the children.
l Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Moody and
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lamar spent
last week in Jacksonville, Fla.
Mr. Powers Cooper Lawson re
ceived his Bachelor of Science
degree at the University of Geor
gia on Friday, Aug. 22,
11PIPE LINE WILL BE
BUILT IN GEORGIA
1
j President Roosevelt has au
thorized the Plantation Pipe Line
j Company to construct a line from
j Baton Rouge, La., to Greens
boro, N. C., for “national de
fense purposes.”
Federal Petroleum Co ordina
tor Harold L. Ickes had recom
mended this step as a means ot
alleviating an oil and gasoline
shortage in the East.
The line would run northeast
from Louisiana through portions
of Mississippi, Alabama,Georgia,
South Carolina and North Caro
lina, and it was understood that
if it were used solely to handle
gasoline, its base capacity would
be sufficient to transport more
than half the gas requirements of
the states through which it will
pass.
Branches would extend to
Montgomery and Birmingham,
Ala.; Columbus and Macon, Ga.;
Chattanooga and Knoxville,Tenn.
In Atlanta headquarters for
the Plantation Company, a
spokesman for the concern said
it was probable that construction
of the line would be completed
| by Jan. 1, The gasoline main
is expected to cost between $20,-
000,000 and $25,000,000.
MISS MARTHA GADDY PASSES
Funeral services were held in
Macon Sunday afternoon for
Miss Martha Lois Gaddy, former
resident of Perry. She died in a
Macon hospital Friday as a re
sult of a cerebral hemmorrage
which she*suffered while at work
at Cochran Field a week ago
She was born and reared in
i Perry, the daughter of Mrs. Ma
ggie Genann Gaddy and the late
Frank Gaddy, and was a niece of
Mrs. Mamie Winn. She was a
graduate of Perry High School
and of G. S. C. W. and had been
connected with the Macon Tele- 1
graph for a number of years.
She was well known here and
had a number of friends through
out this section.
1 The funeral was conducted by
Dr. G. E. Rosser from the Bur
ghard-Connally chape) at 3 p. m.
Sunday in Macon.
Burial was in the family lot in
Evergreen cemetery.
TRAFFIC DEATH RATE
DOWN IN GEORGIA
Due to the increased amount
of traffic on our highways which
is partly cause 1 by the defense
movement, Major John E. Good-1
win, Commissioner ot the De
partment of Public Safety, re
quested the cooperation of all
motorists in keeping down the
death rate, which has increased
all over the Natian, and pointed
, out that Georgia has a lower
death rate per one hundred thous
and miles traveled than any of
her sister states around her —
Georgia having a fatality rate of
15.1, against Alabama 17.4. Mis
sissippi 16.7, South Carolina 20.3
and North Carolina 16.6.
When questioned as to how
the figure was arrived at on the
1 miles traveled, he stated that the
miles traveled is based on the to
tal sale of gasoline within the
I state, figured out on an average
percentage of miles per gallon,
this giving the only accurate in
dication of the miles traveled in
, any state.
. When asked about the activi
ties of the License Bureau, he
stated that in the largest days
run of licenses, there were 23,-
768 certified. He stated that in
previous years the peak for any
one day had been 15,000, how
[iever, the Commissioner pointed
.lout the fact that numerous ap
| plications had been filled out |
. j wrong, and these were having to
, I be returned to the applicant for
(correction before they could be
j j certified.
The circles of the Woman’s So
ciety of Christian Service will
meet on the second Monday in
September instead of the first
j Monday as heretofore.
t
International Post Offices
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. _ * j.
COMMITTEES NAMED
FOR HOUSTON FSA
Leading citizens of Houston
county have been appointed com
mittees to help the Farm Securi
ty Administration to relate its
program definitely to local and
community needs.
Walker L. Hawes, County FSA
supervisor, announced the ap
pointments today, as authorized
by E. C. Young, FSA State Di
rector.
Committees have been formed
on Rural Rehabilitation, Farm
Debt Adjustment, and Tenant
Purchase.
Besides the three committees,
there will be a county council,
composed of the committee mem
bers and three citizens at large.
The council will review and ad
vise FSA employees on the pro
gram as it touches this county,
with regard to local conditions
and needs. The members were
selected as experienced business
men, farmers and others with
knowledge not only of conditions
but of the FSA program and its
goals.
Appointed as members of the
Houston County Rural Rehabili
tation committee are: Walter W.
Gray, Perry; Charles E. Pyles
and John L. Davis, Elko.
Members of the Farm Debt
Adjustment Committee will be:
John W. Bloodworth and Paul
Middlebrooks, Perry; and Lin
wood McCormick, RFD 1, Haw
kinsville, Ga.
Members of the Tenant Pur
chase Committee are; Walter W.
Gray, Perry; and Charles E.
Pyles and John L. Davis, RFD
No. 1, Elko.
Serving with these committee
members on the County Council
will be: George C. Nunn, James
P. Etheridge, and Cohen Walker,
Perry.
“The committee and council
members, ’ ’ said Supervisor
Hawes, “will assist the Farm
Security statt' in this county in
creating more effective programs
of help to low-income farm fam
ilies.
“They will help in developing
among borrowers and applicants
for FSA loans and grants an un
derstanding of the program, as
well as an understanding among
the general public that careful
planning for farming and living
at home, careful record keeping
and budgeting, is necessary to
successful farming.
“They will serve as aids in
study of financial situations of
borrowers and other farm fam
ilies as well, helping in adjust
| ment of debts and in rehabilita-
I tion of depressed groups.
“They will contribute their
knowledge of local conditions as
to land tenure, working agree
ments between landlords and
tenants, and help in every way
to safeguard the rights, pros
pects and ftandards of all parties
concerned.
i “They will help in cooperation
between the Farm Security Ad
ministration in this county and
all other groups working for
community betterment, like the
County Land-Use Committees,
AAA Committee, defense com
mittees in every field.
“And, adding their voices and
experience to the program of
planning for general imyrove
ment and adjustment, they may
be expected to make this part of
the Department of Agriculture’s
bread farm program more vital
and effective, and thus to build
up the strength and effectiveness
of the total program.”
Time and place of meeting of
committees and council will be
announced later.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Perry Church
Sunday School-10:15 a. m.
Worship Service-11:30 a. m.
Clinchfield
Sunday School-3:00 p. m.
Worship Servici«--8:00 p. m.
Rev. R. F. Boyd, Pastor.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bible School each Sunday morn
ing 10:15.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Sermon by the pastor.
Baptist Training Union 6:45.
Mid-Week Prayer Service Wed
nesday Evening 8:00.
J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
