Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, June 11, 1942, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHouston Home Journal VOL. LXXI. No. 24. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942 ESTABLISHED 1870 PRICECONTROL plan carried to farms Helping farm people under ,tand President Roosevelt’s war Emergency program to control : he cost of living has become one wartime responsibilities of he Georgia Agricultural Exten sion Service, according to Direc tor Walter S. Brown. -Since the war started in Europe in September, 1935, the Average price of all raw mated jls in this country has risen 66 jer cent, and one-half of this in case has occurred during the last 12 months,” the Extension eader said. “Wholesale prices ia ve risen 31 percent since Sep ember, 1939, and tw T o-thirds of his has occurred during the past e,, Retail prices of foods, cloth-' ng, and house furnishings have' idvanced 25 percent since the) var began. At the same time| he supply of goods and services vailable for purchase by civil ans is decreasing fast due to an ver increasing output of arma nents, munitions, and other war applies. If unchecked, cost of iving would rise still higher.” The program as presented to longress by the President in iuded: (1) Rationing of all es ential scarce commodities; (2) 'lace price ceilings on goods and ents; (3) Stabilize prices receiv d by farmers; (4) Stabilize wag sand salaries; (5) Tax heavily nd hold down profits; (6) En nurage increased purchases of ; Bonds and Stamps; (7) Dis-' mirage credit and installment uying and pay off debts. County and home demonstra lon agents will be assisted by 1 [immunity and neighborhood iaders in carrying this informa on to farm families. It will be leir duty to explain the pro ram to each individual farm imily, telling how the program dll affect this family, and how can contribute to winning the ar by cooperating. These volunteer farm leaders ill visit homes in their neigh irhood, attend county, commu ity,and neighborhood meetings, ad in every way possible help ork out the problems of the rogram. Georgia farmers who were inning during and after the iSt war remember the disas ousdropin prices that follow- I the price advance during the ar, Director Brown explained, e said that if uncontrolled in ition should become a reality, would be difficult to visualize ie full effect of the disaster hich would inevitably befall eorgia farmers, because this ar is so much bigger than any ar with which we have ever kn concerned, Trice control of such drastic id far-reaching nature will re nre a concerted and continuous fack on the program to prevent nation outlined by the Presi lnf to make it work effectively, urther than that it will require e understanding and support of er y segment of the popula )n’” he concluded. EGEOES may enlist •Nu.s. MARINE CORPS U. S. Marine Recruiting ladquarters in Macon is now -epting applications from Ne a?s > it was announced today by D° r K- S. Pendleton. Officer in | ar ge of Marine Recruiting in urgia. Applications may be at any time, and examina ps will be held every Monday I , e E, S. Marine Recruiting [adquarters at 453 Cherry .J Macon, Ga. Application *nks may be secured from the Ip Marine Recruiting Stations Pwme, Atlanta, Augusta, and f a "y.. or by writing directly to W Marine Recruiting Headquar- P lr > Macon. PH negroes enlisting now will ■ Maced on an inactive status ID atraining center »is estab l!; a ' n T the vicinity of New ■ er - N. C. ■ n . or( [ er to qualify for enlist-1 ’ f* l ' 8 applicant must be be-j K n n he a^? s of 17 and 30, be P ’ ’’* physical condition, never Ek„ , a venereal disease or ■ t culosis, and have had at an eighth grade education. 1 | DRIVER’S LICENSE j i DEADLINE ON JUNE 30' '1 j Georgia motorists, another! deadline is close at hand. Mid night, June 30, is the limit for renewing state drivers’ licenses. Renewal of licenses before the last-minute rush will avoid con fusion and keep state troopers on the highways patrolling in the interest of traffic safety, pointed out Major John E. Goodwin,state safety commissioner. Fees from licenses pay troopers’ salaries, he added. Coincident with this statement, Major Goodwin reported a reduc tion of 100 lives in traffic deaths in Georgia for the first five months of 1942, there being 376 lives lost on the highways com pared with 476 during the same five-month period a year ago. ! DR. PIERCE HARRIS IKES | ADDRESS TO PERRY SENIORS Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor of First Methodist Church, Atlanta, delivered the address to the I graduating class of Perry High i School Friday night at the school (auditorium. Dr. Harris said that the hope of tomorrow is in ' young people because they have | deep convictions, high ideals, I faith in themselves and in others, jand are willing to work and to sacrifice. The problems and mistakes of I the past are to be tossed into the dap of the rising generation, the speaker said. The coming gen eration will have to work on the ■ trash pile of the world, reburn ishing discarded ideals until they shine again. The world is feel ing the shock of moral and spiritual bankruptcy. Because science has made the world into a neighborhood, it is more neces sary than ever to make the world into a brotherhood. For this task, the world needs young peo ple, with “the power to see it through,” Ur. Pierce concluded. The speaker was introduced by Rev. J. E. Sampley. The invo cation and benediction were said by Rev. J. A, Ivey. Supt. E. P. Staples admonish ed the graduates to live up to their highest ideals, in his fare well to the class. J. M. Gooden, state school supervisor, made a few remarks. Dr. H. P. Dob bins, chmn, board of Trustees, awarded the diplomas. The citizenship awards were presented to Betty Gooden and Bill Bostick. The D. A. R. medal for the best student in American history was given to Albert Skellie. The seniors presented the school a radio and $75 for play ground equipment. The class sang the alma mater in conclu sion. Honor graduates are Betty Gooden, Carlene Ogletree, and 1 Vonceil Summers. The thirty-eight receiving di plomas are: Mary lea Adams, Mary Lee Bell, Louise Batchelor, Lynette Eason, Betty Gooden, Louise Kezar, Flora Lewis, Mary Lewis, Hazel Nipper, Carlene Ogletree, Evelyn Peed, Vonceil Summers, Jesse Swearington, Essie Swearinton, Joyce Tolleson, and Gwynel! Wood. William G. Bostick, Leroy 1 Boswell, Emerson Bronson, W.H. Carlisle, Dever Chapman, Norlis Chapman, Bill Chapman, Lawton Daniel, Herman Davis, Felton Deese, Howard Griffin, Jack Knight, Roy Johnson, John Overton, Malcolm Rape, Frank Ryals, Johnnie Satterfield, Clar ence Smoot, Neal Stembridge, Marvin Taylor, Malcolm Tucker, j and Durward Wilson. i I FIRST COTTON BLOOM ! The first cotton bloom of the] season was brought to the Home: Journal office Tuesday by R. E. i Ogletree from his farm three j miles south of Perry. PMAKE EVEKY PAY DAY WAR BOND DAY j jrof SFIHDIHS SAVI DOUAIS ! RATIONING BOARD REPORT i i Home canners may obtain one I pound of sugar for every four quarts of finished canned fruit, and an additional pound of sugar for each member of the family unit for the packing of preserves, jams, jellies and fruit butters. The Rationing Board has found it necessary to ask all who wish to apply for sugar for canning to come to the office on any day during the week except Thurs day. Applications for tires and tubes are handled on this day and it will be impossible to take applications for sugar. Weekly Report of Houston County Rationing Board. Passenger Car Tires & Tubes issued week beginning June' 1, 1942; Tires Tubes Georgia State Patrol 3 H. D. Kezar 1 Alton Hardy (curing tube) 1 Truck and Bus Tires: R. G. Scarborough 1 Doyle McElhenny 2 R. O. Davidson 3 A. H. Lawler 2 J. H. Davis & Son 1 Passenger Car Retreads: T. M. Gamel 1 Ed S. Brooks 4 Emmett O. Newsome 2 J. K. Wooten 2 A. M. Anderson 3 E. E. Bateman 2 H. W. Glover 2 Charles A. Auclair 3 Carl L. Lewis 2 W. T. Mobley 4 O. Z. Asbury 2 Geo. W. Adams 3 Maj. Jasper S. Utter 2 A. S. Harrison 2 Truck Retreads: J. P. Etheridge 4 CO-OP HAULING CAN HELP SOLVE PROBLEMS As truck tires go, so go the trucks. And as trucks go; so goes the primary transport sys tem upon which the farmers come to depend. Virtually no more rubber is in sight for tires, and a truck is now just as good as its weakest tire. It is important that farm ers look ahead to the day when their trucks will finally have to be set aside. Present regulations do permit a farmer to apply for new tires or recaps, under certain condi tions. But when the day comes that there is no more rubber for civilian users, the permission to buy will mean nothing. A major necessity now is for organization, by local communi ties, of motortruck transporta tion. Every rural neighborhood needs to arrange to “double up” on loads from farm to town and on bringing supplies from town to farm, and for errands and trips of all kinds. Many farm neighbors are already doing this, but many would profit by start ing the movement. W. T. Middlebrooks, County Agent. i U. D. C. MEETING The Sgt. Clinton C. Duncan chapter of the U. D. C. met Tuesday, June 2, with Mrs. Ag nes Smoak Marshall. Mrs. G.E. Jordan, vice-president, presided. Miss Norine Swanson read a speech of Jefferson Davis’; Mrs. G. S. Riley, a poem on Our Flag; Mrs. C. S. Gurr, a poem on Con federate Leaders written by Mrs. R. L. Cater. Refreshments were 1 served. | • . j NOTICE J All dogs must be inoculated I by July 1. Dogs caught without 11942 tags will be killed, i By Order Mayor and Council. Mrs. Tom Cater is visiting Mr. land Mrs, C. E. Brunson Jr. in (Albany, Ga. Miss Carolyn Coleman is em ployed at the State Capitol, At lanta, for the summer months. Gives Extra Flavor Currant jelly spread over roast lamb during the last 20 minutes of the cooking gives extra flavor and glaze. Beat up hall a cup of jelly with a fork and spread over the oetlriag meat. . ... "A WEEK OF THE WAR” ! i Civilian Supply WPH Materials director A. 1.1 Henderson said vital materials! can no longer be used except for 1 war and maintenance of those} things necessary to the war be cause from nowon “it will be a continuous problem to provide materials to meet the needs of our fighting forces.” The WPB said preferred applicants for new telephones cannot obtain service unless they prove the service is 1 'essential to the discharge of their responsibility for public health, welfare or security. The Board i issued an order relieving from restrictions lumber deliveries for 1 more than 100,000 of the most es sential housing units now under construction. The FHA authoriz -1 ed its field offices to begin insur ing to the extent of $500,000,000 loans of private lending institu tions for construction of housing for war workers. A Food Re quirements Committee, headed by Agriculture Secretary Wick ard, was set up to control pro duction and allocation of all civi lian and military food supplies. The WPB reported more than! 400.000 scrapped automobiles 1 from auto graveyards yielded I 350.000 tons of scrap metal dur ing April, approximately 200,000 tons more than the average monthly yield for 1941. The Board said American motorists have in the tires and the works of their automobiles a rubber re serve of about 1,200,000 tons. Rationing All motorists will receive a book containing a year’s base supply of 48 coupons under the new permanent gasoline ration ing system which will be estab lished in the East about the first week of July, OPA said, j Supplementary B. books with an additional 16 coupons will be issued to motorists who prove ; need for extra rations, providing ) they are members of a car pool. No unlimited privileges will be 3 granted to any one, but C. books containing 96 coupons will be is sued to some motorists. S. books * for trucks and buses, good for a : four month period, will cover just ■ enough fuel for the mileage al -1 lowed in forthcoming ODT regu ) lations. Motorcyclists will re ceive D books, good for 40 per - cent as much gasoline as A books. Under the new system service stations and distributors will be 5 1 required to turn in collected cou 'jpons when purchasing new } | stocks. The OPA released about j 10,000 bicycles to war production "(plants qualified to buy them for '! transportation of workers. I i War Bond Sales > The Treasury said war bond [ sales from May 1 to May 29 to ) taled $615 million, while the quo- I ta for the month was $6OO mil , lion. The June quota is $BOO million, and the goal will be . raised to $l,OOO million in July. The Treasury said 1,000,000 re tailers throughout the country are being asked to sell war bonds and ,stamps equaling the value of four percent of total merchandise sales in July, or ap proximately $l6O million worth. Selective Se;vice | 1 U. S. Commissioner of Educa-| t tion Studebaker reported about | ’ 430,000 men have been rejected! for Army Service so far because] of illiteracy. Of these, 250,000 [ 1 are physically fit. He said a pio ■ gram is being worked out to give the “functionally illiterate” ba ’ sic training in reading, writing ■ and arithmetic. The President 5 told a press conference such re jects have a low mental level be cause of lack of opportnuity. They need to be helped through , improved nutrition and possibly j through a manual vocational! ' training process, he said. Wax Spots From Kugs Wax spots may be removed from i a rug by scraping as much as pos sible off with a spoon, then putting a sheet of white blotting paper over ■ the spot and pressing with a hot iron. Mile-Long Yarn Some cotton yarn is so fine that 50 miles of it are needed to make one pound, according to a department of agriculture processing expert. This fine yarn is spun on ordinary machinery and is used in making typewriter ribbons, airplane fabric, and even fine dress goods. _ n —mr————ii—n—— winwn— rr m < (selective service ! CONFERENCE HELD ! A Selective Service conference for thirteen counties was held in I Ferry Tuesday at t h e Court i House with Lieutenant-Colonel !Cliff Hatcher, assistant state di rector Selective Service, in charge. The conference was at tended by draft board members, clerks, and appeal agents. Speakers included Lieut-Colonel James H. Skelton Jr. head of Man Power division; M a j o r Charles F, Heard, personnel of ficer; Major Chas. J. Brockman, nead of occupatirnal deferments, 'These army officers gave out in formation and instruction on their departments. About seventy-five people at tended the conference here. HOW RATIONED SUGAR CAN SE MADE TO 80 FURTHER GAINESVILLE, Fla-Would you like to make that rationed sugar go further? Well, here’s how, and the in formation comes from Florida 1 I Agricultural Experiment Station | scientists; Mix one pound of sugar and seven ounces of water. Add teaspoon of tartaric acid (which you can get at any drug store). Cover this sugar, water, and tartaric acid mixture and boil gently for 30 minutes. Then al low to cool. And you have in vert sugar syrup, each cup of which is equal in sweetening to a cup of sugar. This syrup is tops for sweeten ing fruits and cereals, on waffles and hot cakes, in baking, and in making ice cream, Experiment Station officials said. For use in baking and ice cream, however, it must be taken into considera tion that the syrup is about one- 1 third water and allowances must be made for this in adding other liquid ingredients. The sugar inversion process, which results in a product 30 per cent sweeter than ordinary sugar, is not a new one, but a way in which the syrup could be used in ice cream satisfactorily had not been revealed to manu facturers when the Experiment Station dairy technologists began working on the problem several months ago. Their research has resulted in a method by which it can be used in ice cream and thus has made it unnecessary for them to reduce their output 20 per cent or lower the quality of their product. Under the Govern ment’s rationing program they, are now receiving only 70 per] cent of the sugar they obtained in 1911. After months of research and testing, the Experiment Station workers found that 50 per cent of the required amount of sugar in ice cream could be replaced by invert sugar syrup if one pound of milk solids was added for each pound of sugar replaced by the syrup. And the ice cream would be of just as high quality and just as sweet as that made alto gether with sugar. The method is proving a boon to the ice cream industry and j plants already are using it. I AIR WARNING SERVICE NOTICE I Lieut. Erickson will be in Per ry at 1 p. m. Thursday at the Le gion Home to give instructions to members of the Civilian Defense who have been assisting the Air Warning Service as “watchers.” Those who can possibly do so are urged to be at the Legion Home ! from 1 p. m. to 2 p, m. today } (Thursday). I I Women Drivers Careful Buyers When a woman buys a motor car she is far more critical than a man of the car’s interior. Not only does the woman automobile buyer de mand beauty and durability in the upholstery fabrics, she also insists j on material that will be easy on the | clothes and easy to clean. OVER THE TOP «FOR VICTORY with UNITED STATES WAR ( BONUS-STAMPS |- WEEVIL DAMAGE MAY BE SEVERE IN COUNTY Houston county farmers may face a year of severe boll weevil damage in 1942, according to County Agent VV. T. Middle brooks. Mr. Middlebrooks this week urged Houston county farmers to examine cotton fields early and frequently to determine when to begin poisoning for weevils. “Avoid unnecessary poisoning,” he advised, “but apply poison when infestation indicates dam age may be expected. “Do not trust pre-square pois oning alone. These applications are valuable in delaying the build-up of weevils to damaging levels and may save one or more late applications. Pre-square ap plications may be made by using two to three gallons per acre of 1-1-1 calcium arsenate-syrup water mixture or by applying three pounds of dust per acre. “Applications with the ‘mop’ mixture should be made on cot ton with four to six true leaves, or more, when enough weevils are present to make damaged terminal buds easily seen. Apply two to three times at five to sev en day intervals. Pre-square ap plications should be followed by dusts if weevils are present in damaging numbers.” Mr. Middlebrooks advised far mers to make weekly infestation counts in fields after cotton be gins squaring freely. These counts may be made by crossing the field diagonally, picking 100 to 500 green squares from top, middle, and bottom parts of plants, taking only one square per plant. If, after examining, an aver age of 15 or more squares per 100 are injuring, dusting is need ed. In picking squares, choose those unyellowed and unflaired. The county agent pointed out that dusting applications during the heavy fruiting season can be made with any good dusting ma chine using undiluted calcium arsenate unless the usual 50-50 sulfur-arsenate mixture is used to control “flea hoppers” at the same time. “Ke-examine fields five days after dusting,”Mr. Middlebrooks suggested, “and redust immed iately if counts run above the 15 per 100 squares. If small areas in a field are heavily infested, dusting these infested spots is a good practice.” KIWANISCLUB MEETS Randall Evans of Augusta, Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives and candidate for at torney general of Georgia, ad dressed the Perry Kiwanis club Tuesday. He was introduced by W. W. Gray, representative from Houston county. Mr. Evans spoke on Home Defense. Last week J. Eugene Cook. Dublin attorney and solicitor general of the Oconee circuit, was the speaker at Tuesday’s meeting. Mr. Cook is also a can didate for attorney-general.. His subject was The Importance of an intellegent Peace. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Church School-10:15 a. m. Morning Worship 11:30 a. m. Youth Fellowship for Inter mediate-Senior ages meets 7:00 p. m. Sunday. Prayer Service Wednesday night, 7:30 o’clock. Evening Worship Service 8:00. The public is cordially invited to all services. Rev. J. E. Sampley, Pastor. BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS - Bible School each Sunday morn ing 10:15. Morning Worship Service 11:30- Sermon by the pastor. Baptist Training Union 7 p. m. Evening Worship 8:00 p. m. Mid-Week Prayer Service Wed nesday Evening 8:30. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. Mrs. Mary Brunson and Miss Cinderella Brunson of Dublin are visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Ed wards and other relatives.