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VOL. LXXII. No. 9. PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 1943 ESTABLISHED 1870
FAT CALF SHOW SET
FOR MCH.6 IN PERRY
Exhibits to be Taken To
Macon Show March 8
Everything is in readiness for
the si-h annual Fat Calf Show to
be held in Perry Saturday,March
6, beginning at 11 a. m. The
show is sponsored as usual by
the Perry Kiwanis club.
The thirteen calves entered in
the Perry show will be carried to
Macon Monday, March 8, for the
show there and the sale which
follows on Tuesday.
There are eight F. F. A. boys
with ten calves and three 4-H
club boys with three animals.
The 4-H group consists of Bil
ly Davis, John L. Davis Jr,, and
Billy Gray.
F. F. A. boys with entries are:
Jack Eason, owner of the 1942
grand champion in both the
Perry and Macon show; Eugene
Pyles, owner of the 1942 reserve
champion in the Perry show;
Billy Giles, Frank Giles, Herbert
Walton, Richard Ogletree, Kelly
Hammock, and Virgil Casey.
$125 will be given in prize to
the exhibitors in the Perry show. 1
In addition to the above en
tries, E. M. Beckham of Perry
will enter two Hereford steers in I
the singles, two pens of three
each, and one car lot of 15 steers
in the Macon show, .March 8.
FAMILIES URGED TO
PLANE HOME GARDENS
County Agent W. T. Middle
brooks this week urged Houston
county families to plan 1943
gardens wisely to reduce costs
and increase the quality and va
riety of vegetables grown. A
good home victory garden can
contribute more to the health and
happiness of the average family
than any other spot on the farm,
he said.
“For a home garden," accord
ing to Mr. Middlebrooks, ‘‘it is
not necessary to have a different
fertilizer for each crop. A well
balanced garden fertilizer, such
as 4-8-6 along with some nitro
gen and potash for side dressing
as the different crops require it,
will do."
The Extension Service agent
advised planning the 1943 garden
to provide space for suitable va
rieties of vegetables for canning.
After space has been alioted
for things to be grown, Mr. Mid
delbrooks advised that stable
manure be applied liberally and
the ground be thoroughly plowed
or spaded. If manure is not
available, he suggested applying
300 pounds of cottonseed meal to
the acre.
“If rows have not been laid off
already, do this job now and put
in a mixture of equal parts of 18
percent acid phosphate and cot
tonseed meal, or a complete fer- ■
lilizer,” he said. “Plow through
these furrows mixing fertilizer
well with the soil and list on
this, preferably with a light turn
plow.
“Early spring crops such as
Peas, carrots, and beets can be
planted on these ridges whileithe
soil is too wet to do general pre
paration work," the county
agent continued, “and the ferti
lizer already applied will be ready
tor these crops, and a top dress
ing can be applied as soon as the
seed is planted."
MISS RUBY GLOVER DIES
Miss Ruby Glover, age 36, died
at her home at Kathleen last
I Thursday. She had been in ill
health for some time.
Funeral services were held
Friday at the Perry Baptist
church. Rev. J. A. Ivey and
Elder George Riley Hunt con
ducted the services. Interment
was in Evergreen cemetery.
Surviving are her father, H.
W. Glover; five sisters, Mrs. H.
G Tucker, Byron; Mrs. M. F.
Edwards, Mrs. F. M. Edwards,
Misses Ludie and Ruth Glover,
ad of Kathleen.
Captain Hunter Hurst, U. S.
marines, spent Tuesday last
with his aunt, Miss Lula
nurst. He was enroute from
: en sacola, Fla. to North Hamp
°n, Mass, where he will spend
f ire ® months as an instructor of
oe Marine Women’s Reserve at
bnnth College.
PERRY TO PLAY BYRON
FOR 3rd DIST. TROPHY
Perry High will play Byron!
High school Friday night, March I
5, at the Perry Hi Gym at 8 p.m.
C. W. T. for the Third District
Championship. Byron won the
championship for the“C" schools
of the third district and Perry
was the winner of the “B" tro
phy last week.
Both Perry and Byron schools
will represent the district in the
state meet to be held in Macon
March 11, 12, 13. The tourna
ment will be held at Mercer Uni
versity.
The last time Perry played!
Byron in Perry the game was
won by Perry by the score of 21
to 19. The game this time will
probably be equally as close for
both teams would like to win as
it would add another trophy to
their collection. Local fans are
urged to come and see the boys
play their last game before the
state tournament.
VOLUNTEER WORKERS ISSUE
Wl RATION BOOK II HERE
Members of the Houston
| County Rationing Board are
| grateful to the patriotic people
who helped conduct the regis
jtration for War Ration Book II
last week. Nearly 13,000 books
were issued in Houston county
and at least 1,000 more are to be
issued from the office during the
next few weeks. Workers
names are published below:
List of those who gave time to
help with issuing War Ration
Book II to colored people at the
Court House;
High School Girls —Anna Lee
Beavers, Sara Ruth Jones, Doro
thy Avera, Carolyn Henderson,
Willie Mae Hardy, Margaret
Hardy, Ruth Hardy, Elizabeth
Smith, Lucille Smith,Marie Arm
strong, Emily Thompson, Fran
ces Irby, Meredith Hunnicutt,
Barbara Whipple, Lily Brooks,
Jane Riley,Frances Wilson,Mary
Linton, Margaret Tharpe, Doro
thy Busbee, and Annis Jean Ne-
Smith.
High School Boy s—Phillip
Herndon and John Crow.
Other Assistants —Mrs. Bessie
Lee, chief clerk, S. W. Hickson,
board member, A. W. Pratt,
board member, Miss Eleanor Kel
ly, Mrs. Robt. Fudge, E. P.
Staples, L. C. Walker, W. E.
Marshall, W. T. Middlebrooks,
A. C. Pritchett, E. Holtzclaw,
H. D. Palmer, Gordon Scarbor
ough, W.D. Kersey, Elmer Wolfe,
C. W. Paulk, M. M. Dean, R. E.
Ogletree, and T. C. Rogers.
Colored Assistants—Principal
A. D. Redmond of Perry Train
ing School and Supervisor Helen
Martin.
G. Francis Nunn was super
visor at the Court House regis-,
tration with Mr. Hickson and*
Mr. Pratt as assistants.
Working at the Legion Homei
• where white people were regis
tered were:
Mesdames G. E. Jordan, Gor
don Scarborough, Albert Skellie,
W. B. Roberts, John Williamson,
S. L. Norwood, W. D. Kersey,
Lewis Tabor, G. C. Nunn, Basha
Goode, Bill Walden, J. P. Dug ]
gan, W. K. Whipple, W. H.
Cleveland, L. M. Paul Jr., E. W.
Traylor, Freeman Cabero, M. A.
Glazier, W. F. Norwood, Phil
Anderson, J. M. Gooden, Mayo
Davis, H. B. Gilbert, C. E. An
drew, W. E. Beckham, Joe
Mitchell, Floyd Tabor, W. B.
Hodge, C. H. Tucker, D. M.
Stripling, L. H. Gilbert, John
Heller, F, M. Houser, W. V.
Tuggle, H. P, Houser, Jr., H. S.
Frost.
Mrs. Avery Lee and Mrs. J. B.
Calhoun of Rationing Board Of
fice were document clerks at the
Legion Home.
Teachers assisting on Saturday
were Misses Frances Cou e y,
Mary Lee Greene,Louise Rainey,
Allene Ryals. and Willie Gunter,
Mrs. J. O. Coleman and Mrs. W.
W. Driskell.
Supervisors were Mrs. J. L.
Hodges and S. L. Norwood.
Chief entrance clerk was Paschal
, Muse. Assisting Mr. Muse was
Robert Tuggle and N. M. Parker.
CARD OF THANKS
To all who ministered to us in
our recent bereavement, we are
deeply grateful. May God’s
richest blessings abide with each
' ofyoU ’ The Glover Family.
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i The Greatest Mother
Symbolic of the role the Red Cross is again playing, the 1943 Red Cross Wat
Fund poster dcpicls the organization as a mother ministering to the needs of iht
men of the United States armed forces and the victims of war throughout the
world. The poster is on appeal to all men and women for contributions to the
War Fund. Lawrence Wilbur, noted illustrator, designed the poster. Helen Mucllet
is the model.
Red Cross Needs $125,000,000
To Finance Wartime Program
i
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Faced with
the greatest wartime program In his
tory. the American Red Cross will
launch Its 1943 War Fund appeal for
1125.000,000 on March 1, Chairman
Norman H. Davis has announced.
Pointing out that the bulk of the
fund will be used to expand Red Cross
services to the men of the armed
forces and their families, Chairman
Di vis urged every American man and
woman to contribute to the fund.
With the approval of President
■ Roosevelt, who also Is President of
■ the American Red Cross, the month of
1 March is being observed as Red Cross
i Month. Walter S. Gifford, president of
I thi America* Telephone and Tele
, graph Company, is chairman of the
: Red Cross 1943 War Fund.
j “Red Cross services to our armed
; forces and to the needs of distressed
; elvlllans on the battle and home fronts
! . can be supplied only by great expendl
,* tures and sacrifices,” Chairman Davis
i said. “We are exerting our utmost
I efforts to accomplish these tasks with
' the least possible drain upon the re
; ! sources of the people In funds, time
j ' and energy. We must never falter in
I our determination to meet these detl
i aite obligations. The Red Cross is con
!■.*
Our First Acid Test—War Bonds and War Taxes
You’ve Done Your Bit—Now Do Your Best v
U. S. Trtotury Dtptrlminl
fident that all our people will be gen
erous in their support of the 1943 War
Fund.”
More than 66 percent of the fuwd
received by the national organization
*lll bo devoted to meeting Red Cross
responsibilities to the armed forces.
These include the Red Cross overseas
club program, recreation and hospital
program, the stationing of field direc
tors at all foreign and domestic mili
tary camps and bases, the huge sur
gical dressing production program, and
the blood plasma project which re
cently was erpanded to a total of
4,000,000 pints at the request of the
Army and Navy.
Chairman Davis pointed out that the
1943 program will be vastly greater
than the accomplishments of last year,
in which the Red Cross aided millions
of war victims through its foreign war
relief program; gave aid to thousands
of prisoners of war; oollected 1,500,000
pints of blood for the armed forces;
produced 520,000,000 surgical dress
ings, and aided more than 1,500,000
servicemen and their families.
The 1125,000,000 quota, he said, will
finance the local, national and interna
tlonal work of the Red Cross for Che
entire year, barring unforeseen emer
gencies.
PERRY NATIVE MADE |
BRIGADIER GENERAL I
I
NEW YORK. N. Y.—Lieuten--’
ant General Hugh A. Drum,com
manding the eastern defense
command and first army, Feb. 25
announced the promotion of
Colonel Troup Miller, inspector
general of the eastern defense
command and first army, to the
rank of brigadier general.
A native of Perry, Ga., Gen
eral Miller was graduated from
the United States Military Acade
my at West Point in 1902. Dur
ing World War I he served
abroad and was awarded the
distinguished service medal for
“exceptionally meritorious and
distinguished services.”
At one time, General Miller,
who is 04, served as a director of
the command and general staff
school at Fort Leavenworth,Kan.
Previously he had been an in
structor there and also at the war
college in Washington.
His son, Colonel Troup Miller
Jr., U. S. A. A. F., is director of
training of the new four-motor
bomber school at Smyrna, Tenn.
WHEW QUOTAS LIFTED TO
BOOST WAR FOOD SUPPLY
Secretary of Agr i c u 1 t u r e
Claude K. Wickard has suspend
ed wheat marketing quotas in a
new move to insure adequate
food and feed supplies for the
nation’s war effort. E. W. Tray
| lor, Houston county’s AAA ad
jiministrative officer, announced
c this week.
r At the same time, Mr. Traylor
said, the Secretary announced
that wheat farmers who meet 90
percent of their farm war crop
goals this year will be eligible
for AAA wheat payments and
I wheat loans, even though they
1 exceed their wheat acreage al
lotments, This provision, he
• pointed out, will enable farmers,
r m sections where other crops are
not so successfully grown, to
j increase their wheat production.
\ Secretary Wickard’s action,the
AAA administrative officer said,
I was taken under the authority of
1 the emergency provisions of the
• Agricultural Adjustment Act. It
• lifts marketing quotas for the re
j mainder of the 1942-43 marketing
I year and for 1943-44, and releas
t es for food or market any wheat
i which has been stored off the
market because of the quota.
! Mr. Traylor urgeu wheat farm
ers in Houston county to mam
| tain careful farming practices
, so as not to jeopaioize future
, wheat crops. He cited erosion
i and resultant low yields which
have followed exetcoue acreage
increases in the past.
i
i POINT VALUE LIST
Retailers may get a free copj
of the official point value list to
display in their stores, as re
quired by OPA, by going to
their local post-office and picking
it up, S. L. Norwood, chairman
of the Houston county War Price
and Rationing Board, announced
today.
Post-offices are prepared to
supply each retailer with one
copy printed on heavy paper and
designed for posting in stores.
Merchants who need additional
copies can clip ai d use one from
a newspaper, Mr. Norwood said.
In exceptional cases when more
than one copy is needed, post
offices will be able to furnish a
merchant with more than one
copy only when additional sup
plies are available, he said.
HUNTING SEASON ENDS j
Hunting season officially camel
co an end March 1 in Georgia,!
vV. H. McNaughton, acting di-i
rector for the newly creat d|
State Game and Fish Commis-j
sion, announced.
He said this applies to quail, j
wild turkey, opossum, ’coon and
bear. The season already has;
been ended for some time on j
duck, geese, doves and deer. I
There is no closed season how-1
ever on rabbit.
, It’s common sense to be
thrifty. If you save you are
EPpi thrifty. War Bonds help you
OS to save and help to save
j/jtf America. Buy your ten per
cent every pay day.
1 WARNER ROBINS TO
I BE INCORPORATED
I
C. B, Watson Named Mayor
in Legislative Bill
Senator John W. Bloodworth
of Perry introduced a bill in the
senate last week under which the
town of Warner Robins would be
incorporated and C. B. (Boss)
Watson named as mayor.
Four councilmen, Roy E.Aven,
W.C. Miles, T. M, Brundge, and
C. K. Rader, are also named in
the bill. They, along with Wat
son, would serve until the first
election of the new municipality
which would be held in Novem
ber, 1944.
The mayor and council would
have the power to set up ordi
nances and adopt zoning regula
tions, all legislation being adopt
ed or rejected by a majority vote
of the mayor and councilmen
with the mayor entitled to vote
in all cases.
The new municipal govern
ment would have the power to
levy and collect city taxes to an
amount not to exceed five mills
and would also have the authori
ty by ordinance, to levy licenses
and occupation taxes.
The mayor and council would
serve as the board of tax asses
sors and would have the authori
ty to appoint or elect what ever
employes are necessary to tend
the city’s affairs.
A police court would be estab
lished, it being optional with the
mayor and council as to whether
the mayor shall serve as judge of
same.
Under the proposed charter
the mayor and council would
serve for a four-year term, the
former to receive $5O per year,
ths latter to receive $25 each per
year.
8188 SEEKS TO ANNEX
WARNER ROBINS AREA
Bibb county’s annexation of
Warner Robins Army Air Depot,
Robins Field and the military
reservation embracing approxi
mately 20 square miles was dis
cussed Tuesday at the meeting
of the Bibb county board of com
missioners.
A number of residents of the
Warner Robins area have indi
cated support of the plan to have
the area transferred from Hous
ton county to Bibb.
A two-thirds majority vote of
the grand jury of Houston coun
ty, in which the area is located,
and a similar majority by the
Bibb grand jury will be neces
sary to bring about the annexa
• tion.
PLAY & HOUSE SHOES
NOT ON RATION LIST
A limited group of “play”
i shoes and certain other types not
ordinarily worn on the street,
which are already in the hands
of shoe stores and wholesalers or
in the process of manufacture
have been released from ration
control as of February 25, 1943,
S L. Norwood, chairman of the
Houston county War Price and
■ Rationing Board, announced
today.
The following types of shoes
are now ration-free:
1. All infants’ shoes up to
size 4, whether made with hard
or soft soles, (All sizes above 4,
both hard and soft soled, will be
1 subject to aliening.)
i 2. Certa : . types of play shoes:
Lubber-soled 1 hcts with fabric
I jppers, bathing slippers, Mexi
can huaraches, si oes that do not
(have rubber or leather soles,play
shoes made of fabric, imitation
heather, sheepskin or capeskin.or
ja combination of these materials,
i (Rope sole play shoes, bedroom
[slippers and rubber footwear
[were, and continue to be, exempt
from rationing.
“This is not the signal to buy
large stocks of exempted shoes,”
Mr. Norwood said. “Consumers
are urged to buy these non-ra
tioned shoes only if they really
need them, and dealers are ask
ed to limit sales to one pair to a
customer, to avoid the stocking
of idle shoes in consumers’
closets.”
