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Newspaper Page TextHouston Home Journal JQI' LXXI. No: 22. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA„ THURSDAY. MAY 28, 1942 ESTABLISHED 1870 COMMENCEMENT )ECIItS NEXT WEEK Commencement exercises of Perrv High will begin with the baccalaureate sermon at 11:30 a. ” Sunday at the school audi torium. H ev - J- A - Ivey, pastor If the Perry Baptist church, will the preacher. Miss Willie Ryals, music teach er will present her pupils in a recital Monday evening in the auditorium. . Graduation exercises will be held Friday evening. 8:30 o’clock in the auditorium. Rev. Pierce Harris, pastor First Methodist Church, Atlanta, will deliver the address. The faculty party for the sen iors will be Friday night this week. It will be a barbecue at Houston Lake. Senior Party The Perry High Seniors enjoy ed a delightful party Friday night, May 22, which was given them by the American Legion Auxiliary at the American Le gion Home. Several contests conducted by Miss Evelyn Hunt and Mrs. Bill Marshall were enjoyed by the group. A signature hunt (which explains why you saw seniors running all over town handing you a pencil and paper to sign) was a main event of the party. Vonceil Summers, Felton Deese, and Howard Griffin came back first with their list of names completed. This was followed by a trial of all seniors for the crimes they were accused of. Each man up for trial answered with some unheard of alibi causing much fun for the group. Icecream and cake were serv ed after the games. A relay race consisting of eight boys dressed in women’s clothes end ed the party. Punch was served throughout the evening. U, BAILEY JR. WINS TECH SCHOLARSHIP Tom B. Bailey, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bailey, 1408 North University street, Peoria, 111, received notification by wire Saturday that he had been award ed a George Westinghouse five fear scholarship at Carnegie In stitute of Technology, Pitts burgh, Pa. His winning of the award bnngs such an honor for the second consecutive year to a student of Peoria high school.He graduates in June. The youth is one of only 10 in the United States to be so bon ded. The scholarship, worth $3,000, J'dl enable him to study some branch of engineering at Carne fl6. It is awarded on a compet [tive basis. Approximately 200 [°°h it this year from a vastly ®| er list of original applicants. Ihe five-year program is a co- Bperative one in which the stu dent is given class work on the ■®ipus and experience in shops, ®ices and laboratories at West uighouse Electric and Manufac- ® ln g Co, Any branch of en imeeringin which regular in duction is given,may be chosen, torn has not yet definitely de but thinks he will bcome ‘civil engineer. tom, who works after school ur the Kroger Co., is athletical inclined in addition to being a t od student and ran the quarter me on the Peoria high track ■ e m last year. I If and his parents came here “November 1940, from Wash- C. Mr. Bailey is con the Northern Re )rja ‘gt^ esearc h laboratory. —Pe- man’s mother was fo'L'k It Gilbert, of Perry, be- Jl ner marriage. He is the gßbew’of l. H. Gilbert and Kny An derson Jr. of jpIST ANNOUNCEMENTS each Sunday morn 5,?5"' n u s Wor ship Service 11:30. T°“ W the pastor. Ev£‘- 8t Training Union 7p. m. Mifi!w g .Worship 8:30 p. m. tesdav ir P ra yer Service Wed ay Evening 8:30. •I- A. Ivey, Pastor. 'ICITIZENSHIP COURSE I FOR TWO PERRY BOYS Two Perry boys, members of the senior class of Perry High 1 - School, will have the privilege of , taking a Citizenship Course at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, . June 7-14. . Durward Wilson has been 1 given a scholarship by the Rob ert D. Collins Post of the Ameri . can Legion. Albert Skellie has i been chosen by the Perry Kiwa > nis club for a scholarship. These boys will be guests of > the Kiwanis club Tuesday, June ; 16, to tell about the course. : PEBfiy~PJ.il. COMMITTEES . NAMED 81 NEW PRESIDENT The Perry P. T. A. held its May meeting at the school audi torium Tuesday afternoon, May . 19, with the new president. Mrs. r Clifford Grimes, presiding. The i following committees were an i nounced for the new year: Ways . and Means, Mrs. Felton Nor wood, Mrs. Eugene Beckham, Mrs. S. A. Nunn; Hospitality, Mrs. S. 1 L. Norwood Jr., Mrs.C.C.Pierce Mrs. E. W. Traylor, Mrs. B. H. i Andrew, Jr.; Program, Mrs. D. i M. Ryle, Mrs. J. 0. Coleman, ; Mrs. Joe Beddingfield; Library, Miss Louise Rainey, Mrs. J. L. Beavers, Miss Frances Foster; Health, Mrs. G. C. Nunn, Mrs. Alton Hardy, Miss Evelyn Hunt; i Safety, Mr. L. C. Walker, chair man; Mrs. J.B.Calhoun ;Grounds, Mrs. E. P. Staples, Mrs. G. E. Jordan; Publicity, Mrs. W. K. , Whipple, Miss Nell Warren; Par liamentary Advisor, Mrs. Mayo Davis; Lunchroom Advisor, Mrs. Max Moore, Mrs. G. W. Rhodes. Grade Mothers for the year will be: First grade, Mrs. Lewis Tabor, Mrs. Carl Huggins, Mrs. Joe Beddingfield, Mrs. Eugene Beckham; Second grade, Mrs. Pat Muse, Mrs. Lee Powell, Mrs. Tom Mobley, Mrs. Eva Spencer, Mrs. John Williamson: Third grade, Mrs. D. M. Stripling,Mrs. Parks Houser, Mrs. Felix Daniel; Fourth grade, Mrs. Paul Middle brooks, Mrs. Floyd Tabor, Mrs. Marion Houser; Fifth grade. Mrs. A, C. Pritchett, Mrs. Hom er Chapman, Mrs. Frank Moody, Sixth grade, Mrs. Mayo Davis; Mrs. Robert Tuggle, Mrs. J. M, Tolloson; Seventh grade, Mrs. Henry Mathews, Mrs. Henry Parker, Mrs. J. B. Calhoun; Eighth grade, girls, Mrs. B. H. Andretf Jr., Mrs. Carson Wright; Eighth grade, bo>s, Mrs, S. L. Norwood Jr., Mrs. C. C. Pierce; Ninth grade, Mrs. C. P. Hunni cutt, Mrs. Grace Boler; Tenth! grade, Mrs. Max Moore, Mrs. D. i M. Ryle; Eleventh grade, Mrs.J.' L. Beavers, Mrs. Albert Skellie. t Miss Willie Ryals’ music de partment presented the program for the afternoon. Those taking part were Marilyn Hunnigutt, Annis Jean NeSmith, Barbara Whipple and Bess Houser Nunn. The fifth grade won the atten dance prize. i LIBRARY NOTES The last book to be written by Rachel Field, “And Now To morrow,” is a heart warming love story. It will delight the many enthusiastic readers of “All This And Heaven Too.” Again, Mary Roberts Rinehart comes forth with a thrilling mys tery. “Haunted Lady” ranks with her best. Novels recently added to the library are: Baldwdn —District Nurse. Buck— Dragon Seed. Chase— Windswept. Cushman—l Wanted To Mur der. Eberhardt-With This Ring. Hauck— Whippoorwill House, j Loring—Stars In Your Eyes. Seely -Chuckling Fingers. Siefert— Army Doctor. • Walker—Unless the Win d j Turns. Library hours: 1:30 p. m, to 6:30 p. m. Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Verniece Beavers, Librarian. ANNOUNCEMENT The Methodist W. S. C. S. will meet at the church Monday, June 1 4.30 p, m. Rev. J. E. Samp ley will be the speaker. Members are urged to attend. ! fiATIONING BOARD REPORT The Rationing Board is now j ready to take applications and issue certificates for sugar foi canning, Each person will be allowed five pounds per year for this purpose. It will be neces sary for the person who makes application to bring the War Ra tion Books for each member of the family to the Ration Office, i 1 Information coming from many' localities indicate an “X” card , having been supplied individuals who are not qualified to use it. 1 In such cases the holders are re quested to return the card and receive the proper one or the Rationing Board will be forced to recall all cards that are not 1 needed. You need not be reminded that we are at WAR, and there is j now a Gasoline Rationing Pro . gram, which means ALL OF US , must make such other arrange ments for transportation as pos- I sible, to save gasoline, until the ' emergency is over. , Weekly Report of Houston J County Rationing Board. Passenger Car Tires issued , week beginning May 16, 1942: Tires Tubes Dr. J. L. Gallemore 1 Truck Tires and Tubes E. F. Bellflowers 2 2 Bethlemem Steel Co. 1 Dan Gunn 1 J. H. Davis & Son 1 Sam Hobbs for REA 1 Passenger Car Retreads A. C. Blackmon 1 A. A. Garrison 2 Truck Retreads J. E. Burney 1 J. W. Story Jr. 2 i The final report of Gasoline Rationing is as follows: A cards issued, 423. B-l cards issued, 186. B 2 cards issued, 302. B-3 cards issued, 1,373. X cards issued, 307. EAT MORE LETTUCE Local stores are now featuring exceptionally good buys on let tuce and local homemakers are taking advantage of excellent crops this year, according to statements of Houston county merchants today. W. T. Middlebrooks, county agent, said the lettuce crop is es specially abundant this year and he urged local homemakers to serve as many lettuce dishes as possible. According to nutritionists of the United Department of Agri culture, green lettuce is a good source of carotene which the body changes into vitamin A. In 'addition it has some vitamin 81, (some riboflavin and some vitamin jC. Besides these vitamin con tributions, lettuce is a good source of the minerals, iron and calcium. The white leaves,called bleached lettuce, are not as good a source of these food value as are the green leaves. As far as iron and corotene are concerned, the thinner and greener the leaf, the more of these the lettuce j contains. Mr. Middlebrooks passed on these “tips” from the Depart ment of Agriculture about the preparation of lettuce: ‘‘Cut out the core of the lettuce with a sharp pointed knife. Then put the head under running wat er and let water run in where core has been removed. This loosens and freshens the leaves— making it easy to slip the leaves off—each leaf, whole or unbrok en—for use in preparing salads and sandwiches. “Naturally, a lettuce leaf un- Ider a salad or in a sandwich will (not contribute a wffiole lot of food value. To get the good from lettuce eat more of it. “There are many ways to fix lettuce. It is a perfect vegetable •for salad and it gets along well with almost any vegetable com bination. Wilt shredded head ! lettuce or leaf lettuce in a heavy ! skillet with some well-flavored 1 fat—and season it with vinegar jand chopped onions. Or cut head lettuce up in fourths and braise it just like you do cab bage.” Buy War lands Tft fU 1 Every Pay Day \\/m * * * 14# Lot's Double I Our Quota V CIVILIAN DEFENSE NEWS j i I The men and women of Perry I began the operation of a 24 hour j Air Warning Service for the Perry Post Monday. Each woman works once a: week on a two hour shift. The! i women serve during the day, from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. There ■ are seventy-two regular observ ers and about thirty reserves. They work in pairs. The men stay on duty four i hours at a time and each man serves once every three weeks. 140 men are engaged in this vol unteer work. There are eight i groups with the following cap- 1 tains and alternates, C. P. Gray I and Max Moore, W. V. Bass and! E. W. Traylor, Harry Palmer and I Mayo Davis, D. M. Ryle and N. j ’ M. Parker, W. W. Martin Jr.and . W. G. Etheridge, C. E. McLen -1 don and W. G. Riley.F.M.Greene . and R. E. Brown, W. B, Roberts . and Curley Bramblett. , Complete schedules for men and women will be published ! next week. Men’s Activities 1 The men are in the sixth week of a studv course which is being i taught by Troopers of the Perry Patrol Headquarters. The men have learned the du ties of each department of the Civilian Defense and how each functions in relation to the other. They have been taught how to distinguish and extinguish in cendiary bombs and how to treat and combat different types of gas. There has been an average at tendance of 65 adults and 20 Boy Scouts at each class which meets i on Tuesday night at the Perry school at 8:30 o’clock. Boy Scouts will serve as messenger and of fice boys. Warning* Citizens are reminded that air raid warnings may occur this summer. The warning signal will be short intermittent blasts of the city fire siren for two . minutes. Women’s Activities The women are completing a twenty hour course in Home Nursing this week. Clinics for vaccination of chil dren against small pox were held last Wednesday and Thursday and are being held this week in the schools of Houston county. Dr. J. L. Gallemore and Dr. A. G. Hendrick have given their services free for this clinical work. County School Supt P\M. Greene has rendered valuable aid in putting on these clinics. The teachers in the schools have also co-operated in this effort. Figures for each school will be given next week. BONAIRE GIRLS TO GRADUATE AT G.S.C.W. MILLEDGE VILLE, Ga.— Graduation exercises will be held Friday, June 5, at Georgia State College for Women with Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Atlanta, de livering the baccalaureate ad dress. Among the Bonaire students, who are candidates for B. S. de grees are: Grace Sasser, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Sas ser, and Sara Margaret Perdue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G, E. Perdue. TRACTOR COURSE A Victory Short Course on tractor farming will be held at j Abraham Baldwin Agricultural I College for two days, June 2-3, j according to T. M. Cordell, di-l rector of adult education. Any| Georgia farmer now operating a \ tractor may attend free ofi charge. Board and room also I will be supplied free by the col-[ lege. Farmers wishing to attend! should notify the county agent. I CHIROPRACTOR HERE Dr. R. 0. Ludeman of Vienna will open Chiropractic Offices in Perry Monday, June 1, in rooms above Marshall’s Cafe in the Anderson Bldg. He will be in Perry from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. on Mondays and Thursdays every week. Dr. Ludeman is a graduate of the Palmer School of Chiroprac try, Davenport, lowa and of the Kirksville College of Ostepathy and Surgery, Kirksville, Missouri. | NEW BUILDING WORK | BEGUN AT AIR DEPOT I j Wellston Air Depot’s $1,500,- 000 cantonment erection con tract swung into high gear Mon day as construction forces were ! augmented for swift action on the housing contract. The work is being undertaken by Claussen-Lawrence of Augus ta, which firm was successful bidder at a letting on April 30. Purposes to which the build ings will be placed and the num ber of men that will be housed in them has been withheld in line with government censorship reg ulations. Erection of these is on [property the government acquir ed after the initial Wellston pur chase and will be more than a (mile from most of the air depot structures. It is one of the three increases granted the vast depot since work was started. The Claus sen-Lawrence contract includes erection of the depot hospital. 1 WEEK OF THE WIT Chairman McNutt of the War Manpower Commissisn directed the U. S. Employment Service to maintain lists of skilled occupa tions essential to war production in which a national shortage ex ists, and to make more preferen tial referrals of workers to em ployers in war industries. He directed the WPB to classify war plants and war products in the order of their urgency to the war program. He also instructed Se lective Service local boards to confer with local U. S. Employ ment Service officers before re classifying any men skilled in war occupations. Rubber and Gasoline The WPB said if Americans do not conserve the transportation miles in their tires it may be necessary eventually to transfer automobiles and tires to commu nities where they are needed more. The Board reported no rubber can be spared in 1942 or 1943 to make new tires for ordi nary passenger cars because the armed forces need all the rubber the nation can muster from its stockpile, synthetic program and greatly curtailed crude sources. The synthetic program : might produce 30,000 tons of rubber this year and 350,000 tons in 1943, the Board said. Price Administrator Henderson reported a preliminary count ol car owners in the Eastern ration ing area showed about 10 per cent received X ration cards, 31 percent received A cards, 11 per-1 cent received B-l cards, another* 11 percent received B-2 cards, and 37 percent received B-3 cards. The OPA ruled X cards must be surrendered if the es sential purpose for which they were issued does not cover “sub stantially all” of the use of the car for which they were provid ed. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Recruiting for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps first of ficer candidate school began May 27, the War Department re ported. Application blanks may be obtained only by going in person to one of the 440 regular army recruiting stations through out the country. The term of I enrollment will be for the dura tion of the war and more than six months thereafter. Officer candidates must be citizens of j the United States, between the i ages of 21 and 45, with a high I school education or its equivalent, in good health and of excellent (character. They may be mar- Iriedor single. The first class {will consist of approximately 450 'women, and will begin about i July 15. I I Oar Job Is to Save » Dollars War Bonds Ivory Pay Day Same Name Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not change her name when she mar ried. Her maiden name was Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, STATE’S PEACH CROP PROSPECTS ARE GOOD Prospects for Georgia’s. peach : crop for 1942 are very favorable ' at the the present time, accord ing to L. E. Farmer, marketing [ economist of th e Agricultural ■ Extension Service, Athens. * Georgia produces more peach es for fresh consumption than • any other area in the United ■ States. According to figures 1 published in 1940, there were in ; the state approximately 8,500,000 ■ peach trees, 6,750,000 of which 1 were bearing fruit. These figures were compared with the 1935 ■ census of 7,500,000 trees of 1 which 6,500,000 were bearing : Conditions for dusting and spraying have been very favora -3 ble, Farmer said. Moisture con ; ditions are much better at this ■ time than last year, and growers 3 have done a good job with their cultural practices. If these con ditions continue to exist until harvest time, Farmer predicted that Georgians will harvest a large crop of quality peaches for market. I “The operation of the Federal : Marketing Agreement by the ’ peach producers of Georgia ’ should be a great help in solving _ major marketing problems,” ’ Farmer continued. He pointed ' out that the agreement program a can regulate the grade, size, and 'maturity of Georgia-grown [ peaches shipped in interstate ' commerce, thereby creating an r orderly marketing procedure. ‘ If supplies become burdensome ' on the markets, they can be reg ulated to the extent that markets " will not be flooded. Oftentimes, serious price declines mean that growers do not receive anything for peaches which they have to > market. : CENTERVILLE NEWS | Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Watson . and children, Cherry. Hubert Jr., and Phylis, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Sasser of Bonaire. , Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Scar borough had as their guests Sun day Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Scar borough and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Garvin, Miss Camilla Sasser spent the weekend with homefolks at Bon aire. Mr. and Mrs. Avery Lee and littls sons, Jimmy and Joneal, and Mrs. J. M. Holloman visited Centerville Sunday p, m. j Mrs. J. D. Cherry has return led home after a two week’s visit with her children in Jackson ville, Fla. and Douglas, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Garvin is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Earnest Storey, and Mr. Storey in Macon. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rape and Mr. and Mrs. Silas Rape spent ; Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Hom er Long, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ryals spent several days last week with Mrs. J.T. Ryals and family. Mr, and Mrs. H, H. Watson made a business trip to Macon Monday. Mrs. C. P. Stafford spent Thursday in Macon. Miss Margaret Stafford, Miss Ellen Stafford, and Miss Carolyn Tucker has accepted a position in Greenville, S. C. with the Red Cross. Friends of Mr. Charles Love regret to know that he is in the Veteran’s Hospital, Atlanta, and wish for him a speedy recovery. KIWANISCLUB MEETS 1 A group of high school pupils presented the program at the Perry Kiwanis club Tuesday. Durward Wilson read his prize winning essay on the late Judge C. C. Duncan. Joan Gunnison gave a series of humorous read ings. Annis Jean NeSmith sang a solo and also a duet with Bar bara Whipple, Betty Jane Clin ton gave a tap dance. Miss Wil lie Ryals was pianist. Supt. E. P. Staples presented the participants for John L. Hodges, program chmn. Dog’s Tongue While the dog’s tongue is not ex actly smooth, yet it is not as rough as ig many other animala, «