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VQL - LXXIL No - 4 ' PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA. t THURSDAY. JANUARY 28. 1943 ESTABLISHED 1870
COLLECTION of TIN I
CANS BEGUN HERE
Tin is our number one critical
rnateriai. The U. S. has lost 90
per cent of its sources of supply,
and no known substitute has
been found; therefore, it is vi
tally important that every avail
able ounce from tin cans be re
covered. All tin cans should be
properly prepared and turned in
to any local retail grocery store
where they will be collected by
the truck of the Fort Valley
I Coca-Cola Bottling company.
IT h e preparation is simple.
Loosen and tear off the label.
I Use a can opener to remove top
and bottom from the can. Place
the top and bottom pieces inside
the can, turn it over on the floor
and stamp hard enough on the
I skies of the can to mash it flat.
I 'there you have it in one piece,
weighing almost nothing and
taking up very little space.
All used food cans, tobacco
leans, and coffee cans are wanted.
I Do not save paint cans, var-
Inish cans, evaporated or con-
Idensed milk cans as they are not
■suitable for salvage.
| The women of Perry and
■Houston county have been sav
ing tin cans for the past two
Jnonths. It is now time to turn
Wiese cans in where the govern
ment can use them. Bring them
Bo any local grocery store at once.
| If you have a large supply,
■nore than you can bring in your
Bar, notify Mrs. J. M. Gooden,
Bhmn. Salvage committee, Wo-
Bner’s Division Civilian Defense,
Kir Mrs. J. L. Hodges. They will
Kave Coca-Cola truck call at your
Kouse.
* Mrs. Gooden and Mrs. Hodges
Krge the women of this commu
nity to get the used tin cans to
lone of the grocery stores in Per-
Ky as soon as possible.
BERRY F. S. & L. ASS’N.
I HAS SUCCESSFUL YEAR
[ The Perry Federal Savings and
[loan Association held its annual
[stockholders meeting and election
of officers Jan. 20. Officers re
elected were S. A. Nunn, presi
dent; F. M. Culler, vice presi
dent; and F. M. Houser, secre
tary and treasurer.
The association has had a very
successful year, according to the
report of the treasurer. In ad
dition to paying the regular four
Iper cent annual dividend to all
[shareholders more than $2,700
Iwas paid into reserve and un-
Idivided profits of the association.
I Since its beginning six years
tgo the association has a total of
73 investors with accounts total
ing $173,735.79. They have
I placed mortgages totaling $218,-
1778.83. This year they have
I made 25 loans on residences
limountmg to $57,680.87.
Ifax expert to be in
PERRY FEB. 1-2 AT P.O.
I A field deputy of the Internal
Bcvenue Service, U. S. Treasury
[)ept., will be in Perry at the
*oat Office next Monday and
I Tuesday, Feb. 1& 2, to assist
I federal income taxpayers in the
I preparation of current returns.
I The Internal Revenue office in
I Macon will be open every day
I Torn 8;30 a. m. to sp. m. from
H Feb. Ito March 15, 1943, inclu
sive, to assist taxpayers in mak
ing out income tax returns.
All single persons must file a
I return for 1942 if their gross in-
I Jome amounted to $500.00 or
I more. Every married person
I must file a return for 1942 if the
I -ombined income of husband and
■ wife amounted to $1,200.00 or
I more.
I
I REVIVAL AT GROVANIA
I Revival services will be held
I d tlie Grovania Methodist church
loginning Sunday, Jan. 31, and
■ -ontinulng through Feb. 7, *ac-
I :or ding to announcement made
IBy Rev, Gordon King, pastor.
Rev. R. 1,. Harris of Lake
ap k, Ga. will do the preaching,
ervices will be held once daily
L d3O p. m. The public is in-
Red to attend.
(BLOODWORTH NAMED
I TO 17 COMMITTEES
John W. Blood worth of Perry,:
state senator of the 23rd Georgia
District, has been appointed to
seventeen committees of the
State Senate. Mr. Blood worth
is chairman of the committee on
Military Affairs; vice chairman
on Counties and County Matters;
secty. Academy for the Blind.
Mr. Bloodworth is a member
of the important Appropriations,
Finance, Rules, and Special Ju
diciary committees. Other com
mittees of which he is a member
are: Agriculture, Congressional
and Legislative Re-apportion
ment, Corporations, Gen. Judici
ary No, 1, Highways and Public
Roads, Penitentiary, School for
the Deaf, State Sanitarium, Uni
form Laws, Western and Atlan
tic R. R.
Mr. Bloodworth, prominent
merchant, lawyer, and farmer,
was at home for the weekend.
He expressed himself as pleased
with the progress made by the
General Assembly in its first
week of the regular session.
Mr. Bloodworth was instrumen
tal in getting the ten day session
reduced to five days, thereby
saving the taxpayers of Georgia
several thousand dollars.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS FUND
DRIVE HEADED BY J. A. IVEY
There is great need for funds
for the treatment of infantile
paralysis in Georgia and else
where, particularly because of
new methods of treatment which
have been developed, it is said.
These new methods are more ex
pensive to carry on in lire early
and still-contagious stages of
the disease, but work toward an
overall reduction of costs, as well
as saving an immense amount of
suffering among those who con
tract the malady.
Rev. J. A. Ivey of Perry is
chairman of the Paralysis Fund
Drive in Houston county. Funds
will be raised by personal solici
tation and through the churches
next Sunday,
HOUSTON TEACHERS
MEEt AT PERRY HIGH
The Houston county teachers
were called to meet at the Perry
school on Monday p. m. by Coun
ty School Superintendent F. M.
Greene for the purpose of dis
cussing the problems confront
ing the schools in war time.
J. M. Gooden, state school su
pervisor, talked on the High
School Victory Corps and answer
ed questions concerning its or
ganization. He stressed the
physical fitness portion of the
program.
Mr. Greene was elected as a
delegate to the G. E. A. busi
ness meeting in Atlanta and was
given authority to appoint other
delegates.
The group of teachers went on
record as endorsing the work of
the G. E. A. and voted in favor
of urging new teachers in the
system to join the state associa
tion if they had not already
done so.
; CAPT. BARNES MAKES
ATTACK ON JAPANESE
Captain Joshua H. Barnes,Jr.,
age 22, of Paris, Ky., nephew of
Mrs. C. G. Harris of Perry, was
credited with making a direct
hit on a Japanese transport off
' New Guinea by the War Dept.
Jan. 8. A special communique
from Gen. McArthur’s head
; quarters said Capt. Barnes, with
I his bombardier, led a formation
, of U. S. Bombers against a Jap
convoy.
Capt. Barnes’ picture appeared
recently on the cover of an Aus
tralian magazine, as a typical
American airman. He has been
in Australia since Feb, 1942. ( He
enlisted in the Army Air Corps
i and received his wings July 11,
1 1 1941 at Kelly Field.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs.J.H.
II Barnes, live in Paris, Ky. His
I mother was Miss Maybejle Dash
ler of Perry before her marriage.
Capt. Barnes has visited his
aunt, Mrs. Harris, in Perry. His
’ friends here will be interested to
• learn of his heroic attack on the
Japs,
I HIGH LIGHTS IN
|THE GEORGIA SCENE
As Reported for GPA
By ROY McGINTY
ATLANTA. Jan. 26. (Special
to THE HOME JOURNAL from
the State Capitol)—The ship of
state sailed on oil-smooth waters
for the first two weeks of the
new administration, and old
timers on capitol hill marvel that,
after all. there may be some
thing new under the sun —the
novelty being a wholly harmon
ious session of the Georgia legis
lature. By the time this column
appears in print the story may
be entirely different, of course;
in fact already there are slight
manifestations of a little choppi
ness in the waters, and to the
cynical-minded the very calm
ness of the scene has been a por
tent of ominous possibilities. But
to administration leaders the po
litical honeymoon has been nice
while it lasted.
Predictions that the Arnall
program would have the support
of more than 75% of the law
makers has been more than veri
fied by the vote on such “plat
form” measures as have passed
both houses. For instance, the
administration’s Number One
bill, reorganizing the Board of
Regents free of control by the
governor, passed the House by a
vote of 174 to 0 and sailed thru
the Senate 45 to 0. The passage
of other ranking administration
measures has been accomplished
with like unanimity.
Challenge Accepted
In a sort of “here-it-is, weTl
dare-you-to-do-it” spirit, the
Talmadge minority joined the ma
jority in accepting Governor Ar
nall’s clear-cut challenge that he
would run the state without new
taxes if the Assembly would
adopt his budget bill without
dotting an “i” or crossing a “t”
and the measure coasted thru
both houses without a dissenting
vote. Even such Talmadge stal
, warts as J. Wesley
' Culpepper, the war-horse of Fay
! ette, and Senator Herschel Lov
ette took the floor for the emer
gency appropriation bill in their
respective houses. Culpepper de
clared that he had favored the
principal of the bill—the aboli
tion of the system of allocating
funds —for more than twenty
years.
Close Call For Market
Bulletin
The first rift in the beautiful
harmony of the session came in
both houses last Thursday. A
lively battle occurred in the Sen
( ate when that body almost
abolished Tom Linder’s Market
Bulletin, as predicted in this
, column at the beginning of the
jrsession. The Senate voted 28 to
12 to extend Linder’s term for
two years more, making it ex
pire with that of the Governor,
■ but an amendment by Senator
. Alpha Fowler of Douglasville, to
cut out the Market Bulletin lost
23 to 21. Senator Claude Pitt
•iman, of Cartersville, made a
. fight for an amendment to stop
. the commissioner of agriculturre
! from expressing editorial opin
. ions in the Bulletin, but after
Senator Jack Williams, Waycross
newspaperman, took the floor in
opposition, declared it to be an
attack on freedom of the press,
, the amendment was defeated
14 to 12.
Battle In House
; A lively row was started in the
> House last Thursday over a res
: olution to investigate the peanut
industry in general and the GFA
j Peanut Association in particular.
;|The resolution, which was adopt
•ied, was sponsored by J. Bush
i(Mims, of Miller county, and oth
i j er south Georgia representatives,
> j and the investigation committee
lis composed of Representatives
II Hugh Gillis, of Treutlen, chair-
Iman; Burton, of Lee; Mims, of
I (Miller; Drake, of Seminole; and
i Riddlespurger, of Colquitt.
I I
j j The first break in unanimity on
I purely administration bills came
jin the House Thursday when op
i position developed to the creation
, of a game and fish commission,!
and a total of 8 votes was must-1
ered' against the measure to
, 150 for it.
Executive Order Resisted
! Major developments on the ex-j
i ecutive side of the capitol the'
past week were the appointment!
FARMERS PLAN FOR I
FOOD PRODUCTIONj
With the beginning of thej
1943 Food for Freedom sign-up [
campaign. County Farm Machin-i
ery Rationing Committees this
week are seeking to speed action
on applications for the purchase
of farm machinery and eqipmenl,
according to L. W. Tabor, chair
man of the Houston County com
mittee.
The U. S, Department of Ag
riculture, Mr. Tabor said, has
announced an order releasing all
new farm machinery and equip
ment, which was “frozen” from
October 31, 3942 to January 1.
About 125 items, including
fencing, are now rationed, he
pointed out, and quotas have
been established for each county
by the State USDA War Board.
For example, he added, the trac
tor quota for Houston county, is
3 units. This, he said, is indica
tive of the critical shortage of
farm machinery and equipment,
which was available in unlimited
quantities before the United
States entered the war.
The facilities of the Agricultu
ral Adjustment Agency’s county
offices have been made available
to the County Farm Machinery
Rationing Committee to accom
plish its job, Mr. Tabor said, and
farmers ni pressing need of new
equipment may obtain application
forms (Form MR-20) from the
county AAA office.
When filed, these applications
will be considered by the County
Farm Machinery Rationing Com
mittee. If the farmer meets
“minimum standards of use and
operation,” and agrees to per
form custom work or rent the
equipment to insure its use to
the best possible extent, the
purchase application will be ap
proved, provided the county’s
quota has not been exhausted.
Armed with this approval, a
farmer may purchase the needed
piece of machinery or equipment
from any dealer, wherever locat
ed, if he has it in stock.
If the county’s quota has been
exhausted or none has been es
tablished for that particular
piece of equipment, the Farm
Rationing Committee may apply
to the State War Board for such
a quota or an increase to take
care of essential needs
Mr. Tabor urged that every
Houston county farmer begin an
immediate check-over and repair
of existing equipment, so that
every vital need may be taken
care of, insofar as. quotas will
permit, before the planting
season.
NOTICE
Tax Books are now open for
receiving State and County Tax
es for the year 1943. Applica
tions for exemptions on home
steads, etc. must be made each
year with the tax receiver.
E. W. Marshall, T. R.
of Charles A. Williams, Alma
lawyer, as a sort of supervisor
over Major John E. Goodwin of
the Department of Public Safety,
and the appointment of James
V. Carmichael, of Cobb county, 1
to serve in a similar capacity
over Revenue Commissioner Jack
Forrester. Both Goodwin and
Forrester refused to cooperate
with these appointees, and as a
result bills have been introduced
in both houses to abolish these
departments and create new
ones, which are expected to pass
this week and automatically put
Goodwin and Forrester out of
office.
The Senate took a long week
end recess, adjourning at nooni
Thursday, while the House con-j
tinued to grind until nearly noon j
Friday. As the third week of,
the sesrsion got under way Mon
day, indications pointed to a corn-1
pletion of most of the admini. - j
tration “must” legislation dur
ing the week, and as the session
moves along and other legislation
begins to occupy the attention of
■ the law-makers, clashing opin
ions are expected to find wider
expression in debate on the floor
jof both houses. Legislative
' leaders have held a tight rein
, during the early days of the ses-
I sion, but one was heard to re
-1 mark that “When a few more
i bills are out o f the way we’re
'going to turn e’m loose and let
|’em talk.”
IKIWANIS COMMITTEES
| NAMED BY PRESIDENT
|
j Mayo Davis, new president of
the Perry Kiwanis club has an
nounced the following standing
committees for the club year;
Public Affairs committee —E.
P. Newhard, chairman; S. A,
Nunn, Max Moore, A. W. Dahl
berg, A. C. Cobb, and J. W.
Bloodworth.
Agriculture committee W. E.
Beckham, chairman; W. V, Tug
gle, Cohen Walker, Tom Mobley,
C. C. Pierce, C. E. Andrew, W.
T. Middlebrooks, W. C. Huggins,
and G. C. Nunn.
Attendance committee —Alton
Hardy, chairman; William Bar
field, Tom Mobley, John William
son, and F, M. Houser.
Inter-club Relations— TV p.
Gray, chairman; E. P. Newhard,
A. M. Anderson, and S.A. Nunn.
Publicity committee —J. L.
Hodges, chairman; W. K. Whip
ple, T. S. Hunt, A. W. Dahl
berg, and F. M. Houser.
House committee—Jim Roo
ney, chairman; C. E. Andrew,
C.E. McLendon, and C.C.Pierce.
Vocational Guidance—E. P.
Staples, chairman; A. C. Pritch
lett, Francis Nunn, G.W. Rhodes,
W. V. Tuggle, W. T. Middle
brooks, and Cohen Walker.
Library committee—J ain e s
Ivey, chairman: G. W. Rhodes,
F. M. Houser, and G. F. Nunn.
Music committee—G. F. Nunn,
chairman: W. K. Whipple, W. T.
Middlebrooks.
Program committee—J. A.
Beddingfield, chairman; E. P
Newhard, W. E. Beckham, A. G.
Hendrick, Max Moore, J. L.
Hodges, Jim Rooney, James
Ivey, C. P. Gray, Alton Hardy,
and E. P. Staples.
Sign committee—C.H. Tucker,
chairman; T. S. Hunt, and Max
Moore.
Kiwanis club speakers for
January included: E. P. Staples
of Perry, Rev. Albert Grady
Harris of Macon, Mrs. G. C.
Nunn of Perry, F. R. Hammock
of Atlanta, special agent F. 8.1.
PERSY HIGH ACTIVITIES
Basketball
The Perry High Panthers play
ed two good ball games last
week; defeating Cochran by the
score of 35 to 31 and losing to
Lanier High of Macon, 25 to 22.
Both of the games were well
played and the Perry Panthers
are fast improving. By tourna
ment time the Panthers should
be hard to handle.
Don't forget the game Friday
night with Fort Vailey in Perry. I
This game should be a thriller
from beginning to end. The
count now stands at two games
lor Perry and one for Toil
Valley.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mrs. Alva Davis taught the
Yearbook of the Baptist W. M.
S. to the officers and other mem
bers at the church Monday p. m.
The Teachers and Workers
Council of Baptist Sunday School
held their monthly meeting Wed
nesday night at the church.
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship 8:00 p. m.
Prayer Service Wednesday
night, 8:00 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
I
j Church School--10:15 a. rn
j Church Services, 11:30 a. m.,
iand 8 p. m.
Young People’s Service, 7:15
p. m.
! Rev. J. E. Sampley, Pastor.
SERVICE GUILD MEETS
The Wesleyan Service Guild
met with Miss Jean Brown last
Thursday night. Rev. J. E.
Sampley brought a message on
Stewardship and installed the
following officers: Mi. - Frances
Couey, president: Miss Dorothy
Jones, vice-president; Miss Au
drey Andrews, secty.; Miss Jua
nita Bledsoe, treasurer.
QUOTAS FOR FARM
MACHINERY FIXED
Houston county farmers this
week chunked up the fire in the
living room, got out pencil and
paper, and begun figuring what
they will do this year to help
feed a war-torn world, as well
as the things they’ll need to get
the job done.
Chairman L. VV. Tabor of the
Houston County USDA War
Board, announced that farm plan
work sheets are being mailed to
every farmer in the county.
When filled out and returned to
the County War Board, these
sheets and the information they
contain will form the basis for
action or recommendations on se
lective service deferment, needs
for farm machinery, equipment,
and fencing, and farm credit.
Mr. Tabor pointed out that in
sofar as selective service defer
ment is concerned, the “war
unit” plan is designed to serve
as a guide, rather than as a
yardstick, and the County War
Board is not committed to any
action other than consideration
and recommendation.
He urged, however, that de
ferment be sought in every case
in which a farm meets the unit
requirements, pointing out that
‘‘hard and honorable work on the
farm is just as essential to vic
tory as bearing arms.”
Under the ‘‘war unit” plan, a
farmer, to qualify for deferment,
would be required to produce a
designated number of units
(number of animals or acres).
|He could select the “units” he is
best qualified to produce. .
Farmers in need of immediate
action on deferment, machinery,
fencing, or credit needs should
return their farm plan work
sheets to the County War Boards
as soon as they are filled out.
The County War Board will be
gin consideration of these needs
within the next few days, Mr.
Tabor said.
Completion of farm plan work
sheets will be followed by a drive
to obtain fulfillment of every
farm’s individual war production
goal. AAA farmer-committee
men will visit every farmer in
January and February and assist
him in filling out a farm plan
sheet, on which the individual
farm goals are set forth.
In this connection, Mr. Tabor
pointed out that provisions un
der which farmers would have
been required to plant 90 per
cent more of their special crop
(cotton, tobacco, and wheat) al
lotments, have been eliminated.
I Farmers, however, will be re
quired to plant 90 percent or
more of their war crop goals in
'order to qualify for full benefit
payments. For each acre by
which he fails to meet these
goals, his benefit payments will
dh f object to a $l5 deduction.
Up to the present, peanuts,
soybeans, and Irish potatoes have
been designated as war crops for
Georgia.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
J. Robert Fudge and Fred
Thomson were installed as elders
and J. M. Tolleson Jr. as a dea
con by the Perry Presbyterian
church Sunday morning.
Mr. Fudge has been a deacon
and church treasurer. He suc
ceeds his late father as an elder.
Mr. Thomson is a Sunday school
teacher. Mr. Tolleson is one of
the younger members of the
church.
Perry
Sabbath School, 10:15 a. m.
Preaching Service, 11:30 a.m.
Clinchfield
Sabbath School, 3:00 p. m.
Preaching Service, 8:30 p. m.
The public is cordially invited
to all these services.
Rev. M. D. Agerton, Pastor.
AUXILIARY MEETS
The Auxiliary to the Robert D,
Collins post of the American Le
gion held its January meeting
last Thursday at the Legion
Home. The hostesses were;
Mesdames L. M. Paul Jr., Eby
, Holtzclaw, D. H. Smith, Grady
Daniel, and C. L. Kersey. Mrs.
Paul, the president, conducted
the business session. The after
noon was devoted to Red Cross
work.
Dainty refreshments were
served.