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V° L LXXI. No. 29. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942 ESTABLISHED 1870
AMERICAN HEROES ]
DAY SETFOR JULY 17
Citizens Asked To Honor
Local Men In Service
Friday, July 17, has been set
as American Heroes Day
at the suggestion of the Retail
advisory Committee of the U. S.
treasury department. The plan
is that on this day every citizen
w ill honor Perry’s and Houston
county’s men in the U. S. armed
forces by purchasing from retail
places of business as many war
bonds and stamps as possible.
Houston county’s quota for Fri
day is $lO,OOO. .
To call attention to the observ
ance of this day, the Perry Ki
wanis club has a page advertise
ment in this issue. The names
of all the white men in the ser
vice are listed on this page, dedi
cated to them and published as
an appeal to the citizens of this
county to honor these local men
who are fighting for our country
by investing in war hbnds and
stamps.
Max Moore is chairman of Re
tail Sales for Houston county and
E. P. Newhard, executive chair
man of Houston County War
Savings Staff*
Stamp Sales Last Week
During July the National Re
tailers for Victory drive is being
conducted throughout theU.S.A.
The following merchants and
business concerns in Houston
county cooperated last week with
the following results in War
Stamp Sales:
McLendon Auto Co. $170.00
Moore Dry Goods Co. 160 00
Pritchett Drug Co. 135.00
Union Motor Co. 31.20
Rogers 40.00
Houston Drug Co. 30,00
Western Auto Asso. 10.00
W. C. Talton 12.35
J. H. Clark (Elko) 21.70
S. Bernstein 10.00
Edwards-Harper 2.20
Rramblett’s Grocery .40
Total $622.90
Andrew Hardware Co. joined
the above firms this week in the
sale of stamps and will be in
cluded in next week’s report.
$4,930.20 of stamps and bonds
were sold in Houston county last
week, which surpassed the $4.-
900 quota.
Customers of retail places of
business are requested to accept
war stamps as change when mak
ing purchases during July.
W. H. Rowlenson, di s t r i c t
chmn. and J. D. Kirven, state
chmn. Retail Sales, praised the
record made by Perry and Hous
ton county when they were in
Perry Wednesday.
The public is urged to observe
American Heroes Day!
LIBRARY NOTES
Libraries are playing an im
portant part in upholding morale,
increased circulation is reported
by librarians in many sections,
especially in defense areas. Good
books soothe the mind and relieve
[be high tension at which we
live.
Our library is showing an in
case in readers both in old
rfe sidents and new people. The
government has withdrawn their
financial aid but the community
s showing an interest in sup
porting the library. Recently
‘be churches and various or
ganizations have made dona
t;ons - Fines and rentals are a
p[ ea b aid to maintenance. The
'wary is open to all residents of
Houston county.
Library hours: 1:30 p. m. to
,yP- m. Monday, Thursday,
4n J Saturday.
''erniece Beavers, Librarian.
iethodist ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jurch School-10:15 a. m
-jorning Worship 11:30 a. m.
° u th Fellowship for Inter
! ages meets 7:45
S 1 - Sunday.
pining Worship Service 8:30.
i ; i>u y o r Service Wednesday
8:30 o’clock,
e Public is cordially invited
Z l services.
‘ ev - J- E. Sampley, Pastor.
[SENATORIAL CANDIDATE |
MARES SPEECH IN PERRY
Following a genial round of
handshaking, Hon. Will D. Up
shaw, candidate for the U. S.
Senate, went after his Court
House crowd Tuesday night in
masterful fashion and he “got
’em.’’ So much so, that one
man was heard to say as he left
the Court House; “If that little
man on crutches can run like he
can speak, Dick Russell might as
well resign now and go to the
Army.”
Mr. Upshaw sitting part of
the time on a table and leaning
occasionally on his crutches,
kept his crowd in a good humor
from start to finish. He dealt
in no abuse whatsoever concern
ing his opponent, referring to
him as “my brilliant bachelor
opponent with no dependents,”
saying: “Dick Russell has been
one term governor and twice U.
S. Senator his full share of hon
ors, and now everybody is de
claring that he ought to shoulder
a gun and go fight for his coun
try.”
Coming out squarely for
doubling the present amount of
old age pensions as soon as the
war emergency will allow, the
speaker declared:
“But manifestly, there can be
no pensions, no peace and no
comfort for old age or youth un
, less, and until, we win this war.
It was thrust upon us in selfish
barbarism and despotism, and all
of us must dedicate afresh ‘our
lives, our fortunes and our sacr
, ed honor’ to an all-out loyalty to
our beautiful Flag and our great
, President, our masterful com
, mander in chief, till freedom
I shall not only be won for the
, United States of America but
I for our Allies in the battle for
, the upward-struggling democ
i racies of the whole wide world.
, “Yes, lam in favor of giving
to worthy old age everywhere an
i adequate pension to secure them
I against all possible want, but I
) am not in favor of giving pen
. sions to U. S. Senators and Con
i gressmen.
“I promise you now that if
you elect me to the senate to
succeed the present incumbent,
Senator Russell, and pay me a
; salary at $lO,OOO a year like he
has been getting for nearly ten
years, I will not vote myself a
pension like he did in wartime or
any other time, and then run for
cover from a storm of protest
declaring he ‘didn’t know what
he was voting for.’ ”
The Farmer, America’s Hero
“Everybody knows that the
nation’s foundation hero must
always be the American farmer,
for without him we would have
nothing to eat and nothing to[
i wear. Civilians cannot live and
soldiers cannot fight unless the
farmer is encouraged and en
abled to produce at a living pro
fit the food on our tables and the
clothes on our bodies. And I
shall stand, as I did during my
eight years as a member of con
gress for everything in the way]
of encouragement that will helpj
the farmer, enabling him to
eventually stand flatfooted in his
: own self-respect and happy in
1 his independent prosperity.
“But my interest in the farm
; er is not newborn. It did not
‘ have a campaign birth. I was a
: farmer boy-red-headed andi
‘ freckled-faced—l ‘plowed and
hoed, reaped and sowed,’ and
learned that wholesome lesson
that my old-fashioned Christian
father taught his boys around
a family altar—that ‘every boy
1 ought to know how a tired manj
! feels.’ I picked 800 pounds ofj
cotton a day. When my hand-j
some bachelor opponent picksj
» 300 pounds of cotton a day, he i
will be better prepared than he
has ever been to be the farmers’)
practical friend.”
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.
t Air Warning Service
j Gives 24 Hr. Protection
i Brigadier-general Joseph Can
non, directing the First Fighter
Command of the First Air Force,
which includes the Perry and
Houston county district, brings a
warning and explanation to the
attention of the people of the
Atlantic Coast.
“It is essential and vital for
people to understand what an air
raid warning is and what it is
not,” General Cannon says.
“When a warning is sounded,
it means that there is a flight of
planes approaching at some dis
tance from the area in which the
warning is sounded, the planes
are identified as those of the
enemy.
At this time, a first warning is
issued to the responsible civilian
air raid wardens. It is an ad
vance warning, a stand-by. It
is not a promise of an aerial
bombardment. It means that
the responsible leaders charged
with civilian defense have been
told that something may happen
in the particular locale; it may
not, but be prepared.
This warning originated with
the Fighter Command in a sys
tem of instrument locaters and
civilian observers. It is not an
experiment. It is not a system
that is being tried out. It is a
scientifically operated plan for
air defense that has saved the
life of England. It means that
planes can wait on ground alert,
instead of in the air. It means
that one pursuit plane, on the
ground, ready to take off, can do
the work that it would require
sixteen to do on air alert or air
patrol.
When the pursuit pilot is or
dered to take off—if the situa
tion requires him to—he will be
directed to go to a specific loca
tion, eliminating the need of
having sixteen planes patrol aim
lessly in the air waiting.
On receipt of word that an un
identified flight is approaching a
given locale, our Information
Center checks to see if they are
our own ships, or those of the
Navy, or civilian airliners. If,
in the process of elimination,
there is no identification, the ap
proaching planes are classified as
enemy ships.
Pursuit ships are dispatched to
intercept them while they are
still a very long distance away.
The basic plan of interception is
to intercept an enemy mission
before he reaches his target. Pur
suit ships can and will be dis
patched to meet an enemy many
miles from the target. If the
contact is made, the enemy will
not be seen over the city which
is his target.
Other things may happen af
ter the first warning. The Iden
tification process, continuing,
may establish that it is not an
enemy formation, just as a pa
trolman, finding a stranger as he
walks his beat, may find that he
is not a robber, but a responsi
ble citizen on legitimate busi
ness. The “All Clear” is sound
ed.
This is not a time to take
1 chances. This is war. Every
thing approaching our shores
must be challenged and identifi
ed. If, after the first warning
has been sounded, it turns out to
be one of our own planes, that
does not make it a ‘fake’ tip or
‘phony’ alarm. The warning is
'still real, urgent, and in the ex
ercise of discipline that an arous
ed and alert people should have,
it means that certain prearrang
ed, prescribed steps must be
taken. They should be taken
without question and without dis
cussion because they affect the
[common good, the entire defense
iof the entire community.
( If it is an enemy formation
[that has been located, it may be
;very far from our shores. We do
| not know in which direction it
| will turn. It may head north or
lit may head south,ignoring what
[seemed to be the original target,
ilf we are mistaken, if we guess
| wrong,the warning will be quick
lly followed by an “All Clear.”
j The First Fighter Command
[presents this explanation in the
hope that it will enable the peo
! pie to understand why there may
be many warnings. Berlin had
three the first day of the war;
London had twelve.
These are warnings that some
thing may happen. They are
not promises. Every citizen has a
CCC Conserved Natural
i And Human Resources;
I
When the Civilian Conserva-j
tion Corps closed its books on i
June 30, it had completed
years of service in conserving]
the natural and human resources
of America. During that period,
CCC camps under the jurisdic
tion of the U. S. Forest Service
' and the State Forrester advanced
' the cause of forest conservation
; in Georgia by at least a genera
tion, both on the Chattahoochee
National Forest and on State and
privately owned lands. A total
of over 4 million man-days of
work was done, of which 60 ner
i cent was on State and private
lands.
Highlights of the work ac
i complished in Georgia include
the following items:
The CCC boys, in improving
• the physical facilities of the for
ests, built about 2,300 miles of
- roads, 225 miles of trails and
nearly 1,200 bridges. They con
i structed 416 buildings for the
protection and administration of
forest lands, including some for
public recreation areas. They
i built 3,000 miles of telephone
■ lines and 62 miles of fences.
i Roads, trails, and telephone
li*es are important in forest fire
i protection. In addition, 86 look
i out towers were erected, over
‘ 6,000 miles of firebreaks cleared,
and fire hazards reduced along
■ 760 miles of roads and on nearly
80,000 additional acres, CCC
i boys spent 59,000 man-days
3 fighting forest fires.
> Largely through the fire con
-3 trol improvements and facilities
constructed by the CCC, the
Division of Forestry of the Geor
• gia Department of Natural Re
• sources has been able to provide
! fire protection for millions of
; acres of private timberlands that
: otherwise would have continued
• to suffer severe damage annually.
At the beginning of the CCC
■ program in 1933, only 1,800.000
1 acres of State and private for
-1 ests lands in Georgia received
: fire protection. By January 1,
3 1942, this had increased to near
’ ly 4,900,000 acres.
■ For sowing in forest nurseries,
’ 48,700 bushels of pine cones were
5 collected. About 2,850 denuded
acres were planted to make fu
-3 ture forests. Timber stand im
-3 provement work was done on
■ nearly 38,000 acres, and the tim*
5 ber was estimated on a half rnil
-1 lion acres. Georgia’s streams
■ and lakes were stocked with 340,-
• 000 game and food fish.
r Perhaps the greatest benefit
3 rendered by the CCC in Georgia
i has been to the boys, largely re
-1 cruited within the State, who
lived and worked in the camps.
• They learned useful trades and
■ habits of industry and self-re
- liance and developed strong and
1 healthy bodies. Army officers
find ex-CCC boys who enter the
: armed forces to be in much fcet
-3 ter than average physical trim
' and, as a result of their CCC
■ training in first aid and in such
' specialized skills as truck and
tractor driving and telephone
3 maintenance, able in a short time
' to handle the mechanized equip
-3 ment of modern warfare.
When the boys go home they
> will be more useful citizens of
3 their communities. They will be
L enthusiastic conservationists and
: may be counted on, through the
3 years to come, to actively aid in
■ protecting and wisely using!
■ Georgia’s natural resources.
3 RED CROSS SEWING
! ROOM OPENS WED.&FRI,
The Red Cross Sewing Room
will be open every Wednesday!
and Friday from now on, ac-|
! cording to Mrs. G. E. Jordan, j
\ local chrnn. The sewing room
; has been moved to the Legion
Home from the Court House.
The women of Perry and
Houston county who can sew
’ are urged to work at the Red
Cross room on one or both of
these days, Wednesday and
1 Friday.
patriotic duty, for himself and
; his country, to carry out orders
; that are a result of these warn-,
ings, no matter how many there
are, no matter if he never sees
an enemy plane. For after all,
; seeing no enemy plane is the best,
i break he can get. 1
"A WEEK OF THE WAR”
i
! War Production Chairman Nel
-1 son, speaking in Detroit, said the
U. S. will hit the “Real” peak of
I its production program by next
’March. Mr. Nelson said “our
ability to produce is much great
er than any one dreamed. The
armament objectives as announc
ed by President Roosevelt last
winter —and which seemed too
vast at the time—will be readily
realized. . . Our productive ca
pacity is apparently limited only
by the raw materials available.
Chairman Nelson said “at all
costs —we must not get into the
frame of mind that this is either
an easy or a short job. If people
build on false hopes of an easy
victory or a short war, then they'
are certain to feel let down when
the bad days come, as come they
will. . .”
Rationing
The OPA said about eight mil
lion eastern motorists have re
ceived basic permanent gasoline
ration coupon books. Congress
men, members of State and local
Legislatures and other govern
ment officials will be eligible for
“special rations” for use in
Legislative or official business,
and bona fide political candidates
may have extra rations for travel
necessary to the prosecution of
their candidaces, the office said.
Special rations will also be issu
ed for travel to obtain medical
service, to demonstrate cars or
boats for sale, to transport equip
ment and personnel of scientific
expeditions and to operate a ve
hicle in tests essential to the war
effort.
The office ruled newspaper re
porters and photographers will
be eligible for supplementary ra
tions up to a quantity sufficient
to permit 470 miles of occupa
tions driving a month if they can
meet car pooling provisions. In
creased monthly gasoline quotas
will be given stations servicing
war workers. The WPB grant
ed OPA authority to require
filling station operators to submit
coupons or other evidence that
rationing regulations are being
complied with, when gasoline is
delivered to their stations.
The OPA said local rationing
boards may refuse to issue new
tires to eligible motorists if an
inspector’s report shows the pur
chaser has abused his old tires.
The “bonus” sugar stamp, num
ber seven in war ration Book
No. 1, may be exchanged for
two pounds of sugar until mid
night August 22,
Labor Supply
Persons who desire jobs in
plants working on secret or con
fidential government contracts
will no longer be required to turn
in birth certificates to prove
American citizenship, the War
Manpower Commission announc
ed. The WPB labor division
said the aircraft industry will re
quire more chan 1,500,000 work
ers by the end of 1943. A total'
of almost 20 million persons will
be drawn into war production
and service in the armed forces
during this year and next, the
WMC reported. Consequently,
employers can no longer afford
1 to set arbitrary age limits or dis
crimination against workers be
cause of sex, race or nationality,
the commission stated.
C. E LEVERETT DIES
Clatness Elmer Leverett, 32,
was found dead near his home at
Centerville Saturday morning.
A coroner’s jury, according to
Sheriff C. C. Pierce, returned a
verdict that his death was from
i natural causes.
He had lived at Centerville all
1 his life, and is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
C. Leverett: three brothers, Lyn
wood F., Conrad and Hammock,
all of Centerville: four sisters,
Mrs. W. S. Manderson of Ma
con; Mrs, Harvey Bridges of
Stucker; Mrs. J. E. Shirah of
Perry; and Miss Alice Leverett
of Centerville.
Funeral services were held at
the graveside at the Leverett
family cemetery at Centerville at
14 o’clock Sunday afternoon with
the Rev. E. M. Clapp officiating.
The body remained in the
chapel of Watson-Whipple funer
al home in Perry until the hour
1 of the service.
GOODPEACH SEASON
FORLOCALGROWERS
Watermelons Bring Good
Price; Peanut Increase
Peach growers of Houston
county have had a fine yield of
peaches this season and have re
ceived good prices. Varieties
harvested were Uneeda, Early
Rose, Early Hiley, Regular Hi
ley, Dixie Gold and Golden Jubi
lee, Georgia Belle and Elberta.
The Elberta variety began mov
ing to markets from this section
this week.
A large percentage of the
peach crop has been hauled by
refrigerated trucks and the re
mainder by rail; so there is no
way to get an accurate check on
the number of cars shipped this
season.
There are 513,000 bearing
peach trees in the county and
104,775 young trees, making a
total of 618,275 trees on 5,060
acres.
Watermelons
Due to the prices received by
farmers for past five years being
extremely low, the watermelon
acreage this year in Houston
county is about one-third of the
last few years.
Ten or fifteen growers have al
ready made car lot shipments
and advise that prices are better
than they have been in fifteen
years.
Peanuts
The peanut crop for Houston
county will probably reach 25,-
000 acres, which will be 10,000
acres more than has ever been
planted heretofore in the county.
This increase is due to Houston
farmers cooperating in increas
ing peanuts for oil as requested
by the government.
ga. press meeting to
BE HELD IN ATLANTA
The stage is all set for the
Georgia Press Association’s an
nual meeting this Friday and
Saturday, July 17 and 18, the
first time the convention has
been held in Atlanta in 38 years.
And it’s going to be an impor
tant and interesting session, too,
with the program streamlined in
every particalar.
Principal speaker at the an
nual banquet Friday night, which
happens to be “National Heroes
Day,’’ will be Rear Admiral Wil
liam Glassford, commander of
the Sixth Naval District, who
will give a “shirtsleeve’’ ad
dress on conditions in the Paci
fic. He will request that none
of the editors act as “reporters.”
Convention headquarters will be
at the Ansley Hotel.
REGISTRATION OF
CHILDREN ORDERED
Governor Tahnadge has order
ed a state-wide registration of
all children and set up a fund of
$25,000 to meet the cost. Plans
for the registration are being
formulated by the Georgia Con
gress of Parents and Teachers,
the State Department of Educa
tion and the State Citizens’ De
fense Committee. Children up
to 18 years of age will be regis
tered in the project and identifi
cation tags issued to them. No
date for the program has been
set the Governor said.
BAPTIST W.M.S. MEETS
The Baptist W. M. S. met at
the church Monday p. m. with
the president, Mrs. C. E. Brun
son, as leader. Th e program
subject was “Think on These
Things, Whatsoever Things Are
of Virtue.” Those taking part
were Mesdames W. E. Beckham,
E. W. Traylor, J. P. Etheridge,
C. F. Cooper, and W. B. Roberts.
On Tuesday, July 21, at 10 a.
m. the women of the church will
meet at the church to make new
covers for the pew cushions.
The Sunbeams met Monday p.
m. with Mrs. Chas. Logue in
1 charge.
I Adolph, Benito and Hirohlto
—the three blind mice. Make
Aejp them run with ten percent of
j your income in War Bonds
i JM every pay day.
