Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, September 04, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXX. No. 36, M-DIXIE accepts ■ safety trophy I An impressive progmn took I ifpe at the Clinchfield plant ol I C pennsvlvania-Dixie Cement llvDoration on Wednesday last B e j- The employees were re ■ Warded the coveted safety tro I v 0 f the Portland Cement As ■ Nation for having worked ■ Sugh the entire year 1940; I ithout a lost time accident. In I order to win this trophy it is I necessary that no employee shall ■ ‘ way* from his work more I than the remainder of the day on ■ which the injury occurs. It is ■ the seventh time that the Clinc h■ field employees have scored an I accident free year. The first ■ a -vard was made in 1933, follow- I ed by re-awards each subsequent ■ , e ar with exception of 1937, when ■ minor injuries occurred, I I The affair was attended by five ■ hundred people including em ■ njoyees, meir families, and a ■ .lumber of guests from Perry and ■ vicinity. E. P. Newhard, plant ■ superintendent, acting as Master ■of Ceremonies, introduced John ■A, Miller, president of the Cor ■ poration, who brought official ■ congratulations to the employees. ■He complimented the Safety I Committee on its accomplish- I ments; pointing out that the ■ Georgia plant now holds the best ■ safety record of all plants of this ■ Corporation; also mentioning the ■ Certificate of Honor which has ■ been awarded by the U. S. Bu ■ reau of Mines to the Clinchfield ■ quarry for a meritorious safety I record, unmarred by an accident I since 1931. Records show also, I Mr. Miller said, that the plant ■ has completed 1,390 safe days. I He also expressed his apprecia- I tion to the employees for the re ■ cent erection of a bronze plaque I in his honor at the plant en- I trance, I The official award was made by I H. J. McUargh, representing the ■ Portland Cement Association. C. E. Davis Sr., master mechan ic, accepted the trophy on behalf of the employees. Mr. Davis contrasted the precision move ment of a mechanical device to the human equation which has to do with accidents; pledging the renewed efforts of employees to perpetuate the record. W. H. Klein, general operat ing manager, conveyed his per sonal appreciation of the accident prevention work and advanced the hope that the safe record would continue. Congressman Stephen A. Pace, of Americas, was introduced by Sam A. Nunn, Perry attorney and legal representative of Penn- Dixie. Mr. Pace concluded the program with a forceful address; expressing gratification that the employee group is cooperating with the management in efficient and safe operation of the plant. The value of unemployment in surance and Social Security bene hts to employees was explained by Mr. Pace with reference also to the approach that is now be ■og made toward similar benefits i within the Agricultural group. Included among the visitors were: Mayor Charles Bowden, Hank Walthall, W. D, Brosnan, u Pt. G. S. &F. Railroad Com l P a ny, Macon; Judge A. M. An derson, Perrv. . A barbecue was served follow tog the program. ANNOUNCEMENTS The general meeting of the baptist W. M. S. will meet at I the church Monday at 4:30 p. m, j .The circles of the Woman’s So-i c, ety of Christian Service will ( ®eet Monday afternoon, Sept. 8, | ? 4 o’clock in the following! otnes: No. 1, Mrs. Minn i el wouey; No. 2. Mrs. E. W. Mar shall Jr.; No. 3, Mrs. Calvin Me-! Lendon. i NOTICE fif f err y school will open Sept.; y-teenth. All juniors and sen-i a are requested to register on nrs, and Fri., Sept, eleventh d twelfth, between the hours in* Twelve o’clock in sen aii 5° L °m- We hope to eliminate r P conflict by this early -gistration. E. P, Staples, Supt. Houston Home Journal | GRADING ON WELLSTON j PROJECT UNDERWAY i Grading of the huge Wellston airplane repair depot site began Tuesday, as the last shipments oi dirt-moving equipment arriv ed and were immediately placed in use. Col. R. H. Elliott, U. S. Army engineer in charge of the pro ject, said that approximately 350 men were at work at Wellston. i v rs t buildings to reach construe tion stage were reported well under way, with all foundations completed and carpenters speed ily raising the walls. The biggest dirt-moving job is on the site of the large landing area, where runways long enough to accomodate the largest Army bombers will be constructed. Since the repair depot will serve the entire Southeastern area,and Army planes of all types, the airport facilities in connection with the repair depot will be among the finest in the nation, Colonel Elliott said. Construction plans call for eventual employment of from 5,000 to 6,000 workers at Wells ton, Colonel Elliott said. MOIST iIcEMENTS In the 11:30 worship service Sunday morning the pastor will bring the second in a series of messages on “Overcoming Faith.” His subject will be “Faith’s Triumphant Declara tions,” The Lord’s Supper will be observed. The Vesper Service Sunday night, 7 o’clock, will be in honor of the young people of Perry and community who are going away to college, business or school, or who will teach school. There are approximately forty young peo ple in this group and they are specially invited to this service. A successful service of this na ture was held last September. Members of the high school and college groups will give the devotional service and the pastor will bring the closing message on the theme “One Man Power,” In this talk he will describe in story form several of the great accomplishments of human wel fare that were brought about by a few people who gave them selves to the task. Prayer Service Wednesday night, 8:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to all services. Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor. PERRY VOTES BONDS Only one unfavorable vote was cast Monday in an election for validation of a $30,000 bond issue for expansion of the city sewer age and waterworks systems, while 149 voters endorsed the is sue. The issue has already been sold at a premium. Work on the two facilities is now contingent upon federal aid. i CARD OF THANKS With deepest appreciation for the many acts of kindness nnd sympathy shown me in my re cent sorrow, I take this means of thanking my friends. Mrs. Maggie Gaddy. BASEBALL NEWS The Penn-Dixie Baseball team will play the 14th Battalion Team of Camp Wheeler at Clinchfield [Sunday at 4 p. m. HOME GARDENS ! There are approximately 320,- 1000 farm families in Georgia and over 30,000 of these do not have | home gardens. The Extension :Service, through its county and j home demonstration agents and i horticultural specialists, is mak-; jing special efforts to reach as I many of these families as possi ! ble and to encourage them to ■ produce their food supply. Meeting in Macon the other, day, more than 100 representa-i tive Georgia peach growers vot ed overwhelmingly in favor of a federal government supervised | marketing agreement for thej ' 1942 crop. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1941 W.B.SIMS, PROMINENT MERCHANT PASSES t #'*•- % , #> im wmmM W. B. SIMS Willoughby Bankston Sims, age 69, prominent and beloved citizen of Perry, died at his home nere Monday after suffering a stroke Sunday. Mr. Sims had been in the mercantile business in Perry for almost fifty years. Although a native of Zebulon, he had spent most of his life here. Mr, Sims was actively identifi ed with the religious, civic, and educational interests of Perry for many years. For thirty-four years he was a trustee of the Perry Methodist church. He was also a steward of the church for several years. He served several terms on the city council and on the local board of school trustees. Mr. Sims was married first to Miss Nora Killen, and after her death to her sister, Miss Ethel Killen, who died several years ago. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. W. R. Benson, Perry, and Mrs. J. 0. Hunt and a brother, ■ Dr. J. R. Sims, Barnesville; a nephew, Willoughby Sims of Perry. Funeral services were held at ■ 5 p. m. Tuesday at the residence with Rev. Roy Gardner officiat ing. Pallbearers were C. E. An drew, B. H. Andrew, Eby Holtz claw, M.M. Dean, Lewis Harper, and W. G. Riley. The passing of Mr. Sims is a distinct loss to this community. He was a man of highest integ rity whose word was his bond. Possessing a gentle, amiable nature and a gracious manner, he inspired the love and confi dence of all who knew him. Faithful and dutiful in every relationship of life, fair in all his dealings with his fellow man, his life was an example of the noblest and best and his mem ory is to be cherished. MANY CHICKENS Number of chickens raised on farms in 1941 will exceed all past records. This year’s estimated number is 786,759,000, which is 14 percent greater than in 1940 and 9 percent above the 10-year average. Likewise, egg produc tion is high this year. Production in July was the largest July pro duction since 1929. 1942 LICENSE TAGS Under an executive order, Georgia’s red-white-and-b 1 u e 1942 automobile license tags must have the word “front” em bossed on one and the word “rear” on the second in each set. In issuing the order Governor Talmadge said some motorists in the past have placed one on 1 one car and the other on another, and when caught claimed one was lost or stolen. He said this 1 cost the state $20,000 a year in 1 revenue. 1 1 Bees’ Eyes ( i The impression that bees are at- ( j tracted to flowers brightest to hu- I man eyes has been proved erron- I I ecus by experimenters of the Amer- 1 ; ican Museum of Natural History, They have learned that’ bees and , ( I other insects see colors beyorid the ] I ultraviolet end of the spectrum. Ul- j I traviolet, to the human eye, is black, , } the absence of light. When photo- ; . graphed through ultraviolet filters, certain flowers reveal patterns very < - different from the colors seen by 11 1 th* human retina. _ _ f i AIR CORPS HISTORY IN MONTH OF AUGUST Editor’s Note Dan L. Grant, Perry boy and foster son of Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Dobbins, is the author of the ar ticle given in full below on the subject, “Augusts of past years in Aviation and Air Corps His tory,” Mr. Grant who is sta tioned at Albrook Field, Canal Zone has been given the job of Base Publicity for the Caribbean I Air Force. This story was pub j lished in the Panama papers and lin the Air Corps publication. Be lieving that our readers would be interested in the story because of both its author and its contents, we are publishing it. In the rapid changing history of Aviation the months of Au gust have been filled with impor tant gains. The pages of this I history are not only laden with important gains and colorful events, but contain many trage dies as well. Thi’ough it all, from the first flight by Wright at Kit ty Hawk, has arisen the Aviation of today, giant planes, proven the safest mode of txmnsporta tion, flying thousands of miles with tons of cargo and passen gers. The public has become “air minded” and the airmen of today are no longer considered the reckless dare-devils of a few years back, but to take a part in aviation today one must be phy sically fit and mentally above the average. A few of the impor tant events in this histox-y hap pening during Augusts of the past are most outstanding and interesting. In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Sel fridge, for whom Selfridge Field, Michigan is named, was the first Army Officer to fly alonejremain ing aloft for 1 minute and 30 seconds. In 1909 the Army pur chased its first plane, a“pusher” type Wright biplane, powered with a 25 horsepower motor and capable of the amazing speed of 40 miles per hour. 1919 the Ar my originated fire patrol work in Oregon and in two months dis cover 128 fires saving thousands of acres. In 1921 the Army de monstrated the importaiice of Aviation in Agriculture by suc cessfully spi'aying poison powder over an insect infested grove. In 1922 two Air Corps Officers make the first important map ping expedition by plane, map ping 4,U00 miles by air in 39 hours. Also in 1922 the Army Air Service contributed greatly to relief work by flying several mining experts from San Fran cisco to Jackson, Calif, where 48 men were entombed alive in a mine disaster. In 1923 Lts.Smith and Richter established a new world’s endurance record by re maining aloft for hours, refueling their plane while in flight. In 1928 the citizens of San Antonio, Texas formally turned over to the Army, Ran dolph Field, “the West Point of the Air.” 1929 was a big year in Aerial Photography, it was this year that the first colored motion pictures were taken from a plane. This same year Capt. A. W. Stevens broke the long distance photography record by photographing Mt. Ranier from a plane at a distance of 227 miles from the mountain, this same year the German Graf Zeppelin left Lakehurst, New Jersey on an around the world flight. In 1932 Capt. Stevens again makes history by ascending to 27,000 feet above sea level and photo graphing the total eclipse in spite of the inclement weather. The August of 1935 presents a tragedy: Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed when their plane j crashed in a fog 15 miles from i Point Barrow, Alaska, Also ini that year, the Air Corps madej the first flight using the Radio| Compass to control the Automat- I ic pilot. In 1937 the first com-| pletely radio controlled landing) in history was made by Airj Corps Engineers, a climax of over two years research. 1938 presented another tragedy, Com-' mander Frank Hawks, famous! speed pilot, was killed in a plane crash. That same year the Ger man Focke Wulf Condor plane landed at Floyd Bennet Field after flying non-stop from Berlin in 24 hours 59 minutes and in 1939 an imperial Airways Plane landed at Pt. Washington, L. 1., inaugurating transatlantic mail (GROWERS HAVE TIL 1 OCT. i TO REPAY LOANS ’j j Georgia growers will have un til October 1 to repay outstand |ing loans and redeem cotton j pledged under the 1938, 1939 and 11940 loan programs, L. W. Ta bor, chairman of the Houston , county AAA committee announc , ed this week ’ After October 1, Mr. Tabor said, unredeemed cotton will be placed in pools, as provided by : the loan agreements, and sold by the Commodity Credit Corpora tion, with the producers receiv ing the net proceeds, if any, af ter deduction of all advances and accrued costs, including storage, insurance, and handling charges. Payments to producers will be in proportion to their interest in the cotton in each year’s pool. No payment will be made to the producer at the time his cot i ton is placed in the pool, and in , dividual producers will not be entitled to order the sale of the particular cotton which he placed i in the pool. * Sales of pooled , stock will not be made prior to ! March 1, 1942. , Rising prices since February ,iand March, he said, have made ; it profitable for producers to re . deem loan cotton, and reposses sions have mounted especially ■ since late May, after the enact -1 ment of 85 per cent of parity - loan legislation, i Loans on about 20,000 bales of . 1938-39 and 1989-40 cotton from i Georgia farms are now outstand . ing, the Commodity Credit Cor . poration reports. > ———-________ GROWTH IN “COW PANTRIES” I A sharp increase in “cow pan i tries” during recent years,bring ing the total to 1,536 of the trench silo type alone at the be ginning of 1941, was reported this week by the Georgia Agri cultural Extension Service. G. I. Johnson, Extension agri cultural engineer, points out that silos to furnish feed for livestock registered a gain of 40 percent in 1940 and 60 percent for each of the two preceding years. Johnson called attention to the fact that farm housewives and girls are now busily engaged in ; canning, but that farmers will soon go forward with another project of “canning”—that of i putting up silage. Extension Service livestock specialists point out that silage is an excellent feed for farm animals, especially dairy cattle, , during the winter months. Farm ers in recent years, they assert, have turned to the feeding ol silage on an extensive scale. Construction of trench silos in the last decade snows a tremen dous increase over that of the upright type. Cost of materials and construction are lower foi trench silos and Extension live stock workers assert that the trench type has proven just as satisfactory for keeping silage feeds. Mr. Serold Thompson, farm manager for Mr. M. C. Roberts on the old Willingham farm, has {just completed a trench silo and has it filled and ready for winter feeding. Anyone interested in constructing a trench silo may visit this farm and see how it is done. service. That same year the Air Corps captured two interna tional records, making 6 interna tional and 15 national records for the U. S. Air Corps, Also that year, seven Jap aviators land at Nome, Alaska on the first leg of i their around the world flight. The [Pan-American Airways “Califor i nia Clipper” landed at Auckland, [New Zealand, completing first { flight of fortnightly service from I San Francisco. In August of 1940 the Army Air Corps began I regular freight service from ! California to Panama. ! Through ail this research,great I gains have been made, many jtradgedies have happened but the Air Corps has “kept ’em Flying” and today with so much importance attached to Aviation, the U. S. Army Air Forces are living up to their slogan, “Keep ’em Flying.” Dan L. Grant, Base Publicity. ESTABLISHED 1870 PROGRAM , ON WINTER LEGUMES j Georgia's U. S. Department of 1 Agriculture State Defense Board this week had cleared ihe decks 1 for action in a sweeping drive to reshape the fortunes of the . state’s agriculture through in creased use of winter cover crops. The board, meeting in Athens [ at the call of T. R. Breedlove, chairman, approved a six-point list of recommendations designed to employ improved measures to enable Georgia agriculture to play a more advantageous role in the national defense. Among actions taken by the 1 defense board were these: ! 1. Recommended to the state AAA committee that at least 200 ’ pounds of 16 percent phosphate • or its equivalent, and inoculation of seed to be used in seeding | winter legumes be required in : order to obtain grant-of-aid in carrying out seeding practices. 2. Went on record as urging } that agricultural agencies en courage farmers to save and utilize manures and compost ma ! terials, in order to conserve ni trates for use in national de ‘ fense industry, 3. Recommended that the state AAA committee discuss ' with agronomists a proposal to . reduce the minimum requirement of pounds per acre for legume 1 seeding, provided a stipulated amount of non leguminous seed (other than vyheat) be substitut ed in place of such reduction of legume seed. 4. Recommended that if non leguminous seed are used, the present minimum requirement should be in effect. 5. Requested the AAA to fur nish 20,0 DD pounds of William ’ ette vetch seed this fall fo r demonstration purposes in Geor gia. 6. Urged that farmers har vest and save their seed from cowpeas, lespedeza, soybeans, velvet beans, crotalaria and ; other legumes for their own use and for sale. The board also urged that the U. S. Forest Service be asked to discuss with forestry groups recommendations relative to de sirable forestry planting pro | grams, which will be presented [ to the state defense board for consideration at a later date. In addition, it urged that coun ty defense boards cooperate with all agencies and committees deal ing with nutrition and the pro per conservation of food. DOVE SEASON LATE Dove season will not open un til December 1 this year and the Wildlife Division is appealing to, as well as warning, hunters to observe the regulation. ; Director Zack D. Cravey said the dove is a migatory bird and as such comes under Federal as well as State protection. Thus the violator is subject to prosecu tion by either government. A favorite game bird with many hunters, the dove has fall en off in population to such ex tent that strict conservation will be necessary to prevent its ex tinction. For that reason, Di rector Cravey said, hunters should be willing to observe the closed season, bag limit (12 birds), and the prohibition against baited field hunting. He cautioned hunters that Hangers are on the lookout for such violators and (hat he is ask ing the courts to give the ‘‘stiff - est fines possible.” FARMER HIT BY CAR Ed Tucker, Houston county farmer, was in a Hawkinsville hospital Monday for treatment of a leg fracture suffered in a high way accident near Perry Sunday afternoon, Mr. Tucker was struck by a car as he crossed the road to ac cept a ride with a friend, ac cording to Corporal R, G. Goins of the state patrol. The driver of the car which struck Mr, Tucker left the scene of the accident and has not yet been arrested, the officer said.