Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, December 17, 1942, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXXI. No. 51. =======::=^ ===== ~~~~ = '' —■-- 1 -' ■ ■■■ 111 ' :v , , - —'irssa '■■■■.■■l i COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1942 ESTABLISHED 1870 DIXIE FARMERS VOTE FOR COTTON QUOTA Federal control of cotton pro duction and marketing Tuesday appeared to have won the over whelming approval of a big ma jority of cotton farmers in all cotton producing states except Georgia, AAA officials reported. While complete returns were n ot available from Saturday’s referendum to determine if far mers favored a continuation of marketing quotas for the 1943 crop, the vote throughout the cotton belt was running more than six to one in favor of a con tinuance. Returns from 132 of the state’s 159 counties showed 36,685 fa voring marketing quotas and 34,794 against. Houston’s Vote The vote in Houston county was 239 for and 117 against marketing quotas with only 50 per cent of those elibible voting. The A. A. committee was re elected as follows: L.W. Tabor, W. N. Johnson, and H. B. Gil bert. The complete returns from throughout the cotton belt show ed that 642,234 farmers favored federal control and 103,136 op posed. METHODIST W. S. C. S. HAS HARVEST MEETING The Methodist W. S. C. S. had its annual Harvest meeting Mon day p. m. at the church with the president, Mrs. W. V. Tuggle, presiding. A pageant, Christmas for the World, was presented by Mrs. A. P. Whipple, program chairman. Those taking part were Mes dames Whipple, E. P. Staples, M. M. Dean, H. E. Evans Jr., R. E. Ogletree, L. C. Walker,and Norman Baker. Mrs. G. C. Nunn was pianist and Mrs. J. M. Gooden and Miss Norine Swanson, vocalist. Miss Prances Couey, president of -the Wesleyan Service Guild, told a Christmas story. Following the program, a so cial hour was held in the recre ation room. Green foliage, sprays of red berries, and red candles formed the effective decorations. BAPTIST W.M.S. MEETS The Baptist W.M.S. had as its program subject Monday p. m. "These Things Do: The Valley of Service.” Mrs. C. F. Cooper, the leader, gave the Christmas Story from Luke. Others tak ing part were Mesdames W. B. Roberts, Henry Mathews, and Alton Hardy. A candle-lighting service of consecration concluded the program. Mrs. C. E. Brunson, president, presided, $BO.OO was reported br the Lottie Moon Christmas offering - . The Sunbeams were given a -hristmas party Monday by Mrs, *• A. Curtis and Mrs. Chas. Cogue. NOTICE | he Home Journal will not Publish any local news next The Dec. 24th issue will insist of Christmas Greetings an a Features, Any Christmas tews not included this week will Published in the issue of Dec. notify us of your news. The Editor. CHRISTMAS SERVICE The annual community Christ- J as service, held at the Baptist ■cprch Sunday night, was an in- Piration to the large congrega- Present. Jhe cantata. The Christmas j or y; by E. K. Heyser was cautifully rendered by the com- ; ne d choirs of Perry under the Action of G. F. Nunn. toy matinee There will be a Toy Matinee at .‘C Roxy Theatre, Perry, Satur-' 'J' P ec - 19, at 10 a. m. for the' i,, 8 . °T the Sorosis club’s com-i ■ r n, ty Christmas fund. Admis-; will be a toy. The picture “Brother Rat and The | :| BAPTIST WCEMENTS j j ,TJ?® Sunday School will observe! a White Christmas service next -1 bunday. The primary, junior . and intermediate departments will present the Christmas Story in carols and recitations of scrip ture. Gifts brought to this ser vice will go to local charity. Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. Morning Worship Service 11:30. ! Evening Worship 8:00 p. m. > Prayer Service Wednesday ; night, 8:30 o’clock. . i. The public is cordially invited ! to all services. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. C. C. PIERCE HONORED Carleton C. Pierce, who volun -1 tarily retired Tuesday from the office of Sheriff of Houston coun ty after holding the office for 18 years, was given a surprise din j ner Saturday evening at the New ; Perry hotel by the officers of the Macon Judicial Circuit, Houston county officers, and the attorneys - of Perry. Judge A. M. Anderson, who ■ presided, paid high tribute to Mr. Pierce and expressed regret 1 at his retirement from office. ■ Solicitor-general Chas. H. Gar -1 rett presented the retiring sheriff - with a life-time silver pen and pencil set in behalf of all those present. Mr. Garrett said that Mr. Pierce was a faithful, con scientious, and capable officer 1 whose services would be greatly missed. 1 J. W. Bloodworth and S. A. ■ Nunn represented the lawyers of > Perry in expressing appreciation for the 20 years of official service rendered the local court by Mr. Pierce, who was deputy sheriff two years prior to being elected sheriff. J. Alva Davis, chmn. county commissioners: W. W. Gray, legislator; and Rhodes Sewell, surveyor, praised Mr. Pierce as an officer and a man. The honoree responded with appropriate words of apprecia tion for the gift and praise heap ed upon him-. Twenty-one men attended this official farewell and testimonial dinner for Mr, Pierce. C. C. CHAPMAN SWORN IN AS COUNTY SHERIFF G.C. Chapman, deputy sheriff for 12 years, was sworn into of fice as sheriff of Houston county Tuesday by John L. Hodges, ordinary. Mr. Chapman succeeds C. C. Pierce who resigned effective Dec. 15 to accept a position as book-keeper for Davis Ware house. Mr, Chapman was elect-, ed to the office without opposi tion in a special election held December 8. CARD OF THANKS To the People of Houston County:- 1 am grateful for having had the privilege of serving as your Sheriff for the past eighteen years. I want to thank each one of you for the wonderful co operation I have received during that time. I trust that I shall have the pleasure of serving you in a different field of work in the future. Respectfully, C. C. PIERCE. ANNOUNCEMENT The Garden club members will! meet Friday from 3 to 5 p. m. at the Legion Home to do Redj Cross work. All members arej urged to attend. NOTICE The Red Cross work room will] not be open during the holidays i after this Friday. The room' will be opened Wednesday, Jan. 6. j CARD OF THANKS I deeply appreciate the confi-j dence placed in me by the peo ple of Houston county in elect ing me Sheriff without opposi-j 'tion, I shall strive to be worthy l of this honor by fulfilling the 'duties of the office to the best of Imy ability. I C. C. CHAPMAN, j AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR ’42 j IN HOUSTON REPORTED BY AGENTj I I (Contined From Last Week) j 3. Livestock A study of the livestock situa tion in the county by the Plan ning Committee revealed the fact that practically a third (350) of our farmers are not producing enough hogs for their own needs and approximately 250 families do not have a milk cow. The Planning Committee recommend ed that we undertake to put on an educational program in an ef fort to get all our farms to plan for feed crops, to provide ade quate fencing and pasturage,and that each one horse unit have a minimum of one brood sow and a milk cow. Disease control thru sanitation and inoculation against cholera to receive special em phasis. Through the cooperation of F. S. A., 145 of these 350 families who were short on hogs and milk cows, have been assisted in securing them, and provisions have been made for growing feed crops to take care of them. At all meetings and personal con tacts with farmers Extension Agent and all Technical Workers have made an attempt to impress on all farm families that there is one definite way each of them could help in winning the war, that is by producing enough pork for their own use and plenty of milk for their family. Pure bred sires were secured for 14 farms, and good grade sires were placed on approxi mately 50 farms. Disease con trol was practiced on 210 farms; a total of 6,368 hogs were inocu lated against cholera and 500 head of cattle inoculated against blackleg, hemorrhagic fever and pink eye. Thirty one hog grow ers and 5 beef cattle growers were assisted in improving meth ods of feeding. 4-H club boys and girls fed out 9 grade Hereford steers and 23 fat barrows. These club boys and girls were given training on feed«tg, fitting, showing, andl judging hogs and cows. A 4-H Club Livestock Achievement Day was held in March. The Perry Kiwanis club sponsored the oc casion and prizes amounting to $172.00 were given to the 9 club boys and 12 F. F. A. boys feed ing out animals for the show. The educational work on live stock and good prices has helped us to make quite a bit of pro gress througnout the county in increasing general interest in livestock. There are 200 more hogs and 500 more cattle on feed this year for the market than last year. Scarcity of fencing is one item that is holding back an even more rapid expansion of livestock production. For another year we need to do more work on im proving the quality of livestock by securing more pure bred sires, by assisting farmers in planning for food and feed crops, and by a continuation of disease and [parasite control. 4. A, Cotton It was determined by the Planning Committee that our yield of cotton could and should be raised. A program was out lined and placed before the cot ton growers through Farm Bu reau Meetings, Community meet ings, news articles, personal con tacts, and circular letters. The recommendations for ac complishing this increase in yield were as follows: first, improve the quality by securing pure planting seed of one inch or bet- I ter staple not over one year from 1 breeder: second, treat all plant ing seed for seed borne diseases (before planting; third, use from j 300 to 500 lbs. of 4-8-6 fertilizer j per acre depending on fertility I of land, followed by 100 to 150 [pounds of nitrate top dresser ap -1 plied just after chopping time; [fourth, poison for boll weevil [when a 10% infestation appears; fifth, pick cotton clear of trash [and gin only when dry; sixth, j retire unproductive areas from. I the production of cotton. j Our yield in 1941 dropped to. i 120 pounds per acre, due toj [weather conditions and excessive boll weevil damage. As a result of work done this year to in crease our yield, 92 farms were assisted in securing better plant ing seed, 68 farms were given information on use of fertilizer, I j and 260 farms assisted in con-| trolling boll weevil. Of the 10,-J 164 acres planted to cotton, pure l bred seed were planted on 8,000 acres; seed were treated with 2% ceresan on 7,500 acres; a more liberal application of ferti lizer was used on 8,000 acres; boll weevil was poisoned on 9,000 acres; and cotton was picked and ginned in dry condition. Buyers report that 80% of our cotton ran one inch or better in staple. Our production this year was 206 lbs. per acre which is an increase of 86 lbs. over last year. 5. Victory Volunteer Organization This organization was begun by delineating the County into Communities and then each com munity was divided into neigh borhoods. This delineation was done in each community with' the assistance of the chairman of the community committee and two or three other residents of the community who were fami- Mar with all the people. After a map showing all de-i lineatious of community and] neighborhood boundaries was] completed, the chairman of each! community appointed a co-chair man and Victory Volunteer Lead ers (man and woman) for each 6 to 10 families according to the size of the neighborhood. Then , a community meeting was called of all committeemen and Victory , Volunteer Leaders at the home of the chairman. At this meet ing all families of the communi ty were listed and the duties of , each Volunteer Leader were ex plained along with the need and , purpose of the organization. , After the personnel of the community organization was completed and all the people in each community was listed, each , family was advised by letter of the organization and its person nel, giving each one the name of his Community Chairman and neighborhood leaders, and ask ing for their cooperation in mak ing the organization useful to the community, as well as to the Na tion, in promoting various phases of our National War Effort. An executive committee com posed of three of th e Community Chairmen and two Co-chairmen (3 men and 2 wo men), was appointed to pass on wont to be carried out through this organization. The first assignment for the organization was a truck survey of the county. All trucks and condition of truck and tires not ed. This information is being used by Victory Volunteer Lead ers in aiding the people of the community in pooling hauling and trips to town for supplies. Along with the truck survey, every home was visited and the President’s 7 point inflation pro gram was explained and copy of program left with the family. The second assignment was a I county wide salvage program. Every farm home was visited by a Victory Volunteer Leader and asked to gather up all scrap iron and rubber for the drive, and to collect and save waste fats. The! Chairmen then worked up plans for hauling this scrap in to scrap dealer. A total of 1,300,000 lbs. scrap iron and 70,000 lbs. rubber was collected, amounting to 90 lbs. of scrap per capita for the county. The third and last assignment for the year was a labor survey. A summary of this survey shows the following facts: That 16% of farms have only 25% as much labor now as they had last year; 31% have only 50%; 50% have only 75%;3% have 100% asmuchi labor as last year. The survey! also indicated that there will 1 likely be an increase of 15% inj the number of share-croppers! and a 35% decrease in th el amount of hired labor. This! shows a drastic shift from day labor to share-cropping and a loss of 20% in total available farm labor to operate our farms. I 6. War Effort Activities Our farmers were given a goal ;of 28,000 acres to be planted to peanuts. 9,350 acres were al lotted for use on edible trade market and 18,650 to be grown for oil to help the war effort. As sistance was rendered county of ficials of A.A.A, in explaining to the people the necessity for jMETHOOIST ANNOUNCEMENTS i _____ ! The pastor will preach a [Christmas sermon and the music j will be in keeping with the sea ison at the morning service. 1 At the evening service, 8 o’clock, the young people will present a Christmas program. Church SchooL-IOHS a. m Church Services, 11:30 a. m., and 8 p. m. Young People’s Service, 7:15 p. m. Rev. J. E. Sampley, Pastor. SERVICE GUILD MEETS The Wesleyan Service Guild held its December meeting last Thursday night at the home of Misses Margery and Elizabeth Short with Miss Juanita Bledsoe as co-hostess. A Christmas pa geant, Christmas for the World, was presented by Miss Dorothy Jones, program chairman. ! Misses Allene Ryals and Prances Moore were vocalists and Miss Willie Ryals, pianist. Those taking part in the pa geant were Misses Frances Couey, Jean Brown, Juanita Bledsoe, Margery and Elizabeth Short, Audrey Andrews, and Dorothy Jones. The emblems used were a globe, bells, a star, candles,gifts, evergreens. The message pf the pageant presented in song and verse was this: “We should hang the evergreen wreath of his ever lasting life upon the door of every nation. We should light the candle of grace in every heart. We should set the star of His peace and joy to shine in every dark sky. We should ring the Christmas bells of salvation around the world until his king dom shall come to earth’s re motest bounds.” The new home of the Shorts with its effective Christmas dec orations provided a lovely setting for this Christmas program. Each one present was present ed a gift from a Christmas tree. During the social hour, a salad course carrying out the Christ mas colors of red and green, was served. Assisting in entertain ing were Mrs. J. H. Short, Mrs. N. W. H. Gilbert, Mrs. H. B. Gilbert, and Mrs. Bob C.Massee. Miss Frances Couey, president, presided over the business ses sion. BOOK CLUB MEETS The Wednesday Afternoon Book club met this week at the home of Mrs. L. M. Paul Jr.with Miss Louisp Rainey and Mrs. A. G. Hendrick as co-hostesses. “Happiness Road”, Alice Rice, was reviewed by Mrs. W. E Marshall: “Women of the Bi ble,” if. V. Morton, by Mrs. D. M. Ryle and “The Robe”, Lloyd Douglas, by Mrs. A. P. Whipple. this extra acreage for oil pea nuts, and they responded to the full extent of their ability. Measurements by A.A.A. have not been completed, however, indications are that we planted very nearly our quota. Labor was extremely short, but favor able weather conditions made it possible for all farmers to har vest this bumper crop of peanuts without weather damage. An educational campaign was I put on throughout the county to promote the planting of home gardens by every family and the canning of all surplus fruits and vegetables. One county canning demonstration was held, attend ed by 24 leaders from all sec tions of the county. Informa tion on canning was given to 100 ! families in the form of bulletins Jon canning. Scrap iron and rubber were i collected by Victory Volunteer j Leader Organization, amounting Ito 1,300,009 lbs. of iron and 70,- ! 000 lbs. of rubber. All farm j homes have been requested to save waste fats and turn it in to [grocery stores. I An increase in production of pork, beef and poultry has been I very forcibly presented to our farmers and they are responding well. There will be 2,000 more hogs put on the market .than for past year, 300 more beef cows, and poultry has been increased by approximately 15%, as a re sult of educational work done by Extension worker and by the in crease in prices of products. i 6TH REGISTRATION I BEGUN THIS MONTH The registration of male citi l zens of Houston county, who 1 shall have attained the eighteen th anniversary of the day of their birth during the periods in dicated below, shall take place in the office of the Local Board, Perry, Ga. between the hours of 9:00 a. m. and 5:00 p. m., on the days hereinafter designated for their registration, as follows: (a) Those who were born on or after July 1, 1924. but not af ter August 31, 1924, shall be registered on any day during the • week commencing Friday, De cember 11, 1942, and ending , Thursday, December 17, 1942; (b) Those who were born on or after September 1, 1924, but not after October 31, 1924, shall be registered on any day during the week commencing Friday, December 18, 1924, and ending Thursday, December 24, 1942; (c) Those who were horn on or after November 1, 1924, but not after December 31, 1924, shall be registered on any day during the period commencing Saturday, December 26, 1942, and ending Thursday December 31, 1942; (d) During the continuance of the present war, those who were born on or alter January 1, 1925, shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth; provided, that if such an niversary falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday, their registration shall take place on the day fol lowing that is not a Sunday or a legal holiday. mlefense NEWS The voluntary “Share the Meat” Plan is being explained to housewives in Houston county by neighborhood leaders of the Victory Volunteer organization and in Perry by block leaders of the Women's Division, Civilian Defense Council. The plan was explained to these leaders by W. T. Middle brooks, county agent, and Mrs. J. L. Hodges, chmn. Women's Div., Civilian Defense.at a meet ing at the Perry school last Thursday p. m. Leaders report a willingness,to co-operate with this voluntary rationing of meat on the part of Perry and Houston county peo ple. Full reports will be pub lished later. The surprise practice Black-out and Drill held last Thursday night from 9-9:31) p. m. was a success, according to E. P. Staples, chmn. Civilian Defense Council, and W.T. Middlebrooks, Air Raid Warden. For Christmas and all occa sions, we have lovely and appro priate GIFTWARE. Come in today and make your selection. Perry Furniture Co. F. T. A. MEETING The Perry P. T. A. had a . Christmas program Tuesday,Dec. 8, at the school. Mrs. J. 0. ’ Coleman presided. ; The first and second grades presented a playlet under the di rection of Miss Greene, Miss Couey, and Mrs. Dorniney, with , Miss Moore as pianist. Miss Willie Ryals presented Billie Davis and Jean Pierce in a vocal duet and Cynthia Muse, Felton Norwood, and Tommy Mobley in a vocal trio. PiiESil/iEM NOTICE Perry Sabbath School, 10:15 a. m. Preaching Service, 11:30 a.m. Clinchfield Sabbath School, 3:00 p. m. i Preaching Service, 8:30 p. m. , The public is cordially invited to all these services. Rev. M. D. Agerton, Pastor. i ! j Having completed an intensive I pre-flight school course at San : Antonio, Texas Aviation Cadet ’ Center, a class left this week for primary flying schools to become 1 combat aircrew pilots. Included ■ in the class were 26 Aviation Ca ' dets from Georgia of which Avia ■ tion Cadet Dan L. Grant of Per ry was one.