Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 16, 1942, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL Published Weekly at Perry, Ga. JOHN L. HODGES, Publisher. RUBY C. HODGES. Editor. Official Organ of Houston County and City of Perry, Subscription, $1.50 per year. Entered at the Post Office in Perry, Ga., as Mail Matter of Second Class. PROGRESS ON STUDY OF CEMENT PERFORMANCE In 1940 a committee of twelvi headed by P. H. Bates of th National Bureau of Standards and sponsored by the Portland Cement Association, was estab lished to conduct an extended experimental study of cement performance in concrete struc tures under varying conditions of service. The mam purposes are to determine the extent to which the performance of con crete is affected by differences in the cement, and to determine the 1 actors responsible for such differences. The cements select ed for study are the five stand ard types covered by recent American Society for Testing Materials specifications an d another group to include special ly treated cements such as those ground with tallow, vinsol resin, and other reactive agents. Specia lly prepared concretes are em ployed in structures exposed to loading, weathering, and other conditions that may be encoun tered, and careful observations are made at intervals. Considerable progress ha s been made since the program of studies was adopted in August, 1940, Work on an experimen tal farm at Naperville, Illinois, has been substantially completed, and identical specimens me i.uw being fabricated on a similar farm near Perry, Georgia, Two road projects have been om pleted, one in Missouri and one in South Carolina. Specimens for sea-water exposure on the North Atlantic coast have been completed and installed in the east mooring basin of the Cape Cod ship canal A parallel se ries of specimens has ueen ca t and will shortly be placed in water near St. Augustine, Flori da. Pit and Quarry Magazine. Sea Level Rises The sea level all over the world lias risen an average of four inches in the past century, scientists at the California Institute of Technolo gy find. Neon Tubing Marks Highways Neon tubing covered with trans parent plastic is being produced foi marking the center of highways. Largest National Cemetery Custer Battlefield in Montana is the largest national cemetery, al though more soldiers are buried in Arlington. Adds Pleasing Flavor A teaspoon of mixed pickle spices tied in a bag and added to the wa ter in which fish, ham, or tongue ia boiled, will add a very pleasing fla vor. Round Robin A round robin is a written peti tion, memorial protest, or the like, the signature to which are made in a circle so as not to indicate who sicned it first. Synthetic Plastics Chemists count at least 14 major types of synthetic plastics now used In human apparel. Eminent Domain The right of the government to lake private property for public use I roviding just compensation is paid, is called eminent domain. More Thefts on Coast The rate of auto thefts in the Pa cific coast slates is about double that m the rest of the nation. Much Toast One hundred fifty million slices of toast are eaten daily by Amer icans. *Pink Toothbrush’ Lack of vitamin C in diet may 'cause “pink toothbrush” troubles, or bleeding gums. i just a Little/ '[jyii LAST STRAW Two actors met in the street. • “Fancy meeting you, old chap,” said the first. “I thought you were | doing a Season with a touring com | pany.” “I finished last week,” said the I other. “I couldn’t stand it.” "What!” exclaimed the first. “You mean you quit?” “i had to,” he replied. “I didn’t ’ mind it so much when they stopped paying salaries. And when the printing company refused us fur ther credit, and wo had to rely on gossip to advertise the show, I was not greatly upset. But when the electric company turned off the power and we started to use glow worms for footlights, I quit!" Exhibition They had recently acquired a dog, and were proudly demonstrating his i | good points to a visitor. “Mind you,” said the man of the 1 house, “I know he's not what you j would call a thoroughbred, but no ! tramp or burglar can come near the 1 house without his letting us know j about it.” “What does he do?” asked the I visitor. “Bark the place down?” "Well, no—he crawls under the | sofa.” MAJOR TRAGEDY ; m “Why, what’s the matter, Tom my?” . “800 hoo! Maw says when I grove up I'll be president an’ I want to * be a street car conductor, boo hoo.” Big, Bad Woolf ; The office boy was asked to ring ■ up a number, and got the wrong ! one. , “Mr. Woolf here,” came the re ; ply ' “Who?” replied the boy. “Woolf,” replied the wrong num ber. i “Well, who’s afraid of you?” ■ asked the boy. Their Privilege “I believe our climate is chang ing.” “Think so?” “Our winters seem to be getting warmer.” "Well, the women wouldn’t wear enough clothes. The climate had to change. The women wouldn’t.” Unaccountable “Have you an account with us, madam?” “No, but I wish to sec your man ager." "Lady of no account to sec you, sir," announced the assistant to the manager. Woman Harold—Are you going to Helen’s birthday party? Max—What birthday is it? Harold—Her IGth. Max—No, I went to that last year. Jealous i “Your wife is inclined to be jeal ous. isn’t she?” “Jealous? Why, she got mad one evening during that cold snap be j cause 1 hugged the radiator.” POPULARITY ; v A & vapjip ’ She—l made dozens of fellows l miserable by getting married. He—l didn’t know you’d married I that many. In a Nutshell 1 A man’s a fool who thinks of balking j A woman when her tongue would spin, She always says, "There’s no use talking.” s When she intends to start right in. | High Aim I Nervous Man—What’s the matter i with this elevator? You keep trying I to run up through the roof. / Operator: You’ll have to excuse r ' me. I’m not used to one of these 1 little 20-story buildings. I’M he 4 > The night-clerk of the hotel was' surprised to see a battered-looking person in his shirt-sleeves come rocking up to the desk and pause there groggily. “What can I do for you?” in quired the clerk. "I'd like,” said the stranger, la boriously, “to be ’scortcd to Room 202 on secon’ floor.” “Room 202?” repeated the clerk. He consulted the register. “Why, that room is occupied by Mr. Oscar J. Billups, and it’s pretty late to be rousing a guest.” “I know that, well as you do,” stated the inebriated one. “Never theless, 1 want to be shown to Room 202 without any further con—convcr —any further talk.” “What business have you got there?” demanded the clerk. “Thash my business.” "Well, what’s your name, then?” “I’m Mr. Oscar J. Billups. I jusht fell out of the window.” SO SHE DID “Ruth, why did you take your lit tle brother’s candy and eat it? Why didn’t you ask him if you could have it?” "Why, I did, mamma, and he said I couldn’t.” Short Cut In a railway carriage a country woman remarked: “Will you tell me, miss, which is the return ticket?” Her fellow traveler handed her the return ticket, and she threw it out of the window. “Why did you do that?” asked the i second woman. “I’m not going back.” “Then why did you take a re- | turn?” “They told me it was cheaper.” Customary A motorist was proceeding along one of the main roads of a small town in England when the driver of a coal cart in front suddenly turned to his left down a side street. After narrowly avoiding a colli sion the motorist demanded to know why the coalman didn’t put out his arm to indicate which way he was going. “Don’t talk so daft,” he replied. “I always go down that street.” Decision The question comes, there’s little j doubt, To ev’ry young and pretty miss; j “Which can I get along without The best —the onion or the kiss?” Me, Too “Diggs is a man of unusual in telligence.” “Think so?” “I do. His views in general are very like my own.” Lesson Minister—l’m glad to see you on your way to Sunday school, Robert. What do you expect to learn today? Robert—l expect to learn the date of the picnic. HIGH RIDER “He’s usually on his high horse.” “Yes, he is a sort of equestrian statue of himself.” Amazing Policeman (sternly) You were j doing sixty miles an hour, miss. | Lady Driver—Oh, isn’t that mar j velous! And I only learned to drive I yesterday. Keeping Up "I wonder why we never manage I to save anything?” “It’s the neighbors, dear. They’re ! always doing something we can't , afford.” ( 1 Reject “Don’t you find writing a thank-, less job?” “On the contrary, everything I 1 write is returned to me with j thanks.” How’re the Ears? Daddy—Well, you certainly look ! clean, my boy. Jackie—Sure, Daddy, Ma just I gave me a personally conducted' bath. More of It Teacher—Now, class, what do wc mean by plural? Bright Pupil—By plural we mean it's the same thing, only more of it. Improvement James—l want to leave the world j better than I found it. Clarence—Well, it will certainly J j be better after you are gone. Quite a Gal She wears no costly raiment, No diamonds or pearls— And yet she’s worth a million— | A million other girls. 1 '■ ) Fungi Plants Enrich Soil; Keep Human Race Alive Dr. Bernard Dodge, a scientist, has given many years of his life to the study of fungi. He has taught . 1 at Columbia university, and at pres ent is on the staff of the New \ork • botanical gardens. The name “fungus” came from the Latin language and means “mushroom.” A mushroom is a fungus, but it is only one kind. Toadstools, molds and mildew also belong to the fungus family. Fungi are plants with no green color in them, and they have no flowers. They grow on other plants as parasites, also on dead trees and about the bodies of dead ani mals. It is estimated that there are about 250,000 kinds of fungi. Some kinds are so small that they can be 1 seen only with the help of a micro scope. “We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t | for fungi,” said Dr. Dodge. “When j the human race and all animals and | plants die out, there will be fungi ; here to take care of the last of them. “Fungi attack dead plants and animals, and turn them into simple products which enrich the soil. The humus formed by fungi and bacteria is absolutely needed by the soil if things are to grow in it.” j There is a bad side to the stoYy of fungi. Many kinds damage plants and cause trouble to people. Black molds may grow on bread and spoil it. If molds get into a bakery, they give much worry to the baker, and he may have to shut down his plant | for days before he can get rid of them. They are not killed by dry heat 200 degrees above zero Fahren heit. If kept in boiling water, how ever, they will die. I ‘Grapevine Telegraph’ Originated in Civil War News—it is a mysterious, moti -1 vating, expansive sort of thing. Packed with all the pent-up char- ; acteristics of claustrophobia, it es- 1 capes every force that would confine it. Like the air, it takes in every thing eventually. Before the advent of printing and other fin de siecle methods of com munication, news traveled the hard way—the word of mouth way. It took longer, of course, to get places. Get around, however, it did, and its assay of accuracy may have been just as high as that straining through today’s channels ! News, then, we always have had | with us. j It outgalloped Attila’s hordes, pre j ceded Caesar’s advances, eliminat- I ed at least the element of surprise j | from the impact of most coming j events. That news traveling by word of ! j mouth should be called “the grape vine telegraph” simply is another instance of our flair for metaphor. Coming into circulation during the Civil war, the phase was an allu sion to the way the grapevine grows, how its tendrils likened to tele graph wires, reach out from tree to tree, eventually taking in a vast amount of territory. Ice-Warning Indicator Western Airlines recently began tests in winter storms over Mon tana of a Los Angeles-invented au tomatic ice-warning indicator tljat will tell the pilot instantly when ice starts forming on wings. Protruding from the leading edge of a Western airliner will be a two inch metal disc over the face of which will rotate slowly a metal “feeler.” When the first microscop ically thin film of ice forms between the disc and “feeler” an electric contact will be broken, and on a cockpit instrument an “icing” red light warning will flash. As ice grows and pushes the “feel er” away from the disc, the action | will register on the cockpit instru { ment, registering the ice thickness I exactly. At a given ice-thickness | the device will start automatically ! the airliner’s de-icing gear. Ancient Wars Deadly, Too Wars were just as deadly—even j more deadly—in Hannibal’s or Ju -1 lius Caesar’s time as today. But | they were not so costly. It has been estimated that the cost , of killing an enemy soldier was 75 cents in Caesar’s day; during the Thirty Years’ war which ended in 1 1648 it had risen to $5O; and in the j American Civil war the expense was I $5,000 a man. , But so vastly had the gentle art of wholesale slaughter changed in | half a century that by the time of the first World war the cost of kill i ing one man was $50,000. And ex ! perience during the first few months I of the present conflict indicates that j the governments involved have to ! j lay down the staggering sum of | 1 $125,000 for each dead combatant carted of! the field or buried on the spot. Fly in Two Hours Back in South Lowell, Mass., an airplane company is manufacturing a two-place cabin plane which op erates on the same principles as ! an automobile and which, it is claimed, can be flown solo after two hours’ instruction. Any automobile driver can become a competent pilot ' at the controls of the plane after 10 hours’ instruction. The plane has ; been certified by the Civil Aeronau tics authority as being “character j istically incapable of spinning.” , LEGAL SALE OF LAND By virtue of the power con tained in a certain deed with power of sale to secure debt given by Ptrry Warehouse Com pany to the Fort Valley Oil Com pany and recorded in deed oook 41 page 61, Clerk’s Office Hous ton Superior Court, which deed was transferred to J. B. Ether idge, said transfer recorded in deed book 41 page 61 Clerk’s Of fice, will be sold before the court house door in Perry Georgia,dur ing ihe legal hours of sale to the highest bidder for cash, on Tues day, May sth, 1942, the follow ing property; “All that tract or parcel of land situated, lying and being in the City of Perry, Hous ton County Georgia and begin ning at the southeast corner of lot of Hardy Powell on Bail street and running in a southerly di rection along Ball street a dis- j tanceof 60 feet. Thence in a westerly direction parallel with Bardy Poueii south line to Jer- | nigan street, thence along Jer nighan street a distance of 601 feet more or less, to lot of Smith, Beckham & Warren; bounded on north by Smith, Beckham &War ren; and Hardy Powell, on the south by Mrs. Mary L.Fudgeand J. R. Fudge; east by Ball street; and west by Jernighan street. | Said land will be sold for the ; purpose of paying a certain debt as evidenced by two promissory notes for the principal sum of; $750.00 each dated February 25, 1931 and due October 1, 1931. I The said Perry Warehouse Com-1 pany having failed to pay said j notes when due the whole debt, becomes due and payable. The proceeds from said sale will be applied first to the payment of said debt and the interest on. same and all taxes due and all 1 cost of this proceedings and the 1 balance if any will be paid to the ■ legal representatives of said Per ry Wart house Company. A I deed to the purchaser will be j made by the undersigned. J. P. Etheridge, '.Transferee. J, W. Bloodworth, Attorney at-Law. Chew Mashed Potatoes Most people would guess that meat should be chewed most thor oughly. But meat is a protein and : most of it is digested in the stom ; ach. Chewing helps, but is not es i sential. Bread, fruit and vegetables are j carbo-hydrates—an important part 1 of the digestion of them occurs in | the mouth. If a mouthful of mashed potatoes were to be swallowed with out being chewed, it would remain in the stomach for from one to j two hours. The chief purpose of | chev/ing mashed potatoes, as well as other carbohydrates, is to mix them with saliva, which contains an im portant starch-digesting enzyme— ptyalin. If such foods are not chewed thoroughly, they are dead weight in the stomach. To get all the benefit from food chew all of it thoroughly, but especially the breadstuffs, vegetables and fruits. Milk should be drunk slowly—if not, it forms large curds in the stomach, making digestion hard. Ancient Stone Village Stands According to some archeologists, Irish monks built a stone village in New Hampshire about 492 years be fore Columbus came over. Their dol mens and cromlechs are still stand ing on the hillside, beyond the vil lage of North Salem, a few miles from the Massachusetts border. These Irish monks are alleged to have fled from Viking raids, from Ireland to Iceland and, later, from Iceland to New Hampshire. The New Hampshire structures are sim ilar to souterrains in Ireland, known to be ancient. Icelandic sagas men tion the capture in a country called “Great Ireland’’ of two boys who spoke Irish and gave Irish names. And, further, the archeologists be lieve, these New Hampshire build ings are built in such a style that they could not have been made by Norse, Indians or Eskimos. Laziness and Divorce When a Yuman-Piman Indian squaw refused to grind corn on schedule or a brave declined to hunt, it was grounds for divorce. In fact, any sort of laziness was an ex cuse for severing marital ties among these Indians of the Southwestern j United States and Northwestern Mexico. Too much artistic temper ament was an unheard-of ground for a divorce in that too much tem perament usually was discouraged by a bump on the head. , Appropriation for Mexican Road President Avila Camacho has just announced, according to the Four j States Highway association, that the Mexican government has allocated ! 100,000,000 pesos (about $20,000,000) j for additional work on the Interna tional Pacific highway, extending along the west coast of Mexico route | to Guadalajara and Mexico City. A splendid new road was opened last j year, between Guadalajara and Mex ico City, and some sections of the road between Nogales, Ariz., and i Guaymas are in excellent condition, . CLASSIFIED ADS For Rent—Building on onm Ball and Commerce streets ably for cafe or other busing Apply Mrs. O. B. Muse, eS3, Phone 2403, Perry, G a For Rent —New fiver no,* house. Apply H. E. Gordon m 4:23 Perry, Ga. J A. W. DAHLBERG Certified Public Accountant Perry, Georgia Audits - Systems ■ Income Tax Advertisement For Bids Sealed proposals will be receiv ed by the Board of Education of Houston County, Ga. at the 0 f fice of the Board of Education ill o’clock a. m. EWT. on Anrii 17, 1942, for improvements b Bonaire School including the fol lowing units: Unit 1, Plumbing Work including installation of fixtures, septic tank, drainage field, and water tank; Unit II Painting; Unit 111, General R e ’ pairs and other work; Unit IV Equipment. Bidders mav sub ; mit proposals for any one or more of the above units and—or a combination bid for all units Copies of the Plans and Speci fications and other proposed con ■ tract documents are on file and open to public inspection at the | office of the Board of Education Perry, Ga., and at the office of 1 Dennis & Dennis, Architects, 556 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga. A set of such documents may ! be obtained from Dennis & Den ' nis, Architects at Macon, Ga., upon deposit of $lO.OO If, within the 30 days after the ultimate time set for the re i ceipt of bids, the documents are returned undamaged, deposits of ! those who submit bids will be fully refunded and other deposits, I less the actual cost of reproduc , tion will be refunded, j Each bidder will be required to submit with his bid a certified check or bid bond in the amount of 5% of his bid. The character and amount of security required to be furnished I for and in connection with the performance of the contract is i stated in the proposed contract | documents, i The right is reserved to reject any or all bids and to waive in formalities. Board of Education of Houston County. F. M, Greene, Secretary. SHERIFF’S SALE Georgia, Houston County. Will be sold before the Court House door, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tues day in May, 1942, the following property, to-wit: I sofa, 1 mattress, 1 pair bed springs, 1 table, 1 bed room suit, consisting of bed, chest of draw ers, vanity, and vanity bench, 1 table, 1 breakfast suit, consist ing of 1 table and four chairs; 1 upholstered chair; 3 window shades; 1 blue rug, 9 x 12 feet; 1 pair pillows; 1 living room chair; 8 Venetian blinds; 1 nite table; 3 yards linoleum; 1 set of mellotone pottery; 1 chest of drawers. Levied on as the pro perty of the defendant, Carey B. Andrew Jr., and found in his po session to satisfy an attachment from the Justice Court. 619 Dist. G. M. Houston County Georgia. This March 18. 1942. C. C. PIERCE. Sheriff. ORDINARY’S CITATIONS GEORGIA, Houston County. I. B. Griffin, Guardian of R a Bradford Griffin, Jr., minor, hav ing applied for Letters of De mission from his Guardianship: this is to notifiy all persons con cerned to show cause, if an they can, why his application should not be granted at the Court of Ordinary on the First Monday in June, 1942. This April 6, 1942. --.,5 JOHN L. HODGES, Ordinary. Georgia, Houston County. Mrs. Ophelia K. Gurr, Admin istratrix of the estate of W.Hayi- Kunz, deceased, having apph for Letters of Dismission D° m her administration: this is to no tify all persons concerned, ; show cause, if any they can.wny her application should not n granted at the Court of Gra - nary on the First Monday in May -1942. JOHN L. HODGES, Ordinary- Largest Produce. oi tivps With Germany’s acquisitwr Sudetenland, it became the . largest producer of hops.